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VSIXLiSlCa-Xl.^LPJQCXO -?-?? . [The city vas excited, yesterday, over ramon of a serious riot in Savannah. Through the courtesy of Mr. Bead, manager of the Colombia office of thc Southern Atlantio Telegraph line, wc are furnished with the following par? ticulars of the affair:] SAVANNAH, July 3D.-The plan of thc Radical leaders to force negroes to ride CD the white street oars culminated, yes terday. During the day many negroo? were thrown off by the conductors. Al night, the lower part of the street along the oar lines were orowded by whites an tioipating trouble and feverish with ex citeraient. The negroes gathered in th< upper part of the town, near the Park and, at 9 P. M., fired into a street oar The men on board returned the fire There was an armed posse on every oa: frum this time. Several oars were bom barded from dark alleys. Over 100 shoti were fired on both sides. The negroe were gradually driven off. To-day de veloped fifteen or twenty blacks wounder and beaten; no whites injured-non killed. At ll P. M., all was quiet on the stree -oar line, the riot being transferred t St. Andrew's Hall, where the Grunt rati fioation meeting was being held by th Custom House ring. An anti-ring Radi cal kicked np a fuss, and a terrible figb ensued in the hall. A dozen shots wer fired, and half a dozen persons wer badly hurt, including two white Cor. servative constables. The fight wa transferred to the street, where the tw Radical faotions had a fearful "serin mage." Bricks were thrown and ove 200 shots fired, riddling the adjoinin houses. The whites, attracted from tb street oar line, approached, and wei ?fired into by the negroes and driven bad The whites rallied, and Broughto street, from Barnard to the hall, bucara a regular battle-ground of Indian wa fare-behind trees and steps. Four < ?five whites were wounded and as man negroes. The entire police foroe can out, with fixed bayonets, when tl "firing stopped. The meeting then wei on, and there was no further troub with the negroes. The orowd then wei for the Radical white leaders, who we: at tho bottom of the day's troubles, ai chased them until night came on. The casualties are not yet know: -though several hundred shots were fire Several oolored persons were wounde among them a woman. John Papy w ?hot in the head, and Ben. Morrill w beaten and thrown from the cars. Fi oolored men were arrested and taken the barracks. There are many rumors afloat, snob organizing of blacks for a general i tack, and expectations of reioforoemec from tho country; but up to this hot all is very quiet. Mr. Cohen, who was fired npon, whi sitting in his house, received sevei shots in his face and head, but no dangerous. Mrs. Cohen received fa wounds in her shoulders and brea Miss Lizzie Davis was seriously shot her neck, shoulder and hand. M Barber Was wounded severely in the fe .nd arm. Her little daughter was mc seriously.wounded than any, she reoe ing sixteen shots in her face and hei All are doing tolerably well. The following parties were wound irv the row at the ratification meeting St. Andrew's Hall: *Mr. Henry Bogard Thoa. Wilson, Constables L. Eundo: and Benjamin Morgan, and many othe whose names are unknown. Wm, G. Godfrey, Harry Segur a Cecil Berrien, who were yesterday rested on warrants issued by Solon Thomas, and discharged, but who w again arrested on warrants issued by United States Marshal, made their pearance, this morning, before him; 1 from some cause, the case was postpoc and the aconsed paroled, until 10 o'd Thursday morning. Foreign Affaira. LONDON, July 30.-Quoen Viotoria written a touching letter of condole to Duo D'Aumalo over the death of son, the Duke of Guize. . HOME, July 80.-The Pope has ] oonised the Archbishop of Baitim and the Bishop of Richmond. LONDON, July 30.-It is reported t the Geneva board of arbitration b adopted the following method of dis] ing of business: Eaoh ship is exami separately; the arbitrators next dei what principles are applicable to case, by whioh it stands or falls; no < nite amount of damages is then fi upon, but when the examination ol the oases is completed, the tribunal review its separate conclusions and ai upon the total sum of damages. American Matters. CHARLESTON, July 30.