Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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N?-?VM Item*. WASHINGTON, January SO.-Tn the s - nato, thc Finance Committee almost unani? mously instructed tho chairman to report adversely to the gold bill. ' This probably < :n'.s t iougreseioual inf erforenco with gold eales for this session. Thc Senate Post -Office Committee will report the Honee postal appropriations without amendment. A special despatch Rays it is noticeable thai tlie dominant, party is breaking into eli ; ?es-a portion of it daily l>eei>miiig nor intimate with the President, '.ie'. - ral Grant has been summoned by tho Ne?- Orleans Riot Committee. The New York 'Janes, ia a Washington special, Bays it has the best authority for savin:,' that the letter to tho London Tintes, from its Washington correspondent, re? ferred to in thc cible despatch, the other day, contains nothing of tho kind attri? buted ta it. In thc conversations with tho President, ho dal not refer to Congress ".t all. The Impeachment Committee of tho Southern Kepublican Association has pre? pared a partial list oT witnesses on thc impeachment cases, and will Hoon suggest their programme of investigating the charges. A special d- spatch says the Kansas Le? gislature will midoubtodly strike tho word '?white'" from tho franchise la\rs. An autograph latter from Juarez, dab ci Durango, Jailnary I, expresses friendliness to the Unit? >i ?Stat.-s, and .Ltr.'ti'ade for its sympathy and encouragement. He ap? prove. Sedgowick'is measures, at r?ldt:.::.o ras. preventing Ortega's raid. 5Irs. M. ?'. Tanah j daughter of diaries Carroll, of Carrol ton, died to-day. Thc following is tire Btotley career; on t?? J WASIMSOTON. January 2?-. i-'?'.. i-'uu A j citizen i f th?! ("lilted ?SvUt.iu addressed a I letter to thc ?Y' r-ielont. fr -tu Taris, in j Europe last year, and had o, en-i >n tu M C I the ministers and consuls of various cr ei trios; and thar, most o? them wer?; bitterly | hostile to tile President and l is adrninis t r.ttioc. ii'- arid-?, that you do not protend 1 : . collet .ti dist;nut, as ho says you stylo it. ! at tl.<* ii side at's wind** c ?ndnet. That I yea despise American Democracy, and1 1 mdlv prod .hu i'mt ti". Bwglish g'-nt?eman 1 is a linnie', ot' human perfection. Tliatthe 1 riHsiih t;'. has desoYtWl bia pUvigei? and 1 principles, in<?x?outkoA with Soward, ?h?, I you suv, ia la lpl.-ss?y degraded. Your dc- j nial ? r eon fir ra? t?o ri is r< one.^ted. (Signed) WM." H sr,W V ! tD Motley repises that Iiis fer ; impulse of the troth of tire reports: hut ot. rsr'.h-.r | reSiection, wished that there should bc rio j doubt as to Ids petition! scntitrtcntSi He always helieve?d tiiat strong gnaraVitf.?cs' should be taken again t a recurrence <>r tho r< b; lie ii and the rc-? blahlishraent o? . laverv. bet?re thc ncc Te.T Rt .it cs should be re-admiltbtl to Congress*. Tl- tra? lat teriv isnditU'd to thd'opinion ilia! ihe no l>lcs"t ?awl s afc sr course wonkl be aiiarnend mcui to thc Constitution prohibiting dis tinction i.? race or e..?ur, in iratu-utse, t"g..ih, r wita a general amnesty. 'i'itO' opini ais. i : tic pricey j : ia own h-ru-jo. were held: .md, t., orr ..-i..:i:.! \:-.v rasin visitors, he had not concealed them. He le ver thought^ because hu was'a public servant of the American pi opie, lie should 1. . deprive*! of thc: right of disenssing, within his .w:> wa IN. ti:.- grandest subjects that eau interest fre. mea. He had always I" en careful, in such conversations, to avoid expressions of ill -rc-pi et towards tho IV tsident or Cabinet. Ile: warmly de? nies the ether allegations, and, in conclu? sion, to;.dors his resignation, post-marked Cotigr?-B?l<-.i:al. WAMUNOION, January 30. in the House, the Committee un Foreign Affairs wore in? structed to inquire into thc expediency of Congressional di ch>ration il at naturaliza? tion exempts from military s i-si.