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. ?? ?=* *^WMSCMS?CBaSSka rv rall? AST?irai ' LORDON, January tj.-The,ship Spirit Dawn? from j Liverpool for San Fran . '?< oiaoo, ia wreoked-only ?vo **vod. Sir Franois Groseley, member of Par? liament from Halifax, ia dead.. ' The trials pf hostages for the murdor ers of German soldiers will oommenoe neat week. PABIA, January- 5.-The. Academy of ? Fraves ref asea to accept the.Biahop of Orleans' resignation of membership. AStt??IO?>M lMt?lllC??C?. BOOHBSTKB, January 5.-Howard was takeu secretly to court, and plead guilty; sentenced to twenty years'hard labor; he is now in Aaborn penitentiary. SOBAKTOH, PA., January ?1-2,000 workmen of the Wilkesbarre Coal and rf -, Iron Company atraok; osase reduction of ten per cent, in wages. ' SATA LAXH, Jan nary 5.-The Federal Court ia penniless. Prosecutions will probably be postponed for want of - s money to pay witnesses. MSMPHIB, January 6.-Mayor Johnson has boen re-elected by 800 majority. Naw YORK, January 5.-Too steamers v'; Haas* and Talsposa have small-pox aboard. John 0. Broadhesd, ex-Treaaarer of Bondout, is $100,000 short. Two men have been committed, with? out bail, for outraging n girl twelve years old. The Bussisn fleet is at the dooks in Brooklyn. The small-pox is in Newark (N. J.) jail The Uuion Republican General Com? mittee re-elected Greeley o hair mua. The injanotion restraining Mrs. Mans? field and others from publishing James Fisk's letters, has been continued. J. P. Lindsey, who waa before the Senate Committee, and reluotantly gave evidence, was challenged last night, at ?8 bia hotel. Hi did not know whether * .the challenger waa A custom house of floer. Tbe opponents of tbe present manage? ment of tbe Erie Road bold $40,000,000 ? jj of stock; they require 83,000,000 or ti $4,000,000 more to enable them to 4? ? ehange the control. ' . 5jS The property ot the printing company fi fi was sold under the hammer for 850,000. ' ) J od sra Cardona ?ooepte B? M. Tweed ae ( ?**1! lor his father. .- ' MATAMOBAS, Jaaaary G.-The revolu * tiouary ohief, Val des, Was captured and hang. The juaresites captured the city * ot Pildraa--the negroes- losing twenty fl vc killed; many wounded on both sides. , ^o revolutionists hold Mier. Other wise they have mado no progresa.in tb? 1 ' " Sute'-of T?ana iJipaa. ^Hsiw OBLBANS. January 6A-??sterdsy, in reapouee to the Governor's proclama . tion for the House to meet, a.^uoruuc was secured by the assistance ol lije Ser geaot-at-Arma. It waa declared that thc Chair ww vaca nt, whereupon .Rrewstei :<Vaa elected t?peaker. ,A resolution wai . ; passed ordering the SergeantAfeArmB tc take) charge of the State House, and al - low no one to enter until 12 o'olook to morrow; to wliioh h par tho House ad juuiuuu. Fears of a oonfiiot are iuoreas .... 4og, . ' .'. i<? c v ira a ; SAM FBAHQIHCQ,' January 5.-Thi Fejee Ldandera recently murdered fon Europeans. . . ' WASHINGTON, January 6.--Genera ; ; Krysauo wbki,. formerly - Supervisor o Georgia, baa been arrested - for I allege* '" fraud. Having been called in Macon .-. r. 'Ga?, Erysanowaki had uBsaranoea tba ttl?: ease would be postponed; and ex prestes confidence of his ability to yindi . " cate himself. Ho will have a besting tc ? morrow, oh a habeas oorpus for baiL Probabilities-The barometer will prc bably continue to fall from the. lowe lakes to the 'middle and East Atlantic With increaaed clondinea? on 'Saturday . ,;.! '"ft?*saht. ^ on tb South: Atlantio ooastt -Falling' barome sec ?nd rain Will extend North-east war into Missouri^ Rising barometer, wit ..olear weather, will extend Eastward" int ? , Miohigan. Dangerous winds STO not at .tlcipa,tod for any of our stations.to-uigh RICHMOND, January 5 .-The'Housi ' i voting:88 to 27, overcame the Qove?nor .wet? bf ; the r?solution stopping; tb , . fonding bf the public debt, sud unan monaly authorised the appointment < a ? io^a? .aeaamittee to consider and r . port on the question of the payment < ?ti a. tba debt; The Senate o?n pur red. AUBTON, J?nnary G.-The nogro Hov ard, Who. committed an o u tr age on '"' white girl m Rochester, a few days sino arrived .in this city this morning, ac took bis place in the State Prison, on ?entende Of twenty years. He was vei tl happy to got away, which he exhibit< by patting bia thumb to bis nose ai makiog a fan of his fingers to the orov outside, sa ha went up the stops of tl .main hall.:vri/- '.. ? "'T?A' r BAIAIUOBH, January 6.-B, F. Cate of the Arm of Cato*, Armstrong & & I j dead. - j ; FHIBADHU>HIA, Jan nary 6.- Tho fro ' clads Danu meas, Manhattan, Wyaudotl 'Bango' abd Ajax are now 'fitting out the navy yard-it is supposed for Cub Naw ORLEANS, January 5.-Tbs a proaobes to Mechen i cs' Institute a strongly guarded by the police. Leg lato re, State o ttl eera and reporters OL are admitted. ? At 10 o'clock, a compa of State militia stacked arms immei . . diately in front ol the State Hum When the Legislature assembled, t following telegram was read: *'WASHINGTON, January 5.- Hon. R. West; Governor warmoutn's < spate h of this date to you received. I report of the proceedings of tbe Unii States Marshal is of auch an extraer nary obsraoter, that I will have the m sar investigated at once. Pleaso sh this despatch to the Attorney-General "(Signed) TJ. 8. GRANT.