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% m , lak.? ???, <i% Mqet. LAMCASTBEyiLLE. S c7~ Wednesday Morning, Jane 3, 1863. Mr. Joseph Clarke lias our tbankit for a bundle oI Richmond papers. Also Mr. Win. Robertson for similar favors. Rev. D. J. Quigloy will accept our thanks for a file of late papers. Mr. F. Oamcwell Fuckctt assumes the editorial management of the Clarendon Jfannrr.? lie Introduces himself to the readers of the fiannsr through a chaste and well written salutatory. Rince our last issue we have been bleaaed with lefresbing showers of rain, which, we loarn, have been general throughout the Dls trict. The weather is warm, and the prospect for a provision crop never better. A paper mill in Urecnville District, known aa Dunham's Mill, was destrcytd by fire on Monday of last week, the result, it is supposed, of spontaneous combustion among the rag*. At the request of a correepoodent we publish the prmrnt address of the members of Cspt. Foster's Company of Cavalry : Mr. Co. 11. Hulledge Cavalry, cars of Capt. Foster. Pocolaligo, O. A Savannah R. K , 8. C. Cos rink rate Cohobess.?As the duty of electing members to Congress will devolve upou the people the present year, it may be of iuterest to those who do not ltoow, to state that the present Congress expires on the Std of February, 186 4, at which time all of the members of the House and a portion of tho Senators vacate their seats. The last session of the present Congress convenes on the first Monday in December next. Flections for membfrs to the new Congress, if we mistake not, wjjl be held on the Aral Wednesday in November next in all of the Statee. The Hewa from MiMiuippL The reports from Vicksburg are still meagre end somewhat uncertain, but rather more asearing than they wtre last woek. General Johnson's official dispatch I* encouraging, and Is lb* latest received, being up to the 17th ultimo. The Yankee accounts differ materially from our own, but as they are sons fivs days older than the dale of Gen. J:huson's dispatch, lh*y are not entitled to much credit The fighting, no doubt, has been desperate and up to the 27 th ult., our uiee held their owo. It seems to be uncertain whether Pembertoo or Btevcueou commands at Vicksburg. Johnson is somewhere on this side, iu rear of the enemy, au?l we still have much reason to hope that that sagacibu* General will yet be able to attack Grant in a way that will ensure his utter defeat and capture. Important Eniti at Hand. The impression has got abroad that a bril liant and highly important movement is in contemplation by the Confederate authorities.? There are signs which favor this belief, but whst the contemplated movement is we can only conjecture, and would not announce it if we knew. late issue of the Richmond Examiner says : "There is really no occasion &>r panic about Vicksburg. Whatever may be the result of the military operations around it, thair Interest will soon be eclipsed by grvater events slsswbere- Within ths next fortnight, the campaign of eighteen hundred and sixty-three will be pretty well decided. The most important movements of the war will probably he made in that time. If the Confederate stindard U again victorious, u may be hoped, with much and solid reason, although mere victory will not immediately sad the war, it will destroy the efficiency of the eoaasy's army lor the rest of this year. If we gain ah'that is now fairly passible, an entirely new character will be given to future operatioos, which will relieve the country of half the 1 offering it has hitherto endured. Now is the noble day, the fortunate hour lor the Confederate array. At this time, if ever, every man should ba at hi* post." Militast I raws.?"Heroes," the Richmond correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, la hie letter of the tfttb, has. the following items . Rverybodv In town and country assures you tfest Lee will make a forward movement some time this week. They say Hood is in the advance, and our cavalry sonoentrating in the rear, etc. If Hooker if not able to foil this movement, it will not be for the want of information. But