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COLUMBIA,Hggi G; Saturday Morning, June 13, 1874. Who Wo aid be Free, Themselves Mu?t Strike the Blow. Philosophers excogitate just princi? ples of government, and philoaophio etateamen apply them in the spheres of praotioal administration. Where governments are moderately good, and managed without oppression to the people, the bulk of men live under them without oaring or being able to investigate whether they are perfect in theory or not, or whether they are administered in striot justice or not. Men in good health do not make a study ot iU conditions. They need no physician. Having no liver com plaint, they are hardly consoious that they have a liver. So the ordinary citizen of a State is content, if his rights are respected, his proper privi? leges not curtailed, his property se? cured to his own cd joy moot, and his self-respect net infringed upon. But it is altogether different when ugly tumors on the body politic rise to view every day?whon official and per? sonal corruption stalks abroad?when the plainest rights of the people are trampled upon?when property is con? fiscated?when everything precious and valuable is overthrown?when the lights of education, science and prc Tgress are extinguished?when public morality has degenerated?when scurvy pimps and villains are exalted, . ancktthen everything tends most un? mistakably to ruin and disgrace. Then ?the sense of tho community becomes -alarmed. Then the average citizen sees that he is the victim of a vicious and corrupt system; that the fountains of infias&oe have been poisoned; that, ->.inM& word, he is cheated out of his "manhood and his rights. Thus trenched upon, he is compelled to turn his thoughts away from his fami? ly and his ordinary business interests and, duties. la his path, which should be unobstructed and peaceful, he finds obataoles and difficulties?lions to be slain or reptiles to be crushed. He cannot hesitate what to do. Necessity is laid upon him. The people of South Carolina have been in this trying position for several years. The evils, the unparalleled corruptions and atrocities of the State ?Government have forcod them to think of the ways and means of exterminat? ing or correcting them. There is not a hnman being within hor borders, unless an idiot, who does not know that the State has rapidly descended, through a oarnivai of orime, from the highest position of honor to one of utter abasement and soorn. It is al? most as well known abroad as at home. Sooh a monstrosity has excited unu enal attention. The world has looked on with sorrow and indignation at a State once the pride of Amerioan States, now "prostrate," bound and helpless. But vrhile the world looks on, it is for us to feel, and it ought to be for us to devise and apply remedies adequate to the disease. We become parties to the infamy if we do not do our best to have it removed. Unplea? sant as it may be and exacting as are each man's private affairs in suoh a condition of society, it is a duty from which no one can escape to give his time, talents and services to the effort to reoover the State onoe more to pros? perity and credit. It is due even to those private' affairs that he should seek to make the circumstances under whioh they are to be prosecuted more favorable and promising. Aa a patriot, as a oitizen, as the head or member of a family, in every capa? city that he fills, it is incumbent on evdry man to work for the redemption of the State. There are mon who rea? son in a shallow way, saying that no? thing can be dope against the hosts of evil, the collective agencies of num? bers, power, office, ignorance and cor? ruption. They throw op their hands in despair. They see no hope, and are not willing to hope against hope and work against oddB. Such men are half oouqnered. It is easy to fight with odds in one's favor. With popu? lar applause and impulsive numbers leading on and pointing the way, who cannot follow/ He is tho braver man, the truer patriot, who is determined never to' yield, nbiai to compromise his principles, howe^etn't ^ay change, his policy and taotioe, and never to abdicate hia manhood. He will take his stand deliberately, and maintain it. He Will remember that the battle is not always to tho swift, nor to the strong. "Thrice is ho armed that hath bis quarrel just," and great deeds are not to be performed, nor good re? sults achieved, nor immortal garlands won, without dust and beat. ????