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' TeleKrapnit-iror^tcn Affair..
Paria, May lO.-^The. moderates ob?
ject to an impersonal ssptinnato be?
cause it woold bo equivalent to a_je
coguitioo of the republic. 'lbs
extreme Bight are determined to op-;
8ose Goulard or any other chief of tho
linistry whose platform embraces the
adoption of constitutional bills. Gou?
lard, finding no euro support in the
Loft Centre or Bight, is therefore com?
pelled to rely mainly upon the mino?
rity in tho Assembly. It is expeoted
the Ministry will be completed to-night,
with, , Goulard, Deoazes, Magno and
Bodetat the bead of the principal de?
partments;
Pabis, May 20 ?Prinoe Metternich's
.seconds refuse to allow the duel with
Oonnt Montebello to take place.
Pabis, May 20.?Duke DeOharles
has not challenged Paul DeOassagnao.
It i8 reported that the Loft and ex?
treme Right will demand a dissolution
of the Assembly.
Madrid, May 20.?In a sevore skir?
mish near Bilbao, the Oarlists wore re?
pulsed,. 100 BspubUoans were killed
and wounded, and thirty Carl ist s
captured.
Geneva, May 20.?Three American
students Were drowned in Like Gene?
va. . ?
Xoloamunic?Ames lean MiiUcn.
New Orleans, May 20.?A jury has
' been completed in the United States
Oonrt for the trial of the Grant Parish
prisoners. The trial will occupy a
week or more.
Dentson, .Texas, May 20.?Tbe
wheat orop is out of danger, and will
bo tbe largest ever raised in Northern
Texas. It will be ready for market by
tho 1st of 'Jane.- Cotton looks finely.
Trains are arriving crowded with im?
migrants.
GiMOTNNATij. May 20.?The three
story house, aomer of Central and
Perry Avenue foil. Three persons
were dangerously hurt, and a child and
servant killed.
Njrw YoBit, May 20.?A large public
meeting of tho societies of the Metro?
politan Catholic Total Abstinence
Union was held this evening, in Cooper
Institute, Rev. J. II. MoGean, Presi?
dent. Resolutions were adopted that
the- crusading excitement, legislative
experiments and political agitation of?
fered poor hope for the completeness
or permanency of reform; the only
thorough prohibition being self-pro?
hibition among consumers, enforced
by individual consciences, as schooled
by God's church.
St. Paul, Maw., May 20 ?The
ground is alive with grasshoppers in
Southern Minnesota.
SroiNQFiBLD, Mass , May 20.?
Twenty of the missing have been dug
from the ruins of the buildings, and it
said twenty-five are known to be still
in the. debris. A committee of the
Legislature will find that the specifi?
cations were not fulfilled by the con?
tractors in the construction of the re?
servoir. $50.000 have been contri?
buted for tbe relief of tho victims of
the flood. It appears that the walls of
' the reservoir were required to be built
three feet below the ground. The
contractors based them ou the sur?
face, making the calamity a mere
question of time. The contractors
will be banged if caught. The empty
reservoir exposes the villainy prac?
ticed by tho contractors. The bodies
fonnd yesterday were nude and muoh
disfigured. It will .require a week to
find all. . Poor people are earning
money by 'searching for models and
by a brass derrick erected to lift safes
from the streams, moat of which are
intact. They were all looked at an
early hour of the flood. The streams
are being diverted from their natural
channels to save tbe spoils of the
flood.
Washington. May 20.?The House
passed a resolution to adjourn on the
22d of June.
Fires are raging through tho woods
on Long Island since Friday. It is
estimated that from 10,000 to 15,000
acres of timber land have boon barned
over,,consuming a large quantity of
cut wood, several buildings und miles
of fences. The total loss thus fur is
roughly estimated at $200,000.
Nhw Haven, Conn., May 23.?Win.
W. Eaton, straight Democrat, has
been elected to the United States ?Se?
nate,
Chicago, May 20.?A voto was
reached to-day iu the Presbyteriun ;
Cooucil, enguged in houriug tho here?
by trial, und resulted iu the triumph
and vindication of tho accused. The
vote stood 15 for and 45 against con?
viction.
