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rai ??^i?[iiLf|u ROB'T. A. THOMPSON, Editor. ?A R. A Thoinpsou, W. H< Holoombe.R. Young, PROPRIETORS. ti?ii MS.-Ono Dollar und Twonty-fivo Cents for six months, ?a advatioo. Provision also taken in |) lynteiit. nt I ho market rales. ftST* Advertisements inserted al $1 per square for lite ftr.it insertion, und 60 cents tor oaoh subso ipnjnl insertion, cash or provision. ????y OVtiu ny Notices oxeceding fivo lines, Trib utes ol" Respect, Communications of a personal character, an t Announccmoiila of Candidates, will he charged for us advertisements. ??i?* Joh Printing exocuted with neatness and despatch, for cash or provision. jvyV" Necessity compels ns to adhere strictly to thc requirement of cash payment. PICKENS C. H., S. C.: Saturday Morning, December 1, 18G0. Absent The Editor of this paper is absent for a few days, in Columbia, on business of importance, and it is therefore boped that ho will not. he hold responsible for any deficiencies and er rors which may bc noticeable in thc Editorial Department this week. The Markets. '* In New York, on tho 25th November, cot ton was quoted at 31A cents. Gold, -10 J. Executor's Salo. Wo would'direct attention to thc advertise ment of J. L. StiANivf.iN,Ex'or., in which it will be seen that some very valuable property is to bc disposed of at publio salo. Other new advertisements appear this week, which also claim thc attention of tho public. Masonic. Tho Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Masons of South Carolina, met at 12 m., on thc 20th ult., in Masonic Hall, in thc city of Charles ton. Thc attendance was very large, inclu ding most of the prominent members of tho fraternity in the State. His Excellency Gov. Ouu, Worshipful Grand Master, delivered an able and eloquent address. Gov. ORK has been re-elected Grand Mas ter for thc ensuing year, and General J AM KS CONN KR elected Deputy Grand Master. The Legislature. Tho General Assembly of South Carolin? convened in Columbia, on Monday evening last, in regular se.-isiui.. Thc attendance o members was very large. No business of anj joMTWiiorxMi-iT-j; e/esiiay tit V-, ?M. There is much work to bo done by tho Leg islaturc, and thc probability is, that it will bc ouc of tho most interesting and laborious ses aions that have marked tho legislation of tine State for many years. Division of Pickens District Wo learn, just as wc are going to press, that thc Committee appointed by tho Legislature, to report as to thc expediency of a division ol this Disuict, wero discharged on Tuesday, from further consideration of the matter. This would seem to put an cud to the subject of dividing thc District, but we are still hope ful that tho energy and vigor of our delega tion will be such as to secure a reconsideration of the matter. Jefferson Davis. In tho House, on Tuesday, Mr. WARLEY offered the following Resolutions, which will meet with tho hearty approval of every re spectable man and woman in South Carolina : Resolved, That this body desires to express j?o Jcffornon Davis their deepest sympathy, their profound respect, their combined person al attachment and their enduring remembrance of his virtues ns a man, and those groat qual ities of mind and heart, which, in tho Cabi net and on thc field-in prosperity and ad versity-while in power nod from his prison house-call forth and receive from them thc santo acknowledgment of love and regard ns when he was the acknowledged head of ,n o>ab ? . r --r,^, wutoiiuiiig against overwhelming odds for froeeom and self-government. Resolved, That the members of this House regard the continued imprisonment of Jeffer son Davis as unwarrantable by the Constitu tion, mid ns tyrunieal, oppressive and unjust. Resolved, That this House is prepared to make appropriations to defray a part of tho ex penses necessary for the defence of Jefferson Davis by able and learned counsel. Resolved, That this Houso commend tho family of Jefferson Davis to tho kindly sym pathies of their constituents, and recommend that contributions bo made in every District for their subsistence and support. ?3T On Fridny last, says tho " Anderson Intelligencer," Henry Ohcatham, frocdmnn, suffered tho extreme penalty of thc lnw for tho murder of AMIE UT GKER, by being hnpged by tho neck until ho was dead. OS?