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Scraps aitb Jfacts. "So far as you turn other days into Sunday, so far, and no farther, have you a right to turn Sunday into other days " Admiral Scmmes, has accepted the Professorship of Moral Philosophy and English Literature in the State Seminary at Alexandria, La. Ketchum, the forger, (says an Albany paper), is in Europe, and will come back to Sing Sing just before his term expires. The Legislature of Vermont has passed a bill making habitual drunkenness for a period of two years a sufficient oause for divorce. The number of acres growing cotton in Washington county. Miss., this year are 12,700; product 295 bales. Tho ante-bellum crop was one to one and a half bales to the acre. A Georgia paper asks whether it is "supposed that the Southern people will run Northern men ?" Prentioe answers : "Well, we believe they did occasionally run a few of them during the war." There is a fearful state of tbings in Salt Lake City. The Gentiles dare not leave their bouses after nighfall for fear of assassination. The Gentiles have no business there. The number of emigrants landed at New York, last week, was 6,113, making a total of 212,752 landed since January 1, against 168,338 arrived in the corresponding period of 1865. A dispatch from London, the 15th, says the Confederate bond-holders are about to bring their case under the notice of the British Government, as a set-off against the Alabama claims of the United States. A little girl, in Norfolk, after listening to her mother's description of meteorio displays exclaimed : "Oh, me ! but if the stars fall out, can't we see the angels through the holes?" The New Orleans Times, of Sundav, makes mention of Generals D. H. Maury, Marmaduke, Rosser and John S. Williams, as now visiting the city, besides Gen. Beanregard, Longstreet, Hood, Backner, D. W. Adams and Hays, residing there. It is stated on good authority that General Gideon J. Pillow, late of the Confederate service, has cultivated his large cotton plantation near Helena, Ark , with such success as to justify the estimate of his cotton crop at 3,000 bales. A resolution introduced into the Arkansas House of Representatives declining to act upon the constitutional amendment until suoh time as Arkansas is admitted to her representation in Congress was referred, on the 13th inst., without discussion, to the Committee on Federal Relations. One of the Nashville papers says :? ''There will be a great deficiency in Tennessee pork this winter, the cholera having swept off the live stock to an alarming extent. As pork is one of the principal commodities of this State, the deficiency will be greatly felt." Since the reoent changes made in his quarters, and since Mrs. Davis and her sister have been removed into the rooms prepared for them, Mr. Davis has become more cheerful. His health has become very much improved of late, and he speaks very confidently of being released. A debating society in Virginia recently considered the question, "Which has the most influence on man, wealth or womau?" The question wa3 elaborately and ingeniously argued, and finally decided in favor of the ladies. They had better now decide which has the most influence on women, wealth or men. A lady en route from Galveston to New York, passed through this city yesterday morning in the care of Adams' Express Company. She was transferred from one messenger to another like so much oth- ' er freight. One of the agents of the Company accompanied her to breakfast at the Orange Hoase, and was assiduous in his attentions to her. This is a new way of traveling.?Lynchburg Paper It may interest those who are unwilling to wait thirty-three years to see a shower of meteors to know that Olbers, the astronomer, supposes the real period of their return to be thirty-four years, and that the display of 1799, repeated in 1833, will reappear in 1867. Provided the shower has not passed off in the sunlight of Tuesday or Wednesday (it did not take place last night, so far as our information goes) there may be consolation in reflecting for a year on Olbers' theory. We have had related to us a case which shocks all the finer feelings of our nature. In an adjoining district, a beautiful young lady, seventeen years of age, well educated, and very respectably connected, took a fancy to a young colored man. It having been talked about in the neighbordood, caused unpleasant feelings. Finally, the woman eloped with the negro. They were pursued to within a short distance of this place and traced to a negro's bouse, where she was found laughing and talking with her paramour's family. On beiDg discovered she attempted to escape, but was arrested and returned to her parents.? Pickens Courier. The New York Firemen's Association, composed of members of the old volunteer