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The trembling knee, the parched tongue, the empty stomach and op pressive heat, are some of the i~tridents to mountain travel, familiar to most pleasure seekers. But add to these inconveniences of the pedestraid the necessity of carrying a packed knapsack, a blanket, five pounds of ammunition, and a rifle or musket, and you have.the condition of Kershaw's and Barks dale's Brigades when they reached the ene my's stronghold on Maryland Heights, on the evening of Friday, 12th September last. From sunrise of that day until the afternoon of the next day not a man in the corps had a mouth ful of.water or an ounce of food. I speak only from experience; for surely none pos seassed better opportunity than myself of pro curing food or water, and of the latter, I tas ted not a drop, while the generosity of Capt. Addison, of company H, supplied me with about two ounces of the former. In this con dition we slept or tried to sleep during Fri day night, and fought the battle on Satur day. But the cheerfulness with which those brave soldiers entered the c.ntest, and the spirit with which they rushed upon the ene my, precluded the idea of theie Leing either thirst or hunger in the ranks. When the 7th regiment entered the ii at abattis, they bad gone but a few paces be fore Dolph Jones, of Edgefield Court House, company A, was shot through the head near the eye. H.- was living two. days after the fight, and I am not aware tLat he has since died. As he fell be heroically shouted to his comrades to go on and leave him to his fate. 'I he same sentiments were. uttered by Lieut. J. L. Talbert, of company K, shot throi:gh the breast, and by Sergeant J. Robertson, of comany H, shot in the head, and both mor tally wounded. I had not an <.pportunaity of hearing any others of my brave fi llows, who fell on that day, say a word. But when 3 halted the regiment at the edge of the se ond abattis. I did hear and receive from Getn. Kershaw a hearty congratulation upon the conduct of my'command, "not a man of wtbim had. left the ranks ;.no, not even to .assiet ".a wounded comrade to the rear." When the second halt was ordered, and the menecommanded to lie down, my color sergeant, Charley Burris, st od erect ar.d kept his colors unfurled. I shouted to him to lie down, but he, believing it his duty to keep our tattered flag aloft, still stood up. I approached and ordered him down. In the act of obeying this last stern command he re ceived a fatal wound in the abdomen. An other member of the color guard, Delton Adams, immediately arose, and catching the falling flag-stiff, raised it over his head. In an instant he fell mortally won ,ded. before the colors reached the ground they were snatched up by still another member of the color guard, Middleton Quarles, who whirled them over his head, and rushed forward only to meet another messenger of death. Two of my color-guard, Gus. White and L Coleman, had previously been severely wounded. There being but one remaining, I ordered the colors to be left as they lay, a temporary windirng sheet of poor Quarles. These three men were all young, active and energetic. Bet ter sohliers were Dot in the Regiment, and bra ver men could not be found. In the future, old Edgefield can, with the proudest satisfac tiona, point to Burriss, Adams and Quarles as three of her bravest sons and brightest jewels. The only surviving member of thme color guard after this battle, Roundtree, I last saw charging up to the very mouth of a cannon at the battle of Sharpsburg, when the flag staff was shot into four pieces. Having been wounded at this battle myself, I have never Iearned whether Roundtree escaped or was killed. I cahinot close, Mr. Editor, with ,ut paying a tribute to Maj. W. T. White and T. 'W. Chiles, my adj itant. To the foresight of Maj. White and to the courage and alacrity of companies A, B, and C, was chiefly attrib utable the routing of the enemy with coni paratively a small loss. His flank movement was well conceived and promnpt'y perfermued. On that occasion he exhibited self-posses sion. quickness anad courage, three requisites for succes in any oflicer. At 8I arpsburg his gallantry was admirable. He felIl alter we bad driven the enemy from their guns, almost under the wheels of the battery we had char0 ed, anud,life in an instant became extinct, for he Sraspierced by three balls either of which would have proveni fatal. May his convictiom og earth be aized by his soul in heaven "a just GoM will never punish the patriot who falls figbtiiig for so