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aM dads. Among the latest wonders in the animal world, is a talking dog, which has been brought out in Springfield, Mass. He can say "good morning," "how do yon do?" and many other things as a human being. A baby convention was held at Muscatine, Iowa, recently. Fifteen mothers, with their little ones, were present and voted on the question of the prettiest. Each baby got one vote and no more. Every mother voted for her own offspring. The Columbia (8 C.} Phctnix of the 8th inst., says : "Gen. Wade Hampton arrived in this place a day or two ago. He is in good health and spirits, and says his freed people are working well on his plantation in Louisiana." A dispatch from Montreal states that great excitement prevails there in regard to the Fenian invasion. Orders were received there on Wednesday night, by the military authorities, to call out ten thousand v.iinntAara within twentv-four hours. Numerous pranks were played in the gold market last week. At one time the price was quoted at 152$, and in a day or two after it took a leap to 158. It is thought by some men on Wall-street that gold will go down to 125 within two weeks. All kinds of fancy stocks in New York are doll, and there are inducements to speculate in them.? Charleston Courier. It is a very remarkable fact, (observes the Hartford Times,') that since the days of the second Adams, the opponents of the Democracy have eleoted but three Presidents ; that each of these Presidents have died in office ; and that each of the VicePresidents who took their plaoes have been compelled to differ from the policy of the President whom he succeeded. An intelligent planter writes to the Galveston News that he is well pleased with his prospects under the free labor system. His freedmen have remained, and perform the usual work for a portion of the crop.? He has divided bis lands into sections, and employs a premium system to promote competition. His people are respectful and obedient, and the change in their condition has not altered their conduct. The Galveston correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette says the freedmen are doing much better than the most sanguine have expected. So far as can be discovered. they have all gone to work, and higher wages than they have been given in any other State; and he is told, by those whose business it is to know, there are only thirty five negroes in the State reoeiviDg any assistance from either State or National Government. The Talladega (Ala.) Reporter mentions that Gen. Gorgas, late chief of the C. S. Ordinanoe Bureau, Hon. Frances S. Lyon and others, have recently purchased the late site of what was knowD as the Bibb county Iron Works and have gone to work cleaning up the rubbish and preparing to rebuild the Works at orce. The men who have taken hold of this enterprise will have the means and the intelligence to press it through with all the promptness that skill and energy can command. ?? General Iloward has issued a circular letter to the Assistant Commissioners of the Freedmen's Bureau, giving instructions for dealing with the question of matrimony among the freed people. They are to consult the State laws with regard to the marriage and divorce of white persons, and embody them for the benefit of the freedmen as far as can be done in a circular, and desiring them to frame such a system of marriage rules as would be approved by the State authorities, with the formal approval of the Governor on the subject appended. The Judge Advocate General, Mr. Joseph Holt, has just decided that no authority for the trial of a civilian by court martial can be found in anv of the Articles of War, those articles being enacted solely for the government of the armies of the United States, and being applicable only to persons in the military servioe. He considers it strictly legal, however, to try by military courts civilians formerly in the service for orimes committed in the service. By this decision the supremacy of the civil courts, in all cases where citizens are concerned, is acknowledged, and it would seem that the days of military trials of civilians have passed by. The Virginia Legislature has appointed three commissioners to proceed to West Virginia to negotiate for reunion of the two States and the adjustment of the ?vi: _ mi :u j : j. puimc ueui. me luiiu uuu euueauug iuuc of the resolution is admirable. It reader Resolved, That the people of VirguHa deeply lament the dismemberment of the 'old State,' and are sincerely desirous to establish and perpetuate the reunion of the States of Virginia and West Virginia ; that they do confidently appeal to their brethren of West Virginia to concur with thetn in the adoption of suitable measures of cooperation in the restoration of the ancient Commonwealth in Virginia." Pollard, of the Richmond Examiner, in a recent trip North, says : "We encountered Ward Beecher on a rail road, in which he was on his way to Newburgh, there to deliver a lecture. A change seems to have come over the spirit of his dream. In conversing with us, he avowed himself an accomplished" peace man. Blood enough, he thought, bad now been spilt, and he was for mercy, forgiveness and forbearance. He admitted that his former violent views had become modified, and he now cordially endorses the Union policy of the President. He alluded to the case of Mr. Davis, and expressed the hope that he would be tried, if at all, by a civil tribunal, and if convicted, pardoned. He contended that the power of Mr Davis was for ever gone, and that no good could result from his execu tion. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue in reply to a letter in relation to the stamp duty on subscription paper where the subscribers each agree to take stock in a railroad company, has decided that such subscription, unless the sum subscribed is paid when the list is signed, is held to create a promise to pay a definite and certain sum of money, and therefore each person signing his name and not paying his subscription at the time should affix and cancel a stamp appropriate to the promissory amount subscribed. If a person signs the list and pays his subscription at the sariie time, his signing the paper would be a mere memorandum, and as such would not be subject to stamp duty. If a subscription list made in such a form as that subscribers bind themselves to pay only in the event of a certain amount being raised, then each signature is held to form an agreement or contract, as subject to stamp duty of five oents. But if each signer agrees to pay unconditionally, then, each oreates a new instrument subject to a stamp duty as a promissory note. A correspondent writing from Artesia, Miss., on the 26 ult., thus alludes to Gen. Stephen D. Lee. The writer says:? "Ex-Lieut. Gen. Stephen I). Lee has leased a large plantation. He has employed more than fifty freedmcn, and is of the opinion that cotton-growing for the next four or five years will be most lucrative. Speaking of Mexican emigration, not long since, he knew the Mexican soil to be the most fertile in the world, and the climate the most salubrious, but from history he had learned sufficiently the character of the people to convince him that revolutions were as natural and inevitable in Mexico, as eruptions in iEtna or Vesuvius. He enoourages all lovers of peace to remain at home, and by honestly adhering to the support of President Johnson, by striot conformance to all laws and proclamations, endeavor to regain the political rights and privileges lost by the rebellion and restore the prosperity of the South as speedily as possible. Gen. Lee I was ever regarded as a gentleman of fine attainments, and the high opinion entertained of him hitherto, has rather been enchanced since his settlement in our midst. life fjtoMle #tnjuim. YORKVILLE, S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1866. OUR TEEMS-IN ADVANCE. THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS- per year; TWO DOLLARS for six month*; ONE DOLLAR for three months?payable In "greenbacks." When payment is made in specie,TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per year; ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS for six months: SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS for three months. Single copies, TEN CENTS. (C7- Corn, Flour, Wheat, Baton, Lard, Firewood, &c., will be received for Subscription, Advertising or Job-Work, at market prices. JJ^-Thc paper will be discontinued on the expiration of the time for which payment has been made. Subscribers who find a (X) cross mark on the wrapperor marginof their paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. {?7 Mr. JOHN R. ALLEN, Post Master, at Chester C. H., is our authorized agent for Chester District. Of?-Col. T. I'. SLIDER, at the Mills House, is our sole agent in Charleston, for receiving advertisements and subscriptions for thg Enqcirer. ENQUIRER CLUB RATES. PER YEAR?IN ADVANCE. IN SPECIE. IN "GREENBACKS." a COPIES,...? 4 50..I $GOO 5 COPIES,...* 8 75 la 50 10 COPIES,... 17 50 35 00 and an extra copy to the person making a -i-L .r a._ CIU3 01 tOD. After a club has been returned and the money paid, the person making the club may add as many more subscribers at the rate of the original club, as is desired. X. Subscribers who find a (X) cross mark on the wrapper or margin of their paper, will I understand that the time paid for has exI pired. n a n-rr t uaoc. : We wish it distinctly understood that I our terms for subscription, advertising and jjob work are cash. THE STATE TAXES. As the State Collector will at an early day commence the collection of taxes, we publish on the outside of this week's paper the Act passed at the last of the j Legislature. A careful perusal will enable j the tax payer to determine the amount for ' which he is liable. THE CHARLESTON COURIER. We have been appointed the agent in Yorkville, for this time-honored and ster[ ling journal, and will take pleasure in for; warding subscriptions Mail communicaI tion is now regular with Charleston, and we j receive the Charleston papers two days af ter publication?the same as before the war. i The following are the terms of the Courier. Daily, twelve