Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, July 25, 1867, Image 4

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tumorous ?tptfmtut. HOW IT CAME ABOUT. ' There was a fine old general once, who, having spent most of his life in the field of Mara, knew very little about the camp of Cupid. 'He was one of those rough and honest spirits often met with in his gallant profession, innocent as an infant of almost everything save high integrity and indomitable bravery. He was nearly fifty years old; and ha toils were over, when master Dan made him acquainted with a widow Wadman, in whose eyes he began to detect something that made him feel uneasy. - Here was the result of leisure. At length, however, the blunt honesty of his disposition rose uppermost among his conflicting plans, and his course was chosen. At school he had once studied "Othello's Defence," to recite at an exhibition, but made a failure; he reeollected that there was something in this defence to recite very much like what he wanted to say. He got the book immediately, found the passage, clapped on his hat with a determined air, and posted off to the widow W adman's, with Shakespeare under his arm. "Madame," said General Uncle Toby, opening the book at the marked place, with the solemnity of a special pleading at the bar?"Madame''? Bade am I in my speech, And little blessed with the set phrase of peace: For since these arms of mine had seven years pith 1111 now some nine moons wasted, they nave used Their dearest action in the tented field; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil ana battle; And therefore?'' Here the general closed the book, wiped his forehead, looked np at the ceiling, and said with a spasmodic gasp, "I want to get married!" The widow laughed for ten minutes by the watch before she could utter a syllable, and then she said, with precious tears of humor rolling downher good-naturedeheeks, "And who is it you want to marry, general?" "You," said Uncle Toby, flourishing his sword arm in the air, and assuming a military attitude of defiance, as if he expected an assault from the widow immediately. "Will you kill me if I marry you?" said the widow, with a merry twinkle in her eye. (4XTa m.iJom/v " vanliad TTn/?lo TnKv in JL.N1/} illOUClUA^ 1 V|/UVU VUVAV v y a most serioos and deprecating tone, as if to assure her that such an idea had never entered his head. "Well, then, I guess I'll marry you," said thei widow. "Thank you, ma'm," said Uncle Toby, "but one thing I am bound to tell you?I wear a wig." The widow started, remained silent a moment, and then went into a longer, louder and merrier laugh than she had indulged in before, at the end of which she drew her seat nearer the general, gravely laid her hand on his head, gently lifted his wig off and placed it on the table. General Uncle Toby had never known fear in hot battle, but he now felt a decided ? inclination to run away. The widow laugh. ed again, as though she never would stop, and the General was about to put his hat upon his denuded head and holt, when the facetious lady placed her hand upon his arm and detained him. She then raised her hand to her own head with a rapid manoeunvre, and with her fingers pulled off her whole head of fine glossy hair, and placing it upon the table by the side of the Generals's, remained seated with ludicrous gravity in front of her accepted lover, quite bald I A8 may he expected, Uncle Toby now soon laughed along with the widow, and they grew so merry over the affair that the maid-servant peeped through the key-hole at the noise, and saw the old couple dancing a jig and hobhing their bald pates at each other like a pair of Chinese mandarins.? So the two very shortly laid their heads together upon the pillow of matrimony. TIM WIGGINS AFTER HI8 HONEYMOON. Seems to me things have changed some what! Seems to me so?bust me up if it don't! I've been married near six months now, and the fact is, Susan showed the least bit more temper than I thought she had ; in "fact to speak the right down truth, she's knocked things about generally for the last two months, and kicked up the old boy in particular! She's slung the cat through the window by the tail, and would have thrown me out of the?by the heels, if I hadn't walked out in a fast run. She's got cross as four sticks, and says she'll use half a dozen on my back if I don't quit smoking m the house. And she threatened to throw the bootjack down my throat last night because I spit in the fire. If she'd done that, I suppose I'd have had the colic or bootjack cramp. "Timothy Niggins," says I, to myself, says I, "you have gone and done it, you've put your foot in it, and you have got to put up with the consequences, you have. Come what will, you can't get out of it, you can't.'' A girl loses her beauty mighty quick after she gets to be Mrs. Susan Sunflower was pretty as wenus; but jist as soon as I married her, her skin turned yellow, her eyes lost their beauty, her hair got thin, and Bhe got to be jist the shape of an ale cask?she has, by jingo ! And Oh! what a temper she has got.? Never knowed her to be mad before 1 married her; never knowed her to offer to throw the stove or chair down anybody's throat; . no, never until she was Mrs. Niggins !? a A _n ?;-Li .f*. "1 audi says sue ix come uxx nguv auer itwhile ; but I don't see why she can't be all right now, I don't; if she don't improve soon, the Lord help me! "Jist you spit in that fire again," says she to me yesterday ; "jist do it again, and I'll throw this stick of wood down your throat! What did I marry you for ? To run round after you and make up the fire after you Fit it out ? You tormenting beast? Did marry you to slave and work for you while you smoke and chaw, and chaw and smoke, and spit in the fire ? There's the pj^s I had to feed, too ; there's them chick* ens I had to feed too; there's Ben Dyke's hog got in the garden and dug up my seedbeets, and you never saw it; there's that old rooster scratched up my onion bed and you never saw it! And you never see noth mg you ought to see, and see everything you oughtn't to see! There's Ann Buster who was over here yesterday, I saw you wink at her! I saw you, wink at her! I saw you, Tim N:jgins! Don't say you didn't! I saw you?1 say I saw you I I?' jig* A school teacher, about to marry a widower with a number of children, sent