righteous a cause as ours." Adjutant Chiles was a young man of fi'e promise and sterling worth. While return ig to) me the second time from the Gene~ral with a mess.age, he received a so.re wound in the mouth, k'aocking out all his front teeth. lHe was immediately ordered to the rear. W~ith this painful wound he reported for dutry the next mornine:, but was excused until further or lers. Hie reported agazin on the battle fiel.i at Sharpsburg, when I sitipy n. qe-dhim to go to the rear. Hie plead tu remain on the iell I reluctantly consented. and noN have tolament his loss. His ser v.c:s on that dreadful day were efficient, iie fell mortally wounded within a few paces of -the enemy's cannon. For thirteen months Chiles was 2d Sergt. of c->mpany C, and never once missed a drill or roll call, nor was be for a moment absent from duty during the tour months he was adjutant of -the 7th regi ment. 'The epitaph of these two patriot oflicers is easily written. Duce et decorum e.4f pro patrit mon. I have written these incidents for publica tion, Mr. Editor, simply as an act of ju-lice to the lamented dead, believing it impossible fur the future historian to compile all the acts of daring and patriotism p-rformsed by the almost innumerable soldiers and heroes of our armies. M ist trutlv, 1. WYATT AIKEN. Cdlonel 7th S. C. Regiment. CuonoNAcco, )ee. 27, 1862. "IIc-tt s,' the Richnund correspon dent of the Charleston Mercury in a late let ter, furnishes the annexed items: The following is told of Jackson's habits : On Sunday night a frit ud of Old Stonewall, invited to share his tent, turned in about 11, and wrapped up snugly in the blankets. At 1 o'clock Jackson entered, and just as he was, .ran new uniform, boots, spurs ttid all, pitch. el into the pallet, was snoring in 15 minutes, and in 15 more had robbed his friend of a'l the blankets. After a hard etiuggle this friei.d managed to get back enough cover to keep him from freezing-the night was very cold-and slept, as he supposed, fiveminutes. lie n as aroused by Jackson, who sprang up, divested himself of every particle of raiment, opened the door of his tent, and went forth in put is naturabibus. le called for his old negro man-the same who knows when a battle iv going to come off, by the fervor of his master's prayers-an made himt dash over him two large buckets of water, which had leen .tanding in the freezing air. This done, lie returned to the tenit, rubbed hinmself dry with a coarse towel, dunn d his new uni !t:rm, and went out to attend to :.he dispoci tiun of his forces, fully expecting the atack t., Legin at day-break. it was then just half past three; ahut i u'e-ck Jackson woke up his friend, and told hima to come to break fast, the Yapkees were clean one. - Gen. Lee said .e would tnully gire eek all the killed and wounded Yan'k,-es at Fred ericks in return for the heroic Gregg. " It is a great loss." Gen. Jackson tok tender leave of the expiring hero, and Gen. A. P. HIl. it is said, kissed him. How honored an]d ehved lie was ! When Ger. Lomgt:eet sent o:her brigades to relieve the indomitable hand who played such havoc with the Yankees in front of Mar ye's stone fence, the knightly Kershaw re- 1 plied : " Tell Gen. l.ongstreet I obey impli tly the orders of my superior, lut I relin quish with regret a position whre so touch I snor is to be acthievcd." lie expected the hrttle to be re.numed the next day. I have .,ter seen General K.. but a friend. who re lates th.- above, says that he iq a model of the preux cheralier-the most y.llant presnce in the whole army. To fill up this page, 1 will tell the last joke on Jackson. At Cedar Run, one of his Urig adiers said: "General, the Yanke~es are fighting splen- I didly to-day." "It does not become you to say so," re plied old Stonewall, sternly. " But, General, I say it only to you ; 11 would not speak of it openly." "No matter," retorted Jackson, "you should say it to nobody. Never say any thig good of your enemihes." I am assured this is famct. Tus Onutms or 1ls.L.-AN Isctir-NT r CoLu~ns.-Our readers have hear.I of theI explosion of a rifled one hundred and twenty fly.i pounder, which occured at Columblus, Kentucky, on the 10th of November last year, by which the lamnenta .le Capt. Kliter and eght others were instantly killed. and many daugerously wounded. Among the injured were Col. Pickett, of the Engineer Corps, Maj. Rucker, of conscript imumortality, and Liut. Gen. Folk. With the gun, thte maxazine beneath it tx. plodd, filling the air with dust anid earth and shell, and fragments of timbers and iron by which the gun was moved. Rucker was blown from the emharkmn' nt lha surrounded the gum'. When ' had par tially recovered his senses, 1- come one beside him. The air was , aely fl:led with smoke and powder that the sufferers could not see, and breathing wasn painful and diffilt. Rimcker asked who be was :bat lay heside him. " I am Gen. Polk," was the almnost inluible answer. " This is h-il, ain't it, General ?" inquired Rocker. 