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i H i j A l jlanta sun From The Dally TII K ( ll' I.KKA 1HK AHLI'OTKJI ksiat*. The Nrw York Times, the leading Re* un ot June .1. publican newspaper of New Y3tk, iu re* j ferrmg to the claim for compensation for TiiiH sensation bus, tvideuilr, done rtie Arlington estate put lorward l y a much good all ov< r ttie country. Every Washington paper tor Mrs. R. E. Lee. littie town has been incited to clean up its streets. It the doctors could get tip a cholera sensation odco a year, they would do milch f«.r the general health ot tue people. Tiie stampede at Nushvii'fc trout the cholera, a* it was believed to lie, remarks that it it is staged that, at the lime tire title passed into toe hands of the Government from lorftiture lor nn- j s.tn .tcaitJBjyrr. Death of a Conductor on the M. & "• Railroad. Ou yesterday the trains from Macon brought the sad news that Mi. Joseph J, Scars, a conductor of one of the freight trains, bad met with a terrible acc.deut at Grifflu, about 10 o’clock yesterday morning, wnich resulted in bis death in pan. tax s tue friends ot Mis Le, ot* about three hours after its occurrence. icird to paj the amouut then due, save: Lo> 'HR at tiie uia t*r from whatever tUnd po lit we will, it Sf evifiei t that, if these are the facts, lm. Cleaned up all Georgia, and it is very SSSdBK?| , £u propnUe we shall have quite a healthy summer. Toe A’ianta doctors have lost by the excitement. The papers cried om, “cholera ! cholera !! cholera !!!” so lurtily tha. it set the city authorities to work and * be people to cleaning up, uu.il now Atlanta is mly prepared to in vite, down .he country visitors to her springs and her hotels, wnh the fullest assurance that we can promise health, hai :mi ss anil gayety, to all who come. The truth is, every Georgia town is now as “clean as a pin,” and those in higher latituc.es ure t eabodtsof bliss ful health and delight. Had it not been for the cry of cholera from Nashville, it i« not known but the cholera mrrbvs, or fever, might have ’akeu off a good many of our people. Some h .Ye stiff-red from it, but since the late sanitary movement of the autbori ies and the people, even that l s abated, leaving the doctors but little io do. Since the towns arc cleaned up we m iy indulge in a lew remarks ab 'lit the cbol ra. This scourge is most'y cod find to tne sea coast and to the banks aud tributa ries of large rivers like the Misstssij pi— wueri there is much marsh land, and the a mospheie is very impure. Tne marshes are but r cept iclts ol poisonous matter, o >lltcted together by the action or up heaval of waters in which are c nveyed the tilth of thonsands of miles of valley lands. From them aiise a miasmatic od >r l< tided with joisou iu the shape o cholera. This disease takes its course up on the sea coast aud up large rivers. It is a disease that floats in the thick air o. fc sc ' aridities, and cannot force its way through the pure mountain air. It, may have been in Nashville. It could not pass over the mountains aud t rough the thick forests between h re a id Nashville, If the cholera were on t ie Georgia seaconst it is doubtiuj if the impure air upon which the poison float- would make its way up to so high a latitu . a* this, there being so much for est laud interv. uing. These u-t our own to tor delinquency in tte payn ei*t ol taxes wtieu the owners, or ret r<-8eotative«,of tiie owners, sto hJ ready to pay the delio.t *lbe mutter should be sarelully luve-tigated, f.r the American people would regret any injusti. e doue to Mrs. Lee all tile more iteen'y from her arsoeiation with the lead r of the Confederate armies If they cannot forget tfce.r own wrong- at hiB hands, they are by 60 much the rnoro reluctant to ii.flict a wrong upon his fanny. It doe- seem thur a victorious govern ment might be magnanimous enough to ■io justice to a Wuinau. It we are cor rect. the property belonged to Mrs Lee, she having inheriti d it from In r family. If iter representatives stood re..dy to 1 quida'c the tax execution agtinst it at the time it was sold, it would set m tha prejudice had more to do with depriving her ot the property than any principle ot iuw or justice. As to the wrongs Gen. Lee committed, it is well enough to rmtembu-r that he was actuated by as patriotic motives as those who fought on the opposite side. It was a question ot opinion and senti ment—it was one of nativity and habita tion, which no muu worthy of the name could disregard. If the 1 .regoing state ment be true, Mre. Lee certainly ought to be comp, nsated tor the appropriation by the Government of wbat belonged io her. FROM NASHVILbK. We are advised by private advices tbai the so-called cholera in Nashville i.