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MISCSIIIJANY Th? S tam merin? WI??. When deeply in love wkh Miss Emily Prync, I vowed ii tne maiden would'only bo mine, I would al wa vs endeavor to please her, ' She blushed her consent, tho' tho stutter? ing lass Said never a word, except "You're an ass An ass-an as-siduous teaser!" But when we were married, I found to my ruth, The stammering lady had spoken tho truth ; For often, in obriens dudgeon, She'd say-if I ventured to give her a jog In the way of reproof-"You'ro a dog you're a dog A dog-? dog-matic curmudgeon." And once when I said, "We can hardly afford This extravagant style with our moderate hoard," And hinted we ought to bo wiser, She looked, I assure you, exceedingly blue, And ttetruiiy cried, "YouVo a Jew-you're a Jew A very ju-dicions adviser." Again, when it happened that wishing to shirk Some rather unpleasant and arduous work, . I begged her to go to a neighbor. She wanted to know why I made such a fnss, And saucily said, "You're a cns-cus-cus You were always ac-customed to labor!" Out of temper at last with tho insolent dame, And feeling that madam was greatly to blame To scold mo instead of caressing, I mimicked her speech-like a churl that I am And angrily said, "You're a dam-dam dam A dam-ago instead of a blessing." Bill A rp Returns to the Sternal Citty and Sleets hi* Friend Big John. Editar Metierpolilun Rekord. MB. EDTTUB, SUB: I hav not up to this time made any remarks in publik about the trials .and tribulations, the losses and crosses, the buzzards and dead hosses seen on our journey home to the eternal citty. I shall not allood to it now, only to remark that our comin back -were not so hasty as our leavin. It was in the'dead of winter, through snow and through sleet, over creeks without bridges and bridges without floors, through a deserted and desolate land, where no rooster was left to crow, no pig to squeal, no dog to bark; wh<?re the ruins of happy homes adorned the way, and ghosty chimneys stood np like Sherman's sentinels a guardin the ruins he had made. A little one hos consent containd the highth of my worldly possessions, consist-in of my numerous and lovely wife and chil? dren, and a shuck basket full of some second class vittels. Countin our offspring, there was about ten of us in and about and around that wagin, thus illustratin what the poet has sed, "One glorious hour of crowded hie is worth an age without a name," though the glory were hard to purseeve on sich okkashuns. Mrs. Arp are of the opinyun that her posterity were never as hungry before " J. their hie as on that distressin journey, and she once remarked that there want nary rod of the road that dident hear some of em a hollerin for vittels. My wife's hus? band is troobled bekaus they aint broke of it yit, and it do seem that the poorer I git the more devourin they become, all of which will eend in sumthin or other if snmthin don't happen. We finally arrived within the pre sinkts of our lovely home. The doors creaked welcome on their hinges, the hoppin-bug cherruped on the hearth, and the whistiin wind was sin gin the same old tune around the bed-room corner. We were about as happy as we had been miserable, and when I remarked that General Vandiver, who okkupied our house, must be a gen? tleman for not burnin it, Mrs. Arp replied: "I wonder what he done with my soing masheen." "He dident cut down our shade trees," sed L "My bur?es and carpets and crock? ery are all gone," sed she. .'It may be possibnl," sed I, "that the Genrul-" "And my barrel of soap," sed she. "It may be possibnl," sed I, "that the Genrul moved off our things to take keer of em for tis. I reckon we'll get em all back atter while." "Atter while" said Mrs. Arp, like an ekko, and ever since then when I allood to our Northern brethren she only replies, "Alter while." By and by the skatterd wanderers begun to drop in nuder the welcum shades of our sorrowful citty. It were a delightful enjoyment to greet em home, and listen to the history of their suffrings and misfortunes. Misery loves company, and after the misery is past there's a power of com? fort in talkin it over and fixin up as big a tale as any body. I wer standin one day upon the hanks of the injun river, a wonderin in my mind who would come next to glad? den our hearts, when I saw the shud? der of an objek a darknin the sun-lit bank. It wer not a load of hay nor an elefant, but shore enuf it wer my freud Big John, a movin slowly, but surely, to the dug out landing on the opposite side. His big round face assoomed more latitood when he saw me, and without waitin for remarks he sung out in a voice some two staves deeper than the Southern Har? mony "There came to the beech a poor etile ol Erin." "Make him/?