Philadelphia, May 20.?At a meet?
ing of tho ceutenuiul commission, it
was reported . that 84,500,000 wore
subscribed, and $8,750,U00 wore ru
f quired to complete the plans of the
commission, who deolare, that without
Government aid, it will be impossible
to make the celebration creditable.
Boston, May 20.?The Conference
Committee of tho Board of Trade and
Commercial Exohange adopted resolu?
tions requesting railroads to reduce the
rates to prevent the withdrawal of the
Canard steamers from this port.
Macon, May 20 ?Tho Georgia Press
Association, after two days of profita?
ble session, adjourned. J. H. Estell,
1 of the Savannah Morning News, wao
j unanimously re-elected President.
New York, May 20.--From tbe
Times editorial: "It is only because
the courage of Governor Moses oozed
out of him with marvelons rapidity,
j that the reoent scenes in Arkansas are
not to be repeated in South Caroliua.
Having been indicted for grand lar?
ceny, Moses called oat bis militia to
I protect him from arrest; but no sooner
had his soldiers been posted about the
State House, than he thought better
of tbe matter, and surrendered himself
to the Sheriff. It will be seen that this
was a very different affair from that
in Arkansas, and it was in all respeots
more disgraceful. Moses oould not
l
pjelfetia thut be was in any way *e*#
iW public interest. He was simply
defying tho laws ho bad sworn to
execute, iu order to protect his own
person from arrest. . It is, about time
these Southern Governors, actual and
imaginary, ceased to disgrace the
country in the manner they have been
doing of late."
Wabhinqton, May 20.?Tbe Judi?
ciary Gommittee, by six to four, have
agreed to report to the House artioles
of impeachment against Judge Durell,
District Jndge of Louisiana, The vole
in the committee on the artioles stood:
Butler, Poland, Wilson, White, El
dridge and Potter for, and Ward, Tro
maiu, Frye and Oesna against. On a
vote iu the Busteed case, the commit?
tee was equally divided. Jewell was
absent when the votes wero taken. Tbe
Gommittee on Patents will report ad?
versely on an extension of the Tanner
car brake patent.
Reception drosses, without bonnets,
are to be worn at tbe wedding to-mor?
row. The marriage license reads: Al?
gernon Charles Frederick Sartoris. of
Warsash House, Litchfield Hants, Eng?
land, and Ellen Wreusball Graut, of
Washington.
The House Banking and Currency
Committee are considering the Seuate
finance bill. It erases the clause re
quiring banks to retain one-fourth of
their ooin receipts, and makes the
amount of greenbacks retirablo forty
instead of twenty-five per cent.
The Senate Committee on Claims
reported adversely on the House joint
resolution directing tho Commissioner
of Claims to send to Congress, without
delay, the claims decided prior to
April 1, 1874; also, adversely ou tbe
bill introduced by Mr. West, to pro?
vide for the settlement of olaimi of
loyal persons against tbe United States,
acoruing during the lute rebellion, and
for other purposes. Both bills were
indefinitely postponed. The Civil
Rights Bill was argued to adjournment.
The House resolution to adjourn on
June 22 wan adopted, by 143 to 60.
The post office appropriation bill was
discussed all day, and an amendment
adopted making the agricultural roport
free of postage.
Pink Bluff, May 20.?Murphy, who
has been exoiting negroes, hue been
jailed. Farther trouble is uoappre
bended.
Telegraphic?Commercial Re purls.
Columbia, May 19.?Sales of cotton
65 bales?middliug 10^; market firm.
London, May 20.?Street rate 7-16
below bauk. New fives 94^.
Paris, May 20.?Routes 6tff. 57^0.
. Liverpool, May 20?Noon.?Co?on
a shade easier?uplands 81 .C; Orleans
8%; sales 10,000, inoludiog 2.000 for
speculation and export; sales of up?
lands, nothing below good ordinary,
deliverable in May or June, 8 7 16;
nothing below low middling, delivera?
ble in Juno or July, 8,'^; Orleans,
nothing below low middling, delivera?
ble iu June or July, 8 9 16; sules of
shipments of new crop, ou basis of
middliug upland, sale*, include
5.700 American.
Liverpool, May 20?Eveniug.?
