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Jtop mi Mrs. Davis is still at Fortress Monroe. No limit is plaoed npon the length of her visit, bnt she is restricted in her conversations with her husband to the hoars between reveille and san-set. A New Orleans paper tells a story of a man in Louisiana about to be sentenced to jail for assault and battery, who pleaded in arrest of judgment that he was a ferryman on an important road, with no one to help him, and to imprison him would be obstructing the publio highways. The battle-field of Franklin, Tennessee, where Hood's men fell by the-hundred and were buried, has been rented by the proprietor to freedmen, and is about to be given to the plow. Every Southern State has its representatives on this field, and their friends are endeavoring to secure means to remove the bodies before the traces of the graves are trampled out. An agent is travelling about the rural districts selling oopies of the wellknown engraviug, "The Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from Leydon." He expatiates very fully upon the notable points of the picture, but bewilders his customers by assuring them that the larre figure in the centre is that of "the celebrated Christopher Columbus." The Pittsburg Gazette 9ays that a ooal compacy has now piled, near Honesdale in that State, 350,000 tons of coal, said to be the largest body of coal ever collected in one heap on the faoe of the earth. It would require a train over 260 miles in length to remove the stock, or 700,000 carts would be needed, reaching in one continuous line more than 2000 miles. Orfila, the celebrated French chem ist, being examined as "expert on a capital trial, was asked by the President whether be ooald tell what quantity of arsenic was requisite to kill a fly. The doctor replied, ^Certainly, M. le President; but I must know beforehand the age of the fly, its sex, its temperament, its Condition and habits of body, whether married or single, widow or maiden, widower or bachelor.? When satisfied on the points, I can answeryour question." A year or two ago some enterprising person succeeded in rolling iron in thinner sheets than had ever before beun seen He sent some specimens to England, and the British workmen have since tried their best to out roll their rivals, and have succeeded, i We believe they have produced two thinner ( speoimens. The last of these weigh only 36-100 of a grain to the square inch ! It would require two hundred sheets of this thickness to make ud the thickness of a 1 eheet of note paper ! i From the Richmond Republic we learn that the National Cemetery at Cold ! Harbor, Va., was completed on the 1st of I May. This cemetery i9 situated on the ! ( Cold Harhor road, on the farm of Mrs. Slaughter, and about a half mile from the ' old Cold Harbor house. It is 234 feet in ] length by 220 feet in width, and contains one and one-sixth aores. The total number of bodies interred is 1930?50 commissioned officers, 1 chaplain, 89 non-com- ( missioned officers, and 545 privates, besides 1245 remains cot yet identified. The Episcopal Methodist Conference at New Orleans adjourned on the 3d. It ex tended the pastoral term to four years, and 827,000 were voted as the support of the ' bishops The probation system was stricken 1 out of the discipline Class-meetings were i made a privilege, bat no test of membership ( any longer. Monthly church meetings were ordained and love feasts to be held with closed doors. The salaries of ministers are 1 to be regulated by their congregations. The 1 bishop's salary is to be raised within the e- \ piscopal district in which be labors / According to the Central Preslyte. , rian, the enumeration of the Presbyterian Church South is as follows: Synods 10, ! * Presbyteries 46, churches 1112, ministers s 646, licentiates 85, candidates 45, comma- t nicants 72,693. To these it adds the United Synod communicants, whose aggregate (before the war) was 11,448, Synods3, 8 Presbyteries 12, churches 165, ministers a 110, licentiates 6, candidates 20. Thus f the aggregate of ministers in the United a Church is 811, of lioentiates 91, of caodidates 65, and of communicants 84,821. Of these 12,473 are colored people. 