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VOLUME XI.-NUMBER 1578. CHARLESTON, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1871. EIGHT DOLLARS A YEAR. TEE SIEGE OF PARIS. THE GERMAS POLICY ly THE EVENT OE CAPITULATION. Depression in the Lcaguered City-Re? ported Destruction of Malmaison Eng! anti Arming-Gambetta"? Plea Movements of Chansey, Bourbaki and Paid herbe, &e. LONDON, January 3. The evacuation of the plateau before Avron by the French canses much depression in Paris. A meeting of mayors of Paris was held last week to censure the government for inac? tivity, out proved a failure. It is reported the Palace of Malmaison was set on Are by the guns of Mont Valerien, and totally destroyed. Bismarck writes to Odo RusseU that Prussia is justified under the law of nations in sinking English ships. Although payment has been oflered, it has been refused, because unaccom? panied by an apology. He renews the tender of payment. Additional artlller}- ls on the way to Paris. The number of siege guns of all calibres now in front of Paris is 1500. 'By the surrender of Mezieres 20,000 prison? ers, 106 guns and a quantity of stores lell into the hands of tho Germans. The Duke of Cambridge is about to be suc? ceeded by Lord Napier as commander-in-chief of the British army, and Mr. Cardwell as Sec? tary ol War by Lord Grathnaim. England is determined to arm. Cardwell, Minister of War, in a speech at Oxford yesterday, eulogized Mr. Bright for his services to the country. He refuted the re? ports o? the inefficiency ol the army, and con? trasted the armaments of England, Prussia and the United States. The British Govern? ment, he declared, was resolved to transmit to its successors an unsullied inheritance, and to uphold the honor ol England and the Queen. BRUSSELS, January 3. King William has abandoned the idea of en? tering Paris. Upon the capitulation, the forts are to be garrisoned and provisioned for two years,, and the-Ger man s are to hold Alsace and Lorraine, Belfort, Bltche and the line ot com? munication with 'Paris. Alter unconditional surrender, the Garde Nationale are to be arm? ed and made responsible for the preservation ol order in the capital, and the Corps L?gisla? tif be summoned to meet on the third of the following month. ' BORDEAUX, January 4. Minister Gambetta, in bis address at the pre? fecture, said the government was bound to the defence of the country, but it was mortal, and we must not confound the republic with per? ons who had been forced by events to assume power. These men, when the invasion had been repelled, would resign and submit their actions to the judgment ol the nation. The largest liberty would be accorded to expression of opinion. All speech must be as free as thought, but language engendering actions hostile to the government would be repressed with energy. LONDON, January 5., A dispatch from Chansey at Le Mans says tie is constantly pushing ahead his flying columns. Ten thousand troops are marching toward Paris via Chartres. Garibaldi is at Dijon, doing little. Faidherbe is at Arras, preparing to at? tack Manteaffei, probably with the intention ol Joining rtourbakl. There are sixteen thousand troops in Havre and twenty thousand at Bal bec, exclusive of the francs-tireurs, cavalry and regulars. A forward movement commenced to-day. General European News. ROME,-January 2. King Victor Emanuel left Rome yesterday amid enthusiastic demonstrations. Before his departure he made a donation of two hundred thousand francs for charil-ble purposes, and begged the municipality to devote to a similar object the sums intended to defray the expen? ses of the festivities on thc occasion ot his visit. FLORENCE, January 2. Mercadante, the composer, ls dead. VIENNA, January 2. j^leld Marshal Moerlng, ot the Austrian army, is dead. LONDON, January 2. The report that a commission was sent to the United States to settle the dispute about the fisheries Is untrue. Navagatlon of the Thames ls obstructed by ice. . . LONDON, January 2. Advices from Rio Janerio to the 7th ultimo have been received. The insurgents in Uruguay had taken Montevideo by surprise. LONDON, January 2. A dispatch from Constantinople says that the Sultan and Khedive are again on angry terms. MADRID, January 2. The death of Marshal Prim intensified the excitement in this city. Inflammation set in In his wounds, and amputation of the arm was found necessary, though it did not save his life. The marshal retained consciousness to the last, and when made aware of the approach of death, bade adieu to his friends, and lt ls said expressed much anxiety for the safety ol the Kin g. The Cortes adopted resolutions in honor of the memory ol General Prim, declaring the de? ceased deserved well of his country, and plac? ing his family under the protection o? the na? tion. The Cortes also passed a vote of confi? dence In the government. GERMANY AND THE WAR. The Financial Condition of the German State* Before the War-The Expendi? tures hy Governments and' Peoples Future Prospects. [Correspondence of the Bostcn Advertiser.] FEANEFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, December 6. As preliminary to the consideration of the cost of the war to Germany in money, it will be well first to dwell-briefly upon the. general capacity of this country to bear such heavy financial burdens as have been imposed upon it by the events of the last five months. Germany, it is well known, is far less rich thon either the United States or Great Britain. While her people are showing commendable enterprise and persevering' dlllg?nce upon every field of human activity, neither in com? merce nor in industry has there been so large an accumulation of wealth as in the .two countries named. In agriculture, too, the re? wards ot labor are far scantier than in the North American repubUc, owing to thc less raried and extensivo natural resources. Still while Germany cannot perhaps be called a rich Country, she cannot ' be classed among the Cor nations of tho earth. . The great bulk of r people are well-to-do, and outright