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Ipaid by banks and bankers. This is

/ paid by banks and bankers. This is
a most judicious and polite tax. The
privilege of furnishing currency is
worth more than two per cent, and
for this the banks under the new pro-
vision will pay no tax, but something
less than equivalent and the profit on
currency should accrue to the govern
ment. The tax will tend also to ben
eft banks by lessening the demand
for new banks and for the substitution
of greenbacks for bank notes. AS
respects the additional half per cent
on deposits, the whole tax is less than
the interest which the English and
Scotch bankers pay their depositors,
and if our banks do not allow it to
their depositors, they can with an av-
erage net income of eighteen per cent
as returned last year to the assessors,
afford to pay the additional half Of
one per cent to the nation and thus
relieve us from other onerous taxes.
Bank stock will still class as our
best property. 1t is to be hoped that
Congress will not adjourn without
passing that portion of the tax bill
that had passed the ordeal of the
: House before it took up the subject
: of spirits and tobacco. 1t embraced
! light tax of one-ffth of one per cent
on sales, which would add ten to fiji
! teen millions to our revenue almost
! without being felt, and it included 6
: repeal of the stamp of two cents OIL
receipts, which yields tittle and give,
much Inconvenience, and repeal OF
one-ffth the tax on transportation
which is serious burden to commerce
boston Journal.
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A Work OF GREAT INTEREsT.-The
best book we have seen for more than
a dozen years, everything considered
is Exploration Of the Nile Tributa.
ries of Abyssinia, a work of 624 pag
es, by Sir Samuel W. Baker; work
that has been received with unbound
ed favor both in Europe and America
1t is beauty in typographical ap
pearance; full of illustrations Of men
animals, birds and reptiles. We are
sorry we have not more room to no
tice as it deserves. 0. ID. Case &
Co., Hartford, CT, publishers.
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Have you cough, cold, pain in the
chest, or bronchitis ? In fact, have
you the premonitory symptoms of the
''insatiate archer" consumption? Ii
so, know that relief is within your
reach in the shape of DR.. Wistar's Bal
sam of Wild Cherry, which in many
cases where hope had fled, has snatch
ed the victim from the yawning grave.
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THE ASHBURN MURDER IN GEOR
GIA.-The trial of nine persons impli-
Gated in the murder Of George W.
Ashburn, Radical member of the
Georgia Convention, is proceeding
before a military commission at Co
lumbus, Ga. The principal witness
is George Marshall, i Sergeant in the
United States army, who, for a gold
watch worth about $500, undertook
to be one of the perpetrators of the
murder, and has turned States evi
dence. His story illustrates the bad
influences that are still at work in the
Southern States to smother by threats
or open violence the expression 0
independent opinion. When asked
what induced him to take part in the
killing Of Ashburn, he replied: "Th,
associations | had. had it instilleC
into my mind that he had better b,
out of the community than in it.
The associations" he explained, re
ferred to the people in the town. Fl,
was away from his command, unrc
constructed rebels beset him witt
plausible representations, and in the
excitement of tie moment he yielded
to the temptations by which he wa
assailed. Had | taken advice" h
said, II would not have been in thi
fix now went headlong." The ex
animation further developed the fac
that Marshall was politically oppose,
to Ashburn and to the new Constitu
ton of Georgia, and that the socia
and political influences brought t
bear upon him in reference to partici
patton in the murder were Irresistible
The defense express their confdenc
that they will be able to break dow
the testimony Of the witness by tina
OF great many persons.
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My wife's choice, and the whole
family prefer it. Mrs. S. A. Aliens
Improved NEW style) Hair Restorer
or dressing, Tin one bottle.) Every
Druggist sells it. Price One Dol
lar. 26w4
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Congressional.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON. Friday, July :

