Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 05, 1866, Image 4

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JfMsi Isrto. "TWEUTT-ONE." The lookedfor day's arrived at last! I hear you say, ray son? No more the tardy weeks I count, I now am twenty-one. I now am free to do, to choose, Then, Oh! be wise, my boy, To choose the right, reject the wrong. If you would life enjoy. And have so many years gone by ? Is it so long my boy, Since you, a little stranger, came And filled our hearts with joy ? Yes, joy was In our pleasant home, For gratcfhl hearts were there, For this dear treasure Heaven had lent. For us to guard with care. Life's morning sun shone brightly then, The future promised joy: How could 1 think that time so soon Would those bright dreams destroy. But scon it brought affliction's rod. And we were forced to bow And by the cruel stroke we felt Our very hope laid low. Yet, why should I, with sorrow's tale, Now blind your young heart's joy. Enough, that sorrow, well you know, Made you an orphan boy. But He who heeds the fatherless Xian Miiuijr icu juu vu, Secure, though dangers thick were spread, Till you arc "twenty one." Now while your hearts beats high with joy, As you the future view, Let gratitude find there a place, For all this love to you. He speaks to-day?regard His voice; Choose Him your gtilde to be ; Espouse His cause, and faithful prove, And He'll prove true to you. Then when life's pleasant morn Is past, Twill gild its sitting sun With Heavenly rays, the happy choice You make at "twenty-one." A MOTHER. IfltJWMtS ?taIjM?. Sut Lovengood's Daddy Acting Horse. 'Hold that ere hose dowu to the yearth ' 'He's spreadio' his tail to fly.' 'Keep bim wharheis.' These aod like expressions were addressed to a queer looking, long legged, shortbodied, white haired, hog eyed, funny sort of genius, fresh from some seoond hand olothioe store, and mounted on 'Tarpole,' a nit? tailed lone, poor horse, enveloped all uu i 111 a net work of br,dle reins, cruppers, martingales, straps, sirgsiugles and red ferreting, who had re:ned up iu front of Pat. Niok's grooery among a crowd of wild mountaineers full of fight and bad whiskey. I say, you darned ash cats, jist keep your shirts on, will you ? You never seed a raal horse till I rid up Tarpole is next to the best borse that ever shelled nubbins, and he's dead as a still worm ; poor old Tickey Tail.' 'What killed him, Sut V said an anxious inquirer. 'Why, nothin', yon tarnation fool; he jisr died, standing up at that Warn't that good pluck ? Froze stiff; no, not adzactly, but starved fust and then frozed afterwards; so stiff that when dad and me pushed him over he jist stuck out so, (spreading his arms and legs) like a carpenters bench, and we waited seventeen days for him to thaw afore we could skin him. Well, thar was dad an' me, (counting his fingers) dad an' me, Sal an' Jake?fool Jak* we used to call him, for short?an' Phineas, an' Simeon, an' Jonas, an' Cbarlotean, an' Cal Una an Casbus Henry Ulay, an JNoab JUan Webster, an' Catherine second, an' Cleopatry Antony, au' Jane -Lindy, an' Torn Bullion, and the baby, and the prospect, an' marm herself, all left without any horse to crop with. That was a nice mess for a 'spectable family to be slushed about io, warn't it ? I declare if I didn't feel like stealin' a horse sometimes. Well, we waited and rested, and waited until well onto strawberry time, hoping some stray horse mout come along but dog my cats ef eny sioh luck as that ever come whar dad is, he's so dratted mean, an' lazy, an' savage, an' ugly, an' tryin'. Well, one nite dad he lay awake all nite, a snorin', an' a rollin, an' a whisperin' at marm, an' Dext morn.n' says he : 'Sut, I'll tell you what we'll do I'll be hoss myself an' pull the plow while you drive me, and we'll break up corn ground, and then the old quilt (that's marm) and the brats kin plant or let it alone, jist as they please.' 'So out he goes to the pawpaw thicket an' peeled a ripht smart chance of bark, an' marrn an' me made gears fur dad, an' they becurue him mightly ; then he would have a bridle, so I gits an old umbrella what I found?it's a little piece uf iron, sorter like onto a pitchfork, ye know?an' we bent and twisted it sorter into a bridle bit, snail shape, (dad wanted it kerbed, as he hadn't worked for some time he was afeerfed he mout feel his oats and go to cavortin )? Well, when we got the bridle all fixed on dad, he chomped bis bit jist like a horse, (he always was a most complicated durned old fool enyhow an' marm always said so when he warn't about,) then I put on the eeat-ao' out dad on' I goes into the field, I a Ifiidin' oad by the bridle an' totiu' the KOpoer plow oo n?< back 'When we come to the fence, I let down a gap , that made dad mad, he wanted to jump the fence on all fours, boss fashun. I hitohcd him to the gopher and away he 4 f 1 11:_> _:_u. weui; icauiu iUidiu iu ii 13 puiuu u^lu peart, and we made sharp plowio', dad going right over the bushes an' sprouts same as a raal horse, the only difference is he weot on two legs. Presently we come to a sassafras patch an' dad, he to act up his character as a hoss. bulged squat" inter it an' tore down a hornets nest as big as a hoss head, and all the tribe kivered him right strate He rared, kicked once ortwice, an' fotcheda squeal wus norary hoss in the district, an' sot into runnin' away jist as natural as you ever seed. 'I let the plow go and hollored, woa, dad, woa. but ye mout as well said woa to a locomotive. Jewhilikins, how he run. 