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COLUMBIA, BO.
Tuesday Morning, April 87,1076.
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Dissolving.
The intimation given out some day8
ago, that Attorney-General Williams was
about to surrender bis portfolio, has been
confirmed by the announcement that he
has resigned, and his resignation will
take effect on the ICth May. It has been
telegraphed about that his private busi?
ness has been so much neglected in con?
sequence of important public duties, that
in justice to himself, he is now com?
pelled to devote some attention to his
own affairs. .This is oho of the things
said, and a 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 vaoanoy till March, 1877, and
Oregon, since it has been rid of Wil?
liams, has become a Democratic State,
?nd the Republicans there have grown,
.. it if to be hoped, beyond the proportions
of men who have to put up with such 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. No 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 ?et up to
exeuse 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
swindle, 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
bis Cabinet, because he does not feel or
. care a straw about either the inoompo?
tency of the ono, or the money-making
frauds of the other.
What is patent isthat the President
begins to realise that, having staked hea?
vily on Connecticut, he has lost heavily.
The significance of the elections is mak
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 he is anxious to
, arrest it He m ust do something, if pos?
sible, which will turn the tide back. | It
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 Presidential election. Without this
success, 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 York Herald,
which presents- tili? view of the causo 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, but 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 which he 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 conduct 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 wo feel that we ahaU
soon see no more of those hateful orders
from the Department of Justice, signed
by the man who rode in the landau let,
and that its political necessities are lead?
ing to a dissolution of the Cabinet
Tan Tf*Tj*qr Hixxa.- - The restless border
population are stiH in a ferment with the
Brospect of becoming suddenly rich in
in new El Dorado of the Black Hills.
People goiax there under the existing
conditions of things are more in danger
of finding Indian bullets then gold nug
. gets. These rash adventurers will, in all
probability, provoke an Indian war,
which it will cost the country millions to
terminate.
Those who rise to eminence suddenly
are very apt to corns back by the next
train. ?77 *
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The Parker Pr...????
We understand that answers were made
yesterday by Messrs. Melton Sc Clarke
and Baohman * Youmans, attorneys for
defendant, to tho complaints which were
filed some days ago by the Sinking Fund
Commissioners, and by the State, through
the Attorney-General, against ex-Trea?
surer Nile* G. Parker. The object, of
course, is to bring them to a speedy
hearing, and tho 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 I
which we could only look forward with '
hope that it might some day be insti?
tuted. The time has come at lost for it I
to bo dono, and tho responsibility which
has been accepted so handsomely by the
Executi ve, which has made some progress
in the General Assembly, 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 made amenable to tho law, sternly
punished. We pre-jndge 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
despoilers. We congratulate the country
that we have at last an atmosphcro in
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-Genoral, Dunn, and the At?
torney-General, Melton, 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 delivorcd
I lectures on astronomy in this country
i year or so ago, has just published in
tho English Mechanic an article which
discriminates strongly in favor of the in?
genuity and fertility of Americans, not j
only in scientific matters, but in con?
trivances relating to the conveniences]
and luxuries of life.
Our system of railway travel ho pro?
nounces altogether superior to the Eng?
lish, although this fast involves a far
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 tho Mis?
sissippi, while tho English are labori
ously and at great expense publishing
each day announcements of tue weather
of the day before, as if that would be of
any real use. In scientific matters,
Americans have quietly Rettled 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
tho moon; Prof. Bond's success in not
only measuring the duration of the elec?
tric spark, but determining the relative
duration of different portions of the Hash;
Prof. Mayer's successful dealing with
acontical problems, are referred to as
showing that, while our countrymen
do not really surpass the English in
scientific acumen or ingenuity, they nre
much more fortun..*e in their methods
and in their opportune 1 s for exercising
those qualities. The \ aerican action
in tho matter of the lucent 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 ro
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 tho whole
transit would be visible." Next, excel?
lent practical measures were adopted to
obtain suoh information as might guide
them in the selection of stations, which
was not done in England. Tho 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
ths whole transit in the South could only
be properly comparable with similar
observations in the North, and for these,
except in one case, the English would
have to rely on the 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 his liberal
spirit of justice as it is gratifying and
encouraging to Americans generally,
and especially to our scientists in their
labors.
