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COLUMBIA; a, C. -i-jfa.i.. <? 'L?.k i?rr~~ Wohk f ob Sha^sbkhto r-I* J? gra? tifying to witness the prompt patriotism ?displayed by many' joornalihta in the Modoo y(e>t. They oame-to the front? of disoussion?with great alacrity, and if the country i? not enlightened us to ?how Indian fighting should be conduct? ed, it is not their fault. Their, present demand ? ia, for. sharpshooters and, for Gen. Sheridan, A corps of those sharp editorial shooters, ander'the gu|dan?e ?f Gen Sheridan, in pursuit of the Mo doos, -would, no doubt, make Captain Jaok ashamed of himself. 1 Let the ex? periment he tried, in the meantime, in order to have thp, right .mfen ulwoys in, ^ the eight place, detailing an cquol nnm 'ber of army offioora to run the papers whose editors are running the Indians'. -. i?\pzas-?? ?} ? What's Become op nra Monby?? There is complaint in nearly every ' County of the State about the non-pay? ment ot the sohooi funds; in some of the Counties, the free sohools have been closed in consequence. What has be? come of the money? The Beaufort Re? publican thus speaks of the condition of things there: "Mr. Jillaon haa made his apportion? ment of BpbocI appropriation. Beaufort is down fox 016,511. This looks well on .paper. Last year, the same amountwaB ^assigned to our County. If we mistake not, the draft upon' the State Treasurer is still in the possession of our then County Treasurer, unpaid. The draft for this year's apportionment has been .protested for non-payment. Even if we should got this 815,000, of which there ? is little chanoo, it would hardly pay the -arrears due toaohors." Long, and necessary windy, speeohes are in order in the Tiohborne case. Sir ?John Duke Coleridge spoke for twenty - . five days against the "olaimantV right ?to the estate and against his being Tiohborne at all and a baronet. Mr. ^Hawkins, oounceWor the prosecution in 'the char go of perjury pending against "the olaimant," closed on Friday a very entertaining and learood, end it is pre? sumed exhaustive, speech, wbioh he began the previous Wednesday. At this vate "the crack of doom" wilt bo reached before the Tiohborne' bash Is ended. It la curious how persistently m part of the public resist the light bf law'?it refuses to dethrone Tiohborne. -It is sure bei? .? Tiohborco and a baronet, whether be be bu tob or or not. Reasoning 'has no effect on euoh belief. Even if the oharge of perjury be proved against him, many persona x? ill regard "the claimant" as a much persecuted indi? vidual. V 'Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee can make iron cheaper than Pennsylva? nia, ?andere doing it at;this day; Iowa and Illinois oun make leather and leather fabrics cheaper than Massachusetts; the -Southern cotton factories are earning twentyvfive per cent, dividends by mak? ing cheaper and heavier oloth than tho Rhode Island mills make; and in the manufacture of wool, there is no State in New England that possesses equal ad? vantages with tho West and Sooth-wes|. Tho West Is developing manufactures with"surprising rapidity, and in a few years it will have a home market for a large shape of ita.sorplus products. This will solve tl)6r transportation problem, or, rather, it nill transfer it from the West to the East. - - ? ?ui_?,^-?.. All tbeTudiun Commissioners now say that "it i* Useless to try longer to please Indians." The Commissioners are too easily discouraged. No doubt the In? dians are ratnor hard to please, but, if they were well supplied with guns and ammunition, and furnished with plenty -to eat and wear and drink, and a Major General or two to shoot down once or fcwioe a week, we don't ?upposo they would grumble a great deal. The Cincinnati Times (Republican) declares that it is the firm determination to run the Democratic party into power on the free trade dootrine, and warns the farmers to look to it that in their present movement "they are not -made oatspaws of." The ohanoes are about equal of their being juggled by the Ropublioan as by tho Democratic party. What the farmers should do ie to let both parties alone severely. The monks at Bethlehem have beoomo belligerent. The successors of him who proclaimed peace on earth have pro? claimed war against each other on the place of his birth, and in the fray five bf the Latin monke and six of tho Greek have been injured. # Gen. Bradley Johnson, of Blohmond, is going to write the life of Chief Justico Chase. He may well say of the Chief Justice as Shakspeare says of somebody else: "Take him all in all, we ne'er shall look upon another who wanted to be President half so badly." Tho second debate at Wednesday's sea 8ion of the Stete Agricultural and Me? chanical Sooiety, woe upon tho subject of "the cheapest fertilizer, whether do? mestic or commercial, and tho matt eco? nomical time and method* of its applica? tion." The disoussion was opened by the following essay, by Paul S. Felder, Esq., of Orangeburg: Mit. President and Gentlemen of the Society: There are very few soils so fertile as to dispense with manure of so m3 kind.