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COLUMBIA, 'S.O. . -?- f BP* Thursday Morning, May ??," iwo. The Celebration at Charlotte^ The Mecklenburg Centennial celebra? tion will come off to-day, 'Vith. groat eclat It is expected that from 80,000 to 100,000 persona-will bo present The great heart of the peoplo baa boon stirred by the''memories of those heroic ?5ft} who. took the lead on this, continent in declaring thoms?lves absolved from all' attegiattcetothe mother country/ana frT pledging each other to its maintenance their mutual co-operation, lives, for? tunes abd most sacred honor. It mat? ters Uttlo whether the exkot language of the' 20 th -May, 1875, be maintained or not, although the preponderance of evi? dence is ..strongly in j its favor. The resolves of 'the 31st of May, only eleven days^"later} are J scarcely less notable. They prescribed ? system of provisional government; thoy threatened trial-and imprisonment to those who accept com? missions from the crownj they proposed to arm t^O militia, und they declared that ^the resolves be in force until the ProvinciaJ Congreai! shall otherwise pro? vide, or the ''legislative body of Great Bri? tain resign its unjustnnd arbitrary preten? sions with respect to .America." They were certainly spirited 'and intelligent.' The Colonial Govornor of North Carolina addressed a letter from Fori Job us on, in that State, on the 30th ?Tuno following, 'to tho Sc creuuy of State, and , whother he referred to the action as taken on the 20th or 31st May, Ids language establishes the point, that North Carolina was the first of all Mm American colonies to de? clare absolute independence of Great Britain, and that she did it in no uncer? tain language. "The resolves," he said, "of the Committee of Mecklenburg surpass all the horrid and treasonable publications that the inflammatory spi? rits of tho continent have yet produced." Washington Irving has urged that "it should not be forgotten that at Mecklen? burg, in the heart of North Carolina, was fulminated the first declaration of independence of the British crown, up? ward of a year before a like declaration by Congress." His pious wishes will be more than complied with, nnd the 20th May, 1775, illuminated in its events nnd honored by the grand commemoration of 20th May, 1875, will take an exalted place in the calendar of American his? tory. - The Union-Herald considers the "spirit? ing away" of the ballot-boxes and all papers concerning tho recent election in BarrrwMl, a serious thing. So do we, but we can't help, at the same time, chuckling over Che discomfiture of Les? lie arid' the parties connected'with him in the imposition of this burden and outrage upon the people of Barnwell. Our neighbor once twitted us for our innocent simplicity in some matter. We can now return the compliment, if it thinks, this outrage much worse than - Leslie's. mode of carrying the election through the Legislature, or than the cor? rupt means he has used in securing the votes for Blackville over BarnwelL . Its language about the ballot-box being sacred from Violent hands, and the will; of the people being respectod, Ac, the' purity nnd . sane tity of the ballot-box, Ac., is entirely out of place when applied to this man nnd his elections. There is nothing sacred about a ballot-box which a Leslie has manipulated. While, there? fore, we condemn as much as any one any tampering with elections, any violence which will thwart the expression of the will of the people, it is no more worse to destroys box than to stuff it, to break up an election than to procure it fraudu? lently, and to use it for merely corrupt and selfish ends. And as to secondary evidence proving, in the absence of tho ballots, what the voto was, it would hardly be admissible, unless it proved also what it was in other respects, as well as numerically/and that it was- the fair and just 'expression of tho will of the. poo^tej ^Tfcl whoW thitg Je an ?l?st^o/ tton of- how inevitably violence will tool low fraud and corruption. They ore, of course, both to be condemned and punished alike. | But tho one should be more sternly rebuked, and, if possible, more severely ? puninhed, because it is not only bad, but propagates the other. When any "ferreting out" begins, there-' fore, we should like to see it begin at the. beginning. Sxkxxo zs Bslxkvinq.?The friendly reception v^hich Vico-Preaidoni Wilson lias ?et in tho South has attracted the ttw^ntJcs di liberal 'Republican papers. The -Chicago ! Tribuns speaks' with do^ cided appreciation of tho warm and friendly greeting Mr. ,Wilson has re? ceived, and says: "Mr. Wilson has here-. toA&been> -nicer? f Kelley, one of I tlwasTwho here favored the severest 1* gitfMion o? theex-*ebolStates; that he has'done so conscientiously, believing that such legislation was needed, there can he no question. ' Like Mr. Kelley, he will probably find that both sides have been influenced by exaggerations, and. that beneath tho 'surface the -great body of the people, of all oolors And all parties, really desire, peaco and a resto? ration o? 