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pttMrattt fUadiug. Ths Attorney a Blackguard.? Touching felitious endings, a Western correspondent supplies a legal incident that will be appreciated we know: Several years ago, when one of oar present Justices of the Supreme Court was District Attorney of a neighboring county, rather a laughable incident occurred as related by himself. Court week he used to occupy a bed room &t Lewis' Hotel, the principal hotel at the county seat. He bad bis books and papers in this room. Here he drew his indietments, and in important cases, he used to direot the sheriff to bring the people's witnesses for preliminary examination. Ik ? vuo ogowvu *? ? mv wM important murder case coming on. The celebrated General (now Judge) Nye waa counsel for the defendant He examined the witnesses as usual, and took careful minutes of what they would state on the stand He found that a lady was the most important witness for the people, and he also discovered that she was rather exoited and high-strnog, and a fast talker. Apprehensive of trouble, he thought he'd caution her a little. So he told her when she came on the stand not to talk. "Pay attention," says the District Attorney, "to my questions, and answer them, but don't talk; and when Nye comes to examine you, yon mnst be very careful and don't get exoited, for he is a great blaokgnard, and will try to get you mad. Just pay attention to bis questions and answer them, no mattei how often repeated or how apparently silly, but don't allow him to get you off your balance." . ; . The Distriot Attorney and witness parted for the night. The next day the case came on. The District Attorney called his witness, and she went through her evidence on the part of the people to his perfect admiration, and he handed her over to Nye. He went along awhile very smoothly.? Pretty soon he began to orowd her and she began to "flare uphe orowded the more and she resented the more, and soen they had a regular breeze, finally, having lest self control, she broke ont on him as follows "I won't answer any more of yopr contemptible questions; you're a nasty, dirty blackguard, and the Distriot Attorney told me so." After the laugh had partly subsided, Nye !J . sxi u ; "What! the Distriot Attorney told yon ao ? When and where did he tell yon so ?" "He told me so last night in his bedroom." The soene that followed this answer may be readily imagined. In tbe midst of the shont,Nye told the witness she might 'pass.' Clerical Humor.?Emmigration to tbe State of Michigan was so great during the years of 1835 and 1836, that every bouse was filled every night with travelers waiting. Every traveler there at that time will remember tbe diffioolty of obtaining a bed at the hotels, even if be had two or three 'strange bed fellows/' The Rev. Hose a Brown, ao, eooentric Methodist minister, nna nmht ?( nnn of tVi? hnt.flla ill OW|/|Ant WUW ?- v-v w. Aon Arbor, and inquired if be oould have a room and bed to himself. The bar keeper told him he could unless they should become so full as to render it necessary to put in another with him. At an early hour the reverned gentleman went to his room, looked the door, retired to bis bed, and soon sank into a comfortable sleep Along towards midnight he waa roused from his slumbers by a loud knocking at his door. ?Hollo 1 you there/ he exolaimed, 'what do you want now !' putting particlular stress on the last word 'You most take in another lodger, sir, in with you/ said the landlord. 'What! another yet 1' ?Why, yes, sir, there is only one in here, is there T <One! why here is Mr. Brown, and a Methodist minister and myself, already, and I should think that enough for one bed, even in Miohigan.' The landlord seemed to think so too, and left the trio to their repose. A Tail. 4 'Twtti a kam still morn in Oktober, whitoh is one nv the fall or ottam months. It was at that seizen uv the dying yeer whitoh afeaykensfond remissness of forrnor memories nv the rekolekshun ub bi gone daze. The rane cum doun in a kind uv fine mist, in a sad, lingerin kind uv a way, as if it hated to wet the spot on whioh it lit, but didn't egsaokly no wbair else to go. The vernal breezes uv ottom kept a blowin away, but not hard enuff to blow ennybody's hat off. The treez swaid back and 4th like au ole woman with the teetbaick. On sioh a luvly mornin as this, a maiden fare, with pensive air & goldeD hair, gazed oat nv the east kitchen winder nv a house in the beautiful & romantic Stait uv Elee? ? 1a??ju 9t ntrtl 1 on/1 r?Q T7 UUJT, gajfJKU iuuK a woii &?J*4WVM HU^ f,-;zed & better gayzed?she gayzed as if there wnz sumtbin on her mind?wbitoh I suppoaz tbere wnz ! She wnz a nice girl nv medium heft, with a mild temper & an iron spoon in bar left band. She bed bin a bakin pancakes. Her eye flashed & bar bazzam hove with the emotions av hur feeliDS.? Suddenly she spoak & revealed the cause uv bar solisytood as tbe says : "Thar, mam, I'l be dad-bobbed if that ole kow uv Snigginses hain't broke into oar garden agin !" Hikf A lady who* had received a severe bite in tbe arm from a dog, went to Dr. Abernatby, bat knowing bis aversion to hearing any statement of particulars, she merely uncovered the injured part and held it before him in silence. After looking at it an instant he said, in an inquiring tone: "Scratch ?" "Bite," replied the lady. "Cat?" asked the Doctor. rejoined tbe patient. So delighted was Dr A. with tbe brevity ! and promptness of her replies, that he ex- , claimed : "Madam, you are tbe most sensible wo-, man I ever met with In my life." Young men who idolize young j women always love to be "joined to their j idols." j If agisifle Gatherings. ? The State University of Mississppi, at Oxford, numbers at present 200 students. ? Seventy steamers left New York oity Saturday for foreign and seaboard cities. ? An editor out West, who has served on a jury, says that he is so full of law that it is hard to keep from cheating somebody. ? Why oannot the Emperor of the Frenoh insure his life f Because no one can be found to make out his policy. ? Mr. Davis' main points of defence will be based on the prerogative granted every citisen, to sustain the official aotion of his respective State. ? It is stated that piokpockets relieved General Grant of bis watch and Speaker Colfax of his parse, at General