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^ttimoruus |3cpattt3tttu < The Girls.?Bless the dear girls! I love ! them all; (I couldn't help it if I would;) I love the short, I love the tall; (I wouldn't help it if I could,) I love the girls with sunny hair, with bright or laughing dear blue eyes, with skin transparent, white and fhir, and cheeks that with the red rose vies. And then, I love the dark brunette, with glossy curls like raven's wing; with teeth like jet?I love to hear their laughter ring. Oh! yes, these roguish dark brunettes will bring our hearts into our throats, they laugh at all our woes; but yet I say?bless all the petticoats. Oh! Woman, what would this world be without thy kind and gentle sway ? for all we have we owe to thee; now can we e'r thy love repay ? for don't you sew our buttons on ? and darn our socks and mend our clothes and spend our stamps 'till they're all gone ? but can't tell how the money goes.' Oh! yes, I love all womankind; they're gentle, loving, good, and true ; some may not quite just suit my mind, but what is that to me or you ? I love the darling, loving girls; love them as hard as e're I can; that is, in a general way, you know?for bless you?I'm a married man! Let Me Turn Over.?I was a passenger on a steamer from Panama to San Francisco, when the rush of travel on that line was immense. We were badly crowded, and there was no room xor cnairs or utujra, jret we wore bound to have our game of "old sledge." A Baptist minister, smitten with the lust for gold, had deserted* his flock, and occupied a sleeping place on the cabin floor. Being a large, corpulent man, and finding him a sound sleeper, four of us squatted around him, and commenced to play on his broad stomach, scoring the points of the game on his black vest. We played for several hours, undisturbed, except by an occasional snore of uncommon force. I had won considerably, and one of my opponents, Jim Doyle by name, becoming excited at my turning up "Jack," brought down his fist on the lower part of the parson's stomach with great power. The pious old gentleman was awakened thereby, and looked up with some surprise; but seeing the state of the case, quietly exclaimed: "Go on with your game boys; but if you are going to pound me in that manner, you had better let me turn over!" A Medical Joke.?An exchange says: The worst joke that was ever perpetrated on scientific men took place recently at Louisiana, Mo. A man was sick with rheumatism, or something, and a fellow went around to the doctors and professors and things, and told them that it was the queerest case on record. He said the man had no feeling. You could stick pins in his body all over, and he paid no attention to them at all. He was perfectly numb. So the doctors got together and called on the sick man to experiment All arrived with pins and needles and bodkins. The man was asleep, and they got around him, and each one stuck his pin in the patient. The sink man rolled over and looked at the crowd. and thought they had come to dissect him, so he took a chair in one hand and a bed-post in the other, and drove the crowd thence. They are around with their heads tied up, looking for the man who said that sick man had no feeling. JQr A revival preacher says that the toughest customer he ever came across in the pursuit of his calling was a rough old fellow m a valley of the Green Mountains, who approached him at the close of an evening meeting with a very long face, and asked gravely: "Did I understand you to say that nell was a lake of fire and brimstone ?" "Yes," said the divine, thinking he had at last succeeded in making an impression on the hitherto obdurate heart, and going on to enlarge upon the horrors of the place of torment "Nonsense S nonsense!" interrupted the listener; "I don't believe a word or it; you pile it on too thick; a man wouldn't live a minute in such a place." "They will be prepared for it," said the minister, impressively. "Oh! prepared for it, will they T' exclaimed the anxious listener, brightening up. "I'd as soon be there as anywhere else, then and off he walked, perfectly satisfied, and as gay as a lark. A Queer Blunder.?A suburban friend, blest with eleven children, and being a very domestic man and very fond of them, told this story: One afternoon, business being very dull, he took the early train out to his happy home, and went up stairs to put the children to bed. Being missed from the dressing room, bis wife went up Bt&irs to see what was going on. Upon opening the door, she exclaimed?"wBy, dear, what for mercy's sake are you doing?" "Why," says he, "wifey, I am putting the children to bed, and hearing them say their little prayers." "Yes, but this is not one of ours," say?r wifey. Sure enough, he had one of the neighbor's children all undressed, and he bad to redress it and send it home. After that he calls the roll every morning and night. ' - VSr Ezekiel Webster was once engaged in defending a will in a New Hampshire court The physician made affidavit that the testator was struck with death when he signed the will. Mr. Webster subjected his testimony to a most searching examination, showing, by quoting medical authorities, that doctors disagree as to the precise moment when a dying man is struck with death; some affirming that it is at the commencement of the fatal disease, others at its climax ; and others still affirm that we begin to die as soon as we are born. "I should like to know," said Mr. Sullivan, "what doctor maintains that theory." "Dr. Watts," said Webster, with great gravity: "The moment we begin to live, We all begin to die. An old Brooklyn gentleman started to go to Albany a short time since, and almost as soon as on board the train asked the conductor if the next station was Poughkeepsie, repeating his question at each succeeding stopping-place until the irate official curtly said he would tell him when they got there, and upon arriving exclaimed : "This is Poughkeepsie. Hurry up and get off. We are behind time." "Oh, thank you," deliberately drawled the quondam questioner, "but Pm i ? goillg tfirongfrT My daughter cautioned me I particularly to take a pin at rougnaeepsie. Ough.?The endiDg letters "ough," which is such a terror to foreigners, is shown up in its several pronunciations in the following lines: Wife, make me some dumplings of doagh. They're better than meat for my cough; Pray, let them be boiled till done through, But not till they're heavy or tough. Now, I must be off to my plough, And the boys (when they've had enough), Must keep the fliee off with a hough, While the old horse drinks at the trough. ? ? ? S&* "Fellow trabblere," said a cullud minister, "ef I had been eatin' dried apples for a week, an' den took to drinkin' for a monf, I couldn't feel more swelled up dan I am dis minnit wid pride and vanity a seein' sich full 'tendance har dis ebenin'." schoolmistress asked a pupil to tell what word the letters S double E spelled ? The child was doll, and so the mistress cries, "what is it, you dunoe, I do with mv eyes?" "Oh, yes," says the child, I know the word ma'am now, 8 double E, sqnint" Jot'a Billings is speculating on floods. He arrives at this conclusion:?"Thar aint no doubt in mi mind but that the flood was a perfect success; and I have thought that another just s ch a one would pay well now in some sektions of the country. J#* The reason why woman has her way so much oftener than man is, that both he and she are conscious that her way is the best. $&iMrea'si fcpartmcnt. [Original.] CARE. Every child should learn that much depends upon careful management. The child that throws its books or play things down in any place as if they were of no use, or would never be needed again, is contracting a habit