'industry and production to/ which poaco :is indisponoablo.", Every fair-minded ma? who' visits the South testifies to the same pacific spirit as Gen. Gnat did ten years ago. Tnn Emd o? Fiormoua Vaiuhs.?-We make the following extracts from a very 8 e^ipibl o ar ti cje in the Ph il ad el ph ia 77 w : It is, perhaps, an TiiiYrvIcui?e, b?t, nevertheless, a most wholesome tratb, that Bhould be declared, that the- panic of .1873 was a blessing.'/ Unexpected and crushing as it was, and fearful as have been ita steady exactions upon every channel of industry and trade, it came none too Boon to save the country from incalculable distress that may, and wo doubt not-will, be measurably averted. The causes which produced it were a de? moralization in the general pursuits of life, created, excused, accepted and rruiijKonod *with* each successive* yeflr"by tho Tin healthy speculative stimulus that was ore\lv by civil'war. Nothing but sucooss was success, and its standard was gradually lowered in all the attri? butes of sound,- conservative business conduct, until there was but one god, and mammon was his prophet. Expan? sion and speculation ruled in all the great courses of finance and trade; and industry, the source of all wealth, was loosened from its safe moorings, by the examples of the many who ostentatiously reaped whore they had not strewn. Sad as were the lessons which a realization of our eondition brought to us by tho crash of September, 1873, thoy would have been unspeakably more bitter and fatal to all, had the evil day been delayed until the present. Nearly two years of rigid retrenchment and private and busi? ness economy, tkat many foolishly blush to confess, find us still crippled in every channel of productive wealth, and the East is strewn with countless wrecks of opo and fortune. Many fell when tho first blow came; others staggered a little [on, only to go down in despair, and since then thousands have fallen, after untold struggles with multiplied misfor? tunes. Nor is the end yet; nor will it be until solid foundation and correctod business habits and principles are ac? cepted in every lino of private and cor? porate efforts. The failure of Jay Cooke A Co. was in no sense the cause of the disasters of the lost two Years. It was tho natural, logical result of the diseaso that per? vaded tho business of tho country. It was the broken sore that revealed and developed the eating cancor that was beneath tho apparently healthy surface. And it made visible the hideous gan Kene before it had reached tho vitals. . all previous panics or financial re? vulsions our great corporations were the first to fall. In 1857, it was the Bank of Pennsylvania, and within forty-eight hours after its suspension nearly every monetary institution of the country was suspended with it- Twenty years before it was the United States Bank. The dis? ease was then pnrcly a financial ailment; and business and trade were paralyzed because they were so immediately de? pendent upon the monetary affairs of the country. But the panic of 1873 was not a financial revulsion in the strict sense? it was a business revolution. Our cur? rency never before was so sound, and since the depression it has been abun? dant beyond the credit of business to command it. Tho speculative spirit that flooded the nation with valueless cur? rency in former times was turned into two-main channels, both strictly legiti? mate within legitimate bounds, but neither guarded their operations with prudence. Manufacturing and railroads were tho fields for the speculator, and they wero crowded with the throng that worshiped at the shine of sudden wealth. The war made unnatund demands upon both, and all rushed into them trusting to escape with ample gains before the day of reckoning should come. And now manufacturing