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jtojrs and .facts. A. T. Stewart is about to retire from business. We believe he is not worth more than $50,000,000, and should think he would remain in business until he had amassed a competency. # The United States Supreme Court decided, in a case from Mississippi, that a judgment concluded by a court in one State is concluded as to every other State, and so remains until it is reversed by a superior court. Dxyden was so bound up in his books that his wife one dav exclaimed: "I wish I were a book that I might always be in your society.!' "I wish you were an almanac, so I could change you every year," replied he. The Auditor of the South Carolina Railroad Company announces his readiness to pay all interest on the funded debt of the company, due on the 1st instant Provision has also been made for the payment of interest due in England. It is related of two old Scotch ministers that the one asked the other if he were not sorely tempted to go a fishing on the Saturday afternoons.? "Oh, mon," replied his fellow laborer, "I'm never tempted lang, I just gang." ? London is fourteen miles in length and ten in width, and contains a population of about 3,000,000. We call New York and Philadelphia large cities?and so they are?but neither of them is onefifth the sire of London either in extent or popula uon. If the United States were as densely populated as France, our population would amount to 528,000,000; if as densely as Belgium the United States would then contain 1.195,000,000 inhabitants tire world in 1866. The University at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has but very few students, and those talk of leaving. A North Carolina journal thinks the only remedy for this bad state of things is "the election of General Joseph E. Johnston, or some other military man," to the presidency of the college. The Catholic Church in the Unted States is said to have 3,884 churches and chapels, 74 theological seminaries and 1.404 academies and schools, containing 30,000 pupils. The Catholic population of the United States is estimated from 4,000,000 to 5,000,000. At the recent session of the United States Circuit Court, held at Parkersburg, West Virginia, the grand jury made more than two thousand presentments against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, for violating the revenue laws in failing to stamp receipts for freight. The Jewish Council, to meet in Paris next year, will be called to decide upon the abolishment of the prohibition against certain articles of food, * the suppression of polygamy among the Jews in Algeria, and the recognition of the rights of inheritance of female children. A despatch from Washington, dated Sunday, savs Ben. Butler is stirring up the Radicals to the work of impeachment Fie told a well-known Boston lawyer to-day that he was confident that the South meant another war, and that the Radicals should lose no time. Great Britain contains 285 persons to the square mile; Italy, 225; France 180; Prussia 197: Austria, 155; Spam 84; Turkey, 19; the United States, 11; Russian Empire, 9: Russian Europe, 32, and Brazil, 3. The eight European countries named are said to contain over 270,000,000 inhabitants. Henry Ward Beecher is lecturing in favor of an extension of the ballot to women. One of his arguments runs thus: "Man is vastly superior to woman?as man; and woman is altogether superior to man?as woman, and both of them together are more than a match for either of them separately." -An editor undertook to count the drunken men in Huntsville, Mo., and counted to the number of thirty-one who were so drunk that thev didn't know highnoon from midnight. He was brought up by a drunken fellow who reeled and staggered so he couldn't count him. There seems to nave been a good deal of drunk on that day. . ??A lunatic, from Knightstown, Indiana, on Christmas, went into an Indianapolis establishment, purchased a small bill of goods and drew a check for $100,000, which he tendered in payment, with a modest request that they would pay him the balance in cash. He signed his name to the check. "C. C. Thorpe, Cashier," and when asked what bank he was cashier of he replied,""all of 'em." Before the war, Dr. Parker of Columbia produced from one acre 200 bushels of corn, and from an adjoining acre, 116 bushels. The same gentleman also produced from the same ground 89 bushels of oats, and 82 bushels of corn. These facts show the richness ol our sou, ana invite agriculturists from abroad to a region that may be made to abound in "milk and wild honey." "Editing a newspaper, is a good deal like making a fire. Everybody supposes he can do it a little better than anybody else. We have seen people doubt their fitness for apple peddling, or driving, and counting laths; but in all our experience we never met with that individual who did not think he could double the circulation of any paper in two months. The Fernandina (Fla.) Courier says: "We learn from persons living in the interior, that the tide of emigration to this State just now is unprecedented in her history. A gentleman informed us, a few days since, that he observed twenty-seven wagons in one company, containing emigrants and then: household goods, all bound for Marion County. The most of these families are from South Carolina." The Chester Standard, of last week, says "that comparatively few contracts have been effected in that District, between planters and freedmen, for the present year. In conseouence of the great scarcity of provisions, a much less quantity of land will be put in cultivation during the coming season. Many freedmen are seeking new homes. Numbers have already left for Florida, and others are getting ready to take the same direction." During the past year there were 501 fires in the United States, each involving a loss of over $20,000. Total loss by these fires $66,610,000 against $43,139,000 for the previous year, when there were only 354 of such nres. There were 85 railroad accidents in the United States in the year just ended, causing the loss of 115 lives, and the wounding of 607 persons. For the previous year there were 183 accidents, 335 persons killed, and 1427 wounded. The monthly report of agriculture for December contains a final estimate of the corn crop of 1866. The total result is 880,000,000 bushels. In the eleven States not hitherto reported, 185,000,000 bushels against 274.000,000 bushels in 1S59. In 22 Northern States, 670,000,000 bushels, instead of 704,000,000 bushels in 1866, showing a decrease of 29,000,000 while the decrease in quality is equivalent to 75,000,000 bushels making a loss in leading value equivalent to 100,000,000 bushels. Over $2,000,000 in mutilated and worn out notes have been returned to the Treasury, where tney are piaeea in an immense revolving iron cylinder, carefully locked, through which u heated Stream of acid* rawos, sr? that thr> ink i? < "?!