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MADAME SOSNOWSKI'S Institute for Young Ladies ! Opposite CJiarlotle Railroad J)epot, COLUMBIA, S. C. r?THE duties of this Institute will, be re I sumed on January 15, 18Gf>, and end on July 15 following. Por circulare, stilting terran, fcc, apply to Principal. Dec aa_"_tis University of South. Carolina. j*^^ THE General Assembly of nlB^^ South Carolina having changed r-?i-jHL? '?'?.'* South Carolina College into ^apF*:v University, applicants are JB^BF hereby notified that the exer c?2b^ eises of the University will be? gin on MONDAY, the 8th January next. Students (who must be at least fifteen vears of age) will be allowed to select the Department? which they wish to pursue, provided (hey attend the Lectures in at feast threo Scffools. In certaia cases, attendance upon a less number of Schools may be permitted. There will he ?io exami? nations for admission. Applicants should present themselves punri nally. Fees, for the year, t>> bo paid on en? trance by each student, in specie or its equivalent. Matriculation Fcc, $5; Library ' Fcc. $15; Room Rent, S2d; Tuition Fee, if ' throe or more Schools arc atteuded, $25 for \ each School-if two School? arc attended, j $35 foi each School-if only one School is attended, $50. No abatement of fees fur late entrance. C. BRUCE WALKER, \ Dee 22 | Secretary Faculty. Charleston Courier, Augusta (J'Misti tutionalisl,' Greenville Enterprise, Marion ; Crescent and Lancaster Ledge)' will give thc ! above two insertions each, and forward ! their bills to the Treasurer of tho TJnivcr- I aity, Rev. C. Bruce Walker, at this place. St bary's College. tTHE exercises ol' this insti? tution will bc resumed on thc ?^Sth of January next. :5g Terms for Primary Depart- I S? nient, per session of 5 months, in advance, $15: Mathematics, including all the brunches of an English education, $25 per session; Ancient Lan Kua^es, including Hebrew, (?reek and Latjn, and Modern Languages, $1(1 each, extra per session. Dec 28 ll J. J. O'CONNELL, Pres't. \ Columbia Male Academy. Ii. S. THOMPSON, Instructor in Mathe matice, French and English Branches. I RICHARD CO Kl?, Instructor in the Latin | and Greek Classics. THE exercises of this Acadc- I /fZjSa my will be resumed on the 8th \ e?i*?yJk?t of January >u'xt. i'tipils will j ^tt?afc^~-?be prepared for admission into ! any university or vollegc. The ? ?-^y course of study will include a I new and improved system of Book-keep- ; lng, and special advantages will be afforded such students as may desire to tit them? selves for mercantile lile. Th? sell ?lastic year will bo divided into taree terms of four months each. Tuition at the rat e of seventy-live ($75) dollars per year for the Classics and French, and sixty "($C0) dollar-' for thc English Brandies, payable at the beginning of each term. Pupils who enter for less than a whole tenn, will be charged at the above rates. Dec 20 Imo* FROM Columbia to Charleston. T:iK NEW and FIRST-CLASS LICHT DRAFT STEAMER GEORGE is now prepared to make engagements to take Freight from Granby Landing to Charles? ton. All goods forwarded by this linc will be insured, if desired. Also, forwarded to New York, and advances made upon the same, if required. Dec 14 Imo A. L. SOLOMON, Agent. ?S~ The Abbeville Banner, Newberry Herald, Anderson Intelligences wadi Chester Standard, will publish the above for two weeks, and send bills to this office. HACK LINE TO HAYING taken charge of tinf above HOTEL, and having thoroughly re? fitted and refurnished it, I [liedlo mys? If, after many years' experi? nco in thia busi? ness, to furnish mv guests with clean, com? fortable rooms, and t table supplied at all times with the very beal thc markets afford. I am determined to sparc no pains to please m\ patrons. Ms HACKS from Abbeville to Washi-jg ton, Ga., will make daily connection with this House, affording to persons going West atnl Fast a sale, com? irtablo and ex? peditions means of conveyance. Persons desiring to go Irma Abbeville to any point of the country not accessible bj public conveyance, can find ht mv LIVERY STABLES, for hire, Carriage?, Buggies and Saddle Horses. P. s. II?JTLEDGE. Abbeville C. H., December ?2, IS05. Dee 21 Imo The friend.' of Dr. A. N. TA tf.LFY nomi? nate him as a candidate for Mayor at the ensuing election in April >'c\|M N< or the Governor of this State, to mitigate, suspend or pardon any punish? ment to-which any such officer, non-commissioned officer or private may be sentenced by a general court-martial. CXXVI1I. Any Major-General, Brigadier-General, or the commanding officer of a regiment, when, and as often as any invasion may happen, may oi-der ont the Militia under their respective commands, for tho defence of tim State, giving notice of such invasion, and every circura- ; stance attending the same, as early as possible, to their immediate com- ? manding officer, by whom it shall be transmitted to the Governor or Commander-in-Chief, by express, the expense of which shall be imme? diately paid ; and that, in case of insurrections, the commanding officer of the r?priment or battalion, within whose limits such insurrection may happen, shall immediately assemble his regiment or battalion under arms, and having