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COLUMBIA, S. C. Tuesday Morning. July 23, 1872. For. President of the United States, HORACES ORBBIiET, of New York. For Vice-President . B. GRATZ BliOWJy of Itltgiourl. Indict tu? "-.'lileve?. For four years, now the people of Sooth Carolina have tamely sub raitt ed to be robbed, and allowed their State to be despoiled and plundered with impu? nity, by a set of unscrupulous, political adventurers - some of thom ' self-oon fes8ed.Bwiadle.rs.- The enormous iniqui? ties asid frauda of those who have con? trolled tho financial and legislative de? partments of the Government is hardly more astonishing than the wonderful pa? tience and long-suffering of the tax? payers. We will call it patienoe, for po? liteness sake, though we aie forced to believe that there has been more of apa? thy and want of publio spirit than of manly endurance in the lamb-like way is ?hioh our people have suffered them? selves to be fleeced. We have talked some-talked a great deal. We have complained bitterly. Oar lam on tat iona have been pitiful to. hear, and have stirred the hearts, even the flinty hearts, as we were wont to think, of the North? ern people, till they have made the op? pression of the Sooth the great issue ia the Presidential campaign. Bat South Carolinians must do something more than whin?, if they desire to redeem their State, and to preserve her honor and noble reoord. It was very well to recount our woes and appeal to the sympathy of our sister States to aid us in oar extremity, and to do for ns as we feel that we would do for any of them, were they ia saeh a strait as we are. Bat we mast do something for ourselves, and rely mainly on oar own efforts, if we woald hope for real and permanent /relief. Every other Southern State, exoept this, has boon, or is, ia a fair way of being rid of the robber orew which reconstruction foisted upoa theaVlike upon us". We have moro diffioultioa to contend with than they had, for the ballot-box, which served their purpose, is a hopeless resort to ns, while' "the" thieves have ra majority of 30,000 ' ignorant colored voters, blindly bound to their service. Still we ivavo a remedy, a potent remedy, against the pablio plunderers, which we have thus far straagely left untried. Tho courts are still open, DU?I tho judiciary, fox? the most'part, Incorrupt. ' Cbickaa thieves are convicted almost every day. Why cannot the bond thieves in the State House bo also sent to the penitentiary? Their crimes are patent, the evidence is abundant, and only a prosecutor is wanted. Has the State no soas who will now step forward to save her? Are we all demoralized, whipped and hacked, and that, too, by a apt of arrant cowards aod knave?? We are not altogether prepared to make saoh a humiliating acknowledg? ment. We believe "there is life in the old land yet?" and a spirit to resist wrong and oppression, and to punish the wrong-doers, whether he be a tyrant ora thief. . We desire to stir np this spirit of oui people, for now is the time for action Now is the time to prosecute the rob? bers, the,thieves, the forgers and the fraudulent speculators, who have pock? eted millions of the people's money and endeavored to fasten upoa the State e burden of debt from which there will bc required generations of labor to relieve her; We woald call first a poa the Exe oative Committee of the Tax-Payers Convention, which met over a year ago. That convention promised great things the Exeoutive Committee promisee more. The convention proved a pala? tal and humiliating disappointment it eertaia aspects; the committee has dont nothing yet. The only koowa result of the conven? tion was to "ball" the bonds, and ena ble speculators, especially in the nev issues, to realize enormous advances Some people say that this was the prim? object of the convention. In othei words, that' it was a stock jobbing con corn, more in the -interest of Soott ant the Financial Board than of the tax payers of the State. It is a sad thing t< say, but there does seem to be gravi cause for the suspicion. Still, we knov that the vast majority of that conven tion were true men, and were actuate? by pure and patriotic impulses. Saol is the oh arador, we believe, of the Exe cativo Committee, and as suoh we cal npon them, j as representatives, of thi people, to be up and doing. If. they d not, some less formally constituted aa thority will, and, we feel assured in say ing, will assume their duties, and oom menee the prosecutions forthwith. * ?