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' Hcoklui T?wtlon.
The amount (sixteen mills) o! tax levy
proposed by the Committee of Ways
and-\Means Btrihoa ub as onormooB, in
the oironmstanoee of the State at this
time. The minority report of tho com?
mittee, which passed its first reading in
the House yesterday, in making levies
for speoifio purposes, and keeping eaob
separate and apart, to be applied only
to its legitimate and prescribed objeots,
is better. Otherwise, it iB eqnally ob
jeotionable. Those bills oall for about
82,500,000, a sum large enough to carry I
on the affairs of five, auoh States as this.
We do not perceive anywhere the slight* ]
est regard for the distressed condition
of the people, or the faintest tendency
towards economy in the management of
onr political affairs. Leaving aside, for
the present, the question of tho exor?
bitant amount about to be levied, there
axe some contradictions and disorepan
oiea in the proposed bill which are
worthy of notice. This bill has a sec?
tion which levies three mills for County
purposes. Besides this, there are joint
resolutions to raise a Bpocial tax of three
or four mills in nearly all the Counties
of the State. Take it at an average of
three mills, and the two will swell the
amount to be appropriated in tho Conn-;
tics to a most extravagant Bum. What
is it for? Experience has demonstrated
that the larger the amount intended for
improvements, &c, in tho Oonutios, the
fewer and smaller they are.
Again. The bill requires that the
taxes Shall be paid in gold and silver
coin, United States currorcy, national
bank notes and bills receivable. The
bills of the Bank of the State, which so
frightened the legislative soul when the
decision of the court which mado them
good for all dues to the State was an?
nounced, seem to have lost their terrors.
Perhaps it is now supposed that the de?
cision only affects the case of the rela
tora which came beforo the Supreme
Court.
' Again. The extra printing bill, which
appropriates $225,000 to the Republican
Printing Company, and which baa
passed one body, and been favorably re?
ported on and received its first reading
in the other, has a clause whioh pro?
vides that certificates of indebtedness,
receivable for taxes, Bhall be issued in
payment of the o'aim. There is a con?
flict of legislation in this matter. Bills
of the Bank of the State and certificates
of indebteilue&a are good for taxes, but
no provision is made in the supply bill
to absorb them. Beaidea, wo find no
where in the bill any provision which
looks to meeting the interest on the
publio debt, although there is OSS of
two mills for this, purposo in tho bill to
reduce the volume of the publio debt.
And to crown the absurdity of tho mea?
sure, it leaves out in tho cold tho float?
ing debt, making no mention of it what?
ever.
The bill is evidently crude and un?
satisfactory. It is put forth beforo any
proper estimate of the expenses of the
State Government ban been rnaJe, and
before the amount of taxable property
has been ascertained. It is liable to bo
thwarted in the way we uavo shown,
and to bn brought into conflict with
other measures whioh have been adopt?
ed. It dues not follow any honest effort
to reduce expenses. It goes upon the
supposition, that the poor, half-fatuiahcd
State of South Carolina, should have u
magnificent establishment, a costly and
luxurious government. It utterly
ignores the straitened cironmstanocs,
the actual destitution of tho people.
Saoh legislation us this in such times as
these demonstrates, that the Qcueral
Assembly ia every day growing more in?
competent to discharge its proper duty.
Corruption and profligacy still run thoir
fatal and giddy rounds,
In a speeoh delivered at tho emanci?
pation celebration in Hartford, Connec?
ticut, last summer, Congressman Itainey
enunciated a polioy whioh tho Legisla?
ture now seems bent on carrying out.
"Land is oheap (in South Caroliua, he
meant,) and toe like to put on the taxes, so
us to make it oheap." This the Legisla?
ture is doing, just as surely as if they had
Bainey's ideas of confiscation repeated
to them overy morning. It is assuming
with them the shape of a settled scheme.
It looks almost ub if they wore logically
obliged to pursue it. They can only
flounder and blunder on till the end
o'omes of collapse or rovolutiou. What
think the tax-payers of the Statu of a tax
of; $2,500,000, now that land baa beon
made ''cheap," and everything elae
shrunk in proportion? Land cheap,
cotton at twelve oents, tho wolf of
famine at tho doors of the people, men
out of employment, children without
bread?that is one side of the picture.
We turn away from viewing the
other,- covered all over with extrava
iff; , . l3 ? ,?
ing in the proceeds of a $2,500,000 tax.
