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%mp and Jf?ct? ~j Bennett is going to start a weekly religious paper. It will b? edited by the "devil/' -?- A man at Boston Who sharpens and sets the teeth of saws, announoes himself* on his sign as a "sew dentist" ??-The American Watch Company, Watertown, Conn., tarns oat a watch every two and a half minutes during the working hours of the day. ?; Prentice says one Kttle objection to confiscation is that it is theft. But of course that's no objection at all in the mind of Congress. 7-The latest invention is said to be ink made from India rubber. It has been suggested that writers inclined to "stretch a story" will make use of this valuable acquisition. An old lady in Knox county, Tennessee, on reading Governor Browntow's bulletin stating his health to be in a favorable condition, burst out with, "WeH, folks, I tell you what it is, if Brownlow aon't die soon, he'll go to hell olive." There has been a great freshet in the Upper Mississippi river, the heaviest that has been known since 1850; and it is estimated that the Minnesota lumbermen have lost thbiy-five miiiioa feet or lumber, worth it least f350,000. The Washington Intelligencer says the powers conferred on General Grant by the reconstruction Act are of no acoonnt; that the President will enforce the Act without interference, and, if necessary, will use the army and navy to secure obedi enoe to his commands. The Planters' (La.) Banner says : "On the Opelousaa Railroad, since the overflow, the engineer on the train has frequently to blow the whistle to clear the track of alligators, as the trade is the only thing above water for them to rest on, for many miles beyond Tigerville. The train has run over several alligators since the water went down." A Leather dealer of Philadelphia recently add two sides of leather weighing one hundred ana two pounds, at twenty-five cents per pound, amounting to $56.10. The leather is the hide of an extra fatted ox, which was killed at one of the barbecues preceding the election of General Harrison to the Presidency, about twenty-five years ago. Atlanta, has proved an exception to other Southern cities, and has a majority of white leafr tered citizens in the five wards. The total Kunming up of registration wasj after a careful overhauling of the nooks, ascertained to be as follows:' Total registration 3386. Of the above, 1765 are whites and 1621 are colored?making a majority in favor of the whites of 144. The Sheriffs and Tax Collectors inportions of North Carolina report unexampled difficulty in the collection of the State and County taxes. Some of the parties refuse to pay the State taxes on the ground that the State government nas no practical existence, and believing that the Sheriff will not be allowed to distrain property for the non payment of taxes. The New York Tribune is opposed to offering die Yioe Presidency to a black man, and quotes the opinion of Major Delany, with approbation, that no such nonsense should for a moment be entertained." So that the negro is to be kept out of this office and his votes used for the white radical. This is the practical negro equality of radicalism. The State of North Carolina now offers fori sale all her public swamp lands, amounting to about 1,500,000 acres. These lands are very fertile, and well adapted for grazing purposes. Some of them have, already been drained, and the remainder are susceptible of drainage at a moderate expense.? The lands are sold to aid in developing State resource*, and to support the common schools. A recent letter from Hon. Thaddeus Stevens to a radical friend in Washington city, states that a bill will be presented at the opening of the November Congressional session, for confiscating the property of all ex-slaveholders who dismiss the freedmen for voting the republican ticket Senator Wilson, it is understood, strongly favors this course. The names of such ex-rebels are to be collected by the military commanders for ref5f?enoe. The growth of Texas in material prosperity is gratifying. The population of the State has increased at least 300,000 since 1860, and is being daily swelled by immigration from Europe, and from the Southern States East of the Mississippi. Texas is the land of promise for agriculturists and stock raisers. It affords within its boundaries the products of both the temperate and tropical zones. Provisions are abundant and cheap, and the people desirous of encouraging immigration. Col. Miguel Lopez, the traitor, after selling Maximillian and his generals, went to Puebla to visit his wife. His reception was decidedly cold. His wife advanced to meet him, leading their little son by the hand, and addressed him thus: "Sir, here is vour son; we cannot cut him in two, take him. You are a base coward and traitor.. You have betrayed your country and your benefactor. From this hour we are strangers, for I shall this day retire to my family. Go.' A correspondent of the Charleston Courier writing from Sumter, in this State, says: "The Tax Collector (State) for this District, has returned to "the Sheriff twenty-nine hundred executions, including his own name and the Sheriff's among the deraulters. If the order prevails that none shall vote but those who have paid their taxes, it may have good effect in hastening settlement. Money may be abundant elsewhere, but from the fact here stated, no one would infer there was any redundancy of it in this country." Since 1821 Mexico has gone through the forms of a Republic, an Empire, a Despotism, an Empire again, and has returned now to a so-called Republic. There have been revolutions every year or two?civil wars continually, national and confederated governments at intervals. There have been Generals-in-Chief, Emperors, Presidents and Dictators?nothing settled, everything changing, and that continually. The consequence is that one of the finest countries in the world is almost entirely ruined. -The St. Louis Democrat says: "General Sterling Price, once of the Confederate army, is now a quiet, unostentatious commission merchant in this city. He may be seen occasionally walking down Chesnut street to his place of business, with a careworn countenance ana a slow, wearied step. Being still a fine looking man he attracts attention by his appearance, but many pass him by without recognizing in him the "terrible rebel," who once spread alarm and consternation all over the State." A man, named Schram, while binding wheat in a field near Buchanan, Michigan, last week, gathered up in a sheaf a rattlesnake, which bit him on the finger. With remarkable coolness he immediately took his pocket knife and cut open the end of the finger through the wound made by the snake's tootn, quickly wound a horse-hair tightly around the finger to prevent as much as possible the circulation of the blood, and drank a glass of liquor. Next day he was nearly well, having suffered little inconvenience except being very sick for a short time. The next election, outside the unreconstructed States, will be that of Vermont, which will occur on the 3d of September, and the day after, California at the other extremity of the Union, will follow. A few days afterward, on the 9th of September, Maine will be heard from. Nearly a month will then elapse, at the end of which time the great