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4 CARD.

The undersigned, having sold his entire
interest in the Hotel known ast the ''NICK-
ERsoN, HOUSE." in Columbia, s. c.,
wouldtake great pleasure inrecommend-
ing his friends to continue their patronage
to the new Proprietors.
Mr.. WRIGHT has had charge of tho
Hotel for me, for a4yeare past, and will
continue to have the entire management
Of the Hotel, under the new arrangement.
feel assured that the House will main
tain it's former reputation as q first-class
Hotel. T. 8. MCPHERSON
COLUMBIA, s. c.. September 1, 1868.
September 16 ~. KID ai.D
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NEW BOOKS.
nISTORY OF THE NEW SCHOOL.
IL and questions involved in the dis
ruptlon OF Presbyterian Church, i'll 1888.
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Children with the Poets. BY Harriet
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Tales Of Algeria, or Life Among the
Arabs. Illustrations.
Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Home of the Crows, being
the experience Of an officers wife on the
Plains.
Talks with Child on the Beatitudes.
The following new Novels
Gold Elsie. From the German of Mar
lit.
Moonstone. BY Wikie Collins.
Dallas Galbraith BY Mrs. Davis, author
OF Waiting for the Verdict, &C., and many
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SSl,
Important sale---The Wei Selected
Stock and Business Of the late
I G. "A. Bedell, Columbia, sc.
81 JACOB LEVIN, sAUcTIoNEKR.
by order of the Judge of Probate for
1D Richland County, win be sold, on the
premises, corner of Main and Plain
streets, Columbia, 8. o. on THURS
pay, the 18th instant, at 10 O'Clock q. M,
the large and well assorted stock OF Dry
GOODS, belonging to the estate Of the late
=; "a. Bedell, together with the STORE
FURNITURE and FIXTURES, HOUSE,
HOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE. &c.
The stock of Goods. Store Furniture
and Fixtures will be SOLD IN ONE LOT.
ana the store House rented on reasonable
oGl eSs smis 70 tne purchaser, provided o bid be
9nered on amounting to the appraised value.
Inc inventory and Appraisement'B Bill may
s91,I DS Ie~Xamlned, ~ at the Office of Messrs.
MEhION " MELTON, Attorneys at Law,
tanned. ~ '0 ''o ''oS
This establishment is most advantage
o'lsly LOCATED, IN the centre of business.
40 admirably arranged and thoroughly fur.
nished, and offers the attractive induce
ments of the largest and most profitable
Dry Goods trade in the city.
E. w. BANCROFT,
oct rE Administrator.
90 The Charleston Courier, and the
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, will please
publish three times, daily, and forward
bills to this Office.
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:. ..si1ss 9 =, HlssiNissl .IlsseIrnrss.r rrs

0HARhEsToN,i OetobeF S.-ArriVed-
Steamer Sea Gull, Baltimore; scbr..
Ida Richard dson, P philadelphia. Sail
ed+Stean1ep Mon terey, New York;
schooner Mary Mankin, Providence.
RIcHMoND, October 8.-John Per-
kins, an ex-Federal soldier from
Massachusetts,, whoicame to Virginia
in the second. New Hampshire Regi-
ment, will be hung, tomorrow, ut
Portsmouth, for o rape on Miss Ford.
Benjamin Jefferson, "a negro, his ac-
compliee, who held the mother of the
girl. while Perkins violated her
daughter, and was also to have been
hung, to!morrow, had his sentence
commuted TO i'm prisonment for life
by the Governor
A negro has been sentenced to the
penitentiary or.ptwo years, for at
tempting to violate the widow of an
ex-Confederate General, in South
side, Virginia. aaJ5 'fs il
HAVANA, October 9.-Santa Anna,
for reasons not transpired, has been
ordered to leave Cuba. 81
SAN FRANCISCO, October 8.-Three
shocks of earthquake have been felt
on Silver Mountain. The atmos-
phere was afterwards obscured by
smoke. aa'TF5i
WASHINGTON, October 81. C.
Adams, q Confederate soldier, who
killed a.Union soldier. in Lexington,
Kentucky, forwhich he was sentenced
to the Dry Tortugas for life, which
was cornmuted to twelve years in the
penitentiary at Concord, New Hamp-
shire, has been released by the Presi-
dent, on: the recommendation of
Holt, supported by Schofeld.
Internal revenue receipts to-day,
$239, 900. ,Jt4.is,u zI. ssIai :
Gen. Slemmer, commanding post
at Fort Laramie. is dead.
Sherman asks for more soldiers, to
fight the Indians. 1I
Chase is preparing to start on his
Southern circuit.
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Carriage Materials,

