Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, February 15, 1866, Image 2
Jtaxp an* Jmts.
Braxton Bragg's plantation in Ala*
batna has been confiscated.
There are between 70 and 80 proposed
amendments to the Constitution.
Ten per cent, has been established
as the legal rate of interest in Georgia.
Pnnoh describes marriage as partnership
without limited liability.
Somebody avers that there are 550,000
grains in a bushel of wheat. He's
"chaffing."
A friend complaining of the "internal
revenue system," says he can't put his
boots on without a stamp.
For finding and returning 825,000
in gold In the street in New York, a young
man was rewarded "with two dollars !!
An editor heads his list of births,
marriages and deaths thus: "Hatched,
matched and despatched."
In Louisiana the new militia system
is in oomplete operation, entirely superceding
the United States troops.
The biggest thing on ice is the berg
mentioned by Dr. Hayes, which contained
27,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, tonsmore
or less. -
The confectioners of Paris have agreed
with a missionary society to insert
extraots. from religious works in their bonbons
instead of sentimental mottoes.
Ex Governor Graham, United States
Senator elect from North Carolina, is out in
a letter in favor of negro evidence as just
and right.
Three hundred pretty girls dance almost
nude in one of the theatres in Paris.
Thepublio is said to be "shocked," and ask
where are the police.
A monetary convention has been
signed between France, Belgium, Italy, and
Switzerland, the result of whioh will be
that the money of each country will, in future,
pass current in all the rest.
At one of the Paris theatres the spectator
is shown the mode of dressing from the
Creation to the present day, and living
models walk out of a huge book of fashions
to illustriate the different periods.
A friend who has traveled lately, extensively,
through the upper counties and a
portion of South Carolina, informs us that
the wheat crop is looking uncommonly
promising.? Charlotte Times.
The New York Observer asserts that
"the piety 01 the booth was opposed to secession,
bat the clergy were generally in
favor of it ?" Is not that rather hard on
the olergy?
"When Sir Walter Scott was urged
not to prop the falling credit of an acquaintance,
he replied. "The man was my friend
when my friends were few; and I will be
his, new that bis enemies are many."
By laying a piece of charcoal upon a
bom, the pain subsides immediately. By
leaving the charcoal on one hoar, the woand
is healed, as has been demonstrated on several
occasions. The remedy is cheap and
simple, and certainly deserves a trial.
The value of the taxable property
belonging to the eolored residents of Washington
is 81,239,000. Of the 24,000 colored
residents of that city, the Freedmen's
Bureau estimate that 7,409 can read and
that about 5,000 subsoribe for newspapers^*
A Chicago divine was recently discussing
the subject of baptism, and, .after
summing up all the arguments in its favor,
he said to his opponent, "I am not surprised
that you object to immersions, sir, for
that was the way Satan lost all his pork."
The Charleston Courier learns that
the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania has authorized
M. W. Grand Master Orr to <haw
upon their treasurer for the sum of 81,00^ v
in aid of the Grand Lodee of South Caroli
a.
The youngest son of the great Patrick
Henry died in Floyd county, Virginia,
- in 1854, in circumstances of extreme destitution.
The Legislature of that State was
appropriating thousands on a marble statue
of the father, at the the very time the son
was beggiDg his bread!
One of our Indiana exchanges says
that the farmers of that section are grieving
at the ruin of the wheat crop. The ground
has been so bare during the winter that the
wheat is frozen oat. The snow that has fallen
came too late to be of much benefit, and
a short harvest will be the consequence.
Mr. Bateman, the engineer of the
Glasgow watef-works, has published a pamphlet
proposing a eoheme for supplying
London with water, by means of an aqueduct
from North Wales; the length will be
152 miles, the capacity 220,000 000 gallons
daily, and the cost upwards of ?40, 000,000.
The Macnn. fta . Trlearnah snv<i
that the negroes in that vicinity are dyiDg j
off with the most frightful rapidity. Daring j
the proceeding week about five hundred
had died in that city alone, out of a black 1
population of only eight thoueand. Previous
to the war the weekly mortality in the ,
same number had only beeu about twenty.
A Madrid letter, in the Temps, I
state that M. Monturiol, a Spaniard, has |
solved the problem of submarine steam nav-!
igation by the invention of a vessel which i
can remain for hours at a considerable j
depth, can discharge cannons from below, j
and even act as a ram tor piercmg the hulls
of iron-clad ships. N.
