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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-12
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD,
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GENERAL sUP'Ts OFFICE,


CHARLESTON, 8. O., March 28. 1868.
PASSENGER TRAINS will run as fol-
Il lows. viz:
Leave Charleston for Columbia. $50 a. m.
Arrive at Kingsville .....i........ 1.80 p. m.
Leave klngsV1lle.. ....... 400 p. m.
arrive at Columbia. .......... 500 p. IN.
Leave Columbia. ............... GEO o. m.
Arrive at tKingsville. .......... 7.30 q. m.
Leave klngsville. .............. 800 p. m.
Arrive at Charleston. ~. $40 D. m.
The Passenger Train on the, Camden
Branch will connect with up and down
Columbia Trains and Wilmington and Man
chester Railroad Trains on MONDAYS,
WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS.
Night Express Freight and Passenger
Accommodation Train will run as Follows:
Leave Charleston for Columbia. 40 p. m.
Arrive at Columbia. .6.05 o. m.
Leave Columbia. bia.............. $50 d. m.
Arrive at Charleston. 4G o. m,
March 81 81. #. PEAKE, GenI Sup't.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-12
Charlotte &south Carolina &. R. Co
SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,

SUPERINTENDENTS OFFICE.
COLUMBIA. s. c., August g 1863.
INN and after WEDNESDAY,, fhe. 18th
" instant, the Trans over this Road
will run as follows, viz: t41Isl t,na@
Leave Columbia at. n. m.
Arrive at Charlotte at. IL. 90 .. m.
Leave Charlotte at. 1851 .. m.
ns- Close connections, both ways. with
Trains Of Greenville and Columbia and
South Carolina Roads. ~
95- Passengers for the North, taking
this route, have the choice of FOUR DIF-
FERENT ROUTES, viz: From Green's
boro, either via Danville or Raleigh.
From Weldon, either via Petersburg or
Portsmouth,; and from Portsmouth, either
via Old Bay Line and Baltimore or Anna
messic Line and Wilmington. Delaware.
ng TIME AS QUICK, and FARE AS
BAGGAGE CHECKED THROUGH.
For THROUGH TICKETS to Richmond.
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and
ding street. HiIaETfi7'7 ~
An Accommodation Train will be. run
as follows: -. -
Leave Columbia on Mondays, Wednes-
days and Fridays at 2 A. NJ, arriving at
Charlotte at 6.35 P. M.
Returning-loave Charlotte on TUESDAYS.
Thursdays and Saturdays at AM, ar
irving at Columbia at 5.05 P. Nj, 80
Passengers taking the 6 A. III. Train
from Charlotte can connect with NioM
Train of South Carolina Road for Charles
ton. Passengers from Charleston can-by
leaving the South Carolina Train, at Juno
tton-connect with the A. M. Train from
Columbia. CALEB BOUKNIGHT.
August Superintendent.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31
PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM DISTRESS.

The following section of an act pass
ed by the State Legislature last Febru-
airy, exempting certain articles from
distress and levy, is published for the
information of those who contemplate
having distress warrants isued against
them:
sin case of a husband, parent or 9TH
err person, who Is house-keeper and
head of a family, there shaft be exempt
from distress or levy the following ar
ticles, or so much or so many thereof
as the party may have !:
First-The family Bible. Second
Family pictures, school books, and Ii
brary for the family not exceeding
800 in value. Third--A seat or pew
in any house or place of public worship.
Fourth.-A lot in any burial ground.
Fifth-Al necessary wearing apparel
of the debtor and his family. All beds
and bedsteads and bedding necessary
for the use of such family. All stoves
and appendages put up and kept for
the necessary use of the family not to
exceed three. Sixth--One COW, one
horse, six chairs, one table, six knives
six forks, six plates, one dozen spoons,
two dishes, two basins, one pot, one
oven, six pieces of wood or eartlien
ware, one loom and its appurtenances
one safe or press, one spinning wheel,
one pair OF cards, one axe, two hoes,
five barrels of corn, five bushels Of
wheat or one barrel of flour, two hun
dred pounds of bacon or pork, three
hogs, ten dollars in value OF forage or
hay, one cooking stove and utensils for
cooking Herewith, and one sewing
machine and in case of a mechanic,
the tools and utensils of his trade, not
exceeding 900 in value"
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31
PAPERS AND PERIODICALS.

