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Jtaips M Jacte. A young lady who lately gave an order to a milliner for a bonnet, said, "Yon are to make it plain, but at the same time smart, as I ait in a conspiouous place in church." The Court of Nansemond county, Virginia, has refused to set, because of the presence of one of the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau, who are sent to all courts Sooth to see what justice is accorded to the blacks. The Columbus (Miss.) Index says that recently in that city, "several freedwomen, dressed in the fashion, drew up in their carriage before some of our principal stores, and oalled to the clerks to bring out certain goods for their inspection." AT am n?lrt?no QQT7fl f.flft JlUC ilOTV Vi iUHUO JL >vv*^ WI*V \jwmj w beat evidence that recooatraotion is rapidly taking plaoe, is that clergymen are kept riding day and night marrying yonng folks. Altars and bridals are the order of the day in those parts. ?? A young Prussian offioer lately died whose heart was on his right Bide, with the liver on the left, Ind other internal organs correspondingly reversed. He bad always enjoyed good nealth, and died of typhus fever." Major Hastings, of Alabama, whose first expedition for Brazil proved a failure by-the wreok of his vessel in the Gulf of Mexico, has just been compelled to return to Mobile, after a second start, by small pox breaking out among bis passengers. A Republican in Maine, who had recently served out his time of thirty days in the Augusta jail, was asked when he came out how he liked it. "I had a bully time," said be. "There were seventy-six inmates of the jail, and not a d?d Democrat amongst the lot." Daniel Webster penned the follow-1 ing sentiment: "If we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we work upon our immortal minds?if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and of our fellow-men?we engrave on these tablets something that will brighten to all eternity." The President's message was read in China forty three days after it was read in Washington. It was telegraphed from Washington to San Francisco, and carried thenoe to China by a sailing vessel, that made the remarkably quick passage of forty days. The Cincinnati Gazette announces that "pure essence of coffee" is now made in that oity out of the dirtest molasses." This molasses is boiled, cooled,, and when hard is pulverized. Ground rye is then mixed with it, and a small box of the mixture labelled "pure essence of coffee," is sold for eighty cents. A correspondent of the Ploughman gives bis method of curiog a horse of the practice of kicking in the stable. He says his method is to put a strap around one of the hind legs, between the fetlock and the hooff, with a small chain, about two feet long, attached. Whenever the horse kicks tbo cfcrain tttH bit bios eod bo will soon be cured. The .Petersburg Express says a . strong effort is being made to take the case of one Elliott Gordon, of Massachusetts, out of the bands of the civil and place it for trial in those of the military authorities. He is charged with horse stealing. The ground taken is that he stole from a negro, and therefore, is not amenable to the civil courts. Col. Cilley, the chief of the Freedmen's Bureau in this District, was here last week, and gave orders that all cases, hereafter, should be turned over to our Mayor for trial. Col. Cilley has shown his good sense in this matter, and we are confident the interests of all will be benefitted by restoring civil jurisdiction over blacks as well as whites?Charlotte Democrat. The news from all parts of the State is that the Sheriffs of the various counties (by order of the courts) have been stripping the baok of rogues, black and white, in the old style?from 20 to 39 lashes being the amount administered. This old-fash ioned way of administering justice in North Carolina will have a good effect. Those who consider it "barbarous" may leave the State if they choose.? Charlotte Democrat. A few days since a Committee appointed by the Texas Convention formally delivered copies of the Ordinances passed by that body to the President, who expressed a hope that Texas, together with all the other States recently in rebellion, would soon be restored te their normal condition, and that their citizens would be admitted to full participation in the blessings and protection of Constitutional Government. All persons in the Department of South Carolina holding real or personal property, goods, ohattels, stocks, bonds, mortgages notes, bills or assests of any kind, sequestra- ted by the late so called Confederate authority, have been ordered to report the same in writing to headquarters of ; that department without delay, specifying ! the kind and amount of property