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TO PLANTERS.
GUANO SOLD FOR COTTON
AZ Pe1,,ce,l p,.;cea

At Reduced Prices.
fA'hE undersigned, CHAMBERS s. BRYCE,
GIBBS & CO.'S STANDARD GUANOS. viz:
Pure imported Phoenix Island, Wilcox, Gibbs
d @ cos Manipulated, and Guano Salt end
Taste; r.aster Compound. are authorized to sell q
limited quantity for AIiddling Cotton, at 15c.
per pound; Cotton to be delivered at planters
nearest depot, in good order, properly baled,
prcylous to the 1st OF November next. Apply
~ the Undersigned Agents at Columbia, S. c.,
for particulars. -
jEcso Guanos are ALL imported direct in
oulh, and no admixture OF Insolublo Phos.
89nates or Stone Manure. Their Peruvian
Guanoppe, but the real No. l Peruvian. and is
the first and only cargo ever Imported direct
to charleston or Savannah.
Sl,UOU fREA1Uai.-They offer 81 Zoo premium
for tho largest increased yield, for tho use of
not less than ono ton of their Guano. under
the following conditions:
LIST: Only Phoenix Guano, Wilcox, Gibbs Il
20, manipulated, and Guano Salt and Plaster
compound, without admi1ture with any other
manure, shall be used on the land entered for
competition. IVA
I'd. That competitors shall submit eatisfac.
tory proof as to the quantity OF Guano used,
and the increased yield in proportion to guam.
tity, to committee appointed by the Cotton
States Mechanics and Agricultural Fair Asso-
ciatiou. to bo held at Augusta, Ca, noxt fall,
VINO S sha shal be the cole judges OF said proofs,
aSc shsH make the award; and the premium
shall be paid as soon as the award of tho
committee is receivcd
;, Their Agents are also authorized to sell
tcelr Guanos, for cash, at the roducod cash
prices, and also on time, for sa.is(actory &C.
curity.
These Guanos have boon in use for q series
OF years, and have been surpassed by none.
We have acted as Agents for more than year
and ere now supplying again those who used
1t last year, which is the best proof OF it's su-
perior qualities. We have tried it ourselves
and can vouch for its superiority; and could,
its advantages over other fertilizers. We have
a large lot now in store, here, and constantly
receiving and adding to our supply. Are now
ready 10 Ill orders and ship, If desirable, to
any depot or station on the line of either CT
our railroads. Awaiting orders.
March limo CHAMBERS & BRYCE.
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In the House, the Republicans seem

In the House. the Republicans seem
to be fearfully demoralized at the sight
OF SO many Democrats. They have no
hope that q Ku Klux bill can be passed,
and very few of them, except the bold
Ben. Butler, have any idea OF trying the
experiment. The Democrats, they al-
iege. would keep them here all summer
fillibustering. Bon. Butler SAYS he is
willing to try it, and he can stay as long
as the Democrats. Butler stated to-day
that he did not intend to go into general
legislation. but only to pass bill for the
suppression of the Ku Klux. One of his
colleagues said the Republicans could
not pass bill OF that kind if they re-
NAMED here NIL the year. The indica-
tions are that the Democratic side of the
House will exercise wholesome re-
straint in the new Congress over the Re-
publicans. The latter, at least, seem to
appear to appreciate fully the Democrat
ic strength.
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Gen. Braxton Bragg has brought suit
in the United States Circuit Court
against parties who live in France, for
the possession Of his old Greenwood
plantation, claiming $4,000 damages
Tor destruction OF property, and also for
5S7 shares, each for 500, of stock in the
Citizens Bank Of Louisiana.
The attention of the Secretary of
State has been c,lled to the fact that
there are quite n number of Russians
living at Sitka who are in destitute
condition. They desire to leave that
country, and ask that means for emigrnt-
ing to Russian possessions may he as-
A Lexington, Kentucky, paper asks:
"lf Congress cannot grant a charter to
the Cincinnati and Southern Railroad,
how could it charter the Cincinnati and
Covington Bridge Company?" If the
author of this conuudrum cannot iump
down his own throat, how could he jump
out OF bed yesterday morning?
It appears from recent medical ezami-
nations, made in the English lunntic
asylnms, that the bones Of crazy people
are more brittle than those of the sane,
there being, through the action of the
diseased brain, wasting away of the
phosphates.
"Gcn. Butler, an exchange tells us,
"hns recently presented $500 worth of
silver plate to a church in AIussachu-
setts:" If this be true, that church
sl.ould Immediately be arrested and ar
ralgned as a receiver of stolen property.
Jean Pierron, on old miser, died last
week, in New Orleans. worth $50 600
He had often begged in the streets, and
is said to have lived on % cents day for
years.
a New York health officer left somo
carbolic acid in o tenement house, as q
disenfectant. A woman, supposing it
baandy, mado and drank milk punch
OF it, and in half an hour was dead.
Immense coal beds in the North of
Greenland were among the discoveries
of the German Arctic expedition.
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FINANoIAL AND CommERCIat.

