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?1)OI~~kikWA ~~~EAR,] FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUIL INTELUIGEIC.[N&UBL NAVYE 1 WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1869. " efWIA&O.II ~~Q~ a'1 IMP&bU A t to pa suzv aiM~ Bm -(~Ai %-J.a D.Ak MEW~ IshIM i vi of si -Me nss of An Act to Organise and Gov 'erb the Militia of the StatU of South Carolina, L:c. 1. Be edacted by the &n ate .a ng sepf Reprsatatives o th State q ., outh Caroliua, Rotl met a*dsitti*g ia General Assem r 4&y, ad by the authority of t' That all able'bodied mah 1tlikies, "betweeb the . ages n1 - 4ghteen'and forty-five years; re siding in this State, and not ex . empted by the laws of the Unite( States, shall be subject to miii tary duty,-excepting lst. 'All persons in t1e army of navryor: voluntder forces of th< trdited States. 2d. Regularly ordained or li cen e mimsterir d~rTiaeers o tbr.Gospel. S 3Jd. Lieutenant-Goirernop, tnem r aid 'fSer: qf the .enera A-ssembly, the-Secretary of State Attofirey- en,iel Coinptrofler a (ee,al. Commis iOnrof Burettu of Agriealtnra S t%iesriieritideit 'ofdu eatioa, State Eng ineer 'and Sur 'eyor, State Treasurer, and-elerki and empldyees in. their offices, Ju l :die al-eeers of the State, includ ing Justices oi the'Peace; Sberiffs, V Coronors, Constables, Civil Offi cers:of the United -States;. Ferry Q men employed at any ferry on i 4 post road, anditlers. -4th. And all persona entertain ing consc entiots4Cruples a.ainst % "beariRganis, praeticing physi eians, - p-oTessors teachers and - stfeits intoHleges tidemics and common schools. '5th. -Personaregnlrly,aid hon orably4 saeged -tr4he-army and .aavy:of the United States in ensequnce of"the performance of militar yor navalfaty,in pursuance of anv w.of tllisS8ute,and all per sons'w 6-:gw are,rrjy hereaf ter be, active members of regn larly 'incrporated q. compaios in this State. ,, - - -p 4 t-coamisstoned ocicers who shall liave served as such in tbeloya l militia of tbla State, or i i t ty-ot' the 'United States, for the space of aeen years; but no such officer shall be exempt unless by'hi resdAaio%nt after auch term x f*rcice, duty ieepted, or in ode'db ther ttvtul naainer he shall bavelbeen inorably discharged. itb. Idiots, lunaice, .paupers, and persons conaicted of infa. -mdus ethnes, -bi}t at beasubject to rmilitacy du&y. ?#.-2. Tttut ouf the direc tion of the CoRasadrin-Chief, all .persons liab.le tr iitary d1uty-, arithJb this Statefbo are not 'al readyimemubers of the Natiounal tGid, is hediinfter provided, shall ininediatelY ou the .passage of thia Aet,and trom time to time thereafter. 'as the Commander-in Chief,'shall deem nece'ssary, but de often as once insvery two years, be enrolled. Such enrollment lidiafl distinty peify the names and residfenees ofthe 'persons en1 roll4~ and -shall aiso divide the emneYi itdt ttvo classes--the per. son. detween the ages of eight. teen mnd tirty - ears to consti tute th e tirstctofs and the per. eenus between the ages of thirty lind fortg-e etto constitute The second class, .Fear copies of Isuchm ei-ollment shall be made by Ith'e offieer making the same, one of which, (after being corrected), shall be retained by him ; another ihall be filed in..he .offie of the *Town or" City Clerk in whieb sneb compaay is enrolled ; another Ishall bes iled in the offie of the Cli-k-of'the Courts of Record in the County where such distriet is situat(d ; and the fourth shall ebe file4 in the Adjutant-Generali Soffiee. The persons making such 1 enrollmout shall be comnp--nsated Lat the rate of one dollar and ftfy -cents per day for every day neces zserily spent in making and copy ing the same ; the number ofday not to exceed ten; andthe amoutl a -f4eh dompensation shall be paid by the Treasurer of the State, up on production of the certifieate' of the Clerk ofthe Courts of Re cordi in the County and of the Ad jutant-Generat, that such rolh bave t-eenl duly fied, on or before the first day of February in each year in whicb such enrollment . shall bemade: Provided, That the Commander-in-Chief may, if .he deem it necessary, extend the term of eFwirpl'eting the first en . roidient under this Act, not to exceed twenty days, and author ize payment for the same, as here in befcne specified