** * . \ The postmaster at Jersey City refuse to pay his political assessmeats. H says he bas already paid 8800, aod al the "profits" were all absorbed by a oler who ran away with $3,000. POHIIOAIJ D?TTINGS.-John G. Suxe, the poet, bas announced bis intention to take tho stump for Greeley. Tuero aro only eleven Republicana in Oberlin, Ohio, who snpport Grant; an indication ;that the colored voto is com? ing round all right. Greeley (ans, wLioh aro much in vogue how, represent the benevolent old man's phiz, bearded with a fringe of silvery gossamer. Alluding to a statement of a Grant organ, that .the North Carolina election will bo taken as an indication of the drift of the publia sentiment,'tho Louis? ville Courier-Journal eays if the renomi nationistjs carry the State, it will "cer? tainly show the way that $250,000 of the pablio money has drifted." The present campaign is waged be? tween faith in Grant and hope in Gree? ley. And as hope hos charity for an ally, there is no question it will win. Cameron's order to weed out all the Greeley men in the custom house, post office and mint, at Philadelphia, has not been executed. The reason givon is, that the dismissal of suoh a large body of officials would show the Greeley strength and do more harm than good to Gen. Grant. A Washington special to the Boston Globe (Administration) eays: "A gentle? man, who called on Senator Sumner this morning, fonnd bim busily engaged in the preparation of a letter in reply to one received by him, signed by 100 co? lored men, asking bis advice as to how they should vote at the coming Presi? dential eleotion. The Senator, in his re? ply, which will be brief, urges not only that they vote for Greeley, but that they uso all honest endeavors to secure others of their race to vote likewise, re? minding them of the faot that Greeley, like himself, was one of their first and firmest friends." George Bradford, a black barber in Indianapolis, knocked down a colored man who was oheering for Greeley. In? dianapolis is the place where, not long ago, a negro murderer was taken from jail that he might vote the Radical ticket. SOUTHERN SECURITIES UNSETTLED. The New York Herald, of the 19tb, soys: The Sonthorn State bonds were dull, and for snob business as was done prices were unsettled. The now TennesseeB declined to 74, abd the new South Caro? lina July bonds were active, with an ad? vance to 29)?, '. The old South Carolinas were held at GO. The better feeling in these latter securities is traceable to the farther action of the South Carolina bond-holders*- meeting this morning, at whioh it appear? 3 that a fund of $300, 000 had been secured to commence legal proceedings ia the interest of the bond 1 holders. T. ' ' The Herald, bf the 20th, says: The Southern ' State bonds were no exception to .the general dullness, but prices ruled about steady. The Ten? nessees were exceptionally weak, on the agitation, doubtlesii, of some political matter whioh has not yet reached us, and nnderwent a decline of 1@1?2 per per cent. The hew South Carolinas, on the other band, was strong and mode? rately aotive at a small advance. The "pool" in these securities are laboring to stir np an outside intnrewt lind apeen lation in them, but BO far with indiffer? ent sucaess, the, dullness of the season being a great obstacle to their plans. THE BOND-HOLDERS' MEETING.-State Treasurer Parker has addressed the fol? lowing letter to the committee on the part cf the bond-holders of South Caro? lina: OPFIC? oi' STATE TREASOHEB, COLUMBIA, 8. Cv, July 12, 1872. Messrs. E. ^A- Qit(ntard, E. li. Wesley and A. A. 2)rafce. GENTLEMEN: I see by the newspapers that you have been appointed a commit? tee on the part of the holders of South Carolina bonds "to take concerted and immediute action to compel the payment of the acorded and unpaid interest on the bonds of the State, with authority to employ counsel to commence legal pro? ceedings against the offioers of the State, or its legal Financial Board." I am glad that the bond-holders are moving in this matter. They have rights which are indisputable, and they should be re? spected. I write to inform you that I heartily endorse the bond-holders in their movement, and advise an united and determined effort on their part to secure their just rights. The State debt is a sacred debt. It has been incurred by necessity and in acoordanoe with law. The resourooa of the State are abondant to meet tho interest; and for my part, either aaa private citizen or a pablio officer, I have done and shall oontinae to do all in my power to accomplish the end at whioh yon aim. The State Auditor, who is appointed by the Governor, is anthorized by law to levy a tax to pay the