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A Wheeling p. r says: We heard,
yesterday, of young man in this
city who is but twenty years of age,
being married, few days ago, to n
lady only sixty-one years old. 4 gay
couple, that.
The medal proposed by the work
ing people of France, in honor of
Abraham Lincoln, was presented to
Mrs. Lincoln on tn 7th inst, without
any show OF ceremony.
The first house in Scdalia, Nilsson
II, was built in 1860. Statistics lust
published in the local papers show u
population Of 3, 500.
It is believed that the emigration
to America from Ireland and the Con
tinent, the coming spring and sum-
mer, will be the greatest on record.
immigration is still pouring into
Texas from all parts of the older
States.
There were nineteen weddings in
Concord, n. H., on Christmas day.
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Two cereremonials Of great interest
recently took place in Paris. At the
Hotel des Invalides the veterans and
pensioners assembled in the chapel,
around the remains of Napoleon T.,
twenty six years having elapsed since
they were brought back from st He
lena, by the order Of Louis Philippe.
On the same day, at the Chapel of
the Sorbonne, the few remains there
are left of Cardinal Richelicu were
returned to the splendid mausoleum
IN which they were laid over two cen
turles ago, and from which they were
taken by the mob during the revolu-
ton. The restoration of the bones
to their resting place was witnessed
by the celebrities Of France amid
great pomp.
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FREEDMEN Go1SG.-The Sumter

FREEDMEN Go1SG.-The Sumter
ITdtchnaae says:
The labor question. in our District,
remains still in very unsettled con
dition. Very many of our planters
are unable yet to perfect their plant
ing arrangements for the present year.
Great restlessness and desire for
change have been manifested on the
part of the freedmen, and many
plantations have been entirely evacu-
ated oy them. In some instances,
they have left without alleged COM
plant or grievance, and where their
earnings were largest from the years
labor. There will, no doubt, be less
land cultivated the present than was
the past year. 1t is to be hoped, how
ever, that better seasons and better
cultivation will largely increase the
product.
The kingstree .Shn' has the follow
ing on the same subject:
For the past two weeks, orr village
and its surroundings have been in
tested with the negroes who are con
Sregatlng here preparatory to mi
grating to Texas, and we believe some
are destined for Florida Among this
mass OF bone and sinew, may be seen
the gray haired, decrepid old men
and women, tottering with age and
infrmity, and the infant at its mo-
theIs breast. We feel solicitude
for these poor, ignorant wanderers,
who have been reared among us.
They are carried away with the idea
Of going to what they are told is q
better country, and many of them,
we believe, with the notion that peo-
pie can live there without laboring.
they are enjoying themselves, appa-
rently, at this time, if one may Judge
from the manner in which they lounge
about. They are to be seen at almost
every street corner, with q piece Of
bacon, and a ludicrous grin On their
countenances, Indicative Of a full
stomach and nothing to do. Many
of them, no doubt, think the day Of
''Jubalo am cum
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STATE OF FEELING HERE. A spc-
cial despatch to the E'reuing Post
says that Gen. Sickles' testimony be-
fore the Congressional Committee,
in relation to affairs in South Caro-
lima, is very strong. He declared
that many Districts in South Carolina
required constant military control, to
secure to the freedmen any Of their
rights.
The General may be better inform
cd than we are on the condition Of
affairs, but. so far as our knowledge
extends, the freedmen ordinarily get
mo- than their rights. Perhaps it
was on this reported testimony (the
report Of which we doubt that the
order was issued to send Gen. Miles
colored regiment to this State.
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PROTEST AGAINST THE TARIFF =
We learn from some of the Maine
journals that the ship-builders Of that
State are proposing convention at
Augusta this winter to take into con
sideration the disadvantages under
which that branch Of manufacture
labors in consequence Of the present
tariff. 1t is proposed to petition
Congress to pass an Act allowing Il
drawback on many of the dutiable
articles which enter into the construc-
ton of ships, the ship-builders to
pay, in the first instance, the duties
on those articles, and when the Snip
is complete, to draw from the Go
vernment an amount equal to the
duties paid
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The trial of the negro Horace Gree
ley for the murder of r. S. Rhett,
Esq, last July, began Friday last, in
Charleston. It is the first capital
ease tried here under the new crimi-
nal code. The Court assigned U. S.
