Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cable Deapattchea. LrvE?p#ot, September 11-1'. M -Thc cotton market has ruled steady, wttn utica to-day of 10,000 bales. Middling uplands closed at 13d, Tho broadstufb market is active and Araiel, with an ad vaneo on all description*. Tbs corn market is firmer* and mixed Western American is quoted at $2.70 per quarter. Wheat ia firm, with an advance-of 3ffi&4c Flour is also very firim with an advance of l@2s. per barrel. The provisiona market ie generally steady. The weather is unfavorable for thc crops. LONDON, September ll-r. M.-Thc mo? ney market is slightly easier, aud Consols closed thia evening at 89$ for money. Five twenties 71|. CONSTANTINOPLE, September ll.-Tko Sultan of Turkey, impressed with tho im? portance of being in diplomatic communi? cation with tbe United States, has decided to establish an Embassy to tko American capital, and, in accordance with this deci? sion, tho Sublimo Porte is about selecting an influencial member of his Government to proceod to Washington as Minister llesi dent and Plenipotentiary of Turkey. It is reported that, in consequence? of the successful results of recent trials of Ame? rican small arms by the military commis? sioners appointed for that purpose by the Porte, the Turkish army is about to be armed entirely with carbines of American manufacture. Agents of tho Government aro about to leavu for tho United States to contract for their manufacturo. BERLIN, September ll.-A report is cur? rent in Government circles that thc King of Prussic has decided to place tho Prince Royal of Prussia over the late 'Kingdom of Hanover as Viceroy, and that his High? ness will soon take up bis residence at the palace in the city of Hanover. VIENNA, September ll.-A decree bas been issued by the Emperor, ordering the whole Austrian army to bc placed upon a peace footing. IB?ws I l.t.-1 ns. NEW ORLEANS, September ll.-There were thirty-two cholera deaths yesterday. NEW YORK, Septombcr 12.--Thc French steamer Pereire brought $1,100,000in gold. ALBANY, September 12.-.lohn T. Hoff? man, Democrat, present Mayor of New York, has been nominated for Governor and B. II. Pruyn, of Albany, conservative Republican, for Lieutcnant-Governor. The .platform adopted by the Consorvative Con? vention endorses the Philadelphia Conven? tion of 11th August; declares the Southern States in thc Union, and entitled to repre? sentation in Congress; affirmed that thc centralization of power, both in Washing? ton and New York State, is fatal to the harmony of our poliLical system; and de? nounces Congressional legislation. WASHINGTON, September 12.-Surveying operations are tobo commenced in Arizona, and the monument erected in 1851 by the Mexican Boundary Commission, tho confluence of Gila and Salt Hivers, will be the initial point nf snrvey. From tliis point there will be established base and meridian lines. Commissioner Rollins, of thc Internal Revenue Department, has received a de? spatch from Jersey City, saying distilleries everywhere in that section aro in operation, and not conforming to tho law. The dis? tilleries will bo stopped if the providions of tho law are not complied with. NEW YORK, September 12.-The litiga? tion instituted between Gen. Santa Anna and Diario Marirera, his alleged agent, has been discontinued, an equitable set? tlement having been arranged on both sides. CINCINNATI, September 12.-G on. (?rant visited Wood's Theatre last night, where he was enthusiastically received. During the performance, a crowd-arno: ?...hom wrre many soldi' ra-paraded b* . the theatre, aud Eggleston, a member of Con gross, requested the manager to go and inform Gen. Grant that tho crowd wished to soe him. Gen. Grant replied: "I cannot, and will not, see them. Please tell the commander of thc soldiers to como and soo me." Baker, tho commander, with some others, marched into tho theatre to a private box. Gen. Grant, without giving Baker time to make his wishes known, ap. proached Baker, and said: "Sir, I am no politician. Tho President is my Com? mander-in-Chief. I consider this demon? stration in opposition to tho President of the United States, Andrew Johnson. You will tako your men away-I am greatly an? noyed at this demonstration. I will be glad to Bee you to-morrow, when tho Pre? sident arrives." Tho crowd finally dis? persed, cheering Grant as next President of tho United States. NEW ORLEANS, September 12.