Scott's funeral. ? It is thirty-four years since the Asiatio cholera appeared in Paris. Daring its prevalence one in thirty-three of the population died. In the whole of Franoe 229.534 were attaoked, and 94,665 died. ? General J. S. Aloorn, United States Senator eleot from Mississippi, has made application to Gen. Fiske of the Freedman's Bureau, for a teaobership in a freedman's school at Freas' Point, Miss. . ? The oourt-martial which has been trying Major Gee, at Raleigh, N. C., has adjourned for a short period. Up to this time the expenses of the trial have been $150,000, and no evidence criminating the prisoner has been adduced yet. ? The editor of the Raleigh Sentinel Buys, on the authority of a letter fron Gen. Lee to himself, that the General desires to write a history of the war, but has not thus far made satisfactory progress, because of | the loss of his papers. ? A party of twenty-four gentlemen in Caldwell County, North Carolina, ha? just returned from a great squirrel h int. Half the number exhibited 1,300 sca'ps, and the others exhibited 1,966. The largest num ber killed by one man was 827. ? Leading cotton manufactures have reported to the oommitU e of Ways and Means in the United States Congress, that it is probable, by next September, so great will be the scaroity of cotton suitable for American consumption, that we may have to import. ? At Navasoto, Texas, there was recently bail storm of uncommon severity. Ihe bail-stones averaged, it is stated, a half pound in weight, and many were pioked op the she of a man's two fists. The roofings of bonses were broken through and the growing crop of ootton entirely destroyed. j ? The New York Times says of General Soott: "He was more jealous of bis literary than of his military fame. He would i endure criticism in reference to his battles with equanimity, but in matters of taste in literature or even of punctuation, be oould. not brook contradiction." ? The Hartford Couraut says the monument to Colonel Samuel Colt, the revolver man, about to be placed in Cedar Hill Cemetery, in that oity, will cost about twenty-five thousand dollars. It is of Scotch granite, forty feet high, and surmounted by a beautiful figure?"The Angel of Resurrection." ? The Shenandoah (Va.) Herald, speak ing of the mills and barns burnt tbroogbout the Valley by Sheridao, under Grant's order to lay waste and devastate, says: "Id this neighborhood, we are happy to say, the most of the bams have been rebuilt, and the mills are progressing rapidly, and will be completed in time for the growing crops." | ? The Mobile Tribune announces that i the "Bank of Mobile" aDd the "Southern Bank" commenced redeeming their oircu- j iation at par in United States Treasury i Dotes on the 1st of June, instant. These ! are the only State banks in the South, that' went through the war, which have been a- j ble (so far as we know) to make so good a! showing. ? The following gives a list of the Bishops of the "Episcopal Methodist Church," with their salaries: Bishop Soule, $1500; rv? OftAAA Ti. I 1 I tJisnop rierce, souuu; oisnop i^any, $2500; Bishop KavaDaogh, $2500; Bishop Andrew, $2500; Bishop Paine, $3000; Bishop Wightman, $3000; Bishop Marvin, $3000; Bishop MoTyeire, $3000; Bishop Doggett, $3000. ? The Department of State has been informed by the United States Consul at St. Croix, West Indies, that the orop of sugar this year will probably reach 12,000 hhds., with a corresponding quantity of molasses and rum, say from 5000 to 8000 hbds. of molasses, 3000 of rum. This will be fifty per cent, more than the orcp of 1865, and fully double tbat of the preoediog year. ? In consideration of the fact that no legal payment can be made to any Southern offioer of the Treasury who has not subscribed to the test oath, the Secretary of the Treasury has notified all such that their resignations will be aocepted. He has also made a request that Congress provide for the payment of those who have been performing the duties of the department for i the time daring which they have been so engaged. ? The ladies of the Hebrew faith in Riohmond, have formed a Memorial Association, for the purpose of bestowing proper care on the graves of the dead Confederate solaiers of their people. Mrs. Solomon Davis is the President and Mrs. Abraham Levi the Secretary of the Association. Between forty and fifty young Jews, who were killed in battle or died in hospital, are buried in the Jewish Cemetery of Richmond. ? Perhaps the handsomest and most costly residenoe in the South is situated in Macon, Ga , on the hill leading to Vineville. It belongs to W. B Jobnson, Esq., former President of the Central Railroad, and a gentleman of very large wealth. Both its external appearance and internal decorations are very fine and tasteful. It was just completed before the war, bnt not furnished. Nobody knows the cost, not even Mr Johnson himself, who had all the work done by the day, under his own eye, from plans made by himself, after studying the principal models in Europe, and in order not to know the amount of bis expenditure he destroyed the bills when paid. fpsttllattwros Jlrtiiflcs. THE LITTLE MAID AND THE LAWYER i. They say. little maid, quoth lawyer Brown. I'm the cleverest man In all the town. Helgh-ho! says she, What's that to me ? Bat they say, little maid, quoth lawyer Brown, You're the prettiest girl in all the town. Says she. if they do, What's that to yon.' it. They say, little maid, quoth lawyer Brown, I'm the richest man In all the town. Heigh ho 1 says she, What's that to me ? But they say, little maid, quoth lawyer Brown, You ought to be dressed in a finer gown. Says she, If they do, What's that to you? III. They say, little maid, quoth lawyer Brown, That Johnny Hodge Is an awkward clown, Helgh-ho! says she, What's thatto me? But they say. little maid, the lawyer said, That you ana Jonnv are going to wed. Says she, if they do. What's that to you? Live Wives and Dead Husbands. There's John reading his newspapers.? Too might drive nails through his temples dnd he wouldn't know it. Look at him t 1 Legs op, head thrown back. The inevitable and omnipresent pipe in his mouth; the pioture of absorbed enjoyment. Three papers be has there. He will, read every one, oriss cross, oornerwise, upside down and inside out, till he has gleaned every particle of news. One