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? A , - r VOL. XXXn. CAMDEN, S. C? THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1873. NO. 3?. . ! i ? I f THE CABEN JOURML. AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPER PUBLISHED BY ? JOHIV KERSHAW. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in advance $2 50 Six months 1 50 Three months 75 jbtjT Transient Advertisements must be paid in advance. - ; [official. j The Laws of South-Carolina. Acts and Joint Resolutions passed by the General Assembly at the Session of 1872 An Act to regulate the fees of Probate Judges, Clerks of Courts, Trial Justioos and other officers herein mentioned. ' Be it enaoted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Caro* . lina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same: Section 1. That the fees which probate judges, clerks of courts, trial justices and other officers herein mentioned shall be authorized to receive in the several cases here in specified shall be as follows : Sec. 2. Judges of Probate: For petition for letters, &cM fifty cents; ior ciiauuu, unj . cents; qualifying executors, .administrators 1 or guardians, aniissufcjAtters to same, one ' dollar and fifty cents; lairing bend of admin- a istrators or guardians, one dollar; issuing T warrant of fggwaieqmeot, one dollar, proriag J will in oomlhoA fdrai, 6ne dollar; proving will in solemu form,five dollars; filing and entoring , renuaeiaripo a? executor, one dollar; <Mt- c mu* potetiatim to prove will or qualify exec- ? utor, two dollars; receiving, examining and' c filing annual return, one dollar; for first and 1 final returns, eeefc threa dotterfc; order for 1 sale of personal property, one ddflar; liear- 1 iug and filing petition for guardians and ippointmeat, two dollars; entering caveat and 0 withdrawingjmMt one doUar? Waring litiga* 5 ted case, three dollars, and twenty-five cents ' additional for eaUb witnessed examined; ia- . suing summons for each v^neas, whew not ' issued by an attorney, thirty oefils; for every rule issued against defaulting witness or e_ party failing to. account, two dollars; for " proceeding* in partition of roil estate, fire e dollars, and fifty cents additional on eve- * ry hundred dollars, or fractional part there- a of, for which the land may be sold, or, in 9 case of partition iw kind, for which it may f be asfcesBed : Provided. That in no case shall '! tbe fees and allowances so received aggre- 1 gate more than twenty-five dollars: Provi- 6 did, further, That in cases of partition in c kind no commission shall be charged; for ap- 8 pointing guardians, ad litem, one dollar; commissions on all moneys roceived and paid I3 out, two per cent on the first three hundred B dollars, and one per cent, on all over that amonht; for search for each paper, ten cents; J for certificate and seal, fifty cents; for final discharge of executcr, administrator or guardian, .one dollar; for proceedings in dower, 0 inclusive of all charges, except recording, a ten dollars; for proceedings in lunacy, inclu- c sive, five dollars; for recording all papers J proper to be recorded, or furnishing copy of any paper in his office, per copy sheet of 1 one hundred words, each figure containing one word, fifteen cents; for all services in 1 setting off the homestead, including the title 6 and record of proceedings, five dollars. Sec. 3. Clerks of Courts: Jfor signing ana " * sealing sob writs, fifty cents; for administering oaths, twenty-ire cents; for taking And filing bonds in trover, attachment and other cases, ( ooe dollar; for signing and sealing commission to examine witness, fifty oents, recording phis, under order of court, one dollar; rule of surrey, fifty oents; each official certificate under seal, fifty cents; issuing attachment for contempt, or other special writ, fifty cents; signing and sealing writ of habere facial possessionem, fifty centl; receiving and paying over mooey officially, under three hundred dollars, one per oent.; over that amount, one-half of one per cent.; on bill, nolle prooeqm, before given out, one dollar; on bill thrown out by grand jury, or found and notte prosequi abated, discontinued or struck off, two dollars; on bill found and verdict by petit jurv, two dollars; issuing bench warrant, one dollar; issuing acire facial, one dollar; issuing each execution in J sessions, one dollar; signing and waling writ of habeas corpus, one dollar; issuining war- c rant or taking