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COLUMBIA, S. C. Wednesday Morning:, Augu?t 7, 1872. For President of the United States. HORACE GREELEY, of N?w York. B. GRATZ BROWN, of KUsonrl. Parker's Apologist. The Union, of yesterday, beads its editorial columns with an artiole endea? voring, after its fashion, to bolster np Parker, and to explain away the facts and Agares brought forward by as on Friday last, showing that tho State Treasurer had expended, in round num? bera, $2,500,000, since his term of office, unlawfully and feloniously, there being no appropriations by the General Assem? bly tborefor. We are glad to have you show your colors, Slr. Union. As the organ pf the ring which now controls the State Government, of which Parker is a moat important segment, it is rea? sonable to expect that you should do all in your power to sustain its acts. But pray, Mr. Union, assume one role and keep it. Let as, for consistency's suke, at least, hear nothing more from you about honesty and reform in the govern meut. Honesty and reform is directly opposed to the support of Parker and the ring. If there be dishonesty any? where in the State Government, it wil1 be found in that cesspool of seething corruption, the State Treasury Depart? ment. We are so mach gratified, Mr. Union, to have you take ap the gauntlet for Parker, that we will take in high good hamor yonr pany attempt at acetioasness at oar expense. You touch as on a sensi? tive point, Mr. Union, when yon ques? tion our arithmetic. We brag on our arithmetic, Mr. Union, and think, if wo know anything at all, it is o? the princi? ples of that branch, and perhaps some higher branches, of mathematics. At any rate, most learned "Ku Klux martyr," wa are ready and anxious to measure swords with you. You and Parker and your confreres have had large experience in subtraction, we ad? mit; but your process was illicit, and oan be sustained aa little by mathemati? cal as by moral rules. Your minuend was the hard earnings of an impover? ished and helpless people, and your subtrahend was the fradulent bonds. You Bay, Mr. Union, that the money received from Mr. Eimpton by Parker, wbioh amounted in the fiscal year 1868-69 to $819,71150, would hardly be regarded by most business men as "receipts." We dislike to call any one in public print a downright fool, and we will not dub you as one here, Mr. Union; but will let it suffice to say that the asinine element in your nature most grievously preponderated at the time yoa wrote that paragraph. All moneys received into the Treasury on account of the Stute are receipts, chargeable against Parker, or else the word receipts means nothing. Parker himself, Mr. Union, pluoes the moneys received from Eimp? ton under the head of receipts, and surely you do not question his "financial ability I" Now, we showed that Parker received, according to his own shoioing, from taxes for the fiscal year commenc? ing November 1, 1868, the sum of $1,291,482.02. The entire appropria? tions for that year amounted to $1,138, 800. Every dollar which Parkor paid out, over and ubove the appropriations, or for purposes other than those named in the Acts of appropriation, was paid without authority of law, and was a felonious abuse on Parker's part of his official trnsts und powers. Now, in this very year, when the receipts from taxes alone exceeded the entire appropriations by upwards of $150,000, Parker borrows from or through Kimpton $819,714.50. He received, then, as is plain to see, between $903,000 and $1,000,000 over and above tho appropriations. The Union would now argue that the money borrowed from Kimpton was received and paid oat on legitimate appropria? tions before the taxes were paid in, and that when the latter were received, so much as waa necessary was taken and paid to Kimpton, in satisfaction of the previous loan he had made. Now, Mr. Union, we have two answers to make to this stunning suggestion of yours. In the first plaoe, we deny the fact, for rea? sons which we will show hereafter; and, in the second place, admitting it to bc trae, where is Parker's authority for pay? ing this money back to Kimpton, and for Kimpton lending it to bim, in the first