- greatly on the decline. The sanitary ar ruugements of the city are of the most perfect sharaeter, and tue people ot the c'ty are last returning to their homes. The Mayi r, by his tnergy, has won goldea opinions from all classes for the promptnes s with which he has discharged his official duties during the late epidemic ' as it is called. We tear the business of Nashville has bem unnecessarily d imaged by the late excit- incut. We doubt .f there has been a case of Asiatic cnolera in that citv. A friend at uur elbow thinks that bad cab bage and t orrid buttermilk, among cer tain classes, are the prime causes of the disease. Mr. S^ars, in the ahsence of i.he man whose duty it is, endeavored to coup'e two of tbe cars while at the depot. The cars came together, crushing his body to a considerable extent. For three hours he suffered iu great agony of pain, when death came to his relief. He leaves a large and dependent family to mouru their loss. Mr. dears was well known in this city. He was. tor a long time, su pervisor ot the Macon & Western Rail road, aid one of the best railroad men in the State. ANOTHER ACCIDENT. A negro man, assisting iu uuioadiug some cars at Cheek & Cook’s warehouse, ou Forsyth street, was severely crushed while attempting to couple two cars that were being pushed down to the platform He was caught about the hips. One of the bumpers of the cars being higher than tue other sl’pped over it, thus catching the man between the euds of the cars He was taken np and carried home, and seemed to be very much hurt. Whether he received serious injury or not we were unab'e to ascertain. Rev. Mr. Bradley rendered most tfii thoughts without any scientific study of cent service during the late sickness in the matter. At any rat**, the bare thought that we might Lave cholera has stirred onr peo ple. to cleanliness, which is next to godii- neis and it is hoped much good to pub lic health will be the result. The cry of cholera is a good ndmouisnor. :hat city. A KKW .VI KAN BOAT' CUVPAIVY. We Earned irom Gen. Young, of Car te laville, Gi , that there was a meeting oi the Ooetauauia aud Ea t Tennessei Steamboat Company, on Saturday ii s , as d the requisite amount of money hav editorial, duels. iug been subscribed, it was decided tuat An Alabama editor thinks that “pistols the building of one steamboat should be and coffee for two” is likely to 'ede- commenced immediately. It will be manded in a controversy of two of its con-j bailt in a very short time, and will run temporaries. We hope not. Editorial as a freight and passenger boat on the duels and Llood-leiting have become to Oo-tanauia and Coosawattee rivers be -uo’a a iurco now a - avs that it is a Col. John H. Hail is President of the ma ter ot djsgust to all brave men. Oc- Company and from his well-known en cavoually one of these farces is enacted ergy and tact we predict lor the company whereby a vast deal of cheap bravery is success manifested and no blood spilled. Wh n gentlemen feel themselves »« j Passports toEurope.-TheBaltimore grieved, uhd it is the desir- to be hon- : Su * * a >' 8 that ^ rsoU8 S oin « Hbroad w,il orahly lewnged or vindicate honor, 1 rel,ev * ^emselves irom much annoyance it is a very easy matter to settle things | bj ° btaiuing - paSS P ortS before etartin g- eit her amicably or through the code duello Wheu challenges are passed they onglt t ■ mem something- and not a farce, as is oo often the c ise. Tw' or tt ree com munications seems to ns scffie.eDt to ootne to an understanding. A great number of them looks, to a man who knows nothing of the code, to be a sort of species of “dodging.” After four or five communications are passtd, and oonsiderab-e quibbling is in- J dulged by parties the cartridges may as j w«Jl be urawn ami the coffee poured out j So we hope the AUtoaa a editors may peaceably subside and put m- nmr >iin.-. ! A 1-trer from Egypt states that travelers are complaining of serious inconveniences which they have experienced in conse quence of haviLg left the United States without passports. It is true, the writer says, tnat they are not required for Eug- laud or Fiance, but it is unwise to be without a passport if traveling in Pales tine, Egypt, Austria or Italy. Our min isters are often much annoyed by beiDg called on to furnish passports which ought to have been obtained in the United States. Hsmeneal.