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COLUMBIA, S. C. Wednesday Horning, August 7, 1873. The Wai< r Contract. The contract to supply the city with water for twenty years, at 316,000 a year, was made with the Columbia Water Company by the Mayor and Aldermen, in the face of protests and ex? posures. It was a change us wanton and unjustifiable as it was rudical and ruinous. But it was the big gun of the Radical administration, it was a measure which wus vauntod as one that wonld show its power and far seeing judgment. Indireot good was tu compensate lia direct extravagance. The additions whioh it would make to our tax-paying popnlation and our tax receipts, the whirl of thousands of spindles whioh it waB to set in motion, would more than balanoo the addition of ?10;000 a year to the expenses of the city. Up to that time the oity had procured pure water in euffloient quantity for all needed purp'osos for 86,000 a year. Not a word of complaint was made against the sup? ply, except from interested motives. But the new city administration came in with a determination of showiug its power over that portion of the citizens who had boen roluotaut to admit its rule. It carried a hugn broom in its hand, und it proclaimed that it intended to make a cleau swoep. W. H. Wigg, one of the Council* appeared conspicu? ously in the character of a petty muni? cipal Van Troinp, and the sweeping, dusting and oleaniug out oommenoed, and, suoU as it is, has goue on to this day. Mr. Pearoe, with bis grand idea of a huge contract for supplying water, opportunely came into view. - It was a tempting bait, a splendid opportunity. The old Water Works arrangements were all swept away, and the job con? summated at $16,000 a year for twenty yoars. The deed was doue, the dio was cast, and we have as the consequence a huge aud increasing oity debt, ditoh water to drink, universal discontent, and the Oity Council and Wuter Com? pany attitudinizing and fuoe-amkiug before each other in the community and in the courts. It is a ourious thing, that Radicalism works exclusively by jobs, iu all matters from the government of a State down to that of a oity, or the conduct of a petty election. The corrupt way ia its way in all things. How it has worked in this instanoa, certain affidavits and testi? mony* ruled out on the trial by Judge Carpenter will.show. This was the first wrong step, whioh lies at the bottom of all the filthy difficulty about the water supply.- The oontraot was born iu sin, and reeks of corruption. It is not matter of much sarprise that things are now iu such a muddle, that all the re? sources of the. Oity Council, all the efforts of the Board of Health, all the ingenuity of the Oity Attorney, all the fulminations of public meetings, oannot extricate us from it. Mr. Fearce has fed the citizeus for several long months with a mixture of hydrogen, oxygen, mud and decomposed animal and vege? table matter, in comparison with which the black broth of the Spartuns would be a laxury. The Oity Counoil do ull the good that grumbling can do, but they demonstrate, in a most melancholy fashion, that they have more bkill in making dirty ooptraots than in termi? nating them when they becomo a public nuis,aaoe. They are desirous of throw? ing up the contract, and apprehensive, like others, of oholora, typhua, &c , hut the manufacturing Mephistopheles grins and holds them to its terms. He insists that this mud and these infusoria aro all nominated in tho bond. Tho Council, its Attorney and the Board of Health, which generously came to tho rescue, are all at the end of their row. Tho questions in iesuo are now referred to the bar of public opinion, and two pub? lic meetings of the citizens have tried their hands upon the conundrum, with? out result, so far, either in clarifying the water or in relieving the oity of a contra?t, whioh is as intolerable and offensive as the new sort of water which is fnrnishod under it. Tho question being now an open one, we shall, as a freo lance, try oar hand upon it. Meanwhile, we congratulate our citizens upon the liberal supply of ice that is furnished them at their doors. What should we do without the compensations of lifo? Tho association formed in 1863, for the purposo of procuring a colossal equestriau statue of the late Thomas J. Jackson, to bo placed at the Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington, at a prico not to exceed 325,000 in gold, an? nounces tho completion of the work, and that the statue is at Nuremberg, Bavaria, awaiting shipment to this country. 