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COLUMBIA. Sunday Moraing, October 27, 1867 Imp?aclixaeiit-Singular Exposition. A Washington letter io tho Boston Post, contains Homo extraordinary statements in regard to tho policy of Mr. Lincoln, in reconstructing tho Southern States, which were first disclosed by Ooneral Grant, in his testimony before the Judiciary (im? peachment) Committee of Congress. The ?ourso pursned by President Johnson, it appears, was identical with that which had been determined upon by Mr. Lincoln; and it further appears that Secretary Stanton bad drafted for Mr. Lincoln a proclama? tion, on the subject of reconstruction, in which he claimed that the whole power on this subject belonged to the Executive Department. The principal charge against Presi? dent Johnson, by thoso favoring im? peachment, and the one upon which they rely for his conviction, is that be attempted to reconstruct the Southern States, without legislative authority, thus usurping legislative powers, in violation of the Constitu? tion. They do not dispute that the President's policy has boen consis? tent, and that it was completely shop? ed in his first proclamation, relative to the restoration of North Carolina, as a State in tho Union. The polioy, as contained in that proclamation, hos been steadily pursued, whenever and wherever the President has acted in the premises. If his policy of re? construction was violative of the Con? stitution, and rendered him liable to impeachment, for high crimes and misdemeanors, this policy is all em? bodied in his first North Carolina proclamation. The correspondent then notices General Grant's testi? mony before the committee, as wei] as Stanton's complicity in the matter. He says: "Tho General stated that just prior to President's Lincoln's assassi? nation, he was called in consultation ou the subject of North Carolina, and that Mr. Lincoln then read in his hearing a proclamation which had been prepared, and which he pro? posed publishing-and that the pro? clamation subsequently issued by President Johnson for the reconstruc? tion Of North Carolina was the iden? tical proclamation which had been prepared by the late President. It is thus proven by General Grant that the policy of Mr. Johnson is but the carrying out of the plans and pur? poses of President Lincoln. But tho evidence of Mr. Stantou is still moro interesting, and shows up the posi? tion then occupied by the ex-Secre? tary of War. The fact was drawn from him that ho had drafted a pro? clamation for Mr. Lincoln, in which the Tvholo subject of reconstruction was claimed as belonging to tho Executive Department. He was re? quested to furnish the . Judiciary Committee with a oopy of this draft, and ho promised to comply, if the document could bc found, but he afterward took good care that it should not bo.fouud-nor has ho over furnished the copy." What will become of impeachment now? The Post's correspondent is said to bo a very reliable gentleman, and one of tho few Washington cor? respondents in whom the public have confidence. According to his state? ment, Mr. Stanton's draft of a pro? clamation ignored in toto any inter? ference, on the part of Congress, with the subject of reconstruction; and that, had Mr. Lincoln lived, ho would have exercised exclusive au? thority and restored tho States by proclamation. TKBSB NAMES.-Tho New York He? rald, in speaking of tho Virginia elec? tions, says: A largo proportion of the Southern blacks under ?lavery wero only known as Bob, Tom, Ciesar, Pompey, Sam or Jack, Christmas or Friday, and when going to register they gave for .'de odder name" anything which at the moment most pleased their fancy. Thus in Charleston tho registration, it is said, exhibits sixty-three black Abraham Lincolns, forty-six Goorgo Washingtons and thirty odd Andrew Jacksons. So we suspect that some of our "fellow-eitizpno cf African descent1' in Virginia have been caught napping in forgetting their registorod names on election day, and if they lose tho State from this peculiar sort of apathy they must grin and bear it. Tho Sub-Treasurer at New York lias made several demands upon par? ties from whom ho reooived counter? feit 7-BOs, that thoy shall mako them good. It is underwood that thoy all declined to mako reclamation. Lay representation is being voted on by tho Methodist ChurclTNorth, with every prospect of tho adoption of tho principle. '. : .';y??*&:' * ,. s,-."