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Oy TeleffrapH. --o Cable JDespKtcbea. CONSTANTINOPLE, December 31.-The Cretao insurgents have made submission to Turkish authority. A Provisional Govern? ment has been established. M Aimil), December 31.-Tho threatened disturbances at Seville have spbsided. The country is entirely tranquil. MANCHESTER, December 31.-W. M. Brunnett & Co.. with extensive American connections, have suspended. -o Ifevri Ulm?. SAVANNAH, December 31.-The Ogochee troubles still continne. Middleton's house was burned last night and his crops ruined. All the whites came to the city, with the ex? ception of one man, who hos not been seen since the trouble. Tho Sheriff, with a posse, weut out this morning, without mak? ing arrests. The negroes are fully armed and in large force, determined to resist the authorities. Scouts sent out this afternoon, were stopped six miles from the city. All six of tire roads leading to the city are pick? eted by negroes. A public meeting was held to-day at the Court House, und affairs discussed by Gen. Jackson and others. RICHMOND, December 31.-At Norfolk, this morning, about day-light, a messenger of the Virginia Express Company, on his way to tho cars, was knocked down and robbed of $10,000. There huvo been 3,300 bankrupt cases in Virginia to dato. NEW ORI?EANS,-December 31.-Tho editor of* tho Mark8ville Register, who is the alleged dfcrk of tho Seventh Judical Dis? trict Court, reports the total destruction of his pu per by a mob, led on by the editor of the Villager, a Democratic paper published at the same place. FINANCIAL ANU COM.MKKC1AL. COLOMBIA, December 31.-i-Sales of cotton to-day 19 bales-middlings 23c. Nsw YORK, December 31-Noon.-Money ! sharp at seven and commissions. Sterling] 9%. Gold 34%. Flour favors buyers. Pork unsettled aud tinner; nt26,!o. Freights | firm. 7 P. M.-Cotton steadv and active; sales 3,500 bales, at 26. Flour "dull-Western and State superfine 5.85@G-15; Southern dull common to fair extra 7(u^7.50. Wheat and corn unchanged. Mess pork decidedly firm er, at27.50@28. Lard firmer-kettfo 17% (V$17%. Whiskey quiet aud nominal. Gold firm, at 34%(cu34%. Freights quiet-colton steam ^??7-16. State bouds dull, withal decline ou North Carolina's-there being no money here to pay interest. AUGUSTA, December 31.-The cotton mar? ket closed quiet; sales 416 bales-middlings | 21)v?; receipts 353. SAVANNAH, December 31.-Cotton opened I weak but closed firm-middlings 24^ ; sales j 971 bales; receipts to-duy 3,174. MOBILE, December 31.-Cotton receipts of tho week 10,204 bales; stock 46,258; market quiet, at 24%; sales of tho woek 10,450; sales to-day 800; receipts 665. NEW ORLEANS, December 31.-Cotton re? ceipts of the week 22,903 bales; receipts to? day 3,040; stock 123,140; sales to day 7,300) bales; stiles of the week 41,000-middlings: 24J?@24%-closing at outside rates. Gold 35%. Flour quiet and firm-superfino 7%@% ; double 7% ; treble 8%@8 ??. Com quiet ?nd firm-white 78; yellow 80. Pork unsettled, at 28%. Bacon scarce-shoul? ders 14%; clear rib 17%; clear 19. Molas-1 ses firm-common 52%(a)55; prime 63@65;| choice 67. LONDON, December 31-3 P. M.-Consols j 92%. Bonds 74. LiVEitPooL, December 31-3 P. M.-Cot? ton active; sales of the week 87,000 bales;] exports 72,000; speculation 18,000; stock 352.000; whereof American is 82,000. HAVRE, December 31.-Cotton firmer on spot and afloat-spot 126. LIVERPOOL, December 31-Evening. Cotton firm-uplands on spot 10(?)l()?J; afloat 10%; Orleans 11%; sales 15.000 bales. EXUBERANT llEAl.Tll IS A BLESSING vouchsafed to few. Even those who hayo boon favored by nature with strong constitutions and vigorous frames are apt to noglect tho precau? tions necessary to preserve thrso precious endow? ments. Indeed, as a rule, thc more healthy and robust a mau in, thc moro liberties ho is inclined to take with his own physique. It ia some conso? lation to tho naturally woak and feeble to know that tiny can bc so invigorated and built up, by a proper uso of the means which science has placed ;it their disposal, as to havo a much better chanco of long lifo and exemptions from disease and pain, than the most athletic of their fellows, who are foolish enough to suppose themselves