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Foreign Affaira.
LONDON, August 22.-Deo pa tc bea from
(Belfast, last ovoniug, report the condi?
tion of the oity as somewhat better tbac
-daring the day. The encounters be?
tween the citizens had oeased, but mobs
.of desperadoes were still engaged io
wrecking.
LONDON. August 22.-Messrs. Glad?
stones & Go., large East India and China
merohants, heretofore in first-rate stand?
ing, have failed. Their liabilities are
.?2,000,000. The firm ?B represented in
the directory of tho Bank of England
and other banking institutions. The
failure flattens the market for consola.
American Mattera.
MEMPHIS, August 22.-S. O.P. Lamar
has been nominated for Congress by the
Conservatives of the First Mississippi
District.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, Angnst 22.-The
delegates of the Labor Beform party met
yesterday. Resolutions were adopted,
declaring it inexpedient to nominate
-candidates, and leaving members of the
party free to vote as they choose.
BOSTON, August 22.-A thinly-attend?
ed State Labor Reform Convention was
held yesterday, in South Framingham.
No nominations.
MONTR?AL, August 22.-Referring to
organizations in aid of Coba, tho Go?
vernor-General issues a proclamation
against infringement of tho neutrality
laws.
NASHVILLE, August 22.-Ex-Senatoi
Fowler has been nomiuated by the Libe?
ral electors.
NEW YORK, August 22.-Tho SpaniaL
frigate Numancia has been condemned
by the health officers as a plague-ship
Fumigation is useless, and new oases o:
malignant disease break out daily. Ap
plications of her commander for diven
to clean her bottom and for coal hav<
-been denied.
An engraver, named Cunningham
has been arrested here, charged witl
.manufacturing bogus warrants of Mis
? fiissippi, of which it is said $50,000 havi
been paid at tho Auditor's office of tba
.State.
The recent collapse of the wheat cor
ner at Chicago does not affect partie
hero, as the dealers at the New Yorl
Produce Exchange held aloof from it.
DES MOINES, IOWA, August 22.-Tb
Republican State Convention nominate!
.J. T. Young for Secretary of State and i
full State ticket.
CHICAGO, August 22.-The wheat cor
ner is more disastrous than at first re
ported. Tho total loss ?B over $2,000,OOC
BALTIMORE, August 22.-John Ritchi
(Democrat) bas boen renominated fo
Congress from the Sixth Maryland Di;
triat.
PHILADELPHIA, August 22.-The Stat
Labor Reform Convention held a seore
session. It is understood they favo
O'Conor and Saulsbnry for Pr?sid?e
and Vice-President, and will Bend deb
gates to Louisville.
SARATOQA, August 22.-The first rac
to-day was a free handicap, for a purse c
$500, for all ages, one mile. It was wo
by Elsie; Ortolan second, and Echo ba
third; time, 1.46)?. The second rac
-waa a handicap, for a purtle of $500, fe
two-year olds, one mile. This race wt
?won by McDaniel's Katy Pease, wh
beat Merodoo a couple of lengths easib
in 1.50}4't Minnie third. The third rai
was a sweep stakes for three-year old
-3100 entrance. It was won by Hubba)
easily, by a dozen lengths; Nevada s
.cond. Buokden third; time, 3.53.
NEW YORK, August 22-Evening.-Tl
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows met agai
this morning. A resolution to comp
subordinates to pay one dollar per we?
was lost. It was resolved not to a;
point a Grand Inatrnotor. At the afte
moon session, a long debate was had c
the question of assessing eaoh memb
twenty cents, but no decision w
reached. The Grand Lodge will finit
its labors to-day.
The Walter Soott monument, to 1
?rooted by the Sootoh residents of tl
city in Central Park, is expected in
few days from Edinburgh, where it h
been modeled after the original Soc
' statue in Grosvenor Square.
A five-mile rowing match, for $500
sido, has been arranged between Jo!
Biglon and Ellis Ward, to take pla
September 19.
Probabilities-Northerly to Westei
winds and olear and dearing weather i
the New England and Middle States
Friday. Partly oloudy weather a
f?roos of rain for the South Atlan
coasts. Clear weather from Lonisia
to Alabama, and thenoe Northward
Ohio and lower Miohigan. Easterly
Southerly winds aud falling barome
from Kansas and Missouri to Lake Suj
rior. The afternoon telegraphio repo
have not been reoeived from the static
from Northern New England, Oanat
along Lakes Miohigan and Superior a
Minnesota.