months, SiO.OO ' Daily, six months S.ou : Dally, three months 0..riO ; Trjjteekly, twelve months S.W? Xi^Weekly, six months 4.00 \T ^ . SOLDIERS FROM ?ORK. x Believing that this District and State would gladly perpetuate in some form, the names of those who fell in the late struggle, we design opening in the Enquirer, at an early day, a roll for this purpose.? To effect thi* object we ask the assistance : of all officers who commanded companies, J and others able to furnish any information | in furtherance of the design. To all commanding officers of Companies from this District, who are willing to assist us, we would say, send us the name of the Company and Regiment to which it I belonged j abo the roll of the Company, j including the names of all who were ever j members of it. Mark on the margin opposite the names of those killed, the battle ! in which they fell; and the same of those , who died from wounds, received in action ?name also those that died of disease in i service?in each instance giving dates.? i The roll should ,as far^as practicable, be a ; condensed history of the Company from its ; organization to the close of the war. We will either publish the rolls in full, or such facts from them as will bedmportant to per1 pctuatc. Wc earnestly ask the assistauce of the officers of this District in this work. Its objects are important, and nearly every family treasures the memory of some name that should live in the future. The roll will be a historic record of the soldiers from this District, and as a matter of reference alone, will be invaluable. Give us your help. COURT. The Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for this District, began the sittings of its Spring Term here on Monday, His Honor, Judge Thos. J. Glover, presiding. The long period elapsing since the holding of any conrt, had caused the accumulation of a considerable amount of business on the Sessions Docket. Several of these cases growing out of disturbances arising last Spring, while the country was in a disturbed state incidental to the sudden transition from a state of war to peace, were thrown out by the Grand Jury. Several matters of graver importance on this docket will come up for trial this week. An important argument upon the construction of the Act, known as the Stay Law, as applying to the form of taking bail in certain cases arising under it, was made on Tuesday. His Honor defers a deoision in the matter until he can more carefuily consider the points made by the opposing 1 counsel. The Court will probably adjourn to morrow. ? ? THE FENIANS AGAIN. Late telegrams from Montreal, in Canada represent intense excitement there on ac? count of the expected Fenian invasion.? Thirty thousand militia troops have been called into the field in Canada, and heavy reinforcemeuts from England are on their way to assist in repelling the fillibusterers. The Fenians in New York and other large cities of the North and West, exhibit much enthusiasm and activity, and if ever they are disposed to carry out their designs for the rescue of Ireland, the present will no doubt be selected as the fitting moment for action. This conspiracy formed upon the soil of the United States, and organizing for hostile purposes against a-power with which this country is at peace, seriously compromises national comity, and may result in unfortunate complications between England * and the United States. Should these expeditions be allowed to depart upon their bloody missions to Canada, and thereby convulse in revolution a nation which is at profound peace with the world, the responsibility of the act will rest upon this country. England understands the position too well to pass quietly oversuch insults to her peace and honor. She will undoubtable demand a heavy reparation for the outrage. However sincere the sympathy of this country for Ireland may bo, it affords no warrant for permitting a conspiracy to be formed upon its soil that may eventually destroy the peace of two oontinents. The arm of the government is strong enough to stay by a single act, these hostile designs. It will, we think, be put forth to arrest them, but perhaps not until the peace of a neighboring State has been endangered by these unlawful adventurers. ORIGINAL STORY. Next week we will commenco the publication of an Original Story, written for the Enquirer, entitled KIN KAID; or, THE WITCH OF MANNILORE. A Tale of the Sea. I1V J. WOODRUFF I.KWIS, KSd. The Story will run through several numbers of the paper, and persons who desire to secure it entire, should subscribe at once. -? THE "SITUATION." The Committee on Keoonstruotion, have reported numerous amendments to the Constitution during their loDg sitting; and although intensely radical io their spirit, strange to say none have yet been adopted. The last amendment reported?that to provide for representation in the lately rebellious States, requiring all classes to be admitted to the ballot box?was brought up in the Senate last week, and after much Wrangling, and an evident want of concert i among the members, was defeated by a vote i of 37 against 10. An amendment in the : way of a joint resolution was then offered, j providing that where the right of suffrage ; was refused to any class of citizens in any i j State od account of caste or color, such j j class should not be included in the basis of j representation. This was passed in the | Senate by a bare majority. These ballots arc regarded as highly significant. Tbey are construed by the sanguine in Washingi ton, as another evidenoe of the breaking up i of the intensely radical element that has | controlled Congress during its session.? j There is some plausibility in the hope. The immense power given by Congress | into the hands of this Reconstruction Committee, cause its edicts to be regarded with an unusually large share of iutercst. Recently it has been engaged in taking testimony from outsiders, upon the condition of affairs in the South. Army officers whose commissions are continued in existence by the disrupted state of the country, and whose interest it is to present plausible reasons for retaining them in the seivicc of the Government, have been peculiarly happy in securing their object. One testifies that a ijranil conspiracy for the overthrow of the Government still exists at the South, and only awaits some favorable opportunity for 1 j developments. Another believes that Texas 1 I ought to have an army pass over it, like , ; Sherman's through South Carolina, be- . fore ft will become loyal. All of the testi- 1 mony, so far as we have examined it, coming from such sources agree upon the point that their services cannot be dispensed with "for five years to come!" Wonderful foresight! Their pay has no doubt been accurately calculated for that period, and all the chances of promotion fully weighed for the five years to come. We insinuate no special discredit to these persons by such statements, but do object to such interested testimony as the criterion by which we are to be judged. The Southern people are less in unison with the army than with any other representative of the Government. It holds too olosc a connection with the wasted and pillaged homesteads of the country?is too emblematic of oppression as the governing power, to even bring it into close sympa thy with the bouthem people. However profound and sincere may be their professions of loyalty, and however mach so in fact, the golf between the army and the people is too wide for the former ever to take that favorable view of it. The President urges his policy upon the country upon every favorable occasion. The numerous delegations representing all classes and shades of politics, bearing resolutions of support and congratulation, afford ample opportunity for expounding his interpretation of the Government and its policy. His oourse is firm and decided beyond question, but his triumph or failure are questions for the future to decide. tJpcn that decision rests our only hope for civil liberty. The action of Congress is halting. It has matured little if any legislation thus far, although the usual time of a session has already been expended in deliberation. The Bill providing for the admission of Tennessee on certain conditions will probably be adopted. Will Tennessee accept the conditions ? NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Strauss, Vances St Co.?Dry Goods, Stc. Geo. II. Walter St Co?Factors and Commission Merchants. S. J. St W. B. Llndsey, D. D. S.,?Demist*. E. M. I.ntv?Estate Sale. John A. Brown?Candidate for Ordinary. W. B. Metis, C. E. Y. D.?Bill to perpetuate testimony. F. G. Latham, Acting Agent?Magnetic Iron Company's Works. J. F. Wallace, C. C. C. P.?Attachment?Burrows Blair St Co. E. M. Law, President?Trains on King's Mountain Bail Road. J. F. Hart?Covcmment Claims. W. II. McCorkle?Auction Sale ef Furniture, Stc. . .* ?. --- ? ? MERE-MENTION. A Northern paper mentions that the Fifteenth Maine battalion of infantry, on duty at Chester, S. C., will be mustered out in March. Several of the members whose time had expired were at Charleston on the 15th ult, en route North Gen W. T. Bennett has been relieved at his own request, of command of the post of Chariesluu. Major General T)evcns, district commander, assumes also direct command of the post. The Wilmington and Manchester Railroad is being relaid and otherwise improved. Gen. Grant's father has been appointed postmaster at Covington, Ky. The house in which Byron and his mother resided, in Aberdeen, during a portion of his boyhood, is now used as a printing office, and a printing press occupies what was once the poet's bedroom. ^ Tbe Army and Navy Journal says that 70,000 Confederate soldiers are buried in Holywood and Oakland Cemeteries, near Richmond, Ya. The New York Herald's Paris correspondence states that a feeling of hdstility towards the United States Government prevails in that city. His Excellency Governor Orb, arrived in Charleston, on Friday last. The general talk in Mississippi is that the planters are all trying to raise cotton to buy corn and meat with, instead of making the corn and meat themselves. Gen. Joseph E. Johnson is in Washington for the purpose of testifying before the Reconstruction Committee. Renmi'linn