that will stick to it for life, and will give it much annoyance when an old man or woman. Every child should have something of which it is sole possessor; and it should be carefully taught by its parents or guardians to be careful of it This world is made up of little things. If we waste or neglect to care for the little things, we will never have any large things. God takes care of little things. He watches over sparrows and counts the hairs of our heads. Dollars are made up of cents. If we waste the cents we will never possess the dollars. A crib full of corn, or a granary - ? - ' ' L-i full of wheat, is noimng uui a vaat uumu? of little grains. These we must watch and guard, or the whole will waste. A large library full of useful books is made up of single book 8; these of sentences, these again of single words and these again of little letters. Gold is found in fine dust, and must be handled very carefully or it will be all lost. It is not what we make that is of so much importance; hut how much we save. We may read all the books in a large library and still not know much. We may not have been careful to save everythuu^^taMafe?Lj^ went over the book as dry shod?went out as we went-in. Be careful ; save everything. The day may come when all will be needed. An old rusty nail sometimes serves a good purpose. [Original.] TRY. "I can't," is a mean word. It ruins many?both soul and body; but try accomplishes wonders. There are some young people that are ever ready with that abominable "can't," whenever vou desire them to undertake some thing. If they are advised of an opening through which they can make their way to comfort and usefulness, they meet every argument and persuasion you can advance, with the prompt reply, "I can't." If you point out to them the advantages of an education, and the means by which to procure it, out comes in a kind of singing tone, "I can't?I am too poor," or "I am not smart enough." Such children are destined to have a hard time of it in this world, and never will accomplish much for themselves nor for anybody else. Give me the man or boy that is willing and ready to try any and everything that is useful and honorable. He may make some sad blunders, and meet with many failures ; but when he fall&he will alway light on his feet, and be ready to go again. The only little boy that cannot accomplish something great and good, is the one that will not try. The poorest boy in the world is the lazy boy. Try, try in a legitimate way; try hard and try long and you cannot fail. Goodyear tried for a long time, and spent everything he possessed in experimenting with indiarubber ; but at last a little sulphur, by accident, dropped into his crucible, and success was the result of accident, and Goodyear made a fortune for himself and gave to the world a useful discovery. It was by frequently trying that Ben Franklin accomplished what he did with electricity. The boy that has the nerve to try, will tlo something that will raise him out of the dirt; but the boy that will not try, will neglect to do something, and by this neglect will "sink like a stone to a merited oblivion. [Original.] COARSE MANNERS. What refined and enlightened people call rough and uncouth in manners, others think is smart. A vast multitude of young people make a bad impression upon the minds of the sober and intelligent part of the world, and thus ruin their own usefulness by what may be called coarse behavior. There are a great many vulgar words and phrases that are constantly going the rounds, and are thought to be very appropriate. We might instance the oft repeated one, "you bet," as an example of what we mean by vulgar phrases. Some people think they show a great deal of wit by using on every occasion these words and .phrases; but the actual result is the very reverse. Instead of the intelligent portion of the community thinking that the use of these new coined words and phrases is an evidence of wit, they regard it an evidence of what we almost dread to mention?low manners. It is just as easy to use proper language in our conversation as it is to use those vulgarisms that are constantly circulating in society. There is no need that an individual be educated in all the branches of science to be able to use proper language and behave properly. The savage Indian never was guilty of using such low phrases as "you bet." His proud soul disdained to make so low a stoop. You can tell a man's character by the tales he tells and the songs he sings, as certainly as by his pedigree. Before a man can say some things, and sing some songs, his voice and heart have to be made brutish. He must loose all his manly dignity and beceme a kind of monkey-mannered creature. Wit of the right sort, when used at the proper time, is becoming; but wit purchased at the expense of dignity, is a miserable posssession. It degrades to a level with the vile and worthless. Horrid possession! _ Hfc "Wanted, a Boy to attend J51IC?The DaDer droDDed from my hands? as I read this advertisement. It seemed as though,X-had read "Wanted, a boy togodown to perdition!" I fancied I saw a bright, earnest boy going to a bar-room, seeking a living by .that fearful trade of selling wine and rum. I could imagine how, one by one, all good impulses and desires he had in the beginning fell before the evil influences of the dram-shop; how he learned to drink, to swear and steal; how bad companions came around him, and helped him on to ruin. Ah! my lad, or whoever you are who may be tempted by such a call, let me tell you that you may better work in the field, or at a forge, or digging ditcher, anything honest, than degrade yourself by selling death to others. No matter how hard your work, no matter if it soils your hands or clothes, so long as it leaves your heart pure. Beware of all such "good places" as will lead you into the snares of the evil one. There are many doors, beside those of the bar-rooms, which are almost the same as gateways down to the world of woe. Setting up in Life.?There are two ways of setting up in life. One is to begin where your parents are ending?magnificent mansions, splendid furniture and an elegant turnout The other is to begin a little nearer the point where father ana mother?of blessed memory?began. You see, my friend, you can go up so easily and gracefully, if events show it would be safe; but it would be trying and awkward to come down. And it costs much now to live. And business fluctuates; and health is uncertain; and temptations from the side of pride are strong; and many a young man who aid not mean to be extravagant, has been led along, and rather than face the position and descend manfully, has tried to keep up the embezzlement and been called a swindler.?Rev. John Hall. ?eadintj for the fahhath. , CONDUCTED BY i REV. ROBERT LATHAN. : I = n [Original.] J CHRISTIANITY. It is not our intention to write a learned j essay setting forth the origin, aim and destiny ( '{ of the Christian religion. Every Bible read- a ; er knows that the Christian religion is from \ I heaven. Jesus Christ is its author. Its aim !? is the redemption of sinners from the guilt and c pollution of sin; and its destiny is ultimately | to triumph over Satan and to demolish his s kingdom. To dwell upon these things, would j be both pleasant and profitable; but such is 1 not our purpose at present. Our object is simply to call attention to Christianity as it { exists in practice amongst us. We cannot better premise what we have to g say on this subject than by plainly declaring t that Christianity,' as it exists at the present i day, presents many things that are worthy of t the highest commendation ; and other things, 3 perhaps the majority, that deserve our hearty * condemnation. Of the former