-*?--?? Subscribe for the Phos nix, Tax Union?. " ThV ^efeg~tes^o'~ Payers* Convention from Riohland are request? ed to - meet at the office of Messrs.' Wallace'-& Green,ronjf Monday, tue 15th instant, at 12 M., to make ar? rangements for organizing Tux Unions in said County. a* ? WM. WALLACE, Chairman. ' -V-??? . ?? The News from South Carolina.? Always darkest just before morning, enya the old proverb. It has been a dark night and a long one for South Carolina; how dark and how long, readers sitting in prosperous Now Eng? land homes, under the secure protec? tion of just laws honestly administorod, have, and can have, little idea. It bus seemed at times as though daybreak would never come. But at last, unless the eyes of the watchers have played tricks with their hopes, there are faint gray streaks in the East, and the black gloom is slightly but visibly lifting. In tho first place, the recent Tax Payers' Convention accomplished a good deal more than some of its pro? moters and engineers even yet suspect. It did not sooure Federal interposition, as it set out to do, and on this account superficial critics, within and without, made haste to write it down a failure. They were wrong; it was a great suc? cess. True, its committee got little satisfaction at the White House and the 'lapitol; but even this disappoint? ment, bitter and disheartening as it first was, promises to prove in the long run another cuse of the blessing in disguise. There are hopeful indications that the property-holders of tho plundered State, despairing of help from without, are at last waking up to the necessity of helping themselves. Tho local tax? payers' organizations, hitherto existing principally on paper, are becoming facts. The newspapers of the Stute, wasting no more rhetoric on tho Presi? dent and Congress, devoto themselves to impressing upou thoir readers the importance and hopefulness of organ? ized effort. The young men of the State are responding to these appeals. So far as can be judged by observers at this distance, the old lethargy, as of nightmare, that has weighed down the white people of the prostrate common? wealth, is giving place to a now energy of resolution and action that in fall of good omen. Nor, in the second place, has the - fir - -. _ ? .1. ? ? ? ? ?,,-?_ n,,l,];n cuouh ui iuo uuui?ullCu Upon pUU.IC opinion without the State been less marked. The statement of facts drawn up by the tax-payers for use ut Washington found its real ubo in the columns of Northern newspapers. It has produced a profound impression upon thoughtful peoplo throughout the UnioD, A groat tide of sympathy has set in toward the suffering State? a tide all the stronger for being, to a certain extent, a re-aotion from previ? ous ooldness and indifference. Here and there we see influential Republi? can organs?notably the New York Time*?borne along by it. They are saying now what they abused us for saying only two short years ago. This ohange in publio sentiment at the North ia reacting, iu its turn, upou public sentiment in South Carolina. The tax-payers are encouraged; the more intelligent blacks alarmed. Be sure that every sharp word of the Times is promptly reproduced in the people's papers of the State, and that the editors of the thieves' papers and the thieves themselves find it very un? comfortable reading. [Springfield (Mass.) Republican. An Important Meeting.?The mem bers of the Executive Committee of the Tax-payers'Convention of South Caro? lina aro hereby requested to meet at the rooms of tho Chamber of Com? merce, in Charleston, on Thursday, the 18th day of June, instant, ut 12 o'clock, meridian. The main subject of consideration will be prompt and efficient Organization of tax unions throughout the State. Those mem? bers who cannot attend are invited to send opinions and proxios to the Chair? man or to other members of the com? mittee. JAMES CHESNUT, Chairman Executive Committee, Sec. The newspapers iu the State uro requested to publish the foregoing notioe, as the meeting proposed to be held is likely to prove one of great importance to the tax payers of all classes. Beecher Improves on Paul.? Would it be wrong for a young man who is u Christian uud au active mem? ber of a church