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WINNSBORO. T'htlrltt r ii r:!Iu, .oMecmher a 18ISI6 Our Vi'ilt to t1baltrlItonl. On our way" tothe City we 'fell itl coniversation with liiv ' entlemlen from 4issaulmetI who Were t raviling South on it tur of ub,ervat ion. 'chey wisht d to satikf\ ti i e e of the condition oif' the .mith. Thoy wcre rere'tl(Settvl a I\o ,I (th' n11:1n fac.Ituring :W il agrienllturat it.,or-'SI of that S:t', anl w ' l hit w-' b liert to ; 1 1''+i'. R .(1'1It!t e l r . t') I t It t i!t-t u i: ; li :l . lt : l' 1 I t \V. ,11( 101 'hi \w Ili .r le Ih-tul exIiiied tlor him1 ,-11 th ' al iroy t.tl (' y.l They avori'tl impartial u t not mltiiver::al illI'ra ui'. til f II' I ' r tt il1m11 i a ma j It I:l iend (apt. T. WV. WV., gave Its ithe moi iptl. 1'oe try a Copy 'If wh.it11 will be fontl in one 'lit'+ lorner1. The bti::h.ry t.i th"1t u1t'- 1."In .iven by thl' ('atlle ,ti ti t it un:1 Italtn tfromti iLlu :lnap ta k of thu .t II:mn +t lhcr Ia.ml's amy'ltti who liia l l-d Ilp to t hi p*ioit The viait::he"(i says he L :i,'' 1'' ,i m lt' en l uI i v. 1.0t . t " IU, 'll d )tht ('f 1 ''1" hi, i SI 4 lut' ik o her w"ll hi, l - it"it'itl. i'C i 't' . i' .v.I , 1'r\ h I ' i d 1 th '1'e ath m.' t m111 e nutw i ven Io tIr'ave lrrs 1 "l'oe t ll'h: l- st'n. - Ih is sail ta t. It i., ):m1;1 is to c t hli ill' ini utf:'tt for six m It. If :myi 1dly h '1 i reeit e-1 o -tasionl (tovisit the"'Cit-y bty the S ea,", :1il has (4''ars to shtedl, thterl' is no 'lack 1 1' e:atl" f'or shedinig t"hem) In'w. shed on.t 'The (lityv onr. will soon i o heora (ton., TIh' tervinli of the ro:ttl ar e int lir)a: '1'tr ;'t j i inl 1'r'!. Ilf th1e c.hd Itt 11 I41t ', forni t:rl t1e III 1 tit', :1il b u l l i g i t i:l gt Iai nt. There it a do iaek. Ihlo road r o s ialn:, 1 heolt to 1leet in:Y, then.l up11 ,1l't ing to 0:ia1h-,i,, :Int' thrm-on-- h '.emt' ru th r'11ugh11 11 i' lilllt l!_'y , T'hI City . hi' ly\' d ia Ll all' Mel't i:g, in an iEy: i ;ay Sti rots, :nIt Ithe cetitpro;s C1'r. tretI., IN r1et p: ro11d1 ut'tl . The 4Mills 1lu , b:tlly bted11 i thl or1 iith side iy they ill of Iecembelr ''6,1iil,ln t 4ni lyth 1 itlrtd hv'. v'Isitori 'lrttlml tlt "rw:\ p11) .\''."itl , w:t llhave t ip. lii ii't if tlh ' g1 :11it , t if o f ?, .." ,j r e r:lb ' I'birdI "f fal't im . wevtrs. pai~nn , the . 'm t e 110 1 anl / mry. alt ably c -n.- , a e a . a pe,pln of activo a'.d highly cultiv'at ed mental powers. 'l'he gentlomu" is one of t'h. Litorati of the South, and in tho above mentionil arguinent expressed precisely what *o have 1bng believed to be the cause of our nt 01 a literature in tho'Sonth. We cannot close this brief account of what we saw and heard without mention of the tibano and aceommo dating cond ietyrs both on the Char lotte road and on the South Carolina road. Answers to Questions. 1. "(1niIt 'co1nfeetionary' be spell el w it ii , t:or an ( in thu last sylla. 2 "W'ha11:1t. does the phra;e 'lead over heals' mean and ought it. to ho -head over heels,' or 'heels over head' ". 1. Like a speaker inl doubt which sile of a (luestion he shall take, we lmay reply that much mightbe said on both sides of the point inldo in the first inluiry. Ablo Jbxieographora take one side, and as able ones take the other side. Iach doubt.ing mind then h-id better take its .)b.ieu and hold to it. We prefer, to use the c. 2. %% c suppose it to be ia compari Son li p's siVe ot a mitax:1i1In 1enas UIRmetil. , For example, when we say ai an is '"hcai ovt.r heels'' in b usi m0s$, the id, a is that he is as deeply engaged in th(ot. husincss as he can be; i' other words, it demands all -his thie :lid energies. The idea of leaureuient" involved in the phrase is perhaps the distance from the beels to the head when- th lat ter is in a vorti cal tin1e above the former, which is'as hi.;ih above the heels as it it is possible for the head to get. , It is ce:-r.et to sa.y "heels