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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
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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*