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WINNSBOROg _e 0. Wednosday Morning. Jan. 29, 1868. Desportes, Williams & Co., Props. TERMS---rOR HERALD. THRME DOLLAR8i per yonr; TWO DOLLARS for six nionthe ; ONE DOLLAR for three inonths - p abaO In "greonbacks., Single copies Toll Centts. Tho priper will boo disciontintled on tile exIlu raltou of the time for whiloh payisent ha loo 111-1410 iSubtscribers who lind a cro~s nairk onl the wraliller or niarg of tho!r pelmr, will understand tihat tho tirmo paid lt has i lrori. At)VERVIsING RAI'lIC.-Ono Dollar per squato for tho first, and Hsventy-ivo colts f -r citch sithso i1tint nrtion A sq n r consists of tho spnce occu. pled byv twelve iline oif this size typle. (;.()It RaTES -10 copios (,no year Twesity-fivo Dollare. Ac extra copy to the orson muinle up the club. uifor tho let Jnntar, 1 k7. 81" Withitone mtnti 'romit the d-ito a clubis rottirn dl nl tho money is paid, the piersn iumking the chltal.ilty ahd tny numybter o fnani at the sniae rate. kh3r- Wewis h It tilslincly uderstood thart (our eas for subscription, advortibig aind jolb wurk nr What is Our Real Condition ? Events have lately rollod liko an avalanche upon us. The thunders of a mighty Revolution are roaring in the political sky. The upheavings of the sea of polities are bringing up mire and dirt, and we som to be socially, politically, civilly and roligiously, "up-side-down." Compare to-day the condition of South Carolina with her condition when she was born a State. Go back to Charleston thon. Contomplato the purposOs as well as the malericl of that grand aind noble (ollvention which framed our first Constituition. Look at the body now assembled there to frame our last one. WO say "last one" with a sad heart. If imperfetions occurred in the first (and all mon are liable to err), it was from an error of the head and not of the heart. But tho indications now are that both head and boart will con spire, perhaps unwittingly, perhaps not, to mako what may bo our last. Constitution a momento of our de,,ra dation. But who is to be blamed for the present situation ? Evidently. both the North and the South. But tho former being in the ascondancy t hrows the whole burden of blame on the latter. And this accounts for our now anomalous situation. The Radi cals North and mean whito mu in the 8outliwould have the world believe tith the native whites o the South lay th< whole blame upon tho poor negro ; that becauso lie is free, thorefore his form or owners would vent his sploon upor him. But this a grand mistako. Th< wholo notion of the lato governing class in this State was dictated b.y honesty, wisdom and the highest light bifore them. And now we are called upon to lovc A-id adore all that the Radicals see lit t) inflict upon us. But can wo do it ' If the Ethiopian can obango hi. k.inl, or the loopard his spots,'' ther wo can recoivo bitter for swet and swoot for bitter. Our prostrate State lies at the mer 03y of tile Gloths anhd Vuadals. Theiu hordes have overpowered us. I them our sacred temples have beer descrated. By thenm all thatt was good and noble ini our State Govern mont has been ravished. And non like a victim to tihe altar, we arc brought, to be sacrificed to the hiate a id revenge of those whose mental and moral greatness was as inferior te these we loved to honor, as their brutt force was superior. Can a Southern man then be fountd. true to his naturo, wvho does not feel mortified whten ho reflects upon the present degraded cond itien of a la irs in our State-to say nothing of that throughout the South ?I Whena a State ignores the experience of high intelligonoo, in the name o all that is good and honest, what else can it dcpenmd up)on ?1 T1he only an awer is, it leans upon ai br,>kcn reed. A nd that now is the destiny of oum Stato so hangs, none can doubt, Money is Boarco. Thise Is the universal and well-ap proved ory now. And witha whoni is money not scarceo II 0:0 wvo are in the South, a section ruaned by North ern aggression, without anything but the mtost prossing economy, and the most appalling prospects before us. But one of thie unukinidest cuts of all. Ja the un-beard-of tax now about to bc imposed by the great baboon Conven tion in Charleston. Our groat draw-back Is a want at appreoiation of the pressure upon us, What are we ? Nothing but a people oppressed for conscientious op in ions, We are no0w suffering just as those whc were brought to the S8panish Inquisi tion suffered. We are suffering fom opihion's sake. We have been rob. bod', abused, insulted and oppressed, only because we wore