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craps and |acts; A lad in a French prison has uiade a wat< out of straw that keeps perfect time. An effort to be made to secure his freedom. The Richmond papers announce the sale, auction, of the Ballard House, one of the fin< hotels in that city, for $59,(XX). It cost $206,CK There are twenty-five thousand unemploy men in Chicago, and nineteen thousand ox th< are recipients of charity. The Eufaula (Alabama) Noes says: "T result of the re-registration, iust completed in t! State, shows a difference in favor of the whites nearly three to one." Advices from Brazil state that a gene conscription of all men has been ordered to p: vide reinforcements for the army. Ho! i Brazil?all who are beligerent. The first number of the Repndiator 1 been issued in St. Louis. The object of the pi lication is to accomplish the repudiation of the i tional debt, except that portion of it represent by legal tender notes. Elder Hiram B. Clawson has just marri the fourth daughter of Brigham Young. He h previouslv married the prophet's eldest daught Besides being a high dignitary of the church, is lessee and manager of the Salt Lake theatre. A a.LUm^a/1 lnmttAv Anna DQ i/1 iKol l)io thi H UCiCUlttlCU lau^CI UI4W cum vuuw vuv WM? most troublesome clients he never had were young lady who wanted to be married, a marri woman who wanted a divorce, and an old rai who didn't know what she wanted. A man in- Massachusetts put a lot- ofgx powder tied in a rag around his finger for the pi pose of curing a felon, and went to bed. In t morning he commenced building a fire, when t ignited powder exploded, and the flesh on his ? ger was burned off to the bone. He says it cur die felon, and he don't ask anything for the recij The new constitution of Louisiana provic for the education of all children in public schoo without distinction of race or color; but it ad that ''no separate schools shall be established i any separate race." In other nvords, neitf whites nor blacks shall be permitted to provi separate schools for tjteir children, no matter hi much both may desire it People in some parts of the United Stal build their houses in such a way as to admit their being moved about from place to place. Th - it is stated that a "house on runners" pass through Grand Rapids, Michigan, a few da since, in which was a stove, a table, a bed, ai other necessary articles of furniture, the house 1 lording accommodations to a larauy wuu bound for a point one hundred miles north in t pine woods region of that State. A special dispatch from Philadelphia to t "Washington Express says: Outside of stocks ai gold gambling, fears are entertained that the u settled state of the political horizon will act wi damaging effect on the spring trade about to ope The President's intention ot testing the constit tionality of the civil tenure bill in court is nndi stood here by the thinkiug few, and they chucl at the act of the Radicals in Congress in convulsi the country. The reaction, it is thought, will damaging to not a few of the over-amoitious gc tlemen in the House. The Democracy of New York city are c lighted with the decision of the National Exec tive Committee in favor of New York as the pla for holding the National Convention. They \\ now go to work and push forward to completi the magnificent new Tammany Hall in Fourteen street, in order that the convention may hold deliberations there. The intend also to erect mammoth marquee in Tompkins' Square, near I for the special accommodation of the army of 01 siders, while there is talk of having a general ill mination on the evening of the day on which t nominations will be made, with salvos of artille every hour till midnight, from Union Park to t Battery. A Mississippi paper has some very sensil remarks upon the prevailing disposition anion? portion of our people to throw the whole blame" non-production upon the laziness of the negro. It says: _ "Men who are ruined unless the neg works, will never save this country, nor can tl .eauutrv save tlicuL aro.nnhffe fliinjhorfli drones, dead-woods, stand-stills for energetic, di ving. working mon to take a glance at to see he fast they are speeding in the race of reconstructs and prosperity. The men who are going to ma! {ilentv and to spare, are the men who care ve ittle about the negro, whether he works or don They recognize the fact that they who labor, a reasonably sure of the rewards of labor, and th they who don't labor, but arc waiting and schei ing to get the free negro to labor for them, neith - deserve its rewards nor often get them?with clear conscience." There is more tmth than pc try in all this. The proposition brought forward by petiti in the Senate, the other day, by Mr. Sumner, M - _ 1 A. T? A! aDoiisn tne rresiaency ana commit tne xixecuu Department of the Government to a Comrassi appointed by Congress, is advocated in some jot Dais in the West. It is rather a significant, stn showing the direction of what claims to be the pi gressive current of public sentiment. It prop ses substantially the same kind of Democratic go eminent which was adopted during the Fren Devolution, when the Directory, appointed by t Convention, wielded the executive power of the n tion. It is curious, though perfectly natural, th the ultra radicals of the present day find all th< models for an improved government, in the woi days of the worst government that ever existe No progress, it seems, has been made in- the m; ter of govt rnmcnt by this country or any otli since the French Reign of Terror.?-K&e Yo Times. The National Democratic Committee held meeting in Washington, on Saturday, 22d ultim Hon. August Belmont, of New York, presidin No distinction whatever was made in the coi mittee between members from loyal and so-callj rebel States, and the representatives in the N tional Convention are to consist of twice the nui ber of Congressional representatives to which ea< State is entitled by the last apportionment, this resolution no allusion is made to excludi States. Eight States were not represented in tl Convention, viz: California, Georgia, Florid North Carolina, Louisiana, Virginia, Rhode 1 land and New Jersey. After considerable debat the committee agreed upon the city of New Yo as the place for holding the Presidential Nomin ting Convention, and the fourth of July as tl time. The only other action taken was an agre ment to give this announcement, accompanied 1 an earnest invitation to all the opponents of rac calism to unite in this movement to select an radical candidates for the Presidency and Vic Presidency of the United States. The procee ings were harmonious, and the result, it is undo stood, meets the almost unanimous approval of tl members of the committee. The recent scenes at the War Departme in Washington are worthy the pen of Sylvani Cobb, and would make one of the most thrillii dime novels ever written, The grim Stanto holding midnight councils of war about his biyou in the Department, sending out a faithful emissa to lock all the doors in the building, and final settling himself in his sleepless chair, with tl pile of keys on a table before liini; the weary pa sing of the hours of darkness, whose monotony w relieved only by the tramp of sentinels changii guard ; the parting, just before daybreak, with h staunch Congressional supporters, who confidi the ex-Secretary