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Foreign Affairs.
MADRID, August 27.-The lmparlial\
newspaper says the returns thus far re?
ceived of the election for members of the
Oortes, on Saturday last, show that 170
Radicals, 64 Federals, 10 Conservatives,
4 Independents and 3 Carlista have been
chosen.
American Slatters.
ST. LOUIS, August 27.-Sixteen coal j
miners' uniooB in St. Clair County struck j
for four oents. These miues supply
St. Louis.
The terrible heat continues. Thirty
sun-strokes were reported yesterday.
P ni D A D E Li v n IA, August 27.-A call has
been issued for a convention at Harris?
burg of soldiers and sailors favoring
Greeley.
A train collided with a carriage at
Tacona, killiug Robert Deal, his two
grand-children, a young lady and the
coachman. The party were visitors from
Philadelphia.
NEW YOKE, August 27.-Dr. Vander-1
pool reports that all fear of yellow fever
is dissipated. All patients, exoopt a few
cf the orew^of the Spanish vessel Neu
manaia, have recovered.
Despatches received here this morn?
ing states that forged drafts, purporting
to have been drawn by Kountz Bros.,
bankers, of this city, have been present- j
ed to various banks throughout the coun?
try, especially at the West. Among the
forgeries was one draft for 88,200, pre?
sented to tho Real Estate Bank, at Alle?
gheny City, Pa., and one for 86,000, pre?
sented at the Third Natiocal Bank, at
Chicago. The forger's name attached
to the bogus drafts is James F. Hill.
NEWARK, August 27.-Rsv. James]
Roosvelt Bayley, tho Roman Oatholio
Bishop of the diocese of Newark, yester?
day received from Pope Pius, at Rome,
the bull announcing his appointment as I
Archbishop of Baltimore It is dated
July 30, and signed with the fisherman's
seal, the emblem of Saint Peter. Arch?
bishop Bayley will leave for his new post
ina few weeks.
MONTGOMERY. AIJA., August 27.-The
sixteenth annual State Fair will be held
at Montgomery, from the 18th to the '<
23d of November, inclusive, duriog the
session of the Legislature. The pre?
mium list offers most liberal induce?
ments to agricultural and mechanical in?
ventions And improvements. Large
preparations are beiDg made to accom?
modate exhibitors from all the States.
BALTIMORE, August 27.-Amelia |
Wheat, aged seventy-eight, was murder?
ed in her bed. Her nephew, Jesse |
Uppercue, has been arrested.
PHIXtADEIiHHXA, August 27.-At 2
o'clock, this morning, a freight train on
the Junotion Railroad, on its way to the
. city, passed over the iron bridge whioh
is built over the Reading Railroad, about I
half a mile from the Broad street inter?
section . When more than half the train
had passed over safely, the bridge broke,
and four of the freight cars, laden with
ooal oil, went down amid the debris of
the falling bridge, on to the Reading
Road. Just as they orashed together, a
coal train on the latter road rushed up,
and collided with the freight oars. Twen- j
ty or thirty in number were piled upon
the bank. The engine was completely
dismantled; and what made matters !
worso, the coal oil cars took fire, and a
general conflagration ensued, the loco?
motive and many oars being destroyed.
No one hurt.
WASHINGTON, August 27-Evening.
The President is expected to return to
Washington to-morrow.
Tho store-ship Supply arrived at New
York yesterday, forty-five days from Rio,
having on board a portion of the orew
of the flag-ship Lancaster, recently re?
lieved from duty on that vessel.
Capt. Tully Mo Croa, of the First Ar?
tillery, has' been detailed for duty as
Deputy Governor, in place of Col. A. S.
Lee, retired, who was relieved at his own
request.
General Ord telegraphs to General
Sheridan, from Salt Lake, that the In?
dian troubles have been much exagge?
rated. He Bays all the Indians having
reservations have goue home. There
may be a fight on the Sampete, but it
will not be serious. He expects the
troops back in three weeks.
