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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-06

OurRAaE-On Saturday evening lady while
walking in Lsurens street was aocosted by negro
who requested her. to change two dollars. She
refused to comply and walked on, but was oonsd-
erably alarmed when her arm was jerked and her
reticulo forcibly taken away. Three negro men
who were together were seen to run of, but on
account of the lateness Of the hour no pursuit was
made aud they escaped with their booty. Occur
rences Of this description are fortunately rare, lbut
they should be prevented or the reputation Of our
city will be injured The negroes must be made
to obey the laws and to cease all such depreda-
tions, or the streets will become unsafe, and fre
quented only by pickpockets and thieves.
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CHARLESTON BOARD OF TBADE.-The regular
monthly meeting of the Board was held yesterday
evening at the Charleston Hotel Club Room.
The minutes of the previous meeting were read
and approved.
The following gentlemen were proposed for
membership, ard the rules, having upon motion
been suspended they were unanimously elected:
P. Wineman, Geo. Dowie. VIM. G. Whilden, J..
NJ. Eason, s. G. Courtenay; D. L. Mckay, B. NJ.
Heriot, J. L. Tobias, W. j. Middleton, j. G. Mil
nor, ]. B. Stenmyer, .: D: Enston, J. 81: B: :nour,
B. O'Neill, P. G. Gaillard, Jacob Small, L. D.
Chlds, Of Columbia, and c. T. Durham.
Mr. BRUINS, from the Committee appointed at
the last meeting to take into consideration the
propriety and mode celebrating the first ami
versary, reported that they have considered the
objects contemplated by the resolution under
which they were appointed and would recommend
tie adoption Of the following resolutions:
1st. That banquet worthy of this Board, and
suitable to the occasion Of it's anniversary be pro-
pared and that q committee Of seven be appointed
to make all necessary arrangements.
e. That the same Committee superintend the
polls for the election of officers for the ensuing
year.
The Chair appointed the following gentlemen on
this Committee:
R. 8. Bruins, A. Simoads, H. Bischoff, D. F..
Fleming, 4. II. Hayden, John F. O'Neill, and i. D,
Mowry.
= Mr.. MARSHALL offered the following resolution,
which, on motion, was adopted:
Resozued, That the Committee on Reading Room
and Hall be requested to inquire and report at the
next regular meeting suitable place for reading
room for the use Of the members OF this Board.
MIR. HASTE, the President, in connection with
the foregoing resolution, stated that he had long
contemplated tho establishment of q Mercantile
Library in this city.
MIR. DEIEoN said that at the last meeting Of tho
Board complaints had been made against the So.
Ca. Railroad, and having recently seen the Presi-
dent Of that road, he received the following items
pertinent to this subject; and he moved that this
paper be referred to the same Committee ION In
land T-ansportation) to which the papers had been
refer I'd for consideration at the previous meeting:
Freight on Cotton from Chester to Charleston. per
Charlotte Railroad 60 miles receives. ....S2 90
South Carolina RR., 136 miles, receives. 90
Cotton from Chester to New York. ma Charleston, per
Charlotte Railroad, GO miles, receives. ...s2 OF
South Carolina RR, 1876 miles receives. II
Boat from Charleston to New York.. 9 90
Drayage In Charleston. .................. ~
The motion was adoEted, and the paper was so
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UNDER DECRRE:Td.Es2UITY

Rernurd O.NeH ns.' Shields It a. 81 gsssss.
On TUESDAY, the 18th IT. II O'clock, WIN be sold
at the olf Custom House, under the ttee4ddn Of the
All thst LOT OF LAND, With the Buildings therem
situate on the east cornar Of Coming snda Shepherd
streets: north OF Line street. bounding north on
herd street; east lands Of the Rsv. Mr.:
on lands Of David Rker, and west on Coming streets
depth 70 feet be the same more or less5 s hss i
Terms-O e-hnlf cash; balance iniope sndtwoye.x
secured by bond Of the purchaser and mortgage Of tho
premises; buildings to be injured and policy
,sss 95z4diis.aGJ jj.W. ARkEsr&
March 49,. w3 tu1. Master h Equity.
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TH'AMER1oAN FARMEB.-W have received, from
Mr.. s. HART, sr., in King street, the March num-
Der Of this excellent agricultural monthly. The
An,ericon Farmer was established in 1919. It is
fair therefore to be presumed that with age hath
come wisdom; and from an examination Of the
number before us, We have been decidedly prepas-
sessed in its favor. Paper and Typography very
neat. The motto from VIRGIL is oIa chat will oe
deemed eminently appropriate, and contains a
world Of meaning perhaps not even dreamed OF by
VIRGIL: &C 0 Jortunatos minimum sa1a 81 bona no
rint ag7ico!as." Farmers, even now, in these evil
times, may secure fortunes, if they will take
the trouble to acquaint themselves thoroughly,
both in theory and practice, with the several ele-
nents OF wealth which prodigal nature has put at
their disposal A well-edited magazine like the
American Farmer (publiahed in Baltimore) will
greatly assist in acquiring such necessary knowl-
edge, ard We can therefore recommend it to all our
planting, farming and horticultural friends.
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! UNDER DECREE INyEQUNFY.ss,
rho polntsH0 S1nf3aO8 }f1stitll0n of hdS32Sf0a1Dj

