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yTels, the appellant paying,jn cash, tyr , dollars for the report. which shall:'goti the District Court Fund. No order : any Ootlrts or Judge in this State. ahal raiere printing by a rty to a.suit' any report, brief or ot rpaper connect ed with appeals. XXXVII The various boards' commissioners for theDistrict, instead c tho reports heretofore made to the Supe rioi Court of Law, shall" on tha.fin quarterly sitting of the district court, i each year, make such reports, to the diu trict court. The district Judge shal himself, examine these reports carefull se that they opntain a full statement c transactions, for the- year precedng, well as a correct account of r~eeipts'an expenditures, and point out erro u omissions. He may also refer thest the Graned Jury, in his Court, and Shl thake nach order, in referenet to then * as he may think likely to'secure in ftitul acenrate conformity to law. XXXVIII. In case of the vacane of the office of a District Judge. b death, resignation or otherwise, the Goi ernorshal imnediately appoint a sum cessor. who 61hal continue in office unt a Judge shall be elected by the Legisli ture. and shall-take the oath, of offief The Distric Judgo, during his coptir nance in offioesshall hold no other offic of protit nr. trpsat in this State, or ti United States. XXXIX. In all process and. plea< - ings in the district court, the largest lil erty of amendment, consistent with faii ness; shall' be allowed Indictmeni shall be required to contain only so muc as will give to the accused..reasonabl information of the charge against whic he is to defend himself.; substance, an not form, shall bhslooked to; And techn cal requirements shall not be permitte to hinder or deliy'the administration'4 justice. XL. The Judges of the Court 4 1ppeals shall from time to time, mak ruleas for the orderly and uniform iransa tion of business sid conduct of cases i the several District Courts of the Stat< and shall precribe'forms.short and sin pie for the conduct of business, and ft the assistance of officers and othvrs'cot nected with these Courts. rax8. XLI. The fees of officers for all as vices which are requited by this Act. eithe of the other Acts mentioned i the "Act preliminary to the legislatic induced by the emancipetion of Slaves, and for which no special provision made in any of these Acts, shall 'be ti same as now prescribied by law for lik services, except as is hereinafter provit od. XLII. The Attorney-Generol, Sol e citor, Deputy of either, or other Dii trict Attorney, shall have : Foeconvicting each offender in the District Court of a capi. tal crime, .15 0 oAr convicting each offender of a felony,,., with benefit of clergy, -or an aggravated misdemeanor, , . 10 0 Fror cohvicting each offender a petty misdemeanor, - 5 0 (Misdemeanors- to be .classifie'd accordin to rulets to be adopted by the Court 4 Appeals.),. For representing. the Tax Collect. MAgistrare or other officer. in a case for the trial of a .questio of color or caste, *20 0 To be paid out of any public funja I - the hands of such officer, and recovers back from the adverse partyr, it the flin decision should be against him.. .1XLIII. The clerk shall have,i the following matters conncected witl the Distriot Court, these fees, to wit : e f~or all services respecting'-Juries, ii chuding entries in the Journal,' receivin resurris and making dertinecateh for a jury at .a monthly sit. g.*0 5 For juris at a quarterly sit-u ting,1 - For a new jnry list, and necseb~4 sry ticket.,. - X2 Q For an ainal oyof tolilen jurors and cosble tr~uf~' m'itted to the urtier,, 6 Q Por the anenual ,e~t from the ', District CotV rsaiiued' to the Treasurer , 0 0 For copying asy re~r r oth er paper, or mahp aI~ en try more than ones words, in a jnn word, For license granted 'b 4~ 61f the District Jud F ajl moneys paid in~ under order of Cott~~ i cent., For tiling &ny repot 'iuai merit of apprentice~hip, 6 - other pper ditd to b N filed 'in his s~ *6th Th srvices mentioned~i th itema. required by said DisritLr * htaltl bpa fe (out of Its (undl;s r >quir~ttbv a bigtraeiihall be eoftet > e y 7 m, along ht: his. on fees, I Itom th1, rs lisile for th papr. ?r any kmin ; nottee, o ar, sen f tence, j'ceai, nemne, or final which - ighti prooeded, from a Magis. traite, ifthe case be before the Judge of f of the DiAtrict Court, and theClerk issue the paper,>the fe#*of the Clerk shall be the same as the Magistrit would have6 t haid. X1LWV. The Sheriff shall -have in i the folidwing matteri connected with the I, Disirict Coiut; these fees, to-wit: , or obtain'ing a' copy of