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^AfSJWS Mi $8ffo. ?-The wife of Oept. Vessle, living in Aooomao oounty, Va., gave birth one day last week_totwo children, each having two heads, four eyes and three legs. The Treasury Department has ordered a,qiroular to. be sent to post masters receiving over $600, requiring them to show thaMfcej have paid income taxes. H The remains of an elephant have bean discovered in Louisiana, twenty feet below the surface, aad just above an immense bed of rook-salt The Rhode Island Legislature has appointed a select committee, with Gov. Barnside at its head, to erect a monument to soldiers from that State who fell during the war.; There are to be three leotures in Danville next week. Dr. Atkinson will lecture on "Woman," Col. Farrar on "Johnny Bab" and S. S. Bryant, Esq., on "The Devil, hie Origin and Appearance." What an association! Women, Rebels and the? Devil 1 Not a trinity, but a trio! ??Those of our readers who are not well posted in history, may be interested to know the date of the abolition (by law) of slavery in the State of Massachusetts. It was -Mfeomplfthed by the adoption of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution, in 1865. -r?- G*n. Butler, who is a candidate for Congressional honor from Massachusetts, is nn.fflaf? f?v tun? in T?Vinf riiQf r 1 nf". h in O^AWlJf pMKHiOU VV liMwn ^ "' chances are moat favorable. His residence is in tbe 7th but bis "barn" is in the 6th, and 5y transferring bis legal domioil from one to the other, he.can take advantage of either "straget^o" point in the "situation." "Honld aisy, Mike," said one of two Irish pedestrians, as he reverentially approaehed a mile-stone. "Thread lightly," said he, "for here lies a very ould man." Pat carefully spelled oat the inscription, "Baltimore 164 miles," and then continued: "He was 154 years ould, and bis name was Miles, from Baltimore." ? The Charlotte Democrat announoes that the unfortunate soldiers, who lost limbs during tbe war, will be passed free over tbe Wilmington, Charlotte aud Ratherford Rail Road, to and from Raleigh, for the purpose of primping artificial limbs. Gov. Worth either has made or is making arrangements for an extension of the same privilege by the other roads of tbe State. -The Ballard House at Richmond is rented for $10,000. Tbe Exohange Hotel is nominally let for $8,250, bnt tbe lessees ko/t tn mol-c 891 flHA wnrth ftf rpftftira UMVV W J V w w .. w- ? w- - ~r in consideration of the comparatively low figure at which they get the establishment. The St. Charles is let for $4,800. The Spotswood Hotel stores rent for the nice little fortane annually, of $28,000. -The European nations that have been wrangling to long have agreed to meet in conference, to see if an amicable settlement is possible. The result depends upon Napoleon. He will make it what he wishes it: but what be wishes no one knows.? -?j.I M ru.?? There is some danger, however, that the fight will begin before the parleying. The London Times fears that if war begins, all Eurpjw will be involved in great revolutionary oonvulsions. A South Carolina correspondent of the New York Evening Post makes the following : "I have heard the negroes speak more bitterly against the people of mixed blood than against the whites who sold and whipped them and wronged them in every way, J. was protesting against this spirit one day with a pare negro. "It's no use talking," he said, "we won't stand it. I'll bend:tow white man, bat never to a mulatto. I'll tell you what it is, if a white man and a mulatto were thrown out of a boat and I oould save one, I would never ask a question, but swim for the white man. The Brenham (Texas) Banner says that, under the benign and fostering care of the "Bnreao," the freedmen of Brenbam are achieving a state of almost complete perfection in tbe highly important, nsefnl and refined business of marble-playing. At almost any hour of tbe day, large numbers of able bodied freedmen may be seen in tbe streets, engaged in the exercise of this interesting game; and the expertness with which they "plump the middle man," beep from "getting fat," and cry oot "vent dumbs," or "don't fudge," is highly exhilarating and instructive. The Lynchburg Netrs reports that Hon. Messrs Broomall and Buxton, of the House of Representatives, and members of the committtee sent to Memphis to investigate the late riots, were in Lynchburg on Sunday on their return to Washington, the investigation having been completed. They stated in conversation, that the people of Memphis* weTe in no manner responsible for the riots, but that their investigations resulted in establishing the fact that the affair gTew out of the antagonism between the foreion police of the city and the negro soldiers, not residents of the place. They were understood to say that such would be : the report of the Committee, soon to be submitted to CoDgress. ?