good hour he has been at it. Now, if I say to him, 'John, what is the news this morning ?' that man will reply, 'Ohr none?nothing in particular; there they are, take 'em if you wish.' Now; nobody in his senses believes that John has been employed one good hour reading 'nothing.' He is just too lazy to tell what he has been reading, that is the amount of it. Now I had much rather read those papers than mend ooats of bis. ' Tt ? rpftllv tnn had in John r he micht have given me something to think about while I was doing it. An idea ? Suppose I try this lazy system on him? Now, if there is anything men like, when their wives oome home with a budget af news, it is to have them sit down and entertain them with it. Not about troubles of servants and broken orookery, of course; but spicy little bits of gossip, about their friend Jones' wife, and what the witty Mrs. said on suoh an occasion, and how the pretty and saucy Miss said if she were Smith's wife, she would . Oh, don't they like to hear all about it 1 and don't they like to question them as to how the women think and feel on such and ruch subjects, whioh information they can only obtain by their wives turning State's evidence. Of course they do; and when a bright little woman han nhftlipreri fcn them an hnnr nr more, and told them more funny things than you coald oount, and they've laughed at it, what retnrn do they make? Why, they just stretch their leDgth upon the sofa and go to sleep Now, I tell you what?I for one have borne this state of things long enough. It is all owing to that vile, lethergic tobacco. Before loDg women will be expected to cut up their victuals and feed them ; they will be too lazy to eat. Now I'll tell you what I mean to do. I am going to atop giving out, and cut off supplies til! I get something baok I will try the monosyllable system on John. He will say to-night 'Well, Mary, where have you been to day, and what have you seen ?' and I'll just answer, bending over my work, 'Ob, I went round a little and I didn't see anything in *? - -1- t mi in a. i particular. men ooun win laae a hcjuwuiziDg look at me, and ask if I have the head aobe, and I shall answer sweetly, (No, dear.' Then John will try again, 'Well, Mary, did yoo go oat shopping?' 'I? no ?ob, no dear I didn't go shopping today.' Another look at me, and another period of reflection. 'Have you heard any bad news, Mary ?' 'No, John, I hope not' <Well?what the mischief makes yoa so sileDt ? You generally have so much to tell me, .aod you sometimes get off a very bright thing, if you did but koow it. Some thing is the matter with you ; what is it?' and John will oome round and peep into my face. "Oh! pshaw?I know; you are paying me off for not talking," be will say, half vexed, half repentant. Then I shall get up on a ohair, in the middle of the room and hold forth. Yes, John?that's just it. You haven't the ghost of an idea how horrid stupid you've grown. Don't I hate that lethargic tobacco 1 It is going to revolutionize society, let me tell you. We women are squirrel-like creatures and can't stand it. No wonder all these awful trials fill the papers You i l t *11 _ i_l * i a. neean i iaugD. i ten you it rases two to make home bright. Don't you suppose, you lazy thing, that a woman is as mooh perplexed and worried and sick of the prac tioal at the end of the day, as man can be ? Do you suppose she always feels like giving out the last remnant of her vitality to amuse a statue? I tell you she wants a response; and she would have it, too, if a man's soul and body were not so tobaocosteeped, that every sense and feeling is merged in the one drowsy desire to let the world and everything in it, including its wives, go to the dogs. And they are going, John. Now, lastly and fin illy, I tell you, and all other Johos who may read this, that it is the worst possible policy on your part, | as you'd see if you ever read the papers with an eye to yonr own fireside, which you don't You can wonder how Smith's wife, or how Jones' wife ooald ever have done thus and so; but it never enters yonr slow heads to ask if the homes of these wives tfflrfi nilp.nt nnd nhpprlpfxa anH if thpir Iiiih. bands tuck all their attempts to amuse them as matters of oourse, and gave no eoho back; and that being the case, whether the bright sunbeams outside, might not glitter too temptingly for their weariness." And here I shall jump down from the ohair, and looking at John, shall see?that be is fast asleep. Fannt Fern. S&* A fast young nobloman of Vienna, over head and ears in debt, and famous for his success with the fair sex, received re- 1 cently a rose-colored note, whose contents ran : "Sir, your agreeable face and figure have made such an impression on me I oar- 1 nestly desire to make your acquaintance. ] i Come this evening to the Vienna Theatre, j i I have taken stall No. 78 in the parquefe, J1 and I have asked the ticket seller to keep No. 79 for a gentleman who would ask for J it, saying No 79 forever. I trust I may 1 have the pleasure of seeing you. Emma." j < The dandy dressed himself in a most ele- j gant manner, and as soon as the doors were 1 opened he applied for "No 79 forever," r and reoeived it. As the ourtain rose agen- t tleman came in to the theatre and took the f seat. As soon a* he was at his ease he bent a over and whispered in the dandy's ears: s "I am a constable; I have Men hooting for v you these fifteen days gone unsuccessfully. 