The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, October 22, 1874, Image 2
COLUMBIA, S. C.j
Thursday Morning, Gotober 22,1874.
TU? CM? of Count Von Arnim.
The mystery wbioh has enveloped
the ease of Ooant Yon Ar mm, the Ger?
man Minister at the Frenoh Court, re?
ceives a new light, from statements
joak now made public. The arreei of
the Count upon a charge of having
appropriated correspondence and pa?
pers which did not belong to him, ap?
peared to be unreasonable and unjust.
A political intrigue lay at the bottom
of the affair. Having acceptably dis?
charged the task of preparing the
treaty of peaoe and obligations on the
part of France, he was sent to Paris in
the winter of 1871-72 as Ambassador,
explicitly oharged to maintain the most
peaceful and agreeable relations in all
dealings with French officials. The
harshness of the terms made with
Franoe was intensified by the broeqoe
and almost insulting mauner of the
German representative, at a time
when the higbest oourtet<y and most
consummate taot were required. It
wae thought that Bismarck hud in?
spired this discourtesy, this rudo bear?
ing towards a defeated but honorable
foe. Bat it is charged upon Couut
Arnim that, in violation of instruc?
tions, he hastened to make himself dis?
agreeable to every one connected with
the Frenoh Government. His manner
was, upon all occasions, cold and re
palsivs. He sought to involve the
?Ohauoellor in unpleasant relations
with the Emperor William, to whom
he wrote, making accusations against
him, and, in oonseqoonce, drew upon
himself the pointed uotioe of the Ger?
man Government iu a correspondence 1
of eighty odd letters, instructing and
aooldiog him. Upon leaving the post,
be took these letters, claiming that
they were private and personal, not
'liking that suoh southing rebukes
-should be read by his suooessor in the
embassy. Suoh U the sloiy, in brief.
The Goant is held a prisoner, and suit
is brought to make him restore tho let
4ers. The apology is sent out for this
scandal that the Ambassador sought to
inorease his impotence by the ways
of intrigue, deception and strife, end
that it became neoesoary, in the inte?
rests of peace and good understanding
between the two oountries, to remove
and disgrace a man who deliberately
-sought to imperil them.
Third Ttrmlim and ttadicnitsui.
It was in West Virginia that Presi?
dent Grant revealed to a relative, last
OUUAlMSt| iiio tv iiiiij-^ZiCjovj aO b? GaSOtod
President for the third term. The
delegation in Congress from that State,
fey the reoent election of Mr. Wilson
as member of the House, is now entire?
ly Ddmooratio. The unreasonable as
peratioas of the President, and the
cruel, heartless and base policy towards
the Soath of Williams and suoh in his
cabinet, and of Morton and each out
of it, are bearing their legitimate
traits. It is earnestly to be hoped that
rampant and offensive Radicalism will
?meet the same rebuke in New York
and Pennsylvania that it has met in
Ohio and Iudiuua. Oonkliug ought
to have a lesson as well as Morton,
and Radicalism at large needs it badly.
And it will get it. Men who sow tho
wind mast reap the whirlwind.
Unemployed Capital.
la its financial and oommeioial re
pott, of last week, tho New York He?
rald says that oapital was never moro
sensitive than at this moment. Mil?
lions are ready to be lout, bat only on
short oall, and the next month will add,
by the .payment of interests, many
more millions to tke>already plethoric
coffers of unemployed capitul. It
seeks use every where; tat ia tho face
of declining prices, overstocked mar?
kets, reduced routs, factories running
on half time, with labor, on the other
hand, demanding its former wages and
refusing to adopt itself to the new con?
dition of things, capitalist* find little
encouragement to embark in new ven?
tures.
Grant and Slierumn.
Grant's Washington organ calls for
the resignation, by General Sherman,
of the office of General of the Army.
Sherman has spirit and a horror of red
tapeiem, and doos not brook dictation
well, of course. Nobody heroabouts
can ever stomach him. It was bad
enough to burn Columbia, bat atro
ciouB to deny it, and to try to pluoo tho
blame on innooent shoulders. But,
notwithstanding all that, we should be
sorry to seo him displaced to mako
way for Grant, in oase the third term
ehould turn oat to bo a failure. We
believe that Shermau would have been
a better and more oupable man thau
Grant has been towards tho Sooth, if
he had boon in Grant's place.
