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COLUMBIA, S. G. -La J_!-1-1-LcJ-?? Th?rsday Horning, January 16, 1874. The Pro ?trat? State. The work of 280 pages duodecimo, bearing this title,- by James 8. Fike, late Minister of the United States at the Hegne, Bas already attracted considera? ble attention? It is the production of a gentlemao of leisure* and means, who spent a couple of months, during the session of the South Carolina Legisla? ture of 1873, in close observation of its Motion, and in oarefol atndy of all tho questions which would naturally sug? gest thetna?lvos to a ebrewuTinquirer in ?uoh a position. ?Wo baye found it more than entertaining. It disouBseB ques Liona oj absorbing concern and para? mount interest to tho people of the ? State, who hope and work for a change ' in its politioal condition. Before the day of sodden emancipation, Mr. Fike entertained the oonviotion that the Gulf States would have to be surrendered to the blacks; bat he now admits that that event changed the conditions of tho problem. In tho present work ho com? bats tho sentiment whioh ho hud for? merly entertained, so far a3 it applies to South Carolina. Northern man as he is, and Republican as we suppose him to be, he has brought to the consideration of this matter a pains-taking spirit or in? vestigation and fairness of view which do him honor. He sees iu the result which ho depre? cates tho most vital injury to civiliza? tion and progress, and tho bitterest wrong to a people, whoso highest crime has been misfortune. Ho offers con? siderations whioh should inspire a de? termined effort to proveut it. Pub? lished to the reading world at large, they are evidently meant to take effect iu the minds and to nerve tho hearts and inspire the purpose of the people mainly concerned themselves. While invoking tho attention of the people of other States, he warns the poople of South Oarolica not to permit what thoy ought to prevent. The decision, he says, roati mainly with them. This friendly counsel chimes in well with the efforts whioh we make every day, to rouse pablio attention to the alarming condition of our affairs. It is not taxa? tion alone whioh challenges scrutiny; it is not the corruption of officials merely whioh we are oalled upon to overthrow; it is not the prostration of industry, and the failure of honest efforts to seaure the comforts of life, and the education of our children; it is not only or mainly the need of labor and neoessity of capi? tal whioh we suffer from. The whole head is sick and the Whole heart faint. But we think with the author of this book, that there ia yet hbpe for ua?yet a field.in whiuh patriotism and the inte? rests of self-preservation Bhould assert their power and enforce their claims. If we thought tho CAse was made up, and no possibility existed of a return of good government, security and prosper? ity; if wo thought honor was to be for ever*exiled from our shores, and civili? zation to be blotted out by an African or mongrel sway permanently established here?we would throw down our pen in despair, and lonve the God-striokeu and hapless State of our birth and our pride. But wo will not believe it, and we will not eeaee to invoke all those influences to rally to a recovery of onr lost power, onr just consideration, our desecrated field of manly and houorable exertion. People of South Caroliual. learn a les? son from this candid stranger. You have not exhausted all means ar_d re? source in your power to oorroot the evils of your misorablo condition. Until you have done so, yon oannot bo held without excuse. There is work to bo done both nt homo and abroad. The public opinion of the whole country must bo enlightened and thrilled with the story of your shameful wrongs and mntakless misery. -i - Wo recur to tho matter of Dr. Eusor's letter to a friend, of which we took some notice the other day, to say that we do not desiro to be understood us condemning its spirit and tone at all. It is a good letter and likely to do good abroad. The explanation of willingness on the part of our people to fcoeive im? migrants conditionally and without in? quisition into their political views, while unnecessary here, is no doubt highly important and valuable where a difforont opinion of onr polioy and feelings is entertained. Dr. Easor's letter is calcu- j luted for that latitude, and will dissi? pate errors and prejudice where