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One of its provisions ;s as follows : All free negroes, niulittoes and mestizoes, all freedmen and free woman, and all deseen dants, tirough the either sex, of any of these persons, shall be known as per.sons of color, except that every such descendant who may have of Caucasian blood seven eights or more, shall be deemed a white person. Another section provides, as follows The .Statutes ald regulations concer!ing slaves, are now inapplicable to persons of col or ; and although such persons are not enti tied to ocial or political equalty with white persons, they sh)ail tie right to acquire, own and.dispose of property to make ,contracts; to enjoy the fruits of their labor ; to sue and be suer; and to receive protection under the law in tht ir perscins and proper t. The re.ations between husband - nd wife are amply provided for, making recognitin of the barties suffieient evidence. With regard to the apprenticing of the children of freedmen the following sections are recommended A child of colored parenti, or of parents of whom one shall be a person of color, over the age of two years, may be bound by the father, if he be living in the District, - or in case of his death or absence from the Dis trict, by the mother,.as an apprentice I any respectable w hite4r colored Oon who is competent-to make a contrit-a male, Ilnil he shall attiin the age of twenty-one years and a female until she shall attain the age of eighteen years. lPeiimate children, n itlin the agCs above speciried, nma be )oti,,d by the mother. (a(red hialdren between the ages mdh nued, who h,ave neither fither nor mother. i ving in the District in which they are found, g whose parents are paupers, or unable to aff rd to themn a coumfortable maintenance, or whiose ia-ents are rot teaching them habits of industry and inesty, or are persons of notoriou.sly bad character, or are vagrants, or have been convicted of infamous offences, and colored children in all cases where they are in danger of moral contamination may be bound as apprentices by the Dist'rict Judge, or one of #81e Magistrates, for the aforesaid term. Males of ih 'ge of twelve years and females o)f the age of ten years shall sign the indenture of apprenticeship, and be bouml thereby. When the a1prentice is unds these ages,' and in a!l casos Of cOmpulsory apprer ticeship where the Infant refgsesassent, his signature' sh-ill not be; necesary to The validity of the a;preiWCshi )-ind the mn;ter' (bligation of sprentceship sha! -be exeotied in the pres ece of the District Judge, or one of the Mag istrate:, certified b him, and flid in the of fice of the Cleik of toe I)isfrict Court. The ndetur ofvolintry pprenticeship sha1 he under sel, an,d igned by the master, the parent Irar the app-ritice. and attested by two credi-e witneses, aod aipoved by Ze Ditrict Judge, or one 9f the Magistrates. And now cones the most important pro visions to the great majority of oar readers, viz.: the .contracts fo)r sdelvice. We annex the most importants provisions:, All persons of color, wh% maEke contraets for service, or labor in husbar dry: shall be known as servants. and those with whom they contract, siall be known as masters. Contr;icts between master and servants for more than one week, shall he in.writing, and ttested by one white witness, and. shall be pproved 'by the Judge of the District Court, or by one of the Magistrates. -TIhe period of service shaill he expressed in the contract ; but if it be not expressed, it hall be until the 25th day of Deceiinber of the year in which it is made. i~the rate of wages be not stipulated by the parties to the contract, it shall be fixed by the District Judge, or a Magistrate, on op plication by one of the parties, on notice to the other... A person of color who has no parent living in the District, atnd is ten year-s of age, and is not an apprentice, mnay make.a valid contract for one^year's labor on service., Contracts between masters and servants may be set aside for fraud or unfairrness, not Withstanding they have been approved. Contracts between mnasters and servants shall be presented for approval within twenty days after their e-xcution. . C'ontracts shall rnot be binding on the ser 'ant, unless they are: in writing, and hanre been presented