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Rom?, April 15.?The condition of the
Pope is au changed to-day. . ? gj
Charleston, April ?' 15. ? ArriTed?
Steamship Ashland, Philadelphia. |
Nbw ToBKt April 15.?The trunk lines
to the West have adopted a now freight
tar iff?an average reduction of sixteen
percent.- .? I
A Herald special says O'KeUy-ie under
the protection of British OonsblDunlop.
O'Kelly i8 in no immediate danger. ; ',
A private despatch says the Pope's
disease is lumbago, and that he is rapid?
ly recovering. ?
Chkugo, April 14.?A .heavy snow
storm between Omaha and Cheyenne has
stopped the telegraphs, so there is no?
thing from the Pacific coast to-day.
SPringfield, Mass, April 15.? Mills I
Nos. 1 and 2 of DWight's Manufacturing
Company were burned to-aay, including
4,500 bales of cotton. The less is 8750, -
000. 800 workmen have been ousted. I
{Fbxhxon, N. J. , April 15.?The Demo?
crats have elected the Mayor, and have
the Council by thirteen to eight.
Halifax. April 16.?The wreck of the i
Atlantio remained hard and fast, yester-1
day; the only effect of Sunday's storm
on the wreck was to carry away the
main ?mast. ? The sea Was so high, yes?
terday, that no work oould be done.
Washington, April 15.?The Govern?
ment has received nothing from the Mo
doo country since Sunday. The Presi?
dent has appointed Lewis H. Mayor
Collector of the First Alabama District.
The'Post Office Department has or?
dered railroad postal service from Allen
dale,' S. G, to Augusta, Ga.
? Albany, April 15.?The ehimney of a
burned house fell,* burying five little
Slrls; one is dead, three will die, and the
fth is seriSusly hurt.
Halifax, April 15.?A gale and A high
sea have prevented work on the wreck.
. Philadelphia, April 15.?John Sid-1
ney Jones was arrested for. firing his
store. He .was deolared insane, and
taken to the asylum; but he eeoaped
from the third story by a water pipe, j
His estate is valued at $83.000.
? New York, April 15.?A boy, for
stabbing his teacher in the Honso of Be?
fuge, was sentenced to fire years in the
State Prison.
The run on the Hoboken Bank has
wholly ceased.
Boston, April 15.?The insuranoe on
Chioopee Mills was $610,000. The Mu?
tual Company, of Boston, loses $100,000.
Washington, April 15.?There was a
. Cabinet meeting to-day, but did not dia
ouss Modoo affairs. It is tacitly under?
stood that the military hare them in
hand.
The Supreme Court of the United
States to-day anffounced the following
opinion: Lopyere vs. the United States?
Appeal from the Court of Claims. The
Court of Claims in this cose gave judg?
ment against the appellant on a olaim
for cotton delivered to the agents of the
Government, under the Act giving per?
mission to persons sympathizing with
the rebellion to sell their cotton, provid?
ing they would give one-fourth thereof
to the United States. The cotton was
turned over to the Government on the
26th of July. On the 24th, the Presi?
dent had issued a proclamation remov?
ing restrictions on trade in the district
where the cotton was delivered?the Bed
Rlvor District?and it was on that day
filed in the State Department; but it was
not promulgated through the public
Sress until the 26th. The Court of
laims held that it was not valid nntil
published, and was not published until
promulgated as stated. This "Court re?
verses that judgment, with directions-to
the Court of Claims to enter a judgment
for the appellant, holding that the only
way to guard against the mischiefs aris?
ing from the uncertainty of parol proof
as to the time of publication, is to apply
the same legal presumption, to proclama?
tions that is applied to statutes; that is,
that they had a valid existence at the be?
ginning of the day of, their date; and' in
the absence of fraud, to permit no in?
quiry on the subjeot; Mr.. Justice
Sway no delivered the opinion. Mr, Jus?
tice Bradley dissented.
Probabilities?For the South Atlantio
States. South-westerly, winds and cloudy |
weather. For the Golf States, North?
westerly winds; partly cloudy and clear?
ing woathor. '.''.,
Havana, April 15.'?O'Kelly remains
at Manzanilla. Caballos evidently in?
tends to leave the solution to his suc?
cessor. General Piotain, who is expected
shortly.
English detectives fully identify Bid
well. .
