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Jtap mi Jjfacfc. Generals Steedman and Follerton are in Augusta, Ga., preparing a report of the workings of the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina, Florida and the Sea Islands. The first institution vouchsafed to our race was the Sabbath ; the next, Marriage. So give your first thought to heaven, the next to your wifo. It is said that the hair, if rolled up in the New York Tribune, puts on at once a very crinckly curl, and if one of Steven's speeches be used, it assumes a crisp instanter. The famous "Cromwell" sword, believed to have been used by the great Pro tector, was taken from the Masonic .Lodge, at Colombia, S. C , at the time Shermsh occupied the oity. ?? "Arthur," said a good-natured father to his hopeful, "I did not know till today that you had been whipped last week." "Didn't you, pa," replied hopeful, "I knew it at the time." The easiest way to get a living, says a vagabond poet, is to sit on a gate and wait for good luck. In case good luck don't come along, you are no worse off than you were before. TheNewnan (Ga.) Herald publishes an application to the county ordinary for letters of administration by a oolored man on the estate of a deoeased friend. This is the first instance of the kind under the law passed by the last Georgia Legislature. It is stated to be a rule of law in the far western territories that "a town is a place where whiskey is sold." By means of this rule, the courts distinguish real towns from those whioh exists only on the paper plans of the land speculators The Piokens Courier 83ys that it learns from good authority thai as soon as Congress adjourns, his Excellency Governor AAII fliA 1 .ortifiln^nvA f Annf nil tk I \JL L y frill u?u IUC Jucgioiaiui- nivu . a view of conforming the laws of the State 1 to the action of Congress. Ex-Secretary Jacob Thompson is in Paris, and anxious to retnrn to the United States?expresses himself in favor of the reconstruction policy of President Johnson, and of the Southern States accepting the situation and acting with loyalty and in good faith. Mr. Pullman, the projector of the sleeping-car improvement in railroad travelling, has devised an arrangement of the trucks which secures such a steadiness of motion that writing is as easily done as in a home library, and tables are provided for this purpose. The little tax of one cent upon every box of matches netted the Government Sl,500,000 last year. According to that estimate, 150,000,000 bunches or boxes of matches must have been used in this country during the year, or five bunches?equal to five hundred matches?for every man, woman and child. It is calculated that American fami* i; . 1 t r L i._ c nc? cau travel lu rjurupe iur iweuiy-uve pur cent. less than it costs them to stay at home. Beef is ODly sixpence sterling a pound in Bremen. Heretofore rich people have gone abroad for pleasure, but unless prices moderate, the poor people may eventually have to gn for polrn nf A correspondent of the Christian -4cZ vocatc states that from 52,000,000 to 52,500,000 worth of tobacco is annually consumed by the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Amerioa. The consumption of tobacco in the entire country must be very great if a single religious body uses so much. The Charleston Courier remarks that TT "Hiofvirtf in tKia Anntninn iu LUIO ciaitj luuiaiu^ more than forty saw mills in operation, a large cotton factory at Yancluse, one at Graniteville, a porcelain factory at Kaolin, a paper mill at Bath, while another cotton factory is building which will accommodate a thousand looms. All of these factories are worked in an area of twelve square miles. Dr. Andrews, inventor of the so-called "flying ship," made an ascent with his balloon and aerial navigation fixtures at New York on the 25th ultimo. Three gentlemen went up with him. They report that they could sail their balloon in any direction except immediately against the wind. They will do that "next time." They landed safely. A practical joke, which will last a year, was lately played in Buffalo. The Republican Mayor being absent, the Democratic Council elected a Mayor pro ttm., which latter gentleman withdrew all the Mayor's appointments, and made new ones | from the Democratic ranks. The Council I confirmed the new appointments ; and the ; Mayor pro tern, confirmed the proceedings of the council. The Courier des Etats Unis declares itself enabled to inform those of the American newspapers which "persist in an offen sive and incomprehensible doubt as to the [ evaouation of Mexico by the French," that : the Government has signed a treaty with j the trans-altantio packet company to embark | and carry back to France the whole Frerch | expeditionary force in Mexico within the time agreed upon. The Chicago Timet justly remarks that the drunkenness, personalities, indecency and fanaticism