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.' ?j -' UUdfe - -r' -?J9LK TTinnsboro female Seminaryr .Rev. A. G. Staci/, A. M., Principa!. #THE session will begin Janu? ary 4th, 186tL Tuition per half year, about $20; Board, $75-on a specie basis. Snminarv con? ducted on the plan of a Female College. For further informa? tion, apply to k. G.STAjtTY, Principal. Decja_iFTy I-_2_ SOB. TOY BOOKS, in great variety, at Dec 17 3 P. B. GLASS' Rooksto.-e. CRACKERS. 1 f \ HABBELS, assorted, at \XJ E. POLLARD'S, on Main st., Dec 17 3* Centre of old Brick Range. "R?CE THAT ^~RTC?." "I f\ BBLS. moro of that' superior NEW WJ RICE, direct from tho Charleston Mills, just received and for sale at the Auc? tion Room of LEVIN A PEIXOTTO. Dec 17 _3_ "C?tTKlOl ALBUS ! BEAUTIFULLY COLORED PHOTO? GRAPHS, suitable for Photographic Albmns, comprising Groups, Landscapes, Figures, Ac. ALSO, PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS, various styles, sizes and prices, suitable for Christ? mas presents. Por sale at P. B. GLASS' -Bookstore, Plain street, opposite Bedell's Row. ?OLD PENS ! ACHOICE SUPPLY of very superior and elegant GOLD PENS; the finest ever offered in this market, with holders of various styles and sizes. ALSO, STEEL PEN'S of everv description. QUILLS of the best quality. Sealing Wax and Wafers. Wood, India Rubber and Metallic Pen? holders. Pen Racks and Tin Chi ck Cutters. Japanned Cash Boxes. " Post Office Boxes. Ivory Paper Folders. Gum Labels, Chalk. Backgammon Boards, Chessmen, Dice. Bristol Board, Drawing Paper. Parchment, Visiting Cards. Indelible Ink, India Ink. Camel Hair, Sable and Bristle Brushes. Copying Presses, Copying Books, Ac. Mucilage, Desk Pads, Letter Clips. Faber's Black Lead and Colored Pencils. Pocket Books, Red Tape and many other articles of Office, School and Counting House Stationery. ALSO, The most superior LETTER, CAP and NOTE PAPER and ENVELOPES, at P. B. GLASS' Bookstore, t On thc site of thc old Post Office. Dec 17 3 CHEESE ! -| f\ BOXES very superior GOSHEN JA / CHEESE, at 30 cents per pound. At POLLARD'S, on Main street, Dec. 17f3? Centro of old Brick P^ngo._ NOTICE! JUST received, 500 pieces of BONNET RIBBON. Also, a largo assortment of I VELVET RIB JONS-all numbers-and the largest o tock of latest style. LADIES' HATS in this city, which wo offer at vcr/ roduced prices. We also offer a large stock of DRESS GOODS, of all descriptions, and All-wool BALMORAL SKIRTS, at NEW YORK PRICES. ABELES, MYERS A CO., Dec 16 C Bronson's Old Stand. Hillsboro, N. C., Military Academy. THE sixteenth session (five months) of j this Academy, will begin on MONDAY', the first day of January, 1860. Circulars furnished on application to Dec (i wo J. B. WHITE, Snpjt. For Sale, COLOMBIA CITY PROPERTY. r|llIE undersigned is authorized to sell a X aumber of HOUSES and LOTS, situ? ated in various portions of the city. JVot? is the time for capitalists. They may be treated for on advantageous terms, if ap? plied for soo? to W- A. HARRIS. Nov 38_|12_ South Carolina Railroad Company, GEN. SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, j CUAKLICSTON, Nov. 30, 1865. ON and after WEDNESDAY, 6th Decem '. ">r, Passenger and Freight Trains will . .-a on the Augusta Branch to Midway, ten miles above Branchville, as follows: Leave Charleston.0.00 a. m. Arrive at Charleston.4.15 p. m. Leave Midway.9.53 a. in. Arrive at Midway.12.48 p. m. H. T. PEAKE, Deo 6 General Superintendent. 2?ay & Hewetson, Architects ap J Civil Engineers. PKOFESSTi IN L BUSINESS attended to in South North Carolina. Working drawings, plans, specifications, and ali necessary details promptly fur? nished. Joins A. KAT. RALPH E. B. HEWSTSOS Sept 20 t JOHN A. TC /=%TT, CITY SURVEYOR. OFFICE at residence, in rear of the Presbyterian Church, Columbia, S. C. BS' l-l 20 ' t ....... .. . -. .v. -, -,-v* ."' *V 7 *V**/"- ,'""*L stitute the period from .which the time shall be counted. Third, tba these shall not bc included in the computation of time between the death ? of a white person, defendant, and grant of administration or probato to his personal representative. Nor fourth, the time during which an execu? tor or administrator and defendant is by law protected from suit. Nor \ fifth, the time during which" ? person of color, defendant, may bo absent from the District in which the cause of action arose, or may bo absconding in that District. . XXXV. In reference to wills, executors and administrators, distribution of estates after payment of debts, the rights and remedies .of legatees and next to kin, and all other matters relating to testators and intestates, the same which applies to white persons shall extend to persons of color. XXXVI. To the District Court there shall be an appeal from tho j Ordinary in l'ospect to matters which affect persons of color, to bc con- | ducted as in like case is an appeal to a Superior Court, An appeal from a Magistrate shall go to the District Court, the appellant paying in cash, to the Magistrate, one dollar, as a