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mpcsrru MURDER Of Twa NEGROES IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

CHARLESTON, Dec 10, 1850
We have reports to-day Of the killing Of Two freshmen.
One OF these It Is said, murdered by some Of the
soldier connected with the Sixth infantry.
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RAILROAD tctDEtT

CtycSssu. Dec. ~, 1895
rhs tr,sls -o,l on The Cincinna.s Hamilton sud
Dn,s Raafdad, pear Hamilton, gave way ~ tho cN-
rre Train uouEd sei crofsn =, and prefrhaisd
M sogIo icador a. bsgyage car 70 he bottom fatally
hiasps ,hs engineer aid sreaAnL Nc oVsr sxuSe's
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Gu 3 A

me steamship MORO Castle Captain Adams. from Hs
vana on the 22d Instant arrived at this port yesterday
Our thanks are due 70 the puer for prompt delivery OF
our dispatches and hleG
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RfcApIuse of A NEGRO MURDERER.

CHARLESTON, Dec "a, 1899.
Tho freedman known a. sHorace Greeley" and who
made his escape from prison several weeks since. was
rccaptured last evening The prisoner stands charged
with the murder OF the son Of MI. X. b. Rhett last
summer,
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rpYscr EDof r-oF-WAR DrcBsyLA Tho French sloop,
ofwar Dachsys, taptan DE Fayolle, from havana
cruise, arrived a. Key West the 9th instant and
sailed the liih instant on her return 70 Havana TIRE
customs seu,es were exchanged between the DushaTs
snd tho unl.rd sts,es steamer ChccurA
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SEIZURE Or 4 SCHOONER.

CmARLrsror, Dec "a, 1890.
The Collector Of this rort to-day solved the schooner
Grspessot, from Bsrasca, for smuggling cigars and
frta
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TfGE LECTURE SEASON.

YMPORTASr LECTURES DAILY-TO GENTLEMEN
1 Sniy az Kew York Museum of Anatomy. Glib Broad
way Those unable attend these lectures may receive
Sory forwarding cents. Address Secretary Of New
York Museum of Anatomy, 6ls Broadway.
on BROADwAY-SEATs FREE.-THIS AND SAT
OH urday evening" at IN lectures on Astrooey, by W.
Clancy Esq, and wonderful tests before the audience
nv Or Boughtou The Doctor consulted daily as above.
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PROPOSALS.

ITO CONTRACTORS.-NEW CANAAN, NN.sDECEM,
i her z 1886 The New Canaan Railroad Company will
sscee sealed proposals for the grading and masonry on
her road until Thursday, January 5 1851
A. r. COMSTOCK,
Chairman Executive Committoe.
Edward p. NORTH, Engineer.
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Broyet MAJOR Warren Webster, Surgeon United STATE
Army for ineitorous aud H. sins 4ished services a;
Harts Island md Iayida Bland, New YORK hsrhof.
where cholera prevailed, to dae from September -,
1855
Brevct Major Gcorvo " HcGli Sssistsn, Surgeon
United States Arfny FOR rnet0roaa and III sinnt SIZED
services ut Hart's island New I0rs nafhof wcre ebo.
era prevailed. TO date ffBm Septe'ntef p, 1850.
Brevet Major Joseph Z GiesoD Asssisnt Snrseor
United Slater Army, for meutpIons and asng died
services Al aat's Island Noa York Esrpor, where
cholc-n pre-, allied t. et,r ffoio sep,cmbcr - 1866
Broyct Mayor Henres ehe, Assistant Sturgeon
United states Army, for mertoricus and distinguished
services NJ Iybeo island and Savannah georgia, where
cholera prevailed, 10 ,late rom September y, isca
Brevet Major Charles X wDnc Assistant surgeon
United states Army t,r rneror,oue snd
services n Tyhes Island, Georgia where cholera pre-
vailed, to date troa september -, isee.
Brsvct Major George y Balon, Captain Va tho Ordnance
Department Unted states Amy, Cor faithful and meri.
torous services in tho odna,ce Department. 70 date
from March "a 1885
AMI Captain In the Thirteenth rguon, unitcd sisiei
inaplry for gallant and merorors services during tue
war y, date rom March "a. sos.
brcvet Major Henry u. Bristol, United States Army,
and Captain In the Filth rerment United sts milan.
try for faithful snd merorous services in New Mexico,
trolling the Navajoe iribo q Indians al tho Bcsqve Re
dondo, aud for his prasrvorthy erora in advancing
their condition from that 81 savages 70 that Of cvsed
men 20 date fr,m Msrcb H. 1905
Major Thomsp w sweeney ~ the Sixteenth regiment
rpiied States infantry, for gallant and trsrofous SER
vices during the war, H. date from March 10, 1895,
MAJOR Henry Judd. OF The United States Army, Tor
faithful and nortoricus services connected with the
mastering and disbaning Of veipn,ees armies Of The
United States, 20 dale iron November ID, 1868.
Major william =. Csslgblli. Of tho corps oI engineers
United States Army for faithful and neritofous rcrsicrs
during the var and particularly for his services IN the
defence % Cumberland Gap and tho ui0ror operations
OF Geacrai Norgans forces date from March II 1855.
Major Lieweliy yopes United states Army, for meri.
torous services durns the war; 70 dsse from March Is
lsos
Fac, Jlsasensns he ssccA rer'insrs United sssss
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ARMY AND NAVY CLAIMS.

