Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, March 01, 1866, Image 2
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The Quarter-Master General propose*
to send to the World's fair at Paris as a
cariosity, the first army wagon nsed by the
National government in the late war.
Several planters in Hinds and Madison
counties, Mississippi, have white laborers
on their plantations; Irish and German
principally?who are performing their work
satisfactorily.
An analyzing dame reports that "she
heard of bnt one old woman who kissed her
cow; bat she knows of many thousands of
yonng ones who have kissed very great
calves."
Here is the pithieajt sermon ever
preaehed: "Our ingress in life is naked and
hare; onr progress through life is trouble
and care; our egress oat of it we know not
where; bat doing well here, we shall do
well there; I could not tell more by preaching
a year."
Dr. Charles Robin, an eminent scientific
writer, has just beeD eleoted to a vaoancy
in the French Academy of Scienoes.
M. Robin, is at present engaged in investigating
the aubjeot of the transmissibility of
cholera. He has already made considerable
progress, being able to affect dogs with the
disease at will.
The use of a comma is ingeniously
illustrated by Orpheus C- Kerr. By misnloninn
o nnmmii ha nnmnlataln ahnnoraii fhft
f'au,u6 " f J mZ
sense of the Scripttlral passage : "The
wicked flee when no odc pursueth, but the
righteous is bold as a lion," making it read,
?fThe wicked flea, when no one pursueth
bat the righteous, is bold as a lion." Can
anything be more ridiculous ?
It appears by the reoords in the Treasury
Department, that the revenue received
from the Southern. States from April, 1865,
to the first day of this month, amounts to
nearly $29,000,000, principally derived
from abandoned lands and internal revenue.
Loiosiana has paid over $8,000,000 of this,
while from Virginia less than $1,000,000
has been received.
Whatever action Congress may see
fit. to take in regard to the future condition
of freedmeen, beyond the simple aot of en forcing
their rights as oitizens, their best
protectors in the end will be found to be
the States in which th.ey live Congress
may do them infinite mischief by teaohing
them to look to the Government for support,
and not to themselves, but k will do
them little good, which the Stales will not
do in a more effective manner.
New York Post.
An exchange says the great Cincinnati
bridge, about to be suspended across
the Ohio River, will be the longest in the
world, being over two thousand feet longer
than the Suspension Bridge over the Niagara
River, and five hundred and forty feet
longer than the Menai Bridge in England.
Its total span will be ten hundred and fiftyseven
yards. The massive stoDe piers tower
one hundred and ten-feet over the floor of
the bridge, and two hundred feet above
their foundations. One year is the period
allowed for building it.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Commercial
states that we have just met with a gentleman
who has been on a trip through Tennessee
and Georgia, from whom we gather
some very interesting items. He informs
us that through Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas,
there will be but little corn planted
this Spring ; that the attention of all planters
ib directed to cotton growing, as they are
under the impression it will be the most
remunerative crop. In many localities there
will not be corn enough grown to meet
home consumption, and not any to sell.
Lt. Col. Beadle, surperintendant of
the "Freedmen's Bureau" for Wilmington
District, has determined that all parties who
come under the vagrant law of the State
shall be turned over to the. sheriff at Wilmington,
who ehall keep then in confine
ment when not engaged in seme work prescribed
by the Mayor of that town. The
Wilmington Dispatch says, in regard to
this, that "some of the freedmen who have
hitherto shown such an aversion to labor,
will now have an opportunity of being
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iorcea 10 worn ior a very moderate compensation.
There are a few white men, too, in
this community that ought to be placed
alongside of the negroes."
General Grant's position upon the
admission of the Southern members, as expressed
in a late conversation is, that those
who are loyal, and who are elected by loyal
constituents, andean take a test oath, should
be received. This, he said, would admit
six, and possibly, seven in all. On being
told that there were eight from Tennessee,
he at once replied that-some from that State j
should not be received He heartily approves
of the Freedmen's Bureau bill, except
that be thinks that only army officers
should be employed by the Bureau, in order
to save expenses. He is in favor of
trying the editors of the Richmond Examiner
for treason. He is firm in his opposition
to the withdrawal of troops.
The Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle.
illustrates the present political status of the
South, by this humorous and striking figure
: "It seems to us as hard to get in the
union as it is to get out. 'ine soutn respeotfolly
asks to move one way or the other.
