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VOLUME VIII.-NUMBER 1255. CHARLESTON, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 1869. SIX DOLLARS A YEAR. WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, December 29. The Mexican Commission have as yet made no legal decisions; intact, thc court is not yet organized, au umpire being absent-Cushiug, who represents Mexico, objecting to the Amerton, and Ashton, who represents America, objecting to the Mexican nominee. Thc nomination ol i umpire has beeu referred to the Knglish Minister, Thornton. This morning's Chronicle says: "The state? ment from this city to the New York Tribune, and published in that paper of yesterday, impu? ting certain views and purposes on the Cuban question to the President, Mr. Fish, Secretary of State, and Senator Sumner, is. in all its asser? tions and inferences, utterly without founda? tion." The statement alluded to ls as follows: There comes a report in reference to Cuba from such a well-informed and usually trustworthy source, that your correspondent does not feel at liberty to disregard it, although it is so important and unlooked for that he does not feel at liberty to credit it. lt is to the effect that the adminis? tration has now under earnest consideration the propriety of changing its course with reference tituba, and speedily recognizing the belligerent rights of the insurgents. This course is impelled by the evident feeling of the people of thc country, . and the temper of the majority in Congress. Thc report further states that Secretary Fish and Sen? ator Sumner have expresser:, within three days past, such views as would indicate a changing policy toward the Cubans, and a higher confl? uence in their future. The President has been In? formed by leading Republicans in Congress that the country ls greatly dissatisfied at the Cuban policy of the administration, and one of the lead? ers of the House assured the President that lt would be Impossible to prevent in Congress severe criticism of the position assumed in the message when the holidays were over, unless some early and favorable action were taken on the Cuban subject. In further evidence of the probability of the change Indicated, Senator Sumner has assured a gentleman of high position that he was prepared to sustain the recognition of Cuba as soon as he became convinced that that republic was committed to emancipation. In the same Interview, the senator intimated that he was now more favorably Impressed on that point. The administration ls in possession of official copies of President C?spedes' proclamation of ' November 30, and of detailed accounts of the ope? rations of the Cuban army under Gen. Cubadas, the favorable character of which documents may have had some effect. The foregoing information is not derived from Coban sources ; no member of the Junta, or any agent thereof, so far as ts known in the city. But if the information indi? cated in this dispatch is worthy of belief, as it ap? pears to be, there is little doubt that the govern? ment will soon accord the rights of belligerency to the Cubans. The writer, however, does not vouch for the statements, but transmits them on account of their Importance. THE COTTON CHOP. WASHINOTON, December 29. The report of the Agrlct?tural Bureau Just ont makes the cotton crop 2,700,000 commercial bales, fully equal to 3,000,000 bales of 4O01bs. each. A NEW VIRGINIA BILL. i. RICHMOND, December 29. The State Central Committee of the Radical seceder* will submit a bill to Congress providing that the Legislature shall meet and take only the oath prescribed in the Fourteenth amendment, and after electing State efflcers and judges shaU adjourn and submit iu> work to Congress, upon whose approval the State shall be admitted. SPARKS PROM TBE WIRES. The revenue yesterday was $320,000. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Richardson goes out of once positively on January 1. Senator Pratt, of Indiana, has resigned. It is now said that the decreaae In the pablic debt hardly reaches $3,090,000. It was about $40.000,000 a little while ago. It ls reported that Postmaster Caswell has contracted with the Williams and Onion and National steamship line for carrying tue Atlantic mails. A large number of vessels, with cargoes from fereign ports, have arrived at Kew Orleans; among them thc new steamship Statesman, of thc New Orleans and Liverpool line. Dr. James Dove, or Richmond, ls dead. The Richmond Chamber of Commerce have pe? titioned Congress to release from the payment or the revenue tax whiskey or tobacco which may be destroyed by fire or burnt. A NEW DISESTABLISHMENT. . K [NESTON. JAMAICA, Deeembcr 30. The passage of the Church Disestablishment bill haring disendowed many clergymen, they have resorted te manual labor for a livelihood. [This looks like a canara. Wc know of no Jfcurch disestablishment In Jamaica, whatever there may be in Ireland. And the dispatch is date* December 30.] THINGS IN CLARENDON. Miscegenation-Robbery-A Kew Reli? gion. [FROM OCl OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MANNING, December 27. We have had heavy and continued rains for the last five days, and ?toe country ls almost del? uged with water. Christmas passed away as quietly as any other day, nothing unusual having occurred beyond the popping of a few fire-crack- 1 era by the juveniles. A tournament ls repot ted to take place here to- 1 morrow, but from present indications thc weather l will be inauspicious for this time-honored amuse? ment. ^ Recently a white woman in Plowden's Mills 1 Township, in this county, was married to a negro 1 man named Johnson, who, under General-Govern? or Scott's administration, is figuring here as magistrate. The same negro has been charged with forgery, but I suppose that would be rather ; a recommendation than otherwise to the carpet- 1 bag autocrat who wields the sceptre over our ? State. i The negroes have started some kind of an or- 1 ganizatlon here of a religious (?) character, In \ whtCS Qn\j females are allowed to officiate-the | membership being composed or the same sex. 1 Your correspondent has not yet been able to And \ oat the specific purpose vf this new association. ? A Yankee freedman's bureau agent, named 1 '.Bigger,'' bad lils horse stolen from him in the , nt et sma' hours of last night, by, lt is snpposed, 1 one of his former proteges. How ungrateful, to ' steal from his benefactor : No doubt the said J agent has been murmuring ever since he discov- j ered the then, " El tu Brute.'' The negroes have held various labor meetings j here, but 110 result has as yet been attained ? which will enable them to do aothing and get j $2 per day for lt. 1 I wrote yon at length a month since, and hav- l ing seen no publication or my letter or extract ' thererrom in TUE NEWS; have concluded the ?aid letter failed to arrive at its destination. , FRANZ. , [We regret that the letter spoken or by our cor- . respondent did not reach us-ED. NEWS.] CHINESE IMITATIVENESS.