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COLUMBIA. S. C. Sunday Morning, August ll, 1872. ?Fur President of the United States. flOR&CB GRBELBT, of New York. For Vice-President ?. GRATZ BROWN, of MUaonrl. The U?g-F?U. Judge Orr says the election in North <03*rolina was a dog fall. The Union man ?rowe very loudly over this dog-fall. If fee hollers so loudly over a dog-fall, won? der what he would do if a big lusty Ku .Klux were to fall right square on him. Tlie LtUMUlic Aaylum. This institution, we are informed, is tin a most distressing condition from .waul of funds. The Superintendeut does not know one week whore he will got bread for the inmates the next, and ie constantly kept in dread that he may be compelled at any time to torn the 300 lunatics he has in charge adrift upon tbe community, or else starve them to death in their cells. Was there ever before in the history of the world snch a state of affairs in a civilized State? All the taxes of the people, amounting to $1,000,000, has been squandered in the payment of certificates for legislative expenses, fonr-fifths, at least, of which vere fraudulent or downright forgeries. For legitimate expenses-the Bupport of -the Lunatic Asylum, than which there can be no higher duty upon tho State, the maintenance of tho public schools, tho penitentiary, Sec.-there ia not a dollar left. Yet his Excellency sayo this /is the most economically-administered 'State Government in the Union 1 For 'hald-Jaoed impudence, Ii. K. Scott has ?no-equal. - Our Share la ibo Public Printing. L Parker's apologist across the way, and The special advocate of the honest Finan? cial Board, which has issued over $7,000, ??00 of fraudulent State bonds, by way of .reply to some pertinent queries of ours, has -challenged ns to compare accounts .with him of oar claims against the Stato ' lor advertising, etc. The Union had al? leged that the enormoas sums borrowed by Parker from Hampton, daring the -several years of his (Parker's) term of -office, had been repaid from funds re? ceived from taxes. Oar prominent in? quiry was: For what, theo, were the pro? ceeds of the $11,000.000 of State bonds used, the issuing of whioh the Union and the Financial Board have all along at? tempted to explain and justify, upon the .ground that the taxes were insufficient to meet the lawful expenditures of the Go? vernment? To this, oar Ka Klux mar? tyr replies, by asking how much of the .publie moneys we have received, and challenging ns to oompare acoounts. We --are porfeotly willing, Mr. Union, to pub? lish the amount of our olaims against tbe State, and will do so. We have re .ceived from the State for advertising, in? cluding the publication of the Acts and -Advertisements from the Executive De? partment-which is everything we have bad-$334.70. This is for work done ?ince November 1, 1871, the beginning of the current fiscal year. Twenty-one hundred dollars will cover all the balance -of our account, whioh remains duo and -.unpaid. Now, Mr. Union, wo have toed your mark; please toe it yourself. Yoa have repeatedly deolared to the public, that we received as mach from the State ?as you do. Tf you will now publish?Jionestly your receipts and claims in full, the public can see for themselves. Deal squarely, now, if that be possible for yon'to do in any instance, and let us havo all the ac? counts whioh yon have presented, and ?hose whioh you have still on hand, for pabilo work done since November 1, 1871. Give us the amount of yoar County advertising, too, wjiioh is paid "with the money of the people, ^nd of ?which we receive nothing, while you charge and receive exorbitant rates. Do Aot forgot yonr claim of $13,100, for ad? vertising from November 18, 1871, to February 3,1872, whioh Mr. Jones po? litely called yoar attention to, in a dab meeting, a few evenings since, and whioh "wo hear was very efficient in quieting your wrathful indignation, on aooount of yourcflrj/rertf, Parker. Now, Mr. Union, .if this is your bill for advertising before one-tenth of the Acts of As? sembly had been even approved, we are .anxious to know what your entire bill Amounts to. When you have answered <lh*t?, whioh is yoar own proposition, bo Mad enough to inform us and the oiti xene of South Carolina, who feel a deep interest in the matter, what your pet or patron Parker, and your particular ?friends of tho Financial Board, have done with the proceeds of thc $11,000,000 of ?bonds issued by them. If they did not pay Kimpton for advances made, what did they do with it? Perhaps you can crow a little on that subject. i-1 *? e?l "?The Terre Hante sign-painters are .?crowded with work. A Mr. For? i eden iiogenetiefel has gone into business there. NOBTH CAROLINA.