recognisance or other services <3 in the sessions, the same feet allowed to trial f justices; each writ of venire facias, inclu- a ding all serviesa incident to summoning ju- o rore, two dottars and fifty oents; preparing t and issuing certificates for ^rand, patit j urors f and oonstables, and furnishing return to v county commissioners for each week of every v term of court, five dollars; furnishing adyer- t tisement in case of escheat, exclusive of I printer's bill, sod recording proceedings { thereon, three dollars; for advertising and t Jiving notioe to managers of elections, six t ollars; for license to an .attorney, all inci- a dental wrvieos included, five dollars; filing c and entering notioe of alien's intention of bo- ? come a citizen, one dollar; filing and record- ? ing report of alien, one dollar; administering c oaths of intention, fifty eente; filing and en- c tering application to become a citizen, and t administering oath, one dollar; for giving < certificate of citizenship, one dollar; for ta- ] king renunciation of dower or inheritance, 1 two dollars; for official record of est ray, and { filing papers, one dollar; every search ier a i paper, ten cents; every seach, with cortifi- ] cates, fifty cents; swearing trial justice or 1 p constable in office, and certificate, and taking I bond, one dollar; recording the bonds of i county omcere, anu cermyiug w buuiu, wio ; > dollar; for every probate in writing, twenty- j ( 6ve cent*: for signing drdimut'potentatem, i two dollars; fur official certificate to exempli- i fication of record, one dollar; on filing trans- < ceipt, twenty-five cents; entering judgement, < fifty cents; for copying papers, per oopy sheet I of one hundred words, each figure counting < a word, fifteen cents; for signing and sealing ] each exclusion and removal, fifty cents; for 11 recording and copying deeds, mortgages and < other papers, per copy sheer of ono hundred ] words, fifteen tents; fur every certificate on < - every deed, or other papers^ twenty-five 1 cento; on every appeal from trial justice, all i services inclusive, two dollars; for entering I a +> satisfaction on mortgage, twentw-fivc cents; for recording or copying plats, of not more than six corners, one dollar; for every cornor more than six, ten cents; for filing and recording every rule or order for arbitration, fifty oents; for filing and recording affidavit for continuance when ordered by the judge, twenty-five cents; for granting charters of incorporations, three dollars. , Sec. 4. Tiiai justices and justices of the peace: Oath and warrant in any criminal ?ase, fifty cents; eAch recognizance, fifty ;ents; commitments and release, each twentyive cents; administering and certyfying oath in writing, other than above, fifty cents; isining writ of habeas corpus by two justices ointly, two dollars; issuing summons and jopy for defendant in oivil cases, fifty cents; ssuing summons to each witness in oivil sases, twenty-five cents, for swearing and aking examination of each witness in civil sascs, twenty-five cents; for giving judgment n eases not defended, twenty-five cents; for ffying judgment on hearing litigated cases, rrenty-dve oents; for issuing exclusion, or emoval of ume, fifty cents; report of cose md taking bond to appeal, one dollar and Iffy cents; for issuing attachment returnable o ceurt or justice, inclading all notces, one lollar and fifty cents; for filing returns of garnishee and order thereon, twenty-five ents;' for proceedings in cases of ejection, hree dollars; for approval of indentures of ippreittieeehip or servants, one dollar; for proceedings on coroner's inquest, the same ees as allowed to coroners; for proceedings m estray of horse or mole, one dollar; for ggeeedings on all other estrays, fifty cents; or taking and certifying renunciation of lower or inheritance, two dollars; for grantng order for special bail, one dollar; for the rial of any criminal case, three dollars; for very preliminary examination ot any crimetal case, one dollar and fifty cents; for taking zamination of witnesses in writing, as precribed-by law, one dollar; for attending and cting for the preservation of wrecked vesels and goods, three dollars per day out of he vessels' goods and effects; for proceedngs against vagrants and returning report hereof, two dollars; for qnalifying appraisrs in setting off the homestead, seventy-five ents, and five cents per mile for all necessay travel. Section 5. Notaries