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THREE DOLLARS A YEAR,] FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE. [INVARIABLY .IN ADVACE, VOL. III. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 1,1867. NO. 18. THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MOlNING, At Newb, ry C. H., By THOS. F. & R. H. GRENEXEX, TEEMS, $8 PER ANNUM, IN CURRENCY OR PROVISIONS. Tayment required Invariably in advance. Mariage notices, Funeral Invitationa, Obitu stie, and Communications subserving private baae, are charged as advertisements. WM. F. NANCE Clon Hroker, BaDkiog and COMMISSION AGENT, Newberry, S. 0., OfTICE IN REAR OF GRIERSON'S DRUG STORE. Advances on Cotton to reliable houses in Oharleston, S. C., New York and Liverpool. Exchange on Charleston r.nd New York in sunis 3 wanted. Jan. 23-4-tf. W.B. McKellar, SURGEON DENTIST, Would most respectfully state to the public that he has moved in his new roomg 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 ' fes will work at one-fourth price. At the same time I would say to all who are indebted to me, that they would find it Iey much to their interest to call and settle soon or they will be sued. Feb 13 tf Wm. H. WEBB, Of Newberry C. H., So. Ca., wrrs ZINN ILIIIHi &10, Staple and Fancy DRY C00DS, Nos. 80 and '82 Leonard-st., (West of Broadway,) New York. The subscriber would state that his con nection with the above house enables him to sell his goods at a considerable reduction below present market prices. . anunrr 9 Wt. H. W. WANTED. For ENGLISH ACCOU,.NT EXCLUSIVELY WOOL, Or Unsb rn Sheep Skins. Market prices paid in cish, or Cloth ex ' changed. WM. F. NANGE. Office in rear Grierson's Drug Store, New berry, S. C. dec 12 6m Notice. JDaodore Gonin and James McIntosh,both of the Towa of Newberry, in the State of South Carolina, have formed a limited part ners~i for the transaction of a General Drug Busi*sss Newberry, South Carolina, un der partnership name and style of T. Gonin, in which Theodore Gouin is a gene. ral prerand James McIntosh is a special p ~:tto carry on which partnership bus mness James Mcintosh has contributed two thousand dollars, and which partnership commences on this the 26 h day of March. and continues until the expiration of three months after one partner has given notice to the other of his intention to dissolve the partnership. ~JAMES McINToSH. Dec 27 6 T. GOUTIN. .7. 1. TEsmousI. AL.a MACAULY. STENHOUSE & M\ACAULY. (ounIsslon Merchants, For the ssle of Cotton, Cotton .Yarns, Sheet-. lu. aa Str, etc., and for the purchase of 663 Pearl Street, Xew York, 1 8 66. Consignments tous from any point in the .South ully protected by Insurance as soon as shipped. aug ly XSW.. CHAPMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, NEWBER?RY C. H., S. C. Will attend to business entrusted to his care. tr70ffBee at Bookstore. Feb. 6 LEWIS BUTLER, FASHIONABLE BARBER and HAIR DRESSER, RESPECTFULLY anniounces to the gen tlemen of Newberry, that he has opened at the old shop, opposite the Court House, and next to Messrs. I. M. Suber & Co., where he will be happy to wait upon all in the exercise of his profession. His object is to please the most fastidious taste, and the keeping of his shop shall be after the most unexceptionable style. Shaving, Trinmmi ng, Shampooing, and Hairdying executed in the most approved manner. Jan. 2.3-4-tf. Special Notice. Thia is to certify that Jemime Ste wart, a Mulatto. girl 12 years old is regularly bound to me for seven years as an apprentice. She was stolen away by one freed woman, Julia Stewart in November last, -and hired out by the said Julia Stewart. The said girl has been in the employment of W 11. Folk during her absence from me, he has been notified to discharge and send home the said girl. Now :I hereby forwarn all persons, white or colored from hiring, cm pioying or detaining the said Jemimie Stew art'under full penalty of the law. April 171 ut - MICHAEL WER~TR Military Orders. We make the following extracts of general interest from General Orders No. 12 and Special Orders No. 23, issued, on Monday last, by General Sickles : [General Orders No. 12.] PAR. X. The sale of spiritious liquors by any person or persons to soldiers, sailors, or marines in~ the service of the United States, is hereby prohibited ; and anyper son so offending, procuring for, or giving away to any soldier, sailor, or marine, any spirituous liquors, will be brought to trial before a military tribunal, and shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $100, nor less than $50, or imprisoned for a period not exceeding two months. And any person giving information of any violation of this order, shall, upon conviction of the person accused, be entitled to receive one-fourth of the fine imposed and collected. Post Commanders will require sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, and the police force within their commands, to report to them any violation of millitary orders, and arrest the guilty parties. PAR. XI. Post Commanders will exercise a supervision over all mag istrates, sheriffs, deputy she riffs, constables and police within their commands, and