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e?ii?fabiA, s. c. Saturday Morning, December 27, 1873 Raise Sappl Its at Horn? and Engag? In Hanufactarlng. The bill to aid and eooonrage manu? factures, whioh we repeatedly urged upon the Legislature, at the last session ?the session of 1872?ic pass, as oar readers know, failed at that time to be oome a law. This failure was a serious disappointment to many who were then ready to engage vi manofaoturiog. De? lay and disappointment have, to some extent, oooled the ardor of some, and induced others to look fur the opportu? nities und advantages denied them here in other States. That was the time to strike, for the iron was thou hot. But wbilo wo have to regret the unfavorable course which things took u year ago, it is our duty to make the best of tho oirenmbtuDoes whioh now burrouud us. The bill has at last become a law by the signature of the Governor, affixed a few days .since. It exempts from State, Oonnty and municipal taxation, (except for soboole) all capital invested in manu? factures ?of. woolen, oottou, iron, lime, paper and agricultural implements, and excepts only the grouud ou which the buildings to be erected will stand. It is retroactive, too, in so far as it applies to enterprises whioh havo been com? menced during the lott twelve months, and to improvements and additions made to existing establishments during that'period. This exemption is to hold good for ten years. Nothing has been more clearly de - monstrated by facts, figures and argu ?-meats, than the immeoBe advantages of diversifying our pursuits. The old prac? tice- of planting cottou exclusively, sub? jecting to the risks which attend its pro? duction, and the uncertainties of re ?ceiVing a remunerative price for it, should be abandoned. The result of persevering in it has beeu manifested in our deserted or mined homesteads, and in the necessity of paying an exorbitant price, in interest and cost, for the neces? saries of life. Corn, flour, baoon, lard, butt er j buy, implements, tools and work animals, all have to be purobaaed out of the proceeds of cotton. After pacing charges of rent, seed, labor, manage? ment and taxes, it is generally found that there is nothing left for living, and for the purchases whioh have to be made of artinlee brought from abroad. The coneequeuco is embarrassment, thral drom, vexation and unhappiness. It ahoutd be a fix*ed and unalterable rule to make all these things?corn, wheat, hay, 'bacon and home supplies?on the farm. No other course will ever secure inde? pendence, and,bring comfort and aburi? de noe to the planting interest. , Ooi bos given us the streams, wood and climate, which, if properly utilised, wijrBfford a pother and atill better class of. profits from manufacturing. Wo hayo' choice timbers in our uplands and swamps, we have the raw material cot? ton -at hand, aod, with a little aare, might also raise wool. We have the surplus labor, which, though not Buited to cotton planting, is admirably adapted to 'working in mills. We have good railway communication with the great markets of the world. What we need in addition, we can now find in this law, whioh exempts and protects the capital from tux long enough for it to Bettle on a good foundation and to .secure profita? ble returns. We have but to look into ot-her States?Georgia, for instance?to to see what manufuoturcR have done for them. We have frequently published the reports of manufacturing business in Augusta, Maoon, Columbus and other cities, and they amount to the clearest demonstration. Wo invoke at? tention to this matter. Wo ask our people to count the ooet of going on in the old fashion. We urge thorn to look at tho figures, to heed tho facts, to ex? amine the balance sheet, for instance, of the Augusta Factory, the Graniteville Factory and the Saluda F?otory. They can but be ooovinoed by the excellent showing they all make. Being con? vinced, let them seek to do likewise. Form joint stock companies, embracing the planting, mercantile and meohanioal intorcsts, secure sites for business on or near railroads, get an intelligent and ex? perienced superintendent, and go. to work. There is money in it. There is indpendence in it, also. ?