35,000 of tho amount above mentioned has been paid to the artist, aud it remains now to collect the ba? lance from among thc-so who cherioh the memory of one of tho great aoptaiuti of the Confederacy. The CnlTcnlly of South C.rullna. Mb. Editor: Id the Piicehix, a week or two back, you asked the question. "Can anything be done to revive the Univer? sity?" And the frionda of eu float ion have been anxiously looking for a reply and a remedy, after an expenditure of further kicks at the fallen lion should bo over with. We uro now glad to see, by an artiole iu the Union-Herald, of the 4th, (written evidently by one who knows,) that this time-honored and still loved and valued institution is by no means dead yet, nor likely to be, if our citizens will oniy come forward aud give it the support it ought to have. Mr. Editor, the writer of this, along with most othorB of the old regime, was dis? posed, for the first two or three years untie* the new, to look upou our Alma Maler as virtually dead or doomed ^but now, sir, lempora muiantur el nos mtdn 7tiur in Ulis, and wo oonfidently expect a better state of things. I submit, that it is high time for croakers, cavillers, impractioables and uureasooables to oease turning up their knowing noses at tbe condition and at the regime of the University of South Carolioa. There is a mandatory olauso in our State Consti? tution, which says the institution shall be sustained, and it should bo sus? tained, especially since it is now not only a free institution of learning, (and therefore open to our impoverished youth,) but it is also as good a one, por bopt, as any iu the laud. The domi? nant political party, it should be con? ceded, have aoted with a remarkable and liberal oonscrvutism, through their Board of Trustees. Cfaflin has been given over to the colored youth, and we aro suro that thoro is no disposition, on the part of either pupils or rulers, for the two races to be intermingled at either seat of loarniug. TheD, why may not both schools go ou successfully? Why send our y#ung men to WeBt Poiut, to Harvard, to Yale, to Philudelphia, or to Dr. Gaillard's beneficiary scholar? ship in the Louisville Medical College, at any of which an over-fastidious or unreconstructed one may run the risk of being contaminated by tho presence of the other race, especially in the last mentioned, if the lucky reoipieut of Col. R. B. Elliott's beneficiary appoiufc ment should happen to be a Caucasian? I trust, Mr. Editor, that you will pub? lish the article signed "Watson," as well as the short and pertiueut editorial from the Union-Herald, aud .that henceforth the nnpatriotio opposition to our homo institution may eease. CAROLINIAN. South Carolina Univeusitt.?The Trustees of this venerable institution are actively engaged in so reforming its internal policy as to hotter adapt it to the present necessities of the people. Iu the abseuoe of good classioal training schools, it has been found difiicuit for young men to seoure a suitable prepara? tion for the University classes. Youug ineu have been almost compelled to go to some one of the denominational or seotaribu colleges, all of whish havo a preparatory department, and thus havo beeu lost to the University. On the 1st of October next, the Uni? versity will open, nndor tho control of the faculty, a regular grammar school, having four departments or grades, in which students may qualify themselves either for business or for admission to the University. It is understood that this sohool will make no charge for tui? tion, aud the pupils will have the advan? tages of tho library, lecturas and in? struction from professors who have made touching a lifo work. Tho advan? tages of thia school will be unequaled by any other in the State. The University curriculum is now an admitted failure. Tbe University prin? ciple will be retained, but the schools established by law will be organized into four regular colleges. The college of li? terature and arts embraces a four years' course of ancient and modern languages, mathematics, natural, mental aud moral 5ciouces and belles letlrts. Ou oompletiug this course, the student will receive the degree of B. A. The college of science and philosophy gives a f to gears'course, embracing tho studies of tho college of arts, oxoept the foreign languages. ?Stu? dents completing this course, will receive thedegroe of B. Ph. The college of law will give traction in history, political economy . id philosophy, rhetoric, logic, elocution and composition, iu addition to all the