the I Tax Coll-cior'n return and, a helping te Clerk about, a I .new Jiirf lit, $2 00 4 Fqr aununoinng a' Jury at a j monthly sifting, 1 00 l1 For summoning a Jury ata 1, quarterly sitting, including , e the writing of summons, 1 50 Besides'mileage for the num-' ber of miles actually and na, r cessarily traversed in sum moning a Jury,' at the rate per milo of, 05 1 The Sheriff, or Constable, shall have for derving. process and executing orders . frpm the-District Court, (64ot intended - to include the ordinary proceedings by e summary Orocees,) the following fees, e to wit : For arresting an individual, or I. serving a chattel under a ape. . Cial 'order, or evicting a ten. r. ant, or doing other specific a service as duly required, 0 50 Ih For serving any process, sum e mon-.or order not requiring Ih any.specific action, 26 d With mileage from the place whence the summons, order d or other paper issued, t% the of place df its service or execn !ion, gving, but not return. if ing, pe mile, . 05 e Fo,r receiviig money, note or i- goods under special attach. 11 ment,' ' 50 i, For specific execution of a i. sentence, 50 r For fees of the Clerk and Sheriff, respecting the Juries in the District Court, and the feaq of the Clerk for copy. ing rolls an4 reports transmitted by him to the Treasurer, and of the Magistrate., r for reports shall be paid out of the Dis. ,r trict Court Fund. n XLV. A Magistrate. for the ser. n vices mentioned below, shall have fees , as follows, namely : For a auinmonle or notice, and * taking the return thereof , * 20 e For making and 'entering ar y order or decision not below mentioned, including a copy , if it is not terved, 20 For hearing and determining any smial and inean cause, or. any complaint., dispute or controversy, includini -all 1. cessary entrie of j gwent, decree or order, 26 For the same ,as in the last item, where more than fou4r witnesses are examined,' 50 For an ordor'or eviction. 50 0 For a special attachment and taking retrn thereof, -0 For returi of glrnisnee ,not contested, 30 'I For birdivg out an apprentice cludingithe instruments, .to be paid by the rtnaater, 50 For approving a contract be. twe~n~ma tr and servant, $0 Ftanyaddavit, not a rsf ehrenentigfred,. 30 For eamch quarteiy. report 'to' 'the D~1itrct Conft ti ia ' proved by the Died~ief 'Judg{,* 06 For each aen'-arniiial report to the Qht~ an of the Bard of erofIndigent F a~u of V@odiot .Asappr's~ by ~I wIch hed Otot '~n ~ ted~f~"hem,'a~dhV'ajhltfecover the 'e .a ~evceshaf 4ttere4 _ye e. in, like tmannet as,'in case of cuivietlon, it, mIt have pone against the convict. . XLVIII. For the district court of Berkeley the provisions ofthis A ct shall prevuil, sutject to the folkowing modil a cations, iamely: The Clrk, Sherif, Mast drsata Regiapelrs in Ehity. shid Ordinary, for Charleston Ju icial Dis. trict, shall have the 'samd powers aid be subject to the same duties ahd liabilities, 1 in respect to Berkeley District, as like, officers in other Dit'ricts. An appeal from the Ordinary of Charleston Judi. cial District, which under this Act, should go to a District Court. shall go to the District Court of Berkeley, according t'the rides which, if such Election Dis. trict had an Ordinary, would -determine the Ordinary that aould have jrisdic tion of theI matter in question. The va. rious Boards of Commissioners in Berke. ley District shall report tothe Couri of that District and be subject to it in. like manner, as in other Djstricts Boards are to their respective' District Courts, The records of Berkeley District shall be keptin the offit of the Clerk of the Ju. dicial District of Charleston. 'rhe Judge of the District Court of Be!rkelay way hold a monthly and qnarterly sit. tings of his Cour at Puch places in bis District as he may appoint, taking care to give due public notice, and all process of his Court shall be returnable to such place as the Judge of I he. Cout may ap. pint, iand be by suitable words framed accordiigly. Jurors for common Juiries shall be atinmmoned by -tie Sherifffron any citizenA ot the District, and for special Juries Jurors shall be drawn from a'hox which contaitns the names of all ciizona of the District, he Judge being at liberty to reject, of tho drawn, any ciiizen w 0t liven more than twenty miles frm the place where the Court as appointed to be held. XLIX. All the -provimions of this Act wilt apply to the District Court of Charleston, aid all the offictrs of the Judicial District of Charleston will oc. cupydtha same relations to the District Coturt of Charleston as like officers do in other Judicial Districts to the Di rict Court of