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COLUMBIA, SC. Wednesday Morning, July 21, 1875. The not unexpected news comes from London that Lady Franklin is dead. With tho history of this noblo woman, all our roadors are familiar. Many years ago her husband, Sir John Franklin, was lost in an expedition in search of the North-west Passage. He was last seen in Baffin's Bay, July 26, 1815?just thirty years ago. For muuy jeais it was net certainly known whether ho was dead or dragging put a miserable existence in the ice-bound regions of tho North Pole, and she expended every dollar of her private fortune in equipping expoditions for his reliofi At last the most positive evidence of his death was discovored, and since that time she has been endeavoring to recover the remains of tho great explorer. Almost her lost act, was to aid by every means at her command in the organization of tho expedition which so recently bailed for the Polar Seas. The devotion of Lady Franklin , attracted the attention and elicited the admiration of the civil? ized world, and the purses of princes and of private citizens alike havo aided in the prosecution Of her searches. Tho groat navigator was twioo married, and was exceedingly fortunate in both his vontnres. His first wifo was equally de? voted. Da 1825, ho was appointed to tho command of an overland expedition to the Arctic Ocean." When tho day of his I departuro arrived, his wife was lying at -the point of death. She insisted that he . should not delay his voyage because of , her illness, and presented him with a Silk flag, which she requested him to hoist when he reached the Polar Sea. The day after he lelt England, sbo died. Cuba.?The reported interference of foreign powers in favor of a peaceful set-, tlement of the Cuban question is autho? ritatively denied. No stops have been ' taken of late by the United States Go? vernment, and the Monroe doctrine will bo rigidly enforced, so far as other na? tions are concerned. Still, it is a pity a wasting, useless war should be continued in Cuba when the possibility of Spain's holding the island is already at an end. Starvation Amono the Indians.?A Denver newspaper publishes a lettor from Hod Cloud agency, which gives a touching picture of the sufferings of a body of Arrapahoe Indians, who live in the vicinity upon a reservation. After stat? ing that they hang about tho post and fish refuse from swill barrels, and relat? ing some instances of extreme suffering, the writer says: "They are starving and their papooses are starving. They have ponies that they want to 'swap,' and money they want to pay for provisions, but the pro? visions are not to bo had. Tho agent has none, the trador has none. Tho post commissary officer is not allowed to sell to them, and they are not allowed to go off the reservation to buy. If they were allowed, the nearest market is seventy fivo miles away. So they aro como to starve. The children are perfect littlo skeletons, arms and legs like pipe stoms, and faces bony, gaunt and odd looking, with an ashy, unnatural com? plexion, that at once attracts attention. A woman had one of them, a little three year-old half-breed child, with lovely brown eyos, light hair and fair com? plexion, at tho post to-day, trying to tnulo him off for a sack of flour. Now, somebody is certainly to blame for this state of affairs. Somebody is responsi? ble for the starving of bliese people. They have submitted to the authority of * the Government, and this is their reward. Who can blame them if, starved into desperation, they leave their reservation, kill cattle that do not belong to them and shoot a man who resists them?" This is not believed to bo an excep? tional case among, the Indians. A Wost ? ern journal suggests that if the rod men were only black, and could bo made available for voters, these atrocities would ring from one end of the land to the other. ? m ??