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Thursday Morning. May 21, 1874.
Handle Not the Unclean Thine.
There are more ways of supporting
a party than by going into it aa an ac?
tive member. A great. many persons
in this State have committed the fatal
error of .giving indirect aid and coun?
tenance to tbe Radical Government.
When Governor Orr went into it, be
did it avowedly with tbe view of open?
ing tbe way for a large following. He
expepted to exercise a controlling in
fiuenco in its oonnoils through tbe
numbers and tho policy which he would
introduce iuto it. His Boheme waa fal?
lacious. It failed in both of ita aims.
He oonld not make bia compromise
popular, and only a few followed in
hia wake. Once in, he aunk out of
view, a mere drop in the ocean, with?
out influenae . to mould or direct, j
When be broaobttd hia reform plans,
be fonnd how homeless they were, and
bow powerless he had become. The
effect was to lose him the confidence
of the Conservatives in bis leadership,
and not to gain t it among*.hia new
allies. He fell between two atoola.
Aa a public man, his influence was
gone.
But, failure aa it was, hia was a more
respectable and proper course than
the one maoy others purane. They
curse the Radicals to be Been and
heard of men, but they take oaro to
have it understood in a Piokwiokian
sense, where otherwise it might do
them harm. They are band and glove
in schemes with those they revile.
They reap indirect and sly ad Vintages
from a specified amount of concession.
These are of the close of men who
vaunt the policy of fighting the devil
-with fire, forgetting how easy it ia to
get one'arflngera burnA pretty busi
nees tbey have made of it. They have
not bandied pitoh without becoming
defiled. They have hebped to forge
tbe chains whioh now bind tbe people.
In accepting what may have been to
them some small benefits from a cor?
rupt system, if tbey have not forfeited
the right, they have lost the .. ill to
overturn it. Their garments are sul
. lied, their morale tarnished, and their
standing among honorable men com?
promised. Akin to theae uro the men
who have unintentionally bolstered a
state of things tbey are far from ap?
proving. The colored rank and file
have supplied the voting power, and
the moneyed interests the money power
upon which tbe foul fabric of the
South Carolina State Government
rests.
We do not allude here to the money
derived from taxes. We refer to direct
contributions by banks, bankers, mer?
chants and speculators, of the menus
in money, credit, influenae and busi?
ness association to sustain it. What
would have been its condition as long
as two years ago, but for the timely aid
derived from this source? The books
of our banks, tbe ledgers of onr mer?
chants, the entries to profit aud loss,
if examined, would show transactions
in whioh the rotten concern got a help
. ing hand from them when the poor
and worthy were denied it. But suits
at law, by which they lind to their
cost that public officers whom they
have trusted could only use the fund of
publio institutions for certain pre- j
scribed and limited purposes, heavy j
balances whioh cauuot be paid, except j
by doubtful expedients of certificates,
coliectubiu out of tho next year's tuxes, {
treusury warrants, which nre wearing
out in the pocket, have opened their'
eyes. They find that they have, '.it'
heavy cost to themselves, protruded j
the .existence of a uiiau ruble spend?
thrift und cheat. It is to bo hoped
that they have learned wisdom, if they
have not got gain by this experience.
Tho classes wo huve 'mentioned have
done hurin in pinning their faith to u
jobber government. All have done it
in the recognition they have given it.
Wo may indulge- in tbo delusion that
our problem will work itsnlf out iu a
BatiBfuotory way, whatever we* may do
individually.. Bat not alone race,
clase, sex, party and conditiou count
as factors iu governmental problems,
but individual men. "What consti?
tutes a State? Men, high-minded
men." Upon every sou of South Ua
roliou, native or adopted, black or
white, rests the obligation to serve her
faithfully. He cannot do that without
mauly protest and manly exertion
against corruption. He is bound not
to givo it comfort by his symputhy, or
strength by his participation. It is
especially incumbent on him not to
aid it by any indireot and questionable
support.
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Deaths in Charleston for the week
ending the lGth, 27?whites 5; oolored
22.
