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*~7 Zwe'"".,"\ Wednesday Morninw, Jan. 8, 1808., Desportes, Wllmus & ()# ops TERMS.---FOR HER*4 DC. THIREE nOLI.AR8 pmr yeinr :# T0 fAr six muonlths: ONE DOili Air tli;IIH h payiin In "greountmeks." Single oplies Teln Centi. tr3- The paper will bo dissmnta nund oin the expt rationi of ith 0ime for witiohm paymment has bcen tnilo Subscribers who find at cross aark on t lie wrapper or ia WTnoftetbir -IA'rt; wil undohtand that the tinW A" vITIS'Nt RATEs-Ono Donlar per siuaro for tho irst, and seventy-livo cents tr each uliso uq tiont lainsortion. A msytjiro coiits of heplio uce OCCi Ipied by twelve lines of' tIms sizo typo. ULUi IIA1RhS -o10copIes one year Twenty~five Dlarits. An extria copy to time ierson making up the climb. aler the 1st Juntary, 1807. *7- Withih omme month frim the ditto n elib is retturned amii the nioney Is 1ni., tho person inaking timo clmim, mm11i. tild any tmmiibur ofi mAnm es at th nonip rate. tr- We wish it ialtinctly uniderstood that our erms for sutbscription, advertising and Job work itro g" JoxIt'i W.A.Ksa & Co., are ours .Agouts in Charlesioni, and aro authorized to receive advertisemints and nimke colleotion for on' pnpers. O'r Attention is called to an im portatit, order inl tlhe rtli-nAI), froi ( on. Can by. It mod itiCs the famous "No. 10" froml en. Sickle.e. The Now Year, This year was usliorcd in, cold and iCy. It, rini and snow prevailed Vin New Year's ve, and time white-clad carth ioxt morning made happy faces aiong the children just bcoause it -was so clad. Shivering, sitl'ring mortality, of -riper years, thought diflftently. Tie earth of virgin purity, gave 'liigns of woo'" to their quiveriig hopes. But the Now Year is upon us. Lot all ho "braves."i Lot the disappoint Iments of the past only spur the disap. poillted to new energy. The Prospoot for 1808. lmpon inquiry yestorlay, we learn Vid that in some parts of the District the farm laborers, or in other words, the colored people, wero very dilatory in making contractL for the present year. It is no use to oilr any advice on this score. But there is 010 thing that we learn ed which gave u1 consolation; and that was, that time cotton crop for this year. will not be very largo. It must not be understood that this information comies from the whole District., for we have made only partial Inquiry. But we are pleased to hoar that so many havo determined to make provisions. -e. 0. The rolitical Calm. There appears now to be little in the polities of time country tq engage attention. But it is only thle calm before the storm. The Convention to meet in Charleston on the 14tb will into doubt scare up a storm of some cnharacter. The prodonminating mcte rial of that forth-eoming conclave does not give high hope for tihe future interests of the State at large. A biody ini which so manny white p~eople aind bliek onies fromi the North are found, can searelhy so overcome the seflli instincts of nature as to legis. late for the undivided interests of all. *Wo hope however we shall ebe agreea bly disappointed. The Representation of the Crib at Beothlo homn, t the Sisters of lMeroy, No conception can be formned, says the Charleston Mkecury, of this- beauti hul and truly wvonderfully arranged pic.. ture at the Sisters of Mercy, Queen street ; it must be seen to be properly comnprehended, and wve assure our fiends that a visit and observation will cer tainly repay thmf. Stoin the room devoted to the spectacle, tho eye is arrested by exceed imgly tasty deccortionls of myrtle, wvhich grace the apartment on either side, and as the vision is throwvn forward, the Crib in all its artistic beauty is seen. 'We must confess rliat we had no idea of whlat, we were to witness, and as each speciality was nt~otd, we were lost~ jit wonderment and admiratien. 