why do regiments cootinue to come ibia way f The Richmond Stammer Mfi: Wi boar it rumored that G?n. A. P. Hill and Gen. XwaU haee been appointed Lieutenan I-Generate. We hope there may be truth la the report, feeling confident that each projaotioae rroeld be moat frelefal le the whole ooaafp What Does it Profit Ub 1 The following significant paragraphs are copied from the Charleston Courier. It has long boen a question in the minds of many persons, whether the country has resllv derived bent tit from the unprecedented success which has attended the blockade runner* at Charlcston. And the people, too, have been led to entertain the singular suspicion that, the risk of running the blockade doe* qot depend so tuuch upon the strength of the blockading squadron as it does upon the character ol the cargo : vessels taking out cotton, or coming in freighted with Yankee notions, rarely fail to get through aafely; while vessels freighted with Gorcrnmeut supplies almost invariably get caught. All this is very well lor the gcutle. man who are making money by the operation, but while it has a demoralising effect upon the public mind, it lias also the tendency, as the Courier suggests, to protract the war. War contractor* ami blockade runner*, North and South, are praying and preying on th* war, and hoping earnestly for a continuance of the war, without reference to tha results, at* cept in their profits. We cannot say whether the prayer* of such persons avail much or not, but it is a fact of fearful significance that we are building up among u* a party who?e interests demand acoutinuance of the war. What proportion of the Cotton that has left this port withiu three month* ha* reached a tdf-eign neutral port ? We will be under obligation* to anj friend of competent intormatiou for *n authentic answer. I* there much gained by suppressing distil- I lerie* at homo?supposing they bav* been suppressed?aud Importing Yaukce liquors from Nassau f Corro* KsTiMsTia.?With reference to the ainouut of cotton which the eipeditioo of Bank* is likely to succeed in Mealing on its route, the correspondent of the Herald writes : It U estimated by thvse who have the means of knowing, thai at least two hundred thousaud bales of cotton will coinc to this market out of "the couutry recently occupied by our forces.? This is a very large amount; bat 1 see no res* son why it should not be so. General Bank* i? determined to make the most of hia conquest in every way, and I can aee clearly that bis cotnpaign will fat more than pay eipenaes.? I<ouiaiana is conquered ; it ia to all Intents and purpose* our* ; and Jeff. - Davis may make up his tnind fully that such is the case, no matter how disagreeable the dose may he. Important Meeting in Mew York?A Demand for Peaoe. It appears that another meeting has teen held in New York city, on the eubjecte ot the proceeding! in the case of Mr. Vallandigham and of the war. The resolves adopted by this meeting are the boldest yet put forth by any Northern community. They are unconditionally opposed to the war, and in favor ol immediate .peace. They denounce the administration in unqualified terms, and reprobate in the aroogeat language its invasion of personal liberty in the proceedings against Mr. Vallandigham. They further disclaim the action of the leading Democrats of Albany in putting forth an ad> drees whose sentiments ou the subject of the war are obnoxious to those who adopted these resolutions. The speeches on the occasion were bold and defiaut. They contain none of , the cant against the rebellion which has been indulged by prominent Northern politicians dis< approving of the proceedings against Vallan. digham?and they show no truckling to the despotism at Washington by claiming credit for helping on the war 1 The resolutions and speakers were for once consistent and manly. Tut Yaskbbs on Follt Islahp.?The Yankee* seem to be quite busy with their preparations for a lengthy stay on Folly Island. Tbsy have cleared out all the brush and bushes under the tall pines, which attend nearly to the North end of Big Folly, and have pitched their leu is underneath