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COLUMBIA. S. C. Saturday] Korain*, September 81,1872. For President of the United States, HOR.VCB ORDBLET. of Kew York. For Vloe-President B. GRATZ BROWN, of Hluoarl. Motes Again. From the pen of the ancient Moses, ?moved directly by inspiration from on high, we have tho works called the Pen? tateuch, embodying, besides instructive historical records, laws and regulations admirably adapted to promote the en? franchisement, civilization aad progress .of his race, and held iuestimably dear .and precious up to this hour. Thean works are all that have been left us by the inspired luw-giver, unless we accept the poetical book of Job as his likewise. Few as they are, hundreds of volumes of .commentary have been made upon thom, -and they will remain a fruitful aud sug? gestive theme of comment to the end of time. We have a Moses, too, and a law? giver. And he has attempted to lead up A chosen people out of this land of bond? age into a promised land of freedom and plenty. Ever and anon ho speaks to 'thom, trusting no Aaron with his mes? sages, but himself delivering his orn?les .in well-set and studied haraugues. Now lt is a platform of principies, again a carefully propared address or letter. These productions show many contor? tions, twists and evasions, aud bat little inspiration. It is our duty, if not om pleasure, occasionally to dissect these ?utterances, as well as to stigmatize their author's political misdeeds and objec? tionable personal misoonduot; for om Moses, though "meek" enough, is far from'being Wise, or pure, or great, and, we are norry to say, bears watching re aiarkubly well. He acknowledges him? self under vast obligations to his trusted and dusky followers. "AU that I h a vt got. all that I am in South Carolina, th( black people, of the S tate gave me." In? directly, perhaps, they did, in giving hin official position. Bat, once in, he hat been smart enough to help himself te the best he could find. He "got" hil fine horses and carriages, his silver plat? and elegant clothes, his houses, lands stocks and ready money, according tc the "good old plan" of Bob Boy MoGre gor. If he owes the black race so mud he should not chuck them such dry marrowless bones ns he did last Monda] at Blue Bun, near Newberry Cour House, when he told them that fift; cents u day and paying their own ex penses was a great evil to which the; need submit no longer, as he and hi party wonld soon inaagurato a new sys tem which wonld give them lands am males free, and do away with house rent Our Moses, like Alexander the Great eighs for new worlds to conquer. Hav ing pulled down the United States flaj at Fort Sumter, and having luokil; escaped the enforcement of Geuera Dix's order, ("shoot him on tho spot," and having captured and oonqaere< Ethiopia, he now aspires to extend hi dominions over the regions round about Addressing himself to the white peopl of South Carolina, he begs, he conjures them "to take part, und help ps'(them to redeem our beloved State." Be loved 1 We think we have heard tho robber blast before from Governor Soot! We will seek, ho contiuues, "for credi and respeot in the heurts of our ow: people, by showing them that the moue, they pay into the coffer.s of the State i properly expended. We intend to huv the striotest system of economy in Sout Carolina." Heaven help poor Sout Carolina from such proper expenditure each strict system of economy, as Mose and his associates promise. Mr. Moses, wo have a oonsaming de eire to have the pay certificate matte cleared ap. Will you, while promisin so much in the future, while asking th white people, the people of intelligence character and .property, those who hav a stake in the oonntry, to come to you aid to redeem the State, do them, at th eamo time, the favor of explaining ho' it is that I Messrs. Moyer, Emmingei Sterge, Singer, Markie, Riohardsoi Matthews, Heggarty, Kippie, Baruec Hoffman, Howell, Tibbett and Loo, ti ceived ia pay certificates, signed by yo and countersigned by A. O. Jones, Cler of the Houso of Representative amounts aggregating the sam of $20 211.27, and which have boon duly r< deemed at the Treasury? Aro these tb names of persons who live and breatb amongst ns? If so, who and where ai they, and what olaim had they to recen suoh sums? If they bolong to sorx other sphere, pray tell us if they carrie this money away with them. If they ai surely fabulons and mythical, a braue of the Mooney, tho Wilson or the Lej gett family, then wo should like to kno to whom tho money was paid in tho names. Mr. Moses, yoa will havo tites questions to answer. You bad better d it promptly. The people, tho real peo? ple, of South Corolin*-none of y oar scalawag crowd, or imported carpet-bag? gers, or poor deluded and misguided negroos-demand AB a right that this villainous prooeeding be explained. Out with it, Moaos. It has to como. VON MOLTKE'S BOOK.