such District, except as this Act excepted in reference to Borke ley District. In the Senate Heuse, the.twentieth day of December. in the yesr of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty. ave. W. D. PORTER, President of the Senate. C. H. SIMONTON, Speaker of the House of Represent (tiv w .d s 0 M s - rma awxes.et. A 'WoxSItUPUL d~i-There one of these eccentric and ntysterio, members 6f the solar system that re gnires five hundred and .seventy tw yeard in which to nkke its revolution in itA very eliptical orbit around the sun. The frst account of its appearance on record is 1,767. years before Christ. when sooff tWok it to be the planet Ve nus, eanging its appfarance and course. It was aed th 4seco:*1 time 1.193'years before Chriss,,and again 1.140 years latet This last was 43 B. (., the year after Alius Casar was killed in the Roman Senatt. It liras certainly seen A. D. 680, the fifth year of the Ituman Emperor Justinian. Tkieaccount' is, -at a remarkabla comneC was afeen twenty days in the month ofSeptember, and that, for some timne after :the .un-,appea red pale. It was due again in4. D 1105, and early in the following yeas it was een. Its tast appearance was is 1680. SIr Isaae N*ewton anad others give an intereating accolt of 4.' vehmcit' heat, be. -This comet has been gone oneh hundred and eighty five 'year;, ari will require about one hundredland two years beforp, it reach4. the fuirtheist part of it. orbit, and ittgaes~et dlj#m fron the inn It will be dne Iif agpin' ip the year 2256. This wondqil ~met as we have said iia. seen 1.76 IL. . nsd It suost have piesire4 *ff ntded and'-seventy-Sv. tear be, that Ushich would .have b Ai%8 : 3pOi'years afteD the in.-t previous fj'osebeen 2,917 Ba$; that according to our Obronob og Cresiott '.hi larks aixty-two t~ fitinme requtisk for thercomet t ~ ce4*tplete revolution s& hayr OeriaLn aIt mlgbt have be p1.l spjue~ste from the snd ~atow t IdehttV nioved in t eis probably now v? ~reVlutinnin its it~t operveioous are htfl 41 d 40rollm bl;e.. Ats gwtadgna~ e wet WINNSBORO. ' Taoiday leratag, Iaa*ary *9 18I60 a' .validl A'variggia gt -The co-partnership .of Thiinp rithers &Co., ie'announced, rith ng and generous list of goodui ,.We sk especial attention to the aboy. Refe. Rae. One Hundred Laborers Wan'e4. Crawford & Millr Factors. Shipps a kc To Rent. Notice of renewal of Contract ., After a necessary intermissioAotif . i asues. we resume to-day the tegtoldi lulication of our paper. Our fr'iends n the country will remember the, 10. ality of our office, immediately in the . 'ear of the store of Ladd Bros., at lhd -esidence of Mrs. C. Ladd. A The present circuity of ingress will )e corrected in a day or two by cutting : L door through the partition that sepa. 'ates n3 from the above twentionedd itore, which will afford a direct entranq hrough it. Board,' for Cotrnels. A Lt. Livensparger, S. B. Clowney and Ja". S. Stewart, have been appointed' a bxiard, consitituted tnder Circular 0. lers from Gen. Ck-y, for ratification of rroelmen's contracts in this District.,. I The low Yct. Another year has gcone to' its 'long I account" and we stand face to face with ! khe great problems and issues, the tot bleuh the trials-and hopes. the great mu 1 lations and revolutions, that must surely A ie Prolved before the new is numbered A gith the dead yearq. It is a period of great signiaicance 'and a even of solemnity. Around us lie the wkeck and ruin of a dismantled civilisa.A lion; eur towns and cities burned, our N railroaas, our cotton giss and presses, I our stock and implements ot agficulture t and industry destroyed, money and cr' C iit alike, gone, and destitution already i proclainiag its wants, the labor of the rountry regarded as demoralised and in. mufficient, and dejection and deepunden. T :y filling ton many liart and paralyzing c Loo many. hands. 'hese are the ma. t trisls and the shattered atoms of the C Jte past, with 4hich the men of this c generation are called upon '. reconsie a new prosperity. t :. It is a mihty laskewhich alic d p. ( Palo. But i'f we sit not sullen,.hs'plges ' md desponident, if we droiiefrom the I n ournful memsuories of the past 'lou , rears, the inipirati.o4 6f courigo d!Af I eroism,. of resolutio"en $4 nt.ivity 'that will make. that periodc alomerabf- f . o.'er, sif we appjly ours~e,1i'e W)Iht oil and patietne to the wos'k,. Me .. lieve that the close of this year wlli erIt.' ness many ravages. repaired, comfort . and plenty supplanting want and #nfe1r, Ing in manty a houselofd, many a flid regle'cted during the "carnialof -wr" reclaimsed from the domlrion. of wed, ad our country