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w t /-/. ' --1^? .^ ^^L??^? t,' =" ' ^ . 1 ^ ^ pa,' ? j. E.&L.M. grist, | Propnotora ^n JitiKjjenlreitt ?mfl$ Itefosjjnpci i Jior % ^promotion of % ^olitital,'$?oeraI, ^gritulfnral stttr dtmrnnerdal Interests of '% &ont{[.. . | ? eeb ybab, ik advahck. J - - . . ' . . ? ' '. ' . M M , ^.L?.;-. Ifi.'t?, VOLUME 10. ' "' ' YQRKVfLLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING- AUGUST 10, 1864. / NUJM 22. I A PROCLAMATION. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Colpjwia S. C., July 21, 1664. By his Excellency M. L. BOXH-iM, Governor and Commandcr-in Chief in and over the State (if South Carolina. TTTHEREAS information lias been T T received at this Department, that an atrocious murder was committed on the 11th Instant, upon the body of EL IAS GRANTHAM, a Deputy Sheriff of Marlon Dis rrict, whilst in the discharge of his duties as such Deputy; and that NICHOLAS W. GADDY, CHARLES TART, and DAVID BEASLEY, a l'ree person of color, stand charged with said murder, and that said persons have fled from Justice: Now, know ye, that to tho end Justice may be done, and that said GADDY,TAKE and BEASLEY may be brought to legal trial for their oficnec. as aforesaid, I do hereby "offer a reward of TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS for the apprehension and delivery of the three offending parties In any jail lnjhis State, or One Thousand Dollars for NICHOLAS W. BADDY, the principal offender, and Five Hundred Dollars each for the others. When last heard from they were in Horry District, near Gallivant's Perry. GADDY was born In Marion District, is about 85 years of S age, 5 ffcet lOor II Inches high,grey eyes, auburn hair, rath er sallow complexion, stoops a liale In his shoulders, usually wears his hair long?by occupation a farmer and millwright. TART, born in same District, is a youth of about 16 years of age, well grown, rather fair complexion, dark hair, eyes believed to be blue. BEASLEY, born In Richmond County, N.C., might mu latto, thick set, weight from 160 to 180 pounds, from 45 to 50 years of age, 5 feet 11 or 12 Inches high, kinky hair, and of a reddish, sun-burnt appearance?by occupation a cari.ontn. Ilsrn-I hVilMlf F fl VP T f O V I! I <? Htljl T . 11 fYl 111-l*f O VI . K. 1\ Given under my hand and the seal of the State, at "t'olumr, ? i hia< thli twenty-first dav of July, Anno Domini, B-J 1861. M. li. BONFIAM. W*. R. Hcutt, Secretary of State. July 27 30 3t RATES OF POSTAGE IX THE C. STATES OF AMERICA. FOR the convenience of the public the following simplified statement of the rates of past age.undet the act of Congress of the Confederate States of America, has been prepared. Jt must be borne in mind that the Act is to go into effect from nnd after such period as the P. M. General mar, by proclamation, announce: pates 0p rostaoe. Single letters, not exceeding a half ounce it' weight, to any part of the Confederate States, shall be each 10 cents'. An additional single rate for eaeli additional half ounce or less. Drop letters 2 cents each. In the foregoing cases, the postage to be prepaid by stumps or stamped envelopes. Advertised letters 2 cents each. on newspapers. Sent to regular and bona fide subscribers from the office " of publication, and not exceeding three ounces in weight: ^ Weekly paper,. 13 cents per quarter. Semi-Weekly paper. 26 cents per quarter. Tri-Wecklv paper, 39 cents per quarter. Four times a week, 56 cents per quarter. Five times a week, 65 cents per quarter. Six times a week, 78 cents per quarter. on periodicals. Periodicals published oftcncr than semi-monthly shall he charged as newspapers. Periodicals published monthly, not exceeding 1# ounces In weight, 1 cent on each number, and one cpnt additional on each additional ounce or fraction of an ounce. on transient printed matter. The Inland postage on every other newspaper, and on each circular not sealed, handbill, engraving, pamphlet, periodical, magazine or other paper, which shall be uncoil nccted with any manuscript or written matter, and not exceeding I ounce in weight, shall be 1 cent, and for every % additional ounce or fraction of an ounce, 1 cent additional; and books, hound and unbound, not weighing over four pounds, shall be deemed mailable matter, nnd the inland postage on them shall be at the rate of 2 cents an ounce or fraction of an ounce, and the postage on all such transient matter and books, shall be prepaid in all cases ex cepr when sent by officers, musician-: or prfvutes of the irtar, .?-* mathnrweuvilece. The following persons only are entitled to the frankinh privilege, and In all cases strictly confined to ofiiciaVmsi ness. Poetmaster General. His Chief Clerk. Auditor of the Treasury fcr the Post Office Department. Deputy Postmasters. STATE OF~ SOUTH iCAROLINA. Aejctaxtand Inspector-General's Ovpice, Colombia, July 25,1864. GEXERJIL ORDERS XO. 8. T THE MILITIA of the State, in.A# eluding all persons who arc liable to actual service in times of invasion, will held themselves in readiness for active service on the shortest notice. II. The Commanding Officers W Regiments'who have failed to make returns in pursuance of General orders Xo. 7, will proceed to do so immediately, and complete the organization of their respective commands as therein directed. III. Volunteer Companies of Mounted Men or of Infantry, orznnized in pursuance of Orders heretofore Issued from tills Office, will be accepted and armed. IV. The Commanding Oflieers of Regiments, (the ranking officer of the line where there are no field officers.) are charged with the prompt extension of this order to their respective commands without further notice. By order of the Coventor: A. C. GARMNGTOX, AUjutan; ana inspector general ui July 27 yd 3l ^vooL CAke>ix?7 THE Subscriber hereby informs the public that his MACtHNEa ?TBjJ? Gt'0I) ORDER, and are now in operation. 