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TXTHEREAS, the preseot supply of ^ Y f provishmsln this State is needed for the subsistence of the people thereof and the soldiers of the Confederacy - x# therein: And whereas, it U deemed important to prevent the exportation of the same for speculation: Now therefore 1, MILLEDGE L. RONHAM, Governor of South Carolina, by virtue of the power vested in iue under the Constitution of tliis State, do issue this, my Proclamation, and forbid ait persons, for the space of thirty * - days from this date, I'.a .a exporting beyond the limits of this HrtUt- any salt, bacon; pork, beef; corn, meal, Wheat, flour, ^*5 rice, peas, or potatoes. The following persons are excepted* viz: Quartermasters, Commissaries, attd other agents of the Confederal Government purchasing provisions for the armv. who must exhibit satisfactory eviaence of their iticial character ami authority; persons from outer slates who purchase for their own private use and consumption and not for resale, who shall make oatli to that effect before tbo next magistrate previous to the removal of tlte articles purchased, which oath the magistrate shall preserve and furnish for the use of the Solicitor of the Circuit when rc" quired; agents of counties, towns, corporations, and Sol. (tier's Hoards of lleiitf. of other States, who exhibit satisfactor.' proof of tlieir autliority to purchase such provisions '^SSP' in.behalf of such counties, towns, corporations or Soldiers' -v-L-r * Board* of Belief for public use or for distribution at costs and charges, and not for resale or profit. ^ "Utafc Sqit made by nonresidents and cargoes enteringour ports ' from abroad are also excepted. - " It is enjoined upon all sheriffs, magistrates and constables and all good citizens are appealed to, to aid in the enforcement of this Proclamation, and also of the Act of the General Assembly, entitled -'An Act to enforce any Procla motion of the Governor prohibiting the exportation of provisions," ratified the tenth day of April, A. D., 18611. Given under my hand aud the seal of the State, at OolumCi *_1 bia, this 18th day of April, in the year of our Lord * J one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. . M. L. B0NI1AM. W. E. Huxtt, Secretary of State. April 22 16 lm MUTHffi FIELD & FIRESIDE. SUBSCRIPTIONS ADVANCED TO ;V $4 FEB YEAR. |^WING to a further advance in the price of paper and the limit put upon our supply, the Proprietor respectfully announces that from and after the Ut of MARCH, the price of the FIELD AND FIRESIDE Will be as follows : ft4 rw u*ic jxw For six months ?. > 2 No doduetZous made to clubs, and no subscriptions received for less than six months. Postmasters will be allowed 20 per cent, as heretofore. Increased exertions will be used to make the paper attractive. The charming story? "THE RANDOLPHS OF RANDOLPH HALL." I _ will be completed in the lQtti number- Back numbers, containing tills interesting romance, can be supplied, in the same number will be commenced the thrilling Prize Novelette of " INDIA MORGAN OR THE LOST WILL. This will nm through several numbers of the paper, and Will be accompanied by original Tales, Essays and Poems by the best writers In the country. As only a fixed supply of paper can be had, the edition is limited, and those wishto secure this favorite family paper would do well to subscribe early. In making remittances be particular jo state the Post Office, County and State, and to send no local shlnplasters. Address, JAMES GARDNER, Augusta, GnP March 11 10 Ip qpAXBSV T&XEg!! TAXES ijl JL Tho ubrfersigned will attend at the following times antftplactw, for tit# purpose of collecting TAXES und ye-' cewiugRntariisforthe year 1882: ' **?, A At Luke Smith's, Thursday, 2nd of April. < At Fecmster's, Friday, 3rd of April. At GUfiilnn's, Saturday, -4th nf April. . At Yorkvllle, Monday, 6th of April. AtYoungbloodV, Tuesday, 7th of April. AtMcCounellsville, Wednesday,8th,of April. AtBrattonsvillc, Thursday. Otlt of April. At WcstbrookV, Friday, lOth of April. i At Coales Tavern, Saturday, lltli of April. At Rock Hill, Monday and Tuesday, 13th and 14 th, April. . At Fort Mills, Wednesday, Ifitli of April. At Ebcne/.er, Thursday, 16th of April. At Clay IIUK Friday, 17th of April. At Bethel, Saturday, 18tli of April. At Allison's, Tuesday, 21st of April. At Smith's, Wednesday, 22nd of April. r At WliisonantV, Thursday, 23rd of April. At Buffalo, Friday, 24th of April. At Boydton, Saturday, 25th of April. " At Hugh Love's, Tuesday, 26th of April. At Whitcsides', Wednesday, 29th of April. At Hickory Grove, Thursday, 30th of April, and Friday and Saturday, 1st and 2nd of May. At YorkrUJe, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdny, 3rd, 4th. and 5th of May. Tbe sumo property subject to taxation as last vear. rue JUOOK3 win oe cioseu wn uiv- ?uav ur?j ui .-m.. By an Act of the Legislature, all persons are required to return on oath, the numlier of slaves worked on their fartus the present vear. JOHN J. WYLIE, Tax Collector. March 25' 12 4t IK THE COURT OF ORDIKARf, YORK DISTRICT. F&r Divirion or Sale of Real Estate of James .1. Mc Carter, eceased. , James L. McCartcr, Applicant, vs. Christopher L. II. McCarter, elal.,HclT?