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jDutmoter rUUHSUKU AT LANCASTER 0. 11. S. C., i I ti C VKTUK. WBDSESDAV MoRSINC, Feb. 27, 18?7. 1 _ ^ I Subscribers finding a (X) cross mark on the I Vuargiu of their paper iuay know that their time is about to expire. TERMS FOR SUBSCRIPTION. I For one year, in advance, $3 00 , For fix months, " - ? J 60 For three mtfnths, " - 1 00 Military Governments at the SouthTlio bill wliioli we pubiUhed last week ! for the establishment at military govern j menls at the South, having passed the | House of Representatives hv a vote of 100 to 55, is now before the Senate with every prospect of similar success. This bill, (remarks the Richmond Times.) strips our ! State governments of power, hat does not I overthrow them. Tho shadows are left, ! but the sovereignty is lodged in the military oflte al who commands what is called ! ? "district." We shall probably be allowed to keep up, at onr own expense, a BO'calied civil government, tho executive j 11 ' ouu lo^iButuve oepanments oi winch will j bo worth nothing to us. Wo shall bo mainly interested in the judicial depart meat of the State government, which, in the administration of civil business, will ' probably not be interfered with. If Stevens' bill becomes a law we shall j be reduced to the condition in which ?ve j were kept until April last, when the l'ro j eident's proclamation terminated the ex. ! istence of that military government which dominated for more than a \ear. It U impossible to conceive o' anything ! move grossly unconstitutional than the ; bill which has passed the lower House of 1 Congress. It will fall beneath the first thrust frotn the Supremo Court, as a mat ter ?f course ; and, as the Constitution ex presslv declares that the President shall be thS Commander in Chief of the army I and navy, he will not take a step towards j lli? enforcement of the bill, if it becomes n law, until its constitutional^v has been determined by the Judicial department of the government. While this conspiracy against our civil liberties is being pressed with malignant energy, the attitude of the suffering and heroic South is simjjy grand. Unmoved .1.- t .i . HID tmiiiui Ul I !! ?f ?4 WHO CHtlllOl DU radiate or dishonor her ; calm and patien' under every species of persecution which malice can devise; armed with a fortitude which knows nol despair , firm and reso lute with a purpose to fulfill her c!e?tiny, i whatever it may be, the South present* to day a Spectacle of moral grandeur and < sublimity wh'ch challenges the admira tion of the world. To those who4rample j upon her rights of representation, while f they foully ahuse and slander her, she *fl answers with the stern dignity of silence, j. Voiceless in the midst of her suffering, she n makes her tormentor* infuriate because i| though they have stretched her upon the n reck, yet all their ingenuity of torture dannot wring an unmanly shriek of pa:n : (j or weakness from the lms nf ih? K?in??.l I .1 ? ... .... II martyr. a It in tliifl dignified, honorable and pa ( e fient bearing of the South which puzzlen . p her persecutors ami dislocates all their h plans of reconstruction so studiously wo |a ven at> to entangle her in llie mealies of , ? degradation. But tlie South will notdis I c honor herself?liie rod may strike, but she ; e will not kiss it. Bound and prostrate as \ ri she is, the blows given her smite alone , d the honor of those who aim them ; and a this judgment the world must ever proi til Pounce upon those who strike a fallen | c foe. ! I The humiliation and mortification which was prepared for the Southern people in the Congressional project of resto ration will recoil upon ils authors. It is fl this feeling of political Villany, detected 1 and exposed, which is making our enemies j ' far more desperate than wo are. Tli^, howls which they raise are howls of terror 1 as well as rage, and all the indignation 1 which they seek to direct against us they employ as a means of self preservation, just as a rogue cries "stop thief 1" to mislead the rabble yelling in pursuit. But tfiia ingenious game cannot last long.? The present Congress promised the people "reconstruction," iiava tbey given