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TIES L,HGRAF?3:iO Foreign AfTalrs. LONDON, Joly 20.-Advices from St. Petersburg state that tho cholera epi? demic is gradually making its way from the Eastern provinces, and is gaining a foot-hold in the central aud Western portions of the empire. Mosoow is now suffering from its ravages, and the dis? ease there has assumed a most malignant form. The proportion of deaths to re? coveries is placed at eight to one. This terrible fatality has created a panic among the inhabitants. Thousands of the better classes aro fleeing into West? ern Europe. At St. Potersbnrg, a few sporadic cases have appeared; the au? thorities are taking tho most rigid pre? cautions to out off communication be? tween the capital and the infected dis? tricts. The grave-diggers of the Woolwich Cemetery, in the Eastern suburbs of London, are on a strike. GENEVA, July 20.-Tho gentlemen connected with the Board of Arbitration still preserve the most profound secrecy on the subjeot of the proceedings. The counsel of the Governments of Great Britain and the United States refuse to answer any communications on the ques? tions pending, in order to prevent the interference of newspapers, and the pos? sibility of their exercising any influence on the merits of the arbitrators. Here? after the board will hold five sessions per week-sitting every day, except Sa? turdays and Sundays. LONDON, July 20.-Rev. Mr. Yates, American missionary to China, is here. MADRID, July 20.-The examination of the two assassins captured developes the fact that the attack was a part of an organized conspiracy, extensive in its ramifications and provided with ample funds. American Mattera. Nsw YORK, July 20.-A Niagara de? spatch says the Democratic aud Liberal leaders, in consultation there, have agreed upon Sanford E. Churoh for Go? vernor. SAN FRANCISCO. July 19.-Detectives Ansbro and Smith were committed for trial to-day; the former for libel, the lat? ter for perjury, in the caae of Edith O'Gorm.an, the escaped nun. . Mullendore, a reporter of the Morning Cali, who was shot by MoOausliu, ten days since, has died. NEW YOEE, July 20.-Arrived-steam? ship South Carolina, Charleston. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., July 20.-J. B. Sheffield's paper mill, at Saugerties, a largo concern, was burned to-day; loss $300,000; insured for 8105.OuO; no lives lost. The mill employed 150 hands. INDIANAPOLIS, Joly 20.-Assistant Postmaster John T. Wood has been arrested, charged with a defalcation of $4,000. BOSTON, July 20.-John Donohoe, convicted of committing a rape, has been sentenced to fifteen years impri? sonment. He is the mulatto who was arrested on a oharge of rape at Taunton, Mass. PHTXIADBZIPHTA, July 20.-A boat con? taining four persons capsized in the Delaware. Hairy Bowman, a journal? ist, was drowned. BOOH ESTER, Joly 20.-An appeal, signed by Susan Anthony, President, and Matilda Jocelyn Gage, Seoretary of tho Executive Committee of the Wo? man's Suffrage Association, takes strong ground for the Philadelphia platform. BANGOS, MB.,/July 20.-- Hon. Samuel Thatcher is dead; his age was7 ninety-six. He waa eleoted to Congress in 181)2, and was the oldest Mason in the United States. NEW YORK, July 20.-A temporary in? junction has been granted in the suit of the Erie Railroad Company against the ! Jefferson Railroad Company, Jay Goold and Justin D. White, restraining the de-! fendants from transferring certain stock in their possession. The Erie Railroad offices will be removed immediately from the Grand Opera House. The week's deaths are 918. Speoie shipments to-day $625,000. RALEIGH, N. C., July 20.