LONDON, March 11-Noon.-Consols
9l24. Bonds 91s1.
FRANKFORT, March 11.-Bonds 96hM
985S. 0>s@
L1vEnpoo1. March 11-Noon.-Cotton
dull and unchanged-uplnnds Tx: Or
leans tx; sales 10000 bales.
PARIS, March 1O.-The bourso closed
quiet-rentes SO and 95.
New YORK, March 11-Noon.-Flour
and wheat unchanged. Corn firm. Pork
dull, at 21.50Ge21.75. Lard heavy. Cot
ton quiet and steady-middling uplands
l434; Orleans 15ii1; sales 1000 bales.
Freights steady. Governments steady
at about yesterdays prices. Stocks
strong but not very active. State bonds
very dull. Money 4. Gold strong. ut
III. Exchange-long 93a; short iOM.
7P. M.-Cotton quiet and unchanged,
with sales of 1900 bales, at 143d. Flour
unchanged. Wheat shade firmer-
winter red and amber Western 2. 65@2. .G7.
Corn 1c. higher, at 85L6S7. Pork
heavy, at21.37@21.50. Beef quiet Lard
unchanged. Freights steady-cotton.
sail, 114(95-1G. Gold 111s@11I. Money
2(Y4. Governme nts steady. Southerns
inactive Virginias and South Cnrolinas
very strong. Tennessees 6414; new G4af;
vIrginias 66}5; new 6S. Louisianas
GS1s; now 62; levees 7211s; IS ssh. Ala
bamas 100; 5s So. Georgias 60; rs 80.
North Carolinas At; new &c. South Ca
rolinas 70; new 6S4. Sterling-long
95ll; short 1925. Bank statement-loans
increase over Sc, $50, 600; specie decrease
over $500, 600; deposits increase 81, 75O,-
600; legal tenders decrease 81, 900, 600.
BALTIMORE, March 11.-Cotton quiet
and weak-middlings 14ll0145; re-
ceipts 2G5 bales; sales 1875; Stock l3. 5S5.
CINCINNATI, March 11.-Flour quiet
and weak-family G.30@6so. Corn in
good demand, at 5S. Provisions dull
and holders unwilling to conce.le. Whis-
key firm, at ST.
LOUISVILLE, March 11.-Breadstu1s 1s
unchanged. Whiskey, at 81.
New ORLEANS, March 11.-Cotton-
middling 14l9 14''.i; receipts 10, 400 bales;
sales G,2O0; stock 291 GIL. Corn easier
mixed 60; white and yellow 70. Pork
dull-oaered at $3.50; no buyers.
Bacon 1ull and lower, at 0llsNI12; sugar
cured hams 1G01G's. NIolassesS
boiled 46. Others unchanged.
SAVANNAH. March 11.-Cotton in
moderate demand and !owcr-middlinc
l35sWl324; receipts 1,GS4 bales; sales
oou, StoCh q, I'LL.
CnARIEsroS, March 11.-Cotton dull
-middling 1356@13ai; receipts SCI
bales; sales 800; stock 26, 526.
NoRroLk, March 11.-Cotton dull
low middling l2@sD12ai; receipts 1,l5l
bales; sales 100; stock 1857.
BosToS, March 11.-Cotton steady
middling IS; receipts 1880 bales; sales
600; stock 11,OOO.
AUGUSTA, March 11.-Cotton closed
dull md easy. at 13li for Liverpool mid
ding; sales 2l4 bales; receipts 200.
GALVESTON, March 1l.-Cotton dull
and tending down-good ordinary II !;
gl!i2; receipts l,l60 bales; sales l, 400;
stock 54,265.
W1LM1NGToE, March 11.-Cotton quiet
-middlings 12a.i; receipts GO bales; sales
30: stock $3.50.
MOBILE, March 11.-Cotton dull
niddlings II; receipts 74i bales; sales
500; stock 59,537.
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Taken Up.
Removal.
Early Cabbage Plants.

