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PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1801.
NIGHT THE DAY, THOU
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FOETID Y.
Dream Kot, but Work!
Proam not, hut work ! Mo hoi 1, be brave !
l ot not n I'oiviivd spult ornvo
F.scapofrora tnpk;) allotle 1 !
Thankful for toll mid danger bo;
Duty's high call will make thee lice
Thc vicious-tho besotted.
Think not Ihy share of strife, loo great -
Spoed to thy post, oreel, elate :
Strength from above is niven
To those who combat sin nial wrong;
Nor nsk how much, nor count bow long
They willi the foe have striven !
Wage ceaseless war 'gainst lawless might ;
Speak out the truth-..ct out the right :
Shield thc. defenceless.
Pe firm, be strong-improve the time
Pity the sinner-but for crime,
Crush it relentless !
Strive on, strive on, nor ever deem
Thy work completo, ('are not to seem,
Hut be. a Christian true;
Think, speak, nod act 'gainst mean device ;
Wrestle with tho c who snerifice
The many to tho few.
Forget thyself, bul bear in mind
The claims of sutfcrlng humankind ;
So shall the welcome night,
T'nseen, n'crlakc Ibee, and thy soul,
Sinking in slumber nt the goal,
Wake in eternal light !
_i ? _ _1 _.? J I 1 1 " 11 ..-.
ORIO-IN AL.
Letter from Dr. Folger.
PlCKKNSVH.?.K, S. C., April 1 Ith, 1SI37.
DRAU SIR : I regret that T cannot accept
your invitation to be nt our Court House at A
meeting tobe boldon tho 15th instant. I
have growu gray in tho service of-suffering
humanity, and now, that oge forbids such in- I
cessant (?oil, 1 would gladly serve my country :
in any capacity, requiring less physical labor, j
and more mental energy ; but circumstances |
boyond my control, preclude the possibility of
my being with you on that day.
I think, with you, that wc should act prompt
ly and harmoniously in accepting thc late
proposition made to us by Congress. In a
national point of view, wo need a Convention,?
?nd wo need ono to adopt somo plan, if possi
ble, to ameliorate thc sufferings of the people.
We have passed through a fiery ordeal ; ami
HOW, that a brighter day is da win og, it ho.
comes our duty to avail ourselves of thc pres- I
ent. opportunity of saving our country from ?
irretrievable,ruin, as this nitty b< the last suit
able occasion (?lb red us, Have not those,
once nailed une tummies, offered in moro llinn
we have any right to o's poul I !'? asking ns
to adopt tim Constitutional ?\ mond mont pro
posed a few months since, they only required
tts to curry out that principle PO plainly and :
fearlessly enunciated in that sacred instru- t
ment, drawn up and signed on tho 4th of July,
1776, and reiterated in our present State Con
stitution, where it declares that slavery shall
rxfft no longer among us. When wc so un
wisely rejected that proposition, instead of
passing a law forthwith, to confiscate our prop
crty, depriving us at once, of all the means of
support, those men with all that charity, al!
that magnanimity, characteristic of true greata
ness, have again opened their doors to ns.
They do not force us, as did our Legislature
'in 1800, to have ? Convention. Lut give us
nmple time for discussion, and siy we may
have a Convention to adopt u Constitution
which shall be left to tho people for ratification.
Shall we now bo guilty of self-immolation '(
Shall wo reject the last proposition also, un
der tho wretched delusion that wc were made
to command, and they to obey '{ History does
not furnish an instanco in which thu van
quished wero permitted to dictate terms of
settlement to the conqueror; nor was the at
tempt ever before made. Wc aro told that if
we accept the Amendment, wo reduce the
white man to a level with tho black. On tho
contrary, if wo educate thc black man, allow
him to read, speak, hear speeches, voto, and
exercise tho privilege of a FRISK MAN, it dero
gates nothing from our own character ; de
tracts naught from our merit; but raises him
towards a level, at least, with us. We can
not, consistently, call tho black man freo, and
deprive him of any legal or political right
which we enjoy. No law can bo passed to
equalize tho raocs morally and socially. This
deponds entirely upon the people themselves.