they prevail to our hart. -~4 O -O- . Giving rose-bud dinners isn new freak in Ntw York fashionable sooioty.' Tho guests are cotnposod cxclubively of de? moiselles just budding into womanhood to whom everything ia coideur de rose, and who uro about to make their debut in society. k ' ?? .; :::\.' " 8wtcesa Certain Under Win* tro?dcr?nlp. We cannot let the views of our Corres^ pondent "Tax-Puyoi" pass without a word. If, aa be thinks, tho cause is so good that Boocees 1b certain uodor lead era against whom rjo prejudice exists for j their participation in the secession movement, or for their unwillingness to cordially accept tbo reconstruction amendments, we do not think it jeopard? ed by tho presence of a few auoh mcq it. the convention, supposing that such will be in it. Old issues arc dead and gone, and s?oh things have uo impor? tant .bearing" upon tho present and press? ing question of tho salvation of South Oaroliua from ruin. A secessionist, un anti-recoustruationist, may ba u patriot as well ab uuy one else. Our people have no political uses to griud. They want a better government, iu mon and measures, they wish moderate taxation, they call for reform of abuses, nud they desire obstacles to their udveucement any improvement removed. Whoever has these and similar objects in view now, whatever he wns u loug timo ago, should bo welcomed with his counsel, and encouraged in his patriotic efforts. We are free to admit, oursolves, that wo must put off old clothes, must uot revive old issues and prejudices?must, in fact, address ourselves heartily to tho great work beforo us. We must live in it and for it. But it is equally as com? petent for a so-called secessionist to do this as for any one elso. Tho influence j and power for good in General Gordon and Mr. Stephens, of Georgin, in the United States Congress, are uot im? paired by a record which is knowu iu Washington to bare been with the South in council and on tho battle-field. We want for the business before us good men, live men, earnest and honest men, whatever some may have been iu times j before the fl?od. Judge Carpenter's Opinion und Order. Tho serious consequences to the gen? tlemen concerned, the extraordinary und impossible conditions upon which their restoration to their usual diguity and status in the court is made to de? pend, the insonvenienco to the commu? nity, and the strong feeling which has been aroused agniust so unprecedented a proceeding, all induce us on the_ one hand to be careful in what wo say, and on tho other to question the real mean? ing ud purpose of au order so extra ordinary and so injurious as the one just decreed by Judge Carpenter against tho attorneys of tbo Citizens' Savings Bank. It is contrary to all precedent and all expectation. It cauuot have the purpose of recovering control of the assets of the bank, and yet the attorneys are required to restore them to Judge Carpenter's Oo.irt, or, failing to do it, to be themselves forever exiled from its precincts. Is iL Judge Carpenter's de sire to bring his court into Hue with the General Assembly, and engage it in a ruce and oontest with it, iu thing:, un? seemly, iu things which make tho judi oioua grieve, und in nets which will arouse the public indignation? I; he preparing matter for au addendum to "Tho Prostrate State?" Automatic Telkuraimi ?Some uf tho reports that have leaked out about an autographic telegraph juat patented iu Washington, but withheld from publi? city until patented iu other countries, intimate nn improvement that must be very convenient, and sometimes exceed? ingly so, and may lead to a radical change iu telegraphing. The principle is apparently analogous to tin', disco? vered by a Mr. Bake well, in England, sevorul years ago, aud that baa Iveu employed with imperfect success in Fronce?perhaps elsewhere. At. each station, a cylinder is attached to tbo transmitting and roceiving instrument. Tbo mauusoript to be Bent is wrapped nrouud one and instantly duplicated on the other, no matter how distant. Tho process is almost un equivalent of pho? tography, and is iustuutniieous. It is perceptible at a glouou that tho long do spatohes now sent at so much coat could be forwarded by this means as cheaply as i ho shortest, us they would occupy no more timo nor any more labor. ? Tue Financial Condition of G boiiuia. Treasurer Jones' report presents the nuances of tho State iu a favorable