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CX)LTJMB1A, S. C; San day Morning, September 6,1874. >Vp with the Standard! We have on several occasions pointed to the General Assembly aa the strong position in which we should place oar picked defenders. We have asked those Counties which can exercise the 'liberty of ohoica to send their best men in intelligence, ohuructer, honesty and /boldness into the pnblio oounoiis. It dtf inconceivable ? how muoh positive good, ho? mach prevention of barm, migfbt be effected in tbe Legislature by on on of just opinions and of deter? mined will, who rightly grasp in their sniuds the demands of tbe present and Ifca necessities of the future. Until within the last month, we have not been so confident of the policy of run? ning a candidate for Governor. Bat we live rapidly in these times. The situation is daily undergoing change. As time has drifted by, and events 'have oome to light, it is manifest that we haVe two advanoing columns of opinion and purpose?the one tending to tbe support and more complete es? tablishment*! a corrupt Government, tboother to its overthrow and the sob dlitation in its place of a jnster, wiser and purer. The* promises of reform -within the lines of the Bepablioan party ol this State have died away to an echo. Its march is in a different ^direction. Earnest men of all parties, ? flOkrrs and professions see that its pre? tensions are hollow. Its worst men ?hre&g the gates for preferment; its most odions and revolting policy, tern i porarily checked, is to be revived and ?enforced, j Tbe oocotry siokens at tbe very names of the men who aspire to governvk. It in known that they only ee&k power in this State, in order that they may rule it as a principality, stab it in its most vital interests and betray it in its bonor. It is time, then, that we were ereotiug the standard of good -government, whose oorner-stone shall be moderate taxes, houcat disburse <me&t of pablio funds and the respon? sibility of offioe-kolders. Thero is ? urgent need and imperious demand on the part of all' tbe substantial people for snob government and for the move? ment whiob will secure it. Tbey de? mand, farther, that tbe Btandard shall be -erected and a standard-bearer named. This will not be difficult. It has, in fact, already been done. Tbe popular heart confirms tbo choice, which all intelligent minds will admit to be eminently ?t, of one whose name only lacks the formality of beiog pre? sented to a properly-constituted nomi? nating convention, to be taken up and rung with acclamation through the . length and breadth of tbe State. i a ? ? ? /All In tbe Hands of JL.rn.ndn.ulet Wil? liam?. .Prom tbe despatches wbiuh we pab liShed yesterday, wo are convinced that the War Department is in no condi? tion and bas no disposition to quarter additional troops upon the Southern States. It will not directly issue or? ders for the movement of troops. Tbe - whole matter is placed in tbe bands of the Attorney-General, the man referred to by the President "as well informed as to the outrages already committed, and tbe localities wbere the greatest danger lies." Aooording to several of the Northern Republican journals, be ?keeps a shop where outrages are made ?to order. The whole thing looks as if ?done entirely for political efTeot. Gene? ral McDowell, commanding tbe De? partment of tbe Soutb, is to learn from Landaalet Williams "tbe looali tics wherein tbe military is most de Aiiwd" and will so apportion bis corn maud us to meet the exigencies of the situation as tbey muy arise. In other words, if a ring anywhere, us iu Co? lumbia, for instance, should designate it, or other plaoes in Soutb Carolina, ?9 localities where tbe military was particularly "desired" by themselves, ia order to subserve their ring pur? poses, the Attorney-General would make tbe requisition opon the Com .mandiog General, so as to suit tbeir -npeoial "exigencies." That's tbe plan of the thing. It is very ronnd-a-bont. A ring moves upon the Attorney-Gene? ral for its "locality" for wbioh it par? ticularly deaires troops. The Attorney General, recognizing tbe fitness of things, seeing how muoh tbo power of the military is "desired," of course, being what he iB, will try to oblige bis friends and fill tbeir orders. Bnt we don't think, proud as he would be to farther the domination of the Radical ring over our people, that he will ?ither