Springfield, April 15.?In addition to
the two Chioopee mills,- the engine and
pioker houses, two filled stores, part of d*
railroad depot, with 1,500 bales of cot?
ton, were burned.
New Yobs, April 15.?The firm of
Phelps, Dodge & Co. will publish, to?
morrow morning, a detailed statement of
their recent difficulties with the Govern?
ment.
New Orleans, April 15.?The steamer
South-western brings the following from
Grant Parish: The negapes who had bar?
ricaded . themselves In Col fax Court
House numbered 400.' They were tho?
roughly armed. 150 men, gathered from
the saironnding Parishes, mode an at?
tack on Sunday noon. The Court House
was stormed at 8 o'olook. The negroes
took refage in the Court House. After
further fighting, the negroes displayed a
flag of tra.i. Several detachments
moved on the Court House, when the
negroes opened fire. Cant. Harduot was
shot in the bowels, it is feared fatally.
They retreated outside of the breast?
works. As the only means of dislodging
the negroes, the Court House was fired.
The negroes were then shot as they came
from the burning building. It is report?
ed that from 80 to 100 negroes were
killed, and there were none to be found
for miles around. Roughadas and his
white allies escaped. The Captain of
the South western confirms the above.
"He~saw~*eigbteerr~or twenty dead ne-r;
| grdes, and brought two wounded whites
to Alexandria. All quiet when the
South'* western left Col fax, Sunday even?
ing. . ''^rv ? ? .
B>?sa?MiaivSU>a tommtrclnl.
London, April 16r?Noon.? Consols;
5s 90^. I
Frankfort, April 16.-*-rB6hds 95>?.
Paiub, April 15.?Rentee 66f. 22o. I
Liverpool, April 15?3 P. M.?Cotton
opened and continues 'quiet? uplands
9%; Orleans ?W@9X.From Savannah
or Obar!=sto=, deliverable in April, 9%.
sales 10,000 balesrlpeeulation and export
1,000. ''?
Liverpool, April 15?Evening.?Cot?
ton olosed qaiot and*steady; from Savan?
nah and Charleston, deliverable in March
and April, 9 1-16. Yarns and fabrics
qoiet but firm.
New York, April 15?Noon.?Stocks
dull. Gold firm, at 18. Money 8-16?
Exchange?long 7%; short 8H
Qovernments dull bot steady. State
bonds very quiet. Gotten . cosier, and j
nominal; sales 439 bales?uplands 19%;
Orleans 20%. Flour dull and unohanged. I
Wheat quiet and firm. Pork-quiet?new '
17.87>?. Lard firm?Western steam 9.
Froiffhta auiet.
7 P\ M ?Sales of futures 17,200bales:
April 18May 18 11-16, 18%; June!
19. 19 316; July 19%, 19 516; August
19^, 19%; October 17>?. Cotton dull;!
sales -583 bales?uplands 19%; Orleans
20. Flour quiet and steady. Whiskey
92. Wheat dull and l@2o. lower. Corn
steady and fairly active. Rioo7%@8%. |
Pork firmer?17.25 asked. ' Lard steady.
Freights quiet but firm. Money 3 16@
& Gold irregular, at 17%(a}18%. Go- J
vernments olosed feverish. States very
quiet, with little change. J
LouibthiXiB, April 15.?Flour qoiet?
extra family 6.50. Corn in good de?
mand?mixed 40; white 42. Pork 17.00 i
@17.5Q. Bacon?good demand for
shoulders; clear rib sides9%@9%; clear
sides 9^@9>.<. Lard?tierces 8%@9;
kegs 9>?<#10; steam 8%. Whiskey
steady, at 86.
Cincinnati, April 15.?Flour firmer.
Corn firm, at 40. Provisions stronger;
Offerings light. Pork 16.75 bid; held at
17.00. Lard firm, at 8% for steam; S%
@8% for kettle. Bacon in good de?
mand, at 7@9%. Whiskey steady, 86.
St. Loins, April 15.?Flour quiet and
weak; business small. Corn steady?
No. 2 mixed 34@34%, in elevator; 40@
42 sacked. Whiskey dull, at 87. Pork
strong and higher, at 16.75; cash 16. GU;
cash 16.62 in Jane. Bacon active and
higher; large speculative demand?shoul?
ders 7%, seller and buyer in*May; olear
rib 10%, in August; clear 10; May 10%;
buyer last half of May 10%; June 10%;
last half of June 10%; July 10%, at Cin?
cinnati; buyer in August, free on cars,
11. Lard held out of market?8 freely
offered.
