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A FEARFUL STORM IN THE NORTH-
WEST

CHICAGO, February IA.
A fearful storm has prevailed In the Vicinity
of Sioux City. Tue mercury fell forty degrees In
two hours. A Ahurrlcsne, with binding snow.
continues. Several deaths are repor ed trom
the sudden cold. The trains on this division
Of the Central illinois Road are all blocked by
the snow. The thermometer this morning
was eighteen degrees below zero. A report
that Spotted Tall and his band were frozen is
believed, but the prostratlon of the telegraph
by the storm prevents vert1cation.
ST. PAUL. February IA.
The heaviest snow storm Of the season oc-
Cured to-day. The thermometer was below
zero all day. The railroads west are blocked
up, and 1t Is feared that the Canadian survey
Ing party, numbering twenty-five men under
Colonel McNab, which left Dnnleath for upper
Superior, have psrished. When last heard
from, January 9th, they were In an open boat.
The lake is full of Ice, and storm Is pre-
vailiDg.
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NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, D. c., February IL.
The Hornet was allowed to go from Baltl-
more to New York under bond.
The Criminal Court Is entertaining motion
for the arrest Of judgment In the case OF Con-
gressman Stokes. The Impression Is that
Stokes will escape the penalty.
SENATE.-Sumner's resolution of Inquiry re-
rardine the sale of arms occupied the entire
day. Adjourned without action. The discus
sion was bitter and confined entirely to Re-
publicans.
inquire what had become OF the navy, which
was DIRECTED to on account Of SchOfeld's abb
sence. The committee on ways and means
reported a bill abolishing the tariff on tea and
coff.a. Frpnklinbar. In reporting the bill
ttated that majority of the committee Of
ways ami means were opposed to the repeal.
The naval appropriations occupied the rest OF
of the day.
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TIE OLD WORLDS NEWS.

NEW York, February IL.
The Hersld's London special says: mo
English cabinet continuing the negotiations
un,ier the treaty as the case now stands could
hold office for twenty four nours. therefore.
th.. arh tration is ended, unless some mutual
understanding, modifying the point at issue,
is made"
Sir Edward Thornton apprehends no Sc
rloms trouble between England and America
over the treaty.
The expedition in search OF DR.. Livingstone
American claims for indirect damages.
PARIS. February IA.
The members of the Right have declared
their nm Willingness to fuse with the 0rleanists
In the Assembly.
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TIE WEATHER THIS DAY.
WAsHISaToN, DC

WASHINGTON, D. c., February IA.
The highest barometer will probably extend
on Thursday norlheastward over the Gull and
South Atlantic States. a rising barometer
Middle aud Eastern States, and west and
norlhwesLerly winds will prevail from New
England to Florida and westward to the Mis-.
sissppl. An area of fow barometer will pro-
badly develop In the upper Missouri valley.
clear weather prevailing In the Southern and
Gulf States, except the immediate coast west
OF Texas, where easterly winds Ina ana CLOUDY, cloudy
have been ordered, but dangerous winds are
not anticipated for Wednesday night on the
Gulf or Atlantic coasts. :.
Yssterday's Weather Reports OF tho
Signal Service, U. 8. A.-4.47 r. M,
Local Time,
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~ ST. JOSEPH AND 5 DENVER,
CITY RAILROAD COMPANY. ia!
MnniripaI Notices.

~ TAXES.-THE TAXPAYERS OF
the Seventh District OF Charleston County, com.
prising Edisto, Johns, Wadmslaw, James Island
aud St Andrews Parish, are hereby notified thas1
the Tax Books will be In the city. at the Fire-j
PROOF Building, February 49, for the Collection ofo
State County, Poll and School Taxes, for the year
1871, and viii remain open 10th, 18th, 10th and
2lst, closing 22d.
n. B.-The delinquent Taxpayers Of 1869 viii
have no further time allowed from that date. =
WIN. H. ". GRAY,
feb12-s Deputy Treasurer.
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RUNAWAY CAUGHT--MORE RAIL
ROAD CONSOLIDATION
SAVANNAH. February IL.

