The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, November 18, 1865, Image 1
THE LANCASTER LEDGER. I
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VOLUME XIV. SATURDAY MORNING, NOV., 18, 1865; NUMBER II. I
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COHKOIIK Jk CARTER,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
YT. II. CONKOE^ D. J. CARTER.
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For one year in advat oe, .... f'3.0<)
IV trx months " * .... ),oo
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pi ice is paid.
s .V.EK 'S
Y'ill be insert) '1 at one tlv'lar and fifty cent*
per Kouare for the first, hid! on* dU'ar pjr
equine for each subsequent insertion. A
square tr> co.iKht of thu apace of l .s links,
Bi trier type. No advertisement considered
? fcsi than a square.
The number of insertion* mu.H he wt ittflfi
cm each advorti-orjent, or they will be insrr
ted till ordered out and charged acceidingly. |
feini-Mont' iy, Monthly, orQuaileily Advor- j
. tiseincM', will be cha^-'i d one dollar and jij'ly i
cen fx per Mpiaru lor rich insertion.
Liberal deductions w ill b>> made in favor of
advertisements of three months, or longer 1
standing.
or Announcing candidates for OITice Jtre |
dollar*.
C2P" Communication? recommending enndi.
da es for office and nil others of limited or in.
dividual illteiCSt. cllHIired nt ndvortiaiiie r?i..j i
, ,
A!l legal or official uoiiees must be pi,:d I" r
t by the individual uutloiizi. << the publicationof
the suae, without reference to their official
capacity.
nr Announcement* of Marri ipftor Peath?! '
Notice* <fl Jteligioiu Mcctirgj published gratis !
and solicited.
Obituary Notice* exceeding the announce- '
IriVit, will be charged for the overplus rt reg- >
ulur advertising rates.
Tributes ol Iteipcet, rated as advertisements.
JOII WOKK.
Will he executed w'lli neatness and dispatch
and on accommodating term*.
CASH for \dvertising and Job
W?''k will ba required in all i> - .inces ? > ,-oon
as the work is rendered. Wr.iu.i orders, to
aeciire ultciitU'ii, inutl be accompanied v..ih j
the re-ih. I
l lour, Ihicon, Ln d, F<v glium, ?bc., will be I
received in payment of eulc.-.ipions and ad- j
vertising at the Market rates. Also clean cot* |
ton and linen rags.
Sill Arp's Last-His Letter to Ar?.em:a'
Vavd. y
Hour, GA., SO*/. 1, 1803.^
Mr. Arlctn m Ward, ^Kownian?Sir;*
Tim retun I write In you in pcrlikler, nrojj
beka is y > i are about I'm only man f?
know in nil Hi i's co.i' try'' ao'eallel.?
For sum several weeks 1 huvo been wan
tiu tu 8..y BUDU'iin. For sum t-evcra!
yo irs wo relvt, ficru.7 >r,, but now lal" < (
nauj co rury cecals*.* I, luiv lieen (/_, in
mitv hard in <lo *uinthi:i. We <ii In't
qoi:o do it, tin 1 now i v.'ry pninf .1 J
I'M *tc \o i, to ?*ry up ull of a sudden
and .ake o it like R'fl w.t.u't tbar.
My friend, I want to sny s iwtliin. 1
ouppo.o ill- ro 'n iio law agin tbinkin, but
thi ii>in 1 n't dp !'i?. It dont let <1 ?wo
iny tHermim I must explode myself
generally n ? us l?> fed better. V i j
fee I'm iryin t-> liarm mi>*o. I'm tryin i
(o soften down my fceli is. r:^s*i<loHv- j
orin to subjugate i yself to U*# level ? I
v i\urround'n circumslviee*, *iIMHRi li.it
I t i?U it mi -1 f ain allowed tu
any ?u itlhin. I want t<? quarrel witli
aumbo'v and tbe i tnako friend*. I ai 't
no yiaot-killer ; I ni'-tno Nortvegia ?bar. ;
I aiut no bmr-eonatrikter, l>ut I'll be !