ST. Louis, Au ga 81 22.-The Libe
and Democratic Conventions, both
which have been in session at Jeffers
City, have been endeavoring to agree
a division of offices on the State tiok
Some differences arising, committees
conferenoe will meet this evening, w
a view to settlements. It ia said at?
twenty-five straight-oats will ?end dc
gates to Louisville.
BOOHBSTSB, N. Y., A agu et 22.-Q
Union, this afternoon, authoritativ
says Chief Justino Charon, is oonstraii
to decline the nomination ot Gover
by the Demooratio State Convention.
Financial and Commercial.
LONDON, August 22-Noon.-Com
opened at 92% for both olasses of boc
62a 92%.
LIVERPOOL, August 22-3 P. M.-(
ton opened firm-uplands 9%@10;
loans 10K.
LONDON, August 22-Evening.-C
sols olosed at 92%, 62s 92
LIVERPOOL, August 22-Evenini
Cotton olosed unchanged.'
NEW YORK, August 22-Noon.-Ste
steady. Gold steady, at 14. Mo
easy, at 1 Exchange-long 8%; si
9%. Governments very heavy. State
bonds quiet. Cotton firm; sales 2,211
bales-uplands 2a; Orleans 22>?. Flour,
oorn and wheat doll and declining. Pork
quiet-mess 14.00. Lard steady-steam
8>?@9i?. Freights firm.
7 P. M.-Cotton firm; sales 3,252
bales-22 for middling uplands; 22}? for
Orleans. Southern flour quiet and un?
changed. Whiskey 92>?. Wheat 1<@
2o. better-winter red Western 1.49@
1.53. Per steamer, Western mixed corn
60. Pork 14.10@14.25. Lard un?
changed. Freights declining. Sales of
futures to-day 1,500 bales, ns follows:
August 20%@20 11-16; September
206-16@29 7-16; October 19 7-16@19}?;
November 18%(3)18 15-16; December
18^8? January Money firmer,
with an advance in rutes of interest early
in the day; call loans were dono at 4@5,
but towards tho dose there was an ad
vnnoo to 7. Commercial paper which
sold at 6>a@7 per cent, a few weeks
since, is now quoted at 7j?@9. Es?
chango 8??. Gold 13?.?@13?8. Loans
opened at 1-32(^1-65 for uso, nud the
latter was from 1(2?5 for carrying. 81s
17; 62s 15)?; 61s 15^'; G5s 15J?; now
14)^; 10-403 12>i. States steady but
dull. Tonno8see8 73?4; now 73??. Vir?
ginias 45; new 50; consols 50,'J; deferred
15. Louisianas 45; new 45; levee OH (JO;
8s 70. Alabama 8i 82; 5s 70. Georgia
63 70; 7s 87. North Caroliuas 33J.?; now
20; special tax 13. South Carolinas 50;
new 27; April and October 25.
BALTIMORE, August 22.-Cotton firm
-middling 21%; sales 75 bales; stock
910.
CINCINNATI, August 22.-Pork in light
demund-city 14.00. Lard firm-kettle I
9%. Bacon-shoulders 7%) clear sides
ll. Whiskey steady, ut 89.
LOUISVILLE, August 22.-Corn-ohoico
shelled and sacked white 58; mixed 50.
Provisions aotive and firm. Shoulders
8; clear sides ll. Lard 9}S?10}4.
WILMINGTON, August 22.-Cotton quiet
-middling 201 .< ; sales 2 bales; stock 220.
AUGUSTA, August 22.-Cotton quiet
middling 19; sales 27 bales.
Pmii ADELPHI A, August 22.-Cotton
firm-middling 22.
GALVESTON, August 22-Cotton quiet
-good ordinary 17@17);i; receipts 145
bales; s took 2,194.
NEW ORLEANS, August 22.-Cotton
dull and nominal-low middling 19Jg@
19'ii ; receipts 52 bales; eales 190; stock
6,541.
NORFOLK, August 22.-Cotton quiet
low middling 20; stock 302 halos.
