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WASHINGTON NEWS.

A bill to regulate Judicial proceedings has pass
ed both Houses it provides for the removal of GER
tain cases from State to Federal courts.
The House, by vote of SO to q, passed bill
approprating SO, 500 to pay for house burned for
military purposes in Fairfax county, Va. Also, a
bill donating public lands to the States for the
erection of Agricultural Colleges No one who has
ever expressed any sympathy with the late Con-
ederate States, is eligible to proessorshps in these
institutions. BoUTwELL's bill, which assumes to
make rule for the Supreme Court excluding ex-
rebels from practice therein, was passed by vote
of 100 to AZ. A bill, providing for successor to
the Presidential Office, was referred to the Judica
ry Committee.
A committee was appointed to investigate the
murder of Union soldiers in South Carolina, the
burning to death of ''ctizens' in the Kingstree
Jail in the same State, and the whipping of other
citizens in North Carolina.
The Judiciary Committee reported in favor of
declaring valid certain acts and proclamations of
the President, done and issued during the war; Its
object is to shield all officers of the Yankee army
from the legal consequences Of their rascalities du
ring the war, and to protect BUTLER and others in
the possession of 'rebel' spoons The bill was re-
committed, with permission to the Committee to
report at any time. The only other proceeding
in the House, worthy of mention, was little ex-
change of compliments between Mr.. COOPER of
Tennessee, and Mr.. KELLY, of Pennsylvania, in
which the latter received the fattering epithet of
'lar"
The Senate has received number of petitions;
none of any special interest, however, except one
from the A. A. G. of Arkansas, asking that, as
that State furnished ten thousand Union soldiers,
a record of their services may be printed. This
statement, we hope is a SANDER upon a gallant
State, whose sons bore the starry cross with honor
upon many bloody fields.
The Senate passed bill to prevent smuggling
also bill to establish Home for soldiers and
sailors-Union, of course.
Mr.. BRooMALL introduced joint resolution,
declaring the rebel States disqualified from voting
on constitutional amendments until formally res
tored and making ratification of such amend
ments by three fourths of the represented States
sufficient for their adoption. Referred to the Re-
construction Committee.
Ex-Governor CUMMINGS and Mr.. HoLBRooK,
both of Idaho Territory, had small fsticuff, but
nobody was hurt.
The Mayor of Georgetown has issued procla-
nation to the voters of that city, requiring them,
regardless of color, to register previous to voting
The Supreme Court will adjourn over from the
first Monday in March to the first Monday in April.
The President has submitted mass Of papers
to the House, relative to the case of COL GREN-
FELL, now confined on the Dry Tortugas islands.
The documents show that the President approved
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the sentence of death found by the Court, but
from tenderness of heart and joy at the suppression
Of the rebellion, commuted it to Imprisonment fol
life. -..,...
The impeachment project is assuming more i'm
portance than was at first attached to it. A con
sultation has beenheld by prominent Radical mem
bers of this and the next Congress- at which it was
resolved that the impeachment should be prosecu
ted, but not hastily, nor till the next Session: lr
the meantime, the Judiciary is to carefully collect
all the evidence on which an impeachment can pos
sibly efounded If there is any reasonable ground
to expect success, the President will probably be
impeached,
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THE WEST VIRGINIA TORIES. The following
resolution was, last Saturday, offered in the Wheel
ing House of Delegates by Mr.. Mann, of Green
brier:
"Reso1red by the Legislature of West Virginia.
That our Senators in Congress are hereby instruc-
ted and our Representatives requested to take such
measures, by law, as will prevent the manufacture,
sale, circulation and exhibition of the pictures of
other military and civil officers of the pretended
Government of which Jefferson Davis was chief,
and that Andrew johnson, the my policy dictator,
be, and is hereby requested not to have any more
of his pictures taken, and that he be further reques
ted to take measures to secure and destroy all such
pictures as above referred to-"
Mr.. Boreman moved to lay the resolution on the
table, but Mr.. Mann withdrew it.
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who accompanied the priest opened the mouth Of
the refractory peasant with his bayonet.

who accompanied the priest opened the mouth o1
the refractory peasant with his bayonet.
THE laws in Georgia denying foreigners the
privilege of holding real estate have been repealed
BY the Legislature There is a law in Mississippi
prohibiting foreigners from conveying real estate
until after they have been naturaGzed,. and also
providing that, unless SO naturaized, their lands
and tenements shall not descend to their heirs but
shall be sold, and the money paid into the State
treasury.
Two negroes were recently put on trial, m
Augusta, for the murder Of young Carmiohaei-
q. W. billiard and Judge Linton Stephens He
was acquitted, and few hours afterwards boasted
that he was present, aiding at the murder. but
knew he could not be tried again for the offence
His confederate was then put on trial, and the Ju-
~, after having been locked up for more than three
days, failed to agree, and were discharged
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REV, ]. q. MARTIN.

