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, s. [' v St o y <r The President's Emancipation Proclamation. By the President of the United Stafet of America ?A Proclama' on. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a Proclamation was issued by-thePreddent of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the Fi:stday of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred aad six ty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then and thenceforth and forever free, and the Executive Government of thj United Slates, including the military and Naval aatho:ity thereof, will recognise and maintain the freedom-of such persons, and will do no :ict or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any effort they qjay make for their actual freedom. That the Executive will, on the 1st day of January, aforesaid, by Proclamation, designate the States and parts of states, if any, in which the people therein respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States, or the people thereof, shall on that day in good faith be represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such States shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States." Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the Unitel States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Nary of the United States* in time of acfoal armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and n jcessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on tbis ri st day of January, 1868, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day of fthe first above mentioned order, designate as i the States and pa;ts of States wherein the people1 thereof respectively are this day in rebelton against the United States, the following, to wit; Ark rnsas, Texas, Louisiana?except the Pa ishes of St. Bernard Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. < harles, St. James, Ascension, Assamption, Terrc Bonne, Lafourche, fit. Mary, St. Martin and ortiani, inclndlpg ftb etty of ywrortetni, mii\ sit ippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Caroli! ni, and North Carolina and Virginia, except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Eliaab.th City, York, Princess Ann and Norf li, including tlie citi s of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and which excepted parte are for the present left precisely as if this Proclamation were not issned. And by virtue of the power, and for .the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that' all persons held ss slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be rasK?and that the Kxecndve Government of the J O.-i? I I^Jl. . ik . Ultu.?. .?J V.M1 UOIICU *JUUCB. MUIIUIU^ III J JUUI1WJ Mm il?' authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. > And 1 hereby ei?j->in npon the people so declared ires, to abltain from all violenc , unless in necesairy self-defence; and 1 recommend to them that, in all c ses, when allowed, they labor laithfnlly for reasonable wages . And I further decla'-e and make known that pernios of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States, to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to | man vessels of all sorts in said service. And. upon rids, sincerely believed to be an act i of justice warranted by the Constitution, upon j iniliKrv nM>AMitr T invnlr? (Im MWIliHi>ratl> iitHv : in nt of mankind, and the gracbus favor of Almighty God. In witness whereof. I have hereunto set ray hand and caused the seal of the United states to be aifixed* J>one at the City of Washington, this first ' day of January, in the ye a of our Lord j [l. s.] one thousand eight hundred and sixty-tbre-, [ and of th: United States of Americ.i the j eighty-seventh. Signed, ABRAHAM UNCOIL. By the JPrcsident. Wm. H. Skwasu, Secretary of State. , r> I ? Advi es from Gen. Blunt, state tliat be occu- j i.ie<l Van Buren, the rebels having retreated on Tulay night towards Arkadelpbia, aband ning t!i ir viounded at Fort Smith. Our troops in the J Indian Territory have driven the rebels under Coffee and Stewart across the Arkansas at Fort Cibson. The*Indian? are anxious to reestablish / their loyal statu*. Hin Jinan's correspondence was J \ c iptured at Van Buren. His army is wretchedly i l.'s it'll**. C-. \ s>\ ~ . ~ 1 Arxt Medical Examinations.?A physician who has succeeded in pissing the severe ordeal requisite before admission into the medical corps of ; the army, furnishes to a Pennsylvania journal the following interesting statements: Besides tbo Surgeons and Assistants of Regii ments, and the Contract Surgeons, there is a body | of Surgeons and Assistants employed in