Probabilities-Northerly and North?
easterly winds and generally clear wea?
ther will prevail on Wednesday over the
New England and Middle States. Gene?
rally olear weather over the Southern
States East of the Mississippi. Easterly
to Southerly winds, increasing cloudi?
ness, and probably areas of rain for the j
North-west, and will gradually oxtend
Eastward over the npper lake region,
and towards the lower Ohio Valley dur?
ing Wednesday.
CraoAao, August 27.-The Board of
Trade, this morning, expelled John B.
Lyon and Hugh Mayer, for their con?
nection with the recent events in tho
wheat market
NBW YORK, August 27-Evening.- !
It is reported that leading Democrats
have agreed to propose Charles O'Oonor I
as their candidate for Governor ot thii
Stat?, at the Democratio Convention at |
Syracuse.
A Port-au-Prince letter to the Herald
states that American Oonsnl Teel was
arrested by the Haytien authorities, at
Mi ja go an e, on a trumped-np charge of
having counterfeit paper currency of
that republic, and be is now in a filthy
prison. Minister Bassett has twice de?
manded bis release, and been perempto?
rily refused.
An irreverent dry goods dealer in New
York oity, announced on the morning of
the 12th that his goods were "going at a
sacrifice, owing to the expeoted comet."
Mrs. Mario A. Pippin, of Vermont, is
the mother of twenty-three Pippins,
none of whom stutter. Stick a pi-pin
there.
"It is a sin to steal a pio," and a man
in Philadelphia has been arrested for
that very offence. The pin has a dia?
mond attached to it.
Financial an J Comrr?ercial.
LONDON, August 27-Noon.-Consols
92$?. Bonds 92>?.
FRANKFORT, August 27.- Bonds 96>?.
LrvEBPOOii, August 27-3 P. M.-Cot?
ton opened firm-uplands 9%@10; Or?
leans 10)4; sales 12,000 bales; sp?cula?
tion and export 3,000.
LONDON, AugUBt 27-Evening.-Con
olosed at 92%; both American securities
unohanged.
LIVERPOOL, August 27-Evening.
Cotton closed unchanged.
NEW YORK, August 27-Noon.-Stocks
steady. Gold quiet, at 12??'. Money
firm, at 5. Exabange-long 9; short
9%. Governments dull but steady.
State bonds very quiet. Cotton quiet
and firm; sales 309 bales-uplands 22;
Orleans 22??. FlOHr steady. Wheat a
shade finner. Corn lo. better. Pork
dull, at 14.15@14.25. Lard quiet-steam
8M@9K . Freights firm.
7 P. M.-Money steady, at 4@5. Ex?
abange weak and lower, st 8%. Gold
12%@13. 81s 16; 62s 14%; 64s 14%;
65s 14 J?; new 15. Tennessee 6s 73%;
new 73%. Virginia 63 47; new 51; con?
sols 51; deferred 15)?. Louisiana 6a 50;
new 45; levee 6s 60; levee 8s 70. Alaba?
ma 8s 82; 5s 58. Georgia 6s 77; 8s 85.
North Carolinas 33>?; new 20; special
tax 13. South Carolinas 50; new 25;
April and October 23. Cotton steady;
sales 2,026 bales, at 22 for middling up?
lands; 22J? for Orleans. Flour-South?
ern rather more active, but without de?
cided change, at 7.00@9.25 for common
to fair extra; 9.30@11.50 for good to
ohoioo. Whiskey quiot and unchanged,
at 92!<j. Wheat 2o. better on spring;
3@5o. better on winter-1.50(3)1.63 for
winter red Western. Corn a shade bet?
ter, at 62@62>^, per steamer, for West?
ern mixed. Pork 14.00@14.10. Beef
quiet, at 5@7 for plain mess; 8@10 for
extra mess. Lard unohanged. Freights
to Liverpool firm. Sales of futures to?
day 11,400 bales, as follows: August
20i?; September 20, 20 316, 19 15-16;
Ootober 19^, 13 15-16; November 18??,
18>?; December 18 7-16; January
18 11-16, 18>?; February 18;^.
