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COLUMBIA Thursday Morning, January 24,1367 Th? Southern States <.'on?|uci-e<l Pro? vinces. The Washington correspondent of tho Cincinnati Gazelle exulta that the South has been declared a moro con? quered province, with ike practical concurrence of the /'resident. Et appears that thc city of Mayon applied to the Secretary of Wnr for thc restoration of certain property which tho United States military au? thorities held, under the claim that it vas n conquest. This bein"; re? ferred to Holt, he, of course, decided against the city. Ile founded his opinion on thc assumption that Geor? gia was a conquered territory, with? out State or municipal rights. Stan? ton, being referred to, refused to restore ino property. Tho case was carried before the President, who de dined to interfere. It is, in conse? quence, claimed that tho latter en? dorsed Holt's theory, and that the Southern States are to be treated as a mere territorial conquest. The correspondent referred to who will yet find there is a Uaw in his theory, as well as in his state? ment-proceeds to rejoice like a free? booter, as follows: *'Tery many interesting questions arise in connection with this. The rail? roads of the South had been taken possession of by the Confederate Go? vernment, and were subsequently captured by our forces. They were thea, the property of the United States. By what right did Andrew Johnson, on the 8th of August, 1SGG, give away millions of dollars' worth of Government property? By what authority has the President restored confiscated property? By tho same reasoning that led to tho above deci? sion, tito title to much of this class of property would be vested in the United States. Clan a President dis? pose, of publie property at will? "Interesting and important deci? sions ure. startling the country every day. This one may surely be classed among their,.'" It thus appears that one object of the ad*??rates of ,i consolidated Go? vernment is ?;> j?-,.fe possession of the Southern railroads. These roads were private prop* riv, and were, for the mos! } ci rt, when t hey caine in the way of the Federal army, not cap? tured, hut destroyed. Since then, the incorporated owners have re? paired them withluarvollous celerity, so that the principal thoroughfares ihronghont th" country are in go >d running order. President Johnson, when he is*.:.-d his proclamation that the rebellion was at un end, as he was authorized to do w.t., perfectly jush fialdo in r >rin.< to the railroad cor? porations ;]-...-ir property, and the right of privai.; property, ii" longer necessary to public service, and whose owners un not traitors, cannot be questioned under any civilized Go ?emin cul, and mon especially under this, by ? ho Constitution, which throws around this right amp!.' bul Warts Jind defenci s. Such a whole? sale confiscation of private property can ?iud no favor with the people of the United States, no more at the 'North Dian in thc "'conquered pro? vinces. " Our op!:.?. n is that the radican ac? tion ii mar the end of their rope. Mrhich, for tho good of lim country, ought to have- a sliding noose at the end of it, so that tiu-\ and their schemes might pcrk-.li together. -- , ? ?, " A correspondent of the Newberry Herald nominates E. S. Keitt, Ls.].. a candid, ie for member of thc Unit? d States lion .i- of Representatives. -- - --?- * AN INDIAN WAR.-The indications all point to tho fact that we are threatened with an Indian war. The late horrible massacre near Fori Kearney recalls bi;irr memories of those gt lierai conspiracies among tho India:).-, which, yuna-, forty or fifty years ago. gave us KO much trouble and cost, us thousands of valuable lives. Thc Indians in our Territories number in a\} between 300,000 and 350,000 souls, and our whole system of management is well caleula!eil to keep them constantly on the w. r path. Tiny receive from our Go vernment annual girts or payments of money and nn rchaudize. These pay? ments attract flocks of th bar ed arid vile white adventurers, who are worse than "land shards" and etnigi.mt runners. They chea!, demoralize and rob the Indii.i.s of everything which is paid ihetn, and leave them naked, drunken and discontented. Unable to wait for Iiis annuities, th? Indian goes fort lt and robs, as he lias been robbed, :uid adds murder to robbery. Reconstruction. -.' The New York Herald, of Sunday, baa the following brief editorial on ] thc proceedings of Congress on Hu- i ' tuxday. The concluding sentences c are mere bosh-the usual blatancy of ' the Herald. Tho Supreme Court will ! 