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\ COLUMBIA. S. C. Tuesday J4ormns. August 20, 1872. For Pr?sidant of the United States. HORACE (JIHBBLET. of NIH York. For vice-President ?. GRATZ BIIOWJ?, of Itlluoarl. The Convention. The Republican State Nominating Convention meets in thia city to-morrow, for the purpose of selecting candidates for general State officers nnd for Con gress from the State at large. As to the in eui be. rd of Cougrees, the white people of tho Stute feel but little interest. It is not, iudeed, very agreeable to feel that South Carolina is represented in the General Government by disreputable characters, or by mun distinguished for their ignorance and stupidity, as some of our membera of Congress from South Carolina have been. But the South Carolina delegation to Congress form but u very insignificant portion of that body, end can effect no great harm, how? ever corrupt or ovil-dispoaed they may be. The State Government is quite nn .other matter. It affects directly every interest and uvery citizen in the State. Accordingly, as it is wisely or un? wisely, honestly or corruptly, fairly or unjustly, administered, will result the welfare or the ruin of the State. In the State election, therefore, the "white people are deeply concerned. ?For ?iis reason, und inasmuch as it has - been very generally agreed that the whites will place no opposition candi? dates in the field, but will support the Republican nominees, provided only Ahey be honest and capable men, we ? ahaH rpre.sumo to give a word of advice . tovtbe Convention. A large majority of tf&6 delegates will be colored men. To them, and to such white delegates, if any there be, who are really Republicans, and have a sincere desire to serve their country, we would speak. The Government of Booth Carolina 'Stands to-day "a disgraos to civilization" and a monument of shame to the Re? publican party. The important inquiry ia, who is to blame for this state of af? fairs? Wo do not cure to seek for the grand primary cause, which will be found in the policy of hate pursued by the Administration at Washington to? ward the South since the war. But, as matters now stand, who are re? sponsible for the corruption and profli? gacy of our State administration? and who are they who have raised the gaunt spectre of ruin which now stands staring ns in the face? Are Scott and Parker and the financial ring the monsters who have perpetrated such foul wrongs? Are Moses and the corrupt Legislature, and the other bribe-taking officials, tho causes of the humiliation which is upon ns and the grave perils that environ us? Un? doubtedly they are, to a great extent. Without them, or auch bad men as they are, the present state of things could not exist. They are immediately chargeable with the immense fraudulent debt which has been heaped upon the State, the cor? rupt measures which have passed the Legislature, the ruinous rates of taxa? tion, the general squandering of the public moneys, the want of publio schools, the sufferings of the lunatic asylum, and all the woes, that now beset. But who are responsible for these men, who form the power behind tho throne? By what instrumentality have these dis? reputable and dishonest men been placed in positions of power and trust? All the white Radicals in the State, if clubbed together, are not sufficient in numbers to elect even a commissioner of any County in the State of average popula? tion. The colored people make tho Govern? ment of South Carolina. Their suf? frages, and their suffrages alone, dolor mine into whose hands the dearest inte? rests of themselves and of their white iellow-citizons shall be placed. They have an overwhelming majority in the popular vote of the State. As they decide, so shall things be. Uneducated and inexperienced, it was not very surprising nor severely to be reprehended that they made grave mis? takes in their first attempts to exeroise the moral Privileges of freemen and citi? zens. Bot they cannot from this time i forward plead inexperience. For four years, they have had control of the Stats. , Two years ago, despite the moat ear eeet efforts of the white people to bring .boat a change, the colored people again elected the very same orew of swindlers ?nd jobbers aa had been