States of Pennsylvania, Indiana and 0hio will engage in the political struggle?their day of election being the 8th of October. Next will come the elections that occur on the first Tuesday + TknT?0*A \TAtTT VAT?l? MklTXr vi nuvciuuci 1lie aiu. xucvaic^vn Av/ifti^vn Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michiganj Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Nevada. Colorado will vote on the 12th of November, which will close the list of fall elections. The time required to see the Paris Exposi tion is the subject of calculation by an English writer. He says it is necessary to devote, on an average, five minutes to the glass-case of each exhibitor. These number 45,000; it would, therefore, take 225,000 minutes, making 3,750 hours, or 156 days 6 hours; that is, 5 months, 6 days and 6 hours, reckoning 24 hours for each day. But as the interior of the place can only be visited from ten o'clock in the morning till six in the evening, there are only 8 hours at the visitor's disposal, instead of 24. One would, therefore, be occupied in the inspection 15 montns, 20 days, 2 hours, supposing that he entered the building every day at 10 o'clock and did not leave it until 6. It is obvious from this calculation that it is impossible to examine the whole of the exhibition during the time allotted for its duration. A New Orleans gentleman gives the Missouri Republican a minute description of General Sheridan in his public appearance. The state carriage used is a landau, a covered carriage which opens at the top, so as to give an obstructed view or the inmates. Therein sits the General, surround -f. ed by select members of bis staff, he and they bedecked all over with gold laoe, with gold buttons and other ornamentation. To this vehicle are attached six horses, and these are caparisoned with the most elaborately ornamented harness. All this is finished off with a grand display of long white tipped with red feathers, which are fastened to the horses' heads in such fashion as to cause them to undulate in all the graceful mazes of poetic emotion. The cortege is completed by a train of outriders and guards, consisting of two regiments of mounted troops, who, on such occasions, appear in their best bib and tucker. The Charlotte Democrat says that a man, calling himself John R. Sherman, (and representing himself as a son of Ge& Sherman,) has been going through Union County professing to be an agent for the Government to sell land scrip to the negroes, promising that each negro that held the scrip should receive a tract of land. In some instances he swindled the negroes out of as much as $10 and $20 each. In certain sections of Meoklenburg the negroes have been deceived in the same way. Some negroes have held this land scrip for six months, before making any inauiries about its value. It would be well, says the Democrat, for some one to put the colored people on their guard against the operations of a set of mean, low life swindlers, who are going about the country making false promises, and leading the negroes to believe that they will get land, without buying it from the rightful owners. editors: ? t "tittt , .tas. f. hart. J AO. ?i? TT JLLAJVa.1 _ YORKVILLE, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 15, 1867. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood thai our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance. X.?The paper will be discontimied on the expiration of the time for which payment has beer made. AvSubscriber finding a (A) cross-mark or the wrapper or margin of Ins paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. GO AND REGISTER I The Registers, under the .Military Reconstruction Acts, begin the important work of registration, in this State, this week. The life of the State depends upon the votes of its intelligent citizens; and if such feel an interest in the future, or experience a hope for the return of better days to our State, let them go at once and exercise this important privilege. All who can register, owe it to themselves and their children to do so now. It may be the last time the privilege will be offered. If you are not disfranchised by the Acts of Congress, do not disfranchise yourself by failing to reg ister. Under the Acts aU can register who did not hold any civil office before the war. Some who did hold such offices, are not disfranchised, and we would advise such as have doubts to go, this week, and consult with the members of the Registry Boards, as to their status under the Acts. The wisest and best men of the country have unanimously recommended to every citizen the duty of registering his name in readiness to vote, whether he wants to vote or not The time may soon come when you will deeply regret a neglect o^this duty, if neglect it you should. The life of the State depends upon the votes of its intelligent citizens. Don't fail to prepare yourselves to vote. . RUMORS OF WAR IN EUROPE. The relations between France and Prussia are beginning to assume an appearance of decided hostility. German papers report, that Louis Napoleon sent an unpleasant note to King William, and when this statement is denied by the Moniteur, the Emperor's official organ, they re-affirm it, saying that the Emperor wishes to conceal the correspondence because the Prussian King's reply was defiant Whether the bad feeling will culminate in an open rupture or gradually die out, cannot be predicted with certainty. But both powers are seeking alliances with other nations, evidently with a view to a possible conflict. Foreign papers state that "a council of war is at the present moment being held in Russia, between the staffs of the armies of Russia and Prussia, and under the presidency of the Czar himself. Plans of campaigns suggested by probable coalitions between France and other States are under consideration. Further, it is asserted that Prussia is eager to begin the war immediately and before France has got into attitude. Russia, however, inclines to a postponement, which does not make the strife it may defer less inevitable." On the other hand, France is endeavoring to gain the alliance of Austria. When it is remembered that Louis Napoleon is the remote cause of Maximilian's death and the direct cause of his failure in Mexico, an alliance with Austria seems a delicate matter for him to attempt But the domestic affections of royalty are not of the Damon and Pythias order, and the probabilities are that France and Austria will fight together, if there be a war in Europe. Napoleon was to visit Vienna about the seventh of this month, to offer his "heart-felt condolence" to the Emperor of Austria, for the misfortunes of his ill-fated brother.? Perhaps he will succeed in squeezing out a few tears for his victim; but the main object of his visit is to catch another dupe. A common jealousy and distrust of Prussia is the basis upon which these monarchs will unite, one of them sealing his covenant with a brother's unavenged blood. The war, if there be a war, will be one solely of interest. No principle is involved ; there is, indeed, no cause of war but the ambition of three or four great men, backed up by national prejudices and rivalries. The cause of humanity can gain nothing by it, however it may result, and may lose much. But, since mankind is composed mainly of fools, ready