to the protecting care of one w king patriot, Thayer, of Nebraska?these are bett than tales of the Inousition. Stanton, we lear like a true warrior, slept on his arms?or keysoccupying a lounge in his office, while Thayer ua; ped on another. The monotony of the siege w; varied by the appearance of breakfast, brought h from the illustrious gentleman's kitchen, and al: by the arrival of Mrs. Stanton, with whom he co versed, venturing without guard to the curb-ston but leaving his base of operations well protect* bv General Howard. Having settled the detai of his commissariat, he again retired within h intrenchnients, there to await, in sternly stup immobility, the further progress of what will j down in history as the siege of the War Depai ment. _ ?? Manufacturing artificial stone is a busine in St. Louis. There is a concern there whi< makes out of common sand a mantel equal to 01 of white marble, and sells it for about ten dollar The sand, in a few hours, is converted into ro< precisely similar to the strata and ledges beneal the earth that have required ages to form thet: The process is strictly scientific and chemical. Tl materials used are common brown or white san soda, flint, chlorine and calcihm. The flint, whi< is the comenting agent, is melted by being subje ted to heat, in connection witli soda. Flint, in i chemical constitution, is an aeid, and, like all oth acids, readily combines with an alkali. Combin; with soda, the flint (silica) forms a silicate of sodaa thick, viscid, transparent substance, very mu< like glue. If it is too thin when first made, it is 01 reduced by evaporation in pans till it reaches the of proper consistency. It is then mixed with the w 7" sand, in a mill from which the mixture comes forth a good deal like wet brown sugar. This substance ls is called "pug." It is very plastic, and works as easily in the hand as wet clay or puttv. Each at moulder has a quantity of the "pug" placed in a si jst box on the end of his work-bencn, from which he w X). takes handfuls as he requires it to press into the tc mould. It matters not whether the mould is a w ;ni rosette, a diamond, a flower, or a leaf ornament?a key-stone, a vase, a pedestal, or the section of a w , mantelpiece?he mwilds anything with equal ease, 94 beauty and accuracy; and when the form is taken from the mould the product is a plastic ornament ti ?* more perfect and beautiful than a carver could exe- ir cute in a week of constant and patient labor. vj Ike fatMle * !kS YORKYILLE, S. C.I t! tl 5 THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1868. * ed Cash.?It must bo distinctly understood that ^ ad our terms for subscription, advertising and job- v __ work, are cash, in advance. (j , X.?The paper will be discontinued on the expine ration of the time for which payment has been ai made. A Subscriber finding a (X) croas-mark on r< .gg the wrapper or margin of his paper, will under- Q] . stand that the time paid for lias expired. 0 ed ? Jd "BURKE'S WEEKLY." " This admirable publication for boys and girls, for IJ m- month of Fcbiuaiy, baa como to band, and i? ir- filled to repletion with good things calculated to jje please the "little onea" Mr. Goulding's story is ,S . continued, and grows in interest; "Jack Dobell's ed Adventures in Texas" are drawing to a close, and )e. the children's "Story of the War," is fast becora- 9t |es ing one of the most popular features of the Week- a ,1s, ly. We wonder that every boy and girl in the a< Ids land is not a subscriber to this capital publication. & for It is published at Macon, Ga., by J. W. Burke at '?r & Co., at $2 per annum, and is furnished either ^ in weekly or monthly parts. By a special arrangement with the publisher, we are enabled to furnish ,es the "Weekly" and the Enquirer, one year, for 0f $4.50 in currency; or the Weekly alone, for one q us dollar and fifty cents. ed ? I ,ys YET ANOTHER. u In our last issue, we announced the death of A. J? ^re W. Thomson, Esq., an old and honored member 1 jie of the bar, at Union Court House. p This week we have to announce yet another of ^ l,e the same fraternity, from the same locality, whose ' nd name has been stricken from the roll, by death, n- Davis Goudelock. Esa.. after a long life of p< th usefulness, and with the sunshine of uiany virtues w n- abqut him, died at his residence in Union village on Friday hist, after a brief illness. * Were we writing a formal obituary, we could { ng find much to say in praise of the pure life* and . be honorable and virtuous career of this justly cs- 1,1 !n" teemed man. But without any such pretensions, we offer this hasty tribute under the impulse of a *f 'e* friendship we cherished with pride, and a sorrow ^ ^ we feel in common with his bereaved family. ?|j Mr. Goudelock held many positions of honor s* on and trust, within the gift of the people of his na- ot th tive District, and during the last years of his life, -v its occupied the office of District Judge for Union er a District, by selection of the Legislature. "Loved and honored !" Fitting words to chronicle his i1., life's history. u' . 1 ^ ac he ~r liy IMPEACHMENT. til he The impeachment fever 1ms culminated in the ra adoption of articles against the President, by the n( )le House of Representatives; and the Senate, which to ; a sits as a Court for the trial of such cases, is now busied in the preparation of the necessary rules Ci ~ and forms under which to conduct the proceedings. ,jg In a short time, the trial will begin, and much fif rs time will be consumed before it is ended. The celn ebrated Hasting's trial, before tne J^ngnsn parna- ~ ment, occupied seven years. Americans are not 1 1 apt, however, to proceed with the cautious delib- ~ ? eration that characterized the English people, in ^ such matters. Hastings, after his seven years' ,re trial, wasacquitted. Mr. Johnson's trial will not, at at perhaps, occupy as many weeks. His acquittal or ^ conviction is a matter of minor consequence, so far e(r as concerns the Constitutional questions upon er )e'_l which the proceeding is based. The excitement ^ of this question may prove a happy epoch itfthe ^ pn histoiy of the country, for if couvicted, the Prcsi- ^ to dent at once becomes'a martyr to Constitutional ^ootdc onrl min<1e nf* f-llO VU liUCll^) UI1U UllllCO lliV iIVUIIO HIIU tumviu Vk ???w on people with him, in his efforts to preserve the Conlr" stitution inviolate above the phrenzy of human nc ^ passion and human weakness; and they will ac>0. oomplish the rest If acquitted, he has partially ^ ,v- triumphed over a mad idea, and the full weight cb and influence of the Executive Office will begin to l)e be appreciated. ia* President JOHNSON, in our humble opinion, has H ^ struck a fearful blow against radical supremacy, by the removal of Mr. Stanton, as Secretary of War, a id. let the impeachment trial result as it may. Con- te it- gress is now obliged to face a dilemma it has long R lCr avoided?a fair and square investigation of the pi r 1 principles upon which it has been acting?an in1 vestigation under its own judicatory, and the final P1 10 verdict of the people rendered after the summing ? g" UP- qi n- If the President becomes a martyr to liberty and e(J the principles of the Constitution, the country will, T1 a* at some future day, if not now. hold such action in cc ^ sublime reverence; and in this rests our hope for