it? In hopeless and helpless impotence the dominant party flounders in the mire of fruitless efforts and conflicting schemes, unable to present a substitute for that wise measure of the President, which they so insolently rejected. On the 4<h of March the Thirty ninth Congress will expire.? If that time comes, as come it will, with out a solution of the difficulties which now environ the question of "reconstruc I Von," then the Ides of March will perhaps prove an fatal to Radical power as they *ere to the life And fortune* of Cmsar. Conciliatory.?It will he ob*er?ed !! with a little surprise, that Senator Sum* I her has presented a memorial of the 1 Pennsylvania Peace Society, to Congress, J urging the ertahlishment of an interna ( tional tribunal, to which tlie national difference* he referred. ;^PI| J t 1 1 1 -11 - 1 L111 . J The Sherman Amendment. The l??t phase of reconstruction in Congress is the Sherman A mend men'., < which we publish elsewhere, adopted by ' ilia ^ian ata n t> m iliatlinla lite ' bill. It will be seen that tli? limine has j i concurred in the action of the Senate, j with amendments, to which the Senate I will in all probability agreo. This mess ' tire attrocious as it is, as the tnlelliffenter states, consigns, lor the present, at least, "to titter darkness the hideous House bill to establish negro supremacy over whites in Louisiana," a bill which would have at once initiated St. Domingo horrors, lighting lip the lurid tlaine? of wholesale in. Burrection and butchery in "ten Southern States. Tilts result arrived at in the Senate is peculiarly s:i^bifieant, as it is hailed bv even inch furious de*lructionists as Forney. as the satisfactory result of "a I nnrr I . - h and careful consultation among the Up publican Senators, and reflects lba hopes of tbo loyal manses, which, having passed through tha double analysis of the two Houses, will constitute the supreme basis of harmonious action." # Viewed in this light and as a measure which will, in all probability, meet the concurrence of the Uouso of K-presentatives, the Sherman amendment becomes a measure of the most pregnant importance to the Southern people. While the preamble of the bill declares that no local governments exist in the Southern States, yet it recognizes State authority by pro hihiting its interference with that of the military. Neither does it seem to design to in terfere with the judiciary of the South except where they *he?ll interfere with the authority of the itiilitarv authority in criminnl cases. The manifest and leadi ing design of the bill is to exclude the Southern States from all participation in the next I'residtntial election, and subordinates all else to that consideration. Vain Slopes. There are a great manv persona who imagine that the change in the direction of public affiirs proposed Ify the radical Congress, from a civil to a military go* eminent, will affect local laws to the ex tent of relieving them from the operations of the law as regards contract*, etc. We . are of> the opinion, from what we can gather from the very imperfect proceed ings of Congress that reach us, that it is not tlra intention of that body to upset the whole of the civil authority in the ten unrepresented Slates. ThC main object, in placing the*? States under the Censor. ?? ?- c- ? .L ... v/uoKinnn, .rem iu ur, UIOU51 lllOie politician!) from oflice who were eonspicu ous in the secession movement, and have i since its collapse, rendered themselves 1 verv ofliciou* in the reconstruction scheme J )( President Johnson. . It will be observed, with rather a grat- ? fring triumph to us, that Mr. Stevens, oreaeeing the result of declaring tlie re- ii tallious" Slates as a conquered territory, c n as much as the United Slates Govern- J uent would then become liable, and as j he conrjuorer, virtuallv assume the pay p lent of the debts of the defunct States, it as careJully worded his bill "so called ^ lonfedernte Slates." This is ominous of lie impor'nnt consequences that would re> nit from the overthrow of the civil govrntnenU of the South, in a pecuniary t| oint ; and we apprehend that the local r iws, for the enforcement af contracts c nd preserving public order, will