THE largo demand for PLANTS has ex-
now cf1cr. for sale Early Wyman, a fine market
variety, heads early, large size, brings the
-, Early jersey. Wakefield, from true sced.
and is p favoritc with gardeners.
-, Carriers Superfno Early Dwarf Cabbage.
These plants are perfection. Vigorous growth; ;
being transplanted, are hardy and ready for
MaTcn ~ Drug Store.
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Gov. Alcorn, of Mississippi, has met
with series of misfortunes within the
past few weeks, such as are seldom visit
ed on ono man. Some four weeks ago
destructive fire swept away bis magnifi-
cent gin house and saw mill, with oil
their costly machinery, on his Jones
town plantation, and within four days
after his policy ofinsurance had expired.
Before the extent of his loss could be
fully realized, devastating storm swept
over his domains, destroying his fine
sstorehouso and scattering its contents
broadcast. The damage is said to be
very heavy.
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REMOVAL.

rANHE undersigned have taken that large and
IL elevated corner store house, on the hill
nearly opposite the marble yard, where they
are prepared to STORE COTTON or MER-
CilAND!AE at customary rates, and will ma he
liberal advances on shipments to Charleston.
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston,
or Liverpool Will also I'll, orders for the pur-
chase or cotton, and attend to the sale Of
produce generally consigncd TO them for
sale.
They have also a large quantity OF those
superior and wel-known fertilizers of Mcssrs.
Wilcox, Gibbs & Co. for sale. (Scc advertise
mcnt.) Also, 1000 bushels Corn and othcr
articles, which will be sold at the lowest
market price. Call and see them, either for
the sale or purchase.
Feb tlmo CHAMBERS & BRYCE.
Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Rail-
road Company.
PRESIDENTS OFFICE.
CHARLOTTE, March /, 1871.
rTNHlS Company will continue to receive
a money on deposit or loan for ak months
or longer, and pay interest on the came at the
rate OF ten per cent. per annun. Deposits
or loans may be made with the Treasurer OF
the Company ut Columbia, N. =. Pegram
Cashier, or the undersigned.
WILLIAM JOHNSTON,
Aarch 2ElH President.
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Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Rail
road COMPANY.

Cotton Seed.
HAVE 400 bushels COTTON SEED, which
i l offer for sale, at 80 cents per bushel.
These seed arc second year, from David Dick
son, and the product of 2l acres of land, from
100 lbs., i'll the two years. Only one mule
used. r. O'NEAIE. In
March lmo Cotton Town.
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Notice.