con? dition. The receipts from nil sources' for tho pnat year, iucluding $003,310.15 received from tho former Treasurer, were 83,172,788.74. Tho expenditures for the year wero $2,250,232.40, leaving a baiunoo >n the treasury, on tho 1st of I January, 1874, of 8022,550 25. The] bonds maturing during tho year amount, principal and interest, to $823,800. The probable receipts during the year end? ing the 31st of December, 1871, are put down at $2,722,850. The probable dis? bursements, including the payment of bonds maturing, ore put down at 81,159,180?loaving n probablo bulanco in the treasury, at tbo end of tho year, of $1,159,190. The amount received from tho sale of the Nutting bonds is $1.200,000. The total State debt is I j $8,313,000. The financial condition of the Stato is most encouraging, and Col. Jones' report highly creditable and su tiafuctory. ?-? ? ?-- ? ? Five prisoners escapod from tho Spur tanburg jail, a few nights ago. WortEiy ot Cott*lder?tlon. <flMb. Edxtob: It is oonoeded by all citizens, "without distinction pf race and color," excepting those o?iy who have thoir hands ia the public orib, and whose Belf-interest ia to support the pre sent condition of affair's'in South Caro? lina, that some action must be taken to relieve the people from tho high taxa? tion imposod, which, if continued, must rc3iilt4n the ruin and confiscation of the entire property of tho tax payers. A tax payers' convention is uow '.he pro? posed remody, and might accomplish much if controlled by meu who have uot, ity their former acts, made them? selves conspicuously opposed to the General Government of . tho United States. Tho Tux-Payers' Convention, at its foruior meeting, wan controlled by that class of our citizens, who, during "tho lato unpleasantness," wielded the uutiru power of the Stale against the Uuited States. Some of them have been inatrumeutul in promoting uud bringing about that disastrous civil war whioh has prostrated the Southern States generally, and South Carolina particularly, under the grasp of n horde of rapacious adventurers, who exhibit with biazen effrontery their ill-gotten gatDb', iu splendid equipages, iu the faces of a robbed and ruined people, j That tho Tax-Payers' Convention is' controlled by the class of our citizens alluded to, is evident from tho Execu? tive Committee appointed at the last meeting of the Tax-Payers'Convention. Eighteen iu number, exclusive of tho President, two-thirds or three-fourths of whom are well known iu Republican circles as "soro heads," and whose names will be a drag on auy effort to re? lieve UB. Now, Mr. Editor, while 1 admit the high character of tho gontlemeu alludud to, their purity, their good motives iu leading ns in the present movement, yet I question tho expediency of their being in the foreground, ueking either rights or favors from Cougress. Com? mencing with the gentleman who, ut the commencement of secession, pro? mised to drink every drop of blood spilled in* any war which might take place between the North and tho South, 4 'the record is against the leaders of the Tax-Payers' Convention, and will fail to procure the desired relief." These leaders are secessionists. Thoy are opposed tu tho fourteenth amendment; opposed to the fifteenth amendment; opposed to the reconstruction laws of the United States; nsed thoir infiuoneo to prevent tho white citizens of tho Statu from ac? cepting the uituatiou, und from accept? ing any position under the re-orguuizod Statu Government of South Carolina. Their advico and influence iu tho past has been disastrous to the tax-payers of South Carolina. Their leadership in thl | future will be unavailiug for good. So, too, Mr. Editor, the cull of yout corres? pondent to tho nntivo members of the bar for a mass meeting of the citizens of Ricbland County, will fail to do any jood, because the native members of the bar alluded to will find their record in Washington against them. The former lenders in South Carolina, who from tho Court Houses in each County led and direoted public sentiment, have ceased to possess influence to direct it in the future. The people have learned by the past what such influences have brought i them to, and have learned to speak and utter their views regardless if whom it pleases or displeases. If there is any lesson they should have remembered, it is on this particular'point. Now, Mr. Editor, the question arises, what shall bo doue