plaoe. Show us, Mr. Union, tho Act of Assembly authorizing Treasurer Parker to make any such disposition of tho pub? lic funds; or, on failure of that, show ns wherein the Treasaror. bas lawful powor to pay oat one cont except as ho is or? dered to do so by the General Assembly. And now as to the fact. We say, Mr. Union, that we deny that Parker ever re? imbursed Kimpton for moneys advanoed by turning over to him un equivalent or For vice-President even approximate amount collected from taxes. We say so, Mr. Union, npon your authority and that of Gov. Soott, whioh should be retiod npon by you, at least. Last winter, during tho session of the Legislature, yon excused and justified the issuing of bonds by the Financial Board, npon the ground that the extra vagant expenditures made by the Gene? ral Assembly necessitated the raising of additional funda by moans of the hypo? thecation and Bale of bonds. Gov. Soott, in his message, says in subs tau ce the same thing. It was a poor and invalid excuse, Mr. Union, but you and Gov. Scott made it. Now, if Parker returned the money advanced by Kimpton, when the taxes were paid in, allowing, for the sake of argamont, that he had the pro? per authority to do so, what is to beoome of the 311,000,000 of bonds issued? Where has that money gone to. Mr. Union? Will you please answer us. We defy you to show it. Do not try now to avoid tho issue, bat oomo squarely to I the point. Our charge is, that if Parker paid Kimpton from taxes, as you main? tain, then the proceeds of the $11,000,000 of bonds were unlawfully applied, or stolen by Parker and the rest of the ring; and if Kimpton was not paid by moneys received from taxes, then Par? ker and the ring have stolen or unlaw? fully disbursed $2,500,000, plas the sur? plus received from the sale of the bonds over and above the amounts advanced by Kimpton. You may well say, Mr. Union, though you atter it ia a jeering tone, that the "tax-payers ought to move." We will conclude this by re? marking, and when the tax-payers do move, yon and Parker and those of your kind will have to movo, and that right briskly. THE NEXT ELECTIONS.-The next State elections of importance are those in Vermont on September 3, and in Maine on September 9. In the former State, in 1870, the Republican majority was 21,309, upon a total vote of 45.425. In Maine, in 1871, the whole vote was 106,883, and the Republican majority 10,631. Vermont is expeoted to go Re? publican next month as usual ; bat Maine may be carried by the Liberals, if the desertions from Grant continuo. It is too early, however, to make auy positive calculations as to the ohanoes of thc fight. Elections will also be held in New Mexico on the 1st and in Oulifornie on the 2d of September. CAMPAIGN NOTES.-Senator Sumnci has had several thousand copies of hil recent letter to colored men printed foi distribution among his friends, numben of v?hom have sent to him for oopies. I is printed in pamphlet form, the title page bearing the following appropri?t text: "I will say to the North, give up and to the Sooth, keep not back." Isaiah xliii. 5. The Liberal Republioai Committee are having the letter, aocom panied by Gen. Banks' letter, printei for distribution in Maine, where also th Radical committee are extensively circa lating Speaker Blaine's reply as a set-ofl A letter from Petersburg, Va., says th colored people are reading Sumner's let ter with eagerness, and that it will hav a great effect upon them. It is a curious question what has be come of all that $225,000 sent to Nort Carolina. Did they save part againt November, or spend all on tho Stat election, calculating to spond as mnc more in the full? As things stand, the will hardly think it worth while to spen anything moro on that ground. All tb fertilizers in the Augean stable at V/usl iegton won't make the soil of North Ci rolina sprout peas in season for thoPre Bidential pio-nio. Horace Greeley's life is insured f< $150,000. It would take more than tin to insure his eleotion-Radical paper. Grant's eleotion was insured for $225 000 in North Carolina, and how mnc elsewhere will never be known any moi than the precise condition of the Coi federate finances; for