-Some Federal soldiers, in attempting to enter a dancing school room, with negro wenches as partners, at Brc-nham, were resisted, and ono of their number shot. They then burned a portion of the town. Loss $85,000. _ Market Reports. Mo-ni.'-.. Septembor ll. -Cotton sales to? day 750 bales- Liverpool middling 30@31. Market rather firm. Advices er damage to the growing crop causis a disinclina f tion, on thc part of factors, to offer their ^Biock. ? MOBILE, Septembor 12.-Cotton sales to? day 500 bales-middlings 30fi?31. Market firmer. NEW ORLEANS, September ll.-Cotton stiffer, with eales of 200 bales-middling 31@32. Gold 43$. Cotton crop accounts are very nnfavor ablo. NEW ORLEANS, September 12.-Cotton stiffer, with sales of 1,000 bales-low mid? dling 32@33 Gold 144*. NEW YORK, September 12-Noon.- Gold 147$. Cotton fonding upward and un? changed. Exchange 7.1. Flour tinner. Wheat nlgner*. ftwk Armer, at (33.13. Lard dui1.. 1 7 P. M.--Gold 140. Coito? nnns-fc at Je higher; salen o' 5,000 hales-uplands 83*; Orleans 3of\' Flonr, wheat and pork un? changed. Lord steady, at lSj?20|. Sugar more active, at 10|@12. Goffoe quiet and Steady. Legislature of South Carolina. Toe? ft ay, Sfptrmbcr IX. I860. TENATE. The Senate met at 12 m. Sundry papera were received from thc House. A resolution waa received from the House, that tho bill providing artificial lega for all citizens of the Stato, who have lost tboir legs during the recent war, read for tho tiret time in the House, be referred to a special joint committee, consisti-ng of three members of tho Houso aud two of the Senate, which was agreed to, and Messrs. Weatherly and Winsmitk were ap? pointed tho committee. Mr. Buist introduced a bill to provide for the funding of tho interest and princi? pal of the stocks and bonds of thc State past duo. Mr. Hcmpbill submitted a report of the joint committee relative to thc establish? ment of a penitentiary in this State, and recommended thc adsotion of a r?solution that th?; Governor bc, and bc id hereby, instructed to appoint a commission, to consist of ono or more persons, to prepare a plan for the establishment and discipline or a penitentiary in this State; to make in \ estimations in respect to a suitable loca? tion for the same, and furnish estimates as to the probable cost, of construction, and report to tho General Assembly at its next regular session; which was laid on tho table. Mr. Weatherly introduced a bill to pro vid-) for tho establishment of a peniten? tiary. Messrs. Buist, Shingler, Hcmpbill, Sulli? van, Winsmitb and Williams submitted re? ports of Committees. The bill relative to holding Courts in this State- was discussed, after which the Senate adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Thc House met at 12 o'clock. Mr. Fair present ed tho petition of the Commissioners <>f thc Roads of Abbeville District, praying changes in thc Hoad Law; also, petition of tho Board nf Com? missioners of the Poor for Abbeville Dis? trict, for aid to support tho p-jor of thc District. I Mr. Wm. Wallace presented tho petition of "tho Ladies' Memorial Association of Columbia," asking permission to use cer ! tain granite and mar bio belonging to Stato, for bead-stones for the graves of Confede? rate dead. Mr. DePass presented tho memorial of James Brown, relating to the railroad bridges over the Cougarce and VVateree Rivers. Mr. J. S. Richardson, Jr., introduced a resolution, which ^as agroed to: That the Commissioners of the Poor for Sumter District, through misapprehension as to their tenure of office, huve failed to levy and collect a Poor Tax for the said Dis? trict; and whereas thc distress and Buller? ing in this unfortunate cia .- in said Dis? trict, owing to the great scarcity of pro? visions of all kinds, must be greatly increased by tho failure to afford them the u-sual relict extended by means of the tax aforesaid; and that it be referred to thc Committee of Ways and Means to inquire and, il* practicable and expedient, to report snell legislation as wilt ctTectfau advance by the State to the Commissioners of the Poor of said District, for thr benefit of the poor of said District, equivalent to 10 per cent, upon t le- general tax of said Dist : ict, the amount thus advanced to be returned to i-'C State oui of do 1'-..ir Tax of said District for tin- year isr,7. Messrs. Barker, Aiken, Shaw, Ryan, Cannon, Carlington, Lord, Richardson, Hntsou and Lee, presented reports of com? mittees. Mr. Wagener introducid a resolution, which -van agreed to, that it is expedient to make the poor bouses in this State in? dustrial institutions, and that the Commit? tee on Public Buildings inquire into and submit a plan for tin- same, hy bill or otherwise. Mr. Green introduced bill to make cor ti?ed copies of .