1t is with sincere regret that We announce the de-
parture from our District of this gentleman. MIR.
MARTIN has, for two years and haf, been supply.
ing the pulpit of Bethesda Church. He came
here as stranger, but his faithfulness as minis
ter his earnestness as christian and his urbanity
as gentleman, have endeared him to the people
of bis late charge, whose warmest good-wishes will
follow him to his new home in Virginia We hope
that he will find it happy and permanent home,
with an ample field Of usefulness, and many friends
to cheer him in the path of duty. But wherever or
whatever may be his lot hereafter, he will nowhere
be more highly reverencedo more afectionately re-
membered, than by the people of Bethesda
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The stranger IN Washington down Louisiana
avenue, with his face to the west, sees before him
when he gets to the front of the City Hall, on the
south side of the Potomac, and on commanding
eminence an edfce which, at the distance Of thret
miles from the point Of vision, resembles Greek
temple. This is Arlington House. the residence
before the war of Gen. Robert E. Lee. The Ar
and most valuable in Virginia. At an early period
of the war the mansion was stripped Of everything
valuable that could be carried away BY soldiers
from Pennsylvania and New England. Pictures,
mirrors, statuary, rare and costly books old china
and silver-plate, were all gobbled up, and sent of
to the ''loyal North. These articles are now to
be seen in dozens of houses in the States | have
named.
A faithful negro servant, who had remained on
the place, saw this stealing going on day after day.
and at last came to the city, got of the servants
of the White House to secure him an interview
with Abraham Lincoln, laid the facts before him,
and begged him not to permit "Massa Roberts
property to be thus despoiled. Mr.. Lincoln's re-
interfere with the military that the soldiers were
all over the South and that as for Bob Lee, he
was traitor, and had no rights which the soldiers
were bound to respect The result was that the
house and grounds were soon made to look like the
abomination of desolation.
Finally the Government went to work and buried
the bodies of IT, 900 white soldiers on one side of
the house, and the bodies of 900 negro soldiers on
the other. It's said that the negroes who live in
that vicinity frighten their children by telling them
the most fghful ghost stories about these bodies.
They say that every night at midnight the ghosts
of these 1000 negro soldiers rise from their graves
and dance Virginia break down on the graves Of
their l6, 600 white comrades And that the ghosts
of the latter, thus unceremoniousy disturbed, arise
Likewise, and attack the black ghosts. That the
fight then RACES between the black and white ghosts
till one a. IN, when the black ghosts prevail lone
black ghost being more than match for ten white
ones, and drive the white ghosts bowling to their
sepulchres when they finish their break down and
then vanish in their own graves.
A colony of several hundred blacks was estab-
lished by the Government on another part of the
estate, and they were provided with comfortable
huts, furniture, utensils, implements, etc., and
were then told to 60 to work Not one obeyed out
Of ten. The other nine stole and sold everything
they could carry of, and spent their time in idle
ness. Now that tho winter is here, they are suf-
fering from hunger and cold, and the people in
have been appealed to, to save them
from perishing. How much better to have left
them their kind master Washington Corespon-
1ence of the st. Louis Times.
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CHE Murkrille Guqairer.
YORKVILLE, s. c.:
THURSDAY MORNING, JAN'Y 3D.

