Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 11, 1866, Image 2
Jmp, a?fl Jarts.
A man named Parson S. Paramour
has been fined fire dollars, in Indianapolis,
for saying in the street that he wonld be
damned
General Sheridan and staff called on
General Soptt while he was in New Orleans.
In dfocussing the late war, General Soott
spoke in high terms of the rebel Generals
Lee, Johnson and Longatreet.
* ?- ???wl .T/iKn -TnnpH lirfnor at
' w" A Bjnu &IMUW o
Atlanta, Ga., sends to the Wyandotte (Kanam)
Gazette the small sum of $50,000,
? Confederate money, and asks the editor to
send the paper a month I
* The Columbus Enquirer thinks that
one of the greatest dangers before the Sonth
is the probability that oar people will neglect
the raising of pfo virions and devote too
mooh attention to the planting of cotton.
? Tell me, angelio host, ye messengers
of lore, shall swindled printers here below
find~ no redress above ? The shining angel
hand replied: 'To as is knowledge given,
delinquents on the printer's books ean never
enter heaven.'
"The secret worth knowing" which a
man .recently received, on sending a letter
with ten cents enclosed to one of the numerous
swindling advertisements seen in
almost every newspaper, was : ."None but
fools answer my advertisement."
7 The U. S. authorities have extended
the parole of Gov. Vance, so that he caD
N now visit or remove to any part of the State
he pleases. The Charlotte Eeniocrat says,
that Governor Vance proposes, to settle either
in Wilmington or Charlotte. C ...
*-!?-_ _* t_..4.
.. . ? UUM1UO VUBQO^ IU UVUVCIOdblUU
? - recently, remarked that whenever he fonnd
* the case of the United States against Jeff.
Davis on the docket, be should proceed to
try .it, tat that under nc circumstances will
?be try it In Virginia, while the State is. occupied
by the military.?iV. Y. Tribune.
--jV report of a most remarkable discovery
oomes to us from Italy. An Italian
"savant", is said to have discovered a process
by whioh sounds may be transmitted
by.an electrical process any' diBtanoe, so
* that two persons?one in Rome and the other
in Paris?may converse together, recognising
the sound of each other's voice.
??General Grant proposes sending staff
officers to the principal military departments
as soon as the holidays are over, to see what
farther ^eduction of troops and materials
*' of war can be made in the several localities.
The working of the Quartermaster's Department
is likely to reoeive espeoial attention,
j with a view to lessening expenses.
-John .Ferguson, of Charleston, South
" Carolina,former owner of the steames Planter,whioh
wasruB off from the Confederates
by her colored pilot, Robert Small, has made
* demand for the restoration of the srpamor'
od the ground that it was stolen by negroes
- and captured from tbem by the blockading
ggoadron. The steamer Planter has. been
repaired at a cost of forty thousand dollars
to the United States Government, ?
- ??lot of -handsome furniture, twenty-one
pieces in an, arrived h> iitcbmodoon
Monday for Mrs. R. E. Lee. This is a
gift to that distinguished, Virginia lady
from the.ladies of Baltimore, and is to be
considered as an evidence of their high appreciation
of the bharaoter of her distinguished
husband. The Powhatan steamship
line acoepted the honor of conveying
thia elegant present to that city free of
charge. '* -
The arrest of Capt. Semmes, who
commanded the Confederate steamer Alabama,
has been announced. The obarge
against bim is, that in the battle-between
his ship and the Federal Bhip Kearsage, near
tit* French port of Cherbourg, he (Capt.
Semmes) escaped after a white flag was
raited on the Alabama. Captain Semmes
*? ? t- " A 1
protests against ois arrest Because ne was
regular!} paroled at Greensboro', N. C , at
the time of Geo. Johnston's surrender. .
:..m. A western farmer, who wished to in
veet the accomnlations of bis industry-in
U,, States securities, went to Jay Cooke's
offioe to prooare the treasury notes. The
qjferira inquired what denomination he would
have tbem in. Having never heard that
word used, excepting to distinguish the religious
Beets, he after a little deliberation,
r . replied: ??Well you may give me part in
old sohool Presbyterian, to please the old
lady : but give me the heft oh't in Freewill
. Baptist." v
?:?Th^.planters about Jacksonville, Alabama,
have been suffering pretty extensively
from bog obolera in the past modth or
two. A recent discovery . has now pot a
complete cheek to. its ravages wherever
tried. It is simply this: By examining the
- mouth of the animal affeoted,'you will find
a very black and very offensive parasitio
formation attached to the jaw-bone, resem-.