'It smells like it, I believe," answered the General. Tis isa literal fiact, and( all thme stories Ibruied abomut., especially by the Aboliti n Ipress, to thme effect that Gen. Polk has ever firgt ten his habits as a Christian, since his ,.sn ption of the dutties 6f a soldie~r, are ut terly an!I whilly filse. lIe has netve-r been head under :ny 4 iren-u-stances to ent'ploy a pronei expr<.Sion. . IuS qit.Oai ei. durs-ienat uf M'j. Rucker's smothered rjaculation, would hardly present an actionable case before a Curt of iuishns.-Knoxville Register. From the New York World, .December 4. New Orleans and General Butler. There are American journals so ignorant nr so base as to praise the administration of Gen. Butler at New Orleans. The fact is that he not only disgraces the Union cause lie disgraces civiliza.ion and humanity itself. [Ie would be without apologists in Algiers. He ought to be without eulogists in America. Silence concerning his abuses of power and nalfeasancesin office, his brutality and the peculation, at which he winks, if he does not ,hare their prefit, might be tolerated by the tonsciences of those who, hopeless of moving she mind of Mr. Lincoln, were unwilling to really obstruct the Government; or even seem o ncourage disloyalty. But when that si lence is misconstrued into approbation, when pre.sses are found which, like most of our con temporaries in this city, actually praise Gen. Butler, dwell upon the cleverness of his rhet 'ric and the elliciency of his rule, which laud he safe brutality of his intercourse with se :ssionists, as if that were the best means of ringing them to reason-when presses exist which have the effrontery or the ignorance to epresent the number of those who have ta ten an enforced oath of allegiance-as the iumbcr of those whose hearts have been con trained to loyalty, then silence becuinds a ie. The truth concerning this basest and not unprincipled man should theu be told d his misconduct be denounced as it de. erves, that the sham of the loyal and hon st millions whose Government Mr. Lincoln ims sent him to represent muy at least be ineserved. But for General Butler, New Orleans might I o-Jay have become a Unio' city-so say the -w loyal men of the city, so confess the lisloyal. The loyal mourn, the disloyal ex ilt, over the fully and the blindness which ,laced him in control of the commercial me roplAis of the Southwest, and has continued rim in power there to drive the disloyal into t leeper depths of ol-duracy and to turn the earts of the loyal against the cause which her loved, by the baseness and the cruelty of he tllieer assigned to its upholding. In the arly days of Ihe rel.Mlion New Orleans clung I u the Union. She ga've a heavy malority ainst secession. It only needed, after the it v fell,_m t- a fjirm.,. win, _hongLpagnu*- e huInld be put in command of the department ir the genuine loyalty of the city to lave hown itsel, and treason to have been thrown ack into a hopeless tninority. But Gen. Butler was rut in courmmand, and to.day the hief Somhern city held by Federal troops utes imst in! etely the F0h-r:d i rule. Nut sa.alimryr .ece--sionui~t hras been won hack toi is old and rightful allegionce. Thousands f the truly though secretly loyal, his crime, is h:utality and his blnutders have made dis nal. Llad Gen. Dix or -n. Bfanks been eut to that itportatnt como.atnd, to-day the ountry %% ould have come.ted upon the lay ltv of- New Orleans with iuore confidence Lan it counts upon the loyalty t.i Baltiiore. We do nt utan to deprcthae the sharl - ess of Gen. Butler's 1:en or the clevernes t f his cuning mind. Pettifogger., have found a henmselv's surpussed : their c.