The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, March 20, 1874, Image 2
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Friday Moraine. March 20,1874.
Anotlicr Act Lont.
Tbe joint resolution authorizing and
requiring the Attorney-General to insti?
tute immediately legal proceedings
against Nilea G. Parker, lately State
Treasurer, for the illegal issue of bonds
of the State of South Carolina, was
duly puased by both branches of the
Goneral Assembly, duly engrossed and
enrolled, and on Tuesday, tbe last day
of the session, ratified by the President
of the Senate and Speaker of tho House,
ft. in the duty of the Chairman of ibo
Committee on Enrolled Acts to take
them to the Governor for his signature
and approval. Maxwell, Senator from
Marlboro, is the Chairman. He held
the same position when the other Aot
was loBt a year ago. We do not know
what acoount he gives of his eouduot in
the matter. In the Executive office, it
is asserted that tho bill was not re?
ceived on Monday with the others. On
yesterday moruiog, two days after ad?
journment, a copy of the bill, dated
baok the 17th, was receipted for by the
Private Secretary of tho Governor. It
was copied on Wednesday, from tho en?
grossed Aot in tho oflleo of the Secre?
tary of State, at tho instance uf Mux
well, as wo> understand.
Now, who is to blame for spiriting
away this bill? We have hoard that,
immediately after ratification, it was
taken, with others, by Maxwell, accom?
panied by tho Assistant Clerk of tho
Sonate, Barre, into tho Judiciary Com?
mittee room, and that the titles of the
Acts were oopiod as they were raad out
by tho Assistant Clerk of tho Senate.
The next thing in order was for the
Chairman of tho Committee (Maxwell) to
take thorn to tho Governor. But, as we
said, it is denied in the Executive office
.that any such bill was received until
yesterday. We oall upon Maxwell to
inform the public what he did with this
bill. When he took the batch of bills
to the Governor, on Monday, and got a
irecoipt for them, how did it happen
that he did not miss this one? It had
just been ratified, and was important in
its oharaoter, and not likely to bo over?
looked or forgotten. It seems not to
have been missed anywhere until
Wednesday. Then stops were taken to
have it again enrolled from tho en?
grossed copy, to get the necessary signa?
tures, and to send it to the Executive.
The Governor takes the ground that he
cannot sign it, because not reoeived by
him during tho session of tho Genorul
Assembly. Bat the General Assembly
hae not adjourned. It has only taken a
rooet>s. In tho eyo of tho law, it is still
in session. Altogether, it is a disrepu?
table affair, evidently not the result of
auy accident, but designed to prevent
the investigations, which would crimi?
nate more tbau Parker. But the attempt
will not succeed. It will Suly have the
effect of showing, in more glariug co?
lors, the desperate shifts to whioh
wicked and corrupt meu will resort to
hide the villainies of their accomplices
and their own. Another ngly fact to bo
add?d to tbe record of the -Stale Admi?
nistration, to' . poudered at Washing*
ton and throughout the whole country.
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Wliitteinorc'tf Appeul.
One of the grounds mentioned for
the retention of the troops, in Whitte
morn's whining appeal to Congresi, is,
that through their presence, harmony
and good order may prevail throughout
the ritate during the next elections, and
tbe rights of the cleotive franohiso bo
thereby guaranteed to all citizens. Now,
there are frauds in the assessment of
tascs, in the collection of laxes, in their
disbursement, and in everything else
connected with the State Government.
<'a?the greatest of frauds, tho most
. infamous of rascalities?is the election
laws. It iti not materially monded by
t o i.tuendmeuts in the bill for that pur?
pose. A registration of tho voters is
much noedeit. When it was proposed,
:ht- other day, in tho House of Repre?
sentatives, so vet til of the fuglemen cir
jointed uronud, and spread tbe impres?
sion, that if adopted, tho Democrats
would carry Iba Stute. Tho amendment
? bk'h prop ,..ed it wins voted down.