New Orleans, April 15.?Cotton
demand limited?ordinary 12%@13;
good ordinary 15%@16; low middling
17%; middling 18%; reoeipts 4,708 bales;
sales 4,700; stock 176,379.
Philadelphia, April 15.?Cotton dull
?middling 19%@20.
Hotel Arrivals, April 15, 1873.?
Wheeler Jfottse?H J Sammerfield, Thos
G Sims, New York; W F Salisbury,
West Randolph; O Massingale, W A
Bradley, Augusta; Peter J Trezevant,
Louisiana; Miss DeBrew, Montgomery;
J H Hudson, J L Breoden, Bennetts
ville; Thos H Trezevant, Columbia; F
Boat right, Edgefiold; J S Derrick, Lees
ville; Jas G Gibbes, Florida; TT Moore,
city; W W Sarville, Orangeburg; E R
Atwater, New York; Mrs E G Weaver,
Mrs A Weaver, Ohio; H O Moses, J G
Pope, Newberry; O P Gaither, Balti?
more; T B MoBee, Greenville; R A
Thompson, Walhalls; J M Wright, N O.
Columbia Hotel?W L Hartwig, N Y;
B F Bar$holow, Md; W J Oroswell, S O;
W T Batt, R G Burum, J J Ellis, Ga; B
R Smith, Mass; J W Qainn, N O; G O
Douglass, Ga; A T Bmythe, W B Shaw,
Mrs James B Ezell, W D A Grimball,
Charleston; T JGoodwyn and servant,
Fort Motte; J M Permey, W, O & A R
Rj A J Guyune, NY; JT Stratton, Va;
WB Tlblatta, NY; A J O Snowden,
Mass.
Hendrix House?Dr O M Doyle, Ooo
nee; J J Norton, Mrs P Pitts, Walhalla:
A Evans, Winnsboro; J W Mitchell, S F
Hendrix, LeeBville; J L Addison, Edge
field; Julias Dreyfoos, Atlanta, Ga; WO
Moody, W B Seal, Charleston; J B Le
Roy, Lowndesville.
.-i?r*t*1*-r "
The indications aro unmistakable that
RasBia is to be the horse-raising country
of the future, bo far, at least, as -Europe
is concerned. A recent enumeration
shows that thero are nearly 20,000,000
horses in that country alone, whioh is a
surprisingly large number relatively to
the population.
On Thursday lost, a oolored man near
Yems8see, while ploughing, was struok
by lightning. One of the oxen was
killed, and the olothing of tbe man was
j ignited. When found he was insensible.
It is thought that he cannot recover,
j It is said that it cost the oity of
Charleston $7,936.99 to repair damages
to the streets, caused by laying the track
of the Enterprise Railroad. The oity
intends to bring suit to recover the
amount.
Gen. Sherman laughs at the idea of
making war on Mexico with fonr regi?
ments of infantry and three of cavalry.
But the gan-boats and the monitors,
manl
Fire.?The kitchen on the premises of
Maj. W. A. MoDaniel was burned down
Sunday night, one mile South of the
oity.?Greenville Republican.
Telegraphio communication is soon to
be established between Charlotte, N. C,
j and Spartanburg.
They toll a story to tho effect that a
Mexican lady has just died at the age of.
150.
To prepare for tbe visitors to the great
exhibition, Vienna is ereoting nice new
hospitals all over its suburbs.
?ntt?d States Court?Charleston,
April U.-Xn the TjnftM States District
Court, "before Judge Bryan, the petitions
of Stephen P. Button, of Port Hille,
John H. Eberhardt, of Burnt er, and Wmr
C. Beams, of Clarendon, for voluntary
bankruptcy, were referred to the Regis?
trars of tbeir respective Dia trio ta.
Isaac Bradley, of Mayesville, was
finally discharged in ban kr op toy. '
D. J. Winn was appointed assfgueerof
Leander G. Pate and Ellis O, Green, of
Sumter, bankrupts.
Joseph Frank, of Blackville, was or?
dered to show cause, off the 19th inst.,
why he should not be'' declared a bank?
rupt, on the petition of Eldridge, Dun?
ham & Go., creditors.
