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VOL. 11I.] WiiNSBORO, s. (P, $,kruftD&Y, SEPTEMBER 22,1866. 101 HIE 71IW~EILYNEVS, 1 PUBLIsHED EVERY TUXBDAY THURS DAY AND BATUADAY, 4v billard, Desportes &Co. .a Winnsboro,' S. 0., at $6.00 per an num, in advance. - fiE FAIRFIELD VERALD, 1 UBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MOAN ING, AT $3.00 PER ANNUM. :POZTRT. Passage by the House of the Bill Postpon ing he couts of common Pleas Until Spring, TUESDAY, September 18. The agitation of measures for the relief of tle people continued yesterday, but was ao dompanied with more practical result* and less elocutionary display than might have been expected. The Bill before the House 'wais that, Keported by the Senate, to which Mr. Hagood offered the following substitute for all after the enacting clause: A Bill to alter and,fix the time of holding the Courts of Cotnmon Pleas in this State SEo. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and 'louse of Representatives, now met and sit. ting in General Assembly, and by the au. tIhority of the same, That from and after Ihe ratification of this Act, the Judges of t he Superior Courts of Law in this State shall hold the Courts of Common Pleas In t ie several Circuits established by law in this State anniall .in the Spring of everf year at the ffiftes and plaei in each District, already affixed by law. - lmo. 2.' That all writs and other process of the stid Coui-te of ComAbn Pleas, mesne and final, now itade returnble to the Fall Term heretofore established, shall be re. turnable to the annual Spring Courts, th6 same as if alreadt, so directed; and.that the same rules of imparlanco,'&nd the same or der of proceedings now 6kisting for the bemii-annual Co'ts shall bS extended to and apply to the Courts tetablished by this Act. 8i. 8. That all Acfs and parts of Act? of the General Assethbly of Ahe State ill conflict with provisions of this Act be, and the mamo are hereby repealed. . \ir. Hagood said : That, he in commod with mauy others upon the floor entertained insuperable objections to the 6onstitution. ality of the bill under consideration. The amuendment proposed, In his judgment, ob viated these objoctions. He wps informed by those whose experiebef in the 6ourta en 1.1to.tWr opion to wilght, thit -udder new legislation g1fing large jurisdiction and frequent sessions of the District Courts, annual sessions would in -all prZpability be ample for the discharge ofQhe business of t he Courts of Common Pleas. The amend wout proposed to shnt' no Courts. It left all the machinery of justice in full opera. tion. It hold out to the debtor*no delusive hope ot repudation. Writs could be sued out at once; compromises of debt, when ad justment wat .possible, would take place; judgment and levy of executin were alone by the incidental operation of the propdsed anenjiment post.poned for a short perled. This. incidental operation of the amendment is the only objection which . can be urged against. it. And this said hie, Mr.-Speaker, I must frankly.confe'es J one df its features -whioli reoonimends- it very strongly tome. It is known to esery member.4k this floor that the majority of the planters of this Stato, the class which constitutes the bulk of its populatioq, will be poorer on the first day of next January. than the list. It is equally well known that this fact is due to no want of industry or energy on their part. As -a Plas, they ha labored hop'lfully and energetjcally with orlppled resoddes to re trieve the great disaster th'at. had befallen t heir fortunes. ,The failure is due to unfa vorable-seasons unprecedented in thie mem ory of any man here. It. Is well .knowni thiS with our favored soil-and climate, sea-' sons approximating the last do pot recur oince in twenty yeary.