despoiling and plundering the State for the two years preceding. Now another eleotion is about to take place, and it remains to be seen whether ?the colored people will a second time .endorse and sanction the villainies of the present regime. It they do, they will prove themselves totally unfit to govern themselves, and certainly ill pre? pared to tamper with tho rights and libertina ef the Anglo-Saxon taco. If they oan establish and maintain good, honest and efficient government, they at once vindicate a just claim to perfect oivil and political (quality with their fellow-citizens of the white ruce. If they cannot, bot, on the .contrary, saddle upon tho State, from year to year, a pack of thievish adventurers, whose ouly thought is how to ruiso monoy, and only object to pocket it, they will then con viuco even their warmest friends that their enfranchisement was a grievous error, if not a foul wrong. The white poople of tho State stand ready, willing and anxious to co-operate with the colored 'citizens to oorreot the crying abuses iu our midst, uud lo effect the ends of good government. They will support any decent uud honest tickot the colorod people will select. They aro waiting to eeo if that opportunity will be afforded them. THE AHMED Foxton.-Tho following ie a copy of the itemized account iu the Treasury Department, of moneys paid out and to whom, under what is culled the armed force appropriation : 1871. Nov. 21-H. G. Worthington. ?200 00 21-0. M. Wilder. 19 60 21-F. Y. Harper. 13 50 21-G. & O. R. R Co.. 22 85 21-J. C. Dial. 5 80 21-Employees Adju't. Gen's. Omeo. GOO 00 21-S. C. R. li. Co. 10 65 21-W. J. Whipper_ 48 00 21-C. L. Anderson_ 250 00 24-D. A. Jones. 16 25 27-H. G. Worthington. 200 00 Dec. 1-J. Kennedy. 100 00 5-H. G. Worthington. 200 00 20-M. W. Allen. 50 00 ? 20- C. D. Lowndes_ 50 00 21- J. B. Hubbard. 336 20 22- J. Kennedy. 200 00 1872. Jan'y 6-L. Merrill. 500 00 8-S. L. H?ge. 1,000 00 8-J. B. Hubbard. 375 00 15- T. Sullivan. 321 00 16- P. R. Rivers. 300 00 18-G. & O. R. E. Co.. 293 45 18- John Lilly. 60 00 19- W. M. Thomas.... 125 00 19-L. J. Maddock*_ 125 00 19-R. B.Elliott. 500 00 19-R. W. Cousart. 100 00 19-S. J. Keith. 100 (JO 19-R. Smalls. 500 00 23- J. B. Hubbard. 786 90 24- Employees Adju't. Gen's. Offioa. 200 00 24- F. J. Moses, Jr.. i. 6,000 00 25- R. B. Elliott. 5.000 00 29-J. Mooney. 3,000 00 31-J. A. Green. 100 00 31-E. Cain. 270 00 Feb. 1-J. B. Hubbard. 3,042 90 2-J. B. Hubbard. 850 00 2-J- B. Hubbard. 375 00 2-Employees Adju't. Oen'p. Office. 215 00 2-0. L. Anderson_ 130 00 2- F. J. Moses, Jr.... 5,000 00 3- J. Mooney. 22,545 00 3-J. Leggett. 10,600 00 5-Doo. Patton. 66 66 5-R. B. Elliott. 5,000 00 19-J. B. Hubbard_ 100 00 19-C. H. Green. 10 50 29-D. H. Wilson. 12,500 00 Total to March 1. . .882,423 35 POLXTICALI D?TTINGS.-Little Delaware still ruffles ita feathers at the mention of Greeley's name. And yet the electoral vote of little Delaware will be cast for him. Mark tho prediction. Mr. Greeley says be never wrote that letter claiming but two New England States, because he knows better than to fix such a limit. Tho question now is, which of the New Eugland States can Grant carry? The President of the Labor Reform? ers' Couveutiou has declared forGreoley, and some of ita members who don't like Greeley insist on tho holding of au ad? journed convention in Philadelphia, on the 22d instant. Why not club together and attend tho Blanton Duncan tea-party next month? There will bo plenty of room. The President has requested Acting Secretary Hunter, of the State Depart? ment, to furnish thoUnion Congressional Committee with a completo oopy of all tho scandalous reports made to tho De? partment against Cassius M. Olay, while Minister to Russia, and Gen. Kilpatrick, Minister to Chile. Tho report of the Red River expedition in relation to Gen. Banks' failure, and other personal at? tacks on what are oalled renegade Re? publicans, ara to bo furnished in rapid succession for political reading matter. Not being willing yet to retire to the abade? of private life, Hon. George H. Williams, Grant's Attorney-General, is playing his ot*rds for an election to the United States Senate. A provident old gentleman 1 Grant will not be in need of an Attorney-General next year, and Greeley will not require Mr. Williams* services in that capacity. .