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Jtoaps a?4 facts. At one haul of a seine on Albemarle Sound, 45,000 herring and 18,000 shad were caught ? ?Ioebergs are so thick in the Atlantic ocean that vessels steer between them with difficulty. ? The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina meets in Wilmington on the 22d of May. ??The negroes of Warrenton, N. C., had a tournament on Easter. Was this another "rebel training?" Two thirds of the prisoners in the Pennsylvania Penitentiary, were formerly volunteer soldiers. Barnum is said to be negotiating for the remains of the Radical party in Connecticut, to put in his museum. Gen. Henry A. Wise, it is stated, will deliver the annual address before the two Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina at the approaching commencement ??General EweDis farmirgmost successfully near Spring Hill, Tennessee. He has a thousand head of stock, and the best wheat and grass in the neighborhood. -The Savannah Advertiser says mat ur. o. J. Criven, the author of the "Prison life of Jefferson Davis" has bought property in Savannah and determined to make tne city his permanent home. The ex-Confederate General Ripley, now in Paris, has obtained a contract from the French Government for the manufacture of 150,000 stands of breech-loading arms, according to a patent of His own invention. The receipts from Customs and Internal Revenue for the last ten months are three hundred and sixty-four million dollars, showing a falling off of thirty-one millions, as compared with the same period last year. The Leader, a weekly paper owned and published in Charleston, S. C., by a company of colored citizens, is out in an editorial, warning the colored men against Northern adventurers and office seekers. * A Virginia negro, aocording to an exchange, on hearing that Congress was going to give lands to the darkies, said: "Lands, oe aebil! I's free now, and don't want no land. I's gwyne to git " ? ? ^ " nitra Virm o wnfo WUT1IIS ttUU U0U1U. ?V?v. The New York Commercial Advertiser, of the 16th nit, says the cable dispatch announcing that Bismarck had made a peremptory demand on Napoleon relative to the arming of France, enabled a firm in that city who got the first intelligence^ to make nearly one million dollars. ??Indigent freedmen in Richmond are falling off in number, and indigent whites are increasing. In March, 12,505 of the former were assisted bv the Freedmen's Bureau, against 30,000 the month previous. The whites assisted were 4,094, wMbh was quite an increase over the number in February. The Woodville (Miss.) Republican, of the 6th ult, says the damages of the late freeze have been pretty generally remedied: corn has been replanted, and most are prepared to put in the cotton; all agree that the freedmen have improved on the last year, and are more active in the promotion of their own interests than formerly. The Richmond Examiner has received a letter from the Attorney - General of the United States, stating that he will issue, in a few days, a circular containing all necessaiy instructions respecting the rights of the people and the duty of officers,'under the late acts of Congress for the more efficient organization of the Southern States. Gen. Scott, Commissioner of theFreedmen's Bureau for South Carolina, says that the reports of the Bureau functionaries report cheerfully for March. They state that the planters are encouraging school^ and that it is impossible to impress the negro with the sanctity of the marital obligation. The steam sbip^ North America-, of the Brazil line, sailed from New York on Monday of last week, for Rio, taking out 240 passengers, mostly emigrants from the Southern States. Included are 138 from Texas, 20 from Florida, and about as many more from Georgia and Alabama. No less than 300 emigrants for the same destination left Mobile on the 17th ultimo. Passing along the road a tew days ago, we saw a solitary negro man planting corn in a held, and a white man sitting on the Fence looking at him. Now that fellow, we reckon, did'nt hear the thunder and is not waked up yet. He must have found some high spot which the waters did'nt reach during the late deluge! Why did'nt the man get off the fenoe, and go and carry a row along side the negro, and thus double Ihe crop.?Danville Register. ? During the last year there were thirty-five persons ordained in the Episcopal Churches in the Unitea>States, who had been brought up within the pale' other denominations. Of these, one eaefaTrSfffrom the Dutch Reformed, German Reformed and Unitarian; two were from the Universalis^ five from tlr^OBaptist; seven from the Presbyterian; eight from^he Congregational; ten from the Methodist A Negro has been placed in office by General Sheridan, under the Military Bill. He has appointed a colored man one of the registrars of voters in New Orleans. The colored appointee is announced to have passed the meridian of life and to be a man of excellent character. He has been for many years a commission broker in New Orleans?having been a freeman before the war. A Philadelphia paper contains an advertisement of a "water-proof shirt front, which is described as a snow-white shield, light and pleasant to wear, which looks better than linen, never rumples, and when soiled may be Griped off with a wet towel or sponge. One will last for months. With one of these over your colored shirt, you may go to London and baek without a change of linen. If you wish to attend a wedding, you have but a few minutes work." This wonderful article costs but twenty-five cents. . At the recent dedication of an educational building for colored people in Washington, General Howard stated that there were 12,000 colored schools in the United States, and 45S colored teachers. # Of these schools, 623 were sustained wholly or in part by the freedmen themselves. He was trustee of the Freedmen's Trust Company in Washington city, and could say that there had been deposited in thatbauk by the freedmen alone, in the past year, upwards of $1,000,000. The Bankrupt Law passed by the last Consrress goes into practical operation on June 1st There are many people who are waitine to take advantage of it, so tnat the business of becoming voluntary bankrupts will be quite brisk. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has appointed Justices Nelson, Swayne and Miller, of that Court a commission to prepare the forms and practice to be employed under tne Bankrupt law. Mr Clinton ^^tioe, of New York, has been chosen Secretary of vke Commission. ^?The Home Journal says: "We have seen vie very curious jewelry, just received from Paris, -^consists of ear-rings, pins, and necklaces of wood, I ? ra, and malachite, carved in the most beautiful i tanner. Some have cut in them sphinx heads, \ nd others, pictures copied from the Vatican.? A They are very' costly and handsome, and worthy a A close inspection; the workmanship being of the ^ finest description, and said to be done with the aid of a microscope.' ?? A Texas paper tells of a young couple who eloped on horseback, accompanied by a clergyman who was to marry them. The lady's father gave chase, and was overtaking the party, when thelady called out to her clerical friena, "Can't you marry us as we run ?" The idea took, and he commenced the ritual, and just as the bride's father clutched her bridle rein, the clergyman pronounced the lovers husband and wife. The father was so pleased with the dashing action that, as the story goes, he