Cash.-It must be distinctly understood that
our terms for subscription, advertising and job
work, are cash, in advance.
X.-The paper will be discontinued on the expi-
ration Of the time for which payment has been
made. A Subscriber finding (X) cross-mark on
the wrapper or margin of his paper, will under
stand that the time paid for has expired.
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LOCAL ITEMS.
EEWADvERTIsR,dEHTa5

8. Sadler, Secretary and Treasurer-Report Of the
Commissioners of Public Buildings.
l. NJ. GristrPrinting Material for Sale, 49,
James E. Wilson-Notice to those indebted to
q: John L. Wilson for teaching.
J. w: Avery-Administrato Notice.
Notice to the People Of Rock Hill.
F. C. Harris, o. Y. D.-Citation-J. r. Logan,
Applicant-D. J. Logan, Deceased.
A. F. Observation-Disclosures Notice.
F. c. Harris, O. Y. D.-Citation-Jane w. Arm
strong Applicant Francis Armstrong, De
ceased.
Enquirer Office-Printing Paper for Sale.
w. B. Wilson, Intendant-Town Election.
T. M. Dobson & Co-Hemlock Leather.
Blue Buckets.
" Sleeves.
Nomination for Town Council.
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MARRIAaHS LND DEATHH.

We have recently received several notices Of mar
riages and deaths which we have not published,
for the reason that the announcements were not ac
companied by the name of responsible person
known to US We solicit notices of marriages or
deaths when they occur, and will publish them gra-
tuitously but in every case they must be accompa-
MED by the name of some person with whom we
are acquainted The name of the person sending
the notice is not desired for publication, but as an
evidence of good faith and to shield us from i'm
position,
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HURRAH FOR YORK!

We learn from reliable source, that on Sstur-
day last, lady living near Rock Hill, in this Dis
trict, gave birth to daughter: forty-four hours
afterwards, she gave birth to another daughter and
son. The weights of the infants were, respect
lively, ST, 7, and st pounds and thag are all, with
their mother "doing as well as could beexpected. "
The husband of this lady is over seventy years Old
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SoMETH1NaFRoMD MDREAMLAND.-The Columbus

SOMETHING FROM DREAMLAND-The Columbus
Sun tells the following:
A story is told Of planter who, on Tuesday, de-
posted several bales of cotton in the Planters
ed the building was on fire, and the vision made
such vivid impression that he returned to the city
and sold his cotton. The draft had hardly been
put into his hands before the alarm of fire was civ,
en- and the warehouse was found to be in flames,
The moral of this however is not to believe every
thing you dream, or that's a warehouse will burn up
every time such thing occurs to mans fancy.
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NEGRO POLICEMEN 1.-THE great problem of the
equality of human rights" as styled by Mr.. Sum-
ner being practically tested in Washington city,
under the impetus given by the passage Of the ne
gro suffrage bill. The metropolitan police commits
sioners have just received an application for posi-
ton on the force by colored man, who is backed
by the recommendations of dozen or more whites.
It is stated on good authority that this will be at
once followed up by demand on the part Of the
black citizens Of the District for proportionate
share of the clerkships in the departments and fur
ther that perfect equality as to seats will be insisted
upon in the churches and theatres.
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RELIGIOUS NOTICE.

Rev. DR.. CURTIS Will commence a series Of
religious services in the Baptist House of Worship
at this place, on Friday evening next, which will
be continued until Sabbath evening.
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MERE.MENTION.

Judge Meredith, of Richmond, decides the
Virginia Stay. Law to be unconstitutional, and
Judge Baker, of Norfolk, decides it to be consti-
tutiona '''''''.A destructive fire occurred at Co
lumbuy, Georgia, on the 10th, and three thousand
100000 Origin of the fire unknown. ''The
Stratford House, in Westmoreland county, Va,
with $500 acres of land, the colonial homestead
of the Lee family and the birthplace of General
Robt. E. Lee, has been recently purchased by the
Southern Orphan Association. '''''''''Within pc
riod of less than forty years, upwards of fifty lone
thousand miles of steam rail roads have been con-
structed in the United States at an aggregate cost
of ST. 5O2, ,564 ,OOO ''''A gentleman, just return
ed from Mexico, says that ''things are nearly as
bad there as in the United States. Troy has
a praying Band Its members 60 wherever
they are invited to pray ''''''''The London Tele-
graph publishes statement of its daily circulation,
which foots up l3S7O4, the largest circulation Of
any daily paper in the world '.'.."'Ice, four inches
thick, has just been gathered in Georgia. The
oldest inhabitant'' hardly remembered anything
like it. '''''"Lord Chesterfield once remarked that
even Adam, the first man, knew the value of po-
Gteness and allowed Eve to have the first bite at
the apple. 1.-THE West Virginia Legislature
met on the 18th. The same day, both Houses
ratified the constitutional amendment. Chas.
|O'Conor, Esq, of New York, has been invited to
deliver an address at the next commencement of
General Lees College.
Charlotte, NJ c., has been provided with steam
fire engine 1.-THE emigration of freedman from
Georgia to the Mississippi Valley is 50 great that
the Macon Journal forecasts the day when Geor-
gia will have an almost exclusively white popula-
ton. 1.-THE Legislature of Maryland has re-
peaed the law which authorized the sale Of negroes
into service for term of years as punishment
for crime. '.'.'."Ole Bulls death was published in
all the papers more than year ago. He is now
on his way to this country, with his fiddle under
his arm 1.-THE amount of Government and
other American securities held in Europe is $780,
OOO,O 900. 1.-THE Supreme Court of Tennessee
has decided that promissory note, given for Con-
federate money, without consideration. ....'A
Wisconsin editor, in acknowledging the receipt Of
an exchange paper printed on new type, says it
''looks as clean as q schoolmarm in a washing
tub. "'.''"..A lottery is advertised in Maryland
for drawing comfortable berths in the burying
ground. "''''''A woman in Meade County, Ken
lucky, has given birth to five children in twelve
months. '.'''"The Legislature Of Colorado has
passed, over the Governors veto, an Act, prohibi-
ting negroes and mulattoes from serving on juries
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rCONTRIBUTORIAL." "
'uIUHBA, SOUTH uARoL1HA 18th JANUARY, 1867

