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COLUMBIA, 'S.O.
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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.
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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. ,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?$.
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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."