to be led like lambs to the slaughter, at the call of ambition and prejudice; there is no help for it but in a free blood-letting, in which the rule is "everybody for himself and the devil take the hindmost" CONFISCATION. tfov. Worth, ofJNorth Uaroiina, has, under the authority of an act of the North Carolina legislature, recently chartered the Cabarrus Mining Company. This company, whose capital is allowed to reach $600,000, has already purchased lands in Cabarrus county, and expects to commence operations at once. One of the corporators is Th ad. Stevens, the same amiable individual who is in the habit of presenting confiscation bills to the consideration of Congress at every session, and supporting them by blood and thunder speeches. That he should venture his money on Southern lands, is a fact of great significance. It proves that he neither wishes nor expects a confiscation ol Southern real estate. It does more than this. It affords room for the suspicion that his speeches are made for effect on the land market, in which he is speculating. By a continual agitation of the subject, he hopes to scare Southern men into selling their land for little or nothing; when he will step in and buy it up. This kind of legislation is about the only kind now in use, and no one need be astonished to learn that so eminent a "patriot" as Thad. Stevens, the great high priest of "loyalty," is not above using his official influence to speculate in "rebel" lands. The beauty of the case lies in the skill with which Thad made confiscation a weapon to cut both ways for his interests. Self-interest is the mainspring of Radical statesmanship, and all the measures of Congress are shaped with a view to the political and pecuniary interests of "honorable members." The cry of confiscation has been a good thing for Stevens. It gratified his malice toward the South; it gave him a cheap reputation for exalted "loyal tyand it enabled hhn to bully the Sou them gi States into a perfect terror of his power. And no w la it oonfers upon him what he*doubtless considers its choicest blessing?it fids his pocket*. 0( We sincerely hope that that large class of peo- n pie who are in constant dread of "the Yankees con- T fiscating our lands," will draw some consolation from Thad's investment If he thinks the title ai good enough to justify him in buying it, others nOed not fear to hold by it; for the same law that aj confiscates their land will confiscate his. There is a no great danger from confiscation by Congress, E when the principal agitator of the subject is, by his tl acts, giving the lie'to his words. p The danger lies in another and an opposite direction. If any one wishes to know where to look for e confiscation, let him read the various platforms of n the "Union Republican Party" in South Carcli- ci na, Virginia and other Southern State. The idea ii is not distinctly stated therein, but itcrops out to the a Surface, in the shape of resolutions in favor of a d more general distribution of lands. These senti- n ments may become something more than resolu- b tions, if the party maintaining them make the b laws. Men who have nothing to lose and want something, are more likely to risk the consequences I of a revolution in order to gain their object, than p 1 1 linmAWflw _ tnose who nave property at ?ui?.c, uunovwA aviv ? c ciously the latter may talk. It has become a matter of importance to defeat that party if possible. All lovers of peace, law and order are interested in the question of confisca- g tion; for the loss or preservation of all these bles- r sings is involved in it But so far as pecuniary in- ] terest is concerned, some are more deeply interest- 1 ed than others. It is high time that this class s were at work to accomplish the defeat of a party which scarcely pretends to hide its designs against j their property. The proper policy to be pursued * may not be evident; but one thing is certainly ^ necessary. The party to be defeated is thorough- j t ly organized, and it cannot be defeated except by / i a counter organization and a full registration of all f who oppose it Shall this be attempted? * , ? i ? MERE-MENTION. * S The population of York District, by the census ? or 1860, is put down at 21,502. White, 11,3:29; ? colored, 10,173. Majority for the whites, 1,156. i If you do not wish to disfranchise yourself, ? be sure to register All males twenty-one , years of age, who have resided in the State twelve J months immediately preceding the day of registra- j tion, who did not hold any civil office prcvicm.Xn i the war, are entitled to be registered. Having t aided the rebellion, "so called," d#es not alter the case Persons who held office before the war J and did not aid the rebellion, are entitled to regis- t ter. The Rome (Da.) Courier of the 6th in- ( stant mentions the suicide in that place of Mr. L. s C. Johnson, a eon of ex-Governor Johnson, of t South Carolina. "The Southern Recorder sug- * gests the propriety of Tax Collectors examining f registration lists, in order to ascertain what ne- t groes are liable to pay taxes. The opponents { of the Republican Radical party carried Kentucky t at the late State elections, by about forty thousand J majority. "Judge Chase pays tax on an income of $700,000 per year. When he went to |. Washington, in 1864, he was not worth ten thou- f sand dollars. The Uberaw Advertiser expires- a ses a preference for Glen. Sickles and Gen. S<!Ott e for U. S. Senators from South Carolina. "The 1 latest story is that Wilkes Booth is now the captain j tain of a pirate vessel and the terror of the China f Seas. i About half the Table Rock at Niagara Falls was a blown off reoently. A blast of 200.pounds of pow- i der moved the whole mass of rock, but the most r> projecting point breaking off, the rest settled back 11 again. It is not yet known what has beoome of the old agitator Santa Anna. The last that was heard from him he was still in prison at Camjieachy. A mocking-bird was sold in Nashville, 1 Tenn., for $200. The August statement of the public debt will, it is stated, show a reduction r in the debt of two or three millions. A Mis- li sissippi paper thinks Gen. Ord was omitted from g the vote of thanks at the late session of Congress, c because he was the only commander who had fail- t ed to get up a riot. A Connecticut gentle- t man lost a set of false teeth by incautiously sneez- e ing out of a car window. Since January 1st, q 144,330 immigrants have arrived at New York a from foreign ports, which is a slight excess com- s pared with the arrivals last year for the correspond- i ing months. "The true believers are down on the s Sultan because he has had his photograph taken, < contrary to the commands of the Koran. "There now remain undisposed of, 1,455,460,000 acres of 8 U. S. public lands. 8 The Raleigh Sentinel says that a firm in Salem, t last week, purchased 30,000 pounds of dried blackberries. The corn crop in Central Alabama is <] described as "magnificent." Brownlow's ma- ! jority in Tennessee will probably reach 25,000.? fc There is no good reason why he did not make it 0 50,000 just as well. The widow of Stonewall j Jackson is in New York.""