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fjfc'qj?n tho t?at ional.tv fe hia ?Y???' i?MME,S, Editor. Toll mo not his ?TvV .==^--. . rs a tro'Vitm??'s SOSQ. . proprietor. Toll im mt his birth' , Is ho Inmost in his notion-. . " , m, , . i. i , . advance; for ?tx ih.il 14 nil I want t<> ^ ts his vvor l^/8"inserted at $1 jjcr ?onor? o/ Ila^gywr ^r4i irisertion, and GO caiti ^r?'?'?4tiyM?ni insertion. Obituary Notices exceeding five lines, 7W? des of Hespect, Communicaliofis of a personal character, and Announcements of Candidates, will be charged for as adue-rlisemcnts, B&?"</o& Printing neatly and cheaplg executed. ... Sf&~. Payment can bc made in currency, orin prc vision al tho market rates. .. K?f^Jffece^itg]compels'^s to adhere strictly to tho requirement'of cash payment. PIOKENS C HM S. c7: Saturday Morning, February l?, 1868. jCS?r lu New York, on the 11th instant, in?olfon was quoted at 20i to 20? coots per ponnd. dold, 42|. Wo. rotui;u thanks to Mr. J. 0. MER ; Wrru, Superintendant of Groohyillo and Co lumbia ltaihoad, toi *< compltnientarios " for 1808. " ? Change, ' N?t radical,' but' on? consummated after lUll investigation aud maturo deliberation. Tho closing weok terminates the timo-honorcd oxistoneeof tho COURIER at this place. Honoo fprth tho paper will bo issued at the flourish ing town of Walhalla. Situate ou tho rail road, tho head of trude, and with a daily mail, .our facilities for getting news, local and for eign, will bo oonsidorably promoted. To our roaders on tho oastorn sido of tho Distriot, who30 liboral p.itrouago wo havo ^hitherto oxporionood, wo would say, that they aro by no moans forgotten, and that this shall be their representative still. Arrangements 'Viii bo mad? by which th?y can got thoir pa pers as oarly as heretofore, with tho pleasant addition of tho " latest." Tho ehango, although long premeditated, is ?Oaro?ly realized by us-whether from a re luctance to aooept it, or a desire to oling to old attaohmouts, wo carnot sty. .?But we know kind romombranoo # # * ?? With tho retrospection lovos to dwoll, "And aootho thensorrowi of hor last farewell." Tho fig'rooaoie and hallowed associations of thc last fow y^oars havo inseparably iutcrwoven thom^olvos: into our oxisvonco, and will ever .be ohorished with feelings of pleasure and re gret. A sense of sadness SO0013 to porvado Fine Plantation for Sale. Attoutiou is culled to tho advertisement of Mr. ty. li, SMITH, offering for salo his valu able Plantation, situato in Cheobeo Valley. Its location-in tho most quiet part of tho Stato at this time-and tho comforts and con vonionocs attaohed, mako it most desirable Now ip tho thoo for our low country frionds who wish to " ?leo from tho wrath to como," to retire-not to tho mountains of Hopsidam, but to tho pleasant and poaoeful vulloy just this sido. Johnson versos Grast. Wo havo boforo us, though too lato for press, tho important corrospQudoq.ofi.between tho President and GRANT. In tho suit be tween these distinguished individuals, there seems to bo a direct conflict of testimony.- , Mr. STANTON;" who doubtless would like to j bo, and is almost o party, yet by no moans a witness, on account of interest, and various other littlo inoompotencics, is reduced to the humiliating confession that he has resumed his duties " without any personal or written communication with tho President," Ou tho ono hand tho President alleges a-proupso made ?hunby QUANT, in oaso. Mr. STANT^V WAS re stored* and on t?ieothcr, Git ANT strenuously donics any suoh promise. Miscrnbilc a ic tu ! Whioh aro wo to believe ? Suffico it to say, tho Executive is sustained by pretty good proof, and tho corroborating circumstances afc strongly iu his favor. Southern Cultivator. Tho February uumbor of this