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COLUMBIA, S. C. Thursday ucraine. August 28,1872. : For President of the United States. HORACE UllEELBT, of New York. For vice-President H. GRATZ BROWN, of SllHoarl. WU ut Frunklln J. lia? to S?y. Moses the meek comes out, this morn? ing, io a lettor to "tho people of South Carolina," iu auswer to the oharges of fraud uud corruption which hava been made against him. We should rather say, in answer to the ch urges made in the manifesto of Judge Orr, as President of the "truo Bepnblioau Convention," and published by us yesterday. For answer, the leader of the "regular" rogues contents himself with "donouno ing the charges, in part and iu whole, false." Though rumora have been rife, as he says, for some time past, and though, aa he might have added, the Bpeciflo ehargeshave been made by numbers of Bepnbliean speakers, and by nearly every newspaper in the State, implicat? ing him iu heinou? acts of fraud and bribery, he has not foltoalled upon here? tofore to reply. This reticence he chums to be "in accordance with the rule of conduct obsorved by men in public posi? tion." If the "people of South Carolina" can galp that down, they can surely be trust? ed to swallow almost auything that mo? dest mendaoity might suggest. Aside from this "slight misstatement," which may perhaps be somewhat excusable when one considers the urgent necessity the writer was under to make some sort of explanation of his long Bilenoe, we do not Bee how Mr. Hones has ; bettered his cause any. A Bimple denial is no refu? tation . A criminal is expected, a? a mat? ter of course, to deny his guilt. Neither does the ohallenge for investigation amount to anything. The theory that a man must be pre? sumed to be innocent until he is proven to be guilty, ia a very correct and whole? some one when applied when and where only it properly belongs-to criminals on trial in a oourt of justice. It does not hold-though most bf the Radical fra? ternity would have ii HO-to candidates for publie office. Tho reason of the dif? ference is quite apparent: - In the one case, it is the accused party ?who is to suffer if a mistake is made, and, there? fore, to him is allowed the boneilt of all reasonable doubts as^tpChi.B guilt. lu tho other, the people -tho party who Will Buffer by a mia>%ko, aueT all double must be decided io/their favor.,- Any,x?asona ble suspicion, therefore/which '.attaches to any individual ofi^np-g birnie]f before the people as a candidate foe an office of power and trust,/should; an'4, does, in every intelligent cemmunity/.the world over, turn the scales ? a gai out'bi c?. In the caso /jf ? ?Tl"J. Moses, wa are not loft evon to.reasonable suspicious 'alone, whioh, in fact, attach to; every indivi? dual cou noded'With tho $?xqput?ve and Legislative departments of the 'present State Government; hut we haV?, io seve? ral instances as to him, doon men tary and other evidence; pf the strongest character of his misdeeds and official in? fidelity. lu the first, place, his name appears upon the booka pf the. Treasury os the reoipiepb of 811,000 upon the order of R. E? Scott, drawn about the time of SaafVo threatened impeachment, last winter, and -oharged to the "armed forae" f und, willoh, never bad a legal ex? istence. , A list of the'nelmesj ot1 parties who, with F. J. Moses, Jr., have drawn money during the present fiscal year from this bogus fand, amounting to. upwards of $80,000, has been; ; published sovoral times in the PHON?XJ and also in other journals of the State, .' Several persons, whose names appeared in the blaok list, have published explanations more or less satisfactory. But Mooney and Moses have not, nor have many others who seem to have received the largest sums of money. No sane man could be ex? pected to vote for Mooney; and, if not, why for Moses? The one is not, the other had better never been. Of the two, surely Mooney is the better man. Agaio, we have tho most reliable evi? dence that F, J, Moses, Jr., ohjsdlled the State ont of large amounts ot money in tho transactions with the Roberts Arms Company and the American Metallic Ammunition Company. In the case of thelloborts Arms Company, for instance, it appears that though tho company re? ceived but 82,500, tho account was made oat against tho State for S 11,250. The oontraot, whioh wan for the alteration of 5,000 Springfield riflos to breech-loaders, was modo on tho part of the State of South Carolina' by