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K WINNSBORO. Saturday Morning, Nikch 17, 1866. y- T. P. Si.ADER, q., ia the solo agent foi tis .paper in harleston, S. C. gw I tave a suply of Aeve.aU m tamps of various 44noiluations, which can a had by applying either at ti1s ofiice'or at the bice of the Clerk of the eourt.. -i. A. GAILLARD. Concert. A small but appreciative aiudience as seinbled at the Thespian HAll on Tiirs. dIV evening to attend the musical en tert 0 ainment of M r. DxNcK and son A t precisely the designated hour the latter - took his seat at the piano -ind in tho few first bold. confident and artistic strokes e upon thw keys witi *hich ho prehided his performance, rendered it ppparent. thit it was under a master hand-capable of evoking till its powers 'and epacities. His execution was consumtnate and with marvelous skill made his instri' ment tributary to him "like a thing of life',to convey at will every possiile - feeling and se.itiment and passion and interpret every sound in nature from the soft and plaintive murmtiring of Ihe 4"whispering wind" to the angry growl and roar and general crash and iumult of the "waking of the Lion." The, meet ing of a face from home by a "stranger in a strangu land" could not have been moro unexpected -or mjore pleasurable flhan the introductionj to the-audience in the "improvisation" ushored in by a brilliant flodrish, of the good, old, hoige ly ant familiar melody of "Jinny put the kittle, on," but decked and' embel. lished ih the gorgeous iiag.ry and fen. oies with .Mhicli the taleuted young - im. provisatore starrounded,his subject.. It was greeted with a visible sensation of 1phc &sure. We ennot specify frrther. Wn are sure without any affectation of apprecia tion, that any body would h.ave derived enjoyment-either fron his music or fron the contemplation of his wondeilful skill, - in execution,' and regret much that the attendance was not targer. The Zither is a Vveet instrument, and wn well performed by Mr. DICNOK. Sr. lThe conduct of some of the bovs was again nott unexceptionable. .Th eii ap plause.in a shrill whistle ivas inapprop,ri. ate and exactly of tho character wit. which they Wo1d have-testified their a pprobation of the "tufred coon", scene, in the circus. Tite Rome (Ga.) Courier iava that the hog . holra is making sad havoc .among the hogs of that place. A propos, on this subjedt,- we give the experience of' one who has tried the remedy. -As soon as the hog is attack ed with cholera, give it two tablespoo'rs. Lull of laduanunm. .The Baltimore Sun advises all who are havmg~ th.eir property insured to 'ex aniine wyell into f,ie'chai-acter and agility of the'msurance coalpanies.. The losas sustained have be-en unneually heavy during the last, two months, and several of the Ne w York companies have recent. ly failed. Tua SOt'Rvalar2 DaLKOTItos.-Some of the members from Florida are stop. -ping at . the Kirk wood -House. They have no expeclations of bpuig admitted duri.ng the present.session, and this is the prevalent feeling with nearly all the re. presentatives frofn the late retellions Sf*atea, with the .exc6ption 'ef the san guine., a.xioua.and radical Maynard, of Tennessee. 'It is a lopeful sign that t.hese geotJlemen are itierh, and have a jiidi(flihs;pppreciation of. the necessity atal iwisdlom of abidilig Abl successful woirking of the Puisident's polcef. Most of' the.y would decline t1o teke%li seats uipqn she-terms imposed:by Noevns And Siumner,-and -they alleise theiraelglifers to do -nothing so compromise their'ste - or their seonistituener. They .ad#It" thf wisdom of-ths -Prsident atdere willing to stand or fal ith hitn.'--or.,Bopos Lato Eiropean ihrrivals bring the1 news of the death of Frederich Riueckers ' the German poet and. Oriental scholar' which took place near Coburg en the -.. of Ptmary He ... 7 ears. or [Communicated ] Mr. litor: Itis scarcely our whil to be astonisheO at anything in the .1 nineteentfIceitury. Steambcats, rail roaids aid the telegraphic wires have lprepared us for any marvel in the o Scienific world ; and some develop mlents of political and social characterii. tics, which have been .made in,the last. six-years, have equally well prepared. lis, in our part of tho world, for any. phenomena in Ethics --political or nor nl. 