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LLGISLATURE 80VTH "AROLINA .NONJ)A Y, DkUN)WBER11jj, 1865', SSENATE. q'The Senate m t at 104. a.in. The lionse of Representaiives sent. to it.he Senate a messago asking leave t< tmend the message from the Senate in relatii 'to the adjoirment of thin Gen. -eral Assembly on Sattrday, the 16th instant, by strikinag oit "Saturday, the 16th imstant," and inserting "Tnesdav, the 19th instant, at 12 i:," which wit .conctirred in (he special order for 12 ni.-a bit to almelnd th ie Patrol Laws-receivad the secind reading, was agreed to, anl was ordered to be sent to the. louse of Reprisentatives. Mr. Lawion submitted the followirg report; which was ordered to-lie on the table. and to be printed The sp ecial joint. cominnit ce of the t wo ,H ouse's appoinited to nominite P- ideht aid four Directirs of the Bank of tie State of South Carolin!a asik leave to .report the 'following n-ni naions, viz: For President-C. Al. Furma. For Directors- W. C. Diko-s, C. F. Hianck. el, J. 'P. DeVeaux and J. J. Brabham. Mr. Bratton bioved the following re solit.ion; whin-h was considered and agreed to. and was ordered to be sent to the iHonse of Representatives for con c rretic, : Whc'creas, T'he Bank of the State of Sout h Caro lina ig "it 'reseint, lit t.le more than in omii ee for (ehposits," and will probably so continue for somo time to Be it Resvolred. That it. be referred to a joint eeinittee, to C nsiit of the Sel ate Committee on lFinance and Banks, and the lios) Cosiittee on Ways a1ndl Means, -to reure -tnd report As to the nuner of salaried omcers, witlf the salary of' each, nowCv empboye(d by tle Batk of the State and its varidus branches, and the imniuber of offlicers aijd thlie saleriesof each, actually requir cd in the present. condition o -aTfairs; anfi also as to thot. practicbility of re trenchment -in the expenoces Qf the Bank. The President aitonuced t.lat he had r'ceived iirough the post offm., a com. munication from the ecilored people of Sombili Carorolina, in Convention assem bled. in Cliarleston. The f. llowing conilmiisation was re. ceived from his Exleticy B. F. Perry. ECxLceTIVE.DFPATMENT, S. C.. December 9, 186>, 'lb Thi GoelleneN'Gyv. Orr > MY D i:At Sin :' received. two weeiks sinice, a telegram from ih Hon. Wm. II. Seward, Secretary of State, in re latioin to the repudiation of our war debt in tie folliwerng words.: "Upon re flectiot. Sont hi Carolina would not care to come agaid into tho' councils of the Union .enenmbered and clogged witho debts and obligations which had beep assumed in her inian in a% vain attempt t6 submit it. The I'resident. trusts that she will lose' no tint. in making an effe& tive organic declaration, disowning; all debts and obligations trade and assum ed in her tiac or- behalf in aid- of the rebellion. The Presideut awaits further events in South Cairolina with deep in. terest." In' reply to, tii,- di'patch, I 'sta ted thait it, was imipracticable, now, to make any sneh ''organic declaration," as our State C'nvention had beeni dissolved by my ad(1vi'ee, after haiving donIe all thait the President had requested to be done, and that I was opposed to keeping a revolutionary body, like that of the Convention, in existence longer thaln absolute necessity required. .1 fturt hoi stated, that our war debt WaIs a very small orte atnd could not be separated from the ordinary current expenses of the State-t hat'South Carolina had beeni refanded, by the Confederate States, a large portion of hier expenditures onl ao count of the war-anml that no one irl the State had any right to complalin ol being taxed to pay this llebt, as they were all guilty in incuirrrngiE\ I stated, imofeover, tha', the estatea of itowt aind orphtais had been invest'ed in p is deht, as the. safest inee .mtent whll could be made. for them. a':id that it wonl now be gross injustice .o this innodet tad helpless class to disown tihe debt. . esterday I had thube hotnor of reepwv ing the following communication frotn1 Mr. Seward, 'throngh the mails-: - DXIPARTME.NT OF STATX. AasttoToX, Nov 30, 1865. To he. Eicellency B3, F Perrye Prouvi aienal Governor of the