> ly removed, anu a mass of pulp remains. This is bleached, and manufactured into envelopes for the use of the Treasury Department. Large amounts of mutilated and worn out fractional currency are thus decomposed, and reconstructed into envelopes. The list of Confederate officials who have been pardoned, called for by a resolution of Congress, is completed, and was to have been sent to the House of Representatives on Monday last. It contains 295 names, as follows: Alabama 33, Arkansas 29, District of Columbia 25, Florida 8, Georgia. IS, Kentucky 12, Louisiana 21, Maryland 3, Mississippi 15, Missouri 8, North Carolina 17, South Carolina 21, Texas 13, Tennessee 15, Virginia 48, West Virginia 9. This list does not include the names of a large number pardoned under the $20,000 clause. The recommendations on which they were pardoned accompany the list. The population of New York City, which in 1800 was 60,000, is now about a million. The valuation of property, real and personal, has risen from $25,000,000 in 1805, to $736,088,058; while the real value is about $1,000,0(0,000, or a thirtieth part of the property of Great Britain. The banking capital of tne city is over $900,000,000, and the transactions at the clearing house for the year ending October 1st were $2,900,000,000. Its registered and enrolled shipping in 1865 amounted to 123,264 tons; and in 1865 there were 12,634arrivals of vessels, 2,018 of which were steamers. The exports that year were $208,850,25<J, and the imports $224,742,419. The President has the Jacobins on the hip on one point at least. Since the recent decision of that nigh tribunal upon the constitutionality of the test oath and miiitaiy courts, they have shown no little anxiety to re-organize and reform the Supreme Court. A little reflection, however, has convinced them of the mortifying truth that the appointment of the Judges of the Court is vested by the Constitution in the President, am that he would only appoint such men in the re-oi ganization of the Court as correspond with him i: political opinion. The condition of things in Coui is bad enough as it stands for the radicals, but as i would be made worse by any change likely to b made, it will have to be submitted to. ??The McKinney (Texas,) Inquirer says: "i train ofimmierants from Iowa, passed through tow this week. The rush from Missouri and Tennesse continues unabated. At all hours of the day im migrants from those States are arriving here." Th Natchitoches Times says a heavy emigration fror the Southern States east of the Mississippi is pass ing through Louisiana. It says: "Since Octobe last probably three hundred wagons, with families have passed through this town to Texas. The were principally from Mississippi and Alabama This is not supposed to be the most eligible route t the land of promise. If the emigration to the Gu by way of other points on the Red River be in th same proportion as in former years, the drain c population from other Southern States* will soo make Texas the empire State of the South, in por ulation as well as extent of Territoiy. Formerly th emigrant to Texas was accompanied by long train of blacks, with fine buggies and carnages for th white family; now each one drives his own team. ?Jtr ijotfevin* ?a<juiw. YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, JAN'Y 10,1867 Cash.?It must be distinctly understood tha our terms for subscription, advertising and jot ..-ylr- i??Lli il '?! ? X.?The paper will be discontinued on the expi ration of the time for which payment has beei made. a Subscriber finding a (x) cross-mark 01 the wrapper or margin of his paper, will under stand that the time paid for has expired. IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT. The Republican members of the House of Rep resentatives held a caucus on the night of the 6tl instant, to take into consideration the propriety c impeaching President Johnson. After some de bate upon the question whether the impeachmen should be made before the present Congress, o postponed until the next, it was determined that n resolution of impeachment should be brought int the House, unless sanctioned by a vote of two-third of the Republican members in caucus. In th meantime, all resolutions on the subject were to b referred to the Judiciaiy Committee of the House without debate. Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, on the next day, tock th first step towards accomplishing their object, b offering a resolution directing the Judiciary Coir mittee to enquire into the propriety of bringin charges against the President This is a bold effort on the part of Congress t get rid of a fearless opponent to wrong and injustice if they really mean to do what they profess. Bi it is probably a mere whistling on their part, to kee up the courage of the Radical party. The mice, we are told, once desired to get rid < the cat in a somewhat similar manner, by putting bell on its neck, but failed for want of a voluntet to hang the bell where it was wanted. In this cas< Mr. Ashley, who has offered his services for tht duty, is but a small mouse, and he will find Andrf Johnson to be a very large cat. THE WANTS OF THE SOUTH. Previous to the late war, the grand defect of th Southern character was want of energy. Our pet pie, blessed by Providence with a goodly heritag in a pleasant land, and surrounded by an abunc ance of all that heart could wish, were too muc disposed to abandon themselves to the enjoymer of the present moment, leaving the future to tak care of itself. Although capable of strong efforts, spasmodica ly made, they were not equal to long continue struggles to overcome difficulties. With plenty ( negroes to do their work, they felt no need of th many labor-saving machines, from time to tim invented, and allowed the world to get ahead ( them in many of the useful arts. It was owing, In a great measure, to this defic encys that we were overpowered in the great strug gle. The North was using every conceivable im provement in agriculture and manufactures to ad to the value of her land and its productions. He railroads were pushed in every practicable direc tion ; her steamboats penetrated into every littl creek and pond where they could float; and he ships whitened every sea. The world was taxe for contrivances to enrich the people of that har working section. In opposition to tins, the South had the "nig ger," and thought herself richer in possessing him than all the world besides. As long as he was prop ertv, he was indeed a treasure ; for he stood in th place of a thousand improvements on the plant: tion, and ten thousand conveniences which woul have been essential, but for him. What necessit was there for a man to be incessantly striving t ^ maxe money, or even 10 save it, wnue ne nau uij gers to make it for him ? But now a change has come over the spirit ( our dream; "niggers" have "gone up," (to us the expressive praseology of war times) and it tx hooves every man to make a determined effort fc himself. It is no time for idle regrets for the pasi We all find ourselves impoverished by the event of the last four years, and there is no way to g( out of our difficulties but to tcorl: out. The soonc our people find out this fact and act upon it, eac for himself, the sooner will individual and sectioi al prosperity return to our land. We are in a pos tion where we must make every edge cut N man should content himself with idly waiting fc opportunities. A young man, in particular, wh does this now, ig a burden upon the community and is not entitled to the bread he eats. While thousands of ladies, once surrounded b every luxury of life, are supporting themselves b their own exertions, an able-bodied man shoul feel himself