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Jirap mi Jafts. r. -j?? Among the students at the Universi^ of Yirgini*, is a son of the editor of the 1 New York Nevos. A Jittle boy, returning from Sunday school said to his mother,?"Ma, ain't there a kitty-chism for the little boys ?? This cat-eohism is too hard for me." Tbe Ntehville Christian Advocate says the next session of the General Con fetenoe of the Methodist Churoh, South, will be held in New Orleans, oommenoing on the fiat Wednesday of April next. A speoial from Columbus* Ohio, to the Cincinnati Gazette, says: "Gen. Sherman has written a private letter to a prominent gentleman now in this oity, in which v he takes strong grounds against any interference in the* Mexican iinbroglio." j Several wagons loaded with cotton plowed through Belleville, Illinois, a few -dftf&riuoe, en ronte to St Louis. The ar4 tiolo was raised in Southern Illinois, where, lowing to the fsvortble weather, a large .% yield was obtained the past season. The Charlotte Democrat saya:-? "Corn is besoming father scarce in this market, but we are gratified to learn that ' one of oar merchants is endeavoring to make arrangements to procure a large sup> ply from Baltimore and. elsewhere. It is thought it oan be shipped to thiB market and sold for less than present prices. ?? The University of Miohigan is now the largest University in this ooantry, containing one thousand and fifty-one students, distributed as follows: Medical department, four hundred and thirty sit ; law, three hundred; literary, two hundred and sixtyfive. Three new assistant professors have been appointed, one in eaoh department ? The institution is well endowed, and tuition free. ?? The twenty-eight arsenals and armories in the North contain 4,025,175 pounds of powder, 401,026 pounds of shell, 288,818 pounds ofcannon balls, 84,800 pounds of grenadeB, 47,802 grape-shot, 21,855 pounds of bombs, 1,000,000 good Spring field muskets, and 500,000 captured and foreign muskets. - The Fenian Convention have at length deoided to reduce their organization to its original simple government. The titles of President and Senator are toT>e io the hands of a head centre and central council. The charges preferred against Mr. fcoberts and the other Senators were sns tamed, in,a tney were ezpenea rrom tne " brotherhood. Col. O'Mahooey has been ehoeen head centre. ?? A joiiftt insolation has passed the Xndiapa Legislature requiring the Governor or his substitute, to enfbroe the thirteenth article of the Constitution, prohibiting the immigration of negroes into the State, and authorizing him to oall upon the militia for the purpose, and holding him to fines, penalties and imprisonments if he does not enfbroe the lav. Poor Sambo fares but illy among- his pretended friends. The Supreme Court of Louisiana has rendered a Uccioiuu ?? o?l? &? ? Japm! v tiou Jssoh Iiouhn, that Qoafederate money deposited with a banker oreated no contracts which conld be enforced by oar Courts, that snob a contract was contra bouos morttj the depositor Intending to give circulation, as currency, to one of the means by which the rebellion was to be aided and promoted. The depositor, therefore, could recover nothing, and be was dismissed with 008ts. ^ The intensity of the cold in New York, reoently, was demonstrated by a very .1 -L Ta il i , __ singular pueuumeou. xs was a snow storm formed by steam. At the Falton Ferry boose a pipe of ihe heating apparatus oarried the exhausted steam into the air j tbe end of the pipe pointed upward, and the. foroe with which the steam issued caused it to ascend thirty or forty feet. While io the air it was not only condensed but oougealed, and came down in beautiful flakes of enow. The Virginians are discussing the propriety of abolishing or changing their fence laws. It is proposed, instead of compelling a man to keep a fence around his plantation, be be required to fenoe up his stock?keep his cattle, hogs, &c., within an nhalAOn?A Tf ia a?ei?Ai) tLat OU ?uviUDiuy< av id tuguou lUdb bliio pitfU would be a groat deal more economical . than the present one, especially in view of the fact that so mooh fencing aod timber, m many localities, were destroyed daring the war. Last week, as a railroad train was stopping at GordonsvilJe to pat off a mail, quite a crowd who had assembled there made an assault a poo the mail agent, who was a northern man?as the post office department appoint none who oannot take the . oath. They informed him that they would not allow any Yankees to ran on their roads.. Words led to blows, and the train moving off the mail agent escaped with his life. On reporting this to the post offioe department, Gov. Bandsii immediately struck