will, when ever necessary for the preserva tion of order and the efficient dis charge of their duties, assume command of the police force. The Military Sub-Districts of North and South Carolina are discontinued. The -territory embraced within this command 'is divided into Posts as follows * * * * * 1. The Military Post of Char leston, to embrace the State Dis tricts of Charleston, Colleton, and Berkeley, and the adjacent islands to be commanded by Brevet Brig adier-General 11. B. Clitz, Lieuten ant-Colonel 6th Infanti-y. Head qui.rters at Charleston, S. C. Garrison: Headquarters, and Com panies A, D, F, and I, 6th Infan try, and Companies D), and F, 40th In fan try. 2. The Military Post of' Hilton Head, to embrace the State Dis trict of Beaufort and adjacent is lands ; to be commanded by Bre vet Capta.in James Chester, 1st Lieutenant 3d Artillery. Head quarters at Hilton Head. 3. The Military Post of George town, to embrace the State Dis tricts of Georgetown and I{orry; to be commanded by Brevet Major E. W. H. Reed, Captain 8th In fantry. Headquarters at George town, S. C. 4. The Military Post of Aikeni, to embrace the State Districts of Barnwell and Edgefield ; to be commanded by Brevet Major L. Walker, Captain 5th Cavalry. Headquarters at Aiken, S. C. 5. The Military post of Darling ton, to embrace the State Distriets of Williamsburg, Clarendon, Mar ion, Darlington, Marlboro and IChesterfield, to be commanded by Captain HI. S. Hawkins, 6th In fantry. Headquarters at Darling ton, S. C. 6. The Military Post of Colum bia, to embrace the State Districts of Orangeburg, Sumter, Kershaw, Richlan-d and Lexington ; to be commandled by Brevet Brigadier General J. D. Green, Colonel 6th Infantry. HIeadlquarters at Co lumbia, S. C. 7. The Military Post of New berry,-'to embrace the State Dis tricts of Newberry, Laurens and Abbeville ; to be commanded by Brevet Major J. M'Cleary, Cap tain 6th Infantry. Headquarters at Newberry, S. C. 8. The Military Post of Ander son, to embrace the State Dis tricts of Anderson, Greenville and Piekens ; to be comrnanded by Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel A. T. Smith, Captain 8th Infantry. Headquarters at AndIerson. 5. C. 9. The UMitar Pest of Tlirm Ville, to embrace the State Districts C of Spartanburg and Union; to be commanded by Brevet Lieutenant- c: Colonel J. N. Andrews, Captain t] Bth Infantry. d 10. The Military Post of Ches- ti Ler, to embrace the State Districts a: )f York, Chester, Fairfield and tl Lancaster ; to be commanded by o: Brevet Major D. D. Lynn, Captain E 3th Infantry. Headquarters at t< Chester. s< Special Orders No. 23.] e] PAR. 1, Special Orders, No. 21, ;urrent series, from these Head- a: :uarters, which establish a Pro- a c ost Court within the Military S Post of Aiken, S. C., are hereby so o) modified that no sentence affect ng the liberty of any person shall g be excused until it is approved by e: Lhe Commanding General; and it is S Eurther ordered, that white per- t( ;ons charged with murder, man- li slaughter, rape or arson on the a )erson or property of persons of a ,olor, and persons of color charged is with like offences against the per- h sons or property of white persons, r< will be brought to trial before a si lilitary Commission ; the accused g will be taken into military custo- a] ly, and the evidence in the case, si with charges, forwarded to these t] Eleadquarters. h T.Tn FOLLY <OF THE DAY.-There t] s a dreadful ambition abroad for being "genteel." We keep up ap- h pearances too often at the expense )f honesty ; and, though we may aot be rich yet we must seem to be "respectable," though only in it :he meanest sense,-in mere vul- P ;ar show. We have not the cour- 0 ige to go patiently onward in the P sondition of life in which it has )leased God to call us ; but must? ieeds live in some fashionable g ;tate, to which we ridiculously )lease to call ourselves, and all to ratify the vanity of that unsub- e: tantial, genteel world, of which a we form a part. There is a con Atant struggle and pressure for e: ront seats, in the social amphi- l. leatre ; in the midst of which all t oble, self-denying resolves is trod len down, and many fine natures re inevitably crushed to death. t: What waste, what misery, what c bankruptcy, come from all this d ambition to dazzle others with t* th glare of apparent worldly sue- a :ess, we need not describ)e. These c mischievous results show them- ~ selves in a thousand ways,-in theS rank frauds committed by nmen who dare to be dishonest, but dG ~ not dare to seem poor ; and in the ' icsperate dashes at fortune, ins which the pity is not so much for ' those who fail, as the hundreds ofr innocent families who are so often 8 involved in their ruin.s [Homae Journal. t An intelligent London corres pondent of the New York Herald, a writing on t.he 6th of March, says: ti I am inclined to think if we get ~ things settled in America, and ar- a range our differences with England j before the end of this year, that c the. next European mania for spec- s ulation may turn toward the Uni- 3 ted States, very likely to the pur'- s chase of Southern lands, and grand a plans of