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BEECHER IMPROVES ON PAUL.
Would it be wrong for young man
who is Christian and an active mem.
Der Of church to marry young lady
he, loves, and who, he has reason to
believe, loves him, but who is not o
Christian and does not belong to o
Christian family?
We have several times given gene.
raj opinion on this questlon-we can
not attempt to advise in particular
cases. The advice Of Paul against
marriage with "unbelievers" is not
wholly applicable to this time. There
was an irreeonoilable doctrinal and
moral antagonism between an ancient
heathen and Christian living in per-
petnal expectation of martyrdom from
heather foes. There could be no "fel-
lowship" between them. The whole
question is one Of fellowship. II the
lady whom our correspondent speaks
OF is one who will be in sympathy
with his highest aspirations and pur.
poses-his purposes to live nobly and
nnseltshly-then he had better marry
her than some professors OF religion. 4.
Henry Ward Beecher in The CHrislim,
Union.
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How FLOCK OF SHEEP WAS Drown
ED. D.-Galiynani's Messenger notes thut
somewhat singular incident has just
occurred at farm belonging to the
chatean of Avignon. in the Camargue.
Bouchesdu-Rhone, France. A flock
of 6S4 sheep were feeding, when they
were suddenly surprised by violent
storm Of wind and rain dashing in
their faces. They instantly turned
aud ran away to escape the driving
shower, but, unfortunately, the path
they selected led them straight to II
deep pond, into which they plunged,
one after the olher, aud were all
drowned. A poor dog. which was in
charge Of the flock, endeavored to stop
them, but the pressure OF the fright
encd animals was SO great that hs was
borne down. and shared their fate.
Their bodies were extricated the next
day, and buried i'll deep bitches dug
close by. The loss was estimated ut
nearly 30.00Of.
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UNITED STATES D1sTRror COURT,

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT,
JUNE 11-Judge Bryan presiding. In
the petition of @. B. Hammett, to es-
tablish liens in tho matter of B. F.
Bates, bankrupt, the Registrars re-
bort was confirmed and the assignee
ordered to disburse the funds in his
hauds in conformity with the Regis
trar's report. In the application of r /.
M. Wallace, United States Marshal,
for an order on tho assignee in the
matter of John S. Shuck, bankrupt, it,
was ordered that the assignee, W. G..
Croft, do within ten days nuke full re-
port to the United States District
Court of his actings and doipgs as
such asrignee. 1t was ordered, on the
application OF Mrs Amelia G.. Clark,
lien creditor in tho case of McMaster,
Monieith & Roath. bankrnpts, that the
order OF May. 1874, iu reference TO
this CAGE, be modified so far as it re.
iates to honse aud lot mortgaged to A.
4. Clarkson, to secure an annuity of
$500. and that the assignee sell the
real estate, and from the proceeds pay
the amount OF annuity now in arrears.
It was ordered, on tho application Of
W. Fl. Chafee & Go. against J. Il.
Lam bson, bankrupt, that the creditors
have leave to prosecute the suit to
judgment. It was also ordered, on the
application Of Furchgott. Benedict &
{ ngainst ). r. Lsmbsop, bankrupt,
tEat the creditors have leave to prose
rnt" suit TO judgment. On tho appli-
cation OF the as>iguee in the matter Of
W. q. Hurris. bankrupt. leave was
granted the assignee to sell the pro-
perty aud to bold the proceeds, subject
"a thu order of the Court.
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HOTEL ARRIVALS, juno IL, 1874
Columbia Hotet-J NJ Baxter, New
berry; Mrs f j Moses, children and
servant, Augusta; T s Lavender, 8 O;
j A Tnrrentine, w, O & A r r; j D
BIanding, Sumter; D Daily. N @; c
G Rockwell, Aiken; w D Kennedy,
Augusta; L 8 Olarkson, Charlotte; J
E Thames, l. G White, Charleston; o
81 GasseIl, P g Norry. N @; A T
Stokes, G r Ambrose. Md; J Nj Seig.
Ter. G & @ r r; L Kingdom, s g
RR
Wheeler House-G Schaub, Bath;
l. G Gardiner, New York; G E Boggs,
Pat Dutiie. Charleston; Jos jenkins.
Augusta; W a Moore, Marlboro; R
Galbraith, Chester; Howard Carroll,
New York; F II Glover, st Louis;
Miss Mo!lie Hannak. Chesterfield; s.
l. Hoge, city.
Hendric House, " Low, Winns-
boro; W 81 Able, J W Brown, Ridge.
way; II a Miokle. Newberry; D R
Leak, Charlotte; @ W Steffens, Charles
ton.