-The United States Commissioner gave a decision to? day, in the case of the United States rs. Shadriok Jones, colored, for an attempt to intimidate Simon Craven, a colored Greeley Republican, in. ihe exercise of his political franchise-finding the de? fendant guilty and binding him over to the United States Oirooit Court. The first of the band of conspirators, Mack Jones, colored, that assaulted Samuel G. Cross, colored, (a marshal of the Gree? ley and Brown ratification meeting.) was also tried today, and con vio tod-Com? missioner Best giving his decision at length. He was bound over in $1,000. The evidence in the other cases, which will be tried on Monday, is said to be still stronger. WASHINGTON, Duly 20- Evening. Boutwell has returned from North Caro? tina. He says the leading men promise 10,000 and possibly 15,000 majority in that State. Cash balance in the Treasury $71, 000,000, inolnding 32,000,000 certifi? cates; onrrenoy balance $9,600,000. The ammunition bas been removed from the Cuban privateer Pioneer, and stored in the Government magazine at Newport. Grant comes on Toesday. It is said the Indian question will be discussed at the Cabinet meeting on Toesday. A strong effort will be made to have Sheri? dan's views adopted as the policy. WILMINGTON, N. C., July 21.-A re E>r? has just reached here, that Tom owroy, one of the Robeson outlaws, and brother to the notorious Henry Berry Lowrey, was killed near Moss Neck, this morning, by Robert Wisart, a younger brother of Col. F. M. Wisart, who was killed by the outlaws some months since. His body reached Lum berton jost before tho train passed. Probabilities-The disturbance in Iowa will probably move into Illinois, with diminished intensity, but moist, Olondy weather, with Southerly winds and looal rains, will oontinne on Sunday, from Michigan Southward to Kentucky. Cloudy and rainy weather will continue, without material change, from Louisiana to Florida and North Carolina; Souther? ly winds, with rising temperature and increasing cloudiness, will prevail over the Middle and Eastern States. BUFFALO, July 20.-Evans & Go.'s planing mill and several adjoining lum? ber yards were burned to-day. Loss 8100,000. MONTGOMERY, ALA., July 20.-The damage by the late floods has reaohed $5,000,000. The waters in central Ala? bama were higher than ever known this season. Accessible houses along the streams were swept away by scores; cot? ton and oom on highlands are badly damaged by the heavy rains. The cot? ton crop of Alabama has been cut 40,000 bales short. Financial un.? Commercial. NEW YORK, July 20-Noon.-Stocks Arm. Gold quiet, at 14%. Money easy, at 3. Exchange-long 9%; short 10?4- Governments dull aud steady. State bonds quiot. Cotton dull and nominal; sales 4.91 bales-uplands 22; Orleans 22}?. Flour quiet. Wheat nominal. Corn firm. Fork dull-mens 13.50. Lard quiet-new steam 8@8^a? Freights quiet. 7 P. M.-The bank statement shows loans have increased $625,000; specie increased $1,375,000; legal tenders in? creased $500,000; deposits increased $2,000,000. Cotton dull; sales 441 bales -uplands 22; Orleans 22>?. Flour dull and favors buyers-common to fair ex? tra 6.85@8.80; choice 8.85@12.00. Wheat heavy and 2@3o. lower. Corn l@2o. lower. Pork dull, at 13.50. Lard heavy-kettle 9;5?. Freights quiet. Money very easy, at 2@3. Sterling dal), at 9%@9%. Gold 14^@14>ri. Go? vernment? dull but steady all day. States dull but heavy; Tennessees weak; South Carolinas dall but steady. Sales of cotton for future delivery 18,200 bales, as follows: August 20%, 20 9-16; Sep? tember 20, 20 13-16; October 19%, 19%; November 18%, 19)4; December 18%. BALTIMORE, July 20.-Cotton nominal -middling 22receipts 18 bales; sales 100; stock 1,127. Flour steady-family active. Wheat steady and unchanged. Corn dull-white 77@81. Oats-South? ern 35@40. Provisions very strong. Mess pork 14.00. Shoulders 6%. Lard dull, at 9@9>?. Whiskey 92J?(oj93. CHARLESTON, July 20.-Cotton dull middling nominal; receipts 196 bales; stock 6,658. WILMINGTON, July 20.-Cotton dull middling 21)4; eales 15 bales; stock 757. GALVESTON, July 20.-Cotton nominal -middling 21 j?; receipts49 bales; stock 482. AUGUSTA, July 20.-Cotton nominal mic diing 20%; receipts 56 bales; sales 40. PHILADELPHIA, July 20.-Cotton dull -middling 22%(?)22>?. BOSTON, July 20.-Cotton heavy-mid? dling 22%; reoeipts 205 bales; sales 100; stock 9,000. NORFOLK, July 20.-Cotton dull-low middling 20j.<; receipts 277 bales; ex? ports 186; Btock 581. NEW ORLEANS, July 20.-Cotton dull and nominal-middling 22%@22)?; re? oeipts 115 bales; exports 2,278; stook 11,562. SAVANNAH, July 20.