C4NEH=S( WE have largely increased
EN6- our stock of CARRIAGE MA.
--.-s2-TERIALS, and now offer the
best selected stock, the greatest variety
and at the lowest prices to be found in the
city. Our prices are lower than the Same
goods can be purchased in Charleston.
We have also opened handsome assort-
ment of Harness Mountings, which we offer
at our usual low prices for cash.
September 10 J. Il r.. r. AGNEW
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81 SS SGhble OAspa tones so y!
PANS, October 5. Later adgices
from Brazil claim 4 victory over Iio1,
PEI, who fell back on Ase ea..si ss:,,,. =.
where the brazilian Sgsn-boats are
soon expecte he Federal steamer
Wasp, has gone to Ascension. 3 2 al
LoNDoN, OCT ober 8 8 - - he commit
tee appointed by the last Commons,
on the subject of the land laws in
Ireland, viii report al. an early day.
and the Ministers will bring in bill
to adjust the question as soon as
possible. ~ sT-H II. Sv,5 6. rs.n 49,,
An explosion occurred to-day at
Barnesly, in a .bnilding used for the
manufacture of fireworks. The
building was s utterly demolished; ;
five persons were killed and seven
wounded. s'hAssH ,,# $50 --''.'a'
MADRID, October s.-4--A provi-
sional Government has been organ
lied. Serrano and Prim, Honorary
Presidents; Ribero and Yigo Armigo,
have been appointed Vice Presidents;
Figurnelo has been made Minister of
Finances ~ Tits isaid that More, for
merly of Bravo's Cabinet, has given
in his adhesion to the Provisional
Junta. Sagusta, Rivero, Losengarra
andSAyato have. Joined the Ministry.
There is unbounded enthusiasm in
Madrid; and the crowds in the streets
: are 80 great Az tt that many persons are
crushed TO death. Ps 90, go '.} ~ ''
Asftthe ,timeI for the election. ap-
proaohes, the interest and excitement
iDcfnHanSJ rQba II ;Garoj,; Z ~, ~ IA III
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
CITY CLERKS OFFICE.
COLUMBIA, October 2, 1868
NITY TAXES on sales of merchandise,
" auction and commission sales, re-
ceipts OF hotels, boarding houses, saloons,
&c, for. the quarter ending October, are
due, and prompt payment OF the same is
required. If not settled on or before the
18th instant. the claims will be placed in
the hands Of the Sheriff for collection.
j. 8. MCMAHON, City Clerk.
October 3 6
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Fresh SUPPLIES,

NEW YORK cured picked Pig Pork,
~ extra sugar cured Breakfast Strips,
aecker's Self-Raising Flour, new No.
Bay Mackerel, Pickled Salmon, Smoked
Tongues. Together with daily supplies Of
all the various STAPLE AND FANCY
GOODS requisite in an establishment in
the Grocery line, which aims at keeping
the best-and the best is the cheapest.
Oct GEO. SYAIMERS
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-23
IndcDendent.

The Franklin (St. Nary Planters
Banner, October Sd, relates the follow
ing:
Last Saturday, a colored man who
was formerly IL servant of Mr.. u. L..
Fuselier, but who purchased his free
dom before the war, mingled with the
crowd of white and colored Democrats
and Radicals OH our streets, during the
speeches and the movements of the pro-
cession, with the following card writ
ten distinctly and placed on the front
of his hat
''MY PRINCIPLES"
Il owe no thanks to any man for my
freedom.
IL earned it during the time of slave
~, through honest toll, and with the
protection of God.
believing the North the home of free
dom, visited Boston, New York, Phila-
delphia, and other cities in search of
liberty and equal rights.
"There | met with no friends Of my
race.
81 returned to the sunny South, and
here | live, and feel that | can live free
and happy among the Southern men,
the true friends of the colored man, con-
tident that the South is the best coun-
try, and the Southern whites the best
friends of the black race.
therefore | am staunch and fear
less Democrat. and supporter of Sey-
mour and Blair.
"Your most obedient servant,
HENRY THOMAS.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-23
Plot to Assassinate the President.

