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ed, by sweeping, washing and whitawash-
ing. I'd. Every man who has any authori-
ty in city or town government should con.
slider himself bound by the oath of Office,
and by every consideration of humanity, to
give himself no rest until every street, al.
ley, close gutter and sewer, is placed in q
state of as perfect cleanliness as possible,
and kept so until the frosts of next season
come. 3d. This cleansing should be done
now, in. February or. March, because, If
put off until warm weather, the very effort
necessary for the removal of filth will only
tend, in the essential nature of things, to
hasten the appearance of the disease; to In
crease its malignity and to extend the time
of its devastations; because, the suns OF
spring and summer the sooner warm into
life and intensity the Viperic and malig'
nant influence, which, in its remorseless
tread, recks so much Of human happiness
and desolates so many hearthstones.
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THE "STTuATION"

Great, beyond expectation, has been tbe
effect of the veto of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau Bill upon the radical party both in
Congress, and out ofit. Immediately upon
the reading of the veto message to the Sen
ate, Mr.. WADE arose and offered resolu.
ton to amend the Constitution, so as to
make the President ineligible to second
term ! After sharp debate and great ex-
citement, an effort to pass the bill over the
veto was made, and resulted Is against 80.
The requisite two.thirds vote not being OBJ.
tanned, the bill fails to become law.
In the House the ire of the radicals was
as intense as in the Senate. STEVENS
loomed up with another joint resolution
declaring that no representative from dny
State of the South should be admitted on
the floor Of either House, until Congress
declared such State entitled to representa-
tion AS this resolution amounts to moth
ing more that we can see, than Congress is
doing every day, MIR. STEVENS might have
spared himself the pains in this matter
It was only intended as little innocent
buster to bolster up the weak, and show
the teeth of the party.
The excitement North and South, upon
these demonstrations in Washington is rep
sented to be intense. The Press and the
people with almost general unanimity, sup
port the President. An exchange says
upon this subject "In New York, the
Rerald, the Times, the San, the Ne'os,
and the TVorld-representing ninet tenths
of the people-sustain the veto. In Wash.
ington, the Star, the LatelHgeacer, AND the
Union-represeuting nearly all the old res.
idents of the place In Baltimore, the Sun,
the Commercial, and the Transcript, cer-
tainly; while the american is afraid to
oppose. In the South, every man and eve-
ry paper-we hope; assured)y so nearly all
as to make the opposing minority contemp-
tible."
The Cabinet it is stated, has also had
split upon this measure, and STANTON,
HARLAN and SPEED will in very few DAYS
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-01
FREEDMEN'S BUREAU.

The following is synopsis of the bill
to enlarge the powers of the Freedmen's
Bureau, as it passed the United States Con-
gress. The original Act, of which this Bill
is rather an amendment, continues in force
one year from the close of the war.
Sec. l. Original act to continue in
force; President to establish II or less dis.
trcts, with an Assistant Commissioner for
each, to be appointed, or, in his discretion,
detailed from the army
Sec. 2. The Commissioner to assign SUBJ
districts, with one agent to each. Assistant
Commissioners may have six clerks agents
of sub-districts two; military jurisdiction
to extend over all employees of the Bureau
Sec. 5. Secretary of War may direct
such issues of provisions, clothing, fuel,
&C., for refugees and freedmen, as he deems
needful. \
Sec. t. The President to set apart unoc-
cupied lands in Florida, Mississippi, Ala.
bama, Louisiana and Arkansas, for use of
freedmen, either by rent or purchase, based
upon valuation.
Sec. 5. Occupants of the land on Sea
Islands confirmed in possession for three
years.
Sec, 6. Commissioner to purchase land
on which to erect Schools, Asylums, &C.,
for freedmen; Congress to make necessary
appropriations.
SEC I. Where rights of labor, of con.
tract, of inheritance, of property, the equal
benefit of laws, security of persons, &C.,
are denied to freedmen, the President shall
extend military jurisdiction and jurispru.
dence for their protection.
Sec. s. Whoever subjects any freedman
to slavery or involuntary servitude except
as punishment for crimes, or discriminates
between white and black in penalties, shall
be punished by fine of $1,000 and one
years Imprisonment. Officers of the Bu-
reau to have jurisdiction of all such COM
plants, so long as aud wherever such dis.
elimination on account of color continues,
and wherever State and United States
Courts are not in full and peaceful opera
tion.
President JOHNSON S veto message, upon
the return of the Bill to the Senate, makes
the following objections:
lst That the original Act, passed while
the States were in condition of war, is
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-01
INTERVENTION.

