The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, May 23, 1874, Image 2
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Saturday Morning, May 23, 1874.
The Clanking o< tho Chains.
The terrible condition of our peo?
ple, ao revealed in the delinquent tax
lists, is attracting fresh attention from
our Northern contemporaries. It ia
easy to make oontradiotions of state?
ments sent on to Washington, and the
counter-memorialists showed them
eelves adepts in the art. Bnt these
- columns in oar newspapers, giving the
' names of distressed tax-payers, the
number of aores liable, and the earn of
tax unpaid, cannot be contradicted,
explained away or overlooked. They
cannot be flippantly and falsely cha
taaterized &s presenting only "ima?
ginary" evils. They are perfeot pic?
tures, as truly responding to facts as
the impressions of feature and form
made by the enn'a light on the pre?
pared plate. A traveling correspond?
ent of the New York Sun has been
attracted by an advertisement of this
sort itt the Charleston Chronicle. He.
makes it the occasion of study, and
very correctly deduces the conclusion
of pending inevitable and wide-spread
rain. He truly says that it seems as if
the earth had gone away, and that if
similar notices of inability to meet
their taxes by persons in New York of
oorresponding condition with these
rained .South Oaroiiniaqs should bo
published, "the whole country would
arise in astonishment." Wo quote a
passage or two from this intelligent
writer. He Bays:
"An examination of the three news?
papers revealed a startling exhibit.
The unfinished list of delinquent tax?
payers for 1873 in Charleston and
vicinity filled nineteen columns. It
included 910 houses and 1,431 lots iu
the city alone, besides other valuable
property. It .also took in 251 Hummer
residences and 168 lots on Morris, Sul?
livan's and other islands, and 371
plantations, aggregating 299,191 acres
of land sur.ouuding Charleston. The
lint contained the names of the wealth?
iest and most respcotahle citizens?
families whose names are carved upon
the historical columns of the nation.
Church demesnes, jockey club lauds,
the home of the Sisters of Mercy, and
the property of benevolent and other
societies figure side by side iu tb.e ex?
hibit. The revolutions were more than
remarkable."
His concluding reflections are as sig?
nificant as they are just. Such sensi?
ble statements, such appropriate com?
ments, such dear anticipations of
what must inevitably come, ought to
have the effect of arousing the dor?
mant senses of the people of the
North. They leave them without the
excuse of ignorance, at least. And the
letter is full of instruction and warn?
ing to oar colored people and the
Northerners who have oome to operate
amongst us. Let them well weigh
these words: 1
"Tbo carpet-baggers strike all, both
great aud small. The negro ia the
muscle of the State. No matter how
heavy the burden becomes, bis broad
shonlders in the end must .bear it all.
He is the man who must make the final
settlement. If he is not a landholder,
the effeot of the taxes are shown in his
rents. He is already compelled to pay
yearly $2 per acre rent for land that
could be purchased outright for six.
No matter how humble his cabin, the
oolleotor hunts him out, aud if be oun
find nothing more, deduots a per cent
age from his hogs and chiokens. De?
spite this writing on the wall, the eyes
of the negro have not been opened.
He is easily imposed upon. No sooner
does one thief go out of office than the
innocent blaok man turns to and boosts
another in. It is the same as in New
York city. The biggest oorruptioniBts
oontrol the votes of tho poorest citi?
zens. But the Southerner and bis.
quondam slaves are not the only suf?
ferers. After the war Northern men
invested considerable money in sea
isiund plantations'. The moat of thorn
wore ruined mouths ago. The surviv?
ors are tottering on the brink of bank?
ruptcy. A very few have edged in
with tho thieves who control thu poli?
tics of thu ?tate, und manage to skin
along quito comfortably, btit tho day
is not lur dibtaut when they, too, will
be drawu iuto the maelstrom. As for
tho Northern meu who invested in
Carolina bonds, their mutton was
cooked long ago. Nobody feels sorry
lor them. Tney grabbed with their
eyes wide open, and got stung. They
deserved it. After all, what is to be
the eud? Repudiation, oortaiuly.
Worse than that is the !a?! wbioh is
feeding tho secret hatred burning iu
the breasts of the South toward the
North. Tbo President's treatment of
the committee of South Carolina tax?
payers fuuuod u fire that the eloquenoe
of lO.(K)i) gifted Liiinars would fall to
quench."
