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An exchange asks why do ladies have
so great fear of lightning ? Why, because
they are so very attractive.
A man went into a saloon in Bridgeport
the other night, called for a few oysters,
and astonished the natives by eating
165 raw.
The Montgomery Mail says that
General Toombs, who is in Cuba, has written
a letter, in which he states that he bad
met one of bis former slaves in Havana,
and that this negro told him that he had
been inveigled to Cuba, and sold to a Cuban
slave-holder for thirteen hundred dollars.
Thackery tells of an Irish woman
begging alms from him, who, when she saw
him put his hand in his pocket, cried out,
"May the blessing of God follow you all
your life," but when he only pulled out his
snuff box, immediately added, "and never
overtake ye "
Onr Washington despatches now pro- [
nounce as premature the report that the
coin of the Richmond bants, carried off at
the time of the rebel evacuation of that
city, has been restored to those institutions.
It is still in the National Treasury, and its
disposition is said to be yet an undecided
matter.
Judge Kellogg, Collector of customs
at New Orleans, has news that the government
at Washington has dismissed all persona
engaged in the seizure of property in
the South, claimed as belonging to the
Confederate Government. All cotton now
seized ia to be held until a full examination
can be had.
A punctual man is rarely a poor man,
and never a man of doubtful credit. His
small accounts are frequently settled, and
he never meets with difficulty in raising
money to pay large demands. Small debts
negleoted ruin credit, and when a man has
lost that, he will find himself at the bottom
of a hill he cannot ascend.
A Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger asserts that Mr. Stephens'
final acceptance of the Georgia Sen.
atorship was in consequence of an assuranoe
from high officials in that City, that
be would be admitted to hie seat, and the
President is determined to do his best to
secure that admission. His case is not an
isolated one.
A young lady having "set her cap"
for a rather large specimen of the opposite
sex, and having failed to win bim, was
telling her sorrows to a coupje of her confidants,
when one of them comforted her
with these words: "Never mind, Mollie,
{here's as good fish in the sea as ever yet
was caught." "Mollie knows that," replied
her little brother, "but she wants a
whale!"
The Dumber of pardons that, have
been granted by. the President to persons in
ibe States below Darned, under the thirteenth
exception of the Amnesty Proclamation,
are as follows : Kentucky, 12; West
Virginia, 48; Arkansas, 41; Missouri, 10;
Virginia, 2,070; North Carolina, 482;
Sooth Carolina, 638 ; Florida, 38 ; Louisiana,
142; Georgia, 1,228 ; Alabama, 1,361;
Mississippi, 765. Total, 6,835.
The Petersburg Express says : The
bones of many soldiers?Dot a few of them
Confederates?lie bleaching on the lines
South-west of the city. The late heavy raios
washed away the shallow covering of earth
that hid them from view, and 6kultfi and
other bones of the dead lie scattered here
and there. This should not be. A human
bone is too sacred to be thus thrown about
the fields
We see it stated in a cotemporary,
that the Adams Express Company have offered
the National Express Company, the
sum of two millioDSof dollars to surrender
their charter and discontinue the Express
business. We are Dot prepared to speak as
to the correctness of this statement, but if
true, it furnishes some idea of the immense
business and resources of the Mammoth
Company which proffers the amount.
[Lynchburg News
General Scott, of the Freedmen's
Bureau, accompanied by a few friends and
oitizens of Charleston, returned yesterday
from a brief tour of inspection of the Sea
Islands. Relations between the freedmen
and the former owners of plantations are improving
every day. The former are entering
into contracts, and the prospect is encouraging
that every thing will be shortly
reduced to a harmonious and profitable
system of living and labor.?Coirrier, 16th '
Many of the Bishops and Clergy of
the Roman Catholic Church in this country,
have issued circulars warning Irishman a- j
gainst the Fenian movement which is now
creating so much excitement at the North
and in Ireland and England. The idea of
freeing Ireland from the dominioo of the
British Government, is absurd, and is only
resulting in the loss of life and liberty in
Ireland, 3nd theloBs of the money of Irishmen
in the United States. The Fenian
movement is one grand humbug.
The Winnsboro (S. C.) Herald, of
the 14th inst, mentions that "all information
we have is favorable towards the new
system of labor. From all parts of the district
we learn that the freedmen are doing
well. If we were called upon to advise
that class of laborers, it would be to tell
them by all means stick firmly to their contracts
this year. By so uuiug they will earn ;
a reputation for faithfulness that will ensure j
a good living. Drones will not be tolera- ;
ted."
