University of South Carolina Libraries
mw? j* sbist. Proprietor. J |n Jnj>qmtititt /rattln 5lftopajier" Jror i|t grffmatmn of tbf fjolitital, Social Aaridtnral aiti) Cffmmtrfial Intosis of % $onf{j. TOLUMB XII. YORKYILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1866. ~ NUMm i2. ?mtx^ WOKAS. . DISSECTED BT A MAM. "Nec tecum possum vivere, nec sine te." ?<1 am deeply interested to know whethei women will rise in the latter day as women for it is to be feared in that case that thej Bay continue to tempt ns before the throne itself."? St Augustine, in the second cen tury. A woman is like?but stay? What a woman Is like, who can say ?? There's no living with or without one'! Love bites like a fly, Now an ear, now an aye; Buz?buz?always buzzing about one When she is tender and kind, She is like to my mind, (And Bally was so, I remember) She's like to?Ob, dear!? She's as good, very near, As a ripe melting peach in September! If she laugh, and she chat, Play, joke and all that. And with smiles and good humor she meets me, She's like a rich dish, Of venison and fish. That cries from the table "come eat me!" But shell plague you and vex you. Distract and perplex you: False-hearted and ranging, l/naeiuea aau cuangiug, What, then, do you think she is like ? Like a sand, like a rock ? Like a wheel, like a clock ? Aye, like a clock that is always at strike ? i-' ' Her head is like the island folks tell on, Which nothing bat monkeys can dwell on Her heart's like on orange so nice. She carves for each lover a slice f In truth, she's to me, Like the wind, like the sea. Whose raging will hearken to no man. Like a mill, like a pill; Like a sail, like a whale; Like an ass, like a glass, Whose image is constant to no man ! Like a flower, like a shower; Like a fly, like a pie; Like a flea, like a pea ; Like a thief, like?in brief, She's like notning on earth?but a woman! DESCRIPTION OF A MAN. m . WRITTEN BT A WOMAN. ^ A man is like to?but stay, To what he's unlike who can say ? And yet we cannot do without him! Love sits in his breast, Like a hen on her nest, And his chickens arc scratching about him: When he is pleased, I am squeezed, When he's not, I am teased, And I can never tell where >o find him. He is like an old horse, Worth little, and cross, And a woman is foolish?very foolish to mind bim. If he chance but to smile, And look pleasant awhile. And come chattering around like a chicken, He is like a gay lark, But a false-hearted spark, Whose feathers are scarcely worth picking! But when he is vexed, Confused and perplexed, Deceltfhl and vicious. Base, false and malicious. He Is like?bard to speak myself? He is like to, alas, Like a snake In the grass, Bel* then, only then, like himself! Hi* head's like a butcher's full shop, With beef, mutton, pork and what not; His heart'* like a pail of old swill, Which the official contributes to fillin short, to a wife, He is like a case knife, To cut a ctku or a chceoe, Like a saint, when he Is civil; But If not, like the devil, That will turn to whatever he please! To a hog, to a dog. To a hare, to a bear, Whose cruelty yleideth to no man Like a mouse, like a goose, Like a mule, like a fool; Like a lane, like a vane; Like a leaf, like?in brief, He's like everything else?but a woman. flfistfltaiwflMS JlttifkiS. The Bankrupt Bill. The following is a summary of the Banknipt Bill as it has passed the House of Representatives: fira> QOrthnn nnnafifnfA fhfl Tllflfrif*#; Courts of the United States Courts of Bankruptcy. The second section gives the U. States Cirooit Courts general superintendence and jurisdiction of all cases and questions arising under that act. Sections three to seven, inclusive, relate to the administration of the law in Courts of Bankruptcy. Sections eight, nine and ten refer to appeals and practice. The eleventh seotion provides that if any person resides within the jurisdiction of the United States owing debts over three hundred dollars shall apply, by petition, to the judge of his judicial district, setting out his inability to pay his debts in full, and his willingness tc surrender his estate for the benefit of his creditors, the filing of such petitioner shall be adjudged a bankrupt. A warrant shall then be 1 Baaed by tne juage, airectmg me marshal of the disiriot to take possession of the estate and keep the same until the appointment of an assignee. Notice is then to be given to the oreditors to hold a meeting and choose one or more assignees. Sec tiona twelve to eighteen, inclusive, define in great details the duties of assignees. The sections nineteen to tw6ntyfour, inclusive, relate to debts and pToof of claims. Section twenty-five provides for the sale of perishable property. Seotion twenty-six provides for the examination of bankrnpts before the court, and exempts them from liability to arrest during the pendenoy of the proceedings in bankruptcy in eivil courts. Seotion twenty-seven relates to the distri b"Ution of the bankrupt's estate. Ail creditors whose debts are duly proved and allowed are to b* entitled to share in the bankrupt property %>r0 rata without any priority 01 preference whatever, except that wages due from him to *?y operative, clerk or "house servant to an amount not exceeding fifty dollars, for >abor performed within six months preceding the adjudication of bankruptcy, shall be entitled to priority and shall be first paid id ion. id UlUCi ivi a ui v idend the following claims are to be entitled to priority of prefere nee, and to be first paid in fall in the following order: 1st. Fees, costs and expenses of suits and for the ous tody of property. .2d. All debts due tc the United States ai*d all taxes and assess ments under the Is ws thereof. 