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\ !By Telesrapb. Congressional. WASHINGTON, March 8.-In the Senate, resolution? were offered declaring that to Congress, afid not to the Executive, be? long? the power of re-establishing civil government in the lately seceded States, pending the constitutional amendment. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Boutelle, from the Select Committee on Re? co., .action, made a report, signed by himself and Washburno, of Illinois, stating that" East Tennessee is loyal, but Middle and West Tennessee are * disloyal. Thev propose, as aa additional condition for ad? mission, that suffrage be conferred without regard to race or color. A bill was debated declaring all the blacks citizens, confer? ring upon them equal rights and immuni? ties, with power for their protection. Progress of She Conflict. * The conflict between the President and the radicals in Congress con? tinues to be the all-absorbing topic of public attention. "While the Presi? dent's policy is undoubtedly gaining strength, the great question is whe? ther he will be able to carry his points in the present Congress. Of one thing the country can congratulate itself--the radicals will not succeed in. any of their ultra, unconstitution? al schemes, at the worst; therefore, matters will only be left in their pre? sent condition. Senator Sherman has made a sort of half-and-half speech, which, however, contained more than an average amount of sense for a Republican senatorial effort; and Governor Cox, of Ohio, comes before the public in a letter detailing the substance of an inter? view with Mr. Johnson, the point of which is that the President is in earn? est in hi? advocacy of his reconstruc? tion policy. Both of these efforts are doubtless intended to conciliate the "party" towards the President and what he has already done, and reconcile them to the inevitable con? dition of a stand-still policy rathei than to hazard further attacks upon him. They want their party to wait: to do nothing; to keep their tongues still, and see if "something will nol turn up" to relieve them from the necessity of a war with the President. "If ever the time shall come," says Senator Sherman in his speech, "when I can no longer confide in de votion to the principles upon whicl he was' elected, I will bid farewell tc Andrew Johnson with unaffected sor r?V." There is not a single proposi tion upon which Mr. Johnson wai elected but what is to-day an accom plished fact. The unconditional sur render of those offering armed oppo sition to the Government, and t return to their just allegiance to th? Ccfnstitution and laws of the Unitec States, was the position of all partie; at that election. That has been ac complished. The party that nomi nated Mr. Johnson, insisted upoi the aboiitian of slavery, and ai amendment of the Constitution pro hibiting the future existence of tba institution in the country. That ha been done and ratified by the States and universally accepted as an accom plished fact. There were no furthe principles laid down for the guidanc of the President in the platform upo: which Mr. Johnson was elected. Th natural sequence which followed th surrender was the re-union of th country, and Mr. Johnson but accepl ed the land-marks laid out by Mi Lincoln as the basis of his policy. I this he has been sustained by all pai ties, till the Jacobins in Congres seized the power of the legislativ branch of the Government to thwai his patriotic efforts. The leaders in this rump Congres do not want peace and re-union, fe the reason that they know that, r soon as the attention of the c ouutr can be directed to the consideratio of their financial policy, their mon< poly and class legislation, their oj pressive and unjust systems of e: emptions and taxation, must go 1 the wall as a party, for the peop will never submit to such odious sy terns. They think by keeping up tl sectional animosities upon which the rode into power, they can keep the a tention of the people away from tho: issues and maintain their past -st premacy. They wish to hold tl South in vassalage, because to r eoguize their rights under the Coi stitution would settle all the dfticv. ties of a sectional nature, and leai i the people to consider those questio: b which so largely enter into their ov m prosperity and welfare. Presidei W Johnson, however, has appealed J the people, and it remains for tl Republican party to settle its ov ! policy. They have either to yield the demands of the President ai complete the re-uuibn of the countr i or meet him and the endorsers of 1 policy at the polls. In th*1 lat? event their utter defeat and comple discomfiture is certain. [Augusta Chronicle. TEXAS CONVENTION.