-His Imitativeness 1 is well illustrated by the current story that once, when emploved as u cook, he saw his mis? tress break fjur eggs, throwing one away be? cause it was bad, and dropping thc three others luto a pudding, and he never afterwards made a pudding himself without first carefully breaking one egg and throwing it away. Herc is another ex? ample: A San Francisco lady hired a Chinese boy who spoke no English. The Chinese keeper of \ the intelligence Oflloe said to her. '-Just lellee ; him once what you likec him do every day, and 1 every day he go'right along and do it." The next morning when the lad carne she pointed out to him his various duties Hom cellar toJgarrct. I When these were all done she noticed that thc i glass of the transom over thc front door was soiled, 1 and, showing him thc stepladder, made signs Tor | him to clean it. This done, ho ?as dismissed. I Bathe cleaned that glass again the next day. : and the next, and thc next. At first she fancied 1 that he had found some defect in the work of the ' first afternoon, and wished to make lt perfect: 1 hut she soon saw that he regarded it as a part of I his dally dut v. All her attempts to explain trie 1 matter'to him proved fruitless, and she was < finally obliged to go back to the intelligence office < and have thc keeper of lt to instruct th*, boy 1 that the transom was to be cleaned not every < day, but only when it grew dirty.-From the last ' article itrttlen t'y A. D. Rlchar&tm. 1 HO JIJE S FOR THE HOMELESS. PRUE PARUS FOR WHITE SETTLERS. Important Meeting of Landowners. Pursuant io public notice, a meeting of Hie. proprietors of land was hold on thc2in instant, at the store of Colonel J. E. Jandon, in Rasa ar ville, three miles sonta jr Robertville. On mo? tion, Colonel Jandon -vas unanimou?ly invited to the chair, and Mr. Wm. Tison requested to ac: as secretary. After the objects of thc meeting-for the pur? pose of obtaining immigrants and labor for this important section-were clearly stated, on mo? tion, a committee of three was appointed (Wm. F. Robert, John Royles and Colonel E. Carroll) to prepare and present to thc meeting a report in accordance with Its objects. On which the fol? lowing report was presented, read and adopted. There wxs no objection made, except Colonel C and others thought our proceedings should W* private; that all were willing to donate land? and make any sacrifices to obtain labor, but that we should so manage as not to let the negroes know it. The report was as follows: Your committee beg leave lo say, Hui tue? had previously considered and now present to you three conditions-(as published in thc Kural Caro? linian, December number)-as proper in donat? ing our lands to immigrants: 1st. That we will donate laaJs of a: least aver? age quality, and with a due proportion or arable land, to European farm hands. Immigrants to occupy the lands IOT live years; Improve them, and at the end of that time, if they sell at all, the sale most bc made to other Immigrants. Besides, If the ocenpaut has no means, he must work for the proprietor for thc llrst six months, for the usual wages, or two days in the week during thc year, and if at the end "of that time hedo' snot improve his land, he must go on sud work for douator, and Sd. Donee to have no dealings or intercouse with any of the African race. ad. That so long as the ignorant negro sits upon a Jury lu Beaufort County, donees mast never re? sort to law, except through Inexorable necessity, but must settle all disputes, through arbitration ?ourts established in every township or neigh boruood. Your committee cannot but believe that the landholders in this, formerly thc wealthiest, fair? est and best portion or our whole State, uow des? olate and* ruined, were to donate at least three fourths of their now valueless lands, they would ultimately be great gainers. Few (losers would object-perhaps none-to thc first ana third con? ditions. Nor can your committee conceive why any honest Hnropean yeoman would object to thc second condition. Why should such an ene wish to deal with the negro, whose theft, practi? cally not punishable here, would destroy the value of the lands reserved, and greatly impair that of the lands donatsd r Bvcry case or larceny bas to be tried at the courthouse on Beaufort Island, fifty-five miles distant from here. Who can af? ford to go there and carry ais witnessest After hs gets there he finds his case has to be tried by a negra jury. We see around us innumerable thefts committed; cotton-houses, etock,- every thing eas? ily movable, even wheels robbed from wagous; yet all say it ls worse than useless to go to Beau? fort with a case, and consequently uo white man about hero will prosecute a case of larceny. None would therefore bc more beucfitted by the second condition than the honest immigrant, lt may seem like too great a restriction upon liberty or privilege, so-called; bot the donee should not look thc valuable gift-horse in the mouth, and re? member that lands are not donated abroad, and if he wishes to deal aud traffic with thieves, they can buy for a pittance of $10 per acre "land and liberty" at the same time-lands that with effi? cient labor wonld soon sell for $00 per acre, or more. Your committee fully believe that if wc could obtain along the gulf coast a million or two of Asiatic laborers of the Mongol race these ruined and desolated sections would soon bc restored to more than their former prosperity, great as it was; and wc further suggest to you to memorial? ize the Congress of thc Onited States to Import such laborers for which the planters could mortgage their lands anil crops, and soon repay sll advances with Interest. Your committee fully believe Chinese farm hands are far more skilful, energetic and efficient laborers than thc negro ever was in the cotton ami rice fields-that they can live ac. J bc easily satis fled on vegetable diet; CRU Staffa any climate, and can and would do in this climate what a white man cannot do and the negro will not. Such an accession of labor would not benefit us directly alone, but eventually thc whole country. As wc are now situated, it would have been better for thc greater part of this country had Congress confiscated onr waste, heavily-taxed lands nt thc same time the laborers were emancipated. This assertion ls easily proved by our tax books: by the sickening ruin and desolation around us; by thc fact that there ls not, iu two thirds of the country, the oue hundredth part now cultivated that was before the war, and that little is but nominally tendcd-=not enough even to destroy the broom grass in thc growing crops-and the negro constantly deteriorating In every respect. All of which is respectfully submitted. After the above report was read and adopted, the land proprietors cams forward and agreed to donate lands as follows: William F. Robert, 3000 acres; T. C. Bolar, 2000 acres; John Boyles (half of all he ha<?.) 130 acres: John Boyles (for neury Brabham.) 