consientious iii our belief. And for this reason, money is scarce. Labor is gone, the staple of the South hab lout its prestige, and sot, a mem. bar 'of the ring-streakced-and-striped ha. had the boldness to say that to ro o3pgmin debt. ineurred for the pur. aIe of ales is to reeogiizo tde le gaelfsg ofalqveqy Convention, who is willing to face the Constitution of the United'States, framod in 1787, and the history of the country under it, as to say that slave ry, as it is called, was not legal under the Constitutions both of the United States and each State I It is the evidence of extremo igno rance, to take any other position. Men who are playing into the hands of the Radicals may say it, but those who were nurtured under the teach. ings of such ablo men as our State once olimod as its leaders, will never consent, nor will over any honest South Carolinian consent, that Wash ington, Madison, Monroe and Rut lodgc, and a host of others, noted illo gally in the formation of the Constitu tion which gave un a stand among the nations of the earth for moro than thrce-quarters of a century. Of courso, then, money is scarce, and will be so as long as exotic op prossion auna taxation are to be our burden. Our Terrible Burdoa for the bonofit of that Terrible Convention. Follow-citizens, iand sulbscribiors, Yon cro likely to ho "gouged" to pay the axpensos of tihe "nigger'' and "North 0irn", Convention nlow assemibled in Charleston. 'Just think of it-$200, 000 to pay the expoens of a set of good plough-hands. [By the by, an old acquaintanco of ours used to call tihe thing that now forms the majority of the ol/aPd in Charleston, "field officers."] Now, when wo say a set of good plough hands, we woul not be nider stood ats intimating that wo would care to have "old times" reinstated ; but wlat we man is simply this, that thrre is many a man (i. a. a Thad. Stovens' man) who would be in his sihre more when between the plough handles, than ho is in the Convention. $200.000 dollars I Think of it, old citizens. Why that thing in Charles ton proposes to pay itself ciyht dollars a day and twenty-hivo cents milonge, individually I Congross has about tihe same pay. Of courso the great Con vention in Clharleston thinks itself equal to Congress, ind must have equal pay. Thus the majorically ignorant crew that d isgraces South Carolina now, un der Radical rule, votes itself, indi vidually, over one thousand dollars for what ?-why simply to put our Stato in the catalogue of thoso that have boen turned over to the tender mercios of blind folly. "Lot the Galled Jade Wince," The Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance, at Albany, Now York ; passod a resoluttion lately, oxclud ing negro representatives. And thus the world wags. Ram paniit liadicalism threatens us of thme South with the vengeance of Iheaven if we don't acknowledge thavt the late class of slaves are judt as intelligont as our long line of educated wvhites. And here, in New York, a lovely sot of Southern haters exclude the blacks from all associations with thorm. Well, the (lay will come, and some of us ill live to see it, when the black people wvill conclude that their best friends are ini the South. We are not going to flatter themi, however, with the idea that they canm themselves form a Constitution, or frame laws for a State. We tell them, on the contrary that they are not able to do this very important work. And yet men white men have de ceivod themi into a notion that they are compotoent to make laws for their State. Like the maddened and vono mocus rattlesnake, they are only poi soning their own vitali ty when they assume to be able to frame Constitu tions and lawvs. But we do not despise them on this account. On the contrarmy, if weo n afford to givo thmm from a cup of cold wator up to any other relief or coim fort, wvo would not hesitate to do it. If the negroes in thme South could only realize the fact that all that their so-called friends in the North want, is their votes, they would soon como to their true senses. They may well say to the North, "practice what you preachi." And they may add, nyou tell us we are your equals, but you exclude us from an equal 6sttus." Thme North will feel this Punie faith, they are practising upon the Southern negroes. Like thme great ochoating En terprIses wve noticed the other day in the Nniws, all this pelavar for eqiual rights, &e., towards the negro, will turn out to be a yankee cheat. Yankee pod lars and yankee politi claus are tarred with the same stick. Cotton is Looking Uip. Thoe price of cotton has somewhat improved- We