CHARLESTON, August 22.-Cotton firm
?-middling 19^@19*^; receipts 2 bales;
sales 25; stock 3,619.
SAVANNAH, August 22.-Cotton better;
offerings light-middling 19?? ; receipts
12 bales; sales 50; stock 629.
UNITED STATER COURT.-The Court is]
still engaged in tho trial of cases of vio?
lation of the internal revenue laws. The
following sentences have beon passed:
Simpson Floyd, guilty as retail liquor !
dealer without puying special tax; sen
tenoed to six months' imprisonment and
81,000 fine.
Perry Nash, guilty of same; six
months' imprisonment and 81,000 fine.
Gabriel Anderson, guilty as omployee
in distillery and not paying special tux;
sentenced to two mouths' imprisonment.
Wm. Hamilton, embezzling a letter;
prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sen?
tenced to two years' imprisonment.
Joel Hughes, retail liquor denier, with?
out paying special tax; six months' im?
prisonment and $1,000 fine.
Johu D. Lamford, distilling without;
paying speoial tax; six months' impri?
sonment and Si,000 fine.
James Hill, violation of internal reve?
nue laws as distiller, convicted at August
term, 1871; imprisoned until October 1.
Charles White, retail liquor dealer,
without paying special tax; six months'
imprisonment in Spartauburg jail, and
to pay a fine of $1,000.
Calvin Turner, distiller without pay?
ing special tax; fined 8500 and impri?
soned until fine be paid, and forfeit the
still.
The Marshal having reported that the
prisoners of the United States confined
in the Greenville jail were in need of
blankets, on motion of tho District At?
torney, it was ordered that the Marshal
furnish twelve blankets to the prisoner?.
[Greenville Enterprise.
WHAT IT COST TO PREVENT SCOTT'S
IMPEACHMENT.-A Charleston (S. C.)
correspondent of the New York World
writes: Among the expenses of the
House, which Mr. Corbin estimates at
81,000,000 for the last session of the
South Carolina Legislature, are the
amounts paid to defeat Scott's impeach?
ment, which foot up, according to
Speaker Mosoa' admission, 3203,000.
8140,000 it cost to buy the members of
the House, and $63,000 were paid to
lobby-men and stool-pigeons. It is also
claimed that 883,000 were drawn for this
i purpose from the amount appropriated
to support an armed foroe-a foroe in?
tended to over-awe the Ka Klux, but
I which never was organized, though the
money appropriated, $112,000, was ex?
pended. Of this I am oonvinoed by un
< deniable proofs. When Treasurer Par?
ker was informed in his office that arti?
cles of impeachment would be presented
in the House concerning Scott, he ex
olaimed, "The Governor shan't be im?
peached 1" and he wasn't, and the above
exhibit tells ns why.
The foregoing statements were scarce?
ly needed to oonvince tho country of the
utter un worthiness of the present State
administration, for the system of brib?
ing, by which it controlled the Legisla?
ture to carry out its corrupt schemes, to
fill its private coffers, was far too patent
and flagrant to require proof.
mt?
AN OCOUBRENOE.-A minister said to
us that he once preached a very peculiar
sermon-soothing, stirring and satisfy?
ing. It was so soothing, that half the
congregation went to sleep; so strong,
that the remainder left before ho had
finished; and so satisfying, that none of
them came to hear him preach again.
REV. DR. THORNWELTJ-SOUTHERN AU?
THORSHIP AND FOREIGN BBVTEWS.-It
does not often occur in the quiet life of
a devont minister of the Gospel, intent1
only upon doing good, that one whose
feelings revolted at everj appeal to the
sensational Bhould, hy the power of a
holy life, and the serene light of a hea?
ven-given genius, draw to himself the
eyes and the heurts of men, as did the
remarkable being whose name heads this
artiole.
There are those in Memphis, some
outside of that particular church with
which he was connected, that remember
the gifted preacher and profound think?
er, to whom John G. Calhoun and Geo.
