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T DEI I_.JBIC3-? JrHCIO i ??i The Nortii Carolin? B?ect?cn. WILMINGTON, N. 0., August 1.-The election. was one of the most quiet that has been held in this city for years. ? large vote was polled, and the ntmoBt exertions were made by both Hides. The city returns are not yet in. ?bbottsbnrg township, in Cluden County, was the first.returned. The record gives Merri mon a majori ty and a gain of about forty votes' over the vote of 1870, wben the Conservatives carried the State by nearly 6,000 majority. The vote for Attorney General in 1870 will be adopted as the basis of comparing gains and losses in the present election. In Weldon, Halifax County, Morrimon gains 100 on the vote of 1870. This is considered a very favorable indication for the Conservatives in the North-west. A township in Brunswick County gives Morrimon a gain of 84 votes on the vote of 1870. The Conservatives in this oity aro offering bets to any amount on Mer rimon's election, with no takers. The second ward of this city gives Merrimon 296; Caldwell, 227; Conoervotive gain, 154. Warsaw, in Duplin County, gives Merrimon 184; Caldwell, 143; small Conservative gain. Merrimon gains 200 in Haleigh. RALEIGH, August 1.-Tho voting is progressing quietly. The Democratic vote will be increased. No disturbance. The returns, from eleven towns and precincts give tho Conservatives a gain of about 950 over the Shipp vote of 1870. Haleigh township gives a Con? servative gain of 218; Wake Forest j 100. Nothing' aa yet decisive, though tho chances aro iu favor of the election of Merrimon, the'Conservative. Foreign Affaira. LONDON, August 1.-The Prince.and Princess of Wales visited the American fleet, yesterday, . It was a grand affair. Lieutenant Fred. Grant was invited to participate, bot was absent. General Sherman inspected the fleet. BEI'.LIN, August 1.-Three cases of Asiatic cholera have, appeared in this city. . LONDON, August 1.-This afternoon, while Mr. Gladstone aud Bight Hon. Actor Ay or ter. Chief Commissioner of Works and Buildings, were witnessing some experiments with gun-cotton, in the gardens attaohed to tho treasury buildings, a quantity of that material prematurely exploded with tremendous report. At first, grave fears were enter? tained that those gentlemen were injured, but the contrary proved the case; and with the exception of breaking about 100 windows; in tho treasury buildings, no damage.was sustained. MADRID, August 1.-When the Cortes re-assembles in September, the Govern? ment will submit ? project for a loan of $60,000,000, to bc devoted to the im? provement of the finances of Cuba. The bonds to be offered nuder this project will carry interest; also, representing a sinking fand- for cancellation of the bonds, at the rate of eight per cent, per annum. This interest and sinking fund it proposes to draw from the Cuban war subsidy and from surplus Cuban reve? nues. American matter?. CHARLESTON? , August 1.-Arrived steamship Manhattan, New York. ROCHESTER,. N. Y., August 1.-A man, recently divorced, fiuding his wife with a paramour, shot the paramour and then himself; bath dead. DUBUQUE, August 1.-Eight persons have died from the steamboat explosion near McGregor. The coroner's jury find a defective flue, and censure the Govern? ment inspector. BALTIMORE, August 1.-Drost, Jordan & Go., on Baltimore street, were burned ont last night; loss heavy. NEW YORK, August 1. -A Herald de? spatch from Boston Euys Baaks, in an? swering a Republican committee's invi? tation to address them, deolared that he had concluded to support Greeley. BOSTON, August 1.