transmitted information thereof to the commanding officer of the brigade, and to the Major-General of the division, and to the Governor or Commander-in-Chief, shall proceed to take such measures to suppress such insurrection as he may deem proper ; and if any person be wounded or disabled, while in actual sex-vice, in opposing any invasion or insurrec? tion, or in suppressing the same, ho shall bc taken care of and provided for at the public expense, without regard to his rank. CXXIX. No civil officer shall, on any pretence, execute any process (unless for treason, felony, or breach of the peace) on any person who shall bc called out into the service, and embodied by the Executive authority of this State, in pursuance of the provisions of this 'Act, or within thirty days after such person is discharged from such service, under the penalty of twenty dollars : and thc service of any such process shall be void ; and all suits that may bc ponding against such person shall stand and be continued over in tho same manner as if they had been regularly postponed by affidavit, and the estate of such person, when lie shall be so called out and embodied as aforesaid, shall be free and exempt from levy, distress or sale, by virtue of any legal process whatever, from the time he shall be called out as aforesaid, and until thirty days shall have ? lapsed after he shall be discharged from such service; and any person making such levy, distress or salo, as aforesaid, shall be lined, on conviction by indictment, in the sum of twenty dollars, and such levy, distress and sale shall be void. CXXX. If a vacancy occurs in the general office of any brigade, or in the field offices of any regiment, whilst in actual service, such vacancy shall be tilled by promotion in regular grade, and not by election ; nor shall any election for officers take place in any company while ii. active service, except to till the office of Junior Lieutenant; and such election shall be forthwith ordered by the superior officer in command of tho company, battalion on>regiment in which the vacancy shall occur, and shall be held within twenty-four houri! after the issue of such order. All other vacancies shall be filled by promotion of those next in rank in their respective companies. CXXXI. Whenever tho Militia shall be called into the actual service of this State, by authority of the laws thereof, their pay shall commence from the day of their appearing at the places of battalion, regimental or brigade rendezvous, allowing to each officer, non-commissioned officer, Musician or private, a day's pay and rations for every fifteen miles from his home to such place of rendezvous, and the same allowance for traveling home from the place of his discharge ; and whilst in the service aforesaid, the officers, non-commissioned officers, Musicians and privates of thc infantry, light infantry, riflemen, artillery and cavalry of the Militia ol this ?Slate shall be entitled to the ??ame pay, rations and forage as such regular troops of the United States are entitled to receive. CXXXI1. When the Militia, or any part thereof, shall be embodied, and in actual service, in consequence of being so ordered by the Commander in-Chief, either within or without this State, they shall be subject to th? same rules and regulations as the troops of the United States shall b< subject to at the time: the Militia shall be so ordered out, in order tr secure, as far as possible, an uniformity of discipline; and the same rules and articles shall be proclaimed, with due solemnity, at the head of sucl detachment, as soon alter their being assembled as possible. CXXXIIL When a Militia-man, in the ease specified in the preceding section, shall have been duly summoned or ordered to appear at thc rendezvous, and shall not appear, then, and in that ease, he shall be linee in a sum not exceeding live hundred dollars, and tho amount of his taxe: bust paid to the State, at the discretion of a court-martial, to be compos?e of officers of the. detachment ordered out, if it be convenient; and if not of officers of the brigade to which the delinquent shall belong, or of an; other officers of the Militia of this State, at. the discretion of the Com maniier-in-Chief, who is hereby authorized to order said courts, in con j formity with the usage of the army of the United States ; and, in additioi j to the line which the said court-martial may inflict on any person who ma; j subjeet himself to any ol' the aforesaid penalties, the court-martial may j at their discretion, sentence any delinquent to imprisonment in the com 1 mon jail, for a term not exceeding three months : Provided, Always ? thal no fine and imprisonment shall be imposed on any delinquent, unti ! summoned to appear before a court-martial, to show cause why such lin j cr imprisonment should not be imposed. And all tines inflicted by virtu I of this section shall be collected by an execution, which the President o tlie court-martial aforesaid shall issue, directed to the Sheriff of this State designating the delinque nt, and the company to which he belongs, an? ; commanding the Sheriff to levy the line and costs of the lands, tenements j goods and chattels of the delinquent ; and, if none can be found, o j