BY JAS. WOOD Davidson.
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-05-09

struggle at any rate it would some evi,
dence.
There was a boat coming out to, us
with the custom.house people aboard.
So Fanny, fresh and brilliant as if she
had not passed through such a night,
called out to me. In another moment
she gave cry Look ! look she
said. A deeper voice near said de-
voutly, God ! God be praised l did
look, and | declare if there was not
our brave fellow Dan standing up in the
boat, waving new glazed French hat.
lie had leaped on board in moment.
{ Where's Clarke p he cried.
caught hold of him. Restrain
YOURSELF l said. Justice will
He caught Clarke by both hands,
which he shook again and again. You
did. your best for me, indeed YOU did
and if that stupid handkerchief had onig
held, you'd have got me aboard again.
You very nigh did it. All sir lie
was nigh killed himself. And do YOU
know, Clarke, was thinkiu' all the
times when the wathcr was pouring in
gallons into my mouth, that [ had not
done 50 well by you as to desarvo it, 4
We listened, wondering. lie then
told us nov he had struggled with the
waves, and had the lie all but bate
out Of him. When he was driven up
against the steamer we had near Us,
he had just strength to give a cry, and
they had got him on board with inf
mite difficulty.
| must say Fanny and l were little
ashamed. However, we had not com.
mittcd ourselves in any way, except
50 far as my proceedings with the re-
volver, which must have seemed a little
curious. But we made up to him in
many ways, and Dan made it up to him
in his own way for he never went
back to Falmouth again, and in very
short time Dams residence there and
its effects were quite forgotten, and
matters came back to the old happy
footing. In short, all ended we'll aad
happily, and for many years he and Dan
sailed with us in that well-known tight,
an excellent sea boat, The Lively Jen,
nv
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-05-09
NEWS ITEMS