disgraced to be without some usefi employment. This subject will be resumed; but, for the pre: ent, we conclude by earnestly exhorting every 01 of our readers to yo to tcorlc. COL. WEATHERLY'S MISSION. We doubt whether the action of the Senators < our Legislature, in sending Col. Weatherly i Washington as ambassador for South Carolina, w: strictly in accordance with the wishes or tastes i the people whom they represent. The object i his mission was to seek some pledges, securing tl admission of this State into Congress, upon tl condition of her adoption of the Constitutional 1 mendment. It appears that he received the d sired pledge, from certain prominent Radicals; fi which, we suppose, all good, loyal citizens ougl to feel duly grateful. But how much have we gaii ed by this gracious promise? We have already r ceived promises enough to satisfy the most anxioi of repentant rebels. At the very beginning of hostilities, we were a sured of free forgiveness and ample restoration our forfeited rights, if we would only take our plac upon the mourner's bench and confess that we hi sinned. But South Carolina was not in a mood accept such terms, and continued the struggle wii i . * - ?_ 1 . 11 an energetic determination to win or loose an. Unhappily, it was her lot to be overpowered, common with her sister States; but even in th hour of gloom, when all was lost but honor, tl cup of promise was held to her lips. The Sout ern States were assured of restoration to the U ion, but with new conditions annexed. Repeal the Secession Ordinances, abolition of slaver}', at repudiation of the Confederate debt, were in tu: demanded. These conditions were performed 1 the South, but the Radical part of the contract still unfulfilled. On the contrary, the ready compliance of tl South only increased the exacting spirit of tl Radicals. After swallowing all the bitter pills pr scnted to us, we have gained nothing but anoth dose, more unpalatable than all the previous cor pounds. The Constitutional Amendment is sue a monstrous outrage upon the honor and self-r spect of the South that her adoption of it was n 1 expected, even by the wildest maniac in the North; '* for which reason our Radical friends are devising " schemes to make territories of the conquered [t States. e It is difficult to conceive what good result codju be expected from it; and it must be regretted by ^ every son of South Carolina that such a mission n was undertaken under the auspices of her legislae tors. Its only effect must be to place the State in the ? humiliating position of seeking favor from her enemies, at the price of self-degradation. The Presi>r dent, we are glad to see, strongly discouraged the ), idea of any Southern State's adoption of the ay mendment, and exhorted them to stand firm in u their refusal to sanction it Our Legislature fol!? lowed the advice of President Johnson and rejected e the amendment by an almost unanimous vote. For >f this course they are entitled to the thanks of their n constitutents, and they will be sustained in it by the ?" State, almost as a unit e It is disagreeable to he deprived of rights to the g free enjoyment of which we were born, but far bet" is it for us to lose them forever than to gain them by stooping to a servue Degging iux wuai, ^ u6uv, j is ours. Even if our respesentatives were admitted, they - would be powerless for good in a body of such "loyal' ' tendencies as the present Congress. Let us wait patiently for the good time coming, if it ever ' comes, when we shall be admitted on terms of hon or and equality. t ( HISTORY IN ADVERTISING. _ j very Itrw persons, perhaps, have noticed what ~ kn important part advertising performs in enabling a strangers to form correct conclusions as to the men, " manners, and customs of a particular locality. _ There is a volume of language to be derived from the advertising columns of almost any ordinary district paper; and if rightly interpreted, these adver^ tisements are an infallible guide as to the moral and business physiognomy of the locality. Forinstanoe: a few days since, a little sheet from an interior town t in the far West, was under inspection, and turning to the advertisements, the following forcible exampies of what has been asserted, were noticed: o "John Smith, Attorney at Law, will giv? prompt attention to any matters of business entrusted to his 5 care. Also, Proprietor of "Smith's Hotel," where e his friends and customers can always find comfortae ble fare and lodging. Also, a bar room attached >, with good liquors always on hand." Here is a pretty good history of the tastes, proe clivities, and business habits of John Smith's y place of residence. But a little farther down i- the column we read: g 1 'The young ladies of - are invited to attend a social dance at Mrs Nutmeg's house, on Wednesday evening next All gentlemen who wish to at an/I (ito oTnpptPfl tri hnnc a ladv with him." An extremely social place, this, where the ladies 1 are invited to a social entertainment by general P advertisement, isour firstconclusion. Rather poorly ? supplied with business men too, when John Smith } has to act Lawyer, Landlord, and run a bar room, a is our second. The reader is here furnished with ^ a history better portraying life in than a small ^ volume of description could have given him. The reading matter of a newspaper, does not always furnish such a clue to the customs of a place. There you see only the thoughts, fancies and tastes of one man?the editor. The advertisements (unless the editor has to write them, as is often the case,) are y the thoughts of the business masses, fashioned af>e ter their peculiar employments, and fully developing their shape in this striking way.) h CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS. 't Congress re-assembled after its recess, on Thurse day last. As usual, the regulation of affairs in the Southern States claims the attention of that body 1- almost exclusively. d In the House, Mr. Bundy of Ohio, introduced " a series of resolutions, the purpose of which is to e divide the State of Texas into four Territories, to be e called Brazoria, Brazos, Sabine, and Lincoln. The >f resolutions provide that when any of these Territories shall have a population of 125,000 persons, and l_ shall, by a convention called for t^hat purpose, adopt the Constitutional amendment, the said Terril" tory shall be declared eligible to admission into the d Union, and, upon the election of members to Conr gress who can duly qualify, they shall be admitted upon an equality with the other States. These rese olutions were referred to the Territorial Committee. r Mr. Stevens called up his Bill to re-organize the d South, for the reason that the late decision of the d Supreme Court has rendered it necessary for Congress to protect the loyal citizens against the bar>* barians of the South. The decision alluded to is, '? that military authorities have no right to try civilians in military courts. e Mr. Hubbard, of Connecticut, introduced a L" resolution, which was referred, that not a single dold lar should be appropriated for property destroj'ed J' by the United States Army, in its efforts to put down 0 the rebellion. >* Mr. Paine, of Wisconsin, introduced a bill, which was referred to the Committee on Militaiy Affairs, providing for the enrollment of all males e between the ages of 18 and 45, and the organization of a National Guard to consist of two regiments of ,r infantry for every District and Territory represented in Congress. One of these regiments is to be coma posed of colored men, wherever more than one !t third of the militia are colored. !r In the Senate, Mr. Sumner introduced a resoluh tion, which was adopted, directing the Judiciary )- Committee to inquire what action may be necessary l" to prevent the sale personally by decree of civil o courts; also, to prevent Indian peonage in New )r Mexico. 