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FIRST CLASS HOUSE.

aud many consequent improve
enables the proprietors
TO offer to tho travelling public
more comforts aud convent
ences than can be obtained at
any other hf use in the city.
TELEGRAPH OFFICE. BILL
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Change Of Echedule.

SouTn CAROLINA hA1LRoAp Comr.Ny
COLUMBIA, s. c., October 18. 1873
E:s @ ma RE5sA, :. Change Schedule
sa.ee 4s2 4se& xa2lk@--sesst- to so into ffecton
and after Sunday 10Th instant:
NAIL AND PABSEHoEn TRAIN
Leave Columbia at. "A am
Arrive at Charleston at. .42opn,
Leave Charleston at ....... -. 900 nm
Arrive st Colum bis at 5.COpm
NIGHT EXPRESS, FRE1aR1 AND AccoMxopA.
TioS TRAIN, Sundays excepted
LeaTeColumbia.7.15 Is 2 nj Arrive go M
Arrive Chsrlest on 7.10 p u Leave 35sn
Camden Traint rurs Morday, Wednesday
xnd Saturday, as followr:
Leave CouD bia at. so pm
Arrive at Camden at 6 SIS nm
Leave Camden at....... 80. so am
Arrive at Columbia at.... .... II so am
:. Is. PIcKISs. General Ticket Agrrt
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l. Q, 8 and Sheet Posters. Hand. bills,
Programmes, Circulars. Pamphlets,
Bills of Fare. Briefs. Letter Heads,
Dodgers. Bill Heads. Checks,
Horse Bills. Receipts. Labels,
Railroad Blanks. Legal Blanks,
Tags, Cards all kinds and sizes
Wedding. Visiting. Business, Show.
JULIAN q. SELBY. Proprietor
PHOENIX and CLEANER Establishment
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Summer Schedule s. & U.R.R,,
q 5755IE DOWN TRAIN up TRAIN
41nR@AX' Arrive LaAYa Arriua Ia..s

AAo oAoAt Lilo ocueQut6.
CHARLOTTE, COLUMBIA g. AUGUSTA r 70
COLUMBIA, y. O., June 20. 1874
- @ esnFe1 pHG sshsSnIeg stGh1iSSTiDg .;I, Pes, Is
operated on and after this date:
GOING NORTH Train No 2 Train Nol
Leave Augusta. .7.45am 41hnm
Graniteyille. ...s.Isa am 5.iippm
Colbia Junct'n 1870 m OHM
Arrive Columbia. .12 80 q m 9.l7nm
Leave Columbia. 12.42 a. m
Winnsboro..... 2.49 m
chester. il. 20 pm
Arrive Charlotte. .t6. 5 pm
NO: Train makes close connection. ria
Charlotte and Richmond, to ali points
North, arriving at New York 6.O5 q. III.
No. Train makes close conneotion ,;n
Wilmington and Richmond to All points
North, arriving at New York At SIS p. III.
GOING % SOUTH. Train Mol Train No
Leave Cher!otte....-. 7.00 am
Cheater.. ....... 9.66 m
Winnsboro. -. III. .48 nd. 'it
Arrive Columbia. i. 2.O3 p xh
Leave Columbia, 49,. 2.1Sp,m $40 n,
Corbia Junct'n t2.48pm Alb am
Graniteville :. t7.15 m +7.48am
arrive Augusta: ..8.06 pm 845s m
rbreakfaat. thinner. tSupper.
South bound Trains connect at Aupnefa
for all points South and West. Through
tickets sold and baggage checked to princi-
Pa points. sI Sleeping cars on alf Night
Trains. JA6. ANDERSON yGeneralS Sup.
A.PorE, Gen. Passenger and Ticket Agent
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and Columbia Railroad

@@H ,rHA1sslGn RAss sESahR S,E;I
Sundays excepted, connecting with Night
Trains on South Carolina Railroad Ip and
down; with Trains going North and South
on Charlotte. Colu nbia and Augusta and
Wilmington Columbia and Augusta Roads
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The Commnnen Prennrinr

