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o" A U t*UBLIS11ED EVERY ErXSDAY, TIURs DAY A.ND SATURDAV, I' Ga3llard, Desportes & Co.4 11BL111ED ZVERY t EDNSDAY r.iN iNM,:tA4$8.00 r.?. AgNKum. Vol. IV.] WINNSBORO, S. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1866 7' DIXIE. ('reated,by a tiaIton'a glee, With jest and song and revelry, We sung it in our e.arly pridd Thr ghout out' Southiern borders wide, Wlhi fromteri thousand throats rang our A p.rotmise in ont' glorious shout "To live.and te for Dixie!" ow' 'l t.at: promise. Was redeemed 11 witu . eli by each field where gleamed VictoriotL-like the crest of' Mars-. Tlhe Banne'r'of the Stars and Bars I 'The- annonS laf our warrioreglow We 1ill the r'atiks and onward go 'To livQ and die for Dixie,!" To die for'Pfxio !--Op, how blest Are tihoso who c arly went to rest. Nor knew the fatture's awful store, lit, deemed the cause ;hcy fought for sure Asaheavon itself. ttnd so laid down The crosseof-Mchh, fhr glory's crown, And nobly die for Dixie. To live for Dixie -harder p'trt! To sty the hand--to still the'heerl Ton stay the lips-enshroudt the past To have .no futute-all o'ercast To knii life's.brokei throads again. Anikeep Eer mem'ry pure from stain This is to live for Dixie. Deloved.Tand ! beloved song, Your thrilling power shil lest ar long Enshrin'd within each Southern soul ATin's eternal ages roll: Made holler by the test of years ;Baptized,with our onuntry's tenrs God and the'right for Dixie! Oongresional. WAstttNGToN, .DeOcttbtr I1.--SEN ATT i .--A.. umibor .of ptitious were in trodtteed and referred, and uaong one .from the New York' underwriters for e'ln appropriation for tio rvunoval t f the stgatiishii Scotland. Mr. Wado, fyomthe Com'nitten .on Torr' or ie:+, ro? ,ed back'tho bill.- for 'tiif ptlesient -Mr. F'sastitloe t att tariff bill had beot referredl to,the 'Finduco Committee INst Session, w"ich instruu tions to ieport'on the second Mondtay in Ieedinber. The- conluittee had bot 'timo to 'consider '"th,is 'bill,, but would do, so at.an oaty' 'day Five hundred Cxtra copies were ordered to be printed.- -. At 12.30?..M. the bill to establish nogro .tffra'o .tr the District was taken up. b question Was upon the. atuencment of M. (owan to strike out 43 Word "nmale," sb as to grnnt suf lrago to both esexes. Mr. Anthony advodated thd amendmieut ,and.',Mr. W\li:uams,aguaiust it..' . The ato on the Suf'rage Bill was continuetl up to the titme of the ad journmont of tho-Soenate. Housa.-Mr..ofly presented the memorial of' the Central Republitan Committee on Reconstructioi.. A bill was passed requiring the Clerk of the' Itouse to insott- in th' roll of members only the ' names of those f'om.statos represented Il the next proQcdlug Congress, as prolimt(n'a ry.to organisation. . A -bill also report,ed to provido punishibnWfor tleo counting.of frau dnleit electoral votes, tlte prepmble of which asAerth that the Iate-- intu.r reetionary States can be restorea to .ropreseontation only by the Ia nak ing 'power.' .The con eratiton o ,. the bill 1MAs otitpgned., Tihd. tevet made i speboh oi tho bif tr rtp-l the statute of. 1,pitsr tions with.egard totl-eason and'e pi tal-offences. lie opposed the 1bIll o *tehding that the orim 6tpq1jw .one tipt requiredl to be urA that4the.offene was ppn a pea8eproolampstion WR y~ n teh.proclaiion 'tjdAV l. le undersiadctifia VI her ~n6 f ' of the ex-Confederate General Piokelt for pardon.. THE CASE OF GENERAL PICKf.TT. It appears that Judge Advocate General Ilolt recommended that Gen eral Pickett be brought to trial upon the char go of having mnurdore'd twon ty-two Union prison%rs of 'war ; but the Secretary of War declined to do this, on the grounds that the Supreme Court had -decided against military ti-ibunals trying such eases. Genoral -Piakett addressed a letter to'the President asking for amnesty, "tud also