public: For taking de?08ition and swearing witnesses, per copy beet, twenty five cents; for every protest, wo dollars; for a duplicate of deposition, rotest and certificate, per copy sheet, one mudrcd words, fifteen* cents; for each atondance on any person to prove any matter r thing and certifying the same, fifty cents, ,nd five eente additional for every mile of lecessary travel in going and returning; for dministering an oath on affidavit, fifty cents; or taking renunciation of dower pr inheriance, two dollars. Section 6. Coronets: For every inquisiion, ten dollars, and five cents per mile of ivery mile of necessary travel in going and eturning; for each warrant issued, fifty ents; for each body disinterred, five dollars; or recording proceedings of each inquisition a his book, per copv sheet of one hundred * * A. j.. rords, fifteen cents; ior perrorming wiu uuies of sheriff, the sane fees that are allowed o the sheriff for like services. Seetion 7. Witnesses: Witnesses in civil nd criminal cases, per day, one dollar, beides mileage at five cents per mile, going nd returning: - Provided, That in no case, izoept in cases of felonies, where witnesses or the defence are bound over, shall tho State be liable' to pay defendant's witnesses; fitnesses in trial justices courts, shall rewive fifty eents per day, and the same mileige as allowed in circuit oonrts. Section 8. Jurors: Jurors per day, one lollar and fifty cents, besides milage going ind returning; jurors in trial justices' courts' hall receiTe twenty five cents for each case ried, and mileage as herein allowed to other orors. Section 9. Sheriffs: For every writ, proess, warrant or exeoution, and making en lorsements thereon, each twenty five cents; or serving every writ or summons, besides nileage, one dollar; for bond in any case, ne dollar; for oommitinenl and release each wwnty five oents; for serving each venire or grand jury, ten dollars; for serving each aire for setH jury, fifteen dollars; for soring each bench or other warrant Issued in he seasioos, attachment, eontcmpt of oourt, resides mileage, one dollar; for search for ?rooo or goods, not found, and returned on he execution non est inventus or nulla bo1a, besides mileage, one dollar, for levying ittachment or execution, besidos mileage, me dollar; dieting persons rcr day, forty tents; executing convict, including all charges for bnrial and other expenses, twenty five lollars; bringiug up prisoners under habeas iorpus, to bo paid by the prisoner, if able, (if iot, by the county,) besides mileage, one iollar; for executing writ of habere facias XMsessionem, one dollar, besides mileage of ive cents per mile for all necessary travel jo;ng and returning; .for transferring moicy, bonds or other securities for money to wrty, one-half of one per cent; for summonng freeholders to try suggestion of fraud. ; ivo dollars; for serving any paper in criminal or civil case, issued by trial justices, the iatne fees as are allowed to constables in like ;ases; convoying prisoner from one place to inothor, besides all necessary expenses go- , ntr ntwl mhirninv tlirp* iloll.irs liOr dav: ' ? P. O' -- | . . >ach guard for sheriff in conveying prisoner, J mo dollar per-day; commission on all monies lollected by him, if under three hundred follars, two per cent; if over that sum. two per cent, on the first three hundred dollars, ind one and one-half per cent, on balance; >ne-fourth of one per cent, on 'nil monies paid out of office on all executions lodged; executions lodged to bind and order not to levy, twenty five cents; advertising defendant's property, in addition to printer's bill, Oily cente; drawing deed or xnortgago, two dol- j lars;b ill of sale, one dollar; each notice on set ofj'managers of election, besides mileage, one dollar; in case of ejectment and ejecting tenant or othftrs, three dollars; suinmouing cor* oner's jury and witnesses, to be paid by the county, five dollars; for selling land under decree of the Court of Probate, in lieu of commission and all other charges, except for i administering, three dollars. 