- Harper's WeeTcly shows how simple and easily a National Bank, that is a Government depository, makes money. A smart financier can make money very easily. All that is requisite is to get his bank appointed a Government depository, which is readily done. A little further exertion secures him a deposit of a half million. If be does not oboose to take trouble or run risks, he takes his money to the Sob-Treasury in New York or Philadelphia, and lends it to the Government at four per cent, interest for the use of its own money, and our smart national banker makes 920,000 a year without risk or labor. Fighting seems to be the business that is liveliest the world over, just at present. Let us see: Here are the Fenians fighting the Kanucks; there the Mexicans are fighting Max aDd the Imperialists. A little farther down on the map the Peruvians are fighting the Spaniards, with Chili | to help them. Then, just over the way, | Paraguay, is fighting Brazil and the Argen- j tine Confederation. All Europe is getting ' ready for a big light. The Russians are fighting the Bokharras, the Chinese are fighting the Mongolians and the Tartars. In fact, this wicked world was, somehow, never so brimful of fight as it is just now. The Peace Society, we fear, is drifting sadly astern.?New York Express. At Branchville, S. C., they can find no white man who can conscientiously take the "test oath." Anxious to seenre honorable communication with the outside world, the gentlemen of the neighborhood agreed to recommend a respectable, intelligent freedman of the village, in whose integrity they all had confidence, for the position of postmaster. He oonsented to serve. They told him that all he would have to do was to take the "test oath." He wished to hear it. Cuffee was accordingly favored with a reading of the document. As the reader progressed, his eyes expanded, until the conclusion was reached, where be brought down his fist with unmistakeable force, exclaiming, "No gentleman. No siree. I can't take that oath. I wanted the South to whip, ana i won t ten & ne ; about it now. No sirs. You must get au- j other postmaster." We need scarcely add that Branchville is yet without a postmaster.? Weekly Record. ife fforMllr YORKVILLE. S. C. THURSDAY HORNING, JUNE 21,1866. OUR TERMS?IN ADVANCE. 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S COPIES,...9 A 50.... 9 o 00 5 COPIES,... 8 75 13 50 10 COPIES,... 17 50 85 00 and an extra copy to the person making a dab of ten. IgyWithin one month from the date a olnb is returned and the money paid, the person making the club, may add any number of names at the same rate. X. 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. THE "SITUATION." The passage by both Rouses of Congress of the proposed amendments to the Constitution, has placed the South in such an attitude that it may foresee with almost absolute certainty, the events of the future. It is probable?nay almost certain?that no Southern State will consent to the amendments proposed, even under the spe cious and fascinating allurements offered of immediate representation. Without the votes of the Southern States, or a part of them, the notion of Congress is a nullity ; the amendments connot become a part of the Constitution, and the South will receive neither benefit nor detriment from the labored legislation of the present CoDgress. Our position will be the same twelve months hence that it is now?but better this for an indefinite period, than for a people to .l . -r it.:. j Decome toe instrument's 01 tuen owu uugradatiom The radicals evidently fear a revulsion of feeling among patriotic men, that will be fatal to the present scheme. If deferred until the Legislatures of the several States are convened next fall, there is a strong presumption that the conservative foeling of the country will be developed in its strength and thus be able to reject this odious plan. Thad Stevens presented a bill in the House last week, providing for the immediate admission of delegates from Tennessee, provided said delegates take the test oath, and provided, also, that no other representation be admitted hereafter eleoted, unless all classes vote in such elections, and so forth, etcetera, until Civil Rights, the Freedman's Bureau, Constitutional amendments, and all the features of the radical programe are lugged in. This bill will certainly pass, if for no other reason, sim ply because Stevens wants it adopted. The reasons for it are plain. It is a bid to Tennessee to forsake her oomrades of the *V?n nulfvTT KriKu nf tmmorlinfn OUUIU 1U1 