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PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING B T D??RISOE, KEESE & CO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. . INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. The ADVERTISER is published regularly ev ery WEDXRSD.VY MoRsiNO.atTilREE DOLLARS per annum: ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CTS. for Six Month?; SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS for Threo Months,-altctty in admnce. All papers discontinued nt the expiration of the" timo for which thdy hnve been paid. RATES OF ADVERTISING. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Advertisement? will be inserted at thc rate of ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CEN'TS per Square (10 Minion lines or I.MS,) for the first iniertir.n, and ONE DOLLAR fur each subsequent iu?ertion. ;5E3~ A lihor.il discount will be made to thnse wielling t? advertise by the year. Announcing Candidates $5.00, in advance. Circular of General Scott, The followuig circular has b>en issued by General R. K. Scott, Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau : HEADQ'RS AS?'ICT COMMISSIONER BUREAU "j OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN ANO ABANDONED ! L.vxns, SOUTH CAUOLIXA, j' CHARLESTON, S. C. June li?. 18G7 J [ Circular Letter ] The attention of officers and agents of this Bureau is hereby called to the provisions of Section" of the Act.of Congress entitled " An A io continue in force and to amend an A' J establish a Bureau for the .eltef of Freer...ai and Refugees, and for other pur poses." This section makes it the duty of officers awl agents of the Bureau to u<e, judiciously, every means at their disposal fur diss?mina ting such" information among the frccdmeu as will unable them, and as far as possible in duce them, to avail themselves of all rights and privileges conferred upon them by the late Act of Congress, entitled an " Act to pro vide fbr the more efficient government of the rebel Slates" and the Act supplementary thereto. The exercise of the privilege, as well as du ty, ot registration by all freedman properly qualified is of the first importance. Officers of thc Bureau will, therefore, at al! times advise and eucourage such registra tion. For this purpose the various assem blages of the freedmen shoald be taken ad vantage of : but, it is especially cautioned that such meetings be not encouraged, except at such time and places as will not materially interfere with the labors of the people and the cultivation of the crops. The efforts of designing persons, on the one part, to impede the registration of the freedmen, as well as of such, as, by injudi cious advice, would raise unwarrantable ex pectations on their part of future assistance from tho Government, thereby encouraging idleness and neglect, of the crops, will be thwarted as far as possible by personal influ ence aud counsel. It is hoped by the Assistant Commissioner that all good citizens will see the importance of the freed people being properly informed upou all subjects relating to their enfrunchiie ment, and will join with the officers and agents of this Bureau in giving such" infor mation and advising such action us will ena ble this State at the earliest day to resume its former status in the General Government. R. K. SCOTT, Brevet Major-Gen. Assistant Commissioner. Official: H. NEIDE, A.A.Adjutant Gen. The Liquor Question. The following Circular of General Sickles will answer the inquiries which have been made in reference to the constriction of that portion of General Order No. 32, iBsued from Department Headquarters a few weeks since, . which refers to the retailing of spirituous liquors in this Military District: HEADQ'RSSECOND MILITARY DISTRICT, ) CHARLESTON, S. C., June 17,18G7. j In the execution of Paragraphs VI. and VII. of General Orders No. 32, current series, Post Commanders will be governed by the following instructions : An Inn is a place where food and lodging are provided and furnished for pay to trave lers and sojourners. Municipal and town authorities may grant to Inn Keepers licenses to sell liquors in quantities less than one gallon to be drank on the premises. In determining the number of such licenses it is expected that due regard will be obseived to the actual occasion for tavern accommodations, so that no evasionof the order be permitted by an unnecessary in crease of the present number of Inns. In any town where this occurs, the authority to grant licenses will be revoked and the licenses 1 granted annulled. j ; The order does not admit of any coastruc tion extending the privilege to apothecary shops, ice cream saloons, eating houses, or other places. Th6 civil authorities to whom license money has been paid will determine for themselves whether they will refund to licensees the whole or any part of the money received for lineenses. The order is operative on and after the date j of Rs publication. Post Commanders in the exercise of their discretion may extend the j time until the first day of July next. The military tribunals constituted by Cir cular dated May l?th, 18C7, from these Head quarters, will have cognizance of all viola tions of paragraphs VI. and VU. of General Orders 32, current series. The proceedings "will be forwarded by the Post Commander to these Headquarters for review and final action. Where by law or municipal regulation the proceeds of licenses aro devoted to the maintenance of common schools open to all without discrimination against color or caste, the proceeds, of the licenses now authorized may be applied either to such schools or to the suppo/t of the poor, in the discretion of the civil authorities. All laws or parts of laws or municipal reg ulations inconsistent with thc provisions of General Orders 32, or of this Circular, are sus pended and will be deemed and held inope rative. The authority to revoke licenses when drunk eaness or disorderly conduct ia permitted in or about premises where liquor is sold may he exercised by Post Commander or by any magistrate of the vicinage on proof of the offence. By command of Maj.-Gen. D. E. Sickles. J. VF. CLOUS, Captain 38th Infantry, A. D. C. and A. A. A. G. THE HOMICIDE OF THE COLORED REGISTER. -The Montgomery ?dcertinlr, ot Sunday, has the following version of the killing of Webb, the negro register, in Hale County, Alabama : Alexander Webb, the colored register, walked into a store at Greensboro', and made some statement which was denied by some colored boys present. The store keeper (whose name we did not hear) interceded, sustaining the'position of the boys ; and his assertion was pronounced a d-d lie. Ile asked Webb if he knew who he was talking to.. The negro replied that he did ; a d-d eon of a b-h. The store keeper drew a pis tol, shot him, and, as soon as he could arrange his papers, left. The matter, we understand, had nothing to do with the registry, and the colored man forfeited his life for a most winton insult, and aa many white men have doue under similar circumstances. .iSw OF HENRY CLAY.-Pomeroy the edi tor of IKJ? La Crosse Democrat, who recently visited the Lunatic asylum at Lexington Ken tucky in speaking.of some of the inmates, 4nj3 : " Theodore Clay, son of the illustrious Henry, js here, aa intellectual looking pa tient, helpless as it w.ere, insane over an affair of affection. He has been here many year?/ with no hope of recovery.* We do not know precisely how long this patient has beeb in the institution ? but we remember that he was there early in 1833. -. ?-:- . .??F* Frederick Douglas ia being urged by in partial perKM at TV ashia jt^a fa tefttiaiwdttA The Opinion"?