3d. A1 debts due to the State *in which the proceed ings in bankruptcy are pending, and e.l taxes and assessments mude under the law: of suoh State. 4th. Wag es due to any op entire, olerk, or bouse servant, to ar amount not exoeeding fifty dollars, for laboi performed within six moDtbs uext preceding the first publication of the notice of pro oeedings in bankruptcy. 5tb. All debtf due to any person who, by the laws of the United States are, or may be, entitled to s priority or preference, in like manner, aa if this act bad not been passed; always provided that nothing contained in the act shall interfere with the assessment and collection of taxea by the United States or any State. r Seotion twenty-nine and the five following . seotions relate to the bankrupt's discharge 'r and its effects. If it shall appear to the } coart that the bankrapt has in all things _ oonformed to his daty under this Act, and that be is entitled, nnder the provisions thereof, to receive a discbarge, the coart shall grant him a discharge from all his debts, except as therein-after provided, and shall give him a certificate thereof nnder the seal of the coart. Section thirty-five declares preferences and fraadalent conveyances void. Section thirty-six, thirty-seven, and thirty-eight relate to bankruptcy of partnerships and corporations and to dates and depositions. Sections thirty to iorty, inclusive, provide for the case of involnntary bankruptcy; a departure from the State, avoiding the servioe of legal process, removal or concealment of property, fraudulent assignment of property, arffest and detention for debt for a period of seven days, oonfession of judgment or suspension of payment of commercial paper for fourteen days, shall be deemed an act of bankruptcy. Seotion forty-third provides for the superseding of the bankrupt proceedings by arrangement. Section forty-fourth provides penalties against bankrupts for concealment of property, falsifying books or papers, fraudulent assignment or conveyance of property, spending in gaming, permitting a fictitious debt to be proved against him, obtaining goods on credit fraudulently within three months of the commencement of the proceedings in bankruptcy; these are to be deemed misdemeanors, and punished by imprisonment, with or without hard labor, for a term not exceeding three rostra J Section forty-five and forty-six provides penalties against officers in administering the law. Section forty-seven regulates fees and costs. Section forty-eight regulates stamp duties on petitions, warrants, &c Section forty-nine and fifty define the meaning of terms and the computation of time. Section fifty-first, and last, enacts that this act shall commence and take effect as to the appointment of the officers created hereby and the promulgation of rules and general orders, from and after the date of its approval, provided that no petition or other proceeding under this act shall be filed, received, or commenced before the first day oi -November, leoo. An Ingenious Defence. Many years ago, a gentleman, followed by a servant in livery, rode into an inn in the west of England, one evening a little before dusk He told the landlord that be should be detained by business in tbat part of the oountry for a few days, and wished to know if there were any amusements going 1 on in the town to fill up the intervals of time The landlord replied that it was their assize week, and he would, therefore, be at no loss to pass away his leisure hours. : On the gentleman's making answer tbat this was fortunate, for he was fond of hearing trials, the other said that a very interesting case of robbery wonld come off the next day, on which people's opinions were much divided, the evidence being very strong against the prisoner, but the man himself persisted resolutely in declaring that he was in a distant part of the kingdom at the time the robbery was committed. ( The guest manifested considerable anxiety to bear the trial, but as the court would be crowded, expressed some doubt of getting a place. The landlord told him there t could be no difficulty in a gentleman of bis appearance getting a seat, but that, to prevent any accident, he would himself go with , him and speak to one of the beagles. Ac, cordingly they went into the court the next [ morning, and through the landlord's interI est with the officers of the court, the gen, tleman was sbowD to a seat on the bench. ? Presently the trial began. While the evidence was proceeding a gainst him, the prisoner had remained with his eyes fixed on the floor, seemingly very much depressed; till being called on for his defence, he looked up, and seeing the , stranger, he suddenly fainted. This excited some surprise, and it seemed at first, like a trick to gain time. As soon as he came to himself, bnng asked by the Judge the cau?c of his behavior, he said : "Ob, my lord, 1 see a person who can ! 