-:; >'..;-,v ?? Thc Finance? of th? Country. This subject, as a matter of course, taking the national debt and the sys? tem of taxation now oppressing the people, is most important, and has i drawn forth the Tia wa of a large ! number of writers-some competent and others ignorant of anything per? taining to it The New York Jfer caniile Journal, which professes to know, and really does know, the sham from the real of financial writ? ing or speaking; writes very con? temptuously of the efforts of leading politicians to solve the financial ques? tion. This able journal truthfully declares, that the first necessity for general solvenoy-State or individual -is an honorable peace between the sections. This is the common sense view of tho matter, and all specula? tion whioh ignores this great neces? sity is idle and of no use whatever. The Journal says: * The money doctors have the usual diversity of views. Ono believes in "feeding a oold to starve a fever," and wants to pile high our foreign importations, so that the people may get plenty of cheap goods when they have no money to get them with; another, like Sangrado, thinks that moro "bleeding" is what we need, more i. e. taxes and duties, and a total exclusion of foreign manufac? tures by heightened exports, as a sovereign method of getting money enough to pay our debts, by allowing ns to give ten pieces to homo specu? lators and make millionaires of smug? glers; a third thinks repudiation and the consequent crash of all our secu? rities a good thing in tho way of a settlement, nnd a settler it would be to us, no doubt; a fourth opines that a complete turn over of the entire Government might bc about the right thing, as convincing mankind what a tremendously great people we are, and how much wo can "stand." In fine, every form of stimulant, depletive, laxative, blister, plaster, etc., hos been suggested, but all for the surface, as will be remarked by an attentive reader. That anything is radically wrong, not ono of the financial physicians seems to trouble himself to think, unless it bo Senator (late Governor) Morton, of Indiana, who has actually discovered a cure for the trouble where plain business men of sense have all along been looking for it. "Specie payments can be reached," says he, "without contracting tho currency, by waiting a reasonable time, until successful reconstruction and the growth of wealth and busi? ness shall have brought the country up to the existing volume of currency without a financial revuLion." A second Daniel come to judg? ment! The worthy Senator is kind enough to thus emphatically sustain what wo have been preaching nil along. But can ho impress these very simple viows upon tho minds of his Congressional colleagues? Can he make our financial philosophers comprehend that a mau with nn empty purse nud out at the elbows docs not better Iiis condition b}r re? pudiating his old debts, trying to run up new ones, und pawning all the other articles in his dilapidated ward? robe to raise the prico of a fresh hat or pair of boots? The Irishman's method of cutting a strip off one end of ?his blanket and sewing it to the other to make it longer, would hardly do in bis situntiou or in ours. What docs the same individual do in such a case? He holds away from dissipation and extravagance; ceases bis bar-room discussions; stops squab? bling with his neighbor on any ques? tion, particularly on mere abstract theories; assures his creditors of his intent to pay ?it tho earliest reason? able moment, and goes honestly and seriously to work to prove that intent. That is tho first stop to the recovery of outsido confidence aud inside vigor and resources. Tho American nation, as a people, has nobly tried to do this, and tho first year after the cessation of our civil war, showed that it was done to good purpose. If it had been lot alone in this course, wo should not now be us another writer describes us, "waiting and expecting, in the indefinite future, a financial col? lapse." But tho efforts of a whole mass of our legislators scorn frantically bent to koop the country trembling with apprehension and racked with politi? cal feuds-in other words, to cripple its brain and muscio aliko ut homo; to discredit and stultify it abroad, and, it last, instead of a Government, to leave us only an armed commission lc lun?tico inquirendo. Mistress: "For goodness gracious iake, Martha, go and take tho ridicu? lous thing off-do." Martha ("which I wero well aware it were my new >onnet she wero eluding:") "Well, ibero, Mum, I declaro Mum. I give ny milliner borders to make it prc iisely similar to yourn, Mum." Post masters are obliged to receive ill treasury notes, for stamps or postage if clearly genuine, no matter how worn or defaced they may bo, provided that one-twentieth part thereof bo not missing; and fractional currency, if not one-tenth part bo missing. > CONFEDERATE MONEX A VA?O> Cot? srDBE?Ti?N.