'Among other things--we have hliard of men, inl good health and unide? the age of sixty seven, wo soerted vilth enlollgh of boisterousness And violence, ti.at. if South Carolina were invadedi I they would rush arms in their hands to otir coasf,-btt they neverw,er.t there I Some ot "this sata sort ol-of-Apish nett," aer wards m14de a declaration, that if Columbia the Capital of til State were thueatened, they would rugh to its defense,-but they never went i-re I "Bagr- of wind, mock antics, falstire. and nothing bmsides." AgaiiI when the yankees persisted in their very troublesoie and most "incon- 1 venien' purpose, of marchjpg-further up the country, ntimberl of gentlenen left thero'. homesteads - and sought their rVfuge elsewhere,. this was proper en-uh, but some of those Apisli-men left too; only they left wifli loud wtrds, with much nois6, and after accusing other men with being scared, were them. selves, nowhere seen-about'ajn -,til the din of martial nin wore away." They lid not, it is presumed, Wish to answer idle qnestions, which might have been put by men in blue clothes, whom they had not. invited to call. That was all ! i tut some men are - so decidedly' smart, that they -client teinselves as badly as any body else ; and.there 4re poinis, on which oth'er men will have I their opinidi abolt them. Well ! "If any thing shQuld. stonisl us in tliese ines %'e mighC be altoffish ed that any -of this "sama sort of-of of-Apish men" who have distinguished themselves, as aforesaid, shodd, tinder the circuiatances that mako the case, so inveterably danouice. President Andrew Johnson.. A. man who nott only saye'tha, lie will do bold Qngs, but actually does them. A man who is I merely al-.iding by the Constitution, and who is doing as mnch as it is in his power to d,'to bring about a peaceabl and equititble ' reconstruction of tl. Union, in which the members of otir Convention a.nd our lasi Legisla;ueo ard co-workers with him. A man, -who tells plainly what he wishes to Alave done, an'd whit lie, himself, intends to do, an4then hnessly and fairly abides by his words like -the gentleman shIuld, without equi vocat io', excnsm', subterfu:ge or. smart-little tiikeryvof any kind,' Forsooth ! His denm'meners, whom weI have alluded to, had -better ape a little modest,- 't will do no hanrmnanow, W hat boots it,if Pr'esident Johnson's denouncers in their quiet slynies,.PAr their blunf--e. hement slyness, 'it maittei-s not whi.ch,) render plausible'reasgjs for their.oppogi.. tiont to him I We all know, that if the President's policy fails,. that of Sunar and Wendell Phillips, our A rch-enomies, will prevail. Are we to conclude thai theso denoneerg-of' the President are, secretly 'enemies ini onr midst ? That 1 at..heart and secretly they favour Sum. ner's and ~hillip's policy ? 'That, at hearband secretly, for some ppose of their owif, they are in favor . of negro a suifrage pnd negro equality, and-the. certain-le*itimate-and inevitable con. sequence-gradual amalgamation \ I (Think' of ladies, of the rising generation, .dancing with and marrying negrotb beaux I I I) Out upon sgoh men I Fie upoi them'I- .Fie, fle, fle upon them I II Wly I Th.eir secres wishes won4&ho scouted even by the decenter postion of Seeneir'k friends. They are only worthy J d-Moosteapt. No I Lot,.us give what obaqr atd support. we can, to thean1j, .breg sagaious and honorkble 'Ab I 4Mew Johnson; A man who .i% whst ,| iM sa.ye s) is, and does what' he I ays he will do. A man, ' who, in 'dacel hitiself, as i shield betWeen Mut, im'd tfiose who, int their veaponoous Wi ignity anA dark-ilxed hatred, would -end us piedepneal, nor leave us one par. icle of our rights nor one particle of mur honor and decency,. SMx ir.,. W tike the following from the Spar. ntburg'E!press: - JOFFICK COI,tNIZATIoI,%, 18 SAN JUAN LIKTRAN, MeXico, Fe*bruary Isi, 1866, SIR t Your letter of the 17th Neve ii >er, 1865, malking.enqiiirics as to what nduement-s this Government could hold mt to you to come to Mexico, has been ebeived. It was immediately forward, d to tie proper official to seu what :ould be offered you in a pecuniary lite. Asyet, no answer has been received, ks the letter was