The Orangeburg news. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, April 13, 1867, Image 2
" OBANGE?UEG NEWS,
. ^PUBLISHED WEEKLY* ' *"*' r'
- AT
ORANGEBURG, 8. C.
Offw* of Publication on Afar/cet- trcct over the
Post OJjicc.
SAMUEL DIBBLE, Editor.
VIRGIL C. DIBBLE, Associate Editor.
CHARLES H. HALL, Publisher.
"Washington News..
Aruj r. ,4.--r'Tho Caineron-Stcvous fucd ? is
deeponing. ,(]auioron. favors^ the confirmation
of nominations iroin tbo President, with n pre
ference for Democrats. Stevens and his friends
aro represented to bo furious.
Tho report of the President's participation in
the effort to bring tho Reconstruction Rills be
fore the Supreme Court with tho view of pro
curing nn injunction ngaiust their execution, is
authoritatively denied." The whole story is re
garded as speculative.
{fogdMU's majority as Governor of Connecti
cut is 970.
It is stated that Attorney-General Stanbcr
ry has advised the President that General
Sheridan exceeded his powers in removing the
Louisiana officials. JTho Radicals claim to the
contrary^ under their construction of the se
cond arid sixth section. General Sheridan
writes to tho Department that further removals
will be necessary to the faithful enforcement
of tho law.
,: Active ..measures are to be adopted by the
Agricultural Bureau to distribute the 850,000
worth of seeds appropriated by Congress
amongst tho Southern States.
The debt statement shows a decrease, of
$52,000,000 Jin tho interest bearing currency,
and nu increase of *S34,000,000 in the gold
beating' currency.
TJlo ciiso of the steamer William Bugsloy,
which was captured running the blockade, was
hoard by ? the" S?prcinc Court bo-day. The
right of the pardoning power to restore proper
ty was fully discussed. f
April 5.?In the Supremo Court to-day
Judge Sharkey gave notice of a mid ion for a
preliminary injunction against Andrew John
son,-President of the "United Statos, and Gen.
?rd, Commander of the Military District of
Mississippi and stated that the motion was
founded uponja Bill in Equity, which he propo
sed to filo, and which was-brought to enjoin
the.defendants from executing the Acts of Con
gress rccontly panned and known as the Milita
ry and Supplemental Bills.
, Attorney-General Staubevry suggested that
as this was a case involving tho original juris
diction of tho Court the first motion should be
for leave to file the Bill,
Judge. Sharkey acquiesced and said that the
counsel for the State of Mississippi would now
make the motion"for loavo to filo tbo Bill and
that they wore ready to argue .the motion.'
?TThe Attorney-General, in reply, contended
that the Bill, in so far as it purported to make
the President a party to the ctisc as a defend
ant, was, in effect, a suit against tho United
States, and that ho would theroforo object to
leave being given by the Court to file the Bill.
He further stated that he was ready to argue
the merits of his objections.
Ohiof Justice Chase, after consultation.stated
thntthe motion for leave to file the Rill might
be rondo and put on the motion docket, but .
that in conformity with tho rules of the Court,
it could not be heard until tho next rogular
motion day.
This motion will therefore, come up. on Fri
day nc*t.,
Thorc arc ninety-six applications from Ex
Federal Nnval officers for pardon ou file. ?
Tho receipts of customs for the week ending
the 30th ultimo, amount-to nearly $3,000,(100.
The Internal Revenue receipts to-day amount
to t?arly $500,000.
Tho Republican gain in the recent Rhode
Island elections is nearly three thousand.
,Very valuable conterfciting materials, in
eluding.a- lathe, which was imported at a cost
of $l8,000y have bcon captured in Western
New York' and brought to this city.
Th?'IRirs.ofliijunctioii of Governors Shrirkey
nn<? "\Valker, of Mississippi and Florida, which
hayc been filed in the Supreme- Court, cover
four columns of tho National Tutolligcnccr, and
uro regarded as" very masterly documents.