100 acres; Robert Sauls (one-fourth,) to acres; J. E. Jandon, 100 acres; Colonel Carroll, 100 acres; Reuben Tison, 2000 acres; WaR. Tison, 200 acres. . Many others are williup to donate, bot wish to do so privately, and many, from short notice, were unable to attend the meeting. PEDDLING PARDONS. Why the Disabilities of Southern Men ?rr not Rr mo veil. i'MacK'" wrltoe from Washington to the cin? cinnati Enquirer : People must not misunderstand the motives of Congress in refusing to grant a general amnesty, and preferring to pass bills every now and then Riving pardons to specially-named individuals. This course is pursued for a purpose baser and more vile than mere politics. Not alone that they are thus enabled to drum up recruits for the Re? publican parly In the South by excluding all who lean to the Democratic parly from the privilege of amnesty. The chief object ls to keep open th? door for corruption and bribery, a general amnesty would yield no mo? ney; individual amnesties can be, and ol ten are, made a source of revenue to the men who deal them out. 1 cannot say positively that any mem? ber of Congress has been paid directly for secur? ing thc insertion of a name in an amnesty bill, but I can say that persons have paid as high as lioo for that privilege. The money is paid to the influential friends or Radical members of the Re? construction Committee; and l take it that this (tate of affairs is uot entirely unknown to those members. Men come here from the South to get their disabilities removed. They want to be eli? gible for Office of some kind. They are very soon tlirectcd to some one who can have their names in? serted in thc next bill, and for this Insertion they ire willing to pay liberal:)". Their money is taken tor do I believe lt all goes ?'uio ?a pockets of he men v ' o first received lt. These are facts of which cve.y member of Congress is aware. Time iras when the mere suspicion of this truth would nave called for a searching Investigation. But corruption stalks so shamelessly abroad, and so lienetrates every department of the government now-from thc ' Executive who sells his Cabinet positions to the highest bidder, to thc bureau chiefs ivho extort dollar donations from the starving clerks under them-that lt is dangerous to start an inquiry, because lt is Impossible to tell where it ?.ill stop or to what it will lead. One of these lays the people will wakeup to thc fact that grea? ter crimes maj b>- committed against a nation by [nieves disguised in the livery of loyalty than by ?rave men wearing openly the uniform of r? tielllon. i i i ? -The New York Herald ot Monday says : "At eleven o'clock yesterday morning a panic oc? curred in St. James Roman Catholic Church, itt Jame* street, which fortunately resulted lu no se? rious injury to life or property. At the above liour a quantity of evergreens in the gallery, near the organ, took fire from a gas jet, which belair observed by some timid person, the alana of fire ivas raised. The wildest confusion for a short time prevailed, the congregation leaving their seats, besides many jumping from the galleries to the aisles beneath,in their effort to escape from the edifice. Detective Mahoney, or the Fourth precinct, being in Hie church, mounted a tailing ind warned the people to keep their seat* as there was no immediate danger, which had ilia effect ar restoring the panic-stricken audience io their lenses, none of whom were injured. The fire WHS olutost Immediately extinguished by thc firemen." -Asecret touching the fall lu printed muslins lias Just leaked out. Spraguc,of Providence, bas n ms employ a young Cern?an named Praff, who not long ago Invented u method by which thc printing of cotton cloth in the Providence mills [s done at a saving nf from one tu two cents n rai d. While engaged in his experiments he made t discovery of still greater importance, wherein the bleaching, which now requires rorly-oighl hours, may bc thorougtilj completed in much ess than one boor. These discoveries enable Sprague to undersell a- other manufacturers of calicoes and give bira virtually the control J? thc market. PrafTs Industry and prudi cai scientific knowledge aave already been liii i-rally rewarded ; l-.it lt is said that his share ia he result of tue valuable discoveries lw lias jiade w;:i bc little ?LOI i cf ?4 ooo. wo. OUR ENG Li SH COUSINS. English View* of thc President's Mes? sage-The Question oT Sentimental Grievance.-Thc Extent of English Sympathy with thc North-Vo Sym? pathy witta the Present Attitude. Tom Hughes, the well-known author of ..Tom fJrown at Oxford," is now one of the flng lish correspondents of the New York Tribune. In hi? last letter he says: Your President's message ba? of course been the chief item of foreign news with us in the past week. His review of the progress of reconstruc? tion, and of the rapid advance of thc freedmen throughout the South,has only confirmed nie views of all well-informed people here; and the official announcement of your continuing and increasing prosperity gives us, as a nation, very siuccre pleasure. When f say this, three-fourths of your readers probably winnot believe me, nevertheless I state nothing lint the fact; and that I may not bc acidised of writing only what 1 think will jilease you, let ute turn to that part of the message which refers to the unsettled claims between us. Ido uot the least blame your President for putting the case as he does, for I am sorry to admit that he is only the faithful mouthpiece in so doing of the nation he represents; but I do say tha' Uv this time, there ought to be among you nt least a mi? nority which can make its voice heard, ready to look at th? ?utieron both sides. What is this "great wrong wholly unatoned for," which is always assumed by every writer and speaker among you. and which "a sensitive people conscious or its power" is brooding over, and Measuring up, against some great day of reckoning, I presume. That wc might have stopped the Alabama and didn't, we have admit? ted for all practical purposes; for no serious statesman or writer has maintained the contrary 6iuce the excitement of the war has cooled down. We formally agreed to pay whatever damages may bc awarded on this account, or on any other that yon like to bring into question: aud it was no doing of ours thal thc agreement was set aside. Your whole case is conceded, so Tar as pecuniary compensation goes; ror you don't seri? ously ask us to pay without a referen oe to arbitra? tion. What other atonement ?lo you want* Well, I am told, both by American friends, aud over aud over again by our press, that the teal griev? ance is sentimental; that your feelings are in? jured; that you want apologies. Now, 1 really must maintain thal if we orctu confine ourselves toseatltaent we have our grievance too. bet me put the case as it appears to us, and when 1 say "us," 1 speak not ouly of thc great masses or our people, but of a large body of educated men, in? cluding even a fair sprinkling of the aristocracy, Who fought your battle here from thc lirst days of thc war. When thc news of thc rebellion came I quite ad? mit timi what is commonly called the Loudon world, or society so called, and the rich section of our middle class, were delighted. They, and their representatives In our press, were only loo glad io set up the cry Unit democracy had broken down again, a:.d "to rejoice, not quite so openly but without tho. least feeling of compunction or shame, that what they called your " overgrown power" should be broken, and so a serious danger, as they thought for longland in the future, avert? ed. That section of the nation can always make its voice beard first ami loudest. It bas, or had nine years ago, possession Of that portion Of thc preis which has most prestige abroad. The utmost use was made of this vantage ground; but now, look fairly at what it effected, and hov the case was met in England. From the very first the United States had the staunch ad? vocacy of the soundest portion of our press. Of thc two leading and most influential weeklies, thc Spectator fought for you al thc risk of abso? lute ruin, for its circulation ls chiefly among the very class which was most unfriendly, and whose pr?judices were faithfully represented by the Saturday Review aud the Times. In the same way the Dally News and the Morning Star never faltered for h moment, and R great number of the best provincial Jouruah took np und steadily maintained your cause, especially after the ap? pearance of President Lincoln's proclamai iou. If, again, you like to appeal from the press and from anonymous writers to those who wrote and spoke In their own names, the case in ffnr favor is at least as .