lU shadea Large fires are to be seen daily, showing that they are eitending their clearing operations towards the Nouheru end of the Inlet. Immediately iu front of their ' camp, thSy have thrown up sen 1 fortifications I ww fi nr. it art inn fiDuinat in* aifeoh ittwvr* ?K?? I r -n? "* "*v -"-v- j and in front of these again appear* to be a ' heavy abattia. from the tnid*l of the pine* . arises a tall ob*ervator?, recently erected, similar to the one at Secession ville, but somewhat higher, overtopping the tallest pinee, and giving from ita lummit au attended view. Their pickets aie still stationed at Little Folly, separated from ours, on lb* Southern end o< Merria' island, by the inlet, across which frequent conversations have been held. They bars also a flat in the creek back of Folly Island, with a tent pitched upon it, need doubtless at night by an outlying picket. They seem to be on the alert, and aae every precaution by day and ?? *??> to present a surprise.? ChmrUiton Conrirr. The Richmond Kxtmitur state* that the aasooat of Confederate S'ates Treasury notes bearing date anterior to December last, was 600,000,000. All of these, it says, "will soon have been converted into bouda, or if not, will cease to be curreocv altogether. Thus, five 1 hundred million* of currency will he wiped, aa currency, Irani existence ; end the money man , kct be relieved by the heaviest depletion ever j known in the annele at nubile fininr? " The > notes must be Rinded before August 1, 180J. The Herald adr iaee a chaoge ot but of llooki et'a eimy, and say a experience and com j?on sense plead strongly in faror ot nosing upon Richmond by war of James riser, according to the plan of Gen. MoCleUan. On Saluday all tbe sugar iu Atlanta was Mtma Dj to* uoT?ro??nt Th* Confederal* Coa^iiiiOBMt u*d*r ih* imprranMot ?* &x*d lb* p*M <4 fttptr at Tfc ?Mi TELEGRAPHIC. Northern NewtRichmond. Mar 27.?Northern d?t*? of )>?. 2f>th, contain full and exulting account* ot vicloriaa at Baker Crvek and Big Black Biidga.? The/ claim to hare captured several tliouaand priaoner* in the two battle*. The Herald saya the Pi evident ha* received detaila from Grant, ahowing that be had lougbt five battles, captured 64. gun* and 2,400 prisoners. On the 19th, there was heavy lighting near Vicksburg. Sherman lost 601) men. Steele holds the rebel water batteries. Ou the 20th, Steele carried the rille pits on the North The right of the army rests ou the Mississippi, above Vicksburg. A petition i? in circulation in Ohio, demanding of the President the unconditional raleaae of Yallandighani. Sewn from Mexico atatea that the siege of Puebla ha* been suspended until the arrival of reinforcement*. The Navy Department baa received information that Far rag u l is actively bombarding Port Hudson. The Nashville Union, of the <2d, haa date* from Cairo to the Tuth, Colonel Clairtou made a raid on Selma and Little Rock, dealt oying two hundred thousand bushels of corn and several large building* containing commissary tores, and many grist mills. He encountered a rebel brigade, and after a small engagement retreated. Colonel Hatch made a raid from Corinth, bringing in lour hundred prisoners and aix hundred horses. He encountered the rebel* near Tallahatcbio and escaped unhurt. He says the rebel* have evacuted Farmington, after destroying the batteries. Ksw Yokk, May 21.?Beast Butler haa been summoned to Washington. It is believed he hM been appointed to a department, Geo. Curtis being relieved. Meagher's resignation has been acceDled. Arrangements are being perfected to add 100,000 cavalry within aix month*. Siege of Vicktburg?Offloiel Dei* petohee. The following despatches, from General Pernbarton, the commander at Yickaburg, were aent to Jackson, Mississippi, and from thence telegraphed to !'re?ideut Davis : VicEnnuao, May So.?The enemy aaaaulted our eiitrenchmeuta veaterday on our centre and left. They were rrpu'eed with her.vy loaa. Our loss in email. The enemy'a force ia at least sixty thouaand. Vicksbcro, May 21.?The enemy kept up a heavy artillery fire yeeterday. Two of our guna were diatuouuted in the centre ; our worka, however, were uninjured. Their aharpahootera picked off officer* and men all day. Our worka were repaired and our guna replaced laat night. Our men are encouraged by a report that Geueral Johnatou ia naar with a large army, and are in good spinU . 