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roy Tele^rapn. \ Repressiv for the Columbia Phoenix.] ?Yew? Item?. WASHINGTON, Aagast 23.-It is said that the ram Stonewall put into Norfolk in a sinking condition. In crossing a flooded creek near here, a stage upset, and three ladies were di owned. Ex-President Buchanan is recover? ing. Stevens is reported becoming alarm? ingly feeble. The military authorities are arming the citizens in the vicinity of Fort Sedgwick, for the protection of the post. Cholera is raging among the Semi? noles. Denver papers say Forts Beno and Kearney are besieged. The cholera is reported maliguant at Shawneetown. The Illinois pressure ou tbe Presi? dent for Cabinet changes is increas? ing. The following^ is represented as the conclusion of Sickles' argument sup? porting his Order No. 10: "If the United States Courts in the rebel States be allowed to control the mili? tary authority, the execution of the reconstruction Aots will, for obvious reasons, soon become impossible. Some of these courts will begin by declaring the Acts of Congress void." CHARLESTON, August 23.-456 were registered to-day-of whom 219 were whites and 237 colored. Arrived-Steamer Falcon, Balti? more; schooner M. B. Bramhall, New York; schooner E. J. Palmer, Balti? more. WASHINGTON, August 23.-Tho fol? lowing statement in relation to Gen. Sickles' order No. 10, and the Execu? tive order thereon, will correct the current misapprehension: On the 14th instant, the instructions sent to Gen. Sickles, exempting United States Courts from military order, were sus? pended until his report and views upon the latter could be received -On the 16th, the commanding officer of Wilmington reported that the At? torney-General had instructed the Marshal of North Carolina to pro? ceed to enforce the executions of the United States Courts, threatening prosecutions against persons pre? venting him. Instructions were is? sued to Col. Frank, by Gen. Sickles, not to permit tho order of any court to be enforced, in violation of exist? ing orders, and to report folly upon the cases pending. These occurrences having been reported to the War De? partment, the instructions originally sent to Gen. Sickles have been with? drawn. Internal revenue receipts, to-day, $575,000. A train on the Annapolis Bailroad wept into a calvert, killing the en? gineer, a fireman and a boy. Several .passengers were injured. The train took fire. The Turkish Minister was officially presented to the President to-day. The Cabinet was in session from 12 to 2 o'clook. WILMINGTON, August 23.-The Be pnblicans are becoming alarmed lest a negro should be elected mayor of this city. The Southern whites are denounced because they did not re? gister. Northern men who are con? servative begin to see that without their co-operation with a Southern party of moderate views, the State must be given up to negro domina? tion. Prominent Northern men here admit that the whites must now r yield to negro suffrage; but that tho uegro raco, like the Indian, must give place to the superior intelligence of tho whito man. The intelligent radicals here do not pretend to insist that the blacks ought to be invested with the rights that are now accorded them by the dominant party. Tho Irish Times believes the crop of wheat tftid oats will be largo and of excellent quality, and says: "There is every probability that the Irish farm? ers will have another prosperous year. Tho high price obtained for "barley in the last two years led to extensive sowings of that crop this year. The crop is, if anything, too thick and peavy, but if caro be takeu to cut it at the proper moment, and with its natural right color, it must remunerate the farmer well. Barley is a favorite crop, not only because it finds a ready sale, but because it comes so early into the market. It will certainly not disappoint tho grower this year. Of the potato crop, it is impossible to speak too favorably. There is not, as yet, the slightest trace of blight. Among other green crops, turnips and