Corcoran, .et al e;: :ss ( y,:3S
On TUESDAY,, the 26th inst; O'Clock MiH heSoh
at the old Custom-H House, undsr tina
an fsas Ter OF LAND. with the thereon
situate on the south eide Of Ann street. IN ts city,
measuring IN front on sad street sf psme
on the back Hna and in.dspth 200 fest %
or Iata Of John Ca1sten on -aud now OF
A. Black and west ON land OF Thomas n. GAdsd6n.sss
Terms-o one-haK oash; balance in cne md twoyeaxA
with bond Of the purchaser and mortgage ot thSpeed
buildings TO be insured to such an aiaount %
the Master may think naoessar and the policy
Purchaser to pay for papers. WsC8Aftt4
March q: .'.W3 tul MastBEin Equity
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TIE Wilmington IN. O. Journal, of yesterday,

AsHoBE.-We learn that United States trans
port, containing some 500 colored soldiers, des-
tined, we believe, to garrison Forts Fisher and
last, struck on the Bar and is still ashore. The
troops were al landed at Federal. Point, without
accident. We have not learned any other pa7ticu-
lars.
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Assignees' Gale.-Balance .@ 6soek :of Sashes,
snY nnnRY' IA h'gPfel 'dosiA: 81 :s 60. s5e ess
To.MoRROW, at 10 O'Clock on Pastonss Wha Nali oe
=: sold, by order Of the saGigneas ~. Sesss;;s
70 PAIRS sASHES glazed and uneiazeak ds (, - z
pairs Blinds - - .E7ss.sssr : ss.ssS,2
147 BaHsters and Newels
boxes Gfaee
1910 bushels Hatr-nore or lsas
Conditions cash.. tssi'sa aA.s III AEGn 0Eysy
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at the old Custom House, under the direction 90 the
unders ensd -. &
ALE THATiOT OF LAND, On the east ode seft Hing
street, measuring In Hont On satd street faet mare e
less and depth 96 feet more qr !ess Houndt1g setfn
land Of Dr. Garden ,nol th ON lGnd lasMb
wuley but now Of Jacob Cohen, and vest sKtng
s'!ess sssh; balaacs d
years Wit interest from the day sale
bond and premises; obe If
sured End the policy assigned: ::.s
Mafch = VS. tn1 q: -. Mister Equity. az
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-06

TIE BALTIMORE Steam Packet Wharf bears de-
cidedly military as well as business look. Guns,
artillery wheels, ammunition chests, saddles, har-
ness, fragments of warlike implements Of all kinds,
occupy all the available spaces near the dock, and
We were relieved from the apprehension that pro-
ceedings undv1 The late Congressional Bill were
about to be instituted by the assurance that it WAS
.'soutward cargo" for the steamship Falcon-some
of the Thousand and one things which, were knocked
of under the hammer at the United States Arsenal
on Monday. Besides the military spread Of war
debris, cotton, rice, naval stores and lumber, in
great piles, meet the eye on either hand, while
long lines of drays, heavily loaded with corn, Bacon
flour, wliskey, &C., &C., come in q steady stream
from the wide gateways Of this busy landing
place-IInion Wharves.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-06

CHARLESTON BOARD OF TBADE.-Ths regular
monthly meeting Of the Board was held yesterday
evening at the Charleston Hotel Club Room.
The minutes Of the previous meeting were read
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-05

September. IN addition to the pic hic, the
Scott county society holds an annual festival
during the winter. The constitution Of the
Rock Island county association also provides
for an annual festiyA On hs 21dof Febrs ~.
On motion of Dr. Grssg the estsal for 1his
year was deferred OF merged In tie pig bic
to be held 10 Septenbef,
The conditions Sof melnbefship are resi''
dence in the county previous to the year
1916. Five new members were admitted to-
day, making about 225 in all. Ladies are
admitted, under the above conditions,on sign
ing the constitution, without paying the usual
membership fee of one dollar.
After the adoption Of 2 motion requesting
all the papers in this county to publish the
proceedings Of this meeting, the association
adjourned to the Annual Festival the first
Wednesday in September next.
The Union, from which we copy the above,
(making some additions and corrections
closes its report as follows:
The meeting was very respectable in point OF
numbers and appearance. A more solid and ven
cradle body of men is rarely seen Some were
stfn in the vigor of manhood, while the frosts Of
many winters had whitened the locks of others
taking one back to the early days Of Rock Island
when our beautiful city was hunting ground
and the pioneers rife or the woodlands axe were
the only evidences of the advancing civilization
They reminded us Of the association of the old
Defenders of Baltimore Of 1914, only that the
latter are older and more time-worn body Of
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-05
GOLD BLAIR"
Sketch Of the Nestor Of American
e Politicians. 'raa

