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jkrap sift guts, Mew Com is selliog at Anderson C. H., S. C-, at from 75 to 90 cents per bushel, in currency. The freedmen of Charleston, S. C , are making an effort to build a Presbyterian Church in that city. What is the difference between a person transfixed with amazement and a leopard's tail x The one is rooted to the spot, and the other is spotted to the root. A fish was caught in the Ohio river near Cincinnati, last week, the stomach of which, being opened, was found to coDtaio I a small morocco wallet, holdings two dollar bill and a valuable diamond iiog. It is important to housekeepers and others to know that lavender will prevent mould on books, ink, leather, eto. A few drops will save a library, and a single drop will preserve a pint of ink. The Rev. Leonard Bacon, of Connecticut, speaks of the President of the U. States as an "upstart tailor from the backwoods of North Carolina." Dignified for a Doctor of Divinity ! Every surviving candidate of the Whig, American and Republican parties for President or Yioe President, except Hanibal Hamlin, are supporters of President Johnson. The advertisement of a sohoolmaster in a Vincennese paper informs the public that at his establishment the pupils are taught "all the languages spoken in the Austrian empire, viz: Bohemian, Polish, Russian, Magyar, Croat, Servian, Schlave, Rouman, Italian and German"?in all ten. At a bigamy snit recently instituted againt a yonng woman, it turned out that one of her husbands was named Little and the other Long. A waggish young lawyer, on hearing the case, said be oould imagine the woman addressing her brace of husbands thus: "Love me Little, love me Long." Mr. Johnson is understood to believe that his impeachment will be attempted; and he has ordered Barracks for 30,000 troops to be erected at Washington. Perhaps this indicates the reception he intends to give his enemies; but, unless he can have the Governors of New York and Pennsylvania on his side, his friends will not advise forcible resistance to the Radical sobemes. An Infidel Convention assembled in Philadelphia on Monday, but for what pur- ' pose they met it would be difficult to determine from the proceedings. The exciting Bubjsct before the meeting was a change of the name from "Infidel Convention" to the "Utilitarian League of the United States," "for the purpose of destroying religion and superstition." A general debate occurred on this question, in which each member presented his own pet scheme. The constitutional amendment was adopted in the Oregon Legislature by al lowing two Republicans, whose seats were coutested, to vote. The contested elections were afterwards decided against the Repub licans, and they were ousted, and two Democrats took their seats. This gave the mmA*ifn ? n/^ frknrnni rtn JL/eiliUUI a WO tuu ULiajumj) auu uigicupuu resolutions were passed declaring the adop ' tion of the constitutional amendment irregular and invalid. 1 A freedman was recently caught near Pomaria, Newberry District, while in the ( act of stealing clothing, etc. from the house of another freedman. The party to whom ' the property belonged, assisted by some of his friends of the same complexion, tied up i the thief, aad immediately administered to , him a severe dose of the "oil of hickory," externally applied with great vigor, notwithstanding the recent proclamation of the 1 military authorities interdicting "corporeal ' punishment." i The Philadelphia Evening Herald says, that on the 2d inst., the managers of the Soldiers' Jtiome, on Sixteenth and Gilbert streets, called np about twenty of the inmates of the Home, who were helplessly i crippled, or suffering from wounds received | in the service, aDd asked them for their political views. They answered that they were Democrats, whereupon, disabled, des- ' titute and homeless as they were, they icere 1 turned into the street. The editor of the ] Herald says that they could be seen at Penn Square, living witnesses of radical sympathy for the soldiers. i The grading of the Charleston city j railway was commenced on Monday last. The route will be from the Exchange, (or -1 J *\ ifo /%???* f UiU puok viuuc^y iio uunu-iunu ici uhuuoj and pass up Broad to Meeting, up Meeting toCalhouD, up Calhoun to Kiog and through King to Shepherd street, its ap-town terminus. There will be a double track along this entire distance. Besides the main route, there will be a branch road, diverging from the double track at the corner of Meeting and Wentworth streets, and proceeding through Weutworth and Rutlcdge streets to llutledge avenue and thence to the corner of Spring street. The Louisville Journal says: "We tell the Northern fanatics ? as a lover of our whole country we tell them, that, unless madness has seized upon their hearts and brains, they will Dot insist upon pushing the dissensions between the President and Congress to the fighting point. They may rest assured, that, if the fight comes, it will be, to them, such a one as they have no I account of