invulnerable, and act accordingly. It is not too much to say that moro than half the people of thecivili/.ed world nealon occasional tonic, to enable them to support the strain upon their bodies and mind , which tho fast lifo of this restless ago occasion*?, In fact, a puro, wliolcsomo, unexeiling tonic, is tho grand desideratum or tho busy millions, and they have tho ariielo in HOS TK IT ER'S STOMACH BITTE KS. It is a STAMI? NAS MEDICINE, i. e. il imparts permanent strength to woali systems and invigorates dolicato consti? tutions. Its roputation and its Bales hi.ve steadily increased. Compotitivo preparation.. ?:-vC boon introduced atl libitum, and, as far as~tlio~public is concerned, ad nausmm, in tho bono of rivaling it but they have all either perished in tho attempt or been left far in tho roar. It bas bonn tho OBKAT MEDICAL SUCCESS OK THE PKKSENT OENTUUY, audit is quito certain that no proprietary medicino in this country is as widely known, or as generally used. Ten lightning presaos, running incessantly (Sundays exceptou) tho wholo yoar through barely supply tho demand for tho Illustrated Almanac, in which tho nature and uses of tho preparation aro sot forth, tho circulation now heirn; over !> 000.000 a your. .lan 1 fe, United States Internal Revenue, Coi.i.ECTon's OKKICK, TH inn Do/rnicr. S C CoLUMiiiA, December 31, 18G8. VTOTICE is hpreby given to all parties who may Iii claim an interest in a STILL, Ac, sei/., d Uor violation of Internal Revenue Laws, from lt. J. OLADNEY, of Fairfield County, to givo bond to defend a suit for forfeiture of tho sumo, in United States District Court, in thirty days from this date, or it will bc sold according* to law. lt. M. WALLACE, Jan 1 f Deputy Collector, Third District, 8. C. soc msorciTTtTr ^ argy It Snow?. It snowe!" cries th? 6chool-boy-"hurrah!" ?nd his shout Is ringing through parlor and hall, While swiftl as the wing of a swallow, he's ont, And his play .mates have answertd his cal!; It makes tho heart leap but to witness their joy Proud wealth has no pleasures, I trow, Like the rapture that throbs in the pnlse of tho boy. As he gathers his treasures of snow; Thon lay not tho trappings of gold on thine heirs, While health, and thu riches of nature aro theirs. "lt anownl" signa tho imbecile-"Ahl" \md his broath Comes heavy, UH clogg'd with a woight; While from the pale aspect of Naturo in death, He turns to the blaze of hiB grate; And nearer, and nearer, his Boft-cuBhioned chair Is wheeled icw'rds the U*u-glviuj< name - Ho droadB a chill puff of tho snow-burdened air, Lost it wither his delicate frame ; Oh! small in the pleasure existence can give, When tho f?jar wo shall dio only provcB that wo live! "It snowe!" criea thc traveler-"Ho!" and tho word Has quickened hiB steed's lagging paco; Tho wiudrushes by, bnt its howl is unheard - Unlolt tho sharp drift in bia face;' For bright through tho tempest, hi3 own homo appeared Ay, though leagues intervened, ho can see; There's tho clear, glowing hearth, and the table prepared, And his wife with their babes at her knee. Blest thought! how it lightens tho griol'-laden hour, That those we love dearest aro safe from its power. "It anows!" cries the bollo- "Dear, how lucky!' and turns From her mirror to watch tho flakes fall; Like tho first rose of summer, her dimpled check burne, While musing on pleasure and ball; Thero aro visions of conquests, of splendor, and mirth, Floating over each drear winter's day; But th- timings <>r Hope, on this storm-beaten earth, Will molt, like the snow-flakes, away: Turu, turn theo to Heaven, fair ruaidon, for bliss, That world has a puro fount ne'er opened in this. "Itenows!" cries the widow-"Oh, Godl" and ber sighs Have stifled the voice of her prayer; Ita burden yo'll read in her toar-swollon eyes, On her cheek, sunk with fasting and care. 