'When he come to a bush, he'd olear it gopher and all; he thot there mout be another settlement of bald hornets in it; and that it was safer to go over than thro, an' quicker done. Every now aDd then, he'd paw one side of his bead with fust one fore leg and then tother; then he'd gin himself an open-handed slap, that sounded like a wagon whip, and runnin' all the time and a carryin' that gopher jist about as fast and high from the yearth as ever a gopher was carried, I swar When he cum to the fence, be busted right thru it, taren nigh unto seven panels, scatterin' and breakio' the rails mightly; and here he left the gopher, gears, swingletree and-klevis, all mixed, up not wuth a dern; most of bis shirt struck to the broken end of a splintered rail, and ' nigh onto a pint o' hornets staid with the shirt, a stingin' it all over?the balance on J 'em, about a gallon and a half, kept on with dad Qe seemed to run adsactly as fast as a hornet could fly, for it was the tightest race I ever did see; down thru the grass they all wont, the hornets sorter makin' it' look like smoke all round dad's head, and he with nothin' on but the bridle, and nigh onto a yard 'o plow line^ailin' behind him. j I seed he was aimin' for the swimmin' hole in the oreek, whar the bluff is over twenty- I feet perpendicular to the water, and it's nigh onto ten feet deep. To keep up his character as a horse, when be got to the bluff, he jist leaped off, or rather he jist kept on runnin'. Now, right thar, boys, he"over did the thing; if that was what he was arter, for thar's nary hoss ever foal- i ded, darned fool enough to leap over siob j a place; a mule moot have done it, but1 dad warn't acting mule. I crept up to the j ~? "-"I Ua1?o.1 nnaf Thor isflQ nM rloii'a i CUgC auu iuuaou uiu. aum* ?imw v.? w | bald bead, for all the world like a peeled ! ingun, a bobbin' np and down, and the | hornets a sailin' aod circlin' rouod, turkeybuzzard fashion, and every once in awhile one, and sometimes ten, 'ud make a dip at dad's bead. He kept up a peart dodgin' under, sometimes they'd bit bim and sometimes they'd hit the water, aod the water was kivered with drowned hornets. 'What on yearth, are you doin' thar, dad ?' says I. 'Don't (dip) you see these infernal varmints (dip) onto me ?' 'What!' sed I. 'Them are boss flies thar j ye ain't really afeared of them, are ye ?' 'Ho8s flies !' sed dad ) 'they're rale (dip) genewine bald hornets, you (dip) infernal uuoo. 'Well, dad, you'll have to stay tbar till Dite, and arter they go to roost, you come home aDd I'll feed you ' 'And knowin' dad's unmodified natur, I broke from them parts, and sorter come to the copper mines. I staid hid till about next afternoon, when I seed a fellow travel ing, and sed I, 'What was goin'on at the cabbiu' this side ot the creek when you passed it?' 'Why, nothin' much, only a man was sittin' in the door with nary shirt on, and a woman was greasin' his back and arms, and bis bead was about as big as a ten gallon keg, and be hadn't the first sign of an eye ?ailsmooth.' 'That man's my dad,' sed I. /Daam in fkio nnlrtKhArKnnfl I * JL?CCU UlUt'li UkCU IU WIJ to u wwi I* wv* lately?' said the traveler, dryly. 'Nirn wuth speakin' of, personally or perticularly,' sed I. 'Now, boys, I haint seed dad since, and would be afearcd to see hira in the next ten years. Let's drink.' Ludicrous Incident.?Oq Thursday evening, Miss Mary Meridith, in prepariug the articles of dress necessary for her impersonation of Pauline., in the "Lady of Lyons," accidently omitted to put into her basket a pjiir of shoes. She did not discover the omission uutil after she reached the theatre, and was nearly ready to go on. There was time to repair the error if the little darkey who waited upon her would hurry back to her lodgings and get them at once, so the servant was immediately sent. But the ourtain rose on the first act before the little darkey returned, and Bcausant, (Mr Rodgers,) was doing the agreeable io his best style to the fair Pauline, (Miss Meridith,) wheu he and the audience were both somewhat discomposed by the appearance on the s'tage of a character not mentioned in the bills It was the little negro, who, advancing across the stage to where Pauline was sitting, presented the shoes, neatly wrapped up, saying, 'I ran all de icay, Miss Mary?hut 1 guess d-tse is uiii!' It is ueedlees to say the 'house' screamed. 16?*We have heard a great many queer things about mean men, but none that gave a more powerful idea of meanness than the following fact. A man once drove up to a New Hampshire tavern and coolly asked Ami n nrtntn m/M<f K r\f Knn Tha 1 n r\ /"11 1ua a vcuio nyiiu ui uoj. a uw iuuuiwiu led the boise to the shed, and then filled the wagon with loose hay. Meanwhile the owner of it called for a basin aDd soap; and after washing biH face and hands and thoroughly wiped himself dry on a "seedyj clean" towel, laid dowu his cent, and was j moving off iI say,' said the landlord; 'won't you i take a drink before you go?' Well, seein' its you, I don't care if 1 do,' was the reply ; and back he went, and ! took a drink. ?You don't live in these parts, I believe, : stranger,' Raid the tavern keeper. ,' 'No,' was the reply; I dou't; 'but I go , ! by occasionally, and as you have treared | tue so well this time, I'll call and putron, I ize you again !" "About Middling."?Old Rev. Mr. R , the Worcester county divine, was 1 one day attending the funeral of one of the ' members of this church, when, after prais1 iDg the many virtues of the deceased, be ' j turned to the bereaved husband and said : j "My beloved brother, you have been 1 | called to part with one of the best and love! j liest of wives." 1 | .Up jumped the sorrow stricken husband, interrupting the tearful minister by sorrow fully saying. i "Oli, no, brother II , not "the best; she was about middling?about middling, brother R Cabinet Cons.?Why is a crazy oil speculator like the Secretary of the Navy ? i He is giddy on wells. Why is a rebel pardon-seeker leaving the White House like an outward bound steam; er? Ho is going to Seward. Why is the Postmaster General like a | girl at a boarding school ? He looks after the mails. In what respect does the Attorney General greatly difier from General McClellau ? j He is celebrated for his Speed. What slight difference exists between Secretary Harlan and Satan ? The former superintends internal affairs, the latter man- | ages infernal affairs?Traveler's Record. 