department, will, we learn from the New York Evening J*ost, give to the Independent Fire Engine Company of Columbia, S. C , a new engine and hose carriage. The engine house and apparatus of the Independent Company were destroyed b7 the great fire in Columbia, when Gen Sherman's army marched through the Southern States, and an appeal was recently made by the Columbia firemen for help. A correspondence has taken place between the firemen of New York and Columbia, and the New Yorkers will probably accompany their nrpsenc. Our intelligence from Mexico is as late us tho 1st of November, at which time Maximilian was announced as returning from Orizaba to the city of Mexico, and the rumors of his abdication were completely dissipated. It is stated that Marshal Bazatne threatened to place Maximilian under . arrest if he attempted to leave Mexico, and ^ *<the commander of the Austiian frigate t^K,lN4Ptake him to Kurope was per manent ^ "r'^stdnot to permit him to embark. i axl ^^^v^doubt by this time again on bis throne, bnt his chances of holding it after the French evacuation are exceedingly slim. President Juarez, it is announced, has repudiated the Franco-Mexican debt. ! Ik fptlmllr YORKVILLE, S. C. ! THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29,1866. I OUR TERMS?IN ADVANCE. i THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per year; ! TWO DOLLARS for six months; ONE DOLLAR for three months?payable In "greenbacks." vvnen paymem Is made in specie.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. (JQ^Corn, Flour, Wheat, Bacon, Lard, Firewood, &.C., will be received for Subscription, Advertising or Job-Work, j at market prices. j Q&- The paper will be discontinued on the expiration of I the time for which payment has been made. Subscribers I who find a (X) eross mark on the wrapper or margin of their I paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. I Advertising; Rates.?One dollar and fifty cents j per square for the first, and seventy-five cents per square : for each subsequent insertion. A square consists of the space occupied by ten lines of this size type. 1 {&?- Mr. JOHN R. ALLEN, Post Master, at Chester C. j His our authorized agent for Chester District. QQ-Col. T. P. SLIDER, at the Mills House, isoursole agent in Charleston, for receiving advertisements and subscriptions for the Ekquihek. ENQUIRER CLUB RATES. PER YEAR?IN ADVANCE. IN SPECIE. IN "GREENBACKS." ? COPIES,...9 A 50 9 6 00 5 COPIES,... 8 75 13 50 10 COPIES,... 17 50 35 00 and an extra copy to the person making a j club of ten. JHay-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. OUR TRIP. On Saturday morning of last week, not having the fear of the 'printer1 $ devil before our eyes, we quitted our familiar haunts and started en route for Charleston, armed with the credentials of a delegate to the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Masons of South Carolina. At an early hour, we were deposited at Chester, "right side up," by the King's Mountain Railroad, in time to make connection with the Charlotte Railroad. We had but a few minutes to look around us in Chester, but from what we could see, we infer that she is gradually recuperating, and with the smiles of fortune in her favor, will soon be what she was before the war?ODe of the best markets in the up-country. The Charlotte Railroad is in very good condition, considering the difficulties with which tho Company has had to contend, and the almost utter destruction entailed upon it by Sherman's army. Along the whole route, from Rlackstock's to Columbia, can yet be seen many evidences of Sherman's march, in the destruction of depots, watertanks, twisted and bent railroad iron, and the ruins of houses, with the chimneys yet standing, as monuments of his infamy and vandalism. Under the circumstances, the company has accomplished wonders in the way of repairs, and no better evidence need be wanted of the recuperative powers of our country. At 2 o'clock, p m , we reached Columbia; but not the Columbia of tho 15th of February, 1865. What a change I On Main, and some of the other principal streets, the destruction was complete. vr . - 1 - 1- l _/V _ j: 1 i>oi a single nouse was ieit siauuiug uy Sherman's vandals, from the State-House to "Cotton-town " Main-9treet is being rapidly re-built. In some few instances the buildings erected are superior to those destroyed, but in the majority of cases they are small and appear to be only temporary structures. Owing to the utter destruction to which the city was subjected, and the impoverished condition of her people, many | years must elapse before we can again boast ' that our Capitol is the handsomest city in America! We domiciled while in Columbia, with I Mr. A. M. Hunt, whom our elder readers will remember as once a resident of Yorkville. He