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Items.

The capital stock of Adams Express
Company is $l0,O0O,0OO ; of which
$2,000,00O is owned in Hartford,
where at sold, on Friday, for $l.25 per
share.
The New York evening papers of
Tuesday, published dispatches from
London and Paris, up to noon of that
day, and we had thcirin laid before us
what The Paris Moniteur of that day
said. Itsocms almost miraculous.
In l842 Professor Morse announced
to the Secretary of the Treasury of
the United States 'sthat telegraph
communication on his plan might with
certainty be established across the At
lantic." The professor has lived to
sec the prediction of quarter of a
century ago realized.
The Emperor of Austria sent his 800
horses and $50 carriages to Ofen for
safety. He could open first class
livery stable if things go much harder
with him.
s'Do you know who I am :" asked
an officer of follow whom he had by
the collar. "Not exactly, sir" the
follow replied "but Think you must
be the malignant cholarer.
The following notice recently ap-
pcared on tho west end of a meet
ing-houso "Anybody sticking bills
on this church, will be prosecuted ac-
cording to law or any other nuisance. :"
The total receipts of cotton since
September ], 1865, has reached g.
OO9,7OO bales, and since the close of
tho war, 2,428,300. The total ex-
ports from the United States since
September l., 1865, has been 500, 900
bales, and the stock on hand abou
100000 bales.
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true tho Legislature about to meet
may put affairs in moro satisfactory
shape, and wo hope it will be done.
But can not some kind of District con-
vcntion of planters accomplish some-
thing IF so, it would be very dcslra-
bic to havo it done. Capital and Ia
Dor must work together upon systom.
Capital bears tho relation to labor,
that tho seed does to tho soil and to
expect profit from tho former without
a system Of labor, is to expect fruit
from tho 1attor without u system of
cultivation.
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Local Items.
Col. jas. II. RiOll

Col. jus. IL RiOn
Has been designated by Governor
Orr, to receive and distribute to dosti-
tutc widows the funds that may be
given by tho Ladies of ST. Louis, Mis-
souri,, to this District.
e.
New Advertisements.
G.. S. G. r. R.--Scc change of
fare.
Annual Baptist Association. See
Notice.
Executors Noticc.-D. r. Stcvcn-
son.
Adams, Bricc & Co.-Sclling out at
cost.
Armstrong, Gator e. Co., Balti-
more. See notice for 1866.
Sec Auction this evening at Thc&--
plan Hall.
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What OF our Prospectsg

A far moro important subject that
embittering politics can be to us, is
the prospect of tho future. Hero we
are on tho eve of harvest which is de-
pressing to contemplate. The corn made
in our District this year, it is said,
will not feed the population, not con.
sidering the stock the system Of la
Dor has not given general satisfaction
(for it is no system) and there is no
prospect Of o better system for next
year. Can this DO remediod 7 It is
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WINNSBORO, s. c.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 90, 1860.
III. a. GAILLARD, EDIToR.
d. B. MCKNIGHT, ASSOCIATE ED'R

The following gentlemen arc re-
qucstcd to act as Agents for the lIEn
AID:
Major a. y. I[lLLlARD-Rocky
Mount, Bosicr Parish, la.
II. p. Standardization, S. G.
II. S. DEsponrEs -Ridgeway, s. G.
Major WM. BELL-Monticello, S. G..
III. b. McMAsrER-Rossvillc, s. G.
DR.. j. l.. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Creek,
S. &.
DAVID ELWIN-Allston, S. G.
j. w. McCRElGnT-Salcm Church,
S. G..
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How United States Spies and Confederate
TraltOrS Operated in Richmond During
the War.