Oling a splinter, remove tbis and the hog
immediately recovers ?Rome (Georgia)
Courier. '
?? The History of- Mexico shows that
daring the last forty years Mexico has
had thirty seven different forms of government,
thirty t^o of which were "Repnb 1
lios," and seventy five Presidents I Its re-!
volntions daring that time have amoanted
to over two hundred. Many years since a
Mexican Protectorate was urged upon the
United States Senate by Gen. Houston,
npoo the ground that the Mexican people
otherwise would fall a prey to some European
power. The project was .condemned
and abandoned. Bat perhaps in view of
the past and present it would have been
Ul a dooeasea Bohemian in JNew
York, a letter says he "was always full of
taleot'that was available and practioal, and
whiskey that is strong and deadly. He has
been a writer for the press in that city for
the past ten years, and was a good customer
for the rum shops. He could write stories
and pooms with great facility and keep
drunk with great persistency. He was a
genial sort of genius, except when sober,
and sullen, morose and dissatisfied except
when drunk. He is best remembered in
> the former character, as the former condition
Wa$ bis commonest state.'
Gold hasfslleffin New York to 143.
and it should'not surprise us if it came
down, duringthe week, to 140. The immediate
causes of the deoline are (1) the
diaappearanceof the waT cloods from the]
national horizon and the prospect of con- j
tinned peace with foreign nations, add (2)
#
the payment in gold, by the Treasury, of
the interest on the six per eent. gold bonds
whioh payment began yesterday. The on,
settled, doubtful oondition in whioh the
Sonth is held by the JEUdioals, is, now the
one drawbaok on the national credit, and on
the rapid and permanent appreciation of the
national cnrrenoy. When, always providing
that peace is preserved with foreign
nations, the Southern States shall be admitted
to all their rights and. privileges under
the Constitution, a dollar greenbaok will
be worth a dollar in gold.
[Richmond Times, 2nd inst.
The Jackson (Mississippi) Clarion
is of the opinion that a very considerable
part of the negrdes will work on the plantatinn>
n?Tt vear. notwithstanding the pre
' sent difficulty of employing them. The
umber, however, will be greatly inadequate
to the demand, and the prospect is
that labor on the farms will be scaroe and
high.
- The dog of one of the regiments of
the French army died recently in Paris,
aged 14 years: it was adopted by the regiment
beoause, during a painful marob,
while the siroooo was blowing in the Desert,
it showed them where water was to be pro'
ouredj it went to the Crimea, where it was
badly wonnded, in consequence of its "detestable
habit of rnnning after the bombs)"
it was present at the battles of Magenta and
Solferino, and charged with the regiment,
barking as lond as it conld at the Anstrians.
It is rumored that President Johnson,
at the meeting of Congress, will send
in a Speoial Message in regard to the admission
of members of Congress from the
Confederate States. The oourse of Henry
J. Raymond, it appears has somewhat
alarmed the ultra Radicals. It is understood
that Mr. Raymond has. publicly expressed
himself as holding that, since the
rebellion has ended and slavery is abolished,
the North and South should have equal
representative powers, in Congress. He
argues that the North, under the Constitution,
has no right to legislate for the South,
unless the South is represented in Congress.
He believed that the majority of the Southern
members have been legitimately elected,
and should be admitted to seats. Mr.
Raymond, despite the machinations of the
ultra Stevens party, when Congress gets to
work, will be an earnest supporter of
President Johnson, and the leader of the
House.
Ike fJorMir
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OUB CONTBIBUTOBIAL.
The readers of the Enquirer will no
doubt rejoice with us in weloomiug again
to our oolumnB, the old familiar pen of our
Uoiumbfa contributor, "J. W. U." Lost
for awhile in the storm that recently enveloped
us, he floats up iu the wreck with a
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COBHECTION.
In the Bynopsis of the Tax Act presented
in last week's issue, a few inaccuracies occurred,
whioh we here correct:
A tax of two dollars on every hundred
dollars of premiums taken by Insurance
companies or their agencies, incorporated
beyond the limits of this State; and one
dollar per hundred dollars on all premiums
taken by companies incorporated in the
State.
. Twenty dollars upon every hundred dol
lars value of spirituous liquors manufactured
in this State for Bale, barter orexohango ;
and same upon all liquors brought into the
State for the same purposes.
A tax of one dollar (not two-and-a-half as
stated) upon every hundred dollars value of
all cotton sold by residents of the State, from
May 1st to October 1st, 1865 ; and the
same upon every hundred dollars value of
cotton held- in this State (not including
crop of 1865) on the 1st of October 1865;
provided, the United States Government
or its agents, may not have seized each cot
ton, or that the same has not been stolen or p
appropriated by other parties. d
The tax on erode turpentine, rosin &o., n
is one dollar on the hundred dollars, and not s
two and a half, as previously reported.' d
FREE* LABOR IN UNION.