Senator Campbell and other eminent
counsel to defend the prisoner. The
evidence for the prosecution is chiefly
by negroes, and conclusive of the
prisoners guilt. The trial excited
much interest, the court room being
densely crowded. Horace was con
yicted Of murder, but his alleged ac-
complice was acquitted. Under the
provisions Of the new code, the pri-
soncr made statement Oh the wit
ness stand.
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The IMPEACHMENT The CORES

The IMPEACHMENT The CORES
pondent of the Baltimore Sun says:
The House Committee on the Ju-
dietary have examined several volun-
teer witnesses on the impeachment
question, but none have yet been
subppnaed.
1t is now stated by those who pro-
fess to have learned the plans of the
leaders in the impeachment scheme,
that, having come to the conclusion
that there cannot be a conviction in
the Senate, even though the Pre-
sident should be brought before that
body on an impeachment by the
House, the leaders mentioned have
determined to pass a law providing
that, when articles Of impeacimenU
are prepared, the party charged shall
be Immediately suspended in the exc
cution Of his official duties, and an
other placed in his office until the
trial is over.
Under such law, it is claimed the
mere passage Of the bill in the House
would suspend Mr.. Johnson, and Mr..
Wade would be selected as the all in
ieJ'im President. BY prolonging the
trial until the 4th of March, 1869,
Mr. Johnson would be etfectually le-
gislated out Of Office, and in the
meantime, the territorial and other
measures intended for the reconstruct
ton Of the South could be passed.
Such is the outline of the plan now
proposed.
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The New York correspondent Of
the Mobile -Aelre1tise1', in his account
of the New England dinner says:
''Neither Butler nor Banks were at
the table. There is Il rumor that the
proprietor of Irving Hall stipulated
that Butler should not attend. His
stock Of silverware is large and valu-
bic. The reason Of Banks absence is
said to have been an apprehension in
the minds of the committee that the
supply of liquors ordered would give
out early if he were at the table"
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COLUMBIA.
Sunday Morning, January 90, 1867.

.
The True ..Protcction'' for the South.
The New York World notices that
Mr.. Horace Greeley has been lcctur
ing in Pittsburg, and in other places,
on "Protection. He advised the
Pittsburgians mot to expect much
from the present Congress-, which
shows that Mr.. Greeley, at any rate,
has a proper appreciation of that
body. He believes, however, that
s:the South, within ten years, viii be
a strong pillafin favor of protection
tcr American industry" and, if he
believes that, hc will believe any
thing, even his subsequent statement,
that the protectionists "will be cna
bled to show the mass Of producers
in the great West that their interests
are bound up in the thrifty growth
Of manufactures.
1t is true, as the World says, that
the South is turning marked atten-
tiCn to manufactures. 1t is stated
that some seventy or eighty cotton
mills, besides some woolen mills, are
now in process Of erection in the
Southern States. The radical policy
towards this section of the country
has produced political apathy, and
all the energy of the people crops
out now in au cagerness to develop
their resources and to add to their
material wealth
The World truly asserts that, rs Il
manufacturer of cotton, the South
has every advantage over the North,
excepting capital, and capital never
hesitated to so where remunerative
returns are absolutely certain. The
great advantage at the South will be
the saving in transportation of the
staple. From the field to the mill,
possiblJ on the same ground, is a
shorter and cheaper transit than from
the field to the seaport OF freight
depot, and thence hundreds of miles
to the New England manufacturers
The World comes to the conclusion
that getting rid of the commissions,
the middle-ncn and transit of all
kinds, will be moro protection than
the most protective tariff the widest
protectionist ever dreamed of.
These views coincide with those
frequently expressed in the columns
Of the Picnic. We do not doubt
that the tax on raw cotton will result
in the production of fewer bales, and
the end may be that all the cotton
raised at the South may be manufac-
tured here, and leave the spindles
and operatives Of Lowell idle and
unprovided for.
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FIRE AT BEAUFORT, S. Con
Thursday, the 18th inst, fire broke
out in the large steam ginnery Of III.
NJ. Stuart, ST., at Beaufort, S. c., by
which the building was destroyed,
together with most of its contents.
