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COLUMBIA, S. C. , Friday Mor nins:, August 30,1872. For President of the United Slates, HORACE OHEELEY, of New York. For vice-President B. GRATZ BltOWN, of Missouri. Th? Presidential Canvass. We have been so absorbed during tho post week in the interesting and impor? tant development, wrangling and final split made in the Radioal Convention here, that we have been detracted, in a great measure, from notiog the progress and prospect of the Presidential ruco. The party linos seem now to be pretty well drawn and defined, and the real (stubborn work of the campaign has be? gun. All the prominent men of the oountry whose accession or defection would be wortby of notice have declared their choico either for Greeley or for Grant. The case may be said to be fully made up, and the contestants are now turning, with earnestness and vigor, to present the issue to tho deoieion of tho jury-the people of this mighty republic. With Greeley and Brown are found Sumner, Trumbull, Schurz, Julian, Palmor, Chase, Banks, Farnsworth, and many others of the oldest, ablest and most reputable of the Republican party of the past. They are baoked by vir? tually the entire Demooratio strength of the country, and by a large Republican following. What strength the Liberal Republicans may exhibit, it is impossible to determine, with even a measurable degree of accuracy, until some of the Northern States shall have held their local eleotions. The safest oriterion whioh we can at this time rely upon, as indicativo of the probable strength of the Liberal Republicans, is furnished us in the evident uneasiness of the Grant itea in regard to States whioh have here? tofore been overwhelmingly Republican. There, for insta'noe, is Maine, whioh gave Grant, in 1868, a majority of 20,000, and has always, of latter years, been unmistakably Republican. Here the Administration feels under the neces? sity of patting forth every exertion, for fear they may lose the State entirely, or that thoir mnjority may be so largely re? duced as to chill their prospects in other more doubtful States. Even Massachu? setts, whioh gave Grant a majority of over 70,000 in 1863, is now a causo of disquiet to the Administration. If there be trouble in the camp in these two Ra? dical strongholds, what may be expected of Connecticut, New Hampshire, Penn? sylvania, Indiana and California, whioh oould be scarcely counted npon with any Confidence for Grant, even if there were no Liberal Republicans in the field. It is patent, even without considering the many distinguished and influential Republicans who have reuounoed alle? giance to him, that General Grant has fallen immensely in popular estimation since his first candidature. In 1868, he had no political record. He was the great chieftain of the Union armies had appeared magnanimous in war, and it waB thought would prove just in peace. But his administration has disappointed the expectations of every good citizen, Instead of reconciliation and friendship between the sections, which is the prime desire of all patriots North and South, the hatreds and heart-burnings of the war have been kept alive by the policy of bato and oppression pursued toward the South. Instead of good government and quiet and prosperity being assured to the South, the people find, in those very States where the General Government hoe been impeded in its work of recon? struction, governments whioh stink ir the nostrils of all deoent people, and wbich are a disgrace to the American re? public. The foreign policy of the Government has also brought shame and humiliatior npon oar country. It is with the barden of these and other grave faults and misdeeds of hu Administration npon his Shoulders, thal Grant presents himself a second timt before the people for their suffrages, And on this acoonnt it is that he finds thal when in 1868 he carried everything before him and cantered easily over the field, now it is all np-hill work, and he has tc straggle for every pieoe of groand, incl by inoh. Daily his strength is on th? decrease, and we bolievo it will continu? so to decrease as tho vital questions a issue aro presented to the people, nnti the day of election in November, whei he will be swept from the White Hous< by almost aa large a majority as tba whioh first plaoed him there. ?-??