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A correspondent abka a question that
we are unable to answer. Ho will find
the advertisement to wh'ich we alluded
aomu days ago in the New York Herald,
ot either the 8th or 9th instant. It is
headed "South Carolina Bonds/' and
states that the Treasurer and Comptrol?
ler General of South Carolina are at the
Aator House, for the pnrpose of per?
fecting arrangemouta for the exeoution
of the funding law. 15-low the adver?
tisement was another ?"South Caro?
lina Bonds Wanted, by O. ?. Thor
burn, 53 Exohange Plaoe." It looks
as if bonds were in demand for the
purpose of funding them. But we
have so information other than what is
acoessiblo to tho public, which is pro
oious little. The Treasurer and Comp?
troller havo not seen fit to rendor any
account of their financial operations.
Onr oorre8pondont, as well as our?
selves, mast wait, wo suppose, till the
spirit moves them.
The Massachusetts Calamity.?
We give, this morning, additional de?
tails in reference to the disastrous
flood in Massachusetts. It is thought
if the bursting of tho reservoir had
taken plaoe at an earlier hoar of the
day, when tho people were at homo or
in bod, thousands instead of huudreds
would havo perished. Snch havoo is
terrible to think of, and especially so
if the loss and misery, as is averred,
might havo been avoided. It is 6aid
that the walls of the reservoir were
never strong enough to confl.no tho
waters, and that water had beeu no?
ticed ebbing through their interstices
for so4no time. On the othor haud, it
is averred that tho reservoir which
burst had beeu carefully built and
only recently examined, and that upon
examination its oondition had been
found perfectly seouro. It is hard to
reooucilo that statement with the
calamity wbioh has occurred, and
which is without a parallel in this
country, though like cases huvo
happeued in Europe. There have
beeu many serions iuundations duriug
this century on that ooutinoct from
the breaking of dams, and it bus in?
variably happened that they havo been
due to defects in the oonstruotion of
the dams. One of tho most appalling
of these inundations occurred on
Mdroh 11, 1861, when tho dam of the
reservoir near Sheffield, England, con?
taining ll-l.OOO.OUOcubiofeotof water,
and covering seventy-six acres of
ground, gnvo way. Twelve miles of
country were laid wasto and 250 lives
lost, besides the destruction of a vast
amount of propotty. In Ibis case the
embaukmeut is said to have beeu
eighty-live feet high and forty feet
thick, and was supposed to be con?
structed on tho most scientific priuoi
pies, though tho result showed that it
was insufficient and badly constructed.
United States District Court,
May 19.?The petition of Peake, Opo
dyke and others, for tho involuntary
bankruptcy .of R. C. Shiver, David
Jones and J. H. Davis, copartners
under the firm name of R. C. Shiver
& Co., was hourd. Tho Judge ordered
that the timo to show cause be extend?
ed to the 29th of May, 1871. Alfred
King Johnson, couvicted of carrying
on the business of a retail liquor dealer
without paying the Special tax, was
sentenced to six mouths' imprison- j
ment, and to pay a Hue of $1,000. It
was ordered in tho petition ot John E.
Rivers, assignee of Oaillard & Miuott,
bankrupts, against Win. Guruey, Tax
Collector, uud Tuft, Auditor, to stay
tho sale of property under tax execu?
tion; that the sale and further adver?
tisement be deferred until tho further
order of the court. It was orderod in
the petitions of W. K. Luvaland S. P.
Rainwater lor final discharge in bank?
ruptcy that the petitions be continued
until the Ith of Juno next. In tho
case of Charles II. West, Jr., assignee,
against Robert Adgcr A C> , und
others, it was decreed that Charles LL
West, Jr., assignee, proceed forthwith
to sell the property nt the corner ol
E tat Uiy and Broad streets, upon the
terms ot one-half cash nuU Ihu balance
secured by bond and mortgage, an';
that tho defendant or any other party
may become a purchust r, iVc , unit that
all right and equity of lexemption of
C. II. West, Jr., assignee, or auy
other paity to these proceedings, be
barred und foreclosed.
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Life Insurance and the Suicide
QuKbTiON.?The 2Ecna Lifo Insurance
Company, of Hartford, Conn., was de?
feated in a recent suit by Mrs. Everott
W. Moore, of Detroit, on a life iusur
anoo polioy, issued by tho company
upon the life of her husband for her
benefit for $5,000. The defence was
forfeiture of polioy by the suicide of
the insured, but the jury said an in?
sane man could neither make nor
break a contract, more especially if
the rights of the third parties, inno?
cent of any wrong, were involved.