-? >-? Thb San Domingo Revolution.?It is believed that the revolution whioh began in Sau Domingo, ou the 25th of November, has succeeded, and that President Baez has boon deposod, as ' indicated by a late dospatoh. Baez was charged with a general violation of con? stitutional rights, and tho people rose en masse against his tyranny. -- Two young men, named E. W. Ilack und F. H. D'Autignao, hud a rencontre in Augusts, on Woduesday evening, and each received a bullet wound which it is feared will prove fatal. When the panic occurred, two, four or six. mouths' time woe given by credi? tors to Arms that Were in difficulty. No distinction was mado between those that were perfectly sound and trust? worthy and those that were practically insolvent. Wo are now bearing of frequent failures of the better class of houses as the time allowed for the set? tlement of their afftiis expires. Wo shall, doubtless, hear of many more failures of the same nature, but no alarm need be folt in consequence. Firms tbat wero solvent at the end of tho pauio ureaR strong to day-ob they ever were, and the community in the g*iuer by the final failure of those tbat have bcm montbs past liviug only by virtue of tho reprieve grauted by credi? tors. AcgorrrATj op Ex Mayor H/>i.l ? Tho trial or ex-Mayor Hall, of New York, for criminal neglect uf duty, whon Mayor of that city, by ueglecting to pay just attention to the auditing of bills against it, was terminated by a verdict of acquittal. In bis last trial, the jury were uuublo to agree, but it has beeu all along quite well under? stood that Hall, while in a large mua sure culpable for negligence which cost New York so much through the frauds of publio officials, was reully no party to the crimes of wbiob bis ao-officialB were guilty, and from which he profited nothing, and really did not appreciate or even suspeot uutil too late. B. F. Evans.?The announcement of the decease of Col. Benjamin F. Evaus, of the firm of Walker, Evuos & Cogs? well, will be a shook to our whole com? munity; for the death of a man of suub manly vigor, high tone of obaracter, and enterprising und pervading useful? ness, is a greaV publio ca'uruity. Tho suddenness of the stroke, too, is ap? palling. But yesterday he moved among us an image of health and lusty, active manhood; to-day hu lies low in the stlil and rigid oomposure of death. Col. Evans was born in Georgetown, 8 C, in the year 1831, and cuuie to this city about the year 1845, us uu apprentice to the late Mr. Joseph Walker. So steady was his industry, so mauifest were his capabilities, and so uucouquerable was his determination to succeed and to ex? cel, that Mr. Walker, w 10 appreciated folly his many noble qualities and use? ful babits, associated uim as a partner with himself in the prioting and statiou ery business. He was thereafter an in? dispensable part ot tbat couoerc, tbat became so widely and favorably known. At the opening of the civil war, Col. Evans was sent-to New York .to pur abase arm-i for the State of South Caro? lina. This be accomplished at con? siderable personal risk. On his return, he went to Richmond to seek sorvice in the field. . The'tbeu Secretary of the Confederate Treasury, the Hon. C. G. Memmioger, who knew Ool. Evaus' qualifications, applied to him and pre? vailed upon hiiu to tako charge of the Confederate paper money. Col. Evans was roluotaqt to forego active service in the field, but finally yielded to tho rep? resentation that b? could best serve the Confederacy to that way,- and that he ought to poet po p e bis private inclina? tions to the public interests. He weut to Europe, procured the necessary ma? chinery and skilled labor, and returned by way of Mexico und the West, after encountering.many stirring adventures. The great establishment ut Columbia, whieh printed the Confederate money, until its, destruction by Sherman's soldiers, was conducted by the firm of which be was the heads The results of the war wrecked bis fortunes, as tbey did the fortunes of almost all of us; but with characteristic spirit and enter? prise, Col. Evaus raised a company fur the establishment of u large cotton fac? tory at Kalmia, iu this State. The want pf sufficient resources compelled him to abandon this enterprise, iu which he Bunk all that remained to him, but the present great, success of that enterprise is a monument to hra foresight and sa? gacity. In 1808, bo returned to this city, and resumed in the firm of Walker, I Evaus A: Cogswell, tho printing aud stationery business, which, by the joiut l endeavors of his copartners UDd him? self, bus uohieved tho reputation of being one of the largest, most reliable, and most enterprising establishments in tho South.? Charleston Hews. - Calamitous Fibe in tub