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23\3T Telegrapli. Cubic Dc?pn(rhei. LoKftOji, January 17-Evening, -lt in reported from tue eoutincnt that a d'*spc rato plot lias? been disco vereil to aesassi natc the Pascha of Egypt. The plot in? cluded the subversion of the Government and investing the reina of Government in tho hands of Salim Pascha, who is said tu bo at the head of the movement. Tho conspiracy wan happily discovered fend frustrated". LOKDOK, January li? Noon.- Thc morn ins; journals, lo-duy, make mention of a rumor of thu great powers bavin - r< solved to urge the .Sublime Porte to call a confer? ence to take tho vexed Eastern .?jn?stion into consideration. PARIS. January IS. Tho banquet cx tended by Americans in this city to Ben-? nett, jr., occurred last evening. Mr. Kings? land, son of tho former Vice-Commodore of tho Nen- York Yacht Glob, presided. (Jon. Dix, thc Am; rican Minister, and rep? resentatives of foreign legations, were present, lt wan a grand affair. AL the hall at the Tuileries, on Wednesday even? ing, thc Emperor and Empress personally congratulated Bennett on iii? victory. Congressional. \YA8HLS(;TON, January IS. In the Se? nat", a coiuat?nication from Gov. Brarn b'tt, of Kentucky,'was read, announcing tie' rejection of thc amendment. If w?s laid on tlie tabb-. Tile, tenure ot office bid was taken up. .Sumuer, under lieeuso of thc vote reported yesterday, proceeded to denounce the Pre? sident bitterly, lteverdy Johnson made a point that Surnm r was disqualifying hhu self from acting in a judiciary capacity, should tiie President como before the Se? nate. In connection with the report that ("ewan would bc Secretary of War, Howe said he would oppoEO Stanton's removal. Mr. Buckalow said th.it report,was gremud ICBS. The bill passed by 29to 9. lt excepta Gabinet oflic?ra and Judges of the Supreme Com-!. Other officers shall be appointed as at present, ami hold until successors arc appointed in like manner. The President may suspend for misconduct or inability, appointing temporarily suitable persons. Thc President shall furnish the Senate evidence on which the suspension is based. If the suspension is confirmed, a new apv pointna nt to Ix- made; otherwise, thc sus? pended officer resumes his functions. Tin President may fill vacancies from death Ol resignation, to hold until tho terminatior or thc next session. Acceptance of office removal from o Oleo, and signing, sealing and countersigning commissions centran to thc p. ovia ion 3 of tho bill, are d?clar?e' high misdemeanors, punishable by fun and imprisonment not exceeding $l0",0e0oi five years. In tho House, a resolution was adoptee forbidding the Commissioner of Agncul turo from purchasing and distributing native seeds. The Banking Committee reported a bil authorizing the issue of non-interest bear ing notes for the extinguishment of tie national debt. New? Item*. WASHINGTON, January 18.-The censen atory qi the President's mansion wa burned to-day. The ari ?val of thc engin saved tho other buildings. It is estimate that tho plants cannot be replaced short c ?500,000. The furniture in the mansio was damaged by thc smoke. An attach of the White House ii insensible from ove exertion at tbs fire. Gen. F. D. Sewell has been orde red t North Carolina, to report on the apprei ticing practices of the courts. Go verne Wortli will appoint a commissioner to ai with Sewell. Tho commission will ropo simultaneously te> Gen. Howard and tl North Carolina Legislature. Bradley Johnson, of Uichmond, former Confederate General, has been admitted practice in the Supreme Court, under tl rulo abolishing the te-st oath. NEW YORK, January 18.- John Ci. Grap a lawyer, has been arrested, charged wi forgery in obtaining back pay of doceas' soldiers. The steamer Ellen S. Terry, running Newbern, is on lire al the wharf. Mai vessels are dangerously closfc. Gieut c citemont among the firemen. LATER. -The fire on board the Ellen Terry is subdued. The damage is not . great as expected, owing to the fact of ti hull having iron water-tight and fire-pro compartments. The 1<>SS is partially i sured. Tho. Tribune's Washington special sa the Ways and Means Committee is mu k divided on the tax gold bil!. They agre th ut tho gold should be sold, in open mi kct, but have not decided upon the arnon or manner e>f selling. They have doti ruined to confer with Secretary McCullo and Commissioner Wells before acti with thc tax bill as to thc reduction ask for thc Southern Stat03. The Republican Association, io Washir. ton, is engaged in procuring evidence 1 tho impeachment of tho