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f traps and |arts.
The largest county in Texas?Presidio?is
equal in area to four such States as Massachusetts.
A game of chess for $1000 is to be played
over the Atlantic cable by English and American
players.
A dinner rras given near Paris the other day,
of whioh the principal dishes were shark, horse,
dog, and rat
In Holland no creditor or tax-gatherer calls at
a house where there has been a birth until six
weeks alter the event
?? Gen. Grant has issued a circular saying that
hereafter boys under the age of twenty-one will
not be enlisted in the regular army.
A Lexington (Kentucky) paper says that
town has a population of "9,000 persons with
1,100 souls."
It is asserted that a crinoline manufacturer
in Saxony, during the last ten years, has made
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A little girl in one of the Gloucester public
schools, being asked in the course of her geography
lesson, what a waterfall was, replied that it
was "hairwrapped around her dad's old stocking."
The dials of the English Parliament clocks
are twenty-two feet in diameter, the largest in the
world. Every half minute the point of the minute
hand moves nearly seven inches.
A younglady in a Boston school, on being
asked why} in Latin, winds o&me to be c&UooL masculine,
quickly replied, "I do not know, unless it
is because they are so fickle 1"
An exchange says: Never let people work
for you gratis. Two vears ago a man carried a
bundle for us, and we have been lending him twenty-five
cents a week ever since.
?-The Lancaster Ledger reports that small
pox is prevailing to a limited extent in the lower
portion of that District, and that one case originating
there had developed itself in the village.
-? In Maine the Senate has passed a bill authorizing
marriage between whites and blacks, but the
lower House refuses concurrence?to the great scandal
of universal equality.
The Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad pays an
annual premium of $100 to that engineer who runs
a locomotive the greatest number of miles with the
least expense.
A meeting was held at Orangeburg C. H.,
on the 9th inst, for the purpose of considering the
practicability of establishing a cotton factor in
Oranaebure District A committee was appointed
to report to an adjourned meeting.
It is said that a new method of punishment
has been introduced into one of the public schools
ofHolyoke, Mass. A disobedient scholar is ordered
up, its mouth forced open, and a dose of
cayenne pepper administered.
The New Orleans Times says as regards the
measures for raising sugar and cotton the coming
year, the prospects are far from encouraging.?
Money and meansj otherwise called capital and
advances, are wanting.
In New Albany, IncL, a woman recently sued
a man for entering her house against her wishes.
He proved that he was pursued by two women,
three boys and four dogs when he rushed into the
house, and the jury acquitted him.
A Kentucky Judge has decided that all persons
who have invested money in gift enterprises
can sue and recover it in those States where laws
exists against gaming, and all games of chance come
within the statute.
A distinguished writer says of the Yankee,
that as soon as he enters the world, the idea of necessity
assails him on every side and soon teaches
him the natural limits of his power. Hence he beoomes
slow to act, but persevering, and attains proficiency
in making cunning do the work of force.
A letter in the Baltimore Gazette says that
the President is yet cheerful and hopeful of ultimate
triumph, and so far from evincing a disposition of
acquiescing in the insane legislation of Congress, is
more determined than ever, since their atrocious
designs have become developed, of firmly adhering
to his constitutional position.
?-? When the Hindoo priest is about to baptize
an infant, he utters the following beautiful sentiment
: "Little baby, thou entered the world weeping
while all around thee smile; contrive so to live
that you may depart in smiles while all around you
weep."
Wiggins was one day with a friend, when he
observed a poor dog that had been killed lying in
the gutter. Wiggins paused, gazed at the dead
animal, and at last said, "Here is anomer smpwreck.
' "Shipreck! Where?" "Why, there s
a bark that's lost forever.'' His companion growled
and passed.
A man has been arrested in Hungary, for
killing four children, and eating their hearts raw.
He acted on the belief that he would have the
power to become invisible when he had eaten seven,
but was not permitted to cany his experiment
to a conclusion. He ought to have been made invisible
on eating the first one.
The Alabama House of Representatives
have passed a bill to establish a system of public
schools for whites and blacks alike, except that
schools for each shall be seperate in each school
district It is understood tnat the Legislature will
not reconsider the action on the Constitutional
Amendment.
The followingis the conclusion of an epitaph
on a tombstone in East Tennessee: "She lived a
life of virtue, and died of the cholera morbus, caused
by eating green fruit, in the full hope of a blessed
immortality, at the early age of twenty-four years,
seven months and sixteen days. Reader, go thou
and do likewise."
Gov. Brownlow's organ, at Nashville, gives
the recently enfranchised freedmen notice, that in
the event they should vote for conservatives?which
means vote for anybody but pure unadulterated
radicals?said organ will at once proceed to advocate
their disfranchisement.
A very large congregation attended the high
mass reouiem given in the Church of St Joseph,
in New York, on Saturday, for the repose of the
soul of Mrs. Sickles. The body was in a handsome
rosewood casket, the plate of which bore the inscription
Theresa B. Sickles, aged 31 years, died
Feb. 5th, 1867. Gen. Sickles and the parents of
the deceased were present. The pall bearers were
ten in number.
The Journal of Commerce says the risk and
expense of storing cotton in New York is diverting
the trade from that city. The rate of insurance at
New York is three per cent; at Boston it is less
than one per cent Fraud is suspected in many instances
of the destruction of cotton by fire in New
York. That large amounts of cotton are stolen
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contradicted.
The New York TYmes states that a single
firm in New York has produced, for this year's
trade in valentines, an aggregate of over two and a
half million valentines, ranging in price from three
cents to one hundred dollars, and tne total vaiue of
which, as sold at retail, is more than three hundred
thousand dollars. This is the production of a single
firm.
Not many moons since, some Indians who
saw several women baptised by immersion, in the
river at St Joseph, Missouri, a hole being cut in
the ice for that purpose, imagined that the ceremony,
which they could not understand, was to
make them good, afterwards brought their souaws,
cut a hole in the ice near by, and gave them a
ducking in spite of their remonstrances.
It is stated that the well-known house of H.