The New York Times finds some j
oonsolation in the interminable discussion 1
in Congress against the South^in the fact j
that bad it not been in this direction the
debates would have been equally exciting :
upon the subject of our foreign relations or ^
the finances. Agitation being chronic with
ub, we must always expect it. But restoration,
it should be remembered, includes
all other questions, fraternity and prosperity
at home, and peace abroad. These we !
can only have when we are in reality again '
one people and one Union, and in spirit, as :
well as in name, one Government.
Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, in reply
to various strictures upon his course du-:
ring the war, has written a letter, stating
the Te Deum sung at Charieston, in 1861, j
when Fort Sumter was taken, was because
the fort fell without the loss of life. He
also states that he was in Charleston when
that famous letter from the Pope to Jeffer-'
son Davis was written. The Bishop disclaims
any agenoy in procuring that letter,
and regarda it and Davis* reply, not as a
recognition by the Pope of the Confederacy
hot as a correspondence between individuals?private,
not diplomatic
The following statement is made as to
the students in he University of Virginia,
at Charlottesville: The large majority of
students have seen service in the Confederate
army, as colonels, majors, captains and
lieutenants; few, of coarse, have been in
ranks. Among the list of students I noticed
the names of the following: Benjamin
Wood, Jr., son of Mr. Wood, of the New
York Daily News; A. W. Pope, nephew
of the Federal General Pope; Hugh Davis
and R. Davis Parish, nephews of Mr. Jefferson
Davis; W. W. Foote, son of ex-Senator
Foote, of Mississippi; J. W. Wilmcr,
son of Bishop Wilmer, of Alabama, and
Charles E. Rives, son of Hon. Alexander
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YORKVILLE, S. C.
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lector of Internal Revenue Tax, as will be
seen by his advertisement in another column,
will commence on Monday next, to
receive for this District, the license tax imposed
upon trades, professions, &o. The
Columbia Phoenix gives the following summary
of the classes included under this
head, and the amounts of license : "Distillers
from $12 50 to $50 per annum, according
to the produot distilled ; doctors
and lawyers, S10 ; retail dealers, $10 ; retail
liquor dealers, $25 ; wholesale dealers,
$50. The fiscal year ends 1st of May.?
The tax now demanded is for the first ye#r,
or rather from May 30, 1865, to May 1,
1866, or from "the time of persons begining
business up to May 1866. On May 1,
lioensc for the ensuing year will be collect- j
ed. Retail dealers iD ail articles, ezoept
liquors, are exempt from lioense, if their
sales are less than 81,000 per annum.?
Wholesale dealers, that is such as sell exceeding
825,000 per annum, pay 850 license;
also 81 per 1,000 on all sales over
850,000; butchers, 810; builders, 825;
photographers, S10 to 825; manufacturers,
S10; dentists, 810."
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RAIL ROAD MEETING.
A meeting of the Stockholders of the
King's Mountain Railroad Company, was i
held in Yorkville, on Thursday last. Col.
R G McCaw was called to the chair.? !
Upon a call of the Stockholders, it was
found that one thousand and sixty three
shares?a majority of the stock?was represented.
Gen. Law, the President of the Company,
explained the objeet of the meeting
to be for the purpose of making arrange- j
ments for completing the road to Yorkville, I
and putting it in running order. At the
conclusion of his remarks, he offered the following
resolution :
Resolved, That the President and Board
of Directors be authorized to issue twentyficc
thousand dollars of seven per cent,
coupon bonds, of the denomination of five
hundred dollurs, interest payable semi-an- j
nually at the First National Bank, in
Charleston, S. C., where the principal will ;
also be paid on the 1st of January 1871? I
five years from January la9t?the principal j
and interest to be secured by a mortgage of
the road, all its equipments and Depot j
buildings; and that the same be legally
conveyed to parties, in trust, for that purpose,
and that the President and Board of
Directors be empowered to sell, hypothecate,
or in any other way dispose of the
Bonds for cash, and aprly the proceeds to
the immediate re construction of the Road ;
and that from the date of the Bonds, viz:
January let, 1866, no dividend on stock, or
any claim upon the Road, shall be paid
except salaries of officers, employees, and
the necessary expenses of construction ; but
all the nett earnings of the Road be invested
by the President and Board of Direct- !
ors, in suoh manner as will form a sinking
fund for the payment of the issue of Bonds; i
that the real estate belonging to the Com-1
pany, except Dopots, and buildings used as
store houses, be sold, when it can be done
on favorable terms, for cash, or. on time,
with good security; and the proceeds applied
to the Binking food. As sOon, hott-J
ever, as the amount, principal and interest, <
shall have accumulated sufficient for the full
payment of (he Bonds, then the President
and Board of Directors may appropriate the
nett earnings of the Koad^ as if no mortgage
existed.
