The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, August 18, 1872, Image 2
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Sunday Kornin?:, August 18, 1872.
For President of the United States.
aOUACB GKGBLET, or New York.
For vice-President
B. GRATZ PltOWM. of Minoan.
Til? Remedy or the Bond.boldere.
There are upon the markets, now, and
i n the hands, we presume, mostly of
New York bankers and capitalists,
96,000,000 of conversion bonds of the
State of South Carolina, and also $1,
000,000 and upwards of other stocks and
bonds, oomprisiDg those issued under
tho Aots of December 20, 1856, amount?
ing to $189,385 80, December 21, 1357,
amounting to $121,051.37, December 21,
1858, amounting to $302,710.00, and
others, all of which are illegal, and rep?
resent no real obligations of the Slate.
Over a year ago, the tax-payers of the
State, in convention, pledged themselves
for the redemption of the debt, as it then
etood between $8,000,000 and $9,000,
000. They as solemnly warned the pub?
lia that they would not be bound for
any additional debt which might be
.oreated by a government in which they
had no representation, and upon whose
avaricious rapacity there was no check.
All tho bonds mentioned above have
been issued since the meeting of the
-convention in May, 1871. Upon thia
?oore alone, the property-holders and
<oitizens of South Oaroliua are released
from all moral obligation to redeem or
to pay the interest upon the bonds,
j&oiouuting to something over $7,000,000,
. which have been since issued. But,
moro than this, the bonds havo been
?isaued oontrary to law, and in violation
-of -fita Constitution. This instrument
vpreooribes that every Act of Assembly
creating a debt against the State shall be
passed by a vote of two-thirds of the
members of the General Assembly, and
that a roll of the ayes and nays shall be
-entered upon the journals of both
meases. The Aot nuder wbioh the con?
version bonds were created was not in?
tended to increase the debt, and the
?constitutional requirements were, there?
fore, not observed, and the conversion
bonds, except so much of them as was
used actually for conversion, are not
worth the paper on which they are
printed. But the bond holders are not
wholly without remedy. The Financial
Board, or the members thereof, are
surely responsible for the money which
they have received ou false pretences.
They are worth, in the aggregate, pro?
bably $1,500,000, all of which, with the ex
osption of $150,000or $200,000, has been
rapidly, though honestly, accumulated by
them upon a salary of $2,000 or $3,000
in the last four years. The people of
?"our beloved State" have a shrewd
notion that they have a large interest in
thia large amount of money; but they are
willing to make over ail their right, title
and interest iu and to the said property,
comprising valuable real estate in this
State, Ohio and elsewhere, palatial
mansions, gilded brets, spanking teams,
diamonds and other preoions Htones,
stocks, bonds, &a, to the said bond?
holders, in order to make amends for the
?windle perpetrated upon them in the
name of the once respeoted State of
South Carolina. The bond-holders
should bring their suits at once.
It has lately b on disclosed, through
F. L. Oardozo, the colored Secretary of
State, that at least $7,000,000 of the
bonds issued by the present Fin anoial
Board are fraudulent and unconstitu?
tional. The other members of the Fi?
nancial Board claim that iu all their
transactions in the sale and hypotheca?
tion of bonds, &3,, they have been go?
verned by the legal judgment of the
Attorney General, Slr. Chamberlain.
What has tho Attorney-General to say
tot himself? Of Scott and Parker it is
-scarcely worth while to speak any longer,
outside of the courts. They are already
politically damned, and we hope soon to
herald that they are legally condemned.
With Mr. Chamberlain the case is dif?
ferent. He still wields considerable
power and influence in his party. Peo?
ple, strangely enough, do not seem dis?
posed to load him with the Batne oppro?
brium that attaohes to his two financial
associates, Scott and Parker. We con?
fess to the weakness ourselves. Yet
when we ask ourselves, in what respeot is
J>. H. Chamberlain less culpable for the
present disgraceful financial oondition of
the SUte than B. E. Scott and Niles G.
Parker, whose names stink in the nos?
trils of all deoent people, we are puzzled
for a reply. He had greater power on
the board than either of his associates,
for he was not only a member but the
legal adviser of the board. Under hu
immediate supervision, then, we mus!
hold, as at present advised, $6,000,OOC
of conversion bonds were put upon thc
market, as if a debt of the State, contra?
ry to the Act of Assembly under wbioh
they were authorized, and in palpable
violation of the Constitution of thc
State, Under his advice, too, something
over $1,000,000 of State atooks and
bonds, which had been o nco coo verted,
and oonvereion bonds issued in lien
thereof, and which were, io the eyes of
the law, canceled the moment of their
conversion, were again issued and are
now outstanding as a debt of the State.