President. Tb have adopted a bill for reconstructs which provides that tho appointing pow shall bo vested in the President and Sen: of tho United States. Tho Provisioi Government is to bc composed of ono P. visional Governor and thirteen loyal ci Kens, in each State, as a legislative pow Thc Governor shall bc chosen from lev citizens over twenty-five years of agc, a who did not sign any secession ordinanc and who have not held oflice of any ki meier tho Confederate Government; tl the legislative council and Governor tl . ch cted shall have absolute < ontrol of t Governments of tho non-rcconstruct States, and have power to pass all laws proper subjects for legislation. AH la' acts, fee., of legislative bodies and ofii sinoo the adoption of tho secession Ol nances aro abrogated. Tiio Provisio Government ?-.hall i-xist until a consti tional convention of loyalists, elected wi eut distinction cd' color as to voters, eluding only leading rebels, shall ador. Republican Constitution acceptable- to C gross. Tho right of appeal is to bo gi: litigants from judgments rendercdin coi finco secession. It is said the English mission i.-; LO tendered to David Dudley Field. BOSTON, J.anuary 18.-Tho schoo Julia Ann, from Baltimore; for Boston supposed to have been lost, with all ha on board, as papera have been picked on Nantucket Beach belonging to her. GLOUCESTER, MAIS., January 18. schooner is reported ashore at Kc Cove, and two of the cn w frozen to do; and oth< rs badly frozen. MEMPHIS, January is. Thopackct ri Valley .struck tho wreck of thc gun-l Ji ll'. Thompson to-day, and stink in a minutes in fortyfeet of water. There v sixty lives bvst, including thirteen of a rnilv named Roberts. Most of tho ci pass angers wore saved. Tue register lost. The Platte Valley was a packet tween Memphis and Vicksburg, and val ut $10,009. Sho wan loaded to lier gm? A young lady is charged with 1 iug said that if a cart \ \eel has i fellers, it's a pity a pretty girl her can't have ono. - The Or???. Commoner at Home. If Thaddeus Stevens is a power in the Houso of Representatives ot Washington, his influence at the capital of Pennsylvania, seems to be of a less formidable character. It appears that in the Republican caucus at Harrisburg, he only received seven votes for the tho nomination for Senator. The following despatch to the National Intelligencer explains: HARKISBUKO, Jan. 10.-The lie publican caucus met this evening. Speaker Hall was chosen chairman. The caucus remained in session only half an 'nour. No speeches were made. Simon Cameron was nomi? nated for Senator on thc iirst ballot. Tho vote was as follows: Cameron, forty-six; Curtin, twenty-three; Ste? vens, seven; Grow, five. All the He publican members were present ex? cept Lancaster County Senators. The nomination was made unanimous, when tho caucus adjourned. Commenting ou thi3 result thc In? telligencer, saj-s; It occurs to ns that if ever men came to Washington chop-fallen, humiliated, mortified and distressed, I the whilom dictator of the House, and meretricious confrere, who is the- editor and proprietor of "two newspapers, both daily," Sundays .included, must be those men. Mr. Cameron, who was in private life, j was not a "great commoner,'' had not the gift of oratory, occupied no "bad eminence" through the trick of the partisan pen, had not urged, wo believe, the policy of renewing war upon thc South by an "army, in three columns, to burn, kill, and possess the land," had not incited a mob in Philadelphia to slaughter the peaceful delegates to a National Con? vention, had not intrigued to foment" treason and insurrection against the authorities of a State, was neverthe? less doomed to eudure assaults from Washington, of those who, habitu? ated by the insolence and diohitorhd ness of office, thought to crush him by concerted efforts. How utterly barren were tho results of the "pompous prologue to the swelling theme!" Mr. Stevens repaired in "pride of power and place" to Harris? burg. He was followed by tho editor of the Chronicle, for both of whom, it was announced by telegraph, suites of parlors had been put in suitable state of preparation for the arrival of men who supposed them? selves so capable of ridiug the whirl? wind and directing the storm. Their levers could move the world of radi? calism. Tliey came, saw, and were demolished. Scarce a sign is left of them. We cannot see how either ! can hold np their heads among the political characters at thc capital, to whom they have essayed to give the nod. What a "lame and impotent conclusion!" But seven votes in the Republican caucus for the "great commoner," hacked by the editor and proprietor of -two neAvspapers, both daily," Sundays included! Wc extend our sympathies ta our woe befallen brother of the press, and advise in good faith that he shall not ngaiii venture into deep water. RULES OE THR ROAD.