Gen. STEPHEN ELdoTT, for so long a
time the gallant defender of Fort Snmter,
died at Aiken, s. g., Oh Wednesday oflast
week. We find in the Charleston News a
short biographical sketch of the deceased
which we will print next week. '....Hon.
George S. Bryan, of Charleston, has been
appointed United States District Judge for
South Carolina. .......".Three spans of the
bridge Oh the North Carolina Railroad over
Neuse River, near Smithfeld, in Johnston
County, was carried of by the fresbet on
Monday night of last week. The Raleigh
papers state that the bridge will be rsplao,
ed in few days....'.....Major McGee, Of
Florida who was in charge of the Military
prison at Salisbury, during Confederate rule,
lis on trial for "iuRuman treatment of pris.
oners," ,".''.'''Geu. CRAWFORD, the Rio
Grande fllibuster, has escaped from Fort
Jackson. His whereabouts is unknown.
.....'."The Directors have advertised to
lease out the Laurens railroad.
The salary of the Governor OF North Car
oliDa has been fixed at four thousand dol.
lars in gold. ....''.'..O Official reports in Eng
land show that vaccination has, so far,
proved certain safeguard to cattle against
the plague which has ragged so fearfully iu
the British Islands. The disease continues
there, vaccination having been practised by
only part of the cattle owners. .''-.....
-Four million pairs of copper tips are annual
" applied to the toes of children's shoes;
consuming, in their manufacture, about fifty
tons of copper. ...'.''."Ghicago is using gas
made from petroleum. The light is said to
be four times stronger than that made by
coal gas. .........It is a remarkable fact that
the perpetrators of every robbery of Adams
Express Company, have been arrested and
punished. ..".Mrs. Ellen Judd, of Indian
apolis, Indiana, has supported herself and
her children by cutting wood at dollar
cord .....".. With thirty thousand people,
Idaho has not single preacher, but plenty
of lawyers
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-01
For the Yor3ytlle Enquirer.
GoODRICH'S HISTORY OF TEE
UNITED STATES.