v [n deliverance. ^ jd j fie WHAT THE CONVENTIONS ARE DOING. of a, . NORTH CAROLINA. as 2 The proceedings of the North Carolina Conven- ^ rj! tion, for the past week, present but little of gena oral interest. The week has been consumed in dis- 0f lie cussing the propriety of establishing an immigra- mi !p* tion agency at Now York ; nominating candidates oil jj9 for the various offices to be filled at the coming cu tl*_ elections; and considering the suffrage question ?? ,e. and the Judiciary Article of the Constitution. It d- has been agreed to elect Judges for eight years, pj >r- The question of suffrage, at our last advices, had wj ?e not been decided. It is probable, however, that op suffrage will be general, without any test oath. nt georgia. be lls The Georgia Convention has adopted the home- -l n stead clause of the Constitution. It allows a home- ' no stead of reality, worth two thousand dollars, and ry personal property to the value of one thousand in Se !y specie. A resolution that mechanics and laborers xi lie shall have leins upon the property of employees, and for materials furnished, was also adopted. ^ An Ordinance has been adopted to remove the 0f lis Capitol from Millcdgeville to Atlanta. 0f id Judges of the Supreme Court and District Courts, as a" Attorney General and District Attorneys, are to be ^ er appointed by the Governor, with the concurrence ex ^ of a majority of the Senate. Justices of the Peace p. are to be elected by the people, for a term of four ce r> n tmoru f ao jvuio. VM Ot FLORIDA. be s0 The Florida Convention has adopted a Constitu- & tion and adjourned. Universal suffrage is declared. 2cj No proscription and no test oaths. Foreigners arc ^ tls made voters on the declaration of their intention lis to become citizens. An educational suffrage qual- th 'd ification is provided for after the year 1880. pr Forty members signed the Constitution, and five l)r refused. An Ordinance was passed withholding the pay and mileage of members who refused to ^ >b sign the Constitution, referring their claims to the 8jj ie next Legislature. The adjournment of the Con- th 3. vention is subject to the call of the President. be * MISSISSIPPI. en ,, The Mississippi Convention has adopted resolu- ja ie tions thanking Congress for impeaching the Presi- M d, dent; and a section of the Constitution prohibit- po ing property or educational qualification for elect- In I?" ors. th' itS wn er LOUISIANA. Jg xl . The Suffrage Article of the Louisiana Constitu- tjj( ? tion has been adopted. It restores all to suffrage cal :h except those who held office under the Confederacy I de; in any State in rebellion, editors and proprietors * newspapers which advocated secession, and all ho preached secession sentiments. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Much of the time of Congress is at present oon- 1 imed with the impeachment matter; but yet it jcasionally finds thue to bestow a little attention ?reconstruction. In the Senate, on the 2:5th, the jw Reconstruction bill was under consideration, hen the following amendment was adopted and >nt to the House for concurrence: HAiul be it further enacted. That the Constituonal Convention of any of the States mentioned i the acts of which this is amendatory, may oroide that at the time of voting upon the ratincaon of the constitution, the registered voters may ote also for members of the House of Flepresenitives of the United States, and for all elective (ficers provided for by the said Constitution; and le same election officers who shall make the reirn of the votes on the ratification or rejection of /1 A-i-A! ~l--11 anil flip 16 UOnSlHlUllUIl, tjllUU Cliuiuciuwi uuu v.._, otes cast for members of Congress." The next day the House passed the bill, vrith the enate's amendment The bill, as adopted, proides that a majority of the voters shall ratify the onstitution ; that registered persons shall vote nywhere in the State after ten days' iesidence, igistration being proved by certificate, affidavit, r other evidence; and that Congressional and tate elections shall be held simultaneously with lat for the ratification of the Constitution. The ote on its passage was ninety-six to thirty-two. he bill now-goes to the President The new Constitution of Alabama has been preinted and referred to the Reconstruction Commit:e. The Radicals are in a quandary as to what ley shall do with the bantling. The Constitution lits their purposes, but it has not been ratified by majority of the registered voters, as was required ; the time of the election. By some sort of hocus ocus the difficulties will, doubtless, be got rid of : an early day, the Constitution declared to be up the standard, and Alabama enrolled as one of ic ' 'truly loyal States." MERE-MENTION. Among the graduates at the Charleston Medical ollege, at the commencement on Saturday last, e notice the name of J. Gaillard Black, of York istrict."*,"""The Georgia Convention has adopd a resolution requesting Congress to make a aeral appropriation for the building of the Air ine Rail Road from Atlanta to Chariots, North arolina. The Hebrew Messenger states that tere are in New York city seventy thousand He ews, or more than one-fifteenth of the entire )pulation. 'Indiana punishes miscegenation ith $5000 fine and imprisonment A news .* .t .m i?nn ! i.* i? iper, witn tne tiueoi nepuataiwn, una ntiuly been started in St. Louis. A process has :en invented by which scraps of leather are orked over into large sheets, so that the new ar?le is as good as the piece from which the scraps me. .'"There is a radical running for office in idiana whose name is Will Cumbaek. "The overnor of New Jersey has vetoed the resolutions ' the Legislature withdrawing assent to the conitutional amendment Three thousand bales 'cotton pass over the Greenville Rail Road week General Grant's income from, the Govnmentissaid to amount to about $30,000. A intleman in Illinois owns an estate so large that ; has three hundred and twenty miles of hedge pon it He is to sow a new field of ten thousand :res for the first time this year. A short me since a train on the Hudson River Railroad n over a man and killed hiin instantly, but did )t even slacken speed in consequenos. A rrent of boiling water burst up through the shaft ' an artesian well, which was being sunk at La rosse, Wisconsin, scalding several men, melting f the snow for some six acres and boiling things inerally. ? ? ^ 'V'r' ominations in North Carolina. ? The Republican and Conservative parties of ortlv Carolina are actively at work. Both parties ive recently nominated Candidates for Governor id other offices. The Republicans tried their ind first, with the following result: For Governor, W. W. Holden; Lieutonant-Govnor, Tod. R. Caldwell; Secretary of State, H. J. enninger; Public Treasurer, David A. Jenkins; uditor, H. Adams; Superintendent of fuDiic rorks, C. L. Harris; Attorney General, W. M. , Dleman. The nominees are all white men. The Conservatives have nominated for Governor, < B. Vance, of Mecklenburg; Lieutenant-Gover- 1 ir, E. D. Hall, of New Hanover; Secretary of Ate, R. W. Best, of Greene; Public Treasurer, . P. Battle, of Wake; Auditor, S. W. Burgwin, , ' Buncombe; Superintendent of Public Works, i F. Patterson, of Caldwell; Superintendent of ublic Instruction, Rev. B. CraveD, of Randolph, off Impeachment is Tried. The House