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Brougham at 88 is almost as brisk, and fully as snappish as evet. Theirs Is 09,. and Guisot 70 yeare old, and both hale and- vigeroui. Ex-President Biohanan entered upon the 76th year of his age last Monday, (301h.) Thursday, April 23d, was the 253th an niversary of the death of Shakspearo. It will- be interesting to the ladics to know that the Empress Eugene will be forty years old on the fifth of May. Queen Vio toria Is in her forty-eighth year. The twenty-ninth of Jtine. 1867, will be the oigthteenth-lhundred anniversary of St.. Peter's death. On that occasion the Pope Is to convene all the bishops of Christ en dom to Rome, where a grand jubilee will be celebrated. There are 87,000 chitrhes in the United States. They will hold 14,000,000 people. The Central Presbyterian, published nt Richmond, estimates the stretngth of the Vre.sbyterian. Churoh (South) ts follows: 10 Synods; 46 Presbyteries; 1,11'-2 Church es; 645 Ministers; 85 Licentiates; 45 Can didates- and 62,6906 Communicants. Thero are nearly thirty millions of acres of public lands in the South open to settle litent. The value of sheep killed by dogs during tie last year, in Ohio, is $104.323 60, more U,ban all- the ours in Ghristendom tire worth. Over a million of enigrant have arri ved in this country since September. More than. a million of new.laid eggs a day it. is said, are exported frot France to England. There are 8,000 squaro miles of coal in (ireat Britain and 133,00 in the United States. The cholera took off six thousand four hundred people in Paris. Tile whole number of pardons grantl by the President; tinder tine twenty thlouIs:anjd dollar clause in the amneslty proclaination, is 7,197. A vine-grower mado-&7,987 last year fromi five acres of island soil in Lake Erie. lie raised 84,500 pounds of grapes, alil made 6,000 gallons of wine. Tile production of petrol3um for the eur rent. year is estimated at 2,830,O0t bar-els. In two months New York received n1o less ihin 186,682 barrels. The number of men are equal. to the inm ber of women. The average of human life is about thirty-three years. One quIarterp die before the age of seven. To e%ery one thousand persons one rarely reaches tine age of one hundred years, and not lmore than one in five hundred will reach the age of eighty. The message of Mayor Brown estinates the present value property in Nasiville it $18,000,000, or nearly $4,o00,000 tm101e than five years ago, at tIle eoimliencemlint of the rebellion. For five years endiig May 1, IP;5, tie divorces decreed by tile Supreme -Judicial Court of Ma.ssachsetts were 1 follows : liarnstable and Dukes counties, 22; Fralki. lin, 28 ; Hampdetn, 18; lamnpshire, 21): Middlesex, 202; Nantucket, 10; Norfolk, r; Plymouth, 4>; Suffolk, 304; Woreoster, 151. Total, 1810. A French journal publishes sotie facts respecting old winters that were remarkable for tnheir mildne.-ic. In 1172, 1280. 1421 and 1627, the treers were iti leat inl Jaliutary. and t.e birds had begun to build their itis in the branches. In 1538, the gardells were filled witi flowers on the 1st of Feblrlarly, and swimming parties were organized in 1'aris. The naitber of words tha,t. were contnin. ed'in Dr. Webster's tiret dicti(onary ohf the ENglishn language was fron 70,000 to 80,000. After several revisions, tine Webster's Dic. tionary, published in 1859, contained 9,0g,. 798 words. Prof. Worcester's dictionary contains about 104,000. and the latest edi.. tion of Webster more than 114,000 words. MILLARD Fai.n.atons.-Thne Now York Ti. bunic tintks it untfortunlate thlat tine Iloll. Millard Fillmiore, now travellini,' in Eur-ope, should halve written to President Johnson in warm commendation of thle Executive policy. Thaut it personially respects Mnr. Fitinmore the same paper is gcod er.