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Tuesday Morning, May 25, 1|75. r,
"Art Thou In Health, My Brother??;
Thin affectionate inquiry has again
boon indirectlyv raised conccrning&the
long-tried pastor of Plymouth by Ids do*,
voted friend, the Rev. Leonard Bacon,
of Now Haven. It was ho who wrote in
such' an exasperating way, concerning
the scandal between his friend and Til
ton, as to drive the latter into print and
to let looy the flood which, for nearly a
year past, has pourod its waters into
every nook and corner. Ho was tho last
link in the ohain of causes which re?
moved the looks and dams which,
hitherto had kept it back. Having done
so much by berating Tilton, he now es?
says to rival himself by stirring up
Bowen. Upon slight suggestion, hO|
seizes his pen for a lecture to the myste-,
rious witness. Disposing briefly of tho
small matter of difference between them,
he reaches the core of tho themo which
is in his mind, by Haying that
Bower has givoa out that he is in
possession of some great secret He asks,
with artistic innocence: "Is thore any
such secret? How easy it would be for
lit? (Boa'aiiS in s?? fif U*? ?..?? _ *?
IIUU^JUVIT^U/ |<U onj , UV Wu BtBJ lb
truly,) 'I believe Mr. Beeohcr to be a
pure and upright man, and know no?
thing which ought to impair any man's
confidence in him.' Why has he not said
it? I cannot but think that Mr. Bowen'B
position needs explanation." Wo need
not concern ourselves with Bow en's an?
swer. What is UBoful to note is that,
under the clerical garb, is a polished
clerical stiletto, which tho one brother
puts under the other's fifth rib tho while
ho speaks of bis parity and uprightness.
The duellist's pistol and sword are nearly
banished from use. But the clerical
brother's keen rapier, which speeds to
the brother's heart through professions
of affectionate interest, still keeps its
polish and point
Governor Chamberlain's Speech.
We reproduce to-day the eloquent and
scholarly address of Governor Cham?
berlain at the centennial celebration in
Charlotte. Brief as it is, it contains
many suggestive and appropriate
thoughts. Not the leant among its many
merits, is a spirit of patriotism which
glowB in light and heat caught from tho
ennobling memories of .Mecklenburg.
Ruin well, and Blacxyille.?Mr. H.
II. Easterling, a respectable citizen of
Barnwell County and one of tho com?
missioners of the late election, gives
some interesting facts concerning it in a
card published in the Augusta Chronicle
and Sent'uieL He says that there are two
sides to it:
"Independently of the legal objec?
tions to the election, the frauds and re?
peating ' perpetrated, as alleged, on thee
railroads, have excited a wide-spread
suspicion that the contents of the ballot
boxes were destroyed by people outside
of Barnwell to prevent exposure and
cast odium on Barnwell, should another
election be ordered."
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Tube, UNFonTON?TEiiy. ?-The Wilming?
ton Journal, referring to tho Charlotte
Centennial,' says:
Yet this celebration is not without its
defumers. There are those bo lost to
every patriotic impulse who cannot lose
any opportunity to turn everything to j
effect a political result Not only is the
authenticity , of the cause of the cele?
bration denied, but the very purposes of
the celebration misrepresented and
maligned. While the inaugural cere?
monies begun with the raising of the na?
tional flag.i in< Independence Square,
amidst the shouts of the multitude and
the firing of artillery, and the first
speaker was the Republican Governor of
the State, yet the whole affair has been
denounced as a political and Confederate
jubilee. The Washington Republican,
the official organ of President Grant,
makes a venomous attack upon tho
whole celebration, and it prefaces its
vile slanders with the following head
lines in bold type, from whioh the cha?
racter of the whole article may be easily
inferred:
"Mecklenburg?A Great Rebel Fraud
?The Truth of HjBtory?Confederates
at Charlotte?The Latest Tar-Heel Hum?
bug?Treason Made Respectable?Demo?
cratic Mutual Admiration Meeting?Pre?
sident Grant Deliberately Insulted?A
Ku Klux Orator to bo Heard From?
Opinions of General Hill and Governor
Vnnoe?Imputed Vasoillations of the S?
Called Hornets?Captain Jack as a New
Paul Revere?From Hin Grave the True
Story?May Twentieth and May Thirty
first?The Latter Date the Correct Ono?
