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.i.".*'?.' t. 4 '.,??,, '?."?.'".I '..'?.I '?.">. .I.?',.'<."..' N .,.IL,IU1u*M^U*U^II*t|f*tf" i .?*?.M.af rai?at^-T-.i-.- efciii in JU it* ?? ?IIIHUIIH.?I?I*! MIIW Mii>litMi"^jtttMl?MjNiHltNi "..............?.'H.M.'.>..'..............,.. B7 D. R. DURISOE. E DGE FIE LD, S. C., APEIL 6, 1871. VOLUME XXXV.-No. 115. We Comm? JAMES 226 and Are now prepared loathe SPj of NEW AND FASHlO^ijl We have decided Bargains Tn thing Recent and Desirable, in a Wear. "JT2? .R'I*V>: Owing to the general stagn?t with our extended facilities, and STOMER A ^ O^SfflfiT li At Astonishingly Low Figures, Dress Goods. In Dress Goods we offer Bargains. Japanese, Plaid" and Brocade-Colored SILKS, twenty-five per cent, lower than ever sold b?fwer - Handsome Shades'low-priced Colored SILKS, -il. Rich and Elegant Heaw Gros Grain, choice Shades, Col'd and-White SILKS, Elegant Black SILKS, warranted pure Silk and fast color, Select Colors in Plain and Chintz Foulard SILKS, Handsome Silk GRENADINES, LE NO, POPLINS, ALPACAS, CH AL LIES, SUITING CLOTHS with Trimming attached New and Stylish Japanese CHECKS. STRIPES and TINTED GOODS, . Printed MUSLINS from 121 cts. to fine Organdies, Printed Linen LAWN, new and pret ty Goods, Plain White, Buff and Grev LAWNS and L?NEAS for Snits.. ' . Choice Mourning: Goods Black Silk and Wool, and all Silk Iron GRENADINES, Black GENAUPINES and TAMISE CLOTHS Bk ck (3-4 Wool MOUS3ELAINES and CRETONNES. BOMBAZINES, MOHAIRS and ALPACAS of the purest black. Color warranted not to turn. The Alpacas are double-faced, Silk finish, with a very high lustre and extra ayidfch. For deep Mourning we ask-an inspec tion of our new dress material in Gros de Venice and Australian Crepes, supe rior Goods at low prices. For 25 Cts. per Yard. We seH-the. best Black ALPACA ever offered at the price. All the above and many other Ele gant and Cheap Goods in great variety, some of which ar .- exceedingly rich, and worthy the attention of purchasers of Dry Goods for the superiority of the Fabrics and Economy in Price. FAC?ORY GOODS of all ki ??pThe attention of. all purch Goods and Prices. 2^-To WHOLESALE CASH be undersold. Augusta, Mar. 22 TH? CE H^'? i^cf LL a n -Al DEALER IN READ! And Gents' Fu 220 Broad Sire? Di^IRES to inform his friends, patrol received and has now in store the best vyhieh will be unequal lexi for e.vtont, v U.P in the latc3t???H|(l moot .fa .-bi um tb le s m?ct reasonable' pj?i?e&. Also, on bania Full Stock Ready-W &c, &c. AUGUS' Augusta, Mar 29 Important to C THE M^L] FERTILIZINB AND MAI Have prepar ed a Special Fertilizer a name of QQTTOI Which they claim to be of thc highest eomal in its results to Peruvian Guano ..ii . ? / I sou. ?. .' IJ "lt hag been used by SeyrS >f 1 South Carolina and Georgia 1er two se? It increase* thc crop from 100 to 200 It resists drought in all cases. The ( It matures the crop three to four we against early frosts, or in the event of ? the planter to put in his crop three or f June, with a certainty of success. .If.his-.cjt-op is only doubled by the u him from one to two hundred per cent cents per pound, and it will enable hit: in? reduction of labor.and expense, wit ?CO TT?N?S^?^m^?^rJ/? Price, $60 per Ton in X\ Mar 29 ence the Spring Seas -WITH . -0 . 228 Broad Street, Augu; t?jST.G TIRADE with one of the La ^ DRY GOODS ever bri every Line ol' Goods. All Depai Il Classes of Goods, and Materials ion of Business in all Commercia ready money, to secure LARGE ] V * iTf fi ^ a- f\ Y Y V ?~v ? Fir" " ' ' J ?\ ? ?? ? - D in which we give our Friends and Handsome BTk Lama Lace POINTS in every variety and price. White Lama' Lace POINTS in hand some goods, . A large and handsome stock of Fancy and Striped Challi and Barege Shawls. Bargains in thin Summer .Barese and Challi Arab SHAWLS, New : and ; ^Fashionable - Black Silk SACQUES, Black Thibet, Merino, Iron Barege and Silk Grenadine SHAWLS for Mourning. House-Keeping Goods. Bleached SHIRTINGS in all the favorite brands. Lonesdale, Wamasutta, Nuw York Mills, it c. The heaviest and finest yard wide Bleached SHIRTING for 121 cts., iu the market. Cotton SHEETINGS, Pillow Case COT TONS, ic all widths, Bleached atid Uubleach - ed,~tf ullin*: at correspondingly low prices. LINEN SHEETINGS und Pillow Case LINENS, all widths, of the very best manu facture. French MARSEILLES QUILTS, White ard Colored, from $2.00 to $15 00. Great variety Sommer -QUILTS and COUNTERPANES,-" Honey comb'? " Al lendale," Manchester und Lancaster Goods, :?t the lowest prices. Heavy and fi ie Bleached and Brown TA BLE DAMASKS, in handsome pattenm. New DeMjriw NA 1 KINS, DOYLIES, FRUIT D'OYLIES, &c, 75 cts per Dozen, t?'fhe finest. HUCKABACK, DAMASK and BATH TOWELS, all prices. We ki'c-p