1 ultimately decide upon the coustitu-M tionality of the constitutional amend- j j mont, an?! the number of the States jj j necessary to ratify it: j. Thad. Stevens' reconstruction bill ' was up before the House of liepre-1 i senfcatives yesterday, and an amend- ! ? ment was proposed by Mr. Spalding ; i nod accepted by Mr. Stevens, pro- j ; viding that, from the date of the] passage of the Act until such time ms the States in rebellion shall be ad-!; mitted to representation iu Congress, the writ of habeas corpus shall be sus- \ pended in Virginia, North and South j Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas, j Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, and those "districts of! country"' bo iii the meanwhile placed ? nuder martial law. In the course of i tho debate upon the bill, Mr. Scofield ! made a sharp attack upon Secretar; Seward for having sent the constitu- i tiona] amendment to the ex-rebel ! States for their adoption, arguing that tho States represented in Con? gress alone had the right to vote upon thc amendment. He charged a de? sign, on the part of the Secretary of State, to lead thc other departments of tho Government into acts recog? nizing thc actual existence of tho rebel Statis, and included certain judges of the Supreme Court of tho United States in his censure. Thc Southern people will so ?n begin to learn thc real value Vf that advice by which they were incited to reject the terms proposed by Congress. Wo ? have no doubt that tho sensible por tion of them would now gladly wei- j come any policy by which thc consti- ? tu lion al amendment might be made j operative, without their direct eon- i currence, so that they might secure the substance of peace without doing violence to tho shadow of "honor." Severe. The New York Day Hook has thc following scathing satire on thc fully of thc American people: It is thc fashion, just now, to rep- j resent the country as nourishing bc youd all precedent in our or any other nation's history; and it h. claimed that Europe not only stands in awe of ns. but is extremely de? sirous io learn nil it can from our superior knowledge, enterprise, Ac. Now, when we reflect that the Abo? lition party in power is tho tool of European monarchists, created by them for the sole purpose of over? throwing republican institutions, and that they have, to a great extent, ac? complished their mission, ami are working like beavers to "reform" t hc Constitution, and biol out utterly the work of Washington, it is ludi? crous, as it is sad, to seethe monarch? ists patting them on their heads and tolling them what smart fellow; thc "Yankees" arc. Cyrus Field, who lay- c.own the Atlantic cable, both ends of which arc in British teri i lory, and in case of war willi us, Unit ena? ble- Englaud t.. strike twice tc our once, i.s. of course, au exceedingly I "enterprising" character, and the Queen, it is .-aili really wants to make bim a knight as well as an ass if he wishes it. And ihen Bennett's vacht and trip across tim Atlantic is thought to be exceedingly smart and enter? prising, while, all this time, John .Still is Mit only tal;ing away all our j foreign commerce, but, under our prcsenl tariff and worthless currency, American ship-building,exeept "plum gut" yachts, is disappearing altoge? ther. A year <.-r two hence, what cot I ton is produced will be manufactured jin tho South, and then, when thc ; "Yankees" find that they must buy j their cotton and sugar from John i Bull, or shut up shoi) altogether, they will, no doubt, come to their j ' ens; -, and realize what egregious j :..-s'. s they have been, and ?.plum gut" yachts and Atlantic cables will be a'drug in their market, al all events. -? -o ?~ 1 >A s > TIME COMINO.