-Tbe doubt tb ut hangs over the election of Governor of North Carolina duos not deprive the Conservatives of the honor and tho moral force of a great viotory there. Though tho corrupt Caldwell-the pet of the Qrant administration-bo elected, that cannot rob the independent people of North Carolina of the credit due them for a glorious struggle ngainst the fear ful odds of the pu wer aud the mouey of tho Federal Administration. They have carried the Legislature, which gives a Conservative Uuitetl States Senator, and they havo eleotcd five out of eight mem? bers of Congress. These achievements uro vaBtly preferable to the election of the Governor, while if the Radicals have elected that officer, it is by Buch a numil majority that it looks very like defeut, and is, we aro convinced, but a premo? nitory of their great defeat in November. Never before in this country has there been such interference with Stute elec? tions by tho Federal Government. Through the Ku Klux prosecutions 1,200 or 1,500 persons were deprived of their votes, and somo 1,500 young men were driven from the State by the "reign of terror" established there. Caldwell's majority will not exceed half tho number of those who were thus driven from the polls. What sort of viotory would that be? A viotory through an intolerable, and vioious, and sordid tyranny, that cannot fail to excite the indignation of good people everywhere-a tyranny over tho Constitution and laws ns well as the rights and liberties of the citizan. POMTIOA.II D?TTINGS.-George Greek, a German Republican, and the first man in the town of Newstead, Erie County, that volunteered in the late war, is now the President of a Greeley nnd Brown dub in that town. The Boston Courier remarks, on an assumed resemblance between the moon and the countenance of Mr. Greeley, that "the moon and Horace have also another peculiarity in common; they both have extraordinary attractive qua? lities, and tho rising tide in favor of Greeley shows that he has as much influ fiuenoe over the people as the moon hsB over the ocean." Occasionally-perhaps once in three days-the Grant organs publish a para? graph with the stunning head-line, "Another Democrat for Grant 1" We read and find it recorded that one Wil? liam Patterson or Samuel Smith, a "life-long Democrat" (always,) living in Wildcat township, in Kansas, bas de? clared that, as a true Democrat, bo must repudiate the action of the Democratic party, and throw bis tremendous influ? ence in the scale of the party of the bayonet law, land-grab jobbery, nepo? tism, wholesale corruption and centrali? zation. Usually, Patterson's, or Smith's, defection affords the Union material for a most convincing article on the stam? pede of Democrats to Grant. Hon. Jerry Black, of Pennsylvania, we understand, has written a letter in which, after running a contrast between the two presidential candidates, Greeley and Grant, he declares in favor of sup? porting the former in the present con? test. ?-?-???? MR. EDITOR: The Union, in speaking of South Carolina, calls it "their State." I don't think there is a true South Caro? linian who is a Republican. So the Re? publicans ought not call it their Slate, be? cause they are paupers depending on OUR STATE for a living. A SOUTH CAROLINIAN. GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON FOR GREELEY.-The St. Louis Times, ot tho .4th, publishes the following letter from General Joseph E. Johnston, dated Charlotte, Va., July 31, to Colonel J. K. Ashley, of Bites County, Mo., in which he says: "Assure all our old comrades that yon oommuuioate with, that the story of the Cincinnati Commercial is false. I have had no consultation with W. S. Robin? son, of Charlottesville, on any snbjeot; have never said anything favoring Grant's re-election. On the contrary, being a thorough Democrat, I would have preferred a Demooratio candidato; but as Horace Greeley is nominated by our party, I sincerely hope every Demo? crat will vote for bim. Being disfran? chised, I take no publie part in politics, but to my friends, I do not hesitate to express my feelings and opinion on po? litical subjects. I think the overthrow of the present Administration necessary to any hope of constitutional govern? ment." ONE MORE FOR GREELEY.