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JfaajMi Mi Jarts. ] * A wag having married a girl named Churoh, says he has enjoyed more happiness since he joined the Cboroh than he ever did before. The people of Columbus, Georgia, propose raising subscriptions for the purpose of ereoting a monument to the memory of the Confederate officers and privates from that oity who fell in the late war. The editor of a country paper says that he felt called upon to publish father Lewis' sermon on the "Looality of Hell," ! as it was a question in whioh nearly all its readers were deeply interested. In Alabama, this week, a law goes into effect prohibiting any person of oolor j from owning or carrying fire-arms, under a penalty of three months' imprisonment and 8100 fine. A despatch from Washington states that the reoonstraotion oommittee.of fifteen have agreed to report in favor of a constitutional amendment allowing Congress to regnlate the elective franchise within the States. There is a obild in Staunton, Virginia, seven weeks old, whioh weighs only one pound and a half. When born it could be put in a tea cup, and then weighed only half a pound. The little Lilliputian is "doing "well.'' The few warm days about the mid die of the month appeared to greatly enliven the growing wbeat. It looks very green and healthy. The prospeot now ia favorable for a fine orop next summer.?Asheville News ?? We iearn from the Rome (Ga.) Courier, that last week a box was reoeived by express at that place, directed to Bill Arp, from his "admirers in St. Lonis, Mo." The box oontained quite a large and rich assortment of diy goods and groceries, for family use, and luxuries. General Grant expresses the opinion that the necessities of maintaing a large military foroe in the South no longer exists, and while he desires to keep there an army sufficient to quell all outbreaks that may ooour. he believes that material redactions can be made with safety. The Washington National Intelligencer, learns that an order from the War Departmtnt, countermanding the master oat of oertain troops in Virgioiat was in tarn countermanded by the President, who has direoted in tarn that the troops in question be mustered out. Letters from influential conservatives in the New England StateB are pouring into the city, urging their Senators and Representatives to avoid a rapture with the Executive, and to abide, as far as possible, by the polioy he has seen fit to mark out for the restoration of the Union. The special correspondent of the Louisville (Ky ) Courier, telegraphing from Washington on the 13th ult., says: Southern members are fully recognized by the Executive Departments of the Government. They have the franking privilege, and are notified to appoint to fill the vacancies in the regular army. Govenor Aiken, of S. C., is in Washington. He says the negros are doiDg nothing, and new crops are likely to be a failure unless something is done to compel the negroes to work. He has been appointed to lay the matter before the President and General Grant, and see if some means cannot be devised to remedy the difficulty. The Jaokson (Miss.) Standard says: "We heard a freedman, a few days since, object, to entering into*a contract with a planter in this County, because the latter would not allow him in the summer months, in the daytime, two hours for sleep, besides the usual dinner hour." That darkey was fond of bis nap. The Kentuoky Senate, on the 13th instant., passed a bill to incorporate a bank, in the City of Louisville, to be controlled by free colored citizens. The bank is prohibited from having any conneot: in with the Freedmao's Bureau, and forbids the election of any person as an officer of the institution who has ever lived in Boston. It is stated that the Government has concluded to garrison the forts and protect the routes on the plains with colored troops, rtf*whom nt lpnnt thrpfi fnll will shortly be dispatched to the Indian country. The intention is to afford entire security to travellers and caravans, and put a final stop to the depredations of the savages. During theyear 1865 about 125,000,000 letters passed through the Postoffice of the oity of New York. The amount of post/ age on both letters and papers was $l,72lf 1 579 40; amount received for box rents, $67,786.75; expense of office, 3359,791.71; profit to the government over expenses, $1,503,174.22. A new hotel has been opened recentnor desires the patronage of Northerners. An army officer who foand that he could not secure the attendance of waiters com- j plained at the office, and was told bluntly j that the servants had orders not to wait on j such as be. The grim death is expected in New York the last of March. It has already, attacked