- Iq all hum&n probe bil ity the next seasion will be as prosperohs as the last was unfavorable-; antd the aetioh of the prpposeg amendment int the short .de lay of' the levy of execqpion will enable the the Inilebted planter to bring one more crop into uiarket, wherewitti to meet his. obliga lions, to make one more a ppeal to the mer eles of a benifioent Providence, and if after that the decree is n'rerersed, why, lhe must meet. his doom as he may. Thus, Mr. Speaker, if as I 6hink there Is upon the face of this amendment. no obnsti tutiossal objection ; if t,he probabilities are, ths6, it will edeef, a desirable eoonomie 're form in the arrangement of our courts, and. if, 'fI-Qm its indidental operation, relief howeier,meagre, dbmhes to our distressed. itid im#overlihed people, It onimends.itself vcry strcutgly to ipg apptova , anid upen thesph grodinds I submit It to . the oossidera tiot* of the House. -Mr.' Todd, of Lgurens, moved that. the atsuendment,f Mr, flagood pe. laid og' the t&ble whic.h. was deel.ded in the negeti$e b7 a~ voite-f'yeas 46, iiays.67. Thbe eytebtioui tiew rcarre& da thme adope l on of L,he stoendmept anid the question . ng taken if g.ss aq (aye it was d.oidt in Ahe edifrait,i,.ve vote of yees A nVltet af record Wr9puhn1sk tlhetaabIs bf the'aaer*bers voting, thtt the pUblic nay koow who ar4 Mkends and oppoAtent. of t4gg mnessure of relief pro gosed. ese,, Yuas.--Aikeu' J, o , Adergol iall, Blaek, Iloshieos, B3~ rowsngg tiyburn, t"Myton, Qqlbres4h, Busy, rkla,' Farmer, Flowers, Gar gte.es Gavin,Gae lierat, HIowz.eo1 d el Lanuhrum, Lip , -o AioKeas Militi Mal son, Richardson, J. S.. Jr., Russell, Ityan, Salley, Sessions, Sheridan, Springs, Stqkes, Suber, Talbert, Treqcot, Wagener, Walk er, Wallace, Win., Wannaiaker, Warley, WFIght-65.I JNAS.-D. Wyatt Aiken, Bachman, Bar 'ker, Cannon, Carlisle, Coker, Coogan, Cov ington, DePass, DuPree, Duncan, Elliott, Fair, Gaillard, Graham, Hanokel, liasleell, Hnater, Hutson, Lee, Leitner, Lewis, Lord, Magrath, Martin, Mikell. T. P., Mikell, W. E, Milligan, Moore, J. W., Mulvaney, P,erry1 Petty, Pressly, Richardson, Shaw, Sgigling, Sparkman. Staokhouse, Talley, Thomas, Thomson, 'Todd, Townsviad, Wal. lace, A. B., Woodruff, Speaker-46 - A motion by Mr. Warley to postpone the furthey consideration of the subjeot indefi nitely was agreed to by a vote of yeas 48, nays 55. Mr. Townsend, of Marlboro, moved to continue the subject until the next session. Mr. Talbert, of Abbeville, moved to lay that motion on the table The yeas and nays being ordered, it was agreed to by a vote of yeas 70. nays 84. Mr. Lord, of Charleston,'moved to bsti tute as a title for the bill "A bill affAding relief to debtors." Mr. Lord contended that the *holc argument had been qot as to the necessity of changing the terms Of the Courts, but as to the necessity of them for t4e relief of debtors. If such was the factther6 should be no feason in the minds of gentlemen, why it Should not be expressed on the bill. Mr. Garlington asked the speaker if he Ad a lawyer, announced that th' bill, as it now stood before the Ilouse, was in his bpinion dhcondtitutional. Mr. Lord replied that lie had no hesita tion in saying that in any legislation which has for its objdct the relief of * the debtor, whether it assimed the form of a change ef remedy, or change in the time of holding courtl was an .Onconstitutiolal evasion of ,be spirit if not a violation of t he law. Mr. Garlington said that the gentleman did not answer the . quest ion. lie had dis cussed the objecta of the bill and declared then to be nne6tistitut.ional and it was evi dent that his object was to put. into the title of the bill something upon vh'oh the Court of Errors dould seis& for the purpose of making the act nail and foid. Mr. Lord said be tWould ask if the gentle mnan froli NewbOry denied ihat this bill *as delgned tO Afford relief to debtors by clanging the terni of the Court of Common P :hg. Mr. Gatlington replied that' he did not deny. that his own