April C?Aspooiul to tho Baltimore *S'mm
says General Griffin recommends tho removal
of Governor Throokmbrton, ofTcxiis. Gcnoral
Sheridan agroes* wttli' him, and suggests the
removal .of the Governor of Louisiana. General
Grallt,'in reply doubts the General's power to
remove Governors, and thinks removals must
be rimdo by Congress or after trial under the
sixth section.
Returns from the land office at Tallahassee,
Florida,.show over eight thousand acres have,
been located under the homestead law, which
limits entries to sixty acres.
The National Rank circulation is nearly two
hundred and ninety-nine millions.
The War, Navy and Interior disbursements
for tho week, aro three and a quarter n illioris,
Internal Rcrcnuo receipts for the week are
five million eight hundred thousand.
A fin i' 7.r-?Tho official papors, three in
Louisiana, and two in each of the other unre
presented States,' are authorized by special Act
- to publish the laws of tho Thirty-ninth Con
gress. This will amount to about $120,000.
The law further provides that the War, Navy,
Exo'cutivo, Fcdoral and Judiciary ndvortiso
monls shall be published in these papers only.
Stovcns has been quito ill sinco Wednesday
from, disoaso of the honrt.
APRIL 8.?It seems to bo generally under
stood that the-Supreme Court will not sustain
tho Mississippi prnyer for the iujunction against
tho cxccution'of Mio Reconstruction Bills.
Tho investigations of tho Impeachment Com
mittee have been suspended until May. M
V The trial of1 Surratt has,been set nsidp for
the present term of'the Court. His conviction
is improbablej^as the indictment is so awkward
ly drawn, that it is' not likely to stand.
Recent advices- give the news of the Fort
Buford massacre a canardish complexion.
Fivo murders, six murderous assaults, and
twenty-seven robberies havo recently occurred
in the mining country around Pottsvillo. Tho
secret society known as "The Molly Moguire"
is becomiug potent for mischief throughout the
coal mining couutry.
The State of Georgia will, on Friday, through
Charles O'Connor, of Now York, aud Judge
Black, of Pennsylvania, fdc it prayer for in
junction against the execution of the Recon
struction Act, similar to that filed by Mis
sippi.
It is rumored that war between France and
Prussia has been declared.
The Hon. Jefferson Davis will certainly have
havo an.early hearing, Judge Chase being on
the Bench nt his trial.
The Right Rev. Archbishop Spaulding re
ceived some fifteen hundred people, including
many negroes, iu the Catholic Church here
yesterday.
Arm I. 9.?The Internal Revenue receipts
to-day arc over $700.000.
The Russian treaty was ratified to-day with
only two or three dissenting votes.
The President, has pardoned Z. B. Vance,
lately Governor of North Carolina, on the re
commendation of 12 Senators and 28 Re
presentatives and Governors, Brandet te,
Shnrey, Parsons. Mayor Hoffman and Horace
G reclcy. ?
Louis Schade, who defended Wire, has ad
dressed a letter to the American people alleging
Wirz's innocence.
Tho Austrian Minister on the 5th instant
announced to Mr. Seward that ho was instruct
ed to ask tho good offices of the United States
Government in securing tho safe treatment of
Maximillian and his followers, in case they
fell into hands of the Liberals at Qucrctaro.
On the u'th 31 r. Seward replied that be bad
telegraphed Minister Campbell to .scud a swift
messenger to Juarez conveying the request
that all possible leniency be extended toward
tho expected prisoners, and also that lie bad
placed a copy of his instructions iu the hands
of Minister Romero, who had promised to in
form Juarez of the wishes of the United States
I Government. Ou the same day Minister
Campbell telegraphed that he had sent, (|-0
messenger as directed, .
There wove only two votes against the r.-.'.i
fication of tho Russian treaty.
Al'RlL lO.-t?The Democrats have carried
Albany, New York, by 1,700 majority.