Bancroft paid such tributes of respect
and admiration. There are those still
living who were present at a dinner in
the house of Hon. W. F. DeSaussure, of
South Caroliua, when tho distinguished
historian of the United States held au
enthusiastic colloquy with the learned
divine upon tho Greek historians, and
remember the look of delighted admira?
tion upon tho fuco of Mr. Bancroft
while tho Doctor recited, impromptu,
splendid passages from Thucydides, in
tho original Greek. Hts attainments in
metaphysical philosophy wore probably
equaled by no mau of this age, save the
late Sir William Hamilton, extending to
a thorough hud familiar acquuintanco
with Plato and Aristotle in their nativo
I speech, to thu subtle discussions of me?
dieval schools, and to tho speculations
of Locke's disciples and their outugo
uists iu Suotlaud, Franco aud Germany.
His mastery of logic, as taught by all
tho ancient and modern masters, was as
minute as if that science alone had
claimed bis attention. Speculative the?
ology, as discussed by Humanist and
Protestant, Pateists, Calvinists, tVrmeui
ans, Sociuians, or Rationalists, was so
familiar to his universal mind, that you
could not name au author with whom bo
wus not acquainted. While bis wonder?
ful memory retained Milton's Paradise
Lost, and Shukepeare's chief dramas, so
perfectly that he was able, he said, to
recite, lino by line and scene by scone,
what he had learned in early life to give
him thorough command of the English
language.
It is to bc regretted that doatb cut off j
this splendid intellect in mid-career, and
before it bad shaped a fair proportion of
its rich treasures into form for transmis?
sion to posterity. But ho left behind
him enough to fill ns with mingled grati?
tude and regret. These memorials of
ono of America's most gifted sons are
beiug gathered by Dre. Adger, of South
Caroliua, aud Palmer, of New Orleans,
into volumes bearing tho title, "The
"Collected Writings of James Henley
Thornwell, D. D., LL D.t lato Professor |
of Theology, ?Sec., ito."
We have on our table critical notices
from the Loudon Weekly Review aud tho
Reformed Presbyterian Witness, of Soot
laud, which speak words of discerning
praise concerning these two volumes
the most complete and elegant, suyo one
of these foreign reviewers, that have
como from au American press. And tho
call is made for a British edition.
I Memphis Appeal,
CUT THIS OUT FOR REFERENCE.-Tho
elections to bo held during the present
j year aro as follows: New Mexico, Sep?
tember 1; California, Septembor 2; Ver?
mont, September 3; Maine, September
LJ; Colorado, September 10; Dakota, In?
diana, Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsyl?
vania, October S; South Carolina, Octo?
ber 15; West Virginia, October 24; Ala?
bama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida,
Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ne?
vada, New Jersey, New York, Tennes?
see, Virginia, Wisconsin, November 5;
Arizona, November 8; District of Colum?
bia, November 27.
Presidential electors will be ohoson in
all the States November 5.
The following is the electoral vote of
tho eoveral States, being equal to their
representation in both houses of Con?
gress:
New ?ork, 35; Pennsylvania, 29; Ohio,
122; Illinois, 21; Indiana, 15; Missouri,
15; Massachusetts, 13; Kentnoky, 12;]
i Tennessee, 12; Virginia, ll?; Georgia, ll;
j Iowa, ll; Michigan, ll; Alabama, 10;
North Carolina, 10; Wisconsin, 10; New
I Jersey, 9; Mississippi, 8; Louisiana, 8;
Maryland, 8; Texas, 8; South Carolina,
17; Maine, 7; Arkansas, G; California, 6; I
Connecticut, 6; Vermont, 5; Kansas, 5;
Minnesota, 5; New Hampsniro, 5; Wost
Virginia, 5; Rhode Island, 4; Florida, 4;
Nebraska, 3; Nevada, 3; Oregon. 3; De?
laware, 3. Total, 37 States-3G6 votes.
Two MonE FIENDISH OUTRAGES.
Again we are called upon to record two
more cases in whioh black fiends violated
the persons of respectable white females
a few days ago. One case happened in
the adjoining County of Jackson, where
two blaok fiends seized their victim, .and
after accomplishing their hellish purpose,
j effeotod their escape. The other case
oconrred in Hall County. Two devils
were concerned in it, and it is rumored
they have been captured.
This thing is becoming too frequent.
It must be stopped. A nnmbor of oases
have occurred in Jackson County within
the past twelve months. Cannot these
devils be brought to punishment?