We are like the fellow who was forced
to go to the show, and then not allowed to
go any further than where he had paid for
his ticket. We have been dragged into the
doorway of the Federal tent, and are not allowed
to see any of the performance except j
to settle with the tax collectors. We.can
hear the animals growling inside, and hear |
the crack of the ringmaster's whip, but we
can't see the show unless we pay for two
ana take in a colored lady. And the worst
of it is, they keep a great eagle perched
over the entrance, which, if you attempt to j
go baok, swoops down upon you and picks :
a hole in your head. We justly think this I
is unreasonable; they ought either to let us
pass in, or refund our money and tie up the
eagle.
Hall's Journal of Health gives the !
following suggestions which deserve the
immediate attention of all who wish to
avoid the scourge of oholera, which threat- 1
ens to attack us next summer : 1st. Every
householder owes it to himself, to his fami-!
ly, to his neighbors, to tho community in
whioh he resides, to have his house, from
cellar to garret, from the street curb to the
rear line of bis lot, most scrupulously cleans
?d, by sweeping, washing and whitewash- :
ing. * 2d. Every man who has any anthori- ,
ty in city or town government should consider
himself bonnd by the oath of office,
and by every consideration of humanity, to
give himself no rest until every street, alley,
close gutter and sewer, is placed in a I
state of as perfect cleanliness as possible,
and kept so until the frosts of next season
come. 3d. This cleansing should be done
now* in February or March, because, .if
put off until warm weather, the very effort
necessary for the removal of filth will only
tend, in the essential nature of things, to
hasten the appearanoe of the disease; to inorease
its malignity, and to extend the time
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of its devastations; Decause, me ouuo ui
spring and summer the sooner warm into
life and intensify the viperio and malignant
influence, which, in its remorseless
tread, recks so much of human happiness
and desolates so many hearthstones.
Ik ffarkilfc fltajuim.
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DIVINE SERVICE.
We are requested to state that Rev. Tilman
R Gaines, of the Baptist persuasion,
will preach at the Associate Reformed
Church, at this place, on the second Sabbath
in this month, at 10 o'clock, a. m.
RETURN DAY. i
But five cases were entered upon the i
Clerk's books up to Saturday night, for the i
Spring Term. This. 6peaks well for the oon- i
fidenceand forbearance of the people regarding
new contracts, which might have been 1
sued upon. The coming Term of the Court \
will have, probably, but few matters general
of interest to employ its time.
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tttt?. "sttttattotsl"
Great, beyond expectation, bas been the"'
effect of the veto of the Freetimeo's Kareau
Bill upon the radical party both in
Congress, and out of it. Immediately upon
the reading of the veto message to the Sen- '
ate, Mr. Wade arose and offered a resolu- 1
tion to amend the Constitution, so as to 1
make the President ineligible to a second
term ! After a sharp debate and great excitement,
an effort to pass the bill over the >(
veto was made, and resulted IS against 30. 1
The requisite two-thirds vote not being obtained,
t-he bill fails to become a Taw.
In the House the ire of the radicals was
as intense as in the Senate. Stevens
loomed up with another joint resolution
declaring that no representative from ang :
State of the South should be admitted on
the floor of either House, until Congress
i declared such State entitled to representa
(ion. A*s this resolution amounts to nothing
more that we can see, than Congress is
doing every day, Mr. Stevens might have
spared himself the pains in this matter.?
It was only intended as a little innocent
bluster to bolster up the weak, and show
; the teeth of the party.
The excitement North and South, upon
these demonstrations in Washington is repsented
to be intense. The Press and the
people with almost general unanimity, support
the President. An exchange says
upon this subject: "In New York, the
Herald, the Times, the Sun, the News,
and the World?Representing nine-tenths ;
of the people?sustain the veto. In Wash- j
ington, the Star, the Intelligencer, and the '
Union?representing nearly all the old res- j
idents of the place. In Baltimore, the Sun,
the Commercial, and the Transcript, ceri
tainly; while the American is afraid to ,
oppose. In the South, every man and eve- i
ry paper?we hope; assuredly so nearly all '
as to make the opposing minority contemptible."