Trenton, Now Brunswick,. Hobokon, IIucUou
City, Harrison and Kcarny, in Now Jersey.
The Republicans hrvc carried Jersey City
gaining G00, and Patterson and Bayounc, in
New Jersy. The issue in Jersey City was the
liquor prohibition, that is practically whether
Now York should empty itself iuto Jersey City
on Sundays in quest of liquor.
The President is suffering from a severe,
though not dangerous indisposition.
A considerable effort is being made by the
voters of the two classes to outnumber each
other in the fourth ward of this city. So far
there arc 508 whites and 550 colored voters reg
istered.
Amongst the liberal donations to the South
ern Relief Association is^ono of a thousand dol
lars from the Great American Tea Company
The total receipts thus far arc $50,000.
THE ORANGEBURG NEWS.
SATURDAY, APRIL lb% 1867.
White xcr. reserve to ourselves the right of defi
ning our own political position by means of our
c.ditoriid columns, wc icifl be pleased to publish
contributions from our fellow-citixrns upon tlw
grave questions which now agitate the public
mind, whetfurr their opinions coincide with ours
or not. A district newspaper, we consider,
'should be. an index of tJte. various shades of ]">p
ufur scutimmt in the section of country in which
if circulates. Our cotumns are open, therefore,
for any communications properly written, accom
jianieil by a responsible name, not personal in
their character, vor absolutely injurious in tin ir
tendency.
The Military Bill and tho Supreme Court.
Our columns last week contained the intelli
gence that tho States of Mississippi and Ala
bama had taken stops to test the legality of the
Military monstrosity of the lato Congress, and
that a Bill had been filed to enjoin the Presi
dent against its execution. Georgia, the tele
graph this week informs us, has taken her posi
| tion as a contestant beside her two sister States.
Wc wish we could add tho name of our Mother
State, to tho Roll of Honor?but alas! her
Governor deprecates any opposition to the
power of Congress; be is thoroughly commit
ted to a submissive policy, and his only ambi
tion for the State is that her people may at
once harmonize with Radicalism, and accept
with complacency her political serfdom.
Tho question now before the great judicial
tribunal of the Country is the most momentous
of any that have been prcscnfeJ to it since its,
Organization. It demands a solution of the
great problems which havo grown out of the
war, and to which n fanatical and vindictive
Congress, swajcd by passion, not by sober rea
son, have given not only an ungenerous but an
unjust, decision. It'asks for the explicit de
fining of tlio Status of tho Southern States--?
nnd tho power of Federal Legislation'. It ia
nn appeal to tho Constitutionen lafet effort to
check the tr/rrcht of madness which threatons
to sweep nwny every vestige of Stuto Rights
and bring tho u?uiitry into a resistless whirl
* " ? ^*p?
pool of despotism.
If the Coiir^C is fully alive to the duties and
responsibilities of its position, and will arbitrato
justly, the uncertainties that have enshrouded
our fate, will bo dissipated, and wo may, with
out passing through the Vale of tl?miliatitjn
and sacrificing both pride and principle, be
restored to our legitimate position in the Fede
ral UnioiK If the Court acts, we can have no
doubt of its verdict. The Constitution?our
American Magna Charta?is unambiguously in
our favor, and a truthful exposition ai' its prin
ciples, and obedience to their dictates would
eompol tbo Court to declare the laws, at present
in force in the South unjust, unrepublican, and
therefore invalid.
It has, however, been authoritivcly an
nounced thnt the Judges composing it, will not
decide upon questions raised simply by political
parties?and that the issue now brought squar
|y before, it will thus be disposed of without
any pertinent or linal decision. We cannotbe
live that the most dignified tribunal in the
land, yielding to a fear of Radical power and
influence, will evade its duty, and refuse us
the only legal remedy that is left m
Our Federal Republic is rapidly degenera
ting into a consolidated irresponsible despo
tism. The principles upon which the. Govern
ment was founded are fast becoming obsolete?
and factious pluralities now make laws rogiupd
tcssvof right. The Supreme Court call by'its
solemn fiat renew the old landmarks. If it
remain dumb ami indifferent?the fate of tin
Country is sealed.
