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E HAVE SELECTED with care different rnriet-e' of SEED WHEAT, which we offer for sale. BRWCH, SCOTT k CO., AUGUSTA, GA. Sept 2S it 40 . BLUE STONE ! JUST Received an 1 for salo by THO-. W. CARWILE, At Sign Golden Mortar. Sept 14 tf 38 Falling Leaves. They ore failing, ?lowly /ailing, - Thick upon tho forest side, Severed from the noble*, branches, Whore thoy waved ia beauteous pride. . They are falling in the valleys, -Where'the early violets ?pr?ng, And the birds in sunny sporting-time, . First their dulcet mjisic sing;. They are falling, sadly falling,, Close beside-our cottage door; >. Pale and fade J, liku theTovtd ones, They nave gone forevermore. They, are Gilling, and the'sunt earns Shine in beauty soft around ; Yet the-faded leaves are falling, Falling on the mossy "ground. They ure falling on the streamlet, Where the rilvery waters flow, And upon the placid bosom, ' Onward with blue waters go. They are falling in the churchyard, Where our kindred sweetly bleep, Where tho idle winds of Bummer Softly o'er tho loved ones sweep. They are falling, ever falling, When the -winter breezes sigh, When the stars in beauty glisten Bright npon the midnight sky. They ore falling when the tempes1 Moans like ocean's hollow roar, When the toneless winds and billows Sadly sigh for evermore. - They aro falling, they are falling, While our saddened thoughts still go To the sunny days of childhood, In the dreamy long ago. And their faded hues remind us Of the blasted hopes and dream.*, Faded, like tho falling leaflets, CDS: upon the icy streams. Ar Tragedy in a Coal-pit. About seven years ago, when the old Lady-well shaft, in South-Staffordshire, 'was nigh worked outv and. there were gatterres and galleries" stretching ont, the men said, for miles of old workings, which they-, or even their fothers before them, knew nothing of, and could not find their way about, it was determined by our owners to sink a fresh shaft and ?commence working the other side of the hill;-and so leave off 'working the'old mine, for ominous rumors of choke-damp and falling roof.warned. th<?m that it would not be safe much-longer. Accor dingly the nev; works were begun ; they, found a thick seam, and very soon they were in. full Dilation,-and the oki mine deserted. Ine viewers told the meri-to avoid the side nearest the old workings, but the seam ran that way, and the men worked and worked, till at last they 'broke in one or two small places, and .these? the viewers had closed in as so hi as possible. There was at that time incur employ, as viewer, or .overseer, a man by the Jiame of Yimiuihs, -a rigid Wesleyan, land a good workman, but of a reserved and morose temper, and wit h whom the men did not'care much, .to meddle. Thtey often said Black Jack.(for such was. the nickname he went.by) was not right in his head, and indeed his manner was at times eccentric ; but, as I before said, he was a most excellent hand in the pit, and that was all his employers wanted. About that time the small-pox coin ?uenced its ravages dreadfully ;in vthis neighborhood, and Timmins' wifeyto whom he was devotedly attached, be came one of its first victims, being car ried' ont.in a very .sh6rt-time.'k The loss seemed quite to have chang ed the man. From a stern religionist,' he turned to drink, and .no one was more reckless, more.debauched and de graded. %x 3* His employers remonstrated with him, and told him they would be obliged to part ; that he was only setting the men a bad example instead of keeping them, out* Off danger"; but -remonstrance, was thrown way, and finally: they were obliged to tell him that at the end of the week he would be discharged. He went to his work, but after a day or so he was missed, and when pay night came he did not appear at the table ; so the cashier said : fl I suppose Timmins is drunk again ; he'll come some other time." But the men shook their heads dark ly, and said among themselves, they never, thought any .gook'would come of Black Jack. Now it happened about this time there was appointed to our mine a new manager, for the former one was too old and superannuated. He.came from the coal-fields in the neighborhood of Newcastle, and was a. widower, with one daughter. Mr. .Woodward soon showed himself a clever man, and from the kindness and genially'of his tem per made himself beloved among the men, a race always grateful fot Mnd: ness. His daughter. Meta was seven teen, and possessed one of those charm ing Englisn faces which to look at was to love. Her bright auburn curls clus tered round a fair, open brow ; dove like eyes and a sweet mouth expressed the gentleness of the spirt within. -Meta's features might not separately have been' regular, but, taken as a whole,' the effect was perfect. Her looks, how ever, were not her only recommenda tion-her sweet disposition, kindliness of heart, and charity, endeared her to all her friends. Site often visited' the works with her father, and begged him to let her descend the mine, but he re fused. Constant dropping, they say, will wear away a stone ; and so-Meta's supplication must haye worn away her father's resolution, for one day it was settled that Meta should descend with her father and a pitman and explore the mini?. They arrived at the new shaft about noon, and, after the cage had been arranged, Mr. Woodward, his daughter, and a miner named Baccup, descended. They were each provided with can Iles, and, arriving at the bot tom, proceeded to visit the men in their several wf-fkingw. They had been into severa}? and were thinking of returning, wher?, just ns they came to ?rn intercep ting gallery, a violent gust of wind ex tinguished all their three candles, and left them in perfect darkness'. For the first few moment?