1 save my life; that geutleman"?pointing to ; the stranger?;!<:au prove I am innocent ! Might I only have leave to put a few questions to him ?" The eyes of the whole court were now turned upon the gentlemen, who said he I felt in a very awkward situation tc be called upon, as he did not remember ever to have . seen the man before, but that he woald answer any question that was asked him. ! "Well, then," said the man, "don't you recoiitfot landing at Dover at such a time ?" To this the gentleman answered that he had landed at Dover not long before, but that he could not tell whether it was on the day mentioned or not. said he. "don't you recollect [ that a person in blue jacket and trow&ers ( carried your trunk to an inn ?" To this he answered that, of course, some > i person bad carried his trunk for him, but . { that he did not know what dress he wore. 1 i "But," said the prisoner, "don't you re. member that the person who went with you < 1, from the boat told you a story of bis being 3: in service, that he showed you a scar ktfhad i on one side of his forehead ?" i! During the last question the face of the i | stranger underwent a considerable change. I ; | He said he certainly did recollect such a i oircumstance; and on the man's poshing i I his hair aside and showing the scar, he be- < )! oame quite sure that be saw the same per- ' k son. A buzz of satisfaction now run 1 through the court; for the day on whioh, according to the prisoner's account, the gentleman met him at Dover, was the same on which he was charged with the robbery id a distant part of theoountry. The stranger, however, conld not be certain of the time; but said that he sometimes made a memorandum of dates in bis pocket book, and might possibly have done so on this oc casion. On turning to bis pooket book, be found a memorandum of the time he Janded, whioh corresponded with the prisoner's assertion. This being the only oircumstanoe necessary to prove the alibi, the prisoner was immediately acquitted, amidst the applause and congratulations of the whole oourt. Within less than a month after, the gentleman who came to the inn attended by the servant in livery, the servant who followed him, and the prisoner who had been acquitted, were all three brought back together for robbing the mail! It turned out that this clever defence at the trial was a scheme skillfully arranged by the thiefs confederates to obtain the release of their accomplice. Alfew Chapter--The Quilt of Jefferson Davis. In an able artiole on the above subject, the Mobile Advertiser publishes some remarkable faots connected with the secret history of our late Government. They prove what the intelligent among our people will always contend; namely, that Jefferson Davis was not a leader of the secession movement, but on the contrary, that his influenoe at the beginning, was put forth to restrain it. He represented public sentiment, but its ?nnn tVisx BftftM f A 9% A/\fl O BJAflf f\t fKo V/Lcanuu nan tuo opv/uiauovuD nvm v& vuv Southern heart. But the facts. The States of Mississippi, Florida and Alabama adopted ordinances of secession on the 9tb, 10th, 11th, of January, respeo tively, in the year 1861; on the 12th of January, 1861, the Pensacola Navy Yard was surrendered, by Commander Armstrong, to a body of volunteers from Florida and Alabama, commanded by Col. William H. Chase, Major in the Engineer Corps of the U. S. Army. Fort Barrancas was evacuated at the same time, and the few troops composing its garrison were thrown into Fort Pickens, on the other side of the harbor where the authority of the United States was maintained by Lieut Slemmer. The events occurred several weeks be fore the formation of tbo Confederate Government. Col. Tennent Lcmax, who commanded the Alabama troops, was exceedingly anxious to obtain permission to attack Fort Pickens at once. Tbe true cause of the failuro to pusb the enterprise to completion was the intervention of a few leading Southern men, then in Washington. These were Senators Fitzpatrick, of Alabama; Mallory, of Florida; and Davis, of Missisippi. It is easy to infer, too, Mr. Davis was the controlling spirit. These gentlemen, on learning the state of affairs at Pensaoola, immediately telecrrnnhort f.lin flnuprnnrfl nf Alabama and B--r; ? -? ? Florida, and to Col. Chase, earnestly deprecating any aggressive movement. Telegram