If, however, wo take thc blacks by tho hand,
establish for thom schools and colleges ; in
ftruct thom in the arts and sciences, and ele
vate them in tho scalo of humanity, so ns to
prepare thom for future usofulnoss; it would
mest assuredly injure not us ; and should wo
fail ia making them our equals, tho attempt
would be noble. Whilst intelligence is power,
it evidently lessens crime; heneo it becomes
our duty as patriots, ns well as humano phi
lanthropists and christians, to improve the
minds of th blacks by eduontit n.
While wo thoa endeavor to develop or im
prove the minds of both races, by a general
system of instruction, let us not forget to train
our own children to some kind of manual la
bor, that they may not be deficient in musen.
Isr powers, but bo blessed with sound minds
and vigorous constitutions. Tho history of a
FRANKLIN, a Sn KUM AN, a CLAY,, and others,
proves to us tho advantages resulting from tho
early training to habits of industry. Teach
.Otolibor, improts ovory mind, sud such
? un i versal intelligence and gond morals, and ?
I such prosperity und happiness, wo lin TO never 1
; beheld, ns will greet the eyes of our posterity |
I long after we ?hall have passed away. Au ?
important change hus taken place amongst us
within tho past twelve months. The heart of
tho truly christian patriot must throb with
emotions of delight to see tho secessionist and |
unionist meet together ns BKOTIIKR8.
Let us cultivate this fraternal feeling, nnd
if we bc politically diseased ; if thc baneful j
influence of that disease bc widely diffused,
permeating the most minute ramifications of j
our political organization, let us seek the cause, j
remove thc same, and endeavor to restore our
body politic to a sound and vigorous state of
health, hot. ns promote to ollice those most
noted for talent, intelligence, and VWT?E,
and Heaven will smile upon their efforts to
restore our beloved South to a high state of
prosperity. While we cultivate feelings of
friendship among ourselves, and while we
welcome the foreigner to our shores, let us not
forget that we have nuKTMUKN nt thc North,
nnd encourage tho ingenious artisan, the
learned barrister, and skillful physician, to
*ott!e in nur midst, whether he i? a native of
Maine or Massachusetts. I spent neut4 three
months of last year at thc North, and I assure
you that I was not only treated with universal
respect, but often with marks of true affection.
The patriotic and good men of thc North sym
pathise deeply with us in our distress, and are
ready, with their ample means, to come to our
relief when we show to them that we are true
to ourselves, our country and our God. Thc
recent course pursued by Senators W??.SON
and Sn KU MAN, and Mr. GHKKI.Y, nf New
York Oily, ought to be sufficient to satisfy ev
ery unprejudiced mind of thc truth of this.
1 was brought up in thc school of Jefferso
nian Democracy, tonk an active part, at the
early age of seventeen, in the State elections
of 1828, and in the Kail influenced nil I could
(both h/nrfc ?md white) to vote for Old Hick
ory. I continued to vote with that party un
til 1 came to this State in 1817. From my
arrival here ("finding the distinctive features of
the Democratic and Whig parties totally ob
literated.) 1 have hoon identified with thc
Union party. If I now understand the menn
ing of the tenn Democracy. T can certainly
lind ?nmr? ns pure Democrats in the Republi
can ranks of tim North, us cn,n,bo found io
the T)i'mn~v?f?o party. 1 rejoice that I have'
never been influenced hy sectional prejudice;
nnd hope tho day is not distant when overy
man among Its will feel (as I ever have) that
the wliula United States is his country, and
every part of thc Union his IIOMK. During
our late eventful struggle, I never could con
eeive it my duty, while declaring secession
wrong, to exert all my energies of mind and !
burly IN PRRPK'PUA'PI Nfl THAT WRONfl j and
my heart hied for those among our brave
young mon who sincerely believed that they
were in the army fighting against the true in
terest nf South Carolina as mueh as Musw
ell uart ts.
Thc dire conflict is over which has fifled
our country with widows nnd orphans, and
reduced many worthy families from a state of
afiluencc to absolute want. May th? dread
scourge have a salutary effeeb upon us as a nn
tlon. Hlind indeed must that man be who
fails to see thc hand of God in what we have
pissed through. Wo are again enjoying the
halcyon d vs nf pesco -bloused, soul n ni mn ting
I'KAOK. ': Till-: STA \\ SPA Ntl MOD
N10I5 " is nguiu Heating in tho breeze. M hy
it continue thus to float over as throughout
time, that after tho. hand which traces tiiese
lines shall have been pnralyzocV in death, my
youngest prattler, who is now playing around
me, may (if ho so desire) have tho opportuni
ty of planting it on rwy tomb, there to< wcivo
o'er my silent ashes until its last filament shall
bo wafted away.