for approval within the time aoresaid. For any neglect of the duty to mwAke con tracts as herein directed, or the evasion of that duyby the employment of persons of coo,from day to oay, on hi.s premises, the party offending shall be guilty of a misde meanor, and be lipdbie, on conviction, to pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and not less than five dollars, for each person_ so e,mnploy For the approval of a contract, the follow ing fees shall he-paid down to the District Judge or the Magistrate, as the case mayv be. For a contract of one month or less, for for each servant, 8 u.50 cents. For a contract niot exceeding thirce months and mor'e than one month,-for each servant, A 1.00. For a contract not exceedirng six months and more than three months, for each ser van t,M.00. For a cont:act of one year or any time more than six months, f r each servant, 8.00. For a contract of more thm one year, for ech year or Lart of a year over one year, fr gaeU servant, $:X.00. Three bhurths, of w hich fees shall be paid by the imister and (ne-fourth by the servant. sheCod provides, that when tile servant saldepart from the service of the master, without good cause, hre shalhl forfeit the wages doe him. The s.rvant shall obey all lawful orders of the imaster or his agent, ad shllibe honest, truthful, sober, eivil and diligent in his business. The master m;ay moderately correct servants und(er eighteen years of age, and he may discharge a servanrt for williul disobedience of his or his agent's lawful or ders ; or for habitual negligence or, indolence, and for other causes named, The~ master shall not be liable for voluntary trespasses, torts or misdemeano'rs of his servant. The master's right of self defence shall embrace hsservant, and it shall be his duty to pro Let him from violence by ethiers mi his pres ence, and to render him mnoral aid and assi: ance in obtaininlg red:ress for injury to ms i-gr- cf nc - or nionertv. The mIazIer mav-connand 'his servant to aid him in defencQ of his own person *r family, premises or property, or the person or irop rty of any st-rvant n the pieinises of his uaster. We extract the following sections entire, as they are of great importance to all pirties inl terest ed: The servant my depa,rt from te' master's -ervice for anl insuGticient supply of whole sonic food, for an uuauthorized battery upon his own person, or one of his faumily, not com tnittqd in defence of the person, familV,guests or agents of tie master, or to prevent a crime or a.rrivated misdemeanor ; for hali4,ual drunkennessof the master ; invasion of the conjnal rights of the servont ; violent and inenlacing conduct of the mnAster ; or his fail ure to pay wages when due; and may recover wages due for services rendlered- to the, time of his departure. Tihe contract for service shall not be ter miniated by the death of the nasteri without the assent of the servant. Wages due to ser vats shall be preferred to all other debts or demands, except, for eral expenses, in ase of -the insufficiency of the master's property to pay all debts and demands ngainst him. When wrongfully discharged from service, the servant shall recov r wages for the whole period of service, according to the contract, ,whether or not his wages have been paid to the pe:iod of his discharge. If his w.ges ave not been paid o-t th: day ofhisdischarge he inly regr:d his contract rescinded by the discharge, and recover wages up to that time. The master ll receive into his employ ment the servnnt with w hom he has made a -ontract ; 4)ut any of the causes whfc may justify him ii discharging a servant, shall justify him. in refusig to ieceive lim. 