after telegram was sent, urging that Fort Piokens should not be attacked, and that nothing should be done that could possibly bring on hostilities. These dispatches, ooming from gentlemen of so much influence and such opportunities for knowing the state of affairs in the Federal capital, oould not be disregarded by the Governors of the two States or by the commanding officer of the troops. We have excellent reasons for believing that they deoided the question, and that to them alone it is due that no effort was made to obtain possession of Fort Pickens. It would be goiDg too far to assert that its possession would have insured a different termination to the war, but who can say, that it would not? Great events are often determined by comparatively insignificant causes, and the possession of Fort Pickens was by no means insignificant to either party. It is a singular instance of the caprioiousDeSs of fortune, or -ather of the imperfection and injustioe of human judgment, that Mr. Davis, who in the beginning thus threw all the weight of his influence and position against everything that might tend to bring rbout hostilities between the two sections, who did not Uud but followed his own State in her separation from the Union, who had no agency in the formation of the Confederate Government, but who was called, without seeing it, to the chief place in that Government?it is remarkable, we suy, that he should be denounced as the head and front of the "rebellion." It is a little remarkable, at least, that he should be the object of the most implacable and ! vindictive hatred of the enemies of the late Confederaoy and of the principles on i irtitnh if aaa fnnndflrl. while so manv others. whoso measure of so-called "guilt" iu this i respect is tar greater than his, should be i comparatively exempt from their reseat- < meat. i The long confinement of Mr. Mallory, i whose reluctance to. secession and to war was still more decided, if possible, than Mr. Davis's, is another case of the same < kind. i * ?. - i Cure for Sprains ?In the Paris hos- i pitals a treatment is practiced that is found i most successful for a frequent accident, and < whioh can be applied by the most inexperienced. If the ankle is sprained for instance, i let the operator hold the foot in his hands, with the thumbs meeting on the swollen part. These, having been previously greas- j ad, are pressed successively with increasing i force on the injured and painful spot for i about a quarter of an hour. This application being repeated several times, will in the ' course of a day, enable the patient to walk < when other means would have failed to re- i lieve him. < Funny things on the Editors. "Gris," the "fat contributor" of the Cincinnati Times, extends his condolence < to the former editorial "dead heads" of I New York. He says : the New York Leg- ' ialature, lost session, passed a law prohibiting the free pass system on railroads in that I State. By a provision of the law all passes i were taken up on and after the first of < May. The law must have been a little I heavy on snoh editors as got caught away I from home. We understand that a large i number of those wretohed oreatures accumulated at the prinoipal points along the i line of the New York Central Railroad, i principally at Utica and Syracuse. Their J passes played out, and having no money, of i course they had to stop over until they I could hear from home. I A large number of the press gang, who \ live in Eastern New York, and who had been West, are stopped at the Pennsylvania i line, onable to get any farther. They are ] anxiously "watching and waiting over the I border" for suoeor. The Atlantio and I Great Western Company have very kindly extended to them the use of their water tanks to lodge in. The Union Telegraph Company kindly i permitted them the free nse of the tele- i graph to send their dispatches home. A i friend has forwarded to me copies of the i dispatobea sent from Utica, where a large number of country editors were "stuck." Through the benevolence of some of the oitizens, the "Soldiers' Home," which bad been vacant for some months past, was fitted up for the accomodation of the impecunious editors until money could be forwarded to them. Some of them, rendered temporarily insane by the decapitation of "dead heads," had to be quartered in the Lunatic Asylum. One editor telegraphs to bis partner: - i Send! me some money. Five dollars will do if sent immediately. Don't suspend the DaDer in consequence, if you can possi bly avoid it. Another, rendered savage and profane, telegraphed his foreman: Sell that office stove and send on the proceeds. We don't need it in warm weather. Disobarge the "Devil." P. S.?Give onr Legislature h?11 for this. One poor fellow, who is caught a long i way from home, it being in a small town on the Illinois river, nearly dispairs of ever getting back again. This is bis dispatch " ? Dear Wipe:?Sell my tother clothes i for what they will bring, and remit at