-at-Law of James A. McCartor, deceased. IT appearing to my satisfaction that Robert M. McCarter, John C. McCartor, and Harriett McCaner, widow of David Z. McCarter, deceased, and the children of 6aid David Z. McCarter, whose names are unknown to me, defendants in above stated case J reside without the limits of this State. It Is, therefore, ordered, that they do appear and object to the division or sale of the Real Estate of James A. McCarter, deceased, on or before the 15th day of Juoe next, or their consent to the same will be entered of record. J. A. BROWN, O. Y. D. March 24 10 3m IK EQUlTf?fORK DISTRICT. Jno. D. Maclean, Executor, f rt. V DiU for sale of land .V Negro. Robert Patrick, and others. ) IT appearing to my satisfaction that Robt. I'. Bigger, John Mlllcn and Selina, his wife, James Bigger, Thomas Davis and Johu Davis, defendants In ahovc stated case, reside beyond the limits of this State. It Is, therefore, on motion of Williams and lleatty, Complainants Solicitors, ordered, that said absent defendants do appear and plead, answer or demur to the Bill died in this case, within three months from the publication of this notice, or said Bill will be taken pro conjcuo as to them. WX) WALTER B. METTS, Commissioner in Equity February 18,1863. 7 3m NOW IS THE TIME! I WILL PAY THE HIGHEST CASH PRICES FOR ALL CLASSES OF NEGROES. C. J. PRIDE, Rock Hill, S. C. April 1 13 ' \ c tf YORK MARBLE YARD. RICHARD HARE, respectfully informs the citizens of York and Chester Districts, and the adjoining counties of North Carolina, that he is fully prepared to supply every article in the MARBLF. LINE," of the highest style of finish and at reasonable prices. He keeps constantly on hand, a large supply of FOREIGN and DOMESTIC MARBLE, and specimens of his work may be always seen at the Yard, nearlv opposite lite "ENOUIRER" PRINTING OFFICE, and' a few doors North of "Stowe's" Hotel, flra- Aft work will be delivered at any point on the King's | Mountain Railroad, FREE of charge. He Is also prepared to furnish to order, IRON RAILING of any desired pattern, for Fences, Balconies, fee. January 10 3 Ip OFFICE A. Q. M.. CHARLESTON, S. C., October 1st, 1862. "\TR. J. C. MILLER is appointed _LtJL Agent of this Department, for the purchase of FODDER and CORN for the Districts of York and Chester. Planters desiring to sell will communicate with him, through the POST OFFICE, at Yorkville, S. Carolina? Particular attention must be paid to the PACKING. No WATER must be used, as great loss to the Government was experienced last year, by Fodder being improperly packed, all such will be rejected. " MOTTE A. PRINGLE, Capt. and A. Q. M. October 15 42 tf QTEAM MILLS FOR SALE.? KZj The undersigned offers for sale or In exchange for NEGRO PROPERTY, his STEAM MILLS in the Town ofYorkvIUe.S.C., directly on the KING'S MOUNTAIN RAIL ROAD. The Mills consist of WHEAT and CORN MILLS, and a CIRCULAR SAW?the whole driven by a BOILER and ENGINE of FORTY HORSE POWER, with WELLS and PUMPS to supply with water, and all necessary buildings. The BOILER and ENGINE, if desired, will'be sold alone. S. J. KUYKENDAL. March 18 _ll tf Transient Boarding, rpHE UNDERSIGNED HAS LOJL cated himself a few doors North of STOWE'S hotel, and is prepared to accommodate all that may favor him with a call. His TABLE shall be furnished with the substantial of life, as well as PROVENDER and Stabling for horse. I W. P. McFADDEN. Yorkville. April 8,1863. 14 .. 5m* 1 Late Northern Items. The North has found fighting a losing game, and proposes to hold off a while.? The New York World thus speculates upon the policy of the campaign the coming summer and autumn : Notwithstanding the pretence of military activity in all the armies of the Union there are some reasons for believing that the Administration is disposed to stand on the defensive during the spring and autumn, and adjourn its active operations on land until nest fall. On this point the intelligent and well informed Washington correspondent of the Boston Traveller says : It is far better to look the matter squarely in the face, aud be prepared for what is coming. Wc may not win maoy important victories this spriog. This iH one of the nnnntUiKi'nn if onnmn rv rv?n o ?>Ud3i Vi JlLLwO; UUU IV OCCUiO UIV a ^|vyHViiity. But wo shall wiu great victories before the year ends. The rebels have all the force in the field they can ever put there, while we are to fill up the wasted ranks of the old regiments under the conscripting act **"is summer. The great fighting of the war will tako place this autumn. I know that such is the expectation of our military chiefs. It is not expected that we shall win such viotories this spring as will put au end to the rebellion. They will come at the close of the year. This will not be a very comforting view of things for those who have been selling gold Bbort, and who have made their business calculations upon a*closc of the war, one way or the other, before midsummer, but we believe it is what the business people of the North may as well make up tbeir minds for. The reasons, good and bad, which have inclined the military administration to postpone fighting, or rather general offensive operations, until fall, are probably suoh as follows- . 1. The belief that the South is suffering for the necessaries of life, and that a prolongation of the war until next autumn will ! add to its financial and military embarrassments. 2. The knowledge that, notwithstanding the deficiency of food and the worthlessness /in?