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The Peace Society, we fear, is drifting sad
10 aatarn. .-Neao York ErpresS.

The Peace Society, we fear, is drifting sad
" astern.-Nes0 York Express.
At Branchville, S. c., they can fnd
no white man who can conscientiously take
the "test oath" Anxious to secure honor
able communication with the outside world,
the gentlemen Of the neighborhood agreed
to recommend a respectable, intelligent
freedman of the village, in whose In
tegrity they all had confidence, for the po'
sition of postmaster. He consented to serve.
They told him that all he would have to DO
was to take the sstest oath" He wished to
hear it. Cuffee was accordingly favored
with reading of the document. As the
reader progressed, his eyes expanded, until
the conclusion was reached, where he
brought down his fist with unmistakeable
force, exclaiming, "No gentleman. No
stree. I can't take that oath. l wanted
the South to whip, and I won't tell lie
about it now. No sirs. You must get an
other postmaster. We need scarcely add
that Branchville is yet without postmas-
ter Weekly Record. .. -..-~.. ....'
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Public Meeting.

We suggest the attention of the people
of this District, to the call in another col.
umn, for a public meeting on sales-day
next. Its objects are Of that solemn char
acter that appeal to the painful yet tender
memories of the past. There are many
acts in that solemn past we would fain OBJ
literate from memory-many of its suffer.
ings, trials and privations, We would consign
to that oblivion meet for such memories!
But the heroic dead the brave men who
sleep in nameless graves upon hundred
battle felds-who went at our bidding to
the strife, and vainly fell because their duty
to us required the saori6ce-these We can
not forget. All that is sacred in human
love, or honorable in human memory, COM
meuds to us this duty, in language we
cannot mistake. This subject reoalls! our
minds to the painful period OF the late war,
the battles wherein they were conspicu-
ous-the feeble bands of brave men that
struggled in the yellow dust, and BY the
mountain slope, against overwhelming mum.
bers and often against hope. Yet that
spectacle of sublime courage, of tried de
votion, of more than Spartan Valor and
Spartan duty, now begs for menento that
shall be sacred in all time, to its holy Off
ces. It does not become US to resist such
appeals. We should not ignore our duty
in the premises. We are responsible for
the breach, the battle, and the sacrifice.
Our names are identified with theirs, in all
that belongs to that struggle, save in the
last Offering. To Us descends the privilege
of preserving them to our posterity, as men
who brave in the heroic struggle Of duty,
while living, deserve record to their
memory in their last glorious Sleep .9-19-
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Concert.

A large and appreoiative audience atten.
ded the Concert given in the Court House,
on last Thursday night, in aid Of fund to
erect monument to the memory of the
deceased soldiers from this District. The
musical entertainment we'll rewarded those
who were fortunate .euough to be present.
The nobleness Of its object and the tasteft
execution of the pieces selected, combined
to render this affair one of pleasant recol-
lection to those present. q. ..s.r.G ..
The following note explains the financial
result of the effort: y.
"Received of COL A. COWARD, Seven
ty-fve Dollars and Fifty Cents in currency; ;
and Twenty Dollars and Eighty-fve Cents
in Specie, proceeds of a Concert given, to
raise the nucleus of fund to build mnn-
ument to the memory Of the Confederate
dead of York District - ."t -..-ii.
W. B. WILSON, lntenaant.
Yorkville, June Is, 1866.
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THE SITUATION"