welladyasted uapon~ .hae rarier of a sow glory., is something very siguinoentin thdJ, owing : . ' . "The Charleston ,(8. O) s that thes south has' real[ loset n1 by emancipation,.for whil, the 'aii lhe slaves before .hq .war hel.e~ t 1,heir masters now 16 eh Ireedmen whs own she .'sud hne'e there is,as far as stav. , operty Isa tomeernesd just as muela wat in thio 1 ~ates as ever there VaA.' '7he tpfo< awna himalf. , Ii is a self-.evidenL proposition' that whether the planter qn thaelrbor..tt, i r whether the libores own *Kmaelves I he; same amount d% ispe exists in I he. country. If a ~(etn taer was * illing to pay a 'dolsa lars for a U i.gro'it mst ht becatse the ? gro equid bvmsude -4 produce- by 1 is-labor a sat teturm on, the d shi.ew )*'& or v. l I sep'sio f' r.r'eata I tot! A I4.-6.. t -1ltt. . t.e capital of the coumtrv. r ... i ple if a negro slave worth-on-e I houg 1d dollars produced untially ou t iih ed and fifty dollars for hi.4 mast.r, nifo e samt mnn whenfree produea- two, )fdred dollars' for himsulf, his reatiye klue when a freedman is [fon vas: ::s. TENISTA UNA TU, aI SOMAaD WILLIAM DAViS. This poem was published- a few years mce-but frot- its beauty and .worth it.has lioen from the scar le'ves qf the past. d is seat to attune afrsh the harpsiobord the heart- by A FaICo iv vin AunOSa. .!oice must ever flI my ear, never lose one tone kid though J know my dream was vain st esill I am thine own. h Iwhy should it tot he to t~hee, lAtjhou wilt ever prove to mue, YVetisa una tu. ft. oft I when on my couch to sleep, tad when tei slumber came, e caught a sound, and blushed to And, breathed aloud thi name. low could I c'en to voiceless air he wishes of my heart declare? Venista U114 Ia. hear thee named by those who may, fold thee to their heart, Ad envy them their right to say, low very dear thou art, nd yet I know it cannot be, 'heir love can equal mine for thee, rith aching heart I walk alone, tt those reveries are flown, ihich once upon my quiet hours Ike airy pageants shone ; feeltoo deeply far t6be, 4 [ow. soothed. or pleased with phantasy Vneota upla Iu. et fondly turns my heart to thee, ad fftters for thy sake, ad though that heart may break yet still ull faitd~ul It will break ' or bow can I forget the hour Phen first I felt thy beauties powtir Venista una IV. diAu I yet wherefere sayadieu t line are no parting words may dot trysto wake one tone, [pon thy memory's chordi, 'et sad it Is that love like mine, lould never win one smile of thine. vesista una IV. Ridgeweg, B. C A W bD1-XO Tat UNDER DIPPtCUL t~s.-The Nadhville Press and 7Vrnes, f the 24th tit.,- . mays : "A wedding ndk place on last Thursday night near Mcelia Academy one mile from ' the ty at the residence of Mr. Grizzle, at rhich Governor Brownlow officiated as haplain. The bride was Miss Site -rizzle, and the bridegroom .Captain loddard, U. S. A. As the rond to the uene of the nuptials runs throigh 4an aroua territory and after dork is a'oul s perilona as that which ruis through rotto del Cave, or the Shadow of deth he Governor and his companiona rode it in A carriago with their revolvers a their laps, and thus accontped, atriv 4 safely at the spot. with no lives lost, vhitch may be regarded as quite' a at ni these times. The earring,-, in whitrh vere Captaih Goddard and his fri.'ade, tent opt by wsy. of College street, no ther car,-iages..ing in company. W hien t reached the viemity of the Smtapher pritng three ruaffianas rushed ot4 and .ied the horses by the bridle. The )Apualn and his friend., instantly dJrew heir pistols, whiereujport the hi gh way men dok to precipitate flight. The driver a* excedi ngly irightened!' 'as his orses were resttve and wifd. and eggted his part' not to fire, as he culd ot hold 'his team. -'o the~ gentyn r6'e1.cont~frained, mneh go the-r ch grin, b'puit'up their pistob.. .. The w r ke lipearance of the 'Governor an - . I at~sthey- Msmounted, arme4 ~ the eharegular matrimonial, irtenelsd >adc aused no little langhter frotm the asrntmbled gunesta. Out Hvmen Iocked rms wiF, grim visaged Mas, the: -cern nony was performed ptrasantly, andeall *ded sfely." The flnese'oratige trees in Eutrope, in' he superb coleleto at- Dresden won~ rought as bellast in the shape of mese locks of timber, withbolt roots nrhbranch s, in the hold of i German vessel, and snnl theit' wyay to Saxony. Some strions gutrderner grikions to know what, lant frfnished' this new wood, .plmnted" hems bitt unfortuinately mistook the- ip ecr end for ,the oWer and thue $ctuhm uraed the) >or ,smultd tree upt kieva. In spit. Qf thia qray nmu muIne hi k Jen voage, and ighedbe 1othe, on'th oti t.