COLUMBIA, Kg.
Thursday Morning, April 38,
Fearful Anticipation. W
A newspaper in the interior of Penn?
sylvania, well named the Uniontown
Standard, is already agitated with fears
that an "ex-rebel" will be tho next De?
mocratic candidate for the Presidency.
Would it prefer a rebel, then? The Now
York He raid thinks, notwithstanding this
dire propheoy, coming, wo suppose,
frdmTh'o oTsturbed and yet highly "loil"
coal regions of the Keystone State, there
is soupy fcQiasfcflS *n r?iiien?u?rluy ?hat
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
John Q, Adams and Jackson were ox
robeisond that wo haye a country yet."
In iact, rebellion, that dead lidn which
has been Honored with so many abortive
kicks from living jackasses, is beginning
to appear respectable in the light of the
events whioh took place 100 years ago at
Allemance, Concord,, Mecklenburg and
Lexington. Has not General Bartlett, of
Massachusetts, said in his speech at the
Lexington Centennial, "men who, for
conscience sake, fought against their Go?
vernment at Gettysburg, ought easily to
be forgiven 'by the sons of men who, for
conscience sake, fought against their Go?
vernment at Lexington apd Bunker Hill."
The thing i? quite possible. And' the
men who fought against aro quite willing
on their side to forgive the sons of men
who fonght for, Ac. They can do it with?
out the aid of a centennial celebration.
It ought not to b* difficult to forgive the
men who fought on one side or the other.
But the organizers of ruin, the plunder?
ers of States and people, the harpies -who
both devour and defile?well, they may
be forgiven, too, 100 years honce, but
it will require the help of several centen?
nials.
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County Taxes for Past Due Indebtedness.
Oar neighbor, the Union-Herald, conti?
nued its'-strictures, yesterday, upon the
tat bill. Referring to the thirteenth
section, whioh levies a general tax of
three mills for County purposes upon
each County, and in certain Counties
additional taxes for past indebtedness, it
says:
"The plea that these extra toxos are to
pay off indebtedness, sounds well enough
until it is known that most of the debts
thus to be paid are just like the floating
State debt In nine oases out of ten,
they are the results of extravagance, Ille?
gality and bare-faced fraud. There
never has existed tho least authority to
contract debt In tho powers conferred
by the Constitution ana laws upon those
officers."
It suggests that the scaling process be
applied to it as in the ease;-of the State
debt, and urges upon the Tax Unions
that they commence a "campaign this
summer against the payment of one cent
of County debt, until it is subjected to,
some jotter scrutiny than that of rftBn!
. who" made a^d men who own it"/Sec-j
tip^lA, wkjob,' levies a tax of, .onaJsiiH
to pay deficiencies of the present^flscal j
year ending October 31, 1876, tue small-'
est deficiency tax'reported since 1868, It
thinks should stand- . ..
' U / 7 Jit* S -;-R ?
Many a Wickle Make a M?ckle, -,
The?tate*9f Georgiaoon?nues to ex?
tend its cotton manufacturing interest
Columbus and Augusta vie with each
other in getting the lead in this business.
We noticed some days ago the establish?
ment of a new cotton mill, with 9150,000
capital, oh the Augusta canal. Atlanta is"
not idle. It is securing the subscrip?
tions for a mill to bo erected in that oity
at an early day. The Atlanta Constitution
dwells UpoU, the plan Of canvassing for
small subscriptions. It says:
"Don't depend on outside help or on
large subscriptions from men of large
means. Let them alone, and ask the
straggling mass of people to, take one,
two or even three shares of stock. That
is the way to do it The installments
booome payable in small monthly
amounts. In this way the State can be
dotted with factories that the home capi?
talists and mythical money lords from
the North would never build. The peo?
ple, the average man who needs general
Sroeperity to enable/him to earn his
aily bread and to slowly acquire a com?
petence, i are the true source of power
and enterprise. They may be indi?
vidually poor, but when 'their surplus
means are sagaciously combined, they
make a torrent of wealth ? that multiplies
and blesses all concerned."' ? .
This plan, if no other, is practicable
and desirable in this State. There 2s
money he?e Whioh is hoarded. . It should
be set free to work out profits. and good
results'to its owners and 'the' people ?f
theStatg^ry^K ,H CJl VrV
GoiNo.^The bllsfed lan4aulot Wil?
liams! ^^aooarretire, ao.aay ,the
despatches, from his pnjsent position,
and he may engage in "other paxunitaO
Williams must pursue something-.' Bfttl
heconlu^
a#,n#ffe"trr^
States, en A so he will quit ther drive.
