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FIVE LoAvEs OF BREAD AND Two
flsHEs.-The Nation gives the following
definition OF the Republican party: 1T
is held together as an organization solely
by the possession OF the Govcrnment Of
hces. This makes it real business con.
cern' with accounts to keep, earnings to
make, dividends to distribute, and claims
to adjust. It consequently does mol
need opini ons. and. TO do it justice,
makes no pretense to having any. In.
decd. there is no body OF political doc.
trine in existence which will furnish au.
thority for the policy OF the Administra-
ton in Louisiana, and yet the party
papers all defend it,"
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LOUISVILLE CoURIRR.JoCRNALIsM
Gov. Wise is going to give q .'oordial
support to Presidents Grant. under Ger
tain conditions" This is, perhaps. nm.
fortunate for Grant. though we can con-
ceive OF no conditions under which he
would he worth supporting.
And so we CO." says the Philadel-
phia Press. ''from bad to worse. Where
shall we halt?" We really don't like to
mention the place. bnt there can be no
great harm in saying that the cookney
spells it with haitch and q he and dou
5ks.heN
The Modocs are said to have left one
dead Indian AMI an empty whiskey bot
tie in the lava beds. A melancholy
spectacle, certainly especially the empty
bottle.
Many years ago, Mr.. John Nipple, of
Butler, Penn, was confronted bv an
outraged parented horse. pistol and com.
PEELED to marry the girl. A night or two
afterward. he vanished into thin air
And now. Mr.. Ripple, under the name
OF John d. Mitchell, turns up as United
States Senator from Oregon, and Mrs.
Nipple. under the name OF Mrs. Horn,
turns up as waiter in Pennsylvania
hotel. And yet, we are told that "The
day OF virtuous politics is past"
The White House consumes SO. 900
worth OF fuel year. If Grant would
drop hot punches and confine himself
exclusively to whiskey straight, be could
| reducs that sum at least one-half.
An Illinois paper thinks that General
Davis ought to be made the next Presi.
dent. becanse he captured Captain Jack.
| This would be but fair, for there was
much talk OF making Captain Jack the
next President. when there was such
strong probability that be would capture
General Davis.
We deny the i!liberal insiuuation that
our occasional references to the Prcsi.
dents absence from Washington on plea
sure trips are made in the spirit of fault.
finding. Perish TIE thought! Let him
trip as often. as far and as long as he
likes; the more so, the better. If he
will jump aboard the Tigress, with the
Dent relatives and the brothers-in law,
not forgetting Parson Harlan, Of the
Washington Chronicle, and Gov. Kellogg,
Of Louisiana. and start for the North
Pole in search Of the Polaris he may
take the Sl5.00O.O0 awarded by the
Geneva court of arbitration for travelling
expenses, and stay away until he has
smoked up the u.termost cent.
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How TIE BURNING OF ALEXANDRA Pa
LACE. NEAR LoSDuS. SET FIRE To "THB
ANCIENT CAPITAL OF EGYPT. ."-The New
York Erening Pos! say-: News.gathering
and wool gathering are ordinarily sup
posed to be separate business, but an
evening contemporary yesterday put. the
two together with the most astonishing
results. The readers of =. sterday's Eoen.
ing Post are aware ol the destruction by
FIRE of tho large exhibition building in
London, known ua the alexandra Pa
lace. 30 named in honor of the
Sea-kipg's daughter from over tn. sea,
AL 1andra!
the w1fc OF the Prince nj Walns. The
American Press Association --,he assumed
rival Of she Assocluted Press-howeyer.
hearing, perhaps by chance, aome passer
by say that the alexander Palace" was
on fire, or in snme other way getting
hold probably Of the words Alexandra.
Palace and FIRE. at once published de-
spatch, announcing that news had Jus,
come from Alexandria. Egypt, OF u "lsrge
and destructive confagraton" in that
city. "A rast amount of property has
been destroyed" said the Pathological
writer. Then. remembering the word
Palace. with one effort cf his im.eipa.
ton, he declared "shnt the magniticen,
Palace OF the Snltan is now in flames.
and will probably be reduced to ashes. .
Telegraphic news that docs not come
over the wires. is apt to be u little cues
tionable, bnt this is Case which onph,
to give tue papers which wore taken in 8
ready snle, for the sake Of au explana
tion.