A Southern journal tells us that over
140.000 people are without food and
shelter in the South, and that the
floods have robbed them of all but
life. First the war, then the carpet?
bag domiuatioa and now the floods.
Novor iu history were a peoplo so se?
verely puutshed. Can we not do
something to relieve their b?rden?,
something more thuu to sing hymns
aud strow Uowers over Confederate
graves on Decoration Diy?
[New York Herald.
, . Informal RegUtraUom or Voters. .
We will not undertake to argue the
importance of suffrage. Its value can?
not be overstated. It is the froeman'e
Btrength, as it is 1ub right and privi?
lege. It should ba cherished as the
apple of t?e eye. No adverse oiroura
etauces should ever make us indiffer?
ent to its exeroiee. There is practical?
ly no great difference betwixt the man
who is debarred its uso, and ono who
voluntarily relinquishes it. Have we
been true to the great d-ty of main?
taining it in South Carolina? It is
feared that we have not. We have in
too many instances succumbed to tho
oircumBtunoes which surround ub. We
have -illogioally concluded that it was
not worth while to exercise u right
which appeared to bring no good re?
sult. Many votero in South Caroliua
have persistently kept uway from tho
polls for the last half dozen years, the
dark age of our history. But it was
wrong to do eo. Wo abandon safe
ground whenever wo deliberately
forego a duty. It is the duty of free?
men to voto, whether voting eoora to
he useless or uot. It is not sufu to
conclude that anything is useless
whioh it behooves usrto do. The hus?
bandman sows his seed, having rea?
sonable, hopo from his endeavors, but
not knowing what blight may overtake
his crops. Wo venture upon- oil the
Gelds of employment, we engage, in ull
enterprises, without having any abso?
lute certainty as to what may bu the
issue. It is onough to know that we
are bom for activity, that life is full of
duties, and that to abdicate them is to
cease to act tho part of mon.
We are satisfied that tho disparity
between the colored and whito voto in
Sonth Carolina is uot ns great ay it
was. We ure satisfied, again, that in?
fluences aro at work to detach a portion
of the colored voto from tho Ridical
party. Changes aro going on, which,
if duly noted, would prove encourag?
ing to oar hopes, that somo light is
breaking into the dark and prejudiced
minds of those who have been made
victims of their own ignorance und
others' cunning and duplicity. A ro
gistration should have been ordered by
the last Legislature. Our Conservative
members ought to have secured this
much from it, and might have doue it.
Tho matter was nlludod to once or
twice. Leading Radicals took pains to
persuade the colored members that it
would never do, that it would place the
political power in the hands of the
Democrats. But this opposition might
have beeu overcome. It-is incumbent
ou the Legislature, in the language of
the Constitution, "to provide, from
time to time, for the registration of all
electors." Aud the duty and necessity
of it'might have beeu pressed home
upon it. Something was lost to tho
cau.ho of good government in the fail?
ure to secure it. But it may bu
partially repairod. Conservatives and
decent Republicans should turn
thoir attention to this matter. In
every County, intelligent citizens
ought to uoto the changes which are
going ou. Somo ono in every election
preoioot should make a list of the
qualified voters, and tho voto of each
County thus bo approximated or
ascertained. We throw out this hint
for an informal registration. It will
bo needed. It will do good. It will
show that tho power of more numbers
aud brute foroe isvyielding slowly to
that of intelligence and character. It
will show, too, that those elements
which make one race dominant over
another, are asserting their sway even
here, where so many artificial arrange?
ments exist to impair their uutivo
force.
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Important, if Thus.?If tho figures
GO are divided by the 6*ottou crop in
millions of bales, the result will give
the average price per pound at the
nearest market. Thus, tho crop raised
is
2 million bales, GO, :>?) cents per lb.
3 million balo.-, GO, 20 coots per lb
4 million bales, GO, 15 cants per lb
5 million bales, GO, 12 cunts per lb.
It will thus be seen that under the
ordinary circumstances, 3 million bales
of cotton are as valuable to tho planter,
and will bring us much money us can
bo obtained for 1, or evon 5 million
bales. A small crop is increased in va?
lue by speculation. A large crop is
reduced iu valuo by any disturbance of
the money market, or by war, pesti?
lence or famine. The surplus land can
be profitably occupied iu producing
pork, corn und hay, without reducing
the value of the oottou crop one dol?
lar. Try it.?Q. Allen's Circular.
