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* m ' VOLUME XXVI. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1867. NUMBER 2,; t - - ' ? mm , i^_ .llli_ti lj | * . PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THOMAS W. PEGUES. ~ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION*! ThVcd Dollars a year Cash?Four Dollars if payment is delayed tlircc months. uatks of advertising, per square. For the first insertion. SI .-50: for the second, $1.00; for tlie third, 75 cents; for each subsequent insertion. 50 cents. Semi-monthly. Monthly and Quarterly advertisements, Si.50 each insertion. The space occupied by ten lines (solid, of this size type) constitutes a square. Payment is required in advance from transient advertisers, and as soon us the work is done, from regular customers Contracts made for yearly and half-ycarly advertising (payable quarterly) made on moderate terms. MISCELLANEOUSr" Washington, July 13.?The following is the text of the Bill as it ipassca both Houses: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Uni ted States of America, in Congress assembled, That it is hereby declared to have been the intent and meaning of the Act of 2d day of March, 1867, entitled an act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States, and of the act supplementary thereto, passed on the 23d day of March, 1SG7, that the go 7ernments then existing in the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Texas and Arkansas, wrerc not loyal State governments, and that, therefore, said governments, jf continued, were continued subject i in all respects to the military commanders of the respective districts, ; and to the paramount authority of j .Congress. < Sec. 2. That the commander of i any district named in said act shall 8\ave power, subject to the disappro- i val of the general of the army of the i United States, to have effect till dis- i approved, whenever in the opinion of i such commander, the proper a(]min- i istration of said act shall require it i to suspend or remove from 'office or 1 {from the performance of official du- ; A Alf AHAtOA A^tlOlol 1 a-ii'.i tut; c.\ui\^?ou ui vuiviwt |/VM .ers, any officer or person holding or .exercising or professing to hold or .exercise any military office or duty :in such district, under any power, election, appointment or authority derived from or granted by or claimed lunder any so-called State or the government thereof, or any municipal or \ other division thereof; and upon such 1 suspension or removal such command- < er, subject to the disapproval of the i general as aforesaid, shall have pow- | er to provide from time to time for 1 the performance of the said duties of such officer or person so suspended or ] removed by the detail of some com- t petent officer or soldier of the army, i or by the appointment of some other < persons to perform the same, and to 1 fill vacancies occasioned by death, re- i signation or otherwise. Sec. 3. That the General of the ] army of the United States shall be ] revested with all the powers of sus- j pension, removal, appointment and ,< detail granted in the preceding sec- i tion to district commanders. i Sec. 4. And be it furthor enacted, i That the acts of the offioers of the < .army already done in removing in 1 ? .districts persons exorcising the functions of civil officers and appointing i others in their stead are hereby confirmed; provided, that any person ,heretofore or hereafter appointed by ;any district commander to exercise i the functions, any civil officer may be removed either by the military officers in command of the district or by the general of the army, and it shall be the duty of such commanders to remove from office, as aforesaid, all persons who are disloyal to the Government of the United States, or who use their official influence in any manner to hinder, delay, prevent 1 ,or abstruct the use and proper admin- j istration of this Act and Acts to which it is supplemental. ' Sec. 5. That the boards of regis- 1 tration provided for in the act entitled an act supplementary to an act entitled an act to provide for the more efficient government of the Rebel States, passed March 23d, 18G7, 'shall have power and it shall be their xluty before allowing the registration 'of any person, to ascertain upon such facts or information as they can ob4 tain, whether such person is entitled to be registered under said act, and the oath required by said act not be conclusive on such question, and no person shall be registered until such board shall decide that he is entitled thereto, and such board shall have i power to examine, under oath, to be administered by any member of such board, any one touching the qualification of any person claiming registration ; but in every case of a. refusal the board to register an applicant, and in every case of striking his name from the list, as hereinafter provided, the board shall make a note or memorandum, which shall be returned, with the .registration list, to the commanding general of the district, setting forth the grounds of such refusal or such striking from the list; provided, that no person shall be disqualified