TIE New EcLECTIc.- have receiv-
ed this, the successor to DR.. HoGE's pop
ular Richmond Eclectic. 1t is. in our
judgment, the most tasteful publica-
ton in America. The selections are
admirable, the editorial notes and criti-
cisms discover high order OF scholar
ship, and in word, the magazine as a
whole, is as near perfection as an Ec-
lectic well can be. LAWRENCE TURN
BULL and FRIDGE MURDOCH (the latter
name recalls our school days at Prince
TONI are the editors and proprietors.-
The price OF the Eclectic is only 81 per
annum. Address the proprietors, as
above, at 40 Lexington Street Balti-
more.
HARPER's BAzAR.-We are not inclin-
ed to praise anything printed by the
publishers of Harper's Weekly, but the
simple fact is, the Bazaar is distancing
all competition in its line of periodical
literature.
PETERSBURG INDEX. This is now the
largest daily paper in Virginia, and, as
1t seems to us, gets more advertising
than any other. The editor, WILLIAM
K. CAMERON. Esq, has placed us under
such obligations that, after waiting a
fortnight for handsome things to ac-
cumulate, we are forced to confess our
entire inability to return qaid pro quo in
kind. We can do this, though. Ifhe
will come up here, we can and will tell
him where he will find the sweetest
sweetheart any man ever had. And If
he is moi satisfied with that, he can
take our hat.
SOUTHERN PLANTER AND FARMER.-No
copy has ever reached this office.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31
QUIT IT AT ONCE.

Quit working poor land. You know
that, under the present system of Ia
Dor, it cannot possibly pay. Then why
do you do it? Cannot you overcome
the bad habit of working too much land
acquired during the days of slavery? p
You will have to do it. Concentrate
all your labor and all your manures on
the very best land you have. You will
gain in two ways-by the saving in hires
and the increase of crops. The coming
summer will be rife with political ex-
element and it is folly to expect your
hands to work steadily; therefore the
fewer you employ and the more COM
pact your crop the better chance of
savingit. As for the poor land, let iU
grow up in forest; leave it to the kindly
influences of nature. 1t is perfect
waste of powder work to it.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31
MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

The numerous friends of the Rev.
DR.. Handy will be gratified to learn
that his son, Mr.. Frederick Handy, has
recently received the appointment of
Register of the Maryland Agricultural
College at Hyattsville-a position which
has heretofore been filed by some of
the most prominent men in the State. -
The President of this institution, Chas.
l.. C.. Minor Esq, is Virginian, gal
liant soldier, an accomplished scholar, a
practical farmer, an experienced teach
or, and noble Christian gentleman
We shall have occasion hereafter to
present the claims of the College over
which he presides in prominent man
ner to those of our readers who feel and
know that the times demand special
education for that pursuit upon which
the prosperity Of States has always
reposed.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31
DEER HUNTING.

We observe notices in many of our
exchanges of the number of deer killed
in Virginia both i'm lowland and noun
tain this winter. The small station of
&reenspring. on the Baltimore and O.
hio railroad in Hamshire county, sent
prior to January the LIST, two hundred
saddles. Many more than that have
been brought into Winchester, and the
piles of skins at the doors of our enter
prising glovemakers indicate a heavy
slaughter throughout the northwest
At least ten thousand deer must have
been killed in the State, or twice as
many as the famed herds of Brennan
and Atholi in Scotland which Landseer
with pencil and Scrope and Hawker,
with pen, have made SO familiar to us
The Scottish red deer is the European
representative of our elk, or wapiti,
though not near so large, not greatly ex-
ceeding in size our common DEER
Though plentiful i'm the mountains on
either side of the Valley the deer seldom
appear in the intervale. Some ten days
since, however, a fine one dashed across
the Valley Turnpike, five miles from
Winchester making his way from North
Mountain towards the Ridge.-Win-
chester Times.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31
PUBLIC MEETING.