-? The Statue op LaFayette.?Tho statue of LaFayette, tho gift of the French Government to tho city of New York, was received in that city on Wednesday. It is tho work of Frederic Bartholdi, a nativo oi Colmar, in Alsace, and is seven feet high exclusive of tho. pediment. Tho project of presenting this statno to Now York originated with the Thiers Government, and nearly $30,000, gold, was appropriated for its execution in bronze. The design of the sculptor represents Gen. LaFayetto in his twentieth year, at tho time when he joined the continental army. He stands upon n ship as if in the aot of speaking. His right arm is extended, and the left is thrown across his client, with tbo hand grasping tho pommel of his sword and a mass of drapery which falls at his feet. Tho body is firmly posed upon tho right foot, while the left leg in extendod.; The head is slightly turned to the right. Tho statue WiU be placed in Central Park, and. the unveiling will probably hike place early in tho nil 1. m t ?.i . - ' The woman who was filled with emo? tion hadn't room for her dinner. ' '.I' M.; T U 1. 111 i t ' ,'.I ' '. Re-appearance ot|tbis Plaoue.?An old and very unwelcome visitant has made its appearance in the marshy districts be? tween Tigris and Euphrates. It is the old-fashioned plague, which, under the name of black death, destroyed in Eu? rope, between 134? and 1351, about 25,000.000 of people, Italy losing half its inhabitants, Germany about 1,2-10,000 souls, and London alone 100,000 of its residents. In China 13,000,000, and in other countries of the East 21,000,000 persons are said to have fallen victims to this epidemic, which scorns to have ex? tended to Africa in the South and to Greenland in tho North. No such de? structive scourge hud been known, and as usual in the middlo ages, tho Jews in Europe were held responsible. It was said that they had poisoned the wells, and at Mayence 12,000 of them were massacred. * Tho plague has since spread into Europe at different periods, but its ravages have been confined to narrower limits. In 1570 Titian died from it at Venice. In 1GG5 it raged in London, nearlv 70,000 having fallen victims to it. In 1720 not far from one-half tho people of Marseilles were swept away, and about 1790 it was very fatal in 'Russia and Poland. Tho later visitations of tho plague have mainly been confined to the countries lying on the Eastern shores of tho Mediterranean. The disease is fatal in tho majority of cases, death occurring in less than a woek after the first attack. Nowhere have its symptons boon more faithfully and.vividly described than in Defoe's wonderful description of the plaguo year in London, which is true to reality,"though tho basis of tho narrative is imaginative. About thirty years have elapsed sinoe the last violent inroad of the plague into Egypt and Asia Minor. Its ravages in the former country are briefly, yet eloquently,' portrayed in Kinglake s Eothcn. People woro begin? ning to hopo that it had died out, when in 1867 some-cases appeared in tho low and malarious districts of Mesopotamia. The spread of the disease was quite Blow, and it did not attract much notice until tho close of 1873. From that time until now; cases-have multiplied, and the. area of infection has been greatly widened. Some localities havo suffered frightfully. The future alone can tell whether the malady will be confined to sections to which.it appears almost epi? demic, or whether, as at former periods, it will overleap its limits and advance toward the civilized centres. It may be aided, as are other diseases, by dirt and poverty, but, on the other hand, the channels through which infection may be spread ore largely increased. Medical Bkili as yet has discovered no . specific against it, and, liko small-pox, which half a century ago seemed likely to be stamped out, it may be entering upon a now cycle of vigor. The Sultan of Zanzibar having failed to. carry out tho provisions of the treaty entered into with England in 1873, for the suppression of tho slave trade on the East coast of Africa, he was induced to visit the former country. While there in the nominal aspect of an honored guest, but really as a semi-captive, an? other treaty was signed between tho par? ties upon the samo subject, which the Under Secretary of tho English Foreign Office hopes "will be fully carried out." From this time out, Zanzibar is virtually under an English protectorate, and the King a tool and puppet of tho British Ministry. Disraeli, not the Sultan, will now say what shall be the policy of Zan? zibar in relation to other questions, as well as the slavo trade. Tho country about the head-waters of the Nile is be? ginning to assumo importance in the estimation of European rulers, and one