sequestrated, the time and place of sequestra tion, ana the Dame of the original owners, j and of any parties through whose hands such property may have passed siDoe its sequestration. A bill camp from the Senate to the House yesterday, which was intended to prohibit the sale of iDtoxicatiDg liquors within two and a half miles of a certain academy in "West Tennessee; but the drawer, in his amietyto meet the exigencies of the case, rather overdid the matter, for he ; made the bill to declare it a penal offence | for any person "to sell or keep a less quan-1 tity than four gallons" of liquor. By this j bill then, every inhabitant within a circuit j of two and half miles of the academy is ! finable, if he has Dot at least fonr gallons in his house. That would be encouraging temperance with a vengeance.?Nashville Union. Dr. Daily, the Special AgeDt of the j Postoffice Department for Louisiana and Texas, has arrived in Washington, direct j from New Orleans, through in four days i and a half. When the Doctor entered up-1 on bis duties last fall there was Dot a post- I master in all Texas; now loyal postmasters j who have taken the t#??t nath. dot rhe Srafe i all over, aod service ha<- been ordered on nearly all the mail routes, on terms favorable to the Department. Dr. Daily's re- J ports are particularly encouraging in rela tion to Louisiana. He thinks it the best reconstructed State in the Sooth. The people are in good humor, and the freedmen and all are at work in reoonstrooting plantations and wrecked fortunes. The New York Herald thus discourses of the Freedman's Bureau : "Our correspondence from all parts of the Southern country continues to furnish us with illos trations in regard to the workings of the Freedmen's Bureau anything but creditable to that radical institution. This Bureau, from all the intelligence we can glean, appears to be nothing more nor less than a revival of the odious inter-State slave systems and the huge monopoly by Government employees of the profits arising therefrom. It is hateful to both whites and blacks ; to the former for the reason that it maintains a military tyranny which is a source of oontinaal irritation to all parties, and accomplishes nothing benefioial in the way of paoifioation and harmony; and it is de tested by the blacks because it revives slavery in its most offensive form?namely, the transfer of negro families from State to State, and every remove another step Ueyond civilzation." YORKVILLE, S. C. THTJB8DAY MOBNING, MAY 10,1866. 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The passage of the Civil Rights Bill over the President's Veto, exhibits the strength of Congressional power, while the Peace Proclamation olosely following it, bas re-established the Executive prestige. But there are recent indications of the strength of the President's policy, exhibited through the opinions of his Cabinet.? For a long time nearly equally divided upon the issues between the two branches of the Government, they are, with one exception, now announced as firm supporters of the President. A recent meeting of the Cabinet was held to discuss the propositiop coming from the Committee on Reconstruction, and all of its members, except Secretary Harlan, are reported as firmly supporting the views of the President in opposition to this obnoxious report. This circumstance brings a feeble ray of hope for a final solution of the difficulty. Washington news items indicate serious doubts as to the ability of Congress to pass, by a two-thirds vote, the amendments reported by the Committee. Some of these pretend to assert the views of prominent Re putmcans, lotneenecc mac uoi a single ooeoi the amendments will pass. We publish the report in full. The new tax bill, now before Congress, and which wiil, in all probability, pass without serious modifications, is alarming. The tax on cotton is placed at five ceuts pur pound, as recommended by the Internal Kevenue Commission, and will probably become a law. On many articles of Northern manufacture the tax has been materially reduced. Rebels must pay dearly for getting whipped. A stirring little debate arose in the Senate last week, upon the presentation by Mr. Johnson, of Maryland, of a letter from Gen. Wade Hampton denying the assertion of Gen. Sherman that the burning of Columbia, S. C., was the act of the former. The letter was a dignified and manly rebuke of the subterfuge that sought to shift the responsibility of this diabolical act to other shoulders; and it was the occasion of eliciting from the Senator-brother of the infamous incendiary, ashower of abuse upon the ''impudent letter" t,f this courtly rebel Geu. Hampton asks for a Committee to investigate these charges, but we dare say that the matter is well enough understood | in Congress, withont entailing upon it so much trouble. Colorado has been admitted as a State in j the Union, and makes the twenty-sixth by radical numeration, and the thirty-seventh by the Constitutional method. The two rules work strangely in opposition. The President's veto is expected to kill the aspirations of this new candidate for State j r dignities. 