B. Clafflin & Co., New York, is in a financial difficulty.
Last year this firm returned to the Assessor
of Internal Revenue an income of $2,000,000,
but is now brought to a stand with liabilities of
$20,000,000. The difficulty is to be attributed to
the fact that the market is overstocked, while the
demand for goods is very light, and to sales last
fall on credit
The Columbia Phoenix says: An intelligent
freedman who went to Florida several months ago,
to settle, has returned to Columbia, perfectly satisfied
with his experience, and determined to stick
to South Carolina to the last He states that great
inducements are. held out, but the expectations of
very few of the immigrants are realized. Numbers
of others, he says, who went out, are desirous of
returning, but have not the means of doing so.
Gen. John A. Wagoner, of Charleston, has
been appointed Commissioner of Emigration, pursuant
to the act of the last Legislature, and will
enter upon the duties of his Bureau at once. Two
foreign agents will also be selected to take charge
of the interests of the State which concern Emigration
from Ireland and Germany. Gen. agener
is peculiarly qualified for the office, a gentleman
of fine abilities, conversant with all wants,
and in all respects promises to prove an admirable
selection.?South Carolinian.
The five gentlemen from Rome, says the Atlanta
Intelligencer, who for three weeks past have
ooenpied quarters in the Fedeal barracks, near this
city, were released on Wednesday last. The order
setting them at liberty emanated from the headquarters
of General Thomas, at Louisville, and
was unconditional. No bond or parole was required
and no investigation had as to the merits or demerits
of the case. They were simply set at liberty,
and there the matter will end. The gentlemen
were on the streets yesterday, and will at once return
to their homes in Rome.
A minister of the Kirk of Scotland, once discovered
his wife asleep in the midst of his family
on the Sabbath. So, pausing in the steady and
Dossibly monotonous now of his oratory, he broke
forth with this personal address, sharp and clear,
but very deliberate: ' 'Susan!'' Susan opened her
eyes and ears in a twinkling, as did all other dreamers
in the house, whether asleep or awake. "SuJ
san ! I didna marry ye for your wealth, since ye
had nane; and I didna marry ye for your beauty
?that the hail congregation can see; and if ye have
no faith, I have made but a sair bargain.
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STATES' RIGHTS REVIVED.
The doctrine of States' Rights, which has of late
been generally considered as dead, has recently
been re-affirmed by the Supreme Court in a unanimous
decision. The question before the court was
the right of the Federal government to license lotr
teries to exist in a State, whose laws prohibit
them. The case in point was from New York, the
managers of the lottery claiming a right to carry
on their business, despite the local law of New
York, on the ground that they paid taxes to the
Federal government under the Internal Revenue
Act The Court decided that the requirement of
taxes for any business licensed by a State, is a
right belonging to Congress; but that the exercise
of this right is lawful only in those States whose
laws authorize such a business, and does not confer
upon the Revenue tax-payer the right to carry
on the business in violation of the law., of a State.
This decision clearly recognizes the right of a
State to make laws for its own internal regulation,
and denies the power of Congress to set aside
these local laws by means of acts that are intended
to be of universal application. If this decision is
strictly carried out in all its legitimate consequences,
the greater part of the Acts passed by the present
Congress will become waste paper. Congress must
either squelch the Supreme Court or annul the
constitution, or the Court will very soon make "pi"
of Congressional enactments. Both can not exist
together, in the present crisis of affairs; for Congress
recognizes no constitution, while the Court's
sole duty is to maintain the constitution as paramount
to all law.
One remarkable feature in this decision is the
agreement of Chief Justice Chase with his associates
on the bench. Heretofore he has always
felt it his duty to dissent from the decisions of the
Court, thus presenting the singular spectacle of a
chief-justice who is always in the minority. This
is the first occasion, on which he has enjoyed the
pleasure of delivering the opinion of the Court,
but, hereafter, inasmuch as the radical scales appear
to be dropping from his eyes, there is reason
to hope the learned Chief Justice will be able to
eo? llie constitution in tlie same light as his assoei
ates see it.
LIFE OF HON. A. H. STEPHENS.
This volume, published by the National Publishing
Company, has been for sometime on our table.
Though professedly a biography, the bulk of the
book is taken up by the letters and speeches of
Mr. Stephens, the narrative of his life being
merely a sketch from the pen of Henry Cleveland,
Esq., formerly editor of the Augusta Constitutionalist.
The subject of this sketch must be pronounced,
by eveiy one at all familiar with his history, a remarkable
man. Gifted, beyond most of his fellow
mortals, with the power of reading the future by
the light of the past, his speeches previous to Secession
read almost like the prophecies of inspira-;
tion. It is doubtful, whether any of the then
prominent statesmen, either North or South, comprehended
the momentous consequences of that
movement, in a degree at all equal to Mr. Stephens.
His mind alone, of all the leading minds of
the republic, saw the dangers to be avoided, the
obstacles to be overcome, and the mournful result
in case of failure, which were to. be met by the
infant Confederacy. Joining his fortunes to those
of his native South, only when he saw that tin;
contest could not be averted, he at once favored a
system of policy, bold, vigorous and decided. No
halfway measures met his views; but he was for
raising at once a mighty army and powerful fleet.
To accomplish these all-important objects, his plan
was to use cotton, our only great source to obtain
money and credit. But, uufortunately for the
cause, the riding spirits could not see the emergency
of the crisis and the imperative necessity for
spending our substance freely, in exchange for the
munitions and implements of war. A niggardly
hoarding, at the beginning of the struggle, compelled
useless extravagance in the end. Mr. Stephens
is in no wise responsible for the failure of
the Confederacy. It was his fate to be opposed to
the leading measures of the government throughout
; but as the second officer of the Confederacy,
his mouth was sealed. In the true spirit of patriotism,
he gave a hearty support to the government,
though he felt that it was doomed to devtmftinn
\Tr> instance is nn record, where he of
fered the slightest hindrance, by word or act, to
any measure after it had received the sanction of
the government.
The history of such a man Is full of interest, and
those who wish to learn the causes of our defeat,
J should read this book. The letters and speeches
it contains, more than the sketch of Mr. Stephens'
life, will shed a clear light upon it.
GENUINE PHILANTHROPY.