of Representatives having passed , resolution impeaching the President of the Uni- i d States of high crimes and misdemeanors, the ichmond Dispatch gives the following as the ] obable programme of the proceedings: "The Chief Justice of the United States will 1 esidc upon the trial, just as in the British House 'Lords, the Lord Chancellor of England presides \ )on similar occasions. All the Senators are re- 1 xired to take an oath (or to affirm) that they will ( rell and truly try and true deliverance make,' &c. 1 tie case will be conducted on the part of the pros- 1 ution by managers to be appointed bv the House J Representatives, and on the part of the Presi mt by counsel of his own choosing. Mr. Stan- ! :rry, Mr. 0'Conor and Judge Black, are said to tve been engaged by the President. The House ' Representatives will select as many managers ' it pleases, and will probably, as a compliment, j lect Mr. Stevens as their chief manager. The unber will probably be less than hall'a dozen.? ie Constitution provides that punishment in cases 1 impeachment snail not extend further than re- ( oval from office, and disqualification to hold any See under the Government It requires the con- ] rrence of two-thirds of the Senators present to i i even this. "The Senate sits as a court, and may. as a court, t ike some order which will virtually suspend the i esident during trial. The Senate deliberates ] th closed doors, but the judgment is given with 1 en doors. _ 1 "No President of the United States has ever I fore been impeached, and therefore the Chief f ist ice has never before presided over the Senate, 1 ice he does so only in such case. I "It may require weeks or months to complete 1 e trial. All depends upon the temper of the 1 mate." < lie Nomination of Secretary of War. ? On Saturday, the 22nd ultimo, the President j nt to the Senate for confirmation, the nomination ? Hon. Thomas Ewing, Sr., of Ohio, as Secretary 1 War. So far as we are advised, the Senate has, 1 yet, taken no action in the premises. We find e following sketch in regard to Mr. Ewing, in an < change: t "Mr. Ewing was born in Ohio county, Va., De- 1 mber 28, 1789. His father, who had served in j e American army during the Revolu :ion and had ^ come reduced in circumstances, removed his i rnily in 1792 to the Muskingum river , and thence 1 a place on the frontier settlement of Ohio, now 1 thens county. Mr. Ewing, when about twentyree years of age entered the Ohic University, i Lving saved money enough to pay his tuition < ere. In 1810 he was admitted to the bar. and acticed with success in the State Courts ana Su- j erne Court of the United States. In March, 1831, he took his seat in the United 1 ates Senate as a member of the Whig party, and came associated with Clay and Webster in re- t iting what were deemed the encroachments of f e Executive. Oddly enough he seems now to brought into public to take an entirely differ- \ > tt -i_- :?a _r / t roie. ne spUKe ii^muM mc iiuiuiuai/iuii ui \ r. Van Buren as Minister to the Court of St. ,mes; supported the protective tariff system of ? r. Clay; advocated a reduction of the rates of stage, a re-charter of the United States Bank, c 1835 he introduced a Bill for the settlement of 1 e much vexed- Ohio boundary question, which is passed March 11 and June 15,1830. In March. J 37, Mr. Ewing's term expired, and he resumed 5 practice of his profession. In 1840 he advo- e /ea the election of General Harrison to thePrcsiocy, and when that gentleman came into office t he became Secretary of the Treasury, which office he retained under President Tyler. Mr. Ewing, with all the other members of the Cabinet, except Mr. Webster, resigned in September, 1841, ana published his letter of resignation explaining his course. On the accession of Qen. Taylor to thePfesidency in 1849, he took office as Secretary of the recently created Department of the Interior. On the slavery question he separated from his old associates, Mr. Cloy and others, who urged the neoessity of comprehensive legislation to settle the whole matter for once and forever, while Mr. Ewing agreed with the President in thinking the action of Congress uncalled for."* On the death of General Taylor and the accession of Mr. Fillmore, July 9 1850, this division of the Whig party was made the basis of a change in the Cabinet Mr. Corwin became Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr. Ewing was appointed by the Governor of Ohio, to serve during Corwin's unexpired term in the Senate. In this body he was an active defender of General Taylor's administration. He did not vote for the fugitive slave law; helped to defeat Mr. Clay's. Compromise Bijl, and advocated the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. In 1861 he retired from public life, and has since resided in Lancaster, Ohio, and engaged in the practioe of the law. This appointment will come before the Senate fnr mnfirmofmB iihfll confirmed Will not af feet the position of General Lorenzo Thomas, whose appointment is that of Secretary of War ad interim. I ' ' THE IMPEACHMENT MATTER. On the outride of the Enquirer, to-day, will be found a connected account of the difficulties at Washington, from various- sources, up to 10 o'clock at night, ou Tuesday the 25th ultimo. On Wednesday morning* 26th, Gen. Thomas appeared in Court, before Judge Cartter, attended by his counsel. ' Stanton being absent, Judge Cartter issued a subpoena for his attendance Stantop's counsel asked a postponement of the case, but Thomas' counsel objected, as their client was now present as a prisoner, having been surrendered by bis bail, and would demand a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Cartter threw the case out of court by telling Thomas to "go hence." This closes the matter unless the grand jury takes cognizance. As the case has failed in getting to the Supreme Court this way, the quo warranto against Stanton, it is now expected, will be again applied for. The Richmond Dispatch remarking on the affair, says: "The case of Gen. Thomas was waived out of court by Judge Cartter yesterday without a hearing?evidently the Judge being too good a Radical strategist to allow,Mr. Johnson to hang on to the Thomas case an appeal- to the Supreme Court on which to test the constitutionality of the tenure-ofoffice law. Stanton did not appear. This was smart "Go hence,1'says the Judge; and the General went; but not to the War Department, where Stanton is encamped, master of the field thus far. The President mnst proceed de novo if he intends to get a decision on that law." Immediately after the discharge of General TVirtmno ft unit wrLH mimmenced in the District Court by him, against Stanton, for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. Damages, one hundred thousand dollars. Stanton, in answer to the warrant for false imprisonment of Thomas, says he will attend to it by attorney. A special dispatch to the Charleston News says that the following are the principal counts in the articles of impeachment: "First. That the President has violated the constitution. Second. That he violated the Tenure of Office act. Third. That he has attempted to induce Gen. Grant to violate the said act; and Fourth. That he has been an obstruction to reconstruction by removing military commanders in the South. ^ The best informed parties consider the action of the Senate