is overdone in Ame? rica and throughout Europe. The ter? mination of the rebellion ended the ex? ceptional demand here, and over-pro? duction has followed. In England, France, Austria and Germany the sumo causes have produced like results. Manufacturing was stimulated to an un? natural product by the Prussian-Austria war, and again by tho German-Fraaco war, and to-day we are staggering under a vast over-production in all these great nationalities. Prostration, heavy Io?.a in capital and in compensation to labor, and bankrupt? cy in a very large circle of the weaker manufacturers, are as natural as tho darkness that follows the day; and so inseparably is manufacturing inter? woven with the other productive and commercial interests that the prostra? tion is as wide-spread as industry itself. In railroads tho tide of expansion and speculation was almost unbounded, and it was well for not only this, but for every country, that the admonition of 1873 came when it did and as it did. It was n great railroad enterprise that re? vealed the unsoundness of the business of the nation. It was conceived by one who, more than any other man, had reared tho great structure of national credit, and ho erred mainly in being in advance of his time, just as did Nicholas Biddle in urging that the Northern lakes and Eastern seas yhould clasp iron hands in the then wilderness of tho present Philadelphia and Erie. And it was our great railroad enterprises that absorbed almost the whole speculative talent and capital of the people hero, and, to a large extent, the capital of foreign peo? ples. In every valley and mountain fastness where there was wealth the iron horse sang hin shrill song, and great corporations absorbed everything that could appease the appetite for expanded corporate power. And every stride of progress, as a rule, was a suicidal blow upon the safety of the parent institu? tion. Stocks were watered or enlarged, bonds wero ' thrown out in every eon coivablo form, sinking funds were crowded with securities as debt was piled upon debt, and magniAcent ba lanoo-nhoetH were made up ,,out of shadows. , ''~^t~- ^ ? ? -? i One'of those "prominent* Southern Republicans" haft been writing to the Chicago Tribune that the Southern peo {>w ar? preparing for ahother war. and hat the negroes will help them establish another Confederacy. He concju'des' by remarking that "the only means to' pre? vent this is the' maintenance of the Re? publican party South." Tho absurdity of this nohemo is* no apparent that the Tribunt itself says: "We publish these views merely aft curiosities, and disavow any'-^^Ah^ (br respect for them.", A delegation of 'the Washington, Light Infantry, of Charleston, with the revolu? tionary, flag, will be present at the Boston centennial, by invitation- , I ? Mi iiiif^MBiTirTiriMiirrifir'iigidBgM ASouthern Vendetta. * I John, Jr., Atlanta (Ga^Jj?i-syd, writing of Tallanassco, Florida, gives the follow M3L - ? "Dp you Boe tuet ruggeei ii? rer l~ over the farder fly brush?'* Zabran, who might be deaf haughty postscript to the lifo o man, and who was at the timo when the question was propounded engaged in tho humble but respectable business of washing dishes at the Brown Hotel, at the,supper table of which, after a day's rambling, I sat deliciously pickling my? self in orange brandy and building up my cellular tissue with soakod bisonit. Upon my answering the question, which really did not noed nn answer, but was thrown out by tho crafty old gabbler as a lasso ropo with its interrogating loop at tho end, ho wound his oup towel re? flectively around hin neok, and sitting down, remarked: "Well, sir, if all the blood that was shed in the quarrel in which that hole was made wob smeared on these walls, it wonld rodden up this Whole room, I oan tell you." The san? guinary seduction which the old fellow hud artfully put into this statement won me, and pushing him a glass of brandy, I asked him to tell mo all about it. Then and there, in that misty and half-ruined hotel, with its wild and riotous memo? ries, the old fellow told me a story that, for fierce gallantry and ehivalric reck? lessness, puts fiction to shame. The actors in it, all of them of sunny and heroic temper, of lurgo wealth, of blue blood, and of illustrious lineage, are dead, but their descendants yet live in our State, and stand high among the highest. Tho names of the parties con? cerned arc changed, for obvious