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VOLUME VII.-NUMBER 1054. CHARLESTON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1869 FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK BY TELEGRAPH THE STATE CAPITAL. APPOINT MEN T8 CONFIRMED-THE MILIT?RS. BILL RECOMMITTED-THE BILL AIDING THE OREEN VILLE AND COLUMBIA BAILBOAD PAUSED UNANI? MOUSLY BY THE SENATE. [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO DAILY NEWS.] COLUMBIA, January ?18.-THE SENATE in ex? ecutive sesBion to-day confirmed the nomina? tion of Stoibrand as Superintendent of tho Penitentiary, and Tomlinson as State Auditor. Tho bill to organize the militia and the bill to amend the act to establish the Stato Police were recommitted with amendments by Leslie to the Committee on Military Affairs. The bill to regulate tho formation of corpo? rations was read the second time and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. The Senate by a unanimous vote indefinitely postponed the House resolution depriving mumbeis of their pay during the recess. The bill aiding the Greenville and Columbia Railroad was passed unanimously, and sent to the House. THE HOUSE, to-day, eleoted Byas, colored, Sergeant-at-Arms. Ferriter introduce cl a bill to provide for licensing peddlers. ^ The House was engaged in discussing the projeot of making a new oounty to be called Aiken. WASHINGTON. INDICTMENTS AGAINST MB. DAVIS AND GEN. BRECKENRIDGE QUASHED-DEATH IN THE SEN? ATE GALLERY-OATIE KE OF AN INDIAN VIL? LAGE-DB. MUDD. WASHINGTON, January 13.-A nolle prosequi hos been entered in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in the oases of Mr. Davis and General Breckinridge, under instructions from Attorney-General to enter noUe prosequi in all cases coming within the President's amnesty proclamation. At a long interview between the Virginia. Committee and the Senate Judiciary Commit? tee, the former were requested to reduce their views to writing for the action of the latter. An old citizen died in the Senate gallery to? day. Tho Reconstruction Committee seems to favor the plan of recommitting the Mississippi constitution to the people, and providing an additional ticket, on which to vote for or against the nullification of tile restrictions contained in the constitution beyond the re? quirements of the Reconstruction acts. Sherman telegraphs the capture of on Indian village of sixty lodges. A deputation of Marylanders visited the President with a petition for the pardon of Dr. Mudd, who is confined at the Dry Tortugas. The Pr?sident referred them to the Attorney General. CONGRESSIONAL. A TELEGRAPH WITHOUT WIRES-MESSAGES TO BE SENT THROUGH THE CLOUDS-REPRESENTATION Or MIN?HI'lIE?--PAYING SOUTHERN GOVERN? MENT EMPLOYEES WHO CANNOT TAKE THE TEST OATH. WASHINGTON, January 18.-IN THE SENATE, a petition was read from Matton Loomis, ask? ing for an appropriation of $50,000 to complete experiments for a telegraph without wires, or a battery using clouds instead of wires. Re? ferred to the Committee on Patents. Buckalow introduced a bill amending repre? sentation in Congress. It provides for the representation of minorities. Referred to a select committee of seven. Abbott introduced a bill aiding a railroad from the Bio Grande to the Pacific. Sawyer introduced a bill for paying govern ment employees at the South, who, though they would not take the iron-clad oath, would take an ordinary oath of allegiance to support the constitution. Referred to the Committee on Finance. The bill to amend the act relating to habeas corpus and to regulato judicial proceedings was passed by a vote of thirty-two to ten. Oonkling, explaining the bill, said that there were cases arising in the Southern States, par? ticularly in Georgia, where the Northern stockholders in express and steamboat com? panies were sued for property taken by the public enemy, and the object of the bili was to enable the defendants to transfer these oases to the United States Courts, to the end that they might go to the Supreme Court and have a decision, whither the principle is the same as in the prize cases. This principle they were nuable to get any ruling upon in the State courts because a carrier, to defend himself, technical? ly must prove that the loss of the goods was occasioned either by the sot of the government or of tho public enemy, and in the oases tbat bad arisen, the defendants were met by in? structions from tho judges of the State Courts which prevented the jury from giving any de? cision upon this point. Tho case of Sue Murphy was resumed and discussed without action. The Senate refused to allow the rotunda to bo used for the inauguration ball. Adjourned. IN, THE HOUSE, the discussion on the subject of tho protection of Hayti and St. Domingo was resumed. Elliott was seated from Arkansas. A memorial from Texas was presented, ask? ing leave to raise a regiment for protection against the Indians. Butler offered a substitute for Banks* Hayti protectorate, providing that the President should extend the protection of the govern? ment over any of the Antilles that might de? sire it, but report the same to Congress, and not oxpend any money for such protectorate without tho consent of Congress. A loud de? bate ensued, when the bill and amendment were tabled by a vote of 126 to 86. The Alaska Territorial bill was tabled. Ad? journed. EUROPE. PRUSSIA OBJECTS TO VON BKCJ8T. VIENNA, January 18.-The Post, an official organ, says that Bismarck told the Austrian Minister at Berlin that tbe retention of Baron Yon Beutst ia office would provoke serious ac? tion on tbe part of Prussia. THE GRECIAN MINISTRY. ' ? PARIS, January 18.-It is stated that Rangabot ibo present ambassador at Paris from G rec co, bas been recalled to preside over tho ministry. , AVJFAina IN CUBA. H AVAHA, January 18.-Four hundred persons, mc jt?y cigar makers, attempted to leave th? (dt, . yesterday, but were compelled to return hoi-se. |< is thought that th*y **?