Mr.. EDITOR: Your last issue contained
a netiee of Goodrich's History of the Uni.
ted States, in which the un6tness of tha
work for use as textbook in Southern
schools, was exposed in mastery manner.
But as the subject of school books is enc
of great Importance just now, it may not
be amiss in the writer to add his testimony
to yours, in condemnation of this slander-
ous history of the mighty struggle, from
which we have so lately emerged.
No man, at all coDversant with the facts
of the late war, would for moment think
of teaching Mr.. Goodrich's narrative as
history, after an examination of it's contents.
But as it was before the war, the standard
work on that subject, and as such in al
most universal use, some may adopt it
without scrutiny, on the score of its former
reputation. 1t is on this account, that its
exposure becomes duty. to those who wish
a true record instilled into the minds of
the young. Justice, also, demands that its
Infamous falsehoods should be held up to
view in all their naked deformity for it, is,
from beginning to end, malicious slander
on the South-a slander on her motives,
her deeds, and her bearing, in beginning,
sustaining and relinquishing the contest for
separate existence as nation.
An ignorant and spiteful spirit of resist
ance, on the part of the South, to the wise
and benevolent restraints placed upon her
for her own good, by the more enlightened
North, is stated to be the cause of the late
bloody war. =.
In other words, the South is pictured in
the attitude of wilful child, spurnlng the
wholesome restraints of parental authority
and blindly rushing upon a course OF re.
sistance to righteous authority, which ends
in merited destruction. This view of the
difficulty between the sections has been
taught at the North for years; and to the
thorough installation of it into the Northern
mind is due the pertinacity with which they
forced upon the South their kind supervision
over her affairs. And Mr.. Goodrich has
clearly shown that'it is still to be taught In
the blessed regions beyond the Potomac,
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enough in their severe adversities to abstain
from attaching. themselves to men, in: the
future. But as an exponent of the true
principles Of right and justice, in the ab-
stract, we accord him the full measure Of
praise for manly stand in defence IF these
principles. He aims to do right, and is
consistent in! bis views of the Constitution,
in the past and present. He is no advocate
of States rights, or other doctrines, in the
strict sense in which the South viewed these
questions. He advocates none Of the views
peculiar to our political situation previous
to the war. His conduct only commende
itself to our approval because it seems to
be uniuauenced by partisan motives, and
exclusively free from ambitious designs,
looking only to the reconstruction Of fhe
Union, very much as it was. Upon this
ground, the whole country can unite in sup.
port of his administration.
This veto is destined to shape the issue
of vast question now agitating the coun-
try The President signifies by it that has
policy mast prevail, Congress has but a
narrow path left to lead 1t around the ob-
.stacle. 1t may go to work to remove it by
impeachment, but the vote by which the
veto has been sustained, gives but little en-.
couragement to the effort. The House has
fallen back upon stubborn platform which
says in effect, "the South shall not be rep
resented here until we ge. ready for it, p
while the President with similar tenacity
of purpose, holds the veto power suspended
over all future legislation, until all the
States are represented. -, -
The struggle will be an obstinate one, but
the results thus far are hopeful for us. The
first blow has rallied to the support of the
President more strength in the Senate, than
was calculated upon before it came. A few
more such strokes welded by the hand Of
the Executive, will do much to scatter the
strength of the opposition, and secure the
triumph of the administration. We believe
the latter will ultimately come off the vic.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-01
Rejoicing over the Veto Message.

ALBANY, N. Y, February 20-A na-
tional salute was fred here to day, by di-
rection of the Common Council, in honor
of the veto message of President johnson.
MANCHESTER, N. H., February 20
One hundred guns were fired here to night
in honor of the Presidents veto of the
Fredmen's Bureau bill.
LoCKpoRT, N Y, February 20.-A sa-
lutte of one hundred guns was fired in Lock
port this morning, in honor of President
Jobnson's veto.
TRENTON, February 20.-In the New
Jersey Legislature, to day, Mr.. Price,
(democrat) offered a series of resolutions
approving of the Presidents veto of the
Freedmen's Bureau bill, and of the prin-
ciples set forth in his veto message.
Mr.. Ramsay, (tepublican) offered anoth-
er series disappearing of the veto as unsat.
isfactory to the party who elected him. All
we're referred.
TRENTON, February 22.-Resolutions
condemnatory of the Presidents policy, in
troduced in the Senate to-day, we're lost
after discussion.
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with cases, entered for adjudication previ:
GUS to the war. : = !
This decision iuFsupport of the Presi-
dents policy, coming from the highest judi
-cial tribunal in the land, is at this juncture,
of the highest Importance. The Govern
ment of the United States is divided into
three coordinate branches-the Executive,
Legislative and Judicial. Two Of these
the Executive and Judicial-have affirmed
the indestructibility of the States, and the
resuscitation Of their suspended vitality
The Legislative-represented by the Con-
gress of the United States, alone assumes q
different policy, contending that the seee-
ded States stand in the position of conquer.
ed provinces. =
-Gen. GRANT, as Commauder-in-
Chief over the; Military Departments in the
South, has recently issued an order relative
to newspapers = The subjoined is a copy Of
the order:
HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF U. STATES,
WASHINGTON, Feb. II, 1866.
Circulor Letter addressed to Department
Commanders. .:.-
You will please send to these headquar-
ters as soon as practicable, and from time to
time thereafter, such copies of newspapers
published in your department, as contain
sentiments of disloyalty and hostility to the
Government. in any of its branches. and
state whether such paper is habitual in its
utterauces Of such sentiments. The per.
sistent. publication Of articles calculated to
keep up hostility of feeling. between the
people of different sections Of the country,
cannot be- tolerated. This information is
called for with. view to their suppression,
which will be done from these headquarters
only. 49,
By command of Lieut. General Grant,
rs BOWERS, A. A; G..
We,baEe but oDe exception to make to
this order; and that is, it assumes to con.
tsol the sentiments of the press 10 one sec.
tiob ofthe country only; As Ger. GRANTS
military authority only extends over the
"rebellions states," his order, exercises no
restraint upon the partisan press at toths
North. Its fulminatiens do as much, to say
the least, in founenting opposition to- the
Government, and keeping alive hostility
between the two sections, as that of the
South. We dislike to acknowledge the re.
straint imposed upon Us, while it prevents a
rebuke of the ISLANDERS and misrepresenta-
tiou that are daily cast upon US by sec.
tional press at the North. -:
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RETURN DAY.

