The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, April 27, 1875, Image 2
Tuesday Morning, April 87,1875. j
Dissolving;.
The intimation given out some days
ago, that Attorney-General Williams was
abont to surrender hie portfolio, has been
confirmed by the announcement that he
has resigned, and his resignation will
take effect on the 15th May. It has been
telegraphed about that his private busi?
ness has been so muoh neglected in con?
sequence of important publie duties, that
in justice to himself, he is now com?
pelled to devote some attention to Ihh
own affairs. ' .This is one of the things
said, and s still more improbable make
believe is, that he resigns in order to re?
turn to Oregon and enter into the con?
test for the United States Senatorship.
There is no vacancy till March, 1877, and |
Oregon, since it has been rid of Wil?
liams, has become a Democratic State,
end the Republicans there have grown,
it is to be hoped, beyond the proportions
of men who have to put up with suoh a
person as he to represent their honor;
character and brains. He leaves the
Cabinet not because of these things, but
because the President cannot afford to
carry him any longer. Ho doubt this is
excruciating to his feelings, for less than
a year and a half ago, he nominated him
for the. office of Chief Justice, and strug?
gled hard to have him confirmed to that
position. Another resignation of the
same kind, now expected, is that of the
Interior Department by Secretary De?
lano. What pretense he will set up to
excuse his going, has not transpired, but
it seems that a knowledge of and share
in some disreputable transactions in the
Indian Bureau have been traced home to
him. Mr. John Delano engineered the
?windle, it is said, but the father was the
real party to the fraud.* An investigation
will be ordered as soon as the Democratic
House of Representatives assembles next
December. It is well for the Secretary
to retire under these circumstances, and
his friend, the President, will thus let
him down "easy," and let him go. He
cannot afford either to remove Williams
because he is a failure and a fraud, nor
Delano because he has been a corrup
tionist in office. He is compelled to deal
gently with these dishonored members of
his Cabinet, because he does not feel or
care a straw about either the incompo?
tency of the one, or the money-making
frauds of the other.
What is patent is that the President
begins to realize that, having staked hea?
vily on Connecticut, he has lost heavily.
The significance of the elections is mak-1
ing an impression upon even his enor
? mous self-conceit and self-complacency.
The judgment of the country is a thing
that he. sees coming, and ho is anxious to
arrest it He mast do something, if pos?
sible, which will turn the tide back. | R
is particularly desirable that the State of
Ohio shall be carried by the Republi?
cans at the next election, which will, oc?
cur during the present year. Upon this
will depend their chance of carrying the
next Presidentini election. Without this
suecess, they may hang their harps upon
the willows and cease to sing. Now the
Republican politicians of Ohio feel that
there is no possibility of their carrying
the State with Williams and Delano con?
tinuing in the Cabinet. So they must be ]
thrown overboard. The New Tork Herald,
whioh presents this view of the causa of
the resignations, (?) fortifies it by refer?
ence to the language of the Cincinnati
Gazette, a devoted adherent of Grant and
the leading administration paper in Ohio.
"It is to be hoped," it says, in an?
nouncing that Secretary Delano was to
go out, "that this will be a real change
in the administration of that department
rather than a succession of the same
sort. Not only the administration at
Washington, bnt politics in Ohio would
be the healthier for it"
According to the Herald, Williams' re?
moval, under the color of a resignation,
does not result from his bad advice on
the Louisiana question, and the scrapes
into whioh ho has led the President on
the* Southern problem. "It is a conse?
quence of his profuse and corrupt ex?
penditure of money in the Southern
States, under a pretense of carrying out
the enforcement laws. This part of the
Attorney-General's oonduot will not bear
investigation, and the -President thinks
It better to get rid of the officer than to
face the record."
We need not concern ourselves par?
ticularly about the motives which have
led to these resignations, so-called. Our
anxiety upon this point is swallowed up
in the gratitude we feel that we shall
soon see no More of those hateful orders
from the Department of Justice, signed
by the man who rods, in the landaulet,
and thai its political necessities are lead?
ing to a diaaolutiouof the Cabinet
prospect of becoming suddenly rich in
conditions of things are more in danger
probability, ,
which it win
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provoke an hudiin war,
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terminate. ,?r, , :?