Cotton?sales of uplands, nothing
below good ordinary, deliverable in
June or July, 8 7-16; deliverable in
July or August, 8 9-16; sales of Or?
leans, nothing below low middliug,
shipped in April, 8 11-16.
New York, May 20?Noon.?Cotton
doll; sales 852?uplands 1834'; Orleans
19jsj\ Futures opened: May 17 1316;
June 17?^($17 15-16; July 18^@
18 7-16; August 18%($18 11-16; Sep?
tember 18185-16; November 179-16.
Flour dull. Wheat quiet aud steady.
Corn quiet. Pork boavy, at 17.90@
18.00. Lard firm?steam 111 n. Freights
firm. Stocks dull. Money 3. Gold
12'b-. Exchange?long 4.88)i; Bbort
4 91 }.X. Governruents steady. State
bonds quiet, and nominal.
7 P. M.?Cotton dull; sales 1)21, at
18^@19i8- Flour steady. Wboat
opened lc. better, with rnoderato do
maud, but closed quiet, with advance {
lost?1.60 for choice winter red West?
ern. Corn a shudo firmer, with fair i
export demand. CoJTen unsettled and
dull?Rio ordiu iry 17 ? .<. Cotton?net
receipts 251; gross ;i,i)17. Futures
closed barely ?teudy; sales 35,800:1
May 17 2J:;^; June' 17 23 32; July
18 5-16. 18 11-32; August 18-Vj,
18 21-32; Se ptember IS1.;, IS 9-32.
Monoy easy, ut 2(70. Sterling dull,
at -l..SS'._.. Gold dud nnd firm, at >
12',.f?/12!.,. Governments dull but
steady. States quiet and nominal.
Louisville, May 20.?Fiour an
changed. Uoru quiet and uuchunged, j
at 84(?fS6. Provisions quiet. Pork I
18.25. Bacon?7.1U' for bboulderr; 10;.. i
for clear rib; 10;V for clear. Sugar
oured hams 13,'J; plain 12,V*. Lud?
12 for tioroo; 12!-,' for keg. Whiskey
94.
Sr. Louis, May 20.?Flour tirm,
with good demand for low aud me?
dium grades; some sules higher?su?
perfine winter 4 50(ui5.00; extra 5 00(<r}
5.50; double extra ?.7?($6.25. Curu
steady?No. 2 mixed 68>g(?i69 on traok;
white mixed 68@71, closing at inside
prioe. Whiskey lowor, at 96. Pork
firm and advanoing?18.50 for cash
and order lots. Bacon highor?7%@
1% for ?boniders; 10^?10j?^ for dear
rib; 10%@10% for dear; shoulders 8
in July; clear sides 10%, buyer in May.
, Lard nominally higher.
Cincinnati, May 20.? Floor dull and
unohanged. Corn steady, at 70@74.
Pork firm, at 17.65 for city; 17.50 for
country; special brands jobbing, at
18.00. Lard strong?11 for steam;
11>? for kettle. Bulk meats firm?
6>? for shoulders on spot; 7^ for
buyer in July; clear rib 9J? on spot;
9)4 for boyor in Jnly; olear Q%@d%.
Baoon steady?7J$@7# for shoulders;
10 for olear rib; 10>? for olear. Whis?
key firm, at 04,
Baltimore, May 20.?Cotton heavy
aud quiet?low middling 18. Floor
and wheat dull and unohanged. Corn
strong and buoyant?white Somborn
Western quiet?old 81}?(a)85; new 84.
Provisions strong, with an advancing
tendency. Mess pork soaroe and firm,
at 18.00. Bacon?-ahonldero 7%; clear
rib aides 10)?. Sugar-cured bams
14@15. Laid-arm and scarce, at 10%
(5)11. Western batter?choioe 30@31;
lair to good 23@2S. Coffee. un
obanged. Whiskoy?small sales, at
?9@1.00. tingar firm and unchanged.
Mobil?, May 20.?Cotton dull and
tending down?middling 17)4; low
middliug lC'.j'; good ordinary 15 1 .<;
net receipts 52; exports coabtwise
1,080; sales 100; stock 21,016.