-The Dean Aoa demy in Franklin, Mass., was totally destroyed by fire last night. A small portion of tho furniture was saved. The loss will probably amount to $120,000; insurance $80,000. WASHINGTON, August 1-Eveuing. Three per cent, certificates to the amount ol $1,300,000 have been oalled in. Debt Statement-Decrease for tho month, $3,500,000; ooin in the Treasury, $69.333,000; currency, $16,000,000. Gen. Banks' declaration for Greeley has been formally published over his sig? nature. Probabilities-The low barometer in the lower lakes will move Eastward, with threatening weather and rain areas over the Middle States North of Virginia, and over New England, by Friday, with fresh Southerly and Easterly winds. Clearing weather in the Golf and South Atlantio States to-night, with Southerly and Westerly winds. Continned North? erly and Easterly winds, veering on Fri? day to Northerly and North-easterly, on the upper lakes and in the North-west, and thenoe Southward through the Up? per Mississippi and Lower Ohio Valleys, with olear weather and moderate tempe? ratures. Clearing and cooler weather on the lower lakes on Friday morning, ra? pidly extending South-eastward. RICHMOND, VA., August 1.-Tho] Southern Dental Association, which has been in session here for three days, ad? journed to meet next July, in Baltimore. NEW YORK, August 1-Evening. Shipments of speoie to day $500,000, gold coin. There is great aotivity at the Custom House, owing to the new tariff. Thousands of cases of goods were with? drawn from the warehouse. The strike of the Long Shoremen is practically over. The Cantral, Erie and Pennsylvania Railroads, to-day, reduced freight rates to the West from 45 to 38 per cent. It is reported to be a ohange for one month only, in order to break down, old con? tracts, whioh are detrimental to the roads. Financial ?oiximrrclnl. LIVERPOOL, August 1-3 P. M.-Cot? ton opened doll and is now heavy-up? lands 9%; Orleans 9%; salea 8,000bales; sp?culation and export 1,500. LONDON, August 1-^-Noon.-Consols 92%. Bonds 91>?. LIVERPOOL, August 1-Evening.-Cot? ton closed unchanged. LONDON, Augnst 1-Evening.-Bul? lion decreased ?310,000. PARIS, August 1.-Rentes 55f. 92c. NEW YORK, August 1-Noon.-Stocks dull. Gold strong, at 15,%. Money easy, at 3. Exchange-long 9,,.?; short IOJJJ. Governments strong but dull. State bonds dull but steady. Cotton steady-uplands 21>?; Orleans 2l>?; sales 963 biles. Flour a shade firmer, Wheat dull and nominally unchanged: Corn very firm. Pork quiet, at 13 50@ 13.60. Lard very quiet-steam 8@8J^. Freights steady. 7 P. M.-Cotton steady; sales 1,656 bales-uplands 21%; Orleaua 21)?. Flour firmer and in lair demand. Whis? key a trifle lower, at 93X@94. Wheat a shade tinner-wiuter red Western 1.60(5)1.69. Com native and firmer. Rioe steady, at 8??@9J?. Pork steady. Freights heavy and lower. Mouey 4@5. Sterling 9J?@9#. Gold l?}?@l&??. Governments strong. States quiet. Sales of futures to-duy 13,600 bales, as follows: August 20 3 16@20>?; Septem? ber 19 15-16(a)20.%; Ootober.19 1-16? 19??; November 18 9-16@19 11-16; De? cember 18??@18)?. LOUISVILLE, August 1.-Tobacco very firm; sale? 60 bogahoadB. Flour firm extra family 6.25. Com lower-shelled, sacked, 60. Provisions quiet but firm. Pork 13.25?13 50. Bacon-shoulders 6%; sides 8??@9>?. Packed lard 9(aj 1?>?; order lots )?o. higher. Wh?key firm, at 90. CINCINNATI, August 1.-Flour iu fair demand aud firm-old 8.00@8 25; now 7.50(2)7.75. Oom steady, at 47. Pork doll and nominal-city 13.50(5)14 00; re? gular 13.00(2)14.00. Lard dull and no? minal-steam 8%; kettle 8@8%. Bacon in good dernaud-shoulders ?ljj; clear rib sides 8)?; clear sides 9, but held higher, to come out of smoke next week. Whiskey in good demand, at 90. ST. LOUIS, August 1.-Flour quiet and unchanged. Corn dull and drooping No. 2 mixed 39. Whiskey quiet and Bteady, at 91, wood-bound. Pork nomi? nally lower-offered at 13.25, without buyers. Bacon in good demand-shoul? ders 6%; clear rib sides 8Js(a)9; cleur sides 9}|. BALTIMORE, August 1.-Flour firmer and in good demand for good grades. Wheat firmer and higo er-amber 1.65(2) 1.70; good to primo red 1.55(2)1.63; eommou to fair red 1.4.0(a) 1 50. Corn quiet-white Southern 70(5)72; yellow Southern G0@G4. Oats firm-Southern new 40(2)41; mixed 45; white 57. Rye quiet. Provisions quiet and weak; con? cessions would have to be made to Bell; nominally unchanged. Lard dull, at 8??@9. Western butter in good do maud, and prices unchanged. Whiskey quiet, at 94>?. Cotton dull-middling 21,l-.< ; receipts 151 bales; stook 1,146. NEW {ORLEANS, August 1.-Cotton nominal-low middling 19)^(5)19^4; re" ceipts 2 bales; Bales 66; stock 8,558. CHARLESTON, August 1.