- According to ; the following, from thc IV uti nal ?a telligeixcer, we have not seen the worst The course of the majority in Con I gross, in endeavoring to dissever the Union, for whoso preservation mil? lions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives wore freely given; ! in seeking to destroy and uproot tho cut ive and judicial branches of the Government, and to make the Constitution itself the mere play? thing of ft political faction, is rapidly tending to the destruction, not only of i the Government, but of thc whole I people. It is madly creating a finan? cial ci i-is, which will involve tlie rich I and thc poor alike in one common Catastrophe, lt will not onbj destroy I the public credit, break the bank and I tho treasury, stop the mills, silence I the forges, suspend all commerce, and paralyze the hands of industry, i but it will bring ??aunt, stark, relent I less <r!in( to tho doors of all, thc ! highest and lowest in the land. This is thc pictnrc that thc uner? ring fingers of fate aro painting in ineffaceable colors upon our whole horizon. It cannot mitch longer I* shut ont, from the unwilling vision of the destructives in Congress, .il is the nameless terror they are them? selves recklessly invoking. Jc t. them pau.se in their careorandc *ntempI?to is awful revelation.??. Lttack on tho Prcsitlei.t hy Sumner. In tho United States Senate, on .'riday. the hill to regulate the te mre of office was taken up. The in est i on was upon Mr. Sumner's mu miment to ado! an additional sec ion, providing that all officers of the government, except clerks of the lepartments whose salaries exceed ?1,OOO peranniim, shall be appointed ry the President, by and with tito idvice and consent ol' the Senate. ! Mr. Sumner, being entitled to the ? loor, said: It is now a little more j han a year ago since I felt it my I luty to characterize a message of the ['resident as "whitewashing. "' That nessage represented the foundation >f things in the rebel States as civic un. promising, when the evidence vas directly the other way. Of .nurse, the message was whitewash ng, and this was a mild term for mch a document; ami you do not .orget how several Senators, ter? ror-stricken at this plainness, leaped 'orwurd to vindicate the President. Yesterday, some of these same Seua ors, horror-struek again, leaped for? rard to the same task. Time has ?bown that I was right on tin; former mcasion. If anybody doubts that I .vas right yesterday, I commend him ;o time, and he will not he obliged to ?rait long. For myself, I shall insist dways upon the complete freedom of lebate, and shall exercise it. John Milton, in his glorious aspirations, jaid, "(?ivo mo liberty to know the ruth and to argue it freely above ali iberties." Thank Ood, now that the slave-masters have been driven from bis Chamber, such, at last, is the iberty of an American Senator. At last, the country is opening its yyes to the actual condition of things. Already it sees that Andrew Johnson, jyho came to supreme power by a uloody accident, ha? become the suc? cessor of Jefferson Davis, in the spi? rit by which he is governed, and in the mischief which he 1ms inflicted rm his country. It sccs the President >f the rebellion revived in the Pre? sident of the United States. It sees that the violence which took the life of his illustrious predecessor is now, liv his perverse complicity, extending through the rebel States, making al] who love the Union its victims, and filling the land with oppression. It sees that the war upon the faithful Unionists is still coutinued under his powerful auspices, without any dis? tinction of color, so that both white and black are sacrificed alike, it see: that he is a minister of discord, ano not a minister of peace. It seems that so long as his opiuior prevails there is small chance foi tranquility, or security, or reconcilia tion; that the restoration mid pros perity in the rebel States so mud longed for inns', be arrested, that tin business of the whole country mus he embarrassed, and those condition upon which rests a sound currency must be postponed. Ail tb,ese thing the country now secs, but indigna tion assumes the form of judgment when it is seen also that this is napa ralleled, and, for creating mischief .'e."oiid only to th?: rebellion itself, o which it is thc continuation, is iuvi goi,-t ed and extended through a plai: usurpation. Sir, in holding np An drew Johnson to judgment, 1 do no allude to his open exposure of him self, in a condition of beastial intoxi cation, while he was taking his oat of ellice. Xor do I allude to th maudlin speeches by which lie dc graded the country as it was neve before degraded; nor do I