- tain bonds go- d evi? dence. Mr. W. E. Mikel: introduced a bill to in? corporate the South Carolina Loan and Trust Company. Mr. McKewn introduced a l ill lo consti? tute tho Election District of Berkeley a separate Judicial District. .Mr. Trescot introduced a resolution, which was referred to the Committee on liailroads.th.it the President and Directors of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company, in South Carolina, be, and aro hereby, au? thorized to deal willi the shares held hy? the Stale in said Company in tho same manner as with thc snares of all other stockholders, in any arrangement that may bo made with any other companies, or in? dividuals, for the completion of the said road, hythe issuing of preferred shares, or reducing the number of shares held by the State in thc same ratio in which thu eily of Charleston and other stockholders niav consent that their shares shall be reduced, or in any other manner in which it may be found necessary to snrrender a portion -i tho capital already invested, to accomplish the construction of the said railroad: Provided, That in any arrangement that may bo made, the State shall not be la id liable for anv additional assessment on the shares so held. Mr. Biak:- introduced a bill to incorporate "The Charleston Board of Trade." Mr. Martin introduced a bill to make trespasses on real estate liable to indict? ment. Adjourned. W?III? SK WS. POUT OF CHARLESTON, SEPT. 12. ARRIVED V IV,Tr. lt DA Y. Steamship Quaker ('itv, West, New York. Sehr. Lilly, Stetson, NVw York. ROCK ?SXJ9L~?D AND SALEM JEANS I AT retail -ir bv tie- piece, bv the agenb bTSHER A LOWRANCE. FRESH mum mira i ONT. HUNDRED lbs. just received, and arrangements complete for a regular supply of MOUNTAIN BUTTER by Ex? press, which we will sell as low as the mar? ket will lilford. __SopUa FISHER & LOWRANCE. Cooking Stoves, -FOB. WOOD OB COAL. . JUST received, a small lot of jmjm COOKING STOVES, of ditrerc.nl pat terns, which -A.ll be sold a' I. I > \V yW?I'RICES for cash, at. J. W. SMITH'S Tin Shop, Sept 13 C Opposite Park. Mcsstts. fiorfrnts: As " now convened in extra ?eb?*011?^6.miad involuntarily turns to the finance *l^*r' rasaments of the State, and I must tho privilege of an occasional correspond * VMi in suggesting] some'; measures of re? lief, which have occurred to me as plainly practicable and exp?dient. Tho ordinary rules and argumenas em ployed by political economists, by moral philosophers and lawyers, in the discussion of tho indebtedness of a people, are not ?ll applicable to our caso, lt appears to mo that many of thc debts or contracts of the South may bo declared null and void by tho Legislatures, aud nearly the whole of them scaled or reduced, without a positive violation of tho Constitution, and without any imputation against us of a spirit of re? pudiation. Tho instincts, for instance, or the conscience, if bobas any, of tho veriest monster of avarice, must tell him, that justice and equity forbid his collection of the full amount of any notes or contracts bc may hold for the recent salo of negroes. And this accords with the sentiment of tho whole people. Where all agree, there? fore, that a remedy is needed, ia it possible that tho Legislature cannot afford one? Whon a particular view is'thus adopted by tho universal sense of mankind, it is not apt to bo founded upon error, or to be cou trary to law. Wo will examine tho question with the eye of reason and philosophy, by tho prac? tical tests which are at tko command of every lover of truth. The only obstacle in our way, is that paragraph in the tenth section of tho first article of the Constitu? tion of tho United States, inserted likewise in the Constitution of this State, which declares that no State shall pass any "law impairing the obligation of contracts." Let us fix tho meaning of these words; for contracts and the obligation of cont nu ts are different things. In Sturges rs. Crowu inshield, 4th Wheaton, and in Ogden rs. Saunders, 12th Wheaton, it is decided that tho "obligation of a contract is the law which binds a party to perform his under? taking." And in tho former case, Chief