gave them his blessing. The Charlotte (N. C.) Democrat says: "Along the road between this place and Monroe, Union county, we saw several white girls in the fields ploughing. In one instance we saw two girls about 16 years old, managing a plow with two oxen attached?one held the plow handles and the other drove the oxen. Such conduct on the part of females ought to put to shame the scores of men who are idling away their time doing nothing, and who seem to consider it a disgrace to pull off their coats and go to hard work." The Revenue Commissioners estimate that there are annually consumed in this country 42,000,000 gallons of distilled spirits, 186,000,000 ens of fermented liquors, and 10,000,000 galof imported liquors, the estimated cost of which is $500,000,060, on which the Government datives an income of $47,727,276. This of course does not include the liquor smuggled into the country, dot the immense amount secretly and illicitly manufactured, which would vastly increase this estimate. In the early part of the war an old Tennes see gentleman, who had one son in the Federal and another in the rebel army, was taken ill, and wishing to divide his property equally between hh two sons, bequeathed to Henry (the Federal soldier) all his wave property, embracing about fifty negroes, and to Thomas (the boy in gray) his entire landed estate. He died, and thus the will stands. Both brothers lived to return from the war; and slavery being among the things that were, Thomas generously divided the land with his brother.?National Republican. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says: Attorney-General Stanbeny't opinion regarding the force of the disfranchising clause of the Military Reconstruction Act will be presented to the President, as soon as it can be prepared, after the injunction petitions have been disposed of, and will be forwarded by him to all the commanders of military districts in the South.? The subject is attracting a great deal of attention. The appeal for the opinion came from Gen. Sheridan, for the purpose of perfecting the registration of voters in Louisiana, and will be followed by similar applications in all the Southern States where attempts are made to prevent officers of countiei and parishes, who held office during the war, iron] voting." ?fie futMle (hqrim. EDITORS: JAS. E. WILSON JAS. F. HART YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1867, Cash.?It must be distinctly understood our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance. X.?The paper will be discontinued on the expiration of tne time for which payment has beer made. A Subscriber finding a (X) cross-mark or the wrapper or margin of his paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. INTERNAL REVENUE STAMPS. Some persons may suppose it a matter of slight consequence to neglect putting revenue stamps or receipts, notes' and other papers, on which the law requires them. If, however, they are evei brought into court, for such neglect, they will find that they have made an expensive mistake. The penalty is fifty dollars fine, for each unstamped receipt or note, and we learn that this penalty is rigidly enforced on all cases that go to Washington on appeal. No excuse whatever is allowed by the Department; ignorance of the law, in particular, is considered as no mitigation of the offenoe. A case has recently occurred in Charleston. Mr. Wm. Gy Vardell was prosecuted in the United States District court of that city, for failing to affix stamps to fifteen receipts for rent He pleaded that since he became aware of the existence of the law, he had strictly carried out all its requirements. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty, and Mr. Vardell will have to pay the neat little sum oi $750 for his legal information. We advise oui fart nf the Inw for their ieuuw-ciusuiia vu uuc ? guide, as law, expounded by a judge and applied by a jury, is costly knowledge. GRAND DIVISION, S. OF TEMPERANCE. At a meeting of Representatives of Subordinate Divisions of Sons of Temperance, held at Columbia, on the 24th of last month, in Odd Fellow's Hall, which was tendered for the purpose, a Grand Division for South Carolina was duly organized by W. C. Beattv, D. M. W. P., and the officers installed, to wit: C. W. DUDLEY, Esq., G. IK P} Bennetsville, Rev. WM. MARTIN, G. W A., Columbia, Rev. D. G. SIMMONS, G. Scribe, Columbia, Rev. C. M. PORTER, G. Treasurer, Ridge way. Rev. J. A. W. THOMAS, G. Chap. Bennettsville, JAMES W. SMITH, G. C., Columbia, A. DELOREA, G. Sentinel, Columbia. The next meeting of the Graud Division of S. Carolina, will be held at Columbia, on the first Wednesday after the fourth Monday of Novembei next, at 7 o'clock, *P. M. FARMING INDUSTRY. In the columns of this paper, time after time, allusion has been made to the necessity of an improved system of farming, as the surest means oi restoring prosperity to our land, plenty to the poverty-stricken, and independence to the oppressed. The ignorance of the commonest principles of farm culture manifested in former days, furnished a more humiliating commentary upon tho intelligence of the Southern people, than any separate circumstance connected with their history. In the days of the past, farming was seldom a studied occupation in the South. Planting on a large scale, with large troops of slaves to cut down timber, and wear out the soil in the cultivation ol cotton, with which to buy more slaves and land, was the system in vogue. The man of limited means followed, as far as practicable, the example of his wealthier neighbor, nor even cared to stud} the fact that his interests lay in a different system. As a general rule, the South was the richest and worst cultivated section of country the world ever afforded. A generous soil, yielding profuscJ} wmiotT, evctpm nf culture engendered bv slave W kUV/ IVU^U Wjuw? -V- ? ? c- -r labor and large planting, ought surely, under the farming system, to produce all that the heart oi the careful husbandman could possibly wish or desire. The war that swept away with it so many oi the customs of the past, has, it seems, in many oi the Southern States, obliterated this old barbarity imposed upon the soil. Our young men, in the migratory life they were compelled to lead in the army, became observers of the system adopted upor some of the finest farms in the world ? those o: Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Its close found them bereft of the helps that usually con ducted the manual operation of planting, and as i consequence of the scarcity of labor, diligence study, and the adaptation of improved systems be came necessary. Our farmers were never more in earnest than a the present time, in their efforts to improve th< old system of tillage. Nor have we ever seen ai exhibition of greater energy than is apparen thoughout the upper sections of this State, in th< preparations now being made for the coming-crop The old plan of planting twenty-five acres to thi hand is gone, and we hope forever. The import ance of em ploying the aid of fertilizers, ?of savin/ the scrapings of the barn-yard and applying then to the exhausted soil?of limited and well cultivate* crops, is beginning to be fully appreciated. Thi State alone, poor as it is, is employing, we ventur to say, the present year, a greater quantity of im norted manures than it did altogether for the tei years preceding the war. In this District th supply could not keep pace with the demand, s fully have our farmers become