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CONGRESSIONAL.

Congress has done little during the past week
except to discuss the impeachment question. 1t
proceedings upon that subject will be found in th'
article upon impeachment.
On the 4th instant, the House adopted resolu
ton requiring General Grant to report the vote OF
the Alabama Constitution.
A Bill was introduced in the House, on the 5th
providing for a successor to the Chief Justice, i
the seat shall be vacant.
A resolution to print 5000 copies of the impeach
ment articles for distribution, was adopted.
In the Senate, resolutions from the South Caro-
lima Convention expressing the thanks Of that body
to Congress, Stanton and Grant, were read.
A Bill was introduced to provide means for re
building the levees on the Mississippi river.
On the 9th, the House passed bill modifying
the test oath in reference to those whose politca
disabilities had been removed
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p FORTY-FIRST DAY.

TUESDAY, March 3-B. F. Randolph, from the
Committee on Miscellaneous Affairs, presented the
following, which was ordered to be printed and
made the special order for Thursday at II o'clock.
M. :..a a-..,.. IT.
Whereas, No constitutional andlegal assembly o.
the General Assembly of this State has been con-
vened since the commencement Of the rebellion a.
gainst the authority of the Government of the U.
nited States; and, whereas, the body assembled
from time to time at the capital of the State, since
the commencement Of said rebellion, assuming tc
possess and exercise the powers Of the Genera
Assembly of the State, had no authority to pledge
the faith and credit of the State for the benefit Of
any corporate body or private individual, and its
actions can be validated only by the sconfrmmatory
authority of the legal government Of this State
and whereas it is expedent that when the credit Of
the State is advanced or pledged for the benefit OF
public enterprises and works in which the people
of the State are interested, that power should be
lodged in the General Assembly to exercise salu-
tary control over such public enterprises and works
to the end that the commerce and industry of the
State should be adequately fostered and promoted.
Therefore, belt
Ordained, That all acts or pretended acts ofleg-
islation, purporting to have been passed by the
General Assembly of the State, since the Goth day
of December, A. D., 1860, pledging the faith and
body or private individual, are hereby suspended
and declared imperative until the General Assem-
bly, shall assemble and ratify or modify the same.
The 10Th section of the Judiciary article, which
reads as follows, was adopted:
''The General Assembly shall provide by law for
preservation of the records of the Courts of Equi
ty, and also for the transfer to the Court of Com
mon Pleas and Probate Courts, for final decision, of
all causes that may remain undetermined. ;"
''It shall be the duty of the Judges of the Su-
preme and Circuit Courts to file their decisions
within sixty days of the last term of the Court in
which the causes were heard"
The 10th section was then passed to its third
reading. ~ a,. -...ls5 - s..,s
The consideration of the special order was re-
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LABOR.SAyING MACHINES.

The value of contrivances to save labor IS only
beginning to be appreciated by the Southern peo-
ple. Time has been when labor was so cheap that
it was scarcely worth saving. Then a machine
which did the work of ten men, was looked upon
with suspicion as very Objectionable invention,
because it threatened to take away their employ
ment from ten persons, who it was supposed must
starvc.. This objection has always
met every invention of the kind alluded to; yet as
time has tested their respective merits, it has been
found that the laboring classes have been benefited
and not injured, by them.
But whatever be the consequence of the intro
duction of these helps to industry where labor is
abundant, there can be no question Of their use
fulncss where it is scarce. And this is now the
case with our people, for though laborers (socaled
are still numerous, laborers of the kind wanted arc
decidedly few. 1t is true that farm hands are still
to be had, and also blacksmiths, wheelwrights ano
other mechanics but under the new order o.
things, the work to be done by these "aids' mus
be expressly specified in the contract. Any un
forcseen, but still necessary piece of work which
does not strictly come within their sphere
is "extra," and must be argued and paid tor by
new contract
In one special place, this tight shoe pinches oul
people sorely. They have, as general rule, beer
accustomed to the service of servants-persons
whose duty it is to obey any orders issued by thei
employers, and to do any kind of work upon the
premises, that may be desired But there are now
no servants in the country. The decree has been
published that all men are born free and equal and
our new fedged citizens deem it beneath them tc
do menial service, even when they are employed
and paid for this kind of work-and nothing else.
There is, it is true, nothing dishonorable in man
or woman, making an honest living by attending
to the wants of fellow-creature, even when this
is done in an humble station. Frequently it is the
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WHAT THE CONVENTIONS ARE DOING.