upon these charges doubtful; but the Radicals are sanguine of obtainiug a conviction." A special telegram to the Richmond Dispatch, dated Washington, February 28, says: Tue Bpedat-dBMHMuiu ui? u?u m,impeachment was engaged to-day in talcing testimony, which, from its character, it is inferred that in preparing articles for submission to the House the committee is considering more points than those directly involved in the removal of Stanton. Colonel Moore, one of. the President's secretaries, was before the committee, and was interrogated to discover whether any military orders had recently been issued by the Executive that did not pass through the headquarters of General Grant The evidence was to the effect that no orders relative to military movements had been issued except what had been sent to General Grant. Other testimony is to be taken to-morrowT and it is very probable that the committee will not be prepared to report articles of impeachment before Monday. By Tuesday afternoon, at the outside, it is expected that the House will have ndoptea articles, and the Senate will take them under consideraton on the following day, if in the mean time the rules for conducting the trialshall by that time have been adopted. These rules were reported, this afternoon, but how much time may be expended in debate upon them can only be conjectured. It is probable that several days may be consumed in- discuasion upon some of these rules, as there is no limit to debate until the rules themselves shall be adopted." The proceedure in the impeachment is to be as follows: ."The day after the articles are presented, the Senate will resolve itself into a court at 1 o'clock. A quorum of the Senate will constitute a quorum of the court. After the trial is commenced, the Senate will sit daily, and legislation will proceed during the recesses of the court. The final argument will be made by two counsel on each side, the House having the opening and closing speeches. All orders and decisions are to be made by peas and nays without debate. Judge Chase presides. The President need not appear in person. The oath of senators is^ "That in all things appertaining to the impending impeachment I will do impartial justice according to the Constitution ind laws of the United States, so help me God." The Senate (as a court) compels the attendance of svitnesses, and punishes contempt, and may call the irmy and navy to its support. It sits with open doors." "Wallace," the Washington correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch, under date of the 28th ultimo,ays: : ^ 'There is a decided determination on the part of those who favor impeachment to rush the whole natter of the preliminaries and trial at a sort of previous question speed; but the belief among those who rely upon a majority of the senators for temperate justice and iust action is, that reasonable time will be acceded for full debate and calm conrideration as well upon the preliminaries as upon the final trial. The impeachment party say nut two or three days-shall be given to the President to mswer and prepare his defence, though there does mt nnnenr to ha anv eround for this unfair pro seeding other than the assertions of outside manlgers of the impeachment project. There are nany stories told of what has been said privately yy this or that Radical senator, and of what Chief Justice Chase has said on the subject of impeachment ; but although, as has been asserted, there nay have been loose and injudicious expressions of )pinion or feeling bv a few of the senators who are ictively managing tne impeachment matter in the Senate, yet your correspondent is warranted in itating a very large majority of the Radical sena:ors have observed a becoming reticence since tbe idoption of the impeachment resolution in the House, and that the report that Judge Chase has, luring the same period, conversed upon the merts of the impeachment act in its legal or political tspects, is wnolly unfounded." On Saturday, the 29th ultimo, the Committee igreed upon the following articles of impeachment :o be preferred against the President: 1. The removal of Stanton, with the intention jo violate the constitution and laws. 2. The appointment to the Secretary-ship of iVar, with tne like intent, of one Lorenzo Thomas. 3. Conspiring with Thomas and others, unknown, o hinder Stanton, by intimidations and threats, rom exercising his office. 4. Conspiring with Thomas and others to prerent and kinder the execution of the Tenure-ofDffice Bill. 4. The appointment of Thomas while the Sen-, ite was in session. 6. A conspiracy with Thomas to seize property tf the United States, contrary to the act of July mi. # 7. A conspiracy with Thomas and others to eject Itanton from the War Office. 8. A conspiracy to take possession of the propirty of the United States in the War Offioe. 9. Giving Thomas a letter authorizing him to ako possession of the War Offioe, .: d. , 10. Persuading General Emery that the law re quired that orders from the President and Secre tary of War should not come through the Genera of the Army. The House saves the privilege of presenting oth er charges, and of replying to the President s an swer to these. Nine of these charges simply ring the change* on Stanton's removal The tenth cnarge applie* to General Emery's interview, wherein the rresi dent asked: "Am I to understand that the Pres ident of the United States cannot give an orde: but through the General-in-Chief or Gen. Grant' After saying "yes," General Emery withdrew. The debate on the impeachment articles were t< conclude on Monday last, and be presented to thi Senate on Tuesday. The probabilities of impeach ment are weakening. I PTTPD PDHM PV-CnVVDMAD QPUDV Messrs. 'Editors Mercury: The apathy and in difference of the people of South Carolina to th< impending degradation, infamy and ruin which a wait them, politically, socially and pecuniarily, an indeed appalling. They are now standing, as i were, on a magazine of powder, which a spark ma; at any time ignite and blow them into eternity There is in our midst a black volcano, whose up heaving and partially smothered throes, are unmis takable of a terrific explosion. And yet no om seems alarmed or thinks, of making the slightes effort to rescue himself, his family or country fror the threatened destruction. Nero's fiddling whil Borne was burning is prudence and virtue to ou {) re sent insensible and voluntary stupor and indil erence. There is a great party at the North, strugglin, for our salvation, and doing all that, herojc ana pa triotic men can do, to rescue the people of th South, and the Republic from tyranny, dishono and death, whilst we are not raising a hand to hel them in this fearful, mortal conflict Are th Southern people lost to all shame, insensible to a honor and indifferent to the safety of themselvef their families and country ? If they are not, i behooves them to be up and doing before it is to late. Let there be, at once, in this State, in ever; , district.