in her resignation to the committee, because she "had engaged, for an indefinite period of time, as an assistant in a private family." I Miscellaneous Reticles. ' CROSS EXAMINING A FALSE WITNESS. It is said of Warren, the distinguished lawyer and author, that the following sharp practice in the examination of a man accused of swearing falsely in a will case is recorded. It shows great dramatic powers unconsciously exhibited in his daily business. The prisoner being arraigned, and the formalities gone through, he was asked if he had seen the testator sign that instrument ; to which he promptly answered he had. "And did you sign it at his request, as subscribing witness?" "I did." "Was it sealed with fed or black wax?'' "With red wax." "Did you see him seal it with, red wax ?" "I did." "Where was the testator when he signed and sealed this will ?" "In his bed." "Pray, how long a piece of wax did he use?" "About three or four inches long." "Who gave the testator this piece of wax?" "I did." "Where did you get it ?" "From the drawer of his desk." "How did he light that piece of wax?" "With a candle." "Where did you get that piece of candle from ?" "I got it out of the cupboard in his room."? "How long was that, piece of candle?"? "Perhaps four or five inches long." "Who lit that piece of candle ?" "I lit it." '' With what ?" "With a match ?" "Where did you get that match?" "On the mantleshelf in the room." Here Warren paused and fixing his large, deep blue eyes on the prisoner, he held the will up above his head, his thumb still resting upon the seal, and said, in a solemn and measured tone? "Now, sir, upon your solemn oath, you saw the testator sign that will; he signed it in his bed; at his request you signed it as a subscribing witness; you saw him seal it; it was with red wax he sealed it?a piece two, three, or four inches long; he lit that wax with a piece of candle which you procured for him from a cupboard; you lit that candle by & match which you found on the mantleshelf ?" "I did." "Once more, sir, upon your solemn oath, you did?" "I did." Your honor?it's a wafer7" THE GUTTA-PERCHA TREE. Sumatra, a large island in the Indian Ocean, has large forests of the gutta-percha tree (lsonandro gutta). "Gutta" is the native name for gum, and "percha" is the Malayan name of a forest tree. The virtues and uses of this tree have not been long known to us. Previous to 1844 its vefy name had not been hdlrd in England. About that time an English Physician was walking through a forest when he' saw a woodman at work. Observing that the handle of his axe was of a substance quite unknown to him, he inquired what it was made of, and was told that it was the juice or gum of a tree, which could be moulded into any form by merely dipping it into hot water, after which, when cold again, it became quite hard. On examining the tree the physician found the juice lying in stright lines down the trunk, and that by cutting small holes in the trunk, it freely flowed out, of a whitish color. On hardening it became darker in appearance. In the first instance about two hundred-weight were sent to England as an experiment; its utility was soon discovered, and now several hundred tuns are imported every year. Gutta-percha is largely used for soles of shoes, piping, bottles, and other purposes where durability is required. It is also turned to account for finer and more ornamental work, some indeed, of considerable beauty. But its highest use is in the coating it forms to electric cables. Little did the worthy physician imagine that in a short time it would be well known throughout the land, and regarded as one of the most valuable substances possessed by man. Besides the juice, the tree yields a pleasant fruit, a valuable oil, and a drug for the chemist. Its flowers are used by the natives of the Indian peninsula for food, and is wood is a good timber. EUROPEAN ^INGENUITY. The old world is trying its best to keep up with the new in industrial inventions, and the Paris Exhibition affords a fine field for ingenuity to display the results of its talent and perseverance. There is a machine in operation there at present, from Wurtemburg, for making paper from wood, which is said to be the most extensive apparatus in the whole Exposition. A tree cut into covenient blocks, is put in at the top of the mountain of continuous and gradually descending rollers and grinders, and comes out quite rapidly at your feet in the shape of a fine, white, soft pulp, ready to be pressed into any form of paper desired. A machine accomplishing the same result in a somewhat different manner, as far as may be judged from the above vague description of a Paris letter-writer, has been in practical operation for some months?a year or more?in this country. Indeed, there are several factories here where paper is made from woody fibre, and a num ber of the daily and weekly papers use it exclusively. Whether the Wurtemburgers have a just title to the original idea is uncertain. The French were trying a number of similar experiments some years ago, but with what final success we do not know. But at all events the German machine, as described above, is ahead of any other yet invented in simplicity of method and vastness of resultf. It reminds the writer of the celebrated "mutton mill, by which, putting a live ram in at the top, you were in a few moments presented at the bottom of the apparatus with all the "best cuts" of mutton, readily dressed, together with an elegant pair of carved powder horns, a flask of neatsfoot oil, a keg of bone dust, a finely finished dozen of sheep's wool stockings, and a pair of sheepskin breeches of approved pattern and make.?N. Y. Post. The Roman B^d-Time.?An immense majority of men in Rome never lighted a candle, unless sometimes at eariy uawn. And the custom of Rome was the custom also of all nations that lived around the great pond of the Mediterranean. In Athens, Egypt, Palestine, Asia Minor, everywhere the ancients went to bed, like good boys, from seven to nine o'clock. The Turks and other people, who succeeded in the stations and the habits of the ancients, do so at this day. The Romans, therefore, who saw no joke in sitting round a table in the dark, went off to bed as the darkness began.