of the present Congress will make it infamous. All the vices, blackguardism, treason, inefficiency and dishonesty of the age seem assembled in the Capitol at Washington. It is long past the time thisdigraceful concern should have adjourned. Let it dissolve, and let the people prepare to elect those that will represent the nation. Prof. Newman says, contrary to the j generally received opinion, birds prefer to j fly against the wind. The quails of Europe : almost invariably start on their passage of j the Mediterranean with a head wind, and j if it chops around and blows fresh from the i southwest, they are drowned by thousands, | and their dead bodies are washed ashore for weeks afterwards When the wind is abaft, . it gets under the bird's feathers in the most, aggravating manner, and upsets his equilibrium and equanimity at the same time. The London Mercantile Gazette, j speaking of the cotton supply says : The j crops in Egypt and Turkey have fallen off; I but we have now pouring iD upon us sup-1 plies from India, America, the Brazils, &c., j far in excess of all previous calculations. ( It may have been to the interest of many persons to understate the quantities likely to come forward in a given period ; but we have warned our readers that the produce of the world would presently be in excess of the demand. How far we have been correct is demonstrated by the statistical details of the imports for the present year. Notwithstanding that 250,260 more bales have been purchased at Liverpool only for home consumption since the commencement of the year, the supply in warehouse? 784,650 bales?is 247,620 bales in excess of the corresponding period in 1865. The increase in the import?679,040 bales? is so large that few houses are now manufacturing except to order. At the present time there are about 650,000 bales of cotton nflnnt. from India. acainst 390.000 last year; while -the four months importation from America into Liverpool were equal to 580,000 bales. lb* fjMffilile YORK VILLEa S . C. !> >! THTOSDAY MOBNING, JUNE 7, 1866. OUR TERMS?IN ADVANCE. THREE DOLLARS A\D FIFTY CENTS per year; TWO DOLLARS for six months; ONE DOLLAR for three months?payable In "greenbacks." When payment Is made in specie, TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per year; ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS i for six months; SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS for three months. Single copies, TEN CENTS. {ft?-Corn, Flour, Wheat, Bacon, Lard, Firewood, occ., will be received for Subscription, Advertising or Job-Work, at market prices. I {ft?-The paper will be discontinued on the expiration of | the time for which payment has been made. Subscribers who find a (X) cross mark on the wrapper or margin of their paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. {ft^-Mr. JOHN R. ALLEN, Post Master, at Chester C. H., is our authorized agent for Chester District. {fty-Col. T. P. SLIDER, at the Mills House, is our sole agent in Charleston, for receiving advertisements and subscriptions for the Enquirer. ENQUIRER CLUB RATES. PER YEAR?IN ADVANCE. IN SPECIE. IN "GREENBACKS." 3 COPIES,...3 i 50 9 G 00 5 COPIES,... 8 75 13 50 10 COPIES,... 17 50 35 00 and fin extra copy to the person making a club of ten. After a club has been returned and the money paid, the person making the club may add as many more subscribers at the rate of the original clnb, as is desired. Subscribers who find a (X) cross mark on the wrapper or margin of their paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. CASH ! We wish it distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and job work are cash. .' ... ' <! >? A NEW JOURNAL,. Nearly every week brings to our exchange list some new newspaper enterprise, from this State. We have just received the first number of the Daily American Patriot, published in Columbia, S. C., by J. In his salutatory, the publisher assumes a broad national platform, proposing to advo cate the harmony of the States, and "to promote by all honorable means those relations of confidence and friendship which | must exist between all honest supporters of the Government. The Patriot is a large ami neatly printed daily, and promises well to merit the support of the people of this State. We commend the enterprise to the reading publio, and wish it a successful career of usefulness. ?