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Straps aitd ??tf. At Leesburg, N. C., uviegro school teacher got drunk and whipped his whole school, consisting of tixty little negroes. -? A young woman in Montana was charged with "putting on airs," when she refused to go to a ball barefooted. The Hillsboro (N. C.) Recorder records two rapes in that section, committed by negroes upon white girls, each only fourteen years old. -A Connecticut rogue stole a horse and carriage, and then borrowed money of the Littlefield county Sheriff to pay the expense of pursuing the thief. ??Some mice got into a drawer in Mobile, containing matches and pistol*3fertridges. The mice ignited the matches, the inatchae tired the cartridges, and the official report mentions the killing and wounding of several of the gnawers. Dr. G. W. Graves, formerly of Perry county, Ala., now in California, writes a long letter to the Selma Time*. He thinks people in Alabama and the other Southern States haa better remain where they are. The New York Snn has astonished its readers by an editorial intimation in favor of Buch constitutional changes as will ". practically abolish the Executive Departments altogether, and make Congress supreme. The Laurensville Herald says: Through the Newberry 7 emigration Society, several of our farmers have received able-bodied, yonng and finelooking Germans, who have gone to the cotton and ^ 1 * * *? ? ItAAM ^rtTTAWft Klfl corn neias. in every iu?unnx, we uiviwn. reports. f Forney writes to a Southern man that his "whole object is to see the South not only to return to its past prosperity, but to sec it embarked upon a career of renown that will place it in successful competition with the North. ' Forney has land to sell. A negro woman forty-two years of age, living seventeen miles from Athens, Alabama, gave birth to twins on the 27th ult?one a white infant and the other black as tar. A similar occurrence as to the infants happened near Somerville, Ala., about ten years ago. The mother was a white woman. The daily evening train out of Washington is now generally known atf'the "swearing tram," from the number of homeward-bound office-seekers who not being friends of the Grant family, and haying neglected to contribute to the gift enterprise, endeavor to relieve their disappointment and the tedium of the forlorn journey by profound interchanges of profanity. A dispatch from Richmond announces the appointment of General Alexander Webb to suoceed General Stoneman in the command of the first military district, (Virginia.) It also announces that Governor Wells, who was suspended by Gen. Stoneman, has been reinstated as the provisional governor of the State, and Stoneman ordered to go with his regiment to California.. Brick Pomeroy fitly says: "Corn is scarce at the South, the demand beihg for thousands of bushels from the North-West. How long will the people of that section be content to raise cotton for the benefit of New England manufacturers, rather than provisions tor their own consumptionr it strikes us as poor policy to starve one's self to death for the purpose of enriching enemies." The Washington correspondents say that the Georgia, Governor Bullock, deliberately procured the Senate of his State to reject the Fifteenth amendment, in order that he might use that rejection as an argument for the expulsion of the State from the Union; and he is now canting the result of his own work as a reason why bis State should be handed over again to the boys in blue and the negroes. The Chicago Tribune says "Cleveland is Kroud of a citizen woman who has had seven husands within eight years. One was killed in the army and another in a street fight. The other five survive, she having been divorced from four of them. Her daughter bids fair to rival her mother's connubial exploits, having been already twice married and divorced, and is now ready to snap up a third man, though but in her seventeenth year. _ Some interesting developments were made in the New York courts Tuesday. It was shown that the Union Pacific road is not completed to Ovden, as stated, and that temporary tracks were laid down in some places on a grade exceeding two hundred feet to the mile, upon which the company had received the full quota of bonds, although the road is not built on the approved lino of sur vey, and two tunnels are still unnmsnoci. An elephant belonging to a menagerie in Ecrest, Mississippi, became enraged, broke his chain, and upset things genefally._ A passing-railroad train still further exciting his ire, he pitched into it, knocked the locomotive off the track, but himself knocked into smithereens. The steam from the demolished locomotive bursted the cage in which.a lion was confined, and the beast made his eteape, and at last accounts was killiDgmen and horses. The following are a few facts about the celebrated Siamese twins. Chang and Eng married two sisters, the daughters of a North Carolina clergyman. Each brother has nine children. The family of Eng consists of six sons and three daughters ; the family of Chang consists of three sons and six daughters. The first children were born in three or four days of each other, the others at regular intervals. Chang's ninth child was born three months ago. ?- The religion of the members of the new Cabinet is stated to be as follows: Attorney-General Koar is a Unitarian; Secretary of the Interior Cox is a Swedenborgian; Secretary of the Navy Borie is a Catholic; ex-Secretary of State AVashburne is a Universalist: Secretary of State Fish is a Dutch Reformer, and Postmaster-General Creswell eschews churches altogether. The religious faith of Boutwell and Rawlins is not yet known to fame. Grant's family are Methodists, and that is the church whith he usually attends. The Baltimore Sun of Tuesday says that a large number of foreign emigrants have left New York within the last few days, to try their fortunes in the Southern States. A majority of them were young and healthy men and women from Germany, and the remainder were Irish, English and French. South Carolina was the destination of most of them, and in most cases the emigrants had come to this country under the auspices of some of the Southern emigrant companies, who are trying to attract labor and capital from Europe, to aid in the development of the Southern country. In the re-distribution of Congressmen after the census, next year, the East will Jose and the AY est will gain a great number of representatives. After 1870, the AVest, if united, will control the legislation of the countrv, and control the national ; 1- ? Tt? 1?,:..t conventions lor uoruuiauug rre>taeiunw viiiiuiuaic-s. The West is equitably entitled to this superior weight now ; but it cannot receive the benefit oi its wonderful growth since I860 until after the ten Years are fully up. when, by a sudden stride or leap, it will make a great advance in political influence. Mayor Hall, of New York, has published a letter addressed "To the Press of the United States," in which he says: "I beg to caution strangers against New York circulars and prospec? tu<es of tickets, shares and chances in co-operative unions or gift enterprises or dollar stores, or in any other possible scheme whereby property