* "Undoubtedly justioe will be speed mated ont to the wrong-doers. 1 catalogue of wrongs bas culminated, G retribution will be speedy, "(digued) J. R WEST.1 Prolonged oheers followed. A ec catitee was appointed to investigate Conduct of the United States Marsha arresting the Governor and Legislate when the extra session adj on rued < ?Us. In regular session, Brewster presidi .. lhere was a stir in the lobby. The Rina wsa expected by many. A s Officer from General Emory appea with a messsge to the Governor that Federal troops would oo-operate in j serving order. The Federals arene arms on the rampart and ic the str ready for soy emergenoy. The Govi or received s note from Carter, indi lng no intention of disturbance. A ter was received from Carter, protest against the illegal extra session, and determination to hold a regular seat of the Legislature outside tbe Oapi The Legislature ordered the Serge et-Ar ms to exolade Carter from tbe pitol. Also, resolved to exclude m bera who?* affidavits caased tho arrest of the Governor and othare. A resolution wUi .b? introduced to? morrow; requesting Besiftto* < Kellogg to. resign. The War mou tbi tea bad fifty members.' Tue Oarterites met in Kuy*! street. Forty-eight members, vere pre? sent The sergeant-at-arms waa sent in sesroh of ' others. The following is among the* resolutions explanatory of the objecta of tbe on io? of Democrats and some Republicans: s i Resolved, That the only abd sole ob?' jeot of said united sotion is to defeat the nefarious schemes of (io v. War mouth, and secure the repeal or amendments already agreed upon by the Democrat? of, first, the election end registration laws: , second, tbe | oonstabuiary bili; third, t?e metropolitan pplioo bill; fourth, the revenue law and toe printing 1?#; - , Tho Federal troops have returned to the Custom house; tbe metropolitans and militia still guard tho Capitol. CHABI?ESTON, January 4.-Arrived Steamship Hes Gall, Baltimore, A singular incident occurred at Lewis? ton, Maine, last week, which may, per? haps, afford physicians a hint respecting the treatment of that , hitherto unman ageble disease, diptheria. A factory girl of that city, while suffering from thu complaint, was attacked with s severe coughing, when the nurse, discovering what seemed to ba a foreign substance in the patient's throat, seized the end of it, and, to her surprise and alarm, pulled out the falso membrane. This act ssvod the sufferer. A ft bys i ola a of that eitj now has the membrane in his possessio u. It is about three inobes in length, Com? pletely preserved, of a .white leathery noba tunee, and is so thick that it retain* the shape of the air passage from which it waa withdrawn. It has before been suggested that diptheria and similar dis? eases might be treated mechanically, and croup haa sometimes yielded to the sur? geon. French ideas of popular liberty are very peculiar; with them a o hange of masters rarely, implies a change of tbe old despotic policy. Thou Thiers, no man was ever moro eloquent in favor ol the freedom of tbat great bulwark of popular liberty-the press, yet we find bia government daily hsccmicg more re? strictive than Napoleon's ever waa. Even now fresh restrictions are contem? plated, and the Minister of the Interior bas openly announced bis intention of "making offeudiug journals speedily feel their effect." Mr. Thiers' ino?n , aistenuy may possibly be diotated by the necessities of tbe times, but it proves that, until recently, bo waa not as wiBe id his own day and generation as he fondly supposed himself to be, The New York journal of Commerce says of flunkeyiem and snobbery that are apparent rn the pr?sence of tbe Bus 1 ?ian Dake, that it all belongs to the New York press, and not to tbe people, and .dds: "If the reports of some, of tbe city papers, whose Jenkinses follow the Grand Duke like poodle dogs every time he walka into the street, and bribe ehamber-maids and footmen to give tbem tbe latest bulletins about his bed, diet and ouange of clothes, were true, then wo are iodeed a set of fawning varlets, and ought to be subjects of an empire; where we could have these de? lightful prinoes to flatter and toady upon for the ress of our lives." PATHXB AND BOH.-The police, yester? day, arrested a yoong man named Bas? com Smith, at the instance of bis father. J. Ii. Smith, wbo lives near Pine Blouse, S. O. The latter olaimed that his son bad stolen a horse from him, and ran off to this place with it. The horse was found in tbe possession of young Smith, but an investigation developed the fad that it had not been stolen. The father, it seems, gave the animal to bis non (who ia about eighteen years of age) some Mme ainco, and the fatter had ridden him to this place to escape from his father, who had threatened to whip him severely for some trivial offence, xoung Smith waa released.-Augusta Constitutionalist. "Green corn" sounds curious at this season, but here is what the Palatka (Pla.) Herald says: "The steamer Ook iawaba arrived here on Monday, the 18th instant, from Salt Lake. She brought nine passengers. What was noteworthy for the season, she bad for market 1,000 ears of green corn from Turkey Greek, Indian uiver." Tho same paper sayB "that the present season has produoed tba largest and most delicious oranges that we have seen for many years. Per? haps the unusual size of this fruit is owing to the fact that the groves lost one-third of their fruit .during the se? vere gales of August, since which time the season baa been most propitious for their development.'' "WOHN ??T WITH Fi au HES."