2 p. m.?We have had briak artillery and musketry firing from gun-boata. 3 p. m.?During the paat two days pansporta with troopa have gone up the river.? Their destination ia unknown. Richmond, May 28.?An official Telegram from Gen. Johnston. dated 27lh inat. state* that Gen. Stavenaon report* hard fighting haa been going on at Vickeburg since Tuesday of last week, with continued succeaaes, and that the men are confident and in fine epirite. Mobile, May 28.?A special dispatch from the reporter of the Advertiser and Register, dated Jackson, 27th iaat. says : Reporu from below state that Bar.ks haa | croaeed his army at Bayou Sara. Federal deeerters confirm the report that greet carnage occurred during the engagement before Vicksburg Grant aent a flag yoetardar about the aiek and wounded. Petn barton U burning Tar and using other dieiiifecuiila to save hie troop* from the effect* of the eteuch cauaed be the Federal dead lying in front ot our works. The slauguter o( the Federals is far greater than during any battle since the war com. menced The Mississippi an states that two gunboat* were eunk at Vicksburg, during a recent engagement. The Miaeieeippian, of Tuesday evening conmine a report ot Saturday's battle at Vu-ksburg, which reuresente it to have been the ino?i stubborn of the ? r. News hu been received from Memphis at Hrruada and believed at Memphis, that Helena haa been racapUtrad by the Confederates. Af terward* a telegram was received from Oxford at Ganada, which aeya Helena waa aaptured on Monday laat. A man trom the river who haa reached Cantoo aeya, ha read a dilpatch directed to Col. Ferguaon, that Marmaduka bad retaken Helena, and hanged a regiment of negr^ee, (340) with the Yankee officers. The tjuartenaaeler at Canton aeya poallivaly that the aiatement may be relied on. Yankee gunboats ara reported to have arrived at Yaaoo city. Jackson, May it.?Com. Brown rank four boeta in Yaxoo Mieer, which blockaded it, savlug all the others. The Federals bee# been so severely punished in their different assaults upon Vickaburg that they have fallen back and gone to fortifying. Their numeroua dead Mill lie on the field, and the stench ta awful. Their loss is various ly estimated at trom 10,000 to tft.000 men. They are reported to be hauling aeige guns from Snyder's Bluff. , TK<> rnM il?U ik.i n: _i a . ,.v; ? - ?? ? <?? mciiinonu wm taken, and that all they had to do was to take Vicksburg and end the war. They were shelling thia morning. Mobile, May 29.?A special despatch from the the reporter o( the Mobile Advertiser and Register, at Jackson, says that the enemy retired from the immediate front of our forlifycallona at Vicksbuig, and is reported to be forth I V***r 5oro* 10 Yankee Acconnta from Vicksburg. RicniiOM), May 48.?A copy of the iV. Y. Herald of the J6th Inat., has been rereived.? Com. Porter's official dispatch to the .Secretary of the Nary ia published. It gives the particulars of the capture of llaiues Bluff ou the 18th iirat., with the gun*, tool.*, camp equipage and all kinds of ammunition, enough to last a long aiege, but as the gun carriage* may again fall into the hand* of the enemy, they were burned. The magazine was blown up and the works, generally, deatroyed. Ou the 19th instant, aiz mortars were placed in position, with orders to tire on Vickeburg uight and day, rapidly as they could. Intelligence of the probable fall of Vicksburg lead to a decline in gold and exchange, which had reacted upon pronuce, and atocks. The gold market clotted at 142 6-8tli*. Pktzrsuuro, Va., May 28.?The Baltimore jtmrrican of the ?dth in St., evening edition, publishes dispatches from Vicksburg reported as official, dated >7iday night. May 22, 9 o'clock, 1*. M.. which says: "An ordnance officer writes?our lose is not verv heavy for the position we have gained. The rebels make lirtn resistance. I think we hall