<," said I, "and yoa'l fill the bill." Prouder to see him than a monkey show, I paddled thc dug out over in double quick and bid him welcum in the name of the eter? nal citty and its humble inhabitants. I soon got him afloat in the little canoo, and before I was aware of il the water was sloshing over the gun nels at every wabble. "Lay down my ?tend," said I, and he laid, which ?was all that saved us from a watry grave, end the naboorin farms from inundation. When safely landed I found him wedged in so tight that he couldent rise, so I relieved him by a prize with the eend of tho paddle. As his foot touchd the sakred soil ho gently separated his countenance and sung with f eelin melody, I "Homo again-home again-from a f orrin ? shore, The Yanks saay cum and the devil too but I'll not run any more." Becollektin .some skraps of blank verse myself, I said with muchaksent, "Tell me thou swift of foot-r-thou modern Asahel-Oh tell me where is thy chariot and steer? Where didst thou go when I did see thee driving like Jehn as we did flee for life." 'Til tell you all," sed he, "I want my frends to know it. I'm now a man of war, Bill, and I'm glad of it. Ive done the state some servis and she knows it. Ive handled guns ^es, guns-weepins of deth. Ive slept on my arms since I seed you night after night hav I slept on my arms, with hundreds of deadly weep? ins all around me. Ah Bill, Patriot? ism is a big thing. When you once breake the ice, great sluices of glory as big as your arm will jest spring up like mushrooms in your buzzum; and make you feel like throwin yourseli clean away for your country. Lei me set down and I'll' tell you all 1 know, Bill, but as the feller said in the theater, "when you in youl letters these unlucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am-nothing expa tiate nor set down hot in malice. " "Jest so," sed I, "exaaktly-ex aaktly so. Proseed, my hero. " "Well, you see, the night after yoi passed me, my steer got away. Hang the deseevin beast! I hunted smartb for him the next mornin, but I hunt ed more forrerds than backwards Leavin my wagin with a widder wo man, I took it afoot across the coun try by a settlement road they callee the 'cut off.' Devil of a cut off i was to me. I broke down in sight o a little log cabin, and never nr>ved ? foot further that day. The old mai had a chunk of a nag that worked ii a slide. I perswaded him to haul m to the eend of the cut off, and know he done it for fear I'd eat u his smoke-house. Every now an then he'd look at the old oman, an she'd 'ook at the smoke-house an then look at me. But that si id i bisness were the most orf ullest tra ve lin that I ever hav had. Every tim the pony'd look back he'd stop, an when he'd start agin he giv such jerk that my contents were in dan ge: My holt broke on one okkashun, goin down a hill fud of gullies, rolld some twenty feet into the ?dj? of the woods, and cotch up agin a old pine stump that was full of yali* jakets. Three of the dingd thinj stung me before I could rise, but got through the cut off and fell i with some empty wagina that w? stampedin my way. * 'Gittin on to Atlanty, a fool Iris! man stopd me right at the edge the town and demanded my pap? I dident hav no papers. Nobody lu ever axd me for papers, but 1 wouldent hear an argument. j Quarles would say, he woudent jil isshue, but marched me to an off and I dident stay there ten ruine! I wer sent off to Dekatur -with sou fifty conskripts who were all mournin, exsepin their clothes, never seed sich a pitiful set in my lil I talkd with em all, and thar was na one but what had the dyspepsy the swinny or the rumatics or t blind staggers or the heaves or t humps or sumthin. Well, the want none of us discharged, for thc was bran new orders callin for evei body for thirty days to go to t ditches. As I couldent walk that fi I was ordered to Andersonville guard the