-The su ioide of a olerk in the Bank of New York occurred recently. The name of the de? ceased was Rufus Bipley, aged twenty three. He had been employed for s?ve ral years in the bank aa book-keeper in the gold department. He had suffered at intervals from neuralgia iu the head, which oaused the most intense pain, and at times unfitted him for business. He lefts letter, in whioh be said: "I am worn out with head-aches and figures, and I am going to my long rest. I have made the last posting in the ledger of life, sod now i am going to 'tick off.' Good-bye! God blecs youl" The bank offioers state that the accounts of the de? ceased are oorreot. A suit is now in progress in New York tbat promises to rival tbe celebrated Gaines casa in prolixity, as it certainly does in the distioguiahed character of the parties and the scandalous nature of the revelations that it involves. The struggle is for the estate of Mme. Jumel, once the wife of Aaron Barr, whioh is now worth 82,000,000. The property is in possession of one Ohase, who holds by right of his wife, who claims to be the illegitimate child of Mme. Jamel; and the latest claimant is one Bowen, who represents himself to bethe natural son of that lady, who seems to have rather improved on the example set by ber distinguished hnsband. ?S ? m A Kentucky paper says: Some weeks ago, Miss Connolly, of Boone Oonnly, Kentucky, went to Louisville to obtaiu an outfit for ber approaching marriage, and caught the small-pox from Borne person on the train. Her affianced hus? band took the small-pox from her and died. Miss Connelly's death soon fol? lowed, and four other members of ber family have been added to the list of vic? tims. Tennessee bas an average of twebty eight sores of land for each inhabitant, TUB UNITRD ST???S OOTOBT? FBUDAT, Jan gary 5, 1672.-The court met et \l A. M.? Jadgos Bond And Bryan on the bench. '* Mr. Corbin stated to the ooqrt that, desired to plead guilty to the obarge of conspiracy ander the Ka Kins Act. rimy wt.ro failed In' tue fullowiog order, and made a formal plea 61 g ail ty : Aaron iteell, Monroe - Soruggs, Ajex. Bridges, John Barnett, Wm. B7Barnett, 8tepben D. Splttun, Marion Gardner, Chesterfield Sor ogg?, Henry Sarratt. - A. Kird, Mar? tin Hammett, Lewis Henderson, Wm. Self, Gharlea Tate. Joba B. Tindall, Melvin 0. Blackwell, John L. Moore, John C?n troll. Mr. Corbin roques ted (bat the court pasa judgment on the pri n ?zell waa oahed up and naked what he had to say in extenuation of hia offence. He stated that he had been forced into the order through fear; had been on two raids, and whipped three colored men. Judge Bond sentenced bim to a line of 910 and imprisonment oho year. Judge Bond called all the prisoners ap, and obarged them aa follows: . You bave pleaded guilty to an indict? ment which oharges yon with conspir? ing with other men throughout thia State, to intimidate a oe?Hun o?ase ol voters by means of threats, beating and oven killing, because thal class) of oiti aens were opposed to the conspirators in political opinion. iWe acknowledge great perplexity in Sitermining what punishment shall be eted out to yon. We have no word? strong enough to signify Oar horror at the means "employed to carry oat the parp?se of the klacs. Oar difficulty is personal to yon. . You have, aa it opp oars from your statements to the co art, been brought tip in tho moat deplorable igaoranoe. At the aojo of manhood, but one or two .if yon caa oitber read or write, and you have lived ia a ooajusuuity where the ttvideuoe BOC ma to establish the fact thal toe men ol prominence and education those who, by their superiority in these respects, establish ana . control public opinion-were for the most part partial panta in the conspiracy, or so much ia terror of it that you could obtain frurr. them neither protection nor advice, had yon sought it. . There is abundant proof of the natnn aud obaraoter of the conspiracy. Evi dence of nightly raids by bauds of dis guised men, wbo bnke into the houser of negroes and dragged them from theil bods-parents and children-and, ticing them to tree?; unmercifully beat them is exhibited in every case. Murder anc rape are not unfrequent aooompaui menta, the story of whioh is too inde cent for public mention. The peraom upon whom these atrocities are commit ted are almost always oolored people Whatever exouae ia given for a raid, it ero u elua ion was almost always aocompa nied by a rebuke for the former exorcist of the auftr?ge aud a warning aa to th tature exercise of the right to vote. But what ia quite as appalling to th court UH tho horrible nature of these ol fences, ia the otter absence, on you part, and on the part of others who bav made confession here, of any sense o feeling that you have done auytuiu very wrong in yonr confessed partioipa doa in outrages whioh are unexample* outside of the Indian Territory. Some of your comrades reoite the oil onmstanoes of a brutal, unprovoke murder, done by themselves, with