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!=gs5BS3garife?g^^ .i,.-0kv??kW?kW$-I i ' iT' '1 mi.M. W? ???I??? m/?)/^^^^^^ - .-? . mm ' 1 1 1 V'1 . /? 1 ' ! ,Ylrr" VOL. XXI _ WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17. 1870. NO 17. <wl_ Xl -eo DIBIO? Kt Don? Fersatet.?Vir*, N DEVOTED TO LITERATURE. MORALITY AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Ll_ WU III I IS ll I The Sumter Watchman (ESTABLISHED IS 1850.) !? PUBLIOHBD VBRV WEDNESDAY HIOBNINO AT SUMTER, S. O. ? BY GILBE RT St FLOWERS* Terms. Ono year.,.$3 00 Sis mouth*. 1 ftO Three months.M. 1 00 AD V KUTI S UM KN TS inserted at th? rata of ONB DOLLAK AND FIFTY CBNTS par aquar? for th? Ant, ONE DOLLAR for th? BccoQ J, and FIFT? CENTS for each subsequent insertion, for any period lei? than three month? OBITUARIES, Till BUT KS OF RESPECT and all communication! whion subserve privat? a tor?? ts, will be paid for ai advertisement*. J. E. SU ARES, SUMTER FURNITURE -AND Chair Waro-Room.s HAS ON HAND A LARGE STOCK OP FUR? NITURE, for leta than can be obtained in any Southern markot, saving both freight and risk of breakage by Railroad. With experience ia thia brandi of business in tho City of Charleston, for twenty fivo years, and having the advantages of tbo best Manufacturers, he ls offering first class work of which every artlele ?old is warranted. Tho stock constats of Sofas, Side Boards, Book Gason, Wardrobos Washstands, Bureaus, Cottage Setts, Whatnots | Extension Tables Mahogany, Caneand Wood Seat Rooking Chaira I Mahogany, Cane and Wood Seat Setting Chairs | Cribs, Cradles Truudlo Bodsteads and Cottages Bedsteads Every stylo Looking Olassea and Mattrasse*. I FIVE HUNDRED PAIR WINDOW SHADES | just received, together with a lot of WALL PA? PER AND BORDERING. Main Street, opposite Express O?ice,\ UP STAIRS. Feb 23-tf J. E. Snares, NO. 3 GROCERIES. TUE ONLY STRICTLY Grocery and Liquor House | IN TOWN THE UNDERSIGNED,bega leave to j cnll tho attention of his friends and tho | public generally to his NEW AND WELL SELECTED STOCK OF Heavy and Fancy Groceries Willoh ho offer* low for CASH ONLY. All articlca warranted as rccommcoded ?BB* Pure Modioinal Liquors kopt constantly on hand. J. II. EBERIIART. April 13 tf MARBLE YARD TUE undersigned would most respectfully annuunco to tho people of Sumter and sur? rounding country has ho have just received . | SPLENDID LOT OF IVE Ck, rbi o ? and is now prcpnrod to receive and execute or* dors of all kinds in his linc, with nearness and dispatoli, IRON RAILING FURNISHED TO ORDER W. P. S M I T H, SUMTER, S. C. Nvo- 17 C. T. MASON, j 1 WATCH MAKER AND JEWELER. SUMTER, S. C. Has just received and keeps always oa hand | Now and Beautiful Styles of JEWELRY, EYEGLASSES, &C. WATCHES, CLOCKS and JEWELRY RE PAIRED WITH DISPATCH. MarchSl O. F. HOYT. SUCCESSOR TO I HOYT, SO. CA. "^yOULD respectfully inform his frionds| and tho publio of Sumter, and unjoining counties, that he bas recently roccived a oholco ??lec? tion of LADIES' AND GENTLEMENS' "\7V atones, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE SPECTACLES, &c, &c, His stock embraces all ??the latest stylos, and will bo sold at reasonablo rates. Sept 20 _ ROBERT BROUN, Architect, County Surveyor, -AND Mechanical Engineer? WILL ATTEND TO ANY BUSINESS EN trusted to him with accuraoy and despatob. Refers to FOES OR FR?KND8. Address, Manohester Juno 29-3m LOTH AIR, LUCK OF ROARING CAMP, Curiosities of Litoraturo, Old Curiosity Shop, Pickwick Pupers, and nil tho lato publications of the day to be bad at publisher's pricos, At TUE SUMTER BOOK STORK. July 27 ??JiuX X Milli JMJJD XrLf?M ltU?T. BY MRS. B. ANDERSON. -~"W? eunik? oar lives sublime, And departing, lear? behind us Foot prints on the sands of time; "Foot prints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er lire's solemn main, A forlorn ana shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. "Let us, then, be ap and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achier lng, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." "And bow do yon employ yourself, when school ia ovor V asked Hugh Lan* rte of one of bis companions. "Why, I play, of course," replied i laude Danvers, whom he had address? ed. "What 1 all the evening, and on holi? days also ?" ?Yes, indeed 1" "And do you never study ?" "No, thank you : I have enough of that in school-hours. Is a fellow never to have any enjoyment?" "Yes, certainly : and I love a game of ball, or a good race, as much as you do. But what will that avail when we grow up ? It is essential to acquire knowl? edge." "Oh, bosh 1" And Claude turned away from his friend in disgust. Let us follow those two boys to their homes. It was a lovely afternoon in June. The sky above was a oloudless blue, and tho sun's rays lighted up every objeot, (rom the lofty, glittering spire down to the poor, cheerless alley. What a pity to pass such a day in a orowded, pent? up city ! How glorious it would be out in the wild woods, away from the heat and dust and shadowless streets ! On? of the boys sauntered along, as if overpowered by thu exertion, to a hand? some, brown