1 The Columbus (Georgia) Sun, of r A OQ?k on nil It A v\WA*\Aa?ftti\n Kuo knor? -tipil oayo "jlx piupynmuu uao wvvu made, by a Mr. A. D. Breed, of Cincinnati, to lease, for a term of years, the Ala- 1 bama and Tennessee Railroad, extending from Selma to Jacksonville. He is to bnild the continuous road from Jacksonville to Daltoo, on certain conditions, and run ! both in connection. There appears to be a division in the disposition of the stockholders on the proposition. The matter was to come up for a decision at the meeting of the stockholders at Selma, on the 9th of May, inst." The Salisbury North State learns j that a riot took place at Morganton a few | days ago, which resulted in the United ' States Regular Troops stationed there driv- , ing some returned negro soldiers from the : town. The negroes, who went off with Gen- ; eral Stoneman at the time of his raid into Western North Carolina, and joined the Federal army, it seems, have been mustered out of service recently and have just returned to their old homes with loftly notions of their rights. They showed some insolence, it is said, at other places, but at Morganton it was resented by the soldiers, who drove the negroes off The Convention called to consider : the propriety of organizing a separate State I Government for East Tennessee, met at Knoxville, on the 3d instant, and was presided over by one Judge Rogers. The Committee on Resolutions and Business roported an address, which was adopted, stating that the scheme of separation had long beeu cherished by the people, that there were irreconcilable differences of feeling, habits, &c., between the East and West, and concluding with statistical statements of the population, square miles and resources of East Tennessee. A resolution advocating a postponement of the question of secession was voted down. A oommittee was appointed to bring the question before the Legislature, and another committee to prepare an address to the people and Legislature. The New York Times condenses the history of the bombardment of Val paraiso as follows: "The bombardment lasted for three boors, or from nine in the morning until noon. Only one or two persons, who were in the streets, were killed. The damage to property was confined to a few public buildings, and half a dozeu private bouses; and eight milliou dollars are the outside figures of the losses inourred. It is evident, from the buildings mentioned as being specially and steadily aimed at, that the Spanish commander attempted only to destroy Government property, and we can well believe the statement that the damage done outside of this arose mainly from the bad artillery practice of the Spanish fleet." The British subjects at Valpa raiso have had a public meeting, and adopted resolutions that they "cannot too strongly condemn" the conduot of the British Admiral at that station, in giving assurances that he would not allow the city to bfe bombarded and then permitting it. They also resolve ; "That Rear Admiral Deman's plea of want of sufficient foroe to oppose the Spaniards, is humiliating to his countrymen 'and inexcusable, considering that the co-operation of a powerful United States squadron was pressed upon him by its commander." I&f VORKVILLE. S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1866. j OUR TERMS?IN ADVANCE. 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This hasty action t ias now been reviewed, and the attempt to etter the Executive prerogative been a- o >aodoned. The Senate last week recalled n he Hill, and had the obnoxious olause c tricken out. This may bode evil, or it D nay mean well; evil inasmuch as it may I inly have been withdrawn in order to pass t . joint resolution applying to all Executive ppointmeots in whatever department. Oar aith in Republican integrity is so weak, f, nd so often has the South swallowed poison 8j indcr the garb of honeyed sweets, that dis- a rust of every thing Republican is the latural result. c The Reconstruction Committee has re- ii jorted ; the House made speeches for three t lays upoD the report, Tilad Stevens prac- v iced a little wicked juggling (something u le may have done at other times) upon its members, and it passes, disfranchising p jlause and all. In those three days some c savage speeches were made ; buncombe was p manufactured, the treacherous South stig- 1 matized, and the glorious Union and omnipotent Republican party, extolled. Votes for future emergincies were probably made i too, in those three days of speech making; ! and it may be that a Judas Iscariot | received there the twenty pieoes of silver ! as the price of his venality Certain it is ' ^ nno nmminent momKop nf fhp TTnilSP. I LUttl V. ... V ^VWwV, , Henry J. Raymond, of the New York! Times, wrote, spoke, lobbeyed aod harangued j against the bill, but when his name was called upon its final passage, he responded "aye." Did he receive "the price of blood ?" It is announoed that President Johnson * has already written his veto message of the Bill for the admission of Colorado as a % State. lie