A DDlTfGNAL BOUNTY NOW READY FOR PAYMENT
"A Soldiers bring IN your discharges Cdsh given al
good claims. GEO. W. MELVIN Army and Navy Banker
principal office AS South street. Roosevelt branol
o1ee "a Howory, coruer Canal
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Fortified as the radicals in Balti-
more were by every species of Chi
canery, stratagem and iniquitous
legislation to enable them to retain
the power which they acquired during
the war, they were defeated on Tues
day, and Maryland has been rescued
from their clutches.
One by one, the border States that
were temporarily crushed. beneath
the iron heel of the military despot-
ism which prevailed during the war,
are taking their proper positions in
the ranks of the conservative party.
Kentucky was the first to break loose
from the trammels of radicalism, and
IN due season Tennessee and Missouri
will do likewise.
But while (says the Richmond
1ames) all of the old slave States are
gravitating steadily towards ''conser-
-vatlsm, the old free States are be-
coming more and more radical each
day. New Jersey, FOR instance, so
long the most conservative of the free
States, gives melancholy evidence of
this tendency upon the part of all the
States North of Mason and Dixon's
line.
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MEETING ON ST. HELENA

MEETING ON ST.. HELENA On Sun
day last, a large congregation gathered
together on st. Helena Island, to lis
ten to the remarks of Chaplain NJ.
French, recently returned from a
lengthy Northern trip, in connection
with the Freedmen's Bureau. It was
estimated that there were about 2, 900
co!ored persons present, and a more
orderly assembly was never witnessed.
The Chaplain's remarks were received
with profound and absorbing interest
This church consists OF 800 mem
bers-12O being baptized on that day.
Rev. Demas Washington, their mi
mister, was formerly owned by Mr..
Coffin, and has learned to read since
his emancipation.
Chaplain French proposes to ad-
dress the colored people at different
places, to enjoin upon them their
solemn duty, strictly to perform and
fully carry out their contracts and
agreements. We wish him success.
Beaufort NeW South.
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IHE INTERNATIONAL OCEAN TELE-
GRAPH CoMPANY.-Wc understand
that this corporation, which received
its charter at the last session of Con-
gress, has already nearly completed
the manufacture Of it's ocean cable
and will, in the course of few davs
send out party to Key West. to lay
down the line from that point to the
Florida Peninsula. The company an
nounces its intention to have New
York and Havana in telegraphic com
mnnication by the middle of next
March, and there is fair prospect of
an early extension of the line to Pa
mama, thence through the entire chain
of West India Islands TO British
Guiana and Brazil, thus making all
those countries tributary to our com
merce. The last Treasury report
showed that the aggregate commerce
between those countries and the
United States amounted to 1924, 600. :
600, which doubtless would be greatly
augmented under any system Of tele-
graphic connection Another advan-
tage is anticipated by this proposed
ocean telegraph, in the information
which will be conveyed to marine in
surance companies when hurricanes
are raging in the tropics
NeU York: World.
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The CoTToN CROP IN ARKANSAS
A letter in the Little Rock ARK. J
Ners says:
Take the whole cotton crop, for
14O miles from Little Rock, on the
military road for 100 miles; and from
that to Centre Point, and it is the
most Inferior one that has been raised
in twenty years. On one plantation,
where they planted largely, do not
believe the crop will average 500
pounds to the acre. The owners.
however, calculate on an average of
600 pounds to the acre On this
place there is, in cotton, some 600
or S00sacres, 200 of which [ saw; and
If that part is an average of the whole
crop, it would not be out of the way
to put down the quantity at 800
pounds.
There are several reasons for the
short crop here. Among them, are
two or three rises in the Caddo, that
covered the larger part of the crop;
and to the overflow may be added
the unusual wet spring and early
summer months. Freedmen are en-
ployed on this farm, and [ under
stand the proprietors of the crop have
had much trouble to get them to work.
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MEETING IN ANDERsoN.-At o pub
lie meeting of the citizens of Ander-
son District, on the I'd instant, the
following resolutions were unani-
mously adopted:
Resolcea, That the impoverished
condition of the country, resulting
from the effects Of the war, the abo-
lition of slavery and The failure of
crops, imperatively demand relief
from the Legislature, either by the
adoption of an instalment law for the
payment of debts, or an annual civil
court for the collection of debts.
Resoleed, That imprisonment for
debt should be abolished, anda bank
rupt law passed.
Resolred, That if the General AS
sembly has not the power to afford
the relief indicated, that it is their
duty to call a Convention of the peo
pie, and refer the matter to that body.
Resolced, That the objects sought
to be attained by the District Courts
can be reached in a different and
cheaper way; and whereas economy
should be orr motto; therefore,
Resoloea, That our Representatives
in the Legislature be memorialized,
if within their province, to use their
efforts to have the Act authorizing
and establishing said courts repealed.
Resoloea, That all fee. bills should
be revised and adapted to the pre-
sent condition of the country.
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Work FOR CONGRESS-. s.-The New
York Herald cuts out work for the
next session of Congress. After re-
ferring to the revision of the tariff,
financial matters, &C., it says:
"With this programme of the bust
ness of the session, it is apparent
that Congress cannot afford to waste