F, J. Mosen, Jr., as Adjutant and lu spec tor-Go nor al. Thou? sands . upon thousands of dollars more wore spirited from tho State in these arms transactions, all of which appear clearly chargeable to F. J. Moses and, perhaps, B. K. Scott. The committee who were appointed by the Legislature to investigate these matters condado their lengthy and mi? nute report as follows: "The State has paid for the alteration of these guns, 'the property of the peo? ple,' who never authorized or sanctioned the conversion, $165,602.66, or at the rate of $16.56 per gun, more than Re? mington ?fe Sous charge for a new gun of their own manufacture, of the same pat? torn, ramrod, look, stock and barre?, fresh from their armory at Ilion, or their sales-room in Broadway. * * * This is comment enough. ? It speaks for itself. What uext? may ba ask sd by all who are the snbjeola of suoh villainy and the sufferers of its direful conse? quences." So much for the arms question. There is another tangible charge which Mr. Moses might do well to meet. Timothy Hurley has been heard to say, by moro than one responsible witness, that he paid, or promised to pay, to F. J. Moses, Jr., $35,000, for appointments upon committees of the House of Representa? tives, which were within the gift of the Speaker. What has Mr. Moses to say to that? Theso and many other things aro charged against F. J. Moses, whioh are surely sufficient to damn bis claims to the suffrages of all decent people, if not to send,him to1 the penitentiary, and we have not touched yet upon the gravest charge of all, the enormous over-issue of pay certificates. The Iliberal Republican Call. The attention of the young men of the State is specially asked to the call in to? day's paper, issued by S. A. Pearce, Jr., Chairman of the Liberal Republican Committee for South Carolina. This call is ona that should reoeive oareful at? tention at this time, and the opportunity should not be neglected of organizing what, in South Carolina, is a new party. One whioh, conoeding to colored men all the rights and privileges possessed .by the whites, tokes away all difficulties that have heretofore existed to the joint action of the young and less prejudiced of both raceB in tho State in building up a new State, whioh, although differing widely from the old, will, we trust and believe, bo a vast improvement on the South Caroiiua of ,to-day. Now is the -timb to organize such n party, and. this without contaminating ourselves with the fraud and corruption that ovev hag pervaded theRidicaf party of this State. AU that is fair and just, As to the claims of both races, eau be recognised, and, if need be,.vindicated, There aro. principles that have heretofore been professed only by the Republicar party, whioh are now embodied in th? Cincinnati, platform, that aro necessary axioms to the! existence of any party it this State, consist? og, as ber popnlatior does, of two dissimilar races. - f-5-f*F*t-1-^ Pouraa&li JOTT?HOS..-Ex T Pliant Governor Spooner, of T1*' ^usin, one o the fathers and organizers of the Repub 1 toan party ia thaVStat'^, and amati whi has hold high positions in bis party, ha written an able letter siubo&noing hi support of Greeley and Brown. Tho. Chioago Titnea ie-now fche o pl; Democratic taper in Hf i nola thai 'doe not support Greeley land Brown. W trust, however, that tho\Timea will er long give i ti able support to the candi dates of the, .Pemoorotia party, whiQ should also be its canip]atea. t Thomas Dann English, in a card dc alining to attend th? Louisville Convou tion, saje: VlI cannot: join you. If thought as yon, seotu' to'think, I sho.nl vote squarely ,fer Grant and not try t aid him in au indirect way," . They are always being caught. Hot George A. Halsey, tb Iq time,, a Republ eau Congressman froid New'Jersey, bf been lately detected in circulating th Blanton circulars. Bowing in, the same Radical boat: TL man (Gen. Dix, of New York) wh ordered that the first to haul - down tb Americap flog should be shot, and tht other man (P. J. Moses, of South Car? lina,) who fired the first gan against tl American flag at Fort Sumter. A well-posted Liberal Repablicai writing from Connecticut, says tin 5,000 voters who have heretofore aotc with the Republican party have airead enrolled themselves in the Liberal rank The writer continues: "If the Grant d feotion fhoald stop even where it is, ti State would be lost to Grant by 10,0( majority." <-???