-The caa? of Pean TB. i Harvey, ad ruin is trat or of W. H. j Youell, has been finally settled by tbe United States Circuit Court of Geor? gia. The Borne Courier says; "Youell, iu 1864, purchased of Dean his plantation, in Floyd Coun? ty, Georgia, for $24,000 in Confede? rate money. Dean remained in pos 'session, but since the war entered into a re cunt contract for the place with Harvey, the administrator of Youell. Afterwards Dean filed a bill in the Superior Court of Floyd Coun? ty to set aside the sale and to enjoin Harvey from turning him out of pos? session, upon the ground that the consideration of tho purchase was Confederate money, and the sale therefore void. The Superior Court of this County first granted the in? junction, but afterwards dissolved it ou motion of Harvey & Scott, the administrator's counsel. In the menu time. Dean moved to Alabama, leav? ing his tenant in possession, and dis? missing his case in the Superior Court, and commenced his suit by bill, as before, in tho Uuitod States District Court for Northern Georgia, praying for injunction, relief, etc. The case being argued on demurrer at tho present term, his houor Judge Erskine dismissed tho bill, sustain? ing the rights of the pnrchaser. The case has excited a great deal of inte? rest, and is, perhaps, the most im? portant ono to tho Southern people decided since tho close of the war by a United States Court." A PARIS PRACTICAL JOKE.-The Paris correspondent of the Globt writes : I "Practical joking, I hud thought, died out long ugo in all decent socio ! ty; but, if newspapers aro to bo be? lieved-a thing of which I am not ni all certain-(I speak, of course, onlj I of thoso of France and tho rest ol the continent)-it still flourishes in j tho highest society of this conntry. I Here, for example, greatly condons ed, is a story I find in one of tin journals of Paris: A distinguished party was a fortnight ago tho guest! of the Marquis do Ga-, in th< chateau of-, in tho neighborhood of Trouville. Tho ladies of the part] being bored, resolved somewhat un gratefully, iu order to amuse them selves to play oft* a joko on theil host. So one night they placed i quantity of flour between tho sheet of his bed. At his customary hour the marquis retired to rest, but th' strange substance astonished him and he jumped up. He found him self as white as a miller, from hea< to foot. A few moments rcllectioi convinced him that he was the victin of a trick. He coolly rang for hi: valet, made the man scrape him am wash him, and change tho sheets Ho then returned to bed. Tho nex morning he said not a word of wha had happened. Three evenings afte he proposed to drive to a small shoot ing lodge in the neighborhood, wher thoro was a splendid view, and whoi he got there he offered the ladies ten The cake served with the liquid wo extraordinarily good, and the fai dames did ampio justice to it. The; declared that they had never see: anything like it in Paris. 'Yet notli ing would be more simple to m ak such cakes,' said the marquis. 'Firs take your flour,' continued he, wit all tho solemnity of a cookery boot 'and then loll a man in it.' Th ladies looked aghast. 'Yes, me: dames, tho cake is made of tho floti in which it was your pleasure should bo whitened thc other night 'Horreur.' Quelle horreur V scream c they." A JUVENILE "Snow."-Last sun mer, a little boy only live years c li invited me into the summer-house t see his "show." I paid a penny t the door, and gravely seated myse on a bench to wait for tho perforo ance to begin. There was a piece < twine stretched across the summe house, and Master Harry took h seat beside it, saying. "These aro my tamed grosshoppei in this box, and I've touched 'em 1 walk ou a tight-rope; now you'll seo. Ho took a great brown grasshoppi from the box, placed him on tl string, and to my astonishment 1 crawled slowly along it to tho othi side, and made no attempts to j um off". At last, I solved tho ruyster aud found that his legs had been r moved, so of course ho could r nothing but crawl. "Why, Harry," I exclaimed, "ho could you bo so cruel?" "I didn't hurt him a bit, auntie was his confident reply; "those gre things were just in tho way, aud 1 never could walk like ioiss." "But it did hurt him, Harry," explained; "his legs were a part his body, just as much as your