-Arrived-fl Jonas Smith, New York ; steamship I Stream, Baltimore. WASHINGTON, Joly 29.- Ex-M Bowen* ol Washington, who had notorious transaction with Grant al tho sale of the I Street House t years ago, is out in a letter in the York World, in whioh he direotly ohe Grant with swindling him ont of $25, with a eoolness and deliberation would do credit to any blaok-leg. announces that he will proseoote G in the courts, and show np his chara He says Grant is miserly and sordid, will resort to evasion and invasic law, or anything else an honest would despise, to put money in pocket. Bowen is the best possibl* thority for any statement of this 1 having had many dirty transactions Grant. "When rogues fall out," & A dooumeat just issued by the Gr campaign committee here contain eora of the absence of the Presiden Cabinet officers for the last thiee j to the detriment of public businesi shows they have been absent from Y ington one-third of the term sinoe M 1869. BROOKVILLE, July 80.-An a cc i de the Kansas Pacific Road killed five igra nts and injured many. Nsw YORK, July 30.-The loss of the barned sogar refinery on Leonard street is 8350,000. Two liquor dealers were seat to jail for twenty days for keeping open on Sundays. William S. Oroesbeok writes a letter, giving ia his adhesiou to Greeley, and says: "I differ in polities with Greeley, who was not my ohoioe; but he has, per? haps, been nhoseu with extraordinary unanimity, and is now before us ns the only representative of reconciliation." BOSTON, July 30.-The tanaery of Chester, Guild & Sea was burned to-day; loss $85,000. Two firemen were badly injured. PORT JERVIS, N. J., Joly 30.-The bridge over the Pausuok River, on the Honesdale branch of the Et ie Railroad, near Hawley, Pennsylvania, was barned to-day. It will interrupt the coal traffic for several days. M AT AMOR AH, July 30.-Rocha pro claims ia favor of peace and amnesty. Many revolutionists, ref ngeeing ia Texas, are iavited to retara. The stage coaohei and mails will soou resume. NEW YonK, July 30-Evening.-A heavy fire is raging at Hunter's Point Several vessels have been barned. Tugi are towing them away. The fire origi nated on board a canal boat. The wine was blowing from the North, and carriec the flames ioto the Standard Oil Yards The boat on whioh thc fire commence! had on board 1,200 barrels. It is re ported that eight or ten barges havebeei destroyed. The ship Elpis, 800 tons the bark Edwards, 600 tons, both fall o oil, and the brig Max, 250 tons, jas commencing to receive cargo, wen burned. W. T. Ward well, Superintend ent of the Standard Oil Works, esti mates that 20,000 to 25,000 barrels o oil have been barned ia the yards, value? at tea dollars per barrel. E. F. Coet phosphate factory loses 10,000 barrels o phosphate, valued at eight dollars pe barrel; fifty hogsheads" of bone dust valued at thirty dollars per hogshead. LATER.-The fire now extends ove three blocks, covering the entire spac with a solid mass of flame. Captai Chandler oame to the rescue of th barges with the United States steam tu Cataiopa, whioh is provided)with a steai fire engine. The flames are still spreac ing. It ?B reported that a woman an child on a canal oil boat were burned t death. Two Williamsburg ferry-boa are also reported burned. There is panic among the people at Hunter Point. Houses are deserted, and the fii department's efforts seem fruitless. A cars on the Flushing Road have been r moved, and all the property on the rivi front of the place is also being rapid removed. The works of the New Yoi Oil Company were also burned, wit large quantities of oil. The Standai Works were owned by Rookafellow, A drews & Flagler. Henri Drayton, aa operatic artist, dead. WASHTNOTON, July 30-Eveuing.