Richardson Sons ?c Owden's 4-4 IRISH LINENS, and would icspeeifully call attention to these Good*, as the BEST LINEN for durability in the market. They ire celebrated wherever sold, fur their weighi aud evenness of Thread . White Goods. ? The largest and most complete assortmeuts of. FRENCH and .SWISS WHITE FAB RICS, of all styles and. qualides, we have ever shewn. consisting iri partof Striped, Figured and Plaid PIQUES. French CORDS and WELTS, Yosemite ? STRIPES, Platf STRIPES and Plain NAIN SOOK.S French NAINSOOKS, and India Mull MUSLINS, Victoria and Bishop LAWNS, Striped and Tape Check CAMBRICS, Plaid and Striped SWISS, nds at Factory Prices. lasers of Dry Tioods is invited. BUYERS we will give the lowesl TT m ?t JA? - ? V [OICEST ' TOT %V A ?AW 17 t Tailor jp -MADE CLOTHING, rnishing Goods, n, August Ga., ns and the public generally that he has and most desirable selection of Goods, ariety and novelty, which will be made tyles .and best .workia^nship, and at the nfl i jil m { ; . Lade Clothing, Gents' Furnishing Goods, T DORR, 220 Broad St. ot ' 14 lotton Planters. RYLAND IUFACTURIN6 COMPANY, dapted to the Cotton Plant, under the % FOOD, grade of Fertilizer sold in the South, , and of mor? permanent benefit to the I ii nd red Pin gi ter* in North and sons, with the following results : per cent. ;rop is not affected by rust, oks in advance, thus insuring the crop \ backward season for planting, enables our weeks later, even as late as the 1st of ,Be of " COTTON FOOD," it will give . profit on his outlay, with Cotton at 12* n to plant fewer acres with a corr?spond h botter results. NT FOR G UAFlO. ngusta. O. N. BUTLER, Agent. 3t 14 son of 1871 ?RY GOODS sta, Ga., irgest and Sest "Selected Stocks slight to Augusta, rtraents Complete, with-Every for Spring and Summer Use and I circles, -we have been enabled, PURCHASES" of SPRING and RY COQi)S, Patrons a participating interest. Sacl-ari Ila-STRIPES, Muslin PLAITS, Re verse and Plain, Tucked all ever. Nainsook Tucked SKIRTINGS, Swiss MUSLIN, FRENCH, SsYiSS and ORGANDIES, White and Colored,TARLETAN, Cambric LAWN and Swiss Quadruple and Octup'e PUFFINGS, Soft fiuish CAMBRICS, &c, One Case Good Striped PIQUES, 25 eta per yard, 100 Pieces, Assorted Stripes, Swiss MUS LINS, 25 cts. per yard. For Gentlemen's Wear. Thc Largest and Cheapest Line of C0T T0NADES, TWEEDS. CASHMARETTES, JEANS. LINEN DRILLS, DUCKS and COATINGS lo be found South, Choice Goods in fancy CASSI.dERES, Black CASSIMERES, BROADCLOTHS, DOESKINS, ?e. Embroidery, Hosiery & Notion Department. Will be fonnd very full with raanv NEW ?nd INTERESTING NOVELTIES." Handsome R>al and'Imitation Lice COL LARS, Elegant Roman SASHES, Choice SASH RIBBONS, Cambric. Linen, Swiss and Nainsook Em broidered EDGINGS and INSERTINGS, 5 Cash's Suow Drop Pique TRIMMINGS, New and Beautiful Goads, and chu-fp, Pique BRAIDS GIMPS and FRINGES, Alf th? New Designs in handsome Silk, Ivory ard Woodoo "FANS. R . Valenciennes EDGINGS and IN SERI lNf>S. th? handsomest selection wc have ever offered. Ladies L. C. HANDKERCHIEFS, ? Hemstitched HAND KERCHIEFS, " Embroiderer! HANDKERCHIEFS, " Lac, HANDKERCHIEFS, ?c. G.-r.ts L C. HANDKERCHIEFS, " Hemstitched and Hemmed HAND KERCHIEFS. Gents' SHIRT FRONTS, French Plait, Wove and Plain Tucki. English Hosiery of the Best Makes. ' A Full and C ?tupfte assortment Ladled and Children, ail qualities. Children's English Striped HOSE, Bilbrygin ami Silk HOSE &c. Gen'-" Half HOSE, Bleached and Un-, bleached. Ve only ask an examination of : Jobbing Prices. We will not IES A. GRAY & CO. lo UANOI GUANO I E beg leave to inform our customers and fi .ends that we arc still Agents for G. OBER ? SONS' CK LEB HATEO GUANOS, which wo are now OFFERING AT REDUCED RATES, vis : Piloso* Peruvian or A. A. Amnioin'ated Super Phosphate, Georgia Cotton Compound, Ammoniated Alkaline Phosphate, -ALSO Ch ap pell'si Ammoniated Soper Phosphate, Pure Land Plaster, Pure Peruvian Guano, &c. These GUANOS ure well known in Edgtfield, and wc rospcctfully refer to all who have used them. Orders solicited. Apply to Z. W. CAR WILE or TnOS. W. CARWILE, Edgelield C. U, W. EDWARD CAUWILB, Ridge, or ut our Wuro house in iii? City of Augura, Ga. WARRO, WALLACE & CO. Augusta, Fob 22 , 3m V WINCHESTER GRAHAM, . Cotton. Factor COMMiSIOK MERCHANT, AUGUSTA, (JA. OFFICE tithe Wfcrch?mc pf Me>srj. WIIE LESS A CC. No. 144, Reynold Street. Will devote hii strict personal attention lu the STO RAGE und SALE OF COTTON aul OTHER PRODUCE un CuinmisMon ouly. LIBERAL ADVANCES nude on Cynsign metit.c. C Uiigutneoti sidicitod. AU?, Airent fir tho n:.le of the ATLANTIC PHOSPHATE, a ^ Fertilizer ni u.ut"..oiurrd at Charleston, S. C., tinder thc direction :m<l mper intendenco of Dr. Jolien Kayciicl, and re oommendpd as a Ijrst-class article. Call or send for pamphlet pontaluing tho analy sis of the Phosphate, price and terms. REFERENCES.