lej aro apart of you." "Wasn't a speck of juico in 'er anyway," persisted Harry, lookir rather soberly at his tamo grassho per, "and I thought if it hurt hit ho'd said somothing about it." "A great many littlo insects ha' no power to cry when they aro pain, but feel pain, just the same others." "Ob," said Harry, "he'sdeaf ai dumb, ain't ho? Well, I won't tan auy moro grasshoppers; but thesotv are spoilt already, and T guess we go on with tho show. Ix>ve ?nd Hornet*. ? ludiorouB, bat still a painful and embarrassing incident occurred to an acquaintance of Ours, during tho week ol the Shelby County fair. Our friend, who is a gallant young widower, was visiting a house in the country, whioh, at that time, among its other tenants, contained three beautiful and 'accomplished young ladies. It is supposed by the know? ing ones that one of these young ladies was the principal fair which attracted our friend to Shelby Coun? ty. Be that as it may, he went to stay the week out, and was duly sap plied with raiment suitable for the occasion. On his . arrival, he was shown to his room, where he immediately com? menced getting himself up fordinner. Tuking from his valise ? uloaay broad cloath" coat, ho hung it up by an open window, in order to let the wrinkles in it get somewhat smoothed out before dinner. When that im? portant event arrived, our hero, hur? riedly putting on his coat, repaired to the parlor, and from thence ac? companied tho ladies to the dining room. He had barely seated himself before he astonished the company by a loud ejaculation and a violent slap of his shoulder. Ho kept on ejaculating, writhing, and slapping vigorously for a short time, when ho suddenly jumped to his feet, nearly upsetting the table, and roared out. "What in h-1 is it." At tho same time, ho was strip? ping himself of his coat and vest. Tho ladies became very much fright? ened at his frautic movements, and beat a hasty retreat. They thought he had become suddenly crazy, and was going to strip himself naked in bia insane spasm. So they flew to the parlor aud barricaded the door. In tho meantime, our friend had discovered the cause of his fright. Several enormous hornets bad crawled into his coat sleeves, while that gar j ment was hanging nt tho window, and not liking their confined posi? tion, they had commenced pegging away at him as soon as he sat down. The painful stabs coming in such quick succession, and so unaccounta? bly, lilied tho mind of the victim with terror. He thought of vipers, couti pedes and tarantulas, and who shall blame him for being frightened out of his wits. The cause of bis curious conduct was explained to the ladies, much to their relief. Their hearts were filled with sympathy and mirth, and that was a merry little dinuer party not? withstanding its inauspicious com? mencement. Our friend bas recovered from the stings of the hornets, but rumor hath it that tho arrow from Cupid's bow still rankles in his heart. Let her rankle, and if he goes cruzy again, we trust that his inquiry-"what is it?" will bo made in a lower tono and directed to a different party. BROKE THE PLEDGE.-In a certain "Ladies' Moral Keform Society," existing not many miles from the bank of a certain river, the members wero required to sigu a pledge not to "set up," ns it is termed, or do any? thing elso that might be supposed to have a tendency, however remote, to immorality. Ono evening, as tho president was calling over the names to know whether each member had kept her obligation, a beautiful and highly respectable young lady burst into tears, and on being questioned as to tho cause, said she feared that she hadbroko her pledge. "Why, what have you done?" asked tho president. "Oh!" sobbed the young lady, "Dr.-kissed mo the other night, when he waited on me home from meeting." "O, well, that is nothing very bad," said tho president; "his kiss? ing you does not make it that you have broken tho pledge." "Oh! that isn't tho worst of it," exclaimed tho young lady, "I kissed him back again." POLITICAL Sgcin.-Tho Now York Tribune frequently prints a good squib against tho nominees of its adverse party. Tho following is on the nomination of Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, for tho Presidency: "Somebody has nominated Mr. George H. Pendleton for President of tho United States, and it is under? stood that tho distinguished candi? date is building Iiis platform, whereof tho chief planks aro: 1. A nigger is not as good us a white mon. 2. Not being as good as a white man, a nig? ger is good for nothing at all. S. If you let a nigger vote, ho will many your daughter. 