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4 report comes from Greene Town
ship. N. c.. that L. z. Shaw, u man
aged about seventy, we'll thought of in
the community where he lived, q
beacon light III Mr.. Welker's church,
and prominent Radical, left wife and
family, taking to his bosom thirty
five years old widow, named Jane
Greeson, with whom he departed last
week for pnrts unknoRn. There is no
telling whut will become OF man be-
fore hs dies who belongs to the Radi-
cal party.
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A Philadelphia paper telates ;mir-
inely story OF General Putnam.
which. ii true, shows that this revolu-
hnnary hero must have bad some very
si'lritless recruits uuder him at times.
Says tho Philadelphia puper: "Ol,l
Put' had rec=iyed lot OF recruits,
nn'i AS he had some lighting ut baud,
aud wanted noue but willing meu, he
drew up hla levies before him. NOW,
boys" SAID he, Il don't wish to retain
any OF YOU who wish to ienve; there.
fore, ii any OF you is dissatisfied, and
wishes to return home, he may signify
the same by stepping six PAGES in front
of the line. But" added the old war
dog, ''I'ii shoot the first man that
steps out" Such bullying IN that
would have met with the response it
deserved if 'old Put" had lived in our
degenerate days. unless. perhaps, his
recruits had come from Philadelphia.
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The News FROM SOUTH CARoL1NA.-
Always darkest just before morning,
says the old proverb. It has been q
dark night and long one for South
Carolina; how dark and how long,
readers sitting in prosperous New Eng
land homes, under the secure protec-
ton OF just laws honestly administered,
have, and can have, little idea. It has
seemed at timos as though duybrenk
would never come. Rnt at last, unless
the eyes Of the watchers have played
tricks with their hopes, there are faint
gray streaks in the East, and the black
gloom is slightly but visibly lifting.
In the first place, the recent Tax
Payers Convention accomplished q
good deal more than some of its pro.
moters and engineers even yet suspect.
It did not secure Federal interposition,
as it set out to do, and on this account
superficial critics, within and without,
made haste to write it down failure.
They were wrong; it was great sue
cess. True, its committee got little
satisfaction at the White House and
the f]apitol; but even this disappoint-
ment, bitter and dishenrtening as it
first was, promises to prove in the
long run another cuse Of the blessing
in disguise.
There are hepafuI Indications that
the property-holders of the plundered
State, despairing of help from without,
are ut last waking up to the necessity
OF helping themselves. The local tax
payers organizations, hitherto existing
principally on paper, are becoming
facts. The newspapers of the Stute.
wasting no more rhetoric on the Presi-
dent and Congress, devote themselves
to impressing upon their readers the
Importance and hopefulnoss of organ
lied effort. The young men of the
State are responding to these appeals
So far as can be judged by observers
at this distance, the old lethargy. as of
that has weighed down the
white people of the PROSTATE common
wealth, is giving place to new energy
of resolution and action that is full of
good omen.
Nor, in the second place, has the
eH6ot OF the convention cpca public
opinion without the State been less
marked. The statement of facts
drawn up by the taxpayers for use ut
Washington found its real use in the
columns of Northern newspapers. 1t
has produced profound Impression
upon thoughtful people throughout
the Union. A great tide of sympathy
has set in toward the suffering State
tide all the stronger for being, to o
certain extent, q reaction from previ-
GUS ooldness and Indifference Here
and there we see influential Republi-
can organs-notably the New York
Iimes-borne along by it. They are
saying now what they abused us for
saying only two short years ago. This
change in public sentiment ut the
North is reacting, in its turn, upon
public sentiment in South Carolina.
The Taxpayers are encouraged; the
more intelligent blacks alarmed. Be
sure that every sharp word of the
Times is promptly reproduced in the
peoples papers of the State. and that
the editors of the thieves papers and
the thieves themselves find it very un-
comfortable reading.
[Springfsld Mass. } Republican.
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VIRGINIA CROPS. recent circular
Of firm III Richmond says:
I'VE are approaching our wheat
harvest in Virginia. with an unprece-
dented yield. We huvs not had O
prospect equal to it since the war.