emigration. In another b year something must be done with a the vast accumulation of money r now lying idle here and on the z continent. The United States is e in high favor. If we have no fi serious mishap, this will increase. c The lavish expenditures of Ameri cans in Paris and elsewhere, backed r as it is in most cases by unques tioned and rapidly acquired wealt h, f is making a serious in, pression up- e on Europeans.f A long time ago, a little boy twelve years old, on his way to Vermont, stoppedl at a country tavern and paid for his lodgingr ad breakfast by sawing wood, instead of asking i tas a gift. Fifty s years later the same boy passed the same little inn as George Pea body, the banker, whose name i the synonymi of magnificient char ities-the honored of two hemis phees.. I rov. Perry on the Situation. We find the following communi ition from Hon. B. F. Perry in 1e Columbia Phcenix of last Thurs ay. It will be seen that this dis nguished politician and consist at Union man differs widely with 1e majority of the leading citizens E this and other Southern States. [is views will receive careful at mtion from the people of this ,ction, and will doubtless influ ice many in their action: "The United States shall guar ltee to every State in this Union republican form of government." ection 4, Article iV, Constitution the United States of Americ . Under the authority, the Con ress of the United States, after tcluding from their seats the nators and Representatives of mn Southern States, has estab shed in all of the excluded States military government, absolute ad unlimited in its powers ! It well known that these States ave exhausted their power and sources in a gallant and heroic :ruggle for independence and self overnment. They now have no lternative but unqualified submis on to the military despotism irown over them. It is to be oped, and it is generally believed, at the military commanders in e Southern States will exercise eir despotic powers wisely and umanely. It is the administra on of a government, and not the >rm of a government which makes odious and oppressive. A des otism, wisely, justly and virtu asly administered, is the most crfect government that can be es tblished. It is the government F' God, established by him for the ovcrnment of the universe. Five or six months ago, South arolina, with all the other South :"n States, rejected, with scorn id indignation, the constitution amendment, which proposed to telude from office their leading Len, and'reduce their representa on in Congress, unless tbey per itted universal negro suffrage. 'ow, it is proposed by the mili try bill not only to exclude this ass of persons from office, but to isfranchise them and exclude em from voting in all elections, nd at the same time to enfran 'ise their former slaves and give niversal suffrage to the negro. trange to say, that there are tany per'sons in the Southern tatcs whose high sense of honor -ould not let them adopt the con :itutional amendment, who aie ow urging the p)eople to voluinta ily swallow the military bill, re ardless of honor, principle or con istency. I am happy to know Lat they are secessionists and ever were Union men. The inquiry is, which, then, shall r do ? Whilst I have been wri ing, the telegraph brings the lorious news that Mississippi nd Georgia have appealed to the idiciary for the protection of their onstitutional rights as sovereign tates of the American Union. Voud to God that South Carolina tood lby the side of Mississippi nd Georgia, in this their last no le effort to maintain their dignity nd honor as States and the just ights and liberties of their citi ens. If this last grand, expiring ffort in favor of freedom should ll, then the South will have to nietly meet the tyranny of Con ress; but, in meeting, she need ot embrace the hideous thing. XThen the military order is issued rir a registration of voters, let very matn, not disfranchised, go rrward and register his name. hen the election is ordered for a onvention, it will be the duty of very voter to east his vote for he wisest, best and most trust rorthy men who are eligible to eats in that convention. This auch'hie is forced to do for self >rotection, andl to keep the State lovenment from falling into the ands of unworthy and base men. then endorse on his ticket, ".No Convention." . If he is a patriot and an honorable man, he cannot de sire the change which the military bill contemplates, and he should not vote a lie ! With the cunning which always characterizes the tyrant, Congress has enacted that the people them selves shall endorse the call of a convention, in order to giv.e legal validity to its acts. Without this endorsement, the whole proceed ing might be regarded as forced on the States by the military gov ernment, and, therefore, null and void. Hence, the trick of making the people endorse the call of a convention. It is to be hoped that they will not be caught by this cunning device, and that they may be able to influence their freedmen to act with them. But should a majority of the voters be for a convention, then it is to as semble, and riot otherwise. When it assembles, the honor