reasons, but the facts are in substance and result just as we heard them. "In the Seminole war," said Sir. Za bran, evidently ambling down a long worn groove of conversation. "Colonel Graham commanded a crock" regiment. One morning ho received a message from his wife, announcing that she was on the eve of confinement Ho at once repuired to her bedside. The day after he left tho camp a battle took place. Shortly afterword an article appeared in the Au? gusta Chronicle and Sentinel, reflecting upon the courage of Col. Graham, and intimating that Ids reason for leaving camp wub not so much fondness for his wifo as for himself. The paper contain? ing this cutting and cruel article came into the camp before Colonel Graham's return, and at once became n subject of conversation throughout the camp. Cap? tain Henry, a splendid young fellow, who was an aid upon Colonel Graham's staff, felt that an insinuation against his colonel was an insult to himself, and he at once repaired to Augusta, determined to protect the honor of his absent friend with his own life, if necessary. Ho de? manded from the editor of the Chronicle and Sentinel the author of the offensive article. It turned out to be General Fitzgerald, of Florida, a warm and de? voted friend of Captain Henry's. Still leeling that it was his duty, disregarding friendship just ns ho had disregarded fear in the defence of his colonel, he sent a peremptory challenge to General Fitz gerald. "He received a reply, stating that Gen. Fitzgerald would be pleasod to an? swer the demands of Capt. Henry, if ho should be so fortunato as to survive the duel he was jast about to engage in with Capt Williams, who had also made the article against Col. Graham causo of complaint. Upon inquiry, it transpired that Capt Williams, another aid upon Graham's staff, had preceded Mr. Henry in his trip to Augusta, and determined himself to dofend the imputation against his commander. "Capt Henry hnd no alternative but to await the result of the encounter be tween Fitzgerald and Williams, the con ditions of which were that they should fight with Bowie knives. The meeting oame on. The left hands of the com? batants wero clasped together in a firm and dead-game grasp, and the keen, long knivos, the most terrible weapons bofore w hich a man ciui be brought, were pluced in their bunds. At a signal, tho knives wero perpendicularly along their legs. At the next words thoy were raised into the air, and the terribte fencing began It is a brief but terrible struggle. Th knives cut and gashed and whizzed through the flesh of the combatants, pressed and sparkled against each other; now buried and now whipped out with bluish moisture on the blades, until Capt. Williams fell, hacked almost to pieces. Gen Fitzgerald escaped almost without injury. "He then turned his attention to Capt. Henry. He chose as the weapons for this second combat a murderous weapon, now happily obsolete, but then known as yaegers. It is a broad-mouthed, funnel-shaped, smooth-bore gun, that will carry a handful of shot, and will hit everything in the neighborhood of its aim. At the meeting, Capt James, Henry's second, was to give tho word. As he called 'Wheel,' tho two men turned, but Henry stumbled, and his gun went off in the air. Gen. Fitz? gerald took cool aim, fired at tho word, and Capt Henry dropped dead. Now, two gallant young fellows had fallen in defenco of a ehivalric spirit, being led to their death in defending Urn honor of a comrade. And yet the terrible ven? detta was hardly openod. Col. Junius Henry, the brother of the slain man, was then in Louisiana, and heard of his brother's death. He claimed that he had been wantonly killed, holding that Gen. Fitzgerald should not have fired when he had seen his brother's gun shot, by accident, aimlessly into the air. He started at once for this place for the purpose of avenging his brother's death. "He came at once to Uns hotel. Go v. Brown, who.kept the house, met him at the door, and at once divining the pur Eoso wiih whioh he bad come, beggod im to bo cool and quiet about it On the -Very nfgat hfr got hire, he -was Hit? ting near the fire-place yondor, with a large cloak around him and hiu head bowed down on his hands. In a few moments some one brushed by, him rather roughly. Raising his hoad quickly, he saw that it was Gon. Fitz? gerald. In an instant ho was ablaze with excitement and rising, exclaimed: 'You have murdered my brother, sir, and now