We are gratified to learn that the farm* 4
era in Union Distriot are hopeful of being 0
able to seoure a much larger amdunt of free '
labor for the present year, than the prospeot
offered a few weeks ago. The agents
of the Freedmen's Bureau, have enforoed t
the making of contracts wherever there was t
any evidenoo of unwillingness on the part (
of the freedmen to work ; and summary v
punishment for idleness and vagmnoy, is I
generally being aooorded to suob as merit i
it. A large proportion of the farmers there, I
have engaged upon reasonable terms, a suf* b
fioienoy of labor for the present year. The j
proapeot seems to be fair, that a sufficient e
quantity of land will be put under oultiva- o
tion to meet the wants of the distriot, and
leave a margin for the raising of saleable c
products r
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
W. B. Metis, 0. E. Y. -D.?Notice to Guardians. ii
L. M. Grist?Fair \Var9lDg!
D. C. Anderson?School Notice. , . (
R. A. Springs?Two Hundred Dollars Reward.
C. D; Carr It Co?Tailor's Trimmings, kc. c
Barron & Bratlon.?Medical Notice.
T. D. Gillespie, Agent?Express Companies. . t
W. B.Mctts. Administrator.?Notice to Creditors. 1
Lieut, Col. B. B. Murray General Order, No. Z c
Capt. M. Boyce?To Distillers of Liquors, kc. c
. ? ? ?
MILLS HOUSE?CHARLESTON.
Those who io days gone by, were in the
habit of becoming the oooasion&l guests of ^
this popular hotel, will be gratified to'leajn ^
thut its, spacious apartments and superb ^
cuisine, are again before the public. The
building has been repaired and re-furnished
jat an expense of nearly 950,000, and is
now the property of Messrs. T. I). Wagner
and Joseph Pubcell
The building is one of the most spaoions
and superb in the South. It was built in
1853, at a cost of 8260,000 and was under v
the management of Messrs Nickerson & 8
Purcell, until the ^bombardment of 0
Charleston rendered it an unsafe resort for a
visitors. Daring the fiery ordeal to which 0
the oity was .subjected during its seige, it 2
was strnok some thirty times'by shells; and 0
was only saved from oomplete ruin by the *
energy of its proprietors. It has again re- 11
Burned its former splendor, with Mr. Pur- 8
cell as its chief manager. ', Among the 6
other offioers of the establishment, we no- r
tice the names of Mr. T. P. Slider, for merly
of the Newberry Sun and at present >'
advertising agent for the press; Messrs. 1
Webb, Trescott, Wells and others well b
known to the travelling public. We apeak 8
from exDOrienoe when we assert that gnesta u
rarely come under the supervlsion'of-more
gentlemanly or oonrteons hosts. We -be- ?
speak for tbem the. attention .of all whom v
business or pleasure may call to the oity. <1
FENTANISM. I
I be long-felt desire of the Irish people ?
ti
j to establish for themselves a free govern- -j
inent upon republican principles, has em- ^
bodied itself in an association under the ^
name of the "Fenian Brotherhood," claim< -'
- a
ing this aB its object. Large wtwubers of
emigrants to this countfy, ariwothers of Q
Irish extraction, have attached themselves
to the organization; arid the fist probably ^
embraces the name of thousands of men ^
from every State in the Union. ' ;
Many months ago, the organization was
completed in theUnited States, with a grand ^
(Head Centre'in New York, and sub-oentres
in each of the Northern and Western ^
States and some millions of dollars were r|
contributed to sustain the patriotic effort.
A President was also elected, in advance; a j.
8enate formed, and Secretaries of War, c
State and Treasu^ designated, and tbe
grand governmental machinery all in read- fl(
iness'to be transferred to Old Ireland, and w
set in motion at once. ^
Great troubles seem, however, to' have fl(
recently sprung up in the Fenian camp,
and their dreams of glory' and freedom are
likely to develop in barren realities. Start
iog out with one President, the Irish Re- ^
pnblio now has tliree in Amerioa and one in 01
Franco; and the three Amerioan Exoellen ^
cies and their factions, are having a rioh ^
quarrel, as to "who shall be, and who ^
shan't " In the meantime, a Mr. Sweeny. J*
steps in, and says he wants to be Pf^pident, v;
appoints his Cabinet, and issnes his war or- ^
ders, just as if he were a President sure ^
enough. The two or three millions of dol- iS
lara contributed by the bard-laboring and
misguided sons of Erin, to be applied to *3
the liberation of their green hills from d
British domination, seem to be the cause of
. . . _ _ *
all tbis contention between the rival lead- 16
ers. Whoever hasthe said millions in hand n
is, we imagine, the locky fellow, so far as a
any resnltB are to be attaibed. He will 5t
probably win very little glory, for the Pe- 01
nian war will never be wagad, unless against ^
itself, nor tbe money eyer be expended in ^H
the liberation of Ireland. However much J 111
we may sympathize with her suffering chil- 18
dren, or gladly weloome her into the list of j J1
free nations, we have but little respect for!