0 On the 4th, Senator Trumbull called up the Bill to repeal the President's amnesty power. Mr. Saulsbury spoke in favor of repealing the entire V confiscation Act, instead of the 13th section only, y which the Senate refused to do. Mr. Trumbull's d Bill was then passed by a vote of 27 to 7. il It is said that the repeal of the Amnesty section will not affect the President's clemency programme s" ?the best legal talent declaring ^at the Constitution gives him the power to pardon without regard to the action of Congress. On the 7th, the President transmitted a message, vetoing the negro suffrage bill for the Dis^ trict of Columbia; upon which, the Senate took to up the bill and passed it over the veto, by a vote u of 29 to 10. In the House, Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, introduced 3f a resolution impeaching the President and directing le the Judiciary Committee to inquire whether, in the 10 discharge of his official duties, he has been guil* * ty of acts which would, in the law, be denomi e" nated high crimes and misdemeanors, and which 3r require the interposition of the House. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 106 to 36. 2- ' * "* Js The Freedmf.n.?General Howard and suite, of the Freedmen's Bureau, arrived in this city on Saturday, and since that time have been visiting the s" colored population and examining into their condi. r* . i . .1 /? _ _ i A j x I tion. Jjusi nignt, tne rreeuinen mnicu out m large es numbers, with torches, banners, transparencies, etc., id and escorted the General and party to the African t0 Church, where several addresses were delivered. .1 General Howard advised them to remain where they were?that inducements were held out to them to emigrate to other States, but that removals were in always troublesome^ and often very far from adat vantaaeous; lie advised them to be industrious and le abide Dy their contracts; impressed upon them the |j_ importance of education, stating that, throughout the Southern States, there were now over 150.000 n" colored children being educated, and concluded his ?f remarks with certain patriotic expressions, which id created considerable feeling among the dusky audirn tory.?Columbia Pha-nix. yy # 835*" The developments arrived at respecting the 1S salt mines of Nevada are almost startling in amount. A single bed there is computed to cover fifty-two ie thousand acres. It is solid rock salt, ninety-five le per cent. fine. It now yields at the rate of two e- million bushels per annum. The water rushes up er from a distance of abouj thirty-five feet, and makes a constant deposite of the finest rock salt. It is , proposed to sink shafts at various points, in hopes of striking some spot where water will not be touche* ed, and where the salt can be quarried, as in Hunot gary and Poland. LOCAL ITEMS. HEW ADVERTISEMENTS, T. S. Jeffeiys, President?Meeting of the Fire Engine (Company. Floyd, Dobson & Co.?Dissolution of Copartnership, <fec. W. B. Metts, C. E. Y. D.?Commissioner's Sale of Land, belonging to the estate of Zimmerman, | deceased. L. Smith?Boot and Shoe-Making. I Drs. Lindsav & Jackson?Copartnership. Tilman R. Gaines?Another School in Yorkville. J. R. & W. M. Kennedy, Ex'rs.?Sale of lands of John Kennedy, deceased. I J. N. Robson?Peruvian Guano. T. M. Dobson & R. R. Parish?Copartnership. T. M. Dobson <fe Co.?Country Flour, Cheese, Shoes, Nails, Manilla Rope, Pickles, Tinware, Rio Coffee, <fte. T. J. Bell?Attorney at Law. W TT. Glenn. S. Y. D.?Sheriff's Sales. W. B. Wilson, intendant.?Ordinance to raise Supplies. J. <ft. E. B. Stowe?Wool Wanted. T. T. Youngblood?Auctioneering. Miss Margaret A. Grier?School Notice. PAUTFUL OCCURRENCE. A lad, aged five or six years, and living at the Poor House near this town, was burned to death by a lunatic pauper woman on Saturday morning last GUANO. Mr. J. N. Robson, of No. 62 East Bay, Charleston, S. C., advertises several superior brands of Guano, to which he invites the attention of merchants and planters. Every cargo of Guano, as it arrives, is submitted to Professor C. U. Shephard, of the Medical College, for analysis. His Manures are also sold at market rates, for cash, or payable 1st November, for planter's drafts on their factors. MASONIC ELECTION, At a Convocation of Lebanon Council, No. 8., R. & S- M., on Tuesday evening last, the following Companions were elected officers for the present year: J. R. BRATTON, T. I. G. M. J. L CLARK, IKofT. L. M. GRIST, p. C. W. W. H. McCORKLE, Treasurer. J. B. ALLISON, Secretary. RICHARD HARE, C. of G. A. CODY, Guard. . THE DISTRICT COURT. Friday next is Return Day for the first Quarterlj Session of the District Court, for York District? Inasmuch as imparlances are now granted the defendant in this Court, there will probably be nc business returned to this Term. The Spring Tern of the Circuit Court, having concurrent jurisdiction in Summary process, will be resorted to in preference to the District Court, we presume, for the present As the Grand Jurors in the lower Court were * 4 * i ? -PA, dispensed witn, Dy Act 01 tne last session 01 uu Legislsture, the Grand Jurors summoned for thi> Court need not attend on the 3d Monday. HOUSE MOVTIG. In an interior town, the first few days of the ne\* year, are fat ones to landlords, but of grave moment to tenants. House moving is an unwelcome duty, yet everybody who lives in a rented house, is sure to leave it and migrate to some other quartei of his town, on the approach of some new year.? York has had its share of the moving excite tneni during the past week, and load after load of house hold stuff has passed along the streets; some wh( have lived down town going up, and others who have lived up town, coming down. With,the freed men, this moving mania threatens to run into ar incurable malady. Every one who could do so, ha quitted his old lodge and taken that of his neighbor who likewise had quitted it to seek a better one.? We don't see the fun of it all. We don't see thai it pays anybody either?except the landlord.? We always thought it cost more than it comes to and it looks absurd for people at the close of a year to bundle up the relics left from these annua changes, and haul away to some other domicil.? Contentment and prosperity are easily frightened away by such signs. MERE-MENTION. The Vaucluse Factory, owned by Wm. Gregg, Esq., and located near Augusta, was destroyed bj fire on Friday last. A despatch dated "Rich mond, January 3, says that returns from twentythree Conferences of the Southern Methodisl Church, show, that the proposition to change th< name has been defeated. The measure for the introduction of lay delegation will probably share the same fate. Emigrants are pouring into Texa.