man? golds hold foremost places. Both crops, where planted early and care? fully thinned, aro excellent." The famousPrassiau cannon which, for its immensity, has long been tho wonder of the Paris Exhibition, so far at least as artillery specimens are concerned, is now quito eclipsed by a new monster piece, just installed on tho banks of the Soine, at the Champ do Mars. This piece of ordnance, destined for the defence of the coast of France, weighs 76,400 pounds, and is less clumsy and moro powerful than the Prussian gun. It cornos di? rectly from the foundry of B.ielle, where other similar pieces are being fabricated. It io breech-loading, ac? cording to tho system of General Frebault, and can fire five shots per ten minutes. Ff.tVANCIA.l4 AN Ii COMMERCIAL.. NEW YOBS, An gust 28-Noon. Stocks drill and declining. Honey 5 per cent. Gold 40%. Exchange time 9%; eight 10. JFJour 10@15c. lower. Wheat l@2c. lower. Corn quiet Oats dull and nominally lower. Pork lower-$23.45. Lard firm, at 13^[. Cotton quiet, nt 28. 7 P. M.-Flour-State $7.40? 11.60; Southern lower-quoted at $9.90@14. Wheat dull-new South? ern red $2.30@2.35; white and red mixed $2.35; white Southern $2.40. Corn closed drooping-mixed West? ern 13>?. Oats 2@3o. low? er. Pork heavy, at $23.40. Lard less active, at 122?@,14. Whiskey more active, at 36@40. Cotton quiet | and drooping, at 28. Stocks firm. Gold 41. BALTIMORE, August 23.-Cotton is quiet-middling 28@28i.i. Flour firm and scarce, but prices unchanged. Wheat scarce and active. Corn lower; white $1.08@1.13; yellow$1.16. Oats lower-good to choice 58@65. Sugar firm. Provisions steady and un? changed. CINCINNATI, August 23.-Flour j steady. Corn scarce-mixed 90@92; | white 96. Mess pork $24. Bacon shoulders 12>4@ 12clear sides 16. Lard 13. NEW ORLEANS, August 23.-Sales I of cotton 850 bales; market dull and | unchanged-low middlings 26)? ; re? ceipts of the week 837 bales; stock j on hand 16,973. Choice Muscovado sugar l&}4- Louisiana molasses 60. Flour-superfine $9. Corn active white mixed $1.20; white $1.25. Pork quiet and firm, at $26.25? 26.50. Bacon shoulders 1234'@.14; clear sides 18. Lard quiet and un? changed. Gold 39?4@40. CHARLESTON, August 23.-Cotton is at a stand, and there are no sales;1 receipts 556 bales. MOBILE, August 23.-No sales of I cotton to-day-nominally 241 .? for low middling; receipts 43; sales of | the week 450 bales. AUGUSTA, August 23.-Cotton dull, and prices unchanged; sales 43 bales; j middling 25. SAVANNAH, August 23.-Cotton is quiet and steady-middlings 26; ?e ceipts 117 bales. Surr-osED ASSASSINATION OF A SPY. The New York Evening Express, of Saturday, gives the following account of a mysterious affair, which that paper believes to be true: Some few months ago, agontleman employed in a fashionable Broadway dry goods store, accidentally encoun? tered an individual whom he had for? merly known in Dublin as a member of the Metropolitan Police force of that beautiful city. The ex-M. P. did not seem particularly gratified at meeting with his quondam acquaint? ance, and, as soon as he decently could, took his leave. The dry goods mau heard or saw no more of him, and was fast forgetting his existence, when a parag: .ne of the morn mg papers^ givi an account of the finding of the b - of a dead man in the river, with a bullet-hole through his head, attracted his attention. The description of the murdered man tal? lied so exactly with the appearance of his old and intimate friend, that he thought it right to repair to the Morgue, and the first glimpse of the corpse convinced him that his worst suspicions were but too well founded. There, stretched on one of the mar? ble slabs, unknown, with pallid brow and staring visage, lay the body of the man to whom, as subsequent de? velopments went to provo, had been meted out the dire penalty of death for being, as is supposed, au informer. In about five weeks after his visit to the Morgue, the gentleman we havB spoken of received a letter, datou Dublin, from tho brother of the ex policeman. The writer