Row It Happened.
The Republican press is still mysti?
fied abouT what hurt the party so in
Ohio and: Indiana. Some jour isIb
wpresent that the De mooratio viotories
were duo to tlio popularity of the ideas
of inflation and repudiation. But the
New York Herald shows that facts aud
results have beeu wrought oat right in
the teeth of what it ooasiders heroti
oal platforms. The most splendid
success of the Democracy in Indiana
was tho election of Mr. Kerr. in the
third district, by two thousand major?
ity, yet he repudiates everything
looking like inflation. In Ohio, the
same result was shown in tho triumph?
ant election of Mr. Paine iu the twen?
tieth district, a prououuccd unti-iufla
tionist. Those States were just in the
position of the traveler who deinauded
if it was coffee that was brought him,
that he should have tea, aad if it was
tea, then that he would tako coffee.
It was a change they wanted A Cin?
cinnati editor on the losing side at
tributed the disaster to general cussed
ness. All his theory lacks of being
oorreot, is that he shall plaoe the cussed
ness in the defeated and routed party.
The Corporutlon.
Corporations have no souls, but
they subjugate the souls of men, and
bind them to the chariot of thoir
power. In the massing of capital,
they supply a most productive force,
possessed by antiquity iu its power of
massing men in subjection, bat lost in
tbo changes of modern civilization. A
writor in the North American Review
presents the agreeable side of the
groat modern institution ol the corpo?
ration, or combined capital. It is the
corporation, he says, that trucks the
ooean with magoifioent steamships;
"that binds the crmtiuont together
with its rails; that drops its wiro along
the bed of theses, aud over valley, hill
and plain; that rears these splendid
temples to art, to trade, to religion,
and to charity; that developed the hid?
den mineral wealth of the world, and
in its factories, meets the demauds of
the necessity and the luxury of civili-1
zation. And yet its activity is undi
miu ishod, and it is always seeking some
new field for the exercise of its powers.
Aggregating all these under the sug?
gestion that it has already done much,
the writer in the Review turns his
thoughts to the future, and exclaims:
'Who knows what reclamation of
wastes,* what restoration of denuded
lands, what system of drainage and
irrigation, well-nigh contiuental, what
corrections of climate even muy ouo
day issue from it?' 'Imagioo this
force,' he says, 'brought to bear in its
grandest proportions npoo tho valley
of the Amazon, upon the wilds of
Africa, upon the deserts that are such
from mere luxuriance, regions aiurved
by abundance, barren from over-fecun?
dity, and dosed to civilization by
their very ability to feed it.' And
almost iu oonneotion with this picture
of the future comes to us through the
columns of the foreign daily press the
discussions of scientific men over tho
feasibility of filling a depression ia the
Sahara Desert with water from the
Mediterranean, and the effects thereof,
not only upon the fertility of the enr
roanding lands, bat upon the climate
of the countries North of tho Mediter?
ranean and the possible effect upon
tho glaciers of the Alps, and here the
great activity of the age stands ready
to carry into execution whatever
science may Bay is feasible."
Editoii 05 tue PnassiX : A card hav?
ing appeared in tho Phcenix, of yester?
day, placing iu nomination a ticket for
County officers, under tbo stylo of "tho
honest peoples' ticket," upou which
our names appear as candidates; with
tho utmost respect for those who have
thus made use of our names, we desire
to say, that while appreciating tho
compliment, we respectfully decline
tbo nomination. Our reasons must
[ be obvious to every ouo. On tho 8th
instant, wo were placed iu uomiuation
! by a wing of the Republican party in
this Comity. This uomiuation was ac?
cepted by us, aftor consultation with
prominent oouservatives. Oa tho Kith
instant, the Executive Committee of
the Conservative party, tho only body
whoso authority to ropresent that
party we can reoognizo, gave a formal
sanction to our acceptance of this
nomination, and passed a resolution
that the conservatives of this County
should give their unanimous uud un?
divided support to the Nash County
ticket. Pledged, then, to tho parties
we represent, it would be manifestly
inconsistent to accept such a nomina?
tion, as well us bad faith in our friends
to support it.