-There are \ many "rules of the road" of which passengers oftentimes appear quite i ignorant. The following should be I remembered, based as they ere on \ legal decisions: Applicants for tick "ets on railroads, who do not offer the ! exact amor.nt of change, can be eject? ed from the cars. Conductors are not ! obliged t make change. "Good for this day only" on a ticket amounts to nothing. A ticket is good until used. Those who lose their tickets must purchase others, ortho conductor has a right to put them off his train. Transgressing the rules of the compa? ny is sufficient reason for ejection from the cars. All reasonable de? mands to show tickets must? not be resisted, and proper decorum in the cars is obligatory upon passengers. No person has a right to more seats than lie has paid for. Tho leaving of any article in a seat while the owner is absent entitle? him to his seat on his return. DUEEI/B?G EV Mis.sis.siri-i.-The Vicksburg Heraid says the innocent amusement of duelling is about to como to grief in that part of Mis? sissippi. It says several gentlemen, who have been engaged in this inno? cent amusement, have been indicted by the grand jury and bound over in the sum of Si,OOO, to answer for the offence against the peace and dignity of the State of Mississippi. COMW?SUCIAL? AKB r'iriAA'CI CHARLESTON, January 18. -Cotton mar? ket firm, with sales for the week of about 1,800 bales, at 32@33i. bice Oj c. North Uiver hay $1.60@1.7?. Corn $1.21? 1.35. Oats 75?87c. Flour $]'2?18 per barrel. Bacon 12.|@llc. Liverpool salt $2.50 per sack. NEW YORK, January 18 Noon. -Money 7 per cent. Exchange-sixty days sight 10jJ. Cold very strong at :57.?. Flour dull and drooping. Wheat dull and heavy. Corn a shade tinner. Pork firmer; new I mess $21.12@$22.27; old mess Lard timi; barrels 12.?@13L Cotton steady, at 35c. for middling uplands. 7 P. M. Cotton brm and active, with Hales of 2,200 bales -middling uplands 35. flour active and unchanged. Wlieat quiet and unchanged. Corn tinner mixed West? ern $1.17.V. Geld weaker at close of mar? ket, and left on at 36]. LIVERPOOL, January 18 Noon.- -Broker's circular reports eales of cotton tor week ending last evening at 42,000 balea. There has been a decline of ?d. per pound on prices during tho week. Tho market to? day opened dull, with prospective dav's safe of 8,000 hales-middling uplands Mid.; middling Orleans 15|d. - LONDON, January IS-Noon.-United States bouda 72b Consols ao|(^yi. ?Tile Fenian? und Greek Klre. Th? London Lancet soys the * 'Greek fire" of the Fenians is no myth. It is a solution of phosphorus in bisul? phide of carbon. The peculiar pro? perties of thc former are well known, while those of the latter, as being a comparatively recent chemical prepa? ration, are not generally understood. The bisulphide of carbon is a highly inflammable liquid, colorless and almost transparent, giving off fumes of sulphurous acid when burned. It volatilizes very rapidly at ordinary temperature, and when its vapor is mixed with air, and a light applied, it inflames with a slight explosion. Its vapor is poisonous. Thc phos? phorous dissolves readily in the bisul? phide of carbon, if the temperature of the latter is slightly raised. A few weeks ago, tho Liverpool de? tectives seized, as they were being re? moved from a house in that town, three boxes, each containing fifteen jars or cans of phosphorus. In each jar were twenty sticks of phosphorus, each stick being six inches long and two inches in circumference. Several bottles of tlie compound of phospho? rus and bisulphide of carbon have also been seized, as well as some bot? tles of the latter, without tho phos? phorus dissolvcdin it. These bottles were all of thc same size and shape, wore quito full, and held about three pints; had short necks and small mouths, and were made of green glass, probably having been manu? factured for the purpose, as their sijupe was somewhat peculiar. Seve? ral experiments have been made at different times to test the properties of tho compound. On one occasion, one of the bottles was thrown against th*> centre of a high wall. . A loud ex? plosion followed* and the concussion .and exposure of the fluid by the bot? tle breaking were sufficient to ignite its contents, and a flaming fluid streamed down the wall, evolving de., ie fumes of au