way of reaching that locality is by strik? ing inland from the coast of Zanzibar. This way is now under the eye and claws of tho British lion. Of lato years, all potentates that visit England have to pay for their trips. When the Khedive of Egypt put his foot near tho throne of England, he was approached in relation to the Suez Canal, tho Shah of Persia was importuned for a railroad grant, and now tho Sultan of Zanzibar has been chained to the "fast anchored isle" in such a manner that release is impossible. John Bull takes his beef and porter in a quiet manner, but at the samo time, has an open eyo for tho main chance. Tho London Times, in speakmg of the French inundutions and the relief sub? scriptions on foot, says that "in Paris Madamo MncMahon has opened a sub? scription list for tho sufferers, and has herself contributed 5,000 francs to tho fund. Tho house of Rothschild and Madamo Heine have been conspicuously magnificent, and the leading newspapers are publishing subscriptions lists, which prove that party hostility does not slum? ber oven in tho face of a national calami? ty for which no party can' bo answerable. In every part of tho country private charity is aroused. A Paris letter says: "Not only is thcro a material loss of ?12,000,01)0 to ?15,000,000, but there is tho ruin of thousands of families, sud? denly deprived of their livelihood and dobarrcd from a hundred resources which tho wildest charity cannot replace. Tho South of Franco, which was spared tho spectacle of tho war, with its hor? rors, now undergoes in its turn a public calamity. Every private lcttor which ar? rives here describes n new episode. A singlo view cannot take in so many hor rors-ef. onco, and world-wide charity will have ample scopo in relieving bo many misfortunes." Tho unfortunate speech of Gen. John S. Preston at tho University of Virginia has beon given a good doal moro promi? nence by certain Virginia journals than it deserved. It roprosented nobody's opinion but Mr. Preston's, and wo do not suppose it should. He has a', right to think as ho pleases, and we do not know of any law to prevent him from speaking his thoughts when ho finds oc? casion.? Marlon Patriot: i' 11 aT l ?! ? ' Tho experiment of destroying the body of a dead horse by cremation has been made at Milan, in the preBenco of several doctors and scientists. The carcass was placed in a huge oven, through the late? ral openings of whioh 400 jets of lighted gas were directed upon it, and three jets of In and air applied to tho three most difll?ult points of combustion. The operation lasted over two hours. There was no residue from the combustion, and it was unattended by bad odors. King George, of Greece, seems to bo in an unhappy predicament. His kingdom is threatened with a revolution; he is unpopular, and nobody takes Iiis hat off io him uu the nt reefs; the Queen ha:: been insulted, and he is afraid to go to tho Hellenic Long Branch, at Dekeleta, because ho thinks it quite probable he will not be able to get back to his capi? tal again. Two Russian ships are ready at the I'ireus to carry him away in caso of a revolution. A young gentlemen of Baltimore, has invented a dying umehince, in which he proposes to cross tho ocean during the present summer. The machine appears to bo a combination of the balloon, the wind-mill and tho steam launch. The voyager rides in a boat containing a small steam engine, which is used for moving the "wings" and steering it through the air. The boat is attached to the flying machine with a rope, and thus is drawn through tho water. ? Tho Mann boudoir sleeping car is driving tho Pullman coach off of Eu? ropean lines. The former does not con? sist of ono grand saloon like the Pullman cars, but is divided into small compart? ments, which afford all the comforts of a small drawing-room during tho day. and well-nigh all the comforts of a private bed-room during the night. A correspondent of the Greenville Acic.? asserts that the difficulty between Superintendent Pnrmelc, of the peniten? tiary, and Secretary Hnync, is that the former had refused to allow the horse or horses of the latter to be fed at the ex? pense of the State. We repeat, "enn sich things be?" Mrs. Pratt, of Smyrna, Del., six times a widow, has taken her seventh husband. Her last six husbands were all widowers, /jome of