Through an noonmulution of troubles
the insured was deprived of his usual
moral faoultios by whioh to judge of
the not at the time ha commuted sui?
cide, said the jury, who, therefore,
sustained tho olaim of the innocent
women and children of the insured.
A proposition has boon made for the
ereotiou, by contributions from the
mercantile communities of all nations,
of a light house upon the ooast oT
Brazil as a memorial to the late Com?
modore Maury.
Haw Senator Itorrrood Nnatchtn But?
ler ISald-hcadr.i.
We make the following ex tract a from
the remarkable speech of Senator tfor
woolij of Georgia, on Civil Bighta.
Critioiaing Bevi. Botlor'a epeoch in tbe
Boose of .Representatives, he said:
< Tho Republican party has often
assured us that in the late war "tbe
oolored troopa""f ought nobly," and the
Senator from New Jersey repeated the
declaration in onr bearing on yester?
day. It is true, that interwoven with
tbe dreadful realitica of that struggle,
there is much of fiction and romantic
episode; many imaginary instances of
inspiring heroism, displayed by the
colored troops. Foot und Action are
lamentably mingled in inextrioablo
confusion. But thero is one excep?
tionable instance of daring and of
death, and 'so notably established on
tho testimony of a single eyowiluess,
that the Senate must remember it, nud
it is worthy of recounting, oveu iu
this august presence. I see that the
quick perception and historic, learning ,
of this body havo already anticipated
my discovery, and I would even now
forego the thrilling narration, but for
the fear that some future Muuchauseu
might charge mo with prejudice against
the objects of tho Judiuiury Commit?
tee's special devotion, should I decline
to furnish ?o valuable a oontributiou
to his peculiar stylo und school of his?
tory.
I refer, as you knew, to tho Bale
klava charge, made by the colored
troops, at tho witching hour of dawn,
on empty stomachs?bayonets fixed,
nipples uncovered?and under com?
mand of u general of renown, ou the
2'Jtb of September, 186-1, at New Mur
kot Heights. The historian?who was
tho general then commanding, and
who seems to havo been tho only sur?
vivor of those colored troops?tells us
tho story with ohurming simplicity nud
with the eloquence of unbridled faucy.
lie says, that being himself iu the
rear, where he intendod to romaiu, und
wholly uncertain whother tho charge
would bo feebly to the front or with
frantic heroism to the reur, he or?
dered, as a precaution for personal se?
curity, tho nipples of the guus to be
uncapped, and offering up the prayer
of FulstafT, "God, keep lead out of
me," ho gavo the order, "Charge!"
I Laughter. ]
Be says that there fell, withiu a pa?
rallelogram just teu feet wide uud
300 yards in longtb, the exact number
of 043 of his colored associates, or one
man to every twenty aud three-tenths
inches; that as soon as they fell,
mounted on his fiery Pegasus, like
feathered or "Harry" Mercury, he
marched solitary and alono to one end
of that slaughtered heap, and lining
one eye weepiugly pendont over the
dead, nnd cocking tho other fiercely ou
the euomy?the one tearful as Niobe's,
tho other glowing like fiery Mars?ho
rode, with arms akimbo, through that
parallelogram, over that hecatomb of
his companions, to the farther end?his
hor.-e meanwhile dancing a minuet in
tho benevolent endeavor to find ground
on which to plant its reverential feet.
This was uu exploit worthy of deifi?
cation. Pity it is, it had not been per?
formed in the pro-Homeric or Hesiodic
age, as that generation, eo appreciative
of horse gymnastics, would havo
doiQed und translated tho heroic actor,
and he would now bo enjoying the
beatitude of hero worship in the con
steilatiou of Aries or Tauru.-; or, hap?
pier still, be aud that horse might now
bo a bright, particular constellation iu
themselves, uudcr the proper nume of
Eqnus-anthropos, which lovers, at
parting, would designate to gazo upon
at the tender hour "when twilight
dews are failiug fast," and renew their
vows of devotion.