I have written you, my dear sir, n long let
ter. .1 have expressed my sentiments freely.
In speaking thus phi italy, I have only oxer
ciscd that spirit of candor which I hope htis
evcr been and ever will be, a prominent trait
iu my character. May ti e spirit.of Him who
rules tho Universe, brood over your meeting
on tho 15th, that you may in your delibera
tions, pursue that eon i so calculated to impress
tho humane officer now commanding North
and South Carolina, with our just apprecia
tion of tho kindness manifested towards us by
those who were so reoontly in deadly conflict
with us, and of tho purity of our intentions ;
that he may speedily onll a Convention, and
all will ho well with us as an entire nation in
future.
Truly yours,
AL PH RD M. FOLGKIt.
Letter from Texas.
ACTON, HOOD COUNTY, Texas, )
March 17, 1807. J
DEAR SIR : According to promise, I avail
myself, this morning, of writing to you and
my many frionds, through your valuable pa
per, thinking that all who wish to hear from
me would vory likely get your papor. I do
not expect to describe tho Stato of Texas, hut
merely Hood county, ns that is nil that I am
well enough acquainted with to givo a fair de
scription of. At the outset, I will state that
I am very well pleased with this oounty, and
would not bc back in Dickens again upon no
considera (ion.
Hood oounty is a now county, taken off of
Johnson ?nd Erath Counties, with the Brazos
Ki vor running through nhout thc center of it,
containing about os much water, in oom m rm
time, ns the Keowee in your District. The
channel of thc River is deep and wide enough
to contain nil the water in time of thc highest
freshet-therefore it never overflows the lands
on it-runs very rapid and very crooked, re
sembling thc trail of n crawling snake ; tho
outside of thc bend is a very high and stony
bluff, the inside is perfectly level valley, of the
finest kimi of lands, some open Prairie, but
the most of it is timbered ; always timber on
the River hanks, from ono hundred to two
hundred yards in width-the valley* differing
in size-some containing ns much as five hun
dred acres. Thc soil is of a dark yellow col
or, a little sandy-thc saud very fine; the
river water is n linio salty Tho smaller
streams aro beautiful clear limestone water-.
very pure-rennin!' on gravel bottoms; thoy
also have deep, wo.o channels, sufficient to
contain all the water in time nf freshets, so
that none of the farms suffer from nn overflow
of water: The most of the valleys on the
small streams are black land, inclined to be
sandy, and very rich. The open Prairies arc
stony bluffs, gravelly ridges, and rioh valleys
of black, stickey soil-tho best of wheat land.
You may sow one field in wheat for ten years
in succession, producing the last year un equal
crop with thc lirst year. Tho lands here are
adapted to corn, wheat, oats, rye, cotton, and
vegetables of all kinds. Thc vegetables aro
not so sure a orop as thc corn and wheat ; the
carly and fall vegetables are the surest crop,'
owing to tho dry months in summer. Fruit
is not very good herc ; there are some poach
es, but no apples. There has been spine
years that the corn erop almost fails, but when
well worked, it yields a sufficient supply for
consumption. When tho seasons are good
the average yield is about forty bushels per
acre. The wheat crop is o very sure one, av
eraging fifteen bushels per aero. The people
hore live on flour bread. Cotton is not much
raised here. It is a now settled country, and
we have no cotton gins yet. There was some
cotton planted last year, which yielded eigh
teen hundred pounds per acre. Thc quanti
ty of land being prcpnicd for cotton this year
is lorger than it was last. Pino country for
sorghum cane. The people make their own
syrup. At least three-fourths of the lund i.n
Prairie.' The timber is very short and Rorub
hy, mostly postoak ; thc consequence is, we
live in small cabins, unless we build stone
bouses (stone is very plenty) or haul lumber
from Eastern Texas, ?.bout one hundred miles.
Hut hauling is cheap; we haul in thc sum
mer and fall, when wc do not feed our teams,
but let them live on grass, hitch up from four
to eight yoke of oxen to one wagon, and haul
off a load of flour, and return with n load of
lumber. There ure plenty of mills herc
some water and some steam mills. We have
excellent society for a now country, nnd it is
improving very fast, flood schools here.