I
The Cabinet it is stated, has also had a 1
split upon this measure, and Stanton,
Harlan aud Speed will in a very few days I
cease to be advisers of the President. The
difficulty of getting new nominations passed
By the Senate, will, for the present, prevent
any vacancy, but principles are developing
loo Tapft}Ty to permit the present members
to be muoh longer retained. '
In the North mass meetings are called
for to endorse the policy of the President*
Although a strong radical current pervades
every place and party there, the general
results show the ascendancy of the Administration.
In Washington City the demonstrations*
given to the President are represented
to have been tamultnons. In reply
to oertain complimentary resolutions, passed
by a meeting there, he is reported to have
made a lengthy speech in support of his poiiL*w
n "? AnfliMoiaofr/i ftA/KAMsa nflanmlnry f.VlA
fcvrctu ^UIUUDIBOIIV UUVItVMWW y MOO?>u<?ug VMW
ground that the Union was in danger from
the machinations of the Republican party,
and pledging himself to its support in the
face of all opposition. This speech seems
tb be one of the events of the day. Its
brave and generous sentiments, cool logic,
and determined policy, have stamped him
with the firmness of & Jaokbon, and a
wisdom second only to that of the Father
of his country.
Resolutions were offered in the Senate
the same day, condemning his policy. After
considerable discussion they were lost.
The Senate next prooeeded to consider a
bill to continue in force for two years, the
present Freedmen's Bureau. This was not
submitted to a vote.
Constitutional amendments still continue
to crowd in upon both Houses of Congress,
and probably a couple of hundred have by
this time gone before the Committee on Re-,
construction. They embrace every conceivable
shade of reform, and if a tithe of
them are incorporated into the old instrument,
its best friends will nut be able to
recognize it.
The negro suffrage Bill whioh has been
lost sight of for some weeks, has at last
gone to the President for approval. An
official organ in Washington, says it is destined
to the same fate as the Bureaa Bill.
In the North and West, there has been a
considerable flutter among politicians, and
a general shifting of sides is the result.?
In Missouri, however, the Legislature opposes
the veto message, while in Tennessee
the National Uqicn Convention endorses it
in foil So does the city council of New
York. Missouri raises the only dissenting
voice the country has yet heard from any
State upon the exciting issne.
The Republicans in Congress are still
.. n d nln^lnMtin Th.in
uvuuuv ^""j ? ? uru *"
their hostility to the President. Morgan,
Doolittle and Cowan, who deserted their
ranks when the vote upon the veto message
came, are set down as marplots and traitors,
influenced in their action by tempting
bribes from the Executive. The blow they
acknowledge to be a heavy one, but they
expect to survive it, and as a counter measure
will refuse to endorse any executive
appointments to office, or favor its recommendations.
By sullen inaofcion they hope
to make up for want of strength to override
the veto power.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
[trig. Gen. J. C. Wlusmltli?Special Order No. 2.
" " " ?Special Order No. 4.
r.'raeser a. Smith?Commission and Forwarding Merchants.
Lieut. Col. H. It. Murray?General Order No. U.
Auction Sides?llowers & Silcox.
|)r. John May?Carriage for Sale.
VV. II. Mci.'orkle.?\uciion Sales.
Maj. Uen. A. Ames?General Orders Xo.'S.
Marginet K. Thomas??20 Reward.
'.'apt. E. A. Crawford?Candidate for Sheriff.
FREEDMEN'S BUREAU. \
The foUowing is a synopsis of the bill
to enlarge the powers of the Freedmen's
Bureau, as it passed the United States Congress.
The original Act, of which this Bill
is rather an amendment, continues in foroe
one year from tho close of the war.
Sec. 1. Original act to continue in
force; President to establish 12 or less districts,
with at) Assistant. Commissioner for
each, to be appointed, or, in his discretion,
detailed from the army
Sec. 2. The Commissioner to assign subdistricts,
with one agent to each. Assistant
Commissioners may have six clerks ; agents
of sub-districts two ; military jurisdiction
frv avtons) oror oil a m d 1 /orotrc nf tho Pnrnon
IU vAituu yiwi uit vujpiujuvii ui iuv i/uiwou.
Sec. 3. Secretary of War may direct
such issue" of provisions, olothitrg, fuel,
&c., for refugees aDd freedmen, as he deems
needful. y
Sec. 4. The President to set apart unoccupied
lands in Florida, Mississippi, Alabama,
Louisiana and Arkansas, for use of
freedmen, either by rent or purchase, based
upon valuation.
Sf.c. 5. Occupants of the land on Sea
Islands conhrmed in possession for three
years.