JOHN T. SLOAN, Jr.,
G. W. DAVIS.
Mn. Editor: la your issue, this
morning, I soo my name put in nomi?
nation for tho Legislature. Tho Con?
servative Exeoativo Committee of
Riohland County having, after ma
tare deliberation, declined to take
measures for bringing out u straight
out tioket, and having recommended
to the Conservative voters ono of tho
tickets already in the field, und believ?
ing, as I do, that a third ticket would
only streugtheu the more objectiona?
ble of the two tickets, I respectfully
bog leave to decline tho nomination.
JOHN H. KINSLER.
Ojtober 21, 1874.
Railway Brakes. ? O. De Goiso, a
001 reaondent of the Budget, writes aa
follows ffom Qiebeo, relative to a
railway brake whioh has recently been
ictrodn?e^:
? The American Railway Journal, of
21et of Jone, 1873, Bays: "There never
was a more interesting trial of brakes
to stop'a train of oars, than that whioh
took plaoo lately on the Boston and
Maine Bailroad. Two trains of oars
were placed at the dispoaal of tbo com?
petitors, one having a oompressed air
brake, the other a vacuum brake; to
each train were attached tweivo cars
for tho first trial and nine oars for the
other; they started simultaneously on
two parallel lines?tho result was tbut
the vacuum brake stopped the train iu
the third trial in thirty-one secou ..?>,
and in tho fourth in twenty-six
sooouds; iu several of the trial, the
compressed air brake hnd the tdvan
tuge of from two three seconds, but
somo part of tho machinery iu the
vacuum having failed to work, the
judges could not agree, und the ques
tion as to the superiority of the brakes
was not decided. List Saturday, a
largo number of intelligent und com?
petent persona, amongst whom were
several engiueers, attended at Poiut
Levis to witness tho trial of a railway
brake invented by Mr. E. O Richard,
of this oity; tho train of c*rs placed at
the disposal cf tho inventor, consisted
of an engine, tender und three bag?
gage cars, with nbout throe to four
miles of road ou whioh to run tbo
train. The distance though short was,
howovor, sufficient to allow tbo
locomotive the necessary speed. Tbo
trials varied as steam was kept up, in
some, one hundred and forty live
pounds of steam to tho square inoh
were carried by the eugiuo, whilst tho
brakes wero being applied, and tbo re?
sult was always about the same?iu
throe or four consecutive trials, the
oars whilst running at from forty to
forty-live miles per hour, were com?
pletely stopped in from five to six
seoocda, without the least shock or jar.
No doubt, had tho brake, which wua
only temporary and made iu a hurry,
had the necessary strength to resist
the strain, tho train, evou at that high
rate of speed, would have beeu stop?
ped almost instantaneously. The
trial wuh resumed on Monday, but
unfortunately the chains aud hooka
of the brakes wore not nuili:ieutly
strong, and gave way on Saturday's
trial, when tha cars had been stopped
at seventy-five feet; they wero then
hurriedly repaired, uud it wua found
that the brake ou on s aide only was
capable of working in nn efficient man?
ner; nevertheless tho oars were stop
pod in the spaoe of twelve, ten and
eight seconds. Whilst ou the Boston
and Maine Railroad, the trains,
although running at a less speed, took
a longer time to stop. It is easily un?
derstood that the more cars the more
brakes will give resistance, the more
weight, the moro effect on the engine.
Notwithstanding the disadvantages,
aud that the machinery had been got?
ten up in a hurry aud for a first trial,
tbo rosult has been groatly, in fact,
ihree times superior, to that obtain?
ed on the Boston and Maine road.
Moreover, there is another important
advantage, that Richard's brake stops
the train even when some of tho cars
are off the traok, and the engineer or
driver of the train is astonished to find
the train stop when he wan not aware
of the mishap. Mr. Richard baa also
another useful invention, known as tho
car coupler, requiring no assistance
from any person on the train, the en?
gine merely backing, and tho cars im?
mediately couple themselves, even if
some part of tho train wore higher
than the other.