*anAn fKn /\n V*av?n nrmn Vl VVUiOUCicti^ vunguuj^ vuw uuuiiugiu uiui^ was never so well organized, disciplined, efficient, or numerous as now, while at the same time the Union army, owing to the thinned ranks of the 6ld regiments and the near approach of the end of the term of service of the two years and nine months men, is not in as high a state of efficiency | as it is capable of attaining with fall ranks composed of men having a long time to serve. 3. An American spring in Southern lati- ' tudes can hardly be depended upon for mil- j itary operations. It is a rainy and stormy season, aid the weather suitable for march- { ing and fighting, at most, lasts but a few ] weekR. During summer there can of course be no fighting, but autumn is the season of j the year for campaigns on this continent. 4. The maohinery of the complicated conscription bill cannot be put into opera- ( tion so as to add to the force in the army ] much before midsummer, and time will be required to drill the green troop3 before ( pitting them against the enemy. 5. The administration undoubtedly believes that if the Union armies do not advance, the Confederates must. There is ' every reason fnr the South to wish to force the fighting, ana this will give the Union generals the advantage of receiving the enemy in entrenched positions, instead of-attacking them in their fortified strongholds. ' To these reasons may be added other less , creditable ones, such as timidity in high places, the prolongation of the war for the benefit of contractors, the fact that no election is to take place before next fall, and ! therefore no military eclat is required to ! eleot Congressmen and control State Legislatures. TV?nli!nmtnn /lofno r\? iVk/a 91 of onrl MflTO it aouiugivu uaivn ui tub wiutj uuu aiuu York and Baltimore dates of the 20th iu- , staut, afford the following summary. The mo9t important item of intelligence furnished by the files is the following general orders issued to the army of the Potoin- 1 ac by General Hooker, on Monday : Headquarters Army of tiie Potom- , ac, April 20th. General Orders, No. 44. In order that no misunderstanding may exist as to the course to be pursued with regard to regiments whose terms of service are about expiring, the following rules will govern the action of corps commanders and others in the matter. "1. Where companies and regiments reenlist after the expiration of their present term of service in accordance with the provisions of General Orders No. 85, April 2, 1863, from the War Department, the regimental and company offioers will be retained. The regiment will have a furlough for the time specified in the order, and will be allowed to proceed at the public expense with arms and equipments, to the place of their enrollment, the date of the furlough being the expiration of the two years or nine months from the date of the original mu9ter into the service of the U. States. "2. Where the regiments in a body decline to re-enlist, the officers and men will : i * j i -1 lu. ?e ^ tnn ue mubtereu uut at uic capuauuu ui iug wvtu i years or nine months from the time of their actual master into the Uuited States service?their arms and equipments be turned i into the ordnance officer of the division to I which the troops belong, and transportation and subsistence furnished them to the : place of their original enrollment." i The third paragraph of these orders pro- i vides that in cases where [ess than one-half I; of the number of a regiment re enlist, the corps commanders shall determine how i many and what officers shall bo retained. 1 Tho fourth paragraph provides for the i payment of bounty money upon the return of the men from furlough. 1 [It will be recollected that, fifty dollars < bounty and thirty days furlough are offered 1 as the inducement to re-enlist ] i The fifth paragraph states: "In regi- 1 meats where two years men, and men en- J % listed for three years or the war are assooia ted together, special recommendations ma; be made to these headquarters for furlough to the latter, when the number of two year men re-enlisting may, in the opinion of th corps commander, justify the indulgence The sixth paragraph provides that wher two years regiments do not re-enlist, a ahove provided for, those men belonginj thereto who had been enlisted for thre years shall be transferred to the thre years regiments, or formed into separat battalions, at the discretion of the corp commanders. The New York Post, on the authority o an officer of the Army of the Potomac states that "General Stoneman bad reachei Culpoper, C. H., where 3,000 rebels sur nrised and cantnred a number of the Har tis'light,cayulry, atajdace where som cavalry were killed in a previous skirmish.1 Over seven hundred sick reached Wash ington from the Army of the Potomao 01 Monday. The Confederate Fleet in England. The London correspondent of the Net York Times, under date of March 28th 1863, writes as follows : A whole fleet is preparing as rapidly a possible, ostensibly for the Emperor of Chi ua. Everybody knows they are jntendei to open the Confederate *torts. Everybod knows that the Confederate loan was raise< to purchase their outfit. This was the rea son why eighteen millions?nearly $100, 000,000?was subscribed, when only ?15, 000,000 was wanted. This was the reasoi why the stock went up to par and to fiv per cent, premium, though taken at eight and put on the market at ninety. The simple truth of the matter is, tha with the active sympathy of the uppe classes, and the "neutrality" of the Govern ment, a strong parly of English capitalists cotton speculators, shipbuilders and mer chants, have taken up the cause of th South in earnest, and mean to put it through