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LETTER FROM GEN. LEE.
HIS VIEWS AS TO THE MATERIAL
PROSPECTS OF THE COUNTRY.
The following letter is published:
LEXINGTON, VA, Sept. l3.


Dear. .Sir:-I have the honor to re.
oeive your inSitation to attend as an
honorary member Of the Commercial
Convention to assemble at Louisville on
the 18th Of October next. The impor
tant measur es proposed to be considered
by the convention will attract the earnest
attention the whole country, and feel
assured will receive the calm d,lihcration
which SO u,ouentous subject as the ad-
vancementof the interests ofaIl the State:
and the development of the wealth and
. resources Of each, require from Ameri-
can citizens. If We turn to the past
history of the country and compare our
material condition with that Of our
forefathers when they undertook, in the
face Of the difficulties which surround
ed them, its organization aud establish,
ment, it would seem to be an easy task
for US to revive what may be oppressed,
and to encourage what may BE- anguish
ing. in all the walks of life We shal
find it easy If we will cherish the same
principles and practice tht same virtues
which governed them. Every man,
however, must do his part in this great
work. lie must carry into the admin
istration ofhis affairs industry, fidelity
and economy, and apply the knowledge
taught us by science to the promotion
Of agriculture. manufactures aud all in
dustrial pursuits. AS individuals pros
per, communities will become rich, and
the avenues and depots required by
trade ard commerce will be readily con.
structed. In my particular sphere l
have toEatteno to my proper business,
which occupies so much of my attention
that I have but little time to devote t.,
other things. I am unable, therefore,
to accept your kind invitation, but am
happy In the belief that the enlighten.
ed delegates that will be present at the
convention will do all that can be done
for the good of the country.
Thanking you for the kind manner
in which yoar invitation has been ex
tended, I am, with great respect, you,
ohedient servant. R. K. LEE.
Col BLANToN DUNCAN, chairman Com
mittee of Arrangements
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was related to us few daye since: It
appears that couple of young men
were out in harvest field when heavy
thunder storm approached, and they
started towards the barn, one of them
carrying a pitchfork on his shoulder
A. the lightning flashed most vividly,
his companion asked him to put the fork
down as it was most dangerous to car
ry it. He replied that God Almighty
c"uldn strike him." and just as the
words were uttered he was struck dead,
the stroke mangling him in the most
dreadful manner. The fork tines were
melted and his boots were torn from his
feet. This may serve US another warming
to thnse who set at dr6ance the power
and authority of Him who sendeth and
directeth the lightnings.
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Advantages of the Piedmont.