and set forth. SSe. 8. That~ all persons duly o enrolled. who shall neglect to at tend the musters and driHls pro bvided for in this Act, except in Icases of sickness, shall be subject to afine of one dolls for each day sb naktinn, whmch if not paid to the County Treasurer on or be- t fore the fifteenth day of March C next ensuing, shall be collected t1 by the collector or receiver of tax- s es of the city or County in which o F the persons so neglecting is en- n r. lled ; and the Board of County p - Commissioners, at their annual s meeting. are authorized and di- si to annex alist of the several de- C lingnents, with the fines set op- I s posite their respective names, to I c the assessment rolls of the several ti 1 towns slid wardst; and the war- e rants for the collection of the same shall direct the collector or ii - receiver of taxes to collect the si amount from every person ap- a: pearing, by the said assessment C roll, liable to pay the same, in the r< same manner as other taxes are 0 collected; the same to be paid to si the County Treasurer. And o when the name of any person be- a tween the ages of eighteen and A twenty-one years shall appear on the said roll liable to pay the said it fine, the said warrant aball direct u the collector to collect the same of c the father, guardian or employer " with whom such persons shall re- e side or be employed, or out of any e property such minor may own or. o possess in the city, village, town d or ward in said County; and such i collector shall proceed and exe cute such wariant, and no proper- p ty now exempt from other exe- 0: eutions shall be exempt from the c payment of such fine. SEc. 4. The County Treasurer ; of enub. County shall, on or before ' the twenty-fitch day of April in 1i each year, pay to the Treasurer o of ti.e State, upon his orders, the a1 actual sum received from delin- al quents who have fiiled to attend fc such musters and drills; and it st shall be the duty of the officers cl commanding the several regiments to-furnish the County Commis- i sioners the names who have failed pl to attend such fu'Mers and drils. 01 The County Commissioners shall di give the name of the persons so h, failing to the Coanlty Auditor ; o and unless they are excused, shall ti place an extra assessment of one ai dollar per day on their general it tax, if a property holder ; and in S case said delimquent or any of 01 them are not property holders, al then he or they shall be compel. .1I led to woi-k the public roads, at o1 a rate not exceeding one dollar et per day. - SEc. 5. The bond required to be c executed by, the collectors, re- m ceivers of taxesand County Treas- of urers, shall also apply and extend e4 tb any moneys required to be col- et leeted for military purpose by this d Act. . ti SEc. 6. That all tavern-keepers, ' persons keeping boarders in their C farmilies, keepers of boarding- a' houses, and any master or mis tress oftany d welling house, shall, ei upon the a~pplication of any offeer C authorized to make such enroll- ii menit, give iniformnation of the ti names of all persons residing or i lodging in sueh house liable to be rn enrolled, and all other proper in- n fornmation concerning such per-- n sonis as such offiers may. require. in SEC. 7. That if any person of ? whom information is required by *& .and such offier, in order to en- e' able him t> comply with the pro- v visions of this Act, shall refuse to * give information, or shall give h fa.lse information, he shall forfeit and pay twenty dollars for each ti item of information demanded of ti him by any sneh officer and false- S ly stated, and a like sum for each o1 individual nanie concealed or fakse- ix ly stated ; and every person who ti shall refuse to give his own name Ii and proper intormation when ap- S< plied to by any such offier, or n shall give a false name or inform- ei ation, shall forfeit and pay a like a] sum, such penalties to be recov- ti ered in any co~urt of competent ix jurisdiction in the name of the in State of South Carolina; and it is gi herehy made the duty of such off- ix cer to report the name of all b; persons who may incur any penal- it ty under this Section, to any Mag- .P istrate or Justice of the Peace in u the County of prosecution. ti SEC. 8. That wherever