stone house with marble steps-for Claude's father was a rich merchant. He flung down his books and hat, and threw himself upon a com? fortable lounge, saying, "Oh, any one can pick them up !" A plate of strawberries and cream was prepared for Lim. "Minnie," he called, "bring me anoth? er spoon ; I have dropped mine some? where." So his little sister attended upon him -not Irom love, but because she feared to disobey the youthful tyrant. "Now, I'll take a nap," said he. "Wake me up when supper is ready." Let us look upou a more pleasant picture. Hugh Laurie walked briskly to his some, a little four-room house in a quiet lut-of-the.way street. He hung up his tat, put aside his books, was contented ?vith a drink of cool water, and thought itrawberrics-without the cream-a de ?ghtful relish to his supper. "Have you any crrauds this evening nother?" "Yes, my son : a dress to send home, [t is a long way and too lonely for Katie ; but she will be glad to walk vith you, this pleasant evening." Hugh sighed, but not audibly. He cit weary, and had to stud,) several cssons for the morning; hut, never ni nd, he could rise an hour earlier. Mi, how wise it is to make light of ittle troubles ; to hoed them not, but jut them asido as we pass by. Imagine :ach one merely a straw, and sea how hey accumulate, aud how the pleasant iat li way is crowded, hiding the bright lowerets and green leaves from our new. . , Mrs. Laurie was a widow. During ier husband's lifetime they had known >etter days, but their means died with lim ; and since then, it was hard work o support herself and two children ; lut she struggled bravely on, submit? ing to many a deprivation for their lakes. Seeing the bent of her son's nind, she endeavored to procure him t good education, and for that purpose he poor mother toiled early and late, [n tne evenings, Hugh was his sister's cacher,-unknowingly to himself strengthening his own mind as his stu lies of tho day wero simplified and im )artcd to his willing pupil. "Oh, brother, what a kind lady ! She has given me these flowers, and ent mo such a beautiful book ! said vatio, returning from the houso where ihe left tho dress, to her brother, who md waited without. "Hero's mother's noney : you must carry that." "But what is thc book, sis ?" for tho rcry name of book had a in agio i ti fl n ?nee upon Hugh. "A work on botany, with engravings : [ ohose it myself. Now, I shall find mt so much I wished lo know." What a pleasant sight it soon became o watch those children examining and ossifying their flowers, and consulting ho botanical treaties to learn their lames 1 And Katie dreamed she was trans? lortcd into fairy-land whoo she went to >ed that night, and every flower she )chcld was tho home of a littlo fairy, ilappy Katie ! may your dreams always ie as sweet and innooont 1 The summer with its beautiful bios toms, and tho autumn with its rich raits, came and wont. That long va jation also was onded. How differently iad it boen passed by the two boys ! Jlaudo lounging about during the day's ieat,and in the cooler hours of the ?vening playing round the door,-the 'hateful books," put away out of his light. But poor Hugh !-no, he is above our >Uy 1 Hugh earned many a dollar du ing those weeks by hard manual labor; ' md thore on his bookshelves, were the ' ividenco of his industry aud determi talion. "I bought them myself," he j vould proudly exclaim, as ho pointed bern out to his admiring friends. Occasionally, the brother and sister 1 inssed a happy day in the woods, Hugh in reading and ia meditating on < shat he read, and Katie io gathering ? treasures for her loved study. But alta I th? poor mother fell Bick. She had over-worked herself during the worm weather, and before the win? ter had ende tl, Hugh was compelled to leave school, that by his labor he might help io the support of the little house* hold. Though his employment was distasteful to him, laating from early morning until sundown, the brave boy toiled on' uncomplainingly, growing the more manly by his self-denying disci pline. The former schoolmates seldom met, for Claude looked down disdainfully upon the soiled, rough garments of the stone outtor's boy, and if aeoompanied by oth? ers did not even stay to speak to Hugh as he passed him by. A few years went over. Diligence and firm purpose and integrity met with their reward, as they always will in life. Hugh Laurie, then a fine, noble looking youth, was apprenticed to a marble mason. After tho day's labor he at? tended a drawing olass, and, determined to attain success, left all his foHow-stu . dents far behind him. With a eorreot eye and fine taste, he drew designs, and skilfully moulded them into form. A group of leaves, or classic vase under his patient hand, always took graceful outlines of beauty. In time, at an Art exhibition, a prise of merit wss awarded to Hugh ; and from that day ho received higher wages and held a bettor position in bis profession. "Wish me joy, Katie," he exclaimed, joyfully, as he entered the room at the close of the week and laid down his money. "See the consequences of perseve