have the place to morrow. We dompletely circle the town and to.night our men hava colors planted ou the enemy's works and are lying on ike extreme alope. linn and mortar boats are iu front of Vicka| burg, and we have captured thus far 6,UU0 prisoners w^th 74 pieces of artillery. Grant ia in good spirits. If we take \ Ickaburg we shall secure 1,6000 prisoners with f euiberton k Co. (Signed,) 8. C. Lvroan. Vtllandlgham in Tenneuee. Fostkbtilli, Tenn., May IS.?Vallandigbatn reached our lines under a flag ol truce this morning, from Murtreeaboro. Gen. Martin refused to recognize the flag. The enein<r' then left him between the lines at hie own request. Gen. Martin received him as a citizen of the United States, banished from his home and country, becauae he had dared to resist a tyrannical government. St. Loci*, Mo., May 26.?The rebel guerillas captured the town of Richmond on Tuesday with the Union force* which occupied it. They a'ao plundered Plattaburg and took $11,000 belonging to the State. Muaraauaoao', May 26.?Large bodies of rebel cavalry are goiug Southward. Ureckenridgee' Corps haa (alien back from its advanied position. There is considerable talk of danger in the vamnet. Under [the Beast,] ia mentioned aa Stanton's successor. Tullahoma, May 2*.?Tlie Federal hare exiled Vallanu igtiain, and he was brought unde. a flag of truce yesterday, and left by them on neutral ground, immediately io Iroot ot our picket* at Foaterrille. He ia now at Shelbyvilla. Naw Flocb.?The Montgomery Adver titer ia informed that a quantity ot new wheat, raised on the larm of P. T. Grave*, Esq , ol Lowndes county, Ala, was ground at Oapt. Edmund llarraion's mill in that county on Saturday, 14th. Advice* from Mexico state that the French army at Pusbla has met with disaster after nine ineffectual efforts at an assault. The French loss ia put down at tiCMK), and the army retreating, being pursued by Uie Mexican*. Tt?e reports of auction sales in the last papers from Cbafleston show a very desirable reduction in prices. In some cases, goods sold for (0 per cent. Ie?* than at previous sales, and in but few instances did they hold former prices. The Washington Chronicle, of May 2fr, in| forma its readers thai tbe Monitors appointed to take Charleston will attempt the reduction of the outer forts along the beach before they | attack Fort Sumter. "Whst will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul " is a question that was asked nearly two thousand years ago. Many persons are now experimenting on the answer.? Charlatan Courier. We understand that Gen. Ira bod en, on his return from bis expedition to Northwest Virgin) is, captured at Hummcraville, in Nicholas coun> ty, 40 prisoners, 20O mules, S2 wagons and four days rations for bis command. The rest of the Ysnkee force at that point, ran off, being heroically resolved, like Hooker, to run wheu they pleased.?Air A. Sentinel. 24/A. Sotth Carolina, lamcavtkr district. I^Y P.Jf! HAMMOND, Esq , Ordinary lor wmm vpmoi. WMKRBAH, Mrs M. N. Crawford kM applied to me for letter* of Administration oo all and singular the Goods and Chatties, Rights and Credit* of Dr. K. L. Crawford late of the District aforesaid, deceased. TID&E are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular, the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to be and appear before me at our next Ordinary'a Court tor the said district, to be holdeu at Lancaster Court Houae oil the lAih day of June next, to show cause, if any, why (he said administration should not be gran ted. Given under my hand and aeal, this 30lh . 