SAVANNAH, February IA.
Johu Conner, who absconded from Scran-
ton, Pennsylvania, with ten thousand dollars,
was arrested Yesterday aboard The steamer
Magnolia from New York. Nine thousand
nine hundred and seventy-nine dollars were
recovered.
The annual election OF officers Of the Allan
tic and Gulf Railroad was held to-day. The
old board was reelected. A proposition to
extend the road 10 Mobile met with great
favor. but was referred for further details.
An Offer from Morris Ketehum, and others of
New York, 10 lease the road was read, and
motion requesting the parties to make q def
Mite offer was adopted, which proposition is
to be submitted to the stockholders at future
meeting.
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and that OF our neigbors from the interior 10
the seaboard. Ever man who voted for the
charter did 30 feelig that he should love his
neighbor as himself "But Mr.. Chairman, the
idea of parting will that road seems to me
like nothing more or less than bartering
away our offspring. God I would as soon
sell my child, Ied and worn as I
am. I cannot spek of 1t. Part with our
child Afler rearin it and caring for it; after
watching 1t In tralsInd troubles, and seeing
1t emerge into lIghtInd hope from the dark
| ness of ruin and deoair? saw the trouble
coming. risked te little I was worth with
no triumph In prosect but the triumph Of
utter ruin" The enerable speaker, whose
pathetic words wertdeeply felt by every one,
said also that be ha seen the direction put
their shoulders tothe wheel In the face Of
difficulties which semed insuperable, and at
length brought tn old road through. The
stockholders had nt received dividends, but
the people of the cantry had. he wanted to
hear of no worse rtalry between Georgia and
South Carolina except the generous rivalry Of
striving 10 do the umost for each other.
The Hon. Geo. A Trenholm asked leave to
etate the plain proosllion, that when com.
mon carrier had carried merchandise and pas
sengers Tor one yer, and at the end of the
year found that the'eceIpts and expenditures
were equal to each 'ther, 1t was plain that the
work of carrying passengers and freight had
been done at its exst cost. This was the case
with The South Caolipa Road. 1t had rem
dered great andlmportant service to the
country. II had gfen the public dividend,
although 1t did not,ow give one to Its stock
holders.
The resolution ws then put and unani-
mously adopted.
The meeting having on motion, resolved IT.
self Into committe,of the whole, with the
Hon. Gabriel Cannon the chair, the follow
Ing resolution was ut and unanimously
adopted
RESOLVED, That thethanks of this meeting
are due and are hereN rendered to the Hon.
q. D. Lesesne for thebie, courteous and dlgni-
fed manner In whih he has presided over
their deliberations.
Upon Mr.. Lesesnetre5uming the chair, the
resolution was reporbd to him. He expressed
his qualification for th kind and flattering ap-
probation OF his smalservlce, which had been
rendered easy by the characteristic decorum
and proprIety which hd prevailed during the
deliberations of the melting.
On motion, the melting then adjourned
sine die.
Result Of tic Election.
DIRECTORS OF THE soJTH CAROLINA RAILROAD
COMPANY.
l. VIM. J. Magrath. 9. B. q. Rice.
O. Geo. A. Trenholm! 10. VIM. A. Courtenay.
8. L. D. Desaussure II. James 8. Glbbes.
4. John Hancksl. IL. James P. Boyce.
s. Andrew Stmonds. l3. James Conner.
6. Geo. W. Williams. IA. W. L. Ellis.
7. Henry GourdIn. Is. Daniel Tyler.
8. Francis J. Pelzer.
DIRECTORS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD
BANK.
l. J. G. Cochran. 8. ]. s. Gibbes
2. L. D. DeSaussare. 9. W. ]. Magrath.
8. J. P. Boyce. 10. W. A. Pringle.
4. J. q. Wilson. IL. Henry Gourdln.
s. W. A. Courtenay. IL. B. q. Rice.
q n W WillJono 10 ron,ao Tonnar
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exceedingly unlnteresting. The only new
measure Of any importance was the introduc-
tion by Green OF q bill to compel attendance
at school of children between the ages Of six
and sixteen years, which provides that every
parent, guardian or other person having chill
dren between the ages Of six and sixteen IN
their employ or charge shall send such chill
dren to school for period Of at least four
consecutive months in each year. Non-com-
pliance with this act Is declared crime. and
is made punishable with fifty dollars fine and
on the public roads. PICKET.
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GRANTS NEPO1ZSM
MOBILE, February il