1 J The Appropriation Bill before Congress is J one of the novelties of the age. Barnum j ought to get a copy forthwith, for his mu- ( seum. It appropriates $500,000,000 in bounties to Federal soldiers, and $69,000,000 to the Pacific Rail Road as a first in- t stalment. The new Niagara Ship Canal * *? li :i project, tOgetner wltc inuuuierauie rauruaua, bureaus, inter-ooeanic telegraphs, army and Davy appropriations, &c., &c., will require Dearly 8400,000,000 more. Where is the money to come from ? The total revenue of the country will not exoeed 8600,000,000 by the highest estimates. Add to these appropriations the interest od the public debt of 8200,000,000, and the end is invisible. CHARLESTON & CINCINNATI R. R. Efforts are again being made in Charleston and Cincinnati, to effeot the long expected railroad connection between these two cities. An enthusiastic meeting of capitalists was recently held in the latter oity, and nearly a million of dollars was subscribed or promised, in aid of the enterprise. Charleston is also stirring in the matter, . and the signs look hopefully towards the consummation of the work, at no very distant day. A link of this oharacter, opening the rioh granaries of the West to the r Southern sea board, was Dever more need- 1 ed than now. This is the practical recon- 1 struction we most need. ANOTHER SPECK OP WAR. [ A few weeks ago this Government sent 6 instructions to Mr. Motley, its Minister at the Court of Austria, to remonstrate against the sending of troops by that power, ^ to the support of Maximilian in Mexioo, rj as contrary to American policy, and dan- j gerous to the harmony of the two nations. Late European dates bring the information that the fir&t detachments of these troops have already sailed for Vera Cruz, and that a others are soon tq follow. Gossip further 6 says that the Austrian Minister at Wash- 1 ington, is preparing to leave without wait- v ing for his dismissal, and that the prospects for a war with Austria, are daily becoming * c : j_ui. rrr : .1 ... mure ujrmiuauie. >> e Blve tuooe Biateuieuuj for what they are worth. t NEGRO RIOTS. c The passage by Congress of the Civil i Rights Bill, is already bringing its evil J fruits upon the country, like the plagues t which infested Egypt under the rebellious r Pharoah. Norfolk, Va., has recently been the scene of a serious riot between the negroes and whites, caused by the impudence . and turbulence of the former, under their new legal status The telegraph this week r announces a serious disturbance in Mem- c phis, Tenn , resulting in loss of life and de- 1 struction of property. The citizens of Falmouth and Petersburg, Va., have been t stricken with terror by the outrages and v lawlessness of the negro, and in the riots t last week, a few whites and several negroes 1 were killed outright. Similar scenes have occurred of late in nearly all the Southern t States, and are a sufficient cause for reflection t to those who insist upon thrusting a horde a of barbarians into a position of social and ? political citizenship. Such revolutions oan- j not be effected without the shedding of e blood. This unhappy country should be spared, at least for a time, from wasting * more of it. j FOREIGN NEWS. J The issue between Prussia and Austria, j on the question of the Duchies wrested from Deumark, is gradually disappearing, f The relations between the two powers are 1 growing more pacifio, and it is now generally j believed that diplomaoy instead of the < sword, will settle the dispute. Austria is 6tated to be ready for concessions, and the < whole of Europe joins in energetic remonstrances against the inauguration of hostilities. ? The bombardment and destruction of the f city of Valparaiso, iu Cbili, by the Spanish ' fleet, presents an act of barbarism that has ! no comparison except in the recent war in j i this country. The town was not defended; not a hostile pun answered the missiles of I | the Spanish fleet; yet the city was laid in 1 ! utter ruins, and an English and American J ! squadron of war ships quietly looked on ( 1 and permitted the outrage. The affair has i i created a storm of indignation from civil- 1 ' ized nations, against the cowardly and in- 1 I human act. i The news from Mexico is unimportant : and conflicting. The Juarists and Irnpej rial forces each claim a recent victory near | Chihuahua, but the results are probably of little consequenoo. The Fenians seem