-M Sumner has written a long letter to number of colored citizens, who late addressed him. Mr. Sumner deolar for Gresley. Among his strongest pai graphs is the following: "The prese position of the colored citizen is perilot He is exposed to injurious pressut when he needs support; but I seo early extraction, except ia the way pi posed. Let him cut adrift from t managers, who would wield him men as a political force, with little regard his owe good, and bravely stand by t oandidate Greeley, who has stood him. . If the Democrats unite with hi so muoh the better. The associati onoo began must naturally ripen ii common friendship and trust." The following is a synopsis of Su ner's letter: He addresses his corr pondents as gentlemen and fellow-o zens. He delayed answering that might reflect and fully inform himsi He has listened to much from both sid but bis best judgment is now in b mony with his early conclusions. He touched by the appeal his oorrospoi ents make. He has been the friend their race, and is glad they consider t the special advocate of their rigl They do him ample justice when tl believe that his counsel, at this cr it j anotare, woald be free from personal partisan prejudice. Mr. Sumner c traste the two candidates: Greeley . born iu poverty, and educated him in a printing office. Grant was foi nate in early patronage; became a ca at West Point Military Academy, i was eduoated at the public expei One started with nothing but indui and character; the other with a milil commission. One was trained -as z vilian; the other as a soldier. Hoi Greeley stood forth as a reformer Abolitionist; the President enlisted pro-slavery Demoorat, and at the e tion of James Buchanan, fortified by vote all the pretensions of slavery- e the Dred Scott decision. Greeley, f early life, was earnest and cons against slavery, full of sympathy i the oolored race, and always foremos the great battle for their rights; Pi dent Grant, exoept as a soldier, e moned by the terrible acoident of never did anything against slavery, has he at any time shown sympathy with the colored i Horace Greeley earnestly desired colored citizens should vote, and championed impartial suffrage; but sident Grant was on the other i Beyond these contrasts, whioh marked, it oaonot be forgotten Horace Greeley is a person of 1 heart and large understanding, tra to support human rights. Mr. Gree industry, general knowledge, am nature, and, above all, his hon whioh no suspicion has touohed, maintained. Few of these things a\ in President Grant. His great su in war oannot change his reocrd to the oolored people; while there antecedents showing that in the pro tion of his plans, be cares uothiu? tho colored race. Mr. Sumner, prefacing that the is painful, bat it must be told, gives tl e history of Santo Domingo and Hay ti, where he outraged 800,000 blacks, who were engaged in the great experiment of self-government. Here follows a history of the attempt at annexation. He al? ludes to the disrespect with whioh Grant treated Fred. Douglass, who, by his in? vitation, was one of the San Domingo OommisBioner8. Grant has little oapa oity or industry in protecting oolored people and assuring peaoe at the South. After violating the Constitution and in? ternational law, to insult the blaok re? public, and Betting an example of in? subordination, he was not in a condition to rebuke law-breakers. Mr. Sumner then considers the pre? sent position of the candidates. Eaoh was nominated by a Republican Conven? tion. He lauds the material composing the Cincinnati Convention. Comparing the character of the supporters of the two candidates, be says the country knows too well tbe military ring, the Senatorial ring, the Custom House ring, through the rresidont. The acts of such Hupportor? are a very poor recom? mendation. He says it is idle to say that Horace Greeley and the Republi? cans who nominated him at Cincinnati are any leBS Republican because Demo? crats unite with them in the support of cherished principles, and the candidate who represent? them. Mr. Sumner says the hardihood of po? litical falsehood reaches itt extreme point when it is asserted that under Ho? race Greeley, the freedmen will be ro enslaved, or thut colored people will in any way suffer in their equal rights. Ou the contrary, they have, in his election, not only the promises oi the platform, but also the splendid