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It is i.->, stated thut Biamark's opinion
in that another war with Fruuco is iu
ovitable; that she will bo backed by
IlasHi'it, and that all Earopo will bu iu<
volved iti tho contest. It has not been
long since ull tho Emperors ?i E.trope
in hilarious alter dinner Mpooches de?
clared that tho poaoo of Europe should
bo maintained. So if this bo true, wc
oau put no more faith iu what Emperors
say when drunk, and tho proverb in
tcrilas fulls into disrepute.
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Tho guns taken from the Virginia
Military Institute by Geo. Hunter dur?
ing tho war, will bo restored to tho in?
stitute; au order to that effect having
been issued by the Secretary of War.
Forced Construction.
We bad the pleasure, a few days ago,,
of publishing the pleasiug correspond
enoo between Judge Muckey and Colo?
nel Black, concerning the exhumation
ot some buried Federal soldiers in Lan?
caster, by ex-Confederate soldiers, and
of their escort by them, with the ho?
nors of war, to Columbia, where tbey
wero confided to tbo caro of Colonel
Black, and by him transmitted to the
National Cemetery at Florence. It was
generally hailed as an aot which indi?
cated that the smouldering fires of sec
tionul strife wero going out. Tbe ex
Confederate soldiers wero commcuded
on all bauds for their conquest over
prejudices, for their ability to rerpove
from their minds everything in connec?
tion with those who had invaded uud
fallen on their native soil; bat the cou?
rage with which they had met death,
and the duties of tbe bravo who sur?
vived the unhappy conflict, to render all
proper homage to tho bravo on both
sides who fell in it. It was a beautiful
evidence of tho humanity whioh sur?
vives tho memory of war, bloodshed,
bitterness and alienation.
In acknowledging the courtesy of this
noble and magnanimous net, General
Sherman has gono out of his way to put
an improper and strained interpretation
upon it. Its meaning was obvious. It
was not tho expression of opinion upon
tho causo which suocceded, any more
than upon tho ono which was lost.
Suoh thoughts wero not in the minds of
tho soldiers*. It is disingenuous in
General Sherman to attribute to them
the purpose of any avowal of tho kind.
Their aot speaks for itself, nnd warrants
no such conclusion as that it was "meant
as an earnest of their respect for tbe
great cause io whioh these two soldiers
died." They were not at the confes?
sional, and what they think on such
subject is their own business, and not
General Sherman's. It is an attempt to
tako advantage of the exhibition of a
high and commendable spirit, and to ex?
tort out of it a confession, to which
even General Sherman cannot descend,
without reociviog tho rebuke which it
merits.
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Responsibility tor the Frauds.
The Union makes a feeble attempt to
hold the Conservative members of the
Legislature responsible for the fraudu?
lent jobs put through, or attempted to
bo put through, in tho last hours of the
session. Their blame, according to this
journal, is that they did not anticipate
the movement to rescind the resolution
to adjourn on Saturday. That day hav?
ing been fixed upon as tho day of ad?
journment, several went home. The
organized band took advantage ol their
absence to prolong tho session and to
revive their bogus claims. Now wo
know that some of these gentlemen have
beou desirous of luuv.ug Columbia for
the last six weeks. Tbey became satis?
fied that the seasiou was continued only
in the interest of tho members. They
remained, therefore, not because thore
was auy thing to be done, but to prevent
what evil they could. Supposing that
when a day had been at last agreed upon
by both houses to udjouru, that it would
be done, they thought they might ven?
ture to go. They were deceived as to
the time agreed upon for adjournment.
It was only a blind. As soon as they
left, tho rings commenced to operate.
The Union dou'b brand the rogues
themselves; it only baa censure for those
who happened to bo awtty, and so were
unablo to check tb*?;r schemes. The
business of tho Conservatives, then, and
their bounden duty, hi to watch the
legislative rogues, and head them off.
A strange confession for a Jl.uliual.