[OONTiltnUTKi?.]
A Wit ill'.
t: Oui Monsieur,'' 1 do love t > see. an unyuf
flcd brow,?an equable. w(*1l tempered atmos
phere. F.aeh mortal hath his cavc?his be
setting frailty, or his ruling passion; This pe
culiar mania, for which there is no cure, oh,?
keep it out of light.
For every evil under the .-tin,
There is a cure, or there is neue:
If there is one, try to f:mi it,
If there he none, never mind it'.
I'm dull to-night, "almost in the giv.ve of
niclaucholy," as souio misanthrope says. "T<^|
? why?"-r X OU"vrill-l?*ujjlir-f*??d?TiAy
old tune over, t/iuts all.
Now. what constitutes the difference between
a monkey and a man '.' A liner formed organi
zation,?a friend,?a heart, that* ufl. Ami
when thnt spring of being, worried out, 'or ill
used reverberates no longer; What '{ we dwin
dle out existence, or we die. that* all.
The heart, why do sonic creatures hohl it in
obcyance, and tamper with its liner instinct*?
?'Whil ?" only because themselves so numb, in
sensitive, that they measure the effect of such
action by their own brutish gunge; that* why.
They toll me that Kilon has gone to the
Tropics, gone for her health. Aye. I know it is
a life struggle with her, so, you need not be.
surprised at my sympathy. 'While women
should appreciate kind affability, how sad it is
that they aro often, too susceptible to compli
ment aud an affectionate manner in the oppo
site sex. Will practical sense enable her to
secure her previous cheerfulness, and to'forget?
Important query:?I give a whiff of his
tory, while history is the romance of coun
tries, what is Romance but (he history of in
dividuals.
Rerenir ties mouton*?return to the subject.
All the winter, Kllcn had oho escort, and he
most exceedingly attentive. His presence or
his remembrance haunted her every footstep.
that* all. She pondered o'er his words, and
these like floating spectres, glided through her
daylight thoughts; and biddlcd her dreamland
with syren strains. That's all.
Kaeh time they met, the looks, tin? tones
were well devised to cheat the artless, to form
these bright illusions into fairest signs of love;
that's all. With glowing word- of courtesy,
and with fair pretences, trained her to the idea
''he, for God only, she for God in hint."
He only stole "iCr heart ; gave aud courted
confidence ; probed her inbred fancies, and ap
proved, or else adopted them : would touch her
hand, aud admire their diminutive sire. At
all times played the devoted, yet never said In
mute. He dissembled, for weeks ; that's all.
Travelling, he met a lady id' more sterling
worth, and to her. he will soon be united. lie
admits that be knew Kilon, yet never thought
of marrying her. Ilo bad been attentive, but.
it was only a passing administration,?a little
coquetry.
Her home friends?some of them?suspect
her grief, let us hope that kindness^ will amen I
for unsatisfied affection; and she in the sequel,
triumph over such heartless machinations.
Hero we. drop the curtain. It is months since
the first scene closed, but. the sequel is at
J hand. * * ? * * *
You don't believe that retribution, is ever
meted out, in this mundane sphere. I believe
that in measure, it is. So here we differ.
Right, wins at last, God's word is given.
If not on earth,?then, up in Heaven. Let
me recall an instance which must be familiar
to you. t
Von remember II-?- . thai young man. who
flirted, with my friend Ellen, iu tho winter of
18-. t lie married and removed with his
bride to Arkansas. Let mo introduce, pro (cm,
to their fireside; listen for yourself. ''No
Mrs. II. you. can't, go this season to Carolina, I
wou't submit to it." A ])rctty hole you make
in the purse; h/onr health' too, thut constant
hobby, 'require ehango' do you?' 'So do I,
hut 1 want none of your .'hoick* jhjcus' fussy,
change of air, / want ? Change,' Madam, the
cash, tho hard money. Since, you so directly
bring up tho charge. I did marry you for
money, and did not expect/o /bor, such a heavy
bill for you. '?Travelling, weak nerves, need
of society and a taste for elegant expenses.'