1' ric a for CA K DIN < J as follow*: For 1 ii lbs of ROLLS, I pound of BACON. For 1 % lbs of ROLLS, 1 pound of LAUD. For 1 % lbs of ROLLS, I pound of TALLOW. For 10 Ib-s of ROLLS, I bushel or CORN. For 15 lbs of ROLLS, 1 btubel of WHEAT. For 15 lbs of ROLLS, 1 bushel of RYE. For 1 ifcs of ROLLS, 1 pound Sole LEATHER. For 5 lbs of ROLLS, 1 pound Upper LEATHER. For 5 lbs of ROLLS, 1 Gallon of MOLASSES. For 10 lbs of ROLLS, 1 yard of Woolen JEANS. For 5 fts of ROLLS, 1 yard or Woolen LINSEY. For 2 tbs of ROLLS, 1 vard of cotton SHIRTING. TOLL IN WOOL?The TENTH. CASH??! per.pound, NEW ISSUE, or bills undergo Those furnishing TALLOW, BACON, LARD or othei produce, shall have preference in treltiht: their work done*. 2. 1). SMITH. June ltd ifi ~m ENVELOPES ' FOE SALE, AT THE PRISTING OFFICE. _July_C 27 tf " FOR THE lEGtSL/TfrSE. The friends of.col. joel W. RA WLINSON respectfully announce hitn as a Candidate to represent York Distrlet'in lhe*ne.\t LEGISLATURE, at the ensuing election. J August 3 31 tc j ^hFfrIends of caFOTt. i JL LOWRY, respectfully announce him as a CANDI It ATE for re-clcction to represent YORK DISTRICT in the next LEGISLATURE. July 21 29 te r r 11 EE RI END S~0F J. CHANCELJL LOR CHAMBERS, Esct.. respectfully aiinouuce hint as a CANDI liATi: to represetAYORK DISTRICT in the HOUSE OF REl'UESEN'TATn'ES, at the ensuing election. July 21 29 tf TIIE friends of JOHN S. BR AT-1 T< >S reapectftally announce liirn as u ennUidate fur the I. EC I St. AT CUE, at the ensuing election. July 13,1SC4. 23 tf rpHII friends of Col. CADTJONEB I respectfully announce hitn as a candidate for SENATOR from York* Districts at the ensuing election. June 3fl. 1*64. MANY FRIENDS. July 6 -27 te FOR TAX COLLECTOR.?WE have been requested to announce Ol. ANDREW JACKSON, as a candidate Tor the office of TAX COLLECTOR for YORK DISTRICT, at the ensuing election. September II 36 tl r O R T AX COLLECTOR.?AV E JL are authorize,1 to announce CSipt. J. W. MITCH EI,I, as a Candidate r,.r TAX COLLECTOR, for York District, at the ensuing election. September 30 ;i'J te* T70R TTX COLLECTOR.?WE .1? are authorized announce SMITH SANDERS as a candidate for TAX-C >LLKCT<)R, at the ensuing election. January R I te* TAX. IV Kiurvomx THE time for receiving "TAX IN KIND" of 1363, has been extended nutil the 15th of August, I3G4. J. H. FAYSSOUX. Agcat, Depot No, 1, 6C,D?S.C. July 27 39 tf HEADQUARTERS, CONSCRIPT DEPAKTMEST, Columbia, July 30, 1864. t GEXER.iL ORDERS NO. 8. TTHE Secretary of War having dem riiipH that the Conacrimion authorities have no juris diction over the classes of Reserves, except In the granting of Exemptions under the Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to organize forces to serve daring the war," it is ordered, pursuant to instructions of the Superintendent of Conscrip tion, that all Detail* heretofore panted to persons of the Reserve classes by the officers of conscription be, and the sanie are, hereby revoke^. Details of persons of these classes will hereafter be made only by the order of Brigadier General James Chesnut, commanding Reserve Forces in this State. II. Enrolling Officers will proceed at once to furnish to Brigadier General Chesnut a roll of all persons of the classes of Reserves whose details are hereby revoked, giving their ages, the date and period of details, and the purposes for which such details were granted. III. Pursuant to Orders of the War Department, Enrolling Officers are made subject to and will obey all orders of Brigadier General Chesnut. C. D. MELTON, Major, Commandant Conscripts. August 3 31' St HEADQUARTERS, Reserve Forces, S. Ci, Columbia, July 30,1864. GESER.iL ORDER ATO. 4. IAliL details of persons of the Re serve classes heretofore granted by the Conscript authorities, now revoked by General Order No. 8, Conscript Department, S. C., are hereby revived "and continued upon sucli terms, and for same period as originally granted. II. Enrolling Officers will forward to these Headquarters the Rolls as indicated by Major Melton, Commandant of Conscripts, S. C. III. Applications for details will in future be made through the local Enrolling Officers, who will investigate the claims?being governed by the Rules and Regulations prescribed by the Bureau of Conscription. The papers will then be forwarded to the Commandant of Conscripts for his examination and reference to these Headquarters, where final action will be taken upon them; By-command Brig. Gen. Chesnut. ED. H. BARNWELL, A. A. Gen. August 3 * 31 3t SLATE LABOR FOR TQE COAST. DITISION NO. T. T COMMISSIONERS of Roads and A* town authorities within the judicial Districts of Pick ens, Spartanburg, Greenville, Anderson, Union, York, Chester, Laurens, Abbeville aiid Newberry, will forthwith summon all slaveholders within their respective limits to deliver one-fourlh of their slaves liable to road duty, at the railroad depots nearest their residences, on TUESDAY, the 30th day ot August next, there to await transportation to Charleston forthlrty days labor on the fortifications. II. Negroes delivered on lite Greenville and Columbia Railroad will take the train which leaves Greenville at 5.20 o'clock, a. m. Those delivered on the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad, will take the train whiqh leaves Charlotte at 8 o'clock, n. tn. j Those delivered on the Spartanburg and Union Railroad will take the passenger train down. Those delivered on the Laurens Railroad will take tire passenger train down. Those delivered on the King's Mountain Railroad will take the passenger train down. Those delivered on the Blue Ridge Railroad will take the J train which leaves Walhnlla at 2 o'clock, a. in. j HI. Commissioners of Roads who have not made returns will do so at once. To avoid confusion and injustice the returns of all Commissioners should be promptly revised and sent to this office. *.-?..i?.ua a?iir.f\fn; tavpc 1 V . nucilliwil IB Uil\ tw.