**ndod to raise a ?evolt in Cordelena. Dulce'? proclamation releases all political prisoners, terminates all trials for political ?fiances now in progress, and holde *mi ian nn S T'Ait KS JFROM THIS WIRES. The Virginia ?tato Agricultural Sooiety waa revived yostorday. The Savannah Morning News publishes a statement of one of its editors, and also a card from the sheriff, entirely discrediting tho report made by Colonel Williams, and forward? ed by General Sibley to General Grant. Five care were damaged by train miming off Atlantic and Gulf Raihoad, near Savannah. No lives lost. Tho Flori la Senato yesterday confirmed ap poiu turon ts made by Governor Reed sinco his impcachmout. Two stern-wheel steamboats have boen sunk near Orleans in tho last two days. Loss $45,000 and six lives. About twenty persons injured. Tho steamship Henry Chauncey bas arrived in New York from the Isthmus with $1,250,000 in specie. Earthquakes oontinue ?VChili and along tho Pacific coast of South America. Affairs ia Bogota look gloomy. The city ia crowded with soldiers. A discovery of an extension of the goldmines in Santa Rosa ie reported. The Simson cotton case in Now York, involv? ing $1,000,000, has been decided against the government. In a prize fight at St. Louis yesterday, Tom Allen whipped Bill Davis in forty-two rounds. The civil war in Japan is considered over. J''ROM THE STATE CAPITAL. The Savannah and Charleston Rail? road-Fooling ox*, the Legislature-Re? marks ox* Mr. Corbin on the Greenville Railroad -.Bill-Important Bills Intro? duced-General Legislative Business. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] COLUMBIA, S. C., January 12.- The action of the Senate in unanimously passing the bill ex? tending aid to the Greenville and Columbia Railroad may be considered a fair indication of the disposition of the General Assembly to? wn rds the Savannah and Charleston Railroad. No doubt is entertained of the passage of the bill extending aid to tho latter, with, perhaps, Borne slight amendments. The memorial in the Charleston papers, sb numerously signed, has had a happy effect on the prospects of the Savannah and Charleston Railroad, and the friends of the measure are very sanguine of BuooesB. Mr. Corbin was in favor of the passage of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad bill upon the ground that it was but a third con? firmation of a measure passed upon by former Legislatures. While, however, he was in favor of railroad; onterr prises generally, he liked to see them individual enterprises, and not the creatures of the Stale. Tho State, he thought, was not adapted to such business, and was never intended for it. A State government is jrjanized for the purposes of government, and to seo that protection is extended to all-that ardor is kept throughout the State, and that ?estico and equity are extended to all parties. Fhe State, he said, is not a trading corpora? tion, and he deeply regretted that the State Liad ever entangled itself in anything' Of the kind; but this measure having received the sandios of two Legislatures, the question was whether the present Legislature should have the benefit of what had bee.i done, or give it a third confirmation. Mr. Leslie took a somewhat different view, ind warmly supported the passage of the bill is a matter of publie policy. He denied that t was contrary to public policy for a State government to aid in the construction of rail oads. He showed how the State must event? ually be the gainer by the development of the resources of tho country through which the .oad ran, and how it was the inevitable ten lency of the present condition of affairs that ands should be divided, trade and commerce ncreaee, and the railroads become a principal j source of re veone to the State. On motion of S wails, the bill was amended by ,he addition of tho following section: SECTION 2. To enab'e tho said company to nod the interest due upon their mortgage md guaranteed debt for the six months, to vit: from January 1st to July 1st, 1868, tho Comptroller-General is authorized and direct id to endorse the name and or edit of tbe > tato ipon the bonds and certificates of indebted? less of the said company to the amount of fifty housand dollars, to be applied, in all respect n the same manner as is provided in the sai tct of December 20,1866. for tho funding of in erest, and the statutory hen is hereby extend id to oover the additional sum of fifty thousand Lollars herein provided. On the question of agreeing to the bill, as ^mended, Mr. Corbin called for tho yeas and lays, which were ordered, and are as follows Yeas-Messrs. Allon, Barber, Buck, Bio m an, forbin, Cain, Duncan, Foster, Greene, Hoyt, layes, Hayne. Jillson, Leslie, Lunney, Nash, \ lainey, Reid, Rose, Rodgers, t? wails and Wim- < rash-22. t Nays-None. 1 Tho bill, as amended, was therefore unoni nously agreed to, and oidereel to be engrossed t or a third reading. j Mr. Corbin introduced the following bills, i vhich received their first reading, and were irdored for a second reading and consideration i o-morrow: L BILE TO ALTER AND AMEND THE CRIMINAL LAW. j Be it enacted by the Senate and House of ( lepresentatives oz the State of South Caroli- \ ia, now met and sitting in General Assembly, \ ind by the authority of the same: SECTION 1. Capital punishment, except in t he case of wilful murder, is hereby abolished. t SEO. 2. Manslaughter, or tho unlawful killing t if another without malice, express or implied, t hall bo punishable by hard labor in the Poni entiary not exceeding thirty years nor less han two years. . SEO. 8. The crimes of burglary and arson 1 hall be punishable by hard labor in the Peni- * entiary not exooeding thirty years nor less ,. han one year. * SEO. 4. The benefit of clergy is hereby aboi? J shed. ? i BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE RENEWAL OF STATE STOCKS AND BONDS LOST OX DESTROYED. j Be il enacted by the Senate and House of i Representatives of the State of Sooth Carolin;!, t tow met and sitting in General Assembly, and C J y the authority of