takes the ground that the pop < ulution of the new aspirant is not sufficient t to entitle it to become a State; that tbo bill was not passed by a legal majority of i Congress?only nineteen Senators voting in the afirmutive; and that he don't approve of bringing in those under age, half grown I neighborhoods, to help keep out old States that ought to be in the Union instead. We i think'Andy is right. The failure of the "Merchants National i Bank" in Washington has created much alarm in financial circles. The Govern- i ment lost 8400,000 by it; the depositors | lost their oash ; and certain financiers have lost their theory, viz: that a National Bank cannot fail. We cannot object to theii enjoyment of this theory, bat unfortunately, the facts don't support It. The women of New York have just held a Convention. They have resolved themselves into voters, city officers and policemen. They claim the right to do anything they want to do and not ask anybody else about it. They expect to get up another revolution, and are now probably resorting to arms. James Stevens, the big Fenian, that is going to redeem Ireland, by a snap of his finger, has come to America, and lemanism in New York and elsewhere, shows some signs of vitality again. It may not be dead after all, but we doubt extremly the ability of the great and worthy Stevens, to infuse a spirit of harmony into the disorganized and excited throngs of hie countrymen. If James Stevfns would bid them go to the plow and the anvil, instead of to revolution, be would merit a better title to greatness than be is likely to attain through bis present course. THE STAY LAW. We publish elsewhere, the opinion of the highest judicial tribunal of this State, pronouncing the act of the Legislature known as the stay law, unconstitutional and void. Four vears ago the Legislature with hu mane intentions?but misguided policy, passed the act in question. The necessity for such a measure was then seriously questioned by many able men in the councils jf the State j and subsequent events early proved the reasonableness of their doubts rhe country was overflowing with money, which until the close of the year 1863, was no where refused in the payment of old Jebts. So easily obtained were the means )f payment at that time, that we are lost n wonder at the reckless indifferenoe of lebtors upon the subject of their liabilities. Four years of accumulated interest, bringng at the some time, exhaustion of means, md depreciation of property, was a sure vMmAnitinn nf imnflndincr rnin At the close of the terrible struggle in ,865, the Legislature re-enacted the old statute, with a provision that the creditor aight demand one-tenth of the aggregate mount of his debts nearly twelve months aferwards. This was also unfortunate for the ountry. It enoouraped extravagance, by leferring the day of final settlement. The aeans to pay?derived from the cotton in he country?were soon expended in purhases that might have been dispensed pith. The money that might have been mployed by a rapid circulation, in the layment of millions of dollars of indebtediess, has gone into the coffers of Northern apitalists; and the country is now in a aore prostrate and insolvent oondition than t the close of the war. The ruin will inevitably be widespread . 'he uneasiness of creditors; and the couner pressure upon all sides, will oause the acrifioe of property to an unlimited extent, 'he orash has come, and suffering and ruin o many must be the result. Those who can, had better set about at nee, to meet the issue. Timely efforts iOW, and a wise discretion on the part of reditor and debtor, will spare many that aight otherwise sink in the inevitable crisis, jet the people set their houses in order, for he catastrophe cannot bo averted. LETTER OP GOV. ORE. In another oolumti will be found a letter om Governor OftR.in regard to the neces itj of post offices being supplied with ppointees who can take the oath. The uportance of this matter appeals to every ommuoity in the State to hasten in Boleotagsuch persons for postmasters, as oan meet he requirements of the law. That ,we till soon be deprived of all mail facilities nless this is done, is certain. Single ladies who can take the oath upended to the Governor's letter, will be ommissioned upon properly endorsed apilicationsdirected to B. B. Vassel, Special ^gent P. 0 Department, or to Gov. Orr. j THE CHESTER STANDARD. This well-known sheet greets our exibange list in a new dress, printed on new ype, and presenting altogether a handsome ippearance It is published in Chester, S. 3., by W. H. Babcock, and 'Gf.oror Pitjiek Es q Mr. Babcock