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losiKKVMcy ?Q;-4A Reutet? kd?gf am
says ? there>4a< Wo truth >iaf.the" reported
capture- Of Kbivs; j -Th?Sffty *?jt
easiness at 8t. Petersburg odiio^oYnTO:
a lack of news from tbo JihWan expedi?
tion, x .Two .expeditions bavo boen .de?
tained by snow. The rendezvous wae
several hundred milee dielaqt from the
halt. Tho bait occurred u m?'atb alter
the time specified fqr.oonoontratioo.
Despatches from Paris represent the
Assembly as stormy. The members of
the Bight openly declared thoir doairo ts
overthrow Thiora. i.j"- -1 '
St. PjrrEBSBURQ, May 20.?The Such
of Persia is at Moscow. - An immense
concourse enthusiastically welcomed
him. The statement tfrat three wives
accompany him-is untrue,
VKBSaXnnftaY? M*y 20.?Buffet waa re
elected by 869, to 280 oast for H?rtel.
This vote indicates th? auccew of the
interpellation Introduoed by the o*hfe?
satives. Ii y
Anasrlsak ntotters.
Washington, May 80.?The ground
u[ on whioh Baron Leder er, umpire of
the American and Spanish Commission,
decided against DerojVs claim for da?
mages in Cuba, was that the declaration
of intoution to become a citizen did not
place him Within the treaty.
New YObk>, May 20.?The Tammany
Sooiety elected Abrsm S. Hewett Grand
Saohem. h .
7,852 immigrants lauded - at - Castle
Gardes yesterday. ' \}- ; ?
Garoier challenges Daly for the cham?
pionship and tbe billiard cue.
A fight Sa progressing at Sbomoohin,
over 1,000 sores of anthracite coal, lauds,
valued at $20,000,000. Three houses
were burned by one. party, and retalia?
tion is threatened. O. H. Wheeler, of New
York, represents'ono side: the Bs?ding
Railroad the other. '\'.'
The Times publishes a ramor that tbe
stockholders of the Paoiflo Mail Com?
pany are about applying for a receiver,
on the ground that the funds of ibe
oompany have been squandered.
Gideon Welles will reply to Adams'
eulogy upon So ward?showing that Lin?
coln wanted'13 ay ton, but Adams secured
the St. James mission through the argent
appeals of Seward.
St. Louis, May 20.?The hail and
wind proBtrated obimueys and broke
windows, and incalculably*damaged gar?
dens and orchards.
San Francisco, May 20.?Tho steam?
ship Nebraska has arrived .from New
Zealand. The-orew of-the British ship
Alsager scuttled add sunk her at sea; all
hands escaped in boats. Three of the
crew were brought in iron* to Auckland
for trial.
Work on the Southern Pacific Rail?
road, is progressing steadily, and it is
now us far South aa Deer Greek. - -
Toledo, May 20.?This ufternooD, at
4 o'clock, the grain elevator known as
the Wabash elevator No. 2. took fire and
was'totally destroyed..' There was in
store 125,000 bushels of oats and 90,000
bushels ol corn. The building was
worth about $100,000, with a capacity of
300.000 bushels.
Washington, May 20.?Tho Russian
mission has been tendered to Governor
Jewell, of Connecticut, j '.,']
Surgeon Charles Syter has been
ordered to the department of the South.
Gen. Sherman leaves to-night for Can
by's friherah '
Fish and Djlaua were absent from to?
day's Cabinet.
Only ten of the twenty Collectors have
filed bonds. In these Districts, the As?
sessors retain their positions until the 1st
of June, to whioh time the bonds havo
been given. The Assessors were relieved'
to-day.
Probabilities?For tbe Gulf, South
Atlantic States , and Tennessee, Booth
easterly and South-westerly winds, high
temperature, cloudy weather and rain,
clearing to-morrow.
Senator Wiadom, Chairman of the
Seiest Committee on Transportation,
has returned tto Washington, and is now
engaged in* working up the several
statistics, and making arrangements for
perfeoting the programme of tbe com?
mittee A general meeting will be held
here, in August or September, when it
will be determined how far the visits of
tbe members of tho committee shall ex?
tend. Senator Windom will first visit
certain localities, including Philadelphia,
New York, Albany, Boston, Buffalo and
Montreal, to ascertain the best sources
of commercial and transit information,
so that the other members may have
starting points for more particular in?
quiry. A letter was received to-day from
tbe committee of the New York Legisla?
ture, saying it would afford tbem plea?
sure to meet the Senate committeo, at
whatever time might bo named, to con?
sider aud exchange views on tbe subjects
of investigation. Tbo business of the
commit Leo thus far bas progressed satis?
factorily, and much valuable information
from all sources has boen accumulated.