he the \ aine, if not more ri^id. Let us r.ot hase ^ iur hopes of reliel, in any respect, upon i * itlier a territorial or miliiary (iovern c uent, hut rather let us throw aside such i 1 I J illusions and tro sntn??il? on.) ' '? ??"J1 f bout Betting mutters right with our cred | f tors. The "Military Hill," should it bs I ome A law, will not benefit any oae in hi^respect. I The Bankrupt Law. This important measure, of which we ;ive a brief synopsis of its provisions on mother column, lias at last passed the j Senate, by a close vote. When it was t rrought up for reoonsiderstion, Mr. Sum \ ' icr opposed its adoption on the ground ! that it allows rebels to become bakrupts 3trRnge inconsistency, whan the honors* | hie gentleman has labored through a lite time to pr< dttce this stale of things. It now goes hack to the Mouse for concur rence in the amendments of ths Rebate. No apprehension of its defeat in the House or its veto fro?n lha President is 1 entertained, so it may he considered virtually a law. SoUTIlRRK KkI.IKP C<'M>tlA3!oM.?The Southern Itelief Commission, says the Baltimore Sun,has received contributions to the amount of %Vi 1.188. Orders have been given for the purrhate of 20 000 bushels of corn, 0000 bushels of which will go to three points in A UIisds, '6000 bushels to two point's in Georgia, 0000 bushels to South Carolina, and 0000 bushe'a to North Carolina. This corn will he shipped, eicept thai for North Carolina, from a Western market. Our commercial community will he i {lad to learn !>v private advices that the 1 weather has moderated at the North,and I hat the ire in the Potomac and Patapsro i s sufficiently broken to^parmit there I iiimptino of navigation. Several vessels >ound for this port, which hare hereto I V>re bean detained, have already eailed, < Amongst them it the steamer Planter i with a cargo of corn.? Courier. i The Bankrupt BillThe following is a synopsis of this bill ?s it passed the House last year. The intendments recently made to it in the Senate, have not yet appeared ; as soon as learn what changes have been made |n the bill, we will lay them before our readers, in order that all can understand the provisions of the new bill. The first section constitutes the District Courts of ih? United States Courts ol Bankruptcy. The second section gives the United Mates Circuit Courts general superintendence and jurisdiction of all cases and questions arising under that act. Sections three to seven inclusive, relate to the administration of the law in Courts of Bankruptcy. Sections eight, nine ten refer to appeals and practice. Tlie eleventh section provides that if anv per son resides within the jurisdiction <>f the United States owing over three hundred dollars shall apply, by petition, to the judge of Ills judicial di^rict, setting out his inability to pay his debts in full, and his willingness lo surrender his estate for the benefit of his creditors, on filing of such petition he shall be adjudged a bankrupt. A warrant shall then be issued bv the Judge, to fhe marshal of the district to take possession of the estate and keep the same until the appointment of an assignee. Notice is then to he ^jivpn to the credilois to hold n meeting and choose one or more assignees? Section twelve to eighteen, inclusive, define in great detail the duties of assignees. Tho sections ninelvBn to twentv four, inclusive, relates to debts and proofs of claims Kecliin I nam v.flv.. provides fi>r tito sale of peridtable proper iy. Section twenty six provilea for the examination of bankrupts before the court, and exempt* them fn>m liability to arrest during tbe pendency "f the proceeding* in bankruptcy in civil court*. Section twnnty s??en re'tte* to tbe di* tribution of the bankrupt'* estate. All creditor*.whose debt* are duly proved and allowed are lo be entitled to ?di>y.e in tbe bankrupt ptopcrtv pro rah without any priority or preference w intever, except that wages title ("torn bint toanv operative, clerk or house servant, to an amount not exceeding fiftv dollars, fot labor perform, ed within tux months preceding the adju dicati'in of bankrnptcv, shall bo entitled to priority and shall be first paid in full In order for a dividend, the following claims are to be entitled to priority of preference, and to be first | aid in full in lite following order : 1st. Fees, cost and expenses of suit* and for tie custody of j properly 2d All debts due to tbe United j miici urn ?n m*r!? hiij as?orsm?