Notice.
ESdINEEEs OFFICE, COLUMBIA CASA1,
March 10, 1871.
NNHE public are notified that the work of
Il Improvement OF the Columbia Canal will
require a temporary suspension of navigation
on and after the 9th inst. Due notice will be
given OF the ro-opening OF the same.
March 10 ST Enainresr
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Ihe Doctors Recommend Seegers Beer
N preference to London Porter and Scotch
Il ale. Wh!2 They know it is unadulter-
etei March IL
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In the District Court of the United
States for the District Of South Caro-
lima.
In tie matter Of s. IT. Myers ee Co., EunIrap.s.
In Eankrup.cy.
NE the 23d day of February, A. D. 1871. on
" reading the petition, it is Ordered, That
hearing be had upon the same on the 1st
day of APRIL, A. D. 1871, before said Court
at Charleston, in said District, at II o'clocI
A. NJ, and that all creditors who have proved
their debts, and other persons in interest, may
appear at said time and place and show cause
II any they have, why the prayer OF tho said
petition should not be granted; and that &C.
before c. G. Jaeger, at Newberry, on the 2Sth
day CT March, a. D. 1871.
DANIEL HORLBECK,
March NIB Clerk or the District Court.
Fruits. Flowers and Vegetables, &c.
TX POPULAR FLOWERS, and how 70
6c cultivate them. BY Rand
The City Fruit Garden and it's Culture. Dy
Thomas Rivers. Thirteenth edition. II CO.
Peach Culture. ByJ. a. Fulton, Of Della.
ware. Fl 80.
The Grape Cn!turist. BY Fullcr 81 So
Inc Southera Gardener. BY White, 0:
Georgia. S2.00.
Practical Horticulture fer the Amateur
by henderson. S1.5U
Buist's Family Kitchen Gardener. 81 co.
GucnoI OF M;cL Cows AID ,hc Dairy. Is
cents.
The The Gentiehiai,e stable Guide. BY McLure
The Trotting Horse. os America; How tc
, Train and Drive them. s225.
Professor Holmes Ncik on Phcsrha:c
Rock. For sale by
Feb 2s BEYAS IL ilcCARTEC.
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Sale for Foreclnsnre

RY virtue Of a power Of attorney given to
- me, will sell, at public auction, before
4e the Court House. at Columbia, on the FIRST
All that lot, pieco, parcel or tract of LAND
situGte, lying and Leing in the city Of Colum.
pa, putting and bounding to the North on
ueryais street; to the East on Gates street; to
to the West on lot OF Martha A. Glenn. Terms
cash. JOHN AGNEW ~ lne
March IL ITO Special Attorney in fact.
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Auction Sales.
Sale tor Foreclosure

SesAS AoA - O4CCAVbuI0s
R1 virtue OF a power OF attorney to me
~ given 6y Robert 81. Walton, will sell
before tho Court House in Columbia, on the
a. NJ, at public auction. oONA
All that HOUSE and LOT on Taylor street,
n9nnded East by lands late OF said Robert H'
walton, South by lands of Samuel Fair, de.
ceased, ana West by lots OF Southern Express
werp, containing one quarter OF an acre. more
or iess. Terms cash. GEO. L. DIAL.
March ii Attorney by Special Power
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Seegers Beer is Pure.
TT don't contain Cococulus Indicus FisI
Il Berries to make sleepy or headache.
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1t is understood that the President will
soon nominate to the Senate number of
Senators and members whose terms ex-
pred on the 9th instant, to important Of
flces ut homo and abroad. There is
quite list Of these gentlemen, nearly
a!i OF whom expect the President to pro-
glde Tor them. Most of them are anx-
lous 70 60 abroad, and, rs consequence,
several recalls of persons now decming
themselves secure are expected.
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Terms Cash Only.