Thosa who rise to eminene* suddenly
Th# PSJfceCPrOSSSSltkaSi
We understand that anew ere were made
yesterday by Messrs. Melton Sc Clarke
and Baobman Sc Younians, attorneys for
defendant, to the complaints which were
filed some days ago by the Sinking Fund
Commissioners, and by the State, through
the Attorney-General, against cx-Trea
?urer Nile* G. Parker. The object, of
course, is to bring them to n speedy
hearing, and the ensuing term of the
Court will be one of no little importance
and interest. For years past a prosecu?
tion of this sort has been a thing to
which we could only look forward with
hope that it might some day be insti?
tuted. The time has come at last for it
to bo done, and the responsibility which
has been accepted so handsomely by the
Executive, which has made some progress
in the General Assombly, is now, we
trust, to be enforced in the Courts.
Those disreputable transactions in con?
nection with the handling of the public
funds, those frauds and cheats which
have blackened our history for nearly a
decade of years, are, it is to be hoped, to
be dragged into the light, thoroughly
sifted, and, where the guilty^parties can
be mode amenable to the law, sternly
punished. We pre-judge no man, and
no man who is innocent has any cause to
fear the searching quest of the judicial
tribunals. Let them now do their ap?
pointed work fearlessly, without favor as
without malice, and may justice and right
prevail and the State be purged of her
I despoilers. We oongrntnlate the country
that we have at last an atmosphero in
I which prosecutions for wrongs done it
can breathe. Acting, as we believe, from
a high sense of duty, every man who re?
gards the public'interests and the public
honor will commend the efforts of the
Comptroller-General, Dunn, and the At?
torney-General, Molton, to bring to ac?
count those, or any one of those, who
have used high positions to defraud the
people, plunder their property, and soil
the public service.
British and American Science.
Mr. Richard A. Proctor, who delivered
lectures on astronomy in this country
a year or so ago, has just published in
the English Mechanic an article which
discriminates strongly in favor of the in?
genuity and fertility of Americans, not
only in scientific matters, but in con?
trivances relating to the conveniences
and luxuries of life.
I Our systom of railway travel he pro?
nounces altogether superior to the Eng?
lish, although this last involves a fir
higher cost per mile. With winter
{weather far more severe than that of
England, the Americans, according to
Professor Proctor, have rooms and houses
comfortably warmed at a tenth part of
the expenditure of fuel by which the
English manage to roast half the body,
while the other is consumed by cold
draughts. We have only recently (by com?
parison) established meteorological
observatories, yet already, says Mr.
Proctor, the Americans have morning
and afternoon weather announcements,
nine times out of ten correct, for the
whole area of the States West of the Mis?
sissippi, while tho English ore labori?
ously and at great oxpenso publishing
each day announcements of the weather
of the day before, as if that would be of
any real use. In scientific matters,
Americans havo quietly settled subjects
which Europeans have failed to solve.
The question of tho corona is instanced,
and the eclipse successes in 1870 and
1871 are ascribed by Prof. Proctor to our
example. He adds that "Prof. Young,
in America, has gone far ahead of us
(the English) in the analysis of solar
surroundings."
Prof. Langloy's investigations of the
sun's surface; American photographs of
the moon; Prof, bond's success in not
only measuring the duration of the elec?
tric spark, but determining tho relative
duration of different portions of the Hash;
Prof. Mayer's successful dealing with
acoutical problems, are referred to as
showing that, while our countrymen
do not really surpass the English in
scientific acumen or ingenuity, they are
much more fortunate in their methods
and in their opportunities for exercising
those qualities. The American action
in the matter of the recent transit is
spoken of by Mr. Proctor as affording an
excellent illustration of their method of
dealing with -scientific subjects?a me?
thod characterized by the combination of
scientific exactness with readiness of re?
source and practical common sense. The
American plan of operations differed in
many important points from that which)
English astronomers had long before
adopted.