* A duel waslbught near Bowling Grcon, Kentucky, on Monday, between John II. Grasscup and John Blair, both lute Confede rate officers. Both wore wounded, but neither seriously. Tho affair occurred about a lady in Bouth Carolina. , tmr f Bl_L _L,L_li _?Sl_u i J ix J. -WfcLii T-i un m ii j r n PWWggP ' - ? -- The Governor's Message. The message of His lSxoollonoy, Gov? Chm, to tho Legislature, was road by bia Prlvnto Secretary, to tho Sonato, nt 12 o'olock on Tuesday. Owing to tho late hour at which it oomcs to bund, wo nro unablo to publish it this weok, as wo would Uko to do, but hope to give it to tho rcudcrs of tho COUKIKK in full, in our next issue. Tho Governor handles with his usual abili ty thc vnrious subjects of public interest which now engage tho attention of the pcoplo. IIo makes many suggestions which will recom mend themselves immediately to tho common sense of the people at large, and are in tho highest degree worthy of the attentive consid eration of thc members of the L?gislature. lie points out to thc Legislature very clear ly thc stupidity of thc requirements made at thc extra session, that for every dollar of tho State Ponds issued, a bushel of com should be laiu down in tho State. Such a require ment is sufficient in itself to prevont the pur chase of thc needed supply. Tho Governor evidently appreciates tho necessity of rclicl for thc people, and makes many suggestions on tho subject, of a sensible nature. * lie again urges thc enactment of a linnie stead Law, and a law providing for an increase of property to bc exempt from levy and sale. Ile opposes, with all of his power, the adop lion of tho Constitutional Amendment, am his review of tho same will bo road with in te rest. Thc Governor recommends that thc propc steps be taken to repeal that clause of th Constitution which requires thc establishmcn of District Courts, lie suggests many CIIMIJJ cs in thc present system, some of which nie bc improvements, but others do not strike vi as such. Upon the whole, we commend tho mcssap to thc consideration of the people, ns one < j ibo most admirable St?ito papers that ha\ ! been picscnted to us for a long time past. Congress. The Congress which will assemble in Was' ington on Monday next, will doubtless pro' . to bo the most interesting which has ever ti ; scmblcd in America. Its deliberations w I bo watched by all sections of thc countr from Maine to Texas, with au interest nnioui t ing almost to a painful anxiety. Kightc r j mouths have elapsed since thc last armed rc f cl, between the Potomac and the Kio Grane r laid down his anns and acknowledged thc n vory'littlo progress has been made towards t restoration of the Union-the object for will , the war was ostensibly conducted. The Sont ern States have promptly complied with : , tho requirements, even tho most rigoroi which have been exacted of them by the co quering North, yet they arc denied cquali in thc Union. Taxes are heaped upon tho still they aro debarred the right of reproach' , tion in the face of that fundamental princi] of our government, that taxation and ropi ?cotation are inseparable. Congress and t j President, respectively, presented plans of ri toration to thc country, though of a very d forent nature. At the ballot-box, tho pcoj who were allowed to vote upon thc matti have sustained Congress by large majori ti and the Radical party will assemble in Was ingtou with a small accession in numbers, I with an immense and overwhelming inure* of confidence and boldness. The President's policy having been rcpu atcd by the people, as inconsistent with t principles of that groat social und political rt olutiou which is now sweeping over the coi try, the indications aro, that ho will no lonj attempt to fight thc Radicals upon tho t line, or indeed upon any other, but will < deuvor, by a skillful etrategio mov'oment tho side, to seize upon and appropriate tobi self one of tho great branches of thc Radi nolicv. and thA^'v- <.'