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Tlie following important doctiment lias boon in otu' office for two clays awaiting insertion: On Friday last, to the House of Representatives, at "Washington, the President transmitted communications from tlio Secretary of the Treasury and the PiictnioeW-ftmiPrnl. nrlrlrfissftd to him by those officers, suggesting a modification of the oath of office presented by the act of Congress approved July 2, ] SG2. He fully concurs in their recommendations, and as the subject pertains to the efficient administration of the revenue and postal laws in the Southern States, he earnestly commends it to the early consideration of Congress. Tho letter of the Secretary of the Treasury contains tho names of collectors ef internal revenue, assessors, assistant assessors, collectors, and surveyors of customs; &c., appointed since the overthrow of the rebellion, in the Southern States, who have not been able to take literally the oath of office prescribed by the act approved July 2, * 1SG2. Besides these officers a considerable number, perhaps tho larger proportion of thoso holding subordinate positions in the revenue department have been also unable to comply with -Ll * ?-T i.1. ? ?< ? i,, ,\c n Ill? rutJlUIUUif Ul5> ui uio otauui:. .w w. consequence they have served without compensation, ns their accounts could not be audited bv tho accounting officers of the Government. Many of these officers have performed very important duties with fidelity, and not a few must be in great distress by reason of their inabilities. When the appointments were made it was found that it would be difficult to find competent officers in many of the Southern districts who could take the oath referred to ; so important did it seem to the President and the Cabinet, for the purpose of equalizing the public burdens, that the revenue system should be established throughout the recently rebellious States with as little delay as practicable, and that the unpleasant duty of collecting taxes from an exhausted and lately rebellious people should be peformed l-i+ * c? o 4- Sinnnalnrv U y UUi U l/lUACUQj lltuv UUV I^Ul/AVbUAJ of the Treasury did not hesitate to recommend for appointment and to appoint men of whose present loyalty there was no question, but who might either willingly or unwillingly, during the progress of the rebellion, have been so connected with the insurgent States or Confederate Government as to be unable to take the oath of office. This was not done from any disposition to disregard the law, but with an honest and sincere purpose of collecting the revenues with as little trouble to the tax-payers as possible. The country was in a peculiar condition; the rebellion had come to a sudden close; all resistance to the authority of the United States had ceased, and some seven millions of people hi a state of disorganization were left without any civil government whatever, and without even an adequate military protection against anarchy and violence undor these circumstances. As it seemed clearly to be the duty of the Executive to proceed at once to establish the Federal authority and civil government in these States, so it seemed to be necessary to carry into effect the revenue laws of the General Government. As the country was passing from a state of war to a state of peace, and the emergency seemed to bo too pressing to admit of delay until the meeting of Congress, it was thought that the tost oath might, in view of the great objects to be obtained, in some cases be dispensed with, or rather that persons might be permitted to hold revenue offices who could take it only in a qualified form. No one could have regretted more than the President and the members of the Cabinet the necessity which existed for AA?WA Ivtli nAAm A/1 4-A V> A tins v;uuisc . uui ^IUCJLU DCCJUCU. tyj uu no alternative, and it was confidentlyhoped that under tho circumstances of the case it would be approved by Congress. Among those whose names are presented to the President, the Secretary has no reason to suppose that there is one who can justly lie charged with being instrumental in instigating the rebellion, although a few may have contributed to its support and?;ontinuance. Some with strong attachments for the Union had followed the States in which they lived into the war against the United States, under the baleful influence of the doctrine of State sovereignty. Some had held office under the insurgent authorities as the only means of supporting their families. Others, to escape conscription, or to be in a better condition to resist at the proper time the Confederate rule. Not one is known to have been a disunionist or unfriendly to the Government at the commencement of the war. A very