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HEADQUARTERS TH1RD MILITARY DISTRICT,
GEORGIA, ALABAMA AND FLORIDA,
.~rr. Inn 19 1863

HEADQUARTERS THIRD MILITARY DISTRICT,
GEORGIA. ALABAMA AND FLORIDA,
ATLANTA GA. Jan, 19, 1868.
Charles j. Jenkins, MiiedgeUlNe, Gd.:
Sm-I have received with profound regret
your communication of the 10th instant, IN
which YOU decline to accede to the request
made in mine of the 7th instant: AS cannot
but consider your action as failure to co-ope-
rate with me in executing the laws known as
the Reconstruction laws Of Congress, and as l
am further advised you have declined to pay
the salary Of NJ. s. Bigby, Sohcitor denerai OF a
the Tallapoosa Circuit, on the ground TIT. that
said officer having been appointed by the Mill
tary Commander Of the Third Military Dlst1ct,
YOU cannot recognize the validity OF his ap-
pontment, I am forced most reluctantly to
view your actions as distractions to the execu-
ton of the Reconstruction laws, and have no
alternative but to remove you from your ofhce,
as YOU will see 7 have done by the enclosed
order. I do not deem myself called upon to
answer the arguments Of your letter. The
issue is very plain between us. must require
the acknowledgment Of theHvalidity OF the Re-
construction laws, and you plainly deny them
as having any binding force on your actions.
Both of us are acting from 8 conscientious
sense of duty, but the issue is so plain and dl-
rect that all hope Of harmonious co-oPeratlon
must be abandoned.
With feelings Of high personal respect, and
with sincere regret for the course feel myself
compelled to take, 1 remain, most respectfully,
Your obediant servant.
49, GEORGE G. MEADE,
Major-General Commanding.
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Consignecs per South Carolina Railroad,
january IL.

144s beles Cotton, 122 bales Mdze, 853 bags Grin,
81 bbls Rosin car Hides, car Cattle IL cars L,m
ber and Wood, &c. To Johnston, Crews CO, j.
Rodgers Co. Davis, L Jeffers 20, H Bisciiof
4 CO, Adams, Frost i Co, Robson, Mantous &
Co. Stoll, Webb Co,,G Waller & Co, o Reeter,
W Roach, W P Bowling Co, L Potter, ] Wiley &
Co, G q Hoppock, Mowry & Co. A Salinas, ] y
Sloan, Railroad Agent Klatto Co, r Mure Co,
Gibbes & Co, W Williams Co, N Averil, Ssen-
house l. Co, Goldsmith Son, Thurston Holmes,
L D Desaussure. W B williams, W Dukes & Co,
fraser Dill, ] Pringle. d Jennings & Co, Willis
& Chisolm, j M Eason. E j Wiss Co, EnsloT'
&C, H Kuck, E yelling, Orphan House, Dwye', K
II Harney.
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From this Port.


Steamship Manhattan, woodruff, New York, Jan IS.
Steamship Falcon, Reed, Baltimore, Jan II; M
was detained IL hours by ice In the bay. i
British ship Pioneer, Shackford, Liverpool Dec 80.
Cleared for this Port.
Steamship Miami, Mclaughlin, at New York, Jan IA.
Steamship Champion Lockwood, at New York, Jan
IA
The Gorilla, jones' for this port, entered outward at
Liverpool, Dec %.
,,chr Watauga, Munroe. at Philadelphia, Jan II.
Schr Lilly, Francis at New York, Jan II.
Sailed for this Port.
The Sophie. Muller, from Leith, Dec 49,
schr D B warner, Horton, from Providence Jan H.
Memoranda.
The steamship Alliance, from Philadelphia for this
port was at Newcastle Del on the 10th INST detain-
ed BY the ice, and expected to sail from there on
that day.
The schr Nellie Bowers, from this port for Boston,
arrived at Tarpaulin Cove, Jan 13
The schr Donna Anna, Chnse, from Cardenaa for
this port, was spoken off the Bar on THURSDAY ast
by Pilot Boat No g. and ordered to Newport, 4
LIVERPOOL, Dec so-The Amelia, Conner, from
Charleston, s O. arrived here, reports IN Lat A y,
Ion 81 W, experienced hurricane from WSW %
ENE, beginning at P NJ and ending at ID on tue
9th hove to under bare poles on the starooaro taeK
and labored and strained much that 1t caused ner
To leak badly At times the sea broke al over nor
filing the decks and washing many things oVerpoard
On the 10TH in Lat AZ N, lon 46 w, the weather THICK
shin running under close reefed topsails, at
struck heavily against something. supposed 10 De
part of wrecked vessel. At Am passed through q
large number of large logs OF timber from 6O 70 W
feet in length.
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Microscopical examination of the dust and
ash that accumulates in the fues Of furnaces
has revealed many curious facts as to the shape
and color assumed by the minerals OF which it
is largely composed.
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,Spefial notifes.