Philadelphia, M*y 20?Cotton
quiet?middling 18%; good ordinary
10,v?; ordinary 15; net receipts 308;
gross 402.
Boston, May 20.?Cotton dull?mid?
dling 19@19}?; gross receipts 110;
ealoB 200; stock U.5UU.
Augusta, May 20.?Cottou dull?
middliug 17^; net receipts 251; sales
84.
New Ob'-vanS, May 20.?Cotton
demuud belter for low middliug and
abovo?middliug 18; low middliug 17;
good ordinary 15^; ordinary 13^; UHt
receipts 1,670; gross 1,850; sales 0,000;
stock 75,649.
Galveston, May 20.?Cotton dull ?
guod ordiunry 16; middliug 17%; net
reoeipts 306; sales 100; slock 16,093.
Memphis, May 20.?Cotton quiet aud
easier?low middling 17; receipts 511;
shipments 1,740; stock 28.6U9.
Savannah, May 2 0?Cotton very
dull?middling 17*b; net reoeipts 2ti5;
gross 265; sales 81; stock 20,430.
Baltimore, May 20.?Cotton quiet
?middliug 181*; low middliug 18;
gross reoeipts 138; exports coastwise
91; sales 269; spinners 40; stock 9,509.
Norfolk, May 20.?Cotton easier?
low middling 17,'w; cot receipts 463;
exports coastwise 663; sales 150; stock
4,170.
Charleston, May 20.?Cottou quiet
and easy?middling 17)?; net receipts
214; sales 250; stock 13,503.
Something Wobth Thinking About.
? "Take," Buid Henry Ward Beeober,
"any community of two or three thou?
sand people. They will build a church
holding five hundred people, and it
will accommodate all that want to go
to it, because in the man it fulls into
tho habit of takiug tbe best families.
Averugo tho churches of New York
and Brooklyn, and I think it cau be
shown thai the aristocratic or prosper?
ous element takes possession of the
churches, aud that the great needy
classes, or tho poor, if they go to thorn
at all, do not go to them us a home,
because the churches do not satisfy
their wants and cravings. The churches
are not as democratic us they are in Eu?
rope. They are, largely, institutions
for tho mutual iosurauce of prosper?
ous families." Perhaps here is tho
secret of what tbe pulpit frequently
laments us tbe feeble influence of the
church upon the world, especially with
regard to the mitigation of its crimes
aud follies, und it naturally follows
that very much of tbe spirit of hete?
rodoxy may be traceable to tho desire
and ambition of earnest, thoughtful
men to Und obnnneis through which
the instrumentalities of Christianity
may bo exerted for greater benefit to
h u m a n i ty.?Baltimore A merican.
Tub Moses Bankrupicy Case.?Ia
the United States Court, Tuesday, on
motion of H. W. Bice, Esq., counsel
for the petitioners, (Messrs. Mouteith
A Bauskett, of Columbia,) for tho in?
voluntary bankruptcy of Franklin J.
Moses, Jr., Governor of South Caro?
lina, it was ordered, no objection being
made by tho respondent on return day,
(yesterday,) that the petition bj dis?
missed upon payment of tho costs.
Two orders wore drawn by the counsel
for the petitioners to effect this result.
The first one had a clausa providing
for the withdrawal of tbe papers filed
iu bankruptcy from the custody of tho
court, but Judge Bryau utruck that
out and granted tho .second order,
substantially recited above. It i* ver>
singular that ouu of the petitioner.-*,
Mr. Moateitll, should ba employed to i
tiefend the Governor in the Oraugu- |
burg breach of trust aud larceny cine;
and, further, that h-j has been in his.
sei vice fur so tue Jim ? as I. is attorney. j
The petition in bankruptcy hud usus-|
piei >us appearauoe, und it ia whispered i
that it was gottau up for a purpose
foreign to that i>f putting h:^ Jix.v!
ieuey in bankruptcy.
