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COLUMBIA. S. C. Wednaslay komine, September 4,1872 For President of the United States. HORACIO GREELEY, of NOT York. For Vice-President B. GRATZ BROWN, of IHInoarl. Loalilana All Right, at Laut. The good people of Louisiana Benin to bave finally come to their better senses, and ceasing the wranglings, quarrels and silly factious into which they have been divided for some months past, have united, Liberal Republicans, Reformers and Demounts, in a common effort to overthrow Grantism and the continua? tion of corrupt carpet-bag rule in their State. A fusion ticket has been agreed apon, and seems to meet with universal approbation, both from tho Liberal Re? publicans and from the Democrats. To the latter has been conceded the nomi? nation of Governor, in tho person cf Mr. MoEnery, who headed the straight Democratic ticket; and the Liberal Rs pnblioans secure the Lieutenant-Gover? norship to their former candidate for Governor, D. B. Penn. The rest of the Stats officers and the Presidential elect? ors are equally divided between the two combining factions. This wiso notion on the part of the Liberals and Demo? crats will, we hava every reason to be* Hove, restore the State to good govern? ment and secure her electoral vote to Greeley and Brown in November. There is only a difference of two or three thou? sand votes, any way, between the Demo? crats and the Radical party, and when the Liberal Republicana are taken from the latter ?nd combined with the former, there is every groand for hope that the Radicals will be completely overthrown. Once de? feated in their aspirations for public office, for whioh only they move and live and have their being, the mere po? litical adventurers who have swarmed into Louisiana since the war, just as they have done in South Carolina, seek? ing positions by pandering to the fears and prejudices of the colored race, and money by plundering the public coffers, will leave once and for all, and their pestiferous presence need never be feared agaiu. But whatever may be th? result of the approaching State and Presiden? tial elections in Louisiana, the worthy citizens of that troubled commonwealth will at least have the great consolation, even should they bs defeated, of know? ing that their failure was caused by no foolish divisions among themselves. The Liberal Republicans of that State number, we understand, in their ranks many of the most influential and re? spectable of the colored race, and the temporary combination now made be? tween them and the better olass of the white people will, doubtless, eventuate in the formation of a permanent party there, which, while maintaining the personal rights and privileges of all, will not trample upon the rights of property, as Radicalism in the South has invaria? bly done. --? HEADQUABTEBS TRUE REPUBLICANS, STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, Sept. 3, 1872. County Chairmen appointed at the Convention of True Republicans recent? ly held at the city of Columbia, and pre? sided over by ex-Gov. James L. Orr, are hereby specially requested to report im? mediately to these headquarters; also, all others who maj have suggestions to make, or information to impart, in refe? rence to the inauguration of an honest State administration. All communica? tions should be addressed to James Brennan, Columbia, S. C. C. C. BOWEN, Chairman State Executive Committee. JAMES BRENNAN, Seo'y and Trea'r. The Reform Radicals held a meeting at Anderson Court House, on Tuesday night. Hon. John Wilson was called to the chair, and Jack Harrison, (colored,) requested to aot ss Secretary. Speeohes were delivered by Sam. Johnson, (co? lored,) Judge Orr and J. S. Murray, in the order named. Messrs. Orr and Johnson gave accounts in detail of their action as delegates to the Republican State Convention, and both of them assailed the Moses party in nnstinted terms for corruption, bribery and thiev? ing generally. Both asserted most un? qualifiedly, however, that a Democratic nomination for State offioers would re? unite tho two wings of the Radioal party, and prevent the defeat of Moses and his crowd. CANVASSING.