-Cotton steady -middling nominally 181X ; receipts 4 bales; sales 250; stock 4,987. NORFOLK, August 1.-Cotton dull-low middling 20;,reoeipts 12 bales; stock 421. AUGUSTA, August 1.-Cotton nominal -middling 19)<i; receipts 17 bales; sales 437. SAVANNAH, August 1.-Cotton quiet middling 20; receipts 21 bales; stock 1,467. WILMINGTON. August 1.-Colton quiet -middling 20?.i; stock 380. PHILADELPHIA, August 1.-Cotton quiet-middling 21J?@21>?. BOSTON, August 1.-Cotton dull-mid? dling 21%; receipts 234 bales; sales 100; stock 9.OU0. HORACE GREELEY IN CONGRESS.-It is possible, ns some of our friends insist, that Mr. Greeley will make but a poor President. But it is unwise in them to insist that be was a failure asa Congress? man. On the question of opinion, they may be right; on the question of fact, we kuow them to bo wrong. Mr. Gree? ley's whole term of service in the House barely covered a period of three monthr. Yet in this quarter of a year ho sot on foot three great reforms of which the country is now reaping the benefit. It was Congressman Greeley who brought in the first homestead bill, who struck the first; blow at the mileage abuse, and who first assailed the English doctrine, "Once a subject, always a subject," by laying down in a resolution the Ameri? can doctrine that "every man has a right to migrate from his native land to an? other, and, in becoming a citizen of the latter, to renouuoe all allegiance to tho former." Not a very bad record for three monthsl-Springfield Republican. THINGS A GOOD HOUSEKEEPER SHOULD KNOW.-If brooms aro wet in boiling suds once a week, they will be? come very tough, will not out tho carpet, last muon longer, and always sweep like a now broom. A very dusty carpet may be cleaned by setting a pail of cold water out by the door, wet the broom in it, knock it to got out all the drops, sweep a yard or so, then wash the broom, and not sweep far at a time. The water may need to be obanged once or twice, if the oarpet is very dasty. Snow sprinkled over a carpet and swept before it has time to melt or dissolve, is also good for renovating a soiled carpet. Moistened Indian meal is used with good effect by some house-keoporB. The Buffalo Presbytery yesterday, do posed Rov. M. L. P. Thompson, who is charged with adultery at Jamestown, from the ministry, and indefinitely sus? pended some years ago for a similar of? fence in Cincinnati, undoo recommenda? tion of tho Buffalo brethren that he had heartily repentod of his sin was ro in? stated. .BOTST BJ?H^T?BY A BOT.-Talk about I the women and ..the darkies, and the the-all the1 rest of 'ern; none of 'em all are half so badly used as boys are. Ask au y boy. X know a lot, and I can-give you all their names. Ask 'em all. They'll tell you, to be a boy-is to be somebody Without a right in the world. You are | to take all the sass that's given to you and give none,back, 'cause you're a boy. You are to pay full fare in the oars and oumibusea. 'cause you're a boy, and not a cbUd and not a man. Fat lady gets in after it's all full, and looks abont her;1 everybody looks at you. Old gentleman says, "My son," reprovingly. Conduc? tor says, "Come, now, you boy." You've) paid your sixpence. No matter-that is nothing. You've been on your legs, with bundles, all day. Who cares?- | you're a boy. Now, a horse has snob a load given him as he can carry, and a man won't take any more than he can walk under. Ask boys what grown folks think they can carry. There's no limit to it. Who doesn't know a boy who does a man's work, and does it well, for a tenth of what a mau would get for it? 1 Who hasn't read an advertisement for a j boy who writes a good baud, uuder-| stands accounts, is willing to make him? self useful, boards with his parents, is1 trustworthy, no objection to sitting up 1 all night, not anxious for meals ut regu? lar hours, no impudence about him; the best recommendation required, and two dollars a week wages? You look back and wonder if you ever were that protty little fellow in petticoats that everybody ' stuffed with candy; and you wonder if1 you'll ever be a man, and be