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Jtojisi and partis.
Negroes are being recruited in Nashville for
the Tennessee State militia, and their frequent
drillings axe denounced by the unreconstructed.
?? A Texa?editor charges a brother of the quill
with stealing other people's editorials, and admonishes
him to "render unto scissors the things that
are scissors."
The New York Evening fast, a leading radical
journal, says that the faith of the country is
fully pledged that if the scheme is carried out honestly
and fairly, the reconstruction effected by it
shall be recognized as valid and final.
It is stated by some wiseacre that the heart
of ajp&n weighs about nine ounces, that of a womaifabout
eight As the age increases, a man's
heart grows heavier, and the woman's lightersome
girls lose theirs at sixteen. *
At one of the schools in Chicago, the inspector
asked the children if they could give any text
of Scripture which forbade a man having two wives.
One of the children sagely quoted in reply, the
text "No man can serve two masters."
A New York letter-writer alludes to the fact
that the theatres which refused to advertise iu the
Eerdld., have been burned. The Museum went
mt.ia. or went, the Academv: next the
Bowery Theatre, and now the Winter Garden.
"An essential part of the education of youth
is to teach them to serve themselves, and to impress
upon them the fact, that nothing good is to
De acquired without labor."?Gen. R. E. Lees
address to parents, &c.
A woman lives at Newport, R. L, in good
health, who never goes into the street, ana although
within hearing of steamboats and cars, has
never seen either. She is quite destitute of curiosity?a
shining example, of her sex. ?
The duration of human life is said to be longer
in the United States than any other nation.
This, and the flattering prospect of a life of prosperity
in America, accounts for the swelling tide of
emigration always setting towards our shores.
Here is a question for the boys to work out
How can 45 be divided into four such parts, that
if to the first you add 2, the second you multiplv
by 2, from the third you subtract 2, and the fourth
you divide by 2, the result in all shall be equal
Two men in Davenport Ohio, claim one woman
as their own lawful wife. They have gone to
law about her and the judge is puzzled. The woman
says she don't care which man she has, so she
gets one.
?A two-year old steer of William Nelson, of
Wales, Hampden County, Massachusetts, which
was reoently killed, had two hearts enclosed in separate
apartments, with arteries running from each
This is said to be the first instance of the kind on
record.
The value of home manufactures to the
South is pointedly alluded toby a Southern paper,
which tells its readers that "New England fears an
Alabama cotton mill more than she feared all the
regiments that Alabama sent to the field in the
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ULVG ITOI.
Mr. Baraum's "unrivalled" collection of curiosities
is soon to receive an interesting additioa
By way of inflicting a permanent and pleasing retaliation,
he has ordered a series of wax figures illustrating
"striking" incidents in the life of the
editor of the Herald.
Breathes there a man with soul so dead, who
never to himself has said?I will my district paper
take, both for my own and family's sake ? If such
there be, let him repent, and have the paper to
him sent; and if he'd pass a happy winter, be in
>4 advance should pay the printer.
In Maine, recently, a baby wa3 carried off on
a train and the mother accidentally left behind.
The woman was put on board a spare engine, which
overtook the flying train, shackeled on to the rear,
and the woman passed over the tender to the car
without the tram being stopped, and found her
, baby all right. '
A young lady suggests, through the Albany
(6a.) Newt, the establishment of an institution,
where a great number of our young men may be
taught cnopology, plowology, hoeoloev and other
necessary branches, and that upon graduating they
receive the degree of C. E. H. 0. L.?can earn
his own living.
The Boston correspondent of the New York
Time* says the black members of the Massachusetts
Legislature are superior to many of the white
members, and that Mr. Walker, of Charlestown,
?o?fi and f^^rinTMfSfwil) rank with the first of
ourg^Bgjn IrtPuMfegSg&ff fll* !f. is
^^ fiSpirant for Gen. Banks' place in Congress.
Various reasons are assigned for the recent
oession of Russian America to the United States,
one of these is at least original, if not the correct
one. The New York World says the cession of
Russian America was solicited by Secretary Seward,
in order to make General Butler the "first
Territorial Governor thereof," on the principle that
"no American can stand it more than a year."
Numerous expedients are reported from
Massachusetts to get round the prohibitory liquor
law, which is now oeing enforced with rigor in that
State. The latest expedient is the sale of mince
pies with a large quantity of brandy in them, or,
as a Boston paper expresses it, "about one drink
to each mince pie.'' These are known as anti-prohibition
pies,' and are chiefly sold in the highly
exemplary and moral town of Boston.
One singular fadl, says Young's History of
the War, in connection with the death of Mr. Lincoln,
is, that no coroner's inquest was ever held on
his body; no legal evidence taken as to the manner
of his death, nor was a single person, accused
of connection with it, ever brought into a court of
law; nor is there to this clay any legal testimony
whatever as to the manner of his death, the oause
of it, or who killed him.
The New Orleans Picayune of the 28th says:
"We have been eating ripe plums, taken from
trees in the open air in our gardens, for over two
months, and are just gathering from the trees the
last of our oranges of the old crop, and are just
? passing out of Dloom for another. As for green
peas, cucumbers, tomatoes, cauliflowers, &c., they
have been on hand so long that they have almost
passed out of fashion."
Major John Kennedy, for eighty years a resident
of this town, departed this life on the morning
of the 7th inst. The deceased gentleman was
long and favorably known to"the citizens of this
ana the adjoining Districts, and enjoyed a deserved
and enviable popularity. He leaves a large
family of children, grand-children and great grandchildren
to lament His loss. His estimated age was
ninety-five years.?Chester Standard.
An English artist has succeded in the photographing
of guns while being fired. In the pictures
which were taken, the moment had been so
exactly seized that the ball could actually be seen
protruding from the muzzle of the gun, while in
the very act of leaving it The electric mechanism
by which the gun is fired and the plate exposed at
the exact instant desired, is said to be exquisitely
ingenious.
The young ladies of Memphis, (Tenn.) having
become disgusted with the war waged on the waterfalls,
now oomposed of hair, "etselery" have
adopted a waterfall which is simply a cocoanut fastened
on the back part of the head by means of
ribbons. The cocoanut being hollow, it is said the
ladies carry their rouge, hair oil and painting materials
in them.