or the value promised is greater than the price asked to le paid. Every such advertisement scheme is necessarily a swindle and false pretence. There do not and cannot possibly exist any such schemes in this city. Country newspapers which aid them siiuply aid the swindle." Ic is said that Mrs. Charles Summer, formerly the widow Hooper, and now grazing somewhere in the Alps as the widow of the senator from Massachusetts, has sent a handsome cash uieseiit across the water to the relict ot the late Preston S. Brooks. Mrs. Suutner declares that Brocks deserved the thanks of the public for having drubbed her consort, and that during her briel stay wiih him as her matrimonial partner, she wa* only prevented from repeating the famous scent in the Senate by Charles's a Idee t cowardice. The two widows?Mrs. B. and Mrs. S. ?corresDond regularly. In the mean time Charles, in his lonely bachelor's attic in Washington, is annotating his famous speech on the "Barbarism of Slavery,' with reminiscences of his wedded weeks with widow Iloojier. "lie learned in suffering what ho taught in slang."?Exchange. We learn that on Monday last orders were received at Abbeville Courthouse for the immediate fbrmation of a company of negro State troops. The news that $1G a month, army rations, and perhaps a uniform, could be had for the asking, spread like wildfire, and within twenty-four hours about fifty negroes were enrolled. Many of then had been working steadily in the field, out abandoned :!n-ir employers without leave or warning. No public notice of this new prank was taken b} the white people of the district : but Hutsor L imax, a colored member of the Legislature, and another prominent Radical, sent to Columbia ar argent-request that the order for the enlistment of the negroes should be revoked, or at least suspended. This was, we believe, the oondition of affairs f in Abbeville three days ago.?Charleston Nncs. Wendell Phillips, in the last number of his Anfi-Slavery Standard has a characteristic admonition for Congress, with reference to the Fifteenth amendment. He says: "The amendment must not fail. We must, if necessary, swamp Delaware and Indiana by the creation of new States. There is Georgia vaporing in old Southern style, in insolent defiance of the nation's will. She is not a 8tate, having not yet been reconstructed nor readmitted. che could easily be divided into two good sized States, and admitted when she sees her way to the adoption of the Fifteenth amendment." Again, he says: "This is no time for maudlin sentiment It is a time for drawn swords, and for going to the extreme verge of our constitutional power. We say, therefore, to Congress, carve out of rebel territory like Texas and Georgia, enough States to ratify the amendment, if events shall show it to be necessary." lb* farMlt <?mjuir*r, YORKVILLE, S. C.s THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1869. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising andjob, work, are cash, in advance. X.?The paper will be discontinued on the expiration of the time for which payment has been made. A Subscriber finding a (X) cross-mark on the wrapper or margin of his paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. We have been requested by Rev. H. R. Dickson, the Pastor, to state that in consequence of his absence at Presbytery, there will be no service at the Presbyterian Ghnrcb in Yorkville, on next Sabbath. THE COLUMBIA GUARDIAN. Mr. C. P. Pelham announces that the publication of the Daily Guardian will be resumed in Columbia on the first of May, proximo. Further particulars are promised in a few days with regard to terms, &c. AN ENTERTAINMENT. We have been requested to state that the ladies belonging to the congregation of the Presbyterian Church in Yorkville, will give a public entertainment at the Hall of the Female College on Thurs(?or. atrnntnrr novt ISth instant. The obiect of the VI fMJ VfWMIU6 ? ? entertainment is to raise funds in aid of the Church. The price of admission to the Hall has been fixed at 25 cents. By attending, the young and the old can pass a pleasant hour, and at the same time contribute to the success of a worthy object. 'HANDWRITING OF GOD." We have been furnished by Bev. S. Head, the agent for York and Chester Counties, with a copy of a very interesting book, bearing the above title, written by Bev. D. A. Bandall, of Colombus, Ohio. It is in the form of a journal and describes in an entertaining and graphic manner, what the author saw while on a recent visit to Egypt, Sirai and the Holy Land. The book is gotten up in good style and, all things considered, is sold at a reasonable price. THE WALLACE-SIMPSON CASE. The'Committee on Elections have reported Mr. Simpson ineligible, for the reason that he is unable to take the oath of office prescribed by the act of < July 2, 1862. This inability, say the Committee, is alleged in writing by Mr. Wallace, and admitted by Mr. Simpson in his written answer to the notice of contest in this case. This, of course, unseats Mr. Simpson. With regard to the contestant, a majority of the committee report in favor of giving Mr. Wallace . the seat, and a minority report adversely to it. 1 Congress has not yet adopted either report. + ? THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. Owing to the circumstance that no effort was made to get a meeting together, there was nothing done in the matter of organizing an agricultural society on sales-day. York will not meet in convention with the other counties of the State on the 28th. But other counties are not so indifferent to this important interest We see that such societies are forming all over the State, and the Columbia i agricultural convention is as much a certainty as < anything future can "be. We hear expressions of ; regret on all sides, at the failure to organize a so- ] ciety last Monday ; but whose fault is it? ( FROM CUBA. The complications of the United States with Cuban affairs are increasing. More vessels have been sent to the Gulf squadron, und a memorial has been presented in Congress from a U. S. citizen claiming to have received certain injuries from the Spauish navy in Cuban waters. As for the belligerents, both sides claim to be gaining ground. The Spanish authorities have followed the example of their opponents, and are seeking to enlist negro soldiers. The T occ ch Cuba claims that the negro population favor the Spanish rale, and repel all offers of the insurgents. On the other hand, the insurgents claim to be able to bring an army of 200,000 men iuto the field. They are yet a long way below those figures, although they have received considerable reinforcements of fillibusters. ? > THE TENURE-OF-OFFICE ACT. As public attention has been attracted by the long debates in Congress on this subject, many would doubtless like to know what the tenure-of- ] office, or, as the Irishman in the West called it, 1 the "ten-year-office bill," is. The history of the straggle is briefly this: While Mr. Johnson was President, Congress, in order to prevent him from removing their ad- ] herents and his opponents from office, passed a . law which entitled office-holders to keep their of- ; fices, in spite of the President's orders for their removal, unless the Senate confirmed such orders. 