most excel lent Agricultural monthly, is on our table. It may bo aptly styled the farmer's guido, so full is it of practical experience, and useful information to the descendants of Cain. It tells us how wo may sow and reap to nu nd vautago, how we may preserve and enrich our lands, and best of all, how to save labor. Wo will publish in our next, a lottor taken from this periodical, by DAVID DICKSON, of Mid dle Georgia, on thc planting of? Corn. This well-known farmer isa contributor; his farm and full granaries well attest his knowledge in tho business. Tho Cultivator " is pub lished at 82.00 per annum, and is worth it all. Address ty?i. & W. L. JONES, Athens, Ga. The Proposed Constitution Tho Convention, whoso motto, since thc establishment of their per.diem,, is "festina lente," arc now engaged upon tho " Declara tion of Rights and Form of Government as tho Constitution of tho Commonwealth of South Carolina," as reported by tho Judiciary Committee, lt i? T> " 1 I.'M . years, ninny positions of trust and honor may bo filled by individuals unidentified with tim interests of tho State, whoso only claim upon tho suffrages of tho people is a moro legalized residence Tho ovil influonoo of bribery, tumult and impropor conduot in eleotious is guarded ngaiust; and no office is to boorcatcd, tho ap pointment to which shall bo for a lunger time than during good bohavior. All naviga blo streams aro to bo public highways, free to' tho citizens of tho Unitod States, without any imposition of tax or toll, nud no owner of a wharf, erected on tho Stores of a nivigablo stream, is ponnittod to chargo for thc use of tho said wharf, unless expressly authorized to do so by tho logislaturo. ' It is but truth to say that tho document froui which wo havo quoted boars upou its foc? tho ovidonco of oaroful compilation, and after porusiug it, no ono will gainsay the re mark that its sovoral propositions aro clearly and sucoinotly stated. TIIK JU?IO? AL DEI* A KT M li N T. This article of tho constitution, if.adopted nocoording to tho text published below, will affect grave changos in tho judiciary of tho State. The judicial powor is vested in a Su premo Courtj in two Circuit Courts-to wij^rj a Court af Common Pleas having oivil jurist diction, aud Court.of Gcu?rul Sessions. .haJrV iii g criminal jurisdiction only-filia in Distrlod" and Probate Courts and Justices of the Pcaeo.? Tho Supremo Court is to consist of throe judges, who are to bc elected by the General for tho term of six years, and so classified that ono of the judges shall go out of offioo every two years, the judge holding thc shortest term of office undor this classification to be tho Chief Justioo during his ?erm of ellice. Tho article provides in a very clear niannor for filling all vacancies that may occur, thc circuits which each judgo shall occupy, and tho jurisdiction which each judgo shall exor cise. Tho circuit judgo is to be elected by tho pooplo of his circuit, and shall hold office, for tho torin of four ycar3. Tho Courts of Common Picas are to sit in each judicial dis trict nt least twioo a year, and to have full ju risdiction in all matters of equity. But tho' courts now established for that purpose shall continue as nt prcsont organized until Janua ry 1, 1809, for the disposition of causos pen ding therein. Thc Court of General Sessions shall sit at least three times a year for the trial of eriminal cau308. A very important change is embodied in section 21, which provides for the election by tho people of each judicial district of three persons who shall constitute a district court, whioh shall have full juris diction over raids, highways, ferries, bridges, and all mattera, relating to taxs, and tho lo cil concerns of tho district. A Court of Prd