Gordonsville from the list of post offices, and trains now ran by that point. < A savings bank for colored people established only three months ago io Louisville, Kentucky, has received iu deposits over $30,000. About $7,000 have been received from colored soldiers, originally from Kentucky, but uow ou duty iu Texas. TVia ItMilf ia a krannh nf a mfinnal nnm pany called the "Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company," chartered by Congress and approved by President Lincoln, Maroh 3d, 1865. President. Johnson highly commends it and has directed the Secretaries of the Treasury, War and .Navy, to give it j all proper facilities. The New York Commercial Advertiser says that, as the process of moving the cotton crop progresses, all indications go to j show that our estimate of a supply of not less than two million five hundred thousand bales will be realized. These probabilities must soon ezeroise an influence upon the cotton market and the current high prices of domestic cotton fabrics. >Tbeir bearing upon foreign exchange is less important than might at first sight appear, as an increase upon the anticipated supply of cotton will so far reduce the price as to make the aggregate value of the exports about the same as would be realized upou a more limited shipment at higher prices. The fluctuation in gold is exoiting attention. In New York yesterday it was 1381, the day before 139|. How much lower it may fall or how much higher it may suddenly spring depends, we think, upon the action of Congress*. The deeline at present is attributed to the determined position of Seoretary MoOullough in favor of oontraotion of the ourrenoy, and as speedy a return as possible to specie payments.? The enormous receipts from internal revenue have .also inspired the public with greater oonfidenoe in the greenbaok ourrenoy.?Raleigh Standard, 19 iA inst. 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IN "GREENBACKS." a COPIES,...9 4 SO ...f 6 00 0 COPIES,... 8 75 13 50 10 COPIES,... 17 90 99 00 and an extra copy to the person making a club of ten. After a elub baa been returned and the money paid, the person baking the olnb may add as many more subscribers at the rate of the original olnb, as is desired. 3L Subscribers who find a (X) cross mark on the wrapper or margin of their paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. CASH! We wish it distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and job work are oasb. 9SF* Attention is called to the order of Col. J. A. McLean, in another column, re. quiring the beats within the precinots of the 34th Regt., S. C. M., to organise into companies on the 12th of February: "THE CHABQE." Those who have experienced the trying sensations of''waiting hi reserve' during the progress of a battle, will appreciate the vivid reality piotnred in this little poem by J. E. Wilson. The infantry-man, whose brigade lay "Beyond that wooded hillside's sheltering curve," And there will appreciate bow trutbfally this hour o* solemn suspense is described. The author in aprrrate note says : * * ?I cannot tell whether or wot It is worthy of pobiioation, bat I can speak feelingly of its troth, as it was always my fortmto to be in reserve. My brigade never got into a fight nntil everybody else was whipped- ont, and if we were whipped too, we usually bad the blame thrown altogether on our heads/' IMMIGRATION TO THE SOUTH. Efforts are "being made-in ahnoet every State in the South to encourage tbe'immi* gratio.n of foreign white labor, to supercede that of the negro. Legislative enactments have been profnse on this subject, and go to Bhow that the country places bat little relianpe npon the negro as a laborer, in hie new condition -A colony of Germans has arrived in Louisiana, and found immediate employment at %h wages; another has just landed at Wilmington, N. C , and eeonred employment before leaving the vessel they came in. A colony of Swedes recently arriving at Richmond, Va., have gone to work on the James River plantations, under favorable prospeots. Another colony arriving at Alexandria has fonnd immediate employment on farms in the vicinity The readiness with which these foreigners obtain employment, exhibits the best argument yet offered upon the wants of the country. That want is labor. The advanced prices of all agricultural products is stimulating it to its utmost tension, while the actual wants of the country in itsp'resent impoverished state, render it necessary to make ever; productive patch of ground yield its income. Planting never offered greater inducements or better compensation than now. Formerly * it was adopted as a safo investment for oapital; beneeforth it : will, to a great