Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TUESDAY MORNIN0, 27 Mrs. Dr. JNo. IV. dplate :accept our thanks for , large atd fine mess of snap-b9ans, which came to hand Saturday last. To Mr. JNo. G. WILNon we return our special thanks for late papers, from which .copious extracts will be found elsewhere. Under our latest news head will be 'found 4 paragraph which says that the Hon. Lswis E. PAnsogs has been ap pointed Provisional Governor of South -Carolina. This, wethjnli is a mistake, and the general tenor of the article in question warrant us in this expressoin. The paragraph Jn question is beaded "South Carolinas',and says that the gen tieman has leen appointed "Provisional Governor of that State." The heading should have been "Alabama," as Mr. PARSONS is of Alabama, and a gentle. man of some note of that State. Uow the President could have ap pointed a gentleman liviig in, and a na tive of, Alabama, as Provisional Govern or of South Carolina, is a matter of inys. tory to us, especially as we have gentlc men of much ability among us, who are well qualified for the position. Surely the printer is at fault in this instance,-at least we hope it will turn out so. Dannot Bro. PrNNINGTON, from whose paper we make the extract (7he Raleigh Progress) enlighten us on the subjept. Quite a new mode of punishing way ward darkies took place Saturday after noon last, under the direction of our Provost Marshal. A barrel was pro cured, placed under a running gutter and a refractory darkey made to stand on top until-he wasgretty well ducked. Such pu4ishmont is -summary, eid we hope vill have the desired effect,-that of stopping the plantittion negroes from running to town with every loose story of some,great wrong. Servothem right if they can take a joko. "Thinking Aloud." 1 NOT THINKING ALLOwED ? It is a curioqw matter 'of speculation how far the result of thd late great strug' gle ftot, olitical ascendancy betiveen the North and the South . is to affect the fundamental-principles, and original com promises, of the Constitution ; or wheth er any Constitution is hereafter to be .reoognired at all. The triumph of 'the consolidationists is the overthrow of that great pillar of Republicanism, $tates Rights. Strict constructionists, are swept away by' latitudinarians. Regulated, .constitutional . liberty, is transformed into the unrestrained will of the dominant party. Emancipation opens a Pandora's box upon the social instjtutions ~of :the South ;. our whole tute law is'to be r ted. -1E s the gua e d courts of I ersonal libe at e 'bayonet, righ ted on -a when ee himnseIf; JoHN efetid' s) t 'hitberto ermine, throi the' stiaalid .filthe and obscene vul rity 'of negro e'3ffrage., Of what avail are the reserved rights of .the States, w hen tea~ert them, isto brir down, the deighitf'venge~ance of impe rial consolidation about your head. "The * citizens of each hja salal ,boe ntitled' to all privilegeshand hemninities 'of citi zens in th~e severalSides,' Pali I WKb are the citizens? Wha1t privileges? What immunities ? Who qAtotes the constituition ow ? IV~e, ipaliit, frutorniek; 4b'?i' ' klle,-ili for "Farewill to ti y ansu my c mi try. ~-~ - .- Resume oct. & The' Atlanta 4ZlU9a r~~la he was releasedis not nrrown fuq4~ 0 4,od Jogin4' who tgt6h that efqe, The nerY b aid4 and direct4btto re port p LioN, at .Maco e is also, in e- liealth, and has been treat-' ed with much consideration and kind ness by the ,military authorities ever since his arrest. The New York Times says that it is ascertained on unquestionable proof that the explosion, of the ordnance boat at City Point last Summer, . whereby some eighty lives were lost and a large amount of property destroyed, was the work of rebel agents, and was paid for with rebel gold furnished from the rebel State Department. At a proper time full evidence in respect to the matter will be furnished by Gen. HALLECK through the War Department. The Richmond papers contradict the statement published in certain Northern journals, to the effect that the recent elections were carried by the disunion ists. The Republic says that elections have so far been held only in six coun ties, but that riot a man has been chosen who is not willing to stand by Gov. PIERPOINT and the adniinistration, 'and to labor zealously for the maintenance of the constitution and the preservation of the Union. A riot, or