LOUISVLLLE, August 27.-Flour un?
ohanged. Corn unchanged. Provi?
sions in fair demand und firm. Pork
14.00, cash. Bacon-shoulders 8; clear
Bides 11%@11??, packed. Lard 9%@
9?? fortieroe; 10%(5;10% for keg. Whis?
key firm, at 89.
CINCINNATI, August 27.-Flour un?
changed. Corn dull and declining, at
45@46. Pork demand light and holders
firm-city held at 14.00. Lard in fair
demand and firm-sales of winter kettie
at 8%, and more wanted; steam held at
8%. Bacon in good demand-shoulders
7%; olear rib sides 101 .? ; olear Bides
wanted, at ll. Whiskey ateady, at 89.
ST. LOUIS, August 27.-Flour quiet
and weak, but not quotably changed.
Corn steady-No. 2, mixed, 35. Whis?
key dull, at 89@90. Pork quiet and
Bteady; only order trade doing. Baoon
only in limited jobbing demand. Lard
unohanged.
WILMINGTON, August 27.-Cotton quiet
-middling 20%; sales 16 bales; stock
203.
Mo H ILE, Auguat 27.-Cotton nominal;
receipts 46 bales; stock 856.
CHARLESTON, August 27.-Cotton quiet
-middling 19%@19%; receipts 58 bales;
salea 80; stock 3,128.
NORFOLK, August 27.-Cotton quiet
low middling 20; receipts 46 bales; stock
366.
PHILADELPHIA, August 27.-Cotton
quiet-middling 22%.
NEW ORLEANS, August 27.-Cotton
Bteady and in fair demand-middling
20%($20K ; receipts 119 bales; sales 500;
stock 6,788.
GALVESTON, August 27. - Cotton
strong-good ordinary 17% ; receipts
501 bales; sales 950; stook 3,607.
SAVANNAH, August 27.-Cotton quiet
and in light demand-middling 19%;
receipts 77 bales; sales 30; Btook 556.
AUGUSTA, August 27.-Cotton quiet
and weak-middling 19; reoeipts 13 Laius ;
Bales 50.
BOSTON, August 27.-Cotton quiet
middling 22%; receipts 656 bales; sales
200; stock 8,000.
BALTIMORE, August 27.-Cotton firm
middling 22; reoeipts 28 bales; sales 148;
stock 500.
A Western paper puts it gently by,
saying that "fifty-four persons took up
their residence in the cemetery at Lafay?
ette last month."
Chicago has a barber who is rapidly
accumulating wealth. When bo cuta his
customers' hair, he doesn't try to dragoon
them into a shampoo.
The year 1816 was the coldest ever
known in New England. There was no
summer, and ioe formed in June, July
and August.
Some one said to Mrs. Siddons that
applause seemed necessary to actors to
give them confidence. "More," she re?
plied, "it gives ns breath."
Our epicure says that although in tho
Weat he usually found the "bars" tough,
in New York hotels he has invariably
fonnd a bar-tender.
When the proposed new dock system
at New York ia completed, that oity will
have a pier area of 6,000,000 square feet.
Grace Greenwood calls riding astrad?
dle "the way women used to ride in the
high heroio days."
Long Branoh complaina that "the co?
lored waiters and their sweethearts mo?
nopoliza the beach in the evening."
"Sweet lettera in the angel tongue."
This ia the way a rhymeater in the Bos?
ton Globe tulka about flowers.
A Texan patriaroh has done his beat to
atrike a general average with Massachu?
setts in giving paternity to fifty children.
The complete census returns make out
428,859 more males than females in the
country.
The under ground railroad in New
York is to be begun, next month.
Eaoh of ns manufactures twenty-six
ounces of carbonic acid daily.
Vanderbilt's income is $12,000 a day.
THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.-The
following rules for the government of
the party were adopted by the State
House Convention, on Monday night:
1. The State Central Committee shun
be oompoaed of one member from eaob
County; and an Executive Committee of
eleven, consisting of a Chairman, or
President, a Vice-President, a Treasurer
and eight members. The headquarters
of said Executive Committee shall be in
the city of Columbiu. They shall em?
by some competent person to act as
eoretary.