Dismtegratkml setting' ih, mortification
wiff foifdw.' 'We hope$e JC
stfvld: WPP ta* osd?j,o( jbds going, but
go At Ohae. The fragrance of his name
in the Department', of Jus?06 will long
remind Bis.' foui^rymen of tug South of
a guan? depot or a compost pile.* .
,f ihr,-rr.?' *?l 1 1 v
"Why??.you net jpeintf" aeked a vlo*
linlst of hiaoAugAsei "For She same
reason th?4^u usedsain^pApa.'' "How
is that^ I'Wh^to-herp me draw my
beauv*!. & | x,: ??>' : ' ?'
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A Fnoraj>ct Br Gen. B. ?. Lee. -In
mo addrea? before the Lee Memorial As
soofMfon in Baltiinortfci on Saturday
evening laaU Mr. S. Teaokie Wallace
road the following heretofore ?npub
lishfd letter of Oen. Robert E- Lee:
And here 1 am permitted, by the kind?
ness of a friend, to read souiu salraots
from a letter of the illnstrions soldier,
which has never seen* the light before,
and which will show through what sad
struggles, of both heart, and mind, ho
passed to what he felt to be bis duty. I
doubt not?nay, I know?that many a
gallant gcntloman who fought beside
him, and many another in the opposing
host, grieved, with as deep grief as Lee,
to draw his sword. The letter that I
speak of bears tho date "of January 10,
1861, and was written from a ort Mason,
near San Antonio, in Texas. It was ad?
dressed to a young lady, a relative of
his, for wbom he had great affection, and
the passages of which I speak wero writ?
ten as a message to her father. Allud?
ing to tho homes of two families of
friends, he said:
I think of the occupants of both very
often, and hope some day to see them
again. I may nave tho opportunity soon;
for if the Union is dissolved, I shall re?
turn to Virginia to share the fortune of
my people. But before such a calamity
befalls the country, I hopo all honorable
means of maintaining the Constitution
and the equal rights of the people will
be exhausted. Teil your father he must
not allow Maryland to bo tucked on to
South Carolina before the just demands
of the South have been fairly presented
to the North and rejected. Then, if the
rights -guaranteed by the Constitution
are denied us, and the citizens of one
portion of tho country ?Te granted pri?
vileges, not . extended to the other, we
can, with a clear conscience, separate.
I am for maintaining all our rights, not
for abandoning all for the sake of one?
our national rights, liberty at home and
security abroad, our lands, navy, forts,
dock-yards, arsenals and institutions of I
every.. kind. It will. result in war, I [
know?fierce, bloody war. But ro will
secession, for it is revolution and war at
last, and cannot bo otherwise, and we
might as well look at it in its true cha?
racter. There ia a long message, A?, for
your father, and a grave one, which I had
not intended to put in my letter to you, I
but it is a subject on which my serious j
thoughts often turn, for. as an American I
citizen, I prize my Government and
country highly, and there is no sacrifice
I am not willing to make for their pre?
servation, savo that of honor. I trust
there is wisdom and patriotism enough
in the country to save them, for I can?
not anticipate so great a calamity to the
nation as the dissolution of the Union.
Abbeville Matte iw.?Tho Press and
Banner ssys*.
? SuiVDBH Death.?We learn that a young I
mother near Cross Hill fell dead in the
road near her house, one day last week.
A colored man,. Peter Henry, living n|
few miles this, side of. Due West, had his j
dwelling and1 out-houses, with every-1
thing therein, consumed by fire on Fri?
day lost. Together with bed and bod
ding, clothing and provisions, he lost
$100 worth of guano. Ho and his wife
'were at work in the fields, when the
chimney took fire, whioh consume.1 the
house.
Burn En to Death. ?Wo learn that two
negro children on Mr. A. B. Kennedy's
Slaoe, in this County, were burned to
eath, on Tuesday^Wter^odn of last
week. The chffldrenv w;em left in the
house by tho mother,-pnly-'n fittlo while
previous to tho fire. It is supposed that
the ohildren were playing with the fire
and set themselves and the house on fire.
Tho youngest was burned to ashes, but
the oldest got out in tho yard before it
died., ,
A Spelling Match. ?To the young
people who are contemplating a spelling
match in this city, wc suggest the follow?
ing* as an exercise:
?The Hr*t word offered is said to be the
longost word ? in the English language,
used often in old plays, and placed in
the mouth of Costard, the clown, in
"Love's Labor Lost," act v, scene I.