A Radical State Convention was held at
Little Rock, Arkansas, on Thursday of last week,
at which a platform, with resolutions, was adopted
of an ultra radical character. The Congressional
policy of reconstruction was endorsed, whilst
resolutions opposing confiscation and advocating a
conciliatory policy towards rebels were voted down.
m'l,r, ttto 1 f an ri-nnarol (
j. lie euuiiuituee apLiuuii^u iv nait uii vjiguviai v*?
reported that he heartily approved the object of
the Convention, and was desirous of co-operating
with its members.
A clergyman went into one of our primary
schools a few days ago, says the Charlestown Advertiser,
and after hearing the pupils read, spell,
etc., thought he would havea chanter of catechism.
After sunaiy questions and satisfactory replies, he
said, "Who is the father of lies?" A six-year
older promptly replied,' 'God." Why do you think
God is the father of lies?" Six-year older replied
as promptly as before: "Because he is the father
of us all" '
It appears from a statement in the Charleston
Noes, tnat upwards of 30,000 more bales of
cotton have been shipped from that port in the
first three months of this than for the same period
of the year 1866, an excess in valuation of nearly
$2,700,000?a very heavy increase when the reduction
in the prioe of this staple is taken into consideration.
On the other hand, the import trade
snows a falling off, the decrease in the amount of
duties received during the quarter amounting to
nearly $25,000, as compared with the first quarter
of 1866.
The Bishop of Verdon, France, who died
recently, was considered the type of gourmands.?
So stont was he that it was only by means of considerable
manceuvering that he ever succeeded in
entering a cab. The amount of food he consumed
at his various meals was something fabulous.?
Owing to the frequent illnesses brought oir by his
voracity, he was always attended by a servant,
whose sole business was to prevent him from eating
more than was good for his health. Whenever
the Bishop was invited to dinner at a friend's
house, this domestic stationed himself behind his
chair, inve&yaWffthe amount of cutlets, pates,
perdeaux trotes, &c., eaten by his master, and
when he considered that he had as much as was
good for his lordship, he made a telegraphic sign
to the mistress of the house, who, warned beforehand,
immediately cut off the supplies.
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EDITORS:
JAS. E. WILSON ?JAS. F. HART.
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MAIL FAILURES.
The failure of the mail is getting to be a matter
of such regularity, that it is rather the exception
than the rule to receive it when it ought to come.
Last Friday the mail matter which should have
gone to Columbia was sent to Yorkville, while that
which ought to have come here was sent somewhere
else, and arrived1* here on Saturday. On
Monday, we received no Southern mail. These
irregularities are a serious annoyance to us, as we
are entirely dependent upon the mails for our news.
We have borne this thing philosophically a long
while, but we think it high time to complain.?
There is no necessity or excuse for mail failures,
unless on account of railroad accidents, which seldom
occur, and our troubles arise from the mismanagement
of agents alone. Upon investigation,
it appears that the blame does not rest on the
King's Mountain Railroad or the Chester Post-Office.
So far as we can discover, the failures are
ttributable to the carelessness and indifference to
their duties, of the agents on the Charlotte railroad.
We call the attention of our cotemporaries
of the press to this subject, hoping they may be
able to stir up the delinquents to a sense of their
deficiencies.
GEN. SICKLES* PROGRAMME.
At a conference in Charleston, between General
Sickles and the governors of North and South
Carolina, several points of interest to the people
of District No. 2 were discussed, and we see it
stated that the following arrangements were definitely
made.
Gen. Sickles will prepare and put into operation
the details of registration, as soon as persons
can be found, competent to act as registering officers
under the provisions of the supplemental bill. No
election will be held in either of the States, for municipal
or State officers, until its convention shall
have adopted a new constitution. In the meantime,
no civil officer will be removed who faithfully
discharges his duties; and vacancies will be filled
by appointments recommended by the Governor
of the State in which they occur, if such vacancies
are of the character formerly filled by election
of the Legislature. If they are of the claas formerly
filled by popular election, the Commanding General
will make the appointments himself. It is
probable, however, that Gen. Sickles will, in all
cases, be guided in his appointments by the advice
of Governors Orr and Worth, in whom he appears
to place much confidence. May this harmony
of feeling, which is of so great advantage to our
people in the present unrepresented condition, of
the State,^ong continue undisturbed.
The labors of the conference were terminated on
the 8th inst., with a social entertainment given by
igpii. -w Lio -guests at-hiu -private residence,
after which Gov. Worth left the city, by
the night train on the North-Eastern railroad.?
Governor Orr took the train for Columbia, on the
next morning, and it is presumable that with the
clear understanding and amicable relations existing
between our civil and military rulers, the machinery
of government in District No. 2, will henceforth
work smoothly and beneficially for our people.
MODEL FARMERS.
A great many reasons have been given to ac-<
count for the difficulties of the times, and many of
them are good reasons. Qut people have many
difficulties to encounter, both in making a living
and in freeing themselves from the bondage of
debt. Due allowance, therefore, should be made
for those who fail to succeed, or succeed but poorly.
Men who honestly and earnestly endeavor to
become independent, are entitled to praise if they
succeed, and sympathy and forbearance if they
fail But a great many persons delude themselves
?and try to delude others, with the idea that they
are making vigorous efforts, while in fact they are
doing nothing at all. The Charlottesville Chronicle
draws a picture of a class of ''farmers" in Virginia,
which is such an accurate description of the
way farming is sometimes carried on in South Carolina,
tliat we give it to our readers. Says the
Chronicle :
"Fanning" in the South is the most prolific
source of idleness, for we have but few towns.?
In all directions vou meet not very handsomely
dressed young gentlemen on horse-back who inform
you that they are "farming." It is a vague, floating
term that means, perhaps, strictly, that they
live in the country and, may be,^overlook a hand
apiece. They have a traditional idea that the farmer
must confine himself to head work. They sit
on the fence until an early dinner, watching a onehorse
plough, and come to court, and read the
market reports in the Saturday's Chronicle?and
artlessly think that they belong to the great agricultural
fraternity?and rail at the frcedmcn for
being so lazy. The first thing you know, one of
these young fellows gets married?and has to borrow
a clean shirt to go to his wedding.
TOO MUCH IMPORTATION.
The New York Herald states that the receipts
for customs during the month of March amounted
to sixteen millions of dollars, nearly five millions
more than the receipts for the same month, last
year. It considers this increase a hopeful sign, as
indicating that merchants are encouraged to prepare
for {in extensive revival of trade.
But the income tax returns have gradually decreased
from one million in December to about onethird
of a million in February, showing that the
sales of goods have been decreasing all that time.?