-The Bolters, or "True Republicans," had a ratification meeting in Chester last Friday, Corbin, the Dis? trict Attorney, and Gaillard, a oolored man from James' Island, being the speakers. Major Merrill was also on hand. After the Bolters had finished speaking, Maokey and Elliott harangued the orowd in the Moses interest. High words are said to have passed between Maokey and Merrill, the former threat? ening the latter with violence. Charge, Chester! charge 1 On Maokey, onl [Winmboro News. Churchill Coonty, Nevada, has a soda lake of aafiioient productive capacity to supply the world. Meteor? ?nd Meteoric Showeri. MB. EDITOK: I havo thought that science has not wholly loBt its attractions for the public, and that a little diversion from the all-absorbiDg and distracting subjects of Federal and State polities might bo agreeable to your readers. Yon have, in more than one number of your paper, called attention to the meteoric displays, with which we have been re oently visited. Au allusion to a few of the facts conneoted with them may be interesting. The principal displays are periodio; they come in countless number?, and the number is unaffected by season, climate and weather. The apparent magnitudes are very different; for while the greater part seem to be the size of stars of the 3d, 4th, 5th and Cth magni? tudes, some surpass Vonus and Jupiter in brilliancy. The term "meteor" is made also to include tho brilliant masses of matter which are seen moving through our atmosphere, and which, with loud explosions, throw off fragments whioh reach the earth. The fragments are called meteoric stones or reroutes. There is a more general sense which includes all the atmospheric phenomena. But I confine myself to meteoric displays and rerolites. There are two regular periods for the meteorio showers; one about the 12th August, the other about the 12th November. The display in August is not as striking as that of November, though it ooours annually. The earth encounters the elliptic orbit which this meteorio mass describes round the sun and goes straight' through the ring of meteors. The November mass takes thirty-three years to complete its revolu? tion around the sun and crosses the earth's path at the point where the earth is on the day above mentioned. It ap? pears for three successive years, with di? minishing numbers. The observation of this phenomenon dates far baok in the history of astrono? my, but the great interest whioh it has awakened has been produced by the dis? covery of its periodicity. No longer re? garded as casual ooonrrenoes, they are now known to be as muon the subjects of law as the san and the planets. I will notice briefly one or two of the most re? markable displays. Humboldt gives an account of an exhibition of shooting stars and fire-balls, whioh he witnessed with Bonplaad, on the coast of Mexico, on the morning of the 12th of Novem? ber, 1799. Many of them appeared to explode, and some of them had a nucleus apparently equal to Jupiter. It is on record that the spectacle was witnessed at the same time in many parts of the earth, and it is notioed by Ramsay in his History of South Carolina. On Tuesday morning, 12th November, 1799, from a little after mid-night until day-light, the firmament of Charleston exhibited a sin? gular but splendid phenomenon. Instead of a few solitary meteors sporting along the sky, whioh is not unfrequent, the; appeared in countless numbers, darting iucessantly in all directions. During the appearance of this uncommon phenome? non, the weather was very oak i ; yet the fears of some timid persons were so ex? cited by the oorruscatlons o' Jit darting in all directions, that t'*- .pprehended that the day of juo~ . and conflagra? tion of the wor' ' ...i.. at hand. On the night of tb ..tb November, 1833, one of the grandest displays ever witnessed was seen in every part of the United Stales. November 14th, 1867, theshowei appeared again with its usual splendor. We need not look for any great display next November. Meteors and rorolites, singly or in small numbers, visit us daily or hourly. Not unfrequently, they are seen to fall in masses of various sizes, aud are too hot to be touobed whee found. ' The museums of the world con? tain hundreds of specimene. All of them have certain external characters, and e chemical composition which enables tlu chemist to recognize them whenevei preseuted. These facts aro regarded at proofs of a common origin, whatevei that origin may be. There is something startling in the estimated size of some of these stones. Dr. Bowditch has giren us a paper upon the extraordinary roro lite that exploded over the town of Wes ton, Conn., December 14, 1807. Hie Eurpc30 was to make an estimate of it: eight, direotion, velooity and magui tnde. Let me give some of the result* reached by this greatest of our mathe? maticians, the La Place of America. Itt coarse was in a direction parallel to thc surface of the earth, and its height was about eighteen miles. Its velooity wat over three miles a second. The magui tude