and desti ny of the State will be in its keep img. Bu't if the people should vote "no convention," what then ? The honor and dignity of the States will, at least, nOt be thereby sac rificed by their citizens. We shall remain as we are,under a military rule, till there is a reaction at the North. It has already commenced in.Connecticut, and will, sooner or later sweep over the whole North western and Middle States. Then we shall be restored to our rights in the Union, with honor unsullied and the right of suffrage un changed. Let us await this Dem ocratic triumph, be it a hundred years, rather than seek new asso ciations with our Black Republi can tyrants and oppressors, and be guilty of the baseness of aban doning our friends at the North, who have nobly defended our cause for two years past, and sacrificed themselves in the struggle for Southern rights and constitutional freedom. If we are unwilling to bear the ills to which we arec subjected, for the maintenance of honor and principle, then we deserve on1 destiny. It is said that, if we d not accept the degrading terms now offered, worse will be imposed! HTa, e we any assurance that worse may not be imposed, if we do ac cept ? Like the woman who con sented to her own dishonor to save the life of her husband, and was then made to witness his execu tion ! There is no faith in tyrants. Threats of confiscation are futile. Almost every one has been par doned, by taking the amnesty oath or by special application. Th( Southern people may be robbed and murdered, but their property cannot be confiscated. In order to debauch prominent Southern men, offers have beer made in Congress to remove their disabilities, and, it would seem, not without success! Threats tc the many, a.nd bribes to a few, is the policy adopted for radicalizing the Southern States. With universal negro suffrage and debauched politicians, we may bid farewell to :'i hope of republi can institutions. Virtue and in. telligence alone can sustain a rc public. When the negro has ac quired intelligence to understand. his political rights, and property to make him feel an interest in thc proper exercise of them, he should be allowed to vote. This principl( has been adopted in most of the Northern States, and is wiseQ and. just. But it is wicked to pu ballots into the hands of those who will be the passive tools o0 their employers, or the mischier ous agents of Black Republicar emissaries. Nothing can be more unjust and iniquitous than the discriminating disfranchisement of the military bill. A Union man, whose life has been spent in trying to maintair the integrity of the Union, but whc was a inembe)r of the Legislature or a judge teon or welve vears ago and who after his State seceded, fed or clothed a son in the Con federate army, is disfranchised ! But the man whose 'whole life may have been spent in treason able efforts to destroy the Union and involve the-country in a bloody civil war, who was a leading mem ber of the Secession Convention, and afterwards a distinguished General in the Confederate army, hurling his command against the United States forces in a hundred bloody fields of battle, is not dis franchised, unless he had previously taken an oath to support the Con stitution of the United States ! There are many instances of this character which might be men tioned, -showing the injustice and folly of this disfranchisement. It is believed that neither Gens. Beauregard, Hill, Magruder, or Gen Lee himself, the illustrious commander-in-chief of the Confed erate forces, is disfranchised. 'But the humble Union magistrate, who relieved the distressed of a son or friend in the Confederate army, is disfranchised ! There is not the renotest hope or probability of the Southern States being restored to the Union till after the next Presidential elec tion. Why, then, shall we volun tarily degrade ourselves, and give up our dearest political rights for a delusion ? If dishonor must come, do not embrace it. If we are to wear manacles, let them be put on by our tyrants, not by ourselves. If a man threatens to kick you, self-respect would forbid your ex posing your person to him and asking him to kick you at once and be done with it. We have lived already two years under military rule, in great poverty and distress, and have been cheered all the time by the consciousness that we are not a degraded, though a conquered people.-We can con tinue to live in the same way two years longer, or, if need be, ten years, and feel a pride in knowing that we have maintained our honor, and made every effort pos sible to preserve our freedom and constitutional rights. A man who feels that he has dishonored him self; is lost ; an d so it is with a people. Let us live quietly and peace ably, attending diligently to our various vocations in life-obeying patiently the powers that be ; but never think of voluntarily voting away our rights as a State or our honor and freedcm as men. Let us trust in a returning sense of justice on the part of our oppres sors, which sooner or later must come. Have patience, forbearance and long suffering. The Southern States fought four long bloody years for what they believed to be a sacred right proclaimed by all the American people in their De claration of Independence. Can they not now afford to live four years longer out of that Union, rather than sacrifice their honor, their rights as States, and the great republican principles of freedom ? B. F. PERRY. A WIFE AGENoY.