1 Under the protection of this law, Mr. Stanton defied Mr. Johnson successfully, when the latter wished to remove him from the office of Secretary of War. When Gen. Grant became President, he found this law very mtieh in his way. in the matter of ' dividing the spoils among his numerous hungry , adherents. He very soon called for a repeal of the act. The House was both ready and anxious to ! gratify him in this particular, they having nothing > to lose by it But the Senate had tasted the ? pleasure contained in the office-giving power, and ; was loth to give it up. The House repealed the act; the Senate refused, but made amendments, which effected no material change. The House refused to concur, and made amendments of its own. This bandying of the act between the two branches of Congress was continued nearly a month, and was only ended last week by the la1 bors of a committee of conference, as is related in ' another place. f As the matter is finally settled, Gen. Grant and i the House have gained the victory. The act is so ? charged as virtually to repeal it The Senate ' have, however, managed to insert a partial recog' nitiou of their right to confirm the removal. The first section declares the right of every person holding office to retain it during the time for which he was appointed, unless sooner removed by and i with the consent of the Senate, or by the appointment with the like consent, of a successor in his 1 place, except as hereinafter provided. That last clause constitutes the surrender. ProI visious are made afterwards, by which the consent pf the Senate is rendered an unnecessary part of ? the title to office. The second section enables the i President to remove officials, and that finally; for there is no provision for their restoration to office, as there formerly was. Such removal is indeed, ( termed a suspension, but as the suspended official | cannot return to his office, it is in plain English a i removal. / Although he has gained an advantage over the Senate, Gen. Grant is not entirely a victor, as he could, by a little firmness, have got all he wanted. According to the correspondent of the Baltimore Svii, the President "informedseveralSenators and , members who called upon him that he had not signed the bill, but that he intended to do so. To one gentleman, a member from Pennsylvania, he admitted that he had made a mistake in not insisting upon its absolute repeal." He did sign it on the 5th. _ ^ ? ? AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. The annual report of the Agricultural Bureau has been published, but its statistics are for the year before last. It is announced therein, that in 1867 the proportion of land devoted to the cultivation of cotton, in the cotton States, was 44 per oent. while only 38 per oent was planted in corn. This statement includes Tennessee, which is only to a limited extent, a cotton State. If we leave out Tennessee, it follows that over four-tenths of the whole area cultivated in the South, is occupied by cotton, and less than four tenths, by corn, while all other crops are allowed bat two-tenths, or onefifth. In South Carolina the proportions were cotton 37, corn 40, and other crops 23 per oerit The above quoted figures are suggestive, and full of interest also, for the reason that we have no ground for supposing any material change in the relative proportions of the same crops now being planted. If there be any difference, there will be more cotton and less corn planted in 1869. Now let us examine the results. The report says the average yield, per acre, was 190 pounds, and per hand, 1,750 pounds. In South Carolina the yield was 145 pounds per acre, and 1,400 pounds per hand. The crop of 1867 was nearly all sold at low prices and that simply because the planters were not able to hold it. Their necessities were great and pressing, and the vast majority were forced to sell in order to buy?what? Corn and wheat which they might have raised on their own land. The Bureau report furnishes no statistics of the amount of provisions sold to Southern planters at high figures, during the winter of 1867 and spring of 1868. If these statistics oould be furnished, we suspect the ?- -? v 1 j zuiu. ... i.v tact CUUIU dc JlUJpiV JjrUVt'U iubi lull/ uuu-uau vu that cotton crop was turned into corn and bacon. The cotton crop of last year yielded double profits, while the corn crop was also good enough to enable the planter to pocket his cotton money. Still it is not yet certain that the supply of corn was entirely sufficient. It may yet be necessary to import considerable corn. This is but a repetition of the history of former years. It iff1 the old story of robbing Peter to pay Paul, which has ever been such a favorite policy in Southern farming. The only objection to it Is that it is so uncertain. In 1867 it laid most of its supporters fiat on their backs, while in 186S it set them up on a high horse. The practical question iB what is this policy going to do for us this year? Who can say whether the price of cotton is going to be high enough next Fall to pay for a possible deficiency in other and absolutely necessary crops ? The price of cotton depends on so many and so different causes, that to predict it is mere guess work with all but the favored few who can partially control it. A sudden war, and such is not impossible, may depress it, by raising the value of articles more essential, and destroy its availability to planters by keeping the crop shut out from market. An overcrop would do as much, and an unexpected financial crash would equally destroy the market, by making money scarce, buyers scarcer, and sellers eager. Are farmers really willing to trust their whole capital to such an uncertainty, or are they going to provide for what they know to be essential to a successful carrying on of their business, by planting grain enough to ensure them against being forced to buy it at a sacrifice of cotton? lime will show. THE ENLISTMENT STORY. Among our Scraps and Facts this week, is an article from the Charleston i\ews, giving an account of alleged enlistments of negroes for the militia, in Abbeville county. The attention of Gov. Scott having been called to the matter by Mr. George yt. Williams, of Charleston, he replied to that gentleman in a long letter, in which, he says that while at the proper time he will organize the militia, he ha9 done nothing in the matter. If, therefore, any such enlistments have been made anywhere in the State, they are null and void, and the negroes so enlisted are the dupes of designing parties, who will probably come to grief. The gist of the Governor's letter is contained in the following paragraph: I have given no orders for the "immediate formition of a company of negro State troops." No j orders have been issued for the enrollment of the militia, under the recent Act of the Legislature; : even the Adjutant-General's office has not yet been opened, and before any organization of the militia , into companies or regiments can be attempted, an enrollment of all the citizens of the State, white and colored, subject to militia duty, must first be oompleted; which, in itself, will require considerable time. I