extent, go*into the bands of capitalists as a speculation. The inoome from a Southern plantation, will, if prop, erly managed, yield a better profit than its value invested in trade. -.The experiment of compensated freed labor is now on trial. If it fail, then foreign white labor will come in to take the place of the black. This experiment with negro labor has not yet been fully tested. We have high hopes of its success, sod believe it will eventually meet the wants ol the country. Should it fail, the freedman'c doom is sealed. He cannot oome' in competition with, the European, who will b< called in to. take bis place. He most give way to superior taot and industry, and the only use the oonntry had for him will have abated. Efforts to encourage foreign immigration will* probably be suspended until this experiment is determined. The negrc is giving better promise of usefulness now, than in the early days of his freedom. Hii destiny is in his own bauds, and his willingness to labor determines it. BEMOVAL OF TBOOP9. Affairs hare for some .time indieated the .speedy withdrawal of the Fedoral troops from the State of Alabama, Ynd the discharge of their duties left to the militia.? Gen. triomafi has approved the requisition . of Governor Patton for arms for the militia,-and signifies bis readiness to turn over the oontrol of the State to its oiwil offioers, whenever the local military organisations are completed. Gen. Grant, however, in aoting upon the application of the Governor, throws oold water upon the whole scheme. He says : 'For (he present and until there is a security for equitably maintaining the rights and safety of all classes of citizens in the States lately in rebellion, I would, not recommend the withdrawal of the United frnv til mm n TKa nnrnkfi* IUUIM39 UUV|IO ilVUl U|VHW? auo uuiufcfv* of interior garrisons might be reduoed, bat a moveable force snffioient to insare tranquility should be retained. While suoh a foroe is retained in the* South I doubt the .propriety of putting arms into the hands of the militia." * THE FBEEDME1TS BUBEAU. While we find much to meet cur approval in the special conduct of the officers of the Freedmen's Bureau, we regard its general tendency as unfortunate in the extreme. The results of its action, are opening an irreoonoilable antagonism between the for* mer owner and the freed slavQ. The negro is taught to believe that every concession of remuneration by his former employer, is only so muoh wrung from the white man by compulsion*?that his rights are unsafe in hia hands, and that the white community are his natural enemies. Such are the injurious impressions created upon the minds of an ignorant people, by the operation of the Bureau ; and just so long as the government may consider it neoessary to'impose this inoubus upon the South, just so great in proportion will be the estrangement oreated between the white and blaok races. While the one regards it as an engine of oppression, the ether looks, npon.it as his safeguard against the tyranny of the other. - Suoh sentiments are in antagonism to-the interests of both white and blaok. Whatever may have been the feelings of the country towards the negro as ^ al*?tA U Co Jionnaa/T 6st A*ran/1 frt Kim on o OMTVf XV IO UlopVDCW KU UAkUUU W U1UI OO freed man, folly as mooh as thig Boreao has asserted in bis bebalf. Tbe Code adoptedby the S. C. Legislatore for establishing domestic relations towards persons of oolor, has accorded to the blaok every right and priviOut FfMclmaa'a Bttrwm. Xr even banded justice, it even goes farther, 'denying to the negro social and political eqoality, bat guaranteeing to Jum every right not .inconsistent with this position, that jnstioe can require Politically the negro is plaoed upon the status of the unnaturalized foreigner. His labor competes with all other, and is hedged about with whatever legislative protection it may require. Socially, howeyer, he is designed by tbe law to remain what he is. His own efforts may in time elevate him to a higher grade of importance and usefulness. But for the present, he must accept the position to which the oountiy has assigned him. No outside aid can do anything more for him. mi la J x> jluu rrccuiuou o uuicau 10 puwoncoo tu. elevate bis social Btatas; and his asefniness to the country, as a laborer, supplying a common want, most be the means of elevating him as high as bis eapaoity.will enable him to reaoh. It is erroneous to suppose that the country entertains a hatred for the negro. Otj 'the other band, it js willing to afford eveiy enoonragement to bim to beoome useful and industrious. Needing bis labor, it is willing to pay remunerative prices to obtain it, and the competition whioh it wjji-' ezoite is the surest guarantee of good wages, and just treatment. His services are. not less in demand as a freedman than when a slave?