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cQLirstBiaLv s; c. ?v . ? j r ,? .?_? Wet!n ?day tlormag. March 5,1873. A Grain of Wheat and * Cmmb of Com? fort. If premium8 had been offered for the moat absurd and worthless laws possible to be concocted, we think that in the sharp competition which would have ensiled, those just passed by tho General Assembly of- South Carolina, wonld havo stood a good ohanoe of bearing off the highest prize. Man; of them read as if they had been enacted for the govern? ment of the island of Barataria, presided over by his Excellency Sanoho Fauza. The. best of them pootly reflect the dignity, and inadequately eeoure tho interests of the Stats. Wore its oburao tor, intelligence, business nativity and enterprise, its social characteristics, its intellectual worth and literary ard soientiflo status to bo learnt only by in? ference from this specimen of its laws, it wonld sink beneath contempt. The Acts concern the merest ephemeral inte? rests, and are only grounded in particu? lars; Yet this tomfoolery has cost the people a dozen times the sum necessary , to have secured discreet legislation, pro? per enactments, both for undoing villainy and unwinding fraud, and for the ad? vancement of the State on a new line of progress and improvement. When we reckon what it has cost the country to change the name of Elmira McNary Speers to Elmira McNary Ritchie, and comfortably to settle Henry Hash into Henry Hash Bhiver; when we think of the Wisdom of an Act to punish any per? son who shall sell or convey any real property on which a lieu exists, without notice of the same to the purobaser, we oouolude that we have paid too much for the whistle, that South Carolina has lost her identity, and beoome either Bcsotia, or a miniature edition of Africa. We rashly said, yesterday, that there might be found a grain or two of wheat in all t his oh ?ff. We! shall have to eoratoh hard to find thiB grain. Let us /?jpe, Here is ah Act to repeal the gen? eral license law; (;TWs.waa one of the most odious faiths 'of legislative- greed, and it was proper; to repeal it. That may be called good; or, at any rate, a removal of evil. , Next we find the Attorney-General instructed to institute criminal and other proceedings againBt the late Commissioners Of the Sinking Fund. This La a faint gleam of light. Bu.t(why should the Attorney be limited to this; one abuse? Why not instrnet him 16. lay bare all the gross frauds,per? petrated on the State and people by the officials, and briug them sternly to the bar of justice? If it be meting to ozolude inquiry in other direoUdnsVit* is not an unmixed good. Then again we have a new code of fees for Probate Judges, Trial Justices^ and Clerks of Court. This, we believe, wUT prove ? saving to those who unfortunately boooms involved in litigation. 'The fees for administra? tors upon'estates are reduced more than ono-hatf. ' Reoordiug by all officers is placed at fifteen cents per copy sheet of 100 words, and other reductions are made. We oan safely say this is pretty good. Again, in allowing foreign insur? ance oompanies to make deposits of either State or United States honde, instead of requiring them to be exclusively State, us heretofore, the Legislature has only done an aot of jastioo towards them. This is all of positive legislation that we can find to commend, and it is small indeed. - On the other hand, there are some omissions to pass laws, which the Legis? lature had the amplest opportunity of doing, that deserve severe rebuke. The failure to pass the bill to aid and encou? rage manufactures, a bill to promote immigration, and a general incorpora? tion bill is to be keenly regretted. The effect will be to throw ns baok at least five years in tho race of improvement, in thei straggle for reoovery. While we thus stand still and repel capital, labor and enterprise from our borders, other States more liberal, more enterprising, having more sense and foresight, will reap the benefit of our niggardly policy, and while they profit by it, will laugh at our btupidity. This madness of tho General Assembly seemed to have some method in it. Charleston was shabbily treated. She asked <for only two inca eures, and they were meanly and cause? lessly refused. No one can give any good reason for denying to the city the franchise of supplying pure water to its peoplo, and