-? The Cleveland Leader makes a distres ingly fanny story out of a family affa in that city. The wife parohased ot of the Greeley fans, and took it hom where she happened to leave it on h husband's pillow, when she dropped I sleep. The poor follow came home fro his caps, and saw by the side of his wi "tho features of a bald-headed, gre; haired man." Angered to desperat io' he pulled out his revolver and fired tv. shots through the thing, when his wi woke np in terror, and he, seeing his t dieu ?ons situation, endeavored to mal her believe that he understood it at tl first. But there wus a sewing oirole tl next day. OrcJ-y Mitti Brown Club?. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, HBADQ'S NAT'L COM. LIB'L BBF'NS, COLTJ M BU, S. C., Au gast 28, 1872. AU voters of this State, who are io favor of tho election of Greeley and Brown to the Presidency and Yice-Pre siderjcy of tue United States,- and of the organization of a Liberal Republican party, OD the basis of the Cincinnati platform, are respectfully and; e?t??stlyi requstsd to take immediate stops to or? ganize the party, and to form "Greeley and Brown Cl?bs in every voting pre? cinct of this State. Let the young men enter actively apon this work. Secretaries of dubs will confer a favor by sending lo this office uotices of their organizations and their locations, toge thcr with a list of their officers, ut us early a day as practicable. S. A. PEARCE, JR., Member Nut'l Com. for Statu of S. C. ?r3>'" Papers friendly to the cause will pleuco copy. ?-??-? To the People of Hontli Carol Inti. I have known that for some time ru? mors have been rife throughout the State charging me with haying issued, ns Speaker of the House of Representa tives, false aud frauduleut "pay certifi? cates;" and that I have received a certain sum of money from the "armed force" fund of the State, and appropriated it to my o wu use and benefit. In accordance with the rule of conduct observed by men in publio position, I have not felt myself called upon to make answer to these charges. But in the manifesto is? sued by a so-called Couventiou recently held in this city, signed by the Hon. James Ii. Orr, these charges have been formally presented, and from such a source as enables me, with something of 8elf-respect, to respond to them. This I now crave leave to do, by denouncing the charges, in part and in whole, false. And I hereby challenge, in reference to them, such thorough and complete inves? tigation as will avail to vindicate the truth. Very respectfully, F. J. MOSES. JR. COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 28. 1872. DEATHS.-Willie Hennegan, second son of John J. Hennegan', latea resident of Sumter, died at the residence of John il. Feriter, Esq., on the 21st instant, after a painful illness of two or three weeks, contraoted from mill-pond bath? ing, in the hot sun. James Kennedy, a stranger, who came here sick a few weeks since, aud v/ho was u native of tho County Tipperary, in. Ireland, and a brioklayer by trade, died on the 21st instant, at the rosi do u ct? ?of Brian Kavanagh, in this town. John B. [Brown, a respectable o?tjz?fl, of this County, a son of .the late Francis Brown, and son-in-law of the venerable Willis Spann, Esq., died .a abort.time since, at the r?sidenoe'of a friend and neighbor*: . A soldier, named George Abbott, hail? ing from1 Wisconsin, a member of the company''.of United.States infantry sta-. Lioned in'ihiB town, died at the barracks, ou last Saturday, from an attack of ty? phoid dysentery.-Sumter Hews. David Williams, a colored man, a car? penter, fell from a building upon whioh he was at work at U mon ville, on the 26th inst., causing his instant death. Mrs. Rebecca FoBter, wido w Of Weiden Foster, died at her home in .this County, on the 17th instant, in the ninetieth year of her age. < Mrs. Pat i opeo Foster died at her homo on Ty ger River,, in this. County, ou the 17th instant, in the eighty-fourth year of her age.1 . -She was the affectionate and faithful wife of Mr. James Foster, with whom she had lived and shared the vicissitudes of seveujy years. . ., . " . I SpQrtqnfrurg Spartan. -*S . *#.