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Ge nrail Asse:al, ai ransti to Ihe Treasrr. - A, coutdod sta'itnent 4 all th t le'or' the histrits of I-Stat9 shall be-contained int the annual report of thn Tresiurer XIX. The Juidges of the court of Appeaisshall, from rime to time, fix t1h4 dayc upot' which the quirterly sittings' of tie district court. in eacl'district shill convene, avoidiig, as fair as possible, .interference with IIte siperior court. in that district or neighboring ldistric1, giving public not ice of the several flays fixel, -and making io uinnecefnary chianges. XX. Tht Diariet Cirurt. shaill have exclusive jtrisdie:ion, sbject. to appeal of all matters of equity, wherein opt or boith of the parties are permoa, of'cohor. These i l m aters shall he hehrd and do termined by the District Judge at- a quarterwily siring, or at stich othI r time as With his conctrrenel the par mar fix, wit.h an ;pp:tl from the ,. hancel Jor on Circnit. In'- respec to them, tihe Coimnissimeri itn lnjiity i'ir the .District shall rega rd the Jt0*1?kr of the listrict C.mni- Is le dones as Chinigfor -In res. p't. to inmtjer- in ihe Siverioi Colrt. of nity; and inl both of.these Courts, the law, practice, fes, miode. of pMoceedins and effet of order. anti prooass shall be at nea rly ns may be, tshe sni ' XXF. The. Judge pf a lDIst.riot dourt mIy practice as al Aitornj.y or Solicd'. tor in tihe Siperior Goturt ot Lar 'nol Equity, except in cases .: hiob have been argued before him 6r Alan d in 1is Coturt, but he shall n iva a, purtner in tibe practice in the biutrIc' -M wich lie is a Judge. XXII. The Qlerk.ofa Distrie Court' simil attend the-mnontlv obhd 4furtiry. sinings of the Court and all' other sit. tings at which the Judge .shall. riiire him to attend. He shall k'p n' fall and exact journal of every ordui. Fleiedsihm. verdict, sentence and act of. tlhe Court having ope book for civil suits, in which only while persons are parties; second, a hook for vagraiiv and, bastardy third, a book for - civil 'smts, in which persnas of coloriare parties;.aid a fourih for criminal matters, aiteting persons of color. All process from the Court shall be signed by him and he sealed. All - papers which coie into his ollico sall be carefti!ly kept, and those which are to remaiii there shall' no ar rangd, ia. belle4 aml filed away as nearly its may be, according to the directions given by aw, concerning papers of the Superior Conr:. XXIIT. The Judge shall hiinself keop a jouirtnal of all orders, decision:, sentences and acts of the Court. whwi in absenet- of the Clerk, he is sitting without a Jury, which journal shall. from time to time, atleast. once a qiar. ter, befiled in the Clerk'* ollice. I [e may, whven necessary, appoint a Clie,k XXI V. The Sher df shall execut e all orders, sentences and process from the Dist iet Court; under like penilties fir tieglect, as for neglect of lilke ordlr, seitentces and process from A Sup,-ror Count; and in like manner ho shall, fhr such uegh-dt, be liable to rile, a itadb 6' ment, net til aid i rf'eiture. The Slur iff shall ihvo piwer to call on the -poe conitatus, to aid him in the execution of - all snch orders, seneinces and jrqcess, mesnie or final. in civil or ciiimi.nal inati. ter:, where more forte th:'-. neatof one 1 .1man is required, or resistra'", , hppre ', hend'ed. E4very'person-w ai:e ite eall ed t.o nridl as erie of Llo g- dlow.'notV inmodriitely arid earniedly.gie-aio ac cording t. thre directioji of'ttlifi ( shall ber sti~je'ct to rule anid, atehtaint for contempt, aad to.a filie ndt fr'a lia t wenty dollars, nor miore tl.n flye hun-' dred dollars. ,,- - XXV. The return day of-the ~aroi . Court. fi smtesnm proce's~ .ttvil n.e eight dagis before each qua!ned~y~ru1ti. In the Seiueior Coitr '4td Distrido Coutrt. the law'snd perictice shaiIbe thre same as to the liens of;jidgntfk anid de'rcee.s, as to the nbn'ter ofserving pro. cesir,prcs evdaft rtin-a itrictsi, writs of flefathr4s aiid capias ud faciendumn exemptmien.frorrl iareat bil bonds, orders' for snr~ehdi ''x ph ti. o.n writs of attuach~emn