COLUMBIA, S. C.
Thursday Morning, August 14., 1873.
Poverty the South.
The Chicago Tribune has an exhaus?
tive account of the value of property iu
tho South, compiled from the census of
1870. There ia also a comparison made
between the figures of. 1860 and 1870,
which has startled even the North.
Many Northern and Western papers
have published a summary of theso
fact?, aud all, without exoeption, are
astonished at tho magnitude of our dis?
aster. We are glad to see, too, that the
truo cause of Southern decline in wealth
is fastened upon the right responsibility.
It is now seen that reconstruction has
ruined us, and that a great natioual
crime has been committed which years
of reparation will hardly wipe away.
The thinkiug men of the country be?
yond us are* beginning to understand
that a continuance of the policy now
sapping the foundation of our industry
.will eventually rebound upon the East
and WeBt. They are finding out why
they have not got a cheap government;
why publio and private faith has gone
to the dogs; and "why liberty ia being
extinguished everywhere. The follow?
ing condensation of tho Tribune's arti?
cle will prove interesting to every reader.
The problem still remains as to how
long we can stand this depletion; and it
Boems that oar unrelenting foe is begin?
ning to calculate how long he can stand
it also:
"The comparison with the values of
I860, as shown by the census of that
year, makes a startling showing of the
impoverishment of the South within
the last decade. Reducing tho values
for both periods to a gold basis, and de?
ducting 82,000,000,000 for the slaves of
I860, (which is at iuu valuation of $5(10
each,) the value of property in thirteen
Southern States, excluding Delaware,
Maryland and Missouri, -was $3,993,
909,629 in 18.60, and in 1870, $2,762,
263,429, or an aotnal loss in ten years of
30 per cent, of the value of all property.
In the three States, the valuation for
1870 was 74 per cent., greater for Dela?
ware, 56 per cent greater for Maryland,
and 134 per cent, greater for Missouri
khan that of 1860. . Counting the gain
in these States, the actual loss for all the
Southern States during ten years was
8)<i per cant, of the valuation of 1860.
Estimating the value of greenbacks for
1870 at 81 cents, the 'depreciation of the
property in the former' slave-holding
States, exoluding the loss of the slaves,
was 8413,000,000, or about 930 in gold
for every man, woman,'-, and ohild, white
and blftr-y, Dow living in those States.
Eiclud ig the three States, which show
large gains,.the loa? of the other thir?
teen States in ten years was $1,231,000,
000 in gold, or $109 in gold for every
man, woman and child. If we add to
thiB the estimated value of tho slave
property, which was the largest and
most profitable the people possessed,
tho depreciation amounts to $3,230,
000,000, or $287 in gold for eaeh per?
son. In other words, tho value of pro?
perty in the Southern States is not to?
day more than one-half what it was
thirteen years ago.
"Examining the property in detail has
led to the 6ume result. The value of the
farms in tho Southern States, as shown
by the census reports, was less in cur?
rency in 1870 than it Was in gold in
1860, by more than $750,000. The loss
on furtn lands in thirteen of tho States,
on a gold basis, was 81,092,773,161, or
greater than the entire value that re?
mains. During the ten years inteiven
ing, 2,830 miles of railroad were con?
structed, at a cost of $100,000,000,
which should havo added proportionate?
ly to the value of farm land. But, in
spite of this investment, tho farm lands
of the South are not worth to-day one
half of what they were worth in I860,
though tho building of railroads in the
country at largo, dnring the same time,
has increased the value of farm:) three?
fold. Tho shrinkage in tho value of
farms per acre confirms this estimate.
In West Virginia ond Virginia, it was
?2.39, or 20 per cent.; in Tennessee,
$1.10, or 30 per cont.j in Florida, $2.23,
or 40 per cent.; iu North Carolina,
82 SI, or 47 per cent.; in Arkansas,
85.32, or 56 per cent.; in Louisiana,
813.29, or 60 per cent.; in South Caro?
lina, 85.63, or 66 per cent.; and so on.