the same : c Whenever proof shall bo exhibited to the t latisfaction of the Treasurer of the State and t Comptroller-General of the loss or destruction r if any State stocks or bonds i-ouod under the a mthority of any act of the General Assembly, i t shall be lawful for the Treasurer of tho ?tato, 1 ipon receiving bond io double the amount ox v laid slocks or bonds so alleged to be lost or i lestroyed, with sufficient surety, to indemnify ? he State against any other claim on account % if said stocks or bond?, to issue lo the person c rho had lost the same, or in whose possession c he same was destroyed, or to their legal rep? t esentatives. new bonds or stocks, as tho oase f nay bo, of the same value and character with s hat lost 'or destroyed: Provided, That no p Kinds or stocks issued between the twentieth V lay of December, I860, and the ?rat day of c .pril, 1865, in behalf sf the late rebellion, in e ?holoor in part, shall bs so reissued or re- I The petition of Risley & Creighton for the rc- ? anding of over paid taxes was referred to the t Comptroller-General, with the request that he t rive the House any information ho may have, r ind bis views in regard to said claim. v Concurrent resolutions tor tbs (?lief Of tb? ll Usabilities of C. fi. Jarvis, cf Oonwayboro', l tfly Goddard, of ?arion, W. O. Harris, J, K. c bindet. J..X Linder, Daniel Keels and EU i Cornwell were adopted. I A resolution introduced by Hr, Corbin tot fl djonrnmeiit eine die on February 6, was or- e Resolved, That in laying off any county into townships, in all casca in which an j township ia bounded by any adjacent county lino, ii YT, public highway or nover-failing stream of wa? ter, it is inexpedient and unnecessary for the County Commissioners iu such case to em {iloy the services of a surveyor to lay off such ownship. IN THE HOUSE, Mr. Webb, of tbe Committee cn Roads, Bridges and Ferries, reported favor? ably on a hill to prescribe certain rules to be observed iu the government of bridges and ferries privileged to charge toll. Mr. Sloan, from the Committee on Agricul? ture, reported unfavorably ona joint resolu? tion offering two hundred dollars premium for tho best original essay on tho culture of cot? ton. Tbe resolution was laid on the table. Whipper, from tho Committee on tho Judi? ciary, reported unfavorably on a bill to autho? rize the Recorder of Charleston to hold polioo court, and for other purposes. The bill was ordered to lie over for a second reading. 0 D. Hayne introduced the following 1030 lutiou, which was agreed to by a voto of yeas 66, nays 40. Absent and not voting 21: ficsolvcd, by the House ot Representatives, tho Senate concurring, That so much cf tho resolution passed at this regular sessiou de? priving the members of their per diem during the recess, be and the same is hereby re? scinded. The Speaker laid before the House tho fol? lowing communication : STAT? OF SOUTH CABOLINA, ) HOBST COUNTY, January 9,1869. \ Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Souse of Repr?sentatives: 1 respectfully tender my resignation as a member of the House of Representatives of South Carolina, from Horry County, on account of continued ill health ; said resignation to take effect from the 12th instant. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, ; . ZADOO BULLOCK. On motion of Smalls, the resignation was ac? cepted. ibo following resolution was indefinitely postponed : .[{{.solved, That the Speaker be requested to issue, at his earliest convenience, writs of elec? tion for the vacant Boat of Zadoc Bullock, and all others that may be now vacant in the House Representatives. Mr. Neaglo introduced the following, which was adopted : licsoived. That the resolution adopted on July 24, 1868, relieving the Committee on Claims from the consideration of claims against the State, be rescinded, and that the commit? tee be directed to proceed with all business properly before it. The following was adopted : Resolved, by the House of Representatives, tho Senato concurring, That the Congress of the United States be respectfully requested to remove the political disabilities of James F. Greone, of Charleston County. Ransier, from the Committee on Privi? leges and Elections, submitted the following report: . The Committee on Privileges and Elections, to whom was recommitted a bill to regulate and provide for the pay of Commissioners and Managers of Elections, beg leave to report that they have had the same under consideration, ana recommend the adoption of the following amendments : Insert iu lieu of the word "sixteen," in first line of Section 1, tho words "twenty-six;" and after the word "commissioners," on the third line ot Seotion 2, insert ''"shall bo allowed or receive pay for service rendered under the act above named for more than eight days, and no manager or derk shall be allowed, or receive pay for service as such under the said aot for more than six days." The consideration of a bill to establish a new judicial and election oounty, to be known os Aiken County, and to define the limits and boundaries of the same, was postponed until two P. M. to-morrow. The enacting clause of Senate bill to alter and amend an aot entitled "An act to extend the time for officers to qualify," was stricken OUti aaaportas introduced the following resolu? tion, which was adopted: Resolved, That the Committee on Privi? leges and Elections be requested to report what legislation is necessary iu order to have a speedy election to fill vacancies occasioned by resignation, death or refusal to qualify of persons elected to county offices. The consideration of oill to alter and unend the charter of the Town of Edgefield reas postponed to Tuesday, January 19, at two A concurrent resolution to prevent the di? vision or severing of territory from any county bo form a new county, was made the special arder for Monday next at one P. M. The Speaker laid before the House the re? turns of the election for representative in Beaufort County, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. George A. Bennet. Re? ferred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. The Mihi ia bill was taken up in the Senate md four additional sections cgreed to, when ;he special order, being the bill relative to the Greenville and Columbia Railroad, was called 'or. AFFAIRS IN TJXJB STATIS. Marion. The Court of Sessions for this oounty com nenoes its session on the first Monday in [february, and the Court of Common Pleas on he Wednesday thereafter. The Star says that a tinner is very much ranted in Marion, and would do well there. The Star is informed that a white man-de icription not known-hos recently boon having nestings of the colo rod people In different lortions of tho district, and counselling; them lot to enter into any contracts with our farm >rs for the present year, and charging eaoh lorsou thus advised one dollar. Magistrate McIntyre's court is so crowded vith business, that ne is compelled to hear sases every day in the week, in ordor to facili ato and dispose of tbe business as it accumu Great Peedee is fall'to overflowing at this imo. Tbe swamp is impassable at Mars Muff Ferry, and persons desiring to cross the iver, are compelled to do so by railroad. E. P. H arl loo, Esq., hos qualified as mace? rate for the Mars Bluff precinct. The Star is informed on reliable authority hat W. A. Hayne, colored, who has recently >een appointed magistrate for this district by Governor Scott, has boen officially performing he duties of this important office without >eing qualified. Messrs. Moody & Smith intend to erect a .ur pent ino still near Marion, provided they ian refit a sufficient number of trees or coll? rae t for a suffioient quantity of crude turp?n ino to justify the enterprise. XicMiuad. The Columbia Pheonix says: Constable Hub ?ord informs us that Talbut waa surrounded in a warnp by his deputies, and considering that 'discretion was the better parc ot valor," there? Ore surrendered. He states, however, that ralbot had determined several weeks ago to ixpose the whole affair, but was prevented by lis friends. The following lotter is publish cl in tbs '.'hoon ix of yesterday: From political and party nfluenoe. General B. K. Scott waa elected to he Chief Magistracy of the State o! South karolina, and therefore a distrust was engeh lered in tho pabilo mind, that his administra ion would bo ex parte in character. In thia bey are mistaken. Governor Scott is no oar ?et-bagger; if he waa, he has thrown it away nd identified himself with tho State-both by nteres? and adoption-by having Invested firgoly in her real estate and planted himself, mon her soil, to share the good tad ill to vhioh she may be subjected. Ho found the ?ate involved, and began hts administration vith a depleted treasury end void of Stato redit ; her bonds not recognised abroad, and teemed almost neit to worthless at home; her ?illa receivable sluggishlycirculating at from' orty to sixty per cent, below par, and ciroum oribed to looalitiea. Governor Scott soon jave birth to confidence abroad. The State? wide are now conspicuous in foreign markets, ommanding from sixty-five to sixty-eight outs on tbs dollar, with an upward tendency; ter bills recaivable are freely circulating. 'Last, though not least," to farther his pur Kwe, was the masterly scheme of tkeExeou ivo in disposing of the Columbia canal. From hat stand-poini he threw oat bis strategio ope, by which be harpooned the "golden rhaio of Rhode Island," whoso oil will soon ight np the streets of Colombia-radiating tope, wealth and prosperity to eyer? querier ?f the commonwealth of South Carolina. This, a connection with bis recommend ft tiru? to tbs legislature now in session, to perpetuate the louth Carolina Collage- that time-honored in -T. M VS IV AU, NOTJB8. [j -Tsmberiik is singing again in P{j?is. -Patti has signed operatic ongag month np to 1871. -"Tame Oats," tho late London,Wnsation, is shortly to be brought out lu Clue; ja. -Herve, the composer of ''L'OitfOreve," is also his own librettist. J --Taus'.g and Hubenstein are th'vtwo popu? lar pianists of tho day in Berlin. -Perucci is the name of a now erario who is exciting the opera-goers or,Mos<,i ?/. -Perotti, a new tenor in Geno^, is highly praised there by a very critical pPilio much' disposed to grumbling. -Rossini gave about twenty years & his life to art, and about forty to tho onjoyn.vmt.of lift. Was ho right? - I -It is said that the King .ol'.8- .-.erny pays nearly one-fourth of the civil m?tfey to the Dresden Theatre. -Meyerbeer's "Profeta" and Ros&ni's "Cen ereutola" have boen the lato attractions at the Pergola Theatre, Florence. ti? -It is said that Kellogg bids fair to be Pat? ti's successor in London, if not '" n the new Italiens of tho French capital. - \t Warsaw, on the occasion o*a funeral service in memory of Roseini, tb? cathedral was draped in black, and the StabuL-Malrr was performed. ,: -A society of gentlemen* ama'ours have lately performed at the Town H??: of Leeds the "Antigoue" of Sophocles wit!.: Mendels? sohn's entire music. -Toto Mattei is one of the mos., iroliflc and popular composers on the opposu; sido of the water. He is kn jwn here chiefly ly tho \ ocal aria Non e ver. -A sale of rare old violins modo.' by Stradi? varius, Guarnerius and Bergonzi v- :ontly took place in Paris, the old instr ii m eiw bringing fabulous prices. -The orcbestxa^-tiie TammanyAlhambra, at New York, will include twonty-s?ypieces, un? der the leadership of Signor Obertk fcl Italian, .who tor the last fifteen years ha . <ecn a resi? dent of London. ? -Tiotow is in Paris oompleri^v his new work, "L'Ombre." M. de St. Ge^es is the author of the libretto. The story carried on by four characters only, without toe aid of a chorus. ju -Musioians aro said to ba cone ired. They usually are. Even the great Bc *| ho ven had the weakness of vanity, for in oVi of his let? ters he writes : "Kings and peinas may easi? ly moke professors and privy co-j cillors, and bedizzen them with titles and JEbbons; bat