prisoners. At Makon met an old akwaiutance, who wai powerful big officer, and he had i transfered to his department and r in charge of his ordnaneo. Ther where I handled guns, Bill, and si on my arms. Whole boxes of mi kets was around me, and I dident more mind taken a snooze on a gi box than if it had been a couch fethery down. Its all in gittin us to it, Bill-all in the use." "Jest so," sed I, "that's the wav see it-exaktly so, my friend. P seed." "It's blam'd lucky, Bill, thal dident go to Andersonville. Tl would have had me alongside Wirz, either as principal or witn or sumthin, and some lyin Ya would har had a swear or two at about shootiu him on the dead li Before this, my carkass wonld h; been eat up by worms or cut up doktors, and my piktei spred oxer a whole side of Harper s Wee as a monster of deth. "Well. I kep hand lin guns i i bayonets and dangerous weepi until one day I got a furlo to go Rome. Sherman was playin V. around about Atlanta, and so I : i to circumference around by the i of Selma, and the very day I there, everlastin blast em, the "Wi! raiders got there too. I wasent i more lookin for them Yankeef Selma than I were for old Beelzet [ and both of em was all the sam< i me. Blamd if they wasent sho ) at me before I knowd they was in [ State. How in the dickens 1 . missed me I dont know, for t minny balls sung yanky doodle i around me and over me and ui b me and betwixt me. "I tell you, Bill, iTun like a j t , turkel, lookin ahead of me at e< step to find an easy place io fall when I was plugged. An old woman overtook me, and I axd her to take my watch and my money. She took em in a hurry and put em in her boozum. Well, I. found a gully at last, and rolld in kerslosh, for it was about two feet deep in mud and water. The infer? n?is found me there jest at night, and got me out at the pint of the baynet. They marched mo to the wolf pen and there I stayd till the fuss was over. "Eight here, Bill, I want to make aa observation. There was a* feller with me when I was cotch'd... and I seed him make a sorter of assign to the captain, and they turned him loose in two minets, and he jest went about anywhere as nateral as a king, while I had a crossey'd dutchman standin over me with a baynet grin nin from mornin till night. There was some Free Masonry about that, Bill, and if another one of these fool wars comes along, I'll jine em, if they'l let me. "But I'm at home now for good. I'm gwine to stay here like a sine die. I'm agin all wars and fightins. I'm opposed to all rows and rumpusses and riots. I dont keer nigh as much about a dog fight as I used to. Now, if one could always see the eend of a thing 'n advance, and the eend was all right, I wouldent mind a big fuss, but then you know a man's foresights aint as good as his hind sights. If they was, this war wouldent have broke out, and I wouldent hav lost my steer, nor my watch. I never seed that woman before nor since, and I wouldent know her from any other woman that waiko the yearth blanid if I'm certain whether she were white or black Bill, how is your offspring?" "Hungry as usual, I thank you my frend," sed I. "How's Mrs. Arp?" "Rebellious, John, very; but I think she'l be harmonized-(titer while -attn' irhile." Mr. Editur, I will not relate furthet of these trying adventures at this time. Big John are now entirely harmonious, and I suppose his future career will be all sereen. Yours af ever, BILL ABP. P. S.-Mrs. Arp wants you to gil ! back the letters I writ her when slit i wert; sweet sixteen. Them ofhsei? I have got em, and I suppose hav< laugbd all the funny part away bj this time. They containd some foo thing that boys will write when they fall in love, and my wife sometimes used em tipon me as reminders o broken promises. She says, if they'l send em, she' try and forgive em-utter while. Dont trouble yourself much, Mr Editur, and it will be all the same t< me. B. A. INSURE YOUR LIVES. APOLICY OF LIFE INST ANCE I THE CHEAPEST Av SAFES' MODE of making a certain ..ovision fo one's family. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: Nothing is so uncertain as life. Ko provision is perfect that is contingen upon the duration of your life, vhieh is nc immediate. The onlv IMMEDIATE provision is tim provided by LIFE INSURANCE. It provides a SECURITY to tho famil of every man engaged in business. It is" a species of property that cos) nothing but the premiums; it requires n repairs, has no taxes, calls for no outlay) and its conditions do not change. Call on H. E. NICHOLS, Agent for tl: following OLD, RELIABLE and POPI LAR LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES: JETNA, OP HARTFORD, CONN., Assets $2,000,000. GLOBE, OF NEW YORK, Assets, nearly 83,000,000. NORTH CAROLINA MTJTUAIi, OF R/ LEIGH, Assets, nearly $1,000,000. CORNER OF .VA.SHINGTON AND A! SEMBLY STREETS, COLUMBIA, S. C. I Jan 18 rtm _ Fire and Marine BEING appointed agent for sever FIRST-CLASS INSURANCE COMP. NIES, I am prepared to insure to ai amount against ?ro. Amongst tho offic for which I am agent are tho well-knov Metropolitan, of New York; Continental, New York; and National, of New Orleans These offices alone have a capital of ov $2,000,000. Policies made payable in either gold currency. JAMES G. GIBBES, Agent. Dec 20 _ H. E. NICHOLS GENERAL INSTANCE AGENT, Corner of Assembly and Washington St REPRESENTS a number of the best both Northern and Southern-comp nies, possessing s.n aggregate capital over $23,000,000. LIFE, FIRE, MARIN! INLAND AND ACCIDE> TAL RISKS taken on equ table terms, and all loss? promptly paid. 8?" Policies made payab in Gold or Currency, "?tl For Mayor. JAS. G. GIBBES is respectfully noi nated for next Mavor. Jan ll_MANY FRIENDS MESSRS. Eorratts: Major THEODO STARK is respectfully nominated as a c; didate for the office of MAYOR of the e . ofrColumbia-to be filled at the easui . election in April next-bv bis . Dec 28 JLVNY FRIENDS The friends of Dr. A. N. TALLEY no: nate him as a candidate for Mayor at ensuing election in April next. Nov 2 KNUT mumm BY THE EUREM GIFT ASSOCIATION. ESTABLISHED 1846. 180 Broadway, New York. Rosewood Pianos, Melodeons, Fine Oil Paintings, Engravings, Silver Ware, Fine Gola and Silver Watches, Diamond Pins, Dia? mond Rings, Gold Bracelets, Coral, Florentine, Mosaic, Jet, Lava and Cameo Ladies1 Sets, Gold Pens with Gold and Silver Extension Holders, Sleeve Buttons, sets of Studs. Vest and Neck Chains, Gold Rings, fcc, VALUED AT #1,000,000. DISTRIBUTION is made in the following manner: Certificate?, naming each article and its value, are placed in sealed envelopes, which are well mixed. One of these envelopes, containing the certificate or order for some article, wiU bo delivered at our office or sent by mail to any address, without regard to choice, on receipt of 25 cents. On receiving tho certificate, the purchaser will seo what article it draws and its value, and can then send ONE DOLLAR and receive tho article named, or can choose anv other one article on our hst of thc same value. ?3" Purchasers of our SEALED ENVE? LOPES may, in this manner, obtain an article worth from One to Five Hundred Hollars, For One Dollar, Which they need not pay until it is known what is drawn and its value. Entire satis? faction guaranteed in all cases. THE EUREKA GIFT ASSOCIATION Would call attention ti) the fact of its being the original and largest Gift Association in the country. We are. therefore, enabled tf Bend finer goods and ?ive better chances t< obtain thc inore valuable prises than am other establishment of tho kind. The bu? siness continues to he conducted in a fail j and honorable manner, and a large anc greatly increasing trade is proof that oui i patrons appreciate this method of obtain j ing rich ami elegant goods. During the past year1, this Associatioi has sent a very large number of valuabh prizes to all parts of the country. Thosi who patronize us will receive the foll valu of their money, as no article on our list i; worth less than One Dollar, retail, am there are no blanks. Parties dealing with us may depend Ol ! having prompt returns, and tho articl drawn will bc immediately sent to any ad dress by return mail or express. The following parties have recent! drawn valuable prizes from the Eureka As sociation, and have kindly allowed the us of their names; many other names migli bc published were we permitted: Andrew Wilson, Custom House, Philadel phia, Penn., Oil Painting, value $100; Jas Hargraves, 821 Broadway, New York, O Painting, value $100; E. F. Jones, Barrett Marshall Co., Kansas, Melodeon, value ?2CM P. J. Byrnes, Waterbury, Ct., Gold Watcl value $125; J. F. Shaw, 224 East 24th