.? wind out ot t Radical sail. Wc think we clearly perceive a dispositi on thc part of thc President, and of the in of place and power, who have hitherto si ported him, to compromise their difficult with Congress, and by thc adoption of prin pies which do not conflict with Radical ide und which aro in sonic degree new to t country, to build up n new political pal which shall immediately submerge both of t old ones. Wc nro unable to pcrceivo tl thc good of tho South, or of thc North, or the country at lavgc, has much part in maki up thc motives of thoso who uro managing fairs, but tho idea of getting control of t Government seems to absorb all others. \ thcroforo, think the President and Congn will immediately coalesce upon tho basis " Universal Suffrage" and " Universal A nest// tho latter to bo dependent upon t former. Thc former lins al ways been a fa vt ito idea with the Radicals, yet, at thc Jnstsi sion of Congress, they lacked tho bold nt necessary for tho adoption of suoh- a pin ?i i i.j'j'X..'.j":."'. - v...-. '-' -" 1 """ *'""" while tho latter has boen equally a favorito plan of tho President, and with equal want of j uorvo, ho has h.tHrto failed to put it into ex ecution. Tho rumor from official souroc3 that no moro changes will bo umdo at present in Fed eral offices, and the statement that the Presi dent will not insist upon thc retention ill office of any appointee, obnoxious to tho Senate, sub stantiates this view. Wo predict then, a speedy end to tho unsettled difficulties which agitate tho country. lt is stated thut a politician from this State assorted, in Washington, a few days ago, thal South Carolina prefers universal suffrage tc tho Constitutional Amendment, which wc taki tho liberty of denying; South Carolina prefers no such tiling. Th? Penitentiary System. Tho wisdom of establishing the Petiitentia ry sy.stohl in this State is shown hythe follow ing notice of tho report of tho suporintondcn of thc Georgia institution, by tl corresponden of tho " AtltSfe? Intelligencer :" "Dy thc annual report of Mr. W. 0 Ar, dotson, thc principal keeper of the PotiitCtl tiary proper, there were, on the 80th of Sc; tomber, Ol convicts, und belonging to tli chain gang 114, making a total of 205. Til report exhibits a state.neut of a very thoroug repair and renovation ufa portion ol' tho built iugs and premises. Among the iinprovotncn mentioned is thc introduction of a corn mil operated by steam power, capable uf grindii lUO bushels of corn per day, tho loll heit expected to bread thc whole institution. .M Anderson expresses the. decided opinion th the Penitentiary may be tundo, in its prese location, SOlf-SUstain'lHi?, if not rt source of re enuc to tho State. The report of the boo keeper shows an excess of assets over indel cd ness to the amount of 818,5lo." From South Carolina. A Charleston correspondent of thc " Xi York Times," iffier referring to thc po! i tit feeling in this Stale, thus refer* toother m tors : A dozen movements arc on foot, in vari? sections of thc State, for thc erection of c ?tl factories, by which it ?shoped that each ttclj ijj boyhood will ero long be able to send thc r I al staple to market in an itt least partit 3 manufactured condition. Notwithstaild thc prevailing poverty of the ngricultl) i classes, ibo more substantial planters by cl . bing their surplus mouus, have been abb , begin thc construction of factories, and thc course of thc next year or two, it is pected that tho amount of capital investee . t!ie colton manufacturing interest horoabi . will have bcA0jp0"#ujt^ ? ing operations of thc ensuing year arc t very extensive character. There has bc?; visible improvement of lato in tho disposil