poverty .prevails only in particular districts where nature has distributed her favors most sparing? ly. But wealth ls more equally distributed than in England, and, owing to the persever? ance and frugality so peculiar to the German people as a whole, means/ once acquired are. as a role, more firmly held than la the United States. . Taxation is heavy in Germany, AB in all States ot Europe afflicted with the curse of large standing armies. Much could not be added to the 'Durden already borne by her people without producing paralyzing effects. Hence the usual policy of the several German Slates is to have resort to the public credit, rather than to increased taxation, Tor the means to meet extraordinary demands upon their exchequers. Fortunately for the coun? try the public credit has not been so abused in past years as to render uncertain the success of an appeal to it at such a critical periodos the prescut. The total debt of Prussia, In? cluding the loan negotiated last August to meet the expenses of the war, amounted on November 13 to only four hundred and twenty-five millions of thalers, UT less thau "three hundred millions of dol? lars in gold. As Prussia proper has population of nearly twenty-live millions, and an annual public income of nearly one hundred and eighty miilions of thalers, her financial conti it lou must be acknowledged to be a very sound one In comparison with that ol other European monarchlal Slates. The other German Slates engaged in the war willi France, with a total population of fifteen mil? lions, are burdened with public debts arnottni in?.in the aggregate,to a little over six hundred millions of tnalers, or four hundred and twen? ty millions of dollars gold. But of the aggre? gate of one thousand and twenty-five millions of thalers, thus representing the public debt ol all Germany, about one-third was contracted for the construction of railways^ which have, in most cases, regularly earned the Interest j guaranteed by the States, and in not few yield a profit over and above it. The raliway pro? perty thus created also * possesses a value very nearly equal to ,r? cost; so that, on the whole, this part of thc national debt has hard? ly proved a public burden. Ypu have learned ere this, from the estimates laid before the North German Parliament, that in the four months irom July 15 till November 16, the expenses of the Government ol the North German Confederacy on account of the war have amounted to Just one hundred nd twenty millions ol' thalere, or at the average rate ol' one million thalers, or seven hundred thousand dollar* In gold, per day. The war expenditures of the four South German statt s up to this time have amounted together to sixty millions of florins, CT about thirty-lour and a half millions of thalers, or between twenty-three and twenty-four millions of dol? lars in gold. Adding the South German to the : North German disbursements, we obtain an I aggregate expenditure during four months of | war of one hundred and fifty-four and a half millions of thalers, or at the rate ot a little j over one million and a quarter ol thalers, equal I to just about a million In American currency ! at the present price of gold, per day. ? ! Now to American eyes, accustomed to the huge figures of the Federal war budget, during J the civil war, this rate of expenditure will uo doubt seem exceedingly moderate. But to Germany, whose prices and wages-are much lower, tho amount appears just as formidable as a three times larger rate would appear to I the American public. And yet the amount is is really small when the magnitude ot the part played by Germany in the contest, and tho cost of maintaining 350,000 prisoners is con? sidered; and this ls owing to various reasons. In the first place, the strict; discipline enforced In the German armies prevente the waste by carelessness of uniforms, arms, acwitrcments, ammunitions, horses and vehicles, whicn added so' much to the cost of the American war. Ex-volunteer officers will no doubt be astonished to learn that the German forces have not been reuniformed since the outbreak: of the war. In the next place, t he largo supply ot war material collected by the German Gov? ernments in peace times has saved them a great deal of txpense. Then the pay of the German soldiery ls very small, privates re-1 celvlng only about $3 in gold per month; and, finally, the fact that the war has been carried on In a highly cultivated and thickly settled country, where the Invading forces have lived and still lire largely ou the enemy's resources, bas greatly diminished the cost of fecdiug thu troops. The figures given represent,, however, only the amounts expended by ihe several govern? ments, and not by any means the entire cost | in money or Its equivalent io the German peo? ple. I have bad occasion during the progress of the Southern rebellion to become thorough? ly iamillar with the generous private sacrifices made from patriotic motives In the Northern States, but I do not hes!tato to say that inde? pendently of thc government expenditures the Germans, as a people, hay?' made and are still making even greater contributions to the cause of the Fatherland. The central bureau of the National Aid Society of Borlo has re? ceived so lar nearly three millions of thalers for the sick and wounded. But this amount, though large In Itself, ls insignificant with t?u aggregate of the additional sums raised and expended directly by local committees throughout the country during the last lour months and a halt. There ts not a city, towu or village in all Germany where patriotism has not mah nested itself in this direction to a most liberal extent. From the scores of statements by committees of the larger cities and promi? nent communities which I have see . In print. I know I do not exaggerate in estimating the amount of money raised up to this time for the benefit or the Bick and wouuded at ii ?teen mil? lions of thalers. Nor has the earnest patriotism of this nation confined Itself to contributions in money. Those in kind for the benefit of