-and these services will always command for him a willing oonoession of saoh rights as may become his through honest exertions. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.X The session of Congress is fast wearing away without any positive legislation/ thus far, upon the oondition of the country. The 'Reconstruction Committee, will delay their report until information has been received, defining the. exact status of eaoh of the Southern States?the-effect of all proclamations of Provisional Governors, and the results of elections under snob proclamations. The programme seems to be to keep Southern representation out of Congress as long as possible. Stevens- offered a resolution on the 15th, > instructing the Committee on the Judioiary 1 to consider the expediency of so amending the Act of 1865, relative to the test'Oath, as to allow lawyers to practice their profes sion, without taking said oath, on an equal i footing with other professions; which was adopted r 4 ? This is taken as an indication of a > "break" on the part of die Radicals, which ) may .finally result in the.repeal of the test ) oath. The Secretary tf the Treasury and the Postmaster General earnestly call for its I modification so far as it affects postmasters > and officers of internal revenue. , The debate upon the bill to extend the i right of suffrage in the j)iatriot of Colusa bi?, o?m0 to * 0I088 od tho-lStb, and by a vote of 116 to 50 it passed the House in its original form. Somebody-offered a resolution the same day?probably as a counter-irritant?to inquire into the expediency of letting the negroes deeide by vote whether or not the-whiten-in the District should be allowed to vote. In the Senate, Chandleb's resolution offered on the 15th, deolaring non-inter the harbor opened fire, compelling the filKhasten to take-refuge in the upper pert of the town. At lastaocoants the filibusters : still held the town." It is stated that the fillibastere are commanded by Ool. Reed. General Crawford C had started from Brownsville for the stone of action. % ^ The last aooonats say that 1300 imperial ists had left Matamoras to attack the filli- t hasten. - 1 Aocoaats from other soaroes state that ? ColoDel Redd with* four hundred fillibastere i oroesed tbe Rio Grande, from the Ameri, t oan side, and captured Bagdad, on the t Mexican side below Matamoras, taking as 1 prisoners the whole of tbe imperial gam- 1 son of 150 men. Hon. John, Bell, of Tenses- * see, who was a candidate for tbe Presidency ( in 1860, is out in a long letter in wbiob he 1 gives his views of "the situation," and his ' advice as to what course the Southern ' States should pursue He Chinks that oe- j groes should beallowedto testify in courts of justice, and to become voters when they I own a oertain amount of property and pessen a oertain degree of intelligence?say, are able to read and write. ' It is said that the Emperor Na- { ipoleon, in his opeoing.sddresi to the Leg- i islative bodies about to assemble', will ex- 1 pren amicable sentiments towards this 1 country. If so, the war between the two ' nations whioh several parties have so stren- ( nonsly- endeavored to get np, Will break i through. It irfeared, however, that Amer- "1 ican filibustering on tbe Rio Gnnde may ' blast this bow of peace, ere it fully ripens. The Yankees abont Fortress Mon- < roe have taken a big soare, and visions .of 1 "men in grey" again swarm before tbe eyes j of those in obarge there. The following telegram whioh has gone the ronnds of the < pren, explains the cause of tbe sensation. - ? Fobt Monroe, Jan. 15.?Orders were ( received yesterday from the War Depart- j ment to disobarge all employees in the va- ( rious Government departments in this dis* ? triot,.who bad been, in any way connected A with tbe Confederate .service. In accord- ] ance with these instructions, the Command- t ing General immediately dismissed all suoh, , abont twenty-five in number, giving them short notice tq leave tbe plaoe. . ,. " The agent of the National Express Com- ^ >pany wa9 also sent away fdf the above res- ( son. This order wad undoubtedly caused | by,a rumor that. an organization was being formed to resone Jeff. DAris! Armed, pio?- ' et boats are on duty constantly to examine 'i all vessels arriving in .this harbor, -r?