imbued with th idea of their efficacy. Just here, however, permit us to suggest tha this laudable desire for improvement is likely t run into the opposite extreme. The model hus bandman manufactures his own manures from th stable, the cow lot, straw pile, the sweepings c litter from his out-houses, the ditch embanli ment, mould from fence corners, bones, carcasses offal, and a thousand other sources that his ow ingenuity alone can suggest. These, after flooi ing his cattle-pens for the winter, are superioi when obtained in sufficient quantities, to the bes Peruvian Guano, and cost the farmer nothing bu the employment of his otherwise idle winter day to collect and distribute. Everywhere over the breadth of the upper Dis tricts of this State, we are informed, the sam spirit of improvement exists, that we so gladly at nounce as prevailing here. It affords us a hopeft augury, and the chief one, for the future of ou State. When South Carolinians learn to fan instead of to plant, and when these same me study to improve old systems, adopt new ideas and educate their children in husbandry instead c politics, we may expect for our dear old State degree of prosperity as far surpassing that of th past, as her present poverty degrades it We cannot more fitly close this article, than b suggesting to our farmers the importance of eac one subsenbing for some good agricultural journa 1 and the neceesity of a study of its contents.? 1 The experiments of practical men?the adapta' tion of soils, manures, seeds, and a thousand oth| er facts are thus placed in the hands of the intelli. gent farmer, by which he may readily profit If | profited by rightly, these arc worth more than a ! ton of guano annually, valuable as that is. The i American Farmer, and the Maryland Farmer, published at Baltimore, and the Southern Cultivator, at Athens, Georgia, are among the best we have seen. Copies of these publications may be J seen, by calling at the Enquirer Office. > +01 THE "LAND WE LOVE." The May number of this flourishing Monthly s ushers it upon the second year of its existence, and furnishes an illustration of the often exceptional maxim, that "age brings with it wisdom | and strength." The second volume makes its apnnnmnna in a nnm nnffif adorned and , pUUlUliv.V> iu at uun vuvuwj - ??? ! splendidly printed. Its mechanical execution will ! compare favorably with that of any journal in the 1 country. A readable table of contents is presented, and many of the articles possess a high litera' ry value. "John Milton," from the pen of that gifted author, R. L Dabney, D. D., is an article of itself sufficient to give character to any magazine. The old subscribers to the Land We Love, cannot do better than to renew their subscriptions, ! commencing with the May number. Subscriptions will still be received at the Enquirer Office.? Price $3 per annutn, currency. ''$& X NITRE AS A FERTILIZER. 4|?r ' The Charleston Mercury calls attentionjMibe . value of "nitre-bed manure" as a fertilizerm'gardens, and gives the following facts, wWch wed no ' comment from us. The nitre was pro^fred from , the Confederate nitre beds near Charleston, and there is more of the same sort left, for sale at five dollars per ton. A piece of ordinary garden land was prepared with nitre-bed manure; and in order thattne ques; tion of the merits might be fairly tested, similar i vegetables to those planted or sown in the prepar. ed land, were put into land which had received a ! good dressing of the ordinary stable fertilizer. The I result now is easily to be 9een. In the land dressed with the nitre-bed manure, gTpen-peas matured 1 for the table on the first of April, and the majority of the pea vines, which are still eoveredfrom i the surface of the ground to the extreme top with , blossoms and pods, are now fvfly seven feet high? Those sown in the land dressed with stable manure are not half the height; they matured later, and promise less. Artichokes in the "nitre-bed" land, were ready for use a week since, are five feet in height and have from three to fixe heads to the plant?those plant. ed at the same time in the "stable' land, are not more than two feet high, and do not show the least sign of a head. The property of the nitre-bed manure seems to be to give great strength and force to produ<? without making it precocious and weedy. It is ? not a forcing process but a tonic; and by its influ. ence any plant or vegetable is naturally developed, both in size and value. Beets, carrots, lettuce and corn, all show the same result; and so that the praises which we have given may not seem excessive, a pea vine and an artichoke plant, grown on the nitre-bed manure land, can be seen this morning at our office. THE APPREHENDED EUROPEAN WAR. ( Our exchanges have for some time contained conflicting paragraphs respecting the threatened war in Europe. From these we gather the idea [ that though a war is not certain, it is seriously threatened. The prominent actors, France and Prussia, are both in a quarrelsome humor. They are both arming and preparing for the contingency if it does come, which example other nations are following in self defence. The manufacture of arms in and for Europe, is being carried on to a greater extent than it has been for years. The question which is now threatening the peace of Europe, is the possession of the duchy of Lux. emburg. The king of Holland, to whom this State owed allegiance, desires to sell it to France, in order to pay his debts, as he has no stay-law of which to avail himself. To this proceeding, Prussia, or rather Bismarck, the ruler of Prussia, ob jects. for the reason that the Grand Duke of Luxp emburg is a member of the German confederation, and the disposal of his territories to France would be a dismemberment of the Confederation. It i would also give France a footing on German soil, , containing the strongest fortress in Europe, except . Gibraltar. This territory joins Prussia, and the t military stronghold which it contains would make it a strategic point of great injury to that power, in case of a war with France. Bismarck, therefore, , opposes its cession to Louis Napoleon, and just t now the alternatives of peace and war appear to 7 hang upon the course of France. Knowing European correspondents think war will come after a1 while, if not at once. > The speculators have taken advantage of these - quarrels to force down the price of cotton and keep up that of bread-stuffs. But unless war actually [ comes, they cannot keep cotton down much longer. | It is an article of ibdispensable use to the whole - world, and the universal demand for it will cause a > re-action before long. If, however, there is a large > crop made this year, it will overstock the markets, P and the price must fall even lower than it is now. GEN. POPE AND GOV. JENKINS. p The following is a synopsis of the correspond k*u.AA? Afliroola wViroli Arl eilUU Ut'ttVt'Uli 111U aWTCllUlU&U umviiuo) ttuivh via r ginated from Gov. Jenkins' Address to the people , of Georgia, in which he advised them to take no ? action towards reconstruction under the military , bill, until the Supreme Court has decided upon its p constitutionality. It will be seen that General 5 Pope forbids the questioning of the right of Con. gress to pass that law, and virtually closes the det bate on the policy of action or non-action. As he holds the power, his theory of reconstruction will . probably squelch all opposition to holding a convention in District No. 3. t "Gen. Pope