-Judge Thomas is out in a strong letter, in which he deolares his determination to quit the Radical party, and give in his adherence to the Liberal Republican I party, which in his opinion is the party to save the country from its downward plunge into min and infamy. Ho an? nounces farther that ho will become a candidate for Congress, if the citizens of the District desire it.-Bock Hill Lantern. Buffalo offers $60,000 in purses at the horse race this week. A contribution box, circulated for the poor heathen in tho same city last weok, was returned to the minister with sixty cents therein, ten cents of which was in soda water checks. Correspondence of tile Fhonlx. G HE EN VILLI:, S. C., August 9, 1872. The irrepressible) Edward Fustian Stokes disgorged another of his intermi? nable and incoheront political harangues, from tbe steps of the old Court House, last night. After reading a chapter from the sacred volume, followed by a prayer equally divided between roligion and politics, hu went in for what he called his Democratic speech; and if euch is Democracy, tho sooner that it and Stokes aro forever abolished, tho better it will bo for tho peace and good order of the community. Such u jumbled up mess of politico rcligio-scrio-comico nousensico-d-n-fool-o hush, with a few worms, poke-root and other herbs thrown in to thicken and season, aud make it palatable to bimsolf, it was uever our misfortune to bear, and wc trust that it may not bo our "melancholy privilege" (as J. L. Orr occo said) to listeu to nguiu. The burden of his song was Graut, Grant, which delights the Greeley men, as they do not wish to carry uuy useless dead weight in tho coming contest. Stokes is charged with being in the pay of the Grant party, which he denies; lint facts speak louder than words. We, however, do not believe tho charge to be true, as the Grant Radicals hereabouts are too sharp to invest much in such an? tiquated tamils- It would be a poor iu" vestment of greenbacks. How anyone professing to be an educated Christiun gentleman can get up in public aud abuse, villify and defame mauy of our best known and worthiest citizens, iu language scandalously indecent, or why he is permitted to do so, entirely passes oar comprehension. No one having re? spect for himself, or a decent regard for public opinion, would struggle frantically for two boars in a senseless effort, amid hideous hootiogs, jibes aud jeers, to thrust his ravings into tho eurs of un unwilling people. Our citizens are tired and disgusted with these exhibitions, and are determined that the laws in rela? tion to nuisances and public disturb? ances shall bo enforoed. M. SPEECH BY THE POPE-His VIEWS OF UNIVEBBAI? SUFFRAGE-"ALL THIS LI BEKTY COMES TO NOTHING."-The Pope, in answering an address presented to him by a deputation of old Papal odi? ?is ls a few days ago, said: These sentiments whioh you have ex? pressed to me, the presence here of these officials of the Minister of Commerce, and of the Minister himself, remind me of tho month of November, 1843. Those were sad times, wbiob, however, wore soon followed by an era of tranquillity and peace. In those times, iu those days, there appeared before me in my palace-which they have now taken from me-the Quirinal, tho Minister of Com? merce and Publio Works. This man is now dead.. I fear he died animated by the same evil feelings which he cherished during his life-time. This man ap? peared before me. Though a republi? can, and having the character of a tri? bune of the people, he came forward timid and apprehensive, and in a low voice told me that the popular turbu? lence had been occasioned by an allocu? tion pronounced by mo, in which I de? clared to all the powers that I refused to join those who had deolured nar against Austria, and said, "The Vicar of Christ must keep at peace with all." "But," said that man, "you might suffer great calamities." "I will sutler them," was