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THREE DOLLARS A EA1R] FOR THE DISSEMINITION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE. [INVARIABLY IN ADVAYCE. OL. III. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 6,1867. NO. 10 THE HERALD Is PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MOINING, At Newberry C. I., By THOS. F. & R. H. GRENEKER, 1ItRS, $3 PER ANNUM, IN CUIIENCY OR PROVISIONS. Payment required invariably in advance. X fiage notices, Funeral Invitationa, Obitu 'asies, and Communications subserving pr'vate Ia'njst, are charged as advertisements. Miscellaneous. W.B. McKellar, SURGEON DENTIST, Would most respectfully state to the public that he has moved in his new rooms over Captain McFall's store, on .Main street, and can at all times be found ready to do any and everything in his line for cash. Mr. Edwin Jones will work at one-fourth -priee. At the same time I would say to all who are indebted to me, that they would find it Tery much to their interest to call and settle 'soon or they will be sued. Feb 13 tf -A CARD. URGED, by the many ~changes which distress the community-among whiclh is the fact that we have to pay cash for every thing purchased-we are compelled to publish the following terms and conditions upon which we propose to practice medicine, iz: For visit and prescription - - - $2,00 prescription at office or in tatreet,---- --- -----1,00 "tirica cases (simple) - - 20,00 " consultation - - - - - - - - - 1U,00 4 imiage-per mile (day) - - 50 " " " " (night) - 1,00 rOtrs;are.CASH. The above stated reaa, alone,'forces as to insist upon this. It is our intention to present bills, at the termination -of every case, for services rendered;-and no visits nor attention can be expected from us afterwards, until the amount ofsuch bills is paid. P. . RUFF 0. B. MAYER JAMES McINTOSTI G. W. GARMANY. Dec. '12th, 18S63. WM. F. ANCE ?olonBkerBanikin. and COMMISSION AGENT, lewberry, S- 0-, (O1,IN REAR OF GRIERSON'S DRUG STORE Advances on Cotton to reliable houses in Charteston; S. C., New York and Liverpool. Exchange'on'Charleston and New York in su.ls a.s wanted. WANTED. Tor EKGLISHI ACCOUNT EXCLUSIVELY WOO L, Or Unshorn Sheep Skins. Market~ prices paid in ctsh, ov' Cloth ex -changed. WM!. F. NANGE. Office is rear Grierson's Drug Store, New berry, S. C. dec 12 6m EiLchlange On CharlestonA? PAR, in sums as wanted. Checks -On Se4tork in sums of $100 and1 upwards, --.:rewiitted promptly to order. Libt1 . Advances Miade on ~Cotton and other produ ce con * igned to reliable houses in Charleston, S. C., New York, and Liverpool. Plantation Supplies On liberal terms. WVM. F. NAXCE, NovemnberQ 28 f Agent. LEWIS BUTLER, FASHIIONABLE BARBER and HAIR DRESSER, RESPECTFULLY announces to the gen tdemen-of Ne wberry, that lie has opened at the old shop, opposite the Court House, and next to Messrs: I. M. Saber & Co., -where-he will be happy to wait upon all in the extreise of his profession. His object is to UIl.ase the .most fastidious taste, and the keeping of his shop shall be after the most unezeeptionable style. Sharing, Trimming, Shamnpooing, and Hairdying executted in the most approved manner. Jan. 23-4-tf. S. R. CHAPMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, NVEWBERYC.H., . C. Will attend to business entrusted to his care. [C7Office at Bookstore. Feb. 6 C. H. KINGSMORE Is still at the old stand, . Prepared to Take Ambrotypes & Photographs, And Paint Gatbinet & Life size Portraits, From Life or any kind of Picture. He will visit the country or a neighboring town to paint Portraits. A cloudy daiy as good as any. .T~f an 1 MISCELLANEOUS. The New Reconstruction Bill. WIherea, No legal State Gov ernluot or adequate protection for life or property now exist in the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida. Texas and Arkansas; and whereas it is necessary that peace and good order should be enforced in said States until loyal and Re publican State Governments can I be legally established; therefore, Be it enacted, &c., That said rebel State shall be divided into military districts, and made subject to the military authority of the United States, as hereinafter prescribed, and for that purpose, Virginia shall constitute the first district; North Carolina and South Carolina the second district ; Georgia. Alabama and Florida the third district ; Mis sissippi and Arkansas the fourth district, and Louisiana and Texas the fifth district. SFc. 2. That it shall be the duty of the President to assign to the command of each of said districts an officer of the army not below the rank of Brigadier-General, and to detail a sufficient military force to enable such officer to perform his duties and enforce his authori tv within the district to which he is assigned. SEc. 3. That it shall be the du ty of each officer assigned as afore said to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder and violence, and to