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Effects of tub Djsuoouatig Tuiumpu
j in Nii\v Hampsuiub ?A special despatch
! to the Now York World, dated Wash
j iuglou, March 15, nays:
I "Tho result of tho New Hampshire
election is confessed by all tho public
tuen from that State to buvo been au
overwhelming defeat ci tbo Republi?
cans. Tho Democracy have obtained
entire possession of tbo State; and pro?
minent liupublioaiiH .say that it will re?
quire a popular majority of from 3,000
to 5,001) votes to enable them to recover
control of tho Legislature and elect a*
United StatesSonatorwhen Mr. Cragiu's
term expires. They confe/ts it is very
doubtful whether thin can bo achieved.
The Republicans who hnvo boen ut
homo trying to persuade tho people to
(stick by tho party, soy that they found
j it of no uso. Tho Republicans tiro dis
I piritcd. They begin to find out that
I tho President cures uotlnng ubout the
! party nnd quarrels with nil the most
i popular leaders. Tbey fuy that it tho
i President cares nothing about tbo party
I thoy cannot keep Up courage. .Senator
I Wfihlich boliovos that Ihn appointment
I of Simmons, in opposition to tho wishes
of tho Massachusetts Republicans, lost
in Now Hampshire 1,000 "votes. In
fact, the leudeis uro completely dis
heurteucd;"
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A Pittsburg blast furnaoo turned out
1,31-1,095 pounds of irou iu sovett days
?which iu considered n blarsted good
rooord.
A. Sunday In New Yorlc Oily.
New Yobk, March 16, 1874.
Mr. Editor: Yesterday was a privi?
leged day with mo. At y A. M., I took
the Fulton street aura, and on arrival at
the ferry, immediately crotsed over to
Brooklyn. The stream of pedestrians
through tho atrcots of that city pre?
vented the necessity of my inquiring the
way to Plymouth Church, for thither
were we nil aiming, to hear the renowned
preuchei', Henry Wurd Becohor. His
church is a plain, massive cdtfico of
brick, built in tho oldeu time, and ex?
tending through a narrow block from
out) street to another. Arriving at the
entrance, we found several hundred at
the gate, in the street, denied admtssiou
until tho pow-holders had entered.
Picsoutly tho rush was gonerul, and as
it lite uud deutu depended upon uur en?
tering, this one pushed that way and
tbat one this way, till tho church was a
perfect jam. Tho pews nro arranged to
lap over the aisles, so that the floor is u
series of semi-circular seats from side to
bide of the church, twenty in u urn bur,
and each seating fifty persona, for 1
counted. The gullery oxtoudu along
two sides and one end of the church,
and lots eight tiers, euch seating 125
persona comfortably. Tho second gal?
lery covers the end of the ohurch, and
seats about 100. Tho short corner
seats, the various jambs and lobbies, will
accommodate 500 moro persona. All
these holes and corners, yesterday, wore
sandwiched with men aud women. My
st at was in a most remote corner of tho
gallery, and I could see nothing but the
man who stood in frout of me; aud yet
tho acoustics of the building are ho
perfect, I heard overy wbtaper made by
the preacher. This friend und I agreed
to exchange places every fifteen minutes,
ho that, stauding, I saw the venerable
divine, sitting it3 seuctimoniou&ly us
possible upon tho small stage, with uu
immense bouquet of flowers on either
side of him, und looking tho express
imago of Bonj irain Franklin, as be used
to appear in Poor Richard's almanac.
His long, iron-grey hair* and full tailed
black frock coat, made him look pecu?
liarly Puritanical. His text was from
Proverbs, x, 6-7. but more particularly
the 7th verse: "Tho memory of tho just
is blessed, but the name of the wicked
shall rot." After premising that these
proverbj were to-day as appliuablo as
they were 3,000 years ago, and that the
Christian might find himself refreshed
by reading them daily, and practicing
them in the street, tho field, tho ware?
house, the office, and among his house?
hold, he immediately outered upon his
Bubject, which was this: As the memory
of tho just shall bo blessed, so does
good action tend to porpetnato itself;
aud as the name of the wicked shall rot.
so doe a wickedness tend to destroy itself.
