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COLUMBIA, S. C. Saturday Moram?, June 86. 1869. Hitter jr of M CoMamnali Scoundrel. The Augusta Constitutionalist gives the following history of one Andrew J. Rogers, who has been arrested in Provi ttonce, R. I., on a charge o? fraud: The notorious individual alluded to ?rae never a Colonel in the Confed?rate serrioe. He enlisted as a private in Com? pany G, Third Georgia Regiment, in this city, under the name cf Andrew J. Livingston, in the Bpring of 1861, and went to Norfolk, Va., in that regiment. Shortly after reaching Virginia, he de? serted, and in attempting to make his way back to Georgia, was arrested by General (then Colonel) Daniel, who, with his regiment, was at the time sta? tioned at Suffolk. He was tried for de? sertion, convicted, and sentenced to be shot; but, by some unaccountable acci? dent, the proceedings and decision of the oourt was lost or mislaid in Rich? mond, and Rogers alias Livingston was kept in close confinement until the spring of 1862, when he was, by direc? tion of the Secretary of War, drummed ont of the service. After the battles around Richmond, when Lee's army had gone on its march into Maryland, Rogers, by some sort of rascality, procured a Captaiu's commis? sion, and raised a small company of ca? valry for service on tho York and lower James Rivers, and around Richmond. This command soon became a terror to jill good people on account of their rob? beries and other lawlers acta committed on the people. Rogers kept his head? quarters and an office in Richmond, where he also carried on the substituto business. With a half dozen worthless scoundrels in his omploymcut, he was constantly furnishing substitutes, who would serve a day or two, desert, return to Rogers, offer themselves nguiu, and again, after pocketing the money, desert. This business Rogers and his band of thieves kept up until tho full of Rich? mond, when he retired with an escort of thirty or forty mounted men and a wagon train large enough for nu nrmy corps. This train of wagons, ambu? lances and teams was taken from him by the writer of this notice, by direction of General Breckinridge, then Secretary of War, on the 14th or 15th of April, 1865, at Greensboro, N. C. The next we hear of Rogers, ho had gone on to New York in tho latter part of the summer of 1865, tuking with him forged railroad receipts for a largo num? ber of bales of cotton along the lino of the Gulf Railroad, below Doctor Town. Arrived with these bogus receipts, he plunged into Wall street, whero he soon sold a Iorgo amount of the cotton which be pretended to have receipts for, und transferred the latter to tho several pur? chasers. Getting the money in his pos? session, be returned to Savannah, accom? panied by an agent of the parties to whom he had sold the cotton, and to whom ho was to maka the deliveries. A steamer was duly chartered in Sa? vannah to go round to Darien and thence up the river to Dootor Town, whore tho cotton was to be bronght up by rail and shipped to Savannah. Everything was got ready for tho trip a number of invited guests were on board to enjoy tho excursion-the cham? pagne and ice and segars were duly stored-tho ship's stores all on board, when Rogers, just as tho boat was about to out loose from tho wharf, suddenly ascertained that he had left nome im? portant papers at the hotel. He would not detain the boat, it could go on, and he, with his 2-40 horse and fino buggy, would out across the neck and intercept the boat at Thunderbolt, only four miles by laud, while it was distant by water some sixteen or eighteen miles. Tho boat left and so did Rogers. When the steamer reached Thunderbolt, Rogers was not there. They waited a couple of hours, and then concluded that Rogers might have been delayed longer than he anticipated, and that ho would go on across the country and meet the party nt Doctor Town. Thither tho boat started, but from that day to this, Rogers hus not been found. It is needless to say that no cotton was procured on that trip. AN IMMENSE PEACH ORCHARD.-A cor? respondent of tho New York Exjn-ess writes from a village called Ridgeway, midway between Wilmington and Wel? don, N. C., and gives the following de? scription of nu immeuse peach orchard: But the great feature of the picture is a peach orchard of 250,000 trees, occu? pying 2,500 acres of land. An iden of its magnitude may perhaps bo better shown by the statement that if tho acres were in a row, they would extend to the distance of 100 miles, and that if the trees themselves wore in a row would extend to the distance of 1,000 miles. In the season for gathering, at only one basket per tree per day, there must be on tho ground every day a supply of 250,000 baskets. As tho penches pulled to-day are to be in New York to-morrow -for this can be-it is easy to conceive the army of gatherers necessary to fill the baskets and place them upon the cars. An enterprise suoh as this requires no small capital and energy. It is in capa? ble hands and will probably bc a success. The parties have secured, I am informed, a contract for transportation for twenty years. THE NEW CABLE.