have any troopB to spare, or can got up any pretext to send them bore, that will not react upon bis own head. The War Department, the military men proper, have no taste for any saoh ignoble business. ,HIglit Uno of tu? Suffrage. We give epaco in oar columns, this morniag, to a plain, earnest aod can? did letter addressed to tho colored people by J. Wood Davidson, Esq. In onr dealings with the negroes in this State we have been obarged with unwillingness to recognize their right*, aod with repugnance to co-operate with them in politios and government. The facts are just the other way, and it is interesting at this moment, when another opportunity is presented to them to array themselves ou the side of honesty and good government, to recall the opportunities they bnvo re? jected.' Tho'consequoucds aro bjforo 1 the couuiry. Tuu negro rr.co i:t, in aonsaquouoe, about to bo put upon trial. Their privileges etc felt by many thoughtful minds to work in? jury, not only to the Stato ".-iovern ments where they are in control, but to republican institutions. It is in? cumbent on tbem, therefore, by every association, public aod private, to seek olearer light for their political guidance, and tu place themselves upon securer ground than the shifting sands of corrupt party aseeudaucy. Mr. Da? vidson shows them their error: in the past, in thie Stato. If they read bis letter oandidly and inwardly digest it, it may fit them for better things in the future: To the NeOBOES oi' Sooth Cako xjka: In view of the erisis in the fortunes of your race, which I con? ceive to be at band, I desire to address you direotly. Iu doing this, I speak as one having with you a nommoo in? terest in the good or ill that is in store for South Carolina and the country at large. Believing that the industrial and other vital interests of both raoea and of the State itself all lie iu one direotion, I wish, as all good citizens must, to advance, in every possible way, all Umso interests together. I shall speak to you directly aud plainly. The crisis is too imminent aod tbe dangers before us too grave for trilling. What I shall say may be distasteful to you. Let it be so, if it must. I care more for your io to rests?our interests, the interests of South Carolina?than I do for your pleasure or your vanity. I propose to tell you some stubborn trnths; to ask you some direct ques? tions, aud to givo you Borne practical and plain advice?all in the interests I have named. You have now been in possession of the Government of Sooth Carolina since 1868?six years and more. What is the result? Who is responsible? How can tbe iujury be repaired? This is tbe mutter be? fore us. In 18G7 the main work began. The host of greedy adventurers that had swarmed dowu upon our unhappy State formed you iuto Union Leagues ?secret, political, oath-bound soci? eties?aud through these leagues mainly the udveuturers have used you as the mere tools of parly. Tliey have bid you vote thus aud so; und you have voted, with an obedience ua abject as tbut which your 40.0?O,??U brother slaves in Africa give their masters. They ordered you to elect tbem to the Constitutional Convention of 1868; aud you elected them. Under the constitution thus prepared, they ordered you to elect them to office, and you obeyed promptly. You elect? ed Messrs. Scott, Parker, Neagle, Chamberlain, Jillsuu and tho rest, be? cause thoy told you they were honest. Against this course we?the whites? earnestly, repeatedly and solemnly warned you. Tbe efforts of Messrs. Hampton, Kersbaw und Untier aud scores of other able, conscientious, honest and trustworthy citizens of oar State, to influence and ndviseyou for tbe best, ure well kuowu to us all. The whites iu vain told you again aud again that tho adventurers were going to ruiu us aii. You thus helped tho carpet-baggers to plunder und impo? verish our State; but I cheerfully acquit you of knowingly committing that great crime, on the ground tbut Vou were outwitted by tho plunderers and fooled iuto abetting their felony. You trusted them aud were deceived. In that case and in that instance you deserve pity and not condemnation. Iu the two years of misrulo that fol? lowed the election of Mr. Scott, every oue of onr warning predictions was verified. Tho ad venturers plundered right and left, aud plunged tho Stato millions of dollars into debt, and pros? trated its industries. Their many beautiful