These, Madam, are your eternal topics; if I
hadn't been a fool, T bad lot tho eligible match
alone, and followed the bent of my feelings,,
and married a woman let-s the tool of fashiona
ble society. I believe I could have been a bet
ter man ; I know. 1 should not have been more
miserable, than now." ( A volley of low-toned,
but (Mitling retorts.) ''Yes. it is folly to con
ceal it, 1 d?nt care a lip, what is the result of
the Isuit; you can demand a support, and .spend
it, when you like, T shall not regret the quiet,
thus secured.
,The (lonoumont;?wtlivhrcc and its subse
quent pence of mitul.
A NOT 11 Kit kcf.NK.
' lieally, Mr. L. I can make no" such prom
ise; to respect you.? I will gladly; to bo grate
ful,? I ittii willingly. In it strange land, with
indifferent health, and often socially dispirited;
yonliavo never failed iu kindness, and 1 were
an ingrate to deceive you on so vital a subject,
Your wife, should be whole-hearted, con lid in;
your ardent temperament would require it; and
I.?:?n world-weary; I never can "inspire a
lusting affection. My past life with its silent
experiences, has continued my convict ions."
Mr. Ij. replied; by what argument, wc know
not, for like a skillful diplomat, wc give the
result.
Sis years after wc sent Kilon to travel, and
followed her, with our sympathy and tears.
She married Prof. L. lie is a pious man; one
whose useful career, will live in the records of
biography; but his home i.- the centre of happy,
social coteries, and his'wife, one of the most
genial cobi pan ions, with much of that ??i?>nm
/"?/," thai attract.'*, the sincere j :u:d enough in-1
dependence to ivpcl all snobs and sycophants.
??You wonder, if she's happy?'' "'J'hosjc who 1
:<t men Principle, arc fiXpof-e?! ;?. uo wounds,
j-.il what can cu.,]ip;l;oss is
:n v.-. .:::>].. . ,. tl,c objects offered Ibr our
I amusement. If the soul he happily disposed,
everything becomes a subject of entertain
moot,and distress will almost want a name.
"Ask not what is delightful and profitable to
thee, hut that which i.- acceptable to God, and
tends t<> promote Mis honor; lor if thou judges!
aright, thou oughest to prefer and follow Iiis
appointiitunts ; rather than t'n;:e own desire or
il'piliit 1*^ f? y. !|? t?Yrr._i-c
Ilushing iveey muttered murmur,
I.H yiuir fortilinle he firme:*,
t.iinl yot r <olll with -t: cn;;th ;
b'hila im treason near her lurking,
Patience iu her perfect tvorU'uifr,
Shall be ipuvn at lui :'h.
DAISY DAIjK.
I'.M? VlKW:
Tis? Income Tux.
The following is the form id making income
returns for ISljti. under the new law. Tho
reader will see at a gl nice the character of the
articles t.> be returned upon,and the deductions
to ho made:
It KT t" UN'S.
1. From the profits iu any trade, business or
vocation from which income is actually derived,
or mi) interest therein, wherever carried on.
'_'. Frnui the payment of debts in a former
year considered lost, and which have not paid
a previous income tax.
ii. Ftoni rent.-..
-4. From farming operations?amount of live
stock sold, amount of agricultural products
sold.
ft. From profits realized by sales of real es
tate purchased since December HI, 1 Still.
ti. From interest oil any bonds or other evi
dences of indebtedness of any railroad, canal,
turnpike, canal navigation or slack water com
pany, or interest or dividends oil stock, capital
or deposits in any bank, trust company, savings
institioii, insurance, railroad, turnpike.