hospitals as well as lor tho troops in the field have be.en still more generous. Every day witnesses the departure tor the seat of war, from different parts ot Germany, of long trains loaded down with "llebesgabez," or gl:.tB of love, as their freight ls so appropriately named, for the thea? tre of war. in the published reports of aid committees, the value In money of the con? tributions in kind ls pla:ed uniformly at a much higher figure-sometimes three, tour and five times higher-than the amount of mo jey received. The hospitals established in Germany, moreover, have been built and sup {tiled almost entirely a" the expense of thc nhabltante of the localities In which they are situated. i The people everywhere sacrifice large amounts ol' money for the benefit of the sol? diers in the field In still another way. The pay of the rank and file being entirely inadequate to the satisfaction of their customary wants, a very large portion ol' t he business ot the army post consists in carrying valuable letters con? taining remitances to soldiers from friends at home. According lo thc published statements of the. postal authorities the amounts thus sent have averaged between fllty and sixty thousand thalers per day. The support, too, ol' thc families ol' thc sol? diers constitutes another and no light bur? den. The pecuniary aid extended to them is furnished in part by the municipal authorities of the localities where th 3 soldiers' families live, but the largest share of it is derived from private benevolence. As the average allow? ance ls two thalers per week to every wile and aged parent, and one thaler per week to every child; many millions have already been ex? pended in this direction aliso. Now, what ls the effect of thc large expendi? tures of money by the governments and of | "gifts of love" in money ar.d in kind of the peoole, which latter amount in the aggregate to E obably as much as t'ae former? Have either sensibly lessened ihe ability of Ger? many to continue the war ': My answer ls in the negative; for the expenditures ol' the governments have not proved a burden to the people, inasmuch as the payment of the interest on the new debts have not yet become a question ot taxation. The nation, moreover, thinks nothing of these debts, and this lrom the universal belief that they will have to be paid eventually by France. As to the Im- | mediate and luture wants oP'the government, the fae* that the additions.! war loan of one hundred aillions ol thalers, Just authorized by tho North yerman Parliament, has been more easily placed titan the first In AugU3t, goes to prove that the public credit of Germany has not yet been shaken in the lea3t by the war. Regarding the voluntary self-taxation of the people in the Interest of the fatherland, Its very nature justifies the conclusion that while lt has Involved, no doubt, self-denials In almost every household, it has not proved irksome or .weakened the resolute adhesion of the masses to the national cause. PRUSSIAN ECONOMY. Thrift so Determined that Plunderers Give ap In D'espalr. . The economy of Prussia is this set forth by an English writer: Nobody in Prussia ls paid anything like the worth or his work. The whole aristocracy is drawn Into the army by salaries that would disgust English bank clerks, while the elite ot the cultivated, men usually without means, are lormed into an effective bureaucracy, and paid less than knglish-clergymen. A general ls paid like an English captain, and a prefect like a superior clerk, while the majoritv of the bureaucracy, which initiates and directs and moderates all things in Pruss'a, which governs in the highest sense ol that Misused word, are compelled to practice an economy which Eng? lish dissentlns: ministers or Scotch school? masters would deem painful. A rigid, un? sparing economy pervades every depart? ment, and has so penetrated officials as to be? come a kind of point of honor, as lt waste or even expensiveness was in itself just a little discreditable. To this hour thc King, who has become bv successive accretions of wealth one of the richest princes in Eurone-perhaps the richest in personal Income-thinks lt uo shame to send a city in distress which he keenly desires to conciliate 5000 thalers, or ?750, aud would feel genuine surprise il in? formed that the sum was not very great. In Hie midst ol' incessant battles with Parliament for money the Schloss treasure-?7,000,000-' has never been touched except for war, and the State commences a grand campaign, the greatest of our century, with a loan which London would tarlee up at a bite and forget in a day. The extra amount of| public money expended as yet in this war by Germany ls not ?20,000,000, and though ?16, 000,000 more were recently asked Tor, the de? partments have found time to reduce the de? mand to twelve. Part of this economy ls due, no doubt, to thc practico ol levying requisi? tions, taught by the first Napoleon to Germany; but ita main support ls a thrift so determined that the plunderers have given up the game in despair. This rigor not only continues under the present administration, but Is slightly In? tensified, --many small peculations having been suppressed," and pushed In some depart? ments almost into cruelty. The Prussian hos? pital service, for example, is penurious to an unjust degree. There ar? not enough sur? geons, no comforts are allowed, not even hos? pital clothes; men with broken limbs still wearing their cheaD, rough uniforms. Qui? nine, chloral, good" wine, everything that costs money, is always, the international I surgeons report, wanting, and the disuse of | chloroform ls partly due to a dislike lor an expense which a little more --fortitude" in the victims oi war would render needless. No general, however high, makes a fortune. Baron Von Dreyse receives a modest wage, and we doubt If Sir Joseph Whitworth would reckon Krupp as rich. There is not, so far as we know, an instance in Prussian history of j a State servant having been rewarded as Marl-1 borough-was, or Wellington, or even Lord Hardinge, or Lord Dalhousie. A sum was voled alter Sadowa to the King to distribute among his highest servants; but Count Bis? marck, who had given Prussia the supremacy ot Germany, received only an estate large in? deed In acreuge, but not worth ?50,000 In open market; and Baron Von Moltke still less-a sum, if we remember rightly, of about ?15,000. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. WASHINGTON, January 5. lu the House, Schenck resigned. Orth was appointed a member o.f thc ways and means committee. Hooper, of Massacusetts, becomes chairman of the committee of ways nnd means. Hooper is said to be more oi a protectionist than Schenck. Orth is inclined to free trade. The vote on the Paraguayan resolutions will be taken to-morrow. The question involved is the endorsement of the late Paraguayan Minister, Washburne, and the condemnation of certain naval officers. In the Senate, the bill was discussed autho? rizing the issue of five hundred million ol'five per cent, bonds. Certain reports regarding San Domingo, made during the Pierce administration, have been called for. A select committee was appointed to con? sider certain chnrges against Senator Sprague for blockading In Texas. Thurman, Hamilton, Trumbull, Howe and Willey were named. Jewett, the new senator from Missouri, was placed upon the committee on naval affairs and Pacific Railroads. A bill wa3 passed providing that hereafter no tax shall be imposed or collected upon any undlstributable sum added to the contingent Tund of any insurance company, nor upon un? earned premiums received for risks assumed. The bill relieving J. Milton Best was passed, 28 to 15. It appropriates $25,000. Best was a surgeon in the Federal army when his house In Paducah was destroyed. Adjourned. Wm. H. Daniels was nominated as collector ot the customs at Apalachicola, Florida. The resolutions of thc North Carolina Legislature, asking the removal of the political disabilities of Governor Vance, were presented to thc Senate, and were referred to the committee on political disabilities. The contestants for the senatorial seats from Georgia were notified to appear before the Judiciary committee of the Senate, on Saturday-there are seven claim? ants, though II. V. Johnson and A. H. Stephens, elected before reconstruction com? menced, will not press tuelf claims. A bill for the government of the telegraph was introduced and referred to the committee on roads and canal-. The bill giving Schenck, as Minister to Eng? land, an additional allowance of twenty-live hundred dollars was passed. The correspondence between Motley and the State Department, relating to Motley's re? call, was called for. It was amended by Sum? ner so as to include telegrams. A resolution was reported concurring ia the opinion of the attorney-general that the Choc? taws were entitled to a quarter "million of bonds, and declaring the President authorized to issue them, without further legislation, was passed. A RAILROAD TROUBLE, NEW YOKE, January 5. The Post says : -'The Alabama and Chatta? nooga Railroad Company have suspended pay? ment of the January Interest on their first mort? gage bonds, on which the State of Alabama ls endorser. The amount of these bonds Is about four million dollars, of which about three fdorths are held abroad, and one-iourth here. We are informed that the resources of the company are ample for the payment, of this interest, and that the 'necessary money was offered to the company by the bankers in this city, but, according to report, dissensions pre? vailed in the board of directors, which resulted In the offer not having been accepted. The Governor of Alabama has telegraphed to the State agent, In this city, that the obligation of of the State endorsed on the bon is will be re? sponded to as soon as the Legislature, which meets on tho 18th instant, can make the neces? sary provisions therefor." THE SUGAR CASES. CIXCIXATI, January 5. The sugar cases of Adolph Wood As Co., of Cincinnati, and P. W. Perkins dt Co., of New Orleans, were decided in '4vor of the claim? ants. While the government lost by improper grading, the court was not satisfied Perkins A Co. had any knowledge of the error, or had fraudulent intent. The court intimated that Perkins & Co. would be liable to the payment ol two cents per pound additional duty. This is Hie old case, where the government seized sugars throughout the country under allega? tions of fraud in assessing tariff. The point established seems to be that the government can collect the true tariff wherever the gpods may be founi, but can exact no penal forfeit? ure lrom Innocent purchasers. Owing to complaints of short weight at the London Produce Exchange, a committee has been appointed to examine into the method and correctness ol weighing grain going Into shops.. THE STATE CAPITAL. REASSEMBLING OF TBE LEGIS? LATURE. Vo Quorum In thc Senate-Doings in the House-The New Divorce Bill in? troduced-The State Printing to be Settled To-Day, ?Sic., &c. [sPKCUL T3LK0FUK TO TOS X=5W3.] COLUMBIA, Thursday, January 5. The Senate met at 12 o'clock noon, tint no quorm being prcsant, adjourned to meet to? morrow. In the House, notice was given ol'thc follow? ing bills: By Gary, to require the commission? ers of Kershaw County to erect school-houses; by Myers, a bill to amend an act. organizing the militia ol South Carolina: Hagood intro? duced a bill providing for the granting of divorces; Ramsay introduced a bill to provide a place of Imprisonment for persons under fifteen years of age; The enacting clauses of the iollowlng bills were stricken out: To au-' thorlze the land commissioner to pur? chase lands on Edlslo and Wadmalaw Islands ; to prevent persons charged with crime from being brought to trial when absent trom court; regulating the securing ol clerks ol court's fees and costs in civil cases; compelling farmers to build fences around all cultivated landa. The consideration of the public printing was made the special order for to-morrow at 2:30 P. M. The bill to' prevent the carrying from the State of persons under the age of twenty-one, was