The Greenville,. S. C., Mountaineer
of Tuesday last says: "Ex-Gov. B. F. Perry
took bis departure this morning for Washington
City, and, we presume, will be absent
a short time only, unless the Congress
of the United States shall happen to come
to their senses unexpectedly and admit'
Southern Representatives to their seats du- ]
ring the present month."
A despatch from Washington states j
that the President and the Cabinet have had j
under consideration the argument of Capt.
Se'mmes, claiming tho right to be discharged
under the Sherman- JohDson parole, but
have come to no definite conclusion thereon.
Until this matter is disposed of, there will
be no detail for a court to try Semmes, and
there iB a bare probability that the trial may
bs indefinitely postponed.
It will be recollected that by an or-!
der of Gen. Beal, while in command of this
military district, citizens who had obtained
bona fide possession of horses belonging to
the Government were permitted upon cer-'
tain terms to retain them. The terms required
were, a fee of five dollars, upon payment
of which the party obtained a receipt'
or bill of sale, confirming bis title to the
animal. This order was antborized by Gen.'
Gillmore, on his visit to this District, in
Angnst last. We learn that a certain subordinate
officer in Chesterfield, rejoicing in
the title of "oaptain," has undertaken to
annul this order, and is creating great dissatisfaction
and uneasiness among the people
of that District, for fear that they will
be deprived of their horses, after having
complied with the terms prescribed by the
Provost Marshal, under Gen. Gillmore's
order. We advise those who may be disturbed
in their possession of animalB under
such circumstances, to report the matter to
Headquarters, at Darlington, where we feel
assured they will receive justice, and see
the good faith of the Government vindicated.?Darlington
New Era.
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COURT.
The usual Term of the Court of Common
Pleas and General Sessions, will be held
at this place on the Second Monday in
March. It is not yet positively known
what Judge will preside, upon this Circuit.
Saturday the 24th of February is Return
day.. . -Look out.
TOWN ELECTION.
* An election was held on Monday last for
an Intendant and four Wardens for the town
of Yorkville, with the following result:
Intendant.?Col. W. B. Wilson.
Wardens.?Richard Hare, Benj. F
Bmnrjc Mtt.wr .TnwwfinN and Cnl. J. A.
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McLean.
MELTON & MELTON.
These gentlemen, too well known in our
community to require comment, have looated
in Columbia, S. C , for the practice of
Law. While we regret to lose them*from
our midst, as valuable citizens, we wish
them a measure of prosperity commensurate
with their high merits and legal attainments.
See card.
CHARLESTON TRADE.
The wholesale merchants of Charleston
have issued a card, which will be found
in another column, in which is offered a
liberal bid for Southern patronage. The
country feels a just pride in supporting its
own commercial centre, and so long as
Charleston can apply the laws of trade to
her dealings, so as to make them profitable
to the-buyer, her merchants may expeot a
liberal share of patronage.
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MILITARY ORDER.
In our advertising columns will be found
a Circular from the Military authorities, in
reference to compensation to freedmen for
labor performed during the last year. It
will be observed that the 20th day of February
1865, is the time from which they
are declared entitled to compensation. We
are informed by Capt. Boyce, commanding
at this Post, that this date has been designated
for the reason that on that day, the
Federal authorities took possession of Columbia,
the capitol of the State.
<* !? THE
"SITUATION."
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There has but little transpired in the 1
National Council of late to excite hope, or j
calm the fears of the country as to its partisan
designs. The onlystaydeft for us, is
in the bold stand adopted by -the President
in opposition to the action of Congress.?
In assuming this position he is emphatic,
beyond the possibility of misapprehension ;
denying the policy of Constitutional Amendments;
opposing negro suffrage ; in favor
of the speedy admission of Southern Repreresentatives;
and opposed to tjje permanency
of the Freedmen's Bureau, and universal i
suffrage in the District of Columbia. The !
South can offer but a single objection to his
position, and that is, that he does not advocate
the repeal of the Test Oath. The Constitution
as it was, is the avowe-l platform j
he has assumed. How far his influence
may be able to control the designs of Con-1
gress, is a matter for time to develope.?
His distinct and repeated avowals of this
policy, have raised a storm in the two Houses
of Congress, that is becoming furious.
The people of all the States so far as we can
observe, support his polioy. Congress alone
assumes the responsibility of contravening
it.
