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. *J-y-:J'n rf- Wit- y-lUT"* Wt H >'??, f<s (he night the day, (hov can'*t 'not tlifiri le Jah? to any man. BY ROBT- A. THOMPSON.& CO. PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 4,1868. VOL. III.??.NO, 14. Do a th. * . . .'. . <..; J , ..?? ' ywtvv .', * . Itv? MOiN.^-?ikV. A. J. ltUYAN. Oui of'.?-h? i)lm''.dw of si^Jnoss, Iiilo'tfi? st?nshilio.of gladness, ..Jntoahe^tgltt of thc l?lost - ? <W of n liuitl very dreary, Out 'of Mio .world' or tito woury, . Into, tlio^itapti.ry'of-liost. ' Out of'to-dayVfefh nmls?vrrow, " . ?uio*a blissful tomorroV, Into a tiny without glooiij ; Ont *f a Und filict? Willi Higlilnp^ Land of thc dead und ?l?o dying Into a lund without tomb. Out of ft lifo of commotion, "* ' Totnpcst-nwcpt oft tm thc ocean, Dark with thc wreck drifting o'er Into -ft lund calm and quiet Never ? Bl orin comotirulgh il . Never a wreck pu ltn shore. Ont'of'the land In whose bowiirs-> jL'orlah.und fado all tho (lowers . Out of ,tbo latid of decay .?vI?^<rtS"o'?<lc'n. witero frfni'rffit Of flow'rets.aud fiWootOKt and rarest Novcr shall wither away, 'Out of Ute world of the. Wailing. Thronged /wU$'th? Anguished a tul niling, . . . Oat of tho^-world of tho sa'i.l Jnfo tho.world thnt vojojccs,-^ \Vorld of brigid visions und voi?cs-. Into tho wovld'of tho .glad. Out bf a lifo over lornful. Q^tvof A land vory mournful. ' - _ TVbcrc ip blc^k.yxilo :weTvo;itn IrttO. a ?oylniid nbov.c us,. . Whero thoro'H a Kntli'.y to love us Into Our Homo-Sweet Hoinn." Tj'*'^j'll'L'Jl' 1 ?". .-ll . [ L ' .Jr."-.'I'- !~~ # O LITIGA Li. Grant's Celebrated Private Lotter. 'HKAD'QU'T.S A UM tn? uv CN min-STATKH, \ ------.- - WA?SHIKOUIN. D.d.. L August 1, 18t)7. ) HU Excellency A. .Johnson, President of the. United States. cL'.'t: t takc'ihe lihorty of addressing yOu privately on-tho subject of thc oort versa rion wo had this morning, feeling tis 1 do thti gtrnVl danger to tho welfare of the country should you: our ry out the designs thou OK prc ?sod. First, on tho tf?bjeot dt tho UUpiacci'iicot. of tho Secretary of War. Iiis removal cannot bo offoot?d h'gt?f&t bia will without the ?tici'? sent nf'the Senate'. It is but-a short time sincothc United States Senate wits iu session?., nod why ?Ot then have asked for h"di re'n??A'/tli if it Wi(8 desired. It ceVtainjy was the iii (op? tlon'Of* thc-legislative b;aneli of thc Q overn mont to place the Cub'ihot; Ministers beyond tho pbwerof IJxocutiv'o'roii.ovul^and it is pretty 'W^bUnderstood that, so faros Cabinet Minis., lejaro affected by the ten uve of> office bill, it was intondod specially to protect the Secretory pf '.'.War, in whom'thc country felt groftt ?om fldepe?. ' Tho.'uleuuing of. tho law may bo ex plftlhcd away by an nstuto lawyer, but oom mon sonso mid tho'views Of the .loyal people WiH givo &it tho offect intonded b.v its framers Sccotid, on tho subject of tho rcm?ynl of tho .very able Commander of the Fifth Military District, let ute ask you to consider tho effect it would havo upon tho publio;. Ho ls 'uni versally and deservedly bolpvo^ by tho people ^ho sustained this 'X*overn:t1ont through its trials, and fpared,.by those who would still be enemies Of*tho Government. It fell to thc lot of/but few/inpn;to do as muoh.against au nrinod (ftib?ny.as ???. Shoridun did during tho Tobolliou, uud lt it> within tho acopo of thc ?bllity.of but few in?this or any other country to do what ho hos .