as member of any board of registration by reason of race or color. Sec. 6. That the true intent .and meaning of the oath prescribed insaid supplementary act, is, among other things, that no person who lias been a member of the Legislature of any State, or who has held any executive or judicial office in any State, whether he has taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States or not, and whether he was holdingsuch office at the commencement of the rebellion or had held it before, or who was afterwards encased in insurrection o o or rebelloin against the United States, or giving aid or comfort to the enemies thereof, is entitled to be regisistered or vote; and the word "executive or judicial office in any State," in said oath mentioned, shall be construed to include all civil offices created by law for the administra tion of any general law of a State, or forthcadmirstration of justice. Sec. 7. That the time for completing the original registration provided \ for in said act may, in the discretion | of the commander of any district, be ' extended to the first day of October, 1S67, and the boards of registration shall have power, and it shall be their duty, commencing fourteen days prior to any election under said act, and upon reasonable public notico of the time and place thereof, to revise for a period of five days the registration,. fists, arid upon being satisfied that uny person not entitled thereto lias ' been registered, to strike the name of such person from the list; and such board shall, also, during the same pe- ] -iod, add to such registry the names )f all persons who, at any time, possess the qualifications required by ] said act who have not been already registered, and no person shall at any :imc be entitled to be registered,or to rote by reason of any executive parIon or amnesty for any act or thing ivhich without such pardon or amnes;y, would disqualify him from registration or voting. SiiC. 8. That section four of said last named act shall be construed to luthorize the commanding geneial named therein, whenever lie shall loom it needful, to remove any member of a board of registration and to fill any vacancy in such board. 1 Sec. 9. That all members of such 1 Hoards of registration and all persons c ticrcat ter elected or appointed to omcc in said military districts, under any so-called State or municipal authority, or by detail or appointment of the district commanders, shall be required to take and to subscribe the oath of office prescribed by law for officers of the United States. Sec. 10. That no district commander or member of the board of registration, or any of the officers or appointees acting under them, shall be bound in his action by any opinion of any civil officer of the United States.Sec. 11. That all the provisions of this act, and the acts to which this is supplementary, shall be construed literally to the end that all the intents thereof may be fully and perfectly carried out. How to Preserve Ice.?Take two bags of stout osnaburg; the inner one should be ten inches wide by fourteen inches deep. The outer bag should bo made at least two inches wider each way. After placing one bag inside the other, stuff feathers between htio twn nnrl saw tlifi two En,<rs w, WW. - Q-- ? D J cr at the top. Put ft block of ice into ^ a bag of this description, and it will ( be preserved from melting for nearly f a "week, "when under exposure it will melt in less than an hour. Invalids ^ and others will find the above article indesponsable for the sick room. ? Death of an old Printer.?Mr. M. Traccy, for some time foreman of tfio Charleston Mercury, died in this city at half past 10 yesterday morning, after a lingering illness of several months, in the forty-seventh year of * his age.?Charleston News 18th. From flic Southern Cultivator. YOUNG MEN OF THE SOUTH. Editors Southern Cultivator: ?To those who stood by the Lost Cause until "the bitter end," we would address this article. Those who faltered and fainted by the way-side? who were "weary in well doing," from what cause soever, arc to be pitied.? Many of them wanted in faith; many were jealous of the favor, so to say, shown to others, became recreant to their high trust; many lacked true courage, indomitable will, perseverance, and the nobler principles of our noble-born Southern youth. Whether so constituted by nature, or a wrong bias given by education, it is no less true they faltered and fell by the wayside, and wc pity them and their progeny. But there are hosts of ye left, that stood up to our Lost Cause until the very end, and whether with an "armless sleeve," or but one leg to hobble on through' life, yet ye arc nobles, heroes, every one, and if you will but carry out your principles through all the changes and fiuctuaO O _ tions of life, you will be certain of receiving your reward?if not in this, you will in another and a better world. Patient perseverance will give you at least the knowledge of a conscientious discharge of duty, worth all the silver and gold, with the "mines of Golconda" added. We have accepted the issue placed upon us by force; we have acknowledged defeat. Let us, one and all, old and young, stand by our acceptance, and stadfastly in the line of duty, as you all have shown a capacity to do?not influenced by the cold 3huddcr, or doubts or fears of the timid. Each and all of you had high hopes, and on occasional misgiving, jr may be not so far as that, but something like a fear, we might fail; yet pu relaxed not?you tired not. You ivere first to the reveille, and the last ri-ttie Tnournnrrairge Tffiit putTo rest the last hope of liberty on this coutiicnt. ht . n u 1. w c arc no muicrcr?