Justice Marshall, the greatest of all the jurists, "who walked with the men of die Involution," decides, in effect, that not only the present property of the debtor, hut "all his future acquisitions," cnterinto and constitute a partof the "obligation ol his contracts;" and this opinion is sub? stantially confirmed by numberless subse? quent decisions. Adopting this view, then, wc proceed to remark, that negroes, heilig recognized as properly by the Constitution and tho laws of the United States, consti? tuted about three-fourths of thc wealth ol thc people of the South, and tho basis ol three-fourths of their contracts; and when they were emancipated by tho Gem ral Government, and by amendment of thc Constitution, a convention of the people o the State co-operating therein, the obliga tioii of three-fourths of our contracts be? came "ipso facto"-impaired -and hutnai ingenuity cannot avoid that, conclusion Thu inference is legitimate, therefore that as thc obligation of our contracts ha: bein unpaired by operation of the Const i tut ion of the United Slates, it could no possibly be unconstitutional for the Lc^is lature so to declare, and to declare, also to what esJeiit it has been impaired, lt action would only be a conformity to truth and a decent compliance with the behest of superior power. This argument applies, with peculia: force, to contracts for the purchase of ne groes. The slaves for whom you gave you bond or note for $50,000, pay able in twelv months, have been set free by an am eil d mont of the Constitution in one mont! after*your purchase, and before-they liav bei n able to compensate you for the (?rs outfit with which you equipped them; nm can that Constitution now require y<>u t pay the full amount of your bond or nut? The proposition is ahsurd. and the hie; suggested by it repugnant to all our cou ceptions of honesty and fair-dealing. Th obligations of the governor or governnn n and the governed ari; reciprocal. For you submission to tho laws, tho former owe you protection, and when that fails yoi: ile- law of your obedience ceases to billi But it were monstrous for tho Governnn n to require you to pay your negri-) d bi: and, ?it the same tune, to take from yoi not only the means of paying with, but th very art ices of proper! y for which the ilel was contracted. Ilcnce, we reasonably conclude that th Legislature has the power, in confurmit with the amendment of the Constitutiot and the ordinance of the Convention i South Carolina sanctioning that anion1 ment, to diminish the debts of the pt opie especially their negro debts -in proper I io to their looses by the forcible emancipado of their slaves, "if they had freely giv, their consent to this proceeding, and vi Inntarily surrendered their property, th? the question for our consideration tnigl have been of moro difficult solution, iii the ii? groes were set free by President] proclamations, by resolutions of Congres by physical force and military power, xi by un amendment of the Constitution e: torte.1 from tin; South by the bayonets nf victorious army. J Sut we contend thu!, in a strictly kg point of view, these contracts for uegroi must be annulled and curtailed, for reasoi quite as potential as any that have yet lu < ottered. Whilst our citizens dealt iu slave the same warranty applied to them tb; appertained to the transfer of other pe sonalty. A sound price not only demand? sound property, but there was an iniplit warranty from the vender to tin- buy that his titles were good, and that tl negro would remain his chattel for life. ; soon, therefore, as tho negro became io mim itt eil, thero was a failure ?d' tlx- co sideration of the noie given for his im chase money, and the buyer hud the rig! to [dead it in discount or by wav ?d' st t-o These principles und this doctrine are hi down in all our elementary works, anda aflirmod in all our loading reports. Tl courts, too, of this Stute will vindica their correctness whenever the question made before them, and a jury will nev fail to give rclmf whenever a proper case submitted to them. Litigation, howey? will incur costs, and what is lawful for t! court and jury to do, cannot be unluH'l for the Lcgislalure to do, in a more elle? nal manner. Tho oxpensc of litigating i claims for negroes sold would nearly < haust the collections to lu- made, and t! verdict ?