-J. T. Bothwell, Esq., H.H. Hickman, President Savings Bank. Augusta, Feb 7 2 tn 7 Hamilton's Compound Troches of Bnchu. FOR Non-retention or incontinence of Urine, irritation, inflammation or ulceration of the Bladder or Kidneys, diseases of the prostrate glands, Rtono in the bladder, Gravel, Dropsical Swellings, and all dison?os incidental to feiuaic;, for weakness arising from exoesscs or indiscre tion, and all diseases of the urinary organs in cither sex. For sale by G. L. PENN, Druggist. Feb 22 tf 9 Selling Oftl GREAT BARGAINS 9 - IN - DRY GOODS! J\.S I will be compelled to Remove from my prosent location, I will, from this date, commence SELLING OFF MY GOODS AT VERY LOW FIGURES"lu order to reduce my"TJtbck". " ' Having'latoly laid in a CHOICE and FULL ASSORTMENT, of Spring and Summer Goods, Ladies will find (bis a raro opportunity to secare New and Desirable Goody at Bargain prices. tMy Stock ir...udes a fino assortment of Goona Vor GENTS'-AND BOYS WEAR.-' i . ^ sr- f ^ - Plea?o call und examine when you visit oar City. You wilhfind it to your interest. Orders'will Ve, as usual, promptly and faith fully attended to. GEORGE WEBER, .-. g BEE Hiy?;SXORE, No. 194 Broad Street, AUG?STA, G~A. Mar 29 tf 14 J. W. BACON. J. J. BACO.V. J. W. Bacon & Bro., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Manufacturers and Dealers In all kinds of SADDLES, HARNESS, LEATHER, TRANKS, RUBBER A*D LEATHER BSLTING, WOOD HAMES, WHIPS, VALISES, CARPET BAGS, SHOE FINDINGS, French and American CALF SKINS, AND ALL KINDS OF LEATHER, Ac. SADDLES and HARNESS Repaired and Made to Order. Highest Prices Paid for Hides, Agents for Pioneer Paper MM?. A? krnds of j MANILLA WRAPPING PAPER on hand. Don't forgot ihe placo,-1G6 Broad Street, under the Augusta Hotel, Au^Q^ta, Ga? Mar 20 3:n l'4 AUGUSTA HOTEL. MURPHY & MAY, Proprietors. W E Uko this opportunity of returning our thanks to tho eil item of Edgefitld for their paat kindness to us Oar House is thoroughly renovated for SUM MER ACC0MMADATI0NS-Room* large and liry, and Table always supplied with the best ibe market afTords. We will be pleased to welcome our Edgefield "ric-nds and cus!oiuer.j, and wi 1 u.-o every effort lo render their yrjnurn with tn? pleasant and agreeable. Aagu?U, Mar 29 3ml 1 JOHN BAUSKETTr Attorney and Counsellor at Law, WIM COLUMBIA, S. C., .L Practice in Edgi-Ge'd, Loxington, Barnwell nod Richland. Columbi:!, Mar 8 ly ll FEE SH GROCERIES ! CHEAPER TUAN EVER. LY, (JW in Store A VVhu SUPPLY OF FAMI LY GROCERIES which I am telling at tho very b ihom prices. W. F. DURISOE, Sr. Mur 8 tf 10 H. PARKER. B. H. TKACUE. PARKER & TEAGUE, DENTISTS, E HOMEFIELD, S. C. Ornee next to M isonic Hall on West ride. Mar 15 6m 12 REEDER & DAVIS, COT T ON FACT 0 LL S, AND General Commission Merchants, AUGER'S WHARF, Charleston, S. C. OSWELL REIDER. ZIMHKRM'X DVVIF. Oct 17 fita 43 WM. SHEPHERD & CO., No. li, lliiync St., Cliiirlesiou, S. C., DEALKR IN COOKING STOVES, Ranges, and Heating Stoves. jHrPicturef nf Ktt.ve>, with Price* and DUE? oripti"n. will ho sent upon application. Charleston. June 30 ly 27 To the Ladies. MRS, LEWIS JONES.would inform her friend.* ?nd ihe pw Ul io that sh? ir stitt carrying on her DRB3S MAKINO AND M'LLJNKRY EST A B L TS ll M F. N T ut ber old Btnud, ar.d hopes they wili coniihqe tu bert-iw on her their sume liberal pa'rnn-g-!. S)i? in .> fe>v davs ho rtinplii'd wjth NEW SPRING STYLES and PATTERNS. Mar 21 tf 18 I ? Card from a Prodigal Coni RESPECTFULLY* call the at'ention of my friends and the >urr?iuudinir country, to my lo cality, known a? the Grove Place, Beech Islaud, where I may at all linicB bu found, trnlchS profes sionally engfped. r? '?' I kerp constantly on lund.-a^ne lot.of PURE DRUGS, and am prepared to furnish my patrops willi any Phy.ic they may uced. Having fi o .Surgical Instruments, and c .faA? orablr- experience ?t u Surgeon, I nm p-eparcd to perform nil kinds nf Surgical op' ration?. I especially call lb . attrnliou nf tho Lidiw to tbo fact that 1 treat Uterine Dircn.-cg very sue cesrfully, and ?ill iruarantee a oure ol'.any ease of five year* banding. Very Respectfully. J. L. SMITH, M D. Bath, Feb 15 Sw 8 Best Watermelo?i Seed. fajo to Markeri Si Clisby'- if ym want ?"UPE R?OR WATERMELON SEED, raised by Rev. J. W. Barr. Mar 8 tf ' ll Notice. ALL Persons having demands against the ES TATE of MM. ESTHER RAINSFORD, are requested to present the ?arno properly attest ed ; and all persons in anywise indebted to said Estate are notified to make payment to R. OANTELOU, Ex'or. Mar 22_tf_ ? ?f You Wish Delightful Bread, CALL at MARKERI 4 CIISBY'S and get a box of DOOLY'S YEAST POWDERS. Mar 29 tf 14 Good Life. He liveth long who liveth well, All else is life but flung away ; .He liveth longest who can tell Of true things truly done each day. '?' 