7. From dividends of any incorporated com
pany other than those above mentioned.
s. From grains and profits of any incorpo
rated company not divided.
!>. Knim interest on indes, bonds or other
securities of the United States.
1<>. From interest on notes, bonds, mortga
ges or Securities oilier than those enumerated
above.
" 11. Krom any salary other than as an officer
or employee of the United States.
12. From any .-alary or pay as an officer or
employee if the United I-'iat'-s.
18. From ]?rollt.s on sales of gold or stocks,
whenever purchased.
1 !. From all Sources not above enumerated.
(i row income.
HKHUCTIOXS.
1. Kxcmpt by law, SI,000.
'J. National, State, County and Municipal
taxes paid within the year.
H. Lasses actually sustained during the year
fr "i fire, shipwreck, or incurred in trade, and
not already deducted iu ascertaining profits.
I. bosses on sales of real estate purchased
since December 81. 18(13.
ft. Amount paid for hired labor to cultivate
land from which income is derived.
(i. Amount paid for the live stock which
was sol?j within the year.
7. Amount uctually paid for rent of home*
stead.
8. Amount paid for usual or ordinary re
pairs, excluding payments for new buildings
permanent improvements or betterments. .
t). Interest paid out or falling due wit hid
the year.
10. Salary or pay as an officer or- employee
of the United States, from which a tax has
been withheld.
11. Interest o.r dividends from corporations
enumerated above in paragraph six.
Taxable income. m
Amount of tax at fire per cent.
CARRIAQE8, GOLD WATCH KS, IULLIARI) TA"
IILES ANH SILYKIt PLATE.
(Schr?nk A.?Section 100, Act June 30, 1864,
as anUuJcJ July 13, 1800.)
Carriage, phicton, carryall, rockaway or oth
er like carriage, und any coach, hackney coach,
omnibus or four-'whoeled carriage, the body of
which is kept for use, for hire or for passen
gers, and which is not used exclusively ill hus
bandry or in the transportation of merchan
dise., valued at exceeding 8300 and not exceed
ing $500, including harness used therewith?
86.
Carriages of like description valued above
S.-oo?810.
Cold watches, composed wholly or in part of
gold or gilt, kept for use, valued at. $100 or
less?$1.
Cold watches, composed wholly or in part of
gold or gilt, kept for use, valued at above $100
?82.
Billiard tables kept for use, and iiot subject
to special tax?$10.
Ounce plate of silver, kept for use. per ounce
' troy?50 cents.
Ounce plate of silver, kept for use. per ounce
troy, exceeding forty ounces, used by one fund
ly? -50 cents.
IN MEMORIA M.
'?Heitel- arc thoy- in n hero grave
Than the serfs of time and brettth,
For they are ihe children <>!' Hie brave,
And the cherubim of death."
.lAMCS It. 1% W'liAI.I..
Edisto Rifles, Co. A, Hagood's Rt?g'r, 1st
S. C. V.
Private Kibe l'\ W. Roscher, died of typhoid
fever. Ciangeimrg,
? r"ii*t Lieut. John H Felder, died ot fever
cor.tra'.'^u in service in Virginia, in
Or.iugobitrg District. Aug. 10, I SOI.
j Private W. 1*. Larr, in Oraiigeburg District.
of typhoid fever, dune 1801.
Kdisto Hilles, Co. 0, Kultur Ilog't, Sotli
S. C. V.
Corporal .Morgan L. Austin, of Barn well l)is
. tritt, killed at Drewry's Bluff. Va., May
It!. 1804.
Private Henry Bailey, died at Kliuira prison.
- IS*. Y., Mivrob 11!. 1S05. m
?; t'fnirles Bailey, died at Kltuira prison.
N. Y.. April 17. ist;.").
Lawrence V. Bradham. missing.
David Brown, died at-prison.