example, for a full generation, during which he has never wavered in the assertion of their rights. To suppose that Horace Greeley, when placed where he can do them the most good, will depart from the rule of his honest life, is an insult to reason. It is none the less idle to suppose that the Democrats supporting Horaoe Greeley expect or desire that he should depart from those principles, whioh are the glory of his character. They have ac? cepted the Cincinnati platform, with two-fold promises, and intend, iu good faith, to maintain it. Gentlemen, in thus answering youi two inquiries, I have shown why you, a? oolored fellow-citizens, and also all whe would nphold your rights, and save th? oolored race from indignity, should re fuse to sanction the re-election of tb? President, and put your trust in Horac Greeley. I ought to add that, with hin will be associated, as Vice-President Brown, whom I have known for years as a most determined Abolitionist. Th two together will carry into the Nations Government an unswerving devotion t your rights, not to be disturbed by pai ti san dictation or sectional prejudice Besides all this, which may fitly guid you in determining between the two oat didates, it is my duty to remind you that as oitizens of the United States, and pai of the country, your welfare is indi) solubly associated with that of th whole country. Where all are pros porous, you will inevitably be gai nen Therefore, while justly careful of you own rights, you ounnot be indifferent t the blessings of good government, is for you to consider whether the tin has not come for something better thn the sword, and whether a character M Horace Greeley does not give strongi assurance of good government than ea be found in the insulter of the colore race, already famous for the rings aboi him, and his plain inaptitude for civ life. Speaking now for myself, I have t say that my voto will be given for H race Greeley; but in giving it, I do m go to the Democratic party, nor am any less a Republican. On tho co trary, I am BO much of a Rep?blica that I cannot support a candidate who conduct in civil life shows an incapaci to appreciate Republican principles, ai whose administration is marked by ac of delinquency, especially toward t! oolored race, by the side of which t! allegations on the impeachment of A drew Johnson were technical and*trivii Probabilities-The aroa of oloud ai rain in the upper lakes will move Ea: ward over the lower lakes, with Southe ly and Easterly winds and falling bat meter, during Tuesday night. lucre, ing cloudiness and higher temperatui with winds veering to Southerly in t Middle States, and with Southerly Easterly winds and possibly rain on t Sonth-Atluntio coast on Wednesdt Clearing and oool weather in the Norl west and in the upper lakes, with Norl arly winds, and in the Mississippi a Ohio Valley, clear weather and W terly winds. SAVANNAH, July 30.-Last* night, t Republicans had a meeting, in whiol row took plaoe between the city II oountry negroes and their respect white leaders, in whioh several perse were beaten. The meeting broke up a general stampede. The street oar c Acuity was quieted down. The negri tired into a house in the suburbs, I night, seriously wounding Mr. Barb Mrs. Cohen and two ohildren. A down train from Angosta, on Central Railroad, was thrown from track, this morning, at the junotion w the Savannah and Charleston Railro about three miles from this city. 1 angineer and fireman were slightly jnred. The accident was caused by displacement of a switch by nnknc parties. ARRESTS.-We learn from a relit souroe, that Messrs. R. E. Quinn, I bon Diokerson, J. H. Crosby, D. T. 0 by, and Adam Stevenson, oolored, v arrested Friday, in the "dark cort sections of the County, charged * violation of the Enforcement Act. ' first two made their escape after bc arrested.- Winnsboro Neves. A carpenter named Wm. Miller found dead in a house, in Augusta, < on Monday. Financial ?nd Commercial. LONDON, July 30-Noon.-Consols 92)?. Bonds 91J?. PAIUS, July 30.-Rentes 55f. 17o. LIVERPOOL, July 30-3 P. M.-Cotton opened steady-uplands 9%; Orleans 10M@l0Hl sales 10,000 baloH; specula? tion and export 2,000. LIVERPOOL, July 30-Evening.