-The first in? stallment bas jost been published in Berlin of an account of the Franco-Ger? man war, by the historical division of the German Chief Staff, and is presumer! to contain the viows of Count Moltke and the other most distinguished ohiefb of the German army. In regard to the connection of Louis Napoleon with thc origination of the war, it says that "Na? poleon III appears to have played in thc whole affair a passive-one might almost say a witless-part." It sets down thc number of men whom Franco cooli bring into the field at the beginning ol the war as 836,000, but that its rcservt army was all ia confusion. On the othei hand, tho field army of Germany amounted to 462,300 men; the reserve tc 207,500 men. The whole plau of Ger man operations seems to have beei marked oat, and all the preparation; made, before the war began. Whet King William received the declaration o war, all he bad to do was to express ap proval of Coaat Moltke's plan, and u once Count Moltke prooeoded to put hi plan into execution. -? a ? ? KIN? CHARLES OF SWEDEN.-By cubl despatch, the announcement reaobed n that King Charles of Swedea was dead Charles XV was tho grand-sou of Charle XIV, and succeeded his father O?oar a King of Swedea and Norway in 185S Ho was known as a patriotic and eulighl ened monaroh, and aa a man of cult: vated tastes and decided literary taloa te He published a volume of poems, w believe, in 1869. Hm graod-fathei Charles XIV, whose real name wits Jea Baptiste Bernadette, was also a distil gaisbed man, both in civil andNmilitnr life. He died in 1911, leaving Sweden i a state of penco and prosperity wbic sho bad not knowa for half a century. Tho New York World complains tbi Forrester, the alleged Nathan murdorei is as much lionized as if ho wcro son: Msjor-Goneral temporarily uudor arres Obsequious wardens, it says, dance n tendance on him in his coll, and crowe of visitors vie with each othor for tl honor of an interview. The World unreasonable. This is an ago in whic vice sits in high places, and Forrester an accomplished criminal, even if n< goilty of the particular atrocity nu ascribed to him. GRAND OPERATIC AND BALLAD CO CERT IN BEHALF OF THE SOUTH CAKOLII MONUMENT ASSOCIATION.-The Board Directors of the South Carolina Mon ment Association beg to annouueo that ooncort in behalf of their association w be givea ia Colombia, early iu Novel ber. A uumbor of celebrated amate performers of this place, besides nev ral gentlemen from other parts of tl State, Lave generously lent their servie for the occasion. Tho programme and fall particulars the concert will bo published soi weeks prior to tho fair, so that perso residing iu distant parts of the Stu atty avail themselves of this opportun i ;o enjoy n rich musical treat. The Mounmeut. Association has pt mased a site for the Confed?rate tuon neut, ?md hopes soon to lay thu corni itone. A large sum is still needed complote tho work, and we appeal to i br aid-to those whoso privilege it w o fight by tho side of thc gullaut du Those deeds we commemorate; to t nothers and wives of these men; to tin inildron, wbo, in years to come, are edeom South Carolina; aad lastly, bose who lovo liberty and who hon he past and pray for the futuro of o ?eloved State. SOUTH CAROLINA MONUMENT ASSOC ION, Soptember 15, 1872. ?SyPapers throughout the State M dense copy. A GANO OF UAILUOAD HANDS G )BUNK AND ATI'ACK TUE CITIZENS - or respond'-nt of the Oh ar lo? ton Nt orites from Florence to say that a ga f negroes employed by the Wil ming tc 'oluinbia and Augusta Railroad Co any, to build a switch in that to? ftcr having been paid off ou Toesd ist, beoamo drunk and disorderly, umber of inoffensive citizens wero u ?sted by them about 0 o'dook tl vening, whilo passing the car ia whi