The resolution was adopted with but ten
dissenting votes.
We have been informed by Gen. Law,
that he has effected arrangements, whereby
the amount provided for in the resolution
can be obtained so soon as the bonds
are completed and ready for delivery, which
will be in a short time.
The Annual meeting of the Stockholders
will be held on the second Monday in July
next.
COURT.
The Spring session of the Court of Common
Pleas, for this District adjourned on
Wcdnesdav of last week. No business of
importance succeeded our last report of its
proceedings. The following is a list of the
jurors drawn for the October Term :
Grand Jurors.?Wm. A. Robison, Jas.
S. Cboat, Dr. J. R. Bratton, A. J. Martin,
E. T. Faires, J. A. Allen, John Thomas,
Wylie Reeve3, Franklin Miller, Bird Martin,
Solomon Quinn, Christopher McC>rter,
J. L. Wylie, E. A. Crawford, J. S.
McSwain, W. J. Rainev, John Cairns, Jos.
Miller, Esq., T. J. Clinton, R. M. Miller,
J. R Truesdale, James Nelson, Wm. Burris,
H. M. Moore.
Petit Jurors.?J. N. C. LeBlie, J. J.
Poag, R. T. Smith, J. L. Miller, (T. C.,)
Duke Smith, R. R. Turner, John Whitesides,
Sr., Dempsey Cook, J. G. Nivens,
Daniel Nivens, Capt. J. W. Faris, Jacob
Etters, Phillip Sepaugh, S. A. McElwee,
5. M. Scett, John Warren, J. W. Westbrooks,
Samuel Black, T. P: Black, H P.
White, Miles Wallace, J. B. Faires, Jr ,
Wm. J. Wilson, Jas. Wylie, J. B. Faires,
John N. Faires; J. W. Gardner, Dr A. I.
Barron, John Qninn, Reuben DuHn, R. M.
Wilson, S. S. Wilson, J. A. Stnrges, A.
Dickson, E. II. Carder, W. A. Barron,
Wylie Moss, Hugh Brandon, William N.
Crawford, J. H. Crawford, Preston Esters,
II. F. Adickes, Daniel MoElmoyl, Thomas
Spencer, J. L. Wright, M. R. Smith, J. L.
Brown, Rev. J. A. Davies.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Warren Kinsman?Cltarleston Candy Manufactory.
O.T. Leseley? Administrator's Notice.
M*?. A. J. Kennedy a^d I.. A. Huff?Waverly House.
J. W. Avery Jt Co.?New Firm, New Store .Hid New
Goods!
B. R. Smith, Jr.?Coodsat Auction.
J. L. Sutton?Horses and Mule For Sale; Frccdmen Wanted
, and Land for Rent.
If. L. Rutterfield?I'avHion Hotel.
F. M. Galbraith?Collection of U. S. Taxes. .
W. rt. Wilson, Secretary?Meetingajf Fire Company.
THE FENIANS.
This great movement of the Irish people
for the disenthrallment of Erin from the
British yoke, is rapidly rising to the dignity
of a real war. The Fenians have abandoned
their absurd biokeriogs about the presidency
of the coming Republie, and from
tbeamoqntof noise they are-making, and
the scare created in Canada, we imagine
they are in earnest. While the movement
was conducted for a time in such a way as
to make its authors appear in a most ridiculous
attitude, their more recent efforts must
convince the oountry that they aro in earnest.
As a consequence of the movement, Canada
is in a state of uproar. Volunteers
guard the frontier on every side, and armed
patrols walk the streets of her larger towns
day and night. If the Fenians are in earnest
for an attack, the Canadians appear*to
be notiess determined to defend the Province
agaiost invasion.
A rather ugly feature in the affair is, the
disloyalty of a considerable portion of the
British regular army. Reoruited to. a
great extent from the able bodied idle young
men of Ireland, much of its materia) has
bpen recently discovered to be unreliable,
and this fact is causing the most serious apprehension
to the British authorities. The
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uncertain extent 01 tDis aisanecuon, una
the disastrous consequences that may ensue
if hostilities should commence, render the
facts important.