presented the greatest difficulty, at the apparent diameter was not measured exactly by any observer. The least o: all tho limits of the diameter was 491 feet, and this gives a cubic bulk ol G,OOO,OOO tons. But a small fragment only fell to the earth-something les? than a ton-while the greater part con tinned on its course, and may, perhaps be still rolling over oar heads. A stout was found in Siberia whioh weighed 2,000 pounds; and we have an aoooun of a shower of stones, attended by i bright light and loud explosions, whicl occurred at L'Aigle, in Normandy, 26ti April, 1803, when the number of stone found in a space of fourteen squan miles exceeded 2,000. On the 9th June 1866, at Kuyarringer, Hungary, then was a shower of stones whioh was st re wee for nine milos, and one was found weigh ing 800 poonda. Bnt I most close this already too loni artiole, after a word or two on the vexei question of the origin and formation o meteors. There is no generally reeeivei answer to the question, "How ar meteors formed?" We have tho hype thesis that they are bodies thrown ol from the moon by voloanio eruptions and this hypothesis is maintained by L Plaoo among others. Some bolieve the they are concretions formed in on atmosphere, in some way not well d< fined. Again, wo are told by som theorists that portions of ohaotio matte are dispersed in the planetary regioni and that when drawn by tbs attraotiv? power of the earth within ita orbit and set on fire by the enormous heat gene? rated by the condensation of the air, the meteor is the product of the combus? tion. We have, too, the hypothesis that they are terrestrial comets, whioh have their periods of revolution round the earth as other comets have round the sun. But these and other hypotheses whioh might .bo mentioned are but airy speculations, and we have here, a? in thousands of instances, in the spirit of truth und humility, to make confession of childish ignorance. ENCKE. BRAVE AND COURAGEOUS MEN.-It must require courage of a high degree to per? form the feats whioh we detail below, whioh caused the Royal Humane Society, of England to award the silver medal? lion to Mr. John Dodd, United States Consul at Tansin, and Mr. Margary, British Consul at the same time. A vio? lent typhoon having burst over the North coast of Formosa, three vessels with crews, numbering forty men, were blown from the anchorage iu Kelling harbor, and dashed upon the rocky shores. The night was very dark, but the dangerous condition of the vessels wes plainly revealed by the light of burning camphor. A rope having boen made secure to the shore, the two gen? tlemen volunteered to curry it to the nearest vessel, nu Euglish schooner. After attempting to wade through the surf with the rope, which proved too short, they boldly swam through the raging sea, and, after great difficulties, Bucoeeded in rescuing the crew of the schooner. If they had rested from their labors here, they would have been de? serving of the greatest praise for thoir courage, but the two Consuls, who ap? pear to have had a good deal of tbe spirit of the Roman Consuls, determined to save the crew of a French bark and an English vessel whioh were on the rooks at a distance of a mile from the scene of their previous exploit. Aftar repeated efforts by these two brave men, tho orews of the two vessels were saved. Once, the two Consuls swam through tho surf with tho wounded boatswain in their arms. AN UNWILLING BRIDE.-Sunday even? ing, a young man named Dresseoth and a young woman named Eitler, both Bo? hemians, were married at the house of the girl's father, on Prospect street, but it was a marriage into which the girl was forced. She loved some one else better, but her parents were determined on her marrying Dresseoth, who lives iu Buffalo. There were quite a number of neighbors present at the ceremony, whioh was much delayed by the obstinacy of the bride, who refused to stand up or to answer a question. The two were, how? ever, declared legally married. An boor after, the bride attacked ber husband "tooth and nail," scratching his faoe and tearing out his shirt bosom. She de? clared that ehe repudiated the whole transaction, and got out of the house in ?her wedding clothes, and had not been found up to Inst evening. The husband claimed yesterday that he had been de? ceived; that the girl's parents had told him that she loved him, but was "shy," and would bo "reserved" until after the ceremony. He was so pained and dis? gusted with the affair, that he left for home last evening, content to let the bride analyze her feelings, and either conclude to live with him or procure a divorce. The father claims that the neighbors aro to blame, and ho yester? day wanted an officer to go with him and search a Louse wherein he supposed her to bo concealed.