Our people have so often been disgusted by selfpraising
and hypocritical charities from Northern
men, that they have learned to look with suspicion
upon every scheme emanating from that quarter,
for the benefit of this section. Their gifts have too
often proved to be deceitful snares, intended to enrich
the donors, or sugar-coated poisons to injure,
by stealth, those they profess to help. It is, therefore,
a pleasant duty to chronicle an instance of
Northern philanthropy which bears the stauip of
the true metal.
Mr. George Peabody, world-renowned for his
1 many good deeds and munificent donations to the
poor of England, has lately given to a board of
trustees of his own selection, one million dollars for
the use of the more destitute portions of the South
and Southwest. He desires this fund to be employed
for the ' promotion and encouragement of
intellectual, industrial or moral education of the
young," in the designated localities. In addition
to this, he gives the trustees eleven hundred thousand
dollars worth of Mississippi State bonds, to
be similarly used.
This is a liberal gift, and does honor to the heart
of the donor, who is evidently sincere in trying to
rebuild the prosperity of a war-broken people.?
But, though Mr. PKABODY is entitled to the highest
praise for his kind intentions, it is to be feared
that he made a mistake in the means adopted to
secure his end. As the donation is designed lor
the South, it would naturally seem proper that the
trustees chosen should be men who are familiar
with her wants, and therefore better fitted to discriminate
between the claims of the various sections.
But, of the fifteen, only three trustees are
Southern men, while the others are men who have
spent their whole lives in the North, some of them
in all likelihood, having never even visited South of
the Potomac. It is no very high compliment to
the integrity or capacity of our people, to intimate
in this way, that fifteen men could not be found in
as many States worthy to be trusted in the management
of this' fund. Mr. Peabody has too
high a reputation for good sense, as well as good
feeling towards his kind, for it to be supposed that
such is his opinion,.though his selection of trustees
has unfortunately made him liable to the suspicion
that he thinks so.
It is not to our taste to pick flaws in noble deeds,
but there is another objection to the agents appointed
to cany out the end aimed at by Mr. Peabody,
which should also be stated. If they are to
promote "the intellectual, industrial and moral education"
of our youth, according to the Southern
idea of what that education ought to be, they are
Dot familiar enough with the subject to perform
their task. If, on the other hand, they aim to establish
the Massachusetts doctrines on education,
we would prefer that the donation be handed over
to the king of the cannibal isles, for the use of his
subjects. We have no great admiration for the
system of intellectual education, which insists upon
teaching everybody to read, write and cypher,
and then turns them loose upon the world to combat
and upset everything that they cannot understand.
Still less is our faith in the industrial edu
cation, whose sole result is skilfulness in cheating
enough to live without work. And as for Yankee
moral education, as illustrated by their police reports
and the narratives of outrageous violations
of honor, faith and decency which fill their newspapers,
we trust the day is far distant when it will
become the standard in our sober and still partially
respectable land.
FREEDMEN RETURNING.
Our exchanges make frequent mention of the
return of freedmen who had emigrated to the
West. Those of them who have come back to
their old homes, speak in rather disparaging terms,
of the facilities for making a living in the West?
They give but a poor picture of the fancied paradise
they hoped to find there, and say that in
dustrious freedmen can make more in South Carolina
than in Mississippi. The wages are better there
than here, but prices are so high that it takes all
they can make to buy the necessaries of life.
This maybe true, but the real disappointment to
most of the returning freedmen consists in the necessity
of working at all. They had the idea, that
by going out there they could live by very little ex-,
ertion, and could eujoy the dignity of being free,
with nothing to do. But the sad lesson has to be
learned that "the head must bow and the back will
have to bend, wherever the darkey may go.'' Freedmen
who cannot make a living in Mississippi, are
not likely to be very useful members of society here,
and their room is decidedly preferable to their company.
Our opinion is that an industrious man,
whatever the hue of his hide, can support himself
anywhere in the South, ana tiyit tnere is no necessity
for freedmen running back and forth between
the Atlantic oceanand the Mississippi river in search
of employment We have regretted the departure
of many valuable hands from our midst, as it
threatens our State with a scarcity of labor. And
we would like to see every fanner try to prevent
this drain by using his best efforts to make his
laborers contented with their present homes, believing
as we do, that the freedmen who remain
with their old masters fare the best, both in contracts
and privileges.
This is an age when everybody must work, who
wishes to lead a life of independence and respectability.
Dodging off to new and strange localities will
not relieve any one from this disagreeable necessity
; and the sooner the freedman finds this out and
sets to work in the country where he was born and
is known, tbe sooner will he find himself in prosperous
circumstances. But if he will go West, he
ought to stay there; his return Ls a bad voucher for
his fitness to be employed here.
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MASONIC COURTESIES.
The Masonic fraternity of Columbia have lately
received, as tokens of good will from brethren of
the craft in Washington City and Baltimore, a
handsome set of jewels an<h regalia. Three brothers
of the Order in Philadelphia have, in the same
friendly spirit, presented a costly Bible to them, accompained
by a letter which expresses the hope
that brotherly love may continue. The delegates
from Washington and Baltimore in charge of these
gifts, after delivering them to the Lodges in Columbia,
made a brief visit to Charleston. There they
were met at the cars by a committee of brethren
from the Charleston Lodges, who escorted them to
the Mills House, where preparations had been made
to give them a hearty fraternal welcome. They
were officially introduced to the Grand Secretary by
M. W. Grand Master Orr, and, in the evening
were invited to a Masonic banqtiet, at which P. G.
M. Henry Buist, presided in the East. After the
luxuries of the table had been discussed, the evening
was dedicated to intellectual pleasures, of which
speeches and toasts formed the chief attraction of the
hour, interspersed with song and jest, a concise account
of which is given in the Charleston papers.?
Doubtless the occasion was one of great interest to
the participators therein; and it will gratify members
of the order throughout the land, to learn that
the bonds of a common brotherhood are still held
sacred between the sections, whose other uniting
ties have been loosened or broken by the passions
of civil war.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The subiect of imneachment has not occupied
public attention so much as usual, during the last
week, for the reason that new schemes have been
originated by the Radical leaders for the oppression
and plundering of the South. The House has,
however, proceeded so far in advance of the Committee
in charge of impeachment, as to provide for
a President in case of a vacancy. The President
of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, and the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court are the persons
succeeding in turn to the White House.