All those inventions, according to
the opinion of competent peraons, are
adapted to make qnite a revolution ou
railways. Mr, Richard h?B taken out
patents in many countries, and re?
ceived mosf flittering commendations
from gentlemen of lurge railway expe?
rience aud knowledge, who have seen
his brakes work. It is to be hoped |
that all railway compunieH will adopt
these inventions, aa they are sure to be
protectors to tho lives of the employees
of the roads uud the traveling public,
and also to tbo property.
- ??
Columbia, S. C, October 21, 1871.
To the Editor of th' Phtmiix?DBKU
Slit: Pleasu announce that I cannot no
copt tho nomination aa a candidate for
the Legislature, aa tendered mo by
"Many Conservatives," in yourissnoof
yobterUay. I highly appreciate the
compliment, but am unwilling to give
my aid to anythiug that will bring
disaster to the good people und honest
tax-payers of this County?feeling
satisfied of this result, should the
movement bo insisted upon by "Many
Conservatives." Yours, very respect
fullv,
CHRISTOPHER HAY"NES WORTH.
General MoGowan's Appointments.
Gen. McGowan will address the voters
of the Thirl Congressional District at
the places named, on the days indi?
cated below:
Anderson, Tuesday, October 20; Wal?
halla, Thursday, October 22; Pockens,
Saturday, October 21; Laurena, Tues?
day, October 27; Newbei ry, Thursday,
October 29; Columbia, Saturday, Oo
tober 81.
Tho Congressional Exccntivo Com?
mittee, iu each County, arc expected
tu make tbo ueoeasnry arrangements.
JOEL S. PERRIN,
j Chairman Abbeville County Executive
Committee.
Appointments for Conservative
Canvass for Fourth Congressional
District?Lancaster, October 22; Cam
deu, October 21. The meetings will
be arranged for 12 M. Other appoint
ments hereafter. j. B. KERSHAW.
Mit. Editob: We seed yon t?etiokel
which we believe will be earnestly sup?
ported, by all good and tree men in
Riohland County, who velno princi?
ples above expediency. The two
tiokets now in the field, beaded by C.
S. Minort and W. B. Nasb, respect?
ively, cannot receive the hearty en?
dorsement and friendly hand of aid
from us at least. This tioket can win
without u doubt, if every Conservative
dues his duty; because it is peuerally
admitted that the two contending par?
ties will never compromise. Let it
then be considered by every good citi?
zen his tioket.
MANY CONSERVATIVES.
the honest peoples' ticket.
Governor,
John T. Greene.
Lieutenant-Governor,
M. R. Delany.
Senator,
John C. Seeoer?
Representatives,
Capt. W. H. Stack.
CltlSToPHBR HaYNESWORTH,
John Aonew,
General H. W. Pcrvis
Judije Probute,
Sandbus D. Swtgert.
Co unty Commissioners,
Jesse G. Lykks,
Samuel Gauner,
G. A. Swygert.
Sch ooi Co m miss i on er.
Captain E S Perctval.
Inilrpende n I He pub I lean I'ariy?Cr.
der of tiit ? mnpttlgn.
ElKADij'u.s Independent Rep. Party,
Rooms State Ex. Committee,
Columhia, S. C , October 7, 1874.
By virtue of the authority vested iu
the Executive Committee of the Inde?
pendent Republican party by the State
Convention, held in the city of
Charleston, October, 1874, some of the
following gentlemen will address the
citizens of tho State at the places aud
times annexed:
Gouwuyboro, Friday, October. 23 ?
T. C. Dunn, Sum'l Lee.
Allendile, Friday, October 23?A. J.
Rausier.
Greenwood, Fiidav, October 23?R.
H. Cuin, \V. IL Thomas.
WiuiiHboro, Friday, October 23?J.
Minis Sullivan, T. A. Davis.
Marion, Saturday, October 21?T.
(". Dunn. Samuel Lne.
Georgetowu, Saturday, October 24
?Murtui R. Delauy, W. H. Jones.
Aikeu, Saturday, October 24?E. B.
Seebrook, W. E Johnston.
Liberty Hill, Monday, October 26?
Martin R. Ddlauy, Samuel Lee, J. D.
Warley.
Lancaster. Monday, October 20 ?