Attempt of the South to Steal tho Glory
of the -Nation?An Array of Facts to
Disprove an Independent Rebel Assump?
tion?Jefferson Vindicated from the
Charge of Plagiarism?The Way North
Carolina Makes History from Grave?
stones."
It matters not what our people do, we
are always misrepresented in some
quarter. Oar religious' convocations,
our business assemblages,, our public
meetings of all kinds, our silence, even,
nre all fashioned into disloyalty. And
now, when we1 meet around the altars of
liberty whioh oar fathers orectod 100
years ago, our celebration is denounced
as a "rebel fraud," and our patriotic
enthusiasm.is stigmatised as treason.
In this, ?s in other matters, we have
gone forward and' .done oar wh?lo duty,
without regard to oar calumniators.
Tho oolobration at Charlotte will have
a marked effect upon the whole 'country.
The p?trjotio enthusiasm there evinced
nhow(i, that in the hearts.of our people
the loyo for tho Union predominates.
Wo have given anew tho pledges whioh
our grand-fathers gave in 1770, and
stand ready, as they did then, to risk
honor aod .fortune in behalf of a com?
mon country. ?
C?RiOKrrrjft dir Otnf Ea*?t ffiBTorff:?
The occasion of the Mecklenburg 'cen?
tennial celebration has inspired reaearoh
and brought on mnoh that shows the
spirit and body of those times. Among
other things is a fac simile of a handbill
said to have been distributed in North
Carolina previous to the year 1800, and
which ia the oldest publication of the
Mcelenburg Declaration of Independence
of May 20, 1775, yet discovered in print
in this country. The New York Herald
has also a far, simile of tho third page of
tho Now York Journal and the General Ad?
vertiser, of June 29, 1775, containing tho
??freshest advices, both foreign and do?
mestic," printed and published by John
Holt, "hear the Coffee Houso." Most of
tho articles in this fragment of antiquity
have peculiar interest at this time. It
appears from the quoted market prices
in the first column that the Puritans
purchased tho oxhilarating fluid of Now
England rum at 02J cents per bottle.
Next we have' five yoars' time offered for
8aleby on "indentured servant, by trade
a weaver." Another advertisement is:
Public Auction?To-morrow, at tho Mer?
chants' Coffee House, will bo poremptorily
sold, a reliable negro boy, about fifteen
yoars of age, capable of all kinds of work,
faithful and honest" This recalls tho
fact that slavery at that time was com?
mon in tho North as well as tho Sonth,
and, as the Htrald truly says, negroes
were then valuable in Now York as trans
ferrable property, and were eagerly
bought. up. Slavery, it ia said, was al?
most cooval with the establishment of
New York. When the first fort was be?
ing built, in 1025, the Dutch West India
Company promised to allot to each "Pa
troon twelve bluok men and women out
of the prizes in which negroes shall be
found. Negroes taken on an enemy's
ship were thus sold thore as slaves, irre?
spective of their former condition. In?
dians wore similarly treatod. Slaves
were brought indirectly from Africa
through the Dutch West Indies. Fort
Amsterdam was completed by negro
labor. One of tho first prizes taken by
tho British from the Dntch was a cargo
of slaves, and as they held that all ne?
groes captured were slaves, not prison?
ers of war, thoy extended the trado which
was so flourishing at tho time of this an?
nouncement in Holt's Journal. A glimpse
of the terrors of the indentured system
is also given. The Herald Bays:
"An indentured servant was worse
treated at this time than the negroes
were subsequently on Southern planta?
tions. Breach of contract was punisha?
ble with fine and imprisonment; but in
order to keep their employees in com
pleto submission, masters often kept
them short of food, and always treated
them as inferior animals, who were
owned body and soul for a term of years.
Constant desertions resulted, and hence
we have hore, first, a reward of three
pounds for a German who had gono off
with two hats, two pairs of pants and an?
other man's wife; and secondly, a reward
of forty shillings for a woman who went
off with no end of gowns and petticoats,
?with the wife of one LindBey, a tanner,
and enlisted in the continental forces,
under Gonoral Wooster.'"
Such reminiscences as these ought to
teach the present generation of philan?
thropists tho cardinal virtues of charity
and toleration towards others.