2. The Chairman of eaoh County shall
be chosen by the State Convention every
two years, upon the recommendation of
the delegates to the State Convention
from the County. The Chairman of
each County shall be ex officio the mem?
ber of the State Central Committee from
his County. The County Chairman,
immediately after his election, shall call
precinct and ward meetings for the elec?
tion of precinct and ward chairmen, who
shall act under the instructions of the
County Chairman. In case of the death
or resignation of the Chairman of any
Couuty, the State Executive Committee
shall fill the vacanoy.
3. The Cbairmau of eaoh Congres?
sional District shall be chosen every
two years by the State Convention, upon
tho recommendation of the delegates to
the State Convention from the several
Counties oomposing each Congressional
District. The Cbairmau of each Judi?
cial Circuit shall be chosen in like man?
ner, upon the recommendation of the
several Counties composing such circuit.
4. The Stute Executive Committee
shall issue all culls for State Conventions,
giving at least two mouths' notice of the
same. Conventions for the nomination
of State officers should be held at least
two months previous to the election.
5. The County Chairman shall give at
least ten days' notice of the County Con?
vention, by advertising at least onco a
week in oue or moro newspapers pub?
lished in the Couuty, or, if there be
none such, then iu the one having the
largest circulation in the County, and
also by any such additioual means he
may deem requisite. Such notice shall
state the time nnd place of meeting, and
the purpose of such conventions.
G. The County Cbairmau, in his call
for the County Convention, shall state
the time and place of the precinct meet?
ings for the election of delegates to the
Couuty Couventiou. At such meetings,
the precinct Cbairmau shall call the
meeting to order, and temporarily pre
side.
7. The County Conventions shall con?
sist of not less than thirty-two delegates
uor more than one hundred, and the
County Chairman shall fix the number
of delegates from each precinct to the
County Convention, in proportion to the
number of voters at each precinct, ac?
cording to the returns of the latest elec?
tion, except tho County of Charleston.
8. The Congressional District Conven?
tion shall not take place until after the
State Convention, and it shall be by call
of the Chairman elected at the State
Convention, immediately preceding the
Congressional District Convention. The
Chairman shall call the Convention,
stating the time and place of meeting.
9. The Couuty Convention, fer the
purpose of nominating candidates for
the Legislature and County officers, shall
not be called until the State Convention,
and by the County Chairman elected at
the State Convention, immediately pre?
ceding said Couuty Convention; but this
shall not apply to County Conventions
already held for this purpose.
10. Delegatea to the Congressional
District and Judicial Circuit Couventions
shall be eleoted at the same time and
place that delegates are elected to the
State Nominating Convention. And the
Couuty Cbairmau shall give due uotice
of this in his call for the County Con?
vention.
11. The Judicial Circuit Convention
for the purpose of nominating candi?
dates, shall not be called until after the
State Convention, and by the Judicial
Circuit Chairman elected at the State
Convention immediately preceding said
Judicial Circuit Convention, but this
shall not apply to Judicial Circuit Con?
ventions already held for this purpose.
The following were elected as the State
Central Committee:
R. B. Elliott, Columbia, Chairman; J.
L. Neagle, York, vice-President; Wm.
B. Nash, Columbia, Treasurer; C. D.
Melton, Columbia; J. H. Rainey, George?
town; E. W. M. Mackey; H. G. Worth?
ington, Columbia; James M. Allen,
Greenville; C. D. Hayne, Aiken; Martin
R. Delaney, Charleston; R. S. Bennett,
Beaufort.
A good-natured traveler fell asleep in
a train, and was carried a few miles be?
yond his destination. "Pretty good
joke, this, isn't it?" said he to a fellow
passenger. "Yes, but a little too far
fetched," was the rejoinder.
FOR A. Bnui8E on BLOW.-Apply hot
water a long time with wet cloths. Beef
brine is an excellent lotion for both
sprains and bruises. A veteran among
horses claims that it will almost set a
joint or heal a fracture.