WASHINGTON, Friday, July 3.
Mr.. Sherman, from the committee
on finance, reported the tax bill with
amendments. Ordered to be printed.
He offered an order, which was
adopted, that on Monday next, at l
o'clock, the tax bill and funding bill
shall be the special order and contin-
ue as such from day to day till dis
posed of.
Mr.. Morrill, of Maine called up the
House joint resolution in relation to
the erection of a bridge in Boston
harbor, and authorizing commission
from the War and Navy departments
to report a suitable place for a bridge
to East Boston, in accordance with a
bill passed by the Massachusetts leg
islature, but not to be built without
the consent of congress. The joint
resolution was passed, and goes to
the president.
On motion the senate agreed to adj
iourn till Monday.
Mr.. Cragin introduced bill to es-
tablish the assimilated rank of staff
officers of the navy. Referred to the
committee on naval affairs.
The senate proceeded to the con-
sideration of the bills reported from
the committee on the District OF Co
lumbia.
Mr.. Sherman reported the tax bill
with amendments, which was ordered
to be printed.
An order was adopted, that the tax
bill and funding bill shall be the spec
ial order at l o'clock Monday, and
continue such till disposed Of.
i The joint resolution authorizing a
commission from the War and Navy
departments to report a suitable place
for a bridge from Boston to East
Boston in accordance with bill pass
ed by the Massachusetts, legislature,
but more to be built without the con-
sent ofeongress. was passed. 1t now
goes to Die seeesi = : ss7oae
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fffOraf JJIzGssS y - 80 = p -
am gssis said The ashonld not. cahIitqc
fup again. rTosaav
The District of Columbia will then
be considered.
A number of bills relating to the
District of Columbia, and destitute
of general interest, were taken up and
passed, as were also several private
:. bills.
At 4.3O the senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
, Mr.. Cobb of Wisconsin gave no.
| tice of bill from the committee on
Claims to construe the increase ofpay
. of privates so as to entitle each to
the allowance of 800.
Mr.. Paine of Wisconsin, for Mr..
r Boutwell,, reported from the recon
/ struction committee a bill removing
e certain disabilities from persons. Or
: dered to be printed and recommitted
: The House then went into CON-
/, mittee of the Whole on the senate
amendments to the legislative, exec
It utive and judicial appropriation bill.
IS Mr.. Moorehead of Pennsylvania,
:. gave notice that on Monday he would
< move to lay aside all other bills and
take up the tariff bill.
n The senate amendments repeating
y all laws authorizing the publication
n in the Globe and to invite proposals
for the publication of the actual pro-
II ceedings and debates was concurred
D, in.
Is The senate amendment to pay for
only such advertisements in Wash
* ington papers as may be ordered by
u heads of departments, with proviso
Sc that Government advertisements shall
be published only in three papers au-
lg thorized by law, was concurred in.
ut An amendment was adopted In
r structing the superintendent of public
r buildings to remove all paintings,
statuary, &C., now in the capitol.
as The deficiency bill was then consid.
H. cred.
IS. The sum OF $4,000 was appropri-
o. ated for post Office building at Mad
. ison, Wis, $4,000 for a post Office
} and custom house at Cairo, H.
es Mr.. Stevens offered an amendment
re to increase the pay of clerks, which
0 was lost.
es The committee rose and the two
bills went over until Monday.
os Mr.. Butler of Massachusetts made
q a report from the managers which
ID was ordered to be printed and recon.
- mitted.
oh A bill providing for the issue of
in arms to the militia in the reconstruct
NJ ed States was passed.
bn A message from the president rela-
N. tive to the practice of the Danish au.
thorities of Elsinore in sending con-
yicts to the United States was re-
>! ceived and referred to the Judiciary
- committee
A bill to encourage emigration was
ne e reported and ordered to be printed.
Vi A bill repeating section 5 of the
,no act 1892, concerning the registering
~; ~ and recording vessels was passed.
10 Adjourned till Monday.
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SUICIDE IN WILLIAMsTOwN.--

SUICIDE IN WILLIAMSTOWN.--
Williamstown resided a man named
Ed Burnham, who at one time was a
person Of some property. This prop
erty ne spent, mainly in law suits,
and in all Of which he was beaten
At one time he paid Hon. L. B. Villas
then in practice at Chelsea,a lawyer ;
bill of over $4,000. Several of these
suits was with the town, and Burn
ham had got the idea that the town
hated him as he did it, which led him
to say. be having become impoveri5ll-
ed. that rather than become q town
charge he would kill himself. For
some time be has resided with widow
Wald0w, in WilIiamstown village
working here and there, and having
reached about 60 years Of age began
to act as if he thought his days f0I
work were about done. Monday, June
/ Is, he went off and did not return
/ This excited some remark, but he be
/ ING rather an eccentric character nC
search was made. This went alOng
till Friday of last week, when Ebene
ger Bass, a relative Of Burnham, mad,
a partial search, combining tishin;
with it. He made no discoveries il
the various sugar houses, etc, he visI
ted, and on Sunday others undertoO
to see what they could find, anon
them Martin Bass, another relative
I He, accompanied by another, went Il
to a piece of woods Burnham used I
pass through in coming to Bass house
and they soon detected something
in the air exceeding unsavory. Flo
lowing this scent. they found the bod
Of Burnham lying beside a stump
- -aaI. ass H. La.A4 ho-,4s1.-
in the moose of a four feet long rop
@ piece of bed cord with which |
! hung himself. The long ii N
hat tn e corpse had been su
pended had caused it to become
! mass of corruption, the body ha
fallen from the head, sinews sever
! feet long having pulled out Of the boo
p, when the head came of, which hur
balanced in the moose by these sinew
! The spectacle which presented itseI
> to the number who visited the spl
, was disgusting and horrifying in II
, extreme. After a time, we'll tarrc
! blanket was procured, the putrid I
a mains, partially held together by u
: clothing, were rolled into it, the who
! deposited in a tight OoX, and tn,
buried in the grave yard beside h
y mother.-Argus.
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At Brattleboro last week Friday,
Geo. S. Cowles of Hatfield, Mass,
hung himself. He was man of 26
years, partially insane from fracture
OF the skull some years ago and trav-
cling with a friend for his health.
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Let your talk behonest, true, concise
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NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, NOMINATIONS.
Local News.