The depreciation in tho valuation ol
farm implements in tho samo time was
from 889,S46,009, in gold, in I860, to
$55,821,280, in currency, in 1870, or a
loss of more than ono-half. The de?
crease in the value of stocks and crops
that wero ruiaed in 1860 and 1870 was in
the same proportion.
"The figures, though sufficiently
startling in themselves, do not represent
tho loss by prevention of jiatural in?
crease, which it is proper to consider.
The gain iu wealth in New York was 185
per cent, in gold values; in Iowa, 135;
in Missouri, 134; in Pennsylvania, 117;
in Michigan, 126; in California, 148.
The averuge gain in nil tho States, ex
opt the thirteen Southern States under
consideration, was 111 per cent, in the
ten years. At this rotio, the wealth of
theEe Southern States would have been
iucreased by 34,000,000,000, instead of
being diminished by $1,200,000,000.
Tho difference to the country, there?
fore, by tho impoverishment of the
Southorn States, is represented hy more
than $5,000,000,000, or considerably
more than our national debt."
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Because a man worth 600,000 took u
fancy to and married a barefooted In?
diana girl, the rest of the Hoosior
maidens prowl around tho Country with
mud slashing up between their toes,
looking for well-dressed strangers.
The prospect of reforming any politi?
cal abuse nnder the present Administra?
tion is not encouraging. There are
whiyporings abroad thnt revelations in
connection with the bonds, grants and
contracts of the Northern and Southern
Pacific and Sioux Oity and Pacific Rail?
roads will be made next session, which
will eclipse the Credit Mobiliar swindle
in magnitude. The reader naturally
asks what good the disclosure of frauds
will do when Uiogham and others who
were stooped in the Credit Mobilier
pool are pets of the Administration and
are rewarded with fat foreign missions?
The people noed not deceive themselves
as to the purpose and object of tho
leading members of tho Administration
ring. Thoy havo not the slightest in?
tention of evor reforming tho abuses
which they devised for the purpose of
filling their own pockotc. Catnerou,
Butler and tho rest of the worthies who
drink wine at the White Houbb tablo
have got a good thing of it financially,
and thoy laugh heartily at the simpli?
city of the resolution-writers in the
West, who adopt vapid declarations
against Qovernment swindles by accla?
mation. Tho President looks as grave
us a spbynx, and puffs his cigar. Came?
ron chuckles and claps his hands, and
old Ben. leers at-the verdant, people
with his cock-eye, as much as to Bay,
"no matter how you spice the resolu?
tions, provided you re-elect ua." The
mountain of debt rises steadily every?
where under Administration patronage
That of tho little District of Columbia
is increased from nearly nothing to some
$25,000,000, and the same result follows
in every Southern Stato where Radical?
ism has the power. A perplexing dis?
crepancy has been discovered in the
offioial statement published of tho
amount of gold in the Treasury on June
30, 1373. It uppcars that on that date
the Secretary's report of the oondition
of the national finances represented the
amount of gold on hand as $87,558,102.
Ik bas leaked out that the actual amonut
was but $71,109,230, making a deficit of
$10,107,142. This discovery bas created
considerable excitement in financial and
official oiroles. There are but four per?
sons in the department who are allowed
to know what the aotnal amount of coin
on hand is. An investigation is now
making to discover how this secret got
out.