If this bo true to-day, as it was in Solo?
mon's time, is it not right that men
should desire to be remembered for the
good they do? Ia other words, doeB
disinterestedness require a man to deny
himself the right to feel a pride in doing
uo act to bcuefit others, because thereby
ho knows ho benefits himself? Should
not all men desire to have tboir memory
perpetuated? And, iu turn, should not
every geucrntioa remember its benefac?
tors? Ho was a benefactor who built
this church, und another benefactor
painted it, und no on all through the
list of artisans engaged; and people say,
(said the preacher,) that it is a plain
church; and perhups its builders don't
deservo remembering, Sre. So it is
plain, said be, but it looks right well
when you are all hern. [Laughter.]
Speaking of tho phrase "common
lavel," he said there were tnun aud things
iu life very much alike; they ull looked
alike, und ivero liku so many bettor
cukes on a griddle; all of tho same size
aud shape?all round aud level. | ilu
nuwed laughter.} And of man's ambi?
tion? whatever has been done, can bo
done. When men took to training fast
trotting hor.sen, 4 minutes was thought
to be good time; but good trahmig
eiVected the sumo result in U minutes;
aud finally, persistent efforts got it down
to 2 20. "Yes, ami some man will say,
'my nag shall beat that,' a.id Lo'il da it,
too." True disinterestedness can be
shown in no moro lundaLdo way than b\
defeutliug one's country. And this Witt
well shown in our lato terrible couil et.
"Yes," sti I he, "they mut it} the battle?
field?both tho tdaycr und IL > iilain?
each rea ly to die for hia country. And
it was their country, my breilhreu. The
Southern soldier sacrificed himself upon
tho altar of his country; Uu believed it
wan his country; and should be remem?
bered f >r bin devotion I ? principle."
This sermon, of just ouo hour, was a
must remarkable production. Its luu
giingo was chaste, even when alluding to
topius irrelevant to tho pulpit; its logic
and argument philosophic;*. ; its < ITcct
pleasing, and its delivery bloqucut.
Though the l:r.-.t lime 1 over heard him,
it plainly rev- tiled to ;ue why this quaint
genius should bu popular. No common
mind could assume the latitude he does.
At -1 P. hi., it. was tuy pleasure to hear
the llev. Tyng, Jr., D.D., who is e
young man of uhout 110 pounds, live
i.-et eight inches high, square, full fere
hea l, sanely hair, long Hide whisker.-,
clean?slutveil chin, and most ferociout
moustache His full but ; mall grey
eyes and en el carriage give him i loofc
quite a lu milihiiiv His text, "Though
1 walk through the valley of :ho uhtido'*
of death," Je.., was gracefully bandied
Bunyun's ullugory of Uhtisliuu's walls
, being n.s ?1 to impress the congregation
j that l hero were many terrible ralleyi
! through which wan had to travel before
reaching the valley (if death. But if, it
I their daily walk, Christi .us would can \
I with them tho rcniniueior of the teixt?
I "Thou wilt bo with mo"?the dread oi
j death would bo greatly assuaged, ant
j tho world made much happier. The
: sermon was very short, and contuiuee
uothing that would induce the couvie
tiou that tho Doctor was a man of etui
nouee; but his reputation justifies the
conclusion that he is ono of New York'.
first pulpit orators. His dtelamatiou is
graceful, and his pronunciation proo 66
to a faalt. All his words are monosylla
bles, for he says "per-feot-ness" for por
feotness, and "com-fort" for comfort,
and so throughout his delivery. This
mannerism smacks considerably of af?
fectation, for I was not impressed that
be talked so, having heard him casually
in conversation.
At 8 P. M., I went to the Church of
the Disciples?u hnge pile of Vouitiuu
spires, surrounding a hugcr dome, that
00 rorcd an immonso umphithcatricul pit,
that will seat, I am told, 3,000 people,
all facing a sniill, Bemi-circular -stage,
upon which is 6eaied the minister, by a
table, with tho organ behind him, and
his choir and congregation before him.