The passage by both houses of Congress
of the proposed amendments to the Consti.
tuition, has placed the South in such an
attitude that it may foresee with almost
absolute certainty, the events of the future.
1t is probable-uay almost certain-that
no Southern State will consent to the a.
mendments proposed, even under the spe-
cious and fascinating allurements offered of
immediate representation. Without the
votes of the Southern States, or part of
them, the action of Congress is a nullity ;
the amendments connot become part of
the Constitution, and the South will receive
neither benefit nor detriment from the
labored legislation of the present Congress.
Our position will be the same twelve months
hence that it is now-but better this for
an indefinite period, than for people to
become the instruments of their own deg
radiation .- ... co..
The radicals evidently feaz revulsion OF
feeling among patriotic men, that will be
fatal to the present scheme. If deferred
until the Legislatures of the several States
are convened next fall, there is strong
presumption that the conservative feeling
of the country will be developed in its
strength and thus be able to reject this
odious plan.
TRAD. STEVENS presented bill in the
House last week, providing for the imme.
diate admission of delegates from Tennes.
see, provided said delegates take the test
oath, and provided, also, that no other rep.
reseutation be admitted hereafter elected
unless all classes vote in such elections, and
50 FORTH etcetera, until Civil Rights, the
Freedman's Bureau, Constitutional amend
ments, and all the features of the radical
programe are lugged in. This bill viii
certainly pass, if for DO other reason, sim
ply because STEVENS wants it adopted.
The reasons for it are plain. 1t is a bid tt
Tennessee to forsake her comrades of the
South for the paltry bribe of immediate
representation and array herself under the
banner of STEVENS, SUMNER & Co. We
hope for better things from that brave old
State
The President has fired off another veto
message at one of the local incorporation
bills passed by Congress. He seems fully
determined to show that he is there, wheth
er his objections to party legislation prevail
or not. ......
The Senate Finance Committee hare
reported the result of their investigations
upon the tax bill. The report modifes the
tax on cotton to two, instead of five cents
per pound. An impression prevails thai
the House will compromise finally upon
three cents, when the bill is sent back there,
In this latter form it will probably soon &C
before the country. '
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which the papers teem, would lead rs to
suppose. Military commissions sre yet in
existence here and 10 Chsrlestop, though
for several weeks the cases pendingI have
not been brought up for trial:
The order of the President discontinued
these courts in localities ii~hers there ore
civil tribunals which can try the cases.
1t was supposed that, as these tribupals,
certainly exist in South LCafol.us, there
could be no question abonEit,rin sastates-
There are grave doubts, however, whether
according to law, the testimony of. persons
of color could be admitted before Grand
Juries and upon trials beforeitbe Superior
Courts; and it is asserted too,t that byoa
strange oversight in thai strangest ,oftsll
legislative enactments-:.the code Of last
winter-there is no tribunal in South Car.
olina competent,to try ailarss elassaof mis-
demeanors, until the GoVernor shall sss ct
to organize the District Courts!,,aI T.. N Most of
the cases pending before the Military com.
missions depend uponn' negro: %testinony.
There is, then, some show Of reason The
objection urged against turning them, over
to the civil authorisy--the trial would sim
ply be farce 's ssi s's :, Sc: s. a ID. Sa s sa
Our friend Col. Mellon, sin1 conjunction
With Gen. Butler, Of Edgefeld, has these
Military: Genmission cases in charge The
cases could not be in better hands. y These
gentlemen have bsenin Charleston ffors save.
raj weeks endeavoing 70 aharnnoonlizs chem.
They have done all that could be- aodssr-
We learn that they urge the groundpssst,
upon the trial Of 81 Whits nan before our
Superior Courts, for q felony against ne.
gro, the testimony of persons ofl4odlet ,is
competent according to othsaodst; ethan By
way of information before a. .mnaggiaIsR br
before the Grand Jury or asa yidsnse In
court. The question has rbeeu Tefsttea TO
the Governor with Tie sIeqasssst that iheaill
obtain the opioion Of the Court off Appeals,
which, It iis understood, tlie military VIII
accept as-eopclasiveye Let, ,lss hope ,thsEHis
Ezceiteucy with make haste aboutfts and
that We shall soon again haYe Justice -dis.
peased amongst sus according to- the forms
prescribed ,ip- the; Constellation, and-to that
law so time honored tBatss'theS memory Of
man runneth not 70 the .eoptrary,n,
Of the Edge6eld cases, about which We
wrote at the time, numbering, some, fifteen
.,.t.S fv.L L,nEnst. ff;;ns ~ ~ ~. -
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WASHINGTON. June 2. 1866