'Honorificabilitudinitatibus."
Tho next in "Pilgrims of the Rhine,'
j by Bnlwer, "Amoronthologosphorus."
Tho next from Rabelais, "Antiperica
I tametananaparbeugedamphic-Ribrati o n
I cstoordcQantinm."
The next fs tho name of an officer now
I in Madrid, Don Juan Nepomnceno d?
I Burionagonatorecagagroazoecha.
The next is a town in the Isle of Mull,
"DrimtaidhyrickhUlichattan."
Tho next, "Jungetrnucnzimmerdurch
schwindsaohttoedlungsgegenyerien."
"Nitrophenylenediamine"' and "Poly-1
phrasticontinomimcgalondulation" are
two words that recently appeared in the
London Tunes and Slar. '
* 'Sankashtachatnrthi vmtodyapana."
"Swapanohaksliarimahamantrastora."
The names of two productions of San?
scrit literature.
"Lepadotemachonclaohogaleokraniolei
phanodrimupotrimmatokichleoikossunh
ophattoperisterrtisktruonoptcgkopkloki
gklopeleiolagoessiraiobapketraganopt e r
ugon."
This lost word is the longost in any
[ langoage: It may bo found in the
"Ekkleslazousai" of Aristophanes.
Anotheb Gbeat Philanthropist. ?Mr.
WUlard Carpenter, of Evansville, Ind.,
hasdacided upon a step whioh will place
him among the great philanthropists of]
the world. Ho announces that he will
vision is modg for the support of a
faculty of instructors, and . tho whole
fund m to ba placed in the bands of ten,
trusses, five of whom shall be residents
Jot Indiana and five of adjoining States.
M>- Carpenter has, not quite . completed
^pU?H ha* he hopes to tttaess the bo
?M?tfng the enterprise before j his
death. .The institution will bo open to
the poor alone, and will not be connect?
ed with.any religious sect. Mr. Carpen?
ter is ?evonty-two years of age, was born
in Vormont, and began lifo aa a peddler,
'traveling over the New England Statte
and New York with a pack on his shoul?
der. I His children hare already had
their share of his estate, and there still
remains enough to carry his project to
success. ->f3 ?o/?* leiaau/ir.
,1 Anna DmrikSbk TcWi?BT.-''Unq<ueH.
tioneb>y the mc?t< eleu neat speaker in
Kmettik*+PK0*4slphX3'Press.
Ark We a Humobo?^PsopSii^^I
have tho opinion of an SjMStfepsity as UV
telligent as the Now Yor\iJfiri? fST bcv
lieving that there is no nppcftdwkfeoa at
humor, and less liking for yrrVi^iO^erh;'
ca; and this opinion is git en ~H? '? ;Bttf
moment when tho Hon. 8.' 8. ColtV wlsf
is both a producer and a judge the;
staples in question, it duvnoursj'ug In.
Harper's Maijazine as to the richness and
abundance of the very qualities ;wntah
our realistic critic refuses ? to recognise.
Which of the pundits is right? Have ire
wit or humor, either, neither, or both,
in this country? Are wo a fun-loving
people? What is wit? What is humor?
On the, whole, we must think the jour?
nalist to be in the wrong; but we shall
not, on that account, remind him that
bo m h wretched Briton; that he had the
misfortune to come into his existence
outside tho circlo of inspirations which
rally round the rftarry banner; that, in one
word, ho is ho far removed from the
blessing of boing a freo-born Amerienn,
that he cannot tell n joke from a hole in
the ground, nor see tho josta over which
ho stumbles every day. The truth is.
that every nationality has its turn for
mirth, even in the sorions Indian giving
out tokens of a tasto for a grim humor
J>eculiar to himself, and, as wit and
minor spring from conditions, that
which may provoke tho mirth of one peo?
ple may fall flat and unlaughable upon
tho ear of another people. Especially is
this likely to prove the case if there bo a
difference in language: the jokes of the
German tind little echo in Fannce; the
comicality of tho Levant would hardly
pass current in Texas. Pope's couplet
applies to the estimation of wit main?
tained indifferent countries:
"Tis with our judgments as with our
watches, none
Go just alike; yet each believes his own."
The Londoner, who finds the stupidest
things in Punch at least readable, would
go to sleep over Mr. Lincoln's best
"yarns." The Parisian laughs until he
cries at the drolleries Rhot off nightly in
the cafes of the Champs Elysees, and
considers Mr. Joshua Billings an ass.