Tbo ceiliug is fiat, horse-shoo shaped,
and from it the gas lights throw their
brilliancy upon thn moving massus be?
low.* This immonso pit was thoroughly
packed from stage to door, and the dis?
tinguished orator ou tho occasion was
tho Rev. Dr. Hepworth, whose elo
qiionco nod popularity has built bim
this, one of the most capacious nud ex?
pensive churches iu tho city. On this
occasion, bis theme was Charles Sma?
ller, and his text Kornau?, xiv, 7?"For
none of us livetb to him self, und no
tain dieth to himself." He was not
iong in introducing to his audience bi?
subject, for he sol, out by sayiug, when
a strong oak fulls iu the forest it decay*,
others grow up around it, and it is not
missed; but wheo tho branching elm,
that has grown where its shade u.fton
shelters the weary traveler, is uprooted
by the storm, its loss is lamented on ?ll
sides. So with Mr. Sumner. He stood
out in bold relief from amongst bis
peers, a giant in intellect, a model of
integrity, n very paragon of perfection.
He called bim the Moses of our times;
the defeuder of tho "11 tg of liberty and
I tbe flag of righteousness." [When did
j "our" 'Amg evur have a religious tiguifi
?eioce?] He next gave a laudatory ue.r
j ration of ."Mr. Sutouer'fl life and aervicee,
j auel clearly proved him to have been a
saint; especially us no one was called
upon to prove Iiioi u sinner, lint wbou
tbe Rev. Doctor came to that period iu
bis life where Iirooka gavo him the uu
giua-pecloiis, or some other hard-named
disease, ho was theatrically eloquent.
His imagination was vivid, for, "with its
eye," he could sec the learned scholar,
with thonghtful brow, poring over bis
tomes nt his dusk in the Senate cham?
ber; and tho same vivid imagination de?
picted to its possessor one Brooks, an
assassin, "fit representative of tbe laud
of barbarism, the duel, tho cudgel,"
creeping upon tliu profound book-worm
from behind, and with the blow of u
coward, felling bim to tho floor, and for
what? Simply becausa his country,
with all its feudalism, nristoorucy and
ignorance, could not meet tho unan?
swerable arguments of Charles Sumner.
The Rev. Doctor asserted that from this
blow Snmner uever reooverod?"Brooks
killed Sumner, but, thank God, that
blow was the death knoll to slavery,
too." When tho Doctor assarted this,
he seemed to have- given vontto gas that
had been pent up since 1850.
There is probably no man in New
England, ouel perhaps never was one,
better known by the people of these
1 United States, nnd by tho South espe
J cially, than Charles Sumner. That ho
I was learued, no oue denied; that h* was
a man of political integrity, was gone
rally conceded; that ho was fanatical,
everybody knew; that ho was cranky in
.bis latter year?, most people thought;
but that he was a man integer vito%,
I neither his owu elivorced wife uor Dr.
He.-worth be?oved. To pronounce uu
eulogy upon Mr. Sumuer was fit and
right, for be was a statesman, and
i worthy the nation's admiration. But
to prostitute tbu pulpit a Sabbath night
by depicting, ye?, vividly ooujurirg up,
i-ceues that never transpired, to inflame
the popnlur mind and kindle anew tho
fires of prejudice in the North against
the South, is contemptible iu tho ex?
treme, und unworthy tho man who
dar'd to utter them. Religion, in tho
hau Is of such men, can never exorcise
charity towards tho rest of mankind,
nud will never advance a stop towards
healing tho "chasm"' that should ere
! this have been bridged over. If Dr.
j Hepworth is an index of Northern phi
I lauthropy, there is "righteousness" iu
I the Ii ig, but scatcely semi-civilization in
the South; and yet this is a glorious
j Union.
I "Thank '?cd, man ?? no) '..> he judged hy
I man,
U.-, man liv m m -ui.1 tho w irl.l, wotll 1 damn
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FRIEND.