departments of law. To gru duate iu tho college of medicine, stu? dents must acquire hero or olsewhere a knowledge of the English language aud olementury Latin, and also possess some skill in the principles aud practice of cloontion, rhetoric and composition. The ourriculum will bo far more prac? tical, system-itio and thorough than be? fore, aud, with the grammar school, will provide for students of every grade of attainments. There is one other fact that I wish to mention iu this artiole. Tho University is, and for years has been, practically, a free school. Tho professors havo gene? rously relinquished their claims for tuition, and tho Trustees havo allowed the Treasurer to remit tho fees for li? brary and room rent. The students have only to provide for the expense of board and pay for their parchments. Good families provide board at from $1G to 82C per month, aud many students, by "messing," make their boarding ex? penses not more than 810 per month. With such advantagos, tho University ought to be full, and wo beliovo it will be, just as soon as parents aud guardians learn that while the advantages of the University aro very groat, tho espouses are very small, and that a youth who cuu real, write, spall, and who understands the elements of arithmolic, oau outer some department, aud, further, that tho University uler. provides for tho highest educational wauts of the young men of this aud of other States. WATSON. Laura Pair fiods that shooting a para? mour don't pay. It cost her $11,000 AL(1 u world Ol trouble. The Finances of South Carolin*. Charleston, July 24, 1878;--State Treasurer Cardozo, ia an interview with a correspondent of the News and Cou? rier, published to-day, gives a fall state? ment of the financial condition Of South Carolina. He says he hopes the suit of the tax-payers to have $7,000,000 of conversion bonds declared void will succeed, and he will give the movement whatever aid he oan. Ha claims also to bo the originator of the suit, inasmuch as it is founded almost entirely upon f icts published by him last year, showing that at leant $6,000,000 of conversion bonds wero issuod without any authori? ty of law. Iu explanation of tbe empti? ness of the State Treasury, Mr. Cardozo said the appropriations for tho year, iucl-diug old claims, were $2,500,000, and the receipts of the year only $1, 600,000, so that tho next fiscal year will begin with a deficit of at least $750,000. To (ho Editor of die Columbia Phcenix'? Sir: Tho above squib and fib from the Now York Herald is just what might be expected, after quotiug the bonds from year fro year "steady but firm," until thoy have, iu the street parlance, touched bottom. The.' Herald reported, h?st Juno, that "it is decided to tax the pi ? plo of South Carolina four mills on the dollar, to pay the interest on the Mor? ton, Bliss & Co.," et al. bonds, &c. And now comes the "truthful Jeems" of youi Treasury, and claims to be the origi? nator of the suit in the interest of the robbed people, and hopes the tax-payers will succeed?that siwkn mii/mons of the public debt will bo declared void. Lot us look a moment into this little business of Treasurer Cardozo. Aoout the lBt of Jauuary last, he appearod in New York, in search of facts BufJicieut to justify legal proceedings against Count Kimpton, and appeared to be in down right earnest. Ho was unfortu? nate in the selection of a trifling shyster, but was subsequently relieved, in a measure, by employing in the proposod suit a gentleman of fine legal attainments aud irreproachable moral character. He also employed an agont to hunt up the testimony, agreed to pay him $1,100 for his ser? vices; but, after paving his shyster about $1,500 aud his lawyor $1,000 more, concluded to pay his agent $500 and beat him out of the balance. Aud so it name about that the Treasurer re? turned to Columbia, aad if your paper reported correctly, a resolution passed both Houses, authorizing the Treasurer to proceed against Kimpton, with a view to a settlement of his accounts with the State. But that authority was supposed to bo lodged somewhere iu the committee drift-wood, and thero are a precious few, I think, who kuow how much it cost to anchor it there. If Don Cardozo raked enough out of it to pay expenses in New York, raise a hurrah, und so bring Kimpton, Willard and Chamberlain to their feet and pockets, he did well. There is some little curiosity among moneyed men iu the North, and espe? cially among those who have been "sold," to know what Count Kimpton has done with the money. Has he loaned