-" to a t sit ive Govern ment. Mr. Steven* iutrodac-d a school bill for tie L>i*-tri?.r Congress to pav one-third of thc expense: no one to vote "who neglects sending their children or wards to thc : ChOOl. The bill regulating Indian affairs elicited a long debate. A communication relative to thc affairs of tho Secretary of War was referred t > '.bo Reconstruction Committee. The Committee on Printing wire in? structed to inquire, by what authority the Government advertisements were publish? ed in the Washington Hepubiican. In thc Senate, tho credentials of John A. Veston, Senator from Alabama, were tabled. _ Tho Nebraska veto was read and ordered t > be printed and laid on tho table. Tho Finance Committee reported ad? versely to tho H.ms.: tiold bill. 'The tal irt bill was resumed. Tbs Senate is in ses si in to-night. COMMERCIAL AM) FINANCIAL.. NEW Youri. .Tann irv ?Jo. Money 7 per rent. Gold y>h. Exchange sixty days ;?: sight Oj. Flour 10<i/j*i0c. lower. Wheat 'j tc. lower. Corn 2(?.';:. a. lower. Cats lc. lower. Tori: lowor -new int ss ?20.25?20.37, for Western; old MO. Cotton lirm and quiet, at 3-Je. for middling upland. Stock market improved le. shortly after t he open? ing of. tho beard, btu afterwards mt so st rong.: 7 P. M.-Gold 135. Cotton quiet, but 'rsi, v. :il? srlos of 1,000 bales-middling uplands 34. Flonr irregular, and ir/'/.-iV. h.wer- .State- $9.2Q(f\ 1.75; Western S9.20? 12.50; Soutlrern dull and droopftjg, r.t i ! I 5U(?<>i6.25. Win at dnlb at :V<r:?c. lower. Corn 2-'.3e. lower, with sales of 52,000 bushels- tai X'si Western il. 100-1.13. Cat ri lc. lower -West, rn .".tic-oc:?: State fi7<$$>. .'. later di snatch quotes gflld as closing at JioBirr., Januarv 30. -Soles of cotton to s p .ur :ir.d ' hanged and quiet. Whiskey d'?'.!. sj ia I omi. Tn-.ivjori- unchanged; li >!'d irm. i?? i ce d slight. tXiUsTA, Janna ry i ttfon er. ?>.-. .1 iii. WA wv tu. Jandary :!.'.- Tlc-. i? TOrfri( r ede at ibo ( IK v. - plantation, mSorrth ' iinr.. The gpgroes rrfuse;' to variate ontraef. A collision oec?rreo?iu which ut. I. ii: n, o?' tho i?urean, was shot in arm; lie returned the (ire, killing a ro. it is reported ihn* th?? negroes . Ca]it. limndt a prisoner. Col. Sibley, 1: severity nen. have gone to thc ?rene. u'v'iiHPooiu January 30-Noon.- Cotton i io t quiet and uncharged - middli'i:; nds uteadv, tho opening price being d. Old Newspapers. I^OR BALE a* thc r r r"T vrx OFFICE. ?HOupx.- Ali ike Year Rmi nd thus' describes what shoddy is: .'Shoddy is.old wool made as good as new. livery manufacturer keeps a devil, a ravenous beast with a fear fid set of teeth and au insatiable ap? petite for old coats and old "trousers -old anything that is made of wool. Toss him an old garment, anil he will tear it to piece* iu no time. The spun and woven threads aro convened into now threads tf; be woven once more, into a piece of cloth. Cloth so made with a mixture of new wool looks very well. T defy you to tell me which is shoddy cloth and which is not. Wc all wear shoddy without knowing it. For light wear, shoddy cloth will serve* every purpose; but it will not stand strain and exertion. You must not attempt to practice gymnastics in a pair of shoddy trousers. Hore is the weakness of shoddy--tho shortness of the staple. \ou know now, if you did not. know before, why the old clothes-man is so eager and anxious to buy' any gar? ment, however ragged, which is composed entirely of wool." [T'S DAKK.-The following beauti? ful sentiments aro from Meister Karl's Sketch Book, entitled the "Night of Heaven." lt is full of touching tenderness: ' 'J I i;-. dark when the honest and honorable man sees the results of long years swept Cruelly away-lry thc knav? ish, heartless adversary. If is dark when he feels tin* clouds <'i Sorrow gather round and koo.vs that the hopes aud happiness iu others are ..fading with his own. But in that hour the memory of past integrity viii b^ a true consolation, and fissure him even herc on earth of gleams of light L?u Heave* . Iii:- .'ark - hen the dear I voice of that sweet child ouco fondly loved? is no more heard around in j murmurs. l>ark when the light $>ut 1 taring feet no more resound without the bhteshold, ?>r ase iud tey by ;-!