do hopo our farmers will not be decived by this spasmuod ie rise in thme price of thIs staple, un less it be to soll it while the market is The Issue betwoon the Presidot and Congress. The President officially decapitated Edward Ml. Stanton, the Radioa Socrotary of War. Tle very digni. flod and mild and honorable set of baboons assembled in the desecrated City of Washington (so called Con. gross,) told Mr. Stanton, the Great, to take the port-folio out of Gen. U. S. Grant's fingers and finger that thing hinself. And Mr. Stanton did. Tie bold General Grant had told Andrew Johnson repeatedly that that little document could never pass from his bands without a mandamus issued against him to deliver it up. But, presto / change ! the first intimation that the Presidlcnt had of the groat scratch the baboons made at him, was in the shape of a /illet-doux froni the bull-dog fighter, that lie had received Senate's notice to shut up Vulcan's shop, and retire. And so lie retired, -lie did. Tho hold General with drew fron his-poc:t-oorlks, not breastworks. Andrew Johnson ! where are yol ? Comoo utIL ' that Wiito iHouse. We know you are there, because we have lieard you growl. (Joie out, Andy, and bo a plucky Presidont. We'vo known such Prcsideit's to be immor talized in history. Take old "Hlicko ry" Jackson, for example. Conie, now, and show what Ic ind of' stuff you are mado of. Show your grit, An drow, and lot tim baboons and '"Tray, Blanche and SwCothcart" know that when your horn "toots" you are right thoro. Yankoo Imposition and RaoaliLy. Our roadors will reinember that < ie nmonths ago, we advertised in two or throo coliums of the N.-vs a no tice of a hug affair in the way of a lottery to conic off in Washington for the relief of tho suiftering South. Tho compensation received at this office was a package of 99 tieko's. Tholie contract was on the part of the moan yankes to send us one ihundred. The whole thing turns out to be a iumibug. Now we have a word of aidvice to of for our Southern friends in rogord to these baits thrown out by aby kind of lottery, gift eiterpriso or any other choat that is annonied from the oth or side of Mason & Dixon's line. Baso, vile, dirty, false, faithless and perfidious yankee flood the South with thousands of circulars, confiden tial letters and all sorts of shects, only to clinat our people out of their hard oarned and scanty living. We must ignore them. They are imposters dooply dyed ill soidrelism. Wo hop our District has given the last encouragement to this vile scum that floats so frely over the surface of tI North. But there is one thing we ought to have explained. In the grecat fraud practiced on the Southiern Pr'ess late ly the names of' many promiinent men, and among them Governor Orr, ap peared as honorary miember's of tihe Association. And the advertisements wore kept up for weeks. How~ weree all these notables so imposed 01n ? TheoCharleston Morcury Will now repay any one whlo sub scribes for it. It contains spicy re ports of tho proceedings of that great (?) assembly now sitting in Charles ton. By the by, the Mercury is the only paper in Charleston which sends us its daily issues. The News did for awhile, but as soon as wO p)ut ini our colunmns its Pros1 octus for 1868, and gave it an edlitorial notice, we began to receive the Tri- ilreekly. On Saturday last thie Mercury did not reach this degree of latitude, and it is more thiaii an ordinary disappoint mocnt nOW to miss it among our daily exchanges. Don't forget us, you Mcr curial mailer, if poss8ible. General Sherman Coming Again. According to reports from Wash ington, tie President is about to dis patch General Sherman down South to investigate the condition of things here. We sce ne noed ofsonding him, for any man Who can put two idonas to. gether ought to be abhle to telt that if lhe himnself ruined a country, the con d ition of the country is rusin. The Rook House. .81r. Editor:. Little River is famnous, and deservedly, for its hills, and theso have been famous for their crops, but it is not the object of this communication to notice either of those, but to lead the mlald of the reader to a sin. gle object eonneeted with one of Its most precipitous bluffs, "The Reek House." The eastern, (known on the map as th~ sonth) fork of Little River, is formed byl the confluence of Hill's Creek and Lee Creek ; a few hundred foot below the uaioni of those streams, and in, whats was one John A. Jtrico's nih1 dlam, Crooked Creek, rising in the ,icinlfy of Concord Churek, eontriburc onIts waers about. .. a -urere Mile below he silto of the