Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-01

unlawful practice of carrying concealed
weapons; nor to authorize any person to en-
ter with arms gu the premises of another
against his consent No one shall bear arms
who has borne arms against the United
States, unless he shall have taken the Am.
uesty oath prescribed in the Proclamation
of the President of the United States, dated
May 29, 1865, or the Oath of Allegiance,
prescribed in the Proclamation of the Presi-
dent, dated December s, 1868, within the
time prescribed therein And no disorder,
ly person, vagrant, or disturber of the peace,
shall be allowed to bear arms
XVII. To secure the same equal justice
and personal liberty to the freedmen as to
other inhabitants, no penalties or punish
ments different from those to which all per-
sons are aueuable shall be imposed on freed
people; and all crimes and offences which
are prohibited under existing laws, shall be
understood as prohibited in the case of
freedmen and if committed by freedman,
shall, upon conviction, be punished in the
same manner as if committed by white
man.
XVIII. Corporal punishments shall not
be inflicted upon any person other than a
minor, and theo only by the parent, guar
dian, teacher, or one to whom said minor is
lawfully bound by indenture of apprentice.
ship.
XIX. Persons whose conduct tends to a
breach of the peace may be required to give
security for their good behavior, and in de-
fault thereof shall be held in custody.
Xxx. All injuries to the persons or prop
erty committed by or upon freed persons,
shall be punished in the manner provided
by the laws of South Carolina, for like in.
juries to the persons or property of citizens
thereof. If no provision be made by the
laws of the State, then the punishment for
such offences shall be according to the
course of the common law; aud in the case
of any injury to person or property, not
prohibited by the common law, or for which
the punishment shall not be appropriate,
such sentence shall be imposed as, in the
discretion of the Court before which the
trial is had, shall be deemed proper, subject
to the approval of the General Comman-
dug.
XXI. All arrests, for whatever cause,
will be reported tri.monthly, with the pro-
ceediugs thereupon, through the prescribed
channel, to the General Commanding.
XXI Commanding officers of Districts,
Sub-Districts, and Posts, within their COM
mands respectively, in the absence of the
duly appointed agent, will perform any du.
ty appertaiuing to the ordinary agents of
the Bureau of refugees, Freedmen and A
baudoned Lands, carefully observing for
their guidance all orders published by the
Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner, or
other competent authority.
XIII. District Commanders will en-
force these regulations by suitable instruc.
tions to Sub. District and Post Command
ers, taking care that justice be done, that
fair dealing between man and man be OBJ.
served, and that no unnecessary hardship
and no cruel or unusual punishments be i'm
posed upon any one.
By command of Maj. Gen. D. E. SIcKLEs.
". L. NJ. BURGER,
Assistant Adjutant General.
Official: ALEXANDER MOORE,
Brevet Major and Aid-de-Camp.
PRESIDENT JoHNsoN's STRENGTH IN
THE SENATE.-One of our recent Wash.
ington dispatches informs US what Republi-
can Senators are considered booked for op.
position to the Radical programme of Sum-
ner, aud consequently in favor of the Pres
ideut's policy, on the re-assembling of Con.
gress The Senators named are Doolttle,
Morgan, Harris, Cowan, Stewart, Trumbull,
Dixon, Henderson, Anthony, and the two
Lanes. Basing our calculation upon the
statement, the President will have to begin
with twenty.one votes out Of forty-nine-
that is, these eleven Senators named and
the ten Democrats, who will undoubtedly
sustain bis reconstruction policy.
There are twenty-five States represented
in the Senate, but there is ore vacancy from
Iowa, leaving the total number of Senators
forty. nine. There are two Senator'S from
the New State of Colorado waiting to take
their seats, but as all the preimiuaries have
not been gone through for the admission of
that State, these Senators will not take any
action in the proceedings Of Congress at
present. 1t is clear, then from the appear.
ance Of things just now, that the President
can, by the veto power, if by no other
means, defeat the radical opposition. To
overcome his veto there must be thirty-three
votes, or, in other words, he requires only
seventeen votes in the Senate to defeat the
radicals. Now, according to our calculation
based on the dispatch referred to, he will
have twenty-ene votes-four more than he
needs.
We think, however, the President will
have more strength than this. Our classi.
fcaton of the Senate, from the best ipfor-
nation at command is: Total number of
Senators, 49; Democrats, 10; Radical Re
pubHcans, u; Moderate Republicans, 27.
Out of the twenty. seven Moderate Re-
publicans, we think there will be found
more to sustain the Administration than
the Washington dispatch indicates Many
of these ueu are on the fence, ready to take
any side their interests point out AS