entire interest on the pablio debt, and should he fail to do his duty ia thie respect, the Governor shoald enforoe compliance with the re? quirements of the law. I would sug? gest, that all the bond-holders yon oan secure, unite at once in demanding of the Governor an immediate levy of taxes, and I think yonr object will be attained.., The statement, said to have been made by Judge Willard, "that $1,100,000 or $1,200,000 had been received into the Treasury from the salo of delinquent landa," is totally at varianoe with the facts in the case, aa comparatively no? thing boa been received on thataooount. The Legislature have made ample pro? vision for the fatare, and all that ia re? quired is the exeoatioa of the lawa. Respectfully, your obedient servant, NIL LS G. PARKER, Treasurer State of Sooth Carolina. D. XV. Voorliees Coulta Into Linc-"In? fernal Treatment" of tile South. A special despatch to the New York Tribune, dated Terre Haute, I"d., July 18, says: Ur. Vuorhees made an elaborate speech at Spencer, to-day, aocepting the Democratic nomination for Congress. Ho began as follows:. GENTLEMEN OF THB CONVENTION: YOU have done me a groat honor to-day the greate-t I heve ever received; and greater, I think, when all the circa m atuoces are considered, than usually falls, to the lot of public mea ia this country. You have one and all refused to listen to what has been said to my disadvantage, and you have demanded that I should remain io your service. You know me better than all the world beside. We have labored together ia tho past, and you have bestowed upon me already ten years of official life. Therefore, if after so mach experience of each other you find me in any degree worthy of such confidence as you have here manifested, I may indeed feel I have not lived alto? gether ia vaia. I call you to witness, also, that I have cot Fought this nomi? nation, bat arged that it might be given to some one else. It is a prize, it is trae, coming from the source it does, which is equal to the highest ambition; but circumstances of a purely personal and domestic nature led me to declaro two years ago, publicly, ia every part of the District, that I was thea making my last race for Congress. Again, one year ago, I repeated my wish to quit publio life and bestow what ability and energy I possess to my private interests. It can't, therefore, bo said that all the re? luctance which I have manifested in re Sard to the present contest is of recent ate. I am not here, however, to shea the events of the last two months, or the new aod peculiar responsibilities whioh they impose. This is an occasion for perfect frankness between you and me. I will talk to you, therefore, as if I was seated at your hearth-stones, aud if the outside world is listening, I trust it will hear of nothing of which we will be ashamed. A close observation of the lawless and outrageous conduot of the present Administration, and the great and increasing disgust in the pub? lio miad, long ago convinced me that an easy opportunity would be presented this year for the Democratic party, by presenting one of its ablest and purest men for the Presidency, to regain the ooatrol of Government and re-establish civil liberty and equality ia the burdeos as well as the blessings of the republic. I give honest Republicans the same cre? dit whioh they now give us in believing that they woald sufficiently rise above party to vote against a corrupt Adminis? tration, without regard to the company in which they performed so noblo aa act. I still believe they would have dono so, and any one of four or five Democratic statesmoa who might be named, eminent for ability and purity of character, could have been elected to the Presidency over the present very unpo? pular incumbent. Entertaining this opinion with the foroe of an absolute conviction, I made au earnest effort to have it prevail ia the minds of others ia view of aa approach? ing National Democratic Convention. I exercised my right as a member of the Democratic party in pointing out what I thought its action ought to be. This is a right for whioh I am beholden to no one. I have no apologies to make for having exercised it as I did. I would do so again under similar circumstances. I don't claim to bea shrewd and managing politician, if shrewdness and manage? ment consist in suppressing my honest convictions on publio questions, and waiting until I find whether they aro popular or not. I hold that all men have a duty to perform in assisting to create a perfect publio opinion by ex? plaining their own on all proper occa? sions. In opposing the nomination