promises to you were con? veniently forgotteu; and iu your abundant charity you forgave tho treachery. In 1870, with all thcao things before yon, you re-elected Scott and his ring, and that again against our warnings and entreaties. Mr. Chamberlain told you that the treasury had not been mismanaged and that the administra? tion of Scott and his accomplices hud been esuuuml??l and josfc; and you believed him, and voted as you were ordered?as the Union League leaders decided that yon should vote?for what thoy oalled "The Party." In this you did not act with the same in nooenoo that you hod two years bo fore. The plea of iguoranoe was fatally weakened. Your enemies and oars became bolder. A class of your leaders?conspicuous among whom was oue Crews and two or three of your own race?arose who told yon that, if yon would rnin the whites by oppressive taxation, the property wonld fall to the blacks. Then yon made a fatal mistake; a mistake wbiob, knowing yonr leaders as two years had revealed them, was far from one of innooenoe. loa began to bate ns be cause we were white men. Here it was that the issue between tbe races as suoh first took definite shape. That day is the birth-day of your rain: Yonr carpet bag washers made yon again the cata-pawa to get their plan der; and you served them well. Then two years more of misrule, stealing, and lying followed. The results were the same as before, only greater. The falsehoods and frauds were the same, only more unblushing and infamous. The gang of spoilers were tho same, only more numerous, more bold aud more base. Iu 1863, we had nomiuated a geutle man and a statesmau, us a Deinocrut let ns say, ugainst Scott. In 1870, we had supported a carpet bagger u? a Reform oamlidute, upon u platform uh It "publican us yours was, against yonr re-uomi&atcd carpel bugger, Scott. In 1872, (tbut wo might leave yon no pos? sible plen,) we supported Mr. Tomlin sou, a Republican nominated by u bolt from your own party?a Republican whoso honesty had forced him to re? sign tho ofllou to which you hud elected him iu 1868, aud to escape from a ring whose touch was dishonor to him. Thus, in 18G8. in 1870 uud iu 1872, wo have opposed your ring nominations with separate and different forces. Your majorities for the plnudercrs have bceu about tho same all three times. That is, you have voted us u raoe ugainst us and for tho thieves; aud this after years of terrible experience, just the same an at first. Yon elected Mr. Muses to bo Governor, whose re? cord in politics uns worse, if possible, than Scott's has ever been. Vmi have now had Moses two years; and it is time for us all to face the matter squarely, and to ask what you mean to du iu the coming elections. You have the power to re-elect Moses or to el-ot oue?if one can he found?who is worse; aud if he can in any way pur? chase his nomination, you seem ready to vote him into office and iuto plun? der again. It is here, aud for this reasou, that I propose to speak plainly to you, because your electing him or any such man would precipitate ruin upon your own heads. Like Samson, you have the power to pull down the temple; but you cannot do it without being yourselves crushed iu the ruins. Three times now?1868, 1870 aud 1872?you have been impomd upou. Yjur adventurers have infused iuto your impressible minds their own cowardly hatred of us; and you have done their dirty work, like the slaves they buve made you with their Uuion Leugne oaths and their secret pledges. Three times your votes buve beeu counted; aud wbeu the returns came in, you shouted victory! and then went homo to starve. They went home to revel iu their ill-gottuu plunder, to bate us and to despise you. What it> the result of all this? At home?I nceil not tell yon how many thousand acres of laud have been and are yet to be s-old for taxes, and some of these are your hard-earned little farms; that i the industries are parulyz^d which should be fruitful of reveuuu uud pros? perity; that you are poor, aud without work, uud hungry, and united, aud diseased, aud squalid, when you should { bo, and might buve been, prosperous, healthy und happy; tbut your schools urn wull-nigh worthless, which ought to educate you; und that ignorance, wuut aud crime domineer where plenty, education und virtue ought to ubeuud. These things you know to your tor row; aud, beforu the civilized world, they make you the by word und con? tempt