hey were quartered. They fiaally I ame so disorderly that the intendant tie town wus compelled to call out 1 itizens to arrest them. A lively lif naned; tho negroes using picks, shovc padoa and various other i m piemen overol were at length kuooked dov 'bea the remainder oame to terms, a 'ore looked up. On Wednesday mo ig they were examined by Trial Jual '. C. Fludd, who found eight of th umber guilty, and eeutenoed thuin ay twenty dollars each or spoud tbi ays in jail. They failed to pay up, ley were band-ouflvd and marched' ie jud at Darlington Court House, dies distant. - - A subscriber wishes lo loara if pc ive to pay for the poetical licoase. THE CONDITION or THE SOUTHEE* STATES-A SOUTHEBK WOMAN'S VIEWS UPON THE CONDO OT OF THE CAMPAIGN. A. prominent Southern woman, with tho regeneration of the Sonth and anion of the two BootioQB of th? country at heart, oaUed.Bt the D?mocratie headquarters in Now York recently, and expressed her? self very forcibly concerning the con? duct-pf the campaign. There is, she thought, too muon sentiment in the ar? guments advanced by the Liberals, and a luck of those which appeal to business interests of the country. The lady's views are given, below: In 'the ?rbtr place, exhibit the actual poverty of tb J Southern people, the dilapidation of their borneo, the wuut of moans to repair thom aud to supply thomselves with eveu tho comforts or necessaries of lifo. This is tho gen ern 1 und actual situatiou. The few who aro differently situated aro the exception.:, if local self-government weru gi von to the South to-day, it would require at loast twenty yours of incessaut und cur? liest labor for tho Southern people to bring their Stutes out of the ruiu and desolation which, turn in whatever direc? tion they will, stares them in the face. Hundreds of thousands of the richest lands of the South bordering on the Mississippi River are lying idlo, growing up into a wilderness. Tho owners of these lands are toiling to pay the heavy tuxes upon them, but aro nuable to cul? tivate them, owing to the destruction ot the levees, which ullows tho river every ?pring tu sweep its waters back n dis? tance of forty miles into the interior, sweeping away crops and cattle tho foll distunee of its course. The levees wer? cut and destroyed by the orders HII<1 armies of Gen. Grant, and the peoplt aro too poor to reconstruct them. If toe poor to rebuild the levees upon which their very subsistence depends, how is il possible that this impoverished people could have auy thought for the present or for the future of anything but the reconstruction of their homes and the reclaiming of their lanela? How, undei these circumstances, is it possible timi the rich, prosperous people of the Nortl and North-west caa do themselves so lit tie credit and puy so high a compliment to tho poverty-stricken people of tin South as to suppose, eveu if they hat the desire to do BO, that they would havi the time or the power to overturn ant overthrow tho Government? In th? first place, they uro greatly in the mino rity in numbers. Finauoially and mime rically poor as they ure, is not this feu which the Graut Republicans evince une express, of the Southern people beoom ing the power of the land, the highes tribute of respect which the wealth ant numbers of one seotiou could pay to th intellect of another? In this fear, d< not the Grant Republicans belittle them selves? Afraid of tho ashes of tb Sphinx? for it amounts to little els?. Convince the Kow Eugland and North eru people of the fact that good and rc spuctublu people from New Eugland am other Northern States are and will b cordially welcomed by the Souther] whites, when they go there for the pui pone of visiting the country or to sett I aud identify themselves with tho peopl thoro, that they will be received wit true Southern hospitality and cordiality that the Southern people actually desir such persons to come among thom, bot as visitors und settlers; that they fuel th need of having the enterprising Nortt ero spirit in their midst; and that it i only those who go South for the purpoe of cleating dissensions and discord, fe the purpose of banding and allying th blacks against the whites, the employee against the employers, labor again.' capital, and for the purpose of opprosi ing, distressing and plundering the pee pie, who are