How is it, Mr. Chamberlain? What have
you to say why the good people of South
Carolina, and throughout the country,
should not hold you in the same estima?
tion aa they do Scott and Parker, or is
that a matter of indifference to you? Tell
tho publia what has become of the $11,
000,000 of bonds issued by the Financial
Board, of whioh you wore the master
spirit, aud inform them particularly
about the fraudulent conversion bonds
and your responsibility therefor. Como
oat fully, openly, and above-board, let?
ting no "pride of personal charncter" re?
strain, nor love of special pleading pre?
scribe yon.
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Trie Financial Hoard and Air. Cham?
berlain'* Connection Therewith.
The parties mainly and almost entirely
responsible for the immense public debt
whioh has been heaped upon this State
during the past four years, while the
property-holders had no representation
in the Govern ment, are the offioials who
compose the Finanoial Board of South
Carolina. The General Assembly has
indeed been made up of as corrupt and
unprincipled a set of rogues as perhaps
ever congregated together since the days
of Adam; but the General Assembly
could not issue, or have not issued, any
bonds of the State, and in all their
?uancial legislation, have followed the
moneyed advioe of the Financial Board.
Upon them rests the odium of trebling
in four years a public debt of near a
century's accumulation, of well-nigh
beggaring the State, and of damning
with infamy the party to whioh they be?
long and the negro raoe which they have
misled.
From the days of the Revolution to the
advent into power of the Radical party in
this State, in 1863, the entire public debt
amounted, iu round numbers, to only
$5.000,000. For the creation of this
debt, the State had an adequate consi?
deration in various works of publio im?
provement. Sinco 1868, and mostly
during a short period of last year, the
publio debt has benn sprung np tc
$16,000,000, or an addition of $11,000,
000, not a dollar of whioh has been ex
pended in any visible public improve
menta, and millions of which are nnac
oounted for in any way. This is th?
work of the Finanoial Board, the mern
bera of whioh are B. E. Scott, Governoi
of the State, Niles G. Parker, Treasurer
and D: H. Chamberlain, Attorney-Gene
ral.
POMTIOAII D?TTINGS.-A circular le)
ter sent ont by Mr. J. M. Edmunds
postmaster at Washington City, momba
of the Radical Resident Congressiona
Committee, and who in 1868 was Presi
dent of the Union League of America
has, we doubt not, been sent broadcas
over the country, and without bein
aware of the faot, it is neverthelee
doubtless true that the independen
Democrats are being run by the Gran
machino at Washington. We quote th
circular:
"WASHINGTON, D. C., July 30, 1872.
"DEAB SIB: Please send the enclose
circular to active Democrats in you
Distriot, who will not support Mr. Grec
ley, and will co-operate with the Louii
ville Convention. Send me a list of sue
ruen in each County immediately.
? "(Signed) J. M. EDMUNDS,
"Secretary."
We ask honest anti-Greeley Democrat
how this sort of thing strikes then:
Aro they williog to be made oats-paws I
rake Radical chestnuts from the fire? *
not, they must halt! The energy of tb
Grant retainers is almost super-humai
and they will leave no means untric
which promises any sort of aid to thc
tottering cause. They know very wei
as does every man of intelligence, th
with a solid Democratic vote for Greele;
his election is an absolute oertaint
Hence they would willingly spend ha
tho money in the Treasury to dive
100,000 Democrats from Greeley to i
outside candidate And to this end, th?
are at work.
Col. James Watson Webb, former
editor of the New York Courier and K
quirer, and a prominent politician 1
the last generation, has written a lett
in favor of Greeley.
John Morrissey is offering to bot th
Greeley will carry New York, witho
oounting the voto of either Now Yoi
city or Brooklyn. Ho also offer H to b
that Greeloy will have forty to sparc
the electoral college.
The Now York World, ot tho 13t
say?: We have information that Robu
O. DeLiarge, one of tho colored Repu
Hean Congressmen from South Carolin
has written a letter, whioh will soon 1
published, iu favor of Mr. Greeloy t
President. Judgjs Willard and Grahui
Republicans of South Carolina, are al
reported to be for Greeley.