If the goods now imported at an expense of sixteen
millions, do not go off more rapidly than those imported
since December, there must be a break down
among the weaker merchants. Quick sales arc the
life of business; it cannot be carried on without
them, unless supported by a heavy capital. Goods
which will not "go off" arc the ruin of many inexperienced
merchants. They lock up capital which
can seldom be unlocked except at a heavy loss.?
This being so, New York is probably committing
the error of over-importation, which almost invariably
produces a financial smash.
This year is considered by the superstitious an
ominous year for business, because it ends in seven,
a figure that has heretofore proved disastrous to
mercantile enterprise. The history of the previous
"sevens" is strewed with the wrecks of business
' houses, most of which sank to rise no more, and
therefore it is predicted that this year will shatter
many apparently strong barks of commerce. But
it requires no ominous figure in the number of a
year, to predict a smash of that business whose imports
are increasing, while its sales are diminishing.
There is good reason to apprehend a commercial
disaster, unless a very brisk trade, much brisker
than there is cause to expect?springs up soon.
The misfortune about these financial crises is
tliat the ramifications of business are so extensive,
the connection of one firm with another so complicated,
that no house can fail without breaking others,
and these in turn, others still. No man can
tell who is safe?not even himself?if he owes
money; for if his debtors go by the board, his ability
to pay out is weakened?broken, indeed, if it
depends upon their ability. As in a row of bricks,
one brick cannot be knocked out without overturning
the whole row, so a community of merchants is
frequently upset by the fall of one of their number.
If a crash does come in New York, it will be felt
here almost as seriously as there, and it will not be
out of place to prepare for it now. When sailors
expect a storm, they take in sail; and their example
is a good one. Our expenses ought to be curtailed
as much as pcfcsible, and then if the storm
comes, it will not do us so much damage. If it
does not come, our prudence will do us no harm.
/radicals stumping the south.
I Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, lately made
a brief visit to Richmond and Petersburg, in which
he fulfilled his promise of taking tfrCbtump. At
Petersburg he made a speech, intended for the
whites but heard chiefly by the blacks, in which he
endeavored to recommend the Radical party to
the Southern people, as par excellence, the party
to which they owe a debt of gratitude. He boast
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ed of tiie record 01 tnat pany ana exuuri?u mo
Southern people, regardless of color, to rally around
it He exulted in its strength, telling his
hearers there is no use in forming alliances against
it, that it has the power to rule, and that it will
rule. He denied any intention on the part of Congress
to degrade or insult the South, and much
more of the same sort of eloquence.
This gentleman is not the sort of a missionary to
convert' ex-rebels. It is difficult to decide which most
to admire?his effrontery in representing the Radical
par|y as friends to the whites, or even the negroes,
of the South, or his innocent unconsciousness
of what constitutes insult. The man who can
see no insult or degradation in the policy of that
party, must be totally insensible to insult and devoid
of the moral sense of right and wrong. As
for their friendship, we prefer to judge by their
actions rather than their words. Unless we acknowledge
that we don't know what is for our own
interest and that the Radicals do, our people can
see no benefit that we have gained from their laws.
If Sumner, Butler, Wilson and Stevens are
our friends, they have a queer way of showing it,
or our mental vision is extremely dim. When was
a conquered and down-trodden people ever before
told that their conquerors were their best friends,
and oppressed them only for their own good?
No. We can bear their oppression philosophi- j
cally; we can submit and even acquiesce in their
measures to strip us of power; because, as victors,
they have the right to dictate the terms of peace.
But the impudence which asks us to take these
punishments as marks of friendship, is too much
for our stomach. We don't believe it, nor does I
any man in the South or North believe it It is'
simply hypocrisy, too gross to impose on any, too
disirustine to receive countenance, even as a mat
ter of form. There is but one point of view from
which it receives favor. This speech shows that
the radical party, for some reason or other, has
need of our votes, and therefore, there is some
hope that, for that consideration, they may do better
for us in future than they have done. Certainly
no man, so sensible as the speaker, would go
through with so much humbug, without an objeen
THE SHAHOWONTHE WALL.
A 8T0BY OP COLONIAL VIRGINIA.
BY JOHN ESTEN COOKE, ESQ.,
Author of "Surry, of Eagle's Nest," "Wearing the Gray," "Life
of'Stonewall' Jackson," etc.
In the Yorkville Enquirer for Thursday, 2d
of May, 1867, will be commenced the publication
of an Original Nouvelette with the above title,
written expressly for the Enquirer, by John Esten
.Cooke, Esq., one of the most popular and
interesting of Southern authors. Now is the time
to subscribe!
MERE-MENTION.
-tl'-tlic Wi^urteoin Legislature bam.
passed a Constitutional amendment permitting
women to vote. Ohio, has recently decided to refuse
this boon. Minors can marry in Louisiana.
The legal age for the bridegroom is fourteen,
for the bride twelve. The Augusta
(Ga.) Chronicle has come out in favor of General
Grant for the next Presidency."" It is estimated
that there is $2,600,000 of counterfeit money
in circulation in this country. Brownlow is
appointing black militia captains. In Pennsylvania
they have a new license law?no selling,
giving away, or in any way supplying liquor, to
persons under twenty-one years of age, nor to
drunkards, nor to any one on Sunday. Thirty-four
colored persons in Philadelphia own property
to the amount of $1,358,000. A society
out West arc discussing the question: If a man
deserts his wife, which is the most abandoned, the
man or the woman ? A Massachusetts clergyman
is certain that God,is in favor of the prohibitory
liquor law. About twenty-five per cent, of
feminine life is devoted to dressing and undressing.
The whole number of Webster's Spelling
Books printed lias reached -10,000,000. It sold
last year at the rate of 5,131 copies for each working
day. The death ofliev. George Oliver,
D. D., one of the most bright and shining lights of
Masonry, is announced. His writings on the subject
of Masonry, are very numerous, and constitute
in themselves a library.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has purchased a
place on the St John's river, in Florida, and intends
to reside there. Congress has postponed,
until December, all action upon Mr. Sherman's
Kill restoring the nolitical richts of ex-Governor
Brown. The inhabitants of Augusta (Ga.)
are rejoicing iu the exhibition of a child with a
natural waterfall. The editor of the Savanna
(Ga.) News was lately presented with a lemon
weighing seventeen ounces, and lueasuriug twelve
inches in circumference. North Carolina lias
followed the example of some other Southern
States, in passing a law punishing horse-stealing
with death. A New York dispatch says that
Frazicr, Trenholm & Co., of Charleston, have
been notified to appear before the Judiciary Committee,
to testify relative to the blockade running
business, and the firm's assets at the close of the
war. It is said that there is lumber enough
in Chicago to lay a plank road thirty feet wide,
across the continent, and have one hundred and
seventy millions of feet to spare. A bill Las
been presented in the Pennsylvania Legislature,
which proposes to prohibit political processions.