to marry u young lady he, loves, and who, he has reason to believe, loves him, but who is not a Christian and does not belong to a Christian family? We have several times given a gene? ral opitiiou on this question?wo can? not attempt to advise in particular oases. The advice of Paul against marriage with "unbelievers" is not wholly applicable to this time. There was an irreeonoilablo doctrinal and moral antagonism between an ancient heatheu and a Christian living in per? petual expectation of martyrdom from heathen foes. There could be no "fel? lowship" betweeu them. The whole question is one of fellowship. If the lady whom our correspondent speuks of ia one who will be in sympathy with his highest aspirations and pur? poses?bis purposes to live nobly and unselfishly?then ho had better marry her than some professors of religion.? Henry Ward Beecher in the Christian Union. The first photographer has opened his saloon in Truckee, Nevada, and has been shot at by a miner who insisted on having his picture taken by lump light as he was going away early in tho morning. Work will aoon begin on tho pilgrim monument at Plymouth, Mass. , TfllUSrWASB?UO AND ASIlEYIIiLB Bailuoad Company.?A. meeting of the direotora of this company was held lust evening. Present?Hon. O. G. Memmingor, President; Hon. Gabriel Cannon, Vice-President; Messrs. Geo. W. Williams, B. Bollmann, Theo. D. Jervev, Alvu Gage, D. B. Duncan, Direolbrs, and -A. C. Kanfman, Secre? tary and Treasurer. President Memminger read a letter from Mr. J. S. Kennedy, President of the French Broad Railroad Company, announcing officially to him the action of his board in reference to their de? sire to effect a consolidation of their company with the Spartanburg and Ashoville Railroad, and asking for the appointment of a oommitteo from Uhb board to moot a similar commute" from his to arrange tho terms of the consolidation of tho two companies. On motion of Geo. W. Williams, Esq., it was Resolved, That thi.s hoard approves the proposal to consolidate into one company this company and tho Green? ville, Tenn., and French Broad Rail? road Com puny, of North Carolina; that a committee of four, of whom tho Pre? sident of this company shall bo chair? man, bo appointed to meot any like committee which may bo appointed by the Greenville and French Broud R.?il road Company, und arrange the terms upon whioh such consolidation shall be effected; and that said committee bo authorized to take such measures to carry out this object as they may, in their judgmeut, deem expedient. The President uppoiuted upon thi.s committee Messts. Gabriel Cannon, D. R. Duncan and Theodore G. Bar? ker. Hon. Gabriel Cannon, who has just returned from the engineer corps now in tho Held, mado a very eucouragiug uod flattering report upou the advance of the survey, stating that Col. Thud. Colemau, the eugiueer in charge, hud mentioned to him that by a slight de? flection from Maj. Calla's hue?itself not expensive?there would be a con? siderable saving, both in dn-tance and money. Mr. Ephraim Cluytou, the pioneer of this line?his connection with it dating back forty years?wan in the field with the corps obtaining the right of wny and urging on the work with remarkable energy. Mr. Clayton is au experienced railroad contractor, having had large contracts upon railroads in eveiy part of the country, and says be is now deter? mined to see this pet schemo of his consummated ere long. The people of North Carolina, who hitherto traded with Charleston, are auxious to renew their business relations with our mer? chants, and will do so immediately upon the proper facilities for transpor? tation by rail being afforded them. The cry everywhere along tho line is for Charleston. Col. Cannon conclud? ed by urging the board to press tho claims of this enterprise upou the peo? ple of this city. After the transaction of other busi? ness, the meeting adjourned. [Charleston News and Courier, 12th. Massacre.?10,000 Christians have recently been massacred iu tho pro? vince of Toug-Kiug, Coohin-Chinn, if a letter purporting to come from the Bishop of Larauda, aud published in the Freuch papers, may be relied upou. Tong King is the largest province of Cochin-China, and the Christiaus said to have been massacred are mostly the converts of Freuch priests. Withiu tho missiou from which the slaughter is