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MAIL ABRANGEMENTS.-T Northern mail opens 6.30 A. M. and 3.00 P. M. closes 8 P. M. and 11.00 A. M. Charleston day mail opens 15 P. M.; closes 6 A. M.; night opens 7.00 A. M.: closes 6.15 P.M. Greenville opens 6.45 P. M. closes 6 A. M. Western opene 6.30 A M. and 12.30 P. M.; closes 8 and 1 P.M. Wilmington opens 3.30 I'. M.: closes 10.30 A. M. On Sunday the office ie open from 3 to 4 P. M. HEELS-LADIES' HEELS -The heel, the shoe heel, is hereafter to be made upon the idea of common sense and common comfort. Paris makes the move, and of course the fashionable world will follow. The heel will be low, and made as near as possible like the natural heel. No more wabbling and ungraceful movements-ease, comfort and grace will characterize the Indies who walk in the new shoe. Physiologically speaking, the present shoe beel is all outrage. DEATH OF AN CX COSPEDERATE -Capt. John Waties departed this life, yesterday, about 12 o'clock, at Lis residence this city. His age WILL forty-five. He was born in Statesburg, S. C., in 1828. Capt,,Waties was a grand-son of Chancellor Tnomas Waties and nephew of Bishop Rutledge, of Florida. The deceased was a graduate of Yale College, and practiced law in Columbia for many years. Upon the resignation of A. Herbemont, Esq, be was chosen Clerk of the Appeal Court of the State, which position he held for a period of ten years. At the beginning of the war, he volunteered and was elected First Lieutenant in Green's battery of artillery. Ie participated in the capture of Fort Sumter; at the first battle of Manassas, was on the staff of Gen. Wade Hampton; afterwarde commanded a light battery, and served in South Carolina and in the West. He was severely wounded during the terrible engagement at Franklin, Tennessee, where be was serving as chief of artillery in cavalry service. At the close of the war, he successfully resumed the practice of law. Capt. Waties was a gentleman without reproach. Heleaves a wife, several children, many other relatives and hosts of friends to lament his decease. SUPREME COURT, COLUMBIA, April 29. The Court mot at 10 A. M. PresentChief Justice Moses and Associate Justices Wright and Willard. Harvey Terry vs. Receiver ei al. of Commercial Bank. Mr. Carroll resumed and concluded his argument for defendants; Mr. Chamberlain in reply. The State c.c rel. Gary, State Auditor, vs. Parker, State Treasurer, et al. Submitted on printed brief and arguments. Messrs. Magrath & Lowndes and Rion for appellants; Mesars. Pope & Haskell for respondents. J. S. Guignard et al. vs. Wm. Kinsler el al. Mr. Pope for appellants; Mr. Tradewell for respondents. Columbia Water Power Company vs. city of Columbia, etc. Messrs. Pope and Youmans for appellants. The following decision was rendered: Mary II. Means et al. vs. Trezevant D. Feaster et al. Motion dismisse.l. Opinion by Wright. A. J. The Court adjourned until Wednesday, 30th, 10 A. M., when the Eighth Circuit will be called. DEATH OF MR. JOHN SLOMAN.-The Charleston News furnishes the following brief autobiography of an elderly gentleman, who formerly resided in Columbia-Mr. John Sloman: "The accidental omission of one letter in our mention, yesterday morning, of the death of Mr. John Sloman, made the item refer apparently to Mr. John Sloan, who was also at one time well known in connection with dramatic affairs in Charleston, but who died some years ago, and whose widow has been married for five or six years to Dr. Richards, a prominent journalist of New York. Mr. Sloman, who was seventy-nine years of "ge at the time of his death, was well known to the theatre-goers of the last generation as a favorito actor in comic I and pathetic roles, and about twenty-five years ago he settled in this city and assumed the management of the Charleeton Theatre. His greatest success