has opened a hotel on Bridgestreet, about three hundred yards from the Depots of the South Carolina and Greenville Railroads. We can only say that "he knows how to keep a hotel." While in Columbia, we made it convcI nient to call on our brethren of the press? ! the Phoenix and the Carolinian. Mr. Selby, of the Pha-nix, we found "at ; home," as "busy as a bee in a tar bucket," i and were pleased to learn from him that his business prospects were satisfactory, and ! that bis bird was plumed for a long and ' lofty flight. We spent a half-hour very : pleasantly in cxauiing the Pliornix establish' ment. Our thanks are hereby tendered for j ibe gratification wc enjoyed. We aid not have the pleasure ot meeting with .nr. ue Fontaine, of the Carolinian, who at the j time of our visit, was absent i'rou) the City. The next place of interest visited by us, | was the book-biodery of Mr. E. R. Stokes, which we found entirely "regenerated and disenthralled" from the effects of Sherman's visit. Stokes is now out in a new and revised edition, fully prepared to execute book-binding and ruling in every conceivable style. He is especially well prepared to execute blank-books required by publio . officers; arid Commissioners of Public Build iogs, we are sure, cannot do better tban by giving bim orders, when anything is required in this line. He is provided with the latest and most improved machinery, and is a finished workman. Attention is directed to his advertisement in another column. While in Columbia, we had the pleasure of meeting with Col. Sam'l W. Melton, the companion of our youth, a friend in manhood's days, and whilom editor of the Enquirer. Id connection with his brother, Maj. C. D. Melton, and E. J. Arthur, Esq., he is engaged in the practioe of law in that city, and we were pleased to learn from himself and others, that his prospects for distinction are upward and onward. We shall ever be pleased to hear of his success in life, as we entertain for"SAM" a lively feeling of regard. After remaining in Columbia over night, wo left the next morning on the South Carolina Railroad for Charleston. Tha bed of this road appears to be in good and serviceable ooDditioD, but we learn that the Company is deficient in motive power and cars. The greater part of the road, together with muoh of the rolling stock, was destroyed by Sherman, and while the officers of the Company under the able direction of Mr. H. T. Peake, the Superintendent, have soooeeded in repairing the one, they have not, as yet been able, for the want of available means, to entirely snpply the latter. Just here we feel inclined to ntter a good natnred complaint, with reference to the connections between the Charlotte and the Sooth Carolina Railroads, at Colombia. That passengers for Charleston should be compelled to remain in Columbia, for seventeen boors, is annoying, to say the least of it. We cannot see any reason for this, and while suoh a course may benefit the hack-drivers and hotel-keepers of Columbia, it is a severe blow upon the interests, and prosperity of Charleston. It has the effect to drive trade from Charleston to points more easily and rapidly accessible. Persons from this seotion can visit Baltimore and return in the same time required to go to Charleston and return. Cannot the citizens of Charleston do something to remedy this evil ? Four o'clock in the afternoon, found us under the hospitable care of Messrs. White & Mixer, of the Charleston Hotel, which presents its ante bellum appearance on the outside, with many improvements and admei/la TKo iwnrwi A f Afl UlllUUai UUUJ1UAIO IUOIUO. A iiv arc able managers and excellent oatererB? the table at all times being supplied with the best that the home and foreign markets afford. Everything about the premises is neat and clean, and order reigns supreme in every department. As was to be expected, we soon wended our way to the newspaper officeB of the city. The Daily News was represented to us as in a flourishing condition, with even brighter prospects for the fnture. It is an ably managed paper, and one which we eagerly look for on the arrival of our exchanges. The proprietors have authorized us to receive subscriptions for the Daily and Weekly issues. Should any of our readers desire to make an investment of this kind, we are prepared to guarantee a large dividend. The old Courier still holds its own, and keeps on iu the even tenor of its way. Under the judicious management of Mr. William Laidler, and his able corps of assistants, a degree of prosperity has attended it, never attained by any other paper published in South Carolina. Over sixty years have elapsed since its establishment, and at this green old age, it gives evidence of continuing on in its successful career while time shall last. We are the ageot of the Courier for this