hospitals,; styled the corps of "Surgeons of Volunteers." j : )Pk>. Ja. tL.:. tkn ?i?ln C( IT 1UOJ N|U IUQU UOUl^f W1VU INT? UUV ? L . S. X." Last year the Brigade Surgeon a were ap-1 pointed mainly through influence and with scarce-: ly any examination. When, in Jane last, their office was abolished by Congress, there w.iS such | demand for Surgeons that they were all turned : over to thiscorpsof Surgeons ot U.S Volunteers. I But none have this year been commissioned in thst; ' corps without thorough evidence of their com-1 i petenee. The Board of Examiners consists of three Army : Surgeons. One or more of them sit in a room curni municating with that wherein sit the candidates, ! and observes that they have no help lrom books or j from each other. The ordeal requires four hours daily (or six days,, three devoted to written and three to oral ques- I tions. Lest the candidate may have ported up for | the occasion on more important points, they test his knowledge of thie whole subject by questions, mi less prominent and practical matters. Tbe firstj day Anatomy is taken up, and such questions as, "Give the anatomy of the brain," * Describe thj triangles of the neck, their bonndaries and contents,*' "Give tbe origin, relations, and branches, and distribution of the brachial plexus," torment the anxious aspirant. Next day on Practice of Medicine he is made to show on paper his thorough knowledge or qualia I ? .r?J' -? > i..?- ..c >k.. uvu iguvmnc vi iuauj umow wvmmaviw vi ia? system, with their treatment. The third day be must tell the mode in which nature repairs wounds of various structures, the mode o! distinguishing truss each other particular fractnresaod dislocations, with their mode oi treatment. Fortunate is ho if within the allotted four hours he can write clearly his answers to all the intricate queries propounded. During the three following days he is questioned at great length, and minutely in Physiology, l hesuistry, Materia Medics, Hygiene and again on the subjects upon which be has written. Finally fpmpa the KTperlmei^tuQ Cruets of Ids knowledge. He it taken to the D usee ting room of the Georgetown College, and there has to perform various difficult operations upon the dead, then to the Douglas Hospital, where a number of patients are presented, and he must examine them, and give their disease in the minutest point treatment, aad probable result. If after this be has not vanished in a cload of perspiration, he will learn whether or no he may sign himself as Assistant Surgeon, (J. S. V. This is now las high a rank as m con-1 ferred, except by promt [ion after entering service. If succesofnl, the eandk ste returns to hia ordinary duties. Within a month bis name is sent in to the Senate, aad in course of time, it contrmed by them, be receives notkb and a commission from th* Smmm n?nM?l itmitntitkiiiimnlwrarlM | pass: one week, eight qssayed the trial, of whom [ two only succeeded. Frightened by this daughter, a number who wera waiting their turn, fled, i (earing for the next week only Are of the best qualified. Of these, but om| was ivjeeted, | The pay of a Surgeon; is now $2,900 per annum, and of Assistant Surgeen, $1,-400. Besides this ' the Surgeon may keep two horses, and the Assis- ! tant, ewe, at the expenadof Government. A Contract Surgeon gets $1,000 a year, and must sap- j port his own horse. j Faexcu Portbaix oi Gas. Bctlss.?The following biographical sketch of Gen. Butler, which is translated from the Cb*rn>r dm Ditua* Ac, a pro-slavery French Journal, will be relished by those who are acq axis ted with his career: ' Benjamin Butter is the son of an Alsatian emigrant, by trade a butcher, and was born in Massachusetts, where he practiced as an attorney in one of the manufacturing towns in the neighborhood of Boston. He did not follow law on the same principle that McClelian became a railway director j ?that i? to cay from a dislike to the military pro-! few ion during a time of peace. Mr. Butler wa?, | so to speak, < to the manor b m,5 and in bis profession, in which be acquired not the t ightest distinction, was known hy {be sobriquet of Picayune Puller, a nickname we waul 1 translate by rihat > r??liina ViitUr > 1'WrnM. ?nr raiHin moat know, being a small Spanish coin, worth boot twenty-five centimes of French money. m During the last presidential election he formed part of the convention charged with what may be termed the sifting of the candidates. The choice of the candidates was long disputed. For a long time Mr. Ttntler voted against Mr. Lincoln with the reniocrats. but on the nim'teeotli or tw^i ticth i ballot Mr. Butler turned hircoat, and went over to the Republicans. Thus