> ?? - CHOLERA. This "plague of the East" is reported to be rapidly increasing in virulence at the N. York quarantine grounds. A number of emigrant ships have recently arrived from Liverpool with the disease on board, and a heavy per centage of deaths during the passage. The result is a rapid increase of the disease on the hospital ships provided by the city, and an increased probability of the contagion extending to the shore. Once there, it will almost inevitably visit the whole Atlantic seaboard with a desolation more destructive to human life thau war itself. The interior cities possessing the advantages of purer air, and less density of population may escape lightly. Its ravages in country towns are never so severe, and a rural population generally fails to be affected by it?except to be scared. OUR FINANCIAL CONDITION. It is perhaps not the best course for those whose position requires them to act as sentries over the public welfare, to create alarm before the sure approach of daDgcr. With due regard to this fact, we cannot perceive an excuse for silence. The results of the recent great struggle?the hopes based upon its termination, and their utter j disappointment; as also the unfortunate re straining policy pursued towards creditor and debtor, have operated to place the country in a financial position anything but, promising. The question naturally presenting itself now, is what can be done to remedy the mis- i takes of the past. Debts due between individuals, now that all restraint is removed, will be forced to an adjustment through the Courts. The pressure once commenced, will be of necessity continued to a wide extent. The exaction of demands against an individual, will require him to exact of others to mee tthose demands. In such an extremity, we would counsel forbearance, as the best means of placing debtors in a condition to pay. There is, however, but little likelihood of such counsels availing anything. We cannot look to the Legislature for further restraint. The Constitution has been interpreted, to forbid tbe restraining of pro- f oess for the colleotion of debts, and it would c be useless to attempt it further. i But there is another course left open to s the Legislature, which does not violate 1 either the article or spirit of either Consti- f tution?State or Federal. Let an Aot bo t passed, allowing the debtor the privilege of t redeeming his property sacrificed at public auction, within one, two or three years at | the price it brought, with interest. Those ] whose embarrassments might otherwise ren- | der them houseless and homeless, would i thus by a harmless and humane legislative < Act, be in a short time restored to their property. The plan appears to us proper < and feasible, and we commend it to the ex- 1 amination of the people whom it will affect. 1 We do not claim its originality, but assume { the privilege of setting forth herewith a hearty endorsement of its propriety. i f >i ? 1 THE "SITUATION." The observance by both Houses of Con- 1 gress, of the honors doe to the remains of 1 Lieot. Gen. Scott, has operated to the suspension of business for the past few days. Its proceeding contains but few matters, of interest to us. The Senate debate upon the reconstruction proposition from the Committee of fifteen, has been making some progress. Before it was called up in that august body, a Senatorial radical caucus was convened to ascertain what the party could do. It soon became evident that there was one thing they could not do, and that was to pass the proposed amendment as reported from the Committee, with the obnoxious disfranchising clause. The cauous decided to expunge this clause and insert the following in its stead: Section 3. That no person shall be a 1 Senator or Representative in Congress, or Elector of President or Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States or under any State, who having previously taken an oath as a member of any State Legislature or as an exeoutive , or judicial officer of any State to support , the Constitution of the United States that have engaged in insurrection or rebellion ! against the same, or given aid and comfort 1 to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, ] by a vote of two-thirds of each House, re- , move such disability. The debate has begun upon the subjcot, and progressed to a vote rejecting tne tnira clause, and to another substituting the above ameudment. Its final adoption by the Senate in this form is a foregone conclusion.? But will the legislatures of twenty-five States ratify it? We cannot pretend to calculate ; upon the results, but we know there is only , paiD and humiliation in them, for the South, , whatever they be. The South has long since ceased to find comfort in the polit- | ical prospects of the future. It is pain- , ful to cut ourselves loose from the props i that ease the pressure of our despondency; but the signs of the times give no indication of relenting or weariness in persecution. We havo neither confidence in Congress, nor hope in the good sense of the Northern people to sustain us. Altogether we had as well cease to console ourselves with the prospect of a better future; but pay our taxes if we can ; keep what we can ; make what we can, and let politics take care of themselves They will be none the better of our watching. Powerless to avert calamities, we had as well learn to pass them by, with the best indifference wc can command. The following embraces a list of the principal measures before Congress, in which the Southern people are interested : The Constitutional Amendment. The tax bill, providing for an internal revenue tax of 5 cents per lb. on cotton, and an additional export duty of five cents.? Passed the House. Tlirt Kill fiAnfinntn/* f Vi r\ T? rftorl m n n'? J. liU Ulll 1UI tuuuuuiug IIIU I Jl/CUOJJU a Bureau for two years. Stevens' confiscation bill; (not likely to receive much attention ) The new Bankrupt bill, already passed the II>use. Bill for the admission of Colorado as a j State in the Union. Passed both Houses and vetoed by the President. No action since had upon it. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The troublesome Fenian organization seems determined to embroil this country in a difficulty. Late advices from the j Canadian frontier, represent a considerable j force as having crossed into Canada, at a j point where no troops were stationed to op pose them. This is a part of the Roberts faction, which declines to acknowledge the supremacy of Stephens, as Chief Director of the organization. Stephens is opposed to the inauguration of active hostilities at this time, and advises delay and concert of action. The Roberts faction aro eager for immediate action, and refuse to listen to the wiser counsels of their leader. Trouble for a brief period will probably be the result. The trial of Ex-President Davis, , before the U. S. Circuit Court at Richmond announced to take place this month, will no doubt be deferred until the Fall. There is a peculiar "bitch" in the manipulation of af- , fairs connected with the trial, that the coun- i try cannot understand. The only solution ' wo can arrive at is that Congress does not ' intend Mr Davis to be tried before a Civil j Court, as the chances are that he will be ao- | quitted; that the Executive will not allow i urther trials by Military Commission in time if peaoe; and that another party in power s willing to let him die in prison, as the afest way of evading questions his trials is ikely to put before the country. If not >ut upon trial this month those "who ought o know," say that ho will be set at liberty ipon his parole. The unmasking of the operations of ;be Freedman's Bureau by Generals Steedman and Fullerton during their inspection tour, seems to have brought to grief the dirty officials they have thus exposed, rhe Riohmond Times says : "The Northern papers publish the order of the President to General Howard, directing him to suspend and order into arrest, to report to General Ruger, Colonel E. Whitelsey and a number of other officers and employees of the Freedmens' Bureau in North Carolina, whose malfeasance and corruption were exposed by Generals Steedman and Fullerton. We are pleased to see V>of tKo Pot? Mr thfl rkftfriarnh nf the """" - ?t ?~ r Trent River settlement, and the Rev. Horace James of Massachusetts, are among the parties ordered into custody." An European correspondent of a New York paper in expatiating upon the atrocities of Spain towards Peru, makes the following sarcastic hit at reconstruction in the United States: "Permit me to offer a suggestion. We hear a great deal about Southern lands being wanted to reward Northern soldiers, and, no doubt, if there is any such want, it will be a tremendous obstacle iq the way of reconstruction. Suppose you settle your intestine differences by admitting the South to Congress on condition of taking Cuba and dividing that rioh island amongst the conquerors? Spain will not give you any trouble, and the plan I suggest would be an excellent way of punishing her piracy, and of healing your civil wounds. Give the suggestion currenov. let the Deonle accept it, U * ' * * ? and before the Fall, a United States Commission may be dividing Cuba amongst loyal claimants. Don't miss such a fine opportunity. Judge Nelson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, residing in New York, has discharged, upon a writ of hahacs corpus, Mr. James Eaoan, of Lexington District, South Carolina, confined for life in the Albany Penitentiary, under the sentence of a Military Commission, charging him with murder Judge Nelson says in his order for the release: "It appears that said Eagan was tried without a presentment of a grand jury and without the verdict of a petit jury, and that be was not and never has been in the militoi.ii no nonol oornioo anrt fViaf. if- nmq nnf a IC.1J, VI ?v. ..vv, ? case arising in the land or Daval forces or io the militia when in actual service in time of war or public daDger, nor subject to th^jurisdiction of a Military Commission, I do hereby decide and adjudge that tbe said James Eagan is illegally imprisoned, the said trial having been without jurisdiction, and I do order that he be discharged from said imprisonment." Such a precedent coming from a member of the Supreme