-U III [Ul I.Uii III lllllj. inunviiuuj for twenty-five hundred road hands. Tlic necessity for labor is extremely urgent. All volunteer labor furnished at once will be crcditcaon this call. K. B. JOHNSON, Agent of tlic State of South Carolina. Camden. July 22,1664. ? July 27 30 5t I "VTOTICE TO OVERSEERS AND J. 1 AGRICULTURISTS exempted or detailed under Act of Congress, approved February lTtli, 18G4: ENROLLING OFFICE, YORKVILLE, S. C., August 1st, 1864. BY orders from the War Department, i atn instructed to Inform the above named persons in this District, that after famishing the Government with the stipulated quantity of PROVISIONS, the marketable surplus remaining, must be sold to tlic GOVERNMENT or to the families ot SOLDIERS, at prices fixed by the COM.VJISSIONERS OF THE STATE under the Impressment Act; and that the claim to exchange such part of the afore-. aid surplus nstbey may please, far supplies of provisions,: clothing. Dlld the like, to be consumed in?family use, is in violation of the law, and can not be allowed. Upon satisfactory evidence that persons so exempted or detailed, are disposing of their surpRis productions by ex change as aforesaid, I ain ordered to arrest such persons ami forward them to the camp of Instruction. J. S. R. THOMSON, Lieutenant .and Enrolling Officer. August 3 31 2t ENROLLING OFFICE, YORKVILLE, S. C., August 1st, 1864. T THE MEDICAL BOARD, will JLe meet at this place on the 18th of Auflhst. All white male persons in this District between the ages of seventeen (17) ami fifty (50) years, who claim exemption on account of physical disability, and who-have not been examined since 1st APRIL last, arc ordered to report at this meeting of the BOARD. Those failing to do so are liable to be enrolled for service without further notice. II. Officers and aoldiera UNABLE TO TRAVEL TO A HOSPITAL EXAMINING BOARD, may report to this Board. Those PHYSICALLY UNABLE To LEAVE IIO.ME, will send to mo the affidavit of the attending Phv1 slcian, stating that fact and embracing a full and accurate statement of tlic case. They will also send the original FURLOUGH, in order that tlic extension may be endorsed thereon. J. S. It. THOMSON, Lieut, and Enrolling Officer, York District. AugU3t3 ' 31 2t "STATE OF SOUTH CAROLIiV A, ' YORK DISTRICT. Roddcy 8: Co., va W. B. Dunlap.?attachment. TX7HEEREAS, the plaintiff's did on TV the 15th day of October 1863, file their declaration against the defendant, who (as it is said) Is absent from and without the limits of this State, and has neither wife nor attorney known within the same, upon whlfn a copy of the said declaration might he nerved. Jt in therefore ordered, that the said defendant do rapear and plead to the said declaration, on or before the loth day of October, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty four, otherwise (inn! and absolute judgment will then be awarded against him. (316) 9. E. MOORE, Clerk. October 15th, 1863. November 4 41 . gly. Yorkville Male Academy, TYKE Exercises of the Yorkville X MALE ACADEMY, will be resumed on MONDAY, the 25th of July. Kates of tcition fer session, as follows : ENGLISH ?25 00 CLASSICAL 50 00 CONTINGENT EXPENSES, Fifty cms per Month. It. LATH AN, ' Principal. July 20 20 if HEADQlTAKTEltS, YORKVILLE, S C., August 1st, 1SC4. PURSUANT to General Order "No. 7, from Adjutant and inspector General of Pontli Carolina, all WHITE MALE PERSONS, resident within the limits of 34th REGIMENT. S. C. M., between ihe ages of 16 and 60 years, arc hereby notified to assemble at SMITH'S OLD FIELD, on SATURDAY, 2otli of AU GUST, instant, (except those in Confederate service, also, those embraced In the organization of Reserves,) for the purpose of thoroughly organizing said Regiment. The officer in command of each BEAT COMPANY will extend these orders forthjvith. J. A. McLEAN, Co). 3-lth Regiment, S. C. M. . August 3 31 2t COUTH CAROLINA-YORK DISO TRICT.?Whereas T). A. GORDON lias applied to me for Letters of Administration on all and singular, the goods and chattels, rights nnd credits of E. M. BYAKS, late of the District aforesaid, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular. the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to he and appear before me, at our next Ordinary's Court for the said District, to ho holdcn at York Court House, on the 15th day of August Inst., to shew cause, if any, why j the said administration should not he granted. Given under my hand nnti Seal, this 2nd day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred mid sixty-four, and in the eighty-ninth year of the Independence ol South Carolina. JOHN A. BROWN, O. Y. 1). AttgU't 3 31 2t DR. ALFRED CRAVEN DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY, YORKVILLE, SO. C I. PURE DRUGS, CHEMICALS, X MEDICINES, ike., constantly kept on hand. I.'nr?ll.- I/.u-oinfe n-ri'nfi-lv fnyMiciaiis'rrt'scnpiiousuuu i-immj ?j Dispensed. September 30 33 Dental notice.?during my ahseuce from Ynrkville, I have made arrangement;: with Ur. LESLIE O'WEN, formerly of Charleston, to take charge of my OFFICE, adjoining the Enijcikpr building, where he will lie pleased to wait on my customers, as usual, lie is a gentleman of much experience in my line of business, and will, doubtless, give general satisfaction. W. M. WALKEIt, Dentist, j February 55 S tf motice.