Rev. J. J. West, of Winchelsca, England, refused
to read the burial sendee over the corpse of
a man who was washed up at sea because "he did
not know whether he had been baptized." A
young lady seven feet high is one of the sights of
Memphis. There is a very large falling off
in the publication and sale of the class of books relating
to the rebellion. Military commanders
at the Soutli have been instructed not to remove
the Governors of the States. At a dinner at
Brown's Hotel, in "Washington, in 1819, given to
John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun proposed
fi-kllrvYirinrr cnnfnnonf " ZTn
iviivmii^ ovuuutua /i ii/vr ovtv oivy
a?(Z universal education." The Democratic
members of the Pennsylvania Legislature caused a
salute to be fired over the Connecticut election
from the same guns which thundered over the
Radical victory last April, and the Radical members
of the Legislature attribute their signal defeat
to *vc effort of Congress to force negro suffrage
upon the Northern States."-' At the Paris exposition
it is said that a novelty will be on exhibition
in the shape of an artificial horse. The ingeniously
constructed animal, when ready, will travel
twenty-five miles without stopping, and afterwards
may be wound up in a few moments so as to go that
much farther, and soon indefinitely. It is
announced that, on April 4th, Thaddeus Stevens
passed his 75th birthday. He has been unable
to attend to business for several days, on account
of illness, but was somewhat better at last accounts.
The Philadelphia Ledger understands that ]\Ir.
Stevens is convinced that this is his last illness,
and that he is preparing for death.
The Nation, (Rad.) speaks of fifty murders that c
have taken place lately in Schuylkill county Penn- sylvania.,
This is more, so far as we can see, than r
have taken place in the South for months. A t
wounded Irishman wrote home from the hospital, 1
and finished it up by saying, "I'm for this conn- f
try; I've bled for it, and I shall soon be able to r
say I've died for it "Josh Billings says: "I t
always advise short sermons, especially on a hot 1
Sunday. If a minister kant strike ile in boring r
forty minutes, he has either got a poor gimlet or 1
else he is a-boring in tfieroDg place.""* "The e
receipts from licenses for selling liquor in New t
York during the year ending March 30th, amount- c
ed to $1,283,854.66.is stated that the i
Mayor of Gonzales, Texas, on hearing of the pas- r
sage of the reconstruction'bill, caused the public s
square of Gonzales to be draped in mourning.
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JUUITOKIAIj in&Jiinuo. g
The Sooth in the Supreme Court.
The Mississippi bill of injunction against the
enforcement of the Military Bill was thrown out of
Court, because it made the President a party defendant
Georgia has made a similar bill of injunction,
which does not involve the Presidcnt^hnd
the Court has allowed it to be filed. The probability
now is that this action of Georgia will evoke
a decision upon the constitutionality of the military
bill, from the Supreme Court Gov. Jenkins
advises the people of Georgia to suspend all action
looking towards reconstruction under this law, until
its constitutionality has been decided. He has
strong hopes that the Court will pronounce it unconstitutional.
Humbug at a DiacouflBT
One of the most gratifying circumstances
connected with the Connecticut election is the defeat
of the notorious Phineas T. Barnum, who was
a candidate for Congress. This man has carried
the science of humbug as nearly to perfection as it
probably can be brought. For a long period of
years, during which he acquired a large fortune,
his sole occupation in life was humbugging the
public, by the manufacture of bogus curiosities in j1
nature and art With unprecedented Dross, ne ;
published an autobiography, in which he boastingingly
gave a minute account of the various deceptions
he had practised upon the public, priding e
himself upon them, as if a taste for lying were a
proof of genius. The defeat of such a man is a ^
cheering indication that New England sentiment 1
has changed since B. F. Butler was elected to Con- jgress.
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Southern Emigrants in Distress.
The Metropolitan Record mentions the arrival
in New York, of a party of Southerners, 150 in v
nqjpber, who have met with a serious misfortune. t
They had made up a colony for Brazil, and sailed *
from Brazos, Texas, for Rio Janeiro, but their ves- c
sel foundered, in a severe storm, off the coast of :
Cuba. The passengers escaped to the shore and
reached Ilavana in safety, having lost nearly all 4
their baggage. From Havana they went to New v
York, hoping to take passage for Brazil from that t
port, but the steamer had sailed before their arri- t
val. At the time the Recordmentioned their mis- j
fortune, they were at cheap boarding houses in Nt* s
York, waiting for a vessel going to Rio Janeiro, t
Sixty of the party arc men, and the remainder t
women and children. Doubtless they would like 1
to be back in their old homes, and free from the 1
emigration fever which, in this instance at least,
has brought its subjects to grief.
A Compromise. f
A white Virginian has suggested a com pro- j
mise between the white and the colored voters in -1
that State, by which it is proposed to give the entire
Congressional delegation to the negroes, on 7
condition that the whites be allowed to control the c
State government The idea is a good one, and if i
it could be done, we would favor just such a dele- 1
gation to Congress from every Southern State. It 1
would bring the practical effects of equality home
to its gifted originators ; while there is little doubt t
that the States would hav^better local governments t
than fRy will have HIV B11W by tie- ?
gro votes. The physical differences between the '
two races could be distinctly perceived during the
exciting debates of a hot August evening, howev- c
J er blind the Radicals may be to the equally marked c
?i u.. rm,? n? *
I amerence in miciitx'iuiu jl nu ucuuu v& ?man
has made the races equal, though the hand of *
God made the white race superior to the other.? ;
It remains to be proved whether the wisdom of ;
man can change the skin of the Ethiopan or transform
his nature, and there is no more appropriate y
or conspicious place for the experiment to be tried r
than the halls of Congress.
The Paris Exposition.
The much talked of Paris Exposition was form- j
ally opened for the reception of the public, at 2 P. ]
M., on the 1st inst. The building and its contents c
were not ready for inspection, the grounds being f
covered with the rubbish of the still unfinished ar- |
bors and cottages, and crowded with empty boxes rj
and straw which had contained goods for exhibi- t
tion. Inside the building, the confusion was even i
greater, as the goods were not arranged?many of c
them not opened. But as the set time had come, T
the Exposition was formally opened by the Em- j
peror, with the assistance of more than one hun- ^
dred thousand people, representing nearly every s
nation under heaven. The order maintained on the f
occasion, it is said, was excellent, which is perhaps *
mainly due to the eight thousand policemen who
were on duty that day.