accompanied by a re :ommendation fron this office that 'ou )e furnshed with all proper aid, I dgnht UAt that it will be favorablY considtred. Whon thtv reply is received I shall im nediately forward it to you. Such en as yourself could not bat succued ill exico The finest Haciendas in the world can >(J n4p bonght in Mexico for a price of 6rm *1 to $5 per, acre--say one-fifth ash, the remainder.ia time to suit pur hasers. The Haciendas are in the finest tate of cultivation, with enclosirps and ut,uildirgs in good or perfect repair, ndAccommodations sufficient, soine of iem, for entertaining for weeks at at ime, five hundred guests. To purchai mne of thek plkceq, by means of' .a litlh :ompany raised at home. each onn of Yhom- woula contlibute their propor idnaty sims,. to come out her(*, titus >ringig wdith you your own friend., kins. >eople and acquatntance, with all tlb im) honored cutstons of Somb h Cal-olina. [ think would be'much'better that ptir.' :hasing or taking the land oi'red hy the lovernment to immigrants. \ihile; hotgh it is most beautiful iaind produc. live land, -perhaps as rich or richer than mny in the tAmpirei. this Government and is sold to. the immigrant at $1 per acre. -'But I am toWd by gonm.l(nefi ,wh0 iave mada ,the experiment tha, t these atnds have lain wpste, for many year., md'are now so grown n with weeds md bushes that- to reduce theni.to cplt oation will cost some $4, $5, or *6 dol ars. . The haciendas. which are of all lizes from 3 to 30,000 acre.,. (a;n any of hom be. botight for this amoint, and vill lben reqn.ro no additional expetndi. are to put then in order. .Th,. have Inn. tlier gr t advantage over lihe pu1blic ands, w VhII is that of hahving aeir. Libor Ody and Willing to iork them. Thye it public lands have not. Should yti come to Ml ico, this of. iee will take great pleastrin rendering 'ou all the asoist atce in its 1ower. Very Truly, ' 4 RICHARD T,AUn'r.. Sub. '(i'r IR.AVY COTTON MovCUzsT9.-The xports of cotton from the"port of Nee, rork, d:iring dt week endin last even r,g, reached the unsual q -ant.i.y of 1 7, ~42 bales, va.lued at. *3,078,371, -ot, qual to abont. two i(mnderd and elei ollars per,bale. In.-aded 'in t he e - nrts were l2.039 balee, evaluxed at 2,. .62,650, to the single port of Laiverpooh. hus far in the current c 'tto: year, com-~ nencitng witha Sept I1 the ex orts of the staple from -th. ort have' en 291,287 bales, wvhich- represent a tarrency value of nearly sixby-nne and tad a half m'ilhton dollars The regce' ta 'f cotton at the port,' from all su s imee Sept. 1, 1865, have been 816,105 ales, worth aboatt onei hundlred atidl, tyentyv nine million .ddlIard.',' Thus, i,l1e veraigo weekly exports from the.port his season have been about 10,80b iles, against the s*etap .weekly rtt. etpts at. thae port of . trib o9cr 22,800' ales. The estimatid stook on heid. *nd on shipboar$ not cleared, at thtis orL is about.200,000 babes, or equal to currency value of fiftytwo and three. atarter million .lollar.--N. Y. Time.,. A bill haBs been introducoed i'tto the soiiana ieuset'fR u9tatibke; ranting to G. TI, 'eautE ' siGd'siJ.. ral other persons te sol7 vlght. to ex. avate and keep:fronm bbetiaction jhe raouths of the teseii pl River. A lepth of water o 18fee 'I fs"o be con tantly presoivedt n the bar'. 'Valuable ra.tohiges are g ted to tecroa Ion thaus formed. tecroa Itis thosbtl t tlh.'Via'gioa tobeo trp will be abou6 ,o-thiro. Twhat it wes eofore the r aw, his esop' jequtie s-a itant attention I every ressr of its ovbs'owt an su etueq.,7 angro la oArs have, in a e aeases a mr sed, eside w~e, a rieon of thero, is 4oie'h tettaidifddMtant1bn 9 John Vali BJufnn on a Raid. That very forcible and good .humoret irator Mr. John %var' Buret, has been atoong the Connecticut peonle Miakink a spele on national affairsziItE'epoke at Bridgeport.