The Reconstruction Committee's bill, or, as it is
more generally called, the Stevens' bill for providing
military Governors for the excluded States,
has not been acted on by the House. But it is
virtually dead, as another bill worse, if possible,
than Steven's bill has passed the House by a vote
of 113 to 43, thus making the former bill unnecessary.
This is known as the New Orleans Riot
Committee Bill; it provides a new government for
Louisiana, and does not affect the other States.?
But as it is intended as an entering wedge for the
subjection of the Southern white race to the blacks,
in all the excluded States, we publish a synopsis of
it in another column. It has not yet been acted
upon in the Senate, and its fate there is still doubtful.
The Bankrupt Bill was passed by the Senate,
and seut back to the House for concurrence in a
monuments.
The House has passed a bill to pay bounties to
the soldiers of the Federal ariny, excluding rebels
who joined that army to escape from prison. The
amount required by the provisions of this bill is
variously estimated, from $250,000,000 to $600,000,000.
It has the ordeal of the Senate and the
President's veto to run before it can be a law.
The House also passed a bill to build light-houses
at several points on the coast of Georgia, and on
Morris' Island, S. C.
Congress has now but two weeks left, in which to
"save the country," and they seem very anxious
to do it effectually. The new Congress meets on
the 4th of March; but as it will contain most of
the present members, the work of patriotism will
doubtless go on with undiminished vigor. The
proceedings hitherto have borne a lamentable similarity
to those of the circumlocution office, as described
by Dickens in one of his novels, in which
the great problem to be solved was "How?o? to do
it." Were it not that a great country, bleeding
and torn, is awaiting in anxious hope, for Congress
I to bind up its gaping wounds, the antics and ra
vings of its 'imbecile members would provoke a
smil# not unlike that which expands the countenance
of the spectator, who gazes at the solemnly
ludicrous ceremonies performed in the monkey-cage
of a menagerie. But the spectacle of idiots sport'
ing upon the crater of a volcano, whose smoillderI
ing flames may, at any moment, hurl them to destruction,
is not one to excite laughter. No circumstance
is so portentous of evil to the whole country,
as the utter absence of statesmanship and the total
lack of brains and character, in the legislative
branch of our Government Solomon says, "Woe
to thee, Oh I land, when thy king is a child.'' What
would he say of a land whose rulers are fools, without
wisdom to understand the teachings of the past,
and without sense to see or shun the dangers of the
future? . . .
THE BANKRUPT LAW.
This important measure has at last passed the
Senate, having barely escaped its death, by the
skin of its teeth. When it was brought up for reconsideration,
Mr. Sumner opposed its adoption
on the benevolent ground that it allows rebels the
privilege of becoming bankrupts. As the Senator
koo ononf lifia.fimo In twine to reduce the South
to bankruptcy, this is rather inconsistent; but while
he thinks there is any more meat to be picked from
the carcase, nothing is more natural than that the
buzzard should wish to hover near its bones. Sumner's
opposition, however, was of no avail, its only
effect being to enrage one of his hitherto obedient
followers, Mr. Connjss, who said that "the Senate
was sick of such stuff and would not submit
longer to be bullied by the Senator from Massachusetts
into the support of his foolish notions."
After some disousoion and amendment, the bill
was passed by a vote of 22 to 20. It will now go
back to the House for concurrence in the amendments
of the Senate. There is no reason to apprehend
its defeat in the House or its veto from
the President; so that it may be considered virtually
a law. As a matter of interest, we take from
the Baltimore Sun a sketch of the closing scene in
the discussion of this bill by the Senate:
"The vote was at last reached. It was known
that it would be verv close, and as no little feeling
has been engendered during the debates on the bilH
and there being bitter opposition on the part of
Western members to this species of legislation, the
progress of the call was watched with much interest
When all the Senators present had been called,
it was found that the tote stood twenty for,
to nineteen against
The Chair (Mr. Harris) then proceeded to announce
the paasage of the bill, wnen at this juncture,
Mr. Patterson entered the chamber and addressed
the chair, wishing to record his vote. The
chair either did not, or would not hear, and the
bill was declared passed. This did not satisfy the
opponents of the measure, and the point was successfully
made that Mr. Patterson's vote must be
received. Mr. Patterson voted no. which made a
tie. "Itjs killed," was now heard from several,
with a chuckle, but as the vote was being a second
time announced, the two New Jersey Senators,
who had been sent for post haste, came in, and demanded
the calling of their names. They both
voted aye, and it now stood 22 to 20; so the bill
was passed beyond peradventure. It has now to
go to the House for concurrence in the amendments."
THE LOUISIANA BILL.
. As an off-set to Gov. Ore's plan of reconciliation,
we publish the peace-offering which comes
back, in response, from the party to whom the
Governor held out the olive branch. This is the
bill for the reconstruction of Lousiana, reported
by Mr. Elliot, from the New Orleans Riot Committee.
It has passed the House by a vote of
more than two-thirds, and is now before the Senate.
Section 1, provides for the appointment by the
President, by and with the consent of the Senate,
of .a Governor for the State of Louisiana. Such
governor shall be thirty years of age, and a citizen
of the United States and of Louisiana. He shall
not have held any office whatever under the Confederate
government or any State acknowledging
its authority. He shall not have signed, voted for,
or in any way favored the act of secession. He
shall not be a person who ever held any office in
the United States army or navy, or a seat in Congress,
and afterwards took an oath to support the
Confederacy; nor shall he ever have borne arms
against the United States. And finally, he shall
take the test oath prescribed by act of July 2nd,
1862.
Section 2, provides for the appointment of nine
similarly qualified persons as counsellors, who shall
constitute the State legislature for the present.
Section 3, defines the powers of the governor.
Section 4, orders an election for governor and
legislature in June, 1867.
Section 5, prescribes the qualifications of voters.