Sla of Bou/a Carolinas Col umbia. SIR: I hare the honor to' acknow, ledge thle receipt of your telegram, ol the~ 27th instanginforntinu me that the C->nvention had beencis 5v' .. It wet impossible to adopt th~e .Pruendent's-ang gestion to ftpqdjate'e ht~rg vntht andlto inforny 4n ti~l 4i16tie. ob jectionse whiou yotu ttyga to* he addyfi'o: prospedinig are of a seritrus -fature, thi P.resident cannot refrain from awai iin with interest an oflicial expression upo that silbject froii the Legislatire. have the hopor to he sir, 'Vour obedien servmic. Wit H. SEWARD. Y i will please, sir, lay this - coirv1r nienaoin before the Legislature, for thei action i reference to the "official ex pr*ssi o-" which the President is "await -ig wi:i:-est." I have thc hono to be, yo.:r Expellenev's most obedien servan, B. F. PERRY. Provisional Governor South Carolina. Adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES At the hour to which the Houn wa adjourned, the Clerk called the roll, IIi Speaker 'ook the chair, and the pro ceedimigs were ope.ned with prayer b Rev. Mr. Martm. The Senate t eturned to this Holu-s hill to amend the Criminal Law; whlic was read the third time, and the titi cbinged to an Ac . Adjourned. Lord Palmerston and Queen Victoria, The death of Lord Palmierston term nates the peenliar tinld somewhat irL some posiltion in which the Queen hIa for gone time been placed, by having a her "chief .adviser" a nian bti.w.e whom and herself existed h standin fomd. The quarrel between them grow ing oit, of the approval bv Lord Pa merston of tli Napoleonic Cop d'et has already been allhied . to,' and th repignince exhibited by tie Queen it submitting to the wishes of the peop that he should be called. *to the Premie1 ship, has beena referred to ilhat. qiurre solely. But, if public gossip of mor than a quarter of a century since wn true, the fenl conimenced some vear -hufore the differences of 1850 and i851 and was of even a more personal chli acter.than appeared at. the In.ter tin Whenl the' 1"i-ies VictobI4 ascendel the-thrOne in- 1837, a mere girl < e.lteen -sle focnd Lord Palmerstor I len nearly fifty-three years old, holdin the seals of the 'Foreign Office. Th niew-mado Queen was a fresh and come ly girl, of a iaturalfy gbod and fran disposition, wel. trained by a carefi mother, innocent, of political chicanery but having a good deal of latent seli will and dlet erin ation.- The Foreigi Minister was a man of .handsoino pre: (ice, .looking pmtch younger than I really wits, possessed of all the grace of matmer and disposition calcnlated t chatri socioty, atd liviug a pichiar for the fair sex. At the sqmie time i was Fond of power, ambitiius, and dis posed to use .Jl his dvntages of a-i pearance and manner in furtherance < his itbitious designs. The voun Qutoet. was unmarried. .So was tl fascinating Adonis o'f the Foreign Q flee. A number of suitors were eage to win the affections, or a last obtail the hand of ihe youthful Queen, all amongthose, it Was said, was the For eign Minister. That the 4Queen w'u disposed'tp'receive the triendly rWter tion. of so icourtly a Cabinet office who had been a trusted intister of he predecessor for many years, was tic strange, ahud jealous rivals asseried tLri he wa using the infilance of his pos tion to favor her suit. 'ihe public too the alarm, and the course of the Pi aigni Minister was severely criticisid T'he report that lie possesed ani nudu infinance ;over the Queetn's inmd lengthI renched her ears, and,^It is sai' 'the spirit of "Queen Bess"s was at oniC roused ini her successor, * An inicidei that folowed soon afiter settlkd the ma~ ter. The signature of .the Qtgeep wi required b~y Lord Palmerston to ~adoci mont, whli ch shje re~fised to ipt tint after reading and .considering .t~ Irr tated by this~ unilooked for rebelhie uagainist his inifluence, the Foreign Mii ter, is said, 50 forgot himself. us to seig her handt anid attempt, to compel her sign tbh paper. IKlinging ibe- pen o the floor, the insulted Queen flutng he self in a passion out uf thie room, anid a itspassable breach was made betwee and her Foreiga Minister. The d<Iee ed Viscout avenged himself