- Everybody did so. Old Numa Pompilious himself was obliged to trundle off in the dark. Tarquinius might be a very superb fellow; but we doubt whether he ever saw a farthing rush light. And though it may be thought that plots and conspiracies would flourish in such a city of darkness, it is to be considered that the conspirators themselves had no more candles than honest men; both parties were in the dark. of the Heme LOUIS ARCHER'S TEMPTATION.. " "Halloa, there, Henry Brown! Wha are your hurrying home so for ? Stop a min ate, I want to tell you about the spelling school to morro# night" "Father and mother have gone to Unci* Harper's to spend the night; so I'm in j hurry, Louis, as I have all the chores to d< at the barn. Father says cattle and sheej ought to be well cared for this cold weath er; and I'll not let them suffer when he'i away. Run along with me, Louis, and w< can talk on the way." "You know, Henry, I mean to choosi , sides with Erastus Sibley. Everybody knows he is a first-rate speller,?one of thi sure kind,?has not missed a word in thi spelling book for two winters. Those hare words Mr. Barton finds in the dictionary puzzle him sometimes; but he hunts then up before he leaves the school house. I be lieve the fellow couldn't sleep a wink, aftei hearing a word he didn't know how to spell until he learned it. I expect he will b< an editor like Greeley or Raymond, dowr in New York, one of thepe days. Unless ] atndv hard T shall cnt a Door fiarure SDel ling against him. Of course his side wil beat, but we must spell our best. I'll choose you first, and he intends to choose Simor Golden. Mr. Barton told us the pagef from which he will give most of the words and I want you to come over to our house to-night and study them with me." "But Louis, as father is away, I cannot leave home. v Come and stay all night wit! me and we^ll master the lesson." The boys separated, each going to his home, and early in the evening were together in Mr. Brown's sitting-room, bu3j with their spelling books. All the hare words were given to each other, and manj more sought in the dictionary. Louis Archer went home before daylight to help his brother fodder the cattle, and joined Henrj on his way to school. "Spell 'memmonics,' shouted Henry, as Louis approached. The word was prompt ly spelled, and a dozen more in rapid succession. "I wish this was Saturday, and I'd asi father to let me go out fox-hunting witl Mr. Colman," Louis said. "He always goes a hunting after such a light fall of snow as this. I like to hear him tell stories about that hunting trip he took out West last fdll. He killed three bears and lots of small game besides." "What are you doing out there in the snow, Henry; tracking a fox ?" ' Henry saw a little piece of paper fluttering in the ^ L? ^1* am/] A?nm r4- h c wiiiu uy but; icuuc, auu stcppcu uuu nut path to get it. "Hurrah, Louis ! Here's Mr. Barton's list of hard words all written down, ready for the spelling school." "Good," cried Louis, "now we'll beat Erastus!" <" ^ The boys hurriedly read the carefully selected list and spelled them several times before reaching the school house. Mr. Barton sat near his desk reading a newspaper, unconscious of his loss. Louis and Henry were too much excited to attend to their ordinary duties. They copied the words from the paper on their slates and committed them. Louis meant to keep the list until noon, and then drop it, unobserved, into the teacher's desk. At recitation in arithmetic, Henry failed in his usual accuracy ; his figures were poorly made, as his mind was not at ease. Conscience whispered, "Tell Mr. Barton you found his list of words." But he thought, "I dare not; for Louis will be angry. He is so anxious to win that he sees no harm in keeping it to ourselves." At recess, Henry told his thoughts to his friend, who resolutely said, "No, indeed! I won't be so foolish as tha.t! I'll put the paper into his desk, and he'll never know anything about it.". "But he will suspect us if we spell those words so promptly." "I don't care. I mean my side shall beat Sibley's; and you are not going to be so mean as to tell and spoil the fun. I won't speak to you again this winter if you do !" Henry felt that it would be useless to say more, and went slowly into the school house. He saw the path of duty; but to walk therein would make Louis his enemy. Before noon he wisely resolved to do right, at whatever cost. When school was dismissed he walked out into the calm winter air. To h^ surprise Louis joined him and remarked, "I have been thinking the matter over, Henry, and find you are right. We will tell Mr. Barton, the whole truth about it." The two boys went in, and Louis handed the paper to Mr. Barton. "Oh, sir; T 1? A 1 il?i T I was soreiy xempieu iu seep mat, uui jl knew it would be wrong." "You have done nobly, Louis, in not yielding to temptation. My dear boys, if you would prosper, always scorn deceit and speak the truth.- . From the experience of a life that has numbered more years than yours, I assure you that the path of duty is alone the path of safety." ? ? Beautiful Answers.?A pupil of the Abbe Sicord gave the following extraordinary answers: "What is gratitude ?" "Gratitude is the memory of the heart." "What is hope?" "Hope is the blossom of happiness." "What is the difference between hope and desire ?" "Desire is a tree in leaf, hope is a tree in flower, and enjoyment is a tree in fruit." What is eternity f" "A day without a yesterday or to-morrow?a line that has no end." "What is God?" "The necessary being, the sun of eternity, the machinist of nature, the eye of justice, the watchmaker of the universe, the soul of the world." Evil Zeal.?Beware of mistake'about zeal. It is attractive, useful, well-nigh essential to success. But have you never wondered at its readiness to serve wrong as well as right??at its pertinacity in bad men, and in the interest of selfishness and vice ? Has it never seemed as though evil was prolific in zeal ? Be not misled. 