private view was to afford relief to debjors, but no court in ,he world had a right to interfere with his motives, and doubly So when they did not a ear in the bill undej- consideration.. Mr. fiescot observed thit lie supported this bill, not because It was for the relief of debtors, but because lid believed the interest of the creditors of Ihe 8tate required that the conrt should not bd opened at a time when it would occasioh much distress. Therg *ere thousands of plahters .n'the State, especially in the low cuntry, who, under the pecuniary circumstances which. exist, bet*een tbd State and Federal aut.hori ties whereby their estatei are still in the bands of other than their rightf4il owners who would be ruined unless time is afforded to recover further losses. It was therefore a matter of public ititerest that he should support this bill but if he voted for 6hanging the title in the wanner suggested he would be untrue to the convictions entertained Mr. "Mullids moved tg lay it on the table. The yeas atid nays were ordered' and the niotion was sustained by a vote of yeas 681 nays 47. Mr. Barkbr offered as a JUbAlitute the following title to the billt A bill to.iuspend the admInistration of justice in South 'Caros lina for the koneral welfare. - Mr. Treso'. said that the itsteotion of thd genleman from Charleston, had been sub, served by firing othis epigrinr; he noved that i, be laid on the table. Mr. Barker replied that it was not. hi's nature to deal with issuies of serious impor tance affecting the ditlty of South Cqroll nsi,.in the spirit quggested by the gentleman. from Anderson. e had but one desire, namely, to see truth' t ippon the record, And he proposed im fTy that the advoeates ofthis ineasUro as a last resort, having justifed-she 'suspension of the administra dlon of justice for general welfares they' should annouuoe it. Mr. Bonha,lsa.ggested that it was usual f6It friends of a measure *o perfeet nd give to it, their pwn' detle. The assistan'e of t he honot.able memiber, who had as ested the amuedmnent, was not requhid We (said Mr. Bi) took thu respensibiliy' of 'the ll as It stands,, And no friend of the bill has proposed to altdithe title; hd meved tiiere-, fore, to lay 'themoiob to aniendi 'pon t-hu table. - -Mr. Lord defetided the r h6 of the oppo 'aunts of tiny bill to'amend shd 'title, by bIP lPi Wction of the'1nitdBtdg.d CongA i 80, when" M,9 (Qalhoun w fi, 4 idronmstaias, to o6afi th.tiLo bie, Treo4r4fP4 d~#. a tte'fI0h .', to se iriendoin Charldstone sker. *yd*ulsnd W he language of the proposed title to sus pend justice for thegeneral welfare. Mr. Bonham reneowed his m.otiou to lay he ameidment.on the table, which was %greed to, and the bill as amended, was Drderedi to be sent to the Senate. The bill amending an act entitled at act lo establish district courts was takeh up, perfected, received Its second reading and was sent to the Senate. - A bill amending. the criminal law was ikewise perfected ater debate, and sent to h,s Senato for conotrronce. ' -The bill to, prov1d an expeditious mode f- ejecting treepasolre which Mr. Warley lxplained. would .606ble the planters at the md of the year to oVtain possession of the. egro quarters withOOt giving three months otice was read a seqond time and sent ta ;he Senate for concurrence.. On motion of 3on.