One of the most interesting relics of
the past contained in this number of the
New York Journal is an extract from a
sermon preached by tho late President
Davies to Capt Overton's independent
company of volunteers, in Hanover
County, in Virginia, which, the editor
says, "wo hope will be agreeable to our
readers, not only because it contains
sentiments suitable to the present time,
but because it contains something which
we hope will prove prophetic of the suo
ccss of the Commander-in-Chief of the
American army." This last allusion is
to what President Davies says of "that
heroic youth, Colonel "\\ ashington,
whom I cannot but hope Providence has
hitherto preserved in so signal a manner
for some important service to his coun?
try."
The declaration of the Provincial Con
Sross of South Carolina on the 4th of
une, 1775, subscribed by every member
present and certified by Henry Laurens,
President, beginning with a reference to
"the bloody scene on the 10th of April,
near Boston," shows the patriotic and
fraternal spirit of South Carolina in those
days, and is fittingly followed by the
first and fullest printed account of the
moetingat Charlottestnwn, Mecklenburg
County, North Carolina, May 31 of the
same year. The preamble and the first
four lines of the twenty resolutions arc
given in full, while the remaining clauses
are briefly summarized in n paragraph.
A postscript added to this letter, dated
Juno 13, snows plainly enough that the
condition of affairs Mas desperate in
North Carolina; "for," said he, "such is
the ardor for perfection in martial disci?
pline that many gentlemen of the first
consequence in this town, as well as tho
commonalty, regularly turn out to drill
morning and evening. Even the boys
form themselves into companies, and are
roally export in military manoeuvres."
Mayor Johnson, of Charlotte, in his
speech of Wednesday inaugurating the
oeremonios of the centennial, called at?
tention to tho faot that tho 20th of May,
1775, was not tho beginning of the rebel?
lious condition ot the people of North
Carolina, and that "the first blood spilled
in the cause of the revolution was by
the regulators in the then County of
Orange, now Alamonce, in the year 1771.
The battle of Mooro's creek, in New
Hanover County, had been fought and
won by Basswell, and Lillington Black
jmd Billy Alexandor, with six other pa?
triots, had captured the King's powder in
old Mecklenburg, now Caban as County.
The Cumberland Association had been
formed when our ancestors assembled
oh the 20th of May and promulgated the
first resolutions, known as tbo Meoklen?
burg declaration of In dopen denco."
It is to be hoped that the revival of
such foots will remind all of tho common
brotherhood of the American people in
their struggle for liberty, and will inspire
them to make the heritage thus aohioved
equal and perpetual.
An accidental firo on the 23d destroyed
the 2} Rtory brick building on Southern
Wharf, Charleston, occupied by Messrs.
W. U. Lawkm & Co. Loss about $6,000.
The morning before, a small wooden
building on America street was de?
stroyed. ,
Ths Cahtehnlal-^ov'.' Chamberfaliv'"*
Hon. D. H. Chamberlain, Governor' of
South Carolina, was announceJ at the
Charlotte Centennial celebration on In?
dependence Square. Ho was ? greeted
with applauHo and spoke to the multi?
tude in'the following language: "
Fell?w-Citizens: I rise to offer to you
and this assemblage the cordial response
of the people of South Carolina .to., the
sentiment which has just been an?
nounced, and to all the fearless memo?
ries, the high inspirations and the exalt?
ing hopes which this occasion commem?
orates and suggests. -1 know full well that
I speuk to-day for South Carolina chierly
becausa it is my fortune to bu her official
representative. Older, abler, better
voices than mino will, I cannot doubt,
speak for her?voices of thoso who have
sprung from this soil, who know as
household words the traditions of the
Carolinas, who will roprcsent more ade?
quately than I can hope to do, the qenus
loci which has inspired, which still in?
spires, and which I know will continue
to inspire, and direct the eager, zealous,
fervid and constant patriotism of tin?
men ot Mecklenburg and Carolina. But
what heart, if it be an American heart,
whether it spring to life beneath those
sunny skies, or where nature presents
herself in more rugged and repellant
forms; what heart, touched with one
spark of the divine flame of love of
country, does not bound and swell to
greot and welcome this day and this oc?
casion?