-Cotton dall and nothing doing-middling 21>?; reoeipts 56 bales; exports 223; Btock 555. ? MOBILE, July 20.-Cotton dull-mid? dling 22; receipts 51 bales; stock 1,038. LIVERPOOL, July 20-3 P. M.-Cot? ton opened and closed flat-uplands 10&?@10>? ; Orleans 10%. LONDON, July 20-Noon.-Consols 92>?. Bonds 91%. It has been generally supposed that the management of the finances of the oountry required not only the closest attention but a constant and assiduous labor on the part of the chief financial officer of the Government. The impres? sion had been that the labor and anxiety were sufficient not only to occupy all the time, but to break down the strongest constitution. Such, however, does not appear to be the case, for with Secretary Boutwell it is only a pastime by which he oan strengthen himself for active campaigning for his chief. It is true, there may bo daring his absenoo, as there have been in the past, several de? falcations of subordinates; but then that is only a loss of tho people's money, wbiob is of little imporrtauce compared with Grant's re election. [Neto York World. A qaotatioa from the New Kork Tri? bune, used to illustrate a caricature of Greeley, and claimed to have been pub? lished on a certain day of 1860, was dis? owned by the Tribune and pronounced a forgery. Since then it has been disco? vered that the paragraph in question did appear in the Tribune in 1861, wheu the antagonism between the North and South was at its height. At that time many unwise utterances were made by people in all portions of the oountry. Few, in? deed, would like to be judged in 1872 for what they said during the war fever of 1861, and still fewer oonld find their record consistent os has been that of Horace Greeley. A gentleman named Van ' M. Fitch states that, in tho winter of 1860, a gen? tleman from Alabama, thea in New York, left in his obarge a potrait of South Carolina's illustrious son, Robert Y. Hayne. He desiree to plaoe the same in the possession of the rightful owner. The serenading mania has cost a New York Assemblyman his life. A band serenaded him; he went out in the rain to aoknowledge the unexpeoted honor; he took oold, and in a few days he died, leaving $1,000,000. A Savannah, Ga., horse, lately ran away and into a hotel, bringing up in front of the bar. It was just as he had seen his master do. On Friday lost, the wife of Archibald Kemper, of Washington township, Har rison County, Ky., was stung by a wasp, and died in fifteen minutes. The Proceedings ?galnat tile Greenville ..and Columbia Ila Uro iv,l In Bank? ruptcy. 3 j We make the following extracts from the toBtiruony in this interesting case, as reported io the Obarleston News: The petitioner is Daniel E. Scanneil, of New York, who is seeking to throw the road into bankruptcy. Some rich developments are made, disolosiug what at present appears to be a stupendous fraud perpetrated by the late Board of Directors, of which Frederick D. Bash was President, John J. Patterson, Vice President, and J. L. Neogle, Niles G. Parker, Joseph Crews, G. W. Waterman, F. Li. Cardozo and T. Harley, among tho members. It would seem that up? wards of $1,000,000 of seoond mortgage bonds have been fraudulently issued. Presideat Magrath testified as follows: The Presideot of the Oreen ville uad Columbia Railroad Company at tho olose of tbe war was Mr. Hammett. Mr. Bush succeeded him, and I succeeded Mr. Bush last January. The earnings of the roud in 1870 were $439,341.58; ia 1871, $457,144.80; aud during the first sis mouths of this year, they have been $251,376.