fnr tlio T.ihnml Armc in is going on at New Orleans. General Longstreet has been elected President of the Great Southern and Western Life Insurance Company of New Orleans. Old Dr. Jayne, of Philadelphia, is dead. A patent "ladies' hair parter" is the latest American invention. Gov. Jenkins, of Georgia, vetoed the stay law, on the ground of unconstitutionality. The Senate afterwards passed it over the veto by a vote of twenty-seven to seven. N. York cotton brokers estimate the cotton in the United States, on the 1st ot February last, at nearly 1,500,000 bales. A terrible tornado occurred at Knoxville, Tennessee, on Fridayrwhich blew down thirty buildings, unrooted the depot and machine shop of the Virginia Central Railroad., and j destroyed a large amount of other property. George Cole, a "Consistent Union ' man," of Robison county, North Carolina, I petitioned the legislature of that State a ! few days ago to pay him for two mules and j one horse, seized by Federal troops during j the war. iiis petition was returred to the Committee on the Insane Asylum. The Secretary of the Treasury is about issuing orders to the Treasury agents in the South to call in their sub-agents and close { their business, which has been a losing one to the Government, it has been alleged.? Has it been a long business to the agents '! Burton N. Harrison left Macon a few days ago with Mrs. Jefferson Davis, en route for Canada, where the children of the captive President are at school. A little boy was arrested in Macon a few days ago, by the patrol .guard, for wearing a grey jacket with brass buttons. When questioned by the Provost Marshal upon what grounds they arrested the lad, they said he looked like a bushwhacker.? Tho little fellow was immediately discharged. M. B. Beacii shot Robert P Chapman ( iu iut LuipiJ, iu au aiiiaj at v^uaiiuilUj 11. C. on Tuesday. The entire Democratic ticket has been elected at Cairo, Illinois. One of the doorkeepers of the House of Representatives at Washington was discharged on Thursday, on account of having expre'ssed bis approval of President Joiinson's reconstruction policy. General Tillison, of the Freedmen's Bureau, in Georgia, has imprisoned several parties who' have been entioing negroes away from their employers. An agent of the United States Government is located in Wall street, with some fifty millions of specie at his disposal. Whenever an attempt is made to bull the market he throws a large quantity upon it, thereby bearing the price down.? The result of this is that gold speculation is now almost wholly ceased. Fred. Douglass gives the particulars of an attempt to assassinate him in Baltimore. A rowdy threw a brick at him, and hit his knee. There was no pistol fired, but one was pointed at Lim, he says. General Love has just returned to Indianapolis from o_._4.i_ n ! tt : oouin ?jarouna. rie sayp pontics are ig nored?the people feeling satisfied that the President would do them justice. Their whole attention is dircoted to raising something to eat, and to repair the ravages of war. Major Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox, C. S. A., is in the city of Mexico.? He has written a letter to an Alabama friend saying that he will not return to the United States. Right Rev. Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, S. C., is in New York, soliciting oontributions for tho repair of churches in his diocese. Every republican paper in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, and in Illinois, except the Chicago Journal, opposes the President's veto and sustains Congress. -? *Seizures of Property by Government Agents.?We have been informed by Governor Perry that, whilst in Washington, he had a conversation with the Hon. Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury, in reference to the conduct of the Treasury agents in South Carolina. Mr. McCulloch assured Govornor Perry that he had never authorized any of his Treasury agents in South Carolina to take from the possession of .the citizens, horses, mules, saddles, bridles, wagons, &c., which had been captured, or which had belonged to toe Confederate States or United States, and bona fu{e in the possession of the people. lie had given no such orders or instructions to any of bis agents. He further expressed a determination to ferret out the frauds which some of these agents had perpetrated, and bring them to justice. We deem this information very important, and hope our brethern of the press will give it free circulation for the benefit of all concerned. It seems to us that every instance of a violation of the rules established by the Secretary of the Treasury should be reported to headquarters- Our citizens should certainly claim all the protection of the United States authorities, and they will realize that they live undeT a Government both capable and willing to shield them in the peaceful enjoyment of their rights of person and property.?Greenville Mountaineer. Mr. Fincle, of Ohio, upon a motion to amend the Constitution, made by Mr McKee, of Kentucky,' on Saturday, proscribing Southern men from office, made a speech in