- le sustained -tIe . Presidenit policy thoroughly, and eriticised the' iadi 0al maljotrity inl Congress with effect.. IIe oharacterised the Freedman's Bmredil bill vetoed by the Preident as an elttosynary institution for the benefit of the bktcks which the Government of the United States nevl' thought vf establishing heret. fVre for any purpose, nol oven for th.e widoO und orphan. ofl the soldiots.and sailors Who felf in defending the country; and as'an ei traordinary and pernianent, tribunal. un known to common law, by which proceed. ings wore had and condemnat ions was made wi.hout appeal: Speaking of Coogress which passed the bill he said ' , . ' .. Now, it is flattery fo call thjis Congress a Itump Coogress. [Laughter.) It.. is a great. deal more'like a Parifihent, that .stc coeded, and which -Was.known as the liBare bones Parliaient, id which there were members with all snrts of names, no (ts oribed by a writer of that day, who says ("Brown's Truvels'in England." page 27l1): "-1Crowwclj' says Cieveland ehath beat up his drums olean lIongi'the Old Teati. mont. You pmay learn gerNlogy.- of out Saviour by the atmes of his regiments. The,mustormaster hal tio other list. than .th6- first chapter 'of t.. Mathew. The .brother.of this Praise God Barebonval hAd for .amo, "If-C-hrist-hlnd-not, diod-for-you you-had-been-4amned- Harebones- but the people, lired of this long name, r6tnitned only the last word, and cnommonly*ave him tho.appellatlon of Damned Barehones.'" Now, one would not have to go'lang through the present Qongress and the -- construction Coanitteo before finditig a gentleman who answers exactly to the des cription of -Damned Barebon6s." [Laugh ,ter. But, as I say, they ato the most ex. traordinary body that ever organized, and to call thee at Rump Parliament-which was in fact, a representation of England, how. ever long it anight -have continued its so. sions and it power-it is to fiatter them Just look at il' E3even Statws are repre. sented in that body, and about.. linifof bite residue are utterly 'nnrepresented 6y mlen electe'd in timeof excitement, hen there wis no fair opportunity lor ae xpession df opinion, fnd undor oird stancev thAr lhave ent.irely chaned since heirceelion. * * * ' 4 * * inr' Constitution and which reqtires each iouge to udge of the election a d reffirg of -its o' memhers, they 'pass a oint reso. Ittion, by whiah they take fK 71hemnsefves the power separately iojita lie rettrns of their meuiers, atatdprocha 1nt neit hoe i(ouso shall admit ay persdn from the Sates formerly in 'rebellion till both Hou s have acted- upon the .alnbject by a legi, *tivo nt or ofiieawi,c. 'What more y Why, while in this dilorgamized sinte, muti. lated fnd imperfect, -% inan gets lmp In teia Senate atnd charges the Presidnat wi(h w.iltowaflhing thd.8onth -ard another man says that the -converention. of the l'resi! dn.t, I believe with, Mr. )ixon of your own Btate, In which ho simply 'gave his vltp with gregntd to the'ditm of Congreps "would h4ve cost. Charles I his head in the day in which he lived." Much a body, ais that.I sny, is an illtgal, jtai.oustitut ion al assemblage. It is, - il 0oint of law, a rob. ad in any judgme^ the' Mayor of Washington neglects his dutf eiiry day -in nodispersing theiq #x such. (Applauso Jmnd langh1er.). Sfrririt.-On Th4rsday mornhing last, some rrogroes in a afteld in Lexingtdn Dis. trict. and not far from the' Court Ilouse,' hearihIS antunusual noise, together with the reperf of a pistolf repaf red to the 9pmt, fnd there discovered a dead body which war. terwards fdentified by Mr. John -Hair, of Fro Level, th*n on his.way -to. Colmbia. as that -of Cuipt. Cheley Hlerbert, of this hIsltrict, a eet estimabio christhaui gentles - inn. Thue body was veity niuo) mutilatetd atpparently tcom Vflbws ihflicted with a eftdb, while-a ball firedit. the back of' the head had pasd ,ant ueaj Phe upper lip It 4p. pe'al-e that oul Sundaytnight, the dthu, Capt if. hasd a horse stolen'-frorn him by a,negro. On Monday he started I'n pursui.. anip over. took the thief on Tuoern. dun Thursday morning while on 4isi way-land with the nel,ro, he was most foully niurdered by him. The negro has been arrested and sent to' Colnombia for trial.-Newberry Hferald'. . The i?enian news . continues beo be very. xciting, Caunada is fally aroused; volun leers -'are pouring in from all gusriers to Ottawa an'd Toronto. Report. 'slate that there were thirt.y thousqad men under.arm Thursday night. Meantime the exeitement in New York remains 'unabated,.and .even' appears to be ineresi,g. Offices fromnth'e Army of the Pv. omac are reported to have called on Pros eat Robets,. and .offered their services in ~aid of the cause. They were assured by Gen. 