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Pol?tica tn K?rahaw?
CAMDEN, S. G., September 13.-Tbej
Begalars' Nominating Convention met
here to-day. The following representa?
tives were nominated: Frank Adamson,
Reuben Guithor and A. W. Hough.
The first two are famous for the money
they made at Scott's impeachment.
Samuel Place, a carpet-bagger, and now
County Treasurer and Postmaster, was
nominated for Sheriff. R. E. Wall,
colored, from Charleston County, for
Clerk. Place has used money iii secur?
ing his nomination-so it is Bnid. Wall
ia a devoted adherent of the MOBOB
faotion. The nominees for Representa?
tives are all colored, and Hough wai re?
moved from the County Auditorship for
incompetency. The bolters will nomi?
nate a good ticket, whioh, if properly
supported, will carry the County.
CAMDEN.
Foreign Affairs.
PAMS, September 13.-Thiers has been
informed, by M. Bourgoing, that the
Pope has abandoned all idea of leaving
Borne.
GENEVA, September 12.-Sir Alexander
Cockburn, the British member of the
board of arbitration, will deliver an
elaborate opinion on the points wherein
he differs from the decision of the court.
His leoretariee are now engaged in the
work of copying tba opinion.
LONDON, September 13.-A special de?
spatch to the Baily News, from Borne,
says the Emperors of Germany, Austria
and Russia, at their conference in Ber?
lin, resolved to advise the Pope to aban?
don the Jesuits, and agreed to ase their
good offices with the Italian Government
for the protection of foreign religious
corporations in Italy.
PARIS, September 13.-Henri Boche
fort, who has been exiled to New Cale?
donia Island, is dangerously ill, and it is
feared he cannot live,
American Matter?.
NEW YOBS, September 12. -Ratifica?
tion meetings of Liberalsand Democrats
were held to-night. Five stands were |
erected in Union' Square, and meetings
were held in Tammany and Irving Halls.
Thora was a very large attendance, the
number being estimated by severul at
upwards ' of 40,000. Tammany Hull
was elaborately decorated, as were also
the various speakers' Blands.
The numerous excavations in tho
upper part of the oity have resulted in
the prevalence of fevers. Many are
dying in that section.
J. C. A. Thompson, a well-known
newspaper correspondent, was run over
and killed at Harlem Bridge, yesterday.
It i is stated that the President and
other officials ara oonvinoed that Indian
hostilities are probable along the whola
Indian frontier.
A Paris letter says it is genorally con?
ceded, on all sides, that Thiers' death
would result in oivil war in France, and
that no little disquiet is caused by the
chances of tba occurrence of euch a con?
tingency.
CINCINNATI, September 13.-A boiler
has jost exploded in a foundry on the
corner of Pearl and Ludlow streets. It !
is reported that seven men are killed.
NORFOLK, September 13.-The pro?
peller Evarman sunk the Eliza Maria
while at anobor in Hampton Roads. The
Maria is from Santos, with ooffee. The
Evorraan loit her foretopmast and had
her bow stove above the water line.
NASHVILLE, September 13.-The Gal
latin Cotton Mill, in Sumner County,
Tenn., owned by Fitzgerald A Co., was
destroyed by fire to day. Loss $50,000;
no insurance. |
KEY WEST, September 13.-A life?
boat, bottom up, was found near Abuoo,
August 29. It is supposed to be from
the wrecked Bienville.
KINGSTON, September 13.-A hurricane
visited Windward Islands. Yessols are
ashore at Saint Kitt's, Guadeloupe and !
Martinique, and great damage bas been
done. At Dominica, vessels were dashed
to pieces, wharves broken and many
lives lost.
LITTLE ROCK, September 12.-Wil?
liams, tba deputy sherill, who was shot a
few days since, is dead. Letters from
Russellville confirm the report that in bia
dying statement be laid all the blame of
the troubles on the present officials.