Frank ID. Evans, q night fireman to
the engines of the printing department
of the United States Treasury at WASH
ington, has revealed q plot to assassi-
nate President johnson.
Last spring Evans and his wife board
ed in 2lst street, Washington, with one
Heingerber, or Himebur, a Radical city
office-holder. Evans and this man are
brothers-in-aw. One night, during the
impeachment excitement, Himebur, in
the presence of Mr.. and Mrs. Evans
and his own wife, stood up in his own
parlor and displayed with great -four
ishing an American flag. This flag, he
said. had been given him by General
Butler as one Of a company of conspi-
rators organized for the assassination of
President johnson. Evans said he felt
alarmed at the disclosure, and did not
know how to act-whether to tell the
President or not. Finally lie resolved
to leave Himebur's house, and went to
housekeeping for himself. But the fear
of fatal results from the conspiracy still
haunted him, and he told several friends
of the story of Butler and his flag. This
and what follows was told OH the 18th
to Colonel Moore, the Presidents pri-
vate Secretary. Evans says that his wife
as well as himself was prepared to swear
to its truth. Himebur was captain of a
negro company, composed of fifty men,
whom he drilled every night, and these
negroes were supposed to be in the
plot. Mr.. johnson treats the matter
with Indifference. The friends of the
President believe that a conspiracy real.
ly did exist about the time of the i'm.
parchment, but that it failed to ripen in
time, and that now all danger is past
and that nothing is to be gained by Sc.
rious investigation. Others say that
Evans and Himebur have been un'
friendly, and that the story was invent
ed by Evans to injure the other.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-23
KeeDing Corn,

A great deal of corn is wofully vast
ed after all the trouble and expense of
blowing, planting and harvesting. This
waste is absolutely wicked, and with
trifing extra care may be easily reme-
died. In the first place, i'll husking a
vigilant lookout should be kept that no
unripe, unsound ear or half-made "nub-
bin" goes in with the pile that is to go
into the crib. The pig pen is the better
place for all such material. One I'M
sound ear may, and often does, damage
q bushel of sound corn.
Next, wherever you are going to put
corn to keep, put coal or gas tar about
the premises pretty literally first. 1t is
an utter abomination to rats and mice.
They will not board in corn crib fla
vored pretty strongly with gas tar. Half
q dollars worth will likely save ten dol
lars worth of corn. Very many people
seem to suppose that corn may be kept
in any sort of crib, as open as Jack
Straw's house-neither wind nor water
tight-so that it is housed under toll
cradle roof. So it can, but never long
in a marketable condition. While corn
cribs ought always afford free ventilla-
ton, they should be so constructed as to
shut out all storms, either rain or snow.
Better grow less corn and keep it sound
than prize crops and sell it spoiled.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-23
Lettin' Go ali Holds.

Our usually plucky and determined
friend of the Louisville Courier cuts
his halyards and lets everything come
down by the run. The following is from
his issue of the 14th-thc day after the
election in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsyl-
vania:
"The returns came il slowly last
night, and although at the hour we
write this (21l A. ny they still lag, yet
sufficient have been received to indicate
the defeat of the Democrats in Penn
sylvania, Ohio and Indiana. They have
made a brave and determined fight
and it is believed have gained a few
members of Congress though not to the
extent anticipated, and, although the
majorities against them are not large
yet it is useless to attempt to conceal
the. fact that the verdict of yesterday
virtually decides the Presidential elec-
ton. Our people must make up thcii
minds to the fact that Grant will be the
next President. We earnestly hope that
the apprehensions so generally enter
tanned of the evil that will follow this
result will not be realized, but that q
new era of peace, quiet, and prosperity
may dawn ON the country.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-23
Destruction of the Arms.