and alJ ,.obh. .. rswhereiwd ivers.ity is' not po d-e. ny ac, of thes L~egisulature, dst rnles' a ide' hiy the Jurdges nas hereinaf.ter pro. ~XVI. All fees for service rerquirped -ulthe Clerk and Sheriff of tiw TiS df.;W Court abiallba paid in cashiby the '~yreqiring the service-s, antl gdeerd. .1,t he, judgint anud order of thec Qute Mvay or -may not be reooverdl thst (hIp opposit-- party -.Thiis 3 nt akrt# extend to all cases, by ari'fn.' ti~ road3E, in the perior, Coutt of SVT. Trie $Jier hall keep th i ~ .wh h -comoe o ice from a C '..fo :.os iop. un ILe naA i ini.ouE book ,-itaer all 'mesne process frot tl.o J)stridt Court," and in another, all final process fromthat Court takhig-care, however, to preserve the priority of liena by attachment or ex. ecution, whatever.. Court the process mlav Cot1 1 fromi. , XXVIII. All fines, penaltier, forfei. tures and other mtonays belongirag to the District. Court Futnd, wiuch the SheriT may collecti ider orlers, sentences or process of the Dist rict Court, and all such moneys as may ho turned over to him by any other. ofijeer, the Sheriff shall hold iudor ei dra, of tIhe District Jtidge. Aids paid lor licenses, and such aids for appioval of contracts and instruments of a pprnt iceship, and such fees for reports upon appeals from the District Judge, as the Judge may direct the Clerk to receive, anl the Clerk may receive, and all other moneys telongin' to the District Court. Fned, whether cot lected first by the Clerk or turned over to him by some oher officer who had collected t-hem, wIich may come to the hands of the Clerk, the Clerk shall hold, under the security of his official bond, until they shall be paid under the order .or dratit ot the District Judge. Each Magistrate shail, at least once in every ,t hree months, report and pay to the Chairmani of the Board of Relief of Indigent, Peasons of Color, the itnoneys rec. ived by hin from aids, taxes, fines anld penalties, and all other noneys be longing to the District Coprt, Fund, which have come to his hands. On t11f fifst day ofeach quarterly sitting of the District Court, the Slheritf, the Clerk, each Magistrate of the District, the Chairman of the Board aforesaid, the Superintendents of Convicts, and every pui-son (besides a Congtable, who mnst mitake r,-t urns to a Magistrate,) who may have had charge of convicts or received wagres or other moneys which bulong to. the District Court Fund. shall each make to the Court a full and minute report of his roceipts, disbarsements and pay. ments showing the items, on each side of the accbnnr, and the exact balande in his hands, accompanied 'by an eatimate of. the probable receipts nnd requite. ments in his department for the next, uuarter, 'uThe.report of the Chairman a fort'said, shall specially set forth all known delfivqutencies of Magistrates in repor:ig, piyig or discharging other ditty witm the names of the delinqueons. The District, Judge shall examine all of these reports carefully,' and take the tiio- prompt and energetjc means to 'prevent and coriect de l -fin lVfid omiiissiols. Having ascert.inied the am111otimt of the District Fniid which is on liad, including-, what, he himself inay have, ite shall; by orders entered on the Journal of his Court,. direct payments to be made by the ollicers respectively, in sneh s-tns as he may designate, to the tallowing peposes, namely: 1. The annual ! dditional com peination of the Judge, of which one fourth shall be ta. kon each 'quarter. 2. Jutrors certifi. cates.. 3. Expeuses of'thl Court, in. c:dinifees payable out of the District Comrt Fund. 4. Pay .of Superintend: 111t, and other expenses of conkracts. 5. B Alaice t-> h f paid to the Ohiairmaw.: f 1tie Board of Relief of Indigent. Per sonls of color, for the uses of that BQard. For their services in re*spect to the col. 