punish or cause to he punished all disturbers of the public peace, and criminals ; and to this end he may allow local civil tribunals to take jurisdiction of and try offenders, or when in his judgment it may be necessary for the trial of offenders, he shall have power to organize military com missions or tribunals for that purpose, and all interference, un der color of State authority, under this Act, shall be null andl void. Sze. 4. That all persons put un :ler military arrest by virtue of this Act shall be tried without un necssary~ deClay, and no0 cruel or unusual p)unishmecnt shall be in flicted, anid no sentence of any military commission or tribun al ereby authorized, .affecting the life or liberty of anyv person, shall be executed until it is approved by the officer in command of the istrict ;and the laws and regula tions for the government of the army shall not be affected by this Act, except in so far as they may conflict with its provisions. SEc. 5. That when tihe people of any of said rebel States shall have formed a constitution of gov ernent in conformity with the Constitution of the United States, in all respects, framed by a conven tion of delegates elected by the mae citizens of sail State, t werty one year's old alnd upwards, of whatever race. color or previous condition who have beint resident1 in said State for one year previous to the day of such election, except such as may be disfranchised for participation in the rebellion or for felony at cemmon law ; and when s;uch constitution shall pro vide that the elective franchise shall be enjoyed by all such per sons as have the qualification herein stated for election of dele gates; and when such constitu tion shall be ratified by a majority of the persons voting on the ques tion of ratification who are quali fed as electors for delegates, and when such constitution shall have been submitted to Congress for examination ;ud approval, and Congress shall have approved the same ; and when said State, by a vote of its Legislature elected under said constitution, shall have adopted the amendlmenlt to the Constitution of the United States proposed by the Thirty-ninth Con gress. and known as Article 14, and when said article shall have i.- o a-ar ofrt1. Consitution of the United States. said State shall be declared eititlcd to repre sentation in Congress, and Seiia tors and Representatives shall be adhnitted therefrom on their tak ing the oath prescr"ibed by law, and thn.' and thereafter the pre ceding sections of this Act shall be inoperative in said State. Then follows Wilson's amend ment to this section: "Provided that no person excluded from the privilege of holding office by said proposed amendment to the Con stitution of the United States shall be eligible to election as a member of the convention to frame a con stitution for any of said rebel States. nor shall any such persons vote for members of such conven tion." Mr. Shellabarger's amendment makes section 6: "That until the people of' the said rebel States shall by law be admitted to repre sentation to Congress of' the United States, any civil govern ment that may exist therein shall be deemed provisional only., and shall be in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States, at any time to abolish, modify, control, and super sede the same; and in all elections to any office under such provision al governments all persons shall be entitled to vote, and none others who are entitled to vote under the provisions of the fifth section of this Act. And no per son shall be eligible to any office under such provisional govern mcnt who would be disqualified from holding office under the pro visions of the third article of said Constitutional Amendment." General Upsetting of Titles in the South. The view we took yesterday, that the Shellebarger amendment to the District bill endangered all titles made in the South since the advent of the rebellion, is endorsed by the New York Journal ofCom merce, as follows : Much as we desire to sec once more the harmony of the executive and legislative departments of the Government, and injurious as their disagreement is to the business interests of the country, we cannot believe it to be the duty of the President to give his sanction to this bill. If it must assume the form of law, let it stand before the country as the law of Congress wit hout the approval of' t he Execu tive department. It seems to us impossible that it should ever re ceive the sanction of the judiciary. For the p)resent we shall do little more than make a few com ments upon the preamble to this bill. The preamble is in these words: Whereas no legal State govern ments or adequate protection for hfe or property now exists in the reb)el States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, antd Arkansas ; and whereas it is necessary that peace and grood order should be enforced in said States until loyal and re publican State governments can be legally established: therefore. 