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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-11-10
Report
Of the Commissioners of Public Build
ings. Fall Term, 1858.

ings. Fall Term, 1858.
To Me Honorable ID. H. Wardlaw, Pre-
siding Jadge OF tie Court of Common
Pleas, for Lancaster District. Fali
Term, 1858.
The commissioners Of Public Buildings
submit the following their annual Report +:
They have assessed no tax upon the peo-
pie of the District for the present year.
The Report of the Grand Jnry made at the
last Term of this Court, has received their
respectful consideration, and they have
complied with the recommendations therein
contained, except that, owing TO the-siei .
ness OF the person engaged to do the work
recommended to be done on the Jail, they
have been unable up to this time to have
the same accomplished and except that
With regard to the loom occupied by the
/ Ordinary and Commissioner. they have
come to the conclusion that il will be better
to have the same laid down with "India
Mating, than with the "plank flooring"
as recommended in said Report, in which
conclusion they have the full co oncnrrence
Of the occupant Of those Offices With re-
gard TO their mode, Of letting out contracts.
the Commissioners respectfully submit -
that 1t will be better to leave them 10 the
exercise of some discretion and their action
to be influenced by the varying circumstan-
ces which may attend each particular con.
tract which the public good may require
them to enter into, than TO compel them to
follow the general discretion given by the
Grand Jury for their government in every
instance. The Commissioners. however.
have not been called on, since the Return
OF the Grand Jury, to do any act iE viola.
ton of the recommendation aforesaid.
The Report Of the Treasurer herewith
submitted, exhibits full account of monies
belonging to the board and of disburse.
menis which have been made since the last
Report Respectfully submitted,
w. A. MOORE, Chairman
of Board of p. b., for l.. d.
sS The Chairman of the Board brps
leave 10 amend his Rcpor. by the correc .
ton of IN error with respect to assessing
Il tax upon the District Upon inquiry he
discovers that n tax of per cent. upon the
! General Tax has been assessed by the
Board. Respectfully submitted.
w. A. MOORE, Chairman.
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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-11-10
Negroes for Sale.

Nov. ., 1868 st p f IS SO.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-11-10

Nov. ., ls5S.-3s-5t f$5 80.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29
depravity and that of their leaders, as well
as Of imiment danger to public liberty.

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depravity and that of their leaders, as we'll
as of imiment danger to public liberty.
Too ignorant to understand their true
interests; too prejudiced to profit by truth,
and too corrupt to care what happens, so
party is triumphant, the people have sur
rendered their privileges, as freemen, and
think, speak and vote as they are ordered
to do, by their scoundrel-leaders. And
as the majority rule--or rather give au-
thority to their masters to rule--that ma
ority, alone, has the power TO correct the
evils brought upon the country by popu-
lar ignorance and corruption. Will they
do it1 We think not. Without the spirit
Of freemen, they lack the energy to break
the shackles that bind them, as slaves !;
without the intelligence and patriotism
necessary to the maintenance of liberty
and ofnational honor, they know not what
steps are necessary to recover the one, or
to vindicate the other. And thus divest-
ed of the attributes that constitute the
proud and patriotic American citizen the
enslaved majority will yield unthinking
obedience to their vile masters until the
government becomes, first, an anarchy,
and then, perhaps, neutrality-suspicious.
despotism. A people unfit to govern
themselves can hope for no better fate ;
and the demagogues who knowingly stul-
tify and degrade, instead Of striving to
elevate them, are too mean ever to warn
them of their danger, or to help to avert
it.
AS we have said, there is remedy for
the multiform evils that curse the country;
but to point out that remedy, and to apply
it, are two diffrent things-the first is easy
enough but the last--easy enough, too,
could the effort be called forth-is, we fear
rendered impossible by the difficulties
that attend any effort to arouse the slug
gish apathy of an enslaved majority to
prompt and energetic action. You must
convince fool that he is fool; knave,
that he is a knave, and slave, that he is
slave; before you can hope to infuse sense
into the frost honesty into the second, and
manly independence into the third; and
here lies the great difficulty in the way of
the application of a remedy to existing
evils.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
TUESDAY, Jan. rs.