But FIVE cases we're entered upon the
Clerks books up to Saturday night, for the
Spring Term. This speaks well for the con-
fdence and forbearance of the people regard
ing new contracts, which might have been
sued upon. The coming Term of the Court
will have, probably, but few matters general
of interest to employ its time.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-01
DIVINE SERVICE.

We are requested to state that Rev. TIL.
MAN R. GAINES, of the Baptist persuasion,
will preach at the Associate Reformed
Church, at this place, on the second Sabbath
in this month, at 10 o'clock, a. m.
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cease to be advisers Of the President The
difficulty of getting new nominations passed
BY the Senate, will, for the present, prevent
any vacancy, but principles are developing
700 rapidly to permit the present members
to be much longer retained.
In the North mass meetings are called
for to endorse the policy Of the President
Although strong radical current pervades
every place and party there, the general
results show the ascendancy of the Admin
istratiop. In Washington City the demon.
strations. given to the President are repre-
sented to have been tumultuous. In reply
to certain complimentary resolutions, passed
by a meeting there, he is reported to have
made alepgthyspeech IN support of his poll
tcy, toau enthusiastic audience assuming the
ground that the Union was in danger from
the Vaccinations of the Republican party,
and pledging himself to its support in the
face of all opposition. This speech seems
to be one of the events Of the day Its
brave and generous sentiments, cool logic,
and determined policy, have stamped him
with the. frmness of JACKSON, and q
wisdom second only to that Of the Father
of his country.
Resolutions were offered in the Senate
the same day. condemuing bis policy. At
ter considerable discussion they aoere lost.
The Senate next proceeded to consider a
bill to continue in force for t,0o gears, the
present Freedmen's Bureau. This was not
submitted to vote.
Constitutional amendments still continue
to crowd in upon both Houses Of Congress,
and probably couple of hundred have by
this time gone before the Committee on BE.
construction. They embrace every con-
ceivable shade of REFORM and if tithe of
them are incorporated into the old instru.
ment, its best friends will not be able to
recognize it.
The negro suffrage Bill which has been
lost sight of for some weeks, has at last
gone to the President for approval. An
official organ in Washington, says it is des.
tined to the same fate as the Bureau Bill
In the North and West, there has been a
considerable Autter among politicians, and
a general shifting of sides is the result
In Missouri, however, the Legislature op.
poses the veto message, while in Tennessee
the National Ulicn Convention endorses it
in full So does the city council of New
York. Missouri raises the only dissenting
voice the country has yet heard from any
State upon the exciting issue.
The Republicans in Congress are still
defiant and vindictive. They are open in
their hostility to the President. MORGAN,
DooL1TTLE and CowAN, who deserted their
ranks when the vote upon the veto message
ooma orn sat down "a marnlots and treitora
in their action oy tempting
bribes from the Executive. The blow they
acknowledge to be heavy one, but they
expect to survive it, and as a counter meas.
ure will refuse to endorse any executive
to Office, or favor its recon-.
mendations. By sullen inaction they hope
to make up for want of strength to override
the veto power.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-01
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Brig. Gen J. e. Winsmi,h-specal Order Noe.
% % Special Order No. I.
Gracser Smtl-Commission and Forwarding Merchants
Lieut.. Col B b. Murray-Gencral Order NO.6.
Auction Salcs-Bowers Silcox.
Dr. John May-Carriagc for sale.
w. H. McCOrkle-Auction Sales
Maj. Gen. A. Ames-Gcneral Orders No. S.
Margmet T.. Thomas-S20 Reward.
Cant. E. a. CraWford-C Candilatc for Sheriff.
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1@ Attention is directed to the sales
on Saturday next, at Auction, by Messrs.
Bowers g. S1Lcox, and Col. McCoRKLE,
of large lot of fine Furniture.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-01