sMack," the racy and versatile Washing
ton correspondent of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, writes:
Probably there is no more active political
worker behind the scenes in Washington this
winter than .'Old Blair" as the father of
Frank and Montgomery, the head and
brains of the Blair family is called. The old
man may frequently be seen, even In these
cold January days, trudging it afoot up or
down the avenue, going to or returning from
the White House, as the superstition always
is when he is seen ON the streets. He looks
old-it would be strange if he didn't, at up
wards of seventy-but is far from being fee
BILE in body, or mind either.
In fact, saw him skirting along theaven-
ue Yesterday, slipping and sliding on the ice
pavements, but still making such Roadway
as might have puzzled some of his grand
children to beat. He wore that low crowned,
broad-brimmed hat, without which his little
round head has not appeared in public for
many a year-not the same hat, but the same
style, mean. He was hugging very tightly
light cape over his shoulders, and seemed
to feel the effects of the keen frosty air, that
cut like razor against younger chins than
his, but he threw out those short thin legs of
his with nimbleness nothing less than re-
markable in one so advanced in life.
he neither looks nor acts Older now than
he did ten, fifteen, some say twenty years
ago. He began to wither or shrivel up lon
ger ago than that, and the process has been
going on slowly and scarcely discernedly
since. Other men have grown gray and de-
crepid. "Old Blair seems to be an excep-
ton to the common course of nature. He
viii simply "wither up" slowly, and pass
away some day-distant by many years vet,
apparently-not because he will be dead,
like other people, but because he will be
completely shrivelled out of existence. --
A wonderful man is ''Old Blair -perhaps
the most entertaining political talker to be
found in the country at the present time
not that his principles are better than mems,
or that he has more pointed way of put
ting them but he can call up a greater
number of interesting and important remin-
iscences in the political history of the coun-
try, anywhere since the war of 1912, than
any living man. He has been for more than
scenes, and knows more of what occurred
during that time than any who took active
part ON the stage.
And to hear him talk in company, you
wouldn't think him an old man until he &C
knowledges the fact himself. by speaking of
the events of fifty years ago as occurring
when he was young man. His memory Of
such events is wonderful and his manner of
relating them is always exceedingly vivid
and interesting. He will work himself up
to the highest pitch of enthusiasm sometimes
in describing one of the old quarrels between
Clay and Calhoun, and the strong personal
interest he took in the democratic side of the
controversy.
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a Reminiscenee Of the New York
Riots--Curious Story About the
Xribune" Office.

-
Those who know with what interpidity and
judgement Governor Seymour acted in the
outbreak of riots in New York in 1868, who
knowhow grossly and persistently he was
misrepresented, will not be surprised at the
incident related BY q New York correspond
ent of the Springfield Republican,. The
spirit of the assassin was seen in these sla n
ders; and the villain who in the editorial
room of the Tribune, put aside his riff, was
actuated by cowardice only. His malice sur
vived in his assassin pen, which struck at
the reputation of a patriot and q christian
gentleman 751z ace rs
Speaking of politics reminds me Of an in
cident of the riots of 1863, related 10 me by
an eve witness. You remember the IIibane
office had been threatened and was defended
BY armed men. The afternoon that Gov.
Seymour addressed the mob from the steps
of the Astor House, one of the defenders OF
the Iribupe-a dead shot--stood in the edi-
torial room with telescope rife aimed at
Seymour's head. If the INSCRIPTIONS dem
agogue had said anything to excite the mob,
the intention of the rifleman was to shoot him
dead on the spot, and he would have done it
beyond question. Fortunately for Seymour,
he sought only to conciliate the insurgents,
and so escaped with his life. 1t is not prob
able the crafty politician ever knew how near
he came to having ball lodged in his skull,
and it may be that the good genius stepped
between him and his natural disposition on
that melancholy day.
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Artemus Wards Threshing Ma.
chine.