insufficient to satisfy the same, then to take him anil commit him to th I jail ot the District where he resides; and the Sheriff to whom che sam ! shall be delivered shall execute it by levying and collecting the line an ] costs, and shall make return thereof, within forty days from its lodgment I to the said President; and if thc Sherill" he unable to find lands, tenement! ? goods or chattels, ol' which io levy the same, then he shall take and comm: i the said delinquent to the jail, where lui shall be kept until the same li '? paid, or until double the time shall have, elapsed for which lei would hav ? served had he joined the Militia so ordered out ; and the Sheriff shall h ? entitled to the same fees and commissions for collecting such rino, an 1 shall be liable to the same penalties for not levying, collecting such tim and returning the execution, as hereinbefore prescribed ; and all tint arising under this clause shall be paid, when collected, to the Qaartei masher of the regiment io which the delinquents respectively belong. CXXXrV. All musicians, trumpeters, buglers, drummers, and fife: 1 attached lo or liable to do duty iii any company, shall 'oe entitled to th ? Same pay, and be liable to th ? same lines and penalties, and subject to tl; i same rules and regulations as thc Militia of this State are liable < i subject to. CXXXV. lt shall and may he lawful for the Governor or Commande in-Chief fm- the time being, or the ?V?ajor-Goneral of the division, or tli j Brigadi' r-General of the brigade hi which Charleston is comprehendec or the commanding officers nf the Charleston regiments for Hie tii ? being, to call forth, when necessary, such and so many companies, c detachments of companies, to mount guard in the said city, as to the: shall respectively appear necessary amt proper: Provided, That no sue ! guard shall be obliged to continue on duty at any one time, except iu ea: of actual alarm, more than twenty-four hours; and every person sui moued to turn ont on any guard who shall not obey, or who shall leave i: \ guard, or otherwise misbehave, shall he liable lo pay*he same fines ai furl", it ur: s as such person would be obliged 1<> pay for default of duty, f< i non-attendance or misbehavior at regimental muster. CXXXVI. That thc Commander-in-Cliief, for the time being, shall ha . authority !?> remove, to some pince of safety and deposit, such portion the arms, ammunition and military stores, at any time in the pub] arsenals'of this State, as circumstances may appear t<> require; and win ! necessary, in his opinion, to provide and furnish sufficiont guards protect Ihn public arsenals until it be found expedient to call out in service detachments of the Militia, on whom in part the duty may de vol \ CXXXVII. All persons necessarily going to or returning from mustei i drill or courts-martial, and all patrols, gindi pass over, free of toll or charge, all chartered bridges, ferries aud turnpike roads of this State. CXXXVUI. That no civil officer shall execute any process, a rrestin and confining the person, or requiring bail or surety, (unless for treason, felony, misdemeanor or breach of the peace,) on any person engaged in tho military service required by the laws of this State, or going to or returning from the sime, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars, and tho service of such process shall be void; all arms and equipments required by law, and horses used in the performance of Militia duty, shall be exempt from seizure, distress and execution: Provided, Each trooper or mounted officer shall have but one horse exempted: And provided, also, That such horse shall be registered with the commander of thc corps to which such trooper is attached; and if any person shall seize, distrain or execute such arms, equipments or horse, he shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars. The penalties prescribed in this section * be recovered by indictment. CXXXIX. AU regiments or battalions composed of volunteer companies of infantry, cavalry, artillery or riflemen, are hereby authorized to re-or ganizc, and shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges heretofore allowed them by law; and whenever in any regiment of infantry, four volunteer companies shall be organized, such companies may form a battalion, attached to such regiment with one Major, an Adjutant and a Quartermaster, each with the rank of First Lieutenant, a Surgeon with the rank of Captain, a Sergeant-Major and a Quartermaster-Sergeant; and whenever in any regiment of infantry eight or more volunteer companies shall be formed, such companies may bc organized into a regiment, and have all the. officers, field and staff, allowed to a regiment of infantry. CXL. All the companies which have been or may be organized for tho police of the Stabs under the recent proclamation of the P" ^visional Governor, may retain their organizations as \ dunteer companies, and shall be attached to the regiment of infantry or cavalry, as the ease may be. within the limits of which they may have been raised. CXLI. All the Acts of the General Assembly relating to the Military Hall iu Charleston; All Acts relating to the hire Guard of Charleston; all special and local Acts relating to volunteer