plaoe. The Mercury has recently made its reappearance. It was suspended a short time before the evacuation of Charleston, and the materials removed to Columbia, and destroyed with the latter city. The numbers we have seen are as vigorous as ever. As to its success, time alone will determino. The Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Masons met on Tuesday at 12 o'clook, M.? the delegates from sixty Lodges being in attendance. Governor Orr, the Grand Master, presided with marked ability. In his report to the Grand Lodge he represented tho Order as never in so flourishing a condition in South Carolina. At this session, seventeen new Lodges were chartered, including one at Rock Hill, in this District. The membership of the Order has largely increased within the past year. In another column will bo found a list of the Grand officers elected. We had the pleasure of meeting with Mr. Jas. A. Hoyt, of the Anderson Intelligencer, Rev. Mr. Walters, of the South Car olina Baptist, and Mr. BAILEY, of the Greenville Enterprise. Among other places ioto which we were inveigled, with "malice afore thought," was the hat-store, on Hayne-Street, of Mr. F. Horsey, and without much solicitation on his part, we were induced to accept, as a present and sample of his wares, a neat and substantia! hat. The hat is on exhibition at the Enquirer Office. On visiting Charleston, give Horsey a call, and if he does not happen to be in, Bob Hubbard will do the agreeable, and supply anything in the hat line htat may be desired. While in Charleston, we met with many kind friends and aoqaaintances, and shall long remember onr visit as one of the pleas- ] ant things which we occasionally meet with ( in life. To Messrs. H. F. Baker & Co., T. C. H. Dukes, Messrs G. W. & C. P. 1 ( Aimar and Mr. Julius Brown, we are j indebted for sundry favors accepted and J tendered. Long may they wave ! We are at home again, making prepara- ] tioDS for the comiDg year, and ready to receive subscriptions and advertising for the Enquirer, and to execute Job work in the best manner. So mote it be. t POLITICAL STBAWS. * It is evident that a heavy pressure is being 1 brought to bear upon President Johnson, * in order to induoe a compromise, upon the ( questions in issue between himself and I Congress. To what results this pressure ? may lead is a matter for those addicted to ( politioal prophecy, to decide. It is certain * that the Radicals desire the President to pronounce in favor of a negro suffrage a- ( mendment to the Constitution; and to se- * cure this, are willing to grant a general am- ^ nesty to the Southern rebels. Even this " proposition coming npon the heels of the ( recent elections looks strange. It is a con- oession on their part, if we consider the bul- ' lyings and threats under whioh the eleo- 1 tion campaign was conducted. ( The effort to "compromise" is on foot, and we should not be surprised to learn any day that it has made some headway. It is needless to say that we would oppose reconstruction on any such grounds. Better that the South should remain under martial law for an indefinite period, than to submit her loyalty to suoh a test as would be exacted of it. The admission of the right of universal suffrage, is an admission of moral and sooial equality with the negro, and such will be the ultimate fruits of the sacrifice. The fear of impeachment may move Mr. ' Johnson to advise the South to adopt suoh 1 a settlement of the difficulty as that pro- 1 posed; but no honest Southerner can in * good faith, say to his people "aocept these ' terms." ( In the meantime, preparations for the grand gathering of "Union Soldiers" in Washington, on the 1st proximo, still con- 1 tinue. The Radical newspapers do not bes- ' itate to tell us the meaning of this demon- J stration, and their enigmatical interpreta- , tions cannot be construed to mean anything i else than what the call announces, viz : that * f they go to the support of Congress against the Executive. Whether this support is to ] be of a moral or physical nature, we arc r not in plain words informed; but these men ( are called to assemble "prepared" to support the Congress, &c. We leave our road .i r ii era to draw tneir own mrereuce irorn uieoe statements. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. We learn from the Charleston papers, that the Savannah Railroad was sold in that oity on Wednesday of last week.? The purchasers were Messrs. J. H. Taylor, and others, for the sum of 830,000, subjeot to existing liens, including the State lien of about 8750,000. John. H. Leavitt, of Elmira, New York, advertises that be has a complete record, of the Confederate prisoners of war, who died at that post. He proposes to furnish names of peraon, rank, regiment, company and State; also, date of capture, when and where captured, when died, cause of death, number of grave and effeots. As many of readers have friends and relatives who died at Elmira, we suggest the propriety of communicating with Mr. Leavitt. On the 19th instant a bill was introduced into the House of the Tennessee Legislature, to repeal the present franchise law and give suffrage to the negroes, it being * 1 . __ j a proposition ior universal sunrage ana am- t nesty. It was laid on the table, on the first reading, by a vote of thirty-nine to twenty-nine, the East Tennessoe members, radicals and conservatives, voting solid to a lay on the table, and the conservatives from fl Middle and West Tennessee against it.? Another bill was introdnced, striking out a the word "white" in the present franchise j law. y The Legislature of North Carolina met on Tuesday of lastweek,and the Message ^ of Gov. Worth was sent in and read. The t Governor takes strong ground against the ' constitutional amendment. After alluding 1 to the anomalous and distressing political j situation of the Southern States, he says : u How long this unnatural condition of our relations is to continue, it seems, we shall I be allowed to have no share in determining, j a No time has been set, and no conditions , s proposed on which it may be terminated. ! f In the meantime, I trust, we shall meet I s events as they arise with a reasonable and i manly fortitude, ready at all times to fulfill! " our duties as patriotic citizens, but under j v no circumstances willing to sacrifice the lion- j f or and rights of the State, as a member of I the Union, not in the sense of the advocates ! of secession, but as taught by Iredell and j Marshall, and Story Kent and Webster, i and in which moderate men everywhere, i North and South, before the war, were sup-J posed to eonour. Anxious us I was to avert d the late war, and have at all times been to j a compose our troubles on the basis of the j G Union, as, our fathers framed it, I can per- j J oeivc iu this proposed amendment Dotbing'S calculated to perpetuate the Union but its; si tendency seems to me better suited to per- j a petuate sectional alienation and estrango- q ment, and I have therefore no hesitation ' ii in recommending that it be not ratified." 1 a LOCAL MATTERS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ?. C. Harris, 0. Y. D.?Citation?J. H. London, Appll- : cant?S. B. Zimmerman, deceased. 3. Jones?Administrator's Sale. 3. E. Stratton, Columbia?Dealer in Cotton Rags, Waste, : Copper, Brass kc. 'arish k Lntlmore, Chester?Manufacturers and Dealers In Furniture, kc. Jathcart and Bomar, with Wm. Gumey?Wholesale Grocers and Commission Merchants, Charleston, 3. C. i 3. R. Stokes, Columbia?Book Binder, kc. no. R. London?Firm of London & Zimmerman dissolved. \ C. Harris, O. Y. D.?Citation?Alexnndcr Glass, Applicant?A. M. Wallace. Deceased. ; . Ed. Jefferys and W. P. Hobhs?Partnership expired. Y. H. MeCorkle.?Furniture, kc., for sale. f. k E. B. Stowc?New Goods. ' " ? ?Clover Seed. C e Yorkville Female College. 1 It will be a matter of siooere congratala- r ;ion on the part of the friends of this In j ititntion, to know that it has been re-organzed, and its exercises are to be resumed on ;he 1st of January, with a competent corps )f teachers. The College Building which las afforded, during and since the war, an isylum for refugees, is again under the sontrol of the Trustees, and will be used 'or Collegiate purposes hereafter. The Re?. R. B. Anderson, the newly fleeted President, will be ably assisted, by he Rev. M. D. Wood and the Misses VIaniqault, in the Collegiate Department. Miss C. Amanda Moore will he in charge if the Primary Classes, and Mrs. N. W. rnoRNWELL is to oontinue in the responsiile position of Matron. Young ladies oomng to this Institution, Can be boarded in he College Building, where ample space las been provided for this purposr, under ;he immediate control of Mrs. Thornwell. The location of this Institution in one of :he healthiest villages in the State?the fasilities of railroad communication it offers vith almost every section?the seclusion of :he building from the business portion of the town, and the high character and competency of its teachers, renders it one of deiirable interest to those who have daughters ;o eduoate. We are disposed to boast still more, and relieve that do place in the country offers a * lopolation that can compare with oars in norals, intelligence, good looks, or a plenti- i ill supply of the good things of life. If ( my are skeptical on these points, let them some and try us. . ' MERE-MENTION. The Lancaster Ledger of last week, an- a lounces the death, in that town, on the 14th 1 nstant, of Mr. S. Buck Massey. t The question of subscription or no subscrip- a ion to the Columbia and Augusta Railroad p vas submitted to the vote of the oitizeus