(Jone. Ilia oivii admiuis tfiil?h.hp? given equal satisfaction. Ho has difficulties'to contend with which no otil ar district commander has encountered. Almost, if- not tj?itty Iroim tho day ho" Was np jointed district commander to the present time, tho prcas has given out that be was t< l>?3 romoved-that thc Administration was dis satisfied with him, ^e. This li. s ombolde.ncd the. opponents to tin laws of Congress within his command to op pope Him in ovory way in their power, and ha: jrohdorod ncccr. nry meosurcs which otherwisi might) novor haVo boon required. In ooAoliision, allow mo to say, as a friem desiring peace and t^?Aot, tho welfare of tb country, North ?nd South, inst it ip, in. in; opinion, moro than tho-l?>yal peo'plo of tlii (COUrttry (t mean thoso who, supported th V Government (luring tho groat rebellion) wil quietly submit to, to-soo tho very mon, of al others, in.whom they hayo expressed confl dopoo, removed. I would not hayo takonth liborty of addressing vho Kxocutlvo, of" th .tJti^od ?iotos thuSj but for tho couvorsaU? on thofsubjcot^alluded, to in this lotter, an ftom'.'?,'0GW8'? of ditty, feel)nji, that I know nm right in this inatter. . ' yfUh' groai reappotj your obodicfit servan '! Tj.'?. UMNi\ irr- -rfrrf*. ?mymm^ roulair?8 all the porous, i A Startling offioial Report'. ' DREADFUL CONDITION OF THE ULACICS '?N MISSISSIPPI. Tho a New York Herald," in summing up a late ofliei.il report of General Grillen to Gen oral Ord, Bays : Tho black labourers have consumed their share of thc year's crops, and they have noth ing. They are adrift in shoals; and to keep soul attd body together they take anything needed that falls in their way. Tho white, plauters have nothing beyond the.few cattle, oh tokens and pige and tho corn in tho crib necessary to support through thc Winter-their own families ; and so have nothing to give No other alternativo remain, therefore, to the idle and destitute blacks but starvation or spo liation. Moreover (tin General Guien stales it,) there is " a wide spread belief, which ia dsjrly increasing among tho freed mon, that tito laud in this State (Mississippij is to bc dis tributed and divided among thom.. In tiotne sections, he says this illusion ?3 assuming a a practica] forth by the freedmen refusing to contract for nie noxr/'your dr to.leave thc( promises they luivo cultivated this year." In consequence of these dangerous ideas ho fears collisions, tho extent and ' results of which it is difficult io surnrh-o In support of these statements and opin ions of General Gillon y?c have been?ghc-wnn private letter from General Ord, Commander of the Fourth Militar}' District, embracing tho States of Mississippi and Arkansas, in which he says that the condition of affairs in the Cutten States calls fur the immediate at tention of Congress j that a famine is already upon the negroes j that in many counties in his district the planters aro removing their families from fear j that tho whites aro aban doning the rich Cotton sections, whero the blacks are largely iu the majority j that these blacks, having nothing, or next to nothiug of their own, are living on thc propel fy of oth ?nd un w-intt they can shoot in tho woods or catch in tho river? or creeks; that ho is daily in receipt of phil lions for protection from tow ITO and villages j thst in Mississippi it in not n question of votes, but bread ; that if Congress will employ these idle and destitute uegtoes.and iced them for theil' Work on the river levee.