- When suoh soils do exist, by repeated oroppiog nnd removing the produce; they will be eventually worn out, unless replenished in some way. A soil, to he productive, must contain solu? ble earths, and by ropeated oroppings some of these soluble parts will beoome just as certainly exhausted as a oorn orib which is continually used out of, and to whioh no oorn is returned, will get empty. All earths are not soluble, and consequently cannot be good for plants, and those which are soluble enter into the Composition of vogo'.ables in differ? ent .proportions. No.soil contains them in equal abundance, and if a soil is ex? hausted of only one of those parts whioh enter into the composition of a vegeta? ble, it most inevitably oease to produce that plant. By tho continued planting and removing of the growth of a soil, some one of these parts will sooner or later become exhausted, and when this deterioration commence?, it goes on with accelerated speed. There is no portion of South Carolina with which I am ac? quainted that is not benefitted by ma? nuring. Of the wholo State, I do not know any section whioh absolutely re? quires higher culture and more constant manuring than that portion in which I live, and I donbt if any has paid greater attention or made more constant efforts in that direction than the planters of Orangeburg. So highly are all fertilizers valued, that cotton seed cannot be bonght at anything like a reasonable figure. Every planter selling a bushel, feels that he is robbing his soil and add? ing to the purchaser's. (The first thing noticed by a planter in Orangebnrg is the location of the lot and its advantages for making manure.) So certain are our seasons, and so few are the casualties, that we judge the crop we are going to make by the size of the manure pile and the fertilizers that we intend to buy. I have never planted a crop without ma? nuring the land; in fact, I would as soon think of working my horse without feed? ing him, and I have never failed to re? ceive compoond interest on all fertilizers, either bonght or made at home. Yet, in tho faee of all this, and although I have been planting and manuring twenty-eight years, I never have had a question pro? pounded upon whioh I am so ignorant, and whioh I find so difficult to answer, as the one now under consideration. To me there seems to be no rivalry between them. I have always used both in the same field. Never separated them. JTow, the question is, or at least the first- to be answered is, "Whioh is the cheapest fer? tilizer, whether domestic or commercial?" That places on one hand the lot and stable, and on the other Peru and the phosphates. I am called upon to decide between them, when I ase all my spare time to make the one, and all my spare money to boy tho other, and have never had ouongh. It is easy enough to tell the cost of commercial fertilizers. I only have to lorfc ut my factor's bill; bat how cheap it is; that is another question. To estimato the result: Tho field is so large, and the expanse so great, that I cannot see to the end of it. It is not how moon more cotton has it made the land pro? duce this year, bat how much has it im? proved the land also, and bow much bot i ter and more efficient labor can be com [ mauded in consequence, and how much t more cotton seed it will add as domestic manure, and how muoh it will enhance the valae of the lands and the reputation and tho oredit of the planter follows. Mr. President, who can calonlate it? It rises to my view like mountain be? hind mountain, until I am lost in its contemplation. But, sir, I will endeavor to give my experience in figures and faots at nearly as possible. I can only approximate, as 1 have never kept any detailed acoonnt of my operations. I have never weighed or measured a load of manure or counted the loads lo the aero. But what I do know is, that with the use or domestic manure and oom? meroial fertilizers in sonneotion in throe