hearken t any reports of pardons suhl, or c personal corruption. This is not t!i ease against him as I deem it m ditty to present it in this argument Those things are had -very bad; lui tin y might not, in the opinion c some Senators, justify us on tho prc sent oitcasion. In oller words, the might not bo sufficient reason for th amendment which I have moved, bu there is a reason which is ample. Th President has usurped the powers c Congress on a colossal scale, and 1. has employed these usurped powei ii: fomenting rebel spirit, an awakening acew the dying tires of th rebellion. This is the great aud unpardonabl >ffence for which history must cor demn him, if you do not. He is a usurper, through whom infinit wrong has been done to his country Wherever no vacancy occurs for pa: tisansof this usurpation, other vacai eies are created for these partisan.' I need not add that just in propoi tion as we sanction such nomination: or are unwilling to arrest them a< cording to the measures of our pov i rs, we do become parties to h usurpation; and now I am brough directly to the practical application r this statement. Siiow me a man exposed to wronf md I will show you an occasion fe the exerci of the high powers tin 3od and tl Constitution have give von. It will not do to say, as Sen; .ors have said, that the cases are to ?umerons, and that the remedy cai int be applied without interfering wi : ho system handed down from on 'tithers, or, worse still, that you hav ittlo sympathy with those su fieri n >er:;ons. This will not do; you mns ipply the remedy or fail in duty; e? >ecially must you apply it when, as o he present occasion, this wrong is ?art of a plain usurpation in tho ii; crests of tho recent rebellion. Th pies-ion then recurs, are you read, o apply tho remedy according to th m a ure of your powers? Tho neces itv of this remedy may be .seen i he rebel State?, and also in tho Ioya States; for tho usurpation is felt in both. Mr. Sumner thou spoke of tho merits of bis amendment, advocating its adoption. -.? ?? - Thc Condition of Trnilr. The New York Tim s, in noticing the remarks of a Westeru journal, that "the entire North-west is over- . run by drummers for Eastern houses, \ whose only desire seems to bc to get ? onier* ?iud till them, regardless of the ability of those who order to pay their bills at maturity," remarks that "twelve eonths ago a similar warn? ing came From the South. Eastern houses that sought opportunity for expansion, sold freely ou credit, and ?i very huge proportion of thc goods remain unpaid for to thisday. Weak traders suffer in consequence, and other inconveniences are aggravated by the unpromising aspect of South? ern indebtedness." It cautions against crediting tho West any more than the South, alleging that reports from the West prove the necessity of extreme caution, and quotes the Chi? cago Tribun", as a witnc&s. That paper says: "From every quarter, there is hut one response-'dull.' In the country, business is very slow. Thc interior dealers are selling little; the farmers arc not paying up, and in numerous parts of the country we hear of failures. Merchants in ar? rears and unable to pay are making assignments, and in some instances fraudulent transfers of property have been made." On which the Times remarks: "Whait more ominous state of things could we 'nive? The farmers not settling their store accounts, the store-keepers selling little ami paying I something near to nothing, are the incipient symptoms of the trickery and fraud which, ?ri th?- West, ore sage the coining of tighi times. Surely these are circumstances not favorable to tue futur?? of Eastern ! merchants who new ojien Western j credits." Of the South, it observes: "Tl: I general condition of affairs there pre j eludes the possibility -;f remittance: for goods supplied from tlie North, t or the growth of a demand for fur ! tiler supplies. Westward ?uni South ward, everything points to theneces I sity of more than common prudence ! on the part of Eastern merchants am j manufacturers. The times ave dui ! here, undoubtedly. The Hush usualb incid? t to thu season has not showi itself tnis year. Manufacturers dis cover that the demand on which the; calculated lias suddenly subsided, am that the enormous profits to whicl they have become accustomed wil not be realized during the passinj