of t Augusta, by the City Council, and carried o >y a majority of four hundred and fifty in g avor of the subscription. The value if the entire real estate of New Orleans iD a L860, wa9 but 883,000,000; the value dow h eaches 8123,000,000, an increase of 40,100,000 over the palmiest day9 of the city, o Prentice says it scorns unkind in o he Confederates to make so many charges s tgaiost General Butler. When he com- i naoded a Federal Army he didn't make any t ipon them. A Saving's Bank of Mo- a >ile, established by the negroes, collapsed ii he other day in consequence of the depos v tors withdrawing all the funds to attend a fi lircus. During the past year one cotod factory in Augusta, Ga., has turned out >410 000 rards of ninth.* Robert ,, , J .. Jorris, tbe colored lawyer, is talked of for * ilayorof Chelsea, Mass. Every peron in the Nevada State Prison can play joker. No white person is allowed to two land in Liberia or become a citizen of he Republic. A waggish editor says that the streets of me of the Western cities are to be lighted vith red headed girls. The chap wants to mg the lamp posts. Texas has raised a greater amount of cotton than she can gatbsr. An old lady hearing somebody ay the males were very irregular, said, 'It was jnst so in my young days?notrustng them.' President Johnson is said o have assured Mrs. Jacob Thompson that ler husband is at liberty to return to this lountry. A dispatch from Washington ays it appears from official compilations ust made that nearly ?15,000,000 were apjropriated for the public service for the rear ending June 30,1867, including 819,100,000 for the navy and 838,000,000 for he army. For the Yorkvillc Enquirer. MEMORIAL. At a meeting of citizens of Rock Hill mninitv f!n! <T .Tones in the Chair. T mu ??. ww , ^ md II. White, Seoretary. \ The Rev. II. Dickson, W. S. Danlap \ ind II. Hope, being appointed a Commit- ^ ee, reported the following resolutions which 7ere adopted : Whereas, it has pleased God to call sud- g lenly from among us, a member of our com- 0 nunity most highly esteemed and deeply t] amented, Mr. S. B. Zimmerman ; it is he sense of this meeting that some due exiression of the feelings we entertain with ri egard to this melancholy event, should find itterance. Therefore, o Resolved, That in the death of Mr. S. d I. Zimmerman, this entire community, g nd the Sabbath School in which he took c o deep and active interest, is moved with g irofound sensibility by tho afflictive dispen- u ation. k Resolved, As a mark of respect for his fi acmory, and of sympathy for bis bereaved tl tiaow and relatives, this expression of our 11 eelings be published in tLe Yorkville c< Inquirer and Church Intelh'f/cnccr d C. JONES, Chairman. tl Hutchison White, Secretary. it November 20, 1866. tl - - - - - ix S@T Many persons through the coantry w o not know where they can procure pure si n<J genuine Drugs and Chemicals. Messrs. sj rOODRicn, Wineman & Co., (formerly tl oifN Ashhurst & Co.,) at their Old c< louthern Drug House, No. 153 Meeting- ic licet, opposite the Charleston Ilotcl, keep ci n extensive stock, which they warrant the ly uality of. Pbysioiaos can depend on havig their orders filled by experienced hands d nd at moderate prices. E Contriktorial. j BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. COLUMBIA. 8. C.. 28TH NOV., 1866. Debt of the United States. The public debt ia only 820,551,380,000 ^ Books. e John Minor Botta has jast got oat a book ailed The Great Rebellion. If any aootb- c rner cares a button what John Minor Botts r las to say about the war,. we are vastly t nistaken. e Eleavy. f Tho Earth weighs somethiDg over twen- ( y-fivo sextillions pounds,?more exactly, a 15,123,901,400,000,000,000,000 pounds, a If the tbiDg ever falls, every body would >etter stand from under. iVar Poetry. Tho long-promised volume, War Poetry j f the South, by W. Gilmore Simms, is ust out. The subscription-price is $2.50; >ut the book is not in the general market ret, and will not be for some months we preiume, and oan be had only from agents by mbscription. Fhe Legislature. The Palres conscripti are again in session. 