Sec. 6. Commissioner to purohase land
on which to erect Schools, Asylums, &c.,
for freedmen ; Congress to make neoessary
appropriations.
Sec 7. Where riirhts of labor, of con.
tract, of inheritance, of property, the equal
benefit of laws, security of persons, &c.,
are denied to freedmen, the President shall
extend military jurisdiction and jurisprudence
for their protection.
Sec. 8. Whoever subjects any freednian
to slavery or involuntary servitude except
as punishment for crimes, or discriminates
between white and black in penalties, shall
be punished by tine of 81,000 and one
year's imprisonment. Officers of the Bureau
to have jurisdiction of all such complaints,
so long as and wherever such discrimination
on account of color continues,
and wherever State and United States
Courts arc not in full and peaceful opera- j
tion.
President Johnson's veto message, upon
the return of the Bill to the Senate, makes
:ho following objections:
1st That the original Act, passed while
.he States were iu a condition of war, is
ample enough in its provisions to regulate
the cqpntry in peace. '
2nd. That this Bill proposes to extend
military jurisdiction over all matte ft of con*
"ttaot, Offences, &c., between white and black
without presentment, trial by jury, or any
of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
The power entrusted to agents and
Military Courts will be exercised by strangers
with partiality, and no appeal from
their deoision is allowed in any case. It
oannot be reoonciled with that clause of the
Constitution which says: "No person shall
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ue neia 10 answer ior a capital or oinerwise
infamous crime, unless on a presentment or
Lndiotment of a Grand Jar;, ezoept in
oases arising in tbe land or naval forces or
in the militia, when rfl actual service in
time of war or public danger;" and that
"in all oriminal prosecutions, the accused
shall enjoyrthe right to a speed; and public
trial, by an impartial jury of tbe State or
District, wherein the crime shall have been
oommitted." ,
3d.. Tbe power and patronage entrusted
to the President by this Bill is too great to
be given to any one man, and would operate
dangerously if be wore so disposed.
4th. It is a war mcasuret and the conn*
try is no longer *t war, bat in peace ; and
thos it tendB to diBtnrb Commerce and ItiduBtry.
5th. Tbe objeot. of tbe first Act?the
suppression of slavery by war, is accomplished?and
no occasion exists for enlarging
its powers in time of peace.
6th. Re objects to tbe third and sncoeeding
section of the JBili, because Congress has
never thought proper to make appropriations
for Asylums, Schools, &o., for its
own people, not eveD the orphans and widows
of soldiers or seamen The Constitutution
never oontemplated appropriations
for the rapport of the indigent of any okss.
' The negro as a .freedman is espeoted to
be self-sustaining, and the expense of agencies
and Commissioners lo attend to his
support will be-enormons and work to the
injury of the negro, and encourage idleness.
A military force will be required to support
the execution of the law
7th. The Bill proposes to take away the
lands of the real owners without legal proceedings
and give to negroes, whether such
owners were engaged in the rebellion or
not.
8th. And lastly, be says : "I oannot but
add anothe'r very gfave objection to this
bill. The constitution imperatively declares,
in connection with taxation, that
each State shall have at least one representative,
and fixes the rule for the number to
which in future times each State shall be
entitled. It also provides that the Senate
of the United States shall be composed of
two Senators from each State, and adds
with peculiar force that no State, without
its consent, shall be deprived df its equal
suffrage in the Senate. * * *
At the time, however, of the consideration
and the passing of the bill there was no Senator
or Representative in Congress from
the eleven States which are to be mainly
effected by its provisions. The very fact
that repoits were and are made against the
good disposition of the country, is an additional
reason why they need and should
have representatives of their own in Con-,
gross to explain their condition, reply to accusations
and assist by their local knowledge
in the perfecting of measures immediately
affecting themselves; while the liberty
of deliberation would then be free, and
Congress would have full power to deoide
according to its judgment. There could
be no objection urged that the States most
interested bad not been permitted to be
heard. The principle is firmly fixed in the
minds of the American people that there
should be no taxation without representation.
Great burdens are now to be borne by*
all the country, and we may best demand
that they shall be borne without murmur
when they are voted by a majority of the
representatives of all the people."
The message is conclusive in its argument
and lofty in its temper and tone. Its
great length confines us to this brief synopsis.
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THE VETO.