Retubn Emigration. ? In a recent
article the London Economist calls at?
tention to the startling fact that tho
re immigration of British subjects
back from America into England in?
creased from 74,527 in the dooade
1851-61 to 252,000 in the decade 1861
71. It attributes this retnrn wave to
the ilistnrbed condition of our curren?
cy, and the mischiefs bred of onr
"protective" system.
A Terrlblo Hceno of IJeu.ll? sad DnoU>
Hon.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald telegraphs as follows from
Northampton:
; It Is impossible to conceive the
terrifio force of the flood except from
the effeots,; Mill River was in many
parts a walled stream, bnt the hage
plooon of rock which* formed its em?
bankment were completely swept away.
Io eome places, the bauks looked like
a rocky Bhore, the massive stones
being thrown about so indiscrimi?
nately. Io other places, rooks aud
trees toru from tho earth, and debris
from tho mills whioh were torn dowu
by the floods are all there is of the
river side. Even loug pieces of cloth
from the cotton mills are so interwoven
with debris of every kind, that they
seom a natural part of nature's handi?
work. Tho rouda have disappeared
with the banks, and iu muuy places to?
day vehicles pass where yesterday
flowed tho slreuui, while now thu
river ruus in what was formerly tho
road.
The appearance of the shattered
buildings still standing was of such a
diversified character as almost to baf?
fle descriptiou. A huge chitnuoy souie
times indicated the site of n great mill.
Some of the largo mills of tho valley
have left no sign of their existence.
Many houses aud shops wero com?
pletely shattered to pieces and scat?
tered to no one knows where. Such
complete devastation is not more re?
markable than tho partial destruction
of buildings. Some houses were com?
pletely riddled by tho flood, leaviug
ouly the frame-work. Tho founda?
tions and walls of others were swept
away, leaving the framo structure very
much awry. Same wero half swept
off. Some wero carried down the
stream aud stranded. Socio were
turned over ou their sides, and I saw
one whioh stood on its roof. The
wrecks are of every description, but
the frame buildings wero not so com?
pletely demolished 'iu those of other
materials. When a brick or stone
house felt the force of the flood, it wus
utmost certain to yield completely.
At least three of the villages?Wil
HuniBburg, Saydensville and Leeds?
ure paralyzed beyond the hope of re?
covery. It matters little how much
money was actually lost, for its sum
total is tho hand whioh fed tho inhabit?
ants of what was yesterday a happy
village To-day it is desolation, uud
io-:uorrow it will be worse, for it will
ba hopelessness. When tho dead are
buried, when tho extent of the bereave?
ments is fully understood, when the
scene of desolation becomes familiar,
will come the reaction, and with the
reaction, perhaps, despair. I eaw an
old man this morning, while his neigh?
bors wero busy examining tho heaps
of debris along tho court-0 of the flood
for the dead bodies, engaged in gather?
ing buttons on u string. Equally aim?
less must bn the future of these peo?
ple, unless capital flows into the valley
again, almost as rapidly us it was swept
away.
Tue devastation at Laeds is inde?
scribable. Ouly three houses ou thu
East side of tho river remain in their
original positions. The water first
struck the Nouotuck silk dam, a solid
structure, aud ploughed through it us
if it had becu a bank of sand. The
dum was built tweuty five years ago,
aud had a twenty-six foot fall in tho
centre. It origiually oust 850,000, aud
was rofaced a few years ago. Tho
.stone wall of tho mill facing the
stream was nearly swept away. The
mill was damaged but slightly, bnt
work will not be resumed on it for
months, thus throwing many bauds
out of employment. The silk mill
boarding house was totally wrecked.
All tho in mates escaped except Capt.
Vaughu and Miss Woodward, both of
whom lost their lives by returning for
some valuables. Tho old wooden mill,
oooupiod iu part as a saw mill, was
next crushed by the seething wuturs.
The flood in its course took Seleotmau
W. F. Quigley'd house down the cur?
rent a few rods, leaviug only tho old
L part ou tho eito. Iu this L part,
Mrs. Qaigley, two daughters nod Miss
Marble, were Bitting, having just com?
pleted breakfast. They flew into tho
uppor story aud so escaped. It ?was
while they wero staudiog hi ro that the
main part of the house parted from
their tower of safety, leaving them
with a thin partition to fence out tho
surging sea. The village chapol fol?
lowed the way to destruction, and also
two or three double homes. Tbo cur?
rent had now nearly reached George
P, Warner's button factory, whioh wus
totally ruined.