-i will distill all~ it kinds of fruil for your own use, ami not for sale, for one-third of the spirit.3. Each mttn to pay tin; war tax on his part'to me. Twelve bushels of persimons will make as much to the barrel as either apples pr peaches, ami I do say that I will make you more to the barrel than any other man in the State. Any one having one or more barrels, may be made out. J. L. SUTTON. August 3 <11 tf ' ' TEEL PENS!?JUST RECEIVED* lot of GILLOTT'S FIKST UUALITV STEEL I l'ENS, at the ENUUIKEK OFFICE.. j 1 August 9 81 tf Charleston, in 1863. Wo find in a late issue of the Cornhill Magazine, the following graphic account of the experience of a night in Cbaeleston, at the time when the bombardment was still a novelty to our peoplo : On the 21st August, at half past 1 a. m., I was lying on my bed in the Charleston Hotel, unable to sleep from the excessive heat, and listening to the monotonous sound of the cannonade kept up on the enemy's position from the batteries on James Island: Restless and weary of the night,. I had lighted a candle in defiance of the musquitoes, and bought to pass away the time with a volume of "Lea Miserables." It happened to bo the one containing the acoount of tho battle of Waterloo, and while deeply interested in the description of the rushing squadrons of cuirassiers, I was startled by a noi?e*that, from connection with my reading resembled the whirr of a phantom brigade of cavalry, galloping in mid air. My first feeling was that of utter aston 1 I . L J.J 1 J..* isnraenr; out a craan, succueuou uy a ucaieniDg explosion in the very street on which my apartment was situate, brought me, with a bound, into the centre of the room. Looking from the window, 1 saw fire and smoke issuing from -a house in which were stowed the drugs of the medical purveyor. A watchman was running frantically down the street, and, when he reached the oorner just below me, commenced striking with his staff against the curb?a signal of alarm pr&c- i ticed among the Charleston police. At first I thought a meteor had fallen j but another awful rush and whirr right over the hotel, and another, explosion beyond, settled any doubts I might have had?the city was be ing shelled. People are not givtn to laughing under such circumstances, but I will fy any one who witnessed what I witnessed on leaving my room, not to have given way to mirth in moderation. The hotel was crowded with spectators, who had been at- ' tracted to the city by the sale of some blockade cargoes, and the corridors were filled , with these terrified gentlemen, running about in the scantiest costumes and in the wildest alarm. One perspiring individual, of portly dimensions, was trotting to and fro : with one boot on pjid the other in his hand, and this was nearly all the dress he had to boast of. In his excitement and terror he had forgotten the number of his room, from which he had hastened at the fir6t alarm, and his distress was ludicrous to behold. Another, 1 in a semi state of nudity, with a portion of his garments on his arm, barked thestynB of every one in his way to drag an - ?nofmous. trunk to the stairdase. On reaohing the hall I found a motley crowd, some of whom, with the biggest words, were cursing the Federal commanders. Whirr I came another shell over, the roof, and down on their faces went every man of them, into tobacco juice and segar ends, and clattering amocc thfe stoittoons. I need not sav that - - O L ? * this is a class of men from whom tbo Confederacy hopes nothing; on the contrary, by their extortion, practiced on a suffering people, they haye tuade themselves execra- * ted. If a shell could have fullon in their' midst and exterminated tho whole race of hucksters, it would havo been of great benefit to the South. Tho population was now aroused, the streets filled with wom^n and children, making for the upper part of 'the city, where they could find comparative safety. Tho volunteer fire brigades broughtout their engines, and' parties of ths citizen reservcs*organizcd rapidly and quietly, to bo in readiness to give assistance where required. The first engine that reached the house struck by the first shell was one belonging to a Degro company, and at it they went with a will, subduing the fire in a marvel*'" lous short time. At every successive whirr ubove them the negroes shouted quaint invectives against "cussed bobolitionists," scattering for shelter until the danger was passed. Through the streets I went, and down to the battery, promenade, meeting on my way sick and bed ridden people, carried from their homes on mattresses, and mothers with infants in.their arms, running they knew not whither. Reaching tho promenade, I cast my eyes towards the Federal position, and presently, beyond Jame3 Island,' across the marsh that separates it from Morris Island, came a flash, then a dull report, and after an interval of some seoonds, a frightful rnshing sound above mo told the path that the shell had taken. Its flight must hav3 been fivo miles. ... 5?* The hot haste with which the^nen of Atlanta abandoned their city upon the approach of the enemy, is certainly in very disagreeable contrast with the conduot of tho men of Petersburg aud Richmond and many other oitica which havo been threatened by the foe. It docs not appear to us that if they had been willing to defend . their homes, they would not have found it necessary to desert them. In an article which rc copy in another column, the Jjyie-^indulges in some exceedingly bitter but vory just comments, upon the conduot of those who havo thus acted. Our people have yet to learn that in great emergences, they must themselves strike for their firesides and their homes, and not depend entirely upon our brave soldiers, who, however willing they may be, are some-j times, as in the present instance, out: numbered. Tho man who wifl not fight around his own hearthstono will fight nowhere?Rclcl. Tiie last of the Raiders.?The Augusta Constitutionalist, of the 8th, Bays:? Wo learn from a gentleman who arrived here this morning from Madison, that tho whole force which passed through that place on Sunday have been captured. Inaddition to the 200 taken prisoners by Maj. Cook, Wednesday, near Athens, General Dcbrill, of Wheeler's command, has.captured the balance of Stoneman's raiders, consisting of^ about 500 or UOQ at Monroe, Walton County.' r ? ?? - - ? - - - " Northern. Peace Items. We oopy the following fronr a iate number of the New York News j . So far, wo repeat, the campaign has-failed at all points; the Federal armies have been hurled to certain slaughter with a cold heartlessness worse than devilish.. 