They have embarked their millione, and d not mean to lose them. The Governmen cannot interfere to prevent it, and has ni disposition to do so. As Lord Palmerstoi said last night, if they attempted to atnen< the law, they might make it worse. Th< Government will be neutral. It may evei pass over the seizare of the Peterhoff b; Captain Wilkes. They will let the Norti buy all the "hardware in Birmingham.? But they neither can nor will prevent th< departure of a single one of the fonrteei steamers which Mr. Bright says are fittio; out for the Confederate Government. Eng land, as a Government, is not at war witl you, bat English capitalists and manufactu rers are, and I do not see how it is to b< helped. The interest, you must grant, is a veiy itroug one. Look at the miHions of capita rusting away in Lancashire ; look at th< *reat cotton manufacturing interest whicl has encircled the world ; at the closed cot ion ports, the dragging war whioh shows n< sign of termination, the starving popula lions, already beginning to break out int( riot and disorder. ^ You talk of war. They [ask nothing bet ter. The more you threaten, the less like ty the Government will be to interfere witl their projects. A war, they think, woulc soon settle the matter. You will tab Canada. Well, it was but the other da] that Mr. Gladstone was for getting rid o that troublesouio province ou any terms.? You will send out privateers. If you do your ports will be blockaded and all other closed against them, so that privateeriuj will not be profitable. Ships will go arm ed with Armstrong guns, or be guarded b] men-of-war steamers. That is the wa; Englishmen feel. They are growing so ir ritated and disgusted with the war, tha they arc ready for anything that will pu an on<Tto it. The efforts of the emancipationists hav< ~t j a... e t: ik? UUb UUBUgUU IUU ICCIlUgS ui tug uppci uiuco es at all. If abolition was ever a favorit< idea of the aristocracy, it is so no longer It is consigned to the oblivion of the lowei millions. Tho Times openly defends slavery The other higher class papers apologise foi it. Mr. Bright is still the brave and elo quent champion of tho North, bat ho findi very little sympathy in or out of Parlia ment, excepting among the workingmen who are in earnest in the cause of free la bor?all the more earnest because they ar< oppressed aud degraded as freemen are no where else in the world. Mr. Bright mad< a most eloquent speech, in favor of th< National Government, a few nights ago, to i Trades' Union meeting, at St. James Hall It was well meant, but very useless. Th< Times is not far from right when it assert! that the whole public of England?meaning the voting and income-tax paying public? all but a few disappointed Republicans, hope for the success of the South. Lord Hartington, in an election speed this week, stated the whole case. He hac just come from America, where he hac travelled in both sections, and he was oni and out Southern, and declared that no u nion could be restored, nor could the Soutl be conquered. This opinion was never sc Grin as at this moment. Is it strange thai strong efforts should be made to hasten i result in which faith is so general ? TC ili a ninirtmrtnio T\tlkllrtltr mrirlo f?n/1 JLl tuc otabcmcuvo ^rui/iivijr iuhu^ au\j apparently based on good authority, art to be believed, the Confederates, within s month, will have at sea one of the mosl formidable fleets that ever steamed oat npon the Atlantis. The steamers now preparing will be as fleet, as strong and as powerful as British machinists can make them. Tou have not begun to fortify the Northern ports a day too soon. I cannot tell when die blow will fall; I only know that the Confederates here uro iu radiant jubilation.? rhey care nothing ,about Vioksburg or Charleston. They expect to go home in 'niaety days." They care nothing for the [Jnion movement in the North. They care lot for recognition. The money market las recognized them;?that is enongh.? [f cotton is not king, it is at least a hard -1 subject, and bag given them a loan of $15* p | 000,000 with the offer of nix times as much, s That ia glory enough. e AN ACT i. To Enforce any Proclamation of the. Gove ernor Prohibiting the Exportation of 8 Proviseions. g I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House e of Representatives now met and sitting in e General Assembly and by the authority of e the same, That when any proclamation of s the Governor prohibiting the exportation of provisions may be of force, if any person f exports such provisions oontrary to the true i intent and meaning of such proclamation, j be or she shall be liable .to indiotmeat, and >. on conviction, shall be fined in an amount .. not loss than twice the market value of the 0 article at the time of jbpntepce, nor shall > any ildch person on arrest to answer be dwr[. charged unless he ut she' enter into TecogQ nizance for his appearance at the next term of the Court of General Sessions, with two or more good sureties, in a sum not less than twice the market value of the article v exported. } II. That if any person shall attempt to export as aforesaid any provisions contrary 9 to the true intent and meaning of suoh l* proclamation, on information given to any 3 Magistrate of the District in which the pery son so offondiog may reside, or be taken, * as hereinafter provided, such Magistrate '* may issue bis waraant, directed to the Sher " iff, Constable, or any citizen of the said '* District, authorizing