bato is also to bc established in each district?, . and tho people aro to elect justices of thc "0 and constables, who may hold offioo for " *wo years. No pot-son who liai * ?oventy oan bo elected ."e. and no judge 'tors of (Prom (ho Columbia Daily Plioon'iV] Proooo dinga of tho Convention. CHAUXESTON, S. G., February 7-Tho Couvontiou has boon oooupiod during tho past two diys in discussing tho Bill of Rights -sovontoon seotions of which were adopted. To day, tho ropo"' p tho Committee on Rules ?and R?gulations was taken up, and, aftor uiuoh discussion, it was finally adopted Thc nssomblago went into Committee of tho'Whole on tho ninth section of tho Bill of .Rights, Rutland in the Chair, when tho Pres ident made a spcooh, offering, ns an amend mcnt, that tho words "havo thc right to doter minc the law and tho faot3, under tho direc tion of tho judge," bo stricken out, and tho words " bc judges of tho law and tho f.ct?," bo inserted^ and moved that tho Cqihj luttco rise and report thc utnortdinont to tho house; which was done. CIIAUM?STON, February 10.-Yesterday, tho Convention was occupied in discussing several sections of tho Bill of Rights. To day J. M. Rutland, of Fairfield, made a report of the Legislative Committee on an ordiuauco j allowing a ho ncstcud of ono hundred acres of land to oach hoad of a family. Tho Com mittee report that they havo agreed to incor porate thc substance in a section of tho legis-, dative part pf tho Constitution. Also, are port on a resolution requiring that tho seve ral Districts of tho State hereafter shall bo lyiown and denominated as "Counties." The Committee report that they have incorporated the sult?nico in n section of tho legislativo part of thc Constitution. They also report a.-> impracticable tho scheme proposed author izing tho State to issuo bonds to thc amount of-titillions, to bo endorsed by Congress, for the purposo of purchasing lands forced in to tho market; which was adopted. W. IS. Roso, from the Cominitteo on Peti tions' reported unfavorably ou a resolution for i tho appointment of a Committee to report the names of poisons from whom political dis abilities should bo removed. They aro of opinion that person's desiring their disabilities removed should make individual application for such purpose, and it would then bc time enough to decide upon their respective mer its. B. F. Randolph made a report of thc Com mittee on Miscellaneous matters ou a resolu tion to make a penal olfonoo thc uso of thc epithets negro, nigger and Yankee, recom mending that it be laid ot) thc table. Adop ted. Also, a report of thc santo Cominitteo on certain resolutions in relation to the organ ization of ti militia, recommending the follow ing article, which was road the first timo, or dered to bo printed and be inserted In the Constitution : The militia of tho State of South Carolina shall consist of all able bod ied malo residents ol' thc State between the ages of eighteen and forty-fivo years, except such persons as now or may bo hereafter ex empted by thc laws of tho United States, or by the laws of this Static :, shall hun ???!?^ armed, equipped and disciplined as tho Gen eral Assembly may, by law, provide ; which was read the first timo. q'ho/oport of tho Committee on thc Logis . Department of tho Constitution was '" '.si time and passed to a second read on! and twenty-third scc hts were adopted. n) UK PAID. 1er to carry he Recon C.J'ti . to From Washington.. WASHINGTON, February 8.