period. The presence in our cities o a large amount of unemployed, o only partially employed labor, mus ! tell upon gen? ral business as certain! j as it reveals stagnation in certaii ' branches of industry. Turn wbicl j way you will, then, facts exist whicl i establish the paramount importauc I of avoiding risky ventures, ami ri ! fusing absolutely Lo extend the eredi j system." Tin" New York .Tournai of Caminen remarks: I "Themarkol is less re assured tba j was expected, and advices from th interior are less favorable than wa anticipated. The West has not sol its products as largely as usual, or ^ as satisfactory prices, and conntr merchants are making very poor r. turns upon the credits granted then J while many who bought for cash hav i a large portion of their stock on han ruusold." ? After a further survey of the 'ieh I that paper conclndcs thus: "it was perfectly natural for Wes (?rn fanners ?uni dealers to look f( such pricesfor their produce as won] offset, in some measure, the enormot advance in all other goods. Thc were told that th^ protective tari * would give them stich an equivalen J and some of them believed it. In tl I end. they must b.? undeceived; ai] I v. c shall not bs surprised if this so; i sou should bring to them that bittt exp?rience." j -- - - ANOTHEI: RAI>ICA.L BOLTER.- M ; (laker made a sp edi in the House? j -pro.-a ntatives, on Thursday, i j which, inter alia, he .said: j "He saw a difb'cvtlty .also in il j seventh section of the bill, which ii sists upon equal political and civ privileges to all, and regarded M concluding portion of it, which d clares that if the section should cv< bc altered or amended, tho Sta should lose if s right in Congress, as monstrous proposition. Ho t-hougl the bill should be by all moans r fen cd to the Joint Committee c Reconstruction. In his jr.dgnien the States of the Union were, in tl long run, better nursling mothers < liberty than this centralized Cover: ment could bc. He wanted to s< everything left to tho States tin could be safely left to then, li warned the House against the ev tendency of degrading, dimiuishin and dishonoring tho States of tl 'Union. Tho gentleman from Pen i sylvania (Mr. Stevens) had denounce his own State us not Republican, an had expressed the hope thatCongrct would interfere and make it so; an the gentleman from Massachnsel (Mr. Bauks) had spoken of c?shie ing the representatives of States tin were not Republican in form, ll warneet the House against the cncoi mgement of any such destructs ideas." l'rctty Sharp nml Decided. Wo copy the following paragraphs from tho second edition of last Fri- ! day's Daily Constitutional Union, I printed at Washington city. The Union is w strong supporter of tho ' President, and is presumed to speak "from the book:" Thc Now York Herald, of the ITtti instant, has two articles on the suh j< <-t of th?; impeachment of th" Pre- , sident, which, for malignity and falsi fieation of "history, have no parallel I in journalism. While red-handed treason held the pen, bitter and un? relenting hatred to thc Constitution ?nd our form of Government fired the brain which was bold and wicked enough to say to the world that what j it calls the "misdemeanors** of the President "render lum liable to im? peachment.." j The transparent destgu of these i articles is. To move the in i ?als of weak-kneed Jacobin-Republicans up | to their work. Let them take this ? advice, proceed in their wicked de? signs, and some morning, in other places and in a new condition, they will realize the bitter consequences. Indeed, as the Herald says, "the struggle is still going on."' "The; great Union movement of the war J will run its course," but not as the | Herald applies it. to utterly destroy ] the Government, but to save it, and j if necessary, its strong and iron hand j will be invoked to stay the course and prevent the consummation of I radical treason. The great oath of the President to protect and defend thc Constitution will not be forgot? ten, and the people who sustain him, l with their 500,000 majority of the ! voting population. North and South, ! will uoL forgot him. The Herald cares : not for consequences. Nothingwould : please it so much as to see ruin .".nd anarchy rampant. Let those who would tiike its advice' beware. I Events have already brou;-ht the j Government to