4. A dollar is not a dollar, bnt ? pi?co of green papor. 5. A promise to pay ?3 binding only as long as it may be convenient to keep it. G. Free liquor. Wo havo not heard who has been chosen to write tho customary campaign 'Life' of tho candidate, but we suggest Pol? lard." A man, in Ttussia, named Kursom, a member of a fanatical religious sect, reooTi?y killed his own non, and offered him ns a sacrifice to God. Ho stabbed tho little boy seven several times in the stomach, and ofter ho was dead, fell on his knees in ecstacy, imploring God to re?oive the offering. After being taken to prison, ho reso? lutely refnscd food, and died of starv? ation bofore the sontenco upon him could be executed. Mr. James Campbell will please accept oar thanks for some of his Ano No. 1 mackerel. Try them, all ye lovers of salt fish. A CHANOS.-By reference to our advertising columns, it will be seen that Bailey's Varieties will appear at Gibbes' Hall, to-morrow evening, in? stead of Jannej'fl. The Palmetto Fire Company de? sires us to return their thanks to Col. Childs, for tho refreshments he so generously furnished tin. zn, at the fire, on Friday night. St. Maur, tho magician and ven? triloquist, advertises to appear at Januey's Hall, on to-morrow even? ing, in somo of his wonderful per? formances. He is highly spoken of by our North Carolina exchanges. Having a complete printing office, superintended by tho proprietor, we can execute every description of book and job printing-bill and lettor heads, circulars, labels, posters, pro? grammes, business, wedding and in? vitation cards, railroad receipts, checks, drafts, &c. KAIN- AT LAST.-After the long dry spell, it commenced raining yester? day-one of those cold winter rains and, to judge from present appear? ances, it is likely to continue for several days. "Base Balls" were decidedly comfortable, ami were "hugely" in demand. IMAIIJ AIIKANUEMENTS.-The post office open during the week from 8)? a. m. to G p. m. On Sundays, from 1}? to 2}.: p. m. The Charleston and Western mails are open for delivery at 2 p. m., and close at Da. m. Northorn-Open for delivery at 10?> a. m., closes at 1 p. m. Greenville-Open for delivery at 3 p. m., closes nt 8 p. m. TUAT ESTOMA.-We have been furnished with tho following solution to the enigma which wo published on Friday. There is, we think, one error in this solution: "From an adjoining room I heard ? leales, and I called a negro to make a fire, as I felt chili. On going down stairs, I found that one of the slaves hud spiUeilgreece on my highly-prized brussels, while putting on the table my breakfast, consisting of a turkey, seasoned with cayenne; also a cod and spice and bordeaux, stopped with a cork, and a basket containing an orange and other fruits. I paid a guinea for my breakfast, and then asked Caroline for some sugar to feed a canary that was hanging in my chamber." RELIGIOUS SERVICES THIS DAY. Trinity Church-Rev. P. J. Shand, iicctor, 10 l.j' a. m. and 5 p. m. Presbyterian Church-Rev. Dr. McPhail, President of Davidson Col? lege, 10! ? a. m. and 7 p. m. St. Peter's Church-Rev. J. J. O'Connell, 10 a. m. and 5 p. m. Washington Street Chapel-Rev. Wm. Martin, 10?.i a. m. Rev. D. J. Simmons, 4 p. m. Marion Street Church-Rev. D. J. Simmons, IO1.j a. m. Rev. Wm. Martin, -1 p. m. Lutheran Lecture Room-Rev. A. R. Rude, 10).. a. m. Baptist Church-Rev. J. L. Rey? nolds, 10'.j n. m. and 7 p. m. Christ Church Congregation-Theo? logical Seminary Chapel-Rev. J. M. Pringle, 10'.. a. m. African M. E. Church-Rev. W. M. Brown, Xl a. m., and 3 p. m. Rev. A. Richardson, 7'.j p. m. "D. H."-Au editor who knows what ho is writing about; says, very truthfully and pointedly, that the publication of advertisements is as much in the business of a newspaper as tho publication of tho news, and an editorial notice, which is designed to supply tho placo of or add value to a regular advertisement, has even less claim to a gratuitous idsertion than would such an advertisement. Yet there aro those who ask just such gratuitons notices, and lui? uiinost as a matter of -right. If these same persons should bo asked to make a prcsont of a dozen yards of muslin to each purchaser of a merino dross, or a dollar's worth of sugar to who? ever bought threo pounds of tea, or half a dozen "free tickets" to who over engaged twenty seats at a con? cert, they would resent tho demand as an insult. Yet why should not their wages bo given away os freely as should and aro tho products of tho editor's and publisher's labor aud capital? Read Udolpho Wolfe's advertise? ments in another column. . INQUESTS.