111ory. thing is so true to natunro; so very lifd. li'to. The biblical account of the aus luetions e'vent, which gave to a fallei world a haviur, is scrupulonsly follow. ed ini the mo'st miinte r.articular, and when we karned thia't 'it all was thie wvork of thie Sisters alone iand tinalided, able out of the material they had to arrange such a splendid meruorial of the ce bo and n~ ta ei .,o, are I ~ I ~ act of .0i i, 4 ri .in - .... below thom on the tichen-covered rocks, through which the clear sparkling water i*)pouringsand,.triolVlingin-e yegv ice, stands the Shepherds, who had been tending their flocks ;- bUt sud(16'ly d. cupied by the thought of the event -which had takenoplacerin.thybirthof, Him, who was to be tl e good Shepher4 of thie all. P'lere are the S hlesla keepig Oht wptch, .and there, aro those w lIohvo 99me d'wnfolloved by tlir.flocl s, to worship aid adore the Babo Mossjah, who lies on the iangor in a miatle hastily thrown on the straw., Around His head is a circle of li*hr, while ol ono.sid is Joseph,- and ona hn 'other the blessed Virgin Mother. Tradition tell us whon. ary and Jo. sepli entdred the cave, ahqz they bad fruitlessly soright lodgings'in the inns of BoOIleheim, for it vas midnight ani all wcre closed, they found an ox and an ass ihcOip. and in tie, representa ttonhtlbey areoas real as life. The no6n in the distance, the stars and the spanning firmament are appar. ently "by Nature's hand divinely trac ed." In fact, the 1ou1t Cnsemblc is ia coin.. plote triumph of art, and no single fea. turo mars its beauty. The vory faces of the wax babies, used as. ang.els have a cast of countenance becoming their holy character. Tho magi of tl e EIast look as sag as they wore when they lived, aid tie shecp int'leir fleecy coat's scorned to bloat. As we observed be fore, nu pen picture can do justice to the spectacle. It must be seen as we saw it, with the daylight veiled, and by tie soft gleam of.two lainpa that were suspended nesr the Crib, which threw their sheen on thq rocker making then as much like nature as possible, 1t must be .borne in mind that the rocks and "spangled firmament on high" are made of canvass sewed together and painted by some of the Sisters, and in dead, everything connected with the entire representation, is the handiwork of these good and estimablo wo men. We advised all, who have not done so already, to go and witness the Crib, it is beyond description, and excels in faithfulness of representation. The Crib will remain on exhibtion untll aftor Epiphany (January 6) and the sisters will be glad to show it to visitors, Protostants as well as Catho. lies, Oongress Swears not to Yield, Thereeis no smer sign of a sinking ca:se 01han a public declartion ofdeter miniation never to yield-never to filter until victorv is achieved. The iouse of Itepresentadves, upon the -moti6n of Mr. Bonjamin' of Missouri, swears that it will take no step backwards, and that there is no necessity to repeal the recon struction acts. \Ve have maintained that Congress would iot probably repeal thoso acts; bit this defiant, air', this bol sternig ip of courage by resolitions, inggests suspicion. The catniry 'has c6ndemned th m&recoistructioi acts--the impeachment has failed-iled pat-tv lures are biing drawn with roference to the Presidency-and yet Congress ro solves toe mnintain a position indefiance of the punblic censure ; a plosition de mandine a conrtinited Iarmony with ex treme 1 andicalismi which wvas 'condemn. ed in kicking impenehment overboard; and a position wvh~ch' cai be anstainedl by a c'onthintion of that part y organi Zation), which .how comhiirations, with a view to thre Presid6nof, must destroy.- . h is all bosh. The dlirect 'vetehbeig fo'reed upon the Hrouse by tho barking tierrier of Radi calism from Missorri1 mobirbers could noti rtret.It map be,' .indeed,' thaut, the rueea of the reconstruotion laws may net be propused by'hny of the 11l whlo voted fo dr Bnjain's resohition ; but it vill' prb'ahly be s~on that when questotis arb prlodontdd to ,Congress grb6ing out of the attiud6 of sopie of the StAres, there will be a show' of hadds sttrpribing tb flcnjanin-a showing' not' at all o'ongiste'nt; with tihe nialitions an reckless('iritwhich led to the adoption of the 'tin'oug I'econstructioit laws. ihot theresolntipnb pess-let Congress awear TFoldl 1f* n j(diot,fri1 of soa'd'ahtl r Sigtfying.nbthrin." 'i & M' 'Rickmo ul Dispatoh Krusw mm AN g/rcm.