-Cot? ton quiet and unchanged. Manchester quiet and firm. NEW YORK, July 30-Noon.-Cotton quiet and rather weak-middling up? lands 21 j?; Orleans 21%; eales 74 bales. Flour quiet and steady. Wheat dull, without decided ohauge. Corn a shade firmer. Pork quiet, at 13.70(^13.75. Lard dull-steam 8@9)jj. Freights steady. Stocks dull and heavy. Gold firmer, at 14%. Governments very strong. State bonds dull but steady. Money easy, at 3. Exohange-long V%\ short 10J?. 7 P. M.-Mouey hardening, at 3@4. Sterling firmer. Gold 14%@15. Go? vernments strong, at )?o. advance. States dull but steady. Cotton steady; sales 4,340 bales-uplands 211g; Orleans 21%. Flour quiet but firm, iufair home and trade sud limited export demand. Whiskey sleady, at 92. Wheat l@2o. lower, aud more doing-winter red WP"' rn 1.60(311.65. Corn unchanged. Rice quiet, at. b%@9^. Pork steady. Lard heavy. Freiguts unchanged. Sales of futures to-day 16.300 bales, as fol? lows: August 2014;, 20; September 20%. 20>?; October ltf>^, 19,??; November 18s0', 18,ln'; December 18^, 18 7-16; sell? er's option this yeur I8I4. BOSTON, July 30.-Cotton dull-mid dliug 22; receipts 63 bales; sales 100; ??tock 9,000. MOBILE, July 30.-Cotton unchanged -low middling 20; sales 65 bales; stock 1,085. CHARLESTON, July 30.-Cotton dull middling nominal; receipts 5 bales; sales 50; stock 15,715. PHILADELPHIA, July 30.-Cotton dull -middling 21%@22. NORFOLK, July 30.-Cotton dull-low middling 20; receipts 15 bules; stock 470. BALTIMORE, July 30.-Cotton dull and lower-middling 21%; reoeipts 1 bale; stock 1,104. I GALVESTON, July 30.-Cotton nominal -good ordinary 19>?@20; receipts 22 bales; stock 336 bales. SAVANNAH, July 30.-Cotton quiet middling 21; receipts 45 bales; sales 10; stock 1,511. WILMINGTON, July 30.-Cotton quiet middling 20%; sales 21 bales; stock 495. AUGUSTA, July 30.-Cotton dull and nominal-middling receipts 37 bales; sales 100. NEW ORLEANS, July 30.-Cotton dall ind nothing doing-low middling 20(rn 20'.<; r?cents 55 bales; Bales 26; stock ii ,528. WHERE IT PROPERLY BELONGS-AN DTHER RADICAL FALSEHOOD EXPOSED. The Grant organs have tried very hard to utilize for their candidate that extract from tho New York Tribune, written luring the war and beginning, "When the rebellious traitors," <to. They hoped to inflame thu minds of the Southern people against Mr. Greeley by laying the luthorship of this infamous paragraph to his charge. The Tribune has already dcuied that Mr. Greeley wrote this article-in fact, iona of those interested ever believed ;bat ho did-and yesterday, on the occa iion of Senator Conkliug again asserting ;bat Mr. Greeley wroto tbe article in question, the Tribune once more empir? ically denied it, adding to its denial an reportant revelation. "Mr. Greeley," lays the Tribune, "never wrote the tbovc, never prompted or approved it, ind never saw it till after il was printed." Chis is emphatic. "We may properly idd the fact," it continues, "that the nan who did write it is now one of the nost earnest and prominent editorial tupporters of Grant, Wilson and Conk? ing in this city." So! We track the lerpent to his den by tho sound of his liss, and we find him coddling with inuit, Wilson aud Conkliug! Hereafter et tho Grant party shoulder the respon libility of the utterance of the cowardly ind inhuman sentimeut. DEATH OF MR. LEWIS SIMONS.-This lighly esteemed gentleman, formerly sonnected with the co-operative grocery it the corner of Meeting and Market itreets, and recently with the store of Sir. F. L. O'Neill, King street, died very luddeuly yesterday. He had been indis? posed, and had been at home in consc? ience a day or two. He stepped into be yard of his residence just before 2 i'clook P. M., and, in returning, said a ow pleasant words to a member of his 1 lonsehold, and very soon expired of .ongestion of the brain. I Charleston Courier. A letter is published from John T. ?iokett, defending his sale of the late Confederate doouments to the Govern nent, on the ground that they really of igbt belonged to the United States aa esidaary legatee of the defunct Con ederacy. He says that tho abuse he is ubjected to for their Bale comes from peculative scalawags, who will now be mable to swindle the Government with >ogus claims^ Cow KILLER BY LIGHTNING.