-? ? A new mill, just erected by Capt. Eli Parker, near the line of Kershaw and Fairfield Counties, in the vicinity of Ridgeway, was destroyed by fire o? last Saturday night. There is no reason to doubt that the fire was the work of an incendiary. Butler says Greeley's eleotion means war. If so, with him it means spoons. A Word of Warning. Mr. Greeley showell himself to bo far moro wise than a good many of. his most ardent supporters, when, in his letter of acceptance addressed to tho Demooratic Committee, he hiuted that one of the leuding causes of complaint, out of which the Liberal movement grew, was the general consciousness pervading the people that 'hero should be a cessation of exclusive legislation for tho black mau, and moro oare given to the larger interests of the white mau. Mutatis mu? tandis, the same thiug may bo said of thu conduct of the present campaign, whore so much eff jrt is made to secura the ?II oporatiou of tho uegro and tho negro'? friend, that there begin.-) to bo danger lest tho white mun should bu overlooked, and some of his support lost, iu couse qnonce. Mr. Sumuer'j lett rs wore manly, generous, opportune, und they will doubtless help tho cause of Liberal? ism both in tho North and the South. Saunders is a clover speaker, ?iud does uot lack either tact ur modesty, lint Mr. Sumner showed whut ho feared con? cerning his in tinonee with his proteges tiy tho date of his lotter, and Saunders well, Saunders did not set Halifax Cou uty on Uro. The fact of the business is, the Liburul party is a heterogeneous one, aud to succeed, munt divide the labors of its champions. Thu negro voto, tho Germuu vote, the Irish voie, the Repub? lican vote, tho Democratic vote, all dud iu tho Liberal candidate aud platform a broad point d'appui, upou which they oau unite their tomes to save the repub? lic and restore houest govern ment. Rut lot Mr. Sumner and Mr. Saunders aud others give the negroes good reasons why they should support Greeley; let Mr. Schurz aud Mr. Ottendorfer con? vince the Germans in tho same way; let Republicans fetch over Republicans, aud Democrats reusoti with Democrats. Any other policy will be fatal. Any attempt to assume thut th? supporters of Mr. Greeley, because they have uuited for a pomrnon object, huve suddenly grown to be a homogeneous now party, will bu the height of absurdity. As Mr. Jere. Black showed in his admirablo letter the other day, Democrats have grounds for sup? porting Mr. Greeley, which at e entirely outside and independent of the fact that he has been a Republican and a negro philist. Those who ask Democrats to go for Mr. Greeley upon the same grounds that Sumner asks the negroes ta go for him, huve no oonceptiou of the real issue, or aro double-dealers. There is danger in this matter, or wt would not allude to it, uud it is a daugei which tho shrewd aud unscrupulous managers for Grant long ago scented oui and ure trying to profit by. lu poiut ol fact, the Oran ti tea in the South, as soot as they found that Sumuer and Greeley were likely to go away from them, begat to hedge on the Southern negro vote. Neither Grant uor his friends have any fondness for the negro, nor couti dence in him. They know that then are three white votes in the South foi one negro vote, and thoy have been try ing for yeurs to swap off one for tin other. Tnat is the secret of the pitifu huckstering of the Administration will Longstreet, Jim Orr, Akermau, Settle Mosby, ko. That is the sole reason wir J. S. Casey remaius to this day Collecte at New Orleans. Casey tried to make ; league of the Custom House with th Democrats,that would send him to th United States Senate and squelch War mouth. Tho league failed, becanse th Louisiana Democrats had no oonlidenc iu Casey. The Grunt "hedge" fails, be cause the Southern Democrats will ha? no dealings with Grant. But we mu?t be very careful in ou attempts at bringing over the Souther uegro, to do anything that will drive th Southern white man into disgusted inai tion. Wo must not fling the cloak i apathy over his present hue enthusiast and hurculean endeavor. "Tho game i not worth the candle." The negro is th creature' of the leagues, und wo oanut win him over in a body, oven if we trioi He