Every male citizen of the United States, of the
age of twenty-one years, without distinction of
race or color, having resided one year in Louisiana,
and who has never borne arms against the United
States since he was a citizen thereof, and can
take the oath of July 2d, 1862, is entitled to vote
at all elections. Any one who never served in the
war of rebellion, in a higher capacity than that of
private soldier in open and civilized warfare, may
be admitted to the rights of a voter, by an order
of any court of record of the United States, upon
establishing the above qualifications by the testimony
of persons who have at all times borne true
allegiance to the United States. He must also
prove by the same "loyal" evidence, that he never
gave voluntary aid or support to the rebellion,
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alter tne 4tn 01 i'larcu, 100*. upun lunusuiug
such evidence, he shall receive a certificate entitling
him to vote.
Section 6, provides for a registration of qualified
voters.
Section 7, provides for the election of members
to a convention to be held in October, 1867, for
the purpose of forming a constitution for the State.
The persons eligible to seats in this convention
must be twenty-five years of age, and possess all
the other qualifications required of the governor.
The new constitution shall permit no distinction
between men on account of race or color. It shall
repudiate all debts contracted in support of the
rebellion, and shall forbid any pension, compensation,
gift or gratuity for anything done or suffered
by any one in support of rebellion.
Seotion 8, provides for the appointment by the
President, of a military officer not under the rank
of Brigadier-General, with a sufficient military
force, whose duty it shall be to enforce the laws
and sustain the authority of the State government
and the United States.
Section 9, requires that all laws passed by the
provisional legislature shall be transmitted to the
Secretary of the United States Senate, for the approval
of Congress. All laws disapproved by Congress
shall be null and void, from the date of disapproval.
Section 10, enacts that until Louisiana is admitted
to representation in Congress as a State, the
people thereof shall be entitled to one delegate, possessing
the qualifications of the governor, who shall
have the same powers and rights had by delegates
from the Territories of the United States.
Section 11, enacts that all laws now in force in
Louisiana, consistent with the provisions of this
act, shall remain in force until repealed, except
that no person is competent to act as a juror, who
is not an elector under this act.
Comment is unecessary, as every one can see how
carefully rebels of all degrees are shut out from the
rights of freemen. Nine-tenths of the voting under
this bill must be done by negroes, and the remaining
tenth by the pitiful wretches who, with no
affection for either the Confederate or United
States, vibrated between them while the struggle
was doubtful, and. at its close, became the most
loyal among the loyal.
Decision by the Supreme Court.?By a late
decsion of the Supreme Court of this State, in a
case that went up from this county, negro women
have the right to go into Court and swear as to
the paternity of their bastard children, even though
it Ijc against a white man. It is the duty of tne
Court to try the case, and take the woman's testimony
for what it is worth.?Charlotte (North Cardim)
Democrat.
LOCAL ITEMS.
FEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
F. C. Harris, 0. Y. D.?Citation?Thomas Whitesldee,
Applicant?Thomas L. Whitesidei,
D6C6dS6u
W. B. Smith & J. J. Hunter?Dissolution of Copartnership.
W. B. Metts, C. E. Y. D.?Notice to Absent Defendants.
W. B. Metts, C. E. Y. D.?Notice to the Creditors
of Rev. Archibald Whyte, deceased.
Thomas S. Jeffervs, Secretary?Masonic Notice.
National Publishing Co.?Agents wanted for the
Life of Glen. Robert E. Lee;T.
M. Dobson ACo.?Linebarger's Yarn.
44 44 44 ?Mackerel.
? ? ?? ?Table Salt.
44 44 44 ?Crackers.
44 44 44 -Shirting.
F. C. Harris, O. Y. D.?Citation?A. A. Barnett,
Applicant?Wm. S. Barnett, deceased.
Homesley <fc Asher?Fresh Arrivals,
BETHEL PRE8BYTEBY.
A pro re nata meeting of Bethel Presbytery wiD
be held at Bethel Church, on Thursday, the 21st
of February, 1867.
ME88B8, H0ME8LY ABD ASHES.
Those enterprising merchants have brought before
the public an entirely new stock of Groceries,
which they offer at reasonable prices. Their stock
is large, varied, and selected with a view to the
wants of the community, and they claim their ability
to sell upon terms satisfactory to the purchaser.
This firm has exhibited a gratifying spirit of
business enterprise, and are true philosophers in
the policy of reconstruction?not on the States'
rights principle?but upon principles of economy,
industry and the laudable desire of supplying the
old things that went up in the wear and tear of the
past years. Give them a call I
MABBIAGE8 ABD DEATHS.
We have recently received several notices of marriages
and deaths which we have not published,
for the reason that the announcements were not accompanied
by the name of a responsible person
known to us. We solicit notices of marriages or
deaths when they occur, and will publish them gratuitously,
but in every case they must be accompanied
by the name of some person with whom we
are acquainted. The name of the person sending
the notice is not desired for publication, but as an
evidence of good faith and to shield us from imposition.
WEATHEB STATISTICS FOB I860.
Major A. A. McKenzie has furnished us with
a synopsis of the changes in the wind and weather
in this District, during the last year. It was
prepared from a daily record kept by himself, and
is, therefore, to be relied on as accurate. From it
we learn that the coldest day in the year was February
16th, and the hottest, August 9th; the thermometer
ranging from 12? to 98? Fahrenheit,
extremes, a difference of 86 degrees. During the
year there was a fall of rain amounting to 25 3-10
inches, and in the. month of December snow fell to
the extent of three inches. The wind was from
the. S., 73 days; N., 58 days; E., 20 days; W.,
79 days; S. E., 12 days; S. W., 32days; N. E.,
15 days; N. W., 76 days ; which shows the prevailing
winds to have been from the -Westward.?
There were 215 clear and 140 cloudy and rainy
days.
PUBLIC MEETING.
Rocic Hill, S, C., Feb. 9, 1867.
Whereas we, a portion of the people of the 46th
Regiment of South Carolina, acting in answer to a
special call, through the Yorkville Enquirer,
have met here to-day for the purpose of making
some arrangements whereby we may be able to get
corn, wheat and bacon, at cost and carriage, do
hereby mutually agree to the following regulations,
viz:
1st That we agree, respectively, to raise the
sums of money annexed to our names, to be laid
out in corn, wheat, or bacon, in such proportions
as may be thought judicious, by those who may be
appointed to secure said articles, and to be shipped
to the care of persons appointed by those interested,
for the relief of the people of this regiment, so
far as may be practicable after supplying each person
subscribing, to their agreement
2d. Is it further agreed, that a committee of
twenty-five persons be selected by this meeting, to
take subscriptions during the next two weeks, and
then to meet on Saturday, the 23d instant, to appoint
reliable agents to transact the business.