was formerly iditor of a paper in Fernaudina, Florida, and )rings ability and experience to the manigeraent of the Standard. Mr. Pither is in experienced publisher. We wish the Standard under its new management ibundant suocoss, and bespeak for it the jood will of the reading public. MR. DAVIS. \ , It is stated with a semi-official degree' )f authority,-that Ex-President Davis is loon to be put upon bis trial in Richmond,' Va. Judge Underwood has prepared the indictment, and left a few days ago for Washington, with the papers in his pocket. Furthermore, the telegraph brings informsiion from Norfolk that the grand jury of -he United States Circuit Court there, brought in a true bill against Mr. Davis on the 10th inst., and the Court then adjourned to meet in Richmond on the first Tuesday in June. The Norfolk Virginian gives rather a strange statement of the charaoter of this grand jury. It says that "Ifcree of the i J Grand Jury were deserters from theConfed-. erate Army, a fourth was oonvioted of per jury, and all are 'low-down' men." Matters are evidently hastening to a crisis. The - firmness of President Johnson, has resub ted id the ohances of a fair trial for this eminent ex-officer, before a jury of his conn-1 trymen. As Chief Justice Chase refuses to preside over the Court while the Military authorities are in oontrol, the notorious Underwood will probably be the presiding Judge TAX ON COTTON. Congress proposes, by an amendment to the Constitution, to lay a duty on Cotton exI ported from the United States. This will be in addition to the proposed internal revenue tax of five cents per pound. The subject is now under consideration, and the proposed amendment will probably soon be submitted to the several States for ratification. The determination of this orazy Congress seems to be to At. cotton out of existence, as if it was, some bow or other, the author of the recant war. It will certainly assert the taxation power to its utmost extent, upon this commodity; and may soon produoe the result least expected, and lnut of all desired bv the Government: that of stopping its oaltare in the Soathero States. The Southern planter cannot afford to grow it under this pressure muoh longer. SPECIOUS. Upon the introduction, in the House on the 8th inst., of the Bill from the reconstruction Committee, Thad Stevens took the floor, and delivered one of hia charaoteristic speeohea in support of the measure. In answer to certain objections to the third section of the Bill disfranchising all who supported the rebellion, until July 1870, be admitted that the President's pardon removed the ineligibility of the voter and placed him upon the same ground with loyal citizens. This is perhaps one of the boldest strokes that reckless fanatic has yet attempted, to gain the support of the more conservative portion of the House to a measure neoessary to secure the next Presidential election to the Republicans. He makes an admisaiou that if incorporated in the bill, -would take sway its venom, but which he is shrewd enough to know cannot be so construed in its interpretation by those to whom its execution is to be intrusted, viz: the managers of elections. He knew fall well that whatever effeot he might assert for the Bill, did not in the least alter its plain and specific .phraseology. The Speaker, Colfax?initiated into the dodge, and looking forward to the next election to place him in the Presidential chair?ruled all amend meats to the Bill as not in order, and thus left the House to rely upon the assertions of Stevens as to its effect. We do not remember ever to have seen a bolder or more successful piece of legislative fraud attempted. The amount of lying necessary to success, did not in the slightest degree affect the plan. Stevens "knew his game and won .it. Below is a synopsis of the colloquy upon the subject: "Mr. Blaine of Me , called the attention of Mr. Stevens-and of the House to an objection to the third section of the amendment, which he deemed serious, if not fatal. That section provided that until the Fourth of July, 1870, all persons who voluntarily adhered to the late insurrection, giving it aid and comfort, shall, be excluded from the right to vote forRepresentatives in CoogreBs and for electors of President and Vioe President of the United States. It appeared to him that was a violation of good faith in reference to that large class of people iD the South who came within the terms of the Amnesty Proclamation of President Johnson, and who were thereby restored to all their civil rights. He asked Mr. Stevens for an explanation on this point. Mr. Stevens admitted that