A Suggestion fob thb Centennial
Celebha.ti.os.?A Washington corres?
pondent of the New York Herald says:
An enthusiastic friend of the Ameri?
can Centennial Celebration, writing to a
gentleman prominent in official circles,
suggests at precisely 12 o'clock, noon,
on the Fourth of July, 187G, (Washing?
ton time,) that all the guns, the bells,
looomotive and other land whistles, the
trumpets, the drums, tho orgaus and
other musical instruments, with tho tens
of millions ol singing voices of our great
land, burst forth in sounds of joy and
praiso; that all tho telegraph liues shall
be silent at the command of tho Unitod
States Government, from a quarter to
12 to a quarter past 12 P. M., and then
that the great battery at Washington
send the electric Hash and click over tho
vast iron maze to every oity and town
and village of our own land, and even
to Europe, Asia, Africa and the isles of
the sea, as fur as the lines can be at that
moment secured, and at this, signal iu
stantly that the cannon thunder forth
'the death-knell of oppression; that all
the mighty steam whistles proclaim the
grand march of civilization amid the
Wosteru wilds and the isles of the sea,
as well as the cities und* the fertile
plains, and bid the slumbering millions
of heathendom uwako . and join the
happy nations in singiug that sublime
invocation to praise: 'Praise God, from
whom all blessings flow,' \.n."
That would be 11 a'clock at St. Paul;
9 o'clock at Sacramento Cily; 10.30 at
Aastin, Texas; 10.10 at Galveston; 12.30
at Augusta, Maine; and so on. It would
be a ridiculous sort of "noon." It
would be o "high old noon"?not n
"high noon."
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The Oity Water.
Mayoh's Office,
ConcMUiA, S. C, August 13, 1873.
The Board of Health having passed
tho following resolution at their lust
meeting, and in accordanco with said
resolution, I hereby request tho citizens
to bo as economical as possible in the
use of the spring water proposed to be
snpplied by Col. S. A< Poarco, agent of
tho Columbia Water Power Company,
for the use of onr citizens.
JOHN ALEXANDER, Mayor.
OFries of Boa;;d op Health,
ConuMniA, S. C, August 8, 1873.
To die Honorable the Mayor and Alder
men of the city of Columbia?Gentlemen:
At a moeting of the Board of Health,
held on the 15th, tho following resolu?
tion was adopted, and the Clerk of. tho
Board instructed to furnish you with a
copy:
Hetolved, That the Mnvor avid City
Council be requested to "enjoin opou
and require of tho citizens economy in
the uso of the pore spring wator, which"
we confidently expect to soon again en?
joy; and thut the police bo required to
give careful attention to the city ordi?
nance on tho subject.
I urn, respectfully,
THOS. P. WALKER,
C!e:k of Board.
Fhoear? Kuroiiean Correspondence.
London, July 27.
London, any one would naturally ex?
pect to find very crowded; but through?
out the whole city are scattered parks
and public equates, which perfume the
air and add greatly to the oity's attrac?
tion. Large sums are voted annually
for their maintenance. The residue
from the actual expensee, which is come
times more than haif, is given to the
Lord of the Park for his support. The
largest park in London is Hyde Park. It
is exclusively the drive of the nobility
and the fashionables. Every coach w*hioh
drives there must be in full livery; no li?
censed carriage is allowed. There are
other parks, as St. James, which is tbe
resort of tbe lower class. Here you cah
see everybody, from tho Bight-seer to
the Gypsey.
The Bank of England, of which every
ono has heard, is an old granite build?
ing, occupying about ionr or five acres,
in tho very heart of the old oity. It has
no windows facing the street; tho light
is furnished through a few openings upon
the oourt-yard. This is for protection
against those riots which, though few,
1 are so terrible. It is guarded all the
time, and no one id allowed to enter
without a passport from oue of the di?
rectors. Opposite the bank, is tho Lon?
don Exchange. It is not so tine as the
one ut Liverpool, but, of coufse, more
frequented. Fucing both the Exchange
and the bank, is the Mansion House, the
residence of tho Lord Mayor. It is a
gloomy-looking old house, aud would
bo better suited for a prison than a
homo. The Lord Mayor is compelled to
live there, but he mauages to drive off
the "bluoj" in winter, by balls and ban
? quets, aud in the summer, by lcaviug
it. Hi? eulary is about $50,000 a year,
his expenses nearer $100,000. But it is
one of the chief requisites of a candi?
date, that he should be rich enough to
sustuiu tho dignity of bis office. The
election comes off annually, and gene?
rally the oldest alderman is chosen. If
he has been free with his money during
his term of oflico, and has entertained
well, the Queen makes him a peer of the
United Kingdom. The wall which once
surrounded tho city proper, has now dis?
appeared, all except the old gate. Even
now, when tho Queen wishes to visit
London, she has to wait without until
the Lord Mayor comes to give her the
keys of the city. The gate is unlocked
and she passes on, after returning them.