old mill, the crook runu 4g wrestward over a considera. ble strotch, strikes a bluff twice as high as Druery's an turns off in a southeasterly direction. n the face of this bluff is the objoot to b considored. Instead of one there are p'vporly tw4 Rock Houses, tho larger and ltore irregular one has its floor below high ater mark, but four or fivo foot aboyo low at'r. The cavity extends back into th hill about twenty foot. The key stone of the arch in front (for It is not a solid rook) is about sovon feet above the floor, farther back it Is lower. The walls and roof of this cavity are of imm'onso thickness, and the columns in front ir regular. The first timo I visited it, the only inhabitant I saw was an owl which I found and left sitting with its back and face both towards me The smallor and more regular pile of rocks is a lhitl south of this and hilgher up in the bluff, having its base near a horizon tal plain with the roof or th e former. The cavity in thiu is small but tihe external out line gives it much more the appearance of a house. Th front is l.crpontdicular, the eaves are aImirably beautiful. The top of this is about forty feet vert ically from tihe water and fifteen horizontally. Along the bluff, which is two hundred feet in length, many perpendicular faces of rock present themselves, other rocks have the appearance of parts of an equitorial triangle, towards the southernt1 ond an im menso rock projects towards the river. The bluff thoug'i almost perpendicular, is everywhere accessible by the help of ,wind ing courses, trees, and uhrubbery. It forms part of a hill whose stmimit is about one hundred and wenty foot west ot the river and eighty feet above it.. This hill is visi ble to the traveller on the left as lio ap. proaches the mill site, on the road leading from Yonguesville to 1Dcll's 31ill Road Upon viewing the objects described, in "c;rnoction with the heavy rolling stream, I was impressed with feelings of suidimity. Accident, brought m11o to it last, week ror the first t imo, and although I was born andliave lived wihin hearing of tile sound of tile wators that lave its base, I have not heard it mentioned once for every ten years of my lift ; and though I ani only writing about "big rocks," I fuel that. I am attempting to call attention to a work of the areat Arohi loot. that is exco.led in giandeiur by the sublimer works of nature only as it is ex. celled in mngnitude. The Anvil Lock is known from t ite lue Rlidge to the sea coast, and lives (perhaps in song) certainly in prose comn position, and yet Is not to be compared with the scenery in question, but it has this advantage, it stands inl sight of the old road leading from the up-count ry o Columbia and Charleston, nd, of the Charlotte & 8. C. Railroad. The lines were not writtenm about rocks, yet they como irresist ibly to mind, and are true. ''Full many a flower- was horn to blush in seen, ant1..waste its sweetness on the desert air." I cannot invite the reader to visit the Rock House, it is in the phItation of John A. Brico, bitl can say that, to the admirer of naturo's works it is worthy of a visit ; but should you visit- it when the river Is a little swolen, a more interesting timo, be ware of the ford above, lest you be made sensiblo of tie fact that. there are but a few steps "from the sublime to the rodiculous. I would suggest that when "Spring time comPs"if the young people of the vicinity wish for recreation and amusemonts, a visit to the Rook hlouse wouhel be as intcresting as going a fishing and perhaps as profitable. J. C. C. Tlh~e columns of y'ourt paper are made the depository of good news, and bad, of haugha blejoke and fun, the advertisement of the energetic, the merchants and others. The poet hlas his corner. may not the comxplain. er have his, ospecially when his complaint Is legitimate and founded on facets? My complaint is the frequent rillaging in a small way of goods in tranlp'rtation from our sea poerts. This has of Iato become mo common that merchants cannot afford to ship coffee In s.ncks, the usual way, but must put it In barrels for scurity. Wo knew one house in thme Bloro' which lately lost some 20 pounds fromt a sinighe sack, and they asserted that scarcely a sack was without-its little rent made acidenthly cm otherwise, but In all eases withI considern ble tollage. I want shownt fo-day by a imer chant who had just rceivced a lot of cheese one which has a large hole gouged out, ofit some p)ounds missing, evidently cut ott with a knIfe, and the box lid put oni again. And to all outward appeauanch in good order. Now, Mr. Editor, don't youm think that the officers of thme different lvansporta, lion companIes might do someithingit to remoe dy this cause .of complant ? Some ma3 say this is a small mastter to make "to do" abo;ut. It would lie if the one timi would satisfy the pilfered, but, sir, its the frequoey of the thing that makes the loss considerablo andl something wvorthi mention ing and it culls for reform. - ' EIMPa ON. LEAP Ysan.