Are not these thlnga aigoifloant of a
great change?
The Naht FuKd.?Tho etream of con?
tributions still flows towards this forlorn
oarioatorift- Amnnjst the most valua?
ble, accompanied with evidences of
deep sympathy, is one from a Sooth Ca?
rolina legislator, addressed to the editor
of the New York Herald:
iConuiiniA. S. 0., Not. 12, 1873.
My bowels of compassion have been
stirred to their inmost, depths by the
knowledge of the humiliation that Mr.
Nast has been forced to. I was fooh.-b
enoogh to think that it was from choice
that he degradod his talents; but sad re?
flection over my own misfortunes
teaohea me differently, and likewise to
be oharitable.
Enolosed please fiud a Confederate
note for $5, for his benefit. I might
send greenbacks, but our SUtc officials
have swamped all those, and we have,
nothing left ns but the memory of by?
gone days.
If sympathy will do him any good,
pat me down for any amount uf that,
to be paid on demand.
I have been a member of the Legisla?
ture ever since reconstruction, but this
is the worst year for bnsiness I have
seen?seventeen days in session, aud
not a good job yet. I wish this financial
stringency was over. Confidentially
yours, Senator 13 KINDLE TAIL.
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Tue Brutal Ootbaqe in Grant Pa?
rish, La., T erb in Liy Revenged.?On
Sunday, Hampton Henderson and two
j other negroes were brought into Oulfux
by colored men, who were threatened
with death if tbey harbored tho perpe?
trators of the Grant Parish outrago.
They were turned over to Alford Shelby,
Deputy Sheriff, but the citizens took
ohurge of them, conveying them iu the
direction of C. C. Nash's residence.
They wero shot, after confessing that
uiuo others were ooncerned in the attack
on Madame Iiacoor'a residence. Muu
ford Wells shot two more the day fol?
lowing, near Mr. Loushurd's house, with
double-barreled shot-guns, huviug been
discovered and tracked to that point.
Oa Tuesday, fifteen personB from Alex
[ andria surprised three more hiding from
I arrest. Another one was hung in Ra?
pides Parish the same day. One of
them was tracked as far as the toll gate
three miles from Alexandria. The other
two are known to be yet in Giant Pa?
rish, and, when caught, they will un?
doubtedly share the same fate as the
others. Information received on board
the Ozark, on Tuesday afternoon, from
two of the escaped negroes from Grant
Parish, muoh alarmed, represents that
they-assisted in bringing in the first
three to Coifax, and that tho negroes
; are rapidly leaving, as Hendersou and
others havo implicated nearly all the ne?
groes iu the Parish.
TjNrraD States Court.?In the Dis?
trict Court. Tuesday, Judge Bryan pro
siding, .the petition of David T. Red
fern, to establish lien on the estate of
Isaao Smith, bankrupt, was referred to
Registrar Seabrook, and the ussiguee
was ordered to postpone sale of realty
until sale-day in January. Exceptions
as to nuder-valatng pro pot iy of \7. J.
Sealey, bankrupt, were referred to Re?
gistrar Clawson, to tako testimony, aud
report. The assignee of Burrill San?
ders, bankrupt, was ordered to pay
Simons & Simons, Henderson Sc Rehre,
and A. D. Guben fees duo them as coun?
sel. The petition of Henry Sober, for
voluntary bankruptcy, was referred to
Registrar Jaeger.
On tho petition of tho assignees of
the Bine Ridgo Riilrond Oonipnny to
sell tho real and personal property of
the company, it was ordered that nil
persons having claim* against, tbo cor?
poration, ,,Under the first aud second
mortgages aud by heirs, appear beforo
this court on the O?l of December next,
und show cm ho why tbc petition should
not be granted. It waa far I her ordered
(hat copies of the petition and ui.lt >? i.e
served on persons who have provi il
claim* before tho Registrar, and also
upon tJi'i trustets under the mortgage.
An armed band of negroes made four
distinct but iueil>jctuul attacks' within
four hoard on the house of J)r. Joyce,
in Coifax, a few nights ugo. Tho town
of Coifax was picketed by cavalry on
Saturday last, und urmed squads of
mounted men patrolled the street! on
Wednesday.
Let Us Have Peace ?A Bhort lime
ago the particulars of an outrage,
alleged to havo boon committed by ne?
groes in Grant Parish, Louisiana, wore
published in tho press, but it was hoped
that tho statement wus a hoax. Tho de?
tails were too revolting for belief, and
the whole story was deuiud by tho so
oallod Oovernment of tho Stato. We
now havo the sequel in a few lines from.