slight change in the oath?a change that would not cover a particle of present disloyalty?would enable the mo6t of them to hold the offices they are now so acceptably filling. Great loss to the Government and inconvenience to the Deportment must result from the discontinuace of their services. After stating reasons at large why the oath should he modified, the Secretary snvs the rebellion grew out of antagonism of opinion between the people of the free and slave?the legitimate result of a difference of institutions. With the abolishion of slavery all real difference of opinion and all serious causes of estrangement ought rapidly to disappear. It will be a calamity, the extent of which cannot now be estimated, both to this nation and to the cause ef civil liberty throughout the world, if, instead of looking to reconciliation and harmony, the action of the Government shall tend to harden and tensify a sectionalism between the Northern and Southern States. It is difficult to conceive of a more unfortunate course for the United States to pursue than to make tax gatherers at tne ooutn 01 men wno are strangers to tlie people. It needs no reference to history, although it is full of lessons upon this subject, to illustrate the fatal consequences of such a policy. Appended to this letter of the Secretary of the Treasury are the names of forty-nine persons acting as Assessors and Collectors in the Southern States who have not taken the oath of office without qualification. It is added that there are undoubtedly others whose names have not been received. It appears from a letter of the Commissioner of Customs that the following named persons are the only custom' officers who have taken the oath in a modified form :?James M. Mathews, Collector, Rappahannock, Virginia; William S. Craft, Collector, Georgetown, South Carolina; Gordon Forbes, Collector, Yecomo, Virginia ; William Y. Leitch, Surveyor, Charleston, South Carolina; F. M. Robertson, Special examiner of Drugs; and Edgar M. Lazarus and J. F. Walker, Appraisers, Charleston (South Carolina. The Postmaster-General, in his communication, says, as a means of restoring the business interests in the Southern States, and of aiding in the re-eslablishment of their constitutional relations with the Government, it was deemed important by the President and Cabinet that the mails should be introduced and postoffices be re-opened in those States as rapidly as possible; to which end the energies of the Department were promptly and have been continuously directed. Various causes have doubtless contributed to the failure in accomplishing all that was hoped for ; but that resultiner from the oath pre scribed by the Act of July 2, 1862, and March S, 1863, has not been the least, while it has been the one to which his attention has been most frequently called. This, as he is inclined to believe was not owing exclusively to their not being loyal persons who could take the oath, but to the limited compensation, most of the offices offering insufficient inducements to persons to act as postmasters, and to the unwillingness of many who might otherwise act, to do so on account of the inconvenience and compromise of their positions, which they fear would result from taking the oath, when the majority of their neighUaka AAn m /-\ J* Aon A h n J in o/irmi UUIO LUUOiOV UJ. UllUDO W 111/ 11UU ill ouiuu form aided the rebellion. To obviate these difficulties in part, recourse has. been had to the appointment of women as postmistresses,which has proved to be of doubtful utility to the service. And necessity has also compelled the appoiniment of very many ignorant persons, incompetent to discharge the duties of their offices. As a remedy for the future, the Postmaster-General suggests a modification of the oath by inserting the word "voluntarily" immediately preceding the word "sought" so that the clause would read, "That I have neither voluntarily sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise, the functions of any office whatever under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States." This would enlarge the class of persons who could qualify as posmasters and mail contractors, and be in harmony, it seems to him, with the general provisions and purposes of the oath, and thus facilitate the speedy re-establishment of the postal service to the common benefit of all the sections of the country; for it must be borne in mind that while the people of the Southern States are more directly interested in the restoration, other States are also largely interested. It may bo, he 6ays, interesting to know that of the 225# mail routes in operation in the disloyal States at the breaking out of the rebellion, the service of 757 only has been restored, and that