to his friend, tho ex-Attorney General, $75,000 on private account? How stands the accounts of Governor Moses? (Only $10,000. Governor.) Small, you know. x\nd cx-Governor Scott, Parker and the other members of the Columbia ring? Sty, in all, $250, 0001 It will not be denied that H. H. Kimpton, but a short time before he wus appointed Financial Agent for your State, failed at Chatlotte, North Caro? lina, in a one-horse budness, and paid some of his creditors fifty cent* on the dollar. Now, Mr. Cardozo, tho corr> spondeiit of tho Hetcs and Courier, iu tho abovo paragraph, aaya you gave a full state? ment of ( the fiuanoial condition of South Carolina, which, you know, is aim ply "bosh." It is extremely doubt? ful if it is ever known; surely will not be, unless both sets of H. H. Kimptou'n books and thu loose papers iu the top of his hat are thoroughly examined, and you must come to Now York with some ouo as counsel, who is far re? moved from the influence's of Kimplou's partner in Columbia, if you desire to be believed in earnest. Truly yours, STEAM. Deaths is Faikfieli).?Ou Wednes? day last, little Maud El well, daughter of Rev. S. P. U. Elwell, died of diphthe? ria, at Ridgewuy, We have ju9t hoard tho sad tidings of the death of another daughter of Mr. Elwell, on Sunday, of the tame disease. This is a crushing blow to the bereaved parents, and we tender thorn our warmest sympathies. A colored ohild, about six years old, died suddenly a fow days ago, in the Couuty. Coroner RuiT held uu inquest. It seems tout a colored woman was sick, and employed the girl to tako charge of her infant. Tho girl, ou tho evening referred to, was fanning tho sick wo? man, who fell asleep. When ehe uwoko, tho girl was*found lying dead ou the floor. Dr. Davis field ? a post mortem examination, aud decided that congestion of tho braru must have been tho oauso of death. . This is tbe third oolored chiid who bus receutly "gono to that bourne," ifco. [ WinnsboroNews, Baron Renter does not seem to be ! losing any time in beginning operations j under his contract for building railways I in Persia, by which tho Shah has cou : ferred upon him such valuable privi I leges. Tho chiof railway among those i projected ia ono from the Caspian Sea to I Teheran. The Euglish engineers have j already completed the fiurvoy and loca? tion of the first fifty miles of tho line from Teheran to Kasviu. Another party is soon to begin operations at tho Cue j pi an Sea, and locate the route towards I Kauvin; so that progroac will bo made I from both termini towards tho centre, i The entire length is about ?50 mile's. A Bureau op Proouratiok.?The au? thorities of San Francisco have disco? vered positive evidence of the existence in that city of a seoret Chinese Bociety, named Hip Yee Tong, formed for the purpose of the prosecution ot a traffic in Chinese women to bo sold into lives of prostitution. Seven members were arrested; but the society consisted of 350, and the officers are searching for the others. The following are the cir? cumstances leading to the discovery: Several weeks eiuoe, the chief of police received a letter from three Chinese girls, which, translated, read as follows: "This letter is Written at our wish. We aro three poor girls, kept by au old man, Ah Can, and an old woman, Ah Die, as slaves to make mouey for them by prostituting our bodies. Uuless we make so much nightly, we are whipped und tortured. We would liko to lead moro honorable lives. Will the autho? rities of this city aid us poor victims to escape this disgraceful life? We will he grateful." The girls could not bo fwnud. A fuw days later, one of them (Ah Siug) es? caped aud fled to the City Hall for pro? tection. She was sent to Rev. Dr. (Jib sou's Chinese Mission School, and was there married to Yat Lung. A few nights since, Yat Luug was taken before tho Hip Yee Toog Sociuty*. nut thero told that he must, under the penalty of death, pay the keeper of the brother,' from which Ah Siug escaped, ?:J50?the price of the girl. Yat Lung returned to the Mission, and claimed there thut he is afraid to go into the street. Yester? day, he received from llou. Lion Po, a member of the society, tho following characteristic, threatening letter: '' Yttl Lkk#?Dear But?Deaii Friend : I write nothing that is not important. A fuw duye since, 1 dosiied with you to seek some business more, satisfactory to the heart. Now I hear you lead the po; lieu tu arrest ELou. Chan Ah Yee on a complaint of forcing girls to a lifo of prostitution. This is no small matter. I fear