ostracised in society Soutl Convince the Northern manufactura] Statespow tu ti mutely con neoted are tb real interests of their States with tb agricultural South. Under the ad mini tratiou of General Grant emigration < the South bas become au impossibility It is not'that tho capitalist is ostracise there, but because they see the Sout prostrate under carpet bag rule au plundering, and are not williug to cari their capital into u country where the seo they can do nothing but lose i where they ure heavily taxod withoi aveu a voice in the State or General G ?ernniout; where their representation july by carpet-baggers, who havo r deutiflcatiou with the people, auil ign< rant negroes. Furthermore, the: Sorthern men, accustomed to courts i ustioo where they may bo tried by the leers, are uot willing to go to a couuti >vhero, upon nay false churge, their liv nay be endangered by trial before a jiu somposed of men helplessly ignorant i ho slightest idea of justice. Thus em ?ration remains a moral impossibilii intil thero is a change of goverumen I'heu proceed to illustrate the difiero) itato of uffairs which wonld exist if tl ioverumeut were changed and capit iud labor induced lo exercise their ind moo in thu regeneration of the Sout Jbow that at present not more than on hird of tho lauds once nuder oultivatie ito now cultivated, anel thut every ti dditional acres of the two-thirds of tl ands now lying idlo would bo worth ho manufacturing States, on an averag very year, eighteen pairs of shoe ight hats, 140 yards of cotton and 1' ards of woolen cloth for the luborii iuascu, besides the millions worth mar goods sent from Northern faotori ur tho consumption of the better olasee n addition, bf theonormoas amount otton and sugar tho South can bo mai ? produco by this introduction of uffioienoy of labor aud capital, tl rices of these staples would be reduct ) loss than the prices paid previous iie war, thus bone fitting the North ?ell as tho South. Those questions mu ortuinly be of interest to the laborii s well us ail other classes of the Nert Giviug the people u stable go vet lent-stoaling $f>0,000 from tho appi nations for the State Depart mou t wi hich to build stables for Grant's horst That Evening Telegram, of New York, ii a orave little ahoet, and sensible 9? it ia brave. A day or two.af ter the Maloo election, it bad a piquant artiolo hunted, ?'The way Maine wenfc-Wno Car>er" From thia article wo copy n paragraph or two: "Maine has goD? Republican. Allah be .praised! Tremendous victory for the Administration! You Custom House fellows, hang yonr banners, if you j have any, ou tho outer walla aud throw your hats up for this roost unprecede it ed triumph. Unparalleled success such as this must bo trying in the last degree to the equilibrium of tho Grantites. This evening, wo expect to hoar that all the followers of tho Administration "tho ods," an th? World uotinuptly terms them; that is tho men who recognize ti e good fruits of addition, dividion and si? lence-will go on a lordly drunk as they generally do. and driuk, to tho amazing result that M iine bnn gone Republican. What a wonderful Shiite is Maine! Un? happy Uuiou! Thy fate is dependent npon Maine and itloue, for "UH Maine goos so goes the Union." What ?R tb* uso of these big Slates of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana, Szo.? What voice havo they got iu the republtol Maine is the wheel horse, nod as Maim wheels, so wheels tho Uuion. This if really ono of tho most extraordinary pbe nomcna of the day. Here is a Stair with a total vote less than ono of otu populous wards holding iu its bunds thc destinies of tho Union-a State when the people aro as densely ignorant of al that ii going on around them as the na tives of Central Africa, full of stupic prejudice, incapable of generous or largi hearted sympathies. And this Stato o Maine is to bo the criterion of our atrug gie for honest government. All we cat say is that, whoever thinks beeausi Maine went Republican (by a reducoi majority) that Grunt and bis plunderer are to be continued io power, approache in mental capacity the familiar animu known as au ass. Maine may go t> Jericho for ought it ooocerus tho grea issue at stake. When Now York uni Pennsylvania ?peak, then we shall knot .how goes tho Union.' " THE CASK OF JOHN GIT.MOUE.