stated that a j rumor had reached him, which he found impossible to trace to any i lia? ble source, to the effect that his I?ro-1 ther had been shot in New York, and 1 thrown into the river, and that he would feel obliged if his friend would j call at the British Consulate aud make inquiries about tho matter. The men? tion of the British Consulate solved 'the whole mystery of the tragic fate of the ex-policeman, whom he now felt certain had met his death whilst following the vocation of a spy in the Empire City. He had au interview subsequently with an official attached to the British Consulate, which con vinced him that his view of tho case was a correct oue. In this connec? tion, it may be mentioned^ that two of the Irish informers have died vio? lent deaths, and that another barely escaped with his lifo from the knife of an Irish-American. The Baltimore Sun says: A peti? tion now before the Governor of the State, from a highly respectable old gentleman, asking the pardon from the penitentiary of an unfortunate grand-son, states that he, the peti? tioner, is a Marylander by birth; that he served in the defence of Baltimore in tho war of 1812; that he is now in his 86th year, and can say what few now living can assert, that ho has I ?een all the Presidents of tho United | States, from George Washington to And row Johnson. He was present, and witnessed the laying of the cor? ner-stone of the capitol at Washing? ton, which ceremony was conducted by General Washington. He has now living more than fifty grand-children, and nearly os many great-grand-chil? dren. Tit? Boya at IV ?Mt Polm. "An Old Dragoon" ia writing a series of interesting sketches for a Richmond paper, giving reminis? cences of cadet life at the. West Point Military Academy. The following are extracts: The first cadet I ever heard give the word of command wan Sidney Johnston, and the impression his : appearance made on me is as clear and distinct now as it was then. His stalwart form and well-developed i muscles gave an appearance of great strength, while his gentle man ners and benevolent countenance in- i dicated a man of the tenderest affec- i tions. Hard to arouse to anger, he ; was ever ready to espouse the cause < of the oppressed. His noble nature i endeared him to his fellow-cadets < and his associates in after life. On < one of the fairest pages of history < must be written the deeds of this ' gallant soldier and true patriot. Leonidas Polk, tall and straight ns i an arrow, wa3 tho orderly sergeant of I my company. Scrupulously strict in i the discharge of his duties, retiring ] in his manners, and a devout mem? ber, even then, of the Episcopal ? Churoh, ho invariably commanded I the respect of us nil. i Robert E. Lee held the two offices I in the corps usually filled by the I best soldiers of the class-sergeant- : major and adjutant. He discharged < the duties of these offices with zeal I and fidelity. His personal appear- i ance surpassed in manly beauty that I of any other cadet in the corps. ] Though firm in his position, and per- i fcotly erect, he had none of the stiff- i ness so often nssumed by men who t affect to be very strict in their ideas ? of what ia military. His limbs, beau- 1 tiful and symmetrical, looked ns < though they had come from a turning t lathe; his step was as elastic as if he i spurned the ground upon which ho < trod. Ho was noted among his class- 1 mates as a great student, and as 1 having passed through the trying < or leal of a military school without a i single demerit mark. (I generally i got 150 a year.) During Bob Lee's ' stay at West Point, I am satisfied i that he never swore an oath, tasted a i drop of ardent spirits, nor used "the i weed" in any shape or form. The ' same virtues of abstinence may be 1 attributed to Charles Mason; but I 1 think "Charley" occasionally let slip < an oath; at least, he looked as if he 1 did. Mason was in Lee's class, and f intellectually had no superior at the t Point. How well I can recollect his 1 bright, piercing eye, gleaming