The following grand and petit and
pleas jurors were drawn for the May term
of the oourt:
Grand Jurors?la. F. Hopaon, John
Burr, Columbia; T. A. Falson, John Bal?
le td, Sumter; M. Politzer, J. Matthiea*
sen, Beaufort; Henry Holm, Aiken; H.
H. Wilson, May es vi ?b: Calvin JUixson,
Lancaster; Wm. G. Mood, W. Janke, A.
Cameron, William Thomas, Henry 0.
Baker, colored, Charleston; S. N. Bali?
inger, Barnwell; Mark Gilbert, Mara ville;
Lewis A. Dodge, Christ Church; D.
Batemao, Columbia; A. D. Trouble field,
Mayesville?seventeen white and two co?
lored.
Petit and Pleae Jurors?L. A Zealy,
Grahamville; W. B. Chase, T. B. Tulley,
J. Ferres, J. D. Robinson, Charles W.
Soha, Henry M. Magwood, Wm. Glover,
J. H. Gadsden, Fred. Biobards, A O.
Pansin, J. B. P. Alley, Charleston; John
W. Pope, Samuel B. Thompson, Beuj.
Sightler, R. L. Bryan, Philip Epstein,
Columbia; Biohard Goman, Edgefield;
Wm. Kr?ssel, J. C. 8nyder, Boaufort;
John C. Meldin, Cheraw; Geo. PegeuB,
Charles Basted, Jr., Kiugstree; J. A.
Dukes, George's Station; B. Baruch, E.
A Gaeque, Marion; James Jackson, Lex?
ington; H. C. Moses, W. C. Duncan.
Sumter; Thoa. Massey, Lancaster; J.-A.
Bos well, Camdeu?twenty seven whites
and four oolorod.
^ ?-??.
Coroner's Inquests.?The Coroner
held the following inquests this morn?
ing:
In the case of Mrs. Johnson, wife of
tbe keeper of the light-house at Cape
Romain, who was found in her house
with her throat cut, theverdiot rendered
was death by suicide.
In the case of Sarah Simmons, an old
oolored woman, who was found dead on
her door-step at Mount Pleasant, on Sa?
turday, the verdiot was death from old
age and a chronic disorder. ? *
The jury in tbd case of Jeffrey Gibbes,
who was well at 10 A. M. Saturday, und
died at 12 M. on same day, at Oppen
heim's farm, near the race oonrse, ren?
dered a verdiot of death from dropsy.
[Charleston Courier.
English and American people in Paris
are no longer obliged to real the Galig
nani for want of a better English p .per.
All the New York and London dailies
are now sold night and morning on tbe
boulevard as regularly as in the Strand
or Broadway. Who knows but that in
another hundred yoars the American in
Paris may get his New York paper on the
day it is published. It would not be
much stranger than tho idea of the
ocean telegraph seemed a quarter of a
century ago.
An Englishman came on to America
not long since, for the purpose of making
the toor across the continent. Arriving
at Denver he was told several days more
would be required to make the trip to
the Paoifio, when he oonoluded to aban?
don the job. Returning to New York a
friend inquired how he liked this Ameri?
ca. His answer was peculiar: "Tho
blarsted magnitude of tbe country be-'
wilders one, you see. so I gavo it up as
i ncomprehensive."
A G?rden Thought.?A single word
may disquiet an entire family for a whole
day. Ono surly glance oasts a gloom
over the household, while a smile, like a
gleam of sunshine, may light up the
darkest and weariest honrs. Like unex?
pected flowers whioh spring np along
our path, full of freshness, fragrauce and
beauty, bo the kind words, and gentle
acts, and s'weet dispositions make glad
the homo where peace and blessing
dwell.
Nothing new nnder thesuu. At Pom-'
peii, there is ? fac simile of Sims' specu?
lum, and in Nineveh, Lavatd found a
bushel of. magnifying glasses. There
was probably a Herculaneum Herald,
and it no doubt contained advertising
dodges, and perhaps some dead-head
advertisements.
An Indianapolis female lost Sil.40 by
a single rubber the other day. She tried
to play a lone hand with a rubber over?
shoe, using her neighbor's child for a
card table, and then the polioe judge
stepped up and told Lady Gay Spenoer
that he guessed she had lost the game.
Briok Pomeroy's wife has married
again. A burned ohild dreads the fire,
but no matter how "everlastingly sali?
vated" a woman may be tbe first time
she marries, there is no use in trying to
scare her with calomel when she becomes
a widow.