—Mamed, in this e.ty, on Sunday, 15tu inst., by Elder Thomas M Harris, Mr. R. W T . «1 ohnson, one of the feithful workers upon The Sun, to Miss Melisse E. Puckett, of Talladega, Ala. We wish our friend and his bride all the prosperity and felici‘y that tbe mar ried state car give, and that they may aver realize tnat, iu that happy state, earthly bliss is only found. A true and intelligent disciple of the “art preserva tive,” may our friend ever remember that his new estate is the most holy ever con ferred on the human race. It was thus with all of us, and now that “Rtub.” has joined the Benedict’s band, we wish him and his bride all the delights th t go toward making marriage happy, and the Lome circle a spot rearer tlian all others. A New Law of Gases.—If his experi ments may be regarded as naving i een sufficiently complete, a writer iu the Pharmaceutical Journal has discovered a CKIKUU IKO.% IN 1U|>L\\D. f be Rome Commercial publishes a let ter from a gentleman in Ireland acknowl- j new law of gases; that is, that theie is a eding the receipt of iron ore from Geoi-1 direct relation between t dor and suscep- gia mints. TLe writer is engaged in tbe j totality to condensation. For example, manufacture of iron and in ship-build ing, aud ue finds tLe Georgia ore well adapte ‘o his business. He wishes to use it, . i .squire* the price per ton de livered on shipboard in Savannah or Cuarleston. Unless high rates of freight shall check the demand, Georgia may soon be largely engaged in the exporta- sulphnrons at id, which has an intense odor, becomes liquid under a pressure of two atmospheres at fifteen degrees Fah renheit, while nitrons acid, with the faintest possible odor, requires fifty at mospheres at a lower temperature. A few gases of extremely fetid smell seem to be exceptions to this law, but it holds ticn of iron ore to Europe. Cherokee g°°J 80 generally that strength of odor contains an almost inexhaustible eppplj of the finest ore in tne world, and this fact needs to be only generally known to cause that section of country to he studded with furnaces and manu factories. The President.—It is stated that President Grant will neither receive dele- K -tions nor receive propositions on pub- ii h ’n?ss during his holiday enjoy ments at Long Branch. He will visit Washington at stated periods, for the transaction of suah public business as needs his immediate conaideration, and 1 ave all mere applications for office’until the meeting of Congress. We repeat these facts for the benefit of office- hunters. and susceptibility to condensation may be regarded as having a direct ratio to each other. •^■None can boast of better blood than the biil-ic u. musquito. For six thousand years he has drawn bis life from tLe rmai veinscf Europe and the world, iUw a 1ro » lbe plebian F. F. V.’a oi the Western Hemisphere, Pen Lucy School.—The midsummer exhibition of Pen Lucy School, CoL R. M. Johnson, principal, situated on the York road, a few miles from the city of Bilti more, took place recently. Addresses were delivered by several gentlemen, among whom we notice the names of R. W. Allen, of Savannah, Ga., G. Peters, of Atlanta, Ga., A. L. Koatz, of Atlanta, Ga., and C. Hartridge, of Savannah, Ga. Col. Johnson left for New York the next day,and sailsed for Europe with two of his pupils The Exact Status of the Indian Race.—It is the opinion of the Commis sioner of Indian affairs that Congress will be called upon to define the exact status of the Indians, so that where cases arise in the ffitnre as to their disposition for criminal or other offenses, there may be no question as to the proper jurisdic- ion in tbe premises. Gate City Brass Band.—This bandol eolervd men has been in our city several days, and e»ch afternoon serenaded the streets. All thiLgs considered, they fur- ntsu excellent music, and it has furnished much enjoyment. The leaders are WTn. Wukeison uhd O. J. Wallace. They h ive also given several concerts, which, we hear, were well attended. The mem bers have conducted themselves in tne most unexceptionable manner. They were entertained quite handsomely last evening at the residence of W. G. Hos kins, President of the colored fire com pany No. 2. I r was highly enjoyed by our colored citizens.