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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-17
THE "SITUATION."

1t will be remembered by our readers,
that the Post Office appropriation Bill passed
in the Senate few days since, contained
a clause prohibiting any officer in the Post
Office Department from relieving pay for his
services, if his appointment was made dur
ing the session of Congress and not con-
frmed by the Senate. This basty action
has now been reviewed, and the attempt to
fetter the Executive prerogative been a.
bandoned. The Senate last week recalled
the Bill, and had the obnoxious clause
stricken out This may bode evil, or it
may mean we'll evil inasmuch as it may
only have been withdrawn in order to pass
joint resolution applying to all Executive
appointments in whatever department. Our
faith in Republican integrity is so weak,
and so often has the South swallowed poison
under the garb of hopeyed sweets, that dis.
trust of every thing Republican is the
natural result.
The Reconstruction Committee has re-
ported the House made speeches for three
days upon the report, THAD STEVENS prac'
ticed little wicked juggling (something
he may have done at other times) upon its
members, and it passes, disfranchising
clause and all. In those three days some
savage speeches were made; buucombe was
manufactured, the treacherous South stig-
matized, and the glorious Union and ON.
nipoteut Republican party, extolled Votes
for future emergencies were probably made
too, in those three days of speech making !;
and it may be that a JUDAS 1sCARIoT
received there the twenty pieces of silver
as the price of his venality Certain it is
that one prominent member of the House,
HENRY j. RAYMOND, of the New York
Times, wrote, spoke, lobbeyed and harangued
against the bill, but when his name was
called upon its final passage, he responded
gave" Did he receive "the price Of
blood ?"
1t is announced that President JOHNSON
has already written his veto message of the
Bill for the admission of Colorado as
State. He takes the ground that the pop
ulation of the new aspiraut is not sufficient
to entitle it to become State that the
bill was not passed by legal majority O.
Congress-only nineteen Senators voting
in the Affirmative; and that he don't approve
of bringing in those under age, half grown
neighborhoods, to help keep out old States
that ought to be in the Union instead w
think ANDY is right.
The failure of the "Merchants Nationa
Bank" in Washington has created mucl
alarm in financial circles. The Govern
ment lost 100000 by it; the depositor
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-17
LETTER OF GOV. ORR.

In another column will be found letter
from Governor OhRin regard to the neces-
sity Of post Offices being supplied with
appointees who can take the oath. The
importance of this matter appeals to every
community in the State to hasten in select
ing such persons for postmaster', as can meet
the requirements of the law. That we
will soon be deprived of all mail facilities
unless this is done, is certain.
Single ladies' who can take the oath ap-
pended to the Governors letter, will be
commissioned upon properly endorsed ap'
plications directed to B. B. VAssEL, Special
Agent P. o Department, or to Gov. ORR.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-17
For The Yorkyille Enquirer.
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

The undersigned was directed at the
last meeting of the Synod of South Carroll
na to bring to the notice Of the churches
in the Presbytery of Bethel, the state of
the Theological Seminary (Presbyterian)
Columbia, sc.
That Institution has only few thousand
dollars of available Investments left out of
an endowment of $270,000.
While a portion of this may become
available in 1.-THE course Of time, at present
the Seminary is dependent upon the contri.
buttons Of the Presbyterian people in this
State mainly, for its sustentatlon'
To keep it going, the professors, some of
the ablest men In our church, and men who
are euinently qualified for the position,
from which the church cannot spare them,
must be supported. Students, too, who de-
sire to enter the ministry and have not
sufficient means need aid
If all our members in the bounds of the
Bethel Presbytery would do little, much
would be accomplished. Contributions in
clothing or provisions, or money, will be &C.
ceptable aud useful, and properly dispensed.
Persons can send contributions to Rev.
James Woodrow Columbia, s. c.; to Rev.
j. E. White, Chesterville; or to me at
Yorkville. The President Of the K. NJ.
n. R. has freely consented to transport
provisions &c., free of cost; andI doubt
not the Charlotte R. r. will do the same
thing.
Contributions of money or provisions
left with me will be promptly conveyed to
their destination and acknowledged in the
Southern Presbyterian.
Let no one decline to give because Dat
little can be given the aggregate may De
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-17
MIR. DAVIS.