-?? A correspondent of the Cincinnati . Enquirer, thus sketches the persond, of i coarse between this country andGreat Brit-, ip, and withdrawing our Minister from the Court of St. James, was tabled. A resolution offered by HowAto, in the Senate, asking for the speedy trial by a Military Commission, of Davis and X^ay, npon various charges, was objected to, and lay over under the rules. The repori-of the Hqom Committee on claims, came op on the 17th inst. In regard to the compensation of loyal persons in the Sooth for the destruction or appropriation of property by- the United States during the war^an.axohsuge says : "The committees, discuss the question elaborately, and come to the conelnpioo that no rale or law requires the recognition of okims of this eharadter; that the magnitude of the public debt created to suppress the rebellion, renders it impossible for the Government to attempt to compensate all who .havesustained individual losses by the action of.aTihies in the field; that the attempt to pay suoh oliiins would impair national oredit abroad, destroy confidence in public securities, impose such- additional taxation as would give eause of discontent, and lead, to the . possible encouragement of sueh evil-minded persons as favor the policy of repudiation." Doouraf, of .Wisoonsio, who seems to be the leader of the party in sopport of the President's policy, delivered a lengthy argument in its favor on the 17th. He argned that if the terms offered by President Johnson have been aooepted by the Southern States in good faith, the faith of the nation is pledged to them just as mueh as by.the terms contained in the surrender of their armies. He would admit as Representatives all who oould take the prescribed oath. - As .all know, the most justifiable of all oanses for rebellion qt revolution is to tax and govern a people without represents* % . . Y tion. In the Hoose, Mr. Conkunq introduced a series of resolutions proposing f re-establishment of federal relationship in rebellious oommunitfes on the condition of absolute rennnciatioh of secession, repudiation of Confederate debts of all kinds, and! the adoption of snob measures as will relieve the Government of the necessity of standing armies in the South, etc. The rosoloiiuun mio utjcoStd iO. - - The petition of tlis N. Y. Chamber of Commerce, asking that Southern debtors be excepted from the . benefit of the statutes of Limitation in the Federal Courts, has received the attention of the Hoose Judiciary Committee. - The, report says that any farther legislation upon the subject of the petition is deemed unnecessary and inexpedientj inasmuch as > tin act Of Congress passed during the existence of the war cavers the subject embraced in the memorial. The following is the Aof alluded to: "That whenever during the existence of tbe present rebellion any action, civil or criminal, shall aoorae against any person whb, by reason of resistance to the exeeutinn nf Ola lataa nf Oia TTnifai} iwih? interruption of the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, cannot be served with process for the commencement of suoh action on the arrest of suoh person, or whenever after suoh aotion, civil or criminal, shall have accrued, such person oannot by reason of subh resistance of the laws or suoh interruption of judicial proceedings, be arrested or served with process of the commenoement of the aotion, the time dariqg which snob peTson shall be so beyond the reach of legal process, shall not be so deemed or iafeen as any part of the time limited by lav^ieTlbe commencement bf such action." NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. M. Alexander?Spectacles and Goggles. A.JF. McConneD?Dog Lost. WTp. McFadden?Carriage Factory.. T. T. Yonngblood?Auctioneer. . . . Mrs. J. M. Jones?Notice This. Joseph Miller?Twenty-nvo Dollars Reward. A. Coward?Circular. Robert Latban?School Notice. . A Conner k Co?Commission and Forwardln* Merchants. Geo. W..Williams k Co?Merchant* and. Bankers. Col. J. A. McLean?General Orders "No. 1. W. B. Metis, C, E- Y. D.?Notice to Creditors. W. H. McCorkle?Auction Sale. W. H. McCorkle?Cotton Seed for Sale. B> T. Swift, A. 8. T. Aaent?Government Sole. L. D. Goore?Oh 1 yon Black Republicans. BDITOBIAL^NKLIIJGS. A startling roport from the Rio 'Grande, comes byway of New Orleans.? Wg are inolined to doabt the whole story, and consider it a canard gotten up for sensation purposes. The following is the statement: ' "Several officers and men reoehtly orossed over from Clsrksville, Texas,, and took up quartern apparently for the night; bat oh/wfln (ClJniakt thft OTIftrdfl at tftA DWVIVIjr W?WI UilVIUIg? -o ? -T--W ferries along the river were surprised, dis| armed by the party, and such lighters as were there, immediately seized, and with them the military force at CJlarkSville immediately crossed over. They Were a hundred strong, agd mostly negroes who orossed. A garrisonat Bagdad of abont 150 men was completely snrprised and captured. The Captain