of Mr. Greeley I acted on this principle, and no one will expect me now or here? after to retract a word I have spokon or written on the subject. The influence of my words, if they had any, was di reefed to the Baltimore Convention, and not beyond the action of that body. They must stuud as my sincere utter? ances ia behalf, of au objeot over which that body hud legitimate authority and ultimate control. But I will doubtless be reminded that my views were not adopted at Baltimore, and that my opi? nions were disregarded. All this is true, and I don't pretend to disguise my deep regret. I would gladly have it other? wise, and I have given the subject UH careful nod as conscientious an exami? nation in order to ascertain the true path of duty as it bas been in my power to make. If I could at this point abandon publio station consist? ently with my obligations to my party, my friends, and the duties I owe as e citizen to my oountry, the path before me would be easy and smooth. Youl aotion alone here to-day, however, audei the circumstances of the past and pre sent, impels me to aooept yonr nomina' tion and make one more campaign witt you, and for that purpose we must look the present aod future coolly and reso? lutely in the faoe in the light of reoeol resalta at Baltimore. Whenever and wherever in all the age? and nations of the world mea have asso oiated themselves together for commoc objeots, whether ia affairs of Ohuroh 01 State, the power of a final decision ovei matters inj controversy among them selves has been specifically lodged some where. Without this authority, no bane would be strong enough to produce united aotion in behalf of any purpose however great and beneficent, so widely do men honestly differ ia regard to th? meaos aod details by whioh the most do sirable ends ar? to be attained. O coarse, no sect or party, religious or po litioal, has tho right or the power tc crush out the independent convictions o; its members, and lt is not only the privi lego, bat tho dutj', of members of any organization to abandon it whenever they see that ?hey can more surely secure the great object that they bave in view by doing so. Great und binding, there? fore, as all Democrats concede the au? thority of a more than two-thirds majo? rity of a National Democratic Conven? tion to be, yet? if you were fully persuaded that you could butter servo ?our country and moro certainly rescue er from the shame and disgrace into which she baa been plunged, by leaving your old organization and seeking new party relations, you would be justified in suoh a course. But let me say to the Democrat masses in this district and throughout the State, that I see no such cou: JO open to any friend of his coun? try. To those who have so warmly coin? cided with mo as to the propriety of Mr. Greeley's nomination, and their name is legion, let mo Bay that the Demuoratic party is infinitely preferable, ia my judgmont, even with Horace Greeley as its candidate, to that portion of the Re? publican party which aokaowlodges tho leadership of Grant and the profligate managers by whom he is led on to his own and his country's ruiu. No thought of reoreauoy or infidelity to the Demo? cratic party ever entered my mind. As I cannot control its council*, I shall sub? mit to them, hoping thut time may show its ways to be easier and more beneficial to the country than I predicted. He who cannot have his own way in this world is not, therefore, in my opinion, justified in doing nothing. Ho can, without inconsistency, concede that others may be more enlightened than himself on the points at iesue, and give their plans a fair trial. If we tarn, however, for a brief sur? vey of the broad field of national poli? tics, many strange and significant aa peats are presented to our view. We constantly hear of the uuwonted posi? tion of the Democratic party. Its ac? tion and its attitude we admit to be unusual, but I think if we examine, we will find other occurrences in the politi? cal world quite as novel and striking us anything in the conduct of the Demo? cracy. Is the condition of the Republi? can organization BO natural and healthv that it oan afford to sneer ut tho sup? posed sickness and death of its powerful neighbor? At the close of the war, il succeeded to illimitable power and poa sessions. Its means by which to seduce the venal, overawe the timid, and coerce all others into its support, were ubso lotely boundless in eleven States ant nearly so everywhere else. If this pow erful party had been pure and unselfisl in its devotion to the welfare of th< country; if it bad boon managed with ai