A St. Louis special from Austin,
Texas, says tbo grasshoppers in that sec?
tion are devastating vegetables. They
are moving Northward, and threaten
Missouri, Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska.
Baltimore, May 20.?The Presbyte?
rian Assembly convenes in the First
Presbyterian Church, at St. Louis, next
year.
The oonfeienoe finally decided to par?
ticipate in ibe centennial. Tbe matter
of the conflicting olsims of the two
churches at Jacksonville, Fla., oame op,
and was explained by Dr. Reynolds.
Resolutions were adopted directing the
Board on Obaroh Erection to appropriate
$1,000 to re-imburse the ohuroh at Jack?
sonville, and allowing their ohuroh au?
thorities to make an appeal to tbe North?
ern eharohes to the extent of $5,00",
E. O. Graves, Chief Clerk of the
United States Treasurer's office, and
other gentlemen, composing the Examin?
ing Board of the Treasury, kept in con?
nection with, the oivil service, have re?
turned from their trips to Galveston,
New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah,
offioe in the respective cuatom houses iu
4080 oitiea. ./.*uf?i/.j ?? r r?*
Atlanta, May-20*-?Governor Smith
ilobmod ? tho ? oonventlou. I Governor
Thomas, of Iowa, is temporary chair
man.?1 ,t ? i n ? v? ?
The convention waa permanently orga?
nized by tbo' election of Gov. J. 0,
Brown, of Tennessee, as President;. E.
G. Richards, of Alabama, E. H. James,
of Tenneeaee, H. W. Walter, of Miesis
sippi, Josiah Quiooy, of Massachusetts,
Thorn** Taylor, of South Oarolina, John
Martin, of Kentucky,'0. 0. Carpenter,
of Iowa, J. L. Mdrenead, of North Caro?
lina, O. Si Carrington, of Virginia, Gov.
Woodson, of Missouri, and F.I*. Villi
pegue, of Florida, Vioe-Presidents.
Thirteen States are represented. Over
900 delegates are present The conven?
tion adopted a resolution that cheap
transportation was the only subject for
disouaalon. A commit too to prepare
business was appointed, of whioh Gov.
Smith, of Georgia, was made Chairman.
A number of resolutions were referred
to that committee. The convention ad*
jonrned until to-morrow morning. Gov.
Hendrioks, of Indiana, will arrive to?
night. General Gordon will address the
convention to-night. The city is full of
visitors. There is great enthusiasm.
The convention will make an excursion
to .Oolntabus, Brunswick, Savannah and
Augusta, leaving on the morning of the
22d. N ,; j ? .
i New Yobs, May 20,? Hawly'a oil
cloth factory,' in .Brooklyn, was burned
to-day. Sitnpsou's Japau factory, in
Brooklyn, was also burned. The Ores
are attributed to discharged workmen.
I The jury iu tho George Francis Train
ease, for indecent publications, returned
a verdict of not guilty, on oooouut of
insanity. Dr. Cross testified that this
insanity continues, und Train must be
asylumed. Train replied, exoitedly, "I
protest against tho proceedings here.
II have been five months in jail without
[being granted a trial." Then address
jing Judge Davis, he said, "Before I
leave here, I move your impeachment,
in the name of the people." Judge
Davis ordered him to sit down. An
order was made out to send Traiu to tbe
State Lun&tio Asylum.
Yesterday, at Albany, on motion of
Mr. Ii. Tremain, the oass of Stokes was
ordered by the Court of Appeals to be
heard Monday, the 20th.
Financial und Commercial.
London, May 20?Noon.?Consols
93J<C. Fives 88%.
Livanpooii, May 20?3 P. M.?Cotton
opened quiet and is now dull but un?
changed?uplands 8%; Orleans 9J^; sales
10,000 bales; speculation 2,000; Savan?
nah and Charleston, May delivery, 8%.
LrvEBTOOL, May 20?Evening.?Got?
ten dosed unchanged; sales of American
6,000; from Savannah and Charleston,
April and May shipments, 8%; May de?
livery, 8 $?; July and August delivery,
811-16.