an en- d rollment shall be made as provided al in~ this Act, the Board of County a Comnmissioners shall cause to be ti published, on'e a week, for four n weeks previous to the first day of V February, in a newspaper with cir- Ce culation in the County, or by written or printed placards, in Dot less than four publie places, a no- he tiee that such rolls have been corn. ti pleted and filed as af'oresaid, which -Ce notice shall also specify that any po son who claims that he is, fo'r jr anv reason, exempt fro,i military if duty shall on or before the fifteenth el day of Februarynext ensning, file ei a written statemient of such ex- si emption. certified by affidavit, in d ie office of said Clerk of the ourts of Record, or before a Jus. ce of the Peace or Magistrate, in tid County ; and the publication r such notice shall. be sufficient otice of such enrolments to all ersons named therein ; euch roll hall be made in the form pre sribed by the Commander-in hief; and the Adjutant-General zall furnish all the enrolling offi -rs suitable blanks and instrue onsfor the completion of such nrollment. SEc. 9. That all persons claim ig exemption shall file a written :aternnt of the same, verified by Mdavit, in the office of the Town lerk of the township in w hieh he 3sides, on or before the 15th day r January ; in default of which, ich person shall lose the benefit t such exemption, except such as re especially exenipted by this et dr by Act of Congress. SEC. 10. That the ,person . mak rg such enrollment shall, there pon, if such person be exempt ae )rding to law, mark the word exempt" opposite- the name of ech person presenting such ex mption be permanent; the name f such person shall not be inclu d in any subsequent enrollment. E any person shall swear falsely such affidavit, he shall, upon roof thereof, be adjudged guilty r perjury in any J udicial Court of )mpetent jurisdiction. SSC. 11. That the persons thus rolled sabull form . the reserve Oitia-of the State ,of South Caro na ; those over eighteen and not ver thirty years orage. abali con. itute the -eserve of the first class; nd those over thirty jnd under rty-five years of age, shall con itute -the reserve of tbe second ass. SEC. 12. That ifn' officer iarged with any day under the 'ovigions of this Aot.aU. refuse neglect to perform anyof. the ]ties required of him by this Act, shall forfeit and pay the sum E not less than fifty nor more ian one hundred dollars for each ad every offence, to bie recovered the name of the people of the Late of South Carolina: and such Ncers shall, as an additional pen. ty, be deeined guilty of a .misde eanr; and it shall be the duty r the Solicitor of the Judicial Cir iit within which said offender re des, upon the -complaint of the >mmanding officer of the regi ent, or on the part of the Board County ommissioners, to pros uto the same. Any penalty in rred and paid, or collected un 3r tis section, shall be paid into e treasury of the County, for the e of the military fund .of the ounty, where the fund may have crued. Sc. 13. That the Adjutant-Gen -al, under the direction of the ommander-in-Chief, shall organ e anid alppor'tion the militia, and ie districts therefor, into divis >ns, brigades, regiments, squad. me, troops. batteries and compa les, and cause the same to be umbered and -lettered as nearly conformity with the laws and gulations governing the army of u United States as circumstani is will permit, and may after di ide, annex or consolidate the ie, and the districts thereof, as e may judge exp)edient. SEC. 14. That the organized mili of this-State shall be known as u National Guard of the State of auth Carolina, and shall consist r such divisions, brigades, regi ents and battalions, and in addi on thdreto, such batteries of ght artillery anid troops anid luadrons of cavali-y, as the Corn ander-inchief may deem expedi at; and nothing herein contained uall be so construed as to inter re with the power of the Comn :nder-in-Chief, in case of war or srrection, or of imminent dan r thereof. to order dlrafts of the ilitia and to form new regiments ttalions, brigades or divisions, ahe may deem just and proper: 5-oved, That there shall he no tilitary organizations, or forma ons, for the purpose of armmng, rilling, exercising the manual