1 Section 10. Constables: For summoning i each wituess in civil cases, fifty cents; for ' serving summons, rule or notice in any civil i case, fifty cents; for serving attachment, on < each person, one dollar; for levying execu- ; tion, posting advertisement of sale and pay- ] ing over proceeds, fifty cents, besides a com- ! mission of two per cent, on all sums collec- < ted, to be paid by the party in ezeoation; ' fore'very day in search of stolen goods, to be i paid by the complainant, two dollars; for < scrying a warrant in any State case, one dol- i lar; for selling an estrny, five per cent, of the I proceeds, and, in this case, five cents per < mile for all necessary travel one way, to be i certified in writjng by the officer on the back ' of the process; for all necessary services in 1 cases of ejectment, as well before as after 1 jndgment, three dollars; for snmmoning cor- J oner's jury and witnesses, to be paid by the 1 county, jive dollajs. 1 Section 11. That the following compensa- ] tion shall hereafter be allowed any physician i who may be called in by the acting coroner < to make a postmortem examination, to-wit: < Whore death has resulted from external 1 violence, and where no "dissection is required, < the sum of ten dollars; where dissection is 1 neccessary and no .interment has taken i place, twenty dollars; for the same after one < or more days' interment, thirty dollars; for i the same, when any chemical analysis is re- i n onm nnt ovOaa/1In 9 fifVir rlnllura tn. I I l| UllCU J a OUUI UVV VAVVVVIIU^ H?VJ ?rv gether with the expenses of such analysis, 1 and that in every case in which such a phy- I sician shall be called to any distance beyond i one mile, he shall be allowed the mileage j usually charged in his neighborhood Pro- | vided, That in all cases in which chemical < analysis shall be made, the physician who I shall make the post mortem examination 1 shall furnish to the county oommissioners of the county in which the said examination has been made, a full statement of such i analysis: Provided further, Every account ' presented for any post mortem examination i shall have the certihcste of the coroner, or magistrate acting as coroner, that the servi- | ccs were rcudercd. 1 Section 12. That all acts or parts of acts 1 inconsistent with or supplid by this act are < hereby repealed. < Approved February 26, 1873. ? 1 An Act abrogate and sink all that portion 1 of the debt of the State of South Carolina i incurred in aid of the late rebellion against i the United States. Whereas article fourteen, in amendment of the constitution "of the United States, in : section four thereof, among other things, enjoins that neither the United States, nor i any State, shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void; and whereas the constitution of the State of South Carolina, in article nine, section sixteen, enjoins that no debt contracted by this State in behalf of the late rebellion, in whole or in part, shall ever be paid; therefore, Be it enacted bv 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: Section 1. That all of tho indebtedness and obligations whatsoever of the of State of South Carolina, coming within the constitutional prohibitions aforesaid, as contracted or incurred in aid of thesaid rebellion, or which are covered or described bv or under such prohibitions, or either of tnem, and all authority for incurring or assuming such indebtedness or obligations on the part of the said State, are, all and singular, hereby,abro gated and declared and held to be illegal and absolutely null and 7oid. Section 2. All such indebtedness and obligations of the said State, as are mentioned in the next preceding section shall be immediately dropped and excluded from the debt of this State, and shall never bo reckoned with nor form any part of the ame. Section 3. Whoever shall violate this act shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine of ono thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the Penitentiary for one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved February 27, A. D. 1873. An honest old Peunsyvania farmer had a tree on his premises he wanted to cut down, but being weak in the back, and having a dull nxe, he hit upon the following plan: Knowing the passion among his neighbors for coon-hunting he made a coon's foot out of a potato, nnd proceeded to imprint numer ous tracks to and up the tree. When all was ready, he informed his neighbors that tho tree uiust be filled with coons, pointing to the external evidence made with his potato foot. The bait took, and in a short time half a dozen fellows, with slurp axes, where chopping at the base of the tree, each taking their regular turn. The party nlso brought dogs and shot-guns, and were in testacies over the anticipated haul of fat coons. The tree finally