-Northern Comments. The New York papers, of Monday, contain the Attorney-General's opinion ip full. Of course, they comment on it, but none of them favornbl}'. Oar extracts must neccsnari!y bo brief. The Tribune says': M Mr. Stanberry cuts the heart out of the military bill*. If he is right, then Congress is criminally wrong. A measure which was carefully s,nd anxiously devised by more than two-thirds of tb J Senate and the Hou?e," and not only adopted, but a second time consid ered and passed over an able and ingenious veto message, proves to be a delusion and a snaref and absolutely worthless as a measure of reconstruction. If Mri Stanberry is right, then we can no more reconstruct the South under this bill than we could under the tax levy o> our Common Councils, or Mr. Swin burne's last poem. The Senate was wrong -the House did not know what it was doing. Mr. Johnson's veto message was written in ignorance of the law, an 1 our generals have entirely misconstrue I one of the plainest and most emphatic bills of Congress! Everybody has erred but Mr. Stanberry ! That officer may be a subtle logician and well learned in ihe law, but we do not believe either his logic or his facts." .It concludes its comments by saying: " Congress should assemble iu July, and addres% itself again to reconstructioa. We must*make this bill so plain that even Stan berry may understand lt, and so comprehen sive that the President casuot escape its ex ecution. We regret that the Administration has forced another issue upon tho couutry. We must promptly meet it." The Times s&ye : " We can only repeat the hope we have more than once expressed, that the President will not follow this advice. If he acts upon it at all, it can only be as advice. Whatever may bc the cogency of thc technical rea-ou ing of the Attorney General, (aud we confers that it is very strong.) the President's atten tion ought to be given-as that of the public will be-to the practical executing of the law iu completing, thc work of reconstruction ; and thut depends far more on the actual aud complete authority of the generals in fioir respective districts than upon any teciiuical constructions of the law. Their mora, influ ences and consequent usefulue3s very much depend upon the realization of the fact that they are in a manner absolute-that their power to dispose of faithless or obstructive officials is as complete as their power to pre serve the peace-and that their acts are not subject to reversal by distant political au thority. Let it be once understood that the general is a mere subordinate, whose superi or is ready to listen to the complaints of per . SODS whom the general has, for cause, remov ed, and, from that moment, the enemies of the law will lake fresh courage, and the work of reconstruction will be very soriously im peded.? The Herald says : " No man disposed to accept and act upon this law in good faith can sec in it any other than the clear intent and purpose thus set forth. But we do not say that any lawyer may not argue around it, or that legal acute ness, exercised for the specific purpose, may not fiud in it places large enough for many small men to cree p through. Richelieu could condemn a man upon any three lines he had ever written, and no doubt the right sort of lawyer can nullify end defeat the most din tine* and positive statute that ever declared the will of a ruling power. It, indeed, re quires only very moderate ability to make quibbles of any sort. Is the reconstruction law to bc acted upon in this spirit ? Are le gal arguments to deprive it of its' vitality ? Does the President, under pretence of telling the commanders how to execute the law, in tend to tell them only how to defeat it ? Evi dently that is just where we stand. This i* the evident purpose now, and it/is clear that wc are on the eve of new troubles. Above all. it is clear that reconduction cannot go forward until we have another Executive. How long shall that be? Thii is now the great question for the country to consider. We have the President's platform in tho two opinions-we know what to expect from him -and we ought to determine a? once what shall be done. -? ? ? GENERAL SICKLES.-The distinguished offi cer at the head of the Second Military Dis trict bids fair, says the Atlanta Intelligencer, to become a most prolific legislator, if not al together thc wisest of his geueration. The people ol'Charleston retire to their virtuous couches at night fondly dreaming that on the following morning when they rise with the lark to greet thcpurplmgs of thc East, they will bo met with a new order-and the) are rarely dis appointed. The Code Napoleon was a right smartaffair, but we are apprehensive it will be considerably dwarfed, when the Code Sickles shall be complete and make its Appearance in royal octavo form, bound in good calf and sheep. The tyranny exercised by this officer over the two Carolinas, who, at one period of his political life, incited thc people of the South to resist unto death thc encroachments of the.Northern Radicals, is justly exciting thc reprobation nf even Northern Republican journals. The New York Times, comment ing upon the extraordinary edicts recently issued by this officer, says be alone of all the military governors of the South aspires to concentrate in his own person the functions of law-giver and law-administrator, of moral guardian and business protector, of police judge and general over the people ?of North and South Carolina. In a word, he has bold ly reversed the proper relations of thc civil and military powers, and makes the latter the everpresent master instead of the ever-ready assistant of civ;l authority. THE LIBERTY GRANTED TO THE CONFEDER ATES.-Admiral Semmes, editor of the Mem phis Bulletin, makes the following excellent reply to Thurlow Weed, who said, in the New York Convnercial Advertiser, that he (Sein mes) had made a poor use of the liberty accorded to him by the Government. Admiral Semmes says: "As for Mr. Weed's remark, that we are making very poor use of the liberty which has been granted us, ?tc., we have only to ob serve that we aro under no obligation to the United States for any liberty granted us. The . liberty' which we received at thc surrender, of Gen. Joe Johnston, in whose army we held a command, was a quid pro quo. It was given to us for a consideration, and that considera tion was, that we would lay down our arms that we still had in our hands. Our liberty was the result of a trsaty made with the ene my on the field of battle, and even the savages observe &uch treaties. But the United States, with a want of faith of which a savage should be ashamed, violated its plighted word of honor to us, and arrested aud held us in con finement for three months. During our con finement, wc demanded our release of the President, under our parole, and it was ac corded to us. Weare exercising the 'liberty' which belongs to us, because we purchased it, and not by tolerance and as a favor, as Mr. Weed would insinuate." HOMICIDE.-A difficulty having occurred, some days ago, tn John's Island, at Jenkins' plantation, between two colored men named Scipio Fraser and John Green, the latter at tacked the former with a large knife, and stabbed him in thc side, the kuif? brea kine and leaving tho blade iu the wound. Fraser died, after much suffering, and United States Detective Michel was sent over to arrest Green on Tuesday last, which ho did, and has lodged* him in jail. When the detective reached thc island, ho found Green working in the field, and, on approaching him, he made a demonstration with his hoc, which Mr. Michel soon settled by exhibiting a revolver, and he afterwards was brought along unre sistingly. Green was formerly attached to the Twenty-third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. Charleston News. THEY NEED RECONSTRUCTING.-Wh-'-n Ben Wade was in Wyandotte, la**t week, he wa? invited to speak, but he declined, and said he would not speak in a city where lynch law reigned and men were butchered without .a trial. He alluded to the case of two colored mcu who were arrested the night befor?, charged with murdering a farmer named Mc Mann, a few days ago. They were lodged in jail, but were taken out by a largo mob, und hung, but the rope breaking, they were shot to pieces in the Court house yard, where their fcfitiit? Uf cody *? day, and Walt writes, ' THE ADVERTISER; JAL?EST.EACON, EDITOR. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1807. Out of thc UsoaT Course at Harmony. We are* requested to state Ibat tbe Rer. Mr. TUCKER "will preach at Harmony on Sunday next. The Ne Flus Ultra of Squashes and Beans. The Squashes and Beans, rent us by our good friend, Mr. JACKSON?OVAR, had certainly reached thc utmost limits of all p'ossiblo progr?s?. We may liva many a yoar 3'ef, but we never expect to He grateful for finer vogetableB than theso. Drng Store of Teague & Canvile. Th?r9 is no establishment in our community, or in any other community, that' stands higher than the one at tko head of this notice. Both TEAOUE <t CARWILE are genial gentlemen, respon sible business men, and as skilful and experienced Druggists as ever manipulated a prescription from tho St. Lawrence to the Rio* Grande. We call special attention to their new advertisement in another oolumn. Captain CARWILE has spdnt six or eight weeks in New York this spring ; conse quently the large stock of TKAGI.-E & CARWILE. must necessarily be well and carefully selected. More of that Intensely Attractive Min strel Show. It is to take place, as announced last week, at thc Masonic Hall, on the coming Thursday eve ning- 27th inst. On this occasion there will be the most varied, most interesting, most exciting, livoliost and funniest metung? of performances ever seen iu one evening under the same roof. And in addition to thc orthodox minstrel pro gramme, of which we spoke in our last issue, there remains to be yet announced, a great treat-a most refreshing novelty. A performance on that instru ment-unscon of American eyes, and unheard of American ears-tho Scotch Bagpipes. This in strument bas lately arrived tn oar town from Glasgow, whither it was sent, more than a year ago, to be repaired. Tho performer on it is a gen tleman of the old regime in Edgcfield, one to whom music is a universal language. Wo im agine you can all guess his name. And perhaps, too, that violin bow which this same gentleman rields so exquisitely, will be thus wielded on tho occasion in question. We earnestly hope so. Bnt imagine the Scotch Bagpipes ! The very namo conjures up before our eyes a panorama extending from Robert Bruce and Bannockburn to Jessie Brown and Lucknow. And do not forget tho praiseworthy objecii in view. Price of Admission-Fifty Cents. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Kain, Rain, Rain. For more than a weok past wo have boen be seiged by one of those fearful rainy spells that ara generally concomitant with vernal equinoxes or sun crossing thc equator-or something of that sort. Day by d?y and night by night, tho rain has poured in torrents and the wind bas blown in hurricanes. And until this morning-which is very bright and beautiful-tho sun has not been^ able to rout thc clouds ; these latter have main tained the holden front possible, and exhibited thc best intentions of keeping up the fall of water until the coming on of Dr. CUMMING'S final catas trophe. The growing corn is blown ?even ways for Sunday ; cotton shaken and worried ; bottom lands thickly sanded over ; gullies fearfully widen ed and deepened and multiplied ; grass triumph .-.nt and exulting ; weeds sprightly and spruce ; Cn; ir.era bury and blasphemous; freedmen cool and unconcerned. But the damage is not so great, as to be irremediable. Fine prospect yet. Clothe Yourselves. I SIMON ? BRO., the famous Clothing Merchants of Augusta, Ga., who can always be found at 17Candand 224 Broad Street, keep always on hand the largest and mo.t varied stock of Gcnftc mens' Clothing^and ?re ever prepared to furnish anything and everything in the way of usetuland ornamental Wearing Apparel at the Cheapest Po.? ?ble Retes. The great popularity of the BROS. SiMOtt is an earnest of their honesty and a guarantee of their determination to please. Their new card in another column is very attractive. Vegetables and Flowers, Skill and Tuste. We were Ibo recipient yesterday-from Archie Cebo, tho fkilful gardner at Edgewood, the home of Gov. Picken*-of an alarmingly hugo, exquis itely beautiful and deliciously fragrant Bonquet. Wc say nothing particular of Roses, and Jessa mines and Dahlias ; for wo seo them eTerr day. But Archie's Pansies and Heliotropes and Gerani urns and Pelargoniums and Salvias are un doubtedly as rare and lovely specimens as we ever beheld. Nor must wo forget that Archie's bouquet was flanked about with Tomatoes as large as our fist-both ripe and groen. As this pleasant doed originated in Archie's own hoad and heart, we make bim our politest bow, and acknowledge our self in his debt for a good turn. Take Warning, Thi?ves, Highway?Rob-, hers, and Evil Doers in General. Through the politeness of A. RAMSAT, Esq., one of the Assistant Judges of the Provost Court for Edgefield and Barnwell Districts, wo have re ceived the following information : PROVOST COURT, > MILITAi:r PO*T or AIKEN. J United States, vs. Butler Glover, Colored. Charges, Highway Robbery. Finding of the Court: Guilty. Sentence : Five years hard labor, in such place as thc Commanding General may valect. Register in Bankruptcy. The Fairfield Herald, published at Winnsboro, thus notices the appointment of the Register in Bankruptcy for this (the third) Congressional District:. We are gratified to learn that our fellow-citizen, JAMES M. RUTLAND, Esq., has received the ap pointment as Register in Bankruptcy for the third Congressional District. This appointment we heartily endorse, not only because we have known Mr. RUTLAND, from boyhood, as a citiien of j Winnsboro, but because we have known him as a gentleman of tho most candid and positive parts. Pipe Stems and Fishing Poles. Dr. J. B. COURTNEY, the popular and accom plished dentist, who lives somewhat below the Pine House, shows CB that he is good upon other things than teeth. To wit, Oats. He has sent us a bunch of the most marvelous growth. When it was brought into our ofiee, a friend sitting by, said to ns : "What are you goiug to do with'such a huge bunch of pipe-stems ?" But to us, it looks like a bunch of untrimmed fishing poles, fresh from the cane-brake. The stoma are six feet and a half ia height. These O^ts were sown this Spring. If you don't boliovo all .this, (as many did not, in the case of the June Bug Wheat) come aad see for yourselves. * A New Friper in Augusta. Wo have received the first numbers of a religious paper started vory rccently.in Augusta, Ga. It is called " The Christian Messsenger." Issued weekly, at 153 Ellis Street, by.Messrs. GEXTKT A JcprERSON, editors and proprietors, at $2 a year in advance. Tho Christian Messenger does " not support tho principles of any one religious denomination, but advocates the interest and ad vancement of the principles of True Christianity and Morality among our people generally." The Messenger contains, always, reading matter, origi nal and selectod, of high character, evincing, on the part of its conductors, good intellect and ac complished education. It will undoubtedly bo como a power for groat good, if it meets with tho patronage it should receive. ? ? JfSF It is rumored that Mr.