>>e speaa sjin-, lie truth when we say, when History lips her pen in ink, and writes for inborn millions to read, the young ucn who stood shoulder to shoulder 111 til our Joe Johnston yielded his sword and struck his colors, will bo classed with the heroes of Therm opdue, and a new song will be sung, classing their names with "the bravest if the brave." There was even hope o some, when the great Jtobt. E. bee yielded to superior force?never o superior Generalship or true braeery; but when Joe Johnston fell, lope were folly. Your courage and steadfast adherence to principle, proves beyond all question, that you are capable of luilding up our walls, battered down >y a bloody and hired fanatical solliery. And we beseech you, by all fou hold sacred on earth or in Heaven, ;hat you now turn to the peaceful vocations of life, and show to the world hat you are as competent to handle :hc plow, the hoe, the spade, the axe, die sledge, the hammer, the plane, the saw, the adze, &c., &c., as you did i an die the sword, the carbine, the rifle, ;he musket, tho cartridge. Let others say or do as they will, but let us go o work, and make our own, our suniy South, more than she ever was.? We have the talent, the energy, enterprise, the industry and zeal, for 4ny vork?only let not ease and luxury md display draw you from the work, fhosc of us who Avcre born to gloves md broadcloth, can, without detractng any worth we may have had, lay :hcm aside, and if for a blistered hand tnd a sunburnt face, they will be only the "shibboleth" that wi 11 pass us on ;o a higher station. Leave all unkind- 1 less and harsh expressions of individlals, to those who lacked spirit to ict. Be courtoous and civil, even to Lose who were our enemies, and let ndustry and perseverance, with good nrvrnls. be vour iewels. You have " * ' / O ' - nade too exalted a record on the page : >f time, to have it blotted out by intction and querelous complaints. Be nen, and leave politics meddling in jeneral Government affairs to those vho could not meet the foe on the iloody field, and "great will be your eward." M. W. P. Mississippi. The Chicago Journal knows of one *irm in Southern Illinois which sold, ;hc present season, in six Counties, IOC new reaping machines. Fr;aj4:thc Ilouma (La.) Civic Guards. ^CHINESE LABORERS. ' Col. Dennett, of the Planters' Banner has been on one of his tours of observation, and gives his readers the benefit of what he saw in his usual clear and simple style. We copy his observations on the Chinese laborers he saw on Dr. Kittridge's plantation: There are now twelve Chinese laborers at work for Dr. Kittridgc on his plantation, and Lieut. Kelley is daily cjpecting thirty-eight more. These laborers have served out their time as coolies 011 the Island of Cuba, and now at liberty to go where they please, and hire with whom they please.? They receive on this plantation fourteen dollars per month the year round. They don't mind the sun "while at work, but when walking out on Sun (lays each lias a red umnreiia ana a fan. I happened to see them in their Sunday gear. They are neat in their persons, food, bedding and everything else. They bathe often, and take gooct care of clothes and bedding.? They are of a light copper color, have black straight hair, and look more like Indians than any other people. I noticed one "with his head shaved on the sides and top, and a queue behind. They wear a white blouse reaching to their hips, a pair of breeches and hat, shoes in dry weather, and in wet weather they go barefoot and roll their breeches above their knees, when working in ditches or nmd. Their beds are of matting, and their pillows blocks of wood about as large as a man's hand and three times as thick, with a blouzc folded and laid on each. Tlicy have mosquito bars, and fix them and their bedding up neatly, and keep them in good order. The rations of these Cuba Chinamen arc simply half a pound of pork and a pound of rice daily. They abhor corn bread, and will nearly starve before they will touch it. They cook careless weed, and other weeds for , greeilR, and nr^ fond nf npHtnoa ami _ They hang up an opossum till it is jucy and mellow, and then cook it and stuff it with raisins. They .ire neat cooks, neat gardinors, and ingenious. Whatever they do is not rapidly, but well. They speak the Spanish language, and a Creole of the Lafourche, who speaks Spanish, manages them and acts as interpreter. They appear to he peaceable anil satisfied, do anything they arc required to do without a murincr, and as freely to work in a ditch knee deep in mud as in the field. They arc always quiet, and work steadily all day long, but not