ranoo." "Ye ,, Hugh ; and since I helped mother, we have so much work. To? day two young ladies oame us appren? tices ; but oh, Hugh, guess who one of them was !" "Indeed, that would be impossible, not having thc timo to make the acquain? tance of young ladies." "You will be sorry so hear. It was Minnie Danvers. Her father is now a bankrupt. Their fine house and splen? did furniture are sold ; and Minnie says she will now have to earn her own liv? ing. She is only fifteen,-one year younger than I am ; but she has such olovcr little fingers, and such a willing disposition, that wo shall soon teach her." "And Claude ?" "Minnie was crying about him to-day. C'laudo really does not know bow to do anything, lie tried a situation in an oOico, but oame so late every morniug that he was dismissed; theo another as book keeper, but for that he was not competent. Is it not a pity ?" Her brother was silent. Memory carried bim back to the old schcol days and the former wide disparity between Claude and himself. Hugh did not feel triumphant now, though one was rising and tho other descending ic tho social scale ; but be was thankful for having had the privilege of toil. "It is sad, indeed, Katie; but it veri? fies the old, trite saying, 'Better rub than rust V " "if you had possessed his advantages, what might you not have been !" and the young girl gazed admiringly upon her brother. "Sister, you and mother never knew wbut I suffered in being compelled to leave school before I had time to gradu? ate. It was my aim and hope to study for the ministry. I used to picture myself ordained and appointed pastor to some sweet country place, where I could offer you both a quiet, pleasant home, but our early dreams are seldom reali? zed, I believe. We see now how much better it is that we have had to fight our way in life's battle. But poor Claude, unable to work, what will be? come of bim ?" "They have powerful friends, Hugh, and may be assisted." "I thank 'Our Father' for thoso he has given rae !" and Hugh held out his two strong, brown bands. "Oh, no ! Those were but the slaves of the will : this, the master-spirit, to order and control," and Katie's delicate little hand touched his brow. "My children," oalled thoir mother, "you seem to be holding a philosophi? cal argument ; and the supper is grow? ing cold. So plcaso to postpone it, and oomo in the other roora." I wish you could see the houso where the Lauries now live,-a fow miles away from tho great Northern oity, where they passed those years of poverty. It is surrounded by a large garden, and tho variety of shrubs and flowers makes a pretty study. And Katie bas also a conservatory to shelter her exotics and tendor blossoms in severe weather. Hugh goes daily to the oity whero bis business gives em? ployment to many men, while his own skillful hands perform the purely artis tio portion of the work. An? Hugh is cow a well known sculp tor, and has acquired both wealth one renown. What prizes may not indorai table energy achieve ? Contrast thes< two boys, my young readers, os wo firs! met them : for it is in youth wo shoult look forward to manhood. And, likt Hugh Laurie, work, if only at first lowly as he did. "Gathering from the pavement* orevioe, a* i floweret of the soil, The nobility of Ubor,-the long pedigree- of toil.1 - An Ohio editor is getting particu? lar about what ' ke eats. Hear him "Tlie woman who made the butter wbioi we bought last week is respectfully ro quested to use more judgment it proportioning tho ingredients. Tho las batch had too much hair in it for buttor ?nd not quite enough for a waterfall There is no sen io in making yoursel baldheaded if butter is sixty-five conti i pound." - An eminent physician says mos sosos of typhoid fever are caused by fou gases arising from feather-beds. the North Carolina Victory. THE PRINCIPLES OF THE REFORM PARTY TRIUMPHANT. The Negroes Assured of Good Faith. GONSBBVATIVB ADDRESS. FELLOW-CITIZENS : We congratulate you upon the complete and coble victory which you have just vron at the ballot box. A victory of troth, j ust ?co, liberty aud law, over corruption and high hand? ed usurpation and tyranny. Let us enjoy our triumph with the same dig? nity and moderation which characteri? zed us aa a people, before and during the excitement of the eleotion. It waa the polioy of some of tho lea? ders of our opponents, to drive vs into violent resistance and efforts were made to do so by repeated instances of law? lessness and oppression. But thanks to the good sense of our people they failed, signally failed, in their wicked purposes, and the whole American people now see too plainly to be misled in the fu? ture, that the military movement set on foot here, was gotten up upon false pretences by desperate men, for the purpose of carrying the election and keeping themselves in power. Seeing the rising indignation of the honest people of the State, suffering as they were from all the ills arising from ft wastoiul and corrupt administration of the State government, and that all was lost to them, unless something could be done to avert popular