NEW YORK, May "A Paris letter
writer says: Evidently difficulties arc
tast closing in about us, and everyday we
have some fresh cause for rejecting
upon the tnaccuracy OF the moment. The
spirit which animated the Commune Is
very far from being crushed. The same
men are organizing for another attempt
Just as they did before 1S4s and In 1871,
Societies OF workiDgmen are formed in
each ACCOMPLISHMENT, under the direction
Of district commanders, which take their
orders from the Central Committee, and
the next step Is to bind the men by max.
ing them participants in all dangers and
benefits, and by the elements OF secrecy,
always attractive to the uneducated. Mem.
oers Of the society who have work are
privately taxed and one-hall OF the pro-
ceeds are added to the sinking fund and
reserved for the war budget, the rest goes
10 aid those who are out OF work and in
distress. Just before tho war matters had
reached the stage where we find them TO.
day, and Creuzot was selected as the bes.
point Tor beginning the strikes. Difficult.
les then occurring made possible tho
events of September. This time the
strikes are to be encouraged in Paris.
Certainly that Septenuate must come to
an END one day or another, and the belief
that 1t will not last long gives the chiefs
OF the lnternationals an opportunity for
saying that It will be succeeded by anoth.
or Commune"
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FOREIGN
SPAIN.
SnnoA pRL1yRRRp.

I
MADRID, May 4-Marshal serrano en-
tered Bilboa Saturday. There is grea,
rejoicing here over the deliverance Of the
city. Saturday evening there was gen.
eral illumination and the municipality
have sent congratulatory dispatches 10
Serrano and Concha. Additional dis
patches from Bilboa state that parties OF
Carltsts are surrendering In the hope OF On
amnesty. The main body, however, Il
retreating In disorder In the direction Of
Inc Province Of Guipizcoa. Bilboa is re-
suming Its wonted appearance and trade
is reviving. The distractions placed in
the river Nervion 10 prevent the approach
Of government war vessels have been re.
moved.
Yesterday q priest, lately discharged
from q lunatic asylum where he had been
an inmate, attempted to assassinate Senior
n. Y. Margall. he shot twice at Msrpall,
and missing him shot himself fatally.
MADRID, May 4.-The main body Of
the Carllsts Is at Ripall under Prince Al
phaus, Don Carlos Is at Durango.
Marshall setiano Is expected at MadFid
on Saturday next. The inhabitants Of
bilboa were without bread during the
last week Of the siege. The Republican
troops have been victorious In several
skifmishes In AndaluSia, Valencia and
New Castle.
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ARKANSAS IMBROGLIO.

MBMPnGs, May 4.-The following ver
wounded In the fight near New Gascony
Ark. Maj Corcoran, son.in.law TO Hor
Jas. Beck, Of Kentucky, twice In the fSc
and ARM Ino. Williams, Of Nashyille
severely In the leg; John Reeves, shot /,
The lace with bird shot; Club Sample
thumb shot of; VIM. Carroll, slightly h
the head; Sim and VIM. Levy, sliehtly
snd L. Rosenberg; flesh wound Thes,
were all planters living near the scene o
the engagement. On Brooks side Can.
tains Vandesand and Murphy were
wounded and captured, together with e(
Of their men. Four negroes were killeC
and 23 wounded. The dead were leit OF
the field and buried by the citizens nex
dayI
LlrTLE ROCK, May 4.-Judges Bennett
and searles, Of tho Supreme Court, were
captured last night BY o body OF aboui
zen armed men when thu train from
Memphis arrived OF Argenta opposite this
city, and were taken of the train and
carried Oh, where no one seems 10 know
The Brooks men charge that Il was a
Baxter squad who made the arrest, on
the other hand the Baxter men sav IL was
a Brooks crowd. It was reported that
the Supreme Court was 10 hold special
session today and pass upon Judge
Whitlock's Judgment In the Brooks. .Bax.
Ter case and the Brooks men spirited the
Judges away to prevent them from re.
amtming q quo wRrranto decision.
The Brooks men charge the Baxter
men with capturing the Judges TO pre.
vent their affirming Whittocks decision.
A squad Of United States troops were
out looking for the missing Judges this
morning, as was squad under command
q the Sheriff. They didn't find them.
Reports from Jefferson state that a SQUAD
OF General King Whites men encountered
a body Of sixty Brooks men above the
Arkansas post last evening and dispersed
them. One report saye five men were
killed, though 1t needs confirmation. The
preparations on both sides look very war.
like, and all sorts Of reports are aflost.
One report Is that Brooks intends assault.
ing Baxter, and another that Baxter In.
tends assaulting Brooks. The United
states troops occupy their old position
between both parties.
Hon: J. R Berry, who claims 10 have
been elected auditor on the same ticket
with Brooks and who was prevented
from prosecuting his claims in tho courts
BY a prohibition against the Circuit Court
Issued by the Supreme Court, publishes a
letter tavoriug the submission OF the
whole matter TO the legislature.
Brooks publicly announces that he will
not abide by any decision of the Legisla.
The Gazette and other conservative
Journals iavor the call by the Legislature
Of a Constitutional Convention with a
view to resubmttting the whole matter to
the people.
Broobs received a few recruits to-day,
as did Baxter.
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A Race of African plgmles,