-Butler thi House then took a recess antil half-past seven.o'clock -in the even. ng. Danger of A01her Civil War. The Potersburg ;.cpress forcibly ob ierves that, there is everything in the haracter and proeiedimgs of the donii iant party in Con ress to justify tIe iuspicion-yea, to^ii-spire in every re lecting mind the kelief-that they are lot on v disposed but detornined to resort to the most qxtreme measures, if iecessiry, to acedmmplislh their vile hurposes. Cowafd4 as the leaders are, hey cant yet, with'their infamous har ingnes, influence &Lt credulous and con iding multitudes their followers to he most violent uries, even to the ;hedding of blood, Jilst they (the lead rs)ill take goo ere to keep their )wn carcasses out harins reach. If hey cannot draw .W word themselves, they can sound t ritupiet at a safe listguce, andso ite thousands of ealots, phirezied .'fanaticism and nfuriated with hm oi .o-dcda the Nottenplation of whion makes humanity hliudder.. Men, or rather monsters in he shape of mcn, like Stevens, Sumner, Kelly, t;handler, Fornev, Butler, and icores of other radical chiefs that might 1) named, talk of war as if t1hev had he nerves'of Achilles, and the s'pirit of Yulius Cusar-as if they would be the irst to pitnoply themselves at.d rush t.o he en-nnguined field. Bit( let war ome and they w.ill be found hiding Ahemselves in the deepest caverns of .arth I,o 'escape the perils of the confliet. But these dastardly brutes, unfortunate. Ly. possess influence enoigh with their ongues and pens (the only weapons hey know the use ' of) to plunge the and into the horrors of anarchy an in. mstine strife, and it is evident from re ent and daily developments that they atend to exert this influence tp the ut nost. Who that thoughtfully considers ,he scenes which narked the late session 3f Congress-the enormous unsoripu ous assumption of power by the ruling najority-their reckles . violations of he constitution-their fierce and malig nant assaults upon the President for an honest and patriotic discharge of his iuties - their hold declarations of their 1eas.onable purDoses-.their contemptu. ous disregard of all the pleadings and arguments. for a peaceful re-admission of the Sotuthern common"wenlths to f.heir places in the Union, after their niilitary' overthrow-who that thoiughtfully con siders these things, and in connection with them, the present still attitude of hostility, in which those conspjrutors . ginst the republic stand towards its zreeutive head and his millions of isup porters, can doubt for a-momenf that-an otler struggle,- more bitter and bloody than th which has just been clased, is Impending? It is just as well--it, is a satdeal better-for the co'nservative gress.to speak Out ope'nly at once,.and tel the people that a- new war is immi net-a war, the gullt 6f which will be sttogeuthier upon the heads'of.this radical nr^uriatev who. have .dared to take issuie with the President upon, his policy op' estoring the hiationlal init,y, dignity and frosperity. What is the use of mince hg ph rases in 'so porhentoda a crisis? Why cry ''peace, :peace, whore there is ire peace ?" Look at what i s .been sgid and done id PhiladelphiiniIn the Iat%w'days, idf thagsademrblf o( ollti ivlpers oalled the .!o4yalIt OQinveri. ~Lj~~4ookcat what transpired~ at blve ~~j'way,to jcat 46,ehsh *1iij 4 f .i 4 'fe Constitution, which is displayed by the usurping and revolutionary party who from their "ebon throfft" in the nation al capitol, have as good as proclaimed themselves to be the supremo powet of the land I Look at the appliances which are being constantly brought by them to hear upon the approaching elections. Co8k at the turbulent add. fraudulent manter it which they are attenpting to put dowh popular rights ard crush out resist ance to their exedrable schemes for suhverting our institutions and shack lng a free people with chains more gal ling and degrading than wvre ever forged by orieuthl desl.ot 1 'Is it not time to awaken the whole country to a sense of the peril which hangs over it ? We are 1no prophet, btit we cannot read the I.igns of the tineis," as they now stare us in the face in every direction, with. out taking the warning from them with which they are pregnafit, They denote, to say the least, an alarmingly precaious state of public affiairs; so much so. in deed, as to warrant the( inference that we are on the verge of new troubt. the end of which the eye of ,hO Almighty can alone see. The