1t is confined 10 Life Insurance only, and
oes not mix with the uncertainty OF other
usiness.
The rights of policy holders are clearly de.
fined IN its policies as PART OF THE
CONTRACT, and not left 10 OUTSIDE
PROMISES Of Agents.
Ii has no useless restrictions on residence
or travel: fully provides for the nom forfeiture
of its policies and places all on falr equality
as TO occupation. =.
1t has declared dividend to its policy hold
ers The first Eighteen months OF 40 per cent.
The late war taught many The heavy pen
atty OF beirg g separated from the Home Oitce
by the Companies forfeiting what had been
paid and and refusing 10 reinstate the policies
THE PIEDMOET" provides against this
IN HER POLICIES and all who may, by
any mishap or revolution. be separated from
The Office, the right TO reinsate policies
within one wear after intervening cause is re.
moved. or 10 be ENTITLED TO SAME
RIGHTS AS I'd NON-FORFElTURE.
AS THOUGH THE HINDERlNG CAUSE
had never existed, Mt the option oi the IN.
sured, so that no contingency can take from
her POLICY HOLDERS their just rights
THIS Is DONE BY NO OTHER COM
PANY.
II has paid all it's losses promptly without
waiting for the NINETY days grace, and
has never contested claim.
Parties contemplating insuring, are request
ed 10 examine our policies and compare them
with other companies before insuring.
The COMPANY has determined 10 esab'
hsh BRANCH OFFICE in SOUTH CAR
OLINA with President and Directors select
ed from Policy Holders of this State, which
will give YOU all the advantages of HOME
INSTITUTION as all the Premiums re-
ceived, will he left here and invested in your
own Stale.
The 'PIEDMONT" issues Policies en- the
Ordinary Life. Ten Annual Payment, Five
Annual Payment. Single Payment, Endow.
ment, Joint Life. Children's Endowment,
Return Premium, or any Table used by other
Companies. "
w. CLYbURN, Agent,
Camden, S. c.
J. R. sTEGER, Gen'l Canvassing Agent,
May l3. I'm
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Correspondence Of the Baltimore Sun.
THE FINANCIAL EXCITEMENT
- IN WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON, September 24.-There
was more excitemeutin financial circles
here to-day than has been witnessed tor
many months. At the banks, and es-
pecially in the vicinity Of the First Ma
tional Bank, on Fifteenth street, the
feeling was intense. Gold opened at
$50, and before half-past IL o'clock
bulletin boards at all the banks announ-
ced its steady rise until it had reached
l62. While the precious coin was 60
ing up, everybody who had any Of it,
from ten dollar peice up to hundreds
and thousands Of dollars, PISSED it over
the counters of the banks and took the
yreenbacks and national bank notes in
exchange.
Tie banks seemed all ready to pur-
chase, but they declined to sell dollar
in this market, feeling, doubtless, that
they had a better thing of it in New
Yoik, where they operated through 'he
agency of the telegraph wires. A good
many persons here, though, realized
cutie hands m, ly. At Il o'clock, how
ever, it was apparent that gold was fall
ins as rapidly as it went up, aud soon
the bulletin buards marked l36, but 1t
again rallied, and closing prices were
what they were in the mcrnina-ioO.
Tie cause of the fall Was tcl' gram
to Assistant Treasurer ButterdeId, at
New Nork, from Secretary Boutwell,.
directing him to sell four millions OF
gold to morrow and purchase four mil.
IONS of bonds. He did this at the ur-
gent solicitation, by telegraph, of mer-
chants of Boston, New York, and Phlla-
delphia, who represented that they ab-
solutely required the relief: There is
no doubt but that, if the law had per-
mitted it, the Secretary would have Or
dcrcd an immediate sale, and thus a
greater financial injury would have been
done to the "bulls," who created this
panic. '.-' ..-,'' :, en-,
It is expected that gold will be run
up higher, as the New York combina-
tion is an extensive one. There is about
$50, ,UOO,0O0 of gold in the Treasury,
but as $50, 100000 must be reserved
to pay the interest falling due in No
vcmber, the Secretary cannot throw
more than $50, 100000 on the market,
and the only danger is in the power aud
ability of the combination now operating
to buy that amount. Ifthey Can do 80,
they can put it up to any figure they
please, and hold it there until 1t suits
their own purpose to let it fall.
In 1866 combination similar to the
one now operating was formed against
Secrc arr McCulloch, and at that time
the ring purchased s35,0O9,00O. The
ring of 1866 was not near so powerful
as the one now operating, and hence it
is not doubted that all the gold the Co.
rernment can throw into the market
will be sPeedfiaiy 5otbbbioa aup' though tho
circumstance that gold is invited in
this country from Europe by the state
of the trade and the low rate of foreign
exchange and the additional fact that
large shipments of spcie to America
have already been made and are on the
way hilhcr, would seem to seal the fate
Of the combination.
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NAIL NOTICE.

UNTIL further no ice the MAIL for
the Rail Road will cl Sc at 5 o'clock,
A. NJ, each day. For Lancaster, at
{ o'clock, P. NJ, on Mondays and Fri
days. For Jefferson, at IL o'clock,
M. on Fridays.
OFFICE HOURS-from 9 A. NJ,
until l P: NJ. From 81 P. NJ to 5
P. NJ. Sunday's-from 81 A. M: to
10 A. NJ and from 5 p. NJ. to 3 +:
NJ. Also, half an hour after the mail
opens at night.
JOHN A. BOSWELL, P. NJ.
Sept. 81. u.
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The State of South Carolina,
KERSHAW COUNTY


BIZ James +. Sutherland, D. r.
WHEREAS, j. D. 1SBELL, made
suit to me to grant him Letters OF Ad:
minislration of the Estate aud effects OF
Charles Bar ey deceased.
These are therefore to cite aud ad'
muuish all and singular the kindred,
and creditors of the said Charles Bailey
deceased, that they be and appear be,
fore me, in the Court of Probate to be
held iu Camden on the 10th of Octo-
Der, uexr, after publication hereof, at ii
O'Clock in the forenoon, to shew cause
if any they have, why the said Admin
istruti.n should hot be granted
Given under my hand, this 29th day
OF September, A. d., 1869
J.F. SUTHERLAND, j P.
Sept. 30. 1t
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SHERIFFS SALES.
SHERIFF's OFFICE