= @ OFFICE CHARLESTON GAS LIGHT
COMPANY, JANUARY 7, 1sss.-The Board Of d.
rectors of this Company having declared dividend
of FIFTY CENTS PER SHARE on the Capital Stock
OF this Company the same will be paid to Stoskhold-
ers on and after the Goth instant.
f The Books for Transfer will be cloaed from date
until the Goth instant. or
January Secretary and Treasurer.
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Passengers.

Per steamer Emile, from Georgetown S C-fdiss
Lachicotte, F Parker d q Parker II Read :
Houseman, - Tanis, Smith, F Lachicotte, Hiss
Mustard Miss Tucker, Mrs Aeriot, Mrs Rainey, -
Samneon
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CONGRESS- AND THE SUPREME
COURT.

IMPORTANT DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF REpREsEN-
TATrvEs ON THE BILL ABRDaINa THE
POWERS OF THE SUPREME COURT.
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Consignees per Northeastern Railroad,
Januarysl7.

500 bales Upland and 28 bales Cotton, n Ibis
Naval stores boxes Tobacco, Rough Rice, Mdze, &c.
TO E Rodgers Co. n Gersghty. Adams. Frost
Co. Mowry L. Co. Williams 20, q B1schof 20,
Stoney, WAGNER, Heath & Monsees, W Hasklrs,
L Hertz Co. G Pritchett Mazyok Bros. RisleJ 1
Creighton, F Sawyer o RI eder, Ravenel L Gu, q
Davis M Goldsmith & Son.
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FOR NEW YORK.

erh THE STEAMSHIP sARAaossA,
NR4EYlFg Captain N. B. CRowKII. will leave
LE7MlZfEitA Vanderhorst Wharf, on Sdtu' day,
sa1E.esszGsm January 18th, 1858, at 2Go'elock
P. n.
BnlsIAdtlg for signatures must be presented by
IL O'Clock on that Isy. . RAvENEL & co. Z.
January il -r-..-. .l...
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january 10

70 xay ROYAL HAVANA LOTTERY
cAsHED AND INFORMATION FURNISHED.
The highest rates paid for DOU1LooNs and all
kinds OF GOLD AND SILVER.
TAYLOR & CO., Bankers,
No. 16 Wall street,
October 10 1yr New York.
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FGR GEORGETOWN s. G.
TOUCHING AT SOUTH ISLAND, KEITHFIEID
AND WAvERT,T Mills - -.-sttI

- ., AND WAYERLf MILLS. ~ =
nE-A THE FINE STEAMER EMI-
.Gss:si.G52S LIE, Captain ISAAC DAVE, will
receive Freight This Day, at South Commercial
Wharf, and leave as above on Monday Morning, the
Goth instani, at O'Clock. - .-e'
Returning will leave Georgetown on Wednesddy
Morning. 2fd inst, ate O'Clock. o. ~ 80
/ All freight must be prepaid. 20 sr ~
No Freight received after sunset. %,
For Freight or Passage, spply to
SRACKELFORD & KELLY, Agents.
iI l;s1-,' No. Boyces Wharf 1.
Januarya8 '3it-~ fr,t- ss-,. y So
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Things in South Carolina.

RICE PLANTATIONS SCARCITY OF MOMENTUM
GUS NTEREsT-wHrTE LABoR--NEdRoEs--
COTTON oRoP-PLANTATIoN CURRENCY.
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NEW YORK AND CHARLESTON
STEAMSHIP IINE.-FOR NEW YORK.