and 1 '"snapping" with excitement as he < stood at the black-board, demon- < strafing some intricate and beautiful 1 mathematical problem. Mason early < left the army, and has since sought : and gained that distinction in civil ? life which his talents and pare cha- < racter entitled him to. - He was for a i long time Commissioner of tho Pa- i tent Office, chosen for his scientific 1 attainments, and filled with ability < for several years a place on the su- 1 preme bench of Iowa. i Joseph E. Johnston had a great deal of the military spirit that per? vaded the corp8, and which was in? fused by Major Worth. He was not < remarkable for his studious habits, and belonged to a fast set, of which I i myself was an active member. Few ; of that set escaped arrest, confine- j ment and court martial. Joe John- ? ston was one of those genial spirits , that gave zest to a cadet's life. Full | of ambition and a desire to excel, he j was yet ready to join a scouting party , to Buttermilk Falls, tho residence of , tho immortal Benuey Havens. His ( appearance was very military, and , when under arms, no man looked , more tho soldier. Ho was very ex- j pert in the manual of arma, and car- j ried bia musket so perpendicular that ] it leaned a little too much to the front. I Though wo recognized his talents ? j then, wo little dreamed he had the ; military genius he has since dia- i .played as a commander. My old friend and class-mate, John B. Magruder, was perhaps the most elegant and distingue cadet at the Academy, in that day, and I do not, believe West Point has ever had his equal. He Was a first-rate soldier, of like appearance, and very strict when on duty as "officer of the day," never failing to report the slightest violation of r?gul?t ions, even though the delinquent was the moat intimate friend and room-mate. This trait in his character I have reason to know from personal experience. John waa for the corps tho "arbiter of things elegant, tho glass of fashion." To Remove. On or about tho 10th of September next, wo propose to movo our business stand, and occupy tho "LABOE CENTRE STORE," in Walker's Building, Main street, situated on tho squaro opposite tho Court House. Until that time, we will bc found at tho cid stand, still offering our great bargains in Dry Goods. July 31 R. C. SHIVER. PARTIES who expect mc to GIN their COTTON will please notify me at once, and .tato the probable time and amount to bo Ginned. W. B. LOWRANCE. August ll_ Tho best Season to Plant Turnip Seed. JUST RECEIVED: WAITE'S ECLIPSE, LARGE WHITE GLOBE, YELLOW ABERDEEN, RUTA BAGA. For sale cheap at FISHER ii HEINITSH'S, Druggists. August 21 School? anil Teacher*. A report on school discipline, sub? mitted to the Virginia Educational Couvenlion last week, was prepared by Gen. Robert E. Lee. He gives his idea of what teachers should be, as follows: The selection of proper persons for the office of teacher is a matter of the first importance, and as its duties re? quire long and comprehensive pre? paration, it should be regarded as nmong the most honorable and im? portant professions, and be commit? ted to those whose beneficial influ? ence nnd instruction shall embrace monds and religion, as well as the intellect. The teacher should be the example of the pupil. He should [dm at the highest attainable profi? ciency, and not at a pleasing medio? crity. Unless he cnn teach those come .tted to his care to think and to work, and can impart to them vigor with learning, there can be uo real idvnnce. He must study the charac? ter and disposition of his pupils, and idopt his course of disoipliue to their peculiarities. Above all, he must be uniform, con? sistent, firm, kind iu his conduct, teach more by acts than words, anc show tho children under his charge that be has their true iuterest ai licart. He should look upon then not only as tho parents of a new gen oration, but also as heirs of i minor tality, and while preparing them foi usefulness in this life, instil inte their impressible miuds principles o piety aud