< from all quarters. The tide is nearly as strong from the North-western as from the Southerr States. "Tea raised in Georgia is pronouncec equal to the best Japan. The oldest of thf John Smiths, claiming ] 17 years, is said to live at Pleasant Mills, N. J. "The last new gun in vented in Paris sends out 8,000 balls per minute. A Boston minister has been preaching a gainst tilting hoops. He says he can't shut hi.' eyes to the abomination any longer. Chicago has been seven days without a divorce case. ATnonifontinrir xttoq mnnncpH XilC i'laiug pVIIlM/UWUIJ ?IHU IUM..MQVV. ?J with a profit of $100. Broad-street, in Philadelphia, is ten miles long, with a width of 113 feet, and straight as an arrow. It is thought thai the Government has been cheated out of one hum dred millions of dollars by the evasion of the whiskey tax. It is no misfortune for a niece young lady tc lose her good name, if a nice young gentleman gives a better. The coldset day on record in Nortli America, was the 8th day of January, 1866. The South Carolina railroads have deposited ?20,000 in London to meet the interest on their foreigr bonds, due January 1st. A New York engineer is about to build a steel steamer, which wil make a speed of thirty miles an hour. A Mr. Butts, of New York, can lift 2727 lbs. He woulc be a good man to make a raise in these hard times. General Price and Governor Harris are making money in Mexico, and Magruder is as gorgeous as ever. William B. Astor, John Jacof Astor and W. W. Astor, and a great many mor< rich men, are in Washington. They are said to tx frightened at the extremes into which the Radical; threaten to plunge the country'. So are New Eng land shippers and capitalists. A Jewish house built two centuries before Christ, has been cxcava ted entire in Syria. The total debt of Nortl Carolina, up to the 1st of October, includinginterest amounts to thirteen millions. A workman ii a sausage shop in Chicago, whistled, which wa; against the rules, and had his head split open by i large cleaver in the hands of the boss Puncl says that when women first resorted to tight lacing it was to prove to the men how well they could bea: tight squeezing. When alone, we have our thoughts to watch , in our families our tempers, and in society ou: tongues. -The President has vetoed the Bil confering the right of suffrage on the negroes ii the District of Columbia. It is said that then are 15,000 skilled workmen in New York in wan of labor. Why does a lady always behave her self best when she has a milliner in her employ ?? Because she has a man to make her. (mantua-ma ker.) The Charlotte Railroad charges $3 per ball on cotton from Charlotte to Columbia, 110 miles The Greenville Railroad gets $2,50 from Green ville to Columbia, 156 miles. Jackson, Miss. brags of a two year old hog weighing 983 pounds ' General Sterling Price and three daughter J - A XT AJnnno Oa^JaiTO \f av i , IlilVC UlilVUU at new vnuauo nuiu vuiuuvaj i'ltAi co. Minnesota has 123 Baptist Churches, em bracing a membership of 3,600. About 250 hav< joined the Churches the past year. The Charles ton Mercury announces the discontinuance of th( publication of the Charleston Weekly Record. The people of Savannah are luxuriating on fresl shad. A sister of a late Governor of Kentucky died i few days ago in a station-house in Cincinnati, o congestion of the brain. She was a miserabl* drunkard. The petition of six darkeys of Ala bama was presented to Congress the other day, ask ing the impeachment of President Johnson. The prophecy, "Many shall run to fro, and knowl edge shall be increased," is believed to refer to thj ai advent of Newsboys. Success in life is very P apt to make us forget the time when we wasn't b much. It is just so with a frog on a jump?he ^ can't remember when he was a tadpole?but other & folks can. There are thirty-one candidates for p the United States Senatorship in Kansas. Na- o: poleon has a kidney disease; Victor Emanuel a ? paralyzed right arm; Bismark is sick; the Empress ^ Corlotta crazy; the hair of both the Emperor of jj 1 Austria and the Queen of Hanover has turned gray J within a year; the fope weeps day and night, and v Victoria still broods over the past with profound v melancholy. If a man wants to get at his ac- a tual dimensions let him visit a graveyard. It ^ costs a deal to be wise, but it don't cost much to be tt happy. Twenty-five farms were sold in Ala- ( bama a few days since for one dollar per acre. Fail- d ure of crops caused creditors to force sales. a _ _ _ XT A planter in Alabama, a few days since, sold his ^ estate of six hundred acres for $600. Before the n war he owned three hundred and fifty slaves and i< forty horses. A California editor says he has o been presented with a raddish the size of a five 8 gallon keg. That raddish must be taken with sev- ^ eral grains ofsalt. "There are professional thieves in Cincinnati so mean that they disguise themselves V as city missionaries, and visit the houses of the v ' poor to steal baskets and buckets, obtained on the e pretext that they will bring them back full of arti cles of food to relieve the destitute lenders. J Some patriotic ladies of Staunton, Ya., sent a box f i of "good things" to Mr. Davis as a Christmas re- j i membrance. "The yearly profits of the London s daiiles are stated to be: Times, circulation 60,000, s profits $250,000; Telegraph, circulation 165,000, 8 profits $260,000; Standard, circulation 85,000, profits $125,000; Herald, circulation 10,000, profits a $10,000; Morning Advertiser, circulation 25,000, i profits $60,000; Daily Ncios, circulation 5,000, a profits $25,000; Star, circulation 20,000, profits c $40,000. The manufacture of needle-guns will L be commenced soon at Bridgeport, Conn. '** Hanibal Hamlin has been presented by some of his 1 friends with an elegant set of silver. The Tusca- t loosa Observer thinks it likely that Butler contributed the spoons. "The only person now alive 1 who witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis is a genuine Guinea negro, named Tom, now living at Ham- ^ ilton, Ohio. His age is probably one nunarea. c EDITORIAL INKLINGS. I On last Friday morning, the railroad officials s 1 had a pleasant little re-union at Kingsville. Three j 1 locomotives ran off the track, and two more colli- j ' ded. It was quite a refreshing sight to witness j five iron horses reposing from their labors, in vari- s ! ous degrees of collapse. The passengers were of i too philosophical a class to manifest any impa- 1 ! tience, particularly when there was nobody hurt c ! Those of them who were on their way through j * Columbia, were thus enabled to stop in that unfortunate city and view "Sherman's sentinels," a j. sight which did not seem to soothe the somewhat ( r ruffled spirits of the fairer portion of the .delaying { travellers. Indeed, some of them were heard to , express wishes for the entire Yankee nation, which j j were far from complimentary. . t We speak by the card, for we were "thar." i - Hon. Reverdy Johnson recently took occa- j t sion, in his place in Congress, to protest against ? the farther detention of Ex-President Davis in ] > prison, without a trial. He characterizes his long < > confinement as an act of extreme cruelty and a 1 blot on American civilization. If the prisoner 1 i in his delicate state of health, dies, Mr. Johnson i holds that the nation will be responsible for his < , death. \ It is pleasant to see the cause of our Still honored < t chief upheld in the Halls of Congress. Mr. Davis 1 - is the great representative of the South, and has ; been made the chief sufferer for the lost cause.? 