It was singular to see how buildings
were absolutely pulverized iu going
down the stream. Large houses were
reduced in u short time to debris, no
two boards romainiug together. The
violence of the torrent was also shown
by tho fact, that nearly every tree in
the flood was stripped of its bark,
while tho remains of nearly all the vic?
tims were stripped of their clothing
and horribly mangled. Oue headloss
trunk of a man was recovered, a fright?
ful sight. Ouo farmer found his
horses alive iu the stable after the
flood, with only their heads stiokiug
ap out of the mud and water.
Oue little boy came floating down
the flood to Leeds, on a board, from
somewhere above. Luckily he steered
for a little knoll not "ot covered, aud,
throwing away his beard, he olimbed
to the highest point of the knoll. Still
the water rose, and only a spot as largo
as a tuble remained when thu water
reached its greatest hoight, aud the
pluoky fellow was saved.
Northampton lost six iron and three
wooden bridges, and one arch of a now
stone bridge. Every bridge in town
ou Mill River, except the one ou Smith
street, was carried off, and that nar?
rowly escaped destruction. The oaual
railroad bridge, near Hospital Hill,
Northampton, is gone, and the road in
so maoh washed away, both below
Northampton and above HaydeuBviUo,
that it is doubtful if through trains
shall be running again before Wednes?
day. In several instances, stone dams
resisted the torrent snaoeasfnlly, and
the river oat an entirely new channel
to-day aronnd them.
A Fronoh Canadian, poiutiug to two
little boys, said: "I had eight children,
bat only these are left." -Of one lurge
family at Leeds, all wore lost save the
youngest child. The great loss of lite
at Leeds is due to tho faut that most of
tho families were at breakfast, and
wore swept away without a momma's
warning. It is said that the cries of
tho drowniug and terrified victims
wero heart-rending. Children olung to
their parents and parents to their chil?
dren, and together they sank iu the
angry torrent. Ouu little child was
found alone iu the street, where it had
been at piny. All its relations had
been lost.
Among tho sad incidents was that of
seven young girls who climbed iuto an
apple tree, thinking it would .stand,
but thoy were all swept aw.-y. The
body of a littlo child four years old
was found, with a pair of new shoes iu
its hand. In the toes of the shoos
wer? found four $20 bills, which the j
mother had probably tried to save.
The Piedmont Manufacturing Com?
pany?A Fine Ori'oitTUNiTy ron In?
vestment.?The fir it annual meeting
of the stockholders of this company
was held on Wednesday, tho l'.i .h iust.,
iu this city, in which there was present
a full representat ion of the stock. The
Presidout, Air. H. P. LLimuiott, sub?
mitted bis report, showing the opera?
tions of the company for tho past year.
Much woik has beer, finished and ail
paid for?the policy of the company
being to pay for what is douu as the
work progresses. We learn that the
report was very satisfactory to the
mooting. The stockholders instructed
tho directors to make tho necessary as?
sessments to raise an amount sufficient
to complete tho buildings aud to pre?
pare ut onoo to receive the machinery.
The nssessmont has buuu made, aud
contracts will soou bo executed for the
work. Tho buildings, when ereoted,
will bo cipable of containing N.U00
spindles and 200 looms. The water
power is ntnply sufficient to increase
the capacity of tho mill to 40,000 spin?
dles aud 1,000 looms. Tho stockhold?
ers visited Piedmout ou the 14th, by
railroad, and expressed themselves as
pleased iu every respect with the loca?
tion uud the work that has been ac?
complished. Tho charter was accepted
and by-laws adopted, and tbo orguui
zition completed. The officers for tbo
ensuing year are: President ? II. P.
Hauimett. Directors?Humlin Boattie,
Alexander McBee, Thomas C. Cower,
T. Q Doualdsoti, of Greenville; Dr.
W. C. Norwood and Gen. Samuel AIc
Gowau, of Abbeville; J. N. Martin, of
Nowberry, und Smilie A. Gregg, of
Darlington. The directors are men of
well-known btisiuesa talents and high?
est respectability, beiug at tho same
tirao men of means. Wo feel cou
viuc'd that the enterprise will be iu
every respect both eminently safe und
successful. Parties desiring stock can
obtain the same by oommuuioaliug
with the President or any member ot
the board.