liked by the girls, and treated politely by the other fellows, aud paid for your work, und allowed to do as you choose. The journal which specially represents President Grunt in this city coupled u certain circular to the loyal Governors, signed by Horuoe Greeley in 18G4, with the Jacob Thompson letter about rebel efforts to burn New York, as proofs of the same plot in whiah both were en? gaged. We thereupon invited the only journal in thia city sustaining President Grunt, whose intellectual ability entitles it to any consideration, to give the pub? lic its opinion of thut circular. Pro? found silence has been tho significant answer Whence this sudden and un? wonted bashfulness? We renew the call, aud invite the press of the country to observe the response, or failure to re? spond. Weean promise them that it i will be worth their while. Gentlemen of the Evening Post/ your ully decluios that circular infamous, and insinuates1 thut it was treasonable. What do you say about it?-New York Tribune. TUE LOTTERY QUESTION.-The injunc? tion grunted the Charleston Joint ?Stock Company, on Tuesday lust, restraining Trial Justice A. M. Mackey, und ull others, from urresting any of the officers or agents of the said corporation, or otherwise Interfering with their business, was dissolved yesterday, on hearing the return to the order of the court, made by tho Trial Justice aid Attorney C. W. Buttz. Wo understand that it is the purpose of the parties who have been making these arrests to resume them now that the injunction is resumed, and to continue them from day to day, re? quiring bonds in eaoh arrest. [Charleston Courier. The New York Herald says: "Admiral Sern mea now offers to, j the Government all the documents in lils possession re garding the Alabama and other cruisers. It is s?id by those who have examined them, that they do not compromise the British Government in the slightest par? ticular. Louis Napoleoa, it appears, in correspondence with Sildell, not only in vited the Confederacy to build war ves sels ia Frunce, but offered Sildell numer? ous fucilities for arming nnd equipping tho rebel cruisers ia Preach ports." DEATH OF ST. JOHN B. L. SKINNER. Wo regret very much to heur of tho re ceat death of this emiucot citizen, gul lunt soldier, aud genial, kind-hearted gentleman. He died in tho seventy-fifth year of bia ago, in tho city of Washing? ton, where he has resided for many yeurs, and where hu has held the honor? able position of First Assistant Postulas ter-General, through several successive administrations. - Greenville Mountaineer. The convicts in the Miohigaa Stute Prison are to bo subjected to a course of lectures, unless some competent tribunal shall protect them by deciding the pro posed scheme to bo a "cruel and uu I usual pu nish meat." I The Cedar Rapids (Iowa) folks com? plain that there is no sidewalk leading to the cemetery, and their editor out there consolingly assures them that, if they will only' have patience, they can all ride some day. A man at sleep caught a mouse in his month, at Lawrence, Kansas, tho other night. The mouse was killed, und the man woke up in a terrible fright. The monee was caught nipping, while the man was caught napping. M'lle Christine Nilsson was married nt Westminster Abbey on Saturduy, to M Rouzonud, of Paris. The nuptiuls were witnessed by an immense- assemblage of people, including many of the aristocra? cy and well-known artists. AiiivE.-It is known in Havana of? ficially, thut Gen. Julia Peralta, whose corpse wuB officiully reported to have been identified, hus reached Cuban headquarters safe aud souud. A lady oo bciug asked what ehe thought was tho meauiog of the words 'the pestilence that wuiketh in dark? ness," answered that, in her opinion, it was bed-bugs. There are fourteen Republican papers in this State which advocate tho electioa of Greeley aud Browa, aud ouo Demo * oratio paper which has gone over to [Grout.-Nno York World. Many people have made offers of ar? chives to the Government since Pickett sold his lot. A MONEY MATCH-DEATH.