2ieal is not righteousness, nor a proof of truth. It may be a sign of the absence of both, put on to win the thoughtless, and thus break the dread solitude of sin. It is one of evil's chief disguises to cheat the unwary. Evil cannot live without it. A little fellow, not more than five years of age, hearing some gentlemen at his father's table discussing the familiar line, "An honest man's the noblest work of God," said he knew it wasn't true : his mother was better than any man that was ever made. _ JSgj0* Eyes raised to heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be. fftyarimettt. A HARVEST SCENE. t Fair and fresh the winds are blowi/ig, Brightly shines the son to-day Over meadow, hill and woodland, r On the newly gathered hay. * White and purple, green and golden, 3 Flock the fields alar and near; . Whilo the harvest hands are singing, 1 "We'll have whlTfilTd barns' this year." Hear the winding beck that ripples Thro' the meadow, copse and glen, How it murmurs, as if ans'ring j Back the joyful songs of men. 3 New in sunshine, now in shadow, Winding out and winding in, Like a mirror it reflecteth, 3 All day long the harvest scene. 7 Lenth'nlng shadows now from woodlands 3 Over bode and meadow creep, 3 While behind his gorgeous curtains, | Sinks the harvest sun to sleep. Giving promise to the reapers, ' After labor, rest shall come? 1 Tired hands be calmly folded. 'Midst the sacred scenes of home. r Patiently the farmer waited-?. ? Work d and waited like a man, ? Never doubting that the "Master 3 Well would end what he began. [ Now he hath the promised blessing, L Fruit for all his honest toll; Never lord was half so happy As this tiller of the soil. 3 DRIED GRASS. i This is what ought to be meant when hay } is mentioned. Much so-called hay is but ( straw, little better than oat or barley straw. ? Several gentlemen have written very sensibly in the Country Gentleman on the t subject of cutting grass young, adducing L good solid reasons for so doing. There is another argument against the folly of al} lowing grass to become ripe or nearly so, . than the spoiling of hay: it is a fact, ber yond the ability of any one to refute, that I one week's standing after blooming takes I more from the soil than all the previous . growth, thus robbing the next year's crop, i preventing any after feed, as well as. pec- I r manently injuring the field, often causing a breaking up with the plow and re-seeding, ! thus loosing many good varieties of natural i grasses which would thrive and thicken the sward if treated right. It is admitted that < a green forage crop of sowed corn or vetch- ! es, rye, millet,.oats, &c., cut very early, leaves the land little the poorer for the abstraction, but if any of these ripen, there is such a difference as Appears evident to the meanest capacity. The same weakening of the soil is caused by the seeding of the grass, while thararticle makes a very inferior quality of hay by being allowed to become so old. ^ Why do the meadows and upland, grass in America run out, while in England age UUlJf JLiiDl WIOCO ?UCU puUUV/UTV I^UTTOIO ? , The quality likewise improves annually i there, thickening for the first twenty years by the addition of the best natural va: ne'ties of herbage, which is given a chance to grow and get established by the stronger , sorts being cut and removed from the suri face prior to the choking of the finer spe* cies. There is no exaggeration in the state[ ment that a landlord in England would , give a tenant notice to leave his farm if he i did not cut his grass till it seeded, and the [ next of kin to a man farming his own land, > would have sufficent ground for taking the estate out of his possession and confining him in a lunatic asylum, for wasting his . own property and injuring permanently i that which deficefads to his heirs. Morever, by delay the weight is not so much heavier' as may be imagined, for though the seed which is not knocked out and lost may be some addition, the dried up , stems and the leaves that fall off or are eaten by the grasshoppers, are ^so much loss. It may be taken as a fair criterion 1 when a man collects his hay seeds from his managers, he is a poor specimen of a farmer, for his cattle show more sense than he , has in rejecting what he has foolishly impoverished his land and spoiled .his hay to obtain. , By the time this is in print hay making ought to be over, yet you will be met with the cry "the grass is growing," and unlessjr in some Deculiar instances, so are those who] argue thus, growing bigoted, or they would surely have observed ere this, that good hay must he made from grass that is growing, not ripening.?Country Gentleman. ** I + ? ? < v- GRASS FOR HORSES.' r Many persons think that horses that are kept in the stable all summer should not be allowed to eat grass. They think that it ' will make the horse soft, wishywashy, and that it will throw him out of condition for hard work. This is particularly the case with some of the trainers of trotting and running horses. .And horses that are kept up for farm and other work are refused grass because their drivers think they will not eat hay so well. This was formerly . the case more than is now. But these are all erroneous opinions and practices, and giving way, gradually, to a more reasonable and natural system of feeding. Grass is the natural food of the horse.? It is a cooling and healthful food. It keeps the bowels open and sharpens the appetite. It promotes digestion, and removes fever from the system. Therefore, by all means, let the horse nip the grass fifteen or twenty minutes daily. Whether training for trot- j ting or running, it will be attended by the \ ! highest benefit. The horse will loose none j of his speed by such a course of treatment. TTnraoo that ?r? kflntnn the vear round fori farm work should certainly be allowed a < nice nibble of grass every day. They work ' . hard, and all they get is something to eat. , Let them have, then, what they all like so 1 well.?Rural World. , BOOK FARMING?WHAT IS IT T It is simply the best farming put in books?yours reader, if it is the best. A fool cannot write a book; an able man must ; do it?not a mau of mere accomplishments or learning?but one versed in the business ' he writes upon. It is thus that we have # i books by the best men in all the depart- * . ments. These make our literature?and to . be opposed to them, is to be arrayed against knowledge, against schools and newspapers. What is thought of the man who opposes education ? And what is education, but to ; learn to know a thing ? If the prejudiced reader (prejudiced against book farming) knows how to trim his vine, he is the man, if he has words for it, to write a book on the subject?the very man we want, for we are after facts, after the best mode. And " yet his would be called "book fanning."