ALEX. DRIA. EaYrr. June "a large
aud destructive conasgration is now in
progress in this city. 4 vast amount o.
property has been destroyed, and the fire
Is entirely beyond any human control
The magnificent palace of the Sultan anc
other public buildings are now in flames
and will probably be reduced to ash as
Great excitement prevails, and every Of
fort is being made to arrest the progress
OF The flames. Press Repo,.
by Great Vestern Telegraph.
ALEXANDRIA BuRNiNa Up.-The tele
graph brings us the startling news tha
the ancielt capital OF Egypt is to-day
wrapped in flames. While you are read
ing the account of the fire the conHagra
tion is raging, and the ancient palaces
which have witnessed the fight OF centu
ries. are crumbling to ashes, sacrific.
to tho flames. Alexandria is half wa,
around the world. and yon read the new
OF it while it is burning. .-Lsarenuort2
Erenin5 argus, June 9.
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Memminger, gave it as their opinion,
that Throughout the whole extent Of
the great Allegheny chain, no pass is
found affording equal facilities and ad-
vantages for the communication" pro.
posed y
The evidence is abundant that the
route is not onty practicable. but q
highly eligible one. It is equally true,
however, that there are others. and We
trust that they will, in due time, be also
opened to trade and traTel. We hope 10
see the day when the Blue Ridge Will be
completed to Knoxville by the Rsbun
Gap, and Anderson connected with Port
Royal by road running through Able
vile and Edgefeld. The more the bet
tar. we think, and there will, in time, be
business for both the lines we have nd
vocated. Our citizens now have the op-
portunity of contributing to secure the
oae from Spartanburg by Asheville, and
they should not be slow to avail them
selves OF it,.
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DEATH OF DR.. A. P. LoSasrREEr.-
The above named gentleman, a resident
OF EGingham County, Ca, for several
years past, formerly of Augusta. and
originally from South Carolina died at
his residence on Thursday morning last
Dr.. Longstrcet was O relative of the au.
thor of the Georgia Scenes," large
COIN and cotton planter, and in ante 5et.
tam times, quito wealthy.
"M1LLER House." AT 81. 80 AND Al
WEST 26Tn ST., NEW YORK CIrY.-Ele.
giant family and single rooms. by the day
or week, with or without board, in first
GLASS location, near Madison Square;
twenty minutes ride from Central Park.
Prices low during the summer. Ad.
dress E. P. Miller, IL West Goth street,
n. 7. June 81 10
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New York seems to have become great
ly excited because rumor got abroad to
the effect that the Police Commissioners
OF that city were about to appoint twenty
oolored policemen. Now, Che question
arises, why should New York get excited
on such subject? The average police.
man and politician of New York is not
much better than his cousin OF New Or.
leans, and here oolored policemen have
been appointed, not by twenties, merely,
but by hundreds. What is q virtue in
New Orleane, cannot surely be crime
or disgrace in New York. II equality
and fraternity is to be the rule in the
South, it should not be the exception in
the North. Are we not, politically speak
ing, oil made Of the same potter's clay?
Though some may be baked little
browner than the others. that is no rea-
son why on one side OF an imaginary line
they should be made vessels OF honor.
md on the other side OF dishonor
Ne,o Orleans Times.
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The PoPE AND THE PoNrIFIcATE.-A a
correspondent in Rome processes to give
an account OF an Interview with Cardinal
Antonelli, the Minister of State to the
Holy Father. The Cardinal is repro.
sented in this interview rs saying that
the accounts Of the Pope's recent illness
have been much exaggerated, although
he has had an acute attack of rheuma-
tism. and as he is just entering upon his
elghty-second year, cannot be expected
to bear up as we'll under disease as one
younger. He has been considerably
weakened by having to keep his bed.
His Holiness ia understood to have @
deep-rooted disregard for all doctors and
medicaments.