in either history or tradition.? They will fiod it an infinitely different thing from the war of the rebellion, dreadful as tint i?aa thrnnphnut all its annals. Thev " o ? ? * will find themselves a divided people, divided almost equally, divided and mutually hostile, whilst the whole population of the South will be a uuit, able to strike for their friends, or stand afar from the flash, the crack, and the roar of war, as may seem best to them. The thick cloud now enveloping the South may be partially lifted; but night and storm, surcharged with bloody ruin, will close over the North." A correspondent of the London Herald gives this account of a literary feat: " 'Lady Audley's Secret' was originally an- [ nounced for publication in three volumes. The manuscript was punctually sent to the publishers, but when the work was printed, it contained only two volumes and ten pages. It had been announced that the book was to appear at a certain time, and when the blunder was discovered that day was almost at hand. What was to be done? The precincts of Saint Bride were plunged into consternation. However, not an hour was to be lost, and the awfal tidings were broken to Miss Braddon. She paused a little, and then asked. 'How long can you give me to fill up the three hundred and sixty blank pages?' 'Eight days at the utmost.' 'You shall have the copy in good time,' and the whole copy was in the hands of the publishers four days after wards! And mark it, Mr. Braddon did not interpolate a single word to the two volumes already printed, although the nov el was complete in itself; she started from the last line." YORKVILLEa S. C. THUBSDAY MOBBING, 18TH OCTOBEB, 1866. OUR TERMS?IN ADVANCE. THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per year; m,"A * At?o r?. nvc nni r AW I n w uvLiLiauo mi OIA Iiiwimi? , v.*u i/vuu?? iv. three months?payable In "greenbacks." When payment is made in specle.TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per year; ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS for six months: SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS for three months. Single copies, TEN CENTS. Corn, Flour, Wheat, Bacon, Lard, Firewood, &.C., will be received forSubscription, Advertislngor Job-Work, at market prices. Of?-The paper will be discontinued on the expiration of the time for which payment has been made. Subscribers who find a (X) cross mark on the wrapperor margin of their paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. (Hy-Mr. JOHN R. ALLEN, Post Master, at Chester C. II is our au'horized agent for Chester District. {K^-Col. T. P. SLIDER, at the Mills House, isoursole agent in Charleston, for receiving advertisements and subscriptions for the Enquirer. ENQUIRER CLUB RATES. PER YEAR?IN ADVANCE. IN SPECIE. IN "GREENBACKS." 2 CO PIES,...9 4 50 9 6 00 5 COPIES,... 8 75 12 50 10 COPIES,... 17 50 25 00 and an extra copy to the person making a club of ten. Within one month from the date a clnb is returned and the money paid, the person making the club, may add any number of names at the same rate. X. Subscribers who find a (X) cross mark on the wrapper or margin of their paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. CASH ! We wish it distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and job work are cash. "KIND WORDS." This is the title of a neat little monthly publication which comes to ns from Greenville, devoted to the interests of Sabbath Schools. It contains much that is interesting to children, and is furnished at the low price of one dollar for ten copies. Cannot some of our young friends make up a club ? IMPORTANT DECISION. Judge Munro, presiding at the October Term of the Court, at Abbeville, has rendered an important opinion, relative to the jurisdiction of the District Courts. He does not believe that the Court has jurisdiction of issues where both parties are white, nor of misdemeanors where the accused is a white person. He also expresses grave doubts as to the Constitutionality of the trial of colored persons for felonies in the Circuit Courts of the btate. ihese opinions are based upon that article of the 1 New Constitution of the State, wherein provision is made foi District Courts, and in which occurs the clause, "which Court 1 shall have jurisdiction of all civil cases wherein one or both of the parties are per- 1 sons of color, and of all criminal cases wherein the acoused is a person of color; md the Legislature is empowered to extend ihe jurisdiction of the said Court to other subjects." Judge Munro does not believe that the provision to extend jurisdic:ion to other subjects, gives the Legislature power to extend the jurisdiction to white am ? n nlli/ita tt? np/ln f V-i n f f Vi a m A?