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1 A Pool: Kuwakd. -When Mr. Duwe.--,
in his lain speech ill Congress, stated
that a collector of customs who was
holiest enough to declare his ofiivie to bo
utterly unnecessary, had been removed
as soon as the fact was known at Wash
iugton, and a less scrupulous pe rson tip
pointed to bo bis successor, tliu whole
1 story was douied und ridiculed, bocaugu
ho refused to give the name. The facts
have been discovered. Mr. A. L. Uobiu
sou is tho nnuio t>f tho collector, nud
Evansville, Indiana, was his collection
I district. During last year, the customs
i re.?.?.'ids at (hat "port" were 35,040.15,
, and tho cost of c dlectiug this uuioutit
v.-.is $1,708.12 tn'>rn than tho total re?
ceipts, salaries being ?11,743.83 per
>ear. The oilie i which Mr. Robinson
held paid hitn 83,000, nud from the cus?
toms collected, it may lie judged whe?
ther he bud much labor to perform.
i i'.i:: W.'.itk Uousii.?Oue muringo
,! hos ttkon place iu the White House;
I two Presidents liuvo died there; one has
? laid in state in the Eist room. Several
.; children have passed awny iu the t-xecu
l i live mansion, but only one baby, a
[ I grand son of Jcfleruou, has been born
,i there.
I Pond's texnucr.?"The Vegetable
? Paiu Destroyer'' never fail to nllord re
- lie-f from pain. Try it ouoe, ami
) nothing could induce you to bo without
\ it. Marlt3?ul
ClTT Matvnit3.?Subscribe for the
TnaiNix.
White labor is the question dow being
disjasr-ol by tbe farmers.
Qreen things are just stepping oat
boldly now.
Tbe weather was variable, yesterday?!
clear, cloudy*raiuy nud windy at times.
Cash wiil bo tho rule at the Pikenix
office hereafter.
Strawberries will bo very curly this
season.
Rev. F. J. Murdoch will officiato in
Trinity Church, this morning, at 11
o'clock. I
A handsome log-cabin quilt will bej
rallied at Rawls' .Music Store as soon as
tho chanaes are all taken. i
Mr. Edward Egg, an old resident of)
Columbia, has roturaed and resumed:
his old businoss?watch-repairing.
Many of our merchants aro North-1
ward bound, iu search of goods fur tho
i pring und summer trade.
What punishment is severe enough':
for the man who is flooding our streets
with those noisy little air bags? An
s wer.
Old type?superior to Babbit metal
for many purposes and much cheaper?.
can be obtained in any qnautity at the,
Pnusxix Office.
St Siugloton, lue noted thief, finished:
a live mouths' imprisonment on Tuesday
j uight, but wart urrcsted again on
j Wednesday, for another theft.
I Col. E. J. Cane, of the 9th Regiment
National Guards, has been removed by
j the Governor, nnd Senator T. C. An?
drews appointed.
i Tbe Phoenix is in receipt of a lot of
j weddiug envelopes, paper, etc., of the
latest Paris and New ?ork styleB, which
I will be printed at reasonable raten.
Tho Pixaixix job office is complete iu
every respect, aud cards, posters, pro?
grammes, bill-hcr.:ln, etc., are turned
out with alacrity.
The fourth grand gilt concert for the
benefit of the public library of Ken?
tucky comes ofT on 31st March. Tickets
can be had through Mr. D. Gambrill,
up to the 20th instant, after which date
all uusold will bo returned.
The bill to grant the franchise and
charter to the Congaree Manufacturing
Company, parsed by a large majority of
both branch*: i of the General Assembly,
became a law by the signature of the
Governor, which was affixed yesterday.