tuc kTAswrv VTA M4WV....VW representation; and array herself under the banner of Stevens, Sumner & Co. We hope for better things from that brave old State. The President has fired off another veto message at one of the local incorporation bills passed by Congress. Ge seems fully determined to show that he is there, whether bis objections to party legislation prevail or not. The Senate Finance Committee have reported the result of their investigations, upon the tax bill. The report modifies the ! tar on cotton to two, instead of five cents ! per pound. An impression prevails that' the House will compromise finally upon j three cents, when the bill is sent back there, j In this latter form it will probably soon po j before the country. ' A caucus of Republican Senators was held last week, at whioh it was determined to move for an adjournment early in July. The country will hardly object to such a decision. It has become wearied with the bickering of this revolutionary body, and all just minded men will breathe more freely when its labors are terminated. The election returns from Oregon exhibit large Democratic gaios over the vote of last year. The contest is a olose one, and eaoh party claims the victory by a small majority. The definite result will not be bad for a week or two more. The closeness of this vote is a bow of promise to those who have labored to keep the Government under its Conservative and Constitutional forms. It augurs for the final support of the people to such a policy; and is altogether hopeful. The Fenian bubble has found its way into Congress. After muoh violent argument on the conduct of British neutrality in the late war, and its alleged violations, the House last week passed a resolution directing the committee on Foreign affairs to consider the propriety of repealing the neutrality laws as affecting intercourse with Great Britian. This resolution looks to sympathy and comfort to the Fenians. It is a Republican bid for the Irish vote; its objects are local and designed to place the President whose duty it is to execute the laws, in opposition to a numerous ola9s of voters. Congress has no more idea of voting the repeal of the neutrality laws, than it has of hanging the members of the British Parliament for treason. THE LAST OF THE FENIANS. That supreme burlesque?the Fenian invasion of Canada?is ended, and our Irish friends have returned from iheir brief campaign, sadder, and perhaps wiser men.? We are not now, nor have we previously been, disposed to cake issue with the patriotic purposes that, no doubt, inspired the humbler classes of these men to devote their earnings, time, and labor, to the disenthralment of their native hills from the heel of oppression. Their enthusiasm, in such a cause, does them infinite honor ? We are only surprised that men, acting with such objects in view, would suffer themselves to be duped by a set of brawling blockheads, who prefer notoriety and money to the interests of either Ireland or her exiled people. We must, however, congratulate these deluded men that the deception recently practiced upon them, has brought no more serious consequences than a few wounds, some fatigue (of no consequence to an Irishman, however,) and a better store of knowledge to guide them in the undertaking of such enterprises, hereafter : ?> ?? ?' mexico. Santa Anna, recently arrived in the United States, has published a manifesto announcing his policy regarding Mexico. He is in deadly hostility to Maximilian and the Empire, and hopes ere long to witness the restoration of the Republic. The Imperialists in Mexico (Maximilian's party) are steadily gaining ground, and seem to be in a fairway of establishing the Government upon a firm basis. A recent massacre of citizens and foreigners at flprmosillo by the liberal faction, representing Juarez, has seriously damaged the prospects of that party, aod disgusted even those who allow a wide latitude to all nets committed in the name of freedom. The U. S. Congress has declined the fifty million loan, and the Juarists arc rapidly losing sympathy and respect even in this land of republican theories and falsehoods. WAR PROSPECTS IN EUROPE. The German difficulty has not yet reached a solution, but each mail seems to bring evidence of new complications. A peace CoDgress, in which all parties to the quar rel will probabiy be represented, is appointed to assemble in Paris, this month, with the obiect of arriving at a peaceable solution of tbe issues involved. European journals do not seem hopeful of the result. War, it is believed, must at last prove the only arbiter of the contentions that have arisen. In the meantime, the belligerent powers ' are not idle. Preparations arc making for . the most