A no UT FISK AND OTHERS.-James Fisk
was never a big drinker, but he liked the
good things of the dinner table remark?
ably well, and some remarkable things
be liked.
He had a Yankee passion for dough?
nuts. The first thing be asked a cook
was io relation to their ability to make
doughnuts. No oook kuew anything
about 'em, but a buker was found who
crept iuto the basement early every morn?
ing with turee or four dozen.
James praised 'em; no fi toro dough?
nuts for him; he knew a home-made
doughnut. And BO, for nearly two years,
the baker came bright aud ourly, nud no
matter what high style of f?ed Prince
Erie indulged in, he topped off an epi?
curean dinuer with a quart bowl of cof?
fee and eight or teu doughnuts broke
into it.
Publishing tho ?corot won't hurt him
now. Ho will never know how many
store doughnuts were put off ou him for
home-made.
Poor James I How he is missed ut'
Loug Brauch. At a poiut on the road
down to the Brunch, side by side ou a
rock, is the vestige of n puinted an?
nouncement of Col. Fisk's bund und a
promenade concert, given last year at tho
Branch. Then its companion iu tho laut
shot (of poor old crazy Helmbold) at re?
treating fortune-a very grape-Bbot; it
being bia Catawba pills, with which he
made a desperate attempt to hedge ou
"Bucbu." No Brunch this year for that
highflyer, who, according to all accounts,
has subsided into a lunatio asylum-a
faotlfeel inclined to doubt, believing,
with the Hov. Mr. Hall, that the posscH
bion of wit is neuussary for the losing it.
There was never the slightest similari?
ty between James Fisk, Jr., aud Helm
bold, except in the woy they both ran to
four-in-hands. Helmbold was a mise?
rable little monkey of a mau, who per?
sisted io telling what a fearful sickness
"information of the bowels" wus. Very
little information he had in his bowels,
or anywhere olso.
He was almost as bad as old Mrs. Lin?
coln, who forever got big words croHS
way. When she was in the White House
she announced one day that some new
inventor had sent her fifty packages of
"desecrated eggn," and another time
gave orders that tho "irritated bread"
should be served at the Presidential ta?
ble.
My graciousl what a run of ignorant
old tabbies the White HOUHO has seen of
late. If for no other reason I pray for
Greeley's election, that u lady-like, well
bred girl like Ida Greeley may change
the base of backwoods vulgarity that has
reigned so long.
[Missouri Republican New York Letter,
WHAT IS A HOODLUM?-This is a Cali?
fornia conundrum which the Eastern
newspapers have been trying to solve
without success. The Sau Francisco
Chronicle has given the answer, and when
the auswar comes we find that we have
plenty of hoodlums of our own, uuder
various names. The Chronicle sa VB:
"Tho animal is indigenous to our State,
is the growth of our peculiar civilization
-belongs to us." This exclusive claim
is not treating tho rest of the world fair?
ly. The name alone is of California
growth. It has the California directness,
compactness-and oddity. The thing
can be found in all highly civilized com?
munities. The higher the civilization,
the better it grows. This is the Califor?
nia definition of a word thatoau be found
in neither Woroester nor Webster. The
hoodlum is a male of the human spe?
cies, of the genus homo. He dresses in
broadcloth, wears polished boots, carries
a cane. He is too lazy to work; he is
too prond to beg; he is too cowardly to
steal. He lives off the hard earnings of
the sin and shame of some poor girl,
whom he abuses and neglects; ho stands
upon tho street corners with his hood?
lum comrades of au afternoon; stares in
brazen vulgarity at honest women, aud
insults with rude gesture and indecent
expressions the soiled doves as they flut?
ter by. He bas respectable relatires
from whom ho borrows when the wolf
chases him too olosoly, aud duriug elec?
tion times he sells bis influence for coin
and aids to control political results. He
travels on shape and talent; he bullies
the weak, and be fawns upon tho strong;
hin ambition is to got some sineoure
berth ia polities; he ia night watchman,
or has special policeman's beat-duties
which he never performed, exaept to col?
lect the money. He lives at free lunches;
be amuses himself by rowdy actions; at?
tends excursions. His strong effort is to
keep ont of the clutches of the law. He
is the friend and counsellor of thieves,
swindlers and oonfldenoe-men, and final?
ly adopts the felon's profession-then he
ceases to be a hoodlum. He booomes a
drunkard, and is then called bummer.