If Marathon and Platacn, after 2,000
years, still speak tho lesson, of devoted
and valorous patriotism; if ltunnymede,
after Hix centuries, is still a name for
English patriots to conjure by; if Mars
ton Moor, though the heather and the
daisy have covered the last tnices of the
shock and carnage of her battle for more
than 200 years, is still marked by reve?
rent pilgrims as tho spot where the long
night of kingly prerogative was ended by
the gray dawn of tho new and glorious
day of the people's rights; with what
measure of gratitude to God, of honor to
our ancestors, of patriotic gratulation
and gladness, should we, Americans,
Carolinians, greet this spot, where, as
wo firmly and advisedly believe, only
100 years ago, the first formal utterance
of the great idea of American independ?
ence was heard.
To a man who believes in human pro?
gress, to one who sees and reverences
the divine hand in human affairs?I care
not in what section or country his sym
Sathies may have been nurtured?the
eed done in Charlotte town, in Meck?
lenburg County, May 20, 1775, will stand
at once as a monument and an inspira?
tion, a trophy and a prophecy, of the
sure and pre-ordained coming of the day
when the feeble light which flamed forth
hero a hundred years ago, shall fill the
whole world. Tho Declaration of Meck?
lenburg! It was but a spoken word?an
articulated breath of this universal air?
yet it was a deed, a battle, a victory.
No cannon thundered it; no telegraph
flashed it; yet it was "heard round the
world."
"That death-shot shook the feudal tower.
And shattered slaverp'i chain ai well;
On the sky's dome, u on a bell.
It's echo struck the world's great hour."
The men of Mecklenburg! They wore
the plain farmers, physicians, lawyers
and ministers of this secluded canton,
unambitious of fame, seeking nothing
but their accustomed rights, the moral1
as well as lineal children of John Knox,
resolute before men as they were rove- 1
rout before God. Col. Thomas Polk, a
heart as pure and brave asltiehard Coeur
do Dion, Doctor Ephraim Brevard, the
gentle scholor and physician, the flame
of whoso devotion of liberty never flick?
ered till it was quenched by the damps
of a British prison-ship five years later?
these, and such as they were, the men
who alone, self-inspired, in advance of
all others, at the time when Thomas Jef?
ferson was writing to John Randolph,
"I would rather bo in dependence on
Great Britain, properly limited, than on
any nation on earth, or than on no nation,"
sounded the first signal-note of absolute
revolt and independence. Wo tear no
leaf to-day from the brow of any Revolu?
tionary patriot, who elsewhere by pen or
sword, upheld tho same great cause. We
seek only with the jealousy of filial reve?
rence and love to guard the fame, to
honor tho memory, to proclaim early
abounding and impetuous patriotism of
tho men of Mecklenburg.
A tow simple virtues constitute the
sum and perfection of human greatness.
Simplicity of character, singleness of
aim, consistency of purpose, "readiness
to do or tlaro whatsoever is commanded
by the inward voice of native manhood"
?such qualities in duo combination
have made the true heroes of all ages.
Of such stuff the heroes of Mecklenburg
were made. I do not for a moment con?
jecture that they foresaw tho vast conse?
quences of their acts here 100 years ago.
The gift of prophecy was long since
withdrawn from mortal man. These men
caught no glimpse, I venture to say, of
tho America of thirty-seven States, of
40,000,000 of pooplo, Btretching from
ocean to ocean, covering every sea with
her commerce, and reaching every land
with hor influences. They loved their
homes and their families; they valued
their home-born rights and privileges,
the doar gifts of honored sires; they reve?
renced the grand structure of English
law:
"A land of settled government,
A land of just and old renown;
Where freedom slowly broadens down.
From precedent to precedent."
These wero their heritage, their wealth,
their life. For these they were ready to
live or die. And so they became heroes.
Napoleon has been thought to have ut?
tered a great word when, standing within
the shadows of tho pyramids, he ex
olaimed: "Soldiers, from yonder heights
forty centuries contemplateyour actions."
Vain and ompty words! The pyramids
themselves were but the visible monu?
ments of a slavery blacker than Egyp
i tian darkness, and the voice which spoko
from thorn was but a voice that mocked
the unhollowod ambition of him who in?
voked it. The grand army long since
was swept away; the flery ambition of the
great conquoror was quenched in ignoble
ondago, and the last representative of
tho dynasty whioh he deluged Europe in
blood to found, now challenges only our
pity, as he relieves his exile with tho idlo
masquerade of his princely pretensions.