> J pui'buus ; ul iu UWI1C1 nuiu?j mat iuo nuiu iubjects in the Constitution, does not mean ocrsoiis. These questions will go before the Court of Errors, in December next, for a final interpretation. If Judge Monroe's views are sustained, an amendment to the Constitution will be required in order to remove the difficulty. WHAT'S TO BE DONE? The Southern press and people, since the result of the Northern elections has become known, are engaged in the effort to solve the above question. One or two newspapers have taken up the cue of the N. Y. Ilcrald and advocate the adoption of the Constitutional amendment, now before the country, believing that this course presents the only possible plan of restoration. Others suggest a Convention of the Southern people, to devise a policy for themselves, and to vindicate the character of their section from the assaults made upon it in the North. It seems to us that our people are unnecessarily restive about this matter. Do they not recognize the fact that nothing we can do will avail anything in altering our status towards the Government, as now controlled ? Were every State in the South to day, to adopt negro suffrage, and the proposed amendment to the Constitution, they would not be restored to their relations with the Government. The test-oath itself offers an obstruction that will prevent many of the States?South Carolina especially?from sending representatives to Congress. There are not sis men in all this little State, qualified to represent her people, who could take this oath. But even were this not a sufficient barrier to keep the South out of the Union, other pretexts and conditions will be speedily framed for that purpose. So long as it is to the interests of our enemies to debar us from any share in the control of the Government, so long will the South be kept out, let her do what she may. The North has the power on her side and will listen to neither argument nor reason. We have made an effort in this behalf already, and it has resulted disastrously.? A quiet discharge of our duties as citizens ?refraining from discussion and exoitement, and exercising all the forbearance we can command towards the quasi autbori[ ty which controls, is the best we can do. We cannot be made muoh the worse, eith| er in fortune or liberties. Time, patienoe and industry may restore the first, if not il _ sue iasi. THE ELECTIONS. The elections in the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana have resulted in a Republican triumph. The Legislatures of these States are overwhelmiogly Republican, as also the delegations to Congress? Oregon, whose election returns have not yet been reoeived, may be presumed to be also in the bands of the Radicals. If otherwise, it will not materially affeot the political complexion of the next Congress. The confidence reposed by the President in the patriotism, integrity, and honesty of the American people, seems to have been at fault. Their verdiot has gone against him, and his wise polioy of restoration been repudiated by those on whom he calculated for support. There is but little doubt that the elections already held, are a oorrect index of the results of those to follow during the Autumn. That the Republicans are a gain in power is evident. What new programme is to be taoked upon their previous policy in regard to the Sooth, remains to be folly developed. A part of it has already been divulged. Impeachment of the President, negro suffrage, repudiation of pardons, and probably, confiscation. Representation in Congress is as remote as ever. Indeed, we doubt if the South ever will have another representative there, and it matters but little whether she has or not. The South must again resume her stool of patience, and wait the result of Providence's decrees. We see no course by whiob she can help herself for the present, unless by patient industry her people endeavor to reconstruct their fortunes, educate their children, and obey the ten commandments EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Carolinian announces the death, in Columbia, on Monday last, of Dr. Robert W. Gibbs, Sr. mi__ ni i.-i r\t ine ^nariesion courier states upon the authority of the Augusta Chronicle, that the reoeut embarrassments of the National Express Company have been removed by a re-organization of the Company on a basis that, it is believed, will seoure its success. Six hundred thousand dollars of eight per cent, preferred stook is to be issued to the share-holders. Our worthy neighbor, Columbia, is grieving over tbe aotion of the rail road companies in the State, by which her locality is almost ignored in their roates, depots, &c. The Columbia and Augusta Railroad, now building, has located its depot some distance from the city ; and so of the depots of other roads centering there. The people of Columbia think they ought not to be left out in the cold in this way, and that cortain little perquisites from travellers, in the shape of hotel bills, back fares, segars, and may be?occasional pennies for something "to warm the inner man,"? will be denied them, if such be the rule. The complaint is a just one, we think, and those companies ought not to do her so! The Columbia Carolinian, states that Governor Orr, has appointed Messrs. William Gregg, of Aiken, Archibald Cameron, of Charleston, and W. R. Robertson, of Winnsboro', as Commissioners to looate