1t is stated with q semi.oficial degree
of authority that Ex.President DAVIS is
soon to be put upon his trial in Richmond,
Va. Judge UNDERWOOD has prepared the
indictment, and left a few days ago for
Washington, with the papers in his pocket,
Furthermore, the telegraph brings informa-
ton from Norfolk that the grand jury of .he
United States Circuit Court there, brought
in true bill against Mr.. DAVIS on the 10th
inst, and the Court then adjourned to meet
in Richmond on the first Tuesday in June.
The Norfolk Fryinian gives rather a
strange statement of the character of this
grand jury. 1t says that "shree of the
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THE CHESTER STANDARD.

This well-known sheet greets our ex.
change list in a new dress, printed on new
type, and presenting altogether handsome
appearance 1t is published in Chester, s.
c., by w. H. BABcocK, and GEORGE
P1rHER Esq Mr.. BABcocK was formerly
editor ofa paper in Fernandina, Florida, and
brings ability and experience to the man
agement of the Standard. Mr.. PITHER il
an experienced publisher. We wish the
Standard under it's new management
abundant success, and bespeak for it tht
good will of the reading public.
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; YORKVII,L,B QUTRBR.

Grand Jury were deserters from the Confed-
crate Army, fourth was convicted of per-
Jury, and all are slow. down men," Matters
are evidently fastening to crisis. The
frmness of President JOHNSON, has result
ted in the chances of fair trial for this
eminent ex-offcer, before jury of bis coun-
trymen. AS Chief Justice CHASE refuses
to preside over the Court while the Military
authorities are in CONTROL. the notorious UN-
DERwooD will probably be the presiding
Judge.
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Iced Soda Water.

With cream Syrups, at the York Drug
Store, is one Of the refreshments of the
season: The energetic proprietor Of this
establishment is prepared to furnish this de-
licious beverage to the thirsty, iu gushing 6
draughts Of purest favor Call and-drink
with the Doctor, all ye that are athirst:
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see the distinction without difference. In
the early history of North Carolina certain
disafected and ambitious parties eudeavored
to establish State of Frankland out Of the
western portion of the Old North State, but
the reasonable effort was at nee defeated
and it was not till West Virginia revived
the idea that anybody conceived that such a
thing would be tolerated by either State or
Federal authority Charleston Neacs.
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THE STAY Law.

We publish elsewhere, the opinion of the
highest judicial tribunal of this State, pro
nouncing the act of the Legislature known
as the stay law, unconstitutional and void
Four years ago the Legislature with hu-
name intentions-but misguided policy,
passed the act in question: The necessity
for suoh measure was then seriously ques.
toned by many able men in the councils
of the State and subsequent events early
proved the reasonableness of their doubts
The country was overaowing with money,
which until the close of the year 1868,
was no where refused in the payment of old
debts. So easily obtained we're the means
of payment at that time, that we are lost
in wonder at the reckless Indifference of
debtors upon the subject of their liabilities.
Four years of accumulated interest, bring
ing at the some time, exhaustion of means,
and depreciation of property, was sure
premonition of impending ruin.
At the close of the terrible struggle in
1866, the Legislature re.enacted the old
Statute, with provision that the creditor
might demand one.tenth of the aggregate
amount of his debts nearly twelve months af-
terwards. This was also unfortunate for the
country. It encouraged extravaganza, by
deferring the day of final settlement. The
means to pay-derived from the cotton in
the country-were soon expended in pur-
chases that might have been dispensed
with. The money that might have been
employed by rapid circulation, in the
payment of millions of dollars of indebted
ness, has gone into the Golfers of Northern
capitalists; and the country is now in q
more PROSTATE and insolvent condition than
at the close of the war.
The ruin will inevitably be widespread.
The uueasness of creditors; and the coun-
ter pressure upon all sides, will cause the
sacrifice of property to an unlimited extent.
The crash has come, and suffering and ruin
to many must be the result.
Those who can, had better set about at
once, to meet the issue. Timely efforts
now, and wise discretion on the part of
creditor and debtor, will spare many that
might otherwise sink in the inevitable crisis.
Let the people set their houses in order, for
the catastrophe cannot be averted
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SUCCESSFUL SECESSION seems that
Radical logic has decided that successful
secession is right. Western Virginia is a
proof in point. That seeding portion of
the Old Dominion is not only recognized,
out is allowed to have Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress. Now it is certain
that if State has no right to withdraw
from the Union, county has less right to
withdraw from State.
1t was treason for the Southern States to
secede and form a Confederacy, but it is all
right for certain counties to secede and form
a State As there is a West Virginia, Ten.
nessee is to have an East Tennessee. So you
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NEw ADVERTISEMENTS.