New Or!eii?3. Seven of the uiuo no
grout, who wero implicated in tho out?
rage, havo been killed by oitizens. So
the irrepressible oontest goes on, and 6o
wo receive illustration aft< r illustration
of the advantages of such popular Go?
vernment as Federal bayonets have
forcud on the people of Louisiana.
j New York Herald.
An agricultural journal sayn that some
kiuds of trees will stand oomploto skin?
ning and then bark over in u few months
without injury. A dog can beat that.
You may Bkiu a dog aud tho birk will
be over as soon as tho skinning is com?
plete.
During tho last week thero has been a
terrible gale on tho lakes. Ton steam?
ers wreokod and a terrible loss of life.
The gale was felt over the whule chain
of lakes, and was the severest that has
been known for years.
Deaths in Charleston for the past
week 29?whites, 14; colored, 15.
la H?meri??a.
No on* has ever descended to the
tomb in Columbia who, in life, could
have been the subject of a larger amount
of love, of more extensive esteem, and
of greater worth of oharaofor, and who,
in death, was more generally lamented
than was ths late Dr. Maximilian
LaBoruVe, who breathed his last on
Thursday evening, the 6th instant.
From-an intimate relationship to him of
several years, and from frequent oppor?
tunities of observing him, in publio aud
in private, the writer of this feeble
tribute became, long sinoe, acquainted
with bis many excellences, and, as
years rolled on, he found ample and in
oreasiog reasons for entertaining for
him the highest regard and friendship
In every oonditiou aud under every
vicissitude of life, he exhibitod tho trails
of au upright, honorable aud honest
man?a frieud to virtuous principle and
action wherever seen, and huviog no
sympathy with departures from the
p.iths of strict integrity.
In the departments he filled before
the publio eye, ho was noted for bis un
deviating fidelity to duty, and especially
tu his long and useful career us Profes?
sor of the Sooth Caroliua College, he
wai never absent, except on uccouut of
sickness or family nffii?tion, from the
discharge of the full measure of tho re?
quirements of his ofllae. But the fea?
ture which most oommended him to
favor was Ins extreme kindness of heart,
whioh he evinced in his intercourse with
others at all times aud under ?11 circum
stunocs, when occasion wns uilordud
him. To the young men entrusted to
his educational charge, he was always
kind and encouraging, uiding, us far as
was iu his power, those who needed as?
sistance, endeavoring to embolden the
diffident, and to iuoite all to advance?
ment in knowledge, to the practice of
deedd of honor and usefulness and to n
firm adhereuco to moral aud religious
rulcB of conduct in tho. positions they
might be called upon to occupy. It wus
thin friendly interest in their welfare
which gave him so large a share iu the
affections of the stuteuts (which inauy
of whom now liviug still, no doubt, re?
tain,) aud secured for him n popularity
with them whioh was uudimiuished even
under the most trying disturbances to
whioh tho iustitution was occasionally
subjected. As a native Carolinian, he
was proud of the aucient reuowu ot the
dtate.au intimate associate of many ol
her illustrious sous, devoted to her iu
periods of her prosperity aud great
uess, and mourning with her iu her
seasons of humiliation and adversity.
As a oitizin of Columbia, he was sin?
gularly free from all pretensions to su?
perior attainments and all repulsiveuesB
of demeanor, going in and out among
our people as one of them in interest
far the welfare of the city, aud com?
muning with the humble as well as the
more prominent, iu the affable and
oheorful spirit which he usually dis?
played, and drawing all hearts to htm
by the simplicity of his manners und
the genial flow of his conversation.
Iu domestic life, none could have sur?
passed him in the endearments and ten?
derness of his home, and the picture cf
his fire-side was beautiful from the in?
terchange of the deep parental and filial
love that characterized it. Well iuny
bid bereaved children "rise up und call
him blessed." Bat the crowning excel?
lence, of Dr. LaBorde was his sincere
aud consistent profession of the religion
of Christ, and his earnest attention to
whatever was calculated to contribute
to the promotion of the Kingdom of the
K uloeiner. He loved his Qod, his Sa?
viour and his church, and this love was
manifested by an humble and holy watt?
ing upon the worship and offices of the
sanctuary, aud by his evident desire and
effort iu his outward und inward life to
itdetru the doctrine of Qod in all things.