do you prosumo to insult me? Draw and defend yourself, sir!' "As quiok as thought Fitzgerald drew a Bix-barrelled pistol and I fired, tearing away Col. Henry's third finger, just as the latter poured a broadsido into him from a horseman's pistol, lodging a bull Tho fire was repeated, each - H mark. Col. Henry was unit ion, being armed ' _ horseman's pistols. He | ak hin long cloak, however, le knife "and closed with In a few seething strokes d was cat to the floor, and polled off by the crowd. In that melco that bullet-hole was made Tip thero. Gon. Fitzgerald was Uiken home, and gradually recovered. Col. Henry, embittered by the confiict he j had had, sent him word that he would kill him on sight "In about three months Fitzgerald re? covered and appeared on the streets. Col. Henry loaded his double-barrelled shot-gun, it is said, putting in a bullet which had been cut out of his brother's bodyjby Mrs. Gaillard, whose husband had been his second, and himself been killed on account of his participation in that duel. Going to town he met Fitz? gerald, and calling on him to defend himself, drew down and fired. The first barrel tore away Fitxgerald's shoul? der, and the second was lodged in his heart, hilling him outright. "Col. Henry shortly after went to Texas. He had been there but a short time when he beard that a man, named Stewart, had made some disparaging re? marks concerning his action in tho Fitz-1 gevald matter. Meeting Stewart on the prairie, one day, ho banded him a letter | containing the offonsive language and asked him if he was the author of it. Stewart at once drew and fired upon Henry; Henry's gun was leaning against a treo near by. Before he could reach it | ho was currying four of Stewart's balls. Jerking up his gun be fired twice at I Stewart, killing him instantly, putting nearly forty buck-shot in him. Col. Henry was shortly tifterwards killed I himself by the friends of Stewart. He | was being carried from tho scene of his confiict with Mr. Stewart in a blanket, being too badly wounded to walk, when he was set upon by a party of Stewart's friends, and his body litcmlly riddled with bullets." This fend, involving the death of so many superb men, and bankrupting two powerful families, is but one of a thou? sand that might be traced through tho system of Southern society. Wc have, followed only one branch of this feud. Doubtless wero all the results, direct and indirect, followed out, it would bn found that the publication of that arti clo caused the death of a score of chival ric gentlemen. And one peculiar fea? ture of it is that the man concerning whom all tho trouble arose was not in any of its fights, and that every drop of I blood that was shed, was in defence of a friend or comrade. It is a splendid tri-1 bute to the generosity and high spirit of the chivalry. Re-cnion op Hampton Lkoion*.?At n| meeting of the Hampton Legion sur? vivors, held in Charleston, February '24, 1875, it was resolved to have a re-union of the Legion in Columbia on the four? teenth anniversary of the first battle of| Manas8as, the 21st of July next. The objects of the re-nnion will be, first, to collect the necessary records for com? piling a complete history of that com? mand and its off -si loots, from its organ? ization in 18G1 to the close of the war in April, 18G5, and with this view, officers I and men aro earnestly requested to pre? pare complete rolls of their companies, with full lists of the killed and wounded Kail tho engagements in which the jgiori and its members took port; also of thono who died from disease, and to furnish copies of all official reports or other documents concerning the Legion that they may be able to obtain: second, to take the initiative steps towards erect? ing a suitable monument to all the dead of the Legion; third, to form an associa? tion for the purpose of carrying out tho ends above indicated. Lieut Gen. Wade Hampton will preside. Gen. T. M. Logan will deliver an oration. Addresses may bo expected from other prominent of? ficers, who were members of the old command. A special from Houston, Texas, fur? nishes the following fuller report of the 1 remarks of Mr. Davis, with regard to the old flag: On the Fair Grounds, Jefferson Davi? and Braxton Bragg reviewed a splendid display of military, composed largely of I old Confederate soldiers. The Tenth United States Infantry furnished music. Mr. Davis made a speech, referring to their record as