asks Gov. Jenkins, if he had seen 3 General Order No. 1, issued April 10th, in refer" ence to organizing the State under the military 1 bill, before ne (Gov. Jenkins) issued the address to t the people of Georgia, advising non-action until ? the question was decided by the Supreme Court Gov. Jenkins replies that he had supposed that 1 he was exercising such freedom in expression of his opinion relative to public matters, as seems still r accorded to citizens of the Republic, and did not ? imagine that it was abridged by the accident of i the writer or sneaker's holding office. In the fu1 ture, he should do and say what he believed was s required by duty and his oath of office. This the Governor hopes will not involve either conflict or controversy between them in the execution of their respective trusts, as he thinks it need not.? n Everything of this character he desires to avoid, c Gen. Pope says, in reply, that Gov. Jenkins' exo plauation is satisfactory, so far the past is concerne ed. Rut, being sent to execute the laws of Congress, he will carry out the provisions of the military bill, which recognize the existing State govt grnments as merely provisional,?the object being o to allow these to continue for the administration i- of State laws, during the progress of reconstruce tion. Had Congress contemplated opposition from the civil autnorities, it would have legislated the State governments out of existence. General Pope requires that the civil machinery of the States '? shall not be prevertcd to frustrate the execution of n the laws. Civil officers are required not to use - their influence to prevent the people from submit ting to and carrying out the laws of Congress. After discussing the matter fully, he says that he will be compelled to remove all officers who, lt while in office, use their influence to prevent the 3 execution of the laws, but hopes that harmonious relations may continue between the military and i- civil authorities. e The following is the portion of General Order i- No. 1, above referred to: d "Par. III. It is to be clearly understood, howir ever, that the civil officers thus retained in office shall" confine themselves strictly to the performance of their official duties, and whilst holding their n office, thev shall not use any influence whateverto '> deter or disuadc the people from taking an active >f part in reconstructing their State Government una aer the act of Congress, to provide for the more e efficient government of the rebel States and the Act supplementaiy thereto." The words, "shall not use any influence whets' ever," shall be interpreted in the widest sense, and h held to mean advice, verbal or written, given to 1, individuals, committees or the public. '. HERE-MENTION. On Thursday last, at Charleston, W. B. Wilson, Esq., of Yorkville, on motion, was admitted to practice in the United States Courts for South Carolina. "' The Graniteyille Factory, near Hamburg, S. C., manufactures 98,000 yards of cloth per week, and, when it is in full operation, will make 120,000. North Alabama farmers are planting two-thirds more land in corn than in cotton.",""",The Southern Baptist Convention will meet in Memphis on the 9th of May.'"' Of 1,326 Episcopal Churches in the United States, 269 bear the name of Christ, 264 of St John, 257 of St Paul, 242 of Trinity, 172 of Grace, and 122 of St James." Sandford Conover, who committed perjury before ,the Congressional Investigating Committee, has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Great Britain owns and uses 83,000,000 horse power of steam on labor-saving machinery, or a producing power greater than the productiveness-of the entire human labor of the world. It is said the prison grounds at Salis -KT rt -n , , . 1 . i iv: Duty, n. *j., will ne pianteu wna cowuii hub bcu8on. "Clouds of grasshoppers have made their appearance in Texas, and threaten all crops with destruction. "The American Bible Society in New York employs twenty presses and four hundred workmen, and is able to print four thousand copies of the Bible daily. "The population of Blorida is 140,424, of which 77,747 are white, and 62,677 colored (Jen. Howard estimates the number of deaths among negroes, within four years, ^ti,ooo,ooo. . ;ih The South yielded last year about two hundred million dollars (specie value) in cotton for export, the largest amount ever raised in any one year before. "There are in the United States about 300,000 more males than females. Wendell Phillips says he was wedded to traih and philanthropy when a boy, whereupon the Boston Put remarks that Wendell must have become a widower when quite young. Dick Cheatham, the most beautiful horse in this State, and the property of CoL Thomas G. Bacon, of Edgefield, died last week of lung fever. A correspondent of the Providence Journal, who has gone over Sherman's route in Georgia, says "the people all along the route are in the most abject poverty, actually starving to death."' The New Orleans Times has disentombed an old gentleman who thinks the Confederate bonds are still drawing interest EDITORIAL INKLINGS. - * Southern Railroad Indebtedness. rtr? ??] tjoui J.lit; IT iUlllU^WU VUllCSjJUUUCUt U1 bUC J/MUmore Sun states that many of the Southern and Southwestern Railroads are indebted to the governmen^for articles purchased on credit General Rucker, chief of the Quartermaster's Department, has ordered the stoppage of pay for mail transportation to indebted roads, the sums thus withheld to be applied to extinguishing their indebtedness.? Such railroad companies must present their accounts to the quartermaster charged with the collection of their debt, who alone is authorized to settle with them for the transportation of the mails. {L War Anecdote. During the War, a rebel soldier of Milesian extraction was traveling by railroad towards the front, and wishing to journey in comfort, took his seat in a vacant car. His visions of luxurious ease were, however, soon disturbed by the appearance of a courier, who pompously informed him that the car was reserved for General , when the following colloquy ensued: "Hell, be Jasus, here is room enough for me and the gineral." "Yes, nut I must have the rest of the cat for his staff." "Staff, ha?then, be dad. till the general to stick his staff out of the window." Africa holds Office. Theophilus Ash, a colored citizen of Plymouth, N. C., was recently elected a member of the board of Commissioners for that town. Bjs election was the result of & trick employed by a TirfrWa candMUiflHlP, tO~3oeHra - hia oto -abaction. \ put Ash's name oa his ticket The colored fraternity having learned that they could vote, flocked into town from five jniles round the country; which was the more convenient to them, as the election was held on Saturday. A correspondent of the Norfolk Journal, from whose communication the above facts were obtained, says that the new Commissioner is much elated by his official dignify. He says he "is a gwine to stop de niggers from totin guns and pistols troo de streets; dcy are too careless how dey shoot dem off, and dcy might happen, 'cidently, to kill a nigger instead of a white man." .. . , A Chance for Young Men. Husbands must certainly be, in demand in J Virginia. We published last week, an account of a "Wife Agency'' recently established there, and we find a new scheme of the same class proposed for the benefit of the fair sex. The Norfolk Virginian suggests the incorporation of a "Grand Matrimonial, Domestic Felicity