fcc, for, the report. An appeal from the District Court, or District Judge, shall go to the Court of Appeals, thc appellant paying, in cash, two dollars for the report, which shall go to the District Court Fund. No order of any Courts or Judge in this State, shall require printing by a party to a suit of any report, brief or other paper connected with appeals. XXXVII. The various Boards of Commissioners for the District, instead of the reports heretofore made to the Superior Court of Law, shall, on tho j first day of the first quarterly sitting of tho District Court, in each year, make such reports to the District Court. The District Judge shall, him? self, examine these reports carefully, soe that they contain a fn?i state I mont of transactions, for the year preceding, as well as a correct account of receipts and expenditures, and poiut out errors and omissions. Ho may also refer them to the Grand Jury, in his Court, and shall make each j order, in reference to them, as he may think likely to secure in future accurate conformity to law. XXXVni. In case of the vacancy of tho office of a District Judge, by death, resignation or otherwise, the Governor shall immediately appoint a successor, who shall continue in office until a Judge shall be elected by thc Legislature, aud shall take the? oath S of office. Tho District Judge, \ during his continuance in office, shall hold no other office of profit or trust in this State, or the United States. XXXIX. in all process'arid pleadings in the District Court, tho largest 1 liberty of amendment, consistent with fairness, shall be allowed. In- I dictments shall be required to contain only so much as will give to the accused reasonable information of tho charge against which he is to defend himself ; substance, and not form, shall be looked to ; and technical re? quirements shall not be permitted to hinder or delay tho administration of justice. XL. The Judges of the Court of Appeals shall, from time to time, make rules for tho orderly and uniform transaction of business and conduct of cases iu the several District Courts of the State, and shall prescribe forms short and simple forthe conduct of business, and for the assistance of officers and others connected with these Courts. FEES. XLI. The fees of officers for all services which are required by this Act, or either of the other Acts mentioned in the "Act preliminary to the legislation induced by the emancipation of Slaves," and for which no special provision is made in any of these Acts, shall be the same as now prescribed by law for like services, except as is hereinafter provided. XLH. The Attorney-General, Solicitor, Deputy of either, or other District Attorney, shall have : For convicting each offender in the District Court of a capital crime.$15 00 For convicting each offender of a felony, with benefit of clergy, or an aggravated misdemeanor. 10 00 For convicting each offender of a potty misdemeanor. 5 00 (Misdemeanors to be classified according to rules to be adopted by the Court of Appeals.) For representing the Tax Collector, Magistrate or other officer in a case for the trial of a question of color or caste.$20 00 To be paid out of any public funds in the hands of such officer, and recovered back from thc adverse party, if the final decision should be against him. XXLIII. The Clerk shall have, in tho following matters connected with the District Court, these fees, to wit : For all services respecting Juries, including entries in tho Journal, re? ceiving returns and making certificates : For a jury at a monthly sitting. $0 50 For juries at a quarterly sitting. 75 I For a new jury list, and necessary tickets. 2 00 j For an annual copy of rolls of jurors and constables transmitted to the Treasurer. 5 00 For the annual report from the District Court transmitted to the Treasurer. 10 00 ! For copying any report or other paper, or making any entry more than one hundred words, in a journal, for each word. 01 ! For license granted by order of the District Judge. 50 On all moneys paid into Court under order of Court, 3 per cent.... 03 j For filing any report, instrument of apprenticeship, or other paper directed to be filed in his office. 20 i Tho services mentioned in the last two items, if required by said District I Board, shall be paid for ont of its funds ; if required by a Magistrate, j shall be collected by him, along with his own foes, from the person liable for the paper. For any summons, notice, order, sentence, process, mosne, or final, which might have proceeded from a Magistrate, if the case bo i before the Judge of the District Court, and the Clerk issue the paper, the ! fees of the Clerk shall be thc same as the Magistrate would have had. XLIV. The Sheriff shall have in the following matters connected with the District Court, those fees, to wit: j For obtaining a copy of the Tax Collector's return and helping the Clerk about a new Jury list.$2 00 : I For summoning a Jury at a monthly sitting.'. 