'ection and disburgement of the District Court Fund, the several officers shall, in the settlement- of their accounts, be al.lowed commissions as follows: The Sheuriff and Magistrate iall each have fve per centum upon all sums collected by Im. to be itt additioni to comnmis Bions, which, with other fees, a Shienfh or Cotnstable may etxact front peersory th! Siff ad Maitra shallea fuither allowed two anad-a-half per con tutai pon the proper disbursenet maide by him. The Clerk, Superintendentt oI Owvicrs, Jailor anid other persotns whoc 'mhy have had suepentsiont of convicts, orreceived wvages belonging to thu Dis. trict Court Ftund, shall each have two. and-a-haelf per centudta upon till sums col lected by himi aird two ancd-a haelf pet centum uepon all sums disbursed by hitu. In nco catse shall suims collected be un.~ -derstood'to include sums renewved froms some other of .tle officers whc t're required to make reports at hereinheefore .required, nor d isburse. mient to include stus turned over tc eaiother of those officers.' It shall bt the deuty of the District Judge to guard the fund against duiplcatedoummissiotts; nua well as against other improper ibharges, Tihe Chirman of' thu. osrd' of Rehefo of Ipedigenet persens of color shall be -eilowed commissions upon his oiyp eql~ #ctons. and disbtaraetruent as .another Magistrate is, anidi-indditionu shall, fEr .oacth seroi-aninual report tgc. .his' Boaerd, antd -pach- quarter)yt repOrt . fo heli Oiudt, be alleiwed, out .of the Dir6t (iouh t adnl a dnmn npobless titan ili'e dolls,~t not iud6e tleiatWeirentr dolarg corM to th# qtahtit.7 9htisi1om cIa by him. and the manner in which i Was dodj'i The Clikishiall, under tho snpervisidio the.Ju'dge of the.Distric Court apnitallyr at soe early *day, be tween the queirterly sitting of -the Coutr whichnektC precedes th'e regular sessib o. the General Assembly, and that re gnlar seasion preparo and transmit' t the Treagttrer i report froma his Distric Court. issued by the Qlerk and certifie by the Judge. This report shall oor tail ti a ohdensed statement compile from the reports which are nande t the Qonrt, and from the Journals of th Court 'showng. for the year preceedinj the whole suni which Went into the Dis trict Court Fund, how Thich from eac source the commissions for collection the whole disbursements, and how muc for each gcneral pitrpose, the commis sion upon disbarsements, other expense. the balance oft hand and the liabilitit unpaid. The Treasurer shill aggregat the reports of the ClOrks so as to shoy results for the whole State, and shl lay before the General Asseimbly at bular stat ement of rh:sc aggreg..e. : gether with the reports of ibh.- Clei noting Particilarly any District (i fromn which reports had not been reci 'ed. rContnued in our next.] .WINNSBORO. Tueday Morning, Janudry 1, 1866. New Advertisements, Rev. J. Ohear advertises the .21 session of his school. R. W. Bloney notifies that he has r sumed business, '&c. Removal of our Offiee. On Welnesdlay we will begin ti work of removal to the sqtn. -of on operationts during the prient ynr. Our new oflic.- will be we'll know I our District readers as the former diiit room of t be ol "airfi -141 !otel." tin the residen -o of Mr,. C ( %nn. o Main Street. This removAl %;!] 1 -enivib.- in termission of Thurd, %', a i Sa t irdav publications. We are in re:ueipt of the fira cotpy,' this Joutral. mlit.ed t) % . G m t,. %ti & McCnu':ss:Y It is ati eighty p: octavo publication, prod ncod in ih highest' style of typogryiphictl ar and preAent~s- a ' varied and attractiv "table of contents." We will take pleasure in exiiioitir our copy to any of onr mnedical frien' wTho may desire to:see it. Eduedil6nal. From 1the report' the Oommittee 0 Edncation presenteo the South Car lina Conference of'the Methodist Epi copal Church, Soith, at it. recent .se sion, we learn that there is one ma College and onxe IHigh School, under tli supervision of the Conference, and fo ,Female Colleges ; all in successful opel tion, witht tlh excepiion of drio Cofumbh Female Colhege. Dhiffustiention wv closed for "y woyears from the time of tl disaster in Colnnbia, that ~ the city al couutry might recovei fr->m peenna prostration, and :hat the Cgin-go mig be relieved from its 6nmancial, embarra; ADDRESS8 TO THE 5DMEN.