BALTIMORE, September 13.-Alluding
to the heavy failures in this city yester?
day, the Baltimore Sun, in its financial
artiole, thia morning, says the whole
amount involved in these suspensions, it
is understood, will probably amount to
$2,000,000; but the houses ell claim to
have assets ample to discharge their in?
debtedness. The American says the
amount of liabilities is estimated at
nearly $3,000,000, bat it is impossible to
speak with certainty as to this, or of the
ultimate result of the disaster; although
it is generally believed that tho suspen?
sions will only be temporary, and that a
majority, if not all, of those houses will
speedily resume business. The Gazette
says no such disaster as the failures
above noticed haB befallea Baltimore for
a long series of years, and the day de?
serves to be rankod in the history of
commercial events here with the famous
blaok Friday in New York. The follow?
ing are the houses above alluded to,
whose failures are announced: Lazear
Bros., wholesale grocers, Exchange
Place, who went to protest on Wednes?
day, and whose suspension was followed
yesterday by that of tho old firm; Kirk?
land, Chase & Co., heavy importers, en?
gaged in the West India and Brazil trade;
J. C. Bridges & Co., and Wm. iBayne &
Co., wholesale- grooers, Commerce street,
and A. A. Perry & Co., wholesale lumber
merchants, extensively engagod in manu?
facturing staves and spokes for the West
India trade. Several other failures are
reported to-day.
AUGUSTA, September 13.-Phillip Clay?
ton has been nominated for Congress by
the Radicals of the 8th Georgia District.
BOSTON, September 13.-Rev. Row?
land H. Allen is dead.
NEW YORK, September 13.-Evening
-D. MoKenzie & Co., tea dealers, have
failed.
CINCINNATI, OHIO, September 13.-At
10 o'clock this morning the new boiler
at the foundry of Robert Jones, on the
oornor of Pearl and Ludlow streets,
while being tested, exploded with great
force, blowing off the roof of the build?
ing, carrying pieces of the boiler several
squares, instantly killing three persons,
and injuring nine others. The killed
are Robert Jones, proprietor of foundry,
Evans H. Lloyd and Joseph U harsh lag,
employees. Ubarahlag's body was fear?
fully mutilated-tho hips smashed and
bowels protruding. Lloyd was blown
into a stable adjoining; his body was
torn in pieoes. He leaves a wife and
ohild. The injured are Henry Young,
who is badly hurt from tho falling tim?
ber, and also has a temporal artery
sovered. He may live. Thomas D.
Davis and Edward Roberts ate slightly
hurt; Jerry Mulry is badly scalded, with
. a leg broken and a cut in his head. He
will die. Frank Barringer is injured
about the forehead. Flanagan, aged
I seventeen years, is fatally injured. Wm.
Wilmpleman has au arm broken aud a
out over the eye. Dan Madan has a leg
broken. David James is slightly in?
jured. One pieoe of the roof ascended
in the air, and coming down, crushed
through tba brick wall of a neighboring
house. A piece of the boiler found a
stopping place in the second story of a
frame structure, a square distant. There
was but sixty pounds of steam on when
the explosion occurred.
WASHINGTON, September 13-Evening.
Congress, at the late session, passed an
Act. providing for the settlement of all
accounts for services of laborers, work?
men and mechanics employed by or on
behalf of the Government, between the
25th of June, 18G8, the date of the
Eight Hour Act, and the 19th of May,
18(39, the date of the proclamation of the
President concerning their pay; the set?
tlement tq be made without reduction
on account of, the reduction of hours of
labor, when it shall be made to appear
snob was the sole cause of reduction of
wages. To-day, in responso to an in?
quiry on behalf of tho laborers, work?
men and mechanics iu the Washington
Navy Yard, and the principle will apply
to other navy yards, Commodore Cuso,
noting Secretary of tho Navy, says ap?
plications for the amounts due them
should be made to the Fourth Auditor of
thc Treasury. The settluuieut of ac?
counts of workmen under other branches
will be by the rospoctiveTuditors having
them in charge.
Governor Lindsey, of Alabama, is here.
Probabilities-Northerly to Westerly
winds and generally clour weather on
Saturday for the New England and Mid?
dle States; the winds probably veering
to North-easterly, with cloudy weather
from Eastern Virginia to Southern New
Jersey; North-easterly winds, cloudy
weather and probably areas of rain for
the Eastern portion of North Carolina,
bat for th? remainiug portion of the
South Atlantic States, Northerly to
Westerly winds, and generally olear
weather from Louisiana to tho Western
portion of Florida and thence to Ken
tacky; generally clear weather and
Northerly winda from the Ohio Valley
to Lake Erie Erie, Michigan and Wis?
consin; olear weather and winds gradu?
ally veering to Easterly and Southerly;
Easterly to Southerly winds for the
North-west, with diminishing pressure.
GRAND AHMT PARADE IN BERLIN.