great men-men that stand co?;fflcuous from among the common herd-t hoy Jj un ot make; That they must leave alone; andrsten two men like myself and Goethe meet, w&mgbt to bo held in high esteem," ' jn -Tho Nev York "Musical G\I|a" throws out these suggestions to cb3ir#%at wish to sing church music with expr?s-,Tm: "Leta choir sing a tune through ss th<:?t haye been in the habit of doing, with voices and un? strained. Let them then sing rap in pre? cisely the same way aa regards t.W;- v enun? ciation, expression, deo., but di?rajiyln..?r the power twenty-five percent.; that, ia, singing with abwtt threo-jrvoctUs tbej^H^W^nangth of voice, and those who listen will fincfWe effect'1 improved at least one-half. In fact, this pro? portion does not adequately express the differ? ence, for the distinction is really between bad and good. When the power ia unrestrained, every voice stand oat separate and distinct from every other, causing each individual defect to be intensified and exaggerated. When the voices are subdued they are far more likely to? olond and become, as it were, transfused, a process which strongly tends to absorb indivi? dual faults and to create an agreeable result even oat of unfavorable materials." THU COMING MAN. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times, writes as follows concerning the "coming man" and his Cabinet : It is the universal remark that no one oan remember a similar time in the history of in? coming administrations, when the commence? ment of its official functions was so near, and yet so little known concerning the personnel ot the new government. General Grant is {?roving to be "a remarkable receptacle of in brmation," said a prominent officer the other day; "he drinks it all in, but vouchsafes never a word in reply to indicate the decision of his mind." "Yet,"continaed the same person, who has had much conversation with General Grant, "I have BO doubt bat that he has his decision generally made up, and the men for the Cabinet fixed upon, subject to such changes as new information and maturer consideration maysoggest." The source of this utterance is such os to give it muoh weight, bat os I can? not reveal it, your readers will have to take my word for it. General Grant does not din cuss names for the Cabinet with bis callers. With those who have a right to talk on the subject hs discusses principiet> and ideas which should govern tho selection of the men. He bas said, I believe, that in selecting a Cabinet be would be governed by the same considera? tion which governed him in selecting bis staff and his generals, to wit : Their entire fitness for tho work they had to perform. A vory plain and simple proposition, truly; but one which, if acted upon, will work a great reform in the government. AFFAIRS IN &JEOJ&GIA. Augusta papers aro urging the building of a theatre in that city. The public Behool? of Columbus have re? ceived daring the past twelvemonths three thousand dollars from the Peabody Fond. The people of Americas, Georgia, are taking stops to build a cotton factory in that flour? ishing little oity. We learn from the North Georgia Citizen that the Dalton Academy was burned on Christmas night. " The charges on cotton from Columbus to Savansah have baen increased to one dollar, and to New York one dollar and eighty cents per hundred pounds. " Two men at Buena Vista took abant twenty five cracks at each o the.*- with pistols on Tins day. Owing to a derangement of nerves, the only damage sustained wai tho grazing of an elbow and little finger. Thc Hancock Journal saya thore was a con? siderable amount ot property sold at Sparta on Tuesday last. Tho lands ranged from tl 80 to 83 per acre, and other property, generally, brou-ht full prices. The Athens Banner learns that laud sold lost Tuesday, in Jackson County, at three to four dollars an aero. One trait of five hundred acres, with fifty seres of bottom land, sold for s little over (wo thousand dollars. " Mr. B. W. Keaton, a Citizen ot Early County, und, before tho war, & man of large means, committed suicida on the 2Sth December, by shooting himself through tho head. His great toss of property is allegri io have induotd ?bis rash sot. Dr. 0. T. Cushman accidentally shot him? self in Columbus, Saturday afternoon. The wound is pam fal, though not serious. He waa examining a navy pistol, atone m bis room. The ball took effect in .the calf of tbs left leg. Tho Amerions Republican states that General Grant baa sent Colonel Bahcook, of his staff, to Georgia, tor the purpose of a ?orson*i in? vestigation of acts of violence ond fraud, said to have b&en committed during the recent ?lection in the portion of the State known as tbe^J^^^ thaUbe Maoon With a large outlay for new machinery Hinco the war, its dividends have not boen lees than 10 per oent. its not earnings amount to about 180,000 every year. Number of operatives em? ployed, 125. WageB iron. $15 to $35 per month, house ront free-the company having tenement houses expressly for operatives. SPEC IB PAYMENTS. Tho Hon. Thomas Ewing, Secretary of the Tceasutv auder Presidents Harrison and Ty? ler, and subsequently Secretary of the Inte? rior under President Taylor, has addressed a letter to the Finance Committed of the United States Senate on the subject Of tho resumption of speoie payments. After insisting that "wo are not bound in faith or morals to make tho funds which we pay to the creditor for his principal-be it what it may, gold or legal-ten? der notes-woith moro at the- time of payment than it was worth when borrowed, " Mr. Ewing goes on to argue against immediato specie re? sumption on the ground that a general provis? ion of this kind would prove a great hardship and injustice? to the debtor class, ruin the "produotiveclass," and drive them into bank? ruptcy. Tbe postponement of resumption by law for two years, and then making it abso? lute, he thinks, would "produoo tho same re? sult in a slightly mitigated degree." Mr. Ewing says : Make the greenbacks payable