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WINNSBOBO. Tuesduy Morning, December $6, 1866. Q- Owing to the removal of our office, which will consume two or three days, and the usual Christmas holli days allowed printers, there will be no paper issued from this office until next Tuesday. To Our Subsoribers. In consequence of the move we will make next week, as well as of the privileges accorded to every one to enjoy a Christmas, our subscribers to the hIERALD will receive the NEws instead. May all our subscribers enjoy Christmas. Death of Bishop Elliott. We regret to announce says the Charleston Mercury that Bishop Ste phen Elliott, of Georgia, died sudden ly at 9 o'clock last night, at his home in Savannah, Ills health had been ap parently good, and the cause of his death is said to have been an organic affection of the heart. Bishop Elliott was a pure Christian, a polished gen tleman, and an eloquent speaker. Devoted to the cause of his church, his only aim in life was to teach those of whon: he had spiritual charge, that Christian faith and Christian virtue of which his own career was so bright and exalted an example. The following cheerful view of our situation is fromi a letter of the well informed correspondent of the Charles ton Courier: It is remarkable, however, that soei members of the Administration cherish and freely expressed hopeful views of the result of this madness of radicalism. Mr. Seward has, within a few days strongly declared his be lief that all the r"idical measures would fail, and the President's policy would he triumphant. The Attorney General, Mr. Stanbury says that An drew Johnson, at the end of his ad ministration will be the most popular man in America ; the events will jus t ifv, and sustain his policy, and that the American people, disgusted with Radical misrule, will overthrow the Radical party. Forney on the Recent Decision of the Supreme Court. Forney is appalled by the decision of the United States Supreme Court, declaring military commissions illegal, and vents himself as follows : We refrain from any detailed criti cism of this momentous decision until it shall have been published in full. We cannot, however, avoid saying now, that in its scope as reported, it can searcely fail to shook the sensibilties and provoke the severe rebuke of loy rl men everywhere. The exultation of the rebel Intelliencer over it will awaken a jubilant echo throughout rebeldon, and the hearts of traitors will be glad by the announcement that treason, vanquished upon the h)attle-fieldh and hunted from every other retreat, has at last found a se' cure shelter in the bosom of the Su premec Court. The military commission, thus de noun ced as a usurpation, hias existed as a legitimate instrumentality in the hands of the wvar-making power from the foundation of the Government ; it has again and again been reeognized by Congress and patriota of the nation, and has been constantly employed by all our most illustrious Generals as a potent agency for the suppression of the rebellion. President Lincoln, himself an able lawyer, and, as a Chief Magistrate, most careful of hu snan life, confirmed and executed the death sentences of this tribunal in numberless esises. Yet we are now told that all this array of learning and patriotism, and experience and loyal ty, which has given unhesitating sup port to the milltory commnission, is to he held for naught in the presence of *single voice of the Supreme Court. The bravest, and truest and wisest men of the land, who have used this tribunal in defenee of the national life, erg thus branded as felons, and we are now told that the real crimtinals of war were not the traitors, spies, guer rillas and assassins tried, but theo pa triote who tried them. This extraor dinary decision will doubtless receive the serious attention of Congress at an nearly day. Legislature of South Carolina. WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 10, 1800. SENATE. The Senate met at 11 a. m. Reports of various committees wore submitted and discussed. The bill relative to the encourage. ment of European immigration was read a third time, and its title chang ed to an Act. The following gentlemen were elected Regents of the Lunatic Asy lum : M. Laborde. Thos. B. Clarkson, A. Crawford, W. H. Scarborough, C. P. Pelham, J- L. Reynolds, W. H. Talley, Wm. Wallace and W. K. Bachman. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House met at 10 a. m. A bill to appoint for the appoint ment of additional magistrates, for the Districts of Orangeburg, Colleton, Richland, Sumter, Lexington, Claren don and Edgefleld ; was read the third time, and the title changed to an Act. A bill to alter and amend the first section of the third article of the Con stitution of this State, was read the third time, and the title changed to an Act. A bill to establish the bank of the State of South Carolina, was ordered to he laid on the table. The following bills were read the third times and their titles changed to Acts: To establish certain roads, bridges and ferries and to renew the charters of certain others ; to alter and amend an Act entitled "An Act to lend the name and credit of the State to the Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company, in the readjust ment of their debt. Mr. Wagoner introduced a resolu tion ; which was agreed to, and was or dered to be sent to the Senate for con currence : That the Commissioners of Free Schools for the Parishes of St. Phillip and St. Michael be authorized to receive any sum of money that may be appropriated by Congress or dona ted by persons for the education of the colored children of those Parishes, and to apply the same to the aforesaid pur poses by hiring or building school houses, procuring teachers and books, and arranging modes of instruction. Adjourned. The tnmb of Albert. Sidney Johnston, at New Orleans, was decorated with flowers and immortelles on All Saints Day. The following is the inscription upon the tomb: IN MEMoaIAM. Behind this stone is 'aid For a seison. ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON, A General in the Army of the C,)nfederate States, Who fell at Shiloh, Tennessee, On the Sixth Day of April, A. D. Bightnen Hundred and Sixty-r'wo. A Man tried in many high Offices And Critical Enterprises, And found faithful in all ; His Life was one long Sacrifice of Interest to Conscience, And even that Life on a woeful Sabbath, Did he yield as a holocaust at his Country's need Not wholly understood was he, while he lived; But, in his Death, his Greatness stands con fessed in a People's Tears Resolute, Moderate. clear of Envy, yet not Wanting in that finer Ambition which makes Men great and pure: Is his Honor impregnable, Is his Simplicity sublime. No Country e'er had a truer Son ; no Cause A nobler Champion: No People a bolder Defender; no primce A purer Victim. il Than the dead Soldier Who sleeps here. The Cause for which lhe died is lost; The people for whom he fought are crushed ; The hopes in which lhe trusted are shattered: The Flag he loved guides no more the charg ing lines: But his Fame, consigned to the keeping of that Time, which, Happily, is not so much the Tomb of Virtue as its Shrine, Shall in the years to come, fire Modest Worth to Noble Ends. In Honor now, our great Captain rests ; A borneved Country mourns him : Three communities proudly claim him, And History shall cherish him Among the choicer spiritswho, holding their Corrience Unmixed with Bllame. Have been, in all conjunctures, true to Themselves, their People and their God. If there were only one sweet woman in the world, should we not think her an inlcarnate angel 1 And why should our opinion be changed, simply be cause Providence has been kinder to us than we deserve, in sending a daugh ter of Eve for every son of Adam. Thme "heart"Is the best card in the chanee game of matrimony, sometimes overcome by diamonds and kEaves, often won by tricks, and occasionally treated in a shuffling man ner, and then cut altogether. A traveler who was detained an hour by some miscbance, shortened his stay by "making a minute of it. There's philosophy for you. Indian Hostilities on the Plaine-&att eiye Massore., FORT C. F. SMITH, Bro IIon Rivra, Oct. 24,18R6. We are having a lively time with the Sioux, Cheyenne- and Arrapaho Indians. The location of Forta Phil. Kearney and C. F. Smith on their immediate hunting grounds will not be permitted without a desperate struggle. The immigration for Montana, which has been heavy, has suffered severely. No train has passed the road without losing men and stock. Large bodies have ravaged the road from the North Platte to the Yellow Stone river, a dis tance of four hundred and fifty eight mile. They have even penetrated tho mines in Montana, murdering miners and driving off stock. Large delega tion of them have visited the Crow In dians-their bitter enemies-and en deavored to make peace with them, in order to involve them in the war with the whites. They also visited the Flat Head and Nos Perces Indians for the same purpose, but without success. A party of miners, under Jeff. Stamford. were attacked, and eighteen out of sixty were killed. This happened on Wind River, one hundred miles above us in the mountains. Another party were attacked on Tongue river, near the wag. on road, and Col. Rich and another man were killed. All miners have returned to Virginia City. Three soldiers and two citizens have been killed and scalp ed within a mile of this post recently. Three men were killed on the Yellow Stone about the same time. Two weeks ago a train loaded with government freight was attacked. and one man killed and two wagons captured. The same outfit, on returning, near Phil. Kearney, was again attacked. the two owners killed, and nearly all the stock ta'cen away. One hundred and fifty head of mules fifty head of horses and sixty head