-;-7-. When Mr. Bonner paid $40,000 for Dexter, it was considered an enormous price to pay l?r afr .animal that Can- live but a few yours at1 tollst, and may die to? morrow. What Longfellow, before his accident, would have brought, or Harry Bassett would bring how' under the hammer, it is impasible tb tell; but we may put it at co paulo rabie more than Mr. Bonner gave , for Dexter. AU horses of this class are held at what is aptly called "fancy prices," and nntil they find a purchaser, it is impossible to do more than approximate to their value. In England, recently, Mr. Tattersall sold Blair Athol, winner of the Derby, and described as "the best horse in the world." for over SGO.OOO, the highest price ever obtained at apotion or private sale. Blair Athol was purchased by a oompany recently formed in Eogland for stock raising and the breeding and training of race horses. The company appears to be purchasing for heavy price the finest stook iu England, and among the novel corners now made in almost everything purchasable, we should not be surprised to see soon annonnoed in the English papers a "corner in race horses." THE CATERPILLAR.-This pest appears to be running completely over the plan? tations below Augusta. Yesterday we stated that theylhad appeared below the city, but had not effeoted any damages yet. We have received information since that they aro "riddling" the ootton plants, and that of many fields, it is thought that if a parti?le is saved, it will be a curiosity. On tho South Carolina side, tho caterpillars are continuing their ravages, especially in the seotion oppo? site tho upper purl of tho city. [Constitutionalist. Heavy fires are now raging in tho woods below Richmond, Ya., and cover au area of from 1,000 to 2,000 aores. The fields of grass of this year's growth, in thoir dry and parched oonditiou from the drought, were burned over iike stub? ble, and two houses wore consumed in tho progress of tho flames. GEN. LEE'S COUNSEL TO HIS BON. During the war Northern papers pub? lished' the following excellent aud cha? racteristic private letter from Gen. Lee to bis eon Custis, the original of whioh waa found among the papers which were purloined from Arlington House. It ie interesting; and, although written muuy year? ago, will well repay perusal: ? .-. ARLINGTON HOUSE, April 5, 1852. : MY DEAR SON: I lam in the act of leav? ing borne for New Mexico. My fine old >negiment' bas been ordered to that dis? tant region, and ? must hasten to see that they are properly taken care of. I bave but little to add in reply to your letters of Muroh 20, 27 and 29. Your letters breathe a spirit of frankness. They have gi von myself aud your mother great pleasure. You must study to be frank with the world; frankness is the cbild of honesty and true courage. Say what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right. If a friend asks a favor you should grant it, if reasonable; if not, toll him plainly why you cannot; you will wrong him and you will wrong your? self by equivocation of any kind. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one; the mau who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice. Deul kindly but firmly with your class? mates; you will find it the policy tbut weurs best. Above all, du not appear to others what yon are uot. If you have any fault to find with any one tell him, uot others, of what you complain ; there ?B no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be ooe thing be? f?te a mini'? face and auuther behind his back. We should live, act, ?md auy oo thiug to the ipjury of any one. It is not only best us a matter of principle, but is the path to peace und honor. In regard to duty, let me, in con elusion of this hasty letter, inform you tnat nearly 100 years ago there wan a duy of remark? able gloom and darkness, still kuown as the dark day, a day when tbe light of the sun was slowly extinguished as if by an eclipse. The Legislature of Connecti? cut was iu session, and, as its members saw the unexpected and unaccountable darkness coming on, they shared iu the general awe and terror. It was supposed by mauy that the lust day-the day of judgment-had come. Some one, in the consternation of the hour, moved an ad? journment. Then there aroso aa old Puritan legislator-Davenport Stanford -who said that if the last duy had oome he desired to be found at his place doing his duty, and therefore moved that can? dles We brought so the House could pro? ceed with its duty. There was quietness in the old man's mind-the quietness of Heavenly wisdom-an inflexible willing? ness to obey present duty. Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Doy our duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; yon should never wish to do lesa. Never let me aqd your mother wear one gray hair for any lack of duty on your part. Your affectionate father, , j j R< F/ LEE. To G. "W. Ccsi?s. LBS, . TUB CONFEDBUATE DEAD AT FORT DELAWARE,-Col. J. D. Kurtz, corps ol Engineers U. S. A., at Philadelphia, hus received a report from Assistant Engin? eer John J. Lee, of the engineer's office, Fort Delaware, denying the accuracy of the statement of a communication pub? lished in tho Sun, July 27th, in regard to the Confederate dead at that point. In thin communication a comparison was drawn between tb* course of foreign na-, lions in regard Lu ?he honorable dead of their enemies and the action of the United States authorities in discriminat? ing between tho victor and the van? quished, aud reference was made to the spirit of Congress in the case of Mrs. ?Lee and the Arlington Cemetery. The writer asked: fiait probably the reflex action of this pious spirit which makes it possible for our national authorities^ io breaking ground for a flanking bat? tery on the Jersey shore, opposite Fort Delaware, to spade' un and obliterate, tbje. poor" burying 'g\rf?tfnd in which Were.'p.ut away't^e corpses.. of the pt isoners who died-from wounds, disease, starvation and cruelty-in ?hat place of unhappy .Jae'moxy?" ? Col. Kurtz has ordered HU offioial in? quiry into the trnth'of the implied de? secration in this particular, and tba as? sistant engineer replies officially, stat* ing, that "the burial ground on the New Jersey shore for Southern prisoners who died at Fort Delaware daring the war, is enolosed with a substantial fence, is protected from all desecration, and is at least one-third of a mile distaut from the nearest point of the proposed bat? tery. "-Ballimore Sun. LOOK ON THIS PICTURE.-Gen. Gor? don's address last night was listened to by a large audience-among whom were many ladies. He advocated Greeley as a choice of very great and dreadful evils. Never did he bofore speak under so much hampering restraint, HO much em? barrassment, and willi KO little effect upon his audience.-Atlanta Sun. TUEN ON THIS.-Hon. Horace May? nard's address last night was listened to by a very large assemblage of white and black, and was most vehemently applauded. [Atlanta Sun. Gordon was tho Democratic speaker. He spoke bis convictions with embar? rassment, and eloquently. He WAS en? thusiastically applauded, and his speech accomplished results. Maynard was tho Radical speaker, and his audience was nearly all black, who yolled ignorantly in hud out of season. And the ?Sun claims to be a Democra? tic paper.-Atlanta Constitution. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-A colored man, by the nume of Stanhope Hart, was serious? ly hurt, Monday afternoon, nt the saw mill of Mr. Helton, in tho edge of South Carolina, the saw striking bis head on the front and entering tho brain. Dr. M'oCombs was called in and bound np the wound, und the negro was still living lalo yesterday afternoon, with a prospect of recovery. - Charlotte Observer. AN INVITATION TO LOUISVILLE DE? CLINED-THE STRAIGHT OUTS CATCH A TARTAR.-D. G. Boen. E*q , one of the landing D?mocrate of Conti County, Pa., baviug benn invited to attend tba Struigbt-ont Convention at Louisville, dealiues the bonor, and replies to tbo gentlemen tendering tbo invitation in tbe following munnor: "No person outside- of a lunatic asy? lum eau imagine that tbe nominees of tbe Louisville Convention could, bj an; possibility, bo elected. Tbo only object, therefore, in holding that Convention, is to distract our party, direct votes from Greeley, aud thereby directly assist io tbe re-election of Grant. But two classes of men will take part in such a pro? gramme-theone, natural fanatics adher? ing to oar party, who ure always dissatis? fied with what the majority does; the other, a class of corruptible men, who ure boing purchased by tho monoy stolen by Graut's admiuistratiou from the peo? ple. I, therefore, think you are mistaken in Buying 'the honor of no Democrat eau be ussailed for participating in such a national assemblage.' I Gee no particular objection in you gentlemen protesting against 'the shameful ubuudoument ot principles,' aud 'disgraceful abandon? ment of political honor, which Judge Black, Judge Woodward, Charles K Backalew, Hiester Clyiner, and more than 31)0,000 other Pennsylvania Demo? crats, fail to protest against,' especially if the Radical Stute Contra) Committee, Simon Cameron and Grant'* administra? tion are willing to puy the cost of the protest. In