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Thursday Nornin 48 .The family of the father of the editor of this paper lias been deeply afflicted within the -pest two weeks. Sad thopghts crow.d upqn. our nkqtp9ry. A sweet sister, just'blqomiqg into woman. hoodi has been ruthlessly snatched away by the haud of death. An aged and honored grandmother has gone to. her long home. Deeply are we afflicted. Deafh, not satisfied with his ravages in our immediate family, hap, too, within the week, taken to his embrace a kind and devoted sister-in-law. Truly has the grim monster made %ad work ineour fauiies, stripping them of their :nost loved ornamentw. They have gone. May the engels of Heaven have wafted their spirits to the - JUDGE of all hearts, and Hr, in His MEacY, given them a place upon. is right hand, there for ever to be at rest, and to enjoy the con soling thought that their life upon this earth was well spent. With this morning we commence the run of special messengers to the Cataw ba river and back, .on the C. & S. C. railroad, tri-weekly, by which we are - enabled to furnish our paper to those de airing it, on the day of its publication in Winnsboro. Those of our friends living north of - Winnsboro, who may desire the paper sent them, will please send in their or. Aers. We can, by the arrangement we have entered into, deliver our paper. punctually to those who may order it. Mr. HENar MErzE, of PHILLIPS' Express Line, will please accept our thanks for late Columbia papers. By the attention of tiose gentlemen, Messes. PIILLPS and MzErEE, we are eunabled to forward our , mails, both ways, very soon after the publitation of our paper in Winnsboro, Iand to procure late exohantges by which we can gather the latest and most important informn tion. The notice oft,ravellers is callqd to the advertisement, in another cqlptn, of a tri-weekly express line from Orangeburg to Clumbia. A, note from the proprietors at Co. lunibia:, informs us that in a few days they "will dstablish a line from the ter minus on C. & . 0. railroad to con. 1e1t with the cars on each road, so that it'will only take forty-eight hours to travel from 0harlotte, N. C., to Charles top, SC0." Proper notice of this latter line will be given to the public wheh thoroig'h arr'ngements have been con. pleted so as to avoid delays in traveL *On a trip on '.uesday mioning last to Adger's, the.,terminusaof the Charlotte & Soniith Carolina railroad, we took jiar ticular pains to nioticelhe oorn.crop. and *iake inquirie3 in~ tegmyd t9 the wgtk, on -.the railroad. 'We found the oots crop lookcing Ane ly, amid should judge, ftom that wiseen along the small .psee we travelled,.that therg- will be a full cropytatherede 'We ;M#y' M3Yergeon 6nraIoeking hetter. In conversalon with:Mr. Axzswoi, the gentlemaj 73dperiutendent of the .AS 0 0. gilroad, we lesmNt~~ theh cars will be' renningt to en wn in the eatie of three of ut week.~ 1he ' greatd olipy th4 has presented itself an ptghjn forard e o.dto 'cotajIie tion, ws esespohyo . ThM - roar of theoa r.I Awps at i'thath* had pso h Catawba 'e wzqof th9 rq to tenerallP .~ R art yrenjoy om. :ortr to. enquire Pum, s agos (tw6) are driven by attentive an lver young gentlemen, Mr. Aytw. P1i.LJPS i and Mr. HENRY MEETZE, an'd those en paging pvsage. with thew, .way be.snre of proper attention*. (Fromthe Columois Phomix.] Publioiloeting in Abbeville. Pursuant to notice, a mass meeting of I the citizens of Abbeville District, South Carolina, mostly farmers, was held on Wednesday, Junes 21, 1805, in the Court House, to consider their present political condition, and to further.the es- t tablishmeat of civil government int the State On motion of Mr. R. A. Fair, Hon. D. F. Wardlaw was called to the ohuir, and James C. Calhoun appointed Sec. retary. The Chairman having explained the object of the meeting, on motion of the lon. A. Burt, it was resolved that a committee of fifteen be appointed by the ; chair to prepare business for the meet ing : Whereupon the following gentle lien were appointed as said committee, viz : Messrs. - Armstead Burt, Thos. 0. Perrin, Thos. Thomson, J. Augustus Black, Robert A. Fair, Jas. MoCaslan, S..H. Bradley, James