- no one npoke, and then Mr. Woodward encouraged his daughter by telling her that, although doubtless very un-toward to be left without a light, still there could be no possible danger, as all they would have to do was to keep straight forward, and they would come to the foot of the shaft, and most likely some of the men would meet or overtake them, when they could procure a light. Acti?g-.Voa, this . suj gestion, they continued walking o When they had entered. the ? pit wil their Jights, .and Were full of confidenc the distance appeared short, hut now j the pitchy'Egyptian darkness it seeme as if they cold ne/ver find their way ou ^Minutes.seemed lengthened into hour and still they walked, and seemed i nearer their destinaton. ? At lengt Meta's delicate frame succnmed to tl unwonted exertion, and she exclaimed "Papa, lean go no further; lea\ me, ana seek a light ; I will remain uj til you return." " I can't, my child," he replied ; " will remain with you, but Baccup ca go and bring assistance." At this moment he feltBaccup's han gently draw his on one side, arid a voie whispered in his ear : " 1 don't like to alarm Miss JiVe-od ward, sir, but I'm afraid we have war dered into the old workings, and if s< we are lost.!' T" No, no ; that can't be," replied th . now terrifi?d father ; " for W3 couldn' hardly have got in when all the break were closed." "I heard the men say at .the pit' mouth this morning that there-had bee: a great break in the night, but I did no think we. should have come this side, replied the man. ' ' God forbid we should be in these work ings ; butr if so, they will miss us, gues where we are, and search for us." " How can each separate party kno\ but that we have gone up with the oth er ? It will be only when we are miss ed at home that they will think wha can have become of us, and before thei it will bc too late." Mr. Woodward felt the fuji force o all this, but he would not give way ; si he said aloud to Baccup : " It wotr't do for us 'to separate, ! think, after all ; so you and' I will man age to carry my daughter betw?eh us and reach the shaft." The man complied, andr raising th< young girl "between them,-.they agaii essayed-to-find their doubtful way. Bui soon the road became rough and; bro ken, and they could now realize thal they had indeed wandered from thc right track,, and were loat in the ole .g?alleries. At length, the strong mer could go no further,., and, laying thc young girl down, the father scated him self by her. nndsaid : " Meta,'darlrfig, we have -'wahclered from the right track. It would be use less goinfj further in this darkness, as we don'tknow butwemay. be only, wan dering farther fxoni the aid. ?nd. assis tance that will be shortly seeking us." "I don't, kpoyr now it is, -papa,-buti feel a firm conviction that I shall never reach home again. " I pray that you may be spared, for it was my folly that brought us all here." . The lather gently chid his child for feeling so gloomy, and comforted her as well as he-could ; for he felt ail the time black despair-settling at his heart, for'now, for'the^'first time, "he' realized the peril they really stood in. Hours passed, and still no signs pf the promised.assistance. Their strength began to fail; for where is there any thing that robs one of ali stregth - ol purpose and of body'as when the bright goddess Hope takes her departure ? It was just at a moment when Hr.' Wood" ward felt his ,senses leaving" him with anguish, that Meta exclaimed : " Papa, is that a star I see shining in the distance ?" They looked, and beheld a faint glim mer of "light. Hope- immediately sprang up again^ri their minds! They raised ? feeble, shout, but, ' far from .expediting the assistance they stood so much in need of,, it seemed to have a contrary effect, for the li ght im mediately disappeared. : > I " It can only be the effect of imagi nation,"nighed Meta. " Hush I said Baccup ; " keep silence, and see what comes of it." - Shortly the light began to glimmer again, and presently they could- per ceive a figure approach them-it was that of a man almost a skeleton. His black locks hung .down to his waist; while in'his eyes the fire of insanity gleamed and fl?shed. "'Tis Black Jack," whispered Bac cup. . And then they -heard the madman exclaim : . " Who is it that invades my lastliome, when, after taking all I held near and dear, drove me from*the earth, and even in hell can't let me rest ?" He