*nis enter tlm laws thereof. 0. All debts due to the State in which the proceed ngs in hank rupicv are pending, and all taxes nr.d assessments under the laws of auch State 4th. Wages due to any operative, clerk. r)f house servant, to an amount not ex ceedinf flftv dollars, f.?r lahor performed within six months next proceeding the llrst publication of the notice of proceedings in bankruptcy, ftih. All debts due to hnv pernon who, by (lie lew* of ilie United States are. or mav be, entitled to s priority or preference, in like inanner.es if tliis act had not been passed always provided that nothing contained in tbe act shall interfere with the assessment led collection of taxes by the United Uates or MPy State. Section twenty nine and the five fo'low ng sections relate to the bankrupt's dn harge and its etlocta. if it shall appear o tbe court (ha*, (be bankrupt bas in all hinge conformed to hi* duty under this Let, and that be is entitled, under the revisions thereof, to receive a discharge, lie court shall grant bun a discharge rom all his dehts, exeppt as therein after iroviiJtd, and siiall give Join a certificate hereof under the seal of the court Section thirty-five declares preferences nd fraudulent conveyances void Section hirty six, thirty seven, and thittv eight elftte to bankrilptcv of partnerships and orporations, and to dates and depositions, iections thirtr to for'y, inclusive, provide ^r the case of involuntary bankruptcy ; a lepartnre from tl?e State, avoiding the ervioe of legal process, removal or con ealmattt cf property, fraudOlfent assign nent of property, arrest and detention for lebt for a period of seven dav*, confession if judgment or suspension of payment of ommetciat paper for feurtnao days, shall >e deemed an act of bankioptcv. Section fortv third provides for the su )traeding of the bankrupt proceedings bv irrangement. Section forty fourth pro rides penslties against bankrupts (or con :ealment of property, falsifying books or iap'eVa, fraodollMit aslignmcnt or Convey tnce of tropertf, spending ?n gaming, [>ermilting a fie'.itious debt to be proved *g. iost him. obtaining goods on credit fraudantly within three months of the commencement of the proceedings in bankruptcy ; these ?r? 'O be de*<med nils demeanors, and .punished by imprison men;, with or without bard la!>or, for a term not exceeding three years. Section forty five and forty six provides nenalties atvatnsC officers in admin1ktari>w> the law. Section forts* ?ev?n re/ulales fees and cost*. Suction fortv eight regit lates (Unmp duties en petitions, warrants, dec. Sectiny fort? nine and fift* define the meaning of term* and the compun tion of time Section fittv first, end last, enacts that litis act shall Commence nnd take effect as to tHn appointment of the officers crested herebr end the pr.tnttilga tiAn of rules nnd general orders, from erd after the date of its approval, provided that no petition or other proceeding* tin der this act shall he filed, received, or commenced before the first dar of Noverrv ber, 1868. LtnicRAt. Donatio!*.?The SAuthern Relief Association of St. Roi^s, Missouri, have latelv sent a check of five hundred dollar* for the relief of the dettiinte of thin Com mo nit j. W* ere indebted to the kind rerol ection of Mr. J. \f. Cooper, formerly of Camden. for the direction ^iven this liberal end benevolent epproi Drietinn. We understand thet the fundi here >een bended over to the ^ornmiaaioner* >f the fnor, to be invented in corn for the >enefit of tho*e for whom the donations vet rondo.? Camden Journal. LATJ3ST BY MAIL. Congressional WAhUiNuroK, Feb. 14. In the Senate, Ross, of Ark*iih*h, whs admitted to a oeal. A bill wh* introduced authorising th* Postma1ler General to contract for % monthly mail between San Francisco and Honolulu The League Inland hill was passed by 27 to 17. The Louisiana hill received a second reading Trumbull spoke oT several amendments. Wade said, if