of the timvs. Abroad?You are not too ignorant to see that the Government iu South Carolina, which you have uphold? which, iu one sense, you have made ? is a fuilure; and that that failure is being reuhzud here iu the North, all over tbe United Slates aud in Europe. Your frieuds here aud elsewhere, see lug till these abuses of your power, are disheartened at your fuilure in six years anil disgusted with your utter incompetency for self-government. Men who voted aud fought for your emaucipiitiou, aud who invested \ou with the powers of citizenship, sue with deep disappointment that, instead of proving to be freemeu when slavery was abolished, you have been the worst aod most abject of slaves?slaves to tho vilest set of meu that ever dis? graced a civilized Goverumeut. Your history iu these six years has proved, oven to tho most ultra of the abolition? ists, that ignorance, even in a negro, must und will lead to its legitimate results. No purity of iuloutiou on their part, no interests of party ends, no prayers, no power hum an ur divine, cun ever reverse that law of nature and of God. Earnest aud life long aboli? tionists now iu Congress begin to doubt tlio propriety and expediency, even in tho interests of party itself, of having given yon the ballot at ouoo as they did; aud, (mink my words hero, for they convey meanings Inden with life or death to your race iu America,) and a large majority of tho thirty three million whites iu the United States to-day uro in favor of limiting suffrage by some test of intelligence or education. When this opiuiou reaches legislative power, US it will before many years, your suffrage us well as ours will bo thus limited. Tho right of citizens of the United States to vote may "not be douied or abridged by the Uuited States, or by any State, on account of race, color or previous con? dition of servitude;" hut it will be on account of illiteracy and iguorunco. Bend, therefore, every energy to edu? cate your sons; for when that time oomcs, and suffrage is thus limited, f'on lose your majority in South Caro iua, and tbo oontrol of affairs passes into tho hands of the whites?of tho whites whom yon in yonr brief day of power are alienating by injustice aud oppression; whose advice and warn? ings you have so contemptuously spurned; who Luve tried to be your friends, and whose friendship aud alliance you rejected in 18G7 for those of adventurors who buvn need, starved and despised yon. You have rosented onr calling 1 you "negroes," when try? ing to save you from rain; add you bare licked tbe feet of thoBH adven? turers who called you "colored per? sons," while they despised you in their hearts and treated you like dogs. When these plunderers?Moses, Scott, Chamberlain, Ne.igle, Parker and the rest?are fugitives from justice or iu mates in the peniteuiiary, to whom do yon expect to look for friends aud allies? Here, in the North, one newspaper after another has published exposures of tbe misrule in our State, until now the Htunucbost und tuiiit ultra defuud it.1 of Radicalism and the longest ileuf 10 tho truth ubout your infamous (Jo- I v -ruujent, us well as the bitterest I baters of the Southern white man us Mich, tire all boldly deuouneiug the misrule und the criminals who are per? petrating it. Three years ago I heard rhu Vice-President of tho (Jutted States thank God for tbo scalawag aud tho carpet bagger. To day, tho sculu wag und tbe oar pet-hugger are iu me rited disgrace, aud Schuyler Colfux is the by-word und scorn of all honest mou?a sanctimonious smiler so pitia? bly fallen as to be vomited from the nauseated maw of his own dishonored I clique. Six months ago the President went out of his way to insult a delega? tion of geuttaineo representing our tax-payers, while ho smiled graciously upou tbe tag-rag that your thieves seut up to bim. Now, as Senator Hubert Bon bus told you, President Graut "would rather see the State pass into the hands of the Democratic party" than to seo it continued in the bauds of your friends tho plunderers; und tbo New York Times says that this is "a stroug expression of opinion; but, under all tbo circumstances, is not too strong." And tho limes was tbe last Radical organ that succumbed to tbe pressure of au outraged public senti? ment?tbe last to see the melancholy failure that you have made?the last to finally ceuso defending tbe infamous policy of u Congress which, iu its