? .Jacob C. Culler, killed at Weldon K
Bond, Aug. 21. 1804.
Ceorgc 15. ('rider, killed at Weldon H.
lload. Aug. 21, 1804.
William K. Crawford, died at Klmira
prison. N Y.. March '.?. lSt;5.
Corporal David W. Dantzh-r. died at Klmira
prison, N. V., Ajiril 1, 1805.
Private John I hint tier, died at (Jump Jackson
Hospital. Ya.. duly. 1895.
*' Samuel Darnold, died in Charleston.
S. C.
Lieutenant Ceorgc II. Klliott, killed at Drew
ry's Hluff, Va.. May 10, 1801.
Private (icorgc W. 11. Kairey, killed at Drew
ry's Ulna; Va.. May 10. 1804.
Franz d. 1'riese. killed at Wehlen 11.
lload, Aug. 21, 1S04.
Sylvan US P. Hall, killed at Petersburg.
Va., June, 1864.
" Samuel P. Hook, died at Klmira prt-.
son, N. V.. March 8, 1805.
" Lawrence L. Hook, died at Orange
burg, 1801.
" Joseph A. Holstein, died at lulmira
prison, N. Y., March 7, 1805.
" Francis S. fnabinot. died from wounds
at Richmond, Va.. May 1801.
" Lewis W. Jenkins, killed af Walthal
Junction, Va., May 7, 1801.
Lieutenant Samuel N. ICcunerly, killed at
Weldon R. lload, Va., Aug. 21.
1801.
Corporal d. llobcrt Kenuerly, killed at Drew
ry's Hluff. Va.. May 16, 1801.
Private David F. Murphy, supposed to have
died at Richmond. Va.. while on bis
way home from prison. ?
J. P. Ott, died at Charleston. March,
1805.
Khnoro Ott. died at Klmira prison, N.
V., March 5, 1865.
u Klin Ott, died of disease at Hospital.
Richmond. Va.. Amr.. 1864.
" John M. O'Cain, died at Orangeburg,
Oct.. 1861.
" Abrain S. Rawlinson, died of disease.
at Kgypt. X. ('.. March, 1805.
" Moses A. Rawlinson. killed at Battery
Wagner, S. (\. Sept. 5. 1863.
" Fred. M. Hast, died of disease in
Orangeburg District, 1866.
" Lewis F. Hush, killed at Cold Harber,
Va.. dune 7. 1804.
Sergeant Jacob K. Hast, killed at Walthal
Junction, Va., March 7. 1864.
""rivate Jesse Sandford, did at Klmira, N. V..
March 20. 1865.
?? William W. Taylor, killed at Weldon
R. lload, Va., Aug. 21, 1864,
<< 1>. W. Wolfe, died at Klmira prison.
,\ . V'., Man h I. 1865.
,' ?>,T,*,,?
For the information of our readers wc pub
lish the following order emanating from Gen.
Sicklcg, comandiug thin Military District.
' ??iADQUAttTKItS, 2l), military district,
(NotiTii and South Carolina),
Charleston, S. C, April 1, 1867.
[General Orders No. 5.]
When an election for district, county, muni
cipal or town officers, is required, to take piaco,
ton accordance with the provisions of the local
Jaw, within the limits of any post in this com
mand, Commanding Officers will promptly re
port to these headquarters the time and place
of such election, and the designation of thc
ofliccs to be filled.; ?. -
If the present incumbents be ineligible to
hold office, or any. objection exist; arising, out
of their misconduct in office, to the continuance
of their functions, the facfe will ee reported by
the Post Coinandor, with his suggestions,
having iu view the interests of the service aud
tho welfare of the locality immediately con
cerned. . ;
By command of Major-General D.E. Sickles.
J. W. CLOGS,
Cup;t.38th ?. S. Inft., A. D. C.and A.A. A, G.
Official: A LKXANDKR Moork, Aidc-dc-Cainp.