-Detroit Free Press. TOBACCO-Br A SMALL BOY.-Tobaooo grows something like cabbage, but I never saw none of it boiled, although I have eaten boiled cabbage with vinegar on it, and I have heard men say that cigars that were given them on eleotion day were nothing but cabbage leaves. Tobacco stores are mostly kept by wooden Injuns, who stand at the door and try to fool little boys by offering them a bunch of cigars, which is glued in the Injun's hands, and is made of wood also. Hogs do not like tobacco; neither do I. I tried to smoke a oigar once, and it made me feel like epsom salts. Tobacco was invented by a mau named Walter Raleigh. When the peo? ple first saw him smoking, they thought ho was a steamboat, and as they never saw a steamboat, they were frightened. My sister Nancy is a girl. I don't know whether she likes tobacco or not. There is a young man named LeRoy who comes to see her. He was standing on the steps one night, with a oigar in his mouth, and he said he didu't know if she liked it, and she said, "LeRoy, the perfume is agreeable." Bat when my big brother Tom lighted his pipe, Nanoy said, "Get out the house, you horrid creature; the smell of tobacco makes me sick." The Northern Methodists of the more bigoted stamp, have, as oar people well know, made politics a part of their re? ligion. Their ministers have not failed to employ all their means ia influencing the people to induce them to vote the ultra Radical ticket At a camp-meet? ing reoently held nt the North (at Ster? ling, Mass., on the 23d of August,) El? der Webster "urged upon every member of the Methodist Church to go to the polls and secare the eleotion of General Grant;" and another divine Methodist said, "if Greeley was elected the lives of carpet-baggers would not be worth a straw." If carpet- baggers believed wb at this reverened soamp Bays, they wonld olear out of tbe Sonth before the day of eleotion; for they have a B trou g suspi? cion of how it will be. GERMAN Snip EN ROUTE-A German ship, with passengers and freight, will leave Bremen for Charleston direct, on the 3d Ootober. A California man is traveling over the West with a $3,000,000 diamond in his vest pookot. THE CORPSES OP THE GREAT.-The embalming of Mazzini's body recalls the singular fate whioh has attended the re? mains of so many distinguished men. In faot, an extremely interesting volnme might be made of the posthumous ad? ventures of the bodies of those whose memory the world has sought to keep alive. There is but little doubt that the tombs in the Pantheon nt Paris, which are shown to contain the remains of Vol? taire and Bo8seau, are, in faot, empty, having been rifled during one of the pe? riods of conservative reaction in Franco Milton's head is said to be in possession of a private collector in Loudon. 80 is Cromwell's. Jeremy Bentham's body, by his direction, was staffed, and, dressed in his usual suit of clothes, with his hat on, his stick in his hand, aud seated in his chair, is now preserved iu a glass case. A few years ago thero was sold ut auction in London what was said to be the head of Confucius, theChiueso sage. It wus a ?kuli mounted ia gold, and was said to have been takcu by an English sailor from the Summer Palace in Pekin when that building was sacked. In Le Chemin des Ecoliers, by Saintiue, there is an illustration by Dore, drawn with the imaginative realism of that artist, representing the skeleton of Charlemagne seated iu his tomb at Aix la-Chapelle, with a crown upon bis skele? ton hoad and his bones wrapped iu the imperial robes. This tomb was built by Charlemagne for himself, and he was buried there. lu 997, Otho III had the tomb opened, and found the skeleton as Dore has depicted it, seated upon tho marble chair, whioh is still shown to the curious. Otho found the body aud the imperial robos much decayed, but, bow? ing respectfully before tho remains of the great king, retired, sud hud the doors sealed again. Ia 1165, however, they were opened again by Frederick Barba? rossa, more for plunder than for curiosi? ty. Having possessed himself of tho treasures the tomb contained, he re? moved the skeleton and distributed its fragments as relies, and the skull and some of the bodes can still be seen at Aix-la-Chappelle, where, with other cu? riosities, they are shown for five francs a head.-Lippmcolt Magazine. GRAIN IN ENGLAND.