What would tho sober-suited Bndouin
think of Mr. Mark Anthony Twain's
lamentation over tho dead body of Adam,
or tho Grand Llama of the Fat Contribu?
tor? We know that Mr. Art em us Ward
tickled the beef-eating Londoners: but
how? In tho first place, he delivered a
funny lecture about the Mormons when
Mormonism was on interesting question
in England; and, in the delivery of this,
he gave his audiences a genuine surprise
j by the union which he effected between
a rude und native Yankee humor and a
most gentleman-like Anglicized drawl,
accent and manner. He carried this
dexterous trick into the half-dozen
papers which he contributed to Punch,
and with equal success. There was thus
a tie, a bond of affinity, between him
and those who heard and read him, the
man himself being in reality half a
Briton. Mark a contrast furnished con?
temporaneously by the absence of these
qualities of comic alliance in the person
of Mr. Arthur Skotckly, a London hu?
morist, who, taking his cue from the
success of Artomus in the British me?
tropolis, camo to try his merriment on
New York, and failed most signally,
because his jokes had nothing cosmo?
politan about them, and, worst of all,
because they had nothing about them
common hi the New Yorkers.
Mr. Toole's equivocal experience may
be ascribed to the same cuuse. Ho is an
admirable artist?London's very herd.
An offspring of the Dickens school of art,
in which grotesquo and exaggerated
farce is joined to exquisite pathos, Mr.
Toole may bo fairly said to be tho most
versatile, as he is the most vivacious,
comedian alive. "Just n look at that
Toole," vory truly observed tho young
Lady of Gloster, '"makes one feel like
splitting," and so it is not only in Glos?
ter, but in Liverpool, Manchester anil
Dublin, and all over the provinces, as
well as in London. Quite another thing
in America. Here Mr. Toole's gro
tesqucriu passes for over-doing, whilst
many of his neatest points fail for lack
both of information and sympathy in his
audience. Mr. Bothern's Dundreary goes
down with us, because our own sham
social organism, even more than Euglish
fiction and caricature, has made us fami?
liar with the brainless dandy of fashion?
able life, and thus nn exceeding broad
extravaganza, being understood, is ap?
plauded. Mr. Toole, however, in Broad?
way has scarcely as good a show as (!ol.
Sellers would have in the Strand, for,
whilst Sellors'outre characteristics might
carry him along spite of his unmeaning
references and his outlandish jargon, Mr.
Toole has still to rely upon bis art, pure
and simple.
Thus wo see bow absurd it is to mca
suro the wit or humor of one people by
the standards which prevail with another
people. 'Die New York Times is certainly
at fault in this matter. The humor of
Rabelais is universal, because it springs
out of the well of human nature, whereby
it is also coarse and vulgar; and yet Ra?
belais is going out of vogue. Tho humor
of Dickens is kept alive by his plot and
pathos ?to which, indeod, more than to
his humor, ho is indebtod for his vogue
outside his native country. Even the
humor of Corvantes, world-embracing, is
obsolete; whilst Butler is rarely read at
all. Indeed, neither wit nor humor can
stand alone for a long time. If they bo
not an emanation of their country and
time, the/ will only lire in a desultory
way, handed down in fragments from age
to age, and tampered with as freely as
though they were legends or loose women.
I Purge the world's book of fun of its pro?
fanity and its smut, and how much
would bo left of ikf The mostSuccessful
jokes are generally the rudest, and for
the reason not merely that they are fori
bidden, whieh, indeed, is but a poor reo*
son for their popularity, but that they
contribute tho most whimsical incon?
gruities and (tho extrem est contrasts to
surprise our risibles said - compel Us to
laugh, i Nor isitheir indecency so objec?
tionable as it is often represented to be; *
for. that cannot be said to be wholly bad
which draws men together by the touch
of natura- that makes the whole world
kin, causing thom to be merry, to be
generous one with) another, to digest, in
[short, as the old saying has it,."to laugh
and grow faU" .There is snob a thing Asi
! attenuating decency Jnto a. lewd habit;
and we ore not to think it our, duty to
n^^M^sbDOi i djmg-iheap.
The mos* penned people are often the
J east moral, iust as the severest virtuo is
'come up with among the plainest folk.