Terms Cash Only.
NCR terms are strictly cast, and no order
~ will hereafter be filled, or goods deliver.
ed, atiN PAID for. All parties Indebted to us
VIII please cali and pay tho same immediate !.
March
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In San Francisco, on the 9th, the Chi.
nese INDUCED in pitched battle in the
rear Of their theatre in the afternoon.
Knives and iron bars were freely used.
They were finally dispersed by the means
OF n shower OF bricks, hurled from the
neighboring roofs by the mutual friends
OF the contestants. Many were injured,
but it is not known whether any were
killed. Several were arrested.
The invention of the Bavarian mitrail
leuso promises to prove equivalent to a
gold mine for the inventor. He has re-
ceived $1,000 for the invention, and will
receive Sl.2O for every gun Of this pat
tern turned out from the Government
manufactory.
Tho Haytiens are preparing for war.
These bellicose people are determined to
resist their annexation to the United
States, even at the cost of European
Ia?ent and $4,000 Snider rifles.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-05-25

| GOOD ADVICE TO DYsPEPTICs.-If a mar
wishes to get rid Of dyspepsia he must give hi.
stomach and brain less to do. 1t will be of nc
service to him to follow any particular regimen
to live on chaf bread, or any such stuff
to weigh his food, ETC., so long rs the brain is
| IN constant state of excitement Give the
brain proper rest and it will assist the stomach
to perform its functions. But if he pass four.
teen or fifteen hours day in his office or bis
countlng-room, and take no exercise his stonl-
ach will inevitably become paralyzed and if he
puts nothing into it but cracker day it will
not digest 1t. In many Cases it is the brain that
is the primary cause. Give that delicate organ
some rest. Leave your business behind you
wheH you go to your home. Do not sit down
to your dinner with your brows knit, and your
mind absorbed in casting up interest accounts.
Never abrdge the usual hours of sleep Take
more or less exercise in the open air every day.
Eat moderately, slowly, and of whatever you
please. If any particular dish disagrees with
you, however, never touch it, or look ut it. Do
not imagine that you must live on rye bread,
nor oatmeal porridge; reasonable quantity
OF nutritious food is essential to the mind as
well as to the body. Above all, Danish every
thought of the subject If you have any treat.
ises on dyspepsia, domestic medicine, etc, put
them directly into the fire. If you are con
stantly talking and thinking about dyspepsia,
you will surely have it. Endeavor to forget
that you have had a stomach Keep a clear
conscience; live temperately, regularly, clean
ly; be industrious, too, but be temperate
Boston Journal Of Chemistry
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-05-25

How TO DISTINGUISH POISONOUS SER
PENTs.-In this connection, it may not be
uninteresting to mention some characteristics
by which poisonous serpents in the United
States can always be distinguished. In the
first place, we have no venomous species with
Longitudinal stripes, nor any of which the color
lis entirely green, black or brown. We may
therefore, eliminate all striped and all uniform
lily cOlored snakes, "garter snakes" "Diack
snakes" "green snakes ETC., from the series
of the kinds that are to be dreaded. Our
poisonous serpents are all marked with trans
verse blotches, which are also characterized by
having broad triangular head, considerably
and apprecaby wider than the narrow neck,
this expansion of the head being required to
accommodate the poison.glands.
Again, the poisonous species possess deep
| pit or cavity on each side of the face, between
the eye and the nostril, always very definitely
marked the nostril being at the snOut. The
stories, therefore, of the venOmOus character
of the "black snakes" and "garter Snakes" are
fabulous.
1t may be we'll enough to mention, while on
the subject of poisonous reptiles, that no lizards
of any kind are known to produce poisonous
wounds. Some, like the alligator, produce
serious wound by bite; but there is nothing
WnaC6Ver Analogous 10 EouUu VI tuC SoA-
pent to be found in this order. Nor is there
any credence to be placed in the stories of
snakes with poison apparatus in the tail.
Every neighborhood in the United States has
legend of so.called, "hoop snake" which
takes its tail in its mouth and runs rapidly
down hill after some terrified individual, and
on reaching him, uncolls, and lashes out the
sting of its tail, which, fortunately strikes into
tree near by, to the great relief of the ex
pected victim. The tree then has to bear the
brunt of the charge, and in twenty-four hours
it is found to have been completely killed, all
the leaves on the branches having withered.
1t is not uncommon for certain species OF
snakes to have the terminal plates of the tail
coalesced into a kind of hard, conical point;
but this has no penetratve power. and contains
no concealed sting, like that of the bee or wasp
such as is ascrbed to the hoop snake by its
credulOus historians.
One North American Serpent, the Flaps
fulrius (the harlequin" or coral snake),
a species beautifully annulated with black, red
and yellow, belongs to u poisonous family, in
which there are small, permanently erect pos-
On-fangs, instead of the movable ones of the
rattesnake and copperheads. Our species has,
however. never been known to attempt TO bite,
it, indeed it possess the power to do any injury.
The South American coral snake, an allied spe
cies, is said to be extremely dangerous.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-05-25