The Committee on Reconstruction, it is
said, have before them the following series
of propositions to incorporate in the Constitution
: 1. To empower Congress to lay an
export duty. 2. To make all national and
state laws apply equally to all men, without
regard to color. 3. To prohibit the payment
of the Confederate debt. After these
j a_ j: j _r
ULUCUUmUUUS uru UlBpUSCU Ui, It lO
farther, by an amendment to the Constitution,
to provide that Southern States shall
give the ballot to the following classes of
colored persons: 1. All males who have
been in the army. 2. All who can read
and write. 3. All who own -two hundred
dollars' worth of property.
It is asserted by parties who assume to
know, that the Bill to establish the Freedmen's
Bureau will meet the President's
veto, on the ground of the titles it confers
to negroes, of the 6ea island lands.
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SCHOOL BOOKS.
A subject deeply affecting the interests
and future welfare of our people, is the selection
of proper school books for the young.
To ingraft ideas correct in form and substance?to
train those ideas into enduring
principles, and to found them on a basis of
truth as society accepts the term, is the important
function of the school book. It operates
on the impressible mind, like impressions
cast upon a new mould that no future
artifice can ever erase without spoiling the
desigu. Its use is co-existdnt with thoughts
and ideas, and whatever it stamps upon the
young mind is as ineffaoable as the structure
of the mind itself.
It is all-important then to seleot judicious
text books for use in our schools. The
Southern mind was aroused upon this subject
some years ago, and efforts, partially
suoce8ful, were made to secure for the country
a supply of such text books for children,
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as toe warns 01 me country seemea 10 demand.
The war has obliterated these scattering
effusions from use. We are now
dependent upon the Northern market for
the merest trash, in the way of school literature.
Unfortunately its tendencies are
antagonistic in many respects, to all we holif
dear in truth and history. Sectional strife
has engendered the ingrafting of sectional
opinions throughout all its channels of literature.
We should be unwilling to put
these books in the hands of the young, because
they are sectional, and untruthful.?
They are in some instances, questionable in
^morals as well as perverted as to facts.
' The South should be strictly jealous of
its own history. "Let no man living, write
my epitaph," was the exclamation of Emmet
when about to be executed for treason;
for aaid he "as no man knows my opinions
thjft dare now maintain them, let history
De silent until oiber men and other times
can do them justice." We are uuwilling
that oar political epitaph should be written,
by those who neither have the facts, nor
care to vindicate them. Much more unwilling
are we, that these false views of the
opinions and struggles of our people for independence,
should be placed in the hands j
of our children, as guides for their future
estimation of our actions. We do not fear
the impartial record. If that cannot be
made now, we must wait till prejudice, hate
and bitterness, foul as the waters of Lethe,
have swept falsehood to its dregs. Impartial
truth may then be heard, and our caGse
be fully vindicated from the slanders that
the present generation of history manufacturers,
are placing around it.
If we would not have our children believe
us walking demons in human shape,
guilty of the foulest treason?murderers
conspirators, wretches too squalid and mean
tbvdeservc clemency or forgiveness, wo
must either make our own school books, or
import them from beyond the-influenoe of
such opinions.
We will recur to this subject again next
week.
new advertisements.
Card to tin: Merchants of the South.
Cahlll it Co.?Grocers nnd Commission Merchants.
Dr. John May?Oils and Varnishes.
? is ?prunes, I'iys, Currants, Citrous, Stc.
" " "?Laiidrctli's Garden Seeds.
G. R. Rnlehford?Tin-Ware Repaired promptly.
James Mason, S. Y. D.?Auction of Dry Goods, Ste., belonging
to Burrows, Blair 4c Co.
Goodwin, Hunt it Co.?Furi-ka Gift Association.
JItrown, O. Y. D.?Citation?8. L. Reid, Applicant?
' James McCullough, deceased.
M. Jones, Secretary, pro tern.?Meeting of Fire Company.
VV. II. McCorkle?Auction Sale of Tables, Feather Beds,
Buggy. Wagon, Jtc.
Fioyd, Dobson it Co.?Crockery.
" " " ? Mackerel.
" " " ?Candy and Raisins.
" " " ?Blind Bridles.
" " " ?Powder and Shot.
W. 11. McCorkle?Fresh Harden Sued.
Capt. M. Boyce?Circular.
Rev. Tilmau R. Gaines?Divine Service.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
Our people have been naturally chary in j
iu tacking themselves to the sleeve of any J
man or set of men in authority, from Free-1
ident Johnson down to the humblest invidual
in the country. They could not
afford to be lavish of confidence, while so
many bitter recollections of its frequent
misplacement were retained. The opinions1
c 1
Ui uicu aic a\j iiuijuuunj Jittua* tu uuau^
that opc man can rarely be foupd in whom
a whole nation can pat its unlimited trust.