the West Indies, and advices published from Guadaloupe state that the cholera is making such havoc there that it is feared the whole population will be swept away. Many citizens of New York are preI paring to take their families into the oountry as soon as the winter is over. A letter was received a few days j ? v,? ? ?I uy ? pcuwciuau iu i. ctuiouui^^ iivuj Mexioo, anooaDoiog the arrival in that country of General Early. He rode on borse-back in disguise from Lynchburg to Galveston, Texas, and thence took ship to Havana, was wrecked, finally reached that city, and after a short stay sailed for Mexi Gen. Custis Lee holds a professorship in the Washington Institute, (Virginia) and resides with his father. Captain John Brooke, of the Confederate navy, i and who holds a high position in the world of science as the inventor of the "Brooke gonB," has been appointed to a professor- ! ship in the same institution. Gen. Ko6ser and Col. Avery are students of law under Judge Brookenborough. Gen. Pendleton ; has a church inLexington, which has been closed for Bome time by military authority, nor is there any present prospect of its be-1 ing opened. The Reconstruction Committee is 1 now folly organized. It has been divided r into four sub-committees, each of these having an assignment of particular States. * Witnesses have been summoned from all quarters and of every shade of politics?of o people who have traveled through the South, o and of people who reside in the South; of 8 people who believe in hasty reoonstruotion and of people who don't?so that the committees will be in possession of the very 0 fullest information. The sub-committees will make separate reports to Congress, and there will, in addition, be consolidated reports from the general committee. I ?1?The report of the Georgia Commis- a sion to prepare a system of laws for the gov- j ernment of freedmen has been made. It provides that all persons of color shall have 1 the right to - acquire property, make con- > traots, sue and be sued, inherit property, i and give testimony in all oivil oases when the rights of colored persons are involved, { and in all orimioal oases when the aooased is a person of color. The report recom- ' mends the organization in ^aoh county of a a Connty Jodge, in whioh precisely the same j redress will be afforded the negro as is afforded the white man. The Governor, in recommending this report, says: "While we insist npon occupying, in relation to the 1 freedmen, the position of the governing olass, let ns folly and fairly meet its responsibilities." i ] Ik fotkilk ; ~~ c YORKVILLE, S. C. j THTTR8DAY MOERING, FEBRUARY 8,1866. ( - ( OUR TEBMB--IN ADVANCE. THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per year 1 TWO DOLLARS for six months; ONE DOLLAR for 1 three months?payable In "greenbacks." 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It is a clear and interesting argument, but too lengthy for pub lication. THE DAILY GUARDIAN. We have received the first number of another new daily, the Carolina Guardian, published by J. E. Britton, at Charlotte. It presents a neat appearance, and we wish its proprietor flinch success in his enterprise. Mr. Britton is an experienced journalist, and his sheet will no doubt meet v with popular favor. ^ YORKVILLE FEMALE SEMINARY p This institution, under the management r of the Rev. Messrs. Andersons, opened its exercises on Monday the 5th instant.? j Qororol TTonnrr Viqvro olroorlo ontnrnrl 1 t And. a mnffli lnrgpr nnmhof ?? jii c ring the early part of the session. It is in p competent hands, and if parents do not B avail themselves of its advantage it is their p own mistake. The boarding' facilities an- t der the supervision of Mrs. Thornwell 8 are complete, and offer unusual advantages. /j - " 1 THE VIRGINIA BONE TRADE. An item in a recent Virginia exchange, ' notices the faot that two hundred tons of bojies have reoently been shipped from Fred- 1 ericbsburg to a Northern city, for the man- c ufacture of manures, phosphates, &c., for 1 agricultural purposes. Other statements 1 indicate that the bono trade about Peters- 0 burg is in an equally prosperous condition, 8 and yielding a handsome profit to those engaged in it. All this is given with a naivete that would be astonishing, in any other age t or country than the one that the present ti generation of blessed humanity eDjoys. v It must not be understood that these car- e goes consist entirely of human bones, bat tl bones of all classes of animals that usually t< whiten the fields where great battles have G occurred. Into these collections many of S the graveless skeletons of the forgottec t? dead are gathered, and the thrifty Yankee S (surely Virginians don't do the