irritating, poison? ous nature. A stream of water from a large hose, which had previously been pia- ed in readiness, was imme? diately directed against it, but some gallons of water had to be pouret ! upon tho wall before the flame was extinguished ; and even some hour; I afterward, when the day was darken I ing, a glimmering light was observ?e on tho wall where the fluid had been doubtless given off by thc phospho rus which had remained adherent, 8( highly charged with that subsfanci was the fluid. It was further f?unc that tho compound ignites most ra pidly when used in small quantities spread over a large surface, am freely exposed; therefore, when prv.r ed upon cotton, tow, and similar mn teriuls, it ignited instauUvneously. A NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL COU VKNTTON.-Tho Hon. C. L. Vallar digham has recently published a able letter on the situation, in whic he makes the following sensible BUJ. gestion: Ought we not forthwith t begin to agitate for a convention c all tho States, to meet and adj u: upon the basis of the fundament; principles of the old Constitution an the Uuion, the new and momentoi questions, and the altered conditio of things, arising out of the late wai And if the . "bargain" which 01 fathers made for the sake of sccuriu a Union and Federal Government ; all, is to bo set aside under pretenc of establishing exact justice an equity, and Stales are to bc dealt wit as the mere creatures of tho Fcder will and pleasure, and divided, co: solidated and moulded to suit ll fashion of the hour and the inter?s of those, who can secure and hold tl power, is it not a good time now demand that tho gross iniquity of tl present Senatorial representath should give way to "equality befo the law," and that in ie-settiing tl great question of suffrage upon t! theory of "impartiality," 3,000,0 of "Yankees" shall no longer be pc milted to vote twelve Senators, wh: 3,000,000 of "Buckeyes" are gi ciously allowed to vote but tu Would New England, think vnu, s the point? Amoc?? the other defences ol Eu land is a volunteer staff corps, form of railway officials, which is so ti: roughly organized that it undertake "in a space ot' thirty hours, to ph' in any given spot 100,000 trooj 00,00.) horses amblOO guns;" and i only that, but "to collect in twen four hours 80,000 'navies'for tho c< straction of fortifications and iii works." The defensive army of Ei land numbers 00,000 regular troo] 120,000 militia and 150,000 voil leers. Go-. Andrew says that the Mas chusc-tts Commissioners for thc Pa Exhibition have been requested send over a Massachusetts sehe house, with teacher, scholars, fur tare, Sec., in order that visitors n seo our educational system in act operation. The Governor thinks t. it will bc impracticable to com with the request. Petter send tho whole Stale :i make it a present to the Emperor. The Congressional delegation fr Texas has visited the President, ? complained that Gen. Kiddo, of Freedmen's Bureau in that State, issued an order annulling a Stale relative to contracts with the fie men. The President examined \ law, and issued an order request Gen. Howard to have the order s pending the local law rescinded. Niblo's Garden will cease to used as a theatre after the 1st May next. VALUE OP THB POTTNI> STEKIJNO rr* CURRENCY.-Tho Journal of Com merce gives the following as a speci? men of a class of communications re? ceived almost daily, which, with the answer to it, wc transfer to our co? lumns for thc benefit of like in? quirers: NEW YOUR, December 21, 1860. Editor Journal of Commerce. Sin: In this morning's Journal, you quote gold as opening at 136^ At this rate, what amount in currency would bo required to purcliasoa draft of ono pound sterling? i wish yon would print some simple rule, where? by a novice could tell ut any time the actual value of a pound sterling in dollars and cents. I would also like to know tho meaning of the quota? tion, "Sterling bills are offered by leading drawers at lOUjJ for sixty days on Ijondon, and llO^f for short sight." Asking pardon for troubling von, 1 am, &c., ANXIOUS INQUIRER. It is difficult to explain thc seeming mysteries of foreign'exchange to oin? who is wholly uninitiated, but we will I venture a few words in reply to the j above. A sterling bill isa draft pay? able in English pounds, shillings and penoe, called "sterling money." A sixty days bill is payable (with grac<") sixty days from sight; bids wen; for? merly payable on presentation ; but tho custom of grauting three days' grace after sight came into general usc in England, and tims "short sight" is