class, we might ? mention the missionary zeal which character- [ izes Christians generally. i^very unnsiian denomination is doing something to convert the heathen. Men of the first order of talents, and with inviting prospects at home, cut themselves away from all the comforts of home and friends, and go to people of a strange language to preach Christ and him crucified. (: } 'In this there is no small sacrifice, and milch evidence of a "heart's desire and prayer to God for the heathen that they may be saved." To preach the gospel to the heathen, money is required. This requirement has generally been met with a commendable liberality. There are other things that afford evidence of progress. Amongst these we might mention the general interest that is taken in Sabbath schools and religious literature. Whilst unqualified commendation cannot be bestowed upon neither of these, both have done much . for the world, and are still accomplishing ] much good. < Our purpose, however, is not so much to 1 laud as to rebuke and exhort. Although it 1 is the duty of a critic to point out the beau- 1 ties as well as to discover the faults; still no : pious mau desires -his virtues to be exposed ( to the glare of the world; and every good man 1 feels that a favor has been done him when his i faults have been pointed out in a proper spir- ] it to him. Christianity, as taught in the Bible, and . Christianity as practised -by men all over ( Christendom, are very different things. They ? ought not be different; but the fact is too glaring to need proof. Christianity proposes i to make men holy in thought word and deed. ( About Christianity as it exists amongst men, , there is much that is unholy. The fault is not { in Christianity, but in the way it is practised. ( The religion of Jesus Christ is perfect, but it t is very impefectly practised. The infidel and J scoffer make capital of this. The imperfec- i tions of professors of religion are transferred 5 to religion itself. When Christianity is sin- . cerely embraced and practised according to | the scriptural instruction, there is a heavenly ' ' 1? -? -1 e ueuuiy 111 111 W11 lull BCUU1CO mc ouuuauuu uuu V approbation of every intelligent creature in t the universe. When it is embraced in pro- ^ fession, and not practised in a scriptural way, j it is an enormity huge and vile. Sin is ugly in | ( any individual; but in the professed Chris-! ^ tian it is horrid ugly. It is disgusting in the eyes of every intelligent creature. 1 That man must have been strangely situated who has not. seen professed Christians, high in position in the church militant, do f deeds that were brutish in their conception, 1 and devilish in their results. Professed < Christians get drunk, use profane oaths and t obscene conversation, play cards," lie, cheat 1 and swindle. Not only so, but many who 1 have named the name of Jesus, are guilty, ^ publicly, of deeds of darkness which common | decency forbids to be mentioned. This is not * Christianity any more than brass is gold, or i the base and illy executed counterfeit is the 1 genuine coin. Amongst men of the world, it J is, however, regarded as the religion which < Jesus Christ established upon.earth ? A little reflection will convince any one that the church does the cause of Christ a real < injury to suffer such things. Professed Chris- i tians ought to be required to live consistently < with their profession. Any other mode of 1 procedure brings disgrace upon the cause of ' religion, and jeopardizes the eternal welfare ? of the individual. 1 When we look at the world in one aspect, ? there is much to encourage us; but when we 1 look at it an other aspect, there is much to 1 fill our hearts with sadness. There are more i professed followers of Christ to-day, than ever < were at any previous period of the world's 1 history. The fact, however, that there is so 1 much glaring evidence of chaff and so little t wheat, should fill the heart of every pious J man and woman with sorrow and sadness. < It is not our province to condemn any one; \ but there are some things that all professed i Christians ought to do that many do not do, j1 and there are some things that no Christian j ( ought to do that many seem to do without j ( any scruples of conscience. Many make a t compromise with Satan. They propose to be j for Christ, but to enjoy the pleasures of sin. 1 Such an arrangement is most agreeable to the t devil; but most offensive to God and ignoble t in the sight of any right minded man. Com- < mon decency requires that professed Chris- t tians do not get drunk and engage in drunken j s revels; manly dignity requires that they be 11 orderly in their lives, and the God of heaven < and earth requires absolutely that they be j holy for He is holy. j ( If any individual will be careful to exam- j t ine into the lives of many of t.hnsn whnJunre-H gecuxcd^-tte-npijelluiion oi sanvtsj he will see 1? many things which call loudly for reforraa-; I tion. The church in its organized form, and : i in its individual members, must be purged. I a Many foul excrescences must be removed.! ? The pruning knife must be used. The dead r branches must be removed. All foreign' s matter must be removed. Until something j t like this is done, the enemy may consistently i s speak reproachfully of the practice of Chris- 1 tians. ^ We need never expect a church free from ; s all errors; neither need we ever expect men ; t to be absolutely free from all sin ; but it is the , x duty of all Christians to strive after perfec- j i tion. Perfection belongs to God alone; but i < iL.x I , there is an amount 01 lmperitwuuii mm ia m- t dicative of no good. The very least thing j c that the gospel of Jesus Christ proposes to do 11 for men, is to make them decent. It is hu-! i miliating to make the confession, but truth ] requires that we declare that many of us act r habitually in such a way as not to merit the title of decent men and women. Paul told 1 the Corinthian Christians that they were guil- i ty of sins that were not practised by their t heathen neighbors. The same thing may be 1 said of some church members to-day. They t do deeds that are disgusting in the eyes of t mere men of the world. This is no false i alarm. Everybody that knows anything, t knows that it is true. It may seem strange, < but it is in strict accordance with the predic- c tions of our Saviour and the nature of things, c The gospel is either a savor of life unto life, e or a savor of death unto death. The worst i men in every respect are in the church. The t heathen may be more ignorant, but the pro- 1 fessed Christian who lives without God in his g heart and practice, is the worst man on earth, j and will occupy the lowest place in the pit of t perdition. |ets of the IfrgMatutr. i OFFICIAL. j AN ACT -l i To rouew and amend the charter of the town of Mt. Pleasant. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and J louse of Representatives of the State of Sonth Carolina, now met and sitting in General Asembly, and by the authority of the same, ' Chat from and after the passage of this Act, ill citizens of this State having resided sbrt? lays in the town of Mt. Pleasant, shall be' leeraed, and are hereby declared to be ft 1 >ody politic and corporate, and the said town, hall oe called and known by the-^unfiV^f tft. Pleasant, and its corporate limits shall )e and remain as at present fixed by law. Sec. 2. That the said town shall be govsrned by an Intendant and seven Wardens, who hall be citizens of the United States, and ihall have been residents of the said town for uxty days immediately preceding tneir eiecion, who shall be elected on the third Wedlesday in April, in the present year, and hereafter on the same day in every second rear, ten days' public notice being previbufliy. riven, and that all male inhabitants of the ige of twenty-one years, citizens of the State, ind who shall have resided within the said own sixty days immediately preceding the election, shall be entitled to vote for said Inendant and Wardens. Bee. 3. That the election for Intendant qnd Wardens of the said town shall be held in the Dourt House, or some other convenientpnblic place in the said town, from six o'cjpjnfc&e . norning until six o'clock in the|ri^m|jBj ind when the poll# shall be close^lBra^^K igers shall forthwith count the votes an<W^^ dare the election, and give notioe/in wrjtih^, o the persons elected. The Intendant tod Wardens shall appoint three Managers to hold he ensuing and subsequent elections. Whenever there shall not be an Intendant and Wardens, or Intendant and Warden, from my cause whatever, it shall be the duty of ;he Clerk of Court for Charleston County to jrder such election forthwith, and appoint ;hree Managers for the same. The Managers, In each case, shall, before they open the polls for said election, take an oath fairly ana impartially to conduct the same. And that* the tntendant'and Wardens, before entering up1 pn the duties of their respective, offices, shall Sake the oath prescribed by the Constitu;ion of this State, and the following oath, to svit: "As Intendant (or Warden) of the own of Mount Pleasant, I will, equally and impartially, to the best of my ability, exer-1 :ise the trust reposed in me, and will use my I jest endeavors to preserve the peace, and carry into effect, according to law, the purpoe^for j which I have been elected: So help me Gocfr j rhe said Intendant and Wardens shall hol4 ;heir offices from the time of their election un;il the third Wednesday in April in every second year after their election, and until their mccessors shall be elected and qualified. Sec. 4. That in case a vacancy shall occut n the office of Intendant or any of the Warlens, by dea'th, resignation, removal or otherwise, an election to fill such vacancy shall 36 held by the appointment of the Intendant rnd Wardens, as the case may be, or the Clerk >f the Court of Charleston County, if there shall be no Intendant or Wardens, ten days' public notice thereof being previously given; ind in case of the sickness or temporary absence of the Intendant, the Wardens, forming i Council/shall be empowered to elect one of ;heir number to act as Intendant during the ;ime. Sec. 5. That the Intendant and Wardens, luly elected and qualified shall, during fheir ;erm of service, severally and respectively be rested with all the jurisdiction and powers of rrial Justices, or other inferior Courts, within ;he limits of the said town, and the said Intenlant shall and may, as often as he may deem lecessary, summons the Wardens to meefcjBT Council, any two of whom, with the Intend&uV nay constitute a auorum to trajis&c$,busine?. ma they shall be known as the Town Coun<E )f Mt. Pleasant, and they and their 'successor n office, hereafter to be elected, may have-*" common seal, which shall be affixed to all ;heir ordinances. And the said Town Coun;il shall have authority to appoint, from time ;o time, as they may see fit, such and so many proper persons to act as Marshals and Constaales of said town, as the said Council may leem necessary and expedient, for the preser x: xi_ J 1 1:a? yauuu ui iue psacu, guuu urueir auu pvmw ;hereof, which persons, so appointed, shall, within the corporate limits of said town, have ;he power and privileges and emoluments, and be subject to all the obligations, penalties and regulations provided by law for the office of Nonstable, and shall be liable to be removed it the pleasure of said Council; and the said rown Council shall have power to establish, )r authorize the establishment of a market bouse in said town, and the said Town Coun3il shall have full power and authority, under their corporate seal, to make all such rules^ by-laws and ordinances respecting the roads, streets and the market house, and the business thereof, and the police system of said town, as ihall appear to them necessary and proper for ;he security, welfare, and convenience, and ?or preserving health, order, and good government within the same. And the said Towtt. [Jouncil may impose fines for offences against iheir by-laws, and ordinances, and appropriate ;he same to the public use of said town; and;he said Town Council shall have the same lower which Trial Justices or other inferior Jourts now have to compel the attendance of yitnesses, and require them to give evidence lpon the trial before them of any person for nolation of any of their by-laws, or ordinan:es, but no fine above the sum of twenty lollars shall be collected by said Council, ixcept by suit in the Court of Common Pleas: \nd, provided, also, That no fine shall exceed ifty dollars, and also, that nothing herein con-' ained shall authorize the said Town Council ,o make any by-laws or ordinances inconsistent with or repugnant to the laws of this State; ind all the by-laws, rules and ordinances the mid Town Council shall make, shall, at all imes be subject to revival and repeal by the jreneral Assembly of this State. Sec. 6. That the said Intendant and Warlens, or a majority of them, shall have power ,o abate andLxamtrytrTTuIsamrca in., the Bai3'a bWn, ftiid "Ifshall also be their thity "lu liwWf ill the roads, streets and ways within the.cor-T' Dorate limits of the said town open and in good* epair, and for that purpose they are vested" vith all the powers of County Commissioners^ ind shall have full power to classify and arrange the inhabitants of said town, liable to treet, road and other public duty therein, and n foreJIthe Derformance of such dutv. under uch penalties as are now, or shall hereafter >e prescribed by law, Provided, That the said Town Council may compound with any per- " ions liable to perform such duty, upon such ;erms, and on the payment of such sums as nay be established by laws or ordinances : ind, provided, also, That the individuals who jompose the said Town Council shall be exsmpt from the performance of road or public luty, and the inhabitants of said town are lereby exempt from road and public duty vithout the corporate limits of said town: Provided, further, That the sum so fixed shall. lot exceed two ($2) dqllars per annum. . r Sec. 7. That the power to grant or refuse i icenses for billiard tables, to keep tavern, or etail spirituous liquors within the limits of"i he said corporation, be, and the same is hereiy, vested in the Town Council of Mt. Pleas-int, and the said Council may grant licenses ;o retail spirituous liquors to such persons, and n such quantities, at such rates, and upon such erms and conditions, as the said Town Coun :il may see fit and proper; and the said Intenlant and Wardens snail have the full and < inly power to impose a tax on all shows, or sxhibitions for gain or reward within the lim- : ts, and all the money paid for licensee for re- * ailing spirituous liquors, keeping tavern and I lillard tables, and the tax on all shows for 1 ;ain or reward within said limits, shall be ap- i >ropriated to the public use of said corpora- i ion. i Sec. 8. That the said Town Council of . ML Pleasant shall have power and authority to require all persons owning a lot or lots in said town to build a lawful fence, and keep in good repair sidewalks in front of said lot or lots, whenever the same shall front or adjoin i any of the public streets of said town, if, in the judgment of the Council, such sidewalks shall he necessary; the width thereof and the manner of their construction to be designated and regulated by the Town Council; and for default or refusal to keep in repair such sidewalks, the