MIR. Stuart succeeded in saving most
OF his machinery, together with
eleven bales of ginned cotton. Loss
about $40, 900; insurance $4,000.
Charleston Courier.
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CoRoSER's INQUEST THE BODY FouyD "
FISHERS PoND.-C0roncr Walker having
received information with reference to the
finding of y body in Fishers Mill Pond, or
Thursday last, he immediately proceeded
to investigate the matter, and, it is be-
loved, has been successful in clearing up
the mystery. 1t appears that the unfortU-
nate man was Dr. J. Rasky, q dentist, who
resided in Columbia several years ago, but
more recently in Fernandina, Florida
From the evidence adduced before the
jury, it appears that the deceased had been
laboring under mental alteration for some
time. He had been boarding at Nickcr-
sons Hotel few days, but was missed
from there about the Goth of December,
although he has been seen by different per
sons as late as Monday last-at that time
in the vicinity OF the pond where the body
was found-all of whom testify that he
acted very strangely. 10 marks of vio-
lenco could be found-a thorough examna-
ton having been made by Drs. Templeton
and Reynolds. The jury returned YER
dict that the deceased came to his death
from some cause unknown to them. The
body was taken in charge by the Ma4ons
and the religious denomination with which
the unfortunate man had been connected.
New ADVERTISEMENTS. Attention is ca.
cd TO the following advertisements, which
are published this morning for tie frsl
time:
Columbia Lodge Funeral.
DR.. II. w. Gibbes- s-Removed.
Columbia Varieties Ent crtainment.
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The following gentlemen have been
chosen as the Town Council of Lau-
reEs for the ensuing year: Intendant
DR.. John III. Henry. Wardens-
A. Mairs, John Kyle, !. J. Davis and
Edward Hix.
A new counterfeit twenty dollar
bill on the Fourth National Bank,
Philadelphia, has Gade its appear
ance in the West.
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The Methodist Centenary collec-
ton now foots up over s3,SOO, 900,
and it is not all in yet. 1t will pro-
badly reach 1000, 900 OF this sum,
Daniel Drew, of New York, gave
$500, 900; Mr. Baldwin, of Ohio,
$500, 900; Mr. Rich, Of Boston, SIS, :
900, and many others from $40, 900
to $500 EACH
Beecher's annual sale of pews and
aisle-seats at his church was held on
Tuesday night, the 9Th inst. The
first chance sold for $3.50. Premiums
were mostly four or five times greater
than the assessed valuation of the
various pews. The receipts from
pewlctting this year will exceed $1O,-
0OO
The citizens Of Lincoln, one OF the
richest Counties in Tennessee, are
making active efforts to build a rail
road from Fayetteville to Huntsville,
Ala, SO as to bring themselves in
direct communication with Memphis
via the Memphis and Charleston Rail
road
ANOTHER RAYMoND.-A correspon-
dent of the Tlibune, in writing from
Washington about measure, says:
bingham will make speech against
the bill tomorrow, but will vote for
1t. Funny dogs, those Congress-
men. Solomon i'll all his glory was
not much like them.
daily newspaper man, who has
just got out Of the traces, says he is
becoming quite well acquainted with
his family. He discovered, to his
surprise, that his daughter could play
upon the piano. He never had time
to discover the fact before.
The Mississippi papers take leave
of Gen. t. j. Wood, late commander
of the department, with many ex-
pressions of regret and many compli
ments paid to his official action while
discharging among them delicate
and difficult duty.
A white man and three negroes
were taken from the Green County
jail, IN North Carolina, on Tuesday
last, by body of armed men, and
lynched. They were charged with
outraging the person of Mrs. Mil
Ter.
Nearly all the presses OF the Paris
mint are employed in coming small
money for the wants of trade, the
pieces being 2f., IT,, SOC and 25c.
Several millions are struck off every
day.
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The NEGRO FARMING IN ALABAMA

The NEGRO FARMING IN ALABAMA
Speaking of negro farming in that
section, the Selma Messenger says:
Eve know number of negroes who
leased lands for last season, and went
to work upon them under favorable
circumstanccs-we do not know Of
one whose crop was sufficient to sub
sist him until Christmas"
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st. Michael's chimes will soon be
heard again, as the bells were shipped
from Liverpool for Charleston, on
their fifth voyage across the Atlantic,
on the Goth ult.