WHAT THE CONVENTIONS AXE pOlN1'
SOUTH CAROLINA. ....
An early adjournment of the Convention is ex-
pected though no definite date has yet been fixed
1t is understood that the work originally cut out is
about finished, and the remainder Of the time will
be principally devoted to caucusing and election
eering A despatch from Charleston, dated the
5th instant, and published in several papers, says
Everybody in the Convention is electioneering
for Office. Three-6fths Of the offices in the State
will be filled by negroes; The Secretary Of State
will be negro, and perhaps the Lieutenant Gov.
ernor. The larger portion of the Legislature will
be black, and some of the Judges" ,.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The North Carolina Convention has agreed to
adjourn to-day. A "Relief'' Ordinance has been
adopted. Its leading feature is that it requires
debtors to pay one tenth of their debts annually.
The report on Education has passed its second
reading The university and oil public schools are
thrown open alike to whites and blacks. All per-
sons are compelled to send their children 10 public
schools for sixteen months, between the ages Of
five and eighteen years Of age. This compels the
poor whites to send their children to the same
school with negroes.
VIRGINIA. ....
The Judiciary Committee reported adversely to
petition for the removal of State officers at pres
ent and the reputation Of debts contracted prior
to 1865. D..
A clause of the Constitution has been adopted
disfranchising all who gave aid and comfort to the
rebellion, after having taken an oath to support
the Constitution of the United States. An amend
ment to modify the meaning of 'aid and comfort
so as to except acts of kindness by parents to their
sons in the so-called Confederate army, or voting
for the secession ordinance, was defeated Anoth-
er clause was adopted disfanchising all officers in
the rebellion above the rank of major in the army,
or first lieutenant in the navy.
GEORGIA.
The Georgia Convention was to have adjourned
on yesterday. A provision of the Constitution has
Ill
children, irrespective Of color by taxation. The
proceedings for the past week present but little Of
general interest.
LOUISIANA.
The Louisiana Convention is on the eve of ad-
iournment. The Constitution has been completed,
but there is opposition to it from many of the mem
bers. New Orleans has been made the capital Of
the State instead of Baton Rouge.
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A NEW CABNEr.-One of the stories aAoat is
that, if President johnson is impeached and Mr..
Wade becomes President, the Cabinet will be as
follows:
Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts,, Secretary Of
State; Freeman Clarke, of New York, Secretary
of the Treasury; William u. Kelley, OF Pen1syl-
vania, Secretary of the Navy; Frederick Douglass,
nsssn NsH Y oSs Ss Sa ss a%ss
NJ. II. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, Attorney Gener.
al; Edwin NJ. Stanton, Secretary Of War, Of
course.
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of New York. In Utica the democrats elected
their mayor by 4S7, about 20 less majority than
they had in November. In Auburn the republi-
cans succeeded by All majority. In Elmira the
democrats gained 100 over last year. In Roches-
ter the democratic mayor was reelected by SSs
majority, an increase of I'll over the vote Of last
November. In Ithica the result was-republican
majority, III; gain since last spring, %. The
democrats carried Troy by l, ,450 majority, against
245 last year. A number Of other towns show
democratic gains
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.s GOSSIP ABOUT IMPEACHMENT.
The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore

"srGOSS1P ABOUT IMPEACHMENT.,
The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
Gazette writes: -. 49,, ,r.,.--.1...-fs..
The party lash is being freely used by the i'm
peachers to secure safe passage of their measure
through the "High Court of Impeachment" alias
leading spirits in this assault upon the executive
department Of the government laugh ut the sug-
pestions that senators when sworn as Judges will
not be senators still, 80 far ss their votes in sus-
tanning impeacbment NAV be- concerned. They
talk Of the impossiblity ola leopard changing his
spots, or an Ethiopian his skin, and sayit is equal
ly unreasonable to expect that Radical senator
will change his views as to the moral obligations of
an oath, simply because he votes as member of q
court instead Of member fthe Senate. There is
much truth in this declaration, and many conser-
vative men are relying too confidently on the fact
that senators are to be Sworn to try the issue ac.
cori;nr i % tn the law and the facts Have thew not
been under the constant obieation of an oath to
obev nrotect and defend the CONSTITUTION of the
limited States: and vet. have thew ever hesitated
IN net onts;de of and in direct violation Of that con-
st;tnion r. nartv Interests Ieonired it9 Neyerthe
less, it is generally believed in welinfomed cir
cles here that there are eight leading Republican
senators who will prove too much the Roman to be
thus used for base party purposes These eight
senator's are Fessenden, Anthony, Wiley, Van
Winkle, TrumbuD, Frelinghuysen, Grimes and
Pomeroy-which, together with the eleven Demo
Gratis. constitute sufficient vote to defeat the i'm.
peachment Of the President Should these stand
firm as barrier against the successful progress of
the impeachment movement, there may be several
the future historian Hence we have prevailing
impression among the conservative men that the
whole project of the impeachment of the President
will end pretty much as it did the prosecution a.
gainst General Lorenzo Thomas The impeach-
ment prosecution will be on larger theatre, only
what Thomas was on a smaller one, and Thad.
Stevens with his associate prosecutors, may be dis
missed from the High Court Of Impeachment with
as little ceremony as General ~ Thomas was put out
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The Aurkrille Gmqnirer.
YORKVILLE. s. c.:
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH IL, 1865

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LOCALITEMS.
HEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

T. s. Jefferys and lanes Mason, Assignees-Sec-
len Robertson, Bankrupt. --a-.-~g.z.-...-r-.---
r. 8. Jefferys and w. B. Metts, Assignees-
Bankruptcy-In the Matter of q. D. Smith
T. w. Clawson, Deputy Messenger--In Bank
ruptcy-In the Matter of T. 8. Jefferys.
r. II. Glenn-Sheriff's g Sales.
w. j. Stevenson State Taxes.
Thos. W. Clawson-AHorney at Law and Solicit
or in Bankruptcy. ,...-.-.-,,......
Homesley McCants.G Bagging
The York Baptist Union. -, ,.....l~ ..- r. :.
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. GRANT TO BE DRopPED.-The New York cor
respondent of the Buffalo New York; Courier,

GRANT TO BE DRoPPED.-The New York cor
respondent of the Buffalo New York; Courier,
says:
Prominent Radicals say Grant will not receive
the nomination at Chicago. The only men one
hears talking in his favor, are the mild Republi-
cans, who have no influence. All the strong, &C
tive Radicals are either Indifferent or opposed to
him. They defend him warmly enough when he
is assaied, for the part he played in the Stanton
business but when it comes to the question of his
nomination for the Presidency, they either dodge
the point or say plainly they don't want him. Then
the Stewart Vanderbilt movement, from which
Grants friends expect so much, has come to halt,
and the engineers appear to have lost all interest
in it. 1t is the general opinion of intelligent Con-
servatives that Grant will not get the nomination.
A complimentary vote, they say, will be given
him, and he will then be dopped for more pro:
nounced Republican The Chase party is still
hopeful and will work hard at Chicago. Greeley
and his followers are privately as much opposed to
Grant now as they were two months ago. Gree
ley name was placed on the list Of presidents
at the last Grant meeting, and the Tribune said
next day that its use was unauthorized. Whstev-
er the feeling elsewhere may be, it is certain that
here in New York-except among the nondes.
cripts-there is no real enthusiasm for Grant, and
unless shrewd observers are much mistaken, he
will be put aside ut Chicago, and man with
brains and straight out convictions will 60 on the
track for the White House prize. -
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COURT WEEK.