The Exposition will not be properly arranged j
and complete until May, and the Herald correspondent
considers it premature in excursion par- J
ties to visit it before that time. The number of !
visitors when the building was opened, was great- ^
ly less than was anticipated. It was enough, how- g
ever, to raise the prices of everything to an alarm- e
ing extent for slim purses; the hotels, as an exam- 2
pie, have increased their charges fifty per cent? a
It was stated some time ago, that the Emperor ?
feared the enterprise would turn out a magnificent j
failure, and the accounts received confirm his ap- a
prehensions, in a degree. It is to be hoped his t
"little show" may yet turn out a success, for the (
poor old gentleman stands in need of some conso- c
lation, to soothe him for his disappointment in t
building up an empire in Mexico for Maximilian, r
and his diplomatic defeats by Bismarck. ^ e
The Orange Crop. * 2
It will be good ne^fHothc admirers of this ^
delicious fruit to learn that the orange groves of ^
Florida are in the promising condition described x
as follows, by the St. Augustine Examiner : j
"The trees are perfectly loaded with blossoms,
liVo nn immense hrmnuet. 1
I&AUIJjr UA V11V/1II lUUMIIg uav v... 1
One or two of the largest groves in the vicinity of c
the city will, if the season continues favorable, f
bear between one and two hundred thousand. Of i
course, it is as yet impossible to make an approximate
estimate, but the crop, provided we have no
severe frost, will surpass, by far, any that we have
had for years. ^
A Fiddle in search of an owner. l
A Richmond paper publishes the following
self-explanatory letter: 1
Denver, Colorado Territory, ) i
February 10th, 1867. j ]
Dear Sir : I have a fine violin which was pur- s
chased by a friend, in Dakota Territory, from an 1
ex-Federal soldier, who said he "got it in Virgin- <
ia." No doubt it is of great value to the rightful i
owner, and if you can find him I would like to see I
it restored to the orijrnal owner. Respectfully, 1
GEO. WILSON, JR. ]
As our soldiers, in the earlier part of the war, 1
were wont to carry these instruments to their
camps that they might beguile the weary hours with j
the fascinations of a "stag dance," or a "jig-solo," i
to the music of the fiddle, the instrument in ques- I
tion may have come from some State further 1
South than Virginia. We once knew a Georgia ;
regiment, one company of which carried seventeen |
fiddles, that were all lost in one fell swoop, by the t
capture of their baggage wagon, on the retreat ]
from Cheat river, in 1801. 1
A New Looking Glass.
A Western gentleman, Mr. R. H. Brown, of (
Detroit, Michigan, has just patented.a new ]
"duplex mirror and magic toilet glass," which, it <
is easy to predict, will soon take the place of our i
tld-fashioned looking-glass. Its chief peculiarity
-and merit,is that it enables a person to see all
ound himself. To members of the sterner sex
his will be no great inducement, as the view will c
lardly repay the trouble, except in the case of <j
iincy gentlemen whose hair must be carefully
)arted at the back of the head and brushed for?ard>to
the ears, after the manner of poodles.?
3ut to the ladies this invention will be a real prize,
evealing to their enraptured gaze the mysterious
wauties of their waterfalls, as they appear to othir
people, and rewarding them with a sight of
heir innumerable other attractions, which are now j
oncealed from their fair owners. We hope that p
f these m.igic mirrors ever penetrate to this region,
ione of our fair friends will fall in love with theinelves.
As we have frequently been assured they
'don't like to look in the glass," there may not be e
uuch danger in the new mackide, after all ? but ^
till the temptation will bo great, especially if the ^
>resent adorable style W waterfalls continues in p
rogue. The duplex is thus described: p
"This beautiful and useful invention is now, for a
he first time, offered to the public. It will enable
hose who us6 it, to see both sides of the face, the
>ack of the head and person, as well as the top of
he head.
Such is the simplicity of its construction that it
an never get out of order, while, at the same b
ime, it presents to the eye no different appear- L
inoe from an ordinary mirror. As an article for r
oilet use, it is invaluable to the ladies, who will tj
leed no hand glass or other aid. *
It ako combines two glasses in one, which may ^
>e used separately, thus enabling two persons be- A
upying the same apartment, to use it at the same v:
ime, without interfering with each other. It g
akes up no mere room than a single glass^ b;
This improvement can be attacliea to any bu- a
eau at small expense.''
The Raleigh Memorial Cemetery.
Mr. Henry Mordecai, of Raleigh, N. C., has ^
lonated a piece of land to the citizens of Raleigh, c
o be used as a cemetery for the Confederate Solliers
buried there. The ladies have taken hold of
he enterprize with their usual alacrity to do good,
,nd under their supervision, the place bids fair to I
lecome a garden of beauty. Those of our sleep- d
ng heroes whose bones are buried in Raleigh, will
lave their final resting places appropriately adorn- G
d ? which is as it should be, for it is the prerogaive
of beauty to guard the grave of valor. In I
his selfish world, the dead are soon forgotten; and
n the distressed condition of the South, there is a I
[rowing danger that the memory of our fallen
irave will be allowed to fade into oblivion. Time I
las soothed the once overpowering grief of many a
>ereaved household, which has learned to look c
rith complacency upon the vacant chair, or even
o forget that it ever held a beloved form. But is e
he debt of gratitude to those who fell in defence g
if our rights less than when their graves were b
resh? Are we to honor them less, because those si
mmble mounds are green with the grass of two or 0
hrec years? We hope that every Southern heart 0
rill answer, "No." In reference to this cemetery, C
he Raleigh Sentinel says: tl
'There are interred in the Cemetery, representaives
from each of the Southern States. An aprropriation
of an inconsiderable amount?say the
mall sum of one hundred dollars?from each of b
Viaco Sfnhia xurmlrl mfttpriftllv assist the efforts of
he Ladies of our Memorial Association. Will r
lot the papers in those States call attention to the f
natter ? _ C
WASHINGTON NEWS. ?