'No general ever exhibited so great an indifferenoe td the lives of his soldiers as Grant; no general ever achieved as little by suohjsaorifioe. It is impossible to say that his army has not fongbt well, "and endured all the hardships, dangers and labors of the campaign with heroism and docility. They were directed by. a butcher, and opposed by tho greatest general of this or any other age. Posterity will rank Gen. Lee above Wellington or Napoleon, before Saxe or Torenne, above Marlborough or Frederiok, before Alexander or. passar.^ Careful of the" lives pf his men, fertile id resource,-a 6ro?otxn<Ttaoti ciarf, gifted with the swift'intuition which enables a commander to disoern the purpose of his.enemy, and the power of rapid com* bination wh\ch enables him to oppose to it a prompt resistance; modest, frugal, selfdenying,,void of arrogance or' self-assertion; trusting Nothing to chance; among men noble as^tbe noblbst; in the lofty dignity of the Christian gontleman; among patriots less self-seeking, and as pare as Washington ; and among soldiers combining the religions simplicity of Havelock with the genius <ff-Napoleon, the heroism of Bayard and Sydney, and the untiring, never faltering duty of Wellington. If this.great soldier had at his command the forces and material against wtiich he is called on to contend, the superiority on land, and the supremacy on water, in six m&ntbs the-whole Federal States would be prostrate at his feet. As it is, ho has made his own * . 7 i name, and that of the Confederacy he serves, immortal.?Montreal Telegraph. The Last Man and the Last Dollar. ^ The*meaning of the Lincolnites who so glibly use this.pet phrase is, that they will be the "la^t man" to go to "the front" and that they intend to steal tile "last dollar" from the Government in the "pYoseoution" of the war?on the treasury. ; l - Cincinnati Enquirer. When S^all We Have Peace.?When the. war Js successful on our part, the Lincoln organs tells as, that that is no time to male peaoe, because the rebellion will be speedily subdued if we go on with the carnage. .When tho Confederates are sucoe*ful.thc same organs tell us that our national honor and dignity will not allow peace.? The qrfeation is, when are we to have peace under these conflicting doctrines? f! . ft;^ Cincinnati Enquirer * .. Revenge is Sweet.?"Seymour," an intelligetft correspondont'of tixe'Dailg News is somewhat apologetic because the rebels destroyed bridges and private property in their march through Maryland. We confees we see nothing to apologise for in this act, even though they bed razed every house to the ground, and destroyed every vestige of property in their track, that they could' not -conveniently carry away. "Revenge re sweet," acoordingtothe old adage, and consequently, if they had burned and destroyed, leaving naught but the blackness of desolation and ruin wherover the feet of the invader pressed' our soil, it would only be the'mildest retaliation fuf the unnumbered outrages and crimes which have been committed against defenceless, unprotected women and children in the South by our armies during the last three years of terror ancTbloodshed'.?Bergen (N~: ?7.) Democrat. How tbeV do inj'LoyalPlaces."-^Says the Pittsburgh Chronicle, in speakiog of the draft in the Twenty-seoond District: "Of the number drawn, 312 have thns fur paid'rfSmmtftatiob, T6 have" Furnished substitutes, 131iave obtained .exemptions as aliens, 2"for beiDg nuder age, 62 for being ovor45, 15 for non-residepce, 115 for disability, 3 are dead, 2 in the service, and 1 has served two years." Out of 541 not one enters the service, and but 16 men are secured fbr the service. Pretty well that for a loyal town like the "Smoky City." After a war of sixty-four years duration, Russia, with a population of 75,000,000, has at lastsubjugated Circassia, with a population of 400,000. If it takes 7o,000,000 Russians eixty-fonr years to subjugate 400,000 Circassians, how long will it take 20,000,000 Americans to subjugate 8,000,000 Americans. How to save the oountry: Stop the war, proclaim an armistice, call a oonvention, - - * n? a?; r aua coasiuer terms or peace. A Destructive Insect Among tjie Cab bages. To the Editor of the Mercury:?I have received several letters enclosing specimens of ao insect that is now committing ravages in the cabbage beds. I noticed them last year at Colombia and other parts' of the country, where, if left undisturbed, they destroy every plant in a few weeks. The insect is a cocoinella, one of the ldrge family of lady bugs. It is about three times the sizo of the common lady bug, Jof an inch in length. .The back divided in 5 plates?a black ground with orange oolored spots, the upper surface of tho tail and wing covert black?under surfnoc a black ground with rows of white and orange; stout proboscis with which it perforates the leaves?sucking the juite and leaving a poisonous liquid wfciiQh destroys the plant. It will require sometime to determine what remedy can be found for this dangerous insect that threatens destruction to a vegetable now so much needed. A deooction of the roots, berries and leaves of the Pride of India tree generally is-dcstructive to inseots, and probably would be effioacious in the present emergency. I have, however, adopted the following mode which is easy and has proved pcrfeotlv successful: \Vhen tho insect made its appearance I went in the morning before the dew was off tho plants?gaVe each one a sudden tap?tbeinseots fell to the ground" and could bo at once mashed. They are at this time pairing. If not destroyed now when they ere only scores, they will in a f ? i mm i i" ' : few weeks amount to thousands. In this t WSJ With a f|w' hours' labor I last year saved mj cabbages, and those oftmy friends ] who followed my advioe. , r , ' . I know no easier or more effectual remedy. The Slave Market Outdone?A White Man Selling His Own Sons. . Sumnor and his followers may-prate as lot""" m *tinn nlaoaa .oKnnf (Itlia tiirhoni ? 