(32. The aggregate expendi? tures during those six mouths have beet: $152,861.80, leaving a surplus of $98, 514.82. The earnings for tho next sis months may be expected, from tbe ex? perience of former years, should bc greater than those for the past si] mouths. It is fair to compute tin probable earaings for the whole of 187: as aot less thou $500,000. Toe increasi in business iu 1872 is owing to the dove lopmentof the country, nod not to un; accidental cause. With tho business o the road yieldiug $500,000 or more, ther should be a surplus, after deduoting tin expenses of operating, of at least $200, 000. If the bonded debt of the oom puny should be increased to $2,500,0011 the buen of $175,000 would be require? to pay the annual interest, and ther would still be a surplus of $25,000. Tb total amouat of bonded debt of the com pany recognized au being valid is $1,95S, 632.13. Whatever other olaims aro a may be made outside of this amount ar disputed by the company. Thatanioun includes all tho bonds of the issue c whioh there is any record on the boos of the eompany. I do not uuderstau aay bond to be issued by the company unless it be recorded on the books of th oom piny. I have reason to believe thc other bonds have been issued. I koo the corporation called the Continent! Telegraph Company. Its charter wc obtained by one Hall, of Now York, wit two other parties. The charter was the sold or given to Mr. H. H. Kimptoi The hooks of the railroad company d not show any issue of bonds for tho pu chase of the Continental Telegraph Con pony, and contain no record of authoril given to any person to purchase it. 1 u meeting of the directors, held on tl evening of January 5, 1872, a prearab aod resolutions were introduced by Jot J. Patterson, reciting that the Preside] (Bush) had reported a negotiation wii the Continental Telegraph Compaa and authorizing him to perfect the oeg tiatiou. At that meeting, however, tl road passed out of the bands of Prei dent Bash and his director-), and, at tl next meeting of tho board, it was foui that the Presideat had made ao such r port, aod the resolutions wera igaorc The first act of my administration w to deny and repudiate any such traost tion. By the direction of the board, caused suits to be brought against t former officers and direotors of the coi pany, to secare the return of aay bon that had passed oat of the hands of t company ia that transaction. Notices those suits were served on Frederi Bash, J. L. Neagle, J. J. Patterson, '. H. Kimpton, Niles G. Parker, Jose Crows, G. W. Waterman, F. L. Cardo and T. Hurley. There were $596,000 second mortgage bonds issued by t executive oommittee, without any cou deration being received by the compai That whole amount did not go to t Continental Telegraph Company. Kin too himself and half a dozen other rectors told mo $300,000 of bonds \ paid for that charter. Thea there found on tho minutes of tho board i fchority to b >rrow $60,000 from J. Neagle, aod give bim $180,000 of boi for it ut IM1 j ccu ts. Those bonds w< to Neagle, but tho money never ca into the treasury. I do not kuow of own knowledge how mach money \ used to bribe the Legislature, but hi been told by various direotors. As the $600,000 of bonds held by the Cc marcial Warehouse Company, there is record on the books of aay direct cc munioatioa between that company c the railroad company for any loan money, and I know of tho pr?tent connection only through their own ste meat or demand upon us. The nc held by that company are signed John J. Patterson as Vice-Preside There is no evideooe of aay aotboi conferred upon Patterson to negoti snob a loan, nor of giviog him bond socare suoh a loan. Tho records si authority to furnish Kimpton v, bonds, but only for specified obj cots, i principally for the purohase of suppl There wero bonds inKimpton's hand New York, but not in the hands of a body else in New York that I know except a few small amounts as seou for locomotives, If money wero rai by the Commercial Warehouse Compo I suppose it has gone to Kimpton, b do not koow that. Of the $1,600,00 second mortgage bonds, there $1,196,000 out, oouaerning tho issac whioh tbere is no record in tho com p? The rate of interest to be charged by Commercial Warehouse Company poars in their demand as thirty-seven cent. The bonds in their hands v sold reoently, and brought twenty-fiv twenty nine and a half cents. Here follows a lengthy examin?t io President Magrath with regard to oondition of the road, its solvency, Mr. Magrath thinks tho road in a rap improving condition, and able to c, all its bona fide debt. Mr. Charles H. Manson, the Assistant Treasurer of the Greenville and Colum? bia Railroad Company, was next called by Judge