to have collapsed, and j nothing more is heard of the Canada inva! sion. O'Mauoney, the American Ilead I Centre, is in disgrace, and the only question ! now occupying the attention of this interesting association, i9 how to get hold of the j immense sums of money the deluded Irish ' contributed to this foolish enterptise. LOCAL MATTERS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 'loyd, Dobson !c Co.?Every-day Shoes. " " " ?Drawing Knives, Itc. ? " " ?New Goods Received Weekly. " " " ?Whlttemore Cards. " " " ?Looking Glasses. " " " ?Cheap Trunks. " " " ?Straw-Hats. ? ? ? ?Good Fu, Hats. " " " ?Tacks. " " " ?Curry Combs. " " " ?Mason's Blacking. " " " ?Wanted. " " " ?Llnebarger's Yam. )avid G: Wallace?Candidate for Sheriff". Japt. R. H. Glenn?Candidal! for Sheriff, lames G. Gibbcs, Columbia?Guano on Time, lobn A. Brown, O. Y. D.?C.taUon?Z. D. Smith, Applicant?James D. Boyd, deceased. 'roprlctor of ihc Engulrer?Tt Printers. L L. Darr?Sumter News. Jarroll, Clark & Co.?Cups ntd Saucers, ike. < " " ?Amorieui Calf Skins. " " " ?Brimstaie. " " " ?Concentrated Lye. " " " ?Smoothing Iron*. " " " ?Window Paper. " " " ?Pruning Knlvea and Shears. " ? < ?Sheep Shears. ?. Sadler, Secretary?York Gas Light Company. Sales-Day. Monday last beiDg sale-day, was the ocsasion of bringing a number of people from ;he country into town. Two tracts of land rere sold by the Sheriff under attachments, jringing in both cases very low figures. A imall amount of personal property was also iisposed of. The Freedxaan. The new system of freed labor, so far is we can learn, is cot operating satisfactory ) but better than many expected. In nany instances contracts are not observed )y the freedmen, and new ones are made vith other parties, after tkey have become ired of the old. If farmers would steadi y refuse to hire such laborers as have quited iheir first employees, much of the evil vould be remedied. Would it not be well o consider this matter ? The Soaaon. Continuous rains have operated to the seious disadvantage of the early crops in .his District. The cool weather has been infavorable to the cotton crop. A much imaller quantity of land than usual has >een planted, and tLe seed being damaged >y time, have produced bad stands. Farmirs do not appear hopeful of the results. In a recent trip through the Western >art of this District and a portion cf Union, ve notioed the same difficulties existing.? Che wheat crops in the latter District are lighly promising. To Correspondents. "Spring"?a short poem by a modest LUthor is before U9. We are pleased with lome parts of it, but altogether find too uuoh to condemn to allow it the space it vill require. The young ladies of our town have cerainly inspired the Muses to their loftiest ifforts. Their charms are bringing poetic :ontributions to our drawer that we would >e too happy to publish for the gratification if those* interested, if space did not forbid t. ?Lines to M. E*****." 4 Bouquet ror Mollie," ?7tc? the Jioioer thou gau'st yeser Night," are, for the reasons named, espectfully deferred for the present. The President and' his Cabinet in Council. It is un'derstood that at the,Cabinet meetng yesterday, the President invited an er>re?sion of opinion from the heads of Departnents respecting the propositions reported in Monday last by the Congressional Com nittee on Reconstruction. An interesting md animated disoussion is said to have enmed, in the course' of which, if rumor be rue, Secretary Seward declared himself in rery decided and emphatic terms against he plan of the committee, and in favor of he immediate admission of loyal represenatives from die lately rebellious States. ! Secretary McCulloch was as positive as j he Secretary of State in his opposition to he plan recommended by the committee, md expressed himself strongly in favor of in immediate consummation of the Presilent's restoration policy by the admission nto Congress of loyal men from the South>rn States. Secretary Stanton was equally deoided in lis opposition to the committee's proposiions; was for adhering to the policy which lad been agreed upon and oonsistenlty purmed by the Administration, and was gratiied that the President had brought the subect to the consideration of the Cabinet. Secretary Welles was unequivooally a;ainst the committee's Scheme, and was eariest in his support of the President's policy, iomprehending the instant admission into Congress of loyal representatives from the States lately in rebellion. Secretary Harlan was rather reticent and j impressed no opioion. Postmaster General Deonison was in fa-1 ?or of carrying out the restoration policy of ;he President, but expressed some doubts is to the precise timo at whioh loyal repre^ e?