The Emperors of Russia and Austria
witnessed a grand parade of the North
German army at Berlin Saturday. Em?
peror William, a fine old soldier, ap?
peared at the head of his own regiment;
his imperialist brethren serving with
him in their capacity as chiefs of regi?
ment, honorary commissions in tho
Prussian service. The m.litary display
was very brilliant, aud the people at?
tended in immenuu force to witness it.
The Czar Alexander decorated the son of
the Crown Prince of Germany with the
Order of St. Andrew, a very great honor
to the youthful scion of the house of
Hohenzollern, and promoted two of the
more adult Princes of Germany to the
rank of Field Marshal ia the Russian
army.
MORE FRANKING.-The Grant Com- !
mittee, not satisfied with issuing cam- J
paign documents, are also sending out
An advertising ciroular under forged
franks. We have been shown an enve?
lope, addressed to one of our citizens,
nnder the frank of C. Hays, M. C., con?
taining the circular of E. Matlock, pub?
lisher, No. 132 Sooth Third street, Phila?
delphia, Pa., advertising two books, en?
titled "More than One Hundred Reasons
Why General U. S. Grant Should be
Elected," and "More than One Hundred
Reasons Why Horace Greeley Should
Not bo Elected;" and yet the Chronicle
and New York Times barp daily on the
abase of the franking privilege. So says
the Washington Patriot.
A correspondent of the Lexington Dis?
patch saya: "F. J. Moses, Jr., the Radi?
cal candidate for Governor, is now
stamping tho State, and denies the
charges of fraud ia the "arms business,"
and the fraudulent issue of pay certifi?
cates. As regards pay certificates I my?
self saw one signed by him and Pansier,
No. 509; there are, I believe, 136 mem?
bers to the Legislature; now this num?
ber is over treble the members; but I
understand that 1,000 pay certificates
were signed by him."
HONORING AN EDITOR- Patricd Walsh,
Esq., of the Augusta Chronicle and Senti?
nel, has been nominated by the Demo?
cratic Ooaveatioa of Georgia, for a soat
in the Legislature. He received the
highest number of votes cast on tho first
ballot.
In 1657, a man was prosecuted in Lon?
don for soiling coffee, just then intro?
duced, as "a nuisance and prejudice to
the neighborhood."
Financial an . Commercial.
COLUMBIA, S. C., September 13 -Sales
of cotton to day 73 bules-middling
17>^o.
LONDON, September 13-Noon.-Con?
sols 92)4. New 5s 89^.
PARIS, September 13.-Beutes 55f. 40o.
Specie increased 4,000,OOOf.
LIVERPOOL, September 13-3 P. M.
Cotton opened quiet and is now de?
pressed-uplands 9%@10; Orleans 10%;
Hales to-day 8,000 bales; of the week
62;000; export 10,000; speculation 5,000;
stock 805,000, whereof American is
180,000; receipts 28,000, whereof Ameri?
can ia 5,000; actual export 11,000; afloat
207,000, whereof American ?B 5,000.
LIVERPOOL, September 13-Evening.
Cotton dosed dull and depressed-up?
lands 9%; Orleans 10>^@10;^; Bombay
shipments S?DOO last report to tho 13th
2,000 bales. Yarns and fabrics dull and
rather lower.
NEW YORK, September 13-Noon.
Stocks strong. Gold dull, at 12%.
Money easy, at 4. Exchange-long 8;
short 8%. Governments dull. State
bonds quiet. Cotton irregular; BaleB
1,025 bales-uplands 21^; Orleans 21%.
Flour firm. Wheat and corn quiet and
unchanged. Pork steady, at 14.00@
H. 10. Lord quiet-steam 8%@9 3-16.
Freight? steady.
7 P. M.-Cotton irregular; sales 1,600
baleB-uplands 21*^; Orleans 21%.
Flour firmer and somewhat activer
common to fair extra 7.65@10.00; good
to choice 10.05@12.60. Whiskey steady,
at 92>2. Wheat a shade firmer-new
winter red Western 1.52>?@1.64}?. Corn
dosed J-..'c. lower. Bice firm, at 8)<@
9%. Pork firmer, at 14.00@14.20. Lard
firm, at 8%@9>?. Freights unchanged.
Soles of in tun's to-day 11,500 bales:
September 19 5 16, 19%; Ootober 18%,
19 1-16; November 18;%, 18%; Deocmbor
18 13-16, 19; January 19 3-16; February
19 13-16, 19%; March 20%, 2U%. Mo?
ney 3(?j5. a teri i og firmer, at 8@8)?.