—Columbus &u7i, Sunday, The Dog Killer and negro man bad another fight over a small size I cur on Whitehall street near the railroad cross ing. The dog killer came out best, the dog went to the place where all good dogs go, and the negro to the calaboose. We would suggest to the dog killer that he had better mind how he pitches into men who happen to have a dog with t itm, ou tue streets and trien to take them away. He may likely get hold of the wrong man aud get himself or the City Council Hurt. Personal. Mr. W. B. Davenport, General Ticket Agent, and Major Charles McCabe, Pas senger Agent, both of the St. Louis and Southeastern Radroad, were at the Na rional Hotel last night. These gentle men represent, the shortest ami quickesl time to St. Louis, and we commend them to our readers wherever they may go. Capt. R. L. Cowan, of the house of Cheatham, Draughon& Co., of St. Louis, was also at the National. This is a pork packing establishment, and cur old friend “Bib” represents it well. Mad Dog.—On yesterday mrroing dog, evidently affected with hydropho bia, came running down Whitehall stre» snapping and growling at everything that came in his way. He made pedestrians get out of his way, and double quick. A policeman, after one or two unsuccessful shots, at last killed him on Alabama street. Change of Schedule on Georgia Railroad,—The night passenger train leaves Augusta at 2:15 p. m., and arrives in Atlanta at 11:15 p. m. The day pas senger train leaves Augusta at 8:20 a. m., and arrives at Atlanta at 5:45 p. m Athens branch night train connects with the np and down night passenger trains at Union Point Improving.—We are informed by his attending physician, Dr. Lowe, that the Rev. E ; W. Warren, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, who has Been seriously ill daring the past week, is now oat of danger, and will likely be soon restored to his field of pastoral labors. Gen. Charles W. Field, manager of the Life Association of America, is in the city. The General is a first-class insur ance man, and has here a host of triendi who will be rejoiced to meet him. The Washington Literary society of the University of Virginia will have a celebration June 30tb. Mr. J. S. Ken- dall, of Georgia, is one of the Committee. 1 rigorous quarantine here. Memphis, Jane 15.—Twenty-one inter ments to-day against twelve yesterday. Physicians say that the number of chol era patients are increasing, but the dis ease yields more readily to treatmeat than during the past week. Wilmington, N. G., June 15.—A fire w„s discovered at 9 P. M. in the whole sale grocery house oi Williams <fc Mur chison. An almost total loss of stock by fire ana water. The building was only par tially destroyed. Stock and building fully insurer. Two other small fires on same block to-day, but both were ex tinguished with trifling loss. Aden, June 14, via London 15.—The Sultan ot Zanzibar has signed tue treaty with Great Britain for the suppression of the slave trade, whic t was negotiated by Sir Bartle Freer. St. Louis, June 15.—Two colored men, named Brown aud Taylor, of Springfield, 111., quarreled yesterday, and Taylor was flogged Taylor then went home and a double- ami shot gun, returned to Brown’s house and killed tarn. Taylor went home again ard shot himself, in fill ring a wound irom which he soon dieu. New Orleans, June 16.—The Libel case of Hawkins vs. the Picayune is pro gressing; six white and and six colored jurors. Che court crowded. Philadelphia, June 16.—Two bathers in tne Brandywine, aged 18, drowned. Boston, June 16—The commission appointed to examine Smith, the West field mm eierer, reports him sane. Ilt- hangs on th-- 27tli. Bayonne, June 15.—It is reported that General Nouvillas has defeated the Curl- ists under Darregarra.y near Vittoria. Three hundred of the insurgents were killed and wounded, -even hundred taken prisoners. Bkussells, Juue 15.—A special from Paris to the Independence Beige says M. Buele, Minister of the Interior, has re signed and Goulard is his successor. San Fr yncisco, June 15.—The Bulle tin pubasues reports from sixty-nine in terior towns of the State respecting grain croj s. The prospects are very encour- agiug in all places. Nearly an average yield is promised. The scope of coun try covered by the reports comprise the i w uole gram growing sections ot the State. Nayisota, Tex., June 15.—A fire swept Washington Avenue from Brossig-. to the posmffiee. Loss $200,000. In surance $75,000. It is believed to be the work ol an incendiary. New Iberia, La., June 16.