it was as cruel and wunton as it was ungracious and trajast to refuse exemption from State taxation, for a time, to the burnt districts. Charleston asked but little and got nothing, and has a jest right to complain. Oar Charleston contemporaries ex? press a sense of relief at the adjourn? ment of the Legislature. They are grate? ful that the opportunity of further ex? penditures and of useless and imprudent legislation is thus brought to an end, Md no worse. From other parts of the State, we receive similar expressions of satiafaction. We are reminded of the pious gratitude of! Sir Thorn as Browne, as expressed in bis RsUijio Medici. He quaintly thanks God, that each time be passed a man on the highway or on the streets, bo did not slay him, as he bad the power to do. The Legislature ad* joorned sine die at last. Thanka. The Legislature might bare done or attempt? ed worse things. It might have rivalled its predecessor in robbery under forms of law. But it didn't. Ji not less cor? rupt and venal, it was not subject to equul temptations, and bad fewer oppor? tunities of being debauched. From one cause or another, it was less extravagant than others. For this, thanks again. Why, says Job, should a living man com? plain? . ^j/ ?->?-> Immigration.?There is circulated in Europe, everywhere, a pamphlet in which every device is employed to pre? vent the aasertion of emigrants of pre ferenoe for homes in the Sfrotb. There is a piotnre of a bright, pretty oottage on one page, surrounded with all appli? ances of comfort and taste that distin? guishes a New Euglander's home; on the opposite page fs a piotnre of a Southern farm house and negro's shanty. Fences are 'Overthrown; there are no flowers, save thoso that smile simply becanse the ann shines s? Brilliantly and rain falls so softly).and the seasons are so kindly and full of life-giving foroe. Weeds and grass overrun the grounds about the wreekedr nnoared-for Southern home? stead, and the1 abiding-place of the la? borer is more repulsive than a pig-atye. It might be well to have a few Southern publications distributed over Europe, and yet there are no organized agencies for this purpose in the South, and can be no perfect remedy for evils of gross misrepresentation of whioh we oomplain. Pbofxts of Manufacturing.?The Eagle and Phoenix Manufaotnring Com? pany, of Columbus, Ga., report profits equal to tweuty-fonr per oeat. of the Capital invested, by laat year's opera? tions; the Golnmbus Manufacturing Company report twenty-tbreo per cent.; the Tallahassee Fsotory, nineteen and-a half per cent., and the RoBwell Factory tune per cent for the last six months of 1872. State Agricultural and Mechanical So? ciety. In pursuance of a resolution passed at the .meeting of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society, in December 'last, the spring meeting of the Society will be held in Charleston, on the first Tuesday in May next, beginning at 11 o'clock A; M. The place of meeting and program me of proceedings will be pub? lished in the morning Charleston papers of that duto. The following subjects have been se? lected for discussion at that meeting, aud the names attached are the appointees, Who will bo expected to open tho debato on the respective subjects: The onlture of upland rice as a stapln production in South Carolina?Geo. T. Wioks, Richland. The comparative advantages of labor saving machinery and their adaptability to Southern labor and products?M. L. I Donaldson, Greenville. Ploughing?its effects upon different soils at different seasons?John A. Fua man, Sumtor. Tho cheapest fertilizer, whether do ! meatic or commercial, and the most eoo ; nominal timo aud method of hs applica? tion?PAUii S. FaCDBB, Orangeburg. Is an exclusive cotton orop good policy for any single furmer or planter in South Carolina??W. M, Shannon, Kershaw. The most ooonomioal method of win? tering stock?Thomas Y. Moore, Spar tanbnrg. Ia Sonth Carolina in greater need of labor or of capital??Jam as MoCutohen, Williamsburg. < With cheap lands and inefficient labor, is the farmer better remunerated by su? perficial or high farming? ?It. M. Sims, York. The above named gentlemen are ear? nestly requested to attend tho May meet? ing of the Society, and be prepared to open tho discussion with essays upon the subjects respectively assigned them. By order. T. W. WOODWARD, Presideut. D. WYATr