rapidOn Monday morning, the 1st int., Lieut. Kelly had a couple of horses T 11 1 V? 1 i. C. 1 SIUKllCIl oy auom O U ClUCK, aiiu nt; rodo over the fields together. We circled round to where the Chinese laborers were working on ditches, cutting weeds from the banks, sides and bottoms. They cut every weed with great care, not allowing one to escape, but thoy do not cut quite as fast as the negroes who were more careless in their work. We rode on to a part of the field where they had worked i on cane a few days before. Though it was necessary to work rapidly on j account of the crop being much in the grass, the Chinese, could not be j induced to slight their work. They . would work among the. cane with ; their fingers, and pull all of the grass < out, and round the ridge up with ' thoic hoes. i From what I saw I am favorably 1 impressed with Chinese laborers, but I I would sooner have these direct from s China than those from Cuba, who ( have passed through the hands of la- c bor agents. Labor agents arc usually 1 sharp and unscrupulous, and would be i likely to pick up the most worthless 1 coolies on too island, loaicrs, uuers, \ and those unskilled in agriculture.? i The agent, who furnished Dr. Kit- t tredge's laborers, stated that the t planters will not let the best of the ( coolies leave the Island of Cuba.? i They will pay them fifteen to twenty- < five dollars in gold per month rather t than let them go. v ] As to the stealing propensities of i these laborers, or their malice, I don't j think these will give their employers i any more trouble than they would ? find in white or black laborers. They t appear to be social, and much more ] passionless than either whites or blacks. 1 I think they arc the laborers for Louis- j isiana. The negroes arc entirely all raising their children in perfect idle- c ness, and the next generation of this t race now growing up will not culti- < vatc these cane, corn, and cotton fields, and Trill not keep up these levees. We may as well commence providing for this inevitable event in season.1? Many of the negroes who have been raised to habits of industry will be industrious as long as they live, but their children will be of little account to themselves or any others, except the white politicians who want their votes to help them to fat offices. ? Scientific.?The Richmond Medical Journal for June, 1867, has reached us, and in it we find two articles from Soutn Carolina contributors. In former times, Charleston used to have a first class medical journal but now its late editor is a brilliant contributor to a New Orleans journal. Another South Carolinian is the editor of the Richmond journal, and the two most interesting original com municauons in me present imuiuer are those by Dr. Baruch, of Camden, and Dr. S. Logan, late of this city, but now Professor elect of Surgery in the New Orleans School of Medicine; all of which shows that if means or energy are lacking, and prevent our having a medical journal of our own, it is gratifying to find such sub stantial assurance that it is in the minor and accessory qualities only our Profession can even be suspected deficient, but that in the essentials of learning, they are abreast with their brethren elsewhere. Dr. S. Baruch, of Camden, S. C., | contributes a very interesting article j on Hypodermic Medication. We| have read it over carefully, and if a I. layman may be permitted an opinion j on a purely professional subject, we . should say that Dr. B. has reason to be well satisfied with his production. . It is well conceived, well arranged, and admirably executed; and if the little we can say in his commendation can induce him to try his pen again, we know we shall do the profession a service. Dr. B. contributed some ^rtrrcsnng ooservations oir"Bayonet Wounds" to the (Confederate Medical and Surgical Journal, published in Richmond during the last two years of the war. Dr. B. studied medicine in the Medical College of South Carolina, and entered the Confederate army as Assistant Surgeon in the 3d S. C. Battalion.? This command he accompanied through Virginia and the two Maryland campaigns, during which time ho had frequent and abundant opportunity both of acquiring large experience and giving proof of proficiency. His early promotion, notwithstanding his youth, gives proof that his worth found acknowledgement even in the Surgeon-General's office. In 1864 he was made Surgeon of the 13th Mississippi Regiment, and early in 1865 he was sent to establish hospitals in North Carolina, where tho close of the war found him. Although a mere country practitioner, we are pleased to see that lie keeps up his studios n.nfl still occasionally yields OUU.vvj . ' ^ n to his writing propensity. Charleston JJaily News. Sexsibt.e Advice.?Geo. W. Ken- 1 Jail writes from Texas to the New ' Orleans Picayune, and gives us the following sensible views; The lessons which adversity teaches :ire hard, yet they must be learned. t A.nd these lessons arc always useful. [ know that it comes hard for a ( young man to walk behind a plow ( who once rode behind a fast trotter; 1 ior is it agreeable to a young lady to I nake and put on her