'I say, Pat, are you digging out a hole in that onion bed V 'No,' says Pat, j ?I am digging out the earth, and leaving i the hole.' ' ifesiife ? A person in Albany describes the State Legislature assembled there as "Faro's Host." What can he mean ? ? The oity of Augusta, Ga., has imposed a tax of one thousand dollars per month on all gift enterprises. ? Three things only are essential to happiness, namely?something to do ; something to love; something to hope for. ? A bill before Congress proposes the coinage of five cent pieces, composed of copper and nickel, to take the place of the fiveoeDt currency. ? The production of gold and silver in the United States during the fiscal yeai 1865, amounted to 361,000,000 In 1863-'4 it was 313,000,000 less. ? The State department is preparing a - * < ? * ! n stareroeut, iur ujb use ui vuu^icoo, ui mc damage done to American commerce bj Confederate cruisers. ? "Johnny, bow maDy cakes did you have on Christmas ?" "Five; first a sponge cake, then an almond cake, then a current cake, then a sweet cake, and then a stoma ' cake !" J?The New Orleans Times asserts that there is not sufficient labor or force in the State of Mississippi to produce three hundred thousand bales of cotton of four hundred pounds per bale. ? Stay laws are not in much favor south of us. One passed by the Georgia Legislature has been vetoed by Gov. Jenkins, while the one passed by the Mississippi Legisla ture has been declared unconstitutional. ? A sharp grocer, when a customei who was buying a gallon of molasses ob served that a good deal remained in the measure after it was turned, remarked, "there was some in the measure before 1 drew your gallon." ? The following are the largest sales ir New York houses during the last year: H B. Claflio & Co., $42,506, 715; A. T Stew art & Co., 839,391,688; Anthony & Hall S10,C36,711; George Bliss & Co., 810,273, 000 ; George A. Wicks & Co., 810,000,000 ? Young men in Lawrence, Kansas, have to marry to get shelter from the weather landladies there take none but married peo pie. The unfortunate youths say it is a con spiracy between the young ladies and the boarding house keepers. "? It was the request of tbe late Lishof Fitzpatrick, of Boston, just before he died that, when dead, do flowers should be pu around bins "Devote flowers," he said, "t< the sanctuary and to the young, but do not mingle their purity with the earth's corrup tion." ? Business in New Orleans must be pros porous. The papers publish triple or quad ruple sheets almost every day ; and the lasi number of the Times, which has reachec us, had eighteen pages, "the largest evei published in America as one of the regulai j editions of a daily raper." ? Lawless men are hliving a high time ir Jones and adjoining couutica, Mississippi They not only defy law but prevent court: j from beiDg held and juries from being sum moned. Measures are being taken to brinf ! Tk a? hai*a VnAtnn rlnrinn Ilium lU tuuu^u ji iigy v. viv xxuv/t??j uui 11'jthe war as deserters aod Uoion men. ? The New York Tribune says that the taxes in this country are heavier than are 01 ever were borne by any other Tbfrty Mil Hods of people on earth. Adding our State and Municipal to our National taxes, anc they amount to not a penny less than S2( each per annum for the whole Americat People. ? We have information from an officer lately in the service of the Emperor Maxi milian, in Mexico, to the effect that in Jauuary his force was, in round numbers, as follows: French, 30,000; Austrian, Belgian, Egyptian, &c., 10,000; Mexican, 5,000 ; making a total effective force of about 45,000 men. This force has 120 field pieces, and includes twelve regimen's ol cavalry. Maximilian has on paper a native force of 30,000 men, under foreign officers, but this has proved entirely ana. vailable, for whenever the attempt Las been made to muster them, they desert in such numbers that it requires the services of all the reliable troops near the rendezvous to watch them?TVusltini/ton Star. ? The highest court in the State ol Mississippi has declared the stay law pass. j ed by the Legislature of that State to be unconstitutional J he Columbia rhonix, in makiner the above announcement, says: 'The resuft is inevitable whenever theques tion shall be brought* to a final test in the States which have, by similar enactments, sought to impair theobligationsof contract? und enable their citizens to repudiute theii just debts. Certainly the United State? Supreme Court will decide against all these laws as far as non-resident creditors ar( concerned. What folly is it, then, for the legislative bodies of Southern States to frit tor away their time in the discussion o: "bills to prevent the collection of debts,' when, after they agree upon a particulai form, the law will not be worth the paper ; it is written upon " It is understood that j the constitutionality of the stay law of this j State will be argued before the Court of Appeals, in Columbia, al the setting in May next. ? The Cincinnati courts have just decided what constitutes a lady's wardrobe.? Mis Jane L. Long, wife of Gcueral Loug sought to recover from the owners of steam er Geo. Buell, for value of trunk and con tents lost, aod claimed that the articles enu merateJ legitimately belonged to a lady': wardrob^: Mozambique dress skirt, ?9, checked grenadine, ?40; black alapaca do. S47 ; silver colored grenadine do., ?40 ; de laiue do , 820; lawn skirts, 820; lawn dress, ; ?25; drab silk do. do., and mantle, ?130: i drab silk bonnet, ?40 ; corsets, ?20; cam | brie underskirts, 811; muslin do., ?52 ; [ two balnioral skirts, 20; night wrappers, '?66; one dozen embroidered linen chemises, i ?192 ; velvet hat, ?13 ; nine silk belts and i sashes, ?18 50; toilet soap, ?12 ; lawn drawf ers, ?40; silk basque, ?30; velvet back Bible, ?10; ivory comb, ?12; fans, 820 ; jewelry, ?81; gold bracelet, ?140; pearl ear rings, ?90; silver salt cellars, lined with gold, ?50 ; gold buckle, ?30 ; total, including a few other articles, ?2,004. Mrs Long recovered damages to the amount claimed. MM Ipsciatiw. Financial Crash. That the United States is overtrading is beyond a question, and that, if this state of things continues, a collapse, a financial crisis, compared with which those of '37 and '57 will have been but a breeze, must necessarily ensue, is equally true. Up to the end of November last, the value of the dry goods alone imported into the single port of New York, from the beginning of the year, we see stated, was 881,386,000, against 870,031,000 the previous year in the same period. While the imports have steadily increased, the volume of exports of domes. tic products has as steadily diminished.? Tbre people, instead of retrenching and economizing, are thus steadily building up an additional debt, that must be paid ; a ] debt that will tax them for the next thirty I ' r or xoriy years "A wise man foresoeth the evil and hideth himself," and all prudent business : 1 men