gigantic struggle that ever engaged i the nations of Europe. A ustna claims that | she can put 900,000 men iu the lield at j once, and Prussia, Italy, Hanover and the ! ' I Duchies, will probably aggregate a much larger force ou their side. Take the possibility of France becoming implicated in the auarrel. and add her uuota of nearly a mil- ' 1 / 1 > Hod, and the number of armed men euga ged in ono struggle, wili never have been , exceeded. But even this is not all. Russia will, evidently, espouse whatever side of i the quarrel offers the surest pronme of ex tending her territory. Iler standing arruy 1 alone amounts to a million of men. Napoleon's remarkable speech at Auxerre, denouncing the treaties of 1815, by which the boundaries of Europe were es-j tabiished, gives the key to the whole difficulty. A war will result in the readjustment of those boundaries, aod each power is willing to trust to the sword, as the surest1 means of enlarging its limits. Prussia expects to gain the Duchies of Schleswig aod flolsrien ; Franco, Piedmont; Italy will get Veuetia from the grasp of Austtia; Russia extend her boundaries on the Dau ube, and Austria, wide awake to power, will grasp from Prussia and Italy, all that the fortunes of war will allow her. With such ambitious designs animating the contestants, the reliance upon a Congress to settle the issues, is feeble. Armies are now marshalled in opposition to eaob other, and any mail may bring the intelligence of hostilities having oommenoed. Attention is called to dispatches on this subject, received since writing the aboveto be found under the head of "latest news " CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Below is a draft of the proposed amendments to the Constitution, as passed by both Houses of Congress. Governor Cubtin, of Pennsylvania, has addressed a call to the Governors of the several States, suggesting the propriety of convening in extra _ a. i t - i-1 session, me several juegimaiuruo, iu uiucr to act apoo these propositions while the northern "blood is up." Those who have engineered this scheme through Congress, seem to desire this hasty action as one of the elements required to give it success. They are evidently afraid of delay, and the existence of a better feeling between the two sections still at War with each other. Article.?Sec. 1.?All persons born, naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privilege or immunities of oitizens' of the United States, Dor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, or to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Sec. 2.?Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, Axaludin? Indians not taxed: but whenever O f the right to vote at aoy election for election of President or Vioe President, and United States representatives in Congress, executive or judioial officers, or the'members of the Legislatures thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridging, except for participating in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. S?C. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President or Vioe 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 Congress or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as sd executive or jadici&l officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof; but Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of eaob House remove such disability. Sec. 4. The validity of theprfblic debt of the United States authorized by law, including debts incurred for the payment of pensions and bounties for servioe in suppressing insurrection or rebellion shall not be questioned ; but neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States; or any claim for the loss or emancipation of. any slave, but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal aad void. Sec. 5. That Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of-this article. fiST The followiog circular has been issued from t-ha Prtaf. Offinfl Danartmarifc at Wash " * ? ~ ?-r iugtoo : POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, 1 Contract Office, V Washington, June 2, 1866 j Sir: You are instructed to observe the following rales, so far as they relate to yonr own official oooduct, and as far as you may be able, to enforce their observance upon all others to whom they are applicable, viz : > 1. The mails of the United States mofct not be delivered at any post office or other places where there is not a regularly appointed postmaster, duly commissioned, or other authorized agent, duly appointed and sworn, aooording to law, to receive them. 2 Persons not duly sworn and commissioned as postmasters, must not oancel stamps, register letters, receive money in paymeot of postage on letters not stamped, or mark letters as "paid." Such persons must not sign, as postmasters, certificates or oilier communications addressed to, or intended for use in, ihe Post Office Department. 