In the first place, "it was determined
only to occupy stations where the whole
transit would be visible." Next, excel?
lent practical measures were adopted to
obtain such information as might guide
them in tho selection of stations, which
was not done in England. The English
had but one station in the Northern
hemisphere (in North India) where the
whole transit could be observed, and
although it could be observed at all their
Southern stations, yet observations of
the whole transit in the South could only
be properly comparable with similar
observations in the North, and ihr these,
except in one case, the English would
have to rely on tho astronomers of other
nations, using different methods from
themselves and differently trained. On
the other hand, the Americans selected
eight stations, three in the Northern and
five in the Southern hemisphere, where
the whole transit would be. visible.
Hence the better results, and this tribute
from so distinguished an English sci?
entist, which is as creditable to hi* liberal
Spifit of justice as it is gratifying and
encouraging to Americans generally,
and especially to our scientists in their
labors.
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At Monaco, a gentleman came to the
roulette table and put down his hat full
of gold piece*, Another said to him,
"Beg your pardon, sir, hut could you
favor me with the address of your hatter?"
hK ' A ? I.'
Gear?a i. Qtmmim?This diatingntahed
Georgia statesman was serenaded at Wil?
mington, N. C., Saturday night Ke
addressed the citizens . who bad turned
out in Urge numbers to do him honor.
We make a few extract* from his speech:
He said that it had been charged on
the floor of the United States Senate that
he had uttered conciliatory sentiments
at Concord that he dare not speak at the
South. In response to this charge, he
would say here to-day, that he had as?
serted in New Hampshire that the South
had been, was now and forever would be
ready to extond the right hand of fellow?
ship to the people of the Northern Staten.
General Gordon likened the South to the
suffering patriarch Job; like him they
were aflficted but patient; they had lost
lands, and houses, and friends, and fa?
milies, but they were faithiul and con?
stant unto the end; Job was filled with
boils and scabs and sores, and the peo?
ple of the South had been over-run with
scallawags and carpet-baggers. Only, in
one respect did they differ?even in his
worst extremity, the devil didn't set up
Job's servants over him. It was the
speaker's great privilege to be the bearer
this day of glad tidings to the people.
He had been among the people of the
North, and everywhere could be heard
the mOtterings of the doom that woe sure
to overtake those who had abused the
privileges of power and had sunk all of
the instincts and teachings of patriotism
in their panderings to self; ana when the
first centennial of American independ?
ence dawns, the flag of a free people
would float from*(hi dome of tho Capitol.
General Gordon concluded with an elo?
quent appeal to the people to stand fast
by the principles that they had so hap
Sdy maintained bore in the Old North
t?te, and to go on conquering and to
conquer in tho groat causo of constitu?
tional liberty.
RehIO nation of AtTORN'F. Y-Gr.ner AI,
WILHAMS.?The resignation of Attorney
General Williams takes eflect on the 15th
of May. He says that he has held the
office long enough for reputation and po?
litical glory, and that it is now time for
him to devote some attention to his own
welfare He will renew his practice in
Washington as a lawyer, and leave to the
President the choice of his successor,
about whom, he says, he has no more |
idea than an unborn babe. It is known,
however, that Secretary Bristow will
willingly accept the office, and, ns the
President has promised he should have
it whenever tho present incumbent saw
fit to resign, the question now is, who
will bo Secretary Bristow's successor?
Mr. Bristow does not like the duties of
Secretary of the Treasury, and the com?
ing change baa alone kept him in office.
Judge Edwards Pierrepont, of New
York, ex-Senator Carpenter and General
Butler are also mentioned in connection
with the coming vacancy. Tho letter of
the President, accepting the resignation
of Attorney-General Williams, it is said,
will pay a nigh tribute to his ability and
distinguished services as the head of the
Department of Justioe.
A Memento or the Palmetto Regi?
ment, South Carolina Volunteers.?