o4 rms or military mianmuvres, not uith>rized under this Act, and by u Commander-in-Chief, and any eglect or v-iolations of the pro ision of this sect ion, shall, upon nviction, be punished with im risonment at bard labor in the tate Penitentiary, for a term not as than one~year, nor more than nee years, at the discretion of a~ >mpetent.Court. Szc. -15. That an Assistant Ad itant-General .niay be appointed, deemed necessaLry by' the Gov. rng py and wi h the advice and )ntof th~e Senate; .his salary aall be At the rate of fifteen hun re dlas. Tt~ dunties of Onar. termaster-General shall devolve A upon the Adjutant-General in times of peace. . SEc. 16. That in case of inva sion, insurrection or rehellion, or imminent danger thereof, the Gov ernor shall appoint, by and with i the advice and consent of the Sen ate, a Quarter-master-Gen e r a 1, 1 Commissary-General and Surgeon- I Generl. Sac. 17. That the arms, equip- i ments and munitions of the State I shall be stored under the direction of the Commander,in-Chief, and in such places as he may designate. SEC. 18. That all officers of the militia (except as herein vrovided,) shall be- appointed and commis sioned. by the Governor. They : shall draw pay only when engaged 3 in actual service. SEc. 19. That all commissioned 1 officers of the militia shall be up- r pointed and commissioned by the I Commander-in-Chief, and may be removed from office on recoinmer.- f dation by the commanding officer t of their respective brigades and divisions. Removal may be also i made by decision of court martial 1 or retiring or examining board, i pursuant to law, and for mis-con- I duct any offleers may be suspend ed by the Commander-in-Chief. 1 SEC. 20.- That the militia of this I State shall be mustered and drilled s at su(-h times as the Commander in-Ohief or commanding officers of divisions, brigades and regiments i may direct. In the Senate House, the fifteenth t day of March, in the year of our < Lord one thousand eight hun dred and sixtq -nine.. CHARLES W. MONTGOMERY. Pr* ident of the S~nte ro TEM. FRANKLIN J. MOSES, Ja., Speaker Hlnuse of Representtiv s. Approved the sixteenth day of March. 1869. BORERT : SCOTT, Governor. Lucky Marriages. The late Joseph Hume went to India, while he was still a young man, accumulated a considerable fortune. He saw that hardly any about him knew the native lant guages, so he applied himself to the hard work of niastering them, and turned the knowledge to most profitable account. On one oc casion, when all the gunpower had failed tIe British army, he succeeded in scraping together a large amount of the necessary materials, and manufactured it for the troops. When he returned to England be canvassed with so much ability and earnestness for a stat in the East India Directorate that he might carry out bis scheme of reform, that though he failed to get the vote of a certain large proprietor of stock, he won his daughter's heart, and made a p.ros. 1 perous marriage. Ah ! maria;ge is, after all, the luckiest bit oftluck when it is all it should be. When Hlenry Baring (the late Lord Ash burton) traveled in A merica (nmot merely dilettanite traveling but like Lord Milton in our days, piercing into untraveld.wilds, meeting only a stray euthusiastic naturalist like Audut.on) he made his marriage1 with Miss Bingham, and so con solidatd the American business of the preat house of Baring. In an international point of v'iew this was a happy marriage for in after years it gave him a peculiar facility for concluding the great Ashburton treaty. We hatve just seen with universal satisfaction a great lady added to the peerage of great Britain. Mr. D)israteli dedicated one of of his works to the 'severest of crities, but-a per-I feet wife;' and at the Edinburg1 banquet he told the guests how much he owed to his mnatcless1 wife. It is no socret how much of his fortunes he owed to her help, and how greatly be benefited by her sympathy and wisdom. The husb?and whom she so helped in his youthful st: g ggles fo,rfortunme has in return made her a peeress, and we all wish happiness and long1 life to t he Viscountess Beaconstield So lucky has Mr. Disraeli been his wife, that is hardly worth while alluding to the minor arnd surbor dinate circumstance that anm old lady, a stranger, some years ago I lef t him a legacy of thirty or forty t thousand pounds, through admir- r ation of hispublic character.i Bra HEr~S.