He gets shabby and thea finds no frail
woman to support him; he is then a va?
gabond and loafer. During tho time of
bis earlier suooess bo bange arouud
theatres; knows and is useful to actors
aud actresses; ho is olacquour and dead?
head. Ho brings up either in the home
of tho inebriate, the County hospital or
the State prison. He is a disgraoo to his
family aud a uuisauoe to the community.
A happy young bridal party wont
down from Pouria on the P., P. aud J.
Railroad tho other morning. Tho blush
ing young bride thrust her hoad out of
tho our window an tho train started off,
und, after looking around for a moment
or two, suddenly jerked her head back
with a quick exclamation, and buried her
fuco in her hands. Her loving, fright?
ened husband sought to learn the cause
of ber dismay, nod offered feeble oouso
lation: "What wan it, darling? What
frightened it dour? Tell it own hubby!
What muk?s it cry?" Tuero wasn't inuoh
to cry about to bo sure; ob, no! Dar?
ling hud ou ly dropped u Hut of glitter?
ing front tooth out of thu window, that
was all. The sad affair luis cast a gloom
o?er tho eutiro community.
- - -* .
They aro io have snored uiunio in Cen?
tral Purk ou Sunday.
THE COLORED LIBERAL REPUBLICANS
OF MASSACHUSETTS -Au address by tba
colored Liberal Republicans of Massa?
chusetts has beeu issued. Tho following
are the couoluding portions:
Let us be "agaii st the policy of hate,
against fanning ancient flamen into con?
tinued life." Let us ccaso to rake "in
the ashes of the pant fur couts of tire yet
burning." Latus "pile np the ashos,
extingnitth the flames nod abolish the
hate!" Fellow-countrymeu! You espe?
cially who, iu tho dark valley of slavery,
hoped for better days, you whose faith
el you to anticipate freedom, be not
now doubtful. Let us uot question thu
good faith of those wh> have beeu
brought over to tho right side until there
I be proof to thu contrary. As yet, we
who hold most sacred all that you are
contending for, assure you that there is
not ono parti?le of doubt that under the
administration of Horace Greeley, you
will enjoy nit the rights, privileges and
immunities of American citizenship. The
j colored men will not, wo are sure, desert
one of their oldest, earlie.it and longest
tried friends, auch na is Horace Greeley,
to vote for ono who, like Oeu. Grant,
only entered tho Republican purty at tho
eleventh hour, fur the purpose of ob?
taining its highest offico. Wo have never
been accused of ingratitude-no, it is
not ''characteristic of our race. Horace
j Greeley'ii record is crowded, for thirty
years, with the most earuest, warm?
hearted and entirely disinterested advo?
cacy of oar rights aud our interests.
I President Graut nover vouchsafed UH a
cordial word ia his life, and nover did
one act in our favor to which his position
as au o Hi cor of the Govern meut or au
agent of a party did not compel him.
With this plain and unvarnished state?
ment of facts and the positions of the
two candidates, we leave the question to
the candid, enlightened patriotism und
judgment of our fellow-countrymen, the
country ever believing that their sense
of gratitude will impel them to cast their
ballots for the true repr?sentatives of
honesty, "the uuity of the republic,
equal rights to all, and reconciliation"
Greeley and Brown.
THE TWANG ULAR FIGHT-CAHDOZO'S
REJOINDER.-We print elsewhere the re?
joinder of Secretary of State Cardozo to
the elegant epistles of Gov. Scott and
Treasurer Parker. It rube in the charge
that SC,000,000 conversion bonds wore
fraudulently issued, and demonstrates
that the writer ia u master of the lie-di?
rect stylo of argument. It does not
clear Mr. Cardozo's skirts. As he Hays,
the Goveruor aigus the bondi, the Trea?
surer countersigns and tho Secretary
seals. This is enough. The public
hold thu three equally guilty. It is fun?
ny, of course, that Gov. Scott should
have vowed that he would sign the bonds
only with his heart's blood, and it would
havo saved the State many millions if he
had stuck to his resolution. This does
not relieve Mr. Cardozo of responsibili?
ty. Without his aid the bonds could uot
have been issued and squandered. He
admits that be knew that there was foul
play; and he kept his mouth close shut
until there was a chance to get up a cha?
racter by peaching on his associates aud
netting up as a reformer. It is too thin,
Mr. Cardozo.