But why that humane goncral should
have ridden that teu der-hearted borae
over the dead bodies of his colored
associates, instead of making a brilliant
fliiuk movement along that geometric
holocaust, such as only ho cm whon
moving on a custom house, 1 have
! fatigued my imagination iu vain to en
i deuvor to discover. Perhaps, like Mrs. j
Mitlaprop, he was trying to ascertain
j the "perpeudieulars" of the slaughter; l
i perhaps it was to accommodate the
angle of his vision; perhaps to lest the'
sensibilities of that hime. Rut con?
jecture i; all m vain. It wa .-imply
one >f those din el forward movement.-?!
owr Ihe bodies of oue'.s friend.", m>
often witnessed in political strategy,
ind never kuowu iu military tactics,
j that it must remain u mur i! woudc
I until lapse of time nnd.oft repeating
ahull consecrate it as a truth, or until
some cruel (12 lipus shall ns.- to solve
j the riddle und destroy iu artful in?
ventor.
I Hut gallant as w?9 that fatal charge,
and heroic und soL-mn as was that
perilous equestrian exploit, the}' pule
into paltriness in presence of tho sub?
lime sequel to this military evolution
us giveu iu the simple story of this
historian. He says that having finish?
ed that horse couranto?consisting of a
eoupee, then a high stop, then a ba?
lance?ho sounded a solemn halt, faced
mournfully about, fixed his eyes again
as already dosorihed, gave tho order,
"Attention, Generali" and in ohronio
absence of tho Bible, drew from his
holster-cane a pocket edition of the
Massachusetts Pilgrims' Progress,
issued under tho Maine liquor law,
and kissing one ond devoutly with his
face turned upward, he administered
to himself a solemn, corporal and
general oath, that ao long aa hia sur?
viving colored companions would vote
to make him Governor of Massachu?
setts, or a Representative in Congress,
he would spasmodically devote the
idle momenta of the remainder of his
political and official life, in a feeble
effort to seonro to them the great con?
stitutional right to attend, "without
distinotion of race, color or previous
condition of servitude," every theatre,
I circus and menagerie in tho United
States of America' and the Territories
thereof.
He theo sealed his oath by pressiDg
his fevarieh lips once more to the
bibulous end of tbatoherished volume,
and calling in the eye which bad
meanwhile stood sentinel on the
-enemy, he dismissed himself from the
parade.
Moses?Uankruit.?The senti?
mental biogrupher of the future, the
historian who ahull udd to the inquest
iuto facts of a Freeman the luve of
oddities of a Charles Limb, and the
rather maudlin humor of a Sterne, will
find no such subject in all the past as
the little buffoon culled Moses, who
just now embodies in his own person
the ideal statesmanship of reconstruct?
ed Republican South Carolina. This
immortal Governor is n it a subject for
satire, not ever for Ihn great pen of
biui who drew Zimri and Ahithophel,
for satire must huvo some worthiness
in the butts against which it looses its
shafts?some substance oven ill the
bareness which it slays. Moses is u
new species of a new genus, rare aud
ripe, uud now forms of art must be
devised to consummate his portrait.
It is by all odds the most ludicrous
siugle inoideut in American history,
this forcing into involuntary bin k
ruptcy of the fl Idling piouyuue (io
veruor, who has completed the bank?
ruptcy of his once greut common
wealth. The fuat that Moses has
ruined himself in ruining Ins State is
ou n par with the traditional trick of
the monkey who-cut bis throat while
nicking his muster's razor in se useless
mimicry of the uct of shaving.
What did this pitiful roguo steal
for, if he eould nut steal himself rich?
Where is the bent-tit be expects from
the exercise of his unquestionable
sovereignty, if he cannot make money
gut into his pocket thereby? What
has come of this comical scoundrel's
ruinous statesmanship, when
"All tho treasuro by
This foul oxcobs is got iuto tho merchantn',
Embroiders', mlksaon's, jewclloru', tailor*'
bauds,
Aud the third part of tho laud, too; the no?
bility
Engrossing titles only."
Has Moses ruined himself and his
State for the sake only of wearing that
high title of present nobility, the
"Governor of South CarolinaV" Is
this tho sole consummation for which
ho has sold himself aud bis common?
wealth, aud done more antic deeds in
tho face of high Heaven than any lu
uulio out of na asylum, any upa North
of Bruzil? Is this all tho outcome
from his cheap nigger minstrelsy, his
black and tan jockey club, bis piltered
lectures and addresses, bis grosser
felonies and poijuries, his lyings und
stealings, aud ull the penny cribbiugs
and area shudowings with which ho
has diversified the career uud liberal?
ized the experiences of the champion
sueakthic-f aud prime buffoon umoug
the "statesmen" of tho period?