[Athens Watchman.
Gov. PERRY FOR CONGRESS.-We|
learn from the Union Times that the
people of Laurens intend bringing nut
Gov. Perry for Congress, in opposition
to Hon. A. S. Wallace, thu R ?publican
incumbent. The Greenville meeting
have already made a nomi nation of Col.
E. P. Jones for that position. Gov.
Perry's distingniRcd services and abili?
ties would make him especially accepta?
ble to tho Conservatives of the Congres?
sional District, and would boa represent?
ativo whom they would delight to honor,
j and would give him a unit support, if
nominated by the Congressional Nomi?
nating Convention.
[Greenville Enterprise.
SOUTH CAROLINA FINANCES AND CAR
PET-MAU RULE.-Of all tho revolutions,
political, social and financial, in this
country and iu the several States since
the war commenced, that in the condi?
tion and finances of South Carolina is
the most astonishing and deplorable.
Whatever were the faults of that State
anterior to the war, and however mach
her secession proclivities and conduct
may be condemned, ehe was undoubted?
ly HS honorable in her finuucial character
and reputation as any couutry in the
world. Her credit always stood high,
and ?ho was moro freo from extrava?
gance and corruption thuu almost nny
State in the Union. But look at South
Carolinanow, under carpet-bag and negro
rulu. The wretches who have control of
tho Qovernment and finances have plun?
dered the people in the most frightful
mauner, and have ruined the credit of
the Stato. The letter of oar correspond?
ent at Columbia, published yesterday,
shows a stato of things utmost incredi?
ble, and that has no parallel in infamy in
tho history of this country. And this is
the fruit of thu Radicalism of tho Re?
publican party aud a Republican admi?
nistration. With all its resources and |
tho honorable character of the native
whito populatiou, tho Statu has been
brought, within three or four years, to
the verge of bankruptcy. Besides piling
ap a vast und uunecessary debt iu legal
form, the carpet-bag rascals have made
a fraudulent issue of some $7,01)0,000 in
bouda. Uuder tho pretence of convert?
ing tho bonded debt of thu State,
th rough un Act passed for that purpose,
$7,20J,000 couversiou bouda were issued,
and thou these bouds were hypothecated
at a ruinous interest to raise money for
other purposes-to meet, in fact, tho ex?
travagance aud avaricious greed of car?
pet-bag officials. By this fraudulent use
of the conversion bouds and the ruinous
interest paid for tho money borrowod on
them, the debt of the State, which Go?
vernor Scott said was $9,000,000, was
run up to neatly $10,000,000. Such un?
paralleled rascality could not be endured
in any of tho Northern States, and is
only possible in South Carolina through
the support given to carpet-bag Radical?
ism there by the Republicau party aud
Government at Washington.
fNeu) York Herald.
AN IMPORTANT LAW CASE.-Ia our
notice, on Saturday, of tho motion be?
fore Judge Melton, ut Columbia, in tho
case of V. J. Tobias et u.c et al., vs. L. H.
Piokens, executrix, et ai, (saya the
Charleston Courier, of the 19th,) we
failod to say that the great question of
tho discussion was the validity of a
judgment confessed in bia life-time by
tho lato Gov. Bickens, for money derived
from the separate estate of | his wife.
Upon that questiou. Judge Moiton inti?
mated au impression favorable to the
judgment, though carefully withholding
au opiuiou that would commit him, be?
cause this was not a hearing on tho me?
rits. Tho questiou, as it comes up iu
this case, is eutirely new iu tho courts of
this State, though it has arises and beeu
adjudged ia Englaud by Lord Hard?
wick, and ia thu United States Court by
Judge Story.
Tue argument of Mr. Yontuans was
spoken of in tho highest praise for tho?
roughness of preparation, being exceed?
ingly interesting aud exhaustive of the
subject. At the close bo received the
freely spoken commendation of tho
bench and the bnr, including the oppos?
ing counsel, who did not hesitate to
admit its great force and almost conclu?
siveness. They conceded that the pro?
perty, while it remained in its original
form, namely, a bracelot or necklace of
diamonds, was, under the testimony pro?
duced, the wife's separate estate, but
they contended that when she herself
converted it into money, and delivered
the money to her husband, and he re?
ceived it as a loan-but before doing so,
executed his deed to seonro the same to
a trustee for her, and delivered it on re?
ceiving the money-then his marital
rights attached and the separate estate
was lost.