dresses all by 1 lersclf, who formerly had a couple of ' servants to take these irksome jobs 1 >ff her hands. Yet I can see no 1 sther remedy, at least for those who 1 lave simply been ruined J)y the war, * md the list is a long one. That a argc majority have accepted tho situation cheerfully, I am glad to say s true?1 mean the situation to earn ;heir own living; all must do it. And here arc many who think, and I am >ne of them, that in the long run it vill be all the better for the rising generation of the South?a gencra:ion which is to follow ono notoriousy brought up in ignorance of work md indolence as to any useful occu)ation. The raoo of men growing up vill be more muscular?the woman itrongcr and heartier?and their chillrcil again improve upon the stock. [ have never heard that exercise was lurtful, and I have consulted good s >hysicians on the subject. a How often do we hear our people p :omplain that they have been out < ill day hunting for a. servant, with- ? >ut success. Had they turned to in j he morning they could have done all j I their work themselves in a couple rof hours, and saved money and'shoe leather by the operation. Too toany people in the South have been'brotrgbt up to be waited upon; they must now tie their own shoes, arid I :.repeat that the sooner Ahey begin, -the better'it will he. I know that"many thinks they can escape this state of things by goin<*to Brazil, or some'other out-6fthe-way country; but toil is the coinmon lot of the poor man the world over, so far as I have seen, and in ho part of the world is toil as remunerative as in the Southern States of America. Let us work. Pay the Public Debt.?The proposition to pay the national debt immediately?all in greenbacks?seems to be meeting with general and uriiVfirsnl fn.vrvr. TVin frvllrvnMr./-. - *va*v niugi iiym the Washington (Ohio) Register, is.'a s. fair specimen of the voice of the country press. It says: We are in favor of paying off the public debt in greenbacks. If they arc good enough for Jhe farmers, mechanics and business men of the nation, why are they not good enough for the rich men of the country? If the public debt was paid off in greenbacks, the entire wealth of the country ' would be brought upon the tax duplicate, and every man would be required to pay taxes according to his wealth. There would be no rich men exempt from taxation, while drawing interest in gold on Governmentbonds, while tho masses of the people were doing bui8i-. ness with a rag currency. The nation would save millions, .every yealr in interest to bond-holders. The taxes of the people would be lessened, and all the greenbacks destroyed by accident or other cause would inure to the benefit of the Government. Pay the public debt immediately?pay it in greenbacks, and let all the citiienb havethe same kind of money and all m,V +OVIVT -llilr-Q. Uniform Currency.?The monetary conference in sesston in Paris, with the object of bringing about a unificative currency among- the nations of the world, has adopted the U. VUOHOJ/HiW -O fcUC U111V UX gum coins. It is understood that the United States Government, under this ajv rangemont, vrill reduce the value.of the gold dollar to that of the five franp piece, and that the French Govern? mcnt will coin pieces of twentyVfivo francs, which will then be of the same value as the United States five dollar gold piece, while England, by a slight reduction in- the value of the sovereign, will bring it down to the same standard. The English members of the conference were very loth to. agree to this arrangement, which will virtually make the American dollar the unit for gold, and tried to effect a compromise upon the ten franc piece.? mis, However, lanett; ana now that the three principal commercial nations of the world are agreed upon a, standard, it is probable that it willnot be long before most of the others will unite with them. Char I eston Co urier^. The Crops in Georgetown.? rhe Georgetown Times says: Wocontinue to hear discouragcing accounts about the crops. Too much ain is the universal cry, an exuberant growth of grass, and certain destruc;ion to rice of late planting, with, in. iome cases, probable loss of the plant * n the more advanced stages. From: vhat we can learn, the greatest damige has been felt in the Pee Dee coun ry, and in some portions of the Wac camaw. The Black River, Sampit-. md Santee planters are not so much;5' njured as was at first supposed, as* ve infer from conversations, with': gentlemen from those sections, although none speak vory encouraging y of the prospects. The rivers still :ontinuc too full for the drainage of ' ands and are kept so by the prevaencc of Easterly winds, which keep* ip the tides, and prevent the rivers< 'rom attaining their former level.?. tfcry little is expected from the oora* is the most flattering prospects in th$.' ow lands have been almost entirely lestroyed." An old clergyman who had been, m army chaplain, and wa3 teaching i, female seminary in the course of. . (onversation said: "I have been un? lor oivil government, ecclesiastical) government, military government and! >etticoat government?and I lik<*.jetticoat government the best."