Monday being the day for the opening of the
Spring Term of the Court of Common Pleas and
General Sessions for York, few jurors and par
ties litigant were present at the call The Court
was opened by proclamation of the crier, but no
Judge appearing, it was thereupon adjourned; and
thus passed away the last Term of this honorable
Court in York District 1t is the first time we
have been brought to realize the mighty changes
that are so rapidly pressing upon us-the sweeping
away of those treasured institutions that time has
doubly endeared to us-and the Inauguration Of
new forms and features, officers and Offices, men
and principles, untried and strange to u.s. The spr
it of change is on the rampage now, in our once
dear old State, and where and when it will spend
itself, if ever, we cannot now discern.
In all the complaints preferred by the people Of
Hungary to their oppressor after their desolation
and subjection to the Austrian bayonets, the one
request that appeared most frequent in all their
petitions, and rung loudest in revolt and rebellion
was" Giiue as oar ancient Constitution r' That
old instrument under which they had lived peace
and prosperity, in both the infancy and pride Of
their State, was the most precious parcel its his
tory; and the stubborn spirit of the Hungarians
was never concated until it was fully restored to
them more than hundred years after it had been
taken away. We may, ere long, have to appreci-
ate the tenacious affection of these people for the
forms and institutions of the past ...
Jurors for the October Term of the Court, were
drawn before adjournment. The following are the
lists: -. ..... 1t.
-uKxND 6RoRsJ.EW w esuuu7 10 u.., ass
Minor Phillips Up. c.l W. K. Hamilton, E. NJ.
Garrison, j. D. F. Duncan, T. ". Whitesides Jr.
Robt. Turner, J. j. Roach, s. w. Gillespie John
Barron, Jr., Robt. Henry, W.. j. Orr, Moses
White, Francis Clarke, Byrd Martin, J. w. Nc
Keown, J. O. Giles, J. j. Hays, T. j. Huddle-
stone, VIM Caldwell, John Icelar, Charles Curry,
j. w. Moore. g..
PETIT JURORS Robert Doster, D. G. Starnes,
A. J. Stewart, W. II. Carson, Lawson jenkins,
H. C. Conner, DR.. j. G. Smarr, NJ. 4. Faris, AL
fred Meacham, Up. c.) James Meek, VIM. Smith,
Jr., J. R. .Huddlestone, R. NJ. Allison, j. S. Lu-
cas-, VIM: N: Huddlestone, D: E. Carroll, H: B.
Brown, W. s. Mclean, Hugh Tate, Reuben Nc
Connell, James A. Erwin, w. NJ. Jones, S. J.
Hutchinson, Jno. d. Smarr, NJ. J.. Randall, R. r.
Huddlestone, G. w. Milling, Jordan Meacham,
(p c. Saml Feemster, VIM. Barber, R. NJ. Kerr,
w. A Carson, j. A. Deal Il. Fl. Hart j. A.
Lockhart j. j. Hunter, Jas. R. Grier, John A.
Mccullough, John Heart, WIN. Bryce, Jno. Tim
berlake, John Carson, Chas. Stevens, Up. c.) VIM.
Lowry, A. w. Beard, w. J. Rawlinson, James
Adams, R. G. Moore.
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ssg- We have been informed that in some Sec
tons of this District, theft has grown SO annoying
that farmers have put strychnine on pieces Of ba
con and placed it at convenient places In their
smoke -houses.-Ldacaster Ledger. =.
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case that this position is the one for which, OF all
others, the servant is best fitted And when such
persons are induced to leave this-their natural
level-and attempt to occupy higher position,
instead of actually rising in the social scale, they
simply make themselves ridiculous. 1t is scarcely
necessary to offer proofs of this truth, while the
South has so many Conventions in full blast at the
work of making laws the majority Of whose mem
bers would appear more truly respectable If they
were handling the backing brush, the curry-comb,
or the razor -s=-sa7'. .----~
Those, whose pride it once was to be our SER
wants, having become our lawmakers, how Is their
place to be supplied? All the new citizens cannot,
of course, find employment for their talents in the
public service of the State. But the difficulty is,
that those who are necessarily shut out from the
glorious responsibilities of Office, are unwilling to
take positions in the stable and the kitchen. The
ladies are more averse to the seclusion OF do
mestic life, than the sterner sex. Both men and
women are willing to work as feld-hands, provided
their constitutions are not too seriously threatened
by hard work; for then they are farming" But
cooks, washer-women, and house-serVants are be-
coming more and more scarce. . .-..- ID.
There is but one way to overcome this difficulty
in domestic life. The Southern people must be-
come independent of servants, by learning to wait
on themselves IF they cannot employ servants
to do their work, they will have to do it them
Selves and the advantage of labor-saying ma
chine will soon be valued as it ought to be. A
cooking g-stove, washing-machine, and sewing
machine will then supply the place of three able
bodied servants, and at about half the expense
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FORTY-FOURTH DAY.