its time in idle controversies with
the President, or in giving effect to
preposterous schemes of impeach-
ment which Wendell Phillips, Ben.
Butler, Senator Wade, ex-Judge-
Advocate Bingham and other fiery
radicals have been propo unding all
over the country. However much we
may disapprove of Mr.. Johnson's in
discreet language and bearing, he
has done nothing in the Presidential
Office that can be made even de-
cent pretext for his impeachment,
and we hope that, even if Bingham
keeps his vow, not to give rest to his
eyes, nor slumber TO his eye-lids,
until he has presented articles of i'm
peachment to the House of Repre-
sentatives, and if Stevens, and Bout
well, and Banks, and other radical
members stand by hin in the per-
formance of his vow, there will still
be found in the ranks of the Repub-
lican party itself sufficient number
of thoughtful, fair-minded, impartial
men to prevent the carrying out of
such an act of injustice. The Re
publican party cannot afford to run
SO great a risk; for it may rest assured
that the American people have too
keen a sense Of justice to endorse or
approve of the deposition OF their
Chief Magistrate, for no other cause
than merely to crafty a political pre-
judice or dislike.
eve reiterate our Belief, therefore,
that Congress will avoid a course that
would certainly ruin the Republican
party, and that might be fraught
with disastrous consequences to the
whole country; and we again give ex-
preston to the hope that, instead of
consuming its brief and valuable
time in such Il dangerous expert
ment, it will devote itself to the con
sideration and decision of those great
questions of foreign and domestic
policy which we have herein out
lined"
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BRAZIL AND PARAGUAY fur
ther dates have been received relating
to the war between the Brazilians and
Paraguayans. They are from Bra
lillian source. The sinking of the
Rio de Janeiro is confirmed. Her
commander and sixty-four of the
crew perished.
The Brazilians successfully stormed
fort held by the enemy, taking four
pieces of cannon, three flags and
quantity of ammunition. The loss
of the Brazilians in the assault was
200 killed and sos wounded; that of
the Paraguayans was much heavier,
as over 700 were buried by the Bra
zilians.
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The Common Council of Albany
have adopted resolutions looking to
practical aid to the Fenians; and the
Common Council of Troy, with the
entire appreciation of Mayor Flagg,
was to follow suit on the LIST. The
tenian Rife Association, held most
important meeting in Troy on the
ooth ult., and were i'll session again
on the 3lst. Everywhere the circles
OF the organization exhibit more of
Practlcal meaning in their attitude,
IN view OF the approaching possible
executions IN Canada, than ever was
known before. Arms are scatteyed
IN great quantities all alopo from
White Hall to Burlington, and a laroe
quantity are and have been a lone
time secreted on Canadian soil at ?
point not far distant from st. Albans.
Vermont.
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The MEXICAN QUEsT1oN.-A de-
spatch to the New York Herald, of
Monday, says:
Gen. Grant has at last-most pro-
badly per instructions from the Pre-
sident-taken up the Mexican matter
in earnest, and will attend to it with
zeal so far as he can be concerned
On Saturday morning, he invited
Senor Romero, the Mexican Minister,
to a confidential interview at his
headquarters, which meeting took
place and lasted for some time. After
Senor Romero's departure, there was
a staff meeting. What connection
this may or may not have had with
Mexican business, L cannot say. One
thing more: There is no reason to be-
lieve that the Mexican question has
been re-opened with France, but that
it remains just where the last pub
lished note from Drouyn de l'Huys to
Mr.. Seward placed it. The Govern
ment is waiting to see how the French
act up to the first of the coming year.
If at that time it is seen that there is
any bad faith exhibited or tendency
to duplicity, then such action will be
forcibly recommended as will insure
our feelings and interests to be re-
spected.
President Juarez has written let
ter, in which he again asserts his
unwillingness to consider any projects
looking to a cession of the Northern
States OF Mexico to tie United States.
Furthermore, it is we'll known that
some three years ago Don Jose Do
mingo Cartez came to this city, and
proposed, before the Executive, the
annexation to the United States of
the State of Chihuahua and States of
Mexico on the Pacific coast, in order,
as he said, to free them from French
Intervention, apd that Juarez in
structed Senor Romero to officially
deny that Cartez had the right to
make any such proposition.
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The last report Of the Commission
ers Of Emigration shows that the
number of emigrants who have ar
rived at New York during the year to
October II was 1874, 492. The ar
rivals to the same date last year were
149, ,237. The increase this year is
45, ,237 so far, and will doubtless ex-
ceed $4,000 before the close of the
year The total emigration of 1866
will probably be little under q
quarter of million.
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ONE OF THE WITNESSES AGAINST
THE SOUTH. H.-Horace Maynard, of
Tennessee, says that the Southern
people are unworthy of trust and
confidence, and Horace is IAN honor
able man." Hear what he says of
himself
81 am an Abolitionist. I was ac-
cused of being one when / first immi
grated to this State. The charge was
just. | was full and running over
with Abolitionism, but I denied it for
policy's sake. 1 am proud to-day
that have been classed among the
persecuted set, and deem it the high
est compliment to be denounced as
such. "--Speech at Athens, August 81.
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COLUMBIA.
Saturday Morning, Nov. 10, 1855.
The True Position OF the South.