<vp. ; up?! ti irs. Dark when s?riie well lumwuijnir'itecnlls t?ie -train once oft j alf ti i etd hy ehildish voice li-nv Rushed in death! ]2lirknes& but only the bgloom which now heralds the day? spring, of immortality, and tito iuli ; nate light oi Heaven." ! Tho Cincinnati Chamhcr of Gom I mcred has passed very emphatic reao j bilious endorsing flu* cental system, j which has been adopted by tho prin i cipal cities of tho North, and is to go i into operation on thc 1st of March next. This is a iong st .;> toward the , much needed decimal system of weights and measures. The cental is 100 pounds of anything; and weights will hereafter ho reckoned io co?tais and pounds instead of bushels, peeks, (jnaits, &e. In accordance with this system, the weight of the barrel of fleur, on recommendation of the Buffalo Chamber of. Commerce, will hereafter be two centals (tief) inst? .el of 19G pounds. Those who remem? ber what a task if was to learn how many pounds of anything make a bushel, will not regret the abolition of su uncertain a standard. Ct is related of a Persian King that being at a hunting seat, he was about to have some gani" dressed, and as there was no sait, ti servant was sent to a neighboring village, when the monarch ordered him to pay the price of the salt, that the exaction might not become a custom and the village desolated, ile was asked, "From this trine what injurj- eau ensue?"' and replied, "Oppression was brought into the world from small beginnings, which every new? comer has increased, until it has reached the present degree of enor? mity. If the monarch were to eat a single apple from the garden of a peasaut, the servants would pull up the tree by thc roois, and if tie Sul? tan orders live oggs to bo taken by force, hts soldiers will spit a thousand fowls. The iniquitous tyrant re ; . . '.. Iii not, but the curses of man j kind rest on him forever." I Tur. SOUTHERN' RRUEVFTIND BEVK I nr.-Thc bond?t given at tie- ??olli 1 day Street Theatre, on Saturday after j noon, for the aid of the Southern j Relief Fund, waa very largely attend I ed, ladies and children especially, j from all parts of tho city, being ? present. Thc house was tendered j gratuitously by Mr. Ford and Mr. Jefferson, and the company also j gave their services as ti donation to I the canso. The performance of Bip I Van Winkle appeared to give the [ greater^ satisfaction io ail. At the ? elo.se of li.o piece, Mr. Jefferson was [ call-, d emt and presented with a beau I ti ful bonnet, on receiving which he made quite a neat and exceedingly i appropriate little speech. The bene I lit will yield quite a handsome, sum 1 rvf'lh* Kufferiu.- .?nh- of the jT I . - -v. ?- , - ? IJNGX?ISH Ii/AIUWATS. Tile J.ondoM , ?ucl Noithvwestorn is th . longest rail i way in Oro tt Bril.un, measuring ? 1,27 i: m il e?i. > also lo. ethe greatest ?annual receipt.^ over.^01,000,000. i Tito Givat Western measures 1,25b* Mini:-; the North-western, 1,205 miles; tho Grrjbat Eastern, 758 miles. ' During thu forty-ono years which ! have elapse;! .-.ince thc first railway ! was laid down in England, ?2,500, i (K)!),0iK) in gold have boeninvested*iu j railway capital, mid the various lilies : now in operation measure li?,280 I milo.-, in length. English railway ex? tension has for \ho present almost , ceased. ' . Education in the Texas University i is given frea-o? charge. {INQUEST.-?oroncr E. M.- Whiting hej<? an inquest at the Upper Ward's (!n:u'd Souse, .yesterday morning, upon .tho bodies of two newly boru Colorea infants, found /wrapped in a towel, at the corner of Aiken and Co? lumbus streets. They had been light? ly buried, and were discovered and disinterred by dogs. One had been totally devoured, with tho exception of the skull and a portion of the back-bone. A policeman on bia rounds discovered the dogs just in time to prevent them frojn devouring the second.