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w. B. GULIcK, Cashier. =
G. D. IREDELL, asst chshier.


EN addition to the ordinary and usual
b business of Banking, the Carolina
National Bank of Columbia, S. G., is
sues Interest-bearing Certificates forany
amount, payable on demand, and bear pear
ing seren per cent. interest iron, Date,
intere At collectable every six months, If
the Certificate has not been previously
presented. Deposits in gold reeiVed on
same terms and interest pgs pa,d IN kiao' IN
Depositors have all the aa.anIage Oh
A SAVINGS BANK,
and the safety OF their depositssiss guar
anteed by a paid-up capitaIof Three
Eundyed Thousand Dollars. Persons
having funds wheh t they ti wishto INT lnyest
of Investment, returnable upon demand
and always ready for use should a more
profitable Investment offer.
Remittances may be made by Express
and Certiiicates will be returned by mail
" Columbia, S. G., Nov. q, 1872, 3a-Sm
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"A correspondent, writing from
Aahens, curiously contrasts the
mixtures to,be found there of an
cient and modern civilizations.
Railroads spin their trains amid the
temples of three thousand years !;
steamers dash their swells upon the
Pireus, and the scream of their
whistles resounds from Athos, Pen
telicus and Cytheron to Olympus
and the heavens beyond their gods.
DR.. Ayers world-renowned medi-
cines, those coasummatlons of
modern science, are posted on the
Acropolis, the Parthenon, the Ar
eopagus and the Thesion, while the
modest cards Of Cherry Pectoral,
Ayers Sarsaparilla, Ague Cure and
Pills look from the windows Of the
shops in the streets Of Athens,
where they are sold.-N. Y. Sunday
Globe. ~
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The or Err. .

HGyE sell tho "OTTER" brand OF
w BLACK ALPACAS, and
claim for them superiority over all
other goods, for their fine texture,
pure black, fine lustre, having Il larger
sale in the United States than any
other make. We expect to keep 70
other brand and will always keep
stocked Prices so, Go, IS, 80, sl.UO
Jas. w. Fowler & Co.
Oct. 20, 1872, 28-tf -.-.
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= s,Sr
The power Of pray yer il Eseaatifaliy
set forth by one who evidently felt it
to be something more-sthan. q bare
service;
THE POWER OF PRAYER.
<'There is an eye that never sleeps
:; Beneath the wing of night,
There is an ear thas never shuts
80. When sinks the beam of light.
IS an arm that never tires
WI III human strength gives wayi
There is q love which never fails
When earthly loves decay.
That eve is fixed on seraph sthrongs;
s That arm upholds the sky;
That ear is filled with angel sengs; j,
That love is throned on high.
But there s power which. man can
WELD
When mortal aid isvain,
! That.eye, that arm, that love to reach,
That Hstning !ear to gain, :.
3EfatpeSper is PRAYER, which scars on
\ EssT hnnagbs d Jesus to the throne tstbe
= Z And ia6ses the hand that nov'' '''
10 bring salvation as@r
NJ
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Carolina National Bank
Columbia, S. G.
Stock Paid in, 100000.

Board of Directors. =
r. D. CHILDs, Pres, JN0. 4: DARBY,
J. w. PARKER, H.-Pres. II NJ " 4LLAcE,
G. D. MELTON, Solicitor, JNo: ). WILEY;
r. O'NEALE, Jr., u. HOPE.
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GRANT.