the arrest of such perQ son, and on failure of such ' person to enter e into recognizance with two or more good 7 sureties, for appearance at the next Court of General Sessions appointed for such Disfc triet, to answer to an indictment for such r altomnt in nnk loco fhnn linnhla tha mnrlrnl'. HVVVUi^V *U MVW iVWH VUHU V>VUV>V **?V MfWBaBWV - value of the articles proposed to be carried '> beyond the State, the Magistrate may com* rait the party offending to jail,* to be held e to answer the indictment, and on convic* tion, to be fined.and imprisoned at the dis0 cretion of the Couit. # 1 III. In case of proceeding under the 0 second seotion of this Act, it shaU be the 3 duty of the officer or person authorized to 1 arrest, to seize the articles so attempted to e be exported, and deliver them to the Sher3 iff of the District, whc shall scourely retain 7 the same until the indictment is disposed 3 of; and the Judge by whom the offending - party may be sentenced for violation of any B of the provisions of this Act shall order the 3 fine imposed to be paid over to the 'Soldiers' S Board of Relief of such District. IV. That on affidavit made by any such 3 Sheriff that the articles seized are perisha* ble, it may be lawful for any of the Judges 9 of the Courts of Law to order the sale of such articles for cash at the Court House, 1 on any day after fifteen days notico by adI vertisement in a newspaper, if any be pub9 lisbed in such District; if not, by written 1 notice in'three conspicuous places in the ' same, and on receipt of the proceeds of the 3 sale after retaining the costs of the adver* tisement and five per cent, on suoh pro3 ceeds, the said Sheriff shall pay the balance into Court. V. That in oase the said party is on trial * acquitted, the articles so seized, or the pro3 oeeds of the sale, authorized in the fourth 1 a ?t,?n i,? ucumuu ui tuts j-WLj Ditauj uj uiuci vi bug 3 Court, be delivered over to such party, who F shall also have a claim against the State for f the interest on the market valae oF the said " articles from the day tbay may be so seized, t and for compensation in case of a Bale bav3 tag been made, for the amount paid out of I the proceeds for the advertisement and per ' contage allowed the Sheriff. F VI. That on conviction of the person or F persons offending against the second Seo" tioci of this Act, the articles seized, in case' 1 no sale has been ordered by them as before : 1 provided, shall be sold for cash by the Sher- j iff, at such time, place and notice as the Judge, passing sentence, may direct, and, after deducting from the proceeds of such sale the costs of the notice, and five per centum for the Sheriff, the balance shall be paid to the Clerk, and by him be received on account of the fine imposed by the said Judge; and in the event of a sale having been made, as provided by the fourth Section of this Act, the amount paid into Court, as thereby required, shall be reoeived on account of the fine imposed. VII. That for the purpose of more fully carrying into effect the. provisions of this Act, tho Governor may, whenever he thinks proper, appoint one or more persons, in each District, whose duty it shall be to see that prosecutions are commenced against offenders, which agents shall be paid out of the contingent fund a compensation by him regarded adequate for the services they may render. AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act to a mend an Act entitled 'An Act to organ' I rze and supply Negro Labor for Coast 1 Defence, in compliance with requisitions t of the Government of the Confederate Slates" and for other purposes. 1 I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House > of Representatives, now met and sitting in t General Assembly, and by the authority of 1 the same, That the twelfth section of an Act entitled^'An Act to organize and sopI ply negro labor for the coast defence, in 1 compliance with requisitions of the Govi ernmentof the Confederate States," passed on the eighteenth day of December, Anno - Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two be, and the same is hereby, re pealed. II. That the Commissioners of Roads be, and they are hereby, required to make re1 tarns, on oath, to their respective Boards, ' of all persons within their divisions who ' shall make default in furnishing their quota ' of negro labor when called for, in pursu1 ance of said Act; and it shall be the duty 1 of said Boards to report the names of all 1 snoh defaulters to the Fall Term of the 1 Court of Common. Pleas and General Sessions, and also what action they have taken in relation to snch defaulters. r III. That the authorities of any incorporated city, town or village, not subject to the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of Roads, in the performance of road duty, shall eause returns to be made on oatbj of all persons within their jurisdiction who shall make default in furnishing his or her quota of labor, when called for, in pursuance of said Act, and report all such defaulters as is hereinbefore required of the Boards of Commissioners of Roads. IV. That persons owhing only one slave liable to road duty, shall be exempted from furnishiog labor under said Act. V. That a number less than a quorum of any Board of Commissioners of Roads shall have the power,' and are hereby directed, to'appoint persons to vacancies occasioned by the absence of members from the State, until a quorum shall, be formed ; and. it shall be lawful