- - Charleston Courier. -? . Coon SENSE. -It is better to sleep in a room comfortably warm than it is to sleep in a very cold room, pro? vided there is good ventilation, for the reason that less clothing is re? quired to kee}) comfortable. The less clothing consistent with comfort the better, 'whether awake or asleep. Warm air is just as good as cold air, and ventilation is more easily secured when there is a differ? ice of tempe? rature between the air in the room and that outside. Th-' best way of warming and ve uti luting sleeping rooms is to have an open grate fire and open windows. - - -t-. A Northern eotemporary says a j sister-in-law of the radical member of Congress from Sn Joseph (Missouri) j District, during the war, gratified her j malignity by going out to see four j Confederate youths handed, in cold | blood, by jay Un Whets. The woman I was enciente at MVe time, anti s??i? utter a s >n was horn to her, whose j .tongue lolls continually from his j mouth, and whose neck bears? the I frayed appearance and goes through J final agentes ot sniloeation. ? ? - . j As an index of thespiril of the two wings of the army e jelc-iasiicd. we may mention thc prayer oiiercd nu "(behalf of Congr- o Yu, late Sunday. ! in Nt w Orleans, by two Methodist ministers. The pastor of the Church free from cowardice; t'l i.p-: mr of t'.ej Ch ? rob Sou Mi. thai Cohirn-ss might act with modi, ration ! A third pastor, a Sou thurn Baptist prayed I that the Loltl v.'ofdd bless fnb Pr? sf I t<> the country. TUE PUKSUU?N* v. - -lu the S? nate, e-i Saturday, an important proposi? tion was introduced by Mr. Trum? bull, the .Chairman nf tho. Judiciary Committee, which is designed to make ineligible for '.he l'residency any one who has t vcr hold the office. It is, of course, offered tn an amend? ment to the C?>nstitnlion. Mr. Wade announced his purpose to press its immediste passage, in order to give opportunity for the Legislatur? s now in session to act upon it. -? . ^* CitmeisM. Thc Xor-ic Aniericua Review, for.January, cont.nus a sharp criticism on Horace Greeley's "Ame? rica], Conflict," in which occurs the following: "Des?iing thc reader to h.'ar in mind that wo would in no wisc impugn Mr. Greeley's motives, we are obliged to add, that the in? stances in which he seems to forget that he has undertaken to write a history, not editorial articles for the New York Tribeue, are neither few nor unimportant." When Governor Andrew seat the Massachusetts girls to thc I'aoitie coast to supply the want of femininity in that region, he said that they need not marry immediately, but could find plenty to do in teaching the lit? tle children. Anna Dickenson "can't soe it." She says: "Where thc li ttl? children were to come from, out of ii population of 10,000 men, was more than s!i?' could imagine; but she thought that probably Gov. Andrew, being a man, might be able lo do so." SIIATU* PuAcrriCE. -Though a gen? tleman in New York had buttoned his over-coat up to his neck, a valua? ble g?)ld walch was taken from a pocket in his vest, and his portcmon naic was also stolen from his pant? aloons pocket. So carefully had the thieves ?lone their work that there had not been convoyed to him the slightest intimation that his over? coat was touched by Hiern until they were gone. The Tallahassee (Fia.) Sentinel gives tho following "notis" as a spe? cimen of the current literal ?ire of fernandina: .' . "Notis Strayed from cay ?lock On . mail hore and 2 Pbemail Soughs sup? posing to bs in G'orgy. Any Man that will produce th ira J win pay tin above Sum of what, lie asks. BEDFORD B. NIXj ile-.ideiits at Sabots Si ore. Tin; burning of the President's c ins?*rv?tory, on th" Ifcth inst., was n.groa i public calamity' Theda..^ige to-thc building an bc repaired for $1,000 dr So^OOO, but ibo money va? lue of the phvui - conveys no adequate idea of the real loss. If will' proba? bly roach $200,000 or SiOO, OOO. Many of tuc plant-; were rare, and h.ive been accumulating for the past iii teen or twenty years. - ' -*???? j A Washington correspondent says "protracted elerie.il service in thc Departments has ii tendency to de? stroy the intellectual virility t?f tho male sex, and endow it with all the weaker traits of tho. womanly charac? ter.'' Tn other words, ten years of Department clerking will come very near to n?a! i?g a woman ont of I mau' itefractory soldiers i? tit. Doipingo are brought to their sonsos ft? an amusing