them with a largo number of children. The history of these six poor moths would doubtless be full of inter? esting incidents. Last week a Pittsburg editor wrote; "The closer peoplo get to nature the closer they arc to God." Then he ob? tained leaves of absence to go out into tho country, and was struck by lightning while robbing an applo orchard. A Western physician has just dis? charged a caso of confluent small pox without a pit. He painted the face of his patient with collodion and ivory black, applied as often as necessary to keep up a complete mask. A mother and father are trying to force their daughter to marry. Daughter (loquitur)?"There arc many reasons why I don't want to marry him; in the first place, ho is too hideous and stupid." Mother (with dignity)?"Stephanie, did I not marry your father?" Mr. Bcochcr has made a contract with | a Western agent to deliver fourteen lec? tures nt various points in the West dur? ing the coming season. The price is $500 a night and expenses, which will help him to ekii out his scanty salary. Mr. Micajah Dwyer, of Gainsville, Ga., has invented a Hying machine on a new principle. It is to be propelled by wings and paddle-wheels. Bail roads have hud there day, and something else must come to the front. Flies arc the scavengers of vitiated air, whe re they fatten on the parasites that settle upon them in myriads; while they grow lean and Ktnrvo in a pure atmos? phere, whore their favorite game is very scarce. A Kansas woman offers to bet fifty dol? lars that hor husband can "cuss" a bushel of grass-hoppers out of the coun? try while the people of Missouri are fast? ing and praying a pint out of a ten acre wheat field. The Chinese have, for the first time, whipped the Formosan savages. These aborigines number 20,000 only, and yet they have kept in terror about 2,000,000 Chinese settlers. A Minnesota sheriff carried a bullet in his head for ten years, and when they I removed it tho other day he became foolish. They are looking for some one to shoot hira again. Prof. R. T. Greener, colored, of the South Carolina University, has been elected a membor of tho American Philo? logical Association, at the lato session in Newport, B. L A man who has had experience in tak? ing cod liver oil, says that tho best me? thod of taking it is to fatten pigeons with it and then eat tho pigeons. Mrs. Lizzie Pettit Cutler declared in a recent lecture on "Flirts of Modern So? ciety," that "it is always tho noblest and best men who are ruined by the flirt." Taming tue Snnsw.?The great Shak spearean comedy, at the Opera House to-night. Sixteen ohildren, not ono of them over eight years old, got drunk together in Hartford, Conn., the other duy. A Great 'Snow Storm ?At tho Opera I louse to-night. On tho 10th instant, Charles Talboro was drowned in a crook near Beaufort. Hint to young bachelors?Pay your bills before you pay your addresses. Tho military telegraph in Texas is in working order to Fort Griffin. Who is Joe AnMBOYD?^Ask Cramer, at tho Opera Honse, to-night. Gon. A. C. Garlington will soon pub? lish a drama. Euobne Cramer, in his great character ofPctruohio, at tho Opera House, to-night. Cm Itehr.?Weather decidedly cooler and more pleasant, yesterday. The City IliLVMinated--At tho Opera House, to-night. Old newspapers, suitable for wrap? ping, at fiftj cents a hundred. Lost in London*?At the Opera House, to-night. A man cannot expect half a loaf when he loafs all the time. Down in a Coax, Mixe.?At the Opera House, to-night. The trains, yesterday, brought in a great many members c;f the Hampton Legion, besides other visitors. May Wilmotte Loyell as Katharine, in Taming the Shrew, at the Opera House, to-night Old typo in any quantity, at from twenty to thirty cents a pound, for sale nt Phoenix office. Any and every style of book and job printing executed promptly at Phcsntx office. Material of every kind on hand. Ex-Treasurer Parker, it is reported, appeared quite amused at the verdict of the jury in his case; and over a glass of champagne, made the sage inquiry ns to where the money was to come from. Where, truly? The re-union of the Hampton Legion takes place to-day, at 11 o'clock, in Par? ker's Hall. Gen. T. M. Logan, the orator for the occasion, will address the multi? tude in the evening, at 8 o'clock, in the same hall. An invitation is