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H'dq'rs Military Dist We't'n Sc,

FOURTH SEPARATE BRIGADE,
COLUMBIA, S. c., March 8, 1866.
GENERAL ORDERS NO. 49,
Before a Military Commission, wi ich
L. convened at Headquarters, Military
District of Western South Carolina, Fourth
Separate Brigade, Columbia. South Caro-
lima, pursuant to Special Order No. 4S,
dated Headquarters, Military District Of
Western South Carolina, Columbia, South
Carolina, November 80, 1865, and Of whic,,
Surgeon WILLIAM WALTON, 25th Ohio Vete-
ran Volunteer Infantry, is President, was
arraigned and tried:
Daniel Jefcoat, Il. Addison JeTcoat,
civilians
Charges and Specifications Preferred
Against Daniel jetcoat, ciuilian.
CHARGE.
Mordcr
SPECIFICATION : In this, that the said
Ddnaet Jetcout, civilian, in company with
his son, Il. Addison Jetfcoat, civilian, did
XII kll, 10 or aid and abet in killing, a man,
whose name IL unknown, wearing United
States uniform. This at the Jeffcoat Plan
tation, in Lexington District, on or about
tho 18th or 10th day of February, 1865.
Charges and Specifications Preferred
against Il. addison Jefcoot, Civilian.
CHARGE.
Murder
SPEcIF1cAT1oS Ii this, that the said r.
Addison Jefcodt, civilian, in company with
his father, Daniel Jeffcoat, civilian, did
XIII, or AID and abet in killing, by shooting
ana beating, man, whose name is un-
known, wearing a United States uniform.
This on the Jeffcoat Plantation. in Lex
lp9ton District, on or about the 18th or
18th day of February, 1865
10 which Charges and Specific ltions the
prisoners pleaded as follows:
To the Specification, 'sNot Gultu."
To the Charge, ''Not Goaty."
FINDING
Ihe Commission, having maturey con-
sldered the evidence adduccd, tnds the
accused, Daniel JIetcoat and Il. ADDISON
Jetcodt, civilians, as follows
"Guaty."
OF the Charge, "Not Guilty." but 'sguilty
of Justihable homicide
And the Commission do, therefore acquit
the said Daniel Jetcoat and r. Addlson
Jefcodt, civilians.
Ii. The proceedings and findings in the
foregoing case of Daniel Jefcoat and r..
ADDISON Jetcodt, civilians, are approved.
The prisoners will be Immediately released
from arrest.
III. The Military Commission convened
by Special Order No. 4S, from Headouar-
ters, Military District of Western South
Carolina, Fourth Separate Brigade, Colum-
bla, South Carolina, November 80, 1865,
and of which Surgeon WILLIAM WALTON,
18th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, is
President, is hereby dissolved.
By order of
Brevet Major General A. AMES.
J. A. CLARK, Act'g Asst Adj't Gen.
March II
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The Secretary OF War.

The following, from the New York
Herald, we publish because it is Just,
and expresses the universal opinion
both of statesmen and people, who
have, In any earnest and disinterested
manner, signalized their support of
the restoration policy of President
johnson. If it be claimed that the
peculiar qualifications of Mr.. Stan
ton for the extraordinary juncture of
the war justified his incumbency here
tofore, the same reason demonstrat-
ed the impolicy of his return in time
Of peace. His expulsion from the
Cabinet by President Johnson would,
we cannot doubt, be hailed by the
country with nearly unanimous ap-
probation.
Mr.. Stanton has been an evil in
huence in the Cabinet from the day
he entered it. He has abased his DO
sition to the vilest uses, and the i'm
mense power that it gave him-the
grand opportunities that it would
have afforded any other to serve the
country-have by him only been en-
ployed to build up selfish and IA
natical party. He never for mo-
ment considered the welfare OF the
country where it stood in the way of
s party purpose. He never regarded
the war as struggle for the nations
life, but only as the opportunity to
destroy forever the great Southern
party of war; and now that the coun-
try IS saved, he opposes the notion
that the war is at an end, simply
because he fears that the party he de-
sired to kill is not yet quite dead.
His greatest fear during the war
was not that the North would fail, but
that 1t would succeed too soon that
it would put down the rebellion
before the people were ripe for radi-
callsm-before, alarmed by the con-
tlnuance of the struggle, they would
be ready to accept any idea and any
measure that seemed to promise sue
cess. With this sole idea in view, he
was a greater power against our gene
rails than all the armies of the enemy
together. He strove to carry out even
against General Grant the tactics en-
ployed against so many others, and
his creature Dana lived at Grants
headquarters for months, being nei-
ther more nor less than spy upon
the great soldier.
= Baker was his spy upon others.
Such were the tactics employed by
this great Secretary against every one
who should be guilty of defeating the
rebels. They were enemies to the
purposes of his party, and must be
dragged down. And this man still
sits in the Cabinet as the adviser of
the President, and still abuses his
high position to further measures
whose only end can be to build up a
party ON the ruins of freedom. He
should be spurned from the place.
He should be removed, and his re-
moval would be recognized by the
country as an act only second in its
"atlonal and patriotic spirit to the
veto of the Freedman's Bureau mill
tary despotism bill.
National Lateuigencer.
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The State of South Carolina,
IN FOJITTV