-Romero has given a positive assurance to Mr. Seward that the life of Maximilian shall be spared, solely in deference to the desire of the United States Government. pjr The liabilities of the firm of Fraser, Trenholm ? Co. have been ascertained to oxceed their assets by nearly ?1,000,000 sterling. ^g-f*The Coroner's Jury, at Charleston, in tho*case of Roe, killed in .the recent duol near that city, havo rendered a verdict of foloneo'us homi cide against the surr?vin$ principal and the io 0c*Bdf cmnst? timtta. j The Lately Published Opinion Of . Attorney General. ,; Wo h ara a'.second opinion from .Attorney Gon oral STAXBBitv. The present onie is itppleraental to the ono published two weel^s'backjgtnd refer? principally to ihe legality of the ojtitfn of the military commanders in rsmoving Governors, Mayors, and other Stat? and- Municpal officials. At its close, Mr. SrJLSBntx says : In the oprnioil heretoforo givenjupon. other qriestions arising under these laws, Ijave at Inir'go for your consideration the grounds apon which ray conclusions were arrived'at, intading there after to stnte these conclurions in ?concise and clear summary. I now procoed toixecute that purpose, which is made especially naessary from the confusion nnd doubts which bavenrisen upon that opinion in the public mind, cased in part by the errors of the telegraph and ?ha press in its publication, nnd iii part "by tho naptitudeof thc general render to follow cnr&fulbthe succes sive nnd dependent steps of a prometed legal opinion. . This Summary will be found in anober column. As to Mr. STAXBEKT'S opinion caeerning tho recent removals of oivil officers by ho military commanders, the gist of it is, thateuch power cannot bc exercised by the said um man Jeri. T-hat such powcr'wus not conferred ?on them by the Military Acts ; that it is a powe; reserved to Congress ; nnd that an Act of Conpss is neces sary to empower any one of thcseGenerals to remove a Governor of a State, Majr of a City, ?c., ic. The argument is that Cagress in de claring that the State Governments arprovHona', and that they may be modified, or upended, or abolished, a( any time, does not intenre with the j existing State Government, but Uy ro?erves powert? do so ; and that, until these ovornments declared provisional, shall bo actual; suspended or abolished by Congress, they remin as Stat? Governments with their full powori'and are to be thus respected by the Commandir Generals. It follows, therefore, that, accordingo this opin ion, all the removals made by the encrais are illegal. In other words, Congress us not au thorized the removal of a Govcrnoiof any ene of the ten excluded States, any morthan it has authorized the removal of tho Qoveior of Mas sachusetts. In thc coorie of Mr. S TAN B ERV'sjp in ion, he deliverers the following, rebuke o General SICKLES, without, however, calling tb.high func tionary by name. In another of these districts a bodpf military edicts, issued in generad and spocialrders regu- j larly numbered, axd ii occasional siulars, hare been promulgated, which already beg to assume the dimensions of a code. These mbary orders j modify tho existing law iu the remlies for the collection Of debts, the enforcement cja?gments and decrees fur the payment of moir, staying proceedings instituted, prohibitingin certain cases, the right to bring suit, enjoing proceed ings on execution for the term of twve months, giving new liens in certain cases, itablishing homostcad exemptions, declaring wu shall be legal tender, abolishing in certain eas'the reme dy by foreign attachment, abolishi: bail "as ? heretofore authorized" in cases ex ctractu, but | not in "other cases, known as actionix d'Ueto," and changing, in several particulars,ie existing j law? os to the punishment of crimes,.nd direct ing that the crime? roferred to " ?balla pm ?bcd by imprisonment to bard labor for a *m not ex ceeding t?n year*, nor leis thnn two ??rs, in the \ discretion of the court having j urisdicti thereof." One of these general orders, being niber ten of j the series, contains no less than sevfeen sec tions embodying the rnrious chnugcsid modifi cations which hare been recited. The question nt ouce arises in the md of every lawyer, what power or discretion beogs to tho court having jurisdiction of any of th) offences, to sentence a criminal to any other : different punishment than that.provided by thaw which vests him with jurisdiction. The Dncluding paragraph of this order, No. 10, is in tse word: " Any law or ordinance heretofore force in ' North Carolina or South Carolina, insistent irith the provisions of this genernbrder, are hereby suspended anil declared iDerative." Thus nnnouncing. not only a power suspend thelaws, but to declare them generally iporative. and assuming full powers of legislan by the military authority. The ground upon which these exiordinary powers ar? bated is thus sot forth in iitary or der No. 1, issued in this district: " Thuvil gov ernment now existing in North Cdina and South Carolina, is provisional only, nd'in'all respects subject to th? paramount atority of j tho United States at any time to abolis modify, control, or supersede tba sarao." Thofar thc previsions of the Aotof Congress arewerecited What follows ii in-these words : " LocaLwx and municipal regulations not inconsistcnt'ith thc Constitution and laws of the United Mes, or the proclamations of tho President, or th such regulations M aro or may bi proscibed tho or ders of the commanding general, are h:by de clared to bo in force, and in conformity trewiih, civil officers are hereby authorized to mtmue the exercise of their proper 'unctions,nd will JO respected and obc}-ed by the inhabit*)." This construction of his powers underlie Ac jf Congress places the military commder on the same footing as the Congress of tbUnited States. It Rssumos that " thc paramoun?thori ty of the United Stntes nt any timo tmolish modify, oontrol or supersede," is vested him as fully as it is reserved to Congress. Udeems himself a representative of that paramnt nu thority. He puts himself upon nr. equor with the law-making pewer of the Union, o only paramount authority in our Governments far, at least, as the enactment of laws is cosrned Ile plac?s himself on higher ground m the President, who is simply an executivefficer. He assumes, directly or indirectly, all the thori ty of the State, legislative, executive undliciul, and in effect declares "I am the State." I regrot that I find it necessary to mk so plafnly of this assumption of authority, opent rhat I have heretofore sa>d, that I do ndoubt that all these orders have been issued uer nn honest belief that they waro necessary cxpe liont, ami fully warranted by .tba Act Con gress. There may be evils and mischiefs the laws which these people have made for theslvos through their own legislativo bodies, whichjuire change; but none of these can b6 so intrable as the evils and mischiefs which must ensfrom the sort of remedy applied. Ono can piar see what-will be the inevitable confusion and drdur which such disturbances of the whole eivillicy of the State must produce. If these nt.iry edicts are allowed-to remain even duri: the brief time in which this provisional milita?ov ernuient may bo in power, the seeds will bown for suob a future harvest of litigation has never been inflicted upon any other people. In consequence of tho above, Gen. SiCKihas requested tho authorities at Washington to ?eve him of the command of this Military D.ict; and has also demanded a Court of Inquir.s to official actions. All this, we imagino, has-rcost the General much trouble or effort. For it in proportion to Mr. STAKBERT'B snubbingand President JOH5SOJC'S interference, will his fads, the Radicals, aggrandize him, when they it in Washington in July. And now, that the opinion of the Arney General is fully made known, thc next aniost important thing is to seo whether or not theesi dent wiil ?ct in accordance therewith. Tbtest telegraphic dispatches from Washington anmce that the President agrees with the Attornejen .rtl, and will issue a proclamation acoorojy. The action of the President in those premiss a subjeet of the deepest interest to the Socrn people. This power of unmaking and nmg Governors is a species of " military necey" which the present peaceful condition, of the Sh em States does not seem to justify. We ?if ihe action of tho President. A Few Words Abont Physic. Ii is well for people to know where the>n purchase genuine Drugs and Medicines. M*s. Goonnicn, WIXKMA'X ?fe Co., at their Old Soire Drug House, No. 163 Meeting-street, Charlo, S. C., are old and experienced Druggists<d keep oil hand nothing but reliable articles. Ir house is tho most complete one South of tho tomac. ' , ?3** The Charleston A'eio? of Saturday s: A telegram from Washington states that Ged Siokles' requost to be relieved from his oomm, and demanding a Court of Inquiry was subml to the President, who directed that Gon. Sia retain his command, and declined to order Court of Inquiry demanded. JZST* The Gatcttc de Frnnee announces that medical attendants, after haring had a coosu tion on tho state of the Empress Charlotte, h declared that she will never reoovor her roo! It is also the opinion -of the physicians that nervous system has received a shock which m soon rosult in ber death. * ?Sf Tho Peoria (Til.) Trnntcript relates caso of William Moss, who was rendered inarl by a severo attack of typhoid fever, and wq boing taken homo, foll from a bridge, and itiiki tb hu tusad against ft atuso, ira? instant!