electiois soon to come off in the Northern 8,ates Will subject this government of ouys and the people living under it to an ordeal infl. nitely more trying than any they have yet had to pass through. The last New. York Express has the following paragraph on this subject, which in a few words fully susTr.ains our Views: "Read the inflammatory and incen diary speeches made by .certain Radical Congressmen and Governors, in Phila delphia last evehing-r- and say if the point of them allis not the inlavitauility of another war. This war is to be be. gun by ate attOmpt to remove the President by i mipreneh men t.-an attempt that will assuredly be made, it the au tumn elections indicate no abatement of radical strength in the North and West." General Grant. The folloying is an extract from a power ful and eloquent speech by Gen. Hillyer, at a meeting ofpoldiers and sailors in New York, a few days since : Thank God, the nation is safe so loug as the army and navy stand by the President of the United States in his efforts to restore the Union, and hold themselves prepared to defend the rights of the 8.i.te-aad the peo 'ple against tihe dsurpation of any, Congress. not organized in-accordance with the policy of the Consihtiion ofoer father4. [Cheers 1 A voice-What. of Grant'" f*lluovwid rith cheer O,GVe. Hillyer-A gentlemtn it,me what of (rant ? A hat leable huian voice would be heard in his prisews amid Ihe rattle oV musketry and the i-o.ir of artillery with which his naine lia been thundered down by history from Almost a hundred victorious batle-fields? [Etihisineti clieors for oa. Grant.1 There is a doily beauty in his lie, there is a grandetr of oharaeotr, coupled with in honet .and 'modest sintplioity of n'anner, which lias given him place in Iho nation's h'eart that no man ever held befdge --[Voices-"That's ho." and applause] until the part ial eyes of his cout(ryinen say i Areunid him hangs such a perpetutil spell, What'er lee does, none else did e'er so well. What could such asoldier be oth'r thni the emb4oditnent of. magnanimity t - Iow could qeh a Mn teel aught but Ch1risulati charity-f lhow could such a otizen ho loyal to lesi thau the lhole coint ry ? [ApillNuse ] I tell you, soldiers, that Generat r..11t, your late Oomitnandef- in-Chief,'stafids 4y the President dfthe Unted states Id flis ef forts to reatord the Uuioh. Renewed ap blause.J I -speak from a record fbich all tuay see an'd re4d. The game spirit which O,ant mani:esied at the surrender of L#e has characterigd4 otery'ac t of Johnson in his treatment of the im1fjugated South. Whlen GJenesal Gi-ant,' in his final report expressed the wish that you might live in perpotteal posde and harmony with Chat enemy Irtose maethood, however tmistaiken the cause, head drawn .forth. such herculean deeds of ,*lor', he meant Vhat hec said. [A voIce. eLThat'g so."] Ohe of~tihp first, if not, the very first ap: plicationd msde by a prominent Eoutherr mn to the President ol' the United Staes, was siade b Geeral Itobert, E.. Lee,- li*t C*mianea' -~Chief of' the Confederates foice, aat oh the 'baok of theat applicatloI' is as :,eaudoraemet--i warm; earnest.' ebo. qtueet lidorsenpt..-aking tha.t that para 'don should be granted; and that eodoe.e' 'eni sig dlby ."U.. -. G,rante Genegal C4;O adiialng II Arnifes of the tted 8ta ." [Cepr jWhen a the President UIOn qLWVernr of North Caroliaas ber. )ie sent it or publhdfed it,, he subaugitted it, to ADVERTISING. RA Ordinar Ad'ertisements; oce more thau ten inps. (one s'qur.e,\ inserted in -TiHl. NEWS, at $1.00 irst insertion and 75 cents fr e sequent imserVon. -" Larf,or advertiser'ne6ti, whei ino eo is ioade, will be charged in exact ro Lion. For announcing a candidte to any oin of profit, honor or tiust, $10.00. Marriage, Obituary Notices, &o., will be charged the same as advertisements, yhen over ten l.ines, and must be paid for when banded in, or they