Morality and political economy aud
DTarueli tho elder are at outs upou tho
question "whether it is allowable to
ruin ouo's self," but what philosopher,
divine or antiquary could deal with
Moses' way of ruining himself, for
which there is no precedent iu any
code from Menu lo Jevons? We re?
peat it, the bankruptcy of Moses is
tho most incomprehensible aud the
tuest grotesque fact in American his?
tory, and tho cbaructer of Moses, the
Aloibiudes of scalawags, the Tbemis
tocleH of monkeys, tho enfant perdu of
Radical statesmanship, is the rarest
und choicest study thut ever fell to the
luck of the Shaudyists.
If the old law of imprisonment for
debt still prevailed iu South Carolina;
if Moses could only be made to pay iu
bis person for the lruuduleut debts he
has incurred, and tho reconstructed
1 Government of South Carolina be thus
udmiuistored from a sponping house,
wiUi a Governor's stulT of tipstaves
aud a Statu guard of Lniliil'-j und con
I stables, tho picture would bo complete.
I As it ia, the state of the Carolina trea?
sury admonishes us that there is .-.till a
I chance of this Moses operu-bouffo
1 winding ii|) in :is grote: quo a tragedy.
There will soon ho nothing whatever to
'.steal.?.Yew- York Wvrld.
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AuuusT ?>r Ckcsadkus ;.\ Cincinnati
; o:i ilia Kirn.?Forty ?liiree temperance
women were arrested while praying in
I trout of it saloon on D.iyniiller ntreot,
I near tho scene i f the disturbance yes?
terday, Thoy were warned to lesist
by the officer*, but did hot heed the
I warning. Among the ladies urreted
were tiie wives of Dr. C. II. 'Lavier,
Kv. l>r. C. II. Payne, Rev. Dr. M?l?
fort, Rev. Dr. W. J. Foe, Rev. S. K
; Leavett, uud Rev. Mr. Mcllngh.
' They refused to accept bail, which was
! ottered by their friend.-, bats were
dually released ou parole to appear bo
fore the police court Monday morning.
A prayer-meetiug was organized at tho
station house, but it was stopped by
tho officers.
Aflor being released tho ladies re?
turned to church auJ held a meeting.
A proposition was mado to start a
men's temperance leuguoiu every ward
in tho city, and to raise a largo guaran?
tee fund of mouey for the purposes of
tho tempaianoo ujovuuieul. It was re?
solved to employ tho ablest counsel
that can be secured for tho trial on
Monday.
The police ofiioers say there is in?
formation that a baud of German
women has been organized to moot
them aud drive them from tho streets.
Deaths.?Mrs. T. C. MoBride dud
at her home, near Long Cauo, Abbe?
ville County, on Tuesday morning,
May 12. Edward Taylor died near
Autreville, Abbeville County, last Sa?
turday evening, from typhoid pneu?
monia, after a short illness, aged
sixty. He was an old citizan of this
County, and during tho war did good
service for his oouutry.
OlTJf Ma.rcKEa.?-G?uw?iflu? "or the
Phoskix.
He whose heart in fall soon finds a
loose tongue'. , .'
Piscatorial excursions are increasing
in popularity.
Sassafras tea is now tbe correct
thing for children.
Can a lover be called a suitor when
he doesn't suit her?
A Christian is the gentlest of men?
but thou he is a man.
There in a sentiment abroad iu this
community that it is time to come out
of flannels.
Plant thieves are uow depredating in
the city. Keep a Bharp look-out for
them.
Soeger's Henry serves brandy that is
brandy, and beer that is the coolest in
creution. '
Wo have tired of our small size, and
luve enlarged. No use tulkiug about
it, though; you see the difference
yourself.
Wo learn that tho colored troops,
with their fancy uniforms, were re?
lieved from duty at tho Governor's
residence, on Tuesday night, by a de?
tachment of penitentiary guard.
All lovers of flowers must remember
that one blossom allowed to mature or
"go to seed," iujures the plant more
than a dozen uuw buds. Cut your
flowers, thou, all of them, before tbey
begin to fade.