The True Position OF the South.
We have never read more tri-
umphant vindication of the Southern
people than that pronounced by ex-
Governor Seymour, of New York.
We quote as editorial the following
remarks, which he made at a recent
political meeting in New York AL
luding to the insane but formidable
efforts to enslave and territorialize
the South, he said: "We have more
to fear from the South, if it accepts
the doctrine of subjugation, than we
even had to fear from its armed re-
bellion; we cannot enslave them
without enslaving ourselves. We
cannot have q Government whose
Northern face shall smile devotion to
the popular will, and whose Southern
aspect shall frown contempt, def
ance and hate to the people of eleven
States. The South has comparatively
little to fear from misgovernment; its
lands have been laid waste; its sys-
tenn of labor broken up; its homes
impoverished, and it's families thinned
by the sword. It has seen and felt
the worst. It can bide its time. X
1t is not wise or safe to trample upon
those who for years, with desperate
courage, held their ground against
the millions we sent to the field and
the thousands of millions of treasure
we spent In the contest"
The South can bide its time, and
as true as the everlasting hills rise
before the mornings sun in their
magnificent beauty, so sure will the
Southern States assert their rights.
Asa contemporary says, t'howevers slow
ly Gods mills may grind, our vigil
will not be without final compensa-
ton" The April sky is not more
variable than human destinies. One
year ago, the Italian groaned beneath
the Kaiser's heel; to-day, Victor
Emanuel holds the Quadrilateral, and
salutes the lions of st. Mark. The
astonishing vicissitudes of fortune
should make men tremble at iniqui-
tous exercise of power. Happy they
who thus permit admonishment,
thrice luckless they who receive con-
vlction, at the hands of an avenging
Providence.
We look with confidence to the
result of the present agitations. An
drew johnson, standing on the sure
basis of the Constitution and the
laws, will be enabled to overthrow
the deepest laid schemes of the Jaco-
bins.
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THE FREEDMEN. an evidence
of the great liberality of sentiment
of the community, and the desire of
our people to accord the freedmen
equal opportunities in labor, we
understand that freedman well
known in this community, by the
name OF Abraham Ruffin, formerly
slave Of Mr.. Hoyt, has had, in two
instances, large building contracts,
which he has executed in a manner
that repays the confidence reposed in
him. m.--tSumte,. Ne,cs.
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The RIGHT OF Ex. REBELS TO VorE
IN New YoRK.-In the Supreme
Court, in Brooklyn, on Saturday,
Judge Gilbert delivered decision in
the case of Albert Wheeler against
the registrars of the Seventeenth
ward. The case was brought up on
motion for q writ of mondamus to
compel the registrars to registrar Mr..
Wheeler's name as voter. They
had refused to do so, on the ground
that Mr.. Wheeler had been surgeon
in the rebel army and a traitor to the
Government. Judge Gilbert decided
that while his inclination would lead
him to disfranchise any man who had
been IN arms against the Govern
ment, yet that there was no law in
existence under which it could be
done, and he therefore granted the
writ.
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The Result of the Elections.