At Monaco, a gentleman came to the
roulette table and put down his hat full,
of gold pieces. Another said to him,
''Beg your' pardon, sir, but could you
favor me with the address of your hatter?"
Qaansnei? Q inn oiw.?TJri? il isl i aanannsd
Georgi a statesman was serenaded at Wil?
mington, N. C Saturday night He
addressed the citizens who had turned
out in large numbers to do him honor.
We make a few extracts from his speech:
He said that it had been charged on
the floor of the United States Senate that
he bad 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 extend the right hand of fellow-1
ship to the people of the Northern States.
General Gordon likened the South to the I
suffering patriarch Job; like him they
were afflicted but patient; they had lost
lands, and houses, and friends, and fa- |
milieu, 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
M-orst 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 mutterings of the doom that was 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; and when the
first centennial of American independ?
ence dawns, the flag of a free people
would float from" tb i dome of the Capitol.
General Gordon concluded with an olo
quent appeal to the people to stand fast
by the principles that they had so hap
?ily maintained here in the Old North
t?te, and to go on conquering and to
conquer in the great cause of constitu?
tional liberty.
Resignation or Attornst-Gen eral
Williams.?The resignation of Attorney
General Williams takes efiect 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, as the
President has promised he should have
it whenever the present incumbent saw
fit to resign, the question now is, who
will be Secretary Bristow's successor?
Mr. Bristow does not like the duties of
Secretary of the Treasury, and the com?
ing change has alone kept him in office.
Judge Edwards Pierrepnnt, 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 la said,
will pay a nigh tribute to his ability and
distinguished services as the head of the
Department of Justice.
A Memento of ths Palmetto Regi?
ment, South Carolina Volunteers.?
When this command returned to South
Carolina, after its participation in tho
brilliant campaign of Gen. Winficld
Soott in Mexico, in 1846 and 1817, the
State ordered a full roll made of the
entire regiment, which was executed in
very handsome style, and displays, with
the names of the officers and men, the
tattered flag as it came home, with other
interesting mementoes. It is now out of
Erint, and can only be neon in private
ands. The Rev. Whitefoord Smith, D.
D., of Spartanburg, has presented his
copy to the Washington Light Infantry;
it is in a perfect stato of preservation,
and tho value of the gift is enhanced by
the source from which it comes, bring?
ing up, as it docs, pleasant - memories of
the past between the donor and the old
corps.- Charleston Actes.
Silver Resumption.?Upon the best
Washington authority tho New York
Bulletin learns that it is the purpose of
the Government not to put in circula?
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 arc not informed, however, whe?
ther, in the event of the gold premium
falling to 10, tho Government could have
sufficient assurance that it would not ad?
vance again to warrant the coin being
put in circulation. It seems, however,
quite likely that tho Secretary of the
Treasury would feel that he 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 tho opinion
respecting the caution of the Secretary,
because we have reason to believe that
the Administration havo less confidence
in this particular branch of the resump?
tion Act than they had bast February,
and that they will at least tacitly sanc?
tion the introduction of a bill, immedi?
ately on the opening of next session of
Congross, to repeal the silver resumption
clause."
Johnson and Bbownlow.?The Nash?
ville (Tenn.) Banner evidently does not
attach much importance to the war of
words whieh is likely to ensue between
ex-President Johnson and ex-Senator
Brownlow as a result of the reeent bitter
letter of the latter. It says:
"The truth is that neither of th#se
venerable East Tennesseeans are likely
to play any very conspicuous part in the
future political attars 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?
narian ism, and can only sputter like a
dying wick in a socket This is too
energetic and intelligent an ago to be
trammeled with the womout nonsense of
a Silurian political epoch. There is not
enough virility left in the possible com?
batants to make a wordy war interesting,
much less exciting enough for a political
issue. Younger voices from more vigor
'oub and less diseased minds and bodies
will drown out the shrill piping of queru?
lous and garrulous old flshwomen.
A quart of milk weighs two pounds,
two and one-fourth onnoes; a gallon
weighs eight pounds, nine ounces.