--Ouar ladlies are no doubl already aware of the fact that this is thic ye'ar during which it is their specia privilege to pop th question 'to any fan young man who is pleasing to their sight Time following, from a volume on courtshi1 and marriage, published half a centuri ago, stIll show thmo antiquIty of the eus tpsm: "Albeit, it has now become a part. 'if th<n common law in regard to the social relation of life that as often as ever y bissixtile year doth return thme ladies have tho. sole priv, loge diuring the time it continueth of 'mak. lng lovc Vnto men, which they may de either by word or aby leeks, as unto them seemeth proper, and, moreover, no man will be edi.ftled to thebonofit of the clergy wh< doth c~futo~ t6 aoe~t'the oil'ers of.a lady, or who doth in 'any -wise treat her proposal with slighteor conmely." . Dmua'mn or itOfIANT.-1amo3 Dil~ g Esq., whip he beet) engaged In merehman dialog In Colun~ der a number of. years dheparteud this lieterda...j., . o DRATM OF JoUN JAUoo AsTer.-The so. cond son of John Jacob Astor,the millionaire, died in Now York last Friday, In the 06th year of lise ago. Sinco his 17th year he has been of feeble intellect, owing to a fall upon his head at that time. The Tribune says: The deceased, whose name was John Jacob Astor, was occasionally to be soon upon the stroots, under the care of an at tondant, and two years ago Ie was sent to E urope in [to hope of recoverijpg his failing health. A good many years ago his father, after vain efforts to offeot his rostoration, built on Fourteenth-street, near the North river, a mnasion for his accommniodation. It occupios an entire block, and is sur rounded -by a high fence, to prevent prying and curious eyes from seeing tho movements of the occupants. On the death of the fa thor, one of file principal itenis in his will was a provihion entrusting the younger John Jacob to the cntro of a physician in whomi Io placed implicit confidence, and settling a handsome Income upon the Four tecuth-street mansion Its brother, the intonsely active business man, Win. 13. Astor, has, ever sinco his father's death, neglected nothing that could ameliorate the condition of his unfortunate relaeivo. The father of the.e Astors was one of the most energetic and successful of what is I~le "M!-1 lf-mado meon." Hc) was the wut of a German peasant, near Ieidelhurg, and sailed for Baltimoro in 1783, taking with him a few hundred dollars' worth of musical instruments to dispose of on commission. lie became acquninted on the voyage with a furrier, who advised him to exchange his musical instruments for furs, which lie did, and from this began his systematic devo tion to the fur trade, which ho conducted with such extraordinary sagacity, energy and success that, when ho died, ISIS, his fortune was estimated at S20,000,000. at .that time the largest, sn over accumulated by individual enterprise in America. The increasing value of t ho real estate beqiueath od by Mr. Astor to lis sons, and caroful managemment, - have of courso greatly en. hanced lie fortune they inherited, though none of them have given evidence of won. derful talent for accumulation. l.Honitinmt: AcciDeNr iN CiuATTr.%oooA. We learn that, a shockinig accidoent occurred at Cliattanooga late on Saturday night. by which two young and acomuplisied ladies lost their lives. It appears that. Aliss \Ia. ria Daily had been spending the afternoon and evening with Niss Kato Harrington, at tie residence of the latter. About 11 o'clock tie young ladies returned to Miss [)ily's residenco, intending to sleep there. It being culi, Miss Daily attempted to stit a fire in th( stove ; but the fire not burning brishly enough, aho procured a gallon-can of coal oil, and poutred some of the oil into the stove. In an instant. the oil exploded. In aniot her instaint fihe young ladies and every. thing in tle room were in a blazo. Miss Daily threw herself oil a bed in an adjoin. ing room, but only succoodod in setting tire to the bed -clothes. She was soon rescued by the negro attached to the house, who, alarnod by tho screaming, rushod in and bore her out. NIss IHarrington rushed out into the street and was immediately rescued from the flanmes by soveral gentlemen who had arrived on the scene. 