eye single to the prosperity of the labor iug people; if it had fostered tho indus trial classes instead of tho monopolists if it bad conciliated the oonquered in stead of abasing them every day aires) with additional stripes; if it had sough to invigorate and enrich an impoverishei section of the greatest natural Wcaltl instead of scourging it- into still mon horrible barrenaess and misery ; if it hat lived on love and patriotism instead o hate and greed, it would have bad be fore it a longer lease of power nt th' hands of the American people than wa ever granted to a political party in th history of tbe world. But, bloated witl much power and countless wealth, it oareer has been full of wickedness, gm dually but surely forfeiting the couti dence of the people, and driving th best elements out of its organization This faot is strikingly illustrated by th history of political contests in Indians In 1861, when tho waves of Radical mi; rule reached their highest point in thi State, a majority of 21,000 was record? against the D?mocratie party. Tw years later, in 1800, we again met tb same enemy and reduced his majorit to 14,000. In 1863, we fought agai under the same colors, and wiped oe tho entire majority against us, tho Rud cals only saving the State offices b fraudulent returns of a few hundred mi jority. Thus stood the contest in It diana, when tho fifteenth amendmen never legally ratified, a fraud, in my ii dividual judgment, on the Americau pe? plo, gave an inoreuso of 100,000 negroi to the Radicals; yet, in 1870, we def cate this coalition of blacks aud whiles, an placed a majority of about 3,000 ou tl side of the gallant aud unfaltering D mocracy of tho State. Certainly this not a record to beget disooaragemen It shows a steady decay of tho Rcpubl can party in Indiana. It shows a loi on its part in eight years of at lea 34,000 votes. It shows, further, that the Damooracy does as usual on its ou account this year, we will carry tho Sta by 15,000 majority; and if tho Liber Republican party can even moderate! well fulfill its expectations, tho vote i tho State will be oa3t against the Adm nistration party, both in October an November, by larger majorities tht have ever been heretofore known in h history. There ia another branch, however, tho domestic policy of the present A ministration which has, perhaps, mo strongly induoed the present politic movement against it than any other, fi it comprises within itself the wrongs at villainies of all others. The oonditic of the South hos at lost aroused univers attention and almost universal indign tion. That unhappy section is at la recognized as a portion of oar comme ooantry, and, as such, is entitled to t equality before the law with all otb sections. Gen. Grant was eleoted to tl Presidency exclaiming. "Let us ha' peace," bat the ory bas boen a oheat ai a delusion. There has boen no poa for the helpless people of the Sout They have longed for it, and prayed f it, but it has not come. A worse form war than marohing columns has prey npon them. It has been a war of ro bers, spies and jailors. I say, witho fear of intelligent contradiction, in i that goes to destroy the prosperity of country and crush the welfare of ? people, the administration of pub affairs iu the South for the last thr years hus buen the worst, the most truly iufernal ever kuowu iu the history of u civilized people. It is a subject ou whioh I have bestowed au earnest atten? tion, and with whioh I hove ruado myself familiar. During the last session of Congress 1 demonstrated from official proofs that a system of plunder has been pursued under the protection end ap? proval of the present Administration, by which tho entire eleven reconstructed States of the South had been impo? verished, and a majority of them made baukrupt. The debts and outstaudiug obligations, amounting in the aggregate to at luu.it $500,000,000, have been fast? ened by official thieves ou tho tax-payers of that blighted region, for the purpose of aiding in this wholesale robbery by reducing tho Southern people to silence aud submission. While it was going on it bas been falsely ussumed that they were in a lawless frame cf mind, and must bo placed under laws ns despotio und infamous as an Austrian edict against Hungary in 1819, or a British Act of Parliament against Ireland in the last century. The true policy of the bandits I prevails from Virginia to Texas. Wher? ever the touch of this Administration and its followers hes been felt, it has been tho money of the people, or their lives and liberties, and, in a majority of tho States, both. They have not only