years I brought my land up from 200 pounds seed cotton and five bushels oorn per acre, to 1,000 pounds of seed cotton and from fifteen to twonty bushels of corn to the acre. I will try to make an estimato of the eout of lot and stable manure, and to do this I will have to give my prooees of making it. So far as littering tho stable is concerned, that may be pat down as nothing. It is ne? cessary for the comfort and good keeping of tho animals stabled. Also, the feed nnd feeding cannot bo charged to the making of manure. Thaus in hie princi? ples of agriculture says an animal stable will make doable tho weight of bis feed in mannro, and my experience is a load of manure for every wagon load of litter hauled in. The plan pursued was on a damp day to take all hands, somo#with hoes to sorapo ap loaves, top soil and decaying limbs, and tho others hauling it in and scattering it over the lot in whioh I penned my oattlo. I pat olean Straw in the stables. This was done mostly in the fall on wet lays when no other work could be oarr; c on advan? tageously. About the tin! i>i December, in damp weather, I began to throw it up into one large pile, mixing in the atablo manure. When about half done I selected some two or three old oattlo which I.thought it would cost more to winter than they were worth, and in a large atook there are always suoh. I killed and skinned than and put them upon the pile. I then threw ou top' enough stable manure to oover them well. After whioh I finished my pile, complet? ing it with lot sorapings. After paoh rain, as the liquor settled in the low place, I had it dipped up and ttrrown over the pile by pouring it into a broad trough with holes bored about in the bottom. About the first of January I , began to harri out, putting say eight f?ur horso loads to the acre. , Thaua says in his agriculture'that thirty-six cubic foot or 4,000 pounds is a load. My fields are olose to my lot, bo two hands oan haul easily eight loads per day. I will put that down at fifty cents per load, makes the hauling fonr dollars. One hand oan scatter an acre, say fifty cents for tha*. The piling and hauling in we will say cos16 one dollar. We tau ncd the skin of tho animal buried, and that payB for that?bo we have the cost per asjre, firs dollars and fifty cents. I willTemark here that the animals buried will have entirely disappeared in three or four weeks, even tho bonos will all be goue, except the very large ones. If there is any smell a little plaster corrects it. That manuring will ho ieqdal to 200 pounds of phosphato or guano, wbiob will coat about seven dollars. It is my opinion, then, laud dressed with the do? mestic manure will improve the faster. The great difficulty is in making domes? tic manure enough. One horse will only manure ono aero. A oow in a year will manure the same. In my planting I preferred to nso both together in the proportion of six loads of domestic and sixty pouuds of commercial fertilizers. My average crop with that was 1,000 pounds Beed cotton to the ncre. Last year I made a3 fino a crop' as I ever modo by tho use of stable manure, plaster, uotton seed und acid phosphate, I composted in equal quantities. Ooe year, I took six hands, two with axes, to out tbo oak Baplings, and the other to gather and burn ashes; worked one day. The cost, at fifty cents por hand, is three dollars. .1 put that on half an acre of lend. On another half aore, I put three dollars' worth of guuno, and on another, three dollars' worth of Rhodes' super-phosphate. The ashes made twenty pounds tho most cotton. Ploughiug under cow peas, weeds, or any vegetation, when in bloom, is a oheap and good fertilizer. Tho cow pea is now usod with marked success in the sugar-cane fields of Louisiana. Cotton I planted after a green crop ploughed in continues green and bears longer than when manured with commercial fertil? izers alone. No fertilizer is cheaper than trampling land by penning stock upon it, bat it should be first broken up. Gathering the mud, grass and rotted vegetation in the eddioa and streams, is equal to lot manure, and, where the location is convenient, makes a cheap fertilizer. Domestic manure is a more perfect fertilizer than the mineral ma? nures oan be. Thans, in his principles of agrioulture, says manure acts upon the soil in two ways. First, by commu? nicating to it those juices which are cal? culated for the nutrition of plants and vegetables. Second, by the chemical action which it exercises on those sub? stances ? con taint d in the soil