When this command returned to South
Carolina, after its participation in tho
brilliant campaign of Gen. Winfield
Scott in Mexico, in 1846 and 1817, the
Shite ordered a full roll made of the
entire regiment, which was executed in
very handsome style, and displays, with
the names of the .officers ana men, the
tattered flag as it came home, with other
interesting mementoes. It is now out of
Erint, and con only be seen in private
ands. The Rev. Whitofoord Smith, D.
D., of Sparenburg, has presented his
copy to the Washington Light Infantry;
it is in a perfect state of preservation,
and tho value of the gift is enhanced by
the source from which it comes, bring?
ing up, as it does, pleasant ? memories of
tho past between the donor and the old
corps.- -Charleston Acte?.
Silver Resumption.?Upon the best J
Washington authority tho New York
Bulletin learns that it is the purpose of
the Government not to put in circula-1
tion any of the silver coinage, in pur?
suance of the resumption Act, until the
price of gold has fallen to about 1.10, as
with gold ranging above that quotation
coin would naturally be bought up for |
export. The Bulletin adds:
"We are not informed, however, whe
ther, in the event of the gold premium
falling to 10, the Government could have
sufficient assurance that it would not ad?
vance again to warrant the coin being
put in circulation. It seems, howevor,
quite likely that tho Secretary of the
Treasury would feel that ho needed very
considerable assurance on this point;
more indeed than, under the generally
unsettled condition of the influences that
affect the gold premium, he would be
likely to get. We express the opinion
respecting the caution of the Secretary,
because we have reason to believe that
the Administration have less confidence
in this particular branch of the resump?
tion Aot than thoy had last February,
and that they will at least tacitly sanc?
tion the introduction of a bill, immedi?
ately on the opening of next session of I
Congress, to repeal the silver resumption |
clause."
Johnson and Beownlow.?Tho Nash?
ville (Term.) Banner evidently does not
attach much importance to the war of
Words which is likely to ensue between
ex-President Johnson and ex-Senator
Brownlow as a result of the recent bitter
letter of the latter. It says:
1 "The truth is that neither of th#se
venerable East Tennessefans are likely
to play any very conspicuous part in the
future political affairs of Tennessee.
One has gone to the Senate for six years,
and the other has declined into the lean
and slippered pantaloon stage of nonage
narianiBm, ana can only sputter like a
dying wick in a socket This is too
energetio and intelligent an ago to be
trammeled with the wornont nonsense of
a Silurian political,epoch. There is not
enough virility left in the possible com?
batants to make a wordy war interesting,
muoh less exciting enough for a political
issue. Younger voices from more vigor?
ous and less diseased minds and bodies
will drown out the shrill piping of queru?
lous and garrulous old fishwomen.
A quart of milk weighs two pounds,
two and one-fourth ounces; a gallon
weighs eight pounds, nine ounces.
?Tu? W? r* Cub*.?Advices from Ha
v*ne report that 1,000 well mounted in?
surgent* hare entered the jurisdiction of
Bagua, and on Friday last burned seven
large plantations in tho district of Que
mada de loa Guinea. They met with no
resistance. Manuel Suareu, formerly sn
officer of the Spanish army, was in com?
mand. Another rebel cavalry corpR, es?
timated at 1,600 strong, is operating un?
der General Banguili, in the Eastern part
of the juris diet ion of Colon. It was
supposed at Havana that reinforcements
had been reoeived by Captain-General
Valniaseda, Sufficient to prevent the in?
surgents from over-running Colon and
to check their progress Westward for the
present. The activity of the insurgents
Hecmu in no way diminished since Val
tnaseda has taken the field. That re?
doubtable commander has gathered the
Inrgest force ever moved against the ia
surrection, and if he fails to check Go?
mez and his lieutenants, Spain's chance
of holding Cuba is at mi end. In the
meantime, the insurgents, true to their
policy of devastation, are applying the
torch to the plantations in every direc?
tion. Never at any period of the strug?
gle did tho insurgents penetrate ns far
West as they have done within the post
weok, and there seems little reason to
doubt that they will succeed in reducing
tho Western department to the condition
of a desert. By the destruction of the
plantations, tho insurgents not alone
cripple tho Spanish treasury, but overy
cstate destroyed adds to * their ranks
numbers of men, who can be utilized in
the struggle for independence. Within
the next few weeks tho fate of Cuba will
bo decided. If Valmoscda fails to dis?
perse Gomez's force, the insurrection
may be looked upon as having at length
secured its final triumph.