of the field negroes. They are evidently ginning to comprehend that freed.un tloes mean a complete immunity from labor; . tho hugo majority of these poor ignorant c tures arc rapidly following tho example 1 ago set thom hy the moro intelligent und p ?dent of their number, in seeking to make vnntagCOUS yearly contracts with the best plovers they can lind. Thc planters have been slow to notice the increased nlaerit; their late slaves, and taking heart thcrofl they are extending their plans far be.j what they deemed practicable three mo ago. If thc seasons bo moderately propiti i it is more than likely that the crops, i year, throughout this entire section of c try, will bc at least as good as they havo i been in the most prosperous times. The present crop proves to bo much bi than thc terrible drought of August anti tcnibcrled the planters to expect. Collo is true, is a decided failure ; but thc corn other grain crops have turned out surpris ly well, considering the circumstances of ease. The rice crop is really splendid, at the pr?vailing enormously high price, go far towart! enriching all who have plat Thc only difficulty is, that loo large a prr tion of the bcsl rice lands on thc const 1 been suffered tolic idle. Ex-Gov. Aikcr harvested a vcrj largo and valuable ere rice on Jchossco Island. fi??" Tho " Anderson Intelligencer " lc f,h.?4 thc cotton gin of Major Andrew Hf ton, was burned down at his residence Williamstcm, in that District, on tho ult, causing thc loss of some six bales of cn A negro boy was burned up with thc lu Tho iiro is supposed to have originated the carelessness or imprudence of two n boys, which cost thc lifo of ono of them. ' were in thc habit of playing hide nnd-sci thc lint-room, and it is supposed that oi thom lighted a match to look for tho o and thus originated tho fire. Tho revenue .commissioners estimate ?12,000,000 gallons of distilled spirits, : 000,000 of formontcd liquors, and 10,000 gallons imported liquors arc annually sumed in this country, costing 8500,000, The Government revenue derived fron liquor business is estimated at 817,727 annually. ! BOSTON, Novomber 22.-A largo mc for raising funds to cducato freedmen, hold at Tremont Temple last evening, dresses woro delivered by Ex-Gov. Abc Kev. Henry Ward Beecher, Geo. Thom of England, and othors. _._ i i , - .g :JI_ F7 MERE MENTION. Tho Legislature of Toxas Ima appropriated $2,000 for tho purpose of having thc body of (?eu. A. S. Johnston removed to tho State Cemetery, at Austin.-A law exists in Ger many to prevent drinking during Divino scr v5ce,-Tho remains of 00,000 deceased Union soldiers have been idouUficd and re interred by tho United States burial corps. -'Six large stores were destroyed by lire in Athens, Ga., recently.-Five thousand lit tle negroes go to school in Washington, P. C. -There ure fully 20.000 widows and 00,? 000 orphans (whites) in Alabama, and three fourths of them aro utterly destitute.-Thc art of book-keeping taught in one short and osy lesson-never lend them.-Thc defini tion of love is-A prodigal desire oa thc part of a young mau to pay for BOOIO young woinam'f board.-Columbi? has appropriated $"0.000 and Augusta il00,000 to tho Columbia ant Augusta Railroad.-Gen. Pillow has raisei 3,000 bales of cotton this year.-Tho Mo bile '! Tribune " predicts that the South wil bo more prosper? UM five years booen than i has ever been.-A New Hampshire docto has been fined ?2,094 for improperly setting broken bone.-In Hunt county, Texas,cor sells for twenty live cents a bushel.-?-Darin the month of October there were 411 death from cholera in Cincinnati.-lt takes 8712 000 to pay thc increased salaries of Congres: ,m.",-Philadelphia sends 80.527 childre to school.-Mississippi has a new count called lioe, after thu General.-A pound i colton spun hy hand will make a thread ll yards long, but spun hy steam it will make thread 107 miles in length. From Washington WASHINGTON, November 22.