aa lil tie apparent abhorrence aa they wool relate the incidents of a pic-nie; an you, yourselves, speak of the number c blows with a hiokory whioh you iuflio ed, at midnight, upon the laaeratec bleeding back of a defenceless womat without so much as a blush or sigh of ri gret. None of you seam to have tb slightest idea of, or respeot for, the si oredneasof the human person. Some? yon haye yourselves been beaten by tl glans without feeling a smart, but tl physical pain. There appears tobo r. wounding of the spirit; no auch sense < injury to yourself as a mau, aa would t telt by the humblest of your fellow-oil zena in any other part of the Unit? dtates with whioh I am acquainted. There the citizen upon whom sue outrages were perpetrated, stung co ma uess by tho insult to hia manhood, wou be s (rift to follow the wrong-doer to tl end.of the world to make him atone f it. You make exouae for this in yo statement to tho court that you are ve ignorant; that the klans would ba beaten you, and even killed you, had yi refused to join them in their orin? Some of you now partionlarly befe me have actually suffered for your i fasal before you really united in mei bership with them. The court, in endeavor to recognize some features humanity in you, bas considered thc foots whioh you plead aa excuses. Y have grown up in a country wh< slavery exiated fora long time, and wb( the whipping-post waa a standing ins tntion. T? see blacks flagellated was no c usual occurrence. The scene oft viewed, with ita novelty, lost ita revc mg effect. And when it came to understood that the human person v not BO eacred in the oolored mao aa secure immunity from outrage, it < not take it loog to lose its sacred ohar ter in yourselves, and ia all other u who, like the oolored man, was oblif to labor. It must be from this cai that your utter indifference to wroi which, among freemen, would stii fever in the blood of age, arises. And then you tell us that you dil from many other portions of the conn in this, that it has always been obli tory upon you, and the class to wh you belong, to look to persons of wea and eduoation for command, and t you, in your ignorauoe, had to foll such persous implicitly. It will appear strange to your fell countrymen, who r-jad your story i that of your confederates, however v ing they may be to believe you, that large a portion of tbe young white r. of your County can be iu such a stab abject slavery to the men of propt above them, as to be willing to oom murder at their oommand. lu no euee bas there been any ret anea to these mid-night raiders, exe on the part of the colored people, say some of yon "laid out" in the wc night after night, aud have hidden y< selves in thickets to escape these randers. Nono of you, however, 1 had the manliness to defend your sides from the assaults of these lan men. There has not been, on your \ so far aB the evidence shows, an ass and battery committed in defence ol mily and home and all that freemen 1 dear. Admitting all you have said to oourt to be true, while the story of ; condition end of your partioipAtio -." y? - thea? outrages-through fear is painfal enough, tho facto do. not exouse you. They may palliate, in some degree, your offence, bat: they cannot j natif y yon. The po ni ah ment the court award? yon ia partly inflicted that yo?may learn that no amount ot th rou te or fear o? punish-, ment will justify a man in unprovoked' violence to another, unless the danger threatened to tao wrong-doer be immi? nent or actually pr?sent at . the time of hi? wrong doing, and .even then tho dan? gar must bs of present great- bodily harm, and of death itself, before some of the oriminal conduct confessed would be justified. It does not exouse you for participating in thia conspiracy, aud raiding upon inoffensive colored people, dragging them from their beds, beating some and hanging others, that you had notice if you did not join, the klaus would visit you. You are bound to run the risk or seek means of protection, rather than do vio-, lenee to your neighbor. The law and your fellow-citisens look to you to make this threst of violence difficult of exeoa tion, by a manly resistance or. on en? forcement of the law. You had no right, wheu you oould escape, to make the prioe of your security too violation of your neighbor's. . Yon and your confederates must make up your minds either to resist the Ku Klux oonspiraoy or the laws of the United States. They cannot both exist together; and it only needs a little man? liness and courage, on the part of you ignorant dupes of designing men, to give supremacy to the law. Be assured, it will ?ot be taken as an exouse in your ossa, or in any other, to bear it said, "1 slew this man because the thief .ordered it, and. I was afraid," and " 'brushed1 and raped these others beoanse I dreaded to be whipped if I did not." Mr. Oorbiu culled John Harris, one ol the colored men whipped, who gave i description of bis being whipped in t severe manner by the Ku Klux. Monroe Scruggs WUB called np ant asked what he had to Bay iu extenuation of his offence. He stated that be hue been on but one raid, and bad been, too forced, into the order. Judge Bryai stated to bim, that on account of hi youth, the court waa inclined to deal a leniently with him aa possible; and