extended to the public to bo present. A postmaster on the Charlotte, Colum? bia and Augusta Itailroad, near Edgclield, had his head blown off with a torpedo chicken, forwarded from the War De? partment, last week, for charging five cents a piocc for postage stamps. Served him right. In an interview with one of the jurors in the case of the State vs. N. G. Parker, our reporter was informed that the basis on which the verdict was rendered, was that Capt. Ladd's testimony was taken to be true in every particular, and tho divi? sion referred to by him was respected, and Parker held only for fifty per cent, of his part, viz: one-half of $150,000? $75,000. Lost in London and Katharine and Petruchio are to bo performed by Mr. and Mrs. Lovell, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Cramer, and the Columbia Comedy Company, this evening, at tho Opera House. There are several very hand? some and sensational scenes, which are well worth looking at. The "snow storm" will aid in making one feel cool, while "down in a coal mine" will tend to make dissatisfied mortals who live above ground feel contented, perhaps. Attorney-General Melton, in his clos? ing speech in the Parker case, referred to a 'possum hunt which his brother, of the opposite counsel, had spoken of, but did not fully carry out. He said they were in tho woods, and got lost, but tramped around and finally came out where they wont in; "but," added the speaker, "wo brought out tho'possum; and so we have in this case, and there is tho 'possum," pointing to the prisoner. There was a smile all over the court. Passer Again.?The following are the names of the jurors in the case of Daniel H. Chamberlain, Thomas C. Dunn, Sa? muel W. Melton, Wm. H. Nash and Paris Simpkins, Commissioners of Sinking Fund, vs. Niles G. Parker. The jury was empanneled and discharged until 10 o'clock, this morning. Each juror examined on the voirdue: W. C. Swaffield, white; Harvey Terry, white; Daniel H. Howell, colored; John E. Jacobs, white; Cato Johnson, colored; W. N. Levister, white; Samuel McCoy, colored; Stephen W. McKenzie, colored; Kitt Mills, colored; John R. Trice, co lorod; Josoph T. Zealy, white; Andrew J. Hosford, white?G and C. Tho Now York World publishes a double-leaded editorial, inquiring whe? ther vigilance committees shall be organ? ized in New York city. Recent burgla? ries in that city, and particularly the Dancer burglary, suggested the question. So far a3 wo have seen, the Northern Radical papers have not had a word to say against tho editorial in question, though it virtually advocated tho crea? tion of such a state of affairs as once ex? isted in San Francisco and the cities of the Pacific slope. If, however, Now Or? leans, or Charleston, or Vicksburg pa? pers had dared to propose such a step, what a howl of indignation would have been heard from every Republican jour? nal in tho country. And if Congress bad happened to be in session at tho timo, tho Force Bill would havo been passed out of hand. Vigilance committees are very proper things in New York, very improper things in New Orleans; lynch? ing is all right in Indiana, all wrong in Mississippi. That in tho North is bnt a choleric word, which in the South is rank blasphemy. Children are children as kit tons are kittens. A sober, sensible old cat, that sits purring before the fire, does not trouble herself because her kitten is hurrying end dashing here and there, in a fever of excitement to catch its tail. She sits still and purrs on. People should do the stone with children. One of the difficulties of home education is the impossibility of making parents keep still; it is with them, out of their affec? tion, all watch and worry. List of New Advemise:hj"NTs. Meeting Hoard of Fire Masters. A. Ii. Halladay?Chicorn Tribe. W. 13. Burke?Auction. Hot En Arrivals, July 20.?Mansion House?J. L. Mauldin, Sumter; Charles McAlistor, Charleston; E. AV. Wheeler, city; W. A. Limbecker, J. P. Phillips, E. S. Addison, Dr. J. Q. Bozeman, Ninety Six; C. F. Hoke, Ca.; C. L. Gates, Greenville; W. T. Fields, Pickc-ns;C. D. Nesbitt, S. C; E. H. Acker, Bclton; W. F. Lee, R. M. Nelson, S. C; J. M. Tarry, Greenville; G. A. Swvgcrt, H. G. Hoof, S. C.; T. B. Hollingswortb, N. C. A despatch from Omaha states that two Indians have been killed and several wounded by soldiers in tho