The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, August 06, 1873, Image 2
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.