Mr. Yoemans is about to remove to
Columbia, where all who know his amia?
ble personal qualities, and have felt the
wonderful fulness of hts professional
preparation and knowledge, will wish
and expect for him a prtsperous profes?
sional career.
HEBE IS A CHANCE FOI; A GRANT MAN.
For some time past a notice bas been
published doily in the New York News,
to the efieot that $10,000 was deposited
at that office to wager Horace Greeley
will bo elected President of tho United
States at tho next eleotion. It is said
that this money is offered by Mr. Ben.
Wood, a gentleman who generally bets
to win. The Grunt organs recently
raised a bluster over the rumor that Gen.
Hillyer bad taken tho above bet; and
farther, that the over-sanguine General
was anxious to risk a house and lok in
Harlem on the re-election of Ulysses the
Nepotist. Nr. N. S. Morse, the gentle?
man who holds the 810,000 at the Newe
.office, says that the assertion that the
bet had been taken by Gen. Hillyer was
all Grant blaster. No Grantito has yet
'shown snfiloient nerve and money to
1 oover the bet.
EXPENSES OF PRESIDENTS.-The New
York World finds the following differ
enoo in the expenditures of the two Pre?
sidents, Grant and Johnson: "Andrew
Johnson, for 1867-8, used 886,76?.l0 for
beeping tho Executive Mansion ia repair
and furniture, lighting the Capitol, find?
ing fuel and other necessaries. Grant,
through Botitwell, has sent in to Con?
gress the modest little bill of 8170,500,
to pay for tho expenses of bis mansion
for 1872 o. Grant's expenses would, uo
doubt, be still more astonishing were we
to compare them with thoso of the Pre?
sidents beyond Johnson's time. What
use has the American people for such a
bauble as Grant? Ho is un investment
without profit, aud the sooner wo get rid
of him und his relatives tho botter for
the Treasury and everything else."
THREE CHEERS FOR FLORIDA.-Oar
readers bavo seen with what cordiality
the two Conventions. Conservative end
Liberal Republicans, co-operated in the
gallant little State of Florida. Snob
unanimity of action is an angary and an
assurance of triumph. Too much praise
cannot be awarded to our new allies, the
Liberals, for tbe disinterested and manly
way in which they sacrificed all 'Selfish
consid?rations, and merged tbem in the
common good and the triumph of the
cause. Their conduct is worthy of all
praise and of imitation elsewhere. If
the combined forces who are preparing
oohorts to march against the Grant army
of spoilsmen come up to their work in
this spirit, our triumph will be an as
Bured aud an easy one. The enemy
oounts upon our divisions as his chief
hope of resieting us, and a few such in?
stances of postponement of self to the
cause, will dishearten bim as much as it
will inspirit our friends. Three cheers
for little Florida, who has set so good an
example. It must ensure her delivery
from tho yoke under which she bas
groaned so long.-Savannalt Republican.
GREELEY'S MISSION.-"The mission of
Horace Greeley is to blot out tho name
of robel from tho books of the land."
Thus spoke Senator Trumbull to a
Northern constituency a few days since,
and thu sentiment met with a fervid re?
sponse from the hearts of those who
support Mr. Greeley for tho Presidency.
It is because tho people of tho South
believo that the mission of Greeley is
"peaco" that they give him their earnest
support; and when a lending and conspi?
cuous loader of the Liberal Republicans,
and a supporter of Greeley, gives public
expression to such sentiments as we
have just quoted, tho Southern pcoplo
tako now courage in the conflict which
lies before them. We have Butlered un?
der the government of hate for more
than seven years; wo now givo oar sup?
port to a man who comes to us with
words of conciliation and peace-who
asks us to clasp hands with the North
over the bloody chasm made by the war,
and let "the name of robel be forevor
blotted from the books of the land."
They oall this a land of libertyl Ol
dark, bloody and inexplicable mystery!