in the present exi? gency? To my mind, the better plan is tor every member of the oonvoution to resign, or to have their commissions, if I may so speak, revoked. Let new rep? resentatives be elected, on whose past record no flaw of leadership can bo de? tected, tuke the lead iu this movement, and success is certain. Tho gcntlemeu who have taken tho loud in tho past T.ix-Payors' Convention should grace? fully rctiro from tho foreground, from tho leadership, and entrust it in the hands of those more lik-j.'y to achieve suc? cess. Such action ?u their part would j in the highest degree be "patriotic." ' TAX PAl'El. I'm: Washington Monumunt?Build Uv on Tear Down??The Wuehiugton Monument, in its present condition nt the national capital, has, for more than a quarter of a contury, beou a burning shame and disgrace to the country. It is now proposed that Congress make au j appropriation for its rapid completion. Let this be done without delay. Lot the appropriation bo placed at tho dis? position of honest and responsible men; or, rather than suffer its existence in its present shapu for auother quarter of a century, lot it be torn down and tho site occupied nB a Congressional ceme? tery.?-tVcic- York Herald. ?f, Dr. Sears, agont of tbu Peabody fund, iu a recent letter, says: ''Nothing more important, nothing more conciliating, could be dono by Congress for the Southern States, than to tnako a liberal appropriation for the public free schools. Tho white population generally feel tho necessity of eduoaling tho colored raoo, as well as thoir own children; hut almost the whole, burden falls upon themselves, as tho colored people bavo ordinurily but a Blight poll tax. Mr. Hour's educa? tional fund bill meets tho caoo substan? tially, and would undoubtedly be ac? ceptable to tho people, with tbo excep? tion of a limited number of party men." A DouniiK-DYitD Traitor.?The Brooklyn Eagle says of Butler's speech on tho negro question: "Butler's acts during tho war foaud palliation with many in the angers and furies of tbo struggle, but this abnegation of race, this relinqnishmont of his white man? hood, presents him to the present and will puiut him for the fatnro us the vilest speoimea of iu possibilities that it ever produced." - lnml|r?lloB. Ma. Editor: Our Irish friend, P. Gaatweli, needs correcting, too. Ho called naii to account in his store, two days before hiB article appeared in the Phoenix yesterday. I then guve him the items of expense on &U immigrants whom I send, which items bo took down on a piece of paper. To illustrate, let us take tho very caso ho mentions, a woman and her daughter, eleven years old. On each of these, I paid the steamship from Now York to Charles? ton, $10; on South Carolina Railroad, ?2; omuibua fare to hott 1 iu Charleston, 50 cents; breakfast at Pavilion Hotel, 75 cents; dinner iu Charleston at Na? tional House, 00 cents; faro from hotel to depot, 50 cents; breakfast iu Colum bia, 40 couts; ou her box at Castle Gar deu, 20; totul cxpeuie to Columbia, for both, $29 65. Now, it happened that ibis woman made u mistake on arriving in Columbia that cost mo 87. On arriving at Colum? bia, she und daughter nud two other women were tak.'u from tho tram und told Unit they hud gotten to their place. I hired a carriage to send them up town, while tweuty-cight oLh'?r immi? grants were entering the Greenville i train to go up that road. Alter tbo traiu bad been ou the way fur dome time, I found .that the woman und daughter were on the train. So I lock them to Ninety-Six, paid a hotel bill for them of Hi, and paid their way back to tbo cily next day, S3 more. On my re? turn to New York I got the agent to re fuud $5 on the little girl, which 1 told Mr. Cant well I intended In refund to the woman, fcjo the matter staudfi thus: Received for woman nod daughter from New York to Columbia, 835; actual ex? penses, 829.55; my fee, ?5.15. But the woman's mistake cost me 87; so I ac? tually lost pi\ tho woiuiiu uud her daughter Si 55. Now I can produce papers and witnesses to every item of expense mentioned. I told the woman and her daughter at Castle Garden that I would charge tbcm $20 each, as 1 did ull the 112 per&ouH I brought on, and that they would be required to work it oat. I can get 100 witnesses to this fact. More than this, the Irish officer at Castle Garden told, tho woman that it wonld be the best thing she could do to come South