which be denounced the test oath, and closed as follows: This was not the hour for revenge and hate, but for clemency and forgiveness.? These people had done wrong, but we should show them that we can be magnanimous in council as well as brave in war, and we should 9ay to them : "We welcome you back. Let us forget the past; prove by your fidelity to the Constitution that you know how to be faithful to it, as you know how to be brave and heroic in a mistaken and misguided cause." The true principle of Christian charity would be a safer test than the principles of hate and revenge. The Richmond Banks to have the Coin, taken Away at Time op Evacution, Restored.?The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says : At tbe time of the evacuation of Richmond, the banking establishments of that city continued to send away the amount of coin belonging to the different institutions to a point further South, for the purpose of securing it. The amount originally reached the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which one hundred and fifty thousand was lost by plunder, and the re mainder placed on deposit io Washington, Ga., in- charge of a special agent of the Richmond banks, who, owing to the unsettled condition of affairs, was unable to get back to Richmond, and was, therefore, compelled to remain there some time. While this coin was at Washington, Ga., claim was made to it by Gen. Wild, of the Freedmen's Bureau, on the ground that it was captured property, and on investigation of the case by Gen. Winslow resulted in giviDg right of possession to the agent of the banks. Afterwards, about the twentieth of August last, an order from the President, through the Secretary of War, was received by General Steedman, then commanding the department, to turn over the captured coln~ou deposit to a Treasury agAoc. This was done and the coin uent to i>ew York, whero it was placed on special deposit with the Treasurer of the Uuited States. Claim is uow made iD behalf of the Richmond banks for the restoration of this money, and it is alleged that the order of the President was made without full information of the facts iu tbe case. After a full aud careful examination by the Treasury department, the matter has beon referred to the President, who has ordered that the coin be restored, provided the identity between the amount now on deposit in the Treasury and that claimed by the banks can be established, and a compliance made, with certain formal conditions imposed by the Secretary of the Treasury. ? - - 4? ? - ? Animals Abandoned by the United i States Armies.?According to general j instructions issued to Governments agents, ; "horses and mules abandoned by the United States armies in the course of military : operations will not be seized, unless under , instructions from competent authority here-1 after to be issued. As it is impossible gen- ' crally to distinguish between abandoned and stolen or captured animals, after the lanse of months, seizures of animals will be i made only when there is reasonable ground for believing that they have been stolen or strayed since the termination of active hos- j tilitics." B&T Gen. D. H. Hill is going to publish a paper called "The Land We Love," , at Charlotte, N. C. BYJAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. COLUMBIA. S. C.. MARCH 12. 1866. The University. There are about forty students in the , University of South Carolina. Poetry. Alexander Smith has out a new book of poetry, entitled Miss Oona McQuarrie ; a sequel to Alfred Haqabt's Household. Ticknor and Fields of Boston have re printed it in America. The New Money. We have seen some of the Bills Receivable authorized by the Legislature at its last session. They are receivable by the State of South Carolina for all taxes, duties, etc. We have seen tens and fives They are handsomely gotten up, in general appearance resembling the national currency, being tinged with green. They are signed by Comptroller Genera! Leaphabt and by Treasurer Hood. We trust that this new issue will be received freely by the people of our State at large; Ihey will thereby materially aid our grand Ship of State in weathering one ot the stiffest storms that has ever swept across her deck. The New State House. This splendid structure of whioh the building has been so long suspended, has suffered a great deal since the war from negleot?there being nobody whose business it was to see to it. The grounds have been recently enclosed, and a guard put there to see to tbiogs generally. Several cannon shot9 bit the west end of the building during the bombardment of Columbia by Sherman ; but no material damage resulted from that. The heat of the burning of the old State House, however, did very material harm to the corner of the new that was nearest to it. Several blocks of the granite have shelled off from the intense heat to which it was subjected. There has been no great deal of injury done to the building, except the defacing whioh has been very extensive?ornaments broken, soulpture chipped and abused in various ways and similar petty abuses. Negro Laziness. The negro never