Court Bench, will no doubt be acted upon to alleviate the horrors these hateful military trials arc bringing upon the South. We look to such in hope. MERE-MENTION. We cannot censure a man in business who does not advertise, if he has nothing worth advertising. The Charleston Board of Trade has memoralized the Uni ted States seDate against tne passage or toe general Bankrupt law which passed the House a few days since. The long bridge across the James river at Richmond, erected in the place of the one destroyed by fire on the 3d of April, 1865, has been completed. It is built upon the Howe truss plan. The bridge is 2838 feet 7 inches long and will cost about $120,000. Some prophets are debating in the Maine papers whether the end of the world is to come in 1869 or 1873 San Francisco is to be supplied with water from a lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains, an aqueduct two hundred miles long Pennsylvania farmers do not expeot to get as much wheat from their crops as they sowed Maj. Gen. Burnside has been inaugurated Governor of Rhode Island. The Government received last year ?300,000 from the three-cent tax on pho- j tographs Steamers for Europe on the 16th ultimo, took out $5,873,000 in I opcvio' A locomotive on the Hartford and New I Haven Railroad was lately fired with peat, j found along the line of the road Mr. j Henry Betts, of Norwalk, Coun., is manu-; facturing paper from the sedge found along \ the shores of the Sound If your knowl- j edge is little, let not your words be many. Governor Sutter, the first discoverer' of gold in California, is supported by a pen-1 sion from the State. The fudepcndent says "the next great national agitatiou is the question of suffrage without distinction . of sex." The Canton (Ohio) Republican states that a purse of $100 has been made up in that city and forwarded by ex- j press to Gen. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, j by his friends there. The Desolation of Columbia, S. C. ?The correspondent of the New York j Times, traveling in the South, writes : Columbia is beyond all doubt the most' desolate lookiug place JiSouth of Mason and Dixon's line. The rich green foliage of the trees which line the streets seems to mock j the dreary prospect of totteriDg walls and | smoke-stained ruins over which they wave, j No one can fully appreciate the utter dea-J truction of the city without seeing it. 500 | buildings, not inoluding those of a public nature, were burned, mostly located in the ' very business heart of the city. At present j the city preseats a truly heart-sickening j sight, and when we take into consideration ! the fact that most of the citizens firmly be- i lieve that Sherman ordered or authorized I its destruction, it is not hard to acoount for i :he bitter and deep-seated hatred which ' many of them exhibit toward .Northerners. LOCAL MATTERS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. A. Brown, O. Y. D.?Citation?James M. Kendnck, Applicant?James E. Cluinn, Deceased. Dr. John May?Money, Money, Money. ? ?? ? ?jc(. Soda Water. Carroll, Clark !t Co.?Dry Goods, Groceries &c. London &. Zimmerman?Corn for Sale. I F. C. Harris?Candidate for Ordinary. Floyd, Dobson & Co.?Butter and Eggs Wanted. -c " " " ?Corn. " " " ?Beeswax Wanted. " " " ?Lime. " " " ?Liverpool Salt. F. M. Galbraitli?Cotton Tax. Vi 0 State and District Taxes. n The attention of those interested, is j direoted to the additions made to the adver- a tisement of Col. Jackson, the District A Tax Collector. k A Concert. fi Wfl Vi arm Knnri ronnoofn^ f.. gfftfa ft i ti " I - ' -I gentleman of this plaoe, that himself and ? members of his family, will give a concert ^ on Wednesday or Thursday evening of next |j week, in aid of the proposed monument to l the dead soldiers of York. So soon as the y arrangements are completed, further notice v of the same will be given by means of hand- ^ bills. (l Change of Schedule. Owing to a ohange of schedule on the 1 C. &. S. C. Railroad, we are debarred the privilege of a through mail connection with ( Columbia the same day. The trains now c leave the latter place at 4.15, F. M., and 8 do not arrive at Chester until 8 30, P. M, ? c and the mails, upward, do not reach us until the following afternoon. We regret i that such a barrier deprives us of much of t the interest our Columbia exchanges always ' afford, in the way of early and reliable news. i Musical. On Friday and Saturday nights of last ^ week, Concerts were given in our town by ^ a troupe of musical amateurs, from Charlotte s N. C. Acoordingto the bills, the proceeds c were to be applied for the "Benefit (?) of the 1 Stonewall Cemetery." Upon footing up the expenses, it appears there is "nary" benefit left?for the object proposed. We have i been furnished by the agent with the fol- 1 lowing report: Printing 3 4 50 ( Candles 1 25 t Posting Bills, &o 2 50 , Necessaries for Hall 30 t