Friday Morning, May 19, 1865. Chief Justice Chase. This gentleman, well known ?:s an able a-id locg experienced politician, nacl nov Chief Justice of the United States, ii, no doubt, on a politico-judicial mission. Lie v iii hardly visit South Carolina as a etu vJent of the- picturesque, surveying her ?vuins. .Nor is he an idler of any sort. Whatever significance maj' be found in the peech .which he recently m ade in Cli~irlos lon, chiefly, we believe, to a gathering of The blacks, must lie in a nut-shell. Tode? lend to such an audience, to the level of their understandings, must be a work of embarrassment, and the Chief Justice is, accordingly, not very perspicuous in his ideas-or, rallier, he is not wasteful of the ideas themselves. There are sundry prob leins, as well in politics as in law and eo eiety, which are difficult of solution; and, whether as Chief Justice of thc Suprime Court, sworn to adjudicate in accordance .with the Constitution, or as a special mis? sionary on the part of Government, his posilion is one not calculated to prompt nny very free or clear exposition of.li is own or the views of Government on anv subject. He ta rather tentatively tlian demonstratively employed. Addressing's congregation of negroes, he desires to sec ?very man, whatever his color, enjoy Iiis natural rights; so say we. But the natural rights of a man must depend upon his in? tellectual and moral development.-;. Thur-: ire no rights of man which are arbitrary >r unconditional. All are conditioned Inder the laws of Cod and society. We ?eed not pursue in detail thc generaliza? tions about war and peace, and freedom ind class, with which this speech abounds. Thc gist of his address to the negroes lies in the sentence which demands of the rene what it is capable to do. Well, on tins subject, the Yankees have refused all evi? dence on the part of the whites of the South. We shall see the evidence of time ind experience; but at what terrible cnrk for honest wages;' be econo? mical; lay upa portion of every day's or every month's earnings in some savings bank for yourselves and family fora rainy day. Do everything in your p'ower to increase the products of the country; doing this with all yoiir might, you will save" yourselves and reflect credit upon those who have been your friends. God forbid that before I die 1 shall le obliged to hang my head, and say, I ex? pected a great deal of this pc-cple, be? lieved them to be honest, industrious and orderly, and I find 1 have been mistaken; that'they allowed miserable prejudices 4to grow up amongst them; that they permit? ted themselves to be controlled by vin? dictiveness of feeling; that they were unwilling to labor for their living. lie adds-and here we suspect that his audience grew incredulous, it not drowsy -"for, after al!, labor must be the car? dinal law of your Jives;" and he exhorts them to go to work, be honest, industri? ous, sober, diligent, moderate -in expecta-. tion, indefatigable in effort, prudent in aim, and circumspect _in performance. Very good advice, no doubt, and such as would be very well given to niue tenths of the white populations of the world. The ?nore substantial meanings of this speech iie in the following paragraphs, which have their warnings as well as counsels, and leave Cuffee somewhat in doubt ns to what is to be done with him, after all, in his progress to liberty, equality and glory Having nothing to do with politics, I am not prepared to say what will be the action of the Government. I am no longer iii its counsels, and, therefore, do not know what. it. is prepared to de. 1 will only sny t'tiis: J believe there is not a member of the Government, who would not he pleased to 8?-e universal suffrage. Lut I am not ready to say that the Government will now establish universal suffrage. This I do know: if you are patient und constant? ly show by your acts that you merit the 1 right of suffrage, that you can safely bi trusted wiih it, ihat ii your hands it will i>e on the side of order and liberty and education, reasoning upon general princi? ples, 1 can safely say you will get the ?lective trune!'