NEW YoRK, May 4.-Bayard Taylor
in a letter from Egypt gives an account
OF the recent discovery Of a race Of Pig.
mics in Central Africa. Speaking of The
two in the care Of the K'Ldine he saws;
The little fellows looked at me with
bright, questioning steady eyes while l
examined and measured them. The
tubbull was 40 inches in length, tho legs
being % inches and the body with tie
head "a inches, which Is a somewhat bet.
ter proportion than is usual in savage
tribes. Head and arms quite symetrical,
but the spine curved In remarkably from
the shoulders TO the hip joint, throwing
out the abdomen, which was already
much distended, probably from their diet
OF beans and bavavos, yet the head was
erect, shoulders on line OF gravity, and
there was no stoop in the posture oi the
body as in South Africa. The tubbell
measured 20 inches around the breast and
% inches around the abdomen. His
hands and feet were coarsely formed, but
not large, only the knee joint being dis
proportionately thick and clumsy. The
facial angle was fully up to the averages
There was good development Of the
brain, fine intelligent eyes; nose so flatten.
ed that in looking down the forehead
from above one saw only the tips project.
ing beyond 1t. The nostrils were wide
and square; the complexion was that Of q
mulatIo.
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Military s,atun Of Prns.in,

NEW YoRK, May 4-A letter from
Berlin says It was evident that the pur-
pose Of the liberals in voting to FIX the
military strength Of Germany for seven
years was to enable the Emperor to pre-
pare for any hostile demonstration during
seven years. President MacMahon Is to
exercise his powers in France. The let.
ter adds: The addition Of some 10000
men TO the regular army Is a fact which
carries its own explanation, but the effect
Of this increase on the available military
material Of the country involves another
calculation besides the three years which
be serves under the flag. The recruit basis
nine years In the reserve and Landwehr
increase Of SO, 900 tol!he permanent army,
implies yearly addition OF the same
number to the trained reserve. ThisIwill
amount in seven years to ESQ, 900 men; or
rather since the effect Of the increase will
DO felt on the reserve, only alter the ex-
piration Of three years from the begin.
ming Of new levies, 100000 will represent
that addition, while 10000 more will be
still In active service. In other words, in
1881 Germany will be able to meet France
with nearly 100000 more skilled soldiers
than today.
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COLUMBUS.

COLUMBUS, May 4--James W. Comfy
and +. W. Francisco have purchased the
interest OF Dr.. 3. W. Smith In the Ohio
stGte Journal, and are now equal partners
IN the concern. Comfy rcmains.as edi.
tor In chief and Francisco in charge Of the
business department.
The Agricultural College trustees this
evening appointed Warren P. Noble, ex,
GOV. Dennison and Thomas O. Jones, oI
delaware, q special committee TO Wait
Washington and urge the passage of the
bill now before Congress ceding the
swamp lands located In Ohio to the State
II is proposed to sell these lands for the
benefit Of the Agricultural College.
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WASHINGTON.
APPROPRIATION BILLS.

WAsnINoToN, A1sy 4,-The House
Committee on Appropriations has finally
acted on eleven OF the general appropri-
alton bills, and tho remaining one Of the
series, namely, for sundry civil expenses,
Is now under consideration. The army
and navy appropriation bills have passed
both Houses, and have returned to the
Committee on Appropriations upon Sen
ate amendments. The fortiicatton bill
has become q law. The legislative,
Judicial and executive bill has passed the
House and Ia now in the Senate. The
Indian bill Is tefore tho House Military
Committee. The deficiency, posto1lce
and consular and diplomatic bills have
been reported to the House, but remain
to be acted upon. The pension bill, river
and harbor bill and sundry civil expenses
Dill are yet to be reported.
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PREACHERS SALARIES.
What the Leading Pastors Of New
York Receive for Preaching.