used to designate those bills legally payable three days after pre? sentation. The rate (10-n^) for sixty days' bills, describes the price at which tho drawer undertakes to pay n pound sterling f-.) thc holder in Loudon, sixty-three days after pre? sentation thre for acceptance. It is not 10S>J? on thc actual value of tho pound in the Federal money, but on a certain conventional rate-$1.4-1.4. Thus $1.14.4 x 109}/, equal to$4.8G.G, (omitting fractions) Tho latter is tho value to bo paid in gold hero for each pound sterling of the bill of ex? change. Now, $4.80.6 x 130?? equal $0.01.8, which is the value in paper currency of the pound at the rates given. Tho rule, therefore, is ob? vious: Multiply $4.44.4 by tho quoted rato of exchange; that will give the cost here of ono pouud of exchange in gold. Then multiply this product by tho quotation of gold ; that will produce the cost of the pound in paper money. This is a vcry simple process, and ono which, it is proba ble, every reader will be able to un t derstand. ? AN APPEAL OF GREEK WOMEN TC I TUE WOMEN OK AMERICA.-An appea signed by the women of the G reel island of Synv to the ladies of thi: country has boen received, asking help for tho refugees from Crete The appeal closes thus: "In tho Island of Syra, inhabit?e by tho victims that escaped tho dis asters of our holy .struggle in 1821 as well as in other parts of Greece thousands of Cretan families havi taken refuge, bogging for food ant clothes aud an asylum. Wo hav opened our houses to them and ou arms, and have done all in our powc to provide thom some comforts. Bu nevertheless, scarcely yet counting thirty-six years of political lifo, am having had our houses and cities t build,wo have not sufficient resource to render effectual aid io such of on brothers as have sought an asylum i Greece. Hence our duty toward our unfortunate compatriots compel ns to implore your assistance, and w are convinced, when we recall thc afi sistances which your compatriot afforded us in 1S21, that our voie will bo hoard by tho noble-hear te ladies of the United Slates, and tbs you will hold out a succoring han to our brothers, exiled from thei country and the prey of uumerite I misfortunes. The Greeks of bot I sexes will all bo eternally grateful t I you, thc descendants of Wasbingtp I and Franklin -tho founders of yoi I Republic." j . . _ -i? m ? - - i POLITICAL JUDGES.-In two in i portant decisions which have recent been pronounced by the Snpren Court of the United Slates, the fas has been made painfully apparel that a portion of tiio members of th august tribunal aro controlled by p litical considerations rather than b> sense of justice. Prior to his elevation to tho hij oflice which he now holds, Chief Ju tice Chase was tho most radical ai unscrupulous partisan ia tho Nortl ern States. Some of his predecease on tho bench were equally violent politicians before they were cloth? with the ermine, but speedily L came conservative, aud administer? justice with strict impartiality. Th: however, is not the case with Jud: Chase, who, upon every question importance, seems able to enlist formidable minority of tho Coi: upon the side of tho radical part Looking to this condition of thiut and the agc of the several members tho Court, wo cannot expect tl: body to bo very long a break-wal against tho violence of our enomi< [ liichmond Times. No STAMPS ON STATE PAPERS. Wo are informed by Maj. J. Burnes, our Comptroller-Gemr that the law does not req ure tl revenue stamps shall be placed uot03, receipts, orders, A J., when the State is a party. [Atlanta Intelligencer. If a man has a great idea of hi self it is certain to bo the only ic ho ever will have. COHBECTIOK.-The two paragraphs j following are clipped from the Balti? more Transcript: "We are requested to give notice that the Charles Sumner who shot himself through the head with a pistol, shortly before ll o'clock Sun? day night, in New York city, is not the Charles Sumner more generally known as United States Senator from Massachusetts. The friends of this Charles Sumner were very much alarmed on reading tho account of *he suicide in the New fork papers. This was caused from tho fact that their Charles Sumner had been labor? ing for many years under a serious aberration of the mind. The origi? nal disease under widen Sumner labors is generally known by the vulgar name of "nigger on the brain." Some say that this is a life? long disease with this Sumner; others that being very fond of African so? ciety when young, and mingling in it a great deal, he was induced to imi? tate some of the customs that prevail therein. Whichever of theso ver? sions is the correct one, it is quite certain that Sumner has not yet blown hi.