1. "30o legal State governments exists in the rebel States of Vir ginia' &c. If there be no legal State governments, then every thing done in the legislatures or courts, or in any other depart ments of these governments, are void. The judgments obtained in their courts are void ; the criminals confined in their prisons, by sen ten ce pronounced in the State r-ourts, are entitled to immediate isharge. There must be a gen eral jail delivery. These are the necessary consequences of illegal State gortern men ts. An editor describing a lecture to the fair sex, exclaimed, with enthusiasm, "three thousand Ia dies hanging on the lips of a sin Our Duty. We would have been gratified if we of the South could have ig nored polities altogether; but that was, and is, an ilmpossibility. We could not, and cannot avoid tak inng an interest in political atairs which concern us so closely as do those of the United States. Our fate is in the hands of the North ern people ; and whatever they do in regard to the South or to the Union, must effect that fate for good or for evil. Hence, while our people very wisely abstained from all interference or active par-; ticipation in political affairs, could not shut their eyes to events that were transpiring around them; and neither could the press of the South observe silence on the sub ject. It is its duty to keep the people posted in regard to every thing that concerns them, and in the performance of this duty, it became necessary not only to state what was going on, but to endcav or, by cairn and considerate argu mlent, to endeavor to soften the as piration of the hour, and turn aside the wrath of our enemies. This duty, the press of the South, with but few exceptions, has fully and fearlessly performed ; and because it has failed to accomplish any thing of good, it does not neces sarily follow that it has erred. Now, however, a change has ta ken place; and we can no longer do good in the discussion of poli tics. A fate more severe than that of Ireland, or Poland, or Hun gary, seems to await us; and we can only fold our arms in partial resignation, awaiting that time when ajust Providence will lead us out of the land of bondage to peace and security. Avoiding everything that can exasperate our rulers, yielding a prompt obe dience to military ordei's and reg ulations, and devoting ourselves as far as possible to the development of our resources, we may lessen to some extent the weight of the burt hen which has been imposed upon us. For we must remember that it'is not alone men who have to suffer, but innocent women and children; and, for their sakes, we must make our condition as easy as possible. Perhaps something~ may soon arise to relieve us of the burthen, arid restore the Union. as it ought to be. Let us be pru dent, patient and hopeful. * [Au gusta Press. No LITIGATION.-In these days of excessive litigation it is re freshing to learn that there is at least one community where there is compJaratively little suing. We learn from a friend that this is the case at Anderson. There have been only about one hundred and thirty cases entered there thus far, and apparently there is little disposition to enter more. The Sheriff and Clerk are represented as lounging in front of the Court House, and the lawyers as sitting in their offices enjoying their oti um cum dignitate. All honor to Anderson ! her people have shown themselves worthy of all commen datio.-Greenville .Mountaineer. PAPER PANTALETTs.-Amongthe new devices of the day are paper panteletts for ladies. A company has been organized at Mechanics Falls, Me., to manufacture borders to ladies' drawers and children's pantaletts-an ornamental appur tenance to be buttoned to the gar ment which may be readily re placed when soiled. A Chicago husband disappeared last summer, and his wife shortly after obtained a divorce. Now he has reappeared, saying that "he only went away to teach his wife a lesson," and as the pair have been remarried, it is fair to assume that she has learned it. The largrest county in Texas ech itas asahst, AGRICULTURAL. We publish the annexed account of the trial of a steam-plow, which took place at the grounds of the Mechaiiics' and Agricultural Asso ciation. of New Orleans. Mr. Max Eyth, late engineer in chief to the Pa^ha of Egypt, exhibited the machine, manouvring it after the manner of the Egyptians, and clearly proved the utter inability of a freedman to turn up mud at all, in comparison with this won derful invention. The planters present at the trial are said to be "enraptured" with the steam-plow; so that we may expect to hear of a speedy decline in the price of mules and the wages of freedmen, in that section. Says the Crescent: "The plow moves between two engines with such ease and celerity, guided by one man, that the work of forty ordinary plows, with all the necessary hands and accom paniments, can