reported there were SO.OUO Christ iuus, and tho movement agninst them must have been a deliberately planned aud powerful one. Tu-Duc, the Em? peror of Cocbin-Cuiuu, has always been a bitter opponent of the intro? duction of Christianity among his people, who are a mixed race ol Ma? lays, Chinese, Siamese aud Pegtiaus, numbering about 15.000,000, Buddhist iu what religion they practice, and speakiug a language similar to that of the Chinese, ilia battles with the French, .jy which he lost several of his provinces, aud was compelled to open his e-ntire country to Christianity, seem to have made him even a more determined onemy of tho missionaries thun he had been before, and, if the reports from Paris be true, he has now struck a blow more terriblo thun any that preceded it. Another Freuch in? vasion of his territory will, of course, follow, and the war in Cochiu-Chiua will open the next field for the enter prisiug correspondent. An act of infamous cruelty, under color of law, reaches us from Annapo? lis, It seems that some eighteen mouths since, a private was caught drunk aud asleep whilo on duty. He was tried, convicted and soutunced to two years' solitary coufiuomeut iu a dungeon. Tho dungeon or cell se? lected for this purpose is a closet five feet by ten, undor tho water-Hue, in the hold of a vessel. For eighteen months, this miserable wretch has in this manner been shut out from the light of Hoaven, breathing the noisome air of this loathsome place. Nothing but a vigorous Constitution prevonts this being, what it will bu yet, the death penalty, and a slow, lingering death of torture. Now, how oftou have the officers who meted oat this torture, or tho Secretary who approved it, been drank and asleep on duty? Oao douhto, with suoh a fact before us, the Christian civilization of our age. [ Capital. Colored Emigrants from Virginia. Yesterday morning, about 100 colored men from Richmond, Va? engaged to labor in Ohio coal mines, passed through Baltimore, en route for Colum? bus, Ohio. They report groat destitu? tion among oolored people in Rich? mond, where it is almost impossible to find employment. I Baltimore Sun, 10th. . .The New Bloom in the Treasury. Department.?Secretary Bristow baa already put on foot several reforms iu the Treasury.(^Department, und with a deter mi nation that indicates tbat be means to carry tbem out. One of his first official duties was to seud :for tbe obief of the appointing bureau, aud ascertain from,him bow many persons drew pay and rendered uo services iu return. The long list of sinecures was Bbown him, and he directed tbe clerk to strike every name from tbo pay roll immediately. Eighteen females wvrc found to be among the number draw? ing pay from the department, nud the appoiutment clerk went so far as to say that they did not even take tbe trouble to call for their salary, that it hud to bo sent tbem regularly, und that ho hud no information that they ever did a cent'a worth of work in re? turn, some of them being incapable of doing the duty. Tho new Secretary iuteuds also to put a stop to ho rnuoy other abuses, such as clerks taking European trips with their families at Government expenses on imaginary inspections or business, and of absent? ing themselves from their desks, iu some cases, us much us three-fourths of the time. He intends also to weed out, without regard to persons, iu ul! cases where there are more than one in it family employed iu the depart? ment. Secretary It ich unison made several attempts to stop this, but ou account of tho great pressure brought to bear in individual eives, allowed it to remain. It will probably be the same with Mr. Bristow in a few week.-?, when the pressure comes. BlG Fkkt ?A clerk stepped around the other night aud called upon u ? young iuily, and ?luring the interview asked her company to a party a few [nights hence. She declined, aud be jiug asked her reason frankly told htm ?she had holes it) her shoos. "Oh. if that's all I'll sent! around tar them in tho morning and have them mended." "Very well, if von will I'll go with you." He wrote a polite note, aud sent, it by the porter. When the por ? ter got to the house the girl was out, and her mother read the document. Without saying a word the old lady stepped back iu the kitchen aud picked up a pair of number tens belonging to tho cook, which were double