manner. ^-Coffee is punish o<l by having his hands tied behind him, and then a barrat willi both ends ont placed over his dusky per? son. The locality most infected with flies is honored with his compulsory presence, and thon his nose is smear? ed with molasses, and he is left to the polite attentions of his diminutive tormentors. FATAL ExrnosiON o?' A Sma.n. Century Miller, a colored man. who was employed at the United States Arsenal, in Charleston, to unload shells, was killed, on Tuesday, by the explosion of one of them. Another colored: man, mimed Don Badberry, wiis, by the same accident, so badly wounded that amputation at the shoulder was considered necessary. A WESTERS GEM.The brilliant youth out in Oregon who penned the following is not expected to survive: "The best und bravest of the land are hunted down by these frothing hell hounds of fanaticism, who conic like fiends from the pit, red with con? flagration and sheeted with lurid flame, to bring fr<-sh disaster am! A?al h among us. " DIED WnmE DANCING.-Madam ile Teschenberg, wife of the principal editor of tho Vienna ?fazelte, had just supped gai':;, at n ball the other even iug, when await/, striking up she told her h rc-hand she would just take three tam .: out ; fter the first round sue rcquestt d her partner to stop, and almost immediately expired. Judge Perkins, of Columbus. Mis? sissippi, di"d recently, in the eighty sixth year of bis age. He was li bi ral in hh-m-ouiribution to charit?. ?Tr gav: .?' less than ^8(J,{>00, oj which suffi'lie placed ?StiO'OO? in rh* hands of tho directors ol the. Tili*-logical Semi wry at Columbi i, South C;ir<> ii ... thai the Otrmird Couipauy, ia view ol the expiration of their contract foi tim i"eyance >[ Lim Nor!li Ameri eau mails,- bu\e applied I?>r exaad i Moe!, accommodation at Liiverpeol ts inept ta?> anticipated incr< ?1 se ot' tin mercantile portion of their budines with Halifax, Boston and New York lim Kings!rue *S'<Vr -.tates Li. i* IO negroes left that place for Texas a rev day.-e.g.?. it also learns that many mor who bad been Feasting the two pre vious weeks on tiic. rations fnmishei by Ehe gentleman with whom tito; ha I contracted? left suddenly- :m for Texas, but fer the in iori or c "Sous Calina." The N*?w York Vrihunc sup'posi thal about 175,0u0 people he, guashed their teeth ami torn tin : bair o.cr the result cf the Chica? scheme, and it confesses that it ibu not fee! sorry fer them. They spei their five doll in foolishly, and thc richly deserve t< > get nothing fi >r th ci invest incut. KEMARKABJ.E. Che Cuthbert A? peu! says; Cur community partie puted in ratle r a remarkable cerera ny on Wednesday evening -tl burial of a man and his wife in tl same grave. Our fellow-citizen. M John Landrnm. and bis wife, died ( the daj previously, within live hon of each other. Judge Perkins, of Columbus, Mi sissippi. died recently, iii the eighl sixth year of his age. He was libel in his contributions io charities. 1 gave not less than ?S0,()00, of whi< sum ho placed $60,000 in the han of the directors of the Tbeologii Seminary at Columbia, S. ('. Tim Commissioner of Agrieultu luis received a letter from a farmer San Antonio, Texas, stating that terrible snow storm took place the on New Year's Day. and the weath continued very cold. Over 1,0 bead of sheep perished from thee* on several farms in the neighborhot Duplex, of the Natelntoches Tim overheard the conversation of t sable individuals on Christmas th during which one asked the otl what he made during the last ye: "Nutrm: T worked f(?r de sevent and the hos., only mu le a fifth; d fori*, I got nuffin." The eitizi nu or Atlanta, (?a., lu resolved to invite Hon. Horace Gr ley, Kev. Henry Ward Beecher a Hon. C. L, Vallaudigham to leeti in Hitit city -the proceeds of thc 1 tures:to be divided among the pi of the city, after paying the exp:-u of tuc lecturers. Col. Montgom rv and -even of men, win- were sent by the radi Gov. J'ie;dmr. of Missouri, t ? fayette County, iti that State, were rested in St. Louis, on Friday 1 charged with tho nfrurdor of a n named Clemens, whim they <\?