AiKbn, Secretary. ? ??? ? A German lesidiug in a village near Hanover was reooutly told by a quack dootor that bis wife's gout could be oured by super heat. In spite of the woman's protests, ho took her nod placed her in bis baker's oven; and by tho timo he thought tho process had con? tinued sufficiently long, tho woman wus found a half charred corpse. The muu baa been arrested for "homicide by care? lessness;" which is certainly a mild way of putting it. The Bank of England covers five acres of grodnd and employs 900 olorktj. Light is admitted through open courts, and no mob could take tho bank, there? fore, without oannon to batter the im menso walls. The clock in tho oentre of tho bunk has fifty dials attached to it. Largo oistorns are sunk in the oourt, aud engines, in perfect order, arc al ways in readiness in case of fire. The bank was incorporated in 1691. Capital ?90,000,000. An inmato of tho Pennsylvania peni? tentiary bus oooupied a solitary cell for thirty-four years without seeing the sun. Govrawos ^AMKB^^onBdn.?f*ho Biohmond Whig makes the following report of the reception this notable scheme meets, and the feeling with wbioh it U viewed in the; North and in Virginia. The proposition is a Quixotic one, to say nothing more. It wonld have been something amazing if it had been able to boast of a member of Con? gress for it from a constituency North of the Potomao. It will soon fade oat of public view: Nol No 1?The Philadelphia North Arne rican, a leading organ of the Republican party, devotes? half oolumn to the denun? ciation of the scheme, as it is pleased to term it, of saddling upon the nation the debts of the rebel States. We copy so much of it as is necessary to bIiow the spirit in which thin proposition is re? ceived, even in the "City of Brotherly Love," by the party iu power. Save the American: Qov. Walker, a Liberal of tho most I liberal sort, iu the message he has just oommunicated to the Virginia Legisla I tnre, desires to foist the debts of the ; rebel States upon the Qovernment. His i scheme generally extends to, aud in eludes, the loyal States, where no snob. I aid has been asked. It is, however, at ! the core, intended simply to remove from the Southern' States the indebted? ness they themselves created, and now find so onerous. It is naturally accepta? ble to them. There can be no doubt that every Southern State wonld vote for and accept so easy an adjustment of its burdens. There is just as] little .that every Northern, irrespective of party de? marcation, will refute it. The scheme is not one that really com? mands consideration. The probability of its adoption is so exceedingly remote that the most nervous need have no ap? prehensions. The country is still too near to the groat rebellion, and recol? lects too freshly the sacrifices it necessi? tated, and feels too frequently and' forcibly the burdens it has entailed, tu be led away by any such projects, even though they came from more approved sources. Indeed, there is not enough of variety in the expression of Northern sentiment upon this subject to relieve the discus? sion of it by them from dull monotony. Eaoh party, Radical, Liberal, Republi? can and Democratic, alike oondemns it. So, too, in Virginia, outside of the Se? nate, so far as tho press is an indication of public sentiment, tho projeot has few or no supporters. The more we think of it the better satisfied are we that it was, in every respect, a most unfortnnate suggestion. Of all questions, this was the last to be dragged as an issue into the next canvass. So impressed were we with the mischief likely to result from it, that notwithstanding our pronounced views upon the debt .question, wc were willing, to a certain extent, to fdrego them, aud accept a partial adjustment, in order that an issno pregnant with such dangers might be avoided. When the North is prepared to pay our debt it will be time enough to invoke its charity; to ask it now will be the most certain meanB of insuring its scornful refusal. If in? tended only as buncombe, the Legislature will find other subjects better worthy of their attention. The Utica (N. Y.) Observer thus dis oonrsea upon the hypocrisy of certain loyalists: 1 "Look at the capital, and see the men who for a pretence make long prayers! See Honorable and. Reverend James Harlan, of Iowa, holding aloft iu one hand the