-A reoent letter from Bostou telle thia end story: "A funeral procession punned by yes? terday. A young mau told me a story that I think had a peculiar sadness about it. At Saratoga, last season, at one of the largest ball?, was a young lady with the most charming aud insinuating mau ners^nd graces. Her toilet was equally as pleasing. Her attendant during the evening was ?young man dressed almost gaudily, and bearing himself with all the distasteful self-conceit of a brainless mil? lionaire. He wa? the son of a Boston leather dealer. He met the lady for the ?rst timo at Saratoga lost season, and ste, by direction of her parents, who were also wealthy, and who insisted upon tho arrangement, beoame his affianced. Previous to this she had met a gentle? man, also of Bostou, of the utmost re? spectability, of thorough houor and in? tegrity, but without fortun?. To him Bue had been something moro than a friend-in fact, almost a betrothed. He was yoong, had risen by his own stern efforts, aud was, it is said, possessed of sterling nod promising abilities, which in time -must have won bim wealth, and, perhaps, distinction. Ou tho return of the lady fr^m Saratoga last season, her eugngeuie^ prevented her from further intercourse with her first suitor, and he was dismissed. His grief was pitiful. He strove not to reverse it by word or action; but the very efforts he so labori? ously made exposed the poignancy of his wounds. Thu lady lived with her husband iu the suburbs of the city, at a largo uud costly residence for one month after their marriage. By this time the abuse of thu husbaud compelled an im? mediate separation. He was inconti? nently shipped to Europe, where he still remains, und the young wife was left gradually to decline iu health and death ensued; but not before she bad re? proached ber parents for driving her to the alliance which wrought such early ruin and blasted hopes and expectations. As the funeral procession passed up n public street, the first lover, while watching with blanched cheeks aud moist eyes the sad cortege, fell to the ground while suffering au attack of hemorrhage of the luugs. He was carried into v. physician's office near, whero he dieu before the body of one he BO tenderly und truly loved wus laid in ils last rest lug place." A WONDERFUL INVENTION.-The Lou isvillu Courier-Journal, of the 25th ult. says: Oue of the most wonderful pieces o mechanism ever seen in this city will b< on exhibition ut the Grand Industria Exposition iu this city. It is callee Bergmaun's Automatic Wonder, or tin German's Dreum. Tho structure, whicl stands nearly uiue feet high and weigh over TUG pounds, is u mass of untomati machinery, representing a beautiful villi on the hill-side, surrounded by four dif feront kinds of mills, with an elevato and blacksmith shop attached. Th villa represents all tho common indue tries of rural life, and contains forty au tomutic figures doing work about th mills und various other places as naturi us life. Mon are seen busily engaged i tho mills, performing tho various dutit of tho respective, establishments; farmer traversing the roads, some going to mil aud others upou their wagons, on thei way to market. A woman carrying pitcher iu hand goes to the spring fe water; u ferryman is engaged in rowiu passengers across tho stream in a boa men at work iu the blacksmith sho{ aud, in fact, everything to make up life-like villa scene. The surrouudiu scenery is made picturesque by u pla; ing fouutaiu, u running stream, a li vin spring, and a miniature luke, with boo passing und repassing, und many otb? features too numerous to mention. Tl invention is tho result of seventeen year hard labor aud trudy hy Joseph Bar| manu, cf Troy, New York, and will I on exhibition free of charge at thc El position. A CURE FOI? WHISKEY-DRINKERS. correspondent of nu exchange, wi sigus himself "One Who has lietormed scuds the following: Capt. Hall, w the commander of the Great Eastei steamship. He had f?llen into sui habits of drunkenness that his mc earnest efforts to reolaim himself prov unavailing. At length he sought the u vice of au eminent physician, who ga him a prescription which he follow faithfully for seven months. At the et of