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Air JW*. NEWBERRY, S. C. Wednesday Morning, July 11, 1866 The Court of Equity, For Newberry District, - convened here Monday last. Judge Carroll presided with un impeachabfe grace, vigor and dignity. The docket wasvery heavy. Many original and singular cases, growing out of the times which "tried men's souls," were considered. Court adjourned Saturday. ropean Intelligence-Hostilities Begun. The Italians, under King Victor Emanuel, were repulsed by the Austrians and forced to retire gicross the Mincio. It is rumored that the Han o"erian army was surrounded by the Prussians and must capitulate. Vietoria accepts the resignation of the ministry. arl Derby will form a new one. Cotton firm, buoyant and advancing. A Wational Union Convention, Is called t& assemble at Philadelphia, on the 14th of August next. It is to be com pWsed of representatives from all the States and Territories. Insurance. It is with pleasure that we place this item to the credit of the Underwriters' and Home Insurance Companies, of New York. As soon an it was known that a fire had occurred here, and that persons having their policies were suferers thereby. a financial agent was sent immediately to make payments, which were fully and most agreably done last week, to the amountof about $15,000. We congratulate Messrs. Carwile and McCaughrin on having the agency for such well-established, prompt and honorable associations. The GreenviU Mountaineer says that Gov. Eammrett has inaugurated measures to stop plun dering on the G. & C. R. R., we are glad to hear it. The thing is an unmitigated evil-. The Keowee Courier learns that Cov. Orr will convene the Legislature perhaps in a few weeks. Also that the District Courts will soon be put ink opertin.. We regret to learn that Mr. B. S. Rhett, sr., was assassinated near the race course, Char leston, last week. He was shot with a double barrelled gun, leaded with duck shot. A number of colored men have since been arrested charged with complicity in the mur dler. Revolts are reported in St. Domingo, Guba and Madrid, Spain. 1000 persons were killed in the latter place before the revolt was suppressed. The weather is extremely warm all over the' country. The papers report many cases of cholera and sun stroke. On the night of the 4th, the Odd FeIlows Ball, New Orleans was burned. Loss $220, 000, insured for $95,000. Another serious disturbance occurred in Ghar leston last Saturday night between the police and negro troops. The latter precipitated the row. Maximillian's star is on the wane. The Lib erals are triumphing. Annexation to the Uni ted States is bruited in Mexico. Twenty cases of cholera reported in New York for the week ending July 7. There is scarel adutbthi;te President will veto the Freedmen's Bureau bill The Prussian Government offer cornruis uins to ex-Confederate officers. 1 Special Notiee We invite attention to several impotant articles in to-days paper, to wit : Proclatia tion from His Excellency Gov. Orr and ascom panying Order, from Gen Sickels. The re establishment of. order. Immigration...-Dis trict Meeting. The Newberry Union Bible Society; also to the various cards and adver tisements. Dr. D. M. Clark called to see us last Friday and stated that he was on the. search of a freedman who gave his name as Warren Gilliam, forbq&1ry, elonging to Gen. James Gilliam Said boy broke into the -Doctor's house- during his afsence and stole a revolver. In tracing him up he learned that the fellow stopped at Mrs. Miles Croiners, and ordered dinner, telling the lady that be- was in the habit -of getting whatever he wanted--and that his business was to barn and steal when ever it suited him. 'The Doctor traced him to Newberry, ard ~ succeeded in recovering the pistol which he had sold to a merchant here, saying that he purchased it in Columbia. All along the direction he took in -coming this way, Dr. Clark learned that the fellow inade (when practicable) great boasts of what he could do, and inquired very 'particularly about the burning of Newberry. He also told some -one that he had just finished a job of work for Mr. Baily Suber, in this Dhstrict, and that he was-on his way to Union and Spartan burg. We did not get. a desdription of this irrepressible Ethiopian, but would advise par ties to be on the qui vive for his' appearance. The weather is intensely warm. Don't know exactly how hot it is, though, as our thermom eter's burnt up. The streets, too, are exceedingly dry, dusty and dirty, While the burnt district, with its ugly piles of blackened brick and broken pots and pans, nails, . oyster cans and printing presses, broken saws and druggists' jars--(we were going to add frying bacon, sardines, mackeral and codfish, but the freedmeen have long since fished the flesh pots out,) shaky walls, and,. weird looking chimnies, with their sombre shadows, detract nothing from this unpleasent condition. We "have heat," as the French' would nicely express it, when we look out, upon the prospect. Promn our new sanctum to the depet, (a good healthy stretch,) not one. "oak, or elm, or linden" offers us its Sgrateful shade. But three small shrubs in all this frequented