be performed in twenty-four hours, and every moment of favorable weather may be improved with such prompti tude and certainty that no time is lost in preparing the soil for what ever crop may be designed- The advantages of this wonderful im provement need only to be seen to satisfy all who are interested in agriculture, of its adaptability to our soil, and the economy and practicability of its working on a large or small scale. It is such an enterprise as should interest every planter and merchant in the State, and promises yet to revolutionize the system ofSouthern agriculture. We can ill afford to let planters of Egypt, who have tested this machine, surpass us in enterprise in the culture of our great staple, and with the advantages of the steam-plow, we may vie with the world in wealth and productive ness. Sheep vs. Other Stock. The following briefly enumerates some of the advantages of keeping sheep Tney make the quickest returns for the investment in them, being ready to eat at three or four months old, and yielding: a valu able fleece at one year old, And perhaps a lamb also. Their subsistence is cheaper than that of any other domestic animals-grass and stock fodder being all they will require at any season. They supp!y the family at all seasons, with the most wholesome and the most delicious meat, of the most convenient size for family use. They present valuable products in two forms, their wool and their flesh,both of which are adapted to home consumption, and for sale, and both of which are adapted to either domestic or distant markets. The transportation of them to market alive is cheaper than of gy other live stock (not blooded) of the same value, and the same is true also of their wool compared with other and similar agricultural products. Wool may be more easily and safely., kept in expectation of a, better market, than any other and similar product, as it is less liable to fire, insects, rats or rotting. An investment in them is self enlarging. and rapidly so, by their annual increase, while their wool pays much in the way of interest at the same time, which is not true of many, if of any similar investments. Sheep, here, have but one enemy, the dog, and his b>rother, ignoramus legislator ; who, not having the capacity to compre hed the w~hole subject, and to explain it to his constituents, al lows the dog to run at large unres trained by law, and thereby this inestimable value is almost entire ly lost to the State.-Mrary7ld amer. Fattening Swine. Many farmers do not commence fattening their swine till October. This is not the best system of hog management. Hogs that are to be slaughtered about the first of December or January, should be well fed, with scrupulous regulari ty, three times every day. It is not best to "stuff" fattening swine in the former part of the season, unless they have attained a desir able size. Hogs should be kept growing rather than to allow them to almost subsist on grass, till within two months of the time when they are to be slaughtered, and then crowd them by heavy feeding. The quantity of feed should be increased from week to week, as the animals will take a larger amount. Furthermore, it is infinitely better to have all kinds of grain ground quite fine before it is fed out. It is also an excel lent practice, when feeding fatten ing swine, to provide three vessels, each one to contain about as much as is fed at one time. Then let the meal be softened by soaking in water about twenty-four hours before it is fed. A still better practice is to scald meal of all kinds previous to feeding it.-New York Times. TheBaltimoroTranscript, speak ing of the great increase of the trade in wool in the United States, says :-"The Southern States are better adapted to sheep husban dry than any portion of the world, and we would specially commend this branch of enterprise to the attention of their people. The idea entertained by some South erners that the South is too warm for sheep to flourish, is entirely without foundation. Any part of Maryland or Virginia is admirably adapted for sheep raising. The whole South has a most decided advantage over other parts of the United States for the production of wool, in soil, climate and abun dance and variety of' grasses. The winter feeding of the most favored part of the North averages one hundred and fifty days, and costs, under the miost favorable circum stances, 271 cents per pound ; while in the Southern States it is not necessa;'y to feed in winter, except under the most extraordi nary circumstances. The South ern States, including those west of the Mississippi river, embrace ran area of four hundred and fifty thousand square miles, or two hundred and eighty-eight million square acres. The attention to sheep husbandry need not impair the cultivation of the great South ern Staples. RAIsE PRoVISIoNS.