? -*
An Amriucan Piloiumage.?Satur?
day, i fow Kornau Catholics were to
have sailed on the steamer Boreiro; |
from New York for Havre, Lourdes
and tho Eternal City. They go to visit
the Pope und "Our Lidy of Lourdes,"
to each of whom they bear magnificent
gifts from tho faithful on this bide of
tho water. This i9 tbe first pilgrimage
from tbe old to tho new world. It
marks un era iu tho religious history of
America.
A dramatic version of Hawthorno's
"Scarlet Letter" is drawing crowds at
tho Ambigu in Paris. The soone being
laid in Massachusetts, the stage is of
course covered with tropiuai piauts. A
few palm trees indicate the environs of
Boston, oud if a cotton plantation
could have been added to the back?
ground with a tiger or two and a boa
constrictor, the illusion would havo
been complete.
John H. Smyth, ooloierl, Cashier of
the Farmers' Savings Bunk of Wil?
mington, received through the mail,
the other day, a letter telling him that
he would bo killed so soon as an op?
portunity prosented itself, and advis?
ing bim to leave tbe city. F lyth is a
candidate for political hone . and has
many enemies.
Mr. D. G. Murphy, of the Globe
Hotel, Augusta, died ou Mouday. He
was an old hotel man.
?Hp wili?^ m?t|,B?KPOBT TP? ClVlXi
Pjo^jBri* r^eoator Browniow bas
written a long political address to tbe
people of Tennessee, in response to
oertain resolutions passed by the Nash?
ville Convention of colored men,
charging him with betraying the inte?
rests of that race. These ure the preg?
nant paragraphs of the address:
I have done all these things for the
colored race, without owing my elec?
tion to it or having thu remotest idea
of ever being a candidate for its votes
or support. I have acted from a sense
of duty und because of a siucere and
j unselfish desire to ameliorate its condi
' tion, I do not refer to my services to
I tho colored people by wuy of apology
for my opposition to raised sahools.
! My position on this question is tho re?
sult of mature deliberation. It has the
1 approval of my judgment und con?
science, and sooner than apologize for
j it or recede from it I would see every
political organization iu the land "go
the way of Ward's ducks," and every
politician buried without hopo of re?
surrection.
So far from betraying the colored
people or violating any pledgee to
them, as insolently and falsely charged
by delegates in this Nashville Conven?
tion, who seem to have reversed
Tuocy's decision and proclaimed, in
substance, that a white mau has no
rights which a negro is bound to re?
spect, I havo, since attaining power as
i Qoveruor and Senator, done far more
for the colored race than I was ever
'committed or pledged to do, aud more
I than they had a right to demand in
1 view of the issues of tho canvass upon
which I wont into office.
And now, because ? adhere to prin?
ciples of practical utility, instead of
running wild after abstractions, I urn
dououueed as recreant to duty and
pledges. If the members of the late
colored convention can afford to pre?
sent to tho world such evidences of
[ bane ingratitude to myself, who have
done more for them than any other
Teuncsseeau, ? cuu well afford to be
indifferent to their abuse and despise
tbeir threats. It will uot injure mo,
nor doos it afford me any solicitude,
except in eo far as the bad blood en?
gendered between thu races by such
conduct and such a spirit 119 character?
ized the proceedings of that conven?
tion will tend to their injury, tho de?
struction of the common school system
and the detriment of society aud good
government.
True, it may be said, the republican
party iu Tennessee cannot get along
without the support of the colored
voters. To this I reply, if it had not
been for the Republican party, there
would be no colored voters. Second,
the Republican party cm get along
without the colored voters as well us
the colored voters can get aloug with?
out the Republican party. And third,
the 25.000 white Republican voters of
East Tennessee have resolved to get
ulong without the colored voters
sooner than submit to this sum of vil?
lainies und quintessence of abomina?
tion, known as the "co-education of
the races."
My only hope for the future pros?
perity of the colored people of Tennes?
see consists iu the belief that the muss
of them will repudiate the abominable
programme so insolently put forth at
Nashville. Let them remember that
they now have, in separate schools,
equal educatiouat facilities with the
whites. Let them remember that tbe
taxes with which these schools ure sup?
ported are contributed almost exclu?
sively by tho wbito people of tho State
?that tho money does not come from
thu Federal Oovernment ut Washing?
ton. Let them remember that thou?
sands of the property-holders of tho
State, of the political party to which
they are in opposition, have aided iu
establishing our present school system,
nnj without the .support of this class,
iu co operation with their white poli?
tical nssooiucs, it C mid UOt have boCU I
e.stubh.shed.