President JoiINSO^J holds, perhaps, the i
confidence of the people of the whole country,
to a greater extent than any other liv- j
ing man. The subjoined extract from a j
recent speech in Washington, on receiving
a delegation of citizens from Montana Territory,
and defining his position upon the
great questions of the country, is sufficient
to dispel all doubts of ambitious or partisan
views, and to put the seal of the popular
heart, upon his admintration.
"I say again, that no man can mistake
the doctrines of that Message. It is very
ensy for persons to misrepresent it, and to
make assertions that this, that or the other
has taken place or' will take place; but I
think I may be permitted to say to you on
this occasion that, taking all my antecedents,
going back to my advent into public life,
and continuing down to the Dresent timo.
W - ' ? ( *
the great cardinal principles set forth in
that paper have been my constant and unwavering
guide. After having gone so far,
it is too late for me turn and take a different
direction. They will be my guide from
this time onward, and those who understand
them may know where I shall always be
found when principle is involved. Here
let me say to you, in order to disabuse the
public mind, so far as it is possible for an
individual to do so, that my public career
is well nigh done. The sand of my political
glass has well nigh run out.
If I were disposed to refer to myself, I
might trace my career back to the log cabin
; then an alderman and a mayor in a
village; then through both branches of the
State Legislature ; then for ten coDseoutive
years in the national House of Representatives;
then through the Gubernatorial
chair to the Senate of the United States ;
then provisional Governor, with a slight
participation in military affairs; then Vice
President, and now in the position I occupy
before you. And now, in this position if I
can be instrumental in restoring the government
of the United States, in restoring
to them their true position in the Union,
these States whose relations to the National
Government have for a time been interrupted
by one of the most gigantic rebellions
that ever ocourred in the world, so
that we can proclaim once more that we
are a united people, I shall feel that the
measure 01 my amouion oas oeen lined, ana
filled to overflowing. And at this point,
if there be any who are anxious or jealouB
of honor and position, I shall be prepared
to make them as polite a bow as I know
how, and thank them to take the place I have
occupied, for my mission will have been
fulfilled. In saying this, in performance of
my duty and in response to the encouragement
you have given me, I feel that I am
in a condition not to be arrogant; not to
feel impervious and so feeling, God being
willing, I intend to do right; and, as far
as in me lies, I intend to administer this
Government upon the principles that be did
at the foundation of it. I can inform all
aspirants who are trying to form their combinations
for the future, who want to make
one organization for one purpose and another,
foraDother, that they are not in my
way. I am not a candidate for any position,
and henoo, I repeat,lean afford to do right,
aod, being in that condition, I will do right.
I make this announcement for the purpose of
letting all know that my work is to restore
the Government, not to make combinations
with reference to any future candidacy for
the Presidency of-Xhe United States. I
have reached the topmost round My race
is won so far as that is concerned. My object
is to perform my duty, and that I will
endeavor to do. Let us, then, all join in
this great work of restoration j and while
we are restoring and repairing the breaches
that have been made, let us also unite in
the work of making new States and populating
them with a people who are worthy
of the government which protects them.?
And let those new State governments be
founded on principles in harmony, with
the great machinery devised by our fathers.
So far as regards any aid or assistance
that can be given here in the progress, and
in the consummation of this great work of
building up new States, as well as in the
restoration of all the former States, you
will find mc a williug and a cordial helper.
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MBS. "STONEWALL" JACKSON.
The editor of the Charleston Daily News
has recently addressed a letter to Mrs. Jackson
in relation to the report that she was
suffering for the necessaries of life, and
whether or not such reports were oorreet.?
Tho delicate reply npsets these rnmors, and
conveys sentiments that will be pleasingly
acceptable to the country
Cottage Home, N. C., Jan 26.
My Dear Sir : Your letter of the 3d
inst. wns forwarded to me from Lexington,
Virginia. I have delayed an answer for a few
days, hoping to receive the paper to which
you referred, but it has not yet reached me,
and I have not had the pleasure of reading
your editoral; but, judging from the remarks
in your letter I suppose it is a similar
publication to what has recently appeared
in many of the newspapers representing
the family of General Jackson as suffering
for the necessities of life, and appealing
to the public for their relief.