'The master shall, at the expiraion of his term of service, nt the r-equest of the servant, give him a certificate of character. Tile servant sh:ll not be liable for con tracts, made by the express authority of his r4 tev r. A servant shall not be liable, civilly or criminally, for. ar.y act done on the premises of the master, by the command of his master, in deence of the mnaster's person, family, guestt, n-ents, servant, premises, or property. le shaill not he liable for any tort commit ted on the preA.ises of the master, by his ex press command. The rules and regulations prescribed for master and servant apply to persons in ser Vice 1a household servants, conferring the same righits, and imposi rg the same duties, with the followin, modifications rarts, in the various duties of thO house h1, nd in all tile domstic duties of the m t all hours of the day or night, and in all days of the week, promptly answer all Calls anl obey and execul-C a lawfulVo di!rin and comminds of the family iil who sermice they are employed. Masters and their families shall, after ten o'clock at night, aInd (.1 n undays, mal no calls on their servants, nor exact any mervice of them, whie exigences of the homsehold or famil.y do rot, make necessary or unavc41:1ble. Te no gs of household servants shall, in the absence of any agreement, be fixed by the Judge of the Distu i-t Court or a Y1'gitrate, and be payable at the e;d of each month. It is the duty of this class of-servanmts to be especially civil and polite to their masters, their families and guests, and they shall receive gentle and kind treaxtmient. In all contracts between master and servant for service, the foregoing regulations shall be stipu:lat ions, unless it shall be otherwise pro vided in the contract ; and the following form shall be a suflicient contr-act ; unless some special agreement be made between the par ties: : I (rame of servant) do hereby ar-ee~ with (name of master-) to be his (here insert the vords, "household servant," or "servant in husbandry," as the case may be,) from the date hereof, at thme wages of (here insert the wages to be paid by-the year or month ;) and in consideration thereof I (name of master) agree to receiv-e the said (name of servant) as such servant, and to pay him the said wages, this day of 186. Witness: [Signed) . . A. B. E.F.' (. D I approve the n'hore contract this day of 1%. of te Ditrit Cort,[. s.] Judge ofteDsrc or,or Magis traf e. Mechanics, artisans and shop-keepers. (cobl ored) shall he lice,nsed by the Judge 6f the District Conit, arid shall pay therefor, if a male, ten dollars, and if a female, three dol lars. Mmorial or Georgia Conven-tion in be half of' President Davisi anid.other State Reported by the special conmmnitte of arit.ec - on-Mssr-s. Anderson, of Chatham, chair man and 'writer of memorial,Cook,of Macon, Mathe-ws, of Oglethorpe, Salibld, of Morgan, *anid Hook, of. Washington, asking that the Honorable Jdfferson D)avis and other S.ate prisopers, -of di;sti uishted tamnk, now in -- edleral custody, be set at lierty. ''This is the mietmotil:0 iLl, a Evtruv, Oct. 56th, 18SG3. To~ JJis Ecce?!!<;>'c Andra/c Jok.'son, Prac.ident The legates of the State of Georgia, in Convcnation assem~bed, (do earniestlyV invoke the Execti ve cemecnc-y in beha;lf of Jefferson Davis anid Alisnder H. Stegens, ando of Jas. Rt. Seddon, of Virginia, A. G. McGirath, of Southm Carolina, Ailison and DJavid Yuliee, of Florida, amid 1. - . Mer-cer, of Gecorgia, now confi ned tin F:ort Pulask i, and :ll other pison Tour Excellency has been pleaEedi to restor-e Mr. Stephens to his liben ty. ile returns to the grat'eful people of his State as a solemn rledgec of the manaimity wvhich rules rho public councils; and his great natae amid in !!uence will be potent to revive the aimity of the past and to fructify the wise and generous policy which your Excellency has imnaugura ted. Emnboldened by this example, impeil ed by the purity of our motives and stimula ted by the prayer-s of a numerous people, we atppeal for eleumency in behalf of the distini uismmhed persons wve have named. Restore themi to liberty and to the embraces of their families Translate them from captivity to tihe ligoht of freedomn anmd of heape ; and the gr-atitude(t of thle prisoners w:ll be imigled w ith the joy ful necaniat ior.s, whmich shall as cend to II eaven from the he:arts of the people. Jefferson Davis was elevamted to his high i sl.tle 1 , ouir suiffragce:t an 1in reconse to our wishes. 17e imposed upo) Nim a respon sibility which lie did ,iot seek. Originally opposud to the sectional policy, to which pub opinion. ,with irresistible power, finally drove him, he became ,the exponent of. our principles and the leader of our cause. le simply responded to the-united voice of his section. If he, then, is giflty, so are we; we wore the piincipals; he vwas our agent. Let not the retribution of a mighty nation be visi ted upon his hea4, %he we who urged him to his destiny arc suffered to escape. The liberal elemeicy of the Government has been extended over*u; we breathe the air and ex perience the blessings.of freedom ; we there fore ask that the Leader who, in response to the democratic instincts of his natTire, the princip&es c,f his party, -nrl the s licitations of his section, becamc thc head and -front of o'ur offending, shall not now be bruisedl for our iniquities or puni.