'T?B night-and lier fatherless aslc her for broad - But, "Ho gives tho young ravens their food," And she truste, till her dark huarth adds horror to dread, I And sim lays on her last chip of wood. Poor snfTrerl that sorrow thy God only knows Tia a moat bittor lot to be poor, when it snows! TUB DAUBS IN TUB CLOUDS. Just teu years ago, there suddenly burst upon the Western world, a magnificent stranger from foreign parts, "with all his traveling glories on." It was tho great comet of 1858, on the grand tour of the universe. It seemed strange "that petty human lifo could go on as usual, with its eating and drinking, toiling, trafficking and pleasuring, while that "Haming minister," on bis bul? lion-leagued circuit, was preaching the wonders of infinite immensity aud power, aud the nothingness of earth. But science bas robbed celestial apparitions of their old portentous significance. Tho comet no longer runs his kindling race, like Vicli , Alpine's henchman, with his fiery cross, announcing war and disaster, ' Herald of battle, fate and fear, Ile is on bis own business; not ours. Under tho tail of this particular cornet doubtless many a tale of love was told-in the light of his swift splendors many a tender look exchanged. Tho astronomer coolly swept tho starry field with bis glass, unawed by tho irregular night-guard patrol? ing tho Heavens, and tho robber and mur? derer disdained tlu> awful witness. He left as he found ns-joined to our mortal idols wiso in our conceit, weak and worldly aud wicked, but no castaways of tho universo after all. We remember that comet summer, not so much for its great astronomical event, as for two singular incidents that moro nearly touched our human sympathies, which will .grovel in poor earthly affairs even within sight of the most august celestial phenomena. Ono pleasant Saturday afternoon during tho comet's appearance, an aeronaut, after a prosperous voyage, descended upon a farm in tho neighborhood of a large market town, in one of the Western States. He was soou surrounded by a curious group of tho far? mer's family and laborers, all asking eager questions about tho voyage and the manage? ment of the balloon. That, secured by an anchor and a rope in thc band of the aero? naut, its car but a foot or two ubovo tho ground, was swaying la/.ily backward and forward in the evening air. It was a good deal ont of wind, and was a sleepy und inno? cent monster in'the eyes of the farmer, who, with the owner's permission, led it up to his house, where, us ho said, ho could "hitch it" to his fence. But before ho thus secured it, Iiis three children, aged respectively ten, eight and three, begged bim to lift them "into that big basket," that they might sit on "tboso pretty red cushions."?tWhilo tho] attention of tho tero mint was diverted by moro curious questioners from a neighbor? ing farm, this rush father lifted bis durlings one by ono into tho cur. Chubby little Johnny prcvpd thc "ounce Loo mach" for tho aerial camel, and brought bim to tho ground; and thou, unluckily, not the baby, but tho eldest hopo of tho family, was lifted out. The relief was too great for the mon? ster. Tho volatile creature's spirits roso at once, ho jerked his baiter ont of thu farmer's hand, and with a wild bound, mounted into tho air. Vain wus tho sorouuut's anchor. It caught for a moment in a fence, but it tore away, and was off, dangling uselessly utter the runaway balloon, which HO swiftly and steadily rose, that in a few minutes those two little whito faces peering over tho edgo of the car grew indistinct, and tboso piteous cries of "papa!" "mamma!" grow faint and fainter in the air. When distance and ?-..light mists had swallowed up voices ar.?J faces, and nothing could be seen but tho durk cruel shspe, sailing triumphantly away, with its precious booty, like au aerial privateer, tho poor father sank down helpless and speechless; ! feat the mother, frantic with grief, still stretched her yearning arms toward the inexorable heavens, and ca1 lcd wildly up into the unanswering void. The noronaut strove to console the wretched parents with assurances that the balloon woold descend within thirty miles of town, and that all might be well with the ohildren, provided it did not come down in water, or in deep woods. In the event of its descending in a favorable spot, there was but one danger to be appre? hended; he thought that the elder child might step out, leaving the younger in the balloon. Then, it might again rise, and continuo its voyage. ..Ab. v??V' replied the mother, "Jennio would never stir from the car, without Johnnie in her arms!" Tho balloon passed