BALL.-There was a grand ball at
Bemis in Westmore on the fourth.
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CRAFTsBURY.-The new Academy
progresses finely; will be ready for
the Fall Term by the first week of
September. The. services of Mr.. l..
Fl. Thompson have been secured for
the fall term, and good school is ex-
pected.
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* An army Of 1900 indians are
marching into the ,Sweetwater Coun-
try from idaho and Montana. They
...ss va fhe war path, a Il have burn
ed all hel,ranches North Of Seneca
Springs, and driyei Off all the stock.
They also burned the houses and
compelled two ranchmen to fly for
safety. M
3 Quite a number Of charter elections
have been held recently in the West
ern and interior Counties Of New
York. which haTs resulted favorably
for the Democracy, exhibiting CON
siderable gains ovou upon tine ma
jority of 48, 900, which the Democrats
obtained last fall.
Mrs. Weaver, the insane woman
who recently murdered her five chill
dren, and who was in Jail at Penn
broke, Ontario County, New York,
committed suicide on Monday night,
by hanging herself to the door of her
cell.
Burglars in Louisiana are reduced
to the necessity of breaking into the
penitentiary at Baton Rouge, and
stealing the clothes of the convicts.
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BELOW COST.

SELLING OFF BELOW NEW YORK
COST.-The undersigned wishes to call
the attention of his friends, and citizens
generally, OF Columbia and vicinity, to the
fact that he wishes to leave this city on
account Of business engagements else
where, and that he is duty bound to sell
off his entire stock of GENTLEMEN'S
FINE READY-MADE CLOTHING below
Now York wholesale prices; also, Cassi-
meres and Cloths, an assortment of Gents
Furnishing Goods, Ladies' and Gents
Shoes, and various other articles too nu-
merous to mention; all OF which must be
sold off WITHIN TEN DAYS. Please coll
and judge for yourselves, at
SAMUEL PlSER'S,
Main street, opposite j. G. Dial's.
N. D. All parties indebted to me will
please call Immediately at the store and
settle, to avoid all inconvenience. BY so
doing, you will greatly oblige
Feb 12 SAMUEL PISER.
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Count Mirabeau,