The Danbury Netra says: There was a
fight between Danbury and Norwalk
roosters in this plaoe ou Friday. The
pain every good citizen must fuel over
sueh a brutal display is somewhat molli?
fied by the faot that our rooster licked.
In St. Louis, the other day, tho Rev.
Dr. Bqrlingame preached from the text,
"How old art thou?" The next day,
I about one-third of the women of his con?
gregation called around to tell him tbut
it was none of his business.
Some melanoholy-minded bnrglars re
! oently entered an undertaker's shop at
Eeoknk, Iowa, and stole a coffin. The
proprietor announces that if any of them
will oall again he will fu-nish them with
a corpse to put in it.
Many of the belles who honored the
inauguration ball are still taking cough
medicines, says a St. Louis paper.
Tax Atlantic. ->- A. newspaper .corres?
pondent, whoi went down to the. wreck of
the Atlantio in a diver's oostame, says
the hull lies well down on the port side,
end 1b broken in several places from con
"tact with the reef. He found the for?
ward hatch open, and saw that the cargo
thefe\had broken balk and lay iu con?
fused vheaps, with bodies of men and
women "jammed among the oases and
orates, bruised and torn. Fish were
swimming inland ont, feasting upon the
dead bodies. ^Limba are strewn around,
having been torn from the bodies by the
continual aotion of the waters, whioh,
when agitated, drive against ugly pieces
of the broken hall that here project.
He went to the companion-way of the
eteerAge cabins, and foand 100 or more
bodies lying in an immense heap, look?
ing as if alive, with arms dislocated, eyes
staring wildly, faoesgrinning and moving
backward and forward with the under?
current. Homo were dressed, bat many
were half nade. Children were clinging
io mothers; Bloat men were clasping their
wives, seemiog to have met death with
calm resignation. The soene was* horri?
ble beyond description. * In the steerage,
where the men passengers were, bodies
of strong men, old and yonng, were
hustled together on the stairway, with
distended nostrils, gaping mouths, star?
ing gltssy eyes, giving some conception
of the terror whioh seized them as they
Vainly straggled to gain the deck. From
another part of the vessel, a view was ob
tained of the sleeping apartment, where,
piled up in heaps on the port side, were
cambers of bodies oi men, with bed
clothing strewn among them. From
abrasion with broken stanchions and
jagged, splintered wood-work, the flesh
had been . torn from the faces of
many, while others are braised and bat?
tered about their heads, which are red
and bloody, oootrasting horribly with the
pale, livid features of tbe other .
A Halifax letter, in reference to the
Atlantio disaster, says: "One of tbe
romantiu incidents of this terrible ca?
lamity has been the disoovery that one
of tbe men, a common sailor, and one
whose life was sacrificed in efforts to
save others, was a young woman of about
twenty or twenty-five years of age. Her
sex was not known until the body waa
washed ashore, aad the rude olothiug re?
moved preparatory for "burial. Sho had
served as a common sailor for three
voyages, aad was a favorite shipmate
with all. She is described as having
fewer of the vices incident to a sailor's
life than is usual, but she was, neverthe?
less, as jolly an old tar as any of them.
One of tbe survivors of the crew, in
speaking of her, remarked: 'I didn't
know Bill was a woman. -He used to
take his liquor ? as regular as any of us,
and was always begging and stealing to?
bacco. He was^a good fellow, though,
and I am sorry*be was a woman.' Tho
most singular part of the whole story is,
that the woman waa an American, and
wab about the only one of that nation?
ality belonging to tbe crew. Who she
was and where she was from, and her
motive for leading such a strange life of
hardship, never was and never will be
fully known."
Death op a Young Japanese Noble?
man.?A young Japanese jiobleman, N.
Kenzo Hirasawa, who had been pursu?
ing his studies at the Polytechnic Insti?
tute in Brooklyn, New York, died there
on Wednesday. Ho was the son of one
of the moat eminent and popular states?
men of Japan, Hirasawa Hioske. De?
siring to train his son to statesmanship
in the liberal culture of Europe and
America, be plaoed him in the boose
hold of Col. Shephard, American Cooeul
at Yeddo. His father was afterwards
assassinated, bnt his uncle carried out
the plans proposed for him aad seat him
I to this couatry. ? Acoording to his dying
I request, bia body was interred at Green?
wood Cemetery, New York.