I Greenville Enterprise &' Mountaineer.
Tho Raleigh JVeirssays: List Thurs?
day evening, between 2 and !! o'ulook,
all this part of creation was jarred by
a tremendous explosion. There was a
general aud iustinctive exclumatiou of
"Bald Mountain!" but wo have since
learned that tho disturbance was caused
by the explosion of an mrolito which
fell to the earth iu tho upper purt of
this County, not very fur from Ran?
som's bridgo. Persons in tho neigh?
borhood secured somo of the pieces,
and ono fragment, weighing something
over a pound, has been left ut the
Itoauoke Neics offije. Tho outside
seems to have fused und glazed over,
something like the sand does some?
times ou a brick, but where pieces have
flown off, disclosing the inside, it rt
sembles a very dark rock, mixed with
minute particles of metal.
ToSTBE.?A oable despatch an?
nounces the death of this churmiog
1 littlo opera bouffeist, in Paris, a few
days ago, from grief. Au admirer has
furnished the followiug pretty desigu
for her tomb:
Carve out tha form of La Grande
Dachesse,
Make it of marble rare;
Her right hand holding, with fond ca?
ress,
Le sabre de mon pere.
luscribc on her tomb no lying word
To smooth her life aud duy?
Only write ou tho blade of tho sword,
Tho single word Tostoe.
GoimD to Death ut a Mao Bull.?
Ou Monday, Captuin Jesse Ludham,
of Bridgohumpton, L. I., while driv?
ing in his carriage, was attacked by a
mud bull. Tho horso in trying to es?
cape overturned tho carriage, und be?
coming entangled iu the harness, the
bull rushed upon the horse and gored
bint in a tcrriblo manner. Mr. Lud?
ham could uot extricate himself und
was attacked by tho bull, who first
trampled upon him, and thou with a
single thrust of its horns, pierced him
to the heart, causing iustaut death.
A yonng wife once cured her hus?
band of a disposition to absent himself
from homo at nights by providing him
with an excellent dinner, and saying to
him afterward: "George, if you find u
swootor spot than our homo, describe
it to mo, uud I will rival it, if I die iu
tho attempt.' A kiss aud a few tears
completed tbo viotory.
The shrimp season has fairly sot in
iu Charleston.
Special Meeting or ttie City Council- j
Council. Ciiamdeu,
ConuifBiA, 8. 0., May 21. 1874.
Council met at 8 P. M. Present?
His Honor the Mayor, Jobu Alexun
der, and Aldermen Brown, Carroll,
Cooper, Davis, Griffin, Pugh, Simons,
Sw.vgert, Thomas and Wells. Abscut
? Aldermau Carr and Purvis.
The Mayor stated thut the meeting
wus called to make arrangements to
feed tho city poor; to sell such of the
horses und mules of tho city us could
be ttpured, uud to make arrangements
io feed the balance; uud also to fix thu
time for the election of city officers.
After a general discussion upoo the
necessity of curtailing thu expenses of
tho city government, Aldermau Pngb
moved that three of the city mules be
soid. ?
Alderman Cooper moved to amend
by inserting "lour" iu lieu of "three."
The amendment was accepted, and
the motion, us amended, wad adopted.
Aldermau Simons moved that tho
giay horse belonging to tho city bo
sold.
Aldermau Swygert moved to amend
so as to sell both tho gray and sorrel
horses, with their equipments. Tho
amendment was accepted, aud the mo?
tion, us amended, was adopted.
Aldermau Cooper moved that the
horsej and mules be hold for cash, at
public outcry, on tho first Monday of
June next, aud that the City Clerk give
public notice of tho sale. Adopted.
On motion of Alderman Brown, it
was required thul Council, at the next
regular meeting, go iuto an electiou
for City Attorney, und that the City
Clor** give duo notice of the en mo.
Ou motion of Aldermau Carroll, it
was tusolvud that Couucil, at tho next
regular uieetiug, go into uu election
for members of tho Board of Health.
Ou motion of Aldermau Simone,
Council adjourned.
WALTE 11 JONES, City Clerk.