in gold in two years, and they will be at ouoe bought up and boarded by capitalists. To all who understand their value they would be worth at once as much as gold, lesa two years' discount upon them-noe quite twelve per cent. The debtor class tbon instantly suffer a loss of about twenty-two per cent, on six thousand millions of indebtedment-a loss of $1,429,000 taken from the debtor and given to the creditor class, for which it will be difficult to' find a reason other * han the true kingly sic volo. The same act, when it should produce its full effect, would make our national debt, now ?quivalent to $1,850,000.000 in gold, rise at once in value to $2,500.000 OOO, making an increased gold in? debtedment of $650,000,000, and it would at once involve the payment of interest on an amount of additional debt ueorly equal Lo our present greenback currency, adding nearly 518,000,000 to our annual interest. 1 his looks like sinking the ship, and I am afraid of it. It is certainly botter to let the law of trade regu? late the currency than to hasten measures fraught with such consequences. The objeot of this proposed most dangerous measures is to remove the evils of a depreci? ated currency-tho end is good, but not worth tho sacrifico it must involve. It would em ich the capitalist-generally a non-producer. The burden of the war, which almost crushed the nation, has not herne heavily on them. They loaned the United States a very large amount of money, each hundred dollars of which rang-' ed in value from a little less than ferty to about eighty dollars, at six dollars a year, in gold, : for every nominal one hundred -makins: the ? aggregate interest on the whole debt, when re- : duced to average value, about twelve per cent. This debt, if we compound the interest, whioh is the legitimate mode of estimatinc ity where paid punctually (for tha interest may be at opee reinvested and made to produce interest,) doubles every six years. * Thus the purchaser of our flve-twentie3 who purchased when currency was worth fifty cents on the dollar will, whon they become due, at the end of twenty years, have received some? thing more than four times the amount of his original investment In interest, and twice its amount in principal- six times the amount of. ' his investment in twenty years. Thus long, I understand, it is proposed m your committee to let the present bonds run, and in the mean? time r?sume ?pecio payment ; that the ques? tion of specie payments may bo put out of the way as a disturbing element before you pro *^ta4r^.$i^qhX . K?jtl?& a^rLifeere will be no longer a middle 'courue i?utt&tirtbpu- ~ diation and a condition of usury at which fust men will revolt? You put the nation at once in the power of the creditor ; you can no longer hope to fund at a less rate than six per cent in gold our present bonds that cost fifty cents in gold for every nominal dollar ; so that in ninety-six years ibo people will pay on every million of actual dollars bor? rowed sixteen thousand three hundred and eighty-?bur million dollars ($16,881,000,000), and on our whole debt nearly one thousand times that sum-an array of a umbers which, like the figures represen tang stellar places, makes the head swim. The mind cannot compass it: but being translated into plain intelligible Eng? lish. it signifies national bankruptcy and ruin. lue result of this lirge acoummuiation of interest ia long periods of tim* has given rise to frequent outbreaks of .popular feeling against usurers and those suspected of favor? ing them, and nations have enacted laws, and sourts have been astute to construct laws, so as to guard against it. Mr. Ewing recommends that the national iebt be paid off in legal-tender notes or in four per cent, bonds, ana insists that the effect of ibis would be to cause the issue of very few additional currency notes. S-PECUXATOKS Cou TO G BiEF.-The history >f the land operations of Mr. Frazier, Prcsi lent, and H. S. Quackenbush, Treasurer, of he American Agricultural and Mineral Lind Company, who have been arrested and held to jail in New York, upon charges of false repre? sentations regarding three million aeres of fforth Carolina lands, is given at length in the Augusta Constitutionalist. The writer Bays : Their operations have not been confined to Virginia alone. They were in treaty for enor nous bodies of lands in North Carolina, and brough the Postmaster at Savannah, and >ther parties in this State, they hoped to ob? tain landed property on their bonds here. In South Carolina, the Attorney-General, or one >f the Supreme Court Judges, Colonel Willard, formerly a United States officer, had promised ;o aid them, and both ex-Governor Orr and General Harrison, of South Carolina, had fa? vorably received their agents, who were look ng after Blue Bidge Baifioad lands. In Ten ?essee they pretended to own thirty thousand 0 forty thousand or fifty thousand sores on he line of the Nashville and Chattanooga oad. But since the last disclosures, it has ?et to be sho wn that they have paid out a siegle tent for Southern lands. Yet, had not another iwindloof theirs been practiced upon a gen leman of well known integrity and great Arm? less of character, with an unrelenting perse mtion of everything that is mean or dishorn irabla, they would, perhaps, by their address rad ingenuity, have been enabled to carry heir projests into execution among confiding wdholders in the States of Virginia and North karolina, and probably in other States. COTTON AMD .RBBDMJPTIO?I.