1 00 For summoning a Jury at a quarterly sitting, including the writing of summons. . 1 50 Besides mileage for the number of miles actually and necessarily traversed in summoning a Jury, at the rate per milo of. 05 j The Sheriff, or Constable, shall have for serving process and executing j orders from the District Court, (not intended to include the ordinary pro? ceedings by summary process,) thc following fees, to wit: For arresting an individual, or serving a chattel under a special order, or evicting a tenant, or doing other specific service as duly re? quired.$0 50 For serving any process, summons or ordi r not requiring any specific action. 25 With mileage from the place whence the summons, order or other paper issued, to the place of its service or execution, going, but not returning, per mile. 05 For specific execution of a sentence. 50 For receiving money, note or goods under special attachment. 50 For foes of the Clerk and Sheriff, respecting the Juries in tho District Court, and the foes of the Clerk for copying rolls and reports transmitted by him to tho Treasurer, and of the Magistrates, for reports shall bo paid out of the District Court Fund. XLV. A Magistrate, forthe services mentioned below, shall have fees OS follows, Lamely: For a summons or notice, and taking the return thereof.$0 20 For making and entering any order or decision not below mentioned, including a copy, if it is to be served. 20 For hearing and determining any small and mean cause, or any com? plaint, dispute or controversy, including all necessary entries ol judgment, decree or order. 25 For the same as in the Inst item, where more than four witnesses are examined . -.-. 50 For ah order of eviction... .'..:. 50 For a special aitachiuent ancj taking return thereof. 50 For return of garnishee not contested. 30 For binding out an apprentice, including the instruments, tobe paid by the master. 50 For approving a contract between master and servant. 50 For any affidavit, not a return before mentioned. 30 For each quarterly report to thc District Court, not disapproved by the. District Judge.$1 00 For each semi-annual report to the Chairman of the Board of Belief of Indigent Persons of Color, not disapproved by the said Board. I.:.2 00 XL VI, The person who requires services in a civil suit or complaint, or any matter which he expects to bs specially beneficial to himself before the District Court or a Magistrate, shall pay the fees for them, and he shall recover back from the adverse party what he has tints properly paid, if he should prevail against that party. In a Criminal proceeding, tho services shall u'* rendered without instant payment ; and if the accused should bc convicted, he shall be bound to pay all the costs of thc prosecu? tion, and for them be liable to all the modes of exaction which may be used for the collection of fines. If collection from the convict cannot be had, then the State shall be liable for one-half the costs. If the accused should be acquitted, the Judges or Magistrate before whom the trial has beeu had, if he has become satisfied iu the course of the trial that the prosecution wus without probable cause, may order that the prosecutor shall pay the costs of-the prosecution, and thereupon process for collec? tion shall go against the prosecutor, in like manner as, in ease of convic? tion, it might have gone agaiust the convict. XLVIII. For the District Court of Berkeley the provisions of this Act shall prevail, subject to the following modifications, namely : The Clerk, Sheriff, Masters and Registers in Equity, and Ordinary, for Charleston Judicial District, shall have the same powers and be subject to the same duties and liabilities, in respect to Berkeley District, as like officers in other Districts. An appeal from the Ordinary of Charleston Judicial District, which, under this Act. should go to a District Court, shall go to the District (.'oort of Berkeley, according to thc rules which, if such Elec? tion District had an Ordinary, would determine the Ordinary that should have jurisdiction of tho matter in question- The various Boards of Com? missioners in Berkeley District shall report to tho Court of that District, and be subject to it in like manner, as in other Districts Boards are to their respective District Courts. The records of Berkeley District shall bo kept in the office of the Clerk of the Judicial District of Charleston. The Judge of the District Court of Berkeley may hold a monthly and quarterly sittings of his Court at such places in his District as he may appoint, taking care to give due public notice, and all process of his Court shall be returnable to such place as the Judge of the Court may appoint, and be by suitable words flamed accordingly. Jurors for eoiumoi? Juries shall be summoned by the Sheriff from any citizens of the District, and for special Juries, Jurors shall be drawn from a box which contains the names of all citizens of the District, tho Judge being at liberty to reject, of those drawn, any citizen who lives more than twenty miles from the place where the Court is appointed to be held. XLIX. All the provisions of this Act will apply to the District Court of Charleston, and all the officers of the. Judicial District of Charleston will occupy the same relations to the District Court of Charleston as like officers do in other Judicial Districts to the District Court of such Districts, except as in this Act excepted in reference to Berkeley District. In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of otu- Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. * W. D. POUTER, Presideut of the Senate. C. H. SIMONTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Columbia Male School. " ^m*. THE undersigned announces i @tl ?n '"a Patrr.ns alHi the public .? 