-On Sun lay evening, during tho rain storm, ightning struck and splintered a large line tree iu the vicinity of the new irphan house. A oow whioh had sought helter under its branches was instantly idled.-Augusta Chronicle. A Bowling Green Teuton poetically de lues his political position: "I drink my ager freely and vote for Horace Gree ey; I drink my luger down and vote for i. Gratz Brown." A Minneapolis hypochondriac,' named George Hayes, who, within the past two rears, has unsuccessfully tried suicide our times, made one more attempt with \ rope recently, and was successful. It is said that the balcony of the Cats till Mountain House commands a view of i bo nt 10,000 square miles. Thoa?) Confederate Archivo?. Everybody hos been astonished at the remarkable transaction jost brongbt to light, in the parchase for $75,000 of the public funds, of the diplomatic archives of the Confederate Staten, said to have been discovered in Canada, where by order of ex-Secretary Benjamin they had been secreted, and left for the last seven years in the hands of some person or persons unknown. The air of mystery attaohed to the whole transaction natu? rally excites grave doubts as to the authenticity of all tho papers thus sold by some person or persons unknown, through their attorney ; for they neither give any information as to how they be? came possessed of the papers aforesaid nor any proofs of the genuineness of doouments so strangely secreted, and still more strangoly unearthed, and sold to the arch-enemies of the States whioh once composed that Confederacy. The purpose in acquiring them was to UBO them to the injury of the new friends those States have found in the North, and to perpetuate the worse than Egyp? tian bondage to which they have been reduced since the shim peace which for seven years has mocked them after armed hostilities ceased at Appomattox. Late telegrams give the partial solu? tion of this mystery in the statement that the Administration organs have issued, or are about to issue, one of these so-called Confederate State documents, thus strangely and suspiciously obtained, which divulges a plot concocted between Jacob Thompson, Commissioner of the Confederate States to Canada, President Davis and Mr. Benjamin, Secretary ol State, to burn Northern cities during the war through incendiaries sent epeoiallv for that purpose over the Canadian frontier, and that $1,000,000 had been given Thompson for that purpose, whe did send such emissaries, whose fiendish, designs were happily frustrated, a< everybody knows. The corollary to this startling proposi tion, of course, is: "These are thc wicked people with whom Greeley anc his party now ask you, the people o North Carolina, to strike hands 'aarosi the bloody chasm'-thone wicked South erners who wanted to burn you, you: wives and children in their beds, in Nev York and other cities, by the viles treachery. Here is Confederate testi mony to the faot, taken from the Confe derate archives themselves, whioh Provi dence-that is, the national poaket-boo] -has placed in our hands. Great i Grantl and greater oar profits, if we cai re-eleot him!'' This is the solution of the mystery this purchase is an electioneering dodg to manufacture campaign documents fo Grant, so ai to prop up his failing foi tunes and lost popularity, by an appee to sectional hatred and euspioion of th South, and a revival of the fraternc hate whoso fires are smouldering int ashes. Of all tho cruel and wicked thing perpetrated by that party, this is th most wicked and the most cruel; but s bare-faced an imposture can only reflet disgrace on its perpetrators, and do s harm, save to its fabricators. The writer of this article can /spec with confidence on these subjects, b cause entrusted by thc President of tl Confederacy with a position and wit duties appertaining to the Secret Dipl? macy of the Confederacy, which nece sarily made him acquainted with evei move made in or through