S@SNAA Se'as SN'
Mr.. Davie presented petition from
citizens of New Providence, in relation to
the removal Of ll-gate
Mr.. Ewing, presented petition from
citizens Of the State, asking the passage
Of law to prohibit the sale Of jewelry &C.,
by auctioneers.
Mr.. Golladay presented petition from
citizens of Wilson county asking the erea-
ton of new county.
Mr.. Griffith offered joint resolution for
the relief of Larkin Garden.
Mr.. Newbern, a resolution that the
Legislature adjourn on the 18th of Febru.
airy.
The vote laying the resolution to APP,
point r. b. Cheatham assistant clerk for
the balance Of the session, on the table
was reconsidered, and the resolution was
adopted ayes Al, noes 20.
Mr.. Bayless introduced bill for the
relief of Joseph r. Simpson and other
citizens Of Washington county.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Senate bill to grant the further time Of
two years to the Louisville, GAINESVILLE
and Memphis Railroad Company, to com.
plete their road. Passed.
To repeal the laws requiring the owners
of Jacks and Stations to take out license
for the same. Rejected.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29
ANOTHER GRAVE CHARGE A
GAINST THE PRECEDENT.

The Washington correspondents of the
New York Times, writing on monday,
gives the following rumors, which, If true,
place the President in most disgrace
full attitude before the country, It is this:
"Gen. Walker left for the South this
morning. 1t is his purpose to take tri-
al at New Orleans upon the charge of vio-
lating the Neutrality laws, and under
stand he isvery DESTROYS Of having il, in
order that he may bring before The public
incontestible evidence that he did not speak
falsely when he told Captain Chatard that
his Nicaraguan enterprise had the sane
ton and cordial appreciation of the Presi-
dent of the United States His friends as
sert that he will prove, among other things,
at the trial, that Mr.. Buchanan uneguiUocaL,
" Acknowledged his claim to be President Of
Nicaragua, declaring that he was as much
President of that Republic when Com
mander Davis interfered to bring him away,
as he (Mr. Buchanan) was President of the
United States. They say further, that GER
tain members of the Cabinet will de called
upon to testify to other facts, showing con-
clusively that Gen. Walker was led to
believe that the Administration did not
consider his contemplated return to Mica
ragua illegal, but on the contrary sympa-
thizeo entirely with it and its object /
give the statements upon the subject-but
of course am not personally acquainted
with the facts"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29

SG- We copy, with pleasure, the fol-
lowing merited compliments to Gen. Zolli-
Golfer, the able Representative of this
District, on the floor of Congress:
The Hon. Felix K Zollicoffer, of Tenn
essee, one of the most able and discreet of
the opposition members of Congress, made
a speech in the House of Representatives
on Wednesday, condemning the action of
Commodore Paulding, and indicating the
character of General Walker. Mr.. Zolli
Golfer is conservative in highest and
broadcast sense of the word--a true South
ern mana gentleman of vigorous and
acute intellect, and Wing patriot without
fear and without reproach.-Rich Wing.
This praise of Gen. Zollicoffer is lust.
Scarcely any praise of him can be too
high. He is PROFESSIONALLY right in con-
demning the action of Commodore Pauld
ing, We are not prepared to approve all
the acts of Gen. Walker, but we consider
him an incomparably better man than
many who are denouncing him to gain the
favor of the Administration, which, in its
pursuit of him, has exhibited alternately
miserable imbecility and lawless violence.
Lou. Journal.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29
SIGHT EXCHANGE.