neighbor? hood of the Red Cloud agency. This is an unlucky affair, as tho commissioners recently appointed by tho Government to treat for the purchasa of the Black Hills, were just arranging for a council to be held at Fort Randall or Fort Sully, about the 1st September. The killing having taken place on the reser? vation, the Indians are excited over it, and negotiations will doubtless be de? layed or rendered impracticable. Ten davs ago, tho commissioners held a preliminary meeting at the Red Cloud agency, which was attended by sixteen prominent Sioux chiefs, who were all in the best humor, and expressed their wil? lingness to get all their people together to consider the Black Hills business. There may have been some good reason for the reported shooting, but whatever may have been the cause, it will be very difficult now to bring the Indians to twrius - by negotiations. A Double Danger Averted.?The in? habitant of a malarious region is threat? ened by a double danger. He is not only compelled to breathe miasma, but to siealloic it, since it infects, not only the atmosphere, but the water. The airial poison threatens his system through the lungs and pores, tho liquid through the stomach. Against this double peril there is but one protection, and that is to in? vigorate tho entiro body through the digestive and secretive organs. Ordi? nary tonics usually fail to accomplish this?Hostetter'8 Stomach Bitters never. In the tropics, where the diseases origi I nuted by malaria aro of a far more malig? nant typo than those originated by the samo cause in tho temperate zone, it en? joys immense and constantly increasing sales, and there is no portion of this continent where it is not the reigning specific for miasmatic fevers and disor? ders of tho stomach, liver and bowels, proceeding from malaria and other causes. JlGt3*"l It wasn't Mecklenberg, nor Philadel? phia, where independence was first pro? claimed, but in a letter from Mrs. John Adams to hor husband. When the King issued his proclamation for suppressing rebellion end sedition, after the failure of tho mission of Richard Penn. Mrs. Adams wrote to Mr. Adams in Philadel? phia: '?This intelligence will make a plain path for you, though a dangerous one. I could not join to-day in the peti? tions of our worthy pastor for a reconci? liation between our no longer parent Stato but tyrant State and these colonies. Let us separate; they aro unworthy to be our brethren. Let us renounce* them: and instead of supplications, as former? ly, for their prosperity and happiness, let us beseech the Almighty to blast their counsels, and to bring to naught all their devices." This was a declaration of in? dependence preceding by months that which Jefferson wrote. Nothing is more lady-like than the use of fine note paper and a neat fashionable envelope. So think tho fortunate re? ceivers of such billet-donx. The sweet? ness of a charming sentence is rendered more delioious, if conveyed on a delicate tinted sheet of Pirio's Noto Paper. It is bad tasto in a gentlcmm writing to a lady on inforior stationery. If you wish to bo posted on the latest novelitcs, the fashion in these matters, enclose a stamp to Walker, Evans A Cogswell, for one of their little fashion books "Card Eti? quette," or send an order for a recherche lot of paper and envelopes of the latest style. Do not forget at the same time to order a monogram. JlOf Tho Russian Government is renewing tho old-time persecution of tho Jews. A number of these people having shifted their places of residence in consequence of tho changes in business brought about by the introduction of railroads, tho po? lice, aoting upon a ukase issued a few years ago, nave compelled them to leave their homes, and have driven them alto? gether out of the province. The Christian population protested, and oven peti? tioned tho authorities against tho injus? tice, but thus far their efforts havo been ineffectual. A sori?u^B'fnculty oc?\Trred^u?l7oeTi Hill, on tho 19th, during which a num? ber of persons?whites and _ colored? wore injured, but none seriously, al? though guns and pistols were used. The troublo originated between a colored pic-nic party from Charlotte and some of the village darkeys. Many of the peacefully-disposed colored people ren? dered material assistance in quieting the disturbance.