Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, June 21, 1866, Image 2
^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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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OUL'UUU /lS3IHLUUt JT USIUIUDIGI ucuoiai.
Approved: W. Dennison
Postmaster General.
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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.
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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. '' \
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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. % <
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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
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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. '
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To Correspondents. !
"Odum."?Your communication is on
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file, and will be considered. We do not <
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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. (
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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 !
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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.
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! 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