the War.
Tho Richmond correspondent of the
New York Times, az. C.," in his let
ter of the 1.h, relates the following
unique story:
The coumtr y willrcmcmbcr that du-
ring tho winter, our Government re-
ccivcd tho assurance of tho hopeful
lcssncss of the robcl cause by coming
into possession of the testimony of
Con. leo before Committee of the
rebel Congress, which was never re-
ported to tho Houses, except in secret
session, if at all. A full history of
tho manner in which tho Government
obtained that information would be
moro interesting than any romance,
but it is too soon yet to do moro than
outline it. Tho evidence Of Gcn. Lee
was takcn late i'll tho winter by this
Committee, and long before the Com
mittco had determined what course
thoy should pursuc-almost before the
ink was dry upon thoir Notes.-The en-
tire statement of tho rebel General,
word by word, was in possession of
President Lincoln at Washington. In
tho room whore tho Committee met
was closot, and from that closet i'm
mcdiatcly after their adjournment
camo the priceless information. Out
sido the house it Mt once changed
hands, and II second party walked lei
surely through tho streets Of Rich
mond with it, until upon the cnvirons
he encountered ono of tho common
country carts of this section procood-
ing with tho half of a newly killed beef
toward tho rebel lines in Butlor's
'front.' No communication that tho
most lynN-cycd could perceive passed.
between the man and tho cart, but the
former gradually changed his dircc-
ton and was soon walking back in the
direction whence ho had come. The
cart went on, reached and passed
through tho rebel camps without mo-
lcstation and reached the pickots,
where it halted rs amnttcr Of course.
The beef was destined for tho house of
a Planter just beyond tho robcl lines
and in plain sight of the outposts, and
about c1ni-dislant between them and
our own outposts. These explanations
made and careless search of the
cart made by tho rebel sentry, that is
q look into It, the cart proceeded on its
way. just as it reared tho house
small party of our cavalry made a
dash at it, and to the utter surprise of
the rebel pickets,who saw the whole
AFFAIR, our men only hovorcd moment
around the cart, then gallopod back
ono more man than thoy camo
leaving oart and beef, and driv-
mule behind them. They did
il then, but under tho beef
and the man had package,
ana tho package contained tho state
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The Convention ViewS--The Views
Of It's Friends.

On the 18th of July We used the fol-
lowing language in the News
"lf Governor ORR is willing to put
the cemeteries ofthc Federal dead un-
der tho peculiar caro- of the Govern
mcnt, while those of the Confederate
lie "unhonorcd and unsung," and if
he can ''sinccrcly" turn over to the
tender mcrcics of that Government
the families of those who died that
Government might live, and leave
those other families to tho cold chari-
ties of country that ignores thom,
we cannot. Heaven knows this State,
even at the earnest appeal of Vice
President ORR, can hardly "cordially''
do such thing"
On the 18th of July VIC said in the
News,
"Our first proposition in the way OF
objections is, that representations by
delegates in the Convention would
commit the South to measures that
would be entirely humiliating."-
"Wo cannot do this without commit
ting ourselves. We have not lost
everything. Wo have some sclf-rc-
spect left"
On the Goth of July wc said in the
News,
"The State, if she enter that Con-
vcntion, does it with knowledge of
the breakers before her"
We declared for the dignity and
honor Of our State for these were oil
she had left. The majority differed
from us. We are now willing that
they should be heard, when it is too late,
upon tho very point VIC laid so much
stress.
What the Charleston Ne,os and the
Now York NeUs think, will be found
in another column. The Phenie says
"some of tho resolutions might have
been very properly omitted" The
Patriot says "Doubtless there arc few
amongst us who will be willing to re-
cognize as "principlcs" some of the
doctrines set forth in tho declaration,
nor endorse all the theories contained
therein---nor admire the terms in
which these declarations are made to
u.s." aa
Tho Patriot and all tho friends of
the Convention are obliged to recog-
nize those "principlcs," nozens volens.
They went with their eyes open, if not
they were purposely blind. If there
over was people in tho world that
went into snare voluntarily, it was
tho Southorners when they enter
ed that Convention.
Ifthe most enthusiastic friends arc
dissatisfied, how can they blame the
opposers of that Convention I How
ever, it is their own doings, not ours.
With this erpose wo are done. We
will aid the good fruits, but discard
tho questionable means adopted to
obtain them. McC.
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News from Chester.