Gold 13@13%. Governments dosed
steady but lower. States dull.
Comparative cotton statement-Re?
ceipts at all ports for the week 29,622
bales; Burne time last year 13,150; total
for tho year 44,706; last year 22,806.
Exports for the week 4,629 boles; some
time last year 13,317; total for the year
6,684; last yeur 29,682. Stock at all
United States port? 72,363 bales; lust
year 86,443; at interior towns 7,882; lust
year 10,091; ut Liverpool 815,000; lust
year 498,000. American cotton afloat
for Great Britain 5,000 bales; last year
51,000.
BALTIMORE, September 13.-Cotton
dull and lower-middling 21; receipts
27 bules; sales 10; stock 258; weekly re?
ceipts 317; salta 768; 6pinuers39. Flour
quiet. Wheat opeued activo und firm
aud closed dull-choice white 1.95@2.00.
Cora dull-white 68; yellow 63@65.
Oats steady-Southern 40. Rye quiet.
Provisions firmer. MesB pork 14.50?
14.75. Bacon unchanged. Whiskey
firmer, ot 94.
SAVANNAH, September 13. - Cotton
in good demand and offerings fair
good ordinary 17)?>; low middling 18;
middling 18%; receipts 1,184 boles;
sales 500; stock 2,833; weekly receipts
5,897.
AUGUSTA, September 13.-Cotton dull
-middling 18>?; receipts 584 balee;
sales 468; weekly receipts 2,569; stock
2,195; salsa 255.
GALVESTON, September 13 -Cotton
quiet-good ordinary 16%@16,'?J; re?
ceipts 1,080 bales;salea 250; stock 11,251;
weekly receipts 5,767; solea 1,950.
MOBILE, September 13.-Cotton dull
and easier-low middling 18>?@18%;
middling 19@19%; receipts 625 bales;
sales 50; stock 2,165; weekly receipts
1,636; eales 350.
NORFOLK, September 13.-Cotton dull
-low middling 18%; receipts 620 balee;
sales 20; stock 823; weekly receipts
1,282; eales 65.
NEW ORLEANS, September 13.-Cotton
demand active-middling nominal; re?
ceipts 2,500 bales; eales 1,100; stock
17,605; weekly receipts 9,314; sajes 450.
CHARLESTON, September 13.-Cotton
quiet-ordinary 16@16)?; good ordinary
17%; low middling ltt%($l8??; mid?
dling 18%; receipts 1,110 bales; sales
200; Btock 4,820; weekly receipts 5,882;
sales 2,400.
WILMINGTON, September 13.-Cotton
quiet-middling 18J? ; receipts 21S bales;
sole? 75; stock 137; weekly receipts 313;
sales 203.
BOSTON, September 13.-Cotton dall
middling 21%@21%; receipts857 bulee;
sales 200; stock 6,500; weekly receipts
1,530; sales 1,500.
PHILADELPHIA, September 13.-Cotton
qniet-middling 21%; weekly receipts
1,982 balea.
WUOLUsfAljJb: PU1UEM CUU.U1C*T.
COHHECTKI) WEEKLY B? TUE BOARD OF TILADE.
APPLES, $4bu.l 00(01 ol). MOLASSES,Guba,45(05O
BAOOINO.18(023 NewUrl'ua 72([?'J0
BALE BOPE, Ma.22?024 Sugar li'se.. 35(cC40
N.Y.orWeatylb 7(010 NAiLS.ty keg 0 00(07 50
BUTTEU, North. 35(040 ONIONS.$i bu 200(02 10
Country, ty O?.20(025 OIL, Kerosene, 30(043
BACON. Hams. 17(020. Machinery. .75(01 00
Sidos, $ tt?..10M12 SPECIE, Gold (ail 13
Shoulders.8*09 Silvor. (0106
CANDLES,Sporm4O(05O POTAT'S, Iris2 00(02 40
Adamantine IM7(019 Sweet, bus 150(02 00
COTTON YAUN 1 00(0 1 75 BICE, Carolina lb ?((?le
COTTON. Stet M, .. .10 SnoT.tybag. 275(03 00
Middling.174 SALT, Liiverp.l 90(02 00
Low Midl'g,.17 SOAP, tylb,.5@10
Good Orduy,_l?.jl SPIHITS, Alcokol,gl&00
Ordinary.l?? Brandy . .4 00(01200
OuEEBE.E.D.Ib. 17^035 Gin.160(0600
factory.10(020 Bum.100(07 00
COFFEE, Bio,tylb22'025 Whiskey... 135<0G 00
Laguayra_25(030 SUOAU, CrusAT.14(015
Java.83035 Brown.114(013
FLOOB.CO. 800(01100 STAUCU, y lb... 8J(01O
Northoru.800(012 00 TE.v.Oroon ttl00(0250
QUAIN,Corn 1 00(01101 Black,.. ..100(0110
Whoat... .2 OOr02 50! TOBACCO, Chw.45(01 00
Oat!.7c@90| Smoking,m..5Or0] 00
Poaa.1 2><01 50 ViNEOAn, Wino,.50'??C0
HAY, Nortli, 2 25(02 50 Fronch.(0100
HiDE3,?ry, %ilbl3?17 WINE, Cham... .29(031
Groon.<0H Port, tygal3OOr05 00
LAUD, \< lb.114(014 Sherry.... 250?7 80
LIME, ty l?bi.2 25(02 lo; Madeira...2 50(??t7 05
The White House baa had a now cop?