FRIDAY, March with reference to the day
the Naes says: IN.
1.-The convention nears its decease The President
Yesterday announced that all the ordinances re-
ported from committees had been passed to their
third reading. There is, nevertheless, enough Of
business maturing to occupy the body for eight or
ten days longer, and there will be no dearth OF
interest to the proceedings yet to follow. Much Of
the interest will certainly result from party move
ments The whites are playing shrewd game
upon the political chess-board, and the colored
men, fully aware of the attempts being made to
crowd them out of the valuable and responsible Of
fees in the gift of the party, are likewise deeply
interested in the result Of the nominations about to
be made. The impression has been industriously
circulated that the greater the number of negroes
in power, the fewer will be the chances of Repub-
lican success. In other words, that the spirit Of
the North is opposed to negro supremacy, and un-
til age and experience shall teach that spirit better,
it will not be safe to elect colored men. Hence,
while the grab-bag is held by hands all round asa
printer would say, the .at takes are appropriated
only by white men. They keep the corn for them
selves, and buy votes with the cob:,'
After the usual preliminary proceedings, the fol-
lowing resolutions were offered: ....... =.
By G. NJ. Wilder That the Committee on the
Legislature consider the propriety Of introducing
to charge the same rates for passage and freight
over the entire length of their roads in the States
Agreed to. 49,. .-...: ..'E.
By Mr.. n G.. Parker-That all chartered cities
and towns shall hold their municipal elections with
in thirty days from the ratification Of this constitu
ton, and that all municipal Offices shall be declared
vacant within thirty days after the adoption OF this
constitution. Referred to a special committee Of
nine. ....... -- r.. ,.-....,.--. ..f =.
That clause in the constitution is necessary de-
ining the qualifications fjurors. Referred to the
judiciary Committee. "- "a. ''". ~.
That the General Assembly, at its first session,
shall provide suitable laws for the registration of
all qualified electors and for preventing frauds at
elections. Referred to Committee on Franchise
and Elections. ~ - 500
Mr. B. F. Whittemore introduced the following
as one Of the sections Of the legislative part Of the
Con stitution: ,Shprl ....i .
'There shall be- elected BY the qualified electors
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ANOTHER CHANGE IN THE MAYoRAITY.--Our
city readers, who have doubtless been pleased
with the brief administration of General Burns as
Mayor of Charleston, and would have been glad
could he have retained the position as long as we
are not allowed to choose our own rulers will regret
in the first instance intended as permanency,
and that in all probability his place will be occupi
ed by another before the next meeting Of Council.
General Burns was offered the Mayoralty by Gen.
Sickes, but persuaded that officer not to remove
Colonel Gaillard. General Candy considered the
removal of Colonel Gaillard absolutely necessary,
and General Burns only accepted the position un-
mined to confer It could arrive. That officer is
Brevet- Colonel Milton Cogswell, Of the Eighth In
fantry, lately stationed in Raleigh, n. G., and is
If his administration should be, as those who know
him predict it will be, characterized by the same
good feeling and executive ability displayed by his
for congratulation on her good fortune.-Charles-
tom Mercury.
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s9- The cotton-spinners and Xeaycrs Of Fall
River Mass. y are on strike Haif a million OF
spindles are stopped, and 5000 hands are idle =
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FoRTY-THIRD DAY.

THURSDAY, March 5.-Sections, 6, I, 8, 9, 10
and IL of the Executive part of the Constitution
were passed to their third reading without debate
or amendment. On section II, there was a big
fight. 1t reads as follows: .>..
"All the public schools, colleges and universities
of this State, supported by tho public funds, shall
be free and open to all the children and youths Of
the State, without regard to race or color'
mittee, with instructions to report at the end Of
week. ........ -. ~ ...
On motion of Mr.. N G. Parker, the Offices of
Adjutant and Inspector General were made sub
ject to election by thepeope, the incumbents there
of to rank as Brigadier. General, their duties and
compensation to be prescribed by law.