there will be a r gular Chicago burst-up among the ii sarauoe rings in November. Twenty of the gentlemen whose nairn were used at the late Cooper IuBtitu Grant meeting oppose Grant, and favi the eleotion of Greeley. They may o pect soon to see their names in the Timi black list. Advices from Nashville assure us th Greeley will sweep Tennessee by tl largest majority any man ever obtain* in the State. Advices from Texas report the can va as unusually quiet, for the apparent good reason that "one may travel a who week and not find a Grant voter," exce among the colored people. . . * m ?? A family of four German emigrants r contly started from Now York for a tov in Kansas, and all bat ono, a boy eleven years of age, died on the way. A young man _t Springfield, Obi drank four pints of whiskey on a bt aud died "as tho fool dieth." Henry Wilson-First Pregnant Crook knee at the Court of Cannte-TJIysBes spoke to the people at Wilmington. He said: "Give us a victory here, and we will carry twenty-seven of the States. I con? fess it fairly, if yon Republicans will give us a viotory here, that there will be I no more fighting-we will canter over the field. But if yon allow a Demoora tio victory, yon will put a bnrden tm our shoulders which will make ns stagger. We may stand defeat, but it will cost ns months of labor and toil to recover, and il will then afford a substantial evidence thal t?tere is dissatisfaction with the Admi? nistration." Out of their own months, we will ac? cept the verdict. North Carolina bas spoken; and her thnnder tones have bid the ribuld Canute fly before the sea of angry freemen he has bidden stand. The lesson to the crnel despot and bis cringing satellites is too plain to be missed; and in their pride of place and their power of money they still must feel that the words are spoken that shall rise and swell into a roar to deafen and affright them, until a few short months hence, it changes to the joyous pican of victory. THE CHOLERA.-The cable a few days since spoke of the approach of cholera Westward through Russia, and a later despatch announced the appearance of three cases in Berlin. It may next bo heard of in Hamburg and Altona, and at other points in various parts of Eu? rope. Almost every year we hear such reportB, with some difference in locali? ties. An officiai report has recently been made in England, in which the progress anil direotion of cholera for several years past is traced, from which it would scorn to be probable that oholera has now be? come one of the permanent diseases of the world, and is always prevailing in one place or another. There should, however, be no remission of watchful? ness in all our seaport towns over all vessels arriving from Europe, and the most careful observance of sanitary luws. EDiTon OF THE DAILY PHOENIX : In tho Daily Union, ot the 5th, I noticed a card from Col. C. C. Puffer, from the Union Gold Mine, pretending to claim' a right for the odored men to ride in the white people's cars. If the colored people have a right to do so, the most sensitive of their race don't oveu attempt to do so, unless invited, and Mr. Johnson knows best whether Col. Fuller invited him for his (Puffer's) benefit or hit own. At all ovonts, Col.P. had as good a righi to pus his friend as he hos for passing $20 oonnterfeit bills at the gold mines. I Baw one returned from Geo. W. WU? liama & Co., Charleston, to a very re j speofablo planter in the neighborhood ol the mines, which he told me he received from the gold mines, and the bill wat received in silence, and a good one re? turned in its place. Several rumors wen afloat at the time of 820 oornterfeit bills, and bills of smaller denominations wert ont at the time. This is a card. Again, I have known the gold mine: to soonr three cents stamps and use then a second time. I sent several of then to tho Dead Letter Oflloe, and returnee more to the mines, with a note, stating that I was tired of this Yankee triok Thia is another card. Swindling Gov. R. K. Scott ont o $3,000 and a horse. Another card. The samo Col. C. C. Puffer was deeply interested with the party that black mailed T. McNally out of $3,000, mon or less. Wo will call this a black