It is a source of deep regret and mortification
to me, aod to my family and friends,
that such a misunderstanding should exist
in regard to my circumstances It is true
that almost the whole of my little fortune
has been swept away. My noble husband,
actuated by patriotism, invested in Confederate
bonds, to assist the Government, and I
following his example, the consequence
was the loss of nearly the whole of his estate,
but God has still left to me one of the
kindest of fathers, who has the means of
providing all the comforts of life for me and
my orphan child. The pecuniary sufferings
of others in our afflicted land have been bo
much greater than my own that, in this respect,
I have only need of a more thankful
heart. And I, of all others, should have
uu luaia lur me iuiuic, iui tuc uuveuuuikeeping
God of my husband has watched
over us heretofore, and the love of this
great people to ine and my little ohild, on
his account, fills my heart with grateful
joyWhile
it is one of the greatest comforts
of my desolated life to see the many beautiful
and eloquent tributes to the memory
of my beloved husband, and I would gratefully
accept any offerings that are voluntarily
yivtn as testimonials of love and f/rati-,
tudc to him, yet the contributions that are
now called for are given under a false impressiorif
and it is inconsistent with my
ideas of honor and rectitude to receive !
them. I would, therefore, beg that all efforts
that are made to raise a fund for my
"relief," both in Charleston and elsewhere,
be immediately stopped.
With thanks to the warm-hearted and i
generous oitizens of Charleston for their
kind feelings towards me and mine, 1
I remain, yours very truly,
Mary Anna Jackson.
We are glad to find such sentiments as 1
this letter expresses, given to the country.
"Stonewall" Jackson, was perhaps the
greatest representative champion the Confederacy
could claim during its brief and
perilous existence; but like thousands of
others whose skeletoas cover every battle
C.IJ I- ll i. U - V..* A.lfiUo/l
I UU1U 1U LUU UUUUilJT; UO UUb 1UIUJ1CU ovvwiu!
ing to bis ability, the measure of bis daty.
| The nameless soldier that fell in some desperate
obarge, did the same. He too has
left wife and children, dependent apon the
j world's charities. If then we are to lift
| from want, the relicts of those who fell in
i defence of oar homes, let the evidences of
{ oar charity apply, from a common fund, to
each and all alike. To do so is not charity,
bat a well defined obligation of daty resting
upon all whose means afford the privilege.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS."
An intelligent gentlemen recently
from the interior of Georgia, reports that i.he
loqal Federal garrisons have all bet a removed,
leaving only an agent of the Freodmen's
Bureau, at each county seat. He
states that there were no troops in Atlanta j
?that the business of the place is being i
rapidly restored?that the principal lines of |
railway connecting that city with Augusta, I
Macon, and Chattanooga, have been, pcit
in running order, and that the labor prospects
of the oountry are encouraging.
This is a cheering report from that great
State, and we hope strictly correct.
The Annual meeting of the Stockholders
of the Charlotte and South Carolina
Railroad, was held at Charlotte, on
Wednesday of last week. Col. William
Johnson, the President of the road, in his
annual report, states that the bridge over
Catawba river, destroyed last April by a
portion of Gen. Stoneman's command, i
will be completed by the first of May, and
that the road will be in running order
throughout its entire length by the time
the bridge is finished. I
Col. William Johnson, was re-eleoted i
President, and the following gentlemen Di- !
rectors: A. B. Davidson, John A.
Young, William H. Neal, of North Carolina,
and A. B. Springs, C. D. Melton, ]
J. Y. Mills, W. R. Robertson, E. H. '
Palmer, John Fisher, A. R. Taylor
and John Caldwell, of South Carolina.
By resolution, the Annual meetings of <
the Company are hereafter to be held on
the Wednesday after the first Monday in
May, instead of in February.
The good old State of Virginia
appears to be passing through the deep waters
of affliction, in her efforts to re-establish
a State government. A portion of her own
people, have petitioned Congress to set aside
the present Legislature, and let the State fall
back into Provisio'nalism. Another class
opposes "the government sent them by wa- i
ter," as the Constitution framed at Alexandria
previous to the termination of the war,
is termed. The Legislature itself sems to ,
to regard the Governor (Pierpont) as "con- ^
traband" property, and would gladly turn <
him over to the United States Government.
Altogether, the condition of affairs is unsatisfactory
to everybody. We sincerely j
sympathise with her people, who after j
bearing the brunt of the war, have now to 1
encounter the brunt of the "Peace." '
-Leo, the Washington correspon
dent of the Charleston Courier gives the ?
following highly interesting statement in t
relation to the coup d'etat about to be (
sprang apon Congress. We think Leo is ?
rather rash !