lion. Cbuu will have uo place to stund, so I" tell you for great mercy. You fled to the school. What yon menu by this, I do not know. Some say to hide for a short time from the feurful power of the Hip Yee Tong Society. I think not, for we tiro men, understand? ing virtue. Why do you allow thin mat? ter to enclose you like a net ? Pay Hou. Ub.au Ah Yee S100, und nil will be clear as ice melting before tho water. Come to my store aud talk. All can be settled. "HON. LIEN PO." Iu the rooms of the Hip Yee Tong ?Society, the police found large mils con? taining the names of women sold, amount paid for each and amount owed by customers. It is-thought other ?i inilar societies exist. Every effort will be made to break them up. Removal of tue Mtlitaii \ tROM Scm tkb.?It is now deficiter, ascertained that the garrison is to Lo withdrawn from Sumter, for concentration at Co? lumbia, aud that tho romoval will take place between tho 10th and 15th of the present mouth. Tho command consists of Company F, ISth United States Iu fantry, Captain Thomas J. Lloyd, and Lieuteuauts C. R. Paul and F. H. liarn hurt, with attending surgeon, J. W. King. Upon thoirdeparture from among us, it is but fitting for us to speak of the uniuterruptod esteem, created by their quiet, unobtrusive und gentlemanly bearing, in which these officers havo been held during their protracted stay in our mids', aud of the kind remem? brances they leave behind them. We leurn that the purpose is to conceutrate at Colombia probably all the companies now iu the State of the regiment ol which Company F i3 ono, the view be? ing greater convenience and economy. \Sumter Watchman. Destruction of a Cuchcu ry Lk;ut ning.?A vory disastrous storm passed ovor Centreville, Fairfax County, V.l., on Tuesday, 29th ultimo. The lightuing struck tho Episcopal Church, tearing the roof off tho chancel aud breaking the communion table in utoois. The baptismal font was also broke, the plas? tering torn off, oue side of the roof and the weather-boarding i3 bruketi off anj all faplintercu. So uro of the plastering and pieces of the chancel were thrown into the pows at the far end of the church. It was afvery uice little church, built on the site of the one that was burued by the Federal troops during the war. How to Keep Ice from Meltixo.?A writer describes a process iu kitchen ecouomy which is of special service to lioti^e-keppcrs dtiriug tbtse warm days. In such w eather, it is almost impossible to prevent the untimely melting of the quantity of ice usually purchased by a small family. Very few refrigerators serve to koup it from wasting moro thau half. To stop this waste, our informant directs that an euvelopo of tlanuol and newspapers should be placed about the mass of ico. This euvelopo, of which tho newspapers aru the most importuut part, is said to bo perfectly effective. A Mountain of Newspapers.?Tho managers of tho St. Joseph (Mo.) In? dustrial Exposition and Agricultural Fair, which will be opeued ou tho 29th of September next, propose to exhibit a copy of every ucwsptipcr published in the United States. These specimens are to be neatly bound aud placed in the exposition. Ou tho fourth day, tho collection,is to bo sold to the highest bidder, aud tho proceeds lire to he given to the fund for building the monument to Horace Grnc-ley. A Chicago paper says: "There is pro? mise of a uovel Bousatiou for some of tho reporters who will accompany Professor j Wiec iu his traus-Atlautic balloon voyage. Tho seusntion will probably bo j that of taking water." j A colored man named Nelson Mickins stubbed aud killed another colored man, named l'oter Guiding, lust Saturday U'gbt, about three miles from Augusta. . Miokius escape)]. Victob Emmanuel's Warning to the French Church.?Tbe King of Italy expresses a deoided aversion to the eo oailed religions pilgrimages ?which are exciting so deep ?u interest in Franco. Ho thinks that tho French priests medi? tate a political revolution under the cover of pious journeys to Farcy, and that the popular ory of "Save Borne and France" is meant not only for tho benefit of the Popo in Fraucc, but is in reality a war cry against Italian unity, by which tho church party hope to re? store the Slates of the Churuh to their former position, and re-seat the Pope upon his temporal throne. Victor Em? manuel cannot stand still while an in tolerant and metoiless religious warfare against his Government is gathering its forcoa. If be does not take the aggres? sive, he will certainly bo forced to as? sume the defensive before long, and