-.,ughi to say, but Immediately subjoins to this noney 'the hitter declarations that, "is heart wast with thle Rebels throughout our great srung. gle," antd that not "ten othIer copperhneadis" in New York were so hlostile to co-ercion as that gemnlemlan. As a man onee holding a great otlice and well known sinngular purity of character, it is of coulrse, gratifying to knew that Mr. Fillmnore's symthlies were ever with the weak against tine streing, bill, beyond this, there is a further matter cont n.ested withI his position wich sets the sage of the Tribune on thnorns. Mr. Filimnoreo was once0 President of theose Unite-.i States, and, with Mr. Iiuchanaii and Mr. P'ierce, forms the third of a now livinlg ex-Presi denitial trio. Singularly enough eachn of those gentlemeln, known for long and varied political service and especiailly experienced. as to theory and workings of this govera-. ment, from tile Insight obtained dnlringnlheir respeetive executive terms, were, during tine late eivil war, either- avowedly,- in favor of the Southi or so understood. M~r. Buchan an, thnough miuch, and it wou1ld seem un-. jusetly, maligned, held very firmaly to tihe, doctrine of States, ri5lhts, whereetn the tile or-etical justice of secession depended, while both of his compeers aro under-stoodl to have openly taken the gr.ound that the South was tn the righIt. This sori, of evi - dehoe,tough<f no value now astio the' dead Issue of secession, is worvt-nh as abo rlpg that in the eye of 3eomanship' and4 ~pRienIce, the prense t po al views of 46e R s4els are highly baseless'andl wroneg. 5'Wop',.#; e, perhaps, even suoli hl h' testim , like muoch other uoundp I.; thought will b'e oolifier labklig-or disre gsrdrd "din that day o . er sezi noItN 1weight wil iven tbow attrisuletU to Mr. FiFEA1 -AgaI on titutiong . - - Tulesday Mo0rning1, Iafy 8,186 gi T. P. SMDER . s the solo agent. for this paper in Charleston S. C. Muteril for Our Sk etches. We are indebted to Dr. Aiken. Mr. G. H1. MeMaster and Capt. S. B. Clow ney for mnterial as references for our Historical Sketches. Will all thosc interested in our con. tvinplated undertaking please seek for anI transcribe tradi.ional history, and send their notes in ? Sic Transit Glorit1 Confederatil. The A.bbeville Press comes to us every week wrapped up in a (or'lart of a) Confederate 6-500 Bond-the repre sentative of nothing on the earth but that result of a peculiar pulp, called pa per. Fuuity. It. happoened Ina)t longorano that Some rowdV fellows inl Washing "tonl City who say they are Represeritatives of every body an the rest of mankind in the Ulnit(I States, underwent a great re form. TiY were accu-tomed to meet up stairs inl a g-ruat big har-room that in the -ld and respectable annals of the country called the Conlstit.uition-waF kniwi as tle Capitol. Well one day they repented of 'their evil ways, and all raise. up their voices'to shut up the big barlIt room and turti it. into the Capitol again. But before doing sC, they all got oi a hig spree and in tle heat ol passiot agamst a small family of about five million wards of tleirs dovn South, they concocted a game inl which a great big ball called a Civil Rights Bill waE to be used, and that t!e was a pitch oi ti big ball Southward, that perchanc< it might. colm. down with mighty fire ipon those disaffected wards and crus! them, or at least. ',kbedaddle" them. Well the gamtte oponed,all hands join ed, the big ball was pitched. .1and "Go ot,' go on-where'd the bal fall ?" Why, right hack ott their own heads, "DIeu Tell I" slavery 1l,1 asah1st.s A Mr. (i,onot 11. Moom.; who han been romiaging the o0 document stored away .,.I dusty shelves : \Wash. ington, has scared ilp startling facts rela tive to slavery inl Massachisotts. Thes facts are etough to wako that phara si:ical and puri:anical Sovereignty blush, i it ol] y hadl modesly suflicient to base a flush of eonfiusion upon. The Char. :e4tn News alhtiditng. to Mr. Moonms book, says: lie begitns wvith the P~equtod wvat (1t;:7.) atnd proves, fromi the origi nl re!cotds, that the slave trade wats t lien.a lawful hiusinies, like any oth er ;t hat they "seint the male chtildrent of the Piquets to the Bermudas." Thel "cannuibal negroes bronght from News Englatnd ate frequenitly mentioned in WVest India letters anid doenments of that day." Thelm following~ shows what was t.he real principle upon wvhich emiancipastion in Newv England wvas grounded: In 1 639, when the Company feared that the number of the negroes mright hecome teoo great to be manatged,the