a f's bthe Aflr- by marryinig thes widow v e.1Caurl Cowpe~r, and then baffled bi bo 't A ssisting to make a mate bet, . Qhe cge.n a~nd' an obseam Ger Prifte' whose annual incoty was a twelhousand dollars a yea Min fd I thelid quarre'l, when Pa nierston aip occupieil theF'ri Qifice afler rief interregum1 hetea ed the Quieert a .mere Jay figuu "I ghate mat te, s trapueacted, the a0l Qf the Departtm withouspions tId hror advising h of what hquwaaf i itng or hadI dp sided at thles i 1860,.adir he foloWing at note'bo Lor J b. usael)ii 7h niier: proposes it a ed~6f e*~'in orde' th Q~c A len wlit ,ishe is giving her royal ianctlion; svcondly, having once given her .sane. tion to a nensure, that it, be not, arbitra rily altered or. modified by the Minister. Such an act. she must consider as failing in sincerity .to the'rown, amd justly to r bo visited by the exercise of her consti. tutional right of dismissing that Minis ter. She expects t' be' kept, iiifornied r of What pases. between him anid tire . Foreign Minister before important.de cisions are takeli, based upon t hat uter course ; to receive ibe foreign dispatch es in good tini and to have the drafts for her approval sent to her in sucient time to ninke heiself acn(itaited with their conitt.st before thev munst be sent off. The Queen think; it best that )Lord John Russel'should show thi, let ter to Lord Palmerston." To this, Palmerson. on bwing shown the note, replied :"I have taken a copy of tihis memnorandum of the Queen. and will not fail t~o attond to the directions whiclh it.contains," but. so tar fr(n (1o. ing so, lie next year aiproved of Na. poleoni's Coup d'etat withotit cosnlting the Quweein, or even the Premier. Of the successive demands for exphlnation by the Premier and the Queen, the stubborn silence of the Foreign Miinis. ter, b11 coniseqttent dismissal hy the s Queen, his prompt revenige by bren g tip the issell idmninistratior,, we have dnlrady ,qpoken in annoncing Pa'lmer. stofi's death. . In the light ofher pas relitions with Lord .Pal terston, it, is not to be wonder ed at that, t.he -Qin,-n was very relic. tant to invite him to fill the posit ion of her chief efficial ndviler, knowing, as she iutst, that will) Palmgerst:ot , at. ti1e liad of iffaits. Vict-oria nnst a~come meely th( netual head of t.he Elnglish Royal Family, and the nominal head of tihe Eng lis) intiol. A "reliale 'gentleinai" has arrivel at - Washingt.on front the Rio Griiinde, who w present at the sii<-e at. Matamors. His lccouit of the'. haiivior fit tho Im P ptrial troops is not. very creditatible to X them. lie says th'Vy minniber about 2. D 000, and that, the elgAgement. was a perfect faren. The Liberal party pre gathering strngli. daily, and will soon) force the Inperial troops into the in. terior. Winnsboro' Female- Semilnarys REV. A. G STACY. A. It.. t'uRNUtPAI,, D. Assisted~ty accomplishied Instructors in all . the Departmenis. t- T E firs Session will begin on Thnre day, January 4th, 1866, nnd eid thle 18th of May. The Second $ession will begin May 21st, And cnd October 12th, with two yeeks vacm tion in August. Rates of Tuhion for First Sesbionior half. - ear; payable, one half imndvance, and the r residne at the expirati of the first half of the Session, say 10th March. Collegiate Department, $20 00 to $22. 00 Primary Department, See. No. 1, 12 00 Primary Department, See. 2, 10 00 s Contingent Fee, 2 00 Music on Piano. 20 00 Useof Instrutuent, 8 00 r T.atin, breek.'or French, each 15 00 Drawing, $1 00, PaintIng in Oil, 20 00 Phonetic Short -hand Wrii.ing, 10 00 vocal Music, no charge. These charges will be. reckoned in specie, c but paynient may be made in paper onrren cy or in prgvisions. at the rate which is cuistomiai-y at the time of settlement. *The Institutioi will be conducted on the 0 plan of our best Female Colleges--thle same t, classes--the same sindies, etc. ,Thiese who conmplete the course will re e coive a gradurtting certiflonte. Partlenlar attention will' be given to the children in the Primiay Depar-tment7 Perspns desiring board should eominunl s cate wiilh the Principal. For further iniformtilon, apply to . - ii A. 0. STA rY, Fritiojpl. dcc 34'65--tf ilnnsb~oro', 5:. C * Notice. *~ T.IIE unfdersigned haveg this day formed a I eo partnership, unde r the nam6 angl Ii .style of CATIICART & MIATTHEF.WS..for ihe r- purpose of doing a keneral merchiandige n huumneus, at the coner near AfoMaster''s Rlo. tel. *CH ARLES CATIICAERT, JON P. MATTi lW8, Jr den l2'6--81 a ~WOODSlNEGOOD1 0 AT 0 -: Cathcart & Matthews. ~~LLph this day a General Stock o IL OKCERIES . , DAIDWARIE -i P TIN and -. CBOCER WAR, p . . 