-hed for our transgres sions, Mr.,Davis was not the leadcr of a feeble and temporary insurrection ;- he was the Repre sentative of great ideas, and the exponent of principles which stirred and consolidated a numerous and intelligent people. This people iwas not his dupe. They pursued the course which they adopted of their own frece will and he did not draw them on, but followed after them. It is for these reasons wc invoke the executive clemeney in his behalf. lis frame is feblie ; his health is delicate ' "A12 broke- by the sjorms of State." he languishes out in captivity a vicarious pun ishinent for the acts of his people. Thousa'nds of hearts are touched with his distress; thou sands of prayers ascend to Heaven for his re lie. We invoke in his b*hal the gen:ous exercise of the prerogative to pardon which the form and pijnciples of the C -nstitution of fer as a beneficent instrument to a merciful executive. We ask the continuance of that career of elpmency vhich your Excellecy has begun, and which alone, we earnestly believe, can secure the true unity and the lasting greatness of the nation. 1ispensi.ng that mer cy, which is inculcated by the example of our great Master on high, your name will be trans mitted to your coufrimen as one of the bene factors of mankind. Tie constitutiorVf our country, renewed and fortifled ). your mea sures,will once more extend its protection over a contented and happy people, founded, as it will he upon consent and afl'ection and "resting, like the great arch of the learens cqually upon all." Now this goes to the heart. Ncaking protestations we were d'ped, that we may get off scot free, while a gallant gentleman, our free choice, pines in activity as a scape goat. No speaking of one no more guilty than ourselves in a to!4of half contemptuous pity as though because we wc.e pardoned and he not, we were therefore so much his supe riors. Fratil, .traightforward, truthful, gal lant, well expressed, this memorial isv honor able to the hand that indited it and the Stote that will send it fdrth. To-day the morning session was consumed in a discussion as td ~Whether the proposition suggested by Brig. Geqn. Tilson-that civil oficers should be empowered to act as agents for the FrCetnan's Bureau, etc.-should pass into a resolution, but the deb&te, though lengthy, was quite languid as the reports ~howv. P. S.-An ordinance has just ben passed authorizing prdi.naries, etc., to act as agents of the Freedmnen's Buhreau. The two anti rep udiation telegramis from Washington were then read in a profound silence. 'The Con vention was so determined not to repudiate that it was very hard to have to do som evene though under duress and as the lesser of two evils. The True Story in Rlegard to Mr.' Davis' fat Capture. The fcsin regaird to this historic incident arc related by Mr. Reagan. A t the camp, where the capture took .place, Mr. Davis and his family occupied a-tent on one side ofa row of wagons, wbile Reagan'and Wood and two or three others encamped on the other si.e Just- about daybreak, Mr.-Reagan says he was awakened by loud reports of musketry which seemed to proceed from behind their poition, at no great distance fr-om their en campment. The firing was growing louder and Iouder, when suddenly the federail caval ry dashed in upon them from the opposite di rection where tbe noise of the firing seemed to proceed. Some of the troopers daished ini on the side of the #egens where Mr. Davis and his family were, while others galloped to the side occr'pied by Reagan and his compan ios The latter told a federal captain wh appeared on the scene that although he ha-d, as far as he was personally concerned, no par ticular interest to serve in putting an end to the fwing going on behind them, .nevertheless~ he would.,do well to stop it, for as they had no troops with them the federals must, be fgting among