my answer. "Bat, in order to avert oven great calamities, I will do nothing contrary to honor, to justice, to con? science, to religion." And so it was. I found myself compelled to abandon ! Rome, and I might well say that in order not to perpetrate an aot contrary to jus? tice, I lost my throne. This is not what has happened now-a-days. Tho throne has been violently taken from me. From whom, then, are we to expect help? From whom, if all the Governments are dominated by sects and by those who walk in darkness? Not, surely, from them; from whom, then? The Catholic world, as you have justly remarked, is at the feet of God imploring for mercy. From tho others we have nothing to hope. And why? When St, Johu the Baptist wanted to confirm bis disciples, who wished to know whether Jesus Christ was the true Messiah, he said to them: "Go yo and ask him." And they went; and Jesus Christ answered unto them: "Tell John that the blind seo, the deaf hear, the dumb speak, the lame walk, and even the dead arise." As much as to say, "From my works you may learn who am I." If we wonld look at all tho Governments of Europe, wo should find that the works of all are tho reverse of what Jesus- Christ told the disciples of St. John. The works, yon see them yoarselves. The works of a Government so-called of Italy, of a Go? vernment so called of Madrid, of a Go? vernment so-called of Paris, behold theml Behold those doings and tell me what can we hope from this world. These are the few words I wished to ad? dress to you before blessing you. Yon see what take? plaoe in these days. They say that there are certain guaranties that there is liberty for all to vote in tho administrative elections. I see, how? ever, that this liberty comes to nothing. A minister publishes a circular whioh frightens everybody. There are tumults in the streets. The guaranties and the liberty do not exist. Let everybody, however, do his best. Let overybody follow the advice of authoritative per? sons, and if wo,do not succeed, it will be a proof of tho hypocrisy of tho gua? ranties and of liberty. ? THE Two VANCEH.-Some of our ex? changee continue to state that Zebulon B. Vance has boon elected from the 8th Congressional District of North Caroli? na. This is a mistake. II. is General Robert B. Vance, brother of Z. B., and ona of tho truest and best men in that State. LOOK TO THE TREASURY OF YOUR STATE, FELLOW-CITIZENS.-Tho question of the future success of the State hinges on the future financial measures which shall be inaugurated bj those who may be ele? vated to thu honored positions of execu? tive officers. The exhibit made by our late Treasurer does not warrant the country iu cutting into bis hands tho keys of our safes for four years longer. If the exhibits are correct, then one of tv/o things is true: First, either Mr. Par? ker is incompetent to guide the Treasury alfuirs, or ehe ho is dishonest. That he is comp?tent, nono will deny, for bis line horses und style of living prove him u capable financier; his boud transactions, bis Blue Ridge Railroad operations, his (iron ville Railroad manipulations, his other op?rations iu the wuy of business, show that, he has bceu a successful finan? cier for himself and his fricuds. It cuu uot be said that bu is incompetent to devise plans of success. The question now turns on tho reason of his lui lu res. It is attributed to the paying of the enormous .State debt interests which have been incurred ou the bond-, but that hus not huon paid; to thu enormous legislative expenditures, but these have nut buen paid; to thu paying of salaries of officers, but these have not boen paid; to paying thu legislators their certifi? cates, but they have not got their money, aud hundreds of theta ure in pawu tor mouey; but they say for printtug bills, but none of them have been paid of auy consequence But there are the enor? mous expenditures of the Speaker of the House in issuing certificates to so many employees; but none of these are paid yet. The judges have not buen paid, the salaried officers of the State have not buen paid, thu bills of the Deaf und Dumb Asylum and ull others have not oeeu paid; the Governor ami Lieute uaut-Governor have had no salary, the bond-holders are bringiug suits for their interests; every County Treasurer swears