The counsel for John E. Surratt are preparing
or his trial. They have taken steps to bring into tI!ourt
Judge Advocate Holt, with the diary of i]
looth. p
It is again rumored that the trial of Mr. Jcffer- a
ion Davis will actually take place at Richmond in b
Hay or June;?that the Chief Justice will be p
impelled to proceed with the trial, or take the e
esponsibility of refusing it As the President will
lot interpose for the release of Mr. Davis, it would 0
eally be an act of honesty and good policy, on the q
iart of the Chief Justice, to grant a trial. n
General Howard has appropriated five hundred c
housand dollars out of the funds of his Bureau for 0
he inimprlintfl rp]jpf qf fflffilMfe P^plf nf Jj
South. 'Under tnelaw, as" itpassed Congress, he t
s to employ the funds heretofore appropriated to v
he Bureau to the special object of preventing d
itarvation and want in the South. He will pro- 8
:eed to do this, and will call upon Congress for the f,
leficicncy which will thus be left in the appropria- v
ion for the Bureau. General Howard found that e
he freednieu would require a less amount of the f
rhole sum than was estimated, and that the b
vhites, especially the white women and children, p
rould require much more. _ b
The Senate has ratified bv an almost unanimous
rote, the treaty lately concluded by our Govern- a
nent with Russia for the cession to the United b
States of all the possessions of that power on this d
ontinent, known as Russian America. The spe- tl
ific sum to be paid is $7,200,000, the $200,000
>eing added in consideration of a guarantee by ti
lussia to relieve us of any obligation arising out
if the privilege which she had allowed others of a
ishing and hunting in the Territory. The treaty Q
s based, it is said, upon a position originally made p
>v this Government in the Pierce administration.
Che present acquision will most probably prepare u
he negotiations for the acquisition of Bri tish Col- r
imbia, when we will have gained the entire shore h
if the Pacific, from 45.40 up to the Polcr Sea, t]
rith its islands, fisheries, &c., which in the future d
ire expected to become essential interests to the c
Pacific States, and a convenience altogether to our
^reat mercantile and military marine. To the n
ixty thousand inhabitants of Russian America, c
ive-sixths of whom are Esquimaux, the change of a
nastcry will be beneficial. s
There is to be a general stampede of Senators t
ifter the adjournment of the present extra session i]
if the Senate, without regard or reference to the t<
iroposed July session. Even those Senators who t
ive beyond the Rocky Mountains propose to start (
or their homes at the earliest moment, unless it be n
n the case of some as with General Nye, who have a
ust returned to Washington after visiting their
lonstitucnts. Members of the House are already
carce in Washington, and there is not the slightist
expectation in any quarter that there will be
mytlnng like a quorum present in July. There
ire, of course, those who desire it, and who will be .
in hand; but they will only give themselves a 11
ourney for nothing. Certain Republican Senators 0
leclare that they have made .and shall make do 8
irrangements whatever with a view to attending 6
he July session, believing that a meeting of Con- 1
p-ess at that time would be full of mischief to the y
ountry and alarm to the people. ^
It is asserted that the late session was one of the
uost potent causes of Republican defeat in Con- F
iccticut, and that if? when Congressliad performid
its useful labors, it had the good sense to have 9
idjourned, there would have been no such result u
Hie people, say such Senators, became apprehen- ?
ive that Congress would, from sheer idleness, like 11
ome gathering of "School boys, perpetrate some. ?
niscluef; and that these fears but naturally resulted
n a popular re-action.
Applications of one hundred and fifty-three former s
J. S. officers, fifty-four members of Congress, and ?
me hundred and four prominent Confederate of- '
icers, arc on file in the Attorney General's office for !]
)ardon. 11
THE OATH OF OFFICE. *
G
The following is the oath required of all persons Q
vho accept office under the United States Govern- g
nent: t
"I (A. B,) do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I r
lave never voluntarily borne arms against the Uni- t
;ed States since I have been a citizen thereof; that t
[ have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, coun- ?
sel or encouragement to persons engaged in armed
hostility thereto; that I have never sought nor ac- i
,-epted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of r
my office whatever, under any authority or pre- c
Glided authority, in hostility to the United States; c
that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any t
pretended Government, power or constitution with- I
in the United States, hostile or inimical thereto; s
ind I do further swear (or affirm) that, to the best c
rf my knowledge and ability, I will support and de- c
fend the Constitution of the United States against t
ill enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear 1
true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take s
this obligation without any mental reservation or t
purpose of evasion; that I will well and faithfully
discharge the duties of the office on which I am
ibout to enter. So help me God," which oath, t
so taken and signed, shall be preserved among the i
lies of the court., Houses of Congress, or the de- (
partment to which said officer may appertain.? e
And any person who may falsely take said oath i
shall be guilty of perjury, and on conviction, in ad- i
Jition to the penalties now prescribed for that of- g
fence, shall be deprived of office, and rendered in- c
capable forever after of holding any office or place t
in the United States. t
LOCAL ITEMS.
HEW ADVERTISEMENTS. \
larroll, Clark <fc Co.?Fair Notice.
" " " Card of Thanks.
'. M. Dobson <fe Co.?New Arrivals.,
" " "'?Flour.
" " *' ?Mackerel.
? " " ?Snuff,
" " " ?Powder, Shot and Caps.
" " " ?Coffee and Sugar.
" " " ?English Copperas.
" " " ?Epsom Salts.
" ' " ?Indigo. 1
" " "?To Arrive thin Week,
indrew Jackson?Tax-Collector's Notice.
. IT. Zurcher?A Card.
'. C. Harris, O. Y. D.?Citation?J. F. Workman,
Applicant?Sarah A. Steele, Deceased. I
JOB PRIHTIHG.
The proprietor of the Enquirer has just receiv- (
d a full supply of new material for printing job 1
rork of all descriptions. With a great variety of
roe and the most imDroved machinery, he is now '
repared to print circulars, hand-bills, cards, pamhlets,
catalogues, and all other kinds of job work,
s neatly and on as good terms as any other prinfrig
establishment in the State.
FIBEI
About 2 o'clock on Sunday morning last, a fire
roke out in the meat house of Dr. James B. Alison,
which was soon communicated to the bakef
of Mr. J. U. Zurcher. Both buildings, with
leir contents, were entirely consumed, which inicts
an estimated loss of $1500on their proprietors.
lS there are a number of wooden buildings in the
icinity, there was, for a time, great danger of a
eneral conflagration, but it was happily averted
y the. strenuous exertions of our Fire Company,
ssisted by the freedmen, who exhibited a zeal on
hie occasion that entitles them to the warmest grati.lde
of the whole community. Fortunately there
ras no wind, or nothing could have prevented a
ilifmitous fire in our village.
THE DI8TBIGT 00UBT.
The April Term of the District Court?Judge
Ieaity presiding?closed its session on Wednesay.