bor hh4 *^1, d if - o talk,n and t ie writin
en I t ie si n ierin !?** pot to bo nil ;
d<ine on on?> side soy lo'ger. S >me of '
your f ilks hav got to dry up or turn our
(?>!! * loose It's i -h? > i ou'ngo, so. ;
calL' I. A ?.t yo.ir editors g it nut'iin else i
to do b it to peck at u<, and sq lib nt us, ;
and crow over us! l? every mnn wbat
k in write h p&ragmf to consider us as
bars in n kar?e> nnd lie always a j ibbin
at i.s to bear u# growl f New you see,
my friend, that's wit.it's d " laroiniious,
and do you j-sat tell em, i?d? and all, e
pbirihus u im. jw> -alliJ. 11 ( if ' ?
t ?? ' / .
?lurit*toi< it nt once or tarn u< loot* to
par what we ;ilen??, why we reha, tocnl. |
ltd, hare uiiamin i*lv nml jointly and >
ae\?'al!y r?N'">lve<l to?to?to?thiufc very j
hanl of it'?if not harder*
That's the way to talk it. I aint a
({wine to commit tnyeelf. I know when 1
to pa' oti the 1 r.!k"?. I am't trwine to
any nil ! think like Mr. Et!teriil(?e, r Mr. 1
A !.i, ri r /> u.. - v '
" ' *? ?? fl T 1 *?'?,?}. 4.-* !?.
Jlut I'll j t ?.?H yo?, Arleinu*, mid you
rrMr ?. j{ (0 yr,?, show : If wo ?'nt ?! '
%
0
loweu i<< express our sentiment*, w can
take it out in fwtin\ ano Iihuii runs Lea- b
vv in my family, share. 1 haled a man h
bo bad oil e that all the liair cum oft my r
head, a <i the man drowned himself ia i
a h'?j waller that night. I kuunl do it a
ajjin, but you see I'm try in to harmonise, ! u
to acquiesce, to bekum cidui and sereen. | t
Now I suppose that, poctikally i f
in, . ?
"I.i Dixie's Ml, g
We tinned aii." i ?
Hut takin the way I sec it, a big feller ' *
and a little felle*, culled, got into a file
and they font aid tint ami font a long ( 1
lime, and everybody all r-,und kep liol ^
lerin ban U oif but kep helpin the big .
feller until finally 'he little feller caved in (
and I VUred onuf. He made a hully j '
lite 1 tell you, S ih. Well, wIuH did 1
the I ig feller do i Take hitn by the 11
hand m l help him up, a d bru-h the J
dirt oil his e'eth* ? Narv iii?u t N1..
*;ir ! I> :t ki *ke*l bin arter ko was j
down H' d throwe I mud on ' im, and s
drug him ; bout hid! rubbed sand in his '
pyp", and now I e's gwine about hinlin *
up his poor littln properly. Wants to
konfiscate it. to tolled. Blame my jack et
of it aht enut to make your head j
swim backwards.
litt 1 m a go >d Union man?so calk J. | J
I nint agwiiiB tj fito no mora. I shant i
vole for the i.ext war. 1 atnt no gorilla. [
I've done tuk the oath, and 1 'in gwine to I '
keep it ; but as formy hi in suhj >oguled,
and bumilyntt at.d amalgamated, arid '
enervated, as Mr. Cltase snva, it airiiso?
I ' i ' .1 It
i.rtvjk uuic. i >1 r i w .tv.'tiuu i ??i uill lll, |
neither, aint rop'iitiu, ami axio for no j j
-.0 li ir??>, diorf-wit. l?-il pardon. N jbody ,
nc^n't be plajin priest around me. I !