Hack hire 15 00 ( Ilotol bill 47 30 t r S70 85 g By amount received for tickets 67 10 t 8 &s75 / Hail Storm. On Saturday last, a destructive and wide- ' spread storm of wind and hail passed over the central portion of this District, from i South-West to Ncrth-East. The injury to ' the growing crop in its track was severe. ' In many places the wheat crops are entirely destroyed. The damage to the fencing j is also heavy. Many persons dependent upon their I wheat crops for bread for the next few months, have been placed in a deplo' ible 1 condition. , On Tuesday, another terrific tornado passed over us from the same direction, uprooting trees and unroofing a number of houses. A number of old wooden buildings were blown over, without injury to the i oocupants, as far as we can learn. The 1 handsome hotel building of Mr W.E.Rose, ( was partially unroofed. The streets and , sidewalks of this town are literally covered j with the deDris or toe storm. At this writing, we have beard nothing from our farming friends as to the injury done them, by this last storm, but from the evidences of its fury hero, the crops must have suffered additional heavy injury^ The Soldier Monument. The proposition to erect in the public square of this town, a monument to the memory of the deceased soldiers in the late war, commends itself to us as a sacred and christian duty, that no consideration should allow us to postpone. The political ohanges that have occurred since the termination of that struggle, do not alter the conditions of our duty. They were our defenders: they went to the field of strife at our bidding, and our honor and the cause in which we pledged them, was entrusted to their keeping. They fulfilled that trust at the coat of their lives. We oannot consent, if , wc would, to let their names be forgotten, j We who survive the terrible conflict should < bo the last to dishonor it. The object appeals to the tenderest syra ( pathies of our hearts. Clustered around s them in the richest fragrance of affection 1 and love, stand the names of these fallen ( ones; and they were of our own house- j holds; our fathers, brothers, husbands and ( sons. We cannot forget them, nor would ? we willingly let their memories be forever t lost to those who follow us. 1 There is not a family in all the land, that J has Dot lost some treasured friend by the g war, whose name they would gladly perpet- i uate by some suoh fitting record. A few c pilars from each, will seoure the object. ./ . - ? ? ?? ? - - ? - / o t&~ Mrs. Robert Toombs, who has re- d turned to her home in Georgia, says her li husband's advice to the young men of the h South is that they remain in the fcouth, li which he still considers a country much j< preferable to Brazil, Mexico or Cuba, and, a by patient endurance and aotive industry, c rebuild upon the surest of foundations their fi own shattered fortunes and that of their na- tl tive land. c BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. COLUMBIA. S. C.. 4 JUNE. 1806. Jdgar Poe. Recent developments make it appear that rriswold's story about Poe's dissipation rhile at the University of Virginia is withut foundation iD faot?is a lie; a lie that jay have originated with the reverend lemoirist himself, at least was endorsed nd published by him uina-mated. Miss Anna Dickinson, as everybody nows, is the great itinerant woman's-rights, ree-negro, free-love, and social-reform lecarer of Yankee-land. In a newspaper ard recently she oalled the negro, Fred. )ouglass, her "dear personal friend." Jpon this the Old Guard, a monthly pub ished in New York city, lets off the folDwing:?"We had heard before that such ras the case, but as she is a white woman re took it for a piece of scandal; but as the roman herself admits it, we give her the iene6t of her public confession." 'The Land We Love." We have seen the initial number of this nagazine, although we are not indebted to he publisher for the sight. It is gotten out quite in the style of xeneral D. H. Hill, who has a style of his iwn, no less with the pen than with the word. He is thorough, go ahead, ultra, .nd in general an extremist. Such too is lis Land We Love. itt i;_M j t we coruiauy uuwweuu u iu uui mtuuo the view we take of it. It echoes yet he war-notes of the camp, aod is extremey southern. It is less literary than either he Crescent Monthly or Scott's Monthly Magazine, but is more belligerent than >oth of them. Jervgnts. In Columbia, house keepers find great lifficulty in getting, and do less in keeping, ;ood servants. The maohinery of the new ocial system has not got in good running irder yet. Servants apply for and get sittations, and in a few weeks abandon them, it very short notice. The freedmen are ;iddy, and unfixed in their plans; so that, sven without intending dishonesty, they are lot reliable for aoy reasonable length of ime. They appear to utterly want the acuity of