approached, and suddenly his eye? fell on Meta, laying on the ground insensible. " Mary, my darling, are you return ed to comfort me ? You con ; .back to -Ha"! ha ! I see the halo round her head. Men nor devils shaii't part us !" and, rushing forward, he raised .the fainting girl in his arms, and fled swift ly away. Tiie two men followed as well as they could, guided ny the sound of the ma niac's footsteps and the occasional glim mer of Iiis lamp; but, after their exr haustion, they were no match for the frenzied speed of the madman. They gradually lost him, but, still keeping on in the sanie direction, they saw a gleam of light, and presently arrived at the foot of an old, disused shaft. To the side of this shaft there had been fixed ladders, by which the miners in the o kum time ascended, as well as descend ed, iuto thc pit ; but they were decayed and frail. Nevertheless, it was evident that up this ascent the maniac had fled Avith his burden. The two men looked at each other in dismay, and then prepared. to ascend. After a struggle, they, reached the top, and the first thing that met their eye* was Meta, lying, on the ground insensi ble, and Timmins emerging from a ru ined out-house with a vessel of water in his hand. He' advanced toward the form of the unconscious girl, but the moment his eyes fell on the approachjinp figures of the two men, " Wretches ! 1 he exclaimed, " I thought I had dis tanced you ; but never mind ; yon shan't part us again-she is my own, my beautiful, my bride !" And before, the agonized father or thc astonished miner could interfere, he had seized the poor girl in his anns, meh?c^ to the pit's mouth, and jumped downj full three hundred feet, whence |m| mangled bodies pf the maniac and h victim were taken " out that night. -?-*- ?--; JoJm Quincy Adams at Hoi ...._ -. . -? ??UiVi \YIIAT HE SAIIVTO His FRIENDS: NEIGHBORS ABOU T THE SOUTI The Hon. John Quincy Acliims mada1 an ?address to his friends; and Neighbors at Weymouth^ Mass., on Thursday last, in the course or which he said: As you all know I have made a little trip to the South. I wished to see what a reconstructed State was, and I -went to'South Carolina for that purpose. I have come back with this conviction, though I do not know how the .other Conservative citizens of the Union may feel about it. I never intend to-stop to relax for one moment in the heartiest, most earnest and most honest efforts I can make to remove all such " blessings" as reconstruction from thc necks of avery one of my fellow-citizens. [Loud applause.] The is.s?e in this campaign to me is simply this, and nothing more. Reconstruction, as you know, is. the Radical constitution. It is-, the only constitution now in ten States of. the Union, and what is it? It is simply this-the rule of the military an'1 noth ing else. In order that it may not jar too much upon the, nerves of a repuhik can people to see.eightmillions of,-their fellow-citizens held down, by the bayo-% net, they have brough4, in a great mass of three or four militons of poor, igno-, rant, degraded, black men, and set-tnenr up in a row as it were, across the South ern States, and because they think your| cannot see the bayonet behind them, they say,/' That is a republican form of government" How republican? What is this-, republican form-of government? Why look at the condition of 'those' State?. Suppose that almost all the voters, in tlii.s Commonwealth should suddenly be deprived'-of-the franchis?, ahd'iirth'eif place it was bestowed upon, a set of men who were entirely ignorant of the value and responsibility of -tho voting power:-who 'kne'wnothing'about'j any of the principles in regard to which.-] tliey were voting. Suppose such a class of men were to be put *6yeir you, rof | course" you would not like it-you would feel uncomfortable and disagree/ and you would not suffer their ruVe'if you could help it.' ' Yet this is preci/eTy the condition in'-which South Carolina.' j4 to-.clay. " She."'js-^yarned !S^-^^feag mon Who, ii' tlie people were .left to themselves, would have notinore chance of holding the offices of your govern-., ment they now hold, than I should ol' being elected King of Great Britnin .in place of Queen victoria, if I were to, go to England to-morrow. [Laughter.] And these offi oin ls having no hold upon the esteem of the people,' as they call them down there in their expressive, though ' slightly inelegant language " scalawags"-and " carpet-baggers, can not command any of their respect and confidence'. The consequence of this is'j that they Hare to bc supported iii their places By"the bayonets.' of'the United States soldiers. Ancf as' there are not United States soldiers enough -at the South to keep the.people entirely " con tented,'.' nor-euough to.