'g . l uchensi ia, A. 4 SOP8GO n wf{ i Monticello Female Institute. FAIRFIELD DISTRICT, S. C. 'T HE exercises of this School will be resumed on Wed nesday. the 10th of January next. The Session will embrace twenty we'eks. Terms for Session, payable in advance. Doard, including washing $50 Tuition in English, 1 26 do. " Music, . 25 do. '- Latin, : 20 do. " French, : - 20 do. " Drawing, 20 do. " Vocal Mnsic, : 5 In'oidental Expenses, . ': 5 Pupils are required to furnish lights, pheets, pillow-cnses, towels and heavy cov ering. For further particulars aoldress IEV.J1. TAYLOR ZEALY, Principal, Monticello, S. C. dec 14'05-td Y- The Chester Standard please oopy. S TOLEN near Lorgtown. on Friday, 8th inst., an Iron Grey HORSE, five years old, with white face, and shod in front, is thirteen havds high, thin mano, and worn by the collar, flnx tail. REUBEN BELL, doc 12'5- Longtown, S. C. * Notice L persons having demands Against the A Esntt of Franklin Gaillard decensed, will present them for payment, and those who are indebted to said estate will make paymen't to EDW.ARD 0. PALIMER, d1cc 5'05-2w Adm'r. EALERS il Carpets, Oil Cloths. Mat 1 tings, Window Shades, Patent step Ladders, &c. ALSO, Tailor's Trimmings of every variety. whi. h they offer to'the trade at New York Jobbing prices. 80 Broad St.., Charleston, S. C. dec 6'05-3mo. ESTATE SALE. IN pursuance to authority given me by Court of Gpdinney, I *il sell on the 22st of December next, at the . DUTCIMAN'S CREEK PLANTATION of John Harrison, senior, deceased, a lot of Cottous, Horses, Mlets, Cattle and Pnamatationx Tools. Also a lIat of IIOUSEll0LD and KITCHEN FURNITURE. AL the samo time, will be rented several different' TRACKS -OF LAND. All the foregoing belonging to the estate of John Harrison, senior. ileceased. JOHlN I. HARRISON, Admr. nov 28'65-td Executor's otie. A LL persons having demands against the estate of John MoMaser, deceas. ed. will render them in properly attested without. delay. All persons indebted to said.estate are requested to make immediate setileinent with the undersigned. 0 It. McMASTER, Executor. nov 25'65-9 - Estatte Salo, V nuthority of tle Court of O dinary, I will sell at public out.ory, on Thuirs. (lay the 14th December next, atthe late resi. denee of -John V Bell, deconsed, a lot of Hlousehold and Ritchen Furniture. Cattle, Hogs, Corn, P?dder, I ay, Farming Uten sile, ji sdt-of Blaoksmith's Tools, two bales of Cotton. and' earriage and two horses: nll belonging to the estat'o of Johnu P. Bell, deeeand.. Terms cashu. IS'ABE LL A . 1 E LL. not ?8'05-ts dministrat rix. ..,0IIN KING & CO.. Importers and W~holesna Dealers la GR IOCERIES, Provisions. Flour, For. LJ elgo and Domestic Liquors and Ci gays. 7Crookery, Hollow-)Vatre and 'Olhas ware. 2000 Saelks Liverpool Salt. to arrive. No. 88 H~asel-Smrect, nov 9'65-im . Charlest on, 8. C' f'Itis CEIRISTIAN IND~EX B ytfle First of October, or as soon as 'the mna are re.established. I will re, new tibe publation of thme "CHi RISTIAN INDEX'" ana tihe "CH ILD'S IND)1X" Ihave been publishing, Price of 'Index," pe'r annurit :$8 00 Price of "Child's index," 6 0 Moufey mnay be i~emitthd at once, he my de. tbttnination is positive. My desire is to se ebtre a large subseri'tion list, with which to -begin, andlI issue this prospectus that. sub. scribers may have ,tlme to forward their re mittances. It, is my intention to issue Airst alas. pa pe, nand no palos or expense will be spared t~ senere that end.. 