The British Minister at Washington has
placed this matter before our Government,
and a Cabinet meeting was held last werek,
it is stated, to determine upon the policy to
be adopted. No measures it is thought have
yet been decided upon towards checking
the conspiracy in this country. Uncle Sam
remembering that pitiful "aid and comfort"
extended by England to his own rebels,
seems disposed to ignore her remonstrances
now against the Fenians.
EMIGRATION TO MEXICO.
We print in our issue of this'weck, by
request, two interesting papers relative to
the advantages of Mexico, as a country for
emigrants. Each of these papers come from
highly reliable and competent sources, and
so far as they go, doubtless present truthful
impressions of the country.
We suggest, however, that these papers
do not go far enough. They are silent upon
the social and moral condition of the country,
and its politics. Its fature is purely
speculative, and the chances against its
suocess in the establishment of peace and
the promotion of public welfare. Mexico
has for nearly two hundred years been
but another name for revolution. Opposing
clans have swept back and forth over her
territory so often, and revolution, anarchy,
and all the disorders incident to her high
democracy have followed so rapidly in the
wake of each other, that history, or its
present condition alike, fail to afford an encouraging
view of its future. The disor
deft in the body politio there are radical. ? j
No Government, however well adapted:
or wisely administered, can for a long time
aggregate these antagonisms, or control snob
a diversity of principles as Mexico presents.
We have bat little hope that Maximilian,
or any one else, will ever, be able to establish
the supremacy of the law upon a firm
basis there. The strong arm of some foreign
power may be able, at some fatare day,
to effect what the Mexican people never
can?a well established Government.
We know enough of the morals of the
Mexicans to shrink from such a contact
with them, as would be imposed by sitting
down there for- life. Ball fights, and
the card-table are not the prime vices
of female society. The men are indolent,
degraded, and proverbially dishonest. The
history of the country is bat a continuous
record of crime and immorality from the
day that Cortez planted the standard of
Spain there, to the present hoar.
We would suggest to those persona who
have decided to emigrate, the propriety of
selecting homes in a land where revolution,
disoord, and internecine strife are less common
than in Mexioo. Its soil is no doubt
productive, its climate salubrious, and the
prospects of wealth encouraging; bat its
moral and political stability are too questionable
to ever make it a desirable resort
for any but adventurers.
THE "SITUATION."
The bill .declaring all persons born in this
country to be citizens of the United States,
except Indians not taxed, and to seoare all
persons in the enjoyment of their civil
rights, has finally passed both Houses of
Coogress, and will soon be presented to the
President.
Congress has passed, also, the Army Ap
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propriauou uui, uuu u iew omera 01 KJiuur
importance in the last week; but outside
of these it has done but little. The chart
and compass of the country?its present
and future?are in the hands of the Committee
of Fifteen, on the Reconstruction
question. To it.is confided for the present
the destiny of the Republic. It bos matured'thus
far, only Constitutional" amendments,
for the adoption of which the re<
quisite two-thirds majority in the Senate
has not as yet been obtained upon any one
of them. The final Report from tbia Committee
on the condition of the Southern
States may be looked for soon. The testimony
taken before it is voluminous and is
ordered to be printed. Several of the Demooratio
members of the House have put in
exceptions tothie testimony, -and assert that
it is selected from prejudiced sources, and
with unfairness to the South. They contend
that Southern members should be.allowed
to introduce evidence before the Committee
from reliable men in their several sections,
and fbatit ougnt not to reiy upon toe nastily
foYmed views of transient visitors.?
(Several members of the Committee die!
claimed any partiality in the selection of
testimony, aod assert that Southern men
have been examined in all cases where suggested.
The undue prominence given to
tbe statements of army officers was not explained
or denied.
The Conservative wing of Congress is
evidently perplexed by the recent speech of
j Thad Stevens. Abandoning his bitter
iTony and satire, he alludes to the President
in singularly mixed phrases of cajoling
praise and sarcasm. The Democrats are
non-plussed and Stevens enjoys with Satanic
grimaces of satisfaction, the confusion
he has so artfully established.
The Constitutionality of the test oath as
applied to attorneys practising in the U- S.
Courts, is under argument before the Supreme
Court in Washington." The deoision
| of the Court upon this point it is said may
already be pronounced as against the oath.
Its prime importance,-however, will consist,
if so madej in the general' discussion of a
measure whioh has never yet come before
this high tribunal, and the collateral views
tbe decision is likely to embrace. Upon
the deoision of this point, an opening may
"be made that will finally bring the subjeot
before the Court in its general application,
with hopes of its beiog set aside entirely.