1 J?a?, that thc exercises of his School, kyjfi^s; for tin- first session of 1NU6, will commence on tho first T?ES <C^S^ DAY in Januory. Pupil? will bc instructed in thc course of study pre? paratory to entering tho University of South Carolina, (jr prepared for admission into the Freshman and Sophomore Clans of any College. Special attention will bo paid to imparting a practical knowledge of thc departments of a good English education. Thc School-house for the approaching ses? sion will be tin: Sunday School Boom of tho Marion Street Methodist Church. Only a limited number of scholars will be admit? ted. Hate of tuition por session of five months, $20, payable by half sessions. For further information, apply to Dec 20 wfw3* F. W. PAPE. Principal. BOOK - KEEP1$?@ By Single and Double Entry. J? A LIMITED number of young ???*TR',lu"' understanding the general &~??&? principles of arithmetic, and de Siring tv/ acquire a practica! ?nd an accu? rate knowledge of BOOK-KEEPING by Single and Double Entry, including the department of Commercial Arithmetic, will bo received as a class, and instructed after school hours. The recitations, each of two hours' duration, will embrace a thorough exposition of the principles of the art, and the application of these prin? ciples in appropriate sets of books, which every member of the class will be required to keep. Bate of tuition for each scholar, $20 a term of fifty recitations, during which time an industrious and intelligent student can prepare himself to take charge of a set of books in a counting-house. For place ?md hours of instruction, apnlv to the undersigned. F. W. PAPE. Dee '.ill WthwS* Stolen, JK, FROM my premises, on Friday ^ife??l night, six miles from Columbia. t?fl^Su'^'1' MULES-ono a largo iron gray horse mule, sixteen bauds high, eight rears obi, shod al! round, mane am: tail trimmed; the other a black mare mule sixteen hands high, shod all round, with a sear on one bind leg. A reward of $50 wil be paid for their return and the detectioi (d' the thief. .1. D. FROST. De,- 17 ('?* Wanted-$4, OOO. IH.VVn the above amount on hand Would like to engage as clerk in sonn good mercantile establishment, with a vies to future partnership. Address J. W. NEWTON. Dec 17 3* Columbia. S. C. i Columbia Male Academy. I H. S. THOMPSON. Instructor in Mathe? matics, French ami English Branches. RICHARD FORD, Instructor in tho Lat?n and Greek Classics. jjm^ THE exercises of this Acade aiSnk my will he resumed on the 8th ?j^Ljgfl?tf-of January next. Pupils will ^JM/PFg he prepared for admission into jsfir?S? any university or ?olloge. The g^JaJf' course of study will include a new and improved system of Book-keep? ing, and special advantages will be afforded such students as may desire to fit them? selves for mercantile life. The scholastic year will be divided into three terms of four months each. Tuition at tho rate of seventy-five ($75) dollars per year for the Classics and French, and sixty ($o(J) dollars for tho English Brancncs, payable at the beginning of each term. Pupils who enter for less than a whole term, will be charged at thc above rates. Dec 20 _Imo* FIRST ARRIVAL OF WARRANTED 6U?UI HAVANA SEGARS ! AFEW THOUSAND highly flavored and favorite brands of the above, directly imported and for sale bv Dec 19 3 LEVIN A PEIXOTTO. Wanted to Rent, A HOUSE containing about six rooms j\_ live, at least, with fire-places-with Kirchen, Store-room and other usual out? buildings. One in the suburbs, with a few acres of land attached, preferable. Apply at once at this office. Dec 19 2*_ Pretty and Attractive. Um BOXES AM) FIRE WORKS MR. MCKENZIE ha? just opened a handsome assortment of FANCY BOXES, and also a fresh stock of FIRE? WORKS. Call and soe them. Dec 19 Houset and Lots and Building Lots. IXTHiL be s.dd, at private sale, TEN \\ HOUSESand LOTS and BUILDING LOTS, located in various puris of the city; say on .Main. Laurel, Richland, Camden. Wavno and Lady streets. For particulars, apply to ' A. rt. PHILLIPS, Auction and Commission Agent. Dec 19 5 Davis' Alley. TO RENT, IjlOUR ROOMS, with out room, of the ' lower story <>i'the dwelling on thc cor? ner of Taylor and Picken8 .streets. Pos? session given immediately, l'or further particulars, inquire ai this office. Dee 19 3*