J. Minis Sullivan, E. M. Pinckney.
Barn well, Monday, Cctober 2*J? R.
H. Cain, W. A Hayne, A. J. Hausier.
Prosperity, Tuesday, October 27?
E. M. Seabrook, W. H. Thomas.
Catndeu, Tuesday, October 27?
Martin R Delauy, Samuel Lee, W. E.
Johnston.
Newborry, Wednesday, October 28?
J. Mima Sullivau, E. B. Seabrook, W.
it mi_
i-L. xuuiuaa.
Abbeville. Thursday, October 29 ?
Murtin R. Delauy, E. B. Seabrook, W.
H. Thomas.
Bennettsville, Thursday, October
29?Samuel Lee, John M. Freeman,
Jr., T. A. Davis.
Anderson, Friday, October 30 ?
Martin R. Delauy, E. B. Seabrook,
W. H. Thomas.
Society Hill, Friday, October 30?
Samuel Lee, Johu M. Freemau, Jr.,
T. A. Davis.
Walhalln, Saturday, October 31 ?
Martin R. Delauy, E. B. Seabrook, W.
H. Thomas.
Kiugstree. Saturday, October 31 ?
Samuel Lee, Johu M. Freeman, Jr.,
T. A. Davis.
Green vi lie, Saturday, October 3i ??
To be appointed.
Charleston, Monday, November 2 ?
To be nppoiuted.
l'ickeus, Monday, November 2 ?
Martin U. Delauy, E. D. Seabrook, \V.
H. Thomus.
All meetings will be held at 12 M.,
unless otherwise ordered by County
Chairmen.
County Chairmen will please take
notice of the time aud places of meet?
ing, und act accordingly.
TiJOS. C. DUNN, President.
Attest: J. EVANSBrITTON, Secretary.
To (lit.- Couscrvattue Voter* of Rlt-li
luini County,
At a meeting of the Executive Com?
mittee of the Conservative party for
Richland County, it was
Resolved, That in view of the cha?
racter and surroundings of the two
Republican tickets presented for tho
support of the voters of Richlaud
County, tho committee deem it desira?
ble, in tho interests of good govern
meut, that the Conservatives of this
County should give their undivided
and unanimous support to the Nash
County ticket.
Resolved, That wo reoommend every
citizen of the County who desiios an
honest Administration of the State Go?
vernment, to ?ivo their earnest sup?
port to John T. Greene for Governor,
aud M. R. Delancy for Licutenant
Goveruor.
F. W. McMaster, Ciias. F. Janney,
R. O'Kkale, Jr, J. W. Smith,
John McKenzie, Samuel Garner.
Conservative Headquarters,
Columria, S. O, October 19, 1874.
County assessments, to aid in de?
fraying the expenses of the canvassers
of the independent Republicans,
should bo forwarded by express, aud
not by mail. \VM. WALLACE,
Acting Chairman.
&-4j' AI! Conservative papers in the
State, pleaso copy.
City Matters ?Subscribe for tbo
Phcsnix?don't borrow.
Beginning to leave?the leaves.
A eigo-board can't tell anything. It
takes an advertisement to do that.
Millinery opening every day at the
old stand of B. O. Shiver & Co.
Tho very best chemically pore kero
sone oil is at Heinitsh'e drug store.
Call at the old stand of B. C. Shiver
Sc Co., if you want to see something
pretty and fashionable in milliuery.
You cm get the best of oysters from
Messrs. Hoffman & Albreobt, this
morning.
The sale of the Bine Badge It til road
takes place to duy?Ju^ge Bryan hav?
ing declined to postpone it.
Transient advertisements and no?
tices must be paid for in advance.
This rule will bo adhered to hereafter.
The weather, yesterday, was of a
kiud to please "all the world aud the
rest of mankind." We enjoyed it.
Huverley's Minstrels, the original
Cil. Wagner p?rty, perform in Colum?
bia ou Thursday eveniug next.
Undoubtedly tho handsomest mil?
liuery in Columbia can bo had at tbo
old stand of R. C. Shiver & Co.
TbB kind of whiskey that makes men
lie dowu on railroad tracks is being in?
troduced in nearly overy Western
State.