1 , Any voice, therefore, lifted in his behalf, will call < 1 forth the gratitude of our whole people. But it is - more than doubtful whether any appeal to the j 1 justice or magnanimity of Congress will result in any advantage to him. If that body is his only ( chance for justice, the grave alone will release him ] from captivity. j i Mexico appears to be getting no better fast, ' 1 in the* way of subsiding into a settled government. 1 ' Maximilian disappears from thesurface forawhile, ' only to come up again in a new place, sanguine as ' - to the future prospects of his empire. He once at! tempted to abdicate, but his friend Marshall Ba- , " zaine would not consent to his giving it up so. j 5 Max, therefore, withdrew his abdication, on the 1 i ground that the interests of Mexico demanded his ' > continuance in power. At last accounts, the Im- ! 1 perial party were very sanguine of success, provi- j ded they have no United States troops to contend 1 against The Liberals have advanced a'strong line ' to within eight miles of the city of Mexico. A U. ^ S. gunboat sailed on the 3d instant for Vera Cruz and Tampico, to watch the progress of events between these points. j ) It is almost impossible to form any clear idea of i . the state of affairs in that distracted countiy. The i only consolation for the Mexicans, in their frequent j changes of government, is that they have been ' used to revolutions for at least fifty years. As they have now fully tested democracy, monarcny ana an- . archy, it is to be hoped for their own sakes, that | they will make a selection of some kind of govern- 1 ment before long, and abide by it. , The. following is a list of the persons belong- i , ing to York District, disabled in the late war, and ] , reported by Col. Jackson, the Tax Collector, to the 1 Governor, and by the latter, to the Legislature: Legs Lost.?J. H. Culp, lost left leg, four in- I ches above the ancle; Michael Dour, lost left leg, < above the knee; James F. Hart, right leg, near ' knee; A. F. Lindsay, right leg, below knee; Herod j 1 Neal, lost right leg; Green Parker, right leg, above ( knee; J. M. Shearer, left leg, above knee: William . [ A. Smith, right leg, near body; James L. Strain, " right leg lost. Arms Lost.?J. A. Bell, left arm, below elbow; T. M. Grant, lost right hand; F. C. Harris, left ( arm, near shoulder: Andrew Jackson, left arm, ] below elbow; John M. Jackson, right arm, below , elbow; Wvlic A. Moss, left arm, near shoulder ; ( William B. Williams, right arm, near shoulder. ( Otherwise Disabled.?S. L. Campbell, shot i through head?totally blind; James Childers, three j ' inches bone taken out of right fore-arm; James F. t Davidson, four inches bone from right arm, above t elbow; J. J. L. Gill, lett arm resected; Randolph i A. Hagans, four inches bone from left arm ; John | Jones, lost three fingers of right hand; H. P. < Wallace, left knee injured?leg crooked and stiff. ] Total?Legs lost, 0; arms lost, 7 ; otherwise disabled, 7. } The following sensible advice to the "Young * } Men of the South," is found in an article publish- j r ed in the Baltimore Transcript: I "The young men of the South have it in their j i fl it j power to maite a new ooum more prosperous ana < ' powerful than the old. They have shown their en- | j ergy and self-denial in war, and if they exhibit any' thing like the same qualities in peace they wvll 1 builu un their section beyond the powers for mis3 chief of their bitterest enemies. The way to do t this is simply to avoid politics and go to work to apply their whole souls to the work of creative industry; to work in all its forms, whether in the field or in the shop, whether agricultural or me" chanical. Let them rise above the absurd preju2 dices against manual labor. There is no form of . labor which is degrading, and if they were willing . to perform manual drudgery in the ranks for the. sake of the South, in war, let them be willing to do ' the same in the ranks of peaceful industry, and the * salvation of their section is secure. 9 "Hermes," the Washington correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, writing under date of s the 2d instant, in reference to the firmness of * President Johnson, says: ? "An interview with a personage, whose name I . am not privileged to divulge, reassures me, in regard to the political future of the country. He re1 calls tne President's unwavering firmness against overwhelming odds, and the cool, determined mani ner, in which he has, during the present session, f when some persons thought he was crushed, carried j out his measures in the case of Sickles, Schofield, * and others. This person is of the opinion, that the past guarantees the future, and cites the compara" tive harmlessness of the civil rights and freedmen's bureau bills, as executed by the President, as am-1 pie grounds of confidence in what may come here Her. There is no call for aggressiveness on .the art of the President, knowing, as he does, that is steady resistance, and the utter folly of their measures, will wear the Radicals out in time Im- . eachment, territorialization, any excessively radi- j il scheme must fail, for the reason, that both . arties are under bonds, to three thousand million f dollars, to keep the peace. They cannot even iriouslv risk a collision. At the most, we of the outh have only to fear a loyalist or semi-loyalist i hange in our State Governments, and even that j e doubts. "You cannot forget," said he, "the , 'resident's course at New Orleans, during the con- r ention which met for the avowed purpose of suberting the government, which Mr. Johnson had 1 uthonzed the people to form. See, too, how uietly the 'loyalists went under in Baltimore. " i Such views are most encouraging at this time, i nd we can but hope that they may be verified. ( )ld Tbad. Stevens may consume his New Year's . ay in framing indictments against the President nd Chase, ana the Radicals may grit their teeth rith ill-concealed rage, at the appearance of an x-Confederate Congressman (Moore of Kentucky, ow a lawyer in Alexandria), and wife at the Pres- j lent's reception of yesterday; but when the time f actual tnal comes, in the shape of impeachment, omebodv will back down. The President has yet o back down in the first instance." A correspondent of the New Orleans Picanine, writing from Cuba, under date of the 11th iltimo. furnishes the following paragraph in refer nee to the sugar crop on that Island: "The sugar crop promises to be a very large one udging from the yield of those plantations that have heady commenced grinding. The crop will be at rom 15,000 to 20,000 hogsheads larger than last ear, caused principally by the introduction oflaboraving machinery in the planting. A number of team plows are now used on the larger plantations, ind are equivalent to an increase of 6,000 field lands, which is of the utmost importance to the ilanters, as hands are scaroej and we have to rely it present entirelv on the Chinese emigrants, as no nore negroes are brought from Africa, and the cities ibeorb all the white element arriving from