11. 1 h ladies were so severely burned I lint they died early on Sunday norning. The bodies of the two unfortunate young ladies presented a rovolt ing nppearance. The victims wvere highly esteemed in Clint. tanooga, and t heir melancholy fate calls forth universal regret and symipathyi. -Knoxville (7Tenn.) Pr~ess w;.! 1Jeraid, Jain. 21. Tusi Coavsrros..--The Charleston News speaks as follows of the present aspect. of the Convention: "A crisis has evidecntly arrivedl in the policy of the Convention. heoretofore, its tone has been comnparaitively conciliatory and moderate. U ercafter, the negroes are likely to form a compact, solidl body of vo. tars in one direct ion. - The real animnus of their action-t heir hate for thme landholder -was yesterday developed to the full, and no man not a member of [lie Convention could o'bservo thto display of feeling, ill conceived as it was, without seeing trouble in the not dlistant future. "Some supposeod that the body would be nmodrato; ait South Carolina would be able to boast a more intelligent and better dispnsed array of delegates than any other 'rebellious' State; thle bubble has burst. Negro shrewdness is likely trniumuphant in the Cotivent ion, and thle whirl wind set in me tion by the white leadersm is fast progressing beyond their control. Trho excitement yes. terdlay, after the Convention adjourned, was very great, and wve seriously doubt whether there is strength enough among the white dlologates to hold it In check, unless this desirable objet can be compassed by such clover negro members as hipper, Wright, Langley, Wilder andi others of thant class.'' CoNonress:AND TIE H Monusioys. - The Wash ington Exzpress says: The Committoo0 on Elections will soon have a novel contest to consier, and one that will involve the ques Lion whetheir tho government of Utah, as ad ministered by Brigham Younug is, republi can In form. Mr. Mciroarty, the candi. dlidate of the Oontiles, has arrive:l hecre, Iand Is now preparing evudence to submit in contesting the seat of Mr. Hlooper, the sit ting delegate from Brigham's domninions, who was elected by tihe saints. Mr. Mc.. Giroarty claims that the elections, conduct. ed by the bishops of the Mormon Church; who act as judges at the polls, are not only unfair, bitt wholly at varlasee with the mode prescribed by United State. law. The evidence will set forth all teo peculiarities of the administration of clvil affairs by these Mormons. Thme heirs of the late John A. Washington of Virginia, It is said, have begun stit- In Chioago for the recovery of once hundred thousand dollars'- woyth of real estate in that city, which was owned by Washington at the time he was killed In .Virginia, in 11.A Chi.bago lafrmode hilr way, thrughth lios an fnding the Washing. ton heirs, represented that tlio estate would be confisoated if it remained In their' name anud hmad it do'ioded to him fer safety. H~e Gen. Ouster Acoused of Murder. PRELI31INAnY EXA3llNATION OY TitE OsN5gAL AND AN ALLEUND Acco0tPLIOVa The Leavouworth Conaervative, of last Thursday, states that onl yodoosday (lona. ral George A. Custer and lieutenant W.'W. Cook were put upon preliminary examina tion there, for the alleged murder of Charles Johnson, private in company K,- 7th United States cavalry. Captain It. M. West, of company K, first testitles. We abridge his statoment: Custer was lieutenant-colonel of theo rogl mont, and Cook a first lieutenant in it. Johnson died no-ir Fort Wallace, on tho 19th or 20Lh of last July. Up to 2 p. n., of tho 8th le was on duty as privato in wil ness' company. At the timie;,nix men woro scon loavinag camp. Two mounted parties were ordered by Genoral Cusler to puirsue atd bring none of thio In alive. A gov ernment wagon returned, bringing three mnat who had been shot, one of whom was Johnson. Ile was very feeble, and seoomed to be sufforing very much from tle wound in the lead. 