Mr.. Beecher receives the largest salary
paid to any pastor in the United States
$4,000. The salaries Of Dr.. Potter, o
Grace Church, and the Rev. Morgan Dix
Of Trinity, come next to that Of Mr.
Bsecher, each receiving $4,000. Dr.
Morgan, Of st. Thomas Church, Flht
avenue and Flfty.tbIrd street, receives
$4,000, and DR.. Montgomery, OF The
Church Of the Incarnation, DR.. aaight
Of 81, Paurs, and Dr.. Weston, Of Trinity
Chapel, the same amount. DR.. Tying, o.
st. Georges, is paid $1,000, and DR.
Tying, Jr., Of the Holy Trinity, tho same.
The salary Of DR.. John Cotton Smith
ono oil the ablest men in the Protestant
Episcopal Church, Is 5000. The pastor
Of 81. Bartholomew's Church, DR.. Cooke,
receives $1,000. The lowest salary paid
in tho Episcopal Church is $1,000, and
tho cntire salary list amounts to about
100000.
DR.. John Hall, oil tho Filth avenue
Presbyterian Church, receives $4,000
year 10 gold he Is one Of our most pop.
1lar and effective preachers. The Rev.
Dr.. Thompson, Of the Fourth Presbyte.
rian Church, West -Thlrty.tourth street;
Dr.. Hastings, Of the West Presbyterian
Church, West Forty second street, and
DR.. Booth, OF the University Place Pres.
tbyterian Church, receive each $4,000.
Several other Presbyterian preachers, in.
cluding DR.. Paxton. DR.. Forthrup, DR..
Burchard and DR.. Hitchcock, are paid
81, 600 each.
DR.. Elder, pastor Of the Madison ave-
nue. Baptist Chnrch, receives $1,000, the
highest salary paid by this denomination.
Drs. Armitage, Kendrick, and Kinnard,
OF the same denomination, are each paid
IS 900, and five Baptist pastors receive
salaries as low as $1,000.
Salaries OF ministers in the Reformed
Dutch Church range higher. Drs. Cham.
bers, 0rmiston and Dewitt receive re.
spectively $4,000; DrS. Thompson and
Rogers, $1,000, and Drs. Hutton and
Mandeville, $1,000. Only three pastors
of this Church are paid as low as 81 900.
The salary OF the distinguished Dr..
Chaplin is only 5000; Drs. Sweetzer and
Pullman, OF the same denomination (Uni.
versalists), are paid 50 900 each. Only one
Methodist Church-St. Paul's, corner 4lh
avenue and 2sd street-psys its pastor az
much as 5000. Two others pay $8 900
each, and ten more $4,000.
One Lutheran Church (Holy Trinity
pays 5000, and another Isl. JGmesD pays
$4,000. some Lutheran pastors receive
less than $1,000. The salary of DR.. Bel.
lows, Of All Souls Church, is $4,000.
DR.. Deems, OF the Church OF the Stran-
gers, receives $500, and the Rev. Chaun.
cey Giles (5wedenborgiaD) receives
Allpastors Of Roman Catholic Churches
receive $500 year, and assistant pastors
800.
1t is beyond question that many pastors
Of various denominations in New York
are very poorly paid for the labors they
have to perform.
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GheGttelligfttrer:
Forcing the prlce of Oil.

We publish an article from the Oh City
Derrick this morning that gives an &C.
count Of the combination that has beer
effected In the Pen nsylvanis oil regions
toadvanco tho price Of oil. This Is nc
doubt formidable combination, and we
presume that It will succeed for the time
being 10 advancing the price. At the same
time all tie world knows that the natural
tendency Of oil Is In tho other direction.
Aud whys Simply because the produc-
ton far exceeds the demand. The great
law ol supply and demand Is at work to
keep down the price, and the present
combination is an effort not only to neu.
tallze but to positively counteract that
law. 1t can succeed only for the imme
diate present. In very short time the
law must assert itself. Either that or the
supply must be postponed indefinitely,
for as long as 1t Is known that there
Is an immediate readiness and ca.
pacity to inundate the market with oil
the price will be purely speculative and
as liable to break down as the price Of o
fancy railroad stock. The method re-
sorted to is not now by any means. It
has been tried time and again not only in
oil but in other departments OF trade.
Our Nail men. for instance, have had some
experience in that line. The practice
used to be more in vogue among them
thar 1t Is now. With oil their stopping
in times past they did not stop the multi
plication OF nail machines. Therefore
they had the same difficulty to meet over
and over again. and in increased proper.
tions. And thus II is likely to bc with
the oil men. Their stop Is only pallia.
tive and not remedy. 1t will not cure
tho over production unless 1t is proracted
to an extent that will thin out the num-
Der Of producers, and this is not likely.
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New York to washington.