- make the gov ernment thoroughly .' Bemocratio !: so ever y day-or two -they are - calling for more soldiers in order to support"these thoroughly " Democratic" and "Repute lican" goverrtrwirts ; and -that- is recon-H Btr?ction I My Southern 'Democratic] friends down there greeted me iu'a#way which I' wliali-'nevcr forget to my dying day. The kindness, the warmth; the consid?ration, the "order ' which"- they showed in welcoming-any' Northerner, especially from JioaWachusetto, 'who would go down there and. ?ay io them, a kind word, who would not treat them like boys, and caH- themrebels, traitors, miserable rascals, or villains, -went deep, to my heart. They, asked rue to say to my fellow-citizens .at the North -that' they fought you in .the. wju\;.they--.be lieved that they were right ; that they? fought you as hard as they could, and when the war was done they frankly abandoned what they had fought for. They said we had whipped them ; JES | hud conquered what we demanded du-, ring the war, and. they were ready to give it- up. They, would fight no longer, and all they asked was friend - ship and kindness. What they deserved from us at the North was mercy, the hand of kindness, good fellowship and brotherly love. [Loud applause.] They want no more contest, no more illbloud; they want merely to shake hands, say ing, we fought, and now . the fight is done, let us be friends. That is the feeling of the mass of the whole people I met at the South. I saw no unkind ness, no sort of feeling indicating un-^ kindness toward any of tho people at' the North. That they may be treater! in decency and kindness," they do ask, and that is what is what I pray of every'" one of you to labor for. [Applause.] ?t ; is the thing, it seems to me, that we need here at the North as much as they need it- at the South. All "that they .ask, and all that the Democratic party* at the Northseek to accomplish, is that we may-be allowed to come together once more in peace and amity ; that 'this incubus of reconstruction may be taken oft' the people ; that these soldiers may be taken away from between us, and that we-all of us-once more may' feel, North as well as South, white man as well as black man-the benefits of a Union under the old system of govern ment. HST At a large Radical meeting, in Savannah on the night of the 2Gth, one of the negro speakers threatened fearful retribution against thc Democrats'when Grant is elected, and,said the right of his race to vote was , obtained by revo lution, and it would take a bloodier'revo lution to take it from them, and the colored people would be law-abiding, peaceable citizens if they may, but dev ilish, fighting and burning citizens if they must. From the Norfolk Journal. re Are the Descendants of Hie Negro Slaves of Antiquity ? ea Rome conquered:-.the . city of age and its .^dependent territory, o were many negroes captured, wno I slaves to the whites of Africa. ?vere carried to Rome and cold ..^A-fter-t-tiuafc- period there were s numbera of black slaves in th? d its immediate neighborhood as the Empire lasted. . . h??*e are no data by which we can dgeVof the number of-thousands of ese negroes in Rome ; but from th? clenta?..;mention made of them in e. Latin authors, they must have been ?pite numerous. In the centuries from their first importation to the end of the ?mpire, there must have been at least ^million brought into Italy:-though liaseis most probably but a very moder ate estimate. These must have mixed ^Msrith the white race to such an extent jf&at under the .Empire there must have h&en?TGany mulattoes. [ What has become of this negro blood ? f-?here are certainly no traces of it now tfci'be found in Italy, whose inhabitants ?We as entirely free from the slightest ?nft of it"?s ar? those of Sweden. The i&e*ory that it might have been so di lated with white blood as td be at this te "untraceable, is simply absurd ; for ry one Who has studied the subject ffiY?ccs,'or observed', the effect of rnix WQ? knows that the original type, if it ?fstsat all, will crop out from time to ?be in a most unmistakable manner Cfbwn to the thousandth, generation. %?n Eg}'pt there were also immense ?qj?inbers of slaves imported - from.the TO tribes' on kits borders from the of the ca>ly; monuments down to ie.. present ' time. But /though there ?Bt<a few mulattoes descended-from Wm importations of the last two hun-'. Tad., years, yet among the.bulk, of the [habitants of Egypt there aro no traces atevcr of negro brood.' Indeed, con {gjj?? the large, number, of.? negro ives m Egypt'at-all times,"thiafree-' rn from admixtur?', i rt that country is en much more remarkable than in, the: ie of - Italy. . - 'bereis one Way. of accounting for se facts, and but. one-and that'is, so diff?rent : are the Caucasian -and, -ican races, that they cannot be per irtently. mingled together. . The.mix -.iproduces it being, which,-, if-not a ;ial- hybrid', is at least -sosubject to ase that it can bc propagated to'but' "ienerations,rwhen it (hes out. We j this tendency in this country-already ^^fot??Wr^^&gfcin the small num.-, the dc.^ejad.anfcs_^jaulattoes.