-;, broken and destroyed during tho war, or on rail roads, panais, anything; a war of races may be prevented. He say*) io cf feet that in ibo Cotton djatriots, with the {Yd uro of tho staple as a compensation product, tiie.ro aro more, negroelf than ?11,0/"bo sustained; uud that S0!U0th|lig inu.4 bp done-for thpm. - Motu: ARMY KKTKKNOU.MI?NI-S--G?nerai Grant*continues tito po+ivy Of mthttlt?oteof (ho expenses of ibo anny inau{?:ur??tcd by hiins'elf, ud has ju3t issued an '?rdor front t Ivo War Omeo, reducing alV the-rogimeiiit^of infantry to tho iniuiinuiii ?allowed by law, wb.ich is tiny tuon to a company, reducing the general rc emiting service by breaking .up all excepting fuur principal rendezvous to each ann-caval y and infantry-and by mustering out all volunteer officers, oxoopting tho commissioner and disbursing officer of the freedmen's bu reau. This reduction will bring the strength of the army down to about 45,000, or 11,000 less than the present nggregato. If. tho cal culation, that it costs tho Government $1, 000.000 per annum for 1,000 men, be cor rect, hero is a reduction to tho public expen diture pf ?I least ?10,000,000 per anuum. .tr -o W II ERE TH K JJ.V N D G OEM.- ?""(ingress lng appropriated fro n time to time-and thc firs! grant is not many yeav.-i old -to aid railroads, 12-1,000,000 abres of laud. It has aUogiirii to several States 57,033,000 acres, and Inclu ding amounts to wagon road?, it m estimates! that in tho aggrogato thoro havo bcon conoo dod 181^813,90 acres, of which quantity th( Government has given a certificate for abou tweaty-ono million acres. This qunntity o land exceeds, by moro than fivo millions 0 acron, the entire area of nil thc New Kngianc St ites, New York, Now J ersey. Pennsylvania Ohio, Maryland, Dclawaro and Virginia, l?e sides this goncr.il outgo, tho Government re ccived from sales last year 81,3-17,802. Ag ricitlturo land scrip,, military and bounty lu.ni warrants, under th? bomcstoad laws of 1802 'G4 and '00 und railroads grants also mad groat demands upon (ho West., Tho area 0 tho publio lands, exclusivo of Russian, ppssen sions, is now 1,400,408,800 acre!?. Iii th new puroha80 th ero aro 809,530,000. noro? making a total of acres, owned by tho Unite States of 1,831,983,400. THE outcry for "re^onoh?iopt In tljo Cov orntnont oxpoiiditures is giX)wingJiondef'o#iV louder at Washington, hud wo trust will l?? to some important xofoinm. A bolter *pl?u for a beginning could not bo found (han i the ofi?ues of.?io Sooretary of tho Sonate an tho .Clerk of tho IIpuso;. lMh"t,huao gbnih moti'aro weighed' down.with1 us?los? Mjboi-d natoS|-w?i? bo,vo nothipjf.'to do, a od Av Oui d tu do finythlng if they had lt. :. Let them ?di ], (Reap) tarted .af on lip..-Ar- ll T/'i(>Hn\\ . Burning of the Steamship Raleigh? GKKAT LOSS OF LiFE.-r-Tho "Charleston News" states that, on Saturday last, tho fino side-wheel steamship Haleigh, commanded by Captain C. P. Marshuuin, left New York bur? bor for Now Orleans. Tho . vessel was u staunch one, and commanded by an experi enced seaman. Her living froight consisted of thc officers and crew numbering thirty nine, and twenty passenger^, throe of whom were ladies, making in all fifty-nine persons. About mid-day on Tuesday, when tho Haleigh was about twenty miles South-east of the Charleston light-ship, thc passengers and crow were awakened by the cry of fire. A stiff breeze was blowing from tho North, and when the alarm was given, and it was made known that fire had broken out around tho forward end of tho boiler, there was a panic amongst tho passengers. Thc ship was at once put be fore tho w ind to throw tho fire forward. Lifo preservers were distributed, and tho boat.'