-i artS, and I heivs could tea is Gen. Butler nothing a rhiebhe did not know. He has not been utwitted. So nmuch at least may be said to is crdit, btan that is all. Another syllable u hi praise beyond that, is false. ie Las disgraced1 the army, for the army s honest ; he has disgraced his Govertnent, or his Government is yet great enough to be u~t ; he has disgraced his country, for .his, tame harbs the scorn of faoaeigt4 enemies and n-titis the severity of foreign friends ;he ss dishontored the chief matgistrate, by pte .cribing him to ministers of the Gospel as he suject of their compulsory prayers; lie as disboncred the North, by incarnating very mtean and sordid characteristic which, alsely, Southern passion has ascribed to ortthern phlegm, by surrounding himnself vith men whose forgotten gains, makitng dis onesty and loyalty prtofitatble, cause disloyal tanesty to sen respectable by comnparison ; e has disgraced his sex, foar not even wo neuelnhae been exempt from his cruelty, but ike men have been made to suffe.r as trai -ors for the self-respect of their initercourse sith him as women ; if it is possible lie has ligraced him elf, for the most subserviett nal of Southern men and obsertuious lauder >f Southern intstittions5 has become their tuost assiduous enemy, secking a lace for .he heel of power where once he looked only ;o lick the spit tle of servility. General Butler's whole career is known to rery many loyal men at the North, who blush ! ineine and shame at the imbeeility which tolerate4 him for nn instant in ptower. The dninistration presses will act wisely nr.t to praise him. They shoutd be thankful if' their wn silcnte secures his imtunlty from pubalic odinm. Neither they nor Mr. Lincoln can sicute him against the infamty of histoty. Ta'm Bacu H ari~s:.-We' find the follow intg itn a late issue of the New Yxork World. [t is from a lady, and unless the vile creature she denunu~ces is totally lost to every sense of decency. his bleated cheeks must tingle with t1:c blushl of shame when he reads it: To-u Enn urritsorm'its WonIP:-I thank ou in the namie of Woman, as well as of hu mnanity, for durning to speak the truth of thbe' ....maly etch who commands New Orleans.'t The name of Mdn is disgraced when applied to him. My cheek has burned- with shame that Americans (who are certainly ordinary a chivalrous people) have not. made such an outcry a- ainst his course thati:Le should shrink out of sight like a whipped dir. I am a Northern woman' and loyal, but I could not be a woman and not feel detesta tion and contempt for the towardly creature who will war upon women.' Words are im. potent when the febliugs .excited by this commander of the Union forces are to be expressed. It is enough to make disloyal the warmest efender of the Union to know that those who have our fate as a nation in their hand, play with it so childishly-so madly. How ong, 0 Lord, how long," must we be 'made he sport of inbeciles and such " men as Butler ? New York, December 9, 1862. Enlistments in Ireland for America. Dublin (Vauumbcr 1i) Currespondence of the Lron do,, Port. The Nation mnakes.bitner .complaints that rishmen are still being enlisted in Ireland t " laborers" for America. Very high wa pes are offered to them,~and ilie bounty is not ilred in vain in numbers of instances. "Lee urers and others are going about the coun ry," according to the Nation, with this ob :t, and one of the inducements they employ o ensnare the peasantr7.is to affirm that the noment they have settled with the Southern -ebels, the American Government will turn ipon England for her perfidies, and free Ire and. The Nation, which is a good deal so iered now about the prospect of an Amneri an invasion of Englarid, makes the following barecteristic comment u1 on the argument if these Yankee touters. .We know the bait hat is Ieing held before the eyes of our coun ryien. It is that of a possible war between ,e Northern States and England. Well, let itch a war come, and then the Irish people till know what to say to it. When the Trent iffically seemed likely to lead to a rupture heir sentimer.ts were v. cy plainly expressed. .et us wait and see wh. rel may arise ut of these tickhsh havai 'questions that ill be coming up from day to day while the es. \Chen we see one plank of an Aneui .,, ship diestroyed by guns that speak fron inuer the shaduw of the Union .ack, then a ty v:i!! he plhteed upon the people of Ire ind which we trust they will be able to dis hrge. But the chance of such al event ill not be improved by an enigration of ri:Lmen to slay the people of the Southern ;ottfederacy. The dust of gallant Irish hearts till e making the gras grow in Virginia, th;le Ireland's opportunity may come from nother quarter and find Ireland too weak to vil of it. We protest against any enli.