card In fact, I could almost make a pack o cards for the Colonel, if I thought h would like to play with suoh curds a these. Very respectfully, JEREMIAH LARKIN, Lute Postmaster at Union, S. C. -. ^ G KEEN VILLE, S. C., Aug. 5, 1872. Euiroit PHOENIX: A very largo con coureo of Democratic Liberal Rcpubli cans, from all parts of the County, at somblcd in mass meeting, to-day, in th Court House. Dr. O. B. Irviue wa called to the Chair, and G. G. Wells wo appointed Secretary. Spirited resole ti ons, confirmatory of Greeloy an Brown, and for organizing a vigoron campaign in their favor, were introdnoe by Col. S. S. Crittenden. Stirring an pertinent speeches on the resolution wore made by ex-Gov. B. F. Perry, I P. Jones, Gea. M. O. Butler, J. W Stokes, James P. Moore, T. Q. D?nale son, Rev. A. C. Stepp, J. B. MoOnl lough and T. B. Ferguson. The resol i tions and specohes were reoeived wit enthusiasm. During the meeting, our eminent fe low-citizen Mr. Edward F. Stokes, c Baltimore bolting memory, found it cor venient to harangue the outside crow in the street from the steps of tho ol Court House, immediately opposite th grand meeting. Having delivered bin: self of what he calla a Demooratio speeot in which ho denounced Greeley, he rt ceived the plaudits of and was kindl taken in charge by tho adherents c Grant and Wilson. As ho has chose his own position, perhaps no harm wi ensue either to the Stato or nation, or t tho forthcoming Louisville Convuntioi -whose nominee for Vice-ProBident b bas been generally understood to bc. Tho Federal Court will probably coi veno Wednesday. M. Pirda mit yoost dur samo kind of fei j ders viii gone together mit domsolves. TEXAN OUTRAGES.-The following is va extract from the San Au ton io Express: We, tho undersigned, hereby offer a reward of 8500, gold, for the first hostile Indian captured within the limits of Ma? son County, Texas, by any person or persons from any County or place, with? out regard to ago, Bex, color or previous condition of servitude, and delivered dead or alive at the court boase in Ma? son, each one of us agreeing to pay, or oause to bo paid, the umouut set oppo? site our respective names, three days after a duly om pa uncled jury of twelve disinterested citizens shall have decided that the hostile Indian was actually cap? tured in Mason County, and by what person or persons. Or we will pay the $500, gold, for the first hostile Indian pursued from Mason County and cap? tured, dead or alive, by citizens of Ma? son County, in any of the Counties ad? joining Mason. The money to bo paid to the person or persons who delivered the first hostile Indian, with proofs as above indicated, at tho court house in Mason, Texas provided that said delivery and proofs be made within twelve mouths from tho 4th of July, 1872. [Here follow thirty-eight signatures, with a subscription opposite each.] This may serve to show the determina? tion of tho people on our frontier, and what they think about the "passive po? licy" adopted by the National Govern? ment, ''for the protection of the fron? tier." It hus long since been evident, that after the savages ure fed, clothed and perhaps provided with arms, they come to Texas, plundering, marauding and murdering into our otherwise peaceful State. It is obvious that tho citizen of our frontier cannot stop hunting the In? dians, to prevent the stealing of his cat? tle and horses, the desolation of his home, tho outrage of his wifo and the murder of mother and child. We hear almost duily of outrages perpetrated. While tho man is from home, his house is burned, hiB family killed or curred into servitude; in oue word, the man's fortune is ruined forever. Or, on the other hand, thu man is murdered, aud leaves a helpless family far away from all assistance, in utter despair us to their personal safety. Lieutenant Burke, of tho State mount? ed police, and others wore before tho Commission to day. He gave an ap? palling list of murders committed by the Mexioans in Texas; army officers, sol? diers and Custom House office *s had been butohered for plunder. It was shown that Custom House officers had been out off by the Mexican border ruf? fians in the service of Juarez and