Magrath, aud testified that he had been instructed by President Ma? grath last April to go to New York and ascertaiu the nature- of the claim of the Commercial Warehouse Company. He saw the President and two of the Vice Presidents of that company, who said that a oash loan of $150,000 had been obtained from them by H. H. Kimpton, as Financial Agent of the road, who had given therefor three notes, signed by John J. Patterson, as Vice-president of the road, and that tho money had been given to Kimpton. The loan was made at seven per coat, interest, and 8600,000 of Greenville and Columbia second mort? gage bonds were deposited as collaterals, upon the face value of whioh the Ware? house Company was to charge five eighths per cent, per mouth commission, making tho commission and interest amount to thirty seven per cont, per annnm of the amount of the loan. If it beoame necessary they were to Bell the collaterals to repay the loan, and for this they were to receive two and a half per cent, more upon the face of the collate? rals. The loao was made in tho summer of 1871. Three notes were given, each ot four months time, for 875,000, $50,00J aud $25,000 respectively, and dated June, July and August. No report ol that negotiation was ever made to the company by Kimpton. lu his acoounl current in January, 1872, he mentioned throe cash loans for $75,000, $50,00( and $25,000 respectively, whioh the wit ness supposed, from the similarity o amounts, to be tho ones above men turned. The witness produced tho mi nute book of the directors of the Green ville and Columbia Railroad Company and read various resolutions and pro oeediu?s of the board. The first wa on May 23, 1872, iu which tho presen Board of Directors resolved that, ii view of the iudefiuite statement of fact regarding the claim of the Commcrcia Warehouse Company; and whereas tho; were about to Bell tho bonds in thci hands, the Prcsideut bo authorized t take steps to prevent or stop such cale as they regarded the transaction fraude leut. He found no record of $600,00 of bonds being put in Kimpton's hand for the purposes of this transaction. O May 1, 1871, a resolution was fount] which was introduced by Joe Crews an carried, that Kimpton be furnished wit -notes for the amount due him, au -bonds to securo the payment of th -debt. Ou April 28, 1871, an exect tive committee was appointed, cousis ing of Frederick Bush, Joo Crows au Niles G. Parker. "Kimpton's transa* tiens with the company were very largi and would be naturally supposed to ii volve a large correspondence, but tl new board, when they came into oftij did not find a single letter from Kimi ton among the records. Ou May 1, 187 a resolution was adopted that the Greei ville and Columbia ll iii road Com par purchase the franchise of the Continent Telegraph Company, and pay thoref. $387,500 in second mortgage bonds, par value. Ou January 5, 1872, Patte son offered a resolution, which w adopted, saying that, whereas the Pr?t dent reports that he has been able buy the Continental Telegraph Oompai for $300,000, he be authorized to mai such changes in the receipts and vouc ors as to correspond with the amount s tually paid out. On May 2, 1872, a i solution was introduced in the new boa by Judge Orr, and adopted, that the lt mentioned action of the late board hs ing been taken without a quorum bei present, and could not have been tak any way without the consent of t stockholders, it was repudiated and t dared void. At the same meeting, a i solutiou, iutroduoed by J. C. Low, vi adopted, which directed the fiuauc officers of the company to ascertain t amount of bonds that had passed out the posscssiou of the company withe any consideration beiug received the for, and direotcd the President to p ceed, by litigation or otherwise, to cure tho recovery of the same. Cross-examined by Mr. Corbin Ki.opton was the Fiuancial Agent of t company in New York. His accoui showed sales of bonds, and tho uppli tion of the proceeds to the payment interest and drafts upon him. He knowledged receiving 3626,500 of bon The first executive committee was Bu Crews aud Waterman; the next ono \ Bush, Crows and Parkor. Do uot ti any record of the laf.o board having pudiated tho actions of Kimpton, Pat! son and tho executive committee. 