ap? pearances indicate that he will adopt the former policy, in spite of tbe black hangings and yellow tupcrs on the shriuo of St. Peter'e, which are shortly to impart their sombre terrors to the bull of exeommuuioation, whioh will bo fulminated against his heretical head. "If President MacMahon's Government does not calm this agitation," said he the other day, "which is communicating itself to the" whole of clerical Europe, he will force me to cast myself entirely into the arms of Germany, and I shall do it." This language is clear*brief and to tho point. It is the talk of a king who has the reputation of being plucky und resolute. Freo thinking Germany would engago not reluctantly i in a war against a combination designed to re-establish the temporal power cf tho Church of Rome,, and the next struggle* iu that iustauce would be more deep rate and bloody, if possible, than that which resulted in tho defeat of Fiance under Louis Napoleon, Evi? dently a desperate conflict is not far off, iu which France, Italy aud Germany, aud perhaps Spain and Portugal also, will bo involved. Nothing can avert it but a complete backing down of the church party, aud of this there' is little prospect. Two youths iu Chicago lately played Damou aud Pythias in a small way to a very select audience of two or three po? licemen. Ouo of them, Elijah Harris, tried his hand at highway robbery, and cleaned out bin victim, but had the mis? fortune to get.'pulied." He waB held to answer iu tho sum of 81,000, which he did not have about him, and was re? turned to the lock-up until he could be removed to j-til. On the saino evening, another boy, about tho eanie size, was put ill tho same coll of the luck-up for some trifling offence. Tho two young? sters consulted upon how thoy could help each other. Elij ih had money so crctod on his person, and tho other boy had none. The other hoy was lined $5 and costs, and returned to the cell, pre? paratory to being called for and taken to a place to work out tho debt. The boys now divided money and exchanged clothes, and when tho work house coach called, Eh j ih walked oat and took his aeat iu tho conveyance. Arriving at tbo work house, he promptly paid his small fine aud slid. The other boy explained the little trick. Ho objects to trial for a rohbory which ho did nob commit, and has the money to pay his fine and oosts, but the police have not let him go yet. They have been outwitted, and are mad about it. The boys cert.tinly had the right to "Hwap" clothes if they wanted to, and that's all they did to produce this dramatic illusion. Hotel Arrivals, Augusts. ? Columbia Hotel?B W Lawton, Augusta; J A DeVore, Miss DoVore, Edgofield; G A Wuginer, Charleston; B B Sams, Beau? fort; J A Smith, Miss E E Haselton, Charleston; Kirk Bohiuson, Orange burg; R F Heapman. N Y; A White. Suniter; J M Walker, W C k A R R; F Milton Kenuedv, Macou; Folix Lake, E.lgefield; J O Harden, Cheater; M D Li McLeod, Rock Hill; Rev A M Folehi, W D Keuuedy, H O Muzyck, Joseph I Woodruff", O P Gardner, Cur.rlcatuu; E 'J Felder, Orangeburg; J D Charles, Williamston; J fit Stelling, ? Je C It R; J M-Scigicr, G k C R R. Wheeler House? Geo Bo wan, N Y; R II Hand, W L Hand, Charlotte; PDuffic, Charleston; It B Bludgett, Atlanta; J P Southern, J S Wiley, city; A J Gaynn, N !*; W U Bet hew, VY L Gagg, Wil miugton; j M Morgan, Richland; Thos Anderson, Fttirneld, J K Vance, (Jokes ; bury; Mrs J C Jenkins, J S Thompson, i Abbeville. Nervous Debility.?A depressed, ib j mrable .state or mind; weak, nervous, exhausted feelingno ESEISUY ob am mation; confused head, weak MEMCiIY, often with debilitating, involuntary discixaboes. The consequence of ex? cesses, mental overwork or indiscretions. This nervous debility Uuds U sovereign cure in Humphreys' Homoeopathic Spe? cific, No. 28. It tones up tho system, arrests discharges, dispels the mental gloom and despondency, and rejuvenates the entire system; it is perfectly harmless and always efficient. Price $5 for a pack ago of fivoboxos and a large 82 vial of powder, which is important in old serious cases; or SI per single box. Sold by all Druggists, or sent by mail ou receipt of prico. Address Humphreys' Specific Homoeopathic Medicine Company, No. 002 Broad wuy, N. Y. For salo by G eigen k McGbeooh, Columbia, S. C. Apll t^ly Death of Mb. Robert Campbell.? Mr. Hubert Cumpboll, probably tho oldest citizen of Augusta, died in Clarkesrillc, Go., last Suuday. He was born in R ?yuoldstowu, County Antrim, Ireland, ou the loth of April, 1787, and was consequently in the eighty-seventh year of his ago at Hie time of his death. Mr*. Butcher, of St. Louis, has se? vered her connection with her husband because he out her acquaintance, j A Brooklyn lady, being told by her ; admirer that she was one of the fixed 'stars, replied, "No, I'm only a darter." Citt Matters.?The Prc??