Congress?or rather certain members of
it?are endeavoring to get up a guarantee
by the United States upon the bonds of the
Mexican Republic (Juarez Government),
to the amount of 350,000,000- Tempting
bribes, of every conoeivable form of fascination,
are said to hang in the lobbies, ready
to be plucked by any and all members who |
may support the bill to guarantee. We i
j doubt the potency of bribes even, to carry
out a measure that bears so close a rcsem-i
| bianco to insanity. If any Government
i exists at all in Mexico or is likely to attain
to permanency there, it will hardly be the
Liberal Government of which Juarez assumes
to be the representative. Congress
can hardly be induced to believe that this
country ought to spend so much money on
this little Mexican frolic.
In the meantime, the Radicals have not
forgotten their hostility to the Sonth and
the President, nor has the latter given any
evidence of faltering from his avowals of
duty. The campaign is one of deadly vigor,
with the odds in numbers against the
President. A Senator recently avowed
that the Legislatures of every Northern and
Western State had adopted resolutions of
support to Congress, and of implied censure
to the Administration on the veto. Tbe assertion
is probably true, aud ^strikingly4exhibits
tbe fearfa! storm of fanaticism against whioh.the
friends'of tbe Constitution have
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to contend. Tbe President appeals not to
parties, states or seotions for support, bat throws
himself upon the good sense and S
inBtioe of the people of tbe entire country.
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Recovering from the temporary confusion |
of the veto measure, the Radicals, both in u
Congress and the oountry, have rallied with ]
'greater energy than before, to the contest. t
.Never before has the strength or influence 1
of party been more manifest than now.?
The wheels of the Government are still, j
and almost paralyzed by the firmness of the
Executive and the stubborn attitude of its |
opponents.
Another new State?Colorado-;?is 1
knocking at the door of Congress for ad- (
mission, bat its chances to get in seem to ;
be as distant as that of the old States that !
have been tamed oat. The Senate refuses i
to accept this new member by a very decided
vote, and Colorado will likely remain 1
in the cold for a season yet. (
MERE-MENTION. 1
Hon. S. R. Mallory, formerly Secre- '
tary of the Confederate States Navy, and 1
who has for some time been confined in
Fort Lafayette, has been released on parole, j
Rapheal 3emmbs, formerly com- :
mander of the Alabama, has also been released
npon the ground that he was pa- I
I roled under the Johnson-Sherman agree- '
meat, and that the United States anthorij
tics had no right to arrest him. Jep- *
| ferson Davis and Clement C. Clay (
are now the only prominent Confederates *
who are in confinement. The Republicans
of New Hampshire .have recently 1
elected their Governor by five thousand *
majority. Rev. A. H. Lester, has 1
been elected Professor of Hebrew and other (
Oriental Languages in the Wofford College, '
at Spartanburg. The Senate has con- 1
firmed the nominations of Albert G. Mack- ^
et, Collector of Castoms for Charleston, (
S. C., and George S. Bryan, of Charles- 1
ton, District Judge of the United States for 1
the district of South Carolina. An 2
exchange publishes the following; "Anony- 1
mous communications solicited?they are 1
first rate to kindle fire with "* Governor
Bqownlow, of Tennessee, has received i
a dispatch from Granada, Mississippi, tel- 1
ling him to beware of assussination. f
The best, way to discipline one's heart a- (
gainstscandal, is to believe all stories to he c
false, which ought not to be true. t
It is estimated that $7,000,000 have been a
spent in the 600 balls given in New York (
this season. Seoretary McCuLLOCH ?
has authorized special Treasury- ageDts in c
the South to seize as confiscated .property, ?
all oottoo .whiob was, during the rebellion,
subscribed to tbe so called Confederate a
loan A man will always escape fai- i
lure, either in body oj mind, who works t
.six daysin the week. The Seoreta- t
ry of war bus issued orders to.all the vari- 1
ous military commandants that they must i
see that in their-departments such vigorous ?
sanitary regulations are adopted as will, if *
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pl/OOIUIU) picrcut ?UJ Iiwioviuu.v/I vuv wuv* , .era."-*
It is-estimated that there sure j
$55,500,000 in gold in the vaults of the |
Treasury. The ladies of Charlottes- j_
ville, Va., are taking steps to establish a
home for the childreD of deceased and disabled
Confederate soldiers.
In Alabama, whipping and branding"
have been abolished as legal- punishments,
and a new punishment is introduced, entitled
"hard labor for the county."