—S.met, a Frenchman, and Alex Suaer, the colored Justice of the Peace, were brutally mur dered in tneir store, five miles from this pa cos last night, by tLree negroes, ana the ttore robbed uml burned. A muubei of citizens h-ve gone in pursuit. New York, June 16.—A five months nusband, aged 23, met his 19 year old wife with whom iie had never lived. Ht stabbed his wife five tim- s aud death eu sued iu five minutus. A disreputable person killed instantly a laooriug man in a free fight. Louisville, June 16.—The bridge over Rolling Fork is washed away. Trams hence troin Louisville will be de layed two days. Belfast, Me., June 16.—Almon Gor don, his wife and child, were found mar dered iu tbeir beds, at Thorndike. New York, Juue 16.—The trial of Vic toria Woodlmll muTtnuieC. Clatiiu,for libelling Lather C. Challis, was to have begun to-day, but has been adjourned till fall. Yesterday Sir Bartle Freere reports that thirty thousand persons are annu ally exported from Africa and sold into slavery. James Curtin, while drunk early yes terday morning, quarrelled with his wife, when a young and idiotic brother of the latter interfered and struck Curtin with an ax, killing him. Norwich, Conn., June 16.—A terrible railroad accident occurred on the Norwich & Worcester Railroad. The track was obstructed by robbers. The trains plunged into the river, falling in on top of one another. A great many deaths. Great destruction. Suspected parties arreste.. London, June 16.—The Shah of Per sia wih arrive here on Wednesday next. Boston, June 16—Hon. Mcses Bates, a prominent member of the Democratic party, and for some years the chairman of its Central Committee, died in East Bridgewater. Washington, June 16.—The Star says that changes will be made in twenty Consulates to make room tor Southern men. San Francloo, June 1G.—James Old field has beeu murdered iu the town of Palisade, Soriora, by a man named Au- dist, who stubbed h-s victim right in the presen e of his wife. Montpelier, June 16.—Five or twenty people on a pleasure party iu two boa’s which collided were - drowned. Tbe ott ers wer- taken 'r. m ti e water uncon scious, but were restored. ' Washington, j June 16.—Eiias Burnett, who was convicted of kuklnxing in South Carolina, has been pardoned, having served thirteen months of his sentence. Nashville, June 16.—Thirty-two in terments from cholera have been re ported since Saturday. A large per centsge of those attacked have recovered. Tne deaths are nearly all colored people. New York, June 16.—The vestry of Trinity Church was robbed by burglars last night of several books. The poor boxes were emptied, and some clerical robes carried off. Two of .ne stabs inflicted by Gillen upon his wife went completely through her heart, and another through her liver. Gil'en was sent to the Tombs by the Coroner. Memphis, June 16.—The weather to day has been very unfavorable for the improvement of the health of the city. During the night the mercury fell 12 de grees, and to-day it was rainy aLd hot. There were 19 interments to-day, of which 15 died of cholera pnd cholera in- famum. The City Cmnci 1 this after noon passed an ordinance establishing a board of health. New Yoke, Jane 16.—The Sun says th-ttonr other parsons, in addition to Bacon whose death has already been re ported from yellow fever, were attacked on the steamer Yazoo, en route from Havana to Puiladelpnia and this port, and that two of them dikd and were buned at sea, the fact being hitherto kept secret. Vessels irom Havana and Vera Cruz are dow subjected to the most Georgia Items. Scarlet fever in Brunswick. The active, persistent fL?a keeps Franklin up to the scratch. The dog population of Macon amounts to two thousand or more. There are fourteen hundzed Meth odists in Columbus. Dawson Heath, for nearly fifty years a citizen of Butts county, died suddenly last week. Rev. E. B. Barrett, formerly pastor of the Brunswick Baptist Church, is to return to his old pastorate there. The Chattahoochee bridge at Franklin, destroyed by a gale last winter, is soon to be ie-built. Tbe Commencement exercises of the Rome Female College are in pro gress the present week. J. L.Holli field has retired from the West Point News, and is succeeded by J. L. Birch. Two seetious of the Hawkinsville and Fufaula Railroad are under con tract, and the work is progressing rapidly. Mr. J. A. Render, of Meriwether county, died at Greenville last week. He once represented that county in the Legislature. Chicken-pox, measles, and a few lingering cases of mumps and whoop ing cough, still harrass the Bruns- wickers. Last week, a Philadelphia negr ■ teacher and