Lot them tihso remember that i: i
uot n que.-tion as to whether we will I
have mixed schools, hut win ther we
.shall have iiuy syst tun ? public ;t.
struciioii iit ad. For it i- not iu the
power forty C ?ugrt/Sut* ; > establish
this mixed school sy.ttciu iu Fentu usee.
If the <.'.v:l Right - tfiil should pas*
without thu inixi.il holund feiiiur '
being ptrickcu out, the wh do .?chool |
fabric i1. ToijuessCe *.!! ill ou.tu full fti
the mud, us it will dt .ervo tu .! ? I
Then the expenses of the education ol
their children, if they uro educated ut
all. will be borne by tin involves, and
no: by thu white people, us thuv now
ure. " W. ?. I3KO WNL?W.
Chin use Funekal is Chicago.?
Chicago bad its first Chinese funeral
lust week. From the following de?
scription from the Times it would seem
that not even Chicago's influences can
shake John from thu ohservuuce of tbe
customs of his mother country:
- A large number of square pieces of
paper, with holes punched iu them,
und bearing hieroglyphics, were then
scattered iu the co?iu, ufter which tbe
undertaker placed the corpse in, which
was sprinkled over with these papers,
and then covered with a wbito cloth
and a red oue. More papers were
scattered over these; after which tho
lid was put on and screwed down. Tbe
undertaker and his assistants then
lifted the coffin from its trestles and
ohuuged its position from foot to head
three times, the audience looking on
with great solemnity. Then the bed?
ding last used by the deceased was
rolled up aud tied, aud five potatoes
ranged along the top of it, the middle
one being stack full of tapers. AfUr
several holes had been burnt iu this
beddiug, an expressman took charge
of it aud preceded the procession to
the grave.
The SnfatriAS WBDDYw^' ?T Bfides
vAiiH.?Thirty years ago, there ?w
bora to Mr. and Mrs. John Noatrond,
then living at Esperance, Sobeharie, a
fair faced child. Acting on the sug?
gestion of the old family pbyeioian, the'
child was dressed in girl s clothes, al?
though whether this was appropriate
or not, wu9 a matter of-some donbt to
the perplexed parents. The little one
was named Ada. Wheu Ada was about j
two years old, her parents moved to
this country, settling then, or soon
afterwards, close by the old Pine Ta?
vern, on tbe Oswego stage road, and
about one mile from Blossvule. As tbe
yearB passed, AJa grew strong and
rather tall; she wore her hair long; but
as she reached maturity, an umistaka
ble beard began to show itself on ber
face, und ber voice became quite mas
online. She also manifested a decided
and unusual lovo for other girls, while
eh? seemed to care but little for tho
company or udmiratiou of the sterner
sex.
Five years ago, she went to Cleve?
land, Ohio, and secured a position as
a domestic ut u boarding-bouse, and
beforo she left there, her masculine
appearance was so notioeable that she
was arrested, charged with being a
mau dressed in woman's clothes; nor
was she able to prove this uutrne; bat
fortunately tbe proprietor of the board?
ing ho a bo was also a physician, and
had prescribed for her shortly before
that. Hearing of the ease, ho secured
her release. Ada also worked for
Simon I-mbell, of Westmoreland, doing
muob out-door work. Indeed, her
father, who docs not look at all ailing,
physically, nays she can chop about us
much as he can, and that Bhe is "man
enough to handle lots of the boys who
are talking so much."
About two years ago, Ada bought of
one of tbe Messrs. beurles the old
William Sykee farm, to the Pine
Tavern. The house had been burned,
and Ada, who has worked there since,
went to live there. June is not alto?
gether as placid as the sweet summer
time, and he does not live at all times
barmouionsly with his family, Some?
time BiucehtB boh died, and Boon Jone
married his son's widow. The yonnger
June left a daughter Lottie, who is
well spoken of by those who knew her.