tho Penitentiary, provided for at the reoent Session of the Legislature. Also, to prepare plans and specifications and report to that body at the regular session. The following articles are exempt from execution and sale, by the laws of South Carolina: "Articlesexemptfrom execution for debt, viz: To each family, two beds, with necessary bedding, two bed steads, one spinning wheel and two pairs cards, one loom, and one cow and calf; if a farmer, the necessary farming tools; if a mechanic, the tools of his trade; the ordinary cooking utensils, and ten aoiiars worm or provisions." The Columbia Pliasnix thus mentions the death of the "oldest inhabitant," of South Carolina : "On Sunday, the 16th of September, Bob Wheeler, a negro, who had reached the age of 107 years, departed this life.? During the Revolution, Bob was a boy between sixteen and eighteen years of age, and as his memory and mind remained unimpaired, be delighted to tell of his recollections of the old Revolution, when the red coats were the terror of every neighborhood. He was for sometime awaiting boy for Gen. Wade Hampton, and considered him the next greatest man to Gen. Washington, and during bis whole life had a great veneration and respect for the Hampton family. When he heard of the promotion and successes of our worthy and beloved Gen. Wade Hampton, the old man's eye would kindle, and be would stand almost on tip-toe, rejoicing at his achievements, saying that "the true old blood would show itself." When his old master (Wheeler) died, some forty-five or fifty years ago, Bob was theo ao elderly man, and was left by his master's will to help to support his three daughters. This doty he discharged faithfully and honestly. His death occurred about four miles from Pomaria, in Lexington District." On the outside, we publish a paragraph with reference to a difficulty between the Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, and General Foster. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, writing from Washington on the snbjeot says : I understand that the President will sustain the position of the Mayor of Tallahassee in his construction of the proclamation announcing the restoration of civil law in all the States lately in rebellion. General Foster, it is understood, has appealed to the War Department for instructions. The following letter from Hon. Reverdy Johnson, Senator from Maryland, and perhaps the most eminent constitutional lawyer in the land, possesses more than ordinary interest at the present juncture. It is in reply to a letter of Hon. Charles I. Scott, of Wilcox County, Alabama, containing these interrogatories : In your opinion, is the Act of Congress imposing a three cents tax on cotton constitutional? And would the Supreme Court of the United States so decide in the event the question was carried before it for adjudication ? reply. New York, September 20, 1866. Dear Sir:?Your note of the 3d, is received here. The question you have put to me I have heretofore considered. My opinion is that the tax of three cents, imposed by the Act of Congress you refer to, is unconstitutional, and I believe the Court will so decide. Very respectfully, your obedient servant. REVERDY JOHNSON. We learn from the Wiloox (Camden) Times, that cotton planters of that County are concerting measures to have the question tested in the Supreme Court. An exohange has the following paragraph as to the necessity for more care in paoking cotton. Farmers should think of the matter, and see if what is worth doing at all, is not worth doing well. The press is calling theattentiob of planters to the necessity of more care in packing cotton. Bagging weighs two and onefourth pounds per yard, and sells on the bale at the price of cotton. Bagging costs forty-five cents per yard, and, therefore, sells on the bale at about sixty-eight cents. What folly, then, in planters, to stint the use of bagging in properly protecting the bale of cotton ! And yet, for the want of suoh protection, the cotton in this market is actually suffering in classification and prioe. We call the attention of planters and packers to this subject, and, without further words, trust they will see the necessity of such liberal use of bagging as will protect the fibre from dirt and stain. The New York Tribune of a late date, iD its "Money Article," presents the following gloomy picture of our financial condition and prospects: The commercial and financial horoscope of our country presages serious trouble.? These are its leading features: 1. A plethora of what is (with questionable propriety) called Money, and (still more inaccurately) Capital. 2. Loans on call at a short time go begging and are to be obtained at low interest "on oall" or short time on almost any sort of collaterals. 3. Stocks of all kinds selling at enormous prices, and generally rising in market value. 