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ALABAMA. The Alabama Legisla-
ture rc-assembled on the 1lth. The
message Of Governor Patton is brief,
not occupying more than u half
column in the Montgomery papers,
and relates entirely to State matters.
His recent visit to the North, which.
it was charged at the time, had some
thing to do with politics and the pro-
posed constitutional amendment.
appears to have been successful in a
financial point of view, and to have
secured measure Of relief to the
suffering poor of that Commonwealth.
We copy the concluding portion of
the message:
In passing by Washington city, [
availed myself Of the opportunity of
making known, by personal repre-
sentations to the President and oecre-
tary Of War, the continued dcstitu-
ton which prevails in our State, and
the urgent necessity for further
assistance at the hands OF the General
Governmcnt. The application for
additional relief was favorably re-
spondcd to. An order was issued for
liberal amount of supplies for the
months Of February and March. ar
rangements having been previously
made for January. 1t is hoped that
by the aid thus generously furnished,
we Will be so far enabled to meet the
wants OF the helpless destitute during
the present winter us to be saved the
necessity Of supplying them by the
State in its depressed condition."
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EMIGRATION FROM ALABAMA. -

EMIGRATION FROM ALABAMA The
Marion ComnaonweaAh says: ''The
roads of Perry are filled with emf
grants going Westward. Seawell's
Branch, a mile West Of Marion, has
reflected the light of movers camp
fires almost every night for week
past. Some parts of Alabama are
becoming rapidly depopulated.
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"A LITTLE IN ADVANCE OF LEAF YEAR,
The following is ue'batjr1 copy of docu-
meat taken from pockct-book fou-d in
the streets, and which, it was afterwards
proven, belonged to freedman. The
writer must have thought that this was
leap year:
my Dear am ahelicsc to tell YOU nv
mind cud be a hapy sold in this world if
cud col you mind and you wood cold mo
yous when You look at this think on me
her love you so well your friend
Emmar to my dear Chalv
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The proffercd mediation Of Eng
land and France in the Para guayan
war having been rejected, the United
States has instructed its Ministers in
the portion OF South America where
the war is waSing to try to mediate
between the belligcrents. Brazil
seems to be the obstacle to peace
She is making enormous cxcrtions to
raise new armies and carry on the
war, and has thus far listened to no
proposals for mediation or truce, no
matter from what quarter they have
come.
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A New Enterprise.

and Richmond have formed them
selves into an association for the re-
lief of the widows and orphans of the
Southern States. We find the fol
lowing in the proceedings of the
! Richmond City Council last week:
"Gen. Rosser being introduced to
the Council, after paying Il handsome
t:ibute to the people of Baltimore
the ladies especially mentioned the
formation of Southern Orphan AS
sociation there, with the object Of
establishing al asylum for the or
phans of Southern soldiers and sail
ors. After due dcliberation on the
part OF the members of the Associa-
ton, it was determined to make Rich
mond the place for the asylum. He
had been sent on Us Il managing
director to make.a proposition to the
Council by which the funds of the
Association could be considerably en-
hanced. The house formerly occu-
pied by Mr. Jefferson Davis was
owned by the city Of Richmond, and
the proposition in view was that the
property be turned over to the .Asso-
clatlon at q stipulated price and upon
stated terms The Association could.
after getting possession of the pro-
perty, rattle it off at a great profit
He (Gen. Rosser) communicated with
the ladies of the Association in Balti-
more, and they succeeded iii securing
the efforts of a gentleman Of infu-
ence at Washington. That gentle
man had written him Il note, telling
him that there was good chance for
the release Of the property in sixteen
or eighteen days. During the discus
sion, it was shown that the house, lot
and furniture had cost the city, in
1861, S42, 200-S7, 200 Of which had
been paid for the furniture The
property had been assessed at S2S, 1876
IN 1861. Several propositions were
put to the Council and rejected, and
the motion of Mr.. Saunders, making
sale of the property to Gen. Rosser,
as agent for the Orphan Association,
for $40, 900, or S35,000 without the
furniture, was carried"
The plan for founding this asylum
is rs follows: 500, 900 certificates, of
81 each, will be sold, and on the LIST
May next, or before, if all the tickets
are disposed of sooner, a drawing
will be held in the city of Richmond,
under the superintendent of the
Mayor and committee of the Coun-
ell, at which 1000 prizes, none of
less than 500, Will be awarded.