- = - MOBILE, February II: "a
The Mobile Tribune Gays D. G. Rngg,f 8 class
mate Of General Horace Porter of theiP Presi-
dents staff, has been made deputy collector
Of customs at Mobile. he was unknown to-
Collector Miller, and his appointment was 8
appointed postmaster In Huntsville by Grant,;
last winter, at Porter's request; His appoint
ment In the customhouse is understood to:
explain In part the influences which procured
Warmers removal, through Porter and Came.
ron. ".'i - 90 - 2 49, .!:iyil
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NOTES FROM NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, February IA.
Dutch George, the celebrated counterf.iter,
is dead.
libel If he Is acquitted.
The Rrform ticket swept staten Island.
Several motions 10 quasn tne lndlcEment
against Stokes were refused. The Judge and
iirv viii consider the question OF the illegality
ta Of the grand jury after the evidence and argu-
mani
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I sB NIAGARA FIRE ENGINE CON-
PANY, No. s.-You are hereby summoned to ap.r
pear at the Engine. House, In Uniform, THm Ar.
TERsiooN. at O'Clock, to pay the last tribute OF
respect to your late brother member, DUNCAN
INGRAHM. !,aiA Z. eis t.tgr-|; -
BY order. JAS. II. HOLLOWAY; = -
fehl5 90 ~ i.Tay Secretary.
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,tu,1eraI Notices. !.

gF THE RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND
Acquaintance Of Mr.. and Mrs. DUNCAN H..
GRAIN, also OF his mother, Anne Dence, and
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Galloway, are particularly invited
to attend the Funeral OF the former, lTH1s AFrHR-
NOON. at his late residence Laurel street, near
Line, at O'Clock. feb15
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Marrien.

AN-WItKENBERG-on the evening Of
the 18th February, 1879, at st. Johns Luthefsn
Church, by the Rev. Thos. william Dosh, LOUIE o.
DARaAN, of Darlington. 8. O., to ]. ANNA,
daughter OF T. r. WicEenberg, OF Charleston. e.
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~loN MA.RRIAG,E.B

~ON MARRIA he. ~
Happy relief for Young Men from the enech
Of Errors and Abuses In early life. Manhood re-
stored. Nervous debility cured. Impediments
to Marriage removed. New method OF treat.
ment. New and remarkable remedies. BOOKS
and Circulars sent free, In sealed envelopes. Ad.
dress HOWARD ASSOCIATION. No. 2 South
Ninth street. Philadelphia. Pa oct12
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APPOINTMENTS By TIE GOVERN. ..R.-By con-
sent OF tile parties, III the case of G. W. Pat
terson vs. the South Carolina Railroad Com
punv. the Governor has appointed F. W. Nc
Master, Esq, as special judge to Try the case,
Judge Mellon being incapacisted from serT-
ing. as he has been counsel In the case.
Governor Scott has removed G. N. Thomp-
son, trla justice for Kershaw County, and has
made The following appointments: iaries
Puollc-C. c. Turner. Tor Sparlanburg; Leven
Agoe Oak GroTe 0Ia1geSnrE; o. ns;;ts a: Gh.rss W. Gs
ton.
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THE REPUTATION DODGE.
WEsLEY's NEW YORK SCALING BILL.

Of the Bill-Honest Bond
holders to Lose One-fourth OF their
Bonds for the Benefit OF Holders OF IL
legal Bonds-A Modest Proposition in
the House-Six Dollars a Day in the
Summer.
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Dbitna1rp..

AsHBY.-Died, in Darlington County, February
IL, ls72 at the residence of his son, THOMAS
AsHsY, in the eignry.ninth year Of his age.
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Macon. But rallr0adS ought TO pay. They
ought to pay dividends. I don't know Mr.
Moses Tsylor-never saw him. I repeated
what was told me. bought stock in the
South Carolina Railroad because 1t can be
made to pay. saw there was fight up, and
James could make something out of 1t. You
said you were going to defend yourselves
against the Ring By buying up the stock.
warned you yesterday you would be bought
out. Did you do 1t Why, this morning how
much stock was offered along the streets I
was offered four hundred shares. Now, If
you want to keep the road why don't you buy
that stock! What buy keep till can get a
profit. Then the man who bids highest takes
the stock. am in for making money, and
only spoke for James.
The resolution was again lad, when the
Hon. Alfred Huger rose. He had few words
to speak, but, unmportant as they might be,
he would rather not let them remain unsaid.
He had heard The opinions and arguments of
the gentleman, (Mr. Trenhon,) and fully
concurred In them. He would like 30 call the
attention of the meeting to this fact 1t was
not improbable that he was the only survivor
of the Legislature which granted its original
charter to the South Carolina Road. If any
clause had been proposed to be Inserted In
the charter to authorize the leasing of the
road, the mover would hardly have
dared to show his face in either house.
The arguments used when the charter
was granted were of the same import as those
| his honorable friend had 80 logically stated.
1t was chain 10 bind the Southern States TO-
gether. 1t was, when completed, the longest
road In the world, and with It's connecting
llnes 1t was expected to transport our cotton
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BANK,