One new point he does make, viz:
That $201,816 of the State funds were
lent by the Financial Board to the Blue
Ridge Railroad Company, without au?
thority aud iu defiance of law. This ia
a olear caso of official malversation; and
Secretary Cardozo, although not a credi?
ble witness in his own behalf, is a good
enough witness when he accuses his late
confederates. If there is any lew in the
State, this loan to tho Blue Ridge Rail?
road will smash and scatter the ring.
This can be done through the courts.
Without money, however, no progress
can be made. Where is the money to
come from? Columbia is doing what
she can; but Charleston is as silent aa
Mr. Cardozo was until ho had signed
about $6,000,000 conversion bonds.
[Charleston News.
Probably no caudid person who bas
studied the returns of the North Caro?
lina election, and intelligently compared
them with the per centages of previous
elections, has doubted that Mr. Merri
mon is chosen Govornor of the State.
But since tho fourth day after the result
was first auuounoed, it baa been olear
that a desperate attempt was making by
the Administration party fraudulently to
give Caldwell a semblance of victory.
All the facts point to the existence of
such a soheme, and the latest reports
from the State show that it will be abor?
tive. By the time the Legislature moots,
sufficient fraud will have been proved to
overcome the slight majority whioh the
friends of Caldwell now claim for him,
and temporary advantage of the Admi
nistratiouists must fade. Nothing could
more forcibly illustrate the desperation
of the office-holders' party than its ex?
traordinary efforts to gain in North Ca?
rolina even thin fleeting]ihadow of a vic?
tory.- N. V. Tribune.
The railroad bridge between San Fran?
cisco aud Goat Island will boa novelty
in architecture. It is to be run through
an immense tube of boiler iron, supper ?
ed in tho water by its own buoyanoy,
und held thirty feet below the surface by
a complicated system of cable, anchors
aud buoys. Tho tube is twenty feet in
diameter, and strengthened by an inter?
nal irou framework. The principal pro?
blem with tho onginoer was to hove the
buoyanoy of tho tube equal tho weight of
a train of oars, so ns to requiro tho mini?
mum of anchorage or support. Should
the bridge prove n success, submarine
railroad tobos may become quito com?
mon, as they may be usod where regular
tunnels would bo impracticable, or ut
least very expensive.
?*> . ?>
Oou. Alberto. Myer, better known as
"Did Prob bilitioa," has boen made a
Doctor of Law by Hobart College-bis
Alina Mater. Ho stands henceforth as
I "Old Probabilities," LL. D.
"EToi ocal Items.
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Cm MATTERS.-The price of single
copies of the PHONIX ?B five cents.
The bieunial catalogue of tbe Univer?
sity of South Carolina has been received.
The corps of touchers is kept up, and it
is to be hoped that at the opening of tho
next eeeHion, the number of scholars will
ba materially increased.
We are indebted to Mr. Wm. H. Faber
for a copy of tho "Staats Courant," ol
Cape Town, Africa.
Delegations to the Republican State
Convention, at Columbia, oan obtain re?
turn tickets for one fare on tho South
Carolina Railroad.
Mr. C, ll. Franklin has purchased the
woll known "Guignard Place," in Lex?
ington County, a short distance from
Neaglo'a Bridge. It is hin intention to
lay out a raoo track, eic. The invest?
ment will pay.
Mr. John N. Long advertises a lot of
Kentucky horse?, suitable for saddle or
draft. They are in Que order and well
worth inspection.
Main street builders should place a
rope or some other obstruction around
their buildidgs, as several individuals
have recently made narrow escapes from
falling bats.
Our neighbor, John C. Seegera, Esq.,
furnishes a healthy and substantial lunoh
every diy, at ll o'clock-and it" is well
patronized, too.
A large and varied lot of cards, anita
I ble for weddings, invitations, visiting
and business purposes, have just been re
oeived at this office, which, owing to th?
dull season, will bo printed at very low
rates.
Tho advertising ageuoy of Walker
Evans Sz Cogswell, represented by Ros
well T. Logan, Esq , ia the only author
ized ageucy for this paper in Charleston
The negro voters of South Carolini
may ponder this fact with much profit
Virginia, under Democratic rule, ha
established over 700 schools for the oo
lored man, while South Carolina, undo
I Radical rule, has not only done nothini
for them, but the Radical State Govern
mcnt has stolen all the school money
and broken down the negro schools thu
were already established.