3. Route agents and postmasters must return or refuse all letters marked "paid" by persons not duly sworn and commission* ed as postmasters Respectfully, &c., Geo. Wm. McLellan a J r>?i OUL'UUU /lS3IHLUUt JT USIUIUDIGI ucuoiai. Approved: W. Dennison Postmaster General. -? ? ?> T"" The New York Tribune, of the 7ch, says the Dumber of fires which broke oat in that city in the first five months of the present ami five preceding years, respectively, is as follows: Mouthy. 1861. 1863. 1663. 1804. 1865. 1866. Januarv, 39 37 34 42 29 56 February. 26 36 21 33 26 63 March, 40 31 24 27 31 33 April, 32 20 31 3S 37 79 May, 13 34 18 21 17 76 Total 153 lis" 138 150 110 347 Showing more fires (not counting thirtyfour false alarms) in the last five months, than in the corresponding months of any two previous year. There have been twenty-nine fires in Broadway alone in the last five months, about double the average number in former years. . ?- - . H?* The District Supreme Court at Washington decided, on the 8th inst., that the act of Congress retrocediDg Alexandria ^oanty to Virginia from the District' was unconstitutional. '' \ " j? T. LOCAL MATTERS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Carroll, Clark k Co.?Dry Goods and Nations. " " " ?Black Silk and Corsets. ? ? ??Boots and Shoes. - " " " ?Gent's Furnishing Goods. " " ?Crockery Ware. " " " ?Hardware. " " " ?Groceries. Homesley 8t Asher.?Goods at Northern Cost. ' " " ?Ladies Hats. " " ?400 Bushels Com. " " ?Goods for Cash, and Cash only. > -? . " ' ?Wall Paper and Borders. Capt. T. H. Gulp?Candidate for 8heriff. j G. R. Ratchford?New Dry Goods and Groceries. ? ? ?English Dairy Cheese. " " ?Mackerel. W. H. McCorkle?Flour, Soap, Sic., at Private Sale. % < I Equity Court. His Honor, Chancellor H. D Lessf.sne, opened the Court of Eouity at this place on i Monday, and is disposing of many cases that : have been long apon the dockets. His ' Honor we are pleased to Bee, has restored j to the Benoh, a custom once in vogue | in this State, that disappeared wheu mil mads and narriacrpfl wprp intrndnnfld.? ^ o? ..? ?-?. V He is traveling to the different Courts in his ( Circuit on horte-back. The oiroumstanoe , will probably recall to tbe grey haired mem- j bers of the bar, many pleasant memories of the primeval period of oar judioiary. 1 i Sabbath School Address. 1 Tbe children of the Methodist Church .1 Sabbath School, assembled on Tuesday, at their Church, to listen to the celebration- i speech from John Brown, Esq., of Lan- | caster. An imposing prooession was form- < ed at the old Methodist Chnroh and attended by music, was marched to the Indepen- ' pendent Church, now used by them, when { the ceremonies were concluded. The ad* i dress by the youthful orator was a commend- i able effort, and elicited many demonstra- 1 tions of satisfaction. The exercises passed ' off pleasantly, and were intended as the , prelude to an occasion of moTe general rejoicing among the little folks, at some fa- ' tare day. ' - I . To Correspondents. ! "Odum."?Your communication is on .. .. . . ..... file, and will be considered. We do not < I thick the subject, bowever, an attractive one by any means, at this time. A year j ago it would have done better. Its merits ' may redeem this objection ; but of tbem < we oannot speak until we have had leisure ' to read more carefnily. ' We accept your proposition and shall be , pleased to receive short articles, detailing | passing events of a looal nature. J " Southern Literatureby J. H. We ' cannot aooept this- production. We object ( to its statements, its politics, its style, lan- , guage, sentiment, objects, scope, length, I breadth and thickness. We object to the ' entire production, taken either in part or as ' a whole. At the same time, the writer | must not ascribe our candor to other mo- f tives, but remain assured of our kindness < and best wishes. ( _____ i Concert. ' A large aDd appreciative audience atten- ' ded the Concert given in the Court House, on last Thursday night, in aid of a fund to j erect a monument to the memory of the < deceased soldiers from this District. The j musical entertainment well rewarded those 1 who were fortunate enough to be present. J The nobleness of its object and the taste?-1 \ execution of the pieces seleoted, combined 1 to render this affair one of pleasant recollection to those present. The following note explains the financial ! 