', New Yobk, May 20?Noon.?Cotton
.weak and irregular; sales 38 i bales?up?
lands 19>?; Orleans 19%; sales for fu?
ture delivery: May 18^(^18 7-16; Jaly
18 9-16; AagoBt 18X. 18 7-16. Flour
Saiet and very firm. Wheat aud corn
ull and nominally nnchacged. Pork
dull and nominal. Lard dull and heavy
?Western 9%. Freights arm. Stocks
dull. Gold steady, at 17%. Money
steady, at 6@7. Exohange?long 9;
short 10. Governments dull but steady.
State bonds quiet.
? 7 P. M.?Cotton?net receipts 795
bales; gross 795; Bales for export to-day
49; last evening 119; sales of futures
7,200, as follows: May 18%; Juno 18%;
July 18 9-16, 18%, 18%. Cotton dull;
sales 628 bales?uplands 19,%; Orleans
19%. Flonr activer and unchanged.
Whiskey 94%. Wheat heavy and l@2o.
lower; holders anxious?white Indiana
2 25. Corn heavy and lower?old West?
ern mixed afloat 6C^@6C%. Coffee
doll. Sugar JjjC lower. Rico steady, at
7%@8??. Pork dull, at 17.50?17.75.
Lard u trifle easier. Navals dull and
heavy. Tallow steady. Freights firm.
Money closed'at Sterling weaker,
at 8%. Gold 17%. Governments dull.
States quiet and nominal.
St. Louis, May 20.?Flour dull and
unchanged, with fair demand. Corn
dull, lower and unsettled?No 2, mixed,
37%, on track; 89 in elevator. Pork
dull aud unchanged. Bacon very dull?
shoulders 7%; clear rib aides OjJ; clear
sides 9%, cash lots of oity packed.
Lard duil and unchanged. Whiskey
steady, at 90.
LouisvriiLE, May 20.?Floor dull and
steady. Corn in demand, at 50@5G%,
sacked. Provisions easy. Pork 17.50.
Bacon?shoulders 7%; dear rib sides
9%; clear eidoB 9%(q)10. Lard?tiercos
9%@9%; kegs 10J?; small orders
^fc. higher. Whiskey steady, at 88.?
Cincinnati, May 20.?Flour quiet, at
7.75. Corn steady, at 50. Pork nomi?
nally 17.00, but nothing doing. Lard
dnll and nominal?steam held at 8%;
ketllo held at 9; sales of country kettle
at 8%. Bacon quiet?shoulders
dear rib sides 9%; clear sides 9J{{. Whis?
key Bteady, at 88.
Boston, May 20.?Cotton quiet?mid?
dling 19%; gross receipts 308; salos 250;
stook 11,000.
Wilmtnqton, May 20.?Cotton quiet?
middling 18; net receipts 22 bales; ox
ports coastwise 80; stock 3,968.
Nobfolx, May 20.?Cotton dull and
little doing?low middling 17%; net re?
ceipts 1,115 baloe; exports ooastwise
1,002; sales 100; stock 7,805.
Savannah, May 20.?Cotton dull
middling 18%; net receipts 4.61 bales;
exports ooastwise 310; salos 359; stook
29.124.
Galveston, May 20.?Cotton quiet?
' good ordinary 14; net receipts 49 bales;
exports to Great Britain 925; sales 600;
stock 40.319.
.Mobile, .May 20.?Cotton dull?mid?
dling 11}4; not receipts 19; exports
ooastwise 161; Bales 500; stook 29,418.
Charleston, May 20.?Cotton dull
middling 17%@17%; low middling 17@
22 654.
Balttmobs, May 20.? Cotton
middling 19; groia receipts 93 bales; ex?
ports ooastwise 65; sales 1-40; etock 0,260.
Memphis, May 20.?Cotton dull sod
unchanged; receipts 613 bales; ship?
mente863; stook 82,908. :
Augusta, May 20.?C >Uou steady
middling 17}?; receipts ?5 bales; sales
2,308.
New Orleans, May 20.?Cotton, quiet
?middling 18K; net receipts ,1,020
bales; gross 1,218; exports to the copti
nent 3,100; sales 600; stock 118,288.
Mcetlag of the Board of Health.
Omca Bo Abo or Health,
Columbia, May 19, 1878.
A special meeting of the Board was
held this afternoon, st 6 o'clock. Pre?
sent?Messrs. Levin, Williams, Walker.