*- Tu? Wii im Cuba. ?Advices from Ha
i vans report that 1,000 well mounted in?
surgents hare entered the jurisdiction of
ftsgus, and on Friday last burned seven
lam plantations in the district of Quc
raada de los Ouines. They met with no
reeistanoe. Manuel Suareu, formerly an
offloer of the Span iah army, was in com?
mand* Another rebel eavulry corps, es?
timated at 1,600 strong, is operating un?
der General Sanguili, in the Eastern part
of the jurisdiction of Colon. It was
supposed at Havana that reinforcements
had been reoeived by Captain-General
Yalniaseda, sufficient to prevent the in?
surgents from over-running Colon and
to check their progress Westward for the
present. The activity of the insurgents
mascda has taken the field. That re?
doubtable commander has gathered the
largest force ever moved against the in?
surrection, and if he fails to check Go?
mes and his lieutenants, Spuin's chance
of holding Cuba is ut nn 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 the insurgents penetrate ns far
West as they have done within the past
week, and there seems little reuson to
doubt that they will succeed in reducing
the Western department to the condition
of a desert. By the destruction of the
plantations, the insurgents not alone
cripple the Spanish treasury, but nvery
estate destroyed adds to their runks
numbers of men, who can he utilized in
the struggle for independence. Within
the noit few weeks the fate of Cuba will
bo decided. If Yalmaseda 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 hus traveled extensively
through Tennessee, Kentucky, West
Virginia, Maryland, Indiana, Ohio and
Southern Illinois, informs us that the
I winter wheat crop now in the ground in
all that region is in excellent condition.
Some farmers supposed the broadcast
; sowing would prove a failure in such
Suites as Tennessee. Kentucky, Virginia
1 and Maryland, where the snow did not
lay long on the ground; but examination
of the ground proves the reverse. Not
only is the growing wheat in excellent
condition in these States, but the area
I put in is large. In the more Northerly
I portion of the winter wheat belt, the
earth has boon very steadily covered
with snow, and there can be*no doubt
that when tho thaw comes it will bo
sudden. Spring will bo skipped and
summer will bogin. The weuthor will
be hot and forcing, and the growth of
the wheat plant will be rapid. Another
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 bo so large as to force prices
down, it can be fed to hogB and made to
pay a good profit that way.
Tub Enforcement Acts to ub De?
clared Unconstitutional. - -There has
beeB) much surprise manifested at the
announcement that the Supreme Court
would decide the legislation of Congress
known as tho Enforcement Acts uncon?
stitutional. Tho 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 tho South Carolina Ku Klux
and Kentucky election cases, and it was
upon tho latter case tho court held its
conference, when it was discovered how
nearly unanimous the court was of tho
opinion that tho Act of July, 1870, was
unconstitutional. It was then that the
political bias had its influence, and, as
the Louisiana troubles had 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
hear the argument. The President, ad?
vised of the heresy of his appointees on
tho Bench, actually declined to attend
the dinner given by Reverdy Johnson to
the Justices of the United States Su?
preme Court.
Toy Fibtols. ?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 u little in?
nocent divcrtisemcnt with one of these
contrivances, that, along with the dime
novel, go to inciting tho young idea to
become a long-haired, language-murder?
ing, border rapscallion. One of tho
youths snapped a cap in the face of tho
other, and knocked out his 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. The 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 be
only toy ones, should be liable for tho
damage that may ensue. If not, then an
ordinance should be passed making the
carrying of 4 toy deadly weapons" a
felony.
A Comanchb Surrender. ? Wild Horse,
the celebrated Comanche chief, and
some forty of his braves, with their fami?
lies, have surrendered to the agent at
Fort Sill. We hope these people will be
at once disarmed and Bent to some re?
servation where they can do no more in?
jury. It 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 Papbb Mills.?At the annual
meeting of the stockholders of this com?
pany the following Directors were elected:
James Barrett, J. O. Mathewson, Kerr
Boyoe, F. Cogin, W. F. Herring, John
D. Butt, John M. Clark. At a subee
8cent meeting of the Directors Mr. James
arrott was re-elected President of the
company.
Ottt Matt?s. ?V yWTVr%~ ttlM to
lend your pHOiinx, suggest to the would
be borrower that he had better subscribe.
. When a young lady given herself away
she naturally foe es her 8 elf-possees i on.
For men, love hi a story; for women, it
is history.
In forwarding subscriptions to the
Phosnix and Gijlankr, don't forget tho
postage.
Tho world is sure to find out an honest
man; but it will find him out a great deal
quicker if be advertises.