STEAMSHR lNE--FUK NEW YORK.
a~h THE SPLENDID SIDE WHEEL,
NkA|YSs0 steamship CHARLESTON, Captain
LN7MNl5IBS BEnRY, viii leave Adger's South
@2zG szs Wharf on Saturday, the 18th inst,
OF ~ o'cloUk 2. N.
For outward Freight engagements spply to
COURTENAY & TRENHOLM, cornsr Adgar.s
Wharf and East Bay. ,;-.,. 81,
For Passage and mstters pertaining to inward
Freights, apply to STREET BROTHERS & CO.,
No. "a East Bay. y5 @tEt8-s ',it--
siaHaT e51RFHsaa RaGEHEas 4REsHoHa.} GSI} Agents.
January IT .i - 20 --'ds' ii y
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THROUGH TICKETS TO FLORIDA,
By CHARLESTON AND SAVANNAH. STEAM
PACKET LINE VIA BEAU
FORT AND HILTON HEAD-wEEKLY J.
VIA BLUFFT0N. s..,5-
...s.,T f91.rntt .ttfi-.---.
STEAMER PILOT BOY. !. :. :. Capt ". T. MoNMry.
STEAMER FANNIE. .Cspt +. PKax.
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FOR PALATKA, FLORIDA,
VIA SAVANNAH, FERNANDINA, JACKSONVILLE,
AND ALL LANDINGS ON THE ST. johns
RIVER

.rDA STEAMERS DICTATOR AND
,Esas19E5Z@ p CITY POINT, viii leave Chsrieston
everJ 7Iisddy and Friday Euenings, st O. O'CLOCK.
for above llaces and Savannah every Wednesdoy and
Saturday, ct O'Clock P. H.
Steamer DICTATOR, Capt l. n. CoxHrrEa. sails
Tu<sddy Lpcning.
Steamer CRY POINT, Capt s. ADKINS, sails FRI
day Evening.
Of ]. D. AIKEN l. CO., Agents, 5;
JanuaryS South Atlantic Wharf
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nfr~sS ONE OF THE ABOVE STEAM
.Eseas&1EZs asssssaEZ ERs Will leave Charleston every
Monddy and Thursday Night ct - o'clock; md
Savannah every Wsdnsddy and Saturday MorTa-
ING, at o'clock. Touching at Blufton on Nor.
day. trip fiom Charles In. and Wednesday, trip nom
Savannah. - ," .-s -
All Way Freight, also Blunton wharfage, must be
pre- paid. 1910.
For Freight or Passage, apply to y -l.5.i.5..
John FERGUSON, Accommodation Wharf,
January 16 fi-ts- ~
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GREENVILLE AND COLUMBIA RAIL
ROAD Z

ON AND. AFTER FRIDAY, DECEMBEh eIH
Passenger Trains will run daily, sundays e1-
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PORT CALENDAR.
Marinf l1ews.
PHASES OF THE NC

Port of Charleston, January 1s
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Steamship Manhattan, woodruff, New York, Jan 13.
Steamship Falcon, Reed, Baltimore, Jan IL. 1 P M
was detained IL hours by Ice in the bay.
British ship Pioneer, Shacford, Liverpool, Dec 80.
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constitutional.
Let them do 80, and there will be another
appeal to the people. He WAS prepared to
accept the ISSUE and to say that the funda-
mental law could be changed without the con-
sent of the ten States that had raised their
hands against this government He was ready
to 20 to the country and fight at the polls upon
that issue, and abide the consequences IN
spite Of the threats af the gentleman. he
wanted the gentleman MIR. MarsbaW to un,
derstand that he was ND more prophet OF God
or the people upon this subject than any other
man of his statute.
MIR. WILSON, Of Iowa, at this point, demand
ed the previous question upon the bill and
amendments, and it was seconded.
Mr.. WOODWARD, Of Pennsylvania, argued
against the bill.
Mr.. HUBBARD, Of Connecticut, coatended
that the House could rot pass the bill because
the Supreme Court was equally o coordinate
power in the governm snt. Congress and the
court derived their existence from the same
source, and Congress- could not, therefore,
abroeate any of the powers Of the court
Mr., WILSON closed tho debate by speaking
in favor of the BILL after which the question
was taken, and MIR. Williams amendment was
rejected by yeas Is, nays l24.
MIR. WILSON'S amendments we're then agreed
to, and the bill passed by vote Of 1l6 yeas to
SO nays.
MIR. GARFIELD, of Ohio, introduced bill to
reduce the military ooace establishment By
dropping one of the lIaj Generals one
to be dropped to be the one last commissioned
prior to January 1, 1868.
Mr.. GARFIELD moved suspension of the
rules to have the bill considered at this time,
but as it WAS evident that this would be pre-
vented by dilatory motions, the bill was with
drawn, Mr.. Garfield giving notice that he
would call 1t up next Monday.
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Good News of General Meade.