knows only two names, and those at "Linkum" and Grant. Collectively, h has scarcely heard of Sumner and Orei ley. And he is absolutely and entire! untrustworthy, us now constitute! Upon thie point, tho testimony of M John C. Sinuott, un eminent merchai of New Orleans, before the committee < the last Congress to investigate the pi litieal troubles in Louisiana is most aoi elusive. It is to bo found on page -ll of the printed testimony: Q. You organized a large number i colored Democratic clubs in this cit, did you not? A. Yes, sir; I helped i organize ono. Q. Tell me if they played out. ; They were tho biggest sort of Radicals ever saw. We got them together, ai fed them, and clothed them, and she them. Q. Tell me how much they cost yo A. It is incalculable. I cannot tell. Q. How many clubs were there? i I do not know; wo had one, and that w enough for me. Q. How many members did you ha in it? A. We must have had a hundre almost. Q. Did you elotbe them? A. Ye cloihed them, and fed them, and sh< them; gave them spirits once or twice week. Q. Then they went and voted the R publican ticket? A. I cxpeot every o; did. Q. From that time, the Democracy this city has dropped tho negro? Yes; you may be sure of that. [ Washington Patriot. Alexander Braid, a respectable whi man, was stabbed in tho left should? near the joint, about 1 o'olook, on tr burday, in his own house, at the corn ol Spring and President streets, Charil ton, by a negro named James Brown. Mr. Andrew Shearer, of the Ro Mills neighborhood, Anderson Counl died last Sunday night, after a brief i uess, in the eighty-third year of his aj The Administration paid 3800,000 1 Caldwell. THE THAT ro us ANO THE Tit UR MEN - Every Liberal Republican, uccordiug to tba organ? of the office-holders' party, is in so tn o way a person of bud character, whose departure from the orgumz ition is a mutter for congratulation, uud whoso support of Mr. Greeley will bo of no ser vicu. What a lot of disreputable men, then, the Republican party iu tho past must huvo hud in its chief places! Tims: Speaker of the House of Representa? tives, 37th Congress, Ga)tisha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania. Speaker of tho House of Representa? tives, 81th Congress, and Chairman Fo? reign Relations Committee since, Mutha niel I'. Bunks, of Massachusetts. Chairman nf the. Foreign Relations Committee, United States Semite, for many years, diaries Sumner, of Ma-sa ch use tts. Chairman of the Judiciary, United S tutus Senate, for many years, Lyainti Trumbull, of Illinois. Chairman of Committee on Cl.iitus, House of Representatives, ex-Governor Austin Blair, of Michigau. Chairman of the Post O iii cu Commit teo, House of Repr?sentatives, General John F. Farnsworth, of Illinois. Chairman of tho Committee on Manu? factures, United States Setiitto, ex-Guv. William Spra;?ue, of Rhode Ishtnd. Member Foreigu Relations Conmiit teo. United States Se.uute, and s.uce 1800 ono of thc most successful uud valued orators and editors of tho Repub? lican party, M>ijor-Gener:il Carl Schurz. Cliairmau Public; Lauds Committee, House of Representatives, 38th und 31)th Congresses, George W. Julian, of Indi uuu, father of the homestead bill, origi? nal aud life long Abolitionist, Nou-ta-law of Joshua R. Giddings, and one of thu fathers of the i.epublicuu party. Chairman of tue Judiciary Commit? tee, House of Representatives, 3Gth and 37th Congresses, John Htckuiau, ot Pennsylvania. Governor of Illinois aud former Com? mander of the Fourteenth Army Corp-*, Gou. Johu M. Palmer. Chief Justice of the Supreme Com t ol' the Uuited States, former Governor of Ohio, Senator und Secretary of the Treasury, Sa!mou P. Chase. Associate Justice of tho Supremo Court, one of the founders of the R i publicau party of tho West, David Davis, of Illiuois. Finally, of the fivo Frou-Soil Senators who helped organize thc Repubicuu party, ono. is for Grant, one is takiug no part iu the contest, aud thu other tbreo are for Greeley; of the Republican eleot ors in thu State of New York, in 1808, over one-half are already declared for Greeley; of the four surviving members of Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet, three ardently support tho Liberal cause. Tho people ure asked to behove all th eeo men traitors to Repnblicauiuni, of which they have been prophets, and to thu Republi? can party, which they founded and led. They aro asked to accept instead of theso traitors, us tho only true mea now, aud the rightful Republican leaders, Roscoe Conklitig.