certificate of Chaplain Newman to the effect that he is a professional Christian, and concealing in the other hand tho money furnished him by rail? road jobbers to buy his way back to the Senate, where ho might bo used to de? vour widows' houses, bargain away tho homesteads of pioneers, and vote tho looks off tho Treasury. See Scbuyler Colfax creeping into Baltimore last Ban? dar afternoon, to address the Yean? Men's Christian Association, with the same foul lips which had framed a false oath, and called upon God to witness the truth of a lie, only a week before. See Pomeroy, for a pretence, making long pruyers in public pluces, and presiding at the meetings of the Congressional Temperance Society, and then enticing a man into the dark recesses of his pri? vate room to bargain for his soul, and making a proposition which, if accepted in the faith and spirit that prompted it, would have made tho man's children go through life with downcast heads and barning cheeks at the vary mention of the name of him who begat them. See Patterson, parading his self-righteous? ness, cloaking himself in his /superior intelligence,' offering his services as a moral instructor of tho young mon of our land, and then entering into a job which made Ananias respectable by com? parison; for Ananias only sold his land, while Patterson sold his honor; aud Ananias laid half tho proceeds ut the apostles' feet, while Patterson only dropped a shin-plaster into the contribu? tion box. Yet the judgment of Peter was just: 'Thou hast not liod uuto men, but unto God.'" The Car Hook Murdbrbr.?Tho opi? nion is gaining ground that the influ? ence which has been brought to bear upon Governor Dix will havo the effect of gaining executive clomeuoy in Foster's ouse, and that tho'dcath sentence will be commuted. He is befriended by Hamil? ton Fish and Thurlow Wend, and about twenty of tho most influential lawyers in the city havo signed tho petition for commutation of his sentence; and tho ten surviving jarymon who convicted him havo also interested themselves in bis bohalf. Mrs. Putnam, the wifo of the murdered man, bos also written to Governor Dix, asking for a commuta? tion of sentoneo. It is said that facta have come to light which would justify tho Governor in altering Foster's sen? tence to ono of imprisonment for life. Landiko a MsNAosnrE?The ship City of Sparta, Captain Anderson, which arrived at the port of New York on the ?3S* nit., from Calcutta, where ehe cleared November 30tb, 1872, brought four Afl I a tie elaphants, a Su me trau black rhinoceros, a borued borae, three black tigere, a mongoose, and a large number of other rare animals and birds, con? signed to Adam Forepangb, proprietor of the celebrated menagerie bearing his name, and an influential reaidont of Philadelphia. The ship had a remarka? bly pleasant passage for the wintor sea* son; passed theOape of Good Hope on December 21at, the island of St. Helena, once the "Great Little Corporal's" prison, on January 12th, crossed tho equator in longitnde 33 West; and after speaking u number of vessels, arrived safely as above stated. The valuable animals, some of whioh have never be? fore been in this country, were under the charge of James Carstaug, who, with fonr assistants, wus successful iu bring? ing them to this country without any loss, except five birds of Paradise and u small elephant. Aa the snip reached her moorings on Thursday laBt, preparations were imme? diately made to land tho animals, and for this purpo.-ju the elephants were blind? folded, tbeir legs Beoured by heavy chains, with sufficient play to ruabH them to move, and thus tbey were led ashore. The moment each animal reached lerra firma and snuffed the earth, he filled his trunk, raised it over his head, anil covered his huge body with dirt and snow?a most eloquent expression of elephantine satisfaction. The smaller animals were safely landed, and the more difficult task of moving the large rhinoceros was reached. He was confined in a huge box of tbiok planks, the corners heavily bound with iron binds. Large wooden rollers were placed nuder tho oage, aud it was safely rolled to tho pier, when suddenly a cry was raised, "Tiger loose!" Instantly con? sternation was spread around, the crowd of sight-Beers dispersed iu u moment, flying iu all directions, some climbing aloft in the rigging, others olambering over