-The Culpeper (Virginian) Observer has this queer paragraph about a "wife agen cy": We have lately heard of a gen tleman who claims to have been in this business in Fauquier, who boasts of his success, saying he has been successful as to the num ber of marriages he has brought about, and in getting off some hard cases in the way of old maids. IIe has shown a list of one hundred and sixty-five names Sof females in Fauquier, many of whom, lie confesses, have not the ghost of a chance for matrimony ; but lie takes all the names he can get, which for five dollars he reg isters as candlidates for matrimo ny. He pointed to one name ex ultingly, which had been crossed off, saying she had tried before the war, and during the war-both sides, Fedl and Confed-"but I To the Citizens of this State who have lost their Legs during the recent War. For the purpose of carrying in to effect the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to provide Arti ficial Legs for all citizens of the State who have lost their legs dur ing the recent war," approved De cember 20th, 1866, caused a notice to be published to all Manufacturers of Artificial Limbs, to exhibit their specimens in the city of Columbia on the fourth Monday in~ March, and appointed a Board of Surgeons composed of Doctors A. N. Talley, Robert W. Gibbes and B. W. Tay lor, to examine the various speci mens submitted. They unanimously recommend ed the "Army and Navy Leg" of Dr. Bly, and his "Anatomical Leg," as combining more advantages than any others exhibited ; and I, therefore, concluded a contract with Dr. Bly, to furnish the citi zens of this State with the "Army and Navy Leg," at the price of $74.65 each, which amount is to be paid by the State. The cost of Dr. Bly's anatomical ball and socket-jointed leg preclu ded me from contracting for it, be cause the sum appropriated by the Legislature was insufficient to have furnished that leg to each citizen ; nevertheless, each person who chooses to do so, may, by paying. Dr. Bly from his own means, the additional sum of $75.35, secure this more perfect limb, the cost of which is $150. his office will be located in Chars leston, and but one trip is neees-. sary to be made there for the pur pose of having the imb properly adjusted to the stump. Before its delivery each leg will be inspected by a competent person. To procure a leg, the followiIng rules have been adopted 1. No person other than a citi zen of this State is entitled, under the Act of the .Legislature, to re ceive an Artificial Leg. 2. The person applying, must. appear before the Clerk of the Court for the District in. which he resides, and satisfy that officer that he is a citizen, that he lost his leg during the recent war; and is embraced within the provisions of the Act of the Assembly afore said. - The Clerk Will thereupon give such person an original and duplicate certificate, under the seal of the Court, certifying that the party is entitled to receive a leg. 3. The Clerks of the.Courts have had forwarded to them blank forms for measuring the stump, Each citizen will procure two of these on obtaining his certificates. After carefully making the meas urements, as directed in the form, he will enclose the original certifi eate and measurem ent to Dr. IDTJUGLAsSEBLY, Charl&8ton, S. a. The duplicate certificate he -will retain in his possession, until he receives notice that his personal presence is required, at Dr. BIy's office, for the purpose of adjusting the leg to the stump. Upon ex hibiting this certificate to the con ductors of the several railroads of the State, they will doubtless give him free transportation, going and returning, one time, the Legisla ture having in..the Act requested the Railroad Companies to furnish transportation free of cost~ and each conductor will make such en dorsement upon the certificate as will prevent it from being fraudu lently used again by the same or any other person. Dr. Bly will notify persons at what time it will be necessary for them to attend at his office in Charleston for the purpose of fit ting the leg to the stump. As two hundred And fifty or more of artificial limbs are to be supplied, considerable time will necessarily be consumed in their - manufacture, and yoh are request ed to practice patience in what may seem to you an unreasonable delay in procuring your limb. Dr. Bly advises, that unless some pressing emergency exists, the new leg shouldJ not be fitted to the stump during the warm sea son, and that the patieri himself will be most likely to obtain a sattis factory result by awaiting the return of cool weather. The Clerk of the Court will be entitled to charge their fees for their official certificate, but it is presumed that they will, under the circumstances, cheerfully ren der the service gratuitously. JAMES L. ORR, ao~nsmr o~f South CaroH?na.