Ah a rule, the poor are more wasteful
than the rich- one reason why they re?
main poor.
Sir. Ernest M. Taylor, of tho Green?
ville Daily Neios, is in the city, and paid
us a visit, last evening.
Several factories have commenced to
manufacture bhnd-boxes six feet high,
intended for the "coming bonnet."
You can get all atylce of job printing,
from a visiting card to a fuuf-eueet pest?
er, at the Phoenix office. Prioes satisfac?
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 a dull business, lescucd
many a failing busincps, and preserved
many a large business, and it insures
success in any business.
We ore 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 plate on which base fives of the
Trader's Bank of Chicago were printed.
Those who arc 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 the guns
of Lexington, and we trust it will be all
that patriotic hearts can desire. Let it
(be indeed a national day.
Lady Washixotom Tea Pasty. ?Pnrties
i making contributions to the above will
please deliver them to the committee, at
the Rifle Club Hall, at or beforo 3
o'clock, this afternoon. Ices by 7 o'olock.
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 J, about ten miles above this
city. He was well-known in Anderson
County, where he resided for sometime
just after the war. He was a Georgian
by birth?a nativo of Banks County, we
believe?where his aged mother now re?
sides, and was also a momber of the Ma
sonic fraternity of this place. He leaves
a wife and two children.
Sur-reme Court, 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: The
State, respondent, r*. Thomas Harper,
appellant Continued.
The following opinion was filed: W.
F. B. Hayneswortn et hi., respondents,
vs. II. Bischoff A Co., appellants. Ap?
peal dismissed. Opinion by Willard,
A. J.
At 12 M. the Court adjourned until
Tuesday. 27th. at 10 A. M., when the
Eighth "Circuit will be called.
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Hotel Arrivals, April 26.? Whetttr
House?W. S. Turner, Augusta; W. B.
Kline, N. C.; Miss H. M. Chichester, Pa.;
H. W. Rico, Lexington; Julian Bar hot,
Charleston; Thos. Dodamead and wife,
Richmond; F. L. Boozer, Newberry; W.
Symmcs, Greenville; Rev. E. Van Slyke,
Conn.; A. Baldwin, Miss Baldwin, N. Y.;
T. A. Widen man, Atlanta; J. M. Harden,
Md.; A. Gage, Charleston; J. E. English,
E. R. Arthur, city ; W. 6. Byles, N. Y.,
K. P. Stewart, Canada; W. C. Fisher,
eitv;G. W. Dobler, Pa.; B. M. Harris,
Md.; J. M. Taylor, N. Y.; B. Lathropand
wife, Chicago; E. S. Jones, Greensboro;
J. H. Frantz, city; G. W. McLaughlin,
Md.; E. B. Dana, N. Y.; J A. Pleasant,
Richmond; W. A. Bradley, Augusts;Lee
Hagood, oity; D. C. Beard, A. R> Lyons,
N. Y.; F. Almev and wife, Miss Almsy,
Boston; Mrs. at Germain, Miss Ger?
main, N. Y.; J. Stackhouse, S. C: L. 8.
Bel don, N. C.; J. B. Leonard, Newberry;
A. Bart, 8. McGowan, J. 8. Oothran,
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.; 8. C. Gilbert, Charleston;
J. M. English, oity; H, Beattie, A. B.
Boyd, Greenville; G. B. Whaley, G. W.
Zemler, Cuangeburg; J. A. Hartxog.Lew
isvflle; W. H.TSvans, B. 0. y darenee K.
Knowles, oity; H. J. McCormack, E. C.;
John T. Wilson, Virginia; J. W. Aiken,
Winnsboro; J. T. Soibels, oity; Benben
Morris, Savannah; George Norman, By.;
Mrs. Chap en and son, M*k*.; BL Wessel?,
Aiken; W. A. Prince and wife, Baltimore;
Gen. John Bratton, Fairfield; E. Noble,
Abbeville; W. J. McDowell, a ft U.
R. R.
Mansion J/oww?8. D. Maynard, Ga.;
J. L. Black, Charleston; E. M. Taylor,
Greenv?le; H. Slmpldns, R. P. McCay,
city; O. B. Warwick, U. S, A.; John Mo
GuinU, C, D. Stanley, city.