At meeting of the citizens of Or
ange County, held in the Court House,
on Monday. January 9th (Court-day. }
on motion of Mr.. Morris ID. Newman,
Mr.. Ferdinand Jones was called to the
Chair and =. b. Hidden appointed Sc
cretary of the meeting.
Col. John III. Lee then explained the
object of the meeting to be the organi-
cation of a Conservative party in this
County. He also read the circular of
the central committee OF the State, set
ting forth the objects of the party and
showing the plan of operations. Col.
Lee then moved that this meeting APP
prove and adopt the plan of the State,
and that the Chairman be empowered
to appoint the committees required
therein. This motion being carried,
the Chairman appointed the following
committees:
LIST Magisterial District-William A.
Jennings and Joab g. Ham.
End Observation-Disclosures Daley and
DR.. E. p. Taliaferro.
Bird District-Dr. Uriel Terrill and
NJ. ID. Newman.
4th District-Dr. John l.. Voolfolk
and F. j. Saunders.
9Th District-John L. Payne aid
Reuben l.. Gordon.
On the suggestion of the Chairman,
it was ordered that the committees re-
tire to one of the jury rooms and elect
their Chairman.
On motion of Lewis b. Williams it
was resolved, that the committees may
in their discretion enlarge their num-
Der to five In each magisterial district.
The committees having retired, soon
reported the following additions to
their number:
LIST District-William Brooking, Ed
ward Beasly and William Faulconer.
End District-RoberL Taylor, Col.
| Garrett Scott and Col. John ii. Lee.
3rd District-Lewis B. Williams, Jo-
seph Henderson and John Terrill, Jr.
4th District-Dr. Pannill, f. e..
MOoreand Henry Hatch.
9th District-William II. Payne, B.
Il. Saunders and William Murphy.
Col. John ii. Lee was elected Chair
man OF the committee.
On motion of Maj. Jennings, 1t was
ordered that the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the Natiue Vir-
ginian.
The meeting then adjourned.
FERDINAND JONES, Charm.
z. B. HIDEN Sec'y.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31
LAND GRANTS A CURSE.

Virginia has often been abused for
opposing land grants on the 'hair-split-
ting" ground of their unconstitution-
ality. Washburne of Illinois, in the
House debate on the Dubuque railroad,
said that 100000 acres granted to Illi-
nois-had proved the greatest curse to
the State. 1t had passed into the hands
of British bondholders, and gone to
build up great, oppressive foreign cor
poration in Illinois. The grant of 60O,-
600 acres involved in the pending bill
was to go to that same corporation; for
all the franchises of the Dubuque and
Sioux City Railroad Company had been
transferred last October to the Illinois
Central Railroad COmDanv
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Wisconsin democratic State
Convention will be held February l6.
Eugene the French Empress at last
accounts had three thousand dresses.
Extra Billy Smith paid visit to STAN
ton at the War Department on Friday.
Scion Robinson has entirely retired
from active duties on the New York
Tribune.
Charles Francis Adams writes the ar
ticles ON American Politics in the Lon
don Star.
The Hartford Times pronounces the
Radical party in Connecticut as past
praying for.
Mrs. Stillman, sister of Gen Lewis
Cas-, died recently in California. She
was "a years of age.
The Republican State convention
OF Pennsylvania is called to meet in
Philadelphia on March the 18th.
Gen. Grant don't talk and it seems
impossible to get distinct view of him
He is enveloped in smoke.
Senator Guthrie, of Kentucky, is too
i'll to take his place in the Senate, and
exhibits no signs Of recovery.
Ono third ofthe members of the Geor-
gia Constitutional State Convention are
ex-rebel soldiers now Radicals.
Excellent ice from SIX to ten inches
thick, is still being cut from the Cat
Pond ten miles above Lynchburg.
The President has caused Hon John
p. Hale our Minister to Spain, to be
notified that his resignation will be ac-
copied.
Horace Greedy wrote the twenty
ninth chapter of his s'Recolections OF
a busy life" while waiting for the train
at Pittsfield.
A child in Lynchburg came near To-
sing its life from the use of chlorO-
form, which it had been allowed to han
die.
The house of Miss Lucy A. Christian
ofLynchburg, was entered on Thurs
day by two woman one white and one
colored, in broad day light.
Mr.. VIM. p. Hoffman, editor and
proprietor of the Bedford Chronicle, was
married in Liberty on the 22nd to Miss
Sallie f. Owensley of that county.
Providence Ludlam a Republican
member of the New JERSEY State Sem
ate, from Cumberland county died sud-
denly on Monday. This leaves the po-
litical complexion of the Senate eleven
Democrats to nine Republicans.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31

tEJs Surratt.--The trial af John III.
Surratt, it is known, has been fixed for
the Gath of next month, but the cores
pendent of the Baltimore Sun has good
reason to believe that the case will new
err be brought to trial. 1t will be re-
membered that when the day for trial
was fixed upon, Merrick, Surrat's coun-
sci, failed in his efforts to have the trial
of William 4. Cleaver fixed for a day
certain. 1t is understood however,
that in the event that Surratt Is tried,
the prosecution will again put Cleaver,
already convicted Of crime and now A.
waiting a new trial, on the stand to
detail again without blush what he
protested to have heard in the prison
with the puriured Conover. The at
torneys for the defence, Messrs. Merrik
and Black, are prepared for Surratt's
trial at any time, and they have full
confidence in theiriown power to sus-
tain the action of the majority of the
jury at the first trial, when they were
disposed to acquit the prisoner.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31
HAULs DOWN THE GRANT FLAG.