-It appeal from official compilations just made, that nor ly $150,00J,0U0 were appropriated for t public service, for the year ending in Jun j 1S07, ineludiug SI0,000,000 for the navy ut 1 $83,000,000 for tho army. 1 During the last throe or four days, abo 1 I 130?changos of pbstihttstors have been ma -none bein?.r of the larger class. Admiral lialilgrcu is about leaving Was ' iugton, to assume command of thc South i cilio squadron. ' WASINUTO.V, November 25.-Officiait " spa tobes which have reached Minister Hon ? io from Mexico, statt! that Col. Rifacli 1 Carola has been appointed .Military Govert ? of Puoabla, mid has established his (Jove 1 nient at thc city of Tocapooxtia and issued 1 proclamation to the people of the State, Cl i [lin r>M thom t;\ tilly* ?>'?> IIMIII n<rntn?t lliflil ' ?leis. dov. lt neta reports that the Pron 1 have lost thc whole of Puebla, keeping oi 1 the linc of thc main road from Vera Cru'Z 1 the city of Mexico .Many of tho Washington corresponde 1 are speculating as to what will be the conic of thc President's forthcoming annual ni sage, and sonic of them broadly assert that will make terms with Congress on thc res ration policy, in view of thc results of thc cent State elections. This, too, is mere sp ' ulation, ?ind it were, therefore, better to M for positive information from thc message Self. ! Nothing definite has yt I been received thc Government in relation to thc claims ' Great. Britain for damages to commerce can ; by thc Alabama and other Confederate pri ? tecrs. Thc correspondence between the t . j Governments is still in progress. It is a f: however, that ?bc present British Ministry more disposed than thc former one to give t and fair consideration to the entire subj ucl A commute hhs been despatched North the leading raidicals hero, to collect inonej defray th", expenses attending thc formal ct j monies of welcoming back the radical mt hers of Congres?, and giving them u banq J next. Saturday. j WASHINGTON, November 25.-The II sion of Gen. Sherman is simply to view military situation of affairs in Mexico, ; add his assurances that our Government * sustain thc constitutional party. It is cc dently believed such representations will sufficient to cheek all revolutionary plots i secure stability to thc Juarez Government Owing to thc pleasure of business in preparation of his annual message, no defil action hus been taken by President John upon thc application of thc Mississippi Le lature for thc release or parole of J c flor Davis. Commissioners Hillyer and Lo aro still awaiting a final decision, j Tho forth-coining report of tho" Pens j Commissioner shows that 813,000,000 v ! paid last your for pensions, und 827,500,' ; during the past four years ; estimated ll , year, 833,000,000. f)4,000 names aro on j army pension roll. $03,000,000 in gold were in tho Treas on Friday night. I Tho President was engaged on his mess I yesterday, and declined all culls. None foreign Ministers were received at tho S Department yesterday, nearly all of whom ongaged there. j it-lT A Southern Hospital Association, j the relief of disabled Confederate soldiers, ? been formed in Now Orleans. General II I is Prcsincnt of tho association, and Gen ; S. B. Buckner, Vicc-Picsidcnt. Among Trustcosare Generals Leo, Beauregard, J< sion and others. A ladies branoh assc t tion has also been formed, and a bazaar i [ bo opcucd at New Orleans for its bcuoiit. >g^a!'*y*.*g,.C'.y.!!?'?.1. ! MU.J^?'A. *. ' ??????ll'Mgl'.JIij'.'.!> What South Carolina Has D?ne. Tho M Ch -irleston Mercury," of Tuesdvr, has a very good ur li?lo allowing that this lit tle Slit.)*, notwithstanding lier uiUfortutiea, and tho destructions of a vast amount of prop erty, ha?, when c?),n>p.?ro?l with other Stats?, nmiifc?tod gre.it energy and ontorpriao tu th* work of rouuparattou. tn our own oity, thor? are d.iily ovidonoos of thu doteriuin ttion of our pwple to retrtoYo thoir shattered fortunes at as o nly ? dato va possiblo, and it gives us pleisure to aiy to tho ''Mercury," th?t our burnt districts ure being rebuilt with amazing rapidity. The buildings, too, bjing erected now, ?tro muoh superior in style and tiuwh t> their predecesor.