any association with that object in view,! hl
that evinces so little dignity of aotion or jjjj
earnestness of purpose. Like a parcel of: at
ehildren at toys, they seem to be playing! pi
government, for the amusement of them- i m
selves and the lookers-on. It would be far I ^
; a
better for these misgqided patriots, if they ' gc
would turn over their funds to tbe poor em- 0\
igrants daily arriving?go to their homes in th
eace, and leave events to determine the
estiny of Ireland, than to waste time and
lonev in fruitless . disonasions .as to who
ball be its President. So far as present inicatioos
seem to point, it is about as likely
bat he will be inaugurated in Dublin, by
he Fenians, as that the Prinoe Potentate
f the Moon, will send bis Viceroy to nsorp
he throne of the Czar of Russia. .
politioal*anomaly.
The State of North Carolina is plaoed at
bis time in a singular and awkward attiude,
as regards her internal affairs. When
Jov. Holdeu assumed eontrol of'the State,
inder the provisional appointment of the
'resident, be filled all the State offices with
>ew appointees of bis own selection. The
jegislature oonvened and transacted suoh
msinesg as the emergency required; but adourobd
without touohing the snbject of
leotion of Magistrates and other county
ffioers.
In the meantime, North Carolina is relievid'from
provisional authority, and with the
.. \ '
enrement 01 wjv.??iolden, ms provisonal
appointments are vaoated. The State
bJq consequence, left without a Sheriff,
llerk, Magistrate, or any other oounty offier,
necessary to her internal-machinery?
n this perplexing attitude, Gov.' Worth
[ads the State, upon assuming control" of
be Executive. The. .Constitution fails to
fford him any remedy for supplying the
scant offices, save to oonvene the Legislature,
which body alone oan authorize to elect..
[*bis he bas done in a recent proclamation,
lesignating the 14th instant as the day of
ssenAiling.
In the meantime, the State, like a raft at
ea, most float with the current until she
ian be manned by another crew.
WHO WILL WIN?
The "re-opening of Congress will probably
fitness a fieroe fight between the Radicals
,nd the Administration, upon the condition
if the Southern States. All the indications
8 regards the-President's policy, point bnta
inn wnv* thtif. iff. aft fcnrrn Afl Taxaa And
florida have, passed- through the stages
lecessa'ry to entitle them to relief from proisional
authority," aproclamation will be
38ued recognising the States of the ?outfa
8 restored to^tbeir relations with the Fed
ral Government, and as resuming all' their
ights under fh'e Constitution. - .
The radicals in the meantime, are digest
og bills and resolutions by the hatfull, for
he government of these States as "Terripries,"
as "States -in suspended relationhip"
&c., &o., many of which will be urged
ipoD Congress for immediate action.
Should tb? President o?rry out bis poliy
of restoration, it will be* difficult to diine
the end. A fight or a b'aok down by
be radioals must be the result. Executive
ower and patronage, will probably brnab
11 opposition from its path, and come oat
riumphantly. Factions in oppdlition to
be administration have very rarely found
bemselvea repaid the costs in the end?
'here are too many offioes to fill, too much
looey to be sifted through the wires that
entre in the Executive office, to let a miority
bear away the favors. For these
Basons the President of our Republio has
enerally been able to rally a sufficient forcei
Congress to sustain his measures, bowver
unpopular to sectional politics.
?.fter this proclamation, there will 'be
at-one more obstacle in the way of tbeadduainn
of Sonthflrn memhnrs This will
e the test oath. Congress will scarcely
3peal it this session. It may be so' far
lodified as to permit the admission of a
3W members thia*Spring. But if the fight
omeB between Congress and the President
-tbe former will not be apt to let go a
;ring that.promises to serve its purposes so
ell as this test oath is likely to do. Meanme,
this trial of strength^ between the
intending giants is fast approaching.