under that arrangement. When I confirmed the contract be? tween the woman and her employer ul thu Columbia Hotel, explaining that she must return him $20, she cheerfully agreed to do so, ahook my hard, thanked tue for getting her ho good a pluce, uud said, "God bless you!" As to thu authorship of tho certificate which I had published iu the Piicemx, I refer Mr. Cnutwell to Col. Mc.Muster and to Col. Childs. I expect to do au honest bin-iuess, and I hope to make some money iu this j work. I publish my terms to the world, | uud explain them ut Castle Gardon to every ono whom I employ. Now, it stunde on a level with the grocery busi? ness. If a person does not like the prices of Mr. A , he can go and trade with Mr. "F. C," who will be found muoh more consistent in his own busi? ness in the store thau he is when busy? ing himself abont other people's mat? ters. So, if people do not like my prices, they can get immigrants else? where. 1 expect to leavo for Now York to-night, to fill about 300 orders. TILMAN B. GAINE3. It is supposed by some people that the term "horso marines" is a mero jocularity, and repreaeats nobody and nothing; but this cannot be so. The estimates for the current year contuiu mi item of S7.500 "for forage for tho marine corps at Washington," and this shows from thu htattite that I hero nre "horse marines" iu the naval service of (tie United States, and that forago has to be provided for them in largo quali? ties. Some, howover, still iusist that there is no such military arm ns tho "horse marine?," and this appropriation is intended only to feed tho fast nags and tho eairingo horses of the officers of tho marine corps aud their wives, while lighting the arduous campaigns of fashionable life. That cannot bo so? j tho honor of the navy forbids such an assumption. There must be a large! corps of "hnrso marines" iu Washing? ton to require $7,500 worth of pay per UliliUUl. ? ? United States Cocrrr, Charleston*, January 11.?Tho regular business of liiu term bel?g disposed of, tho follow? ing special jury was organized to try bankrupt cases: Israel Ottolcugui, 8. Ashe, uolorol; Uoury Bartending, James Doyle, Thomas Erwin, O.iver Furniim, Michael Gannon, James C. Jervey, James W. Nell, Theodore D. Ruddock, Jr., Robert White, T. Trunk Wall. Supernumeraries?James A. Winthorp, Moses Wyross. Tho peti? tion of Hillariuh McC ill, of York, for final discharge in bankruptcy, was re? ferred to Registrur Clawsou for report. I mm ia bants ?A eotomporary, speak? ing of the fond dispensed to tbesu foreiguors, says: It should bo remem? bered that Europuan immigrants are not accustomed to tho kind of food which is usually given to tho farm laborers in tho South, and sicco wo nro making tho experiment, wo' ought to givo it a fair test. If the land owner who omploys them will give them for rations fresh meat, Bait beef, a little cheese, garlic and corn men), ho will soou find tho laborers serviceable. Homicide Near Woodruff':'.? A row occurred among some freedmen, near Woodruffs, a few days ago, in whioh ono of tho freedmen, Ned Pilgrim, re? ceived a wound at tho hands of another froetlmau, named Marshal Purks, from which ho died on tho 10th instant. Two other freedmen also received several wounds during tho fracas, but it is thought they will recover. Liquor, as usual, was nt the bottom of tho diffi | oulty.?Carolina Spartan ?? Orrr Mattebs.?? ftabserfbe for tbt Pbxbvuc. , , Governor Moses has recovered, and wae at the Executive offioayesterday. Wm. Laidlor, Esq., former]/ of the ?Charleston Courier, is in the city. He looks halo und hearty. I A pair of shoes was found in the Pikenix office a few days ago. The owner can obtain them by calling. Tho weather, jesterday, was cold und partially clear?an improvement on tb> previous day. Mr. F. S. Jacobs was tbo lucky win? ner of a handsome coral set, rafiied on Tuesday night. 