. iso ic a very short period. I tragt it will not find you unprepared. But respect yourselves and respect the rights of all, and do your very best to show that you arc, each and nil of you, worthy io have it. You cannot got it hy threats or inisbebnvior. You eau get it bv patience and perseverance in well doing. Now, if the Government of the United States, taking eveTyth?ns? into considera? tion, shall not think it proper to ctn oil all the colored men as citizens a- d voters, what is yorir duty? To fret, and worry about il? I think not. If 1 vcio in your case. I would go to work and show that the United States Government was mis? taken in making the delay. If yon show that, the mistake will be corrected. T think it Ibo best, plan for all men, white nnd black, that every man who is honest and of due ?ire shall have the right of suffrace. Havimr it, he will respect himself the more, will do more productive labor, and will add more wealth to the community. He will receive the respect of his fellow-men, and the socio!y com? posed of such men is always great Btu. if thc Government think differently nnd circumstances delny its action, I advise you to be patient, calm and industrious. From Charleston. Wo have the Charleston Courier, of the 11th mid 13th, which wo owe to thc cour tosv of Mi-. Augustus Trum bo. The paper of the ??{th we have already" had. That of the 11th supplies some deficiencies in our information, and from this we gather a few items. It appears that a public meeting was to take place on -that day, at Hibernian Hall. The call of the Courier upon citizens to attend fe very earnest. "Immediate measures," says the editor, "must be taken to have the State of South Carolina represented ot [in^ the National Congress. We want city organization; we want State organization. Let a City and Stale Government, he established at once, in order to- promote tho best interests of individuals and the community." Men of intelligence, to address the meethig, are promised as forthcoming. TbePev. Alex Marshall, of Charleston, having taken the oath of allegiance to the United States Government; and pledged Mmself to conduct the services in a tova' manner, is allowed to re open St. Jolie1 ? Chapel. THINGS IN NO KT II C A COLINA.- We leam from tlie Courier, of the 12th, that the army of Gen. Schofield remains in Nortl Carolina, nnd that this General is now virtually Military Governor of that State, She cannot lake her place in the old Unioi sb long as she is under control of the bayo net ; Gen. Schofield has issued orders in forming thc people that, under the l'resi dent's proclamation, ali the negroes nr< freed, and that it will be thc duty of hi: army to maintain their freedom. Ile ad vises their employment as hired laborer to their former masters. The planters, i is said, are complying with these Condi tious, and employing these negroes oi wage?. If the negroes will work .vitbon discipline save that induced hy their owi morel, the scheme may answer; but if tlf planter is required to keep, and feed, am clothe, and physic, and pay the losse for the lazy, he is a gone coon, and th sooner he comes down from the tree, th better for his finances. We augur nothinj but ruin for owner and slave under th new conditions; bur let both parties try i .if they will. The doom and desolatio are inevitable. For two days, the Courier tolls us, ther havo been long, sessions of the Cabine engaged in considering the question < throwing open the whole South to con mercial enterprise, removing all restrii lions upon ports and territory. * All til members of the Cabinet, except one, ai in lavor of doing so; and in deference < him, the question is deferred to alioth*, session. We may assume that the restri lions will he soon removed, for the tradir policy of thc North is a paramount infli ence, which will stifle all opposition. The Courier tells us. that George ? Sanders and Beverley Tucker have issu< a eeeond publication, in which they chan Andrew Johnson with "the hellish plot' murder I'resident Lincoln." They profe their willingness to be tried, under tl President's charges, if they are quarante* protection. Two oilieers of thc'Confed?rale -Stat army, arriving at one of the Chariest? hotels, registered their names with ' t affix of "C. S. A.," at which the Courier Very indignant. And yet this was on honest dealing. Had they not done i they might have been denounced and i spisod for attempting a mean conc-ahn-' of thc truth. Genoral Johnston's Manifeste. We are, in receipt of the original of'the j manifesto which follows, from thc hands of General Johnston. It'so clearly pre sents the condition of things under which he acted, and so completely justifies his , action, that, hereafter, atl cavilling, if there had be-?n any before, must