seeing as far as an inch ahead of heir noses. If B offer a freedman ten sents a month more than A is payiDgbim, hough the prospect is that B's engagement vill uot last but a few weeks, and the fuure is wholly unsettled by the chaDge, the :hances are ten to one that he will make he change, and trust to luck for the future. The future is a thing the freedman never iees. From this and similar causes, housekeep jre have an endless round of annoyances. Something should be done to regulate ,his chaos?something to protect the emjloyers in the eternal shifting. We suggest to housekeepers the expediency of givng "Characters" to good servants who leave ;hem, and let others go without; and then, et no servant be employed who has not his 'Character" to show who and what be is. In Europe the rule is imperative; and ;he effect upon the demeanor of this class s said to be very happy. In the North there exists the same sys:em, though less rigidly enforced. Let our people, in self defence, inaugurate some similar rule; and house-servant anoyances will diminish and service be worth far more. For the YorkvlJIe Enquirer. OUR SOLDIER DEAD. Mr. Editor.?Will you allow me to say, ;hat I do not think anything has appeared for a long time in the columns of the Enquirer more interesting than the communication signed "A," in your last issue, rhis, I know, is really saying a great deal 'or any single article in a paper so generaly and deservedly popular?for who does not read the "Enquirer," and almost jverything in it, with great interest? It seems to me if your correspondent, lfter a most careful analysis of all the sympathies of the popular heart, had made t bis special aim to strike the ohord which would vibrate most responsively, tenderly ind deenlu to his toneh. he could soarcelv r-j / T ^ave been more successful than he was in sis late article. And it is really very hard for me to decide whether he deserves more praise for taking his sword in hand and ;oing forth to battle for his country's imperiled liberties, or with jealous care for he honor of his fallen comrades, taking his pen and calling upon his countrymen to Dcrpetuate their memory by some suitable :estimonial. His appeal in behalf of our toldier dead cun't be in vain. Our soldier lead ! What a orowd of solemn memories ioes this phrase awaken in every tboughtul, generous heart! We think of homes eft?weariness? perilous watcbings- cheeress, wasting sicknesses?privations the nost severe?exhausting toils?innumerible dangers?battles?carnage?wounds? leathsand uncoffiocd graves. We think too )f bright and glorious hopes which died with hem. Our soldier dead ! Yes, and many >f the best, bravest and noblest of our land? ind because they are dead, our cause is dead. But we will not, we cannot forget they lied for us. And the very fact, that to human dew, theirs seems to have been a vain obation, and hence unappreciated if not lespised by the outside world, makes it >nly the more obligatory on us to defend heir honor and perpetuate the memory of heir heroism and sublime devotion to jrinciple. Their good name is 'our peculiar reasure, and it is our solemn duty, who ent them forth on their mission of sufferog and death, to cherish their memory in tur heart of hearts "Women of the South, honor your lead !" Yes, your dead. At your bidling they went forth to battle. You bucksd on their armor. Your dead ! For your onor and welfare they sacrificed their ives Your dead ! Yes, they were your 3wcls. But I do not conceive that any ppeal is necessary to arouse my noble ountrywomeo to asenseof their duty to our illen heroes. I know if it were possible bey would gather up their very dust in one ommon urn, and each would covet the honor of being made the special guardian of this sacred treasure, which she would watcfc and guard with even more than a Vestal's interest and care. This, however, is impossible. But we ma; all aid in collecting their names and inscribing them upon a plain and durable monument, that will tell to succeeding ages, that we are not the mean, ignoble remnant of a great people, but worthy indeed of the costly sacrifice which has J beeu made for us, and worthy, too, of a bet- ' ter fate than we have received. If we do less for the memory of the brave men of York District, who fell in our late struggle, than has been proposed in "A's" communication, the very heathen would condemn us; for in all ages they have erected monuments with suitable inscriptions, to perpetuate the worthy deeds of their noble men?even too, sometimes when sucoess did not crown their labors and sacrifices.? The monument at Thermopylae, is a oase in nmnt. Cicero makes theaeed Oato sav. that r~?" ? o? * i. be found these monumental inscriptions of singular service to him, in re-calling to miod those noble men, long since removed by death. If we do less than has been proposed, posterity will consign us to infamy, and even our