The following State cases were disposed of:
The State vs. Prince McCants, Freed man?
rrand Lajceny. Guilty.
The State vs. Ben Phillips, Freedman?Petit
<arceny. Guilty.
The State vs. John Elmore, Freedman?Petit
<arceny. Guilty.
The State vs. Abner Pegram, Freedman?
I as tardy. Not Guilty.
The State vs. David Gill, Freedman?Maliious
Trespass. Not Guilty.
Sentences in these cases had not been pronounod
up to the time of going to press; they will be
iven in our issue of next weex. Owing to the
usy crop season, and the injury that would necesirily
result from keeping parties in attendance up- ;
n the Court at this time, a number of cases were ontinued
by consent, to the July Term of the '
Jourt; at which time the absence of farmers from J
heir crops will not be so seriously felt
REGISTERS IN BANKRUPTCY.
By direction of Chief Justice Chase, the follow- <
ig statement is published for information:
1. Under the Act of Congress, the power of ap- j
ointing "registers in bankruptcy" is vested in the
)istrict Courts of the United States, the Supreme 1
Jourts of the Territories, and the Supreme Court 1
f the District of Columbia; but no person can be
ppointed who is not a oounseller at law. ,
2. The duty of recommending and nominating t
d the District Courts, and other courts mentioned .
a the Act, suitable persons for appointment, isim- '
osed on the Chief Justice of the United States; <
nd Congress having now adjourned without act- 1
ag upon the bill introduced in the Senate fo re- [
eal this provision, he will proceed to carry it into
ffect. e # .
3. To insure, as far as*practicable, the selection
f fit men fpr registers, the Chief Justice will re- (
uire, in every case where his recommendation and <
omination is desired?first, a certificate fromlhe j
lerk or judge of the proper district or territorial y
ourt, or of a counsellor of saidicourt; and second-Dafriotor
srrftory the gentleman proposed resides, and for '
rhat district or territory, and for what judicial ?
istrict, the recommendation and nomination is de- j
ired; and thirdly, letters from business and pro- |
jssional men of the district, State or Territory, ,
ho have the confidence of their fellow-citizens, j
ach of which letters must vouch distinctly and
ally for the gentleman named: (1) in respect to
is professional knowledge and ability, (2) in res- l
ect to his personal integrity, and (3) in respect to
is general business capacity. ;
4. In addition to these, when the State is repre- i
anted in Congress, similar letters, if they can be
ad, are desired from the Representative of the *
istrict, and from the Senators of the State, or in 1
ho oico of n T<>rrifni*v from t
5. No memorials or petitions, or recommenda- f
ions signed by others than the writer, are required.
6. All letters upon which any recommendation
nd nomination may be made, will be filed by the
Jhief Justice in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme
Court of the United States.
7. Nominations and recommendations founded
pon testimony furnished as above required will be
eade as early as practicable after the same shall
ave been .been received. If more than one genleman,
in any district or territory is thuscommened
to him, the Chief Justice will exercise his disretion
in making the selection.
8. Only one person will ber recommended and
ominated in any one Congressional District exept,
(1) in the case that the courts having the
ppointing power shall decline to appoint the perons
first recommended and nominated; or, (2) in
he case that after the Act shall have gone fully
ato operation, the appointing court shall certify
0 the Chief Justice tnat the business of,the disrict
cannot be properly done bj*one register; or
3) in some cases where a Congressional District
aay be partly in one judicial district and partly in
nother. D. W. MIDDLETON,
Clerk of Supreme Court U. S.
Washington City, April 5, 1867.
STORM SIGNALS DURING HARVEST.
A correspondent, who reminds us of the serious ]
ajury done to the crops by storms which sweep
ver a wide surface, makes what we cannot but reard
as an extremely valuable suggestion. We ]
ive the material portion of his communication. '
t seems to us that, considering the number of <
ears the telegraph has been in operation, it is not (
ery creditable to the practical science of the coun; .
ry that it has not yet been made available for the
iurpose indicated by our correspondent: "
When a storm commences in any part of the 1
ountry, and is travelling in a certain direction, or 1
1 spreading in many directions, the first telegraph
tation over which it passes should send the news ]
nstantly to all.the telegraph stations at county .
eats, hundreds of miles in advance, in the direcion
that the storm is traveling. At each of those '
ounty-seats a cannon might be kept ready, and as '
oon as the news is recieved of an approaching
torin, it is to be fired three times, at intervals of i
ico miu. if it is a hurricane, at intervals offive f
uiuutes u the storm is traveling rapidly, and at '
utervals of ten minutes if it is traveling slowly.
As a cannon can be heard distinctly from fifteen ]
o twenty miles in all directions, by firing one at
ach county-seat the farmers for huudreds of miles
ver the whole country would be iearned in time to \
;et their grain or hay under cover, or in a situa- (
ion to shut out the rain. And this warning would ,
lotonlybe useful in harvest, but also in seeding ;
imc, and in many other situations, too numerous o
mention, not only to farmers, but to the public !
;enerally.
If this plan should meet with general approval
t may be set into Qperation immediately. Ar- ,
angements may be made between the county offiials
and a telegraph company, or some telegraph 1
ompany may make arrangement by circular with i
he county officials in all the States. If the newslapcrs
would then publish the storm signals, which
hould be posted in every house over the whole
ountry, the plan would be complete, and in a
:ouple of months the storm-guns would commence
o r<jar, giving warning of approaching storms and i
mrricanes, over vast extents of country, hundreds
ind even thousands of miles in advance of the actlal
thnnder or the storm.?National Intelligencer.
A Shoemaker.?The Lynn Reporter asserts
hat there is a man in that city who can and has
nade, by hand; two J)air of shoes in an hour, or 1
>ne in fifteen minutes. His regular work, howev!r,
is one pair of shoes an hour, or .sixty pairs per
veek. Notwithstanding he does his wort so rapdiy.
it is always well done, and his shoes are regarded
as models of good workmanship. He revives
from fortv to fifty cents per pair, and is able
o make tolerable good wages, considering the dull
imes.
"CONTMBUTORIAy
BY JA8. WOOD TJAVdSsON.
COLUMBIA, BOUTH OABOLDTA16TH APRIL. 1867.
Fruit.
A friend from Fairfield tells us that he thinks oil
the fruit has been killed in that District
About here there seems to be great diversity of
opinion; but a week or two will show.