condemnation, they deliberately planned and attempted to execute tho desperate sehemo of military violence whioh the country has Been enacted, in the hope and with the expectation that tho people, alarmed, overawed and helpless, would tamely yield thir rights and allow thc olection to go by default. The result has shown how much they were mistaken in the character of the peoplo in North Carolina We vory well know, fellow oitizens that this is not a mero party triumph true it is, the viotory has been won in the name of our party. But let us not Forget that is a victory due in a great legree to the uprising of honest and conservative men of all parties. The alection returns show that thousands, who in tbe former elections voted with .ho Radical party, have come to our aid ind helped us to win tho signal triumph .vh?ch -;ow gladdens our hearts. Even .he colored race, controlled as it hither* ;o baa been by ovil counsels and gros? misrepresentations of our motives aud purposes as to them, in many portions )f the State, in very cousideruble nura jers, broke away from the trammels in vhich they were bound and materially tided in swelling our majorities. To the colored people wo say, fear lothing. Wc pledged ourselves in thc egislativc address issued in March last, hat all their rights under the constitua ion and laws of the oountry, in case of ?ur .success, would be alike respected and protected with those of white citizens. Time will show that these pledges will >e faithfully redeemed. Wo know that ifforts will still be made to alarm, de? udo and mislead them, for without heir aid the faction that has just been lefeuted, will hereafter be powerless The interests of thc white and colored aces in North Carolina are the same, md what injures one will surely and nevitnbly result iu injury to the other, jct there then be uo strife between hem. Let each respect tho rights of he other and peace and harmony will >revail. The Governor of the State, as you are .ware, has assumed to himself the right, kt bis will, to have arrostcd any citizen if tho State, and to detain bim at his ?leasure, although the highest judicial ifficer of the State has decided that the ?rivilege of the writ of habeas corpus, ccured by the Constitution of the State, annot bo and is not susponded. Never? helcss, the Governor has refusod ibedienco to such writs when issued by ho Chief Justice. The guilt or inno lenceoftho parties held in arrest bas lothing to do with this matter. A great [ucstion of civil liberty is involved, and to free peoplo or a peoplo fit to be free rill over consent to yield it. Let the >urtics seized and held in custody be urned over to the civil authorities. If nnocent, let them bo discharged, if ;uilty of any violation of law, let them >o lawfully tried and punished. Fortunately, whilo tho Chief Justice if thc Stato has declared himself powor css to have thc law practically enforced, hero is full protection given to overy litizon by the constitution and laws ol he United States, in such cases, and we .rc gratified to inform you that.Judge brooks of tho United States District Jourt, has issued writs of habeas corpus n tho ?amo of Ute United States, or Icring the parties held in custody to bc trought before him, in order that tho auso of their .seizure and detention may te enquired into, and relief be granted f they should bo entitled to it. Will the Governor have theso writs ibeyed ? Wo hope so. But thore are amors abroad that ho will not. A few lays at the utmost will determine. This, lowcver, wo can safely say, that if he cfuscs obedionce to tho writs he will v ly plunge deoper into difficulties. Tho law of the land, in overy well egulated system of government, must ie obeyed. Ho who contemns its ?om naods may, for a time, evade tho con cquenccs, but in tho end he will surely ie held to strict account, whether ho its in high places or is found in thc lumblcst walka of lifo. None is to ligh as to bo above the law, and none o low that it will not roach him. Our earnest, wish is, and we aro suro hat it is the wish ot tho great mass o ur peoplo, that pcaco, good order and bedicnoo to the lawn of the land may rtvi.il in every part of the State. Wo have just eloctod a Legislature, a irgo majority of which is composed of \ mea ot character and intelligence. We oan now look forward with confident hopo that the State government hereaf? ter, entrusted to honest and capable hands, will prove a blessing and not a curse to our people, as it has beeu during the present State administration. THOMAS BRAGG, Ch'm. A. S. MERRI MON. M. A. BLEDSOB, J. Q. DEOARTERET, JAS. H. MOORE, CHAS. M. BUSBEE, JAS. J. LITO H FORD, Domoor?tio Conservative Cent. Ex. Com. [From the New York World.] A FEW FKIKNDLY WORDS TO TUB SOl/XH. We are not auoh novioes as to be un? aware that the people who volunteer advioe are not likely to be repaid with thanks. We also understand that it is not quite in aooordanoe with the time? honored prinoiples of the Demooratio party for poople of one State or class of States to counsel the people of another State or class of States respecting the management