In regard to the subject of the reli-
gious corporations bill, which now waits
the royal sanction to become law, and
which deprives the religious orders of
tho Church in Rome of their existence as
legal bodies, permitting them hereafter
to live together simply as private persons,
the Cardinal DECLARES the act a most m
just one, and hurtful to the interests of
the church. Their property will be taken
by the Government, the proceeds in.
vested in stocks, and the interest paid to
them annually, or the State will put aside
an ANIMAL subsidy for them. It is, how
ever, represented that the flooding OF
the market with such property prevents
the orders FROM securing Just valuation,
besides which many Italians will consi-
der 1t sacriiegious to purchase such pro-
perty, under the circumstances, at ALL
An attempt is being made in Parliame ent
by one OF the members to save TO tho
generals OF The various orders their
hoases, bnt there is great opposition 10
1t among the radicals aud others. Car
dinal Antonelli fears that these orders.
witch have been missionaries and al
visers Of the Holy See, will be dispersed.
The laws passed in Germany are regard
ed as hnmpering the liberty Of the
Church there completely, but the policy
OF its leaders will be one Of patience and
forbearance, though this will involve no
surrender OF principle, as has been mani
tested by the late action Of the German
bishops OF the subject.
In regard to the Pope leaving Rome.
Cardinal Antonelli declared that, unless
driven out by force, they would live and
die and be buried in the Vatican. Though
the authorities Of the Vatican make no
revelations as to the future conclave
which must follow the Pope's death, it is
thought certain that the new Pope will
be Oh Italian, which has been the case
ever since the ponti6cate OF Hadrian vi.
The large majority Of the cardinals are
Italian, only eleven being foreigners.
France, Spain, Austria and Portugal had
formerly o right TO exclude an objection
able candidate, and no other power has
now vote. ANY such claims are not al
all likely to be regarded. nearly all the
Earopeon Governments having aban-
doned the church. During tho Vatican
Council, the diplomatic influence of TO-
reign nations was altogether dispensed
with
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A Card.
COLUMBIA. S. c.. Jul

CoLCMDIA, S. C., June %, 1873.
ME. EDITOR: Having several of nv
make of engines in operation in the Vi
cinity of Prosperity, the scene of tho
fatal boiler explosion of Messrs. Brown
Il Schumperts steam thresher, on the
2lst instant, and it being currently ro-
ported that the engine was ono OF NY
manufacture. beg leave to correct this
report by stating that said engine was
male by Wood IL Mann, OF Utica, n. Y. /,
and has been in use about two years.
Very respectfully, RICHARD TOzER.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-06-24

Col. D. Wyatt Aiken. of this State, is
earnestly at work in North Carolina, or
ganizing oranges of ''Patrons OF Hns.
bandry." An organization was effected
at Wilmington. The Journal says:
"Col. Aiken will visit Robson, Gum.
berland, Moore, Wake, Wayne, Lenoir,
Craven, Wilson, Edgecombe, Halifax
and Warren, before he leaves the State,
his object being to organize at least
fifteen oranges, for the purpose of form.
ing State Grange, which is to meet in
Raleigh, on the Jth OF July, when The
order can take charge Of its own affairs
III this State
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The proposed balloon voyage across
the Atlantic is chiefly intended to deter.
mine the question whether there is in
deed .'true mrial gulf stream" which
runs perpetually in the same direction.
If the air be divided into various strain,
and favorable one can be selected ut
will By the nrial navigator, the practical
question OF balloon voyages becomes
greatly simplifed. To cross from this
country to Europe Westwardly wind
is required; but if it be necessary to as-
cend to great height in order to find
such current, the health of the voyager
or voyagers may be endangered by air
too highly rari6ed for healthy use by
the lungs. or too cold for comfortable
existence. As experiments these air
voyages, like the long-looked for open
Polar sea. may be scientifically and ply
siologically interesting, but we are not
inclined to think that they will ever be
aSailed Of as means OF general trans
portation.
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LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
e. p. Walker-6pe ia! Notice.
w. D. Love e. Co.-Reduction.
Indian Girl-Captain Jack.
Butler & DeSaussnre-Summona.
Ct. W. Davis-Pooket book Lost.
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: To COUNTRY ExoHAEeEs.-As. the free
exchange OF aoers will cease on the 1st
OF July, we deem it necessary to inform
the State weeklies that we will continue
tho exchange, with tho distinct under
standing that they pay the postage on
both papers.