/ reit? m le hb towt, -j jj The Better Time Coming. From most of tbc largo morts of trade, como continuod ncoo'unts of the-deo! i no in tho pr?rc.s of brcadstuffs. This ix gratifying intelligence to hungry humanity. Particularly -atifying-must it bo to tho thousands of hungry pooplo. in tho unfortunate South. And apropos of this matter: Fernando Wood said in Congress "tho people of the South aro too chivalrons'to wan?aid." Alas, hunger bas but little chivalry, -and poverty but little- pride! Famishing for bread, thousands stretch out thoir hands for aid. A man once stood in o ?andy desert, hunjjry and faint; he picked up a costly jewel, and threw it away, raying: "Bah, 'tis only a diamond; I thought and hoped it was a grnin of corn." God he thanked then that tho poor man is like ly to get bi? ?oaf a littlo cheaper than formerly. Ibo Northern papers tell us that this gratifying, rosult ii due partly to thc favorable reports of tho incoming crops, which promiso to ho unusually abundant, and partly to'thu Continued arrival of wheat from California, bpth direct, and by tho way of Liverpool. Something must, bi wrong, in this great agriculiurnl country of ours, when it costs the laboring man moro to live in's cw York than in Liverpool. This something w:ong is not verv difficult to discover. It ii because tho American laborer is, to-day, taxed by "the bast gev?rnuicnt the world aver saw" to more than double tho extent of tho English laborer. And um til this incubus of taxation is got rid of, no man will ever be able to buy a cheap loaf of j bread in America. When a man has to pay about one-fourth of his earnings to 'he Government, in the shape of direct taxes of one kind or another, and is obliged to throw away -another fourth* in consequence of thc high prices brought about by'] this' enormous taxation on thc part of the ' Gov ernment, no Wonder he rs unable to live.' And tho burden becomes all tho. moro grievous when ho reflects that the amounts ol which he is robbed, go to enrich pampered classes, to wit : the New England manufacturer and the non taxed bond holder. Unless the burdens of tho people are-equalizes, the people will soon begin to throw off theso burdens altogether. . If they do not, they ought to. ? A Little Variety.--*' Throwing up the Sponge.'* Murders, robberies, arsons, rapes, seductions, elopements, ?c., ?c., ad infinitum, aro so common in this glorious American land-"the home of the free"-that the accounts have cloyed upon the rudest tastes ; and tho criminal news is turned from as stale and revolting. But, in the very nick of time, we have ?litt'e variety in tho shape of a Prize Fight-a grand, regularly-organized prize fight, to decide tho championship of tho "light weights" of America. "What so vile and stupid ? This big and brutal affair came off on Thursday the 13th inst-, at Simms' Point, on Acquia Creek, a branch of the Potomac, some fifty miles below Washington. Tho combatants were Samuel Col lyer of Baltimore, and Barney 'Aaron of New York. A fight between these worthies hnd taken place in the same vicinity in May I860, in" which, after a hotly contested battle of two hours, Collyer was declared tho winner. Tho adherents of Aaron not being satisfied, another fight, for $7.000, was gotten up between the two men. This is the ele vated and heroic contest which carno off on tho 13th. Steamer?, heavily freighted with specta tors, arrived atthePointin due season from Wash ington, Philadelphia, Baltimore ami Norfolk. Large delegations from New York, Boston, and other Northern cities, were also prc?cht. The crowd numbered upwards of 5.000 men. Of these 2500 found seats upon wooden benches raised for the purpose. The "prize ring" was an enclosure twenty-four feet sqaaro. The excitement was tremendous. Forty newspaper reporters were bu sily engaged in taking notes. Bets of from $100 to $500 were wero freely offered and taken. The champions fought in the hottest, most furious, and most barbarous manner, through 67 rounds, last ing over two hours and a half. The upshot of tho matter wequotofrom an admiring Northern paper. "At length, in tho 67 round, both the pugilists, after clinching, fell at tho ropes, Collyer with the cry of " Oh, my God !" wrung from him. The gladiators were'carried to.their respective stations, and before time was called for, the sec onds of Collyer " threw up tho spoDge," tho tech nical term of defeat." .It is estimated that upwards of S100.000 have changed hands on' this f)ght, which, it is under stood, will be repeated at an early day ; the back" crs of Collyer not being satisfied with the result^ On this next occasion it is to be" earnestly hoped that the two champions will kill each other, ned that the benches will fall and kill the last spectator. For the Advertiser. Another Horrible M?rder. ; . 13AitxW?LL S. C., JOHNSON'S T. O., June 14th, 1S67. MR. EDITOR,-Allow me to inform, you. of one of the mos't tragical murders that it is posseible to conooivo of, which occurred in this vicinity on the morning of the 4th int. On tho morning above-mentioned, about 2 o'clock, a man by tho name of VAXDT BOLLEN, from Orangoburg, called at Mr. JAMKS JOHNSON'S, a worthy and prominent citizen, and felgnod to want to remain until day ; Mr. Jonssox being well acquainted with him, consented for him to stop, he (BOLLBN) having siayed with him frequently before. Mr. JOHNSON told him to sleep in tho room he always slept in. He went into his room 'and im mediately cams-out, and askod for a candi?. Ile was told, that'the'last candi? had been" used the nighthefore. BOLLEN then asked for some matches. Mr. JOHNSON walked back into his own room', got the the matches, brought thom out in tho entry way, and presented.,to him. BOLLEN took the matehof, and at-the same time pointed a pistol at Mr. JOHNSON'S breast, ind said, " Your money, or your life." Mr. JOHNSON told him ho had no money, and at the same time caught tho pistol, at wliieh a considerable Bcuffle ensued; but BOLLEN, beiug a strong athletic man, managed to get possession of | the weapon, ?truck Mr. Jonxsosr and prostrated him upon the floor. From the blow he was so ? ?tuuned he did not arise immediately. While iown BOLLEN shot him twice, both shots taking s fleet, but neither of them serious* He aroso at | last, and made his way for the negro houses, but is he went BOLLEX fired the third time, the Call laking effect in(?io lumbar region, passing en tirely through his body. He lived until the morn ng of the ?th and died. Said BOLLEN mado his ?scape and has not been heard of. 1 This is a mest extraordinary case. In some i ?esrJecta it has not its equal anywhere,-I am sat- j sficd none in this District. A man without au ? inemy in tho world, aroused fronx bi" peaceful 1 lumbers at the dead hour of night; from his own >ed, and beneath bis own roaf, and made - the ' -ictim of a brutal murder, and for mere pay ; a j nan goaorons and kind, roved and rejected by i il The villian commits the .deed and makes his scape, hat he will yet atone for his orimc, for 'rovidencc hath io ordained, and doth so govern bing*, that those who. break the great law-of t leaven, by shedding man's blood, seldom sue- ' oed in avoiding discovery, especially in a case xciting so mnch attention aa this. Discovery must . nd will come sooner or later. ' , ?'''**?'?...