-t uent in this country for eikher of the Ameri an parties so lorg as America is not at war tith some foreign power that is also a foe to rebatd.l ; and we varn our counltryon by heir love of Irelund and their love of honor gainat giving any countenance or support to he re':ruting agents who are now going bout this country." Wounded and illed.. ILt akes but littde space in the columns of e daily papers; but O! what long house od stories and biographies are every one 1 those stranige names- that wre read over ,d foiget ! ' Wounded and kille.h !'' Some eye reads he name to awhomt it is dear as life, and nie heaurt isn struck or broken with the blo0w nde by thnit name among the list. Its our llenry, its our .John. or our Jatmes. r Thotmas, that lies with his poor broken ibs at thi hospital, or white and stili, raid rith ghastly tine on tho battle field. Alas ! or the eves that read !-alas I for thte hearts bat feel ! "11e was my pretty hoy, that Prve sung to lepso many tinmes int iy arms !" says the ,oor mothter, boitiri g her herad ini antguishI at cannot be uttered. ."lHe was my brave, tobb u.,band, the father of my little orphan :hibhdren !" sobs the stricken wife. "lie was tiy darling brother, that I loved so, tht 1 os .so proud of," tmurmurs the sister, amid ten tears ; and as the terrible stroke flel on umes thtroutghout tl-e land. " Killed anud wounded I" Every namte in ht list is a lightning stroke to some hteart, id brea~ks like thtuder over someo house, md lhls a long black shadow upon - some teartstne. A LEssoN FoR PLAN'rtas.-The Mobile !egiser referring to the late raid of the Yan iees againtst Okolona, Mir.;., derives and ap lieis a lesson for planters which tmay he com mendable to all where' crops are 'itn situations csible to such incursions. The Register ematrks: The Yatikees didi littde or no damage to rivate property there except hurning (600 ba:les f~ Cotton, which they prubably' sup poa'sedl to belong to the Governimtent. It-was, however, the property of private parties w ho had refosedl to Bell it to Governmienit at twelve and a half centi a pound. They destroyed thec hospital, the depot, and about four thous and bushels of Governmuent corn. Of course they did a great deal of mischtief through thte country ; but while soldiers' wives ini that re gion are safuling for wantt of bread, as we ..-n. m li a cwe cnnotni eel inuch sym patly fur the planters who refused to sell their corn for a delIbtr a bushel, until they found tie Yankees were coining, and then uflered it at sixty or sevt-nty centa. Dutch ats we regret the wasting of 11 e c.,unty, il ere is a glouo-my eatistaction in kni ir.g that. the inmmediuoe aufl- itr., are the ti-thi. lders. of curn, tm-n wI o have neglected or refuzd to born their Cotton or to organize th.-me lvts into nuTl anics for local defence. We have I heard a great deal al.ont these ventry It r some time pi"st. if the Yankees would take all their Cotton it. would be a righteous pun- I ishment to them and a good thing for the I country, for .Tckson's cavalry would be very apt to burn it before it got to Memphis. Fron th S.,, hernit Guardian. A Word or te.u on an important Subject. Ma. EntToa : Will you allow a plain man room to suggest a few reflections upon a measure now before the Legislature of South Carolina? I promise to be brief. The House of Repreaentatives has under favorable consideration an enactment provi ding for the collection of interest upon debts due by those of our people not in the a.-my, and also for the collection of lawyer's and other costs incurred in huts bouglit about for that purpose. I do nut think the que:.tion las been ma turely considered in that body ; and I beg most respectfully to make a few points: Lt. Have the members considered that this measure will,'in all probability, bring about a series of suits at law, with all their consequent distress and irritation, in every district in the State? If A. is compelled to pay 1B., B. must, of course, compel C., lI)., E., F., and G., to pay him, andl they in their turn must s compel the whole alphabet.. It is a grave mistake to assume that there is money enough amnig -he people to pay interest upn ldebts, and, at the same time, to properly subsist our c women and children, to say notbiing of the slaves of the country. In the.great majority of the families of the State, there are no sur plus funds; but there is generally enough, .4 and just enough, to enable each head of a i family to support and sustain his own in moderate comfort. The excessive prices, in t very Blass of articles consumred in the usual course of subsstr-nee, require all the ready r irm1by-tnat can- be raised to meet. ,ie actual t wants of the country. Stijl, the.