I Goldsmith, Boozer, Brannon, Mima and
, Collins.
The Chairman stated that he bad re?
ceived an official communication from
bia Honor the Mayor, informing him
j and through him to the Board, that their
servioes would be required until their
j successors shall have been elected. Ba
1 oeived at information.
The Clerk was ordered to report tbe
I absent members to tbe City Council.
The following preamble>nd resolution
were adopted:
Wboreas serious complaints have been
made to members of thia Board, and also
to tbe City Council, of tbe filthy water
now being furnished to tbe citizens by
tbe Columbia Water Power Company,
tboroby causing mnih sickness among
thosi who are forced to use it; therefore.
Resolved, That a Committee of Four
from the Board to examine tbe works of
I said company and tbe various springs
I and other water courses supplying their
main receiving reservoir, be appointed.
Comnittee?Messrs. J. N. Boozer, M.
Goldsmith, H. Mims and Jervy Williams.
On motion, the Chairman of the
Board was added, and made Chairman
of the Committee.
The drain leading from tbe rear of the
Wheeler House, from Plain to Sumter
street; also the drain from the Hendrix
House, down Taylor street, were reported
as nuisances, and it was ordered that the
Clerk of the Board report the same to
Council to act upon.
The sinks and low yards in Hurley
ville were seriously complained of. Re?
ferred to Mr. Thos. P. Walker and a
member of tbe Board to report upon.
The following resolution was unani?
mously adopted:
Resolved, That this Board brings it to
the oognizanoe of the City Gonnoil that
the portion of the city lying on Marion,
Sumter, Richardson, .Assembly and
Gates streets, in the lower part of the
city, suffer from the malaria arising from
tbe stagnant water from ponds and
I swumpssuffered tocolleot within the city
I limits, and respectfully recommend that
Council will take proper steps to abate
the oause.
A nnmber of minor nuisances were re?
ported and referred to tbe members of
the various wards.
The Clerk was authorized to give
notice to the citizens that on and after
Monday next the Board will prooeed to
visit tho premises of the citizens in the
different wards.
The Board then adjourned, subject to
tbe call of tbe Chairman.
THOS. P. WALKER,
Aoting Clerk.
Special Holing of City Council.
Council Chamber.
Columbia, S. C, May HO. 1873.
Meeting oalled at 7.80 P. M. Present
-His Honor the Mayor; Aldermen Car?
penter, Thompson, Lowndes, Mitchell,
Carroll, Hogo, Young, Williams and
Cooper. Absent?Aldermen Carr and
Griffin.
The Mayor stated, that he had oalled
Counoil together for the purpose of pay?
ing their respects to the city's guests, to
wit: The Union Star Fire Engine Com?
pany, of Charleston, tbe Yellow Jackets,
of Charlotte, N. O, and the delegates of
various other fire companies in Charles?
ton. He further stated, that ho bad ex?
tended to them a wolcomo and the hos?
pitalities of the oity, and asked Council
to join him and give oxprossion to their
views iu paying respects to them.
Speeches of welcome were tendered to
the officers and delegates by tbe follow?
ing parties: Aldermen Lowndes, Car pou?
ter, Thompson, H?ge, Carroll, Mitchell,
Young, Williams, and also by ex-Alder?
man Wilder and H. Uayne, Secretary of
State.
After which, tbo Major stated, that
some refreshments bad beeu provided,
aud asked Council to adjouru, to partake
of tbo same. A pleasant hour was then
passed, and toabts and general fun and
frolic. CUAS. BARNUM,
City Clerk.
Amoug the lost arts is that of the ond
loss burning lamp. It is said that iu tbo
time of Edward YI, a lamp was disco?
vered in the grave of Constantino, at
York, whioh bad been burning siuco bis
burial to that time, a period of 1,200
years. Also, in the grave of Tullia,
daughter of Cioero, was found a burning
lamp whioh was lighted at her death,
1,550 years before. It wont out as soon
as daylight was admitted. Yet it is
certainly a olever device of the ancients
to invent a lamp whioh would illuminate,
through all tim??, the home of their
dead.
An exchange says that an old citizen
of Randolph visited Ashboro, N. C., last
week, for the first time since 1861. He
looked around wildly, saying he did not
know any one except B. F. Hoover. Ho
lived eight miles from Ashboro; did not
know who the President was, nor tbe
Governor; has never boon outside of
Randolph County; know tbe father of
A. M. Difiee, and said be had beard that
tbe young man was now provost judge.