'j I' '?. ' . . . * Then fill each hour with what will last Buy up tlie moments as they go ; The lire abovo when this is past, Is the ripe fruit of lifo below. Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure . Sow: peace, and reap it? harvest bright Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor ". And And a harvest home of light. . .-**7+r*r\ Fate of E. Fighting Dog. If.1 iV. ' I BY F. BRET HAUTE. A marj he owned a terrier dog A bob-tailed oriery cuss And&at there dog gofrtliat there man In jiiany an. ugly muss ; . For tke.man he was on his muscle, And the dog ho was on his bite, So tojrick the dog-oned animal Waa ?ure to raise a light. .ijL & w J y\i hf f/! . ' -, A woman owned a Thomas cat That fit at fifteen pounds, Tlie other cats got up and slid ' When that there cat was round. The man and dog came along one day, Where the woman she did dwell, And the purp he growled ferociously, Then went for the cat like-everything He tried to chaw the neck of the cat, J Jut the cathe wouldn't be chawed, So helit upon.the back of ?that there dog And bit ! and chawed ! and clawed ! Oh 1 the hairitllew, and the dog lie yould . As thc claws went into Iiis l?de, And chunks of flesh was peeled from his back; Thou heflummexed, and he kicked and died! Tiie man heripped, and cussed, and swore, As kc gathered a la'g brickbat, Thai ho would bc- darned essentially If ho didn't kill the cat ! But the old woman allowed she'd Toe tjlcssed if he did, Ami snatched up au old shot-gun, Which was ; fired and peppered Iiis dia phragm With bird shot number one. They toted him home on a window blind, And.the doctor cured him up ? Brit he never was known to light again, Or to own another pup. Folk's may turn up their snoots at this here rhyme, I.don't care a cuss for that ; All I want to show is, that lighting dogs May tackle thc wrong Tom cat. Brevities and Levities? A Portland man has sued his barber for rutting off his mustache. Thc barber said he didn't see it. Several similar casualties are likely to occur here. BSyThe " Heathen Chinee" settled in Al abama arc von* deferential. They never fail to say "cooby" as they "lumber-' out of, church while service is going on. f?rThe Chicago Times naively remarks thafitrcbst a Tipton, Indiana mail, thirty eight dollars and eighty-five cents tr. promo nade the boulevards of that metropolis atti red only in a chew of tobacco. f?glA boy in Detroit has killed sixty-sev en ofnis neighbors' cats to get money to buy his mother a set of false teeth. He has made st quiet neiiihhurhoodwhere once was a howl ing wilderness. . flgT'A Drawing-Master, worrying his pu pil with on tempt nous remarks upon his lack of ability, ended by asking : " Now, sir, if you were going to draw nie, what part of mo would you commence with first?" The boy, with a meaning look into the niasters'a face, answered, very quietly, " Your neck, sir." Tlie Petersburg Index reads a long lecture in a leading article on the subject of shoe-strings, with the parp?se of proving that ladies waste in the aggregate a few million hours every day in lacing their boots-time which might be saved by wearing gaiters with elastics. __.'Two Columbus hens have made a re putation by laying one hundred and six eggs since Christmas. The proprietor of these fowls thinks they will soon bc " all a settin." #5?*Greeley wrote something about "Su burban Journalism Advancing." The com positor thought it was one of his agricultur al articles, mid ' lunched out wildly on "Su perb Jerusalem Artichokes." f??j- A citizen of Boston who recently died, bequeathed an estate of ?3.000,000 "to Iiis heirs, by a will of not over eleven lines. $5?* lt is said that in Loudon a child is born every five minutes. And they think that is worth bragging about. Whv, in this conni ry we have known two to be born in a minut?. ?S?* A pompous individual walked up to the office of the Stockton House, Cape Mar, o?ie day last week, and with considerable dourish signed the book, and exclaimed, "I'm Lieutenant Governor of-." "That don't make any diff?rence." says the polite clerk, "you will be treated, just as well as thu others." ??* A lady in Chicago'says, "Take my advice, ye young maidens contemplating mat rimony." ?ev?r marry a man wno is impu dent to his motlier, snubs his sister, helps himself to the biggest, piece of cake, or beats Iiis horse causelessly in a fit of temper." Jf?p- Many greatluen have said many fool ish thing- and "among them wc may class Voltaire, .