- . e imped near Lafayette. Eri'ECT OF IlfOH;FBEXOHr itv u:, JLkA'.mmAie;. -A paogo <>? wh wa?? lately se nt from Sm Franc; I ) Piiila lelphia at a less raie of tra pori arion than the .same amount grain can bo taken from Chicago Philadelphia. Tho Florida and Cubit Telega Company, chartered by the hist : sion of Congres*, have, secure, grant from Spain giving them exclusive , right to land a ethic Cuba. Il is expected t" be in Wi ing order by the lath of- March. The National Banks of North rolina all seem to bc doing a pros] ons business. Tim National Bani Charlottce has declared a dividen ten per cent, from its earning , the'past six mouths, and carried per c rd. to the reserve fund. A story is told of a mother who sent h?r daguerreotype to a "mid? night meeting" in London, hoping tl mt her abandoned daughter might seo it and repent. The picture was passed around in several meetings, until at hist it met Hie eye for which it was iutended, and the guilty girl broke into tears, and set out at once for tho home of her childhood. The corpse of an indiana lady was recontly taken up near Boonevillt. for the purpose of removing it to tho cemetery near the town. It was found to be in the state of petrifac tion, weighing some 700 or 800 pounds, and taking some eight or ten men to lift it from tho vault. The features were perfectly natural, but hard as a rock. Tho report of J. Boss Browne, special commissioner, on the finan? cial resources of tho States and Ter? ritories West of the Becky Moun? tains, gives an estimate of the pro? duct for 1866 of gold aud silver at SlOfi,OOO.OOO from" California, Mon? tana, Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Ore? gon, and other sections. Prof. Hall, of Albany, uko is put? ting together tho bones of the Cohoes Mastttdon, says it will stand about ten feet high, and fifteen feet in length; that it existed some 25.000 years ago, and that the Hudson Uiver has made ul! its channel sine" the monster lived and died. A CoBRUVX JUDOS. -Tho case of Judge Smith, of Oneida < 'ounty, New York, charged with bribery and cor- ! rnptiou, was taken nj) in rho State Sena! ; on Friday last. The accused wu:, found guilty, and his removal from office recommended. R.VTnui: DAO. A Gotham journal states that, the prices of thc absolute necessaries of life are higher now than during the same time last year, flour costing from tw,o to four dollars moro per barrel, and whiskey nearly twenty cents more per gallon. Thc weight of tho flour in a nariel i is suppose,] to be 10G pound.-. Thc ! Buffalo Board of Trade luis adopted , a. resolution requiring 200 pounds in each barrel, to conform wita tho | central systern of weight ned men-' sure?. ^ _ j rho Attoi-uey-Geueral Luisgiveuau i opinion tiiat uosoldierwhoactsunder orders in the capacity of a detective ! can bo held liable by the civil court? for any property lie may have- seized and carried away ;:i pursuance of sneh orders. A colored child was boru al Knox? ville, Tennessee, on the 16th, who ha 1 one ear, no nose, eight fingers on each hand, eight toes on each foot, and ono eye in tho middle of its forehead. The little cyclops lived but a few minutes. The Lebanon (Tenn. : lfcrald states that farmers in that vicinity lind liri1" difficulty in hiring negro labor a;. ?125 and $150for the current year. Thc i.npphy is fully equal to the de? mand. A freedman near Riceville, Va., about one month ago, to spite. Ins wife, with whom he had quarreled, deliberately chopped off the head of his little son with an axe, and threw the body into the woods. A lady, in Rev. Mr. Spurgoon's congregation, lias given ?20,000 for founding an institution for vagrant children. Tho institution is TO be modelled after those of the Five Points, New York. A gentleman named Harris, en? gaged in planting in tin; vicinity of Tunica Bend, while en roule?or Mem? phis, taking bis cotton to market, de? liberately jumped overboard end was drowned. The Boston Tiutnscript says: "Three conductors ou Hie New York and New Haven Railroad have received their discharges for "picking." Oue of them, it is said, made somo fifty dollars a day in that manner. The difference between Whittier's new poems aud the Massachusetts schoolmarms is that tho former is ( lie "Tent on the Beach," and thc latter are bent on the teach. According to the annual report of the Board of Trade for 1866, Eng? land has 22,261,833 acres of farm layd under cultivation or sixty-eight p T cent, of her entire territory. The King of Prussia has decided to send Prince Adi ?bert, lately created m Admiral, to the United States, to .