Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, March 15, 1866, Image 2
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.
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THE STATE TAXES.
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day commence the collection of taxes, we
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THE CHARLESTON COURIER.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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