fell, but nary coon was seen to "drnp." A Slight Mistake.?An Illinois husband got into the wrong houso the other night and inadvertently beat his neighbor's i wife instead of his owu. APPOMATOX. The True Story of General Lee's Surrender. [From the Richmond Dispatch.] "The situation" at Appomatox on the 9th. of April, 1865, when General Leo sent a flag of truce to ask an interyievt. with Gen. Grant, was simply this: There were only 7,500 jaded, famished Confederates with arms in their hands, nearly eurrounded by eighty thousand Federal soldiers already in position, with reinforcements constantly arriving. Gordon foil back through the village and moved to meet an attack of Sheridan on the flank, whilo General Chambcrlayne led the advance corps of the Army of the James into the court house. A battery nft\\a Rinhmnnil Howitzers. which had been engaged at Big Bethel in 1861, stationed in Lhe yard of Mr. Peers, on the extreme northeast corner of the village, fired the last gnn of the day, and withdrew as the blue waves were encircling it. The Federal picket line was advanced beyond tho village, and that little band of heroic spirits seemed about to be immolated, when suddenly the white flag was displayed and the firing ceased. There have been published so many sensational reports of the meeting between the two commands that I am glad to be able (o refute them*by giving General Lee's own account of what occurred as he gave it to some friends at his house in Lexington, but a few days before bis last illness. He said that he had for duty that morning not eight thousand men, and that when he learned from Glordon that there was a heavy infantry foruo in front, he decided to see Gen. Grant, and ascertain the terms upon which he could end the contest. But before going to meet him, be left orders with Longstreet and Gordon to hold their commands in readiness, deter - - ' .1 1. mined, as no was, to cut me way turuugu, ur perish in the attempt, if each terms were not slanted as he thought- his army entitled to iem&nd. He mot Goneral Grant between the picket lines, in the open field about two hundred yards below Appomattox Court House. " You met under an apple tree, did you not, General?" asked a gentleman present. :No, sifl" was the reply, "we did not meet under an apple tree, and I saw no tree near, [t was in an open field near the main road." [This explodes the historic applo tree, about which so much has been said. A gentleman who was within a few feet of the two Gen- j urals when they met pointed out to me the exact.spot. The apple tree which was cut to pieoce, and even the roots of whioh were dug up and carried away by relic hunters, was fully a quarter of a mile from the place of meeting, and the only historic interest that could bo attached to it was that General Lee rested under its shade a few minutes while waiting for the return of his flag of truce.? The only tree anywhero near the place of meeting was a small locust thorn which is Btill standing about twenty yards from the spot.] General Lee said that when he met Gen. Grant they exchanged polite salutatious, au J he stated to him at once that he desired a conference in reference to the subject matter of their correspondence. "General Grant returned you your sword, did he not General ?" ono of the company asked. The old hero, straightening, himself up, replied in emphatio terms: " No, sir! Ho had no opportunity of doing so. I was determined that the side arms of officers should be exempt by the terms of surrender, and of course I did not offer him mine. All that was said about swords was that Gen. Grant apologised to mc for not wearing his own sword, saying that it had gone off with his baggage, and he had been unable to get it in time." [This spoils a great deal of rhetoric about "Grant's magnimity in returning Lee's sword," nnd renders absurd as it is false the attoinpt of Northern artists to put the scene on canvass or statuary. Even General Grant's own connivance at this so called "historic scene" will not save it when the world knows that Robert E. Lee said nothing of the sort occurred.] General Leo stated in his conversation that he was occompanied when he met Grant only by Col. Charles Marshall, of his porsonal staff, who went with one of General Grant's staff to find a suitable room in which to hold the conference; they were first shown to a vacant house, and declining to use that, were conducted by McClean to his house aud shown to his parlor. General Grant was accompanied by several of his staff officers, and several of his Generals (among them Sheridan arid Ord,) entered the room and participated in the slight general conversation that occurred. The two Generals went aside aud sat at a table to confer together, when Geu. Lee opened the conversation by saying, " General, I deem it due to proper candor and frankness to say at the very beginning of this interview, that I am not willing even tn discuss anv terms of surrender inconsis tent with the honor of my army, which I am determined to maintain to the last."