themselves. The officer gave no credence to this at first, but in the end he mst havec followed Reagan's suggestion; as soon after the firing ceased. In the -mean time .Reagan's companions fled and made good their escape, while, as lhe had himnself resolved everto leave his country, he elected to re main and share the fate of Mir. Dasis, were it even death.:imditl nhern h Mr. Davis, imeitl nhaigtefir ing, sprang from the plauce where lie had been passing the night, and advanced towar d. the door of the tent. As he did so, thinkging that te firing proceeded from the mar aiuders of the Alabamua brigade before mentioned, who probably had comxe in contact with his own small escort,mntent on plunder and carnage, lie exclaimed alona: "Those mren have attachal? us at last ; surely I have anthority- enougn left to prevent my c,wn mgen fron> killing one aother." Saying this he opened the door of. the tent, and wvas just stepping out, when his wife, eitber beside herself with terror, and not knowing clearly what were the nature of her acts, or thinking that thegarmecnt. might render him unrecognizable to is pursuers, threw a morning gown over his sh, ilers. At that moment he was captured.. It wiil be seen by this unvarnished narrative of actual occurrences that the story of Davis being caught in his wife's petticoats was a sheer fabrication, and that all the stories of his run ning into the woods from the pursuing sldier:s are equally as false, since it appears by the statement of one who was present at the time that the principal cause of Mr. D)avis going out of the tent wPs, first, to cbtain possession of his revolvers, which:for the first nmgh t smnee his flight he hadl left in the bolste:r on tne s:1om die of his horse, that lie might providt agains5t the danger he would incur in carrying out his intention of ende~avo,ring to put an end to what he toaht was a dead!y strife betwccn his OW en. Mr. Reingan rurther says t"hat, had the I-mes not ben with them, they would never have been taken without tiring their last shot, na they had so resolved on coininene ing their fliglit. The thought that any resist ance on th'ir part %,'euld entail an indiscrimi nate slaughter'of the ladies al children alone deterred thin from firing on their pursuers. This statement, wo- should think,. should set tke all disppte conCe:Iing the capture of Tef fersn Davis. The repors tnt were so industriously cir culated throughotit the country after the tall of the rebel capital, to the effect that Mr. Da vis was vunning away to parts uinknown with an immense amou.t of treasure stolen from the Richmond banks, Mr. Rea ;an, annihilates -bvrelatinz an incident which occurred durig Mr. Davis'fthght. They were talking abota what money tl.ey had, and for some reason it was proposed to investigate -the richness of their valises. Mr. Davis counted his money, and it was found that he had a little-ovei $175 in Confederate itotes.! And this was the mighty treasre the radicals have. how1ed themselves hoarse about! The- only consider able amount of money in ttie posse'ssion of-any of Mr. Davis' party was hejd by Mr. Reagan himself, and that was not by any means to be counted by thousands! John Happy,+e humoro-s"local" of the Nashville Banne, recently weut to Washington on the hunt of a pardon. John gives his expe rience. He says! "Had a personal interview with the Chief MAngistrate, and asked him for a sniall Pardon, if he had aav more left. Chief Magistrate wanted to know what position I held in the rebel army. The answ'er was faiit, some what besitating and a little shaky-I said : 'Quar terniaster." Chief Magistrate chuckled anAl turned his head to conceal a ardonic smile. "My an cient and venerable friend," he said, "if you think that Your depart mnient of the rebellion endangered the Union cause, your innocence is a pardon .a it-elf." I scornfully refu,;d to inteipfet the mean ing of that cruet satire." - m ?LAftLP1A, October'28.