am led to believe, however, from a i letter recently received from Mr. Guffin, of Abbe- | ville, that the Adjutant and Inspector General, , now absent from the State, promised him the po- j sition of enrolling officer for that county, when the enrollment is ordered. This may have given rise 1 to the rumors of enlistments and excitement in that 1 neighborhood, spoken of by the Xcics, and of which ; I know nothing, except what I gather from its fulminations. In reply to Mr. Guffin, who is a native of Abbeville, and as respectable and patri- 1 etic as any in the county, I directed him, if any of the colored people had supposed they were to be immediately enrolled, to disabuse them of tlpit uotion; direct them to return to their homes and , labors, and remain there until the enrollment is ordered, .when they will be duly notifid. ? - ? MERE-MENTION. Green peas and ripe strawberries have appeared in the markets of Charleston and Savannah, Georgia. Henry Mclver, of Cheraw, hns been elected President of the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad, i-ice Colonel Allan Macfarlan, deceased. There are two negroes residing in Columbia, aged respectively 109 and 112 years. It is said that Adjutant and Inspector-General F. J. Moses, Jr., has gone to New Haven, Connecticut, for the purpose of purchasing two thousand Springheld Rifles for tho Militia. The Lancaster Ledger states that the l>ody of William Bowers, (whose mysterious disappearance was noticed several weeks ago,) has been found in Bear Creek. He is believed to have been murdered. The taxable property of Laurens County is put down at $3,029,065. "The Graniteville Manufacturing Company has declared a dividend of ten dollars per share, payable on and after the 10th instant. The English papers state that Gen. Ripley, "who fired the first gun at Fort Sumter,'' is a bankrupt in London for about two hundred thousand dollars. Archibald C. McKinlay. colored, has been appointed assistant postmaster at Oraneeburg, S. C. Dr. B. A. Boseman, colored, has been appointod by Governor Scott, physician to the Charleston Jail. The colored Masonic societies of Charleston are giving entertainments for the purpose of raising a Masonic charity fund. The value of tnxable property in Lancaster county is $1,300,492. It is said that Governor Senter, of Tennessee, will disband Brownlow's militia and send them to their homes." An exchange remarks "good for the State, but terrible for the homes. At the latest advioes but eighty miles of the Pacific Kailroad remained unfinished. It is expected that the fourth of July next will see San Francisco and New York united by rail. Frank Pierce's Cabinet was the only one in the history of the United States that remained unbroken from the beginning to the end of the administration. It is stated that Mr. Jefferson Davis proposes to return to the United States at an early day. A lady in New Hampshire, weighing four hundred pounds, has just married a man of one hundred and thirty. The Rhode Island Methodist Conference has resolved to admit no man to mem bership who uses tobacco, except for medicinal purposes. A Northern gentleman who has lately settled near Petersburg, Virginia, intends to plant this year two hundred acres of land in sorghum, and will manufacture sugar. The Captain-G( neral of Cuba officially declares that hereafter all vessels captured in Spanish waters, with men, arms, and munitions of war on board, will be treated as pirates. Railroads from Boston to Huntsville, Ala., have agreed to pass immigrants at 21 cents per mile. All the negro regiments but two have been "consolidated" out of the United States army. On the Chicago and Northwestern railway recently, a train ran ninety-one miles in ninety minutes. The spring style of bonnet? is described as "reduced in size and increased" in price." Burns' only surviving son is now living in Cheltenham, at the advanced age of seventy-seven. There are said to be over 16,000 Free Masons in Georgia. "The Louisville Courier-Journal, commenting upon the remark that the mantle of Thad. Stevens had fallen upon Ben. Butler, wishes it had been Thad. 's mantle-piece. Wood is so scarce in France that they save their sawdust, mix it with glue and press it in moulds, making, it is said, very good itnita* - a /V _ i . tions or carved wood." a ioou or snow ieu ai Albany, New York, on Thursday, the first of April. Massachusetts has a population of 1,610 Indians, '^Phree colored women have government clerkships in Washington. Seventy-two cotton aniPwtolen mills are being erected in Georgia. It is stated that a hen in Maury county, Tenn., is laying bottle-shaped eggs. Why don't the owner give her a little whiskey, and let her hatch him out a few hottles of that beverage? It is Baid that the Elk Mountain Cheese Factory in Buncombe county, has proved to be so profitable-that the people of that section have determined to establish two or three more factories. A minister in Mitchell County, Ga., says that the "forbidden fruit" that Eve partook of and gave to Adam was?tobacco. Laraartine was asked by a friend if he did not spend too much money in advertising. "No," was his reply, "advertise1 ments are absolutely necessary. Even divine worship (1c Ion Dieu) needs to be advertised. Else what is the meaning of church bells?" John Robinson, the Showman, is a candidate for Alderman in Cincinnati. The North Carolina Legislature has agreed to adjourn on Monday, 12th instant. The stay law of North Carolina has been declared unconstitutional by the Superior Court of Craven county. Sugar planting has been successful in Louisiana this season, and the crop is estimated at from 260,000 to 300,000 hogsheads. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. On the 30th ultimo, the Senate passed the supplementary currency act, having first adopted an amendment increasing the amount to be withdrawn from States having an excess of circulation to $30,000,000. The bill goes to the House. If it becomes a law, the effect will be to take the above named amount from the Eastern States, and the South and West will get it, in proportion to population. The House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to the tenure-of-otficc bill, by a vote of 100 to GO. A committee of conference was then appointed to dispose of the subject A resolution to adjourn, if the Senate concur, on the Gth, was passed. Ou the 31st, the conference committee on the tenure-of-office bill reported, and the report was. adopted, the vote in the Sonate being 42 to 8, and that in the House 100 to 67. The Senate debated the resolution to adjourn on the 6th, but took no action thereon, On the 1st instant, the Senate passed a joint resolution requiring all parties, desiring the removal of political disabilities,, to make application over their own signatures, with a sworn statement giving the reasons why they ask relief. In the House, the bill to provide a provisional government for Mississippi came up, and after a long discussion the whole subject was postponed until next session: Mr. Butler, the fatherof the bill, made a strong fight to have it passed, and, as usual, got himself into several j>ersonal encounters of wit. To do the Falstaff of the House justice, he