Confederate soldiers, and said they owed the same devotion to the I flag under which they now live, if occa? sion should ever come. The sentiment was received with tremendous cheering by at least 10,000 present Gov. Coke said the greatest man of the North, Horace Greeley, and the greatest man of | the South, Jefferson Davis, had now spoken from the same stand, advising the same sentiment; that the war between the blue and tho gray was forever ended, and henceforth they would march shoul? der to shoulder under the same Hag. He paid a noble compliment to Mr. Greeley, and Mr. Davis for once seemed to forget j his lofty dignity, and cheered heartily with the rest United States Court?Charleston, Mat 18 -Judge Bryan presiding. In the | Criminal Court, Isaac McDufho and Ben. Moody, both colored, oonvictod of rob? bing the United States mail, wero sen? tenced to five years' imprisonment at I hard labor in the Albany Penitentiary; j Thomas Larry, colored, the same offence, two years at hard labor in the samo Srison; Spencer Simmons, colored, and , ames Alexander, colored, convicted of the same offence, were sentenced?the first to three years'imprisonment at hard labor in the Albany Penitentiary, and the second, being under sixteen years old, was ordered to be sent to a reform school to be designated; Lowis Tucker, oolorod, convicted of perjury in swear- j ing that he was ? property-holder, was j sentenoed to three months' imprison? ment in the Biohland County jail, and to 8y a fine of 9100. In the arise of James klony and. J. W. Hay ward, conviotod of personating United States internal revenue officers, sentence was deferred to hoar argument on a motion for a new trial. A California paper says thoy got Wah Tsing, a heathon, on the gallows, the other day, with a rope around his neck, and he inquired of William Nye, the She? riff, "Chokeo like hell?" ?Tfes," said William, "chokee, you bet," and then thoy dropped him. Cttt Matters.--If you aro asked to lend your Phoenix, suggest to the would bo borrower that he had better subscribe. Reading matter on every pege. The nickel mint had been'discovered. Col. Par mole is ferreting it out. Capital weather, yesterday?cool, clear and pleasant. A party of youngsters returning from a pic-nic made Main street lively, yes? terday afternoon, with their joyous shouts. Three plated forks verc lost or mit> loid at the Washington tea-party. The party having them will please leave thorn at I'uiemx office. Mnum Annie Lott, nu aged and highly respected colored citizen of Columbia, was bttried yesterday. She has resided for forty years in the cottage North-west corner of Assembly and Senate streets. The extra fine strawberries grown in the Convent gardens are offered at low figures. It is a pleasnnt ride out there; or, if a sufficient quantity is ordered, the fruit will be delivered in the city. Mr. Symmers requests us to say that hereafter he will close his store ?4 7 o'clock. Therefore, if you require any of the wet articles mentioned in his ad? vertisement, you must cull before that j hour. The latest novelty is the '?Mulligan Guard'" collar, which Messrs. Kinard A Wiley have for sale. Every purchaser of a box is furnished with on illustrated copy of the music. The collars are very neat. We saw in court, the other day. two gentlemen, Maj. J. Cr. Lykes and Rev. Mr. Elkins, sitting by side, conversing with euch other, who are exactly of the same age, and that day were sixty years four months und two days old. This was u rave coincidence. It is understood that the. new Wash? ington Street Methodist Church will bo formally dedicated on the third Ktindny in June?the '20th. Dr. Lovic Pierce and Bishop Wightmun und Bishop Pierce are expected to be present on the occasion. The "spelling bee" at Excelsior Lodge, No. 7, I. O. G. T., on Tuesday night, afforded a great deal of amusement. Can? nibal, rhythm, kernel, trespass, conch, mythical, confectionery, separate, vil? lain, mamma, pindar, duchess, asphyx? iated, burr-stone, crystallize, lily, picca? lilli, alpaca and many biinpler words cuuscd parties to step down and out. Miss Eva Irwin won the prize?a hand? some gold pen and staff?by passing successfully through tho five classes; the final word being chilblains. It is understood that Hampton Lodge is mak? ing arrangements for a "bee." A lengthy train, heavily loaded with living freight, left Columbia, last night, at 9 o'clock, bound for Charlotte. The Phoenix Hook and Ladder Company car? ried their truck, the majority of the members accompanying it; strong de? tachments of tho Falmetto und Indepen? dent fire companies, in full uniform, were also on Imud; while the Burns Club, with their piper, helped to in? crease the crowd. A large number of persons from Columbia and the sur? rounding country were in attendance. This inoming'b tmin will carry another crowd. Governor Chamberlain leaves this morning, to join the gubernatorial purtv in Charlotte. -??.?