The men of Mecklenburg were surround?
ed by no dramatic splendors. Faith in
the gracious and mighty power of the
God of their fathers, the voice of duty,
:j?t^^pWt'?f monhbo'd; these were their
strength and inspiration. Their work
endure?. Endures, did I say? It grows,
it broadens, it deepens; it will yot cover
the earth with the bounty, the grace and
the glory Of enlightenod freedom.
Thn d oolaration here made was a single
isolated not?tho act of the representa?
tives of tho people of one County. But
the spirit or independence was in the
air. A year and forty-five days later tho
declaration of Mecklenburg was the de?
claration of the United States of America.
From that hour, the men of Mecklenburg
made common cause with all Americans
in tho struggle which followed. Meck?
lenburg was thenceforth merged in the
struggling, rising nation. Within a ra?
dius of forty miles from this centre, a
score of fields were wet with bled which
was the price of American independence.
It is a proud record. Let its voice be
heard to-day above the estrangements of
later times; above the differences which,
in other days, may still divide us. The
declaration* of Mecklenburg was the
quick response of this people to the first
shedding of blood at Lexington. I
stood the other day on the Meld of Lex?
ington, amidst the wealth, the culture,
the abounding population of Massachu?
setts, and I listened with proud and will?
ing heart to the cordial, heartfelt words
of cheer and sympathy tor the Ca?
rolinas and the South, which formed
one of the most significant features
I of the great occasion. I thought I
I saw tho fraternal feeling which will
I surely llow over the whole American
pcopie, making the men of Lexington
and the men of Mecklenburg enemies no
more, and rivals only, as of old, in tho
promptitude and constancy of their de?
votion to American freedom and nation
j ality. Let a likn voice be heard to-day.
The ear of Lexington is bent low to catch
j the ?welcome sound. Let it go forth?tho
voice of Mecklenburg ?proclaiming the
new Union more glorious even than the
old, bucause tested by harder trials,
planted on deeper foundations and
springing from tt broader faith in the
immortal principles of American free?
dom.
South Carolina bids m ? speak to-day
her gratitude and reverence for the men
of Mecklenburg of 1775?her fraternal
feelings towards all who are assembled
here, and her intense sympathy with the
memories which lie behind us, and the
hopes which stretch before us.
What Cotton Buimis.?The Nashville
Union awl American says that if cotton
is no longer called king, it is still our
largest and most valuable article of ex?
port, and brought to this country last
year $311,220,580. In exuhangc*tor that
large sum of money we exported 2,903,
075 bales, or 1,358,002,303 pounds. Of
that quantity England alone received
over ?75,000,000 pounds, and paid us
$130,052,1S7. From Fiance we received
for the same staple S27.1S7.222; from
Germany $17,250,000; Russia $8,479,481;
Spain $8,200,178; Ireland $3,855,303; the
Netherlands $2,770,2(55; Italy $1,074,114.
In cotton fabrics we exported 17,072,322
yards, valued at $2,350,000. It will sur?
prise many readers to learn that Eng?
land received of those fabrics 1,145,780
yards, valued at $133,857. Brazil, how?
ever, bought most of our exported cot?
ton fabrics, the yards numbering 2,336,
950, of which the value was $291,674.
France, which taxes, us so heavy for
'fabrics of her own manufacture, bought
only $8,000 of our cotton fabrics, while
Germany patronised us in that line of
goods to the value of S4('.,000. The
Chinese consumed of our cotton fabrics
1,749,140 yards, paying us $304,354,
which is a sum equal to twice the
amount we paid China lor fire crackers.
Chili took 1,080,000 yards, and sent us
to pav for them $219,970; while Mexico
bought 1,363,015 yards for $158,306.
The remainder of that class of fabrics
went to Asiatic and South American
countries, the British East Indies re?
ceiving nearly $75,000. Tho other ex?
ported articles, manufactured from cot
1 ton, and not enumerated above, are
valued at $745,850. Our total receipts
for exported raw cotton and manufac?
tures of cotton foot $215,089,081. We
imported manufactures of cotton for the
year valued at less than $25,000,000.