something like it, has oc. curred in Washingtou. It began by the the lawless conduct of certain discharg. ed soldiers, who undertook to destroy a few hounses of ill-fame and plunder the inmates. Some of these were occupied by nearoes, and especially against the blacks did the rioters operate. They were put down by tha military, but not until a great many persons had been badly hurt. The trial of LrsW1 ROSnNTIA, and J. B. MERRICK, known as the "Lake Erie Pirates," is in progress before the United States Court at Cleveland. The testimony so, far, is that of Cori., one of the chief' in the plot, who has turned State's evidence. His state ments fully implicate TrmioxsoN, CLAY and other leaders in Canada, in the busi. ness. Dr. BLAcKnUnN, the alleged yellow fever plotter,.and Mr. CLEAnY, the ox agent -of Col. JAKE TuoiPsoN, will be tried at the ensuing assizes in Toronto for breach of the neutrality laws. Mr. BKNNETT I-I. YoUNG. the leader of the St. Albans raiders, is under bail to an swer at the assizes in Toronto, toa simi lar charge. A dispatch'dated Mobile, Juno 1. says: "Ex-Gov. MoonE, Cola. GALR and PETTUS, and two printers, have been arrested and brought to this city. They are to be taken to Washington. Ex-Gov. MoonE seized Mount Vernon Arsenal, Fort Morgan and Fort Grimes, at the time Alabama seceded." Government is re-opening postofilces in thme Southiern States as fast as pos tal facilities can 6 furnished and loyal postmasters found. During the past month two postofficen have been re opened in Maryland, five in Western Virginia, seven in Kentdecky and tour teen in Tennessee. The suspensit- bridge at Nashville, destroyed. 'at the time the Federal army Was preparing to occupy the city, is to be reout irtimediately.e Sixty thousand dollars of the capital stok lhas already been subscribed, and the remaining $16,000 will.sont.bo pledlged. Gen; Q~amtlas hunted out and ar rested the mna who offered, last Wipter, in an Wisbama peper,ito be one 6f'a cer tai n ua!et-f persona to pay a million dollate for -the nuider of Mr. Lro, and *te I. on his #a$, -under gha 1, to Wash~tgon. 8i ~~ ratore planned a plot~i ~~iife ~4 O).1oN, jnei pret'4cdg I4P willo4K1't the largest vote ev4f C in thehtye th ernooh f the h iat , ; Ae.9 19rbyo an exttuIN builaing se9d. by the Government at Nashville, Tennessee. The destruction'of proper. ty is put down at between eight and ten iillion, dollars. Operations of lynch law are becoming alarmingly frequent in the West. A highway robber was caught by a mob at Council Bluffs, Iowa, last. Wedhes. day, and hung by. the neck until dead. The Washington correspondent of the New York 7Nbunc says that "delega. tions here from the rebellious States bave been cordially entertained and lionized by the English legation." The Utica Herald says that a man who owned a couple of acres of. land at Ballston, N. Y., while digging a trench a few days ago, struck oil. and next day sold his little place for $60,000. In Gardiner, Me., there have been a number of deaths from the poisoning of the well of the Johnson Hotel with ,ar. senic. It is like the National Hotel dis. ease of 1856. Mrs. PATTEiSON, daughter of Presi jlent JoiNSON and wife of one of the new Senators roin Tennessee, is to go Washington ti preside over the domes. tic arrangements of the White House. More than 1,800 claims for damages by the war have been filed at. Washing. ton, amounting to over $50,000,000. The Secretary of the Treasury has divided 'Misissippi, South and North Carolina into districts for the collection of -internal taxes. It is stated that -the offici;tl report of the conspiracy trials at Washington al. ready occupy four thousand pages of cap paper. The people of'Macon, Ga., dre repre. sented to be in a starving condition. This is put (own as "reliable." Mu. DAVIS AND THE ASSASSINATION -A gentl-man of high character, an officer ofthe late Confederate Army, cal led upon us yesterday to say that he was present at Charlotte, North Carolina, when Mr. Davis made the speech bpo lien of by Bates in his testimony, and read the telegram announcing the kill. ing of President Lincoln. He states that, so far from using the language imputed to him by Bates, that after reading the telegram to the crowd, Mr. Davis said that he deplored the event, and trusted that an investigation would prove that no Southern mnah had any connection with it. The gentleman alluded to de. sires to go to Washington to testify in the case. , We hope he will be permit. ted to do so.