The Stomtia'l % ihis week gives u
full account of the arrest Of two of the
party implicated in the murder of Mr..
ALEX. ID. WALnEn. These arc ne
gro men, who have confessed the
whole thing, and it comes out that a
Il white man, one BILL MoRR1s alias
CnAs. DERENI, alias WyLIE MoRnIs,
was at the head of it. $500 reward is
offered in the STANDARD for his arrest.
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THE PRocLAMATIoN.--The Presidents
PROCLAMATION, which wepublish in another
column, puts an end to the Provisional
Government Of Texas, and formally declares
that the sinsurreotion is at an end. and thai
peace, order, tranquility and civil authority
now exist in and throughout the whole Of
tho United States of America. Tho pro.
olamation bears date to-day We presume
that this proclamation is intended to, and
acss, subordinate the military to the civil
authorities throughout the length and
breadth Of the. Union; and that from this
twentieth day Of August peace once moro
begins to reign throughout the land " =.
NtWs a
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Thc LcgiSlatlrc,

1t will be seen thaS Gov. OnR has
called the Legislature to meet on the
Ath Of September. This call is q
very important one on the part of His
Exccllcncy, and will meet witha hear
ty "Amcn" from all the State.
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The Empire Of Mexico,

It is related of Napoleon III that,
before ho became Emperor of the
French, in conversation with his most
intimate associates, he would speak OF
what bo had to do as Emperor or
ng Of "~aNce, more than of how he
a ,hab high position. 1t
was fixed in his mind that he must
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A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.--The loss Of
tho ship Monarch of the Seas has been nm
nounced. fortnight ago bottle contain.
ing the following message was picked up on
the beech at Davenport, England: t.Nion-
arch Of the Seas. Left Liverpool l9b
March. May 2, no wind, short OF proyis.
ions and no water. In gale, 8d April,
latitude 26o 2O/ N, longitude 47o g. W
William Johnson, passenger.
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pay THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
FAIRFIELD ASSOCIATION will take place
ut the Baptist Bhurch in Winnsboro, OH
Friday before the second Lords day in
Scptcmbers.
Persons who are willing to assist in
accommodating delegates. will please mcot
at the Churh, ut eleven o'clock on Thurs
day previous. aug 29-x1t1
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ENoLAND's ExpENsEs.-It Is remarked in
England that although Earl Derby's aov-
eminent has been in power only o month. t.
has already increased the expenditure by
oioss upon half million pounds. Of this
goodiy proportion is for breech leaders
and q turret-ship.
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Tho Weather.,

The average temperature for the
past week II degrees. Moderate
rains on Monday and Tuesday, 9th
and 2Sth.
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This is Clever,

In tho following extract from the
Committees Address to the President,
on presenting him with tho official
proceedings ofthc Convention, is ox-
pressed tho vicn of every Southern
man. 1t is ono IN which we can all
wish tho Preside. .o12-spned.
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COMMERCIAL,

w NNspoKo, Aug. 2s.-Cotton-
None Offering,
Country Flour, 50 a o.
Baltimore Flour SIS. g per barrel.
Lard, 27 to SOC per pound.
Corn, $500 per bushcl
Peas, $l.75 per bnshcl.
Bacon Sides, 2Gc pc. pound
Shoulders, 22c. per pound.
Meal, $500 per bushcl.
Sorghum, SOC per gallon.
Salt, SIS. n $3.50.
Yarn, $3.50 $500.
Batter, 25c. per pound.
Eggs, l25 "a Is per dozen.
Tobacco, is to Sl.l0 per pound.
Cold 40.
CirARLoTrE, Aug 25, lSGG.-Cotton.
A few bales sold to-day at 264 a 27.{
currency.
New Flour, $1,000. Northern
$3.50 400 per barrel.
Bacon, IS n 2lc. per pound.
Corn, Sl.50 a l.65 per bushcl, in de-
mand
Peas. $l.45 a l.50 per bushcl.
Meal, 81 80 $500 per bushel.
Wheat $500.
Oats, 65 u 10 per bnshc!.
Sorghum, soc. per gallon.
Gold, Sl.40.
Silver, 81 35.
--.------~,- ->~.--->--o---~-~--u-,-~-
COLUMBIA, Aug. 23.-Co'trn. II
81, gold; 22 TO 80, currency.
Corn, $3.50 to l.S0 per bnshrl
Flour, sic to 10 per barrel
Oats, Sl.00 10 | 10 per bnShcl
Peas, $500 to 2.25 per bushcl
Hay, 81 % to $50.
Rice, Rangoon. primo. - to lac;
Carolina Is to &c.
Tobacco, 40c. to 200 per pound.
Coin, gold Al to 4S.
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Genl Supt' Office, Charlotte
q South Carolina r. r.