of their internal conoerns. We nevertheless feel impelled to ask the attention of our Southern breth? ren to a few words of truth and sober? ness. The oppressive domination, under whioh the South suffers is a domination from without, and there is no reasonable hope of redress exoept by relief from external tyranny. If the South possess? ed freedom ot internal action, unasked advice would indoed be intrusive and impertinent. But that seotion can be relieved .from the incubus of Federal domination only by Democratic victories in the North ; and this is a valid apol? ogy for tho advice we presume to offer. As the Soutb needs our aid, it must not spurn our friendly counsel. From 1860 down to the present time many leading minds in the South have been afflicted with political blindness. It was a supremo act of political folly to split the Charleston Convention by the lamentable schism whioh brought two Democratic candidates-Douglas iud Breckenridge-into the field against Lincoln, and secured his first election. The Northern Democrats who abetted that schism were syoophanta of the South, not real friends. Prominent imong them wore Ben. Butler, who aromptly deserted to the Radicals ; Daniel S. Dickenson, who took office luder Mr. Lincoln ; Caleb Cushing, who tas been the paid counsel of successive Radical administrations ; and John A. llix, thc submissive tool of Lincoln and Seward in shutting up the offices of] Democratic newspapers. These are spe? cimens. The supporters of Mr. Doug ass, on the other hand, pitched their jrofessions of friendship in a lower key, mt have maintained them to tho present lour. If Mr. Douglass had been elect id, we should have had no civil war, md the South would have been exempt rom its deplorable train of consoquenocs. The wisdom of Douglas consisted in his torroct appreciation of the tone and tem )er of the Northern people. He saw that j t he safety of the South depended on a itrong Northern alliance, and that such m alliance was practicable only on a basis >f moderation. What was true in 1860 s trebly true now, when thc North has ?till greater weight and preponderance ; vhcu tho Radicals control every depart neut of the Federal governments,and n argo majority of the State governments, fhe South can be relieved ouly by North trnDemocratio intervention, and North tm Dcmoarats may claim to understand he publio sentiment ofjlhissection better ban our impracticable Southern broth en. Unless they will permit us to act ipon our better knowledge of tho situa ion, they must resign themselves to he tender mercies of Radical domina ion. < Wc tell thom therefore, in all candor t nul plainness, that they only rivet their c mains by further opposition to negro t uffrago. lt is not by negro rotes that they aro oppressed, but by vhitc votes. It is vain for thom to io ?cribe on their political banners that hey are a "white man's party" so long is their tyrants consist of a Congress ilectcd by whito votes. Negro suffrage s the resnlt of a white movement. The logroes did not ask for suffrage till the viii to Radicals put it into their heads. The negroes would vote rightly enough, f the white Radicals did not mislead and lecetve them. Tho infamous reconstruct? ion laws wore passed by a Congress, in vbioh tho South were not represented at ll; by a Congress, therefore, which was rholly elected by white constituents. It s not by negroes that tho South is op? pressed, but by white men; ?ts most dan ;erous encu?e.) aro tho white Radicals if the North ; and it is ridiculous to ox icct redress from "a whito mau's party," rhen a party nf white men arc thc au hors of all the mischief. Is Grant a no ;ro '( Is Holden a negro? Was old Thad Itovens a negro, or elected by negro onslitucnts ? Ibu not Europe grouncd or ages under priestly craft and kingly yranny, without a negro among all her pprc8.sor8 ? Aro the English oppressors f Ireland negroes? Wa? Poland dismcui ered by negroes ? Is Cuba held in sub action by a nation of negroes ? unfortu at ely, a great part of human history eon ists of recitals of white tyranny und ppression ; and nothing could bo more reporterons than to expect justice from a whito man's party" on thc sole ground hat. its members are white. What the South needs to bo roscuod rom is tho domination of the white iud ic.il party of tho Nort h, whioh has ontrolled Congress for ton years. The outhorn peoplo would havejno difficulty i managing tho negroes if they worn -ced from whito Radical interferor.ee xcrted through the F?deral govorn lent. In North Carolina, it is Holden's lartial law, backed by Grant's bayonets, li?t keeps the State undor Radical ontrol. In Georgia, the Radicals dare not hasard an election, ?nd the Legisla I tnre ts passing an ?ot, under color of Congressional authority, to continue the present Radical officers in authori? ty beyond the term for which they were chosen. It is not negro toting, but outside Federal pressure, that ia the unmanageable element In Southern politics. The only means of relief is a Solitioai revolution in the North, and outhern Democrats must conoede that our