Carroll, Clark & Co-New Stock.
William X. Ryan--COtron Factor &c.,
]. w. Avery s Co-Latcs arrival Of Spring and Summe
Goods.
The New York herald., 1866-06-16

VONKERs HEIGHTS BUILDING sITEs-OvERLOOK.
i ing Psissde villas andiug picturesque
view Of the Hudson and extending 70
Che Nsrrows and Sandy Hook-for sale. Apply to VAN
4 ROCKWELL, Getty House, YonkeTS.
The New York herald., 1866-06-16

HOMESTEAD FARM AT METUCHIN FOR SALE-OF
q acres house contains rooms; barn. wagon house,
Ia mile from depo price 5000: Aso House Lot in
Railway for . 100 one do $500 Apply to A. G. KELLY
Broadway Leave New York for Metuchin u o'clock
Carriages at depot
The New York herald., 1866-06-16

EoR sALE-PEAT LANDS OF THE VERY BEST
krps9 s9uaany Apply at the Office Of JNo. A. VAN BUS
hlHh, 10 Fourth
The New York herald., 1866-06-16

I'm FARMS AND COUNTRY SEATS FOR SALE
lVO DesrAby situ6sed. BloOrnfcd. Rah way Orange
and New Brunswick at prices from IS OOj % SS0,oO.
T. r. IRELAND, 30l Broadway
The New York herald., 1866-06-16
COUNTRY BOARD.

fS0UETRY BOARD WANTED-FOR GENTLEMAN AND
wife, PLEASANTLY located Hudson preferred
hours ride fro city; state price Ae Address boz
York Odlc0
The New York herald., 1866-06-16

Oh ono ACRES GRAZING AND MINERAL
AU.UOO lands In Virginia for sale at u ~ per acre
A. r. MERRILL, JR
The New York herald., 1866-06-16

NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA GOLD LANDS FOR
saeirss % Yielding from $o o $500 per son veins
taken in stock lands For full particulars, &c. apply
room No. 2, first floor.
The New York herald., 1866-06-16

NOR sALE-A BEAUTIFUL FARM OF 100 ACRES
Wen improved thirty. eight miles Long Island with
large new buildings excellent fruit orchard good water and
convenient 10 depot Price IS 900.
e. A. BUNCE, No Chambers strest
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-27
JUST REBUKE TO UNDERWOOD

Gen. Grant like a true soldier, in reply to
Gen. Lee on the subject of pardon, says in
his endorsement to the Secretary of War:
4 viii state, further, that the terms granted
by me met with the hearty approval of the
President &C the time, and of the country gen.
orally Tie action % Judge Jnder,cood IN
N0TtoltbG already hal aginjuiops effect, and
l would ask that he be ordered to quosh all in
dictmcuts found against paroled prisoners of
war, and to desist from further prosecution of
them
This same Underwood is the partisan Judge
who declared before the Reconstruction Commit
tee - of Congress that he could pack a jury in
Virginia to convict jefferson Dayisw This,
too, is the Judge before whom Davis is to be
tried in October, VIII the Government allow
this mockery of justice to disgrace the annals
Of the nation? No doubt this second Jellries
could find twelve congenial spirits among the
Virginia Yankees to disregard all law and de-
ccucy.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-27
RADICAL PROGRAMME.