-j Virginia, very seldom an octoroon, and beyond that degree the blood cannot be said to exist at all. It is this tendency of the mongrel to' die o.ut that baa destroyed all traces of* negro blood among the Indians and Egyptians. Those ' of them who were sj>ruug-.froin . negroes died dut" many ceiituries ago, leaving the original stock as perfectly pure as if there had never been an African, imported rnto either Rome orihe Kingdom of the Pharaons. And thus will it be be in the South: Not only will the pure negro Tace van ish from the earth in the course of a very few generations, from-causes which must-inalce -every inferior-race disap pear, but not even the- slightest admix ture of blood-will be left among- us ;i thc same effects-will result in the South as in Italy and Egypt, and" there will not bo left'a! trace, *ave in hiftforyv^tffj the A frican-race having exer evisted in Anfcricit.' - ' . " j "SECRETARY SEWARD'S -PoSTTTON.-^ TR^'T?. T. Sun^ ?ofemng to Mr. Sew ard's recent visit to that city, and.tlieJ warm greeting he met with from men of all parties,' remarks : In politics the position of Mi*. Seward J is simple and characteristic. Toward General Grant. he clierishes the confi deu?e and respect due to his eminent abilities, character ..and services, . Ile, regards hil? as a'firm, prudent and pa triotic man^ who will administer gov ernment, with no purpose except the good' of the country. The Radical par ty, however; and its policy do not re ceive Mr. Seward's approbation or as sent. He favored a different mode of reconstructing the Southern States. He. believed that a simple adherence to the constitution, with the least possible I amount of special legislation, was all that was necessary to" bring their peo 5)le back into the Union, and to estab-^ ish peace as rapidly and as thoroughly" as was possible-after so fierce *a civil war. The^epuDlican party, however, determined to pursue a different course; and as^Mr. Seward has not been able to share rn.their views or in their expecta tions-:^ regards the South, he is not now able to make common' cause with tff?m in the pending campaign. At the Uj?e?me he is still less aole to join the fipftonOcracy. Mr. Seward thus stands .virtually outside of all existing political Jjjpganizations. --?-.-? : MACKY BY DAY AND MACKEY BY .Niony.-Leslie, the irrepressible, sus pended carpet-bag' Senator from Barn well County, ?ew South Carolina, dur-, ing the late canvass for thc United States Senator-ship in Columbia, said that there were three parties in South Carolina, to wit : 1, thc Mackey party ; 2, the Mack ey family party; and 3, the Democratic J,party. , In proof of which assertion, wc heard yesterday that at the Convention which met at the Military Hall on Thurs day evening, for the- nomination of Pillsbury Alderman, no less than three Mackeys were nominated as Alderman of Ward No. 2-a pretty stiff dose of Mackey, that ! Is this a move of the Mackev party, or of the Mackey family party ?" If Pillsbury is elected, we un derstand the name of this city is to be changed to Mackey-vilie.-Charleston Mercurv. SOT" Tko Prince of Wales, it is said, refuses tobe made a Free Mason until the theory and objects of the order shall have been revealed to him. His father, Prince Albert, was strongly opposed to secret societies. Municipal Elections. The following is. the Act passed bj the recent Legislature of South Caroli ha, regulating municipal elections : Bc il enacted by the Senate and Hous< of Representatives of the State"of Soutl Carolina, now met and sitting in Gone fal Assembly, and by the authority o the same : SECTION 1. That his Excellency tin j Governor shall, oh or immediately aftej the passage of this Act, order an cleo tion to be held on the second Tuesday of November, in the .year 1868, in al incorporated cities and toWns in thi: State for the election of all officers pro vide'd for by the charters of thc sail cities and towns. SEC. 2.. The managers of elections ap pointed in pursuance of an Act of tin General Assembly, ..passed, at tho spe cial session of 180S, are hereby author ized and required to-jiconduot the elec; tiona herein provided for, and all subse quent elections ' that may be ordered t< bo held in such cities and towns, untr otherwise provided for by law. SEC. 3. In order to secure- tho fret expression of all persons qualified tc vote as hereinafter providea, the man agers of election shall open their resp?c tive polling places for three days nexl ?receding the day fixed for the electior erein provided for, commencing at 1 o'clock A. M., and closing at 5 o'clock P. M., each day, and shall during these days, record the hames of all qualifi?e electors, and their, place of residence, ir a book to be furnished by them, the managers. All persons who presenl themselves for such registration shall before their, namea;are recorded, take . and-subscribe the following oath i .-" I -.- ? ", do solemnly- swear (or affirm" that I am a citizen of the United States: that I have, been an inhabitant of thh State for. one year next preceding ?his day and.for the last sixty days a resi dent of tbis-city, town or village, as thc case. may. be ; that-I Preside in this warrj or polling precinct.'-' The managen shall rafter the el?ctr cum over thc registration books* t' ue'-Mayor or Iii' tendant, -who-shall ?us'eth'em to be pul upr?