-drong. Carlyle and Ruskin may bc quoted perhaps as strong "syro;. uhlzcrs with the rebelllou, but they never wroW deliberately and seriously on ihe subject, and no oilier authors of note, so far as I remember, openly took the same side. Surely Mill, and Str-'Ormrlcs Lyall, and Coldwlu Smith ought to neutralize these two names: and Calmes'admirable volume, published in the first year or the war, and putting your case as strongly us you could wish, was never answered, and remains the most effective Eng? lish publication touching the gn at struggle. Or look at Parliament. Not only was uo vote hostile to you ever given, but the friends of the re? bellion never dared even to take a division, und Mr. Gregory, the member from (?alway, a comparatively unknown mau, was the most weighty polltlciau who openly advocated In? terference, while such men "as bright and Forster were always ready to answer bim. Even in thc House of Lords the great majority of the peers. If they were at heart unfriendly io you, at least kept their own counsel, and when you were notoriously represented by such men as thc Duke or Argyll, and Lords Granville, Kimberley and Houghton, who made no secret or their sympa? thies with the North, I can't think you have any right lo be sore. You will say thal the foremost man of our Liberal purty, Mr. Gladstone, spoke publlely of Mr. Jefferson bavin as having made a nation. Hut he has as publicly owned his mis? take, and done justice "to the steadfastness and heroism of the people of the Northern States. What more can you ask or a public man t Out?ldc the Houses or Parbam-nt and thc club world our case ls even stronger. When yonr reverses at the beginning of the wur were crowding on you fast and thick, and even Lowell was writing In six mon'hs where'll thc people be. Ef leaders look on revolution Ez though il was a cup or tea Jest social elements lu solution ? Ute Southern sympathisers here talked lng about testing popular feeling in England by public meet? ings, and appealed to thc coito.i operatives, and thc working class generally, to protect again-1 a war which was causing them very severe suffer? ing. What w;u the answer ! 1 have been at many public meetings in London lu the last twenty years, but I have never seen one approaching in numbers or enthusiasm thal which Hooded Exeter Hall, filling not only the great Concert Koom, und every other public room In the building, bu the neighboring streets, in reply to that challenge. In all that vast crowd, broken np as lt was into six or seven public meetings, there was but one feeling or hearty and thorough sympathy with you. and confidence that the Union would be saved, mid slavery abolished, ll did thc business once for all for thc metropolis. True, there were no lords, or eminent public men, among the speaker-, but surely you, of all people, are not going to take np thc old aristocratic gronnd, and ask, "have any of the Scribes and Pharisees be? lieved r" Those who malign you most among us say, that is precisely what you do care for; that the sympathy you long for is thal of our line gen? tlemen and ladles, ll un key Ism being as rampant with you as with us. We don't believe them; bu; shall never silence them till we can show thai you appreciate the fact that nearly all the brains and heart of Kngland were on your side. Well, us I said just now, the first m -cting really settled the question in London, and the able and active agents of thc rebels, backed by thc majority las I readily allow) of our upper classes, never "dared trv thc experiment of a public meeting, in Lan? cashire thc attempt was made, and was a ludic? rous failure, while thc Union and Emancipation Society of Manchester held largo ftml euthasUu ic meetings every where In the midst or the poor, "demurring" operatives, who never for a mo? ment flinched from their principles, and every? where sternly refused to lin a finger or pass a resolution which helped or encouraged thc slave power. Some good folks say, all that may bc true, but still a young nation. Intimately related by blood and language to au elder one-so inti? mately indeed thal for any purposes, except gov? ernment, they arc scarcely lo be distinguished is justified in expecting consideration and sympa? thy from precisely-1 hat portion of tho elder which on your own showing was most hostile in this case-that ls. lo say, from the most cultivate?! classes. So I think, too, and so we not only thought, but said, for four years, and said as plainly, even as fiercely, as you could have spo? ken yourselves. You seem lo forget that this very nearness ol blood io the actors roused men's pas? sions here almost as strongly as if we b ut been in the fight ourselves. Your war divided us mon sharply luau thc Corn law or Reform questions, and ifiere was much more strong personal feel? ing excited, and linne old friendships were loos? ened, tuan by both tuc others put together. We then urged these suuie argument*, and taunted Southern sympathisers here willi thc hollowness of their miscalled culture, widen hindered them (rom recognizing Hie nobleness of work, and of a young na:ion of tin ir own stock lighting a great batilu for equal rights lieforcthv law, and made Ihcui sympathize with Hie side which gloried in the very worst kind of aristocratic traditions. Rut it i's lime that this plea nf elder and younger should be dropped. "Maxima d?betnr pawls j revcreiitia" is un excellent rule, bal it doesnl ap? ply now. Tu quote Mr. Lowi M again, wi:!,out ad? mitting thc latter superlative: ..Earth*.? bigge.-: country* gather soul, and risen np earth's great? est nation.*' You are at least as rich, as sinnig, as p?puloas a- we are. and hive buen proved by a fiery trial. <>f;::i ti:;s you ??re per? fectly aware, anil you would promptly mid riga: ly resent a nv attempt lo trent you ?m any other looting titan thal ol iierfect t quals. Por your own sakes and for the sake ?. your friends le iv and j clcwhwe, ll is lim? that you look this pori-tmi quietly ?u l definitely, and I?UVC up a-klngor looking for apologies willeri you yourselves would j be Hie last nation ::t ti: - world '.? give if any other required tbeal of von. 1 have enured a: | grf-uter length lute this nutter than I I ut in-j leaded, r.n.t sa:? more than 1 ever did ivfoit on . Hie subject, but lt iliil seem to me hlRti time that your people should know that the warmest friends of your couutry among us do not not sympathize the least with your atti? tude on the subject ol our differences, keep them open If you please, as you have a perfect right to do. lt ls undoubtedly more inconvenient for us than for you that they should be kept open, and therefore, possibly from the point of view of politicians, your