3d. It is further agreed, that the whole business
shall be done for cash and in no other way, except
where the parties interested may direct otherwise
on their own account; and that the agents must
be held responsible for the faithful discharge of their
duties, for the time that this society may please
to continue the business.
4th. It is further agreed that said articles shall
be delivered at cost, and expenses incurred on
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All of which is hereby agreed, to.
JOHN MASSEY, Chairman.
S. P. Sctton, Secretary.
On motion of J. N. McElwee, Capt. John Massev,
Stephen P. Sutton, Col. Win. B. Allison, W.
W. McElwee, H. H. Drennan. James M. Hinkle,
Dr. Green S. Blake, Capt. Elias Neely, William
Daniels, Capt. Sam'l Anderson, John Ratteree,
Ferguson Barber, Mm". R. A. Springs, Capt. A.
E. Hutchinson, Col. L. P. Sadler, Capt. Robert
Fulwood, Milton Wallace. Nasa Riggins, J. H.
Faulkner, Green Gordon, Dr. C. P. Sanaifer, John
J. Poag, John Bratton, John F. Workman, Wm.
Hanna and Hugh Warren: were appointed as a
committee to talTo up subscriptions, and report the
same on the day aforesaid.
Mr. Editor:?The people are respectfully invited
to aid in this matter as far as possible, for the
relief of themselves, who are able, as well as for
those who are dependant, and without means, to
the end that none may suffer, if possible. I have
no doubt that we may be, by proper exertions,
highly favored in getting corn and meat brought
from Kentucky and Tennessee, for a great deal less
than it is now selling for.
My opinion is that it can be laid down at Rock
Hill, for 75 to 85 cents per bushel, and as the noble
hearted Kentuckian and Tennesseean is now contributing
largely for the relief of the poor of other
sections, we feel, upon making the necessities of
our poor known, that they will be likely to share a
portion of their unexampled generosity. Therefore,
I, as a citizen of the District, propose to aid
as far as I am able, and will render my services free
of any charge, if desired. The people will please call
on any of those gentlemen, as committee men, and
make whatever subscription they may please. They
will have it returned in corn, bacon or flour, at cost
and incidental expenses and no more.
JON A. N. McELWEE, Jr.
MERE-MENTION*
We have received from Mr.'Samuel E. Jackson,
nP tVlia TVefrW, nn nmifilinllv lnrirft tiirnin. Tt
weighed 5} pounds and measured 21 inches in circumference.
It costs nincteen-twentieths of
the laboring men of the country the best part of
two weeks wages to buy a barrel of flour. ExGovernor
Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, has been
admitted to practice in the United States Supreme
Court. Solomon Johnson, a negro, has been appointed
to a firstrclass Clerkship in the Treasury
Department. He was formerly President Lincoln's
barber. Statistics show that a widower is
twice as likely to marry as a widow. Mexico
has had thirty-four rulers since 1821. The longest
reign was three years. The health of Jefferson
Davis is much better than it has been for six
months past Why are young ladies kissing
each other like an emblem of Christianity? Because
they are doing unto each other as they would
that men should do unto them! 86,000 persons
formerly in the Methodist Episcopal Church,
have transferred their membership to the African
Methodist Episcopal Church. Massachusetts
has one convict to every hundred citizens; Alabama
has one convict to every five thousand three
hundred and ninety citizens. There are nearly
twice as many newspapers published in the U.
S. as in all the rest of the world together. A
son of Gen. John C. Breckinridge Is a clerk in a
wholesale dry goods store on Broadway.
John C. Breckinridge is the choice of Ballard
county, Kentucky, Democrats, for next Governor,
they having formally instructed their delegates to
vote for his nomination. A. C. Haskell, Esq.,
has been appointed by his Excellency, Gov. Orr,
District Judge for Abbeville, vice Judge Jones, resigned.
"One who knows" says that thunder
and lightning in Winter is a sign of famine. It
is positively announced that all the French soldiers
will leave Mexico on the 25th of February. It
is stated that Massachusetts has only fourteen hundred
colored voters. "There is a man out West
whose memory is so very short that it only reaches
to his knees, consequently, he never pays for his
boots. EDITORIAL
INKLINGS.
The Columbia Phoenix, of the 17th instant,
comes to us clad in mourning, in memory of Gen.
Sherman'8 visit to our once beautiful capital, two
years ago. The Carolinian commemorates the sad
anniversary in an editorial column, by a tombstone,
"sacred to the memory of WilliamTecumsehShertmd,"
and bearing the name of Columbia, the victim
of his fiery zeal for the old flag, with the nev"***
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an indellible stain upon the name of Sherman. A
blank space is left for his epitaph, which could be
most appropriately filled with the wail of homeless
age, orphaned childhood and outraged innocence.
These were his foes, and over these the mighty victor
triumphed gloriously.
We see it stated that the Governor of Arkansas
has vetoed a bill for the relief of wounded and
disabled soldiers, and widows and orphans of soldiers
killed in the war, and to provide artificial
limbs for those who were maimed in the service of
the State. Thisis the first instance we have observed,
in which a Southern Governor has seen Jit to
doubt the propriety of furnishing such relief, and
we hope it will be the last No duty is more binding
upon our States, and none should be more sacredly
performed, than that of providing for the
wants of those who lost their natural protectors in
defence of our rights, albeit that defence was made
in vain. Nor is it just that crippled soldiers should
be allowed to travel on crutches, while artificial
limbs can be obtained for them. The limbs supplied
by art are, at most, but a poor substitute foi
those which these unpretending heroes sacrificed
so generously for us. But they are the best which
it is in our power to give them, and the States
ought not to hesitate one moment in supplying
every crippled soldier with them. The cost of artificial
limbs is too great to be borne by many who
need them, but it is not a heavy expense, when
sustained by a State. And if it were, it should be
borne, though a special tax had to be levied foi
the purpose. Our people have plenty of taxes to
pay, but this is one they would certainly bear without
CTumbline.