it was amended too far, the bill woyld be lost.' lie said he would give the Senate us rest, when the bill came up, till it was p<ssnd Sumner was r r i i i in .. - ? ... in iseor 01 uoin imin? sevens' HiiiI the Louisiana. I In had amend ments tn oiler abolishing all decrees of couria since the passage of the seeession ordinance. hea senden favored both hills and Blur's amendment, which admits the no re pre sertted States, ttpoti the adoption of the constitutional amendment and impartial suffrage 'I'lm hill whs postponed and amendments ordered printed. Steven*' hill was read a second tittle. The hill retiring compound interest notes was passed, ami now goes to tlie House. The House refused to concur In tit* Senate's amendment to the tenure of office hill including calnnet officers. Washington, Feb 15. TheTsanate, last night, .passed the hill authorizing * snhmafire bridgn under the Mississippi at St. Louis. The House hi ruck out whiskey license, leaving it as now. Binghntn voted tor Stevens* hil1. not withstanding his opposition to it The movement in favor of Mlaine's amendment in reference to the constitutional amend ment, with universal suffrage appended, is finally paining ground .Several Repub liean Senator* will help the Democrat* to fight the Dill to a po-ket vote, utiles* some amendment i* added which will take it hack to the Hooae. There Is reallv Sortie hope that the hills will go over. As the rrisi* approaches. Senator* are becoming neriou* over the responsibility of favoring the hills. The Seo.tte Jndiciarv Committee rs j ported a hill regarding appeal* removing | limitation* in oases arising in rebellions State*, and extending the time a year from the passage of this Act. A hill was introduced providing for removal to the District Court of ariv ca*e over $,r>00. when one of the parties lived in a repre settled State William* moved to take op Stevens' hill. Sumner hoped the Louisiana hill would take precedence ? Wade favored both, and was indifferent a* to Which fame up firs'. S'evens' hill was read Williams withdrew his amend ment, fearing it would endanger the hid. lie hoped to defer a vote until to morrow night. S'ewsrt regretted that William* | changed hi* nvnd ; lie woyld not vole f??r j | it onieaa ametnlea. 11r? ?li.j not cnrotMie atood alone. lie would rote far no hill leaving no escape for 'be people of the South. WiUon favored the hill iia it came from tho House. lie regar led the battle f'>r impartial suffrage a* fouglit and won. Howard objected tiMCuuae the am-md oient acknowledged the vnliditv of State flov eriimenta. William* moved a re.*e?a tin til * o'clock, when he expected the Senate ] to get until ii putacd the hill The House considered the honntv hill. Ila provisions exclude prisoners who join ed the Federal army. The hill passed ? The estimate* of money required to par i honmiea range from ^*50.000,000 to j StfOO.OOO 000 Wasiiinqtox, Feh 10. The proceeding* are scattering on j Hiatus'* amendment Many amendment* are offered, hilt the pouii on wh'ch the I Republican* spot i* the ConfAlerale vote; ! all ftvor the h'ack vote; hut soma seem I to ahhor the idea of disfranchising the white* and placing Statd* r?t the mercy of ; black*; Other* are determined on diafrar. closing ihe Confederates aa a pun:*hment ; Other* became of fear of their influence Attd ft* HanrrArntU 11\ I 1.*j onunira 1 Tn iho coun? m dtUif, Doolittle sw:d tin South wi.nl.l not accept universal sullY ?ge, ' hut would prefer military rule Wilson responded, "Make them accept it." A bill providing for a President in case of vacancy who p*M?rl ; first pro trnx the President of the Sendta, llirn th>* Speak or of the House, tben the S<i| ram* Judge succeeds Stevens' bill wm resumed. Doolittle said it was n declaration of war agAihst tan States. # WAsniXOTO!