It is proposed to have a re-union 0/ the
survivors of Orrs Regiment of Rifles at
Walhalla >>r Sandy Springs during tho
summer. The flag of this regiment is
now in the hall of the Young Men's Li?
brary Association, in Atlanta. Ga. It is
a large silk Hag, with a silk fringe, an.I
bears the following inscription: "First
Regiment Rifles. Animis ojulmsi/ne pa?
ra//. Cold Harbor. June 27, 18112. Ma
nassas, August 29, 1802." In the same
hall is the flag of the Martin Guards,
"presented by the ladies of Newherry."
It is a white silk flag, with State motto
on one side and an open Bible on the
other, with the following inscription: "In
the. Lord our God we will set up our
banners. Stand fast, therefore, in this
liberty wherewith Christ has made us
free." Both flags are in fair condition.
Liout C. Herbst, the librarian, has them
in his keeping, and will gladly deliver
thorn to any persons in South Carolina
who arc entitled to receive them.
There is somo hopo now that Turkey
will in tho fnturo exhibit somo signs of a
healthy humanity and civilization. All
tho reports which come from that be?
nighted land rolate to the murdor or im
{>nsonm?nt of Christian missionaries,
>ut a day or two since tho telegraph re?
ported the execution at Scutari of two of
the Podgoritza murderers, who wero en
gagod in tho massacro of a largo number
of Montenegrins. It it possible that the
Turkish Government executed these
murderers because the civilized world is
getting weary of its barbarity, and tho
process of disintegrating tho Turkish
empire has already begun.
Joseph Curry, who says he is Christ,
and not long ago was driven out of Geor?
gia for forming a free-love colony, has
started a now religious society in Spring?
field, Mass: A ncgress is worshiped by
him and his few followers as Queen of
Earth and Heaven. Ho and this woman
now ropresent themselves as fasting forty
days and forty nights, and they have
nearly starved themselves in a rigorous
observance of the rite. They are terri?
bly emaciated, and so weak that they can
hardly walk. Curry Bays that at the end
of the forty days they will be transported
1 to heaven in a chariot of fire.
mr Mattet a?if you arc ask od to
lend your rsssc, inggMst to the would
be borrower that he had bettor subscribe.
Reading matter on ,c very page.
Attend Perry & Slawson's . clearance
Bales of cigaXB.
Straw hats can now step to- the front
with impunity.
Attend Perry A Slawson's clearance
sales of cigars.
Lovers, like committees, now investi?
gate:
Attend Perry & Slawson's clearance
sales of cigars.
Vegetables of every kind are gotting
more abundant in market.
Attend Perry A Slawson's clearance
sales of cigars.
There was a steady and penetrating
rain on Sunday und yesterday, which
gladdened the hearts of the planters.
W. P.. Cathcart, Esq., manager of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, has
returned from a short visit to Charleston.
Mr. McKenzie is in receipt of a lot of
very pretty ohromos?largo and small?
suitable for scrap-books. The prices are
very reasonable.
Tho grocery clerks arc endeavoring to
secure n uniform closing of the stores
before dark. It will save gas and afford
the young men an opportunity for
needed recreation.
Walter S. Montcith, Esq., intends seek?
ing a wider field; he leaves for New York,
in a fow days, where he expects to prac?
tice his profession. H? is a sharp,
shrewd lawyer.
Judge Carpenter and Solicitor Runkle
left fo? Lexington, yesterday morning,
at 3 o'clock, to open the May term of
Court for that County. The first cose on
tho docket will be that of Pool, for a
murder committed at Saluda Fuctory, on
Christmas day.
W<> have boen authorized to state that
no tickets to the Schuetzen-Verein pic?
nic, on Thursday, will be sold at the
gate; this is positive. Furthermore, that
no member who is not in uniform will
be allowed to participate in the target
firing.
A lodge of Knights Templar is about
being organized in this city?or rather,
the old charter of "Columbia" is to be
resumed. Messrs. G. A. Darling, R. A.
Kcenan. fl. W. Parker and ex-Gov. R
K. Scott arc the prime movers in tho
matter. The regalia is very handsome.
The Stevens Light Infantry, Captain
John Ballard, went on a pic-nic and
target excursion, yesterday, and com?
peted for two prizes?a silver and a
handsome china cup. Burr Titus won
tho first prize. The militaiy spirit
appears to be oozing out, as there were
only about twenty rank and file.