1UUUIJ UC3 KUyj ^/iywvw MWVWV VUV of slavery," and Mrs. Stowe may rack ? imagination to oreate a monster like the J brutal Legre, but we had an exhibition in this town- daring the examination of those recently oonscripted, which, for inhuman barbarism, we defy any slavo mart in the world to match. A father, who bad already sold one minor son as a substitute to the human shambles, wh6re he fell'a victim, appeared in our-town on last-Monday,:dragging At -JbisJieels two half-grown, ill-shaped boys. They were all the sons he. had, and ho had contracted to Bell them both as substitutes. They had been bargained for by "loyal" men. The smkller one almost a mere ohild, was prospectively the property of a loud mouthed and pestilent Abolitionist?a huge beast of a man, who stood six feet two in his stockings, and weighed over 200 pounds. This intensely "loyal" and "patriotio" fellow, when his own sou, a" sturdy,, well J growu young man, .enlisted, followed him to Cbambersburg. and brought him baok home on the plea that he was a minor, and bad enlisted Without his father's consent. Yet he is always full of war, and oager for fighting so long as it is at the expense of the blood of some one else than himself or his own family. Being drafted, however, and wishing to lessen the probability of such a , misfortune befalling, him again speedily, and impelled at the same time to save a little money, he had bargained with a brutal father to pay a less sum than three hundred dollars for the body, the bones, tho blood, niy, more, the lifo of a child. * The father was actuated solely by a sordid desire for gain; the purchaser, was moved by the sneaking, white-livered cowardice that forbade his risking, his own worthless carcass in a war for the prosecution of which he howls daily, and by the mean selfishness of hi's nature, which prompted him to m^e a cheap bid when fc bartering for a human victim. A plot had been ma$e up by tho parties to. this disgnstiog transaction by which thoy hoped to deoeive the Board. Tho boys wore made to D lie as to their ages, and represented them- 1 selves as older than they really were. So immature and youthful, however, was the -appearance of the little wretches, that the Board refused to believe the statements 8 made to them, even though*the father him- 11 self lied as to their ages in ordbr that he ' might be-enabled to effect a sale- of his off- , m . T spring. They were both rejected for this reason, as entirely too young for the service. 1 The overgrown hOman brute, who had I expected to save himself in this way, sorrowfully and relnotaotly paid over his money c to save his carcass for a time, and the wretch- 9 ed father, after reeling about our streets a 8 day or so in drunkenness, went home muok disappointed, no doubt, in being balked in ' the-sale of his sons. tThere is no coloring 0 about this story, no fictitious glossiDgs. It * ia-true, just as we tell at, and known to be so to the very letter, by many who will read ' this statement. We need make no com- a inent. Wo have seen negroes sold on tfie block to the highest bidder, but that only v involved a change-of service. _ Here was a ? white mao^ with one sdu whom he had<?old 1 J ..11 i... o aeaa aireauy, eaueavonug lu sew wyiv boys to what was almost certain death. He 0 fotfnd.loyal AbolitioiJists feady nod tftgcr to p beoome the purchasers of cheap substitutes! Let ua hear bo more about the barbarism of slavery, when the barbarism of. this war can } exhibit such a revolting spectacle in the l.igb't of heaven, on the free soil of Pennsylvania.?Fulton, Pa.f Democrat. Egypt.?The Yiscompte E. de Rouge v has addressed a letter to M. le Dae de Mo ti ray, in which he gives, cornpfesse'd into a a' few columns, the summary.-of hitr six .fii month's labor in Egyptian aroliaeology-rr 8' Were we to attempt to analyse a summary h already so condensed, we should fail to give our readers an idea of the talent that has n been exerted, the enormous, field that bae ri been subjected to search, or the grandeur of a the results which have beeoiobtain^d..? p The commission, consisted of M. E. de a Rouge and sdn; of M. Wesoher, with a a1 speciality for Greek inscriptions; of M. de w Bauville, the photographer; finally of the .ft well known M. Mariette, as arohaologist r< and savant. In the course of their , six w months'work, they traversed ATriSa from n Tunis to the Little Cataraot' of the Nile, n visiting, exhuming, deciphering, * coDjeo- T turing, we might almost say creating, a tl new history, qd th$ir way." Ihey have veri- T fied historical .facts belonging to the ago of it the fourth dynasty of Egypt, 600 years or h so before the time of Abraham; they have ti thrown new light on tho history of the shep- sc herd kings, who constitute the point'of the q contact between saorcd and secular literature at that period. ' pi Going on through tho suooession of dynas- fo ties, the commicsion reached the Greek age, fo and studied the influence of Europian art ta on the African mysteries, and even from the times when Egypt was thoroughly Romanized, they have gathered fresh matter for of observation, and have traced the existence w of tho primitive religion under the spurious <fc mysticism of tho Roman Egyptian religion. b( Some of their observations will, it is hoped, cc clear up to a considerable extent the diffi- tb culties which beset our knowledge of the w aboriginal races of the Mediterranean shore, at to whom tradition teacheaus to ascribe the pt - * at-- n 1- - _ J T -i!? Origin oi iuu uruea. uuu jjuiiu pcupiuo.? yv Altogether, we may shortly expeot a work ki to be produced uuequalod as yet in that th lino of archaeology?a work which will lead at us