bearing upou South Carolina, hen brought disuppoiutment to all true friends of your race, disgrace upou your race itself, shame to the Republi? can party, odium to our Guueral Go? vernment, aud the scoru uud contempt of tbo civilized world, upon the au? thors aud workers of this gigautic wroug upon the South. Good men iu all parts of the country, having had time to abate the vindictive feelings eugeuderod by tho war, are oomiug to seo that tho course pursued towurd? tho South is a wrong aud an injury uot only to us of tbe South, but also to them und to the couutry at large. This revulsion aud reveriul of opi? nion comes of tho notorious failure of the Southern Goveruments us ad? ministered; uud your race bus hud tho control of these, aud more absolutely so in South Carolina tbun e lac where. At firHt, us I have said, you were de? ceived. At last you cannot plead that excuse. That iinuieuae sympathy of it world with which so naturally you started six yours ago, has been fatally weakened by your failure to do what was expected of you?by your failuro to see thac the white man has any rights which the negro is bound to re? spect. Take warning] But your ght> tongne.l advisers may reply to, me?us they probably will, (and aro you to swallow ugaiu nil they toll you?)?that Coogres-4 can never touch your suf? frage. Reflect?if you can. Congreab has exercised tho power of declaring you citizens with the right of suffrage. It has quite us much power to decree a limit to that right. Your pluuderiog advisers may reply to me that the Con? stitution of tho Uuitcd States forbids; aud I reply to them, that your pro teudetl friends have "camped outside of the Constitution" ho loug that the boiindury-liuo is now merely tradi tioual. Bewaro of that beautiful phrase. Remember Jamaica. Tbo address of thu faction calling itself tbo "Uuiou Republican Parly" has recently beon issued, culiiag for a j State Convention. That address is signed by sonic of tho meu who have beeu running our Stato to ruin for tho past six years. They admit that their pledges of 1872 buvo uot boeu re* j deemed; aud then hurry ou to give you more pledges of tho same sort. Do you again need to bo told tho value of such promise?? These uro tho uiou titut the Republican party all over the United States has deuouueed as plun? dering adventurers und false llepubli-! cms. Aro you goiug a fourth time to he fooled iu the same way by tho same men? It is noosonsu to nrgo thu re? spectability?should uuy oue think of doiug so?of some of the names signed to this address, when everybody knows that their ability to aid the causo of truth and reform exists iu au inverse ratio to their respectability, snob as it is. But, after all, aro you willing to trust ugaiu your advisers who have wheedled, promised uud butruyed you? Are you willing to rely upon tbeir assurances that Congress, having usurped ouo power, will never usurp another? Aro you willing to believe that tho vindictive feelings of the war aro to last forever? Very well. But I waru you that there is a power higher than Congress, more trustworthy thau partisan fealty, aud moro impluoablo than human vengeance, that is depriv? ing you of your majority in Soutb Carolina. That higher power is? Death! Death!?not by tho red right baud of the spectre Ku Klux, but?by the band of Nature. Tbo census is fall of facts and solemn warnings. I need not give yon these in detail; bat tbe death rate is greater aud tbe birtb rate leas in yonr race than in oars. Add to this your losses by emigration Westward and the shifting to centres aud to coasts, aud out gain by immi gratiou; aud it will nob take mnoh wisdom to see that in less tbao five years you will lose your present ma? jority in tbe Legislature. You will need some frienda there then. Who are these friends to be? The white citi? zens of tbe State, whom you have op? pressed iu the day of your brief authority, whose ?ilvico yon have despised, whose ontreaties yon have spurned, whose homes your misgo vernment has impoverished, aud at whoso misfortunes you have jeered? Then secure their friendship now The white citizens of tho United States, whose hopes you have disappointed, whose confidence yon have abused, whoso trust you have betrayed, and whose policy you have brought iuto contempt? Then strike for that end to-day. Strive to be somethiug better, higher, and ireer, than the blind fuldod tooN of a bogus faction; tbau