1 Don't make a scandalous scene heTe, for I 1 tell you I have the warrant lor your arrest t in my pocket. If you will be quiet you e may hear the opera out." The fast man t stared wildly enough for a few moments, t and then seeing resistance utterly hopeless, he remained quiet until the end of the ope- f ra, when he followed the oonstable to the f debtor's jail. c MM. j President Lincoln's Famous Clandee- c tine Journey. Tn til. first vnlnm. nf Ronnnn L Los. single "Piotorial History of the Civil War in America," is to be found the follow* ing, wbioh purports to be "Mr. Lincoln's acoount of his clandestine journey" from Philadelphia to Washington, in February 1861. The version will attract attention, as it differs essentially from any yet seen or heard by the Southern people : "ME. LINCOLN'S ACCOUNT OP HIS CLANDESTINE JOURNEY. <While in Washington city, early in Do. oember, 1864, the writer called on the President with Isaac N. Arnold, member of Congress from Chioago, one of Mr. Lincoln's most trusted personal friends. We found him alone in the room wherein the Cabinet meetings are held, (in the White House,) whose windows overlook the Potomac and the Washington monument. At the request of the writer, the President related the circumstances of his clandestine journey between Philadelphia and Washington. The narrative is here given substantially in his own words, as follows : "I arrived at Philadelphia on the 21st. I agreed to stop over night, and on the following morning hoist the flag over Inde o W w pendenoe Gall. Id the evening, there was t a great orowd where I received my friends \ at the Continental Hotel. Mr. Jodd, a j. warm and personal friend from Chioago, jsent for me to come to his room. I went, ^ aDd fonnd there Mr. Pinkerton, a skillfal polioe detective, also from Chioago, who , had been employed for some days in Balti- jj more, watching or searohing for suspicions j persons there. Pinkerton informed me that ^ a plan bad been laid for my assassination; j the exact time when I expected to go a tbrongh Baltimore being pdblioly known. u He was well informed as to the plan, bnt c did not know that the conspirators would s have pluck enough to execute it. He urged ]. me to go right through with him to Washington that night. I didn't like that. I had made an engagement to visit Harrisburg and go from there to Baltimore, and I resolved to do so. I conld not believe there was a plot to murder me. I made arrangements, however, with Mr. Judd for my return to Philadelphia the next night, if I should be convinced that there was danger a in going through Baltimore. I told him ,. that if I should meet at Harrisburg, as I jhad at other places, a delegation to go with c me to the next place, (then Baltimore,) I c should fee' safe, and go on. " W hen l was making my way back to my . room, through orowds of people, I met Fred- t riok Seward We went together to my room, j when he told me that he had been sent, at [ the instance of his father and Gen. Soott, \ to inform me that their detectives in Balti- ] more, had discovered a plot there to assassi- \ nate me. They knew nothing of Pinker- t ton's movements. I now believed snch a plot to be in existence. "The next morning I raised the flag over Independence Hall, and then went on to Harrisburg with Mr. Sumner, Major (now General) Hunter, Mr. Judd, Mr. Lamon j and others. There I met the Legislature and people, dined, and waited until the ? i J &. _ 1 T_ iL - C ume appointed iur me 10 leave, id tue meantime, Mr Jodd bad secured the telegraph that no communication could pass to Baltimore and give the conspirators knowledge of a ohango in my plans. "In New York some friend bad given me a new beaver bat, in a box, and in it bad placed a soft wool hat. I bad never worn one of the latter in my life. I bad tbis box in my room. Having informed a very few friends of tbe secret of my movements, t and the cause, I put on an overooat that I had with me, I walked out of the house at a back door, bareheaded, without exoiting any Bpeoial curiosity. Tben I pot on the f soft hat and joined my friends without being recognized by strangers, for I was not the same man. Sumner and Hunter wished to accompany me. I said no; you are ^ known, and your presence might betray me. j I will only take Latnon (now Marshal of the District,) whom nobody knew, and Mr. * Judd, Sumner and Hunter felt hurt. "We went baok to Philadelphia, and h found a message there from Pinkerton (who t, hod r*?tnrn#>d f.n "Baltimore.^ tnat the con- ? . _ l( spirators had held their final meeting that z evening, and it was donbtfal whether they Q had the nerve to attempt the exeootion of g their purpose. I went on, however, as the ^ arrangement had been made, in a speoial g train. We were a long time in the station at Baltimore. I heard people talking a- y round, but no one particularly observed ^ me. At an early hour on Saturday morning, at about the time I was expected to leave ij Harrisburg, I arrived in Washington." ^ - p Prentice Takes Another Photograph ^ of Brownlow. Prentice is out in his rejoinder to Brown- n low's reply through a late number of the Knoxville Whig. We subjoin a few ex- h tracts as a snecimen of the buornine lava tl ? -1 - O thrown oat by that Kentaoky volcano in J erraptioD: e Old Gov Brownlow, after keeping the ? filthy hole in hie face shot for weeks, comes a oat with another attack npon as in his b Knozville Whig, which has ever been a disgrace to Knozville, to Tennessee, to p civilization and to anoivilization. He never i< had mind enoagh to keep his body from k rotting?consequently, he has always been h a mass of purification ; he has never had o sufficient common sense to last him over a night, so that he wakes np a miserable fool b every morning; and this last effort of his o in his Whig is the poorest, the feeblest, the e jejnnest, the most oontemptible that we have t< seen even from fc:m. It doesn't rise even b to the level of invective. n There is no more talent in the writing, than in the soratchings of a dung-hill fowl p ipoD a dung-hill. It is a mere oonoatenaion of vulgar epithets and lies?vile lies, or whioh there is not so muoh as the thin md shadow; ghost of a pretext. It is the imple raving of a broken down, infuriated reak old man or no man?so weak, that, ike the lean dog we read of, he has to ean against a fence to do his barking. All he little atom of sense he ever had?if he iver had an atom?has gone to the grave lefore him?but not muoh before him j it is o be hoped, for mankind's sake. He has no right to be still hnnting the glimpse of the moon.' He is a loathsome istula of the body politio. He is a mangy ild dog?a disgrace to his own fleas. He s a fool bubble floating on the surfaoe of a lesspool. The poor old devil undertakes to hold us ?sponsible for what is oharged against Mr. Henderson, the owner of a minor interest n our paper, who is on trial at Nashville for tlleged frauds as a mule contractor during he war. If the old wretoh was not worse han a beast, or two beasts, (he should be mt up into a dozen,) he would not assume dr. Henderson's guilt before it is proved iVe have assurances from high sources hat Mr. Henderson is certain to be honirably acquitted, and we have not a doubt >f