-Th Chester Reporter says: "John Gilmore, colored, who was ca tensively engaged during tho year 1806 in stealing burses aud mules iu this sec lion of tho country aud running them t Lancaster County, via Landeford, ia on of tho regular Republican candidates fa tho House of Representatives in Richlau County. His enemies are tryiug to ro bim of hi.s well-earned reputation as thief, aud to prove bis unfitness for th posit iou to which he aspires, by showin that he is an honest man." The Lancaster Ledger, commenting o sundry certificates published by (ji more, says : "Johu Gilmoro (who is bolter know iu this commuuity us Black John Wylii left this place in 18G6 or '07. He wi arrested hero in 18?6 or '(37, ou tb churgeof cotton stealing, and placed i tho jury room up stairs, iu the con house, there being no jail here at tbi time, from which place he made his ei 3ape by jumping from the window. E is also charged with stealing amule fro: i gentleman in this Oonuty. Subs piont to this, we are credibly informe* ho was arrested, tried and convicted < norse stealing at Chester Court lions We do not publish those facts merely I Ibo prejudice of John Gillaiore, but tbi ibe world may see how easy a matter s for a conviotcd sooandrel to obtai sorti?oates of charootcr." TUE 810,000 BET.-As Prince H laid to lying Jack Falstaff, we say to tl Radical press in tho matter of the SK J00 bet: "Now, mark how plain a ta ihall put you down." A gentleman left an advertisement mr office ofioriug to bet 810,000 th Horace Greeley wonld be elected Prei lent of thc United States, and deposit? villi us Si,000 to be put up us a forfei Meanwhile, this gentleman discover! bat a cliquo of Wall street brokers bi nude a betting purse of 8100,000, at vere sending out their clacqiteurs to ti ?otels and public places offeriug'all soi if odds on Grant, for the purpose oroing publie opinion aud raising tl try that thc olection of Grant was a su bing. One of the parties charged with t ask of advaticing this movement of t Administration brokers offered to I ?10,000 to 87,000 on tho re-election bo present incumbent. Tho gontlom o whom we havo ieferrcd as having I ,n oven 810,000, beiug of a practii urn of mind, perceived tho opportune if making a better bargain than tb rhioli he had himself originated, aud inmediately accepted thu odds and a tolled bis' former bet, forfeiting ] 11,000. By this arrangement he risk 12,000 less than by his original wag? nd his chances of winning tho 810,0 emainod tho same. But tho Radn ress, being short of facts to .suggest celine in the popularity of tho Libel undulates, became immediately jubilo vcr tho abandonment of the first b dthont, of oonrso, alluding to t pqnol, which left the Greeley champi 2,000 better ott* than he WSB before. [Neto York Newe. - - - - Johu K. Holcomb, a good citizen [arrisen County, Ga., wno called out is homo one night lust week, by a d uised party of mon, and shot dec ir. Holcomb was a Democrat, and 1 mrdor in attributed to tho Radii retches who havo so long tyrauniz mt County. His body was found t uxfc morning ubout a milo from 1 ouse. Tho Barnwell Journal has changed ame to thc Masonic Workman, and Dw devoted to tho intercuts of tho A >nio fraternity. An English expedition is exploring I iterior of Iceland, of which ns little ; present known as uf the sources of I ile. NOMINATIONS.-Spartanburg - Repub? licans: -v. Senate-D. J. Wlnemfth. Representatives-^. Q. Turner; Dr. Ja van Bryant. Tobe Hartwell, (colored,) Hiram Hobby, (colored.) Probate Judge-James Perry, Eaq. Sheriff-J. P. P. Camp. Olerk-George W. Tuck. County Commissioners-P. Q Camp, Tenob Blackwell, Daniel Swiuey, (co? lored.) Coroner-Lout? N. Poole. ?School Commissioner-T. F. Bird. Newberry-Regular Republicans: Senate-H. C. Corwin. Representatives-Sampson Bridges, Joneph D. Bast?n, Iaora Grbonwood. Judge of Probate-James C. Leahy. Clerk of Court-Jesse 0. Smith. Sheriff-J. J. Carrington. School Commissioner-M. S Long. County Commissioners-Alan Bice, Dermin Mostea, Thomas Keith. Coroner-Jumes Honderaon. Resolutions wero adopted cudorsiug tho regular Republican ticket. Union - -Regular Republicans-For Legislature-J. S. Mobley, S. Knuckloa, M. C. Long. Sheriff- Philip Dunn. Clerk-J. C. Bonsai. Probate Judge-A. A. Hammett. School Commissioner-Barney Bur? ton. County Commissioners-D. U. Going?, W. T. Ketch, Tinsley Clark. Abbeville -Regular Republicans: For Lt ?islature-E. Cain, J. li. Tol? bert, L Pi Martin, H. H. Ellison, H. Wideman. Sheriff-L. P. G?ttin. Probate Judge-C. H. GuflSu. C!??rk of Court-P. L. D. Bowie. School Commissioner-M. Pressling. Coroner-VV. P. Jefferson. - A NEW MILITARI DISPOSITION IN TEXAS.