per roof put on, somoblack walnut stairs
erected and other garnishing done-all
in good shape for Uuclo Horace to take
possession next epriug.
Politic? In tn? State.
ANDERSON.-At tho con von ti on held
on Monday, the 9th inst., the following
nominations were made:
Representatives-W. S. PickeuB, J. C.
0. Featherstone, G. E. Roberts.
Clerk of Court-J. W. Daniels.
Sheriff-Wm. McGnkin.
Judge of Probate-W. W. Humphreys.
School Commissioner-T. P. Benson.
SFARTANnURG.-The Democrats held
their County Convention on the 7th in?
stant, and nominated the following
County tioket:
Senate-Major David R. Duncan.
House of Representativos-Dr. lt. M.
Smith, Colonel G. Cannon, Dr. W. P.
Crompton, Colonel Thomas G. Moore.
School Commissioner-W. H. Richard?
son.
County Commissioners-W. T. Thorn,
H.D.Floyd, J. M. Elford.
Probate Judge-Benjamin Wofford.
Clerk-F. M. Trimmier.
Sheriff-John Dewberry.
Coroner-Moses Foster.
Solicitor of the Seventh Cirouit-Maj.
H. Li. McGowan.
The ticket ie composed entirely of
good and true men, and with an earnest
tight is bound to win. Spartanbnrg has
the largest white voting majority of any
County in the State, the vote being,
whites 3,231; eolored 1,254, a majority I
of 1,977. In the election of 1870, the
whites did not vote half tboir strength,
and the Radical tioket was only defeated
by a majority of 500. The County
ought to give a Demooratio vote each
year of 3,500, at least.
SUMTER.-On Saturday last the two
warring factions of the ring-streaked
party bad an immense pow-wow and
knock-down right. The Watchman has
tho following account of the rumpus:
At 1 o'clock the Btreet immediately in
front of the Court House, in its entire
width, and extending up and down for
some distance, was packed by our new?
born citizens.
Delaney, who is a perfectly black man,
with sharp upright head, almost entirely
bald, opeued the discussion in behalf of
the regulur tioket. He is said to sur?
pass all his colored confreres in point of j
education and to bo an easy and fluent
speaker.
He was followed by Samuel Lee, who
attacked Geo. Moses, Delaney and Car
dozo with a self-possession and perti?
nacity seldom equaled.
Cardozo. who is tho "regular" candi?
date for Treasurer, was the next und
last speaker. He was frequently inter?
rupted by Lee, (who persisted in hoing
heard,) with charges against himself and
others, to which he submitted and re?
plied with all the calmness and stoicism
I of confident injured innocence.
The wrangle continued until dark, and
! the crowd dispersed amid the noise of a
very pandemonium. ?
EDGEFIEIJD.-Tho Edgefield Adver?
tiser, of Wednesday, suys:
There was to have buen a Republican
mass meeting at this place on Tuesday
last. For a number of days previous,
large posters, in oar town und its envi?
rons, had announced the fact, and called
upon the faithful to rally from every hill
aud dale. Elliott, Moses and Melton
were to be tho speakers.
And the day came in its due course;
but the mass oame not, and neither did
the speakers. Indeed, the speakers j
must have had prophetio warning; foi
had they come, they would certainly
have been miserably mortified. This was |
emphatically one of the occasions when
the negroes stayed at home and picked
their cotton. Such a miserable corpo?
ral's guard we have never seen in Edge
field.