'Sweeney that they would soon be'ealled us.* The Austrian GIovemep lia. aecepted the proposal of as Raet AdIati. expedition, which is to start this mostic It Is propo., ed to exploreSlatu, Chins p4. Japan. .h6e exp edition will, ooisiit of the *lit 8ohwarsenburi k'nd phraweite red e and will be undler the' sWpted of 4bv Tegetthof. The diplemptie og mission has been in vu by' Auutri, ~Def eor5 .a bevaile T'he Phila4e p&m o g e tidus, e. materials on Is fowls." An nee h lAi. ci phras" #t o4eiq 0 -CotigreslI.01 NMW8. .WSiriNOTo.1 *Nrch. 1.-Sonator Shehiqn, of Ohio, pieseieted to the United,States Senato, to-day, .a Putitioi front a citizen of Colunbia, .. C., alk ing indemnty for loss iistaInh'd -y telo' destriiction of. his hotise, IN tead'' letter fron Ualn, S1hrtn,. lleging that.. Columbia was not fired by Iederal an thority, but hy order' of Get..- Wade Hanipton. Gen.. Sherman states that the town was on fire when he ont6red. Tho petition wiis referred to the. Coto rnitte on t1laims. The ftill. tAdmie. .Colorado was diseiissed. 8eniatur Su'n ner opposed it, becatse .no provisiori wits made iil the ConStittio:n to' alloq negro suff.nge,. WAIINITa-rN, March 14,-In 1f U S. Senate, Mr. Davis of*red ' a regorAN tion that tiie Joint C'nAntiittee oW ie' corttrnction ought to take the tast,imoi of a reasonab lbernl(.r oCfrsors, wiold) nafneR maj be supisted by Sonatuc ami Ropresehitativeg from said Sth(tv Mr. Grinr ahjecied,- and tle resoltion goes over. 'T'ho bill.60'Ax .i neeso the military peace eutab shment o( the Uniifed S os was i t dis&ssed -. Tho House thet eAgaged . in the. conskleration of tim. jbirnM. resolul.io:. makitig an' approprivefin for the Pirlb: -WilAi4ion for 1867., AAlnCW'4.--The-Vmired States Se6 Ae hns Imm4ed the bill fixing the peace, establishmrt of the ariny. IImeapo portion of negro regimenIs. 4,1 Rdical's Decrlovol -of the frmdmt_ is ient Power and Ability % ed. The Hok,.' ohn D. Bal,. nwmber ofCongres IMm Massachunette.w ri4e tN d'escription of A.ue Johnsoni. n0-SLevnts stripe ol politics:: . * * * "Wha.tIj the 1Irkident said, ?sbefoio tie country. *low h'said it,. my poor.word6 nuy faiito telh' vok t6e: livat tiime, I aoodniaranid4ookel V'lo,. 6 ly on the mani. In the course oi I event. h,i lift-, I have.seen lnvI men of wilful pm er and roee, but nevev bt-fee hve I. loo4ed on one so tlhornigbly embodyi1g1. the evil spirit of revoltition. it will not. do' to underate Sir. 'ohnsot. He is. tIrIib.ly in nu and, withal, most. vindictively exl. A .thovonghly-paced, n ogue, hjy ietnsequential logic,, Is egotismn, i repetitne, his thorouglu belief in himsell,a aind his popularity, are. all elements of s.rengthei. when he facew suhi asse%hiages as n-tee arrayed aboiI hii yesterday. Ar(drew Johnson is-an, able n-h6vv lble, neter realio till yesterday. All rbMts are ingilred iM his poliy. . Had h10k, Cabiaet as able arid asdesperate, the esulta which life near future.would: bring, could hard. ly be .nmed now. We stand on -the vbrge of a fereestrife,.r.o rmeet which the country shotfe.I.gather its strength antd gi.d u-p its loins. This man isno w eakc Bucanan, bud.he.mant to ec-ush Cons ges-oho ernshed.- - . "Mr. Johnson i5 a aRhn of stal Wart. ionld. Just abg#e niddle stature, le is e-> broad-shouldered, Mn eat and de .o cated, as almost in seem below it.. Ie has a large head4. Ii is a corapact home for his fiery will and bmain. Iiface is marked, strong oval outline,. powerful inder-jaw ;.well denn~ed, but'rather sharp chiu. a wide1 straightI mnut bi ; full,.filexi ble. lips; skin, .cosrse in-texture, butAirm ; complexion, -swartjiy ihair, edarse black, -streiked with .grey ;.4 nose small atth 'root, b.*full and, large att the nostrils,. which expeand-and..'lift as be sCeaks;: broad, roomy forehead ; beeting,- w~shy eyebrows,. beneath. yyjhich are a pir of~ the coldest hase ~v eye. I.ever saw in. a~ human.hednii are the. otnlinea.of' Andrew oti eA~jwe q 'aIchip has o.. 9f0.isiprf and two. as es or esthseps,. 9 a - utoary wese q t. 4n otion off # 0 be ee * ~A fneMly a .~ . and apply t* Qrt oenswo~ e. Pin alpartr ~Wha ks bR& ,rbetween a go if f'-ekaMn elady ? One~ cestheg a er,an th o terpp