preacher was shot in Athens for his insolence to a white gentleman. Last week D. D. Fracy, oi Macon, detected a negro iu his store in the night, and in a desperate rencounter, the negro was shot tlnee times, it is thought fatally. The Carroll people are pitching 1 their tents for a camp-meeting' at Shiloh, beginning Wednesday before the fourth Sunday iu September, at which time the spring chickens will be fully grown. Gov. Smith has signified his ap proval of the work on the North and South Railroad, aud that he will shortly sign and turn over the bonds for the first twenty miles. The citizens of Walton county arc about building a railroad from Mon roe to Social Circle. Nearly all the money for the purpose has been sub scribed, and in a short time we hope the road will be in operation. The Central boats will resume reg ular semi-weekly trips on July 1st. The New Jackson will leave Colum bus on Tuesdays, reach Bainbridge on Wednesdays. Leave Bainbridge on Thursdays and reach Columbus ou Fridays and leave again on Satur days aud return Mondays. The Far ley will make semi-weekly trips to Apalachicola and connect with the Jackson at Bainbridge. Miscellaneous Items. M. Tliiers is ptonouneed the greatest parliament strategist Europe eve* bad. One day last weeK nine 'hundred and fifty-one persons sailed from New.York for Europe. A scientific writer iu one cf the maga zines says that no macadamized road is fit for use till firmly cemented by con tinued travel. Tne Sultan, it is reported, nas issued a firman granting to the Khedive ot Egypt an independent internal govern ment, and authorizing him to augment the army iiud conclude foreign treaties. A Paris correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette repeats a rumor that there is a milliard unaccounted for on the books of the Thiers adminis tration. A special dispatch to the Daily Xeics of London from Rome says many of the monks belonging to the monasteries in the latter city, which are to be sup pressed, will go to Chili and Bolivia. The healtn officer of Philadelphia gives notice to vessels from Wilmington, North Carolina, or any other port or place on Cape Fear river, bound for Philadelphia during tne continuance of tue qna an- tiue season, to stop at the Lazaretto fot examination. Tie b lances in the United S - a1t& Treasury are: Currency, $5,592,541; spe cial depo its of legal tenders for tne re demotion of certificates of deposit, $30,- 375,000; coiD, $76,914,441—including $35,559,100 in coin certificates; outstand iDg legal tenders, $356,00 >,000. The New York W’oi Id states that tbe success of the Committee of Seventy n getting its members into office has leil to a movement under the managem-ut of Thurtow Weed <fc Co., the object of which is to make William F. Havemeyer the next Governor of the State, to be elected in the fall of 1874, and Governor John A. Dix the next President of the United States, to be elected in 1876. Advices from Rio de Janeiro to the 23d alt. have been received. The conflict between the clergy and speret societ.es continued to agitate Brazil. The Min- istiy had taken strong ground on the subject and were gaining support for their policy. In the Lower House the Premier made a speech defending the Fiee Masons, and promised that ener getic measures would be taken to prevent the Bishops ana the Jesuits from inter fering with the Society. Hannibal I. Kimball and Edwin N. Kimball have filed their petition in bank ruptcy in the District. Court of the Uuited States for the District of Massa chusetts. Their liabilities amount to $3,760,177 45. Tne amount of indebt edness returned in Georgia foots up the handsome little snm of $708,550. Henry Clews & Co., one banking com pany m New York, loses the small snm of $1,000,1.00. J. G. Sears, of Griffin, feels tbe pressure to the trifliug sum of $40,000, tnat he worked for as contractor on tbe Yan Wen Railroad. As to the assets of the estates we are not advised, bat if tney will amonnt to fifty cents in the dollar on the indebtedness, the assi gnees, who are to be chosen at a court of bankruptcy, to be held at Boston ou the 10th of June, at eleven o’clock, A. m., will have a good thing of it—Griffin Star. SOUTH CAKOLIS*. Tbe State H.bM A special correspondent of th. v 0 \ ork Herald, writing from Wash! ton under date of June 5th, Si T ? ' important news reaches he/A. South Carolina, front wliRh ^ ro&1 learnt that the return off.iM d Hoge.o! South c“rotaM:T° l! « nou of Morton, lllUs & C t , "rf- 1 ork, for a writ of ma«d’-itm compel him to levy a tax for th?