-Simou Cameron, O. P. Mor? ton, Zachariah Chandler and Matthew H. Curpeu'ir.-N. Y. Tribune. THE BRITISH. CLAIMS AGAINST US - Though considerable attention has been given to thu HU bj ec t iu a few papers, it may be doubted if thu people of the United States havo uny conception of the magnitude of what aro technically known as tho "counter claims." It will be remembered that a "mixed commis? sion" to adjudicate upon the British claims against ne wa? created by the treaty of Washington. According to semi-ollicial report, -170 cases, at least, have beeu docketed for adjudication by this commission. Many of them have grown oat of condemnations under our prizo laws during the rebellion. A well informed Washington correspondent es? timates that these British claims will average $250,000 euch-iu other words, that thc counter claims will foot tip iu round numbers $117,500.000. Reduc? ing this averages to $100,000, below which it can hardly be, the aggregate amotiul which wo would be compelled to pny to English subjects would amount to $17, 000,000. Deduct say $7,000,000 to bo received from the "Alabama claims," and wo find that the much-lauded treaty of Washington will cost thc United States $10,000,000 for this claim business alone. Wc say the treuty of Washing? ton, because- it was only by abandoning our old theory ns to neutrals and belli? gerents iu obedience to its dictation that wc hare rendered ourselves hubie for this enormous sum. This blundering treaty business ?H very likely to cost our people a nico round sum, iu addition to the disgrace already incurred, first by Grant's idiotic attempt to make political capital out of Bancroft Davis' nonsensi? cal "Gettysburg" claims, nod then by Grant's wretched truckling to the Go? vernment of Mr. Gladstone when his attempt was foiled.-New York World. W. J. Whipper publishes tho follow? ing card: I am charged with having received the insignificant sum of forty-eight dollars, and subjected to tho inquiry if I, with others, who have drawn very large amounts from that appropriation, am a member of the armed forco. I am free to assert that I have never performed any services that could be legitimately charged to the "armed force," nor h uve I any knowledge of ever receiving a bin? gle cent from that appropriation. If the amount of money charged against me as having been rooeived from that Bourse baa buen received by me at all, it has been for servicea rendered of another character, and paid out of that appro? priation without my knowledge; aud I do not believe even that. I would be very glad if tho parties who have rendered this exhibit would Btate tho time and other facts connected with the pay nient. 179 Republicans have followed tho postmaster of Woodland, Wisconsin, into tho ranks of tho Liberals. RADICAL DOINGS IN MARION.-A cor respondent of the (J hui lenton Ntxon, uu der dato of Marion, S. C., August li, says: Last night our quiet and pretty town was temporarily made a very pandemo? nium with tho yells of a crowd engaged in au orgio, called u Graut aud Wilson ratification meeting. Mr. PurviH, of Co? lumbia, spoke well, and there was a tinge of conservatism in his speech. Ile praised Mr. Greeley UH one of the chiefest of thu founders ot tho party which in? augurated and fought to a successful Liane the movement, tor abolishing sluva ry, und which fiually made those who wero in bondage fie? men in every sense of the word. Ho only claimed tho sngo had fallen in with some exceedingly bud company. He urged reform itt the State as un imperative necessity. After this speech, Senator H. E. Blayne rose and iudulged in a long, rambling und inflammatory harangue. Whenever lie was at. a loss for au idea, lie mounted the Ku Klux hobby aud rode bim vio? lently. He tried to wax eloquent, but Tailed to excite any feeling but indigna? tion lind pity. He slandered our citizens by asserting I bat Ihe only reusou wo hud no Ku Klux iu rbis County was because there was no "man bravo enough to load them!" He bragged about what he would have doue