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COLUMBIA. S. C. Thursday Morning. Jnly 20, 1872. Foy President of the United States. HORACE GREELEY, or New York. For vice-President B. GRATZ B HO WIT, of AXUaourl. Til? FroniluUnt Bondi. lb is impossible to state, with any de? gree of oertaiuty, the preoise amount of State bonds which have been issued by the present corrupt Financial Board. We know, though, that the public debt of the State at the time when the pre? sent regime went into power was about $500,000. It ia generally stated at that, though it was something considerably less. It is now placed by the official financial authorities of tho State at about ?16.000.000. In November, 1870, the Oomptroller-General, iu his report to the General Assembly, declared the debt to be a little over $7,500,000. Some? thing over $8,000,000 of the debt, then, was created within one year, from No? vember 1, 1870, to November 1, 1871, and the probability is, that almost the entire amonnt of bonds were issued within a very short period of time, just before the sohemes of the Financial Board were exploded in New York, by the discovery that Scott and his ring were having printed Borne twenty odd millions of bonds. This, upon the face of it, smells of fraud. The State oould not possibly have had need of saoh an enormous amount of money, say in round num? bera 88,000,000, in three months time. Before the war that much money would have supported the State Government for sixteen years, and kept al ft he public institutions in a healthful and flourishing condition. The Soott ring have issaed in all, and attempted to bind the State to their payment, some $11,000,000 of bonds, according to their own showing. Of these $700,000 were issued for the purpose of buying lands under the Land Commission Act, $200,000 or $300,000 were probably Issued legitimately to re? deem the bills of the Bank of the State, and perhaps the 8500,000 ia bonds issued to redeem the bills receivable may-or a patt of them, for wa have no idea there were so many bills receivable outstand? ing-be considered as legal and valid ob? ligations. Bat, all told, we do not be? lieve that a oent over $2,000,000 of the bonds, if that mach, can be sustained as legal obligations against the State. There are, therefore, in onr judgment, at least $9,000,000 of fraudaient bonds oat on the market, and a tax will be levied in the fall to pay the interest, which will amonnt to $560,000. This is abundantly sufficient to pay all the legi? timate expenses of the State Govern? ment, with the exception of the free schools, for an entire year. Will oar people quietly submit to be thus robbed again and again? Under the present Constitution, there cm be no authority for the issue of bonds, except for the purpose of raising funds for extraordinary expenditures such OB the building of railroads, costly pnblio improvements, &a. It is a well known tact, that not a mile of railroad has been oonBtruoted, nor any other pnb? lio work of the kind.even attempted, in the last four years. All the money from these m?lions of bonds, and tho greater part besides ol the enormous amounts raised by taxa? tion, have gone into the greedy pockets of Soott, and his thievish crew, and there is not a dollar of consideration for it to the tax-payers and the people ,of the State. These bonds are not only fraud? ulent but unconstitutional, and we be? lieve wonld be so pronounced by the courts, if the question is properly made before them. It needed bat to subj oct the fraudulent bond scrip to the test of judioial investigation to kill it ntterly, and it is reasonable to expect that a like effect would follow an aotion to test tho validity of the bonds. $2,000,000 wero saved to the tax-payers of the State in the one eaie; $0,000,000 may be saved in the other. Repudiation is a distasteful . remedy, and though we should strongly advocate it in the oase of the fraudaient bonds, it is certainly far preferable to have them declared invalid by theoonrts, if possible. Now is the time for aotion. It Won't Do. Treasurer Parker graciously advises the bond-holders to proceed against the State Auditor, and compel him to levy teses to pay the interest on their bonds. This course, if successful, would, beyond ail question, put the neoessary funds in the Treasury; but what guarantee have the bond-holders that it would not go the way of all the other millions