government is bound to get all the advantage lt. can out of the position. Hut let this be done on its merits; and if you could let us see that after five years some of you at least are able to recognize, if not to appreciate, what rerrtly happened over here whjlu the great struggle went on, lt would very much rejoice all of us who are jealous for thc name, and loyally hopeful for the future, of thu great Anglo-Saxon Republic. THE OCEAN CABLES. Important Proposal by President brant. The difficulties and disputes which have arisen in connection with the laying of foreign cables on our shores, have determined President Grant to propose that all thc maritime powers of the world held a joint convention for the purpose of establishing un international agreement of protection and neutrality for ocean cables. The President has, with this view, caused the follow? ing circular letter of instractions to be prepared and sent to all the ministers and diplomatic agents of this government in other countries: DEPAKTEBST OF STATE, | WASHINGTON, November IS, isca, j sir-The President thinks the present moment favorable for the negotiation of a joint conven? tion by thc maritime powers of the world for the protection of submarine cables. The L'nlted States have a peculiar interest in fostering the construction of these Indispensable avenues of intelligence, ?iud in protecting them against wanton injury. Its domains extend iront ocean to ocean, and'its commerce |?Cs al regular in? tervals alike from the . rts of the Atlantic and of the Cacilie to the pori? of Enropcand of Asia. Its citizens ou the shorenof both oceans are in constant communication with each oilier across the Continent, both by the rail and the telegraph. Thisceutral position in alic commerce or the world eutitles the United'States to initiate t his movement for the common benefit of the com? merce and civilization of all. The features which the President desires to Incorporate into the pro? posed convention are: first. Suitable provisions for the protection of such cable lines, tn time of peace and of war, against wilful or wanton destruction or Injnry. we have seen during the present year the sub? marine cable connecting Cuba with thcL'uitcd States severed, and communication through ll in? terrupted. The President proposes to prevent similar destruction and injury hereafter, by a joint declaration that such acts shall bu deemed to be acts of piracy, and punished as such. Second.-Suitable provbious to encourage the future construction of such Unat. Experience has already shown that the assumption by one nation to control the connections with thc shores of another, will lead to complications that may, un? less arranged, result lu preventing all direct tele? graphic communication between the two coun? tries. The President deems that this can bc best prevented in future, by preventing that hereafter no exclusive concession shall bo made without the joint action or the two governments whoso shores aru to be connected. In this way, thc capital ol both countries will be enlisted, and at thu same time possible causes of differences will bc re? moved. Third. Provisions against scrutiny of messages by government officials. The President thinks that the right to establish sucha scrutiny in favor of the power controlling cither cud of the cable is calculated to lead to trouble, and had, therefore, better be prevented. A draft of a convention embodjing these points has been prepared, and is herewith enclosed, lt will be understood, however, that this ls submit? ted simply as a basis for future discussion, should the leading powers concur witli the Uulted States lu considering thc subject one for international consideration and jurisdiction. Thu President desiree that the representatives at Washington or Great Britain, Prance, Portugal, Spain, Italy, North Germany, Austria, Russia, Belgium. Hol? land, Sweden and Norway, Denmark, Turkey, Greece, Venezuela, Brazil," the Argentine Con? f?d?ration, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Chill, may be empowered to enter Jointly ami .-iuiiiltaneonsty into negotiations with the United Sutes and with ?ach other, with a view of concluding a joint convention for the purposes hereinbefore referred to, and instruc? tions Identical with these arc issued to the repre? sentatives ol the United States at each or those powers. You will, upon the receipt of this, pro? pose to the cabinet or-, to give to its minis? ter at Washington powers to cuter into such ne? gotiations with the United Stales, ami with the representatives or such other powers as may be empowered for that purpose, and to conculde with them suchajoiat convent ion; and you arc at liberty, in your discretion, to furnish lottie Minister for foreign Affairs a copy of these lust rue? ll ms .md thrir enclosure. I am, sir. very respectfully, your obedient ser? vant, HAMILTON PISH. Secretary of state. CHEA l' COTTON. Tut Question of thc Day for Knglaiid The Views of a Protectionist. The well-informed London correspondent of the New York Times writes: Thu qnestlo:: of cheap cotton ls reit more and more to bu one of tile and death to Lancashire. Nothing else cati save Hie greatest manufactur? ing Interests in the United Kingdom. Thu Man? chester Cotton Supply Association lias been un? wearied in its inquines as to where cheap cotton can be had, but hitherto with uo success. Alge? ria ls loo dry ; Italy lias too many products; thc West Indies timi lt easier to raise coffee and su? gar; Brazil needs roan . and labor; Puru has the latter difficulty; Australia has good cotton re? gions, but. men will not work so near gold dig? gings for less than ten shillings u day; China a-ni Japan can raise plenty of cotton, but they have manufactories of their own, and have even carried off 200,000 bales lu a yea* from the Bom? bay market, when the price suited them. The lu? dia eottou is poor and dear; it can bc produced lu pretty large quautliles us long as thc price is high; when it falls the natives either spin it them? selves or stop producing. Egypt and Turkey can raise a good deal, and some of good quality, but Austria, near at hand, and Russia, are getting to be large consumers. After all, thu difficult? is not wholly in the sup? ply of the raw material. Prance, Switzerland ami Germany eau buy cotton in Liverpool, take it home, manufacture it ami Kemi it to Manchester for sale and make money by it. As long as that state of things exists, what is to save Lancashire? Take oil'your duties on cotton goods and they would serve you thu same. As thu world is now arranged, free trade means the devil take thc hindmost, and just at this moment Lancashire is thc hindmost. I am and always have been for free trade in the abstract. In thu concrete 1 don't see it. There will be universal free trade in the mil!.'Hmm. THE r.ritON BUSINESS. A Xtw Solution of (hr Mystery. An entirely new solution of the Byron mys? tery is furnished b\ a Writer in the Madras Mai!, who says that "Iiis father had it from one ol Lord Byron'.