it. He has *o scruples as to what charges le makes against men; he always invents he very worst and most infamous he can tnd makes them This is his only rule, le has no more regard for truth than the lommon father of himself and sin. He ireeds lies as Satan's wives or concubines >reed imps, or as flies breed magots. If ie don't fiiJl the atmosphere around him rith his lies, be couldn't breathe it; be rould die like a rat in an exhausted releiver. Lies are bis meat, his drink bis lodging, lis transportation, bis whiskey, bis Bnuff, lis tobaooo. It is extensively believed in Nashville hat Brownlow is insane. We don't beieve it. Insanity has been defined to ie the (entanglement of-thought,' but le hasn't thoughts enough to make a angle. Tie a pity that he isn't-insane, for it rould be the only excuse, utter mental imleoility excepted, for the disgrace he is oflioting upon the State in which he [wells He calls himself a man of God. Ie professes to be a (messenger of peac? ,nd good will to men.' He holds himself ip or oat as a saint of Christianity among aankind. Bat he has ever promoted trifes and fights, and bloodshed in neighlorhoods. He has been a pest, an itch, a leprosy, a ellow plague in every community. He laa distilled vemon like a bobum upas, lis tongue has ever been 'set on fire of iell;' bis heart being the hell to kindle he wagging member. Beelzebub's tail is orever coiled like a snake around the old nisoreant'8 neok. There has never been my more religion or deoenoy in his sernous, or bis prayers, or bis exhortations, or lis talk at death beds, than in the yelling if hyenas, the cursings of pirates, or the ibjurgations of harlots. Heaven, earth, and even hell, abhor him ?though the latter will somehow manage o gulp hitb down. His very face looks ike that of a dead man, who, mistaking a toy's tooting horn for Gabriel's trumpet, >S3 got up for judgement before his time, lis evil passions have killed every sem ilance of human nature in his features, if here ever was such a semblanoe there. People of Tennessee, lo ! your Governor! "With one hand clenched to batter noses While t'other scowls 'bout Paul and Moses." Judge Underwood. ?T *' *-11?: 41,., w e copy cue louowmg cAti?uu> uum lichmond Examiner, of the 7th : Jndge Underwood cannot be said to have ;otten his greatness, such as it is, in any of he ways enumerated by the poet. He was lot barn great; he did not aohieve greatless; he did not have greatness thrust ipon him Like Topsy's origin was Un lerwood's greatness?" 'spec it growed !" Occidents have favored him, as they are aid to favor most men of his stamp, and he special patron of that whole olass, the Devil. As a lawyer, he might have praoised, hot oould not have snoceeded as a Combs' Shyster. But the war oame, and ilood was spilt, aod maggots bred fast, and Jnderwood had his chanoe. Early in the ontest he was playing the spy somewhere vithia our lines; was chased oat by our avslry, fled to Washington, and was made Judge by Mr. Lincoln. While the war lasted be did not seek listmction, bat confined himself to pelf.? t is doabtfal if the narrow circumference f Alexandria or the blasted slopes of the ^edmont region afforded him a fair space nnn whinh to earn his wacres. He eave O- a is obief attention to the "abandons] planation" bnsines8, we believe, and is reported o have developed a rare faculty of coloniatioD. He fonnd nice farms, snug booses, boioe retreats in every direction, and be qnatted npon them assiduously, himself and is wife, his sons and daughters, his men orvants and maid servants, and all the [rangers within bis gates, who would proide him with a sufficient consideration.? 'hese properties thus made into avail, he lincbed the matter by most resolutely seling tbem up for taxes, for treason, forabanonment, for this, that and the other new retext for spoiling Egypt, and bought them r bad them booght, in a most legal maner. Judcre Jeffries, of England, has credit in istory for some signal proceedings, snob as he trial of Alice Lisle, eto.; bat we fancy odge Underwood has surpassed him. For sample, we oonoeive that Jeffries never sized a man's horse without title or right, nd then, after having slept in that man's ed, and risen and washed his face in that man's basin, and wiped bis face npon that isd's towel, and eaten that man's provisos at that man's table, with that man's nives and forks, went oat and summoned is oonrt, and tried that man absent, and ondemned him nnbeard, confiscated the foresaid bonse, sold it without appeal, ought it unopposed, and went baok again, omfortably secure in the possession and njoyment of property thus acquired. HisDry has not been lenient towards Jeffries, at history has not oharged him with enormities each as these. But the war ceased, and Underwood, robably finding that it was no longer prao ticable to soavenge among the oamp followers at the tail of the battle, tamed his attention to other matters. He had been a i buzzard as long as he oonld; he wonld now j become an eagle. He had hauled over and ] picked among the entrails of the dead secession as long as there was anything to * piok; be wonld now essay a flight at living game. So be organized his court?that is always the first step with him when he oon- t templates mischief?and scattered abroad indiotments for treason thiok as leaves in Vallambrosa. He indicted General Lee and nearly his whole army, from the Liea- 1 tenant General down to the negro groom.? Hut it would not avail. General Grant protested, and Underwood was foiled. There was no blood for him yet, and he chafed, j for bis weary palate palled at the one diet ] of carrion. Tree, he bad some slight pickings?he had the pleasure to oonviot some i innooent and obscure poor devils of Underwood's crimes, and to send them, for the Innooar nnflatKlo fn fKo nAnifunfiorir ' iVUgVVH W?1M ^VWIWIVJ W ?MV ?*???