CAMDEN, s. g., Sept. ~, 1889.
DY virtue of suudry writs Of 4. ia. 70
ID me directed and lodged, I win
proceed to sell in front of the Court
House in Camden, on the first Monday,
fourth day of October next, within
the legal hours of sale, the following
mentioned and described property TO-
wit: - ~
One House and Lot 10 Kirkwood,
running North $50 feet, East 264 feet,
West $50 feet. Bounded North by
lands of W. D. Anderson, East by lands
belonging to heirs Of ". A. Ancrum,
South by lands of DR.. Deas, West BY
Lyttleton Street. Levied upon as the
property of Stephen T. Robinson, at the
suit of j. j. McCarter. Terms Cash,
purchasers paying for stamps and pa
pcrs. J.P. BOSWELL, 8. K.C
Sept. l6. '.' -. 1t.
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IN EQUITY-Kershaw.

J. D. Kirkpatrick, admir-. us. James
Chesnut, ct al. ~
Petition to marshal ASSETS. ~
TN pursuance of an order in above sta
/ ted cause, the creditors ofJohn Ches-
nut, deceased, are hereby required to
present and prove their claims befor
me, at the Office of Leitner Il Dunlap
on or before the first day of October
next, or be 6ebarred from all benefit
of the decree passed in above cause.
j. D. DUNLAP, Special Master.
Feb. 4. I'd
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SoMETHlG IN THE WIND.-We shall
shortly have stirring times. Forty eight
iron clads are now in sea going condl-
ton. and are ready for use, and by The
18th of Dec mber next, from fifteen to
twenty sloops and t'igatcs will be ready
for service. Ia fact, then the navy will
be on complete war footing.
Baltimore Guzetie
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IN BANKRUPTCY. I'd
In the matter of Burrell Jones, Bank

rupt.
To 1ohom 1t may concern.
IN pursuance of an order from the Hon.
W. j. Clawson, Register 10 Bankruptcy
for the District of South Carolina, I
will sell at the Court House in Camden,
on the 3Oth day of September, Instant,
the following property to wit:
One Tract of Laud containing Two
Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty
Two Acres more or less, situate on the
waters of Little Lynches Greek, in the
County of Kershaw and State of South
Carolina, bounded on the North BY
lands of Seaborn Jones, South BY lands
of Robt. Kirkley, East by lands Of j.
J. Ogburn, West by lands of Seaborn
Jones and Hilton Jones. Terms Cash,
purchasers to pay for titles and stamps.
j. NJ. GAYLE,
Sept. 2.-3 Assignee. ;
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BRODIE g. 90.
Factors and Commission Merchants,
North ATLANTIC WHARF.
Charleston. .. G.

Charleston. =. G.
Liberal Advances made on Consignments.
REFERENCES.
Andrew Simonds, ESQ.,, President First
National Bank Charleston, S. c. Messrs.
Cameron. Barkley & Co, Charleston, 5, z
H. T.. Peak, Esq, General Superintendent ).
c. R. K. Charleston, S. c. Messrs. Cover
Cox, Markley L. Co., Greenville, S c. Hon.
James Farrow, Spartanburg. S. c. Hon. b
F. Clayton Anderson, S. c..
pMaj. E. E, SILL is our agent at Cam.
den, and will make liberal advances on Con.
signments TO our house.
Sert So. bm.
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TAVING the Largest and most COM
II plete Factory in the Southern
States, and keeping always on hand a
large and most complete stock of
DOORS, SASHES, BLINDS,
Sash Doors, Store Doors, Shutters,
Monldings &c., &c., I am enabled to
sell low and at manufacturers prices.
. N. B.-Strict attention paid to ship
ping in good order.
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Iu Orange County, N. G., a scallawag
named Tanny Hatchcock has had his
head shaved for swapping wives with a
negro.
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A TERRIBLE WARNINa.-The AL.
lance, Ohio, Democrat, re ates the fol-
lowing:
Gan incident of death by lightning
10 the neighborhood Of Youngtowa,
which occurred some two weeks ago,
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CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
9hsIsr 1s-a III EMEts11zzhHEEHzl
GIWW ~ u 1XYE W~