throQgh the "dewy dawn" of history sh mong the the strange and awful figures of St these early Egyptian kings, who must have th been contemporaries of Shem, Ham and ag Japhet. t ' o ? What's the Newsl* The' Sumter Watchman makes the folowing original and striking appeal-to its c eaderti for the soldiers. It is worthj io be * tereotyped in every heart: - - ] ?What's the news 7" iaoonstantly.asked. ( iVell, it is our business to tell yon the news, t md here it is: the men want olothing and 1 ihoes?that's the news. And the Wayside i lomes want provisions?and that's the lews. News whioh should open the heart ( md purse and smoke house and dairy of ( svery lover of his country and its noble de- i enders. The, grand armies are doing very i vellr and our great Generals, about whose j icoiguo auu iuuvcujcuio juu aio oy tan manage without your oritioiama or ad. rice, and neither your fears nor your plan* lits affect them in their war-like surroundng. But the detail* must not Be oyerooked. The siok soldier on his pallethe hungry soldier looking up a meal?the >are footed and ragged soldier pioketing he coast?look to you for help; and ft will >e a lasting disgrace upon'us if they look o vain. Whatsoever we have, we must >e willing to share; little or much, let it be ;iven. It is a war to the knife.. Ooi enemies leave us no alternative. If they sueseed, everything we,have is swept away.? Phis they have deolared in solemn Convenion, and this they 'will do, if they can.? Sven the blind now begin to see this, and he deaf to hear it, and the most obstinate econstruotionist to admit the truth. * We iust conquer or perish. Write it on he lintels of your dbor posts; inscribe it on rour altars; engrave it in letters of fire on rour hearts,- and let it give courage to the imid, energy to }he -weak, determination o the wavering, and a desperate resolve to i he whole people, whioh will laughingly, ' lefiaafcly, gloriously, look defeat, desolation ;nd death in the face, rather than yield one ota of political independence. Then shrink 1 lot from eaotffioe-f-welcome privation?en- ' lure hardship as good soldiers of the Cross if Christ. Let your oountiy's weal mingle n the incense whioh rises from your altars ( f prayer?and let your cry go up to Hea- 1 ren and be recorded there: "If I forget 6 hee, Q Jerusalem, let my right band for- c ;et its cunning." . . ^ Come, friends and fellow-citizens, falPin. * ivory man, woman and child, is a debtor * o the cause. Send forward another instal- 4 nent of supplies, and let the soldier blow 1 hat he is not forgotten. ? natt - , ? 1 The Situation in Georgia. ; Notwithstanding the gloomy apprehen- ? ions of the strategists in the rear, the ar- 1 ay of Tennessee is to-day in as satisfactory I condition, both as jregards place and num- x lers, as present circumstances will permit. 1 livery movoment of Gen. Hood has added 8 lot only to its morale, but strengthened its ' lositioD, while the enemy have been baffled rom the day they crossed the Ohattahoo* I hee. If our commander Aw been aggres- ' ive in. the face of difficulties, it was to 1 hield himself from an impending blow.? 1 f valaable lives'have been'sacrificed, it * vas to seonre ends, the greatnSsS of which J or .pensate for the.hnman immolation upon Jfl he bloody altar. And if he has stood upon s he defensive, moving only from his traoks 8 o strike the enemy, his reasons for so doing c ro of a nature that can only be revealed rben the history of the oampaign shall be r rritten. It is useless to saythat we have ;aioed nothing at Atlanta. The. army and 3 he people around that locality knovy the t ountry, for they read in every movefaent ^ f the young tJofnmatider, %6e' pftfudtf "of t uocese, the salvation, of the Gate -City,-and j he ultimate downfall of .Genj Sherman.'? j Jen. Hood has it not in his power to obey ( he impulses'of his own ardent nature, or r he jlrompfings of tffo impatient people'be* ^ una nis oack; du? jet me moment arrive j phen even a portion of his army can be al- ^ owed the freedom of their .feet; in other ^ ?ords, let the reinforcements now harrying reach their places It the front, g tod the cffOntry will witness as we read the igns, the consanftnation to the campaign j o devoutly wished for by every patriotic oart within its borders. , It will not do to grow gloomy over the ierc destruction of property, by Yankee ^ uders, or imagine a country over run beause it is visited by bands of mounted lupderers. This is an Incident of war? ^ nd as Gen. Early has proved it?a game ^ t which two can play. From this source > 'e fear nothing.- Gen. Wheeler, with a )Tce (tqual to the emergency, is no longer squired on the flanks of our army, jiud ^ hile he and his troopers are iu the saddle C{ o body of the enemy can hereafter move at a| ?ndom through the State of Georgia.? n here is but one way in which the fears of ^ le people are likely to prove at all healthy, hey will direct the attention of men to the ^ np.ortance of defending their own house- Q] olds, of organizing for their own protecon, and of awaking from the fit of sleepy iourity that seems to have benumbed evej sense of duty. Let but this single result follow, and the d ublic sentiment will have made a bound in irward frhnt. will in hha end rflmnnerate US r\ ir all the losses we have temporarily bus- pi ined.?South Carolinian. ' in ih Terrible Tragedy.?Sheriff Breeden, al Bennettsville, S. C., with two persons d< hom he had Bnmiqoned, attempted, a few at lys ago, to arrest two deserters in Marl- te jrough District. The deserters. we? ao- to impanied by their father. Coming upon 'is iem the Sheriff and one of his attendants hi ere shot down in their tracks. The other w< tendant, though he had reoeived a shot, U irsned one of the. deserters, about eighty so irds when ho fell dead Hearing of the rii llingofthe Sheriff and his attendants, -ev e citizens tamed oat, caught the father ge id'one of the deserters', tied them up and di lot them. *The other deserter esfiaped.? h< ich a state of things is d^alorable, and gi e Government ought to exercise its power ?r ;ainst deserters and tories to (he fulJest hi [tent. " ' ' * - wi Important trom Missouri. St. Loots, July 28.