-The Convc tion is reported favoring the assun tion by Texas of taxes laid by t Federal Congress in 1861. A request will be made to occu ? the frontier posts to protect the ci zens against tho Indians, ut The freedmen of Austin presenl IIB a petition to be admitted to vote a thus make their liberty comple I The petition was referred. ' Senators and representatives m be a resident of the State for f years. I A terrible tornado occured at Ku? li ville, Tennessee, on Friday, whi ft blew down thirty building, unrooi Bl tho depot and machine shop of t Rt Virginia Central Railroad, and i Of stroyed a large amount of other pi I perty. * The Poetry of LOTO. When Don Quixote de la Mancha was asked to describe tho fair Dul? cinea of whom he so often spake, he replied, with commendable alacrity: "But why should I undertake to de? lineate and copy, % one by one, each several perfection of the t peerless Dulcinea? The task were worthy of the pencils of Parahasius, Timantes, and Apelles, or the graving tools of Lysippus. The hands of the best painters and statuaries should indeed be employed to give, in speaking paint, in marble, and Corinthian brass and exact copy of her beauties; while Ciceronian and Demosthenian eloquence labored to reach the praise of her endowments. " One naturally infers from this little speech that the Don was in love. Yet the fact that .he made use of simple prose instead of poor poetry as a medium for the ? expression of his estimation of the female concerned, leaves room for a doubt as to the correctness of such an inference. Be this as it may, we must leave the erratic old fellow at this.point in order to consider a sub? ject of vastly greater importance. That males and females of all ages and all conditions should, in the course of their earthly existence, lapse in love is expected as much as that children will get the measles or the whooping cough. Love, of course, is an excellent thing. Nobody doubts this, and probably nobody will, so long as boys and girls and men and women inhabit the earth. Excellent, too, are its manifestations, though comical to a disinterested observer. But of all the manifestations of this passion none is so frequent as poetry. It seems to be almost a law of the human mind that when one falls in love the only vent for the feelings should lie in verse. Men take to this more readily, perhaps, than women; and, very naturally, inasmuch as it is regarded highly unbecoming for the latter to do more than receive tho ad? vances of the former. The quality of the rhyme which is begotten undei these circumstances, like that ol mercy, is not strained, but droppeth less gently and more frequently thar the rain from heaven. Ono effusioE of this sort per diem is a small allow? ance for some persons, while others are cool enough to be satisfied wit! one a month. Just where the golder mean hes, it is impossible to deter mine. Love, like necessity, know! no law. The number of those wlu write good poetry is so very small ir comparison with those who do not that it occurs to us that a few hint: to lovers who yearn for rhyme maj be of value not only to them, but als( to the unfortunate beings that are tc be the recipients of their effusions It must be understood, however, tha what may follow applies only to tin stronger sex, a .sense of gallantry forbidding any direct instruction ti the ladies. No man really in love will obtair the slightest relief from rhymes o his own construction, unless he load: his lucubrations with epithets. A ?o vice in the business is safe in address ing his beloved by the title of ai angel. Aside from the fact that th use of this word at once removes th whole matter from the low plane o earth, the rhynister may enjoy tin sweet consciousness that the concei can by no possible means be open tc the charge of novelty. "Apple of rn; eye" should be used sparingly, an< never in the spring or summer, th reason for which any horticultnris can explain. In view of the poo quality and. the high price of gas ii this city, we would suggest that young sprig, residing in the metre polis, could not do better than to ad dress the object of his affection as th light of his heart, thus combining i a very few words the two ideas of 01 nament and