soled, pegged, half worn out, aud rundown at tho haels. The clerk, nothiog doubting, received them with perfect I horror, but Hunt them to his shoe shop. They were tiuishod iu time, the clerk dressed himself, picked up the "gun? boats," wont to the bouse aud into the parlor. "There's your shoes em the table, Miss Mary." "What!" "There's your shoes I had mended." "I would thank you, sir, to take yourself out of this house," aud out of the room she went in high dudgeon. The uuited efforts of the young man and "the old woman" have utterly failed to make her see any joke in it. IJ.ow a Flock of Sheep was Drown? ed.? Galignani's Messenger notes that a somewhat singular incident has just occurred at a farm belonging to the chateau of Avignon, in the Cainargue, Bouches-du-Ithoue, France. A nock of CS4 sheep were feeding, when they were suddenly surprised by a violent storm of wiud and rain dashing iu their faces. They instantly turned aud ran away to escape the driviug shower, but, unfortunately, tho puth they* selected led them straight to a deep pond, into which they plunged, oue after the other, aud were all drowued. A poor dog, which wus iu charge of tho dock, endeavored to slop tkeui, but the pressure of the fright eued animals was so great that ha was boruu down, uud .sburoil their futo. Their bodies were extricated the next ? day, aud buried iu deep ditches dug close by. The loss was estimated ut nearly bO.??Jf. Lightning on Bike's Peak ?Sun? day was uu eventful day on Pike's ? Peak. Two feet of "sleet suow" fell during daylight, aud clouds rested 1 like- a pail upou the summit. D.s charges of the electric fluid were so frequent thut at limes tho rooms of the signal .station seemed to be lilled with flames. The wires were nil melt? ed to the grouud, und the stove was the object for many au attack. Once the signal officers were ull prostrated by u furious bolt. Indeed, so terrible was tbo situation, und so fearful tiie coustaut aud repeated discharges, that Sergeant Leary was frightened into 1 lits. Seldom do the observers essay a I visit to tho springs, tho snow has ac? cumulated to so great a depth upon tho Peak; but wo learn that the suow ? level is now rapidly getting lower. [Denver Times, June The advocates of cremation evi? dently too thoroughly appreciate tho dignity, importance aud gravity of their mission, to bo affected iu the least by stock ridicule o- newspaper hoaxes out of season. Tho growth of this movement is not confined to this (country aloue, but is as wide as civili I zation, and rapidly as it bus acquirud strength in our large cities, it has at? tained oven more definite proportions in the old world, until aoromutiou fur nnco is iu process of construction in Dresden, nud in Switzerland the peo? ple regurd it as a more interesting is suo than the revision of the Federal Conf titution, on which a vote is shortly to be taken. Discussion is growing wider, and objoctious ure answered as fast as they arise.?JJoslun Post. --? ? ?--. Tho Republican voters of the seven? teenth civil District of Kncx Cout'ty, Tenn., last week, by a vote of seventy to five, sustained the position of Se? nator Brownlow on the Civil Bights Bill. Soarlct fever is prevailing to au alarming extont at Pittsburg, Pa, United States District Court, Jone 11?Judge Bryan presiding. In tho petition of C. 13. Hummett, to es? tablish liens in thu matter of B. F. fates, bankrupt, the Registrar's re ort was confirmed and the assignee Ordered to disburse the funds in his hands in conformity with the Regis? trar's report. In the application of R. M. Wallace, United States Marshal, for au order ou the assignee in the matter of John S. Shuok, bankrupt, it was ordered that the assignee, W. G. Croft, do within teu days make full re? port to the United States District Court of his actings and doings as nuoh aariguoe. It was ordered, ou the application of Mrs Amelia G. Clark, lien creditor in tho case of McMaster, Monteith & Uoath, bauhrupte, that the order of M*y, 1871, in reference to this case, be modified so far as it re? lates to house and lot mortgaged to A. G. Olarkson, to secure un annuity of $500, und thut tho assignee sell the roul ustute, and from the prooeeds pay the amount of annuity now iu arrears. It was ordered, ou thu application of W. H. Chafee & Co. against J. R. L luibaou, bankrupt, that tho