CHARLESTON, Sept. l6, 1869.
ON and after THURSDAY, Septem-
Der 10th, the Trains of the S. G. K. Il.
will run as follows:
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Er.pnrte, JOS. NJ. GAYLE, Assignee,
In Re Seaburn Jones, Bankrupt-Pe-
tition to sell Real Estate.
IN pursuance of an order of Court made
in the abnve stated case, August 18th,
1869, the Lien Creditors of the said
Seaborn Jones, Bankrupt. are required
to establish their liens bef re w. j
Clawson, Register, within thirty days
from the date of this notice, or br
AIRED from all benefit of the decree Tor
distribution tu be made in this case.
1t is further ordered, that within the
time aforesaid, they show cause, if any
they have, why the estate of the s'ld
Bankrupt should not be sold free from
incumbrance. j. NJ GAYLE,
Sept. 2-tf. Assignee.
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SPECIAL NoTI .E.-To parties in
want of Doors, Sashcs and Blinds, we
refer to the advertisement Of P. Z.
Toale, the large manufacturer of those
goods in Charleston. Price list fur
nished on application.
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DePASS & HAY, 5aa
ATLAWi
AND .t D..
SOLICITORS In EQUITY, q:

CAMDEN, s. q. ''9 -....'
BUSINESS will be attended to in all
parts of the State, in all of the Courts
Of the State, and of the United States
for South Carolina.
Office, Up Stairs, above Baum, Bros.
Store.
WILLIAM L. DEPAss,
J. THoRNwELL HAY.
Aug. 26. ON
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ASSiellee'S Notice.

ALL PERSONS INDEBTED To
DR.. Thomas J Workman, Bankrupt
by Note or Account, will make inme
diate payment to the Assignee. Tho'e
failing to do so by return d"y, the Case
will be put IN suit.
]. NJ. GAYLE, Assignee of
DR.. T. j. Workman.
Sept. 23-3t.
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Quinine.

JUST received a large lot of Quinine,
which we will sell cheap for Cash
Persons wanting this article had better
lay in supply for the summer, as il 10
likely to be higher
HODGSON & &DUNLAP. :.
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Photographs, AmbrOtypes,
AND i
FERREOTYPE s..

m HE undersigned Photographs Al.
tist of Charlotte, N. G., having e.
ted up SKY-LIGHT GALLERY in
Workman's Building, is now, prepared
to take all kinds Of Pictures. Those
wishing TO have their beauty counter
fei,ed, will have an opportunity to Do
so. No pictures allowed to leave the
Gallery unless perfectly satisfactory
Old Deguerreotypes or Ambrotypes
copied into any size large or small
Photographs aud Pictures put up neat.
ly, in Lockets, Breastpins and Rings.
Call soon as my stay is limited. -
Call aud see specimens at Workman's
Building, over Baum Bros. Store. :.
N. LANG,
June 10-tf. Photographer.
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SU1fNERsV spEECg I'M Kvnt.wn


Mr.. SUMNERs speech on the Alabama question
has created as much excitement and indigna-
tion in England as some of his old anti-slayery
speeches before the war created in the South
Day after day the British organs continue 10
denounce and condemn it. but it ia n curious
circumstance that following the example of the
old pro-slavery journals, they all fail to repub-
fish it. They prefer to msrepresont its CON
tents, and, after ascribing to t Imaginary ouali-
ties to maui away at the creature of their own
imagination, instead of letting their readers
know exactly what his position is. and then
attacking it in an open and manly way. John
Bull is worried by the consciousness that
he acted uniustly and ungenerously towards us
when the ''little onpleasantness" with the South
existed. When he thought we were poinp down
hill he did not hesitate to give lis hard kicks and
plenty of them, so as to make our position as
uncomfortable as possible, and to insure the
total destruction of the Union. He displayed
undue and indecent haste in recognizing the
Rebels as belligerents. He openly threatened
immediate war II we did not eat humble pic by
surrendering the Icaptured Rebel ambassadors.
Mason and Sldell. And, finding that we were
determined to give him no decent pretext for an
open declaration of war; he helped the South bv
blockade runners by furnishing supplies of arms
cruisers against our commerce, as effcctually as
if he had been the sworn ally of Johnny
Reb. He felt very happy, in view of all his
sins, at the prospect of squaring accounts on the
easy terms incorporated in the Johnson Claren-
don treaty. Against our manifold grievances he
would have trumped up a multitude of petty
claims, and it is not impossible that by an adroit
management before commission, he would
have demonstrated that in the final adjustment
of outstanding accounts, there was balance in
his favor or, at the worst, he would only have
been required to pay over few millions of
pounds to the United States. 1t must be con-
fcssed that Mr.. Summers speech has rudelv
awakened the British public from this placid
dream. His estimate that full financial repara-
ton to this country could not be made by any
sum short of four hundred or five hundred mil
lions of pounds sterling touches Great Britain
in her most sensitive point-her pocket; and
proves thSs the American people have no dispo-
stion to be humbugged by the plea that the pay
ment of pttance will be an ample compensa-
tion for the unquestionable loss of an i'm
mcnse sum. We have no expectation that
Mr.. Summers bill, as he foots it up, will ever be
paid, and it is scarcely probable that the Massa-
chusetts Senator seriously contemplates such an
adjustment. But it is nevertheless true that he
has not overrated the injury inflicted upon us by
Great Britain, and that, if reparaton is not made
in some honorable and satisfactory manner, we
may initiate her example by returning with in
tercst, in the hour of her calamity, every blow
she inflicted during the Rebellion.
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ooTHELLOs' OCCUPATION GONE.