over head" to express the act of. a somer saualt. But either phrase is a barba rismn inl colmposition, and is allowable only wheat he points are intended to conIIsist, c 1 ba rbari: nns. Rlit.arial Inklin;". "fill, (lid you say you are go ing to have your whiskers dyed ?" "Let 'em alone, Bill, and they'll solin1 die themselve-"9 'The New York llernld of the 2~thi, congratulates dhe masses upon the falling prices. Wouldn't the //.ra/ / like to congratulate the coun try upon the priees of the fallen mass es South ? "What'll you take to c one hack into. the Union" ? litler's victims 'can only answer -- General Dix has gone to iFrance as 1'nited States Minister. --- In the 2-Ith instant 15 steam er~s: aibld t'roim New York for v'arious forigni.i anid doimest ic ports. These dletinoed piorts were London, Liver piil, 1 iremien, ILiamberg, Glasgow, I'.: !amd. Wa:shzington, ic hmnond, CIorl est on, Savannah and iNewv Or lhans. 'The aggregate v'alue of th~eir cargoes was about six illions of mtoneCy. ,Our' Colaimbia Exohtanges. Thlere is a screw loonse between ur aotd I 'olnwchia whnich we would like nmneht to have tightened. It is a-:are thIting to receive t'he ( orolinian1 or the /li.c regu,larly at thi.s offtec, anod somietimes our copies are never roccY edl. A re thiey s,umt off ? Our cont 3m.. porrie1ca anmswer that. Will t moy ph-ase d o it. Not. to wait hmowever for an answer, let us as:incs they cear themoseilve-.), w,hethecr thlero is any oth er meedium essential to our exchanges %-eching us whichm may answer the chaurgo of delinquencey. The mai agent betweeci this point and Colum hia may possibly enlighten us. We want the light from some whore. We know the fault is not at this office. We do not believe it always chstgea blo to the officos, either post or print ing, in Colhuumbia, but wo fear much of the failure to receive our CohimbIa exchanges la due- to the neglect of the toravelli.ng agenta. Willitm G. Whilden & Co.. Attentioi !. eallnd to the card of this fri.m doing busieioss in Charleston. ''he chliaf of this firim Wn. G. Whil den, Esq.," is iell known in tliis Dis trict.. Jong dounectod with tlie large establishment""ef Hayden, Whild'en & Co., this gontlemuin though young in years is o,hd in thorough business qualifications. P.ertons visiting Char leston would do well . to (mll at 258 King Streot,, corner of Beaufain, where the o>liging proprietors will take plcasure-in miibitiig their stock, and we are satisfied will please all puirchasers with. their utodorate plriees. 1- Th Fn:sri . Rw"owr -in acoordance wit I the request of his Honor the Mayor, o meeting of the citizens of Cohtnbia was held at (Jibbes' Hall, yesterday morning, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Speoial Connittee appointed some tlime since to investib-tto the circumstances con necoted with the gr,eat conilagation in Feb. rnary of last year. A, voluminous report, which our space forbids us to publish at present, was read by Chancellor Carnol, the Chairman oP the Committee, fully exhone rating Uenerals lHampton antd' leautegard from the freqently asserted charge of the Northorn press that they had been instriu mental in causing the city to be fired, and proving, beyond the shadow of n doubt that the heinous offence was perpetrnted by the soldiers of' Gen. Sherinmn, anal with his ex pressod sanction and approval. This view of the afiair, generally believed by those of us who were in Colttumbia on that over-tmtmt orable night., was fully sustained by state. ments in- writing from niore than fifty of our tost respectable citizens. We are hap py to.dearn that the City Conneil will he re quested to publish lie report, in a pernmn. nent. f,,rn, as it will vinlicatte, by incon trovertable testiuiony, tlho fair fame of our gallant t:onfiderates, and locate lhe dain titble sin: where 't properly belongs -/'hos mix.. We learn fronm th Victoria Doily