- most intimate friends." According to this lively correspondent, whose story wc find lu the Echo, .?Lord Byron, was, lu a sense, a de|il." Incredible as thu thing may seem to the t honan less, the handsomest man lu England had a su?ill tail, a pairof rudimentary horns, ami -hon, squab feet divided forwards iront thc instep into two paris, instead of bciUg furnished with toes. Be lore he was born his mother had been once great? ly terrified by seeing, when ut a very delicate state of health, thc celebrated picture of batan Spurned, ut the gallery nt La Haye, ai.d the result had been thc fashioning of her child lo sonn- extent after the monstrous lorin or which the sight caused her alarm, and or which thc continuous recollection could not be eiv.icc.I by any means known lu her physicians. At Hie i line sf ber confinement it was' at first suggested that the monstrosity should not ba suffered to live, bul Ht;! child's bi!;., a-a whole, n.is so perfectly shaped, and Iii? ?ace ? i wondrously beautiful, thai the sugges? tion was forthwith put aside, and Euglaud was not deprived or wliat was io become in due time one of its chiefest ornaments. Poor Lad} Byron never recovered wholly from the shock caused bj her discovery of what her husband really wa?; and partly through excess of imagination, part h in consequence of bad advice i ront iicrsjns who shall be uniuclcss, .sue fell li to be ber duty it* in? sist upou her husband subjecting him eli lo cer? tain painful opera!ion -. But this Lord Byron ob st ian teM refus I tu do. lie urged, and with con? siderable force, thal ibe peculiar manner ia whh i he wore his abundant curis effectually hid from view thc rudimentary hems; and that", us he nev- i er speared In t Mic w'tnoul his boots ::nd iron ?..rs. none would ever suspect thc existence of I his nth r tlofccis, with thc exception nf his valet, I n waoiu !. .. pine -l impli i: confidence.'7 -College -fi: I ats have a legend of a merit ?M an t perhaps ny parson ni morning prayer* 'Ito prayed Hist "thu :?U ?2M&-KI . ay be made .tflcicui, thu A :, .r.,:.- tenipcrat-.v hud the ht lustrions e. ..'.i..j FOXEIGX UVH?lt'. -In tho delirium ol' her last lUness^Grisi sang the "Casta Diva." -The London Musical Review says that "no living actor can make love with Mr. Fechter." Let him try an actress. -The popularity af Sffenbaoh's new opera, the "Princesse de Trebizonde," rivals that of thc "Craucc Duchesse" in Paris. -During her career as a painter of animals, Rosa Bonheur has received for her paintings up ward of two hundred thousand dollars. -One hundred thousand dollars gold is the price asked for a genuine painting by Raphael, now on sale by a Neapolitan gentleman, and ia considered a fair price by European connois? seurs. -Letters from St. Petersburg say that the suc? cess of Patti is greater than it has ever been be? fore in that city, which goes mad periodically about singers and dancers. She has sung "Som? n?mbula" once, "La Traviata"-a great favorite -four times; and thc Emperor has selected the "Figha del lteggimento" for the state representa? tion. -At thc Sultan's new opera-house the chief at traction was not thc opera, but boxes assigned to the occupancy or thc ladies of thc harem. These were rashioucd so that thc ladies could see out, but the outsiders could not see In. Yet, as a crowd will stand for hours aad gaze upon the walls of a house in which some real tragedy has occurred, so the auditors gazed earnestly aud dcvotedly upon the barriers placed to prevent them from ocular proor#f thc attractions said to concentrate among thc Grand Turk's wives. -The manufacturers of England have not ceased in their endeavors, whether voluntary or enforced, to sceure a complete combustion of the smoke and accompanying gases from their fur? naces. In one case the gas ls conducted by a pipe to the bottom of the furnace, and then sent Into thc boilers and heating stoves, and there consumed Instead of coal; the blast of thc far nace beiug heated to a temperature of from 900 to looo degrees, without the use of any coal whatever. The combustion is so complete that lt ls impossible to say, by looking at the top of the chimney, whether thc furnaces arc in blast or not. -In Paris there resides an elderly Indy who passes for a countess. She makes a very hand? some living by giving characters to servants re? quiring employment. When ladies visit her to Inquire Into thc antecedents efa domestic, they find an elegantly dressed lady, who has a happy faculty of remembering thc person Inquired about, and ?he uever knows aught but good of them. This novel mode ef making a living by supplying reputations to girls who have none has been discovered, and the occupation of the countess will be seriously Injured. The girls em? ployed on account or lier testimony as te their ca? pacity gave her a percentage or their wages. -M. dc Lesseps, thc constructor or the Suez Canal, at a party one evening, presented to each lady apiose or Jericho, which possesses the pecu? liar property, when dry and shrivelled with age, or expanding its leaves and petals, If placed in water. Thc ladies began experimenting with the flowers, all of which unfolded except oue in thc possession or a pretty cr?ele. She complained to M. de Lesseps. "Mademoiselle," he replied, "lt ls not in my power to make your dower expand, but ask for anything else I can give you, aud lt is yonrs." "Very well. Then I want," here thc lady hesitated and blushed, and then added, in a scarcely audible voice, "whatever you want." "Then I want you to be my wife," was the reply. And they were married a rew days ago. -A Parisian correspondent writes or thc opera: . j tic Italian opera has never, stiretrl have lived In Paris, been as good as It is this year. The'Tro vatore,' tor Instance-sung by Krauss, Wachtel ami Monbelll-was really grand ; the orchestra and chorus very correct, and-the essential to M. Bugler-the house crammed. It was not a French audience: but then lt never Is or has been. Thc sucess or .Frou-Frou" ls encouraging-?0000 in thirty representations. MM. Mediae and Ilalevy ure said to have in oue month been credited with ?'20. Marie Sass ls having a great success at Florence. She sung-and she can sing-at the Pergola last week, 'Faust' and the 'Huguenots' thirty-eight bouquets, a medal surrounded wjfli diamonds, and, lastly, a bracelet from the King." -What some ot the London papers dignify by the name of a social revolution has begun In Eng? land by thc introduction of fresh meat from the mutton and beef-producing farms of Australia. A method has been found by which the compara? tively valueless carcasses of sheep and cattle can bc sent to England ami made to do good service in feeding her Majesty's subjects. Th? meat ls boned, salted and spiced, and rolled in close packages, which are again packed tn casks, with tallow run about them. There is already estab? lished in London an eating house, where over a thousand diners can be< accommodated, In which the Australian meat alone ls used, and the estab? lishment ls meeting with such success that tho manager proposes to lease the Glty of London Theatre for his saloon. Hair a ton or the meat ls used euch day, sold both cooked and In its raw state. The cluer recommendation ls thc cheap? ness of thc meat and thc meals furnished. A good dinner, soup, "nnggst" or sausage, and Irish stew, costing three penoe, while the maul is ?old at fourpence a pound. Laborers, bank clerks and artisans already patronize the establishment, and the poorer classes seem to have guaranteed it a success; while the only de? preciating comments come from those English? men who can know no meat except as a Joint or