that time hu had lost all desiro f liquor, although he hud many times b.. led captive by a most debasing appeti The prescription, which he afterwar published, aud by which so many ott drunkards have been assisted to refor is as follows: Sulphate of iron, fi grains; muguesia, ten grain*; pepp mint water, eleven drachms; spirits nutmeg, one drachm; twice a day. -. ? THE MANUFACTURE OV STOVES -1 manufacture of stoves is almost exe sively au American industry. But lit is done in loreign countries, those u: abroad being for thu most part imporl from the United States. The sh manufacturers held their annual couv tiou recently at Cincinnati, and from port made there, it was shown thut capital invested in the manufacture this article reached the sum of $30,01 OOO, requiring the employment of IC OOO men, uud giving direct support 500,00.) people. It was estimated thu least 2,500,000 stoves would be munni tured in this country this year. 1 modern stove represents tho result many experiments and tnuoh Fcieut investigation. -.? . ? Dobson says his friends seem de mined to give him tho title of Dr. butcher, baker and ull tho rest, do but they put tho Dr. after his uamo stead of before it. An old sailor, who had a great a' sion to life ou land, said ho was lill lobster, ns he never came ashore willi tho risk of getting iu hot water. Di?. DIO LEWIS SAYS BOMB STARTLING TRINOS.-"What a painful spectacle this isl 1,000,000 Yankee girl? wasting and dying in crowded shops, occupied with sewing and kindred tasks, and 1,000,000 bornes dyspeptic and unhappy for want of the help of those girls! The homes ?re waiting and longing for the girls, the girls are dying for tho homes. The homes offer comfort, health and inde? pendence to the girls, the girls are wast? ing in brainless, mechanical routine the bright faculties whioh would change the homes from discomfort to comfort and health. And, strange to say, these two, whioh are perishing for want of eaoh other, do not live on separate continents, but in the same street, and often under the same roof." What a mistaken pride it is which keeps girls in poverty or plunges them into vice when they might be comfortably earning their living and fitting them? selves to become good wives of good men. The miserable tenement home, the confined work-room, the eating house, are preferred, it seems, to sweet, wholesome bornes in respectable fami? lies, where the "help" aro recognized as more than mere machines to make money for their employers. Tbe Doctor's strictures on the abominable contrivance to make deformed women, the fashion? able corset, are well deserved. "Do you see that slight, pale lady with the little girl? She is the wife of Mr. H., our wealthy broker. She is in wretched health. Look at her waist 1 What do you think of the chances of tho vermicular motion of her stomach? It wouldn't take very long hands to olasp round that waist. And within that space, not only must the stomach work, bat the liver, spleen, pancras, transverse colon, several feet of the email intes? tines, and many large arteries; veins and other organs must all fiodroom to work. " So much for a "delicate" lady. Now let us learn what the doctor thinks of a woman who is not so "delicate:" "That lady weighs over 200 pounds, while her waist is smaller than her bus band's, and he weighs not more than 150 pounds. Her stomach after dinner is, or shoald be, pretty large; her liver is an immense organ; then all the other organs which I have mentioned must find a place in there somewhere. And now, how do you suppose they manage it? Well, they got doubled np and twisted about in a very remarkable way, aud a very large part of the mass is jammed down into the lower parts of the iibdomen. When she rises, if you will look at her person, you will obc-e.-ve that the lower part of tho abdomen is im? mensely protuberant. Half of all which belongs in that part of the upper abdo? men, where the corset has compelled that deep, ncoop-shovel hollow, has been pressed down into the lower abdo? men." FEMININE AMENITIES.