the very verge of an ' oilier revolution. .If the radical ma 1 jority in Congress pursues its trea j sonable course much longer, the ; Government-, iu order to sustain itself, i will have- to arm its supporters. At ! tiie call of the President, all his friends. North and South, and the ' army and the navy, will respond, in i such a contest, the issue cannot be j doubtful. Congressmen may Vie va I liant fighters un the floor ol' Coil ! gress. hut when they come to lead I their cohorts into the field, it will be i another thing. Thc real armies and ! great, soldiers of the- republic will be ; found lighting under the. flag! We j advise the opposition of the deicr I mined and fixed fact, that Andrew j Johnson icillserve out Iii* constitutional ! term of office.'" -? - From Bngland* A Loudon correspondent of the j New York World gives, in the follow I ing extract, the opinion of a nw tuber ! of Parliament on trio condition of I affairs in tho United States: j 1 was speaking the other day with i a member ol" the British Parliament ; who compared the pri sent position : of the United States to that of Eng ! land at the time of her great r?volu ! tion, and said that we wer-- virtually ! r.nder tho rule cf along Parliament; j for, said he, "if Parliaments in Ame j rica are of short duration, the spirit which actuates them separately is ! the same, and it is the spirit and not j the body which is looked at in thc pri sent occurrence. Now that spirit, which is that of tho gn at majority of tho people, is as arbitrary, as stub I horn, as narrow, as despotic as that I of our long Parliament. Like our own Parliament, it will be carried into excesses of power fatal to its ex? istence; and like our own Parlia? ment, it will be ignominiously driven out by the hand of some Cromwell, I who will emerge from the r inks of j the people for the purpose of saving tho expiring liberty of America. I There is no need of great political prescience to arrive ut such conclu? sion. The work of tyranny is al j ready accomplished. The Executive j is vi-tu.illy abolished; the Legisla I turo has usurped its place; the sys J tem of cheeks and balances which I was at the bottom of the constitu? tional guarantees enjoyed by the American people is destroyed. Ci j the past nothing remains but ruins, j a distracted country, a disaffected I people, disorganization in the present, j uncertainty in the future. Who will j save y< n from such a position'; j Nothing bat the hand of a magician, j and that magician mus! have h.'en I cast in the mould of a Cromwell oi j of a Bonaparte. -". Of?? i Tjl?? EzHECTED i\Ksi:i.T.-Til" NeW j York World lias tho following omi? nous paragraph. What does it mean: "From well-informed sources in Washington we receive intelligence which confirms our opinion that tie radicals are strenuously bent on im? peachment; ami the result cati be nothing less than a hideous civil war, in which men will be eag r io cut the throats of their nearest ie. ighbors. lt will be no snell war as t ed from which we have emerged, in which the combatants were separa.<. by geo? graphical lines. There i < ::o part o? the country in which multitudes of tho best citizens do not consider the cause of t!?e Presidentas that of the Constitution, if an attempt is made to deposu him, upon mere partisan gionnds, tiny will conclude that the supremacy of the Constitution may? as well bi? vindicated, oc.-a tor all, and 'A iii accept ilie risks and perils of maintaining it." We have boen requested to state that tb-'Court of Errors will meet thin morn? ing, at 10 o'clock, lo announce opini ms in thc eases heard at itu present sitting. Om? HKADINO UOOM.-Our friends ar? invited to visit the Phoenix reading r"om, where they will lind on ti'-- papers and poinoilie ?1 from every Bectioii of thc Union. The building is opon day and night. TUE I'.XI-r.r.-s COMPANY AND THC. NOIITH CABOLI>"A BAILKOAO. -The Southern Ex? press Company have had some difficulty, for pome w< eks past, and the consequence was that tho Express Company had to take s circuitous route for the transporta? tion cf packages. We aro glad to loam, fr?.ni tiie Citrulirii! Tm<-?, "t Wednesday, that the difficulty han been adjusted and tho direct route in use again. i'r.itiomc \T. LrrEJtA*ruBK.- We hayo re? ceived from thc publisher, th? February number of ''Beadle's Mu nt ?dy a Magazine of To-Day." ?ts contents ar.