companies; to the limits of I regiments or beats, and to the recruiting iniits of cavalry, of force on the first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun? dred and sixty, and all other Acts and parts of Acts relating to the Militia, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, of force on that day, are hereby continued and declared of force. CXLlI. Tho requirements of this Act on the subject of uniforms shall be inoperative for two years from thc day of the passage thereof. CXLIII. The Governor and Commander-in-Chief is hereby authorized to appoint the Major-Generals, Brigadier-Generals, one Colonel of cavalry in each brigade of infantry, to organize and command the mounted com? panies raised, or that may bc r ised under the proclamation of the Provisional Governor, and Colonels of infantry, by and with the advice ? and consent of tho Senate during the present session, for the immediate organization of the Militia, and the provisions of this Act for the election of those officers shall be applicable only to cases: of vacancies hereafter occurring. The officers so appointed shall, under the direction of tho Governor, proceed^immediately to re-organize tho divisions, brigades, regiments and companies of their respective commands. :ACXLIV. The commission of each officer of the Militia now in office shall be vacated so soon as his successor shall be commissioned in accord? ance with this Act: Provided, nevertheless, That in as much as the First Regiment of Artillery, attached to the Fourth Brigade, Second Division, S. C. M., has never at any time been disorganized, the said First Regiment of Artillery shall be allowed to exist as heretofore, and the respective commissions of its field officers shall be and remain in force from tho respective dare or dates, in which thc}' were, issued, anything to the contrary in this Act notwithstanding. CXLV. So much of this Act as requires previous rank in the Militia as one of the qualifications for office shall be inoperative for twelve months after the passage thereof. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. \V. 1). PORTER, President of the Senate. C. H. SIMONTON, Speaker of tho House of Representatives. Approved : JAMES L. OUR. - AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT IX RELATION TO THE SOUTH EEN EXPRESS COMPANY, AND TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FEME CES FOR THE DEFAULT OF COMMON CARRIERS." I. Jyi' ii eructed by the Senate and House of Representatives, noir met and siltiiu/ in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the provisions of the first and second sections of an Act entitled "An Act in relation to the Southern Express Company, and to provide additional remedies for the default of Common Carriers," ratified on the seventeenth day of December, in t he year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, be and the same are hereby extended to all unincorporated associations of individuals, and all incorporated companies. II. That all such unincorporated associations may be sued and pro? ceeded against at Law or in Equity, under th?; name and style by which they are .usually known, without naming the individual members of the association. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year cf our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. AV. 1>. PORTER, President of tia; S. uate. C. H. SIMONTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Approved: JAMES L. ORR. - AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE EDISTO AND ASHLEY CANAL Co. I. /Jr it enacted t,i/ the Senate und I ?ouse of Representatives, now met and silting in General Assembly, and by th autltority of the same. That tho second section of an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Edisto and Ashley Canal Company," ratified on the sixth day of February, in tho year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, be, und tho same is, hereby so altered and amended that the stockholders shall be authorized and empowered to increase the capital stock of the said Com? pany to any extent not exceeding three thousand shares, of one hundred dollars each, which they may deem desirable and proper. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. YV. 1). PORTER, President of the Senate. C. R. SIMON TON, Speaker of the Housc|of Representatives. Approved: JAMES L. ORE. AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CHARLESTON (?AS. LIGHT COMPANY. E. Be it enacted by Hie Senate and House of Representatives, note mei and sitting in General Ass. mjbly, mal by the authwity of the sann , That so much of the thirteenth section of an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate certain Societies, Associations and Companies, and to renew and amend the charters of others," passed the twenty-first day ol December, ene thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, as provides that the Charleston Gas Light Company "shall not charge mere than four dollars per thousand feet for gas," be repealed for one year. In the Senate House," the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. . \Y. 1). PORTER, President of the Senate. C. H. SIMONTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. I Approved: JAMES L. ORR.