like) turn- j tl bles them from his ship by the dray load, into some manufacturing establishment.? i ft Next comes a flaming advertisement of high- ai y refined carbonates, phosphates, &o., waranted to add a thousand per oent. to the >roduotive oapacity of any soil. We might indulge in an interesting train if reflections upon suoh a finale to the war if Southern Independence. The facts are uggestive, but let them rest with the ooncienoes of the boue sellers, and the verdict f materialism. UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENT. We are authorized by members of the jegislature from this District, to say that pplioants for the State appointment to the Jniversity of South Carolina, will present hemselves before the delegation for examnation, on Tuesday after the 2nd Monday n March. The State has made to each district the iberal offer of one appointment to the Uniersity free of tuition oharges. As suob n opportunity may not be again presented o the District for three or four years, it vould be well for some young man to strive >y preparation, to be ready for examination nefore the delegation, on the day appointed. THE SITUATION. * The long looked for "break" between the Resident and the Radicals, may be pronounced as substantially at hand. Recent nterviews with members of Congresajhave Irawd from Mr. Johnson the strongest ex>ressions of adherence to his adopted poliry, and regret at the partisan legislation of Congress. In a recent conference with nembers of the Pennsylvania delegation, le is reported to have "re asserted in the dearest manner, the principles whioh have governed him upon the qoestion of recon traction, and declared that it was bis un.Iterable purpose to stand by tbem. The lepreseutativesof the South, he said, should ie admitted, and the action of the majority denying them representation was dwelt ipon as wroDg and daDgerous. They should iave been admitted immediately, be oonioued, on the presentation of their proper redentials. The President was, as usual, ery pleasant in the expression of his opin}os, but be was, at the same time, aB imaovable as Gibralter." The result of these declarations, is nnisguised hostility to the administration. A ?ar is begun which must end in the overbrow of one, and the triumph of the other. The Constitutional amendment reported rom the Committee on Reconstruction, and ecommitted to it some days ago, came op gain in the House last week for adoption, 'his proposed amendment provides that repesentatiou shall henceforth be apportioned y taking the whole number of voters (not opulation as formerly) together with taxaion, as the basis of representation... This mendmentis intended to exolude the threefths vote of the South for negro populaion, or to force negro suffrage upon the ountry. The debate upon the passage of this retort in the House, gave further evidence of he determined hostility of the ultras.? Stevens declared that "the position taken >y the President, in a recent conversation rith members of Congress, would a few ears since, have oost a British King his iead. It was in direct contradiction with he privileges of Congress. That body was, lowever, tolerant of the abuses of privilege ind power." The vote by which the amendment passed he House of Representatives, shows a tacking down on the part of a few of the iltras, but do substantial change of front iy them as a party. Raymond's speech ffered a fine argument in favor of the Presdent's policy, but was a mere "whistle to he winds," in its effect upon that body. The general impression amoug the news writers, is that no Constitutional Amendaent whatever, oan be agreed upon by tqth Houses; and if by chance such an a-reement oan be had, that the States will | efuse to ratify it. The Bill for establishing the Freedmen's Jureau, whioh seemed to glide through Congress with so much ease, has encounternd^au atliuiL-v. Alio. Ttr\. ITuuseT5&B uoex>ectedly stumbled over some of the Senate mendments, and there remains a vague >robability that the quarrel may result in be final overthrow of the measure. It is tated confidently, that the President's veto f it should p388, is fixed upon as certain. Phere is yet hope that this odious piece of egislation may be averted. The Reconstruction Committee disousses ts vast enterprise in secret session, and no ilue as to the result of its labors has come o light, except the amendment ushered hrongh by Stevens. What general plan if restoration it will recommend, if any, is crupulously kept in the secret recesseB of he Committee room. A special dispatoh from Washington on he 30th ultimo, renews the old "pfoolama ion" story that started its rounds several reeks ago. Another authority says, howver, that the President has deferred