one to ,Generil Grant asking his favorable consideration, and ex plaining the circumstances under which the men were exeouth. He said that he was simply acting as the general commanding the Department, and uudet: the sanction of the Coifede rate .Government. General Grant made an endorsement on the letter to the President, recommending elemon dy, or that an assurance be given that no trial should take place for o1rences charged agai*1st General .Pickelt. General Gtunt said : "During the rebellion belligerent rights rwere allowed to the enemies of our country, and it is clear to inc that tlie par' c g v .n b*y t.e -a mies l3 ing dovn thei grons protects them against pimshment. for acts lawful in any oth er belligerent. The punishment of the men was at harsh one, but it was at a time when the enemy, no doubt felt it necessary to retain by. some power the services of every man within their reach. General.Pickett I know per sonally to. be Im hooniable man, but, in this case; his judgment prqmpted him to do what cannot. now be stlstain (d ; though I - do. not sec' any good either t6 the friends of the deceased, or as fixing an example for the futtfru, can be secured by his trial now. It WouTtliiTy~ open~ nis'tie qus'e tion whether or not the Government (id not, disregard -its contradt, entered 'in to to secure; the surrende'r of an armied enemy." WAsUINGT!N, Decemher 12.-i the House, yes'er'lay, Steven"u1 made a speech on the bilf to repeal the stitnte of inmitation with. regard to treason adt capipl -ofrnces. Ho opposed the 1jill, contending that. the crinp of treasnil was one which most required to be quieted by time. The oetice wws cotinuoAi nn til a pesq proclarnmtmon was issued. io nmderstood that tihe man, at the' other cnd of th1ea 'avenule had issued some pie.ees of payper, but he dil not. regard tlem as prochamations of peace. .'Iose w.ho rebelled against the G'overnment shold hu punished as captives. No acti.n was' taken'on the bill. i the .Senate. tty-dciy. Mr. WVilson gave niot ice ihit to-Dmlurow he will in1 troduce a 'ill . - continno in force the f'rtdmeni 'lnreau and to amend thl act establishing it.' Mr. Morgan introdnced a 'oint reso lintiont of bliks to Cyrus M. Field, for his serilces in laying the- Altantic Ca, ble. Referred .to the Committee on -Foreign Rchlations. '.tr. Ttnmboll introduced a resolution "a ing upon the President to inform the Se'iawhe;h y any person appointed to auy.omlce'req ltd by law to be filled by. eo akof t h"SenatP, cotinii ioned dtlririg thI r stof the Semite prvidus t.ihle ettisi'e rg pf. jhe 'pruse,nt Con' gres,his been continued in such' o&ie Pitoe tIm, end ufhe 'session without the. bmini4er of trfe ap' to ite'Nnate'frr cL Ifrmati0rn.(ndt part ulgrlyNyhvIether .4~rve'yor or nmmval otfeer* of;t'h4 port o(blRdI hhIa tnag.beeih soi continned difk#ihoutthho e of thc.8 n t n odhtitr hhM ece,te p te'd ha ila fare. -'That the Constitutional A nitd ment is the most conciliatory. offer that the rebel States could expect, and that the theory of universa' amnesty o01ght to be discharged by overy loyal patOt. Objection being made none of tte\ tso liitions were entertained. The hill to. repeal the statute of imi tation was taken *up and diescussed. V itNOTON, December 13.="+ 'he Senate, thirty-two against thirteen, as e"d a bill referring snfiraAe. in the -Dis itnet of Colinbia. -on colored persons, but. exchlitig persons who, in the an gitage of the hill, may have volun ily given aid and comfort to the rebria in the lae reb.llion. Mr. Stevens introduced aill td re establislh civil Government in North Carolina, and to citable it to restime its forner telat tons as utt of the constitt onts States of the American Union. -e tlid so at the reqest of several gentle men frctm North Caroline. Referred to the Conmittee on Territories. On imotion of Mr. Taylor, of Tennes see, the