-emark that "the more ??arn-d men you have tho fewer crimes, th ere will b* Accofding to that logie Utah ought to' be a parjiUisc,. since the inen; arc there ""more mar - ried" than in any other locality. ?S'-A few days since a Waterbury (Conn.) lawyer returned to the railroad ticket agent at that place $1. overpaid him in making change. For a moment the agent stood speechless ; then, as the tears poured down his cheeks, he grasped him by the hand and exclaimed : ?" Please stand one moment, sir, and let me look at you-and a lawyer, too!" t&p- A Prominent drv-goods merchant of Boston worked half an hour on Jhe follow ing proposition, and failod to give the an swer: "If fourteen men budda stone wall in niue days, how long will it take five mon to build a like wall in six days?" ?S?r Marrying a woman for her beauty is like eating a'nightingalc for its singing. B&~ A reverend gentleman was ad dressing a School concert recently, and was trying to enforce the doctrine that the hearts"of the little ones were sinful, arid needecl regulating. Taking out his watph and holding it up, l\e said ; "? Now, hero is my walch ; suppose it don't keep good time; now goes too fast, and now too slow ; what shall I do with it ?" " Sell it !" shouted a flaxen headed youngster. ?S"?* Mr. Lincoln was astonished one day, as he was inspecting the prison in Washington, by a prisoner who famil iarly said to him : " How are you, Mr. President? I believe that you and I have been in every jail in the Union." " This and the jail in Springfield are tho only ones I was ever in in my life," eaid Mr. Lincoln. " Very likely," re sponded the rognft) " but I've been in all the rest." Shall We Pay the Taxes? To the Editor of the News : The measure to which I referred at the close of an article two mornings since, and which I now definitely pro pose, is io refuse to pay taxes. This, if carried, will stop the negro government ; it exists but upon the lunds it can extort ; and that measure we can carry if we will it. - In a con test between property and power, ex cept the government be purely despot ic, the party possessing the funds of a country can dictate the terms upon which they shall be taken. Nor is des potic power itself necessarily triumph ant. The Stuarts, in theory at least, had arbitrary power;.and were scarcely undfr constitutional limitations in the means to its enforcement. But at eve ry great crisis in the contest between that house and those who held the purse in England, the Crown was compelled to acknowledge the sources of its sup port, and -the constitution was formed under its concessions. The power of this negro government is not so arbitra ry or extensive ; they have not the same agencies to enforce it. The property of this country is under more intelligent direction ; we are able to make a more efficient use of it against this power than the Commons of England conld, ?ind it is scarcely questionable, there fore, upon principle and experience, that, if we draw the purse-strings upon this people, we can dictate the terras upon which our property shall be made tributary to the uses, of the State. Nor is it necessary to refer to princi ple for this conclusion. It is plain thal if we refuse to pay the taxes and be free from interference by the general government, they cannot collect them. They can but offer the property for sale, but can get no money if there be no bidders for it. The wliite people will not bid. The measure implies that they are not to speculate upon the ne cessities of each other. Capital from ? ibroad will not bid. That will not come now to investment in titles that are un questioned. These tax titles would be questioned. The movement implies that the purchaser shall take that enjoyment jf them only which there may be the legal agencies to extort. The negroes af- property in this Stated-ill not bid. [ doubt if there are white men in this State more profoundly impressed with the evils of the present condition tiian ire the colored people who have any thing at stake upon the issue. They will ue with us, and the negroes, there lore, who are without property, who liave taken up the trade of politics, and who run the government as a means ol living upon the property of others, are the only ones to bid, and there is not ?nough among them, taking the cost ralue of every article of property or plunder they possess, to pay one-tenth af the taxes for a single year. It would remain, therefore, for the negro govern ment to take to it elf the titles to the property it could not sell, and tax titles would be an unproductive of money, the thing which they want, and without which their government would be au expensive farce, which they even would take no interest in enacting, as would the tax sale. Permitted to run the machine of tax ation to its results, upon the one con dition that the white people of the State will not