made the special order for Wednesday. The bill regulating the per diem and mileage of grand and petit Jurors was indefinitely post? poned. Adjourned lo meet to-morrow at noon.. ^_ TBE "HE ATS EN CHINEE.? - O SAN FRANCISCO, January 5. The California Supreme Court, in the case of the People vs. Brady, reversed the decision of tho lower Court, and ordered a new trial-, on the ground that the defendant was convicted by Chinese testimony, under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. The court holds that the amendments cannot affect, and do not abrogate or annul, the State laws regulating the practice in the courts of law. Judge Rhodes, Democrat, alone dissents. BLOODY WO BK. MEMPHIS, January 5. A constable and the lathea-ln-law of a young man under arrest killed each other at Jackson port, Arkansas. Aman cut another's throat at Charles lon, Mississippi. At Bluntsvllle, Alabama, Lewis Ketchum, wno disembowelled F. Burgess,was taken from the jail by disguised men and killed. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. The Michigan Republican caucus nominated Ferry for the Senate, which is equivalent to an election. A fire was progressing yesterday at Law? rence, Kansas. The loss already ls $50,000. The Presbytery of Bellast, Ireland, denounce Gladstone for the interest displayed by him In the welfare of the Pope. The printers ot the Jersey City Evening Journal struck yesterday, In consequence of a dispute, whether certain figure work be charged a price and a half or two prices. The Indiana House of Representatives was organized yesterday with William Mack speaker, and all Democratic officers; two Ra publicans being absent and two elected as Re? publicans acting with the Democrats. Girard B. Allen was yesterday elected presi? dent of the Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis. ALL ABOUT THE STATE. G in-house Burned. The gin-house, with about thirty bales of cotton, belonging to Mr. James Pettigrew, near Florence, was destroyed by fire on Sun? day night last. The Klngstree Star says there is no doubt about the premises having been fired by an incendiary. Fire. Tlndal's store, at Manchester, was destroyed by fire on Friday night, together with all its contents. The fire appeared to have origi? nated on the inside, and to have been the re? sult of accident. Tue clerk, who sleutinthe building, lost everything. Sales-day lu Sumter. The News says: One tract of land of 214 acres, sold by order of the Court of Equity Jabez Norton vs. Wm. Lewis, brought $5 per acre. The Marshall tract, of the estate of J. A. Colclough, was sold a: the appraised value, ?1 per acre. Child Burnt to Death. We learn from a correspondent that a child about six year3 old, daughter of ilr. Tllman T. Kolb, who resides in Clarendon County, about five miles from Manchester Depot, was so severely burnt from her clothes taking Ate, on Monday evening, the 26ih ult., that she died on Tuesday night following. Destructive Pires. Tho Edgefleld Advertiser says: We learn that on Wednesday, the 21st ultimo, the dwell? ing of Mrs. Robert Rambo, a lady living in the neighborhood of Klrksey's Cross Roads, was burned to the ground, with furniture, provi? sions, and everything in fact which lt con? tained. Loss estimated at $1200. No Insu? rance. And on Monday night last, we regret to state, the dwelling, kitchen and smoke? house of Artemus Holson, Esq., were entirely consumed. Mr. Holson was not insured, and his loss is said to be not less than three thous? and dollars. Both these fires, it is thought, were accidental In their origin. Salea-day In Williamsburg. The Star says: "As ls usual on the first Mon? day In January, quite a large crowd of persons, mostly, however, of the African race, were present in the village on Monday last. Seve? ral tracts of land were sold,, or offered for sale, but there seemed to be no disposition to in? vest in real estate. That valuable plantation near this village, owned by Dr. James Bradley, deceased, consisting of 1166 acres, brought $1000, and was purchased by Ezra Eaddy, who owned a judgment against the estate for a large amount. Another valuable plantation, situated near Gourdin's Depot, on the Santee River, which formerly belonged to Dr. A. T. Darby, containing 4245 acres, and not subject to any lien, was bid In by an attorney for $310. Other tracts were sold for Insignificant prices. The reason of this depreciation of real estate ls obvious.]' A Batch of Robberies in Sumter. The Sumter News says that Mr. R. G. Cope? land, of Sumter County, was looking around on the night of the 26th when he ascertained that some persons wore in his corn house. Upon his calling to his employee to bring his gun, a shor was fired at bim, which he re? turned as soon as he got his gun. Thereupon the rascals fled. Mr. Copeland found that the thieves had taken one or two bushels of rough rice. * On Thursday, the 28th ult., the premises of Mr. C. Wienges were robbed of all his ducks. During Christmas week the smoke-house ol W. F. B. Haynswortb, Esq., was broken open aud robbed of about $15 worth ot' meat. On Monday night, the chicken coop and the carriage-house of Colonel M. Moses were bro? ken open and robbed of two roosters, six hens, and two turkeys, also two sets of harness, old and new, and the carriage cushion*. On the state night the rascals broke a very strong lock on Dr. Witherspoon's carriage house and stole a set ot buggy harness. A Word of Warning. The Newberry Herald Baye : The crowd in town on Monday last was the largest, and by all odds the highest colored, we have seen for many months past, and we are glad to say that the utmost quiet and order prevailed, consid? ering the great number which filled the streets. We presume that the large majority of blacks were here in quest of homes and work for the ensuing year, and from what we learn they are anxious for employment, but in many cases are asking such price;, as farmers cannot reasonably Day and successfully run their farms. There ls no fixed plan or rule or scale for this question of labor, and every man