of 8902 postoffices in those States only 2042 appointments of postmasters have been made, of whom 1177 only have qualified for office, 747 of them being j males and 420 females. Of the 865 who have not qualified, it is believed that quite all of them have not done bo because of the oath. The Postmaster-General adds, injustice to the department, in view of the inefficient service as shown by the foregoing facts, that no propositions for transportation of the mails for a fair consideration have been declined, while postmasters have been uniformly and promptly appointed upon reliable recomendations. The Postmaster-General concludes by saying he need not enlarge upon, evils resulting from so partial a restoration of the postal service in the Southern States, nor upon the benefits to the Government and to the people of all section of the country that would result from a more general and efficient restoration of that service. These papers were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. CAMDEN, FRIDAY, APRIL 20. Positively no credit given for advertising and job work. So please don't impose the unpleasitntiy attending a refusal. 23^ W. T. Walter, of the firm of Derbec & Walter, (factorage and commission merchant?,) is the only authorized agent for thu Camden weekly Journal lor C'olnmbia, S. C. Col. Tiior. P. Slider, is the only authorized agent of the Camden Journal for the city of Charleston. "He maybe found at the Mills hoiise in that city. Personal. If Miss Ann Colrson will, call at tlie Post Office she will hear of something to her interest. Dr. ?. Baruch. "We are pleased to give notice that the above named gentleman has rex J 1 t J - * i turned to uamuen, ana again resumed the practice of his profession. See card in another column. Military Statistics In Mexico. The following is a translation of an extract taken from La Somlia a newspaper published in the City of Mexico: "According to the official dispatches which have been published during the last seven months, from June to December, 1864, dating from the arrival of Maximilian, there took place 122 engagements between the French and Mexicans, of more or less importance, in which there * were 1,300 wounded and 3,277 killed. In the year 18G5 the number of engagements was 322, in which 1,279 were wounded and 5,074 killed ; total, 8,951 killed and 2,579 wounded. Thus iu the first seven months there was on an average of 17 engagements per month ; while in the remaining twelve months there has been nearly one a day, with the difference that the number of killed has fallen from an average of eight to five. At the beginning of last year the en 1 X ? 17 - gaguiuents weru iruiu xo u /i pci month, while in December they had already reached 34. Judicial Legislation It is stated in a dispatch from^Vashington, which will be found under its appropriate hood, that Judge Underwood, of Alexandria, Va., has judicially decided that inasmuch as the State of Texas was not mentioned in jhe late peace proclamation of the President, that document "practically declares that the rebellion continues to exist." But for the Judge's antecedents, we should be inclined to suspect the dispatch to be a hoax; and even as it is, we think there must be some mistake a$4o the point judcially decided. No sune man Mill venture to assert that the rebellion continuue to exist, in fact, any m'here; and none but a fanatic will deny that its existence, in Ium-, was terminated by the proclamation, as to the States named therein. And to hold that, because it may still technically exist in Texas, it therefore exists in all the other Southern States is 'an absurdity so outrageous that it would be a waste of time to argue the point. The Hon. Alex. If. Stephen* Was examined a few days since before the Reconstruction Committee at great length. The committee manifested a desire to obtain all the information from Mr. Stephens, as it seemed to be their impression that he was by far the best informed witness who has yet appeared before them. It is im possible to say what impression the I evidence of Mr. Stephens may have upon the ultimate action of the committee, but if they were not determined not to admit the Southern States under any circumstances, it is difficult to see how they could refuse to do so now after the evidence laid before them by Mr. Stephens. !Mr. Stephens has. laid before them tho facts which prove that the people of Georgia are as loyal as the people of Massachusetts or New York, and that they are doing ten ' times as much for the negroes as the people of those States, and that they ardently desire a restoration of the Union, yet ... . * . . t , ? the committee have determined, ana Congress will sustain them in this determination, that none of the Southern