-John Bull, al? though he has plenty to wear, is likely to be in distress this year for something to eat. According to an exhaustive re? view of the English crops in the Mark Lane Express, whioh is regarded as the highest British authority, the season has been remarkably unfavorable; the rains have been excessive, and in many of the agricultural Counties of England where cutting has not commenced, the wheat hus lodged, sprouted and mildewed; while where the grain has been cut the shocks are stated to have been thorough? ly saturated. It is remarked (12th inst.) that only about oue-fourth of the crop had been reaped, and it was difficult to say at that dato whether bot sunshine or moro rain would prove the most disas? trous. On this point our Loudon con? temporary adds: "We now want for the country's good a set in of cold, dry wea? ther, and if this be denied us, matters may be serious. It is just the same in France, where all confidence has va? nished, and the Paris market has already risen three shillings per quarter on wheat. But France is not the only country besides England which feels the severity of the weather. Belgium, Hol? land, Germany, Poland and Russia are full of apprehensions; and Hungary plainly asserts that the gathering there is so unequal and inferior that exports thence are hopeless." To add to this discouraging aspect, the same authority says the potato disease ia England and in some parts of Ireland is bad. With the threatened serious limitation of the food crops of the United Kingdom, a higher ruling of the prices of breadstuff^ would seem to be inevitable. Fiue wea? ther may make partial amends for some of tho damage that has been inflioted, but under any circumstances the yield can hardly bo brought up to the propor? tions of ordinury seasons, nor can tho crop bo equal to an average quality. THE NORTH CAROLINA FRAUD.-Some days ago (says the Philadelphia Age) we published a statement in relation to the mauner in which colored men were con? veyed from Washington to North Caro? lina and voted in that State for Caldwell and his Radioal colleagues. That state? ment was denied by the journals of that renominatiouist. But the denial is now met by the fact that the Liberal Repub? lican Committee io Washington bas now in its possession the affidavits of over fifty colored men who voted in that State at the last election. Hundreds more of like documents eau be procured if ne? cessary. But enough ure on band to show the manner in which Caldwell was returned on paper, and justify the Legis? lature in giving Judge Merrimon the legal return. That the latter was legally eleoted is no longer a matter of doubt or dispute among intelligent men of either party in North Carolina. Preparations are making to contest the return for Mr. Caldwell when the Legislature meets, and the result of that action will be the unearthing of most monstrous frauds on the part of the Grantites, and the inau? guration of Judge Merrimon as Govern? or of North Carolina. What ngomes must that poet have en? dured who, writing of his love, asserted in his manuscript that he "kissed -ber under tho silent stars," and found tho compositor had made him deolare that he "kicked her ander the cellar stairs!" As a stoat old lady got oat of a crowd? ed coach in front of one of our hotels the other day, she oxolaimed: "Well, that's a relief, anyhow!" To which tho driver, eyeing ber ample proportions, replied: "So the horses think, mum." An insane Pennsylvania editor ima? gines himsolf a mule. The insanity con? sists in assuming that ho is half horse. Miss Nettie Longfellow, a telegraph operator of Newton, Iowa, is a candidate for the office of County Recorder. Ijooal Items. -. ?i Om MATTERS.-Tho price of single copies of the PHCENIX is five cents. The advertising agency of Walker, Evans & Cogswell, represented by Ros? well T. Logan, Esq., is the only author? ized agency for this paper in Charleston. A large and varied lot of cards, suita? ble for weddings, invitations, visiting and business purposes, have j nat been re? ceived nt this office, wbiob, owing to the dull season, will be printed at very low rates. Old newspapers for sale at PHOENIX office, at fifty cents a hundred. Mr. S. H. Joseph, agent for John Ro? binson's Zoological Exposition, Cirons, and World's Fair of Wonders, arrived in Columbia, yesterday, to make the neces? sary arrangements for the "big show." A small roll of money was found, yes? terday, by a policeman. It can be ob? tained by applying at the guard house. At a special meeting of the City Coun? cil, hold last evening, to hear a report of the Committee on Water Works, relative to the contract between Colonel