turned the laugh on his adversaries; but his strategy was in vain, and he came out of the contest beaten, which is no uncommon occurrence in his history. On the 2nd, the Indian appropriation bill was passed by the Senate. In the House, the committee on contested elections rej>orted that in the case of Hoge versus Reod, from the 3rd Congressional District of South Carolina, the contestant, Hoge, is entitled to the seat The report was made the special order for Tuesday, the 0th, when it is very likely to be adopted. The same committee reported that in the case of Wallace versus Simpson, from the same State, Mr. Simpson is ineligible. This report was ordered to be printed and laid upon the table. On the 3rd, the Senate confirmed Longstreet's nomination as Surveyor for the port of New Orleans, by a vote of 25 to 10, after two days' discussion. Mr. Sprague made a personal explanation, to the effect that "his courage .and his words do not rest upon wine or whiskey, but on his knowledge of the danger to the country from legislative and executive power assumed by the Senate." Both Houses adopted a resolution to adjourn on the tutn instant. On the 5th, the Senate judiciary committee reported a bill, and recommended that it pass, as follows: "That when any person who is not rendered ineligible to office by the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution shall be elected or appointed to any office of honor or trust under the Government of the United States, and shall not be able, on account of his participation in the late rebellion, to take the oath prescribed in the act of Congress, July 2d, 1802, said person shall, in lieu of said oath, take and subscribe the oath prescribed in the act of Congress entitled "an act prescribing an oath of office to be taken by persons whose legal disabilities shall have been removed, approved .July 11, 1S6S." Sumner introduoed a bill forbidding district courts to consider cases involving slave contracts. In the House, the bill carrying into effect the Convention of !C8 between the United States and Mexico was passed. It goes to the President. The bill continuing the Freedmoti's hospitals at Richmond, Vicksburg nnd District of Columbia was passed. It goes to the President. A FAITHFUL PUBLIC MAN. Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, has attracted the attention of the whole country, by his recent out-spoken rebuke of the corruption and incompe tency now so prevalent. Mr. Sprague is beyond suspicion a.s to his "loyalty," the only touchstone of merit now recognized. At the beginning of the late war he equipped and sent into the U. S. army, at his own expense, a regiment of infantry and a battery of artillery. In his speech on the 24th of March, when taunted on his desertion, so called, by some whom his remarks made sore, he stopped their mouths by the assertion, which they could not disputo, "In means I have contributed more than any member of this body, and in character quite as much, to the success of the Republican party. In point of means I think my contributions in that direction would offset the contributions of all the other members of the Senate." He now, however, rises above prejudice and breaks the shackles of party, by publicly declaring himself disappointed in the results of that success, and the unusual spectacle of a modern public man who is not afraid to speak his honest opinion, when adverse to his party's interests has gained him applause from all parts of the country. Speaking of the misgovoromentof Congress, Mr. S. said: "What position do we occupy to-day? Is there peace at the South ? Is there a spirit of harmonious influence here in this Senate toward those peo?le ? Is there government among tho6e people ? >o their occupations prosper? Are they not in a state of chronic revolution ? And have you not had four lone years in which to assure peace among that people ? Who that is a poor man dare take one that is rich Defore any court in this land? Is there individual protection?is there citizen protection in this land of liberty ? Mr. President, if a railroad, or manufacturer, or a rich man is brought to the bar of any court in this land by a man not as well off as he, or a poor man, all the nice points of the law, and the arrangements and knowledge of judicial precedents, are brought to bear to defeat the poor and the weak. I have called to the individual attention of Senators, and I have called to the attention of the body the fact of the loss of nearly all?I may say, to-day, | all of your industrial interests; but the apathy which seems to have been inoculated into every nerve and into every vein of this body and of the country, will not allow them t<* believe it until tbe mischief is upon them. Your immigration fell off thirty thousand last year from the yearbefore. Why is that so? Is it not a clear case that it must be so? Where can these people obtain employment by cominghere ? If they take possession of the farms at the West can they produce sufficient to supply themselves, at the cost of everything now, with tbe ordinary necessaries of life ? Sir, it cannot be done. They cannot come here: and is it not a shame and a disgrace to all your legislation that it should be so? . You have lost your commerce. You ask the reason for it; and there is not a man in this chamber that gives a satisfactory reason for the loss, except and because we are not paving specie for our bills. The reason is plain and simple; for the construction of your treasury is such that you, in common with the capitalists of this country, arc speculating upon every industry and upon every laboring occupation. That is the reason, and there is no other. I told you the other day that the condition in which the crops of the South were placed, conseauent on high prices, was the most dangerous ana disastrous position that it was possible to place them, for the apparent high prices here give a stimulus to the operations in and the production of cotton in Egypt, in India and in Brazil. It is my deliberate judgment, and nobody can gainsay it, that in five years you will be clamoring here for a tariff to keep out foreign cotton. How are you going to pay your debts with that state of things r Send more bonds to Europe, send more of your capital away from the industries of the people. * * * * - * There is a paralysis throughout the body and throughout the country. I have pointed to Mexican society, I have pointed to Spanish society, I have pointed to Italian society, and if I have read anything, I find that when they, powerful, civilized, refined, commenced the demoralization and loss of honor and virtue and prosperity, they occupied a similar position to that in whicn^his country is placed to-day." ? I NEW ADVE&TI8EKBNT8, W. I. Clawson, Register in Bankruptcy?Notice to Creditors holding liens against the estates of John R. Johnson and S. W. Porter A W. T. Thomson, Bankrupts. A. Adkins?Notice. F. C. Harris, Judge of Probate?Citation?John A. McCullough, Applicant?Wm. C. McCullough, deceased. Knykendal A Tomlinson?Quinine?Extract Sarsaparilla?Essence Coffee, Ac.?Worm Candy?Stop the Chills?Cupping Qlassea?Indigo?Hair Renewer, Ac. E. A. Crenshaw?Hair Jewelry. * n TT L JHiiiuMr. nun?