Circuit Bill to Pe,pet,tate testimony.
GIMEON FAIR, Solicitor of the Middle
~ Circuit, having this day filed in this
office Bill to ''Perpetuate Testimony in
relation to Deeds, Wills, Chooses in Action,
other Papers and Records, destroyed or
lost during the recent war; 1t is ordered
that all persons who are entitled to, and
desire to avail themselves of, the benefit of
the Act OF the General Assembly, in such
case made and provided, are permitted to
come before the Court, and have taken and
perpetuated all evidence which thev shall
produce, on proper application being made
before me.
d. B. DESAUSSURE, c.. .E.R.D.
Commissioners Office, Feb. 9 1866.
Feb m9
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Congrr,e,ssional.

WAsHIr6roN, March 9.-In the House.
the bill securing civil rights to all persons
without regard to color, in all the States,
WAS referred back to the Judiciary Com.
mittee. Many Republicans disagree as to
the Constitutional power of Congress to
pass the bill in its present shape, believing
1t viii invade to too great an extent the
rights Of the States.
In the Senate, the Constitutional amend
mont apportioning representation among
the States. was discussed
Mr.. Henderson offered substitute, to
the effect that no State, in presenting
qualifications for voters, shall discrimi-
nate on account of color aud race. He
said that his own State-Missouri-wi
give the negro the right Of suffrage, and
the South should be compelled to do 80 in
to.
The original resolution was then rejected
5y vote Of twenty-five to Twenty-Five
Sumner and other radicals voting against it.
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!MPoRTANT FROM MEXICO.-A spe-
clal despatch to the New York World,
dated San Francisco, 5th instant, saws
that crisis in Mexican affairs is i'm
mlnent-so near, and approaching so
fast, that the United States may be
called upon to act at any moment in
behalf of the rights and lives of its
own citizens.
The French troops in the Northern
and Western Mexican States have
been driven ignominiously to the
coast, and are hemmed in in a few
port towns, from whence they are liza
BILE to be driven on board their vessels
of war for safety.
Mazatian is besieged, its streets
barricaded, and the Liberals, under
Cortlnas, are pressing close upon its
rear
Fighting has occurred, in which
the Liberals, aided by Americans who
recently enlisted, had been victorious.
The antipathy of the French and
the Imperial Mexicans to the Ameri-
cans is increasing There are in
stances of Americans having been
thrown causelessly into prison, and
threats of the indiscriminate slaueh-
ter of Americans are boldly made by
the Mexican and Imperial authorities
of certain towns. It is necessary that
war vessels should be despatched by
the United States, to prevent trouble
and demand decent respect for the
United States flag and citizens.
AFFAIRS IN CANADA. BURGLAR and
tenlans are keeping the Canadians
alive, and bank robberies have be-
come the rule, instead of the excep-
tion in the province, as described in
our correspondence. The latest in
stance reported is an attack on the
banks of Lennoxville, by party of
twenty-five men. In connection with
the attempted robbery of the Gore
Bank, Calf, some time since, start
ing circumstances have been brought
to light. Two ex-aldermen of Toron-
TO, sergeant-major of police and q
patrol sergeant are now asserted to
nave aided and abetted the notorious
Bristol BilP' in the commission of
the crime, together with DR.. Gustaff,
the alleged prisoner recently extra
dlted from this city. Some of these
persons are in custody, while others
have fled from the country. The Go
vernors OF the British provinces are
holding council in Montreal. Defence
against the Fenians and action on the
confederation question are believed
TO be the topics under discussion.
Netc York Herald.
The general talk in Mississippi is
that the planters are all trying to
raise cotton to buy corn and meat
with, instead of making the corn and
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The Louisiana Legislature has
passed an Act requiring property sold
by the sheriff to bring its full ap-
praised value; also, an Act releasing
the people from the payment of State,
parish or municipal taxes for 1862,
1864 and 1865, on real estate held for
over three months by the Federal
military authorities, against the con-
sent of the owners thereof; also,
returning to those who have paid
their taxes on such property the
amounts they have paid.
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ToPIoFrIcAL.-A Mr.. Thompson.
OF West Virginia, recently Judge of
the Wheeling District, has published
book. What its title and what it's
subject is no matter to the public. as
we are sure our readers will acknow-
ledge after reading the following lucid
extract:
Man becomes the diaphanous
ectype of the inner spiritual self, as
he is moulded and moulds his sur
rounding organisms from instant to
instant in their animalistic propensi-
ties. their human desires and pur-
poses, and in his higher spiritual
manifestations of autopsic willing,
intellectualizing and loving.
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MARRTED