^ ^ hot this could not satisfy his vaulting ambi- i tion. GET THE BE8T! PHCENIZ AND GLEANER. THE D IILI FHffiinX IS published every morning, except Monday, and contains the LATEST NEWS, try telegraph and malls, up to hoar or going to press; Editorials, Correspondence from different points, Miscellaneous Reading, Tales, Poetnr, , Sketches, etc., etc., etc. In the QUANTITY and QUALITY of its READING MATTER Is not to be excelled by nny paper In Sooth Carolina. ADVERTISEMENTS Inserted on favorable terms. THE T?I-WEEKLY PHCESIX Contains, In every number, the reading matter (embracing the latest news) of TWO ISSUES of the daily. It is published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings. THE GLEANER Is published every Wednesday morning. It Is the desire, and will be the object of the Proprietor, to make this equal to, if not the best, FAMILY NEWSPAPER in the South. In fact, as Its name indicates, A HOME COMPANION. Besides the collection of the cream of the news of the week, Pollr'cal, Financial and the Markets, It win contain a large amount of LITERARY MATTER, such as choice Tales. Sketches and Poetry. It will embrace EIGHT < PAGES, containing FORTY-EIGHT COLUMNS, Is printed In a form to bind, and thus secures a faithful record and nistory or passing events. TEBMS?UN" ADVANCE. Dally Paper,six months, ...$4 00 TrlWeekly, " " 2 50 , Weekly, ? " 1 50 JULIAS A. 8ELBY, Proprietor, Colombia, S. C. Jane 14 8 tf ( METROPOLITAN ENTERPRISE. < GREAT GIFT SALE OF THE New York and Providence JEWELERS' ASSOCIATION, CAPITAL 81.000,000. DEPOT, 197 BROADWAY. AN Immense stock of Pianos, Watches, Jewelry, and Fancy Goods, all to be sold for ONE DOLLAR each, without regard to value, and not to bo paid for till yoa see what 1 you will receive. CERTIFICATES, naming each article,andlta value, are placed in sealed envelopes and well mixed. One of tnese ' envelopes will be sent by mall to any address on receipt of 25 cents; five for $1 ; eleven for$@; thirty for$5; sixty five for $10; and one hundred for $15. On receipt of the Certificate you will see what you are going to have, and then it in at your option to pay the dollar and take the article or not. Purchasers may thus obtain a J Gold Watch, Diamond Ring, a Piano, Sewing Machine, or any set of Jewelry on our list, for $1; and In no case can they get less than One Dollar's worth, as there are no blanks. Agents are wanted In every town In the country; every person can make $'0 a day, selling onr Certificates in the greatest sale of Jewelry ever known. Send 25c. for a Certificate, which will Inform you what I you can obtain for $1. At the same time get our Circular, containing full list and particulars; also, Terms to Jieents. Address, JAMES HUTCHINSON k CO., 197 Broadway, N. 7. I March 29 49 3m PROSPECTUS OF THE SUMTER NEWS! THE undersigned proposes to issue at Sumter, 8. C., on or about the first of June, 1866, a weekly paper, to be entitled "THE SUMTER SEWS." This Journal will be devoted to literature, morality and general intelligence, and the promulgation of the occurrences of the day?political and general?which may be of interest to the people. . No pains or expense will be spared by the proprietor to render his paper acceptable to ail classes of readers. He connaenuy reiers 10 ms luug e*pe?cncc ^ui <u yea,nj in the past as a journalist, to secure for him the patronage of the people of bis District. He congratulates himself that he can select for the inauguration of his enterprise no better occassionthan the ? resent. At the termination of a long and bloody struggle, t which the principles of free government hare been overridden and the Constitution trampled under foot?In which all the angry passions of frail and erring human nature have been excited and exercised?the Angel of Peace la now a boat to unfold her wings over all sections of our common country, and once again to gather around her the goodness, the strength and the magnitude of the American . Union. At such a time as this, he can have no better landmarks by which, for the good of his country, to direct bis course man the union, the Constitution and the Presi dent of the United States, and he pledges himself to sua- , tain, as far as he is able, the purity and Integrity of the one, and the firmness, and the patriotism and the statesmanship of the other. To the people of Sumter District be confidently appeals . for their sympathy and patronage. Identified as he has ever been with them and their inI ???>" in ika *?a_?* Vim aukra tn h? qIIau/o/I fhn an m? nlrvilpiff in the future, fie expects to build up for them a District paper, the course of which will be consistent prudent and patriotic, and one whicb be hopes will not be wanting In lu influence on the education and training of the rising , generation. The services of an able and talented editor have been secured, who will devote his time and abilities to the en- . tertnlnment and Instruction of bis patrons, and who will take pleasure In seconding the efforts of the undersigned, to render THE SUMTER NEWS worthy of the confidence and support of a discriminating public. For further Information as to terms, address me, at . Sumter, 8. C. H. L. DARlt. , May 10 3 tf ' Office National Intelligencer, Washington, October 1865. This standard Journal lounded more than half a century since has been re-organized with an able and active carps c of editors, reporters, and correspondents. It Is of enlarged p size, superior typography, and Is published at rates compa- c ring favorably with any other first class paper. It has access to authentic sources of original Intelligence In politics, c commerce, science, and literature. The Intimate intercourse between the founders of the National Intelligencer c and those men who represented the extremes of opinions p which have culminated In the late war, prove the modem- it tiou and integrity which have ever marked Its course. This s intercourse and respect embraced Webster, Calhoun, Clay I and Benton. It bad received the confidence of them all.? f The National Intelligencer is conducted scrupulously upon p the orlncioles which have ever guided it. It has lived to b feel the value of moderation and national fraternity, and rejoice to perceive that the American people respect them t likewise. 1 The Intelligencer will extend a cordial and sincere sup- r port to the beneficent policy of President Johnson. It will favor such provision lor the legal and social protection o n the emancipated negro, as the several States irsy deem jus and proper. Qunlined by location and sentiment to medl- 1 ate between the wants of one section and the resources of t another, it will advocate and aid In transfcrlng to the South s: those elements of capital and enterprises lndlspenalble to p the prosperity of every cogimuulty. To enable the Inteligencer to fulfill this measure of use- p fulness, it respectfully asks the support to which its past p moderation and sincere devotion lor the common welfare si entitle It. In this sense It Is now offered to the public as a medium of Intelligence, which cannot be surpassed by any si journal published in tile National Metropolis. tl Dally paper, one year $10 00 a " six months 5 00 u " three months, 2 50 e Tri weekly paper, one year 6 00 " six month? 