the pardon extinguished the crime?after pardon there was no such orime in the individual Those who were fully pardoned did not come within the operation of the third seotion. Mr. Blaine understood, then, the gentleman from Pennsylvania to say that those who came within the terms of the Proclamation of Amnesty, would not be considered j us having voluntarily adhered to the late insurrection. Mr. Stevens assimilated their condition to ;bat of a person convicted of felony, and thereby rendered incompetent to testify ; but who, if pardoned, and if his testimony were challenged, could produce his pardon and thereby show bis oompetenoy. Mr. Blaine suggested that if that was the proper construction to be given the seotion, it should be so amonded as that there could i )C no question aooui ns vuuoinuvbiuu, ?uu j ne should at the proper time move an amendment to that effect. The point made by Mr. Blaine and virtually admitted by Mr. Stevens to be well taken, seemed to create a considerable stir in the Republican ranks. Members drew near and listened to the colloquy with great interest, as if recognizing the possibly fatal character of the collection." Successful Secession.?It seems that Radioal logic has decided that successful secession i6 right. Western Virginia is a proof in point. That seceding portion of the Old Dominion is not only recognized, but is allowed to have Senators and Representatives in Congress. Now it is certain that if a State has no right to withdraw from the Union, a county has less right to withdraw from a State. It was treason for the Southern States to secede and form a Confederacy, but it is all right for certain counties to secede and form a State As there is a West Virginia, Tennessee is to have an East Tennessee. So you see the distinction without a difference. In the early history of North Carolina certain disaffected and ambitious parties endeavored to establish a State of FraDklaDd out of the western portion of the Old North State, but the treasonable effort was at c ice defeated ; and it was not till West Virginia revived the idea that anybody conceived that such a thing would be tolerated by either State or Federal authority.?Charleston News. editoriaiTinklings. 1 Fenianism, Cholera, and Women's Rights, are now the exciting topics in New York City. The first is apparently in its last agonies; the second rapidy subsiding at the quarantine grounds ; but the last Is just bursting out like an irresistible conflagration. It is reoorted that Governor Grr intends soon to call the Legislature together to oonsnlt as to the legislation rendered necessarj by the altered condition of affairs since its last session; and to amend such laws as conflict with the provisions of the Civil Rights Act. The Convention of the Methodist Episoop&l Church South, which recently assembled in New Orleans, has made great changes in the discipline and economy of the Charch. The name has also been changed to that of Episcopal Methodist Church. The following artiole explains the changes that will hereafter govern the Church throughout the South : . Not only has the General Conference at New Orleans changed the name of the Church, but it has made many alterations in its economy or discipline. We have already noticed the fact that attendance upon class meetings has been rendered a voluntary matter, instead of, as Heretofore, a condition of membership. We dow learn that all restrictions upon the length of time during which a minister may serve one congregation have been removed, and the qnestion of bis return been left to his people. Another radical change has been made : The probation system has been abolished, and members are to be received into full fellowship at once, while what are called "seekers" are to be assigned to classes until they give evidence of their qualification for membership in the Church itself. In regard to the finances, also, the hand of reform has not been idle. The old chapter in the discipline on this subject has been stricken out,and the different congregations and district stewards left to provide means for paying the preachers. The Bishops' salaries are left in the hands of the episcopal stewards. The secretaries of Annual Conferences are hereafter to record "every action as it occurs." Lay representatives in the Annual and Qeneral Conferences have been provided for. It will be a cheering thought to many whose hearts and hearths have been made desolate by the recent war, to know that the honored dead of the battle fields in Virginia, are not nncared for. On the 10th of May?the anniversary of the lamented Jackson's death?the ladies of Richmond