Gen. Korshaw was serenaded at
Spartunburg, a few uigbtsugo, and re?
sponded iu a speech, which wns loudly
applauded.
Congressman Elliott has tendered
his resignation, und ontered the con
tost for member of tho Legislature
from Aiken.
The oouvicts who uttempted to
escape from the penitentiary, the other
night, climbed the board fence?not
the gruuite wull.
Jim Faisoo, a colored train baud in
the employ of the Wilmington, Co?
lumbia and Augusta Railroad Com?
pany, was killed near Wilmington, last
Saturday afternoon.
A student of anatomy says he has
uot yet been able to discover the
"bone ot contention," but he thinks
it must be situated near the jaw-boue.
Job printing of every kind, from a
miniature visiting card to a four-sheet
poster, turned out, at short notice,
from Phoenix otlioe. Try us.
gi' appears that the excitement was
so great iu Newberry, on Tuesday last,
that the military were called out. Two
of the suspected parties have been
lodged in jail.
Messrs. Elkins Sc McJuukin have re?
tired from the Temperance Advocate,
and Mr. W. H. Tutt has become the
editor aud proprietor. He ia fully
competent, and we wish him success.
"Garth did uot write his own dis?
pensary." But we know who did.
The perplexing mystery remains, how?
ever, who wrote Wilson's Cook's card
in the Union-Herald.
Old John Robinson, the circus man,
wants to go to Congress, but his friends
are trying to prevent him from taking
the downward step which must surely
destroy all the reputation he now pos
seevoB.
A camp-meeting, under the auspices
of the A. M. E. Church, commences
on Friday next, at 11 o'clock, ut
Tronholm's Grovo, ou tho South Caro
liun Riilroad. Special trains for tbo
accommodation of visitors will bo run
every day during the mooting,
j Tho Governor has appoiuted Wm.
J. Etter aud Josephus Whetstone as
Commissioners of Election for Rich
laud, via S. H. Spencer aud R. J.
Palmer, resigued; Major Julius Mills,
Commissioner for Chester, rice Johu
Lilly, removed. He has also appointed
W. W. Adams Trial Justice of Hop?
kins T. O., ric? James J. Goodwyu, re?
moved; John Hough, Trial Justice for
! Gadsden, has also been removed.
.Mail, akuanuements.?Northen
mail opens 6.30 A. M., 3 P. M.; closes
HA. M., 6 P.M. Charleston open* 8
A. M., 5.30 P. M.; oloRes8 A. M.,6 P.
M. Western opens 6 A. M., IP.
M.; closes G, 1.30 P. M. Greenville
opens 6.45 P. M.; closes 6 A. M. Wil?
mington opens 1 P. M.; closes 10.30
A.M. On 3unday open from 2.30to
3.30 P. M.
Riculand Rifle Clud.?Tbe Rich
land Rifle Club, President Hugh S.
Thompson, Esq., were out Tuesday
ovening in full foroe, for company
drill, on tho green adjoining the. Co?
lumbia Malo Academy. They wore,
for the first time, their new and bean
beautiful uniform, of historic gray,
ami wont through tho inamc ivrcs and
evolutions with a gratifying success,
i encouraged by the presence of a large
number of spectators, including many
ladies. Jn a short time, a handsome
dig will bo presented to the company
by some of their fair friends, the re?
ception of which they will honor by a
[ public parade.
OiiD John Rodinson?A Few Pab
TICUJuABS ABOUT the* organization
or the Ob eat Show.?Yesterday waa
a gala day for the reaideots of Colom?
bia and the earroanding oouotry.
Eirly in the day, the streets of the
city presented a holiday appearanoe;
handreds of strangers erowded oar
thoroughfares; excursion trains cn
all the lines of railway added to the
vast multitude that had gathered to
witness old John Robinson's advent.
The street display attracted a vast con?
course. The side-walks were lined by
those anxious to gaza upon the moving
piuorama of glitter and gold. The
magnificent vans, cages, chariots and
tableaux cars were undoubtedly the
finest ever presented to the public.