Spain >r other foreign countries. The cane is not very arge, but the Guarapo ranges from 9 to 10 degrees. The following are the reasons assigned by the jegish.ture of Arkansas, for rejecting the ConstJutional amendment: 1st Arkansas does not know that the amendnent was adopted by such a Congress as the Conititution provides for, one-third of the States being inrepresented in it 2d. It was never submitted to he President for sanction as the Constitution remirea 3d. The enormous power it seeks to give Jongress would virtually abolish all local and donestic ?tate laws. 4th. It seeks to force negro iuffrage on the States, as shown in the second secion, while the fifth and third sections disfranchise he wisest and best citizens of the State, who, havng performed all the conditions of surrender and general amnesty, are entitled to restoration to the itatus they held before the war, and there are no easons for believing its adoption would secure resoration. The committee recommend a quiet and lignified course of endurance, rather than purchase estoration at a sacrifice of the principle or self-res>ect The editor of the Galveston Civilian has rom Gen. Longstreet (who pronounces Gen. Lee 'the best man in the world,") the following anec lote of the great Confederate chieftain: On one occasion, Gen. Lee called Col. L, one of lis staff officers, into his tent, and commenced dieT T. V?orl in liio <t!LHJK mine vui. u. YTIUUC. V/V/I. XI. 1M?U ?U mouth a pipe, and was smoking. The General inlaled the noxious vapor until his patience became exhausted, and then said, "Col. il you can retire md send me Col. ; he does not smoke.'' CoL L retired, and in a few "moments Col. ?? enter:d, to whom the General commenced dictating, but ifter inhaling the atmosphere of the tent for a vhile, he discovered it to he considerably impregr lated, not with the perfume of roses, but the odi)us smell of villainous whiskey, which he could not stand. "Retire, Col. , and send me an officer vho neither drinks nor smokes; T would rather endure the smoke of tobacco than the smell of vhiskey." Stephen Girard, than whom no more shrewd jusiness man ever lived, gives the following as his experience: "I have always considered advertising liberally ind long to be the great medium of success in business, and the prelude to wealth. And I have made it an invariable rule to advertise in the dullest times as well as the busiest, long experience tiaving taught me that money thus spent is well laid out: as by keeping my business continually before tne public, it has secured me many sales that I would otherwise have lost" "Hermes" the Washington correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, says: "The opinion gains ground that Wade, Foster & Co., are touring it in the South for a purpose beyond that of a Christmas frolic. If the gritty and cantankerous Wade returns with the report that he bad been mistaken in the feeling of the South, a ine opening will be made for widening the doors of Congress. ' 'Reconstruction'' is called for urgently n Wall street, and here is a chance for an excuse for it. The United States burial parties report the lumber of re-interments of Federal soldiers who fell in the late war as follows in the several departments : Eastern. 5,498; Middle, 16,992; Carohnas, 17,185; Washington, 105,287: Ohio, 12,745; Missouri. 10,677*; Platte, 1,394; Arkansas. 11,629; Lousiana, 31,500; Texas, 1,529; Florida, 1,178; Tenlessee, 67,182; Kentucky, 17,772; Georgia, 27,>00; Alabama, 1,733; Mississippi, 11,000; Pacific, L09. Total, 341,670. An interesting and amusing article in the November number of Harper's Magazine on newspaper advertisements, closes with the following adrice: "To Merchants." 1. Advertise. 2. Advertise liberally. 3. Advertise courageously. To the Public at large. 1. Head the advertisements. 2. Study them, and verily they shall be for your profit" The New Orleans Picayune advises the planers to adopt the Yankee plan of hiring, and make ;he following proposals: "I'll hire you by the month or week at so much, bed you along so long as you stay with me, and disjharge you whenever you fail to do your work; pay fou cash down at the end of your month." AN IMPORTANT DECISION. Abraham Sessel. a merchant of Memphis, tenlered to John Loague, County Court Cleric of Shelw County, $1,077,09, the amount of his taxes due he State, in issues of the Bank of Tennessee, lated prior to May 6, 1861. Loague refused to revive it, on the ground that the law of 1866 repealed the 12th section of the act chartering the Hank, which peclared that the issues of the Bank should "be receivable at the Treasury of the State, ind by all tax collectors and other public officers, in payment for taxes or other moneys due to the State." Sessel applied to Judge Smith, of the Common Law Court, for a writ of mandamus against Loague. Judge Smith delivered alengthy and able opinion sustaining the application of Sessel, and ordering ;he issuance of the writ. The opinion holds the jbligation of the State and its officers to receive the notes of the Bank as a binding contract, and that :he act of the Legislature in assuming to repeal and innul the contract was in violation of the provisions )f the State and Federal Canstitutions, which forpids the passage of laws impairing the obligation )f contracts. The conclusion then arrived at is, :hat the clerks and other collecting officers are compellable by law to receive, in payment of dues of ;he State, all genuine issues of the Bank of Tennessee?tne term genuine being applied to all notes ssued before May 6, 1861. It then proceeds to lispose of an argument that claimed that the code idopted May 1, 1858, in effect repealed the 12th lection, and shows its utter untenability. The effect of this decision, should it be sustained, will be to make useful for taxes a large amount of money, and operate greatly to the relief of communities in which it is held in considerable quantities. _ New Political Movement.?Senator Harlan, biX-Secretary of the Interior, has been sojourning in our city for the past few days, and left for Washington on Friday night. It is stated upon good authority that his visit here was for the purpose jf obtaining information concerning the extent of the Union sentiment in the State, and to recommend the formation of a Union League and the jrganization of a Union party, the chief design of which shall be to aid in procuring a "Loyal" Government for the State. We learn that immediate iction will be taken in the matter, and that a petition will shortly be circulated, the purport of which will be to secure to the State a government similar to that recommended for the State of North Carolina, which was presented by Thad. Stevens in Congress. The saintly French, the planter and jhaplain, we understand, is a prime mover in the matter.?Charleston News. " CONTBIBUTOBIAL." BY JAR. WOOD DAVIDSON. JOLDHBIi, SOUTH QABOLIHA, 7TH JAFUABY, 1687. The University* In consequence mainly, we presume, of the insufferably bad weather, the students have not come nto the University as promptly as they otherwise would have done. The Session opened on the 2d. rhe fair weather promised for the present week will, doubtless, bring in large numbers more. Up to Saturday last,- there were seventeen new matriculates. These added to the sixty-five previously