afte characterizing the outrages committed a unmanly and unbecoming a true son o South Carolina, and calculated to brinj to shame her fair name, sentenced hie to pay a fine of $10 and be imprisonei for six months. Alexander Bridges waa next called and sentenced to pay $10 fine aud b imprisoned a year. John Burnett, a young man, was sen teuoed to imprisonment for six months. Wm. B. Burnett was sentenoed to th same term of imprisonment. Stephen D. Splauu was next oalled He said he supposed that he belonged t tbe order, bat he had never buen awor m. Mr. Prioe bad brought him what b (Prioe) said was the platform of theklac That he (Splaun) read it, and thongt there was no harm in it. Price told hil that the idea was to form a kind of vig lanoe committee, as had been institute in various places, and that un organist tion for that purpose was formed, an he pnt over it us commander. Tin afterwards, be attended a meeting of th Grand Klan, became persuaded of tb lawlessness of their acts and disbande bis klan. The conrt sentenced him to pay a fir of $50 and be imprisoned two years. Marion Gardner was sentenced to ic prisonmont for three months. Chesterfield Saruggs was sentenced 1 six months' imprisonment. Henry Sarratt, who stated that he hs been whipped by the klan before 1 joined, and had never been on any rai was sentenced to one month's impriso; ment. Andrew Kird was sentenced to thr< months' imprisonment. Martin Hammett was sentenced to 8 months' imprisonment. Lewis Henderson was sentenoed three months' imprisonment. Wm. Self, who stated that he hi been on three raids; whipped three n groes-two women and one mau-< the first raid; there was nothing sa about politics. On the second raid, man named Roberts was ordered to st Helling whiskey near a church, on ohur days; and the third was to take a color mun back to his wife, whom he bad le He waa sentenoed to three monti imprisonment, Charles Tate, who stated that he h been on five raids, was seutenced eighteen months' imprisonment. Juuios B. Tindall, who stated that had been on one raid, when a mau a woman had been made to thrash c another for illicit cohabitation, and another raid, to disperse a crowd of : groes frolicking on a widow lady's pla contrary to her wishes, was sentenced one year's imprisonment. Melvin O. Blackwell, who stated I be bad been on one raid against B Phillips, was sentenced to three mont imprisonment. John L. Moore, who confessed to h mg been on five raids, was sentenced imprisonment for eighteen months. John Cantrell was sentenced to tb I mouthe' imprisonment. Mr. Corbin stated that he had anot batch of prisoners who desired to et I a plea of guilty. Jonas Vasaey wss tbe first oalled. ssid that he bad been obief of He Creek Klan, aud had been on two ra Mr. Corbin said for him that be boon tbe only obief who had volunta surrendered himself; tbat be bad gi considerable iuformation, and to t extent eviuoed a disposition to break the conspiracy. He was sentenced pay a lino of $10 and be imprisoned year. James Wall confessed to having t on one raid; oould read and write, had been to Virginia during tbe war, Judge Bond said that as he could r< und had been so fortunate as to t once been out of tho State, he sh< bare known better; that he (Ju Bond) not baviug been reared in St Carolina, felt some compassion fox wife aud children of tbe prisoner, Would sentence him only to t months' imprisonment. John O. Wall was sentenced to t months' imprisonment. David 0. MoLure received the ? sentence. Calvin Cook stated that ho bad 1 on but ono raid, against James 1 renee, a white man; and, as tbe wit thought, a Democrat. He was whir bee a OHO he waa sutpeoted of concei btoleu money. Cook was sen tone? tbreo months' imprisonment. Alfred Clements was sentence? tbreo months' imprisonment and a of $10. Philip Cantrell was sontenoed t< same term of imprisonment. Tho court stated that it would sus judgment in the ease of M. Turner Phil? lips, AS be had shown much penitence. Gibson Cantrell, an old man of sixty* aix yean, who stated that he bad never been on a raid, but had been appointed ono;! of the Executive Committee of I Horse Greek Klan, was sentenced to one 1 year's imprisonment. Lewis Jolly's case was postponed on account of some suspicion in his impli? cation in the murder of Owens in Union.' Wk Blackwell was seotcnoed to six j monttle' imprisonment. Wm. Jolly re? ceived the same sentence; siso, Alfred Blackwell. Wm. P. Ramsay was sen? tenced to three months' imprisonment; Wm. F. Bobbins, six months; Thos. J. Price, six months; Taylor Yassey, throe months; King Edwards, six months; Onriatenbury Tate, three months; Frede? ric Paris, six months; Alfred Burke, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of illicit distilling, was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000, and six months' imprisonment. James Scruggs, for carrying on the business ot a retail dealer in liquor without license, received the same sen? tence. The petit jurors were finally dis? charged with the thanks of the oourt for their services and attention. The ooo rt then adjourned till to-mor? row at ll o'clock.. BEUT AL MURD KB.