: Under the new arrangement by which
two trains are run between New York
and Washington by the Baltimore & Po.
tomac, and two by the Baltimore s. Ohio,
three trains leave New York at the old
time, $40 A. N, and 8 and OP.M. The
trains leaving at s;4oA. NJ and Sp.M, 90
by tho Baltimore s. Ohio, the opH
train and the new train at 0:SOA. N. going
by the Baltimore s. Potomac. Tho new
train which has been added Is called the
Washington Limited Express" which
leaves New York at $50 A. NJ. and reach.
es Baltimore at 2:55 and Washington al
4;lOP. NJ, making the run oi 2S5 miles In
hours and 40 minutes, the fastest reg
ular une ever made between the two
cities. The train consists entirely ol
Pullman coaches, and tho fare charged or
i is, to Philadelphia, 81 25; 10 Baltimore
$3.50, and TO Washington, $40, being az
extra charge TO Philadelphia OF III "a
Baltimore Of $3.50, and 10 Washington
1880.
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ST. LOUIS.
JUDGES ARRESTED.

ST. LOUIS, May 4-The Demoeraes
special from Little Rock says Judges
searle and Bennett, Of the Supreme
Court, were arrested last night on their
arrival by the Memphis train at Argenta,
opposite Little Rock, by Capt. Williams,
acting under the orders Of Gov. Baxter.
The Judges refused 10 be arrested with
out proper authority, whereupon Captain
Williams made q signal and band oi
armed men entered the cars with cooked
treTolvers, and Searle and Bennett were
forcibly taken from the train, and up to
the time the dispatch was written they
had not been heard Of in Little Rock. The
Supreme Court was to convene at Little
Rock today. Judge Stephenson, also Of
the Supreme Court, was on the train, but
It seems his presence was not known, else
he too would hAye been arrested. The
affair created great excitement in Brooks
camp, and serious trouble Is apprehended
unless Colonel Rose interferes for the re-
lease Of the Judges.
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Some More QuesliOns fOr "Ju,tlce.,
Editors OF the IllelilSeneer,

| - sAS eAb0AAAhNAS9kg
Although my other questions were very
evasiyely answered, yet have prepared
some more for Justices" consideration.
What Is there In nature which bears
any evidence that Christ Is the son OF
God? Do we not found our belief in the
Savior solely upon the Bible?
! know no question which we have no
right to ask five wish 10 know. Unfor.
tunately those who constitute themselves
authorities on thesesubjects seem TO know
oi such, when their answers viii conflict,
or when, for any reason It Ia expedient 10
eyade q candid answer, and they do not
wish to acknowledge their ignorance. Ny
own inner consciousness, which prompts
my mind to think, my heart to love, and
my soul TO believe, prompted me to ask
where Hell is, If 1t be place, and not
merely a condition. This Is that part Of
me which alone must answer hereafter
Tor the deeds done In the flesh, and It's
abode is within myself. However Il there
be any hell in me, hell Is q very pleasant
thing to have around. My question was
also prompted by the knowledge Of the
utter impossibllity Of the eternal existence
Of a human being in birthstone fire, and
oy my deeire to induce "Justice" to CON-
init himself to this ridiculous belief. HAv.
ing answered him, l will anxiously await
his locating oil the "pit."
Would 1t not be as wise for Mahomet.
an or q Mormon to class the Bible among
lnfdel works as for you to class their
b00kq Of faith 40 annh
Do you think that ignorance of Gods
law excuses ones sins?
With the Bible, with Reason, with
conscience, with Nature, with all the pre-.
cepts and examples accessible 10 me, /
expect 10 stumble often; but shall not be
so blind as 10 stumble twice on the same
obstacle. Is 1t not better 10 walk by
sight than 10 feel our way In the dark !?
l believe only what I can comprehend.
REASON,
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More CreYna,es.

MEMpms, May 4.-Advices from Prem.
tiss, Miss, state that the levee broke
Saturday night one and a half miles be-
low there; also at Glencoe, 90 miles be-
low, while another crevasse ia hourly ex.
pected at Prides, The water Is pouring
through the crevasse at Catfish Point,
which is now one hundred and fiity
yards wide. The private levee at Walnut
Bend, Ark Is also broken, innundating
Falls Forge, Asous and other rich plan
tations, the two named having over 100
acres of cotton planted. Appeals come
from below Napoleon for, more supplies
for the sufferers, The Relief Committee
is bustly engaged in filling orders.
MEMPHIS, May 4.-Cspt. Mark Cheek,
Of tho steamer George w. Cheek, con.
firms the reports Of the planters along the
river above Napoleon. The negroes Who
have been driven from their homes by the
overflow refuse all offers Of employment
from the planters, saying that The Gov.
ernment Is going to furnish them rations,
and that they don't want to work.