A Memphis date of the 18th, has the
following in reference to the arms re-
Gently shipped from Memphis for Ar
kansas:
The little steamer Hesper, which left
here at four o'clock, yesterday after
noon, with four thousand stand Of arms
which, it is alleged, were destined for
negroes in Arkansas, returned to this
port to-day. Her officers state, that
while wooding some twenty-five miles
below here, on the Mississippi side, the
steam tug Nettie Jones bore in sight
with barge in tow containing about
forty men in disguise, who took possess
sion of the Hesper, placing guards over
the pilot and engineer. They then cut
the boat loose and steamed up the river.
The boxes containing the arms and am
munition were then broken open, the
guns broken and thrown into the river.
After thus disposing of the arms, the
party re-embarked on the tug and start
ed up the river. In attempting to 60
through chute she grounded. The
party then went ashore and took to the
woods.
1t is said the party seized the tug be-
low Fort Pickering soon after the Hes
per had left this port. The affair causes
great excitement here.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-23
The First Shot.

A London paper relates the following
under the apparent impression of its
being a fact:
''The Northerners carry their revolt
vers at their backs in the center of their
waistband." a very nervous English
man received this piece of advice from
an American.
"Waal, stranger, if you get into an
argument with any crittur, an you see
his hand stealing gently around his hip
and behind his back, be certain he
means mischief; only don't wait to see ;
you out with your siX-shooter, for it is
a triiling as to who has the first shot,
Now, don't you stand on no ceremony
with that az argumentative cuss, but fix
him with a pea-bullet there and then
as if he war a devourin' REPTILE" The
Englishman thanked his friend, and al
ways lodging about with his revolver
first in one pocket then in the other, and
keeping his eye upon any stranger with
whom he happened to converse. One
day he met MISUNDERSTANDING North
erner who was suffering from lumbago.
They conversed about the weather and
became rather warm Oh the subject OF
rain. Suddenly the lumbago man felt
twinge in the small of his back, and
with view to explain the effect of a
change of weather upon him, he COM
menced slowly slipping his hand around
him to the part affected, "Waal, strang-
er, says he wincing with pain, and his
arm gradually disappearing, 81 guess
I've got a-." The Englshman didn't
wait for the conclusion, but snatched
out his Colt and shot him dead.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-23
PunnkinS.

Besides the we'll known use of this
vegetable in the fall season, a writer
says he has for number of years
past placed two or three wagon loads
in his cellar for winter use. The lar
gest and ripest are selected and handled
with care. They should be gathered
before hard frosts injure them. If the
stem cleaves from the pumpkin or they
get much bruised they will decay and
should be rejected. If the reader is a
small farmer having one or two cows
he wishes to milk through part Of all
the winter, he will find pumpkins very
convenient as some of them will keer
sound until February.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-23
The Negro and his Northern
Friends. ....

The Chicago Standard of October LIST,
which is the organ of the Baptists Of
the Northwestern States, and is ofcourse
sufficiently Radical in its politics, says:
eve doubt seriously whether 1t has
been for the interests of the colored race
themselves to excite among them such
expectations as they seem to cherish, or
to encourage them in putting forward
so prominently, and at so early an hour,
their claims to political equality. What
ever may be true, abstractly, of the es-
sential equality, in their present condi-
ton, is what no one will assert. Nor
was 1t to be expected that the Southern
people would be prepared at once to
welcome change so radical aud so i'm
mense as when he who was so recently
a slave becomes not only voter, but a
legislator. There is reason in what
they urge, that the colored people are,
rs body, wholly unprepared. in their
present condition, either to vote or to
make laws. We believe that they carry
their views in that direction to an ex-
treme; but we believe that negro, like
white man, is not to be held compe-
tent for the right exercise of all the
rights of citizenship, simply because he
is man. So we believe, that upon the
other side, as well, extreme views have
been held, and measures adopted which,
in their earliest operation, may be crude,
and even dangerous. q. "i' w
The emancipation of four millions of
colored people in the South, afforded
the grandest possible opportunity for
the practical application, at least in a
degree, of such principles in this great
question of citizenship, as would have
prepared the way for thorough correc-
ton Of existing evils. We fear that
considerations Of party interests, and
the wish to use the colored population
of the South for certain ends, have led
to legislation which, however we might
wish the country, and especially the
South, were prepared for it, neverthc-
less is premature, crude and likely to
embarrass its own ends.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-23
Georgia..