The Rhode Island Legislature has passed a
bill prohibiting the exclusion of children
from any public school, ou account of race
or-color." The Mayor of Charleston,
S. C., by instruction of the city coancil,
has transmitted to the Mayor ot Knoxville,
Tenn., a set of resolutions passed by council,
looking to the opening of communication
with the city of Louisville, Ky., and
Cincinnati, Ohio. It is reported that
Commodore Maury, late of the Confederate
Navy,-and now Commissioner of Immigration
to the Archduke Maximilian in _
Mexico, is to be pp4 in charge of the enterprise
of laying a new telegraph cable ^
aorass the Atlantio next sumpaer.*: .
The bonds of the Irish Republic, issued .
recently in New Yori, have already been
extensively counterfeited, :*The Mont- ^
gomery papers announce the marriage of .
Major General J. E. Wheeler, of the ^
late Confederate army, to Miss Ella Jones,
daughter of Colonel Richard Jones, of ^
Lawrence county, Alabama. General
Hood has requested a committee who were j
raising funds for him in Texas to desist, as ^
he was fortunately able to earn a living
by his own exertions. In New Orleans
the Methodist Episcopal Churches have, iD ^
some instances, been turned over to the negroes.
The Iowa House of Representatives
has pissed the Senate resolutions demanding
the speedy trial of Jeff. "Davis for ^
treason.
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Secretary McCulloch and a!
n
Mr. Clarke, Comptroller of the "Tie isury, ?
are quarrelling with each other quit 5 ear- j(
nestly. Clarke says McCulloch is wrong g]
in his estimates and statements of the fintfn- t)
ces of the country, and addresses a note to "
him of a petulant and discourteous charac- ^
ter. The difficulty it is said lies deeper
than the outside surface thus presented.? ai
McCulloch is a staunch supporter of the
President, while Clarke is a Stevens- ^
Radical. The.difficulty has been fomented
in order to dereat Detore L-ongress tne meas- jc
ur^ -of the Secretary for the reduction of
the currency. ^
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Tiie Feeedmen.?Our prospects in this
District, in reference to the employment of
free labor, and the crop for this year are
encouraging. The Freedmen have generally
made contracts, are demeaning them- j
selves very creditably, and working as faithfully
as could be expected. They accept
the fact of their freedom without embfacing
the idea of its delivering them from the ne- th
cessity of constant labor. m
BennettsviUe Journal. tt
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Br-JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON.
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COLUMBIA, S. C.. MABCH 19. 1866..
Ibipping to Charleston.
We have at length a line of steamers
eady to ply between Columbia and Charleson.
The experiment has been more than
mce made heretoforepand -without success-. _ts
snccess now will depend npon the whim
>f the people. We have nob the faintest
de* what the result will be.
rhe University.
About forty-five students have matriouated
in the University of South Carolina.
Very few?we believe none?of the Disirict
beneficiaries have yet come forward.
The fcifthorities of the University have
it length got possession of almost all the
recitation-rooms and students' quarters;
though there jet remain a portion of both
rn tbe occupancy and uee of the United
States forces.
Small Pox.
This contagion is abating in our city,
though there still remain on band several
?maybe a dozen?cases. The efficiency
}f tbe city medical functionaries seems to
keep the disease under control, and very
thoroughly separates it from the commaoity.
The people appear indifferent to the matter.
Very little vacoination is applied ?
The proper authorities are ready with it;
jut very little thought is given to it by the
jeople at large.
To Mexico.
Immigrants to Mexico are. allowed six
hundred and forty (640) acres of land to
;ach man with a family, and half tbatquanity
to a single man.
Tbe Imperial Commissioner of Colonizaion,
M. F. Maury, has been authorized
o dispose of 108,459 acres of laud to im
nigrants. This land is situated in the State
)f Tamaulipas [pronounced tarn o leepas,
vith the accent on the lte\ which lies on
he Golf coast between Vera Cruz and the
Hio Grande. It is Tn twenty-five degrees
>f north latitude, as fertile as Eden, and
kg healthy as a climate oan be. Ssfllers
kre exempt from oonscriptiqp for five years
ifter settling there, unless?they have a
evolution !
What to eat.
#ow, that the spring is oomuag on. with
ta genial and b<ny temperature, we mast
ook to oar dipt, if.wo would escape the languors,^
the feebleness, the oolds, and the
liarrboeas [we are speaking to .the practi>al,]
of this seasou. The last mentioned
liscasejs often, produced by the same canse
is colds?a too sudden check to cutaneous
skin) action. Over-beating should be
avoided as muoh as possible, as from this of
lonrse comes tbe too sudden, cheek of per
ipiration.