3 00 li " three months, 150 u SNOW, COYLE A CO., P Successors of Gales & Beaton. April 12, 51 tf sj TWO AGBICULTUBAL PAPEBS FOB $2 60 ! p 'JL1 H E '' SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR, D. REDMOND A WM. N. WHITE, EDITORS. n Bl ESTABLISHED Itf 1843. Volume 34 Commences Jantiary, 18661 Monthly, per Annum, In Advance, S2 00 Six Copies, In Advance, 10 00 BY special arrangement with the "MARYLAND PAR- C MEB," another excellent Rural Monthly, published In Bal- 8 timore at $1.50, both papers will be sent one year for $3.00 T ?six of each for $16?lOof each for$25?giving each sub scrlber In thl9 case, both papers for $2.50! is Address, WM. N. WHITE, ,, Athens, Ga. ^ February 22 44 Cf U| - lj RENOVATING AND CLEAKSUfi ? WOOLEN GOODS. w MRS. J. E. GRIST respectfully Informs the cltlxei.s of w Yorkvllle and vicinity, thatahe is prepared to RENOVATE w AND CLEAN Gentlemen's Coats, Pants and Vests, and Ladles' Cloaks. REPAIRING DONE IF NECESSARY. Satisfaction Guaranteed if the garments are not too much WORN or FADED. Rxviesto: Capt. I. D. Wlthenpoon, G. R. Ratchford, a T. M. Dobson, Thos. H. Dickson, M. Jones, W. I. Claw- I son and Maj. J. G. Lindsay. . Articles left at the Printing Office will be attended to. December 14 35 tf THE STAMP ACT. ONE OF THE TAX LAWS OF THE U. STATE'S There are probably but few of the readers of this paper ivho know the detail* of the Stamp Act- Y?t, there k no aw, State or Notional, the provisions of which ire more mportant to the people. Here are such of Its proceedings nc think sa will prove most interesting and important to he readerSCHBDUliS B. 1 ACKOWLEDGMENT?of deeds ntmt AFFIDAVIT S cents In suit er legal proceedings _ exam* AGREEMENT OR APPRAISEMENT?(or each sheet or piece of paper an which the eaAO k - s " written i cents ASSIGNMENTS OR TRANSFERS?of mortgege, lease or policy of Insurance, the same doty as on. the original instrument. Of patent right 5 cam BANK CHECK8, DRAFTS OR ORDERS, fcc.,? at sight or on demand > cents BILLS OF EXCHANGE, Imuurn?draft or order, payable otherwise than at sight or on demand, and any promissory note, whatever, payable on demand or at a time designated, [except bank notes issued for circulation, and checks made and Intended to be, and which shall be forthwith presented for payment] for a sum not exceeding ~ * 3100 , - 3 i cents For every additional hundred dollars, or fractional part thereof i cents BILLS OF LADING?of vessels tat parts of the united Data or tmdm norm nmtratra exempt Or receipt of goods on any foreign pons 10 cents BILL OF SALE?of any vessel, or port thereof wb n the consideration does not exceed fire bonured dollars SO cents Exceeding <300 and not exceeding #1/100 fLOO Exceeding <1,000, for each <500, or fractional pan thereof 50 casts Of personal property [other than ship or Teasel] 5 cents BOND?personal, for payment of money (Bee oS" ,.00 For Indemnifying any person for tlw payment of any sum of money, where foe money intimately recoverable thereupon L <1,000 or torn 50 cents Where the money recoverable exceeds <1,000, for ereiy additional <1,000, or fractional part thereof SO cents BONDS?county, city and town bonds, railroad and other corporation bonds and script arc subject to stamp duty. [See Mortgage.] Of any description other than nuchas ar*re- \ quired In legal proceedings, and such as are not otherwise cuacted In this schedule. flfi cents CERTIFICATES?of deposit In bank, asm not exceeding one hundred dollars * a Mats Of deposit In bank, sum exceeding <100 ^ 6 cents Of stock In an Incorporated company IS cents General ft easts Of a qualification of a Justice of the Peace Commissioner of Deeds or Notary Public 5 cents Of search of records S cents That certain papers are on die 5 eats That certain papers cannot be found 5 cents Of redemption of land sold for taxes 5 cents Of birth, marriage sad death Jmmb Of qualifications of school teachers 8 cents Of profits in an incorporated company, for a mas not less than <10 and not exceeding <50 10 cents Exceeding <50 and not exceeding <1,000. S3 cents Exceeding <1,000, fbr every additional <1/100, or fractional part thereof tS Of damage or otherwise, and all other certificates or documeuts issued by any port warden, marlns surveyor, or other person acting as such 35 cents CERTIFIED TRANSCRIPT?of judgments, satisfaction of Judgements, and of all papers, recorded or on file 5 cents (N. B.?As a general rale, every certificate which has, or may ham, a legal value In any court of law or equity, will require a stamp duty of 5 cents.) :HECK, DRAFT OR ORDER-for the payment of any sum of money, exceediag <10, dtassa ' upon any person other than a bank, banker or _ trust company, at sight or on demand* 9 can CONTRACT?{See Agreement] Brokers. 10 eemts lONVEYANCE?deed, instrument, or writing whereby lands, tenements, or other realty' said shall be conveyed, the actual value which*doe* not exceed $5w 50 eanta Exceeding $500, and not exceedlag $1,000 $1,00 For every additional $900, or fractional part ^ thereof, In excess of $1/100 90 cents 2NTKY?of any goods, wares or marchaadtae at any custom bouse not exceeding $100 In value 99 ? "*" Exceeding $100, and not exceedlag $500 is s < value 90 cents Exceeding $500 in value $1,00 For the withdrawal of any goods or mrrhaa disc, from bonded warehouse 50 cetlts SUAGER'S RETURN?If for quantity not exceeding 900 gallons, gross, 10 cents Exceeding 900 gallons 99 cents POWEROF ATTORNEY?to seU or tranaftr . stock or collect dividends thereon - -' K cehta To vote at an election of Incorporated company 10 cents To receive or collect rents 95 eehts To sell, or convey, or rent, or lease reel estate |l/t. For any other purpose 50 cents PROBATE OF WILE?or letters of administration, where the value of both ml and personal estate does not exeeed $4,000. For every additional $5,000, or fractional pan , thereof, in exeess of $3,000 * SO oenta Bonds of executors, administrators, guardians and trustees, are each sabject to a sump duty of $1,00 PROTEST?upon bill note, check or drag - 35 cents PROMISSORY NOTE?