?, were held iu readiness. Captain Ma.'shmnn himself superintending and directing every utop that was takjen. The flames spread with amazing rapidity, and within live- minutes timo of. the, firr.t appearance of the llames, they, had exlondcd themselves from tho for ward hatch to tho smoking saloon. There twn? ?fr hope-of auving tho ?Ship j thero Was sonic hope of saving Iffb. 'Then, was tho or der'given to lower the boats. Two or three .wore successfully lowered, but one of tltom was upset, an<l tho following porsoni^bcliovctt to have been lost: He o ry Pelvin, steward; T. Colloppy, third steward ; Jarnos Penfield, waiter; Thoa. Brannan, pantryinatf ; Martin, n boy, paesongor, of New Orleans j* Joshua Silvernail, coal passer; ]). Lovelle, firomau, and two others. Ono of thc boats, which both large and tea-worthy, has not yet boon heard from ; hut, as ?bc was in ohargo of a good seaman, it is hoped that sh? will prov? to be safe. This boat ia known to have eight persons aboard. . The othors ?wore rescued by a psmdng ve&seh' Nourly thirty povsoiis from #tho. burnt vessel remain to bc accounted foiy but it is thought some of them will bo saved? Captain C. 1' Murshmun, thc commander of tho Raleigh, ia well known in Charleston, and was for 'some time master of thc steam ship Keystone State, running between Charl eston and Philadelphia. When last seen, ho was near the wheel house of tho Haleigh, ap parent^ attending to tho wanta of somo of those 'who wore Still on tho vessel. Captain M'urshmn.n will, i tis .earnestly hoped, be saved; but, whatever hi*? frftO, it may bo said of him. that, like a True sailor, he struck to his ship to the last.. Tho Raleigh belonged-to the Atlantic Couti Majl Wfeamship Line, and was B0? tons bur then) She was in every way a staunch and sea-worthy vessel. . , . .The canso of fire' jsunknown, but it i?.sup ?pojod that it originated iu tho ov'ur-hontiiig ot thc boiler, and.the consequent ignition of thc wooden bulk-heads. Thc Haleigh had aboard a moderate freight of general merchandize. A lady named Byraut, from Mobile, aboul fifty years of agc, fell ovorboard during the rush for tho boats. She bad ou a lifo-prcsorv.er which would have kept her afloat, but around her waist she had belted a large sum in specie aud this additional weight carried tho uufor tunato woman liko lead to tho bottom. Thos< who were saved lost their baggago. CnAltnEBTON, Bec. 20.-The third boat o? the stcainor Haleigh roached Kiawah. Ldc yesterday, with thirteen moro persons. 'Ciro* reached hore to-day. Thirty^ono persons ii all from tho Haleigh have roached tho city ' twenty-four aro still missing, of whom toi 1 weiro certainly drowned. Hopes aro cuter I fained that Capt Marshman and (hose who rc . mined with him on tho steamer whon tin first boats left, havo boon rescued by som? t passing VCBSOI. Tugs from Charleston wor< j. cruising yesterday, near tho scono of tho dis P astor, but without sucoess in finding the miss ing parties. -? rn*.-_ , MONTGOMERY, Ala., Bec. 25.-Tho nc - groes wore out in force to-day, contrary to tili - municipal regulations and military orders. -? - They wore in full unif um, und woro urme< 1 with guns and pistols. No offort was mad , at tho ti ino to suppress tho demonstration o In tho -afternoon, scvOVnl thousand woro hil f rnugucd, npd violont and iiftfendiary hmguag i* used by Harbor, Bi tiuard, and other promi o noni radicals. Lato io tho Cvotiing both Bal ?, b?r ?nd BruiAnvd woro arroslod by tho milita ij. ry authorities. Disturbances aro reported to?1iaVo take placo at Groonvillo last night, and a militar dbtaohni?ntMias boon sont thorp to rostoro oi J doi\ No particulars haye boon vo??ivod, bu % at last accounts all wis quiet.1 V ' u ' iPhir Selina p'ftpo?