of beef cattle have been stolen from Phil. Kearney. Also Jim LCarter, hay con tractor, lost three hundred and sixty-five head of cattle This poQt is "cleaned out." The Indians took the stock in daylight, while grazing almost within rifle sliot of the stockade. Preains to this, at the same plice seventy head of Government mules were run off, and six men k Iled. One ofllicer of the Eight teenth was killed on Crazy Vom:ua's Fork. From this point down to the Platte, the road is a graveyard. On the 17th inst., a party of twenty five soldiers, returning from Fort Benton, where . hey had escarted General Tlnrn, when within forty niles of i his fort, were attacked by sixty In diains. Mr. Brannore, ga'le, was killed and -calpel. The party f,ught. eight hours. The following day, India'is attacked troops engaged in cutting wood1, and ran off six h'ad of hort'e. They are committ ing all sorts of depredations with impunitv. We have only twenty mounted m en at the post. Abuout one hundred and fifty men have bean killed as fir as known. We have had no in telligence from Phil. Kearnty for sixty days, and fanr that all coummunications is cut off. Three commissary trains have been due for a month, and are supposed to have been captured. Tie Crow In. dions report fifteen hundred lodges of hostile Indians moving towards this post for the purpose of capturing it. They call our soldiers "old women," and say they cannot fight. D)ERTRUCTION OF THE Nr.w BowE~RY TifEATRE cv EuRE.-Shortly before 5 o'clock yesterday .afternoon a fire b'rok~e out int the raar of the New flowery Theatre, and in a short t ime afterwards the edifice was completely destroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown but is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary, as accord ing to the stage manager's statement,' no fire should have been in the build ing at the time. The building was the property of Janme R. WVhiting, and was valued at $75,000 dollars, upon which, it is said, there is little or no insurance. The contents, valued at $50,000, belonged to J. W. Lingard, and were totally destroyed. The in surance upon this loss is said to be very light. Three frame shanties on Elizabeth street were completely de mnolished by the falling walls, while serious injury was inflicted upon other adjacent building by fire and water. The total loss will probably reach $200,000, upon which there is only a small insurance.--N. Y. 'JVmes, 191/h. SHOCKING TRAGEDY.--WO are in formed by a highly respectable old gentleman, says the Greenville Daily Advocate, that one of the sons of Mr. Archer Cheatham fell out with his brother, the other day, and under the impblse of unrestralned passion, struck him on the head with a single. tree, killing him instantly.-Mout Tolog|'aphio. - Mislelaneous. t WA,sxtNQTo,r, Pec. 22.-The Presi dent, received a dispatch from Missouri, asking the .uspenston of the action of United States forces in that State. J. F. Redfield has been appointed to assist in the prosecution of holders of Confederate property in Europe. The Senate's Finance Committee de. voted yesterday to a delegation of wool growers. The Custom House receipts at New Orleans from the let to the 7th instant was $20,270,895. C. G. Memminger, Secretary of the Confederate Treasury, has been par doned. Nxw Yonx, Dec. 22.-The Nassan Guordian brought by the steHmer Cor sican, contains details of the late hurri cane: the extent and severity of it are utnexampled. Tha Steamship company's wharf at St. Thomas was destroyed by a bark dashing through it; the loss es timated at $10,000. At Turks' Island it was equally severe. At Cracon It land a large number of wrecking schoon ers with fifty lives were lost. The in habitants of Turks' Island are suffering for food. WAsHINoToN. Dec. 22.-Assistant Treasurer, Chandler, will officiate with the House Committee to investigate the alleged murders in South Carolina ; they leave for Charleston on Monday. Peru and Chilli reject the French and' English intervention. RAr.taor, Dec. 22.-Gov. Worth was inaugurated to-day ; his inaugural was warmly received. SAVANNAn, Dec. 22.-Bishop Ste. phen Elliott died this morning from dis ease of the heart. PhIr.ADFt.PIIIA, Dec. 22.-The aafq of W. G. Cochrane. wine merchant, was robbed of $40,000 in cupon bonds, and $50.000 in stock secnreties. RciHMoND, Dec. 22.-The military ':om-nission for the trial of Watson was dissolved by order of the President this morning, and Watson discharged. Qable News. LivxRroo., Dec. 21. P. M.-The broker circular reporte the sale of 11.. 000 bales, the market closing at 141d for middling upland, a decline of {d. Market Reports. Ntw YoRK, Dec. 22.-Cotton is quriet at 34 , flour easier, with sales of 200 bales ; corn 1c. lower ; gold 83}. BAr.iMon1. Dec. 22 -Flotr is in limited demand: corn $1a103: oats 58 a61 ; shoulders 12 for old, 124. for nt-w. Monti.:. Dec. 22.-Sales to-day 1,200 bales. middling at 31a314., the market closed quiet. EfINFNT FRENCUME:N.