Oooh Odi Villa ~ N.
COLUMBIA, 8. c., August 25, 1866.
and after September 1st., tho Local
~ freight and Passenger Tariffs over this
Road will bo reduced as follows, viz:
COLUMBIA TO CHARLOTTE.
First Glass Freight 75o. Der 100
Second Glass Freight coo. Der 100
Third Class Freight 400. Der 100
Passenger Fare $500, through.
Corresponding rates to intermediate stn-
ton. Through. Tickets sold to NIL points
North at reduced rates.
- JAMES ANDERSON, Supt.
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JUST RECEIVED


A N assortment Of PAINTS and OILS
II consisting in part Of
White Lead,
Black Paint,
Red lead,
English Venetian Red,
Dry Prusian Blue,
Lamp Black,
i8 Chrome Green,
TurpentInc,
Varnish,
Linsecd Oil.
For salo by
BACOT, RIVERS & Co,
aug zo-H No.2, Hotel Range.
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If tho Convention will cause you to
The Placer herald., 1866-01-20

WHAT'S IN A NAME?-The Territorial En-.
terprise say: A company Of young men in
this city being about to organizs a very se-
lect and hiyh.toned social club, were at a
loss for name. There was much talk as to
what would be appropriate, and many were
propose and RI -cted. At last the name of
Vtu!a Social Club was proposed All liked
the sound Of the word Vitua, and il was
agreed that "Vitula" was the word. How
ever. some inq iIing cuss thought he would
Ike to know the meaning Of the word "Vi-
tula." Some said it was Spanish word,
and others that they did nrt know whether il
was French, Spanish or italian, but they had
known steamboats,. sloops, schooners and
cipper-ships having this name, and it was
therefore bound to be good. doubt hav.
ing been raised about the meaning of the
word it was thought best, before adopting il
to find out its exact meaning. Looking in a
Spanish Dictionary they found the word de-,
fined as something pertaining to calf
This was rather unsatisfactory, so they looked
in An Italian Dictionary and found the def.
nilion to he young hefer. AS they neither
wished to be known as "fhe Calf, or Young
lleifsr Social Club" the very fine sounding
word Vnula, was dropped, and we believe
the boys are still hunting name for this new
society
The Placer herald., 1866-01-20
Their Last Chance.

The Abolition punderers and pap. suckers
know that they are on their last legs. They
are we'll aware that this session Of the Legs
Iature will be the last when it will be in
their power TO plunge their paws into tho
public Golfers and appropriate the peoples
money. without paying the penalty for such
misdeed BY incarceration in San Quentin; in
which interesting lorality they might for
once iu their ignoble lives, do the State
some service. They are therefore resolved
to "nake hay while the sun shines" The
State Treasury is ple;h"ric, and they are
determined to reward their par'isans and
supporters at all hazards. Before the adj.
journment, many nice little appropriation
will be made-many sinecure office crea,
ted. 1t behooves the represen atives of the
democracy, that small but gallant band that
has already battled SO bravely against the
uuprncipled majority in both branches, to
be constantly on the alert, to prevent the
consummation of all hagrant schemes for The
malappropriation Of the public moneys.
One Of the most useless and outrageous
expenditures contemplated by the Abolition
plunderers is the appropriation of 49, 600 to
enable Surveyor General lloughtoo TO make
a trip 10 Washington, ostensbly, for the
purpose of forwarding the settlement of diff
ticuIlies about land titles for the general ben.
eft, but really, to enable him to attend to
his own private affairs, and enjoy a holiday
at the public expense. That this idea is not
mere surmise, is shown by the following ex.
tract from the Sacramento correspondence
of the radical organ in this city, published a
few days since.
STARTLING RUMoRs:-It is currently ru'
mored here that the Surveyor General, Mr.:
lloughton, is deeply Interested in schemes
for procuring the segregation of the public
lands. 1t is said 10y responsible persons, that
he owns more Of the public lands than any
other man in the State, and that he has reg
uIar agents for the purchase of school land
warrants, which he locates in combination
with other parties, whose names only appear
in public, aud that he makes contracts with
parties to locate school land warrants on
shares. 1t is said that thousands Of acres of
land in Tulare county, have been located hy
this system as swamp and overtlowed lands,
which are among the most valuable lands
a the State, particularly we'll calculated for
the cultivation Of cotton, which is now Guilt
waited on some Of them 1t is said that this
land is arlficalIy overA,wed to give p'aus'
ible ground 70 the grant. These matters
may or may not be true, but the rumors to
this effect demand rigid and searching in
qniry. There is no doubt that the whole Land
Office system on this coast is sinking with
rottenness and corruption. But fear that
there is too much profit attached to the pres
ent state Of things to admit Of its being bro
ken up.
With these ghts before him, we are as
tonished that even an Abolition legislator
can have the audaci'y TO support and advo
cate this appropriation for the benefit o.
Surveyor General llough'on.
8 Il Ernninor
The Placer herald., 1866-01-20