But still there was a meeting-such a
one as it was; and in the academy grove,
as usual. We waited until 1 o'clock P.
M., to hoar tho din of the orator's voice,
before we repaired to the scene. But no I
din reaching our ear, we hastened to see
what had befallen the undertaking. And
there we found Mr. Sparuick, of the
Aiken Tribune, speaking to a knot of ne?
groes, in the quietest aud most dignified
manner possible. Sherill' MoDevitt was ?
Chairman of the meeting. Our towns?
man, Mr. W. D. Barney, had been tho
first spenker.
LEXINGTON.-lu Lexington, where the
Democrats have a voting majority of
829, a regulur Conservativo ticket bas
been nominated, but there are ideals
and sore-beads all the world over, aud
some persons aro playing into the hands
of the ring by nominating an independ?
ent ticket. It is as follows:
Senator-Dr. F. S. Lewie.
Representatives-Major J. H. Koon,
S. P. Wingard.
Clerk of Court-W. J. Assman, Jr.
Sheriff-H. H. Geiger.
Judge of Probate-R. Harman.
School Commissioner-A. D. Halta
wangor.
County Commissioners - Jefferson
Hook, Capt. George Epting, Jeremiah
Wise.
Coroner-Preston S. George.
A STRANGE SCENE AT A MORGUE.
Yesterday morning a strange scene was
enacted at the Morgue. The body of
John Gerlach, which had been fouud in
Gunner's Run on Sunday morning, was
exposod for identification, and uinong
the parties who arrived, all at about the
same time, for that purpose, woro a
daughter of tho doceasod by a former
wife, now dead, a woman whom bo re
cently married and has boen living with
as her husband, and another woman to
whom ho was married several years ago
and whom ho deserted to marry tho ono
last mentioned. They all fully identified
tho body, and both tho women exhibited
considerable feeling, but they did not
appear to have any enmity towards each
other. None of tho parties would tako
charge of tho body, and it was sent to
the Potter's Field for burial.
f Ph iladelph ia Ledger.
An exchange tells of a lady who re?
turned money to her husband after be?
ing out ehoppiug. Don't helievo a word
of this yaru.
GOVERNMENT ARCHIVES.-The casto
dianB of the executive archives jost aow
have certainly very perplexed duties to
perform. Whether ooo rale regulates
all the departments we have no means of
knowing, bat rather infer that universal
irregularity is the order of the day. Our
precise knowledge is limited to tho two
Departments of War and the Treasury,
where the military records of our own
cause and the purchased and captured
records of the enemy are deposited.
What the rale once was and ought to be
ia very simple and precise, that outside
an individual access ought rigidly to be
denied, and that the power of the ex?
ecutive over its own archives should be
limited to the unrestriotod use of them
for its own legitimate purposes, with no
delegation to individuals to do anything
for mero personal ends. In Bhort, ex?
cept for aotual executive ase, we deny
the power of the Government, without
the action of Congress, to make public
a siugle record or document. This may
be a strict rule, but it ia a wholesome
ono, and, at all events, puts an end io
the abuse of irresponsible individuals
misusing the confidence which is reposed
in them, and the Government descend?
ing from the high level it ia supposed to
occupy and prostituting its records for
low purposes. We have had instances of
this recently, whioh are very fresh in
our readers' recollection. We refer, of
course, to the Badeau raid, the end of
which has never been clearly ascertained,
and which, to say the least of it, and
aside from discredit, cost the Govern?
ment something to supply the records
which the biographer or some one else
appropriated-the transfer to the Na?
tional Committee for politioal uses of the
Confederate archives, and, more recent?
ly and furtively still, of tho documents
in relation to Gen. Banks. These last,
held back till the demonstration in favor
of Mr. Greeley was made, were printed,
not like the others, in Washington, but,
in order, evidently, to avoid the suspi?
cion of a breaoh of official confidence, in
Cincinnati.
On ono point, at least, there will be
no dissent, that, whatever the rule may
be, it should' bo uniform. This, it ap?
pears, is not the case, and though Ba?
deau may rummage to his heart's con?
tent, and Gen. Banks' enemies have the
run of the War Department, to inspect,
copy, and carry away whatever they
need, if a Southern man, repentant of
errors of the past, and honestly loyal to
the Government of the Union; one, too,
accredited ns tho representative in the
Senate of a reconstructed State, asks for
a copy of captured Confederate records,
huving a tendency to prove bia inno?
cence of a charge of inhumanity to pri?
soners, it is summarily refused. Gov.