stree I New York, Piano, value $350; Mrs. Chas. , Nevis, Elmira, N. Y., Piano, value $301 Miss Lucy .laneway. Elmira, N. Y., Clustt Diamond" Ring, value $200; Mrs. K. Pei noyer, City Hotel, Nashville, Tenn., Mel? deon, vahie $123; Oscar M. Allen. Co. 1 142d Reg. Ind. Vols., Nashville, Tenn Watch, value $85; Rowland S. Pattersoi Co. D, 10th Iowa Vet. Vols., Od Paintinj value $100; Mrs. Abbey J. Parsons, Sprin; field, Mass., Melodeon, value $150; Jas. 1 Dexter, City Surveyor, Syracuse, N. Y Gold Watch, value $150; Mrs. James El; 177 Wooster street, cor. Bleeker, N. Y., (j Painting, value $100; Mrs. J. C. Cole Grand ltapids, Michigan, Silver Casto value $40; Dr. J. li. Sinclair, No. 4 Ma: st., Utica, N. Y., Framed Engraving, vail $25; Hon. Luther Detmold, Wasbingto D. C., Oil Painting, value $100. Letters from various parties througho' the country, acknowledging tho receipt very valuable gifts, may oe seen on file our office. To be Sold for One Dollar Each, Without regard to ruine-and not to be pa for until you know what you trill receive. 50 Eleg't Rosewood Pianos, EACH. worth from.$25(1.00 lo 500. 50 Melodeons, Ros'd cases. 125.00 to 225. 100 fine Oil Paintings. 25.00 to 100. 100 gold H'g Case Watches 75.00 to 159. 150 Diamond Rings. 50.00 to 2IH). 250 Ladies' Gold Watches. 00.00 to 85. 450 Silver Watches. 25.00 to 50. 200 fine Steel Eng's, fr'md. 12.00 to 25. 100 Music Boxes. 12.00 to 45. lOOSil'r Rev'gPatCastors 15.00 to 40. 100 " Ft and C'koB'kets. 15.00 to 35. 500 sets Silver Tea and Table Spoons. 15.00 to 30 2,500Vest and Neck Chains 5.00 to 25 2,500 Ladies' Silver Porte monaies. 8.00 lo 15 3,000 Silver Butte r Knives 3.00 to 7 2.000 pr Ear-rings.new stylo 1.50 to G 3,000 Gold Pencils and Toothpicks. 3.00 to 8 3,000 Onvx and Amethyst Brooches. 1.00 to 10 3,000 Lava and Florentine Brooches. 4.00 to G 1,000 Masonic. Tins. 1.00 to fi 2,000 fine Gold W'ch Keys. 3.50 to fi 5,000 Children's Armlets.. 2.50 to H 2,500 sets Bosom Studs. .. 1.50 to 5 2,500 En'd Sleeve Buttons. 2.50 to 10 10,000 Plain Gold and Chased Rings. 1.00 to 5 5,000 Stone Set <V S'l Rings 2.50 to 10 5,000 Lockets, all sizes_ 2.00 to 7 10,000 sets Ladies'Jewelry 8.00 to 20 4,000 Watch Charms, each 3.00 to ? 5,000 Gold Pens, SilvEx C's 4.00 to (i 5,000 Gent's Breast and Scarf Pms. 3.00 to 2f 2,000 Ladies' New Stvle Belt Buckles. 4.00 to { ! 2,000 Chatelaine and Guard Chains. fi.00 to 21 1,000 Gold Thimbles. 7.00 to U 2,000 set Ladies'Jet ??Gold KUM) to 21 10,000 Go'd Crosses. 1.50 to ( G,00() Oval Band Bracelets. 6.00 to 21 4,000 Chased Bracelets. .. 5.00 to ll 2,000 Ball Ear-drops, ah colors. 3.00 to ; 5,000 fine Gold Pens. 2.00 to i 2,000 New Style Jet and Gold Ear-drops. 3.00 to 2,500 New Stvle Long ( krys? tal Ear-drops. 4.00 to I 2,000 Gold Pens. 3.00 to I tS~ A chance to obtain any of tho ab articles for ONE DOLLAR by purchasii Sealed Envelope, for 25 cents. JO-Five Sealed Envelopes will be ? for $1.00; eleven for $2.00; thirty for $5 sixty-five for $10.00; our. hundred for il.r> AGENTS WANTED EVERYWiiERI Our patrons are desired to send Uni States money when it is convenient. L letters are unnecessary. Orders for Set Envelopes must in every case be aceom nied by tho cash, with the name of person" sending, and Town, Comity State plainly written. Letters shoulc addressed to tho Managers as follows: GOODWIN, HUNT k C< Box 5,700 Post Oftice, New Yor Feb JO 3nn Kew York Advertisements. BM N0T? WANTED BY LAWRENCE BRO.'S & CO., BANKERS, 16 WALL STREET, NEW YORK. Feb 8 Imo SHELDON, HOOT & CO., IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN CUTLERY, GUNS, HOES ami other goods suited to SOUTHERN TRADE, No. 43 Chambers st. and 21 Reade st., a few doors East of Broadway, and opposite the new Court House, New York. HENRY K. SHELDON, SAMUEL A. BUSICK, WILLIAM J. HOYT, EDWARD LYNES, J. ERASTUS SHELDON*. Iron Carolina HOES, Elwells Crowu, (steel,) Brade's Crown, Brado's Patent, Rice Hoes, Scovill s Planters' Hoes and other makes American Planters' Hoes, half bright and full bright, round and oval eve. Mr. D. F. DAY, of late firm Hyde, Gregg A Day, Charleston, S. C., is with us, and will be happy to seo his friends and cus? tomers. Feb 8 3mo New York, January 13, 18CG. HENRY M. MORRIS, GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT, r 93 Pearl street, New York. N. B.