late enemies will poor merited contempt upon us. On the contrary, a becoming respeot for our martyred dead, will inspire our recent foes with increased respect for us. All amongst them, whose good opinion we value, have attributed to ns noble sentiments and an unfaltering devotion to duty and to principle?and it is worthy of consideration, that just in so far as we show that we do possess this exalted character, in the same degree do we give them evidence that we will, in good faith, observe the terms we have aooepted at their hands. YORK. DEATH OP GEN. SCOTT. The telegraph announces the death, at West Point, New York, on the 29th ult., of Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott. The Charleston Neios furnishes the following sketch of his life : Geo. Winfield Soott was born Januarv 13, 1786, io Petersburg, Va., and received bia preparatory education in Richmond High School and William and Mary College. He was admitted to the bar in Richmond, and soon after visited Charleston, S. C., with the i intention of settling there, and praotioinghis profession, which plan, however, be subsequently abandoned. From his earliest boyhood he showed a predeliotion for a military career, and fortune soon interposed to assist him. The attack of the British frigate Leopard on the United States frigate Chesapeake, aroused the indignation of the whole country, and a large force of volunteers was called out. Scott hastened to enroll himself in the Petersburg Troop of Horse as a private. His soldiery person and evident taste for arms attracted the attention of influential friends, and he was commissioned captain of light artillery May 3, 1808. He was made Lieutenant-Colonel in the war of 1812, and ordered to the Niagara frontier. Before the end of the year he was elevated to the command of a doable regiment, and in March, 1814, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General. The battle of Chippewa was the first of a long series of victories associated with his name. After the declaration of peace, General Scott was offered the post of Secretary of War, by Mr. Madison, whioh, however, he declined, and proceeded to Earope, in 1815, on a secret mission of the Govern* ment. On his retnrn to the United States he was assigned in command of the sea* board, and fixed his headquarters in New York city. Here he remained till the breaking oat of the Black Hawk war in 1832. At the olose of a brief campaign of a few mouths, he returned to New York, and in October visited Charleston on a highly important and delicate mission. In 1835 bis headquarters were transferred to Florida. In 1837 he wassent to the Northern frontier, on the occasion of the insurrection in Canada. In 1841 he was made a full Major-General, and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the whole United Q?n ^An n?mn nnrl An f Vl A QfltK nf V AOn m knf O tat co at luj j auu vu tuc uvvu ut ax u vcluuci j 1846, sailed from New York for the Rio Grande, to direct the approaching campaign in Mexico. His brilliant victories daring the two years of the Mexican war are too familiar to all oar readers to warrant any farther allasion to them in a brief biographical sketch. He was nominated for the Presidency at the Baltimore Whig Convention in 1852. He was honored by Congress with the rank of Lieatenant-Gcneral, which grade was revived in his person as a compliment to his distinguished services to the nation. He was retired from the immediate oommand of the army, at his own request, November 1, 1861. Since then be has been living in dignified retirement at West Point. State Elections.?The State elections in the several States are held as follows : In New Hampshire, on the first Tuesday in Marob; in Connecticut, on the first Monday, and in Rhode Island, on the first Wednesday of April; in Virginia, on the fourth Thursday in May; in Oregon, on the first Monday of June; in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky and Texas, on the first Monday, in Tennessee, on the first Thursday of August; in Vermont on the first Tuesday, in California, on the first Wednesday, and in Maine, on the second Monday of September; in Florida and Mississippi, on the first Monday, in Georgia, on the first Wednesday, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania, on the second Tuesday, and in West Virginia, on the fourth Thuredy of October; in Louisiana, on the first Monday, in Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Wisconsin, on the first Tuesday, in Colorado, on the seoond Tuesday, and in South Carolina, on the third Wednesday in October. There are no State eleotions held in the months of January, February, July and December. The first practical operation of civil rights law that has come to light in this region of country, we learn, occurred in a neighboring County a week or more ago.? A negro girl swore her child to a white man.?Denton (Md.) Union.