-A little- shoeblack ~ was asked by a Radical member ~ of the Legislature how much he a charged for blacking b'oots. "Ten cents for Publiegn boots," was the reply.I "Uow much for Democrat boots? r "Fivye.ecents.". . r "Why do you make the differ- t once?". .- . r . aCage it takes half as.long to e ge+ 'r.nd Dmnratic heels." L Remarkable Career.-Tne Guerrilla's Bride. Nearly every pleasant day pe lestrians on our principal avenues )ass a dark-eyed brunette, of me lium size, a plump figure and ichly dressed. In the early pring of 1861, Sue Kiterage, a ovely girl, just returned from oarding school, lived upon her 'ather's plantation in one of the -ural districts of Kentucky, that ung in a balance, uncertain vhether to risk her fate with the ew "Confederacy," or hang back. iue was 17, and a frequent visitor it the adjoining plantation of Mr. Itundy, an old gentleman whose vife and son, a young man, coni )osed a happy family. One day i company of Union cavalry rode own upon the' place, plundered be premises. carried off the valu bles, burned the residence, and inally slaughtered the parents, rho were defending their own ire-sides, laying waste the coun ry in their track, and leaving oung Mundy and Sue orphans ndeed. Young Mundy was at ast aroused, and while being ear ed off a'prisoner no word escaped )is lips bat "Sue," probably the 'ffect of a disordered brain. His inen being examined, the indelli >le name of "Mundy" was found, and ever after he was known as -Sue Mundy," the constant terror f Union citizens and soldiers in hat section. Released on parole, e immediately returned and in erred the charred remains of his wn parents. as well as the body >f Mr. K. Taking a-solemn and 'arful oath of vengeance, and ac -ompanied by Sue, who was now without home or friends in the vide world, he started for a neigh oring camp of I ush-whackers or guerrillas. where he was received vith open arms, and was soon rromoted to the omee of commanu icr of the force, while Sue, dis guised and passing by the name if 'Kit,' an abbreviation of Kit .rage, proved invaluable as a spy, fearless rider, and of undoubted >ravery. Kit, after serving near y two years as a spy and general )lanner for the band found her )alth failing. Disguised, and Lrmed with the highest testimo iials, she succeeded in securing a )osition on the staff of Gen. Cle )urne, the hardest fighting Irish nan in the rebel army. This po ition she held, doing her duty ike a man, until the battle of At anta, July 12, 1864, when Pat. Jleburne was killed. Returning o her youthful hero and his band, he again reveled in the earnival f blood, and .though her evil spir t was willing, the flesh was weak, mtd Kit was again transferred to ~nard duty at Andesonville. Pris mers who have shared the hospi ality of' that celebrated camp vill perhaps remember a short, tout and muscular young lieut mnt, with flashing black eyes, a 'ce smooth as a 'maideni's, and ruel, as though a fiend incarnate urked within. This was SuenKit rage, the amiable young board ng school miss, the cheerful- comn >anion, the once wealthy heiress, e beautiful maid-n and friend of young Mundy, whose life to her vas dearer than her own. Sue Mundy and a part of his and were captured, and tried by SCourt martial. Kit was present luring the whole trial, and used ter greatest influence, but of no vail. Sue Mundy was convicted nd hung at Louisville, Ky., in larch '05. The flowing hair still mtng about his shoulders, and then his youthful corpse was ta en down and laid away in his arrow bed, th.s bleeding and bro :en heart of Sue Kiterage was >uried with it; and now a wan erer on the fae of the earth, homeless and friendless, she bvcs ithout hope of heaven or mercy, orsaken and dishonored and cast way. A poor man came to a minister md begged to be unmarried. Th~e ninister assured him that it was mt of tho question, and nrged um to put away the notion of ,ything so absurd The man in isted that the mar'riage could not old good, for the wife wvas worse han the devil. The 'mi,ister de aurred, Faying, that was -quite mpossible. "No," said the poor an. "the Bible tells ye, that if e resist the devil, he flees frQm e ; but if ye resist her, she floes t ye." An unloved wife,' who ought to now of tbat- which slie has so uch experience, says that- the eason why ladlies look so. much o money in the matter of mar age, is that now-a-days they so eldom find anything else in man f-th havinDr. 