the ship's sides to reach the pier, and one .became so excited that be jumped into the river, and narrowly escaped witb bis life, being picked up by a ferry boat. The elephants, who were standing quietly in the street, were seized with a freuzy, and began a stam? pede. Chains were snapped asunder as if mere threads, and the animals were moving away at their utmost speed. One reached William street, and promptly demolished the candy establishment of uu aged lady, who.se cries were ruthlessly scorned. The tiger's escape was a reality ?a terrible reality, for he bad reached the street, and fastened himself to the back of a horse attached to a oart be? longing to Morgan, Hoed & Co., and the poor beast lay dying, while the driver fled in dismay. Policeman Munroe, though trembling slightly, moved toward the animal, who was enjoying his quiet repast; but tho tiger, raising his head, deigned not to notice the minion of the law, and returned to his prey. It oost him his life, for the officer, with a well aimed shot from his revolver, -killed the beast. What the consequence of the ani? mal's release might have been is shocking contemplate, for the black tiger is one of earth's most ferocious beasts. The elephants were ull captured before night. A small one, wheu found, was enjoying himself hugely at Washington street market, munching a barrel of ap? ples, where a largo conconrso of specta? tors were admiring his devouring pro? pensities, but none ventured to disturb his pleasures. Tho tiger's oscapo was due to a plank iu the bottom of his cage falling oat as it was being raised for removal, each animal having been sepa? rately confiutd. He was valued at S3,000. The intelligent compositor bus a pe? culiar faculty for showing reporters "how not to do it." Yesterday morning we wrote, in our account of the masquerade: "The crowd contained many prominent citizens, and a number of ladies belong? ing to what is known as goad society." The intelligent compositor put it "?ks bund* of ladies," etc. His funeral will take place at 3 o'clock this morning. [Louisville Courier-Journal. A Chicago alderman heard somebody reading about the approaohiug "transit of Venus," just beforo tho council mot, the other evening, and immediately moved that the meeting be adjourned for one week, to permit the eity fathers to attend the show. Ho thought it was "something like tho 'Blaok Crook,' or Lydia Thompson's anatomical exhibi? tions," though ho "had not seen the small bills." A country minister, of limited copaci ty, recently marriod for a second wifo u lady of some property. Being an ardent servant of Mammon, a former neighbor asked him if he did not do well by tho second marriage. "Oh, yes, indeed," ho said, with animation, and then, as an expression of reverent a wo stole iu to his fuoo, ho added: "and what is very re? markable, the clothes of my wife's first husband just fit mo." * 'It is poor work," G eorge Eliot makes ouo of hor characters say, "allays settiu' tho dead above the livin'. Wo shall all on us bo dead some time, I reckon?it ud be better if folks ud make much on us beforehand, instead o' begiunin' when we're gone. It's but little good you'll do a watering the last year's crop." DkATH OF AN Ex-CONFEDERATE IN tub EaTPriAN Ahmy.?Major Hunt, of the Egyptian army, who served on board the Confederate steamer Shc-naudoah, was killed late in January, by a fall from his horse. A deplorable state of fooling still ex? ists in a portion of Arkansas. It is high timo that the vengeance of tho law touched the murderers who dominate certain localities. Pittsburg managers refuse front seats in tho theatres to ladies who do up thoir hair a la mode. COOAl Itein?. Gm Matthr?.?The price of single aopp? of the PEotoix If five cents, v ff The latest style* wedding and visiting Oards; and envelopes, tastily printed, can be obtained at the Pncamx office. Old newspapers for sale at Psosnix office, at fifty cents a hundred. Old type, equal to Babbitt metal, for a variety of purposes, oan be purchased at the Piicbnix office at a muoh less figure than is charged for the latter. Accounts due the Phosnix office must be sealed promptly, as further indulgence oannot be given. We mast have money to carry on business. The teacher of a school in this city, while giving her pupils subjects for their compositions, gave "Newspapers" to one or more. One of the