A lawyer in St. Louis attempted to
try a case, tho other day, when half
drunk, but the judge stopped him, say?
ing, "No lawyer can eerve two bars at
the same time."
"I go through my work," reprovingly
said the needle to the idle boy. "But
not till you are pushed," triumphantly
replied the idle boy to the noodle.
A man in Waco, Texas, has boen mar?
ried five times, and is tho father of fifty
legitimate children.
A wealthy lnnatio recently stopped in
Detroit with 36,000 in his pocket, and
wanted to buy the city, or a locomotive,
he wasn't particular which.
Gen. Butler announces that he has
broken himself of the habit of running
for the Governorship of Massaohusotts.
The Suez Canal yields nearly 82,000,
000 per annum profit.
Addreas of the True Republicana.
To THE PEOPLE OP SOUTH CAROLINA :
Op the 16th day of Ootober next, ycu
will be oalled on to eleot the various men
who shall fill the various offices in the
State Government for thu next official
term.
The condition of the affairs of the
State at this time causes the gravest con?
cern and most serious anxiety in the
minds of all good citizens. Taxation
unprecedented in amount in the history
of this State weighs upon tho people.
No man but feels the burden; but how?
ever and by whatever channels the taxos
reach the Treasury, they como finally, in
great part, from those who till the soil,
in the form of reduced wages, and the
increased cost of food, clothing and
other necessary expenses of a comfort?
able existence. The hard hand of toil
largely paye the expenses of the State,
though the money may be deposited in
the Treasury by those who own tho capi?
tal and the land. Let no man flatter
himself, therefore, that his poverty ren?
ders this subject of taxation one of in?
difference to him.
Besides the vast sums which have boen
drawn from the people by direct taxa?
tion, our rulers have been heaping other
burdens upon us and our posterity, by
enormous, and in many cases fraudu?
lent, issues of bonds, the very interest
upon which is a sum so large that it
seems impossible to pay it. Conceal?
ment of the real state of our affairs has
been practiced to a criminal extent; re?
port utter report, statemeut after state?
ment, has been made by the financial
officers of the State, making false exhi?
bits of our public debt; and it was only
wheu an outraged public opinion de?
manded and compelled au investigation,
that our real situation was developed,
and was found to justify tho worst ap?
prehensions which had boen felt.
The public mind is too familiar with
the fucta to require more to be said con
corning the bond frauds; but it is worth
while to consider here the question,
what has become of the money so lavishly
poured into the Treasury? To what ob?
jects have we seen it appropriated by
those who, under the law, are appointed
to disburse it? Have the rights of per
son and property, whioh it is the specia
function of good government to guard,
been secured? Have the children of tin
people been furnished with the means o:
that education whioh alone can fit then
worthily to perform the duties of citizen
ship? Have the humane institutions ii
charge of the State been cared for'
Have the resources of tho State boon
developed, its industries fostered, itt
present and future welfure provided foi
with reasonable prudence?
Tho answers to these questions are ii
the mouths of all the people. We an
ashamed to be compelled to confess tba
the State Government has failed to pro
tect the citizens, not only in the enjoy
ment of those rights and privileges in
tended to be seonred by the provision
of the State and National Constitutions
but even in those more limited right
which no respectable civilized Govern
ment ou earth allows to be violated ii
the persons of its subjects; and it ha
been the strong arm of (he Federal Gc
vernment which has released thousand
of men, women and children from a tei
ror with whioh they could not fail to b
filled by countless outrages perpetrate
upon their friends, relatives and neigt
bore, by conspirators, whose deeds th
world reads of with horror.
The publio schools have been cripple
in their work, and in many cases closet:
because their teachers applied in vain t
the State Treasury for the small salarie
justly due them and necessary to the:
daily support. ?