'ite wound which secaed to aifect him tmlost was a pistol bullet wounel entering the side of thae head near the right temple, and ranging downtward, coming out near the leftsido of the windpipe. le had another wound in his body, and one it his arl. lie was slant in tlae Territory of Colorado, July 7, 1867. Witness applied to General Custer for medical attendance for the wounded maena, atad was told that they were doserters, and a deserter was not on titled to any consi'leration. Witnoess urg, ed that tle wounmdod mno received surgical at tenldance, Which was allowed after some further conversation. Witness did not see tle shooting, but heard the firing. Lieu. tetant Coc.k was in one of thle pureing parties. He told wituoss hao hadl done some of the shooting, and haped notie of tle wounded would die. Jolntson was hale aid hearty before the slhootig. A detail of his company buried him, and wit.nesas reand tl Ep1iscopal burinI service at lio grave. On cross examination witness ronembor. ed to have conversed with Gon. Custer about Johnson's being so desperate that lae would not h brought, back without a fight, and that Johnson's being so resoluto that le maight. offer resistanYo. Major J. If. Elliott comattatn aded one of tile pursuing parties, and Lioutenatt II. Jaceksona tie other, anl they were gone an hour or an hour anid aft half. WitnOts did not hear the order to bring any in alive, atitd cannot say if' llook lcard) it. lcarl Caster say sonic. thilng to the effect to go after them and not, bring Any itt alive. Was not at th1e exact spot where t lie parties rode off. but was itt hearing distanee. The inedica attendance, was ordered nt tlie lina it was applied for after tle conver'sal iota. When re-exanmined for tlo S.ato, wi n s< said Ithat his rematarks to Gen Cislor about Johnson were made after the order land been given to tle mounted patty, and after hey had started itt pursnit. Goneral A J Samith anlad other Unaited States ollicers, besides the defendanats, were prescnt t lie at. examination. On lte second day Licutenant IT.nlry Jackson testilied thant lie wias ordered by (Jen]. Custer to pirsuio the deset ters, to shoot them, and bring none back alive. Hle overtook two, who surrendered, and set t them back. lie then setit after tle otlhers, and found Johnson lying on the grotud woatundel, bill saw ntahintg of i1l0 shootini. Was left by Major Elliottin charge of' alte three wotunded. Tle Majot' ro'aeturned, antd a wagona otmo for' la10th . Witnaess thought iienttenlaant Cook was ntot present when tie order was given to bring none in alive. Cloanent. Willis; dute of lie deserters. '.es tified that le saw ieutenant. Cook shoot Johnlson with a pistol. Miles Moylen, first lieutenant and adju tant, also said that tain order was given to lrinag anone back alive, and thought Ltteut. Cook was present when it was giveai. 'I lisl witness added. that whean the loessago entame halit three was wounlded, Gent. Cistr order e.I t i ngonl senta after themta, andal a melical offiaer' was i attendance, before Col. West 's request.. Tie substance of the (eneral's reply to this request was tlat tle maetn could havo necessary mttedical attandainaco. The St ate Conventiona r.t Char; eston 'coma' sists of' li'ty-tfbr'e whikotemen atnd sixty. thraee tnegr'oes. 'lThis is a disgauslitng specta ele to be presented itt the Unait,aj '~ Sates be fore thte eyes of mnankinda. It is strange that even the wildest of ilhe Rtadiicails do nct recoil faroma I henmselves whent they conatem.. plate the dlega'adat ion to wvhicht athey htavo redueced thec country -if inadeed (lacy (dare to contemplate it at all. Bt it. is very pr'obable thtat thats con von (iota in which the negr'oes have taucha a maujor'it-y will do tao worse titan thae ctnveta lions of Alabatma, GIeor'gia, Mississippi atnd Louisinana. Imaaecol we do tact see how it, well can, for thie fouar latter cotnventions, I hiough cotaaning whito amajorities, have acted an the exoclusive interest ofthec blacks, fully recognizaing this as a par'ty necessity, whichl thecy could net for a momeont. safely dlisregard. But. we shtall see what theo negr'oes will do wher'e thecy ar'o In a clear majorIty and have full sintg. Of Couarse th' white conafederatos will be all thae while busy with them, not trying to keep things straight, bait to give thecm theo righat c'ook, and that, we suippose will be the Black Qrook. (Loisui/il Journal, Jani. 16. "I'I.T, CALL Anaam -A.5n Pa'."-..Whta a world of wo is contaaned in Iteso few words, to the poor art Izan and mechanics ! "I'll oall roundl anal pay," says the richa man, to avoid thec trouable of going to hils deosk to get theo necessary funds, and thec poor mechanIc is obliged to go home to disappoInt hIs workmen, and all who depend upon him for teit'dute. It Is an easy matter to work; the only real glory in this life Is an inde pondlent idea of being able to stutain ,your self by thec labor of youar htands, and It may be easily imagied what erushair~g force there is in "I'll caill around andi pay," to thte laboring mana whao deplends on that pay for subsistenoe If thtose whto could would pay at. once, It wouldl place hundreds and thtousands In a condition to do