atn thori:ies thought they might be sold and senit to New Englanid oJr Virginia. And yet, SUIMNECR arid his followers h)ave die audacil.y to bray over the enormous gdilt of thteSouth. But wviat ivill -the world say of..the 'great moen" of Mfassachutsetts who not ontly "decalt iiittla0toids of hien,"l)mt did it for filthy hucro's sakoe? Oh ii. Do*y. ING I how could yon dlo so? Eomantel Downing came to New En~rgland in.lO38. He was -one 6!f great'nib'n dti tie: early c$1ony( Tp say !s . "A' warr wvitl e arn44 1 ve n onsidei-abhe otu li.pq r oibt whuith;oer it li noL powe td our blid?, t'suffor the6m to MnAyneleyne-tho Worship of the -deTil;'t he Lord slhould delive t'hol'm itp r tids'-U,tpon' a just -warrO, wo 11*8asily hatud *man, woeman and All, 1~o00gh to'.exhange fol.1e6, ;! mo-e'., n oftl pi gd vs th an we conceire," etc. In a sort of half regretful mood, In 1080, Governor Bridstreet writes: .There..Aut.th been no company of blacks or slaves brought into the country since the beginning of this plantation, for the 'space of fifty years, onely one small ves sadb, aout two yeares since, after twen ty months' voyage front Madagascar, brought hither betwixt. forty and fifty nefgroes, mot women and children, sold hert for 101, 151., and 201. a piece, which stood tho merchant in nearly 40/. a piece. Now and then two or three negroes are broughL hither from Barba does and other of his Majestie's planta. tions, and sold hdro for about twenty pounds a piece." The spirit was verily wiling to trade in hutan lle4h in Massachuset.ts lOng ago, but the profit did not justity such traflic. If i:, were profitable in that State to-day, there could uot be found a more grasping speculator in the trade titn that saie bundle of hatred and prejudice-C0 A RL:s SUMN Elt. But do see what the natives of that, State, whose descendants to day profess ,so inich love for tihe negro race, did. In the New England 1Wleckly Journal, May 1, 17:32, appears the following ad vertisetents "A Iiikily ntegro woman. about nine teen years. and a child of about six umon1ths of ta1ge, to be sold toyether or apart ;" another offers "good Barha does rum and a young negro that has had the small-pox." We do not believe in the whole histc ry of tle institution of slavery int the Whole South, such a barbarous thing was o.ver dono as separating an inlmtt from its mother---which was no doubt the relation sustained in this ense. The following century changed the record. Many "coipanies" of slaves wern brought into this country, and tie institution flourished. In 1742 there were 1514 negro slaves in Boston alone. it 174 1 the inumer of' negroes in the colony wa448'9 ; in 1776, 5247 ; i 1790, 6001. Ve'rathr think that Mr. Moont: has projected a missile that cannot fail to endanger, if :ot Itit, tle glass house front which ttuoe puri (sa) tanical fel. lows have been pelting us for lo th .e mniy long years. "Truth is mighty and will prevail." Like Gen TAYI.n to Capt. Diiuoo, wo would say "give thlem a little MoOnI grape." Periodiela, The Phre,ological Journal & Life 11. lustrated, for May, Its been received. Published by Messrs. Fowler & Wells, 389 Broadway, N. Y. The numiber be fore us contains the portrait, charact r aind biography of Gen. S. F. Ctirey, whom this community will remember as the great, temperance le.cturer whlo do livered a series of the best lec'.ure's upon that suibject, that have ever been hteard( itt Winnsboro. Also the portrait, chtar. actor and biography of Fredl. Douglass, thte tnegro l ectutrer. In connectioht witht this persontage; the editor says: It should not be inferred thtat wve take sides with either of.the political partice, because we publisht leading represen ta tives of both ; and we try to make olir descriptionis as impartial as the truth. WVe do not hold ourelves accoun table to muen, but to0 our Maker, and we could not afford to flatter any man for htis on-. tertainmeut, or t,o amutse t,te public. We shall nteithter adId to nor subtract from thte real mierits of any man, bt simply describe him as we Bud him. Theo Journal is published monthtly at -$2.00, or $1.50 to clubs of ten. T he Southern Cnltivator for May is on hand, filed with