Rev. J. H. Stringfellow, Superintend?
ent of Trinity Church Sunday School,
requests us to say that the pic-nio of that
school will be held to-morrow, Wednes?
day, at the grounds of tho Schuetzenfest
Club. The members of the congregation
are invited to attend. Persons Bending
baskets will please have them at the
church beforo 10 o'clock A. M.
Tho chicken disputes at Charlotte re?
sulted disastrously for the Columbia
boys, and they lost all their money.
Nothing daunted, however, they pock?
eted their paper collars, took off their
boots and started for home, determined,
ere the next centennial, to have a lot of
iron-clad chickens that will completely
clean out th? brag fowls of the old North
State.
Old "Potter's Field" is rapidly disap?
pearing, and in a few years nothing will be
left to designate the location. The brick
walls around several of the lots have
been spirited away and the balance are
following suit. Railroad trains hourly
thunder along over tho graves of the old
Columbians. Prior to 1822, it was the
place of general sepulture, and mem?
bers of the first families wore interred
the re.
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"Memphis is rapidly reaping the fruits
of bonds ami taxes. * The water works
I were sold at auction last Thursday, for
the benefit of the holders of the first
mortgage bonds. They wero purohoHcd
for little more than half the amount of
their cost, by parties who held most of
the bonds."
Here fs warning for Columbia. Bonds,
taxes, extravagance and bad contracts
will yield their bitter fruits. Is it not
provided in the contract with the Colum?
bia Water Power Company, that after
failures to pay installments duo, amount?
ing to a certain sum, this company shall
take possession of tho works and run
them for its own benefit? A bank now
runs tho Opera House. Wo see proporty
of the city government advertised for
sal* by the Sheriff?mules, oarts and
gear, used for keeping tho streets in
order. Truly, things look unfavorable
for the city. Now, while there may be
time, it should seek to extricate itself
from these embarrassments, and to
throw off all unnecessary burthens.
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Consiojteks.?Per South Carolina Rail?
road, May 24, 1874: Q. R. P. Lee, J. Ag
new A Son, G. Diercks, S. Sheridan, Fa
San A Bros., W. O. Fisher, R. D. Senn
; Son, J. Alexander, R. Tozer, Cooper
A; Taylor, Copeland A Boarden, H. Solo?
mons, H. M. Gibson, Government, P.
Cantwoll, J. E. Gyles, Agt., H. C. Bichels.
List or New Advertisements.
Seibels A Ezell?Estate Sale.
Ludden & Bates?Pianos, Aj;
? W. B. Burke?Butter, Potato Ac.
W. B. Stanley?Perambulators, Ac.
I D. Epstln?Lumber for Sale.
Death of a Rehpectxd Merchant.?
W*e are truly pained to "record the sudden
death of a highly respect cd merchant
citizen, Edward Hopq, Esq. He had
been unwell for several weeks, but was
thought to bo'improving, and was able
to be up and about. ! On Saturday night,
he woh in company witli friends until 0
o'clock. After which, it is" supposed he
retired, us the bed shows that it had been
occupied. During Sunday, several per?
sons knocked at the door of his reception
room, (adjacent to tho bed-chamber,)
but hearing no response, supposed Mr.
H. was out. Yesterday morning, about
half-past 11 o'clock, orfe of his clerks at?
tempted to enter the room, and having
his suspicions excited, procurod a ladder
and peered through the ventilator, and
was horrified at seeing his employer lay- a
ing motionless on the floor, between the
louhgo and wash-stand. A physician
was called, the door forced open, and
an examination of the body revealed tho
fact that lifo had been extinct for many
hours. The face was vory much swollen
I nnd disfigured; a pool of bloocLabout the
mouth. Spots of blood on the bed and .
carpet indicated that the unfortunate
man had had a hemorrhage in bed, and
{attempted to reach the window to call
for assistance, when ho fell. The body
was in such a condition that it was
deemed advisable to perform the funeral
services yesterday afternoon. An inquest
was held by Coroner Coleman, and the
I jury rendered a verdict to the effect that
death was caused by a stoppage of blood
circulating from the heart to the lungs.