THE cable this morning furnishes us with some
intelligence which might be classed under the
head of singular if true" Mr.. Reverdy john
son has declined the banquet rendered to him by
the authorities of Southampton. At the same time
he took occasion to express his qualification at
the extinction of the late apprehensions of un-
friendly relations between Great Britain and the
limited States Mr.. johnson is probably grateful
for the smallest faVors, but considering the
wrathful tone of the British press ever since the
reception of Mr.. Summers speech, it is difficult
To see what he finds in the existing state
Of affairs to congratulate himself upon.
That Mr. johnson, under all the circumstances,
ahould think it best to leave the shores of Eng
land dinnerless is perhaps not to be wondered
at IA he must by this time have had the fact
forced upon him that all his own troubles, and
the anti-American excitement in England which
was occasioned by the rejection of his carefully
devised treaty, was Occasioned by his after
dinner garrulousness. In declining the South
ampton dinner, therefore, Mr. johnson has in
dicated that he is beginning to appreciate the
situation, and that he will return to us a sadder
and a wiser man. The play is played out,
nOthelos" occupations gone, and the great
dipner-eater will dine no more for the benefit
of the public, under the saddening conviction
that post-prandial diplomacy is failure.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

s6Sgn FOR THE SUNTAIER.-TO PREVENT
sunburn and all discOloratons and irritatons of the
skim bites of mosquitoes other insects, Wrighs
Alconated Glycerne Tablet; II is deliciousy fragrant
druggists generally. r. &. A. WRIGHT, No. ga
CHESNUT Street. As
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hey WEDDING AND ENGAGEMENT
Rings, of solid lskarat fine gold. QUALITY WAR
FARR a BROTHER, Makers,
324wfmS No. 324 CHESNUT Street, below Fourth.
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nesp THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
Stockholders of the CLARION RIVER AND
SPRING GREEK OIL COMPANY will be held at HOR.
TICULTURAL HALL on WEDNESDAY, the 26th inst,
al O'Clock II, M
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nSgp NOTHING BUT ACTUAL TRIAL CAN
give any just idea of the delicious airy elastic soft
ness OF bed made of the Elastic Sponge Its unr-
vailed cleanliness and durability commend it. Its unver
sal adoption seems certainty. 3mfwS
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nlsEn DR.. r. F. THOMAS, THE LATE OPE-
rator Of the Cotton Dental Association, is now the
only one in Philadelphia who devoes his entire time and
fresh nitrous oxide gas. Office 1927 WALNUT St IS l2
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nSsn ORTANT TO BUYERS OF
"S~ HOSIERY Y-Messrs. COOK & BROTHER, I'm
Porers of Hosiery No 53 North EIGHTH Street claim to
assured
First That by avoiding the profits and commissions i'm
posed the ordinary of trade they their Gus
toners at least % per cent
Second That they have the quality their goods under
complete control using the hest yarns and employing the
best workInen in their manufacture.
Third That having direct to European markets.
they keep q complete stock than if dependent
upon purchases made here of foreign goods.
call from the reader is solicited at their No 53
North EIGHTH Street. ws4p3m