-A divinoe preaiblid one Sunda'y diorning f'rdin thit't' "Ye'ard children of thme'do. vil," ad 'in tl'o afternoon, by a funny coincidence, "Children, obey you pa ly made in suits between privato indi viduals and express compAnies have i.n go .9 rd * e curl i eo b' im P ,bs re obl re 8~t to se ox cee pa . diseeally olialu and liberal institutions. Tle first case was that of a young gldyamed bivingaton, who returnjing to New York from a visit to Washing to), delivered her - baggage,. or rather the oheck'therefor. to one of the city ha geg expreas companies.. Her trunk wgs st in their possession, and she sued for the full value of its contents some $1100 in amount. The defend ants plead the torms of the check given by thon, which limited their liability for lostabaggage to a value not exceeding one hundred dollars.. The judge held that n'tipulation of that charactur wa n'ot binding, and it having been proved that the clothing, jewelry, &c., lost with the trunk were suitable and proper for a-lady .in hor position, a judgment was rendered for the full amount claim. ed. Tho scond suit was that of a nercan tile house in Springfield. Mass., against the Adams ixpress Company, for the value of a box of pistols delivered to its agent for shipment to Vicksburg, and which was lost by the blowing up on the Misissippi river of the steamboat on which it was being transported. A demand was made for the payment of the value of the goods so lost, but the claim was rejected by the company, on lie ground thlat the goods were seit by tlie ordinary route and method of tranm portation, that the steamer carrying theon was not under its control, and that the terms of the receipt given at thu time the goods were received by the company exonerated it from dangers arising from iver navigation and steam. Tlhd expi-es company gave no oilier reason fir declining the responsibility of the lose, and a suit for damages wa's brought by the losers, before the Supe. rior Court, in June, un the ground that the company was a cotmnon carrier. The court at that time so decided, but the defendants appealed to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, which has now sustained the decisions, and made a de claration in fact that express companies are commou carriers, and are responsi. blo for the safety of the goods which they are paid to transport. STAnVATION iN Swrv.E-AN AP PEAT. FO. ELTiC.-The news from Sweden is appalling. Three hundred thousand of her people are reported to be on the eve of starvalion. The fol. lowing eloquent letter hns been address ed to Mr. Seward by W. W. Thomas, Jr*., of PoAhiind, MNine ed, potients Swedshi, sire starviII in Norland. The-> crops for three yea. have been bad ; last year they were anl titter failnre; and noW even their mise rable bread, make of straw and the bark of trees, has given out. They sit in their cheerless huts and dio. My pri vate adrices from Scandinaiia repres sent this calamity as even worse thn the publ'hied accounts. VATAr AOCIDENT.-On Tuesday laat,:: the Greonville train brought down ,a bumber of soldiers from New.. berry. On their arrival In Columbia, an attemnpt was made to form them in ranlis; butt some of' them being under thn influence of liqjuor, strayed of', and .gotbhind a Iocomotivo, which was ban~ng through the yard, when ons of theom was killed, and another had an arm broken, besides other in. juries. >Wo .could not learn .the nemnes ofthe unfortunates..-Poni. The ,peedle-gun now defluitely adopted py the Russian War Offico, is of-the. u ussian pattern, heit the neo.. dIe bein. somewiyhat shorter and thiok.. 'or, the r pidity of the firing is said to be sligh y iucreased. If Russian no counts a e trustwvorthy, an ordinary soldier ill ,easily accomplish eight disoharg s in a minute, while a skill ed hand s stated to have no diffieulty in. repochng up to fourteen. There ar~e not iany now rifles being made, tho old 4 ies admitting of adaptation. A lett r from Africa confirms the re'ports y'inted In Einglish papers that a whlite nan, sufposed tQ bp Dr, Liv Tho ad ~itional inform'atiou is given th~ tbo 9lothe~s wlii thiogrd sayi the whlt man wMo cor 'espond exact rly With. those :Dr, '1ivingsto took ~with bin fron Z~nzibar. Add itionli faits le rvo, but -little doubt that this mah is i no~ oiko'r than ivingstorie. Some magnificent slanderer says: "Woinhan needs tio eulogist-for she spjeakS for hecrse!