? It is mere prejudice, depend upon it. But, there is one evil, which gives rise to j this very prejudice: bad books are foisted ] on the public. These are read, and they lead into error; and forthwith good and bad ] are condemned. Our best men certainly are not the fools. Our ablest men, who lead in their depart- , merits,,ar? men qualified, if any, to impart instruction. Shall we heed them, or shall we follow after our own half-formed, inexperienced notions ? We have our prejudices, and* they make us believe we are* right, without consulting the facts in the caBe. How to Dry Nice Fruit.?The weath-. er should be dry and warm and the' fruit perfectly ripe ; slice it thin and spread on boards, or mats made of coarse white oak splits. If spread carefully, each piece separately^ it will be dry enough to put in baskets or bags in the evening; but it will be necessary to put them out in the sun oo casionally to prevent molding, or worms getting in. Stone fruits will take longer to dry. It is always best to peel the fruit at night, so as to put it out early in the morning. A good hand can peel a bushel at night with ease. Fruit dried in this way is of a light delicate color. It should never be allowed to remain out in the dew, as that makes it very dark and injures the flavor. i - ? Ik ?orfeviUc GNpiret. TERMS?I]V ADVANCE r r' SPECIE. CURRENCY. Oue Copy, one year, 2 60 - . $ 3 60 One Copy, Six. months, 1 26 2 00 Onepopy, Three montlc?,.. 76. I 00 Two Copies, ono year, 4 60 0 00 Five Copies, 44 44 8 75 12 50 Ten Copies, 44 44 17" 50 25 00 To persons who make up clubs of ten or more :.umes, un extra copy of the paper will be furnished one year, freo of charge. ADVERTISEMENTS Will be inserted at One Dollar and Fifty Cents per square for the first, and Sevonty-flve Cents per square for each subsequent insertion?less than three months. A square consists of the space occupied by ten lines of this size type, or one inch. No advertisement considered less than a square. 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TERMS?CASH. 4 COUNTING-HOUSE ALMANAC FOE 1867. icaigi^ *J'Gc Gg'Sit+S sll^i "3" ? llgssss SfsfSgS >igfl *!&&? Ss:oa!?H? 1807. si^g^"18"7j : i > ?< I -J : 11 I*i J2 ^ I r< j !_ i_ _ J L_ i_l Ulji: ^ i_ 1. i_ Jan .'vl?2 3 4 5 July...| 1 2 3 4 5 6 61 7 8*9 10 11 12 71 8 9,10 11 1213 13114 1516 17 18 19 14'15! 16117 18 19 20 20 21122 23;24 25 26 21 22 23;24 25 28 27 127 28-20 30^31! ! 28'29 30 31 Feb. 1 ...! 1 2 APO. ...i '. ... 1 2 3 ; 3 4 5 6 7' 8 9! 4| 5 6 7 8 9 10 |10 11112 13 1415 16 1112 13 14 15 16 17 17 18:i9 20 2i:22 2a 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 24 25i26 27 28'...j. .( 25 20 27 28 29 30 31 Mar.! j l! 2 ... ... I 3 4 5 6 7 81 9: Sept. 1 2 3 4, 5 6 7 ! 10 11 12 13 14,15:16, 8 910 11.12 13 14 17 18 19 20;21'22 23 15 16il7 18|19 20 21 24 25126 27128 29 30 22 23124 25 26,27 28 31 ... 29 301 !... ...I... Apr. ... l! 2 3| 4 51 6 Oct | 1 2i 3 4 5 7 81 9 10 11 1213, 0 7 8 9 lOill 12 114 ir, lfi 17 18 19 20 13 14 15 16:17:18 19 2122 23 24 25 26127! 20i21!22 23 24 25 26 . 28 29:30 ...j 27l28 29 30:31 Mat !... 1 2 3! 4; Nov 1 2 5 0; 7 8i 9:10;111 8 4 5 6! 7 8! ? 12 13 14 15' 16; 17jl8 10,11 12 13 14 15H6 19 20 21 22 23'24,25i 17 18 19 20 21 22123 i26 27 28 29 30,31'...' 24 25,26 27 28 29 30 Jvxe ! .J.J l: ...I... J...L 2 3 4 5 6! 7, 8, Dec.. 1 2 3 4 5! 6 7 9 10,11 12 13 14 15 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 221 15:16 17118 19 20 21 23 24,25 26,27 28,29 1 22|29 24-25:26,27 28 30 ...I l...l...!...l| 29,30 E. R. STOKES, BOOK - BINDER, AND BLANK-BOOK MANUFACTURER, Opposite J. C. Dial's Hardware Store, MAIN ST., COLUMBIA, S. C. BLANK-BOOKS Ruled to any Pattern, Paged and Bound in the best Possible Manner, with Printed Headings when required. The attention 5f Clerks, Sheriffs, Ordinaries, Commissioners in Equity, Railroad Officials, and all public officers is particularly invited. 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November 29 32 tf snuff. rn POUNDS CAROLINA BELLE SNUFF. DU For sale by T. M. DOBSON A CO. THE EEC0E8TEVCTHUI XAWfl. For the information of our rdiidn, we re-pub- ' lish, the "Reconstruction Act," the "Proposed Constitutional Amendment," "An Act to Prescribe an Oath of Office," and the "Supplement to the Stovens-Shefman Shellabarger Bill,"'all of which * we will keep standing until an-opportunity shall < have been presented for obtaining the necessary : information which these papers contain: < THE EEOOH8TBUOTIOH ACT. c Asr Act to provide tor the more efficient govern- < mentof the rebel States.. . i [Passed over the President's Veto, March 2d, 180?. J t Whereas, no legal State governments or ade- t quale protection for life or property now exists J iri the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, t South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama. Lousiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas] and i whereas, ft is necessaty that peace and good or- t der should be enforced irr said States xuitilloyal 1 and Republican State Governments can belegal- i ly established: Therefore, " i Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- t resentatives of the United States of America: in c Congress assembled, That said rebel States shall i be divided into military districts and madeanb- r ject to the military authority of the United States, t as hereinafter prescribed, and for that purpose a Virginia shall constitute the first district: North J Carolina and South Carolina the seoond district; t Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, the third district: ? Mississippi and Arkansas the fourth district; and t Louisiana and Texas the fifth district* 1 Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it.shall t be the duty of the President to assign to the com- 1 mand o? each of said districts an officer of the c army, not below the rank of Brigadier general, ? and to detail a sufficient military force to enable i such officer to perform -his duties and' enforce his c authority within the district in which he' is as- t signed. 