On I'd of January, by the Rev. j. S. Mel
son, Mr.. SIDNEY f. WfLFONG, of Newton,
N. c., to Miss BELLE L. GILL, of Colum-
bia, S. c..
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The New York Herald, of the 5th
inst, says: ''We learn that the old
veteran and patriot, General Scott,
who Is at present in New Orleans, un-
hesitatingly endorses all that Presi-
dent johnson uttered in his speech
on the 22d ult. The staunch old sol
der expresses the hope that he will
yet see the North and South more
firmly bound together than ever, and
that to effect this, President Johnson
has adopted the only true and proper
course.
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AUGUSTA, March THE cotton market
eontinues unchanged. There is but very
little doing, and that little is confined al
most exclusively to fine grades, there
being no demand for low grades We quote
strict niddling IS, and good middling SO
buyers holding off, and awaiting accounts
from liverpool. The offering stock is,
however light. There has been a good
demand for gold, and several lots we're
sold at s.. Brokers buying at 80, and sell
ing at 34835. Very little doing in silver
buying at 25, and selling at 80.
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Eelegraph.


WAsHrsoroN, March Yesterday, the
COMMITTEES from. the Maryland Legisiature
presented to the President resolutions
adopted by that body, approving his poll
cy. Com mittee from Kentucky also pre-
sented to the President the proceedings of
meeting held in Frankfort, endorsing his
veto message. The President, in response
to both delegations, reiterated his deter
mination to defend the Constitution against
all attacks, from whatever quarter made.
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RIonMoND, March 5.-Business generally
very dull. In the money market there is
demand for money, and there could be but
little gotten if the demand was greater.
No change in national stocks. North Ca
rollna stocks have advanced rapidly.
Southern bank notes have declined consi-
derably Gold-buying, 81; selling So.
Silver-buying, 25: selling. 80.
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The State of South Carolina.

IN EQUlTY-LEXINGTO
En- parte Simeon Fair, Solicitor of Middle
Circuit Bill to Pe,-petudte Testimony.
CIMEON FAIR, Solicitor of the Middle
y Circuit; having this day filed in this
office Bill to ''Perpetuate Testimony in
relation to Deeds, Wills, Chooses in Action,
other Papers and Records, destroyed or
lost during the recent war" 1t is ordered
that all persons who are entitled TO, and
desire to avail themselves OF, the benefit of
the Act of the General Assembly, in such
case made and provided, are permitted to
come before the Court, and have taken and
perpetuated all evidence which they shall
produce, on proper application being made
before me.
HENRY A. MEETZE, c. Ell. d.
Commissioners Office, Lexington C. H.,
February 1, 1866. Feb II m12
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COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

NEW YORK, March 9.-The cotton markt
is dull, aud has declined 1@2 cents Dc
pound. Sales 1000 bales, at 41@42 cent
Gold is quoted at 33I.
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SHIP NEWS.
PORT OF CHARLESTON, MARCH 10.