* town, village and neighborhood in th State, formed and organized a Democratic party to affiliate with the National Democratic party c the Northern States. This will strengthen 'them and encourage them in their noble and patrioti resistance to the tyranny of a reckless Congress whose sole purpose seems to be, to destroy the lib erties of their country, and to establish a negr despotism in the South. The radical party, through the instrumentality of vile emissaries^ outcasts of society from th North, and poor, ignorant and deluded negroes are thoroughly organized throughout the South in eveiy-State, District and neighborhood. Thei secret Union Leagues are everywhere, andthrougl them they have deceived the negro and bought u] mean and unprincipled whites by the temptatioi of office, from that of Governor down to constable In this way they have got control of the State whilst the honorable, intelligent, patriotic and vii -i j j;ir 4 tuous nave Deen supinely inactive aim uiuiuereui This must not be so any longer. If the conserva tive men of the State will organize everywhere and exert their influence, they may yet open th eyes of the negroes to this inevitable destructioi which awaits them as a race and people. The; may control, at least, the best portion of them, am induce them to vote against the ratification of th Constitution, or itay away from the polls. Intelli fence, virtue and wealth must exert a powerful in uencc over any and every people where properl, applied. By organizing Democratic clubs in every neigh borhood, and having a central club at the Coui House, sending delegates to meet in Convention at Columbia, the conservative Democracy may ac in concert all over the State, and in harmony wit! the National Conservative Democracy throughou the United States. Such an organization is absc lutely necessary in the coming Presidential election We must have it to send delegates to the Nations Democratic Convention, which will assemble ii July to nominate candidates for President am Vice-President of the United States. We mus have it for the purpose of nominating and electim electors of President and Vice-President, for Soutl Carolina. We must have it for the purpose o nominating and electing Governor and all State ol ficers, should the negro Yankee constitution b ratified in South Carolina, which G od in his mere; arrest. But, above all, we must have a Democratic or ganli-Jftiuii fbi uilP Jillum trrra ^inlinlioa, i? th> wild and fanatical revolution which is now goinj on in our beloved and once honored State. Le every one who regards his own life, the honor o his family, and tne preservation of his property set to work immediately in the formation of thes< associations, in his immediate neighborhood. Le him draw up a written constitution for the associa tion, founded on Democratic principles, and get al to sign it who will, both black and white, pledginj themselves to act in concert with the Nationa Democracy, in preserving the Constitution, Unioi and liberty of the. republic, the protection of all equallv, in the enjoyment of life, liberty, propert; and the pursuit of happiness, before the law an< in obedience to the law. The present condition of society in South Caro lina is, indeed, a most wretched, miserable one.TiNrovtr nifrtii wp h<*nr nf conflflirratinns. murderi and robberies. In the Reconstructions Acta of Congress, it ii expressly stated that the military authorities ar< sent amongst us to protect life, property, and pre serve the peace of society. But instead of thii being done, crime has increased ten-fold in ou; midst since the advent of our military protectors and is still frightfully increasing. It may be saic that we are in the midst of a savage' war, and th< savage within our own possessions, believing him self protected by the Government It does seen that the day is not far distant when the white rac< will have to work hard to support the grown ne groes in our jails and penitentiaries, and their chU clren in free schools and poor houses. What a commentary on Republican institution! is that unlawful and usurped assembly now sittinf in your Club House, forming a Constitution for th< once proud, glorious and honored State of Soutl Carolina. Composed, as it is, of negroes, unprin cipled and ignorant white men, traitors to theii race and country, out-casts of Northern society, and adventurers, black and white Yankees, with ? Constitution bearing internal evidence of its having been written by some ignorant Northern abolitionist, and sent here for adoption. If, under these circumstances, the people of this State will not exert themselves, in concert with the National Democracy and the President of the United States, to prevent this vile and putrid patch-work of a Government being saddled on them and their posterity, then they deserve theii fate, and are worthy of being the slaves of negroes and the outcasts of Northern society. But never, never can I believe such a calumny and slander. I feel assured every newspaprr in the State will sound the alarm, and go to work earnestly and zealously in so good a cause, and that everv prominent: man in his neighborhood will exert himself, and that even the good negroes will lend their aid in protecting themselves and their country. There is a class of white men in South Carolina who are seeking office, that we may expect no aid or sympathy from. The finger of scorn will ever hereafter be pointed at them, and posterity in all time to come, as the Judas Iscariots of their race. In conclusion, Messrs. Editors, let me make this further suggestion as to the formation of these societies of Democratic clubs all over the State.? There should be a President and a Vice-President, a Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer elected by the society. They should meet as often as convenient, and each member should consider himself a committee to induce others to join. Eveiy one should endeavor to disseminate Democratic newspapers and speeches and essays in his neighborhood, and procure his neighbors to subscribe for such papers and documents. As many as can, should meet at the court house monthly, and report progress to the central society. These central societies should make reports to the general sociegat the seat of government or capital of the State. very member should consider himself a sort of conservator of the peace for the suppression of vice and crime, and see that offenders are brought to justice in our courts. They should aid the civil and military authorities in ferreting out evil doers, arid protecting the Innocent from lawlessness ana wrong. And for this purpose they should be prepared to defend themselves when unlawfully assailed, in their persons or property. Good men are always brave and generous, and bad men arc generally cowards. If the Southern States will organize as I propose, they may carry the entire South in the coming Presidential election, and defeat the ratification of all the bogus constitutions which have been formed by Northern radicals and adopted by negro conventions. Then our common country will once more stand redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled of radical rule and militaiy despotism. This great model republic will be again governed by the constitution, and made perpetual for a free, united and happy people. B. F. PERRY. ? c\J V. j ? ^ ? *8- Gen. Sickles has been stumping New Hampshire for the radicals. He lately quit in disgust. ; LOCAL items; I 1 . FEW JDVEBTianCEHTB. R. H. Glenn, 8. Y. D.?Ordinary's 8ale. " Wm. C. Dukes & Co., Agents?Wando Company, " . Charleston, S. C, ?