and Anti-Caudal Association," which shall be empowered to pro-, cure 50,000 marriageable men, to be disposed of by lottery, with tickets ranging from $2.50 to $10, each ticket to draw one of the husbands,- who are previously to be put up in assorted lots. The Charlottesville Chronicle approves of the plan, but considers the prices of tickets too low.; It believes "the scheme will take like wild-fire among the destitute females interested." If a support is guaranteed the husbands, it is probable that the projectors of this scheme can easily secure their full quota of men. The whole country swarms with young men, whose ability to make $2.50 is too doubtful to allow of their rejecting this chance. President Johnson to visit Raleigh. The citizens of Raleigh, N. C., having invited Mr. Johnson, some time ago. to visit their city, it is announced by the Washington Star, that he will do so during the month of May.? Raleigh is Mr. Johnson's birth-place and the home of his boyhood. Many changes, both of a political and a private nature, have occurred, since he was last among the friends of his youth; many bitter enmities have arisen, all of which, perhaps, have not died out; but he will doubtless receive a warm welcome. The President has not yet visinnn +V>?> militerV territerip<3 fVp fVtft United | lA^U UUJ VI VUv AUUIWU^ uv< v -~w States, though he made a tour through the unsubdued States lost summer. If he does come to the monarchical portion of the Un^n, we hope he will be received with the warmth to which his undoubted friendship to the South entitles him.? This friendship has been proved by acts, and in the face of the threatened vengeance of an overwhelmingly powerful Congress of his and our enemies. Charleston Firemen's Parade. The annual parade of the Fire Department of Charleston took place on Saturday, the 27th ult. It appears to have been a real gala day, though there was nothing in the proceedings, of more than local interest, with one marked exception. It is not usual, at these parades, to make a display of flags, as they are merely civic processions, and do not in the least partake of the nature of military parades. But in this instance, after the procession had been formed and was ready to start on its march, an order was received from General Sickles, stopping the parade until a Uni-1 ted States flag could be procured to lead the column. It was further ordered, that when the companies passed in review, the flag should be placed opposite the reviewing personage, and that every pcrsonin the column should salute the colors, when within three paces, by raising his hat and keeping it raised until three paces past the flag. Military authority is a very pretty thing, and when mildly used, very harmless?but the claws will sometimes protrude through the fur. A Gay Deceiver. The New York correspondent of the Charleston News gives the following narrative: A young lady of a romantic turn of mind, who moved in tho first circle of society here, moved out of the circle a day or two ago, and out of the City at the same time, having become enamored of a half a dozen very large diamonds and one very large mustache, and having eloped with the gentleman whom she adored. Tne gentleman who had ropre sented himself as a foreign count, tarns out to be not a count, and no account at all, and as it has been ascertained that the diamonds had been borrowed from a friend, the ambitious young lady has nought to console her, but the reflect ion that though all else be false, the mustache is Teal and bona. juk. Photographing under Water. The London Intellectual Observer says: "No place is now safe from the incursion of photographers. Who would suppose that they could carry on their operations under water ? Yet such is now the case, as M. Bazin has proved. His photographic studio consists of a strong sheet-iron chest, perfectly water-tight, with water-tight windows, that are in the shape of lense3. The electric light is used, and renders distinctly visible any objects lying at the bottom of the sea, so that they may he photographed, and thus their value and position Be accurately marked, hi. Bazin last remained at deaths of nearly three hundred feet for about ten minutes. Thia application of photography promises to facilitate the recovery of lost objects and the raising of sunken ships." A Case of Contested Dignity. We find, in an exchange, the following interesting incident, which occurred in California.? It is a new illustration of the fierce strife which always rises when Greek meets Greek. The most remarkable feature of the contest was the silence of the opposing tongues, though it is probable the eyes spoke so eloquently as to render tongues su perfluoas: Two yt>ung ladies in San Francisco recently, in crossing a street in opposite directions, happened to meet face to face, and, as it was very mnddy on both sides of the crossing, neither would turn out of the way, but stood staring at each other for about a auarter of an hour. During that time a crowd or about three or four hundred people assembled, the street was blockaded up and traffic had come to a stand-still. The females were young and well dressed, and looked as if they ought to have had better ideas of propriety than they exhibited. The crowd hooted and jeered, ana appeared to enjoy 4he scene amazingly. At length a policeman came -along and compelled one of them to take the right, "as the law directs." the look of concentrated nate given by the party who had to step off the walk is said to have been indescribable. . New York. The N. York correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, furnishes the following gloomy paragraph in reference to New York: Wall-street is a good deal flurried by the war news from Europe, but the markets keep pretty steady, all things considered. We still hear a good deal of talk about a crash being near at hand, but the speculators do not pay any heed to it So many of |the gloomy predictions made during the past four years remain unfulfilled that we cannot wonder at the speculators turning a deaf ear to new ones. The presence of buyers for the Spring trade has caused some activity in the wholesale houses, but this will be over by the 1st or June, and it is believed that the Summer months will be the dullest that New York has experienced in thirty years. The tremendous depreciation of values during the past six months will tell sharply, when the Fall settlements come to be made. The shrinkage in merchaudize, stocks, Ac., since last December cannot be much short of one hundred millions. Some of our millionaire merchants have not made a dollar during theWast year. I am informed on good authority fhanrl. B. Claflin, whose sales last year exceeded forty-five millions, made a return of seventeen dollars a few days ago, as his income for ; the year. A. T. Stewart, I am told, pays no in- , come tax, and W. B. Astor, whose wealth is fabulous, pays tax on only two or three hundred dollars. The collector of one of the wealthiest districts in the city informed a friend of mine some days ago, that the establishments which returned . .1 1 J .11 rrom ntty to Sixty tnousana auuurs last year are making returns of from eight to ten thousand this year. _ British America for Sale. . i Since the purchase of Russian America, the 1 old "manifest destiny" idea has been resuscitated, and the more enthusiastic admirers of the American eagle, "with faith's discerning eye," already ( see him poised over the North American continent, i with