Daiik Cok KEtt.?With fooling8 of extremo sorrow we ohroniolo a calamity which has over? taken one of our most prominent and beloved fellow-citizens?Dr. Thomas E. Jennings, of the Dark Corner?the com? plete destruction of his dwelling house and office by fire, ou Friday last. The tiro was communicated to tho building by sparks fulling upon tho roof; aud so rapidly did the flames spread, that no headway could be mide against them. Mrs. Jennings and her children wero alone at the timn of tho breaking out. of the fire, Dr. Jennings being absent in the practice of his profession. With the dwelling and office were destroyed all Dr. J.'b medicines, mouey, notes, ac? counts arid furniture. Nothing saved, in fact, but a few odds and euds of bed? ding. And this by tho manly exertions of Mr. J. H. Widomau, of Abbevilio, who happened to be passing by. Dr. Jennings' Iobs is estimated at from 81.000 to $5,000. No insaranoe. \EdyJiild Advertiser. A boat left Savannah on Monday night, with thirty colored people be? longing to Hilton Head. She swamped on Terrapin Bank, near Fort Pulaski. Only one nvin wan saved, who floated ashore on an oar. The Viiglnlm Muda'l?/ Status of the VksseIi?Oi-imon of THE AlTOI}Mey-G KNebAli ?Sur had no HiauT to Oauby the Al&ebioah FIjAO, but heb Setzufe not Justified.?Tbe following is The opinion of Attorney General Williams in tbe Virginias case: Department of Justice, Washington, December 17,1873. Hon. Hamilton Fi$h, Secretary rf State?6m: I have tbe honor to acknow? ledge the receipt of yonr lottflr of tbo 1 lib instant, submitting to mo a large number of documents uud depositions, aud iiskiu? my upiuiou as to whether or uut tho VirginiuB, at thu time of I.er capture, by tbe Spanish inuu-of-war Tornado, was eutitled to oarry the 11 ?g of tbo United States, uud whether or not sho was currying it improperly and without right at tho tituc. Those questions arise under the prott - col of the 29th ultimo between tbo Spt uiab Miuistrr uud S-eretnry of S'ute, in which, umoug otlter things, it is agreed that on the 2&ih iuatuitt 3 pa in shall salute thu Oag of the United Suu k; but it is further provided, that if Spain should prove to tbo sali .faction ol the Uuittfd States that tho Virginias wus not entitled to cairy the flag of the United States, end was e.trryiug it i t the time of her capture without right and improperly, tbo sulute will be spon? taneously dispensed with, us iu such oase not beiug necessarily r<quit-able; but tbe United States will expect iu such a case u disclaimer of tbe intent of iu dignity to its fl.ig iu the act which was committed. Section 1 of the Act of December 31, 1792, provides that ships or vessels regbtered pursuant to snob Act, aud uo other, except such us slmll be duly qualified according to luw lor carrying on tho ooaating trade, aud de? nominated or deemed ships or vessels ol the Uuited State*, are eutitled to the benefits and privileges appertaining to such ships. Section 4 of theKamuAcl provides fur an oatb by which, umoug other things, to obtuiu the registry of u vessel. Tbe owner is required to swear that there is no subject or citizen of any foreigu prince or State, directly or indi? rectly, by way of trust, confidence, or otherwise interested in suob ship or ves? sel, or in tbe profits or issues thereof. Obviously, therefore, uo vessel in which a foreigner is directly or indirectly inte? rested is eutitled to a Uuited States registry, and if oue is obtaiuod by a false oatb as to that point, and the met is tbo vessel is owned or partly owued by foreigners, she cannot bo deemed a vessel of tbe United States, or entitled to the benefits or privileges uppeituiu ing to such vessels. The Yirginius was registered iu New York ou tbe 26th of September, 187?, in tbe nume of Pattersou, who made oatb hi required by tbe law, but deposi? tions abundantly show tbat in fact Pat teisou was uot tbe owner at tbe time, but tbat tbe vessel was tbe property of certain Cuban citizens in New York, who furnished tbe neoes?ary funds for her purchase. J. E. Shepherd, who commanded said vessel when sho left New York, with a certificate of her register iu tbe name of Patterson, testified positively that be entered into an agreement to command the said ves? sel, at au interview between Quesadu, Mora, Pattersou and others, at which it was distinctly understood that thu Vir? ginias belonged to Qaesada, Mora aud other Cubans, and be said Mum exhibit? ed to bim receipts for the purchase money, and