issuing he formal proclamation deolaring the resjration of the Union, until the opinions of j lens. Grant, Sherman, Meade, Thomas, heridan, Sickles and others, could be obiined relative to the submission of the outhern States to the constitutional aulorities. The Bill intended to operate to the die anchisement of ex-Confederate soldiers, ( ad others in the District of Columbia, who i sympathized with, or aided the rebellion (so-called) will, it is thought, become a law. Another "split" in the cabinet has been announced, bat the fissure described exists probably in the brains of some sensation local instead of the Cabinet. The report is to the effect that Seward, McCullooh and Wells support the President's polioy, while the other members of the oabinet have gone over to the Radicals. Resolutions for the trial of Davis and others still crowd upon the House; trial by Courts martial, oivil Courts, Supreme Court, Military Commission,"and |some for exeou tiofl witnout trial, embraces tneir general tenor. Even Thad Stevens has become ashamed of this monstrous hue and ory, and thinks there has been "enough" of it. new advertisements. J. A. Brown, O. Y. D.?Citation?D. T. Lewiley, Adm'r.? James N. Leanley, deceased. D. T. Lessley tfhd I. J. Roddy?Administrator's Notice. Rev. W. Curtis?Limestone Springs Female High School. Floyd, Dobson k Co.?New Oroceo' Store! Melton k Melton?Attorneys at Law. Carroll, Clark k Co.?Hoes. " " " ?Flour. Nomination for Town Council. * McCaffrey k Jones?Spectacles. TAX ON COTTON. The intelligence from Washington this week, brings the Report of the Revenue Commissioners recommending a tax of Ovo cents per pound on cotton. This Report need oreate no surprise. It is in fact, bat another of those measures emptied from the radical bndget, that have been long digesting for this hapless people. The South has not looked for it in vain. It has oome at last, with a stretch of power and an audacity of porpose, well calculated to stagger the hopes of those that expeoted equality in the Union, under the Republican regime. The blow aimed, if given ae directed, may prove too heavy to effeot its object? The blast may prove too powerful, and scatter the atoms it was only intended to crush. The attention of agriculture, will either be diverted to other objeots, or discouraged and hopeless, its efforts become paralyzed under the stroke. The people of the South may well abandon the frail tenure of hope that has supported them under such an accumulation of adversity. The country looked to ootton as its last great hope by which its rnin might be eventaally repaired, its staggering credit restored, its wasted homesteads, blackened ohimneysand vacant cities again respond to the life touoh of industry and plenty. That promise whioh many held in hopeful trust, ae the counterbalance of so many woes, is on the verge of' extinction. The cotton grower cannot expect to hire uncertain labor at high rates for its production, pay twenty-five per. cent of its value in taxes, in addition to the other mulotations he must undergo, and expeot remuneration. He is forced either to fruitless labor, or an abandonment of the effort. We hope the Report may not receive the sanction of Congress. That body has, however, given but a narrow margin upon which to ground suoh hopes, but we cannot believe it will inaugurate a measure that if persisted in, will eventually create a desert worse than the Earning sands of Africp or Hindostan. The South is staggering under the pressure of taxation already. Wasted and ruined, it came out of the war without a currency, credit, or market for its stinted resources. It cannot, with all the acoumulated orops on hand, meet the present internal revenue tax. Add twenty-five per cent, to it, and the tax will exceed all that the productive capaoity of the country can meet. Notwithstanding this unfriendly legislation, the effort to raise cotton will still be made. Its success will be entirely speculative, but the present probabilities are that the meagre earnings of the planter, after paying his labor-hire, taxes, shipments, &c., will not reimburse the actual outlay required to produce it. He caonot expeot ootton to command higher prices, or even as high as now Various questions will come in to affect the prioes. The reduction of the currency?the increased supply of foreign ootton?the woollen and linen products risiDg in competition, will all tend to diminish iiii- a.ij luini " FROM HILTON HEAD. A gentleman formerly refugeeing in this town, having recently returned to his homo near Hilton Head, S. C., writes as follows upon affairs thero : "Many planters have returned and are trying to secure labor and provisions for planting a crop, but the difficulties