that they have paid over every dollar to thu State Treasurer, and yet tuero is no money in the Treasury. The schools are closed, and the teach? ers have not been paid for nine months; no obligations of the State have been paid, and for a year, such us ought to have been paid; and yet there has been collected taxes to the amount of nearly $2,000,000, besides the license tax and the enormous penalty imposed on the people. With thia vost amount ut his disposal, no obligations met, and he is still crying, "Tax them I tax theml They don't pay half enough taxes!" With the hammer knocking ot! poor widows' and orphan children's homes for taxes, with honest men's property sold, while they hold in their pocket their tax receipts. Can the people of South Carolina trust such public servants longer? From the mountain to the sea-board, let the peo? ple thunder the eobo back: No! No! I Never 1 ! I Fellow-oitizens! look to your Treasury.-Missionary Record. SIXTY GOVERNMENT CLERKS DETAILED TO MAIL GRANT CAMPAIGN DOCUMENTS ILLEGAL FRANKS BEING USED.-We pub? lish below a partial list of employees in the pay of the United States Govern? ment, who aro now engaged at the K ?di? en 1 headquarters in the Capitol in frank? ing and directing Administration cam? paign documents, all of whom draw their pay regularly from tho different departments from which they are "de? tailed:" J. M. Edmunds, postmaster, Washington, D. C.; M?j. Thad. H. Stan? ton, paymaster, United States Army, de? tailed as assistant editor of the Daily Chronicle; L. H. Smith, First Comp? troller's Office; William D. Muck, Adju tant-General'fl Office; G. Duprey, Secre? tary of the Treasury's Office; O. T. An? drews, Post Office Department; E. Hodges, Second Auditor's Office; L Twitohell, Indian Office; W. W. Buok, Land Office; W. W. Case, Pension Office; O.T. Widstrand, Treasury Office; George D. Livingston, Treasury Offioe; Alonzo Bel!, Second Auditor's Offioe; L. F. Jones, Interior; Samuel Wallace. Treasury Office; A. A. Sbisler, Pension Office; J. E. Sebring. Sixth Auditor's Offioe; Johu T. Heck, Government Print? ing Office; H. Granger, Pension Office; W. T. Rambush, Post Office Depart? ment; B. F. Butler, Commissioner of Customs. There are about forty malu and twenty female clerks detailed from the different departments of tho Govern? ment, whose names we shall publish ina fow days, together with the amount of salary which each ono drew on the last day of July, 1872. We are also prepar? ing a statement of how the Grant cam? paign is being conduoted here at the capital; who pays for the folding of documents; the number of envelopes used belonging to the people; the uum bor of boys employed by John R. Frenoh, Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States Senate, and by him paid monthly with Government fonds; the number of mail? bags sent off each day to the different States by the Radical Republican or Ad? ministration party; theweightof franked matter passed through the general post offioe by illegal franks, known to bo so by the PoBtmaster-General, and illegally done by and with the consent of Post? master Edmunds, of the City of Wash? ington. Some rioh developments may be looked for.-Washington Patriot. Tho man with his lung-tester who ac? companies Barnum, and makes an honest penny by testing the wind of the multi? tude, came to grief at Terre Haute on Tuesday. A healthy farmer's boy, with a chest oa him like an emigrant's valise, drew in a mouthful of the atmosphere, wrapped a quarter-section of his lips over the nozzle and breathed. An ex? plosion followed, first of tho machine and then tho by-standers, and the "pro? fessor" was hoard to say, as ho gathered up tho fragments of tinkling brass and springs, "Ho had been eating onions; that's what made bia breath so strong." An Illinois woman recently drank a decoction prepared from tho root of woodbine, and shortly went whero it I twineth. Cooai lt? na. ?, Crrr MATTERS.