did love work; and now that he is frcedmanized [we make the word advisedly] he follows his genius more closely. He is gifted by nature with large endowments in the way of capaoity for rtjiose. He hates movement. His idea of j heaven is?nuthin to do As illustration or tms cnaraocensuo 01 that race, we venture to mention a common sight in Columbia. At Radcliffe's corner, formerly a jewelry store, there lies the ashes of tho building; and some negroes have been sifting those ashes for five or six weeks, in the hope of finding treasure.? Ooo or two are said to have found a few drops of silver worth a few dimes; and this is the pretext for continuing the sifting. There those negroes sit, or lie, among the bricks and dust, grabbling and fingering about; with an uncertain expectation of finding some small amount of silver, rather than work for a certain price in money. This is easy to do?the exertion is inoonsiderable; and working hurts him ?j Of course all the jewelry was removed from the store-before the fire; but Cuffee don't care to know that. He wants '"something to do," and this demands less'labor than regular paying work; and so he Sogers, and ?ifts, aDd grabbles, because he can sit doicn to it. Suoh is Coffee. Such is freedmanism. Staging on the Charlotte Eoad. A war of omnibuses has been waging upon the stage-line between this city and Ridgeway, where the Charlotte Railroad has its present terminus. The parties are Ward & IIarvey of this State on one j hand, and Mr. Harvey, of Virginia on the other. The distance is twenty-three miles. The fare was a few weeks ago seven dollars. Ooe party fell to five dollars ; the other fell to four. The former came down to four and a half. The matter now stands thps : Ward & Harvey charge 1 four and a half dollars; while Harvey J charges four dollars. In this war of wagons, the people find the advantage of reduced rates. The distance being twenty-three miles, the fare ought to be two aDd half dollars, or ten cents a mile. Meanwhile, the gap in the railroad is narrowing. They have now three working parties employed upon it?one at each end and one intermediate. There remains probably seventeen miles of road yet to be put down. Material is soarce and freedmen are lazy?these things make suoh slow progress with this work. Everybody says that the whole thing, bridge and all, will be done | by the first of May. J Correspondence of the Charleston Courier. jcrom w usiiiu?i.uu. Washington, March 5, 1866.?As if we had not yet domestic trouble enough to occupy our attention, many public men, io and Out of Congress, desire to bring this ; country into difficulty with England and ! France, by promoting the Fenian movement, and by filibustering in Mexico.' Financial filibustering has been commenced by the issue of Irish and Mexican loan certificates in our money markets. But now the Government is to be called upon to endorse the credit of the Mexican bonds, as issued under the pretended sanction of the fugitive chief of the Liberty party in Mexico. The Fenians will also, it is believed, endeavor to implicate this Government, directly or indirectly, in some of their movements. But we have reason to believe that 1 'resident .Jonnsoo win pursue so prudent and magnanimous a coarse in regard to these matters that the country will escape from the disgrace and danger of a violation of our neutrality. The Committee on Reconstruction had some difficulty in agreeing upon a course of action in reference to the admission of Tennessee as a State into the Union. But the majority made their report to day, with a joint resolution providing for the admission of Tennessee as one of the United States on an equal footing with the original States, 1 upon certain conditions, which must be accepted and ratified by the people of Ten ; nessee prior to admission. The Bill makes j no provision for the admission of Senators j and Representatives from Tennessee. It | is, however, the model Bill to be adopted in reference to all the now excluded eleven Southern States. The conditions are, bow* ever, very stringent, and mast be ratified again, with a covenant against the use of the power of legislation for the repeal of such conditions. A storm of indignation will be raised among the Conservatives.?* Mr. Rodgers made a minority report with a resolution for the immediate admission of toe TeDDessee representatives to their seats. - LEO. Testimony from the Committee on Heconstruction. Washington, March 6, 1806. A large mass of testimony was reported to-day from the Committee on Reconstruction. General 6. H. Grierson testified in reference to Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. Persons with whom he had con-* versed, did oot appear to think they bad done anything wrong. Their only regret seemed to be that they had not the means to carry out their designs. Question: Is the feeling of hostility to the Government one which controls a great majority, or only a minority of the people in the regions of which you have spoken ? Answer: It is the feeling of the majority. At the time of the appointment of the oivil officers, a great many of those who