*, Feb. 17. Sherman's substitute war passed at half past 6 o'clock, thi* morning?20 to 10 This i? substantially Blaine's amendment ?which i? ss fallows : Seo 5. And hr il further eMcle>l. Tbat when t?ie constitutional amendment pro p ?R<-d ar artele fourteen bv tbe Thiftv .n nth Congresa shall have become a part of the Con ytilbtion of tbe Urii'ed .Stales, by tbe ratification of three fourths of the Stales now represented in Congress, and when ?ny one of <he late so called Confederate States shall have given its assent to tbe same and conformed it* corns'hut ion and laws thereto in all re*yeets, and when il ahalMisve nrovided bv its const inn inn that tliA elective franchise shall tin enjoy, od equally and impartially hv all jnale citir?e* of llie United Stale*. twenty one year* old and upward*,%ithool regard to race. color or previous condition of *?rvl tilde, ezcept such a* may l.e disfranchised for participating itl the 1st* rebellion, and whan aaid constitution shall have been submitted lo the volar* of ?aifl Hi*i/ a* thua dafinad, for ratification or rajacfion, and whrn ihl eoiiilinUinn, If ratified by tha popular rota, rhall hare been sub mil lad to Congre** for azamina'ion and | approval, aaid %' at? shall, if its conaiitu1 tion ba approved by ('on^raaw, b? declar* ad aetit'ad to representation in Congress, and Senator* and K*pr***ntali va? shall be admitted therefrom on their taking tha oath prescribed b^ law, and than and thereafter the preceding taction* of thia bill ultall he inoperative in raid Stale. It it preficed by a preamble providing lor tha diviaion of the lately seceded State* into Military District* similar to those proposed in Steven*' bill, bilt give* the appointment of lb* officer* who are lo control them to the President instead of to tli? General cominatidintr. It further required that nil dentil sentences shall l>? approved hy the President before they Can he executed ; that the writ ol A'ib-iii corjjus shall not he suspended, and that no interference hy the military with the Stale government shall occur. WaSIIIJCOTOS, Fell. IB. Weotworlli's Corruption Committee creates more aintiHeitietii that amirehen i sion ; developments go to kIiow that two i enterprising newspaper men e-11 in<-ot ?< 1 the thing. The primary object is a big j item. Congressmen with approached and : encouraged to visit the President, tu whom thn President's views seemed moderate, { and showed intense anxiety to harmonize the country, and no Ling more. The in , terviews were social and free, ofllciallv ' binding neither partv. The I'resident is j represented as utterly opposed to Congressional interference with Stale elec tors. Sherman's snhstitnte was considered ! Stevens tttoVtd to non concur, and asked for a Committee of Conference. Pout- j well spoke in opposition to Sherman'ssnh stitute, and complained that the Inil gave more power to the President and functions \ of reconstruction to the rebels We ought j to remove from the reconstruction hu*i ness in South Carolina the Orrs, Pickens and Magraths. Stokes opposed it. because he saw in it universal ainnestv and universal suffrage , Stevens took the ground that Hie bill j iiriirp*-fl the power of a future Cont?re*s, and afterwards ventilated hi* ti?ua' hitter ness against the President and the South em people. H-ngham made a hitter hit at Steven*, showing there was not h singe feature in the hill which wan not at one twnenroth er favored by the Reconstruction Commit' lee. Schenck of Ohio, favored the hill .as the only thing possible. Wahhington, Feb. 19. Tn the House, the vote to concur in 1 Sherman's substitute was defeated ? 7.1 to 98. A Committee of Oontorencc has been | appointed. Sherman's hill came .tip, A mot'on j was made to lav the whole matter on 'he i table. The vote on the motion to concur I a as 73 to 08. The motion f ?r a Coin j Ittittee of Conference win ag^ed to with i out division. Stevens, Shellanbergcr and Hlaitie are the committee. In the Senate, the action of the House on Sherman's substitute was reported.? Williams moved that the Sena'e insist on its amendment. Cooties* objected ? as he thought it too importAnt to entrust to committee* of cnnfermcfl. lie wa* in f* vor of living on the table, to lake op the Louisiana lull and apply it to all tha Southern States. washington, khii. 21 In the IToti**, Sherman'* lull came up W ilaon'a amendment was adopted? G'J'o 00. It passed, "and that parson* esdud ad from office hy the proposed conatitu tional amendment be excluded from vol ing for member*, or being member* of Convention* lo form Sta'e constitution*. Sbellaberger nfierad an amendment, >1* daring, "ontil the rebellion* Siates nn? admire 1 representation, anv civii gov. eminent niiall be deeded provisional. *tt!? j ect to tli?