should now take in sail and endeavor i ! to reach safely a harbor. The Secretary of j ' tbe United States Treasury in his able re- i ' port, warned the country that disaster was ' ahead. We had hoped that Congress would ; i have listened to Mr. McCulloch's advice j i and suggestion ; but it appears that that body is not. in accord with him, aod refuses to listeD to his comprehensive financial schemes. We doubt if, since the days of Mr. Ham. ilton, the United States has had so able a , financier a? the present Secretary. We have little hope that his plan for the contraction of the currency, funding the floating debt, , and a gradual but sure and safe resumption of specie payments, will be put in operation I tko nlnoo nf Pho nppopnt. fisnnt TJClir. Tf. will evidently require two good crops of - cotton, ere we can hope fot a resumption of specie payments. And is there any prospect that we shall soon have that hope real1 ized? From all quarters of the South, the ' tidings ore that the negroes are working but indifferently, and that .the planters will 1 not have their sanguine hopes of large crops gratified. We all know how it is here, in Virginia If then, the cotton is not made, ! the imports must be paid for in Government i : securities, and those securities must be sent abroad as gold. What they will bring will -1 depend upon the estimate in which our : ability to pay the enormous debt overhang, ing us is held in Europe. Already enor)! mous quantities are held abroad, which, if , I'sent home for sale and realization, would t ruio us. We cannot tell what would be )1 the possible effect upon the securities thus i held when the currency becomes par; for . they were mostly sold at one-third less than their face. One thing, however, is very - certain?that, from present appearances, . i there is little hope for an early contraction t of the currency and the resumption of speI cie puyineBts. Certainly the South, with r | her system of labor destroyed and her prcs ent unsettled condition, can do but little in averting the impending disaster. Our con, ditiotf is far different from what it would ! have been had the Southern States been 3 i brought back into the Uuion in a'different way and by different means We can do , scarcely auythiug as matters stand, and as , it seems determined they shall stand, to aid the North. If the North, instead of practicing retrenchment .and ceouomy, both ' public and private, goes on in the oareer of extravagance, importing at the rate of 8400,000^000 a year, all of which has to be paid for in gold, the erash must come with I terrible effeot. Prudent, wise reduction cf ( expenses and legislation might lessen the : force of the blow, but we fear we cannot escape it altogether. This seems to be the general impression among the best informed > and most intelligent business circles at the I North, and they accordingly setting tbeir 1' houses in order. *We warn our people of ' j it. There must be a settlement, aud we mieht as well look facts and figures in the j lace, do matter how disagreeable such inp vestigations stud disclosures may bo to us. : The Federal debt alone?the war debt is j in rouud numbers ?3,000,000,000 and up' | wards, and the municipal indebtedness of I the Northern States is estimated at $20,' : 000,000. With this burden hanging over I the people, and the additional indebtedness that is being accumulated month after j mouth by the prodigality incident to the inflation produced by the war, the prospect, ' commercially and financially, is not a flat 1 tcring one. As far as we are concerned, ! we will uut feel it so heavily when the tor' nado does come, for we are already pros'! trato?Richmond Times. ! Important Letter Relative to tho Col, lection of Ootton in tho Southern ,. States. Immediately after the return of Assistant Secretary Chandler from the South, it was decided by the President und Secretary | of the Treasury to close up the collection of ! cotton in the Southern States, and thereup- i . ' on the following letter was issued by the j fi Secretary to ^Jl cotton agents : . '; Treasury Department, f i February 23, 1866. 'Sir : After the receipt of this letter, j you will neither make, nor cause, nor aui thorize any seizure or detentions of cotton or other property as captured or abandoned, unless by special written directions in each ease from the general agent, or direct from the Department. In any case which may . come to your knowledge of property be; ! longing to the late so-called Confederate . | Government, where the property is of suoh amouot and so situated, with such clear proofs as in your judgment to make it im) portant for the Government that it should ; be secured, you will at once report all the j t facts, (including the evidence and a statc. j meut as to locality of the property or the (I dircctiou in which it is moving,) to the ; , general agent or to the Department, and . j await instructions on the subject. I | 'Immediately upon the receipt thereof, i j you will make a special report to the De- I i partmcnt of all lots of cotton or other! 1 property now under seizure or detention | within your agency by your authority or ! directiou, or that of any assistant or sub- | agunt or contractor, together with all the ' evidence in relation thereto, retaining such i cotton in its then locality and condition, protecting the same from loss or damage, i but Dot rebaling aDy cotton, nor placing it ' in pickery, nor incurring any unreasonable expense on its account. And no shipment; ' release or division of the same will be made in any case except by direction of the General Agent or the Department. 'You will also immediately terminate all contracts, of whatever nature, for collecting captured or abandoned property now outstanding within your agency hy your authority or the authority of any assistant or sub-agent, and also terminate at onoe all farther operations under any such contraots; and you will also immediately furnish to the Department, a full statement of all such contracts, and of the condition of operating under the same 'You will, as soon as possible, discontinue the services of all assistants and sub agents within your agency not absolutely required in tbe immediate closing up of your business ; and no compensation will be paid to any agent or employee in your agency longer than ten days after the receipt of this letter, unless, upon special ^roport to the Department, stating reasons therefor, their further continuance in office shall be authorized. 