-If women, per? haps better than men, know how to do thiugs insolent to each other, so do they know how to resent impertinences. An American lady traveling in Switzerland tells this dinner-table story: I had 6een enough of traveling Eng? lish, of whom the party at the table was principally composed, to know how to treat them; sn I entirely ignored their presence, placidly gazing ont of the win low in the interval of the course, on long, straggling St. Goarhausen oppo? site. This had its effect in the increased respect of all glances, except those from i pair of bold, black oyes opposite me, whoso owner ooserved to her husband in i loud tone: "One of the people of the jountry, I suppose." "My dear," mur? mured the gentleman, "take care; the ady may understand English." "Not ikulyl" in a tone of infinite disdain. "Oh! nh! one can never be too careful. So many of our people go to Paris, don't ?rou know, that the French must pick up i little of our lingo." "I don't think uer French," remarked the lady, her gaze still broadly fixed on me. She pro? ceeded with some very free and imperti? nent remarks. At the conclusion of the meal I wanted some confitures that stood near this lady, aud the waiters had all eft tho room. I looked directly at her, ind said in my best English: "Madame, may I trouble you to hand me those bon? bons?" If you could have seen the woman's face! It turned white, her jaw Iropped, and she stared blankly, utterly unable to comply with my request. Her liusbond snatched up the plute and tmnded it to me with a bow, and I ate my confectionery with an innocent air, In tho midst of a dead silence. A WINDFALL.-A few years ago, and since the close of the war, a family by the name of Sybil, consisting of two bro? thers and a sister, a Mr. Seaton, re? moved from Florida to Maryland. Mrs. Seaton, wife of Mr. George W. Seaton, bought a farm and settled in the lower part of this County. The two brothers located in Dorchester. Mr. Seaton, when too late, found that the land he bud purchased was covered np with mort? gages, and it was sold from him. He was left in destitute circumstances, and reduced so low that it was with difficulty he could prooure the commonoBt neces? saries of lifo. Tho brothers residing in Dorchester shared a similar fate. But two weeks ago, one of them applied to a ?olorcd fumily for a few potatoes, saying* be "would endeavor to make out with them uutil he could do better." Their condition became known to their neigh? bors, who kindly contributed of their means to relieve their wunts. But how greut tho change! It is now reported, upon seemingly good authority, that tho Groverumeut ut Washington has recent? ly paid to tho two brothers and Mrs. Seaton, ns the logal heirs o? their ances? tors', tho sum of ?120.00Q, derived from the Government of Spain ns indemnity [or spoliations duriug the war of 1812, iud that the entire claim amounts to ibont $1,000,000. How strange are the freaks of fortuneI-American Union. Flory McFlimsey's new trunk is called thu "cottage." It is larger than the well known "Saratoga." ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF A LONG LIFE.-Tbe death of an old man at Wappin ger's Falls, Duchess County, N. Y., a few days ago, ended a novel bar* i gain, in which mere was paid than was intended to be paid. About twenty-five years ago, when the old man waa about eighty years old, he was a partner in a manufacturing establishment, which he started and built up, afterward taking in two other partners. These, after they had learned the business, wanted to shove the old man out, but didn't suc? ceed until they promised to pay him Si,OOO a year until he died. So the old man retired, but lived on. In courue of time, the younger partners died. Their sons succeeded them, and they, too, died before the old man, bat be conti? nued in the enjoyment of his $1,000 in? come for years after they were buried, aud at last died, at the age, it is said, of 10i years.