aint got no twenty thousand dollars. ^
Wn'? I had ; I'd give it to these p >or
widen nod cr.'in*. 1M fatten niv o>?n
numerous a''d intercom spring* in j
about two miails and a half. I liev ! '
s'louldent eat roots a'd drink branch j '
water no lorger. 1'Oor, unfortunate I
things ! to cum i to this rubloo .ary world j
at sith a time. There's four or five of 1
Vin that r ever saw a siikus nor a m<>nkey 1
show?never had a povkct'koife, nor a '
piece of cheese, nor a rtesin. There's 1
It ill It mi Arp, ai d Harper's Ferry Arp, t 1
.indCi'i kabi iniuii.y Arp, that never seed | '
t'ic pilcteis in a s>4 eliiu book. I tell jou, ; 1
my friend wo are t ho po -r. tft people on
tbo face of the earth ? but we are pour '1
a.id proud. We made a bully light, '
Selah ! at d t! ? whole Anjerikin nation
out to fed proti 1 of it. It shows what
Ameiiki s can do when they thi> k t' ej '
are imposed on?'Vo.caf/t'rf." Didn't our | 1
To?r fathers lite, bleed rnd die about a
little tax on tea, when not one in a tliou
s&n )!r> i k it ? Bekaus they sukseeded (
wa?e ,'t it glory i Hut if they hadei.t I j
PI >o e it would h ive been treason, ar d '
u*?? < wq i!d have been bomn and scrapm t
round King George for pardon. So it I
goe , Artein is, and, to my mind, if the '
whole t'.i gwHsstewel down.it would |1
make h!?i it a half pint f humbug. We t
it tig.o.| men,great rticti, Christian men, [
wh . t' ought wo was r.ght, ajid many of ,
'em uv g no to tl o uu iiskovwd coun 1 '
try, arid I avogot a pardo as is a par- , t
' n. When 1 die, I'm niity wiliin to I
ri' k myself under the sl adow of their '
wi.igs, whether the climate bo h <t or '
Cold. So mote it lie. Jv-Uli !
Well, maybe I've said t-tiuf. I'.UI [
don't I el easy yIt. I'm a guiii Union ( i
m in, Berlin mid shure. I've had my 1
breed died blue, mid I've bot h blue |
bucket, hi.d I very often blue, hiicI ,
ihont f-.v'c* in a while, I go to the do^i?
tv hi.(I ((.t blue, and then I look up at
t' o bl?e eerulean heavens an I sing the 1
rn*.volr.ly choryue of the H'.ue tailed
Fiy. I'm doing ii'V riurn lest to barmoii
ize, ni.d thi k I'd sn il.seej if it ws?ent I '
fur stun tlirgs. Wnea I see a black I
guard going around the streets with w '
giia on I is slot.Mcr, why right thin, for I
a few minutes, I l.aio li e whi le Yai.kv 1
nation. Jerusalem, h >w my blood bibs. |
The institution what was handed down |
to us by t!ie ho ivenly kingdom of Man I
snob i*et now put over lis with powder
and ball i Harroonii* the devil I Ain't '
we human beings ? Ain't we got eyes
and ears and feelin nnd thiokin ? Why >
the whole of A inky has cum to town, I
women and, and babies and baboons ami
all. A man can tell bow fur it is to the
city by the smell bet er than the mile
post. They wont work for us, and they I
won't work for themselves, and they'll
perish to death this winter at shore us
the devil is a hog, to called. Tliey are
now baskin in the summer's sun, livin
nr. rna.l >,i aim t> i. , I I#aa4a ?> Mill. *?.? I
.... ...... i, ??.jr ; idee
that l!i? winter will com acjuin. or [
li nt ca?tnr ( 'I and mil* emts money.? ,
Some t f '*?? a hundred year* old are
wbibia nrovn I about goto to kawlidge. i
The truth is, iny friend, somebody'*
nelly leal- 4 about thia bizno.a. Sum
ody lit* dfawd t,he ek.'^nt in , this lot'o
y, and don't know what to do with him.
le's jest throwin his snout about loose,
nd Ly'aiul by he'll hurt sum! dy. The t
liters will have to go back to the plan
aliens and work. I aint agwine to sup'
>oit ncry t> e of'em, and when you tear
utab"dy say. ao, ypu tell 'um "oa a lie,'
0 called. I golly, I ain't got mithin to
uj ;?ort my .elf on. We foul ourselves
?ut of everything yicept children and
and, ar.d ! suppre the ! ?nd are to be!
urued over to the negrort for grave arils.