DIRECTORS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD
New-York tribune., 1872-08-28
MAINE.

We hear from many quarters an encOur-
aging report of the progress of the Liberal
cause in Maine; but the remark is sometimes
added that the vote for Greeley in November
will largely exceed the vote for our candidates
on the State ticket next month. We have no
means of knowing how many of the anti
Grant Republicans mean to support the regu-
lar Administration ticket in September; but IL
may not be amiss to remind our friends in
Maine that if they mean to revolt against
Grantism and its Rings, corruption, nepotism,
and other attendant evils, the time to revolt
is now. They cannot safely support the Grant
nominee for Governor. and yet expect to poll
a large vote against Grant at the Presidential
election. There are thousands of doubtful
voters in every State who always go with the
current, and most Of those men will be gained
or lost to the Liberal cause by the result of
the September contest A victory for us then,
or even a large reduction of last years Adj
ministraton majority, will not only encourage
our party to fresh abors and enthusiasm, but
bring us a valuable reinforcement Of recruits
1t is q great mistake therefore to suppose
that the State election is of little consequence,
and that Liberal does his whole duty when
he resolves to vote for Horace Greeley in
November and meanwhile to support the regu-
lar Administration ticket. This putting off
reformation to the last minute is as perilous
as q death-bed conversion. Every vote by
which the Grant majority is reduced in Sep
tember will cOun ten or twenty votes for
Greeley and Brow in November. The Grant
managers are keeay alive to this fact and are
expending every fort to keep up their vote
to the figures of III. They are deluging the
State with dOcurents, and sending their
heaviest stump-spakers there; and they ex-
pect to win the nnrary by persuading them
to vote for Perhamuow, and postpone their
bolt to a later opprtunity. Friends of the
Liberal causel do mt be deceived. The way
to beat Grant is to 90 against Perham. You
cannot afford to put off your work till the
eleventh hour
New-York tribune., 1872-08-28

that Hartranft will receive the full Republican
vote of the State. 1t is difficult to conceive
that tho sense of shame should have been 80
driven out of the hearts of good citizens by
the power of party discipline. Last year in
New-York the indignation at the frauds of
Tweed and his associates was so universal
that in the election there was but one ques-
ton, and that was between honesty and theft.
Thousands of Democrats voted against their
own ticket because they imagined it tainted
with fraud, and the State, with large Demo-
cratic majority, fell into the hands of the Re-
publicans simply because Tweed and Connolly
and the rest had committed their robberies
in the name of Democrats. Yet Pennsylva-
mans eomplacently tell US that there is no
prospect of any such revolt of Republican
conscience. in their State.
There was never clearer issue between
right and wrong, between honesty and dis
honesty. 1t is patent to every voter in Penn
sylyania who can iead that Hartranft is man
saturated in fraud and illegelities. BY sworn
afidavits, by letters Autographed and pub
lished in his owl handwriting, by extracts
placed in evidente from the books Of his
brokers, it is proved that he corruptly used
the public funds for stock speculations while
Auditor-G General; that he made use of secret
official information to deal in stocks which
were raised or depressed by his official acts.
These are events of yesterday. The money
thus gained is in his pocket-part of it, doubt
less, employed in this canvass. His partner
and associate, being more careless or less
influential than himself, is now expiating in
Mr.. Hartranft was nominated because of his
bad character. lie was chosen by the corrupt
Ring of Harrisburg, at the head of which is
Simon Cameron, not on account of any ability
or influence he possessed, but simply because
as Governor he would stick at nothing which
his managers demanded.
Nominated against himis a candidate entirely
above suspicion from every point of view.
Mr.. Buckalew is man with thoroughly clean
hands, He is a good lawyer, and a man of
such solid and useful knowledge of public
affairs that we may properly give him the
much abused name of statesman. Probably
not an intelligent man in Pennsylvania but
thinks he would be better Governor than
Hartranft. He is supported by the entire
Democratic press and by no less than twenty
Republican newspapers in the State. Many of
the most prominent Republican politicians re-
fuse to vote for Hartranft, and declare the
State disgraced if it elects him. When Gov.
Geary was elected over Packer in 1869 he re-
ceived 5O.4O per centum of the votes cast to
1890 thrown for Mr.. Packer, only 1896 major
ity in total of 57s.5OS. The merest breath of
popular feeling would have carried it the
other way.
TO say now that when Buckalew stands for
honesty, intelligence, and capacity, in its high
est expression, and Hartranft is proved to
mean fraud and corruption in its lowest mani
festations, there are not honest and independ-
ent men enough in the State to elect the
former is the most savage attack upon the
character of Pennsylvania which could pos
sibly be made.
New-York tribune., 1872-08-28
RRAZEN CAMPATGN-