1 c o a a va li m it.mu^i u _ ow, o. Aiiu uw ii> xurvuer eiuiavu, iubv iv nuou u be the duty of each officer assigned as aforesaid ( to protect all persons in their rights of person and i property, to suppress insurrection; disorder and s violence, and to punish or cause to be punished all disturbers of the public peace and criminals, t and to this end he may allow local civil tribunals e to take Jurisdiction or and to try offenders, or, a when in his judgment it may be necessary for the < trial of offenders, he shall have power to organize r military commissions or tribunals for that par* e pose, and all interference, under color of state t authority, with the exercise of military authority i under this act, shall be null and void. t Sec. 4. And be it farther enacted, That all per* o sons put under military arrest by virtue of this 1 act snail be tried without unnecessary delay, and o no cruel or unusual punishment Bhalloe inflicted; 1 and no sentence of any military .commission, or r tribunal hereby authorized, affecting the life or t liberty of any person, shall' be executed until it is o approved by the officer in command of the district, t ana the laws and regulations of the government n of the army shall not be effected by this act, ex- L cept in so far as they conflict with its provisions; Provided, That no sentence of death, nnderthe o provisions of this act, shall be carried into effect fa without the approval of the President. v Sec. 5. Ana be ifcfurther enacted, That when v the peopletaf any of said rebel States shall nave \ formed a constitution of government in conforml- v t y with the Constitution of the United States in tj all respects, framed by a convention of delegates, tl elected by the male dozens of said State, twenty- a one years old and upwards, of -whatever race, color r or previous condition, who. have been resideht in y said State for one year previous to the day of Such g election, except such as may bo disfranchised for n participation in the rebellion, or for felony at com- fa mon law; and when such constitution snail pro- v vicle that this elective franchise shall be enjovea by a all such persons as have the qualifications herein a stated for electors of delegates ; and when such fa constitution shall be ratified by a majorityof the o persons voting on the question of ratihcatiatl, who c are qualified as electors for delegates; ancTwhen 1 such Constitution shall have been submitted c to Congress for examination and approval; and \ Congress shall have approved the same; and when the said State, by a vote of Its Legislature, d elected under said constitution, shall have adopted a the amendment to the constitution of the United"- M States, proposed by the Thirty-binth Congress, p and known as article fourteen fan d when Bald.ar- s tide shall have WBcome a part of the constitution * of the United States; said State shall be declared a entitled to representation in Congress, and Sena- t tors od Representatives shall be admitted there- s from i their taking the oath prescribed by law: a and then and thereafter the preceding sections of c this act shall be inoperative in said State. Provi- t ded, That no person excluded from the privilege t of holding office by said amendment to the'ocmsa'- i tution of the United States shall be eligible to-eMfc* c tion as e member of the convention to Aflame a I constitution for any of said rebel States, nor shall any such person vote for members of such conven- c tion. * Bsc. 0. And belt further enacted, That until ( the people of said rebel States shall be by law ad- t mitted to representation m tne congress or tne e United States, any civil governinent -which may c exist therein shall be deemed provisional only, e and in all respects subject to the paramount au- t thoritv of the United States at any tame to abolish^ a modify, control or supersede the same; and iMp t elections to any office nnder such provisional gov- t ernments all persons shall be entitled to'vote, and t none others, who are entitled to vote nnder the t provisions of the fifth section of this act j and no c person shall be eligible to any office , nnder such provisional governments who wouldbedisquali- c fled from holding office under the provisions of \ the third article of said constitutional amendment i SCHUYLER COLFAX, c Speaker of the House of Representatives, t LAFAYETTE 8. FOSTER, \ President of the Senate, pro iem. c .?? ? a proposed oonrmmoTAL ajcehDveit. r The following is the Constitutional Amendment [ referred to in the 4th section of the "Reoonatnm- e tion Act" ' + - - '** - t] ARTICLE XIV. * t Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the i United States ana subject to the jurisdiction there- " of are citizens of the United States and of the State " wherein they reside. No State shall make or en- ? force any law which shall abridge the privileges ^ or immunities of citizensof the United States; nor " shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty ? or property, without due process .of law, nor deny '* to any person within its jurisdiction the equal * protection of,the laws. Sec. 2. Representatives .shall be apportioned a- f mong the several States according to their res pective numbers, counting the whole number o^persons in each State excluding Indians not taxed.? But when the right to vote at any election for* the Z. choicoof electors for President and Vice President g of the United States. Representatives in Congress, ? Executive and Judicial Officers of a State, or the ? members of the Legislature thereof is denied to " any of the male inhabitants of such State, being ^ twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United j States, or in any way abridged except for partici- J: pation in rebellion or other crime, the basis ot rep- S resentation therein shall be reduced in the propor- * tion which the number of such male citizens snail ? bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty- " one years of age in such State. * Sea. 8. No person shall be a Senator or RepreaAntfttivA in nonm-ess. or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States or under any State, S who, having previously taken an oath as a mem- ^ ber of Congress, or as an officer of the. United ^ States, or as a member of any State Legislature, " or as an Executive or Judicial Officer of any State to support the Constitution of the United States, J* shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion a- P gainst the same, or given aid and comfort to the P enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of " two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. 