'You will make your arrangements to finally close the business of your office as soon as nossible. settling or annroving the ~ ~ r / o ~ t < o accounts of your subordinates, and promptly forwarding your own accounts for final settlement. The receipt of this letter will be acknowledged by telegraph. Respectfully, <H. McCulloch, 'Secretary of the Treasury. 'To all supervising Special Agents.' Ned Shuter thus explained his reasons for preferring to wear stockings with boles to having them darned : "A hole," he said, '>may be the accident of a day, and will past upon the best gentleman, but a darn is premeditated poverty." a -r? -r>v UAHJJ. To the Merchants of the South. THE undersigned, Wholesale Dealers, advise you of the lact that Charleston is again a market for thq purchase of .goods, and In view of the early opening of the spring trade, we beg to solicit the resumption of the patronage so liber ally extended to this market in the past. We are aware thatmany old and respected firms will be missed from our number, hut many familiar names will be found in new associations, ready to supply Uic wants of the Trade, as of yore, and other old and new firms will be added to our number at an early day. The casli and short credit system having been universally adopted in all the Northcrir markets, we are necessarily compelled to adopt a like system as the only safe one on which to conduct business, and the heavy per ccntagc once necessary to cover bad debts will now be nvoided. Small profits find quick returns will be the rule, and under its working we hope not only to restore to our ancient city its former prosperity, but to extend Iter trade to the full extent of the capabilities her excellent geographical position and natural advantages afford. Our interest and ambition combine to stimulate us in attaining this result. The Soutli Carolina Itailroad is now open to Columbia, and its President has officially informed us that the Augusta line be completed to lilaclcvillc this month, and that on the first of February he will receive through freight to Augusta. A line of steamers to Savannah will afford faeili tics for shipping in lhatdircction. it is our purpose to have In store by tlic last or February a complete anil varied assortment of goods in out respective lines adapted to (lie spring trade, and every exertion shall be made to promote your interests. We extend to >;ou the hand of commercial fellowship, and solicit your co'-opcration and patronage In our efforts to make Charleston the centre of Southern trade. Give us the encouragement we ask, and you will enjoy all the advantages of a cheap home market. DRY GOODS. w. t. burge & co. edwin bates St co. J. IT. READ St co., 187 King-street. STRAUSS, VANCE St CO. aitki.v, noyes s: johnston. , KING St GOODRICH. james b. beits. stole, Webb St co. P. EPSTEIN, 268King'strcet. P. LYONS St CO. FANCY GOODS. H. D. RURKETT & CO., successors of DEWING, THAYER St CO. NORTH, STEELE St WAROELL . MILLINERY & STRAW GOODS. LENGNICK St SELL. WILLIAMS St COVERT. BOOTS AND SHOES. E. It. STODDARD St CO. D. F. FLEMING St CO. 'J'. M. URISTOLL, successor ofDUNHAM, TAFT it CO. EDWARD DALY, Agent. JOHN COMMINS. IIATS AND CAPS. WILLIAMS St COVERT. II. H. WILLIAMS St CO. F. HORSEY, 25 Hayne-strect, successor to HORSEY, AUTEN St CO. HARDWARE. J. E. ADGER St CO. I1ASTIE, CALHOUN St CO., 24 Hayne-strect. HART St CO. EDGERTON St RICHARDS. C. GRAVELEY. E. L. DEMING St CO. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINERY. LITTLE St MARSHALL, 173 East Bay. BOOHS. E. J. DAWSON St CO. UOGERT, DENNY St CO. CARRIAGES AND HARNESS. L. CHAPIN St CO. It. VV. GALE St CO. NATHAN St OTTOLENGUI. PAPER HANGINGS, WINDOW SHADES & UPHOLSTERY. II. XV. KINSMAN. CLOTHING. EDWIN HATES St CO. MACUI.LAR, WILLIAMS St mRKER. FRANCIS MURPHY. PIERSON St CO. SADDLERY. HASTIR. CALHOUN St CO.. 21 Hayno street. JENNINGS, THOMI.INSON St CO. 1IAKRAL, NICHOLS & CO. DRUGS. KING St CASS ID V. JOSEPH J. MORGAN. L. CII.M'IN St CO. JOHN KENIF1CK, 48 R road-street. CROCKERY. WEBB St SAGE. WILLIAM G. WHILDEN St CO. DRAPER AND TAILOR. J. S. PHILLIPS, U2 Broad stroct. GROCERS. GEO. W. WILLIAMS St CO. OIIAS. II. MOISE St CO. GEO. W. CLARK St CO. THADUEUS STREET. J. St P. DAWSON. J. F. O'NEILL St SON, 107 East Bay. W. II. CIIAFBE. WM. GURNEY. HENRY HISCIIOFF St CO. THOMPSON St BUO. CAIIILL St CO. JOHN KING St CO. WAGNER. HEATH St MONSEES. J. H. St D. MIJLLEIt. BOLLMAN BltO. IIAY AND GRAIN MERCHANTS. JOHN S. BIRD St CO. BUILDING MATERIAL. SASH, I'L1.\U Ai\ if UUIIK TURERS. W. P. RUSSELL & CO. CABPETI N GS, OIL CLOTHS, MATTINGS AND TAILORS' TRIMMINGS. C1IAS. 0. CARR St CO. GROCERS. AUCTIONEERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS. RRUNS &. REE. AUCTIONEERS, COMMISSI ON MERCHANTS, DEALERS IN DRY GOODS. T. SAVAGE IIEVVVARD St SONS. 123 East B-y street, Charleston, S. C., and 1-11 Augusta, Ua. STEAM BAKERY, CRACKERS, | BISCUITS, ETC. J. C. II. OLAUSSEN & CO. IRON AND MILL RANDS AND ! MACHINERY AGENCY. J. M. EASON. SHIPPING, COMMISSION AND WHOLESALE DEALERS. ARHHIRALD GETTY St CO. P. CONNER St CO February 15 -13 eotv2in CANDY AND RAISINS.?j A large lot of CANDY AND RAISINS, for sale cheap, at . FLOYD, DOBSON St CO'S. I February 25 43 tf PROSPECTUS OF "The Worth Carolina Guardian." The undersigned wjjl Issue, commencing on the first day of January, ItJOG, in the city of Charlotte, N. C., a daily and trl-weekly newspaper under lite style and title of THE NORTH CAROLINA GUARDIAN, which shall be devoted especially to the dissemination of the latest news, and the guarding, with an eagle eye, the interests of the State under the Constitution, and in conformity with the laws oi the United States. There will also be issued, front the same office, a weekly paper under tile style and title of "THE CATAWBA WATCHMAN." The terms lor the DAILY GUARDIAN will be, for one year, ?7; si* months, ?1; three months ?-2.50; any less time ,<fl per month. TlieTRI-WEEKLY GUARDIAN will be sunplicd to subscribers at $5 for twelve months ;?$3 for si* months; . ?1.75 for three months, nnd 75 cents per month for any less Utile. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Ordinary advertisements, occupying not more than ten lines (one square) will be inserted in cither of the above publications at seventy-five cents for the first insertioniind fifty cents for each subsequent Insertion. Larger advertisements in exact proportion. Liberal discounts will lie made for contract advertising. THE WEEKLY WATCHMAN will be furnished to subscribers at $2 per annum, single copy, and to a club of five for .?7 50 ; to a clul of ten tor .$12 50; and to a club of twenty for $-20, with an extra copy to the getter up of clubs. All orders should be addressed to J. E. BRITTOiV, Editor and Proprietor "Guardian," Charlotte, N. C. December 14 35 tf The Cheapest Paper In the United States. ONLY ONE DOLLAR! TRY IT A YEAR!! TIIE RURAL JOIRXAL, For the Farm, Garden, Orchard, Workshop, Household and Kitchen. A GOOD, Cheap and valuable paper for every man, woman and boy ki (lie City, Village and Country. Published TIIE FIRST OF EVERY MOXTH. Each "number contains n full Calendar of Work for the Month, to be performed in and around the Farm, Orclrard, Garden and Dwelling. Thousands of articles, hints, and suggestions are given upon Mechanics, Rural Architecture, Agriculture and Agricultural Chemistry, Geology, Selections, Cultivation and Piopagation of Foreigti and Domestic Fruits, Flowers and Evergreens; Domestic Animals and Poultry ; Receipts and Directions for facilitating and economising the work of the Household and the Kitchen, etc., etc. THE RURAL JOURNAL is a handsome Eight Page Paper, beautifully printed ; and its matter is plain, practical reliable and original. TERMS: One copy, one year, 6' ' Oh Six copies, " 5 00 Thirteen eonlnn. oni* vpnr 10 00 " Address*" * ' ' VVM. H. SMITH & CO., Publishers and Proprietors, 58 Fnyetteville Street, Raleigh, N. C. January 18 39 tf J I). F. Flemi.no..Sam'l A. Nelson-.. James M. Wilson i D, F. FLEMING & CO J Wholesale Dealers IN Boots, Shoes, Trunks, &c., 2 Hayne Street, CORKER OF CIIURCII STREET, CHARLESTON, S. C., Having: Resumed Business AT tlieir old .stand, 2 Hayne Street, Comer of Church Street, art} now receiving A LARGE AND WELL ASSORTED STOCK OF BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, &C., Which will be SOLD AT THE LOWEST MARKET PRICE. The patronage of foruier friends and the Public is respectfully solicited. January 4 37 3in NEW STORE-CHEAP GOODS! CARROLL, CLARK & CO., es, ~ vr*r*. TAKE this method to - A inform their friends and A /It>-? ni.n (CUSTOMERS, that I Y" they have" RESUMED Bffi. ) \ BUSINESS, and arc now _? knfZ/M*, I..ML \ \ opening, In one of the PR2L , SsM- STORE-ROOMS adjoinffiffi'/l tlrnnnc '''* STOWE'S HOTEL, ^*^1/?4 " 41 fciM a large and well delected 1 Stock of STABLE AND ^ANCY DRY^COODS^ . HARDWARE, GROCERIES, BAGGINti and ROPING, together Willi any and every article which can usually "he found in a VARIETY STORE. Their GOODS were selected in New York, try MR. JOSEPH W. CARROLL, with great care, especially lor this .MARKET, and having been purchased for CASH, they can afford to sell as CHEAP, if not CHEAPER than any other concern In this section of Couutry. Give us a call and we will use our best endenvors to give SATISFACTION, both as to QUALITY and PRICE of GOODS. CARROLL, CLARK St CO. November 2 129 tf PROSPECTUS OF THE CHER AW ADVERTISER, THE undersigned propose to establish by the 1st of FEB RUAIIV next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, "THE CHERAW ADVERTISER." A weekly newspaper, to be devoted to the Agricultural. Commercial and Industrial inturesis of the Town and country, and to the general diffusion of Knowledge and Miscellaneous News. It will furnish a medium for Advertisers and others to make their business known. TERMS?IN ADVANCE. One Copy, One Year, $ 4 ?>0 One Copy, Six Months, 2 00 One Copy, Three Months, )... 1 00 Five Copies,One Year, 15 00 Ten Copies, One Year,. 25 00 Advertisements will Be inserted on reasonable terms. W. L. T. PRINCE & CO., ' Publishers and Proprietors. January 16 30 if IN EQUITY?YORK DISTRICT. Mary M. Webb, 1 Bill for Partition vs. > H. D. Stowc, Administrator, el al. ) of Land. !fc. IT appearing to my satisfaction, that James N. Brown and Ann, his wife; Joseph Webb, the children and heirs of William Webb, the children and heirs ofThoinas Webb, the children and heirs of Hockel Webb, the children and heirs of Elizabeth Lask, the children and heirs of James I Webb, the children and heirs of Mary Tally, and tin; children and heirs of Sarah Clark, defendants in above staled : case, reside beyond the limits of this Slate, it is ordered, I ou motion of Williams & Beatty, Complainants Solicitors, that said defendants, and also the husbands of sueli of the daughters of Win. Webb, deceased; Thomas Webb, deceased ; Hncket Webb, deceased; Elizabeth I.usk, deceased; James Webb, deceased; Mary Tally, deceased; and Sarah Clark, deceased, as may be married, do plead, answer or demur to tin; Bill in this case, within three months from the publication hereof, or a decree, pro eonfesso, will be given against Ilicin. WALTER B. METTS, c. t. v. i>. February 1 41 3in* IIOUSE-PAINTING, &C. NELSON DAVIS respectfully informs the citizens of York and the surrounding Districts, that he is ready and willing to attend to the business of Plain and Ornamental HOUSE PAINTING, GLAZING and PAPER-HANGING. He prides himself especially, in being able to imitate successfully, the various kinds of Wood, viz : MAHOGANY, nit- ui'iMV urnnn mil VIS1' IIOSV. .?i.-wi,r., u:\ rv, unuivui, WOOD, &( ., itc. Also, Egyptian, Italian, Pennsylvania, Jasper anil Small MARBLES. By strict nttcnlioh to business, he hopes to secure n share ol' public patronage, and feels assured, liiat lie wfll lie able to give eniire satisfaction to those who may employ him. (<Xy- All communications addressed to him at Yorkville, S. C., will meet with prompt attention. NELSON DAVIES. October 26 28 6in Mifci.MLTIC lRO.\ COMPANY'S WORKS. Cherokee Foitn, Union District, S. C. DEALERS and Consumers are respectfully informed that I have on hand a line assortment of BAR IRON AND NAILS, for which I solicit their orders. I will also make to order, HOLLOW WARE, MACHINERY CASTINGS, SUGAR MILLS AND KETTLES, all of which will be sold as low as the limes will permit, and he despatched With promptness. Terms?CASH accompanying orders; or PROVISIONS I delivered at the Works. F. G. LATHAM, Acting Agent. Limestone Springs, S. C. March l.