their bodies horribly mangled. Men have been killed in tho limits of Brownsville. Custom officers have boen besieged at the mouth of the Rio Grande and mur? dered by parties crossing in full day? light. There was nothing safe from the spoilers. Tho thieves were armed with Spencer and Winchester rifles, and were bold in there conduct. Daily droves ol 300 or 400 cattle were driven over the river within eight or ten miles of Brownsville. The Mexicans never miss an opportu? nity on these occasions of taunting and robbing citizens on tho Western bank of the river. They take as many cattle as they require. Indeed, Bagdad, a Mexi? can town at the mouth of the river, is fed with stolen American beef. The American flag on tho fort here is an ob? ject of derision, as it means nothing. Hide inspectors aro bullied out of Ma? tamoros. Cortina hanged a few personal enemies who affected an interest in pro? prietary rights, and that policy prevails. State officials of Camargo refused the claimants their branded cattle; the cat? tle wore then rebranded by the thieves and the hide inspectors were compelled to register tho auimuls according to the fraudulent brand. Cortina's influence is to-day para? mount on the border, with the general Mexican population. Such is the state of affairs that a war of races is inevita? ble. Tho Mexicaus take every opportu? nity of insulting Americans aud heaping disgrace upou them. Flesh and blood cannot stand it. Tho general feeling among tho people is that they must, if need, protect themselves. People out on lonely muches ure afraid to testify in any open court. Mexican robbers hold American citizens in terror. TUE DECISION OP COMMISSIONER WAYNE.-Tho decision of United States Commissioner Wayne, delivered in Sa? vannah, on Saturday, in the case of the United States vs. Wm. Godfrey et al., was heard by a largo crowd of persons in the United States District Court Room, in tho Custom House, and was very generally commented upon as judi? cious, timely and proper by persons of both eoxes and races, on tho streets of that city, on Saturday evening and Sun? day. Tho News says: "Thoso who take exceptions at the rulings of the court are few, but of this number tho genteel, industri?os and well-to-do oolored oitizons of Savannah are not classed, and they are disposed to laugh at the woful expression of a few carpet-baggers, soallawags and fifteenth amendments, on whose hopes the deci? sion of tho Commissioner bas fallon with an effect absolutely stunning." Tho Commissioner said: "The regulation of this question of separating the races, then, in Savannah, it seems to tho court, rosts entirely with tho Street Car Company. If it famishes cars, giving like and equal accommoda? tion to both races, it has tho right to designate- tho cars in whicn each raco shall ride, nnd to enforce its decision. If it only runs ono enr, then tho races stand upon oue equal footing, as to that car, aud both may ride in it." Ooo of tho young men belonging to a choir iu Danbury, hud his hair cut by a gonorous barber, Saturday. Sunday ho sang for a solo, "Cover my defenceless head," and blushed like a lobster while doing it. Eiooal It eixis. CITY MATTERS.-Tho prioo of single copies of tho PHCSNIX is five cents. A large and varied lot of cards, suita? ble for weddings, invitations, visiting and business purposes, have just been re? ceived at this office, which, owing to the dull season, will bo printed at very low rates. The advertising agency of Walker, Evans & Cogswell, represented by Bos? well T. Logan, Esq., is tho only author? ized agency for this paper ic Charleston. The man who can't sleep soundly and profoundly suoh nights as we aro now having, ought to give immediate atten? tion to his conscience, and try to silence some of the accusations that rise np against him. Tbe druggists and apothecaries of South Carolina are about to form a phar? maceutical association. A paper for sig? natures is left in the hands of E. H. Hei nitsh, druggist, where all who desire to become members are requested to call and sign their nameB. Man is never satisfied. A few days ago, the complaint of duBty streetB was to be heard on all Bides; now it ?B the mud that