*s'roport s?riojjs disturbar u, o^s at B\3iit0poli?>and (farndon, to wide h p?.inl ^ . ". fys have'hvoXk o^leitPd. ,' j. j??y-lu Mississippi a planter announopfe hi it-^rttontion of trying tho oxporimont of worl io I lng an immonso fat;id, of a thousand a?r?s c I moriyby moan's of European labor. '.."*.. '..;''"'' ?' r \ ? ? "' Southern Expatriation. Tho ty New York Times, iu uu article on tm's subject sn vs : : Of theso ill-starred adventures, the latc?t failure recorded is that of tho colony in Hon tlar?s. It wont there on tho faith of Go vor i^V'Auslin'u promises of laud am', other priv iU?C.*. Tho Governor WM as good ns bia word, but tho Homo Govornmont ut London ,( disapproved," and tho Southerners aro all iu trouble again. " Many of thom," says the aenjouut, "are about to return to the Uuitcd States." It is tho same old story, told of a ucvv pjaco. WI: crover a sottloment \\ta been effected, tho result has bcon dluappointiug. Only moderate fortuno has attended tho do tc'phment that strayed down almost to Pata* gojnia, and that has been thc most promising ot5 all. Cordova was not only a prompt fail uto, but whole enterprise has long since boen abandoned, the otock and property suld out, lind tho last of thc adventures returned. Tho yamo is true, in brief, of all tho Mexican pro iie|s j tho samo,M rapidly becoming true of a 1 J?ray.ilian.-expcriments.. For oxamplo, tho miiof T colo ny om tho llibeira, ucar Iguapc-a ijettlemont foutidod by ono 'Dunn, a furiously jtaccssionist olnrgyi*yin, who declares Kc wants gainly to " keep away froin-Nortbytnovs,"- is |)nytbing but prosperous. H'OrO nod there au !6pterpr?H?i|g man has 'met with success ; but UiiS was truo nlso\>cforo the war. \Y hat we Wenn to say, is that thc Southorn colonies, ns (olonies are dead failures. A recent t'ruv?l?r tory-well says that most of thc emigrants cati tot work to advantage, and are. " too proud b> beg-for anything but a passage homo." j Tho other day, we had news, fruin ono of Hid West Indies that a Southern colony was to io organized to prc- cod thither ; und subjoin? .ft) was an account v,f a couple of hurricanes \thioh had swept through tho length and '1 road th .of thc Island, succeeded by a braco of i tfrthquakes, which laid waste what tho tovua ( (Joes has failed to d0otato.^_Noy_c*:in his?p.ry, rpevIiVipjT, did HO ninny simultaneous attempts at colonization, proceeding from one source to sd many qnartois, moot failure so uniform. Some .of tho Huge not exiles from France per ished'in distress, but others founded flourish ing colonies, in England, Switzerland, Ameri ca. Soino of the American colonies from England were hapless, but great success fol lowed others. A fatalistic failure, ono would id moat say,attends, on thc oilier hand, the Souther,!"! Soho tues of emigration. In some places, os in Mexico, tho protecting Govern mont goes down, and tho colony dies out witli corning in of tho now* hostile rulo. . In other.* as in.Honduras, there is rt "Homo Govern mont" in Europe failing lo make good the lo HnJ promises, in orin rs, as in J?razil,.there.i: ?he sittipiciori and hostility bf tl^ native poo plo, lack of cnorgy ?md enterprise", want o mechanical hnpYovoincnt.s for. working planta lion?,- difficulty in procuring labor. In Soutl 1 America, iu general, war and taxes, cvot worse than in tho Confederacy, oppress tin adventurers. And if nought clso cnn wrool ' tho experiment, naturo conics in with hor dc 1 vouring earthquakes and whirlwinds. Wo aro glad that so few, comparatively, o of tho Southern pooplo ossayod expatriation Thoso few rushing off in haste repent nt leis uro, and return without reluctance, content fc romain. Their experionco is useful to thci neighbors. Thoro will bo no dopopulntion o ' tho South. Lot us take a sort of representa * tivo example of thc i.isuo of theso offoits. ' Wx-Gov. Harris, of Tonncs.