{See Bills of Kxdmwe, Inland.] ^ SrfiRenewal of, subject to same duty as an original note. J 1ECE1PT?for the payment of any sum of mosey, or debt due, exceeding $90, or for the delivery of any property , S cents TRUST DEED?made to secure a debt, to be tamped as a mortgage. Conveying estate tosses to be atamped ?a a conveyance. WAREHOUSE RECEIPT?for any goods, wares or merchandise not otherwise provided finr^ia- t? ?" posited or stored In anv public or private house, not exceeding $600 in value t ^^10 cents Exceeding $600, and not exceeding $1,000^ aa??? Exceeding $1,000, tor every additional gMOoo. or - fractional pan thcreoT, In excess of $1{000 ' 10 cents For any foods, kc., not otherwise provided tn, stored or deposited lit any public or prime warphouse or yard 20 cents WRITS fc LEGAL DOCUMENTS?wito otodaer legal process, by which any suit is commenced in any court of record, either of law or equity SOceatS Writ or other original process issued by a court not of record, where tne amount rlaliund is $100' ' or over Upon every confession of judgment or cognovit, for $100, or over, except in cases when toe tax for a wilt has been paid 50 cents Writ or other process appeals from Justices' - courts, or other coons of inferior jurisdiction, to a court of record 30 efltts Warrants of distress, when the ankount ofreut claimed does not exceed $100 $9 cents When the amount exceeds $100 . .. $0 cents INSURANCE?Marine. Inland and Firs. Where the consideration paid for the Insurance, ts eaah , v premium notes, or both, does not exceed $10 10cents ExccedlngAlO, and not exceeding $50 50 cents NSURANCE, Lira?when the amount insured does not exceed $1,000 S3 cents Ex ceedlng $1,000, and not exceeding $5,000 50 cents Exceeding $3,000 $1.00 JEASE?or lands or tenements, where the rent docs not exeeed $300 per annum 50 cents Exceeding $300, lor each additional 4300, or fractional part thereof, in excess of $300 50 eents Perpetual, subject to stamp doty as a coovsyaaoe. Clause of guaranty of payment of rent, Incorporated or indorsed, Ave cents additions! iIEAflUEEBtj' RETURN?If for quantity not uxe ceding 1,000 bushels lOoents KiceedtngljOOO bushels 25 cents dORTGAGE?-trust deed, bill of sale, or personal bond for the payment of money exceeding $100, Exceeding $500, for every additional $300 or fraction*! part thereof, Is exceai of #500. 30 cents 'AWNEES' CHECKS Scents 'ASdAGE TICKET?from the United States to. , any foreign port, costing not more than #35 00 cents Costing more than #35. and not exceeding #50 #1X0 For every additional #50, or fractional pan thereof, in excess of *? #1.8 GENERAL REM A WEB , ' Revenue Stamps may be used lniiacrtminataty upon any f the mattersor things enumerated In ariwditic B, ezcep iroprietary and playing card (tamps, for which a special ise has been provided. Postage stamps cannot be used in payment of dm duty haryeahie on instruments. , It la the duty of the maker of an instrument to sdhrand ancel the stamp thereon. If he neglects to do SO, the ?rty for whose use it is mads may stamp U bates it Is ised; but In no case can it be legally tassd without a stamp nd If used after the 30th of June, 1864, and used without . stamp, it cannot afterwards be effectually Any allure upon the part of tbe maker of an lnatramaa t to spiropriatdy stamp it, readers him Hshto (? a penalty of two mndred dollars. Sulu are commenced In many State by other process ban writ, vis: summons, warrant, publication, petition, tc.,inxvnlch case these, as the original process, severalty eoulre stamps. Writs of scire facias are subject to stamp duty as ortgiial processes. The Jurat of an affidavit, taken betbre a Jasdce of tbe 'eace, Notary Public, or other officer duly authorised to ike affidavits, Is held to be a certldcate, and raltfeet to a tamp duty of 5 cents, except when taken in suits or legal roceedings. Certificates of loan, in which there shall appear any r in ted or written evidence of any amount of money to be aid on demand, or at any tlms designated are subject to Lamp duty as "Promissory Notes." Tlic assignment of a inortran Is suMeet to thn same lamp duty as that Imposed upon the original Instrument; rat is to say, for every sum of five hundred dollars, or ny fractional part thereof, of the amount secured by the lortgage, at the time of its assignment, there most be afilzd a stamp or stamps, denoting a duty of fifty cents. When two or mora persons Join in the execution of an istrument, the stamps to which the Instrument la Its hie nder the law, may be affixed and cancelled by one of the arties. * ' ***'<In conveyances of real estate.the law provide* that the tamp affixed must answer to the value of the estate on iterest conveyed. No stamp is required on any warrant of attorney accomanylng a bond or note, when soch bond or netuTiaa afxed thereto the stamp or stamps denoting the duty reuired, and whenever any band or note is eeeu&ed by lortgage, but one stamp duty la required on such papers, ich stamp duty being the highest rates tequhed lor such istrtimentaj or either of them, la smb ease a not* or tcmorandum of the value or deaomlaatoc of the atmap ffixed should be made upon the margin or In tfc* acnowledgment of the Instrument which. Is not UMplt November 23 32 THE STATE OF 8. C1EOL01, YORK DISTRICT, IN THE COMMON PLEAS. ufts,Burtcak Co., m. Barrows, Blair k Co., 1 Jtttackochran k Co., nr. do. I am'! Blagge k Co., t*. do. racy, Irwin k Co., es. do. J sunt. WHEREAS, the Plaintiffs did, on the 13th day of March, 166, file their Declaration against the Defendants." who (as Is said) Is absent from and without the limits of mis State, id have uttttcr wife nor attorney known within the same pon whom a copy of said Declaration might be served.? Is, therefore, ordered, that the said Defendants do appear nlpn/i in thm nppIinHnn 411*4 In n/ ?ha ahoea ated cases, on or before the 14th day of March, which ill be In the year of oar Lord one fciwd eight hundred id sUty-seven, otherwise final and jndgment ill then be given end awarded agaist them. J. P. WALLACE, C. 0. C. t. * O. 8. Clerk's Office, York District, 8. C. March 15 47 l*q COTTON XABN.?STOWB'S U COTTON YAEN. ft.?# & October 36 28 tf