As for our American humor, rough as
\ it is, it is not nearly so smutty as the
A?kfHmfor so wittily immoral as tho
rrrsib, u tae unio time that it is racy
IfctfyjnB quaint and characteristic
5fttcwSSwftt most surely is; and very
JbrinjHf?4aiid provincial; more inde
fbjajMNuowover, of classic inspiration
fiMMHHgn models, wo vonturo to think,
A*n (pat Of onr contemporaries. It is
the.Qn,0 Ihing in American literature
wlncu may be claimed as purely original,
wMch moves no to wonder how it could
ba brought to the sudden halt called by
tho New York Tunes, when that journal
assigns the failure of n weak imitation
like "Vanity Fair"' not alone to the ab?
sence of native wit and humor, but to a
thorough iimppreciatiou of both.
[Louisville Ckturier-Joum tl.
Tbc Herald to-dav includes in it* pages
a reproduction of nlvinghm's At-to York
Gazetteer, bearing the antiquated date,
May '2"?. 1775. There is not much news
in tliti Gazetteer, bnt in the whirligig ol
time, its ancient truths have become
fresh and interesting. H?ro we see in
far, simile the affidavits of the men who
fought at Lexington and Concord, with
other historical matter of unusual inte?
rest just now. Tho Gazetteer was printed
as "an open and uninfluenced press."
100 years ago, and it is re-printed under
the same fortunate conditions now. We
also reproduce the Essex Gazette, a sheet
containing "the freshest advice:., both
foreign and domestic," (.all about threo
months old. > Hut, though there were no
telegraphs then, there was an electric
sympathy that n\n throughout the na?
tion, and it is interesting to see that, jour?
nalism 10U years ago was as important
an agent in national progress as we boast
it is now; while the Salem Gazette arises
from the ashes of a century, and, Pku;
nix-like, reappears in the columns of the
Ilrrtld. We doubt that the broadside
which tells of the "bloody butchery by
the British, or tin run-away tight of the
regulars." ever had the extensive circula?
tion which we give it now. The report
of the battle and the funeral elegy to the
immortal memory of those worthies who
were slain at Concord arc as int< resting
now as then. The forty coffins, each in?
scribed with an honored name, are not
entombed. History lifts them from the
grave, and glory slmda upon them h< r
eternal splendor.
[AV- ForAr ILrnld, l'.)th.
Usrrsn Ft.vtes CooitT, Charleston,
April 20. Judge Bryan presiding. In
the case of Wcissenfield A Co. against
Belcher A McCollough, it was ordered
that the plaintiff show cause at the next
term of tho Court, to be holden in (Jreen
ville, why a judgment obtained in his
favor should not be set aside and that
the issues of infancy und non-residence
be tried by a jury. The application of
James M. Friday, of Aiken, for final dis
ohnrg) in bankruptcy was referred to
Registrar Carpenter. Final hearing in
the .-use of M. Rich was ordered to be
heard within ten days from yesterday.
In the cr.se of T. K. Hasportas, bankrupt,
it was ordered that an injunction be dis?
solved as to property sold by the Sheriff,
and that he be at liberty to execute titles
to purchasers. The petition for sale of
Eroperty in tho case of James R. Castles,
ankrapt, was referred to Registrar
Clawson. A petition of Monltrie Morde
cai, assignee of Arthur Middloton, bank?
rupt, in the case of homestead, was filed
and a copy ordered to bo served on
Joseph Cohen, trustee, and that tho
bankrupt have leave to plead, answer or
demur. The report oi the registrar in
the case of J. I). Smart, bankrupt, was
confirmed and became the docre ? of the
Court.
(".tie,.pee, Mass., h.id a regular stoic in
jail. It was found that he had cut his
throat with n piece of glass and was
bleeding to death. The surgeons came,
tied up some of the severed arteries and
sewed up the gash nicely. While they
were performing this operation the man
tried several times to speak, but could
not get out a word. He conld only de?
spairingly shake his head and protest
iigainst the pains the surgeons were tak?
ing to save his life. It was of no use,
they would tie and sew. At length when
the lost stich was taken, the man was
able to burst out what had been sticking
in his throat, struggling for expression.
It was: "All fol-de-rol, doctors, I tried
to toll you to save you the trouble of
stitching mo up. I've chawed some of
the glass. I have." An.i he really had,
and swallowed it, too. He was doad in
a few hours, and the tying ami stitching
and scientific skill went for nothing.