whioh have been poured into the Treasury since Mr. Parker's term? It looks ex? ceedingly much like turkey for Parker ?nd buzzard for the bond-holders, which? ever way you take it. A Bing-do ve-A bride. Necetaltas non Habet Legem. Thia is un old maxim, bot it, too, mast give way before the marob of progress. It has stood a great while, an I through ronny generations of-meo, unquestioned. To our State Treasurer was left the honor of completely overturning it. In bis wonderful letter to the bond holders, while diluting upon tbe sacredness of the pnblio debt, he says that it was "in? curred by necessity," and that there was law for . it. I Necessity, therefore, bas a law, at any rate for Mr. Parker. His oode is that bad old law, that he must steal who has a chanco, and bo must keep who can. -? " . ? TOLD You So.-The Golden Age flgureB up the mingled certainties and probabi? lities of the electoral vote, and gives Greeley 194 and Grant 67, with 105 doabtful. Adding theso doubtful votes to Grant's, his total rote would be only 172, against Greeley's 194. Among the doubtful States are Pennsylvania. Loui? siana, Ohio and Illinois, with 80 votes, bat Grant loses daily and Greeley gains daily. Pennsylvania will probably be the keystone ia Mr. Greeley's arch of triumph; and in Louisiana aud Ohio the prospect is exceedingly bright. The Golden Age takes particular pride in parading its figures, becauso, a couple of years ago, it was regarded as on the verge of insanity for nominating Horace Greeley to the Presidency of tho United States. But now a majority of the whole people aro as crazy, concerning Mr. Greeley, as the Golden Age was in its wildest moments of prophetic fanaticism. POLITICAL JOTTINGS.-A little book, entitled "Horace Greeley's Jokes," whioh was "edited for glory and printed for fun," has just been issued from the office of the Journeymen Printing Co? operative Association, 30 Beckman street, New York. Saunders, the colored eleotor who re? signed his position on the Grant ticket in Maryland, writes from North Caro? lina that ho finds many of the colored people of that State disposed to vote for Greeley. Bingham, who is now stumping Obie for Grant, said at Columbus last winter, and said it with emphasis: "Grant it only distinguished for being a d-d idiot." Ex-United States Senator Wilkenson, of Minnesota, who supports Greoloy, writes encouragingly of the prospects oi the conservative ticket in that State, Mr. W. has been, until recently, a strong Radical. The whole situation can bo summed np thusly: When tho Grant politioiani had got the curds nicely-placed to sui them, the people took the wholo puck it their hands and gave them a thorongl shu ill o for a new deal with a new trump which is likely to be king of hearts, ant not the old knave of diamonds, of whicl they are heartily sick. And this is wha ails the politicians. A New Orleans despatch says tba Lieutenant-Governor Pinchback hu: been making Greeley apeeeohes in St James Parish, La. This is regarded a significant, as Pinohbaok has heretofon favored Grout. He is the leading negr< politician in the South-west. A Philadelphia colored man presentee himself at Hassler's garden, a placo o public amusement, and asked for a ticket He was refused on account of his color The negro published au account of hi grievanoe in the Press. The editor apo logizad for Mr. Hassler, by stating tba even the correspondent must agree tba if colored persons were admitted, tb proceeds of the garden would be consi derably reduced. How is this, Mr. Forney? We though oivil rights in your latitude receive: more respect than that. You need re construction sadly, we fear, in the cit of Brotherly Love. * * ? > Mn. EDITOR: We think that the cou doctors on the Greenville Railroad ar most polite gentlemen, and most oaref c of the interest of the company. In ger tlemanly deportment, none can exe? them. They enjoy great popularity wit all good people. They discharge to tb fall the responsible duties whioh aro d( volved upon them. We would make n invidious discriminations where all at entitled to suoh high praise, but w think it not improper to say of Mi Isaacs, the senior conductor, that w know no higher model as an officer. JUSTICE. -<-??-> THE UNAPPEASABLE BOLTERS.-An e; ohange relates the following instance < irrepressible discontent, whioh happil illustr?tes tho unappeasable nature of tl boilers: "A ohild about three years old, wi crying because his mother had shut tb parlor door. 