roast of huge dimensions. VARIETIES. -A French physician whitens red noses by electricity. Shocking ! -A Detroit belle has had one IOC amputated front each Toot with great success, as regards tmull boots. -A New Vork belie lately sold her engagement ring In order to buy a velvet suit she saw at Stew? art's. Some young mau ls sold, too. -A miserable specimen of a male tuan says thal giving the ballot to women would not amount to much, for none of them would admit that they were old enough to vote until they were too old to take any interest in politics. -Cigar "stumps" collected by boys rrom thc doors of Hie hotels in New York are manufactured into fancy brands of smoking tobacco. -The French ball In New York was not a bal? moral. -General Spinner's autograph is said to look like a Chinese prescription for chills. -A Pittsburg maa looked at a Chicago woman with h;s opera glass,and has been sued for breach oi promise. - ..Silgar weddings,'' four weeks after marriage, atv the latest device of married Vermonters to keep themselves happy. -There are pjs monasteries tn Ute United states, where men live un.1er vows of celibacy and pov? erty, und ."OJ nuneries or various grades. -The Attorney-General of iowa decides that thc legal word "male'' includes female; that therefore a female ls a male, and that Miss Julia Addington i-? entitled to the oillce of superinten? dent vf common schools, to which she has been ele 'ted. -A Western poet has found Inspiration lu the Rlchardsou-Mcrarhind affair, and after a decid ( inalsiatemeiit of Cte case, be moralizes thus: ..Tis wrong, 'ii-1 dangerous to p aci or life, To touch man's honor, or his wife; Public opinion will not allow. Meddling in I Moirs anyhow." -The wcddi?g cards of Robert Jeukius and Mollie u rgan, colored, wen- distributed to their L i ?!'.!! and acquaintances in Nashville Hm other lay. Aha ?, with a liveried footman bearing a ?Iver wal . r. drove about town aud distributed I he pas-- lu ard. I lie cards wer ? gotten up in the I ie..?:i. vf t.; the group of foul lied with j ;..:'... ribbon. ?tiarneg. H HY WARD-BEDON.-On Tuesday, December 21,1869, by the Rev. Edward Palmer, JAMES B. HEYWARD, Jr., and SALLIE B., daughter of R. L. Bedon, Esq. 03" Columbia Phoenix will please copy. Special ?CotircG. pW CONSIGNEES' NOTICI?.- CON? SIGNEES per Norwegian Brig "APOLLO,"' Rein? hardt, Master, from Liverpool, are hereby notified that she has been this day entered under the Five Day Act, and all goods not Permitted at flie expi? ration of that time will bc sent to Public Stores. decao ths2_RAVENEL A ?p. ^CONSIGNEES PER STE A M ER SRA GULL, from Baltimore, are hereby notified that she is Tnis DAY discharging cargo at Pier No. 1, Union Wharves. All Goods not taken away at sunset will remain on wharf at Consignees" risk. dec30 2_MORDECAI A CO., Agents. pw NOTICE .-THE PUBLIC ARE hereby cautioned against crediting any of the Crew of thc Norwegian Bark SK JO LI), as thc master and consignees will not be responsible for any debts-contracted. ROBT. MURE A CO., dec30 1_ Agents. ^FIRRT NATIONAL BANK OF CHARLESTON.-CHARLESTON, DBCBMBER 2?, lSiP.-This Ban), will be closed on SATCKDAT next, New Year's Day. The business of that day mast therefore bc anticipated. WILLIAM C. BREESE, deseo Cashier. ?WI\ 1E SOUTH CAROLINA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, CHARLESTON, DECEMBER 30,1819.-This office will be closed on SATCRDAT next, New Year's Day. Paper payable on that day must bc anticipated. THOMAS R. WARING, _dec30 2 _* Cashier. ^PROPOSALS FOR COAL.-SPAN? ISH CONSULATE, No. 48 BROAD STREET.-PRO? POSALS will be received for supplying the Span? ish Fleet with COAL, according to the conditions presented at this Office, until 12 A. M. TO-DAY. Tlte party whose proposals will be admitted will have thc right to furnish the remainder of the Fleet should lt enter the harbor. F. R. DB MONCADA, dec38 1 Spanish Consul. pw OFFICE CHARLESTON GAS LIGHT COMPANY, DECEMBER 28, 18??.-Thc Board of Directors having declared a Dividend of FIFTY CENTS per Share on the Capital Stock of of this Company, the same will bc paid to Stock? holders on and after Monday, 10th prox. The Books of Transfer will be closed from this date until the loth prox. W. J. HERIOT, dec29 ll Secretary and Treasurer. .??-NOTICE JS HEREBY GIVEN THAT at the expiration of three months, application will be made for renewals of the following CER? TIFICATES OF STOCK, the originals of which have been lost, viz: In Bank of Charleston, No. 1909 for thirty two (32) new Shares; In Union Bank, No. - for seventeen (17) Shares, both above standing in name of Henry K. Frost; and in Planters' aad Mechanics' Bank of South Carolina, No. 12,779 for forty-six ((40) Shares; No. 14,228 for ten (10) Shares, and No. 15,724 for two (2) Shares, in name of Henry R. Frost, Trustee. Ti'.oMAS FROST, JR., dcct9 latno3 ?? Executer. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. -THE Steamship SARAGOSSA ls THIS DAT discharging Cargo at Vanderhorot's Wharf. AU Goods not re? moved by sunset will remain on wharf at owner's risk. RAVKNKL A CO., _jle?J8 3 Agents. pW NOTICE.-ALL PERSONS IN? DEBTED teethe Estate of the late MORRIS SE LIGMAN, Merchant, will please make payment; and those having claims against the same will present them, properly attested, to the nrder slgned, at No. 2 South Atlantic Wharf. F. T. DOWNEY, dcc23 ths6 Administrator. PW CHARLESTON CITY RAILWAY COMPANY, CHARLESTON, S. C., DECEMBER 27, 1809.-A Quarterly Dividend of ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS per Shar: has been declared by the Board of Director* m this Com? pany, and thc same will be paid on and after SATURDAY, the 1st January, 1870, on application at this omoe. By order. S. W. RAMSAY, decis tnths3 Secretary and Treasurer. pW NOTICE.-OFFICE SAVANNAH AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD COMPANY, CHARLESTON, S. C.-The COUPONS for Interest on the Bonds of thc Savannah and Charleston Rallroud Company FIRST MORTGAGE, which mature January 1st, 1870, will be paid on presen? tation at thc banking house of II. H. K1MPTON, Financial Agent State of South Carolina, No. 9 Nassau street, New York. 8. W. FISHER, dec27 13 Treasurer. pw NOTICE.-OFFICE COUNTY COM MISSIONERS, PIREPROOF BUILDING, CHARLBS TON, S. C.. December 20, 1869.-All persons Re? tailing LIQUORS in the County are hereby called upon to take out Licenses for one year, from 1st January, 1870. Every vlolatlou'of the law relative to these Li? censes will be prosecuted and the penalty strictly enforced. P. LANCE, dec2;? a_ Clerk Board C. C. PW NOTICE. -TUREE MONTHS' AF? TER date application will be made to the Bank of Charleston for renewal of CERTIFICATE No. 7288, Tor two shares, old Issue, and CERTIFICATE No. 4183, for seven shares, new Issue, in the name of PAUL TRAPIER In trust, the same having been lost. PAUL TRAPIER. uov29 lamo3_ PW PLANS AND ESTIMATES ARE solicited for a NEW HARKET BUILDING to be erected on the site of tho present Market in Sa vannah, Ga. The available space is in shape a parallelogram. The sides on Congress and Bryan streets, being two hundred and len (210) feet, and on thc side streets one hundred and nine-live (195) feet. Plans may include a cellar story below, and halls, offices, Ac, above the market proper. It ls desirable to leave sufficient space in the Interior fur light and ventilation, at thc same time rooting the entire area. Two hundred and lifiy dollars will be paid fo the plan adopted, and ouc hundred dollars for thc plan next approved. Pluns will be received until Janurry io, lb70. Address ALPRKD HAYWOOD, decio thra? Chairman Market Committee. ~pir IF YOU WANT LAW BOOKS, LAW BLACKS and Legal Printing, go to EDWARD PERRY, No. 100 Meeting street, opposite Charles? ton Hotel. Charleston, S. C. dCCU Cmos ^PERRY'S COME DONE AND PIM? PLE REMEDY positively cures Comedones, (Bald Heads or Grui s;) also Red, White and M.ilterr.ted Pimplos on the face. Depot No. -10 Bond stree:. New York. Sohl by Druggists everywhere, dees 3mns pw IF Y')U WANT STRAW, MANIL? LA and all kinds of WRAPPING PAPERS, go to EDWARD PERRY, Ko. 155 Meeting street, oppo site Charleston Hotel, charleston, s. c. dccll Cmos pW ERRORS (J?" YOU?II.