assembled to do fitting honors to the dead heroes who repose there. The occasion is described as one of touching solemnity, all hearts being imbued with the sacredness of the work they had assembled to perform Upwards of a thousand ladies joined the prooession to Oakwood Cemetry, where addresses Appropriate to the occasion, . were then delivered. The Richmond Times says "at the conclusion of the speeches the audience was dismissed, and each one sought the graves of the fallen braves, and spent the day in strewing them with wreaths, bouquets of evergreens, immortelles, violets, lilacs and the modest forget rne-not, all speaking mutely, but Ob, ^ how eloquently, of the affection of those who were paying this mournfal yet pleasant tribute to the memory of the fallen heroes of a loved though "lost cause." Many of the graves presented sad marks of the ravages of time?their head-boards having i been torn up and broken; others with the I names nearly obliterated, and not a few bearing this simple epitaph, "unknown." : "Unknown isall these stones can tell, I If Jesus knew them, aJl Is well." In this "labor of love" the day was spent by these noble women, and sunset * found them still lingering in their noble j1 ocoupatioD, UDwilling to leave the. spot 1 where sleep the manes of those who, while ' living, were their undaunted protectors? J now dead, the objects of their grateful 1 honors. ' ' Now on each hillock Sweet flowcru in beamy bloom, To deck the grave where -sleeps t he brave Within Ills narrow touih." ?? ?? MERE-MENTION. Messrs Willis & Cbisolm hafre reduced the fare from Charleston to New York, on there line of steamers, to twenty five dollars. The latest masonic statistics j| report that there are one million of masons in the world and five thousand lodges A site has been fixed upon for a national burial ground at <>Seven Pines," on the 1 Peninsula, and the workmen are now en- ; gaged in laying it out. The Jonesboro, (Tenn.) "Flay" says that at a recent sale in that county, corn sold at five dollars per bushel, aud bacon eighty cents per pound on a credit of twelve months. The Universalists of Portland, Maine, have a )K<ii(- nnafnr vniintr VTULUCftU iUI UUUtl , ladies of the Laurensville Female College ! have elected the Hon. C. H. Smith, of Rome Ga., better known in the Sontb as "Bill Arp," to deliver the Annual Address before the College in June next. The President interprets the peace proclamation as abrogating martial law in the districts where the rebellion is declared to have ceased, in all matters in which the civil courts have jurisdiction. The New , York Commercial's Washington correspondent says it is rumored thdt the President advocates the calling of a national Constituional Convention to settle the issues now ' pending.* The trains on the Winches ter and Potomac railroad ran through to Winchester on Monday last, for the first time since the destruction of the road during the siege of Harper's Ferry. The "mule rinderpest" continues id Arkansas and Mississippi. Over 1500 have died in the vicinity of Helena, Arkansas, aod Vicksburg, Mississippi. Corn is worth only twenty-five cents per bushel at Plattsmoutb, Nebraska, and it is reported that Cass County, in that Territory, has a surplus of two hundred thousand bushels. A young American lady, brought up in the Christian faith, joined the Jewish Cburoh at Chicago a few days ago. A Mrs. Callahan died recently at Webster, Mass., of dropsy, after having had 730 pounds?about ten barrels?of water removed from her by twenty-four surgical operations When on a full war'footing the Austrian army consists of 570,000 men The Prassian army, including the landwier or militia, is oomposed of 566,150 men. Maj. B. D. Townsend, of Bennettsville, has been elected President of the Choraw and Coal Fields Railroad. About ten miles of the road have been graded, and comparatively little work is necessary to prepare the road bed to receive the superstructure as far as the North Carolina line. It is now proposed to make an earnest effort to push forward the work, as soon as the necessary arrangements can be perfected for tbat purpose. A brilliant genius is writing, for the Kosciusko Star, a novelette entitled "The Georgia Gal, or who stole my Goobers ?" Toe Commissioner of Agriculture has received from Honduras, Central America, a swarm of .stinglcss bees. These bees are easily swarmed, and are excellent honey makers A mau who attempted to commit suicide in Canada, but didn't succeed, was imprisoned seven days for this offence Thirty-thousand tailors in London were recently engaged in a strike The gold, crop of the. world will