-Wm. S. Hill, (formerly Hill & Norfleet,) of Rich? mond, Va., and "Charles D. Hill, of North Carolina, arc associated with me in the above business, and will bo pleased to servo their Southern friends. References-Gen. R. D. Johnston and R. W. Lawson A- Co., Charlotte, N. C.: John Wilks, President 1st National Bank, Charlotte, N. C. Feb 7 +2mo* Banker and Broker, NO. 30 WALL STU EET, NEW YORK. r\ OVEUNMENT SECURITIES, STOCKS, VX BONDS and COLD bought and sold on commission and carried on the usual margin, if desired. Interest allowed on deposits subject to sight. Drafts and un? settled claims adjusted. Particular atten? tion paid io thc negotiation of Commercial Paper and Bills of Exchange. Jan 2G_ _ f2mo WELD, MDBJf S & LEET, Importers and Jobbers of Foreign and American Fancy Goods, Ho? siery, Gent's Furnishing Goods, Stationery, Cutlery, and also Manu? facturers of Hoop Skirts, 23 Park Place and 20 Murray St., WE have one of tho largest and best assorted stocks of above goods in this country, adapted to Southern trade, which wc oder upon favorable terms. Buy? ers will do well to give us a trial. All orders promptly attended to. WELD, ANDREWS A LEET. Feb 4 :hno WESTCHESTER HOUSE, CORNER BROOME ST AND BOWERY, NEW YORK. rilHIS house, capable of accommodating I three hundred guests and kept on the European plan, is centrally located, and near to all points. City cars pass thc Hotel to all the Ferries, Railroad Depots and places of Amusement every three minutes. Single Rooms, $1.00 per day; double, $2.00. J. F. DARROW A CO., Jan 14 ly Proprietors. LAWRENCE BROTHERS & CO., S A ? K ? 8 S , NO. 10 WALL STREET, NEW YORK. 1^1 OVERNMENT SECURITIES AND VT other STOCKS, BONDS, GOLD, Ac, bought and sold on commission for cash. DEPOSITS received from Banks, Bank? ers, Merchants and others, subject to check on sight. COLLECTIONS made on all parts of the United States. DEWITT C. LAWRENCE. JOHN li. CECIL. CYRUS J. LAWRENCE. WM. A. HALSTED. Dec 31 JAMES CONNER'S SONS UNITED STATES TYPE FOUNDRY PRINTERS' WAREHOUSE, 'VTOS. 28, 30 and 32 Centre street, (corner 131 of Reade street,) New York. Thc typo on which this paper is printed is from the above Foundry. Nov 18 BATCHELOR'S HAIR DYE! THE Original and Best in tho World. The only true and perfect HAIR DYE. Harmless, "Reliable and Instantaneous. Produces immediately a splendid Black or natural Brown, without injuring the hair or skin. Remedies the ill effects of bad dyes. Sold by all Druggists. The genuine ia signed William A. Batchelor. Also, RE? GENERATING EXTRACT OF MILLE FLEURS, for Restoring and Beautifying tho Hair. CHARLES BATCHELOR, Oct 25 ly New York. MAKE UP YOUR CLUBS. IW YOI NEWS. BENJ. WOOD, Editor and Proprier r. ! THE ONLY RECOGNIZED DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK, DAILY, SEMI-WEEK? LY AND WEEKLY. TO THE P (JULIO. THE NEW YORK NEWS HAS BATTLED against despotism for four years of blood and terror, in assertion of the sanc? tity of the Constitution. A patriotism sufficiently broad to embrace both sections I has been its onlv guide, and it refers not with honest pride to its record to show that it oas not turned to tho right or tho left under all tho violence of arbitrary power. True to its principles as THE NEWS lias been through thc reign of terror, it chal? lenges public confidence in its honesty and independence for the future. The political transition of tho present day opens to THE NEWS a new and wider field ot usefulness. Standing now, as i always has, on tho inviolability of thc Con? stitution, according to tho interpretation o tho strict constructionists, it presents rallying ground for all, in both sections, I who are friends of a generous conservatism. ia a truo and tried exponent of sectional unity, it occupies a position which makes it he fitting mediator in holding up to the ?arty of order, in both sections, interests md principles that gave breadth and vi ality to tl ?eir alliance. As tin interscc ional agent, devoted to freedom of elec ion. to trial by jury, to the sanctity of tho tabeas corpus, and opposed now, as for bur years of terror it has been, to tho ccn ralization that dares to trample on the ights of States, North or South, THE iE WS places itself as a candidate for sup )ort before the great body of this onco free iconic The circumstances of the moment make he dissemination