And in no instance could the sincetiiy
tsi an active Christian faith have been
more blessed with Divine acceptance
thiiu iu the support it administered to
bim iu the chamber of his dissolution,
where tho soutiireuts he breathed were
those of meek submission, devout trust
for salvation in the merits of the* e.io-s,
in a felt victory over the grave, at ex?
pressed by him with thanks, through
our Lord Jesus Christ, ami iu tho uu
j ?ymeiit, iu its fullness, of tbuL peace
j which passetli all understanding
A FlUiSXD.
Tum Lam\u Dana Cas::.?Of cour.-.e,
the ease of U. B. Limar against Charles
A. Dana, Lincoln's Assistant Secretary
of War, for false imprisonment, has ter?
minated iu a verdict for the defend int.
Tried iu a United States Court, what
other result could havo boeu expecled?
In this case, the judge instructed tho
jury to bring in a verdict for the defend?
ant, and daring their absence, ordered
tho clerk to enter stich a vegdiot upon
tbo minutes of tho court. Notwithstand?
ing this diotatiou of the bench, tho
jurors hesitated. Three of them were
for giving Mr. Latnar damages anyhow,
and it was only after beiug a second
tiruo instructed to And foe Dana that
they yielded. The caso will be takeu to
tho Supreme Court of the Uuited States.
A fellow called to see a man in town,
the other day, who was engaged iu tak?
ing Iiis first bath since the financial
panic set in. The man's wife told the
fellow ho couldn't see him, as hn was
engaged iu makiug a "transfer of real
estate."
Madam Anna Bishop, who has beeu
i o.iming around tho world for d"genera?
tion more or less, is engaged iu organ?
izing an English opera troupe in San
Francisco for a new expedition. Fow
bishops have traveled over so largo a
diocese.
Eleventh avenue, New York, six miles
long, 150 feet from curb to curb, laid in
stone three foet deep rolled into a com?
pact solidity, is the finest boulevard in
the world.
extra. IMIIOR OP ueoibi.a.ttjrk.
WxDNTJJDAY, KOTBKBXB 19, 1878.
SENATE.
? The Senate assembled at 12 M., and
was called to okder by the President.
A number of bills and resolutions
were sant to the Senate from the Honte,
and received their first reading.
A number of Acta and resolutions
were ratified and presented to the Go?
vernor for his approval. Wo will pub?
lish the titles when approved.
air. Diokson introduced a bill to make
tbe road leading from tbo Murray's
Ferry Road to the Santee Road, in
Clareudon County, a publio highway.
Mr. Corwin?Bill to authorize and re?
quire the County Treasurers to .retain
tho funds collected for the freo com?
mon rohool purposes until au appor?
tionment shall havo been mado by the
Superintendent of Education.
Mr. Swails?Bill to amond an Aot to
altur und amend an Aot to iuoorporato
the village of Kingstree.
Mr. Wbittomore?Joint resolution
authorizing tho Stato Treusurer to pay
andoincel certain pay certificate* now
held aud owned by Felix Cardarok, of
the city uf Columbia.
At 2.30, tbe Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Tao Uoieo met at 12 M., Speaker
Leo iu tho Chair.
Mr. Reed introduced a bill to i cor?
porate the Harrisou Grovo Biptist
Church, in Beuufort County.
Mr. Hurley?Bill f^r the relief of
Charleston County.
Mr. Andell?Bill to muke it the duty
of tho County Commissioners of Charles?
ton County to take oaro of, aud keep iu
proper repair, Jjmcrf island and Haul
over Cuts, the sumo as other thorough?
fares.
Mr. Petty?li.il to incorporate tho
Clo-o Communion Baptist Church, of
Wad mala w I-duud.
A number ot reports of committees
were read, and bills and jjiut resolu?
tions laid uvt-r for a 30toud reading.
Mr. J. A. .Smith?Bill to restrain the
Secretary of Stato from collecting the
iuter> si provided For in Sections 67 und
liS of Chapter XVII of the General
Statutes.
A bill to tuik** appropriation for the
paytneul of expenses of extra session of
tbe General Assembly, aud for other
purposes, was read tho third time and
ordered to the Senate. Those who
voted ugiiust its passage are: Messrs.