scholars proposed that she be allowed to write about "The Phoenix." Just here, the teaoher in? quired, "Children, oan any of yon tell me what apboonizis?" Soaroely had the question been asked, than the answer oame from all parts of the room, "Mr. Selby's paperl" The teaoher explained the difference between the fabulons and the real bird; and, of course, compli? mented the children on reading the papers. The water will be shut off South of Senate street, this morning, at 9 o'clock. We are indebted to the oommittoe for a card of invitation tu the anniversary celebration of Phronakosmian Literary Society of Newberry College, at Walhalla, Friday evening, Maroh 21, 1873. The Spanish adjunots to a lady's cos? tume are becoming fashionable. Wit? ness great high-backed oombs, long scarf veils worn on the back of the bead, and immense fans of plain black Bilk. On the Gth of March, 1797, the Bank of England suspended specie payment; and we have just learned by telegraph that somo American bank robbers have attempted to foroe it into another sus? pension, by relieving it of about 81, 000,000. Yesterday wan rated as the coldest of the eeasoc. Brick-layers and oarpenters were forced to cease operations, and the school-rooms were sparse of children. The following speaks volumes. Let others do likewise: Office S. O. Lunatio Asylum, Columbia, 8. O, March 4, 1873. Senator T. J. Bobertson will please ac? cept our thanks for a large contribution of books for the usoof the inmates of this institution. J. F. ENSOR, Superintendent. March.?This being the third month of our year, was so named according to tradition, by Romulus, in honor of his father Mars, and was the first month of the Roman year; and till the alteration of the style in 1752, tho legal year in Eng* land commenced on the 25lh of this month. The Hibbrnicon.?This popular and beautiful panorama of the Emerald Isle was unrolled again laat night, at Irwin's Ball, before an appreciative audience. The views are all excellent and life-like, and brought back to the memory of many who were present the scenes of their childhood. Tho exhibition wob interspersed with humorous and witty phrases of Irish character, Hongs, dances, A-c. A grand matinee will be given this afternoon, at 1% o'clock. Mr. MoEvoy will give every one attending the Hibcr uiaon on this occasion a present of a beautiful song book, containing over seventy songs and recitations. The ad? mission to the matinee is reduced to fifty cents for adults and twenty-five cents for children. There will be no exhibition at night, owing to the short time al? lowed by tho railroad schedule; and the proprietor not being willing to create dissatisfaction by curtailing his enter? tainment in any of its parts. So, if you wish to see the Hiberniooo, tho matinee tbis afternoon is the last chance. Daring tho progress of tho entertainment, views arc given of all places of historic interest in Ireland, accompanied by fall and in? teresting descriptions, which aro at once recognized by all who are acquainted with tho scenes and history of that famous oountry. A countjyman, with noarly a smooth face, entered a harbor's shop, in this city, the other day, and "axed" the price of a shave. lie was told the cbargo would bo two dollars, as tho barber's time wonld be taken up in hunting for tho whiskers. The customer was turned over to "Dum? my," who, with innrticulate sounds nnd furciblo gesticulations, tried to induce the customer to take his seat; but, no; said he, "I'm afraid of that man; he shan't shave me; ho don't talk like other folks; be might cot my throat; no, sir I no man oan shave mo that can't talk so I can know what ho means." Uere "Dummy" mndo for the customer, to show him to tho chair, but tbo whisker less youth mado for tho front door, and the last we saw of him he was looking for a barber who "could talk like other fulks do." v Pw??m '^m^^HX-rWit Jeremiah, ;BoaU vi, James Robb land Omuiei. 