directly over the town, and the children, seeing many people in tho streets, stretched out their bundi- and cried loudly for help. But the villagers, though they saw tho bright little heads, heard no call. Amazed at tho strange apparition, they might almost have thought tho translated little creatures small angel navigators on some voyage of discovery, somo little che? rubic venture of their own, as, heading toward the rosy cloud-lands aud purplo islands of sun-sot splendor, they sailed deeper and deeper into tho West and faded away. Some company they had, poor little sky waifs! Something comforted them, and allayed their wild terrors-something whis? pered them that below tho night aud clouds was home; that above was God; that where ever they might drift or clash, living or dead, they would still be in His domain and under His care-that though borne away among tho stars, they could not bo lost, for His lovo would follow them. When the sunlight all went away, and thc great comet came bluziug out, little rf chun ic was apprehensive that tho comet mighl como too near their airy craft, nnd sol it on fire with a whisk of its dreadful tail. But when Iiis sister assured him that tho liory dragon was "as much us tweutj miles awuy," and that God wouldn't let bia hurt thom, ho was tranquilized, but soot afterward said, "I wish bo would como t little nearer, so I could warm myself-l'a so cold." Then Jcunio took oil' her apron, ant wrapped it about the child, saying tenderly "Thia is all sister has to make you warm darling, but she'll hug you close in bei arms, and we will say our prayers, aud yoi shall go to sleep." "Why, how can I say my prayers before' huve my supper?" asked little johnnie. "Sister hasn't any supper for you, or fo herself, but wo must pray all tho harder, solemnly responded Jennie. So tho two baby-wanderers, alone in th wide heavens, unawed by darkness, immeu sity and silence, by the presence of tho groa comet and tho millions of unpitying stars lifted their little clasped hands, nnd sot.be out their sorrowful "Our Father," and th?* that quaint little supplementary prayer: Now I lay mo down to a'.cop. I pray tho Lord my aoul to keep, If I .".binilil dio before I wake, I pray tho Lord my soul to take. "There! God heard that, easy; for-wo ai closo to Him, up here," said iunoceut littl Johnuie. Doubtless, Divine Love stooped to tl little ones, and folded them in perfect peat -for soon tho younger, sitting on the bo tom of the car, with his head leaning again: his sister's knee, slept as soundly as thou? he were lying in his own little bod at homi while the elder watched quietly through tl long, long hours, and the car floated gent! on in tho still night air, till it began to swi and rock on tho fresh morning wind. Who can divino that simple little child thoughts, speculations and wild imagining while watching through those hours? Si may bavo feared coming in collision with meteor-for many were abroad that nigh scouts and heralds of tho great comet-o perhaps, being cast away on somo deso?a star island, or, more dreary still, floutii and floating on, night and day, till th< mould both dio of cold and hunger. Poi babes in tho clouds! At length, a happy chance, or Provident -wo will say Providence-guided the litt girl's wandering bund to a cord connect? with tho valve, something told her to pi it. At once tho balloon began to sin dowly and gently, ns though let down 1 tender 1 ands; or as though somo celesti pilot guided it. through tho wild currents tir, not letting it drop into lake or river, lof wood, or impenetrable swamp, where tl itrango uuchile-like experience might ha ueeu closed by n death of unspeakable hr ror; but causing it to descend as softly af jird alights, on a spot where human cu md pity availed it. Tho sun had not yet risen, but tho mor ng twilight had come, when the little g looking over the edgo of tho car, saw t lear old earth coming near-"rising town them," she said. But when tho car ste ped, to her great disappointment, it was i iU tho ground, bul caught fual in tuo it most branches of a tree. Yet BIIO saw th were near a houso whence help might so <omc, BO she awakened her brother and t< [lim tho good nows, and together th watched aud waited for