--G Ely hats handed us thinng comua nication for publiatte attonti of the free duen ia esp 7dirnoted . IIEADQPAuRaE8, Ass'-r Co,.t. BUnIIJ REFDGEEOA *FREEDM'EN AND ABANDINEDJJXIDO -Soutu CAnIo1JtxA AND.GKIonQt, CuAnbIsToN, Dec. 27, 1865. flrevet Brig. Gen Ralph fily, Acting tl 6istantt Commiassioner. *GENERAL.: Brev'et Major Gen. Snton, AssistantCovj ~isalona~r, diret me to inforym'vet tb'hk w Nilarrjee CotMabiaj in' Tuespf eitigJanmt y,. 1866, ih. thre eii rofl4 aei lHie Aeairtes to a~e >ietting tli (ee n~,and re (l, ~p o msal all the Ratngementas e end e Aatiotis to as :many EPs?-"-il tessio take pfac ~ Wpsa I arti.iai, very *jep&tJ 'eo Ims. A o0en in 'Providence, .R. L, aked the citv authorities to give him $300 for intirika received thrbugh the city's 1 neglect. It was refused. . Tho man went to law, ai the jury has just awarded him $5,500.* The color of the clameloon ist a matter over which the animal has voluntary control. nobert Dale - Owein is to have two Vy1rs for writing, his history of the life of Pre'sideiit Licoln. t lilits publisher pays hing i3..00 when he. begins his work, aid $15,000,when lie ends it. A joi ,1 nion1 has beetn aldo)tLed, , unaninneu'. .. the Georgia I-gi.la. 8 ure to the elTec:. that. President Johnson has been magnaniMons towards the peo. 1 ple of that State. -lThe New York Tribune finds in the fregnency of railroad massacres a jiuotifi. catioti For eviting a Inew word viatriciale, derived from viator, a traveler. The cattle plagn' still prevails in Hol land. Hopes were etwtrtained that with tle winter season it would lose some14! or its virutirce, but they hivC been disappinuted. Fromn-the 111 tolit the l7th of November the figitro wat 983, and in the week following 1.010.' Te war of the American Revolution closed about eighty-three years ago and it is annotuced thiat of all the many tI:onsatids tlhat. once figired as Revolu tioniry soldiers ol the pension rolls of the*Governent. -*are'lv two renttin: Willir I Intceh intg. of PentobsCoM, MNin4 a nl Saniniel Cook, of Clarendon. Orleain (rtnav. N Y. Several have died r withir r no year : and it iay b~e li0. I8j%; will witi.ss t.he closing of A lot if I. 1 1 i.- frittitre. tventV. it one cic -il.rl . i in tihmond othn C.uo i , A .1 - It. E 1 .-.. Thlis iq I. ..:i 'o* MhI i i is - laly'~~i~ f rm i.- in .Of 11 . r- . 1 hiihnpp'rIeciamtin of tii h le i chau air .4,u - :stinguished htm.'nid. Tih Povmwhatan steamniship liiieccept ,Ii t Ibe lionor ol eh'gi r pe-i.ii 1.) tlii llv el in fi r.'tiu t* si'.sii.o e ( collectors for South Carolina. Aiahatma Florida and Georgia vias to be held or Wednesdtv tAlithmta, Ga., to regulat a systen 'of assessments and co'lectiomi LEK AT 'THK GAVE OF JACKSON. A correspoident . ot the New Yorh u ily News, writing from Ltexitgton Va giving sothe accout, of the place and ii i attract io ns, Msys. D Bu-It the greatest attraction to the visi s. tor t.o Leington, and ii(eed, thieece to tVhicht itt years .to come, many pi l grims will resort, is the grave of Stone wlSabbath nfterr.oo the burial of it member of tie Order at ir tracted to the beaiutifutl ceuietery of -the a, town ia long procession of Orid Felloa' -a an4 ani onmensLti~e crowd of cit izens~, idd wetV'that I might a vail mvaselC ut' jiht Sopportunity of visiting -.he girave of' the eA greaf. chief whtom I had s. oftein f'ollowei uti to victory. No tonto marks the spot .which is indicated by a staffinoin whicl the confederate flag onie floaied-l. buhi the wreath of' flowers haid by fair iamh "!' 6n the grave, anid kept fresh by dily iadditions, is a fit embdlemu of the place* the ,hero holds itn the memory and affecttqgn m of the people of the Siuth. Asjlong uas true gr'eatiness, honor, purity of chat acter, and deetp-toiied piosty are etni aeksort.will not be forgotton. ' I ' wm I thiat. immiediaitely oti ist arrival ir gtoni to assumi.' his place itn Wash n College, Glen. Lee paid a visit.t grave of Jackson, and, lingered Fo tng imo atrounid -the hallowed spol -ee at the grave of Jackson, wouli form a -pictutre which a mester hli' a. mlight delightt to paint. t SICRMAN ANDJ JoE1tWA0NAT THI to G.rdso--For the first imno since hi ta depditionu liy Jefferason D~avis, Josepl t 5.Johnstof: met Genera Sh8erms is evening before lass at' he Gios of llonse It is needles .toskyth ithl t rfeeting of . these holdr. ,ws ;iudl ia and cordial. Hundroesof chitise6chli g - 5d du we'96balh'#hosie l#l 'lond 't Ittat .lqtri to tl6. a, of trico r ijaiwat Ou. ralBlas~o 8 eeni o04 PL sd hou lthi'(*enor'sil Jo~Ltu urf~. T .LG AI A k I AC U. Spanish Insult to the American flinister, to Chill-The Moxican Mission . WASIIINGTOs, Dec. 23..