once. Had my linen dnster for supper, and my spare shirt will have to go for lodging, i May be able to make a light breakfast on a german silver comb and a pair of shears that I chanced to have with me. Don't ( know when I shall get home. It will de- , pend a good deal on the walking. Don't ( marry for a few months; there is a bare , possibility of my getting back. Simon. ( A St Lawrence county (N. Y.) Editor , telegraphs his assistant editor: l If my last letter isn't printed, cut out , that puff of the New York Central Rail- , road. Give them something about "Swindling Monopoly," "Dangerous Roadway," "Rotten Bridges," etc. Send me ten dollars. P. S.?Take any advertisement that , offers for the present, whatever its character. The editor of the Podunk Stuffed Club ( telegraphs his partner: Dear Sam :?Forward me at once all the money you have, even if it is five dollars. P. S.?Bring down the Stuffed Club with all its weight on the head of that Great Monopoly, the New York Central. , Phil. ( The Value of Stamps. Peode who eive receipts, and everybody ' does it, should make a note of the result of 1 a trial whioh took place in New Y- rk the ' other day, and whioh show how perilous a thing a neglect to put stamps upon papers which require them, may become. Many persons have fallen into the error of supposing that if a paper is not stamped, the omission may be rectified at aoy time at very little expense. This is not correct.? There was provision made for validating unstamped papers made and issued before ! the act of 1864, upon compliance with cer- ' tain provisions. Similar provision is made 1 in the amended act of 1865, upon the con- ' dition that the party dereliot shall pay 850 and interest at 6 per cent, on the stamp, if j the cost of the latter is more than 850.? 1 But in addition to this, there is an aotual < penalty whioh may be enforced against any * one who issues unstamped paper. Under the act of 1864 it was 8200 in all cases.? 1 Under the amended act of-1865 it remains { 8200, upon acoeptors and payers of foreign 1 bills of exchange, without first stamping the securities. In this case, in New York, the party sued had neglected, before the passage of the amended act of 1865, to affix stamps upon seven receipts for the payment of money. He was sued for the full penalty in each case, amounting to 1,400 in all, and a verdict was given against him fur the whole sum. The stamps would have cost him 14 cents, so that by his saving habit on the ocoasion referred to, le is $1,399.86 out of pocket, besides lawy:r's fees and costs of suit. The example is worthy of remembranoe. There are no duties which devolve upon a citizen which can be as cheaply disoharged as those under the stamp laws, and few which, if neglected, may cost ! a careless person more dearly. An Honest Man.?A gentleman traveling in Southern Pennsylvania, reports a good story whioh he heard about a worthy mechanic who aspired to legislative honors.? In hia printed appeal to the voters he said, with more significance than he intended,! "that if they declined to elect him, he should remain at home a cooper and an honest man 1" Draining- Air for Boots of Plants. An experienced drainer asked permission of a neighbor to allow him to cot a drain through a pieoe of bottom land, through which only he had an ontlet for his surplus water. The neighbor refused on the ground that if the water were taken away from his meadow land it would barn upjn the heats of Summer. It ended in the other baying the land and draining, and the result of his Srst year's oropping paid for land and draining. This idea as to land suffering in the way suggested, is not, perhaps, an uncommon one, and it is well to have it understood how draining really works in this respect, and that well drained grounds are really better supplied with available moisture in the driest weather than those whioh are nndrained. Soils have in various degrees the power of retaining water. Sands have the least power in this respect. A oompaot loam holds twine as mnoh as sand: a stiff clav three times as much. If a soil is supplied with water beyond its power of retention, as in long continued rains, the excess flows off if no obstruction exist. It is left saturated to the extent of its capacity. When this excess has passed away, it is in proper, sound condition, not wet, solid under foot, and not liable to be poached by the treading of cattle. During the time that the soil is full of water, as after a long rain, the air is pressed out, and then, as fast as the excess of water flows out, fresh air flows in and fills its place. All the intervening spaces between the particles of earth give circulation to fresh air. And this makes the difference between drained and undrained land. If undrained, the excess of water remains and becomes stagnant, and poisonous to many plants; if drained, sweet, fresh air, as necessary to cultivated plants as to man, takes its place But this air always contains more or less watery