From the Washington National Intellfgencer.
We observe that General Meade reports to
General Grant that he will distribute the
troops in his department with view to aid
the civil authorities to keep the peace during
the approaching election. They should have
been so distributed all along back for the pur-
pose of aiding the civil authorities in keeping
the peace. General Meade now recognizes the
disposition of the civil authorities, who were
once Confederates, to keep the peace. He pro-
poses to aid them. The radical demagogues
pronounce them rebellious, and aiders and
abettors of all sorts of crimes upon the negroes
and carpet -baggers. General Meade gives the
lie to all this by his admission that he will aid
the civil authorities to keep the peace. There
would have been no great collisions, with
bloodshed, in the South, had troops been used
by certain mercenary generals and subordi-
nate officers who have turned their backs
upon the honorable sentiments that govern
most soldiers of the army, for the purpose of
preventing menaced outbreaks, by having
troops ordered to the spot, suitably prepared,
for the purpose of preventing resorts to force
by hostile elements of population.
But this has been habitually avoided by
such generals and subordinate officers, in
order that disorders, mobs, and outbreaks
might arise, to the end that, by distorting or
utterly falsifying the facts, political capital
might be had for the radical demagogues of
the North.
What care such men about bloodshed, when
Stanton and Grant were guilty of the infamy
OF instructing General Butler to make nego-
tiations "purposely offensive" to prevent
exchanges of prisoners In the great day OF
the end of earthly things, these men, and all
like them who were particsps criminis in the
awful guilt referred to, will receive that con-
demnation that human tribunals of justice are
powerless to punish at all, much less in the
fearful manner that they should.
These characters can have nothing but all
consuming misery, in view Of what must be
the ever present thought Of guilt, that nearly
all who died at Andersonville and other South
ern prisons could have been preserved 80 their
country, relatives, and friends, had they but
have complied with the proposition of the
Confederate authorities to give over the pri-
soners at those points without exchanges.
All the history OF human atrocity in wal
bears no comparison to the murderous policy
of Stanton and Grant, who said to Butler
''make negotiations in these matters purposely
offensive" no matter II Union prisoners dc
suffer and die, without medicines, or food, oil
clothing, as asked of us by the Confederate
Government, with propositions to pay for them
| in gold.
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The Southern Electoral VOte-The Presi'
dent and the Military.
Fr0n, the ". Y. Herald.

From the ~ p. Herald.
President Johnson on Monday issued an
order to army officers in command in the seve-
raj Southern districts, defining their duties in
regard to the elections, and calling their atten-
tiOn to those provisions of law forbidding any
interference or intimidation on the part of the
military or naval forces at such times. In this
President Johnson is right. Many of the
military commanders have entirely misunder-
stood their duties and made themselves ridicu-
lous. Their province is to preserve the peace
and aid in suppressing riots. II the people
of the unreconstructed States choose to vote
for Presidential electors the military have no
right to interfere. Whether the votes OF such
States will or will not be counted is altogether
q different matter. But the blundering folly
of military commanders and uneasy politicians
who are making SO much fuss over the cleo
toral votes of the South, lies in not compre-
hendiDg the fact that the ajority for General
Grant in the loyal States will be so over
whelming that it could make no difference in
the grand result II every ex-Rebel State, re-
constructed or unreconstructed, were to be
counted in favor of Seymour. Such con-
cession would only make Seymour's vote a
little more respectable in point of numbers
than McClellan's. The loyal States will de-
cide this election with unanimity even
greater than that with which they re- elected
abraham Lincoln, and the Southern electoral
V0te could not alter theverdict. were it to 20 to
the effort. S- P-NN' 40
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party. and predicting Its success in that State
and throughout the country"
--Messrs. Herschel v. johnson and Robert
Tyler are both consistent advocates of a
"White Mans Government" and as such
stood by the Shareholders Rebellion from first
to last. Tyler was particularly active in
securing the secession of Virginia, though we
did not hear Of his heading any bayonet charges
on the Boys in Blue until now. He 'pre-
dioted the success" of the Confederaoy, but
that didn't prevent its collapse; nor will his
confident prophecies help Seymour to an
election.
least two thirds of the Boys in Blue in that city
will vote for MI. Seymour, aud have Joined the
Jack son Legion within the past three weeks"
Certainly | II was Announced" in 1864,
by the New Haven Register and its kin, that
two. thirds of the Boys in Blue would vote for
their able and beloved ex-commander, George
b. Mcclellan, for President, rather than for
the backwoods lawyer, Lincoln; but they
didn't. He who imsgines that soldiers who
then voted for Lincoln over Mcclellan will
now vote for Seymour over Grant must sup
pose that they have queer tastes.
''The Hon. John w. Wilcox. late radical cam
didRte for Congress in the 'Mariposa,' Califor-
Ma District, has come out for Seymour and
The only "ste radical candidate for Con-
gress in the Mariposa District, California, " is
not John w. Wilcox, but Timothy G.. Phelps,
who is hard at work for Grant and Colfax.
Some folks should have good memories but
haven't. This Wilcox may possibly have
dreamed that he wouid be "radical candidate
for Congress-" but seeing that he isn't he
takes his little revenge on mankind in general
by going for Seymour and Blair.
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Minister Johnson,