the Depai ment of State, he shared the entire coi fidence of President Davis in this regari He therefore knows, that althouf there is some truth in the statement th Jacob Thompson was sent to Canada c a mission connected with Confedera diplomacy, for the purpose of "agitsi ing" on and through the frontier, ai that a very large sum of money w given him to use for that purpose, ye to the best of his knowledge and bein no such villainous and cowardly plan that which these pretended despatch revealed, ever was conceived or put execution by him, or communicated President Davis or Seoretary Benjami and met their approval. Nay, more; when, after the war, i his return from Europe, whither he h been sent as diplomatic agent of t Confederacy, the writer of this arti? referred to "these designs which had be widely disseminated during the war New York papers, in conversation wi Jefferson Davis, the ex-President m indignantly denied any complicity knowledge in such infamous plots proceedings, and branded them as pi fabrications. No one who spoke to h on the Bubjeot, and saw the flash of ! eye, and the indignation the oharge < cited, could doubt the innooenoe of 1 ex-president of all complicity or kne ledge of so vile a treachery. With 1 Benjamin the writer never conversed the subject, though both Mason a Slidell assured him he, too, was also nooent of the oharge the North? papers made, nor has opportunity e occurred since the war to see and qo tion Jacob Thompson, who, doubt lt as soon os he gets this news (he is rj in Europe) will speak for himself, e disown this spurious despatch impu to him, which probably is the ohief c sideration for the $75,000 in oash pi for what may be genuine copies Confederate diplomatic archives, E "to contain nothing compromising." If they be genuine and complete, t will contain more than twenty-five spatoheu from the writer, of whioh neither is ashamed nor fears the pu cation. Ia conclusion, tho writer would i to divert tho suspicion that he is tempting to smooth over the fault friends, that so far from the relation Mr. Benjamin and himself being fri? ly, thoy were quito the roverse-as tl archives, if genuine, and published, show-and that while he ever retai his personal regard for President Df ho hud also to forget and forgive na at the hands of tbe ex-President, sonally, and toward tho closo of bis ministration was not content with ooaree, or that of his administration, and pot on record his disapproval of tho men and measures he embraced. Therefore, as an impartial witness, the writer solemnly declares his conviction, that the charges made are utterly false j and without foundation, and the pre? tended paper (if it implicates the ex President and the Confederate Govern? ment) is a forgery and a fraud, and not a genuine document. EDWIN DELEON, Ex-Diplomatic Agent of the Gonfede- - racy in Europe. SAVANNAH, July 25, 1872. A Columbia correspondent of the Beaufort Republican writes: The mutterings of a political revolu? tion have been heard at last in the State House, says my informant, and the fear of defeat bas forced a combination apon discordant elements. Therefore, Gov. Soott, Treasurer Parker and Comptroller Neagle have agreed to sacrifice Moses. Parker and Neagle agree also to sacrifice themselves. All will then unite to force Chamberlain upon the Convention, and secure behind bim a ticket composed of men the most unexceptionable possible. In the meantime, to reimburse themselves for this sacrifice, a syndicate has been formed to purchase $5,000,000 of South Carolina bonds on a margin, at the pre? sent price of thirty cents. They argue that the repudiation of the present State officers and the nomination of a good ticket would immediately result in the appreciation of State bonds to at least sixty cents. Should this be so, the vir? tuous syndicate would olear $1,500,000 by the operation. To this mode of bet? tering their broken fortunes the people of this State wiii eater no objections. In the details no compensation to Frank MOBBS eeems to be contemplated. I give this story as the latest topic of the State House corridors, of course not vouching for