7 Sec. 4. The validity of the public debt of the " United States authorized by law, including debts incurred forpayment of pensionsand bounties for t services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion. ? shall not be questioned. But neither the United _ States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt t or obligation "incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such 1 debts, obligations and claims, shall be held illegal f< and void. u Sec. 5. The Congress shall have power toenforce a by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article. .** c t V AH AOT TO PBE8CBEBE AH OATH OF OPPIOE. The following is the oath of office referred to in J the 5th section of the "Reconstruction Act," and T also in the 6th of the Supplementary Bill: Be it enacted, That hereafter any person elected or appointed to any office of honor or profit under the government or the United States, either in the _ civil, military or naval department of the public service, except the President of the United States, shall before entering upon the duties of such office, * and before being entitled toany of the salary or other emolument thereof, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: "I, A. B, do solemn- _ ly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily j borne arms against the U.' S. since I have been a clt- j izcn thereof; that I have voluntarily givenno aid, j countenance, counsel or encouragement to persons j engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I havenev- j er sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise j the functions of any office whatever, under any au- j thority, or pretended authority, in hostility to the i United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary c support to . any pretended government, power or r constitution within the United States, hostile or in- j imical thereto; and I do further swear (or affirm) j that to the best of my knowledge and ability, I will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; t that I will bear true faith and allegianoe to the same; t that I take this obligation freely, without any m en- f tal reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will 6 well and faithfully discharge the duties of the offioe on which I am about to enter. So help me God," which oath, so taken and signed, shall be preserved 1 among the files of the Court, Houses of Congress, or J the department to which said officer may apper- & tain. And any person who may falsely take said oath shall be guilty or perjury, and on conviction, $ in addition to the penalties now prescribed tor that y offence, shall be deprived of his office, and rendered incapable, forever after, of holding any office or g place under the United States. P Approved July 2,1802. 8UPPBDKOT TOtHBBIBICBIS-SHBMiS KLL Ai* ACT snppleppmtal to an. Act euttitei An Act to provide lor the more efficient govornmentiof the rebel States, passed March 2,1867, and to lb?. cilitate restoration.' ' >*'< Be it enacted, Ac., Thfat- before the'first day;"of September, 1867, the commanding general in <Sieh' iistrlct denned by the Act-to provide for the taoreof therebrt8foteB^^pra^|h >f the male citizens of the UnHedStates, twentyme years of age, tad Upwards, resident In each ounty or parish in the State or Statee-Jttoluded ? his district, which registration will ind&dbbflty" hose persons who are qualified to vOttf for delegates by the Act aforesaid, and who ahull bsveiaten and subscribed the following oath or affirmsdfcOsH a 1A i if % ??, do solemnly swear, or affirm, in the jreeehce of Almighty God, thht I am a dtized dc, he State of '. ; that I have teeidedln said State or ?j? monthsnext precetfingthis day, and nbW aside in the county of , orUhe parish of n said State, as the ease may be; that lias tweny-oneyears old: that-1 have not been*distort-, inised for participation in any ..rebellion or civil var against the* united States, nor for felony oomn ft ted against the laws of any State or of the Unied States"; that I have never'been a memberljf iny State Legislature^ or held any ExecrrtlvOor udicial Office in any State, ami afterwards engaged ... n insurrection ana rebellion against: the Imliadt States, and given aid or comfort to tbO enemiea hereof; thatl have never taken aqortbasnpifmr >er of Congress of thp U. S., o>r as an officer of he United States, or as a member of any,State legislature, or as en Executive or Judicial Offider* if any State, to support the Constitution Of the U.. States, and afterwards engaged in Insurrection Of ebellion against the Upitedftates or given aid or omfort to the enemies thereof; thai I willlfciftbr hlly support the Constitution and. obey the lawn rf the United States, anit will, to the beet of my I ibility, encourage others Ho to do. Sb help me rhich oath or affirmation may be administered by iny registering officer. ^ Sec^J^That'a^^the oompletiouof the regiatreippoint and direct, of which" mbllc notice Shall be given, an election shall be teld of delegates to a contention for the purpoetwf etoblishing a oonatitutkm and civil government Or such State, loyal to the Union; satd convention a each State, except Virginia, to consist of the pane Lumber of members as the most numerous branch >f the State Legislature of such State In the' year 860, to be apportioned among theseveral districts, ountlee, or parishes of such State by the cominimdng general, giving to each, representation in the atio of voters registered as aforesaid aa nearly jae nay be. The convention In Virginia shall consist f the same number of membergasreiKresented the srritory now constituting Virginia in JQxajiaa& tumerous branch of the'Legislature of said State a the year 1880, to bi apportioned as afortsaitLt Sec. 3. That at such ejection the registered voters feach State shall vote for or against a convention f a form a constitution thereof under thisaefc. Those oting in favor of such a convention shell have rritten or printed on the ballots by which they ote for delegates as aforesaid, the words "for acoq-. entkm;" and" those voting againStstich aconvenlon Bhall have written or prmted'on such ballots he words "against -a convention. The persptjs ppolntedto superintend said election, and to mkke eturn of the votes given thereat, as'herein pro - ] ided, shall count and makfi return of4h? veto* Iveu for and against a convention.; and titoQQWtff .. landing general^tp whom M^s otein each Stiatefor andayhSfaconventiotVTr haUlje for a convention, then a convention shall o held, as hereinafter provided f^ut if a majority f said votes sludlbe against a convention, then no onventloii shall,be held nndertfila^ct: Provided, "hat such convention shall hot bc held unless a rutfority of all auch registered voters shall have oted on the Question oZaoIdfci/rauflfe convention. j Sec. 4. That the commanding general of each J Lintrlct shall appoint such loyal officers or pOrsoM I a may be necessary, not exceeding three m each 1 gi^o^distri^toa^y State, to^make and wmnd make return to^him 'ot Ihe 'votea, listh^of 'U 1*31 a ttiiu vu mw persona U1W.