conclusion, you ask me to turnisb you with the address of gentle? men who will go from this Congres? sional District us delegates to Louisville, 'HO that trausportatiou eau be furnished to aud from the Convention.' It would probably have thrown some light upon the question, iu whose interest is the Louisville Conveutioii to be held, if you would state who is to furnish thin trans? portation. Are the different railroads inukiug au exoeptiou iu favor of Ibis (Jon vent ion, and giving free transporta? tion? Is thin transportation paid for out of that immense corruption fund, said to be counted by millions, whioh has been placed under the coutrol of Simou Came? ron und his 'rings' to carry Pennsylva? nia and perpetuate his power in this State? You, gentlemen, not being suffi? ciently explicit upou these points, and I, failing to recognize you among tho safe leaders of our party, must declino the invitation to bear you company." THE SODTHERN PEOPLE.-At a Greeley and Brown meeting, held in Montgome? ry County, Pennsylvania, Dr. A. N. FretZ, of Prinoe George County, Vir? ginia, and late u Bepublicau member of the Legislature from that County, made the following statement of the feelings and conduct of the. peeler of the South toward the Government; df the United States. It ia peculinVly^tuabJo, earn? ing from a ge'ntlema;nY,jf:^$on^ by birth, and au Ahplitiopj^t. and strict'' Republican bytraioing?. Wo regret tb$y space forbids our gi vi ug the whole? of his remarks, as we would otherwise like' to do: . *'. '. . " - Before leaving the subject of the Southern States,: let tn? bear witness to the people of those States. As a peo? ple, they are" quiet, law-abiding, peace? able and hospitable; and I aver here that of all thc loy at i people- oa the American continent, there 'aro none more loyal, none more earliest, an?) more' ?eatons in' their devot i on. t'p the Union of the United States, or mote devoutly desirb the per? petaity of the same, than' the- people of tho lalo rebel States. But. they are not' loyal to the present Administration. and. its policy of ornel oppression i toward them. They are haters of. wrong-doers, of cruelty, persecution, injustice and tyran? ny, no matter by whom inflicted or upon whom oommitted, whether friend or foox . -i-i ?. i -'^r~ ? ' ... ; SOUTH CAROLINA BOND RE^ISTRATION. 'The New Yotfr Financial Chronicle of the 21th, sayer "A speoial meeting of' the governing committee of the siook ex? change waa held this week, to consider; the matter of the. registration- of (the South Carolina State bonds. It will bo remembered that soma timo ago the go? verning committee- resolved ' that all State bonds to be dealt in upon the ex? change to be a good delivery should be registered in this city1 on or before the 1st of September, 1872. Under this pro? vision the State of South Carolina ap? pointed the Commercial Warehouse Company, of this city, as their register? ing agents. It has since been ascer? tained that this oompany bas oharged ono per cent, as the registering fee, and many of the holders of' the bonds have objeoted to paying it. Th? charge is looked upon as excessive, as the bonds amount to 816,000,000, and would there? fore give the company on tho entire transaction a profit of $160,000. The matter was considered at the meeting yesterday, and it was resolved to extend the time of regiBtrating in this one ease indefinitely. The holders of tbe bonds will, therefore, not be compelled to re? gister them, and it is thought that by this means the charge of the registrars will be reduced." GRANT'S ORGAN PUZZLED.-Wo do not know what is to be the result of the con? flict between contending factious in South Carolina, where the local issues confound all speculations outside. We trust that there is wisdom and virtue enough among tho masses to apply the remedy that is needed. Wo do not pro? fess to understand the muddle her poli? tics has presented. Knavish, base-heart? ed demagogues seek to throw upon the Bepublioan party tho responsibility of existing evils, without knowing aught of tho fuot8. Under whatever name or pre? tense wrong has been done, it finds no apologist in tho National Administration or the National Government. I Washington Chronicle. Deaths in Charleston for tho past week, 29; whites, 9; colored 20. XZ? o o ct. 1 Ito XXX ist m Cm MATTERS.