utility. Next in impor tance to epithets is a portrayal of th writer's feelings. Inasmuch as syn; pathy provokes attachment, and al tachment is closely allied to endeai ment, the great object in view shoul be to arouse sympathy on the part c the recipient of erratic verse in belia of the one who grinds them out. Th most obvious way to accomplish thi: is to represent one's self as sufferin untold agonies. The rural genius who began a long poem with th lines. ''.Without thee, I'm lonely und sad, But with thee, I never feel bad," evinced a thorough appreciation c the principle involved, though fe would regard his mode of applyin it as the most mellifluous that cou] be devised. It is always well to ador a melancholy tone; to appear o paper as do the professional mourne: of whom we read as figuring at fun? rals in England. Expressions lili "despair," "anguish of soul," "ni utterable sadness," "sorrow that cai not be removed," may be used (? they often have been used] wit effect. Only a tyro in matters of loi will be betrayed into a strain of jul lation; the experienced k low too wc the weakness of the female mind f< what is sad to make any such mi take. [ It were, the height of presumpt? to attempt to prescribe rules for tl construction of love poetry, ai foolish to expect that they would 1 observed, however correct they mig be. Poor verse will probably alwa bo a concomitant of gushing J fection. ?So long, however, as it confined to the privacy of confide ' tial intercourse, no complaint can made; but when it thrusts itself u der the public eye in newspapers a; other periodicals, it is a proper sn ject for comment. At some fntu time we may collate a few specimens of this sort of rhyme, as they come to us day after day in print and in manuscript, but, for the present, we content ourselves with these few general observations upon the sub? ject. Meanwhile, we commend to those who feel moved to gush in verse the suggestions herein made for their special benefit. The Ult Amendment. A speech of marked ability is said to have been made in the House by Hon. R. S. Hale, of Maryland, on the last amendment to the Constitution. It will be remembered that, by the amendment, Congress is empowered to secure by law to all the citizens of the several States "equal protection in the enjoyment of life, liberty and property." This amendment was originally presented by Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, and referred to the Commit? tee on -Reconstruction, In discussing the propriety of its adoption, Mr. Hale took the ground that it, in effect, authorizes Congress to pass any laws it may deem neces? sary and proper for protecting citi? zens of all the States in the enjoyment of life, liberty and property; that it may take all these matters into its own control, subject only to the con? dition that the protection thus afforded shall bo equal. He regarded this as a wide and dangerous depart? ure from the fundamental principles of the Government, and as completely over-riding all the powers and rights expressly reserved to the States by the Constitution. He supported this view in an argument of great clear? ness and force-one which was not affected or weakened in the least by the attempts made to answer it. The amendment, says the Balti? more Transcript, seems to be only another of the steps proposed by the radicals in Congress, for a consolida? tion of the central power, and the complete overthrow of State authori? ty. The steadiness with which this purpose has been pursued shows that it is not an accident of political action, but a deliberate and distinct political programme. It has more than once been asserted in Congress, that as the Southern States are now unrepre? sented, and as the Northern States thus have the opportunity to make the Government precisely what they would have it, they ought to embrace it, and to pass such laws and such amendments to tho Constitution as will give them permanent and com? plete control of the Government. And the whole action of the radicals in Congress has been steadily and powerfully in that direction. It is scarcely necessary to say that this doctrine is one which may well arrest the attention of the people of the United States, and that it is im? possible for those who attempt to carry it into effect to escape the most rigid scrutiny and responsibility at their hands. TAXING THE FEDERAL DEBT.