-? It is reported that a man in Cinoinnat fell from the top of a four-story build iog, the other day, to the stone side walk beneath, without being injured ii tho least. He was a life insuranoe agent and struck on his cheek. At the time o his fall, ho was leaning on the edge o the roof, shoving his papers at a plante: whom he had treed on a swinging scaf fold underneath. POLITICAL JOTTINGS.-One of the worst aspects of tbe present Presidential cam? paign. Bays tbe Golden Age, is the malig? nant tomper with whioh tbe Administra? tion party assail their opponents and blacken repa, tut ions. A Washington paper says that "it has not yot boon decided at tho White House as to whether Miss Nollie Graut is lo "como out" this winter or not. It is not so with regard to the old mun. Tt has been decreed that he is to como out bag and baggage. The Graut leaders intend to succeed if they can do it by fair means or foul. The contest is between unscrupulous po? liticians with plenty of morrey, and who control the public patronage, on tho ono hand, and tho people on tho other. We shall seo who will win. Gen. Graut ba3 ordered Col. Blanton Duncan to make a flank movement ou tho euemy, and tbe Colonel is trying to do it. The trouble with the Colonel, however, and it is a serious one, is that his regiment of Bourbons is not full, and that Edmunds and tho rest of his Badical recruiting officers cannot fill it. The Liberal army is not likely to bo much demoralized by the flank firing of the Blanton Danoau squad. As some difficulty is likely to be ex? perienced by the Bolters' Convention at Louisville, in obtaining tho consent of candidates to tho same, we propose that the waste of time be saved by nominat? ing Col. Duncan and Brick Pomeroy. They having originated the movement, ought to bear the burden of its defeat. The Newborn (X. C.) Ihnes is edited by one of President Grant's carpet-bag? gers, and when Mrs. Lockwood, au edu? cated and refined woman, who has been admitted to the bar in Wushington, vi? sited that town, the Ihnes 8a?d: "We learn there is one of Horace Greeley's women rights mulatto Democrat Grce leyocrat Spiritualist free-love agents in this city, in the person of a woman, who is selling Greeley and Brown pictures, .to. Wo are informed that she is a Gree? ley man, and is electioneering for her patron saint of freodove, 'Spiritualism, &c, Horace Greeley." Mr. Sumner was right when be said the spirit and way in which the Administration is carrying on this campaign is simply brutal. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, HEADQ'S NAT'L COM. LTB'IJ REP'KS, COLUMBIA, S. C., August 23, 1872. All voters of this State, who are in favor of the election of Greeley and Brown to the Presidency ana Vice-Pre sidenoy of the United States, and of the organization of a Liberal Bepablicau party, on the basis of the Cincinnati platform, are respectfully and earnestly requBted to take immediate steps to or? ganize- the party, and to form Greeley and Brown Clubs in every voting pre? cinct of this State. Let tbe young men enter actively upon this work. Secretaries of clubs will confer a favor by sending lo this office notices of their organizations and their locations, toge? ther with a list of their officers, at tu early a day as practicable. S. A. PEARCE, JR., Member Nat'l Com. for State of id. C. RADICAL KU KLUX.-The spirit ol intolerance which the carpet-baggers ot the South and moan whites of tho Nortl have carefully bred in the negroes, it cropping out in nil directions. There were many flagrant instuuees of it dur ing the North Carolina campaign, when negroes who were anxious to vote th? Liberal ticket were threatened, beutet and even murdered. We comment?e last week on the mobbing of Mr. Saun dors, the colored Greeley champion u the Cooper Instituto debate. Sine? then, wo have had two moro oases re ported. George W. Julian, of Indiana who has passed the greater part of hi life in the service of the negro, and win has certainly been as ardent a worke for his freedom and protection as Gar rison or Phillips, was Bet upon by Gran negroes at a town named Newport, ii Indiana, and driven from the stand b; the threatening appearance of rottei eggs and rotten tomatoes. Ingratitud is bad enough, but downright intimida tion is worse. The viotim of the latte was one Tabba Gross, a negro, in Ohio who favors the election of Mr. Greeley A committee of negroes called on Tabb and politely informed him that if he di< not leave the State in twenty-four hour he would be killed. Tabba fled in terro and took refuge in tho