religion; for, if it bo true is taught by history, that greatnes lepends upon virtue, it is equall; true that religion is the fountain am support of virtue. Should the dall; ousiness of the school be conducta an such principles, and the pupils bi .rained in the habits of obedience reverence and truthfulness, and b jonviuced that they are noble um lovely in themselves, and their prac tice manly and honorable, the mai abject of education will have bec: attained. In addition to these mon influences, a teacher should bc clotho (sith all the authority of tho parer in tho discharge of his duties, and I sustained by him so long as L nay entrust his child '? bis can That he may be kept c. stantly ii formed of the conduct o. his chili weekly, quarterly and yearly repor af his progress should be sent hi ay the teacher, in wi ich should I stated his absences, late attendau? iud misbehavior. Certificates of a k'ancemeut should likewise be giv< x> those who excel in studies and co luct. The systems of punishmeu aught to be as simple and mild they can be made effective, and win joercion has to be resorted to, should be generally left to the parei Should admonition, restriction of i ?reation, &c, fail to produce tho c sired effect, and the pupil obstinate resist tho patient expostulations the teacher, there will then be : ather resource than to return him ais parents as one unworthy a phi n the school. Letter from Gen. Magruder. We copy the following letter frc aue of our Southern exchanges: So many misrepresentations hi been lately made regarding me, tl [ deem it right to say that I was i it the New York Stock Exchai with Gen. Beauregard or with ti aue else; that I do not know wh that institution is; that I did m'y d in attempting to keep np tho spi: af tho troops under my comma until my commanding officer had cided to surrender; that by the tor af that surrender the comii.issioi afficers of tho Trans-Mississippi ! partment were allowed to select tl residences within or without limits of the United States. I will further state that, upon surrender of the Trans-Mississi Department, I published an ord< probably tho last of tho war-i lemning in the strongest terms formation of guerilla parties, urging all to support tho laws abey tho orders of tho United St luthorities with an honest, zea' ind loyal spirit. Further, I sent my staff and a;ago openly by a ship-of-war, c teously placed at my service by United States naval commaui afficer at Galveston, and would laably have gone myself, but fha communication between Now Orl ?md Havana, where I desired to 1 my family, was cut off by quarnn [ intended to embark at Matann but was turned aside from that r by tho robbers, both of Texas Mexico. " Reaching tho City of Mexici roule to Havana and Europe, I raffercd by tho good and noble ? miliun tho offico of chief of tho office of colonization, which I ac< ed, it being a purely civil app ment, aud entirely unconnected politics, domestio or foreign, viously to reaching the City of ? co, I advised the Confederates n make uso of any asylum in a foi country to plot against their uni this advice was strictly honestly followed. The offices by Capt, Maury and myself hi been abolished through the fiua embarrassments of the empire, turned to this country to work 1 man for my personal independ which I nm now doing, without ing or avoiding my former frien J. BANKHEAD MAGRUDF .?Lia.otloxx Sales RICHLAND---IN EQUITY. II. P. DeGraaf, Executor, vs. J. C. Green. Hill to Foreclose Mortgage. PURSUANT to thc order nf tho Ccurt in the above ?tated case, I will bell, be? fore the Court House, on Hie FIRST MON? DAY in September next, All that LOT OF LAND, eituato in the city of Columbia, on tho corner of Tavlor and Bull street?, bounded on tho North by Taylor street, East bv lot of- Miles, South by lot of Richard Holmes and Wost by Bull street, containing one-half aore, moro or less; together with tho buildings thereon-upon tho following terms: So much cash as will defray tho costs of suit and expenses of sale; balance on a