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tM ?TAUit?lA PHON?X: . -_-_' -,.;" .-. . [Original.] . ^Otig of Captivity. Wa oat down Ly Bahylbm? watawa'". ? " AnoVthtnkingkbf Zipa alone, We lioiig our sad harps on th? willows, Irr"the midst of them makingoor moan; For they who had carried us captive, . Asked for Zion's sweet sont: nt .our hands; As if we could sing, in our sorrow, . Tlio song" of jour God in strange lands! Yes, whep.I forget thee, ray country, Let my. right liand ila cunning forget "When I fail to prefer thee to pleasure. Hush the tongue that can honor thee yet; Jerusalem still be the treasure .Most precious that earth can bestow; And-thy vengeance, O 8odl upon Edoin, Thateried, "Loy her low, lay her low!" Ivcmember, O Lord! in the season Whee Zion shall come lo hei own, The children of merciless Edom, And tench them the griefs we bare known; Thrice~Tiappy be he, who, pursuing The daughter of "Babylon still, Shall devote ber young babes to the ruin, And, deaf to all pleading, shall kill. England's Responsibility for African Slavery in America. Lord John RussseH having thought proper, in a speech recently made in Par? liament, to denounce the institution ol aiavery, a8 it exists in this country, as dis? graceful to the Confederate State?, it^rould be well, if tho following historical facts could be brought to hi? attention; proviag that whatever of criminality aud infimy may be attachai to slavery as it exists hore rests upon tho British Government anc people, by whom it was forced upon us: Four companies were chartered by tli< British Government, to carry on th? African slave trade. Sea Brit. Ency clop, under the head of companies, vol. 5, pag< 226. Of one of these companies Queei Elizabeth, and probably all her minisferr? '.vere members, and derived heavy profit from the traffic. The Royal African Trading Compan erected a large building in Thread Needl straet, London, theu called the 'South Se House,' for the ourposo of an exclusiv trade to the-South Sea, and for pupplyin America wilh negroes. See Brit. Et cyclop., vol. 20, page 250, in account < the groat buildings of London. In 1751, an expedition was sent froi England to capture Lewistown and tl Island of Gon<*. ia tho Senegal river, I secure to England the traffic in slaves ar gum, from that part of Africa. See 12 volume of History of England; by Hum Smollett, &c, pago 279. In 1713, Queen Anne boasted in speech to Parliament that she had by t' trealy of Utrecht, obtained for ber su jects the asciento or contract for fuinisuii the Spanish West India Islands for tim yeaijSf; <a-? it bad been enjoyed by t Freflrri?K See volume 10, page 230, Hum England! 'The asciento contract stipul?t that from theist of May, 1713,*to the '. of May, 174S, tho company should tra port into the West Indies 144,000 negrc Pn? tho-rate of ; 4;O00 negroes a: reary^md [par foi" ?a'el?' n^grb-'ibirty-?re? rgfeces of eight and ono third, in full for aTl royal duties.' Seo page 2GT, volume 10, Hume's England. ^ V ' "When- tit*. American revelation brote' out, 3,000 sail?ts, most of "wbouijiad teen engaged in the African slave trade, were, by that event, thrown out of employment, nt the single pert of Liverpool^ Page 230, volume 15, History of England. ; In 1 778, the Duke of Richmond stated in Parliament that the.number of sbips that had been annually engaged in tbe African trade, previous to the American war, waa 200, of the value of ?9,000 each; that the number had been reduced to 40, causing au annual loss to Britain ol ?1.440,000. Sea page 497, of the 15lh volume ol tho History cf England. Tho ratification of the Treaty of Peace, made at Paris on the lOth ot February, 1763, between France aud Eng'and, wat objected to in England, on the ground thal one of its provisions would prevent the English from enjoying the whole profita o! the trade in African slaves. Seo 14tb volume, page 70, History of England. Before the American revolution, Acts were passed by the Colonial Legislatures of New York, New Jersey, South Caro lina, arid no less than 23 by that of Vir ginia, to suppress tb? slave trade; all o which were vetoed by tba Brkiah Govern meut, o? the ?round thal they would di minish the profila of their subjects fro ii this traffio. .* In the enumeration of tho misdeeds o the King, tbo preamble of the Constitufioi of Virgiuia, adopted by the Convention o Virginia iu 1770, are the following wordi 'By prompting our negroes to rise in arm among us, those very negroes, whom by ai inhuman use of bis negative, be bad re fused us permission to exclude.by law.' T Tba British people and Government ar therefore responsible before ?God and ma' for the existence of slaver}' here, and wba ever odium aaay be attached to it must rei on them. ? THE FIRST NATIONAI. BANK IM RICE MOND.-Every bank, banking-house an exchange office in Richmond having bec swept away by the late conilagratio great embarrassment is felt by t he busine community, not only by reason of the a sence of a secure depository for cash ai valuable paper securities, but from the WH of the usual banking facilities and the ir possibilities of making the ordinary e changes. Io this connection it affords us gre pleasure to be abl<j to announce that number of prominent capitalists, seer tb? extreme public need, have met and < ga-ized the First National Bank of Ric mond, to be conducted under and in cc formity with the National ?Currency Li A number of our oldest and most substs tial residents have already taken stock. The bank will be opened for busin with as*little delay as practicable* \Ric7i7tiond Whiff. - T<???TOES.-The Working. Farmer; says of tho tomato plant that it bears eighty per cent, bf its'"fruit within eighteen i nelie's, of the- ground,While more th nfl half of the plant i:is above tliat part. r'"When ,tha - branches are cut they do not bleed, and they, may,- therefore, ba shortened in imme? diately-above .the large-or early setting froit. The removal of the small fruits on. the ends of the brnnchca 13 no losa, for tho lower fruit will be the consequence, besidoa obtaining a larger portion, five to fifteen days earlier. The trimming should be so done as to leave a few leaves beyond the ftuit to insure -perfect ripening. The im? portance of carly maturing is too evident io need comment The burying of tho removed leaves immediately around thc plantais a good practice, both by insuring full disturbance of ihe soil, and by the pre? senting a fertilizer progressed precisely to the point of fruit .making. The portions buried decay rapidly, and are readily as- . siini lated. - -'?-**? ? o JAMESTOWN.-This first settlement of Virginia-one of the most celebrated spots in American history-is nowan abandoned plantation, about half-way between City Point and Fortress Monroe, on the North side of the river. Only two or three ol i brick chimneys and tire ruina of a li'.tle old brick church mark lue sp t where the ancient village once stood. The brick constituting these ruins were imported from England at a very carly day, and aro yet ju a good state of preservation. Many of them have been taken away as relics, since the com? mencement of the war, and not tv few of them eveu now enter into the constitution of the comfortable winier quarters in the armies of the Potomac and the James, and at general headquarters at City Point. A* printer seeing a bailiff closely pur? suing an unfortunate author, remarked that it was a new edition of the "Pursuits of Literature," unj^ound and hot pressed. State of South Carolina. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, OoLU.MiiiA, May 8, 1865. To the Oj}ice*s of the Civil Government of ihr Sinlc: THE cessation of hostilities renders it proper th:it the Civil Government, of the Stiele should be restored without dela}', aud that the functions of the several departments should bo at once resumed. To that end, all officers of the State, whose ofiices have bf cn kept rn C" lumbla, will with all convenient promptitude return to that place, re open their offices and resume their proper duties. By the Governor. A. G. MAGRATH. Official: W. S. MIILLI.VS, Lt. Col. and A. D. C. tff^~Scuth Carolina newspapers will copy once. . may 8