Town Council may cause the same to be put in repair, and require the owner to pay the price of repairing: Provided, That such contract for repairing the same be let to the lowest bidder. Sec. 9. That the said Town Council of Mt. Pleasant shall have power to arrest and commit to Jail, for a space of time not exceeding twelve hours, and fine not exceeding twenty dollats, any person or persons who shall be guilty of disorderly conduct in said town, to the annoyance of the citizens thereof; and it shall be the dutv of the Marshal of the town to make such arrests, and to call to his assistance the posse comitatus, if necessary, and upon failure to perform such duty he shall De fined in a sum not exceeding twelve dollars. Sec. 10. That the said Town Council of Mt. Pleasant shall have power to grant or refuse license to parties within the limits of said town, and the parties to- whom such licenses are granted snail be subject to such regulations as may by Ordinance be established. They shall also have power to impose and collect an annual tax upon the assessed property of said town: Provided, No tax shall oe imposed in any one year to exceed the rate of ten cents on each hundred dollars of such assessed prop- , brtjvapd that the mona^ so raised shall be applied to the use of said town. The said Town Council shall have the power to enforce the payment of all taxes levied by the said Town Council to the same extent and in the same manner as is now or hereafter shall be provided by law for the collection of the general State taxes. Sec. 11. That the said Town Council of Mt. Pleasant shall have power to regulate sales at auction within the limits of said town, and to grant licenses to auctioneers: Provided, Nothing herein contained shall extend to the sales by. a Sheriff, Clerk of Court, Judge of Probate, Executor or Administrator, Assignee in Bankruptcy, or by any other person out of the order, decree of any Court, Trial Justice or other inferior Court. Sec. 12. That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Approved February 28,1871. AN ACT To charter the town of Hamburg. * Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by authority of the same, That from and immediately atier the passage of this Act, all citizens of this State having resided sixty days in the town of Hamburg shall be deemed, and are hereby declared to be, a body politic and corporate, and the said town shall be called and known by the name of Hamburg, and its corporate limits shall be held and deemed to extend from the Savannah Bridge, leading to Augusta, Georgia, one mile west, one-half a mile east and one mile north. Sec. 2. That the said town shall be governed by an Intendant and four Wardens, who shall be citizens of this State, and shall have resided within the corporate limits of said town for sixty days immediately preceding their election, who shall be elected on the second Monday in April in every year, ten days' public notice thereof being previously given; and that all male inhabitants of the age of twenty-one years, citizens of this State, and who shall have resided in the said town for sixty days immediately preceding the election, shall be entitled to vote for said Intendant and Wardens. i Sec. 3. That the Intendant and Wardens a&f the said town shall be held at the Town Hall, in tbf said town, frpm eight o'clock in the morning until four in the afternoon; and when the polls shall be closed, the Managers shall forthwith count the votes and proclaim the election, and give notice, in writing, to the persons, elected; the Intendant and Wardens shall appoint three managers to hold the ensuing ana every subsequent election, except the first, which shall be ordered by the County Commissioners of Edgefield County immediately after the passage of this Act. The Managers, in each case, shall, before they open the polls for said election, take an oath fairly and impartially to conduct the same; and the Intendant and Wardens, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, shall take the oath prescribed' by the Constitution of this State, and also the following oath, to wit: "As Intendant (or Warden) of the town of Hamburg, I will equally and impartially, to the best of my ability exercise the trust reposed in me, and will use my best endeavors to preserve the peace, and carry into effect, according to Jlw, the purposes for whicn Thave been eleceed: So help me God." fion A. Tkof in noon a ttononnir oV?oil nonn* I x* xuuu iu u ouaii uvvui in the office of Intendant, or any of the Wardens, by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, or in case of a tie- in said election, an election to fill such vacancy shall be held by the appointment of the Intendant and Warden or Wardens, as the case may be, or the County Commissioners of Edgefield County, if there should be no Intendant or Wardens, ten days' public notice being previously given; and in case of the sickness or temporary absence of the Intendant, the Wardens forming a Council, shall be empowered to elect one of their number to act in his stead during the time. Sec. 5. That the Intendant and Wardens, duly elected and qualified shall during their term of service, severally and respectively, be vested with all the jurisdiction and powers of Trial Justice, or any other inferior Court, within the limits of the said town. That the Intendant shall and may as often as he may deem it necessary, summon the Wardens to meet in Council, (any two of the Wardens, with the Intendant, shall constitute a quorum to transact business;) and they shall be known as the Town Council of Hamburg, and they and their successors hereafter to be elected, may have a common seal, which shall be affixed to all the ordinances. And the said Town Council shall appoint, from fimp wim., im'CLey may see fit, such and so many proper persons to act as Marshals or Constables of the said town as the said Town Council may deem necessary and expedient for the preservation of the peace and good order of the town, and the persons so appointed shall, within the corporate limits of said town, have the powers, privileges and emoluments, and be subject to all the obligations, penalties and regulations, provided by law for the office of Constable, and shall be liable to be removed at the pleasure of said Council; and the said Town Council shall have the power and authority, under their corporate seal, to make all such rules, by-law3 and ordinances, respecting the streets, roads, market house, and the business thereof, and the police system of the said town, as shall appear to them necessary and proper for the security, welfare and convenience, and for the preserving health, order, and good government within the same. And the said Town Council may impose fines for offences against their by-laws and ordinances, and appropriate the same to the public use of the said town; and the said Town Council shall have the same power which Trial Justices now have to compel the attendance of witnesses, and require them to give evidence upon the trial before them of any person for a violation of any of their by-laws or ordinances, but. no fine above the sum of twenty dollars, or imprisonment in the guard house longer than ten days, shall be imposed by them, except by suit in the Court of Common Pleas: And provided, also, That no fine shall exceed fifty dollars; and, also, that nothing herein contained shall authorize the said Council to i make any byl-aws or ordinances inconsistent < with, or repugnant to, the laws of this State; and all the by-laws, rules and ordinances the i said Council may make, shall, at all times, be jubject to revisal or repeal by the General ] Assembly of this State. Sec. 6. That the said Intendant and War- < dens shall have