decompos? ing them, and reoombiniog them under new forms, and thus facilitating their in? troduction into the suckers of plants. Every organic body is formed by the combination of these four or more ele montary substances, united by vital power in oertnin proportions. All organic substances which have entered into a putrefaction or decomposition, contain the elements neoessary for the reproduction and perfection of the vege? tables which wo cultivate. Now onr do mestio manure contains these organic substances in a state of decomposition, and "it not only contains all those sah? st auocs in itself necessary to tho vegeta? tion of plants, bat it also favors tbo de? composition of tho insoluble humus find communicates a greater degree of energy to the vegetation of plants." Miucral manures, which do not con? tain any organio bodies, aot solely, or at least, eBseutially, by improving the texture of the soil, rendering those parfs of it soluble which were previously in? soluble, and favoring und accelerating decomposition. Now we see from the above that miueral manures are not and oauuot bo perfect fertilizers, as thoy ore laoking in organio substances, and consequently muBt exhaust the laud of some necessary ingredient for the growth of plants, and unless this is supplied, the lands will ultimately cenBe to be pro dactivo. So if ono of tho essentials for the growth of a vegetable is lacking io the soil, it would be impossible to grow it until supplied, and (hat es?or; tial may be wanting iu a manufactured commercial fertilizer. It could not bo so iu the domestio fertilizer, because it oontained all of the organic ingredients necessary, baviog been a vegetable be? fore, aud when it lost its vitality and de? cayed, nono of those parts aro destroyed, but remain to recombine in somo living plant. Although these mineral manures may push forward vegetation more ra? pidly, yot does it not soon ceaso to bear and shed its leaves, and may that not bo for the wont of some part exhausted from the soil and not continued in tho commercial fertilizer? This supposition is strengthened by tho fact that now lands or lands rich in vegetable matter are not apt to rust. As you seo, Mr. President, I rather incline to domestic manures, but yet I do not condemn tbo commercial, I have always usod them, aud intend doing so, as long as I havo moans to purchase. In short, 1 would not plaut without them, but I would not have them to supersede the others. I think both aro valuable?moro valuablo together than either one alone. Having now given what I know of this part of tho subjeot, I will proooed to the latter part, viz: The best manner and time of application. ? The plan I havo settled npon, after re? peated trials, is this; I ran o turning plow on each side of the old bod, throw? ing tho dirt in tho middle, and burst out the ridge, where tho stock grow, with the third furrow. I then scatter my do I mestio manure in that furrow, and cover I it immediately, by throwing two furrows on it, This I do as oarly as possible, for the sooner domestio manure is put out, the bester. I begin In January to Bfcnl oat, fend I never let it stand exposed in the field,'end I never olean out mr sta? bles: until I form my' oompoet heap. When planting time oomeB,. I ?reuch that ridge over the manure and put in the commercial fertilizer, and break out the balance of the land. I then trench or chop and pat iu the seed. I then Work the crop, never taking dirt from the ootton or oorn, but always putting a little to it. I think it does best to put in all the fertilizers before planting. I hire tried them after the orop was under way, but could never see but that it was time and manure lost. By adopting tLat plan, the yield of my land Is exactly in proportion to the amount of fertilizers used. The domestic manuro absorbs and holds moisture enough to make the orop, having all of tho wet months of spring for that purpose. Gov. Moses and tue Bonds.?The Obarleston News publishes tho following telegram; . ? Exeootive Department, CoiOMDlA, 8. (J., May 2 To the Editor of the News and Courier? Sib: I am direoted by his Excellency the Governor to state that tho telegram from Columbia 'iu your issue of this date, headed "The Tax-Payers' Fight," in cal? culated to convey an erroneous impres? sion. As soon as tho Governor learned of the correspondence botweeu Messrs. Morton, Bliss & Co., and the Comptrol? ler-General, he had a consultation with the Attorney-General, and in that con? sult at ion, it was agreed between them