is the grievance. We are in receipt of a copy of. the premium list of the second annual fair of the Carolinas, to bo bold in Charlotte, N. C., commencing Tuesday, October 22, 1872, and continuing five days. $10,000 are offered in premiums. Yesterday was delightfully cool and rainy. The thermometer, as recorded at the Pollock House, ranged as follows yester? day : 7 A. M., 74; 12 M., 81; 2 P. M., 79; 7 P. M., 70. Messrs. Porter & Steele announce fresh arrivals in their line. Don't steel your? selves, ladies and gentlemen, against the demands of fashion, but call at this es? tablishment, and make yonr purchases. ? gentlemanly porter is always in attend? ance. BEFORE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER BOOZER.-The prisoners from Edgefield had a hearing before Commissioner Boozer, yesterday, and after a thorough examination were discharged, on the ground that the case was not cognizable under the Enforcement Act, but was properly a case for the State courts. COMMUTATION OF SENTENCE.-Butler Johnston, colored, convicted, with Ed? ward Harris, colored, at the May term ol the Court of Sessions for this County, of the homicide of Patriok Murphy, and sentenced by Jndge Melton to be hung on the 16th of this month, has had his sentence, upon the recommendation of the Judge, commoted to imprisonment in tbe South Carolina Penitentiary foi life. LIKENESS OF HORACE GREELEY.-We are indebted to Col. Ethan Allen for a bandsome portrait of oar next Presi? dent. The portrait has been published by the National Liberal Republican Committee, of which Col. Allen is Chair man-headquarters at Glenburn Hotel, Fifth avenue, between 21st and 22d streets, New York city. The picture ii tho size of life, giving the head and bust, and is printed on a sheet twenty four by thirty inohes, with fae simile ol Mr. Greeley's autograph. Tho origina work of art, of which this is a copy, ii in the possession of Mr. Theodore Til ton, editor of the Golden Age, undei whose personal superintendence tim lithographic transcript was made foi popular circulation during tbe campaign No better representation of the intelleo tual, kindly and honest face of th( farmer of Cbappaqua has ever beei made. PncEsixiANA.-It has lately boon dis covered that the swimmer who told Noa! to go to thunder with his old ark, that i wasn't going to be mnoh of a shows: after all, waa "Old Probabilities." A corporal of many stripes-Corpora punishment. The "bump of destruotiveness"-I railway collision. A half century ago, tomatoes wen called love apples, and considered poi sonous. Tbe energetic reaper is rivaling tb busy little buzz saw in making busines good for the surgeons. It is not round, but pointed, sentence that stick in the memory. The devil is certainly to pay in th Radical camp; but North Carolina ha plenty of pitchy and it is bubbling hot. Tho most irredeemable bonds ye known to tho financial and moral worli are vaga-bonds. Lot amusements fill up tho chinks o your existence, not tho great space thereof. Lot your pleasures be taken a Daniel took his prayers-with his win dows open; pleasures which need no cause n singlo blush on an ingenuou cheek. A Tale of Two Cities-Greeley's nomi nation. ? MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.---Tho Northern mail opens at 2.30 P. M.; closes 12.00 A. M. Charleston day mail opens 4.30 P. M. ; closes 6.00 A. M. Charleston eight mail opens 7.00 A. M.; doses 6.15 P. M. Greenville mail opens 6.45 P. M.; closes 6.00 A. M. Western opens and closes 1.30 P. M. Wilmington opens 2.30 P. M.; doses 11.30 A. M. On Sunday office open from 3 to 4 P. M. < THE MOSQUITO.-The male mosquito lives a short, idle life, doing little harm, and subsisting upon the sweets gathered from flowers, haviug a dainty preference for lilies in whose creamy-petalled bells he pensively swings. The female is the noisy, aggressive sex, and makes life a barden to those unfortunate mortals en? countering her. She stings them and "boasts" about it, and not content with her own evil career, every month depo? sits one hundred eggs in some cool, damp plaoe, thus multiplying and per? petuating her kind. AUGUST METEORS.