* aut boritv of the United State*, to be abolished, modified or superceded at j any tiitte, and all election* tinder civil government to be conducted by person* describe! in tbe fifth section; and person* rplalified to hold office under tin.vision:.! . , ; | Cirernmenl under the pm?i sinns of I lift third section of tli * constitu | tinnal amendment of last session."? Adopted?yeas, OS ; nays. 70 It la concede 1 that the Senate w II pss* 1 the hill, will) tliv> llmi-n amendment*.? ! It is generally rood*! that the President ! vri'l w aire the ad vantage of time, mid veto the hill in time forCongress to not. IKrotn flw Raleigh (N. C.) Sentinel.^ Most Fiendish Murder. Louiaituxo, N. C., Feb. 8 Mfttrs. Kditort : ? As a sign of the I times I send you mii aooount of a murder committed in this county on the night of j the 21st (Sunday) lilt. Mary and Back* | Jane Collins, freed women, moilit-r s^d , daughter, the former shout 60 years and the latter .10 teats of age, were living in ' the- vard of a widow ladv, though not | employed bv her. Beckr had two smell ' children, sihK '?oy four years old r.amcd | Jerry, the son of her deceased sister,and | grandson of Mary. On the night of the murder, a hoy eight years o'd, soli of Becky, snd who is hound to Mr J.weph Murray, stayed with III* mother, lie aisles that in the night his mother and grandmother shui Jeiry out of doors, that thee then tore to pieces an old bedstead I which had belonged to Jerri's rpo'her, 1**1.1 ?*rriOil It Alll I iiara will, ol! . ? ? ? J . clot lit** and hed clothes, and made of them aWiru at the corner of the chimney Tbev then caught J? rrv, end n'ter cutting hurt wuh en mr, making m frightful wound on hi* neck, pAhei him into the large fire. lie ?or?atned and jumped out everal time*, and thev ?* often pushed him hack, until he wae dead. The* con tinithd horning him until all was cnnnim ed except two email plates of the ektill, A few remain* of bonee, and Rome of the i intestine*. Mr Joseph Murray waeiliere on Monday morning,'when Hecky told him that ?ha had killed the dwell ? that Margaret (Jerry's niothe') had comeback | and ("tuck her c'*w? in .lurry and made him a devil, and eh* and her mother had* kijed him. fthe evidently wan feigning inwanity ?o?! made m ur?*t many pimple and fooliah re nark*. Mary made naauch attempt, but ennfe?*ed thai *hn inado (lie fire and (bat Becky burnt tbe child. Die w<di>w lady did not remain at home that night, but *he ear* thee two women bad for the laaffwelve month* treated Jerry rery cruelly. Both tha women Are now in jail awaiting trial. Would not tbe negro aoon beeome bar baron* if left to him?elff T* he worthy of being made "equal" with the white man f What law*, what moral*, what government would he hare f Ke?|te<'lfully, VINDICATOR. | The Military Rule Bill. The National lnUUi</rncrr, of Titers* iIhv, uses must decided language denouncing the hill imposing military govefni men I on the M <utiiern Scales. Wo ext tract : "The blackest re?ord ever in ado by an Hssetublv "f the representatives of a free people stained yss'erdav the proceedings of the Mouse of Representative*. Never in lite most tyrannous hour of the I, ?n$ Parliament misrule; never, amid the utmost subservience to the royol mandate of an English king ; never, in the most blood thirsty epoch of a French convention? tint the representatives of the people stamp themselves with greater ignominy." * * * "f^ticli a hill tnaks* a tnock<-rv of tree institutions. It tl?*t piles all the groat ss'^npiiirds ?