-A CENT LE? MAN who suffered for years from Nervous De? bility, Premature Decay, and au the effects of youthful Indiscretion, will, for thc sake of suffer lng humanity, w nd free to ail who need it, the re? ceipt and directions for making the simple rem? edy by which he was cured. Sufferers wishing to prellt by the advertiser's experience, can do so by addressing, with perfect confldenee. JOHN B. ot.'UL'S. No. -ij cedar street, New rorie rn;-.? Strios ?penal JA onces. pm- JUST OUT.-CHEREY PB C T O RAL TROCHES, superior to all others for Colds, Coughs, Sore Throats, Bronchitis, and Hoarse? ness. None 60 pleasant. None core so quick. Manufactured by RUSHTON A 00., Astor House, New York. No more of those horrible tasted, nauseating Brown Cubcb things. der30 3mosD*c ^r-NOTICE.-THE DRAWING OF THE haudsomc MUSIC BOX at VON SANTE N'S will positively take place THIS AFTERNOON, at 4 o'clock precisely. Per^ont- having ohances at the same and not given their full address nor settled for them, will please coso before the hour of drtvw ing. A few more chances left._decS> 1 pm- CITIZENS' SAVINGS BANK OF SOUTH CAROLINA, CHARLESTON, S. C.-OfflcC No. ?fl East Hay. Opens Dally from 9 A. M., to 2 P. M; also, Saturday Evenings, from fl to 8 P. M. Thc Books of the Bank will be closed for the pay? ment of P? posits from thc 1st to the 12th of Jana, arv, in order to make the regular semi-annual calculation of interest, but will continue to roceivo deposits as usual. Interest allowed on deposits Six per cent, compounded semi-annually. D. KAVBNKL, Jr., dec29 8_Assistant Cashier. pm- OFFICE CHIEF OF POLICE, CHARLESTON, DECEMBER 25, I860.- N0T10B. All blowing of trumpets and other unusual noises In the v iucluity of the Academy of Music is hereby prohibited, os it tends to annoy the audience and interrupt thc peace of those who seek enjoyment therein. All those offending will be arrested. By order of thc Mayor. H. W. HENDRICK-., dec25 ? Chief of Ponce. ^SHIPPERS PER STEAMERS DIC? TATOR, CITY POINT and PILOT BOY arc, hereby notified that no freight will be received after sen set on the days of their sailing. deco i J. D. AIKEN k CO., Agents. pm- OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY, CHARLESTON, DECEMBER 15,188t. The Oftlce of this Company has been REMOVED from No. 147 Meeting street to No. 84 Hasel street, immediately in rer.r or the Pavilion Hotel. T. D. orLLBSFTB, dec?ais_Agent. pa- NOTICE.-ALL PERSONS HAY? ING- claims against the Estate of Dr. J. L. NOW? ELL, late of St. James Santee, will present them to thc undersigned properly attested, within the time prescribed by law. All Indebted to said Es? tate will please make payment at once. E. W. NOWELL, 1 r.VO?ntA? dec7 Imo L. C. NOWELL, ) fcXeoa?<>rfl. pm- GO TO GEORGE LITTLE A CO. for WATBR-PROOF TWEED OVER SACKS, for |6._decl8stBth pm- TO THE FRIENDS OF OLD ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, ST. STEPHEN'S PARISH, AND BRETHREN OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. With the consent of the Iiishop of the Diocese, I purpose, through God's assistance, to reopen this venerable Colonial Church. It ls BOW sixty years since it has been closed, and the old con? gregation has long since scattered, but during the past summer 1 have repeatedly preached In lt, and, though my services were at night, always to large and attentive congregations, of both white and colored. I feel assured that there ls here a wide Held for successful missionary work. The building, a substantial brick structure, ls ta goed preservation, but thc interior was much lojired during the war. I need ..bom ($1000) ons tbovu and dollars to repair lt, enclose the graveyard, and flt up a'parochtal school. Thc people, though in moderate circumstances aud not Episcopali? ans, have subscribed liberally for these purpose?, but they cannot do all. I therefore confidently appeal to my brethren of the Dloocse, and especi? ally to those of Charleston, St. John's, St. Ste phen's and elsewhere,friends,relatives and descen? dants or thc dead burled around this sacred building. 1 seek to resene from, desecration the graves or thc loved and honored, and to rehallow the spot where they sleep with the word aad wor? ship of (ind. Help mc with yonr gifts and yoar prayers. In your Christmas and New Year's offerings, remember this work for Jeans' sake 1 Contributions may be sent to mc, addressed "Monck's Corner,'" or tr> Messrs. THURSTON A HOLMES, Charleston, S. C. P. P. STEVENS. dec21 tuUU_ _ pm- TO PRINTERS.-LF YOU WANT NEWS, BOOK, CAP, DEMI and MEDIUM PAPERS, Bill Heads, Statements, Cards, Card Board, Print? ing Material, Elnding, Rating and Cutting, go te EDWARD PERRY, No. 155 Meeting street, oppo site Charleston Hotel Charleston, S. G decl4 Cmos _ pS- MANHOOD.-A MEDICAL ESSAY on the Cause and Cure of Decline ?in PremaXare Man, the treatment of Nervous and Physical Dc bilby, Ac. "There is no member of society by whom Uus book w.u not be found useful, whether such per? son holds the relation of Parent Preceptor or Clergyman."-Medical Times and Gazette. Sent by mall on receipt or tiny cents. Address the Author, Dr. E. DKF. CURTIS, Washington, D. C._eeptl lyr pm- NO CURE, NO PAY. -FORREST'S JUNIPER TAR ror Coughs, Croup, Whooping Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Sore Throat, Spitting of Blood and Lung Diseases. Immediate relief and positive cure, or price refunded. 35 cents. N. B.-The genuine article has yellow labels, with white, unprinted wrapper. 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In addition to an admirable medicinal treatise on 'he causes, prevention and cure of a great variety of diseases, lt embraces a large amount of inrormation inter? esting to thc mei chant, thc mechanic, the miner, thc farmer, the planter, aad professional man; and the culcuLitiop.3 have been made for such me? ridians anil latitudes ns are most suitable for a correct and comprehensive National Calendar. ' The nature, use?, and extraordinary sanitary effects of HOSTETTER'S STOMACH HITTERS, ile-staple tonic and alterative of more than half the Christian world, an; nilly set rorth in its pages, which arc* airo Interspersed with pictorial illustrations, valuable recipes tor the household and farm, humorous anecdotes, and other In? structive and amusing reading matter, original and selected. Among Hie annuals appearing with the opening of thc year, thia ls one of thomosi nsefnl, and 'nay fte lw<l .fbr tn? asking. The proprietor.'', Messrs. 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