-San Francisco dates from Honolula to the 3Ot4 of September have been received. The lonolula Adrerti8er publishes a list of ninety-five whalers, com prising the Arctic fleet, (nearly all the Amer ican.) Thirty-three.of these have been burned or bonded by the Shenandoah, and jsixty-two remained to be heard from. The Federal war steamer Saranac sailed from Honolula-on the 17th of September for Marquesas Islan Is, owing to a rumor that a lot of cdal had been landc at Eontyca for the Shenandoah. Alexander If. Rivers, of Charlattesville, says that he was informed by Secretary Se ward thnt he wished to make peace between the North and the South ; that, as to the test oath, if he had been in 'Congress lie should not have voted for it ; but, said he, the oath is a lawx, and any Congressxnal district in thei South "had better send an idiot or c. ehld to Oagress who can take it, than to send a wise man who cannot." The work room of James Watt, the inven 'tor of the stem engine, is-just as he left it. in the attie of his house, where he was driven by h scolding wife. The will of his son re quired that the room should be left.just as it was when his father went out of the room1 for thte last time. ' The door was recentl y opened for the first time in thirty years. We learn, from one of our Northern ex changes, that a son of John-Brown has just made a speech in which he urges the negroes to arm themselves and insist upon ruling the South by force. President Johnson ha's just made a speech, in which he urges the negro to go to work and leave their political future to P'rovidence. Which advice will the color ed people take ? Egypt is suffer ing from a scarcity of bread stuffs, the Viceroy having by his lucrative monopoly in the -totton trade, substitute d cotton to such an-extent for corn all over the? country, that Odessa and all other grain de pots have now to be ransacked to prevent starvation from succeeding the cholerp. The Spaniards must be very fond of fetes. They have jun~ been holding some to celebrate - the entry of their sovereign upon the fitth month cf pregnancy. Considerjng that Queen Isabella has four children living, and has sav-i eral times had, expectations of others, 'thej event is not, one would t!.nk, so rare as to' call for much enithusiasm. A female refugee (white) who had ' a large family dopenidan t on her a,t Memphis, 'A'enn., and io had only one calico dtess, excited the sympathy of some gentlemen, who made a colfection for her,' which atemuted to .$15. She was profuse in her p ofessioK; 'o grati tude and at once repaired to a dry .:oods store, where she paid thirteen dollars for a lace collar. A speaker at a recent Fenian meeti:ng in Worcester mysteriously intimated that a Fen ian on board the Grea't Eastern ptfrposely damaged the cable, .because he was determini ed that informers should not have the use of' te c-able until Irish indepenideace is achiev ed.. Gov. Johr.son, of Georgia, has 'heen ofii cially notufied by the Secretary of Stare that the Pr'esident cannot rocognise the peopjle of~ of ar.y State as having resumed relations of loalty to the Union who admit as legal ob jectionis debts created or contracteA in theirf ame to p)romote the war of the rebellion. They have found a piece ?,f perhied woor4 full of nails in California, a nd the Colousa Sun asks who drove Llhose nails in that wood. The iinians who inhabit the country' have no idea of wor king in iron. Perhaps it is a piece of one of Solomuon's ships that lie sent to the land of Ophir after gold. Tfhey are calli;g loudly for wvives in the Rockyv Mountains. A good wife, it is said, w ill f~etc~h most any price. The fact is, the lonelv old batchelors out there have grown desprate, and don't care a cuss for expenses so they get a good article-of wife. A coinvention of the planters of A!lMma~ will be held in Montgomery on the 17t-h in start, to devise some plan for the procuring of labor, and to take action on sneh other matte.rs as wvill advance the ag4ricultural in terest of the State. A Te:as lettsr says -"We want not on ly fa:rmers, but muecha:cs of all kinds. We want rough labor, skilled labor, educiated la bor, human labor, horse labor and machine labor." Charles F. Brown, of New York, is ti.c author of the "Artemus Ward" papers going th,e r'ound - Appointments. CilARLESTON DI-TRICT-F A Mood, Presiding Elder. Chaileston-Trinitv, E J Menard*. Cumberland,to be supplied. Bethil, J T Wightman. - Spring-V., W A Hemmingway. Cooper River-.Geo I Byrd. Summerville-J L Sroudemire. ' .Wateroro-ML J3ank-i. 11 . Black Swafnp-Abraha-a Nekeles Hardeeville J W Coward. IACKVILLE:DISTRIT-T os Paysor, P. E. Blacklville-J W Coburn. Bamberg-Chas Wilson. St. B:itholomew -Alex B Stephen; J JSnow. Allendale-J W McRoy. Prince Willi4ms-To be supplied. Barnwell-A V Walker. -ilverton Mission-To.be supplied. Grarfitcville Misson-J R Pivkett. Aiken-A J Stokes. Or;NGEBURG DISTRICT-A X Chreiviberg, P. E.. Orangeburg-J L Sifley. rpper Orange-L M Little. Eastern Orange-J D W C&A0'. -Proidence-J S Connor. St. Mathews-Wrn Hutte. Fort Motte Mission-To be supplied. St. George's-John.A Mood. Edi.te-W G Connor, R B Tarrarn. Lexington-W Carson, J K Tucker. Edisto Fork-To be supplied. MARios. DISTRICT-John A Porter, P. E. Marion-R J Boyd, Thomas Mitchell,.