of the P?rt Md the Commander of the post were taken prisoners -while ^ tk.l t in ma. n vu reponou tuav tug *viujcc was killed and the latter escaped. Upon taking the town, a scene of pillage and plunder was immediately inangorated. The warehouses vase gutted and the-contents crossed to the American side. The gunboat Antino was called on to surrender, and-she answered with a broadside, which scattered the fiUibosteis in a similar manner. The Antino was en route up the rirj w. An Anstnsn Sergeant on board the gnnfoatwaejtiHed. "At daylight the French men-of-war in - ' the inimitable mjjill arp," wnom tnpoon- ' fidenoe of Me people* recently sent-tolbe'J Georgia Senate : - -^Bpiikiig of Senators, one member of \ the State Senate ur so well known, at least ] by bis nomme de plume North, as to ren- ; der it perhaps not altogether uninteresting ; to give some account of him. This iff C. < H. Smith, of Borne, the oelebrated "Bill ] Arp." Tail, stoutly baih, with black eyes, , hair and beard, slightly bald and of rather ( a grave expression of obabtenatiee, the remark is often made* by visitors that he is a* boat the last man in this hoase One woald take for the anthor of that iuimiteble ap-. peal to the great Artemos. Mr. Smith is a lawyer of fioe'abQitiea, and in social intercourse a very interesting gentleman, when shaking off what seems an habitoal reserve. Often, however, when, saying least, an arch curve of the lip will betray beyond mistake some facetious thought is flitting 'through the brain of toe great Fnharmonized father of Cbiokahominy and Boll Run Arp." * ; THE LICENSE LAW. The following are the amendments to the Lioense laws of South Carolina, for the sale of spiritons liquors, passed at the last session of the Legislature: I.. Be it enacted by thd Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in ' General Assembly, and by the authority of the same; That the City ConnQil of Charleston, the various Municipal i Corporations and Boards of Commissioners of Roads, and all other persons or bodies , uuipuianj, 1U WUUUI tuv IIgun W giauv v?fem lioenses, or license to retail spirituous liquors is now vested, be and the same are hereby authorized to fix the prioe of such license at sooh Sums as to them may seem proper: Provided, That the same shall not be less>thaD fifty dollars for eaoh license. II. That any person who shall violate the Lioeose Law of this State, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum nol less than triable the aofount of tbe. price of a lioense prescribed^and, at thetfme of tbe commission oflhe oflfenoe, existing for the local jurisdiction wherein such' offence is committed, and shall be imnrisoqed at tbe draeretioa of tbe Ootirt. The Cry for Blood.?The New York Commercial Advertiser, a Republican paper, orifioises quite severely, tbe oonolnding portion of the reply of Mr. Attorney General Speed to the Senate "resolution in regard to the trial of Mr. Davis. Wer quote as follows: "Thank God ! the men who baye perilled their lives in this war are tired of damage, and want no more butchery. Grant and Sherman, with their pleas for mercy are worth a whole regiment of stay-at-home doctrinaires. It is rather late in the day for the punishment of men who surrenderee! months ago, and every successive day reduces the number of the blood-thirsty, while it adds tQ the blind ferocity of tbe few implacable that remain." *' fi Items about Newspapers.?Eight 1 daily papers are now published in Rich- l mood. Tbd New Orleans Tvmu is the largest paper in the world. It baa a sixteen pages, with ninety-two columns. j Tbe Nationalist is a new journal f established in Mobile, to be exclusively de- t voted to the rights and interests of the col- i ored population of Alabama."**".***"*The s profits of the London Times are $850,000 ' per annum. ' tfsnfnbntertal. J i I ^ .BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. ? JOOTMBIA, 8. C..JANUARY 22, 186$; i . . = ? rhe Railroads t The Soatb Oarotina Bail road is running a hrongh from Charleston to Columbia!? it list?after a hundred delays, and after 1; k score of promised arrivals?at last the ears j oiled in on Tuesday, the 16th, . No trhia-. Je or bell announced it, aqd no shout from ? be gathered crowd of spectators greeted it, t rat it rolled silently and quietly in, about our o'clock in the afternoon. i The An go eta branch of this ^road has ?et a gap of about thirty-five miles, over vbich travel js stagod in the style of ether ] lays. The hiatus extends from near 3am; 1 jerg to Johnaon's Turn-out. They are tush- j fig op with that work at a rate eonsidentjly less than lighting?half a mile a day, ] >o good working days, maybe, when the ] freodmen are in the humor to