-e wants are thur far met, scantily I admit, yet they are ret. Institute the enaCtment lere propca:s.d. I imwoe.er, aid you at once ut terly derange the t nicely aldjusted order of things which the t pressing necessities of the day have breugl t ;btoutt in al:tst seery cumninity and neigh- S borhoud. t 2d. Have members considered that those f who held the notes and accounts upon which l this interest is to be collected are. as.w a gen eral ru'e, the very men who are Lest able 10 d live wit out that collection of intrest ? These prsons may cesire to ather in this h:art of r teir gains for re-iivesttinelt, or fur purposes of - peculationt; but is it righteone a , c them by a le:.ative act in three oteations at a tame like :his, when the people t large may he made, in thiN ,pe ,al view of the mat ter, to groan beneath it: un:imely seve ify May not this law, too, if 1 assed, place maty a worthy hut indebted pour citiraen kt the nercy of tbat most hr artless atnd least pa~ trio:c of all elasses in tihe community-the t monrty-diaers and not'e .1havti-rs ot the~ land ? 3.1. Ilave miemnbers reflcted that they arec herehy legidlating directly for the ditminution of the i-xt subs~istoec crop ? Withl thes en actet ia existence, you cannot with anyt tairecss prop se to h;ait thec prodnction of coton. But you do create a tie' etssiy Iorit grwih on the part of all debtors. These, rely uip-mi ir,. are 2,umeronit. Addi ti cum to I thse who h~ave eniough torn ii. their eribs for1 two years, and who intend, unless you limit themi, to piant more largely than ever in cot ton, a,.d yxou wiill hai e a pretty condition of things for a people approaching the last ox treity < f v ar, utnd for whoar. corn and meat, as well as peace and goor i eling at h me, are am~ong th.e grect i:.dispe::sables of1 success. 4th. IHave uembetrs considered that they a, by this act, fostering the business of the Courts. and, by consequence. giving to law yrs, not in the war., the opporiunlfity of 5u[ lam ing and outstripping their breth ren of the bar who are at this moment encount ring all manner of -erits in tho field to save the country and its instituticas ? I feel aseuz ed that this view has nevier uccurred to tbe legal profession as represented in the Legislature, but I submit that it is one worthy of a thought, especially In view of the fact th-at t.he lawr proposed is uot one of imperious necesitty, but. the very reverse. 5th. Iavec metmbera considerrad the lall bearing of this proposedi tntet upotn the soldiers themselves-.1 Jti spirit and put poe are to relieve any and every one in actual service from the distremsinig and v-exatious in cidents of suitus at law. But do you thus rc lieve him, when you le are his fatnierat home, is brother, his deare t friend, ex'pose~d to the cruel coinsegnuence~s o f this-new law ? Ini the name oif reason and patriotismn, let mem~bers relect before they perpestrate this self-coa vitedi scheme. Lastly. Was thbere ever a time when the old adage " Id wedl enetryka alhme," -was more worthy of obser vance and of adoptin n ? We ae doing wrel) as5 a peoplle in the ni-.tter of oe c~.fr..a ,d.est . ..e.war tatmes al most up to our very dyor, and beyond dou one principal caul - of this was the stay Is of ath1. Disrontinue it, and the con. qlnce may be as blight and miidew ips the h''pes and energca rf our people. 'lI law has comie to lie ra.rided as the fixe policy of Srntrb Carolii.a for and d ing til war, and to inite.rf're with its provisions no dust wyolk ii.justi'e and et ii. The peop1 have, as a whole, -anctioned it, and are wi inag to abide it.' They have planted accoi di gly, Id hlate laid all their plans accordin y, and are in rpted of no ebatage. The chang here proposed is, at best, but an uncer'ain e: erunrent, withcut a pretss:g rLecessity tojut ify it, n:d, as one of the people, I call upo nat. mbers to birare. Suffer not yourselves t be carried lastily to the npiort of a prop tition suddenly sprung tpt;n you, and desigr -d, it may be, to Fubo tve the private ends< he few, in.