>f n jury is the lam only ?d' the p. t.eular ?ase decided by it. The deb should be classified, and certain inexor tile rules prescribed, whereby all tin parties could settle and adjust their in turd demands without tie- interposition judge or jury. The n<-iioi"i of tho Convention, even regard to contracts made during the w: is very incomplete and unsatisfactory; ?in without some revision or alteration by \\ Legislature, will furnish a very inadequa corrective of the evils intended to be pi vided against. Parties, as now odvigf aro compelled to appeal t<> the coarta 1 the adjustmont of their claims, ami, mnr.v instances, by the time tho ih-btss reduced to tho standard of justice a. equity, there will not be enough left to p the costs of suit. Must admin?stralo executors, guardians ami trust ei s, siihn j to thi* hardship abd Gtlrijsct the estates this represent to this enormous expenso? ir ft waa lawful Ihr tho Convention to pass thc Ordinance, would it not be equally ! lawful for the Legislature to establish some .principles, or some cheap mode of nt-occdure, by which it could bo mado a pStjWtMl measure- bf relief? Why not es? tablish cwtaia. referees, in each District, to determino all these eauscs without suit, and let tho great business of setthng up estates proceed with that regularity ??nu despatch which the interests of the parties and of the country so imperatively demand? There is much excuse, we admit, for tho conduct of our legislators sinco tho sur? render of tho Confederate armies, for 'hey were stunned and confounded by the fall; but it is timo for us to awaken and bestir ourselves, as : trong men, resolved to save the wreck of our fortunes; to h?lfet, with lusty sinew, the waves of adversity; and, if we must sink, to perish noar a friendly shore. "To he weak is miserable, whether act? ing or suffering," and it is missing strange how wo can quibble and hesitate, and hesitate and quibble, about the enactment of measures tor the salvation of tho State, when every man knows what tho life of tho State demands. Th? obligation of con? tracts has become a horrid spectre, to frighten our law-givers from their propriety and their wits. Was it wrong and uncon? stitutional for our Convention to ordain that tho Confederate contracts should bo reduced by the courts and juries accord? ing to the demands of justice and fair j dealing? No one felt so, at thc timo, and no ono believes so now. How, then, could it be wrong and unconstitutional for the Legislature, which, in this respect, has as ? mnch power as tho Convention, to annul j and modify tho negro debts according to tho imperious claims of honor, honesty and humanity? There are no obstacles in its wav-"no lion in its path" and ell lt lacks is the will of "Great Heart" to make this greatest measure of deliverance a matter of easv accomplishment. JOSEPH ADNEY. Tun TAX ON MALT LIQUORS.-The Commissioner of Internal llevo nut hus just issued regulations concern? ing thc tax ou fermented liquors anti tho payment thereof. The -lStl section of tho Act of July 13, 18Gt> imposes on nil beer, lager beor, nie. porter, and other similar fermenter liquors which shall bo brewed 01 manufactured and sold, or remove? for consumption or sale, within tin United States, Ly whatever nunn such liquors may be called, a tux <> ono dollar for every barrel containing not more than thirty-one gallons, aut nt a like rato for any other quantity or for any fractional part of a barrel The Commissioner ol' At.-iicultur< hus on hand some spe.eif.iens o water-melon grown in tli experi mental garden from seeds . jit fron China. These are the fir;-! of thu variety raised in this country, and th fruit is pronounced the bet eve grown Lu thc; United State-. Th Commissioner will shortly he pn pared to distribute a quantity of t'n seed. Mr. Wm. Camero:!, of Petersburg just returned from abroad, Urougli homo a pair of ostriches, which h turned loose upon thc lawn. Til fn'fe.i- says "two interesting colore children and several pigs" are mis: ingsince, and adds: -'The iuferom is painful, but as public journalist wo arc bound to state facts as the occur, or at least as they seem." A young; mau named David Lesli slmt n young lady named Marti Kaylor, in New Lebanon, <)hi< Friday, because she refused to man him. W!iile slie was sitting in th j doorway of her mother's dwellinj j sewing, Leslie fired at her from tl ? upper story of a hotel opposite, i j which he dwelt. She lived on! j three or four minutes after reccivii the wound. Thc Harri ibm-;,' T<-ltyrn?