President Johnson has at last signified
his policy by action as well as by words.?
If the country has auy virtue left, it will
vindicate at once the correctness of the is
sue made between him and Congress. In
that veto message, he does something more
than simply to negative an impolitic measure
of Congress. The principles avowed
in it cover a wide space of future ground.
In saying that "the representatives of those
States immediately affected by the Freedmen's
Bill, should have been present when
a measure so closely connected with their
interests, was being discussed," he lays
down a course of policy for the future that
neither Congress nor the people can misapprehend.
lie places his foot upon all legislation
connected with ''the interests" of
the whole people, where only one section of
the Union is represented in Congress.? |
This conclusion is unmistakcable. Upon
this principle, so distinctly avowed, Con- (
gress must either carry his impeachment,
or abstain from all legislation prior to the ;
admission of the Southern representatives, j,
Wo do not claim President Johnson as j
a representative man of the South. Far ;
from it. Our people have teen taught i
enough in their severe adversities to abstain w
from attaohing themselves to men, in the o
future. But as an exponent of the .true
principles of right and justice, in the ab- d
struct, we accord him the full measure of c
praise for a manly stand in defence of these o
principles. He aims to do right, and is n
consistent in his views of the Constitution, t
in the past and present. He is no advocate I
of States' rights, or other dootrines, in the t
atriot sense in which the South viewed these t
questions. He advocates none of the views r
peculiar to our political situation previous II
to the war. His conduct only commends g
itself to our approval because it seems to d
be uninfluenced by partisan motives, and c
exclusively free from ambitious desigtjs, e
looking only to the reconstruction of the
Union, very much as it was. Upon this (
ground, the whole country caD unite in sup- J
port of his administration. t
This veto is destined to shape the issue t
of a vast question notf agitating the cqud- 1
try. The President signifies by it that/as
policy mutt prevail. Congress baa but a
narroW path left to lead it around the obstacle.
It may go to work to remove it by (
impeachment, bat the vote by which the 1
"veto bas been sustained, gives bat little en- '
coaragement to the effort. The House baa <
fallen back upon a stubborn platform which t
says in .effect, "the South shall not be rep. <
resented here untifwe get ready for it," j
while the President with similar tenacity
of purpose, holds the veto power suepended (
over all future legislation, until all the c
States are represented. J
The struggle will be an obstinate one, but
the results thus far are hopeful for us. The
brat blow bas rallied to tbe support of the
President more strength in tbe Senate, than t
was caloulated upon before it came. A few. t
more such strokes wielded by tbe band of t
tbe Executive, will do much to scatter tbe t
strength of tbe opposition, and secure the <
triumph of the administration. We believe r
the latter will ultimately come off the vie- |
tor. t
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Hon. B. F. Pebry, in a t
private letter from Washington, gives the ^
weloome information that tbe State Works 8
in Greenville, and tbe Gas Works in r
Charleston, will be speedily restored to the 1
proper authorities. This information Mr. t
Perry obtained direct from the President.
-?Judge Aldrich, while holding
Court in Charleston, last week, passed sentence,
in his official oharaoter, upon two
white men for larceny. The sentence prescribed
by the law, ia whipping and imprisonment.
Gen. Bennett, commanding
in the city, upon hearing of the matter,
prohibited the infliction of the punishment,
as a violation of Geo. Sickles' orders, and
ordered Judge Aldrich to revoke the sentence.
This the Judge refuses to do. The
military authorities refuse to deliver up the
prisoners to the Sheriff, and the probability
is they will go unpunished. Comment is
useless.
The eulogy of 'Bancroft, the
historian, delivered in Washington, on the
life and services of Lincoln, has failed to
meet the expectations that the fame and
talents of its author warranted in its behalf.
The heads of the Foreign Departments who
attended through politeness, were compelled
to listen to unfavorable criticisms npon
the political conduct of the nations they
represented, as well as discreditable paral
* ii
lels between their owq and American States0
men. The French and British Embassa- {
dors, it is said, "winced" under the severe 1;
strokes of Mr. Bancroft's caustic logic, c
although they retained their seats during ll
the delivery of the address. ^
We consider Mr. Bancroft's effort, to o
say the least of it, very unfortunate." The tl
country generally regrets it. It has com- *
promised the social amity between this and ^
foreign countries, without necessity or profit, jj
The Hon. B. F. Perry, Sena- 0
1
tor elect from South Carolina, now in Wash-.