Bowon, Bowley, Bryan, Canuou, Cooh
ran, (Jump.on, Crittoudun, Dusenbury,
Featherstoue, Foid, Gantt, Goodwin,
S. Groene, llerudon, Hurley, T. B.
Juh?st?n, Lowry, Lowmao, Mackey,
Middletou, J. P. Moore, Rice, A. Sim
kius, P. Simkins, N. T. Speucer, W. H.
Wallace and John Wilson.
A bill to raise supplied for the fiscal
year commencing November 1, 1S73,
and to alter and amend the law iu rela?
tion to the eolleotiou of taxes, being the
unfinished business of yesterday, at the
hour of adjournment, wus resumed.
The following amendment was adopt?
ed:
Aud a tux of one mill is hereby levied
to pay tbe claim of the Soath Carolina
Bank and Trust Company, now held by
Hardy Solomon, Esq., or as mach
thereof us may bu necessary.
Those voting in tbe negative are as
follows: Messrs. Black, Boweu, Cannon,
Cooiptou, Crittendon, Feaiberstone,
Guudwin, Hcrndon, Lowry, Mocxcy,
Meetze, J. P. Moore, T. J. Moore, Mo
Cullough, Rice, W. U. Wallace, Wil
liums and Wolfe.
Mr. Crittenden moved to amend Sec?
tion 7 by adding to tho section: "Ex?
cept the Couuties of Groeuville, Pick
ens and Charleston, iu which the County
Commissioners shall levy a tax of fivo
mills, two mills of which shall bo de?
voted exclusively to tho payment of the
past due indebtedness ol said County."
feuding th.) consideration of which, the
liom<: adjourned until to-morrow, at
12 M.
A Bio Hont.?Me-wrs. W. Mel).
Alford, Z. E leu, A. Q MeDoffi ?, W.
W. DuRaut und other gentlemen of
M " i'o,, went on a liig bunting < xpodi
j Hon, ii t week, to Brit ton's Nick, wlieiC
they spout several d 13s iu camp. L'hey
had a good time generally, and returned
home delighted with their trip, and
loaded down with gatno. They killed 111
their hunt uiue tine btiigs. One of the
gentlemen, who has been on similar cx
peditious in tbo West or 11 Stute.s and in
Florida, informs us that nowhere bus liu
ever found deer *..> plentiful as in i!ri'
toil's Neck, in this County. He is satis
tied that, on the last day of tho hunt,
the party "jumped" ut least twenty-live
different deer.?Marion Star.
A pic-uic smitten Boston paper says:
"The faet that D*y broke yesterday is
no evidence that Timo is bankrupt."
How does it account for tho widely
spread rumor, "We take no note of
time?" Isu't the old fellow's paper
good?
After tho congregation of tho church
in Portland had waited half an hour,
last Sunday, for tho minister, a gentlo
niuu got up and said: "Lot us not sit
hero uuy longer liko a parcel of fools."
Aud then they all left.
.A consequential young fop asked an
aged country sexton if the ringing of
a bell did not put him in mind of his
hitter end. "No, sir," repliod thogrum
old grave digger; "hut tho ropo puts
,..???., mln J - r. I?
U1D 1(1 U1IIUI Ui J Ulli tl
"Shall I out thin loin of mutton sad
dlewise?" said a geutlemun. "No,"
said ouo of his guoste, "out it bridlo
wiao, for then I may have a chance to
get a bit in my mouib."
Thoru aro two "boot-eators" 00 tbo
Tiohboruo jury?-that is, two jurymen
who would oat their boots rather than
assist to return u verdict against tbe
olaimant.
A Detroit paper announces a pending
marriage by saying, "Yoang Blank is
trying to marry a father-in-law worth
?4,000,000."
Walsingham look gloomy, do so by re- j
ferring to the fact that her husband ia
an ingenious man. Wafoinjham, it-ap?
pears, thought it would' beSioe to bavo
his baby'B oarriago propelled by some
other power than a nurse-girl. 80 be
bought a Newfoundland dog, fitted a
harness to him, and trained the animal
to draw the ooaoh, which it did very
nicely. One afternoon, however, while
Mrs. Walsingham was out with the dog
aud the baby, the dog saw another dog
in which he felt interested, and be im?
mediately dashed over to the stranger,
for the purpo3e of taking a few sociable
snuffles. The exact point upon whioh
the two differed will probably never be
revealed; but before Mrs, Walsingham
could get across the street, the ddga
were engaged in a combat of the moRt
frightful charucter. Mrs. Walsingham's
baby, it is supposed, had no especial
yearning to participate in the conflict,
and yet thero that uufortunate infant
was mixed up with the dogs, aud appa
rently regarded by thom as entitled to
an equal uharo of the bitcB which were
being handed round. Whenever one of
the dogs happened to get himself into
such a position that the other dog could
uot obtain a comfortable placo for his
teeth, both dogs would knock off for a
moment, aud join each other in taking
a few promiscuous nips out of Mrs.
