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wirft VOLUME VII.-NU 1080. CHARLESTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1869. SIX DOLLARS PER ANNUM BY TELEGRAPH. THE STATE CAPITAL. LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS - ADJOURNMENT TBO" FOBED ON THE FOURTH OP MARCH. [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO DAT LY NEWS.] COLUMBIA, February 23.-IN THE SENATE, thc bill to renew the ehartor of tho Charleston An? cient Artillery Society was passod, its title changed io au act, and ordered te be enrolled. The following received a third reading and wero sont lo the Hoaso : The bill to regulato tho distillation of liquors; the l?ill to incorpo? rate the Watereo and North Carolina Railroad Company; tho bill to further am end tho act incorporating the University of South Caro? lina. Allen introduced a bill to incorpor?t? the Charleston Loan Company. Arnim introduced a bill to recharter the bridgo across tbe Savannah Rivor at Hamburg. The bill to pr?vido lien on buildings and lands to parties furnishing labor and materials thereon, also tho bill to rocharler tho Young iners Ferry, were read the second timo and or? dered to bo engrossed. Hayne introduced a resolution to adjourn sine die on tho fourth of March. Ordered for cou a i dora t ion to-morrow. IN THE HOUSE, thoSenato resolution to ad? journ sine die was tabled. The following wero introduced : By Dennis A'bill to incorporate the Charleston Loan Com? pany; by Stober-A bill to amend an act in? corporating tho Villago of Marion. Feriter prosanted a memorial of tho citizens of Cheraw in favor of granting aid to the Chatham Railroad Company. The following wore passed and sent to the Scuate : A bill to incorporate Carmel Church, Fiokens County; ? bill to renew tho ehartor of tho Ferry across the Congaroe River. A bill to provide for the revision and consoli? dation of the Statute Law of the Starte was read a second timo, and ordered to be en? grossed. _ CONGRESSIONAL. FREEDMEN'S BUREAU-MEXICAN FREE PORTS THE SENATE REFUSES TO CONCOR IN THE HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO THE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT REORGANIZATION OF THE JUDICIARY. WASHINGTON, February 23.-IN THE SENATE, Wilson, from the Military Committee, reported favorably 011 the bill continuing the education and collection departments of tho Freedmen's Bureau, and general freedmen's hospitals, including those at Richmond and New Or? leans. The Finance Committee reported a bill re? mitting tho duties on college and library appa? ratus. The Secretary of the Treasury was request? ed to communicate information relative to thc free port system of Mexico and the frauds con? nected therewith. The Senate refused to concur in tho House amendments to the suffrage amendment, and asked a committee of conforo nco. The bill authorizing tho Western Union Tel? egraph Company to import cables free, was passed. The bill to reorganize the judiciary wae pass? ed. It provides fera chief justice and eight associate justices-six to form a quorum-and for nine circuit judges. The bill amending the Civil Bights bill was passed. The bill imposing penalties for holding offico contrary to tho Fourteenth amendment was discussed until rcoess. IN THE HOUSE, the Copper Tariff bill was pass? ed over the veto by a vote of 115 to 56. The bill was passed forbidding the State court? iu tho City of New York, and the supe? rior court of tho city, from naturalizing for? eigners. Several conference committees were ap? pointed. WASHINGTON. t GENERAL BUCKNER-GRANT'S CABINET. WASHINGTON, February 23.-Eevonue to-day $171,000. . General Buckner is here. Tho recusant witnesses, Bell and Reave, have beon rom anded to tho custody of the eergeant-at-arms, to await the pleasure of the committee Grant declared publicly to-day that no mili? tary or naval officer would be ia his Cabinet. Notwithstanding tho increaao in the colored registration, the citizens' ticket was elected in Georgetown. SPARKS PROM THE WIRES. There has been a two days' snow storm at Buffalo, New York. The Louisiana Legislature has authorized the sale of $990,000 of levoe bonds. Tho press ol Lisbon almost unanimously condemn the movement for the union of Spain and Portugal. The Fourth National Bank of Philadelphia has closed. The deposits amounted to $500, 009. The failure is attributed to the defalca? tion of tho oashier. The steamboat Persia, from New Orleans to Louisville, was snagged on the Mississippi on Saturday, and a great part of her cargo lost. Passengers and baggage saved. A London lotter says : " Wales having struck work for a higher salary, and being now junketting with his wife in Egypt, pursued by Cook's tourist and a small army of correspon? dents of London papers, ii looks as if his royal mamma had determined to show that sho can dispense with him, and carry on the business in the old orthodox manner-in whioh hope Went Ead tradoafolks are preparing, to bo de? lighted. Young Arthur, too, has, so to speak, been pressed into service; he is going to hold three levees in March, in St. James' Palace; / propos of which young gentleman I was told a \ . noua circumstance'by a knowing man about tow. ?ho professed to have personal knowledge about if rp?e pr?noe, then, is not only so pro 3iKiottB,-interestedin all that happen? to him aa toobta. photographs, engravings, litho? graphs orwctyjncg o? every locality he visits, English orVcouiaantal, public or private, for preservatlo\ in ^ huge aiDUm, but also pos? sesses ft BimV von,,?, filled with innumerable portraits of uoaself ?from his earliest boyhood upwards. TM* tuco bjndreds o f photographs, in all sorts of ^turnes, Borno in character, aa Henry vni.OhW i?, and at least ono iu the attire of Ad?before tho Fall-only as the subject is represad as leaning over his bath, you only see the W half of him, so conven? tional notions of rWioty are not outraged. It * te understood thaSe Queen keeps tho apart? ments of the lato Lee Albert in exactly the 4 same condition thaW were m at his death slippers and dressUown all ready, ?a if he might come back t<Lm any day." THE CHARLESTON MERCURY. Thc Proprietor Bids Farewell to its Sub? scribers. Tho following farewell address from tho Pro? prietor of tho Charleston Mercury has boon printed in tho form of a circular, and ia now in process of distribution among tho late subscribers to that journal : A Far* well to tbe Subscribers or the Charleston Mercury. After the suspension of tho Mercury, a few weeks eiuco, expectation R wore formed of its renewed issue, with larger capacity for useful? ness*. It is proper to notify tho subscribers of tho paper that these expectations havo proved abortive, in order that they may turn to othor sources for information and instruction aa to tho events and transactions of thc day. The proprietor, having exhausted ali resources, would now tnko leave of tho subscribers to tho Mercury. That communion which a daily press has so long established is about to ho severed: and at parting, our lrionds will par? don us tor offering a few last