-?S. S. Scranton?Agents Wanted. ? F. C. Harris, 0. Y. D.?Citation?J. L. Parish, Api plicant?Oliver F. Parish, Deceased. . T. W. Claw son, Deputy Messenger?In Bankruptcy?In the matter of J. K. Wallace. * R. H. Glenn?Sheriff's Sales. . , Homesley & McCants?Closing Out. I " ? ?Bacon. - j 44 44 -Molasses.' ' ) 44 44 ?We are Determined < ? 44 44 ?If You bring the Money. 44 " ?Corn and Peas at Cost T. M. Dobson & Co.?Wanted. JohnS. Bratton?Notice. F. C. Harris, O. Y.- D.?Citation?Susan E. Caldwell, Applicant?Wm. M. Caldwell, de- , ceased 5 BBLIGIOUB I0TI0B. j Rev. S. L. Watson, by order of Bethel Pre9by- i t tery, trill preach at Hopewell Church, below Rock i tj:II .v. .t:_j y j.j.ill} uii luu luiru kjauuatu ui IXMMVU. : APPODTTKEHT OF TAX COLLECTORh General Canby, by Special Order, No. 44, e has appointed Mr. W. J. Stephenson, Tax Collector for York District, vice CoL Andrew Jack? son, resigned. r RilS Dusnro THE YEAR 1867. We have been kindly furnished by our friend, Maj. A. A. McKenzie, who is discharging ?he r duty of "clerk of the weather" in this District, a e carefully prepared table showing the quantity of r rain that fell, in the vicinity of his residence, duP ring the year 1867. He foots up the aggregate at jj a fraction over four feet, and remarked to us that this is a greater quantity than he has ever known t to fall before in one year. We append the table, o showing the quantity of rain in each month, and y remark, in explanation, that the figures represent ' e inches and fractions of inches: j> January, 0.25; February, 100; March, 5.90; , April, 3.85; May, 7.20; June, 7.40; July, 0.20; ' August, 9.70; September, 1.90; October, 5.00; ! November, 1.40; December, 410. Total, 4 feet ' and nine-tenths of an inch. p 0 BALS8 01 K0IDAY. y The Assignees in Bankruptcy of Moore & Raie ney, R. S. Moore and Moore, Rainey & Co., sold, ij on Monday, the large brick store on the corner of > Main street, opposite the Court House, for $5,500, J cash. p The Assignees in Bankruptcy of Thos. Da vies, n sold two tracts of land, amounting in theaggrei. gate, to seven hundred acres, for $2,780, cash, i, The Assignees in Bankruptcy, of Daniel Wfl' lianas, sold eighteen acres of land lying near York' ville, for $7.65 per acre. \ The notes and accounts doe the firm of Moore e & Rainey, and Moore, Rfiiney & Co., wpre put up i) for sale on Monday and Tuesday, and rare oppor- , y tunities were offered to those who carried a few greenbacks in their pockets, to buy a few bushels ? of paper. This is an expeditious mode of settling bankrupt estates, and an improvement upon the v system of suing in the Courts. mi /v * i i tt /I t 1 i Tne urdmary sola a tew tracts ot lana at pnces l" ranging from twenty-five cents, to five dollars per * acre. The Sheriff was quiet '? it For tbe Yorkville Enquirer. \ THE BAPTIST CHURCH. > On Saturday last, I was riding along and met a i. young man who stopped me and gave me $5 to J help build our new meeting-house in this place, n Shortly after I got home, on the same day, I rei ceived a hasty summons to go to town, and meet a t gentleman wno wished to see me on special busily ness. I thought very fast for a little while. 8uch i thoughts as these ran through my mind: "Now f that is some man who wants to dun me for money ; or it may be, he has sued me. " But when I found e him, he was a good brother and friend from the y neighborhood of Flint Hill, who had some money for my church. He paid me what he had, $6; - and said there was about $20 more to come from a- thn name plunn ? I whappily niiavad ftbont that g time. f.-T t Now will not other good friends thus remember if our infant churcb? Mr. Hope, of this place, gave , me $3 this morning. If some of the merchants, ? and other public men of Yorkville, were Baptists, t I would call them Hard Shell Baptists; for I can't get them to give me anything. * Yours truly, II TDiMAN R. GAINES, | Pastor Baptist Church. 1 COLUMBIA CONTEIBUTORIAL ' _____________________ \ BY JA8. WOOD DAVIDSON. . COLUMBIA, SOUTH 0AB0LIHA, 2FD MARCH, 1888. a Death of a Citizen. A worthy, earnest and honest man was Mr. Jno. I Stork, whose death last week made a mournful 1 item in Columbia. He was a German by birth, 3 but had been a resident of this city for fifteen or r twenty years; and at one time was a member of j the City Council. He died of pneumonia. J At the University. ^ On account of bad weather, the regular weekly i Lecture, for the 27th ult, was postponed until the i 5th inst; and instead of Professor Sachtleben on ' Goethe's Faust, we are to hear Prof. Rivers on the Connection of Epic Poems with the History of 3 the Times in which they were produced, illustrar ted from Homer, Virgil, Tasso, and Milton. ; Another Death. 1 The death of Hon. Edward J. Arthur, last Wed- ( r nesday night, has caused a vacancy in the comma- i nity that will be hard to fill. He was an eninent law- j i yer; and had been Alderman and Mayor of the city, State Representative of this District, and State " Senator. He was universally known as able, conscientious, and laborious. He was buried, on Friday, in Elmwood Cemetery. > Phonography. I Mr. Munson, the author of the best book on this | useful and interesting art, has just issued the first j number of a journal called the Monthly Phonographic Magazine, at 41 Park Row, New York. It is printed in phonographic characters; contains I 16 pages; is an excellent assistance to one studying the art; and costs $2 a year, or 20 cents a number. Lo! the Poor Indian. [ The Negro Commission from South Carolina has ! just returned from Washington "with theinforma1 tion that the Republicans do not xcish for the election of colored Congressmen." Does our poor friend, the Negro, not yet see that the Radicals are not his friends?that now, they . refuse him equality in Congress ; and that in future, as soon as he becomes useless to the party, he will be kicked out, trampled under, and spit r upon, with as little feeling as if he were a hog? a "The Republicans do not wish for the election of i colored Congressmen" e Periodicals. f We are in receipt of the first and second num- t hers of a new monthly journal called the Southern t Pen and Pulpit, published in Columbia, Tennes- t see, by the Rev. J. M. P. Otts. It contains 20 v pages of good literary and religious matter, the de- F partments being separate. The editor is Presby- S terian, though the religious eloment is not secta- e rian to any objectionable degree. It is elevated in i standard and style; and our only fear for it is that 1 it is too well-done for popular appreciation. That 1 remains to be seen, however. The price is $1.50 1 a year; or 15 cents a single number. f The March number of Scott's Monthly is to hand; i and an excellent number in its way. The editor is ? a Methodist minister. \ We have also received the current number of t The Home Monthly, Nashville. It well sustains ? . the high character we ascribed to it a month ago. \ The editor is a Methodist minister. I Messrs. Duffie & Chapman are nmlring arrange- f ments, we understand, to issue an educational \ monthly journal in Columbia. We greasy need c such an organ in this State. r . I We see by the papers that Father Ryan, author c of the Conquered Banner, is about to commence a i weekly Democratic newspaper, The Banner of the c South in Augusta. The address is L. T. Blome j & Co. The price is $3 a year. U CHESTER C0NTRIBUT0RIA1. by;\yif. h. brawley. CHESTER, S7C!7MABCH 3,1868. the Chester stahdamcU We are glad to see that oar impressible friend, Pither, of the G hater Standard, has emerged, like a Phoenix,- from the ashes of his old paper and started a semi-weekly edition, which promises to be a success. - His untiring Zealand industry wiB certainly deserve it :.. \ 8HEBZFF8 8ALBB. On last Monday, the Sheriff offered for sale, to pay taxes, a number of tracts of land, for whioh there was not a single bid The Railroad Hotel was sold to Wra. Nicholson, Esq., for $620, for the period of two years from the 1st of January last, it being sold as the property of Thos. DeGraffenreid, Esq., for taxes. From present indications, the new Government, about to be Organized, will find much difficulty in Praising the wind." HEW TAX-OOLLEOTOB. We understand that Jabes Norton, Esq., has been appointed, by General C&nby, Tax-Collector for Chester District, vice C. W. McFadden, Esq.. who could not take the oath. Mr. Norton is a natire of Charleston, and came to Chester daring the war, as a refugee. He is an old Bank Officer, and wall fitted by business experience and capacity, for the office to which he has been appointed. 