^uvw:r. F. C. Harris, Judgeof Probata?Notice to absent Defendants. R. H. Glenn, S. Y. D.?Sheriff's Sales?Equity Sale. J. R. Schorb <fc Son?Photography. M. Jones?Doubt no Longer?Phacksand Prophe-ce. T. M. Dobson & Co.?Coffee Mills?Carpet Tacks ?Hammers?Knife Sharpeners?Powder and Pistol Flasks?Bells?Scytho BladesWhips?Bed Screws, Ac.?Hames?TraceChains?Our Way of Dunning?Knives and Forks?Flour?Boy's Axes. E. E. McCaffrey?Old Silver Wanted. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Preparing for Bankruptcy. A correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel says that $450,000 wcrth of fertilizers has been received at Covington within the past few months. To which the Macon Journal <0 Messenger adds: "As it is all for cotton, of course, there, there will be a gene, 1 break for the benefit of the Bankrupt Act next fall." Gen. Longstreet's Case. Gen. Longstreet's nomination to office was confirmed, after strong opposition which was overcome byadiligent electioneering on the part of three or four Senators, prominent among whom were the Senators from Alabama. Since bis confirmation many of the radical Senators who voted for him say they are glad he was confirmed; but they don't want the President to send in any more like him. |The President doubtless agrees with them in both | particulars, as he has few relatives among prominent reconstructed rebels. Gen. Longstreet's case is not likely to become a precedent. A Summer Residence for Grant. On motion of Mr. Morrill, the House Committee on public buildings was lately directed to ascertain whether there is any building belonging to the government, available as a summer residence for the President. In former times Presidents were supposed to be able to find residences for themselves, if they found the White House too warm during the summer. But as Congress is so wondrously anxious to keep Grant free from all cares except finding offices for their friends, it is probahlu nil riffht. There does happen to be a public building admirably suited for the purpose of a summer residence, at least it was thought so for two years after the war. It is situated on the seashore, and the balmy breezes of old ocean greet it daily, while the dear old flag flutters patriotically over it from sunrise to sunset. It is, too, hallowed by proud associations, which would tend greatly to soothe Grant's perturbed spirit. Could not Congress secure Fortress Monroe for his summer residence? "To the Victors belong the Spoils." The new administration is practically demonstrating the Jacksonian motto, that "to the victors belong the spoils."' The indications are that every Federal office holder in the country not "truly loil"?to the Republican party?will be decapitated, and his place supplied by an adherent of the party in power. The following paragraph shows that the work, among the post-masters, has commenced in South Carolina : "At Society Hill, Darlington County, James Hamilton, postmaster, vice John Douglass, removed ; George Lunney is postmaster at Darlington Court House, vice S. M. Brown, removed; Enoch Cannon, (colored) postmaster at Spartanburg Court House, viceS.T. Poinier, removed; John S. Smnllwood, postmaster at Beaufort, vice T. R. Ycrdier, removed; II. J. Maxwell (colored) postmaster at Bennettsville." On Friday last the President sent to the Senate for confirmation, the nomination of Charles M. Wilder (colored) as postmaster at Columbia. A Little Embarrassing. -Mormon gentlemen, when their families go abroad, subject their friends to some inconveniences. Brigham Young has lately sent a portion of his family (only twenty of his wives) on a grand tour, by way of the lakes, to Washington. At last accounts they were enjoying the hospitalities of Chicago. Before they reached that noted city of domestic and social bliss, they made a brief sojourn at a small town in Nebraska. While resting from the fatigues of travel, they were invited to spend V.O ounninrr end meet Rome of the "society" of the place, *at the residence of a Mr. Tompkins. Mrs. Tompkins, the hostess, was of course charmed ; but one part of her duties she found to be slightly embarrassing. When Mrs. Brown was to be introduced, it was "Mrs. Young?Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Young?Mrs. Brown," until the whole twenty had passed in review. In like manner, when Mrs. Smith's time came, the formula of "Mrs. Smith?Mrs. Young" was repeated twenty times. Brigham ought really to have had them numbered when he sent them visiting. Let Us have Peace. Gen. Rawlins, the Secretary of State, is not so pliant a tool as it was desired he should be. He resented General Sherman's absorption of all his duties and privileges, and demanded the unconditional repeal of the order by which his subordinates were instructed to report directly to the Lieutenant-General. Sherman did not want to disgorge his capture?indeed disgorging is not his forte. The matter was left to Grant, who found it ei difficult to decide between two such devoted friends. ** One had been his right arm in the oweoution of ? his campaigns, and the other his right hand in the ^ matter of writing orders and dispatches. _ pj Rawlins, however, brought him to the inarlc, by pi intimating that he would resign at onoe, unless the d< order was rescinded. Sherman and Grant were reluctantly compelled to give it up. The effects ^ were appalling. Sherman got mad and Grant took A sick, and it is said they are both in the same respective situations yet. General RawHns is eri- & dently no sardine. He has vanquished the two so-called greatest generals of the age. | Letting States "glide." \t When the Reconstruction committee had ei adjourned, on the 4th instant, after hearing testi- { ' mony in the cases of Texas and Virginia, a conve? J1 j sation was had between two of the members of the a committee, Butler and Whittemore. Hie latter is t< described, in the Baltimore Sun, as "a Yankee tl parson, who went South 8? Chaplain of the 30th T Massachusetts regiment, and remained there, en- ^ gaging in politics. Like all of his class, he is par- * ticularly severe upon all people in the Sooth, who n do not exactly agree with him. and his vote wonld h never remove a disability from a single individual." ? This so-called Carolinian was very severe on the Virginia delegation who had jnrt been heard, and p opposed to doing anything for them. Mr. Botler, " though milder than Whrttemore, finally expressed ^ the opinion that "in view of all the circumstances, tl Congress had best 'postpone the election in Texas, e and let Virginia slide.' " It is a remarkable sight ^ to see sovereign States arraigned before two such ? worthies; but the sublimity of the scene is inoon- t] ceivably heightened, when they are so coolly told tl to "slide." ' a k The Supplementary Currency Act. ^ On the 30th ultimo, the Senate took up the Q supplementary currency act, the object of whioh is e to make a redistribution of the national currency, ti by which the amount deposited in national banks shall be more equally divided among the States. ^ The bill proposes to take from States which have j more than their share according to population, and a give to those that have less than they are entitled to. On this question the West and