-ee, in whose ann 1 Syd noy Johnson died on the held of Shiloli >. and whoso intensity of hate to thc Union lei 1 him at tho OIOPO of tho war to Cordova, wher ho was made President uf thu Conf?d?ral * colony, now returns nt Inst to pay his respect 3 to tho man whom ho and \\U associates prol 5 aly rcgardod aB tho peroonifloation of all thu 9 was most detest ibl c-Parson Brownlow * ""Gov. Harris said," tho account informs ut * " that ho bad como to give himself up, an expressed much gratitude for tho kind mentio which tho Governor had made of his failli} n in his mossago." I!:s successor baa parole " him till nextspiing. Thobo schomes, wo sn) j as organized colonies, do not succeed, and i 0 is fortuunto that they fail. Our oountry i tho proper homo for our pooplo, Northerner and Southornora alike. Sho nooda, tho labo 0 of all her ohildron, of all latitudes, in Ordo to fulfill hor destiny, and tliey, too, it seonji . cai? ill do without her. O Tv i EN TAL LUGEND.-" Every mau," a eastern logond says, " has two angola, ono up on his ri . i' shoulder and .ono upon his loft. Whou ho does anything good, tho" angel o tho right Bhyuldor writes its down and pea! it, boenuso what js onco woll dono is'dopo fe ever. Whon ho doos evil, tho angel *jp?n?h; loft shoulder writes it down, but doos not soi it. ' Ito Waits unt?l f.ddnifttt, *>lf bofiTru tin limo tho- man boweC .down hi)'hoad and c: olaimft, '.' Graciou-i Allah ! 1 hive ainncd |*forgivo inc !" tho nngol f?bs. it out; but not, midnight ho scala it, and ^ho angol u ou'tho right shoulder wcops." ii. ' . Tho Methodist Conference. Below wo givo tho assignment of ministera for tho next year, whioh io thomntterof most general interest connected with the confer ence. Charleston Distriot-A M Chroiuburg, 1* K. Charleston, Trinity-F A Mood. Charl eston, Cumberland-Bothol-J T Wight man. . Spring-Street-T/> bo supplied. Coo} - cr Uiver-J) D Byers. Summerville-II M Mood. Cypres!-Tobe supplied. St. Georjre's -JL Sifiey; Mission tobo supplied. Branchville-Tho Raynor. Fp^teiu Orange W W Jones; Orangeburg-W G Connor. Providcuce-J S Connor. St. Mathews-Wm Kutto. Upper St. Mathews---To ba supplied. Lexington-J 10 Penny. Mission-To bo supplied. Bamberg District-I) J Simmons, P E , Bamberg Circuit-Charles Wilson. Black ville-William Carson. Upper Oraugc-To bo supplied. Aiken-Alex W Walker. Graniteville Mission-J R Piokctt. Barn well-A Nettles. Allendalo-A J Stoke?, St. Bartholomew's-Landy Wood. Wultor bor$'-J W MoRay. Bl'nck Swamp-T J .Clydo. Ilardovill?-J R Coburn. Marion Distriot-It ? ^?"d, P E. Mari on Staitoh-G Jl Wolla, . ?on Circuit-L "M.Little. Brownsvillc-r-W ? Power. Buok Swamp-J B Platt. 'Liberty Chapel-D AV Scale, 'D?\rlfngrou-J P ?Morris. Durling 'ton Circuit.-S Jones, S M Davis. George town-J'?'Portor,. Bluolc Kivor Circuit and Mission j "fitohl. Kiugstr?c-W W Mood. Conwayboro'-J II O MoKinney. Conway boro' Circuit-L Soarborough. Wacamaw Circuit-ind Mission-C P ll Elwell. Lynch burg-D J MoMillian. Columbia District-C ll Pritchard, P ' E, War.hiuglou Station-William Martin. Mtv rion Station.