valuable matter. Athens, Ga- at$.0 year, $1.00 for six months, -and 50o. -for three io'ths, i'n adein&e Oneo nutntber is wor th half a dollar, dthe informat,ion is oosider -- Numerous effdrt.lr-eaking by the radioale to seenre the passage of' a bill limiting the paWeyd~f&thb Piesident, nt wich Case ainaggladjeinnqtnt will W e clip tiue -ah4 e ftoth the Glum bI Pheni,sx alilr -4 fistrr4i0n -of how #moQthly flow the woMds ot a' phrase in which "are making" is used InsteadWof are being made. We do hopo tlil lovers of the .gdod old Xnglish will binish from their vocabitlaries, verbal and wrtten, tho 11couth an, mi'gram matical phrase "am being mado" and all its inflections. * Burnig of Columbia, LITTIt OF oENERAL WADF HAtPTON TO THB RON. REVEttDY JOHNSON. The following well written letter, address eA by Geoeial Wado lampton to the ilon. leverdy .1 olinsom, inl relai ion to the buruing of'Colunbia, South Caroliat, wvs read by the latter ia the Senate on Tuesday : WItI' Wooos, Niss. April2l, 1800. To the Honi. Reverdy Johnson, Unitcd Stae Senate : Stit : A few (ays ago, I saw in the pulh lished proceeding of Congress thati a poli tion from Benjamin iawis, of Columbin. S. C., asking compensation for the destruction of his home by tl Federal arimy in Feb. ruary, 1865, had bece presented to the Sen. ate, accotmpanied by a heLter fro Major Gletteral Sherman. In this letter General Sherman used the following liuage "They," the citizens of Columbia, "set fire to thousaitls of bales of cottn rolled otit into the strects, antd which were but ing when I entered Columbia. I myself was in the city as early as U o'clock, id saw te fires, ind knew that, efforts hind been mado to extinguish them. but a high and stortuy wind kept them alive. I gave no :rdeis for tie hIring of yoir city, but, otn the ic olitrary. I lie Iever'se, Inild I believe ihe contlagat ion rosuiitodioi tie grent im. prdellce of cutt ing the cot ton ba lls, where by the coiteits were spread to tile winlts, .-o, th: it became all impt ossib'oility to arrest the fire. ..I saw in yOui' 'olumbit ni wspapCrs tihe printed orders or Getral d lialtptoil, tiat on t liapproach of the Yankea army all t lie cotton siould Iho but tied, ail, trotm what I saw myself, I have ln hesit ationt ill siying thilt lie was the cuse of tihe destikc tionl of yourv city.'' This grave chargo-Inade against me by Geli. S., having btn brtIught belitoio the Senate of lie United States, I am naturally most solicitous to vinIdcate myself heote- the saIA tribimal. But tity Xtate his no repre seitative in that city. Ttioso who shotild lie there are debarred the right. of entrance, In those halls, thire nione io speak for the Sotit1h--noIC to participate il i the legi4 laioni which governIs her-inote to ipose lie itl es sihe is c.iii o tit p.tj-atid oone. to detfend iher or to vindicatle ir Sons from iisreprehittation, injitu4ice tir slander. ider tiese ciretimstanitce, I appeal to you, in the contident hlopo that yott will 11e every elfort to se that' justice is dotna in this nulittler. I deny most empliienfly that any cotton was tired in Colutia by tny order-I deny that her citizen m< t tire to thoumandt o bales rolled out .itio the 'mtrepis'- T deny lhat. nay cotton was otn ire when th1ie Fedo. ral tro-)ps entered the city. .nd I most re. ol-eetfully ask of Congress to appoint a con mit tee chtrgd wit h tlie dity of aseert ain. ing tnd ti n lug all it fats connected with the destruction of C-ltimbia, and thus lix iig upon t lie proper atthor of that. enor mnnus orime tle ilnfluy I hat lie deuerves. I alit Willing to suliit tite o.Ase to ally honlest Iribuial. Before any such, I pledge mnyself to prove my positive order, by di rection of (Ieneirl .leauregard, that no cot, tn hohil he fired--that not one balo was nil lire whon Shermat's troops took pogses. sioi of tlie vily-that lie positively promis .d protectitn to th city--and that, in spite Atf, Inhis molemiln prmilise, Iis soldiers burned it to tIne ground deliberately, Fysit.:atical ly, at ociotisly. I, thereforo, maost earkei lyit 'it [lst Congress may takie prompt an.I -ihi itt imoastires to tivetigate thin imai.'r Itlly. Not only is his duo to the