8PBIHQ OOUST. In all probability there will be no Courts held on the Northern Circuit this Spring. It was Judge Aldrich's term on the Northern Circuit, but Gen. Canby having removed him and appointed no one in his place, there will be no Judge to hold the Courts. It is not improbable that an extra Court will be ordered, late in the Spring. Public justice imperatively demands it There area number of criminals now in confinement who have a right to a speedy trial . . , GOOD PAY. The Convention, now in session in Charleston, it is said, will dose its labors about the 15th of the present month. It met on the 14th of January, and will have been engaged sixty days. At eleven dollars per day, each delegate will receive $660. The Chester delegates will receive, in addition to this sum, about $80 each, far-mileage. The sum total of their earnings will, therefore, be $740. m They pay nbout $6 per week for board.; their net profits then will be about $660 each, for two months' idleness. More than Pervis and Sancho, and Barney, could all make in a year. Gov. Orr was mistaken when he said that "politics didn't pay." . BAjraupTcr. It is now generally believed that the Bankrupt Law is to be construed as going into effect on the 1st of June, 1867, and not on the 2nd of March, as at first supposed. This will give to those who are hopelessly insolvent, and wish to be relieved of their debts, two months within which to file their petitions and to be discharged. After the 1st of June, no bankrupt can be discharged whose assets will not pay 50 per cent of his debts, unless by consent of creditors. We believe that there have been only five applications, as yet, from Chester District, for the benefit of the Act ' In other parts of the State, petitions to the number of fifty or sixty eveTy day, are being filed. Onf people, we must therefore conclude, are much mora solvent than in other Districts, or much more careless as to their true interests in dealing to hold on for a. few months longer, to the little property that remains to them, 4<yVi lift ltina?lp.a?4h?wMSwy-of any creditor whomaydaooeetoh^them. BALTIMORE CORRESPONDENCE. Baltimore, Md. , Feb. 24th, 1868. ' Dear Enquirer:?;The excitement in the city on account of the late transactions in Washington, in reference to the iinpeaofaiMiit of the President, is not so intense as, perhaps, iu* many other localities, * . as our people have for months been waiting and expecting just such a state of public demonstration. The feeling is deep, howeyer^ and the issue having been made, future developments are cloeely watched. -J Saturday, the 22d, being tbe birth-day of Wash- 4 ton, was duly observed by closing tbe Banks and public offices, displaying flags, and the parade of several military companies. lie 5th Regiment of the Maryland National Guard was out iu full force, and made a beautiful display. Their commander, CoL J. R. Herbert, is a noble veteran of the late war, having seen active service in the Confederate J J-J -a. xL.L.iJ C utusc, juju whs ocveieiy wuuuucu hl iuc uatue ai Gettysburg. His regiment, numbering 450 men, are mostly of the same persuasion, and with their steady step and firm unyielding front, they marched to the beat of the drum as in former times, when the countless thousands of foreign hirelings met their little band in the bloody contest The grey uniform sat well, and proudly they bore the insig- | nia of their long cherished hopes. The ladies of Baltimore, who ever delight to honor the brave, appointed this day to consummate the presentation to them of the flag which was so richly merited, and they were proud to bestow. The ceremonies )f presentation were very interesting. The balcolies of the Entaw House were crowded to witness he display, and the gentlemanly proprietor threw >pen parlors and sitting rooms to accommodate the sager, gazing throng of beautiful ladies, that crowdid for a sight of the "Confederate boys." Having itepped in to take a view of the scene, the host ^ touched us for a dinner. Ridgelcy, the Commissay General, gave us a prominent part, and by his loKte and generous attentions, soon compelled our ' orces to retire, while the great heaps of fish, beef urkeys and wild fowls, as well as pies, cakes and ce-cream and goodin, still arose in grand proporions, defying our farther attacks. Well the Gilnans know how to get up good dinners and keep in immense house. As to the spring trade, business men now ex>ress the undivided sentiment of financial ruin, ,nd the most powerful as well as effective influence rhich can be exerted against the Radical impeachnent party, will be felt in this direction. AD the hannels of trade are blocked up, and commercial uen are at a loss how to move. Many, very many, re already bankrupt, and we look for a general filancial crash. The trade from the South has rath ir been shunned than solicited; but within the past ew days, inquiries are being made which induces ne to conclude that there is an opinion sprung up, hat the South may offer a field for a safer trade, hanin the more prosperous North and "West, rhich has been so persistently sought during the ^ >ast winter. In our poverty and dependence, the ' Jouth has often been shamefully imposed upon, iven in purchasing scanty supplies. Inferior qual- -. ties of goods have found a market South, because ler credit was questioned; damaged corn, flour, ttcpn, &c., have frequently been shipped there, toping to realize something, even at a future day, or articles which, if kept here or sent to other narkets, would prove an entire loss. Hence, we ind among our planters a general distrust of the rahe of the,varioua fertilizers. I have no doubt hat many of the manures used by South Carolina airmen, last year, were compounded before the var. Others were purchased from irresponsible jarties?sometimes because the; were cheap and requently because they could be had on a credit? fhich were utterly valueless. The newspapers are srowded with advertisements of Pacific*, Nitrojenized and Soluble Phosphates, cfcc.," cheap! heap! Some for $40 per ton. Many of the nanufacturers of these preparations send out their ihemical analysis, and in such terms as a plain, )ractical farmer may not notice until he finds the ^vantages he ezpected to arise from its use, is not J