*> -17 2111' Iff EQUITY?-YORK DISTRICT. Ex Parte, ) Hill to 1'erfctiuilc C. D. Meltou. Solicitor of the J Northern Circuit. J Testimony. C. D. MELTON, Solicitor of the Northern Circuit, hav ingthi- dav liled in this Office a Itill to "Perpetuate festiiu<iiiy in relation to Deeds, Wills, Glioses in Action, and other Papers and Records destroyed during the War," It is ordered that alt persons who are entitled to and desire to avail themselves of the bcucUt ot' tire Act of the General Assembly, in such cases made and provided, are permitted to come before the Court and have taken and perpetuated all evidence which they shall produce, on proper application being made before me. WALTER 11. METTS, c. e. y. d. March 15 47 -'in I\ EQUITY?YORK DISTRICT. J no. J. Pong, 1 Sill for Partition \ cs. > E. 11. Stringfellovv and wife, el at. ) of Lands. THE creditors of A. WALKER POAG, late of York District, deceased, are hereby required to present and establish their claims before me, in my office, on or before the FIRST DAY OF APRIL next. WALTER B. MF.TTS, Commissioner lu Equity, j January 25 40 2m* jnOOKING STOVES FOR SALE. V/ By W. H. McCORKLE. i Match 8 40 tf THE STAMP ACT. ONE OF TI1E TAX LAWS OF THE U. STATES. There arc probably but few of the readers of this paper who know the detail* of the Stamp Act. Yet, there is no law, State or National, the provisions of which are more important to the people. Here are such of Its proceedings we think es will prove most interesting and important to the reader: SCHEDULE B. ACKOWLEDGMENT?of deeds exempt AFFIDAVIT 5 ocnts in suit ?r legal proceedings exempt AGREEMENT OK APPRAISEMENT?for each sheet or piece of paper on which the same is written 5 cents ASSIGNMENTS ORTRANSFERS?of mortgage, lease or policy of insurance, the same duty as on ~ the original instrument. Of patent right 5 cent* BANK CHECKS, DRAFTS OR ORDERS, &c.,? at sight or on demand 2 cents BILLS OF'EXCHANGE, Inland?draft or order, payauie ouierwise uian ai sigm or on ucimuiu, and any promissory note, whatever, payable on * demand or at a time designated, [except bank notes issued for circulation, ana checks made and Intended to he, and which shall be forthwith presented for payment] for a sum.not exceeding $1U0 5 cents For every additional hundred dollars, or fractional part thereof 5 cents BILLS OF LADING?of -vessel* for ports of the United States or Britlsii North Ameiica exempt Or receipt of goods on any foreign ports 10 cents BILL OF SALE?of any vessel, or part thereof when the consideration does not exceed Ave hundred dollars 50 cents Exceeding $500 and not exceeding $1,000 $1,00 Exceeding $1,000, for each $500, or fractional part thereof 50 cents Of personal property [other than ship or Vessel] 5 cent* BOND?personal, for payment of money [See Mortgage] Olhciul $.00 For indemnifying any person for the payment of any sum of money,'-where the money ultimately recoverable thereupon is $1,000 or less 50 cents Where the money recoverable exceeds $1,000, for every additional $1,000, or fractional part thereof 50 cents BUNDS?county, city and town bonds, railroad and other corporation bonds and script are subject to stamp duty. [See Mortgage.] Of any description other than such as are required in legal proceedings, and such as are not otherwise charged in this schedule. 35 cents CERTIFICATES?of deposit in bank, sum not exceeding one hundred dollars . 2 cents Of deposit In bank, sum exceeding $100 5 cents Of stock in an incorporated company 25 cents Geueral 5 cents Of a qualification of a Justice of the Peace Commissioner of Deeds or Notary Public 5 cent* Of Mf.nrcli ill' ri-conis 5 cents That certain papers are on file 5 cents That certain papers cannot be found 5 cents Of redemption of land sold for taxes 5 cents Of birth, marriage and death ( 5 cents Of qualiticutions of school teachers * 5 cents Of prulits in an incorporated company, for a sum not less than $10 and not exceeding $50 10 cents Exceeding $5u and not exceeding $l,0u0. 25 cents Exceeding $1,000, for every additional $1,000, or fractional part thereof 25 cents Of dumngc or otherwise, aud all other ccrtllicates or docuuicuts issued by any port warden, murine surveyor, or other person acting as such 25 cents CERTIFIED I RANSCH1 l'T?of Judgments, satisfaction of judgements, and Of all papers, recorded or ou tile 5 cents (N. 11.?As a geueral rule, every certificate which has, or may haVe, a legal value in any court of law or equity, will require a stamp duty of 5 cents.) CHECK, DRAFT OK OKUEU?for the payment of any sum of tnoiicy, exceeding $10, drawn upou any person other tiiau a bank, banker or trust company, at sight or on demand. 2 cents CONTRACT?[See Agreement.J Brokers. 10 cents CONVEYANCE?deed, instrument, or writing whereby lauds, tenements, or other realty, sold shall be conveyed, tile actual value which'does not exceed $500 50 cents Exceeding $500, and not exceeding $1,000 $1,00 For every udditloual $500, or fractional part thereof, In excess of $1,000 50 cents ENTRY?of tiny goods, wares or merchandize at any custom house not exceedlng$100 in value 25 cents Exceeding $100, ami not exceeding $500 in value 50 cents Exceeding $500 in vulue. $1,00 For tjic withdrawal of any goods or merchandise, from bonded warehouse 50 cents GUAGER'd RETURN?If for quanUty not ex ceedlng 500 gahons, gross, 10 cents Exceeding 500 gallons 25 cents POVVER OF ATTORNEY?to sell or transfer stock or collect dividends thereon ' 25 cents To vote at an election of Incorporated company 10 cen's To receive or collect rents 25 cents To sell, or convey, or reut, or lease real estate $1,00 For any oilier purpose 50 cents PRORATE OF VViLL?or letters of administration, where the value of both real and personal ,l.,..j nnf ..r,...,.U cJ ISIIi " 61 on For every additional $1,000, or fractional part thereof, in excess of $1,000 50 cents lionils of executors, administrators, guardians and trustees, are each subject to a stamp duty of $1,00 PROTEST? upon bill note, check or droit 125 cents PROMISSORY NOTE?