The Mobile Times, which, for long
time, had the flag of Grant for Presi-
dent and Fessenden for Vice President,
flying at its masthead, hauls down its
colors with the following editorial re-
marks:
"The world has never witnessed o
more useless sacrifice ofpersonal popu-
larity than that exhibited by the self
ordained suicide of Gen. Grant. With
every chance i'm his favor to become the
saviour-the second father of his coun-
try-he seems to have been only IN
spired by the evil genius of disorgani-
zation, and to have bartered the high
est chances of legitimate fame for the
qualification of petty temporary power.
II there is yet life in the executive de-
partment, aud he has actually dared to
disObey the orders of his constitutional
chief, we hope to see Sherman assume
the supreme command of thearmy, and
finally bring order out of chaos by
crushing down Congressional aggress-
ion and military INSTRUMENTATION. The
era OF revolution is now opened, and
the forthcoming struggle against the
odiOus powers of factious Congress
can be neither long nor doubtful.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31
WHAT THE OHIO DEMOCRACY SAY.

Here is what the Democracy of Ohio
representing more than fifty thousand
majority OF the voters of that great
State, have to say in reference to the
foul libel upon Republican government
and reproach upon the civilization Of
the age, embodied in the scheme OF me-
gro suffrage
Resolved, That we are opposed both
in principle and policy to negro suf-
frage, that The State OF Ohio, by an en-
phatic majority OF fifty thousand, rejec-
ted it for herself, is eternally opposed
to its forced opposition upon other Sta
ties, and that we stigmatize such an i'm
position by the Federal Government as
a most base usurpation.
This resolution was reported by Gem
eral McCOok, an officer i'll the Federal
army.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31
aoRDoNsvILLE CORRESPONDENTS.
GoRDoNsv1LLr, january %, 1858

GORDONSVlLLE, January ~, 1855.
This weather will, for time. doubt
less suspend in n great measure the in
terc0urse OF Gordonsville with the coun-
try. Snow lies on the ground about
four inches deep, and underneath, the
roads are so dreadfully cut up that loco
motion in any manner is become a
laundering experiment.
Mr.. ID. w. Allen has sold his resi-
dence and is making preparations to
build just across the street, and adjoin-
ing Beale & Linney's. Mr.. Bakers
glass house is progressing slowly. W..
Z. Blanks has removed to his new-store
near the railroad bridge, where he is
holding forth OH a small scale until the
Spring trade opens.
Last Sabbath night during the SER
vices at the Presbyterian Church, pri-
vate lamp exploded causing quite q
commoton in the congregation; bit
the flames were extinguished before
any damage was done. And after the
services had closed, as the congi egation
was leaving the house, another lamp,
in the hands of gentleman, exploded,
much to the CONSERVATION and fright of
the lodies-many of whom were in close
proximity to- it. 1t is supposed that
the fluid was this crystalized oil which
contains quantity ofbenzine, most
infiamable substance, and known to
take fire from lighted match at the
distance of two feet.
A distresslngiaffair occurred,near this
place last Saturday evening. 1t seems
that Beverly Strange-son of Mrs. Ag-
mes Strange-was returning home when
he was either knocked or thrown from
his horse, it is not positively known
which. When found he was in sense
less condition and his person bore marks
of violence. Although Medical assis-
lance was soon summoned, and ut last
accounts ne was thought to be improy-
ing, his situation isstill very critical and
it Is feared may result seriously.
ORPHEUS.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31
IMPEACHMENT LOOKING UP AGAIN.