* Respectfully, Yours, Ac, M. B. JOHNSON, M. D. | t ?Sf John Rives, a young citizen of Putnam ounty, Go.,- while gathering strawberries in bis tiber's patch, waa sprung at and - struck on the eek by a rattlesnako. The bite proved fatal in a I c iw hours. j a $Slr. Dick Carter, tho negro porter who robbed . io post office in Lynchburg, Virginia, ih Februa- ? Y last, was tried in Underwood's court on Friday, j, nd found guilty. The sentence was deferrod. t* he case presented a singular anomaly in the {j ?story of criminal proceedings in V-irginia,.nine S r the jurors being colored and threo white mon. ti The Souffler?? Georgian says : Wo loarn om several sourdes that the provision crops were a iver.n^oro promising in this seotron and Florida. ? : is truly, gratifying to bo onablod tp predict J onty in the land, and every ropor^is assuriug in ? particular. Good seasons for a low weeks r, ore williniura a bountiful yield ot oem ?ad c 9??*B?B?B??S?B???S???BB*??\ Important from Washington. Thc fallowing was issued to-?ay : WAU DEPARTMENT, ADJGTAK?'.GKXERAI.'S OFFICE WASMi?fO-TON-j June2Q, lS?7. f? ' Whereas, Several commanders of mil district; j created by the aot3 o?" Con/j known as the; Reconstruction Acts, ha? pressrjd doubts as to tte proper conetru thereof, and?n respect to some of the pt an&'uuMeB under tho said ncts;,'and hay plied to the Executive for information <i Jation thereto, and Whereas, The said at Congress Lave been referred to the Attoi Genera, for his opinion thereon, and the acts and the opinion of the Attorney Gci have been fully and. carefully consider? the President, in conference with thc h of the respective departments, thc Presi accepts tho following as a practical iutei tatton of the aforesaid acts of CoV)gra4s or points therein presented and directs the 1 to be transmitted to the respective mil commanders for their information; in o that there may be Uniformity rn theexeci of said acta. Here follow the nineteen pi of thc Attorney-General's summary as ac ed by the Cabinet and telegraphed- on 20th instant. The whole-is signed By order of the President. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant Ge nea Fractional issue for the week hali a m dollars ., bank curroncy two hundred ninety-one thousand dollars*; securities for deposit hnd circulation tbtee hundred seventy DIDH millions ?ix hundred and fe seven thousand dollars. Haifa million of mutilated Fractional n were destroyed this week. The following \$ Sickles' letter addre to the Adjutant-General : ' " I have the honor to request tbat? i be relieved from command in this Dist aud I respectfully demanda court of inq upon my official action that I may vindi myself irom th? accusation of theiAtton General-published, it is-presumed, with approvr.l of the' President Congress bai declared the so cai I ed State governments gal, the declaration of the Attorney-Gem that military authority has not superse them, prevents the execution of the Re? struction Acts, disarms me of mean? to ] teot life, property or the rights jnf cjtiz; and menaces all interests in these States v ruin." . . . . -+ 4p ? Summary of thc Opinion ot Altorm General S tan bery. Attorney General STANBERT has delive his opinion on the power and limits , of I trict Commanders, extracts from which n be found on our first page and in the cd rial columns. Below, we append his. summ as to those who are entitled to registration, Wni) ARE ENTITLED TO REGISTRATION ? 1. Tlie oath prescribed in the Supplemc al Act defines all the qualifications requii and every person who can take that oath entitled to have his name entered_ upon I . list of voters. . . 2. The board of regiatration have, no : thority to administer any other oath to 1 person applying for registration than this p scribed oath j nor to administer any oath any other person, touching the qualifieatit of thc applicant, or the falsity of the oath taken by him. The Act, to guard against iii ty in the oath, provides that if false* the p son takmg.it shall be tried and punished perjury. No provision is made for challenging 1 qualifications of the applicant, or er.teri upon any trial pr investigation of his qual cations, cither by witnesses orany ether fo of prooi". 3. As to citizsnsJtip and residence. The applicant for registration must be citizen of thc State and of the United Stat and mest bc n r?sinent of a county includ in the election district. He may be rcgisti ed if Le has been such citizen for a peri less than-twelve months at the time he a plies for registration, but he cannot vote any election unless his citizenship' has th extended to the full term of one year. As such a por.son the exact length of his citize ship should be noted opposite, his name i flio list, so that it may appear on the day election, upon reference to the list, wheth the full term has then been accomplished. 4. Aa unnaturalized person eaunot tal this oath, but. an alien who has been nature ?zed ca i taka it. and no other proof of nata alizatioa can bc required from him. 5. No one who is not twenty-one years age at thc time of registration can takp. tl oath, for he must swear that he has then-a taiped that age. G. No one who has been disfranchised ft participation in any rebellion against tl United States, or for felony committed again the law.5 ofany State o'r ofihe Uuited Statee can safely take this oath. The rtctual participation in a rebellion, c thc actual commission of a felony, does nc amount to disfranchisement. The sort c disfranchisement b.cre meant, is that whic is declared by law passed by competent au thority, or which hos been fixed upon th criminal by the seutehce of the court whic; .tried him lor the crime. No law of the United States has declaret the penalty of disfranchisement for participa lion in rebellion alone. Nor is it known th? any su?h law exists ip either of these tei States,, except perhaps Virginia, as to whioh State special instructions will be. given. 7. ?Ai io disfranchisement arising fron having held qffice followed hy participation ? rebellion. This rs tho most important part of th? oath, and requires strict attention to arrive at its meaning. I deem improper ta give the exact words. Tho..applicant must swear or affirm a3 follows : . . " That I have never been a member of any State Legislature, nor held any executive or judicial office in an}' State,, and afterwards flngatred M an insurrection or rebel!ion-against the United States, or given aid o? comfort to the enemies thereof; that I. have never taken an oath as a memher of Congress of tV? Uni ted States, or as an officer of the United State, or as a member of any State Legislature, dr as an executive or judicial officer ot any State, to support the Constitution of the United Scales, and afterwards engaged in insurrection dr rebellion againstjhe United States, or given aid or comfort to tHe ene mies thereof.'"' . Two elements muat concur in order to dis qualify a person under these elauses : first, Uie office and official oath to support the Con stitution of the United States > Second, en gaging 9fterwards in rebellion? Both must exist to work disqualification, and must hap pen in t.-ie order of tin-? mentioned. A perron who has held an office and lakeB ?he oath to support the Federal Constitution, uid has not afterward? engaged in rebellion, . s not disqualified. So too, a .person who i as engaged in rebellion, but has not hereto orc held nu office and taken that oath is not lisqualtfied. B. (?lcers in the United Stales, As to the'se the languago is without limita ion, Tae person who has .at any time prior o the rebellion held, any office; civil or mili ary, under the United States,, and -haa I aken au official oath to support the Cansti ution of the United States, is subject lo dis pialification. * i 9. Military officers of any State, prior ; o the rebellion, are not subject to disquali- ? icntion. ( -10. Mmicipal officers, that is to say, offi- , ers of incorporated cities, towns, < and til des such as mayors, aldermen, tow's coon il, police, and other city or town officer?, 1 ro not subject to disqualification. * 11. Persons who have, prior to the renell- 1 Sn, been members of the Congress of the I Inited States, ?r members of a State Le?is- h iture, ni e subject to disqualification. But , hose win Have been'members of conventions jj .arning or amending tho Constitution of a ^ tate, prior to the rebellion," aro not subject 3 disqualification. 