reflections upon tho condition and prospects of tho bouth. Both sections of the United Slates have equally failed in obtaining tho avowed objects of tho war. Tho South sought independence; tho North tho continuance of tho Union of tho Constitution. The Uuion, dissolved by sooos sion, is not restored. lb no longer exist?, but has perished with tho constitution which es? tablished lt; and a consolidated despotism, without any Union of Statos, constitutes tli^ government of thc country. But a few weeks since, tho St ato of Oregon sent resolutions to tho Senate of tho United States, requesting her senators to resign their seats, bocauso they had voted for unconstitu? tional measures. On the presentation of these ?evolutions, tho Senate passed a resolution re? fusing to receivo thom, and ordering them to kc returned to tho State of Oregon, as "scan? dalous aud impertinent." Under tho old gov? ernment, existing before tho war, senators were eonsiderod to bo ambassadorial represen? tatives. When instructed by tho States, they usually obeyed or resigned. And even when senators refused to obey the instructions of their States, no one. however wild m his con? solidation, ever questioned the right of a Slate to express and send up to tho Senate its opin? ions concerning the constitutionality of laws, or to instruct its senators. The right of tho pooplo to request anything of their reproseu tives, or to arraign before Congress any law passod by Congress as unconstitutional, to this day has not boen questioned or denied. Why then is this ri? ht now domed to a State ? Simply because, under the new governmonf, Ibero is no suoh thing as a State. We have lived under a complex government, and there is hut ono stride from liberty to despotism. Strike out tho Slates, aud assume for tho Gen? eral Government the reserved rights guaran? teed to thom through the constitution, and tho whole system of government established by tho constitution is gone. It leaves a "caput mortuum" of despotism, which no bravery of words, no hypocrisy of language, whether used in Mexico or at Washington, can disguise. Tho revolutionists of the new government in the Senate thoroughly understand this, and covet tho powers they usurp. Hence they deny that tho Legislature of a State has anything to do, either wjth the senators or with the laws they may pass. Tho States are not him: more, under th? new government, than convenient circles for local legislation; but possessed ot no political power. O ? course, if there areno Slates lhere can ho no Union of Stab's. That is gone with ibo old govor ?menfc, and there is now nothing but a centralized, constitutionless despotism, of a majority in Congress, ruling the United States by secret cauousses, where the Senato is practically annihilated as an in? dependent legislativo or political power, and all responsibility to tho people is merged in party. Tho grand professed objoct of the war, therefore, on the part of the Northern people, has not been obtained. It has been defeated by the very means used to obtain it. And what have they gained by war but desDotism and debt, and taxes-and North and South seeth? ing craters ot hate ? We know well that all those results are de? nied by the rovo'utionists, who have compassed thom. According to their Vocabulary, they havo "saved the lifo of the nation." Tho na? tion 1 That word was contained in Mr. Ran? dolph's scheme of a constitution, submitted to the august convention which passed the Con? stitution of tho United States, and it waa stricken out in a dozen places. The framers of that gre it instrument fatly repudiated tho proposition to make tho United stn tes a "Nation;" and the States never entertained it. So far as foreign affair? and foreign notions were concerned, they were to be a nation; but in their internal affairs, and with respect to each othor, they were to be a Confederacy of States, united on the terms of the constitutional compact, and exercising in common, through the General Government, the powers therein granted and agreed upon. But what does this historic fact matter with mon who aspire not only to manufacture words, but constitutions? Tho lifo of a free people is embodied in their fundamental law Within the sacred form of their coneiitution are incarnated tho vital elqments of all their liberties. Lifo has been foully and feloniously taken out of the Constitution of the United states. As existing at the commencement cf the war, it is a thing of the past, anda new government, clothed in the habiliments of tho doad-a ghastly counterfeit-a mockery on free government-stands in its stead. The revolutionists deny, too, that they havo set up a despotism over tho United States. Tli?y aro haunting lovers of liberty ! Aro they not advocates for universal suffrage ? This they affect to think is the primo criterion of all republican governments. On this account, they aro now arraigning the constitutions of tho States which do not tolerate negro suf? frage, ns not republican in their form of gov? ernment. Yet tho only great nation which bas practiced universal suffrage, that we know of, ia Prance; and lhere it has created tho impe? rial despotism of Napoleon the Third. What universal suffr-igo can havo todo with the local and constitutional limitations on power, which alone can constitute freedom in governments, it is difficult to perceive. Swelling the multi? tudes to vote or to rule, does not make liberty. In the light of common sonso, it is inconceiv? able how a despotism is loss a dospotism be? cause imposed by many, rather than by a few, or by one man. Liberty is not a boon enjoyed at the will of one man, or at the option jf a ma Jority of the people. And the burden of in ustice and oppression ia just as heavy, wheth? er imposed by one tyrant at headquarters, or by ignorant and irresponsible numbers scat? tered in different sections of a vast country. What does it signify to the people of Oregon, or of South Carolina, if they aro ruled abso? lutely, whether it he by a majority in Congress (elected by no matter what kind ot auftrage, who are totally irresponsible to them), or by a General Grant? Is not the despotism the same? What is dospotism but irresponsible power ? What is free government, but gov? ernment legally guarded from the exorcise of unlimited power? What is liberty, but the people ruling their affairs through their own agents or representatives, chosen by thom and responsible to them ? The framers of the Constitution of the United States perfectly understood these plain and simple principles, and therefore gianted, by its provisions, pow? ers to the General Government it established, only over such interests as wore common to all seoiions alike, leaving local interests to the con? trol of tho State Governments. Tho protection against abuse or opprossion. in the exeroise bf tho powers granted, was found in their very nature-common and general-which rendered it impossible for any section or int ernst to op Jire?s other sections or interests without simi arly affectin-r itself. Local and sectional mat? ters