The inmates of the Lunatic ?sylui
must have been turned loose upon tb
community, but for the humaue effort
of its efficient Superintendent, wh
pledged his private credit to obtain foo
nobody would sell on that of this grei
State. The doors of the penitential
may bo flung wide open any day, to allo
the exit of a band of oonviots, whom tl
warden cannot feed, becauso there is 1
money in tho State Treasury to pureba:
food. The judgeB of your courts hai
not been puid their salaries for mar
months, and are compelled, iu mo
coses, to borrow money to supply tl
wants of themselves and their familie
and to be subjected to tho temptatioi
too often placed by rich saitors before
judiciary irregularly or inadequate
paid.
It would be easy to continue at almo
any length in enumerating what has bet
loft undone which ought to have bei
done. It is easier to say what has bei
done whioh ought to hare been left u
done. Jobs of every conceivable d
scription have been undertaken, the i
terests of tho State have been constant
and systematically sot asido to enrii
those who sorupled at no kind of bribe
or corruption to secure such logislatii
as the jobbers required.
Public money has been squalider
for objects of no pnblio moment. T
expenses of some branches of the G
vernment have been so enormously j
creased as to astonish all who are n
familiar with the oharacter of many
those who All important positions in t
State Government.
..Pay certificates," drawn by t
Speakorof the House of Repr?sentativ?
purporting to be for expenses of the h
session, to the amount of over $1,00
OOO, have already appeared at the Tn
sury and been paid or exchanged for t
notoa of tho Treasurer, and it in et
mated by those in a position to jnd
wisely, that $250.000 in "pay cert
cates" is still afloat in the community,
be presented whenever there is any p
bability of their being allowed. Tl
will make the expenses of a singlo s
sion of tho General Assembly o'
$1,250,000, or moro than 4,000 per ce
of the sum whioh was formerly cousid
od sufficient to pay thom.
Euormons sums havo been lavished
pretended support of an "armed fore
which is notoriously non-existent.
The most corrupt practices have 1
tai ned io the making of contracts by
State officials. The contract with the
Roberts and other arms companies of
New York, nnder which there was drawn
from the State Treasury over $200,000,
while said arma company received less
than $90,000, is a type of the manner in
which the State Treasury has been de?
pleted. The public are familiar with the
enormous extent of the bills for State
printing. Formerly this item of ex?
pense for a session of the Legislature
was not one-fiftieth, certainly uot one
fortieth, of what it has been during the
year past. But to catalogue the abuses
existing in the executive and legislative
branches of the State Government,
would not ouly weary our patience and
sicken your hearts, but one who should
attempt to characterize them would beg?
gar the English language in looking fot
fit terms. You already know them ic
gross. You can hardly appreciate theil
enormity in detail till you examine thc
facts and figures. We allude to but t
few of them aa specimens of the kind o
expenses that have brought the credit oj
South Carolina so low that there is "nom
so poor to do it reverence," and whiot
have made the government of the Stat?
so odious to the people of the wholi
country.
lu this condition of affairs, what is tb.
duty of the Republican party? Tues
wrongs ara in no way the result of th'
action of its principles. They arise fron
the greed, and selfishness, and corrup
tion of those who have stolen the gar!
of Republicanism to cloak their evi
deeds, and who should be cast out of th
company of honest Republicans an
honest men, as having degraded thei
high calling.
Our plain duty points to this; ou
obvious interests demand this; the inte
rests of party demand it; the interests c
the State demand it; a decent regard fa
the opinions of mankind demand it
We must put forward for official pos
tion those, and those only, who at
kuowu as upright, true and unBtaine
men, whoso Republicanism is as ui
doubted as their integrity and. their ct
pacify to perform the functions of tl
offices for which they aro nominate)
Within tho lines of the Republican part
our work lies. There are honest hear
and wiso heads enough in that party I
do our work. Every good citizen, wha
ever his party affiliations may have beei
owes it to himself to work to purify at
regenerate our State Government; b
the work especially belongs to us. V
oaunot abandon it to our political adve
?aries, until we have demonstrated oi
inability to do it ourselves.