is trying to work ont the problem to his own sat? isfaction-every man is for Himself. We have no advice to offer, but do say that he who em? ploys the most labor and piys big wages, un? less lt turns out better than it has in the past, will succeed no better than ;he last year. The sales by sheriff, o? land, are as follows : One tract of 430 acres, $2560; 50 acres, $56; 104 acres. $1225; G2 acres, three miles from the courthouse, $675. A STRANGE NARRATIVE. Tike Missing Earl-Fute of tho Yoong Earl of Aberdeen who Abandoned hin 'Titles and Estates to be a Sailor. A New York letter brings us the following strange narrative: The commission sent ou; by the Court ot Chancery, ol Scotland, to take testimony as to the death of the late Earl of Aberdeen, wno was washed overboard from the ship Hebra, oi which he was the mate, has concluded its labors, and the members are about to return home. Harry Smith, Esq., of the Edinburgh bar, special commissioner by appolnment of the Sheriff of Chancery in Scotland, to take testimony In the case, and L. 6. McLaren, Esq., of the Scotch bar. attorney tor the Gor? don family, have completed their labors in this country, bringing to light, and establish? ing by positive testimony, svery step in the Earl's case from bis time o~ leaving Scotland until his untimely death by crowning from the deck ol the ship Hebra. They are now rest? ing for o few days, and will take the steamer from San Francisco on the list of February for China, to conclude their mission in those waters by securing the testimony of the cap? tain and crew of thc Hebra as to the Earl's death. The late Earl was but a lal o? twenty-three, fresh from the University, when he came into possession of his wealth and honors. He had oeen liberally and thoroughly educated, and was, In all respects, a promising young man. He was urged to take his seat In the House of Lords, but steadily declined on the ground of his youth. He early declared his Intention to see the world before settling: down in life, and his expressed purpose of ge ing to sea was en? couraged by some of bis friends and discour? aged by others. At last th-; time approached when he was to leave home. It was under? stood that he was going to New Brunswick to visit his uncle, the then Lieutenant-Gover? nor of that Province, and from there would follow his Inclinations. He had eng.".v>d his passage in a sailing ship, and -ne eve of his departure had arri ved. His old tutor, the Rev. Mr. Alexander, sought him at that time, and In an interview ot several hours' duration, attempted to wean bim from the de? termination, but all to no parp?se. Half-way across the Atlantic a sailor, who had been sent aloft for some purpose, misse d his footing and fell on the deck, sustaining a fracture of . his thigh. The young Earl, who spent two years in u medical college In the course of his edu? cation, stepped forward and administered to the sufferer. Alter setting und properly ban? daging the broken limb', the aristocratic pas? senger reported to the mau for a substitute for the disabled sailor, and ii ora that time un? til the vessel reached port ho continued to dis? charge the double duty ol nhip's surgeon and ordinary seaman. In New Brunswick the Earl fell In with two young Englishmen, Gosford ind Petachin, who were making the tour of the country, and a mutual arrangement was mac le t o travel in com? pany. The party visited Boston and New York together, when the Earl civilly withdrew from the other two, and returned to Boston, when he assumed the Incognito of Osborne. While lu Boston, and between his voyages, he studied seamanship In the Boston Nautical Club and graduated from that inslitution with a certificate of competency t& a navigator. When the Rev. Mr. Alexander arrived in this country, eighteen months ago, to prosecute the search for the wanderin): Earl, he had no clue to guide him but the Earl's letters home. Ol' these, the last was written from Pensacola, and, therefore, that was the starting point ol' the zealous Clergyman's labors. But he was met with an obstacle that for a long time thwarted all his efforts. Thc Earl's Incognito was unknown, as well as the names of vessels in which he had sailed at various times, but the affectionate old tutor persevered, despite all obst ides, and at last was rewarded by a reasonable Identification of the Earl with a sailor named George H. Osborne. Having satisfied. himself that Osborne was the man he wanted, Mr. Alexander made in? quiries for that person, and succeeded in tracing him on board a Northern-bound coast? ing vessel. The hunt now became exciting and interesting, leading up and down the coast from Florida to Nova Scotia, and from St. John's through the different coast cities to Baltimore. Thus every step of the yonng man's wanderings was faithfully followed, the laborious undertaking consuming nine months of unremitting labor, varied by alternate en? couragements and discouragements. For a long tl me lt seemed to the searcher that he was on the young man's heels, and would flat? ter himself that when he should find a certain vessel he would surely be brought into direct collision with his man. The whole brilliant prospect would be dissipated by the finding the vessel and the dis? covery that Osborne had left on the conclu? sion of a former voyage,. and nobody would know his whereabouts. Then the laboriously searching for another trail was commenced, and continued till last February, when Alexan? der traced thc Euri aboard, the Hebra, bound tor Australia. These tidings were duly com? municated to the Earl In Scotland, and the tutor sat down in Boston to wait the receipt of tidings of the Hebra, meantime arranging f)lans for sending her to England or bringing 1er back to this country. Letters addressed to the Earl in hts Incognito were also dis ?atened to thc care ot thc coosigness of the [ebra, in Melbourne, fully explaining the sit? uation of affairs, and urging his Immediate return home. After several months of walt? ing, the announcement of the safe arrival of the Hebra out was received, but with lt came the death blow to all the hopes that centred In tho recovery of the sailor Earl, for the news was accompanied with the announcement tl .at the mate was washed overboard and drowned on the fourth day out. One of the sailors of ?he Hebra, who has returned to this country, has been exam? ined by the commission. H's fully recognized O.