wero bosido tho sphere and bevon I tho reach of tho General Government, f?enco all tho limitations in the Constitution of the Uni? ted States. The lying hypocrisy of systcmat eally disregarding these limitations, in which alone free go vorn mont exists, and then to pro? fess a devotion to liberty, in a zeal for univer? sal suffrage, is according to the usual course of despotic usurpation. Long after the liber? ties of Romo had withered imdor the rule of lier imperial masters, sho was called a repub? lic. All the for ms of her free constitution were complied with. Consuls were elected; Tribunes were appointed. There waa a Sen? ate; and to be a Hoi nan citizen was to ba "free born." Yet a Nero and a Caligula dom? inated in her capital, and ravaged and plun? dered in the most approved style of despotic reconstruction. Nor do the revolutionists 'admit that they hat:-, UP. They are a Christian people, and have acted upon the most enlightened prinoi Sles of Christianity. It is true, that Attila and lenghis-Kban hardly practiced more barbar? ism than they during tho late war. It is true, also, that by the aot of liotji branches of Con gross, thoy invited our cessation of hostilities upon grounds whioh thoy havo porddiously ianorcd. Aud since tho war closed, how have their loving kindness and generosity been lavished upon our people 1 Stovons and But? ler have been tho gracious apostles and grand almoners of their tender mercies and chari? ties ! If the Evil Ono himself had boon in bodi? ly shape on earth, directing tho counsels of tho North, his spirit could not moro flagrantly have spread over tho South its balolul und ma? lignant influoiicc. Tho most deadly enemy in tho South to all political association with tho North could not havo devised a courso hotter calculated to accomplish his nurposo of an eternal separation, than that pursued by tho North through its Radical majority. Tho poli? cy ct emancipating slaves was a vioient mo;iB jire which Napoleon Idoclinedin Russia.wlr ro tlio slaves woro of tho Caucasian race; but tho endeavor by military despotism to turn society upside down in tho South, and to put tho half savage negro over the civilized Caucasian, may not bo forgotten or forgiven. It will stand alono in history as tho folly of a madness burn? ing with bato at its white boat. And wo aro to bolievo that tho radicalized North love tho people of the South, very, very dearly ! Tho pooplo o? tho South recognizo fully the fact that thousands of Northern mon have boon faithful to the o institution mado by our fathers. They know that thousands aro con? genial in sympathy, and cordial in fooling. They honor them tor thoir politics. They re? ciprocate their friondly disposition. But these cons itute a subordinate minority ot ttio poo? plo of the North, overridden and impotent to prevent tho political slavery and material ruin which have been imposod upon tho South. The radical clo hont largely predominates, and now controls tho policy and re prosont s the tone and temper ot the North. And botwoon this radi? cal oloment and the Sont hern pooplo thoro seems to be an irreconcilable repugnance. Tho truth is, thoro is an incongruity bo tween these two peoples from their very natures. Their difference has boen attributed to various causes. Somo have affirmed that it arises from tho different stocks of population from which they sprung-Puritan and Cavalier. S uno ascribe it to climate. Ottiors to their differing pursuits of industry-tho ono being a? agricultural, the other a mercantile, nauti? cal and manufacturing people. Othors, again, to the institution of slavery. Mr. Burke as? signed to this last sourco tho higher spirit of liberty which actuated tho people ol tho South in tho war of '76. Whether from ono, or from all of those causes combined, tho fact th it thoy are of dissimilar characteristics does nota Unit of douht. Tho ono pooplo is cautious and ret:oent; the other frank and open in communi? cation. Tho ono is penurious; tho other is froo in tho uso of money. Tho one cannot even comprohend the moaning of tho word honor; tbo other values it beyond lilo. Both have boon great iu their pursuits of in austry. The ono has pushed tho arts of commerce and navigation to extreme offi ciency; the other has advanced in agricul? ture, surpassing all nations in tho sta? ples cultivated, and rendering them the most important to tho wor ld. Tho ono lovos gregariousness, and doos every I bing by asso? ciation; the other cultivates privacy and in? dividuality, and acts with difficulty with othors. The ono is scoptical, prying, officious, harsh, dogmatic, aggressive, and fond of nov? elties, mi8uamed<f?roKres8; tho other ia moro genial and more tolerant, distrusts chaugo, and revoroucos the past. Tho ono looks up -u government as an iustrumont of aggrandize? ment, to make money or to rulo othors; tho other regards "t as simply an instrument of protection, for securiug justice aud leading to all under its authority tho privilege of Hocking their own happiness in their own way. Is it possible that two peoples of such different characteristics and antagonistic views can live voluntarily together under the same tree gov? ernment? There aro persons, however, both in tho South and in the North, who, in spite of tho antagonism in chaiacteristics, and tho hate existing between the two sections of the United States, aud the overthrow cf tho Con? stitution and the Union it established, still hope for a change which will restore the con? stitution to its former "fficionoy. If this oan be accomplished, of courso the South will bo .ontent. She has never sought or required any thing more than ibo Constitution, and the Union it ostablishos. But is this reversal pro? bable? ls it possible? It cannot oe denied that the hope of such a chango is contrary to all tho experience of his? tory. A free government is tho most difficult of all governments to maintain, and onco de? stroyed has not been resurrected. But the world advances; and thero may ba two ele? ments of conservatism and restoration which did not exist in ancient ropublics-Christianity and the Press. Nor is tho argument without force, that the terrible evils which have follow? ed the overthrow of the constitution, prove the necessity of its re-establishment. But then it appears to us that those persons do not oom prebend the mom ot i tum of tho change whict has pushed the now government into power It was not the work of yesterday. It had itt origin in tho beginning of tho govornment From the first act of usurpation (tho iissump tion of the payment ot tho debts of tlx States) to the last flaro up cf consoh dation, in the indignity put upen Uro gon in tho Senate thoro baa boen ir the North a steady effort to centralizo and dos potiso the government. Many, doubtless, are blinded in this course by able sophistries; h the real causes which have produced tho wa: on tho constitution from its commmoement aro tho lust of sootional ambition, and tho lus of sectional avarice. And to these strong pas sions, a constant stimulus has beeu applied, "tr social vanity