*""""Jefferson Davis is ii now the guest of T. Lee Terrill, ex-Provincial t ' Secretary of Canada. An Ohio editor has re- g ceived a cake of sugar made from the sap of the j black walnut tree. He pronounces it superior to maple sugar. " "." The police force of Paris con- c sists of 5,700 men, and the cost of maintaining: the j, department is thirteen millions of francs, or one- j twelfth of the revenue on the capital. A despondent editor remarks that if the country grows much worse he shall publish notices of births un- * der the head of "disasters." - " CHOLERA IN THE WEST. * The cholera is prevailing to a considerable ex- ^ tent, in the West. Its ravages are, however, con- ^ fined to certain .isolated localities, and the disease 1 has not as yet got into the country, in the form of 1 a wide spread epidemic. Up to this time its track ? is along the lines of travel, (the rivers &c), and the frontier military posts. At Fort Harker, Kansas, [ there were more than three hundred deaths du- * ring the thirty days immediately proceeding the 23d of July. At Ellsworth in the same State, 1 there were thirteen deaths on the 24th ultimo. Local causes, such as high water, poor and unclean- ? ly houses, and mean whiskey, have greatly added c to the fatality of the disease, in the above named ? places. ? The Board of Health, of the city of New c York, have been investigating the facts with re- I gard to the spread of cholera in the West, with a 1 : view to guard against its coming to New York. * Their Health Officer says: Cholera is now spreading in a very fatal manner * , west of the Mississippi river, ^ but only upon the 1 great routes of travel. During the months of i October and November last, it prevailed fatally at ] various military posts as far westward as Fort . Smith and Fort Gibson, on the Arkansas. But at ! these military posts there was such sanitary care as 1 . seemed to extinguish the infection; while at. cer- t tain badly policed points where the epidemic pre- g vailed along the Mississippi, as at Helena, Ark., ^ the pestilence smouldered, and burst forth in 1 warm periods during the winter and spring. Hele. na and Memnhis are at the present time the chief s ? centres of the epidemic, but in the latter city the ; sanitary authorities are so intelligent and so | thoroughly in earnest, that we may reasonably ex- j pect that cholera will be extinguished there. AGRICULTURAL NEWS. E > There are over twenty thousand acres of land in t Alabama planted in sweet potatoes this year, which * will produce eight hundred thousand bushels. r . Major General Howard, through the Freedinen's i Bureau, reports the crops of Tennessee this year c to be the best and largest ever raised in that State. J The wheat harvest is over in Missouri, the whole o crop being considerably above the average, and the c quality superior. t In Texas the caterpillar and army worm are do- ii ing gTeat mischief. F The money value of the crops this year, as esti- j< mated by a writer in the New York Times, will be ii $400,000,000 greater than last year, so large has b been the increase. o Much attention is now being paid in the interior fi of Louisiana to the. propagation of Hungarian f rass, which yields two tons to the acre on bottom C nds. " p The Raleigh Sentinel has information from the a >tton-growing region of North Carolina, which to (presents a very general improvement of the crop. C he corn crop will, however, be quite short Farmers in Wisconsin say wheat will be as low i fifty cents a bushel before the end of the year, f; The crop prospects in Arkansas are very encour- j ?ing, and large amounts of corn have been plant- ], i General Pillow efetiibates the corn crop near t telena at 200,000 bushels. Fully two-thirds of s le land under cultivation this season have been g lanted in cereals. j The St Louis Gazette learns that in the north- j rn portion of Hancock county the people are com- j, lencing to cultivate rice in the^woods without g tearing off the trees, and, in fact, without deaden- { ig them. The dead leaves are turned under with t bull-tongue plow, wherever it is practicable to o so, and the rice planted. Fair crops have been j lade in this way without any of the immense la- G or of deadening and clearing, which is generally ( eyond the means of a poor man. ? The Russian grain crops indicate a heavy yield. 1 - - - ? 1? I t is said tnere will De an immense surplus iur tu- i lortation. From Liverpool the weather is report- < d favorable for crops, and the grain market easy. < , t ? r REACTION AT THE NORTH. The New York Eeraldhaa oome out against ne- j ,to supremacy in America, and its action in this ( natter has brought out the following response from ( 2x-Senator Hagas^of New York, which we pub- ( ish as a hopeful sigh for the long-hoped for "reotion" at the North: To the Editor of the New York Herald : I thank you for your manly announcement in his morning's Herald, in the article headed, "The Itfew Crisis." Your views in that article are so 1 wholesome, that I cannot leave the city this morn- 1 ng, being transiently here, without expressing gratitude. I assure you, sir, that the present ef- J ort of party leaders to secure political power, by 1 naking the Southern States negro States, is most ' darming, and the people of the North must hot 1 illow its success, if they value their own freedom 1 ind prosperity. 1 If the people stop to think they will spurn such 1 in attempt with indignation. Nothing but false ' ssues can possibly allow such a ruinous project to 1 iuooeedL. * 1 To cheat the people the advocates of this neferi- ' jus scheme will keep before them the idea of maryrdom. and all that sort of thing, but the true j ssue should be ever present to our minds, and nartyrs rewarded at less expense than the over- ( ,hrow of our institutions. Now, sir, I have done my humble part in the late ' var for the Union; two of my sons have fallen under j he "Union flag, and my part has been in contribu- ' aon, and not in the reception of a penny's profit luring the strife; but never have I wished 1 inythmg but "1 restored Union. For this, and ' his alcne, I have sacrificed, and not for the j slevation of the negro, nor-the disfranchisement of 1 he people of the Southern States. If the people of ! he South are not to be restored to the Union, then ' he old Copperhead cry; "That the Union could not j ie restored py arms," is verified. The idea that j he South must be Africanized before its States ' ire allowed to return, is an admission that the war 1 las been a wicked failure, and has been waged for J he destruction of the Republic. It is not a de>atable question. We dm not send our sons to die or the erection of negro States in the South. I ippeal to the great masses in the North who gen- 1 rously poured out their blood in the conflict, if 1 his was their object Mr. Editor, you have hit ] . tender chord in your remarks this morning, and j know will awaken the sleeping sense of the peo>le on this crisis. 1 have purchased a plantation ( Alabama and contemplate removing there, and j m encouraging others in the North to follow me; , ut if that State is to he a negro State, farewell to >iy purchase. The reasons are obvious?fanatics ( aay not see thera; but men of common sense can. I thank you again, from my heart ] Ira E. Harris. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The North Carolina Legislature. ] This body, at its last session, adjourned to aeet again on the 19th inst But Gen. Sickles has ' andly relieved the members of the necessity for ( ;oing to Raleigh during the dog days. By Spe- J ial Order, No. 114, he "indefinitely postpones" he appointed session. Inasmuch as the legisla- ' ure, if it had assembled, could only have "played ' asking laws" after the manner of school-boys, the 1 [uietus which Gen. Sickles has given them, is not 1 > matter of any great importance. As the sutv * tance of our free institutions is lost, we see no use ' n keeping up the shadow. The expense of the . how is more than the empty forms are worth. Commendable Diligence. An exchange informs us that "one third of the < tudents in Mercer University, in Georgia, were oldiers in the Confederate army, and one-fifth of ! hem were killed or wounded." , That portion of them who were killed certainly , leserve great credit for their zeal in the pursuit of i :nowledge under difficulties. Having "fought, I led and died" for their country, they might reas- J nably expect an exemption from further labors. ( k.nd unless they are studying the dead languages, , t is hard to conceive what advantages they hope < o gain by-haunting the classic shades of the Geor- I jo. college. jarge Rale of Land in North Carolina. The Raleigh Sentinel says: "R. W. Best, j secretary of State, left for New York, on Monday I ist, to close, as Agent, a bargain for the sale of 1 >0,000 acres of State lands, and from 70 to 90,000 j ores of lands owned by Col. Bryson, and others, } >erhaps, of Jackson, lying in the counties of Jack- j on, Macon and Cherokee, to the American Agri- 1 mltural and Mineral Company. This Company 1 vas chartered by the last Legislature, and its head- ' luarters arc in New York. Several Northern ;entlemen, as well as citizens of the State, com- i irise the Company. We learn that it is the pur>ose of the Company to put upon these lands, in 1 t short time, 20,000 sheep, for wool growing.? > 3esides this, several thousand laborers will be em)loyed in mining, &c. We hope this is but the ] eginning of a large ingress of industrious, enter- \ erprising people into the State." i L Cabinet Impediment. < President Johnson has, in imitation of Gen. Sheridan, been looking for impediments, and has < t last found a yery big one in Mr. Stanton, the 1 Secretary of War. But he has not, as yet, had < Sheridan's luckin getting rid of it. Unlike the do- 1 iile governors of District, No. 5, Mr. Johnson's im- ' jediment won't be removed. On being informed , >y the President that his resignation would be ve- ; y acceptable, the undismayed official replied that 1 'grave public considerations constrain him to re- < nain in office until the next meeting of Congress." ! VIr. Johnson, on the failure of his first effort to rc- ; nove this huge impediment, paused to take breath. ; lis friends are patting him on the back and tell- , ng him to try again. Some of them say he is go- i **?? J" cnmnAin a jind snniethim? verv terrible to < *'?5 W UV ? ? ? a v __ he impediment; but as he has been "going to do ; omething" for two years, and has not done it yet, ; fe expect he will find it his duty to "execute the rill of Congress," which, in this case is likely to be i i surrender to his impediment. ] The Surratt Trial. The trial of John H. Surratt, for complicity i n the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, was concluded i >n the 10th instant The case has been on trial i leveral weeks, a vast amount of evidence having ! >een offered, for and against the prisoner. As the : fitnesses swore point blank against each other, j nany of them must be perjured. But their labor 8 lost, as the jury failed to agree and were disharged by the judge. After he had done this, 1 fudge Fisher got up a little sensation on his own < ocount, by ordering the name of Mr. .Bradley, ine of the prisoner's lawyers, to be struck from i he roll of Attorneys, because he had used insult- i ng and threatening language towards the Judge i residing. When the Court had adjourned, Brad2y followed Fisher and handed him a note, accept- i og a verbal challenge which the Judge had sent i iim during the trial This irascible administrator ( f the laws has thus rendered himself liable to a c ne and a five years' imprisonment, that being the 1 enalty for sending a challenge in the District of t Columbia. As the jury failed to agree, the expenses of the case thus far have been for nothing, nd the swearing will have to be repeated in a new rial >n Dress. - * } It is stated that a lady afrSaratoga Springs disinguished herself lately, by appearing in seven difsrent dresses on the day of her arrival. This lay is a fair specimen of a class which, though once irge, is now, we are happy to believe, almost exinct in the South. Impressed with a sense of uperiority over,-others, and unable to show that uperiority in any other way, they were exceedingf ambitious to shine in the matter of dress.? 'aste or elegance of ornament was a secondary obect; the great desideratum, was variety. The [reater number of expensive dresses such a lady >osaessed, the higher she stood in her own estimaion and that of her ' 'set'' But the years of adversity through which we lave passed, have taught our people many valuable lessons, and among them the lesson of judging ithers by their intrinsic, and not their external ittractions. The lady who indulges in a supers jundance of dress now, is generally looked upon is a little weak in the upper story. Our Southirn ladies never occupied a higher "place in the istimation of their countrymen than they now do. rheir deeds of kindness and self-denial during the var are unforgotten. But their sensible conduct n conforming their dress to the altered condition )f their country since the war, is not their least 'Jaim to respect and admiration. ^Seven-Thirties" Going Up. A New York paper gives the following ao?unt of a juvenile financier's success in "operating :or a rise" of United States stock: A young son of a retired merchant down the river, whose parents reside in one of those princely mansions on the Hudson, opposite the Palisades, took it into his head the other day to make a kite. Rumaging about the house in search of paper to make it, nis eyes accidently fell upon a number of jeven-thirties-which had been carelessly left in an unlocked desk. 'Twas but the work of a few momenta tn lav them out on the kite sticks, and a short tine thereafter seven-thirties took a sadden rise, going over the Palisades. Luckily theycame down safely, and have been converted. We do not remember the time when Government securities were so high. The Vicissitudes of an Adventurer. A writer in an Indiana paper narrates the following incidents in the life of a man who fought an both sides, during the late war: "While passing through the Union Depot a few days ago, I w:is accosted by a one armea man in faded army blue. Fourteen years ago I first saw him working at a windlass in the gold diggings of A.ustralia. He and his three partners hoisted by that windlass from a single shaft, more than $800,XX). A few months later, I bade him good-bye is he sailed from Melbourne to New York with >200,000, in bills of exchange, in his pocket. I next saw him a wounded Confederate soldier, lying on the battle-field of Antietam. A little more than a year later, I saw him, a Union soldier, lying in a hospital in Tennessee. To-day he is a helpless wanderer, dependent on public oharity for i dinner." Sow to Receive Evil Reports. The author of the,rules mentioned below, must have possessed that charity "which covereth i multitude of sins." We do not know who he ivas, but if he was always able to carry them into practice, he would be a great curiosity (as well as i worthy model) in these days of strife and slander. "The longer I live," says he, "the more I feel the importance of adhering to the rules which I have laid down for myself in relation to such matters: 1. To hear as little as possible to the prejudice jf others. 