the Union League slaves of adven? turers and thieves. JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. New Yore Grrc, August, 1871. Oh, No, We Never .Mention It The Union-Hn'uld lays the New York Evening Telegram and the Independent nndei contributions for compliments to Mr. Chamberlain. They say that ho is a college graduate, a mun of culture, of good manuere, Ac; pretty much what we have uaid ourselves. But it still giveB the New York Times' views of Mr. Chamberlain?that, "he wittingly or unwittingly sanctioned the course of thieves by his presence"? a wide birth. Mr Editor: Col. Ellison S. Koitt is respectfully presented to toe voters of the Third Congressional District, as eminently qualified and suited to rep? resent them in the House of Represen? tatives, of the Congress of the United States. Col. Keitt is one of the largest und roost successful planters iu the Stute. He belongs to the rising gene ration uud possesses aud has displayed I iu every position to which he has been I called, tbe best elements of statesman? ship. Uu is iu truth the pioneer in I laying before tho people of the North tbe terrible condition, of public affairs {here. Iu the presidential canvass of 1SGS aud that of 1872, ho spoke with great power and effect in tbe North? literally spreading before the people there the exact condition of affairs in thiv State. If bis candidature aud eleolion oan bo secured by the voter.-) of this District, they oan select no one who would serve them with more saga citv, energy and fidelity than be will. PRO DONO PURLICO. Death BY Default.?Weary of pre? scriptions that do no gocd, aud per? plexed by the multitude of medical ! theories advanced by disagreeing doc? tors, thousands of invalids become de? spondent und hopeless. Many of those who are thus circumstanced suffer chiefly from exhaustion. It may be tbut the depleting ulloptiths, do-no? thing hotmripaths and the pluvious liyilrop.iths have each iu turu taken these unfortunates iu hand, und that these "paths" have only brought tbem nearer to death's door. What, then, is to bo done for tbem? What do they really need? Their real needs are three?invigoruliou, regulation, puri? fication?and these three restorative processes uro the direct aud simulta? neous results of a persistent aud daily I use of the most efficient und agreeable of all vegetable tonics and alteratives, I Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. It- is not I too much to say that multitudes die of their debility whose lives might have been saved by a course of this vitaliz? ing elixir. Its medicinal ingredients 'consist of the finest tonics, blood-de? tergents aud laxatives which the bo? tanic kiugdom can supply, and the ve? hicle by which thoy are diffused through the system, is the purest stimulant ever manufactured for medi cul purposes. The effect of the Bitters I is to increase the appetite, improve the digestion, tone and regulate tbe liver, I keep tho bowels moderately free, brace the nerves, arrest emaciation, cheer tho depressed spirits, strengthen the coustitutiou and prolong life. Death from mere debility and physical decay, is, at least three cases out of five, death by default, which a timely resort to Hostetter's Bitters might have pre? vented. S6f3^l MkSSRS. FURCHOOTT, BENEDICT & Co., Charleston, S. C, offer to tho public aud dealers iu general an immense und well-selected stock of dry goods, oar pets, oil-cloths, mattings, Ac., at the lowest prices. Herewith they annex tho prices of a few articles: Calicos, from G to 10c.; longcloths, from G to 15c; brown homespuns, extra heavy, i from 1% to 10c.; jeans, from 12,5 .jo. unwards; cissimeres, from 40c. up? wards; flanuels, from 20 to 50c.; la? dies', misses' and gents' hose, 75c, 31.15, $2 per doz. aud upwards; sus? penders, $1 4.0 per doz. and upwards; ladies' and gents' pocket handker? chiefs, from GOo. per doz. and upwards; black and colored alpacas, 20c and upwards; dress goods, from 25c up? wards; ladies' and gents' furnishing goods, house-keeping goods, fancy goods, ribhous, notions, &c, trom 15 to 25 per oeut. cheaper than elsewhere. Samples sent aud orders promptly filled. All retail orders from $10 up? wards sent per express free of charge, A liberal discount to wholesale dealers. Sept 4 e4f A largo number of leading citizens of Albany, N. Y., have tendered a pub? lic dinner to Qen. J. Meredith Reid, Jr., in recognition