will' not apear. General drant for his.opinion 4vid cTiticism, and General Grant endorsed every word and syllable of that letter., That letter was the key-note to the subsequent polioy of the President In the diCulty between Congress and the President upon the veto of the Pr6ed-. men's Bureau Bill, Gen Grant stood b President. Congress adjourned, ondA e representatives of the people assembled at ~'hiladelphia and sent a committee to con. guatulate the ProsidenVoi their eri4orsernent of his policy, and while that. committee were in the performance of their mission Gen. Grant stood at the r}ght hand of the President. Soldiers and sailors of New Yorki survivors of the war, I submit to you. to-night; Will you stand by the President of the United States? |Ioad responses--"Yes. "we will.") Will you stand by the Admiral of tii' Navy-? [Vociferous cries of "we will."] Will you stand by the Constitution of your farthers ? [-Yes, yes."] Will you ,stand by that Union which has passed ,through the rebaptism of blood oily to come out regenerated and glorified ? ["Yes." Wilt you stand by the flag, with its thirty. six starb of equal hingnitude and brilliancy, with plebty of room for more, but not a sin. . gle star to spare? [Loud cheers.] NAPOLEON's LETTER TO KING -Vic Toil EMNUEL.-The Mon0cur adds.: The Emperor Napoleon has piad' known his intentions to his Majesty Kig Victor Emanuol, in the follow in 'l tter BROTHER : I have learnt with pleasure that your Majesty has adher. ed tb the armistide and prolimiuarie . of peace signed -by the King of Prus sia and the Emperor of Austria. It is, therefore, probable.that a new era of tranquility is about to open for Europe. Your Majesty ,khows that i have.accepted the offer of Venetia in order to prese-ve her from any devas titiop, and to revent uslew blooda sheld. ffy tiienioli tis ^awa'sieel to rostore her-to het self, in oder that Italy always might be free. fro'm the Alps to the Adriatic ; tnistresi of her destinies, Venetia will soon be able to express h6r wishes by universal sufJ frage. Your Majesty will recognize that idi this circumstance the action of France has again been exercised in favor of humanity and the independence of the people. I renow the assurance of the sentithents of high esteem and sin cere friendship with which, I am your' Majesty's good brother, . NAPOLEON. ST. CLOUD, Amgust 11, 1866. BEN. WOOD IN TnouBuE.-A New York letter to the Cincinnati Gazete says : BeWn. Wood has 8t last come to grief.' Hissay is nout ii'ow out; 11k9 the sands of thd fatmous retired pliyhicinh; and he comes eiit. bainkrupt .irn pursd 'and dlama)igedi in mind.. Wood has lately lost all his money. His losses intelstix months will net two hundred -'thous&ud dollaraf John Miorrissey is in possession ot the News' offiedo andl at present iA engaged in tlVansfei-ring it to Whitney~ of the. SundJiy M3er'cury. Wood theantimie haunts the office, and is evidently dis turbed in mind. *The South Cardlina Itailroad Com pany has just imported as new engine, which w$hs upon an entirely npw and edon,omleal plan. It had, noe tender, aw$d is arrabged to carry ita o*n wood and .water; without materially incroas ing its size: These engines h,eye been found very edi-viceable in shifting and - mnoying trkins~. Dr. Cra*bn, author of the "Prison Lire of Jefibraon Davis," hits already received frofu Cargton; of Nqw Yoi-k the sum of $12,000 as copj,rght on that volume, whi'eli still cotitinues te - itell just as rapidly as en-the first day of its publication. Craven has also received ?950 from the publisher of his book In Englanid. *Goneral frrest and ot1Ner' Confede rats offiers in Memphis sent a friendly .di4patch to Sho Convssoin -of Fede ral Soldiert and Sailors;In Cleveland,. and a friendly answer was returned. The Preisuians lostfr tho' war 50* killed,58$41. seoarmly *euid.d,.'889. tot Vly 'an e a4.2549 mnisig~ sn lg tta o 1 A0