2. To believe nothing of the kind till I am absolutely forced to it 3. Never to drink in the spirit of one who circulates an evil report 4. Always to moderate, as far as I can, the untindness which i6 expressed towards others. 5. Always to believe, that if the other side were heard, a very different account would be given to ;he matter.' Anecdote of General Lee. ? A private letter, which appears in the New Orleans Bulletin, gives some interesting particulars of a visit made by General Lee, during the vacation of the college over which he presides. As tve know our readers are always glad to hear from this great and good man, we take from the letter alluded to, the following anecdote: General Lee concluded to enjoy his vacation in his own way. Accompanied by his youngest daughter, he rode across the mountain at the gap of the Peaks of Otter. They stayed all night at the foot rf the Peaks and walked the next day to the top. n ?V.^Anm IA "Rnrlfrvvv^ in rrom uie niuuuuini lucjt mus uunu w <u the rain, Miss Lee protected by an oil cloth.? They arrived late at night in the rain, and being unexpected were not at first recognized. The travjlers were soon refitted, the young lady having managed with the resource of a soldier's daughter to pack a small wardrobe?duplex extension no ioubt included?in a pair of saddle bags. They both appeared in the parlor as fresh as ever.? General Lee enjoyed the simple hospitality of these true friends, and returned as he came, refreshed by the excursion and gratified to know that there are still those in this evil world whom no misfortunes can alienate. They were on their way to the Peaks on a mountain road he had never [.raveled before. There were two little girls playng on the rocks by the road side. JAs soon as :hey saw him they whispered to each other and ran towards their home, flc called to them, and lsked pleasantly, "Why do you run ? Are you a"raid oi me?" "Oh, no sir," said the eldest, "we ire not afraid, but we are not dressed nice enough :o see you." "Who, then, do you think I am r" 'You are General Lee." they both exclaimed; 'we know you by your"pictures." The Capitol at Richmond. A correspondent of the Raleigh Sentinel, ivriting from Richmond, says: The Capitol and its grounds are the same they bave remained for years. The same old unsightly State House, with a saddened appearance, as if For its former days. The same old worn-out bench's for the now weary freedmen, being quite forsaken by the whites. The same boards nailed to the :rees, bearing their solemn warning, "Don't walk un the grass, nor sleep on the benches," greet the sye at eveiy turn. But little attention was paid to the admonition on the "glorious Fourth,'' just pass scl, when Hunnicut, Wardwell & (Jo., with their thousands of dusky freedmen, with the latters' attendants of little "dittos/' with their banners, fifes, drums and all the ingredients that go to make up a modern negro celebration, assembled to give vent to their patriotic (?) feelings. They literally "pawed" the grass to their heart's content, so that now the grounds adjacent have quite a woe begone air; and also did they snooze, too. The statues of Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry and others have quite an elegant iron railing enclosing them, recently manufactured in this city by one of her foundries. It is very plain, quite neat in appearance, adding greatly to the tout ensemble by its olegant simplicity of workmanship. This idea of enclosing the statues is certainly a capital one. It is at the foot of these splendid monuments of our country's honored, that itinerant Radicals, stationary ones also, collect their crews of "Niggers" and mean white men, and here retail their pestiferous bile and slander of the South three or four times per week. It's a blessing that the sacred place is thus cut off from the contamination of these foul mouthed birds, who have heretofore flapped their wings of strength over this beloved spot. The whole of this beautiful spot is shunned, to a great degree, by the respectable white portion of the city, especially the ladies, whose former favor?>?nmonQ(to if TpnH Tf is now entiralv avoided IUG puiuvuwuv ? _ - by thera. It is yielded up to Mr. "Nigger," Mrs. N., and all the little Nigs, with their peculiar friends, lying around on the benches, snoozing aDout and lolling in their indolence. Thompson, the Martvr.?"Plametto," the Washington correspondent of the Charleston Merwry, writes: I notice that certain radical papers in the North ire attempting to make political capital out of the nsignificant broil at Columbia, S. C., a few days igo, wherein one Thompson became involved. " I am reliably informed that the said Thompson s now under bonds in this city to appear at the lext term of the Criminal Court, to answer the sharge of assaulting the bar-keeper at the Metropilitan Hotel, last spring, because he wouldn't give lim credit on a drink of whiskey. So much for he martyr Thompson. ' LOCAL ITEMS, HEW ADVEBTIBKMKHT8. P. J. 0'Conn ell, Chairman of Board?Registra- tion in the first Precinct of York District. . R. L. Crook, Chairman of Board?Registration in _ the Second Precinct of York District. Daniel Kerr, Chairman of Board?Registration in A the Third Precinct of York District. Rev. R. B. Anderson, Principal?YorkvilW Female College. * Dr. John May?Wailted. ? A. R. Homesley?Notice. Hobbs & Doeter?Wood-Working. The Chronicle and SenfcineL Angosta,.Ga. 4 R. H. Glenn?Sheriff's Safe. . ' h t1 00H0EBI AT TEE FEMALE COLLEGE . % We remind oar readers that the Concert in aid B of the Theological Seminary, at. Columbia, will come off at thrfFemale College, in this place, on v Tuesday evening next See advertisement . a CAHDIDATE8 OUJT.. J ^ ' f We hear it rtunored upon ?he. streets, that sev- * eral freedmen of this District have teeir seised with ^ office on the brain, and have 6ome out*as.caridi- c dates for the Convention. Fronr this it appeard 4 that colored, as well as white, human nature has a yearnings for office. For the enoeuragement of 4 these prompt aspirants, we offef them the old ' adage: "the early bird catches the worm." ? Par tha Vorkvlile EnaBlrer. BAPTIST UNION MEETING. - V I Pursuant to previous appointment, a meeting f was held with the baptist Church, at Yorkville, on * Saturday, the 10th of August, 1867.' After rehg- } ious services by the Pastor *of the Church, the meeting was organized by calling A. J. Matthews I to the Chair; and Deacon Z. D. Smith, to act as Clerk. Delegates from the different Churches were called for, and their names enrolled as follows: . YorkvUle?Elder T. R Gaines, J. W. Howe!r- ! ton, M. Holbrooks, G. W. Byers, H. Gibson. ' ' j Union?A J. Matthews, J. T. Warrea \ Enon?A. C. Biggers. . t New Bethel?T. Gwinn, C. C. Gwinn. MiU Creek?Z. D. Smith. ~' 1 An Essay was then read by Z. D. Smith, on c "Christian Union," after which a Committee,eon- < sisting of T. R Gaines, Z. D. Smith, G. W. By- i ere, and A. C. Biggers were appointed to fix the ? time and plaoe of the next meeting, and prepare 1 the business thereof * ^ ! Next meeting to be with the Union Church, j four miles North West of Yorkville, commencing t on Friday before the fifth Lord's Day in September next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. ; M. C. Barnettto preach 1 the Introductory Sermon?A. L. Stough, alternate. 