12 was good, bnt 43 was bolter. We bavo bnon requested to 6tatc thai' Colonel E. M. Seabrook will be at the Citizeus' Savings Bank, to-day, for the purpose of proving claims. S >me ladies still cling to tho bustle, notwithstanding the faot that they are entirely out of fashion, and it is hoped will not be ravived. Tho defalcation of the Treasurer of Ricbland County, Ohio, is full $100, 000 It is more profitable to rob a Rich laud than a poor ono like South Ca? rolina. Commi^sioucr Watts has furnished us with a pamphlet copy of the "Culture and Manufacture of Ramio and Jute in the United States." by Emilo Lefrunc, of Now Orleans. That walnut caudy aud cough kisses, those Jim Crows und horebound, the ultimo, paste and chocolate creams, the coco, confections, aro very fine, at Hei? ni tab'*. , One colorod troop remarked to an? other, yesterday, as a diminutive, half starved donkey, ridden by a country youth, passed by, "Say, Sam, wonder if they caught that feller 'live." James L. Orr has reoently been asso? ciated with the Hon. J. P. Roed as u law partner, under tho name of Reed k. Orr. Mr. Orr is a young man, who in? herits much of his lato father's talonts, aud has a bright future before him. The store of Mr. John C. Jacobs, cor? ner of Medium and Riehardson streets, was entered by the boring process, ou Tuesday night, and robbed of a large quaulily of goods. Oh! for a small quantity of lead, propelled by a little gun-powder. Somebody with a turn for statistics; has computed that a man of average loquacity talks three hours per diem, at the rate of 100 words a minute, orl enough in one hour to fill twenty-nine octavo pages, in one week 600 pages, in one year fifty-two volumes. A new work is just published, entitled! '-Santa Claus Liand." Wo haven't the slightest idea of tho situation of the j mysterious domoin, but we do know?; and tho little folk will bear us witness?! that Santa Claus lands in the fire -place1 about Christmas time. Wo notice that the Kings havo on pale at that priuoe of druggists, Hei? ni Uh, tho Liver Compound. Heiuitshj is proprietor of that great blood medi? cine, tho Queen's Delight. The Kings,, the Queens and tho Prince, with snob al host, the. blood aud liver of the nation may be rcstorad. PuassiXlAXA.?A distinguished ar? rival?Tbo sun. A circuit court?The longest way! home from singing school. Never turn u blessing nrouud to see \v bother it has n dark side to it. llo.v many hearts must the man hate who hn-i oue frr every fate? Get atop of your troubles, and then they're half cured. Look out for tbo best aspects of a man, an you do for viows iu the country. Plenty of frieuds to always help the prosperous. Embroidery representing ivy leaves is tbo litest, and very handsomo it is. Quaker gray is tho color still popular among brides for traveliug drosses. "Auriculum Robert" is tbo very latest unrao for car-bobs, Beccher thinks that piety is tho best cure for a scolding wife. It is easy to "remember the poor", now-a-days. A fellow don't have to go away from homo to do it. Tbo straighton-up-Mary- Jauc-and-; show-your-breast-pin attitude has su porscdod tbeGreoion bond. New England and the Flag.?Re-' ccutly in tho loyal town of Lynn, in the loyal Stato of Massachusetts, a charita? ble entertainment at a ohuroh was broken up bcoauso tho drop curtain for tho occasion consisted of two American' flags. Two ominently pious deacons! thought that tho holy edificowas "dose * crated" by the presonco of the national bunting, and declined to allow the per? formance- to proceed. Snppoao such an occurrence bad takou placo in tho South, what a storm of indignation would have aiiseu in the North. Loyal New Eng-! land, however, may insnlt tbo national! rag with impunity. I 'The: SxjL*M.-~Itv ts theVseasoir of flirtation. It ia the sec?ou of weep tionB. .It is the season of routs and balls. It is the season of operas, thea? tres and concerts. It is the season when young women's fancies lightly turn to thoughts of marriage, and young men are looking out for remunerative situa? tions of a domestic kind. . In a 'word, it is the season of "engagements." Of these, there are,- of coarse, all sorts, 'long and short, for love and for money,', confessed and clandestine. Unfortu? nately here in the South, there is less publicity givon to affairs of the -kind than at the North, where they aro an? nouncer! as soon as they are made, and ?.vhero they may run for years without *uv danger of a breach or collapse. The reverse is generally true among us. A ( clandestine engagement does not usually . laid very long; but, happily, they rarely end in the distress and ruin which are* regarded in Europe as their sore attend-" ants. As the life of a young girl is tuuoh moro domestio than that of a young man, tho burden of concealment presses much m .o heavily epon her than upon her lover. , On this account, und also becans? of the greater tender utss of a girl's conscience, the almost invariable