hospitable Stat of Kentucky, where the white Derne orats promised to protect him. For th past twenty years, tho Radicals bav been howling for "free speech." The thought it was an outrage upon thei rights when, in old slavery times, ot jection was made to their going dow into the heart of the South and prc claiming from tho house tops that it wa the duty of the slave to arm himself an rise against his master. It was thoi boast that any man oould utter his sent; ments in the free North, whioh was tru of certain localities, but not of Worccf ter, Oberlin and other hot-beds of funat oism. It is not true now of any part c the North. A oolored man who desire to vote for Greeley, Sumnor, Juline Bird, Tilton, Cassius M. Clay and othc original anti-slavery men, has but to 63 press that wish in public, and ho run the risk of being mobbed and murdered \New York News. In New York, last wook, there wei nearly twice as many deaths as births. WHAT THE NORTHERN PAPERS SAY OF THE ANTICS OF ourt RULERS.-If tbe pre? cedents already furnished by differences of opinion in Radical conven tiona in the Southern States are followed, there will be, without any doubt, an early culling upon the President by the representa? tives of the differont factions in South Carolina for tho purpose of soliciting his countenance to the views represented as well as the meu endorsed by the contend? ing factions. The barden of opinion here is that the Administration will be more apt to incline to thu "bolting" Convention than to the "r?gulai," inas? much as the former insist that they re? pudiate the policy of fattening upon (ho ruin of the State, whioh tho Republican party, altogether under the control of thu representatives of the Moses party, havo adopted as a standard of political princi? ple. There will, however, bo uo mani? festations from either sido made at tim pofbt until tho President returns from Long Branch, which, if the repairs now being made at tho executive munn iou ure oompletod, will bo between the '20th of September and the 1st of Ootobor. [ Washington Patriot. THE RADICAL SPLIT IN SOUTH CARO? LINA-How STANDS GRANT?-HOW far this split in the party may tend to break up tho organization iu thu State, or to givo the Conservatives a chuuee in the future, remains to bo seen. The Bolt? ers' Convention was not a large one, there hoing only about fifty delegates present. But two-thirde of these were uegroes, whioh is a eiguificaut faut, showing that there is a break iu the co? lored phalanx. The parties of both Conventions olaim to be puro Republi? cans, supporters of thc Administration, and in favor of the re-electiou of Geu. Grant. Which will tho Administration endorse? Probably it will play tho co? quette, and exclaim, "How happy could I be with either!" till after the Presiden? tial election. Wo tbiuk the split u for? tunato ouo for that much-suffering aud uegro-ridden State, and hope it may lead to a thorough reformation. I New York Herald. THE BOLTERS LACKING IN PLUCK.-The vast majority of tho carpet-bag party iu South Carolina, and the consequent sense of impunity felt by ita leaders, have brought about a spirit of insolent lawlessness which may be strong enough to wreok the organization. The candi? date for State Treasurer, on Saturday, spoke with great candor of the thefts of his friends and rivals, and certainly mudo damaging statement-. The Bolter^' Convention, under Gov. Orr, was rather better composed than the regular one; but as they havo uot sufficient pluck to defy and repudiate tho great central source of corruption, they will accom? plish nothing of importance. If any? thing is done for the suffering State, it must be through tho Liberal and Demo? cratic coalition.-New York Tribune. DEATHS.-Mrs. Catherine Kennedy, widow of the late Maj. John Kennedy, died on Thursday last, 22d instant, in the eighty-sixth year of her ago. On the day following Mrs. Kennedy's decease quite a gloom wus thrown over our entire community by tho suddeu death of Mrs. James li rawley, eldest daughter of Maj. James Pagan, of our town. On Sunday, 25th instant, Mrs. Louise N?. McLure departed this life after a long and protracted illness of several mouths duration. She bore her intonso suffer? ings with "considerable fortitude, and passed away from time to eternity sus? tained by the faith of a blessed immor? tality beyond the grave. Dr. Wm. Cloud, an aged and highly respectable citizen, died on Wednesday evouing last, at his residence near Rocky Mount.