Hr. J. N. !)OYLR is teaching school-making
some seventy or eighty dollars per month. We
have good churches. A large stone building
is now being ereoted in thc neighborhood for
thc purpose of a Masonic Hull and College,
and will bc completed th's Spring. Thc land
here is worth from ?2 to 85 per nore (im
proved) and rising. There is plenty of va
cant lands yet not located. According to thc
laws of thc State, o man is entitled to one
hundred and sixty acres to .""Ule it. He can
choose hts settlement on vacant land. There
is a lino range for st"ek here, and will be for
many years. No kind of stock is fed hero ex
cept thc stock used on the farm ; they should
be fed, hut can manage without, by having
two sets nf horses and work them one day at a
time. There arc many grown horses herc
which never atc a grain of oonv. The grass
hero grows large and fin?-sufficient to mow
if you choose, but it is never done ; it seems
to cure where it grows, and stook-livc on it-all
winter; hut somo old and young stock get
7?ry poor by tho tinto oreen grass springs up,
which is generally in Mareil. Steers- from
four to six years old and upward1, keep fut? nil
the time-sonic of tho Guest beef your eyes
over beheld.
1 have given my views of Hood. County,
Toxns. I will say to my friends in South
Carolina, who want good homes, if they are
able, to move to Texas, for there is some parts
of thc State that will suit them I have said
nothing concerning the health of thc country.
I seo no local causd for sickness ; tho people
sny it is very healthy, and their oppctironco
goes to prove thc fact. Game is pretty plen
ty. Wo sob from ono to twenty deer in a
hunch, and turkeys up to ns high as one hun
dred in a gang.
Please givo this publication for tho benefit
of my many friends; and perhaps you will
hoar from me again after wo are satisfied of
the yield of our crops.
Your friend and well wishor,
D S. 8TIUBMNG.
WOMAN SUWRAOK IN mn NORTHWKBT.
-Wisconsin takes tho lead in tho woman
suffrngo movement, tho Sonate having con
curred by n voto of 19 to 9 with the Assom
bly resolution, proposing to amend tl <> Con
stitution so as to extend suffrage to all persons
ovor tho ago of 21 years.
Tim Afriosn s?avo trado still flourishes.
Ovor six thousand have- been landed' i ir Cuba,
within a few months-.
BETRAY no trust; divulge no secret.
Important Orders from General Sickles.
?1 EA nu's 2D MILITARY DISTRICT,)
Ch II ri cst on, April 12, 18?7. j
In reply to several communications ad
dressed to these headquarters, in reference to
the proceedings of the omi authorities of
j South Carolina in the collectiou of taxes, the
j following letter of instruction from His Rx
j cellcncy the Governor to tho Cotnptrollor
j G noral is published for tho information of all
? o moor ned :
KXI'CUTI VK DEPARTMENT, S. C., )
|*3 Columbia, February li), 1807. J
; lion. S. L. Lrajdturt, Comptroller-General.
SIR: Upon conference with several of the
Tax-Collectors, ns well us the Attorney-Gener
al. I nm satisfied that the enforcement of the
Acts of the General Assembly, according to
their technical import, will bo very oppressive
to thc poor, who arc unable to pay choir taxes
and have no property, and who, in snob con
tingency, arc required to be arrested and con
fined in jail until they do pay the execution;
and it will impose a ruinous burthen on thc
State to pay for dieting all who may be ar
rested. When once placed in jail, there is no
power to release thc delinquent until the Leg
islature meets. In the present straightened
condition of tho finances of the State, it must
bo avoided, and you arc hereby directed to
issue a notice to the Sheriffs of the several
Districts, instructing them not to arrest and
put in jail any delinquent in a tax execution,
unless such Sherill', upon inquiry, shall ho
satislied that he or she is fraudulently con
cealing property, or withholding money be
longing to bim or ber ; and that, in every
case where bc believes the delinquent is una
ble, for want of means, to pay, that thc exe
cution shall be so endorsed, and no further
proceedings taken upon it. I have thc honor
to bc, very respectfully, yours, ?fcc.,
J A.MKS L. Oil lt, Governor.
L Tho Instructions of tho Governor will ho
carefully observed by Sheriffs and all other
officer*. Sh cri lt's or other officers charged
with the execution of process for the collection
of taxes, will be required to report to the com
manding olliccr of tho post in which their du
ties are performed, thc names of all parties
imprisoned for the non-payment of taxes, thc
'amount ol' tax duo, nun thc amount of costs
and fees, together with thc evidence showing
that bc or she is fradulently concealing
firoperty or withholding money belonging tn
tim or her."