South are allied against New England, which section opposes I the bill, as she now holds the lion's share of this ** kind of financial aid from the government, and is indisposed to give it up. n The debate was loug and hot Mr. Sprague, of a Rhode Island, expressed the opinion that he "had ri never in his life heard so much ignorance displayed ? upon any subject as be had in this discussion." " This, together with his prenous unflattering dea- " criptions of Senatorial ideas of financial legislation, a' drew on him the concentrated fire of New England p eloquence. He was charged with ignorance, pre- ( sumption and a desire to publish his own vast bu- * sincss. But Mr. S. stood fire very calmly and ^ had the satisfaction of seeing the bill passed by r the Senate. D A Substitute for the Iron-Clad Oath. t Mr. Sawyer, of South Carolina, recently in- p traduced a bill in the Senate, which waa referred to the Judiciary Committee, prescribing an oath ^ to be taken by persona who participated in the re- t| bellion, but are not disqualified from holding office a by the fourteenth amendment. It enacts that in- q stead of the oath prescribed by Act of June 2, v 1862, they shall take that of Act July 11,186& The latter oath is as follows: "I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any raentaj reservation or purpose of eva- ~ sion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the offioe on which I am about to en- {j ter. So help me God." President Johnson as a Tailor. II Ex-President Johnson bas returned to his ? home in the vicinity of Greenville, Tennessee. A c correspondent writing fronrthat place, in speaking of the Ex-President, says: - c I had a long and interesting conversation yesterday with an old gentleman, a tailor by trade, who ' formerly worked in Johnson's shop. He says that Andy was the best tailor he ever saw, and that ' coats made by him never ripped. His work was not only substantial, but neat and*tidy. All the * young bloods about Greenville who parted their hair behind and stalked about with ^old-headed N canes, used to patronize Andy, as it was the cur- ? rent report that a young fellow who wore a full s! suit of Johnson's cut ana make could many quicker, and stood higher with the ladies than others. When Johnson was elected Alderman there was as much hoDor in the position as there would be in T owning a hen and chickens, and it is said that the young fellows about town elected him for a joke, Two years afterwards he was chosen Mayor. In 1835, when he was first elected to the ^legislature, r he quit the tailoring business for the time being; but the next session, when he was defeated, ne Cl again resumed his old placd on the workman's a bench. D An Improved Butter Cham. ^ We find the subjoined notice of an improved pi churn in the Columbia Phcmiz. We have seen a the model, and donbt not, from the reports which have reached us, that it embodies man? scientific o principles, and can be furnished, with all the improvements, at as low a price as any other five minutes butter making churn. Arrangements have r I ? ?tklf. on/] nin!ncr PnnnfidQ ^ UCCU I11UUC IAJ MljJjJij liliO) auu aujvuiing vvwmmvwj as soon as the patent papers are issued, which are _ daily exjiected. The inventor, with whom we are per~ 'illy acquainted, occupies our poet's corner of this week's issue: ch A Useful* Article in Every Family.?Mr. _ W. W. Brigg, an English inventor, at present residing at Greenville, Tennessee, .has submitted for b, our inspection an improved churnj manufactured 8 on scientific principles, and whioh is highly commended by numbers of individuals who axe au fait b in the manufacture of batter. He has applied for r a patent for his machine, and is daily in expecta- c tion of receiving his official papers. As soon as arrangements are completed, wnich are now being c considered, the churns will be manufactured and G sold in Columbia. Maj. R. N. Lowranoe, of this M city, speaks as follows of the machine: "I have no hesitation in saying that the churn exhibited by Mr. Brigg is a perfect machine, and superior to any churn t have ever seen." m Gen. Grant and Real Estate. The Washington correspondent of the Balti- k more GazdU: writes: "General Sherman will have some trouble with the house his enthusiastic admirers gave him. The house, supposed to have been purchased, is the one formerly occupied by General Grant, and the history of tne sale is this: About the fir?t of February General Grant put the property in the v hands of a well known real estate nrm for the purpose of sale. On the sixth of February it was sold b, ^ ' f t? j j ?r< ? to oayies ?j. Dowcn anu a uieiuurauuuiu ui <*ticement made, in which it was stipulated that forty cfl thousand dollars was the price to be paid for the property, one thousand dollars down on the signing of'tne agreement, nine thousand dollars cash upon the delivery of the deed and possession of the premises, and thirty thousand dollars in ten years h thereafter, with interest at six per cent., payable semi-annually. The thirty thousand dollars were to be covered by a promissory note, seemed by a o deed of trust on the property. It was also agreed ? that Bowen should insure to the amount of fifteen thousand dollars, and that he should have posses- ? sion on or before the 10th of March. This memo- ^ randum of agreement has attached to it a receipt for one thousand dollars, which receipt is signed by <j Kilbourn & Latta, General Grant's agents, and also a note written und signed by General Grant himself, in relation to the furnaces, gas fixtures, b &o. It Is understood that the General had the "5 deed prepared and everything arranged for the % transfer, when he met a very unexpected and insurmountable obstacle in the refhsal of Mrs. Grant q to give her consent to the transfer. She probably thought the terms unsatisfactory, and positively refused to sign the deed. Meantime, the Sherman 0 enthusiasts came along and made overtures for the ? Surchase of the property for Sherman, and Present Grant, ignoring the agreement with Bowen, i< sells the honse for nearly double the price of the original contract Bowen is furious and demands to know why he has been treated so, and holds the written agreement above mentioned as a rod over President Grant'8 head, in a very threatening way. _ There need be no surprise if a suit for twenty i thousand dollars damages is entered on the docket o e long, in which President Grant will be defendit ana Styles J. Bowen prosecutor. An effort u been nude to hare Bowen make a quit claim 7 the repayment of the one thousand dollars; but s demands ten thousand dollars advance on the rice paid, which, he alleges he was offeredihr the roperty. This, of worse, our worthy President ies not want to pay, and the suit' islmminent" Thx "All Cotton and No Corn" Manll? Ie copy the following truthful article from the ugusta Press: . < - ' . :* ' ' "Ve regret to see from qur exchanges that in )Pme parts of fhe'State'fhe pladterS have planted ttle or no corn, and have devoted their time, en gies and meina-to the prodaedon.of'abig cotton op.' We can hardly imagine ah act of greater nprudenoe. With so recent an experience of the rii results of such a policy, it was to be hoped lat the good