King Bill, otherwise known as Lunoli
lo, Bon of Kekaulohi, the daughter of
Kamebameha, is soon to arrive in Wash?
ington, on business connected with the
sale of his kingdom to Mr. Grant. It is
felt that a little annexation is necessary
to gild over the salary grab, the Col
fax endoisament, Casey appointment,
our son's unprecedented promotion, and
other late exudations of executive gross
ness.
A post oflioo has been established at
Jamestown, Yu., this, week, for the first
time, although Jamestown was tbe first
I place permanently settled on this conti?
nent, and the United States Government
bas sinoo then established more than
33,000. post offices. Before the war,
Hamptou Court House was the post
office for Jamestown and vicinity, and
there are about twenty Jamestown post
offices elsewhere iu tho United States.
The special correspondent of the Chi
j oago Tribune, of the 9th instant, writing
from Washington, gives a very interest?
ing account of an old Capitolian and his
recollections of the early days of the
capital. His name is Christian Hienes,
land is ninety-three years old. He re?
members Gen. Washington, Madison,
I Jefferson, Adams and Monroe.
Special Commissioner.?Col. S. D.
Goodlett, of Piokens, has boon appoint?
ed Special Commissioner of Claims for
South Carolina. His duty will be to
take testimony in cases of loyal citizens
whose property was taken by tbe Go?
vernment during.and immediately after
the war. He is the only special com?
missioner in the State.
[Greenville Republican,'
It is proposed to run a bridge from
the foot of Beed street, in Charleston,
to Mount Pleasant, so as to reaoh George?
town. A company is forming for that
purpose and will ask a charter this win?
ter.
Fashionable milliners in New York
havo a band of music in attendance at
thoir spring openings. This is believed
to be tho very latest.
Tho gold fish in the fountain at tho
Capitol havo leaked out into the Poto?
mac, whero they are multiplying.
A Washington letter says; **When the
internal tax. of three centos.pound on
I cotton was in operation, it was tbe ens
I torn of' too rovenae officers to collect the
tax after the cotton had been baled. The |
weight thus taxed included the tare,
whioh generally ranged from fifteen to
twenty pounds per bale. As a manifest
I sot of justice, Congress authorised the
refunding of this exoess so paid.. These
tare claims, so-called, were accordingly
prepared and presented by the factors,
and hare been paid to the amount of
something liko $800,000. Of this
amount, tbe Washington claim agents
I received a very liberal proportion, but
the planters, who really paid the entire
tax, have realized nothing. In several
I instances, the planters hare sent com?
plaints here that they can obtain no sa?
tisfactory information on the enbjeot
from their factors.^ It is understood^
that the Commissioner of -Ipternal Reve?
nue is Willing to inform planters of the
I exact amount paid to their factors for
I these tare claims, on application by let?
ter from the planter, stating the name
and locality of his factor."
A Ghastly Outrage.?A day or two
ago, a singular incident occurred in
Downingtown, Pa. A gentleman was
removing the remains Of bis wife, long
buried, from one cemetery to another,
when a son of the Emerald Isle, looking
upon the exposed mass of bones before
him, for the coffin had rotted away,
said: "I have often heard that if one
would pull out with his own teeth a
tooth from the head of a oorpselho would
never afterwards be troubled with tooth?
ache. I'm going to try it." Bo saying,
the man actually stooped down, and,
fastening his teeth to a tooth in the
skull, triumphantly drew it out. Fact,
this.?Philadelphia Pres?.
The location of San Salvador oity,
where the recent earthquake occurred, is
between wooded heights, twenty-six
miles from the Pacific coast, in a well
watered vale, several theusand feet above
the level of the Pacific, and about three
miles Soutb-East of the volcano of Sah
Salvador. The oity has suffered greatly
1 from earthquakes, especially in 1659 end
1851, in each instance being nearly de
I Btroyed. The population Just before the
calamity in 1851, numbered about
18,000. The place was regularly built,
contained'several churches and convents,
and waa the seat of a bishop. It was a
depot for Bugar and indigo, and had
some manufactures in iron and cotton
goods.
? The explosion of the steam ferry boat
Westfield at New York, some time ago,
I by whioh a largo number of persons
were killed and wounded, will be re?
membered as a terrible disaster. The
ferry company have refused to pay da?
mages to the survivors, on the ground
that they were violating the law against
Sunday travelin gl That corporation
should dissolve forthwith and let its
members turn their attention to high
moral subjects in the future. People
I with religions scruples so delicate should
not contaminate themselves by secular
business.