-A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, writing from Washington, March 1, says: "The loan or funding bill, submit? ted at the commencement of the ses? sion by the Secretary of the Treasury, has met with much opposition in the Committee of Ways and Means, and in the House. The chief objections fo it were founded in the great dis? cretionary power which it invested in the Secretary over the currency and the finance of the country, on the provision authorizing a foreign loan, and on the legal tender, non-interest bearing currency. The Committee of Ways and Means deem it unneces? sary to authorize any loan, inasmuch as the revenue is adequate to the ex? penditures of the Government, and will afford a surplus for a sink? ing fund towards the reduction of the public debt. A redundant and depreciated currency they deem as essential to support the present sys? tem of internal revenue. On the whole, there is no prospect of any legislation that will tend towards a reduction of the currency. "The question of taxing the Fede? ral debt is not to be availed of by this Congress. In some communi? ties, Government securities form the chief wealth cf the wealthier class, and the exemption of those securities from State and municipal taxation is complained of as a grievance. At an? other Presidential election, this ques? tion might become mingled with po? litics, and even tend to produce opposition to measures for sustaining the public credit. "The Committee of Ways and Means do not, however, propose to depart from the policy of the Secre? tary of the Treasury in thia respect. " REMARKABLE FACT?.-The New York Times says: This country did more to feed Eu? rope during the years 18G2, '63 and '64, than in the three years which immediately preceded the late war. The quantity of wheat shipped in the midst of the war was two and three fourths times greater than before, while the amount of ham and side bacon was increased eight times. This is certainly a remarkable exhibit, when it is remembered that, during these three years of war, we had au average of a million of men in the army, whose producing capacity was for the time lost to the country. A nation that can carry on the most stu? pendous war of modern times, pros? per meanwhile, and greatly increase its exports of provisions, may well astonish the wise ones of Europe. There is no parallel to it in the world's history. Patronage of Home Industry-. In continuation of our remarks on this important subject, we may add a few additional suggestions. We have already laid down the proposition that the encouragement and support of agricultural and industrial enter? prises is really of more importance to the South at this time than even the admissior f her Senators and Rep? resentatives in Congress; and why is this? Because, having just emerged from a long, bloody and disastrous war, her every interest is prostrated, all her resources are dormant, and she is in almost an abnormal condi? tion To bring back prosperity and plenty to her borders, is the first duty of every citizen; while the admission of our Senators and Representatives in Congress would give us no more power in.that body than we now pos? sess. In brief, we can get along very well without the one, and we cannot without the other. "Why, then, should we disturb our equanimity or perplex our brains about political affairs, when there is so much to be done in a wider and more important field? Why should we stand with heads uncovered and hats in hand, vainly beseeching admittance to the council halls of the nation, while every interest of our unfortunate sec? tion of the Union is crying aloud to us to be up and doing, to work, to bend ourselves to the task of regene? ration with all the energies that we are capable of? Rather let us erect factories and foundries, machine shops and furnaces ; rebuild our ruined sanctuaries, establish schools and col? leges; turn up the soil, plant, sow and reap the rich harvest of plenty and prosperity which will surely fol? low honest industry and untiring energy. With white labor properly protect? ed and properly directed, the rich productive soil of these States will once more be made to "blossom as the rose,"' the golden tassels of the Indian corn will once more proudly wave in the gentle Southern breezes, and the saowy fields where old King Cotton was wont to wield his scep? tered sway, will again beautify the valleys and the hill-sides, and plenty wrill smil? on every side. Not only put your manufactories in operation, but when the water-wheel and the steam-engine have