Gillam, -H. L. Jebra, M. C. Taggart, Vm. T. Dren. nan, John H..Marshall, T. B. Milford, 1 James A. Norwood and Rev. J N. Young, who reported through their Chairman the following memorial, which was unanimously adopted, vis : To His 8vocwy Andrew Johison, t Pceaidat ofthe ansed Btes& : The memorial of the citizens of Abbe- 4 ville District, South Carolina, assembled c in mass meeting, respectfully sheweth - c That South Carolina has laid 'down her a arms ; hostilities lave ceased in her borders ; yet her people enjoy neither c the blessings 6f peace, nor the protee. I tion of law. We have not and know t not any yersons in this State -who have I the purpose or the inclination to renew I the contest in any form. The speedy and complete restoration of our relativs I to the Constitution of the United Sta I and the-Union. and the peace. and se- I curity which they guarantee to the citi. I zen, are our unfeigned desire and the I great want of our whole country. In 4 view of these desirable ends, we pledg in good fhith, ready and unreserved sub mission and obedience t4 all lawful au thority. The state of our exhausted means and resources requires the fostering vare of law and order. Parts of our State are tnder th inconvenient restraints of I military authority, whilst large sections,' including that in which we live, are without any form of government. All I civil 'fulo and rulers are suspended and. men are sibject to yo other restinsts than those which habit or their own c sense of propriety imposes. All oxpe- I rience' attests that thes6 voliTntary re- t straints are i iequate to repress the ra- c pacious and other vicious passions of I men. Orinid, .otrage' an4 wreng are a perpetrated with impunity :upon the I peaceable and helpless. Ourcoiununity depends upon irr'egular arid 4roingtary I organisb~ions for the~ protection, of p.gr sons'and prope~rty, attd a sense of in'son gity. depressesl the snery and -disturb, i Th reoe of ou tho pe ciese of the state Chas eusro,sly avid wie fear, disastrously infp ] inbotsvenient vtiitafy regulations,. 'Tha wtheleibody of abou'Wa h~ been 44embre *lid'if e refidoi of the 4odies.~ oustomed, and the '&lre sto ubtitase any othier dici no or erumid ger I the*3 ' bod ~ n ahl yo- 4 men h" a Iandon 'i 4edethte rA aisss pro 'ete'baes e e be nd seio hA p .of' V~u ora dit T ;Ltt S ry" es 'iq in in eA roevp all aw to be planted; aud even 'V t o upply of the mPio necessaries of life is, lot only meagre every where, but in ine Dtricte wholly ethasted. This ectiott -is Without tiul*illkes, adts eunimutcatiois by railroad have been ekolly interrupted and-are notlikely to >e soon restored. The evils are greatly aggravated by 4W total absence of-any circulating. me. lium. Gold and silver are possessed oy but few, and by these few in small inas. The stook of ootton on- hand will upply but little, if any, 'moe inoney han will be necessary to pay taxes, -and we bear that-a large number of -farms nust ineviOably be sold for that purpose. rhe growing crop of cotton can add but ittle, it is believed not one-fourth of a nillion of bales, to the existing stock, which probably does not amount - to one Ad a half millions of balo. Amtongst the greatest -disasters whioh he wise and prudent amongst us behold n the immediate future of our unhappy ountrv, is a conflict between the whie nd the black races..which there is much n thsit sundered relations to incit4 and nd in many parts of our State no pow. Ir of civl or military government to re iress. This danger is fearfully augment. d, in its imminency and in its horrbrs, >y the superior iumerical strength of the lacks over the-whites, and by the fact hat the latter are generally being die Irmed of all 'offensive weapons,. whilst nany of the former are in the possession f fire arms and are expert in the -e of hem. These political, social and industrial vils havq greatly 'paralysed the me. hanical and agricultural industry' of our ountry and sadly depressed the Spirit nd energies of our-people. In tender consideration whereof we rave the prompt aid of the Government, 'y remedial and preventive measures, to itigaswe the evils that disturb us at the mresent, and to avert the calamities which menace us in the