work 1 y Wo hear the cam. hooting up qu.the t Charlotte Road; and infer that the work is t inmniAnmnor on the Colombia end of load. ' " rhe University. f The University of South'Carolina is re- J roverring from* the amorphous condition into i which it was thrown by the late radios!, i legislation upon it. Bat it_will take a good i while to get everything in clock-work style i igaiu. ; The determination to aooept the' fees, st cetera, in greenbacks instead of, all at irst advertised, in specie, will ensbfe many a come who otherwise -would be unable to, pay in specie. The number is increasing, ind ere long we hope to see it quite large. lfoard in oommons is 87.25. s week, in rarrency. At some of the boarding-houses ;he rates are a fraction higher. Books. .-C '' . Ihe poetns of Jean Ingelow, the last lensstion among the poetesses of England) ire attracting a good deal of httantion ?. They have been published in handsome ityle.in New York; and an illustrated edi;ion of her Song* of Seven has been gotten rat.in drawing-room style. This poetess; teems to stand somewhere between Teany10d and Mrs; Browning?less artistic than ietj and less daring than she, with a sweet itmosphere of Natnre arid Simplicity over ill she writes. * . . Of novels there appears to be a lajge stop. We will mention a_ lew that sire new \o the most of os ao-jong-hlooksded folks. J [Jne of Jbe very newest is Wylder's Band, t>y LeFanu.- ' Mrs. Holmes, the authoress )f MeadoW Brook', has tu oew -book oat? Hugh Worthington. Mrs. Anna Co&A. ' Ritchie, a native of Richmond but for many years resident North, is feeling the publie interest with Fairy Finger*. Those , who found interest years ago in Rotledge rill be pleased, to mad another novel from i :he same pea?St- Phillips. This a a lb oriss, since oor acquaintance with faer book, o 1860, has appeared before the public with Frank Warrington, The Sutherland*, Lieaie, etc,* Looking Around, fry A. 8. . Roe, is also a late book of the novel style. ' Babnum, the.Grand Mogul of humbugs is uat -with a new %?ok~**?he Humbugs of the*. World, so account of humbag*t debt lions, impositions, qaackeriai, deceits, and $ deceivers-generally in all ages. Ba&ncm is ~ irrepressible. Artemus "Ward, Bis Book, appeared some months ago j and . Artemus Ward, His Travels, is jost out. A newspaper paragraph says that Artemus was killed with escaped gaa in Boston a few weeks ago. We hope it is not so. Victor Hugo by a Witness of his Life [lAzdame Hugo] has been translated recently : and sent to as from the North- One of the timely books just how Wore us is a neat volome entitled the Cruise of the Alabama and Sumter; oompiied from the ' papers of Raphael Semmes, , C. S. N., etc. Nameless, a novel of English Life by. a lady of Charlotte, N". C, has beenreoeutly issued by a publishing boose in Raleigh, and is among the la?e sensations in that line. BeUt Boyd oi whom everybody has beard, who is now Mrs. Habdinge, has published a, book since the war, about the war and her adventures therein. It is entitled BeHe Boyd in Camp and in Prison. Of the same style also is Guy Living, stone's new book?Border and BastUer- j a volume of his adventures- upon Confederate Borders and Yankee Bastiles. The Presbyterian Theo. Seminary. This ios^thtion is again at work. The faoalty consists jost now of Drs. Sowe, 1 Auger, and Woodbow. Dr. Leland's > health does not allow him to resume his duties there. 'The number of? students is 1 very small; bat they confidently expect < more at an early day. The Southern Pres- 1 \yterian has reappeared recently; and seems < \o be ia vigorous bands. < Firewood. " ' lb Wuhave* a sew thcrtnometer in Col am-' j )ia?the price of ffireWQod. It is enter- j aioing to cOhBult this instrument. - On a ( ?''? -In moi-m Aav nrrvwl htnlor ttrriefl ong about the streets With bis load; and if ( pou ask him the pribe of hit little load he ^ till answer, hesitatingly and deprecatingly, t'TWo dollars and a quarter." Next day ( ;he weather is colder, the wipd is brisk and j ihere are indications'of rain. The same J joy with a similar load answers to yonr in- { juiry about his prioe, "Three dollars and a ( naif." Next day it is ool-l and raining and ( ihe same boy will scarcely atop wben you t icoost him; and answers tartly, "Pour dot- 4 are ancl a quarter,"?