had served in tho army daring the rebellion were repentant. There was hardly a loyal man appointed' to civil office under the. State Governments. Q So far as you know, bow do Alabama and Mississippi compare with Georgia and Tennessee ? A. 1 think there is not much difference?if any, it is in favor of Tennessee ; I think Tennessee is rather a more loyal State ; I hoped that after the rebellion they would have been loyal, at least that they would have accepted the situation sincerely ; but I am satisfied that they do not; I believe there is dow an organization existing throughout the' South for the reoewal of the rebellion; there are many circumstances or things whioh have occurred since the surrender to make mo believe it. Q Is there any sentiment with regard to a foreign war ? A. There seems to be' manifested a desire to have this country involvcd in a war with France iD regaTd to Mexico ; I think in .such au event they woald seize the opportunity to turn against the Government; this is tho sentiment of leading men in the South; from all I can learo, the spirit of resistance still exists and is as strong as ever, and in the event of t^is country being eogaged ' in a foreign war, the enemies of the Government throughout the South meditate, and would oot fail to' seize the opportunity to attempt again its destruction This is corroborative of Gen. Thomas' testimony, already published. Geo. Charles H. Howard testified that, io his official capacity, he visited all thecities and principal towns, and every county in 8outh Carolina. On being asked, by the committee what was the feeling toward the Government, whether it was friendly or unfriendly, he replied that he thought the feeling of a majority of the people of South Carolina is not kind, and can hardly be called friendly. He did, however, meet with old gentlemen who seemed to show a proper spirit and an undoubted disposition to be faithful to their duties as citizens here after. Bat be met with a great many persons who exhibited iil feeling and a disposition to get around, in any way they oould, the requirements of the Government, especially with reference to the negro. The feeling exhibited toward Union men, those who have been loyal from the beginning, was anmistakably bitter. If the military forces were withdrawn from South Carolina, it would be a source of great injury to the freedmen throughout the State. No Northern resident could then remain there unless be courted the favor of the influential. The feeling is more intense among the female portioo of the community, without exception, against Northern men. The condition of Georgia and Florida was much the same as that of South Carolina, and there was hostility against Union men and the immigrants from the North. There are some Union men in Georgia and .Florida who have been always so, but the prevailing sentiment, which is bound to control, is similar to that in South Carolina. Charles H. Lewis, Esq., Secretary of the Commonwealth npder Governor Pierpont, said bis decided impression in regard to affairs in that Stale is that the masses of the people, and by that term he did not mean only the laboring classes, but all those persons that are not politicians, were very favorably disposed toward the Government at the time of Lee's surrender. He believed that very decided efforts have been made by the politicians to change that feeling sinoe that time, and be was afraid they had > serial r\f atincnoo U o 1% .~1 <3 ? I ? vav?? Wi OUVVVOO. uo UC1ICYCU tt Uitftjority of the people of Virginia would still j be loyal if it were not for publishers of the | papers and the politicians, who, to a certain extent, control public opinion. He believed that many of the old politicians are engaged in promoting dissatisfaction with the Government. In reply to a question as to whether he had any reason to apprehend that schemes are cherished by any of the late rebels in Virginia for a renewal of the war or for the establishment of what is known as Southern Independence. He said he had no reason to believe there is any such organization in that State. But from" the conversation of some of the most outspoken of the Secessionists of ffe??tete he was inclined to think that a great many of them would be very glad to see the country involved in a foreign war in' the hope that they could again get up a secession party in fViA C.vneV* U ?* UA ha IaV. tuc yj\juiu. xiui uo uau uu tuoa tuat a ui?jority, or anything like a majority, of the people of Virginia, entertain aoy such wish or desire at this time. He believed that the feeling was confined to the most ultra Secessionists. He believed that the object of politioians and of the press was to bring about such a state of things which would produoe that revolt; but he was in hopes the mass of the people of Virginia had too much good 6cnse ever to go out again if they can help it. These politicians now prove their loyalty to the Uoion, but he was free to say he distrusted their profes! sions very much. j H. S. Wells of New York testified that ' I he recontly visited the Southern States, travelling through West Virginia, East