Persons indebted to the Phoenix office
aro earnestly requested to call and settle
ut once. There is a large amount due?
tho greater portion in small sums. The
' indebtedness must bo liquidated, or we
j shall resort to extreme measures,
j We aro informed thut all the whole
tickets in tho great gift concert at Louis?
ville, Ky., which wore sent to this city,
have boon disposed of. A few halves,
fifths aud tooths remaiu, but they are
going off rapidly. Tho timo is very
j t hort. 9
Trannfer printing inks are iuvaluable
j to railroad companies, banks, mcr
I ohnut9, manufacturers and others. They
are enduring nnd changeless, and will
uopy sharp aud clear for au indefinit-,
period of time. Having just received u
fresh supply of inks, we are prepared tc
execute orders at moderate prices.
Every head of a family should posses'
a policy in a good lifo insurance com?
pany, liko tho Brooklyn, of New York,
which is as sound as a silver dollar.
Dr. J. W. Parker, at tho Carolina Na?
tional Bank, is the Genoral Agent foi
South Carolina. In view of the uu
! certainty of life, call on him und secure
i
j protection against so terrible an evil a;
j that of leaving a family unprovided for,
The excitement on Main street, yes
terdsy, was tho attempt?successful,
I after a time?lo carry the somewhat no
torionu driukist, Foster Sutton, to thi
guard house. Ha resisted, and it re?
quired the united exertions of eight pi
! ton men to get him into a wagon. Afiei
he was seated, he struck out and Beul
Policemau Stowers overboard?muehtc
tbo delight of tho shouting crowd in at
tendance
Tho following House committees wen
appointed on tho lust da}* of the session
' To investigate certain bonds?Messrs',
: Hurley, P. Simpkins nnd N. B Myors
to disburse certain funds in Charlcstoi
j ?Messrs. Maekey, Artson and Ford:
I to assist tbo Attorney-General iu the
prosecution of Miles G. Parker, late
State Treosurer, for illegal issue ol
j Statu bonds?Messrs. J. D. Boston
' Rowley, Robertson, W. A. Grant am
j Hamilton.
!
1 FlliE.?The alarm of lire, about hall
past 11 o'clock, hist night, was cfiusoi
by tbe burning of tho kitchen ou tin
premises of a colored man, named Henr
Jones, (commonly called Sheriff,) on tb<
ooftior of Blossom aud Assembly street.*
j Owing to Iho scarcity of water and tin
II grout distuuoc, tho engines could a [Ton
n.? assistance, nnd tho building was cu
! tirely,.con8umod. We could not lean
tho origin of tho fire.
The Sonuat, Dansamtb.?Prof. Brie
?enden'a soiree jlansante, last night, in
Parker's Hall, wi8 a remarkably pleasant
affair. There wor^ present about eighty
persons?the scholars and tbeir parents
aud friends. A nuiAher of fancy danoes
were gone through with, tue scholars in
their accurate movements exhibiting the
t-kill and attention of the Professor.
At 12 o'clock, the frolic closed.
Fat Copy.?Tho annual supper far
nished by the Republican Printing Com?
pany to their employee*, caino off, last
night, at tho Pollock House. A few
outsiders only were present?see of them
ye local. All eat, drank and smoked to
such an extent, that when ih) time for j
_,.,?,.?>- ?? ?? f t . ?* M
opocUU-UitabiUg anitUO, uuuiaicu f|
themselves "toa full for utterance"?in "
technical lingo, there had been so many
fat takes, that the; did not care to bother
with solid matter.
Mail abbangemknts.?The Northern
nail opens 6.30 A. M., 3 P. AT.; closeB
11 A. M-, 6 P. M. Charleston opens 3
A. M., 5.30 P. M.; closes 8 A. M..6P,
M. Western opens 6 A. M., 12.30P. M.;
doses 6, 1.30 P. M. Greenville opens
6.45 P. M.; oloses 6 A. M. Wilmington
opens 4P. M.; closes 10.30 A. M. On
Sunday open from 2.30 to 3.30 P. M.
To subscribers and advertisers.?
Orders for advertisements, job work,
etc., must be accompanied with the
oash. No exceptions can be made.