London seems to have daring and odd
banditti. An Isle of Wight solicitor,
named Rhodes, was recently kidnapped
by them when returning from the thea?
tre. He was robbed and detained in a
loathsome den until a ransom of ?20 was
paid by his friends, Mr. Rhodes cannot
I tell the situation of the "loathsome den,"
I and some people will talk scandal.
There was one remarkable circumstance
in the execution of Smith (for murder)
at Louisville, lately. With his eyes ap?
propriately closed, he stood upon, the
gallows and mode a long prayer, all the
time protesting his innocence; bat when,
having finished this exculpatory ejtoula
I tion, he opened his eyes and saw the
rope?he confessed I
Caldwell, the disgusted Senator from
Kansas, who didn't get to be Senator,
says that he has withdrawn from politics,
and will devote his attention to com?
mercial pursuits. He tried to make
commerce of his politics, and invested
abont $80,000 in the business, bat made
an utter failure of his speculation. '
SuAUtrFOX. ?We understand that four
cases of small-pox?the patients all ne?
groes?were Bent 'to the pest house, yes?
terday. The oity authorities s!* taking
every precaution to prevent a spread of
the disease, and we oss?re oag citizens
that there is no necessity for any alarm
in reference to it. tttaw
[Augusta Constitutionalist,
Eighty-eight years ago, it was looked
npon as a pernicious practice to wear
oottofis of *any kind, and in a certain oity
in Earope, on the occasion of an execu?
tion, the oriminal, hangman and gallows
wore dressed in cotton in order to dis?
courage the wearing of it.
The Rev. Vyvyan Moyle, a olergyman
of the Church of England, has been
sentenced in York, Eng., to seven years'
imprisonment for the commission of a
series of forgeries, to whioh he pleaded
guilty.
The temperance cause is rapidly pro?
gressing in the tar-heel State, caused no
doubt by the soaroity of the grape, the
high prioe of whiskey, and the dimi?
nished production of charcoal, rosin and
turpentine.
It is said that a man with the uncom?
mon name of Smith, in Australia, has
received a communication from the.
spirit world, to the effect that the world
will be "burned asblaok as a forgotton
toast by a wave of fire," within a year.
A Philadelphia despatch states that
the steamship Cassina, recently arrived
there from Liverpool, ran oat of coal on
the voyage, and burned up over $80,000
worth of cargo to reaoh port.
It is said tho current of Grand River
has lodged ice under that formed by
Lake Michigan until there is a solid
mass ubout fifty feet thick.
Tho coronation of the King and Queen
of Sweden is fixed to take place on the
-1th of May, tho fifty-fifth anniversary of
Bernadette':! coronation.
There will be a great gathering of
royalty at the Vi en Da Exposition. All
the crowned heads in Enrobe hare been
formally invited, and have signified their
intention to be present. They will not,
however, all go to Vienna at the same
time, but will visit it individually At*
separate periods. Queen Victoria has
promised to attend, and will be accom?
panied by her daughter and son-in-law,
the Grown Frinpe and Prinoess of Gar
I many.
A Yankee Pbincess.?The Prinoess
dowager of Sohleewig-Holstein-Noes, the
daughter of a Boston merchant named
Bay, and the widow of the ooasin of the
King of Denmark, having failed to ob?
tain a recognition of royalty in an ap
Eeal to the oourts, was warned by the
Danish police to leave the country. At
first, she obstinately refused, bat, influ?
enced by the advice of her counsel, ehe
took her departure for Lisbaok, the Ger- ?
man seaport of the Baltic. -
By vetoing ose little bill providing for
extensions'. Go?. Eartranft, of Pennsyl?
vania, has wiped out 1,622 private bills.
It was a good day'a woftT y-'-\\.
Auction Sales.
Notice.
TREASUREB'8 OFFICE, '
Biohurd Comm.
Columbia, 8. U., April 8,1878.
ON WEDNESDAY, the 16th hut., the fol?
lowing described property, belonging to
< the Blue Bidge Railroad, win be sola for
taxes due tho 8taU of South Carolina and
County of Oeonee, viz:
The nretoUoo LOCOMOTIVE :(GEATUGA."
Tbe first elaaa LOCOMOTIVE ?TORT
HILL."