Our next tobacco crop cannot be very
large on account of the general ra.
wages by the 'hy. aud it is too late to
raise more for planting. This fact has
improved the value of all good tobacco
OF the last crop, now coming forward
and upon the market"
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The NEW BIooM IN TIE TREASURY

The NEW BLOOM IN THE TREASURY
misunderstanding Bristow has
already put on foot several reforms in
the Treasury department, nnd with a
determination that indicates that he
means 10 garry them out. Oneso of his
Arst official duties was to send t;for the
chief of the appointing bureau, aud
ascertain from him how many persons
drew pay and rendered no services In
return. The long list OF sinecnres was
shown him, and he directed the clerk
to strike every name from tue pay roll
Immediately. Eighteen femules were
found to be among the number draw.
ing pay from the department, and the
appointment clerk went SO fur as to
say that they did not even take the
trouble to call for their salary, that it
had to be sent them regularly, aud
that he had no Information that they
ever did cents worth of work in re-.
turn, some Of them being incapable of
doing the duty. The new Secretary
intends also to put stop to so mnny
other abuses, such as clerks tuking
European trips with their families ut
Government expenses GU imaginary
inspections or business. and Of absent
ing themselves from their desks, in
some cases, AS much us three fourthA
of the time. He intends also to weed
out, without regard to persons, iu al.
cases whore there are more than one
in family employed in the depart
ment. Secretary Richardson made
severnl attempts to stop this, bn: on
account of the great pressure brought
to bear in individual cases, allowed it
to remain. 1t will probably be the
same with Mr.. BristOw in a few weeks.
when the pressure coEes
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The examination exercises at West
Point are always terminated by q
grand hop. If Smith had any heyoism
and did not mind q martyrdom, which
might immortalize him, he would in
vite the biaokest wench he could find
and take her to that hop, like "man
and brother" It is about time these
whited sepulohers should be laid bare,
and Smith has chance to do it il he
can muster up sufficient pluck.
A London artist found o model in q
beggar with splendid long beard
duty and unkempt-just such as he
wanted for venerable, saintly person
he was going to paint. He gave the
man two pence, and told him he could
earn shilling day if he would call at
the studio. The man called and had
cut off his beard to make himself tidy.
Water-melons are daily sold at auc-
tion in Key West, averaging ten to
fifteen cents. Vessels from Nassau
bring over large quantities.
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:. C11xe MATTERS. --suhscriha. for the

CITY MATTERS. Rs.--Suhscriha., for. the
PHOENIX.
df you ore needing straw hat, ex-
mine MIR. D. Epstin's stock.
Probabilities promises more rain for
this section to-. day.
Never fail to read the advertise
nfents. Yon can tell by them who
soils cheap and good wares.
The annual Schuetzenfest of the Au-
gusta Schuetzen Club. commencing on
tho 23d inst, will be grand affair.
Hereafter those who go to Europe
for business or pleasure will bave to
pay a fee of five dollars each for their
passports.
An old topper says there is some
liquor in Columbia which ought to be
called Civil Rights-it is so hard to
swallow.
In that hour of the day when the
mercury leaps highest. man goes
about on wagon and cries "Ohar.
coal!" Somebody ought to give him
an overcont.
A dnrkey gives the following reason
why the colored race is superior to the
white: All men are made Of olay, and,
like the merschaum pipe. they are
more valuable when highly colored.
A new process of ''sweating' or in
flating the currency Is in vogue. The
notes are slit lengthwiec, in such q
way that out OF six bills seven are cou-
structed. slightly narrower than the
genuine.
Among the quotations in the Charles
ton Week!y Referee are the following:
Perjurers--brisk; State-bankrupt;
Treasurers sbaky; Governor-below
par; parental succor-6rm; State Trea-
sury-empty.
Rain fell in copious showers here
yesterday and the day before, for
which let ns be thankful It will take
old Sol some time to eyaporate the
winter that fell yesterday. Rain on;
we can stand it.
Depositors in the Citizens Savings
Bank are notified that dividend OF
twenty five per cent. will be paid them
on aud after Monday. the 18th instant.
Dividends will &c. be paid without the
production of the pass books.
"How's business nowp" inquired q
drummer of merchant the other day.
"Dnll, fearfuliy dull" was the answer.
"The fact Of the business is. nobody
buys anything just now but provisions
and whiskey-the bare nscessaries of
life, as it were"
The new vest has deep pocket that
completely hides cigar, 80 that the
man who asks you ''for the mate to
that" can never bring q blush to your
face by discovering it after you have
told him II haven't another; q fellow
just give mo that"
Those who desire to witness the
commencement exercises of Furman
University, the High School, and the
Female College. at Greenville. New
berry College, at Walhalla, and Erskine
College, at Due West, are referred to
the proposal, published in another
column, by Col. Dodamead. General
Superintendent of the Greenville and
Columbia Railroad, to convey them
there and return them for ono fare,
between the dates specified.