'l'he best writers and errespondents will be 'sOeured, and the 'igh~lesp religious stnd literatya talent will be vorn to thp papers. The CHJiILD'S PA .PR will~e profapely uusted anud will, in every sense, be~pade . t enforna. to new title. . Afn tua' 'be set obother. is-by kxprest O $ske If Alte os. M oaeot~t t $sk*Q. Is dis l1~~q eaI Macont, Qnu SA JUWN. PIONEER LINE OF STEAMERS. FOR .aillaumore, PhIladelpluin, New York asd Boutosu, vsa Albe& nearle asd 4hes'peake THE COMODIOUS9 STEAMERS -r PIONEER and COMMODORE ADAlS, W ILI. leave New Berne for for Norfolk 'on TUESiIAY of each week at 8 o'clock, A. M., connecting with the different lines of steamters for the above named points. Tn and after the first day of De cember next they *111leave on Tthesday and Friday of each week, traking semi-weekl7 trips. Shippers of Goods will receive every facility nnd accommodation for tLe trans. portation of the same, as arrangements have been mado with the different oompan panies to forward goods to this line at low rates and without delay.- Each of these steamers are enpable of carrying TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY TONS Y-f REGRT through the canal without difficulty, as they were built expressly for the trale. They are fitted up with STATE ROOMS and IIETIIS capable of accommodating thirty.five passengers. Every atteistion will he paid tp the comfort of passengers, who will not be subject to the iticonrehience of transfer to othev vessels, but will be ta ken through direct without. change. The tables of the steamers are liberally supplied with the best the market affords. Families traveling will find it to their in terest to take this line, as they will thereby escape tie danger and discomfort of a sea route. and the fatigue of railroad travel. Onl the 15th of December next. if'the bu'ineses of the line warrants it, the steam, et' WI.LLI A MS will be put on the route, and tri-weekly trips will be made. For freight or passage apply to WHIT FORD, DIL L & CO., New Berne, N. C, DAVID WILLIAMS, Proprietor. nov 21'65 PI IIENG ! PRINTING HA VING secured the services of a First Class BOOK and JOB PRINTEIR, we are prepared to exeote any, kind of - work in - the Printing lusiness, with -neatness and dispatch, and upon favo a bit terms. Job Printing of every class and style, from the targest Pos ter to the amallest Card, execut.d in the best style of the art: We are now preparea to print Bill -Heads, Labels. .(ofievery class and pattern,) Cirecslar, S Clseeks, - amtdbills, Posters, .lta iead Work and In fnet anything hI the Pritlting Busl nesse upon qhort ntie. . . Thse esl Ing. Ja Printing done, upon giving us a call, will be guraranteed- entire sativl#ction in the execution of the, work. ordera solrited. and' ^romptly filled. GAILLARID & DEWPORTES. Proprietors "New.," Winnsboro', S C. cec 7ti5 Prospectas of ' "The North~ Carolina Guardian." T liE undlersigned will Issue, commentoing on the first day of January, 1866, in thte city of Clharlotte, N C., a daily and tri-weokly newsper under the style and titleonf "THlE NO iH CAlIOILINA GUAR DI AN," which, she devot ed espeeially to tho disseminatioWf the latest news. ,and the guarding,. will an eagle eye, the inter ests of the State under the Qonstitution, and itn conformity witht the laws of the United States. There will also be issued, from 'the same office, a weekly paper under the at.yla and title of "THE CATAWBA WATCHMAN." The terms for the DAIL.Y GUARunA will be, for one year $7'00; six months. $4.00; three months, $2.50; any less time 11.00 per month. Tunt Ta:-Wa.KLY GUAnoIAN will be sup plied,. to subscribers at $5.W9 for twelve months; $8.00 for six months f $1.76 for irec months, taudseventy-two cents per tnh for any less tima. .. Ordinary *df tseente, .enopylng not . more thtan ~teti se'q senare,) will be insertoed frithW6%#t ~anoe pnblieations at se ae rt nsettion and 6ftf- en .f ubpqwn,,uent insertion. La r vertis s a r gaaeNt proportion. * br -t wilt ige made for son The s~WtaiI will be furskesh edl to suei er) $.00 petr annmsIngle odpy and..estoef'Ave for $7.60. to a club oe ten 16 12.60, sind to a club of twhufn for $ ~90, with an extra copy to' ouorders aid belthesed to d ndlrept~itor "G'nwrdian," C (harlottg. . -~ .' jdtrwill confe, afavor by giving die above, with this now,a few insertIons atlekst, in thiefr publioapions, .abtl-ein~ December Q1B66. -