>a safe and secure place ; they shall receive a sum of money to cover expen: dituresfof books,-stationery, &c, to gether with their pay ash?rem allow ed from'the treasury *O? "such"' city town' or village, wherein such election is held. * * 'SEC. 4. The'qualifications of an' elec tor shall be those' required by the Con stitution, together with a residence oi ;sixty 'days_ next preceding the election iiMrn1f?'?ni.r{''r'i ?iji 111 iili?pinil ?gi fjj?i . ??j or town, and that he bas beeifouly reg istered in the ward or precinct in which he offers to vote. SEC, 5. The managers of election shall meet at ten o'clock A. M., on the day succeeding such election, at'some public place ^vithin .the. corporate limits of the city or. town in which such election, is held, aud proceed, to' count the votes cast under oath, stating the whole numi ber of votes cast for each person or can didate voted. fox, -and shall transmit their report .of the same in a sealed en velope .to the acting Mayor or Inten dant of thc city or town wherein they have been appointed ; and if there be no acting Mayor or Intendant in any such city or town, or in the absence ol such Mayor or Intendant the same shall be transmitted to the Clerk of the Court for'thc country in which said city or town may be. The said Mavor or In tendant or Clerk'of Court shall open the report of said managers, and snail an nounce and publish the whole number of votes cast, and th? 'whole number .cast for each-candidate, when thc sever al-candidates receiving the largest num ber of legal votes for the offices for which they were voted for shall be declared drily elected. The managers of elec tion shall decide contested cases, sub ject to the ultimate decision of the Boards of Aldermen or "Wardens when organ ized, except when the election of a ma jority pf tne persons voted for are con tested, or the managers charged with illegal conduct,. in wl?ch. case the re turns, together with the ballots,. shall be examined, and the case investigated by the acting Board of Aldermen,.whe shall declare the election ; anc? their de cision shall be binding upon all parties. SEC. G.rjln all " elections held in ac cordance with this Act, the polls shall be opened at 7 o'clock, A. M., and kept open during one day at all the polling precincts and in the various wards, and shall close at 5 o'clock P. M. Each ward ' in the city of Charleston shall constitute at least one polling precinct. SEC. 7. The officers elected undei this Act shall, on taking the oath pre scribed in the Constitution, be inducted into office on the Monday succeeding their election, _ and shall immediately enter upon the discharge of. their offi cial duties. .SEC. 8. Said officers shall hold'theil offices up to the regular time fixed by the charter for tho election of the same and for one full tena thereafter, and until their 'successors are duly elected and qualified; The oath of. office may bc achninistered by any officer of the State who is authorized by law to ad minister the same. .SEC. 9. The managers of election shall receive as compensation for their .'ser vices, the sum of two dollars per dav for the time actually employsa in suet election; and also for the time employed in the registration" of voters. SEC. 10. All bar-rooms and .drinking saloons in the town or city; where suet election is held shall be closed on the days of election, and any person whe shall sell to any persons ?ny intoxica ting drinks, on the day of election, sha! be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con .viction thereof, shall be fined in a sun not less than one hundred dollars oi more than three hundred dollars,. 01 be imprisoned for a period not lea than one month nor more than sb months. SEC. ll, All stautesproviding agains illegal voting, or the bribery and inti midation of voters, passed heretofor and not inconsistent with the presen Constitution, arc continued in full force but all acta and parts of acts inconsis tent therewith, supplied by this'act,-are hereby repealed. ----- * . ? ---. WOETHY OF E??TJLATION.-The Mil ledgeville Federal Union of last Tues day says that, on the Saturday previous, a freedman traded one hundred and fif ty dollars cash at one of the grocery and Srovision houses in that city. This in ustrious freedman, the editor says, will make ayer twelve hundred dollars clear profit on his crop, which has been culti vated wholly by his own family this yeaf. "We would be glad to know that more Of our colored citizens were on th same high road to fortune ; but assure them that they can never attain to this man's success unless they go manfully to work, as he has done. Bismarck the energetic Minister ot Prussia, ia accused by the French pa pers of having ibineuted'the revolution in Spain. The funds at the disposal ol' the insurgent generals, it is stilted, W?K advanced by Prussia, who rais?d th means in London -and Cadiz, from the [ j securities transferred about a year ago. by Italy, in payment for needle-guns: The proceeds of this, latter tw'nsad?on in the money market enabled Marshal Serrano to settle the claims of tho troops whose pay had long .been in arrear, and thus to enlist the sympathy ol' thc Span ish army, in the insurrection. King William, of Prussia, is gaining the re putation of a crafty disturber of the na tions of Europe, while h? is carrying out his plans for the enlargement of his own domains. HINT TO YOUNG LADIES.