Messrs. C. O. Martindale & Co. hav
furnished the second bale of new cotto
raised near this oity. It was sold t
Messrs. R. O'Neale & Son, at ninetee
cents, being classed as first middling.
The following is the programme c
muBio by the band of the 18th Infantn
for August 19:
March Rifle. Club Bach.
Robert le Diavalo. Meyerbeer.
Chorus Massaniello. Auber.
Il Bacoio. Arditi.
Polka Mazourka. Funke.
The Republican Convection continue
in session yesterday, and made the fe
lowing nominations: Clerk of Court, ]
B. Miller, white; Probate Judge, S. <
Swygert, white; School Comniiooione
David Salmond; County Commissioner
Wm. Hayne, Uriah Portee, Ellison Ev?
ton.
PncENixiASA. - The author of 4
Golden Sorrow" is now at work on 1
Silver Grief," to be followed by "Cr
Iron Happiness."
The man whoBe wife extorted frc
him a promise not to smoke, finds th
as there was no government stamp
it, it has no effect npon him nntil af I
j October 1.
j The newest charm is in the form ol
oompass, and about the size of a oei
The oldest oharm is in the form of
enoompas9, and about tbe sighs of asse:
One of the pleasures of life-Taki
off new boot? and putting on old si
pers.
'.My dear boy, honesty is tbe best ]
licy." "Well, you ought to know,
thar, for you have tried 'em botb."
The most irredeemable bonds ;
I known to tbe financial and moral wo
are vagabonds.
A Cincinnati wife left her huabao
board, but took tbe bed with ber.
is puzzled to know how to word ale
notice of Haming to prospective ore
tors.
V'The riob," said a Jew, "eat venii
becauso it ?sh deer; I eat mutton beca
it is sheep."
A Leavenworth editor sat down in a
served seat already oooupied by a hon
He stands up when scissoring bis ed:
rials now.
A despatch from Congressman '.
Large, dated Charleston, August
says:
"The statement in tliG New Y
World, of the 13th instant, that I b
written a lotter-which would appea:
a few days-declaring myself in favo;
Hon. Horace Greeley, is false."
MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.-Tba North
mail opens at 2.30 P. M.; closes li
A. M. Cbarloston day mail opens <
P. M. ; closes 6.00 A. M. Charlot
uight mail opens 7.00 A. M.; doses I
P. M. Greenville mail opens 6.40
M.; doses 0.00 A. M. Western or
aud doses 1.30 P. M. Wilmington oj
.?.30 P. M.; doses 11.80 A. M.
J Sunday office open from 3 to 4 P. M
RELIGIOUS SERVICES THIS DAY.-Tri?
nity Ohnrch-Rev. P. J. ?hand, D. D.,
Rector, ll A. M. and 5>? P. M.
Lutheran Church-Rev. J. H. C. Mc?
Kinney, 10)4 A. M.
Mariou Street Church-Rev. J. M.
Boyd, 8 P. M. Maes meeting of Sunday
Schools in Marion Street Church, at 4
P. M. Addresses by Bishop Wm. M.
Wightman, J. H. Kineler, Esq., H. T.
Wright, Esq., and G. J. Putterson, Esq.
Washington Street Church-Rev. J.L.
Shuford, 8 P. M.
Presbyterian Church-Bishop Wm.
M. Wightman, D D., lOJ.j A. M. Rev.
J. G. Griffiths, 8 P. M. Seats will bo
free iu tho Preabyteriau Church during
morning service.
Baptist Church-Rev. J. W. Humbert,
10)4 A. M.
Catholic Church-Rev. James Fuller?
ton, First Mass, at 7 A. M.; Second
Mass at 10 A. M. ; Vespers ut 4J? P. M.
Lunatic Asylum-Rev. M. Brown, 9
A. M.
M. E. Church, (North,) Rev. J. A.
Clifton, 10>? A. M. Rev. Thomas A.
Griffiths, 8 P. M.
A. M. E. Church, Rev. L. C. Loyal,
10>? A. M. Rev. J. T. McElhaney, 4>?
P. M. Rev. J. S. Beasley, 8 P. M.
LIST OP NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Rooma to Rent.
R. D. Seun & Son-Bolted Meal.
S. B. Pickens-S. C. Railroad.
University of South Carolina.
Meeting Columbia Lodge.