Splendid Wheat Prospect. ?A gen
tleman who has traveled extensively
throngh Tennessee, Kentucky, Went
Virginia, Maryland, Indiana, Ohio and
Southern Illinois, informs us that the
wintor wheat crop now in the ground in
all that rogion is in excellent condition.
Sonio farmers supposed the broadcast
sowing would prove a failure in such
States as Tennessee. Kentucky, Virginia
and Maryland, where the snow did not
lay long on the ground; but examination
ot the ground proves tho reverse. Not
only is the growing wheat in excellent
condition in these States, but the area
put in is large. In the more Northerly
portion of the winter wheat belt, the I
earth has boon very steadily covered
with snow, and there can be no doubt I
that when the thaw comes it will bo
sudden. Spring will be skipped and
summer will begin. The weather will
be hot and forcing, and the growth ofl
the wheat plant will be rapid. Another I
thing appears to be certain, and that is,
there will be a big corn crop in 1875.
Corn is now bringing a price that will
insure a large profit to the farmer, and
hogs are high also. Thus arc two incen?
tives to produce corn largely. If the
crop should be so large as to force prices
down, it can be fed to hogs and made to
pay a good profit that way.
Tub Enforcement Acts to ue De?
clared Unconstitutional. ?There has
been^ much surprise manifested at the
announcement that the Supreme Court
would decide the legislation of Congress
known as tho Enforcement Acts uncon?
stitutional. The fact is the Grant Parish
caso which was recently argued by
Reverdy Johnson, David Dudley Field
and R. H. Murr, did not present to the
court a single feature not previously pre?
sented in the South Carolina Ku Klux
and Kentucky election cases, and it was
upon tho latter case tho court hold its
conference, when it was discovered how
nearly unanimous the court was of the
opinion that tho Act of July, 1870, was
unconstitutional. It was then that tho
political bias bad its influence, and, as
the Louisiana troubles bad brought the
Grant Parish case prominently forward
as a party question, an effort was made
to have the argument postponed until
the fall session of tho court, when the
political condition of affairs in all parts
of the country will bo more favorable for
sober judgment, as was said by a mem?
ber of the court before it was decided to
bear the argument. The President, ad?
vised of the heresy of his appointees on
tho Bench, actually declined to attend
tho dinner given by Reverdy Johnson to
the Justices of tho United States Su?
preme Court.
Toy Pistols. - The toy pistol got into
a New York court the other day. While
two little boys were playing together one
day, they undertook to have a little in?
nocent divertisemeat with one of these
Contrivances, that, along with the dime
novel, go to inciting the yonng idea to
become a long-haired, language-murder?
ing, border rapscallion. One of the
youths snapped a cap in the face of tho
other, and knocked out bis eye. The
father of the injured lad brought suit
against the paternal ancestor of the other
for the costs of medical attendance and
$1,000 damages. Tho claim was modest
enough, surely. The judge, however,
dismissed the complaint on tho grounds
that he could see no justice in any prin?
ciple that would hold a father pecunia?
rily responsible for the eccentricities of
the son, no matter whether the latter
happened to be a minor or of full age.
The judgment may be legally correct,
but it does seem that a father who would
deliberately purchase for his children
deadly weapons, even though they bo
only toy ones, should be liable for tho
damage that may ensue. If not, then an
ordinance should be passed making the
carrying of "toy deadly weapons" a
felony.
A ComANcns Sca&xndkb. ?Wild Horse,
the celebrated Comanche chief, and
some forty of hin braves, with their fami?
lies, have surrendered to the agent at
Fort Sill. We hope these people will be
st once disarmed and sent to some re?
servation where they can do no more in?
jury. R is almost time to be done with
the farce of inviting the Indians to be
peaceable, and then supplying them with
arms and ammunition in order to tempt
them to break the peace.