way essays to protect the traveller from the fierce meridian rays of. a blazing, brilliant sun. Those cellars, 'too, that we spoke of several week~s ago, are yet fdled with their foul accretions. Typhoid fever or some other malignant disease may be the resultant.. How delightful and refreshing to turn and think of pastorial scenes! Beautiful fields of waving grain, vineyards of purple grape, mea dows, lakes and lawns ; grottos, glades and cur tained valleys, where the pinky feet vi baby-play ers press the sweet, wild flowers to the moist earth in gleeful, guileless, unconscious sport. Since penning the above, we take almost infinite pleasure mn recording the fact that a generous shower of rain fell last night. The earth is now coo.1 and moist and the atmos phere delightful, while the pr'ospec-t appears good for continued showers. We learn that the rain was extensive. An immense fire swept over Portland, Maine, on the 4th of Jnly. The burnt,district covers 'ane area one and a half miles in~ length by a quarter in width. Fifty buildings were blown up to -arrest the flames. Large con tributions ar'e being sent forward to the suffer ers. The fire was caused by a little boy throwing a lighted fire-cracker into a pile' of shavings. A tremnendous4 storm of wind an<d rain raged in and over the unfortuinate town two days before the fire, destroying lives aniid gmiration-n~istrict Meeting. I'A ineeting of the citizens of Newberry District was organized, at Newberry Court House, on Moiday, 2nd July, 1866, by calling Hon. Robt. Moorman to-the chair, and appointing Silas Johnstone, Secretary. At the request of the Chairman, Jas. M. Baxter, Esq., stated th.e object of the meeting to be--to consider the-question of labor, to ascertain as far as possible the sufficiency or insufficiency of free Negro labor, and, upon the proofof its insufficiency, so devise some scheme for - the importation of reliable labor from: abroad. Col. S. Fair then called upon J. F. J. Caldwell Esq., as one qualified by a residence in Europe, to state if such labor as we require could likely be obtained there. Mr. Caldwell spoke at length, irging: st, That._ our present system of free African labor must be ruinous to the country, as shown by the character of the negro and by the experience of the -past year; 2nd, That industrious and trustworth laborers may be hadin the countries of North Germany, Denmark and Sweden ; and 3rd, That these laborers, tenants and domestics may be imported at a cost not exceeding (830.00) thirty dollars per head, in specie, and secured on our land and in service at prices -probably,lower than we are accustomed to pay for negroes-thereby giving the country -profitable lab.r,ers and good citizens, and adding to the land' a gieater pro ductiveness and a higher market value. Maj. Jio. P. Kinard moved the appointment of Jjgents for the purpose of visiting Europe and' securing there laborers, domestics, &. The motion was unaminously adopted, and Mesors. George Larset. and Silas Johns one. were appomt-, ed Agents. Geii. A. C. Garlington moved that a comMitiee_ of three from each beat company in the Distrie be appointed -for the purpose of solicining sub scriptions to the enterprise, which committees should report the names of persons subscribing, and the number and kind of immigrats desired, to a meeting to-be held at Newberry C. H., on the 21st iistant~ On motion, the Secretary was added-to the com mnittees, to receive subscriptions at NewberryI Court House. Mr. Isaac Herbert having raised the question as to the ability oI our people to hold their lapads and profit by the intoduction of foriegners, Mr'. Joseph Caldell addreseed the meeting combatting that objection and showing from the nature -of th.e negro- under the present systema and thd kind-of labor and quality of.persons pro poseid to be brought from Europe that we should iiot only gain nothing by adhering to -the former -not only acquire a valuable labor by introducing the latter-but that all the interests of the country. -natural, social, and political-absolutely de pended upon this or some such movement. Mr. Cadwell spoke fully and forcibly, exhausting the question in regard to the two kinds of laborers and carrying cony,ietion of the imiporgance and en tire feasibility of the scheme. . Gen. Garlington and Maj. Henry Summer fol lowed the last speaker, both cordially endQrsing the project and enjoining its adoption by all persons interestid in' procuring tenants, laborers and domestics. -The meeting adjourned to Saturday July 21, inst. SIL AS JOHNSTONE. . The Fourth passed off quietly here. -The citizens, (where time and circumstances wouldI admit) robed in their coolest apparel, sat down to a good book or with a friend to a bottle of sherry on ice, or a quiet stroll,with genial corn panionship. "There came a rush- of memory o'er me, and-I wept-I wept." - The Fre'edmen were exceedingly staid and dig nified. They followed no brass-band, had no cold huckleberry pudding, no hot lemonade; no dust, no swelter,' no preaching, nor speeching. A few .-juveniles-gatherca in a yard opposite our ofice and seemed to enjoy themselves hugely ove a goodadinmwr sua their twistification plays.