He had heard of the war, but did not
know muoh about it.
peou?ur interest just now:
?**?General Sherman, we hope, knows
hia ipind. In 1837, ju?t after the Chey?
enne war bail been concluded, at a ooat
of $30,000,000, ho wrote an official report,
eaying that, if tho Indians were to be
( dealt with by a policy of war, they ought I
to bo under the War Department of the
Interior.. Now he scums to have been
frightened out of his wita by tho murder
of Gen. Oanby by a little band of half
I oivjiized and half-breed marauders, and |
j'Vaya that tho War Department should
' oontrol the Indian management; bat in
sluts that officers 'most be sheltered
against the howl of saoh as followed
Major Baker after the Piegau attaok, as
lao General Ouster after his attaok on
Black Kettle's Oamp.' 'Sheltered,'in?
deed I Has General Sherman forgotten
how be denounced these attacks, and
bow a Congressional committee did the
same? Caoby'a murder waa innocence
itself in comparison. Take the Piegan
case. A white trader quarreled with his
Indian wife's relatives and was shot in
tbe melee. We have heard of sach
things among white folks. Gen. Baker
was sent to avenge the white man's
death. The tribe was suffering terribly
from small-pox. By mistake, General
Baker struok the small-pox hospital in
' tead of the main enoampment of the
tribe, whioh was twelve milea away, and
massacred the small-pox patients?men
women and children?and thaix attend?
ants. Wo wero all horrified aj^gj^erhaps
bowled,' cud against such a 'howl' Gen.
Sherman to day wants future General
linkers 'aheltered.' Tbe Black Kettle
difficulty was begun by the shooting of
an Indian chief uodor a flag of truce.
Gen. Sherman said of it in I860: 'It
scarcely has a parallel iu the records of
Indian barbarity.' The Indians were
encamped uuder the direotion of our of?
ficers and supposed themselves protected
by our flag. They were scalped, women
were ripped open, children were clubbed
and their brains beaten out, and their
bodies bo horribly mutilated that the
committee would not print part of the
testimony. Aud it is such Gen. Guatars
whom Gen. Sherman then condemned,
bat would now 'shelter.' We appeal
from Sherman mad to Sherman sober."
Proposal to End the Modoo War.?
Oue of the happiest incidents connected
with the visit of the Board of Rogen ta of
Mount Vernon to that place, on Wednes?
day last, was the interview between a
young and gallant ox Confederate cavalry
officer, who had won his first distinction
as an Indian fighter, and Miss Nellie
Grant. The ex-Confederate having ac?
cidentally met an old friend among the
lady visitors, was introduced by her to
ber daughter, and also, and to his great
surprise, when he heard her name, to
her daughter's friend, the daughter of
tho President; but, being as oourteous
as he is brave, he strove to render him?
self agreeable to his distinguished ao
q-iaiatance, aud by bis affability and
genial Southern manners, was so success?
ful, that iu a short time, the reserve of
new acquaintanceship was worn off, and
they were talking together as familiarly
as if they had known oaoh other for
years. On their return, he was particu?
larly attentive, pointing out to her from
the deok of the ateamer tbe several ob?
jects of interest along the banks of the
Potomac, aud narrating the legends at?
tached to them, and, as the boat neared
this city, he expressed his regret at not
boing able to osoort her to her home,
saying he would certainly beg that ho?
nor, were it not that ho must meot a
near and dear rolative, ou invalid lady,
who was expected to arrive there that
evening. Then, taking the hand she
proffered him as he rose to leave her, he
Slid with a smile, "Please boar my re
girdj to tho President, and be kind
euough to tell him, that if he'll only fur?
nish tbo necessary rations and transpor?
tation, I'll take a squadron of the Black
Horse Cavalry, and promise to end the
Modoc war aud make him a present of
Captain Jack, dressed in General Canby's
uuiform, within thirty days," and, liftiog
his hat, bowed himself towards tho com?
panion-way, down which ho disappeared,
she having laughingly remarked, as he
bada her udieu, "Well, sir, I must say,
you are the most impudent mau I ever
met."?Alexandria Gazette.