Post commanders will see that the require
ments of this circular ure observed.
" Uv command nf Major-G en. D. F.. Sickles.
"J. V,'. Ct.ovs, Capt. 88th Inf'try,
A. 1). C. and A. A. A. G.
IIKAIIQ'RS 2D M i'M TA RV DISTRICT,")
Charleston, April ll, 1807. J
Genna, Orden No. 10.
The general destitution prevailing among
thc population of this military district cannot
bo relieved without nffording means for the
development of their industrial resources. Thc
nature and extent of the destitution demand
extraordinary measures. Thc people arc borne
down by a heavy burden of debt ; thc cropi
of grain nnd garl?n produce failed last year:
many families have been deprived of shelter:
many more need food and clothing ; needfu
implements and auxiliaries of husbandry an
very scarce ; tho laboring population in nu
moroua localities arc throutoocd with atarva
tion, u'des? supplied with food by tho CovoU!
meut of the UnUcd States j thc inability of T
large portion oflho people to pay taxes lcavef
the local authorities without adequate moaiu
of relief ; and tho gravity of the situation ii
increased by thc general disposition shown by
creditor. to enforce, upon an impoverished
people, the immediate collection of all claims.
To suffer all this to go on without restraint
or remedy is to sacrifice the general good.
The rights of oreti i tors shall be respected ; hut
the appeal of want and suffering, must bc lveed
ed. Moved by these consideration,!), tho fol
lowing regulations uro announced. They wil
continue in force, with auch modifications ai
thc occasion may require, until tho civil gov
cr?ment of thc respective States shall'bc es
tublishcd, in accordance with thc require
raents of the Government of thc United States
Tho Commanding General earnestly desire
and confidently believes that tho observanci
of these regulations, and tho co operation of al
persons concerned in employing fairly am
justly tho advantages still remaining to them
will mitigate thc distress now existing; ant
thnfc tho avenues of industry, cntcrpriso ant
the organisation thus opened, will oontributi
to the portminent welfure and future happi
ness of tho people :
I. Imprisonment for debt is prohibited
unless the defendant in execution shall be con
viotod of a fraudulent concealment or disposi
tion of his property, with intent to hinder, de
lay and provont the creditor in tho recovery o
his- debt or domand'. And tho proeeedtog
now established in North and South Carolina
respectively, for tho trial and detepu?inat?on o
such questions, may ho ndoptedl
II. Judgmonts or decrees, for tho pnymon
of monoy, or onuses of action- arising botweci
tho 19th of December. 1800, and tho 15th o
May, 18flf)y. shall not bo enforced by oxecu
tion against tho property or tho person of th
d?fendent/. Proceedings in such causes of ac
tion, now ponding, shall bc stayed, nnd no sui
or process shall bo hereafter instituted or oom
menecd for any such causes of action.
Iii. Sheriffs, coroners nod constables are
hereby directed to suspend for twelve calen
der months tho sale of all property upon exe
cution or process, on liabilities contracted
prior to the l?th of December, 1800, unless
upon tho writton consent of thc defendants,
except in cases where the plaintiff, or, in bis
, absence, bis agent or attorney, shall upon |
? oath, with corroborativo testimony, allego und i
? prove that the defendant is romoviug, or in- !
tend fraudulently to remove, bis property be- !
yond the territorial jurisdiction of tho court.
The sale of real or personal property by fore
closure of mortgage is likewise suspended for
twelve calendar months, except in cases where
the payment of interest money, accruing since
the 15th day of May, 1805, shall not have
been made before the day of sale.
IV. Judgments or decrees entered or en
rolled, on causes of action arising subsequent
to the 15th of May, 1865, may be enforced
by execution against the property of the de
fendant; and in tho application of the money
arising under such executions, regard shah !
bc bad to the priority of liens, unless in cases
where the good faith of any lien shall be
drawn ill question. In such eases, the USUtd
mode of proceeding adopted in North and
South Carolina, respectively, to determine
that question, shall be adopted.
V. All proceedings for the rccoveiy of mon
ey under contracts, whether under seal or by
parole, the consideration for which was the
purchase of negroes, are suspended. Judg
ments or decrees entered or enrolled for such
causes of action, shall not be enforced.