-Chester Reporter. A Chinese vessel was recently wrecked near the coast of Formosa, aud sixty four of the sailors, who were expert swimmers, reached the rocky shore. They wandered about for seven days, and then were seized by u party of can? nibals, who would have eaten them had they not resisted with a desperation ex? cusable under the circumstances. They fled and again dwelt among tho rocks, whore the Sanfau cannibals sarrounded thom, and killed and ate all of them but twelve, who were luoky enough to got away and reach home. The Chinese Emperor has been memorialized ou the subject, and says: "Let tho sufferers bo rewarded according to tho will of the memorialist. Lot tho civil and military officers make speed to examine aud pun? ish the cannibals, that it may bo Been how we cherish the people in our bo? som." THE NORTH POLAR EXPEDITION.-Capt. Hall, commanding tho Uuited States ex? pedition to the Polar regions, has ad? dressed an interesting letter to the Sec? retary of the Navy. As tho commander hints, it may be the last communication we shall receive from him for several years. On the 21th of August, 1871, the Polaris steamed out from Tossao, Greenland, in charge of an experienced pilot, and accompanied by Gov. Elberg and other officials of the Danish Govern? ment. After the vessel had boen con? ducted out into deep water, the pilot and Gov. Elberg loft, bringing with them the despatch we now publish. Tossao is tho last or most Northern port known to the civilized world, and .in leaving it, Capt. Hall stated they were leaving be? hind civilization, and, with "God be with ns" as an adieu from tho captain, the gallant vessel steamed on her course of discovery and exploration. A GEOGRAPHICAL CURIOSITY.-A little island in tho Conneotiout, near Wells River, is a geographical ouriosity. Oue can eit down at a certain point on tho island and be in two States, three Coun? ties and four towns at tho same time. A colored man, of Footesville, N. C., voted for his former master, and is ar rainged for it before his "oharch" for violation of his oath. He was also mobbed, aud had to flee for his life. NORTH CAROLINA IN NOVEMBER -The Radicals are now boasting tbat they will be able ia tho Presidential election in North Carolina to considerably increase the majority of 1,000 or over which they havo just fraudulently counted up for Caldwell. The relative results of the last elections in tho Stato for Governor and President, in 1868, do not exactly show us how this is to bo done, inasmuch as the majority of 18,611 with which they carried tho-eluction for Governor in the August of tbat year, was reduced to 12,136 in tho Presidential election of the same year-a fulling oil iu majority of 6,605, or moro than one-third! There is little doubt of the Statu being carried by Greeley aud Brown in November next; but, of course, tbut result can only be attained by duo precaution, aud a keon watchfulness over the wiles of tho unprincipled Administration. Ono cle? ment of fraud will certuiuly be removed -the South Carolina and Virginia ne? groes will bo required to remain and vote in thoir own ?States. Consequently, that disgraceful system of "colonization," whioh alono will unseat Caldwell, when tho Legislature meets in November, will then bo prevented, llow much this has been practiced almost sluggers bolief. We will give tho excess of tho voto over the voting strength, according to the late census, as it is presented io u few Counties. Voting Acf null y Counties. Strength. Voted. Binden.2,010 2,656 Cumberland.3,232 3,772 Daplin.2,000 3,185 Frankling.2,270 3,035 Halifax.4,155 5.307 Lorwin.2,081 2,204 Northampton.2.901 3,085 Robinson.3.013 3,211 Sampson.2,906 3,131 In these uiuo Counties, which form about one tenth of tho whole, and in which, supposing that every legal voter had pollod, there would have been but 26,555 ballots cast, there hnvo been ac? tually 29,949 counted, or 3,392 more than under any honest possibility there ought to have been. As every one of thoso illegal votes has been given to Caldwell, tho excess in these niue Coun? ties alone wdl deny bim tho election, as it is more than enough to change tho majority, as reckoned by the Radicals, to one for Merrimon, even should tho votes for all the other Counties he allowed to remain as they are. But as thc; only way in which these Counties can bo dealt with will bo to throw out their cutir? vote, by far the greater part of which is oouuted to Caldwell, it will givo his op? ponent the election by somewhere in the neighborhood of 8,000 or 10,000 majo? rity. A just retribution, indeed, will it be for Grant's Radical rascality. [New York News. # . ? ., . . THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.