This, of course, is only keeping np old
forms, as tho gate stands open at all
other times. Monarchy is dying out so
fast here, that the nobility have to keep
up these old customs, to remind the
people that they are not yet a republic.
Not far from here is tho Old Bailey
and Newgate Prison. The walla are
forty or fifty feet high, and, seemingly
to the eye, thoy are as strong now us
when they were built. The old oity is
devoted entirely to business; nearly all
the fashionable i live np town, or what
is called West City. The streets are
always crowded with hacks, cabs or
drays; yet the police arc so efficient that
but few accidents ever oooar. One of
the finest improvements of the present
day is the Victoria Embankment. Not
long back, the left bank of the Thames
was n mud bank, where the tide loft the
filth of the city. Now, they have built
there a magnificent granite wall, lighted
up by hundreds of gas-jets. The ground
behind it has been luid out iu parks, or?
namented with (lower-beds and shrub?
bery. The people are very proud of it,
and they have every reason to be so.
The river is spanued by numerous
* bridges, which connect tho two parts of
London. The bridges are paved the
same as the streets. The Waterloo is
said to be tbe finest stone bridge in the
world, aud the Blackfriars tbe iiuost
iron one. Tug boats ply up and down
tbe river every fiva minutes, aud will
take you to any part of the city for a
penny. This is one of the best ways to
get a bird's-eyo view of'London. As
you pass up the river, you see the
Tower, St.Paul's, Houses of Parliament
aud Westminster Abbey. Charing Cross
Hotel in situated on tho river. iT is the
haud.Homcst hotel in London, and, next
to tho Langhum, the most fashionable.
The hotel has erected a fine monument
iu front of it to the memory of Queen
Anne. It is near 100 feet high, and de?
corated all over with carvings and sta?
tues. Tbe hotels here arc not as due as
ours, in some of them, thoy charge
you for ice water. I have been to Sara?
toga, Niagira, Capo May and nearly all
the watering places in America, and
have heard tho people complaining
against tbe custom of fucing waiters;
but London surpasses them all. The
waiters will not do tbe leaBt thing, with
ont expecting a fee. The habit has bo
come so general, that in some cafes tbe
servants pay tho proprietors to let them
wait on tho guests. An Amorican com?
pany has bought the London ColosBeum,
and will soon build a regular American
hotel. They even promise to import
Amorican servants. Tho othor hotels
are becoming anxious, and, I under?
stand, are trying to buy them|ont.
By Charing Cross is Trafalgar Square
?so named from the battle won-by
Lord Nelson, whoso statue is placed upon
a base, between 100 and 200 feet high.
At the foot of tho base, rest four large
bronze lions, said to bo the finest bronzo
casting in Europe. Thoy cost $2,000,
000 in gold. London is filled with
equestrian statues, of which tho one of
George I, in Grosvenor, is tho finost.