-TheoStat u Depart:mnt has advices from our Min-. ist(er at Chili that the war be! ween, Spain and Chili is still kept uip, The.-_ coini-atidcr of the Spaiiim fleet had of. fered a gr')ss iniuht to Mr. Nelson, our mi.ister, for which an npology will be denmmdl. Levis ). Caiphell, ex-Congressnnu from Ohio, accepts the tamision to Mexi CO. -Instructions for him are being pro.. pyed at the State Department. From Washingtonu 7'Asiti-'GTox. Dee. 28.-GeneraI Butler will reply to General Grant's hat tle c~iticiru lt befoire New Year's, anfi will afterwards return to Washington, for the wimt'r. The runor that General Frank Blai: will Sooh icceed Mr. Stantfon is tin true. ..\Ir. Sauinton ill not leoav the vai tI'par1i.ment For tihe present. Gieral Grant purclised and paid for his.dwelling house in Wash'lngrton leit month. for which ie gave $30,000-. The h(atmnemet that it was given to him I i tn tri e. St"riary McCullochi is disposed to accept the oTer of the banks of a tem riry loan of one hundred million of dol. Iihi l will probilbly adopt, the usual made of gettiing funds. NIr Hooper, of thit. Ws and Means Committee, is in coifidence with the Secretnre in re g:ard to the matter. Governor Sharkey, of Mississi ppi, has. jast arrivod here. He reports f avorabply respecing the con dliton of alfairs throughiouit the South. ITnfes* the test, oati is r eied not. niore 'han four of. tihe Souther:i n Sentiesi anll I aif11t1(d to Conr ' Two English detectives Wive anriend irt for the' pirpose of proenring iifor m11:411 ofreiemoeen Tii vo irwedj iir it Of t I i - r. fof frutii ais: 14 Iil to halvft l., - tolned by thnuertaiinty whjeli firo.ile.d .1pon thi whole siubject. (of retl oration. Newly eh-eted Senators it is "uer.:nI wo~ldl not leave oilo thndtni vith referene to thiir a;dmiksioi va kniown. In this co'inecti-)n Oh roetitria of the Hon. Jacob Barker is lookld for anxiously, as he would he in a positiont to give tlwn considorable light on what was then a dark subilject. Geperal l1nllerton's report on F're-l. men's affitirs is lookpd upon by importi ii men ns a tolerably trntihful afiair, though tlyty do not igre 'with him as to lengib of time--fv . s--that he regards necessary for dh fitbure continiahee of he bureau. Pip ye rs of bureau, as ap arm'of militsry .ant ority, is eriniva -letitjo saying, there Is to le malitary ,rio, ipore or less, in the Southern Otatv#, during that long .period. Th coiiillsjon is not endorped by thlose who . !are 4 t he hiead of arnrvy affairs. ~. ..The-razeeg of military forces, now a't lh, South will include a large nnmber of black troops, anid for reason that tliheir presrncc there la regarded hurtful to the itnteresta of good order, and to. acure peace. Warrisonis, therefore, will- be comp'osed-ciefily 'of whites, limited to the smalleat possible number, for the reg hi~titon of our, fighting Force, is highly infoant ftt at the present time, when Itl, QuId N'Tiuc's will kn~vo it that a row vith France. upon Mexioan, aflkite is fnivlable indeed nothing confd'more p lainly alhow that no diiculties what-, r ever are apprehended. Arrest, of.W rig of the North Ca ~ olin, /'imesh may be' set .deown as a warning that the Gove~rnmegit will sllow, nlo'disloyal utterances ; this .is the real s ignificane~ of the artrest. s~ The President 9t the $Knatb annonohted t Feossenden, Howard, Jo uson, Wiliinma ,and Harris toonstittot the- cominites o ion roconstructiont. Among petitiotus pre. e se'nted was one from 8,740 colored .nien y in South Carolina .praying for equal rights before tdie law; without distinotto ft S of cuoof er thi e de , 2Woo tS or~a q