vapor, averaging perhaps, one per cent., but capable of holding more, the more it is heated, so that it is more charged with vapor ia the hottest drouth than in cooler weather. When it is suddenly cooled it gives up a portion of its water to any object it comes in contact with. This we see illustrated very familiarly on the outside of a glass or pitcher of cold water in hot weather. The heated air from outside comes in, charged with vapor, and striking the cold surface, is suddenly oooled, and deposits a portion of its water, which accumulates there in great drops of water. The same process takes place in the soil if the air be allowed to pass fresly into it. Tbe hotter it is the more moisture it contains ; wucn this vapor comes into contaotwith tho cool soil below tbe surface, it is condensed and deposited there. That this deposit is sufficient to make a very material difference in the quantity, it is attested by all who see the results of their labor in drained and well ploughed lands during our summer drouths. Their oapacity for resisting the influence of dry weather is propor tioned to the freedom with which the air is allowed access to the subsoil.?Baltimore Sun. Mistakes About Each Other. Not ODe man iu ten thousand sees those with whom he associates as they really are. [f the prayer of Burus was granted, and we ooald all see ourselves as others see us, our self estimates would, in all probability, be much more erroneous than they are at present. The truth is, that we regard each other through a variety of senses, no one of which is correct. Passion and prejudice, love and hate, benevolence and eDvy, spectacle our eyes, and utterly prevent us from observing accurately. Many of those we deem the porcelain of human clay are mere duBt; and still a greater Dumber of those we put down in our black books are no further off from Heaven, and perohance a little nearer than the eeusors who condemn them. We habitually undervalue each other; and estima tin"; character, the shrewdest of us but now and then, make the true appraisal of ihe virtues and defects, of even our closest intimates. It is neither just nor fair to look at. charlcter from a stand point of one's own seeotions. A man's profile may be unprepossessing, and yet one of the kindest and jest friends in the world. VVe once saw a young man whose timidi;y was a standing joke with all his companoos, leap into the river and save a boy from Jrowniug, while his tormentors stood panic itricken apon the bank. The merohant who gives curt answers in i counting room, may be a tender husband ind father, and a kind helper of the desoate and oppressed. On the other bandj your good humored person, who is all smile* and sunshine in public, may oarry something as bard as the j ? 11_* _ _i I letner miustone in ine piace wueru uid leart ought to be. Suoh anomalies are oommoo. There is , ;his oomfort, however, for those whose judg- J nents for their fellow-mortals lean to the ] kindly side, such mistakes go to their oredit j n the great account. i He who thinks better of bis neighbors ; ;han they deserve, cannot be a bad man, 'or the standard by which his judgment is < 'ormed is the goodness of his own heart, [t is the base only who believe all men ' >ase, or iu other words, like themselves. | Few, however, are all evil. Even Nero lid a good turn to somebody; for, when j Rome was rejoicing over his death, some f oving hand oovered bis grave with ( lowers. Publio men are seldom or never fairly udged, at least while living. However < jure, they cannot escape calumny, howover , noorrect they are sure to find eulogists, i History may do them jastice; bat they 1 arely get it while alive, either from friends < jr foes. 1 Fourth of July in Charlotte. p We, following the custom of former days, d did not issue a paper yesterday (the 4th.) a It is bat right that men who toil night and e day the year roand sboald occasionally have c a day of respite and recreation. * The white population made no demonstra- C tion in honor of the day, so far as we have a learned. Not so with the negroes?they' o were out with banners flying and drams beating The fire oompanies(oolored) paraded through the streets, followed by a motley crowd of boys of both colors. After dis- ' playing the flag and their red flannel for ? several hours, the oompauies, under the ? command of Capts. Brown (more properly I Black) and Dave Davidson, both negroes, were marched into Blake's Grove, where J several speeches were made by colored ora- c tors. One Bat (by name) hoped to see per- | feet equality between the races in five years 1 ?and olaimcd now for his colored friends < all the rights and privileges accorded the whites. * A very sensible and respeoted man? 1 John Gundry by name, took the stand, and we are informed by one wbo was present, stated that in his opinion the colored man had not been benefitted by the sadden aot of emancipation. That he was not prepared for liberty; that he laoked eminently the qualities that