to appoint persons who are ? * ? v 1 . ? - mi i 01 name to roaa amy to uu say vacancy in said Boards. VI. That the second Section of an Aot entitled "An Aot to amend an .'Act to organize and supply negro labor for'ooast defence, in compliance with requisitions of the Government of the Confederate States,' and to authorize and direct the Governor to proceed to furnish negro labor under the said Act," passed on the sixth day of February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, be and the sapae is hereby altered and amended, so that the Commissioners of Boads be, and are hereby authorized and directed, to collect the fine9 imposed for such default in the manner, now providod by law for default in the performance of road duty, and to pay the fines so collected to the State Agent, to be by him expended in the hire of negroes to be employed on coast defences. VII. That if any Commissioners of Boads or any Board of Commissioners, or the authorities of any ineorparate oity, town, or village, shall neglect or refuse to oomply with the provisions of this Act, he or they shall suffer for each and every default, the same pains and penalties, and in the same manner, as are now prescribed by tho Statute Law of this State fpr the punishment of Commissioners of Boads for negleot or refusal to discharge the daties required of them. Immorality in Biohmond. The Richmond correspondent of the Knoxville Register says : The evils incident to revolution are in this city developed in their worst aspect.? Citizens of Richmond are not affected by them, but the crowds which congregate in the Capital, of both sexes, give abundant evidence of the rapid progress of social demoralization growing out of the unhappy condition of our country. I cannot say more, without 9aying too much, and can give you no adequate conception of the looseness of moral? that is becoming prevalent among those whose necessities open the gateway to all vices. Qambling, such as would startle habitues of European watering places, is not the worst of the moral calamities that has befallen Richmond. Nob only do the Faro banks attract "depositors" from civil and military classes of society, bat men who stand high, at least officially, above Congressmen and Major Generals, nightly resort to the magnificent gambling hells of Richmond I have visited such establishments in Eastern and Southern oities, but-have entered none in which the spirit of otter recklessness was so strongly betrayed as in those of this city. The vice of gaming contracted in the army over an "innocent game of old sledge," becomes the absorbing passion of the gamester in the Faro banks of Richmond. The hope of sudden wealth, the insatiable love of excitement, the desperation resulting from the loss of fortune by the calamities of war, the destruction of aortal restraints, and the absence of those whioh wives and obildren throw about men, have all combined to fill this city with reckless gamblers. Women from all the States and oities of the South visit Richmond. They would reach the army, and often find it impossible. They have not anticipated the vastness of the exDenditures to which they would be sub jected. Their very necessities suggest a coarse of conduot whioh it is needless to portray. Penniless, helpless, unadvised, unrestrained by the presence of those to whom they are known, they resort to means of securing assistance of which at homo they would never have dreamed. Beligion is a stranger among tho floating .population of Bichmond. Sunday, in this city, is the day of high oarnival for all yices. * Patriotism might well weep when beholding this aspect of the moral condition of the Capital of the Confederacy. From Newbern, N. C.?A New Military "Governor."?A letter from Newborn N. C., gives some aooount of the condition of affairs there. There was muoh joy and excitement among the citizens of the town when our troops came in sight a few weeks since, with the Confederate flag flying, and a corresponding disappointment when they retired. The Yankees have sent 700 negroes to Washington to take the place of teamsters, and allow the detailed white men to return to their regiments. This is ' a plan which the Confederate authorities might follow with a deoided increase of the fighting men of our army. There were four suicides in Newbern in one week, of Yankee soldiers who were "tired of the 1 war." Generals Prinoe. Palmer. Wessel : and Spinola, were in the town. They are putting their colored brethren through.? Thay make them work with the ball and chain to their fe?fc, and the jail is full of men and women all the time. Yet the citizens dare not insult one of them. A foraging party that left Newborn recently, took I an old man, seventy years old, from his ' house and dressed him in woman's clothes, and brought him back, put a eard on bis back with these words on it?"a guerilla < oaugbt in woman's clothes"?and maroh& i him through town, notwithstanding he had I taken the oath of allegiance, and had a i "protection from "Governor' Stanley. Stanley has resigned, and Lincoln has appointed Daniel R. Goodloe, a native of the State, to be "Military Governor" of N. Carolina. - Goodloe was formerly an editor of the Washington (D. C.) Era, and an extreme nigger worshipper. The Brooke Gun. The following description of the Brooke gun, need by oar batteries at the grand re* oeption of the Monitor fleet, (rather jf a i contraband nature, we think; for the Yan- , kees are of opinion the gnn