A HABEAS COBPUS CASE. *
Capt. Robert. J; Martin, formerly of
ie Confederate army, and recently a prisoer
in Fort Lafayette, has been released
om military oustody, upon a writ of hams
corpus before a New York Judge
he oharges against him were to tbe effect
lat he was a spy ig_tBe_f!Qnfnderate setice,
and oonoerned in the burning of tbe
otels in New York .in 1864. The Judge
eld, tbat bis offence bad ceased to be punhable*
by reason of the cessation of hostilies
and tbat bis parole farnisbed iaununir
for all acts done in tbe legitimate oonuct
of the war.
This is the most,important decision aficting
such oases, tbat has yet been proonnced
by any court; and if sustained as
precedent, will materially affeot proceedigs
upon all charges against paroled prisiers.
It is tbe first case on reoord since
le termination of' the war, where the ha:as
corpus has been efficacious in relierig
the accaaed from military custody. It
a cheerful sign of returning reason and i
istioe.
Tbe Judge made the following points in
is ruling upon the case :
"In regard to the acousation of being a spy,
3 said that Captain Martin is not liable ,
; this time, a time of peace, to suffer a ,
jnishment which oan only be alloted by
ilitary authority in time of war. Also, (
lat.while Captain Martin may have bfcbn ,
spy, his offenoe ceased when he left the
ene of his operations, and regained bis
vo lines. Furthermore, the Judge held i
lat no man is ataenable for offences oom- i
mitted daring a war of the kind just closed,
after the fact ofhostilitie* has oeased,'unless
it be for acts committed out of the pale
of the ordinary usages of war." :
THE BIBLE CAUSE.
We have received from Rev. E. A.
Bolles, Agent of the American Bible Society
in Soatb Carolina, the following oomP
mjnnieation which explains itself: . .
Editor. Yorkville Enquirer :?Permit
me to inform-you and the friends of the
Bible canse, that the American Bible Socio*
ty will ta*ke pleasure in supplying Bible Societies
and Bible Committees, with Bibles
and Testaments, gratuitously, or otherwise.
Since Jaly last, I have visited fifteen Districts
of this State, and have supplied Bible
Societies and Bible Committees with books
gratuitously, by their request. It will afford
me pleasure to have all orders filled,
either for money on as grants. ' Those Bibles
and Testaments usually granted to Societies,
are neatly bound in sheep and cloth.
To some Societies large grants of books
have been made. I hdpe that"all Sooietiee
and Committees will request a grant of Bibles
ahd Testaments as their right, without
delay. Those ordering books, will please
give the Dame of their consignee in Charleston,
and also, at Colombia, and poat office
address.
-Wishing yon and all friends of the Bible
every blessing.
I remain, yours sincerely,
Kev. E. A. BOLLES.
Orangeburg, S C., Jan. 1,1866.
\ EDITOBIAL INKLINGS.
Judge"^Busteed, of the United
States District Court for Alabama, has decided
the test oath as unconstitutional as to
members of (he legal profession. The
Montgomery Mail, in commenting thereon,
says:
Judge Busteed, in making his decision,
has oome up to the high expectations of the
people of Alabama. A Federal General,
a leader of the- Republican party, a man
whose every sympathy was with his section,
and whose efforts in behalf of the Union
cause wefe rewarded by high judicial office,
be has not hesitated to bid the illegal
spirit of faction bow before the dispassionate
reason of.the law.
' 1 Property-holders in the Southern
States will be gratified to learn that, in his
report to Congress, the Secretary Of the
Treasury reoomifiends? - ... ^First.
That the cpllection. of ioternal revenue
tales which accrued before the establishment
of revenue offioes in the S&les recently
in rebellion Be indefinitely postponed
Second. That all sales of property in
those States, under the direct tax law, be
suspended tAtil . the States shall have an
opportunity of assuming (as- was done by
loyal States) the payment of the tax assessed
upon them.
Third. That all transactions in snob
States wbiob may be invalid by the non-use
of stamps, be legalized as far as it is in the
power of Congress to-legalize tbem.
~ The religious belief of the deoeased
Presidents of the TJnited States, as
indicated by their attendance upon public
Worship and evidence afforded in their writing
may be summed up as follows :
Washington, Madison, Monroe^ Harri
son, Tyler and Taylor Were Episcopalians;
Jefferson,".John Adams and John Qainoey
Adams were Unitarians: Jaokson, Polk
and Lincoln were Presbyterians; Van. Boron
of the Dotch Reformed Church. The
surviving Presidents are Fillmore, a Unitarian;
Pierce; a Trinitarian Congregationaliat;
Buchanan, a Presbyterian, and the
present Chief Magistrate, Johnson, who is
a Presbyterian.