States, not even Georgia, shall be represented in the present Congress. The friends of Admiral Raphael Semmes have placed him in nomination for Judge of the probate Court for Mobile County. He will, of course, be elected. Secretary Seward has officially notified J. W. Forney (D. D.) to discontinue the Chronicle furnished to the State Department for "Legntious." This notice makes the "Dead Duck" waddle through a two column leader in the Chronicle of a recent date. 1- -r _ rri ii n nijj ii in rn nt'iwrfifia IHrs. Jfffersoij Davis. This lady left the city of New York a few days 6ince, en route for Canada, where her two elder children, mother and sisters are temporarily residing. She has not been to Washington, as lus been incorrectly telegraphed from that city; nor has she been able to obtain permission to sec Mr. Davis. It becomes us to add that, during her entire trip from Georgia hither, she BedulousJy avoided a! p ibfic demonstrations of that earnest sympathy and profound respect with which our people regard the wife of him who, during the whole period of the heroic struggle and eventful history, presided over their short-lived Republic, and who now languishes, on our account, within the prison walls of a fortress.? This fact is mentioned because the telegraph and letter-writers have mnde a different impression upwn the public mind. She is accompanied by her youngest child. ? ? Tlie President's Proclamation Seems to puzzle the country. Does it mean anything, or nothing? Does it restore the writ of habeas corpus to the Southern States ? Does it re-establish the supremacy of the civil law in those States ? Does it do any more than inconsequently declare that the insurrection has been suppressed ? A Northern exchange upon this point says : "Our Southern brethren would do well to disabuse themselves of the impression that the proclamation of the 2d makes any material change in their status. It is true they have got along wonderfully fast under the President's policy of reconstruction. They are still, however, in their leading strings, and a present realization of this fact will relieve them from a future disappointment." ITT _ _ _ *1 1 1 J1 1 i* ? ? * we cannot ueip tnmuing tnat tne outgivings of that journal indicate that the Radicals haye resolved not to permit the President to carry out his plans of reconstruction; and the following sentence gives us cause to fear that, to effect their purpose, they have come to an understanding with General Giant: The communication from General Grant, which the President recently gave to Congress in support of his measures, urged that troops should be retained for some time through the South. Now, it is not probable that Mr Johnson, even though he should ignore the Freedmon's Bureau altogether would, disregard the counsels and advice of the Lieut. General, and that, too, when all loyal heart8 place implicit confidence in the latter1 s judgment and good cammon sense ITIY DOVE IY IlER KES1. "Xay, your wine will make mo heady, We have tn'en enough already, t ,.o . jivv "3 fiv ? iilie ?? mo piunu* i Pa not stir. I know my way." So I lit in}' chamber candle,, Sought my mom nnd turned t!ie bandit? Lady togs, Ironi ruft tojvmdal, I.oosc ucross the lounger lay. 'Heavens I'* I cr'ed, alarmed and shaken, "Surely 1 lmve been mistaken! If the sleeping beauty waken, What excuse for mo remains?" Fear the dangerous joy enchances, Love with eager step advances? Oh, the dreams, languors, trances I Throbbing in my dove's young veins! Blissful watch above her keeping, Angels guard their sister sleeping? Would they wake libr should a peeping, Bearded mortal ope the door? Cautiously a puce advancing Round the rose siik draperies glancing? Oh, the sight divine, entrancing, Haunts my dreams for evermore! Flushed as May's young wealth of roses, Laura on the couch repuBes, And the billowy snow discloses Outlines worth a sculptor's note ; Tresses loose ?a troldcn wonder! Crimson lips tlmt smila asunder, And one small hand creeping under The crisp luce which fringod her throat. Now a kits were easy stealing, But 1 dared not trust the feeling, For my very soul seemed reeling In the fulness of her view; So I bowed my head and blessed her, Frayed the augel-host to rest her, Softly said, "Sweet dreams, fair sister 1" And frora that small heaven withdrew. MILES O'REILLY. General Grant Arrested for Fast Driving. ^ n . t i ?1 rt 1 ri i Un oaturaay, wnue uenereu warn, was exercising his fast gray nag on Fourteenth-street, officers Bailey and Crown, after a sharp race, arrested him for fast driving. General Grant offered to pay the usual fine imposed in such cases, which, of course, they could not receive; but the General expressed his doubts of their authority to arrest him, and