that Major C. D. Melton should be em? ployed as additional counsel for the State. The Governor afterwards ha ? a consultation with Major Melton, and supposed therefrom that ho had consent? ed to take part iu the oase on behalf of the State. The Governor proposes to use all legitimate means at his oommaod to protect the property of the people iu the premieee. II. H. D. BYRON, Private Secretary. The Columbia correspondent of the News says: "The tax-paying citizens here have re? tained Messrs. Armistead Burt, M. C. Butler and A. B. De3aussure to repre? sent them in tho Bnits which have been instituted in the interest of the holders of the fraudulent State bonds." A Shocking Death.?About noon, yesterday, one of the laborers employed iu the freight-yard of the South Carolina Railroad Company, named Thos. O'Neil, lost his life by a sudden and singular casualty. . It is a custom among the la? borers to rest the points of their cotton hooks upon the ground and sit upon the handles. O'Neil had just finished load? ing a car, and was sitting in this manner upon a low platform alongside of a track, over which a train of oars was slowly passing. His back was turned to the oars. The point of the hook suddenly slipping from its resting place, he fell backwards under the car, and one of the trucks passed over bis chest just below the arm-pits, crushing the ribs. Two laborers, who were standing near, dragged the unfortunate man from un? der the car before another truck could pass over him. He expired in a few mi? nutes.?Charleston News. The Suinter Watehman repnblishes Gen. Jessup'a defence of his conduct in the capture and imprisonment of the celebrated Seminole chief, Odoeolu. He states that, iu previous conferences hod, "the chiefs were distinctly and positively told that none of them nor their people must attempt to come in again but to remain." And again, speaking directly to Osccola, that "he, with all who ac? companied him, had come iu with the distinct understanding that they were not to return." It will be remembered that the whole matter was investigated in Congress, and that that body?then a body of statesmen and high-toned gen? tlemen?exonerated Gen. Jessop from blame. The murder of Oauby has again brought this Osceola affair into notice. The Nashvillo Banner is responsible for the three following good onos: y Tho enemy is?forty?including squaws, and mostly squaws. There aro not bo many Captain Jacks in tho lava bods as at first supposed. Not half ns many Jacks iuBide, for instance, as j-ick asses outside The Modoo who chewed tho fuso of the shell, which exploded in his head, is now supposed to be "chewing tbo cud of sweet and bitter fancy" iu tho happy bunting grounds. A Yreka correspondent says that, when Colonel Killom went out to kill 'em and eat 'em, ho looked as line as a stud-horeo at a battalion parade. Tho public should bo informed that all tho New Orloans despatches to tho Now York Times are untrustworthy. They aro Boot by ouo lt. H. Shannon, .the United States Commissioner, a scamp hand and glove with the drunken Durell and all tho scalawags, carpet-baggers and thieves who aro pillaging Louisiana. Just at this moment, Shannon varies his labor in painting bloody shirts for the Times, with gotting up certificates of character for tho drunken Durell, whoso orimo not even a Republican committee of (ho-Senate, not even Nortou himself, pretended to deny or defend. [New York World. Fire in the Woods.?We learn that quite a large amount of valuable timber was burned last wock, in the neighbor? hood of Hoover's, on the Port Royal Railroad. The long drought has made the woods liko tinder. Forest fires in tho neighborhood of Whippy Swamp destroyed the houses and barns of two brothers named Bowers. Fencing iu the neighborhood was all destroyed. 200 pieces of hewn timber belonging to Mr. Hoover wore burned, valued at $2,000. The fires spread from tho railroad to Salkehatohio Swamp, some seven or eight miles.?Beaufort Republican. r.ooai ort o m?. i Crrr Mattbrs.?The prioo of single copies of the Phcbhxx is five cents. .Old newspapers 'lor wie at Phojni x offloo, at fifty oouln a hundred. What is home without a?a?Wtieoltr Sc Wilson Sewing Machine? * Yesterday the weather was the moot delightful of the season?cool and clear. There were five deaths in Columbia for the week ending tho 3d?whites throe, colored two. The latest styles wedding and visit'ng cards aad envelopes, tastily printed, can bo obtained at the Phoenix office. The monthly report of the Departmeit