By this wedding Lottie found herself
the step-daughter of ber grand-father,
the grand-daughter of ber mother, and
generally unable to establish the exact
degree of consanguinity of her rela?
tives with any degree of satisfaction.
Other reasons combined to make her
life und borne nut altogether plea?
sant.
When Ada went to live ut tbe June
house she soon formed quite an attach?
ment for Lottie, then ubout fifteen
years of age, and us this attachment
ripened, she became more impatient
at tbo disguise of her dress. Indeed ;
she bad frequently before this up?
braided ber parents for dressing her
in girl's clothes, insisting that ehe bad
no business to wear them. The love
betweeu Ada and Lottie reached its
culmination on Tuesday, April 2. On
the evening of that day, a well-dressed
young* man, who gave his name as Ed?
ward Nostraud, with a blushing and
beautiful maiden, who was Lottie
June, called at tbe residence of J. W.
Simpson, of Taberg, where they were
made oue flesh. This step had beeu
decided upon at least a year before,
we are told. Edward Nostraud, who
is now ruising quite a beard, is t. irty
years of ugo. Tne charming Mrs. Nm
truud is seventeen. They live at what
is known as Weaver's, about two miles
from Blossvule, and soem to be happy.
This is all we know about it.
[tlome(N. P.J Herald.
Advice to Coruespondets.?The
Athens Walchman reproduces the fol?
lowing suggestions to correspondents,
which are full of sense aud worthy of
publicity:
Write plainly. Not to do so is to
make an item almost valueless, and
sometimes worse (hau useless.
If you write :?. "back" baud, learu to
do it with the left hand, that the com
po.iitor ut iv hot have to stretch bis
mv It to th ? 1 ft to a dangerous extent
:<> c t tii ? ruu of ti word
Dou'i underline every adjective in
the sentence, si 1 ter the .style of a 1 uv
yerV brief.
Li \<..i have over studied punctua?
tion at pnuetnut. ; lint :'i you have
hot, let it s-ild'';
If you hav? n to m ike a capi?
tal J, vnto i; below und hot du the
i: in*.
li .John .Smi:!i or Wiiliiim McFuden
has purchased a piece ol property of
Ht'/.ekiab Hobbtetop 'for 81,001), say
so, if you desire to see the notice in
print. There is no rccasion to nay,
"Oar highly respected and honored
citizen, John Smith, who, for the last
ten years, has been selliug milk at ton
cents u quart, thereby realizing a mag?
nificent profit, has purchased from bis
neighbor, Mr. JLIeZi-kiuh Hobbletop, a
most estimable citizen and , honorable
vender of gurden sa-s and sich, that
beautifully located pieoo of property
known as 'Fool's Folly Plot,' and in
that most salubrious location intends
erecting a house tbereou." Self-praise
is no recommendation, neither does it
pay the printer, but it does disgust
him.
Dot your i's, cross your t's, point
your n's and make them distinct from
the rounded u.
Use ink. Lead peno I writing over?
strains the eye of the compositor when
deciphering it, and also causes him to
indulge in "cuss words."
Be sure to spell names correotly. A
man wants his name given rightly or
not at all.
Pond's Extract.?Moo and womou
will suffer from a severe headache,
when ten minutes spent bathing the
head with tbe Extract would afford re?
lief. M20t8ijl
The Gas Man ?WHrt ^if*tef.---r
You are a householder. 'Ni>t w^hijaf'
to go up id e chariot of fire as a mar?
tyr to the Baal of kerosene, yoa use
gas. The gas man knows it. Yoa may
live at home the whole year round, and
bnrn a gas light in every room, and all
night at that; or your family may go
on a visit, and etay away for; three
months, while you board at a hotel,
and leaving the bouse as dark and
empty as tbe city treasury; or ypu
may, in much disgust, quit burning
gas, aud fall back on coal oil and
candles; it makes no difference to tbe
gas man. Every two or three months
a man, with a lantern and a book, and
other things, sepulchrally pounds on
your back door. If any one is in,
and opens it, ho enters, no matter who
is there or what is being done, and
thunders down the cellar stairs with
hia lantern lighted. He goes to the
gas meter in the cellar, opens the
thing, and stares into it with an air
of intenso anxiety, followed by an ex?
pression of the profoundeat wisdom.