We should uselessoleagioous food, sucbis
butter, gravy and meats, because these
crease tbe heat of the system, and derange
he bowels. The cold of winter required
nore aDimal food, to supply heat to tbe
)ody; but now, when tbe weather is warm,
t is not only useless but injurious. We
ihould use vegetables principally for food
?bread, po'tatoes, ripe fruits and vegetates
generally. We should take no' Violent
ixercise; and should, in general, avoid cxremes,
and lceep cool in warm weather.
Potter's Fields
Among the many changes wrought by
v&r and its attendantills upon our city, we
venture to mention that in Potter's Field;
Alwaya a dreary,'lonely spot, it is-now;
lonblv desolate.' Tbe soldiers, the -itiner
int pamper, the- poor negro, and the shiverng
pauper who lives adjacent?all have
slipped and eat at it aoti! it is almost a bald
ield. Before, there was a dreary grove of
nelancholy pines in whose boughs the winds
nade dirgeful music. But now, almost all
if that has passed away.
There may be some who do not know
bat Potter's Field is the name applied to
hecommou burying ground of our "city;
s it is also applied to the same in many
ither cities.
It is the common designation of the- comnon
cemetery of oities in America; and we
>efi?ve also in England.
The Potter's Field, mentioned-by Matbe
w, as the Field-of Bloed, was the origi.
tai. It was designed "to bury strangers
n."
Oar Potter's Field is the same. It is to
mry strangers in. Here sleeps the wanderng
stranger; hat Dot be aloDe. We crowd
iim with strange-bedfellows. Here lie the
riendless of all classes?whoever is withal;
home, without friends, and without
aoney?the negro, the criminal, the conict,
the vagabond, the outlaw, the cyprian,
nd the pimp?the outcasts of society, the
oos and daughters of shame, the graveless
aendicant, the unkoown, the uncared-for,
be hopeless, the Godless.
These are all piled in there, without
luoh order.
The galiows up on the hill, yonder among
be pines, has borne some fruit.?-It wae all
looted here, we believe.
The soil is sandy and thin. The pines
ow stand at long reaches from each other.
*he graves are mostly stoneless and name;ss;
maD^ are sunken. Generally they
bow no signs i)f care [who is to care for
lemf] or tending?no wreaths, faded
lough recent', to show that some one heart
I least beats to the memory of a former
Yvo. Once in awhile, however, there is an
sception to this. LoviDg hearts have been
i a" few graves and loving bands have
vined wreaths for chose few to decorate
ieir dreariness.
This, in that stretch of bald desolation,
lakes the common neglect but more appal?g
It is said of the heartless Nero, that even
is grave was not utterly forsakeQ. One
rl?we believe it was a slave?brought
iilv as lone as she lived, a flower to lav
" W I V
pon bis grave. Our heart swelled with
notion when we first learned this story;
id we thought of Nero's grave a few days
;o as we strolled through the Potter's Field
' Colombia.
Very Cautious.?It would seem from
le following, that at least one Northern
an has been found green enough to believe
le stories of the state of feeling and so
ciety at the Sooth, mitmfactnred to the order
of tl|e Reconstruction Committee:
^' ThcFredericksburg Herald'Mtjs : ?A
Jferthero ip?o arrived at oar railroad station,,
in the'ears, some days sincq, and after
the train passed, approached tbepolite ticket
agent, inqairing if he would take charge
of bis pocket book, as he,-the stranger, bad
some business to attend to op town. The
agent acquiesced, after which the stranger
again, in very confidential tones, inquired
if. a guard could not be^ohiained. to. eaaeri
; him up the street-I'"
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Worth Carolina News.
The Legislature of North Carolina adjourned
on the 12th'instant. The session
! embraced fifty-four days, during which one
hundred aod fifty six act* and forty-two resolutions
were passed A bill was passed
allowing Degrees to testify to oourts where
tbey were concerned in person or property,
and when the jurisdiction shall be restored
to the coarts in all matters where the blacks
are concerned. The asnry laws were amendoj
???-? ?A altitn AlAihf fin* /innf 1 ntAsaoi Kn
Icu a\j a a iaj aiiuTT ti^ui tut^igoi uj
the agreement of parties:
London Job D8on was recently tried before
a Freedom's Court in Raleigh because
a negro boy, that formerly worked with him,
conld not be found.- -Johnson has been
discharged.