Tele. graph, of June lat, that the Bishop of Co luimbia had just returnetl thither from Met lacatlat: "The praoticah .aorls of Christianity at eadily 'dvances in that interesting settle. .uenr, taw shown.bpt the order and industrial prosperity of tie jnhabitmnts, as well as by their cessation flo a n14 heathen habits and, adoption of the mip-al and religious rcgttla tions of a Christth . community. Indeed, from all acco litya, a Crist ian village so well condutoted. ti Yld be a rare sight in any place. A est'itct by Mr. Dutncan. antl the l:,v. A. Dloolan. the- Ilisliwpa.ercftliy exam. ined some hunired catoentmens, andilt i mattly athnitted to baplism - sinty ftse In dians. thirty mnt and thirty-f ve, womOtt, who on Whit .Sunday, May 2)t.h, entered the "Cht 1stian Church, in the presence, and with the sy mpntthyoetnanyothers of their nice. liwides ih ndttat. tite lishop hnpiitel ol iiit-Sunday seventeen- children of Chris iiun harents, making in all eighty-two." How'rnl ll.it. -r.r !. ainrtso1 1''atanstlt wAs UT>-.uisn:F---The1 LIabt.ro Skn. i alhidiag.ta the -recettt release of M'es.rs. Keys, Byrem nnd8tottera, says: They were deme.udel by the ci>ril au:hori. ty. t+nder a writ of udad corpra isetl by Jtuucce Hall, the District .Jtidge ntrthe United States for the Distiict of Delawaro. Judge Hall is a nagistrao venerable aliko by his year,t, and by the digaity and firmness with which he has, through a long career, alnin.. istered his high .oice. l'he mandate of his court ohoye, the ;prisoners were brought. befure hitu, and after a pattent hearing of the ease, they were discharged, on the ex press ground that, "according to the law of the land, the prisoners ought. not to and cannot. he held under the oommutt.etl ten. tence of thIs mtilitar'y commission, anId ebaL they be dischiarged." The aggregate amount of mney ap propr'iatcd by Congress, at its late sessionk, for various,public purgoses, is $15~i,78 Th.1.0 Jn McClatdo an-I Sam CollIoir. of 'hlt l more~'. have carrangsid a prize fight for $lt000 to .$",u0O). to inko mliage sion at somec point be,we'n New York audm Rlimtimtor'e. Win nsboro Female Institute. 43d1 SESSION. H A VINO purichalsed 'thle large adcominuodious buildinig known as Bhok Rlange, Lwill.r'e sume thle duties oft this I utitute on Monuday, l4thi of January, The Schlool will be J.itly antler the ocharge or Mrs. C. Latdd, Pruinoipal of the WVinnasboro Femaizlc Institute, and lRev. J Obear, f'ormuer Principal cf t.he innsbiuoro L.adies- Academiy Titioneu will vary according to classes, trom $15 t o St8 andI $2, 'pe.r- sessioni of Twenty weeks. LanMguafgos, At,elent or Miodern, Mltuid, Drawing nndt Paitiing, i- Oileor 'Water CJol. ors, a separate charge. The Musical aitd Frenich Departnient will be tinder the ceat rol- of Mr. Obear. D3oard many -he .obtaIned at the Institute or' with Mr'. J. 8. tec warL. Man. Itosborough or Mr. J. M. Elliott. nov 24-lyr. ESTATE Y0'1T0E A 4L persons having demandhs agahinst the EsJ~tae e( Willittn E. flaIl, dr eased, are directed to render .lis -'the same proporly autheticated to the undersigned ati oltlico im Winnebopo. . C. E. . Uable Dispatohes. HI:R.ty. Monday, November 2. The Prus.";ai Uovo'rnnent Imtends to have a Col 8 I'-enoral located in New York city. L >ONDON, Novemur 20.-lveninlg. -It is rumored that a Republican or ganization has bueni discovered in Patr :Is. It is said.tLhat the Emprees Eugenie n.dxl"er son will spend. Christmas at .ome. 