Vyl1E undersigned few moments
indulgence and examine ths
large stock of Groceries Of ALL 7
scriptions, that have just ust1fsm; fss: sarl
have the finest shouldsyrs> " Tens COZ
elness e1 suuorS l.ous'tf gAfngs, Crackers, Pick
,ees' Husaa % sCheesc, Lard, Molasscs,
1ss' &c ,r f'11sap zap, Candles, Baggihs, Tics,
au',cSerything else IN the grocery
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DR.. TUFTS Hair Dye is the best
in use. ..
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TUsKEGEE, Ala, April %, 1871
DIR. Tut: In gratitude for the
benefit received by the use Of your
Expectorant, l do checrfully ada
my testimony to its most wonderful
effects in relieving Asthma or Bron.
chitis. For several years l had
suffered dreadfully with severe
attacks of Asthma or difficulty of
breathing. I was induced by the
high Recommendations given to
your Expectorant to try it, and
found that it gave almost Immediate
relief. 1t is about five months since
I began its use; have used SIX
bottles, aud have not had an attack
since. It has been great blessing
to me; | cannot afford to be with
out it, and | heartily recommend it
to all persons who are at all troubled
with lung or throat diseases.
Very respectfully,
Mrs. A. NJ. WELLBORN.
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Ten BE hundred req
sons might be givenxMhy Lyons
Kathairon should be used by every
Intelligent human being in prefer
enc very ny.ic' preparation 10.
the hair, but ten will suffice. Here
3they are: Because it nourlshes the
| 1fbers, mu!tiplics item and make:
them grow; because it thus prevent.
them from whitening and bleaching;
because it removes the scurf and
danlrutt which choke them as tarS:s
ch, IKE the golden grain; .beca9SS,,ttss
keeps the scalp cool andd5feSs e1,o +ho
erupticns; because it'''1'oae,S 1'o,,',,a ,'it ~
hair as lustrous t! Sad aS| clnstic: bccaure
IL ':>e1 =; > froel 10 lt ait and delightful dress
;u". ~ .acause it does not soil the
,.i3ow, the cap or the hat; because
It is without. a rival in cheapness,
and because no other article sold
for the same purpose, in this or any
other country, possesses all or even
one-half, of these invaluable prop
critics. 81
Pimples on the face, Eruptions,
Scrotulous diseases and
all sores arising from impure blood;
are cured by DR.. Picrce's Golden
Medical Discovery.
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'ENO all those to whom we rendered
4 assistance during the past sea-
son in the cultivation of. their crops
and have not yet paid up, we earnest
Iy appeal TO come forward at once
and settle their accounts, thereby Sc.
curing their own credit and enabling
us to save our own for future business,
Which we contemplate entering into
so soon as a building can be erected
for that purpose.
We trust that this will be sufficient
notice to our friends, Of our present
necessities. and that they will respond
to our appeal without delay.
Barnwell & Co.
Nov. 20, 1872, 32-tf
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Spalding'y Glue; stickiest thing
ont; ready.
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A STITCH IN TINE SAVES NINE
If you have a cough, do not neglect
it, thousands 60 to an untimely
grave by neglecting what they cali
"a slight cold.'' These slight colds
are very insidious' They soon be-
come deep-seated, and defy all
remedies. DR.. TUFTS Ezpectorant
will cure it. 1t can be had OF amy
Druggist.
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for my motto "Quicl1 Sales and
Light Profits" also wish 1t under
stood that [ have not
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ND

7 have also on hand a large supply O.
Boots, Shoes, Hats and Gaps, al size 4
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No ono remedy Is louder
called for by the necessities Of
the American people than q
sure and safe cure for Fever
and Ague. Such we are now
enabled to offer, with a perfect
certainty that 1t win eradicate
the disease. and with aSst1rs
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The State Of South Carolina

Oct. 20, 1872, 28-tf
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Ayers Ague Cure,

For Fever and Ague, Intermittent Fever,
Chill Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb
Ague, Periodical or Bilious Fever. &c.,
and indeed oil the affections which arse
from malarious, marsh, or nnfasmatjo
poisons. .f 49,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-28
-Eretful Babies.

BABIES often cry without any apparent
reason; but mother can usually discover
a reason if she stops to think about it.
And it is worth stopping to think about,
no matter if the homework or sewing be
delayed awhile in consequence. Per
haps she has eaten something which dis
agrees with its stomach; perhaps it is
thirsty, for little babies are often thirsty,
and will drink teaspoonful Of cold WA
ter with the greatest eagerness, and be
quiet and satisfied after it. Perhaps its
little sock is tied too tightly, as my baby s
was the other day. l found deep red
mark around her ankle, which at once
explained her fretfulness. More likely
than anything else, the flannel band
around its bowels-if happily one is there
or its skirt-band is pinned too tightly.
know baby who has cried a great deal
since his birth Think the chief reason
of it is because he has always been
dressed too tightly. The mother said to
me one afternoon, when the child was so
cross she hardly knew what to do, 1--WE
great mind to undress him and put or
his night gown; he is real good then"
So she did, and he commenced to be
good at once Mothers should search
for all such possible causes when their
babies get fretful. They should not be too
ready to attribute their crying to nervous
or to hunger, for it is more
likely to be caused by the prick of a pin
or an overfed stomach than either
Hearth and Home.
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The Robberies in Vienna.