| INDIAN PUNIsIMENT.-The Pottawotomie
Indians used to punish men who ran away with
the wives of another Indian by tying the cul-
prt to the ground and allowing the injured
husband to bite off the nose of the destroyer
of his domestic happiness. The law has been
abolished recently. in consequence of the scan
dalOus conduct of a Shawnee Indian named
Shying Mule.
This brave had no nose, that feature having
been sliced off with a scalping-kn during n
controversy with a friend So when Shying
Mule eloped with the wife of Pottawotomic,
and he was arrested, he adorned himself with
n wax nose-one of gross provided for such
an emergency. He was tied 10 the ground.
and the injured husband bit the nose off and
swallowed it. He smacked his lips for twice,
as it didn't taste exactly right. but he had too
much spirit to admit that he was sold.
Shying Mule immediately ran away with the
wife of another brave. When he was brought
back he had fresh nose on, looking Us natural
as life
The Indians were surprised, but they turned
the husband on, and he bit away and swallowed
the wax without winking. This kind of thing
continued off and on for two years-Shying
different periods. and every time he returned
with one Of those noses standing out on his
face like the marker on a sun.dial
The Pottawotomies considered that this kind
of thing was getting monotonous; they were
scared They regarded the miraculous success
of this Shawnee as a cultivator Of noses as a
direct animation from the Great Spirit that
their law was wrong, and so they abolished it.
Shying Mule says he is gradually working these
savages onward to that perfect Christian civil
ization which gives man a right to kill the
person who runs away with his wife, provided
the forsaken can prove that he was insane.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-05-25

THE EMPEROR WILLIAM FLooRED-A In.
dicrous scene happened at the palace of VIII
liam l. after his return to Berlin. The Emne,
ror had an enormous Newfoundland dog that
he left at home on his trip to France. When
William entered, for the first time after his re-
turn, the hallway leading to his private apart.
ments, the huge animal, recognizing his voice,
rushed upon the Emperor, and in his impetu.
GUS JOY, actually threw William the First to the
floor. The Emperor rose smilingly and ca.
ressed the dog
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-05-25

ORIGIN OF LoAFER.-An old Dutchmau
settled at New York, and acquired consider
able fortune. He had an only daughter, and q
young American fell in love with her, or her
dollars, or both. The father forbade him in
his house, but the daughter encouraged him
Whenever the old merchant saw the young
man about the premises he used to exclaim to
his daughter: "'There is that loafer (lover)
OF yours. the idle, good or-nothing." So the
shiftless fellow.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-05-25

Mr.. SHOCKS was asked the other day how
he could account for natures forming him 90
ugly. mature was not to blame" said he.
"When was two months old was considered
the handsomest child in the neighborhood. but
my nurse snapped me away for another bow.
Just to please friend of hers, whose child was
rather h0mely-looking."
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-05-25

A BACHELORS ELYsIUM.-In the town Of
PrinceyiIle, Illinois, which contains only six
hundred inhabitants and forty-nine houses, for
fy.six widows maintain an existence.