w
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following rules, so far as they relate to your
own official conduct, and as far as you may
be able, to enforce their observance upon all
others to whom they are applicable, viz: !
l. The mails of the United States must
not be delivered at any post oficeror other
places where there is not regularly ap.
pointed postmaster, duly commissioned, or
other authorized agent, duly appointed and
sworn, according to law, to receive them.
2 Persons not duly sworn and commis.
stoned as postmasters, must not cancel
stamps, register letters, receive money in
payment of postage on letters not stamped,
or mark letters as "paid." Such persons
must not sign, as postaeastsrs, certificates
or other communications addressed to, or
intended for use in, the Post Office De-
partment. .,.
3. Route agents and postmasters must
return or refuse all letters marked "paid"
by persons not duly sworn and commission
ed as postmasters Respectfully, &c.,
GEO. VIM MCCLELLAN
Second Assistant Postmaster General
Approved W. DENNIsoN
Postmaster General
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MEXICO.

SANTA ANNA, recently arrived in the
United States, has published a manifesto
announcing his policy regarding Mexico.
He is in deadly hostility to Maximilian and
the Empire, and hopes ere long to witness
the restoration Of the Republic.
The Imperialisssin Mexico (Maximilian's
party) are steadily gaining ground, and
seem to be in fair way of establishing the
Government upon a firm basis A recent
massacre of citizens and foreigners at Her
mosilo by the liberal faction, representing
JUAREz, has seriously damaged the pros
poets of that party, and disgusted even
those who allow a wide latitude to all acts
committed in the name Of freedom. The
U. S. Congress has declined the fifty mil
lion loan, and the Juarists are rapidly losing
sympathy and respect even in this land of
republican theories and falsehoods.
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ube, and Austria, wide awake to power, will
grasp from Prussia and Italy, all that the
fortunes of war will allow her. +
With such ambitious designs animating
the contestants, the reliance upon Con-
gress to settle the issues, is feeble Armies
are now marshalled in opposition to each
other, and any mail may bring the inteli.
gence Of hostilities having commenced
Attention is called to dispatches on this
subject, received since writing the above
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LOCAL MATTERS.
Equity Court.

His Honor, Chancellor 81. D LEssEsNE,
opened the Court of EQUITY at this place on
Monday, and is disposing of many cases that
have been long upon the dockets. His
Honor We are pleased to see, has restored
to the Bench, custom once in vogue
in this State, that disappeared when
rail roads and carriages were introduced:
He is travelling to the different Courts iu his
Circuit ON horseback. The circumstance
will probably recall to the grey haired mem
bers of the bar, many pleasant memories of
the .primeval period of our judiciary.
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WAR PROSPECTS TN EUROPE.