A pleasant Parisian gentleman named
Decroire, who appears to have been
wholly given tip to the delights of sci
euoe, recently prepared a banquet for bis
fellow-soii ntistp, which, judging fiom the
bill of fare, could not have been of n
peculiarly appetizing character. Tho
meats that ho furnished consisted of tbo
floih of horses whioh had died of tho
glanders, of cows which had perished
from rinderpest, ami of a donkey just
dead from hydrophobia. It was, em?
phatically, a "test" bauquot, and proved
tbe devotion of its partakers to the cause
of science, us it was tbo intention to de?
monstrate to tbo world that the flesh of
animals was not affected ns human food
by the worst diseases, but that tho cooU
iog effectually purges it from all infec?
tious matter. Undoubtedly M. Dccroiro
is a very estimable gontleman in private
life, but wo should hardly liko to trust
ourselves iu u hoarding house of bis
keeping.
During tho past week tho polico of
New York city mado 1,775 arrests aud
3,050 homeless persons wero provided
witb lodgings at the various polico
stations. For tho same period the Bu?
reau of Records registered 561 deaths,
{330 births, and 183 marriages. Tboro
woro 16 fires, involving a loss of $20,360,
which is covered by insurance aggregat?
ing $51,500.
About thirty horses were burned to
death iu Clark McDonald's stablos, For?
tieth street, Now York, on tho night of
tho 17th.
What an ass tho follow must havobeen
who made a donkey engine aud expected
to get horse power out of itl
Tot Bhmm at ram UagMSLwmSjtB&a*
tiny of tbe negro in tbe United States is
written, Hie race grows io'ldleness and
unproductiveness1 each year as the- old
plantation negroes, fndQ?triou% by habit,
are removed by death.. It is notorious
that the freedmau'a children. do not
equal their parent's work. "It is notori?
ous that they are not prolific. Tbe per
oentage of mulattoes increases continu?
ally, and mulattoes, as a sort of hybrid,
are at once unfeound and of weak and
unhealthy constitutions, particularly sub?
ject to strumous affections and to diseases
of the lungs. Pneumonia is a very fre?
quent and fatal disease among them.
Meantime, while so iarge a per oeniage of
the negroes goes to the oities and towns,
there is a secular movement of tbe whole
race, alow but sure, toward the' more
tropical parts of our oountry. This
movement is no> developed ih the figures
in the ninth census, beouusV. there has
not been time yet for the disturbing in?
fluences of the war to subside, ? -Thus no
one. can doubt for a moment that it is
due to abnormal circumstances that the
negro population of Kansas should have
increased 2,628.55 per Cent., in the last
ten years; that of lews 489.01 per*e*si,;
and that of Illinois 277.06 par cent. Tt
is also palpably abnormal for Florida to
have gained 40.29 per cent., Tennessee
13.89 per cent, and Texas 88.57 per
cent. Nevertheless, the census reveals
to us the beginning of the drift, showing
also whioh way it has set. The average
gain of tbe country has been 9.21 per
oent. But Delaware has only i gained
5.40 per cent., Maryland only 2.49 per
cent.; Kentucky has lost 5.91 per oent.,
Missouri has lost 0.36 per oent., and Vir?
ginia has lost 6.57 per cent., while Ala?
bama has gained 8.62 percent., Arkan?
sas 9.81 per cent., Georgia 17.06 per
oent. The tenth census will show tbe
drift conclusively established, and tho
next generation will not have passed
away before the habitat of our negroes?
barring a few nnbappy barbers and
white-washers and washer-women still
about our cities, aud possibly a Radical
member or two of Congress?will be
bounded by the same isothermal lines
that bound the habitat of tbe alligator.
In the b warnps and bayous of the regions
bordering on the Golf, wherever there
is dry saud enough for a sweet potato
patch and water enough to float a dug?
out, the last remnants of the race, whioh
coBt this nation 850,000 Uvea, $4,000,
000,000 of treasure and the best half of
our Oonstitution, will still flouriah run
wild for oonturies.?New York World.
Whatever may be the consequences
growing ont of the passage of stringent
liquor laws in soveral of the States where
they exist, it is quite understood that the
legal fraternity have had as yet no cause
for complaints. Law-suits are every?
where increasing, and the questions in?
volved are of sufficient importance to
require the best legal talent procurable.