Bath Pape a Mills.?At the annual
meeting of the stockholders of this com?
pany the following Directors were elsetsd:
James Barrett, J. O. Mathewson, Kerr
Boyce, F. Cogin, W. F. Herring, John
D. Butt, John M. Clark. At a subse
Suent meeting of the Directors Mr. James
arrett was re-elected President of the
company.
GmUkrrtm.^v juu in mw?
lend your Pnoxwrx, suggest to the would
be borrower that he had better subscribe.
. When a young lady gives herself away
nho naturally Coses her self-posseRsion.
For men, love is a story; for women, it
is history.
In forwarding subscriptions to the
PnezNrx and Gleaner, don't forget tie
postage.
Tho world is snre to find out an honest
man; but it will find him out a great deal
quicker if he advertises.
Ah a rule, the poor are more wasteful
than the rich - one reason why they re?
main poor.
Mr. Ernest M. Taylor, of tho Green?
ville Daily Keios, is in the city, and paid
u9 a visit, last evening.
Several factories have commenced to
manufacture bhnd-boxes six feet high,
intended for the "coming bonnet."
You can get all styles of job printing,
from a visiting card to a four-sheet post?
er, at the FmsNix offlco. Prices satistao-j
tory.
A bashful youth found a gold pin on
the street, which has an intrinsic value,
but he has no use for it at present It
bears the initials "Baby."
The Palmetto Steam Fire Engine Com?
pany's house is undergoing a thorough
repair, which will be finished bofore the
firemen's tournament, and will present a
handsome appearance.
Advertising has created many a new
business, enlarged many an old business,
revived many n dull business, rescued
many a failing business, and preserved
many a large business, and it insures
success in any business.
We are advisod that a new and danger?
ous counterfeit has appeared. It is a $5
bill, and is on tho First National Bank of
Baxton. 111. It is printed from an al?
tered pint" on which base fives of the
Trader's Bank of Chicago were printed.
Those who ore in the habit of handling
money should look out for it.
The two next celebrations in their
order are those in May and June?on the
20th of May, when will bo celebrated at
Mecklenburg, N. C, the centennial of
one of the local consequences of the
New England battle, the declaration by
:a few people of that good old State of
their independence from the British
Crown. It was a natural outburst of the
independent spirit evoked by tho guns
of Lexington, and we trust it will be all
that patriotic hearts can desire. Let it
be indeed a national day.
Lady Washinqton Tea Party. ?Parties
making contributions to the above will
please deliver thorn to the committee, at
the Rifle Clnb Hall, at or beforo 3
o'clock, this afternoon. Ices by 7 o'clock.
Sudden Death.?We are called upon
to chronicle the death, on Saturday, the
24th instant, from typhoid pneumonia,
of Mr. J. N. Jones. At the time of his
death, he was connected with an exten?
sive saw-mil], about ten miles above this
city. He was well-known in Anderson
County, where he resided for sometime
just after tho war. He was a Georgian
by birth?a native of Banks County, we
believe?where bis agod mother now re?
sides, and was also a member of the Ma?
sonic fraternity of this place. He leaves
a wife and two children.
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Supreme Covbt, Monday, April 26.?
The Court met at 11 A. M. Present
Chief Justice Moses and Associate Jus?
tices Wright and Willard.
Tho Third Circuit was called: Tho
State, respondent, vs. Thomas Harper,
appellant. Continued.
The following opinion was filed: W.
F. B. Hayneswortn et hi., respondents,
vs. II. Bischoff & Co., appellants. Ap?
peal dismissed. Opinion bv Willard,
A. J.
At 12 M. the Court adjourned until
Tuesday. 27th, at 10 A. M., whim the
Eighth Circuit will be called.
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Hotel Arrivals, April 26. ? Wheeler
House?W. S. Turner, Augusta; W. B.
Kline, N. C.; Miss H. M. Chichester, Pa;
H. W. Rico, Lexington; Julian Bar bot
Charleston; Thou. Dodamead and wife,
Richmond; F. L. Boozer, Newberry; W.