-S II Browne, Columbia Cir , cuit-Joseph Parker, Rocky Mount-J I Shuford. Sandy Uiver-G W M Craytou Chostov-JE WatMon, Richland Fork-Ma? uing Brown. Fairfield-A J Cauthou, ou< to be supplied. Camden-Chas. Thomasson Sumter Station-James Slaoy. Suinter Cit ouit-J W Murray. Bishopvillc-P F Kit tier. Manning-S J HUI. Sau too-- J 1 Campbell. Cokcsbury District-W II Fleming, 1* 1' Coiikcabury Station-W T Capers. Cokcabi ry Circuit--J T Kilgo. Greenwood (colored : Circuit-One. to bc supplied. Abbeville-Y i P Mo?/.on. Abbeville (coloured) Circuit . To})? supplied. Suluda River Mission-\ i ll Lawton, supernumerary. Mapleton-J , Tray wick'. " Edgofiold-P L Hermon.' S; . 'vannah Uiver Missiop-T S Daniel. Bulli - W A Clurk. Newberry-W'S Black, Nc & berry Circuit-J. II 5?jmuior?nan, H N llari .. son. Laurens-J W Kelley, one to bu su f piled.' Clinton-J .A At:..rt,ay. Reedy Bi - or Fredoifrck"Auld..* Orphan? Homo M issi? ! -T H E.dwaids. i Grech ville Disjtriot-A B Stovens, P s Grccnvillo Station-Robort Harpor. Qrec : viii Circuit-J J Workman, Rcidvillo - Wm Bowman. Piokonsvillo-^-.! M ?aflis Koowoo-J L Stoudmiro. Walhalla-To. f supplied. Soncoa and Tuguloo-lt lt Du , nail. Anderson-S A Welbon Anders . Circuit-W A Hodge?, Pendleton-0. Bound. Spartouburg Distriot-R P Franks, P j. Spartanburg Station-W A Gamcwcll. Sp tanburg Circuit-J D Carpenter. Unionvi j] and Cune Crock-0 A Darby. Rieh Hill D Ervine. Pacolct and Fair Forest-J Marsaboau. Bclniont-A N Wells. Gosli 'J Hill-E G Gage. Columbia-J A Wo. . R uth or ford-V A Sharp. Cherry Mount M sion-To bc supplied. Marion-J R Griffe MoDowcll -II J Morgan. Agent for Si day Schools, Books, ?fcc.-L Loard. Woffi J Collcgc-A M Shipp, DD., W Smith, I). , A II Leaton .' Sholby District-^ W Itumbort. Shel j Cirouit-A P Avant. Linooluton-Aug n Walker. Rock Spring-John Fingor. I las-0 IC Land. York-J-S Nelson, M J Hoylo. Piuevillo-N K Moiton. Chark ( -E J Moynardio. Calvary, Mias-To ?j supplied. North Charlotto, Ct.-J J Y H thor, ono to bo supplied.. Newtan-BT lfl Jones. South Fork-John WaUs. Lor r G W Ivoy. Happy Hotne?-J 0 Harts r Morgant,on-P G Bowman. Morgantot i* Coloured, chargo to be supplied. Davonr *' Fomulo Collcufo-S Landor^ President. Mo loubuTg Female College-A G Staoy, Tr n dont. i- W'adoslJoro' Distriot-F M Kennedy, 1 " Wadosboro' Circuit-E W Thompson, \\ u Pogues, Cheraw-A J Stafford. Bcnnc |rt v?||0-_-M L Bntoks, one to be supplied. Aut >r ville-T%A. Boono. Albemarle--.J W Pu ?8, Conoord-R R Pogues. Mount Pleasant-] A Lommond. Lnncastor--J W Cridcr. It; it ing Roek-B L Puffy., Choa,tcrftold-O;l v Ea'dy. Mon'6c-J ll L.tth'i. Monroo' - cuit-J W Abernathy- I Jeasant Grover if Crisp. South Gliavioite. Oironit-J WC1 p- Thompson's Crook; M>si?n-J W Cowan Carolina Fpmil'o Coirego-^.-xV. Mood f .v.'. ..; ? . ' :- r ?. v' . ' / fcrouoc. Noat Conference to. bo ho?d'?t'^cfc*' bovillo Court House, S. 0. Chief Justice Chase. Tho voioe of tho people jp potent for re form, and tho popular will tho most cffeplivO persuader to tho wilfully-erriug. The fatt elocti?ns in the North dod West oro still hav ing a wonderful effect upon tile mindy of mo. ny of, the Kopublicah leadors. Their'oxpori- ' eneed editors, too, set thoir sails to catch tho popular bree?e, and Bennett, Weed, &o., took ' iii At f- glance4he effect, whioh tho popular rc aotlou iu Ohio and Now York would b^ve up on tho rei?aiuing Northern and Westerr Stat?s, immediately ohanged their tactics and sot thoir sails in tho directibrYof tho.now cur rong It would cccm, from tho. ?ubjeined paragraph from tho letter bf a Washington correspondent, that the worthy Chief Jmjtiuo Chassis dotcrmiued not to be distanced io getting well into tho new cuheot: "A strango rumor, too, fills tho air -eoti^ corning tho