And at the same time they permit us to
behold tho humiliating spectacle of two
distinguished gentlemen, Col. Mace and
Maj. O'Baldwin-gentlemen of great
learning and piety-arrested three times
in tho city of Baltimore for no othor
crimo than that of signifying a desire to
step over into Virginia and mash each
other's smeller, deliver a sockdolager in
each other's potato-trap, or plant a pro
monition of tho cholera morbus on the
exterior of eaoh other's bread-basket.
And this beneath tho flag of the free
fist's only hom?'! In tho memorable
words of Madam O'Mulligan, on her way
to the calabose, "O, law, what rascally
outrages are perpetrated in thy name!"
Two or three amendments to the Consti?
tution of the United States, covering
such cases as this, are the thing we want
now.-Louise Hie Courier-Journal.
THE PERSONAL BEAUTY, OF TUE WOOD
CHOPPBR.-Miss Edmonia Lewis, tho
colored sculptor, writes to the Boston
Post a lotter eulogizing Mr. Groeloy,
whom her artist-eye tells is handsome.
Sbe says: "It is of the utmost import?
ance that our noxt President should bo a
handsome man. We have, Heaven
knows, made the most lamentable fail?
ures in this respeot for some years back.
Mr. Greeley is emphatically a handsome
man; bis complexion even is in itself a
study, the beauty of which ?B doubtless
caused by his good blood, pure life, and
excellent habits. Physically I think
him one of thu finest Americans I have
I ever aeon."
A rapid and economical method for
the artificial production of ice has lately
been brought to tbe attention of the
Paris Academy of Soiences. The pro?
cess consists in the evaporation of ether
in a ourrent of air, whioh passes on
through a layer of coko or pumicestone,
constantly saturated with sulphuric acid.
The vapors are condensed by the action
of the machino itself, and the ether is
afterward regained by distillation. The
oost of running is chiefly for coal to carry
on the distilling procesa; and it is stated
that a ponnd of coal is sufficient to pro?
duce from twenty-five to thirty pounds
of ice.
THE COLORED TROOPS.-From the
West Indies, we have a report of the fire
ravages which were committed in King-1
sion, Jamaica, in the early days of the
present month, and of the scenes whioh
were eaaoted dnriog the efforts whioh
were made for the suppression of the
conflagration and afterwards. The men
of several colored regiments were called
out for duty, and they got drunk, after
breaking into a neighboring liqnor store,
became frenzied by the general excite?
ment, and subsequently "ran a muck,"
bayonet in hand, killing a woman and
wounding several other citizens.
Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renew?
er now stands among the first, and at the
head of all artioles for a similar purpose.
The testimony of oar pbysioians is con?
clusivo as to its value; and we are per?
sonally acquainted with soores of oases
where it hos been nsed with the beet of
results. It will restore grey hair to it?
original oolor, and leaves it glossy and
in a healthy oondition; while, for heads
troubled with dandruff, or any disease of
the scalp, it acts like a oharm in cleans?
ing them. Try it, and you will not bo
disappointed.
[Lowell Courier, May 2, 1868.
DEATHS.-Mrs. Rebecca Kirkland, re?
siding in tho Soutborn part of tho Coun?
ty, died a few days ago. We are not yet
in possession of the particulars.
Miss Mary D. Baoot, formerly of
Charleston, but lately a resident of our
town, departed this life Monday last,
Sho had been a sufferer a long time from
lung disease.- Winnsboro News.
THE NABROW GAUGE RA ILK O AD.-We
are glad to learn, through ? letter re?
ceived by the oommiasionei s of tho Nar?
row Gauge Railroad Company, at this
plaee, that a meeting of the stockholders
will bo held at Lincolntou, N. C., ou
Tuesday next, 27th instant. The object
of the meeting is to elect a President
and Board of Directors, and make such
other arrangements as may be necessary
to get this important enterprise under
way at the earliest day practicable.
I Ybrkville Enquirer.
ANOTHER CHANCE.-A lonely pioneer
writes as follows from La Coma, Wyo?
ming: "I sincerely wish that many hun?
dreds of old maids and widows, who
cannot get husbands at home, would
come out here, where they could speedily
get a choice of good, honest, hard-work?
ing men, who could make them comfort?
able and independent. There are, I
really think, five men hero for ono wo?
man."