/." SWEi,1,S IN A notLEtR-AnROw Es CAPEC FnOM DEATH. PSt eyertingibout 4 o'clock,o.4re,. a66e JohIAVell, eiployod 'O 1ia'niond, lying inion opongalisla very nearly camoe atddei end. It .appears that he iet about cleanjin' the boiler of the tu, and having finished the exterior to his satisfactioi, when inside, Ite entered through an sperture in the end, and a1pplied -himself to his task at, once. Scarcely had lie been at work for more than four or live minutes - when lie . was suddenly sejzed by a cramp and coi menced to swell. Well is almost pro verbial for his rotundity-ordinarily measures fortv.two inches arotnd the chest, and is of a gravity proportionate ly great. Shortly after lie had taken ill, lie crawled to the aperture and attnempted to get out., bu, so niuc hind. ho gained by the swelliiig that to force hinaelf through the hole was out of the question. He bawled lustily for help, and his cries brought some of the hands to his assistance. They, however, were ina. ble to relieve him from his plight, and the cramps rapidly becoming worse, messengers was instantly dispatclhed for doctors. police, blacksmiths, etc., and o ic alveit rous fellow, who seemed to understand tho situat ion. hunted ip the coronor. Things looked very bluo for some time, and it was proposed to cut away it strip of the boiler, as a last resonrce.- This being objected to, cight or nino stalwart fellows siezed Voll, and through a "jong pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether," brought him ttbrouglh by main force. His cloles wiere lorn inl Iu ers and his body briii.i ed and scratched inl various places. Ie is seriously injured, and is at preselit, we understnmid, under medical atten dance.-Pills/irg Dispatch, Dec. 23. MURDERn ANM ARsoN AT Sni.v;En Ri:x. A.AI.M.-Onie of those terrible tragedies whichi are so rare i his see tion (oCCurried at Silver Rn, Alabama, Monday iiglit. As our readers know, the place is 22 miles from Colimbus, On the Mobile and Girard Railroad. Yes torday morning, about 3 o'clock, while a terrible s:orm of wind and rain was gning on, a fire was discovered break ing out from the upper story of a two. story wooden house ocenpied by Ai r. Peter Yarborongh, an old ni who, kept a small grocery. When discover ed the fIames were ra gmg. 'Ihey had evidentlv been started from 1.11o upper floor. A son-in law of Mr. Y., who, wTtlh his fianily, lived a few Imdred yards oif, hurim1ried to the scene of confla. gration. Ar aMenpt was made to re move a br-d tIhat w;-t o 1 b n o, the l(sI l lr. w s t se,.. On onw,.s seen tie b3od V el -. Y. that a waike':tly lifeless. 'A. gnt of I flame lurried all from the holso ei(fore tho remiains could be reached, and whien daylight came nothing could be seen but the Charred flesh and bone. The house had, from all appearances, evidently been fired by some person or persons, who had first killed antud robbed Mr. Yarborongh. That gentleman's family woro several miles in the coun. try. He had very imprudently, tho evening before, exhibited $500,and it was thought lie had more mloniey. He int~ended comning to Columbus ini thme tuorning train. A negro who tume up in the yeseMayV's traini is suspected as having a hand in ihis dark and bloody aflitir. As yet we have heard of no a' rests. - (.'o/umnbus ABun. As a proof of the scarcity of money in Georgia, wve have the following account of a sale of property in Hionesvmlle, the county town of iberty County, Geor.. gia, on the 10thi mstant: -A Col. -Quar terman died recently, and his execmitot was compelled to close t.he estate. The propierty wvas advertised, and on last, court day it was sold. A handsome residence at Walthonrvihlle, withi ten acres attached, onthouises and all neces. sary appendages of' a first-class planter's residencp, was sold for sixty dollars. The purchaser was tIme agent of the Freedmen's Bureau. His plantation. four hundred and fifty acres prinie land brought one hundred andl fzftf dollars, sold to a Mr. Frasor. Sixty-six acres of other land niear Walthiourville, brought three dollars pumrchaser Mr. WV. 1). Cacobi. These were all bona fido sales. , Itaus court day, aund. lar'go concourso of'people. was presenit The most of themi were large property own. firs, but