-borne, the mate of the vessel, in the photo fraphs of the Earl that wore placed before lm. He also gave a mina :e account of Os? borne's death as heretofore related. The cap? tain's testimony and the ship's log, detailing the casualty at the time of its alleged occur? rence, will complete the necessary evidence. Osborne or the Earl shipped on the Hebra al? most by accident, and Balled In her evidently against his own Impulses. He went aboard while she was lying at Boston. He wanted to Inspect a large three-masted schooner. Cap? tain Kent met him on deck, was struck by his general appearance, and Immediately engaged him as mate. " BOW I VOTES." A Georgia Negro's Rca? ons for Voting the Democratic Ticket. [Cinc?inati Commercial Georgia Letter.] Yesterday I heard an old negro explaining to a few of his color his reasons for having voted the Democratic tickt t. Said he, as he made fierce gestures with his weather-beaten hand. "Yes, you're right; I did vote the Dem? ocratic ticket. It'e the first time I ever did, and unless they ran this here government better than tho Radicals he ve, it will be the last time. I propose fer to try 'em. Why ls times hard, and why ain't, thar no money In the oountry ? The Radicals are playing smash with everything. I comm sneed fer to vote the Radical ticket over two years ago. and ever since that time money has been getting scarcer and scarcer, and now I don't see a ten-dollar bill a month. I hain't got cents now where I used to have dollars when I com? menced to vote the Radical ticket. We must have a change In this here- business, or we'll ail go up, white and black alike. Talk about the Radicals being friends t? the colored men I Any man with half an eye caa see that they ain't friends to anybody but themselves. They're arter the office which draws them big pay and takes ali the money out of the coun? try, and makes colton go down so that a dar? key can't earn enough In a year to buy a hoe? cake for Christmas'. That's what they do. Who lent me a mule last summer to finish my crop when mlae had broke his leg trying' to get over the fence? Was ic a Radical? No. they'd have see'd my crop go to weeds alore they'd have did lt. Fact ls mighty lew of them have got any mules to lend. It was a Democrat who came to me and says: 'Joe, you've had bad luck; you will lose all your work unless you can get a nag to finish your crop. Go to my stable and get that old mule that's blind in one eye, and pay me what's right for her when the crop-is made.' I paid him np like a man. When I was sick last summer, and didn't have a bite In the house to eat, who brought me the hunk of bacon ? Ii; was thl? 'ere same Democrat, and now when he wrists my vote bo can get it. A man who sticks np to me, I'll stick up to him all the time;" and so saying the ancient negro walked off, leaving his little circle of listeners to comment upon his speech and digest his wisdom. HOME INSTINCT Ol' ANIMALS. Caribou Imit?mes. The instinct which enables the carrier-pigeon to find his way home is also shared by other ani? mals. A writer In the Lor don Dally News says: A subject that has long had a deep interest for naturalists ls the power possessed by birds anti animals of finding their way back to a giv? en spot by a road never before travelled by them. There appears to be no doubt that Prov? idence has bestowed an Instinct upon them we, who do not possess it, are hardly able to com? prehend. Birds of passage find their way by means of this unerring guide to the remotest regions of the earth, and seem to prefer travel? ling by night, as the keepers of lighthouses are well aware, inasmuch as they frequently find woodcocks and other birds lying dead under the windows, having been killed by Hying against the thick plate-glass, attracted, like moths, by the light. The same faculty exists in varions domestic animals, but ls not so strongly developed as In birds. A horse belonging to a friend of mine was turned out in some marshes adjoining the Thames. The distance In a straight line irom his owner's house was only a few miles, but he had to be sent a long way round to cross a bridge. In less than twenty-four hours he made his appearance at the stable-door dripping wet, having swam the river and taken a straight line home. During the life of the celebrated sportsman, the late Sir Richard Sutton, a draught of young hounds was sont up to Lon? don from the kennel near Lincoln, and there put on board a vessel to go abroad. While the ship was dropping down the Thames one ol them jumped overboard, and swam ashore. Some weeks after it made its appearance at the kennel half starved and covered with bites bestowed upon lt by Its more fortunate fellows. Some years since a dog fox was nm to ground, on Hathfleld heath, near Ashford, Kent. When dug out he was lound to have some remarkable white spots about him. there? fore the Earl of Thanet had him sent to his seat In Westmoreland-Appleby Castle-a distance of three hundred miles, and turned down. A fortnight afterwards the same fox was killed near Hathfleld-hlB native place. Not very long ago I saw a cow bought at a farm auction. About six o'clock In the evening she was sent oft home by the purchaser, and was placed in tho jard, a distance ol'fifteen miles from her former home. At six o'clock the next morn? ing she was found back In her old shed, quiet? ly chewing her cud;.and walting to be milked as usual. I once purchased a brood of ducklings, about a mouth old, without the hen that hatched them. I took them home and placed them, as I thought, safely in a pi u pound. In the morn? ing I found they were all gone, and I discover? er them snugly huddled together at their old quarters, at the other end of the village, In