and a prevalont envy of Southon social life. The violent opposition and Bini which usurpation to promote these objooti caused, did not arrest the comae of consolida lion. Compromise after* oompromiso tool placo, to prevent revolutionary collision. Bu they were made by tho consolidationists onl; lodgments tor further demands and encroach monts; and again and again tho limitations o tho constitution wero overborne and tramplsi down, until at last a seotional President wa elected on sootional issu s. The fapt waa con elusive of tho downfall of tbe coi-sttiution, ox pressly made with the view of preventing snol issues. The war was its legitimate, inevitabl fruit ;and the tinkling of President l incoln'a am Mr. Seward's bells could not awaken the life less spirit of the constitution. Peace brough hopea ot its resuscitation ; bu t tho foul iueolenc of despotism still stalks over tho land. Al though boldly challenged and faithfully ex {tosed by the great party of tho constitutior he Democratic party, it triumphed in the lat Presidential election. It stands now buttress ed around by two enormous bulwarks of I'O? potism-a vast congeries of national bantu and a huge natio al debt. It has the capitalist of the country bound to its fortunes ; and th protective tariffs, national railroads, profus and profligate expenditures, and large stand log armies, minister to its power. Can such despotism, congenial with the spirit of tb majority of the Northern people, and sougb by thom for eighty years, now supported b such appliances, be set aside by reform? W think not. What oow.se thon is left for the Southor country ? Wo take it for granted that tho people of th South aro a froo people, in feeling ana i character. A free people in their colonial se tlements-a free people through a seven year war, wringing their indepomlenco and libertu from Great Britain-a free people, during tb long struggle for the constitution they hai? ' encountered with tho North-a freo poopli amidst all tho carnage, desolat'on and pa: barism of the lite war-they aro a froo poop still, although conquered, ohiofly through mil management of their affairs by their own pol tical loaders-moro by fraud than force on tli par of their onemios; and it is their fixed, so tied determination to be free in the time I come. Of courso, no freo people can volm tanly live under the existing doepotism ci throned at Washington, and force I upon timi by the sword. They will bear lt exactly t they bear disease and pestilence and .storm which they oannot avert. But the dav whic brings them the power to cast it off, will 1 the clay of their deliverance. We know that our enemies aro disposed i pres mt to laugh at our power. They have gt in the South three or four millions of ncgiot whom they deem potent, by tho terrors i their barbarism, to keep us in submission Yet a military force, which with one hnndrc and forty thousand enlisted negro men, dui ir two years of war, fought in snob style as i {ret but fifteen hundred slain in battle, is nt ikely to deter any race or white men from vii dicating their liberties. Bat the negro cervt a purpose for Southern independence far gre? er than his numbeis or presence fells again it. He is now a standing monitor of Northei hate. He is the living symbol of Radical grot and (molestation. Tho avarice of Northei men tore him from his native shores and c: slaved him to Southern men. A porfidioi despotism has omanoipatod him, and attempts to USP him to rule ua. There is DO ?round of forgetfulness- no possibility of forgiveness, with those black, moving memorials of our wrong*, polluting our sight, crossing us in all tho walks cf lifo, n*d vaunting their cms.quenco as tho tools of our tyrants. Nor is the South a small country li ko Ireland, incapable of expansion, or liko Poland, but little larger thin South Caro? lina. Her territory covers an area larger than Great Britain, Franco and Germany combin? ed, and can hold one hundred millions of poople aa easily as tho torf**lUilhou8 who nov occupy it. With'U thirt. yoars. judging by past progression, wo may nov thirty millions. And wo aro united togottor as other pooplo aro not united. Prosperity .often dtvlJesj but tho pressure of a common Buffering welds togotjor. Novor has any pooplo oxporiencod such a ruin of property* nl~tho bandi of an? other pooplo as wo havo experienced at tho hands of tho North. Not only have we lost all capital voatod in slaves, wi"li a corres? ponding loss or depreciation ra all othor kui ls of property, but tho little which was left to us lias boen haired down by cvory species of oppression. No free peovte has over boon insulted and outraged by so moan and vulgar a despotism-a desnotism ot vagrant white mon, and ignorant, flit) i y nejgfbes. Tlie blood of the Southern people baa commingled in a hundred common battle-?elds. Our fallen doad lie buried together. Wo stand proudly isolate I among tho pooples of tho world, with no hopo for liberty and indopondenoo but in ourselves. Secessionists and oki Unionists-trontier States and iulf States spontaneously, without offort >n their part, will find their sympathies gabber together for tho groat destiny which awaits them. South Carolina is hardly moro intouso'y Southern, sitting amidst the rums of war, than Kentucky, covorcd all o/er with Northern contumely and burning with tho memory of ber trampled >>n aud spurned neutrality. The offort on the part of ono poop e to quoll tho spirit of liberty or indopondonco in another people invariably vitalizes and intensifies it. To become on slaved is genorally a condition self-imposed or acquiesced in. as tho Northern Radicals are now doing. But in tho South, the Radical po? licy of despotism produces only alienation and detestation and a stomer aspiration for hbor ty. Unconsciously and unintentionally they are breeding in tho South tho elementa ol' au? thority, and rearing up tho future controllers of this continent uudcr tho beneficent sway of ioally freo governments; willst thoy, with thoir mockeries of freedom and roal despotisms, will go down m contentions, noparations and blood. Thoy havo no vital elements of cohe? sion amongst them, but tho disjointed, incon? gruous and bulky do-potiain, whoso power thoy aro striving to erect into everlasting om? nipotence Nor is the radioalizsd N irfcli as powerful as tho radical va iity inspires thom to suppose. Ibo North ia nowa divided people, and divided unon tho groat essential principien of thoir government. A majority mav be (as w t be? lieve* thom to be) incapable of appreciating a freo government. Heneo thoy will support tho new dosp'tism erected over thom. But there is a great body ot tho public who do un? derstand the revolution which ha? boen inaugu? rated in their government, aud aro restless under its despotism. Thoy fought in tho late war morely to prevont separation, and with tho purpose of only forcing tho people ot the Southern Staten to participate in the free gov? ernment established by tho Constitution ot tho United States. They find themselves betrayed and masterod by tho conaolidationists, from whoso baleful schomos the South sought es? cape. They havo lost tho constitution. They have lost the Union it established, and aro be? come the slaves of a consolidated dospotitmi. The pooplo or tho North aro again dividod between the tax-payers and the debt-own ors and bondholders ot the Unitec^States. Tho now government is in f ct an Mgpm-arv aristocracy of capitalists. Tho taxes and debts which drove the people of Borne to seek refuge in ?fon? Saoer against tho Patricians. w?t?