_ a ? Sfofaa ieoianvea irom tee ouuiuci u ui?tv.o uuumu i oc admitted to scats in Congress. Attorney General Speed was not present I it the meeting, being on a visit to his homo j in Kentucky The President was earnest in his opposition to tho report of the committee, and deilared himself against all conditions precedent to the admission of loyal representatives from the Southern States, in the shape of amendments to the Constitution or the passage of laws. lie insisted that under the Constitution, no State could be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate, and that Senators and Representatives ought to be at once admitted into the Houses, as prescribed by law and the Constitution. He was for a rigid adherence to the Uonstituuon as it is, and remarked that having sustained ourselves under it during a terrible rebellion, he thought that the Government could be restored without a resort to amendments. He remarked in general terms that if the organic law is to be changed at all, it should be at a time when all the States and all the people can participate in the alteration.?National Intelligencer, 3d inst. V&* Two cases of Cholera have broken out in the city of New York. Tie total number of cases on the hospital ship is a hundred and one. CmtntatamL ; ' t BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. a 1 COLUMBIA. S. C.. MAY 7. 1866. ] t The University of S. C. . f About fifty students are now in this institution. The Greenville E. E. The last news is that the road will be run- l ning through in a week or two now. 1 Sherman in Literature. The famous T. J. Headley, author of j1 Washington and his Generals, is said to be ' engaged upon a new book entitled?Grant 1 and Sherman, their Campaigns and Gen ' erals. I May Festivities. The May celebrations in Colombia were not very extensive. A few qoiet but charm- | ing parties made up the all of the spring re- ( joicings this year. The parties were not peculiar in any respect that we have heard of ; ?were not paragraphable in any respect, | beyond this general mention. Fetes champetres appear to be the prevailing form of festivity. Books. i A new book-store has just beeu opened in 1 Columbia, by an old bookseller?our friend Peter B. Glass, Esq. He has a brand-new stook of books and a lot of kindred things. Another old book seller?R. L. Bryan, Esq.?has gone to New York to buy in a stock of books and stationery; and will be back and at business in a week or two. These are both new oonoems. They find the field occupied. Messrs. Townsend ( North have been established here nearly a year now, and are doing a large and accept- , t I t ! 1 _ 4.1 L--1. J |;nA aDie DUblDGSb 1U tut; uuua. auu otttiiuucij iiuo. English Grammar. We wonder why educated men and wo" men, especially newspaper-folks, will per- i sist in using since in place of ago, in such sentences as these: This occurred some I years since ; He went home an hour since; i She wa8 there sometime since. The question "Since what ?" naturally arises. We i are aware that since sometimes means ago; but it does not follow that it can always be used for ago Ago means agone, and is i exactly the word we want there; while since, does not mean the same thing, and should not be used, in this form of expression. Pictures. The finest likenesses, and on the whole 1 the finest pictures, that we have ever seen are the Albatypcs, just now coming into vogue. Messrs. Wearn & Hix of this oity have recently made, some of these pictures that surpass anything in the likeness line that we have ever seen either north or south. They are sometimes called the Porcelain picture, from the material upon which the picture is taken. They are a little expensive ; but as works of art are exquisite. The stylo of case now considered stylish is the French passa, partoutj an elegant article well matohing with the gem pictures they sutround. Dr. Lieber. Many who have been stadeDts of the South Carolin College, and others who have been friends of Dr. Lieber, may feel some desire to know somewhat of him, since the war-cloud shut out so much of the north from our view. At the beginning of the war he was a professor in the Columbia College in the city of New York, and took eonspicions part in Black Republican mass meetings, affiliating very thoroughly with the worst elements of that vile party. During the war he made numerous speeches, and wrote numerous political tracts. Among the latter are :?1. No Party Now, but All for our Country ; 2. Slavery, Plantations, and the Yeomanry; 3. The Argument of the Secessionists ; 4. Lincoln or McClellan ; and 5. Amendments to the Constitution submitted to the consideration of the American People. This last pTO vidcd the most stringent securities against secession, abolished slavery, and seoured "the privileges of citizens to all Datives or naturalized inhabitants, whether