'T,be money nakct is easier. Con. sols closed at 891 for moiey. Five. twenties 70-1 lit v 1invooi.,.November 2G--10venli'ig. -'lhe cotton market is witlhout chan;e. . LONDON, November 27-Nooi. si-nian trouble in IrelandI have as'uLed conaiderable proportions and there is t) doubt, that a serions outbreak has oceur red. Two reginents of nttinail tr oops wore urgently ordered.to lreland y.'ester day evening,, and transports were being prepared all night last 1 ight at 1urt, tout.h. A. large detachment, of mlarine8 went. .over to Quieenstowtnt oi the wIr eteamer Plymouth. A gun boat at Chatham has been. ordered - to sail for Queenstown inlnediatelt.. Much alarm is felt at Cork and throughi Ireland gen erally. The London. Tim,aes, of Itis morning, helieves Chief,Orgunizer Sk(,-. phens will soon arlive on.th scene,. if, indeed. he has not nlready. The (/0o/" editoriallyr hints a more seriou4 1rouile with th Uinited States is r"eally at the bot tom of the FVenian onthreak. A Ielo grtph'ie iiipatch was reevived yesterda y from Washinton by " lie 1Un1id Slates Minister ait Paris. T ne di1, 1i;h:i w1as velry lon, occupying mn111y . ou in- the transiiission and i is believed it relates to the AMexIcan < fiestin ThI AMorning lIcr(11, of to-day, says. United States Minister Alamis has revived the Alabama case. A Cabinet :nlecting will sooun be held, when the ca?e Wilt receivu the co(nsider,t.ion which its im. portance deserves. It is officially annonnced that tTe Government I:as peremptorily refused ilie use of the parks for the trade iv form demoustrai ion. Ltt":iii((o(., N.velber 27.-Cotton maiket opens (1uh1 but. siendy ; sales to d-ty will apparoxi.nate 8,000 bales. Mii. dl ng u('atis4 at lhe opining were quoted at, 1 t;.i. U3readstulT. hnarket without maiterial change. LONDON. November 27-Noon - Money market quiet. Consola or mon Cy opened at. 90. Fivet wenties 701 LoxOoN, November 27--I,veuing. The ,/orning /Ier(hld believes the (Gov ernmetit of thito liied Sinta.s wI en. dleavor to deleat the l'eman plots at a proper lime. Consols 891. Ft ve-twenties 70}. Pltis, Nnvenber 27 -'ii'ro are ru. mors of a chan.:;e nulent to be made in the French Cabinet. -i't.l)'1FNCE:, November 20 -The :al. ian Government has determined to -end Vegezzi on a iission to Itome. Lt vt.:atom., November 7- veniuig. -The hreadstufl'"i market elosel wit.h a d >wiiward tendencv. The latet, quota tions for cern are 40s. Lard inactive. Arrival of the Ste-.mr Booti. N .:wv Youx, Novembhr 27.-'h 5teamiier Scotin, from L,~verp)ool hi:i ar rived. TI.he. London Mw>rning IH-rl./~ n vo quecgt ionis huet,ween thle 'iteld ;a?.es a ud. Ope.tnt liritain,~ even by aribitration if nocessarv. 'l'hi [Londone 'JTies says her .\I ajest y's Gover,nnmnt contemplates emtpowerinig at comiliiun tio to iunpuirel geneia'lly int'o the operationls of the neiii ralitly law~s, aind to reporii t up-mi the poissibility o(f anii-adi. mg thiem so as to biringr them iiito ioe conip'lett c informnity wvith ii intirnatinal obhlgati i:t. Thliis iiiirv w'ill not po Chide future steps wvith r~giarrl to t.be adjuistmnit of the A\ Ia bama climis, which are sI ll iundcer conisiderat ion by thet Gov. erminelit, anad umst. be entertai ned uponif their owni merits. Alutch dai unun ge had beei~n dloni by the fnodsiuI in Lancashiro and Y(i. A subiu riptioni for 'the siuf'.i-ers lhv thle Qiiebec fire ha' bieeni .sta rwd i'i 1,ivei pii The L,ondoni list, hadl riach. ed EL 7.,0i00.. A\ t. thle sitt-inig of t.he Siaxoni Cinumnie otf DeIiu,is, i-t. Dresdeni, un th.e I . the , tate Minmister declarud, in the no.t ponh ive niantier, tiat. Saixony had coil eluded no alliance with Ansiai, itiher before or durinig thet war. TheN liister iadded, that Saixony lhad fiiithhdily eh. served the proise~uto thait effect by BWir A dv ices from Paraugnmv state that the defeat of the allies at Cumipaity' had cauisedl m p~ijlete di@union. amlong the leadersd 9h allianvo. Gen. Floreat hadq been-in Nontevciden ainee thle 29th of Septembe)tr. Gen. MItro had. evacuated .- e Ctrnza ami left wit I the rest af the artr f'r'irgenty. Ile had n1i"-1d to a ii hins.lf of tl Ir . ilb tia t :iorts for tl: convieyne of hhi tioops. News lt'O;, ,1oSroN, November 27.-At a caucu11 far.thlce nomlinatioa of a catidiltn for Mhv or1 at Chel'ea, last inght, IRobert W Morris a 'olored man, (lawyer,) receiv ?l 212 vot l', to 3.31 for it. S. h'ro.t. \V,%n lx:I N. Novebi'r 27.