opportunities for knowing the North aro better than theirs. We ask the Southern Demoorats to reooguize the fact that the North is the real battle-ground of political freedom for their section. Here, where the viotory is to be won, if won at all, we have no negro voters worth naming. It is a contest between two parties of white men, and a perpetuation of the old quarrel about tho rights of the ne? gro only strengthening the enemy. The negro question is the only one on which the'Radioal party agree ; it is their only prinoiple of oobesion. The surest way to prevent the disintegration of the Republican party is to keep that ques? tion alive and continue to farce it upon the country as a politioal issue. The Demoorats can become a majority only by drawing off some Republioan votes ; but on the negro issue, the Republican party can easily hold its own, and so long as it retains the control of Con? gress, there can be no freedom in the South. If that seotion will heed the timely advice given in the Democratic Congressional address, and drop "dead issues," wo can easily revolutionize the lower branoh of Congress in this year's elections, now close at hand. We ask the Southern Demoorats, both for their sake and for ours, to put no obstaelo iu the way of our achieving this viotory. Wheu the Federal government is once more in Domooratio bands, we are quite willing they should manage their local politics in their own way, and will not then intrude upon them any unwelcome advice. REFOBn IN EOGEFIELD. Speedie? or Kev. Jona? Byrd and EX ?overuor Boahani, [Correspondence Charleston Newt.] EDQEFIELD, August 1. To day at high noon a large audionce gathered in the Courthouse to listen to i speech from the Rev. Jonas Byrd, of Charleston, a prominent colorod man of the Union Reform party. He has been here for some days on business connected with the interests of his party. The Courthouse was filled to its utmost capacity, and at least one-half of tho ni dieu co consisted ot colored men. The Rev. D. D. Rrunson was called to the di air, and Robt. A. Lynoh and George Sinikius, colored, wero requested to aot ts secretaries. Tho speaker was in? troduced by the chair, and spoke* at ength on the issues of the day. He laid that he had served as a delegate from Charleston to the Reform Conven? tion in Columbia, and that tho platform idopted by that convention guaranteed o his race all the privileges and fran? chises that were vouchsafed to them by ;ho constitution and the laws of the and. He believed in the honor and ntcgrity of the mon who composed thal sonvention, and ho believed that when hey pledged themselves to that plat? form that they meant to carry out theil il edges in good faith. All that is neoes lary for tho welfare and prosperity ol tis people were seoured to them by thal ))atform, and that ho had espoused thc sause of tho Reform party beoauso lu louestly believed it would bo to thc jeuefit of his race and of all tho people >f tho State for it to triumph over th? lorrupt government now in power in thc State. He had been told that he hoc leserted the Republioan party anc urned his back upon his race. H< Icuouoccd it as a falsehood worso that hat which the devil had perpetrated it ho garden of Eden. He was as good i Republican as any in the State Sau he speaker, whilst in the convention ii Columbia, 1 bad the honor to addres hat body, and standing in my place '. icld out my right arm and said that, i '. believed that I was doing aught t njuro the wolfaro of my rnco, I wouh ; u lier this arm to be out off or tobecom dithered at my side before I woul uffor myself to bo made a tool of to op tress my people. I repeat it here tc lay, that I would enduro any tortu >efore I would become a willing instru neut in depriving them of any of thoi ights. Hu said that the Rep?blica nany had raised up a great wall c >rejudico between the black people an ho white people of South Carolina. L'hat carpet baggers had como iuto th State, and told the colored people tbs hey were their friends, aud that thc ind set them free. He denied it. Th var was nut fought for that purpos They were freed by the Providence < ?od. These carpet baggers availe hcmsclvca of that plea to get into of?o ind they bad been thieving and pim lering tho Stato ever since. He sai nany of them carno hero without econd shirt to their backs, and now, i wo years, they wero revelling io luxur nd boasted of their thousands aud thu cns of thousands. Ho showed un tl Mi os ph. a tc bill ; charged tho Lcgislatu rith the most unscrupulous and ut dualling bribery and corruption ; sa hat tho Land Ring had stolen nine housand dollars at one dash and und he cover of one transaction ; that tin iud purchased lands in lancaster ai Iscwbere, which were not worth tt lullars per acre, and sold them to tl roed people for eight dollars per nor hat they had voted fifty thousand do Etre for the support of froe schools at ppropriatod thirty one thousand ai ive hundred ot this to pay tho sehe ommissioners, besides a heavy sala o the superintendent of education, ai ie had no doubt that tho pittuuee tb i II" j tiiiiri-itni