4. The premium on Gold advancing, and nearly up to 50 per cent. 5. Gold flowing hither from Europe, though our imports of goods enormously exceed our exports of products?the gold, with the accruing commercial balance against us, being invested in stocks and bonds, mainly those of the Government.? In other words; we are drawing bills against the industry of our children and grandchildren, selling them at 25 percent, discount, and spending the proceeds in wines, silks and other luxuries which "perish in the uling." 6. High prices for labor, for produots, fnr almost puprcfhinc. rendprintr nnrs t.ho ? " --- ~ 07 ^ w-.w best market in the world to sell in and the worst to bay in, an increase and diffusion of samptaous taste and luxurious habits, all seem to foreshadow a grand crash, which no skill in financiering can Jong postpone, if there be not a radical change in our financial and commercial policy. The Riohmond Times has an excellent Foreign Correspondent, who is just now sketching things in England. In his last letter he draws the following picture of the Englishman at home, with some of his peculiarite8. If there is one thing an Englisman dreads more than another, (except poverty) it is to come io contact with those below him in tne social scaie, ana tne wnoie system ot English life, extending to railway and hotel arrangements, is based on this feeliDg. Odi profanum vultjus et arceo (I Jiate the vulgar ciowd and exclude it) is the motto of English feeling, and Dothing is more striking than this horror of any invasion from below, except, perhaps, the servile homage that is paid to those above. The famous doctrine that an Englishman's house is his castle, is the expression of a vast deal iu the life and feelings of the English people, as even a passiog stranger may see, | in their mode of building, their high walls intended to shut out every possible glance at the garden and grounds they enclose, their social customs in regard to introductions, dinner and evening parties, and indeed the whole flow of the English life. The English differ, in this respect, from the Irish and Scotch. My own experience will illustrate what I mean. The first man whose acquaintance I formed in Ireland (a distinguished merchant, well known in Richmond,) showed a cordial hospitality whioh no Virginia planter could have exceeded, and when he found I oould not aocept his kindness, then exacted a promise to return if possible and spend some weeks with him. When I reaohed my destination, I was at once met with an Irish welcome, and what that is you must experience to understand. ' Indeed, I was almost killed with kindness, for my capacities of eating, drinking, talking and visiting were so far below their overflowing heartiness that I almost broke down under it. And it was evideot that this was their nsual manner, and nothing special in my case. It was the same thing in Scotland- I had not been half an hour in the hotel when friendly hands were laid upon me, and I was not able toacoeptthe hospitalities tendered me, and would not have been able to enjoy those urged upon me in Ireland and Sootland if I had remained months, instead of days or weeks. But it was entirely different after I crossed the Tweed j I was asked to several meals, and that not by Englishmen; and that was all, although I had more letters to England than either Scotland or Ireland. Yet I experienced nothing but kindness while there, but it was not in the form of hospitality. Nor is my experience singular in that respeot, or I would not repeat it to illustrate my meaning. The truth is, that no Englishman desires to extend the oircle of his social life, except it be upwards, among the aristooracy Hence bis attitude is one of exclusion to all equals and inferiors. If you are invited out, you are never introduced to any one, unless in exceptional oases, on the same general grounds. Even organizations in whioh you would least expect it, are inoculated with this spirit. It is seen in churohes, in benevolent sooieties, and in the cliques and guilds that you find in every class, trade and profession. Even Masonry is cherished by the English as a system of this kind, in which each lodge is a club, and in which the lodge fees are paid and used more for convivial purposes than anything else. As represented to me by the highest authority there, it is little more in England than a club system, by which those who like each other oan band together, and exclude all others, and then have a good time generally, when they meet together, especially if they can get some lord to unite with them. This worship of rank is one of the most striking things in England. Let a person in the middle or lower walks of life commit any impropriety and English virtue will visit it with a Bhadamantb'ine, if not a Draconian severity. But let it be one of the nobility and no one seems to notice it. Some of the English noblemen are among the most shameless profligates in the kingdom, bat they are welcomed in sooiety just as freely as the most virtuous, whilst if they were commoners they would be treated as Pariahs. This subservience to rank is often evinced in rather amusing ways. When the Prince of Wales laid the corner stone of the new Bible house, he sat for