DELICACIES OF THE SEAsoN.-Last
Monday We saw in town a cart containing
some four hundred muskrats This animal
is, in the opinion of the best judges in mat.
ters of gourmaud;se, quite equal to canvass
back or red head, when baked, and if prop
erly seasoned and cooked as terrapin, can
hardly be told from that delicaoy. They
sold for ten cents apiece, which, considering
the price of ducks and terrapins, makes
them cheap luxury.-Naryland Ne'cs.
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Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-12-27

The CRErAN WAR.--The rising of the Chris
tians of Crete against their Turkish oppres
sors bids fair to be formidable insurrec.
ton. Up to the latest date, the Turks seem
to have been successful in crushing out the
insurgents, but by the very latest advices,
the aid and comfort extended to them by
Greece have enabled them to fight another
great battle against their common enemy
with success. The Turkish troops are now
conducting the war with great ferocity, and
unless the great powers interfere, the war
bids fair to result in the determination OF
one party or the other The sympathies Of
Greece are almost ready to involve that
country as an ally of the Cretans. The war.
ming advice of France and England alone
deters her from open hostilities, and at the
best, may possibly yet overstep the bounds
of neutrality, and become the active enemy
of Turkey. -' -,...-..
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-12-27

B1- THE Brutal Treatment of the freed
men, practiced by their former masters, has
at length attracted the deserved attention
of Congress A bill has been introduced in
the Senate. to put a stop to the outrages in
the shape of corporeal punishment now
practiced in the South We have long been
aware that the whipping post, the lash and
the raw hide were as much in requisition
in the once slave States as when slavery it
self ruled supreme. Men and women are
horribly beaten for the most trivial often
ses. In the remote agricultural districts of
the revolted States, where neither civil law
is respected or military occupations recog-
nized, the most fiendish brutalities are III.
fiicted on the freedmen. They are whipped
until the flesh literally falls from their
backs. They are tortured with refinement
of cruelty which far e1cels the revotin G
brutalities of the inquisition Every traitors
hand is against the freedman. He is assail.
ed by men who show their hate of the gov
ernment by striking at him /; and therefore
it is the duty of the authorities to protect
its friends against its enemies. .
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-12-27

pS- MrDp, SPANGLER, and the other assas-
sination conspirators now at the Dry Tor tu-
gas, have friends at court. The people of
Baltimore, that is, those who stoned Union
troops as they passed through that city to
defend the national capital, have sent two
lawyers to the President to plead the cause
Of Lincoln's murderers, and insist on their
unconditional release Had two damsels
been employed to secure this release, there
might have been some fear entertained that
the murders would be set free and even
as the case is represented if it can be prov
en- that the prisoners hate Congress and glo-
rify Johnson, their pardon is sure.