-Tho 10th Regiment of United States Infantry, it appears, has been sent off from tho Rio Grande frontier in Texas, into some obscure Indian region, to distinguish itself in cobtly idleness, or woran than useless activity. This regi? ment had been long stationed on the Mexican border, and ita presence was a comfort to the Texas border residents, and unucceptablu only to the Mexican thieves, bandits und assassins, who have, by proscriptive usage, come to look upon Americans and American cattle, horses, gooda aud chattels, HS their legitimate prey, whenever within reach .of their foraya. Aod now, at the very crisis when most needed, it. is ordered away, and colordd troops are to take its place. Whether or uot these colored troops may prove efficient, it is certain that tho Texas people iu general don't believe in them UH a protection from Mexiaao ra? pine, or Indian rapine, or from anything oise abhorrent and outrageous. On the contrary, they have a suspicion that these troops aro to be encamped in Texas with a sp?cial view to their furnishing the political and historical material for a pithy report of their doings, something after the fashion of a famous stereotyped despatch in the late wur-as, for exam? ple, "Aud the colored troops fought nobly for the election of Massa Grant." If such be the intent of this military disposition, it is scandalous to the Ame? rican army, aud u shame to the whole country. And it must be said that cir? cumstances aro curiously corroborative of the Texas people's theory of the matter. The way in which the Mexican Claims Commission has managed the important business with which it was entrusted, furnishes another striking illustration of Grant's civil service reform. Just claims against Mexico for depredations upon American citizens living near the border for several millions of dollars are in? volved, and it was for the settlement of these that the oom mission by virtue of a treaty between the two Governments was agreed npo?. Mr. Wadsworth,- of Kentucky, who was a Democrat np to 18G3, was made commissioner by Grant, because ho went to school with him, and Mr. Wadsworth has' not had time to ;puro from his law practice nt Maysville to bring tho affair to a successful con summation. A new Mexican Commis rion has been unpointed, who claim that the commission will' expire in February :>y limitation, und that it will be impos? sible to got through tho work by thut time. Tho former Mexican Commis? sioner says tho wholo affair would have >ecn settled long ago, but for the luch?e if the American Commissioner. DEATHS.-Mr. Thomas Little died at tis residence, ia thia Coauty, on tho Otb nstaut, of congestive fever. Mr. Little vasa man highly respected for hit) mopy tood qualities of head and heart. ... An inquest was held over the body of i white female by tho name of Nancy lioach, bofore Trial Justice Bird, on last Tuesday morning, tho jury rendering a rerdiet that the deceased "came to her leath. by the baud of God." Mr. John Watson, Mr?. Lettie Lind? ay and Mrs. Sallie Griffin, died on the 7th instant; on tho 15th instant Mr. Viley Hardy, formerly a resident of this lounty, died in Abboville. Mrs. Susan lardy, wife of the deceased, was buried bout ono week bofore the death of her lusband.-LaurensviUe Herald. Tho venerable field marshal Yon loltke, is living quietly in the littlo Si jsian town of Schweidnitz. He can be nen there every day in a long, black rock cont, smoking an enormous pipe, nd readiug tho newspapers at the only i/o in the place. Georgia has a hale and hearty citizen bo has been struok by thirty-two minie alls, ono mortar shell, one shrapnel, one iroe-inoh conical, struck by lightning, itten by a rattle-snake and chased by a iad dog. The doaths in Now York last week umbered G27, being an increase of 56 i compared with the number for the recoding week. Ia Philadelphia there ero 281, a decrease of 20 frc m tho pre )ding week. -L-. I > , X^OOAX Xtena??, CITY MATTHUS.