future, We pray that our liegislature may le allowed tu hold its usual session, Ad that it may have wisdom to devise nensureasuitable -t. te necessities of he State; that a o'nvention of the peo. >le may be assembled; that the Congress f the United States may exhibit the gnanimity and statesmanship which he difcult posture of affaire required ; hat the President of the United States Day so exercise the high powers entrust 4 to him by the Constitutiori anhthe Jaws, as to acquire for himself imperish ble renown, and for his bhtntry the ileangs of peace, harmony and univer. al prosperity ; that Court, Federal. and Itate, may again exert their beneficent tower ampngst us,' crimes be restrained, ontracts enforced, controversies paoea. jy settled Land opportunity given for asy access to judicial authority ;-that ostal ficilitles may be again. afforded o us; that out public office may be-e pened, and our private avocationi safe. y and profitably resumed ; aid that. in Il respects, our Stat. Sovernment may esaume its fNnctions, and the relations fout peopleand State to the Oassitn on and Union be speedily rsestablish d. We reentnnen~to -out fellote-eitizens n other part 4f efatbe eery M.* maltion of shelevIhwei f -thte eubject Of ur deliberatehis 'edoehe that athis nbmorial be vespetObAzy laid before ithe 'resident pf the United tateg; *tnd t pve greater e td $~ Voice bf'tlie ite, a isomr~~e bfiary ~etings, y st~hmit a dep titon icitisenush p tied,n V 4tf~f he Preuident ' #on 4f ~t h~i ate as onMef hinis d ew feg tifd the hl ui uwudh th14t4 l au~ we etv ~beete harlbelgre tm ; #nd fbiesheiMa14 b~ ithier meesi t hrwh ro heit' u ne, t ary Gasette.] he w ewe have just passDi h ded so gloti ously as it Was inii, the blood and treasure of our people, y ha left us a legaoy of gigantio propor. i tions, whig) .bda fair to exhauat the t qtatesmanShip of the nation to proprly F aiit. -What, is to b le e i'fte this .4 nor complication no one can foresee, x while it bebooves every one to give tho matter. their candid and. coescientions s consideration, before it becomes involved in the makes of political tnanagemeuL That it is destined to become a g'eat political question, the signs of the time< very plainly indicate, and it is wisdom to-be prepared by careful thought and t investigation to meet the inevitable issue. The loosening of the hands of three or four tnillion of slaves, reared in ignorance and taught to rely upon others I for the ver bread that sustain. their lives, c is a work of such imposing magnitude as C to appil the, inoft astute minds in the 1 uontemplatioi of their future status and a wellibeing. We already see the begin. < ring, of the evils that are to flow from it I before these poeple can experience any I of the, benefits of the freedom thus hastily conferred upon them. The suddon transition of an ignorant and i degraded rade from a lifetime in slavery I toa perfect frqedom, is like the sudden removal of a man from a lifelong cell of darkness to the glaring rays of sunlight.. i The very act of kindIness may prove his i greatest curse, and entail upon him and his progeny a life of, misery, in compar. < ison with which the worst form of slavery would be a blessing. it is, not only ne- < cessary that we should do good to overy < ne of the human race, -but we- should I see to it that our good does not result in < evil to thosp we would - aid. Every ac- I count. we receive from the South rep. resents she negroes to be in a very I demoralised condition. They do not i know what to do if they were ever so i much inclined to help themselves, and < they have -no inclination to help them. i selves even when instructed how to do I it. In this part of the- country they have alwnys been regarded, as naturally I laxy and generally inclined to steal, and t the accounts from the South represent a them as bping the same there. I The numerous stories of rapes, murdes 4 and thefts committed by them that we < are constantly receiving, show conclu. I swely that they are not in .,a moral a condition to tule themselves, and hence the necessity of keeping themn under con- i trol until they reach aperiod whenthey< will be able to sustain themselves,.and I prove that they are capable of self. i Iovernmeit. The greatest trouble to be apprehended is with corrupt poli. I ticians,. who ihink they see in the negro racean element of power# and. hence i they care little how they are supported, I nr what means are provided to make 1 them selfgqliant, if they nn only be galvapised i'ato leggl votr at oncf 4. 