Dr. Taylor, the attending physician, gave
a certificate to this effect. Mr. Hope was
one of our most popular and enterprising
citizens, and for many years represented
Ward 3 in the City Council. Ho was'an
I Englishman by birth, but had resided in
[ Columbia about thirty years, where he
carried on an extensive grocery. He
leaves a brother and a very large circle
of relatives and friends. His age was
about fifty-five.
But a few weeks ago, Edward Hope
stood amongst us, erect, hopeful, public
spirited and genial. Yesterday, his re?
mains were placed in Elmwood Ceme?
tery, attended by a largo concourse of
friends, who covered his grave with
flowers, and followed his departing spirit
with their heartfelt regrets. A native of
County Kent, in England, he passed his
youth and prime in this city, and accu?
mulated here what may be called a hand?
some competence, both before and sub?
sequent to the war. Owing to his gene?
rous and indulgent disposition, which
could not say nay to friends, and forbore
to press his debtors, he has for somo
years through sacrifices of that sort been
much crippled in business, and not long
ago was compelled to relinquish it He
suffered also severely from his advances
made in support of the Lunatic Asylum.
The failure on the part of tho State to
meet the payment of tho large amounts
due him may be set down as the begin?
ning and main cause of his pecuniary
troubles. But while his fortune melted
away, his spirit remained firm, and his
generous traits of character suffered no
abatement in their force and beauty.
Such a man was deservedly a favorite,
and his sadden death fell upon the com?
munity with a painful shook. He was
of mark and character in business cir?
cles, and regarded and respected in all.
Supreme Court, May 24, 1875.?The
Court met at 10 A. M. Present?Chief
Justice Moses and Associate Justices
Wright and Willard.
The Fifth Circuit was called. Niles
G. Parker, appellant, vs. R. J. Donald?
son, respondents; and the State, appel?
lant, vs. John Raleigh, respondent, were
continued.
. F. W. McMaster, administrator, ap?
pellant, vs. Agnes Tallev, administratrix,
et al., respondent, and John P. Southern,
et al., respondents, vs. John Fisher,
trustee, appellant, to be submitted by
July 15.
William R. Cunningham, appellant,
vs. Emma M. Conway, respondent Mr.
Korshaw was heard for appellant; Mr.
Lcitner for rcspondent;*Mr. Kershaw in
reply.
John E. Green, respondent, vs. Char
lotto, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
appellant, and James E. Green, by his
guardian ad litem, respondent, vs. aani?,
appellant, on motion of Mr. Bauskett fo:
appellant, ordered to he docketed. Ar?
guments to be submitted.
The Court announced that in the
cases of Thomas T. J. Clark vs. Giles J.
Patterson, and John Winomith vs. Joseph
Walker, the motions were refused.
At IP. M., the Court adjourned until
Tuesday, 25th, 10 A. M.
Hotel Arrivals May 24.?Mansion
House?T. B. Yarbrough, Ga.; Col. H.
P. Caugbman. Lexington; Charles O.
Tntt, H. Van Antwerp, J. W. Leavy, 8.
T. Poinier, A. M. Boatwright, W. Thomp?
son, Miss 8 Culver, E. W. Wheeler, O.
North, oity; C. J. Lovejoy and wife, N.
Y.; Dr. T. O. MoMahon, Walhalla: J.'S.
Hair, Newberry; J. J. Kaminor, Gada don.
Hendrlx House?J. W. Ferguson,
Charleston; 8. Chaplin, J. R. Chaplin,
Leesville; W. M. Burnes, . Augusta;
Daniel McOlinoh, Charlotte; Mrs. C.
McCay, Camden; 3, W. Cojiper, oity;
Columbia Hotel?3. W. O'Brien, Mrs.
W.'R. Davis andohild, Charleston; 0. P.
Pelham,. Jr., Lancaster; J. R. English,
E. R. Arthur, Columbia; J. B. Kershaw,
W. Z. Loitnor, Camden; D. E. Speboer,
J. R. Bolentino, Jackson; J. T. Hood,
Eastorer; W. T. J. O. Woodward, 8. C.;
J. A Shingler, Md.; J. F. 0. DuPre, Ab?
beville; W. 3. McDowell, 8. A TJ. R. R.
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Attend Perry & Slawson's clearance
' sales of oigars.