In Iowa, tho druggists are battling man?
fully for their rights, whioh have been
invaded and restricted in the matter ol
sales of the ardent for medicinal pur?
poses. It is believed that it will occasion
no little difficulty to adjust the power ol
the law to the expediency of its execu?
tion, and the struggle will possess more
than a local interest. Iiis stated, among
other Iowa oases, that not long-ago. a
Mr. Tbeis bought of a firm a pint of
whiskey, on the representation that his
wife was very ill and needed that amount
of good liquor. Whether his story waa
correct or not, does not appear; but tbe
spirits were appropriated long before the
buyer reached home, and he doubtless
did society a service by falling from bis
wagon and breaking bis neck. Mrs.
Theis has oatimated bis loss at $10,000,
and brought suit against the venders of
aloobol, "in oases of sickness," for that
amount. Allowing that tbe firm did not
use "due diligence" in ascertaining the
truth of tbe man's statements, there are
objections on commercial grounds to tbe
allowance of such exoessive damages for
a man who, by the nature of tho circum?
stances, was doing the best thing for bis
wife when ho precipitated her widow?
hood. As Aminadab Sleek would doubt
loss say, jadgment in tbo widow's favor
would encourage every worthless follow
to impose upon innocent druggists, aud
then break bis neok. It would be the
most effective kind of life insurance for
his family, whatever the apothecaries
might think about it.
Not a Bad Bargain After All ?
"Two small rocky islands in tbo Behr?
ing Sea," says tho London (Hobe, "will
soon bavo paid back to tbe Uuiced State*
Treasury the whole sum expended npon
tho purchase of Alaska. When tho ces?
sion of this territory was granted by
Bassin, people smiled at the bargain
mado by tbo Americans. It was aeseitod
that Yaukeo shrewdness had deserted
Mr. Soward in tbo matter. Ho knew
hotter, and did not buy with his eyes
shut. St. Paul's und St. George's Is?
lands, bolonging to tho Aleutian chain,
have since been leased to tbo Alaska
Commercial Company for seal-fishing at
u yearly rental of $55,000. A tax of
nearly tbreo dollars on each, far seal
skiu taken and shipped from the islands
is also imposed. As 100,000 skins are
exported yearly now to San Francisco
and Now York, n fruitful eouroo of ro
venue is obtained from these two barren
rocks. This territorial enterprise of the
United States is therefore a great sue
cos1}, and will probably help to develop
tbe idea so rapidly growing in Amerioa,
that colonial possessions are useful from
many national points of view."
Saturday was flogging day in New
Castle, Del., when two white and four
colored rogues rooeivod twenty lashes
eaob. Granville Hudson stood in tbe
pillory an boar for cutting his wife's
throat, it being part of bis sentence. *
James Gordon Bennett, when he gots
back from Europe, is going to introduco
lady reporters into the. Herald establish?
ment, to add gush and brilliancy to the
oolumns of the paper. Tho net profit of
the Herald last year was over $400,000.
In ?MM?M BMP MBB BjaMI i
Montevideo. Uruguay, beet is ? dollar a
glass, according to ex-G?nBul B?r|r?ui,
but Eben Sheep may be nad.for' only ten
ecuts apiece; That is cheap for sheep;
but if a stronger found himself in that.
city, with only. severjty-frye cents ?fri his
pocket, and .was thirsty, and the Monte?
video water didn't 6'groo with, him, it
wouldn't help his easel' much 'if sheep
were only ten cents a dozen. He oonld
buy a oow for fifty cents, however, if
milk would serve his purpose.
If there are a good many arts and in?
ventions sold, there is no lack of new
ones, to judge from the advertisement
of a patent broker in the interior, who
offers "the cheapest and beat farm fenoe
ever built," "a new gas lamp that oosts
only half a cent an hoar," "a horse rake
that has no equal," *'a new glass cutter
that beato the diamond," "a grata bar
that doesn't born out," and, finally, "a
toy engine that every boy should have
for instruction." v.
The oitizona of Birmingham, Ala.', have
presented to the founder of their city,
Ool. James B. Powell, a magnificent
knife, made at Birmingham, England,
j It is composed of gold ?um Au*??m>, sil?
ver from Pera, pearl from Africa, arid
steel from the mountains of Alabama.
It was designed by a French artist, and
made by an English workman. It. ie
thonght to be the handsomest knife ever
manufactured. ?*?:
A firm in New Hampshire has been
building a novel class of locomotive for
the wooden track railways in the lumber
regions of Georgia. They are only six
tons in weight, aud have very large cy?
linders for so light machines. The ca?
pacity for carryiDg)water and fuel is very
great, the whole forming a very unique
and serviceable machine, one of them
being able to do the work of thirty
mules easily.