and her projectiles are English, and (they are an imitative race) we find in the Charleston correspondence of the Riohmond Enquirer of the i 18th: The gnn which fired the bolt through the 1 turret of the Keokuk has been invented by i an "officer bftheConfederate States! Called ' after the inventor, it in known as the Brooke 1 pun. A hollow oasting, rifled to a seveninch bore, constitates the body of that can- i non. The breeoh, however, is strengthened with bands of two and a half inches of 1 wrought Iron shrank on. The trnnionsare ] of wrought iron, and like the bands; are : also shrunk on. By obtaining a regular I distribution of the orystals in casting the I body of the gun in a model of. uniform out- i line, this method of supplying the trunni- i ons ought to result in increased strength of 1 breeoh; Be that as it may, the Brooke gun f was the most effective of the powerful can- i non of Fort Sumter daring the late conflict 1 hero, and is at all events the only one known 1 to have penetrated an armor plated turret in actual war. The obarge with which that i has been done was twelve pounds, but a | ten-inch of the same .pattern, on firiog a bolt of 120 pounds through eight-inch plates' on iron, exploded a charge of 25 pounds. Of the damage to Fort Snmter we have the only full particnlars that have yet appeared in print, with some remarks on the gunnery on both sides : The Federal gunnery during the late engagement here was not very good. Some of the shots from the ships were out of line, several too high, and even of those whioh stnioK toe tort a great many aid so Dy an accident ot ricochet. The damage of the Federal balls was cot at all serious "to Sumter. The filling up of some-of the casemates .with new brick .work was iu two instances battered iu, but this in do wise damaged the solidity of the work. The boles were, however, immediately made up by a facing aud backing of sandtjags. The brick traverse that had yielded to the demaud of the Northern shot, a storm of bricks, has been faced with sandbags, and is now no longer a subject of danger to tho8ft.it was intended to defend. The Confederates fired some two thousand two hundred, shots, and with these are said to have struok the ships from six to eight hundred times. Ricochet was employed by some of 1 the batteries with the view of striking the Monitors in the hull or at the base of the turrets. Vertical firing was a^so tried in two or three instances with the. view of piercing the decks. The fire was directed generally, however, against the base of the turrets with the object of crippling their ^movement by fracture or bulging. The Promised Pall?Speculators . Uneasy. Within the past few days a general uaeaSiaes%has pervaded the speculating market. The investment of Confederate notes into eight per cent, bouds, the revolutionary stories of the Northern prints, the buoyancy of the Confederate securities iu Europe, the Federal defeat at Charleston, and other events oonneeted with the war indicative of a better time coming speedily to the South, have had the effect of producing an unsettled 9tate of mind among all who are professionally engaged in turning over their money in the article of oommon "trade.? There has, however, been ho important doorcase in the prioe of anything, and those little articles of prime necessity whioh make up the staff of the domestic life remain at the same exorbitant prices to which' they attained at the last leap upwards in the schedule of the domestic markets. In the c comparatively useless article of tobaooo, ( there has been a fall, and the decline prom- t iscs to be greater as the days glide along, c leaving to speculators the alternative of sel- I ling off at reduced prioes or holding with a i prospect of probable loss. ^Bread, the great 1 desideratum, holds its latest elevation, but o it is believed that in this article the specu- t lators have done their worst. May it be I so. In slothing, the opposition prodaoed a by the blockade runners, and the blookade C goods buyers up, has made a material change in some establishments, which are selling t spring suits for men at fifty dollars that one t month ago they could have easily sold for a seventy-five and a hundred. Suoh facts b indicate, it is believed, a general decline in merchandize and products; and the only fear of oonsumers, and the principal hope ^ of the speculator, is that it is merely one of those inevitable deviations from the ascending scale which, in great marts of trade es- ^ pecially, only servo to lure the former with false hopes and lighten the leaps of the ri latter to a still higher pitoh. The assurance j that there is plenty in the land will now be , brought to the test. The warm weather will lessen the wants of the pqblio and add ^ to the magazine of this abundance. The 8< good news at home and from abroad promise ,, a great moral effect, and between the* two, V the moral and the physical influences of the season, we should be led to anticipate a summer which will exhibit a vast relief in the community. The disappointment of ^ such an anticipation may as well be accept- w ad as the signal for a general resignation to the role of high prices until the end of the war.-?Richmond Enquirer. ft ??.? - ? 