here, make eighty-two; provided all the old students return. It is reasonable to expect a hundred this Session, we are advised. v The Weather. Since Friday the 28th ultimo, we have had the ground continuously covered with snow and sleet 1 Together with these we have had, by way of variety, a deal of rain; and all three of these together have given us a spell of weather such as we have ] not had probably in twenty years. Occasional glimpses of stars and a very occasional glimpse of the sun, during this spell, have stolen upon us; but these rifts of blue sky only increased our longing for good old-fashioned fair weather. Such a boreal demonstration we regard as a genuine Northern invasion?a regular Yankee trick. It isjust the reverse of Sherman's style of amusement, however. Literary. It is announced that the Hon. A. H. Stephens, ^ late Vice-President of the late Confederacy, is preparing a History of the War of Secession, to be published during the present year. It will be in one volume of about eight hundred pages. A History of Gregg's (McGowan's) Brigade of \ South Carolina Volunteers, by our young friend, James Fitz-James Caldwell, Esq., of Newberry, who was an officer in the First Kegiment S. C. V., of that Brigade, has just appeared. The well-known M ability of the author leads us to expect an excellent thing in this book. The work has not yet reached our market; but we are assured that it will be here in a very shore time. As soon as we get a copy we will make farther note of it The Rural Southerner, by R. M. Stokes & Co., announced for the 3d. instant, will appear on the 10th. Scott'? Monthly, (of Atlanta,) for January, contains a handsome steel-engraved likeness of General Lee. The literary contents will stand comparison with any magazine of similar style in the United States. I The Orescent Monthly (of New Orleans) for January, shows that that magazine still holds its place at the head of the Southern monthlies. The Home Monthly (Nashville) is devoted to literature and religion?religion of the Methodist guild. The literature is sketchy, but withal pleasant reading. negro iiiooni. Large numbers of freedmen are emigrating from South Carolina, mostly westward. An Atlanta paper states that an average of a thousand a week pass through thatcity, bound to the west, and bent upon fortunes in the glorious west We have heard it stated that sixteen hundred ^ emigrants of this class, have passed through Co- * lumbia, on their way to Florida. Those come, some 1 down the Greenville road from Greenville, Abbeville, Laurens, Newberry, and other Districts on that line of road; some down the Charlotte road, from York, Chester, Fairfield, and Districts thereabouts ; while some?about six hundred, some say ?are from the vicinity of Columbia. Those Florida-seeking freedmen are undercharge of Gen. Ely. It appears, from this, that the General is "feaining favor with the "cullud brederen." This we have not a fraction of a doubt is all very well?for Ely's pocket We admire enterprise and philanthropy; but we dislike to see our friends, the poor negroes, victimized in this wholesale way.? We are- not opposed to the negro's going West or South, if he will go under some guide or friend who understands the tillage of those lands, and who will assist him in learning to render it available to him; but these Yankee "philanthropists" will merely pile the immigrant into a new country and leave him there to shift for himself. The negro must suffer; but the Yankee gets his fee. We learn that some of our own citizens are en- - ] listing freedmen to go with them to till the lands in the West This promises something of good to both parties. One citizen from this District has recently gone on with sixty; another from Abbeville, is raising a squad of five hundred ; and other similar enterprises are afoot ^ The Curreneiee. Just now, Columbia is much exercised about the moneys that are afloat in our markets. The State Currency is the first matter of difficulty. One party?we believe the majority?desire to take and give it at par with National Currency. Another party ? rather a subsiding minority, we understand ? wish to depreciate the State Currency, because of the inconvenience they sometimes find in using it to buy Northern exchange. The feeling runs pretty high. .1 We regard the former party with more favor, and for several reasons. First, this tampering with currencies is always dangerous and leads to a disparagement of the issuing authority (Here it is South Carolina that is the issuing authority) and ultimately to panics and crises. Secondly, the Legislature enacted a requirement that this State Currency should be redeemed with National Currency; and the cashier of the State is now, we understand, exchanging National for State Currency. Thirdly, the State Currency is as good for paying taxes as the National, and the entire issue can be used in that way. Fourthly, the greater the amount of speculation in Northern commodities an individual ^ engages in, the greater the inconvenience of using V State money. Fifthly ? and here we have no reference to speculation ? it is only the importing merchant who suffers an inconvenience, which a little more time will obviate; and it is unfair to damage the State and credit and to cut down the salary of every State officer (for all are paid in State Currency) to obviate a mere inconvenience to a class in the community. It is true, time to a merchant is often money itself; but still we cannot withdraw the count upon even that score. We throw out these merely as crude suggestions, for the use of those who desire to think on the subject of currencies and moneys. We are not of that number. That is nqt our style. Finance doesn't interfere with our cogitations in the least It is out of our line. We have no "money on the brain'' ? nor elsewhere. Never were hurt with it Don't expect to suffer much in that way, for some time to come. And we "know whole families" just that same way! Several leading merchants have published, in the morning papers, their readiness to take both State and City currencies at par. And this sentiment appears to be gaining ground. THE DEAD OF THE YEAR. ~ The death-roll of the year includes many names distinguished in politics, in the church, in authorship and in art The ranks of the authors have been thinned.? Frederika Bremer died at Stockholm early in the year; Jared Sparks, at Cambridge, in March; Joseph Mery, in France, in June ; and Count Gurowski, in Washington, in May. * Among the dead statesmen andpolitical leaders are Daniel S. Dickinson. T*>wi J VUUU f OU Buren, Elijah F. Purely, Moses F. Odell, Janies Humphrey, Senators hoot and Wright, and Commodore Stockton. Prince Esterhazy died at Ratisbon, in May, and Marquis d' Azeglio. in Italy, in January. In October, M. Thouvenal closed his long and active career in France. Gordon Cumming, the famous lion hunter, was accidentally killed in Scotland, in March. Professor Henry D. Rogers, a distinguished savant, also died in Scotland, in May. John Ross, chief of the Cherokee Nation, died at Washington, in August. The sculptor Gibson died in Italy, in January, seventy-five years old j and Sir Charles Eastlake, president of the British Royal Academy, died at Pisa, just as the new year came in. The most prominent clergymen who have died ' i I i