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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CoLoRED EsnGRANTs FROM VIRGINIA.
Yesterday morning. about 100 colored
men from Richmond, w., engaged to
labor in Ohio coal mines, passed
through Baltimore, en- route for Colum-
bus, Ohio. They report great destitu-
tion among colored people in Rich
mond, where it is almost impossible to
find employment.
Baltimore Sun, 10M.
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Au act OF infamous cruelty, under
color of law, reaches us from Annapo.
lis. 1t seems that some eighteen
months since. a private was caught
drunk and asleep while on duty. He
was tried. convicted and sentenced to
two years solitary confinement in n
dungeon. The dungeon or cell Sc
lected for this purpose is closet five
feet by ten. nnder tho water line, in
the hold OF a vessel. For eighteen
months. this miserable wretch has in
this manner been shut out from the
light Of Heaven, breathing the noisome
air of this loathsome place. Nothing
but vigorous constitution prevents
this being, what it will bo yet. the
death penalty, and slow, lingering
death of torture. Now, how ofton
have the officers who meted out this
torture. or the Secretary who approved
it, been drunk and asleep on duty
Ono doubts, with suoh ~ fact before us,
the Christian civilization Of our age.
Capital.
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The advocates of cremation eyi.
IDENTITY too thoroughly appreciate the
dignity, importance and gravity of
their mission, to be affected in the
least by stock ridicule o. newspaper
hoaxes out OF season. The growth OF
this movement is not confined to this
country alone, but is rs wide as civil.
cation, and rapidly as it has acquired
strength IN our large cities, it has Mt.
tanned even more definite proportions
in the old world, until cremation fur.
mace is in process Of construction in
Dresden, and in Switzerland the peo.
pie regard it as more interesting is.
sue than the revision of the Federal
Constitution, on which vote is shortly
to be taken. Discussion is growing
wider, and objections are answered as
fast as they arise.-BoSion Posi-.
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BIG FEET a clerk stepped around
the other night and called upon u
yonng udy, aud inrlug the interview
asked her comi,tny to party IL few
nights hence. She declined. aud be-
ing askn! her reason frankly told him
she had holes III her shoes. ..Oh. if
that's all I'll send around for them in
the morning aud have them mcndcd. "
VERY well, if you will I'll go with
you. He wrote polite note aud
sent 1t by the porter. When the por-
ter got to the house the girl was out,
and her mother read the document.
Without saying word the old lady
stepped back in the kitchen aud picked
up pnir OF number tens belonging to
the cook, which were double soied,
pegged. half TORN out, aud run down
at the heels. The clerk, nothing
doubling. received them with perfect
horror, but seut them to his shoe shop.
They were finished in time. the clerk
dressed himself, picked up the gun
boats. went to the house and into the
purlor. There's your shoes on the
table, Miss Mary" What" There's
your shoes had mended" II would
thank you, sir. to take yourself out of
this house," and out of the room she
went in high dudgeon. The united
efforts of the young man aud "the old
woman" have utterly failed to make
her see any joke in it.
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THE .spARyANpuRe AND AsuEy1nnE

TIE. SPABgAEBURa AND ,AsHEyIL1E
RAILROAD CoIPANY.-A meeting of
the directors Of this company was held
last evening. Present-Hon. G. G..
Memminger, President; Hon. Gabriel
Cannon, Wce-President; Messrs. Geo.
w. WILLIAMS, B. Bollmann, Theo. ID.
Jervey. ALVIN Gage, D. B. Duncan, !,
Directors, and.A. Q. kaufman, Secre-
| tary and Treasurer. .
President Memminger read q letter
from MIR. j. 8. Kennedy, Presidents of
the French Broad Railroad Company,
| announcing officially to him the action
of his board in reference to their de-
sire to effect consolidation OF their
company with the Spartanburg and
Ashevilie Railroad, and asking Tor the
appointment Of committee from this
board to meet a similar committee
from his to arrange tho terms of the
consolidation of the two companies.
On molten Of Geo. ". Williams,
Esq, it was
ReSolred, That this board approves
the proposal to consolidate into one
company this company and the Green
vile, Tenn, and French Broad Rail.
road Company, Of North Carolina; that
committee OF four, Of whom the Pre-.
sident Of this company shall be chair
man, be appointed to meet any like
committee which may be appointed by
the Greenville and French Broad Rail-
road Company, and arrange the terms
upon which such consolidation shall
be effected; and that said committee
be authorized to take such measures
to carry ont this object as they may,
III their judgment. deem cxpedicnt
The President appointed upon this
com mittec Messrs. Gabriel Cannon,
d. Il. Duncan and Theodore Ct. Bar
ker.