0j Cotton the Standard o* Value.?A pi correspondent of the Saianqah Republican re in discussing oar finanBal*. difficulties and ft the remedies, trnly sayir that gold is not d( now a true standard of value with us, be- m rouse we have little or none of it. If, for s instance, we measure our currency by cotton or other values which we have; and which ire the equals of gold in the marketsoftbe world, we shall find that oue dollar of our currency here is worth two dollars of gold in Europe. That is, the cost of a bale .of cotton here, with the freight and risk of capture added, would be worth twice the sum in Europe.- The value of our currency, compared with cotton, .is nearer the truth than its value compared with the gold now in this country. : . A Touching Scone. I was conversing not long since with & returned volunteer. ( I was in the hospital as nurse, for a long time," said he, "and assisted in taking off licobsj and dressing all wounds; bat the hardest thing I-ever did was to take my thumb off a man's leg." "Ah!" said ^ "how was that ?" Theft ae tola me. It was a young mat), who had a seirtfit wound in the thigh. The M passed cotift. - pletely through and amputating was neceajary. The limb was cut off Close to the body, the arteries taken up, and he seemed to be doing well. ' Subsequently odo of the small arteries sloughed off. An incision was made, and it was again taken op. "It is well it was not the main artery." said tb mrgeon as he performed the operation; he might have bled to death before we could bave taken itup." Bat Charley got on Einely and was a favorite with ns all. I was passing through the ward one night, about midnight, when suddenly as I was.-, passing Charley's bed he spoke tome: "H? my leg is bleeding again." I threw back the bed olotnes, and the blood spirted in the air. The main artery had sloughed off.. Fortunately I knew just what to do, and in an instant I had pressed my thumb on the place and stopped the bleeding. It 1?F't I jo close to the body that there was barely. . room for my thumb; but I succeeded in keeping it there aDd arousing one .of ! sonvalesceots, sent him for the surgeon, w?j*^ same in on the run. "I am bo thankful, Q ?said he as he saw me, "that pou were np and knew what to do,, lor be most have bled to death before I could have got hero." Bat on examination in the oase he lookid exoeediogly serious and sent out for other lurgeons. All came who were within reaoh ind a consultation was held over the poorfellow. One conclusion was reached by ail. There was no place to work save to the spot where my thumb was placed; they could apt work under my thumb, and if I moved, t he would bleed to death before the artery jpuld be taken up. There was no way to owe his life. Poor Charley! He was very calm when ihey told him, and requested that his broth' it who was in the same hospital, might be sailed up. He came and sat down by the * oedside, and for three hoars I stood, and by the pressure of my thumb kept up the life of Charley, while thelbrotbera haa their last conversation on earth.ltwas a strange place for me to be in, to feel that an act. of* mine most cause that life to depart. Xoviog the poor fellow as I did, it was a hard thought; but there was uo alternative. The last words were spoken. Charley bad arranged all his business affairs, and; ? tent tender messages'to absent ones, who ittle dreamed bow near their loved one itood to the grave. The team filled my syea more thao once as I lis tented to those parting words. All were said and he turn3d to uie. "Now H-?, I guess you had aetter take off your thumb." "0, Charley! bow can IV I said. "But it must be, yo#'> JbO enow," be replied oheerfully?"I than IP fou very much for your kindness, and now, goodbye." - ' He turned away his head, 1 raised my humb, once more the life current gushed Forth, and in three minutes poor Charley vas 'dead. r? ??" ;?' AW ACT ' f To Punish Purchasing Under Assumed Authority.. . . _ ' Be it enacted by the Senate and House if Representatives, now met and sitting in Jeneral Assembly, and by the authority of he same, That if any person contracts for, ir purchases, or attempts to contract for^. or iurchase, any cotton or provisions, pretend g and professing to be acting for and on >ehalf of the Confederate Government, or if some State, when in fact hie has no anV < . i 1_. _ .. . 1 . AJII 1 norny to act as soon agent, ne snail ne iable to indictment, and on conviction fined" ,nd imprisoned at the discretion of the Jonrt. II. That on trials on such indictments, he onus shall bo on the defendant to prove he authority under which he professed to ot in'so contracting or purchasing, or attempting so to do. ' 1 *?* * i tSy Shippers by railroad had better look at if the following restriction be not mod5ed. The Charleston. Mercury says : A merchant writes to ns complaining hat he finds upon the freight receipt which e receives from the South Carolina KailDad the following proviso: "This company fill not be responsible, in case of loss or a mage, for more than the valne of the a* ove articles before the war/' - His cornlain t seems to as well grounded. He iys : The articles cost me not less than 8400 having been pnrchased within a week) and i the event of their being stolen or loss bile in their custody, they contract to pay ie say $40. In other words, if I should nd 50 pounds of sugar missing from my ox, I am to be paid 8 cents per pound for hat cost me $1.25. From Suppolk.?Oar latest ad rices om Suffolk represent thegeneral situation ; affairs unchanged, with no apparent rospent efti general battle. The Yankees ianin$tithei? fortified positions, and the itare mfo of Qen. Longstreet are pruintly |pbheld from the poblie.?Richond WUg^th.