Kam: or" Sto-.-ks ano Bonds. Mr. S:.
muel C. Black sold at auction, in Charles?
ton, on the 20th, the following stocks
und bonds: $1.0:W city of Charleston six
per cent, stock, payable April. 1S7N. at
tile: nine shares Stono I'hosphuto Ktoek,
ati'.i?; $1,000 city Charleston seven per
cent non-taxable bonds, nt 70c.: $:120
city Charleston six per cent stock, long
date, at 55c.; forty shares Bank Charles?
ton National Banking Association stock,
at $8i).50; $1,000 Cheraw and Darlington
Railroad second mortgage seven per
cent bonds, at 74Ac, fifty-one shares
Loan and Trust Company stock, at
$69.50 to $70; $3,500 North-eastern Rail?
road second mortgage eight per cent
bonds, at 74c; $4,000 South Carolina
Railroad first mortgage seven per cent
bonds, at 93Jc; $2,000 South Carolina
second mortgage seven per cent bonds,
at 67c.; $120 past due city stock, at 75c.
Terms cash.
The Grate or Ambition. ?Under the
head of "The Presidential Gewgaw," the
Springfield Republican shows up the
folly of the ambition for the Presidency
whioh prevails in so many ardent brains.
It suggests that tho field of onr past his?
tory is a good one for profitable reflection
on this subject Tho popular race-horse
stands an even ohance for immortality
with most- of the occupants hitherto of
the Erecutive chair. "It would move
the soul of any man to go among the
bones of its dead politicians and soerhow
very 'dead they are. But one shudders
to think how'many Presidents wo shall
lay away and forgot in tho next thousand
years, and how it will tax the brain of
the poor sohool-boy of the furore to com?
mit the list to memory. We are making
them at the rate of about one- in four
years, whioh is much faster than we.pro?
d?ce great men.("
Aiwa Dicktsson To-Niorrr.?' 'Worthy
of her host fame as an orator, and honor?
ing her woman's heart and soul.
[ Springfield- Republic* n.
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Cm Mattem. -If yon are asked to
lend your PmENrx, suggest to the would
he borrower that he had better subscribe. I
Reading matter on every page.
Mr. D. Epstin will also accept our
th >nks fur a package of matzos.
Ve beg to inform our fricndtt that we
have recovered fron? the last choking,
and are ready to go through the process
again. ,
Yon can get all stylos of job printing,
from a visiting card to n four-sheet post?
er, at the Phoxjux office. Prices satisfac?
tory.
Smokekh' Festival. If you don't
smoke, you can enjoy the festival by
trying. Ferry & Slawson'a fig fine out
looks exactly like real figs, but it ain't.
Messrs. John C. Seogers, G. Diercks,
W. Stieglitz, M. Ehrlich and E. Hei, have
departed for Savannah, to attend the
Schnetzenfest, as delegates from the
sister soeiety in Columbia.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson, whose ability
as a lecturer is so well known, and ad?
mired, gives us a specimen of her talents,
this evening, nt the Opera House, in
"For Your Own Sake." Hear her, by
all means. .
The Augusta (hnntUutionnlUit mentions
that South Carolina securities are advanc?
ing in leinand in that city, no less than
?10,000 worth of bonds having changed
hands there in a single day. An evi?
dence of confidence in the administra?
tion.
Yesterday was one of, the most disa?
greeable of tho season- -cold and rainy.
It is feared that the fruit and vegetables
whice were fortunate enough to escape
the previous cold snap, succumbed to
this unpleasant visitor.
A geneml lamentation prevails among
tho gardens. Tho "Snss," to use a quaint
w ord, has gone up. Had they consulted
Dr. Heinibsh's almanac, something would
be learned about planting beans before
tho full moon. The doctor has plenty of
seed left. He is selling out his stock
cheap. As a general renovator of the
system, use his bloodjand liver pills.
The New York Herald, of Monday,
April 10, is one of the curiosities of the
century. It contains, besides lengthy
accounts of matters pertaining to Con?
cord and Lexington as things now are,
but oh they were a century ago. Also,
fae similes of newspapers published at
that time. Talk about live papers, why
the Herald is a head und shoulders above
them ail. And as for amount of matter,
tho New York monster is ahead of any?
thing in the world, as tho paper frequent?
ly contains twenty six-column pages.
America is a great country, and the
Herald a fit representative.
The Gukenhbobko Lottxby.?The
ticket-holders in this grand gift-drawing
have been on the tip-toe of expectation
and tho ragged edge of anxiety for seve?
ral days. Tho drawing commenced
Tuesday morning, and proceeded slowlj'.