> nothing to <?ho burdons which ? JWWeigh,i^!^iL.?*?eApl? of tho United Stetes. How exacting is this aristocracy may plainly be seen: thoy assort in Congress, it baa beon determined by the late Preaidential oloctiou that ono billum six hundred millions ot money, boi rowed in de ?reciatod papar currency of tho United States, and payable in this currency on tho fae? of the act authorizing the loan, bhall be paid in specie. At this moment tho curroncy is some twenty-five or six per cont, below tho valuo of specie. Will not this unjust pretension load directly to a repudiation of tho debt by tue tax? payers-tho peoplo? Nothing can prevoufc ?uch a resulo but a resumption of specie payments, which shall make tho paper currency equ il to specie. But, in the eon dition of the banks and finanoos of tho United States, is this posaiblo ? And, if it is possible, can anything provoiit tho financial and com? mercial convulsions such a resumption must produce? As onerous, however, as tho debt oj the United States now is, (being tho boaviesl in proportion to property now pressing on any people in tue world,) it constitutes by no moans ttio whole load tho revolutionists intend io pul upon thom. With tho Radicals a heavy ballas! of debt is a policy, to steady and uphold thou despotism. As soon as the prosent burden is acquiesced in by tho pooplo, thev intend that tho United States Government shall as mme th? paymout ot all the debts contracted by the Statos or local municipalities th onghout tlx North during the recent war. The Jato Thad? deus Stevens estimated these debts to bo verj nearly equal to tho dobt proper of the Unitoc Statos. With this programme in prospect, ii is well to judge whethar tneso expedients o oppression and consolidation hythe aristocracy of money w.H be patiently endured by tlx Deople of tho North ? To strengthen their dos potism, they have adopted a systom or hound leas expansion of territory. They have ex tended the domains of the United Statos t( tho North polo, and now sook to graap tlx Equator. This robey, under the system ad vocatod by the South, was wiso. Whilst tlx Constitution ot tho United States existed, ex patvsionwas a source of strength. With tlx Geuoral Government, limited in its powers U the general interests of all the States of tlx Union, causes of contest between the section* were eliminated. But, under tho intermed dirag system of tho now government, oxpau sion is inevitablo dissolution. Congreso, witt arbitrary powers of legislation (which is nov the Government-of the United Statos), oan bi nothing else but a confused conglomeration o: sociions and interests, straggling each to us? the government for ids own profit and ambi tion. No section can promote its own inter eats, except at the expense of other sections for governments nave no resources of then own, and a warfare of States and sections ii the organization. Thus will arise discontent! and ooutentious, whioh, over so vasta country will naturally produce separation and iudopeu dence in its several parts. Expansion may di in Russia; but the people of the United Statei are not Russians. Over such a people as thosi of tho United States, ind in a despotic mob ocracy, expansion is not strength, bm, w. ak ness aud dissolution. Having thus briefly sketched tho politic? condition of the United States, and the re sources of tho North and of the South, we corni to the question-what abai" be the future poli cy of the people of the South ? If tho constitution of the Unitod States, witl the Union it established, can be restored, wi say to the pooplo ot thu South, lot us Buppor the Union and tho Constitution. Wnile in as Hoc.iation with the people of tho North, w< should faithfully struggle to make and to koo] tho Government of tho United States a frei government. But, ra o r judgment, this government is al myst hopelessly despotic. So very feeble ari the probabilities of reversal and reinstatement that they oan safely constitute no element o our future policy. What then aimil we do Wo answer, look to a future of independence seek harmony in tho South for the sake of th South. Once the heurt of tho South through out thean fair lands was with the North. No for money (for we song lit not to use rho Unioi to promote pecuniary interest), but for tb sako cf liberty against foreign nations, and io: the sake of the past, io which they wore asso elated lu our struggles for independence, ant for that "sacred honor*' whioh our f4 then pledged to them ra our common Declaration o Independence, wo loved the Union eetablishct between us. Rent by their usurpations, it hoi been filially out aeuuder by the sword. It not forms tho tangled and bloody strands of a de oeitful. hoatilo despotism. Ihat this despot ism will work oat its own dissolution wo h av not a doubt. Tho people of the Southern State will yet be a great aud free people. In the portentous chaneca and events loom ing up before ns, the Charleston Mercury wil no more be hoard. It? voice, whioh for Art. y?a>rs has mingled in tho counsola of the im BerilledSouth, is hushed. Bat will it bo dead las it advocated no high principles of liberty whioh, in some warm-living heart, shall nc bo forgotten? Has it counselled no policy c stern resistance to wrong-of a brave defiance of tyranny-of a deathless oflbrl for independ? ence-with a spirit undaunted and an bonor untarnished for tho South-a policy which shall yet Burvivo and tri mn )b? For lone years, amidst trying circumstances and weighty re? sponsibilities, I have struggled (I trust faith? fully) for my endangered country. Apparently I have failed-mv country has failed! But in tho wise Providence o? God, failure often proves the greatest b'ossing, and Booming suc? cess eventuates in failure. Tho Saviour of meu wa* crucified, and his enemies in tho ex? ultation of their success, cried out, "His blood bo on us and on our childrou." Amidst tho afflictions and desolations in this our land, I have faith to believe in tho future independ? ence and prosperity of tho South. I take my placo among her ruinod children-botter so than to bo tho prondost and most honored of hor successful enemies-and I wait, hoping, praying, expecting tho bright coming of her final delivorencp. R. B. RHETT, Jr., Proprietor Charleston Mercury. Appondod to the above circular is the follow? ing selection from tho newspaper noticos of of tho discontinuance of tho Mercury : Comments oft li e Press. [From th i Charles ion Courier.] THE CHARLESTON MERCURY. It is with legret that wo anuounce tho sus? pension of this valued journal of tho South. For a long series of years it has b.