Tickets for the dramatic aud musical
entertainment, to be given in behalf
of the South Carolina monument, can
bo had at the book stores, drug stores, j
and the Central National aud Carolina
National Panks.
We have received from Messrs. J. A.
Hendrix & Bro. a sample of floor from
tho first now wheat of 1874. Tbe
flour is' from the celebrated mills of
Messrs. Stovall & Hull, of Augusta,
Ga., and can be purchased from Messrs.
Hendrix & Bro. in any quantity.
A meeting of prominent Germans
was hold last night for the purpose of
organizing a Schuelzouvereiu. Steps
were taken which will guarantee suc?
cess, and a committee of five appointed
to prepure business for a meeting on
Wednesday oveuiug, tho 27th instant,
wheu a permanent organization will be
effected.
We acknowledge tho receipt from the
Republican Priuting Company, of a
oopy of tho Acts und Joint Resolu?
tions of tho General Assembly of the
State, passed at the special session of
1873 aud the regular session of
1873-71, designed to form apart of tho
fifteenth volume of the ululates at
large, commencing with the Acts of
1871-72.
Judge Cooke has sustained tho re?
cent decision of Judge Greeu, to the
effect that legal notices and advertise?
ments paid for from private funds may
be published iu aby paper selected by
the person advertising, notwithstand?
ing such paper may not be one desig?
nated as an "official" paper by the
State authorities. "Official" papers
apply ouly to Buch advertisemcuts as
arc paid for from Stute and County
funds. Liwyers mny, therefore, order
all estate notices, referee sales and
sheriff sales to bo published iu this
paper, should they prefer it.
Fl'.ESH Sci'l'LIES.?Fresh country
butter, new-laid eggs, fat aud healthy
: spring chickens, backed l>y all kinds of
? fresh, crisp vegetables and fruits of the
season, including strawberries ut 23
' cents a quart, t.> be had ut 12. il Da
vies .v Co. 's cheap cash store, ou Piuiu
street. Sign of the big bone.
St'iiMci: Rksokts ?? The iudic.itious
f tho approach of v.-inn we ither havo
been sufliv'ient to suggest to those who
nsu i!!y seek relief in tho couutry :.- >ni
the heats of sutumor the prudeuuc ol
1 forming plain i\'r thu season, in which
they are nine or L-ss guided by the
I information they receive of thu induce
i moots und attractions held out by the
various summer resorts, whether ou
tho seaside, tho mountains, or in rural
retreats nearer the city. Houce the
announcement! of these plaoes of re?
fuge are looked after at this time with
much interest. It becomes tho pro?
prietors of watering places to make
known in papers of general circulation
the advautagus they havo to offer, us
well as tho facilities by railroad, steam?
boat or stage, of reaching them. A
considerable number of alloity popu?
lations now spend more or less time
every summer in the country, some
going to distant localities both 90 the
sea-shore and in the mountains, while
many who oanuot leave their plaoes of
business for any great length of time
seek some rural retreat convenient to
town. In order to meet these varied
wants, it is important that all who are
prepared to accommodate visitors of
whatever class should make the fact
known through some effective medium
of commuoioation with the public,
with such details as may assist those
iotorosted in their seleotion of a sum?
mer resort.
,E;!*i5 vb loa i> au.i-?3!?? -age "
tremity, when the BbemR Orange?
barg went for him, he forgot to trans?
mit bis tjMirf calling oat the, militia
through tbe offloe of tbe Adjatant and -
Inspector-General. For thia, be was
called to quick, account by that military
functionary, who desired to know by
what or whose order tbe troops were
called out. Mr. Moses meekly said
that her? had verbally and hurriedly
goue and done it. Whereupon Purvis
rejoined that he had got them in an
ugly bos. "They are now no more
than private oitizens threatening a
breach of the peace." If thia was
awful, it waa awfallor that the orders
from the oommauder-in-chief had not
been transmitted through this offloe.
This was cruet on Moses, who had
culled out the troops 7iurriedly, as,a
pilot goG9 for any port in a storm.