-?t is reported hat Mr. Jay Cooke, who has rando an onor lous fortune out of the government by selling te bonds on commission, has laid before the nthorities at Washington a carefully prepared lan for funding the national debt and resum 1 specie payments, whioh it is said bas been Boeived with favor by thoso who have exam ted it. The details have not been made pub o, but the Philadelphia North American Radical) says of this plan: It eon templates, among other things, such policy towards the Southern Statos as will ?sten the development of their resources, nd put them in a condition to take care of uemselves, and contribute their share toward ho common burdens. By accepting in good tit h tho now conditions of things, it Will bb hi lieir power, by the adoption of a liberal poliey n the part of the government, to secure the dvantages of the national banking system as ney have not yet done, and be in the way of utting their great resources to profitable BO ount. The value of the cotton crop this year pproximates $400,000.000, and with the pro? tests of the rios and tobacco crop added, the oath witt have a moc?cd basis equal to any amanda that may be made on it. This ?le* lent, hs maintains, must be taken into ac ount in any solution of the financial problem sat has a chance of success. A FATIMA'S Rsaam-Tho. Supreme Court as decided a oise of muoh interest, th? point ieeidod having serer before, we believe, been alaed in that court. It ?ame in the form of a otiUou by a father for the oustody of his MU. In the absent* of tits father, who fol to bo brought op aa their own. When the child was nine years old the father appeared and endeavored to assert his claims. Judge Hoar refused to grant him the custody of tho ohild, holding, with tho concurrence of tho other judges, that where, by misfortuuo or accident, a father has left his ohild destitute and dependent upon charity, and the ohild has been permitted to form new relations in life so deep and strong as to ohange its whole nature and chai actor, tue child should be considered as emancipated by the father, and tho father cannot assort his legal right to its-custody. [Boston Advertiser. _ FOR PHILADELPHIA-KSIPIUK LING. THE 8CHOONER SUM PUISE, RY M MES M as tc-, having nearly all her cargo engaged, ?will sail iu a few davs. For engagements ?apply to H. F. BAKER & CO., January 14 No. 20 Cumberland-streot. FOR HSW YORK-MURGHA NTS? LINK. THE FAST SAILING BRIG EUBU3, WILUZX Master, baviug a large portion of freight engaged and going on board, wants about 160 to 200 bales Cotton and light freight lo AU up and soil promptly. January 14 8 WILLIAM R04CH A CO. FOR BOSTON-DESPATCH LINE}. THE REGULAR Al B?CKST SCHOONER JONAS .SMITH, NICHOLS Master, having a large portion cargo on board, wants 200 or 250 bales colton and light freight to AU up and Bail promptly. WILLIAM ROACH A CO. January ll FOR LIVERPOOL. THE FIRST CLAPS DANISH BARK ?KAMMA FONDER, Kimon Master, having ? part of cargo engaged, will have disptach. . For Freight engagements apply to WILLIS A OUISOLM, January 8 Imo North Atlantic Wharf. FOR LIVERPOOL. THE NEW AND STRICTLY Al SPAN? ISH SHIP "PEDRO PLANDOLIT," AMKN 1 on Ai. Master, having large part of her .cargo engaged and going on board, will load with dispatch, For further Freight engagements apply to W. P. HALL, January 8 16 Brown A Co.'s Wharf. FOR LlVEBPOOli. THE FINE AMERICAN 8HIP "AME 'LIA, TBOS. BOBKKAK Master, is now ready ? for cargo, and being ot small capacity .will .have dispatch. For engagements apply to PATTERSON A tfTOCK, January 5_South Atlantic Wharf. FOR LIVERPOOL. THE Al CLIPPER BARK LIZZIE H., ?SPRING, Master, having about two-thirds y of her cargo engaged and going onboard, ?will have dispatch for the above port. For freight engagements, apply to January 5_8TBEBT BBOTHEB8 A CO. FOR LIVERPOOL. THE FIBST GLASS BRITISH BABQU >W. G. PUTNAM, RICKARD Master, ha vin )a large part of her cargo engaged, will loa ?with dispatch. For balance freight engagements, apply to WILLIS A CHISOLM, December 31_ North Atlantic Wharf. EXCURSIONS AROUND THE HARBOR . THE FINE, FAST SAILING AND COM PORTABLY appointed yacht ELEANOR iwill resume her trips to historio poluta m ?the harbor, and will leave Government Wharf daily at Ten A. Bl. and Three P. M. For Passage, apply to THOMAS YOUNG, December 18 3mo Captain, on Board. PACIFIC MAIA. STEAMSHIP COMFY'! THROUGH LlAui TO CALIFORNIA, CHINA AND JAPAN. FREIGHT AND PASSAGE AT GREATLY UM DU QED BATES I js*r??mm STEAMERS OF THE ABOV.: ^^jsa^f?s.llne le*vc pler N?- North myrf>i '^'2$i8yWffl foot of Canal-street, New York, ? J?nBLi Ll o'clock noon, of the 1st, 9tb,l3U and 24th of ?very month (except When, these datai fall an Sunday, then tho Saturday preceding). Departure af lat and 24th connect at Panama wm steamers for Hout'i Pacific and Central Americas ports.. Thone or lat touch at Manganilla j ] New Zealand. Steamship JAPAN leaves San Francisco fer Chi? na and Japan February 4,1869. No California steamers touch?t Havana, but gc direct from New York to AspinwalL One hundred pounds baggage free to each adult. Medicine and attendance free. Fer PaecageTickets or farther information any.') at the COMPANY'S TICKET OFFICE* on the wharf foot of Canal-street, North River, New York. March 14 lyr F. lt. BABY, Agent. MSW ROUTE, REDUCTION IN FREIGHT. THROUGH BILLS OF LADING 'from New Orleans to Charleston, S. *C., TIA Florida Railroad and ALLI .ANCE LIN EU. S. Mail Steamships. And steamers CITY POINT and DICTATOR, wiU be given fer agar, to Charleston, per bhd.87 5 Sogar, to Charleston, per barrel.16 Molasses, to Cheleston, per barrel.2 50 Bice, to New Orleans, per 100 pounds.. ?. ?. - Other Freights in proportion to the above J. D. AIKEN A GO., Agents, Charleston. F. W. PERKINS A GO., Agents, No. 26 Carondelet-strrot, New Orleans. A. B. NOYES, Agent. December 15 Imo Fernandina, Fla. TRAVELLERS PA SSI X O THROUGH CHARLESTON SSS BOU f B TO FLOBIDA. AIKEN And other places, should not fal to lay in their supplies of PROVIS . IONS, CLARETS. CHAMPAGNES _ - CORDIALS, BRANDIES. WHIS KIES, WINES, CANNED MEATS, SOUPS, Ac. Paies of Wild Game and Devilled Ham for Sand . Wiehes and Luncheons. AarSend for a catalogue. WM. S. CORWIN A CO., No. 276 King-street, Between Wentworth and Beanfoin, Charleston, S. G. Branch of No. ?00 Broadway, corner 20th street, New York. October28 FOR CHE tc AW, GEORGETOWN, BUCK'S LO WEB MILL, ON THE WACO A M AW P.IYER, AND ALL LANDINGS ON THE PEEDEE RIVER. m ^m?F***. THE 8TEAMEB PLANTBB, CAP jg?