>h lias ti following: "Ralph Hill, ninety-oi ' yt ni rs old, and a resident of Fore County, Pa., passed through Cori I recently, <>n his way to Boston tu Iii j friends ho has not sion for fifty yeal j Ho never saw a steamboat nor a tr.i I of ears till last week, and hus liv? I ten miles from any neighbor for tl j last fifty years. " I A guerilla leader, Dick Hcmpstea j was, on Wednesday, captured by tl j regulators, near Little Hock, Arl who, after trying him, and lind ii i him guilty of eleven murders, all I which he confessed, burnt him j death by a slow fire, which tota! i consumed his body, so that his as!; I mingled with those (d' the luci. So common has become the shot j ing of ministers in Missouri, ii. is m I regarded as a branch of sportiu ; In Cooper County, thc other day. ' stranger, in search of game, was a j swered, "Not much, sir: but thcr< ! thc preacher coming over the hill.1 I SAO ACCIDENT.- Mr. Thomas Howie, a most respectable citizen the Martin Town section of Kdgel'u j Listriet, was thrown from Lis hoi j against a tree, on Sunday last, a j died soon after ?d' his injuries. A Cern?an, in Savannah, arrest I for some offence, pleaded in defer I kati sheisilucJc itns lien zweiten /eus yeoy-saen. The judge, m>t being ul i to see it in that light, lined him li j dollars. j A little girl was strangled lo de; j recently near "Milton, I'a., by a lin : black snake. The reptile had coil ? itself around her nick many tim ' and il was necessary to cnt him I tWO Cfo he released his hold. Jas. F. I/.lar was elected Intend: and Jos. McNamara, John A. Ham ton, F. II. W. Briggman and G. Keitt Wardens of thc town of Or an j burg, on Monday last. A St. Louis paper stales that in 1 forty-eight hours preceding the < instant, there were \~>~> cholera int \ men ts, with four cemeteries to rope I There are three representative n in the Convention nt Philudolph I They are Darky Douglass, Beast B . 1er and l?elzobub Brownlow. TTIQ^^;^-^ ii-ii II MM i r Tho j^amm?}> saya: "Passengers from Hampton report that (?eu. ! Armstrong very recently made a speech to thc freedmen at Hampton, informing them that on the 1st of January they must leave the lands: they now occupy, and emigrate to j Florida. Some forty families, wc I hear, have enrolled their names." I A poor woman in St. Louis, arrest- j ed for stealing a shirt, created so much sympathy when brought before j tho court, that she was acquitted I without trial, after which a purse was raised for lier amongst the lawyers, j Thc attorney who was to have pro seen ted her then hired her ns a ser- j vant and took her home. ? German gardener, living on Ca-1 barat Island, near St. "Louis, was I near dying of cholera, wheo he di- I vulged to his wife a hiding-place in the ground where he had hidden ?10,ooo. No ono supposed he was worth much, "and the joy of thc woman may be imagined." Tho Washington Chronicle reports having seen very rich specimens of gold-hearing quartz and gold wash? ings which wore taken from the Vir? ginia shore of the Potomac River, two miles above the chain bridge. Thc bcd of the l'otomac is said to abound with the precious metal. A house was recently fired in Phil? adelphia, through tho agency of ben? zine, which had been mixed in thc paint wherewith the kitchen floor bad boen painted. A hot iiro being made in tbs stove, soon ignited the benzine, and iu an institut it spread j over tho floor, and then the house. ? Thc Augusta Chronicle, of the 30th ult., says: "We hear it rumored thal Governor Jenkins will probably sus? pend the collection of tho Stato tai for tho present year, owing to tht impoverished condition of tho peo Plc" A colored woman, of Cairo, III., who had died of cholera, and bcei fastened up in her coffin, suddenly .surprised the attendants by bursting open the lid and getting to her feet She exclaimed that she "war no dono gone yet." The Vermont election on Monday resulted, of course, in tin: election o radical candidate for Governor. Tw< i radicals were elected to Congress and the Third District is vet doubt fill. A correspondent of the ltichmom /?' ? :i;iror, who lias lately vi.