born free or made free, withoutany exception of color, race, or origin." Thad. Stevens demands no more than this to-day. Dr. Lieber wrote also some papers on military law and the conduct of armies in the field. At the close of the war, in 1865, he was appointed Superintendent of a bureau at Washington, for the preservation of the manuscripts and the official papers of the Confederate Government, to be preserved as a part of the national archives. At the same time he resigned his professorship in Columbia College, though he is still retained as a lecturer in the law school of that institution. This is the man who South Carolina once delighted to honor. ???? Bishops of the M E. Church South. ! ?The Bishops of the M. E. Church South, elected by the General Conference at New ; Orleans, iMessrs. Wightman, Doggett, iMc- j Tyiere and Marvin?are all men of talent; and distiotion in the Church. We learn that ; their elevation to the Episcopal office is likely to be very generally, not to say uni- j versally, approved by the clergy and laity of ! the church Rev. W.M. Wightman, D. D , j one of the Bishops elect, was, uotil within the past few years, a member of the South : Carolina Conference. He has been of late i a resident of Alabama and President of t Greensboro, College, is perhaps, fifty years : old, and has considerable reputation as a : man of learning and a pulpit orator. Rev. Dr. Doggett is, perhaps, a few years tho junior of Dr. Wightman, has been a member of the Virginia Conference, was for four years editor of the Quarterly Review, and since the close of the war has been one of tbe editors of the Episcopal Methodist, a Cburcb paper published in Richmond, Va. Rev. H. N. McTyeire, D. D., a younger man than Dr. Doggett, was for four years prior to the war, editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate, and previous to that time had boen editor of the New Orleans Advocate, and of late has been pastor of the Church at Montgomery, Ala. Rev E. M. Marvin, D. D., is a native of Missouri, has been a member of the St. Louis Conference since his youth, until a few years since, when he moved South, and vas a delegate from the East Texas Confermce to the General Conference that elevaed him to the Episcopacy. Dr. Marvin is i self-ednoated man, aod has occupied a ligh position, in-his church in Missouri.? ile and Dr. McTyeire, the youngest men of he newly elected Bishops, are not more than orty-five years old. MERE-MENTION. The fourteenth of July next is the time jxed for the sailing of the new Atlantic ca)le expedition At a late election 7or constable in Indiana, the radicals demanded that a negro should be allowed to rote; whereupon the conservatives and Demoorats eleoted the negro over the radical candidate. A good joke. A bad state of affairs exists in Washington county, Tennessee. Large numbers of those who jympatbzed with the South during the late war are receiving orders to leave the oounty, being notified that if they do not comply they will suffer the penalty of death. j Mr. Sumner was graciously pleased to'say i in the U. S. SeDate, that the mechanics of the country contributed almost as much to the national success in the late war as the freedmtn. A school-boy's aspiration ?'Oh, how I wish I were a fountain, for then I could always be playing. The Tennessee Legislature has expelled a member because "he took his hat and cane, and left the House without a quorum." Punch says the Pope's Bull has got the Rinderpest?a disease whioh a contemporary asserts Beast Butler is very much afraid of, as well as hog cholera. A new Express company is to be started in New York in opposition to Adams, with a capital of 15,000,000. General Braxton Braqq is living on a farm in Alabama, acting as agent for another person. He has lost all he owned before the war. There are thirty-seven Protestant Churohes in Paris, with fifty-one pastors. Fifty years ago there was not one. A Memphis paper says there were only six persons in that city in 1861, who voted against secession. Now there are not less than six hundred persons claiming to be one of the six. Just the case in .Richmond, 3ays the Examiner. The Methodist General Conference at New Orleans has made another ohange in the name of the church. It is row "Episcopal Methodist Church." At a meeting of the Stockholders of the Greenville Railroad, held in Columbia last week, the following persons were elected as officers: President?H. P. Hammett. Directors?Simeon . Fair, Robt. Stewart, T. C. Perrin, 'J. W. Marshall, Alex. McBee, Jas P. Boyce, B. F. Perry, Jas. L. Orr, J. P. Reed, L C. Childs, H. Farmer, Daniel Brown. The National House of Rep resentatives, has passed a bill establishing the grade of full General in the army, to which Grant will undoubtedly be ap pointed. Two