-The price of single copies of the PBXENJX is five cents. Rev. E. J. Mejnardie, (now stationed at Greenville,) tho venerated minister attached to tho Metkodict Conf?rence, dedicates to day the now church recently erected in Chester. As he was instru? mental in securing a liberal subscription toward the erection of the sacred edifice, it WAS deemed fitting that he should preach the opening sermon. Dr. Purker oilers fur sale, through this morning's PHONIX, several valuable pieces of improved and unimproved real estate, on Main Btreet and elsewhere. As money is needed by Ibo sellers, bargains may be obtained. A large and varied lot of cards, suita? ble for weddings, invitations, visiting and business purposes, have just been re? ceived ut this office, which, owing to the dull season, will be printed at very low rates. The veteran of the Charleston Courier, Wm. Laidlur, Esq., is iu Columbia, re? cuperating. As a well known gentleman of this city was quietly passing along, yesterday morning, his arm was familiarly seized by a couple of colored men, who de? manded money, on tbe ground that they were "working" for bim. He informed them that they were mistaken, as he did not know them; whereupon one of them doubtingly asked, "Aint you Mr. Frar zee? and aint wo working to keep you in office?" "No," said the gentleman, "I am neither an office holder nor a seeker after office." The darkeys seemed dis? satisfied, and after tho style of Bret Harte, "rose to explain," but Dr. P. as? sured them they w^re mistaken, and the money-seekers sidled off. The advertising agency of Walker, EvauB Sc Cogswell, represented by Bos? well T. Logan, Esq., is the only author? ized agency for this paper in Charleston. Acrobats of every household-Pitcher and tumbler. Owing to the absence of tho pastor from the city, there will be no services in the Baptist Church to-day. F. L. Cardozo baa issued a call for the State Council of the Union League to meet at Colamb?a, on the 20th of Au? gust-the day preceding that fixed for the meeting of the State Bepnblican Nominating Convention. The rea?on assigned for the meeting is to organize and prepare for the State and national campaigns. We saw a local reporter on hia muscio yesterday afternoon. He stood his ground, ready for any emergency. A mule, hitched to a wagon, created some amusement, on Main street, in front of Fagan Bros*, new establish? ment, yesterday afternoon. A washstand was placed in the wagon, and a mattress brought out for the aame purpose, when the mule, seeming to think the mattress would fall on him, made a lunge, spilt the bed and the washstand, and ran off. Strange to relate, a typo, just before the mattress was brought ont, walked np to the head of the male and said to him, "Look here, d-n your old hide, you had better run when that mattress comee ont; if you don't, you'll have to carry il all the way home." That male and man understood each other. We hear that a policeman attempted to arrest a man from the country, yester? day, but some females made a charge or the policeman, and drove him off thc field. UNIFORMS AND GUNS.-A private lettei from Laurens informs ns that Mr. Josepl Crows has uniforms for four companies bosides gnus and drums, all complete The above are facta. RELIGIOUS SERVICES THIS DAY.-Tri uity Church-Rev. P. J. Shand, D. D. Rector, ll A. M. and 5>? P. M. Lutheran Church-Rev. D. Derrick 10>? A. M. Marion Street Churoh-Rev. W. D Kirkland, 10>? A. M. and 8 P. M. Washington Street Ohuroh - Rev Manning Brown, 10)? A. M. and 8 P. M Sunday School at 5 P. M. Catholic Ohuroh-Rev. James Faller ton, First Mass, at 7 A. M.; Seconi Moss at 10 A. M. ; Vespers at \% P. M Presbyterian Church-Rev. Richart Mcilwaine, 10}? A. M. METEORIC.-Friday, as well as las evening, the heavens presented a bean tiful appearance. It was a olear, etil night, and the moon's pale light adde> to the beauty of the scene. All the star that were ever seen, and more, toe seemed to twinkle on this occasion, an presented the appearance of a vast fiel Of diamonds. But the meteoric displa was what wo particularly notioed. Loo in any and every direction, and there star would shoot across the firmament Wo had announced in these columns few days previous the coming of tb August shower of meteors ; and oar date proved corrcot. Thero will likely b uuother display this evoning. The prc sent shower, however, does not ben comparison with those of November. WHAT A JOKE!-A colored man greeted Worthington, when he appeared on the stand, at the Caldwell mass meeting, the other Dight, with uplifted clasped hands and tbe ejaculation, "My God, if there aiu't a Christian!" The speaker took it. RKPUnntcAN NOMINATIONS.