Lieutenant General Early, left
Havana a few days ago for .the city of Mexico,
where many of his friends have taken
up their abode. He says be "is not an
applicant for pardon, and would not acoept
a pardon from the President of the United
States if gratuitously tendered bim without
conditions or restrictions of any kind."?
He has nothing to regret, except that his.
services in aid of the rebellion were not of
more avail.
"* It having been asserted that the
widow and child of Stonewall Jaokson,
were in reduoed ciroamstantes and suffering
for many of the conveniences of life,
an appeal has been made to the liberality
of the people of the South to contribute for
their relief. In Virginia the popular .heart
has been folly aroused opoo this subject,
and tbe appeal io bebalf of the family of
ooe who bore oar caase so nobly, and gave
his life as his Jaatjgeat-O&ring, 4mr-met
'with a generous response. Our affections
will ever be.with those who represented as
in tbe late straggle, though tbe offering
and sacrifice were ever so vain. Posterity
will revere their names through all time,
and shame never be permitted to rest upon
the memory of the fallen in that oause.?
However changed the condition of affairs
now, there can be no treason in this affectionate
reverence for those who represented
oar views, and bore onr standard in the
fiery perils of those foar eventful years.
Southern Literature.?We clip the'
following item from the editorial columns of
the Southern Field and Fireside, now published
io Raleigh, North Carolina :
?On or aboat the first of January, we
shall commence the publication of. the 'Literateurs
of the South/ by James Wood
Davidson, Esq., consisting of a series of
critical papers of the highest standard of
character; and there is, doubtless, no one
in the United States so well and thoroughly
suited to the preparation of these papors, by
talent, acquainlanoe, eoorgy, and a respect
fal independenoo of men's opinions, which
enables the oritioal writer to dispense justice
alike to all, as Mr. Davidson." '
Unless the test oath is -repealed npt
more than fdbr of the Southern representatives
can be admitted to Congress.
.BY J AS. WOOD DAVIDSON.
COLUMBIA. 6. Qm JANUARY 8. 1866.
Greeting. '
Five years ago we made oar adieus to
the Readers of tbe Enquirer. The warcloud
was already visible above oar horizoo;
and the storm was gathering apace
Since then tbe tempest of terrible war
has thundered over oar heads?the storm of
V?*? J/ioAlatA/) ami? lohrlMt finrri.
OlttUgutci una ucouuitou vu* ? ? ?- - eane.of
bell has swept across tbe continent.
-Many of our brightest and best bare
gone clown. Many who, live years ago, read
with ns here, have fallen?some on onr own
soil, bat most in distantStates, They were
needed of God, and havn gone at his summons.
We o*n only say : "Thy will be
done;" and teaoh our hearts tojfeel it as
soon as possible.
A now order of things prevails. A'new
state of Bocicty obtains. Settled principles
of ages have been subverted. This may
be better; or may be worse.. Which of
the two, it is idle to discuss; and it is
; worse than idle to repine. - -- "
Verily, ***?*'
"Many the change*
' Since last we met ;T' - t
yet all these mutations have hot affected
each individual's relations to life' and to his
fellow man.
"Do your duty, and leave tbe rest to Heaven,''
is the earn of all hnman philosophy now, as
heretofore. Cousin earns up the ail of
hnman life- in these two words?Duty and'
Hope. '
When an earthquake desolates a city or
elevates am island, we are irresponsible for
these consequences, if we keep clearly in
our hearts the rule of duty, and* keep lighted
in our souls the flame of hope.
We have just had ao earthquake.
Let us go to work again, with hope.?
Work is tbe main thing, however. If we
wilt work like good men, hope will follow
as a legitimate oonsequence
Columbia.
This city is doiog all it can to rise from
its asbea. There are fifteen stores?mote
.or less?ndj open upon Main Street; and
there are perhaps fifty others in some stage
of rebuilding. The greater part of the
fcuaioess is done on Plain and Assembly
Streets; some, on Gervairi(Bridge)Street;
some, on nearly every other stiyfet in Colombia
Business is scattered. Men got
Abuses wherever tbey could?using kitchens,
stables, carriage-bouses, negro-bouses,,
and'all other kinds of houses, for stores and
offioes. MaDy little shanties were knoeked
up, hastily aud at small cost, for temporary
? ??a kAMinntnn 4A snon UMV #JV
ubo.i j.uooc aio ucgiuuiu^ w\j ww
better establish men t b as fast as. revising
trade pats means in the bands 06 business
men. Oar city will rise yet. We have
hat to^Work and Hope.