had their substance eaten out by adventurous scoundrels, but they have been deprived in their own persons of every American right. Their property is not at the mercy of these vagabonds, bat aadei the legislation, of the past few years, any husband or father, wife or mother, son or daughter in the entire South, could bo consigned indefinitely to prison on tho mere suspicion of any brutal QI depraved spy, whether white or black, there to lie, without hope of speedy trial or release on bail, until those whe hud deprived them of the benefit of thc writ of habeas corpus either turnee them out or packed a jury for their con victiou. When I recall and dwell upon these appalling crimes against liberty und against common rights of humanity, J can't wuuder at thc) strung and bitter er] which comes up from the South for any body to defeat the re-election of the verj mau who has inspired them, regard?e them with grim and heartless satisfao tiou, and in many instances committee them himself. The man who is drown ing, or who socs his wife and childret perishing in flame?, must not bo censur?e for adopting any method, not crimina in itself, by which to save himself or al that is dear to him. I have, therefore listened with perfect patience to tb voioo of tho South in this crisis, know ing, as 1 do, her extreme and imm?diat necessities. Her urgent appeal for th nomination of Mr. Greeley has been re garded by her friends in the North as th last despairing cry of a brave and nobl people, reduoed to a hopeless extremity beholding, as they think, one mor chance to save themselves from a mi infinitely worse than death. I fervent! pray God that this hope may be rea ized, and many a Northern man wi suspend his differences with Mr. Greele on account of the people of the Soutt who would not do BO on his own. The believe the election of Mr. Greeley wi afford them relief, and iu that beli< they have demanded his nominatioi It has been acoorded more ia defereac to their ooaditioa and their wishes tba to any one cause. If Mr. Greeley, audi these circumstances, should bo electee ho will stand pledged by the Btronge obligations that ever rested upon a honorable man to bestow upon the Soul the blessings of a just, kind and frate nul policy of government. If he did ni do so, after tbe confidence reposed i him by that section, he would 1 accursed among men. Let ns hop however, with our brethren in tl South, that the experiment may be complete success, that his election mi banish mis-rule and plunder from the midst, restore peace in reality as woll name, bring back a cheerful and oo tented devotion to the laws of the cou try, and a pride in tho flag which afibr au equal protection to all citizens. L us hope that the deadly paralysis so loi uillicting tho South aud destroying h vast producing energies may speedily 1 succeeded by perfect health and vigc If our Govern mont is to bo restored its national proportions and strengt our States must be as free iu ooo sectb as in tho others; we must have no li where freedom is halted by the bayor. on American soil; and when all a treated alike by the Government, th will all bear to it the same allegianc whatever may have been the blooi struggles of the past. When this kii of a union of hearts in support of t Government shall take place, having i its base the principles of justice, libox and equality, then will thia nation ri like a strong man after sleep aud ? forth to new glories, renewing the pa ties of its yoath ia connection with t gigantic proportions of its age. Mr. Voorhees then spoke of the ? of arms to the Freoob, prompted bp spirit of speculation and mouey-getti in official oircles, causing a trafilo death to friendly Germany. But t people of the United States were mi tering under various organizations foi united assault against this Administi tion. There may be a diversity of vie among them on minor subj cots, but tb were united iu their purpose to drive t present Administration and its corre surroundings from power. All Den orats joined in such a work, in strict cc sistency with the principles of th HvcB, and welcome an alliance with honorable men who espouse the sa causo. He spoke, of the oharge of G< Morton that the Demooraoy had tun their backs on the past, and exhibii tho numerous instances in whioh tl Senator had turned his face on the pc to the detriment of his political reoo in tho last eighteen years. In olosii ho pledged himself, if elected, to grea industry for the benefit of tho people his district, vegatdless of party. i riooal Ito 2?. SI CITY MATTERS.