S. A. Pearce, Jr., and tho City Council, for supplying tba city with water, the com mitttee recommended that tho contract be annulled, on the grouud that it had not been complied with as to time. The papors in the different oitiei where thu Great Eastern Circus, Menagerie, etc., has exhibited, speak of it in very complimentary terms. They exhibit in Columbia one week from to-day. The weather during the past four or five days has been so cooiand pleasant. At a large meeting of citizens of Union County, held in the public hall at Union Court House, on the 2d, the following persons were selected as delegates to the Congressional Convention to be held in Columbia next Monday : Glenn D. Peake, A. R. Aughtry and R. M. Stokes. Berry's new building, on Main street, will present a beautiful appearance when completed. The new galvanized iron cornice already up presents a neat ap? pearance. Mr. McKenzie is in receipt of a lot of particularly fine grapes, put up in boxeB, whioh he is selling at reasonable rates. Mr. Cantwell bas a fun-loving, sight? seeing dog, who occupies a position on the front fence, for the purpose of keep? ing a sharp look-out. A day or two ago a policeman passed along, when the dog grabbed his hat and tossed it in the yard. The conservator of the peace was foroed to go bare-headed for a leogth of time, os the family was abseut, and the canine would not allow him to enter the pre? mises. The following is the programme ol music by the band of the 18th Infantry for this aftornoon: Concordia Quickstep-F. Goetz. Overture La Cenerntola-Rossini. Waltz on the Beautiful Danube-John Strauss. Selection from Ernani-Verdi. Galop Over Sticks and Stones-Faust. LEXINGTON NOMINATIONS.-At a meet? ing of the Conservatives of Lexington, held on Monday, the following nomina? tions were made: For Senator-J. C. Hope. Representatives-Maj. H. A. Meetze, Dr. Jacob Lowman. Probate Judge-S. P. Wingard. Sheriff-K. H. Geiger. Clerk of Court-Wm. Assman, Jr. Commissioner of Free Schools-Abnei Hal ti wau gor. Coroner-R. Harman. Commissioners of Roads, t?c.-Daniel Mitchell, Jeremiah Wise, S. L. Smith. MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.-The Northen mail opens at 2.30 P. M.; doses 12.0( A. M. Charleston day mail opens 4.3< P. M.; closes 6.00 A. M. Charlestoi night mail opens 7.00 A. M.; closes 6.11 P. M. Greenville mail opens 6.45 P M. ; closes G.00 A. M. Western openi and closes 1.30 P. M. Wilmington openi 2.30 P. M.; closes 11.30 A. M. Ol Sunday office open from 3 to 4 P. M. PHCEHIXIANA.-Never marry for spite. Life without an object is a vagabond sluggard. A bow should not be always bent particularly an elbow. Trne courage is cool and calm. Thc bravest of men havo the least brutal bullying insolence, and in the very timi of danger are found the most serene ont free. It is the nature of man to be dis pleased with everything that disappoint! a favorite hope or flattering projeot; ant it is the folly of too many of them t< ooudemp without investigating cironm stacoes. Some persons seem to forget that mer talking is not conversing; that it require two to m alco a conversation, and tha eaoh mast be in tarn a listener; bot n< one can be an agreeable companion whi is not as willing to listen as to talk. Fidelity, good humor, and compla cenoy of temper, octlive all the charm of a fine face, and make its decay invisi ble. It requires four years for an oyster t< attain a marketable size. STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA, HEADQ'H NAT'L OOM. LIB'L RBP'NS, COLO MU?A, S. C., August 28, 1872. All voters of this State, who are in favor of the election of Greeley and Brown to the Presidency and Vice-Pre? sidency of the United States, and of the organization of a Liberal Bepnblican party, on the basis of the Cincinnati platform, are respectfully and earnestly requested to take immediate steps to or? ganizo the party, and to form Greeley and Brown Clubs iu every voting pre? cinct of this State. Lot tho young men enter actively upon this work. Secretaries of clubs will confer a favor by Bending to this of&co notices of their organizations and their locations, toge? ther with a list of their officers, at as early a day as practicable. S. A. PEARCE, JB., Member Nat'l Com. for State of S. C. TAKE COUBAGE, INVALIDS.