white men and a dozen negroes have lately been .publicly flogged in Fayetteville, North Carolina, tbe local court ordering the punishment, and tbe Uoited States military commander declining to interfere because the penalty was sanctioned oy tne statutes :The public libraries of the United States comprise more than 5,900,000 volumes. The Memphis (Tenn.) Argus reports that a colic is carrying off the mules in that section by thousands. The disease was at first confined to the low river country, but it now extends to the up land farms as well, and is attributed by the Argus to the use of Northern-grown corn. The hack writers in Washington now charge members of Congress, from $25 to $100 for writing, their speeches. Query: Do these hack writers belong to the worshipful guild of qui 11-drivers ? The aonual mortality of the negro population is eight per cent., while that of the white is only two, in Louisville, Kentucky.* There is a report that Mr. Motley, our Minsiter at Vienna, has been instructed todemaud his passports and come home, in case Austria should persist in allowing recruits for Maximilian's armies to be obtained in the Austrian Empire. My first is what lies at the door; my second is a kind of a corn ; my third is what nobody can do without, and my whole is one of the united states. Mattri-mony. The wife of Jefferson Davis has been permitted to visit him at FortresB Monroe She was accompanied by her youngest child. The Pennsylvania wheat crop is reported as very promising. *v*,Io the absence of specie, financiers in North Caro lina are agitating the question of a real estate bunk. It in proposed that a charter shall be secured from, the State Convention for a "Land Loan Company," with a stock of from teu to twenty millions of dollars, founded on real estate at gold value. John Robinson, cf circus notoriety, shot by guerillas at Crittenden, Ky., April 23, died on the 30th. The late New York Legislature passed a bill prohibiting all railroads in that State from issuing free paBses to uny persons other than railroad men, disabled soldiers, and for charitable purposes. Governor Patton, of Alabama, has issued a proclamation declaring the new penal law of the State in force on and after the 1st day of June. The law punishes horse and mule stealing with death "Quid Nunc," the Washington correspondent of the Richmond Times, furnishes that paper with the following order from the War Department explanatory of the late proclamation of the President, as also the clauses of acts referred to in the order : War Department, *) Adjutant General's Office, i Washington, May 1, 1866 J General Orders No. 26: Whereas some military oommandere are erabarrased by doubts as to the operation of the proclamation of the President, dated the 2d day of April, 1866, upon trials by military courts-marshal and military offences, to remove such doubts, it is ordered by the President that ? Hereafter, whenever offences committed by civilians are to be tried where civil tribunals are in existence which can try them, their cases are not authorized to be, and will not be, brought before military courtsmartial or commissions, but will be committed to the proper civil authorities. This order is not applicable to camp-followers, as provided for under the 60th article of war, or to contractors and others speoified in section 16, act of July 17, 1862; and sections 1 and 2, act of .March, 2, 1863. Persons and offences cognizable by the roles and articles of war, and by the acts of Congress above cited, will continue to be tried and punished by military tribunals as prescribed by the rules and articles of war and aots of Congress, hereinafter cited, to wit: Sixtieth of the Rules and Articles of Wxr?All sutlers and retainers to the camp, aod all persons whatsoever serving with the annics of the United States in the field, though not enlisted soldiers, are to be subject to orders, according to the rules and discipline of war The act of July 17, 1862, provides that I "any person who shall contract to furnish supplies of any kind or description for the army or navy, shall be deemed and taken as part of the land or naval forces of the United States, for which be shall contract to furgish said supplies, and be subject to | tbe roles and regulations for the govern! mont nf fhn land and naval forces of the United States." The act of March 2, 1863, provides that "any person in the land or naval forces of the United States, or in the militia in aotual service of the United States, in time . of war," who shall offend against the provisions of said aot, (principally against defrauding, counterfeiting and embezzling by contractors, paymasters and other agents of the United States,) "may be arrested and held for trial by a court martial, and if found guilty shall