With this necessity upon us; in i
emergenoy more exigent than has exie
ed in the history of our party in Sou
Carolina; with the eyes of the Nation
Republican party upon ns, and expet
ing ne to rise to the demands of the occ
sion, like honest men, the Oonventii
now in session in this city boa placed
nomination, as a candidate for Governc
the one man whose officials acts ha
brought upon the State, and the po
tiona he has held, more disgrace th
has attached to any other offices of t
State Government.
Mr. F. J. Moses, Jr., was the pera
who, as Adjutant and Iospeotor-Gener
made the oontraot with the Robe
Arms Company. We do not know tl
he received any part of th? $114,C
which disappeared in its transit from t
office of the Finanoisl Agent of the Sti
of South Carolina, in New York, to 1
office of the Roberts Arma Company;!
we do know that it disappeared. 1
Financial Agent's books show that it \
pt id; the arms company's books ah
that they did not receive it.
Mr. F. J. Moses, Jr., was the pera
who, as Speaker of the House of Ri
resentutives, flooded the State with
shower of "pay certificates," and swel
the expenses of that House, for a sin
session, from $145,000, (the high
possible figuro to which they co
amount legitimately, and this is ba
on most extravagant calculations,)
quite, or over, a million dollc
And thia palpable violation of 1
this direct filching from tho Treasury
neither denied by him nor his frier
bnt is excused on the ground that
disposed of a large amount of these <
titicates in favor of the poor people v
lied from the persecutions of the
Klux Klan. Was candidato ever bel
driven to straits like this? A false <
tificate, a fraudulent and unlawful d
of public money from the public T
Bury acknowledged, and the act defen
on tho ground that the money was
posed of in charity! Yet eveu this
famous excuse is wanting, when wo ki
that not one per cent, of these un!
fully issued certificates waa thus disp<
of, and when we daily observe the ?
of living this candidate holds-a a
befitting a profligate millionaire, but
possible to an honest man, with the 1
timate iucome of a Speaker of the H<
and an Adjutant and Inspeotor-Gem
We do not attempt to explain the ei
of $11,000 against the "armed fo;
appropriation, paid to Mr. F. J. Mc
Jr.; but the known character of
Speaker of the House, aud his caree
that office, awaken a suspicion very
defined, whioh he baa not only fails
olear up, bnt has allowed the matte
go unexplained, though for many i
it baa been commented on by the n
papers, and though it would seem tc
all-important that ho ehould explaiu
those whose suffrages he was aolioiti
Wa are straight Republicans; i
will go farther than we in any pat
duty or honor, to serve the inter?s
the Republican party. The causo o
Republican party is dear, unspeak
dear, to us; its principle of tho equ
of all men before tho law is that psi
lar jewel which outshines, with us, c
brilliant in its casket. But hones
office, capacity in administration, fie
to public trusts, are principles v
cannot bo ignored by true Rupubli
aud we cauuot endorse tho action
Convention which ignored thea
iu its selection of a candidate
the higbopt State office, hov
"regular" that Convention may be. We
have, therefore, joined in a movement
for the nomination of au independent,
true Republican ticket; a ticket contain?
ing the names of men whose fidelity to
the dictates of honesty and duty is as
well known as their zeal in the causo of
true Republicanism. They are firm sup?
porters of the nomination of Grant and
Wilson, and of the great measures of the
national Republican party which has
placed them in nomination, while they
add to their oharaoter for integrity, su?
perior capacity and ardent patriotism.
We appeal to the voters of the State
of South Carolina to support them,
knowing that their election will give us
a wise, honest, energetio administration
of the State Government, and that they
will, regardless of their private interests
or the private interests of any set of
men, make it their business to repair, to
the extent of their ability, the injuries
the body politio has suffered by waste,
extravagance, fraud and incompetency.
Now is the acoepted time to route
yourselves and throw off the incubus
whioh has lain, worse than a night-mare,
upon our State; and whioh will be ten?
fold increased in its horrors should Mr.
F. J. Moses, Jr., be seated in the execu?
tive chair. Refuse to avail yourselves of
this opportunity, and ere many months
have passed over our heads, dire disaster,
without a parallel even in our disastrous
experience, may be confidently antici?
pated. JAMES L. ORR,
President.