. o
iogton, has written a letter to the National
Intelligencer giving bis views upon the
state of the country. This argument,
which properly would have been made in
the United States Senate had its author r<
o
been admitted to a seat there, contains a
logical defence of his section from the mis- C
representation under which it has suffered, "
and a comprehensive view of the affairs of ^
the nation. As an expose of the party politics
of the country it is admirable. The p
temper of the letter is not such, however, J
<ia tri trin fnr Mr Pfhuy enrlv admission I
into the Senate. Such sentiments at this
v1
time will have much weight with the peo- a
pie, but are not likely to advance bis pros- F
pects of favor with the body that is to de- ci
cide upon the validity of his election.
ei
The Supreme Court of the Ilni- js
ted States has recently rendered an impor- w
tant decision which collaterally defines the
status of the Southern States. Tho ques- c<
i tr
tioD arose upon the takiog up of eases dock* aj
eted in the Federal Courts in the South, I
previous to the war, and whether or not the j ^
suits might still prooeed to trial. The de- \ flc
cision, in whioh all the members of the j js
Court except Chief Justice Chase concur- j te
red, affirmed that the seoeded States had j bi
only temporarily lost their vitality by the j
rebellion, and that they are now as before, or
8C
States ilc jure, forming a part of the Feder- tl
al Union, and that the Courts might proceed tl:
rith cases-entered fop' adjudication previaa
to the war. > \
This decision itfsupporfc of tber Presi- ?
ent's policy, coming from ttae highest" jadi- i
ial tribunal in the land, is at this juncture, (j(
f the highest importance. The Govern- r=
aent of the United States is divided into ^
hree co-ordinate branches?the Executive,
A
jegislative and Judicial. Two of these?- ^
he Executive and J.udicial?have affirmed nc
be indestruotibility of the States, and the ft
esuscitation of their suspended -vitality.?
Phe Legislative?represented by the Con- ^
;res8 of the United States, alone assumes a ;
lifferent policy, contending. that the sece- T
led States stand in the position of conquerid
nrovinnfifl.
.7
Gen. Grant, as Commaoder-in"
sti
Uhief over the Military Departments in the
loath, has recently iasned an order relative bt
o newspapers. The subjoined is a copy of C
he order:
Ieadquarters Armies of U. States, t0
Washington, Feb. 17, 1866.
Circular Letter Addressed to Department ^
Commanders. Yon
will please send to these headquar- ^
ers as soon as practicable, and from time to
Imo thereafter, such copies of newspapers . '
published in your department, as oontain C
lentiments of disloyalty and hostility to the
jlovernment in any of its branches,. and of
itate whether sncb paper is habitual in its to
ltteraacea of suoh sentiments. The per- re
listent.publication of articles ealonlated to as
reep up hostility of feeling between the "ot
Deople^ of different geotions of the country, T
jannot be. tolerated. This .information is b<
jailed for with, a view to their suppression, ea
shich will be doue from these headquarters tu
)DlJ- .. . . r T
By oommand of Lieut-General Grant,
T.S BOWERS, A A G- w
We have but one exception ^te make to tb
his order; and that is, it assnmes to con* 'o
rol the sentiments of the press in one sec
AC
Iod of the oooratry only1 As Gen. Grant's *
nilitary authority only extends over the
'rebellions states," his order .exercises no oc
estraiot upon tbe partisan press .-st> the in
^orth. Its fulminations do as much, to ssy T
he least, in fomenting opposition to the
lovernment, and keeping alive hostility ^
letween the two sections, as that of tbe re
loath. We dislike to acknowledge the Te- be
traint imposed upon us, while it prevents a ^
eboke of the slanders and misrepresentaion
that are daily cast upon ua by a see- ^
ional press at tbe North. m
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MERE-MENTION. ^
Gen. Sjephen Elliott, for so long a '
ime the gallant defender of Fort Sumter,
lied at Aiken, S. (J., on Wednesday of last t?(
reek. We find in the Charleston News a ^
hort biographical sketch of the deceased ^
rhioh we will print next week. Hon.