GeoD ADVICE. - The. thousands of cripples
whom Rheumatism has;left with siiff+ued joints
or whom Palsy has bereft of the use Of their
lin $, are advised 10 try Bragg Arctic Liniment,
viii oh has never yet failed to cure single case Of
the kind. in which fair trial has been
made. In using it, do not spare the friction.
but rub it in well and briskiy. Il il also useful
in relaxing muscles, contracted or drawn up from
cramp; in reducing and scattering tumors and
white s~efDgs; in healing ulcers, and in curing
all manner of eruptive diseases of the skin. Ii
is for sale in all the respectable Drug stores-Jan
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29

S@- Mr., Polk assigned as a reason for
not giving Buchanan a seat on the Supreme
Bench, that he had been federalist, and
be feared he would be one again. He
never has been anything else, and the fact
that he has consorted with democracy
only proves that party to be harbor free
to every political free booter, If evidence
be wanting, that Buchanan is still fede-
ralist, turn to his recommendation of a
bankrupt law for State banks, and Rail-
road Companies Federalism never made
a olderattempt to violate State sovereignty,
and to contralize the powers of the General
Government
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29

B6- We return thanks to the Rev.
Samuel Davies Baldwin, author of Arm
ageddon, for copy of his late work, en-
titled DOMINION. It is volume of nearly
five hundred pages, printed on fine paper,
in clear, beautiful type, and bound in
crimson and gold. The mechanical execu-
ton of the volume does great credit to
the Southern Methodist Fulfilling House
at Nashville.
To give fuller view Of the scope of
this book, we transcribe the title page
DOMINION; OR THE UNITY AND TRINITY
OF THE HUMAN RACE; WITH THE DIVINE
POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF THE WORLD,
AND THE DIVINE RIGHTS OF SHEM, HAN
AND JAPHETH. We have not yet had
time for such an investigation of the
work as will authorize definite expression
of opinion as to all its merits-the pre-.
paration of it has involved great deal Of
laborious research, and close and critical
examination can alone entitle an opinion
to respect. We like the style, and also
the tone and spirit, which bespeak
fairness and earnestness-a love of truth
and desire to enofrce it. We like, too
the arrangement of the various topics
which, of ITSELF greatly aids the reader in
obtaining fuller knowledge of the whole
by keeping up an unbroken connection
between the different heads under which
the subjects are treated. The book is fol
sale, in town, and will, doubtless, be
eargerly sought for.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29
xxxvTH CoNGREss-FIRsT SESSION.
Mondays Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.

" $1,000 NN't NeAh' ~o'
Senate.-The Chairman presented a
communication from the Secretary of War
giving the number Of troops in Kansas
for each quarter, from the LIST of January,
1855, to the present time.
Mr.. Mason, from committee on Foreign
Relations, made report on Central A
merican affairs.
House-The speaker announced the
following members on the Select Committee
on the Pacific Railroad Phelps of Mo-,
Jones Of Tenn, Washburn of Me-, Millson
of Va, Curtis of Iowa, Corning of N. Y.
Underwood of KY, Groesbeck of Ohio,
Gilmer of NC, Singleton of Miss, Farncs
worth of ILL.,, Philips of Penn, Leach of
Mich, Bryan of Texas, Scott of CAL
Mr.. Keitt, in the absence of Mr.. Harris,
of ILL.,, who had moved resolution for
the expulsion of Mr.. Matteson, moved that
the further consideration of the subject be
postponed one month, saying that Mr..
Matteson is detained at home in conse-
quence of the severe illness of his wife.
Motion agreed to.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29
1S- Prentice says that three seperatc

B@- Prentice says that three seperatc
investigations into the corruption Of mem
bers Of Congress are pending in the lower
House, and infers determination to make
clean work Of the dirty business. We
wish it may be so but the Augean stable
didn't clean itself; and another Hercules
the people-will have to turn the river
of reform through Congress to wash out
the accumulated filth.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29

Ra- The capture of Col. Anderson, with
the remnant of Walkers Nicaragua force,
and the seizure of the Steamer, Fashion,
argues the determination of the Admins
tration to crush out that fllibuster scheme.
All this would have been right and proper,
had it been properly done but the man
ner of doing it involves very grave con-
siderations-and among them, the shame
full duplicity of the President throughout
the whole affair." up to the unlawful capture
of Walker upon foreign territory. The
South ought now to be convinced that
northern locofocoism will never permit the
extension of slavery, North or South
Kansas and one Walker, and Nicaragua
and the other Walker, afford abundant
proof our declaration. The South is sold
and possession given-locofocos sold, and
locofocos bought it.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29