for the repairs aad supplies upon tbe said vessel, and explaining to bim how the said funds weru raised umoug tbe Cubans in New York. Adolpho de Varoua, who was tbe Secre? tary of tbe Cuban mission in New York, at the time tho Virginias wan purchased, and after wards nailed in her as Quesuda's ubief of staff, testifies tbat be was ac? quainted with all tbe detuils of the transaction, and knows that thu Yir? ginius was purchased with the fuuds of tbe Cubans, aud with tbe understanding and arrangement that Patterson should appear as tbe nominal owner, because foreigners could not obtaia a Uuited Stales register for tbe vessel. Francis Bowon, Charles Small, Ed. Qreeuwood, John McCanu, Matthew Murphy, Am? brose Bowlings, Thomas (Jallagher, John Furlong, Thomas Anderson and Qeorge Miller, who were employed upon tbe Virginias iu various capneities after she was registered iu tbo name of Pat? terson, testify clearly to the effect that they were informed, and uuderstood while upon tbe vessel, tbat she belonged to Quesuda aud tbe Cubans represented by him, and tbat be navigated, con? trolled und treated suob ves9ol iu ail re? spects as though it was bis property. Nothing appears to weaken tbe force of tbo testimony, tbougb the witnesses wore generally (subjected to cross-exami? nation; but, on tho contrary, all tbe oircumstanoes of the cose tend to its corroborutiou. With tbo oatb for re? gistry, tb? statute requires u bend to b6 given, signed by tbe owner, oaptain aud one or more sureties, but thore wero no sureties upon tbo bond given by Patter? son uud Shepherd. Pains buvo bueu taken to ascertain if thero wore any in surunoo npou tbe vessel, but notbiug of tbe kind has been found; and Qiesada, Varoua and tbe other Cubans, who took passage on the Virginius, instead of going ou board at tbo wharf in tho usual way, went aboard on a tug after tbe ves? sel bad left tbo harbor of Wow York. "I cannot do otherwise than to hold upon this evidence tbat Patterson's oatb was false, and that tho registor obtained in bis uamo was a fraud upon tbe naviga? tion laws of tbe United States." Assuming tho question tobe, what ap? pears to conform to tbe intent of tbe protocol, whether or not tho Virginius, ut tbo time of her capture, had a right, us against tbe United States, to carry tbe American flag, I am of tbe opinion tbat she bad no suob right, because sho bad not bceu registered according to law; bat I am also of opinion tbut sbu was as much exempt ou the high sous by another power on that grouud as though sho bud boon lawfully registered. Spain, no doubt, has a rigbt to capture a vessel witb ao American register andi] carrying the American fljg, found in herj own waters assisting or endeavoring Apj. assist the insnrreotion in Cuba; but une 1 has no right to capture snch d vessel oni the high seas, upon an apprehension ,j that, in violation of tho neutrality or navigation laws of tho United States,!, she was on her way to assist said rebe - lion. Bpaio may defend her territory 1 and people from the bostile attack ol what is or appeurs to bo an American , vessel, but she bns no jurisdiction wliut ! ever over the question as to whether oil not such vessel is on Me high eras inj' violation of any law of the United Stales. Spain ctntsot rightfully raise ( that question us to tho VirgtiiiiiH, but-j tho United States may, und, 1 under stand the protocol, they liuvo agreed tot' do it; and, governed by that agreement, I and without admitting that Spain would otherwise have uuj' interest in the ques tion, I decide that the Virginius, at, ih? time of her cuptur?', was without right aud improperly carrying the American dig. Very respect fully. GEORGE U. WILLIAMS. Attorney-Goueral. The Cask of the Vikginius and Questions now Arising ?Direct and Indirect Damages ?The Attorney General, having decided that tho Y.r ginius bud received an American p'Ri* tor at Now Yoik. in September, 1870 npou the false oath of the alleged pre tended owner, Pat^ersou, the next step will brt for the Government to proceed in a Federal Court against said vessel, under tho Aot of December 31, 17U2 whuh declares that iu such c-o-e the vessel sbail be forfeited. It is hardly to be supposed tbat the Cuban owners will defend the suit in their own names. There is some reasou to believe tbat auch a result as this bus been looked forward to from the beginning of this difficulty, aud that it was the confident expectation of such a solution that in? duced Spain to yi? Id a reluctant