-A lady cor? respondent thus writes from London: "I have been obliged to partly re? learn tho English language. Words hero do not olways convey the same meaning as iu America. There are no railroads, but 'railways;' no depots, but 'stations;' no firemen, but 'stokers;' no cars, but 'carriages.'. There seem to be no buggies in England. There aro no stores, but 'shops.' Neither an inn or u public house is obliged to entertain tra? velers with other accommodations than boer or spirit?. To be fed or lodged, one must go to a tavern or hotel. When you ask for beor, they give you porter. Lager is unknown. There is no wash? ing and ironing, but 'washing aud man? gling.' Beans are known as 'haricots,' (the plebians term them 'aricots.' The word corn stands for most any kind of grain. There is no Indian meal, but 'corn-flour.' A streak of sunshine once an hour constitutes a 'fine day.' No street cars, but 'tramways;' no pitchers, but 'jugs.' ? - Foit GOVERNOR, GEN. M. C. BUTLER. We do not think it possiblo for any mau, with tho good of South Carolina at heart, to entertain for a moment the idea of supporting either of the candi? dates for Governor now ottered by the two wings of the Republican party. Therefore, seeing no prospect for reform in that party, wo will go outside of the Republicen ranks, and support for Go? vernor that gallant soldier and true hearted Carolinian, Gou. M. C. Butler. If el?cted, he will servo with true fidelity to his oath of office, and discharge the duties thereby imposed upon him fairly and impartially to every man, without regard to race or color. If ho is de? feated, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that we cast our vote for an honest man and a gentleman, and not for a profligate scalawag plunderer or a carpet-bag bribe-taker. I Edgefidd Advertiser. Loss OP TUE DECLARATION OF INDE? PENDENCE.-Tho original manuscript of the D?claration of Independence ?B ra? pidly fading away, aud, judging from the past, but a few years will elapse be? fore the naked parchment will bo the only souvenir remaining of that bold manifesto. Already nearly all the signa? tures are entirely effaced, and the rest cannot last mach longer without some? thing is done to restore tho writing. Tho saorod declaration, togother with George Washington's commission as "General and Commander-in-Chief of the Colonial Army," which is in about the same con? dition, have boon for yoars on exhibition in the Patent Office, and it is a matter of surprise that no effort has been ruado by the Government to savo thom from being lost forever to posterity. A good sign for a harmonious settlo mont-Tho dining ond wining which for socio days past have prevailed at Gonevu. We arc reminded by these diplomatic dinners of the feasting and toasting all round which ut Washington carried tho High Joint Commission so splendidly through their arduous labors. Baron Rothschild, of Frankfort, will voyage to tho Holy Laud in his own steam yacht. A YOUNO LADY KILLS UER BROTHER. Early ou Friday morning. the neighbor? hood of Liberty, the County 6eat of Clay, was thrown into a furore of excite mout by the intelligence that Miss Julia Wills, ii beautiful and accomplished young lady of seventeen years, had killed her brother, aged twenty-two. At first, the report was discredited, inas raueh as she had always borne the repu? tation of possessing an amiable disposi? tion und being lady-liko in her de? meanor. On investigation, the report was found to bo too true; but the com? mission of (he deed under tho circum? stances somewhat palliated tho atro? ciousness of tho crime. At about 0 o'clock, io tho morning, n dispute arose between Miss Wills and her brother, in what is kuowu as tho cow lot on the farm, three miles West of Liberty, in re? gard to the conduct of their youngest sister, nod whether it had justified the mannur in which she had been treated by her brother, who, it is said, had whipped her sevorely. The young man has hud tho reputation of being very quarrelsome, became very angry at the upbraiding from his sifter, and seizing an axe, raised it with the evident inten? tion of striking her. She screamed vio? lently, and rushed towards tho house, closely followed by her brother. On reaching tho house, she seized a shot-gun which lay in the dining-room, and warned him not to make any forther de? monstration of injuring her, or she would kill him. He paid no alteution to her admonition, but advanced, and ns ho did to, she pulled tho trigger. Wills fell dead, the co?tants of the gun having entered his neck a short, distance below the chin. There was not a single word spoken.