of the principie? of THK <EWS a duty of individual patriotism. Svery man who concurs in its doctrino nust, if ho entertain a true sense of free lom, do so in no spirit of indifference, but athor with the earnestness of a high trust, lustined, nay bound, in his love of liberty, o do so,the proprietor places tho canvass ne nakes here of the public generally in the lands of those men who give him the ap >roval of their consciences as bia individual igcnts. Every reader of THE NEWS cannot ivoid tho conviction of duty which is here >ointcd out as the ground "of tho request, hat he nrges its claims for a wider support ipon all of his friends and neighbors who pve their earnest sympathies to the cause >f "strict construction. ' intersect ional con ?liation, and all the rights of tho citizen? mder the system set up hy our fathers of iberty regulated by law. The proprietor )f THE NEWS calls, therefore, upon good ind true Conservativos througnout the ;ountry; to discharge, to their convictions >f political right at this great crisis in the :ountry*s fortunes, the duty of giving to ;he influence of his paper, daily, scmi veekly or weekly, the wider power for good which it seeks herc through the service of ts indiviuaal supporters. THE SEMI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY NEWS. ?yThese two Journals are made up with jpecial reference to the wants of country lubscribers, anti contain such a variety of natter as to render them welcome to every 'amily in the land. In thc matter of Lrr? i ATURE the choice rt storii* of tho best .vriters are spread forth in their ce ..?'inns, md more excellent literary matter is fur? bished in one issue than can be had in nany of the exclusively literarv journals of bo day. The GE""ER.VL NEWS is admirably (elected ami condensed, so as to give all be current intelligence in as readable a omi as it can be placed. 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Advertisers now availing themselves of .he opportunity to make known their buai 1088 through tho columns of THE NEW ifoitK NEWS, aro convinced of the impor? tance of its great circulation throughout ;he South, in consequence of the large or lers received hy them, certify to the value )f this journal as the test medium for ad? vertising, and the public generally de? fending upon publicity to secure an exten iioii of business commensurate with enter arise, should not fail to become acquainted with the unquestionable advantages to he lerived from announcing, through thc tolumns of this popular journal, whatever .elates to commercial or financial mattors, io matter what may bo thc particular busi? ness in which anv partv mav be engaged. Address BENJAMIN WOOD, New York News Building, No. 19 City Hall Square, Jan 14 12* New York. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE StoclsJioiders OF THE South Carolina Railroad uompany AND OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN R. R. BANK. THE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the above institution will be held in the city of Charleston, on the SECOND TUESDAY in February next, the 13th day it that month. Place of meeting-Hall of tho South? western Railroad Bank, on Broad street. Hour of convening-ll o'clock A. M. On the day following-Wednesday, tho 14th-there will bo an election held at the janie place, between the hours of 9 A. M. ind 3 P. M., for FIFTEEN DIRECTORS if the RAILROAD COMPANY and THIR? TEEN DIRECTORS of the BANK. A committee to verify proxies will attend. Stockholders will be passed, a? usual, over the Road, to and from the meeting, free of charge, in accordance with the re? solution of the Convention of 1854. Jan 21_J. R. EMERY, Secretary. South Carolina Railroad Company AND Soutls-W: st? rn Railroad Bank. I unmnimg-| FEBRUARY 10, 1864. ""OESOLVED, That now Proxies be _LV required at the next annual meet? ing, and that due notice of the same he given to the Stockholders." The attention of the Stockholders of the above institution is respectfully called to the foregoing resolution, adopted at the last meeting; and notico is hereby given that Proxies will not be available at the next meeting (14th proximo) unless each signature is stamped with a ten (10) centH Internal Revenue Stamp. JOHN T%STOCK, L. C. HENDRICKS, C. J. COLCOCK, Jan 27 |8 Committee on Proxies.