-itei Jefferson Davis, says that bis health while it has been seriously ur.dei mined, is at thc present decided! better than it was a few weeks agc A list of thc accidents and death on tin; railroads of France, for th bust year, shows there were 77,OOO 000 of passengers. Ont of these ' four were killed, und one in ever '.?00.000 wounded. San Francisco despatches report ?fight between 15<> Indians and tr ; guard of a train which tiny bud a tacked, near La Paz, Arizona, i I which the Indians were beaten, wit ! a loss of twenty-three killed, j Only 150 of tin once famous Toi caway tribe of Indians now reniait : and they are in Houston, Texas, sal i sisting on the charity of the G-oven ! meat.' j Thc man in jail who looked out < the window of hiscell and exclaimc< 1 "This is a grate country!" is no 1 generally admitted to have spok? . w ithin bounds. The trot between Dexter, Btltli and Fachen, at Chicago, on Wedin ; ?lay, for a purse of $5,OOO, was wc i by Dexter iu three straight heat ; Pest time, 2.21 '?. I Tho husband of a woman who w. ; killed by a locomotive, recently, i j Portland, Me., has sued the railroi ! company on the ground .'that si ! was his only support." Tho President and party we ' brought from Alton to St. Louis 1 j river, thirty-six steamers being pr : vided l'or the purpose, ropresentii all the State- in the Union. : Parsou Brownlow, the polecat , the tiesh-pot convention, "done li ' level best" to bring that assembla; into bad odor, but Jack Hamiltt ? "skunked" bim. j Tin mountains of Virginia n j represented to be more almud..nt wi ; ?h er than has ever boen kn?jwn tin: ?.?ile.st inhabitant. PACIFIC RArr.i:o.vr>.-Gen. Pope,? ! thc itu, entered tin- initial stone I the niaiu Pacific Railroad, Southe: : branch, at Junction ('itv, Kansas. Mrs. Samuel Hoar, of Concor .Mass , ?lied on Wednesday. She w Mic last surviving child of Hog Sherman. Her agc was eighty-five Tho distance from Mobile to X? j York, 1,308 milos, is now made three ?lays and a half, by way i Montgomery and Atlanta. There isa natural cave on tin' ti ! of Granite Mountains, in Sobt Maine, tilled with the clearest i during tin summer months. Colonel George Knox, once i ? Hooker's stall', is reported to ha left Sau Francisco with sixty men, join tin- liberals in Mexico. Elisha Ruckman, a wealthy lan owner iu New Jersey, is on trial Hackensack for poisoning the cati and horses of his neighbors. linne." cottage, near Ayr. Sci land-"the auld clay biggin" i offered for side. ; -, WANTED, VWHITE WOMAN, ti. Cool,, Wash t hon fer a gentleman ami lady. Ap ' Ht tliis office. Sept 13 I LAST OP THE S3EAS02?! AT ICE CHEAM GAHDEN! Pillia St., uetir thc Shiver House, This Evening, 13Ui, at 8 O'Clock. 1MIE Garden will bo illuminated with va . riod-colorcd CRINESE LANTERNS, FIRE-WORKS, RENGOLA LIGHTS. The splemud Hand of the 6th United states Regular Infantry will play some of their favoriic airs, viz: (?March-Opera Gemma di Vcrgv. Overture Fm Diavolo. Walt?-Fmblingslieder. Potpourri, from Faust. Gallop Bruder Lustig. Grand Terzetto from Lucretia Borgia. Quickstep - Buenas Noches. [CE CREAMS. SHERBET, ROMAN Pry CH, CAKES, dV,. ctr. ev Tickets <?r admission '?ti cents, for which refreshments will bo furnished to be had at thc ?Store and at the Garden. ?S~ Signal rockets will be ti red to denote tho commencement of thc FIRE-WORKS. _ Sept 13_ PROCLAMATION! Ey his Excellency JAMES L. ORR, flo vernor ami Cointnander-in-Chi^f in am! rn< ,. Une State of* South Carolina. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, COLUMBIA, September 12, lW,. XTTHEREAS information has been eom V? municated to this Department that au atrocious and malicious murder was committed bv one BILL MORRIS. nt?.i.< CHAULES ?Eitti.M, a.i.is WYLIE Moll Ills, on the body of Alexander 1). Walle r, in the District of Chester, on the night of the 22d July last, and that said Morris has fled from justice: Now, to tho end that the said Morris ni ay I ba apprehended and brought to condign punishment for the said murder, I, JAMES L. ORR, Governor and Commauder-in j Chief as aforesaid, do hcrebv offer a reward of TWO HUNDRED AND* FIFTY DOL? LARS for the airest and safe delivery of I said Morris to any jailer in thc United . State s. Said Morris L< a tall, spare-made ruin, grey eyes, of a peculiar look, short, thick nose, tow forehead, hump-shouldered, I black hair, with a few grey hairs, about thirty-seven years old, weighs about i ii) j pounds, speaks ?lowly, and when speaking, twists his mouth to the right side, with heavy dark beard all over tho face; lr:.i been wounded, as well as can bo recollect? ed, in tho right arm, near the elbow; with small an.i bony arms; and wore, on tho I night of the murder, dark Coat and dark j linen pants. 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