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TIE SHAH's VISIT TO ENo1AND.-The
tour OF the Shah OF Persia culminated
with his arrival and reception in Lon
don. The event has been anticipated
with more than ordinary interest by the
English people. In fact, the whole OF
this magnificent sour of the Oriental
posentate has formed o topic filed with
pabulum for reflection, extending as it
has through the principal countries OF
Europe, and indicating breaking up OF
the barbario isolation that has so long
hidden the Persian kingdom among it's
own deserts, and kept undeveloped it's
many and fertile reeouroes. It is but
lately that the country of the Shah was
visited by famine, which left thousands
OF his people impoverished and their
business affairs and agricultural pursuits
depressed; aud it is made subject OF
astonishment that he should at such q
time undertake such journey, and at q
cost, projected by himself, OF 225. .0O0..
600. But he has witnessed the sudden
wealth given to his neighbor, Egypt. by
the application OF liberal ideas gained
abroad, and recognizing the value ol
modern industrial improvements, he has
already entered into contracts for the
construction OF railways and telegraph
lines-thus beginning at once the true
measures Of relief in case of famine OF
other calamity, and the promptest ave
nues Of transportation and communica
tion for the development of commercia
and agricultural prosperity. He will re-
turn to his kingdom rich with informa
tion Of the things most nsef1l to his peo
pie, the natural result of which, Of
course, should be the rapid development
OF Persia into modern and progressive
State. Dispatches from London say
that his appearance in public ia every
where greeted with the heartiest demon.
strations OF welcome. During his stay,
many brilliant gatherings OF the nobility
will take place in his honor.
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PHGSl1IASA.-The best sense in the
world is said to be reticencc.
A serious turn-Twisting ones neck.
Some one says the best ruse for the
| ladies' is Charlotterusse.
It may be better to carve your name
on hearts than marble, but il You arc q
married man. be careful on whose heart
you oarve it,
Advice to those who attend auction
Never nod to tho auctioneer unless you
wish TO buy or be sold.
A new so called burglar proof safe lock
! Is ont. 1t opens at given hour. It's
unlocking is merely the work OF Time. i
Boot-licking never yet made sensible
people think more OF dolt. The thing e
too thin.
Amusing to hear young man with o
cold in his head eipg, "Cub oh, Cubbith
boz
Mescham makes q glorious hero OF
Capt. Juck, in stating in his report that
the Modoo band of sixty.hve resisted for
three days 500 troops.
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY. Tho
drawing Of this enterprise commences on
July s, and We are informed that tickets
can be procured here, of Mr.. D. Gam.
brill, up to the 30sh June-but not after
that date. !
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-28

crackers and sand hillers--this mighty con-
spiracy vanished in single day, and SO
completely that it is not necessary to have
a memory as treacherous as Mr.. Colfaxs,
or needing to be so often refreshed as Mr..
Cakes AInes', for one to doubt If the
thing really ever existed, even in imsgina-
lion. The troops which were imperatively
needed TO defeat the traitorous designs of
100000 rough'riders are suddenly with
drawn to avert the certainly subordinate
peril likely to ensue to the country from
Capt. Jack and his 200 Modoc braves.
The heads SO Unfortunately chopped of
by Bonds rude aX-to the tune of nearly
million dollars extra court expenses-are
unceremoniously replaced by the Presi
dents pardons; and, to cap the climax, the
President is himself contemplating an inn
mediate tour into the very beart of those
terrible regions where, as a thousand wit
nesses swore to the Congressional Com
mittee, no Union mans life was safe for
single hour
"What does this mean? Can it by any
chance be possible that Presidential proc
lamations, Congressional Investigations,
and the suborned testimony of interested or
ignorant witnesses do not really make
what posterity is willing to accept as histo-
ry? Can we be expected to sympathize
with the govt of man who not only de-
clines to resort to treatment but on being
closely pressed admits that he has wood
en- leg? If the Presidential election and its
exigencies should presently turn out to
have been what the theologians style "the
final cause" of the KuKlux, would it not
be pertinent to suppose that had there been
no Presidential election the Ku-Klux Khan
would never have put in its appearance
at alp"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-28
LEIsURELY REPENTANCE.