i. yes antd to the United States trtny, but to .ttn,t ice anld i ruath. Trustting that you will prilrdon me for trotublinig yoa, I ali, &c.. WAnt: ll.uttroN. Splilllllig the Conlhhcilnt, the V(IancouLtre' bland T~ Ielegraph. April 24, 1866. TPo the Prosident and Secreteary of State of the United uStates: T conigrattulate you on the' completioni of thte teletgrn ph I'ne connecting Van. conlver's Tslundte wi'th the UTnited Sinee fel.tedl by A mericann enterptrise. It is my earnest hope tltnt it may prove ant endnirtug link to bind the United St,ntes ofC A mert'i('a andl Great Britaint tu the bonds of pence an d p)rogression.~ A. R. ICNNEDY, Governor of Vatncouver's I8hAND. Ext:o-rivja MAN8IoN, WAsItN'rq, A'l26, 1866. To Governor A. 41Juined, Vancou. ier's iland : We thnrnk yoU riyour irid greeting, and joim witht f n theumtp. thgt tIj enterpriso, thnh d~ooA*dr seMtib whicht in thtaae o nted itntil it af conntr ies, and o '' bon and complete etvs SON, ASD. Govoioj4Yi'' ~prombient ChLl5eg t~fAl'~.-o , protpose to ifan ol systeni color cU TEL EGRHA I PC. Now York Market. NEWYORK, May 4.-Cotton firm,.at 34 a 35c. Gold 271. Ni.v Yo1K, May 5.-.Cotton firki salos of 1,000 btles, at 34 a 35c. Golt 20f. The hipment of gold to Europe, to. day, wits over *100,000. Tcnnessec Convt1ton,1 KNOXVlLl.P:, May 3.-The Conveti tion of East Tennussee has adopied a resolution petitioning the Legislaturo for an Act allowing East Tonnessee a sepa. rate State Government, There were only four dizsenting votes. The Cot, vention has adjourned sine dte.. From the South-west.. Niw O ts.ts, May 5.--The -troop. recently sent to Texas are behaving very bad!y ; drunken rows,, figilts and' Ather outrages occurring at Galyeston. The Imperial jtustrian troops are disalleeted for want ofadequate pay, nid' foreign l>ans are driving the uerobants The Red River planters say that cot Lon is universally rotting. A dvast. ting overflow is feared. Red River is higher than ever before known. Judge Dt.slamer has decided' that notes payable in Confederate money are worthless ; and also mortgages givei for Confederate money during tLik war. Further from the 1lemphis Riot. MNu'Eis, May 2.-Sotnu negroes in Soith Memphis fired on a citizen this mnornivg, wotidinlg hin and a white %W n. The slerifr, with a pose, at tempted to disarm tho negroes, but the lied to the fort, Piring us they ran. They were driven front the fort this evening, and sought tie woods. Dring the ex. eitieit, seven ngroes atd one citizen were killed and a few houses were burned. The military have been nnder rms all day. Up to this time, fifteen ldick and four white m6n have been killed. M--trils, May 3.-About thirty houses, ocetpied by colored 6oii,~nd a.d all tie school-houses in South Mom. phis, were pulled dvi or burned last ighit. Ten negroes were killed during lie day. Everything is qiiet thie morninig. The negroes fled to the woods lust iighi, but are now returning. Further fron Ialparaso- Commodore Ro gers' Explanation, . WASIINoTON, May 2.-Commodore. Rogers, communicating with Lite Navy Department, says lie was rendy to joilb with the British fleet. to prevent the. wanton destruction of Valparaiso by the Spamiards, but the British Admiraiafter, wards ch se to throw the responsibility on the British Mtnister, who decine( to act in the premises. So Comnmogore Rogers declared to the Admiiral bhat be would not, take a step without him. From South AmeriLea New YonK, May 1.--T e ateamer Soutth America has arrived fronm Rio Janeiro, and reports that. Professor Agassiz had completel.y recovered. A report by way Rtio Grar,de staites thtat a force of ten t?4d Para guayans had crossed'the in deluria, driving badk.the Argen jJa B.rmzilian vang0ad, and~ are adva ig to give battle to the Brazilian armay. W&sUINGTrON, May 2. 13 kinig Committee 'decided to duFt (d lnae a re port to. Congress vMre to,the eleation of any 9 onatl bank. pfg 8.u,,hern Non ietpnydl. su8tVtLLa, May 2.--The Senate ha rejected the FIranchiee bill. From Aspluwull. "Ni'w YonK, May 1.-The steamer. C.osta Rica, from Aspin~wallion the 2a801., has arrived, She brings *1,818,000 m treasure anid 550 Californi p engers. TefigTIoe in hh~sq a N.