AN HISTORICAL TALE; by Mundt.
N Translated by Brandford. In one
volume. Price $3.50; cloth 90.
History Of the United Netherlands-se-
quel to Dutch Republic; by Motley.
A Stormy Life, novel; by Lady Geor-
Giana Fullerton, with plates. Price $1.50
and 50.
Duffs Railroad. Bank and Merchants
Bookkeeping, new.
Queen Tctoria's new book, Life in the
Highlands, &c. Price Sits
Also, a new supply Of Inez. by author
Of st. Elmo. S1.75.
New English Novels, cheap. For sale at
]. J. McCarter's bookstore.
Feb 8 r. l.. BRYAN.
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CAUoUss1NG. The Charleston NeDs,
Of the 22d, says:
'Iast evening caucus was held,
it is understood, for the purpose of
completing nominations; but with
what result we are not informed.
The colored delegates are said to be
exceedingly annoyed at the division
of spoils, and q new slate is being
prepared, whereon will be written the
names of the 'to-be- distinguished,
who expect to fill the proud places of
the State.
'F. l.. Cardoza, Rev. r. 81. Cain,
and one or two other colored men,
have gone to Washington as sort of
sell. constituted committee on pros
pecting tour. First, their object is
to find out whether colored man, if
elected to Congress, will be 'wel-
coined with hospitable hands, &c. !;
secondly, why Speaker Colfax treated
such o proposition, made by letter
some time ago, with contemptuous
silence; thirdly, whether the Conven-
ton is sufficiently radical to be a
success in the eye of the boss recon-
structionists of Washington; and
finally, whether any arrangement can
be made to carry ont a land scheme,
by which the freedmen may enjoy
their new petted dny-dream as q
bona .1ide reality.
"The general impression is that the
mission will prove failure, and that
the colored people of the State will
be most thoroughly disgusted by the
so-called friendly promises of the
Washington politicians"
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Henry Ward Beecher, in q oommu-
nication to the New York Ledger,
contrasting the influence over chill
dren of the rod and the sugar plum,
owns up to having been long and
grievously in error. He said he tried
the rod in governing his children,
but uses the sugar plum with his
grandchildren. Probably the same
discipline in politics would benefit
here. It is certainly unfortunate for
the South, says the New Orleans
Times, that he was not born half q
century earlier, SO that the present
generation could have come in for
his grand -fatherly sweets, instead of a
surfeit of tongue-lashings.
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Du Chaillu is lecturing on the
gorilla in New York. He is said to
be man of much humor, and very
entertaining. At q public dinner in
a Northern city he was importuned
for gorilla story, and, in compli-
ance, told one of his best. A distin-
guished city official, notorious for
his negrophilism, who had on several
occasions manifested in o good
humored way his incredulity with
regard to Nj. Du C.'s stories, ap-
preached him when through his mar
rative, and addressed him: IN. Du
Chaillu, L have heard your marvel
lous story of your encounter with
the gorilla. L desire to know what
You suppose a man like me, raised in
a city. knowing nothing about hunt
ing, and never in the African forest,
would be likely to do upon suddenly
meeting the gorilla face to face?"
The African traveller promptly re-
piled: "With some knowledge Of
your antecedents, Mr.. -, 1 should
suppose that if you were to meet the
gorilla, you would, assuming the at
titude of courtesy and friendship,
impressively and appealing say to
him: "Am [ not man and o
brother?'" It was the best thing of
the banquet, and long kept up the
uncomfortable mirth of the guests.
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MARRIED.

At Sandy Run, on the 10th inst, by Rev.
E. Wannamaker, Mr.. VIM. M. BECKHAM,
of Richland, to Miss N. s. Wolfe, of Sandy
Run.
SS- Charleston Mercury and Courier
please copy.
At Lexington Q. H., on Thursday morn
ing. the 2eth inst, by Rev. VIM. Martin,
HENRY j. sEIBLES, of Sandy Run, to
Mrs. AMANDA NJ. WOLFE, daughter OF
John Fox, ESQ.,, Of Lexington.
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sTHn REAoyXn OF THE cAfrr2n ..--.

r. sTHR REAogAn OF THE CAfrrAn IL
That the Federal Capital will be re-
moved from its present locality, the
9:ca 9I.::ceah9saa.oni saoni Gispmc1 thinks is one of
the certain, future acts of this nation.
The late vote on the proposition to
translate it to some place in the Mis-
sissippi Valley ought to satisfy any
man of this. That vote was strictly
sectional, and stood seventy-seven to
ninety seven in the lower house of
Congress- majority of twenty only
against the change; and tthhatt, too,
upon the first occasion of the serious
agitation of the question. We have
but to note that the vote was section
al, and to remember that the con-
trolling power of numbers in this
country is fast settling in the great
West, to convince us that the days of
Washington, as the Federal Capital,
are numbered.
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IMPORTANT.