Jeorge S. Bryan, of Charleston, has been
ppointed United States District Judge for ^
loath Carolina. Three spans of the g(
?ridge on the North Carolina Railroad oyer ^
"feuse River, near Smithfield, in Johnston
Jounty, was oarried off by the freshet on
Monday night of last week. The Raleigh
japers state that the bridge will be replaod
in a few days. Major MoGee, of .Qi
Florida who was in charge of the Military
irison at Salisbury, during Confederate rule, 03
s on trial for "inhuman treatment of pris- Pl
ners." Gen. Crawford, the Rio
Irande filibuster, hus escaped from Fort wi
Fackson. His whereabouts is unknown.
The Directors have advertised to 'o<
case out the Laurens railroad. ex
The salary of the Governor of North Car- Ui
lina has been fixed at four thousand dol- ca
?rs in gold. Official reports in Eng- op
and show tbal vaccination has, so far,
roved a certain tafeguard to cattle against du
he plague which has ra^ed so fearfully in
he British Islands. The disease continues coi
hero, vaccination having been practised by. reJ
nly a part of the cattle owners. fa
four million pairs of copper tips are annualv
applied to the toes of children's shoes;
onsuming, in their manufacture, about fifty q
on8 of copper. Chicago is using gas
oade from petroleum. The light is said to
e four times stronger than that made by & ]
oal gas. It is a remarkable fact that te(
he prepetrators of every robbery of Adams' wc
Ixpress Company, have been arrested and gcj
unisbed.* v*Mrs. Ellen Judd, of Indianpolis,
Indiana, has supported herself and ^
er children by cutting wood at a dollar a
ord. With thirty thousand people, ^
dahohas not a single preacher, but plenty
f lawyers. - ' wl
Rejoicing over the Veto Message.
Albany, N. Y., February 20 ?A naional
salute was fired here to day, by di- ?.
oction of the Common Council, in honor
f the veto message of President Johnson.
Manchester, N. H., February 20.? w0
>ne hundred guns were fired here to night m.'
] honor of the President's veto of the WI
'ro^mon'fl Rnroon wn rel
Lockport, N. Y., February 20.?A sa- ex
ite of one hundred guns was fired in Lock a 1
ort this morning, in honor of President ; J
obnson's veto. 1!?
Trenton, February 20.?In the New Tl?
ersey Legislature, to day, Mr. Price,
democrat) offered a series of resolutions
pproving of the President's veto of the
'reedmen's Bureau bill, and of the priniples
set forth in his veto message. *
\t. t> (y. ?ui: ^ onntk.
i*i& itauiouvj ^icpiiuiiuauj uucitu ?"uiur
series disapproving of the veto as unsat- aD(
ifactory to the party who elected him. All an<
ere referred. ! *or
Trenton, February 22.?Resolutions
mdemnatory of the President's policy, in- bio
oduced in the Senate to-day, were lost
Ftcr discussion. * the
Delicacies of the Season.?Last an<
londay we saw in town a cart containing sisi
une four hundred muskrats. This animal in
, in the opinion of the best judges in mat- dif
irs of gourmandise, quite equal to canvass tau
*ok or red head, when baked, and if prop- tho
ly seasoned and cooked as terrapin, can mi
ardly be told from that delicaoy. They for
>ld for ten cents apiece, which, considering ovi
le price of ducks and terrapins, makes ! cle
lem a cheap luxury.?Maryland Neics. the
-MmixiMmal
BY J A S. WOOD DAVtpSON.
jttrinHA.se.. mar As"? 28. isae.
pon Bail.
Upon renewed application, we learn, Mr.
. S Wallace, of York'Dhtriot, bar been
leased, a poo bail.- Xheday of the brihl has |
>t been fixed yet.
ew Theological Seminary.
On dit that Mr. Trenholm has donated
e boildiogs. of the former OraDgeborg
oqaale Semioary to the. Episcopal Church,
r use as a Theological Semioary.
he. Cold.
Dozing the.receBt cold spell, the temperare
was very low for this-latitude. A boat
o'clock one morning', tbe thermometer
wd 12? above zero; and it was thought
. have fallen one or two degrees lower, an
mr later, bat wan not observed. v
olombia Police. The
maoiotpvt authorities not befog Able
famish eregoUr policecorps, the Doted
*te* aatborities have taken the matter io
md. A oorps of Federal soldiere are on
ity io the eity as policemen. They wear
. 8 P. opon the breast, to radtaater their
Bee. Tbey appeat to bo doing very efleo*
ve 8ervioe ' ?
hurch' Reconstruction.