The fact which most plainly proves the cor
ruption and heralds the fall of systems and
dynasties, is the decline Of public conscience
in their later days. There is nothing so strik-
ing in the pictures which Michelet and Martin
have drawn of the closing years of the old
regime in France, as the fact that in the re-
gions of the court vice had ceased to be con-
sidered thing to be ashamed of. Only last
year we had a similar experience in this city.
The Ring of bandits who held the town and its
treasury in their grasp had left off hypocrisy
They imagined the public conscience dead.
They saw nothing evil except losing money,
nothing good except making it, When ac-
cused of theft they did not take the trouble to
Justify themselves. They simply asked with
that insolence which comes from impunity of
crime, "What are you going to do about
"it9 The only tyranny which sur
wives in our day is this tyranny
of corrupt and thievish Rings. We have no
secret police, no Bastiles, no lettreS de cdehet
as the instruments of an absolute and un-
questioned authority. But an almost equal
power is exerted by combinations of rascals
who work purely for money, and who find in
corruptly handling the revenues of great COM
mOnwealths the strongest incentive TO exer-
ton and the means of rewarding their re-
taineB This is only rendered possible by
the existence of strong party spirit which
shall blind the honest masses to the faults of
their leaders, or even induce them to condone
their crimes for the sake of partisan victory.
Every advance, therefore which can be made
toward enfranchising politics and journalism
from the dctation of the machinery of or
ganEatiOn is step gained in progress toward
purG government. Our victory last year over
the Tammany" Ring was full of incalcula-
BILE benefits to the present and the future.
The work must be, of course, continually re-
newed. But it will always be easier for last
years struggle.
The independent newspapers and public men
in Pennsylvania are now engaged in an earnest
and hopeful struggle against Ring not less
corrupt, not less shameless than that which
we put under our feet last year Yet there is
one assertion frequently made by the Admin
istration papers in that State, which if it were
true would prove how. much less hopeful is
the prospect there than with US, They say
New-York tribune., 1872-08-28
THE STATE.

The Liberal Republicans of this State expect
to support a Democrat for Governor, and are
very willing to do so. They only insist that
he shall be an undOubted, conspicuous, de-
term1ned foe of every form and shade of
corruption, Legislative, Municipal, or other.
Let his name be symbol of purity and honor
and they will work and vote for him with
enthusiasm. With such candidate they can
sweep the State by majority never yet given
for any party or candidate, while any other
would inevitably drag down the ticket. They
have no choice as to the man, so that bis
hostility to corruption needs no Endorsement
and laughs calumny to scOrn.
AS to our City, if candidates of doubtful in
tegrity or tarnished reputation are presented,
no matter by what party, they will be repu-
dated and beaten at the polls. 1t would be
wasteful for such to manipulate primaries and
pack nominating conventions, for they are
certain to be beaten if their names shall be
submitted to the people. No Tweeds or
James Woods are to be returned this Fall
unless by fraudulent counting, and the many
mistakes of last year are to be corrected with
resolute energy. Let the tainted take warn
ing, and shun disgrace by keeping in the shade
till their evil deeds shall have been forgotten.