-teal of the iaood of the many. COMMON SENSE. tcts Passed by the Le;islature of Soutl Carolina. n Act to iaeikc approlpritlons in aid of t funilies of soldiers, and to ripeal an A enitled A n Act to aPthrd aid to the fain lies of so!diers, ratified op the twen.yjfir. dlwt of December, in the year of our or one thousand eill hundred and six'is om SEc. 1. lie it enacted by the Scutc am dIouse ' Jeprescntati:c:, nat mct and sit ig in General Asembliy, and by the autheor /y rf, the same, That the sum of six hun red thousand dollars, if so much be necessa y, be and the same is hereby approp:iue< romn the Treasury of this State, in iid of th ;amilies resident in this State, of the srldiers ai!ors and mairirers wiho a y now be, o hall during the present year, be in the armn ir navy of the Confetderate Stales, or in lb ervice of the State of Snuth Caro:ira. an t those who have dial.d, been killed, or dina ,ii in the service of a ither. Sin. t . That the appropriation thus made hall be divided ratably tiong the severs Letioit districts of this State. in the follow n pi Opa tton, to wit: .pon the ratio of tih ate pulttation of the several elacti.U i;s riets, as ascertained by the last centtu to e: in this State, for the uplaortiratnent a epresctation in the lloue of Representa iv'es. S:::. 3. That in cahi election di.trict ther h:li be api-o:intel by the General As-enal rponr the ::onminati'm oaf the dele;'ation h .04h b)rarnches firm rasb electio~inli-trict, ann ,n be sekeacted from persons net liable to Con '.lerae connwription, and who shall bt free :oer a Soldie'rs' ]h.iard af 1Lelief, to cush t not less than three t.- m ire tdin taOlv reelders in any :a.ctiomn distr ict. The s-ti 3oards of Relief sbhal lie, and are hereby uthorizetd to fill up all sacanicies in their rt ,ective Bloards, arising from any cause, ii ap isioinents or said ] hatrds ; they si a neet upon the call of' the chair mr:an, :s we . :. teir ot'nu reasomnain ; and a tmrnjaant if eat Io;ar:.l halalt congitrut' a tiln iut. Sag. 4f. Thfat il C F:ass l. ard- .half ea:ch a1 10i.21:1t a1.erson, not, liable t.i Cuod'.nfderate coL eriptiotn: att(i ot their own b<d" adt oherwis< = '-h-y n;y decide, as Scertdary u:d Treoa -., who hal'i keep, a reot.rd of all tranla< i , anrd be resporribic to said nraard, an ;ive bonrd, payale to rhe enid iloardl, in sue un and with such sureties asn the .uiad B3 at vrn airect, fo'r the' lithful paer!ormrance h i'e~luti of i-is uIIelia." ad ni ho thi:al ri :civ as a compefnIattioni for sutch seCrvice .m er cent. n.n the amorutt pa5ss'-g throus heir hattnds. Sec. i. 'That thc said Roards of li hal renpecttively receive from the Tireaisrr )t t Dnvrmin itt wiichr the Elction 1 :1 tri< . . it sin.at' d. upon the dat, of tihe el ai nnr.. .ti.. autual rOfhny ai pcorti.>rcd ta inc le-Ael.-ti Jl)'trict, ini the tat ,i aao era. fa m l'(Xttaed. m nthe md herinfba r pri - ded are. ctl:ii :;pa'y thre samn. ini their r n~eatia bii s int auch: inannri and ir Etr' roprian... as i.n tie discreiinn of tire sr Boa irtr", shedt ses bes5t ; an enher~t by pec tiniry a...istanULce .cc~ b*y lthr purichasei 'rnd d trihaaai of el fod anr' ..!ot hbm g, aund othe nt~t e$Saries to the aid' % iieif nof thre art lies' oat all those whro n~ow me or~ during t raim 3-tort mu a'b,. ena.rfig d in the milt aor n ia~val serie aof the ConfodateM S e~s, o f' tIis Stita, and oaf the famiiilia o ~f t i0 wah ;nye diedl, or may die, or bie kilied, diisab'ed, in either seriice, and of such p~ sous as are or were de'pendent upon those innmilitary service, sauch depeudenice to 'u 01o and decided by the0 said Boards. Sc.6,. That the said Bloards of Reli siali make returtns of their receipts andi a edtreto thei G'etntal Assembly a et:t regular' acs5ion, and shall be liable thhsie ~ttptalti'4s for default oir neglect iuy s the other Ditrict iloards are ni l'tb to ttcent diigt to iaw. ac. 7. It ...all bet the duty of thet Cn tollr General mind of the Tlr.anraer.. of 1 U pper anal Lower~t DivlAtans o.f this State, meer togethrer, withitin ne week after ther lcaution oaf this~ Act, anad forthwith to app tiont the sum her'eiibefore ttaptoriated to a aong the several E.aetiont Districts in the ra ti.o her'c'ira. fore created ;andl upon comnpletini of .h-- said apaportionmen~tt, it ai h '.he dut y of t hc Comp jtroller-Genetlral fe: with tan comunicant with the seaveral ljo raf lif, es'tabli~shed by this Act. ::d to lam r i rn enca ar'i, reas;-t e'tivdl:., fl ta henim' app..i~ond to the Election District whet t. such Board is ; anrd it shall be the furtherdu w ty of the Comptroller-General to rep.rt such :i.pportiotnm1e:nt to the (-nt-."l. Atsembly at.it t text regular session, and'also to the Sprnug t and Fall Terms vof the Courts of Ceni'n a ,d 1 s and Genera! Se-sions. And it shall he e the duty of the Trusurers of the Upper aall w Lower Diviaious, re.pectively, according to e the locatiun of the several Election Districts, I to pay, upon the drafts of the respective Ciai- en of said Boards, the sum of nimoney . so apportioned to the sevezal Election Dir e tricts: Prorided, That after one-fourthof the : amount allowed to eack of the Boards .of the i- sum appropriated by this