useful; to the protocol. One important quet-diou wh* not re? ferred to the Attorney-General for bit advice, and is left uutouched by him, uumeh : whether tho persons connected with the vessel as her real owners, pas? sengers, &c, have not violated the neu? trality laws of the United States, and il is just possible that proofs may yet be exhibited on this point so clear us te render prosecu'ioos necessary ou the part of the United States. The latter part of the opiniou of the Attorney General, to the effect tbat Spain bad,' nevertheless, no right to capture the Virginias on tho high soas, is elearlj giveu iu orderte exclude the conclusion that the Uuited States are responsible to Spaiu for damages on account of the hostile operations of tho Virginias. Such a claim is very likely to be made, and it is thought by some jurists would bo similar in principle to the claim? foi indirect or national damages prefeircd by the United States at Geneva, but ro jeoted by the arbitrators on tbat occa? sion. The Virginius did nut commit direct damages upon subjects, of Spain by cap? tures of merchant vessels upon the high seas. The doctrine of the Geneva arbi? trators on this point is, that such losses oanuot, by the law of nations, be re? garded as good fuundation for an award of compensation in computation of da? mages between nations, and the tribunal, I in effect relegated that question to the' unexplored field of the discretion ol; sovereign States. This distinction be i tween direct and consequential damages, it is supposed, will be an effectual bar to any Spanish claim. It is not supposed that the claim fot money compensation to the families of the murdered men will be affected by this deeisun, as the executions were in1 violation of the treaty of 1792, and in-1 excusable on any theory; but it is pro? bable that distinctions will be made be? tween those who were citizens of the United States and those oitizeus of an? other nationality, and certainly between United States citizens and those Cuban* who bud forfeited their parole. It is probablo tbat there is some ex? aggeration iu tho despatch from Key West, announcing tbat tbero is to be s largo concentration of British vessels ol war iu Cnbao waters; that complications are expected, and tbat the British Go vcrument will certainly demand the punishment of Burriel. If such com plications should arise, the British Go? vernment will not treat with tho Havana authorities, but with Spain, as Burriel acted uuder a general order or decree is? sued by tho lato Captain General Rodas. U is thought tbat neither this nor the British Government will insist on bit* punishment, if proper indemnity shall be made by Spain for tho families ol tboso executed. Tbero is an idea current herein diplo? matic circles, that tbo recent opinion of the Attorney-Goners! extinguishes this, claim; but there is good reason to bo lievo that neither Groat Britain nor the' United States will act upon anysucb' view, or release Spain from her obliga? tion to mako suitablo indemnity. The ascertainment of what the indemnity should bo in each case will involve some timo, but will uudoubtedly bo made, and with tbo condemnation of the Vir? giuius by a United States Uistnot Court, wiii oonciude this serious question. As regards the Cubans released who may havo violated their paroles, thero is no likelihood tbat they will bo demanded by Spain or surrendered by the United States. -*>.? Judge Mackey, la9t week, learning that tbo Cbaiiman of tho Board ot County Commissioners of Chester: would not bo present with the jury com? missioners, to attend to tho drawing of jurors for tbo approaching term of the court, issued a bcucb warrant for his arrest, aud placed it in tbo bands of the sheriff, who brought .bis victim to towo and placed him iu safe keeping. Dr. M. E. McNeill, an old eitizen id Hurry County, died ou the 18th ilist. City Matters. ? Subscribe for tbe ?iicenix. Now is tbe time to lock tbe gift horse a tbe mouth. A liieely question?Wbat are your jrcseut intentions? Tbc wcatber wag very unpleasant, Hbristtnns day?rain aud wiud predomi? nating. Tbe sun .