Ordinary advertisements $1 per Equaro
? of uine printed lines for first insertion;
?lifiy cents each subsequent insertion;
weekly, monthly and yearly rates fur
nibbed on application. Advertisements
inserted once a week, 81 each insertion,
iMarriages and funeral invitations, $1.
{Notices in looal column fifteen cents a
line, each insertion.
Phosnixjana.?Nothing tells on a man
so much as a gossiping wife.
Druggists are the trao pill-era of so?
ciety.
Of all trees the elder is said to be the
oldest.
Sunbeams should be the proper tim?
ber for castles in the air.
' Cheerfulness has been called the
bright wreath of the heart.
Hay-seed p&rtiea are sprouting oat
West.
The times aro marching along at a
lively, springing gait.
' How many lawyers find out that where
thore's a will there's a way with the
j money. -
The domestic drama of Toodles was
ipluyed last evening, in Irwin's Hall, toa
? thin audience. The parts were very
well conceived and some rendered with
ifsir efleet. Tho song and tableau,
i"Come Home, Father," was quite well
done, und tho scenes of desolation and
death in tho homo of the inebriato well
presented. We hope that a better house
will cheer the performers this evening,
Tho object of tho exhibition is one
which all mast approve. Admission,
I 75 cents?not 25, as statel yesterday.
List of -New advertisement*.
California Segar Store.
Wm. Wallace?To Rent,
'i Wm. Clothier?Painting.
j1 Hotel Abbivals, Maroh 19, 1874.?
j Columbia Hotel?Vf L DeTreville, 8 C; J
" Deverenx and wife, N Y; J V Nethers
'and wife, NC; J W O'Brien, John 13
. I Thames, O R Levy, J P Browne, W H'
. Evans, Charleston; Jade Robinson,
. Orangeburg; C A Soike, N Y; Sf John?
ston, N C; O S Sweetser and/ wife, A
Walker, wifo and grandson, M/ss; E H
S Brooks, G E Iteab, Ga; G W/ Thame?,
j N C; WD Stoney, S C; J AfSeigier, J
S Land, G & C R R; W J Sprinkle, N
' G; W F Barton, Orangeburg; W Hood,
Ersliiue College.
? Hendrix House? C A Hamner, N C; A
- J Cheatbam, Baltimore; J J Taylor,
. Charleston; R H Jennings, Fairfield; J
0 Lindsey, Duo West; PO Alston, Miss
" P R Alston, Fair field.
ri Wheeler House?\1 Tolman and wife,
r Miss L H Tollman, Mrs L P S Sbatz,
illMass; G B Wilson, J E Lander, Jos S
j Keen, Pa; SC McMickon, Ga; David
Hempbill, Chester; Rev F J Mnrdock,
"NC; PPLenour, Mo; ESJ Hayes,
'Lexington; W Williams, J J Little,
:?oity, j S Guiguard, Orangebarg; F H
. Lamrcim, N Y; G A Seymour. Charles?
ton; T N Tolbort, Abbeville; E U Goc
' jbraugh, Tino Hoasa.
it Nervous Deiiility.?A depbessed,
. irritable state os mindj weak, nbr
' VOrjS, exhausted peelingj no energy
! or animation,* confused head, weak
?memory, oftbn witit debilitatino, in
mvoluntary discharges.?Tho eonso
Iqueuce of excesses, meutal over-work or
j indiscretions. .Tilts nervous derility.
tlndsa sovereign cure in Humphreys'
UoMtEPATEfia Specific, No. 28. It
times up tho system, urreste elischurges,
" dispels tho mental gloom and despond
1 enov, and rejuvenates tho ontirosystem;
b it is perfectly harmless and slwayaKef
. ficiont. Price $5 for a package of fivo
' boxes ?nd a largo ?2 vial oi powder,
B which is important in old serious cases;
. or Si por single box. Sold by all
b druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of
1 price. Address Humphreys' SrEciPio
(HoMeEPATHio Medicine Company, No.
* 562 Broadway, N. Y. For sale by
i Geiger Sc McGregor, Columbia, 8. 0.
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