^on a wel como visitor to many heart? in our Southern land, and an able advocato of tho cause of con? stitutional right. lu all ol'its principles it was fearless and sincero. Aithough di Merina; with it, at times, during its long ca> eer, yet wo can? not but feed that it was ever animated by but one conviction, and that a desire for what is firmly bolioved to bo truth andi us tice, Under tho proprietorship of Colonel R. B. Rhett, Jr., & Brother, its editorials have boen able and comprehensive. It has boen ono ot tho house? hold institutions,of our city and State, and as such it will bo missed ai many a fireside and home. the relations betweon our late cotomporary and ourselves wore of tho most kindly charac? ter. Not only tho com nuuity in which it was published, but tho wholo South, will regard with sadness tho disappearance of our cotom? porary fro-n tho journalism ot tho land. No newspaper in tho South can Hvo on sub? scriptions. I hey but bolp to pay tho exponaos. It ia rho advertising patronage that gives suc? cess or failure to a daily journal. Aud a suffi? ciency of this, notwithstanding the Mercury's largo subscription lists, it did not receive. Hence its suspension. l?rom tho Charleston Daily Nows.' SUSPENSION OF THE MERCURY. Our cotomporarv, tho Charleston Mercury, bas not be issued since Monday last. We have no information us to whether its publication will be rea a mod; but if not, Lhere will bo felt some natural regret at the discontinu meo of a journal winch has had so eventful a career, aud has BO long been connected with tho name and history of our city. [From the Charleston Daily Nows.] THE DEMISE OF THE MERCURY. The Columbia correspondent of the Now York Times-who is understood tobo Mr. Jas. Wood Davids m-writes to that paper as fol? lows, in regard to tho suspension of the Charleston Mercury : Ono ol the most significant signs of thc times, and in tho main one of tho most hope? ful, is in tho suspension of the Charleston Mer? cury-for many years tho exponent of tho ex? tremists in South Carolina. By extremista, I mean thoso politicians who persist in applying tho obsolete standards of a dead past to tho questions of a now and progressive present, those who push conservatism to its vioi?us ex tromo of stagnant dogmatism; those Bomb ms whom no experience can toach. For mauy years -twenty or more, J believe-thia organ of a now past regime bas held sway in this State, and wielded a large influence throughout the South. l3u?h^ 4TO^sat it atill ?urviv.e?|? wa* still sustained, fighting though it alwava was over some past issue. Since the war it raiser] the same standard, and wavod it persistently, but with diminishing power, for its oiuso was dying out gradually, aud its day was dying out ?vow thoughts possessed our people, and ne? issues arose; but this Nestor of an ante-penull generation still spoke with enthusiasm of tra ditions that had well-nigh passed from tin memories of to-day-this dying Sir John stil "Dabbled of green fields." The significance o this suspension of the Mercury is, that iti causo hos in the moribund condition in whicl its party now is. Tho hopefulness of tho oe curren cc lies in the assurance that this deatl of effete conservatism means lifo to thc incom ing party of progress and action. Our Soutb ora people are tfbitig to work-aro throwing t the dogs tbe theories of the Bourbons wh have ruled public opinion for so miuy year with such an non hand. There may be dan ge in this new tondonoy, but I am recording fact: not demonstrating truths. [From the New York Herald.] THE DEMOCRACY BREAKING UP. AU over the land thoro are signs that tb Democracy is breaking up. One, by one, tb organs of tho Pendleton, or Southern Right Democracy, aro silenced. The Charleston Mci eury, without a premonitory sign, has suddci ly given up tho ghost. It bas caved in an fallen to pieces, Uko Wendell Holmes' famot "one horse shay." The Louisville Journal ha already caved in. Tho demise of the Jour m may have been hastened by tho high tax o Bourbon; but as tho editor of the Meroin drinks nothing but water, no such conjecture admissible as to the fate of that newspape The Democracy is manifestly breaking up a over the land. [From the Washington Republican.] THE BREAKING DP., It is oasy to predict tho broaking up of pa ties, but it is no Li. Kv ay s cort ti m that tho sigi which portend a downfall o? parties will be wi i s eased in actual realization. We must coi fess, however, that the indications are vei strong that the Democracy aro breaking up. Several Democratic papers have given v. tho ghost. Among them wo may name tl: Charleston Mercury and the Louisville Jou nal. Others will have to follow. Wo thin Ichabod is writteo upon the door-posts of tl -Democratic party. [Fi om the New York Tribune.J We seo it announced that the Chariest* Mercury has snapooded publication. The: could scarcely be a more suggestive fact. Ti Mercury has always beeu the organ of the ari tee'raoy of thc South, and has always represen ed the' extreme sentiment of Southern slav driving aggrandizement. Before the war was the earnest enemy of the Union. Durn the war it championed the harshest measure and Binco peace it has buen tho implacable 1< of every honest attempt at reconstruotio Edited by a member of the noted family Rliott, it lias fully represented every princip of .which the Rbettsbavc BO long been intrep and consistent advocates. Its eusponsio therefore, indicates that the '.aristocracy" dead; that tho "First. Families" of tho Sou can no loncrer (support an organ; and that as political fact thou* empire is past. Wo are sc ry for Mr. Rhett, and for the suspension of h eutcrpriso; but tho . death of tim Charle act Moicury is a sure sign of tho dissolution a i that romains of tho proud ?and exolusi class that dwelt for so many years in Sou Carolina, and reigned over the whole repubii [From Forney's Philadelphia Press.] Tb o Charleston Mercury has already coast publication. "Let us have Peace." [From the Wilmington, N. C., Journal.] We regret to leura of tho snsp-msiori of th able and valued journal. No paper hus bo more identified wita the history of South Cai lin? and the whole oouutr.v than the Chark ton Mercury, and ita absence will be felt many households. Al wa) a nd miring tho ab) ty, fearlessness and sincerity with which it a vocal ed and delend< d its principle?, we ha frequently differed from it during the war a* uiu e. Wc sincerely regret tbe necoesi which compels its supension, and feel that b few papers won ld be BO muoh missed, either the sanctum or among its friends and patror [From tua Augsat*_6a., ConatttationaUtt.] NBWBP^n CHAVOES. in common with thousands in the South, i deeply regret the aaspsnslon mt the Chariest Mercury, and trust we ?ball have tbe plcasn of once more welcoming it to our sanctum, I newed, revived, immortal. , [from th? Huntsville, Ala., Democrat.] TUB CHABLKSTON MEBOUH?. We deeply regret to learn that this able ai consistent exponent of States Bights and t true principles of constitutional liberty and o daunted defender of Southern freedom and oi ibmUon has suspended. The South cann afford to IOMO tho services of so dovoted, able and efficient a friend. [ i rom th* Atlanta Constitution.] SUSPENSION OE AN OLD AND VALUED JOURNAL. Tho Charleston Mercury, ono of tho eldo Ht and ablest journals in tho South, wo regret to learn, has boon forcod to suspond publication. With ono of its sister cotomporarios, tho Charleston Courier, we unite our rogrots at this occurrence. iFroin tho Georgetown (3. C.) limes.