Owing to the non-sale of tickets, tho
prizes were scaled to one-sixth. No.
' 63,549, held by Prior Woodson, of Lynch
burg, Va., drew the first prize?the Bon
bow House. Tho following is a partial
list of the numbers:
I 98,032, $5,000; 1,358, $4,500;? 91?,
$1,000; 04,250, $2,000; 21,915, 32,715,
134,005, 20,169, $500; 53,452, lot worth
$375 ; 45,108, 30.817, 94,233, 56,953,
?55,859, 50,066, 77,932. 31,530, 43,674,
38,?8f>, 31.679, 78,177, 49,552. 45,138,
66,828, 32,226, 43,715, 58,571. 914, 33,456,
47.933, $100.
The Coi.n Snap.?That oft-quoted in?
dividual, tho oldest inhabitant, does not
remember such another cold spell so lato
in tho season, as that which was with us
during the throe days beginning with
Friday, April 16. It was on the 15th day
of April, 18-19, (if wc remember cor?
rectly.) that a severe snow storm visited
this latitude, anil that has furnished a
themtf for conversation on every succeed?
ing April up to the present year, but
1875 has eclipsed 1819 by threo days.
On Sunday, "bitter cold" winds blew
throughout the entire day, and on Sun?
day night it was an intensely cold calm.
The frost was thick on tho ground Mon?
day, and ice formed, in many places.
Tho gardeners found, to their sorrow,
that their young plants were withered
and blighted. Tho loss in this State
alone can be counted by the thousands.
In nearly evory case, tho gardens were
totally ruined. .
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Supbems Coubt?Wednesday, April
21.?The Court met at 10 A. M. Pre?
sent?Chief Justice Moses and Associate
Justice Willard.
Henry K. W. Flinn el al, respondents,
vs. James M. Brown, Sr., et al, appel?
lants. Mr. Molver was heard for re?
spondents; Mr. Edwards was heard for
appellants, in reply.
The State ex rel survivors of Adams,
Frost A Co., appellants, vs. Thomas C.
Cox, Sheriff, respondent Appeal aband?
oned.
B. W. Edwards; administrator; et al.,
appellants, vs. H. E. P. Sanders et al.,
respondents. Mr. Spain was heard for
appoliants; Mr. Mclver was heard for re?
spondents; Mr. Spain was heard for ap?
pellants, in reply. T
A. P. Johnson si rut, ?( ?!.,< respond?
ents, vs. John E. Haifelson, oxsoator, et
aL, appellants.' Mr. Evans for appel?
lants. ? ..?
At 8 P. M., the Conrt adjourned ontil
Thursday, 22d, 10 A. M. , *J ,
, i ???. u .-: is^h-.y
j AWM* DtomnvsoH.?"She achieved a
dazzling triumph, so perfect was her art,
and yet so artless her picture."
! [Acte York Herald.
NlLIS G. FaBKZB ABBKtJTXD AMD Im -
puiriONED.?Niles G. Parker, ex-Treasurer
of tlio State of South Carolina, was ar?
rested, yesterday, and required to give
bail in tho spm of $56,200, upon com?
plaint of D. Hi Chamberlain, T. C. Dann,
S. W. Melton, W. B. Nash and Paris
Sinikins, as Commissioners of the Sink?
ing Fund. The complaint charges that
Parker embezzled and fraudulently mis?
applied $28,100 of the funds of the Sink?
ing Fund Commission. The affidavit
was made by T. C. Dunn, Comptroller
General. Counsel for defendant, Messrs.
Melton ? Clarke and Bacbman & You -
.mans, obtained an ? parte hearing be?
fore Major D. B. Miller, Clerk of tho
Court, and moved that the orderof arrest
on bail be rescinded. Upon the refusal
of tho Clerk, a petition was made to
Judge Cooke, who, after hearing argu?
ment in favor of defendant, dismissed
the petition, and directed the order of
the Clerk to be executed. The amount
of bail required precluded the possibility
of its being given, and Parker was com?
mitted to the County jail. His counsel
made strenuous and able efforts in his
behalf. Tho proceedings occupied all
the afternoon and evening, till a lato
hour last night It is rumored that the
ex-Treasurer was about to depart North?
ward when arrested.
Fhcenixtana. ?A paroxysmal kiss?that
of tho billiard balls.
Anna Dickinson To-Night.?"For your
Own Sake."
A doughmestic difficulty?heavy bread.
Spring is on hand. Lettuce have peas.