creditors have leave to prosocute the suit to judgment. It was also ordered, on the application of Furchgott, benedict A C > ugaiust J. It. L-Kuibaoo, bankrupt, that the creditor* huvo leave to prose? cute suit to judgincut. On tho appli? cation of tho asMgueu in the matter of W. G. liurris, bankrupt, leave was granted the assiguce to sell the pro? perty aud to hold the proceeds, subject to th? order of thu Court. A Philuduiphiu paper relates ad mir-j ihgly a story of General Putuum, ! winch, ii true, shown that this revolu- , tiouary hero must have had some very spiritless recruits under bim at times. I Says the Philadelphia paper: "Obi Put" had received a lot ol recruits, and as he had some lighting ut baud, ami want et 1 none but willing meu, he drew up his levies before him. "Now, | boys," said he, "I don't wish to retain any of yum who wish to leave; there? fore, if any of you is dissatisfied, and wishes to returu home, he may hignify the samu by stepping six puces iu front of the line. But," added the old war dug, 'T'li tdioot the ?rst mau that Isteps nut." Such bullying us thut i would have met with the response it j deserved if "old Put" had lived in our degenerate days, unless, perhaps, his recruits had come from Philadelphia. Virginia Crops.?A recent circular of a firm iu Richmond says: "Wo are approaching our wheat harvest in Virginia, with an unprece? dented yield. We have not had a prospect equal to it since the war. Our uext tobucco crop cannot be very large ou account of thu general ra? vages by the 'fly,' aud it is too late to raise more for planting. This faot has improved the value of all good tobacco of the last crop, now coming forward aud upon the market." A report conies from Greene Town? ship, N. O, that R. P. Shaw, a man aged about seventy, well thought of in tho commuuity where he lived, a beacon light tu Mr. Welker's ohuroh, and a promineut Radical, left wife and family, taking to his bosom a thirty five years old widow, named Jaue Greesou, with whom he departed last week for parts uukuown. There is no telling what will become of a man be? fore he dies who belongs to the Radi? cal party. The Loudou Times, iu an article on the American pilgrimage to Rome, ex? presses surprise thut a race pridiug itself ou shrewdness and precision of thought should indulge in such anti? quated superstition. Possibly after contrasting tho population aud wretch? edness of thu lute Papal States with the cultivation und fertility of Ameri? ca, (they are eminently a practical peo? ple, accustomed to judge of institu? tions by their results,) they will fiud their minds disabused. A letter from Poiut Coupee Parish, La., 1st i nst., says: "It is now nearly seveti weeks since the Morgan levee broke and inundated all this part of the country. The water now has an average depth of two feet on all the cultivated land, aud is falling but very ?slowly. Sights are daily witnessed that would move tho most callous heart. Meu, guuut aud haggard, and almost uaked, paddle from house to house, telling a tale of mi tiering aud privatiou almost incredible " A Mississippian, named Collins, con? victed of being a Ku Klux and Beu (ooced to the Albany Stato prison for three year.<, was pardoned a few days since by President Grant. lie was sent to tho penitentiary for supposed complicity iu haugiug a negro who iad become a terror to the neighborhc 3d. lie passed through Richmond recoui ly, ou tho way to his homo in Mississippi. Deatu of a Carolina Linv.?Tie relatives and friends ot Mrs. Polly A. French will be pained to learn that she died at her residence in Senatobia, M?s., on the 2d inst. Mrs. French was tho wife of Mr. George French, and a native of this County. She auu her husband removed from this State to Mississippi some time in 1853. [Laurensville Herald. The proposal fur civil marriage to be made obligatory throughout the Ger? man Empire having failed to obtain a sufficient number of votes in the Fede? ral Council, the measuro must for the present be considered as .shelved. Mrs. Fry, the widow of the captain of the Cuban steamer Virginlus, has established a wood yard in New Or? leans, through means provided by generous friends in St. Louis and elsewhere. A contemporary calls his items "Nits," to show that ho gets them oat of his own head. . CiXX. Matters,? Subscribe fox tho Phoenix. If yon are