The Southern Radical Committee have been
ona visit to Boston, and in speeches on the oc-
cas;on Of thoirrccoption a revolutionary scheme
for Dygs'uaiiag dis,mioR was disclosed
A correspondent Of the National IntclHgon-
Ger. writing from Boston on the 18TH gives the
project, as follows:
at appears from the authorized declaration
cfCol. Stokes. Of Tennessee, that the ten eX-
clr,led Southern States are to be recognized
whom they shall have reconstructed their state
Governments upon the model of Tennessee, and
5.oi ,gtI then: and that Tennessee will, by the
25th of December. adopt impartial and equal
Suffrage. Thus. it viii be made condition
prpcedert 10 the admission of loyal representa-
lives from any of the ten excluded States, that
it Shall. I'm addition to the ratification Of the
nr1Dosed constitutional amendment cniTanchlSe
an the freedmen.
Itis the intention. then, TO pass at the next
session. an enabling act, by two-thlrds vote,
providing for the representation Of seeded
States when they shall have extended the right
of suffrage to an their blacks. This viii be
law for the perpetual exclusion Of the ten
States from the Union. or from participation IN
the Federal councils. This impartial suffrage
is to be applied only to the excluded States ut
present. The delegates from the Border States,
formerly slayeholding, are to be eXemptcdtrom
it. I'm the hope that they viii aid to impose II
upon the ten southern States. The Border
States rejected it at the late Radical Con-
veution in Philadelphia, while the conference
delegates from the Northern States approved
it, but were afraid now to adopt it.
Theimportance of check-mating this diaboh-
cal scheme Of the Northern Disunionists, and
their viIlanous allies from the South, must be
impressed upon every conservative man in the
country who wishes to escape another bloody
war. Note the ultimate purpose Of the mis-
creants now in the ascendant in Congress:
after Tennessee shall have enfranchised her
frccdmcu-put the ballot, as Colonel Stokes
SAYS. into the hands of every loyal man-Ten-
nessee is to be the model to which the other
States. lately rebellious, must conform. If they
hesitate and delay to do this. then Mr. Ihad-
deus Stevens scheme for COnhscatiOn will be a.
dopted, and the freedmen Will be put in pos
session of the lands.
Nothing viii prevent Congress from car
rying out their projects at the next session but
such a sweeping defeat at the fall elections, in
the great central States and in the Northwest,
as will demOralze the Radical party
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-27
The spirit of Jefferson.

A few weeks ago the Editor of the Spirit attend
cd a Lecture given in the "Christian Association
Rooms" in this town, in part for the benefit of the
Association by Rev. w. A. BARNES, and with his
usual conceit attempted criticism in which he
most lamentably exposed his own Ignorance.
! Mr.. Barnes, feeling himself aggrieved, replied
through our columns, in an advertisement, in which
he handled said conceited scribbler without gloves
Our publication of the Card of Mr.. Ii. is made
the occasion for the SPIRIT editor to relieve himself
of all editorial courtesy to make low fling at the
Free Press.
We did not attend the Exhibition and Lecture of
Mr.. Barnes, nor do we know anything of the ltera-
ry merit of the lecture. If his panoramic views
were as truthful representations as his photograph
c sketch of the Spirit editor them those who have
witnessed his views need not journey to Joppa to
see the house of Simon the Tanner.
Ifin bandyiug epithets the Spirit-Tnan was worst
ed by the lecturer, we are not responsible.
We do not accept the editor of the Spirit as an
exompar for us in any particular, and we intend to
pursue our own course in the conduct of our own
paper
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-27
LOCAL SUMMARY
SUPERVISORS COURT.