his beak resting upon the North pole, his tail shadowing the gulf of Mexico, and his wings j Bpread outward toward the islands of the Atlantic, ( and the Pauflu uiiau.?. ft-ir irell enough for the historic bird to spread himself. During the war, ' he lost a good many of his tail feathers, and his i wings narrowly escaped' a serious clipping. But ' like other eagles, he appears to have renewed his youth, and apparently feels all the better for his J moulting. With reconstructed plumage he soars aloft, and stretches out his old bald head towards j the icy. regions of Russian America; but as he is \ entirely too majestic a bird to allow the shadow of his neck to fall on other people's land, Mr. Seward proposes to buy out the interest of Great Britain in this continent The Washington correspondent of the Boston Pbst says: From the time of the advent of the Derby ad- ' ministration to power in England down to the present day, negotiations have been pending between the Colonial Secretary of Great .Britain and the State Department, for the purchase by the United j Slates, or a large portion of British America. Mr. ' Seward's propositions have been to buy up all that j tract of the British Possessions lying west of the < longitude of the Mississippi river, thus giving to 1 this country unbroken right of way to tne newly 1 acquired territory of Russian-America. Notwith-. standing these negotiations have been pending fco i long, it is only of late that they may be said to have < reached a point where even the preliminary treaty i could be named. One of the prominent difficulties encountered was the question of including 1 Vancouver's Island in the transfer, her Majesty's 1 Government desiring to retain that point for a na- < val station. More recently, the English Govern- 1 ment, through Lord Stanley, has met the proposal to purchase with renewed interest, and one or the ] prominent desideratums put forward by Secretary ' Seward has been a proposition to make our Ma- i harm claims, in same degree, one of the offsets to I] the purchase money hereafter to be determined. | Not one word of these negotiations has yet been permitted to escape the State Department, and it is supposed that Secretary Seward relies upon the ' success of the Rus8ian,American treaty, to insure ; the ratification of this, approaching bargain with Great Britain. The former territory would be lit- 1 eralb' left out in the cold, unless the intermediate 1 tracts become our own. 1 Old Bachelors Accounted For. Father Payne, a Roman Catholic Priest, of Buffalo, N. Y., recently delivered a lecture before ; the Young Men's Catholic Association of that city. : His theme was dress, and, in censuring modern extravagance, he incidentally points out the reason why so many men spend their lives in single-blessedness. His remarks are more specially applicable tc Northern Society ; for the poverty of tli? South prevents any very extensive indulgence in extravagance. But it is the opinion of many, that poverty alone prevents it, and that if they had the means, our women would not be behind any. in the world, in the matter of fine raiment. Wo do not share in this opinion, as regards the majority of Southern ladies; for we have not forgotten how freely they sacrificed their personal comforts and ornaments, for the benefit of our soldiers in the field Still, there are some who would rival the peacock in brilliant plumage, if they could, and 1+ 1Q MoIItt ?\lnoonn+ d-A 1/nAin flimr OQnnnf * ffir of aw iV/ttuj piuaouub IV &UUTT Wumv? j - ? all earthly things, an over-dressed woman looks, most uncomfortable. On this subject, as affecting marriage, Father Payne says: "Marriage is the normal condition of men and women, but when it is not sought for by those who are free to enter into that state, it shows that there is a cause, and this cause is not favorable to virtue, religion or the good of society. Only seven marriages were solcinnizod in the church of St. Bridget last year. The cause is apparent I broached the subject to a young man?not so very young either, remarking I heard he was going to get married. He turned, and with the simplicity of a child ten years of age, said, "Father Payne, I am surprised that you should even think I was going 1 to bo married. Bless your life (his veiy words) I i could not keep my wife in dry goods. ("Laughter.] ] When I become a rich man, tnen I will uiarry but i not before, because I want to do the thing proper-1 ly." [Laughter. J You smile, said the reverend > speaker, but I am in earnest He had a certain ainouat of reason for what he 6aid, and that reason is not creditable to the young women. Extrava-1 ganoe in dress makes it difficult for men in the j married state to fulfil their obligations, and this if 1 the'reason why young men do not want to getmarj1 ried The votog women have become so fond of i dress that the young men are frightened, and thil j is not for the good of society or religion. Let mi t give the young ladies this advice. Be less anxioui i about your tpearance; spend leas tf^joor earnings in adoifcff your persons, and thai of your sools. lletfUDer that the moment wffi force itself upon J when you wiH"be stretchAd out lifeless in theism. When that time codtes, there will be o si Je winding sheet that" may be bought for a te\ ^*s, tn wrap you in. The ornaments that rem an will be ornaments of virtue which have accon inied you all through life, agt will remain throe out an endless eternity.'' . "Iron-wo?" versus Wilson. Sens r Wilson has been engaged in the task of con rthig-Virginia to Radicaferf, -though from the t< of our Virginia exchanges, ^we jndge his efforts ve not .bfeen entirely successful.? When he k the stump for this ptapoee, the Senator for that converting "rebel/' is A more difficult ta than legislating for them.. In the latter case sir good will is of no ojjpsequence, while in th nrwer, it is of paramount importance. To accomp i his well-meant object, hiekas been a little free pledging his party to admit Virginia back int ? Union, if she will only elect Radical membe >f Congress, and "go the %ole Radical hog" g erally. Bat the effect of ltis prtjurri'-' ses of a n rnium through Radical agencies is slightly dis bed by a growl from the old HE Radical, who s sits mourning amidst the ranains of his iron-wc b a modern Mariuson the ruinflof his Carthage. I Washington dispatch of the 27tl^ ultimo say], "Thad. I vens has written a letter for publication, con tnting upon the remarks in Senator TT liSULl B ?v XVUOUO) lil KiUUUI he said the irould be no impediment to Sooth- li era repres Olives in Congressj if they elected! Union me rtc. Stevens, in his letter, says nor man shoul make promises for the party. B*c what aoth( I does any one sav that by (he elecp0 tion of loy elegates, they will be admitted ?