The Zoological Gardens nro very pic
tnresquo in themselves, und aro well
stocked with the finest specimens of
every class of animals. As a friend ex?
pressed it, "they contain every animal
God over mado and a few more." Their
greatest curiosity is a ohimpaozee, or
tho wild man of the wood. It has a
striking resemblance to tbe human
beiug; its hands and feet aro exactly the
same, oven to tho finger-nails. It seemed
very intelligent; answered questions
asked it by the keeper with the motion
of its bend, and although it denied be?
lieving in Darwin's theory, it would!
have been* the best proof Darwin
oonld have brongbt forward in support
of bia theory. They have also three ?lt
four hippopotami, the only living speei
ui??',, I believe, in Europe. The other
animals were all large and fine, but snob
as- we have seen from time 4o time in
olrenses. The theatres of London are
very poor; the noting worse. The finest
in every respect, both as to the house
and the scenery, is the Alhambra. It is
between a first class and a variety
theatre?such as Niblo's Gardon, New
York. They sell you a programme and
charge you a shilling to take care of
your bonnet or bat, while you are in the
theatre. Ladies, as well as gentlemen,
arc obliged to take off their hats in -the
house.
Crystal IViuco is about teu rnilce out
of the city, and is one of the finest
buildings here. As one of the London
papers expresses it, "were London
blotted out from tho fjee of the earth,
leaving nothing behind it but this f.iiry
liko structure, a journey to it aloue
would well repay the visitor. Like the
fabled castles of the air, the visitor, on
approaching it by the railway, seoms to
be moving in drenm-luud, or realizing
the childish reminiscences of fairy-land."
Situated on ?:? lolly emincne?, command?
ing a moat extensive view of the adj leent
country and the city, Crystal Palace is
tiliko a monument to the enterprise and
tho taste of the people who erectc.l it.
Tho building, constructed entirely of
glass and iron, is about l.GOO feet long.
The park and gardens cover an area of
200 acres, in tho highest state of culti?
vation; the terraces, balustrades, steps,
etc., are of the most finished aud dura?
ble chaMcler. The fountains arc the
finest in the world, the principal jets
risiug 200 foot in the air, and tho 12,000
minor jets form a combination that is
boyoud description. G,?'J0,0?? gallous
of water tire consumed on a fttt day by
this myriad of fountains, cascades and
waterfalls. Tho line art court, on the
main fioor, shows the various Btagcs ot
architecture from the earliest to modern
times, and more delightful way of spend?
ing a day, strolling throngh these halls,
cannot be found in London. They
have recently udded uu aquarium, se?
cond to none inEnglaud, except the one
at Brighton. Operas, concerts, acro?
batic feats are given every day. The
evening I went, they exhibited the fire?
works intended for the Shah of Persia,
and which were postponed on account
of the rain. "ALPHA."
Colored Coumcne in Soute Caro?
lina.?An article printed elfaewhere
gives a highly interesting account of the
oommnnal system in operation in the
low country of Sonth Carolina. The
colored people there, by clubbing to?
gether, have booght tracts of land
which they cultivate successfully, under
regulations which allow each laborer to
work in his own way,, provided that he
does not inteifere with the welfare of
the commune, or violate its laws, which
appear to be directed to tho encourage?
ment of industry and thrift, and the
avoidance of litigation. This practical
co-oporation in industrial matters is an
enuouruging sign. The negroes are
children iu their knowledge ot economic
laws, and much of the experience of
other peoples is to thorn a sealed book.
It is natural to expect that thoy will try
experiments which have failed else?
where, and that, in their crudo condi?
tion, thoy will adopt systems which are
incompatible with u high ord-.-r of social
development, but it is pleasant to see
thorn working together, ufl is Jouc in
Golleton, and it is clearly the duty, us
it is the interest, of their white neigh?
bors, to give thetn all tho aid and en?
couragement in thoir power. For her
agricultural progress, South Carolina re?
lies ou the negroes. Without them, the
whites can do nolhing. No opportu?
nity should be lost of instructing and
improving them, and we should be glad
to sco some effort inudo to diffuse
amongst them an acquaintance with the
fundamental economic laws, and with
the latest und most approved modifica?
tions in tLx theory and practice of agri?
culture. Tho negroes uro voters as well
as laborer?, and tho same self-reliance;
and self-control wLich will cnublu them
to support lh.:ir families iu comfort, will
teach them to select good men to con?
trol the dcsti?ie3 of the Statu.