DLANTERS and GARDENERS will find
Il ELLERBE'S PLANT TRANSPLANT
ER, (Patented 10th of October, 1861 at
JOHN G. DIAL'S; by which surplus plants
of corn. cotton, or of any plant, may BIO
soil can bc replanted, without disturbing
the fbrous roots. j. G. DIAL,
Jan 10 +3mc General Agent.
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u --oo1-5O>1->->e A
Remove THE RUBBISH. The atten-
tion of the city authorities (or, we
suppose, the Committee on Streets)
is called to the amount of rubbish
which has been allowed to collect in
sone &C the public streets. Have
these eye-sores removed, gentlemen;
they are unattractive and really dan
gerous, as horses are often frightened
at them.
We have been requested to an
nounce that an address will be de-
livered before the Marion Street Sun
day School, this evening, at half-past
7 o'clock, in the Marion Street Me-
thodist Church. Several odes suited
to the occasion will be sung by the
children. The patrons and friends
of the school, and the public gene
rally, are invited to be present.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES This Day
Trinity Church-Rev. P. J. Shand,
Eector, 10la q. m. and 3 p. m.
Presbyterian Church-Rev. W. E.
Boggs. pastor, 10% a. m.
St Peters Church j. J.
O'Connell, 10 o. m. and 3 D. m.
Washington Street Chapel-Rev.
VIM. Martin, 1O% n. m. and ~
p. m.
Marion Street Church-Rev. S. 81.
Browne, 1O1a a. m. Church Confer.
ence at 31a p. m.
Lutheran Lecture Room-Rev. A.
r. Rude, 1O1a u. IN.
Baptist Church-Rev. j. L. Rey-
nolds, 101a a. m.
Christ Church Congregation--Theo-
logical Seminary Chapel-No service
on account of the illness of the
Rector.
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Landreth's Garden Seeds.

A large variety Of fresh and reliable
N SEEDS, just received from that well
known house OF David Landreth & Sons.
Wholesale and retail at
Jan 12 t2i* E. POLLARD'S.
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The LADIES BENEVOLENT Assoc1A-
TIoN.-On Tuesday evening next, at
Gregg's Hall, the ladies who COM
prise this truly 6eneoOient society,
propose to give musical entertain
ment. Our fair countrywomen de-
serve our praise and our thanks for
their efforts to aid the distressed md
those who have been impoverished
by the war. To this end they call to
their assistance the taste and talents
of our community-now they appeal
to the ear with the melody of their
own sweet voices-now they crafty
the eye with an exhibition of Hoilg
pictures-now they employ the per-
suasive and eloquent tones of the
orator-now they address themselves
to the grosser appetite and spread e.
table of delicious viands. And all for
what? Not to benefit themselves,
but for the benefit of the poor of our
community; yes, the poor-who are
now poor, but were once rich. Their
hearts move towards these, and they
devote their time to their aid, not
by way of charity, which is SO often
cold and heartless, but by kindly of
fording them an opportunity of help
ing themselves. Yes, these same
noble women, who erected wayside
homes for the weary and wounded
soldier, are now struggling to give
employment to the widow and the
fatherless. To accomplish this pur-
pose, friends, they need money
they do not beg for money, but they
propose to give you moneys worth.
Who, then, will withhold small con-
tribution on Tuesday evening next?
Take our word for it, you will be
richly repaid by visit to the concert
room. This association is in itself q
beautiful benevolence, and appeals
to the highest and noblest instincts
of our nature. Does it not cali forth
tho benevolence of others? When
you sit in your own comfortable
homes, with your family smiling in
rosy health around you, think of the
poor famine-pinched children of the
South, and let your hearts answer
the question. And remember that
benevolence, like mercy.
--"is not strand,
1t droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven
Upon the place beneath-it is twice
blessed
1t blesses him that gives and him that
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o~>~>>o~o1<---
To THE FRIENDS OF THE SUNDAY
School CAUSE. Mr.. w. T. Farrow,
State Missionary of the American
Sunday School Union, whose address
is Greenwood, S. O., writes: "My
tour North has been successful, and
if there are any children in the State
without books, I can furnish them to
those who are unable to pay. If you
need books for the poor of your
neighbour ood, to enable you to es-
tablish Sunday school, ple-se notify
me, and state, also, your location,
number of children, name of the
school, name of superintendent,
number of teachers, and how a pack
age of books can reach you. When
I make donation, expect the su-
perintendent to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of the same, and report to me
occasionally the condition of the
school,, &C."
MAIL ARRANGEMENTS The post
Office open during the week from 81
a. m. to 6 p. m. On Sundays, from
IL to 211s p. m.
The Charleston and Western mails
are open for delivery at p. M, and
close at 8 q. m.
Northern-Open for delivery OF
lOI q. NJ, closes at p. m.
Grcenville-Open for delivery at
p. M, closes at 6 p. m.
-O~@-O~~~@@>
NEW ADvEnT1sE1ENTs.- is call
ed TO the following advertisements. pub
lished this morning for the first time:
Corsets at the Industrial Depository.
Copeland Il Bearden-Flour, &c.
s. II. Spencer-To Rent, &c.
@. F. Jackson-Dry Goods.
M. W. Bythewood-Auotion Sale.