-Tho work of laying the submarino cabio from France to America hos been commenced. The shore end is already submerged. The Great Eastern was expected nt Brest on Friday, and immediately after her arri? val tho splico of tho wiro will bo com? pleted, and the work of "pitying out" sommonced, the vessel steering for tho Island of St. Pierro Miquelon. To criticise a newspaper is an easy tn9k, but to print one to pienso every? body is n difficult undertaking. Trxatton. MB. EDITOR: My attention bas baon directed to the ninety-seventh section of "An Act providing for the assessment and taxation of property," passed by the assemblage of negroes, carpet-baggers and scalawags, denominated tho Legisla? ture of South Carolina, who were con? vened in extra session in this goodly city, in the month of July last, for the ostensible purpose of enacting a code ot laws for the government of our beloved old commonwealth, bnt for the real pur? pose of devising ways and means by which to plunder and rob the peoplo of the State, I will not say for the purpose of enriching themselves, for such a pro? fligate set of land pirates could not be permanently enriched, but I will say for the pnrpose of enabling themselves to live in profligate splendor off the bard earnings of the already impoverished aud dowu-troddon peoplo aforesaid. Herc is the section alluded to: "When the taxes and assessments charged against any party or property on the du? plicate shall not be paid on or before tho 1st day of March, after the assessment thereof, or when the remainder of Buch tuxes and assessments shall not bo paid on or before the 20th day of May next thereafter, together with twenty por cont, penalty on such remaining unpaid, tho County Treasurer shall proceed to collect the .same, by distress or other? wise, as may at tho time proscribed by law, together with a penalty of ?ve por cont, on theamount so delinquent, which penalty shall be for the use of the Trea? surer, as a compensation for making such collection." There, is not that both lucid and lu? minous? Clear as "mud and the Missis? sippi River," to uso nn elegant, if uot eloquent, Pompey-Smash-isui. Yea, may I not safely say, clear ns a carpet-bag? ger's or a scalawag's conceptiou of truth, honesty and justice. Not being a Yankee, and boneo not belonging to tho original guessing tribe, and having, moreover, never enjoyed tho blessings inseparable from the free .school system of Yankeedom, I may possibly bo pardoned for trespassing upon Yankee territory uni! endeavoring to guess out what tho framers of the above section designed for ns, the tax? payers, to understand as thoir menning, and attempting to express it in langnugo t'vat will bo intelligible to others who may bo ns illiterate as myself. Hero, then, is tho meaning, as nearly as I can guess it out, without tho aid of au in? structor: Should tho taxes assessed, on the duplicate, against any party or property remain unpaid on the 1st day of March next ensuing after such assess? ment, it shall be tho duty of tho County Treasurer to levy an additional tux of twonty per cent, on the amount of snob assessment, as a penalty for non-pay? ment; and should the original assessment and the additional amouut thus levied remain unpaid on the 20th day of May next ensuing thereafter, the County Treasurer shall proceed to collect the same, by distress or otherwise, as may bo at the time prescribed by law, to? gether with a penalty of five per cent, on the amount so delinquent, which penalty shall be for the use of the Trea? surer, as a compensation for making such collection. If this bo not tho true menning of the enigmatical section in question, will some of the wooly-headed fraternity, or some of their carpet-bag allies deign to enlighten us. TAX-PAYER. Thc Cuban patriots, we are told, have been doubly blessed this sommer. They prayed for the appearance of yellow fe? ver to thin the Spanish rauks, and have not only received that, bat tho cholera in addition. A correspondent of the New York Times says: "The cholera has broken out with incredible force among the troops at Nuevitas and other points ou the coast, and is already marching with fearful strides toward tho interior. The Havana journals keep this fact se? cret. At a meeting of the Board of Health yesterday (June 13) it was re? solved to allow tho steamers Triunfo and Pajaro to land their passengers and freight, without subjecting them to qua? rantine, or even to fumigation; but it was resolved to fumigate all vessels ar? riving after dato. To give you