'Poor thing,' said a neigl bor compassionately, 'you have shut tl ohild ont.' 'It's all tbe same to him said his mother, 'he would cry if I calk1 him in and shnt the door, its a peet .liarity of that boy, and if ho is left rath* suddenly on either side of a door, li considers himself shot ont, and rebe accordingly.' " Tlie Herald on Boutwell's Speech In North Carolin?. The Now York Herald, in an article upon the oampain in North Carolina, after speaking in favorable terms of the speeoh of Senator Wilson, gives Boat well a broadside, as follows: Senator Wilson deserves special credit for the courteous tone of his speeoh to? ward the opposing candidates and parties, as well as for the moderation with which he appealed to the colored voters for support. , In following the admirable ex? ample set by August Belmont and Sena? tor Doolittle, in the Baltimore Convon tion, the Republican candidato for the Vice-Presidency has administered a re? buke to those orators and journalists ou the legalar Bopublican side who have in? jured the oause of their own friends by the violence of their personal abuse of Greeley and his supporters. The open? ing speeoh of Secretary Boutwell, at Greensboro, on Wednesday last, was altogether nf a different character. Apart from its review of the financial policy of the Administration, it was, in its political aspect, a dangerous and rep? rehensible effort to array tho Southern blacks against their white fullow-citizoue, and to scatter the seeds of distrust, hatred aud revenge broadcast over the South. The Secretary of the Treasury denounced and spurned the proposition that the people of tho Northern and Southern .States-tho men who hud fought the battles of the Confederacy, nnder the banners of Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and the mou who had marched to viotory under the lead of Sheridan and Graut-shall now clasp hands across the bloody chasm made by the war, aud bnry forever tho bitter memories of the past. No; rather let us keep alive the animosities and hatreds that lcd to the rebellion, until tho chasm shall ba filled, it may be, with tho mangled victims of a more cruel war-a war of races. Slavery, says Secretary Boutwell, waa the oause of this "deep, dark and por? tentous chasm," and injustice is thu es? sential characteristic of slavery. Ho re? fuses to recognize the fact that slavery is dead; that it can never again be revived in the United States whilo tho world continues; that the Southern people, one and all, accept the results of the war; that the white citizens of the South ask only to be allowed to live in peace, to repair their shattered fortunes, to recon? struct their desolated homes, and to place their States once again on the road tc prosperity and happiness. Ha sees in the solid vote of tho blocks, ignorant, idle and vicious though u majority ol them undoubtedly are, a prospect of se? curing the Southern States for the Ad ministration of which he is a member, and so he tells the negroes of North Ca? rolina that it must still bo war botweeE them and their white fellow-citizens; anc he pours into their credulous ears the insidious poison of suspicion. If yoi are wise, he says in substance to thc black crowd ho harangues, you will nevei trust your liberties und immunities t< your old masters, for whenever they ob tain the power, if they cannot destroy the former, they will deny you tho latter Their professions may bu fair, but theil hearts are false; and if you would pro? tect yourselves, your cry must be nc peace with such oppressors. Clasi hands aoross tho bloody chasm? No rather fill it up with more blood and witt the corpses of men, women and children whose white skins point them out a: your natural enemies. Wo do Secretary Boutwell no injustice in this interpreta tion of his unfortunate speech. It wil bear no other. His address is an effor to excite tho worst passions of an igno rant and violent people; to array rac? against race; to persuade thu neg roo that the white Democrats of the Soutl are their mortal enemies; to revive tbi deadly animosities of slavery whet slavery itself has perished; to opei afresh the wounds made by the war whet the country is at peace. If the language used by the Seoretary is less brutal am coarse than the ideas it conveys, th talent displayed in his rhetoric only ren ders the offence against