-% Coout or Common- Pleas.? Tho Court met at 10 A. M., Judge Carpenter pre? siding. Mr. Attorney-General Melton asked permission to make a motion, out of order, for the continuance of the cause entitled "The State of South Carolina against Niles G. Parker.'' The Attorney Gcncrnl stated that it hud scarcely been four weeks since the case was com? menced, and that ho was prepared for trial with tho exception of two witnesses, viz: H. H. Kimpton und. his clerk, both of New York, upon whoso testimony tho Stute relied almost wholly, in order to make out its case. Mr. C. D. Melton opposed the motion, on the ground thut the defendant lies in jail in default of a bail bond, which no citizen in the town could give, with such grave- charges against his character as the State had preferred against Parker's; and although the charges covered a term of nearly three years, and although in such a short time as the defendant bad to prepare, the defendant was anxious to go to trial even in tho dark, ho confident was he that tho State could not substantiate its charges. The Court left the case opon ' for argument as to tho holding of 'a spe? cial term after the Edge field term had expired, for the purpose of trying the cause as suggested by the Attorney-Gen? eral. The case, however, would not be tried at this term. 1 Edwin F. Gary r*. F. J. Mose* r CbaeV | Barn urn vs. L. O. Carpenter; TjeGrand Benedict vs. J. L. Neagle, L. Cass Car? penter and Win. E. Rose; Ray Bolt on vs. P. F. Frazee; Columbia Building and Loan Association vs. Perry W. Fuller, wero continued. ? Blakely A (Jibbes vs. John English; verdict for plaintiff for $3l9.78. Mary P. Black vs. the Carolina and Southern Lifo Insurance Company, was placed on Calendar No. 3 and ordered for trial. Smith A Melton r.9. Alfred Moon;?mo? tion for non-suit granted. ?' Frances A. Barrows vs. Southern Ex? press Company; verdict for defendant. Tho State of South Carolina ?fe Uiles G. Parket; the State, ex rel. Wre. Gor? man, vs. Goo. A. Barling, Ooim&.*]fca surer; John W. Witoofskey u*.'(3a?icti&fc Hoffman; Jos. ScimonilU vs.; PatrieHf Cant well; Thoa. J. Rawls w.,-Minnie Wessley, were placed at foot of calendar. Tho Court adjourned until 1ft A. M., to-day. mm.? itww>'?wrfl mm wi>iiiw?mw*wwMW????* LlbT of New Advkhtihkmehth. George BymmerH?Wino List 0. J. Lnuroy?Oranges, Hams, At. K. H. Hoinit?h--?ornething New. Warning to 3*esjjassers. JonesjDains ?-. ftuknights?Slipperc --?-? Hotrt, Amuv.vi.3 Mat 11?, 1875.? Co/um bia Hotel?H. Muyo, Jr., Va.; William Cooper, S. C: It. Witherspoon, Mays ville: W. H. Tuft, P. G. Webb, J. K. Thames, W. Ii, Even?, Charleston; J. H. WilliamH, N. Y.; D. McQueen, Camden; Owen Dalv and wife, city; W. J. Mc? Dowell, S. ft tJ. R. R.; T. P. Scott, Dal ton, Ge?; T. C. Aldrieh, Frog LeveL - Mansion House?D. J. Griffith, wife and child, E. Hall, 8uminitt; E. W. Wheeler, John T. Sloan, city; C. C. Montgomery, Riohland; ML E. Hollings? worth, 8. C.; J. S. Fair, Ncwberry; CL E. Leaphnrt, Lexington. Conbioj-ees.?Per South Carolina Rail? road, May 19, 1875.?Mm. A. Brill, C. L. Konig, B. Konig, G. V. Alwarden, M. Comerford, D. Epstin, M. Sulzbaoher, Kings bind A Heath, C. Brookbanhs & Co., G. Symmers, C. J. Laurey, Jon???, Davis & Bouknight, T. Dodamead, B. D. Senn A Son, R A W. C. Swaffield, W. Robinson, T. M. Pollock, C. Hamberg, 0. Hoffman, C. H., W. F. L., J. C. Dial, [8.,] [L.,] [0.,] Perry & Slawson, G. W. Smith A Bronghton, H. & S., Wheeler House, M. Goldsmith, J. Agnew A Son. P. Cantwell, W. D. Love A Co., L. T. Hilliman A Co., M. H. Berry, E. H. Hei nitsh, J. W. Smith, R. L. Bryon, B. P. Griffin, W. S. Williams. TuxEUXG thk BamsH Channel.?A concession has at last been granted by the French Assembly to M. Michel Che? valier, a noted mining engineer and po? litical economist of distinction, to under? take the channel tunnel between Franco and England, and an experimental so? ciety, with a capital of $800,000, has been formed to determine the