needing a straw bat, ex? amine Mr. D. Epstiu'd stock. Probabilities promises more rain for tbis section to-day. Never fail to read tbe advertise? ments. Yon can tell by tbem who soils cheap and good wares. The annual Sohuetzenfest of the Au? gusta Scbuetzen Club, commenoing on tho 23d in at., will be a grand affair. Hereafter those who go to Europe for business or pleasure will have to pay a fee of five dollars each for their passports. ? An old toper says there ia some liquor iu Columbia which ongbt to be called Civil Rights?it is so hard to swallow. In that hour of the day when tbe mercury leaps highest, a man goes about on a wagon and cries "Char? coal!" Somebody ought to givo him an overcoat. A darkey gives the following reason why the colored race is superior to tbe white: All men are made of day, and, like the merschaum pipe, they are more valuable when highly colored. A new process of "sweating" or in? flating the currency id in vogue. Tbe notes arc slit lengthwiec, in such a way that out of six bills seven are con? structed, slightly narrower than tbe genuine. Among the quotations in the Charles? ton Weekly Referee are the following: Perjurers?brisk; State?bankrupt; Treasurers?shaky; Governor?below par; parental succor?firm; State Trea? sury?empty. Rain fell in copious showers here yesterday and tho day before, for which let us be thankful. It will take old Sol some time to evaporate the water that fell yesterday. Rain on; we cau stand it. Depositors ia tbe Citizens'*'Savings Hank are notified that a dividend of tweuty five per ceut. will be paid them on and after Monday, the 15th instant. Dividends will not be paid without the production of the pass books. "How's business now?" inquired a drummer of a merchant the other day. "Dull, fearfully dull," was the answer. "The fact of the business is, nobody buys anything just now but provisions and whiskey?the bare necessaries of life, as it were." The new vest has a deep pocket that completely hides a oigar, so that tbe man who asks you "for tbe mate to that" can never bring a blash to your face by discovering it after you have told him "I haven't another; a fellow just give mo that." Those who desire to witness the commencement exercises of Furman Uuiversity, the High School, and the Female College, at Greenville, New berry College, at Walhalla, and Erskine College, at Due West, are referred to tbe proposal, published in another column, by Col. Dodamead, General Superintendent of tbe Greenville and Columbia Bail road, to convey them there aud return them for one fare, between the dates specified. List of New Advertisements. G. & C. R. R.-Half Fare Tickete. Perry ??: Slawson?Cigars. Hotel Arrivals, Jane 12, 187-1.? Columbia Hotel?J M Baxter, New berry; Mrs F J Moses, ohildren and servant, Augusta; T S Oavender, S C; J A Turrentine, W, O & A R R; J D Blaudiog, Sumter; J D Daly. N O; C G Rockwell, Aiken; W D Kennedy, Augusta; T S Clarkson, Charlotte; J E Thames, E G White, Charleston; O aj Glassell, P G Norry, N C; A T Stokes, G B Ambrose, Md; J M Seig lor, Q iO RR; T Kingdom, S C R B Wheeler House?Q Schuub, Bath; L G Gardiner, New York; G E Hoggs, Pat Dutlie, Charleston; Jos Jenkins, Augusta: W A Moore, Marlboro; R D Galbraitb, Chester; Howard Carroll, New York; F H Clover, St Louie; Miss Mollie Hauuak, Chesterfield; S L Huge, oity. Hendrix House?J W Low, Winne boro; W H Able, J W Brown, Ridge way; R A Miokle, Newberry; D R Leak, Charlotte; G W Steffens, Charles? ton. ?? + * m Tho examination exeroises at West Poiut ure always terminated by a grand hop. If Smith bad any heroism aud did not mind a martyrdom, which might immortalize bim, be would in? vite tbe blackest wench he ooold find and take her to that bop, like a "man aud a brother." It is about time these whited sepulobers should be laid bare, and Smith has a ohauoe to do it if he can muster up suffieieut pluck. A London artist found a model in a beggar w.th a splendid long board? 1 duty and uukempt?just snoh as he wanted for a venerable, saintly person he was going to paint. He gave the i man two pence, and told him be ooold earn a shilling a day if be would call at tbe studio. Tho man called aud bad out off bis beard to make himself tidy. Water-melons are daily sold at auc i tion in Key West, averaging ten to i fifteen cents. Vessels from Nassau bring over large quantities.