humanity tin more unpar Jouable. ggTho reoord of the President prove that he can have nothing but detesta tion for the polioy advocated by hi Secretary of the Treasury. When Gen Grant drew his sword for his country he declared that it should strike on th side of the South, if ho could believi that tho war was waged for the abolitioi of slavery. When the brave soldiers o Gen. Lee laid down their arms and la; helplessly at the mercy of the Unioi troops, Gen. Grant accorded them term of peace fitting for men who had foagh so gallantly, although in a bad cause When the sneaking politicians who ba? kept their skins whole during the wa sought after its close to persecute Gen Lee, Grant's voice was raised in indig nant protest against the treacherous aol and they were forced to abandon thei design. When the Radicals in Congres endeavored to find a pretence for hold ing tho Southern States as conquere territory, Gen. Grant united with Ac drew Johnson in dedaring that tho citi zens of theSouth accepted the result o the war in good faith, and were anxiou to return to self-government within th Union as loyal men. "Let us hav poaco" bas been the ory of Gen. Gran ever nineo the war ceased, hud he ha raised his voice against every attempt t force negro supremacy npon the Soutl BS an outrage and an insult to the whit raoe. What, then, will he think and sa of the incendiary speech of his Seoretar of the Treasury, followed, as it has beet by violence and attempted mnrder o the part of the blacks of North Carolina Let us hope that he will at onoe ordc Seoretary Boutwell baok to Washingtoi and leave the campaign to the more dil oreet management of Senator Wilson. J is his mly safety, for a few such speeohi as that delivered on Wednesday last b the wandering Secretary would destro the Administration. The people are a ready weary of Ku Klux laws and pr< soriptive test oaths, and the sentiment < the North demands a more' libera] and just treatment of the white citizens of the Southdean we expect any each policy fronvfhbse who strive to stir up strife between the races in the Southern States, and who instill into tho mind of the ignorant negro tbe idea that lm for? mer master is his deadly and unyielding enemy? We warn Gen. Grant and Secre? tary Bootwell that such a policy is full of danger and trouble in tho future, for it cannot fail to bring forth bitter fruit for any Administration. It must inevitably lead to disturbances of the peace, if not to more serious evils; and in the train of these must oome more military usurpa? tion, more coeruive legislation, more of that coarse of oppression and injustice towards the Southern States, whioh has already been pursued too long, and whioh, we insist, must and shall cease, whatever Administration may bo in power. The people of the North will uo longer suffer this unconstitutional treatment of Stntes within the Union, or tolerate the Acts that lead to its continu? ance. They know that the South would be peaceful, if left to itself; they will not allow its peace to be disturbed by the selfish intrigues of narrow-minded poli? ticians. They do not intend that the fair Southern States shall bo the Ireland of tho American republic Scum CAROLINA DENTAL ASSOCIATION SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.-The Asso? ciation met ut 10 o'clock A. M. On motion of Dr. T. T. Moore, the medical fraternity and visiting dentists were tenderod the privilege of the floor. Dr. Williams offered a resolution of thanks to the various ruihoads leading tu the city, to the proprietors of the hotels in tl ie city for the attention shown them, and to thu o ulcers aud members of the Palmetto Steam Fire Engine Company for the use of their ball. Adopted. The election of o lucers for the ensu? ing term resulted us follows: Dr. T. T. Moore, of Columbia, Presi? dent. Dr. lt. S. Wbuley, of Newberry, First Vice-Presideut. Dr. D. Li. Boozer, of Columbia, Se? cond vice-President. Dr. Isaac H. Alexander, of Camden, Corresponding Secretary. Dr. J. S. Thompson, of Abbeville, Recording Secretary. Dr. W. L. Reynolds, of Columbia, Treasurer. The Prosident and vice-President, upon taking their seats, made brief ad? dresses, of much interest and importance to the Association. The report submitted by the Commit? tee upon a Code of Dental Ethics, was unanimously adopted. Dr. T. T. Moore brought forward a patient, (a well kuown gentleman of this city,) for