[Charleston N^c.-,.
D?.\ru uv Mr. Jons Heart.?This
gontlcmau, who was well known iu this
city in former "years, as connected with
tho Charleston Mercury, died lately on
board the steamship (jliarlcstou, ou her
passage from this city to New York, and
was buried on Statcn Island. Air. Heart
was a native of Pennsylvania, and by
trado a printer, but removed when
young to Washington City, where he
was employed first as a compositor, and
afterwards as reporter and editor, About
1845, he c.tme to Charleston, and was
associated for ^r<me time with Colonel
John E. Carew in tho conduct of tho
Mercury, and after the retirement of
Colonel Curcw, he bceame associated
with Air. W. It. Taber, and later with
Colonel R. B. Bhctt, Jr., and continued
his connection with that prominent
journal until 1S53, when, having re?
ceived tho appoiutmcut of Superintend?
ent ot 1'ubiic Printing, ha returned to
Washington. During tho war, "Mr.
Heart served as bpeoial agent cf the
Confederate Post Ofiico Department.
Since 1S0?, ho has been engaged in
journalism in Memphis; wub Private
Secretary to Governor Scott, in Colum?
bia, and more recently, has boon an em?
ployee of the Government Printing Of?
fice, at Washington. During his recent i
visit to Charleston, the terribly shattered
condition of his health was a subject of
sad ami general comment among his
friends. His ago wa^ about sixty-five.
[Charleston Neirs.
Mrs. M. A. Chewning, a respectable
citizen of Clarendon, died in Clarendon,
on tho 7th, snddenly, from an attack of
paralysis
City Mattebs.? Bubscribe for the
Phoikix? don't depend On borrowing.
A mild stomaohic, this hot weather,
may prevent the stomach-ache from
taking on the color o* the cholera.
Mr. N. A. Stedman, Jr.,* is once more
connected with the editorial department
of the Marion Star.
The title of the Samter News has been
ohaDged to the True Southron. It cats
right and left.
The following is tho range of the ther?
mometer at tho Wheeler House, yester?
day: 5 A. M., 76; 9 A. M.. 76>?; 10 A.
M., 77; 12 M., 80; 3 P. M., 77; 7 P.
M., 77.
Tax-payers who have nut yet made
their returns to Aaditor Solomon,
should do so at once, as the books will
positively be closed on Wednesday next,
Augu-st 20.
For a dull season, the Wilmington,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad Com?
pany have little cause for complaint at
to busiuess. On Tuesday, tho officials
at this point handled sixty loaded
freight cars.
A. young man who known ull about ijt,
i states that his experience has taught
iiiiu that a flirt is a fool, wbo delights
in fooling fools, and the fool who is
fooled by such a fool, is the fouliskest
kind of a fool. He's been fooled badly,
we should judge.
The engineer of the train which met
with the uccideut on the Charlotte, Co?
lumbia and Augusta Railroad, on Sun?
day last, has been discharged from the
employ of tbe company. His excuse as
to fast running, with which be is
charged, was that it was only his second
trip, and he was not fully posted.
During the severe storm of Tuesday
night, severnl drain bridges were floated
off, awoiugs were destroyed and innu?
merable leaks made their appearance in
buildings to leaks before unknown.
Yesterday, tho storm was renewed about
1 o'clock, and for an hour it rained, thun?
dered and lightened fearfully.
In connection with the numbering
the streets, as ordered by the City Coun?
cil, we would suggest an amendment to
the ordinance?that the numbers,be
placed 26f. )yin. apart, instead of 30f.,
as now provided for. This would oause
them to run even, and thereby avoid
confusion, as the frontage of eaoh
square is 416f. 8in.
Singular Fkeak of Light-sino.?