-"^Why did you not take tfetTarm of my brother last night ?" said a young lady to her friend, a very intelligent girl, about nineteen, in a large town near Lake Ontario. She replied : " Because I knew lim to be a licentious young man." \\ "Nonsense," was-the answer of the sister, " if you refuse the attentions of J all licentious men, you will have none, lean assure yon." " "Very well," said her friend, " then I can dispense with them altogether for my resolution on this point is unal terably fixed." How long would it take, to revolution ize society, wore ali young ladies toadopt this resolution ? A maiden lady Of New York has made a will, in which ste bequeaths all her property to a religious corporation j to bu?d a church. She furthermore directs her executors, in due process of time to use her duet and entire remains to make mortar with'which to lay the i,| corner-stone. Her name is for the pres- I '-^nt withheld, J Any information in regard to Francis M. Hood, a Confederate soldier' who was captured near Atlanta, Geor gia, and carried to Camp Chase, will be thankfully received By his father at La fayette. Alabama, postJefEce. The miss ing man is about five feet nine inches high, fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, and about twenty-five years cf aSe Blunder the head of " extraordi nary caso," the- Spartanburg Spartan says : " Wh?e we Were at Glenn-Springs some ten days ago, Dr. Sumter Mean tapped a Mrs. Brown, who ?xad been suffering for som?? years under dropsy of the abdomen. The Doctor drew from her at that one operation, and at the same time, ten gallons and .one pint of water. The next day, though lank and lean, she was laughing- and conversing in fine spirits. Mrs. Brown resides near the Trough Shoals, in Spartanburg' District, S. C. We saw the lady at tho Springs just before the operation, and she was a distressing sight to look at.' Queen Isabella had a- reign of exactly thirty-five years. She succeed ed to the throne September 20, 1833 and on the same day in 1868 the revo lution reached Madrid. The Finances of Hungary are reported to be.in a flourishing condition At the end of the present year a sur plus of $2,500,000 will remain in the treasury. This is. an unusual circum stance, the'expenditures having exceed ed the receipt^ for each of the last, eigh teen yearn "in" one "instance'th? deficit amounted to $4,500,000. The cause of the present prosperity is attributed to the fine harvests and vine "crops. UST/A Troy paper publishes the (a test rat story, as follows; "The other morning, a gentleman found in a trap he had set a complete rat skin, and nothing more I Tue srlap had caught the animal by the nose, and in strug gling to escape, he walked entirely out of his skin. Attached to the skin were portions of the bones of the head, the hind feet, and the .whole tail. Lead ing from the trap to a hole near by, were tracks of blood." The Union Pacific Rail Road Company will soon have cars running over eight hundred and sixty miles' of their line. Government bonds have been issued for seven hundred and eighty miles, and the President has signed the necessary order for making out and de livering those for the next twenty miles. The Commissioners have accepted eight hundred miles of the road. JKS-It is said that an attempt will be made at the next session of Congress to have the Freedmen's . Bureau continued for at least another year from the first of next January, for the protection of freedmen, as well as for their education and the collection of their bounty, pen sions and back pay. HST" One Manufacturer of false teeth in Philadelphia turns out about two millions false teeth every year. More than one-half the whole amount of this necessary article used in this country is J made in Philadelphia. Vetf Friend Selbvof the.. Columbia Phoenix, savs: '"Wantedat this oliice, an able-bodied, hard-featured, bad-tem pered, not-to-be-put-oiF and not-to-be backed-down," freckled faced youngman, to collect for this paper. Must furnish his own horse, saddle-bags, pistols, whis key, bowe knife and cow-hide. We will furnish the accounts. . To such we promise constant and laborious employ ment." Mr.'ADAMS in his speech in Charl es ton, said it was one of the things thc Northern oeoplc insisted on, that every one should* enjoy in the South freedom of speech. The Constitution says that " Congress shall pass no law abridging the freedom of speech." It is the spirit of this prohibition, that Mr. Adams, we prer sume, thinks, ought to be camed out.in public discussions in the South. Mr. Adam.-', however, must be per fectly aware,that there is such a thin^ as licentiousness, as iww^atf Jreedrih oj speech in public discussions.* We agree perfectly with Mr..Adams, as to* the freedom of speech ; and so wc think/dr? the people of the Southern States, Mr. Wilson from his 'State.'TCU/> heard all over the South ; yet 'we4-eHeve'hewas' never molested or insulted. But the kind .of speeches which the Southern people object to, are giu.