whom he had replanted a par? tially dead tooth, of four years' standing, which has been a complete success. Also, two cases of Necrosis, one of which was irbero the jaw-bono was taken from a patient to effect a cure. Also, a case whioh, with nromatic sulphuric ucid, the teeth and jaw-bones wore preserved. Also, exhibited a specimen of artificial noses, of bis invention, similar to one woru by u member of the late General Assembly. Dr. Bland, of North Carolina, exhibit? ed specimens of dental anomalies. Dr. Alexander, from the Committee on Meohanical Dentistry, made a report. Dr. Whaley moved to take a recess from half-past 12 to 1 P. M. Adopted. Dr. Wardfaw moved that the Presi? dent, in the appointment of the various standing committees, have the privilege of usBiguing different subjects to be re? ported opon. A committee of three was appointed to draft suitable resolutions relative to the death of Drs. Reynolds and Rod? rigues. Dr. W. L. Reynolds, from the Com? mittee on Operative Dentistry, (submit? ted an interesting report, which, after a free discussion, was adopted. The evening session was devoted to the discussion of various subjects rela? tive to mechanical und operative den? tistry. The committee appointed to preparo suitable resolutions relative to the death of Drs. Reynolds and Rodrigues, sub? mitted a report, which was secondod in a most feeling manner by Drs. Durham, Wardlaw and Bissel, and unanimously adopted. The following is the tribute: Since our last meeting, two of our most venerated and esteemed fellow laborers have passed from the scenes of earth-Dr. William Reynolds, of Colum? bia, and Dr. B. A. Rodrigues, of Charles? ton. They bore long and well the ho? nors and responsibilities of the profes? sion, and by their capacity, zeal and energy, contributed no little to the high estimation in which it is now held. It beoomes ns to pay thia well-won tribute to their memory, and to givo a perma? nent record to our sensu of tbe loas which the profession has sustained in the removal of these distinguished mem? bers and ornaments. Your committee, therefore, submit the following resolu? tions: Resolved, That a page of tho record book of this Association be set apart to the memory of each of the deceased, and that this report be inscribed thereon. Resolved, That a copy of these pro? ceedings be published in the daily papers of this oity and of Charleston. ? Resolved, That a oopy of these resolu? tions be sent to the families of the de? ceased. A. E. DURHAM, R. S. WHALEY, W. A. WILLIAMS, Committee. At a late hour, the Association ad? journed until 9 o'clook this morning. A New York merchant recently got on a bender, and had over $10,000 taken from an inside vest-pocket. Mr. Wm. Bristow, of Marlboro, and for many years proprietor of the Mail boro Hotel, died last week. Correspondence of the Phoenix. YoiiKviLiiB, 8. C., Joly 23, 1872. MB. EDITOB: It is not our purpose to write a critique on tbe relations of State and General Government, or a moral effusion on tbe evils of free love, or, finally, to "pursue tho ring." If we succeed in embodying intelligibly a few passing thoughts, our end will have been accomplished. Our Hummer term of tho Circuit Court for the present year closed on lust Satur? day. We learn that the flocket was not cleared, and that more than half the eases are ooutinued. There was not an unusual number pending. The lack of despatch was owing to Judge Thomas being quite indisposed during tho week, and to tue enervating influence of tbe warm weather. There was no case of special public interest disposed of. This is his Honor's laBt visit to York ville. Ho sits at Lancaster and Cheater, and then he lays aside the ermine. Of Course, he has not graced it as did some of our ante bellum Judges. We take it that he is ou the sunny side of forty years, and that up to the time of bis promotion, hts experience in tba prac? tice of the law waa rather limited. But Thomas is a better man than Mackey, aud we doubt if there is ono in the cir? cuit who ia not fearful of a change for the worse. We kuow very little of Judge Mackey's antecedents, except what ho told the people here, in a set speech, some weeks since. Ho is of honorable(?) connexions, fought for tho State in two wars, and cleavet-(?) to her now in her hour of greatest peril. Wo presume, ton, that he is a gentleman of considerable acu? men iu polities, and quite learned as a