he was one of those who decided the election. Mr. Lincoln has shown that he could be grateful. "if peace had been maintained between the North and tbe South, what would have been the fate of Mr. Butler ? What functions, what honors were in store for him ? What part wouM be have played ? Mr. Lincoln and himself only knew; but war having broken out, Mr. Butler found himself in an awkward predicament. His career aa an * attorney was, seriously compromised; his usual clients were dispersed. As a shrewd man Mr. Batler raised a mi itary regiment, which 1 believe elected him its Colonel. MiUTAav Decisions ?If a soldier is discharged before he lias served two whole years, or to the end of the war, if sooner ended, he forfeits his $100 bounty. 1 lie back does or wages, and Ally cents for every twenty miles traveled from the place of discharge to the place of enrollment, he is entitled-to on the pay certificates from his nearest paymaster. If a soldier is killed, or dies of di ease, before the end of two years or the close of the war, be has, under tbe liberal construction of the law, served to tbe end of the war so far as he is or can be concerned. Congress intended, by the provisi us < f the law, that no tie should have tbe bounty until the end of tbe war. Tbe $100 bounty by law, will be immediately paid, so soon as audited. Under an order and rule of tbe War Department, there can be procured for the wives of the soldiers imprisoned hi the South, the monthly pay of tbe soldier, to the date of the allowance, except the last month's wages which tbe Government reserves. If no wife, the minor children, by their guardian, are entitled. It thesoldier is unmarried, his widowed mother is untitled. An important decision has been made by tbe & c rotary of War and the Paymaster General, in effect that the soldier is entitled to pay from tbe day he en hats, and that he has not to wait until his company is fu J, or the former muster of the regiment Into the Government service. ?By the steamer Ocaaa which mired hi New York on the 8d instant from Atpinwall, the first contribution of soldiers from California was received?a well-equipped and finely-uniformed rompeijr of cavalry, numbering 100 men, organised in San FrsBcifeog, - ? ?.?-? ? The New Engbmders are going to lay away the Emancipation pen ai a curiosity. The Preeident has presented the pea, which signed the Prod*:navies to George Li vermore, of Cambridge, Mam. .. v* . * -. ?Maj. Isaac N. Cook, an army Paymaster, baa been arrested in Cincinnati, charged with a defalcation amounting to half a million. It is said he has gambled it away. ?lbe raid of the rebel Gen. Tan Dora upon Holly Springs recalled in the destruction of property to the amount of about six mUtioosof dollars. A ItVPUTIUVUtntflHt av * uMjiojunmi to. &BOULAB SEMI-MONTHLY FREIGHT LDTE BETWEEN NEW YOU AND POKT BOYAL, 8. C.- 71m and?rsigned htu eetsbtished e regular line at packeta between Sew York and Hilton Head, leaving each port twice smooth. J. N\ FAGAM A JOHN PrrTS, Agents, Bay Point, 8. a BIXBY k CO., M Greenwich, and *71 Washington Streets! New York. For freight at ptaage apply on board. Metallic burial canes, for anie by English, Dxnxu k. Kigkaamon, Port fioynl, S. c. UfK beg to inform the people of this department of ft reff cent fall addition to oar saeortment of Military Goods, Watches, docks, Jewelry, Ac., Ac., which we offer at reasonable prices. DOUGLAS, STEELE, A CO. ATOT1CE.?GEO. W. ATWOOD. a PT> Aasipa in avail 11 tbemaelvea of thia method, to Inform their friends and the public at Port Royal, that they are now the schooner Jessie A. W<*Ktkvu** in New York, with a bur^i and well-selected stock of Merchandize adapted to the want* of the Military, Naval, and civil population of this district, and aa a large pr jportion of them have bass, purchased at Auction for caau, they respectfully invite attention to their stock. / , j Notice is hereby given that the u. & tax commiaaionera for South Carolina are now prepared to receive the taxsa on real property in St. Luke'a Pariah. S. C., at their office in Beaufort, a. <X, at any ttma within sixty days from thia date. J D. SMITH, ) W. E. WORDING. y Conaniattanera. WM. HENRY brisbane, ) inua u iMtwn, a. u, novecaaer ww, iwa. TU8T RECEIVED st the store under the Foot Qffloe, a freak U lot of fine letter end note papers, envelop* a, pens, ink and other stationary ; Military books, Novels In greet variety, knives, pipes, brushes, and a fine lot of mghh sad French Gloves and other Furnishing Goods for the Jams and Navy, The latest daOy and pictorial papers fir sale on eaek arrival from the North. Also, Tn Nrw South every Saturday morning. _ -