1 acouuts appear to have beeu duly dited. Do not know of anything to peach the condaot of tho Gommer Warehouse Company in connection v the loan. Redireot examination by Judge J grath-Kimpton's last account was au ed by the late Board of Directors, was for $182,861.50. I have inBpec the account. It is not a correct acoot C. D. Melton, Esq., was next cal lei a witness by Judge Magrath, and tc fled as follows: I am an attorney of Greenville and Oolambia Railroad C pany, aud have reoeived instructions have taken action regarding thoreeov of the bonds alleged to have been bezzled from the Greenville and.Col bia Railroad Company by the Con tin al Telegraph Company. I have with some success. Two of the pat have come forward and surrendered bonds held by them, and I have hope some others. Those who surreud< confessed that the whole thing wi scheme to obtain the $300,000 of bt to be divided up among themselves have received $37,500 of these bc from J. L. Neogle, and $21,000 f John J. Patterson. They were sec mortgage bonds, received by them their share of the prioe of the Cc nentat Telegraph Company. They i directors of the Railroad Company, the purchase money was dividoc among thom in proportion to their sh in tho Railroad Company. They < themselves the directors of tho Railroad Company, and they held between them 850,000 of stonk. An affidavit was read by Jadgo Ma grath, whioh was made by Bentley D. HaBel, of New York, who deposed that on the 1st of June, 1872, he wont to the office of the Commercial Warehouse Company and served upon Mr, Navarro, one of the Vice-Presidents, a notice that if the company persisted in the sale of the Greenville Railroad bonds, he would attend the sale and notify all comers that tho Railroad Company denied tho validi? ty of the obligation aud the bonds. That ho did attend the salo, and notified all who wero in attendance that tho Green? ville and Columbia Railroad Company had no evidence of the alleged indebted? ness, that no authority had boon given to any one to contract such an obliga? tion, that they denied the right of the Commercial Warehouse Company to hold, use or sell such securities, and would deny the right of any purchaser to buy or hold them. That the sale, nevertheless^ proceeded, and one lot of tho bonds was bought by Mr. Castella? nas at twenty-five per oent. of their face value, and the remainder by Mr. Par? sons, at twenty-nine and-a-half per cent. Mr. Wm. A. Courtenay, in reply to questions by Judge Magrath, testified that be was a director of the Greenville Road for two years, in 1868 and 1869. Behoved the road worth more than itu legal bonded debt. Was familiar witb tbe property of tbe company. Since he had left the direction, had understood that large issues of bonds had been made improperly. The road would easily oar ry a debt of $2,500,000. The busi? ness of the road is entirely local in itt character, derived from the country through which it paseos. With the re turning prosperity of that country, iti business is constantly and steadily in creasing. In 1869 that increase amounted to $70,000. The sources of its busincs will bo constantly developing more an< more. The new roads now projeotei may be mada tributary to the prosperity of the Greenville and Columbia Roai under its proper management. He con sidered the value of the Greenville am Columbia Road was an increasing value The Air-Lune Railroad, in somefeaturet may be made tributary to the Greenvill and Columbia Road, and it is possibl that at one or moro lenser points it migt draw freights in small amount away froi it; but, surveying the whole situatioi the air-lino would, he thought, find larg lines of freight offering to and from di pots in South Carolina, via the Greet ville and Colombia Road, and its coi 8truotion would be a gain. Cross-examined by Mr. Corbin-Wi a director of the Sooth Carolina Rai road Company. Approved of thu pu chase of the Greenville Road because 1 thought it a good purchase. The co of running a road was generally fifty sixty