be fully si? lenced; and every doubt, touching the propriety of his conrse, must beset at rest forever. Mr. Davis, w ith a portion of his Cabinet, as we are told, was present, and fully concurred in the original' terms I agreed upon hy Generals Sherman, and Johnston, but which were afterwards re. pvidiated by the President of the United Sta'cs. It is the -n dit that the army of Tennessee got no portion of the pol.lie treasure; and a large proportion cf them had bc"n serving for two years without pay. The treasure taken off hy Mr. Davis is said to have been finally distributed among his escort when he dismissed them from farther attendance upon him-if, in? deed, he ever did dismiss them. On this score, there ar? several conflicting Re? -counts in the details which have reached us. If he did dismiss his escort, his plait was to divert the attention of his pursu? ers from himself to his escort, seeking b?3 safety alone, or with only a few attend? ants, in another direction. But, then, we have a report of a bloody conflict imme? diately preceding his capture, in which many were shun on both sides. In returning to the letter of General Johnston, which is meant, for the people of the territory over which his command ex 'tended, we have onlv to congratulate the country in the possessiofl o'f a groat cap? tain, at such a juncture, distinguished by so much wisdom, moderation and* a just regard to humanity. No other course could have been pursued by any states? man: CHARLOTTE, May ft. 1SC5.-?lavin? made a- military convention with Maj.? Gen. Sherman to terminate hostilities in North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florid:), it seem* to me proper to chow to the peo? ple of these States the conditiou of mili? tary affairs which rendered thut measure absolutely, necessary. Un the 26th of April, thc day of the convention, bv the returns of the three Lieutenant-Generals of the army of Tennessee, (that under my "command,) the number 01 infantry nnd artillery present 8nd aDsent wa? 70,510; the number present 18,578; the effective total or fighting force was 1 -i. 17y. Lieut. Gen. Hampton's )a cept ns robbers. The only consequence of prolonging the struggle would hav been the destruction ?>f our remnant ot a army-the best and bravest men who lia served the Confederacy--and great, suffei ing of women and children by the desok tion and min inevitable from the mar-bin of 200,000 men through the country. Having failed :u an attempt to mak terms giving security to citizens nu well 1 soldiers, J hud to choose between brinkin the evils of war wantonly upon those bad been chosen to defend, and avertit) those calamities with the confession th; hopes were dead, which every thinkil Southern man had already lost. I ther fore stipulated with (Jen. Sherman for tl protection of tho true and brave men d pendent on me, oti terms which also te minatcd hostilities in all the country ovi which our commands extend-and a uouneed it to your Governor b'y telegra'j. - as follow*!: "Thc disaster in Virginia, the captu by. the enemy of all our work ?.hops 1 preparing ammunition or repairing arms the impossibility of recruiting our litt army, opposed to more than ten times i number, or of supplying it, except by ro bing our own citizens, destroyed all ho of successful war-I have, therefore, ma a military convention with Major Genet Sherman to termina? ? hostilities jn Xor j and South Carolina, Georgia and Florid i I made th:M convention to spa:e tho bloi of thia gallant little army-lo prevent farther suffering of our peop'e by the.de vastation and min inevitable from the marches of invading armies, and to avoid the crime of waging a hopel*??? war." J. E. JOHNSTON. L~x Gov. AIKEN.-It appears from the Courier that ex-Gov. Aiken has been ar? rested and Bent on to Washington in limbo. Ile is not charged with being a oonspirn'or, and leagued with the assas? sins of Lincoln. Ile is only-charged with being a speculator, and leagued with thc blockade lunners, having, it is alleged, furnished thc funds for that business. . If this is to he held a State offence, the cri? minals will be numerous enough, and the work of confiscation-for that is the end aimed at-wijl always strike at tho corpu? lently rich people. Happy he "who labors under the imputation of poverty. When, in the time of Sylla. a certain very rich man-we forget his name, and our ribrnty has gone the way of all ashes-beheld his nnmo written on the list