a few minutes in a chair on the platform. After the ceremonies were over great numbers of people, including not a few puffy old peo pie whose gray hairs and large avoirdupois ought to have indioated more sense, rushed forward to have the privilege of sitting in this chair, and went away with a triumphant sense of satisfaction that was very amusing. I was arguing with a very sensible man about the land tenure, and pointing out the burdens that the farmers had to bear beyond what is the case in America, he replied with evident sincerity, "bat if we don't pay these rent-oharges how will the great folks live?" The fact was fixed immovably in bis mind that the great folks mast live in splendor, and that the classes below them mast famish the means, and be could not conceive of any other state of things. LOCAL MATTERS. *TT7ITtT A TMTTlDmTOPUTnXTma 1M?1W O.U V JUXl A X U. Floyd, Dobson 8c Co.?New Goods just Received. " " "?To arrive this week?Coffee, Sugar, Cheese, Starch, Indigo, Salt and Bagging. Floyd, Dobson 8c Co.?Broken-Bone Fever. Dr. J. F. Lindsay, Administrator?Notica to the Creditors and Debtors oi J. G. Lindsay, deceased, and of Lindsay 8c Gordon. F C. Harris, O. V. I).?Citation?John W. Lawrence, Applicant?Allen G. Lawrence, Deceased. F. C. Harris, O. Y. D.?Citation?J. itamlolpii Wallace, Applicant?Martha L. Lawrence, Deceased. E. A. Crenshaw?Watch and Clock Making. M. Alexander?Watches and Jewelry to be sold for Repairs. Organization of the District Court. The Hod. Wm. C. Beatty was qualified to the office of District Judge, on Saturday last, and enters upon his duties forthwith. A special Court was held on Monday, and the Grand and Petit Jurors, for the January Term of the Court, drawn.? We append Deiow tne result or tne drawing. By a provision of the District Court Act, the Clerk and Sheriff of the Circuit Courts, are also to fill the same offices for the District Courts. J. F. Wallace, Esq.,Clerk, and James Mason, Sheriff, have also qual ified for their new offices, and the Court is now fully organized for business. Grand Jurors?J. N. McCall, John Barron, Sr., J. P. Hood, Sr., B F. Powell, L. II. Cavcny, A. S. White, Dr. W. B. Fewcll, J P. Creighton, JnoD. Morrow, J. It. Patton, H. G. Plaxico, Rev. J. R Baird, A. W. Beard, W. R. Hayes, Allen Robinson, Wylie Reeves, 0. Sarratt, J. W. Good, Peter Garrison, J. B Faries, Samuel ni !? 1 T TT7 T D T31..L 3 anilllDSiaw, o uo vr . uuuua, jcj. maca. auu JohD Whisenant. Petit Jurors.?G. A. McCartcr, J. R. Kennedy, Franklin Miller, Jas, Purseley, W. 0. Black, John White, S N. Miller, Rev. P Nicholson, W T Glasscock, Rev. W. W. Carothers, D. R. S. Blake, Edward Moore, Amzi Bigger, J S. Bratton, Dr J. W. Allison, R M Faries, J. J. Garvin, R. A GilGllen, H. H Latham, J. M. Bird, FW Moore, Capt R H. Glenn, J. U. Zur. cher, R. H Martin, L. D. Goore, J T. Niveos, John Moss, P. Foster, J L M. Adams, H. II Hambright, H. Whiscnant, Dr. R. T. Allison, J. G. Thomasson, D. C. Dunlap, J. D. Miskelly, Wm. Crow, W. H. Warlick, Jno Hammel, J. B Patrick, R. C. McCarter, J. H. Hemphill, J. L Burnes, Robert Purseley, J II. Adams, Henry Etters, J. P. Moore, D G. Wallace and Robt. Ash. [ The Philadelphia Age thinks that it is now abundantly apparent that the radioal leaders are bidding for another civil war. They fear peace. Union, harmony and concord are not congenial with their dark and guilty purposes. Cflittrilmtflrial. BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. COLUMBIA. S. C.. 15TH OCT., 1866. Saluda Factory. i It is said that io six or eight weeks, Col. j Childs will have his new Saluda Factor; in i operation. Negro Emigration. 1 We see that the freedmen are removing < from Georgia, going still westward. From j several portions of South Carolina many ! < have left and are still leaving for Florida < and the farther west. Higher wages is the I inducement. We are vastly in need of I their going. j < Break-Bone Fever. j' A oouple of oases of this fever are said |' i i j i j n_i t_:_ ,i_ _ I I lu uave uceu uoveiupeu id vjuiuuiuia, toe parties having both been to Charleston, j' where the fever prevails extensively. This >1 is the fever known as the Dengue. It has Dever been here before; and will probably ' ot stay many days now. In Charleston, it;' was a very mild disease, rarely proving fa- I tal. ' Negro Schools. The corps of Northern women-teachers that operated with so muob numerical suooess last session, (up to July) have returned and expeot to commence operations in a few days The schools are not yet organized ; but teachers and rooms aie ready.? The novelty has worn off the thing; and we | fear their numbers of pupils will be less than last session. But we shall see. Negroes don't take to books kindly,?It hurts them to study, and books soon become irksome. When this stage has been reached, the little darkey easily persuades his | conscience that Hookey is a oapital game to play; and he plays Hookey (truant) accordingly, and nobody is the wiser. White and Black. A week ago a white woman was seen , promenading the streets escorted