bad Ku Klux attempted to harm lum; how he wanted no soldiers, but would have called some of his gal? lant boys together, aud ba vu used gun? powder and "lightwood!" After these incendiary remarks, he, too, proclaimed thu necessity for reform, ami denounced tho doings of the Columbia ring. He did ami said everything he could dream of which would antagonize tho ruoes, aud demauded that party lines be strict? ly drawn. No vote must bo given to any but a true uud tried Republican. By the way, iu passing, he advised the ne? groes not to trade their niouey with the Jews. He said the Jews would promise to vote for their party, and would every time deceivo them. In speaking of Greeley, ho paid his hearers the doubt? ful compliment of saying they did not know whether Greeley was tho devil r?r "the Sou of God." THE CHENEY DIFFICULTIES.-The latest legal proceedings growing out of the difficulties between the RJV. Mr. Che? ney, of Chicago, uud his ecclesiastical superiors, iu consequence of bis omis? sion of the word "regenerate" from the baptismal office of the church, have ter? minated in favor of Mr. Cheney. Three members of his parish had brought au action against Mr. Cheney and the ward? ens uud vestrymeu, asking from the Circuit Court au injunction to restrain Mr. Cheney from officiating as minister of Christ Church, aud the wardens and vestrymen from applying tho property and revenues of the church to his use uud support. Tin-injunction prayed for the court has refused, on the ground that the petitioners only represented a small minority of tho members of the church, and that a separation nf tho [juster from the flock would be consider? ed by the groat majority of the parish very disastrous, both pecuniarily and spiritually. lu rendering tho decision of tho court, Judge Williams said that it must be borne in mind that the ecclesi? astical rights of a church or parish are distinct from its pecuniary rights, and it is ouly with its pecuniary rights that courts of equity in this country inter? fere, although iu Eugland chancellors have gone further, aud in connection with rights of property have investi? gated aud determiued difficult theologi? cal questions. But in England the church and State are not only connected, but the Lord Chancellor, the highest equity judge, is also one of the highest church dignitaries, and the dispenser, to u largo extent, of the church patronage. Therefore, the principles promulgated there by the courts of equity caunot be adopted here-Coyislitutionalist. - ? - THE LOUISVILLE PEACE JUUILBE.-The Committee of Invitation of tho National Peace Jubilee publish the following: To ALL LOVERS OF PEACE IN THE WORLD: Kentucky warmly uud cordially iuvites the lovers of peace sud free go? vernment throughout tho Uuion, regard? less of past differences, who now unite in a desire to perpetuate the Federal Uuiou aud good-will among the people, to gather together on the 11th and 12th of September next, at the city of Louis? ville, in tho National Peuce He-union, to co-operate in an effort to unite citizens of every raoo in such bonds of devotion and fellowship as will restore and esta? blish lasting confidence in unselfish pa? triotism in every part of our common country. Kentuoky asks each patriot throughout the land to contribute by his presence toward making the occasion memorable iu the annals of our beloved country as a Pentecost of peace and liberty. Tho invitation is signed by tho most distinguished men in the State. Two white men, Thomas Rembert and James Mahoney, got into a difficulty about 9 o'clock Saturday night, in the boarding house of a Mrs. Bresland, at the corner of Churoh and Market streets, Charleston, whioh resulted in the latter being seriously stabbed in the neck by the former. The wounded man was taken to Dr. E. H. Kellers, who dressed the wound and pronounced that the knife had narrowly missed the carotid artery. BLAND AND CHILDLIKE.-Tho Beaufort Republican says: "We see that some 'Reformers' in Charleston have nomi? nated Mr. Cardozo for Treasurer. The ease with which, by his own admissions, he was hoodwinked by Parker and Kimpton would prevent ns from advo? cating his claims for Treasurer. He is 'bland' enough, but entirely too 'child? like.' " Jos. G. W.iDuncan, Esq., one of the oldest residents of Barnwell County, died at that place on the 16th instant, of heart disease. 