The convention of the Episcopal cbarch
' tbis State was recently held in CbarTesm.
It decided by a heavy majority to
iturn to a unioq with the choreb north?
Muaiiog agaio its position io the general
lurch organization of the United States,
he opposition to this step was very warm
at the opposera very few. Biahop"D^VIS
irnestly advocated the reconstruction
easure.
he SQuthern Guardian.
Mr. Pelham is oat with a card, in whioh
a. are pleased tp. see _ that be aonounoes
at the Southern Gpardian will soon be
$ujned- Ha ving already a firm hold upon
e pablic confidence, his eoooeqa dojw not
Imit of ? question. The Guardian be*
line a public.need; and as snob we wut
r its re appearance with impatience. The
MUiry Deeds it. Let as utge tbat it be
rtbeoming as soon as praotioable. ...
he Military Commission.
The trial of Mr. Biotnfcs Moblev, of
bester, for an assaultaud battery trpoo one
1 bis freedwomen, with'fotettt to hillf baa
suited in "a verdict of Guilty He has
>en sentenced to three years imprisonment
the Albany Penitentiary and to pay a fioe
one thousand dollars. His counsel has
ken an appeal, and in pursuance thereof
e parties are now in Charleston,
he Columbia Canal.
The commission appointed by the last
gislature to dispose of this immense water
iwer has published a ootioe, setting forth
e power, the advantages, and the condi)D8
upon which the property can be purlased
We hope somebody will soon see
e fortune lyiDg there just to be picked
>, and go to work upon it. It is a fine
tportonity for tbe investment of capital.
' it be not taken by some citizen of due
late, strangers will come in. We prefer
its to its lying unimproved.
oe Johnston's Express Company.
The National Express Company has an
fiee in Columbia; but is not iq commacation
with everywhere yet.
That and tbe Adam's (Southern, so
died) Express Company, aro the rivals for
iblio patronage.
Whichever charges less for the same work,
iU get tbe work to do.
Botb of these companies will have to
ok to tbeir laurels, and possibly to their
istence, when the new organization?tbe
Dion Express Company, we believe it is
lied,?gets under way. Books are now
en in this city towards its establishmeot.
We hope from tbe new move some reictioQ
01 tbe present rates obarged by
press companies, even if nothing better
me of it. Tbe victimized people tgill
joice in anything that will relieve them
>m such enormous tariffs.
For the Yorkvtlla Enquirer.
GOODRICH'S HISTORY OF THE
UNITED STATES.
Mr. Editor: Your last iSsne contained
notice of Goodrich's History of the Uni1
States, in which tbe unfitness of that
irk for use as a text-book in Southern
iooIs, was exposed in a masterly nfenner.
it as tbe subject of sofaool books is sne
great importance just now, it may not
.amiss in tbe writer to add bis.testimony
yours, in condemnation of this slanders
history of tbe mighty struggle, from
liob we have so lately emerged.
No man, at all conversant with the facts
the late war, would for a moment think
toaching Mr. Goodrich's narrative as
itorj/, after an examination of its contents,
it as it was before the war, the standard
rk on that subject, and as auoh in al>et
universal use, some may adopt it
thout scrutiny, on the score of its former j
Dutation. It is on this account, that ils \
posurc becomes a duty, to those who wish
rue record instilled into the minds of
2 yonng. Justice, also, demands that its
'amous falsehoods should be held up to
jw in all their naked deformity; for it is,
im beginning to end, a malicious slander
the South?a slander on her motives,
r deeds, and her bearing, in beginning,
itainini? and relinnniflhino khn nnntost for I
tarate existence aa a nation.
An ignorant and apitefnl spirit of resist36,
on the part of the South, to the wise
1 benevolent restraints planed upon her
her own good, by the more enlightened
>rth, is stated to be the cause of the late
iody war.
In other words, the Sontb is pictured in %
s attitude of a wilful child, spurning the
olesome restraints of parental authority
1 blindly rushing upon a course of retance
to righteous authority, whioh ends
merited destruction. This view of the
Boultj between the sections has been
ight at the North for years; and to the
irongb instillation of it into the Northern
nd is due the pertinacity with whiob they
ced upon the South their kind supervision
:r her affairs. And Mr. Goodrioh has
arly shown that'it is still to be taught in
i blessed regions beyond tho Potomac,