[See Rills of Exchange, inland.] Renewal of, subject to same duty as an original note. RECEIPT?for the payment of any sum of money, or debt due, exceeding $10, or for the delivery of any property 2 cents TRUST DEED?made to secure a debt, to be stamped as a mortgage. Conveying estate to uses to be stamped as a conveyance. WAREHOUSE RECEIPT?for any goods,wares or merchandise not otherwise provided for, de house, not exceeding ?500 in value 10 cents Exceeding $500, and not exceeding $1,000 20 cents Exceeding $1,000, i'or every addlMonal $1,000, or fractional part thereof, in excess of $1,000 10 cents For any goods, tec., not otherwise provided for, stored or deposited in any public or private warehouse or yard 25 cents WRITS fc LEGAL DOCUMENTS?writs or other legal process, by which any suitls commenced in any court of record, either of law or equity 50 cents Writ or oilier original process Issued by a court not of record, where tile amount claimed Is $100 or over 50 cents Upon every confession of judgment or cognovit, for $100, or over, except In cases where the tax for a writ has been paid 50 cents ' Writ or other process appeals from justices' courts, or other courts of Inferior jurisdiction, to a court of record 50 cents Warrants of distress, when the amount of rent claimed does not exceed $100 25 cents When the amount exceeds $100 " 50 cents INSURANCE?Marine. Inland and Fire. Where the consideration paid for the insurance, in cash premium notes, or both, does not exceed $10 10 cents Exceeding $10. and not exceeding $50 50 cents INSURANCE, Like?when the amount Insured does not exceed $1,000 25 cents Exceeding $1,000, and not exceeding $5,000 50 cents Exceeding $5,000 $1.00 LEASE?oi lands or tenements, where the rent does not exceed $300 per annum 50 cents Exceeding $300, lor eacii additional $200, or fractional part tiiereof, in excess of $300 50 cents Ferpetuai, subject to stamp duty as a conveyance. Clause of guaranty of payment of rent, incorpo rated or indorsed, live cents additional. MEASURERS' RETURN?If .orquamity not ex oeeding 1,000 bushels 10 cents Exceeding 1 ,000 bushels 25 cents MORTG AUK?trust deed, bill of sale, or personal bond for the payment of money exceeding ?100, and not exceeding $500 * 50 cents Exceeding $500, for every additional $500 or fractional part thereof, In excess of $500. 50 cents PAWNERS' CHECKS 5 cents PASSAGE TICKET?from the United States to any foreign port, costing not more than $55 50 cents Costing more than $55, and not exceeding $50 $1.00 Fofevery additional $50, or fractional part thereof, in excess of $50 $1.0 GENERAL REMARKS. Revenue Stamps may be used indiscriminately upon any of the matters or things enumerated in schedule B, excep proprietary and playing card stamps, for which a special Use has been provided.. Postage stamps cannot be used iu payment of the duty chargeable on instruments. Ills the duty of the maker of an Instrument to allixand cancel the stamp thereon. If liu neglects to do so, the parly for whose use it is made may stamp it before it is used ; but in no case can ltbe legally used without a stamp and if used alter the 50th of June, 1864, and used without a stamp, it cannot afterwards be effectually stamped. Any failure upon the part of the maker of an instrument to appropriately stamp it, renders him liable to a penalty of two hundred dollars. Suits arv commenced in many States by other process than writ, viz: summons, warrant, publication,'petition, Sic., in which case these, as the original process, severally require stamps. Writs of scire facias arc subject to stamp duty as original processes. . Tlii: jurat of an affidavit, taken before a Justice of the Peace, Notary Public, or other officer duly authorized to take affidavits, is held to be a certificate, and subject to a stamp duly oi a cents, except when taken in suits ui legal proceedings. Certificates of loan, in which there shall appear any printed or written evidence of any amount of money to be paid on demand, or at any time designated are subject to stamp duty as "Promissory Notes." The assignment of a mo .gage is subject to the same stamp duty as that imposed upon the original instrument; that is to say, t'or every sum of five hundred dollars, or any fractional part thereof, of the amount secured by the mortgage, at the time of its assignment, there must be affixed a stamp or stamps, dcuoting a duty of fifty cents. When two or more persons join in the execution of an instrument, the stamps to which the instrument is liable under tiie law, may be affixed and cancelled by one of the parties. lit conveyances of real estate,the law provides that the stamp affixed must answer to the value of the estate on interest conveyed. No stamp is required on any warrant of attorney accompanying a bond or uote, when such bond or note has affixed titercto the stamp or stamps denoting thC duty required, and whenever any bond or note is secured by mortgage, but one stamp duty is required on such papers, such stamp duty beltig the highest rates required for such instruments, or either of tliem. in such case a note or memorandum of the value or denominaton of the stamp affixed should be made upon the margin or in the acknowledgment of the instrument which is not stamped. November ~3 32 fi.\ TISE COURT OF ORDINARY, YORK DISTRICT. Partition of Real Estate. U. L. Lindsay, Applicant, vs. John Doster, Elizabeth Dosier, William Duster, James Black and wife, Jane; Ellen Duster, Sinaii Duster, Robert Doster and Lawrence Doater, children of Murtlia Duster, deceased; Alccster Doster John W. Doster, Mary C. Doster, Margaret A. Doster, G. B. Doster, Felix Doster, Albert J. Doster, and Randolph Doster, children of George Doster, deceased; 8. W. Kohison, W. E. itobison, C. D. Robison. Jobn Robison, Mildred Robison, Robert R. Roblson. (who has since died, leaving as his helro-at-law, his father, Clark Roblson, and his brothers and sisters herein named, David 8. Russell, and wife, Margaret E.; William Drennan and wife, Martha: children of Margaret A. Robison, formerly Margaret A. Doster, heirs-at-law of Enoch Doster, deceased. it appearing to my satisfaction that John Doster, Elizabeth Doster, William Doster. James Black and wife, Jane; and W. E. Robison, defendants In above stated case, reside without tills State, it is, therefore, ordered, that they do appear and object to the division or sale of the real estate of | Enoch Doster, deceased, on or before the 9th day of April, 18G6, or their consent will be entered of record. I J. A. BROWN, O. Y. D. January 4 37 3m