5Vhat they will do we have no idea, and jossibly they have as little. Among the crowd gathered in Columbia, ve see a goodly number of distinguished riaitors not of the corps Legislatif; oon ipicuous among whom are Generals Gary ind Young. Both commanded oavalry irigades, and both won distinction in that [ ine. Of these things, more anon. Literary. | The Richmond Eclectic, a religio-Iitera- c y monthly, has just made its appearance. r Mrs. Ball of Charleston, who touched a ^ nillion hearts with her poem called The ^ Tacket of Grey, has just published a little t trochere containing her poems. It sells at t lixty cents a copy. j w e see n announced tnat u-umore oimms c s to write for the Old Guard a serial novel, o be entitled Jescelyn : a Tale of the Rev- 0 dution. It is to commence, we infer, early p n the coming year. John Eaten Cook, of Virginia, is to oon- e ribufe a series of sketohcs to the Old a 7uard, upon the Battles of Virginia. D The Old Guard has been a stannoh f riend to the South, and still sticks to it. g Howspaperial. c The Rural Southerner of R. M. Stokes b ,nd Company, has reached its fourth number, s ibe first and second numbers were issued f inder very great difficulties; but the third ii nd fourth approximate closely to what they g iropose to bring the Southerner in point of c ypographical neatness and handsomeness f f appearance. It is handsome. We con- a ;ratulate the firm upon their success. t The literary matter is from some of the y blest pens in the State. We say this t mowing the men personally. o The Neioberry Herald will please receive r ur cootributorial bow in acknowledgement (. f its appearance the last few weeks in our outary sanctum, aou iu recoguiuou ui iia e mproved appcarancegenerally. We learned t o appreciate our friend Greneker in camp; s nd though these be unwarlike piping times, fl t rejoices us to see such evidences of his worldly well-being as the Herald shows b orth. p ' g A. P. M. ? At a late session of the ^ 8! Jrand Lodge of Ancient Free Masons of j( South Carolina, the following Brethren 0 rere elected officers for the ensuing year : n Jro. James L. Orr, Anderson, M. W. D Grand Master. Jro. James Conner, Charleston^ R. W. Deputy Grand Master. Jro. W. T. Walter, Columbia, R. W. ^ Senior Grand Warden. Jro. J. T. Robertson, Abbeville, R. W. , Junior Grand Warden. Jro. II. W. Schroder, Charleston, R. W. Grand Treasurer. Jro. Robert S. Bruns, Charleston, R. W. Grand Secretary. Jro. J. R. Pickett, Orangoburg, R W. 1 Grand Chaplain. The following brethren were eleoted on 8 he Hall Committee: Bros. P. K. Co- 0 mm, W. T.' Bartlett, W. J. Trim and E. 0 I". Dawson. The following subordinate officers were 11 ppointcd : V.-. Bro. S. W. Maurice, )D n n P V,. Bro. J. R. Allen, )l8 D"" 1 V.-. Bro. T. V. Walsh, 1 T n _ 0 V.-. Bro. P. S. Jacobs, / ^ea00n8i t. V.: Bro. J. A. Hojt, 1 ff.-. Bro. F. Horsoy, J > V.-. Bro. P. K. Cobnro, Grand Mashal. ? V.-. Bro. Jdo. Corby, Grand Pursuivant, j* 5ro Samuel Burke, Grand Tiler. * BI1 s Masonry. b Wo take the following account of the reat masonio demonstration in Baltimore, s' n tbe occasion of laying the corner-stone of be masonio temple, in that city, from our 0j xehanges, and regret that we have not a aom for the full proceedings: 8I The ceremony of laying the corner stone f the new masonic temple in Baltimore, tl esigned to exceed, in dimensions and ele- ]c ance, any other similar structure in this ! 0l ouDtry, was consumatcd Tuesday, with j r; reat splendor and eclat Tbe interest! m janifested in the occasion had extended j fo, irgely beyond tbe limits of the masonio I a] otornifc and flir> arrival nf delegations of I J ? J I ?- ?- o U' ic order from distant cities and towns, to ike part in the ceremonies, and their resption by organizations there, showed the egree of importance attached to it beyond j133 le limits of the city. Early in the morn- n< )g, the principal streets were lively with 10 gathering of the populace, male and fe- _( lale, to witness the promised pageant, as j q ell as the proceedings to take place on the j Q| te of the proposed temple. The high re-1 _ iect entertained for the masonic order, and j j >e character of its brotherhood, its benefi- j jnt objects, tho splendor, of its emblemat- i ^ I insignia and forms, all conspired to ex-' te the interest of tho community general- i r in regard to the events of the occasion, j Organisations of the order had arrived nring the previous evening and night from I p< .iohmond, Petersburg and other points in ' to Virginia, as well as from Philadelphia, Jarrisburg and other Northern cities, and he morning train from Washington came n filled with pasaeogers, as did also those of he Northern Central Railway, bringing oth-" ir delegations and persons desirous of visit* eg the pageant. The President of the Uiited States reached the city in a special tain, about 9 o'clock, and was met at the Camden Station by Governor Swann and taff. The various bodies of Masons met at 9} 'clock) tbe subordinate lodges at the Ma. yland Institute; the Chapters of Royal irch Matons at the Masonio Hall, St. Paul treet; the Commanderies of Knights Ternjlar at the Holiday Street Theatre, and the Irand Lodges at Coooordia Hall. Punctnility was manifested in all the movements, it the appointed time the different bodies o form the general procession were conductid to their positions in line by the assistint marshals detailed for the purpose. The nembers of the masonic fraternity appeared n full black suits, high black