12. All thc executive or judicial officers of " ny Slate who took an path to support the b on?titution of tho United States, arc "Bub ?ct to disqualification, and in these I include ?? o'unty officers, as to whom I mada's, rrser- ^ allon in tlie. opinion* heretofore ?riven. After ill consideration I have ?rrived at the con ,1'usioii, -hf t they are subject to disqualifies ol ion, if they Tvcre required to taks aiopart|U pmmmmm^mmmmmtmwmm'mmmmmmmmmmwm of their official oath, tlio oath to Support Constitution of the.\United States. 13. Persons who:.e'xt;rcisecf mere agen or ernp?iyideuts undk fho St?to autho: are not ?isrjualified ; stlcfc,is\c?mni?8Sio . to lay. out roads, con imlsskmori, of pu works; 'visitors'-of S.taft t'intitulions, direc of Statabanks or othjr^State." instituti '/examiners of.banks, nataries pablic, corni ;Sjontrs {q take-. acknov leclgeme^ of d< and lawyer/*.' . EN'O'ACIXG IN 'ttEBEJlMON. Ilaving specified what offices held by orle prior to the rebellion,, come within* meaning of the law, it is necessary ne.x set forth what.subsequr.nt conduct fises u such'person the offence ot engaging in re lion. I repeat, that two things must exis to any person, to disqualify him from voti first, the office held prior to the rebellion, afterwards^ participation in the rebellion'. 14. An ae: to fix upt-n a person the offe of engaging in rebel ho i under this law, m bc an overt and volun tary.act, done with intent of aiding or furthering the-common lawful pu*pose, A pirson forced .into rebel service by conscription, or under apt mount authority which he could not sal disobey, and who would not' have ente such service if left to the' free exercise of own will, cannot be leid to be dlsquali: from voting. 15. Mere acts .pf charity, where i te int ii to felievo the wants of the. obj< :i bf si charity, hod not done, in aid of th< .ause which he may have been engaged, do not? qualify. -But-organized contributions of fi and clothing for the general relier'of persi engaged in the r?bellion, and not of a met sanitary character, but contributed io ena them to perform their unlawful object, n be classed with acts wJiich do disqualify. Forced contribution! to the rebel-cause, the form of taxes or military assessmer. which a person may bc" compelled to pay contribute, do'not disqualify. ' But volunb contributions, to the rebel cause, even -such direct contributions as aris>; from the volt tary loan of money, tc- rebel authorities, purchase of bonds or siicuritres created to ford the'means of carr/ing on the rebellii will work disqualification. . IC. All those who, ? legislative or ott official capacity, were engaged in the fur th ance of the common uijawful parp?se; wbc the duties of tbex office necessarily bad re tion to the support pf the rebellion, such members of the rebel conventions, congress and legislatures, diplomatic agents of t rebel confederacy, and other officials woe offices were created foi the purpose of mc effectually carrying on hostilities, or who 1 duties appertained to t he support of the rel cause, must be held td be disqualified. Bat officers who, during the rebellion, d charged official duties not incident to wi ,but only such duties at: bejong even to asta of peace-, and wete necessary to the preserv tion of order and the nd ministration of la' are not to be considered as thereby engagi in rebellion or as disqualified. Disloyal se timents, opinions or sympathies would n disqualify, but where -a person bas by epcet or venting, incited others to engage in rebe lion, he must come under the disquanficatio 17. Tilt duties of Vie board appointed superintend the elections This board having i ke custody of the li of registered voters in the district for whk it is constituted, mast sec that the name > thc person offering to 70te is fouud upon tl registration list, and if Euch proves to be tl fact, it is the duty of .the board to receive h vote. They cannot receive the vote of ai person whose name is not upon the list, thoug he may be ready t > take the registration oat and although. he may satisfy them 'that i was unable to have his name registered atti proper time, in consequence of absence, sic! ness, or other canse. The board cannot emiter into any enquir a? to the qualificatiom-t of any person whos name is not on the list, or as to the qualif cations of any person whose name is on th Hst. 18. The mode of cjt?hg is provided in th Act to be by ballot. The board will keep record and poll-book of the election, the vote; list of voters, and thc persons elected by plurality of thc votes rast at thc election, an make returns - of thes't to the commandin, general of the district. 19. The board appointed for regislratioi and for superintending the" elections, mus take the oath prescribed by the Act of Con gr?ss, approved July 2,18G2. entitled, "Ai Act to prescribe an oa-h of office." I have the honor to be, with great respect, HEtfRY STANBERT, . Attorney G?n?ral. E^* it. H. Qlaes, editor of the Lynchburg (Va. ftgpublietm, was shot in the street on the 17th, bj the sops of D. E. Bookei, in consequence of at article reflecting on their father. Thc shot toot effect in thc eye, the bab lodging.in the head Mr.'Glass is comfortable but tho issuo is yet. un certain. , .?&* A mail wu to has been established from Augusta, Ga., to Robertville, S. C.K passing by and supplying tho mail to Reoch Island, Four Mile Branch, Speedwell, King Creek and I/ower Throe Runs. Tho contra st niis been given to Mr. Solomon Cochran, and il to take effect on the first of July. Our readers will remember that a man was found, several weeks ago, hanging to a tree, a few miles' abeve Savanrah. Upon investigation it has bsen found that the man had rendered him self so obnoxious to the neighbors, from hil vile conduct, as to.induce a committee of citizens to hang bim., No arrests hive been made. pSt" The Charleston Jleredrr/ ,says, "It.is re ported that the city authorities havo been directea to close, on the. 1st July rext, .til the bar rooms in this city, except those at tho several hotels. Tliis will be done in enforcement of the provisions? of Goners] Orders No. lj^ in relation to the re tailing of spirituous liqjuc rs." m . J3T What made Barnum rich? Advertising. Wli.it sold the Goverhmer t Bonds ? Advertising. What inade Bonner's Led ?cr? Advertising. What made ?.T. S te wu n's fortu mi? Advertising. What sold 110,000 tickets in tho Crosby Opera House scheme ? Advertising. What moves the businesr rrorld like an Archimediaa leven? Advertising. ptT* Among the many good things said by the Louisville Oovrier is thc subjoined : " When a . nob of Northern Radicals insulted and fired opon :b? President et Indianapolis last year, and would sot let*him speak, it-was considered a-good joke. Sut .when a little- disturbance occurs at Mobile, lausod by the intolerable insolence of ? Congres- ( lionul Jacobin, it is a matter worthy of investiga - ion by ??Coagressidual committee, backed by an fl ir my. It makes a- diff?re aco whose ox is being J ;ored. ? ? 53^ Jefferson Davis war born ia Todd onnt?ty, kentucky, and Was sixty years bid on the 3rd lay of June. ' j psT* Mr. Flanders,' the n sw Governor of Loci fi ji.