>f popular liberty. It trartiplr-s on the freedom of the press. It annihilates the right of free assamlilsge. It silences the lip* of free speech. It infringe* the right of the peo' pie to hear arms. It wipes otit the guar anlee of a grand jury presentment. It ahohshes the exemption. of freedom front seizure and from search. It abrogate# the right of trial hv a jnrv of one's pee # in the vicinage of ti n Commission of the alleged offence. tt trample* upon the prerogative of t'le President,it makes war upon the Constitution, it rebels against the authority of the Supreme Court. . It invades the sacrc 1 constitutional rights Tlf tilo citizen. Ilia treason enveloped iti the forms of law. It is rebellion wearing the garb of legitimate power." __ C'ol. C C Tew. A report has been in circulation for some time that Col. C. 0. Tew, of the ilillsboro (N. C ) Military Academy, who t was supposed w ag killed at Sharpshiug has turned up at the Pry Turing**?a prisoner for life, under an assumed name. I^lie Ooldshoro .AVtC.t says : "We have taken soma pains to ascar tain the facts relative to the incarceration of Col. Imw in ihe 1 >rv Tortnga*. end wo are satisfied iliat lie is there, hut not known l>v that cngtinm* n. lie is em? ployed in the :** department. We slmll iv>t relate other circumstances connected with his incarceration, satisfied, n- w? are, that steps will he taken to restore liiin to his family Tite Wilmington Dispatch referring to the master, says : "We have heretofore refrain*1 1 from giving publicity to this report l-eCatlsn eotivihcei! of its utter falsitv, hut, as other papers have spread it far and wide, we reproduce it merely to remark upon its improbability. Mr. Uo*e, of Wilson (Joiintyr was on duty ?m the skirmish linn a' Sharpsliurg, and Col. Tew, having gone out to reconnoitre the enemy, had taken a pn?itii*r behind a tree within a few feet of him. Tltev wern conversing together when a Minnie hall stinck (.* ?!. Taw in the forehead anil hn fell hank lifeless, without uttering a sound. The enemy miT?tiinm_' in line ni name, me skroiishera full bayk an.I the body wan n?ver recovered. Subsequently, a prisoner from the second regiment saw Col Tee's sword in the hand* of a Federal *ho had taken it from his bodf." Important?(Iknerai. frrant.?The So* York Time*, of Wednesday, has the following intfxyiniit revelation t Aa late aa Thursday the bill for the establishment of military despotism aoqfiffd threat strength in the House b* the declaration of Mr. Fartiaworth thftt t?rant favoied it; nod the member who announced the news whs regarded, for the time being as an oracle to he respected Owing t> the importance of the m itt?-r, < I rant took the earliest opp .rlu' nity to inform a prominent member of the llottse that he had been misrepresented?that he did not favor the racLon of a despoiiem with himself aa chief do* pot ? and tiiat he was reafly surprised thai such a notion should Lb attribute 1 to him. I Ai'pointmkmt.? (ten. John A. Wage* ner, of Charleston, baa Iwen appointed Commissioner of Emigration, pursuant.to (llM ?0t of til* U?t Legislature, HII<1 will enter upon tlie duties of his Bureau at once. Two foreign agents will a'scf be *?l*0ted to take charge of the Intermits of the S'hIo which concern Emigration from Ireland and Cernriny. (i?sn. Wegener in peculiarly qualified -for Ihe olfice, a gentlemen of (Itie ahili'iee, conversant with all want#, and in all respects promisee to pro** an admirable selection. 1 "*>' South Caroliniah, Florida.?An intelligent fraudurno who went to Florida never*! months ago, to ?ett>, has returned to Col iinhiw, perfectly t tnflrd w ^li Inn experience, and deter* mined to Mick to South Carolina to the Ih?i. lie stated that great inducement* are held out, but the expectations of very few of the emigrants are realized. Mum* hers of others, he says, who went oat, are deswoua of returning, but have not tliO Columbia Phoenix; Not I>i?iikahtknitd.?A correspondent of (he Italumore Gazette save : I learn that the President i? yet cheer* I fol and hopefui of ultimate liiumph, and so far from evincing a (Imposition of ao quiescing in the insane leguiiwlinri of Coo. gre**, is more determined than ever, since their ntrncieus design* have become developed, ol rtnnly adhering to hi* coneU* tutional position. RratoxATtoii Acctnan.?The Waeh. intrlon correspondent of the New York Tribune say* that the Government ha* received arid areep'ed t' e resignation of Mr. Phillips, United States District Attor* ney at Charleston, 8. C. Tiib Nbw6cc*ktahy or 9tat?.?We ! learn that lion. Kdison Capers, the new Secretary of Stale for 8outh Caroline, will enter upon the diecherge of h e nffl rial Jut es on Moti lay, the 18th in?t.-? I Carolinian.