-The pri?e of single copies of the PHCSNIX is five oents. The annual meetiog of the South Ca? rolina Dental Association takes place this thorning, at 10 o'clock,.in the hall of the Palmetto Steam Fire Engine Company. For the want of a quorum, there was no meeting of the Board of Health yes? terday-although matters of special in? terest relative to the health of the city were to have been brought up. The iron work for the Congaree bridge has arrived in Charleston, and will soon be placed in position over the Congaree River-tho old Bite. Superintendent MerBer is pushing along with tho neces? sary wood work. We learn that Capt. R. C. Fleming bas been appointed Master of Transporta? tion of the Charlotte, Columbia and Au? gusta Railraad, vice J. J. Gormley, re? signed, (to accept the superintendency of tbe Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad.) Mr. M. B. Green has been appointed to the position lately occupied by Mr. Roseborough-freight agent at the depot here. The following was the range of the thermometer at the Pollock Honse yes? terday: 7 A. M., 78; 12 M., 88; 2 P. M., 87; 7 P. M., 84. Prof. Buchar's Eighteenth Regiment Band perform the following pieces this afternoon, commencing at 5 o'clock: Scene and Cavatina, Ernani. Verdi. Dam de Blanch. Baldieu. Rebert Diavoia. MoYerber. Ohre Fitel Quadrille. Strauss. Aria Traviata. Verdi. PHCENIXIANA.-Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into this world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. The Rev. David Swing preaches in a Chicago theatre, but the Chicagoans do not consider it a banging matter to go and BOO the Rev. David Swing. Ex-Minister Catacazy says in his pamphlet that the Americans in general are very intelligent regarding politics, but are wofully behind in diplomacy. He bus evidently fallen into the absurd error of supposing that the great mass of the American people know bot little more about diplomacy than Grant and Fish. Fair dealing is the bond and cement of society. The children's kingdom-Lap-land. Inexpensive hospitality-Entertaining ideas. The new postal cards will be three inches wide and five and one-fourth inches long, the stamp and lines to be engraved on them in variety of colors. Worm-wood-Coffins. MAYOR'S COURT.-His Honor had an unusual unmber of law-breakers before him, yesterday morning, and their cases were disposed of in short order-due time, however, having been allowed for witnesses to testify. The following is a summary: Ann Johnson and Ellen Smith were charged with abusing Mary Sudsbury and using improper langnage; bnt, owing to a flaw in the indictment, and a lack of proof, they were discharged. Payton Streeton and Wm. Washington (colored) were subjeoted to a fine of $5 and five days' work in the guard house, for fighting in Zion Church Sunday night-an aggravated case. Two white Iuds bad a game of fisticuf fiana, on Saturday; but, as the offence was slight, one was released on the pay? ment of $2, and the other "passed."4 Justin Hosg, after the Btyle of his namesake, was found wallowing in the street, and his legs being unable to per? form their avocation, be was locked ap; the soldier declared ho was not intoxi? cated, bat was affected with a dizziness. His Honor discharged him, with a warn? ing to be more particular in future. Mary Black (colored)-an old offender chnrged with keeping a disorderly house, aad a number of ochers, as accessories, were discharged for a farther hearing. Henry MoDuffie and Lewis Book oharged with drunkenness-owing to ameliorating circumstances, were fined $2.50. . Mary Jones-a soiled dove-for the same offenoe-contributed $5 toward the support of the oity. Two individuals, oharged with an as? sault apoa a somewhat notorious ohorac ter, had their oases oontinaed, owing to the non-appearance of the assailed. James Davis aad Jonas Green (colored) had a game of fistionfflana on a vacant lot, and when the police made a descent upon them, were found laying flat upon the ground-the one with a finger of his opponent between bis grinders; when asked by his Honor why they were on tho ground, replied that he had "a good holt" and thought he would hold on. As no material damage was done, they were discharged. LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Dr. Tait's Liver Pills. D. C. Peixotto & Son-A notion. HOTEL ARRIVALS, Joly 22, 1072.-Columbia Hotel-J B Sample, Tenn; D W Toner, Qa; D B Mandell, N Y: G W Owens, Qa; W 0 Ben nott, Chester; W O Benet, Ookesbnry; De L Pillyaw, Wilmiugton; J T Kenn, Bo Ex Go; 0 U Lanneau, Jr, Greenville; W A Williams, Greenwood; J H IfoDanel, Fla; W Murdook, ALU li; Mri J E Moffatt, Miss J Moffatt, Master J Moffitt, Chester.