-An inoffensive old colored man, named Adam Jackson, em? ployed on the plantation of Mr. Hay? ward Brown, who resides about eight miles from Blackville, was on his way to the latter place, on Saturday before Christmas, in company with bia son, in charge of a load of cotton, the old man walking beeide tbe wagon and the sou driving. When about one mile from town, they met a wagon containing five j white men, who were on their way to Orangeburg to spend the Christmas. Tbe old mao politely lifted his hat to the ? party, aud wished them a merry Christ I mas. Without any other provocation, one of the party, a man by the name of Eli Cbavia, from Edge?eld Oounty, jumped from his wagon, and, making a terrible lunge at Adam, plunged the knife into his heart, cutting it in half. He made no attempt to injure the boy, but, getting baok into the wagon with his companions, started off. As soon aa the son saw tho terrible deed whioh had been done, he took one of the mules from bis wagon, and rode aa rapidly as possible to Blackville, and fortunately found Mr. Brown aud informed him of the tragedy, and he and his brother Pinokney and Mr. S. Graham started in pursuit. After a chase of some ten or twelve milt's, they overtook ?nd cap? tured tba whole five, bringing them back to Blackville and delivering them over to the authorities. - Charleston Courier. John M. Morris, editor of the Wash? ington Chronicle, baa begun an action for libel against William J. Murtagh, editor of the Washington Republican, laying damages at $20,000. Mr. Morris in one of the executive clerk? of the United States Senate, and assumed the management of the Chronicle about a year ago, succeeding John W. Forney. He owned, previously to that time, tbe Cbaileaton Republican, whioh has since died. Tho Washington Republican has charged editorially that Morris was run? ning the Chronicle on money obtained from South Carolina State officers Whom the State Legislature baa been trying to impeach, and has called npon the Senate to make an investigation, since the charges reflected upon one of ita offlc-ere. It is these charges whioh are met by the libel sait above mentioned. - -i PERTINENT AND IMRERTINKNT.-A de? mure-looking chap bailed a charcoal peddler with tbe query, "Have yon got charcoal in your wagon?" "Tes, sir," said tho expeotant driver, stopping hlB horses. "That's right," observed the demure chap, with an approving nod; "always tell the truth, und people will respect youl" And ho hurried on, muoh to the regret of the peddler, who was getting out of the wagon to look for a brick. > At a recent meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a paper was read on self-acting machinery, in which comparisons were made between hand work and maobine* work. A skilled knitter, using tba ordinary needles, will knit sixty loops, or stitobes, a minute; a frame-work knitter, with his hand-frame, knits about 5.400 stiobea a minute; but three of tho self-acting knitting ma? chines, whioh can be attended to by one girl, will knit 40,500 stitches a minnte. SUDDEN DEATHS.-We are informed, says tho Raleigh Era, that a man by the name of Lee, slightly drunk, was danc? ing at a friend's house in Chatham Coun? ty, on last Sunday night, and fell dead while danoing. On Monday last, in the same County, Mr. Jesse Mason was sit? ting by his fire and died before it was known that he was sick. Artemus Ward was once on a slow Cai if oro ia train, and went to tbe conduc? tor and suggested that the cow ketcher was on the wrong end of the tram, for said be: "You will never overtake a cow, you know; but if yon'd put it on the other end it might be useful, for now there's nothing on earth to hender a cow from walking right in and biting tbe folks!" Again we find a good word of the in? fant terribles. A gentleman of ripe age was oonrting a rioh widow. "See, m ira ma, "said her ?mali son who waa playing in tbe room, "this poor M. Bonhomme has lost all his back bair. Won't you give him some of yours, whioh you bonght to-day?" An old man, named Scvope, who had been Gol. Houston's right bower in the Texas war, and bad received wounds and honors in abandanoe under Gen. Taylot io Mexico, waa lately found killed and sculped near Oxford, Kansas. Tho Seoond Adventists are at it again. At a convention lately held in Rochester, they have definitely Bottled tbe time foi the total destruction of the world. It ii to take place in 1873. Union Council, No. 6, R. and 8. M. TUE Regular Convocation of Union Counoil, Nu. 6, will beheld on MONDA? , NIGHT, in Masonio Hall, at 7 o'clock, I An election of uffloers will take place. "y order of T. I. G. H. H. E. BRUCE, Jan 6 2_Recorder. Blood and Liver Pills. TO enre SICK HEADACHE, Sick Stomach, Dizziness or Vertigo, Dad laate in thc Month, bilious AttaokB, Palpitation of thc Hean, NervonsncaB, Constipatien, Pain., is tho llroaat and Back, Kidney Affections. Tn cure all Disorders uf tho Liver. To Regulato tho Bowels. To Purify the Blood. Tn give now life to the wholo System, th? Blood and Liver. Cannot be surpassed. Tr} only ono box: yon will be con T? need. Foi sal? only at HEIN IT S H'S I Jan St Drugstore. LATEST QUOTATIONS d? SOUTTHBB? BB- 1 ornuTTJM IN UH ABiiKteTON, B. C- Jorree tod, January o, 1872. by A.G.KAUFMAN Baa ker and Broker, No. 26 Broad street Hames of Securities. Hale In. Of'd Asked. BT ATS BBormnTEfl. North Carolina, old.... 6 - 82 N. Carol i u a, new. 6 .... 