Walsingham's baby. Tho more Mrs.
Walsingham screamed and poked into
tbo fight with her parasol, the more the
dogs tried to swallow each other's legs,
and the more they tangled their teeth
with the baby. And at last, when the
Wulsingbain dog retreated, and attempt?
ed to jump through the fence, in which
he was c lught by tho coach aud firmly '
held, Mrs. Walsiughum picked up that
bleeding and mutilated child of her
hopes, and wont home for the purpose
of unking Walsingham if ho thought his
conduct iu engaging that dog was the
correct, thing for a man aud a fathei.
[Max Adolei:
The Home ok MKS Leu?The Alex?
andria (Va.) Gazelle, alluding to there
cent death of Mrs. Gen. Leo, thus
touehingly refers to tho oruol injustice
of which we regret to say onr Govorn
ment has been guilty of practicing to?
wards tho venerable woman who has
now passed a way:
"For several 3'ears, she had fondly
cherished the hope of ending her days
at Arlingtou, the parental mansion?her
own homo aud the home of hor chil?
dren. There sho was born, there she
had been married, and there her chil?
dren were born. Naturally all her af?
fections olustered around this, to her,
hallowed spot, and as years rolled on,
sho became more nnd more anxious to
return to the old homestead, where lie
buried the remains of a devoted father
and mother, and whore she had hoped
to have peacefully surrendered her
spirit to the God who gave it, surround?
ed by all the recollections of happier
days. But iu this she was doomed to
disappointment, a disappointment that,
added to her recent heavy bereave
meuts, finally broko down a shattered
oonstitutiou and death ensued. She
felt keenly the wrong imposed npon her
by tho Government, that without tho
shadow of right or justice, but merely
by the strong arm of power, withheld
'?m? ii?r, Sief zzi her children's, in
violation of the very laws under which
the property was at first seized; and few
there are iu the land, wo should think,
who will uot regret that this injustice
was perpetrated, and who will uot now
bo willing that restitution shall be made
to the descendants of her whose soul has
passed to a happier homo."
"L ist evening," relates the New Or?
leans Herald, ".vliile tho chief engineer
of a lung tester was expatiating upon
tho benefits to bo derived from the use
of his instrument, a cadaverous iudi
vidnul stepped out of the crowd and ro
m irked to him, 'Mister, do you think it
w mid help tno any to blow into that
nun?' 'Ye.-, -.ir, Aertutuly; it would ex?
pand y >ur client, givo elasticity to tho
lungs, and lengthen your life. Why,
you'd soon be aole to blow 500 pounds,
nirl wiu the five dollar prize.' 'Why,
does a fellow get live dollars when ha
blow.-, tint many pouuds?' 'Yes, sir;
wouldn't you like to make a trial?' with
tv knowing wink to iuo crowd. JI don't
care if I do,' said Greens, walking
around aud plunking dowu a dime of
Ihn greasy shin piaster sort. Then, tak?
ing the mouth-piece in his hand, made
ready. Ho opeued his*mouth until tho
hole iu his face looked Ilk- a dry dock
for oceau steamers, and began to take
in wind. The 1 nil it ion was like that of
the Daily Graphic balloon, but not so
disastrous. That fellow's chest began
to grow and distend nntil ho resembled
a pouter pigeon more than a man; at
which poiut ho put the mouth-piece to
his lips. That can-ton went up like a
flash, und tho ncedlo of that indicator
spun around like a button on a country
school house door, until it stood still at
500 pounds. The crowd oheeicd, and
tho keepor of tho can pa<d over the five
dollars in stamps with a mutter of asto?
nishment. But Greens pocketed them
coolly, aud turning to the spectators
said, 'Look here, gents, that niu'b no?
thing to do at all for a man who has
been bugler in a deaf and dumb asylum
for seven years, like me!1"
Panama has had a season oi repose.
It consisted of one week of diplomacy,
which was preceded by a revolution and
followed by an earthquake.
One female clerk in the Treasury De?
part mout can oount 0,000 notes in an
hour, and has couuted 4,000 in twenty
minutes.