-Tho Sonato was not iii cession to-duy. tn tho Uouso, tho catiro day was devoted to spocohos. Tho reconstruction Oommittco had a stor my session, but did nothing pointed. This evening's" E cpr ess says tho feeling among tho majority of tho Oommittco is uni doubtoJly in favor of impeachment, and there is reason to believo that a resolution to this effect will shortly be reported to tho Uouso. Before adjournment to day, tho Committee agreed to report a bill to re novo the politioal disabilities imposed by the Reconstruction Acts upon Gov. Holden, of North Carolina.. G?W Ocr, of Smith* C ir?lln V, and Gen. Long street, of tho lato (Confederate nrmy. It is reported that Mr. Bro ?k:i moved to add the name of Gen. B inurogard, but tho Oommittco refused to inoludodiim. S. M. McKoon, for fifty years disbursing clerk of tho Troasury I) jp irtmont is dead. WASHINGTON, Fubu.irnry ll.-Judye Bl ?ck filed a bill yesterday-the State of j Georgia vs. Grant, Meade, Buger ct ul, Black | endeavors to avoid tlio grounds, which lead to i tho dismissal of tho former caso. Expartc McCardle still bojd thc court. Tho majority bf tho bar inclino to the opinion that it will | also b.; dismissed. The Judiciary Committee stand four to three agaist Edmunds' bill regulating im peachment. Mo.NTiiOMI'.nY, February ll.-In thirty four Counties, thc vote for tho Constitution stands 51,Toil ; registration in same Counties 111,209-this includes all the negro Coun ties but Halo and Marengo. Thc twenty-six remaining Counties have a wotto majority, and will licit vote nt all. To carry tho Con stitution, 8G,000 will have to bc polled. Tho Murder iu Beaufort "District Yesterday, news reached this city, that on thc nittht of Sunday, the 2d instant, Mr. Johh FVaser Mathewes, Jr., n grandson of the late Hon. John Haven Mathewes, was shot dead by negroes in Beaufort District. Thc facts are, briefly, these : Mr. Mathewes had been engaged foi seve ral years in cultivating a plantation on (jilts olin's Island, near ' Port Boyal Ferry, ns agent of thc proprietors, the well known linn of Brown, Brothers & Co., of Baltimore.' Accompanied by bis neighbor, Captain Van Ness, and attended by a posse bf four ne groes, he started on Sunday, in pursuit of two negro thieves who had stolen Momo mules from thc inland, and tracked them to thc plantation of J)r. L. M. DcSaussuro, about eight miles off. Here, in serving a warrant of nrrcst which had been issued by Magistrate Portc ous, thc party met resistance from Scipio Sin gleton, tho foreman, Peter Holmes, nnd oth er negroes ; and, in the nttemnt *?? lita .minority, Mr. Mathewes'was shot in tho bead by Scipio and killed. Tho victim of this murder was tho sort of a widowed mother, a young man of character, courage and energy. He entered tho war, a youth of sixteen, as a volunteer in the Ar tillery Company of Captain James ll. Math owes ; und at thc guns of Battery Wagner, his distinguished bravery and imperturbable coolness brought bim moro than once into honourable mention. ito passed unharmed through thc perils of ?soldier's life, to fall by thc bands of a bru .111 negro. But it is not boro th^t Mr. Mathewes' diameter shp.iijd.be discussed-our duty is lot to tho dead but, to vhc living. Tho fi)to 'Ms young .gctit)en)on \A n tcxi which of itself a very iuiprc.ssiyo(;|scrnmn. oho perpetrators.-- of ?,cold-blooded brought to swiftTHipjjCopdigiji pun r'lftci?d. wi'ongw'l! bp .avenged . proocss, flnd,,t.ho "Sputn, .will ;yot reproduce on s presented by . tho * :'// '/Viii IV ! 'll' ' Mere liri/. ,.) Bottom t. Tiri' COTTON* F KV Kit.-Tho editor of tho* " Washington (Go.) Gnzctio" gives hisoxpc rienoo iii raising cotton os follows : " Wo took tho Cotton fovor last Spring, in oomtnon with tho rest of tho world. Anet our experiment was thusly. "Wo planted two* and tlirJ^c tenths uores, used $20 worth of ma nures, ?nd 815 worth of Dickson's proliGc eccl, got a good stand, kept it oloau, and an ticipated large profits. Dy tho time tho orop? was ready for market our total expense was" $117 75, und tho quantity of cotton was two bales weighing I JG7. The net salos of tho crop wero S102 8 J. leaving us ?11 93 in debt on tho operation. Tho Government however, olaimed 5>'20 07} as its sh no, and wo paid thc oxponso of oolleotion. . That was about 26 por v-out on the net receipts and about 23 por qont oi' thc capit if Uvested-moro profit? than : wo oai^-uiako in any businoss yet discovered.