-Kansas Cily (Mo.) Times. PULL OUT YOUR BANDANAS -A Chi? cago Grant orgiin has been dipping its nen in human gore, and this is tho reek? ing resnl' : "23,000 colored men, women and children havo been assassinated in diff?rent parts of tho South, within the last three years, by the Ku Klux Klans of that sunny region, and only hero and thero has one of the murderers been brought to justice." To this, thegChi cago Tribune retorts in tho following heartless fashion: "Why not make the number 23,000,000, aud bring tears to the eyes of all of us ut once? If there wero 23,000 negroes murdered during Grant's administration, and only here and thero has Graut brought a murderer to justice, what is ho good for? Would not such a fact provo a moro marvelous failure of Grant to secure pence to the South than his most ardent enemies have ever claimed? If the Grant party are determined to falsify, why don't they employ somebody who knows how?" HUNTED DOWN.-In 18G1 a man named Westbrook killed a Mr. Harris, at Bates ville, Miss., was arrested for the crime, aud after a preliminary examination committed to jail without bail. At this time a civil war was in progress, and legal tribunals were not operating tho smoothest in the world, so that West? brook's trial was not speedy before the courts. While still confined in jail the Federal forces took possession of the town of Panola, whero the jail was lo? cated, and liberated Westbrook, to? gether with a number of other prison? ers. Eleven years after the first incarce? ration of Westbrook for this murder ho was re-arrested in Arkansas for tho same offence, taken back to Mississippi ou a requisition from tho Governor, and re incarcerated in the Panola County jail to await his trial for the murder done by him eleven years ago. ,-? ? Mr. Boatwcil has to earn his wages. Having played aa engagement through North Carolina for the Administration's benefit, ho has now beon ordered to Pennsylvania, with tho prospect of an? other month's arduous labor. No rest is allowed for tho sole of his forensic foot; through storm and sunshine, wind and ram, like the Wundering Jew, he is kept going. Mr. Boutwell, fortunately, has nobody to blame for this but him? self. In cyphering up the yearly ex? penses under Grant, he was the first to discover and introduce a new arithmeti? cal rule by which two and two become ono instead of four. Nobody else can elucidate it but Mr. Boutwell, and so he was despatched to explain it in the tar hoel State, and now goes through the coal mines of Pennsylvania with the same object. If ho succeeds in demon? strating it fully to the people of the lat? ter State, it is supposed that Grant will carry it, and under such circumstances ho ought to. It may be safely written down as "cheeky" when tho Administration or? gans urge that tho eleotion of Gen. Grant will advance the mercantile inter? ests of tho ooantry, since tho whole policy of tho Government, for the past four years, has been entirely destructive of thom. Our rosources were never moro crippled; our commerce never moro depressed than it is to-day; and this is solely owing to tho reckless extra? vagance with which oar finanoea have been administered, and the perpetual disturbance maintained in different pro? ductive sections of the country, through tho maintenance of martial law and other abusoB. We do not think the mercantile community likoly to be led astray by any such fallacies as thus pat forth. Prospe? rity always waits on peace, und Gen. Grant's failure to bestow it daring the past four years is sufficient evidence of his powerlessness to do so iu tho future. Gen. Farnsworth tolls a good story of a business talk ho once bad with the President. He wautod light upon a passage in a rccont message, but the President was as much in the dark as he was. "I don't know," said ho, "Morton put it in." A Tennessee paper, abandoning tho credit system, says: "Tho profit ou a subscriber is so small that we cannot af? ford to credit for the subscription money." Bocal Items. CITY MATTERS.