Well, rny friend, I don't want tnuch.
aint a' .bitmus as I us d to was. You
dl have got your shows am', tuonkevs
iihI sirkusars and brass bauds and or>
;atn, ami can play on the pctrolyum and
1 liH'p of a thousand strings, and so on.
ui' I've 01 ly gut one favor to ax of you. |
want enull powder to kill a big yallor |
tump tail dog that prowla round my (
.rctnisea at night. Pon honor I won'' ,
hoot at anything blue or black or nr?i I
nter. Will you send it 1 Are you ai d ,
rour foaka ao rkeereJ of me ai.d inv [
oaka, that you won't let ua have any \
imvniO un ? Are the squirrels and crowa'f
ind bla?k rackcoona to eat up our p<>or
it'le corn patches ? Are the wHtl tun
ceys to gobble all ?round ua with iinpu
lily ? If a mad dug takes the l.iderfo
-- il . ?I . I? >'
?>, i* tuts iriiMiiiiuriiiy 10 r'.iii iiseu
o d * lli to gei oul of the way ? I g<?!
y ! it lo?k? like your pepul I mil all ink
l>e rebelfoby for good, hi.<I whs never
;wine to git over it. ?^ee here, mv
riend, you n:U9t seiuj me a tilile yowder
md h ticket to your show, and me ami
poo will harmonize, Herti'i,
NVit** th se few remarks I think I feel
setter, and.hp, o I haini made nobody
It'll ina<l, for .'m pot on that line at this
iine. I am troo'y vour friend?all pres
301 or accounted for,
1MLL A UP, tto calltu.
P. P.?Old man Harris wanted to buy
my fiddle >he other day with Coiifederik
money. rLIe says that it would bo good
tgin. lie snvs that Jim Funderourk
old I'irn that Warren's Jack bad seed h
uan who had jest cum from Virginny,
ind he aed a man told his cousin Mandy
It at Lne bad whipped 'em a in.
Old Harris says that a fellrr by the
lame of Mack C. Million is coining over
with a r.ollii n of men, Hut neverthee*
, notwithstanding, somehow, or somemw
else, I'm duheus about ti e money,
'f you was ine, Arteums, would you
nake the fiddle trade t H. A.
STAMP ACT.
INK OF TllF. I.AW8 OF Hit UNITED STATES I
'1 litre ar* probably not a dozen of tlie 1
e- leis of this paper who know the de?
ails ol the Stamp Act Vet, there is no
aw. State or National, the provisions of
?'i<c'i are more important to the people.
Hero are such of its provisions as we
hiuk wiil prove most interesting and iin
lortaut to the reader:
SCHEDULE r.
^cknowi.edoLMKN r?of deeds exempt
IkrriOAVIT? 5 cents
in suit or legal proceedings exempt
VoitKEMKNT OK Al'PKAIHEMKNT
for each sheet or piece of pa
per on which the same is
written , Scents;
\3SIONMKNT8 OH TKANSFEKS
of mortgage, lease or policy
of insurious, the Mine duty
Hi oo the original inslru<
ment
Of patent right G cents
[Sank Chcck*, Drafts or Or'
dkrs, die.?at sight or on
demand __ 2 cents
13u/.aor kxciianor; inlaxo?
draft or order, payable'Otherwise
than at sight HT qp
demand, and any proinisery
note whatever, payable on
d^jjnnd or at a titne designated
(except bank notes
issued for circulation, and
checks inn la and intended
to he, and vrhich shall he,
forth with presented for pay
merit)for a sum not exceeding
I 00 ? cents
Korerery additional bunJred
dollars, or fractional part
thereof 6 cents
in.ls ov Ladiso?of vessels
for porta of tho United States
or llrilish North America exempt
Or receipt of Goods on any
foreign porta 10 cents
Jilu or 8ai.e?of any r easel,
or part thereof, when lhecon?
federation does not exceed
fire hundred dollars 50 cents
Exceeding 1500 and not ex1 ,
ceedintj $1,000 $1,00 T
Exceeding $1,000, for each
$500, fraction it part thereof 50 cents
Of personal property [other
than ship or vessel] 5 cents
Bond?persona), for payment
of money [see Mortgage. J
Oilicial $1,00
For indctnn i\ing any person
for the payment of any si"n
of money, where the money
ultimately recoversolet lere#
upon is *1,000 or less CO cents 1
\\ iiero the inyney recoverai
ble exceeds <tfl!0C0, for overy 1
additional $1,000, or frac
tional part thereof 50 cents
Hon j?covntv, city and town
bonds, rHilroad and other ?*or I 1
Doralioii bonds and seriot.