jurist, having served several months in Charleston in the capacity of Trial Jus? tice. But we must not anticipate him. Thomas, u Becket, when raised by King Henry to the Archbishopric of Cauter borry, deserted the royal standard, and devoted his time and talents to the church. Who kuowa but that Thos. J. Mackey will do likewise? It was stated by a Union correspond? ent last spring that Judge Thomas was au aspirant lor Congressional honors, and that he intended presenting himself to the people as an independent candi? date. Mackey has superseded him in one branch of public service, but he will uot find it so easy to oust the honorable Mr. A. S. Wallace from bis seat. "Tried in the balance and found wanting," he would naturally be preferred to one who, by his conservative principles, might ef? fect a great deal of good as a member from thia district. ? good Republican (Radical) before, the present incumbent plighted his faith anew to the party dur? ing tho Merrill-Corbin-Wallace inquisi? tion of the Ku Klux in our County. He made long and frequent visits in the full and winter of last year to Col. Mer? rill, our military autocrat, and exercised his every faculty to wreak out the ven? geance of an insulted, ostracised and iujured(?) dignitary on the honest and out spokeu people of the community. Mr. Wallace does not roar; he cannot, consequently, be styled a lion, although in every othor respect be calls to mind him who "goes about seeking whom he may devour." Neither is he like the Irishman's flea-he eludes your grasp, bu', he is a slippery fellow, and in get? ting out of the way he reminds one moro forcibly of an eel than a flea. Apropos to the honorable member and the court, Major Jas. W. Barry was fined S100 for his batter milk assault on tho aforesaid gentleman. Notwithstanding the great nnmber that left the County last fall-some 200 or 300-we are glad to inform you that the agricultural interest has not been ne? glected. The seasons have been fine, and the laborers have worked very faith? fully. The planters have very little to fear now, except that tho fall elections may elicit the interest of the colored man to such a degree as to make him grow negligent about harvesting. The mer? cantile interest suffered more immedifee ly after the suspensi?n of the habeas cor? pus Act than now; only two houses have been permanently closed in town. We are also pleased to state that the female college and the King's Mountain Milita? ry School are in a flourishing aondition. The Rev. James Douglas, of the South Carolina Synod, has an efficient oorps of instructors, and under his auspices the Yorkville Female College bas a bright future. Col. A. Coward, the surviving partner of Jenkins & Coward, is well known throughout the State as a polished gentleman, a brave soldier, and a tine scholar and disciplinarian. While he merely claims for his school that it is a preparatory one, it fits a yoaug man for the junior year in college, and one of ordinary oapaoity and application, who has completed the course, may take the aniversity degree of A. B. in two years. The faculty number four, and there aro four separate departments-the scienti? fic, English, Freuoh and claoBical. The King's Mountain Military School is with? out an equal in the State. The climate and general health of the place are unsurpassed, especially in the summer months. Yorkville only needs an extension of the King's Mountain Railroad into North Carolina to make it the first town in the up country. More anon. CYCLOPS. UNKOBTUNATE.-We regret to learn that the dwelling of Dr. T. W. Briggs, a large and commodious house of fourteen rooms, in Clarendon County, was en? tirely destroyed by fire on the 3d inst. All tbe furniture went with the building, and the family made a narrow esoape, some of the children being rescued at the last moment by one of the older sons of Dr. Briggs. There was no insurance. [Sumter Watchman, The mad dog excitement has taken possession of Corsioana, Texas, and the citizens have already exterminated 250 dogs. Eiooal Ito ra ot. ? ? ? CITY MATTERS.