-?-Mach,aiirpriserirag treated bete a short time since, by the arest of eeveml very prominent eepeeioawte >f this city, whose - offenoe was unknown.? tt has lately oome to light^ howevefc that bey were connected with a conspiracy exending throughout the entire ^Idw6(jgp Galley,; having for its objept the erection of i No'rthweitern Confederacy. ' ** Col. Sanderson, the Provost Marshal General of this Department has been gath-, jring evidenoe in the'matter for several* nontha, which ia in poasaaaion oftXaWashngton authorities.. It implicates several jublic men, and shows the organisation, fo i&ve been formed a dangerous one.. One of :ho arrested parties'hem is said to hkVebeea 10-badly .frightened that ? *borrdl million of dollars- had .been efieaeii for bis release. .; ? W It is believed that the recent guerilla movements in this State have some'opnDBb? ion with this sobe'me, partionlarlyM Tfiorfi;on, in bis apeeoh at Platte - city, said that ;he Knights of the Golden Circle were or-. ^anized and armed to rise tbreughovt the Free States; that Yallahdigham was with' hem; that he was ? Valiandigham's man ; hat he had troops in every oonnCy of the State, and men coming up from the South; tnd that fifteen hundred men had. been raised in Illinois, who would join him; do- * itroying the Hannibal and St. Joseph"-Bailed in their maroh. During Ool. Sanderson's investigation of ibis conspiracy, he.discovered the intended enowal of boat burning on the Western rivers, and was able in several Instances to ivert serious consequences. The whole natter will probably be investigated in a lew daysv . . . Georgia. - ' * s * > Through the attention of a friend we are n possession of the Maoon Telegraph eH he 3rd, from which we take the following: ABBIYAL OF STONEMAtf. ' Five hundred of Stonemairis raiders, saptured by Gen. Ivereon, arrived hene-op yesterday morning. They.appewred ingood ipirits, and did not look as if they bad beep langht committing their usual rascalities!? Chey are a very good Jooking body of men, ind informed as that they were picket^ oat or the purpose of destroying our cqmmanimations. They inquired very anniouily aferthe military prison at AhdersonviHe, and expressed great fear at beinjf'flent' there, v heir officers having told them that the pipes ras very unwholesome, and oapse<r hun(reds of their comrades to die.daily." ^Vhen nformed that they were deceived, they ex* iressed themselves satisfied to remain' there in til, as oneremarked^ Sherman oante to elieve them. Sherman, may lonville, but it will only be as Stoneman has rioitfld Mflflon. ..? ? We have been informed by tnrotwortKy )ersoo that 800 more of the Yankee Taidefs rere captured on yesterday, and on,, the naroh to this oity. Among them is a Colo* lei and'Major, with several officers of iit'eior rahk. We do not vouoh for the abo^i nfprmation, but give it as coming from * a __ luable source. ^ Our cavalry* etHT perming the dispersed body of raiders, and we ^ houlcf not be surprised if^gei^supi Is laptn'red. ?-? " i wttff **' WMfi~r ' ' '"'"y . . PeiiriflylvBnia, . . ?8TEUCTION OP OHAMBERSBURQ BY OSB * TKOO&4* ' Cbathbersb'urg ispitafirf ^ndlriin^i0U^,'^aMWrae ^oneooobeagueuCjeek^j^-^be, j^ootip^rof be Cumberland^ ^alfej^ foilroad wi^h ?ranklin Railroad, ftQ 'mil^^MwPTof Tarrisburg, 'and 15^ fci?rW&'JP4|Rklelpbia. It is connected by gobd tanffPike oads with Baltimore, Pittsj^JttdsSfeflalelpbia, and by raaTroad withj?hiladelphia, larrisburg, &o^ TSe dirtffngft were mostly milt of brfok??fdstone. It bid m I860 a me.court bouse, a Ijgnk* a hjge male **&my, a fen? ale seminary, eigjifcehurches and uft nAwananrfr offices. It is snrron^ded bv highly cultivator"1 p^Iouft ^Atry. t had m a nuctwrea-bf-^ott^hwool, fldfcr, aper audnfan, ^ud ita-popdiction if 1000 about 5,000^ ^ . c w ? ; From the munioipal authorities, it seems , y the Yankee pqass. a ^demand bad been lade for half & mflliW oHdoJiars: but this ot being-forthcOrtkigy ottr fay*?unl|KR** tie place* audit i* hi. &a$fc&. iXhiais ut the beginnij^r We^pept^aihr^lpr J rom Early'flt boys again, an^nowwb expect ) hear,' amid tno shouts of ttfuinph,. the rack ling'flancfes miking merry over tha *ufjrings of the YttkeSfadb j while tbodenee alumna of smoket shall toll.of oox wh*ebouts, and the heaps of-ashe* and of ruins iark the track of our man, we 1>eIieTe the Jmighty will look approvingly upon these ots.of retribution fofthe foe's inhumanarod arbarous conduct towards us. ^We/.have ricd "mercy'4 long'enough; now Jeh <jjur aich word be eyes for an eye, teeth for a >oth.?Gold&boro State Journal. ? ??: - o ' The G0EIL14 Man,?A letter,from M. a Chaillu to Mr. Buokland, has appeared 1 print, dated Fernound, VasrirSr, Januar 14. He says: I shall send two liwehlnir - ._t - ?? inzees, a mate ana iemaie. "inewwwis i a splendid state of he^h, anfahtogfafc&ot ie vessel reach England in winter,^should most feel sore that he wonld reach Lon>n safely. The female is maoh younger, id I have had her only a few days. Masr Thomas (the name of the nude) is* ost funny fellow, and a grot rogue. Be exceedingly-fond of-tea And oofee,' and is taken a great fancy to oheese,* bat-the orst o/all, he will not eat cold alike fcho former one I had, and tfawxleription of I gave in xny work, "Eijoatoal Africa," he cannot bear Bpiritaj wor 'en the.sm'elL I'find him alao' leos intelli>nt. The fi?t day the female oatna inJ>e d not care for'her in the least, boWwow ? ts very'fond of her, And the/arfe the -a -i' _A i L. ^ i Hull eatesc part ul iqb aay iu> wu ??na a m cob', and he is getting wi.cked, -apd has g Man several peoploj.bac lie is tame 3 ith Bt> * * aB J