-indy thc modern improvements in naval construction. Daly six planters m i l. sugar this eason in 'lie Paris!? of St. Mary, La. The yield is stated al 501) hogsheads - about one hundredth part of thai of Thc entire board of State o :'..'< rs in 1 o*.va, including tho Supreme Court, commenced the nev, yearby a temper ashien fo introdnc A Wasl pcaehm, n of Gen. I called fer. Why d? d of the emita insist on i ie ? re Are they willing for it to r a d: < n tlc verge of the hated South. Co to strangers for charity. _ ae qtiuintnncea for advice, and relatives lor nothing, and you will always have a suppbj. Baron Rothschild g ive 60,000 pounds of bread to' tho Paris poor at tlc Christmas season. At a religious meeting among tho blacks, a colored preacher requested that some brother would pray. Thereupon, half-witted Mose com? menced a string of words entirely without meaning. At this, the pas? tor raised his bead and inquired: "Who dat prayin? Dat you, br udder Mose; yon let somebody pray data better acquainted wid de Lord." A gardener, in the parish of Saint James, Louisiana, whilst hoeing up a patch of ground, discovered a small iron box, containing a cross of the Legion of Honor, a parchment pa? tent of nobility mid a manuscript of moral sayings. A young scamp, representing him? self to be the son of Commodore Vanderbilt, is now traveling in the South, and obtaining railroad and [ steamboat passes and other eourte I sics on the faith of his statements. j A manufacturing establishment in Erie, Pa., bas purchased one of the abandoned oil holes, and is abun? dantly supplied from it with gris for lighting and heating purposes, and with a large surplus to spare. The incmberlcss member elected to the British Parliament has such a wonderful muscular power in his truncated frame that he can jerk I himself into his seat without difu j culty. j A rich nabob in a Western city, on being run over, thus consoled him I self: "Lt isn't the accident," said be. j "thal Inline1; {hat isn't tho thing: ! but the idea of being run over b}' an j infernal swill cart makes me mad." I Minnesota still has left 30,550,000 j acres of publie lauds open to settle ; mon!; under the fi. ??? homestead law ? in that State n area Inrgi rthan the j whole State of Ohio. ! Josh Billings thinks thrit the flood jiu the tium of Noah was a perfect ; success, and thnt a similar visitation j now would be of benefit in some scc ! lions of the country. i It ofi'm happens, when tho htis ' bund fads to bc home to dinner, that ore - ."Fort Hill,*" tlie homestead of the Lute Hon. John C. Calli.,un. will be sold at public miction soon. A dinner was given recently in Paris, of which the principal dishes j were shark, horse, dog and rat. ! A new dunce has been introduced, ?called tho "Kiss Cotillion/' It is I very popular. j The radic?is haye dropped Ccu. ! (?rant for the Presidency. ! The aggregate capital of tho Bos ! Lon banks is ?11,000,000. j The London garroters garrote the i policemen. HOUSE TO RENT. MA PLEASANT and COMFORTABLE UoUHE to renr. For particulars, in I quire at J. SULZBACHEE -V CO.'S. j Jan 31 3 WANTED TO HIRE ! A GOOD COOK, WASHER and IRONER. j\. Good wages and a permain nt si tn a. . tion will bo giv< e. Inquire at thia oflice. .Ian ul G j A.. IT. LEE, j Architect. Civi! and Hydraulk Knginwr. ? Architect to the Commissioners ot' Public Building-.-, lor the Districts of Chesterfield and Darlington. FT1HE undersigned having returned to X Columbia, will resume the practice of IHM profession in its carious branches. Designs and Plans prepared with ncat ! ness and despatch. Drawings in detail. 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