-The price of single copies of the PHOENIX is five oents. A large and varied lot of cards, suita? ble for weddings, invitations, visiting and business purposes, Lave just been re oeived at this office, which, owing to the dull season, wijA, be printed at very low rates. Rachael Stalworth, an old end deore pid colored woman, convicted of infanti? cide, at the late term of the conrt for Edgeficld County, and sentenced to im? prisonment for life, bus, upon the re? commendation of prominent citizens of that County, been pardoned by Gov. Scott. W. M. Watson has been appointed by Gov. Scott a Trial Justice for Edgefield County, vies M. M. Padget, whose term bas expired. Persons desirous of investing in valua? ble Main street real estate are directed to the advertisement of Dr. J. W. Parker, in another column. The lots are eligi gibly situated, and should command high figures. Tho Union Savings Bank (as will be seen by a card in another column) has been fully organized, and will in a short time bo open for regular business. The office at present is at the banking house of E. J. Scott, Son & Co. The advertising agenoy of Walker, Evans & Cogswell, represented by Bos? well T. Logan, Esq., is the only author? ized agency for this paper in Charleston. Mr. M. H. Collins has been appointed a member of the Board of Health for Ward No. 2, ?ice Geo. Lever, non-resi? dent of tho Ward. The thermometer at the Pollock House ranged us follows yesterday: 7 A. M., 80; 12 M., 94; 2 P. M., 92; 7 P. M., 89. The following is the programme of music by the Eighteenth Infantry Band, at the garrison parade gronnd, this af? ternoon: Overture Nabncca-Verdi. Polka Mazourka-Gungle. Chorns Massanitta-Aaber. Rock City Guard Quickstep-Mosske. Aria and Finale Trovatore-Verdi. PHO?NIXIANA.-A noble heart, like the sun, shows its greatest conntenapce in its lowest estate. "Greeleymocracy" is one of the words now figuring in campaign paragraphs. Speak kindly at night, for it may be before the dawn some loved one may finish his or her space of life for this world, and it will be too late to ask for? giveness. At the marriage of a very young cou* pie, the other day, a gentleman inquired of a lady what fruit the bride and bride? groom reminded her of. "A green pear," was the response. Long division-Separation for life. At Springfield, Mass., a lady sent the following toast: Spruce old bachelors, tho ever-greens of society. Motives are better than notions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, ?a? of good they contemplate more than they do. No man can properly be called a gen? tleman until he has learned to courte? ously decline doing a favor. Always avoid the company in which you are willing to tell a coarse jest, be canse for you it is a demoralizing com? pany. Grossness is never humorous, profanity is never admirable; and if your manner and speech once begin to ravel out upon that edge, all their manliness and charm are in danger. LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. R. D. Senu & Son-Corn, Oats. L. D. Childs-Registration Bonds. Commnnioation Acacia Lodge. J. W. Parker-Real Estate for Sale. Union Savings Bank of Columbia. HOTEL ABBIVALS, July 24.-Columbia Hotel 8 W Hess, Baltimore; J H Rankle, 8 C; J D Wardlaw, Jr, V?, O A A R B; D H Farmer, Oolleton; J J Klein, Waltorboro; ?8 J Hayes, Lexington; W A Williams, Newberry; L Mer? rill, TJ 8 A; H D Qllberl, N C; WD Aiken, 8 0: F W Dawson, Charleston; J Y Sage and wire, Atlanta; Misa N MoOaughrin, R L Mc Caughrin, three obildren and nurse. Newber? ry; G F 8 Wright, Newberrj; J O Woodward, S ?. Nickerson House-J J Stringfellow, Chester ; J Wright, O K Rogers, Darliagton; E H Walk? er and wife, J A Sadler, B M Emmert, N C; D J Garter, Lancaster; T W White, Reidville; J M Seigler, E S Keitt, Newberry: J M Mackay, Abbeville; T Kinkead, N Y; H (J Ott, Aiken; T W Ball, Baltimore; J R Chatham, Helena. SOCIAL EQUALITY IN WASHINGTON.-A Washington despatch, dated the 20th, says: _ . , The law of the Distriot Legislature re? lative to oivil rights in barber shops, hotels, eating houses, confectioneries, io., wont into effect to-day. It imposes penalties and forfeitures of license for making any distinction in serving pub? lic guests on acoount of oolor, and re? quires the conspicuous display of lists of prices. Some of the restaurant keepers, in order to avoid Belling drinks to co? lored men, post their prices at very high figures, some of them rating whiskey at two dollars a drink, brandy and mixed drinks five dollars, ham and eggs three dollars, and other supplies aocordingly, "a liberal reduction made tc regular cuu tomera," meaning white men. A son of the Rutledge who signed the Declaration of Independence lives in Il? linois, at the ago of 103 years.