credit of one, two and three vears, with interest at the rate of 7 per centum per annum, secured bv bond and mortgage of tho promises. D. B DKSAUSSURE, Aug 10 }9 C. E. R. D._ A List oi Letters REMAINING in tho Post Omeo, Colum? bia, S. C., August 24, 1807. PorBons calling for letters in this list, will please Bay they are advertised. Agger, Mrs Sat ah Lever, Henrietta A Aduain ft Vollere, Lucius, Mrs J J Andrews, Emily Mackin, Jas, caro of Barnwell, Louis P Cantwell, Baughman, F M Marshall, L S Boyd, Maurice M?rtir.. J N A S B Bracev, J M Martin, Jos Brindley, J H McCullum, Daniel Bryan, Miss E McCl ain, Wm Carolina, Mrs McKee. Archibald Clark, Cha? Mitchel, Mrs Rachel Coleman, K, col, Moore. Miss Hattie Cooper, J Douglas Murtishaw, Mra E Cowdory, L L Mason, Mary Crane, Jos 8 Nelson, Mrs Jas Draghorn, A J Packingham, Mrs N Duning, Jos Parks, H L Dunnington, L H Rivers, Misa M Evans, E K Rives, BT 2 Fisher, Miss Mary Rives, Mrs Elizabeth Oinnings, Mrs Root, Fraucia B Gribble, Archibald Scott, Mrs N Guess, Johu Hebert, Mrs-Mary Hamuions, Miss S Soellv, Miss Mary Harris, W A Smith, Aaron Hart, Mrs S E Smith, Mrs C L Hay, D J Starling, Mrs E C Hay, Miss V V Starling, G W Heuriehson, Mrs M Stewart, C T Henry, Miss Reh E Strauss ft Conlev, Hildebrand, Dr D Walker, Mrs M " Hoke, Thos Walsh, P A Hopkins, Loudias Ward, Dallas T Horueford, Jake Whitehead, Chas 2 Hyson, Mrs M Wigg, Mrs Gardina Jackson, Mrs Ann Wilson, Geo A Jobbers, Miss Julia Wright, Samuel Jones? Richard Aug 2i J. C. J AN.-OY. P. M. _ MOLASSES AND SYRUP. 5HHDS. MOLASSES. 5 barrels Bee Hive Syrup. 100 sacks Family Flour. Anguat28 E. ft G. D. HOPE. Removal. I take pleasure in giving the information to my friends and thc public in general, and the rest of mankind, that I am nearly reconstructed, having REMOVED my CONFECTIONERY ESTABLISHMENT to Main street, next door to tho corner of Lady street, opposite the ruins of Nicker son's Hotel, where I shall bo happy to serve all that call, with everything fresh and good in my line. August 23 c JOHN? MCKENZIE. Fresh Lemons, Raisins, AND CURRANTS, at J. C. SEEGERS ft CO.'S. 4,000 GINS! Ready for the Season, at the MANUFACTORY. Send your order to tho South Carolina Colton Gin Wauehouse, COI.I'M HI A, S.C. THEY GIN Faster, Cleaner and make a better Sample than any Gins in the country with thc same power. They have been adopted by the East India Cotton Agency Company, by the Manchester Cot? ton Supply Association, by tho Viceroy of Egypt, and by tho Governments of Turkey, Brazil, Italy, Groeee and India, in their efforts to raise this staple in their midst; and their inerts- are even moro tully un? derstood by those using them in our own country during the last two years. They aro also warranted to give satisfaction, or no sale. ALSO, Corn Shellers, Feed Cutters, PLOWS, CULTIVATORS, ?fcc. Wood's MOWING and REAPING MACHINES, .which have taken the first premium at the Paris Ex? position. The following gentlemen, to whom I have recently sold these Machines, will gladly testifv to their merits: Dr." li. W. Taylor, Columbia. S. C. W. L. Mikcll, Columbia, S. C. Gen. J. J. Bratton, Winnsboro, S. C. M. E. DeGraffoureid, Chester, S. C. O. C. Wells, Newberry, S. C. J. P. Kinard, Newberry, S. C. J. F. Kitchers, Union, S. C. L. A. Lowrance, Salisbury ,'N. C. Terms accommodating. Address, W. H. LO WK.WC IC. South Carolina Cotton Gin Warehouse, Aug ll Imo Columbia, S. C. A. lb_COLTON, Proprietor. TO SOUTHERN MERCHANTS! ROCK tSUNP COOPS* TF vou desire to supply yourselves for the _L FALL and WINTER TRADE, with the VERY BEST DESCRIPTIONS and STYLES of AU-wool Cassimeres! AND WITH THE MOST DURABLE Jeans and Kersey Fabrics ! AU free from shoddy and other impurities, Order Samples from the subscriber, and they will bo forwardod, with prices attach? ed, during tho months of July and August. From these samples you can make your selections and retnrn your orders; and tho goods will bo forwarded directly from the manufactory. JOHN A. YOUNG, President Rock Island Manufac. Co., June 2 Imo Charlotte, N. C.