He knows the meter lies, and be knows
he lies when he says it don't lie.
He fools with it, and puts some figures
in his book. He don't know how
muoh gas you have burned, and no?
body else could tell by the meter, bat
ho guesses how much yoa ought to
burn, and obeys his orders about
?'piling it on pretty heavy." If you
object to the summary invasion of'
your premises, he says be must obey
orders. Then, after taking a survey
of your potato pile and other artioles
of provender, and slightly pitying you
if your larder is a poor one, and envy?
ing you if it isn't?for the gas kings
don't over-pay him?be departs, and
in about a week you get a gas bill that
makes your wife mad, and makes you
swear and say yoa won't pay it. Bat
you will pay it, and the gas man
knows it, and he don't care if tbe air
he has pumped into the pipes does
rush out and extinguish five oat of
every six matches whenever you try to
tight it, as it often does.
The Untutored Negbo in His Na
I ttve Wilds.?The whole of my expe?
rience in Central Africa says that the
negroes, not yet spoiled by contact
with the slave-trade, are distinguished
for friendliness and good, sound sense.
Some oan be gnilty of great wicked?
ness, and seem to think little about it;
others perform actions as unmistaka?
bly good with no great self-com?
placency; and if one catalogued all
the good deeds or all the bad ones be
came across, be might thick the men
extremely good or extremely bad, in?
stead of calling them, like ourselves,
I curious compounds of good and evik
Iu oue poiut, they are remarkable?
they aro honest. Even among the
cannibal Manyuerca, a slave-trader at
Bumbure and I had to send oar goats
and fowls up to the Manyaema village,
to prevent their being stolen by my
friend's own slaves. Another wide?
spread trait of character is a trusting
disposition. The Central African
tribes are the antipodes to some of the
North American Indians, and very un?
like many of their own coantrymen
who have come into contact with
Mohammedans and Portuguese and
Dutch Christians. Tbey at once per?
ceive the superiority of the strangers
in power of mischief, and readily
listeu to and ponder over friendly ad?
vice. After the cruel massacre of
Nyaugue?whioh I unfortunately wit?
nessed?fourteen ohiefs, whose vil?
lages had been destroyed and many of
them killed, fled to my boose and
begged me to make peace for them
with the Arabs, and then come over to
their side of the river Loalaba, divide
their country anew and point out
where each should build a new village
aud cultivate other plantations. The
peace was easily made, for the Arabs
bad no excuse for their senseless mar
ders, and each blamed tho others for
the guilt.?Dr. Livingstone's Leiter to
1 James Gordon Dennett.
What Does It Mean ?Six hundred
guns for militia came to tho depot at
this place last week. This thing of
arming the colored militia just before
elections is an uuwisu policy. What
men will do when armed is well known
to tbe people (d this State. There is
; no earthly use for an urmed militia in
South Carolina, und if thu colored
troops would stick to tho plow aud let
thu muskets alone, they would add
more to their owu prosperity und do
the S:ate immense good.
Captains of compunies iu the 11th
Uegiuaeut National Guurd, State tf
South Carolina, uro to report to head?
quarters, ut this place, ou the first
Monday in June next. There's "some
thin' a buzzin'," but these little spur til
of patriotism came too late for the
Cuban war. The gallant militiamen
may have force iu controlling the ap?
proaching elections?only this and
uothiug more.?Abbeville Medium.
A Palestine exploring expedition is
organizing in the North.
Who Wants?
tdf\ Ann PBBT seasoned L?M
lUU.UUU BEB for sale-l, 1* and
2 iuoU i'LANK, WEATItEit-U?AliUlN?
and FLOOJUNO. Apply to E. Stknuoube.
A lot in his yard now.
JOSIAH HALTIWANGEB.
May 21_lmo*
1,000 FIE OBS
OBO GRAIN AND CORD EDGE RIB?
BON, in ?II colors, from No. 0 to 60, openod
TDI8 DAY, and selling at TWENTY-FIYB
CENTS A YARD, at tho GRAND CENTRAL
DRY GOODS ESTABLISHMENT of
May 21 3
WM. D. LOVE A 00.