^Coo^e^flj tioo assembles in Temperance Hall, this evening, at 8 o'clock. One of our lady friends is disgusted with the postal cards, hcc&c&e there is do room for a P- S. The weather, yesterday, was every? thing that could be desired?cool and olear. Mr. Batemao has still farther reduced the price of ice, UDd dow proposes to de? liver it at one cent per pound. Compe? tition, etc. The managers of the Palmetto Supply Company request us to say that they will furnish ice as cheap as any other company. Tho substitution uf an i for an e, made us promise a birth on the "iron line" of steamers between Charleston and New York; a berth only is furnished. John Templeton, well known iu Co? lumbia, has dropped his tricks that are Vane, and established au author's dra? matic agency in New York. The following is the range of the ther? mometer at the Wheeler House, yester? day: 5 A. M., 76; 7 A. M., 75; 10 A. M., 76; 12 M., 76; 2 P. M., 70; 5 P. M., 77; 7 P. M., 76. Tho South Carolina Railroad Com? pany are issuing exaarsion tickets from Columbia to New York and return, by way of Charleston and steamer, at 831, good to return until October 15. Mr. John T. Sloan, Jr., one of the moat prominent and successful young lawyers of this city, leaves this morning for the Virginia White Sulphur Springs. We wish liim a pleasant sojourn, im? proved health and safe return. The Daily Sun is the title of a little sheet, which made its appearance in this city, yesterday. Its programme is "the good of the commouweaith," and to "abate the rottenuess and corruption which characterizes the present adminis? tration of State Government." There remains only two miles and a half of iron to be laid on the Air Line I Railroad. Trains will be able to tra j verse the entire length of the road by the 15th inetaut, and it will, it is sup? posed, be open to the public by Septem? ber 1. The committee having iu charge the arrangements pertaining to the baibecae of the Richland Rifle Association, have a few more tickets to dispose of. Par? ties wishing to procure' them, will roil ou Mr. Jacob Pollock, at Levin's auction room, or Mr. James Campbell, at Hope & Gyles' store. The barbecue.comes off od the 8th. The oew City Hall begins to loom np magnificently. The new building, now being erected on the North-east corner of Richardson and Plain streets, by the Central NaUonal Bank, is the hand? somest in the city, if Dot in the State. Tho scaffoldings have been removed, and its elegant aod?xtensive proportions attract general attention. "The cottoa mills must oome to the cotton." Ye*, that is clearly demonstra? ble. Cotton fabrics are made at less cost iu tho South, because there is no cost of transportation for the raw mate? rial. Therefore, it is good policy to bring the mills to the cotton. We hope' to see tho slight impetus recently given to manufacturing in some of the South? ern States greatly encouraged within the next two years. PutEXixiANA,?G uilt-edged paper? Forged notes. A happy thought?Not to think at all. A sweet old place?Old Sweet Springs. The best kind of tactics?To remain, if possible, intact. People who aro not fond of soap are generally fond of soporifics. Think between thinks, if you please, hut don't drink between drinks. By-play for ladies?Going tho rounds of the dry goods stores aod buying no? thing. One-half of the world don't know how the other half live?and it is none of their business. In addition to the Democracy, the uristocracy and tho Plutocracy in this country, we now have the Modooracy. i Where one man is prostrated by the 1 heat, a hundred aro prostrated by the eat, and a thousand by the drink, i No matter what takes place in this i State, thero is always a certain "ring" about it. This may be corrupt or not, according to circunietaueos. Mail Arrangements.?The Northern mail opensG.30 and 10..30 A. M.; closes 8 A. M. and G.30 P. M. Charleston opens 7 A. M. and 2.30 P. M.; closes 6.15 and 8 3) P. M. Wostorn opens 6.30 and 9.30 A. M.; closes 9 and 6.30 P. M. Wilmington opens 4.30 P. M.j closes 6 A. M. Greenville opens 6.45 P. M.; clo.sc? 0 A. M. On Sunday tho office i? opau from 8 to 4 P. M. List of New Advertisements. Excursion Tickets?S. C. R. R. Co. MiBses Martin?School Notice. Moctiag Riohland Lodge.