* to meut oi the interest on th*- n'' I debt, demonstrates conchaiveH® the Supreme Court cannot lawftrif 1 grant the writ tor which appW? is made. In general terms the t & troller domes thi.t it Jhis certain aud determine the rate oft I anon; argues that tne judgment? the court, if had, would be vain ? nugatory, and declares that the bon ] upon whieu the petition is based -? not lawfully hypothecated and sold aud that a large portion of them ?' issued without uarrant of law. pi‘ is meeting the question squarely tli» more especially as the Comptroller General m his return, distii 10 S rges that bonds of the State tu amount of *1,191,700, are no’u alid debt ot the State, and are out ‘ nding without authority 0 f l w is asked, therefore, tha. the writ not issue until an investigation all first be had to ascertain 6 what tion of the aggregate public (Ut $15,851,327 subsists as ilie va’id debt of the State. For the first time the public have an official admission that the State of South Carolina has been robbed to the tune of U( jq 000. ’ r eiia til stai It du >lu por The Value of t li< > Imetto. Sx. Hun, ,l une u FbLTon Sun: The palmetto which is so abundant in the southern part of our Slate, and which has been eon- sidered a nuisance for many years past, is now being pur, to profitable uses, so that lauds containing great quantities of it near our sea-board cities, must enhance in value. The lull developed leaf is made into a good quality of paper. The tender bud taken from the trunk before it commences to open, at a certain stage of the moon, is opened, bleached, plaited and made into ladies’ lmt/, which are sent North and sold as last as they can be manufactured. Ex quisite flowers with which the hats are trimmed, are made of the same ma terial. The business has been carried on extensively, this season, at Fernan- dina and other uoints in Florida, and proved very profitable. Quite a number of ladies in our city are engaged in making flowers, which is more profitable and better suited to their tastes than plaiting. It is said that the trunk of the pal metto is valuable for tanning pur poses. This city is a good site to start a large hat factory. It is on the river, and the material is abundant and convenient, and the facilities lor shipping good. Lycubgus. Hf<l<len Treats lire Found. Many of our readers will remember William Henry, who once kept a stove store on market square, and who died about eight yeiirs ago, in apparent poverty. He was believed by eveiy one who was cognizant of his great pf-nuriousness, to have ac cumulated a large amount ot prop erty, and this impression became con viction, when Henry, upon his death bed, confessed that he had secreted considerable treasure under two oaks on the Yale Royal plantation. A search for the iiidden treasure was made, but it was attended with no success, and the matter soon passed from the piublic mind. A few days since, however, we are informed, a negro, while digging on tne planta tion, unearthed at the foot of a tree a large quantity of gold and silver, amounting to $17,000, and he is now as happy as a clam at high water.— .Savannah News. A convenient ink ii»r the use of travt iers was exhibited at a recent meeting ot liie Frankfort Polytech nic Association. It consists of sheets of while blotrintr paper satura ted with analmc black, dried and pasted logetiier so as to form a pad. i'o prepare it lor use, a small piece is torn off and soaked in a little water, th is forming excellent ink. Recent experiments in France have developed a fact worth the knowing of physicians: That the epileptiform convulsions excited by essence of wormword and Japan camphor may be allayed by the use of bromide ot potassium. This may be regarded as an additional ev idence of the value of bromide in cases ot genuine epilepsy. Says the Des Moines (Iowa) Regis ter: “The North and'South have a community of sorrow. In the green earth, the ashes of their dead, let both bury their resentments, and plant the seeds of 'a new and vital fellowship. Victors can afford to be magnanimous; indeed, the magna nimity is the victor.” Senator Frelinghuysen, it is au thoritatively announced, has returned his back pay to the Treasury. He has, beyond question, “placed it where it will do the most good.” It is also announced, ana authorita tively, that Mr. W. S. Holman has returned his back pay to the Treas- Ury * , , , Mr. Darwin is going to spend the summer in the south' of France.