voluntarily respond to its exactions, it comes to nothing, and in perfect peace, therefore, we can ig nore them, let their ship of State run aground, and without force or the vio lation of any law come to the point at which we can stipulate the terms upon which we will put it afloat again, and start upon a better voyage. . But to this it may be said that the general government will not so let this' negro government be circumvented. There is misapprehension, I think, both as to the attitude and power of the general government. It has not said that the negroes of this State shall gov ern the white people. It has said that they shall have the elective franchise, with the rights and powers that may confer upon them, but they have not in terms been declared to be the instru ments of the general government in administering, subjug.?fion upon the white people of this State. Nor can it make that declaration. The general government is the representative of a Democracy, ami it Otu)not declare that any ene people shall govern another, the representative of a white Democ racy, and cannot declare that, negroes shall govern white people. A Democ racy may be arbitrary and despotic more arbitrary and despotic in the enforcement of a precept, of its consti tution than a single despot will dare to be. And it cannot announce a princi ple at variance with its constitution ; and while, therefore, tho general gov ernment may practice on this State the simplest despotism, 'in enforcement of the principles of. Democracy that all are ?qual, the Republican party would perish, upon the proposition that the negroes and the whites in this State are not equal,, and that the negroes shall have a power that their franchise can not give them. But if the government should inter vene, aud enforce the negro gctv-fcv-ntnent, it could not. It could not un alco bidders at tax sales; it could not, make the people pay the negro tax. Its only ground for intervention woul I be the preservation of the public peace, and that unbroken,, i^s o$ce would be ended. B|ut if it shall go further-if it shall undertake to adminis'.er a government -that government would be its own. If it shouid compel the tribute to sus tain the State, it would of necessity, through its own officers, expend it, and, as this adversary negro government is the one'absolute and intolerable evil, that at least would be abated by the simple refusal to respond to its exac tions, and that refusal, in mv. judgment, should be made at once. Men doubt if there would be the necessary concert. But of this there can hardly be a question. Wfe must act. No one can be so mad as io, be lieve it possible to ?live here under a negro government. Scarce any one can entertain the hope that of itself or' of Congress there can be a change. This measure promises relief. It is-'without violence. It affords no pretext to the invocation of superior military force, rt proposes to do that which' every one with interests in this State desires to be done. It proposes that adjustment of relations between the people of ibis State which will relieve the general government itself from a most embar i rassing issue. It meets the question at the very point of contact. It must paralyze the assailant; and it is a measure, therefore, which we are all pledged by every consideration of in terest and of duty to adopt. And ? there is the assurance of the adoption in the further consideration that it ad dresses-the interests of every one own ing property in this State. There are lew who desire to pay these taxes, very few who can pay them without great inconvenience-none who can pay them without the feeling that they are sub mitting to an outrage ; and a very large portion of our people cannot pay them at all ; and without this measure, muse be left as victims to be stripped of what little of property remaining. CITIZEN. That Proclamation! That staunch Democratic paper, the Washington Patriot, is ont in a leader criticizing General Grant's proclamation in reference to the disorders in South Carolina. Some very wholesome truths are uttered, and wc- reprint the article and commend it to the careful attention of our readers. The Palrintsays: There may have been local disorders in South Carolina, and it is only sur prising, with the untold outrages which nave been committed upon the white population, that they have not been more frequent and serious. The intel ligence, Christianity, and substance of that State have been turned over to the barbarism of besotted blacks, by whoso gross and inflamed passions they arc ruled, until civilization sickens and revolts at the inhuman spectacle, and is outraged by the shocking libel on free government. The hideous revels in the mockery of the last Legislature, worthy