end of a clandestine engage? ment is, that after lasting a few week?, Ut is announced by the girl to a sister or I mother, and passes either into the regu? lar or the forbidden phase. Most for? tunately for the authority of parents, there aro few girls who wonld not rather ran tho risk of sacrificing a lover than ' keep such a secret six weeks with abso? lute integrity. Any one who has no? ticed tho amazing rapidity with which tho news of an engagement spreads among the host of female friends, rela? tions and acquaintances, will feel how keen a pleasure must be taken by them ? in circulating suoh a tit-bit of gossip; and, conversely, what a severe depriva? tion it would be to them not to be per? mitted to annoonoe it. Parents, some? times, from reasons of mortified pride 'or mental indecision, desire that the I news of an engagement, though sanc? tioned, should be confined to as few ' persons as possible. Bot this ia always found to be an untenable position. The eagerness of each last recipient of the ;seoret to communicate it to a specially I privileged friend, soon puts an end to the parents' fond hope of a limited lia? bility to congratulation, and convinces them that an engagement, like a libel, cannot be published for private circula? tion only. It is, in fact, one 'of those 'confidential communications which aro? .sometimes called "shouting secrets." I The classification of engagments ac? cording to their duration gives as seve? ral interesting types. Some engage? ments aro of a short but rapturous kind; others aro of a protracted and Platonic character. Some are contracted for a , fixed term of years, as the engagement of a minor to marry when be attains his majority, or of a widow to vr-d after two. years' iuconsolabtlity. Others sie ter? minable after an indefinite period, aa I where a poor olerk engages to marry as j??on as bo can make a living, or where. a young lady promises to make her lover .happy when ho can show that bo is able "to maintain her in the style to which she has always been accustomed, and to supply her with the comforts and re-, fiuemunts which she has a right from her position in eooiety to expect." Other engagements may Be considered as terminable at pleasure, snch as those projected between Btudents of small ? means and the notorious dirts of a col? lege town, which, it is pretty well un? derstood, aro only designed to last until Providence provides the fair coquette with a more handsome or more substan? tial lover. These, with many others which it is unnecessary to enumerate, arc various specks of engagements dif? ferentiated according to the nature of their duration. ? . ' Of oourse, in this city, there is littlo or no flirting, little or no concealment, little or no impropriety. Our girls have an eye to the oiai i ohance certainly; but, tho prettiest in the country, they are also tho most marrying and mar? riageable. Young men from a distance cau come hero with the assuracoo that, as a wife-markot, it is nr.. irpossed. No shams are put on anen.-'.' mgstrangers. It is trao that our girls dress well, and require a ccrlainty iu this regard before? hand. But, this arranged, they are as practicable as they are pretty. Not moro than half of them between tho ages of fourteen and twenty-one, as wo have ascertained by a careful investiga? tion, are at present engaged, and, of this half, at least a third are only condi? tionally engaged. So, it will be seen that thoro is a great deal of hope for new-comers, as well as the old stock of standard, misapplied beaux. We aro requested by sovcral of the girls to an? nounce that many engagements wero broken off nt the end of last year. Re? jected lovers will please take note of this and "call again." IloTEr, AnnrvALs, January 14, 1874.? Wheeler House?M J Hirsch, Kingstree; J N Herman, N Y; E F Maloy, Oheraw; J E Wylie, Blackstock; D F Cannon and wife, N C; S Dibble, Orangebarg; J B Reeves, John Woodraff, G A Sey? mour, Charleston; J R Mearfl, E R Meara, U 8 A; S V Melliohnmp, Wil? mington; J A Bassett, Boston; H E Barton, W B Davis, N Y; J W Smith and wife, Mrs W Van Broken, N 0; R P McCauts, Savannab; WD McDowell, T B Ciark, Camden; T W Price. Pa; It F 1'oumans, city;'F H Mitchell, O L B Mandl', Wilmington; J T Solomons, ouinter; W S Powell, Baltimore. List of New Advkiitisbments. Carolina Natioual Bank Exhibit. H. is S. Board?Auction. Supper Burns' Club. Hope & Gyles?Hay.