full power to abate and remove nuisances in the said town; and it shall be their duty to keep all roads, ways and i Btreets within the corporate limits of the said < town open and in good repair, and for that purpose they are invested with all the powers heretofore granted to County Commissioners, and shall have full power to classify and arrange the inhabitants of said town liable to street, road or other public duty therein, and to force the performance of such duty, under such penalties as are now or shall hereafter be prescribed by law: Provided, That the said Town Council may compound with persons liable to perform such duty, upon such terms and on the payment of such sums as may be established by laws or ordinances: And prooIoa TUo* 4-1* a -crrVi a nnm. V1UCU) aiau, xuau buc luuniuuoia nuw vwm* g)se the said Town Council shall be exempt om the performance of road and police duty. Sec. 7. That the power to grant or refuse license for billiard tables, to keep tavern or to retail spirituous liquors, and on all drays and carts hauling goods for which they receive pay, also, omnibuses or carriages carrying passengers within said town, at such rates and on such terms and conditions, as the said Council may deem fit and proper; and the said Intendant and Wardens shall have the full and only power to impose a tax on all shows, exhibitions, or public amusements, for gain or reward, within the limits of said town. And all money paid for license for retailing spirituous liquors, keeping tavern and billiard tables, dray and cart license, and omnibuses or carriages, and the tax collected on all shows for gain or reward within the said limits, shall be appropriated to the public use of the said corporation. f Sec. 8. Thht the Town Council of Hamburg shall have power and authority to require afl persons owning a lot or lots, whenever the same shall front or adjoin any of the public streets of said town, if, in the judgment of the Council, such sidewalks shall be necessary; the width thereof, and the manner of their construction, to be designated and regulated by the Town Council; and for default or refusal to keep in repair such sidewalks, the Town Council may cause the same to be put in repair, and require the owner to pay the price of repairing: Provided, That such contract for repairing be let to the lowest bidder. Sec. 9. That thesaid Town Council of Ham burg shall have power to arrest and commit to jail for a space of time not exceeding five days, and to fine, not exceeding twenty dollars, any person or persons who may be-guilty of disorderly conduct in said town, to the annoyance of the citizens thereof; and it shall be the duty of the Marshal of the town to make such arrests, and to call to his assistance the pom comitatus, if necessary, and, upon failure to perform said duty, he shall be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for each and every offence. , Sec. 10. That the said Town Council of Hamburg shall have power to grant or refuse licenses to parties within the limits of said town, and the parties.to whom suoh licenses are granted shall be subject to such regulations as may, by ordinances, be established. They Bhall also have power, in addition to the money collected by liaeoses. to impose and collect an annual ta#upafe the assessed.property of the said town ^Eofcded, No tax shall be imposed in any one year to exceed the rate of fifteen cents on each hundred dollars of such assessed property, and that the mbney so raised shall be applied to the use of said town. The said Town Council shall have the power to enforce the payment of all taxes levied by the said Town Council, to the same extent, and in the same manner, as is now, or hereafter shall be, provided by law for the collection of the general State taxes. Sec. 11. That all public property, which was formerly under the control of the Town Council of Hamburg, shall again revert to the Town Council elected under this Act: Provided, Such property is in the corporate limits of said tr and intended for public use. \ Sec. 12. That thfe Intendant and Wardens, in person, or any one of ttem, may authorise ana reauire any Marshal or any Constable, especially appointed for that purpose, to arrest and commit to the guard house, (which the Town Council are hereby authorized to establish,) or to tiie jail of Edgefield County, for a term not exceeding five days, any person or persons who, within toe corporate limits of said town, may be engaged in a breach of the peace, any riotous or disordely conduct, open obscenity,'public drunkenness, or any conduet grossly indecent, or dangerous to the citizens of said town, or any of tnem. Sec. 13. That the Town Council shall, within one month after the evni ration of their term of office, make out and return to their successors a full account of their receipts and expenditures during their term, ana sh^Il pay over all moneys in their possession belonging to the corporation, also, deliver all boohs, records, and other papers incident to their office, to their successors, and on failure to do so, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred (200) dollars, to be collected by any proper action by the Town Council. Sec. 14. That this Act shall be deemed a public Act, and shall continue in force for twenty-one years, and until the end of the session of the General Assembly of this State then next following, and all Acts or incorporations, or amendments thereof, repugnant or conflicting with this Act, are hereby repealed. Approved February 28,1871, AN ACT To incorporate the Continental Telegraph Company. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That William M. Hall, E. A. Hall and Charles Tburman, and all those who shall become stockholders in the company hereby incorporated, shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Continental Telegraph Company, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and may have and use a common seal, and may sue and be sued, in any court of competent jurisdiction. Sec. 2. Such corporation is authorized to construct lines of telegraph along, upon, across, over, under and beside of the Greenyille and Columbia-Raih'OHii, and any of the public roads and highways, and under and across any of the waters within the limits of this State, or so much or so many of either of the foregoing as may be deemed expedient, by establishing suitable offices and the erection of the necessary cords or wires and fixtures, including posts, piers or abutments for sustaining the cords or wires of such lines: Pro; vided, The same shall not be so constructed as to incommode the public use of said roads or highways, or injuriously interrupt the navigation of said waters; and also to construct a line or lines of telegraph, and to establish offices, and erect such necessary cords or wires and fixtures, including the posts, piers or abutments, as and for the purposes aforesaid, and keep, hold and maintain tne necessary offices upon, through or over any other land, subject to the right of the owner or owners ana the said corporation, or to be fixed o* determined as hereinafter provided; and the said corporation may, in like manner, and with like power, construct lines of telegraph to such place or places without this State as the Board of Directors may elect Sec. 3. Such corporation shall have full power to purchase, lease, receive, hold and convey real estate, or any interest therein, and i may, in addition thereto, use such real/ estate, or any interest therein, as may be necessary for the convenient transaction of the business, and for effectually carrying on the operations i of said corporation; and may appoint such directors, officers and agents, and mike such i prudential rules, regulations and