of his serviaea as Consnl-General at Paris daring tbe war between Franoe and Germany, and as Minister to Greece. City Mattebs.? Subscribe for the PnCBNIX. Tbe dews at night aro extraordina? rily heavy now; Not the' vestige of a berry is to be seeo dow. Tbe weather is decidedly ague acd feverish io the feel of it at night. The warm weather has oome back? bat not with a veogeanoe. Summer visitors are getting back to where they left their fLnnels. There were G deaths in Colombia for tbe week ending tbe 5th?whites 1; colored 5. Transient advertisements and no rices must be paid for in advance. This rule will be adhered lo hereafter. Advertising is iu uuaiuc?o Wu?t?ie??j is to muuhincry?tbe grand propelling power. Job printing of every kind, from a miniature visiting card to a four-sheet pouter, turoed out, at short notice, from Phoenix ofiice. Try ns. I The colored individual who left a bag on the premises of Mr. E. Hunt, yesterday morning, is requested to call and get it. What small boy does not envy the uervo of the portly man who enters church, takes cat a big handkerchief and deliberately blows bis nose three times before sitting down? Old type metal?superior to Babbitt for some purposes?caa be obtained at Phqsnix office at low figures?25 cents a pound for fifty pounds or less; 20 cents for larger quantities, ft Bargains in all kinds of clothing are oQered by Messrs. Kinard <t Wiley, as they are desirous of making room for tbeir fall and winter stock. Tbe new goods will be in during the next few days. The Union.-Herald is requested to read, study and inwardly digest the review in oar columns, yesterday, signed "Argus," of its article of the day before on "The material progress of tbo State." It can learn much from it. It is a neat job, is that of "Argas." "Argas" can seo. We ad? vise tbe U. H. to copy "Argus." Oil Cheaper than Daylight.? Messrs. Kiugaland & Heath offer pore white kerosene, warranted fall Go? vernment test, at twenty cents per i gallon. Tbcy have also a full line of j crockery, glass, wood and willow ware; I croquet setp, at $1.40; Bohemian glass and fancy goods of various kinds. I Give them a call. I Religious Services To-Day. ?Pres? byterian Church?Bev. J. H. Bryson, 11 A. M. and l) f2 P. M. Trinity Cbnrob?Rav. P. J. Sband, Bector, IIA. M. and 5.^ P M. St. Peter's Catholic Church?Rev. J. L. Fullertou, first Muss 7 A. M.; second Mass 10^ A. M.; Vespers 4}? P. 01. Baptist?Rev. J. K. Mendenball, 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Second Baptist Congregation?Rev. A. M. Cartledge, 11 A. M. Washington Street Methodist?Rev. Wm. Martin, 11 A. M.; Rev. O. A. Darby, 8 P.M. Marion Street Methodist?Rev. A. Coke Smith, 10>? A. M. Lutheran?Rev. Z. W. Bedenbangb, 10>? A. M. Mail abbangemkhts.?Northern mail opens G.30 A. M., 8 P. M.; oloses IIA. M., 6 P.M. Charleston opent.8 A. M., 5.30 P. M.; olo8e^ 8 A. M., 6 P. M. Western opens 6 A. M., 1 P. M.; closos G, 1.30 P. M. Greenville I opens 6.45 P.M.: closes G A. M. Wil? mington opens 4 P. M.; closes 10.30 A.M. On 3unday open from 2.30 to 3.30 P. M. List of New Advertisements.? Meeting Chicora Btfle Clab. Meeting Ricbland Vol. Rifle Club. Meeting Ward 8 Tax Union. Geo. Symmers?Codfish, &o. Columbia B. and L. Association. Miss Bolliugor?School. A. F. Blair?Notice. I E. H. Heiuit8h?Family Medicines. MoGuinnis?Renewal of Certificate. Jacob JLovin?Gas Bills for August. Meeting Myrtle Lodge, No. 3, K. P. Mechanic Wanted. Hotel Arrivals, September 5.? Columbia Hotel?T S Olarkson, N C; J Stuart Laud, G & C P. P.; J Mosely,* T D Gillospie, S C; W D Kennedy, Ga; J H Wasbman, Charleston; A B Wardlaw, Abbeville; J F Finger and wifo, SC; F J Craig, Miss; Emma Sefford, O K Singleton, SO; WSprin? kle N C; J M Seigler, Greenville; J B Cohen?, D B MoLaureD, J E Hagood, Charleston; J H Trump and wife, Ga; J H Br?ning, Charleston; J McCarty, SO; SB, Lumpktn, Yoogaesville. The OoiTON.?Of the delegates to the Cotton Classification Convention in New York, the large majority esti? mate an average of 4,045,037 bales as the crop of the present year, based on the outlook of the present time. Tbis may be changed, however, by tbe de? velopments of the next two or three weeks. Wheelw House?J C Massingale, Ky; J H Burney, Ga; S H Dungau, W J Hiss, Baltimore; O W Bnttz, W Dud? ley, Charleston; B Myers, S C; D E Gosnell, Baltimore; P H Brook way, St Louis; O 0 Ayres, Philadelphia; J B Dennis, oily.