1 P. Nicholson to read an Essay on the "Officers * and Government of Baptist Churches." A. L. ( Stough to read an Essay on the "Beoeptioo of t Members into Baptist Churches.'' The above sub- e jects to be opened for discussion after reading. Resolved, That a Committee, consisting of Z. D. Smith, T. R Gaines, and A. J. Matthews, be ap- J pointed to prepare a Constitution and By-Laws, to J be presented for consideration at the next meeting. Resolved, That the editonfof the Yorkville : Enquirer, and South Carolina Baptist, be re queued to publish the proceedings of this meeting. ! Z. D. SMITH, Clerk For the Yorkville Enquirer. c a prophetic dream. l Messrs. Editors: Accoording to the promise made i by me in the Enquirer of last week, I furnish yon ' with "A Dream," copied from the Encydopcedia, t a newspaper published at Yorkville, S. C., in June j 1826. The editors, in introducing the article to J their readers, say: "The following dream, handed i to us by a friend, we are assured, is real We in i sert it more on aocount of its fine Scripture style, 1 than from any prophetic allusion that we can per- 1 ceive it has to future political events. We must acknowledge, with the dreamer, we "know not the interpretation thereof" < "A Dream.?1. Now it came to pass in the sec- ( ond year of the reign of John, who is also called Quincy, who rules over the four and twenty provinces of Columbia, that I dreamed a'dream-in the night, even on. the night -of the first day of the sixth month. * ?. * I 4. But behold when I went forth out of the camp, I came into a great plain, the one end there- < of was toward the East, and the other end thereof went out toward the West; ( 5. And I lifted up mine eyes, and behold on the j North, and on the South, and on the East, were high hills round about the plain like unto moun- i tains; , i 6. Then I turned and looked toward the West, * but I could not see unto the end of the plain that lay before me, for it was exceeding great 7. And again I beheld, and lo! a great tree grew < in* the midst of the plain, and the tree wsff to look t upon like a white-oalc tree, the trunk whereof was exceeding great and strong above all the other trees ( of the forest; ' 8. And the branches thereof were spread out o- ( ver the plain and covered the hills on the North and on the'South and on the East; e 9. And I beheld much people under the shadow c and upon the branches thereof, who called it the ] Tree of Congress, and many cried out unto the / tree, saying, 0 tree, live and flourish forever! ( 10. Now the branch that went out towards the t North, and spread over the hills beyond the plain, c was great and strong above all the branches that came forth out of the tree; n Ttnf behold, in manvDlaces the branches were c chopped with an axe, and were much decayed and \ ready to fall; nevertheless, it fell not ^ 12. And again I looked, and behold I the branch i that went ont toward the Sooth, which was a nota- c. ble branch, and on the under tide thereof two little ^ branches shot forth, and they were laden and did s bend with fruit; t 13. And lo! there came forth two little tquurrdt ] to eat the fruit that was on the two little branches; ( and there came forth, also, on the large branch, a y great cat, exceeding fierce, and sought to destroy j the two little squirrels; and while they were war- j ring, behold! the two little branches were broken off" and fell to the earth. . e 14. Then I went forth to the two little branches that were fallen off, and when I had looked thereon, . behold the fruit thereof was blasted. 15. Then I looked on the large branch from > which the two small branches had fallen, and be- f hold! it withered and fell also. e 16. And when I had looked on the branches that ? went out towards the East, they were short, and j had not waxed great and strong like the two form- r er, neither did they flourish, but the leaves thereof j, faded as the leaf fadeth when the winter oometh. a 17. Then I beheld the branohes that shot forth i towards the West'; and behold! they were many, 4 and because the trunk of the tree remained firm c and strong, they flourished greatly, for they were 0 in their youth. * i 18. After these things I returned to the camp, t ' '1 al li. j:j i ua a greatly perpiexea, ana my uiuuguus uiu uvuuc ? me, &c. * * * * # 20. Now at this time a person awoke me out of ^ sleep, and behold! I had dreamed a dream, but I f knew not the interpretation thereof." t The above is copied, and italicized the same as in t the original, and presented to the readers of the c present generation, for their interpretation, after 1 the "lamp of experience" has, for forty-one years, t thrown light upon the history of the country. t J. 0.0. 8 Registration in Virginia.?A writer for the Lexington Gazette sums up the registration returns j for twenty-seven Counties in Virginia, exhibiting a an aggregate of Whites 34,575, and Blacks 15,231, a In the list are embraced some of the extreme 8 Counties either way. The writer, upon the 1 strength of this exhibit, remarks: . . "The above registration figures are highly grati- \ tying, as they afford great encouragement to be i lieve that the whites will haye a very large rmyori- 1 ty of the total registered voters of the State.? There is no doubt that they can have such majori- I 'ty, if they so desire," c OONTKIBUTORIAIi. 1 # BY JAB. WOOD PAVIP8QN. XH.UMBIA, SOUTH CAEOLIIA, 12THAUQUBT, 1867. Ldvice to all who are entitled to tfc? Privilege of Registration. Register, v . ... ri regjro Officials. United States District Marshal Eppiog (white? foreigner) has appointed as his Deputy, in Coimbia, one Charles Wilder (mulatto), aveiy worhy and* intelligent carpenter* This appointment ras in thfeplaceof Dark (white) who'was removed ipon a change of accepting hush money. While he commnmty do not regard Wilder, personally, rith any disfavor, but on the contrary, ho&him s a favorite of his olass, yet they feel that the 49toiptmentof other than white men to offiogi of his kind now is premature. The Deputy Marshal s an executive officer?one who arrests persons harged with offences against th$ peace and digniy of the United States.; and.the exercise of such luthority by ofitoed men is expected to produce he unpleasant antagonism of ideas between rates, rhich (antagonism) ianow-the Haneof the South; rnd in the future will be the fetal cause of her ieavie8t%HT0ir8/ - . The appointment of Registrars from among the tegroea i/not looked upon with so mtach t&ftvor, rom (he feet that the .duties to he perfonned are u ineir naiqre cwKauawijprnim a rauuuuw wu ust exercise of thoeeduties (which is in good faith ixpected by the whites) will do