bats and vhite gloves, with the appropriate regalia tnd emblems. The Knights Templar wore heir rich blaok uniforms, showy belts and lighly burnished swords, many of them ieoorated with oostly jewels, with obapeaus ind white Sowing feathers, and, on the vhole, made a most magnificent appearance. The streets, in the meantime, became lensely crowded in quarters where the comng pageant was to appear. Correspondence of the Charleston Courier. From Washington. Washington, Nov. 19. ? A number >f the members of Congress from distant States have arrived here, and others have, iv upAntfl RAcnred nnnrlPM fnr the nnmino> V O 1 ; E> ibort session ? a session that may, in re;ard to re elected members, prove a long me. The public necessities will probably equire a called session of the Fortieth Confess, if, at the coming session, no deoided irogress be made towards the restoration of he Unioo. The people are disappointed at be delay of this consummation, and will mpute it to the factiousness or the imbelility of Congress. The Radical masses expected the South ir the President would accept the terms iroposed by Coogress after the eleotion, tut are disappointed. The exoluded Southrn States and the border States are firm gainst the Congress proposition, and it oust be dropped. Hence the movements or a new party to be got up on the amnestyuffrage basis. The Radicals propose to ompromise. The President does not. The order States do not. The President has et his face firmly, as ever, against the plan or any compromise which will invoke an nterference by Congress in the laws of the States, preventing the qualification of its itizens for the exercise of the rights of sufrage. If Southern representation be not dmitted till the President go for the imposiion of any suffrage laws upon the States, it rill never be admitted at all. The States hemselves, may nevertheless, in the course f time, extend the rights of suffrage to all aces and colors, and sexes too, for aught Joogress can do. The "amnestv-suffraee" humbue is nlav d out already. The Demooratio papers hat have favored the plao of "impartial uffrage" have rapidly lost business and inuenoo. We learn from Radical members now ere, that there will be a disposition on the art of the majority of their party in Conress to avoid extremes in legislation.? 'be schemes of their Extremists will, they ay, be discouraged. They will not legisate against the South, nor force a quarrel ipon the President. As to the impeaohsent of the President, it will, they say, be tnavailable and abandoned. Leo. Impeachment op the President.? ?he following form of a petition to Confess, praying for the impeaoh men t of ^resident Johnson, is being circulated in )hio for signatures: Vo the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled: The petition of the undersigned oitizens f the State of Ohio respeotfully showeth bat Andrew Johnson, President of the aid United States, is guilty of divers and undry high crimes and misdemeanors, and f language and conJuot utterly unworthy f his high office, and calculated and inended to bring the authority of Congress 3to oontempt; that without the authority f the law.be has restored to traitors the roperty forfeited to and owned by the Inited States; that he has appointed to dices of trust and authority notorious riators, contrary to law; that he has incited ) sedition, riot and murder in tne uuy ot Tew Orleans; for whioh orimes and misdeleanora your petitioners earnestly pray that e may forthwith be impeached by the loose of Representatives, tried by the eoate, and dismissed from the exalted office e so soaDdalously disgraoed. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, uali ever pray. Stolen.?Rev. Dr. Adger, of South Carlina, in a letter to Dr .Backus, of Baltitore, lately published, makes the following :atement, and vouches for the fact : "When General Sherman's army passed irough Wionsboro, S. C., a Captain Fulsr and six others of that army robbed one f the ruling elders of the Zion Presbytean Church there of an elegant silver com* iunion set the gift of a dying female memsr of the same, costing ?280 in New York, id having the Cburoh's name and the onor's name engraved upon eaoh article." Dr. Adger makes the following additionI statement, which, for the honor of hulanity as well as Christianity, we hope canot be true: "A certain congregation of your body aw has that silver communion set, which aptain Fuller presented to them, and art dw using it for their communion purposes, itb those names of Zion Church and its ping sister staring them continually in le face, as they cat the bread and drink ie wine which set forth the body and ood of our common Master." The idea that a Christian can oburch celo ate tho holy ordinanoe of the Lord's Sup;r in the use of vessels thus obtained, is o monstrous.