-, brains ont. We shall certainly be the first to inform our readers when this ( vent occurs. Wc have also to announce ;is pre? mature the other report that Thad? deus Stevens died in Washington, on Sunday, of a chronic disease with which he is afflicted. This is well known to be '"an enlargement of thc I Spleen." To suck an extent lias this derangement proceeded in one direc? tion, that the heai't has been entirely pushed out of its place, and in the other tie. organs of compassion spoken of in the Scriptures have been so seriously interfered with that their functions have been almost destroyed. Stevens will certainly die. Wo have prepared his obituary notice in this office at great trouble and expense. This was mainly caused by the un? willingness of the people living in his neighborhood to furnish the ne? cessary information, the majority of them avering that he was "possessed of an evil spirit," and that, after his death, it would return to plague them. It was astonishing to find how general was this belief. BADLY FOOLED.--The freed people of that portion of Amherst lying within a circuit of five or six miles from the bridge, were badly fooled on Saturday. It seemed that they were ordered by some officer of the Bureau to repair to the bridge on the day named, to hear, as they understood, a big speech or something of the kind from some one of their especial guardians. This they worein nowise to omit, under the penalty, as neveral of them have told us, of a fine of $12. They flocked to tho spot designated in immense numbers-men, women and children-and instead of hearing a speech, or being interested in any other way, each one was simply pre? sented with an Abolition tract, called the "Freedman," printed in Boston in 1S(M. The disappointment and disgust of the negroes was and is very great at this treatment, and the Bu? reau has, in consequence, lost much of its whilom popularity with those ignorant and deluded people. [Lynclibnrg Neics. AK EASY WAY TO PAY THE DEBTS OE THE Souriirmx STATES.-Bennett's Herald says: Tho fact must not be forgotten that in absorbing a foreign State we absorb its obligations. Tho rebel States, as members of the Union, j each in ils State capacity before the war, liad incurred a heavy bill of State debts, ranging from ten to forty or fifty millions, more or less, for each State. Those debts by each of ! Ibo States concerned are now held as binding upon them, and if we act con? sistently with the grand issue of the war, that the rebel States with their subjugation ceased to exist as States, wo must at least assume thc debts which they owed down to the hour ! of their secession from thc United States. The rights, powers, and obligations of a conqueror go to? gether. ATTEMPT TO SUBSIDIZE THE PKESS. An atrocious attempt, says the Cleve? land Plaindcaler. was made to levy black mail on a reporter of that paper at the municipal court. Thc counsel for a chap who had been brought up for selling on Sunday, told tho reporter to suppress his client's name and call around at said chap's plaee and get a cigar. The reporter was incorruptible. He re I plied in an outburst of virtuous in 1 diguation: "What! attempt to muz j zlo the press with a ci^ar? I never smoke. If you will make it a ton or two of coal i may come down." The Philadelphia mint is producing about 2,000.000 pieces of tho now five per month. SHIP fc y. WK. PORT OK CHARLESTON. JAN. 18. M.U:\ ED VBSTKUDAY. brig Jose A. Deveraux, Philadelphia, brig John Peirce, tit rout, Matanzas. Sehr. Eliza frances, Sawyer, baltimore. .Sehr. Azelda ?L bama, Mclndoe, liait. WENT TO SKA YKSTETWA?? Brig J. Baker, Thompson, Philadelphia, j Sehr. Chas. Dennis, Hughes, New fork. Funeral Invitation. The friends and acquaintances o? Mr. and lifts. A. Tolleson, and of their sen, J. A. TOLLESON, are invited to attend thu funeral services oi tho latter, at tho Wash? ington Stree ti hapol, TH tS AFTERNOON, at 3 o'clock. ''TEMPER OF THE SOUTH."-We clip this paragraph from thc New York Express: "Wo read every day about all tho. leading journals published in the States recently in rebellion, and, with the exception of one, of but comparatively little influence, in Vir? ginia, tho tono that pervades them is that of quiet submission to whatever may be in store for them, save only and except dishonor. If thc Jacobins expect them to submit to that, then the sooner they go to work and re? organize the army and navy, tho bet? ter-for physical force will bo indis? pensable t<> make thom "submit." People who like to pay tares, and aro admirers of an enforced con? sumption, will contemplate thc pros? pect with feelings of unalloved dc fight." ? ? ? ?