i i . WM left had been stolen belora it reach? ed its legitimate destination. If these be our frisad*, God ?are us fro SB our friends ! Th? speaker ?sid that the Republican party did not deny that thora had been corruption and dis? honesty in that part/. That it was too glaring and flagrant to be denied. He referred to the enormous taxation, and asked what benefits had been oonterred upon the masses. He also showed up a few of the transactions of the Edgefieid County oom mission ere. He said be hsd il from the best authority, (the books of the internal revenue assessor,) that there were thirty-fir o licensed liquor-dealers in Edgefieid County. The county oom missioners had charged fifty dollars the first year, and one hundred dollars the seoond year, whiob would mske upwards of $5000 for licenses, and that they had only made a return of twenty-two Hun? dred dollars collected by them in two years. Another gigantic swindle and fraud upon the people. They had charged the country thirty-five hundred dollars for their services, when they should not hare oharged moro than five hundred. Still another instance of the fattening of public officials upon the spoils of office, wrung from the people by dishonest means; and at the same time the poor people who sat ou juries, and did other small jobs for the public, had to hawk their tickets and drafts about the streets and sell thom for fifty ocnts on the dollar.. The above is but a brief synopsis of the telling and scathing speech of this honest pioneer of tho colored men. He was listened to rery attentively by all parties, and was frequently interrupted with applause. Governor Bonham was then oalled upon, and he responded in a short and spirited address. He said, among other things, that he was glad to welcome to Edgefieid suoh moo of the Republican party as Judge Carpentor and Mr. Byrd, and that he could take them by the hand and call thom his fiiends. At tho dose ot his speech the meeting adjourned. Within the last few days there bare been good rains in some portions of tho county where they were greatly needed. They were not general, however, and some sections are still suffering. The crops are now about laid by, ?nd except tho few sections abor? alluded to, they are said to be doing rery well. J TUB " W111 TX Ii ?TCO It li PARTY.?* When suoh a man as Whittemore is not only re-elected to the pisos-ia Con? gross which he dingraced by his corruption, but is made the prominent Sguro in a State oonvontion of his party, it is not hard to soe ?hat a dangerous olass of politioians and a debased condi? tion of political morals are again upper most in South Carolina. No fairminded, intelligent American, whatever bis party leanings may be, can hare any >ther feeling than that of disgust for :ho political chicanery that leads to such ?umiliating results, nor should he hare my other language for them than un jualifiod condemnation. [Philadelphia Ledger. fJSRFITI* RECIPES. To choose nutmegs, prick them with i pin ; if the oil comes out they are rood. To giro a gloss to shirt bosoms and lollara, add a piece of white wax and ipermaceti, each about the size of a pea, o a pint of starch, while boiling Iron intil smooth, as frioton puts on the (loss. WHITEWASH. THAT WILL NEVER RUB OEF. We find the following recommended : Mix up half a pailful of lime and wa er ; take half pint of flour and make a tarch of it, and pour it into the white rash while hot. Stir it well, and maka t ready for use. TA LB BB,AR1NG? Never repeat a story unless you are ortuin it is correct, and not even then inlets something is to be gained, either >f interest to yourself or for the good of ho person concerned. Tattling is ncau and wicked practice, and he who udulgcs in it grows moro fond of it in iroportion as he is successful. If you ?avo, no good to say of your neighbor, lever reproach his character by telling hat which is false. Hu who tolls you he faults of others intends to tell others if your fa tilts, and so the dish of news is landed from one to another till tho able becomes enormous. - A PLANTER near Savannah coo? lgood his cotton crop to a merchant, o hat city, who sold the goods, pocketed ho money, aud then failed, after whioh ie wrote thus to his too confiding ?ountrynian : "Dear friend, I ncknow edge I spent your money. I fool tba leaven has forgiven tho sin, and I trust hat you will, as I've taken thc benefit ?8 if tho bankrupt act. Affectionately 'our friend." - A Tempor?neo lecturer, descanting m tho superior virtues of cold water, emarked : "Whcu tho world had bo lomc so corrupt that tho Lord could do tothing with it, ho was obliged to givo t a thorough souping in oold water." 'Yes," repliod n toper present, ''but it billed every critter on the face of the larth." - An "exchange says: "Wyoming laving tried female jurors, now proposes o scud a woman to Congress. If thc roman hns dono any thing that the aw? of Wyoming are not sufficiently tringent to properly punish, send hor o Congress by all moana-and may O od lave mercy on her. - Tho latest stylo in gold bracelets > in the shape of a fluted muslin cuff, nd is mado of burnished gold with a iam JIU! button and ruhby button hole. V tk????????