A memorial numerously signed, and with
the names of the chief men of Massachu-
sets, its poets, lawyers, clergymen, and
politicians, has been presented to tie Leg
islature Of that State, praying that the i'm
piled vote Of censure against Mr.. Sumner,
contained in the resolutions asking Con-
gress not to pass his "soldiers' bill" be ex-
plunged from the record. This has given
some smal.-minded, narrow-hearted parti-
sans another opportunity to kick Mr.. Sum
ner as they used to kick Daniel Webster, but
IT, has also given the Boston newspapers an
opportunity TO denounce the miserable
business. The Advertiser (Republican)
says it was "hasty and ill,judged." The
Post Democratic) says that when the SEN
ator's accuserS, "Colfax and Pomeroy, and
PATTERSON and Harlan fell, and even Wilson
was tainted, there did not arise even hint
of a suspicion of Mr.. Sumner. The freest
Imagination failed to conceive of such a
possibility. In Senate filed with corrup-
ton be stands indebted" 1t thinks some
thing is due as an acknowledgment of
integrity so rare as to be even above suspi-
cion," and with much force calls upon Mas
sachusetts to appreciate the worth of one
pure man; and, by annulling hasty, foolish,
and unconsidered act, relieve itself of an
imputatiOu upon its good sense.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-28
zABEGGAR FOR PLACE.

The Washington Republican, Grant
organ, speaks of Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, as
Gan involuntary candidate for something
and everything" Bingham's congression-
al career expires with the present Congress,
and the Republican says be sis being urged
by some ofhis friends for every position
that happens to be or is likely to become
vacant which is of sufficient Importance TO
accord with bis widely acknowledged capac-
iiy. He has been talked Of as a proper
candidate for the lev judgeship that was TO
Lave been created in Ohio; also, for the Of
fee Of Judge advocate general Of the navy,
which it was proposed 70 establish, and he
S now mentioned as the probable success
or of Mr.. Low, our present minister to
China, as well as ofMr. Nelson, our present
minister to- Mexico" Bingham has been one
of the most bitter, vindictive enemies the
South has had in Congress since the acces
sion to power of the Radical party, and now
that that party has no further use for him
in Congress, the poor old fellow is absolute
ly beggar for any place that he may hear
Of What commentary on his course.
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A REMARKABLE DISAPPEARANCE.

The New York World calls attention to
one of the most singular phenomena of the
age, which is the abrupt manner in which
the redou5table Ku-Klux Klan folded their
tents like the Arabs and silently stole away
Immediately after the Presidential election.
The mysterious disappearance of the ten
tribes of Israel is scarcely parallel to it,
says the World, for that great departure
was heralded by prophecy and sue
ceeded by solicitude and inquiry. But
the Ku-Klax have completely gone, and
left behind them not even a sulphurous
stencil, nor so much of a trail as fox
hound could follow. Nothing remains of
them, indeed, adds the World, but the tbir-
teen bulky volumes of reports and testimo-
ny, which, like children and other luxuries,
have to be paid for, and sundry written but
unuttered speeches of members of Con-
gress, which lie folded away in desks, like
bridal garments never worn. The World
comments upon this discreditable election
eering dodge of the Radicals in the follow.
ing sarcastic manner:
''The formidable conspiracy which threat
ened the existence of nine States: which
banished the Hoyal men of the South by the
hundred thousand;' which exhausted the
energies Of the Department of Justice, and
occupied large part Of the army of the
United States; which fred the Northern
heart once more, kept the Executive sleep
less with many cares, and induced an ap-
palled Congress TO drive a wagon-road
through the Constitutions; which forced
Judge Bond TO whet the sword of Justice
until it was sharper than serpent's tooth,
and filed the Albany Penitentiary with
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-28

THE Hartford CotrGnt recently men
toned the case Of conductor on one of
the Connecticut railroads who received a
year or two ago a 81, 900 greenback from a
passenger IS fare, promising to return the
change. When the conductor went 10 ful-
fill bis promise the man denied having Civ
en- bin the note. No clue 20 the strange
mans identity has ever been discovered,
but the Chicago Tribune has evidently
strack the right trail. 1t says: "Recent
developments indicate that the mans name
must have been Nesbitt-his acquaintance
with the conductor was SO very slight and
his method of bestowing greenbacks upon
strangers so extraordinary"