an idea of tho strength of tho cholera, I merely cito two instances. Seven Cubans cap? tured a Spanish lieutenant and ten men, who lind gone on a hunting expedition near Nuevitas. and were leading thom to an insurgent encampment. They rested during the night near Altamisa!. In the morning, only one Spanish soldier was alive, tho other ten having died during the night. The second case is that of the family of a Spanish officer in Nuevi? tas; his wife, two children and servant died within threo hours. Tho Cubuns were not wrong when they relied on the yellow fever to thin tho ranks of the Spa? niards; but they did not calculate that cholera would also make its appearance. The Spaniards lose fearfully, but it is equally certain that tho mortality among I the Cubans is very great, although it is I impossible to obtain reliable figures." REVENUE SEIZORS OF ACCOUNT BOOKS. Supervisor Perry, of the District of North and South Carolina, sometime ago seized the books of the North Caro? lina Railroad Company, for the purpose of obtaining information concerning shipments of merchandize. The com? pany resisted tho seizure; but the Super? visor procured an attachment and got possession of the books. Tho case was triud io Raleigh reoently, before the United States Circuit Court, which de? cided in favor of tho Supervisor. It follows, therefore, that a reveuuo officer ' has a right to soizo and examine books of shipment of goods subject to iuterual reveuuo tax. That is, he will have this right until some other j nd go roverses this decision. Sure waj to turn peoples' heads-Go i lato to church. Fowr Hundred CIcrki Dlsotaau-ged freut tu? Wu DiBMtmiai. A Washington despatch to the New York TlV/rfaaye: I telegraphed you some tim? ago that a li?t of clerks doomed for the official guillotine had been made ont by (he War Department authorities, and that at no distant day, the victims wonld be sen? tenced to execution. To-day, tho death warrant was publicly announced, or at least its existence became known, and the number was so great as to startle even the mont apprehensive among the shakers and quakers. Think of over four hundred clerks, at one dash of the pen, deprived of their cosy little bertha. That is the number. It is the largeat batch nt one sweep ever doomed, per? haps, nuder any administration. Secre? tary Rawlins, it seems, decided upon the step before leaving for Connecticut, and seme of the to-be-removed officials de? clare that he delayed the promulgation of tho order purposoly until after his de? parture, so that he might be spared the appeals for re-instatemeut that would naturally follow. Rawlins is a tender? hearted mao, and could very poorly en? dure such entreaties. He would be sure to broak down and cave in, if compelled to meet the storm uf complaints and prayers that wonld bo directed at him, consequently, he did well to retreat to the repose of the Nut? meg State, and leave his subordinates to meet the moans and sighs and impreca? tions. News of tho affair leaked out sometime this morning through a clerk who scoured a private perusal of the order, ?and it may bo imagined that there was soon u big sensation all over tho dingy old War Office. Clerks were noticed whispering to each other, at first very quietly and mysteriously, then more loudly, then they were observed dropping out in groups into the corridors of the building, and even iuto the streets, to discuss the terrible mandate from the martial Tycoon. Many faces that were yesterday happy looking and smiling were suddenly clouded with gloom and sorrow. Io such cases, thor1) ure always soino who will talk cheerfully. "Well, my dear Jim, my trunks are packed anyhow. No use cryiug, yon know. Laugh and cheer up, old fel? low." "AU very well for you to talk, Joe; 3'ou haven't any family, but I have." "PshawI I don't believe th? thing can be carried ont; why, tho War Depart? ment might as well be closed up ut once. If that order is really executed, there won't bo enough left to do the busi? ness." "Rawlins will suspend tho execution, you may be sure. He cau't beso foolish as to insist upon such au outrageous pro? ceeding." "It is not Rawlins' work at all. It's the work of that d-d Army of the Re? public. John A. Logan aud Jim Thayer are at the bottom of it. I suspected they were at some devilish trick when I saw them hanging about here so much lately." I "That's why Rawlins went away, too. Ile was forced in thc step, and then was afraid to face the music." In such ways did the olerks talk over the matter among themselves. Their customary resorts for liquids and solid refreshments were deserted, and at least two noted beer establishments in the vi? cinity of the war office bad good reason to bewail tho unpopular order. The stamps were rarities iu those establish? ments. Tho order is said to be substan? tially as follows: "Ordered, That the general service and temporary clerks, and all other clerks employed in this department and not au? thorized by law, be discharged from and after July 15, 1869, and that the same be furloughed for thirty days, commencing June 15, 1869." The effect of this order ia to reduce the foroe of the Adjutant-General's office from 200 to about 65, and all the other bureaus in about a corresponding style. From the Quartermaster-General's office 83 will depart; another office will be cut down from 140 to exactly one clerk; still another, haviug 175 clerks, will be clean? ed out completely-head, tail and body. The pay department will suffer with the rest. Among the dismissed undoubtedly will be a great proportion of very effi? cient men, who h ive not only fought, bled, and become mutilated in the war, but who have been true followers and believers in tho most, radical tenets of the Republican doctrine. One-legged and one-armed f ,.diers are not eveu spared. Indeed, it ia said while some of thc un? touched offieials are competent, deserv? ing i:nd reliable men, in every way, still many more of them are old fossils and ancient fogies, who havo done little else for years but draw their pay. One of the to-bo-removed clerks humorously re? marked that nobody would be left except tho antiquated ducks who daily wend their way along a beaten track to and from the War Department, and who, if led off that track but e. few steps, would be sure to lose their way. There are 8e verul explanations of this extraordinary movement given, but none of them offi? cial. One is that ulready mentioned, to wit, that the Grand Army of the Repub lie, of which tho war-like Logan is the big chieftain, occasioned the order, so that by making a general sweep vacan? cies wonld be created, into whioh the tank and file of the Grand Army might easily be conducted. Log m and Senator Thayer are certainly credited with no insignificant influence in procuring the order. LEAJIN A TRADE.-Of 13,496 prisoners in the penitentiaries of thirty States, in 1867, according to the report of the Prison Association just issued, 87 per cent., moro than three-quarters, had not learned a trade. This furnishes a text, from which a most wholesome sermon can bo preached. Indians mado an unsuccessful attack on a surveying party on tho Kansas Pa cilic Railroad on Saturday. On tho Up? per Missouri, tho Sioux and Rees have met in baltic INVKBTIO ATINO COMMITTSE.-A COm mitt* appointed st the laat session of tho Legisla turo to investigate all matter* pertaining to the Congressional election ot last fall, consisting of J. J. Wright, Robert Small, R. B. Elliott, (colored,) with Javan Bryant, George J. Mclntire, Joseph Crews, (white;) W. J. Elter, (colored,) being clerk, and J. A. Crews, (white,) being messsonger, are now io session in tho Court Honse of this Dis? trict-and from intimations given will likely be a month, at least, in session here. A number of oar publie officers Messrs. McDonald, Gason and Hill, aud also Messrs. Jones, Lawson and others have been already examined. Tho exa? mination is entirely private, and the in? vestigation covers, we learn, a very wide field, and is conducted according to no strict judicial roles. The committee is partisan in character, aud partisan in its objects, and we have nothing to expect from thom. To make capital for the party-and capital for themselves, (at the rate of six dollars a day,) aro primary controlling objects.-Abbeville Prcas. "WHTTK."-Never before did the Rich? mond papers put forth so many inquiries | for white house-servants-chambermaids, cooks, Ac. Why io this? We havo been need to the colored servants-our people have no prejudices against them-have always been kind to them-understand their mauner of work and their disposi? tions-and can get nlong with them remarkably well. Then, what's the mat? ter? We'll tell you : This city bas been kept in turmoil for ' four solid years with every sort of sign j and clamor of negro combination and preparation in hostility to white people For that is it! a hostility which seeks to ' take away from whites all right to hold au office of trust and profit in the Go- ' vern mont, and to make them tax-payers only, while tho negroes uud tue few whites whose counsels they follow shall hold all the offices, aud divide the spoils ncoumnlated ont of the taxes paid by the . ostracised whites. This isa hostility so serious and so in- : jurions that it could hardly bo more ab? horrent if it threatened lifo itself. The assailants aro obtrusive and clamorous. Their barbarous shouts penetrate every dwelling, and disgust or alarm every white person in the city. This is engendering aversion to the colored people-a disposition to employ whites with many people. It is gradu? ally widening tho breach betweeu the races, and it is no wonder. Tho blacks aro to blame. What doos their war on their ovru white people pro? fit them? Wbnt will the plundering ad venturers who mislead them do for them? j What will compensate them for the ! wanton sacrifice of tho ki:id and gentle ; relations which existed obtween them and tho native whites of Virgiu: . who | own tho land aud control tho employ- ! ment of tho labor in Virginia? Their war is outrageously m.just and brutal, and BO far from being necessary to their security and happiness, must work in? juriously to tho prosperity, order and contentment of the community; and they cannot bo happy or thrifty unless the whole people aro harmonious and pros? perous.