Literary. - v Those
who have laughed over Sut Lovlngood's
very bmd, very vulgar, and sometimes a little
smutty letters, will doubtless be pleased to leant
that Dick & Fitzgerald have published a volume
. ? . r t, tr n.'.i _ j_n I
or &ui ijovingooa s larru, wmcn aeus at a aouar
md a half. \ ?*
Queen Victoria is quite devoting herself to authorship
these days. She - is said to be engaged
upon two or three new books now.
The best system of PhonograpBy.is Graham's.
Hay. 4
The ladies are prepating \Sobtt for sblne early evenings
in May. The proqnda are to he devoted
jo the refitting of Trinity (Episcopal) church
ind its enclosure and grounds, that all suffered at
he hands of those who sacked Columbia on the
17th of February, 1865.
Everything attractive that feminine minds are
iccustomed to devise and feminine hands are aosustomed
to prepare for such occasions, may be exjected
at the Soiree?such as music, tableaux vikuUs,
flowers, confections, edibles, smiles, "and a'
hat and a' that"
Keats. '?
In the Columbia markets the prices of meats are
ligher than usual just now, on accounjjof freshets
vhich prevent drovers from getting their cattle to
narket; but the scarcity of food during the winter,
las left catde so poor that stock-owners are remcant
to put them upon the market, until the spring
idvanoes sufficiently to improve tlie beef. At this 4
turning point in the season, the market is supplied
irom the low-country, where the spring is advanced.
[n six or eight weeks the mountain regions will be
ready to send in their cattle, fattened with the verlure
of spring. So beef, like strawberries, shifts
through the latitudes.
Matrimonial.
We see it stated that marriages are lawful in
Louisiana, provided the parties are of the age Of
fourteen for boys and twelve for girls. This is either
a tender legal age or a legal tender age, we are
aot quite sure which. < >W Bather
much of a good thing appear* to us to
be in a wedding at Stratford, in Canada West, that
is announced as follows: "Married on the 27th
tilt, at the residence of Adam Argo, Esq., by the
Rev. T. McPherson, assisted by the Rev. A.
Drummond, of Shakespeare; the Bev. T. Lowry,
ft1 West's Corners; the Bev. Robert Hamilton, of
Fullerton; the Rev. Robert HaD, of Louisville;
the Rev. Robert Renwick, of Elms; the Rev. John
Edtheringham, of Hibbert, and the Rev. Mr.
James, of Gait, Archibald McTaggart, Esq., to
Catharine McKay, both of Dundas.''
That is evidently being very much married. In
act we must regard Archibald McTaggart, Esq.,
is the very marriedest sort of a man. , j
Immigration. , >?.
Gen. Wagner is going to work with this immigration
matter in the right spirit We understand
hat the foreign agents that he has appointed have
ieen chosen with reference to their special quantisations?an
Irish Catholic being appointed to Ireand;
a German to Germany; and so of the others,
fhis is as it should be.
Let our land-owners do their part by sending in
jo Gen. Wagner such information as his recent
arcular colls for; and then we venture to predict
hat 1868 will bring to South Carolina a degree of
prosperity and promise not clrcamed of by those
rho always pass the whole of every night in doubt
ibout the son's .rising npon eve'Tfa-pT^^f
ay this, in view of tie apj^nt willingness of our
State to go to work towards establishing a State
government under the late Military Bill When
this is done, we may go to work with some hope
if results.
Knsical.
Columbia has given birth to three musical geliuses,
who are all at this time in the public eye.
First of these is Miss McCulloch, who has been
n New York for a couple of years. Her time and
abors there have been directed towards the cul;ure
and* development of her musio-talents. She ?
las made several appearances in concerts, but none *
>f these with very decided success. She was 4
avorably but not enthusiastically received on
hose occasions. She appeared at Wallack's Theitre
two winters ago, with veiy little notice. She
ippeared last winter at the Winter Garden with a
nore marked degree of success. Two weeks ago
ihe appeared again; and this time the result is?
uccest. The New York Citizen thus mentions
;his event:
"Last Tuesdav night, she again appeared under
he most favorable circumstances, and essayed the
-oh of Elvira, in "Don Giovanna," with gratifyng
success. Her voice was pure, clear, sympathetic
and faultlessly accurate, and has grown much
n power as well as sweetness since I last heard it
ETer acting, which might be more vigorous and
passionate at times,_ is rapidly becoming all that
san possibly be desired.
In person, Miss McCulloch is tall, straight and
veil formed, with a pleasing and attractive rather
than a pretty face. Her manner is extremely easy
md natural, and her conversational powers quite
emarkable for one sot accustomed to life in a
Northern city, and unused to mingling in Northern
society.
May she prosper in all she undertakes, for there
s room enough m the hearts of the American people
for twenty more favorites, if there be so many
still to claim a share of the place now held by the
'avored few." i
We mention this event with no small degree of ^
pride, as & Columbian, because we have long
cnown Miss McCulloch to be a musician of high
jrder; and have awaited this recognition of her
minims to distinction in New York, with much impatience.
Second in our trio is Mr. Charles Feininger,
who is just returning, after an absence of six years,
from a course of study at Leipzig. As an amateur
riolinist he enjoyed some distinction in concerts before
the war; and his studies abroad return him to
us as a finished artiste in that line. He was in
those days a pupil of Herr August Koepper, the
most distinguished of the via&tros of Columbia.
Third is Miss Gabrielle Feininger, sister of the
riolinist j ust mentioned. She commenced her muric-education
in Columbia, under Miss Ellen Brenaan
(now Mrs. Dovilliers); and has continued them
under the best masters of the Italian schools in N.
York.
The Feiningers propose to make a tour through
the South, giving concerts in the leading cities,
jommencing with their native city, Columbia.?
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May. A fine musical treat may be expected.
Politics. |
The war of parties still continues.
The anti-Nash party privately aver that they
bold the same principles as Nash does; that is,
that they are opposed to confiscation and are in
(avor of universal amnesty.
Now, if this averment is true, it becomes them
?it is their duty, no less than their policy?to publish
these principles as their own, and get the advantage
of them in the voting that is to be done
in forming the new constitution.
The reason they urge for withholding such publication
is that the effect would be unfavorable
upon the Radical party in the North. They
should remember, however, that the time has arrived
whcn-that party has delegated to the citizens
of the respective states in the South the power to
act for themselves?when the control has been put
into the hands of a man (Gen. Sickles) who is
ready to cany out these liberal principles, the expression
of which so terrifies them that they dare
not avow them publicly.
This anti-Nash party would also do well to remember
that if they pay a subservient deference