in the way are very great. The Freedmen are very much demoralized ; a great many say they will not work for a white man again, under any circumstances. Many have been allotted a small pieoeof land on the Islands, and although they have consumed all the provisions they raised last season, will not contract, and many are suffering for food. Major De Lany (colored) Assistant Commissioner of Freedman's Bureau, at Hilton Head, seems disposed to assist the planter as far as he can, but the job is too big for one man. An important order has just been issued, allowing L-'ommissarys of ouDsisience to issue rations to the planter for his laborers, he giving a lien upon his crop This will give many a start who oould otherwise do nothing. On the Islands, the Yankees who have attempted the cultivation of Sea Island Cotton, have done badly, and some say they have lost heavily. Thoy are now employing Southern men to oversee for them. If I oan get one, I will send you a copy of the terms offered the Freedmen here, and by which most of the planters are securing their labor. The main points are, that the laborer pays all his oicn expenses, and the planter all the plantation expenses, and gives him one third of every thing made, : except rioe and potatoes; of these he gets half." EDITORIAL* INKLINGS. . . General Sherman says that the g allotment of lands on the Sea Islands to negroes under his order was intended to t operate only during the war. He had no 8 idea of investing the negro oconpants with ^ permanent titles, to the exclusion of the ^ proper owners. He intended t^offer only a temporary asylum for tfce aged and infirm. c The Legislature of North Caro- 8 lioa has passed a bill to prohibit the distil- j lation of spirituous liquors from grain. The t Aot imposes a fine of 8500 and 60 days im- ( prisonment for each aot of distillation?the fine to be appropriated to the poor of the e A? mi ? ii- i;__ a. A county. 1 ne same penalty applies to moee | who transport oorn out of the State for dis- ? filiation. ^ The United States Direct Tax i Commissioners are now engaged in collect- ; ing the Direct Tax on Real Estate in North Carolina. The tax is eighty ceots on the $100 value of all lands, and the val- J nation of 1860 is taken as the standard.? , Homesteads to the value of five hundred dollars upon which the owner resided at the date of fixing the tax, are exempted. Own- 1 era and oocupanta of this class are required to appear before the Commissioners and es- ' tablish these facte. ^ A Virginia Congressman in Washington,.writes to a friend in Rich- 1 mood, stating that President Johnbon en- , tertains the.idea of again placing Virginia ( under Provisional authority. This is said i to be in consequence of the manifest dis- < loyalty of the Legislature in ignoring the wishes of Gov. Pierpont in the selection ( of State offioers by that body. The Richmond press is justly indignant over the in formation, but oonsider the report as manufactured for party designs. -I The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune haviog asserted that Jefferson Davis is soon to be brought ( before a military commission for trial, the < Intelligencer disposes of the story in the following authoritative terms: : j "We have good reason for publishing our , ' -1- 41 * ? ? aw mvint 000v1ul1uu lout fcuclc ib UU ivuduhuuu nuav- , ever for the above beyond the expressed desire of a member of the Cabinet and. of a | late major general." The member of the Cabinet referred to, i is doubtless, Mr. Stanton. The late Ma- 1 jor General is he whose notoriety is worldwide?Butler. . s It is stated that a large number j of meohanios have been employed in Northern cities, to commence at once the rebuilding of Charleston. This is welcome intelligence to all who feel an interest in the prosperity of the chief city of the State. The importance ofjtbis object is felt throughout the entire Southern country. The city of Charleston in the days of its prosperity, 1 was a liberal advocate of all measures looking to the internal improvement of the country. She did more in the way of building railroads and dispensed more charities to the oountry than any community of her size in^be South. Her name was but a synonym of hospitality, and generous liberality. We hope her battered walls will soon be built up again, and, Phoenix like, raise 1 from her honorable ashes, new evidences of prosperity and returning wealth. We observe by the Charleston papapers that Gen. Bennett, commanding in Charleston, in obedienoe to instruotioDb from Washington, has taken possession of the gas works located in the former place, as captured property. The question very naturally ocours, "Whose property is not subjeot to the same process?" Here