? (irant replied : ' 1 have no idea of proposing dishonorable terms, General, but I would be glad if you would state what you consider honorable terms." General Lee briefly .^ated 'he terms upon which he would he willing to surrender. Grant expressed himself as satisfied with them, and Leo requested that he would formally reduce tho proposition! to writing. Grant at once did so with a common lead pencil, and handed the paper to lice, who read it carefully and without comment, except to say that most of the horses were the private property of the men riding thcui. General Grant replied that such horses would be exempt from surrender, and the paper was then handed to Col. Badean. (Grant's Secretary,) and copies in ink made by him And Colonel Marshall.? While this was being done there wore in | quirics after the hoalth of mutual acquain# tances, but nothing bearing on the surrender except that General Lee said that he had on 1 his hands some two or three thousand priso- 1 ners, for whom he had ho rations. Sheridan \ at once said: " I have rations for twenty five 1 thousand men." General Grant having signed his note, 1 General Lee conferred with Colonel Marshall, who wrote his brief note of his ae- 1 ceptance of the terms of surrender offered, General Leo striking out the sentence, " I ' have the honor to reply to your eommnni- i cation," and substituting, "I have received 1 your letter of this date." This terminated the interview, and Gener- ' al Lee rode back to his headquarters, which were three quarters of a mile northeast of ' the court house. } I have thus given the substance, and for 1 the most part the exact language of General ' Lee's account of the surrender. It will ap- 1 pear from this that a great dealthat has been * riwftnf'd mnmioniniifu^ in urA. ( OAIU UUUUH VIIUIIV o uia^uniuiuiivj in jn vposing terms of surrender, and Leo's " warm 1 thanks-for the liberal terms accorded," ori- 1 ginated simply in the imagination of the ? writers. The troth is, Grant proposed the 1 only terms which Lee would have accepted, J and he knew too well the mettle of that great ' captain and the Jjeroic remnant of-his army ' which had so often defeated him no to re- t joice at an opportunity of covering himself with glory bp accepting almost any terms of 1 surrender. * 1 . I have gathered a number of incidents of I the surrounded which interested me and y may be of interest to your readers. Soon * after General Lee loft the McClean House, r owned by tho same gentleman at whose c house, near Bull Run, Beauregard had his, a headquarters during the battle of July-18,. 1861, Sheridan stalked in and said, rudely, * "I mean to have this chair"?taking up one fof the chairs in which the Generals had signed the terms of capitulation, and exhibiting at the time a $250 gold piece, <> Major McCleau replied, "That chair is not > for sale, General. If you choose to take it ( you have the physical power to dd so." "I I mean to have it, was the curt rejoinder; " and the "Great Barn-Burner" gave- another " proof of his skill in petit larceny. The table t and other chairs were in like manner Carried ? off by Federal officers as souvenirs. i I As soon as the flag of truce was hoisted a on Gordon's lines the offensive General Cus- t I ' *?' T1 ??\ -iJ! r ! !__ e tar (/'iniss ranny ; came numg mnuuaij ? up to General Gordon, demanding in his own name "unconditional surrender." Gordon < drew himself up to his full height, and, with ( crushing dignity, replied: "lean have no < negotiations with you, sir; and if the settle- > ment of this matter rested betwocn us there 1 could he no nnjoi lot ions but .by the sicord." 