-Lynchbury Republican. CITIzNsu.-In a letter. addressed to some New Orleans negroes,' the Chief Justice of the United States aays: - "That native freemen of whatever complexion are citizens of.the. United States; that all men held as slaves in the States which joined in rebellion against the United States have become .freemen through executive and legislative actS during the war; an~that th ese freemen are now citizens, and' consequently enti tIed .to the rights of citizens, are pro positions wvhich, in my judgment, cannot be success fully controterted." The office that Mr, Chase holds gives weight to his opinion on a legal question. Nevertheless, there is no risk in denying the soundness of tbe dictum here .uttpred. To be a "freemati"-is not to be a "oitizen," To be "entitled to the rights of citizeans" is not to be a citizen. The actual pos session of all the privileges, franchises and immuinities of citizenship makes the citizen. The higheat authorities lay dotvn the. doctrine- that no. pian is a "oitizen" who is not a voter. Negroes' do not vo in the Southern $tates, and' are therefore not c tise The attem p*o h e Yor~k journ e xr.sn that there isatte*tl oh phe ple~.j ilewto thecy m degree, d M ~toldIk ~tt ofA( e e isresg A del iori F t itlemen froip h South Caolini had tinrview wit President" ohhto'n, ' 6 22nd, on the subject of reconstru , ir On the same day resident issued X a proclamation, appo Hon. Lewis E. Parsons,.to-be P onal Governor n of that State. I The delegation abo ferred to, had b previously asked for appointment n and speely restoratioi e State~to the I Union. .d HORRIBLE CAT 1oPHE 0 Recent aduices frota eveport state n that a government tr rt, having on )i board twelve hundred federate sold. r iets, en route for their eq east of the d Mississippi, struck a s in the river d near that place and sunk iree minutes. Over two hundred live$ supposed to have been rost. . The urred about three miles below the t I DESTRUCTIVE i. A fire broke out in , Missouri, on the 19th inst., in the ness portion of the town; and before progress of the finmies could be arre more than half of the whole place s in ashes. The loss has not yet b itcertained, but it is known to be v ieavy. PARDONS. The private secretary of President Stephe ns has taken thR oat id receiyed pardon. . G. A. Trenholm, ex-se ry of the rebel treasury department, petitioned to the President for permi n to take the oath prescribed in the nesty pro. clamation. It is said tha e is very contrite and argues his poi to a con. siderable length. Lieut.enant General E 1, of the rebel army, has made a sim petition. Governor Aiken, of Solti rolina, is also reported to have made plication for the same privilege, an will in doubtedly be granted, as he nown to be on the bea of terms with Presi. dent. ARRESTS. Gov. Clarke, of Mississip as been arrested and is ndw on his'wa Wash. ington. . Henry C. Burnett, qnonda ember of the rebel Congre from - tucky, was also arrested. He was i Wash ington at the time, and the at. was made by order of the Secretar) War. - GENERMA N s. Gen. J. D. Webster has bee tailed by the Quartermaster General t ake a complete tourof the railroads in t South with the purpose of reporting that ilepartunent necessary informati rela tive to their rebuilding. The wife of Secretary Sewrd ed at his residence in Wnshington, aftft long illnoss induced by the atterpt to assei. nate her husband. THE MARKETS. NEw YORK, Jun 3. Gold to-day is firmer and so g at 142+. Cotton more lively and ha ad. .vaneod three cents from vest ay. Sales .nade to-day at 43 cehtq A conference took place in Rich ond on 'Thursday last between Gov -nor Pierpoint and the members of th ir ginia Jiegislature, the sub~jdet unde -on sideration being ai proposition' to e d the right of sufl'rage beyond the I its imposed by thse-Alexandria constit on, by which all wtho have taken part. i li rebellion are excluded from the priv ge of voting. If Virginia is not represe in the next session of' Congress it ill not be because Virginians willn. fil seats in that body cannot be fud didates for these positionstare colain tp light rapidly, including. solrne gentle se -who a short time ago would have 4 :ered themselves insulled by b.inge elo citiens of the United 8inates. 