Symmes, Greenville; Rev. E. Van Slyke,
Conn.; A. Baldwin, Miss Baldwin, N. Y.;
T. A. Widenmon, Atlanta; J. M. Harden,
Md.; A. Gage, Charleston; J. E. English,
E. R. Arthur, city ; W. 8. Byles, N. Y.;
K. P. Stewart, Canada; W. C. Fisher,
city ; G. W. Dobler, Pa. ; B. M. Harris,
Md.; J. M. Taylor, N. Y.; B. Lathrop and
wife, Chicago; E. S. Jones, Greensboro;
J. H. Frantz. oity; G. W. McLaughlin,
Md.; E. B. Dana, N. Y.; J A. Pleasant,
Richmond; W. A. Bradley, Augusta; Lee
Hagood, city; D. C. Beard, A. R. Lyons,
N. Y.; F. Almey and wife. Miss Almey,
Boston; Mrs. ft. Germain, Miss Ger?
main, N. Y. ; J. Staokhouse, 8. C.; L. 8.
Beldon, N. C.; J. B. Leonard, Newberry;
A. Bart, B. MoGowan, J. & Oothron,
Abbeville; W. E. Earle, Greenville; J.
F. Trentlen, city ; T. Thomson, Abbe?
ville.
Columbia Hotel?C. R. Jones, Philadel?
phia; J. A. Smith and lady, 8. C.; A. P.
Emery, N. Y.; S. C. Gilbert, Charleston;
J. M. English, oity; H. Beaitie, A. B.
Boyd, Greenville; G. E. Whaley, G. W.
Zeiuler, Orangeburg; J. A. Harttog.Lew
isvflle; W. H. Evans, 8. C.; Clarence K.
Knowlas, eity; F. J. McCormaok, 8. 0.;
John T. Wilson, Virginia; 3. W. Aiken,
Winnsboro; J. T. Soibels, eity; Benben
Morris, Savannah; George Norman, Ky.;
Mrs. Chanen and son, Maas,; BL Weasels,
i Aiken; W. A. Prince and wife, Baltimore;
Gen. John Bratton, Fair field; E. Noble,
Abbeville; W. J. McDowell, S. A U.
R. R.
Mansion House?8. D. Maynard, Go.;
J. Ik Black, Charleston; E. It Taylor,
Greenville; H. Simpkins, R. P. McOay,
city; 0. B. Warwick, U. S. A.; John Mc
Guinri, C. D. Stanley, city.
TajbtjAttx ViVAivts -The tsmeaux ex
hibited last evening in the Opera House,
in aid of the memorial fund, were a*
admirably presented as they were finely
conoeivefL The young performer* ac?
quitted themselves handsomely in look?
ing their several beautiful characters.
Some of the scenes were from fairy land,
to which even the oldest and gravest
like to be committed at times to live
over again the dreams and fancies of
childhood. The Columbia band did tho
music very acceptably.
Tub Lady Washington Tea Pabtt.?
Tho receptions will be hold on Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings next?April
27 and 23. The object is to realise a
fund to assist in the construction of a
lecture room for the First Presbyterian
Church. The following are the managers:
Ladies?Hrn. F. W. McMaater, Mrs.
Jane Dargan, Miss Mary McKenzie.
Gentlemen?CoL F. W. McMaster, Messrs.
Bben Stenhouse, H. M?ller, W. Clark,
IR. L. Bryan, Jas. R. Scott. R O'NeeJe,
IC. Beck, Jas. Morris, F. W. Wing, Dr. B.
B. Turnipseed.
List or New Advertisements.
John D. Bateman?Ice.
Richard Jones?City Taxes.
Saddle and Draft Horse Wanted.
Meeting Union Council.