enabled him to take care of himself; that those ignorant negroes, who prated about equal rights did not know what it meant; that if the negro wished to advance himself in the scale of being, he must go to work and work earnestly and faithfully; that idlers and hangers on about the corners of the streets should be made to follow some honest employment; that be mast be respectful to whites; that his old master; and those with whom he was raised, are bis best friends?and his future elevation and prosperity depends upon his own industry, and the manner in which he aots, to retain the esteem and confidence of the dominant raoe. This man, though a slave up to the collapse, eojoya the reputation of being an honest, faithfal christian, and.the whole tenor of hio romorta waro oViornnterispr? hv ofind sense and practical ideas?and that is the a reason why we notice it in oar columns. flow has this national anniversary paled 1 Once the sons of revolutionary sires, encouraged by the presence of the fair daughters of the South, delighted to celebrate the day. Now it is left to negroes, New England Yankees, brass drums and stale ginger cakes. Sic transit gloria mundi. Charlotte Times. Crop Prospects. The Wheat Chop.?The monthly report from the Department of Agriculture at Washington has been published. The ap* prehensions of a scarcity of crops which might threaten consumption, or warrant extraordinary prices, are groundless, as is proven from an aotual analysis of a statistical return, with due regard to the usual aver- 1 age product and the present losses of each c State. s The proapecton the 1st of June was for seven-tenths of a crop, with favorable weath- . er, and absence from casualties before har rru. J: ?: 8 VGStlUg. JL LIC IUUIUULIUUO pUIUb LU kUiCO" j fourths of an average orop of wheat. Id Ohio aud Indiana it appears to have suffered most from winter killing. A prodoot * of three fourths per cent, orop of winter wheat in Indiana, is sufficiently discouraging. An inorease of four-tenths of the aver- . age growth of Spring wheat will afford some * relief, and ought to bring up the average to one-half a orop. Ohio is reported at 4 10 for winter with j 2 1-2-10 leas of spring wheat than usual.? j There is very little prospect for winter wheat in Indiana, and not quite as large an ^ inorease in spring wheat, which will give about the same result?half an average , crop. " Illinois, now oar greatest wheat growing State promises 7-10 of a orop of winter J wheat. As the spring wheat, whioh is, in the main, dependence for a orop in portions j of the State, is nearly as good as asaal, at usual, at least three fourths of a orop of that should be expected in this State. g In Wisconsin winter wheat is reported at 64 tenth with 1} more spring wheat than ^ asaal, which should secare three fourths of an average crop for this State. In Iowa the appearance of winter wheat is 9 110; spring 10 2-14; breadth of the latter sown 12J. This should give at least an average crop in Iowa. In Pennsylvania the ;rheat orop is eighttenths. In Missouri the prospect for a fall orop of wheat is reported with one half-tenth, or 5 per cent, more than the usual breadth 1 of spring wheat, and is looking nearly as J well as usaal. u Kentucky is reported at five and two- c thirds of a tenth. tl Michigan at seven and one-half of atenth. Q Minnesota, ten and five-eights of a tenth ft " ? - - 1 i ?iL- * : U..4 i tor wincer, ana nine-ienias iorspriug wucm. q Kansas fourteec-seventfenths of a tenth c, for winter, and twelve-eighteenths for spring. b In New England, except Massachusetts, 0( 1 fall growth of spring wheat is sown, look* ai ing better than an average in Maine, and a h fraotion lower than an average in other h States. Winter wheat, where it is grown * it all, has suffered to the extent of 1 and h 2 lOths, in Vermont three-tenths. si New Jersey is placed on the same list ^ with New York and Pennsylvania, at 8- ai LOths, and Delaware, and Maryland and Q West Virginia will each average about sixtenths. The section west of the Mississippi, oom- E prising Mionesota, Iowa, Missouri and Kan- ^ ?s, taken together, promise more than au S iverage crop of wheat. " o? 16?" A deoided impression was made up- n )n the guests at a hotel table, at Meridian, tl Mississippi, a few days sinoe, by a Union ? soldier, who rose from his seat and kindly 111 waited upon a one armed Confederate sol- ? iier, who could not help himself very well. % The attention was naturally and delicately ei id, and gratefully received. The Jleriliao Messenger, which relates the incident ays: "The spirit of that gray-haired Fedral soldier would do more towards retailing North and South that any spirit rbioh was ever invaded the room where the Committee of Fifteen hold their ssssteosj nd pump all sorts of stories (rat of all fotfs f witnesses." Don't Sell Your LandaifAs a fitting accompaniment to ail article re penned for yesterday's paper, we tSfORh Inee from the Richmond Times, Of the 10 th