probably reach 8150,000,000 this year. Previous to 1830 the average annual yield was less than 834,000,000. The largest amount of revenue drawu from the British people io one year never exceeded 8370,000,000, while the amount drawn the present year from.the people of the United States is at the rate of 8540,000,000 per annum. The Indiana Republicans oppose negro suf frage. The 10th of May, theannivgr-' sary of the-death of Stonewall Jackson, was observed generally in Virginia, by a suspension of business, and by an ovation to our departed heroes. Of forty-four Re publican papers in ' California, twenty-two support the President, and twenty-four Congress. The Columbia papers announce the death of Benjamin Rawls of that city, at the ad vancedageof ninety four years. Atone time, Mr. Rawls was post master of Columbia, v Vienna despatches assert that Austria, in her latest note to Prussia, declares her readiness to take the initiation in demobilizing hgr trpops.-yv-A negro at Cincinnati sued the judga at an eleotion for re fusing his vote, fie claimed 810,000 damnr?an ?r\rl fKo invn rraT7 0 Him nnn nnnl OUU VUb jU?J g?TV UIUJ UMV WUU *1 General Ewell is engaged in stock-farming in Maury County, Tennessee. He is said to be in excellent health and spirits. LOCAL MATTERS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Carroll, Clark 3c Co.?New Stock. William K. Ryan?Cotton Factor, &c., J. W. Avery Jt Co.?Latest arrival of Sprint; n'<d Spanner Goods. (toxnesley &. Ashcr?Spring Hats. " " ?Calico. " " ?Summer Shawls. " u ?JJIcached Domestic. " " ?Cotton Yarn. 1 " " ?Silk Nets. 4< " ?Hoo"i> Skirts. ? . ? ?Ladles' Collars. - 1 ' " ?Embroideries. W. II. McCorkh;? Frivatn Sale. L. M. Grist?Notes and Accounts. Iced Soda Water, With cream Syrups, at the York Drug Store, is one of the refreshments of the 1 seasoD. The energetic proprietor pf this sstablishment is prepared to furnish this de- ( lioious beverage to the thirsty, in gosbiog < draughts of purost flavor Call and-drink ' with the Doctor, all ye that are athirst. Baptist Church. Oo last Sabbath, as previously announoed, a meeting of the Babtist denomination was held in the old Methodist Church building, with a view of organizing a Baptist church in this town. The opening sermon was I preaohed by the Rev. J. C. Burge, from Psa. 4, 2, after which the ooveoant and constitution of the new Chnrch was read and adopted. Letters of dismission of members from other Churches were received, md their names placed upon the Church I roll. Seventeen persons signed the Cove- 1 nant and became members of the new j Church. ( The following officers were then eleoted. Pastor.?Rev. Tilman R Gaines. ( Deacons.?Samuel McCants, J. P. 1 t tmtvflbv t q t.Twncrv uini/oriX| u . vj. xiiiii/uuA} To Correspondents. "Guardian Angelr," by Helen, is the title of some very readable verses recently placed upon our table. The thoughts are pretty, metrical, and well expressed, but < the authoress has not furnished us with her real name. We will be pleased to accept { thein for publication, whenever ,the name { of the writer is received. This is a role of loDg standing, with publishers, and we are ^ not willing to depart from it. We can j keep the secret, if it be desired. Contri- ' ( h..M?nci Hhnnld alwavs be accompanied by i J the real uame of the writer, as a matter of ? private reference?not for publication. ; "Army Letters," from "Puritan," are Dot suited to the charaocer of this paper, j and are respectfully declined. At the same i time we would be glad to have a series of 1 letters from some one capable of detailing correctly, incidents of campaigns and: battles, of the late war, if continued and connected as a series. We invite attention to this subjeot. ' ' fefriMraul ' BY J AS. WOOD DAVIDSON. COLUMBIA. S. C.. MAY 14, 1866. The Greenville B. B. The Broad River bridge is the ooly gap now The road runs to the river on both I 1__ T. i - - anas. 11 may oe two or tnree moatba before the bridge be oompleted. Small Pox. This disease is in a rapid decline amongst us. Less than a dozen cases all told, one of oar city phyiscians advises as, now remain in the city. We could bid it good bye with a great deal of pleasure. For the Ladies. Saspenders to bold up the skirt, relieving the otherwise-necessary pressure upon the waist, are the last novelty in feminine apparel. If the advantages to the ladies are as great as those of wearing sospenden are to gentlemen, we cordially oommend them to all the fair. The Fenians. Poor Erin.! For many generations poor Erin has bad a fell disorder that affects her braia. The malady comes to a head, which has to be cat on before