1 As showing the spirit of the men who < participated in the brilliant action that morn- ] ing it may be mentioned that many of them ' crowded around the bearer of one of the flags 1 of truce?a widely known and loved chaplain, ? who, since the capture of his regiment at ' Spotsylvania Cout House, had served with ' great gallau try on General Gordon's staff? ? and eagorly asked if the enemy bad sent in ? to surrender their force on that road, think- t ing that in flanking us Grant had pushed a < part of his force too far. They had no dream that they were to bo surrendered. But gradually the truth broke upon them, 1 and great was their chagrin when these < high-mettled victors in tho last battle of the 1 Army of Northern Virginia learned that they ] must ' yield to Overwhelming numbers and I resources"?that after all their marches, bat- < tics, victories, hardships and sufferings, the i causo they loved better than life itself must succumb to brute force. Many bosoms i heaved with omotion, and ? * *1 UI aJji "Someming on 1110 sukuci a , Washed off the stain of powder." After the flag of truce was raised a Federal 1 scout was shot through mistake by bis own men, when trying to stop the firing, and a New York Major, under the influence of liquor, met his donth by galloping up to a Confederate battery and demanding its surrender. The women nud children of Appomattox Court House had all left their homes during the battlo of the morning and upon their return had to pass through C us tar's cavalry. ''Miss Fanny" himself was very rudo to them, and permitted his men to kiss them as they passed. Per contra, it affords me pleasure to say that many of the Federal officers and men were very courteous and considerate. The citizens of the village speak in especially high terms of Gen. Chauiberlayne (since Governor of Maine,) who was delicately considerate of the feelings of the people, gentlemanly in his bearing, and generous towards the vanquished. When the arms were being stacked, a gallant color bearer, as ho delivered up the ? tattered remnant of his flag, burst into tears and said to the Federal soldiers, who received it: " Hoys, this is not the first time you have seen that flag. I have borne it in the very fore front of tho battlo of- many a victorious field, and I had rather die than surrender it now." ''Hravc fellow." said i General Clmmberlayne. " I admire your no- j blc spirit, and only regret that 1 have not ! the authority to bid you keep your flag aud J I carry it home as a precious hclr-loom." ' '' ? -e n 1 1 1 ; j ' i J He eaim uiguiiy oi \renerm iicu uuiiu j these trying scenes, the deep emotion with ; which the men heard his uobic farewell address, and crowded round to shake his liuud, how they wore thrilled by his simple words, ' >Icn, we have fought through he war together. I have done my best fyr you. My heart is too full to say more." (lordon's noble farewell speech?the tender parting of comrades who had been so closely bound together by the common hardships, sufferings, dangers, and victories, and hopes, wore all ' vividly recalled as 1 gazed on the very spots where they occurred, but are too fauiilir to ' be detailed now. M?f - nr ADVERTISING R TES. 1:4 1 .Y. Space. 1 M. . 3 M. 6 M. ? ?_ ?_ ? 1 square i 3 00 ? 00. 8 06.12 0016 000 I square? i 6 00 9 00i 12 00 18 00? 26 00 8 squares 9 00) 13 Q01 10 00 24 QGJ 30 0 1 squares ! 12 00 16 00' 20 00 30 OOf 43 00. column 16 00! 19 00< 24 00 34 (X* 60*00 i oolumn * j 20 00| 30 00 40 OQ 65 OOJ 8Q 0? [ column | 30 00. 50 00, CO 00 90 OOjloO.OO All Transient Advertisements will be Charged 3.vk Dollar per Square-for the first and Srvrxcy-fiye Cents per Square for oach subaeqpext insertion Single insertion, $1 50 per ?qua^. I was amused to learn that the Tederal ?oldiers and tourists not only "srrieil'olF Till the ' historic apple trce/'>Jrait<a mbait*apple orchard as well, and was reminded of hearing of a gallant Richmond soldier who sold to Northern visitors, after he ? 'anted hone, waj*on loads of the*"Appomattax apple tree," which he regularly gathered from a Henrico orchard. I noted with pleasure that the'noble omen of Appomattox have gathered fcho confederate lead into a neatly kept; cemetery on :Afce rood to Appomattox staiioo, not fjir {qpn the grove in which Grant established ,1m headquarters. ' K I cannot close this sketch without qfdotftig :he language of that splendid sokfter aid unconquerable patriot General Jd A.