lIkewIse, and would provettnitach misery and dIs tress. A dIspatch to thae Now York Tibuina states that on Monday a proposition to make theo Internal Revenne Department an independent bureau was uander considera,. tion in thte Coamitioe of Ways aind Means, and it Is understood that the cemmittee are nearly ananimousa in favor of the measure, and that a provIsIon looking to that end will be emnbodiedin the now bill 'whIch they are preparing. The question of a drawback on the whiskey exported was also under considoratlon anad It seems to be enerally conceded tltalso 'will be adopt. Diekons put his tiokets up to the dollarsn \1 vaeingDonhro Local Itoms, luano , Attention is called to the advert iso miout of J. N. Robson, Nos. I and 2 Atlantio Wharf, Chntleston, S. C., who offers to our farmers soveral valu. %blo kinds of conoontrated inauire. Mr. Robson's long experience in Ahis business of solooting and furnish. ing the South with such fortilizers, is x guarantee that those wanting thorn (and who does not ?) can safely apply to himl. 'he Old Post Offioo. This old uilding, adjoining s McMastor's Hotel, is undorgoing quito x transition. The familiar old piazza lis. bcon tori- down, preparatory to turning the building with one end to the Main Street, to bo converted into a store. This old building recalls althousand associations. Our late venorahlo cit'izen, Mr. John MoMaste r, was postmastor for about forty years there. In spite of old associations, wo like 1o seo improvements. A Puszlo. Somio1 years ago the following in scription, engraved on a fragmeut of stono, was discovered among the rel ics of an antiquarian, and its transla tion was unknown to all, some suppos ing it to refer to the Emperor Clan. diai, till a lad one day sld'. it out, and pcrhaps our readers can do the salo: BENE. A. T. 11. T. II. 1. S. S. TV. ONE RE. POS. ET. II. (LAUD. COSTER TRIP .E. SE LLJER 0. F. IMP. IN. GT. ONAS DO TII 11[. S. C. ON. SOR. Tr. J. A. N. E. Pilforing. The uttention of Railroad authori ties isi called to a comiunication in the Nrws to-day, showing how, to some11 extent, shippors of goods are im. posed upon. Thore cn be little doubt that it is at the Junctions these. thieving propensitics are carried out. The public denands solne protection. in this particular, and they can get it onlyfrom our Railroad officials. New Advertisenients. North Carolina Flour--Ketchin, MeMastor & Brico. Noices.--y Commissionor in 'Kqnity Dissol it ion--Thotpson, ..Wuhe & Woodward. Crackers & Chuese-Ketchin, Mrc. Master & Bric. . Inlmportanlt, Notice-Bf Cathicart & Ma'thews. 20,000 Pounds IIldes-J. P. Mat thewvs, Jr. More Taxos--R. IT. Jennings. WeeklJcy Review of the Winnusbo Mariket. ron rnsweu rslNGJANUAnL 25. Theo domuand for cotton for the past, woek . has been very free ; an advancing tendency has brought quito a run with the markets notwithistandin g the unzfavorablo weather. Ihring thze past. weok about, 315 bales have been sold, someo in storo, but mostly In wag ons, prices closing on 25thz inst., at 9@10O' for Low Middling., 10611 for Middling and 11i6@l2 for 8t~rlct - Middling, free of tax. Wec must again urge upon our plant ers tihonecessity (and for their own special advantage) or preparing their cotton in bet. tor or1or; a taxt is imposed on all cotton in. bid order, and very properl1y, f'or some one, . either buyer or seller has to pay It, before a. oloin hill of lading will be given for tranls. portation. We also understand that, a tax. of 250. pier bale is now charged nominally,. for weighing Our cotton bnyec s are very willing to weigh and mark their own cotton withodt olhargo. but government ofleoors are still more u'illing to claim their perquiaites. or oflice, without r'eturning a guil pro guo. We hope the day may not be far oft', wihen as... *essing, taxin~g, taaoing and skinning will be finally and forover abolished for the general. goodl of the planter. Cotton Yarns, $2.00. Salt, $2.76. Gunny Cloth, 25a 26. liacon Sides. 16a17 ens Lard, 17 a 18 cents. - Molasses per bairrel 05 a 76. Country Flour, $0 50 iz 7.00. Baltimore Flour $1Z000 a $12.00 per bar" rel. Corn, $1.6'0. Peas 00 a $1.00. Dlutter, 250. Dry Bildes, 100, Green, 6o. Gold, 85o. Silver, 26. DISSOLUTION.. HE co-partnership of Tho-opson. With. Persons indebted to lhofi'm' are notified to settle upi by the 10th February, as longer-' Iadulgence cannot be gIven. * Og 1. TIIOMPSON; 'i!C W. WOlDWARD. 0O-PARTNRHIP. 1 I1E subdirjbore ha'o o~e'ed ihjo a co -L partnership tinder ie nam. of Thiozhp. son & Woodisard, uadd will stive to merit a. share of public patonaT'Ue -~ ~ Jpu 26-1j2,'