nit., the following brief bat excellent >ieoe of advioe to Southern proprietors t Let no Southern proprietor be in basis o sell bis land. Our lands and ear honor institute about the only property of value eft as by the war, and' there are not walfng men who would have ns part with fifth ipon terms too dear to be aosipMlfe. High taxes, hard rimes, disgost with Vcodmon anil with fha ravnlntutn in ?ha igricnlture of the 8ouib, will probably Irive many of oar people to hasty ttliftionsidente sacrifice* of tbelr real estate. Jach a coarse woald be eminently nowise tad imprudent. This, of all times, If ilie rorst period to sell, because laid is ?f? ngly cheap everywhere, bat is not destined 0 oontinue so. The very fact pf Ike iheapnes8 of oar lands will soon iaaagmte 1 desire to obtain them, wbiob, stimnlatfwg lompetition from inereased demand will inhanoe their value. Moreover, the proa>eot of a European war will vastly i&flteaae be flood of immigration to this country; or those foreigners know what war is, find ens of thousands will seek to escape it dost of these immigrants will bring with hem some money, whieh they never fail to nveat in a little farm oultivated on tfee European system. . j ^ There is an idea prevalent that then is till an enormous area of arable land unap>ropriated in the greaio West. This is a nistake. West of Kansas and Nebraska -800 miles West of the Missouri fever? here is but little good land. That vast lountry between the last mentioned States md the Rooky Mountains constitutes the sentral table-laud of North America, and s so high as to be eold and frosty, and in manner is paroaea ay pttnens sou pnnnv ed droughts. In addition to these disparaging facts, there is a lade of timber, rhich will be repulsive to settlers." *>ri " All taese considerations indicate that m migration will hereafter sweep to points There cheap, arable lands can be obtained c each abandanoe as to meet the demands >f all comers. Nowhere in the United States, except Sontb, are these conditions tow fnllilled. r*' The eagerness with whieh oar lands and ailroadu arc songbt by greedy speculators lemonstrates their prospective value in tbo ijes of these keen scented fellows, who see ilearly where money oan be made.: Oar ands are bound to increase in vshte, and inr people err greatly in their desire to acrifioe them. Let them hold on awhile. Late Obdeb.?We take great pleasure calling attention to the following very easotiable and important order. Maj. Gen. I. K. Hcott seems disposed to loosen the tvil of the Bareaa as much as is in his Kjwer; i He4.dq's8., Ass't Commissioner, "j bureau Ref., Freed men, & a- l. > Charleston, S. C., June 22,1866. J Circular Letter.'] The season having arrived when oninter upted labor is absolutely necessary for the lolvation of the orops, and a disposition laving been shown by the freed people to eave their work in a body, anigo to Bueau Headquarters, to have some small mater adjuiioated, which one man oould have ttendeci to for the others: it is hereby orlered t hat all offioera of this Bureau discountenance any suoh proceedings on the tart of ufae freed people, and enjoin upon hem the necessity of steadiness of purpoee nd will also advise them of the folly of itigatiou in trivial matters, whieh they ould settle themselves. The Acting Assistant Commissioners end lub-Assistant Commissioners of this Bureau rill enforce all contraota with equal justice r> AmnlArrAM nn u i/uvu cuipujroio BUU OUI^IUJOUO. By oider of Bvt. Maj. Gen. R. K. SCOTT, Assistant Commissioner. H. W. SMITH, Evt. Lt. Col. and Ast. Adjt. Gen. (OmciAL.) W. D. FOBJBST, Lieut, and A. A. Gen. The Negroes' Can't Taki It.-?The 'allabassee Floridian says: 'The anting 'oat Master at Welborn in this State, being nable to take the <iron clad,' recently reeived notice to close his office. This threw be oitizens into excitement, for they did ot much relish the idea of being ent off :om postal facilities. But there was no elp for it? no one could be found who nrtls? folrn fhn Aofk Thou trin/) fhn la^tnn juiu boag uuu uam. xuuj vi?vu ?uw aeM*&v*J) at all bad beeD rebellious?not one would 3usent to be postmistress. In the dilemma q bouest negro wu thought of?one who ad proved faithful during the war?end e was urged to take the offioe. The oath as read to him and explained,, whereupon e promptly said, <1 can't take it. I was a jrvant of a Confederate soldier during the ar. All my sentiments are against them, ad I won't have the plaoe." The negro's ame is Pinokney Redmond. W.*w. Holden.?Ex-Provisional Gov. [olden, says the Lynchburg Republican, as been nominated resident minister to alvador. Though no admirer of Holden, e hope his confreres of the Senate will onfirm his appointment, so that the oountry tay be rid of him. He will do less harm iere than here. We wish President John>n would appoint Judge (?) Underwood linister resident to the Fejee Islands or ime other outlandish plaoe. Better to disrace the diplomatic toga than the judicial rmine.