by a ne- ! gro- 1 The public said very little about it. In ( fact we presume the public cared not a but- { ton about it. But a colored Man writes a letter to the Carolinian about this matter. The C. M. , deems the consorting of whites and blacks in this style to be an impropriety, and an ( impropriety that deserves a public rebuke Ho rebukes it accordingly. He says the white woman wore a tilting ^ 1% AAn nn/d A Kl/* ffl II on/d k TT fk nan uwp auu a i/ig naiigi'iau j auu ujr vuvuw presents he knew she "wasn't one of our people." The C M. appears to have been ( watching things. He says he "felt a disgust for her, but a good deal more for the" man of his own color. Sohool marms, says our C M., are wel- ( come for the purpose of teaching our ohil- t dreo, but let tbem keep their places. The C. M is evidently alarmed for the ( integrity of his blood and his race. Well may he be. We don't know who was the white woman that walked with the negro, and don't ' think it at all important to know. It may be important to some negroes, but oot to ' the community; and least of all to the negreases, unless they decide to stop it. We can well understand the indignation of a respectable negro, when his caste is in- 1 vaded by "poor white folks," though they 1 be women, and though they wear big waterfalls and calf-exhibiting tiltareens. The C M. is evidently impressed with the conviction that there are places wherein these things may be exhibited with more propriety than upon the publio streets. We venture to commend bis taste. The Bural Southerner. T? M Sfnfroc Sf. f!n _ havfl is.qnnr? fhftir Volume 1, Number 1, of their Dew weekly candidate for popular favor. Tbe number is merely a speoimeD of the style aod varie- ( ty io which they propose to issue the South- ( erner, when they get UDder way with , all their appliances ready. Aviculture is the leading feature in it; and in this de- ( partment are several excellent articles, aod ( many promises of more. The Young Men's Department is filled with valuable matter suitable to the class it addresses- The La- | dies' Olio follows, full of feminine things, about household doings, cooking aod poetry, j Horticulture comes next, with a sound leader upon Southern Horticulture and other items in the same line. Educational heads j one brace of columns; and Mechanics an- ( other. Then follows a pleasant melange ( called Miscellany; and lastly, the paper ( closes with a page under the caption of ( The /Story Teller. Thus there are eight separate and useful ( departments, all interesting and all useful ( for families. The paper contains eight j pages of four columns each, making thirty ( two columns of farm and family reading { each week, for three dollars. The regular issue of the paper does not* begin with this number; but will start in a < week or two. We bid it Godspeed, and feel that it will j deserve success if managed on the plan pro- , posed | MERE-MENTION. i There is in Paris, a hospital for sick and ] disabled dogs. The New York News, under the management of its new owners, I has been converted into a police gazette ? I a record of crime. A correspondent t of the New York Herald, writing from i Charleston, says it is reported that txov. urr, i will recommend to the next Legislature the 1 adoption of the Constitutional amendment, i and also a new election of Representatives t to Congress, who can take the lest oath.? s Humbug! Mrs. Suratt's house, in t Washington, is declared to be haunted. I An Arkansas reb not aware the war < was over, recently fired into a squad of U. 1 States soldiers The town of Wales, I Maine, has neither doctor, lawyer, nor min- t ister. The town poor are supported by an ? appropriation. England can ooncen- t trate on a given spot, at the shortest notice, < 200,000 men, 60,000 horses, and 200 guns i for the defence of London In Bal- 1 timore all persons without visible means of < support are arrested. The paper mills ] of Great Britain manufacture 28,500 tons < of paper weekly. Illinois negroes < have called a Convention to take measures i to establish negro suffrage in that State, i The "Marine Bank" of Savannah, Ga., proposes, on and after the 5th Novem ber, to redeem in currency, at par, all bills of the Bank, issued prior to 1860. For the Yorkville Enquirer. PBESBYTERY OF BETHEL. The late Sessions of this Body were held in Lancasterville, commencing on Friday, 5th instant. Eighteen Ministers and seventeen Ruling Elders were in attendance. Rev. W. W. Carotbers was eleoted Moderator, and Rev. J. H. Martin, Clerk, pro (em. T1 n XT T> 11 J - _ J nev. xv x . xvuusen, au agHu sou venerable Minister, being absent on aoooont of disease aod infirmity, a letter of oondoleooe ind sympathy was prepared and transmitted to him. This letter was signed by the Mod* erator, in bis offioial capacity, aod tbeo by ;aoh of the other members of Presbytery, both lay and clerical. Presbytery also united in special prayer on Mr. Russell's behalf, being led by Rev. S. L Watson, the oldest Minister present. Reports from the Churches indicated, on