* ! i????????l0??i JOB WtIRK rig-Wf!t^ 0 .' EVERY DESCRIPTION PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT TUB ? , . ???..??" - OFFICE Of .. , ? I . . ., vf.-. ,.. I \ i The Sumter Watchman, --IN THE" Highest Style of the Art SPICE BOX. - A Dentist's Oath-Bj Qdm 1 - Arc? Railings-Caterwaling. - It's very profitable j oat now turning cowa into th? fields: - The first fire angelical alllaooe Adam's marriage io Eden. - Wheo are stays like snob* f Wheo they're a coarse set. - Faooh's ad vico ta Persons who hare "Fallen in Love"-Fall Ont. - "I?unger is the bebt Sauoe j" ergo, the Hungriest is the moat aaaoy. - M iso ry lores company-so does fi marriageable young lady. -* ODO hundred women are now pre? paring themselves for admission ' to the bar in the United States. - Portland, Me., olaims the Champion mean man, saying ho insisted upon be? ing admitted to a panoi ama at half price bcoauao he has but one eye. - A girl near Dayton, 0., recently pron a bonnet by throwing her father twice out of threo times in a wrestling match. - Tallow Chandler said he didn't neon any disparagement to the sun irhen he said that his oandles were the jest lights over invented. Gen. Robert Anderson, the defender >f Fort Sumter in April 1861, is in Europe, in bad health, and is selling lis books for bread. -- An Illinois poatinaner gives notioo is follows : "After this date, every >ody must liok their own postage tamps, for my tongue's give out. - A man out West, hearing that dry lopperas put in a bed of ?nts would lause them to loave, put some in his nother-in.law's bed to see if she would ;o. He says she was thoro at last ac? counts. - On a tombstone in a churchyard n Ulster is the following epitaph : Erected to the memory of John Phil? ips, accidentally shot as a mark of, flection by his brother." - "I never shot a bird in my life," aid a gentleman to an Irishman, who eplied : "I never shot any thing in the haps of a bird but a squirrel, which I .illed with a sione, and it fell into the iver and was drowned." - "Remomber, Mrs. B., said Bobas, a a fluster, one day, "that you are the renker vessel." "May be so," retorted he lady, "but I'll take care you shan't orget that tho weaker vessel may have ?ie stronger spirit in it." - A young lady who was rebuked by er mother for kissing her intended^ istified the aot by quoting tho passage whatsoever ye would that men should o to you do yo even so to them." - The Rocky Mountain News tells ol a enthusiastic young Missourian, who ulogizing thc boauty of his "gal," said I'll be doggoned if she a'n't as pretty 3 a red wagon." -? A Boston business man remarks o native poet : "He is one of those mer ho have soarings after the infinite ant iviogs after the unfathomable, but wht ever pays oash." - Boy of the period.-"Sammy, mj >n, run to tho store and get somi igar." "Excuse mo, ma, I am somewhat in isposed this morning. S?nd fathoi nd tell him to bring me a pound o maceo." - The oldest newspaper in the worl i published in Pekin. It is printed o large shoot of silk, and, it is said, ha lade a weokly appcarence for upwar Ta thousand years. -Congress refuses to restore Mri encrai Leo tho property stolen froi erat Mount Vernon, but voted $23,00 year to Mrs. Lincoln. - It has boen curiously shown, 1 io French Academy, that certain planl reas sensitive to tho influence of obie iforra as animals. A gentleman in Iudirtona says i note accompanying a letter for publ ition in the Louisville Oourior Jouroa I sometimes misspelt a word, and it osible I havo spelt sioafant roog." - A young lady from the rural di; ?iota went to Des Moines to seo a lephant. In tho street-curs th.? cot udor said to her: "Miss, your fare Well, if I am," ?ho replied, "I don ant any moro of your impertiitouoo - A young man who took son ?vere lessons from the faro ba uk ors tis city last winter has lately be minting his "friends" into the myst es of the game at Pittsburg, Penn. t cost one man $1300 to ?ec how as dono. -- At Kingston Canada, a dry-goc erk was recently accommodated wi ie lonu of a revolvor to blow out I rains with, in order to spite a la ho had rejected him and marri aotiier. On subor second thought, dd the-revolver and gol drunk. - ADOLPHE TITI GO?, the Pren istoriun and slatc.sn, in, said, in t rcat speech which hu delivered on t rmy bill in tho Corps L?gislatif, Ju D :-"Prussia, formerly had only 1! 00,000 people at her di.-posal, but I ow 40,000,000." - Tho desire fur liquor-drinki terns to bo on the inorcaio in Pilli at Ilia. Tlie Clerk of the Court ofQaat essions has ju3t issued 3310 tav censes. U is a pity thc Piiiladolphi in't contrive to enjoy their "bruthi ?vo" without thc aid of liquor. - A Texas editor has Imd presen > him by his admiring lady readers mhroiderd shirt, whioh presents a pit lal history of the Stat ., including loxioan war. Tho editor woars llirt outside ol his co it. and where e goes he is followed by a orowd of liring boys studying tho specimen ie fine ?rt* on his hack and book tonisclrcs in Texis p ?lit io*. \