THE despair of landlords and the stock,
holders in the great hotel companies does
not excite any commiseration among
strangers, it may be imagined, and even
the Vienna papers express satisfaction
that these harpies have so speedily come
to grief Night before last one hotel had
over 100 vacant rooms and only six guests.
Many establishments are making haste to
lower their prices, hoping thereby to keep
the guests that still remain. A room for
which eight guldens a day was asked on
the list could be had yesterday for two
The comic papers have made the rapacity
of hotel and restaurant proprietors tho
subject of no end of satire and jest. In
one of them there is a caricature in which
a waiter in fashionable hotel presents a
guest with his BILL 1t is about ten feet
long, and the total is SO enormous that the
despairing victim leaps out of the window
into the Danube Canal at the first sight of
it. Here are the specimens of sQuibs that
fill the papers on this subject: A foreign
er in one Of the exhibition restaurants,
after paying three guldens for glass of
beer and bit of cold meat, calls the
waiter back and in mysterious tone
asks: Where am Il" I'm the exhibition,
to be sure" answers the astonished waiter
"Ah, indeed,' says the stranger, with
look of great relief, Il thought was in
the Abruzzi among the brigands. One
friend meets another in the Prater and
says: Have you heard the news?" "No,
what is ftg" asked the other. "a regiment
of infantry is to be stationed in the eXhi-
bition grounds" pray, what for?" in
quires No. 2. 'There are SO many rob
berries committed IN the restaurants that
the police require assistance" replies No.
From u Vienna Letter.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-28
A REMARKABLE PROGRESS,


[Froa, the Hartford Daily Tin,esI
We have already alluded to the prosperous cond
ton of the Phoenix Life Insurance Company, located
in this city, of which Edison Fessenden is the Presi
dent and James F. Burns Secretary. A more careful
investigation of its last annual statement, just pub.
lished warrants in submitting to the readers Of
the Times further remarks upon its rapid pro.
gress to popular favor and its remarkably prosperous
condition at the present time.
Let compare its condition ten years ago with
what it present time. the years 1862 and
1858 it issued III policies its income $l25,672
dividends, 81 2H; losses by death. SIS, 600 assets
sis1. 1888. Here was the business of two years.
In 1872 it issued 1O.52s policies; its income was
IS as 52i5 dividends *9iS Al II losses by death,
1881 ,i16.S2; net assets, e. POS. 325.01.
This increase of business and assets in the short
period of is worthy of special notice An
income in 1872 of 50 10000 against S1256 in
1852 and 1858; it is thirty Over ten
thousand policies last year against seventeen hun
bred in two years, only years ago. It's
amount to ever eight millions now; then less than
half a miion-more than sixteen to one. This won
derfu increase is the result of single jump. 1t
of regular yearly advances: showing the
sodity and permanency of this signal prosperity.
For instance, the net assets of the company at the
opening the year 1872 amounted to $75lO6ii05 at
the commencement of 1878 they IS 2e7 325
increase during the year 1872 Of $69S,6ll.G2
The Phoenix has 5000 policies in force, cover
ing 81 .910, 967. Valued by the New York standard
ties its obligations to s7oo9is357. Deduct
ing this from its net assets and the company has
surplus of 81 ,l99,s31 so.
The officers lay these facts before the public with
the assurance that they cannot be equaled in com
parative strength by the statement OF any company
in New England, If, indeed by any In the country.
though others have larger aggregate of
No company this city equaled it last year in the
number of policies issued. only one came within
ZOO of it, and the others were from 5000 to 1900 be-
low it.
this sterling condition of its finances in its great
increasing prosperity, and in the Arm hold it has
upon public confidence, the PhRnix may, with due
degree of pride and satisfaction, publish the details
o its business and its solid condition.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-28