probabilities of tho enterprise. M. Chevalier anticipates that the work of driving a tunnel will be most cosy, since in all human proba? bility it will traverse a very thick layer of chalk. Tho track of the cable will be followed as nearly as possible from tho East of Dover to the West of Calais, and at each end a well will bo dug 127 metres, or over 100 feet below the live waters of the high, seas, whenoe perfora? tion of the sub-marine solid about 200 feet below the bottom of tho strait will be commenced. A gallery of approach, two metres in diamoter, will do com? menced, and if successfully completed, the tunnel will be made. * The experi? mental gallery complete will cost $5,000,000; the tunnel and the road com? plete will cost $5(1,000,000. No blasting will be resorted to, but a very powerful machine is to be employed, which will eat its way from end to end of the course in two years. Ventilation will bo pro? cured, as in other tunnels, by an injec? tion of compressed air. 1 Evidently the terrors of the English Channel are taking their place among the ogres of the past Science has attacked the monster, and its capitulation to anti-seasick steamers, life dresses and sub-marine tunnels is hut a question of time. -!$>??;. "i- , How Not to Die.?Thousands fall a prey to disease, not because the maladies that affect them are necessarily fatal, but because they lack the requisite amount of active vitality to make a valiant re? sistance to the enemy. It is a wise pre? caution to keep the body always in a state of defence?always prepared to "fend off" the germs of epidemic and other disorders, and to baffle the evil in? fluence of damp miasma and sudden thermometrical changes. There is no difficulty in doing this. R is a fact as well authenticated as that two and two make four, that Hostetter'S Stomach Bit-' ters is specially adapted to this purpose, and for the simple reason that its invi? gorating and regulating properties arc superior to those of any other medicine in the world. During the twenty years that it has been in general use, ample opportunities have been afforded to com? pare its medicinal properties with those of other preparations claiming to be of a similar class, and the result has been its adoption by the American people as the standard tonic of the age, its intro? duction into every civilized portion of the Western hemisphere, and an 'annual sale which dwarfs into insignificance the demand for all its would-be competitors. The record upon which its popularity rests is a curiosity in medical literature, for it includes an almost unlimited va? riety of human ailments and disabilities. In fact, no other remedy possesses such a variety of hygienic virtues, and it 1b to these characteristics that it owes its pres? tige as a household medicine. M14t3f 1 Reallv, something will have to bo don? with Vice-President Wilson. As tho organs say, he talks too much, and, what is bad for them, ho talks in the same strain and to the same purpose every time. On Friday night ho made a speech in St Louis, in response to a serenade, in which he declared that there was more Seaco and order and confidence at the outh now than at any time since the war, and in which he talked all through like the good-hearted patriot we have always known him to be, and sometimes like the broad-minded man we have oo- . casionally doubted ho was. Mr. Wilson is opposed to the third term, and he is now warring upon it in his own peculiar fashion, which ia the method of warfare Tim. Linkinwater would have practiced against Ralph Nickleby. [Phlladelphid Tlm?$. -!-<t timt It is truly wonderful, the variety and i ingenuity of the conveniences for the desk and office?pens of varied patterns, inkstands possessing ' nnmWiess ad? vantages, letter files, each one the best, ? envelopes of size and finalities infinite. It is almost bewildering fair eater the large Broad street store of Walker. Evans & Cogswell, in Charleston, and , see the number of these attractions. Here you find' tho' largest .stationary stock South of Baltimore, and you only have two troubled?firs*/' sufficient cosh; and, second, tho difficulty in deciding among the many things offered, each equally suitable fid your wants. M7f . Kladderadatsch, the Berlin Punch, has a picture representing two men, one snuffing the air and saying: "There la a smell of something burning like pow? der;" the other answering, with an ironi? cal smile: "Only newspaper."