11 . _ rr . result or me enorc: "Received of Col. A. COWARD, Seventy-five Dollars and Fifty Cents in currency; and Twenty Dollars and Eighty-five Cents in Specie, proceeds of a Concert given, to raise the nuoleus of a fund to build a monument to the memory of the Confederate dead of York District W. B. WILSON, Jntendant. Yorkville, June 15, 1866. ^ ? \ ! Public Meeting. x We suggest the attention of the people of this District, to the call in another column, for a public meeting on sales-day next. Its objects are of that solemn character that appeal to the painful yet tender memories of the past. There are many acts in that solemn past we would fain obliterate from memory?many of its sufferings, trials and privations, we would consign to that oblivion meet for such memories. I Bat the heroic dead! the brave men who i ' sleep in nameless graves upon a hundred ] battle fields?who went at our lidding to ^ the strife, and vainly fell because their doty 1 to us required the saorifice?these we can- , not forget. All that is sacred in human t love, or honorable in human memory, com- c mends to us this duty, in language we f cannot mistake. This subjeot recalls our j minds to the painful period of the late war, ( ?the battles wherein they were oonspicu- c ous?the feeble bands of brave meD that ; struggled in the yellow dust, and by the ^ mountain slope, against overwhelming num- ( bers and often against hope. Yet that a spectacle of sublime courage, o? tried de c votion, of more than Spartan valor and ? Spartan duty, now begs for a memento that ? -*--11 '? ?-?j ?? * j ?v?a t-a i fa kaic nffl. snail Utt Bucreu 1U ail IIIIUG, ?w ma uuij am- { ces. It does not become us to resist saoh s appeals. We should Dot ignore onr duty in the premises. We" are responsible for the breaoh, the battle, and xbe sacrifice. | Our names are identified with theirs, in all that belongs to that struggle, save in the last offering. To us descends the privilege of preserving them to our posterity, as men who brave in the heroio struggle of duty, while living, deserve a record to their memory in their last glorious sleep. 1 5 . BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. COLUMBIA. S. C.. 18 JUKE. 1866. Cleanliness and Godliness. Good household economists often try to jive weight to the maxim that ('Cleanliness s next to Godliness" by calling it 8orip;ure. The good St. Ambrose is the author )f it. St. Ambrose was a good catholic ;oo. ' : English Grammar. . Men of education who seem to have common sense in other matters, do not always ipply it to their language. We constantly bear snoh expressions as, "I will try and lo it," evidently meaning, "T will try to do it;" and "you must come and see me," meaning "you must come to seo me." ' This carelessness in phraseology, results from the fact that most men do not think it all, and use whatever language they hear others nse : iust as the cockatoo does?al pays has authority for what he says. Stealing. There ia a great deal of stealing on a small scale going on in Columbia. The idlers among the freedmen are to be found everywhere, and whatever is left about loose they appropriate at once. These idlers are the corse of all small towns. They are fatally incorrigible.1? They can never get out of it You need, not advise them tjiat it is better to #ork than to suffer for the necessaries of life,because they know to the contrary. They know that work is the worst thing in the world, and that suffering and starvation ire minor ills?ills to be avoided by cunning or crime, by stealing or begging, by anything exoept that leviathan of earthly, ills, work! Anything but that 1 Poor uuffee. He is no visionary theorizer?he practises what he thinks. He will loaf, steal, beg, rob,?anything?except work. Hence it is that our police are constantly busy with cases of petty tbeft. Great jrimes may be done by others Coffee does Dot like so much exertion. r.\S v.; yv,";J . nin?y: V" Ofj: ' #C07 ; > The Military Situation. In the military, way, the. government of mr portion of territory has bean chauged. rhe States of North and South Carolina now jonstitute one Department, commanded by Major-General Daniel ? Sickles, of iNew irork. The Head Quarters were fixed by jrders, and are now teohnioally, at Colum-. )ia; but it is understood that Gen. Sickles prefers Charleston and will remain there. The Department of the Carolines is derided into two Districts. The District of Booth Carolina is under command of Brevet Major General Scott, with Head Quarters it Charleston. Gen. Soott, who is a civilian from Ohio, has heretofore been chief of the Freedman's Bureau in this State, and is regarded very favorably by all who have bad business relations with him ; is found :o be conservative, liberal in bis views, just, ind an excellent administrator The new system, incorporating the Freedman'a Bu '> reau with the military