-Richmond Dispatch. NKW YORK FASHIONS.-A New York letter gives the following fashion hints: "Dotted dresses aro fashionable, but the dots must bo quite fine, and in black or stone color ou a white ground, and tho trimming is many narrow folds of dark silk with a wide space between, and one small bow without ends. "Cambric wrappers of the fino thread cross bars, now fancied in lilac, sea green und bright colors, are sold ready-made for six dollars at one of tho large houses here. They aro loose, gored shape, flounced, with rnftle up the front seams and over tho shoulder; the material at retail is forty cents a yard, and tho work well done. "Dresses of white, striped with black in floe lines an inch apart, and trimmed with the samo, are much worn for a change, over black petticoats, with a sin? gle deep flounce. A light yet striking toilet for one so cheap is of black and white solid stripes, in thin worsted ma? terial, worth fifty cents a yard. The gored underskirt is trimmed with two puffs of black silk, the lowor ono three inches from the edge. "Speaking of linen suits, tho newest are trimmed with two grudnated quilled flounces bound in brown, with two quill? ed ruches of the same, three inches wide above the flounces, with rather a wide interval. The basque is square iu the neck, with quillings, the sleeve wide with quilling at tho wrist, tho sash of brown silk or linen simply bound with braid. The grey linen is worn almost as much as buff, and is preferred becanse it is purer material. Linen suits ready made are 810 to SIG. "Rough straw hats aro the latest fancy for young ladies, and nothing sets off a simple toilet with nn air like one of them, with wide band and long floating euds of black ribbou, with Roman bar at tho end. To be fashionable, one must not look for a refined rongh straw, nn English, Milan or pedal braid, bnt choose a genuine, smooth, coarse braid, with none of tho corners split in weaving, which give a piiokly effect; biud the brim with black ribbon, fold the same for a band, cross and pin it behind, leaving onds three quarters of a yard long. Tho Roman bar is imitated by sewing a fold of gay striped satin ribbon across tho ond of the streamers. Hats for bloudes arc bound and trimmed in bright blue, without tho scarlet bar; but black is best, for it snits any dress that can bo worn with it. These hats arc especially suita? ble to wear with linen or piquo suits. They uro rather expensive pieces of sim? plicity, for ono trimmed by n French hand costs from $10 to %U." Ono of tho recent "notions" in Chica' go is a wbito hearse, which is described as "attractive, not to say inviting." lt? xm m m TUB COURT OF COMMON PLBA? AND G B?TER Ai SESSIONS.- After oearly three weeks sitting, Judge Boozer has ad? journed his court-the only business ac? complished being a partial clearing of tho criminal docket; that relating to the Common Pleas and Equity having never been reached. It is a commentary on the luws under which we live, and the manner in which they are administered, that tho entire term of the court should be absorbed in tho'disposition of cases; involving every grado of crime, to the total exclusion of those in which aro represented tho property and interests of nearly tho entire community. At the preceding term, the business was con? ducted in precisely the samo way, and nuder similar conditions. In breaking laws, as in the framing of them, negro supremacy asserted itself, and Stoibrand and the penitentiary gathered a rich harvest from Judge Boozer's prisoners. Wo feel justified iu expressing our just and righteous indignation at the thorough disregard of the important.in teresls-interests so general, and so pe? culiar-embraced in tho equity aud other divisions of thc court. When it is stated that to so mnuy of our citizen-), widows, orphans and minors, a class of persone specially helpless and dependent upon the action of the court, tho determina? tion of tho equity business was of thc lust consequence, and a result with which their maintenance and support was inti? mately and closely conncctod, thu ab sorb? n g of the entire tenn of the court j does appear a hardship and a cruelty. Judge Boozer, in recognition of this