. " . ? I
nre subject to stamp duty.
[See Moi.jage]
U( any des rtption, oilier . 1
than sue!) ns are required in
legal proceedings, anil fcucli
as are not? tl crw n>e charged
in lliia schedule 25 cents
Cer iktcati ?oi .deposit In 1
hank, sum not exceeding one
hundred dollars 2 cents
Of deposit in bank, sum oxceedii
g one )iui?<'"*d dodara 5 cents
Of al'tck iu an incorporated
cpr j| any 25 cen's
General _ 5 cents
Of a qualification of a Justice
of tlio Peace
Commissioner of Deeds or
Notary Public 5 cents
Of search ol records 5 cents
r uf /soil uiii ??u .!<? ? ? ?rt rs n
* vvi Mini |?n4io? a nic uu
file . 5'cents
That certain papers cannot
he found 5 cents
Of re leinplion of laud sold
for taxes 5 cents
Of Lirl.li, tnnrriage nrd death 5 cents
Of qUsii ucalion* of school
teachers 5 cents
Of profits on ea incorporated
company, for a sum not less
llian ten dollars and not exceeding
fifty dollars 10 cents
Exceeding fifty dollars and
not exceeding one thousand
dollars 25 cents
Exceeding one thousand dollars,
for every additional one
thousand, or fractional part
thereof 25 cents
Of damage or otherwise, and
all other certificates or docui
mints issued any pert
warden, marine surveyor, ?>r
other person acting as such 25 cents
Ck.itifiku Tii ANSCrtlPT?of
judgments, satisfaction of
judgments and of all papers
recorded or on tile 5 cents
(N. 11,?As a ge ieral rule,
every certificate which has,
or ma' have, a legal value
in any court <>' law or equity,
will require a stamp duty of
five cents )
CmWck Dka'*t on Okorr?
For the payment iff any sum
of money exceeding ?10.
drawn upon any person or
other than a hank, banker I
or trust company, at sight or
or on demand 2 cents
Contract?[See Agreemont
, , Jlrokera 10 cents
Convkvanok?.deed, instrui
ineiit of writing whereby
lands, tenement, or other
rea'iiy sold shall to convoyed,
the actual value which
does n??t exceed $500 50 cento
Exceeding $500, and not exceeding
$1,000 $100 I
For every addition*! $500,
or fractional part tbereol, iu
excess of $1,000, __ 5C cents
Entry?>f auy goods wares or
merchandize at a >y cuato n
house, not exceeding 1 00
in value, M 2o cents i
Exceelin g $10C and not exi
ceeding $500 in value, 50 cents ,
Exceeding $300 in va^je, $1.00
For the withdrawal of any
goods or merchandize from
bonded warehouse, 50 Cents
Guaokk's Itktu n- if fr.r quantity
but exceeding 500 gab
Ions, gross, lOcent*
Exceeding 500 gallons, 2d cents
PO W?kilt OK ATrORNKY ? to Sell
or transfer stock, or collect
dividends thereon, 25 cents
To vote at an election of in<
corrorated'c irnpany, 10 cen's
To receive or collect rentes, 25 cents
To sell, or convey, or real, or
lease real estate, 1 00
For any other purpose, 60 ccals ]
'rodatk of* Will.?for letter* | e?
of adininiMratinn, "where the ta
value ot both real .and peri Hf
son at estate does not exceed
$2,0C6, $1.00
For every additional $2,006, m
or fractional par'. thereof, in H
ex -ess of $2,000, 5*0 cents us
Bonds of executor, adminis* ?'
trators. guardians and trusi u
teen, are each subjected to a
stamp duty of $1.00 "
'rotkst-?upen bill note,check, In
or dralt. % 25 cents ?t
'r.oMtsacHY1 Notk?[See Bills tv
of Kxchange, inland]
Renewal of, subject to same ?'