its troth. Henry Hayno and Dr. Bosemou are named for Secretary of State. There are probably fifty other candidates, bat I have heard no other names. Secretary Oardozo refuses to seal any more bonds for any purpose. Thore are now applications to the Treasury for the conversion of $182,000. This is said to be a bona fide business transaction, and suits have beeu commenced to compel Mr. Gardozo to seal them. It is a great pity that he did not exhibit somewhat of the same caution lest year, when he sealed bonds in saoh immense numbers as ought to have excited the alarm of even a greater tyro in finance. So will? ing was he to act then, that he carried his seal to New York, to facilitate mat? ters. He even went BO far as to affix his seal to bonds destitute of the signatures. It is said there are now half a million of sealed bonds in New York upon which the Governor has never put his name. So loosely waa all this business done, that no record was kept of the number sealed, and Mr. Gardozo has no idea to? day how many pasBed throngh his hands, A prominent State official bas jost re? ceived a letter from Ohio, which has produced quite a flatter among the Grant men here. Oar South Carolina Grant man had written to his Ohio re? lative, ridiculing the nomination of Greeley at Baltimore, closing with the assertion that there was bat oae Liberal Republican in this State, and that rooms in the Lunatic Asylum were being pre? pared for bim. The answer to this let? ter informed him that if he should be called upon to furnish rooms for all the Greeley Republicans in Ohio, he would have to build an asylum as big as the State of South Carolina; that about all of his Ohio relatives were for Greeley; the names of forty prominent working Republicans in Henry County were given who were all for Greeley, and the letter closed with the assertion that Greeley would get one-third of the Re? publican vote of that and other Counties in the North-western part of the State. Our Grant mau looked as if he had col? lapsed a flue. "By G-d," said he, "Greeley will have 50,000 majority in Ohio." "Who said I hollered?" Atlantic City, N. J., must be a dry place. They haven't had any raia there for five weeks, says a local paper. The Bummer visitors have taken to whiskey, straight, becanse they don't wish to de? prive the legitimate inhabitants of their water privileges. Considerate-isn't it? In a roce nt contest in Yorkshire, Eng? land, for Parliament, the expenses of the successful candidate were $53,615, and those of the un successful one $42,169. Auction Salo?. Bedsteads, Bureaus, Wardrobes, Ac, BY D. C. PEIX0TTO & SON. TO-MORROW (Thursday) MORNING, Au ?uat 1, at half-past 9 o'clock, at oar Auction .oom, we will positively sell, the following well-kept and desirable FURNITURE, be? longing to a respectable family declining house-keeping: BEDSTEADS, WARDROBES, BUREAUS, Sideboards, Tables, large and small Kooking Chair*. Cane Seat Chairs, large and .mall Gilt Frame Mirrors, Carpets, Oil Cloths, Rugs, Fenders, Fi rodo RB and Irons, Glass? ware and Crockery, in handsome variety, Ac. Immediately ahur above, without reserve, we will sell, hf ty barrels FAMILY FLOUR, to dose consignment. Conditions oaab. July 31_______ City of Columbia 7 Per Cent. Bonds. OFFICE CITY TREASURY, COLOMBIA, 8. C.. July 17,1872. PURSUANT to authority delegated by re aolution, adopted by the City Council, I will sell, at oublie auction, on THURSDAY, AUK nat 1,1872, one hundred and fifty thou? sand City ot Columbia seven por centum twenty years Bonds. Said Bonds will be of the denominations of $250, $500 and $1,000; the prooeeda of the sale to be ueed for the erection of the new City Hall, new Market, and other pubiio improvements. The right is reserved to dispose ot a part of the said Bouda in lota or in whole, as the Mayor and Treasurer may determine. Any further in? formation desired can be obtained by address? ing CHAS. DARNUM, ; Joly 18_City Treasurer. Columbia,jj. Ch__ Cheap Pickling Vinegar. ~i i \ PACKAGES, of 20 Kallona eaob, choice JA! PICKLING VINEGAR, Bailable for family nee, at 35 oenta per gallon, by July 31 2 D. 0. PEIXOTTO A SON.