-Rondout Freeman. A preparation so widely and favorably known as Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer needs few words of praise from ns. This compound has won ita way to the highest favor in the public mind; and multitudes, who have vainly used other remedies for the restoration of their hair, have, on trying the Sicilian Renewer, been made glad by the speedy restoration of their gray hair to its natu? ral color, and the thia' looks thickened I np, as in the days of early youth. It I also prevents the hair falling out, makes it soft and glossy, and is altogether the j best preparation for its intended par poses before the public . ' ;, [ Pittsburg. Chronicle. -? i . -- "Henrietta," said a landlady to her new giri, "when theie's bad hews, par? ticularly private afflictions, always let the boarders know it before dinner.. It may seem strange to you, Henrietta, but such things make a great deal of dif? ference in the eating in the coarse of a year." "Humph!" said an Englishman to a Scotohman, as they were walking o vet the fields, "oats are very well in their way, but in England we feed them to oui horses, while here they aro food foi men." "And just Bee what fine horsec there are in England, and what fine mee we have in Scotland." The editor of the Chattanooga Herald, who was pronounced a liar by a cotem porary, thus responds: ' "A newspapei man once called us a liar, but we hadn't sufficient confidence in his word to be lievehim, or enough respect for him t< knock him down." Philosophical, very A man named Wells having steppet upon a quicksand in the 'rivet nea Brownsville, Texas, he instantly san) out.Of sight, whereupon One of .his com panions remarked, "That's a new way o sinking wells." "I must get married," said a baohelo to a married friend, "for I never can fin a button on a clean shirt." "Take care, said the Benedict, with a sigh, "or yo may chance upon a wife who will nc find you a olean shirt to button." A San Francisco girl who is given t playing bluff has made the cool sum < $500,000 from the'game. Her acquain ance with the "tiger" extends over se vi ral years. The New York Mail thinks the mea: eat man yet discovered is the one at Go mantown, who oats off oows' tails in f time to pay off grudges against the owners. An Hlinois man lately started a etea chicken manufactory with several tho sand eggs. The forcing process was ca ried Od so vigorously that-only four we batched, tho others being roasted. An epicurean resident of Wheelin W. Ya., comoaitted suicide last week b cause his dinner was delayed beyond t usual hour. He hung rather than he ger. flgPopo Pius IX sleeps, thirteen hoc daily, and eats four hearty meals. Notice. WE hereby give notice to all whom It nc concern, that we have resignad < connection with the Universal Life Insurai Company, of New York. The office and bt ness IB turned over to Mr. J. W. 8hackIefo Southern manager fur said Company. M. W. GARY, Aug 2_RI. O. B?TLEF Palmetto Lodge, No. 6,1. 0,0. F. ??imi^t^1 >,^*??aS^S^*i^'bo hold in Mane Hall, T?Ie?, (friday) EVENING, at 8 o'clc By order of the N. G. I. 8?LZBAOHER, Aug 2 1_? Secretar j Office Auditor Riehland County TB IS Office will continue open for TURNS OF PROPERTY until the 20tl August; after that date, SO per cent, pon will attach for non-compliance with this tioe. M. J. CALNAN, Aug 1_Auditor Richland Count Wanted to Borrow?' FOR one year or longer, at a fain ate o ter cat, about $2,5U0, for which good ourity will be given. Address X, at T'HC 0 Alee._Joly Notice. THE co-partnership of EDWIN J. SCC SON A CO. having expired this daj di!) tn dun by and to them will be Bottle the new firm of Kt) WIN J. 800TT A SON EDWIN J. SCOTT HENRY E. 8COTT G. H. BALDWIN, J. P. SOUTHERN, B. O. 801TER. Co LCM ii iv, August 1,1872. . ??-.'. ! . undersigned bavo entered into . partnership, under the firm nam EDWIN J. SCOTT & SON.'for the traosa* 1 of a General Banking.-Brokerage and Ct tiou business, and solicit the continued cxtonded patronage of their friends, eua ors and the public. v EDWIN J. 8COTT HENRY E. SCOT: --? -?? ? ? IN retiring faora tho late firm of EDW 30OTT, SON A CO., the undersigned groat pleasure in recommending the nev to the oonfldonco of their former patron the publie generally as gentlemen in < way qualified for the business, and wei serving the confidence of the com mani tl J. P. SOUTHE! C H. BA [?DWI August 2 12 B. 0. SHIVER