18 Booth Carolina, old..... 6 .i 8. Carolina, now...... 6 .v S. C. reg'd stock, ex in* 6 ... ? Georgia, now, (gold)... 7 .. Georgia, new. 7 .... .. Georgia.........:.....,, 6 .... .. Tennessee, Old i... .?-d .... 68 Tennessee, new. 6 .... 68 Alabama. 8 .... 95 Alabama.... 5 .... 68 OU? 8EO?KITIK8. j Atlanta, Ga., bonds_ 8 .... 83 Atlanta, Ga., bonds.... 7 .... 78 ! Angosta, Ga., bonds... 7 .... 88 Charleston stock. 6 .... 66 Charl'n Fire Loan b'da 7 .... 72 Colombia, B. C., booda 6 .... 60 Columbus, Ga., bonds. 7 .... 70 fifaoon, Ga.,bonds.... 7 78 Mobile, Ala. 8 .... 80 Mobile, Ala.. 6 .... 69 Montgomery, Ala. 8 .... 82 Memphis, Tenn., b'nds old... 6 52 .. new.. 6 60 endorsed 6 57 Nashville, Tenn. 6 .... 62 Savannah, Ga., bonds. 7 .... 86 Wilmington, N. 0. 8 _ 76 Wilmington, N. C..... 6 _ 72)?' RAILROAD BONDS. Atlantic end Gulf. 7 - 80 B. R. lt., 1st mortgage 7 .... 60 Central Georg's....... 7 95 Charleston and Sa van.. 6 .... 65 Charlotte, Col. & Aug.. 7 _ 82 Cberawand Darlington 8 .... 90 Oberaw A Dar., 2d mort 7 _ 72 Cbesap'ke A Ohio, gold 6 .... 94 Bast Tennessee, Virgi? nia, endorsed. 6 .... 68 East Tennessee and Georgia, endorsed.. 6 .... 65 Georgia Railroad. 7 95 Green. A Col., lat mor. 7 .... 95 Green. A C., State go ar 7 _ 58 Green. A Col. : 2d mort 7 _ 47 Laurens.'. 7 .... 50 Macon and Augusta, 1st mortgage. 7 - 85 Macon and Augusta, ?1st mort.,) guar. by Joorgia Railroad... 7 ..... 92 Macon and' Brunswick, guaranteed by State of Georgia. 7 .... 65 Memphis A Charleston. 7 80 86 Mississippi Central, 1st mortgage. 7 .... 85' Mississippi Central, 2d mortgage. 8 70 75 Mississippi A Tennes? see, 1st mortgage. J. 7 .... 85 Mississippi A Tennes? see, consolidated.... 8 .... 76 Mobile and Girard, 1st ortgsgs. 8 88 Mobile A Montgomery, gold, 1st mort., en A 8 .... 95 Montgomery ond West Point, 1st mortgage. 8 85 Mosconee, Ga... 7 85 Nashville and Chatta? nooga, endorsed.... 6 .... 72 Northwestern 1st mort 8 _ 91 North-Eastern, 2d mort. 8 _ 83 Pensacola A Georgia, * 1st mortgage. 7 - 40 fiav. A Char., 1st mort. 7 - 73 Bar. A Char., State goa 7 - 70 Sav. A Char., 2d mort 8 .... 70 South Carl'a, 1st mort 7 .... 85 South Carolina.. 7 _ 67 South Carolina. 6 _ 67 Spartan burg and Union 7 . Western Alabama, 2d mortgage, endorsed. 8 .... 93 RAILROAD STOCKS. Par. Atlantic and Gulf.100 _ 25 Augusta A Savannah.. 100 .... 85 Central Georgia.100 _ 110 Charlotte, Col. A Aug.. 100 _ 40 Georgia. 100 97 .. Green, and Col. B. B. . 20 - 2 Macon and Augusta... 100 - 40 Macon and Western... 100 _ 108 Memphis ?. Charleston. 25 9}? North-eastern. 5G .... 10 Savannah A Charleston 100 .... 20 8. C. R. B. shares. 100 _ 84 S. C. R. R. & B'k shares 125 .... 34 South-western Georgia 100 90 - DANK STOCKS. Pecp'aN'l B'k Charl'n, capital 8750,000. 100 .... 103 1st Nat'l Bank Charl'n capital 8500,000. 100 .... 125 S. C. Loan A Treat Co. 100 _100 Caro. Nat. Bank, Gol'a. capital 820J.0O0. 100 100 .... Central National Bank, Col's, cap'l 8100.000 100 100 .... Nation'! B'k of Chester, oapital 850,000. 105 Nat'l B'k of Newberry, oapital 8100,000. Nat'l B'k Spartacburg, oapital 860,000. S. C. Bank & Trust Co. capital 8200,000. 100 - 100 Bankof Charleston.... 100 - 21 Union Bank 8. 0. 50 - 50 People's Baak So. Ca. 4 Plan. A Me. Bank 8. C. 25 - 25 Bank of Newberry. 25 . Bank of Camden. 50 . Others worthless. MXSOKIiXiANKOCB SEODIUTIBS. Charleston Gas Co_ 25 - 20 Charl'n City RR. stock 50 - 54 GranitevilleMan.Co... 100 114 - G. A C. R. oert. indeb. 54 N. E. R. R , cert, indebt. 65 Mt. Pleasant and Sulli j van's Island Ferry Co, 100 .... pal Virginia State Coupona .... 40 .... tennessee '* " .... 60 City Morfreeaboro M .... 80 - City of Nashville coup's- 80 .... City Charleston ocr. in. pai City of Memphis ooup. .... 75 .... N. E. R. R. pref, stock. 38 8. AU. R. past due coup. C. AB. R. past due coup.... 40 .... BXOHANOB, BTO. New York sight.K off pai Gold.7.108? ITO* Silver. 103 .... B. O. BANK BIBI.8, .Bank of Charleston. Bank of Camden. 15 ... Bank Georgetown. 1 Bank of 8. O. J .... Bank of Chester. 18 .... Bank of Hamburg. 17 .... Bank of Newberry. 10 .... Bank of the State of 8. C.. prior to'61... " issue '61 and '62. *P1. A Mee. Bank Ohar'n. ?People's Bank Charl'n. .Union Back Oharles'n. *8. W. R. R. Bank, old. .S.W.R. R. Bank, new. ?tate Bank, Charleston . ... 8 ?... Farmers'Ex. B k Char. .... 1 .... Exchange Bank. Oolam .... $ .... Oom'l Bank, of Colum- 8 .... Meroh. Bankof Cheraw- 8 .... Pian ter's Bank Fairfield TA. 8 .... 8.0, bills receivable. 90 - Charleston change billa. 90 - 19*- Billa marked thoa (*) are being redeemed ak the counter of above office. VUiSBMlM ?sui Commercial. COLUMBIA, 8. C., January 6.--Sales of ??da to-day 47 bales-^middling 19o. LONDON, January 5-Noon.-Consols 92%. Bonds 92^. FaAitxroBT, January 5. -Bonds 9Q%. PABIS, January 5 -Rentes 56f 7c, Specie decreased 1,750,0O0J. LIVERPOOL, January 6-3 P. M. Cotton opened firm-uplands 10>?@ 10%; Orleans lOJfc?aOtf; aalea of tba week 100,000 balea; export 8,000; speculation 24,000; ?look 669,000; whereof : American ia 167,000; receipts 88,000; stock afloat 868,000, of which American is 182,000; shipping at New Orleans 10%. :\ r .LavKBsooij, January 6-- Evening. Cotton closed strong--nearly due from New Orleans 10 9-16; shipping at New Orleans 10^. NEW YOBK, January 6-Noon.