3?. Lwsd^ TUM oaie wrw heard andconsidered wit* that df Wttu' A. Be all against the tiame .defendants, and moot follow i the decision therein made. The motion is diamiMed, Opi nion by F. J. Moses, O. J. Railboad Aociuknt. ?Two extra trains on the Charlotte, Colombia and Augusta Railroad collided at a point aboot seven miles above this city, yesterday. One train was backing ont behind an outgo? ing train, when the oars of the latter broke loose on an up-grade, and came crushing Into the cars of the other train. Several ears were badly damaged, bat no person was hart. Mail Abbanqkmkktb.?The Northern mail opens 6.30 A. M. and 3.00 P. M.; closes 8 P. M. and 11.00 A. M. Charles? ton day mail opens 6.15 P. M.; closes 6 A. M.; night opens 7.00 A. M.; oloses 6.15 P. M. Greenville opens 6.45 P. M.; oloses 6 A. M. Western opens 6.30 A. M. and 12.30 P. M.; oloses 8 and 1 P. M. Wilmington opens 3.30 P. M.: oloses 10.30 A. M. On Sunday the office is open from 3 to 4 P. M. Phcentxiana.?Quite keen?The air. An exohange asks, "Where does the cotton go?" We know where a good deal of it goes, but don't like to tell. A young gentleman has recently pro? cured a local habitation in Texas, who now advertises for a name, if any one have Buch a thing to spare. He lost bis during a prolonged residenoe among the Indians, by whom he was kidnapped a number of years ago. No parties oalled Smith need apply. ? Colfax buried his little hatohet when he went into the railroad bosiness. A wicked bachelor says that the bon? net of the period looks like the plume hat of a dancing dog. Scandalous?The friendship of two young ladies is always a plot against a third one. List op Nbw Advebtisbmbntb. Thomas Woodward?Notice. Meeting Ricbland Lodge. Oliver Ditson & Co.?Music Hot ezj Arrivals, March 4, 1873.? Columbia Hotel?R N Lowrance, W & A R R; Jas J Ryau, Baltimore; W C MaoMnrphy, Charleston; Joseph Day and wife, SHB Tbayer, Boston; Mrs O Lf Koeno, Jacksonville; John A Jackson. . Ricbland; Benj Hernandez, Charleston;' Joseph Buxlaum, Philadelphia; W T Butt, R Walton Robertson, Augusta; J' W O'Brien, Charleston; Mrs K D Fede nek, A J Fedenek, Orangebnrg; John F Marsh. Massachusetts; J F Bramlett, Greenville; Rev AM Folcbi, Charleston; C J Jaeger, Newberry. Hendrix House?3 T Graaty, Md; MS Steele, Ga; ? A Bronson, Barnwell; Mrs W M Nicholson and daughter, Chester; Mrs Harvey Smith, Chester; ? H Thode, Charleston; J L Black,- 8 0; J W Jones, Laurens; ? P Johnston, Ala; M T Simp? son, Cross Hill. ?>? ? ? Avert the Danger.?The "ethereal mildness" with whiob poets credit the j vernal season is more an illusion of the (fanoy than a meteorological fact. Early spring in temperate climates is a tearful time, and the tears are nsnally too cool for health or oomforl. To avert the complaints to which the fogB and winds of the season are apt to give riso, pru? dent people who believe in the proverb that "prevention is better than cure," fortify their stomachs and brace np their nerves and muscles with Hostotter's Stomaoh Bitters. Those who do this are wise, and are rewarded for their wisdom by escaping the visitations of chills and fevor, rheumatism, bilious? ness, flatulency, constipation, stomach complaints, &o., bo common in damp, inhospitable weather. To the less pru? dent, who neglect this precaution, sind suffer for it, wo would say, that the dis? orders which this potent vegetable tonic prevents it also cures. Mlf3|l Credit Mobilier?How They Pro? nounce It.?The Boston Herald says: Onr Washington correspondent, in or? der to acquaint the public with the most approved methods of pronouncing the name of the somewhat famous Credit Mobilier, sends the following as a trust? worthy guido. You pays your money and you takes your choice: John B. Alley?Credit Mo-beel-yia. Judge Poland?Credit Mo-bil-air. Oakea Ames?Credit Mo-bil-ay. Gen. Banks?Oredit Mo-bil-ly-a. Sidney Dillon?Credit Mo-bil-eer. Senator Stevenson?Ored-dy Mo bill-eo. Raleigh Era: Wo are informed that Gen. Colston of militaire accomplish? ment and renown, and at present in charge of a military school iu Wilming? ton, has been offered by tho Khedive of Egypt charge of the military academy at Cairo, and besides a place on the staff of Gen. Stone, an old Federal soldier who is serving in the military of that country, the two positions being worth about 84,000 in gold. Dr. J. 8. Barnwell, of Boaufort, 8. C, is now visiting the Northern cities for the pnrposo of bringing the facts of the advantages of serionlture before the manufacturers interested in silk, with a view of establishing a silkworm nursery at Beaufort. In colonial times this was a business of great profit in South Caro? lina. A Georgia cow had 120 six and eight penny nails and eighty broken nails in hor stomaoh, and yet she had never known a-n ail in ail her life-time.