of Agri?ullure, for April, 1873, has been furnished by Commissioner Watts. The Sunday School scholars attached to the Ladson Chapel bad a pic-uio in Sidney Park, yesterday, i Governor Mosea baa appointed W. H. D. Gail lard as Trial J uatico of Anderson; Robert Tolbert, vice O. J. Sasportas, re? moved, as Trial Justice for Colleton. See tho advertisements of Messrs. W. D.Lovo& Co., of the Grand Central Dry Goods Establishment. The one gives tho prices, while the other atates that the attractions are not decreasing. Messrs. R. Graham & Co. have pur? chased tho Dexter Stables in this city, 1 and will continue Ibem under the name of the Mills House Sale Stables. Vehi? cles and stock of the very beat will be kept on baud. Mr. C. F. Jackson, of the "Little Store," makes known to the purchasing public, this morning, what they can ob? tain by paying a viait to his establish? ment. His "bargain-counter" is still in operation. The granite monument whioh is to be erected by the Ladies' Memorial Asso? ciation of Charleston over the Confede? rate graves at Magnolia Cemetery, waa eat in Columbia by Messrs. Heath Sc Co., and is now ready for shipment. It is one of the best specimens of granite work ever made in the State. Owing to the fact that there were an unaaual number of oases from the Charleston Circuit, it is understood the Supreme Court will commence again and call the docket from the First Cir? cuit, on the 12th instant. There were thirty-one oases from the First Circuit, of whioh only eleven were heard during the week allowed. We are indebted to Captain Wm. A. Conrtenay, of the Washington Light In? fantry, Charleston, for- a pamphlet copy of "An accoant of the revival of the company, with the proceedings in com? memoration of its sixty-sixth anniversa? ry, including the oration of Hon. W. D. Porter, senior ex-Captain and honorary member of the corps, delivered 22d Feb? ruary, 1873." Excursion to Florida. ?A rare chance to view the principal Bights and scenes of Florida, for tho low prioe of $20, is offered to our readers, by tho excursion from Charleston, advertised in another column. The steamer City Point is well known to all Florida tourists as a first class vessel, well offioered aud skillfully managed. Her state-room accommoda? tions and the fare on her table are on surpassed by the largest steamships ply? ing betweon Charleston and New York. Tho charge for the round trip, including state-room and meals, is only $20. Religious Services this Day.?Tri? nity Church?Rev. Peter J. Shand, 10>? A. M. and 5 P. M. Catholic Church?Rev. J. L. Fuller ton, First Maas, at 7 A. M.; Second Mass at 10 A. M.; Vespers at4)? P. M. Baptist Uhrjrch?ltev. J.K. Menden? hall, 10?? A. M. and 7?? P. M. Presbyterian Church?Rev. J. R. Wilson, 11 A. M. and 7>? P. M. Luthorau Church?Rov. A. R. Rude, 10?-? A. M. Washington Stroet Church?Rev. O. A. Darby, 11 A. M. and 5 P. M. Marion Street Church?Rev. N. Tal Jey, 10A. M. Rev. E. L. King, 8 P. M. Suuday School 9 A. M. Lunatic Asylum?Rev. E. A. Belles, 9 A. M. Judge T. II. Oookc, in a letter to the Evening Herald, thus speaks of Proei dent Magrath and his adaptability to railroading: "By the way, I had tho great pleasure of shaking hands with that distinguished gentleman, W. G. Mograth, President of tho South Carolina Railroad. Mr. Ma? grath is, in many respects, a very ro markable man. He took hold of tho road under oirouinstances of embarrass meat and diffioulty, which would have overwhelmed most men, with any energy, tact, ability and sagacity certainly equal to anything in the bnsiuess annals of this State. He has brought order out of ohaos, and restored the company to a basis stronger and more enduring than before the war. Tho combination he has effected has virtually placed the whole railroad interests of the State in his hands, and I do not know a irioro genial, modost, vigorous business man than the President of this great corpo? ration . He is an honor to the State, and I hope may long live to enjoy his repu? tation." PHorarxiAMA.?OooteDtment.il natural W?Mth; luxury, artificial poverty. Nono bot the contemptible are appre? hensive of contempt. The most manifest sign of wisdom is continnod cheerfulness. No man can improve in any'company for which he has not respeot enough to be under some degree of restraint. ? ?' Characters never change; opinions alter; characters are only developed. Always take the part of a friend *in a quarrel, but not in a pudding. Mad steers add 'terror to the bull - movement in Wall street. Here is the latest floral.