* : - l'honix. lu no Southern Stute have moro industry and sotivity bojn shown in repairing tho io juries of war, than iu South Carolina; %mi ?rea Virginia, thc still proud "Old Dauia ieo," essiotcd ss ?ho lins been by Norths*a capital, has not, comparatively, done as mush as lins been accomplished by this State, unai ded and alone. In Columbia and in this city, the burnt districts have not been, it is true, rebuilt, to any great extent; buti our great lines of internal communication,-oiir fir?t necessity-have boen promptly and thorough ly placed in order. In Virginia in respect to depot buildings, this is not as generally the case. On thc Virginia and Tennessee Kail road, between Lynchburg and Uri: toi, only two depots tire utanilmii, none pf those de stroyed haviu ? been rebuilt. On thc Ornifg? and Alexandria It iilroud, only two now depots nre slowly orvoping towards completion} and on tho Virginia Central Itulroad. thc work of reconstruction d ios hot seem to IMVO evan been . commenced. In thisSt-ite, on the contrary, most of the principle railroads' have already boen thorough- ' ly repaired. Now and substantial depots hate been put up, to replace those wantonly ?nd unnecessarily destroyed by thc enemy; th? road bods have been ballasted thc culvert? cleaned out, the iron and cross ties have been renewed or over bauld, and traveling, through? ; out tho greater part of the .State, is both safo and agreeable. ?V?V" A party from the Dorn Mines, at Ab ! neville, S C., represent disci verics of gold there which promise large r suits. An old battery, after eighteen hours' vork.gare oin* ounces and seventeen penny? lights of gold from less than a ton and a quarter of reduced , ore. jti?" Tho Haleigh Sentinel " learns that '. j thc rice crop of the Cape Fear is almost aa ! entire failure, l?cforc the war, thc rice crop i j of that region v?as annually about 215,000 ' bushels. The present yoar it will not, we ar? I told, go beyond 20,000. j COTTON MANUKACJUHK IN TKNNKSSRK.-. (| The "Nashville Gazette" gives an encourag I lng picture of the founding and success of th? ! cotton factories of Tennessee, which it tabu lates as follows : Number of mills, ... 12 Number of spindles in uso, - - 14.00 Number ol'operatives employed, - 5H> Number of persons deriving support, 1,020 Aggregate gross value of annual man- ' ufaetures, - - - ?1,030,500 Amount of capital invested, - $(373,500 lt states that a general agency is to be f*. I lished tit Nashville, through which sales ara j to be made and prices regulated.' I EXE??TOR'S SALE; VU I I.I. BB SOLD lo tho highest bidder, OK T r Wednesday ilio l'2l|i ol' December next, aa Richland Creek, lite b:th?rice of tho PERSONAL PROPERTY j Relnnging to tho Batato ol' .1. V. ShattkUn, deo'd, : consisting of FOUR M CLUS; I TWO IIOKSKS; 25 ?KAI) OV CATTLE ; I 1 YOKU OK OXKN ; ! 20 UK Ai) OK ?OGS : 4 WAGONS; 1 LOM CART ; J S KT BLACKSMITH TOOLS : PA KM IN O F M PLK M li NTS ; ?OUSKIIOLD AND KITCHEN FUR. TURK ; AND OT? KR A RT [OLKS. TI'.tt.MS OF S.VLB.-.0n II credit of 12 montis, I w,,-h interest, noto, and approved security. Suma i under $.">, oasll. J- SHANK MN, Bx'or. ! Nov. 20, 18Cf> ll ' Vj MEDICAL NOTI CE. 'pilli UNDKRSKIXBI) haring permanently f.,Ub ; I llithud himself at Picken* Corn i House, offer. ?? fo'.\"r.H, 10 P?'?m"ldly at large, for th* ! PRACTIOB OF MRftjCINB. in "ll its* ?ranche. : When not professionally absent, he may always bo oimd at lils ofl?co. ready to givo prompt attention lo all calls, night or day. T?- i " " ;;JAMBS M> SLOAN, M. D. I'icltons 0. H., Nov, -??, lfl?fl li~lf U.S. CATHCART, U H. BOMAR, OOU.MI.tA, S. C. 8 PARTAN BOKO, S. C. WM. GURNEY, ANI> Commission Morohant, IOS East. Bay CHARLESTON, S. C. BACON, PORK, CHEESE AND LARD. ?iaT'Particnlar attention given to filling Orders. Liberal Advancements made on Consignments I Nov 23, 1800 10