administration pToper, seems to work well under General Scott's management. It has hitherto been a kind )f unclassified moDSter, half civil and half military, with not-suffioiently defined powers, and an administration that the negro feared and the white man despised. ? ^ - ry 1 Uur superintendent, ureuerai xvuipu igainst whom the Generals Steedmao and Fallerton foaod fault beoauee of sundry complications growing oat of bis "running" plantations on private accoant, has been deposed?goes by tbe board with the old regime:, and is suoceeded by Brevet Brig. General Mansfield, of the regalar army.? The hopes entertained of General Mansfield's administration are favorable. The inevitable and irrepressible Military Commission, whose obituary we hoped we had written several weeks ago, is still 'existing amongst as. It dies bard. Oar readers arc aware that recently an old mao lamed EagaD, of"Lexington Lrtstrict. who ivns last winter convicted of marder, and sentenced to imprisonment for life in tbe A.lbany Penitentiary, was released by writ if Habeas Corpus, by order of Jndge Nel- ' son of tbe Supreme Court. In bis decree, in this case, Judge Nelson prononnced against Military Commissions in an elaborate ind conclusive constitutional argument.? rhis decree has been very generally published as a favorable symptom in tbe great iiWae that affects as j and we presume it aas been read by all our readers. The old nan, Eagao, bad scarcely retched bis home, when he was again arrested by order, it is said, of Gen. Sickles, apparently in defiince of the civil authority. He has been jarried under guard to Charleston, and is low there in jail. Does such a fact need tny comment? The 25th Ohio veteran volanteer Infancy Regiment, which during the past year aas been on deity in Columbia and adjacent ocalities, .has been mastered oat of service, [t left Charleston for the Buokeye State ast week. The troops of this oommand were unpopular with the negroes, and par onscquent were kindly regarded by the whites, though they were a little wilder J ban the regulars who succeeded them. A ; sircumstanoe of interest, and with a point o it, occurred in conneotion with the de- 1 jarture of the 25th 0. V. V. I. from Char- 1 eston. Whilst campaigning, in 1865, on i >ur coast, Col. Haughton of this Regiment, < ( ;auie iuio puBwsaiuu ui a uuc gi~ejr uuai^oi, vhich the other day accompanied the 25tb, ' n route for Ohio. As they were passing ; broagh Charleston, a Dootor from the i toast, recognized the grey, and by means of ( l raid apon the livery stable, got possession * >f him and led him back to his -'pastures 1 ;reen" of the oldeo time. The Dootor was irrested. A writ of Habeas Corpus was f ssued in his behalf. The officer obeyed J t. The Doctor was released; but as he ' topped out of the door be was again arresed, and at last aooouuts was in durance 1 die. The writ was promptly yielded to; ? >ut the right of arreat survived, it seems. J Ind so the process might go on ad infini- t am. Who has the last word? How i uuoh is the "glorious privilege" worth? < dans Lager would answer?Nichts. But seriously: these oircumstanoes, ap- i lareotly important only to the parties \ nterested, serve to indioate-that wo are yet i ar from that point of -"restoration" which i he recent proclamation and deoisions, with < which the papers teem, would lead as to suppose. Military commissions ire jet in existence here and in Charleston, though for several weeks the oases peodiog bare ' not been frrooght qp far The order of the President discontinued these courts in localities "where tbislfewM civil tribunals which oan try" the oases. ^ It was supposed that, as the?? (tribunals ? certainly exist in Sooth*CaroLm, tlUie could be jio question about it, in this_St*te. . There are grave/ipnbts, ^bqweypiy whether according to law, the testimony of {Melons of oolor oould be admitted before-Grand Juries and upon trial* baJbrprtb^ Superior Courts; audit is asserted, too, Shaft fcf'a strange oversight io that strangest.of *11 legislative enactments?the oopfovftf Jjqst winter?there is no tribunal in Sooth Carolina competent to try a large class of misdemeanors, until the Governor aW??'fit to organize the District Courtis I; Itfost of the cases pending before the Military com. . , . *?> nugtrt'i idtts-*;* ?*: iriO missions depend upon negro ^testimony. There is, then, some shot* pf reftson ip the objectiou urged against taming them over to the oivfl authority?the trial would aimi l. e I r?lt? ha a Fftrn.A I . . . ^ .n-, ? 34 r . " . rf. Oar fneod Col. Melton, in conjunction with Gen. Batler, of Edgefield, has these Military Commission cases ooula hot be in better bande. > ^eee gentlemen have beep in Charleston for several weeks endeavoringto "hanppni?p" ihotq. They have -done all that cotUd We learn that they urge the grouud that, upon the trl^l of. * white &um befere our Saperior Courts, for & felony against ,?.