drove off. The oase was duly rei ported to Superintendent Kichards. It is stated that this street is becoming a common racing ground, and that a large number of arrests for violations [ of the ordinance prohibiting fast driving 1 are made every pleasant day, when j those who delight in ' speed" are out ! exercising their "stock." National Intelligencer, 9th. From Washington. lion. Alexander II. Stephens) Find an interview with the President to day. and ouc with the Secretary of State. Both interviews were of the most cordial and pleasant nature The President expressed great satisfaction at the presence of Mr. Stephens in Washington, and said that he aiilicipat d much good to result from influence of Mr. Stephens with the Southern people. Mr. Stephens has been called upon to day by many Senators and Representatives. lie had made a most favorable impression upon all, and bis cheering account of the condition of public feeling in Georgia^have had a most happy effect. There is every reason to believe that the peace proclamation of the President will be immediately followed by other action on his part. It will be observed | that the legal effect of ihe proclamation I is to Dlace the Southern States in the same attitude precisely toward the General Government that they occupied before the war, and entitled to the same rights that they heretofore enjoyed. Mr. Johnson is determined to follow out this principle to its legitimate conclusion^ and to see to it that the Southern StAtes are no longer deprived of these rights by a factious majority in Congress. The civil rights bill was taken up in the Senate to-day, and the consideration of the veto commenced. Mr. Trumbull's speech, in favor of the bill, of two hours' duration, was able and ingenious, but it was evident that he labored under the knowledge tliut the bill is doomed to defeat. Kevcrdy Johnson, of Maryland, is to speak to-morrow in defence of the veto, and as there will be at least two more speeches on the subject, a vote can hardly be reached before Friday, and may not be reached this week. The veto will certainly be sustained by 18 votes. The intelligence from New Jersey continues to be propitious, Mr. Scovel will maintain his position, and there is no truth in the rumors of the defection of \$o Democratic members. There is even some possibility that Mr. Stockton hiiu-elf may eventually be returned. It is reported that Mrs. Jcff.rson Davis and General Dick Taylor have both received permission to visit Jefferson Davis, and that he will, soon be released on habeas corpus, as under the 11 J ? J.. 1 1 _ rresiaeni a proclamation ne can no longer be held as a prisoner under mere military authority, and under the decision of the Supreme Court yesterday, he cannot be tried by a military tribunal. The Bruok.s and Bodge contested election occupied the attention of the House to-day. The minority report and the speech of Mr. Marshall in favor of Mr. Brooks have produced a very good effect. The House was also electrihed by a powerful and earnest speech by Mr. Farnsworth, of Illinois, a prominent Republican member, in favor of Mr. Brooks. It is conceded on all hands, now, that Mr. Bodge cannot get the scat of Mr. Biooks, and, indeed, it. is not improbable after all, that Air. Bi uoks may he entitled to it. His case certainly looks favorable. The case wi 1 scarcely be concluded he- . fore the end ol the week. Mr. Stewart'p resolution will probably be taken up by the Senate as soon as the civil rights bill indisposed of.? Cor. New York Newt. \\J Vion Slo voinr mo a Ahnl. ff JLiVU MXW f yx J ft WU XAMVX~ ished in Georgia. A case recently conic np before the Chaitahooehie (Georgia) Sup-rior Court which is interesting, on account of the peculiar nature of the Judge's charge The suit was that of Bussey vs. Wilson, to rccovei the \ulueof a negro girl hired by Bussey to Wilson for 1862. It was alleged that the girl was burned through the negligence of Wilson, from the effects of which she died. Defendant claims that he had paid the h>rc of the girl up to January 1, 1863, at which time the President's proclamation liberating Javes went into effect, and plaintiff had no right of property in the girl. The Court charged the jtiry, first, that if the accident occurred prior to January 1, 1863, when it was admitted by parties that the plaintiff could claim the right of property in slaves, he had the right to maintain his action, and that damages would dpnpnd nnon fho npalioronee and care "I -r-- o o lcssnefls ofrthe defendant; second, that the proclamation of the President did not emancipate the slaves io this State, but that the abolition of slavery was only legally declared by the Convention held in this State in November la6t. ?