The Bailroada.The
road to Charleston is a slow affcir.?
The track is new completed to withukabooi
four miles of Colombia. The ears ran to
Hampton's Tarn Oat; a little over foor
miles by the track, but about seven miles by
the haok route. Every few days we hear
that the road will be finished in a very few
days; but time rolls od, while the ears do
not- A little bridge is now the point at
whioh the pause occurs. Wo are constant
ly bearing that Mr. Psake _ig_just 'organizing
a now force of hands, and that ho - is
going to push the work .right through.?
The freedmen do not appear to organize
with much alacrity, especially during the
Christmas holidays. We presume, how.
ever, now, that the - holidays have passed,
Mir. Peaks will meet with better success
than heretoforo; and we presume that in a
short time (again)?perhaps in a week?
the road actually will be finished to Columbia.
The Greenville road is in running order
up to Little River ; . and ears are running
- over it, engaged, we presume, in the work
of repairs principally. Tbey jan ddWn,
from Greenville to Hope's Station, just
above the Broad Biver Bridge at Alston.
This road, as also the Charlotte road;
is waiting on the S. C. B. R., in order to
get iron to finish. . .
Thi? churlntta read in in nniohhnr.
? ~ w ? - W-? ? ?r&"
hood of Ridgeway?about ten miles below
Winnsbofo. They move slowly, but keep
' at work. When the S. C. R. R., shall be
finished, this road will go to.work at both
ends of the gapr and can soon be finished.
Books. .
. Napoleon's History of Jniins Caesar is
being published-in America by the Harpers.
The first volumejs in the,Columbia
book-markgt; and volume second is said to
be in type.
A Life of Stonewall Jackson, by
John Esten Cooke, of Virginia, is in
press of ApplEton & Co.
We have two bookstores in Columbia?
- Mmrs TnwtffattH & Nobth, and P. B.
Glass & Co.
MEBE-MENTION.
Ex President Buchanan has joined tbe
Presbyterian Chnroh." "A man once
Lord Mayor of London, is now a pauper in
that 'oity. By one mail, last week,
H. B. Clafin & Co., the New York dry
goods merchants, received 1,500 letters.
The Nashville and Chattanooga I
1 Railroad- has began a suit against its late
President for one million dollars damage
i for permitting the Rebel Government to
use fbe road and its maohinery daring tbe
war ......... The public debt on tbe 1st" instant
was 92,807,000,000. The amount in
tbe Treasury was ninety millions?one half <
ooin. There appears to be considerable
difficulty at the Mint in puttiog on ooins i
the motto?"In God we trust." The officers
are afraid that everybody will read it?"la
Gold we trust"?whiob is much nearer the I
fact. The .Mobile Advertiser nomi- <
nates General Geant for the next Preai- t
deucy."" Cotton, it is said, oan be oul- I
tivated in California at a coat of five cents a t
pound. A premium has been offered by i
tbe State, for tbe first plantation, $3,000 ; c
and for the first one bundrod bales,'83,000 r
jnore. It is said tbe President iB pre- i
paring an answer to tbe resolution of Con- 1
gross, inquiring why Jepf. Davis has not <
been tried for treason. - >"^ince the j
30th ot June, 1868, tbore haVe been con- t
fined ia tbe Old Capitol' 88jlXlO 'pitabners, e
' ;
' ' % . . -v ^
of which 6,500 wen prisoners of war.? ||gH
This does not inclade the deserters sad wf. jaMB
ogees, which will swell the number to over
teoiooo. fl
An exchange says that AaTE*as W:jtRi>
and bis wife were found deed at their resi- 1
denee ih Worcester, Massachusetts, on H
Friday morning last,' from the effecta-df ^8|H
inhaling ^oalgaa.""-"'^*^||^^^^^HV
Toombs, who was recently in Havana, has ?4m8
left for England -TheRome Courier J
says that Cherokee "Georgia is decidedly
the white man's country. The colored ^W3S|H
population are gradoally withdrawing from
this section, and thrifty, enterprising oiti- gSjlBfl
zeus,' from Tennessee, Virginia,, Middle araM
a ad Lower Georgia, aod other sections,, are
constantly moving in. "Instructions IftCBffl
have bocn issued by the Freed menV Be- ImBI
reau through out the Sooth, prohibiting
planters from turning off aged and infirm ivEfl
negroes; on New Year's day . ' The H
recent musters out of service bate reduced " pjBBfla
the strength of the army to 150,000 uten. gfaflMfl
lb October the army was 180,000 sttteg. g%B|
the life of. President Lincoln. H? is to ?|?H
receive for the work, 13,000 when he com- jffffflBfl
menoes, and $15,000 when.he MwM
President Johnson was bom on the 29th ISMB
day of December, 1808, arrd fl
queotly, fifty-seven years of age on the ||hN?