per cunt, of its.earnings. He hi known roads where tbe iocomo was e tirely absorbed. The cost on the Soo Carolina Railroad was about sixty p cent. The interest on its debt was n paid by the Greenville and Columb Railroad Company from 1865 to 186 Thought that since 1863 the interest b been punctually paid nntil stripped tbe ring. Colonel C. H. Simonton was nc called as a witness for the defence, ai testified that he attended a meeting bond holders of the Greenville and C lumbia Railroad Company, whioh v held at Columbia last month, and which Dr. J. L. Neagle offered to takt leaso of the road for ninety-nine yea put it in thorough repair, and guarani to pay the interest on the whole debt tho road, disputed and undisputed. T offer was guaranteed by Mr. Branoh, Augusta, whom the witness knew vc well, whose credit stood very high, a whoso guarantee would be taken fo very large amount of money. He \ of tho firm of Branch, Sons Sc Co, house which bad very large transacts in Richmond, Petersbnrg and Augue Aoother gentleman in Columbia bad t bim that the Wilmington, Columbia! Augusta Railroad Company stood rei to cover that offer at any moment. Tho defence here rested, and the p tioners recalled Colonel J. C. Low, chief engineer of the Bluo Ridge R road Company, who testified that average cost of running the railroads tho United States was about seventy cont, of their earniugs. Southern i roads could be operatod cheaper t Northern roads, because of the decree amount of fuel required and tho abse of severe frost and heavy stor Thought sixty per cent, was a fair < mate for the Greonvillo and Colon Hoad. Did not agree with Mr. grath that it ooold be run for fifty cent. This closed the testimony on 1 sides, and Mr. George D. Bryan oeoded to the argument for tho petit ere. He denied that he or his oolleai Mr. Corbin, was acting ic the iotei of any combination of parties who w ed to get the possession of the road, said they were simply thore to repre their olients, the petitioners. He 1 argued that the United States Dis Court had the right of jurisdiction ir. casu, notwithstanding the position ol pending litigation in the State coi that the railroad company was a c meroial or business corporation, wi the meaning of the Bankruptcy Act ; tho coupons fer interest on its bc payment of whioh had been suspen were commercial paper; that the was, therefore, insolvent, and that, i the foot of insolvency, the compon* made payments to certain of its ot ors, with tho effect of giving them a terence over others. This argumec copied the remainder of the nessi tbe court, aud, at its conclusion, caso was adjourned until Tuesday c mg, nt whioh time Jodge Magrath i peoted to mahe his argument on b of tho company. ? > ? Water-melons weighing 100 pc have appeared in Texas. ' 'TAMMANY S UTFORTS GREELEY. "-Most parties ara glad to get all the votes they can; and the Grant party makes a parti? cularly loud noise over every casual re? cruit it receives from the Democracy. Even James O'Brien is ?net now the occasion of unlimited brag. Bat be? cause Tammany declares for the other side, great disgust is expressed, and all honest men are bidden hold their noses as the Tammany thieves march by to the support of Horace Greeley. "Tam- - many supports Greeley," screams Grant's Own, "The Tribune even has the shameless audacity to confess it. Why, they aotually raised a banner while their guns were firing a Baiute in the park for the Baltimore nominees, flaunting it in the eyes of the oity they have robbed .Tammany supports Greeley.'" And thereupon the pictorial slanderers take up the wondrous talo and represent Tweed, Connolly & Co. as the Tammany magnates, wboBe support has thus been heralded. Now see the foots: Many readers may have forgotten, but the authors of these slanders have not, that the downfall of the Tammany ring was followed by a complete revolution in the Tammany Society. Here it is, as organized under the reign of Tweed and tbs thieves; and here, QB re-organized by O'Conor and Tilden, who caught the thieves, stripped them of power, and are to-day trying to send them to jail: 1871. 