WM. E. EARLE, Secretary.
COLUMBIA, S. C., August, 1872.
The Sioux are very observant. One of
Spotted Tail's followers, who speaks a
little English, seeing one of the servant
girls of the hotel take off her chignon,
exclaimed: "How! White woman raise
her own scalp! Indian no good here!"
The angry Grautites of New Rochelle,
N. Y., hung Horace Greeley in effigy the
other day, and one of the orators pro?
mised that the philosophez should be
sent to h-ll in November.
A Georgia paper advises its sub?
scribers that "payments can be made in
butter, eggs, corn, potatoes, ragged
greenbacks or tobacco stamps-if nicely
taken from the boxes."
An Irishman leaning against a lamp?
post as a funeral procession was passing
by, was asked who was dead. "I can't
exactly Bay, sir, but I think it is the jin
tleman in the coffin."
M. Henri Roohefort appeals to Presi?
dent Thiers for a pardon, and promises,
if his pardoo be commuted to banish?
ment from Franoo, to come to this oouc
try.
Mr. L. J. Wentworth, of Chicago,
must be a rather tall man. The 'limes
speaks of him as having "been seen
striding, telegraph pole in hand, down
Michigan avenue."
A young Bon of Mr. Overby, while
Slaying with a pooket-knife, near Straw
erry Plains, Tenn., on the 17th, fell
upon it, was stabbed in the heart and
killed.
Onr Kentucky exchanges make fre?
quent allusions to "happy fathers" on
aooount of bouncing babies, but nary a
word abont the happy mothers.
Qrange Meeting.
AMEETING of Columbia Orange No. 30
will be held on SATURDAY, 31st instant,
at the omeo of Gol. Wm. Wallace, at 12 o'clock.
Aug 28 wa2 THQ3. TAYLOR. Master.
Valuable Real Estate for Sale.
IOFFER for sale my FARM, consisting of
abont 128 acres, situated just outside of
city limits, ou both sides of Charlotte Rail?
road. The place contains a comfortable
Dwelling and ?ne Out-buildings, and for a
Grain sud Truck Farm cannot be surpassed.
This property, from its nearness to tue city,
and its facilities for adrancement and im?
provement, is very desirable.
Aug 2 j Imo_JAMES E. BLACK.
The Public Library
OP KENTUCKY.
SECOND GRAND GIFT CONCERT!
Day of the Drawing Fixed.
No Postponement from September 28.
TO TUB PUB Lal C t
The Trasteos of the Public Library of Ken?
tucky, being satisfied, from the large sale of
tickets already made, and tho daily increas?
ing demand for them, that there will be no
occasion for postponing the second drawing
in the Oift Concert in aid of the Public
Library of Kentucky, have instructed mo, as
their agent and manager of the Oift Concort,
to say to the public and ticket-holders that
the drawing will positively take place on
September 29, proximo, and will not be post?
poned. An active demand for ticket s comes
from every State and Territory of th? United
Bt&teB, and from the Canadas, giving aesnr
anco to the Trustees that no circumstances
oan prevent i drawing at the appointed time.
A sufficient clerical force is engaged to keep
up with tho orders for tiokets, and in order
that this office may be relieved of the im?
mense pressure incident to the business for
tho week or two immediately preceding the
drawing, agonts especially, and those desi?
rous of procuring tiokets, are requested to
seed in their orders immediately, as saleB
will have to bo closed in time to make the
necessary preparations for the drawing. It
ls tho wish of the management to fill every
ordor for a tioket, as wall as to sell all the
tickets, but those who apply first must first
be supplied; and if thoso who put off baying
until sales are olosod have their money re?
turned, instead of tho tickets ordered, as in
the first Oift Concert in December last, when
thousands of dollars that came too late were
sent back, they will have none to blame bat
themselves. TUOS. E. BRAMLETTE,
Ageut TubMc Library, Kentuoky.
LOUISVILLE, KT., August, 1S72. Aug 23 til