?
A resolution is to be offered in the i
House by Mr. Raymond, of New York, de- ]
daring the views of the Administration and D
its conservative friends, upon the subject of r
the relations of the South to the Govern- t
ment, and taking the same ground with the r
Crittenden resolutions of 18G1, which all
remember, and whioh, if at hand, you can i
here recite. 1
They declare that the object of the war t
is only to preserve the Union, and that j
i when armed resistance ceases the relations v
j of the States to the Union should be re- ^
I sumed.
This declaratory resolution will be offer-.
ed as an administration measure, or rather ' p
! P
as the President's measure, and those of his | ?
Cabinet who disagree to it will have leave ^
t0 go out. h
The House of Representatives will either
adopt the resolution or reject it, or evade it. J
They will not adopt or reject it. Adoption p
' would pledge them to the President's poli- a
cy. Rejection will hasten a dreaded rup- 0
ture with the President. Evasion is the c
only alternative. I have the best reason to i
believe that, if the House shall, by any of s
the Parliamentary dodges, get rid of the n
question, the President will then issue his ?
Proclamation deolaring the Union to be t,
restored?that all the States are recognized a
as loyal fo the Union, and are entitled to t|
be considered by Congress as States in the e
Union. a:
Moreover, I may state that the Procla- jt
mation is already written. it
? The Steamship London was re- j
. cently wreoked in the Bay of Biscay, and 1^
two hundred and sixty lives were lost. The ?
I"
j fortitude of the officers of the vessel who re- j tj
fused to avail themselvos of the means of j tl
escape, is highly eulogised. ' c<
ItateikteM.
BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON.
COLUMBIA. S. C., FEBRUARY 12.1866.
Cold.
We have seen a letter from interior New
York, from which we learn that, daring the
cold spell in January, the thermometer
there stood 32 degree9*&e?o?o Zero. We
wonder what fire wood sold at there ?
Ladles' Dresses.
The latest Parisian and New York styles
of ladies' dresses have the waist short?up
where our grandmothers wore their girdles.
We wonder what sovereign?what reine de
la mode?has the misfortune to be unduly
sbort-waisted by nature f Not the Empress
Eugenie, for she is a model of femioioe
symetry.
The Negro.
The editor of the New York Tndepend
cut asks, "Is not the negro a man and a
brother ?"
To this Prentice of the Louisville Journal
answers: "He inay be your brother or
half-brother?he is no relation of ours."
UpoD this the editor of the New York
Saturday Press thus comments: "How is
that, Mr. Prentice? We thought he was
your brother-in-/aur?at any rate."
The Negro Again.
The Righmond Enquirer in all mentions
of negroes calls them Cushites. The negroes
are called "Cusbites," and the negresses
"Cusbite women "
The Comet.
For two or three months a comet has
been visible (to those who have good eyesj
in the eastern heavens. Recently it rises
about five o'clock in the afternoon ; and is
visible, accordingly, on the meridian about
eleven o'olock at night. We believe the
comet is Biela's, which returns to our regions
every six years more or less. It is a
simple, nebula looking, white nucleus of
light, without tail and without any visible
centre. Biela's name is pronounced Beea
la. It is German.
Ho for Japan!
We see it stated that one may go to Japan,
buy a first-class house there for thirty
dollars, and live in it in good style for fwo
cents a day?less than eight dollars a year !
Servants can be hired for fifty cents a
month ; and a horse and groom for one dollar
and fifty cents a month.
Let croakers amongst us sell out and go
to Japan; and let workers stay here and
work. We propose to be of the latter class.
Greenville Railroad.
This road has been for several days running
through in one day. The break in
the road is about seven miles, which is
made in stages. Then there is the river
to get across at Alston This is done upon
fiats and smaller crafts.
It is rumored that the Company are projecting
a track down the west bank of Broad
river; and that they never intend to connect
the present road at Alston.
Freedmen's Contracts.
A friend from Fairfield advises us that be
has contracted with freedmen, to work
his lands a year for a third of the produce
He says that if tbey will at all work he will
make more than he did when he held them
as slaves.
Pictures.
The latest invention in the way of portraits
is the Albatype. It is an exquisite
picture. The pure white from which it takes
its name is the material upon which it is
taken?porcelain. It is sometimes called
the Porcelain picture; though Albatypo is
the name given it by the inventor.
These pictures are taken in Columbia;
and are to bo seen at Wearn's.