(sup.) Marion C:rcuit-J Jones, T W Munnerlya Buck Swamp-D W Seal. Brownsville- M A McKibben. Liberty Cl#*el-J B Campbell. 'ingstree Circuit and Mission-Oliver Eaddy. -varlington-W A Gamewell. Circuit-L M Hamer, J W Miller. Black River--J'C Stoll. Georgetown and Sampit Mission-J W Murray, A. Erwin, (sup.) Con wayboro'-D J McMillan. Circuit-George -H Mills, J B Platt. Waccamaw Mission-Charles etts. COrNBiA DISTRMT-C H Pritchard, P. E. Columbia-Washidgtorr-st., W T Capers. -MX*. rion-st., F G Gage. Caniden-T J Clyde. Wateree Mission-J L Sitford. Chester-Samuel Leard. Sandv River-E A Lemmond. Winnsboro'-A C Stacy. Fairfield-A J Cauthen. Columbia, Circuit-H J Morgan. Richland-Fork Mi-sion-M Brown. Rocky Mount -R P FrankL Bishopville-P F Kistler. Sumter-D J Simmons. Circuit-Chas Taylor, S J Hill, (nom.} Unaing-W W Mood. Sante-H A C Walker, J W Wightmit (nom.) Upper Santee-To be supplied. Chaptain to Lunatic Asyam-Wm Martia. COKEsBURY DISTICT-S H1 Brbwne, P. E. Cokesbury Circuit-W P Mouzon, J B Aone, Abbevilie-T G -Herbert, C .ThomasoM, J Penny, (nom.) Lmh Ninety-Six-A L Smith. tpper Saluda River Mission-W H La*t. Mapleton-T S Daniel, J Attaway, (nom.) Edgefield-J A Clark. Butler-P L Hermnar. Newberrv-J W Humbert. SCircuit-J H -Zinumerman, J38 Tray wick. SLaurens-W .A McSwain, J R Little, A W Moe. 'Reedy Kiver-F Auld. -'. Pickens-J H C McKiney Anderson-G F Round. " Crcuit-W A Hodgels. Pendleton-T HEdwards. Mt Zion-J Ml Carlisle. Cokes.bury School-To be supplied. ' -" inAESBoRo' DISTRICT-F Milton Kennedy, P. E.Wadeslboro' Circuit-E W Thompson, '3 C ' [Hartsell, H C Parson, (sup.) 5Ansonvill--T A Boone. Lanes Creek-Landy. Wood. Albemarle-J WV Puett. Concord-J T K.ilgo, WV S Haltum, (now.) Monroe-A J ttafford.. "Circuit L Scarborough. Pleasant Grove-W-WX Joues. Lancaster-T WV Crider. . Hang~ing Rock-F M Morgan, G M W 'Creigh ton, (nom.) Cheese -M C Davis, R R Pegues,,(nom.) Ch'estertfield-E J Pennrington. Bennettsvile-T R \Yals'u, A McQuiordale,W L Pegucs. - SHELBY DIsTRICT-J W North, P. E. Shelby-A-P Avant. South~ Mount ain-To be suppled. Lincolnton -S Lander. D'allas-J C Randall.' F +gr York-:e-L4 A Johnson. York Circuit and ;sMsion-M A C4fo'l . Rock Hill-J Ml Cline. Pineville-Jamies Stacey, A N Wells. (nom.) Charlotte-W C Power, E E Land, (now.) ",Circuit-B -G~ Jones, J W Abernathy, nom.) New ton-J P Hughes;~ J S Nelson, (sup.) IHappy HIome-R IPJDagnall.' South Ford-John Watts. Lenoir-G WV I'ey. Yadkin Mission-J C Crisp, (one to be 'sup Xforganton-P G Bowman. Burke Missioni-To be supplied. y Davenport Female College-:-J A Webbpe . SP~A RITAN uCRG P 3TRIeT-.W H Flemming, P, E. Spartanburg-Whritefoord Smith.. "Circuit-J B Massabeau. Rieh Hill-V A Sharp. U'nionville-0 A Darby, C Murchison, (sup) Cane Creek- J W~ Kelly. Belmot-J S Erv~i. Fair Forest-N K~ Melton. Goshen Hill-Hlenry MI Mood. Paeolet-JII Emory W atson. Greenville- XVS Black, R B Allston, (nom.) " Ciruit- C Oliver, A H Lester; R{eidille-W Bowman. Columbusn-John A Wood. Piekensvle-J J Workman. Keowee-D D Byars. Ro berford-- May, Jas. P DePass. McDowell-J D Carpenter. TulE Gr:Roas METrOnISTS To UNITE WITHr THlE Erscor.AuAS.-Thany of the Leading Met.hodist divines ol our State have, with the approval of their corgregations, made overtures to the Epis copalI '"areh of Georgia, and some of the cler cal o!liicers of the trie:mial convention, to unite with the ,Rpiscopal Church. Their hostility to N->rthirn Meth:odism, arid its incidental hatred of the Southi in years past, is said to be the prin1e muoti e of the .ac t.-A uptat C'onstitutionalist. The North Carolina Convention recently ada jouirned to meet in May next. An ordinance pro hibits the Legislature from ass':min g any portion of the. r' rm.at wr dbt,.