is the ordgj of Gen. Bennett : [Special Order, No 14. Charleston, S. c., Jan. zn, iBtitj. The Gas Works of the City of Charles- j ton, captured by the United States forces at j | the occupation of the city, on the 18th of ! February, 1865, are hereby turned over to 1 i ?ha Ap?r.? />f nP-" J n-r .... The President of the Company will report the expenditures and receipts of the j works since the occupation of the city. 1 By order of Brevet Brigadier General ( ' W. T. Bennett. [ i GEORGE" BURGER, , | Captain 54th N. Y. V. V., A. A. A. G. ] The Constitutional Union, of ' Washington city, "gets off" the following with referenoe to the Freedmen's Bureau : j "In portions of Georgia, whore this Bu-), reau has undisputed sway, the negroes are ( dying off as though they were sheep afflict- j ed with the rot. In the vioinity of Macon, out of a population of 8,000 negroes, five j hundred died last week. At this rate there t will be an extermination of the contrabands c in a few months?they will pass out of ex- ^ istence while the Abolitionists are fighting j for their elevation to a social position with j the whites. The Freedmen's Bureau may do good in cases, but we are inclined to believe that it is a big humbug, and a bos- 1 pital for men who desire an easy position ? with little or no work. There are no doubt " some good men in the concern, but the vast v majority of them are men capable of any- 8 thing dishonorable to satisfy their whims or ? ambition. ^ Employing SoLbiEBS.?General Joe ii Johnstou employs about 500 of bis late Con- 3 federate soldiers in the repair of the Orange I and Alexandria Railroad. As they became e familiar with tbe pick and spade in the b rebel entrenchments, they work with know- 1 ledge, and are glad to obtain a living in o this way. o t! BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. ^ J COLUMBIA, S. C.. FEBBUABY 5, 1866. E =========== C ihad. tl The first of the season we saw in Colam- ? >ii was on the thirtieth of January. For ri everal days the market price of them was tl wo dollars and a half apiece; with a down- e: md tendency, after the novelty wore off ci 3mall Pox. 01 There are about a dozen cases of this dis- * iane in the Pest House of Columbia. These ? ire mostly from the country below the city, en or fifteen miles. Ihe Pest House is " --5 a? Kmlta mm/) Kalnn tAHSOP^O ^ jeyouu tut; uitjr wluilo auu uuunj ivn?iuo bo south-east. d Dii? Poet Offloe. 1( It> Columbia's humility abe makes man; ]( lad shifts.. Ooe of tbese is, having ber 0 >oet-offioe kept io a building formerly used f is a stable. Tbe Man about Town, who c las just returned borne, says this post*of p ice is tbe ooly stable institution be has seen y o town sinoe bis return. * al Nickeraon's Hotel. S Mr. Nickerson, tbe travelling publio ^ will be pleased to learn, bas just conclutied a contract for the rebuilding of his old a hotel on Main Street. The work is to com- a mence at once, and be pushed right through.' a! Meanwhile his present establishment?tbe a' Methodist Female Hotel on Plain Street? G is in successful operation ; and is tbe hotel P rf Columbia. J h Melton & Melton. q Among the many new names that are appearing from day to day in our Columbia 8| Directory, those of the above firm are the most receot and tbe most prominent. We u oongratulate our city upon tho accession,?. t| Their law office is already an active centre ^ of business. It would be a work of ernire g supererogation for us to speak to tbe .readers of the Enquirer or to tbe citizens of the ^ up-country in general or tbe State at large, . of tbe abilities, distinction, and assured fa bare of tbese gentlemen. We take great t) pleasurejmd pride in chronicling their arri ? val and establishment amongus. ^ Medical Journal. - g We are in receipt of the first number Of t; the Richmond Medical Journal. It is 1 edited by Drs. E. 8. Gaiixabd and W. S. p McChesney. It is a monthly octavo of v eighty pages. Dr. Gailla&d, so well and p favorably known in Sooth Carolina before d the war, held duriog the war the honorable ti post of Medical Director aod Inspector' of k the Confederate army ; and won laurels on t all hands. Without knowing anything l< abont medical matters, we could feel safe J in commending to our medical friends any- i thing that comes endorsed with bis name. * In this number, the article on Cholera?the -I enemy just now threatening to invade oar country?is of especial interest. It is by a Dr. G. The subscription price is five dol- f lars a year, if paid within three months ; s ten dollars if paid after that period. A good p premium on cash, that - t Scott's Monthly Magazine. We are in receipt of the second number ^ of this periodical, published in Atlanta, ^ Georgia. It is a