Secretary was reqested to.far nli.sh any -informiition in the War Do -ri meint, relative to the Now Orleans rips. Tho disension on the frosidont'9,an nitmd miosaago was coneticed, uld Ward, of New York, made a speecl. in wiich ie generally denounced the Pfesi den t. Tihe hill which Senator Yute. ititro dtced to-day, ierites to the publtcation of t he constitutional attiendinent,.wbich; lrovides talint upon information bbing received fv the Secretary of the Seriaie ind the Clerk of the hjust', of the ra .i ficatiot, of any of the amondmenttta J,he Constitntion ..by re4t.isito unmI of 'States duly qnlifle<t to pass a hq ie same, it shlunl be the dut.y o'f th r sj dent of the Senate and the Clerk 'he ionue to publish the samlie ill thi S papers How aut.horized to puhlijJ Ie htws,. e,cifdto ' inder their cit and is now ii and binding as a partt qf the Constitution, in'the same manner as fornmerly cettified to by the ?ecretary. if Slate. Thia object. of this bill is to. leprive the PresideMt nd.the Secretary o State of"any action in t.h' premise.. Congress has agreed to adjourn front theo 2.0th instant until 3d oftnusry. The Highest Di 'y of Southern Women. A ppeal after appeal has been niade to he young men of %he .Sint.h,." nrgin the-n to devote their eieigiles to the restvralonj of their contry to prpsperity rttd the homes to hapritness. -They have been told that they ttustb'hcontent ' to ahor; that the day fo. phi1rsophical liscissi and- etaphysicalfspecui4tion anpad ; and that upon them and Cheirs.murt rest the . resptnsibility.,cf miiking the S.ithert SLatt rnd her people respected, honored and admired. Nobly have the majority responded -td the call; anid in the Garolitas,in Vir ninia, in Florida, in Louisana, i' evev State of the 'lto Confede,raey, tit ground has been furrowed and commerce.' has bnen directed by those who, five yeai ago. know labor but :hy name. ii: the fiel.l, and on the plantati , in the counting-room and -warehon , in - the merchant s.hip and .swit. gliditig teitAmer; in the mine and the. factory ; or1the lute of projected railreau and in the halls of. oplleges atd' ins.tituteo, the gallaht Sol, diers of thotonfederata armius are tight ing agaimt pot.-rty, privation .ah.d die tiess, 'strengthoiiig .their - cournge. by the. constant,: remuembrance th,at they have a high reputation. to maintanand spotless namea l.o uphtold. Whetnev.r thne mortificafins .an eflghfe .of" thd (htey Wer/i~Qd tp' Iooltwiti rtyerenceI townrds thd-oteiue oa edre-d ilg bi'Nfif tiemt'T$ wera ttnd 4 iy; in lon Mt.L'edi~ ldd like 'the t ' "bit tolklo 26 9 continue to bo worthy, of some dear Southern wopian--mother, sister, or friend and must never, by repining or complaint, bring the flush of shame to her cheek or the-tear of regret to her loving brown eye; "Better to die than to live dishonored in the ey's of thosi whom we love," is the legend burned by the red hand"of war, on the souls of the men of thd South, and, like trusty soldiers, they have not faltered or hesi tated in the- hard path they have cho! sen. It is not 'needed now to speak in praiso of wha Southern women have done. Their ct -will live through time, and will be recorded in eternity. But a task is before thema now more diflienli than any that they have yet undertaken. Admir*ly: and well as most of the men of-the South have conducted theni selves; there are still thousands who arf content io fritter nway theit - time in nonsensical nothings, iand to tiu t to -somethinit turning up.' to sco ire a brighter future. Such of these are par ticilarly 'found among those y.ung. men who have but recently attained their mnjorita,-and ' whose mental training was interrupted, or terminated by. the vicissitudes of war.. They look 'upon dress *as their noblest ambition, and gos sip and scandal as their highest aim. .They'congregate arqund church doors, and