| THE OH ABLEST >N MEBOURT. We do not know that we havo over felt moro deei ly disappointed thau wo wore by tho re? ceipt ot tho news that this timo-honorcd, faith? ful servunt of our State, Bas suspended publi? cation. We havo always regarded tho Mercury as decidedly ono ol' tho ablest papera in tho South, and wo tool lost without it, accustomed as wo havo always been to defer to its opinions and to appreciate ita Oold and vigorous edito? rials. We sincoroly hopo it will soon bo resur? rected, improved ?nd enlarged, and that it is only a temporary absouco from our list of ex? changes. [From the Darlington, 8. C., Democrat.] THE OHABLK8TON MBBC?BY. Wo regret that this planet has disappeared from tbe political heavens. We hope it is a mero eclipse, and that the "Mercury" ia not to bo numbered among tho "lost stars." We will sadly miss lier bright face. To her wo have long lookod in stormy weather, when tho skies wore darkened and tho sea was rough. To hor be given, as we do, all credit for hon? esty and tearlessness in timos when "thrift might follow fawning." The Mercury has long been the Alpha Polaris to m my, in afiaira ot State, iu these latitudes. "Cy no Sura" has variod, and is varying. The Morcury never has, and we never supposed sho would, or could. If the Republicanism of "tho Fathers" should ever bo resurrected on this continent, it will bo on the basis of tho principles ef tho Mercury when clad in white, having tho palm, she will roappoar as tho Omega Polaris. [From the Sumter, S. C , Wktohaaau.] THE CHARLESTON MEBOUBY. Tho announcement that tho Mereurj' may resumo will bo received with gratification by all who respect and honor the namo and char? acter of South Carolina-all who esteem char? acter und principle beyond place and p. u udor -all who fool that there is a future for our people of respectability and honor, and that there aro rights which bolong to freemen still worth contending tor. The Morcury, for many voars, occupied a position and wiold d an uifluen e, such as no paper of the Soutli has over attained. To tho South it has been a sourco of strength and encouragement, and a droadod opponent of the Southern oppressor and enemy of constitu? tional liberty. As a newspaper and visitant of tho firoside, it has held hifaii position-the chastity ot its columns being such as to bo un ofi'jnaivo alike t j tho most delicate sensibility or uncontaminated morals. Wo hope soon to sao its pleasant anJ wel? come faoo a^ain, brightor from its temporary absence. [From the Chasterfleld, 8. C., Democrat.] THE MEBCUB?. We have nrtssod this sterling representative of tho old Carolina Irom our sauctum. We are truly pained to think that the Mor? cury-a name associated with the past of our beloved Palmetto State, and with the men of intellectual ronown who mido it always the organ ot the good and trae Carolinians-may cease to ocoupy its wonted place among the journals of tho South. If patron ige will pre? vent such a result, let the citizens of South Carolina especially como to its support. It would bo a sad oomoientary upon their consis? tency of principle, and their fidelity to their friends, if they should not. But wo hope the suspension is meroly temporary. [From the Marion Crescent ] THE OHABLESTON MERCURY. The suspension of this high-toned journal and true exponent of Southern principles, -(as they should be, ) has occasion jd universal re? gret to the citizens of Charleston. The influence of the Charleston Mercury is wide-spread, not only in th South, but in thc North, and, at this juncture of our country's trials, wee could hardly spate an advocate so fearless and indopend ot. The Mercury has -t?? n a paper of great pow? er and influence in hu State, in fast in the South. It has had ', moat able men'as its editors, and many of the editorials of the pa? per have been master-pieces of composition enforcing tho political principles of whion it was the champion with unequalled ability Tb oso principles were such as are now over thrown by "tho will of tho nation"-State ng.itB, strict construction of the constitution and economy in the administration of tho gov? ernment. It is to bo hoped that tbe time is not distant when the Mercury will again resume publica tion. [From the Orangeburg News ] T EE CHARLESTON MEBOUBY. We regret to announce that this veteran journal has suspended publication. Tho expo nent, for a long series of years, of the political sentiments of tho old State Bights party of South Carolina, and in our darker days of late a fearless advocate of the cause of our oppress od and down-trodden people, its utterances have a ways struck a responsive chord in tho popular hean : and its masterly editorials have been as household words at many a fireside where patriot sires have taught their children to lovo tho old Palmetto State. A new rogime has boen established, sadly in contrast with our happy and prosperous past The sorf of yesterday, and the unprincipled advent u er from abroad, have usurped the places, which great and good mon once oceu pied to their own and their country's honor. The Mercury, over in sympathy with all that was good and noble in our State, has shared in its adversity, as it was once identified with its glory, and has become a part of that historic past, when ''Carolina fu%t.v Don Piatt relates that a distinguished member of Congress called on President Lin com one night soon after his first inauguration aud ton nd him immersed iu a pile of papers concerning a postofflce tu a small town i Ohio. "Glad to see you, sit down," he cried "Here's a little office I ha.-e filled and unfilled a dozen times." "Can I be of any sei vice to you, Mr. President ?" "Oh, I guess not; fact is, I had just made up my mind to give it to the fellow whose papers weigh tho most. That as good a way as any-so here goes." Tb papers were weighed, and the lucky applicant l aving the heaviest lot of molecap received the appointment. J^D WARD DALY, GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT, Ko. 8? Warren-street* NEW YORK. PERSONAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO THE PUR CII\SE of all kinds ot MKRcH . Ni) I SE. Boots Shoes, Hats. Ca s and Trunk V, and Straw Goods specialty. Consignments of all kinds of Staple Articles and general Produce solicited. Prompt returns guaranteed. \ EDWARD DALT, Late of Charleston, 8. C. Weekly Price Currents eont fro? by post. Jannary 28 DAo Cmos J T. HVMPURUYH, BROKER, AUCTIONEER AND COMMIS? SION MERCHANT. HALES OF BEAL ESTAI B, KTOUE8, BONDS, BE curan EH AND PERSONAL PROPERTY ATTENDED TO. flo.. 587 BROAD'STRBBT, CHARLESTON, g. XXirXBXMOXS. Hon. HENRY BUIST, W. J. MAGRATH, Eeq., General JAMBS CONKER, T. B. WARINA. Esq. OeteVer ^ylLLJS ?ft CHIBOLM, FACTORS, COMMISSION MERCHANTS aim SHIPPING AOBNTS, WILL ATTEND TD THE PURCHASE, SALE AND SHIPMENT (to Foreign and Domestic Port?) of OOTTON, BICE, LUMBER AND NAVAL 8TOR?B ATLANTIC WHARE, Charleston, 9. O. B.WILLIS.A. B. CB?60LM. October 25 t EXCURSIONS AIIOUSIDTIIK HAliROK. THE FINK. FAST HAILING AND 0OM FORT ABLY appoiuted Yacht ELEANOR .will resumo her trip< to historic poiuts lo ithe harbor, and will le.ive Government Wh<urf dady at Ten A. M. and Three P. M. Foi Passage apply to 1 HOM AS YOUVG. Dccemoar 18 Sato C?ptala, o.i board, PI?? BOSTON. THU! PACKET STEAMSHIP AL ?