Bonnet Feathers.
These are the style now. Every lady
who wears a bonoet, hood, cap, hat, fiat,
jockey, turban or tartaD, must have a feather
in it, of some sort, size or color. Wo rath;r
like it. The ladies evidently like it.
Fhen, of course, everybody likes it.
The "Man about Town" tells us that his
jointer dog, Flash, is to be seen every day
litting by the hour at his front gate, pointng
the bonnets that pass en promenade aong
the pavement !
rravel Westward. .
There are two routes from Columbia to
\ugusta. One, via Branchville by railroad,
ind the other via Aiken by stage-line along
he wagon roads. By the former one leaves
Columbia, at six o'clock in the morning
tod reaches the break in the Branchville
ind Augusta railroad late in the afternoon ;
ipends the night on the back ; and reaches
Augusta before noon on the following day.
By the latter route one leaves Columbia
ibout nine o'clock in the morning sleeps all
light at Aiken ; and reaches Augusta about
he same hour that he would by the other
oufe.
The latter strikes us as being by far the
letter in that one gets a night's sleep at
\.iken, and jet makes the trip in the same
irne. We presume, however, the expense
s a little heavier; though we are not adised
upon the poiot..
[ he Cholera.
This is becoming a matter of the very
;ravest importance. Months ago, we regarded
it as a possible, at the farthest a
irobable, evil for Americans to consider,
'low, it is next to certain that we' shall
iave it. Let as see what it is
Recent investigations and testimony in
lew York show that it can be oarried from
ilace to place in clothing or other material
bsorbing it; that it follows the great routes
f travel, deviating therefrom only when
arried ; that it does not go with or against
he wind; that it travels jast as fast as the
hin or car or man does that carries it; and 1
o faster; that it travels in summer and in 1
winter alike; that it infects whoever
juches a handkerchief or any olotbing or
ny thing else that has absorbed the poison ;
bat the disease acts upon the blood, genrally
manifesting itself in oholoring or dirrbuea;
that it may kill in one hour; that
itemperate persons are almost sure to be
s victims; and that many recover from it.
The New Yorkers are going to work in
ie right direotion ?vigorous and strict
uarantine. Dr. Sayre is the moving spir,
in that matter. We are interested in 1
leir success to the extent that if it enter i
lere wo may soon look for it all over the '
ountry?in the oities especially.. If no 1
steps be taken to prevent its progress, the fflja
pestilence doobtless will desolate our whole Wjfr
country; and tbe bavoc of red-banded war
for tbe last five years will appear but child's H
play compared to tbe bowling desolation Jwn
that tbe Asiatic Cholera will make in onr
country.
This pestilence is now prevailing in several
of the West India Islands; and in some Kgg
cities there?especially in Gaudaloupe?has
raged with appalling fatality.
Dr. Gaillard's artiole npon Cholera, in
the Richmond Medical Journal for Jann- ffifl
ary, contaios much that is important in this tpPB
connection. Onr authorities should inform ' gSBy
themselves. ||?l
FBOM WILLIE LIGHTHEAET. fg
Charleston, S. C , Feb. 6th, 1866. HB
Dear Enquirer:?"They shall change," ygBa
is the declaration of Scripture, with regard ggfl
to every conceivable earthly tbiog, there- Saga
fore one need not be surprised at the fine- $Sp?
taation of events or the mutability of eve. Ugl
rything pertaining to man. Unfortanately,
however, these changes are not always im- IjwE
provements?not the substitution of better
and better for worse and worse, bat pre. jgffijB
cisely the reverse. Possibly no man can ^H|
knowingly affirm what is really evil or good,
unless a thorough knowledge of the past,
an understanding of the present, and a clear fiaifla
insight into the future, could be soperoaturally
imparted to him. The rude faot, the
deplored event or circumstance, standing
a'.oqe and disconnected with the j-ast cause
or future result, may possibly smack of evil, Hm
when it is pregnant with good; may bring
tears to our eyes and lamentations to our bSME
lips now, and thrill with unutterable delight mOm.
some heart which shall pulsate in the far WSm
away years which are to come.