As the questions of mutilated bank notef
seems now in a fair way of being definitely settled,
we give place to the following incisive advice of the
Bank Note Reporter:
' 'Ask nothing of a bank but what is clearly right,
and take nothing less. If your note is not redeemed.
protest it, and sue the bank. Any impartial iurj
will settle the question on the pubhc's side. You
can sue a national bonk in any court and before an;
judge or justice of the peace where you can sue foi
any other debt or claim.
If your mutilated note is sufficiently perfect tc
leave no doubt of its having been issued by the
bank, and the mutilation be of a character leaving
no doubt that the missing part was the result of accident
or ordinary wear and tear, then your de
mand for payment is good."
The New York correspondent of the Charleston
Mercury gives the following description of twc
specimens of mechanical ingenuity now on exhibi
tion in New York :
' There are in one of Tiffany's windows, on Broad
way, two specimens of the handicraft of a citizei
of Delaware, which surpass in beauty and ingenui
tv of construction anything I have ever seen fron
the hands of New England genius. These ck$
cTouvres of mechanical skill are working models o
the steamers Commonwealth and Vanderbilt, madf
of pure gold, and faithful to a fault (if there cat
be fault in faithfulness) in every particular. Th<
machinery is all perfect, and is set in motion by t
winding up process, similar to the principle upoi
which a clock is set going. A few turns of the kej
starts the machinery ana sets the paddles in regu
, lar motion, while a music box. which answers as i
pedestal for each model, plays delicious airs in clear
silvery tones. The model of the Commonwealth ii
perhaps twenty-four inches long and cost $7000
It will be sent to the Paris Exposition, after whict
it will be presented to Captain Williams, the com
mander of the steamer it represents. The model o1
the Vanderbilt is not as large. It cost $4000, anc
is also bound for Paris. A group of ladies and gen
tlemen may be seen every day admiring these won
ders of ingenuity. They may not be the most use
ful of America's contributions to the Exposition,
but theywill certainly rank among the most beau
tiful. Working models of famous steamers, made
exclusively of gold and silver, are not ordinary cu
riosities.
"Brick" Pomeroy is still engaged at the
nleasinc task of consicmine to eternal infamv. the
name of General Butler, who already stands rathei
low on the scale of created intelligences. "Brick's"
latest effort is an epitaph, prepared in advance, foi
the "Beast," and which, by direction of the author,
is to be engraved on a tombstone surmount
by two spoons. This we think is a mistaken idea
in "Brick," for Butler can never rest in peace,
wh'le spoons are within his reach. Here is the
epiuph:
"Here rots in earth and roasts in hell, the greatest
disgrace America was ever cursed with; 'Ben
Brute Butler,' the coward, the traitor, thief, robber,
the woman in suiter, who by his betrayals,
thefts and disregard of honor and manhood, worked
on a weak minded man to give him a commission
in an army, that he might be protected in his robbeiy.
When he spake, honest men doubted ?
when he commanded, brave men were murdered
?when he was in power, women wept and virtue
, failed to protect?when he ruled, innocence suffered?
when he traveled, people buttoned in
their watches?when he dined, people eyed their
spoons?when he passed churches, the silverware
disappeared ?when he died, no one mourned
the death of the brute and robber who came
from no one knows where, as a rotten carcass is
left to putrify beside some clear stream.
"Being without honor?General without a victory
? man without a father?corpse without a mourner?
memory without an admirer?Spoon Thief
Butler."
Horace Greeley has justly been considered
an enemy to the South, on account of his life-long
war upon her institutions. But he can be forgiven
1br his hostility to slavery, which proceeded from
conscientious convictions of duty, as is abundantly
proved by his conduct towards our people since the
war. Now that the institution is dead, he has buried
the hatchet, and is using all his energies to restore
prosperity and political equality to the excluded
States. He is one of our former enemies
who is truly reconciled, and is, therefore, entitled to
our respect. In a letter written to H. D. Capers,
Esq., of Georgia, he has expressed such genuine
friendliness towards us, and, at the same time,
such sound practical pdvice, that we take from it
the following extract:
In my judgment your people begin at the wrong
end. \ ou borrow needless troubles concerning your
relations with the Federal Government Your first
aad great concern is peace and good will among
your own people. Make the great mass of Georgians,
whether loyal or once repel, white or black,
contented, harmonious and kindly toward each
other, and you need not much care what is done or
left undone at Washington. Hence, go to work,
ever}' man, woman and child of you, and grow at
least twice the cotton, and put up twice the meat
that you did last year, and let Congress do its worst
acts, wait and take its own time for it
I speak from the depth of a hearty good wilL?
Pray try to be able to write me soon that almost
every one in Georgia is hard at work, determined
to live and let live, and conceding to every one else
a perfect equality of rights.
Gift Enterprise ?A late Confederate officer
writes to the Richmond Examiner that a man recently
detailed to him a scheme on foot to get up a
gift enterprise, ostensibly for the Southern Orphan
Association, but in reality to benefit alone speculators.
The man came from Baltimore, and letters
have been written there exposing the scheme. It
is said that "bogus" agents of "memorial associations,"
and exhibitors of shows for aid for cemetery
societies, &c., in the South, are going about the
country. The public should be on their guard against
impostors. *
" CONTBIBUTORIAL."
BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON.
OOLUKBIA, 80UTH OAEOLIHA, 18TH FEBBUAEY^I867.
The Weather.
Some sweet, soft, balmy days have been vouchsafed
us lately?days that are bright by contrast
,las a jewel in an Ethiop's ear."
The Lowering Clouds.
We hear that Governor Orr is of opinion that
our people?the South?are strangely insensible
of the momentous darkness of tho clouds that lower
upon our house. He is like Cassandra in his
presagings of woe; may he be unlike her in the
truth of his warning.
State Currency,
The best friends of the State and of the currency
foisted upon it, have been forced into a recognition
of the depreciation of that currency. State
money is worth ninety cents to the dollar in Columbia,
and goes rather costively at that
I City Property.