-Of several eminent Frenchmen, a correspondent who has visited she Chamber of Depu ties, writes as follows: Thiers beArs his three score and ten lightly, notwith standing his checkared and laborious life, full of accident, vicissitudes and turmoil. He is as smiling, as placid, as nochalant as any old German proprietor you might. choose, who had lived a life of Indolent and wine-bibbing ease in his Schloss among the forests. his grent, square, expreisive face, marked with many wrinkles, yet evidently well fed, his bright, steady eyes beaming through his spectacles, his hair by no tlyeans wholly gray, the graceful ease with which lie ails or rises to address the Chamber, the prompt energy end vim which bursts from him when the moment comes for an effective blow-these are the salient features of Thiers' appearance as one sees him from the gallery. Fi'avre is more brilliant, more constantly on the alert, is more frequent and bitter in declama tions, and in all things gives evidence of a restless and ever wakeful spirit. He lhas a fine face, swarthy, loniger and thinner than that of Thtiers, with a black eye, gray hair, and beard altnost white. Hie is feared more by the Imperialists thtan any of his colleagues on the Oppo sition bench, and it. is, indeed, their ree ognia'd leader. Barrot is a sober. thoughtful looking man, with gray mons. tache, and sits with his bead inehined downward-as if lie still mourned thtt unfortunate and unwilling share he bad in the revolution of 1848. Girardin is. Ott the contratry, sprightly, somewhat foppish in his dress, and has that look foar which the American vulgarism '9smart" is best adapted. He wears eyo gilasses, moves pramptly, and evidently shtaes that nervousness of temperament whioh is so marked in is friensd F'avre. it is, on the wvhole, a remarkable group and they seen. knit together in purpose as ona man. Orleatnis-as Theira-and Republicats-au Favre-stands side by sidle as an opposition-ostensibly dynha tic-toi the nrcdit. r'entm. LATESt MLXICAN MUDDLES. arn from New Orleans dispats iat.ou the 2d inst. Marshal Basin uod a manifesto in reply to the eror's determination to remain, sk ng that in future the French tr rould remain perfectly neutral, ag no part in Mexican affairs, About November 29th a Lib orco attacked San Luis Potosi rere defeated by Mejia, with b, oss in killed and twenty pieces of a illery. Orizaba, the present residenet of daximilian, is being heavily forti_ led. On the night of the 4th inst., Gen iral Roderiglies made a dash with tte tundred men, in Orizaba, and cap d three hundred mules. He coul a asily have captured Maximilian and he whole garrison. A public demonstration was made sfter the Emperor had declared his de ermination to remain, the populace >arading the streets and shouting 'Death to the French I" "Death to he Americans !" Marshall Bazaine had seat a cordial nvitation to General Sherman to visit he city and remain as his guest. The Imperialists at Orizaba claint hat General Diaz has given his adhe ion to Maximilian with eight thos wd men. It is officially stated that there will tot be a French soldier in Mexico af ;r the 1st of April. NEARNEBS OF DEATr.-When w alk near powerful machinery we know that one sinigle misstep and those mighty mngine will tear us to ribbons with their tying wheels. or grind us to powder in ,heir ponderous jaws. Sn when we are hundering across the land in a rail car, md there is nothing but an inch of in 3ange to hoho us on the trackts . we are in a ship, and there )etweent us and eternity. W. ,hen that we see how close we ero" edge of the precipice; but u tee it. Whether on the sea ot land, the petition that divides i ternity is something less than th lank or half an inch of iron rhe machinery oftlife and death is Vitin us. The tissues that hold the beating owers in their place are often not hieker tht i a sht'et of paper ; mind if hat thin partition rupture, it would be ,he same with us as if a cannon ball h. itruck u. Death is inseparably boun tp with life in the very structure of eu 'odies, Struggle as he would to wide. he space. nognan can -at any time, g FPtrther from death than the thicku >f a she't of paper. CONCERT !! Friday Evening 28th, 3OMETHING RICH TICKETS FIFTY CENTS. dee 22-If READ THIS I A LL persons indebted to James D. Milno , respectfully requested to call on hi nd make settlements before 1st January. FINE LARGE WAX DOLL SUITABLE for CHRISTMAS PRESENT for sale at JAMES 0. MILNOR'S. dec 22-tf - KEKLENBURU FEMALE COLLEGE! AT CHARLOTTE, N. C. Rev, A, C. STACY, A. Ill., PresIdent, 11HI8 Institutlon will be opened LJanuary 29, 1887, in the magninoent buildings known as the North Carolina Military In titute. A first-class Female Dollege Is eontemplated. The grounds em brace 25.acres, and the location Is healt hy ad pleasant. For eircular, apply to the President, Char otte, N. 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