she experiences any relief; bat when it is dooe, and the hemorrhage has been profuse, the patient finds rest for ten or a dozen years. When the disorder returns, the same treatment is applied, with the same result. The famous Head Center Stephens must lose his head now soon,- before poor Erin can rest from the present paroxysm oT patriot-ism. Who burnt Columbia ? The citizens of Columbia are taking steps to answer this'question for future times A meeting has been held, and a committee of twelve appointed to collect testimony, evidence, and facts upon the matter. We hope it will be carried through thoroughly and boldly. We have no doubt as to what the resnlt will be?what the facts are?and we hope they will be brought horns to the real parties. Every body feels assured that this investigation will fasten the gnilt of burning Columbia upou the very man who j:j *4 n i ul.. ik. m.mU uiu II?ureueiai oucimau, iuc uivot uuuim igated scoundrel now unhang. Hiots in Memphis. Accounts reach us of riots in the west? riots in which there is a dash between the whites and the .negroes. Several have recently ocourred in Memphis, in whioh four or five whites and perhaps a score of negroes were killed This is an important item. The facts are fraaght with a terrible significance to the popr negro. It is the initiation of the inevitable oonfiiot that is to arise from this new state of sooiety, and whioh will result in the extermination of the negro. Cuffee's doom is sealed the moment the conflict Qpens in earnest. It may last for years?maybe for generations?maybe for a century?but end when it may, it ends in cuffee's ruin and extermination. When be makes himself the Helot, he shares the Helot's fate. Let him beware of blood. BooksWo soo nn Bftlo at. Tnwnsond At North'fl a new book oalled: Southern General*,their Lives and Campaigns, by Captain Wtn. Parker Soow. It is illustrated with steel portraits of many of the subjects We observe the oameof General Lee is given incorrectly?Robert Edward Lee. We do notkoow who Capt. Soow is, bot we have an idea that he is a Yankee. Mr. Pollard of Richmond has jost gotten oat a new and revised edition of his Southern History of the War. This was published daring, the war nnder the title of First Year of the War, etc.. With subsequent light before him we have no doabt that the author has greatly improved it. Beligious. We are in receipt of the second number of the jBaptist Church and Sunday-School Messenger. Itispublished monthly at Yorkvilla CS. C.I at two dollars a vear. It is a double-oolumed octavo of the usual size, containing thirty-two pages. The matter of the Messenger will commend it to the Baptists, font is sectarian, and inoompromisingly so to the last degree; and it is outspoken. We like this. Let every man and denomination speak out like men. We have no patience with half way men and measures.? Upon this ground we commend the Messenger to the Baptists. The Sunday School department appears gotten up with judgment, and is likely to interest such children as are fond of religioas literature. For The Yorkvlflc Enquirer. THEOLOGICAL SEMIHAEY. The undersigned was' direoted at the last meeting of the Synod of South Carolina to bring to the notioe of the churches in the Presbytery of Bethel, the state of the Theological Seminary (Presbyterian) Columbia, S.C. That Institution has only a few thousand dollars of available investments left oat of m endowment of 8270.000. While a portion of thir may become available in'tbe coarse of 'time, at present the Seminary is dependent upon the contributions of the Presbyterian people in this State mainly, for its sustentation. To keep it goiog, the professors, some of the ablest men in our ohnrch, and men who are eminently qualified for the position, from which the church cannot spare them, must be supported. Students, too, who desire to enter the ministry and have not sufficient means need aid If aH our members iu the bounds of the Bethel Presbytery woald do a little, much would be accomplished. Contributions in clothing or provisions, or money, will be acceptable and useful, and properly dispensed. Persons can sand contributions to Rev. James Woodrow Columbia, S. C ; to Rev. J. E. White, Cbestcrville; or to me' at Iforkville. The President of the K. M. R. R. has freely consented to transport nrovisions &c.,*free of cost; and I doubt r oot the Charlotte R. R. will do the same thing. Contributions of money or provisions left with me will be promptly oooveyed to their destination and acknowledged in the Southern Presbyterian. Let no one decline to give because bat little can be given; the aggregate may be