During the storm, yesterday afternoon,
the lightning struck a telegraph pole in
front of Mr. C. R. Franklin's restau?
rant, on Gervais street; from there it
glanced to and down the chimney of the
kitchen, upsot Mrs. Franklin, the cook
aud a help; afco, Mr. Franklin and Mr.
McGuinnis; partially stunned two horses
in the stable adjacent, and killed a dog
under tho house?the heart and lights
being blood-shot. Several of the par?
ties shucked did not recover from the
effects for an hour or two; while one of
tbe horses eeemed disposed to step "high
during tho whole of the afternoon.
Ulue flames flashed about the stove for
?evoral seconds. Taken all in all, it was
a wonderful flash. An ex-but^her, who
was present, asserts that he will never
again utter an oath?ho was frightened.
Fbccsixiana,?A healthy man who
conseuts to Jive upon others, doesn't dc
servo to live at all.
By the side of 2 regular drone, the
convicted criminal looms up as an angel.
It goes against the grain to call a
chiropodist a corn dealer and a disciple
of Uunyon.
"Notes from the wutering-places"?
Bilis payable for board.
The hardest agricultural work on a
farm?Raisiug a mortgage.
The now fawn-colored fabrics are
somewhat expensive. But Dora Bella
expected that, Sho knows that fawn is
a little deer.
People are inclined to associate u lofty
tumbler with General Grant, because he
docs so much summer-setting around
Long Branch. v
Marshal MacMuhon's family motto,
%lTy suis; je resterai," shows that ho
means to stay whore he is; bat, after all,
his main stay is the army. .
Ben. Butler is made np of contradic?
tions. Wo expect to hear of him next
at a camp-meeting, loading the brothers
in tho hymn, "I love to steal," Sco.
Tho Jews aro rising at the bar in Lon?
don. Judah Benjamin, lato of tho Con?
federacy, has got into quito a practice.
Well, he is posted up, at least, in Jew
ishprudencc.
It has been suggested that if General
Graut should be elected President for
life, it would bo the death of him,
and that wonld put an end to the prece?
dent.
Goneral Butler is playing his cards
for tho Governorship of Massachusetts
very adroitly. He knows more about
cards than all tho other candidates put
together. He wasn't in the army for
nothing. No, not by a good deal! Nor
iu Congress. I
It is believed that the fate of Colonel
C. C. Tew has at last been discovered.
Captain J. B. Bean, of the IDtb United
States Infantry, who recently arrived iu
Charleston, has in bin possession a silver
onp, the inscription npon* which shows
that it was a present to Colonel C. 0.
Tew, of Christ Churoh Parish, who
commanded a North Carolina regiment
daring the Confederate war. The
Captain states that he obtained tho cop
from a soldier who took it from the sad?
dle of ColonerTcn's horse,'at the bat?
tle of Antietam, (or Sbarpsbnrg.) and
who states that the rider was killed in
that engagement and buried on the field
near the spot where he fell. Captain
Bean desires to give the cup to the rep?
resentatives of Colonel Tew, if they will
call for it.
List of New Advertisements.
Nathan & Peixotto?Dishes.
S. A. Pearce?S25 Reward,
T. L. Stark?A Card.
Hotel Arrivals, August 13.? Wheeler
House?F B Orchard, city; H G Wright,
Augusta; J T Ewett, Ala; M H Marey.
Conn; 1113 Hilton and wife, Fla; Mrs
Moore and child, Washington; Miss C T
Gibbs, J S Browning, Charleston; B S
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Ga; M H Carlisle, Miss; W L Depass, S
H Blodgctt, Camden; Mies M A Quirk,
Ohio; T S Clarkson, N C; =Jsa W Hay
ward, Newberry; MisB F T Irby, Lau?
ren 6.
Hendrix House?A B Tit man, Angusta;
J M Wooten, AG Wooten, Fairfield; G
W Ogletrec, Ga; J Gilfillin, J J Taylor,
Dr M S Hanckle, Charleston; M Cooper,
St Louis; L P Mitchell, J B Patrick,
Blackstock.