#> Some of the Results. The Petersburg Index says the refusal of a justice to marry a black man and white woman, the refusal of a hotel keeper to lodge or keep a negro, subjects, by the Civil Rights Bill, the "offending" party to a fine of $1000, or imprisonment, or both. The discrimination by any State between whites and blacks in any of its laws, remits the aggrieved black to the courts to the Unitod States for trial, so that under the Civil Rights Bill, the Federal Courts will have cognizance of murders, rapes, arsons, robberies, and many other crimes heretofore' cognizable exclusively in state courts. ^9^ ? Li The UhlDeriC, wnen urougui, iuw vuuiu as witnesses in California, are sworn in the manner peculiar to their own conn-, try. An oath, written in Chinese char* acters, upon tissue paper, is subscribed with their names and burned to ashes. The purport of the oath is, that if the witness does not tell the trnth he hopes that his soul may be burned and destroyed as is the paper which he holds in bis hands. Attempted Kegro Revo*lution at Panama-Chi- y iian Steamer Captured^ New Yoke, April 9.?The pte?inis|iip Nev York, from Aspiuwnli 1st iiiatMiit, tiring seven hundred and thirty thousand dollars in trcamri*. (Jue hundred and fifty negroes at tempted a revolution at Panama on the 24th ultimo. They were surrounded l?y troops- ^ and shot down like sheep. Twenty-five or thirty were killed, and one hundred1" ( made prisoners. \ . .*' No news of interest from" Central' America. A small Chilian steamer,.the Pnquet de Moult, with two hundred and fifty troops, had been seized by the Spanish. r" Peru, Bolivia and Chili were still preparing to repel the common enemy. ? As an instance of the spread of di~ vorce in tbe West, we are told tbat there" are at present living in Cohimbus, Wis-consin, two women and a man who hasbeen married to the women aforeaard< The- man has been married four times,has now two wives living, ..and has nir wife. The first woman has been mar*' ricd three times, has two husbands livingr and has no husband. The. sceond wo<~ ^ man has been married twice, baa tw<V husbands living, and has no husband,. Some of the newspapers persist in< calling Mr. Stockton, recently ejected^ from the Senate, "Commodore.'? He iff* a son of Commodore Stockton, who watr a Senator. His grandfather was also a? * Senator, and his greatgrandfather wfiS one of the s-gncrs of the Declaration of Independence, F. F. Ger-dd, a teacher in the Frccdmen's Bureau, at Mobile, arrested sometime ago for stealing a horse from the livery stable of ]\fr. JRufus Dane, was tried at the recent term of the city conrt, foijn'l guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment at bard labor in the penitentiary. Announcements p FOR TAX COLLECTOR. Mr. Editor: Please announce J. S GARDN KR a candidate for Tux Collector for Kershaw District at the ensuing election, and oblfge MANY FRIENDS. February 23. j . tde. / Mr. Editor: Please announce Mr. JOSEPH E. NLTTLE^ a candidate fer Tax Collector at the ensuing election, and oblige MAMY FRIKNDS. F brunry 16. tde. Mr. Editor : Please announce Mr HENT PATE a candidate for Tax Collector at tlio ensuing election And oblige MANY FRIENDS. Mr. Editor : The friends of Capt. JJ. DRAKE FORD annonnce him as a candidate for Tax Collector for Kerabaw.* District, at the enduing election. many voters. ^ January 12. tde. '* X Mr. Editor; The fronds of Cap*. HICII. M. CANTEY announce him as x candidate for Tax Collector for Kershaw Dlatiict at tlio ensuing election. many friends. January! 2. tde. Mr. Editor : You will please announce Mr; JAMES R. ARRAXTS a candidate for Tax; Collector for Kershaw Dis:riot, at the ensuing* election. And oblige MANY FRIENDS. February 2. tde.^ Contractor & Builder The subscriber hereby gives notice that be is prepared to do any work in the line of uarpenxer s worK. Building or Repairing done in a wjrLman-like manner, at snort notice. He Lopes to meiit a share of public patronngc All work warranted to gita satisfaction. D. R. KENNEDY. April 20?tf Sugars. CRUSHED, CLARIFIED AND Brown Sugars, low for cash at April 20? T. S. MYERS'. Coffee* Java and rio coffee?a su? PERIOR article?at April 20- T. S. MYERS'. Teas- \ Green and black teas-tre. best article imporred?at April 20? T.S.MYERS'J. Pickles, Sardines, -r rilflW CVPTTD PATSTNfi Prnnaa JJIUVH ua 1KU & | AWAAXMAfciVj A IUHV%^ -L' Candies, Pepper Sauce, TomatoeKetchup, Spices of all kinds, Soap,. Starch, Candles, &e. Also, a fioe article of Macaroni, all or which are sold low for cash at the storeof T. S. MYERS, Two doors bolow Baum, Bro. & Co. April 20? DR. S. BARUCH Has resumed his practice: in this town. ^STOffice two doors bolow Baum,. Bro. & Co, April 30. COOKING WINE and EXTRACTSfor sale by HODGSON & DUNLAP..