handsomely gotton-up ^ double-columned octavo of the usual magazine size, giving us seventy-two pages of ^ reading matter in each number. The first . number was issued in December; this in January. It proposes to appear at the first . of each month hereafter. The present num- ^ ber contains poems from Paul HaYNE and J. R. Barrick and others; and prose ar- c tides from C. W. Barber, Anna Peyre ^ Dinnies. W. P. Rivers, A. R Watson, L L. Veazey, F R. Gooldino, and some ? others. The matter is both sterling and popular; and the promise of suocessis very c fair. We wish it with all our heart; and j" from what we know of the editor, Rev. W. J. Scott, A. M., wo expect success. The 1 subscription price is five dollars a year.? ? Let our reading public come to the support . of such enterprises as this, and our literary independence will ere long be achieved The Military Courts. r There are several cases of interest before s these tribunals; and of especial interest to -t the northern section of the State. That of t Mr. Biggers Mobley, of Chester District, charged with assault and battery, with iotent to kill one of his servants, a freedman, ? is before the Military Commission, and is r 1 ? nr aOODt ICS OOQCIUSIOQ. iJL y Brown, Esq., of Chester, formerly of Charleston, is counsel for the-defence. It . is understood that, upon the completion of ct this case, -Mr. Mobley will be tried for the j! murder of one of his freedmen, recently. j The cases against Messrs. Smarr and l( Wallace, of York, for murder, are on g the dooWt-fWtrial before the e mission. The charge against ? Mr. Smarr sl is for the murder of Green Thompson.? d That against Mr. Wallace?a separate d case?is for the murder of Henry Wright. a Dol .Samuel W. Melton has been em- o, ployed as counsel for the defendants. Bail' Ci bas been obtained for Mr. 6mabb, who is at b large under orders to report daily. Mr. ft Wallace has not been bailed; theobarges t| igainst him, founded upoD the testimony of tc he freedwomen present at the affair, being p -egarded as more serious It will be sev- h sral weeks, we hear, before these cases will ti )e reached. 6| There is also on the docket a case against a< L?_ T a _r TT A ... Ur. tSUQJ&fH 01.?13, Ui UUIUU, uuaimvu j ^ he murder of one of his freedmeo. The : li liroumstanoes of this oase, we understand, ! ti ;o to establish the plea of self defence.? e< dr. Sims has been bailed. E. J Abthub, o< <]sq., is bis counsel. e: It may be of interest toour readers to know ic hat the freedwoman, Amanda Woods, ol harged with the killing of Mr. John At- ; 8' tiNSON, of Chester District, last fall, and j T ?ho was tried before the Military Cooimis- 1 lo ion last December has been found guilty ! jt f murder; and sentenced to hard labor for, st ife at the Albany Penitentiary, New York. b< 'his case whioh excited much attention and a Dterest was conducted by Col. Samuel W. re 1 elton, for the prosecution, and by Jas. i ). Tradewell, Esq., for tbe defence. The at uds of justice have thus far been thwarted a y the escape of the convict. Amanda la Woods escaped from the guard on the night d< f Christinas eve, and has not been heard as f since. tc mere-MENTIOHTi v M The amendment to the Constitution of le United States abolishing slavery, has H| aen adopted by the Legislatures of New 1BH ersey and Iowa W. B. Carlisle, ml sq., formerly one of the editors of the < <$9 harleaton Courier, proposes to establish in ? H tat oity, a weekly paper to be oalled the flj Feoman," to be "devoted chiefly to the ]0 ghts, duties, privileges and interests of le farmer and rural citizen.w"?"""An rcbange says that the Radicals have con- jgj ;ded to the Southern States, the right to J? jmplain. We suggest that this right even, ill have to be carefally used. The J ational banks in the Northern States which V ave more than their share of currency, fl ill be called upon to return the Burplus, in jg rder to extend the apportionment to the outh. Gen. Sheridan, acting an er orders from Washington, refuses to al- jfj >w emigrants for Mexico to leave New Or- 1 fl iSD8, Otlt 00 8 DOt prevoui vessels lruai ? leariog. vAn exchange suggests that jn 'arson Brownlow would make a first-rate I hief-of-staff for the devil The exenses of the Freedmeu's Bureau for the I ear 1866, is estimated by Geo. Howard, me I 841,746,060: ""Alexander H. jfl tephens and Hersohel V. Johnson, |a ave been elected United States Senators ra rom Georgia The Louisville Dem- * IS crat says, that as long as the seceded States re oot represented iD Congress, they should t least, be exempt from taxation. Mo tax- ^Rj tion without represenutioo,",>""*The rrand Jury of Lafayette county, Mississip- V i, have found a true bill against Geo. A. ?9 . Smith, U. S. A , for burning the oourt , 9 ouse and other bnildiogs in tbs town of K? Ixford, in the summer of 1864. I A French physician announces that a I bock of eleotrioity given to a patient dy- / M 3g from the effects of ohloroform immedi- ijfl tely counteracts its influence nod restores g? be patieut to {ife.