'It is saidthat the Late rebelGk,vernor, ra Billy Smith, proposes to run for el r~ if he can Brtet Proednt .Johmb a pardon him.. Y.>J)ern 4 THE Soo4a. f*g Bu't.e f2 Richmond correspohadefi of -the se York Wor& well-raa This transition *$md < .gg cimlregim.' is dg9 'Wpitsel add his colO#OeiV'sseppe t *one, and but A ~n'ga sosje loft. Yety nmall as' t ' We are-of the ~*-~ be.sa townsa of" a u.eger. a' st~ptou do o itsligtt ages in-g 0t# journej. to the South), has jo pAilihed by sorMe of our contem )0ies,' t'ako ihereirom, the fol. Wing int'. Dr. .uller ws then the Savannah River. He wris on. wIYas-present when Col4061 PriWIfkrd iade his report to General Qilmorep'. conversed with him a to thei e~pt at to neither Gen. Gilmote nori: iyelf did he say a word as 'to Mr. vis' a'U.mpted escape in a wornan' ess. After,tey left us, a gentleman. our steamor repeated the a tno. e Bu is it credible that in open day. c et a sane main i, seeing himself t unded by soldiers, could think of eht ins dtem by the old stle artioie of, ressinghimself in feale attire with mili. ry boots on too-for so the story runs - is trial will disclose the facts which, - believe, will come to this complexion; gat on fnding himsel overtaken, Mr. )avis dressed himself hastily, throwing shawl around his shoulders, as the lorning was chilly, and that 'he 'wa* mus takcen into cuistody On my e inding General Gihbnort of the differ iut version of t le affair which Colonel. .ritchard gave both to him and to rus, is reply was, I am told he did mak lat statement to soibody, Memi. eneral Basil Duke, wbo ait first t n r. )mpaied imr. Davis with a trop -f avalry, told ie that ]his mi a'd woken down under the cairtnitiolo hic iddenly overwhelmed 6.;. that h 1 hats frequently urged to tyke,'fe* oem. nd hurry on toFlorida ; bu that, afiter )gain and again consenting' he i felayed and finally refused to go. Find ig hiun no -longer himself, General Breekinidgeleh'him and escaped. And,. ieeming it wrong to sacrifice his men or nothing; and ht. Mr. Davis Order, he, aeneral Duko,--withdrew and surrender' id,suposing Mi.Davis to have lost his r'en son and only on this supposition cain the attempted flight be regarded as probable." (From the Rihmond VTmes. Senator Dougles and the Negro. RIUMOND, June 15, 1865. To the Editor of the Time: When sich infamous agitators an Mosesi Grinuell, Wendell Phillips & 'o.,. are trying to degrade the South and bring. the white man to a level with the negro, it ,may not'be out of place to publish the following extrict frpni a speech of Sena. tor S. A. Douglas: AOCOMAO.' VIEwS O THE LATE SENATOR DOUGLAS oN TNII NEGRO X8 A VCrER. In the diseassion before the people of Illiu6is, just. previons t8 hie last electiori to the United Staies Senate, Judge D'ug las Aaid'. "I hold a negro i's not and never ought to b a citient fthe U.)ited Slate. hold that this Government was made upon a white basis, by white ien, 'foi the benefit of white hien and thefr poets.' rity forever, and blionld be odministeted by white men, and none otheri. '4 d not believe that the Alinighty' sade tlfj negro capable of self-governmet. Now, I say to you, my fellow.itiseihs, that, in my opinioi, 'he signers of the D, a_ ration of Independence had no'refedte. to the negVo*hateverwlhen they declared' all men deted equal. They desired to express by that phlase' white mien men of European biirth nadEutropean'de scegnt, and had no teference to the negro, the savage Indians, or otheur' inferiotor degaded racea. 'At that time every one oft ththirtein ookwmies lias i slaiveholink coloiy, and overy signer of the , eh rpstion represented a slnveholdinr d*a.. ttuency, and I khow that no' ouif a thorn emancipated his slaves, m'tnh~Ie offred citienship to them when they signed the declaration." .'*orcAToNs or OLEMENO-g*P r-G -C *ae Jouusax.-The indientIdge elemncyashappily, multplyrg ii doy today,and the acts' of morb-lfte Piensdent are deefdedly'more't %d sloe with' the ventimelte of ii. oesdbt than iMith the spiri.df' 4~uoetuottered b itntdb. dItlysaffer hheaoc' isor let*4rwi of nf Eowelfoobb, and' '4tte pAe '7ebels, bmee:been res lb6.Eed on 10); Hal-ri., of"Maryland, thdag etod asid. sentetsced to se e 'e ent. ha.s-been periloned on of new teetimsonyt ala death of the Indiana'onspirstors hqa conated ; atidi M ipsaA'Os eau ebe cited 'to.Aews jbat the. Adumn ti~i id Ian M~tethee bkl Blageep ENOK