It takes a pretty smart man to tell when
he is happy.
When a man can't find anything to do,
he has lived long enough.
Question for actors?can an actor bo
said to work when he plays? ?
High living for hard times?rooms in
tho attic.
Every sot knows what "true inward?
ness" is.
How much sharper than, a serpent's
2th is it to have a non-paying subscriber.
Authors meto to be read?Bacon and
Lamb.
Printers are true philosophers, they do
not put much faith in first impressions.
The author of "When This Old Hat
Was New," was unquestionably a versa
a-tile genius.
Advice to reformers addressing news?
papers ?be sure you are right, and then
write.
Shakspeare's advice to modern readers
of diurnal and hebdomadal Literature -
"neither a borrower nor a lender be." .
Those who* rise to eminence suddenly
are very apt to come back by the next
brain.
When fortune wants to let a fellow
being fall the hardest, she lifts him up
the highest t
Those old Greeks were pretty wise fal?
lows. In their vocabulary, maiden is
translated nothing, and marriage is gam
List or New Advkbhsemkntb.
L?rick A Lowranoe?Machinery.
Meeting Richlsnd Bifle Club.
B. I. Boone?Notices.
John Agnew A Son?Kerosene,
Meeting Acacia Lodge.
R. L. Bryan?New Books.
Perry A Slawsen?Smokers' FestiffcJ.
Hotel AanrvAU, April 21, 1875.?Co- ?
lumbia Hotel?J.- D. Stoney, S. C.; J. MF*
McCullum, Charleston; J. F. Newman,'
Charleston; W. H. Evans, Charleston; G.
A. Trenholm, Jr., wife, three children
and two servants, Virginia; Major M. B. '
Moses, Sumter; Dr. Frank J. Moses, Au?
gusta; W. J. McDowell, R. & U. R. R.
Hendrix House?M. Brown and wife, ? '
S. C.; W. W. Scott, P. H. Harra!son, Oa.*,
P. P. Pease, Ky.; A. L. Huntt, N. Y.; D.
Jones, Mass.; W. E. Anderson, Water?
side: G. M. Harmon, Lexington.
Wheeler House?W. P. Lamb end wife,
Atlanta; Chas. E. Tucker, Boston; Louis
D. DeSanssure, Charleston: L. Lake,
Now York; J. S. Browning, J. J. Brown,
C. H. Glidden, Charleston; James B.
Hillin, wife and child, New Jersey; P. J. -
Potter and wife. Miss L. Potter, Master '
R. B. Potter, Philadelphia; Mrs. Jarvis
Kladc, Miss Slade, Miss Emott, J. B.
Mvers, New York; Mrs. S. A. Knight,
Miss Knight, Providence; Dr. P. M. L.
Burbank, New York; B. A. Widenman,
Atlanbv, A. D. Molin, New York; W. T.
Gary, Edgefield: J. IL Harrison, Ander?
son.
There is some consolation in the pre?
sent outrageous weather, in the know?
ledge that others are Buffering with us.
In Wisconsin, they have had the ther?
mometer down to aero, and in Missis?
sippi there was an eighth of an inch of
ico on Saturday morning. In Northern
New York, there is said to be two or
three feet of iee still on the lakes, which
is certainly a case of "winter lingering."
The only off-set to all this is down at
Key West, where the temperature is seve?
ral degrees above the averago; but still
they are not happy there, lor there is
yellow fever around. In fact, if Iks gen- I
eral dissatisfaction continue, there will
hare to be a ohange in the weather ofte*.
At present nobody seems to be satisfied.
t present nobody
and the Government is off in Massachu?
setts. ? .?; ??
The nation at large really ought to
adopt some such preamble and resolu?
tions as these; WheEeaa, our distin J
guished fellow-oitisen, F. E. Spinnar?
which is said to be the correct Solution
of the chirographio. rebus ha calls his
Signaturo?has resigned, the position of
United Stales Treasurer; therefors, be it .
Resolved, That by this step?a step an- '
prsesdanted in the history Of the present
Administration?the world is bereft of a
specimen,of calography, the nation of a
specimen pi penmanship, the to senary
of an autograph, and oar currency of a
signature, whose loss we could bear with
a Christian stagnation, ware it not for '
the thought of the othes heart* that must.
bleed, Rssclvrd, Of his autograph, that
wo pe er shall look upon its.like again?
" wa con help it. t,
Anna Dickinson To-Ntoht.?"An ex?
ample of true womanhood."
{Louisville Ledger. ?
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