-hone out bright aud dear, festerduy; and ub it wan hid first uppoar luco in three days, be was joyoutly re? ceived. . The capital of the Pacific Guauo Com? pany, (of which Mr. J. N. Robsou, of JLmrle.ston, is ug^nt,) is ?1,000,000, and not $100,000, as recently printed iu this paper. Mr. A. P. Spiro, ageut of Hearing's sdebmted t.alen, is ut tho Wheeler rioiioo. The firm is matiufacturing seve? ral new varieties?suitable for eilvor ware, etc. Mr. John A. Adams, general ttgent of Millet's j istty popular fire and burglar proof safes, is ut the Columbia Hotel. Mosers. John Aguew & Son uro ibe agetils iu this city. Af. the regular moeting of Palmetto L xlge, No. 5, I. O. O. F ,* held lust evening, tbe following officers were elected to rerve the ensuing term: R. B. McKay, P. O.; J. A. Jackson, N. G ; W. H. Ca-sou, Jr., V. G.; Chester Ray, Secretary; M Ehrlich, Treasurer. A number of colored men engaged in a tournament, yesterday, which resulted as folio we: Bent rider, Louis Wilson; Brat prize, Theodore Mitchell; second prize, Culhouu Cook; tbitd piizo, Joe Wilhams. E. 'Nelson was chosen Queen; A. Darby aud Grace Cook, Mai.Is of Honor. At tbe last meeting?December 10th? of the stockholders of tbv State Auxilia? ry Joint Stock Company, the following gentlemen were elected Directors for tbe ensuing year: T. W. Woodward, Fair-j finld; R C. Shiver, Thomas Taylor, M. C. Butler, Bicbland; Jolioa'Mills, Cbes tei; JobnHon Hagoud, Baruwell; John B. Moore, John S. Richardson, S amter; M. W. Gary, Edgefield; Frank Cox, Greenville; A. H. Waring, Darlington; D. W. Aiken, Abbeville. We bad the pleasure of receiving a cull, yesterday, from Major John A. | Leland, long favorably known in this State as an eduoator, and now occupy? ing tbo position of Principal et the Reidviile Female H;gh School, in Spar tanbure County. He expects a full school tbe ensuing session, which begins on tbe first Monday in February next, and has a corps of experienced and capable teachers to aid bim iu instruc? tion and management. Good News from the Old Nobth State?A Letter from Wilson, N. C.? Send me five boxes of Heinitsh's Blood and Liver Pills. Tbey are decidedly the best pill I have ever used. I would not be witbont them on any account. Yours, J. Y. B. Railroad * Casualties^?A colored man, employed on Oapt. Burns' train, died suddenly, at an early honr, Christ? mas morning. He had been complain? ing for eome time, aud was lying down in a car. He got op, took a driuk of water, and almost immediately expired. A white man, named Marshall, said to be a printer from 'Jeorgia, was run over by tbe passenger train of tbe Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, a few miles from Columbia, on tbe Lexington side of tbo river, at au early boar Thurs? day morning, nud bad bis leg and bead so badly injured as to cause bis deatb. lie was discovered by tbo employees of tbe freight train which posied on the road Christmas morning. An uuknown colored man, on tbe up pasueDgcr train on tbo Charlotte, Colum? bia and Augusta Railroad, Christmas morning, bad his arm broken by coming in contact with a bridge. Murder ?A colored man, named Robert Goodo, was killed on Wednesday uigbt, near tbo new Uuited States Post Office, by Wesley Simmons, another co? lored man, recently pardoned from the penitentiary. Tbo murderous weapon was a koife. We learn tbat a party of colored Dion were on tbeir way to Sena? tor Nasb's residence, to have a surprise parly, when they met a crowd of their with nil kinds of devioes for making a noise, including an innumerable num? ber of thoso abominable fish horns. Robert Goodo was in tbo former party, and Wesley Simmons in tbe lattor. Tbey met at tbo spot above mentioned, when a collision occurred, a row onsued, and tbo result was tbo killing of Goodo by Simmons, as above stated. Goode was taken to Nasb's residence, where ho im? mediately expired. Tbo murderer made bis et capo, but was arrested yesterday. We learn that Simmons is well known as a turbulent character. Coroner Cole man bold an inquest yesterday, but no additional particulars were developed. ^tfr-^v^rnoaiut? ^^-r/Kiy^^**i>?t?>?'.*-*rT. Thc^jxjlana.-?Never marry' a man rho is impudtut to? bis mother; snobs tkis Bieter, helps himself to the largest ? piece of cuke, or takes the under pan uike at table, or who beats his horse 3aueelu8sly in Buddeu temper. Idle tumors are easily sot afloat, but are bard to stop. A friend of oors thinks it a mistake to suppose women have stronger -attach? ments than men. A man is often at? tached to an old hut, but be asks, "Who ever heard of a woman being attached to an old bonuet?" "Kklv to the Riuht "?This rule of tho road, wbiob is as old as the bills, and as necessary us tho road itself, does not appear to be recognized iu all its importance by the celistiians who throng the side-walks of our 'city, and the