a QUEER OF TuEoY.-The most ingeni
Gus oil theory is that broached by William
II. Hubble, a Philadelphia engineer. who
cotjectures that petroleum is vegetable
| oil, which is produced in the Pacific Ocean
by the decomposition of sea plants: and ms
ed With salt water. it prevades the open Po'
lar Sea, discovered hy DR.. Kane, and pre-
vents it from freezing; that. being Ii. hler
than water the centrifugal force of the earth.
in its rotation, causes the water Of the denser
fluid to accumulate about the North Pole:
that, being light and oily, it is highly sus
ceplible OF capillary attraction: that this
sandstone strata crops out in the Atlantic
Ocean, and absorbs this oil, inducing it by
capillary attraction to NV in its channel or
strata under this continent in soulherly
and sou,hwestery direction, and it crops out
again in the Pacific Ocean, and the oil there
| recedes and mnoles with the waters of the
Pacific, giving the ocean its mill and place d
character, and forms The well known and
oleganeous food for whales, which 10 visible,
and exists in the water of the ocean, and
extends thousands of miles northward, and
on which the whales live and derive their
oil, and is called their feeding ground. In
the Pacific Ocean it flows again northward
through Behring's Straits, 10y the same law
which made it accumulate in the open Polar
Seas; that, is being Iigher than water, and
not capable Of uniting with it. the water,
which is heaviest, will accumulate about the
equator, while this oily. lighter matter will
Row to the North Pole, and there form the
the open, unfrozen sea- Thus it performs its
great otfice in the laboratory of nature, tlow,
ing in circle through this particular strata
Of sandstone. under this continent from the
Aric to the Pacific Ocean by capillary at
traction. and there is plainly visible in the
water in a coagulated form as the food of
whales. prepared in and 10y the very salt and
dense water Of that temperature, and flow
ing in process of separation for thousands
Of miles norlhwa,d, forming necessarily the
open or unfrozen sea. and being the great
basin of carbon or oil Of the earth for the
use Of man. There is one Office which the
oil probably performs that seems to be over.
looked by Mr.. Hubble-thst is greasng the
gudgeons of the North Pole.
The Placer herald., 1866-01-20
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The Placer herald., 1866-01-20

MUrINoUs SoLDIERs.-Ths Humboldt me.
vada) Register of December aoth, states that
Lieut.. Hosmer. commanding at Dun Glen.
has had trouble with his soldiers, part Of
Company b. I'd California Cavalry. They
broke out into violent mutiny, burnt 10 tons
of Government hay, and threatened the life
Of the lieutenant commanding. On the 9th
of December Col. Hooker and Capt. Street
went from Fort Churchill With 20 picked :,
men. and arrested the mutineers. who will
be tried by court; martial, and probably pun
ished by imprisonment, at hard labor ;ou.
some military works.