Iu Galloway, large craigs Are met
with having ancient writings on them.
One on the farm of Knockleby has, out
deep on the upper side, "Lift me up,
aud I'll tell you more." A number of
people gathered to this craig, and suc?
ceeded in lifting it up, in hopes of being
well repaid; but, instead of finding any
gold, they found written on it, "Lay me
down as I was before."
Governor Davis, of Texas, Republi?
can, and the Legislature, Democrat,
have oome to an agreement for a general
election in October, everybody to go ont
of office, in order that new terms may
begin at an even date. There is a new
apportionment, and voting is all to be
done in one day at precinct polls, in?
stead of running through four br five
dayB at the County seats.
Capital punishment has not yet been
abolished in the Cincinnati schools. - A
boy baa just died from the effects of a
tap on the head administered by a teach?
er of the singularly unbalanced name of
Christian Bapp; and, going to the other
extreme, another boy ha? had his leg
broken by bia preceptor in an assault
with intont to thrash, ^ . >_
Maj. P..H. Bonn, a prominent Savan?
nah merchant, in the sixty-fifth year of
his age, died on Saturday morning. He
was a native of Beaufort, S. C, and had
resided in Savannah for forty years. ..
lO
Diamond Hams.
TIEBCES DAVIS' DIAMOND HAMS,
jaet received and for sale by^
May 31 4 JOHN AONKW A SON.
Colnmbia Lodge, Ho. 106, A. F. M.
ja AN Extra Communication of this
LodKo will be held THIS EVENING,
in Masonic Ball, at 8 o'clock. The
/^^\E. A. Degree will be conferred. By
order of the W. M.
Ma; 21 1 L. CARR, Secretary.
HO WEZ, HYATT & CO.,
Wholesale Dealers in Boots and Shoes,
mOim NOS. 90, 92 and 91 Grand street, a few
f f i doors West of Broadway. New York. Alt
' M?rders attended to faithfully and with
despatch. W. Z McGHEE, of South- Caro?
lina, ia connected with this houae.
May 21 tlmo
Notice,
OFFICE BOARD OF HEALTH,
Columbia, May 20 1873.
11.HE oitizons At Columbia are hereby noti
. tied that on and after MONDAY next,
the Board of Health will visit and make a
rigid inspection of each and every premises
in the different Wards of the city. By order
of the Board. TBOS. P. WALKER,
May 21 4_Acting Clerk.
Meal! Meall
FRESH BOLTED CORN MEAL, Juat re?
ceived aud f r eale at One Dollar per
Bushel, by JOI1N AGNEW A SON.
May 20_6__
Table Claret,
A VERY choice article of TABLE CLARET,
i\_ at a low price, will be on draught, on
WEDNESDAY. Parties having engaged,
and those wishing to get, will pleaso Bend in
their orders promptly. H. M. OIBSON. ?
_May 20 -_2_
Self-Sealing Glass and Earthen Jars,
FOP. PRESERVING FBUIT3 and VEGE?
TABLES, of the most Improved kinds, at
Factory prices, at
May 18 3 STANLEY'S OR IN k HAUL.
Wanted.
2i^\(T%Ci CORDSOAK WOOD.deUveyed
?\J\J\J at any point on the Charlotte.
Columbia an4 August a Railroad. Inquire of
O. HAMBERG,
May 16 G _At Charlotte Depot.
Sweet Potatoes.
S)K BUSHELS YAM POTATOES, in line
<J?J order. For aale by
May 10 'HOPE A OYLES.
Wanted,
1 fin T0Na 0ABT TR0N. ?t GOLDSMITH
1UU? KIND'S Foundry, for which the
higheat market price will be paid. May 8,1m
100
Western Hay.
BALES TIMOTHY HAY, for sale low
for cash. HOPE & GYLES.
TO PLANTERS. .
pr f\f\ DIXON STEEL COTTON SWEEPS.
O\J\J 100 Twiatera and Shovels.
10 Dow-Law Cotton Pianlera, from factory.
100 pair Trace Ohaina.
40 dozen Plow Hames.
Which wo offer at popular prices.
Apr 25_L?RICK A LOWBANOE.
May Butter.
CHOICE MAY BUTTEB, just received and
for sale, by JOHN aUNEW A BON.