-Plour .r ,loroIj in(liv: l.; ii ure anlvlug the illvited guests to tie baIIl.w't whith''will be gi een t.0 li. nldical ulmt mber..of (ongress oli Saturdav lNxI.. Thev are l'red. I) igla s. I{ ,ewrt P,uriv. Rev. II ig 1:lan Garne' andl Iloward1 It. Day. At i (y:amH1l(t e1e(t.mlg to-1hi y, it. Iunde t ood tIhe .P'esid'nt, read a piorti, ot hli.iiii 'rlinesa t t he iiemb11tr1' ; and fr'i w1 :h t l I be a scl!rtainlel, it s m elI 1 hla3 n1o inte11ionl whaltevcr of partin,: from the pt,' ' ,t aofore declared. 7aiumense:Motoor. \ . .: Noember 2:1 - 4 o''o, i, om h11t, Tuosda v II) ,. me:e;tor, litghti:g ny thi. whole' . es w:as a(e n1e:+r .Zome,.(x(orgia, i1ne r:phidli Snitllh-west.wardly, aupp li:,- a 'rre b a as largo as the sui.2 . explollI a parot IV tel miles of; ivith a reeli'nll)olS l-port. like( a furty poundl Cannon. .1 hat shook tile- earth and :ad the wid.111ows rattle. Wa hiugton Itoms,. V isilN(vi"woN, November 4?(.---A 1aVana letzr of,the 20th reports the t,t eamhlilip1 S i(hannla, w-it'h Shcr ..an an(d (:lnpbell, would leave for cxico on the 23d. (liheial despatebi's 71hi0h1 have reached l't;ister lionrom ro-l Mexi (,o, state that Col. lafael .1. (itrci:a lns been ap1ointed military (overnor' of Peublia, and has cvtabliA.ed his gov ernment at the city of 'Tacatpoaxtal l, and issued i- proclamation to the peo ple (t the ,tate, calling on themn to take til armns again)st the invaders. Govern or GartlCia reports that the French have lost the whole of Puebla, but it is believed only the line. of the miniii road from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico. Many o1 the Washliington 'oirrespond ents are speculating :s- to What will be the contenti of, t-bo. President's forthcoming annuli mesrign,,;nd some of thmlt-I assidu.u:dy assert that he will iake tern s with Cougrcs1 ou the resto ration policy. In view of the result of the recent Stite clectioi e, this, too, ismere .pculation, and it is-thereforo. itetter to wait for positive inforira' in" from tile mueSage itself.. it will be remembered that ill maiy sp1eches which thie Pr,csiddttntmadc lii his !abi trip North and Wti'st, he sai he had uo new policy to antl(imn0,. and that his future would be best indicated by his past course. Nothling dolinite has yet been re ceived by the Governmnenrt in relation to the claims upon Gareat, Britain for damages to commerce ecaused by the Alabama aund other Confedorate priva teers. The correspodence- het ween the two Governmncuts is still in pr. gress. It is a fact, hIowever, that theo present lIritishl Miniistry is more)r dis poased tha:n thei former (one to give duo' iad lair consideration to the- enltirO sul ject. Fi'om Wtahingtoni. 'A9nINGT; N Novembecr 26.-Oar Conisul at Brest reports.the'e'ntire yes sationi of chlolera at that. place.. 't, is not trueii. as stated0( ini Northern paes that darobd l'aTiompso has ob tainled froml lteidenut JhlsonI peCrmlis No vi..it lirs were ad mnii ted to an 1llau dienice with) the Prelsident to-day, IIi' is cloisely, applyinIg himfself to bcia forthcomeing mnessage. It is not truo that ho. will adhioro to hi.s forn'uer posi lion respiecting t.he full restorationl of' the Southea:2 n'State. 1t is probat>lo the press will be furn inhed4 wi'h copies of the0 message1~ in advance of its delivery. Nothing diefinite yet received frofth the BJritishi Governmlent, ini rlaltionl to (,bo claims of indemnity growlng out of the depredamtions comnmitted on Amnericani commnereo by Confederato pr'iyateers.~ The cor.respondence i Admninistrator's Notleei A .L personijaving demntads against; the LI, estate of James, Stevenson, doetksel. are requeted,lto presont themn properly: bi tesuted to me, and those personaO inldebrte 1110 estate are requested to'make paytneiit as5 tin a.dislrQUS of sof.tling up O state he a ahort time. . ' .fOllN1 3t'RVPMW. Adter.