1oo many xneaux. BEWARE OF THE BELLEs WITE A MIRERS MANY. A lady contributor to a- Nw York literary paper gets of-the following seusible and truthful -re marks: If by the term "prospects," as applied to a young lady, you mean the probabilities of her getting a husband, then she whose admir ers may be called legion has in$ ni tely. poorer prospects than one whose friends of the opposite se may he counted on the fingers :of a single hand. Now, it is true that everybody patronizes the church and store that every bodyelse supports, fbr-it isthe easiest and most natural,thing in the world to- "-follow 'the crowd." But this is not to ay that a young nian wants. for A wife the girl who counts he?r beaux .y the score and her co*. quests by the dozen. It is true thaft-every -chicken in a brood will leave a good dinaer, and .all go.in -pursuit;of thesam object if they see, one of-!hei number. r.uning .away .wiSh a large-sized.crumb, or after as. i aginary ,angle-worm. 4ut .t,ia iot true that a young mat forsake the mode8t, gentle grl whose society he can enjoy with. out rivalry, to complete wth a score of others for the company of a young lady whose smiles,ar free to all. There.is, indeed, a class of men who pay assiduous court to the latter. She generally possesses many attractions-this pet of so ciety. She has a fine ipstrumoit and plays tolerably. Possibly sbe sings. Invariably she dafces. She is always surrounded by the gayest of the gay. and in cone. -%ene e -f all - tesd Jv"ntageg whther she be pretly or pla"ti, her gL r is a very agteeable place i 'ch to spend an.. etv. ing; or, as onryoung mon are-won% to say, '-it is extremely pleasant to submit one's self occasionally to be handsomely entertained ; but unless strongly inclined to firt, would not upon any account have it supposed that he was looking in that direction for a wife-by no means !" Thus these gallants are wont-to speak. And as a rule, they are not marrying men. But when one of them would take to himself a wife, he goes East, or West, or North, or South-anywhere to find a girl unspoiled by society one 'who has not in his presenos played the agreeable to a score of others, and whom he strongly suspects any one of them coul4 have had her for the asking. The worst th.ing for a girl--unless she wVants to live and die an old maid, though she might do worse -is to have too many beaux. She may be pretty, sty:ish, accom plished, graceful-anything you please, it matters little. The very fact that she has been the recipi ent of'attentions fpom more men than she would need to know iq the course of a lifetime, places her on the level with a worn-out boot -desirable only to those who cann(ot get better. If gir-ls would but take the ad, vice of their own sex as graciousi ly as they take the caresses of the. other, some, at legst, would cut loose a few of theIr worthless ac: quaintances, anid, in future, guar4 themselues against the attentions of too many beaux. A Gouas THotor,-We know not the author of the following, but it is one of t he most beautiful productions we have ever read ; "Nature will be reported. All things are enigaged in writing their own history. The plant aund poblhle go attended by their own shiadow.-The race leaves its scratches on- the mountain side, and the river its channel in ',be, soil, the animal leaves its bones it its stratum, the fern and the Ins their mo'desL epitaiph in the coal, The falling drop makes is as pulehre in the sand, or along on the ground, but printa i,s, easir aeters more or less lasting a map of its march. Every get of man inscribes it-elf en the umemories,o his fellows or wn his own face. The air is full. of sound, th,e sky of tokens, and every object .is covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. Josh Billings divides the human race into three classes - "Those who think it is so, t.hose who thigh it isn't so, and those who don't c;are whether it is soor not.' E. A. Pollard has sued for -a dl ,-rc from his wif9