-., ' appointed'by Gen?i-al Sheridan, made a peech iti'New Orleans on Friday,, in which he pposed confiscation, and s Iso opposed a project u?ranteeing h.i]f tho oEcss to colored men. ' t . . . r . g pST TI?e Charlotte, N. C., ?f?nie* says : Ry an p i-der from tho militflry-authorities herc, on-Sat- 1 rdoy iastr tho bar-rooufs of on? et'lr vero all * los td up. . Wo understand that the construction [ ut upon General Orders ?Yo. 32, (l.'sucd by Gea. a iaklcs),) at thjs place, was'for imm?diat* stoppage f the salo'of liquors less than one gallon, hence ^ ic execution of the order. pS- In Brownlojv's Stute, bis militia, aro de berately murdering men without any other rea- , >n assigned than that tbjy wero Confederates, j' re ono? saw an 'engravin r represen ting a mad Jrj all pitching into a crowd assembled to witness a T unging, ?nd one of the culprits standing on the ^ inffold, with tho baiter found his neck, remarking i tho other, " How lucky, Jick. that we Ire vp' ^ .r. * ' ' J * J?3T An Irishman's idea of the manufacture?of c-crcam te, that it is usually baked in a remarka y cold oven'. ' . ' - '* ? ??t" A widow ia Erle, Pa., had advertised a ? grand hop," to pay tha expenses of her husband's ^ norah ^ M 83T One ohargo in a-Uwyor's bill against a _ , ient was, " For waking ip in the night sad j,* lirJdns of 7onr bariaca- -fire dol'ara." j ELOPEMENT OF A METHODIST MINISTER. The quiet village of North* Adara*, Miss., was thrown into the wildest excitement os Sunday lost by the discovery that Rev. S. A. Merrill, the late pastor of the Methodist Church at that place, had eloped with a boan* ti fol and interesting yoong lady,- named Houghton, leaving a wife ana nine children. It seems thc.t both parties had beet absent from the village since Wednesday last ; bot as the young lady had told her parents that she was going to visit a friend in tho neigh" borhood, and; Mr. Merrill had lately been ap pointed tfi another charge, rendering his ab sence from Lome necessary a considerable portion of tho time, no suspicions were aroused lintirSonday, when the failure'of ??ther party to appear, talen in connection with the re membrance i .hat there had been some former scandal in relation to them, suggested that .there must be aomething wrong, ??-v^rsf. ? Accordingly,.oa < Monday morning, the friends of the young lady visited* Troy, New Yotk^and found the Jiame-ofj'uS. Merrill registered at the Troy House. IThile in the city, he made several' ineffectual efforts to borrow thirty dollars. The following day he turned up jit. Utica, again endeavoring to " raise the wind/' The young lady is but six* leen years of age, and, m addition to being one of the most beautiful and accomplished young lames of .North Adams, is. most res pectably connected.- Mr. Merrill is well known throughout tile*Troy Conference as a preacher of remarkable oloquen.ee and power, and has occupied sov ?of the moat important stations within ibj'??ciifs. . -? ? > I AN Affair of Honor took place about (wo o'clQCk yesterday afternoon at the locality .known as Hatch's Avenue, a short distance above the ci^, .hetwe?B 'Mc Theodore G. Boag and. Mi. ?aVardjBoe, formerly a resi dent of Columbia. The latter received a wound in the right side, which resulted in hil death about'six o'clock in the evening; Mr. ? Boag surrendered himself to the civil author ities, immediately after the transaction, bat was afterwards taken into the custody of the Provost' Ma-shal. A hearing of 'the case prior to the receipt of information of the death of Mr. Roe resulted ic Mr. Boaga being remanded to the custody of the civil authori ties. The body of Mr. Roe was brought to the Roper Hospital, where an inanest will bo held this morning.- Char lr sim ?Co uria; 21) A inst. . . . ?.?? . . . - JEST* Thc surpl us of the wheat harvest in Georgia, it is estimated, will reach 10,000, 000 bushels. ? * ' -1-?..? ?fr-TM N. Y. fine? of tho 20tb, hu the fol lowing : Santa Anna landed at Vera Oral on the 4th, bnt was compelled to re-embark. He pro? ceeded td Sisal, whore ho was captured by tb? -Lib?rala; court m articled, and sentenced to bo hanged 'on'tho 8th. No farther particulars.*-, it' . j?S? Samuel Lyons, a prominent banker of Mobile, eloped from Mobile a few days since, with $?0,009 that didn't belong to' him. The affair created considerable excitement in financial cir cles. 8"~P Tko friends of Gen. Ripley will be glad topeara that he has obtained a contract frome the French Government, for the manufacturo of 150,000 stands of breaeh-loading arms, according to a patent of his-own invention. The General is well, and is residing at the Hotel de Louvre, ia Paris. OBITUARY. in Memoriam. On the evening of April 2Sfh, at Grantville, after a short sn 1 sudden illness (congestion of the brain), the angel of death bore away from a do voted family circle CAROLINE LUCINDA, se cond daughter of Jon.v and ELISABETH KSOTT. 'Born Dec. 7 th 1857, she had just entered npon her tenth year; yet young as she was, by her engaging manners, kind and sympathising heart, and gene ral loveliness of character, she had won for her self thc affection of all with whom she came in contact Possessed of a laudable ambition to be first in everything she undertook, she maintained for many months previous te her death, the fireplace in a class of 22 at the Granite-pile Academy, where by her attention to her studies,, and her amiable and obliging disposition, she succeeded in winning tho love, respect and confidence of the teachers, and the entire "school. Too sweet for earth, she hns been transplanted Into the garden of her Lord, to bloom in light among the pure and spotless saints "around th? 'throne of Ged in Heaven." Parent?, pauso in your grief, and consider for what you weep. What is your joss is her eternal gain, for the angel who took her away from yon, placed her in the arms of her Saviour ; removed ber from a life of toil and trouble, to.one of eter nal happiness and bliss. " God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," and placing yonr trust in him, you will lind that though your present sor row bo great, it will work out for yon "a far more exceeding ind eternal weight of glory," and your little one will be to you the beacon light to draw yon into yon haven of rost when li'.'s fitful dreams are over. "She died to sin, she died to caros, But for a moment felt the rod; 0, mou -'S, such the Lord declarer, Such are the children of our God." COMMERCIAL. AUGUSTA, June 22. GOLD.-In good demand, brokers are buying at 137 and selling at 138. ' COTTON.-'.'.-a consequent of the inclement weather to-day, very Utile was done ; not enough to warrant a report of the market 47 balee wer? sold, as follows : 1 at IC, 3 at 30, 2 at 22, 31 at 23, ll at 23J, and 9 bales at 24 cents. G 0 RN.-Thu favorable accounts' and decreased inquiry have caused a decline of five cents per jushel. We qtioto all grades at $1,45. "WHEAT.-The demand continues good, and as quantities are talion np for shipment, the prices emain at last week's quotations, though a little iasier-viz : Rtd, 2,10@2,25 ; White, 3,3S@2,50 -Constitutionalist * ii. W..GART. WK. T. Gxar. GARY & GARY, ITT O.IuNEYJS AT, LAW*-: - AJO* SOLICITORS IW.l^PaTT, IDGEFIELD, 8. C. Jane 2< 3m it .Mai.qnio Notice. . A REGULA R CONVOCATION of BEZA % LEEL CHAPTER, No. 8, R. A. M., will e hold in theil Hall on Monday evening, the lat ?st., at 4 o'clock. Every member of the Chapter requested to.be in prompt attendance. By order of the High Priest. 0. W. ALLEN", Sec'ry. ? June 25' lt - gfi Notice. r?E different Committees who haye received Corn will please* furnish rrre forthwith the umber of Sacks they hare received, and also ith a full ljsk, ttf the ben-jfielafles,-tod rettrrn re Sack? without'delay. H. T. WRIGHT, Com's." June 25 lt '2jj TAX NOTICE. EPUTY CO?LECTO'R'.S OFFICE p. S. IN? TERNAL RETENUE TAX, EDGEFIEL'D, S. C., Jane 17rh, 1SG7. TAMING beon appointed Deputy Collector of % 18, Internal Revenue Tor Ed<-efi-ld Dis ict except Hie Town- <rf Hamburg, | hereby yo notice that I will open tho Books at this ace, for the' pprpose of Cojlecting the Taxes of 184 and 1365, and the Special T*x of 186?, on on day ne 2 Uh June, and will con linn? to csivp th,e Tax** until ?he 25th, July next, when o penalty against defaulters will be enforced, t have no discretion "in the -batter. The Taxes must be paid in U. 8> Legal Tender otes, and Tax Payers will please make arrange ants accordingly.. R. W. CANNON, Dep. Collector U. S. Int Roven ne. N. B.-Since publishing the above, I have re ived instructions from . the Collector of Xi: S. tcrn.il Rovenue for the Sta to, that 1 must not ve ?ore than ten days ?notice, to Tax Payera, lerefor?, in accordance with said instructions, f book's will close on the 4th July. Pirtles fo rested will govern themselves accordingly. J?nolS . 2t . . 25 . TE RY DESIRABLE |T REAL ESTATE " FOR SALE. STILL be sold at Aiken, on the first day of T August next, the WELL KNOWN and 3SIRABLE HOUSE and FARM containing tree Hundred Acres, the property of the lat? rs. M. M. Williams. Frr fujthertnforius?oD,ajpDlJr to..W. J. WIL AMS, at Albon, or L. W. WILLfciMfJ, Gra il'? Timi Oat, & C. Hm? JL&uMiU- ?