result is sometimes awkward. It is au axiom of physical science that no two bodies can occupy the satno space at the same time, and it was Jim Fisk who chronicled the fact that "you can't run two engines on the some track, if they'ro going to meet." So with two- persons approaching eaoh other on the aide-walk, though there may be plenty of room for both, and eaoh may have the moat amia? ble willingness to let the other pass on oithor aide he wishes to, yet, as neither knows the exact intention of. the other, they oftentimes bate recourse .to an awkward chassez movement by way of experiment, and skip wildly from side to side for some seconds, to the diversion of the by-standers but to their own.un? speakable embarrassment All this is to be avoided by the very simple - role of the road above mentioned, snd. it is obvious that if one always keeps to the right, he must always be about right, and there would be an end of this awk? ward contretemps that wa have felt it a duty to write abant Lost of New Advkbtisxmkntb, Misses Martin's School for Girls. Meeting Typographical Union. Dr. Heinitsh'a Medicines. Ditson k Co.?Musio Books. Meeting Bicbland Lodge. House to Bent. House Wanted. Visiting New York while Governor of thin State, Jim Nye was one day walk? ing up Broadway, when Tweed over? took him with his carriage and invited him to rido. The Governor accepted the invitation, and was driven past rows of magnifloent edifices, which Tweed pointed out to him as his individual possessions, admonishing him what a fool he had been to leave New York, when, by remaining and co-operating with his friends, he might have been equally wealthy. Finally, Nye replied to him that perhaps it was a matte* of regret "Bat,", said he, "I have always thought I should rather die in a poor bouse than in the State prison, and, by I G?d I it looks to me aa it that was'the I only choice left us, Tweed." [Virginia City (Necadt1 Enterprise. Thb New City Bills ?Under the re? solution of Alderman 0. C. Bo wen, adopted at the meeting of connoil, held on Tuesday evening, 350,000 in city bills, receivable for taxes, and redeema? ble out of the first installment of taxes paid in, are to be issued to relieve the immediate necessities of the treasury. The issuing ol the new-bills began yes? terday, and about $3,000 were paid to the city bauds. The email ness of the iacne, and the fact that the bills are to be redeemed at an early day, should enable the poor men into whose hands tbey have fallen to get rid them at their face value.?Charleston Neves. Immigrants.?A number of immi? grants, direct from Castle Garden, will arrive here to-day, on one of the New York steamers. Some of them will go to Mr. B. F. Williamson, at Palmetto Depot, in Darlington District, others t j Dr. Davis, at Clinton, and a portion of them will remain in this city inquest of employment. Any persons who wish to seouro those immigrants who are not engaged, can do so by writing to Major Franz Melohers, editor of the Zeitung, or by conferring with him personally. [CJiarteslon News. Port Royal.?From a private letter we learn that Fort Royal was in quite a state of excitement, last week, over the arrival of the English steamship Texas. Tho vessel is one of the largest that has vet entered the port, being 360 feet long, with four decks. The captain stated that Port Royal was the finest harbor he has ever entered, and that there was scarcely any need of a pilot. There were ten sail in the harbor the day the Texas left. A brauch of the Methodist denomina? tion, known as the Methodist Protest? ant, has been established iu Greenville. It is under the care of Rev. R. M. Piokeue, iu oouneotion with the South Carolina District Methodist Protestant Church. The regular organization has uvi yet lakeu plaue, but it is in contem? plation. Tunneling the Sea.?The old pro jeot to make a tunnel under the straits of Dover, betweon France and England, has been again revived, a stock com? pany having been formed in Franoo to effect the purpose. The ostimated cost of the tunnel between Calais and Dover, twenty-three miles, is 800.000.0QO. Mr. Robort Hawthorn, of Fairfield, j died on Tuesday, after several days ill it chs, from bronohitis. Mr. Hawthorn filled several offices of trust, and was I coroner and magistrate for thirty years. "Good-bye, you old scolding, red? headed heathen," wroto aDubuqnoman to his wife, tho last thing before suicid? ing. She says she'd liko to have got hold of him for about ono minute.