be punished by fine and imprisonment, or such other punishment as the court martial may adjudge, save the punishment of death." "Section 2. And be it further enacted, That any person heretofore called or hereafter to be called into or employed in suoh forces or service, who shall commit any violation of this act and shall afterwards receive his discharge, or be dismissed from the service, shall, notwithstanding suoh discharge or dismissaal, continue to be liable to be arrested and held for trial and sen tence by a court martial, in the same manner and to the same exteDt as if be had not received such disobarge or been dismissed." For the Yortcvl'le Enquirer. BRAZIL AND ^EMIGRATION. Mr. Editor:?I take the liberty of sendiog you, for publication, the following letter from Dr. Gaston, formerly of Columbia, and no doubt, well-knowD to many of your readers. I do so in the conviction that it will be of interest and importance to not a few of the people of this country.? The facts of the past and the present, and the probabilities of the future, have turned the thoughts of many of them to emigration, aud information in regard to those foreign lands which invite the settlement of our people, is sought for eagerly, even by some who have not fully resolved to seek a home under a different sky. Dr. Gaston's high intelligence, quickness of perception, and coolucss aud sobriety of judgment, will render his observations and conclusions in regard to Brazil, exceedingly valuable and trustworthy. The moderation and absence of all attempt at exaggeration exhibited in the following letter; commend bis statements to entiro confidence. I will add that Dr. Gaston is not uopraoticed as a writer for the public, and we may expeot bis promised volume to prove interesting and instrac tive, even to those who do not .think of joinings colony in Brazil. Allow me to state further, that I am risking up a list of subscribers for him, and will take pleasure in adding other names to those I have already obtained. May I request the favor of you, to receive the names of any who may wish to procure the publication, and who cannot conveniently communicate with uo, and to forward them to me when opportunity offers? Respectfully and truly yours, , A. A". PORTER, New House, 8. C. Fort Gaines, Ga. April 11, 1866. My Dear Sir: After an absence of nearly ten months, for the purpose of learning the resources of Brazil, I reached this place yesterday evening, finding my family well, and in comparative comfort, so fir as the means of living are concerned, but under the cloud of the Civil Rights Bill. Your letter in regard to the result of my visit, cannot be answered in full within the limits ef a letter; and having many similar : T v ?J inquiries, jl nave picpaicu i,uo icuutit ui my tour of observation for publication, so as to meet this demand for reliable data, respecting the soil, productions, industrial appliances, health, population and Government of Brazil. A tedious voyage in returning, enabled me to arrange the materials collected iD the country; and they only await the printer, to be presented to tbe public in an octavo volume of about four hundred pages. With a view to place the book in tbe hands of those who desire early information, without the expense of retailing, I expect to arrange with the publisher to furnish the advance copies to subscribers by Express. My impression is that it can -be sold thus for $1.50 per copy; and if you feel disposed to make up a list and forward to me, with the name of the depot at whioh you desire the package sent, they can be paid for on delivery. I can say in general terms, that the physical aspects of Brazil are favorable to affordI ing a desirable settlement for our people; i and while thero arc some things connected ; with the state of society, as well as tbe ; Government, which are not as we could ; wish them to be, the people and officers manliest a readiness to modity tuese regulations, so as to make all satisfeotory to our people. Steps are already initiated for this purpose, and the general tone of feeling in | the country is favorable to the immigration | of people from- the Southern States. You are perhaps aware that a missionary | enterprise, under the auspices of the Presj byterian Church, has been in progress for ; five years, iu Rio de Janeiro, and extend! ing to the province of San Paulo. The ! Rev. Mr Simonton of Baltimore, and Rev. i A. L Blackford of Ohio, are the chief movers in this work, having others associated with them both in preachiog and col- portage. A Catholic priest, was received into the ministry while I was there; and set apart to the gospel work by the Presbytery which met in the city of San Paulo, holding its ecclesiastical connection with the Synod of Baltimore. I felt much