-Sales of cotton for future delivery last even? ing, 7,400 bales, sa follows: January 20% 208-16; February 20, 2018 16, 20%. 2011-16; March 218-16, 21??, 21%; April 21, 21%, 21716. 216 16, 21%; May 21, 21 %, 21%, 21 7-16. Wheat un? settled and held 2@8o. higher. Pork quiet-new 14.00@14 25. Cotton firm upland? 20%; aalea to-day 400 bales; laat evening 2,1100-Orleans 21%. Freights quiet. Stocks much better than at the opening. Governments dull sud heavy. Money Brm, at 7. Gold steady, st 9%. State bonds doll but steady. Exchange -long 9%; abort 10. 7 jP. M.-Cotton firm; sales 3,776 bales -uplands 20% ; Orleans 21 %. Flour active and firmer-common to fair 6.80 @7.55; good to choice 7.60. Whiskey armer, at 92%. Wheat 2o. better and in good export demand-whiter red Western 1.60@1.65. Corn ateady. Bice steady. Pork a ?hada firmer, at 14.25@ 14.60. Lard steady. Freights unchanged. Money easier, at 7, currency, to a frac? tion commission. Discounts 9@12. Ster? ling bcivy, ai C?9%. Gold 8%?S. Governments quiet and steady, 'len nesaees firm ; Yirginiaa less strong; North Carolinas strong; new Sooth Carolinas steady; remainder dull, but steady. The Treasury disbursed 8700,000 of gold to? day. CINCINNATI, January 5.-Pork firm, aft 18.25@13.50. Lard-kettle 9%. Shoul? ders 6%; olear aidas 7%(3>7%. Whiskey declining, st 88. LouiHVXLiiB, January 6.-Bagging firm, st 18($14. Flour firm. Corn steady. Provisions firm. Whiskey dull, at 89. ST. Loma, January 5.-Flour-ad? vance asked. Corn firm. Whiskey easier, at 89@89%. Pork quiet. Ba? con in fair jobbing demand. Lard kettle 8%. GALT?STON, January 5. - Ootton steady -good ordinary 18%; receipts 1,708 bales; sales 500; stock 47,994; receipts of the week 6,722; aalea 8,300. CHARLESTON, January 5.-Colton firm? er-middling 19%; receipts 804 bales; sales 600; stock 03,407; receipts of the week 8,015; sales 4,500. NEV/ ORLEANS, January 5.-Cotton steady-middling 19% @ 20; receipts 11,063; aalea 9,200; stock 191,561; re? ceipts of tba week 60,691; sales 49,000. liOKTOK, January 6.--Cotton steady middling 21; receipts 400 bales; sales 500; stock 8,600; receipts of the week 7,290; ssles 2,600. AUODSTA, January 6.-Cotton strong middling 19; sales 700 balee; stock 19.425; receipts of the week 3,940; salea 8,850. MOBIL ii, January 5.-Cotton quiet and firm-middling 19%; receipts 2,238 bales; sales 500; stock 61,711; receipts Of the week 12,869; salea 11,300. WILMINGTON. January 5.-Cotton firm -middling 19% ; receipts 48 bales; sales 174; stock 6.473; receipts of the ?eek 966; ssles 682. BALTIMORE, Janusry 5.-Cotton firm middling 20%; receipts 1,912 bales; ssles 810; atock 8,792; receipts of the week 3,540; sales i,950. PHILADELPHIA, January 5.-Cotton firm-middling 21; receipts 2,026. M Burma, Jan nary 5.-Cotton active and excited-middling 20; receipts to? day 4,900 bales; of the week 10,265; atock 2,395. NORFOLK, January 5.-Cotton firm low middling 19%; receipts 1,271 bales; sales 200; ?tock 4,642; receipts 10,875; sales of the week 1,010. SAVANNAH, January 5.-Cotton irregu? lar and holden firm; demand fair-mid? dling 19%@20; recoipta 2.647 balea; sales 2,200; stock 78,875; receipts of the week 15.095; salas 11,063. WHOL.KH ALK PHIUKS UtatKKM. OOHBRUTED W1EKLY BY TH? BOABD OF TRAD*. APi-LKS, Mbu.2 00(0)3 Oil. ilOLASS?S,(Juna,35<l?5U BAoaufo,.18(028 NewOrl'ns 80(090 BALK Rora, Ma.22(tf*4 Sugar H'se.. 60(a90 N. Y.or Wesfcilb 7(01?? NAILS, V keg5 50(uo 00 BrrrrEE,North. 28?234ol ONIONS,?Lm?i 50?! 75 Country, ?H tt.2?(0:t?? Om, Kerosene,g 85(045 BAOOH. Hams. 17(019 Machinery. .76061 00 Bides, V lb.. 9(010 SPKOIK, QoJd (01 08 Shoulder?.... 7??9 Silver. (01 03 OAMnLES,Sperm*0'?7l> POTAT'S, Iris 1 50(2(200 Adamantine ?M9<?20 Sweet, bus G0(i?80 COTTON YABNI 20(01 25! BICK, Carolina S> 7((t0 OoTTON. Stet M,_19! SnoT,$bag. 2 75(^3 On Middling.18*1 SALT,Liverp.2?0(t?2 20 Low Uidl'g.lb] SOAP, Va. 7Jfe"> Good Orduy.17* HEIEITS, Alsohoi,g!6 00 Ordinary.17 Brandy . .4 00(01200 OHKKHE.E.D.Ib. 1?-32U Oin.2 00(06 00 factory.16(022 Bum.2 00(07 00 OorrxE, llio,^0)24^26 Whiskey... 185(06 00 Laguayra_25?28 SO?AB, Crus A. P15<016 Java.83 aS5 Brown.12(01* PLO tm, Co. 6 75(01000 STABOB, $ Tb... 8 i (3) 10 Northern. 760(010 00 TBA.Oreon Ibl 00(0260 Qailll. Corn 1 00?I 15* Black,. . .1 00(31 10 Wheat_1 80(02 00 TOBACCO, Ohw.CO<01 00 Oats.78@80 Smoking,fr..6O(01 00 Peas.1 10(01 16 VINKOAB, Wine,.60@60 HAY, North, Wa wt.2 00 Frenoh.... (01 00 HICKS,Dry, %Ibl2i?lt" WINS, 0ham.,25?28 CO Oreen....?8 Port, %igal80O@680 LABU, W lb.12?16 Sherry... 273?7C0 LiMK. ?bbl.2 CB'aa TO Madeira.. .3 00(88 00 Headquarters for Garden Seeds. LANPBLTH'S Extra Early PEAS, Garter's first crop Peas, Little Gem Tom Thumb Peas, Early Long Pod, Cabbage Seeds. Onion Sets, Bed and Whits, Lawn Grass Seed, Bed and White Clover, Timothy and Kentucky Blue Grass, Orchard Grasa Seed, For sate, wholesale and retail, at Jan 6 J _H RI NITS H'S Drug 8tore. For Bale, THE HOUSE and LOT, on Piokene street, belonging to estate of Mrs. II. _Zimmerman, deceased. The Lot oon taius upwards of an acre, with a roomy and oommodions Dwelling, and a smaller build? ing, ereoted for a Behool House, but suitable as a Residence for a small family; alsops fine Garden, Fruit Trees, Well and Spout water, tbs usual out-buildings, Ao. For terms, apply to " faa t sta HuWXN J. SCOTT, usn***