A Londou letter-writer bays that Bul?
wer, who is- now nearly seventy years
old, lives in almost complete retirement,
aud is no longer a showy man of the
world. He Btoops, is exceedingly deaf,
and has altogether a strange look of an?
tiquity. His only son, "Owen Mere?
dith." now a middle-aged mau, is iu the
diplomatie service.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.-On tho 12th
instant, two men, named Windon and
Ciendenin, were waiting at West Colum?
bia, Mason County, West Virginia, for a
steamer to arrive. A storm came up
suddenly, and they ran up a hill to get
shelter from some trees. About half way
up, both were killed by lightning. The
bodies were terribly disfigured.
BOCTWELL A FAILURE.-The New York
Herald concludes an elaborate review of
the condition of our national finances
with these words: "The troth is, our na?
tional finances have been badly managed,
and the financial policy of the Adminis?
tration, or rather of Mr. Boutwell, is a
failure."
The Winnsboro News suggests that the
citizens of the Fourth Congressional
District opposed to there-election of A.
S. Wallace, meet in convention, through
their delegates, in Columbia, on the first
Tuesday of September next, to put iu
nomination a candidate to represent the
district in the next Congress.
A colored woman in Raleigh, while
handling a kerosene lamp, accidentally
turned it over on her dress, when the
lamp exploded, setting fire to her cloth?
ing, from the effects of which she soon
died. At the time of tho accident, her
husband was lying a corpse in the house.
SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE.-A
notice in the Christian Advocate from
Bishop Paine, changes tho time of the
meeting of the South Carolina Confer?
ence from the 18th to the 12th of De?
cember, 1872. The Conference meets at
Anderson C. H.
A Nashville paper says there was
never before such a glorious crop of
"pairs" in that city as there bas been
this season. Nearly every frontgate is
loaded down with them on pleasant
evenings.
A despatch to the New York World,
from Easton, Pennsylvania, states that
the Radicals have determined to expend
?5,000,000 to carry the State election.
Of this amount Simon Cameron planks
np no less than 31,000,000.
COSTLY LENS.-A microscopic lens was
recently made in London, at a cost of
?250 from a diamond. The magnifying
power of the lens is an increase over that
of glass in the proportion of eight to
three.
Tho Charlotte (N. C.) Observer says it
is rumored that Gen. D. H. Hill and
Gen. John C. Breckenridge contemplate
reviving the military school at that
place.
Coal is at so high a price in England
now that not only are old workings to
be re-opened, bnt fresh borings are to be
made in vurious parts of the country ia
search of coal.
The editor of tho Madison Progress
has a recipe for getting rid of bed-bugs.
He sends beds and bugs to the auction?
eer, who at once transfers them to the
highest bidder.
A photographic marriage certificate is
the latest novelty. It is provided with
receptacles for the photographs of the
bride and bridegroom, and officiating
clergymen or officers of the tlaw.
The negro murderer who committed
inoh a horrible outrage near Memphis,
on Friday night, has not yet been heard
from. Neither can Capt. Pott find any
trace of his three little ohildren.
The New York Hay Dook, whioh form
erly supported - the straight out Demo?
cratic movement, has oome out for Gree?
ley and Brown.
The way they muzzle dogs in most of .
the Western towns is by placing the
muzzle behind the ear and pulling the
trigger.
Both the men who were stabbed ia
New York, Monday, while attempting to
protect a woman, have since died.
The Turkish ladies are said to ba dis?
carding the close veil and adopting Pa*
risiau fashions.
The scholars in Lawrence, Kansas, are
smarting nnder the instruction of a Mr.
Mustard.
A boy with two tongues is astonishing
the people of Newport, Indiana. He
should have been a girl.
Gov. Caldwell, of North Carolina, got
only 16 out of 221 white votes in his
own township. _
Palmetto Lodge, Ho. 5, X. 0.0. F.
iimia^Mi THE regular meet
jffi^WJWSflwl Sacing of thia Lodge will
^SeaO&taBBPVS?S'bo held in Maeonic
Hall. THIS (Friday) EVENING, at 8 o'clook.
By order of tho N. G. I. S?LZ ll AC HEH,
Aug 031_Secretary.
' . K Cow for Sale.
A GOOD MILKER, with a lino
heifer CALF. Apply at PIILEMX
office. Aug 23
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