opinions of Judge Chuso. It is distinctly and oven somowhat authoritatively affirmed, that ho will , toko tho first Opportu nity to pronounoo tho. Reconstruction Aota' unconstitutional. Should tho SuprCino Court decide theso Acts to ho illegal, or should^ljft? Congrces anticipate tho SupromO Court and repeal them, wo then havo before thcUouutry tho " Conotitutional amondpiont," that leave; tho suffrage with the whijtes, unrlor tho penal ty of non-represontatio?jp?Wcs???o, if thoblacks aro not allowed to vote Wo do not precisely oomproho'nd Chief JustioCh?sC in tho aunun oiatiou by his'friends of his opinions as a law ycr nnd Judgo, concerning the negro suffrogo legislation of Congress. It may bo that tho Judge is resolved to shoot a Parthian arr?wjp at hi? successful rival, as he retreats from tho/' field of oonfliot. Wo oan easily pcrceivo^ How, if tho arrow strikes, Con. Grant moy , bo despcrotely wounded. But wo will upt^ stop to inquiro about thot-Bojv.'.'.. . ...... NEW YOUK, Deo 26.-On Christmas morn ing, a lad cutcrcd tho ofiioo of the Superin tendent of Polioo and loft a parcel, whioh ho. 8uid had been given^him to deliver by a gen tleman at thc Astoi* Ilouso. Tho parocl cpn?^ taiucd tho chcqks on tho bank of the State of New York for 13.083,435; thc amount sto len frpm thc baak messenger recently in Wi ll street. WASHINGTON, Deo 20.-Tho bureau of statistics ropor'ts tho. total authorized, mil ca?.1 o .> of railroads ip tho United States at 54,000, whereof 38,000 miles aro compl?tai, costing; ?1,054,000,000. Internal revenuo receipts to-day $051,00^); A negro fired his revolver at three "mon who ran against bim; oue of tho mon is dead. Tho murderer escaped. v Kcir.ipsES.~-Thoro will bo two eclipses of tho 6un in 1808. On February 23d, at niue o'clock, twenty minutes in tlm movniogjinvls.-^ iblo in tho Unit?d Statos, visible in South America, tho Atlantic Oceun ?nd ^fyjoa.-^ The Second is o l'?tal oolipBO of Iho. Bun, ^AiV gust 18th, 12 o'el?ok, Sftccn minutes i? thcf ., morning. Tun cleanest village in tho world ia Brook, in Holland, whoro no horse or onrria'go has] evor beou permitted to entor, and whoro ovc-; ry thing is kept with tho most scrupulous neat ness. Before entering many of tho house.* you aro required to romovo your shoos. It is. said that o von tho Emporoi* of Russia was compelled to comply with this custpiu. C6y* A Quaker, on h oaring n mur swear.aft a particular bad piece of road, wont up to-him and said : Friend, 1 am under tho greatest obligations to thee. I would mysolf hwo dono what .thou ,hast dor^Oi Jju?tny re??g-io? forbide it. Don't let tny^dnscleoob, 1K>W?T^ or, bridle thino ; give thino indignation wings, and suffer not tho projudioo of others to par alizo tho t?ngu? of justice and long suffering --yea verily." -??*<?.-- - j^?r* A lady advertises for sa lo, one baboon, throe tabby oats, and a parrot. Sho statos that, being married, sho has no further USO for thom, booauao thoir amiable qualities aro all combined in her husband. .----* -?-. jtST A supposed ghost in A Iber marl o Coun ty, Va., turns out to bo a negro, hired by a whiio mau who wanted to drivo efl' his neigh bors and make lund cheap. ??y* Buring tho T/no-ping war in China ovor 100,000,000 mon have " perished b y slaughter and starvation. - ,u . - A won-riiY townsman -of. on is, who goosfc tho sobriquet of tho Doacon, waa mot by dy friend ns ho emerged from .a, saloon, accosted thus : " Good nmrnrng^ j>oaeon ; 1 nm sorry, to soo you coming out of sn place." To which ho replied, "Why, am, would "you have too ?tay thoro tlftio,?" -