by-laws as i may be neceseary in the transaction of its bu- i siness, not inconsistent with the Constitution i of this State or of the United States, i Sec. 4. If any owner or owners of any land i taken or used, or likely to be taken or used, i by said corporation, shall consider himself aggrieved, or likely so to be, or damaged there- ] By, or shall refuse to accept the compensation 11 offered by said corporation therefor, it shall be the duty of the Circuit Court, to be held in the county within which said lands are, on the application of such owner or owners, or of such corporation, by petition, stating the facta in relation thereto, and on such notice to the opposite party at such court shall prescribe, to appoint three disinterested persons as commissioners, who shall severally take and subscribe an oath, before any person authorized to administer oaths, faithfully and impartially to perform the duties required of them by this act; and it shall be the duty of tamik Commissioners, or a majority of them, to make a just and equitable assessment or appraisement of all the loss or damage sustained, or which is likely to be sustained, j>y reason of any land, or interest therein, taken or used, or likely to be taken or used*-fbt said offices, lines, posts, piers or abutments, and the erection ana operation of soid telegraph lines; and such assessment jir appraisal shall, in any proper case or cases, determine the annual rent or compensation to be paid by said company for such use, or, in lieu thereof, a sum in gross as the compensation for allowing the fixtures belonging to such association permanently to continue, and the same to be repaired, improved and renewed or removed, from time to time, as such corporation shall require, duplicates of which said assessment or appraisement shall be reduced to writing and signed by said commissioners, or a majority of them; one copy of which shall be delivered to the party alleged to be injured, or likely so to be, and the other to the President of said corporation; on demand, in case any damage shall be adjudged to the person alleged to be injured or damaged, or likely so to be, the corporation shall pay the amount thereof, withfcoets of appraisal, which said costs shall be liquidated ana ascertained in said award; and said commissioners shall each receive, for their services, two dollars for each day they are actually employed in making said appraisement; and upon payment of such award the right, title, interest or property described in said assessment or apportionment, shall become and be vested in and be the property of each corporation. Sec. 5. Tae capital stock of such corporation shall be fifty thousand dollars, to be divided into two -thousand shares of twenty-five dollars each, which may be increased, from time to time, to such an amount as and whenever a majority of the stockholders present at any general meeting shall elect; books of subscription may be opened to obtain the amount of stock first above named, at such time and place within this State as a majority of the persons first above named shall determine, and for the increased stock in such a manner as the said corporation may deem expedient; and the said corporation shall go into operation at such time as a majority of the stockholders may fix. Sea 6. Such corporation may lease, sell or convey its property, rights, privileges and franchises, or any interest therein, or any part thereof, to, or mty, unite with any.telegraph company organized under or created by She laws of this or any other State; may acquire,. by lease, purchase or conveyance, the property, rights, privileges and franchises, or any interest therein, or any .part thereof of any telegraph company organized under or created by the laws of this or any other State, and may make payments therefor in its own stock, money, bonds or property, or receiye payment Cherefor in the stock, money, bonds or property of the corporation to wmch the same may be so sold, loaned or mortgaged or conveyed, or of any other corporation or corporations: Provided, however, That no such purchase, sale, lease or conveyance by any corporation shall be valid until the written consent of the holderor holders of a majority of the capital stock shall have been obtained. Sec. 7. The stock subscribed for may be issued at such price of subscription, and upon such terms of payment or exchange, as the holder or holders of a majority of Urn stock at such time shall determine, except that the first subscription price, terms of payment or exchange shaU be fixed by $e persons first above named,? and any corporation or corporations may subscribe for, purchase, hold, sell or convey the capital stocx of this, corporation, as often, and to as great an extent, as such corporation or corporations may deem advisable. Sec. 8. That said corporation may issue bonds for such an amonntas the officers shall fix, and may secure the same by a mortgage upon so much of- the property, rights, privileges and franchises of said corporation as may be named in such mortgage, which mortgage may be recorded.in the office of the Register of Mesne Conveyances in the county of Richland, in this State, and thereupon, and thereafter, it shall become and be a lien upon- all or o? any^mterest tlhereinfand of any part thereof, described in said mortgage. Sec. 9. Any person who shall willfully and maliciously injure, molest or destroy any of said lines, posts, piers or abutments, or the materials or property belonging thereto, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the penitentiary at hard labor not. exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court before which the conviction shall be had, and, in addition thereto, shall pay such damages as shall be caused by him or her, to be recovered in civil action by said corporation. Sec. 19. The Board of Directors, as often as the interests of the corporation shall require, are hereby authorized to, and shall, fix the rate or rates for transmission or delivery of any message or messages, which may be required to be paid in advance. | Sec. 11. Any person connected with such telegraph company, either as' operator, messenger, agent, servant or clerk, or in any other capacity, who shall, willfully and maliciously, disclose, divulge or communicate, or Dermit the same to be done, the contents, or the nature of the contents, of any private message or communication entrusted to or left with him, or her, or such corporation, for transmission or delivery, other than to the party or parties entitled thereto, or who shall willfully refuse or neglect to transmit or deliver the same, he or she shall, on conviction before any court, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall suffer imprisonment in the county jail }r workhouse where such conviction shall be, had, for a term of not more than three months, or shall pay a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars, or both, in the discretion of the court Sec. 12. All acts, or parts of acts, contrary to or inconsistent with this act are, for the purposes of this act, but for no other purpose, hereby repealed. Sec. 13. This act shall take effect immediately. 'Approved March 7,1871. AN ACT To incorporate the Capital Building and Loan Association, of Columbia. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General As-, sembly, and by the authority of the same, That John Agnew, M. J. Calnan, James A. Dunbar, Wm. B. Nash, W. Simons, S. B. Thompson, John McCord, R. Tomlinson, C. C. Pufferv W. P. Hague, Timothy Hurley, together with other persons who now are, or Hereafter may be, associated with them, be, and they are hereby, declared a body politic and comorate. for the mirflose of making loans of money, secured by "mortgage on real estate or personal property, or by conveyanoe of the Bame, to their members and stockholders, by the name and style of the "Capital Building and Loan Association, of Columbia," the capital stock of which shall consist of one thousand shares, to be paid in by successive monthly installments of one dollar on each share, 30 Ion? as the corporation shall continue, the said shares to be. held, transferred, assigned and pledged, and the holders thereof to be subject to such fines and forfeitures for defaults in their payments, according to such regulations as may be prescribed by the by-laws of said corporation. Sec. 2. That the said corporation shall have power and authority to make any such rules ind by-laws for its government as are not re- i pugnant to the Constitution and laws of the land; shall have such number and succession of members and officers as shall be ordained and chosen, according to their said rales and by-laws, made or to be made by them; shall have and keep a common seal, and may alter the same at will; may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any Court of law or equity in this State; and shall have and enjoy aQ and every fight and privilege incident ana belonging to corporate bodies, according to the laws of the land. " Sec. 3. Thi l' thu'rit IcTcorporation shall have power to take, purchase, and hold real estate, and to sell and transfer the same from time to time to its members, on such terms, and under such conditions, and subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by the rules and by-laws of said corporation: Provided, That the real estate held by said corporation shall not at any time exceed the value of two hundred thousand dollars. Sec. 4. That the funds of said corporation shall be loaned and advanced to the members, and stockholders, upon the security of real and personal estate; and used in the purchase e ? .1 . 1 di . i* *_ L I oi real estate ior we oenent 01 memrere and stockholders, on such terms, and under such conditions, and subject to such regulations as may, from time.to time, be prescribed by the rules and by-laws of said corporation; and that it shall be lawful for the said corporation to hold such lands, tenements, hereditaments and personal property as shall be mortgaged or conveyed to them in good faith, by way of security upon its loans and advances, and may sell, alien or otherwise dispose of the same, to its members and stockholders only, as they, from time to time, may deem expedient. Sec. 5. Thai whenever it shall ofecur that the funds of the said corporation shall remain unproductive and uncalled for, for the space . i of two months, the corporation shall have power to loan whatever amount may be thus on hand, to others than stockholders and mem ben, for such time and at such rates of inter- / est as maybe established by virtue of such % rules, and by-laws as may be made by said * corporation. Sec. 6. That whenever the fonds of said corporation shall have accumulated to such an amount that, upon a fair and just division thereof; each stockholder and member shall have received, or be entitled to receive, the sum of two hundred dollars, or property of that value, for each and every share of stock by him or her so held, and such distribution and division of the fonds shall have been so made, then this corporation' shall cease and determine. This Act shall be deemed a public Act, and that the same may be given in evidence without specially pleaaing the same; Provided, That said corporation shall have all the rights, and be subject to all the liabilities provided in the Act to regulate the formation of corporations, passed December 10, 1870. Approved March 9,1871. i an act To incorporate the Winymh Guards, of Georgetown, South Carolina. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by die authority of the same, That J. Harvey Jones, George Pawlev and Brass Richardson, under the name and style of the Winyah Guards, they, and their successors and associates in office, be, and they are hereby, incorporated, in deed and in law, and, as such body politic, shall have the power to use and keep a common seal, and the same at will to alter, to make all necessary by-laws not repugnant to the laws of the land, and to . have succession of officers and members, conformable to such by-laws, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any Court of competent jurisdiction in this State, and to have, use ana enjoy all other rights, and be subject to all other liabilities incident to bodies corporate. Sec. 2. This Act shall be deemed and taken ftp be a public Act, and shall contfcra?*fla V force for the space of fifteen yean frota and after its passage. Approved March 9,1871. amTact To incorporate the Lebanon Presbyterian Church, * of Fairfield County. : Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the- same: That, the Lebanon Prabjtenan Church, of Fairfield, in this State, is hereby incorporated, with all the rights and privileges awarded to religious denominations m this State. Sec. 2. That the said Lebanon Presbyterian Church, of Fairfield, may acquire lands within this State for religious and educational purposes, and regulate and govern the same as they may dean proper, in accordance with their laws and discipline, such laws not being inconsistent with the laws of this State.* . Sec. 3. This Act shall be deemed a public Act, and shall continue in force for the term of twenty-five years. Approved March 9,1871. an act . To empower the State to maintain the beneficiaries in the Lunatic Asylum, Instead of the several Counties. *' Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South ^..l.MMinnjn /ImiomI At. uoruuiia, uun wen wu gmuig ? uv?v?h wr sembly, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, all beneficiaries now in, or hereafter to be placed in, the State Lunatic Asylum, be sapported by the State. Sec. 2. That the State assume the liabilities of each and every of the Counties that is now in arrears for the support of its beneficiaries. Sec. 3. All Acts or partB of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved March 9,1871. All ACt To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the conversion of State Securities. Be it enacted "by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the conversion of State securities," approved March 23, A. D. 1869, be amended as Mows, to wit: The words to be appropriated to b& own use," in the third and fourth lines of Section 3d, to be changed so as to read "to be appropriated for the use and benefit of the State." Approved March 9,1871. All ACT To recharter Maxwell's Bridge, over Seneca River, in Oconee County. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly,' and by the authority of the same, That the bridge known as Maxwell's Bridge, over Seneca River, in Oconee County, be, and the same is hereby, rechartered for the term of fourteen years, and the same vested in Mary T. Marmll anil AnniA ft 1 nan. tbftir heir* and assigns, with the same privileges and rates of tollas those heretofore allowed by law. Approved March 9,1871. . AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An Act to Organize the Supreme Court." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That Section 1 of an Actentitled "An Act to organize the SuDreme Court," ratified on the eighteenth day or September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read "the third Tuesday of April," in the place of "the first Tuesday" of the same month. Approved March 9,1871. Some slanderer has said the old folks go to church to close their eyes, and the young to eye their clothes. We do not behove this is true, of the young ladies at least They go for religious worship and to see the Sams and Hims.