The National Intelligencer common
ting on the new impeachment bill in
troduced by Senator Edmunds Oliver
mont says We invite attention to the
clause which invokes the aid of the
regular army to carry out the behests
of Congress in the premises, and also to
the one by which two-thirds of the Uni
ted States Senate may suspend the
President from his functions pending
the trial. Everything goes to show
that the revolutionary faction which
now dominates in Congress are prepar-
ing to take the last and final plunge
which shall decide whether constitu-
tional Government shall exist in this
land
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31

bF General Grant has issued an or
der directing that when the elections on
the ratification of the Radica; Constitu-
ton is held in Alabama, the polls shall
not be opened at more than three dis
tricts in the counyt, but shall be kept
for four days.
The Central Grant Club, of st. Louis,
Missouri, has issued manifests in ia
vor of Grant tor the Presidency, as
signing, among other reasons for this
preference, that Grants views OH re-
construction are in accord with those of
the Radicals, that he will know no dis
tinction of race or color, and that he
''will settle up the Alabama claims"
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31
virginia.

VHSIHIa,
A L Rules held in the Clerks Office of
"A the County Court of Orange County. on
the first Monday in January 1868,
Sarah Powell-Plaintiff,
AGAINST
Jane Lancaster, widow of Jonathan Lancas-
ter, Jr., decd, and his infant heirs, names
unknown, Waller Tinderand others-De-
PENDANTS,
IN CffANCERY.
The object OF this suit Is TO obtain parti-
ton by sale of tract OF land, containing
462 acres, situated in this County, and be,
longing to the heirs of Jnathan Lancaster
ed, that the above named defendants are nom
residents of this State, 1t is ordered that they
appear here within one month fter due pub
LEGATION of this order, and do what is neces-
sary to protect their interests In this suit.
A Copy-Teste,
p. II. FRY, Clerk.
January TO- 1885,. L. POWELL, =. O.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31

t1o The Peninsula of the York and
the James is destined in few years,
the Norfolk Journal thinks, to be the
garden spot of Virginia. Already the
tide of immigration is setting in. A
single farm realized, during the last
season, 100000 from peaches alone
That region will become to New York
what New Jersey and Delaware have
heretofore been.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31

sCTS James l.. Taliaferro, Real Es-
tate Agent, has said to Rev. Philip s..
CaffeTy, q kPresbytermn, OF Portland,
Oregon Territory, Cornelius L. smiths
tarm of 1855 acresin Spottsylvania coun-
ty, for 81 ,90O-sl, 200 cash. Also part
of Neil McCoul's farm near the Court
House, at $40 an acre, to Jas. L. Owens
of this county. -LittIe's NetpS.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31

iP The Negro Delegates in the
State Convention have COMPOUNDED their
debating club with legislative assem-
blage, and are accordingly offering such
propositions asa resolution to COM
pei children to attend school," IA
resolution to remove the tax from to-
bacco." "a resolution to rent out and
lease oyster Shores" &C., &. Also q
resolution prohibiting the Legislature from
special legislation for the promotion Of immi-
drdtion !
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31

iF The Carolinas.-A communica-
ton has been written by Col. Willard,
of Gen. Canby's staff, to friends in New
York, in which he says that crime in
North Carolina and South Carolina is
no greater than the courts are able to
attend to, and that life and property
are as secure as in Northern States, and
that there are no Indications of truth in
the reports that a war of races is APP
preaching in those States.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31
PENDLEToN FOR PRESIDENT.

1t seems to us the Democrats are a.
bout to make a mistake. Pendleton is
a gentlemanly War Democrat, of no
great force. In the hurly-burly which
is coming, gentlemen will, We much
fear, be out of place. A bad mans
work is to he done, and bold bad men
are wanted to do it. Grant, silent and
merciless, should be met by Sherman,
the daring and ferocious. 1t is not a
time for LAWYERS, but for swordsmen.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31

iP In Jasper county, Mississippi,
on the 25th and 26th instants, squad
of negroes who had been stealing hogs
way laid and attacked the constable's
posse in search ofthem, killed two white
men and wounded one MORALLY and
five severely. There was but one ne
gro wounded and arrested.
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31
P A Houston tTexas) newspaper

IF A Houston tTexas) newspaper
young men about to visit that place in
search of situations. 1t says ''Stay
away there are no vacancies here.-
Stay WHARF you are, pull of your coat,
take hold ola pillow. Stay away from
the cities. Times are hard it is true I;
they will never be flush unless we all
learn to depend Oh our own resources
ard work out our own SALVATION"
The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31

iP Died in Church.-A most sad
dening incident occurred at the Found
cry Methodist church in Washington,
on Sunday morning, which cast gloom
over the whole congregation. just pri-
or to the beginning of the morning SER
vice, a most estimable elderly lady,
living in the neighborhood, named Mrs.
Wakefield, while walking up the aisle,
was seized with sudden faintness, and
before aid could reach her, sank down
and expired.