-The price of single . copies of the PHOENIX is five cents. A card relative to the Chatsworth Fe? male Institute, looated in Baltimore, will be found iu another column. Mrs. G. E. Engelbrecht, formerly of the Belle Haven Institute, Columbia, is the Vice Priucipal. Miss Hasson, the Principal, is a thoroughly educated lady. Gen. Hampton, Rev. Dr. Shand, and numer? ous other well-known gentlemen, aro re? ferred to for information as to the insti? tute. Gov. Scott hus entered successfully into cotton planting. Two bales of his cotton wero among the first brought into market this year. One bale weighing 500 pounds brought 19??c. Policeman John Knott haB a gold watch in his possession, which he thinks was stolen. Watch-losers would do well to call and inspect the time-keeper. A thunder and rain storm, yesterday, cooled the atmosphere delightfully. The thermometer recorded as follows, at the Pollock House, yesterday: 7 A. M., o5; 12 M., 92; 2 P. M., 85; 7 P. M., 84. The following is tho programme of music by the band of tho Eighteenth Infantry, this afternoon, at the garrison parado ground: Grand Duchess Quickstep-Hamm. Selection from Ernani-Verdi. Palermo Quadrille-Strauss. Robert Diavola-Meyerbeer. Ixion Polka-Vinateri. BEFORE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER BOOZER.-In pursuance of the orders of his Honor Judge Bryan, sitting in the United States District Court at Green? ville, S. C., Alfred J. Lem aster and Abram Gallman, prisoners, confined ia the Union County jail, under charges of conspiracy and murder, were brought up before the aforesaid Commissioner, at Uniouville, on Tuesday, August 27, and bailed in the Bum of 85,000 and $8,000, to answer at the next term of the United States Circuit Court at Columbio, S. C. Charles Goodwine, of this city, was brought before Comm?6S?oneer Boozer, yesterday, on a charge of a violation of the revenue laws, in selling cigars with? out a license, and bailed to appear for examination this day. EXECUTION.-To-day, between the hours of 10 A. M. and 3 P. M., the ex? treme penalty of the law will be visited upon two colored murderers-Wm. Lu? cas, who, in Maroh last, in cold blood, took the life of John Simpson; and Ed? ward Harris, who, upon circumstantial evidence, was convicted of the brutal murder of an inoffensive elderly man, Patrick Murphy, a pump-tender on the South Carolina Railroad. Lacas appears unconcerned as to his fate, and when asked, yesterday, if he was prepared to die, replied, "That's nobody's business but minc." The execution is to take place in the jail yard-admission to which must be obtained from Sheriff Frazee. PHONIXIANA.-A Western editor has come to the conclusion that the young ladies in his village are not at all like St. Paul, because they pay BO much atten? tion to "things whioh are behind." A grand bull-The earth. California calls loudly for corks. In most of tho other States the loudest call is for corkscrews. Kate Field says she doesn't know whether it is beer or victory, but the Germans are certainly the most satisfied looking people aha ever saw. Good living-Living within your means. Old folks should be serious. Frivol? ous talk is bad-in-age. What is that whioh, by losing an eye, has nothing but a nose left? A noise. Tho minister who boasted that he could preach without notes didn't mean bank notes. Of course not. Sniggles wants to know if you can make a blind man liable for a bill, if it is payable at sight. lt is awful to wake up in tho dead of night and feel your back itoh where you can't reach it. CANCER.-Mr. Charles Yardley writes to ?B ns follows, from Pittsburgh, Pa. : I wish to tell how I oared my cancer, without pain or money. Eight years ago a cancer come on my nose. It grew slow for several years; tho last two it grew very fast; it became frightful; it began to eat ont my left eye. I had paid hundreds of dollars and tried dootors from far and near, without finding re? lief. Finally I began to drink wild tea, putting the tea grounds on my cancer every night as a poultice. In six weeks my cancer was .cured. I am sixty-two years old. I gave this remedy to several that hud cancer. I know of two that have been cured since. I believe wild tea grows ov r the country, generally, on high lani. LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Chatsworth Female Institute. Meeting Palmetto Lodge. R. L. Bryan-New Books. L?rick & Lowrance-Just Received. P. Cantwell-Cow Feed, &c.