THE porkupine IL kind ov thorny
woodchuck.
They are bigger than rat, and smaller
than a calf
They liv in the ground, and are az prik-
" all over az chestnut burr, or a case ov
the hives.
1t liz sed that they hav the power ov
throwing their prickers like a javelin, but
this liz smart falshood.
An old dog wont touch a pOrkupine
emmy quicker than he would a phire
brand, but yung dogs pitch into them like
urchins into "A sugar hogshead.
The konsequentZ ov this IL they git
their mouths philled with prickers which
are bearded, and kant bak out.
A porkupine's quill when it enters goes
klean thru and Gums out out on the other
side ov things This il way they hav
got.
The porkupine IL not bad vittles, their
meat tastes like pork and beans with the
beans left out.
They hav cute way ov stealing apples
known only to phew.
| hav seen them run under an apple
tree, and rolling over on the fruit which
had fallen from the tree, carry oph on
their prickers a dozen ov them.
/ hav often told this story to people, but
never got emmy tew believe it yet.
Porkupines hav got a destiny tew phil
it may be only hole in the ground, but
they kan phil that az phull az it will
hold.-N. Y. Weehty.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-28

A NEW process of cleaning pictures has
recently been discovered. The great DIFF
ficulty has always been to get off the old
varnish, which, by length of time has be
come almost incorporated with the color
underneath, so that any method employed
to remove the upper surface is pretty Ger
tain to carly off with it the delicate lines
below. Some picture-dealers use zorro
sive substances, which make the matter
worse. An ingenious system has been
discovered at Amsterdam. which consists
in simply spreading coating of copaiba
balsam on the oil painting and then keep
ing it face downward over IA dish of the
same size filed with cold alcohol at an
altitude of about three feet The vapors
of the liquid impart to the copaiba IA
degree of semi-Huidity, in which state it
easily amalgamates with the varnish it
covers. Thus the original brilliancy and
transparency are regained without injur
ing The oil painting; and when the picture
is hung up in its place again, two or three
days after, it looks as if it had been var
nished a1resh. The inventors have given
the public the benefit of their discovery
The process has the merit of being a short
one as compared with the old methods
EfcIdRge.
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IS Pain-Killer.''