4 dav ot May in the year ot our 1^ Si. > Lifti ona thouiuii.l nit/hl / jtttid aixly three mid in the ei^hUMvfenth rear of the independence of ihe State of South Carolina. P. T. UAMMONP o v. o. % A CARD. Au etperienca, however limited, in tlio second Auditor* Office, wty be useful to the claimants of deceased soldiers. During the rei uiainder of iny brief stay I shall cheerfully and gratuitously exercise in behalf of the relict* or representatives of those gallant men of this District, who in illustrating the heroic virtue* of their ancestors, deserve our grateful remembrance. L. C. NORTIIOP. Lancaster C. H.f Mar J9, 1863, It pJ ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERALS OFFICE Richmond, May 11th 1868. GENERAL ORDERS NO. 68. I. The following notice, relative to exchange prisoner*, is published for the information of all concerned : aXOHAN'UK NOTICE, No. 6.?The followitnr Confederate officers and men hare been duly exchanged, and are hereby ao do. clared : 1. All officer* and mm who hare been dehvi cred at City Point at any tone previous to May 6th, 1863. 2. All officer* captured at any place before the 1st ol April, 1863, who have been released on parole. 3. All mm captured in North Carolina or Viri ginia before the 1st of March, 1863, who hava been released on parole. 4. The officer* and men captured and paroled by General 8.1*. Carter, in his expedition to East Tennessee, in December last. b. The officer* and men captured and paroled by Lieutenant Colonel Stewart, at Van llureii, Arkansas, January 2b, 1863; by Colonel Dicki ey, in December 18C2, in hie inarch to the Mobile and c bio Krailroad, and by Captain Cameron, at t oruith, Mississippi, in December, 1862 6. The officer* anil men paroled at Oxford, Mississippi, on the 23d of December, 1862, at Desark, Arkansas, on the 17th of January, ' 1863, aiul at Baton Kouge, Louisiana, on the 28d of February, 1363. 7. All per*on* who have been captured on the sea, or Uie waters leading to the same, or upon the sea coast of the Confederate or United .States, at any time previous to December 10th, 1862. 8. All civilian* who have been arrested at any time before the 6lh of May, 1863, and released on parole, are discharged Iroin any and every obligation contained in said parole, if any such person has taken any oath of aliegi* ance to the United States, or given any bond, or il his release was accomplished with any othi er condition, he is discharged from the same. 9. If any persons embraced in any of the foregoing sections, or in any section of any previous Exchange Notice, wherein they are declared exchanged, are in any Federal prison, they are to be immediately released atul delivered to the Confederate authorities. ROBERT OULD, Agent j*( Exchange. Richmond, May ??h, 1863.' 11. All persons, whether citizens or soldiers, aie expressly piohibited from using, or in any manner interfering with fuel, or wood cut and delivered for the use of railroads or railroad companies. It is of the hrst importance that this order should be observed, and it will be strictly obeyed and enforced by the army. By order, (Signed) 8. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector Gsneral. May SO. 1863. 16?6x S. C. COLLEGE. Facclty Room, May 11th, 1863. THE Trustees of the South Carolina College, at their Semi Annual Meeting of the 6th in sunt adopted the following resolulious, and ordered that it Ire communicated to the faculty : Ketolved, That the Faculty give public notice that the duties of the College wilt be re sumed on the 1st or October next. Ir. giving thin notice, il is due to the public to add that measure hare been. taken to tte. . cure possession of the building* by the 1st of July, if possible, so that the necessary steps may be carried out to fit them for the occupancy of the student*. M LaBORDE, Chairman of Faculty. May 27, 1601. 16?St. F.KB8HAW ft CO V HOES. ATTORNEYS AT LAW AHD Solioitora in Equity. LASCAS TEKVILLK, it. C. tr Will attend proiaptly ta all buaioe** en trusted to theia. J. B. .V&R8IIAW, | VY. M. CONNORS Camdca 8. C. Into caster, C. If Aug. If, ID&9. C B NORTHROPAttorney at JLaw AND MOfslCITOK IX E41UITV, Will practice in Lancaster and tbe neighbor, ing District*. OFFICE AT LANCASTERVILLE. October 21st, 1661. S7-ly Rafi! Raff '1 We will pay 7 cenU per pound for all clean eoiton or linen Rag* delivered at the Ixdgtr (.Mice, tnia being the price wbieb the Mill* adviae ua they will allow in exchange for paper. April JO, 12 tf x rosn jarnvu. Writing paper, Envelop*, Slcel P*n*, Spelling Uooka, An* Comb*, Tack Coraha, Side Comb*, Shaving Soap, Pin* and Spool Thread. Under ledger oflSc*. J. B. BOYD. March 4, ! ?, 4-tf