Tableattx Vivast* ^The mtiesox ex?
hibited hut evening in the Opera House,
in aid of the memorial fond, were a*
admtrabfjgr presented as they were finely
conceived. The young performers 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 Colombia band did tho
music very acceptably.
Tub Lady Washington Tea Pabtt.?
Tho receptions will be held on Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings next?April
27 and 28. The object is to realize a
fund to assist in the construction of a
lecture room for the First Presbyterian
Church. The following are the managers:
Ladies?Mrs. F. WT McMaster, Mrs.
Jane Dargan, Miss Mary McKenzie.
Gentlemen - Col. F. W. McMaster, Messrs.
Eben Stenhouse, H. Muller, W. Clark.
IE. L. Bryan, Jas. E. Scott, B. CNeale,
jC. Beck, Jas. Morris, F. W. Wing, Dr. B.
B. Turnipseed. ?
List of Nbw Ap'gJtT'HSicaw'ra.
John D. Bateman?Ice.
Biohard Jones?City Taxes.
Saddle and Draft Horse Wanted.
Meeting Union Council.
The members and ministers of the va
| rions Presbyterian churches, meeting in
conference in New York, have adopted
articles of alliance, which declare their
denominational unity and their tolerance
of other religious bodies. This is 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, whioh, however, will have no
I legislative or judicial powers, and can
I only make recommendations, which the
churches are at liberty to accept or re?
ject The Association of Congregational
Ministers has precisely as much and as
little power, but it has still been able to
virtunlly exercise much of the authority
which belongs to a really legislative,
body. The Fan-Presbyterian Council
will undoubtedly bring about a unity of
action among 70,000,000 of Presbyterians
in America, Europe and Australia, whioh
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 Presbyterinn churches
will at onoe become the chief of the Pro?
testant bodies.
Gen. Frank P. Blair, who has been
{irostrated for a long time with a para
y tic tattack, 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, on Tuesday. At the
first operation, two ounces 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 mere distinctly. , The
St Louis Republican describee the trans?
fusion process as follows: "The Mood
for transfusion is drawn from the veins
of a healthy man into a vessel, where it
is allowed to rstassin in contact with the
oxygenizing properties of the atmosphere
a short time, but. not long enough to
commence coagulating. It is then sucked
into on exhausted receiver, fo which a
tube is attached and connoted' with a
then fbrosofbySh&8&?lKe receiver
into the general cdrtmlation of the sys?
tem. On the side of the exhausted re?
ceiver is a scale of fine lines, so that the
quantity forced into the vein is gra?
duated and timed under the practiced
eye of the physician." ' ? I *
The Polar expeditionary vessels at
Portsmouth are now receiving their finish?
ing touches. Their smoke-stacks have
I 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 be bark
rigged, and the masts will be inter?
changeable, having been so constructed
that iu case of accident the spars of the
Alert can bo erected on board the Dis?
covery, and vice versa. The rigging is
of a light but durable character, and
men are engaged in covering all the iron
work, above and below, with a ooatingof
leather, as a protection for the hands of
the sailors in the cold latitude whither
they ore bound.
-;
Death ob* a Tbavbxjsb.?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, whets he bad been
in hope of recuperating, and died a
short while after bo got on board the
Champion, which sailed at 6 P. M. for
New York. In accordance with the laws
of this Stats, an inquest was held, and
the verdict was death from consumption,
with which the ds esses a had losurbsen
afflicted. The remains were sent North
Sunday cviwifj ^(Jknrhftom .ffssa*.
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Tax BavrvAi. or Nt?in Si i.?The
I Springfield (Mass.) sMsl says that
Upon the conclusion of Gen. Bartlett's
lent speech tn behalf of pease and
n at the Lexington centennial ban?
quet he was approached by S stranger,
who said to loss: "Genend, I am a
needed to hear suabwords as yours from
a Northern man's Una." The Republican
thinks tks checks of some of the legisla?
tors present, must have tingled while
Gen. Battiest wa* reciting the incident
of the return, by a Confederate officer, of
the captured colon of a Massachusetts
regiment, and ex press as the opinion that
t&e speeches of Gen. Bartlatt and Got.
Chamberlain Will do more toward restor?
ing the Union sad its flag to the old
place in the affection of the Southern
Kopts than all the saforessssEit legiala
>n that has been "