There can be no necessity, at this late
day, for the press to speak in commenda-
tory terms of this remarkable medicine,
in order to promote its sale; for it is a
medicine that is known and appreciated
the wide world through. Whenever we
speak of the Pain Killer, as in the present
instance, we do SO in behalf of the af-
t1icted as well as in the interest of its
proprietors. For various diseases, such
as rheumatism, cholera, cholera morbus,
burns, sprains, bruises, and so on to the
end of the catalogue, its proprietors
claim that there is no remedy before the
people equal to Davis Vegetable "Pain-
Killer" and we know that thousands upon
thousands entertain the same belief. Ger
tainly, we cannot refer to the history OF
any medicine of the kind which has a
wider reputation than that of the Pain
Killer. 1t was introduced in 1910, and
from that time to this its sale, both at home
and abroad, has constantly and rapidly in
creased, and the high reputation it has
achieved shows that it has been the
means of relieving a vast amount OF
human suffering. We hope the present
proprietors of Davis Vegetable Pain
Killer" will long live to enjoy the pros
perity which they have SO fairly won.
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Stealing in the executive departments
at Washington has become almost univer-
sal. We have exposed the manner in
which it is practised in the Treasury De-
parrment by keeping horses and carriages
for private use at the public expense
This is sample of all the rest. The con-
tingent fund of every department is made
the object of this sort of dishonesty
The old practice of requiring strict ac-
countability for every expenditure, how
ever small, has been abandoned and re-
placed by general estimates which are in
tended to hide just such corruption as. is
now exposed. What would not be posi-
BILE in England is openly practised here.
These dangerous Innovations may be trac-
ed to Congress in part, through the Chair
man Of the Committee on Appropriations,
who gets up the supply bills, or rather
submits those which are made to order for
him by interested parties.
This loose and rotten system has gained
a greater fOothold since Gen. GARFIELD has
had charge of the appropriations than
ever before. The reason is well under
stood at the Capital and elsewhere. He is
mainly responsible for the millions voted
to the Washington Ring, with which he is
notOriously connected. Grants grab and
the salary steal owe their adoption to the
influence of his position, welded under
both persuasion and fear.
Although the Constitution explicitly
commands that mo money shall be drawn
from the Treasury but in consequence OF
appropriations made by law" nearly fifty
thousand dollars were diverted from the
fund voted for the new Department OF
State TO build stable for the President,
for which not dollar had been granted
by law. That malfeasance, which deserves
impeachment, could not have been com
mitted without the privity of various high
officials. And yet no step was ever taken
to inquire into it by Congress. The ma.
jority shut down the gates on every propo-
sition to investigate that and many other
fragrant violations of law, and when reso
lutions were passed the answers to which
would disclose official delinquency. they
were treated with contemptuous silence
by the public servants who were inculpat
ed
Laxity is the rule throughout the whole
service, and dishonesty is nearly as gen
eral Take an illustration which, though
personal, serves to show what sort oi
practices have crept in and are constantly
fastening their claws on to the Govern
ment, like barnacles to the bottom of an
old ship. Mr.. Spinner is the Treasurer
of the United States. He receives large
pay for small return. For years past he
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has appropriated several of the offices in
the Treasury to his own use as n resi-
dence, fitted them up luxuriously at the
public cost, and lives in them free from
rent, light, or fuel. He has no more legal
right to do this than to occupy any other
public building or property. Following
this bad example, the Commissioner of
Agriculture lives with his family in the
building erected for the uses OF that office,
and has the benefit of all the vegetables,
fruits, and flowers which are raised for
"distributien," besides free fire, free light,
and other costly household necessaries un-
limited These things represent at least
q, 900 year added TO his salary, without
counting the inevitable horse and carriage
and the messengers transformed after
office hours into domestics. ~
From top to bottom, in every part OF it,
the Civil Service is utterly demoralized,
and is getting worse day by day. Robe
son, in three years, has contrived to let
down the moral tone of the navy until
now it is a standing reproach, with some
exceptions. The army, which
always stood high, has felt the pernicious
effects of favoritism, injustice, and preju-
dice, and is no longer what 1t was. We
are on the downward grade, and if the
brakes are not put quickly and strongly
on, the train must be wrecked, and with a
most precious freight.-N. Y. Sun.
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A Swindle- Look Ont for Bogus Checks.

The Detroit Tribune tells of swindle
recently perpetrated upon various people
and numerous banks in the interior of
Michigan. 1t says:
Several weeks since a gentlemanly APP
pearing man called at stationery house
in this city and ordered book printed
containing 1000 checks. He represented
that he and others had organized the
Eaton County Savings Bank, at Eaton
Rapids, and gave the name of some we'll
known business men of that place, to
whom he referred.
"Supposing the man to be all right,
preparations were at once made to fill his
order, but as the checks had to be sent
to New York in sheet form to be stamped,
some delay occurred in completing the
job. In the meantime the man called
several times, and finally, having to all
appearance become impatient, ordered
the check book to be sent by express to
the Eaton County Savings Bank, and
when it was bound ready for delivery it
was sent as directed.
-Four days after being shipped, a por-
ton of the book was found in stone
yard near the Board of Trade building,
on Woodbridge street The cover had
been torn off and it was otherwise mutt
lated and 800 checks had been cut
out As it. bore the imprint OF
the stationery house alluded to, the book
was conveyed to their store, and they at
once wrote to one of the business men AT
Eaton Rapids whose name was used by
the chief swindler, and received a reply
that no bank of the name referred to
existed there. The matter was then placed
in the hands of the police for investiga-
ton, but as considerable time had elapsed
since the swindle was inaugurated, they
were unable to discover the perpetrators
1.-THE checks appear as if genuine, be
ing printed in the usual style, and con
tanning the United States revenue stamp
in the center So far as is now positively