Coincidence.?It is a little singular
thut u Kassian Duke, the Czar's ne?
phew, and the Governor of nn Ameri?
can State, should be arrested in the
.it?iii wet k lor grand larceny. Put
the similarity of the ovjmparisou fails
hero. The Riissiau Prince was im
prisonod; our lt-jpubiicau prince,
Thief Moses, protects tho majesty of
his person witb soldiers. Thut is the
diff-.rouoo between "a hoary despot?
ism" uud "thu best government thu
world ever saw."?Charlotte Observer.
Decorating Soldiers' Graves.?
President Grant approves of the co?
operation of those who were opposed
to one another during the lute war in
thu decoration of graves of soldiers
who heroically fell ou both sides, aud
that he believes the time bus oome
when every feeling of frateruity should
bfl"ouooiiruged, and advantage taken of
ov.:ry opportunity to lomovo any re?
maining animosity occasioned by thu
war.
Sou ill 0 aro Ii* n a UiHilJEBIES ?Sjme
of tho official plunderers of S >uth Ca
roliua have bouu regularly indicted for
breach of tiustaud grand larceny, aud
if their offences are us tligrant us they
have been represented, it should not
bo difficult to convict thorn. Would it
not bo a good notion to try the legal
remedy in ull the Southuru Statt s
against rascally officials?
[New York Herald.
United States District Coukt.
May 21, Judge liryuu presiding?Iu
thu putitiou of lt. B. Cain, to eujoiu
the tax collector from levying on pro?
perty of it B Cain, bankrupt, au in?
junction was granted. Dim el B. Mu
Litiriu, of Sumter, received a final
discharge. The putitiou of B. T.
Wood, of Spurtuuburg, for final dis?
charge, was referred to the registrar to
report.
A superstitious old darkey seeing bis
Dutch neighbor planting potatoes, one
evening, said to him: "Look here,
m tesa, the moon ain't in ooudUiou to
plaut potatoes nt present." The old
Dutchman looked astonished for a mo?
ment, uud then replied: "Dander aud
blitzen! I don't plant potatoes iu the
moon; I plants my potatoes iu the
ground." B
Connecticut is in groat need of a
law to prevent t he employment of chil?
dren in factories. At tho immense
Baltic mills, lato tho property of the
bankrupt A. & W. Spraguo corpora?
tion, it is said that children not over
four or tlvo years of age are put to
work (or the benefit of their French
Canadian parents.
"Johnnie, where is your pa?"
"Gone Ushiug, sir." "He was a fi-di
lng yesterday, was he not?" "Yes,
sir." "What did ho catch?" "One
cattish, the rheumatism, two eels, the
toothache uud some little ones. Ma
says he wli catch tits to day; just wait
(ill he gets home!"
Tho Heading (Pa ) Eagle says: "Mr.
John Moser, of Pike towuship, on
Wednesday evoniug, remarked to Jas.
Herb, a vifitor, that he was seventy -
uinu years old, aud had never been
sick, when he became giddy, sank iu
his ohuir and died."
Tho PiiaiNix job office is com plots
iu every respect, and cards, posters,
pamphlets, programmes, bill-heads,
etc., ure turued out with alacrity.
Brotherly love is uot tho ouly kind
they cultivate in Philadelphia. Foi
15,782 fond hourts were made to beat
as 7,891 in that city lust year.
Au Indiana man has just received
uotioe of u $-1,000 dividend on an oil
well whioh ho hud given upas a total
loss. Oil's well that ends well.
The County Commissioners of Barn
well County were arrested and lodged
io jail Thursday, to uuswer an indict
I ment for malfeasance in office,
Shakspeare would never have asked,
"What's in au aim?" if ho had beer,
bit on tho head with a brick.
City -t?kSTBaa.? Subsoribo for the
Major Eversou, of the Columbia
Union, returned, yesterday, from a
,v|?it tol^ho North. *
Pat. will serve hia friends with fish
chowder from 11 to 1 o'clock, to-day,
nt tho Pollock HouBe.
Mewrs. Seibels Sz Ezell have on ex?
hibition iu their office- a copy of a map
showing the extent of the terrible
overflow of the Mississippi and its tri?
butaries.
The ladies will accept ear thanks for
cards of admission to the dramatio aud
musical eutertainmeut, on Monday
evening next, for the benefit of the
Monumental Association.