[always a fraftion.] If ext.day it is sleeting, and desperately bad j n general. The boy avers that his load is a xjgaged at five dollars and three qnartera I g Sooh is our new thermometer. The price" . >f wood indicates both thermometrie. and * jarometnc conditions of the atmospbfcfc. finch we snnnose is life in other places, md may bp everywhere-; add it ia all very J bony?to those who bars greenbacks. Jchool-Booka. / Every teaober, of education, of thought | md of character, baa fait the embarrasment 1 trodnoed by the multiplicity of textfookf t hem really so good in their way. We ben t eceivpd several icquiri^apoo^iteastoter; t ' c tool master perceives the immense advan- j ages ot uniformity of text boots 5 and*we eature to throw oat oar suggestions with view to bringing about that desirable eonhese the best; aed if not the best, wby W they not and whatoKrlhe best: ' 1?in English Gratninar ^Tbe Ana- J ytiesl and Practical ilogiish Grammar of 4K 32^i?' Geogrcjfy.~8b fories of Ow- ^ ermediste, and High Befool3?In McOhernqtia^JBto-Stm of Be. 4?Spelling.?Worcester" 9 tHetioaories. > >'l 'tt.j ? T .ijj rt i^.1 300K ; wiwi JtiarKnoss itwan uzuunsr sua Andrew's Latin Lexicon. 6? Greek? Harkness' First Greek 3oob j with Crosby's Greek Tables, and jiddell and Scotta' Greek La?<tfp. To him who demure at oor list, we quote, , ra as la ting :?*<?# yo? inowf better Am base, telLtheid j *rf hot, oaefcemwfebme" We aodentsod that General- Saxxox ias been relieved from-the oonuBttffct Apartment of the Freedmcn'a i,urean; tod .that General Gardner, a man far note acceptable to the people of the South j ind especially of Sooth Caroline, has heen M ippointed. ^ 'I'MJ!.. jr.1,13 : Written for the YorfcviUe JSnqoirer/^. THE CHAHOB. t * Sublime beyonddescriptionUUsescedf* WSJ*'" Two armies ore In conflict the stern crash Of muakm rlae from within the screen Of Minding dust and smoke?the vivid fiaah " 'Of the taeemartunon plays, Uke rash Mi lurid letting, o'er the raging cloud, \ The gaud* tim t^ wbe& Jm&e aqtu|Aa? ctart^. -Combine to raise an uproer fierce and loud, Beyond tint wooded hillside's sheltering cturve, Among whose waving tree# the zephyrs play, A * One small brigade;* stationed in reaotta Who take as yet no portion in tin flay, . But wait to watch thefortunes of |he day; .. They may at any moment hear the call ' To hold the too successful fee at bay And for their wearied comrade* farm <* +/&&&;? S I tVhen on their ahottoad ranks o'erwftelmltignjpahetsftil. An thoughtful silence they await their tasia, yrffr * Of wffom, with anxious mlrds, they often ask j Howgoes thedonbtftdhattM ragtag Ugh.* <4? But few the words they speak?the stifled sigh <ft9 HeveaJs what solemn thoughts their bosoms fill: ft Remembrances of loved ones dim the eye . I And caa?? the overburdened heart to thrtU? I tad prayers ascend from earnest sostiawioaeJpi ateaflll. | The run la slowly sinking fa thsjfWeotfVi t'.tfr1 Tlie wavering baule surjestoaod fro, , ' To those who next Its ftsrfui jMwer mwt know, And now begins to fall UteirsiVn^jfr xafc^'-'V' NowihteueBMieTiemtytJ^SfSiS^'^ i rhwsaifly broken barriers which rflM^Rt way. } Now the expected trial draws Oh gentle reader, coold you Hialuai rlMBfrom eacli f^uriorinoiilii,v They roll upon (hf focraan'* started bost . J2 With the wild fury of the avslanrhe, '* .; -'* } 4*> jjfl When Winter's icy citato flpnncftaa; s*mW>, \adliv.rled UUtondcrrtflg froa tto??n?in to thetwi. V Aadststa the greednrttilj "TWUlli frWljii 1 The whittling rntonle and ibe sMtMsy JMtt * ,|:j ' i M . Tear through their rmirs i iiij1fha^|1jha|Bt I Death comes to relze ebelr mangled trsmes and swell - I The gory list of tb^se wtofoatfaviao-wett. i i hl? It onward ttoonsh rh^Br rtto. S I The ^ tag k gattried urihm iy goMy Of other norm* ore dowered, which aA00^^ * A place among tire hlghwt on the rqP?f aapl.' . But wuxn and loving hearts rauet soon be dtil)ed4-, When the proud ?toiy of thjn charge is told, ' And hippy home* with hopefew grtlf WawjJrT:' J? \ Por Mine who met the fire with ftwttjip befcfc-^.-;Whoee once high poi*e U now Uttm cold '4tV' That hoar of ftme coet many a bow And broke the staff at mm? * belpSttilttdK*^' ? * The crutch, theeli L *4nil4aW4h*V9t|M0MMta AH BtUl epeifc the Boomfoi pihiMrdf thoMfftegoflMiftfeMk wffi January 20th, 1888. ^ zl * ijtfrrr- i^ycm i<i| - - - 1 Attention is directed to thead*M*?en?8t ?B of Rev. Robert Lathan, proposing to fl commence at on MMqp I ae*i, ? RngZlilMai^Wp*Ab?U**r~ 8 Fie Carotidm&k ig wider thftn.it ever wm before mibii &m0 S eotion of its editor." Br.BoBMfrlf|| Protestant Church Gen. PAJiUm^ 3 >f Kentucky, baa decided that the cfcij a?- I borities may punish soldiers for offences 9 ioramitted in thecitrpf Louisville. |g Jet).- SxEBLiifCK V lenr^Ten Gra% mipnflwiMMafoaftd ? ffl lity to be called Gartoita, that shall rival ' 9 Se* Orleans. $b* Srwdmen's Bn- 9 can of Mississippi has been evdorrtfe tp*e? 9 ?! _. Ull-i-Bn a?i eiiniuill wfUllttti rtta KfZ. wrrae muitary id recihis^iuijwig % urn ciis- 9hh issippi river lereea. printers of 9 iRT WILIJAM8, U. TXTtyW ed itffco the U oited S 9Mid %* vB