of Dahomey, where taxes, and subsidies, and plunder were voted by the heathen demons in human form, directed by white wretches 'without conscience or pity, have no parallel in history. Thc State has been robbed of millions ly a corrupt conspiracy, at the head of which notoriously stands the Governor, and taxed until desolation stares an unfor tunate people in the face, already afflict ed by civil war and its ruinous results. The blacks, who were used by this gang of plundering adventures for their nefarious schemes, came to know their strength, and demanded the most ex travagant recognition of their numerical ascendancy. The Governor organized a black militia, put arms in their hands, and then distributed these recent slaves over the State, with their infuriated passions, to oppress and insult their former masters, and to outrage their wives and daughters. Their cruel and revolting crimes have, from time to time, provoke! retaliation. Human nature would some times assert itself. Fathers and hus bands and brothers, who had forborne under almost every provocation, have revenged their desolated firesides, when law became only a shelter for brutality,; and a wicked instrument of injustice. But what mn.it be thought of a State, with a large majority of black popula tion, with a black militia; with a blaok Legislature, with black Courts, black sheriffs, black bailiffs, black supremacy j every where and in every form, directed'! by the fiendish spirit of blacker hearts under white faces, which is incapable of subduing an ordinary riot in a sparely populated district, and cravenly invokes Federal intervention to do its common police duty ? South Carolina is a sad example of Radical reconstruction car ried out to. its extreme conclusion. Look at her to day-she, one of the Old ! Thirteen, bankrupted, degraded, de '< spoiled, proscribed and trodden under foot by fetish-worshipping Africans. There she stands a monument of the " humanity" and " moral ideas" of traf ficking hypocrites and canting knaves, who, in th? desecrated name of Repub licanism, have committed the greatest crimes, and have cor.?].?rod tooverthrow our fre? institutions. Wno is there, with a generous heart in his breast, 01 an instinct of American character, that does not regard this spectacle with lior ror and indignation, and turn from ii bowed with sorrow and with shame? Such is Radical reconstruction! A ST.AVE INSURRECTION II BRAZIL AVERTED.-Rio Janeiro advices by the steamer Merrimac are to February 2-d. It has recently been discovered in thc province of Minas Geraes-that, a com bination existed among the slaves, whose object was to obtain their liberty by force. In pursuance of thjs aim, three hundred slaves belonging to some haciendas adjoining the gold mines of ?he; English companies in the province, had attempted to induce large bodies of slaves employ od in them to raise with them the standard of liberty, in tho expectation, whether well-grounded ar not,' is yet unknown that the slaves of other haciendas would rally at once to their flag of liberty, and that the move ment would speedily extend throughout the empire. Fortunately, however, be fore the arrangements for the projected insurrection had matured the plot was discovered, and some thirty ringleaders arrested, thus stopping the perilous movement for the present. Th.c 4nok> Brazillian Tones says, ho.wever, it is greatly to be t'i&re? that the. intended 'insurrection is? thougli postponed, tpo ominous aa indication that the beginning of tho ond is rapidly approaching to us, for it has in truth been utterly impossible to conceal fron the slaves of the empire that only ii Brazil on the American Continent ar< there are any human beings held ii bondage. The Blinni aud Curst of livery. How curious it is ?:iat Northern.peo ple see the " blight find eur.se of slavery" in everything at the South. If there is a particularly demoralized or thrift less conim.ihity or barren spot to be found.any where in thix. section of tte coun'.ry, "the ever ready "blight *ndN curse of slavery" is at hand to be. pumped up for service by a mawkish sentimentalism- that ia disgusting at well as ridiculous. Au invalid who ie . seeking rest ahd . restera* iou m- thc delightf ;land invig-y t?ng^rroF Ai : S. C., writes the New York Pc the ..landscape of -tlijs ?.? _. j jj . " the blight ol' slavery, w h et; ejfi nave by no means yet i' ;. - , i . wat j finds in the gloom and waste around ii perfect expression." Yee this ROD:? northerner, who cannot ?e.-jst ihn temp tation of harping on ti;.- -c'd. r: . knows better, for in ?liv tit*.;;: ;ei. there is an admission thu* ' it- -i> .. t altogether the result ol' a social system that the region is"1)sirr??