Hon. Gabriel Cannon, who has just
returned from the engineer corps now
i'll the field, made very encouraging
and hattering report upon the nd dvsnce
Of the survey, stating that Col. Thad.
Coleman, the engineer in charge, had
mentioned to him that by slight de-
Election from Maj. CALAIS hne-itself
not expensive-there would be con-
siderable saving, both in distance and
money. Mr.. Ephraim Clayton, tue
pioneer of this hne-his connection
with it dating back forty years-was
in the field with the corps obtaining
the right of way and urging on the
work with remarkable energr. Mr..
Clayton is an experienced railroad
contractor, having had large contracts
upon railroads IN every part of the
country, and says be is now deter
mined to see this pet scheme OF his
consummated ere long. The people of
North Carolina, who hitherto traded
with Charleston, are anxious 10 renew
their business relations with our mer-
chants, and will do so Immediately
upon the proper facilities for transpor-
tation by rail being afforded them.
The cry everywhere along the line is
for Charleston. Col. Cannon conclud.
ed by urging the board to press the
claims OF this enterprise upon the reo.
Pile OF this city.
After the transaction of other busi-
ness, the meeting adjourned.
Charleston Ne'os and Courier, 12M.
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The first photographer has opened
his saloon in Truckee, Nevada, and has
been shot at by q miner who insisted
on having his picture taken by lamp.
light as be was going away early in the
morning.
Work will soon begin on tho pilgrim
monument at Plymouth, Mass.
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LIGHTNING on Pixies PEAK Sun.
day was an eyentfnl day Oh Pixies
Peak. Two feet Of "sleet snow" fell
during daylight, and clouds rested
like n pail upon the summit DIS
chnrges Of The electric fluid were SO
frequent that ut times the rooms OF
the signal station seemed to be filed
with fumes. The wires were all melt.
ed to the ground, and the stove was
the object for many an attack. Once
the signal officers were ull prostrated
by Il furious bolt. Indeed, SO terrible
was the situation. aud so fearful the
constant and repeated discharges, that
Sergeant Leary was frightened into
fits. Seldom do the observers essay n
visit to the springs, the snow has nc.
cnmulated to so great depth upon
tho Peak; but wo lcnrn that the snow.
level is now rapidly getting lower.
Denrer Times, June 3.
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Tho Republican voters of the seven.
teenth OWL District of Kncx County.
Tenn, last week, by vote Of seventy
to FIVE, sustained the position of Sc.
nator Brownlow on the Civil Rights
Bill.
Scarlet fever is prevailing to an
alarming extent at Pittsburg, Pa.
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MASSACRE. 10000 Christmas have
recently been massacred in the pro-
vince of Tong-King, Cochin. .Chinn. if
letter pnrporting to come from the
Bishop OF Laranda. and published in
the French papers, may be relied upon.
long King is the largest province OF
Cochin China, and the Christians said
to have been massacred are mostly the
converts of French priests. Within
the mission from which the slaughter
ls reported there were 80, 900 Christ.
ians, and the movement against them
must have been deliberately planned
and powerful one. Tu-Dnc, the Em.
peror of Cochin China, has always
been bitter opponent Of the intro
duction of Christianity among his
people. who are mixed race OF Ma
lays, Chinese. Siamese aud Peguans,
numbering about 10 600, 900, Buddhist
in what religion they practice, and
speaking IL language sImilar to that Of
the Chinese. His battles with the
French, oy which he lost several of
his provinces, aud was compelled to
open his entire country to Christianity,
seem to have made him even moro
determined eLemy of the missionaries
than he had been before, ami, if the
reports from Paris be trne, he has now
struck blow moro terrible than any
that preceded it. Another French in-
vasion of his territory will, of course,
follow, and the war in Cochin.Chinu
will open the next field for the enter.
prising correspondent.
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Tax Unions,

The deieg ties to the Tax Payers
Convention from Richland are request.
ed to meet at the Office of Messrs.
Waliaoer& & Green,Yon. Monday, the
18th instant, ht II H., to make ar.
rangemsnts for organizing Tax Uniohe
in said County. Il fH y
ss VIM. WALLACE. Chairman
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LIST OF NEW ADvERTIsEME ENrs.
Il. Il q. r. Il. Half Fare Tickets.
Perry & Slawson-Cigars.