A Nebraska man, who went into a
neighbor's house and stabbed him
thirty-six times, was acquitted on the
plea of self-defence.
A New York theatre has already an?
nounced as iu active preparation, "The
Virginius, or Ryan's Avengers."
To day week is Tbsnksgivi
whldb will probably, be a go p et si
day.-' *??****?
Tester day was bitter cold", an?ic
witt, no doubt, bo ploutifal this morn?
ing, ih ?-? ??? .r. : . '
'There was a weak attempt at a snow
ntorm, yosterday, but the rain squelched
it. The little folks were terribly dieap
pionted.
Persons indebted to the Fhcsnix ofSoa
are requested to call and settle, as money
is needed. The cash rule will be strictly
adhered to hereafter.
We are indebted to E. E. Davies &
Qj. for a treat of fine oysters. They
keeps f ally supplied, and are prepared to
furnish them in any quantity.
Oar hotels oontinue to receive a largo
number of guests, but oironmstenoBS
beyond our control prevent the publica?
tion of the lists for the present.
Messrs. Agnew Sc Son make a display
in our advertising columns this morn?
ing, whioh is the Very thing for thia
weather. Bobby Burns has immortal?
ized old Scotch whiskey in verse, and
some of tee samo sort can be found at
the above establishment.
Public Library of Kentucky.?We *
aro informed that ali unsold tickets to
the fourth concert of this enterprise, in
the hands of agents, will be returned on
25th instant. Remember this, and form
your clubs and secure tickets while they
can be had. N2fl3
Correction.?We wore in error, yes?
terday, in stating that the bill reported
by the minority of tho Committoe of
Ways and Means of the House of Rep?
resentatives levied a tax of seventeen
mills. It proposes to raise the same
amount?sixteen mills?as thaC of the
report of the committee. The distin?
guishing feature of the minority bill is
that the sume to bo raised under it are
specially and in express terms applied
to their objects. It is better guarded
than the other.
Pucenixiana.?High resolves, minus
action, are worth nothing.
A bad habit to -get into?a coat that
is not paid for.
When are skipping lambs like literary
volumes? When they are bouudin'
sheep.
Now is the time to snap up dry goods
bargains.
Speak as you mean, do as you pro?
fess, and perform what you promise.1
The shadows of life are too often
caused by standing iu our own light.
Crush your sorrows, but do not drown
them.
A lie often requires several more to
Tho greatest bores are always persons
of the smallest calibre.
Adversity, like winter weather, is of
use to kill thoso vermin which the sum?
mer of prosperity is apt to prodnoe aud
nourish.
Whatever you would not wish your
neighbor to do to you, do it not unto
him. This is tho whole law; the rest is
merely tho exposition of it.
Drowned.?Mr. Edward White, of
Columbia, was accidentally drowned in
tho Cougaree River, about ten miles
below tho city, on Monday afternoon,
about -1 o'clock. Wo learn that Mr.
White, accompanied by two other gen
tlenieii, had gone down the river in a
boat, with the intention of hunting,
when the boat struck a snag aud sunk,
throwing the oocupunts into the river.
Mr. White sunk almost immediately,
and arose no more. Thoothor two nar?
rowly escaped with their lives, by the
assistance of Mr. Wolfe aud his planta?
tion hands. Tho river was draggtd
Monday afternoon aud yesterday, in a
vain effort to recover the body of the
deceased; and another attempt will be
made to-day, with greater hopes of sac
cess. Mr. Wl'i'o was an ex-Confederate,
having entereu the service in the first
company that left Columbia?the Co?
lumbia Artillery; and after the dis
bandment of tho artillery, he oonueoted
himself with Company F, of Colonel
Jamei' battalion, iu Virginia.
List op New Advertisements.
J H. Smith?Hogs for Sale.
John Agnew & Son?Liquors, etc
Dra. Qreeae, Lindsey & Benttey.
my ? ?
Two bandoome young iadios having
commenced practice as physicians iu
Blackhawk County, II)., it is stated that
sickness bus broken out among tho
young men of tho plaoe to an alarming
extent.
A Kentucky lady recently died whose
hair, acoording to the obituary notices
published in the papers, measured six
feet, eight inches'at the time of her
death.
When they told Jim Oxford, of Vir?
ginia, that he was dying, ha replied,
"Wall, don't forget to put them
shingleBon the mulo pen afore it rains
agin."