Act is'drawn, the n balance thereof, or so much thereof as may o he found to be necessary, shall be paid in >- quarterly paytn uts. after said .Hoatds have - severally rendered to the Tresemer of the if Upper or Lower Division, as the case may be, an account of tLeir actirgs and. doings for the precedirg three months. Srac. S. That an Act entitled "An Act to afitrd aid to the families of soldiers'' rati fied on the twenty first day of December, in e the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun dred and sixty-one, be and the an.e ishert - by rei ealed. In the Senate IIouse, the eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixt'-two, and eighty-seventh year of the sovereignty and independence of the State of South Care lina. W. D. PORTER, President of'the Senate. A. P. ALDRICH, Speakcr of the Tlou a of Representatives. J GTTI'r I:t.tjn o-T OF.A .TuaRi.-On Ttsday, two ia ltliers, doubtlees up to a -trp transac:iIn, }repented themselves at tLe store of LeoAnoid Ioe, a Jew shopke'eper on lni.ad si reet. one of them having hi his pos sassk.n a com.Tnon looking ear trumpet. The pos essor of the trumpet l-urchased about three dollars worth of goods, and asked to leave the trumpet and the goods in the keep iig of the storeket-per for a few minutes, un til he citull make an errand down the street, and the two solIdiers left. They had scarce ly gonw, hefiire two ittier soldiers, accouphi ces of the former, eatered the store, and the . eyes of one .. theu Ughting upon. iel-.eau iiiful tru:npc't," as he called it, lie~ .siem'-l :txiou.: to tuy, and offered Role fifty dul lars, and finally one hundred dollars for it, ltsse stid the trumpet did.not belong to him, but he we uld see the man who left it with him, nr:d try shat bargain he could strike with him for it. The two suldiers departed, re.id soo>n the twnrer of the trumpet called, ex. "pre:1sl solicitude, &e., for his.irun:pet, when Rose, with an eye to his own interest, offered to buy it, first <dhering twenty dollars, and af terwards fifty doll 'rs for the trumpet and the g tods thathis customer had.previotsly pur hased. The man demurred foi a gor while, sail the trumpet was imported from the ut te-rnost parts of the earth." wss a relic of past ag-:. and sn c-xceediily valuable one, luI at la t. corsented t. }Part with it, received fifty dulhlr4 and departed. We learn that the enterprising shop dealer is still on the Iiokitit 1..r hr, promised "one hundred dol lar" customer for the trumpet, but he had not ent:e-1 a:. last accountts. TIhe trumpet in ques i tioni is worth about twenty-five cents. dA blast from the t:-umpet of Gabriel would hard'y have started the party "sold" more than the denouemenit of the above transaction e has done.-ichmnond Examiner. -"Barney JDtg.in you swear positively; that f on snw the piisomrer stab the woman in the rj fracas?" -" You swear ycu saw the prisoner stabi the* h womnan ir the fraeas?'' repeated the alder d man. ~-"No sur; I didn't say that at all, yer - r honor." h " Why, you a moment age .not only. saidi id it. Lut swore to it. Will you repeat now ui what you did see ? SYes stur, I will. T saw Tim, there, etah, e. ilhe onldl womant tid a rrarvin'-knite in the i- stumnick, but dlivil the bit did I see him stab e per in the fraonas, yet' huorr 3n tite army in Arkansas are eome 14.000 rrMissotnrian~s who have ,heft thei State in smail par ie'oj..in rtby COmftoiratestandaau. t~hev consitmte a cctrps Of desperate fighters--nop r-oeof thtem but has his peraonal wro~gs.to ~"avenge up on the Liuclntes, in the shape of Lea father. brother, son, mother, wif'e or sister, f!murdered, robbed or insulted by those devils int hunan formn. One regimnent of 1060 men X-was recrumitedl In his nriaivo county by Cil. he Clarke, a son of. Governor Clarke, znetnber of tO the Confederate Congress, whtile it was ceui of pied biy a Fedeind ar.mny. The Colondl wcs '4 obliged to conceal hit..lf 1)y day amnd work at night. After tiling lup his corps, he swam the whole 1080 men across the Missouri river, he' a miie and a. quarter wide, and-at the time tfull of drift ice. Two of them perished fruom the coltd in crossing. [r- pr- o- i* The lhigh pric opiting pape'r iscansing sa)ne of our cotemporaries 'to runu jheliir heprices of subscription to figures'itiat, must helook rather tall to those who know nothing aiabout the enormous expense attending the rpu1.blication of a iewspaper. "F r i iatanca, rsthe price of the Memphis ppeal, now pub lishedl at Jke'n, ,is two dollars and .fity 11 eu. .s p.:r iOma.t Th'atL of the Mii.sippian .-'