se'hlom enter in ; they read, but will not heed t he lessons thAt ever. the poorest romance may teach, and thity willingly and obstinately close their eyes to all that life demands ofthem., Remonstrance or entre.ity with those people would be worse than vain ; and it is hero' the wo nien of- the'Somh11 mn.t again show of whnt. they are gtapable ; it is here that the.y can fulfill their highest, .noblest Cu y ,- Those men of boysr who must indige in. fishionablo afetctation or h on chalain' , a still .p rfatl'srnsible of' ths6 ilnei o;fl - o&n virtuous wo-' rnitt" eftee Webtawen the woman and tler:lvas; and try to adapt their,manners andctstodis-to her's. Here, thet is.the new sphere of influ ence; ;for a wgart i,to a gteat-extent to. bo- praisea or'censured according to the habits aid manners of tlosu who are most fretently. with. her. This may seem a harsh assertions but it is,i in' ha'pily, nothing nmre than the . trnt.h, for, if a- wonman ,eaunot make her com panions like mitto hvrself, she slioudI res ol:itely decline to,toid anf intercourse with thorn I Men, in gpnertl, respect.. and reverence the women whom they meet, and const.antly endeavor to' win their admiratiotr. . All their litthl arts of dress and pre0tiness ofspeech are inf td ed tp attract wonianly. regard; and no man worth knowing or seeing will con ti'nuj to do that whlich is 'evidently dis pleasisg strd diatnsteful io (uo-. whom he.prufesses to respect. '\V+non,. the, Southt'rn women,. must., by their words attd deedaahow ,their frjends that scan-.t dil and goasip hnvA no charms for them. They musc show them that tihy are not Ir to idle'or dream,'but to cWork an'ti 'wpit. They must, teach them thtt there is no-g'reater.f+tant. than tit of, being content tojiv.e upon the renembrrnce of tla paat, ' Theyi mnst teatch thet, , I ilne, that only tlt inn who is, earnest, gnerou, unafleo ed and true-unly the man 'wlho will lee&fnlly look Fortune in th + face,t.ovever darkly sl may f own, can expeot t<r wit affetion or love from a rue woman, and.that such a-'nan cit ai will,'under.'ll circnumtances, con mhnd. her sinoer respect. 'Woinen will einvatt.henelve.by. ,-levating those with wliomi.thy live.. "T.iey idll trake *ha eveif' possiblte, esihl more uteited bundJketil'iby 'encoIirgiethe -in tehle'cL tddetetognt of oi lie,K Thuey ~ill (gitt1b hgnof for themnsel'e iii teachmgt Qt*nt liow e ,ode: bey 'SuTh$ fr}'( atmp (b con# S4 or ooIoron9mi t i i t r t it b. tc hi w bi I re cr it is alm8ost lc(A3ss to sav thrt try at .v the nOn-segititurand acquiued the derf: Ldant. The convoutinon of Southern' rail road- officors tnt on Katurday in Wash i tgt n, and arranged a schedule of eighty'th' e hours to Now Orleans for passenger trains' and sAeyn' days fur express and frecightlropgh from Now York.. Passengers hiange cars - at Lynch1>arg, . Virginia, and' Grand Junction,. iss;, freight being only broken at -Lycchburg, Va. ITn vief of the fact thai by this route twolve hours is saved to .New Orleans ouver other roals, Postmaster (eneri I Randall completeal a contract to-av for the great Southern nail to be car rioid this new route, and sti'pulated for tiproved'postol .ears the whole distance. The new arrangement goes (uto operation unday night. At a rogular meeting of, the New York Cliambn. of (m nierce,. Thur-' day:aftornbon, 4. imemorial was rgud prayfbg 00agress to abolish the ' ov port duty on cotton. A resolution was adopted potitionig. Goye1omen t to emp~loy a sqjuadro:L. ofnaval 'fossels to fnake the flocessary?BC, easoninlingam for a now'omlo, fo connect the Uinited States w ith-1 Fram.ce tand Sogthe hurppe It was thought that undi a litaemutght he laid fromt C.pe Cod to ~ ~on$ayk P'oint, A a ost. of $6,000, A 000, Yti ee ea 6he -dea.th of the 1Tycoqu of Japaiyt4on high - digni tario demnand4 0he immpenkatble aer.o beial)e d to ' ?p -thea( eto tz~ .It.