-After a lengthy discussion, yesterday, in the Court "House, the following delegates were elected: Delegates to Stute Convention-F. L. Carduzo, Walter Jones, Adam Thomas, C. M. Wilder. Delegates to Congressional Conven? tion-Henry Darnels, S. L. H?ge, Kit Mills, Simon Jenkins. MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.-The Northern mail opens at 2.3U P. M.; closes 12.00 A. M. Charleston day mail opens 4.30 P. M.; closes 6.00 A. M. Charleston night mail opens 7.00 A. M.; closes6.15 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.: closes 11.30 A. M. On Sunday office open from 3 to 4 P. M. ARITHMETICAL.-There appeared seve rul little "far fetched" figurative jokes in the Union, yesterday, bat the worst of all was that displayed head, "3,000 Re? publicans celebrate the victory," "100 guns, and more a coming." Probably ten shots would exoeed the number, and 300 would be a fair estimate of the Re? publicans present. It may have been a typographical error, which is likely to occur-that is 0 to 10 would form an hundred, and 0 to 300 would finish the exaggeration. Many shoats were given for Greeley and Merrimon, showing that all present were not "truly lott." Be? sides, the boye, girls and women present were there to bear and see, and not os of the party. More arithmetic items wanted. REV. DR. REYNOLDS.-The Religious Herald, published at Richmond, Ya., (of August 8.) pays the following well merited tributo to thia distinguished clergyman, who, for more than twenty years, has served the State most honor? ably and usefully in her highest institu? tion of learning: "The Working Christian speaks of tho South Carolina State University as a 'grand humbug.' Dr. J. Li. Reynolds is a Professor in that institution. He is one of the most accomplished and accu? rate scholars in the South. As long as he retains his professorship, we shall hope that the college may yet regain at least something of the glorious renown which for many years it enjoyed. " PHONIXIANA.-Why cannot two slen? der persons become great friends? Be? cause they will always be slight acquaint? ances. No man oan, for any considerable pe? riod, wear one face to himself and an? other to tho multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. Search others for their virtues, your? self for vices. Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich. Query-Does a dumb man always keep his word? What article would one naturally sup? pose a young lady would mention in ad? dressing an absent lover? Oakum. Gaiters with monogram clasps are now all the fashion with pretty girls. The style is said to be convenient and elegant. What did Lot do when his wife turned to salt? Got a fresh one. In what suit does a man never feel comfortable? In a law-suit. HOTEL ARRIVALS, August 10, 1872.-Nickcr son House- A McQueen, Gher&w; ? T West, do Ex Co; Dr S Angle, N C; J h Chatham, Helena; Mrs Feaster, Greenville; G F Hoff? man, Doko. Columbia Holel-B P Flanigan, Fairfield; M t? Stokes, Pa; I T Settlo, Baltimore; S O Gilbert, P L Cleaper, Wm Laidlor, George P Walker. Charleston; Dr M Weil, Pompey Town; W A bradley, S C fl lt. That wonderful work now going on under the waters of New York harbor the entire removal of Hell Gate rooks-is more than half oompleted. Shafts have been sunk and side excavations made until over 3,000 feet of tunneling now branohes ont in every direction. The last explosion, when among the rocks are stored the terrible forces of nitro-glyce? rine in large quantities, will be one of the most powerful ever known. Tho coffer-dam will be out, and, as it is easier to raise a weight nndor water than above it, the shaft and mine will be flooded, and with the discharge of the eleotrio spark the dangers of Hell Gate will no longer exist. But should the ex? plosion by any acoident not prove suc? cessful, or, indeed, if it should never take place, there will still be sufficient room for the largest ocean steamers to pass through after the coffer-dam shall hive been out. LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Jacob Levin-Corn, &c. Meeting Myrtle Lodge. R. D. Senn & Son-Tea, Ac. J. W. Parker-Real Estate. Jacob Levin-Auction. Rooms to Rent. Howard Association-O? Marriage. D. H. Kelly-A Card. G. T. Berg-Auction. T. P. Walker-Special Notice.