duty as an original note. w
tKOKipr?lor the payment of
any sum of money,.pr debt
doe, exceeding $20, or (of , j
the cleliwery of any property, 2 cents :
["lu ri Deed?made to secure J
a debi to be stamped as a *
mortgage conveying estate to '
uses, to be stamped as a cou> s
vevanre. 1
IYakeiiousb Receipt?for any a
goods, wares or merchandise ft
not otherwise provided for, ?
deposited or stored in any *1
public or private wAreboase,
not exceeding $500 in value, 10 cents
Exceedine $.ri(J0,'and not ex- u
ceeding fcl.UOO, 20 cents
Exceeding $1,000, for every a
additional $1,000, or frac- u
tional part thereof, iu excess u
of $1 UUO, 10 cents
For any goods, ?fec? tJbt o(H- - .e
erwiae provided for, stored w
or deposited iu any public or
private warehouse or yard, 25 cents *
Whits Legal Documents p
? writ or other legal process i
by which any suit is com* v
me ced in any court of re?
c ?rd, either of law or etjhiljr, 50 cents ?
Writ or original process is- v
sued bv a court not of re. 1
cord, where the amouot
tfnimed is $100 or over, 50 cents
Upon every confession of t
judgment or cognovit for i
$100 or over, except in cases c
wnwe (he tax for a writ has a .<
hecn paid, 60 cents "
Writ or other process appeals
from justices courts, or m
other co'irts of iuferior jurisdiction,
to a court of record, 60 cents
Warrants of distress, when J
the amount of rent claimed
does not exceed $100 25 cents t.
When the amount exceeds .,
$100, ? 50'cents j
I.Vsi'KASCE-Marine, Inland and
Eire. \V*here the considera
tion paid for the iosutance,
in cash, premium notes, or <
both, does not exceed $10, 10 cents
Exceeding $10, and not fex 1
ceediug $50, ' 50 cents u
[kschasck, Likk?when the ?
amount inspred does not exceed
$ 1.000, 25 cents
Exceeding $ 1,000, jmd not J
exceeding $5,000, 50 cents c
Exceeding $5,000, $1.00
Lxask?of lands or tenements, *
where the rents do not exceed 1
$HOO per annum, 50 cents
Exceeding $300, for each additional
$200, or fractional
part thereof, in excess of
$300, 5<* cents (
Perpetual, subject to stamp (
duly as a "conveyance."
Clause of guaranty of payment
of rent incorporated or
indorsed, Gve cents additional
Mbjum-rm* Rkturn?if for
entity notexceediog 1,000 j (
bushels, 10 cents
Exceeding 1,000 bushels 26 cents
Moktuaoc?trust cited, bill of I
sale, or personal bond for the t
pHyment of money exceeding
(100, and Dot exceediog % J
$500, , * 50 cents '
Exceeding (600, for every
additional (500, or fractional
part thereof, in excess of <
$500, 50 cents ,
Pawn Kim1 CtTtcics, 5c>ots i
Passaok Ticket?from the 1
(Jtilled Slates to any foreign
port, costing Dot more than
(35, 50 cents '
Costing more than (35, and
not exceeding (50, (1.00 ,
For every additional (50, or I
fractional part thereof, in ex*
cees of (50, $1.00
GENERAL REMARKS.
Revenau Stamps may bs used iodiserimi
aaieiy upon any sr the matters or things |
lumrrated in schedule B, except propriary
uiid p'nving curd stamps, for which n I H
ircint use bus been provided.
Poatnge atuiopa cano6t' be usod in pay- I I
entofthe duty chargeable on instruments.
Ifis the duty of the maker of an iuhtru- I
eat to affix and cancel the utamp thereon.
' ho neflcnla to di'so, the party for whose " I H
re it in in ide, may stamp it before It is H^K
?ed, but in no ease can it be loyally used I
ithout a alauip ; and if Used alter tha
)th of July, I ht, ai"i used without n I I
amp, it cannot afterwards be effectually
umped. Anv failure unnn tli? narl of ilia
nker of an instrument to appropriately .bH
amp i*, renders hiin 'liable to a peuulty of HB
vo hundred dollars.