-Coroner Walker was notified on yesterday morning, that J a freedman, named Crcsar Gailliard, bad died very suddenly the night before, at a shanty near the depot of tho Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad. A jury of inquest was empanneled, and after a post mortem examination, by Dr. W, P. Geiger, it was found that he died from a con? gestive chill On Thursday morning last, just before day, an old freedwoman, nam? ed Sarah Garey, about 60 years of age, who had boon setting np with a^ grand-son. was discovered to bo oT^? fire, and before assistance could beH rendered, all of her clothes were^ burned off. She lingered until Fri? day night, when she died. An in? quest was held on yesterday after? noon, by Coroner Walker, and a ver? dict rendered in accordance with the above facts. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.-Attention ls caU ed ti? tlie following advertisements, pub? lished this morning for I he first time: St. Maur-Magician. I). C. Poixotto & Son-Auction Sale. E. A G. D. Hope-Bacon Strips, Ac. T. M. Bollock-Oysters. Brown's Bronchial Troches. J. C. Jannoy-List of Letters. J. (J lc nd i ii in g-Oysters. 0. P. JACKSON is recoiving goods regu? larly every week. They are well selected and sold at low rates. Cali and seo them. No house soils goods cheaper than he does. THE PLANTING INTEREST.-It has been remarked by a practical mau, that whenever breadstuffs rule high, cotton is depressed, and vice, versa. He states that he has never known it to fail. Tho Southern people, in their present poverty, should draw a lesson from this strange coincidence, and abandon the culture of cotton on so largo a scale, and take to that of raising grain crops. It is very cer? tain that the price of provisions pro? mises to be high, in spite of reported good crops, and before making ar? rangements for another year, planters would do well to make very close cal? culation as to tho profit or loss of cotton raising, to the neglect of corn and wheat. Colonel Thomas W. Knox, well known as the anthor of ' Camp-Fires and Cotton Fields," and ai a success? ful correspondent for the New York Herald during the war, has recently returned from the tour of the world, having traveled 28,000 miles, of which distance 8,600 miles were iu a sleigh in Siberia, 1,500 in a carriage, 2,000 by steam on tho Amoor River, and the rest by ocean and rail. Colo? nel Knox has prepared a very inte? resting lecturo, entitled "Six Months in Siberia," which he will soon de? liver. A USEFUL CLASS.-The annual ses? sion of tho .Brotherhood of Loco? motive Engineers was held last week, at Cincinnati. It represents eighty four divisions, in various parts of the country, and has been in existence four years. Its object is to insure safe, reliable and sober men for the position of engine'drivers. 100 dele? gates were present, and they aro spoken of as a body of men as re? spectable and intelligent as ever were convened in Cincinnati. A journalist in New York ,gravely proposes, and urges with a great deal of force, the necessity for the estab? lishment of an "Asylum for Useless Young Men." His object seems to be to provide for a class of rather re? spectable, but good-for-nothing fel? lows, who sponge upon their rela? tions, aud never do anything for thomselves or anybody else, and calls upon the State to look into tho mat? ter. His idea is a good oue, per? haps, in other localities. Rev. Dr. Mahlenburg, tho author of tho hymu, "I would not live alway, "is in his 72d year, and has been a minis? ter forty-six years. Tho church property of Utah is valued at 8900,000. OBITUARY. Died on Sunday, tho 20th inst., Mrs. SAltAH SCOTIA BA8KIN, wife of A. G. Baskin, Esq., in tho -12d year of her ago. Mrs. BaBkin had been declining for some months, under tho ravages of consump? tion, and her decease was not unexpected. Sho loavos a husband and seven children to mourn ber loss. H-J ta. OD ?? Xii Z/S ? o H S- F o OB s R g 9 i I S s ? 1 s ? w % ? c" g > w F g s- ? oct OYSTERS ! OYSTERS ! ! CALL at J. CLENDINING'S, corner of Marion and Tavlor streots, where you can bo sorved with Extra Mill-Pond OY8 TfCUS at all hours. Families will bo fur? nished with Quarts or Pinta at reasonable rates. ALSO, Best of LIQUORS, TOBACCO and 5E GAHS, constantly on hand. Oct 27 ?> WmTE^ORN. t^ir\f \ BUSHELS PBIME WHITE Dv/Vj COBN. For salo by Oct 27 E. A G. D. HOPE. BACON STRIPS. -? f\f\f\ POUNDS CHOICE BACON l\l\FV-/ Breast Pieces. For sale by Oct 27 E. li G. D. HOPE.