~?riv5 unat tractive," and the proper reason is given in the fact'" that the high and dry soi] is the condition of the dry, bracing a-r that makes the region peculiarly health ful." In this connection it would bo pertinent to ask how long tIii.-- "blight ;of slavery" will, in the eyes ol' some northe/n people, cling to tire taepot the country and darken the sunny bright-" ness of nature, and a's : whether it is this same " blight and curso," or some oMier -blight' than that of slavery, which makes the hills of New England barren and forbidding, ai.d converts that region into a pla*o where there is neither " productiveness for Iabot' nor :" balmy air for invalids" who need it'st ? -'Baltimore -un. . A Rich Joke. A Parkers-berg paper says ihntsever- . al members of the Legi*?'l!i?ure.to?k the ca rs, at Grafton lat? one evening '.<>:? Wheeling-, and among the nu&ber w.-.s a Mr. G., of somewhat proportion-: physi - cal'/, and a Slr. D., of proportions un dersize. These two-the stalwart Mr. G. and tho smooth faced little Mr. I).-took a berth .together, it. skeins, m a' sleeping e.ir. The little limn laid behind, and tho good natured, waggish Mr. G ?before. Mr. D. was'soon sleeping mid snorii g furiously. Mr. G .. more rest less . u ih r his-'legislative burdens, FOOII rose, end was sitting by th? st n e, whe i an elder ly lady came nU-ardaiid desired a Uer:h. " All right, madam,' said G.. " 1 !00?- a berth with my Pch and you CM j Oeetipy my place in that b-rth where my lillie s.jii is sleeping. ' Taking Mr. G. athis word, (he lady disrobed and laid down will :.?. boy. After a quiet bffbz? for \;omo ti>.!<\ the hoy. Mr. I)., ?t.*e?nie r< .;>? . f.oin sitne cause, and begfiu r.. !.. k ,?:. to the annoyance of ti:.! ola . io it: a motherly manner! she patted r m on the back, and said : " Lie still, sonny, p? said 7 might sleep along with you.' "Thunaer and lightning." cried the legislator; " who arc- yon? I :.: no boy, I am ? member of thc \\ est Virginia Legislature. !' It is said that the old lady swoon :d, # and could not be brought to t:l! I), promised that G. shcuid ?>c irnpe c' i cl. D. swears thai thin--) shill upi r.-.-r. here. What action the Legislature will fake lor the purpose of protecting its own dignity remains to be seen." ONE OF THE B'HOYS.-A youngster attending school in Paducnh, ha3 writ ten his mother the fellowing eh-srac teristic letter : " Dear mother-I go*, another li king ? yesterday, but I had on three JKUYO pants and it didn't hurt much. 1 wits licked because I .pul six pin-* in Mr. --'s; chai;*. I knew they would nC? st'.ck him. adi made a bet t'i.tr they would not. Mi*.-w.is 30 m. -.i: hard that the pins could not g-- iii won the bet. which is a good ?.: I am trailing h m ta bite o' Hr. sides,' as we call him, some ; ?gut when he comes homojifter dark. !! - often out.af ter. dark, and ii Z_>-A\ is :?s good after him as he is a?te: eats, I ' won't get licked any mure. Zi ic and 1 killed throe cat.; Sunday, though 1 wa:-at Sunday school and choroli nil .lay, and ir. was nor a good day ?or ail ing ear? either. This makes the third hoking I got this week. One was be cause 1 hada hoir'- of milk in my r.om, and the other was because wro u a composition on negroes that obi ll u-.l sides didn't like. 1 siddthut a negro was a dark snbjoot to write on. !r was like a dark African iroing .1 v " . dark cellar on a dark nish! with to look for a bhriil; cai thatwa?i: . there. CUd Hard-Mrs slopped tn<> and then licked mo for that. 'Send ..: . :o.ae more of them pies. [ nude a go-u trade with some of Cacm, lt' yoi: will ?end me five dollars ! .rill ?? [. my bad habits except cnrsTiig find ?.weaV'ing and chewing and drinking an i -JW ur two others. You had belter make the uv.de. Give my lovo to Julio, and tell L.-r to send me that little ii.idle 1 left iu the old trunk. " Your a.T?;ctionaie son. BILLIE." A LITTLE STORY O? GRANT.-The Roanoke (Va.) Times publishes the fol lowing : ' . A good story is I old by a . Methodist minister. "We do not rttoUei'l of ever seeing it in print ai. i we tl?: : it too good to be lost. It is follows : During the war a H Con fed." was captur?e! by the Yankees am! happened tobe taken to Gen. 0 rant's h.- d'l't titers. 1 Aiior Being questioned by !: ?i.-;:-ralr 1 the old " Confed." asked bim where he 1 was going. "I am going." say- Grant. Rieh , mond, to Petersl'iug, to Heave and it ) may be I will go :o i**ih" i After eyeing the General ?-J . several" i moments," the old " Coniei. .. id : " Gen. Grant, you can't go to Ric?i 1 mond, for Gen. Lee is there; you can't t go to Petersburg, for Gen; Beauregard ? ' is there ; you can't go to Heaven, for i ! Stonewall Jackson is there ; but as lo i j goi*g to hell, you may get there, tor I ! know of no Confederates in that region.!'.