Lota and houses in Columbia are low. The fall
in prices for this kind of property is about thirtythree
per cent, upon the values seven years ago ?
before the yrar, that is to say. Bents are higher,
for small houses, about thirty-five per cent, if we
reckon green-backs as money; or if we reckon both
in gold, the prices are about the same as they were
before the war. For large houses, however, there is
, far less demand, as men are learning to retrench
heavily, and prices, both of rent and purchase, are
at least thirty per cent lower, than before the war.
1 That is to say, an improved lot with large house,
' that cost in gold twelve thousand ($12,000) dollars
before the r/ar, would sell for about eight or nine
thousand dollars. Money is in great demand.
1 English Defiled.
Under this head we propose to illustrate with
j examples, from time to time, some of the abuses
, of language in places?not tap-rooms and negroquarters?'where
better English should be known
| apd spoken and written. Wells of "English unde,
fyled' are largely the exception these days
1 ?In the Galaxy, for 1 January, at page 61, in
1 a poem called Summer Hours, by Charles Dawson
) Shanly, we find the following verse: ?
'"Twm her you could win with fairy tale."
| Here the poet seems to think that her is the object
i of could loin; whereas it is the predicate after icas
in apposition with it, and should be she.
2. ? In General Grant's correspondence with
} General Lee, upon the Appomattox surrender, (in
his communication of April 9th) General Grant
writes: "This done, each officer and man will be
allowed to return to their homes, not to be disturb!
ed by the United States authority, so long as they
observe their parole and the laws in force where
! they may reside." We have italicised the words
that are incorrectly used. These words should be,
respectively, his home, he, his, he. The*subject of
, the sentence?each officer and man ? is singular;
i and the individuals are spoken of distributively or
1. : T /I L. a\
uuin uy man ? eacn man \ De ne omcer or pnyaie/.
If the subject had been the officers and men, then *
the rest of the sentence would have been correct
3. ?Scarcely a day passes in which we do not
hear such expressions as, "I like theseldnd of _
books." "We see those sort of men." "He tells
me these sort of stories." We often hear this kind
of English; and rarely read it, because writing elicits
more reflection than speaking. The author
of Macoria puts it into her books ; but she stands
almost alone in that Dickens is careless enough
to do it but we do not remember just now an instance
in which he uses it But Boz is full of sins
against grammar of almost every kind.
The University.
f There are ninety-two students present for duty,
f Since the organization of the University there have
5 been one hundred and seven matriculates. These
, have taken the several departments as follows:
[ 1 ? Mathematics, and Civil and Military Engii
neering and Construction?Prof. Alexander, 97.
1 2?History, Political Philosophy, and Political
Economy ? President Barnwell, 77.
3 ?Ancient Languages and Literature?Prof.
3 Rivers, 74.
4?Rhetoric, Criticism, Elocution, and Engi
lish Language and Literature ? Prof. LaBorde 57.
- 5 ? Chemistry, Pharmacy, Mineralogy, and GeI
ology?Prof. Joseph LeConte, 29.
6?Natural and Mechanical Philosophy, and
. Astronomy?Prof. John LeConte, 26.
7 ? Mental and Moral Philosophy, Sacred Litei
rature, and Evidences of Christianity?Professor
' Reynolds, 22. i
\ Of these hundred and seven students, a hundred
and four are of South Carolina and three from
, Georgia.
xne uatalogue will appear In about two weeks.
, The new edition of the By Laws is now ready.
Professors Sachtleben (of Modern Languages)
. and Darby of (Medicine) are still in Europe. They
will be here in time for the new session that opens
on the first Monday in next October.
It is understood that Dr. Chisolm, elected to one
of the chairs of Medicine, will not accept His
i preference for the position he now holds in the
Medical College in Charleston, is said to be the
cause of this course. A professor to fill the chair
offered to him will probably be elected by the Board
of Trustees at its regular meeting in May.
Personals.
Miss Mulock, the author of John Halifax, Gentleman,
is just forty years old; and rejoices in the
name of Dinah Maria. That is the reason why
she is always spoken of as Miss Mulock simply.
She is said to be very tall and rather gaunt?whatever
that is. We speak of her as Miss Mulock,
because she is known to fame by that name only,
though she has recently married. Her husband is a
a Mr. Craik, aged twenty-five.
Swinburn, the lastrrisen English poet, the author
of Laus Veneris, is described as, "A small, young,
even boyish man, with handsome, regular features
and smooth skin; with eyes that glitter; with thin,
flexible lips whose coldness is in strange contrast to
the passionate intensity of his eyes; with a great
deal of reddish hair that surrounds his face like a
halo."
Professor Seeley, Who is now said to be the author
of Ecoe Homo, is a son of Mr. Seeley^ the well
known Evangelical publisher, and was educated at
the City of London School, under Dr. Mortimer.
Having proceeded to Cambridge, and entered at
Christ's College, he took his degree in 1857, when
he was Senior Classic, 30th Senior Optime, and
first Chancellor's Medalist He is Professor of
Latin in University College, London.
Robert Browning, father of the poet, is dead;
and Rol>ert Browning, the poet, is writyig a new
poem on some mediaeval Roman legend.
Bulwer is in Italy.
George Pzabody, who is giving away millions
every few days, is said to be worth five hundred
million ($500,000,000) of dollars.
Governor Orr is in Columbia, or Charleston, or
Washington, or somewhere else.
Gavarni?whom everybody knows as Gavarni,
but whose name is Sulpice Paul Chevalier?died
recently in Paris. He left behind him s&ty thousand
(60,000) designs.
Pope Pio Nono is to remain in Rome.
Mrs. Burdell Cunningham is said to be residing
in San Francisco, the wife of one Hayes.
The famous Anna E. Dickinson is twenty-five
years old.
Brigham Young is said to have forty-five wives
?according to the last census.
Mrs. President Lincoln is excursioning in Scotland.
A. T. Steioart is worth fifty millions.
Albert Pike is one of the editors of the Memphis
Appeal.
Gen. Price has returned from Mexico.
Ladies Walking Dresses.
We are pleased to chronicle the fact that there is
some hope of the adoption of a decided improvement
in ladies' dresses for the street We arc advised
that in Charleston ladies wear short dresses