HOTEL ARBIYALS, August 17,1872.-Nicker
son House-K t? Barnwell. Nashville; J Ker?
shaw, Camden; S Anglo, N C; J Mc Duffy, AI
O; E T We st, So EX CO; John W Zimmerman,
Balee ville; J K Chatham, Helena; W W Hunt?
ing. 8 C; W M Thomas, i.homer; J J Chapeau,
J Barrett, Charleston; J M MaoKay, Abbe?
ville; C Hasbruck and daughter, Pa.
Columbia Hotel-J H Hion, Wiansboro; A M
Jackson, Qa; F Pretchel, Md; E W M Mickey,
W N Taft, J W O'Brien, F F Chappeau, Jacob
Barrett. Charleston; E O Whitney, W H Mc?
Donald, N C; CC Puffer, Union; U M Sadler,
8 C.
RAIN CLOUDS.-A few weeks ago a
raiu cloud burst and washed away the
road-bed of the Honesdale branch of the
Erie railway for a distance of about 100
feet. Cloud-bursts are of infrequent oc?
currence in the Atlantic States, but they
are quite common in Nevada and else?
where in the extreme West. A cloud?
burst is not a water spout, though the
two are often confounded in the popular
mind. A water-spout results from a
whirl-wind, which gathers a quantity of
water from the face of the ocean or some
other broad surface, and whirls it up?
ward and through the air. Cloud-bursts
occur io the summer during heavy thun?
der storms, and are simply rain showers
of sudden and extraordinary violence.
An over-ladeu cloud suddenly condenses,
and the water of which it is composed
falls to the earth in torrents. In a moun?
tainous country like Nevada, the results
of a cloud-burst are often terrible. So
sudden is the flood that sometimes where
not a drop of water has been seen for
months, a large, turbulent torrent all at
once comes pouring down, washing
away trees, bouses, roads, rocks, and
everything that comes in ita way. One
of these floods thus pouring down a
steep, dry, mountain oanou, frequently
shows an advancing, resistless front of
logs, boulders, and brush twelve or fif?
teen feet high.
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THE HOUSE DIVIDED.-It would seem,
from outward appearances, that the Ra?
dical house is divided agaiuat itself, at
least in this locality; and indeed in other
portions of the County as well. Some?
thing is wrong-there's a screw loose in
the scalawag and carpet-bug machinery.
They don't pull together "like they nae
to did." They quarrel; oall eaoh other
ugly names; they "cuss;" draw bloody
minded pistols, and threaten to shoot
but they don't. There is evidently un?
happiness iu that portion of the Scott
Grant family inhabiting Laurens, or else
they are doing up a farce hugely well.
At the township meeting at this place
on last Saturday, we learn, there was
great wrangling and moon dissatisfac?
tion. At the meeting, also, here on
Monday, for the purpose of appointing
delegates to the Radical State Conven?
tion to meet in Columbia, pretty mach
the same discord prevailed.
The meeting reaulted in the appoint?
ment of Y. J. P. Owens, Joseph Crews,
David Leahy aod Pratt Sober, (the lat?
ter colored,) as delegates to the aforesaid
Oonveution, which meets on the 21st in?
stant.-Laurensville Herald.
AN UNS?MPATHETIC AUDIENCE.-That
was an un plea unit audience which Gen.
Beverage addressed at the Grant meet?
ing in Chicago recently. Ex-Gov. Oglec
by had previously fought the war all
over again, and the audience had be?
come a little restive. Consequently,
when the general began the fight again,
au impatient man cried out, with muon
bitterness, "Damn the wari" Some?
what discomfited, the general sidled off
into an attack upon Mr. Greeley, and
here an emphatio "Dry up!" caused him
to tack again. That tremendous argu?
ment against Mr. Greeley-bis censure
of the Democrats-next received atten?
tion; but scarcely bad the valiant orator
got well under way when his eloquence
received a sudden and effectual oheok in
the calm assurance, "We can stand it,"
whioh a olear voice sent up from the
crowd. The laughter which followed
was too much for the orator, and he ab?
ruptly retired.
The lower classes in Japan are afraid
of the telegraph. They cannot alto?
gether see "how the old thing works,"
and they are simple enough to think
that it is the device of the devil, and
that tho wires are coated with the blood
of young women, and that the census
now being taken for the sole purpose of
finding out the number of available Ja?
panese maidens whose blood will do for
telegraphic purposes. The idea is a cu?
rious one, and it is strange that the Ja?
panese should uot understand the expla?
nation.