^^ri*.*'" Verily, a man who plants ccLton,f ^mortga ges hi'.nsi-lf and his whole capilt??, and work? on government account. Ail tho samo rato ns above, we arc very thankful our crop was so small. Ono hundred boires of cotton would have swamped us uttterly^l Wo shall contin ue to edit our paper this! year but shall not postOi' cotton at all. 1 _ ? ?tTr*Jfi ?t Jt?r Tho "Charleston Nows" fcjfcvk'; J p the>nogro.dolegatos. in rho Convi?Igood, Tbs* nt fii^t ovinoed some.numeration ^'"f* *" * they are all powerful in that body sf ing more violent and unooiitrolubr?jM80?8or? ' leaders. Such will bo thc caso ur? when they think they aro strong cimCKS go alone. ^STEU C^y* A New Orleans correspondent snyb :,> tho times thcie aro awfully hnrd. Tho pcoplo arc very poor, empty houses and stores aro almost numberless, money scarce, social cir cles nearly brok on up. theatres losing money, und the weather " dirty, rainy and sticky." lilj>"~ Tho Ohio Legislature has adopted resolutions requesting the repeal of the Rc cotistruc'lion Acts and denunciatory qf^tlie pending supplcuicntary and Supremo Court bills. .L. ....U. ?1S A MF.KTlNl? of I he eiti/ens of tho Wost side of A Pioiuma District will bo held, in Walhalla, on Tuesday next, tho ?Sili instant, lit I- o'clock, .M., at UiKMANx's Motel, to take into consideration tho location ol' tho OoiU't House tor Ocotibo District. All are cordially invite I to attend. ll. 8. VAN DIVIKIIE, Ch'rm'ti (,'ointniileo. Walhalla. Feb. 1.2, 1808 ?20 1 ~"'-. VALUABLE 7 LANDS FOR SALE. 1)i:ixo DESIROUS ot' CHANGING MY > BUSINKSS 1 ?ir.pose tu sell my I'M RAI known as thu " Lay Place," Lviiig on the N irth Fork of ij't.tlo Uiver, in L'hoiihui:. Valley. I'ieU'enu D?.M I ?OI. S. V, II ml dis* ant from Walhalla 13 milos. This placo eon. tains . .-.< S rairtoon Hundred & Sovonty-ftvo Acres, Pw > Hundred and Fifty oT which i-t tho fit-oat 10TT?.M LAN'I) in th- .State, all now nuilor iitltivathln. Tho ho?.t>>m is n it subject m over low, and prodne.es fr.?.n forty t<? fifty bushels of J?rn ti tile arno, but willi proper * cn I ti va ti >n md manuring, w luid produce double limb inion ut; There is, upo i tho place, a ?nod Drolling Luise, cunta i n incsix rooina, with all nocesPa y outbuilding-including a Blacksmith Shop, luivcniuntly located. Thoro aro, also, faur Iber settlements near tho placo, now occupied ntl being improved hy tomiuts ; als.? n good I R I ST AML?j, in cx^clloutiorilor, with altino ustyoi, ' , . This tarin; 'lying nt tho fo it of tho M am mos, oon'igumts ti a ran^c extending fur mile.^ Ifora-raro inducements to stick grow ors. lt is .?thin .two milpa ol' K'ihtmann's Gild Mino, nd has lr ci oxain ncl um] tested by f.mr ox orioticcd miners, all of whom pronounced tho pool mons-found in sovoral nimios - as rioh as vcji; fiin.mj anywhero. Tho "GOLD is hore to liow for itself, and minors are united'to como nd see. ' -ALSO will'ftlso S?ll ' ' ; AFINE!LOT OF M ULKS; 3,000 HUS UK LS COJIN; mW! HAY, FODDISR, sirucK?;1" WAGONS. F?RBUNG IMI?L1^1ENT&: STOCK OF CATTLI* M? i?oWi'1 HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN fMl NITURE, &0., &C, 1 bc Land, if desired. " ,i ,-t t?ut?\\? Ait i 'ti wishing tb purchaso such property "->r#itnl ('Terms shall'bo li bot* I eas h, balance; on t i mo , to, ^ns dosirmq to seo th* days notice, will bo 1 ont ko tho placet given, thom.,ty SMITH.', f bar?es Wish, OA*, V