*5XI ANCE, TILLSEN Master, will have ""'dispatch, after arrival, tor til? above For engagements apply to H. F. BAKER k CO., _February 23 2_No. 2 I Cumberland-,,-! root. KAMT KU|,;I?UT UlN K TO AND FROM BALTIMORE, PHILADEL? PHIA, WASHINGTON CITY, WILMINGTON DEL., CINCINNATI, OHIO, ST. LOUIS. Mo. AND OTHER N O RT II WES I ERN CITIES.-? LEAVING EACH POUT hVERY 5TH DAY. FALCON... .JESSE D HORJET. nominan 1er. SKA GULL.N. P. Du ero N. Com utnder. MARYLAND.J. V. JOHNSON, Commander. ^'4~*<xm TUK FAVORITE AND SWIFT /.^*'TW''?A?.8to?mB,1,r FALCON, JESSE D. HOR "~^2^^'MTM 8KY Commander, will ?ail for Bal ti s?SmssskWiSiLm more on THURSDAY, 25th instant, at 3 o'clock P. M., from Pier No I, Onion Wharves. I be SEA GULL, Captain DUTTON, will follow on 2d March. For Freight or passage, apply to COURTENAY A TRENHOLM. Fobruary 22 4 Union Wharves. FUR Bl KW YUUK. REGULAX LINE EVERY THURSDAY. PASSAOK RIGUUCED TO ?13. THE SIDEWHEEL STEAMSHIP ; MAGNOLIA, Captain CaoWELX, wiU leave V-inderhorct's vVnart on THURS DAT, February 25th, at 4 ??'?luck P. RAVEN BL k CO., Agents. FOR PHILADELPHIA . *r.-3?, THE STEAMSHIP PROMBTHE t??TSfc US, Cap alu A. H. GRAY, will leave X/Mm North Atlantic Wnarf tor Philadel ? nhia on ?UESDAY AVTEOHOOK, Feb? ruary 23 at - o'cloek. insurance can bu obtained on this steamer at % per cent For Freight apply to JOHN & THEO. GKTTY, February 22 2 North Atlantic Wharf. KO ll LIVERPOOL. CHARLESTON AND LIVERPOOL STEAMSHIP LINE. THE FIR>T-CLAS8 IRON SCREW kyf'l* Steamship GOLDEN H--RN, R. J. 'BLACKGIN Mastor, having one-half . her eargo engaucd and going on board, will meot with dispatch for the above port to sail ou or about the 20th ins ant. For Freight engagements npply to February 9 ROBT. MU HE k CO. TU AV KtK RS IMSSI\? TOilOUQi! CHARLESTON KN ROC fETO FLORIDA, UKE>! Oz-rT^SM Aud otlter pinces, should not fa! -- L 'ttWTjSL to lay in tueir supplies of riiOVIS . iC^Mv^Kmr^ IONS, CLARETS, CHAMPAGNES ^S^3MS?tLm CORDIALS, BRANDIES, WUIb KIES, WINKS. CANNED MEATS, SOUPS, kc. Pate? of Wild Gamo. Deviled Entremets, Ham, Tor kev, Lobster, etc., for Luncheons, lan-i wlches, Travelers' Rspast, kc. fcg-tiand for a catalogue. WM. S. CORWIN & CO., No. 275 King-atreei, Between Wentworth and Bcaufain, Charleston, 8. C. Branch of No. OOo Broa Away, corner 20th etreui, New York. _Octob?r28 PACIFIC MAU. STEAMSHIP OUMPY'J THEOUQH LIN*. TO CALIFORNIA. CHINA AND JAPAN. FREIGHT AND PASSAGE AT GREATLY RM DUC ED RATES I -?-<--?:v"-? allCAllbKS OF THE ABOVJ? ' *?^TLto lmo lea,e Mer Na- *2> N?rtb Blvor, ?Jf&T?2??flSA^ foot ot Canal-street, Now York, a 'I.TI ^'IW""!. 12 o'clock uoou, of tho Ut. ?th, 16th and 24th of every month (except when these dates fall en Sunday, then the Saturday preceding). Departure of 1st and 24th connect at Panama with steamers for South Pacific and Central American ports. Those of 1st touch at Manzanillo. Departure of 9th ol each month connects with the new steam line from Panama to Australia and New Zealand. Steamship GREAT REPUBLIC leaves 3an Fran? cisco fer China and Japan April 3, 1869. No California steamers touoh at Havana, but gc direct from New York to AspfnwalL One hundred pounds baggage free to each adult. Medicine and attendance free. For Passage rickets or further Information *WQ.ll at the COMPANY'S TICKET OFFICE, on the wharf., foot of Canal-street, North River, New York. March 14 lyr F. R. HAUY, Agent. FOU, JE DISTO. ROCKVILLE, ENTERPRISE, HUTCHINSON AND FENWICK ISLANDS AND WAK LANDINGS. oiiT-'te. THE SiEAMER ST. HE tRNA, r'iS^'Biii ?" ''*!TI " JAM KS G. RUMLEY, will re ceive Freight I HIS DAY and leave TO-MOBROW MOW? ING at 2 o'clock, and Edisto SATURDAY MORNING at 2 o'clock. For Freight or Passage apply on bourd or to JOHN H MURRAY, Maruet Wharf. The Steamer loaves again MONDAY MORNING al 8 o'clock, and Edisto same day at 2 o'clock P. M. February 24 1* INLAND KOUTB. THROUGH TICKETS TO FLORIDA . CHARLESION AND ?WANN AH Si'U-AM PACKET LINE, VIA EDISTO, BEAU* OR I AND HILTON HEAD, CONVECTIVO WITH THE ATLANTIC ANO GULF IIA1LRO i D AND CONNECTIONS FOR ALL POINTS IN FLORIDA. <- */flT***h, 'rBE PINE, FA?T STEAMER ? f&M^S?'* l-li-OT DOY. captain FENN I'BCK. will leave Charleston en Mo >UAY aud 1 nunsDAY MOB?. IN08 at Fight o'clock lt, fuming, will leave av tunah ') UKHDAY MORNINGS at tight o'clock, and FULDA Y AFTERNOON at Two o'clock, ton bin,* vt ltd tato on THURSDAY trip from Charleston, at ittov.m A. M., and leaving Edisto at Niue A. M , SATURDAYS, O-I re? turn trip. The steamer will touch at Cbl-olm's, each way ovcrv two weeks, commencing with trip of Febru? ary lbth. For Freight or Passago apply to JOHN F ERGO SON, February 16 Accomm 'dation Wharf. FOR PALATHA, Ki.OH . OA, VIA SAVANNAH, F a BN ANDINA AND JACKSON VILLE. -> ^??T**^* THK FIBaT-OABB STEAMER j ^.-^fia^,, OTC r ATOR, Captain L. M. COXBTTEB, will sail from Charleston ever. Tuesday Evening, at Eight o'clock, tor the above points. The first-class Steamer OiTY POINT, Captain WM. ,T. MONELTY, will tail from Charleston every Satur? day Evening, at Eight o'clock, tor above points. Connecting with the Central Railroad at Miva.mah for Mobile and New Orleans, and with the Florida Railroad at Fernandina for Cedar Keys, at which feint steamer* connect with New Orleans. Mobile, ensac?la. Key >v est and Havana. Through Bills Lading given for Freight to Mobile, Pensacola and New Orleans. Moth steamers connecting with H. S. Hart's steam - crs Oclawaha and Griffin for Silver Springs and Lakes, Griffin, Eustts, Harris and Durham. All freigK o'lyabie on the wharf. Gooda not removed at suaset will be stared at risk and expense of owners. For Freight or Passage engagemoi t, apply to J. D. AIKEN * Co., agents. xmth Atlantic Wharf. N. P.-No extra charge for Meals and staterooms. November 21 rrOLMB? & MACBETH, No? 30 Broad-street, Charleston, ft. c., BROKERS, AUCTIONEERS, REAL ESTAT k AND GENERAL COMMISSION A OE NTS. Will atttend to Renting and Consettng of vents md purchase and aa'o of ?toeKS, Bonds, Gold, shiver and Heal Estai e. ALSO, To tho Purchase of Good? oed supplies for parlies In the country upon reasonible : erm?. GKOSOE L. HOLMES.ALEX AND EU MACBETH. Ja!>u>ryl ljr F. H, TRKNHOliM. No. 1 BROAD-STREET, oaaauBSTOH, so, MINER, SHIPPER AND DEALER nt SOM tl* Carolina Native Bots? Pfeeepliutev January ll Sm os Gr BO. H. MUFPOCH, FACTOR AHD ? o y; MlSSiO" MERCHANT,. ACCOMMODATION WHARF, Charleston, S. C. P. GADSDSX HABBLL. ?moa September 21