-The price of single copies o? the PHOENIX is five cents. Our State election for this year takes place on Wednesday, October 16. Under an amendment to tho election law, passed at the last session of the Legislature, the maungers are required to count thovotes in pnblio immediately after the polls are closed. Two colored meu were arrested by Po? liceman ?. Robertson, at an early hour, yestorduy morning, having in their pos? session a qnantity of cotton, Buppoaed to have been stolen. They wore jailed. Policeman Johu Nott sends ai a com? munication, denying certain charges made by ex-Alderman Minort of paying certain debts contracted by the officer at Cooper & Taylor's. Dr. W. W. Wing, formerly Treasurer of the State of Virginia, and also Post? master for several years at Norfolk, ar? rived in this oity, yesterday. The Dr. is now a member of the firm of Geo. W. Singleton <fc Co., (successors to the late Henry D. Cowper,) wholesale packers of Nantemond River oysters, Suffolk, Va. Dr. Wiug will remain iu Columbia a day or two, and will make arrangements for furnishing bivalves to dealers and others. A convention of Republicans was hold? yesterday, at the Court LI ou HO, for the purpose of considering the action of the late County Convention in making cer? tain nominations for State and County officers. The proceedings were exceed? ingly disorderly, from the moment of as? sembling, at 12 M., and continued so to the hoar of adjournment-10 P. M. Without accomplishing anything, the Convention adjourned to 10 o'clock thia morning. INQUEST.-Coroner Coleman held an inquest, yesterday, upon the body of James B. Davje, who died on Thursday morning, from the effects of a wound in? flicted in his arm by Thomas Roberts. After a full investigation, the jury ren? dered a verdict "that the said James B Davis came to bis death, on tho 19th day of September, 1872, from the efleot of a wound inflicted by u knife, in the hands of Thomas Roberts." Roberts hat been committed to jail, to await his trial at the October term of . the Court ol General Sessions. SUPREME COURT DEOISION, SBFTEMBBM 20, 1872.-.Es parte Theodore DeHay It is ordered that notice of this order bi given forthwith, by the Clerk of thii Court, in writing, to the Sheriff of Fair field County; who, within three days o its receipt, shall demand and receivi from tho Superintendent of the Stat? penitentiary the prisoner, Theodor? DeHay, and him safely keep until dub discharged; and the Superintenden aforesaid shall, on such demand, trans?s: the said prisoner to such sheriff. Opi nion by Moses, C. J. ACCIDENT.-Yesterday afternoon, abon 5 o'olock, while Andrew Wallace, (a co lored man,) his wife and daughter, wer riding oat in a baggy, the horse becam frightened and ran off-breaking th vehicle to pieces and seriously ?ojurini Wallace. He was carried into a^neigb boring house and his injuries attendee to by a physician, and then carrie* homo. The horse amused himself b dashing around several blocks, with th harness dangling. Ex-Alderman Minort also met with misfortune, yesterday. His buggy wa smashed, and the occupants slightly lc jured. PHCENIXANA.-Lifo without an objei is a vagabond sluggard. Pnndt says that the difference betwee fixed stars and shooting sturs is, tho oe are suns; tho other, darters. Thirty substitutes for the steam whii tie have already boon devised since tb $10,000 ofter, and several railroads lmv already dispensed with the use of th nuisance Let tho disturber be boan over to keep tho peaco forever, say th English as well as American people. A debating society disouesed tho quei tion, ..Is it wrong to cheat a lawyer? after full discussion and mature deliben tion, tho deoision was, "Not wrong, bt too diffioalt to pay for the trouble." The death of ono John Pattison, by pistol shot, is dono up by the Chicag Times in theso head lines: "Dead as Door Nail-Mr. Pattison's Liver Do< Sot Take Kindly to Ballets-Tho Pe eratod Thief's Soul Goes Out for u firing." Saspioion is a protective qualit; lomething of the nature of that opt jnality in oats which enables them t iee in the dark, aud proourative of n ri ult which, it is said, theso animals d ive from a tenacity of life. Shor ighted people, to make ap for the caat of vision, use suspicion as a feele nat as small insects use their an te nu rc LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Thos. Taylor-Patrons of Husbnndr 8. J. Perry-Golden Opportunity. P. Cantwell-Apples.