The sale will take place at the depot of the
Greenville and Colombia Railroad, at 11
o'clock A. II. Terms cash.
C. H. BALDWIK,
_Apr 8_Treasurer Bi oh land County.
Corn! Corn1.! ~
2f\nr\ BDBHEL8 PRIME WHITE
.VJkJVJ OOBN, Just received and for
sale low, by JUUN AQNBW A SON.
AprU 16_ 4
Bichland Lodge, No. 38. A. f. M.
AN EXTRA Oommunioation of this
'Lodge will be held THIB (Wednesday)
r N EVE NINO, in Maaonio Hall, at 8
o'clock. The F. O. Degree will be conferred.
By order of the W. M. B. I. BOONE,
April 16 1_ 8eoretary.
Strayed, ~
kW FROM my premises, on the 18th, a
?B m?tifle-colorod mare MULE; is of
jsaVrfT-" size, and has a soar aoross the
breast. A reward will bo given if the
; mule is returned to me. JOHN OUTBN.
Thirteen miles from Columbia, on Winnsboro
road._April 16 1
Course of Lectures
By Members, of Faculty of University of
South Carolina.
THE second of this series of Lectures will
be delivered THIS (Wednesday) EVEN?
ING, the ICth instant, at 8 o'clock,' at the
University Chapel, by Prof. GUMMINGS.
The pubho are invited to attend.
- O. BBUOE WALKER,
April IG 1_Secretary of Faculty.
GINGER 2LX-E!
100 DOZ. IS STOCK.
HAVING received the Agency of one of the
largest manufactories of this delicious
I temperance beverage and summer tonic, I am
prepared to supply dealers at a very low rate,
and allow a handsome dt ?w-baek on the bot
ties when returned. GEO. 6YMMEB8.
California Butter.
JUST to hand, a supply of this new article
in BUTTER, put op in two pound rolls,
wrappod in cloth?pronounced by all who
have need it as the finest flavored Butter ever
offered in Columbia. A trial, however, will
convince the Bkeptlcal.
AprU 16 ?_ GBO. 8YMMEB8.
MASO.N & ROAOLET'S
SYSTEM FOE BEGINNERS.
COMPILED by two eminent and successful
teaohers, it has acquired an excellent re?
putation, cannot fail to satisfy both "master
and scholar," and is unsxceHed by any other
method for the Piano-forte. PBIOE 83.00.
The American Tune Book.
Xn one sense, THE 8eored Music Book of
the age, since it contains 1,000 of the Beat.
Tunes and Anthems, carefully selected by 500
Choristers and Musio Teacher* from oil ac?
cessible books, and therefore it mutt be the
choicost collection of the century. PRICE
jll.50. T
Winner's New Schools i
For Piano, Cabinet Organ, Melodton, Guitar,
Banjo, Oornet, Fife, Aocordeon, Clarionet,
Flute and Flageolet. Don't despise those lltua
cooks because they are cheap.' For persons
Who wish to learn easily and pleasantly, and
nly go a little way, there is nothing better,
rioe of each book 75 cents.
The above books seat, post-paid, nir receipt
of rot ail price. , , . -
GHAS. H. DIT60N A CO.,
1 711 Broadway, New York.)'
OLIVER DITSON A CO., Boston.
April 10 wsir
r PROCLAMATION.
I
STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA,
Executive Department.
WHEREAS information has been received
at this department that a murder was
committed upon the body of John L. Grant,
in Marlboro County, by one RHODY ANN
QUICK, and the said Rhody Aon Quick has
fled from jnstioe:_
Now, therefore, I, FRANKLIN J. MOSES,
Jb., Governor of tho State of South Carolina,
in order that Justice may bo done and the
majesty of the law vindicated, do hereby offer
a reward of TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS for
the apprehension and delivery, in any jail of
this State, of the said Rhody Ann Qalok, with
proof to eonvict.
Said Rhody Ann Quick is represented as a
bright mulatto, about five feet in height,
twenty-five years of age, black hair and
eyes,rather good looking and pleasant spoken.
In testimony whereof I nave hereunto set my
hand and causod the Great Seal of the.
Stato to be affixed, at Columbia, this,
[l. s.] 16th day of April, A. D. 187S, and in
the ninety-seventh year of Amorican
Independence.
By the Governor:
FRANKLIN J. MOSES, Jn.
H. E. Hayne, Sectctary of State.
April 1C 2