-4 t By what a ority does he say that Viiginiajm % elect two 1< 'Senators, when there is no Virgini ^ He conclu* w follows: Who is authorized to trir- j el the corn and peddle out amnesty? I wefld say to the lost guilty, expect punishment hd jand then <; tude) but first, a mild confiscate 1 to pay th who have been robbed by duyyar men. Th are my wishes, and mine only^perhap8 , i > , . ; j J TH1 tOCK ISLAND FACTORY J ' i We felt ly sad a few days ago, on reidhg, in j a Chariott mrnal, a correspondence .betMn the t President < he Rock Island Manafactuniy ComSany of ti State, and a gentleman fma J{ew , ersey, wl on his way home, had jtrchased * cloth from it Company for a suit of ?thes.? " We had si Deed that this Factory was a a door- { ing conditi and that but few merohaps in the c South, at t, would consider their stoM perfect j without a iplete assortment of Rock bland Fac tory cloths at the President, in his dmmunica- 1 tion to the w Jersey gentleman, tel^a veiy different tale, le says it is languishing for want of i support, ai hat nut few merchautf-atthe South j give it pat ige. We are at a loss )o know the <j reason of . We have been acqininfced with the cloths m this factory for maDj years, and ' always piu sed thorn in preference U any others, * when we c 1 get them, became they are more J durable an aually as fine as any othfr goods, beneath the ie of Broad cloth, we cafe not where * they are n f. We have now a winter coat made' from it ths e pnrchased in February, 1865, which has seen & i very hard service, but bids fair to * make a re stable appeahmqe for jfears to come, | and after have dorie withdt, our 4'better half ] expects tolke one of our little scions comfortable , i l i ?i. !i r>_x ? J. ? x winter ciob uui. w iu x>ul zuuuu iruiu cue intrinsic vali f the article, in our opinion, there is a ' moral obli on resting on yyery individual in the * South, to tain our Factories, more particularly 1 now, and1 n, as in the case of the Kock Island Factory, tl [oods produced by them are equal in quality an< ice. ;; ; Nothing 1 be more suicidal, in the depressed conditio! < rar beloved South, than to neglect our own I ufoctories, Ind run after Northern fabrics, in ry way inferior. Will the Southern people nev orae to their senses and act wisely in this mattei For our-?rt we feel prouder in a suit of do made by qar friends end neighbors than we wi in the finest broad-cloth made at the tip of t Fashion. But it is not so much the people at Ife who are to blame as the merchants, rhey.prefc oing North for their goods, and many of them M get to tanking that nothing can be profitebleSoto it comes from the big Nor'ard.? client the lock Island Cloths wonM. sell rcadiij Our merchants afould put them on the matkF Fot majly years we have enjoyed a personal faaintanoewith the-energetic and truly nonorabV esident of the Company, and unhesitatingly e roe any recommendation he may pre his goods We hops some of our merchants ^iQ get stocks their Summer cloths, for we want a suit of it soon" asit arrives. Send to John AX Young, -'] udentor the Company, Charlotte, N. C.?As/ie t News. . A CRYING EYIL. [ The Ri< lonff notices that .one of the most dist ing filatures of the times is the exr t trnvagana ' the people. Although it is evident t that there impending s most crushing financial* x trouble, ai iespite the feet that poverty has been ( made the merd. lot of the population of .the ( South, on ry .sde- we behold the evidence of a t fearful cop ene^ and a wanton disregard of the i infallible ii satitns intended to warn us,' and to < check the fcd iisposition to riot in luxury and < folly. The thus notices the following signs t of this crin 1 hlly: - . j, - i. . t "Wowei rsy themselves in the costliest robes, i and adorn i nielves with the glittering gew-gaws ) of fashion, )-in their homes, are, half-fed and suffering fri tie pinchmgs of hunger. < "Men wl Ehhot pay tneif board bills, and are j often oblige > torn off their tailors and washer- i RTAmon wit ? nr>A?^ tkAmoaKrha in nwtml 4 ^TVfUUu niwu ?aJl Dpuiv. viHiUirrwivo ?u . |/w?v* ? elegance, to jg; to work, and too unprincipled 1 to spend on] i?t which is their own. i '^Vhen t > things exist, what have we to ex- ^ poet? Can jiesty.and virtue flourish? Can J women che i ?-their chastity, and keep it as un- ( sullied as th icicle that hangs on Diana's temple?" Can n avoid the dishonor of defalcation, 1 Dr escape t temptation to crime, which their i blind setinn* jence is sure to create ? i "The pres state of society ih America is quite ^ as corrupt a: at which existed immediately after t the, discovei f this continent in Spain and in ] France, and ier countries of Europe. Nopurifi- 1 cation can anticipated until extravagance is i checked, anc e people return to the old fashion- 1 ed customs y ih were wont to prevail prior to . the < demoralirath provoked by the war in this coun- I try. < :.t. "Everythi pleads for this reform. Society, ] reh'gion, the btical welfare, each is seriously af- I fected. Pas i has run riot loqg enough. It is i high time tl the second sober thought should i stay its caret' ' I Whitkwa ing.?As this is the time of year when one d< ca to renfjyate the interior of his dwelling as 1 as to imjnove the ^appearance of his fences at ItEooses,' we place before our reacf ers a most e: lent recipe for mixing whitewash: , "Take a clei water-tight barrel, or other suita- , ble cask, ar iut into it a half bushel of lime.? ] Slack it by ] ting water over it, boiling hot, and insufficient mtityto cover it live inches deep ] and stir it ii rater, and add two pounds. of suipfiate of zimnd one of common salt These will i cause the m to harden, and prevent its cracking, which Fes an unseemly appearance to the ( work. If fiiuble, a beautiful cream color may be added tofe above wash by adding three pounds ot yeuow o?; or a gooa pcan or ieau wwt, uj , adding lam rfoe or ivory black. ' For fawn color, add four p< la of amber, Turkish or American? the latter i be cheapest?one pound of Indian . red, and < pound common lamp-black. For , common st< color, add fbnrpounds ofwwber and tvo poundi lamp-black. This wash may be applied with j^mmon whitewash brash." . Charleston Nexcs, Presideal.?The Presidential election being but eightdmonths off, candidates are, of course, appearing tall quarters. A list of tne men already nam will he found to contain the names of Generals tnt, Sherman, Thomas, McClellan and Butler, Ai-ow Johnson, Schuyler .Colfax, Senators Wad Sherman, Sumner and Fessenden, rhaddeuaevens, Horatio Seymour, and an indefinite iiber of other persons. It is highly probable it a Northern man for President, and a Southe nan for Vice-President, will be run by sach par and there is no danger, from present ippearai, that either office will go a begging. Diotr No. 2.?The New York Herald says that "Gj Sickles, in the Second district, North md SoM Carolina, has been very fortunate in having Libia and practical governors and civil Dfficere Orally to deal with. In cheerfully consulting 1 co-operating with him, the result is perfbet hnony and smooth sailing to the military and crviTthorities, and perfect order and peace among |people." . , . > j [ LOCAi ITEMS. | y HEW ifEBUBEKERS. kA?A.Erwin?$10 Iward. Carroll, Clark A CoAfav and June. H: F. Adiekes?Iamai Revenue Assessore Appointments./ ">? ' R. H. Glenn, S. jTD.?Ordinary!s Sale of land belonging ^the Estate of Elisha Hardfci, m R. H. GlennT/? D-?Ordinary's Sale of land belonging to the Estate of Joshua Hucisoh, Walter C. E. Y. D.-Notioe to absent Defend^ . / Louis SmittySole Leather. t JOB PE*nrTiH&^ The projitor of the Ei?QUBLE? has just reaeived a full saply of new material for printing job | work of aBescripfcions. With a great variety of type andie most improved machinery, he is now prepare#) print circulars, hand-bills, cards, pamphlets, aalogues, and all other kinds of job work; as neatkand on as good terms as any other print- * ing esplishment in the State. K f FBEEDMEF8 SCHOOL . <j? A Ay and night school for freedmen, was .open- j ed iAhis town by J. J.. W. Gabsawat, on the ; I 22iwultimo, in a building near the Depot, the schpl, we are informed, numbers eighteen day, i aiyforty-three night pnpjls. A Sabbath School, d?ted to the same class of persons, was com Unoed on the 21st ult, with thirty-thrdS pupflsinV iendance.