deliverance, huggi such other for joy and for warmth; for tL were very cold. Farmer Burton, who lived in a lon lionse on the edgo of his own privi prairie, was a famous sleeper in general, 1 m this particular morning ho awoke bef< the dawn, and, thongh ho turned o burned nfain, he could Bleep no moro. I lt last, ho said to his good wife, whom liad kindly awakened to inform beroi unaccountable insomnolonce, "It's no ti ['ll just get up and dress, and havo a lc a tu . comet." Tho next that worthy woman heard fr tier wakeful spouse, was a frightened si mous to tho outer door. It seems, that sooner did he step forth from his hoi than his eyes fell on a strange, port?n tous shape, hanging in a large pear-tree, about j twenty yards distant. He could see in it no likeness to anything earthly, and he half fancied it might be the comet, who, having put oat his light, bad come down there to perch. In his fright and perplexity, bo did what every wiso man would do. in a like ex? tremity; ho called on bis valiant wife. Re? inforced by her, he drew near tho tree, cautiously reconnoitering. Surely, never pear-tree bore such fruit! Suddenly there descended from the thing a plaintive, trembling little voice, ,fPleaso take us down. We are very cold!" Then a second little voice, "And hungry, too. Please tuke ns down!" "Why, who ure you? Aud where are yon?" The first littlo voice said: "We are Mr. Harwood's little boy und girl, and wo nre lost in a balloon." Tho second littlo voice said: "It's us, and wo run nod away with a balloon. Pleuse tuke us down." Dimly comprehending tho situation, tho farmer getting hold of a dangling rope, succeeded in pulling down tho balloon. He first lifted out little Johnnie, who ran rapidly a few yards towards tho house, then turned round, and stood for a fow moments, curiously surveying tho balloon. Thc faith? ful littlo sister was so chilled and exhausted that she bad to be carried into the house, where, trembling and sobbing, she told her wonderful story. Before sun-rise, a mounted messenger was despatched lo the Harwood home, with glad tidings of great joy. He reached it in the afternoon, and a few hours later the chil? dren themselves arrived, in state, with ban? ners and music, and conveyed in a covered bay-wagon and four. Joy-bells were rung in tho neighboring town, and in tho farmer's brown house the happiest family ou the continent thanked God that night. It would seem that this comet bad some occult maddening influence ou balloons, for during its appearance there occurred in another Western State an involuntary aseen sion, similar to the one I have related; but moro tragical in its termination. Au aeronaut while, if I remember rightly, repairing the net-work of bis balloon, was scated on a slight wooden cross-piece, sus pended under it; the car having been re moved, und tho balloon being held in its position, a few feet from the ground, by merely a rope in tho hand of au assistant From a too careless grasp, this rope escaped, and in an instant the gigantic bubble shot upward, carrying tho lerounut on his frail support; a rider more helpless than Ma? zeppa bound to his Ukraine steed; a voyager moro hopeless than a ship-wrecked sailor afloat on a spar in mid-oceau. The balloon rose rapidly, but unsteadily, swaying and pitching in the'evening wind As long os it remained in sight, tho form of theierouaut could bo distiugushed, swing? ing beneath it. And, as ho was known to be a man of uncommon nerve and presence of mind, it was boped that even from bis dizzy perch, he might manage to operate on the valve, or nt least to puncture a small hole iu the balloon, and thus effect a descent. But such efforts, if he made any, were vain, as, for many days and nights, there was anxious inquiry aud patient search over a wide extent of country, with no result. We gave him up. Only wifely love hoped on, and looked and waited. At last, in a wild spot, the wreck of the balloon was found, aud that was all. Still, wifely love hoped on, until, a month or two later, some children nutting in a wood many miles nway from where the balloon was found, discovered, half-buried in tho ground, a strange dark mass, that looked like a heap of old clothes, but there was something