V. All advances of moneys, subsistence,
implements und fertilizers, loaned, used em
ployed or required for thc purpose of aiding
the agricultural pursuits of the people, shall
be proteoted. And the existing laws, which
have provided the most efficient remedies iu
such eases for the lender, will be supported
and enforced. Wages for labor performed in
the production of the crop, and .payment of
the crop shall be a lien on the crop, sud pay
ment of the amount due for such wages shall
be enforced by the like remedies provided to
secure advances of money and other means for
the cultivation of the crop.
VII. In all sales of property under execu
tion or by order of any court, there shall be
reserved outof the property of any defendnnt,
I who bas R family dependent^ ?pon hisr or ber
labor, a dwelling house and appurtenances and
twenty acres of land for the use and occupa
tion of thc family of thc defendant, and nec
essary articles of furniture, apparel, subsist
ence, implements of trade, husbandry or oth
er employment, of thc value of five hundred
dollars. The homestead exemption shall in
sure only to the benefit of families-that is to
say, to parent or parents, and child or chil
dren. In other cases, the exemption shall
extend only to clothing, implements of trade
or other employment usually followed by the
defendant, to the value of ono hundred dol
lars. The exemption hereby made shall flo*
be waived or defeated by the act of the de
fendant. The exempted property of the de
fendant shall be ascertained by the cheriff or
other officer enforcing the execution, who.shall
specifically describe the same and make a re
port thereof in each case to the court.
VIII. The currency of the United S'ntes,
declared hythe Congress of tho United States
to bc a legal tender in the payment of all
debts, dues and demands, shall be so recog
nized in North and South Carolina. And all
cases in which thc same sba =be tendered in
payment, and refused by any public officer,
.?til be at once reuortcd to these headquarters
orto the CVunaiiuin" Officer of the Post'
within which such officer resides.
IX. Property of an absont l?sbtor, or one
ohnrged ns auch, without fraud, wlietiiefcorp
8?st?ng of money advanoed for the purpose of
agriculture, or appliances for the cultivation
of the soil, shall not be taken under the pro
cess known as "Foreign attachment;" but
the lien created by any existing law shall not
be disturbed, nor shall the possessions or the
usc of the same be in anywise interfcrred
with, except in tho exooution of a judgment
or final decree, in cases where they are au
thorized to be enforced.
X. In suits brought to recover ordinary
debts known ns actions cx-contntctu, bail as
heretofore authorized shall not be demanded
by the suitor, nor taken by the sheriff or oth
er officer serv'mg the process. In suits for
the trespass, libel, wrongful conversion of
property, and other cases known os notions
cxdelicfo. boil na beretoforo authorized may
bo dofuanrded and taken. The prohibition of
bail in eiises ex contractu shall not extend to
parties about to leavo the Stato; but thc fact
of intention most bo clearly established by
proof.
XI. In criminal proceedings, the usual rec
ognizances shall be required and taken by the
proper oivil officers heretofore authorized by
law to take tho same : Provided, That upon
complaint being made to any magistrate or
other person Authorized by law to issue a war
rant for breach of the peace, or nny criminal
effence, it shall bo tho duty of suoh magis
trate or officer to issue his warrant upon tho
recognizance of the complainant to prosecute,
without recruiring hun to give scourity on
such recognizance.
XII. Tho practico of carrying deadly
weapons, except by officers and soldiers in thc
military service of the United States, IR pro
hibited. The concealment of such weapons
on the poraon will bo doomed an aggravation
of lit? offence. A violation of this order will
render the offender .amenable to trisl and pun
? ishmout by military commission. Whenever
wounding or killing shall result from the use
of snob weapon, proof that the party carried
or concealed a deadly weapon shall be deemed
evidence of a felonious intent to take tho Hf?
of tho injured person.
XIII. The orders heretofore issued in this
Military Department, prohibiting the punish
ment of crimes and offences by whipping,
maiming, branding, stocks, pillory, or other
corpora) punishment, are in force, and will bo
obeyed by all persons.
XIV. The punishment of death incertain
cases ni' burglary and larceny, im posed ~ta??Aau?
existing laws of thc provisional gojertnO',* p||g|
; in this military dibtrict, is abolished. JB| , I
person convicted of burglary, ./ot larceH r:-[h';
when the property stoleu is of the value ? >,
twenty-live dollars ; of assault and bnttc?/ -'.';
with intent to kill ; or of any assault wVisH
deadly weapon, shall, be deemed guilty ot feHBT'
ouy, and shall be punished by imprisonments
at bard labor for a term not exceeding tensW
years nor less than two yo^rs, in the discretion ---^f
of the court having jurisdiction thereof.