-Those who take pleasure in studying tho signs in the Heavens should not forget that the time is near at hand for another shower of meteors. They aro dae ou the 10th of this month, but are quite irregular, and almost as likely to appear on the 9th or 11th as the day named. The August dis? plays are hardly ever equal.to those of November, bat have heretofore been much moro regalar ia their occurrence. The constellation Perseus, whioh will be in the North-eastern Bky at ll P. M. the time to commenoe observation-is their usual starting point. It is a singu? lar fact in connection with the August meteors, that they are always of a fine yellow color, while meteors seen at other times vary in all the shades from a bril? liant white to a dark red. HOTEL ABBIVA.L.9, August 6, 1872.-Nicker son House-E M Dye, Jr, Augusta; E T West, Charleston; II O Mosley and lady, Jas L Orr, 8 C; T J Steers, Walhalla; J MacEay, Abbe? ville: J O Berry, N C; P W Perry, Carolinas; Dr T W Keen. Salisbury. Columbia Hotel-H. Miller. Thomas Malone, ? ti A; JD Brown, N U; W Murdock, ALB B; 8 Angle, P 8 Whisnant. J J Whienant, N C; W B Frost, D T Corbin, D Mantoue, J G Moffatt, J W O'Brien. Charleston; W T J O Woodward, 8 C; A H Devega, Chester; Miss M Turner, Misa A Turner, Greenville; John T Keen, H D Gilbert, W O Graham, N C; W J CroBswell, 8 C; W A Bradley, Charleston; B Thurston, Greenville; J W Glider, Orange burg. LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. T. J. Harper-Coal. Communication Richland Lodge. James H. Bice-Seeds Oats. Porter & Steele-Fresh Dry Goods. SEIZURE OF THE CUBAN FTLIJIBUSTEB PIONEER.-The United States Govern? ment have seized tho Pioneer. Accord? ing to our special despatch, published elsewhere, a United States Marshal, armed with an authority signed by tho President, yesterday boarded the little war vessel of the "Coban republic" at Newport, and took possession of her. A second lieutenant left in charge of the filibuster, in the name of his "republic," utterly repudiated the power of the Pre? sident to attach his vessel for violating the neutrality laws; and after the man? date of the United States Government ordoring the seizors had been read to him, he fired a gun, threw his sword overboard, nailed the Cuban colors to the mast of the vessel, asked the loan of a gig from Capt. Ritchie, of the Mocca? sin, and left the Cuban oraft to the ten? der mercies of the marshal. \N. Y. Herald, 4/?. TUE M Anon OF CIVILIZATION.-Twen? ty years ago, the Fiji group was inha? bited by a race of cannibals. Cripples, sick and aged people were strangled. When a chief or man of rank died, his wives and slaves were tlain, and chil? dren could bo slain by their parents, slaves by their masters; and common people by their chief, without any dan? ger from law or publio opinion. Murder was honorable, war frequent, and uni? versal distrust prevailed. Not half the people died by natural death. To-day thero is a regular weekly newspaper called the Fiji Government Gazette, the organ of his Majesty King Kaboban, King of the Cannibal Islands. The latest issue contains a proclamation for a day of thanksgiving and praise in that "it has pleased Almighty God to deliver Fiji from the perils and disasters attend? ant apon the visitation of hurricanes and tempestuous weather at this present season;" and the day set apart as a holi? day. Think what Fiji may be in fifty years at the present rate of progress. MOCK DUEL.-The Georgians are mak? ing merry over the farce of a dael be? tween Joe Brown and Gen. Toomba. Here is what the Blackshear Georgian Bays: "Hark from Bob Toomba yo angry sound Joe Brown, attend tho cn - No living man shall view the ground Whero they will shortly Ito. For ihem there'll be no duel beds, In spite of all their jowors Their tall, their wise, their reverend heads Are abont as level as ours. Two young princes, the sons of Arch? duke Charles, of Austria, had a warm dis? pute in tho presenco of no less a person than that of the august Emperor him? self. Greatly exoited, one said to tho other: "You are tho greatest ass in Vien? na!" Highly offended at a quarrel in his presonce, the Emperor interrupted them, saying, with indignation: "Come, come, young gontlemon-you forget that I am preaont."