J. H. Hendrix has been suspended
by the Govornor as Auditor of Lexing
iugton for cause, aud Emauuel Walker
designated to act till the meeting of
the General Assembly.
Messrs. HofXman ?Sc Albrecht have
all tho vegetables aud fruits of the
season, and many somewhat ahead,
Bach as cucumbers, squashes, etc.
They keep up with the times.
A cow thief, named Will Avery, was
arrested, yesterday, by Sergeant Bliz?
zard, assisted by Policemen Taylor,
Leo aud Davis. The cattle were found
at Ben. Patrick's butcher pen, iu the
country.
The Greenville and Columbia Bail
rood will issue tickets to parties wish?
ing to attend the raoes at Greenville,
commencing on Monday, the 25th
tust., ut half price. See advertise?
ment.
The congregation of the Second
Baptist Oharch will hereafter hold
their services at the brick chapel, on
Bull street, (formerly Christ Church,)
instead of the hall of the Palmetto
Fire Company. Sunday Sohool 9>?
A. M. Services at 11 A. M.
Tho remains of Corporal G?rtler, of
Company B, 18th Infantry, were car?
ried to Florence, yesterday, for inter?
ment in the National Cemetery. The
body was escorted to tho depot by a
detachment of the garrison.
There was a tie vote, yesterday, in
the Barnwell-Blackville case, before the
Board of State Canvassers. The en
tiro day was taken up in reading the
returns of the Board of County Can
vase era. They meet again this morn?
ing.
The Entektainment Monday Even?
ing-. .?The following is the programme 1
of the theatrical and musical enter?
tainment, to bo given at Parker's Hall,
on Monday evening, May 25, for the
benefit of the Mouumoub Association:
Music by orchestra.
Day Afteb the Weddino.?Charac?
ters represented: Col. Freelove, Lord
Bivers, James, groom, Lady Eliza?
beth, Mrs. Davis.
Song?"Nightingale's Trill."
Tue Dumb Bell?Characters: Mr.
Mauvers, Capt. Vivian, O. Smurk,
James, Eliza, niece of Mr. Manvere,
Mury, maid, Miss Rivers.
Refreshments will be served between
aud ufter the plays. Doors open at
7>aJ performance commence at 8
o'clock. Prioe of admission fifty cents.
Mr. S.?I say, Mr. J., what did you
pay for that fine imported Havana?
Mr. J.?Why, only ten cents, at the
California Cigar Store, next to the
Wheeler House.
Mr. S.?You don't suy so. Well, I
will have to go there at once and buy
some, for I have been paying fifteen
cents.
Coubt; of Common Pleas. May 22.?
The jury oould cot agree in oase of
Levi Dent against F. Sohimdt and
wero discharged,
i Charles Soott & Co. against Wm. E.
E. Rose. Verdict for plaintiff.
C. J. Stoibrand against S. L. H?ge.
Crt*-o withdrawn.
Joe Jenkins against South Carolina
Ruilroad Company. Continued.
South Carolina Bauk and Trust
Company against F. Schmidt. -Ver?
dict tor piaiutiff.
Two cases of F. Schmidt against J.
1 H. Ruuklo ure to be submitted to the
1 court on matters of law.
Appeal ducket. W. S. Pope & Bro.
' against Greenville and Columbia Rail?
road Company. Verdict for plaintiffs.
Charles Hamburg ugainst Monteith
' & Bauskett. Jury faiiiug to agree at
hour of adjournment, a sealed verdict
' was ordered.
1 Wm. Glaze against L. C. Carpenter.
1 Verdict fur plaintiff.
H. C. Leebelt agaiu&t F. Schmidt.
) Verdict for plaintiff.
J. O. Lad (I against F. Schmidt.
, Verdict for plaintiff.
Calendar No. 2 was oalled and Court
[ adjourned uutil 10 o'olook, to-morrow
. morning.
Mr. B.?Mr. M., did you ever try
I any of the California Cigar Store five
ceut Partagns?
I Mr. M.?Why, of course I have; I
smoke nothing else. They aro better
' than any ton cent cigar I oan get else?
where.
List of New Advbbtisbubnts.
, J. F. Taylor?Iron Works,
i Oliver Ditson & Co.?Musio.
Thus. Dodamead?Tickets to Raoes.