performed their duty-when the loom, and the spindle, and the anvil, have fulfilled the objects for which they are in? tended-when the fabrics and the implements have been produced or fashioned into shape-let us purchase them here, rather than go abi*oad for similar articles. Let us keep our money at home ; let us encourage our mechanics and laborers; let us sup? port our own industry and enterprise; for herein really lies the secret of our independence-not a political inde? pendence, (for to obtain that we have vainly essayed and signally failed,) but an independence of far more im? portance, more enduring and more worthy of our most strenuous efforts. Such an independence as this will witness every valley and every hill-top crowned with the products of our soil -every city swarming with a husb? and prosperous people-every town, village and hamlet increasing in wealth and population. Such an in? dependence will make us great, wealthy, prosperous and respected a power in tho nation, honored and admired abroad. Such an indepen? dence is what we want-such an inde? pendence is what we must strive to work for.-Augusta Press. THE YOUNG BLOODS OF NEW YORK. The New York correspondent of the Springfield Republican has the follow? ing description of the young men of that city who attend balls: "Pale, bald, with poor physiques, frivolous, dissipated, insane, one yard of tape to th reo of cotton, written over their faces, they are the weakest specimens of humanity that one can see in any quarter of the globe. I know of no more disheartening sight than to contemplate three of them in a line. 'The masculine world is made up of two classes,' said a clever young lawyer, very much disgusted at being mistaken for a 'dancing man'-'those with brains and those with heels.' 'The feminine world is made of two classes,' replied a lady-'those with brains and those with pretty faces, and I find that the latter are favorites with the men!' 'You are right, and so am I,' continued the lawyer. .What do you suppose the. next gene? ration will be?' 'Apes!' answered the lady. These two individuals went home in a very happy frame of mind." During the violent hurricane of the 11th, on the French coast, 200 enor? mous blocks of stone, placed in front of the break-water at Cherbourg, to protect it from the action of the sea, were lifted by the waves and thrown over the wall into the harbor. Forty cannon, planted on the pier, were thrown into the sea. Such a storm had never before been experienced in that place. .-- - The British Government has recently employed a largo number of very modest-looking young English ladies to travel in Ireland and pay particular attention to the conversa? tions going on in the cars, tteamboats and hotels for the benefit of tho Fenians. It was believed by the authorities that Stephens would bo arrested through tho exertions of these women detectives. The storage warehouse of Johnson, Lane & Co., New York, was burned on the 5th. -1,600 bales of cotton were destroyed. Loss $300,000. The Cultivation of Cotton. Several estimates, made some years ago, of the expenses of cultivating cotton under the old slave system, are given in DeBow's Review, for Janua? ry, 1866. One of the calculations was for a plantation of 4,200 acres of land, (2,700 in cultivation,) worked by 254 slaves, old and young, which pro? duced 331,000 pounds of cotton, at an expense of four cents seven mills per pound. Another statement is given of the expenses on an estate of 1,100 acres of land, worked by 120 slaves, which produced a crop of 128,000 pounds of cotton, at an ex? pense of about six cents per pound. It is probable that the present cost, after allowance is made for liberal wages to the freedmen, would not greatly exceed the above estimates; it would, we suppose, not be more than doubled. Yet cotton ,is now selling from forty-five to fifty-five cents per pound in Northern cities, and will probably command a very high price for several years. The extraordinary profits thus promised are producing, as a natur.il result, the industrial con? dition described below, in a Richmond paper, which learns the facts from private sources: In the Mississippi bottom, mules aro worth from ?