The best resume of the elections
held last Tuesday we find in the
Richmond Times, of Wednesday. 1t
will give our readers O pretty good
idea, not only of the result, but of
the effects on the present political
condition Of the country:
''Twelve States, on yesterday,
passed judgment upon the issue
which has been raised between the
President and Congress. New York,
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland,
Missouri, Michigan, Minnesota, Wis
consin, Illinois, Kansas, Massachu-
setts and Nevada make up the dozen.
Of these States, Maryland and Mis-
souri, deeply and nobly sympathize
with the South, but the voice of their
best citizens has heretofore been
stiaed by registry laws, which were
enforced during the war by Federal
bayonets, and are now sustained by
the most brazen and atrocious out
RACES and frauds. Of this sort of
lawlesnessness, we have just had a
precious specimen in Baltimore, and
doubtless in many parts Of Missouri
there was enough of it on yesterday.
In all the rest of the twelve States
which voted on yesterday, radicalsm
has been running riot for many
months; except in New York, New
Jersey and Delaware, and in the EN-
pire State, the great city of New York
of late has opposed brave but in
variably unsuccessful resistance to the
radical agricultural districts, where
the soul of old John Brown seems
to be always marching on With
these exceptions, Massachusetts is
the type of all the rest, and that
State, although perpetually Boosting
of her morality, piety and intelli-
gence, yesterday doubtless elected O
notorious thief and disgraced coward
to Congress, because of his hostility
to the Southern people
Except slight gains, which were
anticipated in New York and New
Jersey, no one expected anything
but defeat and continued reverses to
the conservative party in the cleo
tions on yesterday. The loss of q
member Of Congress here, or gain
there, will in no respect control or
change the complexion of the next
Congress. Of the ninety-one mem
bers of Congress who were elected on
yesterday, we think it probable that
at least seventy-fve were Republi-
cans. In the seven States in which
elections were held some weeks ago,
sixty Republicans were elected and
twelve conservatives. OF the present
Congress of one hundred and ninety
three members, one hundred and
fifty are Republicans, and forty-three
are Democrats or conservatives. We
think the probabilities are all in favor
of the strength of the Republicans
being just as great in the next Con
gress as it is in this. They will pro-
badly have q surplus of at least TWEEN
ty-fve over the thirds, which
enables them to bid defiance to the
veto of the President. Congress is
now omnipotent, and a worse des-
potism never scourged any country,
age or people. The atrocities of tie
thirty tyrants, and the monstrous
vices of the French Assembly, in
the days of Danton, Marat and Ro-
bespierre, promise to find a parallel
in the revolutionary body which now
riots in lawless power at Washing
ton"