29th ult. Tbe Provisional Governors PHM
of the Southern States have all been paid M
at the rate of $3,000 per^anam. m
Hon. Wm. Pobcheb Miles, formerly a V
distinguished member"of Congress from w
this* State, proposes to locate in New Or* ? i 1
leans......... On a rdoent trip of one of fte
Illinois river packets?& light draft one?
the passengers were eUrtled by the cry of g i|M
"man overboard i" Tfcesteamer wm stop^
ped and preparations- were made.^-jtaVa ra3?fl
bim, when the sound of, his voice w*a Igjjgfi
beard, exclaiming: "Go ahead with yout H
old steamboat l l'll walk along bebiud fl
you." Hon. Henby wlntebjQfe h
VIS, died io Baltimore, on the 30th Ultimo.
The Washington correspondent of the lijm
Charleston Courier, of the 5tb dust., gives ImSM
a better view of affairs in Washington, than lifli&SS
anythtng we have reoeived of later date . i|
The President-aud Mr. Seward have 4 1jSB6
both given, anxious inquirers as to the peace
of thecountry. the strongest - assurances SS&BB
that there will be no war with Fr?noe and
gad npne with England, and none ooibe
Mexican border, if the Government strong H
enough to restrain the arm of our atrn filli
bnsterers *;
The Executive Government ie oow ad- * QaCflB
interests of the country, and less for the im- - fl
mediate interests of demagogues, than it
has been for some time There is oo dan- jjjSgfl
ger of a war to^be sprung ttpoa UJ by the 9H
the power of Maximilian to Mexico, which
would involve us in war with all Eqropo? gHftMfl
and especially in a naval war with England fi
as well as France. President Johnson hjg mBM
than ^this^ HH
Grande to inaugurate hostilities la without fl
foundation. He goes, if At all, for a very - V
different purpose?to see hour Farjour forces W
can be with safety'reduced in numbers.? ifl
Stii! while we have a large standing artsy, ffffiSP
thousands of officers and men are interested rajaffl
ini promoting a war spirit Thay call now |bWB|
for War with Indians; war with Utah; war H
.?winy account, if they oyi he employed." fl
my and to the' withdrawal of troopfr^m Pjgi
the South, are caused as much by persona Wagg
interested in the maintenance of a standing afigM
armyas by poiitioians BSffl
It is believed here upon a olose-ecrotiny " fl
that the' majority of the members will re- r
ject Mr, Sumner's doctrines and proposi. fl
SIOOS. fl
The President, as you are already inform- " H
ed, will issue a Proclamation declaring the
Union to be restored, as soon as the States J
01 JLCXU8 ami nonaa 80#11 De reoaojinated, ?
in like, manner with the States of South and. '31
North Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi.?
But he supposes that all the otber#8tetee, 9
lately alienated, will be in the same catego- fcyflfl
ry by the time when Florida is ready. From
TexasTie expepts soon to have snch iofor? IjBra
mat ion as will put every thing right in that H
Colodel Seyon informs* me that (he.bas |SB
authorised a contradiction of the jfump* that %gM
Secretary Seward had expressed the opio- SS5|
ion that the Southern members (elect.} now fl
excluded, would all be admitted when the BH
sectional difficulties?has declared that^ in
bis opinion, Southoro restoration would be g&jljj
effected, and Southern repreeetatives ad- | H
mitted into Congress before the session olo- ( 1
-c~ rr- kStSumB
see. aMB
Of course, Mr. Seward must adhere to ggi
this policy. He is committed to it by his 9
famous letter to Mr. Dayton in 1862. If
the Southern people desired restoration, be |?gjl
said they had nothing to do but to send JKgm
their Senators atx^ Reprutohttilip to Con
I fear, however, that the teatVNtth will HHS
exclude some of the most estimable and pgjSg
useful of the Southern members elect.
After diligent iuquiry
opinions of the ruling majority of both
Houses, 1 do not - believe that the test oath f388
s to be repealed at this session. LEO. |?a
? rir;? S
The Cause op High Peiceb ?Why |ggg
,hie large advance upon the normal prices MKoj
)f six years ago ? It isjofciefly the result of IpEaH
hat scarcity of commodities which invaria* gjMa
>ly succeeds war. A very large portion of IjijSpgM
he ablo-bodied producers have been drawn BBS?
uto the srffiv. becnminc not onlv rinHdMMt
? Wm