* - ** - - . /We see every reason in favor of enoouragiifff * rich enterprises as far as the limited resources of . *?& he freed people will permit. If th# ire .to j jj|'J ome citizens of *kft-?r>nntrv. invented , pa* tfe uffrage power and other jJUVflf^s ptilainiDg to heir new status, it k highly important that they hould be educated-so as to enable them to exercise hese privileges with intelligence. The country \ j,. lasmorp to fear , from the.ignoraace of this class . * i if persons, than from any other rraah of leoaat ^ gg&ation in Jhefrfrehalf. r> 3* li BREAD AHP'TEB OEOP& ' ! Recent developments have satisfied us that there s a, scarcity of bread in thisDistrict to an extent j kever before resized.in its history. -Wa artap)rized that there has been suffering, and more will esult in consequence, before the coming' crop will ueld any relief. A few generous donations of corn laye been received in th&Disb^^n^distribate^ Che relief these donations havw afforded comes in ;ood time, and is received with gratitude the listtessed. . Destitute',persons in pome instances, xave walked as for as twenty miles to receive their nttance of A jiecfc of co^n from this charity.. The prospect for a munificent wheat harvest has lever been more promising at this season Of the rear. Should formers escape the accidents incilental to the crop at this season,'iheyield of wheat. rill be sufficient to supply bread unt^ the eorn ri>enB. Even, the.poorest soil promises a generous rield; Hid nowhere lyive we seefo wr inferior field. ( RE&IBTRATIOS. X '"Wcwould again call the attrition of our people o the fact that registering officers and election manners are wanted throughout the State. Gov. Ore las requested the Clerks of Court to forward to tnwtAo *w?roAna *Ma fa\ foVo flio Kwniro/1 AIM* bUO 1IIH1IW3.VA ^0VMS wyiv w WWW v?av av\|wmw%> >ath, in order that ho may fill the offices, as far as jossible, with Sooth Carolinians. We learn from T. F. Wallace, Esq., Clerk of the Court for York District, that he has as yet received hot few applisations for these positions. - ' *./ # ,f It should be remembered that these duties must >e performed, and if our own people thow a reluctince to enter upon them, the offices uust be filled jy strangers. In Virginia, the registrars have been lelected entirely from the U/S. amy and the Freeclmen'e Bureau?'' Now experience has shown hat it is to our advantage to have as few foreign Tilers imported as possible. We are to have an taction, or they forms of one at least, and we re- ^ -peclfully urge upon every South CaroHrflau that t his duty to take the part either of registrar or Sj nan'ager of election, jf he can take the oath, hich W rill be/ouniou the outside of this issues Inhere ^ rill* be at least sixty managers required tq open all he boxes in this District, and four registrars Tor ?ch battalion. * r Persons wHfing'to serye in either of the above opacities, should communicate with J. KTWaljlCE, Esq., Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas. MIL it Ail Y ORDERS. , ^The following order explains itself: ? Headq'rs, Skcqnd Military District, \ ' Charleston, S. C., April 27,1867. j Caculai.] In reply to letters received* at these Efeadquarers, asking information as to the operation in paricuiar caaes of General Orders No. 10, current seies from these Headquarters, I am directed by the Commanding General to state, that the mo visions if the order-null be interpreted and enforced by he Courts. The order is to fie deemed and taken is an ordinance haying the sanction and authority >f the Ignited States, for the regulation of certain dv2 affairs therein specified within so much of the erritory occupied by the military forces of the Uaied States, lately the theatre of war, as isembraced ritliin the Second Military. District, created by !ict of Congress. Although some of the former political relations )f the inhabitants are in abeyance, their private elations, their persons and property, and their remedies fqr wrongs remain as heretofore, within me cognizance 01 uieiocm uiuuuou?| <uiu oumwv w ihe Taws of the ProriflionarGovcniipen t-hwherto in force, except so far' as such laws toe in'conflict teth the Constitution and laws "of the' United States, or with the regulations prescribed;by the Commanding.General: . ; # Amongst the consequences neoessarily incident to io military authority established by Congress, and ndispensahle to the object for which the authority? f, s established, is the appointment and measures by which the Government ad interim is to be conducted. In the exercise of this authority, such reguations and appointments will be announced from ime to time as may become necessary; and so far j is these, regulations concern the ordinary civil reations of the inhabitants, they will be administerjd by the Courts and by the proper civil officers, in he-usual course of procedure. Whilst it will not be convenient to respond to / particular enquiries made by citizens as to the interpretation and application of these regulations, such interrogatories will he answered when addressed to the General Commanding by the Appellate Courts of Law and Equity. J. W. CLOUS, Cai>t'38thU. S. Inft. A. I). C. & A. A. A. G. - J , ' , , + ? #i PARDON OF JEFFERSON DAVIS* The Rev. Mr. Bagley, formerly a missionary to Japan and India, is said to have paid a visit a few days ago to Mr. Jefferson Davis, at Fprtress Monroe, for the purpose of inducing him to - ask'the President for a pardon. The letter stating this fact adds:- # ': Mr. Bagley believed that if a regular application should be made by Mr. Davis, he could support it with a petition presenting such an array of influential names, a large proportion of them from the Radical Republican party, that the movement would be as successful as that made by him in the case of Governor Vanoe. of North Carolina. Mr. Davis, however, declined aoc.?ting the proposition. j He said to ask for pardon was a confession of guilt, ? and that such an application would* prejudice his ease at the trial, which he was given to understand ' was close at hand. Mr. Bagley, nothing daunted with-the ill success he met with at Fortress Mon- ? roe, went to Washington and called on the President to ascertain whether a pardon would be granted to Jefferson Davis without an application, if * petitions were presented of a satisfactory charac- jw ter. It is understood that Mr. Bagley was equally j unsuccessful at the White House. In the exerssl' -^j cise or the pardonjng power, the President has been guided by an inflexible rule?never to grant a pardon on petitions, unless such petitions were accompanied by an application from the individual seeking the executive clemency. The Attorney General's office has now on file a huge budget of petitions, signed by hundreds of people, North and < South, praying for the release and pardon of Jef- * ferson Davis, aB of which are of no avail, owing to the before mentioned rule. Important Matter.?-A bill has been filed bythe South Carolina Railroad Company to enjoin the construction of the Columbia and Augusta Railroad, and is now pending before his Honor, Chancellor Carroll, in this city. The injunction is j asked, we learn, on the grounds that the Columbia I and Augusta Road is being constructed in viola- . tion of the exclusive privileges granted by the J charter of the South Carolina Railroad,?fiioenu. 1