Items.
General Sweeney has disbanded the negro
militia companies of Augusta.
About twenty-five thousand oxen arc killed
each week to supply the city of New York
with meat.
Thirty-four colored persons in Philadelphia
own property to tho amount of SI.358,000,
The locomotive now runs four'hundred and
I fifty miles west of St. Louis, and.the.track is
I being laid at the rate of a mil. every day.
Governor Throckmprtou, of Texas, has tele- '
graphed that his State will immediately reor
ganize Under the Iteconstruction Act.
The whale number of Webster's Spelling
Hook printed has reached 40,000,000. It
sold last year at tho ^r.tii of 5,131 copies for
j each walking day. ?
A letter from New Orleans says : ;;On Mnrdi
Grit's" one of thc'iua'squcr.tdcrs wore a m^lirary
dress. ' the epaulettes of which were made of
spoons.' As he passscd by, tho pooplo seeing tho
spoons, even the negroes, too, ehouted'Butler/
'Butler/"
The Uo'strin correspondent of the New YorV '
Times says the black members of the Massi
chusctts Legislature arc superior to in any ..of
the white members, and that Mr. "Walker,, of
('baric-town, with age and experience, will rank
with the firstofour statesmen. It is understood
that Mr; Vi', i.i no K.-j.Irnnt fur <Joi?; };-ti>l,\?
place iii Congress. ...?
In Maine recently, a baby was carried off on
a train and the mother accidentally left behind.
The woman was put on board a spare engine,
which overtook the flying train, shackled on to
the roar, and the woman passed over the tondcr
to the car without the train being stopped, and
found her baby all right.
Few Sundays: ago. as the congregation in
the Nashville Cathedral was quietly engaged
iu its devotions, the hell fell from its fastenings,
and was caught in fhe timber-work above tio
organ. A local paper says that tho worshippers
were ' very much startled." Quite likely,
The value of home manufactures to the South
is pointedly alluded to by a Southern paper,
which tells its readers that '"Now England
fears ail Alabama cottou mill more than she
feared all the regiments thr.t Alabama sent to
the field in the late war."
At a Conservative Cni'm County Couvcrt
tioii held recently at Chattanooga. Tcnn., dele
gate-; to the State Convention, were elected
without regard to ruco or color. There were
present about five hundred colored persons aud
three hundred whites. The llesolut ions adopt
ed were iu favor of & return to th*. constitu
tion, opposed to Brownlow, and advocated
more liberal school laws and the economical
administration of government.
Paris' is going mad over a sort of humming
top, just invented by a patientless doctor. It
I is made to revolve by a vulgar whipcord aud
' handle, and when it reaches its maximum of
rotation >ix small tops come out of it and begin
to spin round it; ttt the will of the spinner
they return to the bosom of their mother. "Tho
inventor culls this the prolific top; a happier
name would be the opossum top.
Ali explosion occurred on the 2d ult., at the
Clover Hill Coal Mines, near llechinond, Va'.,
in which sixty-nine lives wore Tost?thirty
white and thirty-nine colored. The explosion'
was caused by thy accumulation of gas in the
pits, but little is known of the accident, as tho
mines immediately took fire, and the northern
shaft was closed to smother it. A blicket, shoo
and lantern were blown by the force to the top
of the mine :i distance of ~~ 00 feet.
A few days ago the artillerists of both the
Citadel and the man-of-war Aurora, at Quebec,
were engaged iu target practice on tho ice.
The nu n of the big Armstrongs in the Citadel
fired at a mark nearly two miles distant, mak
ing good shots which would have poon disposed
of an ordinary vessel. A number of fool-hardy,
youths (jotted the ice in close proximity to the
targets, to pick up the sjK'itt missiles. Coolly
watching each shot. uhey. were often, within
only a few yards of its track, and no sooner hndl
it struck the target, on tho ice. than tho lhdfc
pounced on it like vultures, and claimed it. as
their own.