Columbia Hotel?W E D Boll, N Y; M
Schuaring, N Y; MA Wilson, Abbeville;
J W Groy, Greenville; D L Tamer,
Edgefield; J C Crosswell and wife, Ches?
ter; ED-Robinson, Miss J H Adger,
Miss 8 E Adger, Charleston; W H Mo
Farland,.W, C & A R R; W G Boylaton,
Md; H L WTolfe, S C R R; C M Smith,
F Murphy, Charleston; GW Thames, N
j C; C H Schuartz, Horry; J W Fisher,
NC.
Putting Down Rebellion.?When
the stomach rebels against food and
obstinately refuses to digest sufficient
aliment to keep the body well nourished,
it can only be compelled to resume its
natural duties by a wholesome tome
The powerful alkaloids bo often admi?
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eome. They are, for the mosi, part,
deadly poisons, ,and cvonr whon taken ip
very small quantities, re-act, violently
upon the neryous system. Not so Hos
tetter's Stomach Bitters. This salutary
combination of vegetable juices,, em?
bracing the flneat InvigorantB and al?
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beneficially npon the digestive, secret?
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plaints, periodic fevers, chronic consti?
pation, bodily weakness, mental de?
pression, languor, sleeplessness and the
various disabilities incident to old age
and premature decay, its effects are so
wonderful that to be comprehended
they must be witnessed or experienced.
A 8 fi%l
Nervous Debility.?A depressed, ir?
ritable state of mind; weak, nervous,
exhausted feeling; no energy or ani-.
mation; confused head, weak memory,
often witu debilitating, involuntary
discharges. The consequence of ex?
cesses, mental overwork or indiscretions.
This nervous debiltty finds a sovereign
cure in Humphreys' Homoeopathic Spe?
cific, No. 23. It tones up tho system,
arrests discharges, dispels the mental
gloom and despondency, and rejuvenates
the entire system; it is perfectly harmless
nud always efficient. Price*$5fqr a pack?
age of five boxes and n large 8*2 vial of
powder, which is important in old serious
cases; or SI per single box. Sold by all
Druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of
price. Address Eumphrets' Specific
HoMuorATUio Medicine Company, No.
502 Broad way, N. Y. For sale by Geiger
?: McGregor, Columbia, S. C. ApUf' ly
The Lord Gordon Difficulty.? Tbe
Minnesota newspapers exhibit a warlike
spirit at the imprisonment of their fel?
low-citizens who went to Fort Gary, in
the British possession?, in quest of the
fraudulent Lord Gordon, Some of
them call for the organization of volun?
teers to release their friends, But the
Washington Chronicle, of the 7th inst.,
announces that the Cabinet has dis?
cussed tho Fort Gary complication, and
adopted a policy to be pursued. The
Government will not intorfere, unless
interforence becomes absolutely neces?
sary by reason of tbe excitement in
Minnesota. "The Government will
then oomo to the front," says the Chro*
nicle, "and exact tbe justice from the
British authorities which, np to this
timo, they havo withheld," regarding
tho "imprisonment of our officers as
eminently illegal." The Chronicle is
generally considered us a sori of official
organ, and its announcement of tbe Go?
vernment's purpose at this timo is sig?
nificant.
Tho British seem likely to lose their
eminent respectability in the matter of
dress, Dr. Kenneally having been per?
mitted to address tbe. court without bis
wig, and uow an artillery officer having
como out best'in a trial for appearing iu
ono of the stalls at the Priucoss' Thea?
tre without a white neck-tie. He was
arraigued on tho charge of disorderly
conduct, aud acquitted by the Jndge,
who expressed surprise that the chargo
bad been made at all.
Mr. E. M. Troth, of the firm of John
II. Taylor & Co., (Phoenix Iron Work?,)
died in Charleston on the 11th.