Larceny, when tho value of(the property sto
len is fess than twenty-five ^dollars, shall be
punished by imprisonment it hard labor for?
terni not execediugono yoaLin the discretion,
of the court.
XV. Thc Governors of North and South
Carolinn shall lin ve authority, within their
jurisdictions respectively, to'reprieve or par
don any person convicted and sentenced by a
civil court, and to remit fides and penalties.
XIV. Nothing in this order shall be con
strued to restrain or prevent the operation of
proceedings in bankruptcy, in accordance with ^
the Act provided, nor with thc collection of
any tax, impost, excise, cr charge lovicd by
authority of thc United States ov of thc pro-j!,
visional governments of North and South
Carolina; but no imprisonment for overdue
taxes shall be allowed. Nor shall this order,
or any law of thc provisional governments of
North and South Carolina, operate to deny to
minor children, or children coming of age,
or their legal representatives, nor to suspend,
as to thom, any right of action, remedy o~
proceeding, against executors, administrator*,
trustees, guardians, masters or clerks of Eq
uity courts, or other officers or persons hola- - ;
inga fiduciary relation to tho parties or the
subj oct rtiniVer of the action or r)W0e?e^in?R? . .
XVII. Any hw or ordinance heretofore i?yj$$\
force in North or South Carolina, inconsistent
with tho provisions of this general order, ii
hereby suspended and declared inoperative.
Dy command of Major-Gen. D E. Sickles.
,P. W. C1.01;?, Capt. 38th U. S. Inf'try,
A. D. C. and A. A. A. Qr_
lvhe" State Convention.
The advioe has been given by prominent
citizens of thc State to thc people, to exercise
the privilege which is conferred by the mili
tary bill, of voting against a convention, with
thc hope of thus securing a continuance of mil
itary rule, as an alternative preferable to that
presented by a convention. Such a course
wa til ink ill advised-futile in effecting the
objects contemplated, whilst it delays the res
toration, which can alone give pence and civ
il government to the country.
Wc concur entirely in tho viows which are
presented io; ?hs' following oxtract from the
" Charlton News" :
We may" /ely upon it that those who hold
power will not allow us to usc the machinery
of the Reconstruction Dill as an obetruotioiU
Tlve registration of thc?oga! voters of tho Stat?
rs'a preparation for action, and if when regis
tered they do not act no man who looks et
thc facts beforo him can doubt that action wili
be taken for them.. The insertion of this ob
ligation t,f ? paular vote in thc bli! *HS sim
ply for tho purpose of obviating tho inconsis
tency of certain radical Senators who had eon
tended in opposition to Mr. Johnson's policy,
that a State could only organize of its own
free will, and to oall a convention .by military
authority without tho expressed will of tue
people, scamed to contradict this declaration.
Liko tho ilcotion of the Frnnrdi .Fr?tfvvw, if
was a for n necessary to keep tho record tech
nically c >rrect.
Tho North has no interest, and no desiro to
keep up a military government at tho South.
What it reilly wants is reconstruction. The
popular mind had bcon taught that such recon
struction conld be ofToolod. Then, as they
doubted whether that suffrage would be no-*
ceptcd, they established a miboory government
to protect and inagurnto its exercise, and to
keep order through this dangerous transition
state.
HOTEL SCENE-" HnVo you ft good strong
porter about thc bouse ?"
Clerk-" Yes wo hato the strongest one -
about the plaoe."
Stranger-" Is ho intelligent ?"
Clerk-"Oh, yes, sir, quito intelligent for '
a porter, we think."
Stranger-" Ono point flqpre. Do yow con.
sidor him fearless-that is bold end coura
geous ?" S
Clerk-?' As for that tnattor, I know he .
would not bc afraid of Satan.himself,"
Stranger-" Now, Mr. Clerk, if your por
ter is intelligent enough to find room No. 117,
fearless enough to enter, and strong, enough
to get my trunk away from tie bedbugs, I.
would like to have him bring itt down."
IT estimated that there is 8^,600,000 of
counterfeit m un ey in circulation in this coun
try, f ' . .J /'
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