- JSfrfy. ' in his noble oration on Gpnoral^ec: 'tfiqalIv, from mere exhanstiop^ less than .aigiit housand men, wfth arms'Wthefr haricls, of ;he noblest army eve* fonjfht 'in >f time/ were surroundered at Appomattox 0 an aqay pf one huad/fl<}aa{Uifty^hou8and nen; the sword of Robert E. Lee, without 1 blemish upon it, wps skated, ft>r*ver, tnd the flag to which he *dded a^<;h ustre Was furled, to be henceforth embalmed n the affectionate remembrance of those Who lad remained faithfial^uriag.all our trials, ind will do 80 to the end." i.r :>y P have never been a "relic hunter" ;Ll >rize the blanket under' which I slept 'the . light of the first battle of Manassas), but *1 ducked some thorns flrom the tree -near vhich Lee met Grant, which I proposed reave into a wreath of evergreens, and. jw* nortdlles, taken from General Lee's bier tl\e lay we laid him in the vault at Lexitfgton, >nd to tuoircle them'with the tnotto ^^"'' "The thorns of Appomattax covered with he immorteUes and evergreen^of Lee's. last jreat viotory." , ViAtOR. The New Post.vgit Law.-?On the 30th . if next June, the^reeent postal law erpfrcs ,nd the new one adopted by the last * Congress comes into force. This requires lostage paid on everything seat through the ails, including newspaper exchanges, or lewspapers in the County or pariah in which hey are printed. "This* must cause Some lew arrangements abont exchanges. It is uiDossiblo for daily papers to pay postage to iny extent on their exchange list sent out roni their office, and it will result in a evOTer pruning of all superfluous papers. Chore are several daily journals from centres >f intelligence that mustexchange with eaoh >ther, while there arc others which, although icairaole, are not useful; while there reinaiu \ large list which arc rarely used. We believe that the next Congress will be forced, by the public opinion, to modify this portion )f the new postal . laws. The local County papers are no mean power in the land, and his compulsory postage law is unjust to hem and unfair to the interests of their sub* icribers. Tf tho whole postage bill of the United States press was paid by tbedopartnent, it would not approach .the tithe of the iteal of the Congressmen of their back pay, ind they'are a precious set to' inaugurate a ox on the free circulation of the newspapers )f the couutry.?Gofumbia Phamix. _ , w A despatch from Mobile,. Ala., to thq tfew York HeralJ, says that Brigadierr ieneral W. N. Pendleton, of the Armj of Northern Virginia, and now pastor of thd Episcopal Church at Lexington, Va., daring ais lecture on General R, ?2. Lee, iq that jity, made a charge of inefficiency, and attributed the loss of the. battle of Gettysburg by the Confederates to General Longstreet. General Peiidlet<m Said that, to hi* personal knowledge, derived from Lea'& own lips, Longstrcet hod the night before thg battle-received from General Lee, in person, orders to advance at dawn of the next mqrping; that he (General Pendleton) had madd a reconnoissdnco in person, and declared to General Lee the perfeot practicability of immediate assault upou the then unprepared euemy; how he had.waited impatiently till 12o'clock; how Longstrcet at that nohr rode up to his side "hnd nit upon - his horse,' useless and inactive, until 4 o'clock P, M.$ then when the head of his column did go in, his soldiers were futile against the now Diasscd and concentrated enemy; and still Robert E. Lee, General Pendleton said; refused to lay the Mame upon the shoulders of the man who bad fought so often and 00 well for him. ^ , ,0. ^ . John, a fifteenth amendment, was arrested the Other day for stealing chickens. He was very indignant when arrested, and loudly proclaimed his iuuoceuce. When brought before "His august majesty," he still reiter-i utod the fact that he was wrougly accused. "And you deny having taken the chickens, John ?"' asked the magistrate. "Hi! boss, sartin. 1 neber tuk utu." "But the officer says he found them in your possession." "You had them in your hands when arrested ' "Ess, sah, boss; but I didn't stole um." "How did you come by them ?" "I borrowed um." "The owner sAy? not.'' ' Well, you soe, boss, lie was asleep when 1 went to borrow dem chickens, an' L was gwiuc buck do next day to tell him." Andrew Jackson was onco making a stump speech in a couutry village out West. Just as ho wns concluding, Amos Kendall, who sat beside him, whisperod. "Tip 'eui a little Latin, General; they won't be satisfied without it." The "hero of Scw Orleans" instantly thought of a few phrases he knew, and, in a voice of thunder, wound up his speech by exclaiming: "E jtfuribut itnum, Sine qua wow, Xt ji/um ultra, Mu/tuiii m jtarvo. ' The effect was tremendous, and tho. shouts could be heard for miles.