- -- TUE ATTRITION or GREENBACKS. We recently republished, from an English paper, an article stating that upon the coin circulation of Great Britain tho annual loss from attrition is $100,000-an amount of money the people of that country annually pay for the privilege of using the current coins of tho realm. Upon this state? ment, thc New York Journal of Com? merce comments, that Americans are not troubled in this way, ' for the substance which greenbacks lose from attrition is not worth more than seven ? cents a pound, and the loss is not ap- . preciable." CATHOLIC Bisiior.s IN TUE UNITED" STATES.-The Catholic Mirror cor-* reets the statement in tho cabio despatch some days since relative to tho increase and number of bishops of that church in the United Statc3. Instead of eighteen bishops to be in? creased to twenty-two, there are already forty-eight in the United States, with a prospective addition of at least fourteen others. No INDICTMENTS AGAINST TITE NEW ORLEANS RIOTERS.- Tho United States Grand Jury have failed to lind any indictment against any persons con? cerned in the July riots. P. H. Mor? gan, United States District Attorney, when the jury was empanelled, de? clined to apply tho test oath to tho jurors. Modesty depends upon good mna nners, happiness on security, good society on good education, wisdom on experience; and for thc sarety or protection of a country, a tried-man is often moro valuable than a re? nowned warrior. Axiotion Sales. W. T. WALTER WILL Kell at his mart, THIS HORNING, at 10 o'clock, Bureaus, Hair-seat Chairs, Safe-s, Secre? tary, Tables, Crockery, Washstands, Pot ware, Cook Stove, Shoes, Neatsfoot OH, Ac. Also, barrels Lard and Pickled Her? rings. Jan 19 1 ESTATE SALE. BY CONSENT of heirs, wo will eel!, ak PUBLIC AUCTION, thc following property of tho Estate of John Bates, de? ceased, on TUESDAY, tho 29th instant, at ll o'clock a. ra.: At the Poa Ridge Planta? tion, all the Household and Kitchen Fur? niture, a large lot of Hogs, Cactle, Sheep, and a lino Buggy and Harness. And, on the day following, at the White cotton Plantation, a large lot of Hogs and Cattle, and alargo quantity of fino Potatoes. TERMS OK SALE.-All sums under $100, ca6h; for sums above $100, notes, with ap? proved security, at twelve months from dato, with interest annuallv. JOSE i'll BATES, JOHN S. BATES, Jan 1.1 12 Executors. TO RENT, QIX COMFORTABLE ROOMS, in :.anita, 0 with garden and other conveniences. Rent reasonable. Apply to Jan 19 13 W."s. MONTEITH. Fine Northern Cabbage. JUST received, one erato of splendid NORTHERN CABBAGE, and for salo bv WM. McGUINNIS. "Jan 10 _S_ HERRINGS! HERRINGS! ! i)AA BOXES HERRINGS, just received ?\J\J and for salo at 60c. per hos bv . Jan 19 J. A ?. ii. AGNEW. POLLOCK HOUSE. finn H following will be served lin for X LUNCH. THIS DAY. nt ll '-clock': Okr . Soup, Hog's-hi ad Cheese, Koree Meat Balls, ('(dd Slaugh and >i'.c dishes. Jun KJ 1 T. M. POLLOCK. THE subscriber would respectfully ytSSja inform bis friends and customers that he has rem ed to his new store, -on Main street, two doors South of tho Court House, who1 e is now opening a largo stock of COOKING STOVES, RANGES, Parlor and Office STOVES, FUR? NACES, Plain, Japanned, Stamped and Planished TIN-WARE, LEAD PIPE, Ac., ! which will be sold at wholesale and retail. Tho above is thc largest and best selec? tion of Stoves, Ac., e ver brought to this market. A. PALMER. Jan 19 __ 7 READY-MADE CLOTHING. THE ladies, gentlemen and young pee* plc of Columbia, who may bj in want of "SOMETHING TO WEAR," arc respect? fully and earnestly invited by tho ladies of j tho Industrial Association to call at. thoir 1 Work-room, in tho Femalo Academypand i examine the art ?(des which they have now j ready for sale. Some ono will always bo i found ready to exhibit thc ready-made gar? ments anti to receive orders from thoao ! who may wish to have work done neatly j and promptly. - Tho object of tho A--s:;. iation is io fur? nish constant employment to those who, having boon impoverished by the war, now depend on tlio needle for daily bread. Loi s not such an object commend itself to t tho hearts nf our Citizens? Or must tho I anxious applicants for work be told that \ our people prefer Nordic rn-made gannon to, ; md that mero is, therefore, no moro work fer them? Shall it be said that such an Association ;is thia cannot be uu-itftined in the capital ol South Carolina? Jan 19