$200 to 8250 each, and farm hands are paid $12 per month, besides their rations of four pounds of meat and a peck of meal per week. All thc expenses of farm? ing arc vastly increased, but cotton is selling in Yazoo City at 52 cents per pound. Northern capitalists, with their usual keen appreciation of pecuniary profit, have not been slow to-seize upon the opportunities offered them for making money in the rich bottom lands of Mississippi, and have rented plantations at apparently unreason? able prices. Titree plantations on the river, adjoining those of ex President Davis and his brother Jo? seph Davis, Esq., bring an aggregate rent for the present year of 836,000, and a plantation of 800 acres of cleared laud on Deer Creek rents for $10 per acre, the lessee contracting to repair the negro quarters, and re? build all the necessary fencing. It may be estimated that bottom lands will generally sell for about $20 per acre, and they will rent for about one-half the selling prices. The people of Mississippi now in? tend to devote all their energy to making good crops of cotton. Tho standard of value is changed, and an heiress, instead of being worth so many negroes, Ls now reputed to have on hand so many bales of cotton. There is every probability that the negroes will work tolerably well with proper supervision aud care; and if a man lias not ready money, he can rent his plantation for this year, and be able with the proceeds to make a good start for himself in 1867. One year, or five, would be but a short time in which to recover from the effects of this tremendous ordeal through which we have passed, and if in 1870, the Mississippi planters can equal their production of cotton in 1860, they and the whole country will be more than satisfied. Pollard, of the Richmond Examiner, in a recent trip North, says: "We encountered "Ward Beecher on a rail? road train, in which he was on his way to Newburgh, there to deliver a lecture. A change seems to have come over the spirit of his dream. In conversing with us, he avowed him? self an accomplished peace mau. Blood enough, he thought, had now been spilt, and he was for mercy, for? giveness and forbearance. He admit? ted that his former violent views had become modified, and he now cor? dially endorses the Union policy of the President. He alluded to the case of Mr. Davis, and expressed the hope that he would be tried, if at all, by a civil tribunal, and if convicted, pardoned. He contended that the power of Mr. Davis was forever gone, and that no good could result from his execution." Late Aspinwall dates have been re? ceived. Ecuador has joined Chili and Peru against Spain. There is little change in Chilian affairs. The civil war in Bolivia has ended. SHIP NEWS. PORT OF CHARLESTON, MARCH 9. ARRIVED YESTERDAY. Sehr. C. P. Stickney, Mathews, New York. Sehr. Wenonah, Tall, Raltitnorc. WENT TO SEA YESTERDAY. Steamship Moneka, Marshman, N?w York. Sehr. S. C. Evans, Hammond, New York. Sehr. Nadah, Johnson, Baraco;;. Steamer Na.?iua, Pepper, New Stork. MARRIED, On the 8th in.st., by thc Rev. Dr. Howe, G. M. CORDES, of Santuc, to A. BEAU? FORT SIMS, daughter of J. T. Sims, of this city. BOARDING. A FEW GENTLEMEN can bo accommo j\. dated with BOARD and LODGING; also, a few DAY BOARDERS can bo accom? modated. Apnlv in Gate:-' street, next to the corner of Liidv. JUareh ld 2 URIE!) FRUIT AND PEA-NDTS. rjr BUSHELS DRIED APPLES AND 200 bufh??f primo TEA-NUTS. F?rjale low. E. A G. ?J. HOl'L. March 10 j_ _ J__ 0RU6 BULLETIN ! Arrivals. FRESH HOPS, LANDRETH'S SEEDS, EXTRACT LOGW OOD, OLIVE OIL, Concentrated Lye, White Glue, Whiting? Chrome Yellow, Machinery Oil. Sweet Oil. . For sale bv FISHER * HETNITSH, March 10* Druggists. COMAIEHCIAL AND FINANCIA!.. NEW YORK, March 5.-Cotton declining; sales 250 bales, at 43c. to 45c. Corn dr - dined one cent. Pork heavy at $27.60 Sugar quiet ; Havana, ll j. Gold 132%. NEW YOEE, March 8.-Cotton dull, with salea of 1,200 bales, at 42c.@43c. Gold, S2. LIVERPOOL, February 25.-Cotton is M. lower on the week, with sales of 58,000 bait 8. Sales on Friday, 8,000 bales; 8ati r day, 0,000, market closing easier. Consols unchanged. U. 8. 5-20's 69.$ to 69$. CHARLESTON, March 9.-The sales of cot? ton for tho week have amounted to near 1,000 bales, but owing to a decline in Europe, and the general unsettled condi? tion of the money market, the staple has receded in prbo about 2c. during the week. The receipts of the week amount to 294 bales of Sea Island, and 1,656 ot up? land, which is a falling off from the re? ceipts of the previous week. The market was unsettled yesterday, with a downward tendency. The decline noticed above, ia mostly felt in the lower grades, the stock of good cotton being vcrv small. We quote: Inferior to ordinary, 28@30c.; ordinary to good ordinary, 32@33; low middling. 