ATLANTA, Oct. 16.-The Democratic
Executive Committee of Georgia to-
day published preamble and resolu-
tons declaring unequivocally false the
representations made by Republican
speakers in the Presidential canvass, that
the Southern people are in favor of the
re-establishment of slavery, referring
to the ratification amendments of the
Constitution forever abolishing slavery
and involuntary servitude except for
crime, indorses the address of Robert
L. Lee and others in response to letters
from Gen. Rosecrans, and say that they
have acquiesced in the present status of
the colored race among them, and will
protect them to the full extent of their
power in the right of suffrage, secured
to them by the Constitution of the
United States and Constitution and laws
of the State.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-23
Remarkable Suicide.

A young lady named Ramsey, resid-
ing near Jacobsburg, Belmont county,
Ohio, committed suicide one day last
week. 1t appears that young man OF
that neighborhood has been paying at
tcntion to her. One evening before her
death he called and remained all night.
In the morning the girl proposed that
they should both commit suicide. TO
this he objected. Afterward the girl
handed him piece of pie, and also ate
a piece herself. Not liking the taste OF
the pie, the young man stepped out to
throw it away. When he returned,
about ten minutes aftcrward, the young
lady was a corpse, having been poison
ed by some substance in the pie.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-23
Gentle Anna.

% Miss Anna Dickinson is writing let
tiers in behalf of the radical cause, and
abusive of Mr.. Seymour; and some of
the radical editors are silly enough to
print them for her. Miss Dickinson is
a female woman Of decided talent, but
would be more appropriately employed
and experience more happiness, no
doubt, if she would manage to secure
to herself husband, and go to raising
babies. The idea Of nice, well edu-
Gated and good looking young woman
mixing up and dragging her skirts in
the dirt and mire Of party politics, is
,abominable.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-23
RumOred Revelations by Crazy
Man.

We clip the following from Radical
paper published at Divorceville, ILL
nois:
Pollard, the irrepressible, announces
that he is going to intlict another book
upon the world. What he proposes to
himself now is life of Jefferson Davis.
We are promised startling revelations
of the inner life of the Southern Con-
federacy, which is to be shown up as
holding out to public view the forms of
republican government, while in reality
it was as closely yelled in its operations,
as secret and recluse as the most abso-
lutte and arrogant despotism. Pollard
says in his prospectus that ''many things
happened behind that curtain which
Mr.. Davis so studiously spread before
his government, Of which the world has
as yet no knowledge, and Of which
even people living in Richmond, and in
the shadow Of that government, have
only the faintest conception, or, at best,
a checquered and imperfect revelation.
We are promised disclosures about eva
rious conspiracles and vengeful plots in
the war;" which have been withheld
until the present, lest they "might be
used against Mr. Davis on his expected
trial, or might intlame against him a
fatal prejudice"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-23
Cure of Rheumatism.
A Chicago paper has the followin

A Chicago paper has the following
specific case of cure for rheumatism:
The case of Ida Buergler and Pan
tratz Dumproff, charged with living in
an open state of adultery, was examin-
ed at the police court on Friday morn
ing. Dumproh, in making his state
ment, said that he had severe attack of
the rheumatism, and in order that he
might be more comfortable, had shared
the couch of the faithless Ida. The
court decided that the defense was in
sufficient, and committed him for trial
in bail of $500, for having rheumatic
affection. The inconstant spouse of
Buergler was committed in like
amount ...
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-23
Planting Trees.

The editor Of the Southern Farmer,
published at Memphis, says he has been
planting trees since 1882, and has plant
ed at all times, from before the leaf was
checked in growth until even in May,
and has found that the best time is as
soon after frost comes in the fall as the
land can be got in good condition,
neither too wet nor too dry. Those
who desire to plant fruit or shade trees
should try fall planting. .rf a..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-23
More Commercials.

The Savannah Meas says: We learn
that number of counterfeit two-dollar
this city, and our readers had better ex-
anime closely all notes of that denomi-
nation which may be offered to them.
The counterfeits are printed on paper so
like that used by the Treasury Depart
ment as to be well calculated to deceive,
but in close scrutiny of the engraving
the spurious notes may be detected, as
the vignette is poorly executed. Look
out for them.