ARRIVED YESTERDAY
Schr. Elizabeth Edwards, Smith, New York.
Schr. c. c. Clark, Hayes, Baltimore.
Schr. E. L. B. Wales, Moslander, Phila.
Schr. Julia A. Hallock, Crowell, New York.
WENT TO SEA YESTERDAY
Steamship Cumberland, Reed, Baltimore.
British bark Sea Queen, Ryan, Liverpool
Bark Marathon, Drisko, Cardenas.
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The general talk in Mississippi is
that the planters are all trying to
raise cotton to buy corn and meat
with, instead of making the corn and
meat themselves.
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The Washington National hteUi-
gence'' states that statistics at the
Treasury Department show that the
commonly received opinion that there
is balance of exports over imports
in our foreign trade, is without found
alton. The official values of the ex-
ports are currency values; the values
of imports are gold values; and, con-
sequently, for the purpose of compa-
rison, it becomes necessary to equal
lze them: For the three years, 1868,
"a, and '65, the imports amount to
1876, 600, 600 in gold, while the ex-
ports, valued officially in currency at
1912, 100000, when reduced to
gold standard, are 1862, 900, 900, leav-
ing, instead OF an overplus in our
favor Of $156, OOO, 900, a deficit of
S154, 100000. This is the true condi-
ton of our foreign trade, and proba-
bly, explains the great flow of our
Government securities to Europe.
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Greenville and Columbia Railroad

faa Sd - s;#|7 sEssss sREsss=sS7
GENERAL LSUPERINTENDTS OFFICE.
COLUMBIA, March 8, 1866
TENHIS Company will receive and forward
Il MERCHANDIZE and PRODUCE, with
the additional charges for transportation n
between Freshley's and Aston, and dray-
age in Columbia on such as passes over the
South Carolina Railroad when consigned
to and forwarded by the Company
Freight and charges on all Merchandise
from Columbia must be PREPAID to all
points on the Road, except to Newberry,
Abbeville, Anderson and Greenville; but
freight and charges will be collected on all
that comes over the South Carolina Rail
road, at all points except Hopes Station,
pomaria, New Market and Grove Station.
Merchandise destined for those points will
be received and forward d, upon prepay
ment of freight and charges, and delivered
at OWNERS RISK.
Freight and charges on all Merchandise
and Produce, to be forwarded over the
South Carolina Railroad, must be PRE-
PAID to Columbia. J. B. LAsSALLE,
March +6 General Superintendent.
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The famous experiment of Perkins,
in cutting hard steel by disc of soft
iron, was, not long since, repeated at
the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.
The disc used was of steel, similar to
those from which small circular saws
are made, but annealed so as to be
very soft. This was mounted on
steel spindle, furnished with three
inch driving-wheel. and the whole
was carefully balanced. The driving
wheel was connected by belt with
36-inch wheel, on the shaft of which
was 1O-inch wheel, communicating
with 49-inch wheel driven by the
engine. The engine running at 100
turns per minute, the result of the
combination was that the soft steel
disc revolved at a speed of 5000 to
5000 turns per minnie. At this We
locity, the hardest files were cut into
like wood, a shower of sparks and a
blaze of light being given off during
the operation, but the edge of the
disc did not show any signs of injury.
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hEMARKABLE FACTS. 1t IS q very
remarkable fact, observes the Hart
ford Times that since the days of
the second Adams, the opponents OF
the Democracy have elected but three
Presidents; that each of these Presi-
dents have died in Off ce; and that
each of the Vice Presidents who took
their places have been compelled to
differ from the policy Of the President
whom he succeeded.
CAPT. RAPHAEL SEMMEs There is
a report in Washington city that the
Government has decided not to bring
to trial the late commander of the
Alabama, having come to the conclu-
sion that his parole, given at the sur
render of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
to Gen. Sherman, is valid. If this
report be correct, Capt. Semmes will
probably be soon released from pri-
son.
A negro preacher, holding forth TO
his congregation upon the subject of
obeylng the commands of God, said:
"Bredren, whateber God tells me to
do in dis book (holding up the Bible)
dat I'm gwine to do. If I see in it
dat I must Jump troo a stun wall,
I'm gwine to jump at it. Coin troo
it longs to God, jumpin' at it longs
to me-"
A. Ward thus describes his perils
at sea: "Deth stared us into the
face. But we had rather the advan-
tage ov Deth. While Deth stared
us in the face thar was about 70 ov
us starein Deth in the face. The pros
pect wasn't pleasin' to US. Not much.
1 don't know how Deth liked it,
Gov. Jenkins, of Georgia, vetoed
the stay law, on the ground of un-
constitutionality. The Senate after
wards passed it over the veto by a
vote Of twenty-seven to seven.
New York cotton brokers estimate
the cotton in the United States, on
the LIST of February last, at nearly
1,50O, 900 bales.
A negro white-washer in Chicago,
the other day became jealous of his
wife, who was white woman, and
committed suicide.
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THr CeLoR OF PErHCoir-The f,llow>
i.g - from the Den ~ - n..n who loved not
vrs-ly. b II ov ii got eI.r .:
The way 10 Judge OF woman's character
a, FRS; sight i - ascertain the colsr of her
paiIcoa;. .;iaea peiticoat indicates low
spirits, a Iatred OF wa,htubs and activity.
aud taste, dyspepiic i,;eratnre and quietu1-
A lady who wears black pei,ic1at could no
m,Te real aud understand this paragfap
thsn she could suck mp the Atlantic with a
thr-e cen, syringe. \ white pet,icoat show.
= character ust oproaIte-an unsliilsd mind
and tasie for romance. A woman who TAX s
naturally 10 white pe'ticoais. AID never wears
any other, is an institution TO which young
&c ,tlemcn o! connuhi~l p-ociiTi,ies shoull
lcse NJ time in paying doe attention. The
r.! peticoat, however is something Of which
rnsnkind shcah beware !; it isthe insi gnia
of Xautippe, a s.yle OF women Who cut their
toe nail, with Their husbands IaZors.
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From gross popular uisconcep,iou of
the character ct Diana Seraou Scott, ro-
nance, has arisen more rude ,ess of mariner
aud speech in modern young ladies than half
a century will srbdue. From the frat ap-
pearance of 7" Rob Row" certain fashionable
rom ps beg iu 10 assume an AmaZoBIan tone
and bearing. in supposed eInuIatIoi Of the
chas'e Diana aud from the then accomp,>
nying hurting phrases OF the new fashion,
we have the present degeneration into down
right slang. The stylish girls Of NOWADAYS
talk smaf,ly Of, things beiag PLAYED ont"
explains herself generally with the phrase
- hats whats The matter and d smisses
her iuckless suitor with the remark that she
don't see it, Verify, it is shameful that
intelligent beings thus accomplished should
be denied the ballot.
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The Ribie.-sonae statistics.