$?gro, the testimony of persona of odlot Js competent acoordiag to Tfin nniftf-1iomwf way of information bgfbgp a M before the Grand "Jury, or as eridehcpin court. The qoestion has been referted to the Governor, with 4&e.requeet that be will obtain the opibioh of the Court of Appdala, wfjfc^r'n i/ uwewiwa, eu iflinfpl accept as oopoldsipb/- .Let uiar fiope:that His Excellency will make baste airout fy^nd that we shall soon again hare justice dispensed amongst as according to the forms Dresoribed in the Constitotion^-wnd-to that law so HrmO hotforle& that "fcho memory'of Of the Edgefield cases, about wbicb we *rote at the time, numbering, same fifteen or twentj?for bushwhacking aud harboring baahwbacltera, that these gentlemen haye supepep^a -m having the prisoners released and retiy^a home, without' trial.' ~ Tlje flMflfyyC ing are upon charges of murdej,ftgd and battery, with irileW to wHTapoziL ttie > :iaUl t- *.vTnf#t?FTri? WBJ person, Key w tis EsteS of Chester \ Hefldnqks of Lexington ; Lanharo', Lowry, Powell and Coleman of Edgefield ' We shall continue to fceep an ejejipon them. ^ ^ ! SESSESBBBBBSat \ =?Igtrfci MEBK-MKjrriOR.- oi ?U ced Governor Worth, of North Carolfli^te^ a card, announces himself m ? ecodidate for re-eleotion in Aogast uexi**?*?>?t*<llirjr: O'Conor, the Senior oounoil of ex-Peesidwt Davis, having failed to obtain the unassd^ i ate release of. biacHaot,' baa left WetMng* touj and gone North. It is sai&that^lfit. O'Cooor's parting interview within Pna ident was highly satisfactory. >* *? (&*. Orr is iD Charleston.few dayasince^ in Washington, Hon. L. H. Rosseau, s? Kentncky, oaned Hon; Grinneli, of Iow<^ for offensive language used in debate: Boai seau will probably be expelled; in large quantities, in a state of Wb&dHR purity, has been discovered in OalsfocfalkU fTnrarnfnro bho itntlf) hfln Kuan nnlJitlg pendent upon Tnsoafly.forthia article..';, jijl Several brethren bf the "mystic tie," at LoniBville Kentucky, have pessentedlttab.!: land Lodge, A F. AL, at Columbia aritic a beautiful set of jewels, gavels, Working, tools, and a handsomely bound Bible. 8a' gays the meeting was' held in New York on Satarday, at whioh a new political party was fofcmud, to be called the "United States Democracy v/u .* man living in Haynes county, MininiypijN recently awoke from a oomfdrtabEe napuf fifty six hours precisely ft ia441if?? ed in Washington, that Congresn wi^ juL innm nhnnf tka llh nf :Tnlv /xTlwiMtb Zens of Raleigh, N. (J., propose. to. erftt *. monument to the memory of the father ??President Johnston, who is buried intfifct' city. ; The Honse Jndiciary 0omtait4dfcia#Wf; laborious investigation, can fin#1 n# aHifafr' of evidence connecting Mr. Davfe ariff^ tBe assassination plot. One handled an<T? thirty four firemen in the employ of the city of Cincinnati have each been presented Viih a policy io the Columbus Accident ranee Company for $2,500 in cue of ion* dent by death, or $12.26-per week in-ease of disabilities by. accident. Th* .policies coat$16; eaoh, making* total host of $2>-I 010, whiuhstimwaa generoosly snbscribeil by the aitizena of thal city.'*v*'tA latter received at New Orleans on the from Vara Crnz states that some twenty-foe: Confederate colonists were aaptttxed re&Qtr ly in Mexico by the Liberals, apdvwre held at a ransom of tea thousand.d$U*?8 ? The Liberals deny the autbOTtjoofbvMaxw milian to make giants of land. ,,,Th0ii Fortress Monrowcwwepeaiidbl. of tiwJSbw York Ibibme, Mtfe Deris jRAfei most daily in reoeiptof money,, sent dtefh?: sympathising friends through Ada^j Express. thfi Express agent fc>He -W,^ these contributions sometime? $500 aod $100Q per day. She has been called upon by nearly, aii tbelftdiofl <&$? fort.- Aneouutefirom the greis grofe og region of $he north-west, Qbio*;LMn?)is, Indiana, Iowa, WisooqsiB^ end Janadfy agree in s<ating that the growing% wheat crop will be macn below the average >' " Strawberries are just oomijtiye^tg. leason in New York city. The flew York eats $7000 worth' of atrawberoefl. -very (Jay. ?ii b96b* Hon. Stephen R. Ma llory, late Confederate koretary of the tfavy, is io Riohgftn^i' io also is -Head Centre Stephens, vvsff* ^ear Haven claims to be tbf in he country whioh manufaotWfjfi^^ook^ needles, and steejreperrtfwl^-i,^-^^' ;rnor Pickens is said to he ddftgerQUsiy ill. --^Tbe kteet.y/?kae aofwn jn Boston s the manufacture of milk oat of refined. vbiting and water. A;new invention s being tested in Paris. An iron tube ia un op the side of tftpee tfeesinpabiia ie ne which require jratecing. yt a WMGb