-The New Orleans Picayune, in remarking upon the policy of devoting less attention to the cultivation of cot ton and more to the raising of provisions, says : In the name of common sense let our planting people grow their own corn, and make their own bread and meat. Do this first. and give up the exploded idea.that "cotton is king." And when home wants are supplied then grow cotton, and the country will grow. rcher. If the whole South could be in duced to adopt a self-sustaining policy by making their own food and raiment, and give the balance of their time to.the culture of cot ton, no people on earth would be as rich as we would soon be, A season is past, and another rop of cotton has been added to the records ; but as far as its visi ble effects canbesdenonthe wealth f the Southern country, it had as ell not have been made. A mil ion bales have been counted, Worth a hundred millions of dol ollars. But it has gone-gone limmering to help other people, ad to enrich other pockets. There s nothing left of it. No more oney is in the South than before it wa gathered. Some may ask, where is it ? We point them to the huge heaps of freight and produce daily landed at the wharf, and which, the moment they touch the shore, are whoeled away to the railroads and coast stca i, ers to feed the farming people. - : CRoPS AND MANURE-The South ern Cultivator, now published at Athens, and the best Southern agricultural journal, adviseS its readers not to attempt to Cultivatt land unless it is well mannere<f This is sensible adviceran<-the editor goes on to show facts and figures, which we condense.into a few lines. It will cost-as much to plant and cultivate ten acres :f poor land as it does the saule ez tent of good soil, and the sane hands that manage the poor soilS can do as much on the better lands The Cultivator advises its rca, ders to invest a few dollars in fer: tilizers, and thereby make two o three hundred per cent. on the in vestment. A judicious application of these manures would bring in a good return and- show a pTeasin balance on the credit side of .The: ledger when the annual balaea is made up. KISsING THE WRONG M& .r-The Petersburg (Va.) Express tels Yfe following good story: A modest young gentlemin r the country, while passing l6ig one of our streets yesterday, m two young ladies-to him ytrfe strangers. le evidently resen1 bled some handsome and ftoirite F cousin of theirs, for as so'n; they laid eyes on him, the gave him a. very cordial greetingie pressed themselves as yery glacd' see "cousin John," and -extending two pairs of very tempting *ips in token of their sincerity It . wa not until the kisses had bees given and received that the fa|l ones discovered their 2iistake. though the gentleman in qnestio, saw it from the beginning. Yet was he so overcome hy- hia une pected fortune .that it was -oeseh time ere he recovered his.presese of mind, It's an ill wind- that' blows good to 'nobody dhat "coasin John" misssed iii this iA stance somebody else got. [ AuguseX Phee. The Memphis Avalanche rioticas the case of Col. Harb'ut, formed4y of the Confederate army, who is now dying in the City Hlospital, irn Memphis, from the effects of hav' ing s-wamn the Mississippi in esea ping from a band of jayhawkers. After the wvar, he returned to. h home, at Waverly, Missodlri, con-' trarv to the advide of his friends, as he had been outlawed. by ihe radical Legislature. He reached the spot to fiidx his dwelling a smouldering ruin, it having -beenk set on fire, and his children bav,. ing been burned alive in it. While he was gathering their remains, he was set upon by a par'ty of over 100 men, from whom he barely es~ caped in the manner stated, I3M3IGRA TION TO TUE WEsT.-lt isstated1 that thc comning spring will witness a larg<r emigration from Northern Europe to this country than has ever before 0ev curred. in wiew of this fact the legisla ture of several of the Northwesters States are discussing propositions' look. ing to some action that shall 'secure to them some of the benenits of this immiw gration. In the Indiana Legislatore a bill has been intrcduced for the appoint. ment of a board of emigration, consisting of five members, for this purpose. In the Minnesota Legislature it .is proposed to print a hundred thousand copies asf pamphlet in the English, German and Scandinavian languages, setting forjji the inducements which that State pressaitS to such emigrants. The Madison (W1fs consin) Journal urges similar actt by the Legislature of that State. Co-rroN AND Coni.-The New Qrleans Crescent says:. Cotton is low. Its net return to the planter, after paying tax, freight,ecommis sion and expenses, is not more than it was before the war, and the expenses of raising it, yet to-come out, is terrible. Is not this enough to satisfy us that it is to our interest to raise more con .an4 less cotton ? The Petersburg (Va.) Leader created an excitement the other day by announc. ing its intention of publishing the names of ll laies of fifty vnrs and unwards.