**".*;*"The President fl as pardoned Gen John 8. Preston, of W doth Carolina. The freedmen, sup- vj|l orted by Government, lounge all day in the |S longressional galleries, at Washington. le The arrangement of the testimony .M gainst Admiral Semmes, says a Washing- / ?1 )n special, is dearly completed. The trial M rill commence towards the close of the ff resent week. There are in the U. M lutes 64 towns bearing the name of Liber- M y, seven of them being in Pennsylvania. 'he largest "Liberty" is in Ohio, with a s Ms opulation of 4,075, the smallest, in Iowa, pith a population of 5."",""An argent . JB iressure is being made to induce thePresi- tfl ent to issue an order restoring the Ariing- St an estate to Mrs. Gen, Leu. v""* "The jS ey to a mother's heart iff a baby. Keep ra hat well oiled with praiae, and yon can up- B ock every pantry in the house.-^vv.vGen. M ubal A. Early travelled on hdraubaok il disguise, from Virginia to Galveston, jjB there he took ship for Havana. He is now fi q inexjco,' " - ? The DarHngton Southerner, says there is man residing in that District, who is the ather of twenty nine children. The urn necessary to pay the interest on the mblic debt, to support the Government and o afford a small sinking fond for the gradlal reduction of the debt, is ptd.fiown by | he Internal Revenue Commission at about >750,000,000. A Royal Deoree baa >een received at Havana, disapproving the ormation of a sooiety for the suppression if the slave trade, and reprimanding the }aptain-Geoeral for not discountenancing t. J. B. Perry, Esq., Solicitor of be Southern Circuit, died at Bfi resideoce n Walterboro', on the 17th ultimo. 'orney's Press, says that 86 members <5f he late Confederate Congress; 132 Ex-U. >. Army officers; 127 Confederate Generals; ? >2 prominent Civil offioere, and 116 Ex-offi- < ere of the U. S. Navy, have not been parloned by the President. "Pub. Doo." ast year cost 82,183,010 73 Poor Uncle lani'l. Chief Baron Pollock, of Eng and, parries with him on his onrouit a novable card table, and relieves the tedium if a railway jourocy with whist. Bunlill Fields burial ground, London, where Fohn Bdnyan was interred, is to be saved rem further deeeoration, and will be as or- 3 lameutally laid out as its eetitral position jj enders possible. Dean Swijt bhoe 4 aid that Providence showed how little it J bought of riches by the fools it permitted j^B o possess wealth. '* A darkey's instructions for patting on a oat were : "Fast de.right arm, den deleft, ind den give one general conwulsion." fhere are twenty-three thousand negroes in Washington. There are 580 policial prisoners dow at the Dry Tortugas. The New Orleans Picayune of the JOfh, states that several gentlemen who lave traveled lately through Texas, concur d the opioion that there will be a very urge crop of cotton raised in that broad Itate this year; some, in fact, think the rop willTj'e larger than ib any previous seaon: ^>A boy's idea of having a tooth rawn may be summed us as follows: "The ootor hitched fast on to me, pulled bis best nd just before it killed me, the tooth ame out." The Savannah Republi 27i reports that the Central Railroad will e completed from' SavanDah to Augusta om the 1st to the 10th of February, when ie trains will fun through from Savannah > Augusta, Atlanta and Macon, and other oints in Georgia. John B. GotJOH as talked Ram and Reform in 2,400 leo nea it is said tbat tne nign pnoe or v :g8 is owing to the fact that the ben? are t great expense to procure revenue stamps i pat on their manufactured arti'oles. r the Radicals have their way, the Constiition will soon be like a volume of Revisi Statutes, and a commission will be ne- 1 issary to oodify them. The President has cpressed bis disapprobation of this tamperig." There are 630 sohools for colored ' lildren in the Southern States, and abont j 3,000 pupils. Both branches of the ennessee Legislature have passed a bill aiding colored people to testify in courts of tstice. From Louisiana complaints ill come of the refusal of the negro to lajr. The New Orleans journals advooate compulsory policy by tbe Free-linen's J5a- g iau. I There isn't a single printer confined in X ly of tbe New York State prisons What ? good lot they mast be ! This is partioa- n| rly strange, considering the number of j mils employed. Tbe Paris "Press" tfl aerts that Napoleon has sent messengers V Mexico to arrange for the speedy return I