state of things, has consented to hold un extra term in August. That may be a j partial relief, but the unfinished business ! in equity, accumulated by want of a pro- j per tribunal to dispose of them, will pro-1 bably require more time than any judge can well bestow. We want a separate and distinct court to determine cases of j crime; one which has, in its sitting, no ! connection with, or control of, other i business than that of the criminal dock-li et. The experiment lins been tried? throughout tho entire State, nud we; think it iu bounds to say with ono and ! tho samo result, viz: the criminal docket utterly excluded the other branches of tho court. Tit is worthy of note that the ubiqui? tous freedman ?3, in the majority of the cases, tho chief and prominent nctortjAg these little dramas of OBBOU, larcenyfjj burglary; and surely it is not asking too mnch of the State os it now stands, who has conbidered tho negro in every other relation, that it will do so in that of crime, and provide a special judge and court to determine the nature and extent of bis guilt. The valuable time and knowledge of the entire bar has been employed in tho gratuitous conduct of these criminal cases, appointed by the Judge-each aud all, from the veteran counsel to the receut graduate, have courteously and ably responded to the voice of tho court. Even when, hy this unpnid labor, they were debarred from prosecuting legiti? mate causes in which their income and support were nearly related. It is just nnd proper that we should have a special criminal court, and we deem the reasons so cogent that wo feel assured they will be sustained by tho bar aud general opinion throughout tho whole State. The Judge pronounced tho following sentences: Alfred Dawkins, colored. Bobbing a train on the Greenville and Columbia Railroad. Ono year in the Penitentiary. John Dozier, a colored boy twelve years old. Larceny. One week in jail. Henry Scott, colored. Burglary and larceny. Eighteen months in the Peni? tentiary. This prisoner committed one of tho most daring robberies that has ever occurred in our city. George Robertson. Stealing a game chicken. Ono month in tho County jail. Wm. Avery, colored. Assault and battery. Ono month's imprisonment in jail. J. T. Neely ard Chas. Parker. High? way robbery. Two years in tho Peni? tentiary. Giles Pride, Robert Perrin, Jas. Wil? liams John Thomas uud Spencer Hai good, all colored. Ten years in tho Penitentiary. Edward Legare, colored. Malicious trespass. To be imprisoned in tho County jail, or pay 830. B. F. Whittomore, representing tho Second Congressional District in this State, was, nftor an examination by a committee consisting of ex-Judge H?ge. W. Hutson Wigg nod J. H. Rankle, ad? mitted to practico in tho courts of this State. The court thon adjourned until tho third Monday in August, when tho cases in equity will bo heard. A few copies of tho 'Sack and Destrne- j tion of Columbia' can bo obtained at the ! Phoenix office. Price twenty-five couts. 1 ? ? 1 ?? IM ? RAILROAD MKETINU.-A meeting of the officers of Sonthorn railways will be held ia this city, on the 15th of July, to ar? range schedules. MERCANTILE PRINTING.-All kinds of mercantile .printing, such as circulars, letter hoads, cards, bill heads, state? ments, Seo., for counting-rooms and offices, promptly attented to at tho Phoe? nix job office. HOTEL ARRIVALS-Jone 25- Columbia Hotel.-Y. J. P. Owens, Miss A. Smith, Laurens; H. H. Albers, O. M. Sadler, Major J. P. Horbach, W. J. Crosswoll, Ch arica ton; M. Adams, Richland; E, M. Gilbert, Mrs. Boone, Summerville; Jno. P. Matthews, Jr., Winnsboro, Ga.; Hon. B. V. Perry, Wm. Beattie and lady, S. Swandale, Miss M. Swandale, Greenville; J. F. McGrath, J. M. Crain, C. and A. R. R.; J. K. Gnrinauy Sc Sou, Savannah; G. W. Marshall, lady und servant, D. P. Irvine, Florida. National Hotel.-H. H. Geiger, Lex? ington; William Meredith, G. and C. R. R. ; W. B. Briggs, Unionville; R. N. Miller, Wm. Matthews, R. McCrary, H. Mitchell, Barnwell; George W. Collins, Florida; Wm. Revy, Newberry; R. Col? lins, M. M. Fergursou, W. H. Crawford, W. J. McMillin, H. Godbolt, W. D. Du? rant, J. H. Collins, C. H. Wiggins, R. P. Collins, John Wilcox, Marion; R. Mayrant, city. Nickerson House.-C. A. Wittie, Charleston; D. W. A. Hearst, Abbeville; Col. H. P. Hammett, Greenville; J. H. Hammond, Manuing; S. T. Erwin, Darlington ; A. C. Todd, Laurens C. H.; J. H. Wharton, Baltimore, Md.; W. E. McMiohul, Ornngeburg; A. F. Hayward, New York; T. A. Nicholas, Eagle Mills. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.-Attention is called to the following advertisements, published the first time this morning: Meeting of Typographical Union. J. & T. R. Agnew-Hams, Brushes. Oration of Clariosophic Society. Catharine Kniee-Real Estate. W. J. 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