Among the prizes to be awarded is
the above-named mansion, valued at
$4,000; the Stretford House, with
1000 acres of land, the homestead of
the Lee family and the birth place of
Gen. Lee, valued at $50, ,OOO; 1000
acres of land, adjoining the same
tract, valued at S5, ,OOO Besides these,
there are prizes of 200 pianos, 200
melodeons, 500 gold watches, 100
cotton gins, and 500 sewing ma
chimes. Gen. Rosser has been chosen
manager.
We hope the people Of the South
will give this enterprise their cordial
support.
ALABAMA.-Th Alabama Legisla-
ture re-assembled on the 1Ith. The
! MESSAGE of Governor Patton ic briaf
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ANOTHER WAR.-The Richmond

4 tHeco
We did not think that any man in
his senses would believe or avow that
the South was desirous of another
war Yet there are men at the North
who unblushingly avow that we are
preparing for another rebellion"
All the fools are evidently not dead,
and when such man as Beast Butler
gives currency to the accusation, he
forces us to doubt whether his Wis
dom exceeds his audacity.
The people of the North have been
dosed nj uuttSe0m with a good many
rough yarns about us, both by their
press and politicians, bat we 10 hot
think they are such stupid asses as to
believe (even when the assertion is
made by such veraciou5 prophet as
Butlcr) that we are contemplating
another war.
The Beast has been always noted
rs Very nervous and apprehensive
warrior, and, perhaps, like that stced
and danger afar Oft " A charge like
the one we have been commenting
upon is So snprcmely' ridiculous
and absurd, that it only excitcs q
smile in all who read it, and causes Il
feeling Of pity and contempt for the
folly or dishonesty of those who make
it. Will those wiseacrcs who dread
another rebellion please tell us how
we are to get up one? With most of
our young men slain OF manned; with
our arms gone, resources exhausted,
credit DESTROYED. and all our strong
places Sarrisoned by Federal troops,
does any sane man believe that there
is danger of another war? The man
who asserts such proposition simply
commits sclf-stultitication.
We borrow from an exchange the
following concentrated milk in the
cocoa-nut' of a recent affair in Mem
phis, occupying more columns in
the papers Of that city than we have
leisure to wade through:
Gone of tho Beecher family-Dr.
Peyton D. Bcecher, of Memphis
gotten into very ugly predicament.
He is not only in this ugly predica-
ment-he is also in Jail. Among the
adventurers who came South with
the Federal armies was DIR. Bcccher.
He stopped in Memphis. The pro-
pcrty OF DIR. Early, a Confederate
surgeon, was sold for United States
taxes, and Beecher bought it.
cater the war, DIR. Early went
back to Memphis, and attempted to
recover his property, offering to pay
all expenses. Fearing that he would
succeed, Mr.. Beechcr determined to
get him out Of the way, and hired .
fellow named Walker H Rockford to
murder him. Rockford, concluding
after while, that he could make
moro money out of Early than out Of
Beecher, made full confession Of
the conspiracy TO the former, not
knowing that four or five of the most
prominent citizens of Memphis were
listening to his story. Beecher and
Rockford were arrested, the grand
jury found true bills against them,
and they are now in jail. Beecher
has been one Of the noisiest of the
Memphis radicals since the war end
ed, ard hence nobody is surprised to
find him in the hands of the law, with
fair prospect Of going to the pcni-
tentiary.
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The Ph1nig office is on Main street, =
few doors above Taylor (or Camdcn) street
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tArM. AFFHAY.-Wc learn by passengers
Oh the Gcecnville Road that difficulty
occurred near Charpclrs Depot, on Friday
Last, between Stanmorc Chappci and
man namcd Payne, which resulted in tho
death OF the former and the ssvcre wound
ing of the latter A freedman was also
Killed III the atfray. We have not learned
the fell particulars, and therefore refrain
from further comment.