^senUment:?.' If you, wish heart'e-eoso," don't look* to mari gold. ? r." Found at luBt?tho lazieBt man on re? cord. His name is J. B. Brown. He has been a postal clerk on ? Wisconsin^ railroad, and he was at rested for burn? ing mail matter to save the labor of dis? tributing it. "I am a self-made man," said a sharp? er, th'j other day, to a gentleman whom he had just got the best of in a bargain. "I am glad to hear you say bo," respond? ed the gentleman, "for it relieves my Maker of a great responsibility." Mai Li Arrangements.?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.'; oloses 6 A. M.; night opqps 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.; closes 8 and 1 P. M. Wilmington opens 3.30 P. M.; closes 10.30 A. M. On Sunday the office is open from 3 to 4 P. M. List of Nkw Advbbtlbkmsntb. B. Graham & Co.?Sale Stables, . Jacob Levin?Gas Bills. Columbia Building Si Loan Associa'n. 0. F. Jaokson?New Goods. Independent Fire Company, i John Agnew Sc Son?May Butter. Qrand Excursion to Florida, B. Han nan?To Bent. W. D. Love & Co.?Great Attractions. Hotel, Arrivals, May 8.?Columbia Hotel?3 Dixon, W H Evans, Augusta; J 0 Hemphill, Abbeville; J D Gardner, Jr, Wilmington; J H Ransom, New York; James H Condon, Philadelphia; John J Stetwell, Louisville; Mrs G F Paddook, Miss Frost and maid, Dr H G P Spenoer and wife, Samuel Frost, New York; Fred D Baab, G k O B B; J H Stelling, Greenville; J H Heuser, Ex? press Company.' Wheeler House?Mr and Mrs Oowen and two children, A Welch, New Jersey; Geo F Beaw, Philadelphia; B E Tomp kins, Miss Nellie Tompkins, Oamden; Miss Mary Lewis, S W Cody, New York; Dr J H Frautz, Columbia; L Leudder, Miss Snider, Miss Minnie Jones, Spar tanburg; B M SiniB, Lancaster; Bev W J Potter, Massachusetts; E N Dennis, Oraugeburg; Patrick Duffle, Charleston; L W Duvall, T W Woodward, Winns boro; James Maloney, Newberry. We learn, says the Nashville Union and American, from a reliable source, that twenty-three granges in .Charllon County, Kansas, have 2,700,000 bushels of corn for sale. Farmers are still burn? ing this grain for fuel; and large quanti? ties are being shipped to South Carolina and other ootton-ruiaiug States. Granges in the West find good customers in Southern granges, whose members culti? vate other staples. Producers in many branches of industry are exchanging commodities without the intervention of middle men. This practice is suscepti? ble of indefinite extension. Granges that now buy their ooffee at wholesale prices of merchants will soon purchase it directly from the planters who raise the coffee. We live in an age of progress; and beforo a man gets a dollar, hp must produce something that is worth it. No Postponement.?It is not wise to put off until the heats of summer have commenced the invigorating process i which would have secured the system, in advance, against this untoward influence. By tcuing the stomach, liver and bowels in the spring months with Hostetter's Stomach Bittors, and continuing to take this harmless but powerful vegetable in vigorant during tho summer, it is quito certain that even persons who are natu rally delicate aud deficient in vital foroe, may escape the fits of indigestion, head? ache, nausea, biliousosss, nervous de? bility and mental oppression which, in the absence of such preparation, often prostrate and agonize the more robust. A pure stimulant, medicated with tho juices of tho finest tonio, anti-bilious and aperient roots and herbs, as an invalu? able boon to the weak and ailing, and this life-sustaining boon in the form of Hostetter's Bitters, is fortunately within the reaoh of all. May 4 |3U Nervous Debility.?A depressed, in ritable state of mind; weak, nervous, exhausted feeling j no energy ob ani? mation ; confused head, weak memory, often with debilitating, involuntary discharges. Tho OODBfqUODOO of 6x oessos, mental overwork or indiscretions. This nervous debility finds a sovereign cure in Humphreys' Homgjopathto Spe? cific, No. 28. It tones up the system, arrests discharges, dispels the mental gloom aud despondenoy, and rejuvenates the entire system; it is perfectly harmless and always effioient, Price $5 for a pack ago of five boxes and a large $2 vial of powder, which is important in old serious cases; or $1 per single box. Sold by all Druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of price. Address Humphreys' Specific Hghgiopathio Medicine Company, No. 662 Broad way, N. Y. For sale by Geiger St McGregor, Columbia, S. O. Apl4 fljly