Suits are commenced in many States by
Llier processes thus writ, viz : summon*,'
arrant*, publication, petition, &c, in
Itich case these, as the original process,
iverally require t-iimps. HH
Writs of scira facia* arc subject to elamp HI
uly as original processes.
The jhrut of an alli.ta\it, taken before a ^Hj
uatice of the Peace, Notary Public, or oth- ^B|
r odicer duly authorized to take aflidavite,
i held to be a certificate, end suhjact to a j^H
tamp duty of & ceote, except when taken BB
i suite er legal proceedings. H
Certilicates of lonn in which there ahull j^fl
ppear any printed cr written evidence of ^B
n amount of money to be paid on demand ^B
at any time designated, are subject to |H
lump duty as Promissory Notes. HH
The assignment of u mortgage is Subject ^B
> the sniue stamp duty as that imposed
pun the original instrument; that is to
ay, for every sum ef five hundred dollars,
r any fractional part thereof, of the amount
ecured by the hfortgngb, at the lime of its
alignment, there must he affixed a stamp
r stump*, denoting a duty of fifty cents. !B
When two er inoro persons join in Iko Hj
xeculion of an instrument, the stamps to
rhich this instrument is liable miner the
?w, may be utlixed and cancelled by one of H
ka nariiac
convayancea of real estate, the law H
rovldxn thai the stamp ntHrud-must answer H
0 the value of the eetutii On iuturesl cou- H
eyed: H
No itnmp ia required on any wnrrait of H
ttorney accompanying & bond or note, H
rlien euch bond or not*. has affixed therete *H
he stamp er alatnpH denoting the duty re- H
|uired, and whenever any bond or nete ia H
ecured by mortgage, but cau stump duty H
* required on auch papers, such stamp du> I
y being the highest rates required for xuen B
instrument*, or either of them, in such
:use a note or uiemwratidinn of the value U
>r denomination o>' ttio stamp affixed;' I
ihould he irii.de upon the margin or in the I
ickaewledgemeut of the instrument whicn I
1 not stamped. Rj
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rllE SUBSCRIBER IIAS OPEN- I
El) A NEW AND LARUE I
iTbCKOF v I
D R U G S , I
ii mmm9
itO,j &,Ci) &.C.
VND EVERY ARTICLE THAT IS*
imihIIv kept in m Drug Store, all of
vhich will be sold *
Low as Possible.
t37~ Orders from the Country will be
arefullv attended to.
The following are a few of tbo articles
vhich will be sold very cheap :
Tanners Oil, Blue Stone, Winlow
Glass and Putty, Kerosene
Dil, Lamps, Morphine, Opium,
^audanum, Paregoric, Castor
Jil, baits, Extract Logwood,
Jopperas,
&c., &c., &c.
n. F. HODGSON.
Canidcn, S. C., Sept. lfl, !Srt6. Sm.
L otion Plantation to Kent;
[CFFKR FOR KHNTOLIXKASBMY
Planlniian, situated en tne main road
wilding t'roui Lancaster t<* Camden, lying
telween Salem Camp-Ground and Hanging
tock Creek, aud known as the Spring
f'lace. On the place there are about Four
dundred acres Of land in a (food slate of
cultivation; one half of which ia frcah land
md all ef it highly productive. With oriinary
attention, it will produce fine crop*
>f either Cotton or Provision*, The fencno
is in excellent Condition, Besidea Iho
planting land, there are aoveial hundred
icres of fiae pasture land, all under goad
tance. The jluce is well watered, arid in
every respect well Worthy of a visit from
?ny Who may wish to rent. It will be
rented for one year or longer ff desired. T
will take pleaeure in allowing the place,
and may be found at mv rcsidoece one mile
L-l Il._ r? i rs
oeiuw nangmg hock ureek.
JAMES M. INGRAM.
0?t. 7th, 1865,?5-tf.
We are now prepared to execute all kinds of
Job Work, witli neatness and dispatch, and
on accommodating term*.