| = A g"R. R.ader'' of Zion's Herald slm me- up th.
| statistics of tie bible thus
The scriptures have been translated into
i4S Languages and dialects, of which l2i had
prior 10 the formation OF the British Foreign
Bible society, never appeared. And 70 o!
| thsse languages existed without an alph ,be:,
in an oral form.-U pwards of 43,080.000 OF
those copies Of God'ss word are circulated
among not less than 00,oOO, 900 o. people.
The frs; division of tho Divine orders into
chapters and verses, Is attributed to Stephe'.
Langtou archbishop of Canterbury, in the
reign Of King John, in the later part of the
18th century, or beginning. of the l3,h,-
Cardinal Hugo, in the middle of the 18th
ceu.ury, divided the old testamentsinto chap
tsrs as they stand in oar Translation. In
1861, Athlas, Jew of Amsterdam, divided
the section OF Hugo into v-rses-a French
printer had previously li66D divided the
testanent iHto verses as they now are.
The old testament contains 80 books. 929
chapters, %, IA verses, 2G2, ,439 words, 2,738,-
100 letters.
The new Testament contains q books, 200
chapters, 1850 verses, 1872, 253 words, 9J5>
$50 letters.
The name of Jehovah, or Lord, occurs
$3.50 times ia the old testament.
The word "andr occurs in the old tests>
ment IS, ,543 times. 1
The middle book of the old testament s
proverbs.
The middle nhap,er is the 2"th Of Job.
The mlidle verse is u Chronicles. 20.h
chapter, lIrh verse. -a
The middle book Of The new testament is
I'd Thessalon ans.
The middle chapters are Romans 18th and
l4th
The middle verse IS Acts II : I.
The middle chapter and the least in the
bible, as Ps,Lns IL. H. srE -
3 The middle verse 10 the bible, is Psalms
BIS: 81 h# ELZs. .-a1-- q ~
Tn, middle line ia the bible IS Chronicle.
|: 80.
The lea., vers. in the bible is John Il:
IS.
1'h. least verse in the old testament: is let
Chronicles ! |.
r. The l9rh chapter o.. .5th Kings aud Isaiah
36rh are -th same. - r .. $50 ----- ----- o.
In the DIST verse of the 7,h OF Ezra are all
all the letters OF the ALPHABET. aud being
considered as Que
The spncrypha fno, Inspired, but soms-
times bound betweea the oil testament aud
the new.) contains IL books, le3 chapters,
l5.uSi ve.-e-, l52, lS5.
The preceding iacts were zscert1iuet by a
gentleman in l.iS. Also, by sn English
nsn residing a. AmsteTlarr, i755, and it is
SAID to have taken each gentleman nearly
years ia the ilvesGi. alton.