really had not five dollars in pockets, and of con sernene wvould not btd, as th~e sales were for cash. .Garrottmng is again, corming inito vog no in London.. TJhe London press contains letters describing garrotting robberies and hairbreadth escapes, and lanmon toig the want. of ioe amomm te ..lice ro Our Subsoribors, For tho scotnd ayd last tiulic tho E I. #rs onl a reduced she'et. Of- rsor road ers will accept this, kothe iohldtays have beei ) upon its. Th6 ligni.v has been issued with out intermission, which n1o others ot our weekly exchanges havo donie, some 6fthoui even iiteridtttng two woks. ale Day. Yestorday the Commiisioner inl Equity and tihe Sheriff ontortainid quite a crowd of "plain and colorod" citizens it the djoirt Houso door. As differenits lots of property were al ounced, difforent local crowds soom. od interested. Tihose who are poverty stricken, or who don't want land or anything else that has to be paid for inl cash,are every now and then eitertainted, b/an/d, by the great amount of whispering in each other's 01r, which goes ou .11'r those who are ilterested. How to Grow Unions. The Prairie ,rmer gives tilo fol. lowing direotious for growing onions "()no half bushel o' colmnilltI salt, 0110 polid siphnr, two oi-es car. bonato of allulnonia. 'Tis mi onliti to be applied at onio timoe-tho lirst ap plication to bo miade as soon as th oniolls come up. If the ground shon0d got hard and weedy, the amount sihould be doubled or even tripled. This is the famous recipo by ivlich .so many onions worO said to be grown in Iowa last year. No ioeing or weeding The compo. <ion for one are, to be applied Once a week for eight weeks, 111)011 onionssown broadcast. F~on 1 I mnin.:n LIvi. T:s i Lb AT 4--A -WH K-C K i' E usN ( Sr18 i IAM .1n. 1o.<ro:, De. 2S.-A let oL- has beet receivedl from Rio', dated November , and Iblished in thiTere/cr of ti city, which containis this appalling sLate inent "This morning it Brazilian steamer i-is arrived from Montevideo, bringing the news of thew loss of 1.ho Enghsh Mail Steamer SaLtuii, in1 a, terrible gale off I hint place a weeks ago.. She was iron clad. am one of the'linest lookinr stenam ers I ever saw. Site leftIh harbor of Bahia wiile we were at anebior there.. When sie went down sio had onl. board four Iudred persons, incindig the btew and iassengers. Among tho lal.ter was ihk Ai N ' -lis lt' lister, Vhto had illi-t beti relh:ved 1o ww'le him t Imthko a shori. U.ji. home. Ie, wih t e rest, was I.4L. only fom teen ou. of C' wholA belng &tved." A c cuij r., Kir. j.NG--TWO fteed tnei01 1111inoed Charols M'1oreai and Ro bert Williams, employed On .1tulgo - (G reeni's f in met ink a store ill Co. umb iouwhero Williams had gone to returint a innisiet, which lie had horrow od a short tino before. Tho men were on good termq, and a friondly senfillo occurred botween thoem, dur in1g whlich the gun-loaded witht pow der andi paper wad only-acecidetly wvetit olT,) and1 theo conltents )voro lodged m~ thle pait of M organt's stomached. Tfhe wountded maun was carried htomo, andl liigered unlt il yeterdaty morin g, by Coroner Walker, and~ the ,jury re turned a verdict that tho doceuse c-ame to his death by a musket in the hanids of Williattus, and "by mnisf'ortunte aond contrary to htis wil"-P'hwni.. I. ,. . IN onioNi'awANE.-A mtan nlamed John A rnol, a passenger 01n thet steanmer limperial, wvas killed by lIt'h mze, tnar Fort. Peck, on the Up ~per M issE ZI, in October lat TIhe l1mp~erialh ahter wards getting hard aground, I lhe steam er Benton, ont a trip for E.L H-. :Dmtrl, of fjeaven worth, Kaisais, g.ook oni' heri freight and passengers. Emong thes goods .taken was tho property of the mutrdered man. 'Te heirs, or any per son proving htimslf, rightfully enttited to roteive t he saime, erm~ getl on dteasimg. with satisfactor prtoof,' Eu. ii. ])utfee, Leavenlworthl Kanisas.. None of the passengers onti 0 -Impherial knew amtythink of the deonsed, save thtat ho wa on his way to St. iulvtm Call fornija, via Montatna. Ili a posedI toebo I'romt Virginia or Kqzen y1 Etasi 01ru and Son tithtpern gcao coply. Vralue the fricendship o(hm.whvlo stands by you in tile stormfl;.swatrm1 of Insects wiill farround1( 'you in sunti alhmen.