sense of oar agricultariets would avc savea them from another venture like that of 366-7. In that year thev also ^planted for a big itton crop, and they made it They got from nine > sixteen cents per pound for it It coat more lan that amount to plant, cultivate and gather it hey made but little oorn, depending on being able i buy it at the West They had no money herewith to buy it; had to borrow at usurious ites of interest, and then paid from $2.00 to $2,50 w Imalial fXp a amntv annnlv nf <vnrn tn gwd their aads and their half-starred males. There was )me excuse for this folly then. The people were npoverished, and, tempted by the prevailing high rice of oottont hoped to get out of debt, ana have loney to 'go along with' by the sale of their cot)n. Now they nave no such an excuse. They ave money and experience, and ought to know bat no people that do not ruse their own. food ver have been, or ever can be, independent 'hese 'all cotton and oo core' planters have risked very thing on the. chance of one seasons and the ontinuaooe of the present price of oottou. Were hey to bet all they are worth at faro or roulette, heir hasard could not be greater. Even men, rhose proud boast it used to-be that they never ought a bushel of core or a pound of meat in beir lives, have been infected with the mania, and ow insist that they are doing wisely in planting very foot of their open land in cotton. It is still me to flee from the wrath to come. Set to work lis very day and put half of what yoo call your )tton land in Corn, and at the end of the year you ill have reason to Mem your stun that you abanoned the all cotton folly that you were about to >ramit" A Novel Announcement.?The New Tork Wizen announces that the prospectus of a paper ) be called TAe. /mperuz&t has been issued in iat city. Its cretal, according to the prospectus, i "revolutionary. Its mission is to prepare the linds of the American people for the revolution, I ready begun, which is to terminate in the Im peal Government It declares that the national lith in the keeping of the populace will be sullied y repudiation; that "the Be public means jawlessess, corruption, insecurity to person and proper> , robbery of the public creditors, and civu war; nd that the Empire means law, order, security, ublic faith, and peace." > . ThisJournal, says the 'itizm, is likewise to advocate General Grant as Imperor. Things do not move much just now in be direction indicated by this advanced expression. f the opinion of the TmperiaKd. If such .a paper eally appears it will have an up-hill business. lmerialism will, never manifest itself popularly, but rill be enthroned by a coup detat?the: people assively submitting. ? ? ? .1 .* The Wheat Crop m.TEjmMSii.?The Chatinooga Republican says r "Firom parties Kmg up be river, we learn that the wheat crop presents very flattering' appearance.-w -Jttoat the usnal uantity w<b sown, and has passed through the rinter without iitfuiy. "1 , YORKTOIE PRICES OTOBEJT, CORRECTED WEEKLY BY CA MOX.T, CLARK * CO. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 7,1809. AGGING?Gunny?V yard @ *1 ALE HOPE? Heap V ft 12* A > Manilla, Vft 25 S ? Cotton, V ft W .. 10V/TIES, per pound, ? ft 10 LVE-8TQNE, V B) S 90 ANDLE8?Tallaw?V ft ' Adamantine, V 9> @ 35 OFFEE-Rlo-Vft..; 90 2 96 Lajuyra, 7 ft ft 30 Jafa.Vfc ft 46 OTTON YARN, V Hunch of 5 pound*, 9 95 UYPOWDER, V lb @45 ACKEREL?No. 1, half barrel* ft ,'i No. 9, half barrel* ft No. 3, half barrel*..... ft 19 SO No. 1, V Kit, .. g *75 No. 9, V Kit, .. (a, 3 50 No. 3, V Kit, .. S 3 00 OLASSES?Cuba?V (milop.. .. ft 70 West Tndla, V gallon ., @ New Orlean*, Vgalka..'.A... .. ft 1 90 AILS?Northern-V ft.. 7* ft 8 ICE, V lb .. @ 13 ALT.V tack, . ft 3 40 UGAR?Pulverized?V ft ft 35 Cru?bed, V ft.................... ..ft 35 A, Vft <2 30 C, Extra, V ft.... .. ft >19. Browa, * ft. ? 2 .16. EA?Hyion?V ft 1 50 2 3 00 Imperial, Vft -S Black, V ft 1 00 ft 1 50 fNEGAR?Cider?V eallou fc 48 PRODUCH MARKET?PRICES PROM WAGONS. ACON?Ham*?V ft..I. v.... @33 Shoulder*. V ft ft 16 Sides, P ft S Si DRN, V boahel .. @118 DBN MEAL, V buabel ft I 18 -"? ? A a 1-A UUmI 2*' ' <5 'ft Art IUEU rHUH? npyira, prom, t xuiki.. >, w ? Peachw, peeled, V huahel.. ,S .1 SO Peachee, unpeeled, ? boihel .. S i 25 BOB,? dozen'.. . W (a tfjtf uoifa,viooaw ? eso & 6 75 IDES?Gretn?P ft S 7 Dry. V ft @ H. K^ST** 7 " SL 70 T vUMirliii* [UiJ. 4 ATS.'V buslvei <? 63 GAS, V buiihel 90 S 1 #> DTAT0E8?1 rUh?V buabel 50 ? 73 Sweat. * buabel- 75 ? 1 00 FJfNQLES, P 1000 ? JM S 400 ALLOW. V ft 10 ? 12X rHEAT, P buntiel ? Cotton?Dull nt 26i, ?nd little offering. CHESTE& PRICE8 CPEBB?T. 3RRECTKD WEEKLY BYMAJ. JAS.PAOAN, QftOCERY 1 A NT! COMMISSION MERCHANT. ~ ' TUESDAY, APRIL 0,1W9. AGOING?Gunny?per yard K a 90 ALE ROHB?Heap, per pound 14 0 .. Manilla, per pound 22 a 23 Oouob, per pound,.... 20 a 23 LUE-ftTONE, per pound a ANDLE8?Tallow?per pound, ? Adamantine, par pound, 95 a 30 OFFEE?Rio?per pound, 30 a 35 Laguyra, per pou id, ..a 33 Java, per pounds a 45 OTTON-YARN, perhuneh >f5poon<U, a 2 25 (TNPOWDER. per pound, ..A ACKEREL?No. 1, half bareU,, o No. 9, half bare to;.'..., .. a No,3, half barrel*, .. ? No. 1, per Klu. a 3 33 No.2, per Kit, ...... a 3 90 No. 3, per Kit, ,, a 3 00 [OLA BR E8?Culm?per gallon 70 a "75 Wrat India, per gallon, a New Oriean*. per gallon,.... ..'a AILS?Northern?perpound, a ICE, per pound , 2. a 14 ALT, per anek - .. a 3 50 UGAK?Pulverized?per pound..... a 90 Cnidied, per pound a 22 A, per pound, a 20 C, Extra,per pound, .. a 18 Brown, per poand, 16 a 19 EA?Hyion?per pound, 9 00 a 2 25 Imperial, per pound, 9 93 a 3 Back, per pound,... ..a ... INEGAR?Cider?per gallon,.... a 75 PRODUCE MARKET?PRICES FBOM WAOONB. ACOX?Hams-pex pound, 25 a 30 8h natters, per Aosntt,. a M 8td?tpaipouu4?. ? a ? DBN, perbusira 1 25 a 1 35 ORN-MEAL.per husbel 185 ? 1 35 BIED FRUIT?Apples, peeled, per bushel.. .. a ,. P moms, peeled, per bushel.. ...... Poaches, impeded,per busbel .. a. .. GIGS, per dozen,... I '. a .. 1.00 K, per 100 pounds ? 50 ? 7 00 IDES?Green?per pound, a . ? Dry, per pound,..,.. .. I 19 AttD?CounUy?per pound, a 85 1MB, per bushel, .la-.. ATS, per basbel, ....... ..A. .. ? ? EA8, rirr bushel, a 1 00 DTAT0E8? IrU6?per bushel, .. a . .. Sweet, per bu&heJ,.. * 100 HIXGLB9, per 1000,r...!73.... ? W ALLOW, per pound, ... ? rHEAT, per busbel,. 2 00 a f 00 Cotton?Dull and tending downward. MidHnof 9A1 ntKop (PPO^M {A nvAnAk I AM CHARLOTTE, March 5.?Cotton?Some 200 ales changed hands during the weelc at a alight dvance on oar quotations of last week say 28* to Ji cents, closing dnli, however, on Saturday at 3* cents for middling. FnorR?The market is still overstocked; wo note at $o.50 to |6.75 per sack from wagons. Cobn?90 to 95 cents per bushel from wagons. Baltimore Bacon?Sides, from stores, 20 to 21 ents per ponnd ; Lard, 21 cents. CHARLESTON, April 5.?Cotton dull; sales DO bales?middlings 27}; receipts 541. NEW YORK, April 5.-Cotton dull and a shade >wer. Sales 1,400 bales at 282 to 282. Financial. YORKYILLE. April 7.-Gold, ?1.35. NEW YORK, April 5.-Gold strong at $1.31j. CHARLESTON, S. C., Thursday. April 1, 1809. -Bank of Camden, 70 ; Bank of Charleston. 64; lank of Chester, 11; BankofGeorgetown, 10; Bank f Hamburg, 7; Bank of Newberry, 63; Bank of