My wifes exceedingly practycal woman.
| luv her muchly, however, and humor her
little ways. Its reckless falsehood that she
neighborhood who said to me as I was dis
tending my diafram with gentle cocktail
at the village tavern-who said to me in
these very iangwidge, "Go hmm, old man,
onless you want another teapot throwd at
you by J. b. probly regrets havin sed SO.
/ sed, "Betsy Jane is my wife's front name,
gentle youth, and / permit no person to
alood to her as B. j., outside the family cir
Gle, of which am it, principally myself
You're other observations scorn and disgust,
and l must polish you off, He was able
bodied young man, and removin his coat, he
inkwired if | wanted to be ground to powder
/ sed yes, if there was powder grindist ham
dy nothin would ford me greater pleasure,
when he struck me painful blow into my
right eye, eausin me to make rapid retreat
into the fire place.
l hadn't no idea the enemy was so well or
ganized. But I rallied and went for him in
a rather vigris style for my time of life. His
parents lived near by, and l will simply
state that fifteen minutes had only elapsed
after the first hit, when he wus carried home
on a shutter. His mamma met the solum
procession at the door, and after keerfuIly
looking her offspring over, she said: "My
son, / see how it is distinctually. You've
been foolin round a thrashing masbeen. You
went in at the place where they put the grain
into the thingamyjig, and let the bosses tread
on you, didn't my SOM" The pen of no liv-
in orther could describe that disfortunate
young mans starvation more clearer. But
i was sorry for him, and / went and nussed
him till he got well. His regular original
father had been sent to the war / told him
I'd be father to him myself He smilt a
sickly smile, and sed I'd already been wuss
than two fathers to him. "a
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such purposes. The taxes authorized by this Sec
ton shall be levied, assessed, collected and paid
into the treasury Of the heer1 II the same time
and in the same manneE as the other school taxes
of the district. ~N
SEcs3. The annual election of the board Of edu-
Ekfh@ o. kosk Island pchoof~ district shall here
sftsr BE he1d on the laN Tuesday of June in each
5ear. AtA,e next u1ar slection for members
"a the boa11 of edMeaon all vacancies then exist
ing n sid hoard sksn be Md ~ election in the
usual nepnef, ana there sHaif A1so be elected two
other members of said board and thereafter said
board shall consist Of Eve members, the two mem
bers of said board whose term Of Office shall not
have expired, at the next election, shall remain
In Office for one year from and after said regular
election, and the remaining three members of
said board shall select by lot two Of their number
who shall hold office forstwo years from And
after said election, and the one remaining shall
hold Office for three years; and thereafter,
members Of the board shah Be elected and hold
ofhcefor three years. Provided that in cases Of
elections to fill vacancies, occasioaed by death
removal resignation, the person elected shall
only succeed to the unexpired term of the mem
Der whom he succeeds.
Sec d. The board of education shall not be
required to admit into the schools any children
adapted to the loRestca in the primary rooms
except during the frst week in each month.
SEC. s. This act shall take effect from and after
its passage, and shall be public act.
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a BILL.

For an act to amend act to incorporate the
Rock Island school district approved Feb 18th
1857 and the several acts amendatory thereto.
SECTION /. BE it enacted by the people of the
state Of Illinois, represented tn the General Asse
By: That the act Incorporating Rock Island
school district, approved Feb 18th 1857, be SO
amended that the board of education of said dis
trict shalin addition to the powers conferred up
on them by the act to which this act is an amend
ment, have power to borrow money at a rate of
interest not exceeding ten per cent. per annum to
be exclusively expended in purchasing school
house sites, erecting school houses or in repairing
or improving the same, or for the payment of anyI
Indebtedness incurred for such purpose. Provided
that any Indebtedness SO incurred shall be paid
within five years from the date of its contraction.
and shall not exceed such sum as in the opinion
of said board can be paid from the proceeds of
special taxes to be levied as hereinafter provided
SEC. 2. The said board of education shall. in
addition to powers heretofore conferred, have pow
er to levy special tax upon the property of said
district subject to taxation, not to exceed per
cent In any one year, for the exclusive purpose of
purchasing school house sites and erecting school
houses, OF repairing improving the Same, or for
tne payment Of any indebtedness incurred for
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-05
To-Day's Advertiser is.
BROWN 8 RHAkINS,
eHEEs1 IUSIC
An a6u11c 1ooKs.

80
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to our establishment, whore all kinds Of Church
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The long experience of our Mr.. PERKINS in
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Sunday School, enables him to give advice and in
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the selection of proper works of instruction for
nation of Musical Schools---progress IN musical
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= Sheet Music furhisheison the usual terms, with
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Memory, (for Baritone,) III. A. Brown, 80 cts.
Four of any Of the above will be forwarded on
receipt OF one dollar
Na-.Serd for D circuiar.-
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BROWN & PERKINS,
Pianos for the People !

f~o oNoom r. ST NEW YORK.
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The four styles described above, embody all tke
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