The horses gaily caparisoned, the
attachees in splendid uniforms, and
the paraphernalia in its entirety being
on a soale of grandeur unsurpassed by
any previous display made iu our eiiv^
Iu faot, the veteran showman %as ror
this, his fifty-third year as a manager,
surpassed all previous efforts in his
great desire to amuse and instruct his
patrons.
Tho menagerie is the most complete
th*r has ever been gathered in any
one traveling collection, especially ar?
ranged so as to enable all who visit
this department amplo facilities for
oxamining specimens of the most rare
and valuable animals. Here can be
seen a pair of living giraffes; a huge
rhinooeros, or unicorn of holy writ; a
mammoth performing elephant; living
sea lions; giant ostrich; tapir and
young; African lion; lioness and cabs.
In addition to which are very many
cages and dens filled with the denizens
of the forest?showing the many won?
ders of the Great Creator. The per?
formances in the arena nre wonder?
ful?every attacbee is a finished artist
in his particular line. The vaulting is
unrivalled, while tho display of horse?
manship is superior in all of its details
to anything of the kind heretofore
preseuted iu auy traveling exhibition.
Bat few of our readers have an idea
of the immense amount of-labor re?
quired in this enterprise?tbey do not
pause to consider what vast wealth has
been expended to place the combina?
tion on its present footing. It re?
quires extraordinary administrative
qualities 10 eucoeBsfally oondaot this
immense establishment and manage it
with necessary care. We gleaned a
few faot* daring oar visit, yesterday.
Mr. Robinson employs, to advertise
and herald his "show," over sixteen
agents, who are continually engaged
in giving notice of its coming in the
different plaoes tbey propose visiting
daring their tour. The salaries of
these agents range from $25 to 8100
per week?all their expenses being
paid by the company. The amount of
money paid for large pictorial paper
daring the past two years was $156,
278?this does not include the ordi?
nary expenses of advertising. In addi?
tion to the above are the books,
pamphlets, distributing bills, etc.
Their newspaper, or local patronage,
will amount to about $150 daily. At
each place the agents vhit, a local or
aub-agent is appointed, to distribute
bills throughout the surrounding
country.
The "show" luiH assumed sach won?
derful dimensions, that it is necessary
for the management to camp and
board nearly 200 of their employees,
as hotel accommodations are not al?
ways oonvenient, and all the parapher
nalia is in perfect order. This cara
vansery has for its steward Mr. Archie
Compbell, for twenty years a "jester"
within the ring. The cuisine is excel?
lent?wo dined in the hotel teut yes?
terday and speak from actual observa?
tion.
The salaries of tho employees range
from $25 per mouth to $500 per
week?the latter sum being tho high?
est amount paid, with ouo exception,
that of Robert T. Stickney, whose sala?
ry for the past two seasons has
equalled $20,000 a season. In fact,
tho show business, as conducted by
the veteran manager, represents a vast
amount of capital, and disburses daily
an almost fabulous amount of money.
Costumes cost about $20,000; horses
valued at 55,000; 60 ponies; $12,000.
Tne amount paid daily for bulletin
boards average $100. The manage?
ment of this entire concern devolves
upon Mr. J. F. Robinson, jr. Mr S.
H. Joseph directs the publications
List of New Advertise^sstsa'
Hardy Solomon?Apple Butter.
Meeting Acacia Lodge.
Hotel Arrivals, October 22. ?Hen
drix House.?3 M Bookhardt, Camden;
J F Probst, Newberry; William Banks,
J T K Belks, Fort Mills; Dr J Wil
lingham and lady. Spring Hill; J K
Rabb, Mrs J K R*bb, Fairfleld; J B
j Lathan, Prosperity; Mrs D MoOlinoh
I and daughter, Philadelphia; Julius
! Drey poos, Atlanta; W A McCorwell, S
j C; J B Minter, Union.
J In view of the various narrow gauge
' railroads projected iu this State, and
J of the qaestion in the publio mind
whether narrow gauge railroads can be
made a practical success, it is interest?
ing to loara that tho narrow gauge
engines built, and ia progress in the
United States during the present year,
amount to twenty per cent, of the
wholo locomotive business?a remarka?
ble fact whoa wo cinsider the short?
ness of tho time since the narrow
gaugo idea was first devoloped.