3Lo o a 1 Items. OITT MATTERS.-The prioe of single oopiep of the PHOENIX is ?ve cents. Mr. D. A. Joues, whoso mimo appears iu tho list of those receiving money un? der tho "armed force" resolution, re? quests us to ?tate that it should havo been published as freight expenses cn the arms shipped per Southern Express. We had shown to us yesterday a small silver coiu, of the value of eight cents, and is 118 ytars old. It bears tho im? print of King William thc Third and of the English Crown. A little girl was received at the Orphan Homo, in this city, ou Saturday lost, from-, per the Southern Express Company. The lirait spau of the Nengle bridge over the Congaree Uiver has been rained. Thc rapid r?3o in tho river has somewhat retarded tho work. Mr. I. H. Coleman received the nomi? nation for Coroner ut the Republican County Convention on Saturday last. To disguise castor oil, rub up two drops oil of cinnamon with an ounce of glycerino and add au ounce of castor oil. Children will take it as a luxury, aud ask f jr more. Preparations are making for the open? ing of the State Saving and Insurance Pank of Anderson, and in u few days the business operations of the bank will be? gin. Miss Mary Anu Buie will open her he hool in Aiken, September 2. Mr. C. F. Jackson claims that cow is thc lime to save your money. Read his a lvertisemeni, and see "how it in your? self." Wo are indebted to Mr. Robert Mc? Dougall for a late copy of the Glasgow Mail. A large box of fine clothing and other articles, for the little foundling in the Orphans' Home, have been received from its unknown parents. Competition in the coal trade is be? coming lively. Messrs. O. G. Parsley & Co., T. J. Harper and Rowland Keenan ure the competitors. The consumers are bound to make at it. Let it get lively. The Board of Health held their rega? lar meeting yesterday afternoon, but no business of importance was transacted. Quita an excitement was raised on As? sembly street yesterday afternoon, on account of a difficulty between a mer? chant and three colored men, which, at one time, threatened to be a serious af? fair, but ended in a skirmish with chairs and an awning pole. Nobody hurt. The following was the range of the Pollock House thermometer yesterday: 7 A. M., 70; 12 M.. 88; 2 P. M., 89; 7 P. M., 83. Programme of music by the band of the 18th Infantry, thia afternoon: Concordia Qaickstep-F. Goetz. . Lucia de Lammermoor-Donizetti. Musette Waltz-Samuels. Selection from Fra Diavola-Auber. Galop Over Sticks aud Stones-Faust. DEATH.-Mr. John Davis, who resided about fourteen miles below Colombia for the past fifty years or more, died at his home, on the 17th instant, in the ninety eighth year of his age.. He was thought to be the oldest inhabitant of Richland County. ARREST OF A MURDERER.-George Gor? don, a colored mau, who killed Levi Garrett, a white man, near Newberry, about six mouths ago, and broke jail, was arrested near this city, on the 19th, by Mr. C. Hamberg, assisted by H. Johnston, constable. LIBERAL MEETING.-We understand that there is to be a meeting of leading Liberal Republicans in this city this week, for the purpose of organization, and to help on the reform movement, which bids fair to unite all the opposi? tion to the present corrupt State Govern? ment. PIKKSIXIANA.-In Virginia old maids are called "belated Bisters." The best side on which to milk a cow -the outside. In charaoter, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. ? Bhip should not be held by one an? chor nor life by a single hope. A vinegar-hearted old bachelor says he always looks under the head of "mar? riages" for the news of the weak. A writer on the St. Louis Globe thinks that a man who dislikes tobacco smoke ought to be a woman. The Globe writer ought to be a woman too, perhaps, but Lo happens to be an ass. LIST o? Naw ADVERTISEMENTS. Robert K. Soott-Proclamation. O. F. Jaokaon-Save Tour Money. F. Opdebock- Hotel to Rent. O. H. Barnwell-School Not}oe. Meeting Independent Fire Company. Dr. Wm. H. Tatt-A Stubborn Faot. T. J. Harper-Coal. O. G. Parsley & Co.-Coal. P. Cantwell-Cow Feed. Cook Wanted. Wm. Kennedy-Richland House. Capital Building & Loan Association.