From the N. Y. Commercial advertiser,
Mr.. Reverdy Johnsons short career as a
representative of the United States in Eng
land has hardly justified the high expecta-
tions that were formed of him in that capacity.
He is entitled to great deal of credit for his
efforts to strengthen the amicable feelings
that ought to exist between the two countries,
and it is to the credit of the English press that
1t so fully appreciates his readiness to forgive
and forget the petty vexations that cost his
countrymen so much anxiety and so many
losses during the dark hours of the civil war.
There Is great deal in the history Of the last
few years which Englishmen would naturally
desire to cover with veil of oblivion. They
are even ready to pay our little bill for the
Alabama claims, provided we say no more
about it. There is, of course, nothing to be
gained by keeping old sores spen too long,
and Minister JOhnson's surprising magma
nimity in this respect naturally draws out the
gushipgs Of the English heart.
But there is such a thing as having too
much of good thing, and there is a growing
conviction on this side of the Atlantic that
Minister Johnson has a little overshot the
mark. In the first place he has been ipjudi-
ci0us in leaving himself and his country open
to assaults like those of the Confederate sym.
pathizing R0ebuck, and was in too great a
hurry to reply to indignities of which an
American minister should properly take nc
0fhclal c0gnlzance.
1t is only when we contrast the course ol
Mr.. Johnson with that of Charles Francis
Adams that we realize how much Americans
are indebted TO the latter gentleman. Mr..
Johnson, in quiet time, and ia smooth wafer,
has made more disagreeable stir within few
weeks than Mr.. Adams made during as many
years of stormy waters. The latter conducted
the most difficult negotiations, in a most ex-
citing period, without involving himself in
personal broils, and never gave an American
citizen abroad reason to blush for him or his
country. 1t is not too late for Minister John
son to initiate the example OF his predecessor.
Let him keep within the line of his proper
business, collect the Alabama bill as soon and
as quietly as he can, and abstain from ambi-
tious efforts to influence public opinion by
irregular methods. By this means he May
contrive to get over the balance of his career
with credit to himself and honor to his coun-
try. English opinion would not tolerate Minis
ter Thornton if that gentleman were to lay
himself open to insult by accepting an invita-.
tion from New Bedford corporation if com.
posed of the victims of Anglo Confederate pri
vateers. Yet this is precisely similar to what
Mr.. Johnson has done, and all the brilliancy
of his retort to the snappish Roebuck car
scarcely atone for the original blunder in hiG
representative capacity of accepting the ques
tiopable hospitalities Of the Sheffield Munici
pality, before his credentials were presented
to the Engl lish Government.
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lively, TO prevent a proceeding at Variance
with the spirit of the law, necessarily tending
to excite disturbance and imperative In rela-
ton to the election of President. Let Mr..
johnson keep off his hands, aud allow those
who are charged with the maintenance OF
order to perform their duty effectively. There
are already more than sufficient explosive
materials in those States, and the best thing
he can do is to abstain from encouraging the
lswless and disloyal element which waits but
for his sanction to begin its work.