Two hundred and forty enc pats
ents will be issued for the week ending
May II.
General Ord has detailed army
officers to take the place of State Off
GERS removed by him in Arkansas.
Two Fenians-Burke and Doran-
have beensentenced at Dublin to be
hanged on the 20 inst.
The Treasury Department is still
in receipt OF conscience money, $500
having been received from Cincinnati
on Saturday,
Gov. Patton, of Alabama, was so
i'll on Thursday last as to be unable to
attend to business or even to leave his
private room.
AT Wilmington, Delaware, Pusey
Smith, proprietor of the Indian Queen
Hotel, was stabbed to death by j Joseph
Pratt, in bed room at the latters
house
Six thousand dogs have been killed
in Chicago since the dog war commono-
ed, and the daily slaughter now going
on will ada largely to the number alrea-
dy slain.
1t was decided in the Supreme
Court Of the United States that the City
of Philadelphia, being a manufacturer
OF gas, must pay tax on that article, the
same as private parties.
The Supreme Court has decided in
the Massachusetts liquor cases that pay
ment Of Internal revenue taxes is no pro
lection to dealers in articles, the sale of
which is prohibited by State law.
The following words are attributed
to Marshal Mel, the French Minister of
War; Let me know the day the En-.
peror Napoleon wishes to have five
hundred thousand men on the Eastern
frontier, and they shall be there"
M. du Chaillu, the great OK
plorer Of Africa, though born in Paris
in 1882, came to the United States
when quite boy, and as soon as he
was Of age, took out his letters Of nat
uralizalion. His love of natural history
and taste for chronological studies de.
eloped themselves early, and he be-
came a regular attendant at the meet
ings of our New York geographical and
chronological societies.
Ex-Governor John Seldom Roane,
of Arkansas, died on the Sth inst, after
a long illness, at his home near Pine
Bluff, Jefferson county, in that State.
He was elected Governor of Arkansas
on the Democratic ticket on 1913. He
served in the Mexican war, attaining
the rank of Colonel. During the rebel.
lion he was an officer IN the Confeder-
ate army, and was promoted to the
rank Of Brigadier General.
AS an Illustration Of the Perfect
condition to which the working of the
Atlantic cable bas been brought, Il
London paper mentions that recently in
the business Of three entire days, during
which messages were transmitted con.
tanning 2i,4l0 letters Cor 48, $50 let
lers when doubled for rcpetition,) the
repetitions showed a mistake Of only
one letter, consisting in the substitu.
tiou OF Pattiascu for Patterson.
A st Loujs dispatch of yesterday
says: The latest accounts from Platte
river say tha. Jho h-.het had reached
.
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Selected &Aistellann
THELIVELY JENNY.

When, after long and proper proba.
tion, was fairly set up and married to
Fanny fine, bold girl that liked me,
I believe, as much as | liked her, we
sensibly agreed that, instead of setting
up neutrality-suspicious. and such
incOrveniences, we should suit our
selves with house that was infinitely
more to our taste. Fanny had been
born and bred on the northwest coast Of
Ireland, beside the breakers Of the At
lantic. She was a handsome, clever
creature, with classical and reflective
faoe,-a born sailor, whom it vas pleas.
ant, when our dainty guests were grow
ing green and uncomfortable, to see sit.
ting on the deck, with rising color, vel
coming the stiff breezes.
l had done q good deal in coast sailing,
and lgaS to have been put into the navy
(but wasn't, which is long story so,
instead of going through the anxieties Of
selecting new and plastery house, with
furniture that was to prove prematurely
infrn and crippled, we read the one
thought in each others eyes-a yacht !!
1t was spring. Such thing was soon
picked up" 1t was a nautical friend
living near bennington that " looked
out" for the yacht for us,-a man of
large experience and with an eye for a
" good cut of a thing" After a time
he picked up om little craft ; the very
thing for US, and dead bargain besides,
"a tight, handy little schooner, a good
sea boat, that shook the waves from her
like a spirited horse, easily handled,
thirty tons, Ioomy below, airy, large
for that tonnage, and built Of mahogany.
She cost us only three hundred pounds,
was reckoned dead bargain, and was
called ""The Lively Jenny" 1t was a
joyful morning when we learned she
was lying in Kingstown barbOr, having
come in at midnight. The news was
brought in by the new skipper himself,
whom and Fanny went down to the
parlor to meet as if he were an ambasea-
dor, which he was, from " The Lively
Jenny"
Now, if We were to have a treasure
in our yacht, we were to have a far
more important one in our skipper He
had been picked up also, by the sheercst
good luck. Our nautical friend had
written in the most extravagant terms of
his merits He had known Clarke from
a boy Il finer sailor never stepped
deck as steady as rock, sober as
judge, as moral as an apostle. " l have
an interest in the man" he wrote, g as !
know all about him and know what lac
has gone through. l look upon this as
a much greater piece Of luck than light
ing on The Lively Jenny"
And this paragon was now in the
parlor We almost felt, Fanny and /,
that we were scarcely yirtuous company
enough for him. There he was now,
and we started. Clarke was man of
about thirty, good-loJking and sailor
like,-that, is would have beea good
looking but for very disagreeablo long,
inaamed scar that rau slauting from his
forehead over his lett eye to his ear. 1t
was raw and unpleasant altogether. lie
had a cold, steady, measured way Of
talking, and, as he spoke, looked out
cautiously at Us with the eye that was
under the scar But there could be no