Where is this shameful Nicaragua plot
to end2 To what eminence of obliquity,
perfdy and imbecility is the policy of this
Administration to reach2 Old, palsied,
deerepit, staggering in the very beginning
of its existence, it goes on hobbling and
muttering unintelligible gibberish-in-
capable of harm to our enemies, and only
dangerous to the interests of our own peo-
pie. And the end is not yet.
We have sometimes been censured for
the harshness of our language when speak
ing of the present Administration but
what think the locofocos of the above,
from the N. o. Delta, a locofoco paper p
We have said nothing harsher than this,
and, like this, we have said nothing that
is not true. We endorse every word of
the above, and the only thing that puzzles
US is, that the Delta should use such
language, and yet not repudiate, in toto,
the party to which is applicable. Neither
plumber nor log chains could bind us to a
party of which we entertained such an
opinion.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29
DR.. M'LANE's vERMrFuGE!
ANOTHER MEDICAL wIrsEss.

ANOTHER MEDICAL WITNESS
W II Is no small evidence of the intrinsic value
of this great Vermifuge, when even physicians,
who are generally prejudiced against patent medi-
cines, voluntarily come forward and testify to it,
triumphant success in expeling worms. Read the
following
FHARRlsvILLE, Shelby Co KY, April 2, ls49
MEssEs. FLEEING Bsos--I am practicng phys.
ician, residing permanently in this place. In the
yer lS43, when resident OF the State of Missou-
ri, became acquainted with the superior virtues
OF Dr. M'Ldne's Vernifuge, drerared by you. At
some more leisure mement, / will send you the re-
suit Of an experiment made it'll one vial, In ex.
polling upwards of 900 worms.
L CARTER, NJ D.
1JPurchasers will be careful to ask for DR.
VI LANES Celebrated Vermifuge. manufactured
by Fleming Bros. of Pittsburg, Pa. All other
Vermifuges in comparison are worthless. Dr.
MLane's genuine Vermfuge, also his celebrated
Liver Pills. can now be had at all respectable drug
stores. None genuine without the signature of
1851 FLEMING BROS.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29

LATER FROM THE RIo GRANDE AND
NORTHERN MExIco.-By an arrival at
New Orleans, later advices have been re-
ceivcd from the Rio Grande and Northern
Mexico. The following remarks we take
from the Picayune:
Resistance IN Northern Merico.-Gov.
Vidaurri, of Nuevo Leon and Coahuila,
has declared for resistance against the re.
cent coup d. etat at the capital and issued
proclamation calling his people to arms,
in support of the constitution of 1857, by
it overturned. Matamoras also, and the
people of Samaulipas generally, with Gov.
Cara at their head, had refused to accede
to the new order of things, and civil war
seemed inevitable In the meantime Gov.
moreno stood faithful, and the Flag of the
l4th records the following
We learn from a private source that
schooner has arrived at Brazos, Santiago
with troops from Tampito, sent by orders
of Gen. Moreno. Its commander is said
to have sent dispatch to Colonel Garcia,
of Matamoras, telling him to evacuate that
port or he would Immediately compel him
to do SO by the armed forcys at his com
mand. We cannot say whether this is true
or not but it came from gentleman who
lives in Matamoras, and was believed by
him to be true.
Troops were being collected at Monterey
and elsewhere, in large numbers, and I'M
less this party or that give way, bloody
civil war in Northern, as we'll as Central
and Southern Mexico, must cnsuo
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29

On Monday, LIST day Of Feb, County court day,
nv + viii sell, in front Of the Railroad Office
w about $4,000 worth Of the Bonds OF Mont.
gOmery county, and perhaps few $500 bonds Of
the city Of CIarksviile. Those Boids offer In
dueements for investments far beyond the inflated
and unreliable prices Of Negroes and Land, pay
ing large aud certain Interest every six months.
These bonds are sold TO meet some pressing debts
occasioned BY the delayed collections Of stock
eslS. BY order OF tho b ard.
W y MUNFORD, Presr.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29

sd- Eleven members Of the present
city government of Chicago, have been
tried for crime. The last, e. 8. Hanson,
nephew of Mayor Wentworth, and his
offence is stealing. This is another proof
Of the degraded moral condition of com
munities in which foreignism and native
locofocoism abound and hold sway.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29
M'cCOrmac's Gallery of Photography
IN ALL IT'S BRANCHES.

IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.
Pictures of every style and,"ize taken. Lowest
price 81; highest price SIS. Pc rsons having Da
guerreotypes Of deceased friends can have them
enlarged to Photographs Of the size of life and
colored in oil on canvass or paper, with an accu-
racy MOTTO be obtained in any other way,
Ambrotypes taken for 81.
GJRooms wea side Pub lie Square, GAINESVILLE
Oct l, silly
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29

The bill, extending the time on our
railroad, has passed the third reading in
the lower House, and if no amendments
we're made to the bill, as it passed the
Senate, it is now a law.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29

Bay Hon. f. X Zollicoffer will accept
our thanks for a copy of the Congressional
Directory; and also for a number of the
Globe, containing his admirable speech
upon the capture of Gen. Walker.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29

IMPORTANT, IF TRUE.-The Academy of
Science, in New Orleans, (4a.) has receiv-
ed paper, purporting to demonstrate the
fact that the waters of the Gulf, on the
borders of south western Louisiana, and
thence to Texas, are the safest which have
been submitted to scientific tests, and that
by the process of evaporation in tanks,
salt Of a superior quality, equal to Turks
Island, msy be obtained :
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29
For New Orleans.
Music School.

MISS A VIVA OR A " E
win open a Music School, at the PL tNTER'S
HOUSE. front room at the left. upstairs, on
MONDAY, the LIST day OF February Strict at
tention will be given TO the Improvement of pupils
intTusted to her care
REFERENCEs
Rev. j. J. Ridley.
Rev. ]. T. Hendrick, d D.
Rev. J. II. duncan.
Rev. ]. Grey.
William Ware, ESQ
Jan. 30 '59--2w.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Stewart College.

THE next Session of Stewart Col pc, will
en- Monday the first Of February. The
patrons of the Institution will hereafter pay their
bills 10 Mr. j. E. Broadius, who is now the Treas
urer.
w NJ STEWART,
Stewart College Clarksyille I'm 90 '58-tf
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-01-29

Is the field Of its usefulness and - -.9-.1..eA
so numerous the cases of It's cures that ajmost
every section Of the country abounds In parsons
publicly known, who have been restored from
alarming and even desperate diseases of the lungs
by its use. When once tried its superiorlt Nv over
every other medicine Of lis kind Is too appaie nj 10
escape observation and where Its virtues are known
the public no longer hesitate what antidote TO en-
ploy for the distressing and dangerous affections
Of the pulmonary organs viii are incident to our
climate. By Its timely use many, nay almost all
attacks Of disease upon the Lun~s or throat. are
arrested and thus are saved many thousands every
year from premature grave. No family should
be without II, and these who do neglect 10 provide
themselves with remedy which wards of this
dangerous class Of diseases will have cause 10 de-
plore II when Il is too late Proofs OF the suypriz
ing efficacy of the Cherry Pectoral need NOT be-
gwen TO the American people, they have living
proofs In every neighborhood But those who
wish to read The statements Of those whose whole
health has been restored and whose lives have been
saved by lis use, will find them in my American
Almanac which the agent below named has 10
furnish gratis for every one.
Prepared by DR.. &c. AVER Practical Chem.
st, Lowell, Mass and sold by all Druggists and
Dealers 10 medicine through This section
Wholesale by Berry Il Demoville, Nashville
Tenn.
Retail by Thomas L. BRO, GAINESVILLE, and ID
r. Porter, New Providence and al druggists and
dealers IN medicine Throughout the Souit,
Jan. = lS5S-4m,