The momberS and ministers of the va?
rious Presbyterian churches, meeting in
conference in New York, have adopted
articles of alliance, which declare their
denominational unity and their tolerance
of other religions bodies. This ia in
furtherance of the effort for the proposed
confederation of the different Presbyte?
rian churches throughout the world, and
of the general conference to be held in
London this year. The sort of union
proposed is closely analogous to that of
the Congregational churches. There is
to be a grand council, composed of rep?
resentatives of the different Presbyterian
churches, which, however, will have no
legislative or judicial powers, and can
only make recommendations, which the
churches are at liberty to accept or re?
ject The Association of Congregational
Ministers has precisely as muoh and a*
little power, but it has still been able to
virtually exercise much of the authority
which belongs to a really legislative
body. Tho Pan-Presbyterian Council
will undoubtedly bring about a unity of
action among 70,000,600 of Presbyterian*
in America, Europe and Australia, which
will incalculably increase their power.
If these 70,000,000 can be induced to ab?
stain from sectarian jealousy, and to join
in an organized effort, it will soon be re?
cognized that a new power has arisen.
Tho confederated Presbyterian churches
will at once become the chief of the Pro?
testant bodies.
Gen. Frank P. Blair, who ha* been
prostrated for a long time with a para
lytic attack, has been greatly strength?
ened during the past few weeks by the
transfusion of blood into his veins. Two
operations had been performed up to
Monday, and a third one was to have
been performed oil Tuesday. . At the
first operation, two ounce* were injected,
and at the second one four ounces, the
patient having first been deprived of
two ounces by bleeding, A favorable
change has taken place, the patient
manifesting increased consciousness
and articulating more distinctly. .? The
St Louis Republican deacribes the trans?
fusion process as follows: "The blood
for transfusion is drawn from the veins
of a healthy man into a vessel, where it
is allowed to remain in contact with the
oxygenizing proper tit* of the atmosphere
a short time, but not. long enough to
commence coagulating. It i* then sucked
into on exhausted receiver, to which a
tube is attached and connected' with a
vein of the patient's am. The blood is
then forced by a piston in the receiver
into the general circulation of the sys?
tem. On the aide of the exhausted re?
ceiver is a scale of fine lines, so that the
3nantity forced into the vein is gra
uated and timed under the practiced
eye of the physician." .f 13f
The Polar expeditionary vessels at
Portsmouth are now receiving their finish?
ing touches. Their smoke-stacks have
been fitted and their masts brought down
to the ship-basin, in readiness to be
placed on board on their being floated
ont of dock. Each vessel will ne bark
rigged, and the masts will be inter?
changeable, having been so constructed
, that, in case of accident the spars of the
Alert can be erected on board the Dis?
covery, and vice versa. The rigging is
of a light but durable character, and
men are engaged in covering ?II the iron
work, above and below, with a coating of
leather, as a protection for the hands of
the sailors in the cold latitude whither
they ore bound.
Death or a Tbavzlbb.?A melancholy
occurrence took place on board the
steamship Champion, on Saturday morn?
ing, in the death of Mr. Albert Wilson,
an invalid- He arrived in the steamer
Dictator from Florida, where he had been
in hope of recuperating, and died a
short while after he got on board the
Champion, which aaiUd at 6 P. M. for
New York. In accordance with the Uvi
of this State, an inquest was held, and
the verdict was death from consumption,
with whioh the deceased had long been
afflicted. The remains were sent North
Sunday evening.?Charleston News.
Ths Bxvtvax. cm NAsnovAurr. ?-Th a
Springfield (Mas*.) IhprtMagil says thai,
upon the oosrelusio* of Gen. Bartlett's
eloquent speech in behalf of peace and
union at the Lexington centennial ban?
quet he was approached by a stranger,
who said to him: "Genltd, I am a
needed to hear moh word? as your* from
a Northern man's Up*." The Republican
thinks the cheeks of some of th* legisla?
tors present must have tingled while
Gen/feartlstt was reciting the inoident
Of the return, by a Confederate officer, of
ths captured color* of a Massachusetts
regiment end expresses the opinion that
the speeches of Gen. Berti ett and Go v.
Chamberlain Will do more toward restor?
ing the Union and it* flag to the eld
place In the affection of ths Southern
peopl* than all the ?olbeement legiaia
i tion that ha* been had *ine* 1966.