We make the following extracts from the pro-
ceedinrs of the Board of Supervisors OF JEFFERSON
which met in Shepherdstown on the 18th instant
Present. Messrs. Logic, Butler, McCurdy, Fossett'
and Johnson The appointment of John ID. StaleY
70 ll the vacancy caused by the resignation of John
cnangler. of Shepherd Township, was presented,
and on motion of President Logic the same was cen
frmed. and Mr.. Staley was sworn in as member of
the Board.
Ordered. that three thousand dollars be appro-
priated to the purpose of building county jail
Ordered. that the Clerk write to John L. Wilson,
Master of road of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
and notify him to have the crossings within this
county on said road, repaired.
Licences were granted to Joseph Myers TO sell
spirituous liquors at Myerstown, and to James Nc
Graw. at Harpers-Ferry; G. W. Spots to sell ale,
native wine and beer at Charlestown.
ordered, that r. p Chew, James Roper, H. F.
Schulz, H. Roderick, c.. L. Roderick and Jerre
Harris, be summoned to appear before this Board
at its next meeting, on the Sd Monday of October
Ordered, that the bill of Joseph Starry, amount
ing to Sl3s Al for keeping court house and Jail in
Charlestown, from June, 1851, to February, 1862,
be reiected-the Board being of the opinion that
they have no authority to pay any claims made af-
ter June, 1861. From the above decision of the
Board, Mr. Starry took an appeal to the Circuit
Court.
On the application of Joseph Starry to open and
establish a road, it is ordered, that Daniel Coal
man, John Seldom, Barney OFT, Daniel IIefiebower,
George Rissler and Thomas E. Woodward, or any
three of them, being first sworn, view route for
the said road, which is from said Joseph Starry's
farm to the main road leading to the court house of
this county, and report to this Board
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1866-09-27
NEW YORK SAILORS AND SOL
DIERS.

A Mass Convention Of Radical Soldiers and
Sailors was held at Auburn last week, in which
there was much buster and bravado by men
who, with but few exceptions, were scarcely
heard of during the war Gen. Barlow was
the only fighting General of any note; Gen
John Cochrane being remembered for an act of
INSTRUMENTATION which should have sent him
into diSsraceful retirement. President Lincoln
dispensed with his services as soon as possible.
One Of the babblers, Adiutaut Lansing, Limited
at assassination, and referred to the case of
Crar, who had his Brutus, aud Charles the
First, whohadhis Cromwell Healsodenounccd
Secretary Seward and talked gJbly about being
ready for war. 1t would be safe to wager that
this bully on the stump never actually smelt
the enemy's powder.
The resolutions breathe rampant spirit, and
itisgratfyiugtofnd. byoue Of thejrresolutious.
that they are about to venture the issue Of ne
gro suffrage.
Resolved, That we earnestly look forward to
and hope for the time when the adoption Of the
pending constitutional amendment Shall result
I'm giving % the negro the equal rights To which
lc is justly entitled and there shall De no dis
tiucti0n of civil or political rights ON account
of race or color, and that we believe that the
question which gave rise to the late war viii
never bc thoroughly settled until the grand
principle Of the Declaration Of Independence.
that an men created equal, shall become a
vital and practice! principle of orr government.
And. to give further evidence Of their love for
the negro, they adopt the following resolution
Of their State Convention:
That we recognize with patriotic pride and
common Ial.aD the faithful services of tlatgass
of our comrades who, though mot blessed with
% SKIN like orr own. atteStcj their devotion %
our common country by volunteering Co the
numbered two hundred thousand able men. and
who established their claims 90 patriotism and
bravery hy leaving more shan thirty thousand
heroes In bloody grave,
This 90 gross C,siGeatio. Of history. The
negroes did volunteer to tleuumbcrof POO
GOO. Many of them were drafted. and many
picked up I'm the streets and cousertptcd. 1t
Is q TACT somewhat remarkable. If the negroes
appreciated freedom. that but small proper
ton awaited themselves of the emancipation
proclamation. the great boiy Of them having
continued to cultivate the main southern staple
and helped 20 build chccrnl'y the Rebel forti-
dlat5us