much to remove jitterneases already sprung up between the noes. crops nr south caroliwa. jlershaw<rrNeariy every part of oar District u? been blessed with good hum daring the .past en days; the prospect of fab com crops Hare mproved, hndmany sad countenances have beeif >rightenea. From what we hear, notwithstanding he injury sustained from drought, by some, and rom overflows by others, an ample supply of com or the wants of the District will be msecL?Ciitnlen JournaL " .0* Lancaster.?Cheering reports reach us from iveiy section of the District, as to the proepect of a 500a cotton crop. The oorn crop has suffered to tome extent by the drought, but the rains of the jast week which have been abundant for present leed, will no doubt increase' the yield beyond the inticipations of a few days ago. The farmers are n much better humor, and of course we share in ,he general spirit?Lcmcaeter Ledger, Greenville. ?From every quarter of this and idjoining Districts, we hear charming accounts of he crops. A very large yield indeed will be made, is we have already had almost enough rain to.serure it. It has been a little dry in the lower part >f Greenville, bnt parties from that section report hat the want has been supplied by heavy and loaking falls of water.?Greenville Enterprise .Jf*,* Laurens.?Since our last issue, the farmers' learts in this District have-been rqioiced with colioos rains upon their thirsty fields. The corn irop in some sections had suffered for the want of aim?LaxrrensriRe Herald. Fairfield.?The past ten days has changed, b l great measure, the aspect of things, as well as he hopes of the citizens ofthis District. Befreshng rains have visited us, and there is now quite 1 prevailing opinion that a sufficient crop for the ' rapport of the District .will be realized.? Warn* wro JVeu*. s Charleston.?The caterpillar has undoubtedly nade its appearance in the sea.-islandcotton region of this state. But the 'danger of the crop >eing destroyed is contingent upon the maturity of he third brood of caterpillars. The broods are iroduced at intervals of three wrecks apart, and lamp weather is essential to the young caterpillar, khot, dry spell at this period of their growth is atal to these creatures. So there is no reason yet 'or ahum They have much to go through with >efore they become at all formidable, and may be ill destroyed by the sun.?Charleston Mercury. f", , WHO CA? REGISTER T All males or ran u?wnoutve resided utrns State for twelve months are entitled to register and jq vote, provided that they have not been? 1. Convicted of felony, or . x.2. Members of any State Legiahtfpre, or m 3. Executive or judicial officers of any State, or 4. Members of Congress of the United States, And have not afterward* engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States or given lid and comfort to the enemies thereof If they have been convicted of felony they art iisfranchited. r If they are included in either of the three last )f the above four classes, and, after the holding of iffice, gave any voluntary aid to-the rebellion, or ook any voluntary part in it, they are disfranchised. If they did not hold any of the offices named, uid have not been convicted of felony, they are not lufranchised, whether they did or did not give aid I 0 the rebellion or take part in the war against the -{ LJnited States. " If they did hold any of the offioee named, bat lid not engage in the rebellion against the United ^ States, or give aid or comfort to the Soap* they ire not disfranchised. If they did hold any of the offices named, and lid not engage in rebellion or give aidto thfrSouth 1 fter such holding office, they are not dufrcenchitrd ilthough before such holding offioe they may have sngaged in rebellion or given aid to the S?Uh, The only point at all in doubt is as to what offices ire included under the head of "executive or judical offioe" in any State. No definition of the >hrase is given in the rules for regulation, except hat it shall include "all civil offices created by law 'or the administration of any general law of a State, ir for the administration of justice." In Vfamnia he following are regarded aa executive or judicial officers withm the meaning of the act: "Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of Public Aooounta, Second Auditir, Registrar of the Land Office, State Treasurer, kttorney-General, Sheriffs, Sergeant of a city or own, Commissioners of the Revenue, County Surveyors, Constables, Overseers of the Poor, Com- ft nissioners of the Board of Public Works, Judges if the Supreme Court, Judge of the Circuit Court, fudge of the Court of Hustings, Justices of the bounty Courts, Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen of i City or Town, Coroners and Escheators, Ins pecA fit v _ _ _ TSi v a ore 01 xooacco, r lour, ?c., uierKs ot toe Supreme, -1 Mstrict, Circuit and County Courts, and of the ?J 3ourt of Hustings, Attorneys for the Commonwealth." And it is probable that about the same rule will >e observed in this District At all events any >erson who has not held either of the offices named ibove, is not disfranchised as having held an "exicutive or judicial office" in any State.?Mercury. Bedding Fruit Trees.?From about the midlie of July to the last jof August is considered^^. nost favorable time to bud fruit trees. It iaj^H^, )le operation, requiring no special art, andflng^ ormed in a brief period. To the novice, izplain the process?well knowing that olcQRp; ulturists -need no instructions. BuddingiswBPF ntroduction of the bud of one tree beneath the ark of another. This should be done when the lew wood is in its most vigorous growth. A bud b taken from a branch of this year's growth, with , small portion of the bark, cut lengthwise. This 3 inserted beneath the bark of the tree intended o be budded?a slight incision being made to reeive it The edges of this bark are then raised ,nd the bud pushed in. A bandage of cloth, bass r corn-husk, is then wrapped round, and the job 3 completed. Care should be taken not to bruise he bud or bark. Some of our best fruits are propgated in this way.? Farm and Fireside. Don't Drink to Drive Away Care.?No 1 nan is safe who has once formed the fatal habit of poking to drink for solace, or cheerfulness, or oombrt While the world goes well, they will Hkely ie temperate, but the habit is built, the railroad o destruction is ready for use, the rails are laid j town, and the station house erected; and the train s on the line waiting only the looomotive. Well, 1 he first great trouble or hopeless grief is the loco- I Dotive: it comes to ub and grapples us, awayVe p in a moment down.the line we have been contructing, like a flash of lightning. A Protest.?We learn that a Committee apK)inted at a Republican meeting, have addressed , letter to General Sickles, protesting against the appointment and retention of Hon. Wm. Aiken a one of the registers of voters. The objections oade are, that Mr. Aiken reoeived and entertaind Jefferson Davis at his residence in this city duing the war, that he aided the rebellion by contributions of guns and ammunition, and that he does lot epjoy the confidence of the loyal voters of this )istrict?Charlaton Courier. B&- Santa Anna has been brought to Vera Croi iy a Mexioan man-of-war and was to be tried for onspiracy. * I 4