We have passed through a terrible revolution
since I last penned a letter to your BfjB
paper from "the city by the sea." To us SgSB
nothing, absolutely nothing, has been tbe wr
result of all this outlay of treasure, this wag
pouring out of blood, this stupendous and niB
glorious display of valor and heroism that
has filled up the pages of the world's histo- wlgfi
ry in lines of light as luminous as God's
own sunlight, and as indellible and indes- SaM
truotible as the poetry of the stars and tbe
pillars of the universe. No apparent good MB
has, so far, been tbe consequence and re- {99
suit of all this, but evil, only evil, to our gSjig
dear sunny South. Here we stand, an im. aBB
poverished, spiritless, smitten people, quiet*
ly awaiting developments. Hopeless, bankrapt,
ruined. These are not my sentiments,
dear Enqdirer. individmllo T ?m
pressing the sentiments and feelings of the 1?9
great body of oar people. 55SEI
There is one fact noticeable as the result igSH
of the past gigantic conflict. I allude now 5H
particularly to the feature of newness, nov- ^H
elty and change that has taken place in our
people. Whether this be for the better or i|Bg
not, time alone will prove. Charleston, jaafil
before the war, was one of the most sober, ^H
sedate, quiet pnd orderly cities in the coun- EH
try?rather quaint and old-fashioned in ber |raBK
notions, habits and modes perhaps, but, |i9
nevertheless, noted for ber sobriety and or- fflSH
der. Charleston, since the war, is anything
but what she was. Refogees, returning gjajH
from the interior of the State, are almost Wbk
ever unfavorably impressed. There is a iasS
rush, a whirl, a jostle and confasion in her
streets to whiob they are completely unused,
and for which they cannot satisfactorily ac- -?qH9
count. Everybody appears to be utterly jqaflj
ignorant of the simple rules of street eti- Hln
qustte, and one is forced to the conclusion
that everything like good breeding and pro- ^Hj
priety of manners has been voted anti- &5B
republican and utterly abolished King- jjaBaj
street, the most fashionable thoroughfare jgzK
and promenade in the oity, is made anything
but a pleasant resort for ladies. Idle, I&hH
vagabond negro fellows strutting about with fjaM
segars in their mouths and squirting tobacco jaSK
juice from their lips, gaudily dressed wenches
forcing their way to the inside of everybody,
are not exactly calculated to render aBauSl
an afternoon's promenade very pleasant or
agreeable to some people. .Not that I object
to the use of segars and tobacco, or the .SUB
gaud; dresses, bat tbe way in wbiob tbese HB1
articles are used. Tbe mere fact of tbe negro
being free is uo reason why be or sbe
should be insolent, rude and unmannerly. uttj
Surely not.
As a general thing ladies do not venture
out upon the streets at night. Before the
war any lady might venture out any time jjaHB
of night without the least fear of violence IMS
or insult. Some change certainly must have 5p8B
taken place in the manners of our people to iBm
render such caution necessary. Several of
our churches, before tbe war, held evening
or canule-ligbt service. No such thing is
done now.
A free CoDcert Saloon is in fall blast in |hS
this city and in one of onr moat prominent rojSHB
streets. Your unsophisticated readers very |IjB|
probably know little or nothing about this gflsjI
peculiar institution, and so much the better.
Suffice it to say, that a Concert Saloon
was never dreamed of in this city prior to aSBB
the war, and would not have been oounte- 1h|M
nanced by the community. Imagine a dozen
or more "pretty waiter girls" officiating gjBBB
in a bar room, and dealing out liquor and fejffijfl
smiles to a company of men. Add to this H8b
singing and instrumental musio, and then in
imagine as much more as you think proper. JgMgg
Some few Sabbaths ago I actually heard ^g
music and dancing in a private liouse on
one of onr most pablic streets. The'after- j*a5M
noon of the same day, I was surprised and ^ SH
shocked to bear vulgar and profane sounds ImBC
of boisterous soogs issuing from the win- saBS
dows of a neighboring residence and pollu- JjSE&
ting the air of God's own Sabbath.
These are some of the changes whioh
have taken place in our dear old city since SgjHM
I last wrote to you from this place. I pre- flHg
same that this is what the world calls pro- BB
gression, but, to my mind, they present Jgfllfl
food for serioub, sober thought and oause flSS
for real alarm. I fear, that as a people, we |8Hr
are growing reckless and profligate and vi- wgftH
cions from sheer hopelessness and despair j
that hope deferred has made us heart sick
and foot weary. God help as !
I shall endeavor in my next to give you Hn
some items of news and a few paragraphs HB
od more pleasant topics. Until then, adieu.
Willie. Hh
The United States Government is
furnishing Commissary supplies to planters
in this State in certain cases when neeessa- ^THEb
ry to support their laborers, and taking a * "Hw
lien on the crop for payment