the whole, a cheering and encouraging state of religion within their bounds The largest Church connected with the Presbytery is Bethel, numbering 345 members The next largest is Bethesda, whioh reported 311 members, of whom 103 are oolored. The pastoral oharge of Rev. Wm. Banks, consisting of the two congregations of Catholic and Pleasant Grove, embraoes between 400 and 500 members. Rev. Wm. Banks and Elder J. L. Adams, were chosen Commissioners to the General a Assembly, wbioh is to meet in Memphis, on the 15th proximo. Re?. D. Harrison and Elder Wm. P. McFadden, were chosen alternate Commissioners. Mr. Paul P. Winn was taken under the care of Presbytery, as a candidate for the Gospel Ministry. Rev. D. A. Todd, a licentiate, was received under the care of Presbytery on a letter of dismission from Harmony Presbytery. A call for his pastoral services, was presented from Cane Creek Church,in Union District. This call was piaoed in the hands of Mr. Todd, who signified his acceptance of it. Presbytery, therefore, resolved to hold a special meeting in the above churoh, early in November, for the purpose, if the way be clear, of ordaining and installing Mr Todd. Appointments were made for the supply of vacant Churches, including Olivet, Salem and Bullook's Creek, and for the performance of missionary labor in the Eastern part of Lancaster District. Fishing Creek Churoh wasseleoted as the place for the next regular meeting, on Friday before the 1st Sabbath of April, 1867. iU. Trial of Mr. Davis. Washington, October 13. ?The Presilent has addressed the following letter to ;he Attorney Genera! in regard to the trial )f Jefferson Davis: Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., Oct. 6,1866. Sia: A special term of the Circuit Court if the United States was appointed for the irst Tuesday of October, 1866, at Richmond, Virginia, for the trial of Jefferson Davis, on the charge of treason. It now appears that there will be no session of that j Court at Richmond during the present month, and doubts are expressed whether the regular session, which, by law, should commence on the fourth Monday of November next, will be held. In view of this obstruction, and the consequent delay in proceeding with the trial of Jefferson Davis, under the prosecution for treason now peodiog in that Court, and, there being, so far as the President is informed, no good reason why the civil courts of the United States are not competent to exercise adequate jurisdiction within the district or circuit in which the State of Virgioia is ineluded, I deem it proper to request your opioioo as to what further steps, if any, should be takeo by the Executive, with a view lu a ppccujr puuuu auu impauiai viiat }f the accused, according to the Constitution aod laws of tbe United Stales. I am, jir, very respectfully, yours, ANDREW JOHNSON. To Hon. Henry Stansbury, Attorney3-eneral. In response to the above, the Attoroeyjreneral, under date of tbe 12th instant, states: I am clearly of opinion that there is nothng in the present condition of Virginia :o prevent tbe full exercise of the jurisdioion of the civil courts. The actual state )f things and your several proclamations >f peace and of the restoration of civil or. ler, guarantee to the oivil authorities, Federal aod State, immunity against military control or interference, it seems to me that [Li biiio paibiwiai wuviu 10 uvr uwueooivj ivt further aotion od the part of the Executive in the way of proclamation, espeoiilly as Congress, at the last session, required the Circuit Court of the United States to be held at Richmond, on the first Monday of May and the fourth Monday of November in each year, and authorized special or adjourned terms of that Court to be ordered by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, at such time and on such notice as he might prescribe, with the same , power and jurisdiction as at regular terms, rhis is an explicit recognition by Congress bat the state of things in Virginia admits he holding of the Uoited States Courts in bat State. He also states that Mr. Davis emaios in custody at Fortress Monroe preusely as be was held in January last, when, i . /? n answer to a resolution or uongress, you eported a communication from the Secreary of War and the Attorney General, ihowing that he was held to await trial in .he civil courts No action was then taken >y Congress in reference to the place of sustody. No demand has since been made ror his transfer into civil custody. The District Attorney of the United States for he District of Virginia, where Mr. Davis itands indicted for treason, has been noified that the prisoner would be surreniered to the United States Marshal, upon i capias, under the indictment; bat the District Attorney declines to have the :apias issued, because there is no other olace within the District where the prisoner could be kept, or where his personal a somfort and health could be so well pro- * ?ided for. No application has been made, r. svml aA s?/| Kt7 fllA AAnnanl f/\9 muuiu uijf auuniwugv^ wj VVMUWA *V* % I