1 that those p~liticuans may ride into I power bf votes. These nbn woul' J drag deaid bles' from their- graves if I tisiy could only obtain thAIr votes, and ) hence the., noessity of keeping the I rtegroes. out' of lities at least for the i present, and until thov -can be 'educted I to a .degree p1 halt elvihization. They1 rided ti bejtatght' gelieral iditas about. th'ejlghts' of -property, and the nature amg4hei1uns of prime, and their dqty, to others, so thathAy niay beo ea lawalvisg asnd a ltv-abud'ing peeple sithout Moorst6 the lash, and until tuis YuiUdonetpey r ousand~l to'the-'gev. Anpther evid toguasta inst is the eaq 1oCthe' fancs wijo e~a W s~Vheir ,4eil friends, is mak1~ lb6 i ebt d #rbeag, ~l I ths othat thelp dut ef timorpa uNeet TL ,tif 6 1' 0e The, , YW. Nbh * d 'ax Bill is asub intobt to us all, and one m4s our citizens hWve syv 1 cih gsof informing thes elves; hence we publish some of it# most important provisiions that .peo le ay know what they wi bte tp,. nd what they, willinot have to y hat Iiy anay bciedner-'be" ofedeby aTeese be Palda 4611,'y nnual 4ains, pronte, and incemeqf every erson residing in the United ,tates, hether derived from any kind of%t y, rents, iuterests, dividends or es, !from any profession, p;de, - menteor vocation; carrielon ir the Uni od: States, or elsowhore, t T(bm aiy ether source whatever, a duty. -of 4ve er ientim on the.etcess over six hun red dollars, and not' exceeding 've housand dollars, and -a duty often per entum onthe exces over'fve thousand 1ollars." "And the duty herein ro rided for, shall .be assegeod,. O d, nd paid upop theigains, profits and in. omo for the year ending th'o 21st of )ecember, next proceeding the lie fbr evying, collecting and paying said luty." - This is the most important clause of he law ; the one of general application or the execution of'which it is provided, ,That it shelf be the duty of all persons >f lawful age to make and render a list n such manner as may be prescribed by he Commissioner of Internal Revenue, ,f the amount, of their income, gains >r protfis as aforesaid," under oath. No farmer, ianufacttrer, moohanic op any person will pay any tax -at all, in his income, unlesg it amounts to si1 iqndred dollars, after deducting the no essary expenses for carrying on his musiness. In addition to thes h- is al. od to deduct his ihouse rent and all axes he pays to the general (overntnont,. o the State, Oounty and to*n froma his ecestary expenses, and lie pays no it. ome tax at all, unless his inmcini amoubits o more than six hundred dollars af4r beo deductions are made. In the event that a man Is unable to >ay his taxes, and his property has to be aken by tife government, agebts and. old for that purpose, tho law reserves. o him the followin; articles "Tho tools or implements of his trade or profession. mne cow, arms ad provisions. householid irniture kept for use, school books and qparel nec siary for a family." In additioi to this there are raany pecified taxes, only a few of which ayo, f general interest enough to our eksis o be notied in a short artic1li1ki Merchants who sell over twety-.te honsand dollars pa fifty dollars: tagwW oe who !ell over one- th.uand and Inder twenty-fiv, pay teii dollatim', andthosselling under one tho "san . lot taxed. The tax on liquors ay be - amened ap as follows - )htllers making over hre huindrdd barrels> pay a licese o lit7 dollars ; "making less that lsles iundre pay twentyAe dellaes ;kb. aking less. than on. bundred . N gSII oarf:ql oapplc or oah brea, w elve- dollars iid t et.l iQ1 tothis'a tar oif two dollapsV J%'e se haid on ev'ery pallou of whiskey had isgxofh dollar andfiAy coeses elseed aon of brandy, and' e py re~tar 1 ignor, must pay tw'entyv'e La~uyers, physiciau.nsd &0 itst y tan 4ollars .tay eache n Linn9fosper cd 0. nmfunl tobrt oy 1 IeMM foty heat a sc~oordin~ to y t t'e tafct s