Mrs Elizabeth Ball was recently tried
before a Military Commission at Raleigh, ^
for the killing of a free dm an by the name ^
of James Thomas. She was convicted and
sentenced to one year's imprisonment in a
penitentiary. It is reported that the ladies
of Raleigh wiH petition' PresrdWt- Johnson
for her pardon.. / y .
A white officer, who, it is said, belongs
to the 37th Regiment U. S. C. T , has
been put under arrest in New Berne for
appearing at the circus in that place with a
nigger lady off his'arm. ' f
The military authorities io Salisbury have
suppressed the sale of pictures of Generals
Lee, Jackson and other Coofedcratg-jGen
ertts.* * ^ ^
A correspondent of the Petersburg Express,
speaking of the farming prospects in
the counties bordering on the Raleigh and
Gaston railroad, says that the largest planters,
before the war, will now be among the
smallest. Such labor as has been so far
available is now very uqocrtain.
The Raleigh Progress says:?"Hon. K.
Rayner member of the Bfouse of Commons ^
from Wake, has just returned from a short
visit to New York and WaehiDgtoo. We
regret to say that Mr. Rayner does not take
a hopeful view of the future.
The Salisbury Banner says : "The sentence
of the military commission whioh
convened in this pfaoe November 7, 186$,
ubJ by which was tried Archibald Bayocs, a
citizen of Caswell oountyt charged withlhe
murder of Manuel, a freed man, has been
made known. .Mr. Baynes was oonyiuted
and sentenced to be hanged. The President
however commuted the seotenoe to
confinement for teq years in such Penitentiary
as the Seoretary of War might designate.
The penitentiary at Albany; N. Y.,
was selected, and Mr. Baynes has left
here, under guard, for.that point."
The negroes of Raleigh have resolved in
a meeting not to import a Yankee doctor,
but to patronize the Raleigh physicians as
long as they make no distinction on acoount
of obler. ...
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[Correepondenee of the Charleston "Courier.}
?. From Washington.
March 12,1866.?The President does
not receive the blows of the Radicate and
Senators without returning them as-well as
he can: He had not the theatre of Mr.
Steveos, or be would have-made some points
that would have pleased the galleries, which,
by the way, have become quite conservative.
The President follows the- example
of General Jaokson in bis deportment towards
his political enemies He assails them
in public when he has the cbanoe, and loses
no opportQQityrio conversations, to carry
the war into the enemy's territory. He has
spoken to many who have approached him,
since Mb. Stevens's speech, io very strong
language in regard to that member and
some others.
.. iiut toe .President qu not yet adopted
the Jackaoo poliqy of <frewarding his friends
and punishing bis enemies," by a general ^
system of .proscription. The Republican fl
Senators base expected that the most of ^
removals from oflioe would begin at once
with the heads of Departments, and go
down to subordinates. They have been expecting
to have tbe pleasure of exhibiting
their power over appointments. But President
Johnson has just informed a Senator
?one of his ohief'sapportcrs?that he will
not make any removals at present. .. j
Some high and some low Government
employees have left tbe oity on leave to
vote in New Hampshire at the eleotiou in
that State to morrow. They go, as is said,
without any restriction, as to their political j
objects. They may vote as they please and I
wiJi please to vote the Radical ticket. The A
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury is a- U
mong tbetn. Johnson is not disposed tQ I
commence a Jackson order of political pre.
scriptioo. Bat bis friends understand that
be may be forced into it. He has said that j
be does not rely upon that resooroe for j
means to effeot a change of the potitieal
views of the people. He feels confident m
that they will come right, and will give a
hearty support to- his policy of oonoilliation
and restoration before the end of the pros- 1
eot Congress. . . , I
The Mew Hampshire election is too ear- J
ly for a seasonable test. The people hardly J
begin yet to appreciate the ruinous coose
quenoes of Radical rale. At the Conserva- S
tive election in April, it is thoogbt that
the popolar, "sober-second thought" will
prevail. LEO.
Episcopal Theologioal Seminary.
We leara, from the Savannah Retold,
that Bishop Davis, of South Carolina, has
made an appeal, in behalf of the Diocesan
Theologioal Seminary of that State established
at Camden The Bishop states that
the Seminary buildings and a large portion
of the library have been destroyed by fire,
and that the permanent fund, amounting to
nearly 850,000, was all lost during the progress
of the late war. He also states that
the effects of these misfortunes have been
alleviated in some measure by a present to
the Bishop and Trustees of a large and well
adapted building and grounds in Orangeburg,
for the use of the professors and stuj