86? 37; middling to strict middling, 38@40; good middling, 41. COTTON STATES?ENT. " , & Fd- Wa Stock on hand Sept. 1, 1865. ... 362 1,610 Receipts from Sept. 1, 1865, to Feb. 28,1SC6. 3,736 59,660 Receipts from March 1 to March 7 . 264 1,656 Total receipts. 4,362 62 826 Exports. S. Vd. Vp'd. Exports from Sept. 1,1865, to March 1, I860. 3,257 53,760 From March 2 to March 8, I860.. 122 1,936 Total exports.. .3,379 55,699-3,379 55,699 Stock on hand. 983 6,672 The receipts of rico since our last woekly report amount to 3.000 bushels, which has been sent to the mills. Clea- Carolina is selling in email lots at ll@12c. per lb., and extra parcels occasionally at 12@13c. Over 1,000 barrels naval stores have reached here during the week. We quote rosin at $3.50@4. No sites of spirits. Rome GOO bales of North River hay have come to hand during the week, and a part of this" was sold to a dealer on private terms. The article may be quoted at 60? 65c. per hundred in quantity. There has been no supply of Eastern received. There is a fair demand for corn for plan? tation purposes, and in a jobbing wav the article is selling at $1.05@1.10 per bushel. Oats are dull, with a fair supply on the market. They may be quoted at 60>@65 cents per bushel. Flour is in good demand, and super is hoing sold at $9.25@*9.50, and extra at $10 per barrel. There have been no arrival of salt for somo time, and the only sales are in a retail way, at $2.00?$2.25 a sack. To Liverpool the engagements of freights have been at id. for upland; butin the last few days room has become scarce, and the asking rate is now id. for upland. Sea Island remains as before, say ld. per pound. Coastwise-To New York the rate is unchanged, eay, by steamer. 1 cent per pound on upland; by sailing vessel $?? cent per pound. Bills of Exchange on England have been selling at $0.20@$G.25, but the rate ia .un? settled and nominal. Domestic Exchange -The banks are buying sight drafts on New York at 4 off; 5* to 10 days ? off; 15 days I off. They are selling sight checks at i premium. Gold is purchased by the brokers at 30@31, and selling at 33. AUGUSTA, March 6.-Business for the past week has been rather dull, notwith? standing the weather has been favorable for travel. Nothing done in the cotton market this week, but a few days last week exhibited some activity, at figures varying from 33&@3Ge. We give no quotations for this week. Gold declining. Brokers buy? ing at 32, and selling at 37. Buying silver at 30, and selling at 34. MOBILE, March 3.-The receipts of cotton for the past week foot up 12,034 bales; ex? porta, 8,758. Our last weekly review closed with a good demand. Middlings, 43c. Gold very dull, with a downward tendency. Buying rates, 35?36; selling, 36@37. NOTICE. BEING desirous of changing my busi? ness, I would like to dispose of my entire stock of GROCERIES, LIQUORS, Ac; also, ihe STORE, which is one of the best business Htands in Columbia. Apply at this office._March 10 ZF"or Sale, ASMALL FARM, consisting of 105 acres, more or less, aituated about 2? miks from Columbia. For particulars, call on J. H. JENNINGS, March 10 2 Near Lunatic Asylum. "NOTICE.-" PERSONS having MONEY issued by P. LYONS & CO., will please come for? ward and present them for redemption at once. P. LYONS & CO. March 10_2*__ LAGER BEER! LAGER BEER! ON draught, from the Brewery of J. Bauman, and for salo at J. BAH! - MANN & CO. S, three doors above the old Citv Hotel, Main street, Columbia, S. C. March 10_3*_ COOK WO STOVES! JUST received, a small invoice of WESTERN EMPIRE COOKING STOVES-heavy cas'ings, and war ranted to hake well. Call and see I them, at J. W. SMITH'S, Taylor street, opposite Park. I March 10_2 The Weekly Newberry Herald, Published at Newberry, 8. C., OFFERS favorable inducements to ad? vertisers, having a larfre circulation in I all the upper Districts. Merchants and i others can avail themselves1 of a fine circu ! lat ion at verv moderate charges. I T. F. & R. H. GRENEKER, March 10 Editors and .Publishers. BREAKFAST BAM STB1PS. e?AA LBS" choice Breaskfast BACON OUU STRIPS. Just received and for sale bv RICHARD CALDWELL. March 10 ^__1*_ PRESERVES ! CHERRY, STRAWBERRY, PEACH, PLUM and BLACKBERRY MARMA? LADE. Gooseberry, Blackberry and Huckleberry JAM. Apple, Peach, Plum, Pear, Grape, Red and Black Currants, Quince, Huckleberry and Blackberry JELLY, in pints and quarts. Just received and for sale hy March 10 1* RICHARD CALDWELL.