Thia cruel war is over. Order reighs
in Warsaw once more. There waa con?
siderable fir iug, though, on the night of
the 19th by the soldiers on guard dis?
tributed over the grounds of the Go?
vernor's residence. A correspondent
who was rambling in that part of the
city, about 10 o'clock, writes ns that
hia meditations were suddenly inter?
rupted by several discharges of fire?
arms proceeding from the garden. In?
deed, he confesses to violent agitation
from a ahot being fired, and eome mis
silo passing through the foliage of a
tree close by.
We believe that the troops were not
on duty yesterday. The bugles sang
trace. The redoubtable Sheriff had
vamoosed the rauche, and placed him?
self beyond the reach of a counter
warrant issued for hia arrest by Coro?
ner Coleman. Whether the Governor
will be brought to trial in tbe Circuit
Court, yet remaina in doubt. One thing
can be said, he is now a man of uationel
reputation.
Election.?The annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Capital Build?
ing aud Loan Association, whioh has
just completed its third year of suc?
cessful operation, was held at the
Hibernian Hall last evening, and the
following officers eleoted to serve the
eusuing year: President, John Agnew;
Secretary and Treaaurer, W. R. Gath
oart; Directors, Geo. Syrumors, W. B.
Gulick, C. L. Anderson, C. F. Jack?
son, John Meighnn aud John Agnew,
Jr.
Court of Common Pleas, May 20.?
Greenville and Columbia Railroad
Company against R. H. Dominick, for
the recovery of personal property.
Verdict for the plaintiff.
A. Walker against Frederick
Schmidt, for recovery of 810,000 da?
mages for defamation of character.
Verdict for plaintiff for 8150.
Margaret Schnitz against Mary
Schultz. Verdict for defendant.
Thomas Harper against William ?.
Etter. Jury directed to return a sealed
verdiot. I
List of New Advertisements.
Wm. D. Love & Co.?Ribbons.
Josiah Haltiwauger?Lumber.
Hotel Arrivals, May 20, 1874.?
Wheeler House-D White, Pa; S S
Sweel and wife, R I; G A Ka miner,
E M Douglass, Gadsdeu; T B Frazer,
Sumter; CLP Marsh, N C; E C
Croe.u, Jr, T B Johnston, Sumter; W
II Harriaou, B F Bryan, N C; John W
{ Holland, Baltimore; L D DeSauesure,
j David Lopez, P Duffio, J Woodruff,
I Charleston; J U McDuvitt, Edgefleld;
j \V G Beck, city; D C Harrison; R
, Dauuiuberg, Winuaboro; U Green
I tower, N Landauer, Baltimore; Nathan
! Fo.lerlin, E D Litta, New York; D B
: DeSauasure, \V D Sturliug, J L Little,
j city.
tlendrit House?WBWynq, Dunbar
O'Neill, N 1"; Mrs Dr S Baruob, thr^e
children aud servant, Camden; M B
Mobley, Chester; E Wagner, Charles*
; ton; J \V Lylei>, Fuirfiuld; U G Arthur,
I W & W M Co.
j Columbia Hot: t?J M Seigler, Greou
! villi.*; J Oppheimer, New York; W E
ID A Beb, Maryland; Mrs D J Cain
! and hiu, Asbuvilto; W J Spriukle, city;
John D Spotts, Virgiuia; W T J O
Woodward, S C; Frank Palmer, Au?
gusta; E G White, Charleston; Joel
Copes, Wiunsboro; A S Douglass,
Chester; Mrs Holmes and children,
Massachusetts; S T Poioier* SC; T H
Clurkson, Charlotte; J E Thames, S O;
Eugene Du Hurry, Lexington; Johnson 4
Lumpkius, Alabama; S 0 Thompson,
Sacramento City.
The ephygmiograph ia the bard
uame of a new medico-scieutiflo in?
strument. Its presenoe 1b to mark and
register the pulsations of the wrist.
It ia a very delicate and inlrioate piece
of mechanism, propelled by cjack work,
and by the tracing of a penoil on a
piece of paper the force of the heart
boats is recorded. It is chit fly useful
in showing tbe effeot of different medi?
cines on the nervous system.
The war in Atlanta between the po?
lice and the Federal troops has ended
Col. Brown, commanding at tbe bar?
racks, has refuaed to give hia men
passes to go to the city, and conse?
quently the police will havo no occa?
sion to arrest any of them. In the
melee that ooenrred last week, one
s?luier waa killed, and it was feared
that a regular pitched battle would
occur.