1872. Grand Sachem. Grand Sachent. WM. M.TWEED. AUGUSTUS SoasjuL. Sachems. Sachems. B. B. Connolly, Charles O'Conor, Peter B. Sweeny, Samuel J. Tilden, Samuel B. Garvin, Abr. S. Hewitt, Joseph Dowling, Horatio Seymour, A. Oakey Hall, Sanford E. Church, Mat. T. Brennan, John Kelly, Isaac Bell, O. Ottendorfer, John J. Bradley, Wm. C. Conner, Charles G. Cornell, August Belmont, Nat. Jarvis, Jr., Miles B. Andrus, E. B. Hart, John W. Chanler, Douglas Taylor, Ed. L. Donnelly, Jas. B. Nicholson. John Fox. -3 Now, who has heard how Wm. M. Tweed stands in this contest, who thinks him master of more than one vote on Manhattan Island, or who believes that vote likely to be cast for Horace Gree? ley? Who supposes Richard B. Con? nolly, whose son-in-law was lately kicked . off tho Tribune steps, likely to go for Greeley? Who doubts that the men who overthrew them and now hold their places and power in the old Tammany Society, Charles O'Conor, the great ad? vocate and stainless jurist, and Samuel J. Tilden, the man who made the war? fare on the ring a success, are heartland soul for Greeley? Yes, Messieurs tho Renominationists, Tammany does support Greeley, bot it is the Tammany of the reformers, with the Chairman of the National Democra? tic Committee at its head, with O'Conor and Tilden, Churoh, Ottendorfer and Hewitt aB its master spirits. By the aid of these men, this thief-ridden oity has been partially redeemed. By their aid a wider reform, on a greater orena, against a more powerful ring, will next be triumphantly attained. Tammany is for Greeley-the reform Tammany, in a reform canvass.-New York Tribune. NEGRO GIRL SHOT-VERDICT ofe A coi DENTAD SHOOTING.-Yesterday morning, about 10 o'clock, a negro boy, between fourteen and fifteen years old, named Adam Walker, shot Susan Coker, a girl of his own color, aged about seventeen, on tho plantation of Mr. D. Kirkpa? trick, immediately below the oity, under the following circumstances: It appears that the boy Walker, the girl, and a number of other negroes were resting under a large tree in the middle of a field, where they had been working dur? ing the morning. They were all on ! good terms, the boy and girl being espe? cially friendly towards each other. After the party bad been under the tree for a I short time. Walker palled a pistol out of one of his pockets and pointed it at several of the negroes. He afterwards i remarked that it was not loaded, and handed it to the girl to examine, and ?he also said that there vas no charge ia j it. Waiker then took the pistol from i her and pointed it at her head, saying, os he did so, "Mindi I am going to shoot." The pistol was instantly dis? charged, the ball striking the girl near the left temple, producing almost imme? diate death. Walker, terrified (by the report of the pistol and the death of the girl, ran to the river and crossed over lo the Carolina Bide. [Augusta Constitutionalist. Three steers broko away from their drivers in King street, Charleston, on Friday, and areated considerable excite? ment by tossing several individuals in the air. No one was seriously injured, and the savage brutes were finally over? hauled. CARRIED" ~T At the family residence of the bride, Phila j dblphia, Pa., on Tuesday morning, 9th July, 1872, by the Rev. Dr. Oeorge Dana Board? man. MILLS DEAN, of Washington Oity, (for? merly of ?partanburg, 8.0.,) and Miss ANNA, daughter of tho late Samuel P. Fearon, Esq., of Pniladelpbia, Pa. Qazt Lodge, 1.0. B. B. THE regular meeting of this Lodge will be held at Temperance Hall, THIS (Sunday) MORNING, at half-past 10 o'olock. By order of tho President. T. FRANKLIN, Joly 211_.i.-Sefo?tary,. Myrtle Lodge No. 3, ET. of P. THE regular convocation of this Lodgo will be held TO-MOBBOW I Monday) EVENING. St 8 o'clock, at Maaonio Hall., By order. B. B. MoKAY, Jutv 211 Recording Scribe. tgr The Second Degree will be conferred. Notice. OFFICE BOARD OF HEALTH, COLUMBIA, Joly 20,1872. AREGULAR MEETING ot the Board will be held at the Oounoil Chamber TO? MORROW (Monda}) AFTERNOON, at 5 o'olook. A full attendance of tba members ls requested. By order of the Chairman. TH08. P. WALKEB, Clerk pro tem. July 21 1