- varied, and tbs stories i: '-ontains are quite interest? ing, and it is, all in d', a very readable publication. Addrcmi Beadle .V Co., Now York: The Galaxy, <n> iUurtratci Magazin?oJ Entertaining [trading, is a very attractive looking publication, isbiic-d fortnightly, by W. C. A E. P. Church, No. ?9 Park Kow, New York, s-.-nd for a specimon number, and our word fer it, you will beconvj u sub? scriber. (li)def? toady's ,'; f"r I-'ebruary, IS if such a thing i i possible :-. little ahead of any of tho publisher's j-rc vtotts efforts. 1 [and--1 en,- engravings, charming fashion platos and pl-asaut r ruling mutter, aro the attraction* offered. Monars. Duffio & Chapman, booksellers, to whom we aro indebted fer a copy, ;we ..g..nts lor the sale of the book. Ac Ban T.-.-? M wih-y . </" /'.ins F'.tsIdatiK ?B tlie titi- of another very at? ino-Uve publication f r tl.o ladies. Tho elegant plates arc prepared in Paria, and thc followers of fashion may, therefore, rest assured that they have the genuine when they inspect /.-' Bun Ton. Mr. S. T. Taylor, of Canal street, Nw l'crk, i* th? publisher. SEW XrjvuivnsuKESTs. attention ;JC?!1 i J ro t?o- following adv? rtisomcr.ts, vi hieb s.rc published ;his morning for tho Mrst time: Acacia Lodge HegularC .mmunieatoii. I J. C. Dial lloiv-s, Oil.-, Chains. -^ ? ? ? - THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. This old corporation does not show any sign of age, but the new \oar has daw ced upon increased activity ?md progress. The damage done during the war. und by neglect, has been in a great measure repaired, and the signs of the times indicate an onward march that will soon place the road in its primitive condition. Freight is being rapidly conveyed to every point in thc State, and the for? warding business has become DUO of considerable importar.ee. j These supplies consist, principally of corr, and guano, which articles /nave been bought largely by the planters of tie? interior; the scarcity of provisions, consequent on tho failure of tho crop, croat d a demand that has increased the freight traffic considerably, and the planters, in order to avoid a similar failure in tho future, have imported a large quan? tity of the most popular fertilizers. The rolling stock has boen steadily on tlie increase; new cars'nave been built, and the workmen in the Com? pany Shops have boen busy in turn? ing out both freight and passenger ! ears. At present, they arc engaged j in retouching several old veterans, and constructing two conductor's cars, which will combine all of tlie new improvements, being fitted up with raised sky-lights, running nearly the entire length of the car. and which will add greatly to both its looks and comfort. The entire work done on these cars is perfected in the shop, even to the upholstering and the i'mer touches that arc requisite to give them a perfect finish. Several new oars have boen recently put on the road, and the work of construc? tion is still progressing, and before many months have elapsed, every train will be supplied with eil iiier new ears, or with those that have been re? modeled and improved, until they cannot bo distinguished from their younger neighbors. [Charleston News. - - - FIRE.--About 7 o'clock, last even? ing, smoke was discovert d issuing fron, the windows of the second story of the thr?>e-story brick build? ing on King street, opposite Hasel, tho first floor of which is occupied by Messrs. J. J4. Read &,Co., fancy good? merchants, thc second by Mrs. S. J. Cotchett, milliner, and the third by Qaimby ?? Co., photograph artists. Upon examination, it was found that thc lire had originated ii. a closet on the second floor, betwt en tho front and rear rooms of tho m Winery es? tablishment, and in the identical place where a simil tr tire had boen extinguished about three months ago. Thc Hames were suppressed without mat' rial injury io the build? ing, which was owned by Mrs. Susan Wood, of Aiken, and was insured. Nearly tho whole stock of Messrs. Read &. Co., which is t litnated in value at ?45,000, \?~s^ lost. They weir- insured tor 835.000. Mrs. Cotchett's .slock was entirely destroyed. its value was about $10,000, ano il was partially insured. Tho loss of Q emby & Co. will reach $2,000, and is <? >vered by in? surance.-Chariest ti Courier.