-U3U as OWBglM* UT t plurality q?41ul votea caat at Bald election; and ... ipon receiving laid returns ha abhll open tfcS 9 ' me, ascertain the persona elected^* delegates iccordlng to the returns of iteojaM^Vhoo?ft} ft .. tucted said election, ttixd makp, proclamation hereof;'and If sniugerity of the'votes given on > hat question shall be .for a eottWtotion, lbs eoihnanaing. general within sixhfcdavs- IhuD the data >f election, shall notH^ihe "rinltmlrs to aaedUUe n convention at a time and plaoftta be'mention* din the notification, and said convention, wbetx if this act, and toe act to jrW? !fcWsu?plemeHary rand when thesaineehallhave been so fratn>d, said Constitution shall be submitted- by the invention for ratification to the persona register- y id under the provisions of thia act, # m eleo- ! ion to-be conducted by the officers. ror persons ippointed by the commanding general as herein- \ Sbre prodded,andtobeXldaftOTlffiexpfra- \ ion of thirty days fromjhagi&te of notice thereof ! | o be given by said convention, apd.toe returns hereof shall'be made to the commanding general if the district. 'T' Sec. 5. That if. aeooiging to said retnrna,-the v onstitution shall be ratified by ? majority oftbe -otes of the registered electors qualified as bereu specified, cast at said election, at Least one-half f all the registered voters voting upon the q (lesion of spch ratification, the ptyaidept of the conention shall transmit a copyof the same, duly ertified, to the President -or the Uitited States, * rho shall forthwith transmit the same to Con :resa, if then in session, and if not.in qeerion. M hen immediately upon its next assembling; and ' rit.shffll moreover appear to CohgtOss that the a lection was one at which all the registered tfitl [ualified- electors in the State had aiittpportaiiity o vote frfeely and without restraint, mar or the ofluence of fraud, and if Congress shall be satisled that such constitution meets the approval of majority of Che qualified electors in the State, nd if the said constitution Shall be' declared by ingress to be in conformity with the provMons f the act to which this is supplementary, and the ther provisions of said, act shall have been oomilied with, and the said constitution shall beepiroved by Congress, the State sbalh be declared ntitled to representation, and Senator*, and Be- t iresentatives shall be admitted' therefrom as hereti provided. Wv7 1 Sec. 6. That all elections in the States mention- *\ d in the said "Act to provide Tbr the more effllent government of the rebel States," shall, doing toe operation of said acti be by ballot; and all fficers making the said registration of voters and v/uuuvkiutt OO&U V&OUUUUS CULfllly U6IOJTO 0DWnD^ ipon the discharge bf th&r duties, subscribe an ath faithfully to perform the dutieSof their said ffice, and the oath prescribed by the act approved uly 2,1802, entitled "An'act to prescribe an oath f office:" Provided- That if any person shall mowingly and falsely take and subscribe any ath in trns act prescribed, such persqn so offanaSand being thereof duly convictSL shall be 1 ject to the pains, penalties and disabilities ? 1 rhich by law are provided for the punishment of I tie crime of wilful and corrupt penury. ,i Sec. 7. That all expenses Incurred by the several jU ommanding generals, or by virtue of any orders m ued or appointments made by them under or by ? irtue of tnls Act, shall be paid out of ai^mon- -W lee. 8. That tbe^onvention for each^ate shall 1 rescribe the fees, salary, and compensation to be ] aidtoail delegates ana other offioers and agents s .erein authorized or necessary to carry into effect j tie purposes of this Act, not herein otherwise pro- 1 ided for, and shall provide for the levy and col- 1 jction of such taxes on the property In suchState s may be necessary to pay the same. Sec. 9. That the wora "article" in the sixth secIon of the Act to which this is supplementary, hall be construed to mean "section." rAITJE OP COBTEDBRATE CXJB1IICT. A NNEXED is a table showing the value of "Con\ federate currrency" in United States currency 3r the last four years?deputed from the average aonthly rates of the respective currencies, in gold, t New York, Richmond and Angusta. As the rate of stamp duty upon documents exeuted during the late war Is based upon the value f the consideration in United States currency, this able will be found very convenient in fixing that alue. ABLE SHOWING THE RELATIVE VALVE OF "CON- > EDEEATE" AND V. 8. CURRENCY FOR FOUR YEARS. ? | MONTH. J.882. 1863. 1864. I 1966. Value in ValUe-in Value in Value in J Average for ^on*cur" Con. cur- Con. cur-. Con cur- ^ cur'cy. cOPcy, euPcy. cuPcy. J, i January..... ......... $2.00 $13.50 $26.90 February? 2.1^ r 79 28.20 iarch.i.... 2.93 14.57 34.90 IjPrt ' 3J23 12.33 ......... H 4?y - 3.87 10.65 ? A une 4.85 8.12 ? a uly 6.89 7.79 I! August 10.53 8.85 II September.. $2.19 9.71 10.56 Ictober 1.95 9:70 12.80 November.. 2.29 9.90 12.55 leceniber... 2.28 12.60 18.26 To asoertain the value of a given amount of Confederate currency, divide the number of dollars by he figures in the column opposite the date sought or, and the quotient will be the amount in United States currency. rHE CHARLESTON COURIER. PUBLISHED by A. S. WILLINGTON <fe CO., City Printers, NO 111 East-Bay, Charleston, iouth (Carolina. . Terms.?Daily, one year, $10; Daily. 6 months, i 5; Daily, three months, $2 50; Tri-Weekly, one 1 ear, $8; Tri-Weekly, six months, $4. jgat~ The Proprietor of the Enqtjiber is the A- i ent of the "Cbvricr" for Yorkville." He will take I leasure in forwarding subscriptions, M Januarys 36 tf ^ 1 ;