WAR PROSPECTS TN EUROPE.
The German difficulty has not yet reached
a solution, but each mail seems to bring ev-
idence of new complications A peace
Congress, in which all parties to the quar-,
rel will probably be represented, is appoint
ed to assemble in Paris. this month, with
the object of arriving at peaceable solution
of the issues involved. European journals
do not seem hopeful of the result. War,
it is believed, must at last prove the only
arbiter of the contentious that have arisen.
In the meantime, the belligerent powers
are not idle. Preparations are making for
the most gigantic struggle that lever engaged
the nations of Europe Austria claims that
she can put 100000 men in the field at
once, and Prussia, Italy, Hanover and the
Ducbies, will probably aggregate much
larger force on their side. Take the posi-
bility of France becoming implicated in the
quarrel, and add her quota OF nearly mil
lion, and the number of armed men enga,
ged in one struggle, will never have been
exceeded. But even this is not all. Russia
will, evidently, espouse whatever side of
the quarrel offers the surcst promise of ex.
tending her territory. Her standing army
alone amounts to q million of meu
NAPoLEoN's remarkable speech at Aux
ere, denouncing the treaties of 1915, by
which the boundaries of Europe we're es-
tablished, gives the key to the whole diff
Guilty. a war will result in the readjust-
ment of those boundaries, and each power
is willing to trust to the sword, as the surest
means of enlarging its limits Prussia ex-
poets to gain the Duchies of Schleswig and
Holstien France, Piedmont; Italy will
get Venetia from the grasp of Austria T.;
Russia extend her boundaries on the Dan
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A caucus Of Republican Senators was
held last week, at which it was determined
to move for an adjournment early in July.
The country will hardly object to such a
decision. 1t has become wearied with the
pickering of this revolutionary body, and
all lust minded men will breathe more free.
ly when its labors are terminated, !
The election returns from Oregon exhibit
large Democratic gains over the vote Of
last year. The contest is close one, and
each party claims the victory by small
majority. The definite result will not be
had for week or two more. The closeness
of this vote is bow of promise to those
who have labored to keep the Government
under its Conservative and Constitutional
forms 1t augurs for the final support of
the people to such policy; and is alto
gether hopeful. -s.,e. ."." -
The Fenian bubble has found its way
into Congress. After much violent argu-
ment on the conduct of British neutrality
in the late war, and its alleged violations,
the House last week passed resolution
directing the committee on Foreign affairs
to consider the propriety of repeating the
neutrality laws as affecting intercourse with
Great Britain. This resolution looks to
sympathy and comfort to the Fenians 1t
is Republican bid for the Irish vote; its
objects are local and designed to place the
President whose duty it is to execute the
laws, in opposition to numerous class of
voters Congress has no more idea of vo-
ting the repeal of the neutrality laws, than
it has of hanging the members of the Brit
ish Parliament for treason. s.. .... q.
THE LAST OF THE FENIANS.
That supreme burlesque-the Fenian in
yasion of 2Canada-is ended, and our Irish
friends have returned from their brief cam.
paigu, sadder, and perhaps wiser men
We are not now, nor have we previously
been, disposed to take issue with the patri-
otto purposes that, no doubt, inspired the
humber classes of these men to devote
their earnings, time, and labor, to the dis
enthralment of their native hills from the
heel of oppression. Their enthusiasm, in
such cause, does them infinite honor -
We are only surprised that men, acting
with such objects in view, would suffer
themselves to be duped by set of braWling
blockbeads, who prefer potoriety and money
to the interests of either Ireland or her ex-
lied people. .'
We must, however, congratulate these
deluded men that the deception recently
practiced upon them, has brought no more
serious consequences than few wounds,
some fatigue (of no consequence to an Irish
man, however, and better store of knowl-
edge to guide them in the undertaking of
such enterprises, hereafter
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Sabbath School Address.


The children of the Methodist Church
Sabbath School, assembled on Tuesday, at
their Church, to listen to the celebration.
speech from JOHN BROWN, Esq, Of Ian
caster. An imposing procession was form
ed at the old Methodist Church and attend
ed by music, was marched to the Iudepen-
pendent Church, now used by them, when
the ceremonies were concluded. The ad-
dress by the youthful orator was commend
able effort, and elected many demopstra-
tions of satisfaction. The exercises passed
off pleasantly, and were intended as the
prelude to an occasion Of more general re-
joicing among the little folks, at some fu-
ture day. 49,. -.- .n... ..a....... .. .....,ss
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sG- The New York Tribune, of the 7th,
says the number of fires which broke out in
that city in the first five months of the
present and five preceding years, respective
IL is as fnllnws.
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s@- The District Supreme Court at Wash
irgtou decided, on the 9th inst, that the
act of Congress retroceding Alexandria
county to Virginia from the District vas
unconstitutional D @@' 80 . ...'
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Showing more fires (not counting thirty
four false aarms) in the last five months,
than in the corresponding months Of any
two previous year. -. ..--...
There have been twenty-nine fires in
Broadway alone in the last five months,
about double the average number in former
years. .a .r.-.
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