^affiB-TA?N C. C. WHITE, la receiving freight at Accommodation Wharf and will leave on SATURDAY MOBNINO, the 16th instant, at Seven o'clock. Apply to JOHN FERGUSON. January 18 INLAND ROUTE. THROUGH TICKETS TO FLOBIDA. CHARLESTON AND SAVANNAH STEAM PACKET LINE, VIA EPT8TO, BEAUFORT AMD HILTON HEAD, CONKKOCTHG WITCH THE ATLANTIC AND GULF RAILROAD AND CONNECTIONS FOB ALL POINTS IN FLOBIDA. . TBE FINE. FAST STEAMED _J PILOT BOT, Captain Itom Pass, will leave Charleston on MONDAY and I noue?AX Moas mos at Eight o'clock. Betonung, will leave Savannah TUESDAY MORSINOS at Bight o'clock, and FBXDAT A?rss?oos at Two o'clock, touching at Bdtsto on THURSDAY trip from Charles tea, at Eleven A. M., and leaving Koisto at Nine A. M , SATURDAYS, on re? turn trip. , The steamer will touch at Blunt on and Onisohn's, each way, every two weeks, commencing' with trip of January 21st. For Freight or Passage apply to JOHN PEBtfBSON, January ll Accommodation Wharf. FOR BRUNSWICK, GA. THE STEAM BB "DICTATOR," _ Captain OB AJU.ES WIM.KV, will toa o h . .I?ievery Welnuday, loavfug havannah a Nine A. M., and on har return mp will touch there on Saturday Afternoon, arrtvUg faefcat Savannah on Sunday Morning. J. D. AIKEN & GO., November 24 / Agenta. FOR FALATK.A, FLORIDA? VIA SAVANNAH, PKBNANDIMA AND JACKSON - ?tA30*!* TH? JTBAT-OASS ST 2AM BB FllmtlWIii DICTATOR, Captain Cnaa. WMAEY. will sall trora Charleston *very 1ve?day JSvtnina, at Eight o'clock, lot QM above points. The arst-oian Steamer CITY POINT, Captain WM. T. MON??, tv, will rail from Charleston ev**? Satur Say Evening, at Bight o'clock, for above p?mt?. Connecting with the Central Railroad at Sayan nab. for Mobil??nd New Orleans, and with tao Florida Railroad as Fernandina for Cedar Keys, at which pout steamers connect with New Ortona, Mobile, Pensacola, Key West im Havana. Through Billa Lading elm for Freight to Mobile, Pensacola and New Orleans. Beth stumer* eeestasMay'?ask B. S. Hart's ?lasas? in Oelawaha am? OHM* fir other Syrfmaa and Lakes, Orttm, Mastis, Birril ?asl Dur tam. Ai! irsigbt p^aivle cn &ewha*L Goods not removed at tanest wi! bs stored at risk md expense of owners. ? Por Freight or Passage ensagamet t, apply to I. D. AIKEN Jk 00.? Agents, Benth Atlantic Wharf. E. B.-No extra charge for Meats and stateroom*. Steams? City Pontt"wm U,aU at St. Mary's, ?a* o. Shipping. DIRECT STKAM COMMUN I CATION BB* TWEEN CHARLESTON AND LIVERPOOL. CHARLESTON AND LIVERPOOL STEAMSHIP LINE. HKE?Ij%R rron Htoamship "GOLDEN '""HORN," PARKY u. MODKATH Com? mander, is now on ber passage to thin port from Liverpool direct, and is expected to arrive on or about tbe 16tb iustnnt, to sail hence for Liverpool on first February. For Freight or Passage apply to ROBERT MURE & CO. January il_Boyce's Wharf. FUK lilVSRI'UOL. ? THE BRITISH STEAMER STA -'"'lTRA, WAT Master, capacity 1800 'bales cotton, due here this day, will sall on 25th instant For ftvlgbt engagements, including cotton to ar? rive, apply to W. O. BEE A CO. January ll * NKW YOKE AND CHARLES COI* STEAMSHIP LINE. FOR NEW YORK THE SPLENDID SIDE WHEEL STEAMSHIP CHAMPION, LOOK WOOD Commander, will leave Ad Ser'e Wharf on SATURDAY, the 16th JCk. The 'steamship CHARLESTON will follow on TUESDAY, the 19th instant, at ll o'clock A. M. 49*1 hreugh Bills of Lading given to Boston and Providence, R. I. 4GkT*Insurance can be obtained on these steamers at Vi percent. For Freight and Passage, having splendid cabin accommodations, apply to JAMES ADOER A CO., Corner Adger's Wharf and East Bay (Up Stair?). January 14_ _ tbo2 FOR NKW YORK.. REO- ULAH LINE EVER Y THURSDA Y, PA88AGB RBOVCBD TO 815. fmsm THE SIDEWBEFL STEAMSHIP SWW MAGNOLIA, Capt. M. B. O BOWELL. Commander, will leave Yander borat's Wharf, on FIUDAV MOBB? ING, January 16, at half-past 7 o'clock. January 6 RAVENEL & GO., Agents. _Jgoittt?^ ?ils, ?tr, CAMERON. B?RKLEY^& CO., NORTHEAST CORNER Meeting and Cumberland Streets. STEAM ENGINES GRIST MILLS CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, and MACHINERY. January 1 Gmo ROOFING TIN. 500 BOXES IO 14x20 ROOFING TtN 800 BOXES IX 14x20 ROOFING TIN 100 BOXES IO 28x20 ROOFING TIN 60 BOXES IX 42x20 ROOFING TIN 25 BOXES TX 12x12 V 25 BOXES IX 14x20 \^ 20 BOXES IX 10x20 20 BOXES IXX 14x20 20 BOXES rXXX 14x20 20 BOXES rXXXX 14x20 BLOCK TIN, TTNSMAN'S SOLDER 2PEL ? .v... ' .^D&t%,.iu^j9?t* ... IN STORE AND TO ARRIVE. CAMBRON, BARKLEY di CO., Northeast corner Meeting and Cumberland streets. January 1_arno OILS! 0ILS1 0ILS1 L000 GALLONS PURE WINTER LARD OIL 700 GALLONS PURE WINTER No. 1 LARD OIL 500 GALLONS PUKE WINTER SPERM OIL 500 GALLONS PURE MASON'S SPERM OIL 500 GALLONS PURE MACHINERY OIL WOO GALLONS WHITEOAK LUBRICATING on* 800 GALLONS REFINED NEATSFOOT OIL 300 GALLONS TANNERA (STRAITS) OIL. CAMBRON, BARKLEY *St CO., Northeast corner Meeting and Cumberland streets, January 1 _6mo WHITE LEAD, ZI INTO, PAINTS? COLORS, VARNISHES, BRUSHES, Ac, Ac. EtAW AND BOILED LINSEED OILS. . CAMBRON, BARKLEY <& CO., forth east corner Meeting and Cumberland streets. January 1 too BAR IRON, IHEIT KRON AND STEEL, WROUGHT AND CAST IRON PIPING, 5TEAM AND MALLEABLE CAST IRON FITTINGS, tor steam and water. CAMBRON, BARKLEY dt CO., Northeast corner Meeting and Cumberland streets. January 1_?mo BELTING M?E LUNG ! 000 FEET OAK-TANNED LEATHER BELT? ING 000 FEET GUM BELTING, 2, 8, 4, and 5 FLY 250 SIDES PATENT DRESSED LACE LEATHER 800 DOZEN METALLIO-TIBPED BELT LACING 100 BOXES BLAKE'S PATENT BELT STUDS 150 DOZEN TOLLMAN'S BELT HOOKS 760 YARDS GUM PACKING, l-l? INCH TO jt INCH THICK " HOE'S PACKING, 4 INCH TO 1* INCH DI? AMETER OAPSTONE PACKING, i INCH TO 1ft INCH DIAMETER (TAITE AND BROWN JUTE PACKING TALLIN HEMP PACKING IUBBBR AND LEATHER HOSE CANHOLE AND HANDHOLE GASKETS OF ALL SIZES. CAMERON, BARKLEY ?fe CO., forthe?st Corner Meeting and Cumberland streets. January 1_arno BRASSW0KK. TEAM GUAGES, GONGS, GUAGE COOKS TEAM BIBBS AND STOP COCKS, STEAM WHISTLES (LOBE AND CHECK VALVES, OIL CUPS (TATER GUACES. GLASS GUAGE TUI5FS lY GU AGES, LOW WATER DETEC? TORS ?OPPER AND BRASS WIRE. ?AMBRO?, BA OW LBV A CO.,