Vance, of North Carolina, who is now,
by Act of Congress, a rehabilitated and
loyid citizen of the United States, in de?
fending himself against a charge made
?ear his home of cruelty to Federal pri?
soners at Salisbury, says:
"When I was elected to the United
States Senate in 1870, the organ of the
Administration in Washington perpetra?
ted a foul calumny upon me by asserting
that I waa in a degree responsible for
cruelties to Federa* prisoners at Salis?
bury. I '*ent to the War Department,
where my officiai I' ?er-books were, (and
are still, I prep- .,) and asked permis?
sion to cor- letters from myself to
the Cc . rate States Secretary of War
O" J subject. I was told I could look
tue letters, but could not copy them
without the permission of Congress! I
did look at them, ander charge of a
clerk, and there they were, and are, con?
taining not only a full and triumphant re?
futation of the charges, bot showing that
I had exerted myself to obtain an allevia?
tion of their (the prisoners') condition.
But justice and truth were not expedi?
ent then."
Now, let the reader mark every word
of this precise statement. Badeau, loyal
and faithful to bis chief, goes alone to
the War Department; picks and chooses
as he pleases; do09 not even pause to
read, still less to copy; paoks all he
needs into his huga portmanteaus, and
carries thom off to London, and does not
take the trouble to return them. Mr.
Vance, reconstructed and forgiven rebel,
uhks to look at his own letters, in which
ho had interceded in behalf of Federal
prisoners, and this is grudgingly allowed
"under the supervision of a clerk" to
watch him, lest, like Badeau, ho should
oarry them away. He finds the evidence
be seeks. It establishes his innocence
of tho gross charge prefer? ed against
him. It enables bim to show that in his
case there is no difficulty in bridging
over the chasm and restoring tho sympa?
thies of yoro, and when ho asks permis?
sion to make a copy of his own letters,
he is coldly and formally told that,
"copies cannot be mado without the per?
mission of Congress 1"
[ Washington Patriot.
SEROEANT BATES ON THE RAMPAGE
AGAIN.-A contract has been made and
duly signed, at Bloomington, Ul., by and
between Gilbort H. Bates and Thomas J.
Warren, of Seabrook, McLean County,
III., on a wager of 81,000 against 8100,
that the said Bates cannot oarry the flag
of tho United States, in tho day-time
and on foot, said flag to be of large size
and displayed from a nine-foot flag-staff,
from the dividing lina between Sootlaud
and England to the Mayor's Hall, in the
oity of London, without molestation or
insult to himself or tho flag. Certified
vouchers from the munioipal officers of
the towns through whioh he passes will
be required to entitle Bates to the 81,000.
-1-? . ?
A determined effort is to ho made at
the approaching sospion of Cougress to
secure the passage of a postal telegraph
bill. To this cud, tho Po9tma9ter-Gen
oral is busily engaged in tho collection
of statistics bearing on tho question.
Tho Chattahoochee River is fcportod
very low. Some Hay this is owiug to the
caterpillars having absorbed so muob.
There are millions along the bauk. No
cotton to eat, aud boneo they are going
for water.
A man, tried in Dumfries, before tho
sheriff and a jury, accused of stealing
Eome garments from a farm-yard, was
defended by a local practitioner with so
much success that the jury rendered a
verdict of "Not proven." To the sur?
prise of bia agent, tho prisoner seemed
by no means in a hurry to quit the dock
after the verdiot was rendered. The man
of law went np to him, informed him
that he had been acquitted, and was at
liberty to go away; but still the fellow
kept his seat. ? second time he was re?
minded that he was no longer a prisoner,
but be remained immovable. At length,
as the court wa? nearly emptied of the
people who bad been present daring the
trial, including the witnesses in the case,
the prisoner whispered to his counsel,
"The fact is, mon, I durst na gang
sooner; I have on the pair of trousers
that was stolen."
SYMPTOMS.-Slight pains in the side,
the skin and eye assume a thick yellow
coat, digestion is impaired, an unpleas?
ant sinking sensation at the pit of the
stomaoh ?B experienced, the bowels are
irregular, the mind fretful, the memory
weakened, sometimes a slight cough,
coldness of the bands and feet, some?
times IOBB of appetite and at others un?
natural craving for food, dizziness of the
head, depressed spirits, feeling of uncer?
tainty, of having left something undone,
bat can't tell what it is. Take Simmon's
Laver Regulator, it will remove all un?
pleasant feelings and make you well. 1
A WHOLE FAMILY REPORTED INSANE.