-Pain and weakness produce despondency, and the invalid who is laboring under bodily torture, debility and mental depression at the same time, is indeed in a pitiable condition. But let all who aro thus situated take heart. A balm is provided both for their physical and men tu i in? firmities in Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Among the commonest sources of pain, uneasiness and melancholy are the dis? eases whioh affect the stomach, the liver, the alimentary canal, the nerves and the muscles, such as dyspepsia, bilious dis? orders, constipation, headache, hysteria, and rheumatism, all of which yield readily to the regulating, invigorating and purifying influence of this peerless vegetable tonic, stimulant and restora? tive. Take courage, sorrowful invalids; you will find the help yon need in Hos? tetter's Bitters. jijo HOTEL ARRIVALS, September 3.-dickerson House -3 A Had 1er, Charlotte; K H Br?wley, Cbeetor; G P Hoffman, Doko; Ooo B Walker, Charleston; T L Stark, J B Ohatham, S C; B T West. Charleston; ? L Holmes, Ya; John Andrews, Md; J M MacKay, Abbeville: J D MacKay, N Y; NH Sharp, J P Heid, N J Har? lin, Anderson: T O Judd, Spartanburg. Columbia Hotel-B Tomlinson, S O ailbert, Charleston; B J Markwater, N Y; W T Gary, Edge?eld; O M Sadler. H D Gilbert, G Vf Clayton, N O; A H Toouhell, HC; UL Brant? ley and family, ALB It ; J F Jzlar, Orange burg: Z W Carmel!, Ga; B B Briggs, Charles? ton; D B Phifer, Newberry. LIST OP NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Oliver Ditson & Co.-Singing Books. Many Republicans-Notice. Meeting Richland Lodge. A Havana letter of August 10 gives an account of a piece of bloody retaliation. The Spaniards captured the Cuban Gen. Iuolan and his aide-de-camp, and shot them both. Soon after, seven Spanish officers were taken by the Cuban, Agra monte. Two commissioners were sent to him to treat for the prisoners' release. He offered to esohange them for Inolan and his aide. This was necessarily de? clined, and, in the course of the conver? sation, the military murder was acci? dentally revealed. General Agramonte invited the commissioners to breakfast with him. He did not exactly serve up their friends' hearts as part of tho meal, bat when a volley of musketry sounded outside, he said: "I regret, gentlemen, that I cannot release my prisoners; they are already shot." Some years ago, a little five years old in my church, after hie evening prayer, asked, "Mother, will father go to Heaven when he dies?" (His father was a large man, with a great, huge frame.) "Yes, I hope be will; I do not doubt he will. Why do you ask?" "Oh, I only wanted to know," and for a time the subject seemed to have faded from the child's mind. But it soon cropped out again. "Are you sure, mother, that father will go to Heaven when he dies?" "Yes, my child, I do not doubt it; why do you ask?" The little fellow was silent a mo? ment, and then burst out with, "Golly! what a whopping big angel he'll make!" Two Italians, named Baohignani and Lippi, had an altercation in Memphis about a year ago, resulting ia the death of the latter. Since then, the murderer has returned to Italy, and, while re? cently in the province of Lacci, he was fired upon by three brothers of Lippi and instantly killed. The New York Herald of Saturday, says: "The new South Carolinas were fairly aotive, with an advance to 25|?, the depressing influence of the recent political agitation in the State having ex? hausted itself." Messrs. James H. Rion, J. W. Wood? ward and T. Ross Robertson have been nominated delegates to represent Fair? field in the Convention of the Fourth Congressional District. A Choice List of Singing Books For the Coming Musical Season. THE STANDABD! By L. O. Emerson, of Boston, and H. B. Palmer, o? Chicago. Price $1.50; $13 50 per dozen. First edition exhausted. Next edition already sold. This Church Music Book, the joint product of the best talent of the East am West, will be used immensely, both West and East. Good for ChoruB Classes. Good for Quartette Choirs. Good for Govventions. Good for Societies and Singing Schools. Send, at least, for spe? cimen oopy, whioh will be mailed for the pre? sent, post-paid, for $1.25. [NOTE.-Jost published, Strauss' New MAN? HATTAN WALTZ, first played, with great Bucoess, in New York. Prios$l.] TUeHourofHinRing! By Emerson and Tilden. Price $1. Good, practical, interest? ing High School Sloging Book. Already highly approved and widely used. Excellent also for Seminaries. Sparkling Kablest Sabbath School Song Book. Price 85 cents. None who try it eau help liking it. Pilgrim's Harp! For Sooial Meetings. 80 cents. Very convenient size. Moderate price. 250 tunes. Woll-solooted music. Golden Roblat Foi Common Schools. 60 oeuts. An established favorite, which has a large sale. sar Munie and Music Books mailed, post free, on receipt of retail prices. OL1VEB DITSON A CO., Boston. C. H. DITSON A CO., New York. Sept 4 we* I