-The price of single copies of the PHONII is five cents. In noticing Mr. Franklin's oootem plated race-track, near Nuagle's Bridge, we accidentally stated that he bad pur cJiased the Guigoard place. He has only lensed it. We are indebted lo Mayor John Alex? ander for a printed copy of the "Pro? ceedings o? the Morse Memorial Meeting of the Citizens of Oolnmbia, 8. C., held ou the evening of the 17th April." A member of the Legislature from the up-country was a little taken abaok, yesterday, when addressing un old ac? quaintance as "old fellow, 'how are you?" to be met with tho chilling re? sponse, "I want you to speak to me as yon do to other folks." Tho Legislator retired. The agents of the Great Eastern Cir? cus and Menagerie aro in a stew. There aro no vaoaut lots near the business portions of the city large enough to locate the monster six-tent show, and it is feared ibey will be forced to the suburbs. Children are beginning to count the days from now to when "school keeps." Judge A. P. Aldrich is quartered at the Nickerson House. Gov. ?Scott bas, at the request of a large number of influential citizens of Lancaster, pardoned Elijah Laney, con? victed at the fall term of the court for said County, in 1870, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment in the State penitentiary. The thermometer at the Pollock House, yesterday, indicated a decrease in the heat of the day previous. It ranged as follows: 7 A. M., 80; 12 M., 91; 2 P. M., 90; 7 P. M., 87. The following is the programme of music by the band of the 18th Infantry, this afternoon, at the garrison parade grounds: Parade March-Komsack. Cavatina, Lucrecia Borgia-Donizetti. Narcissus Waltzes--Wade. Hong. Come ' Where My Love LieB Dreaming-Hays. Orlando Galop-Keller. PIKENIXIA.NA.-"Fan him with your boots'* in said by. those familiar with the subject to be the latest thing in slang. Graut papers "going under new ma? nagement;" and. ojming Out for Greeley and. Brown, is one of the notable fea? tures of the campaign. ^? A.,sufferer at One of the mountain; houses says "the flies come down ito breakfast at the sound of the gong." The New York Tribune doesn't believe that Mr. O'Conor will care to enter the field with Sam. Bayard on one Bide, with Blanton Duncan on the other, and with Mr. Brick Pomeroy bringing np the rear. "Wo wish to remind the masses that Henry Wilson was a shoe-maker," says the Boston 'Globe: What of it? Capt. Kidd was a carpenter, but you don't find any one who praises him on that ac oount. Said a conceited young lady-Yon men . are si aovet-us.se!. > .,' MBETINO o?r THE COLUMBIA-BAR.-The 'members of tho 'Columbia bar .mot st the flour f House, yesterday- evening; and, "on motion, of F. W- MoMaster, Esq., Franois W. Fickling, Esq., was called to ?be chair, and Nathaniel Barnwell, Esq., . .quested to act as Secretary. - The1 meeting havl'ng,*;b*eu. called to order, F. W. MoMaster, Esq., offered the following resolution: Whereas the term- of oflit?o to which his Honor Samuel W. Melton was elected expired on the 26th day of .August, 1871; and whereas it ia understood that his Honor feels some ' hesitancy in qualify, ing as Judge of this Circuit for the term for which he has been elected; and whereas, in the opinion of the members of this bar, it would cause great incon? venience to the whole community, shonld his Honor decline to qualify, and thus leave the entire oirouit without a Judge: Jiesolved, That the bar of Columbia respectfully request his Honor Judge Melton to qualify and continue to dis? charge his duties as Judge* of this Oir? ouit. The resolution was seconded by Mr. Bhett, and adopted. Mr. MoMaster then moved that the Secretary be instructed to communicate the action nt the bar to his Honor Judge Melton, and that a oopy of the proceed? ings of this meeting be furnished to the daily papers. HOTEL ARM VAIS, August 28, 1872.-Nicker son House-J Anderson, Wilmington; john ? Thompson, Abbeville; Mr and Mrs JJ J Pat? terson, Miss A P Wardlaw, Kershaw; Miss Martin, Charleston; A P Aldrich, Barnwell; ti ll Hobbs, Va; W 8 Dudley, Fl?; I; W Wood, two nephews, Helens; F D Bush, ? and 0 li It; J M Belgier, Newberry. LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. G. H. Brown-Publio Notice. . .Peixotto & Son-Auotions. Jacob Levin-Corn. Mustang Liniment. Two colored people in Forsyth, Ga., were married the other day on a 4 'license' ' which bad no reference whatever to the subjeot of matrimony. As neither they nor the the parson wero the wiser, no great harm was done. An Alabama negress picks cotton with a parasol elevated abovo her cranium.