-s abuses of, the-freedom of speech. . They are such', that; no people-in i the North would tolerate any more than tho ?peo ple of the South; They' ^....^ecches stimulating insurrection, fand count?'-1 nancing-violenc?'and mu'fd?r, and sug gesting arson and rape. . A scalawag or a negro gets up, an? commences by calling the white people rebels ! traitors / .slaveholders! tyrants ! and criminals; and "then, by reciting what he calls the wrongs of the" hegfb; incites him to direct robbery and mur der. The property of thc country ii described as wrongfully -belong!ag. to the slaveholding criminal and i ebel > and-those who keep it from 4itm,-?s r?h ben and thieves:*He is^old^'tp'Wseft hitfm'anlfodd' and th?" ?onntry Viii tip his; iostand togei?er.,! aucTw^h'GjJTt epal"0x^t.an(^.fh^\^t^ ^???s $?>?h he will be (as of right he .ought t^*^ the loyal master, and -the white maa the rcbel?-must le*ve- the- countiy' to him, or hr his umlerling?rslaVe; is f?r??ndcd of" the* inferiority antrat* ferings" he may hare/'e^c^uijjer?d Tr? slavery, and bid to seek vcngc*in?e^ and if. necessary for maintaining lys periority, to steep the ." land in blood, '.' to "make it desolate ;by- .fire/' -?nd te "takewhite women for their wrvefr;* &c. . Now, we beg leavte to-ask, is.'trrrsr "freedom of speech " or fe iHicratji^ ness? , . {.". rC! ' .The. Northern peopl&anould* r&manv ber, that the Southern; people, are not accustomed as they are, - to tolerate ai-. suits with impnnity.- ^The political bearing of such incendiaiy harangue's is not thc matter Which tires ffiejrffl-* dignation and Ves.?ntm?nt so ' ?t?fi^^ the personal insult and .positive danger invoiced.' Every white man-feels him self personally insulted by such lan--' guage, many feel their lives," property and nonor placed in- jeopardy, and some take redress into their own hanHs. WeT venture to say, that if the language .af those, who have been assailed by wlii.t? men for their speeches, were fairly put into print,'it would be clearly seenr that the freedom of upcecth was not violated^ but only its lieentiotcsncsspunished: fie' who plays the part of an - insulfimpn-** cendiary, must take the consequences his language naturally produce., H?nT an aggressor, more pestiferous- than a. wild beast, a wolf, or" a viper. He real-, ly is a public enemy to the peace of tho country ; and not a good citizen, seek ing by fair discussion the promotion of the interests and liberties of the coun try.. The "whole South, hythe willbf the North, ia in a revolutionary condi-. tion. There is no such thing as an effi cient enforcement of justice. Conse quently men are thrown back on their own resources for self-protection,'and the protection of the 'country-:tho.re sult of Radical reconstruction so-calle^".. "We agree with Mr. Adams as to free dom of speech in the South ; but it has no application to the cases which, wc . presume, elicited his censure.-Charles ton Mercury. . THE -YANKEE PHOTOGRAPHED BY ONE OF His KIND.-Mr: E. P. Whipple, thc popular .New England lecturer, thus graphically paints a people with whom than himself^ no one is morejamiliar : " The leadings defect 'of 4)ie Yankee consists in the gulf that separates his moral opinions from his moral princi ples. His talk about virtue in the ab stract would pass as sound iii a nation Df saints; hut he still contrives that his interest shall not suffer hy the rigidity rf his maxims." " Your true Yankee, ' he goss on to say, has a spruce, clean Pecksniffian way of doing a wrong that is inimitable. Believing, after a certain fashion, in justice and retribution, ho still thinks that a sly, shrewd, keen, mpple gentleman like himself can dodge, in .a quiet way, the' moral Jaws of the Universe, without any particular both ?r being made abput it.' A.SAD STORY.-While laborers were demolishing an old building on Twenty ?Gventh' street, New York, on Tuesday, they discovered, in an old rat's nest, a roll of bills, amounting to $250. About eight years ago, one ot the occupants, of the house lost the monear. At the time of this loss a young man named 'William Cummings, clerk in a down town tea store, was boarding in the house, and as he was the last one seen in the room prior to the loss, he was suspected'of the robbery, and, on being arrested, wns convicted of the crime and sent to prit on, with character ruined and bereft cf friends. He gave way to dissipation, and eventually died on Blackwell Island. .-? -- THE EMPRESS CHARLOTTE.-The Lib erte says it has received sad details re specting the Empress Charlotte. The unhappy princess has had a relapse, and slie is again entirely paralyzed by the fear of being poisoned.. She flies from everybody. . For whole days she remains sitting in a corner of her room without motion ; - but when any one ap proaches her she has a paroxysm, she runs away eagerly to *ave herself, and calls with a loud voice for' help.' Not only h?r mental,? but her bodily condi tion is seriously changed,"irnd gives rise' to grave apprehensions.