the nest in which they were hatched. A laborer told me he had met them In the street, homeward bound at 4 o'clock A. M., as he was going to work. They had not been off the premises where they were bred before. ?ux(exaX Notices. pa* THE RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND acquaintances ofMr. and Mrs. MALCOLM BROWN, and Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Brown, are respectfully invited to attend the Funeral Obsequies of the former, at Centennary M. E. Church, Tnis MORN? ING, at io o'clock. Jane-*- . ^BROWN FELLOWSHIP SOCIETY. The members of this Society are respectfully invi? ted to attend the Funeral or their late brother member and treasurer, MALCOLM BROWN, from his late residence, No. 61 St. Phillp street, THIS MOUSING, at half-past 9 o'clock. SAMUEL D. HOLLOWAY, Chairman, Jane * lu behalf ol' Committee on Interment. pa* THE MEMBERS OF THE BROWN FELLOWSHIP SOCIETY are summoned to at? tend the Funeral of onr late brother member, Treasurer M. BROWN, from his late residence, St. Philip street, THIS MORNING, at half-past g o'clock. ? By order. J. M. F. DEREEF, jane-* Secretary B. F. S. Special Notices. pa* I O. O. F.-R. W. GRAND LODGE, OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA-The M. W. Grand Master will install the Officers of the Bubordinate Lodges, at Odd Fellows' Hall, on thc following evenings, at 7 o'clock: Schiller, No. 30, on SUNBAY, 1st January. Jefferson, No. 4, on TUESDAY, 3d January. South Carolina, No. 1, on WEDNESDAY, 4th January. Howard, No. 3, on THUKSDAY, 5th January. Marion, No. 2, on FRIDAY, 6th January. The officers and members of the Grand Lodge are requested to attend and assist in the Installa? tions. By order of the M. W. G. M. ROBT. JAMES, dec31-3tnwthffi_Grand secretary. pa* OFFICE OF THE CHARLESTON GASLIGHT COMPANY, DECEMBER 26, 1870. The Board of Directors of this Company having declared a Dividend of FIFTY CENTS per Share on the Capital Stock, the same will be paid to Stockholders on and after MONDAY, 9th January, 1871. . The Transfer Books will be closed from tjus date to loth January, 1871. w. j. HERIOT, flCCgj_Secretary and Treasurer. pa* OFFICE OF MOUNT PLEASANT AND SULLIVAN'S ISLAND FERRY COMPANY, CHARLESTON, JANUARY 2D, 1871-The Board or Directors having declared a STOCK DIVIDEND OF $2 50 AND A CASH DIVIDEND OF $3 60 PER SHARE, from the earnings of the Company for the past six (C) months, (being at the rate of 16 per cent, per annum upon its paid up capital, pa.- ment of the same will be made to St oct hoi flers on and after the loth instant, at the office of the Secretary and Treasurer, Broad street, corner of State. Stockholders will please present their Scrip. HUTSON LEE, jangj_Secretary and Treasurer. pS-TIIE GREAT MEDICAL WONDER, DB. HASKELL'S ELECTRIC OIL kills all pain In two minutes. Cancers, Bolls, Tetter and Old Seres, cured In 48 hours by DB. HASKELL'S CAR? BOLIC CANCER SALVE. For sale at retail by G. W. A IM AR, COHEN'S MEDICAL DE DR. H. EA ER, POT, A. 0. BARBOT, . DB. G. J. LUHN, ED. S. BURNHAM, W. T. LITTLE A CO., M. H. COLLINS & CO., ALFRED RAOUL, M. D., GRAMAN A SCH WAKE, DB. W. A SKR1NE. E. H. KELLERS, M. D., And at wholesale by DOWIE, MOISE A H.'.VIS, sole Agents for South Carolina. novll-3mo3DAW pa* MY FRIEND, STOP THAT TERRI? BLE cough, and thus avoid a consumptive's grave, by using GLOBE FLOWER GOUGH SYRUP, for curing all throat, bronchial and lung diseases. It is perfectly peerless. Never has been equalled. It ia pleasant to taxe, and certain to cure. For .ale by all druggists. . . dec-wfmlmo Sperial Coutts. pa- EPIPHANY SERT?CES.-AT THE suggestion of the Rectore, a united service of the Episcopal congregations will be held at St. Phil? ip's Church, on FRIDAY, 6th instant, at ll A. M., with sermon and Holy communion; ? The above In place of Beatrices announced la each Choren._ . Jan5-tbf2* pst* CONSTGNEFS PER STEAMSHIP JAMES ADGER, from New Tort, are notified that she ls discharging cargo at Adger'a Wharf. Goods uncalled for at sunset will -remain on wharf at owners' risk. 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The most effective preventive of, and remedy for, disturbances of this nature ls HOSTETTER'S STOMACHVBIT TE RS. Acting as a stimulant and ton Ic, lt rouses the stomach and the Intestines, imparting to those important organs both activity and regularity. It also operates as a suporlflc. by toning the ves? sels of the skia and promoting the free passage of exhausted matter through that natural sieve of the system. Being a mild diuretic, it gives a healthful impulse to the action of the kidneys, where there ls a tendency to dropsy, and as a blood d?purent and nervine, has a highly benefi? cial effect In rheumatic cases. It combines In happy proportions the tonic, alterative, aperient, antiseptic, diaphoretic and antiblUons proper? ties requisite for the restoration of a system gen* erally disordered, and has no equal as a winter medicine._decSl-flPae ^.DIVORC E S,-ABSOLUTE DI? 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A first-class Livery stable ls attached to tho Hotel, where vehicles of every description can ht had at the shortest notice. . - Omnibuses attend the arrival and departure of eve. y Train. WM. GORMAN, Proprietor and Superintendent. J. D. BUDDS, Cashier.. spri3-wfm E x~c E LTI O R HAIR TONIC, NO DYE ! Insures Healthy and Vigor?os Growth. War? ranted not to contain LEAD, Sulphur, or any other ipi orlons Drag. The Excelsior Hair Tonic wui keep th ; head clear of Dandruff, prevent the falling ont of tho Hair, and give it a soft and beautiful gloss. It ls not Injurions to the health or the oser, nor ls it greasy and filthy like many of the prepara? tions at present offered as Hair Renewers. Manufactured by Da. H. BARK, Wholesale and Fetall Druggst, No. 131 Meeting street, Charleston. Price per bottle 60 cents. . N. B.-All the preparations manufactured by DR. H. BAER are ta accordance with form?las given by distinguished Physicians, and have been subjected to long and careful trial. 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