shapeless and fearful holding it together. It is thought that the aeronaut parted com? pany from bis balloon by loosening his bold on the cords above him, in desperate efforts to open the valve; but ho may, after whirling in swift vortices, or plunging and mounting through cloudy abysses of air, bavo become unnerved by the awful silence, of tho upper night, by tho comet's fearful companionship, by whelming immensity and infinity, and wearily let go his hold, to drop earthward. Wanted to Rent. APLANTATION, with a Residoncc on it. Ono within twenty milos ot" Columbia preferred. Adilresa box -li?. Columbi* Post Office. Jun 1 NOTICE. i y^y"^-^ * THE members of tho Legisla Ajl^tmm-aC2 ture, and all persons visiting Co JBrK?PF?jt. billilli a for thc two ii i ( ? 11111 M of Jaiill T-,^^bKCr ir;- and February, will rind mo a HuT?Li nEKi'EU, at tho sumo st?nd, corner of Assembly and Gervais streets. RATES.-$2 00 per Day, 50 cents per Meal or Lodging; for Members of tho Legislature, two in a room, itt) Ol) per week, each; one in a room, $12 01) a weeli, with Fires anil Lights furnished. Jan 1 2? A. M. HUNT. yate. THE MISSES MARTIN ,.dy?<-W11.1, resume th" exercises of their School on Moymv Jannary 4 ISf.O. ??80^ Jun l 2 School Notice. AfmWl THE duties of mv Behool will bo ?fflJ?te resumed on tho FIRST MONDAY in ^lyjljj^'iJanuary. School room next to new jj^pF ?tate Capitol. 8. G. HUNTT. MRS. CORDES WILL resume her SCHOOL MON? DAY, January 4. Pupils received on tlc I'cabody Fund. Lessons given in Miibic, French, ' Latin, Drawing, Painting, Embroidery and Writing, either separately or ia tim KChool._ _ Jan 1 ll! COLUMBIA HALE ACADEMY. CLASSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL. -Tho o xorcises of th is School viii bo resumed on MONDAY. Janua? ry 4. Tho courso of study includes Latin, Oreek, French, Mathematics and tho English branches. Tho Latin ami Oreok classics will be taught, as heretofore, by Jas. Wood Davidson, A. M. Jan 1 !. HUGH 8. THOMPSON, Principal. Auotion Sales. United States Internal Bevenne, COIXKCTOB'H OFFICK, THIRD DISTRICT, 8. C., COLUMBIA, December 31,1868. ON 11TH day of JANUARY, 180;), at 10 A. M., I will sell, Three Damaged STILLS-one large and two amati-gold for violation of Internal Heve nuo Laws. lt. M. WALLACE, _ Jan If ^?P'J'0!: 3d Dist. H. C. SHERIFF'S SALE. BY virtue of a writ of fieri facias to nie dir? cted, iaauing out of the Court of Common Pleas, for Lexington District. I will bell, on the FIRbT MONDAY in Jauuary next, at Li kingura Court lionne, the following properly, vi/.: Two Tracta of LAND, the same being and lying in Lexington County, on Congareo Uiver, Tract No. 1 containing 396 acres, more or lesB, and bounded by Tom's Creek, Bdwar ! Geiger, Conga roo Uiver, and others. Traet No. 2, containing 577 acres, moro or less, and bounded by Congareo River, Jacob Geiger, John J. bawls, KinslerDavia, and others; levied on as tho property of John H. Threewits, in the suit of J. fl. I.urriek vs. John IL Threowits. CONDITIONS OK SALK - One-bolt eash. and tho balance on a credit of one year, with interest from day of salo-purchaser giving bond, with two approved personal sureties, and a mortgage of the promises, to secure the payment of the pur? chase monev. Purchaser tu pay for papera and stamps. " S. 31. ROOF, H. L. C. SHERIFF'S OFFICE, LEXINGTON C. H., December 29. 1868._Jan 1 Desirable Building Lui. BY D. C. PE1X0TT0 & S0?J. ON MONDAY next, 4th day of January. iSi!9, at 10 o'clock, we will sell, in front of tho Com t louse. All that lot or parcel id LAND, situate.! in thu city of Columbia, bounded as follows: East by Humtor street, fronting thereon 53 foot G indios; Wost by Susan Hernandez's lot, having the same width as on Sumter street, (5K feet and C inches:) North by Mrs. Gill'? lol, South by lotof John Oliver. Terms at sale. Purchaser td pay for papers and stamps. Doe 31 * Desirable Building I*ot. BY JACOB LEVIN. ON MONDAY MORNING next, at half-punt 10 o'clock, at the Court lluiwc, I will sell. That pleasantly sitimto.l LOI', on Sumter street, fronting tho same 62 feet 0 inches, more or lees? running back 208 feet; bouutled on the North by brennan A. Carroll's Carriage Warehouse, and on tho South by cottage belonging to Joseph Taylor. Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for paptr -* and stamps. Kale positivo. Dec 80 Kslafe Sale of Household Furniture, <to. BY JACOB LEVIN. DY permission of W.H. Wigg, Esq , Judge of Pro bato for Richland County, I will sell, at my auc? tion room, ou TUESDA Y,5th January, 10 o'clock, All tho Household and Kitchen FURNITURE, consisting of general and larg? variety, belonging; to estato of tho late James S. Guignard, desease?? Sui:' positive, without any reserve. Dec 20 Business Stand. BY D. C. PE1X0TT0 & SON. WE will soil, on tho first MONDAY in January, in front of the Court House, at 10 o'clock. All that lot and parcel of LAND, situated, being and lying in tho city of Columbia, on the Wost ?ice of Richardson struct, bot ween Upper and Lumber streets; bounded Eait by Richardson street, and fronting thereon fifty feet, more or less; South by lot of tile oatate of G. ii. N rn nu maker ; Weat by lut of the estate of J. D. Kennedy, and North by lot of tho same. Upon tho premises then: is a brick Store, with four rooms and out-buildings. Terms at sale._Dec 23 f Desirable Collage. BY D. C. PEIX0TT0 & SON. WE will sell, on tho first MONDAY in January, at publie auction, front of Court House, 10 o'clock, All that certain lot, piece and parce lof LAND, situated, lying and being in the city of Columbia, with tho Cottage thereon; bounded on tho North and Wost by lots owned by Dr. F. W. Grcon, ou tho East by lots of Henry Davis, on tho Smith by Medium street-measuring on said Medium street 52 feet by 108, more ur less. Conditions at salo. Dec 23 f SHERIFF'S SALE. BY virtue of a writ of fieri facias to mc directed, I will sell, on tho ?rst MONDAY and TU EB? DA Y in January noxt, iu front of the Court Houao in Columbia, within tho loga! hours, fiho ollowiug property, viz: All tho right, title ami interest of the defendant in 830 acres of LAND in Richland County, bounded bylands of James U. Adams, G. lt. Williams, catato of Bynum, John Bates and Daniel Zeiglor. ALSO, 1 25 horse-power Engine, 1 Mulay baw, 1 Spoke Machine, 1 Grist Mill. 3 Grind-stones, 1 lot Tools, 1 lot Blacksmith's Tools, 1 Corn Shell?r, 1 Table. 1 Safe, 1 Spinning Machine, and 1 luf Spokes and Hubs, levied on as tho property of Wm. ll. Elkins, at tho suit of D. B. DcSaussure, Commissioner in Equity, et al, vs. Wm. B. Elkins. Terms cash. Tho above personal property will bo sold on Tuesday, after tho lir.-t Monday in January, on the abovo described traut of land. Dec 13 t_ P. F. FRA ZEE. S. E. O. Assignee's Sale D. C. PEIXO'ITO A SON, AUCTIONEERS. />? rc Peter W. Kraft, of Columbia, Bankrupt. BY virtuo of an order of Hon. George ?. Bryan, Jiulgo of thc United States District Court, for t ho District of South Carolina, 1 will sell, on TUEP-? DAY MORNING, January 5, 1868, at 10 o'clock, at store of D. C. Peixotto ? Son, about 500 Bunhols Prime CORN; tho property of Bankin pt Estato of said P. W. Kraft. Terms cash. Dec 27 5 THOMAS .1 LAMOTTE. Assignee. Richland County, South Carolina, D KC BUBER 28, 1868. BY permission of W. H. Wigg, Esq , J migo of tho Probate Court of Richland County. 1 will sell, on tho 13th day of JANUAKY, 1869, all tho personal propertv of tho estate of James C. Bates, deceased, at his lato residence on the Congareo River, eleven milis below Columbia, consisting of: MULES, CATTLE, HOGS, Wagons, Harness, Corn, Fodder, Household and Kitchen Furniture, Farming Implements and numerous other arti? cles. Salo to commence at 10 o'clock A. M. Terms cash. W. M. BECK II A M, DPC go Administrator. Purifies the Blood. For sute by ?rugirim? I'.vcry-wlaere* ARTIFICIAL TEETH. DRS. REYNOLDS A REYNOLDS aro preparad to furnish A UTI FI CAL TEETH on a larger scale than here? tofore, and at rates much below the usual charges. Their recent improvement, lately patented, con? stitutes tho highest order of art in this speciality, and is fully warranted. Dentnrtxi constructed by this process possess many aibantagoa over gold plato work, and can bo supplied at about balf the cost of tho latter. An examination of specimens, especially by thoso haviiiK ex/>?ri<nceiu such mattora, ia respect full v invited. Ordinary VULCANITE RUBBER BETS $25 The8f.mo,Btreng?Venedby gold banda, 185. Terms cash. April 30*