A family of four colored persoos in
Washington have been discovered by
the police to be laboring under religious
insanity. The father Bays that about
three or four weeks ago, the daughter
embraced religion, and the mother and
son got under conviction, since whioh
time they have been out of their mind,
at times, and he believes that he has
caught the same ailment himself.
Political intelligence from Wisconsin
is very favorable' to the Liberal cause.
There is believed to be a fair prospect of
carrying the State and electing three
Conservative members of Congress. The
Gorman Republican element in that
State has gone over in quite large num?
bera to the Liberal side, while the entire
Democratic vote is united for Greeley
and Brown.
MUNICIPAL ELECTION.-The following
are the officers elected on Monday last,
to serve the municipality of this place:
S. W. Maurice, Intendant. George P.
Nelson, Philip Heller, W. W. Ward, J.
F. Blakely, Wardens.-Kingslree Star.
In one of the scenes in. "Le Rio Gar?
rotte," a man is out up, before the audi?
ence, and his dissevered head gives
orders for the disposal of his legs and
arms. The novel illusion is accom?
plished so neatly that it is impossible to
detect the trick.
The most extraordinary instance on
rcoord of patience is that of a judge who
listened for two days to 'the blather of a
couple of lawyers on the construction of
a statute, and then informed them that
the law was repealed. He said that he
wanted to see how big fools they could -
make of themselves.
The London Spectator complains that
the letter Z is gradually being elimi?
nated from its old place in the formation
of words, and that its place is being sup?
plied by the letter S, and regards the in?
novation as an "American abomina?
tion."
SUDDEN DEATH.-Mrs. Margaret E.
Hughes, widow of Wm. E. Hoghes, de?
ceased, being as well as usual yesterday,
retired to her ohamber about dark, and
in a few minutes fell from her chair
dead.-Camden Journal.
Pall and Winter Stock.
_4 HAVING recently returned from New
Ski York, I am prepared to exhibit one of the
(IAmoat nhoice and select Stock of Goods
. HIL-JV er offered in thia markot. It embraces
Fine English, French and American
Cassimeres,
SCOTCH TWEEDS, Ac., au elogant line of
Vestings, and a large etock of the celebrated
Star ?shirt. My ouatomers and the public
generally aro invited to call and examine.
Orders solicited uud promptly attonded to.
Sept 14 Imo_J. F. EISENMANN.
Printing Ollie o for Sale.
A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT.
rilHE subscriber, being desirous of giving
JL his undivided attention to the Book ano
stationery Business, in which he has re?
cently engaged, offers for sale the MOUN?
TAINEER PAINTING ESTABLISHMENT.
Tho business of the office is unusually
large for an up-country Printing Establish
meut, and tho material is all in good working
order, much of it being almost new. The
outfit consists of 1 Cylinder Press, bed 28 by
41 inchea; 1 bupor-Royal Washington Press,
with Sci Milking Maohine; 1 Gorden Card and
Bill-head Press; 1 Standing Press, with
Boards; 1 Paper Trimming Machine; Miter?
ing Machine, Lead and Bulo Cutters; a good
quantity of Body Type; over teventy fonts of
job Type; Bordera, Cuts, Curves. Rules, Ao.
To a good printer, wishing to obtain a foot?
hold in an improving location, this ts a pecu?
liarly favorable opportunity. It also affords
a handsome inducement for tho profitable in?
vestment of capital and labor in a literary
pursuit by one not acquainted with the me?
chanical operation of the busine a.
Price and terms made known ou applica?
tion. Addreas G. E. ELFORD,
Sept 14 B3_Greenville, 8. 0.
Philadelphia and Southern
MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE
TO WILMINGTON, H. C.
IS composed of two first olass STEAM?
SHIPS, ol 800 tone each; sailing from each
port ovory WEDNESDAY. Through ratea to
all points South and South-west aa low as by
any othnr route. Insuranco one-half per cent.
Prompt and certain despatch given. For
rates on general merchandize, cotton, sheet?
ing, Ac, apply to
W. L. JAMES, Genoral Agentt
Philadelphia.
WO?ITH A WORTH, Agents.
Wilmington, N. G.
A. POPE, Gen'l Freight Agent
W., C. & A. R. lt., Wilmington, N. C.
Sept 14 Smo8