of the proscribed, lie took to his heels, crying out, "2>?y Alban villa pnrsues me.'' His Alban villa was tiie cynosure of a thousand loyalists, who, being flooded with patriotic s????t?nients yet lacked a little in landed property/. Let the rich teware. Let the tallest poppies hide their heads, and become as obscure ns possible^ A communication in the Charleston Courier, signed J. 1'-, discusses the condi? tion of things and the essential necessity of restoring the State to the Union ns soon as possible. He objects to the word recon? struction, ns the Union, being the result of a permanent compact, could not be dis? solved. He is "in favor of restoring the old status of the Stales, by electing men who will take the oath of allegiance in goerd faith and ignore secession; the State and municipal laws in reference to ?lavery, of course, to be suspended, subj ect to the decision ?>f the Supreme Court and the laws of Congress.1' There is much that is latent in all this, which might have been suggested from Washington. The War Department of the United States Government lins issued orders for the preparation of six hundred thousand blank dischanr.es for.the ?oldiers of thc army. This not only reveals the immense force which they had in thc field at the end of the war, but the large seale of dis? bandment which is to follow. It v/ill need some foreign employment to keep from mischief at home this immense number of restless and otherwise unemployed per? sons. The Confederate rum, the Webb, com? manded by Capt. Reed, mad-; a desperate attempt at escape from the Mississippi, which was almost successful. lint finding his efforts vain, the captain yin his vessel ashore and fired it. She was destroyed beyond recovery. A portion of her crew escaped in the swamps; the captain and a part of his followers were captured and conveyed to New York. Booth, it is now stated, bad the commis? sion of a lieutenant-colonel under the (?i vernment of the Confed?rale States. The Northern parers have found some curious coincidences in his career to ifs finish. It appears that he was shot in the''same region of the head in which he shot Lin? coln, and that he died at the very hour and moment-viz: twenty-two minutes past 7 o'clock-at which his victim died. Here, then, is a subject upon which the psychologist may meditate, but he should teed himself on lenten diet bettye lie at? tempts the wondrous problem. We are tolo that tho emancipated ne? groes freely make off with the horse? and mules of their owners-which is, we sup? pose, one of tho privilege* of their novel freedom; for it meets with no rebuke-no gentle bini of offence-"i. tlie part, of those editors who tell of it. It is only a spoiling of the Egyptians. - The (hnriir says "it is thought that Bragg and Hampton accompanied Davis in hie flight-the latter in command o? his escort." Bnt here we know better. Edward C. Th arin is appointed inspec? tor of flour and meal at Charleston, and Claience C. Levy gauger of liquors, mo? lasses and spirits. Booth's body' has been so made away with that its place of sepulture or conceal? ment remains (indiscoverable. This pre? caution has been taken by the authorities at Washington lest lhere should be swarms of enthusiasts, who, regarding him as n martyr to freedom, should seek for a relic at his grave. Tjooal ^3Zt:oi3aL?S. The offi?e of" tho Columbia /'Acrn? ie on Gates'atrect. second door from 1'lnin. P^'PERSONAL.-All subscribers to the Phoenix whose subscriptions h?ve ex pired, will please come forward and renew, in specie or provisions; otherwise their papers will he stopp? d. (J^" We wish it distinctly utid-rstood tliat our terms are cx*h. No advoitisc ments will, therefore, he inserted unies" paid for in advance. Wc preset.t the following schedule of rates, in the ease of the most ol?viou* eon. modities. F-jr one month's subscription to the Phatrix, we will receive cither ti the followine, viz: 1 bushel corn. 1 ?bush, peas or potato? 1 5 pounds butter. 20 lbs. flour. 7 '. lard. ? ih*. candles. 7 " bacon. t> qt?, riee. 8 dozen-ecss. 4.head ot chickens. Wood, vegetables and provisions guttu? rally received nt fair market rates ap? proaching the specie standards. FHOM THE INTERIOR-People from the interior tow' ? are utiiving in the city every day. They r<-prosenl that the feel i ri ir in thc country is decidedly favornbli towards having th..- State represented at the National Congress at Washington ?rt the next ?ess'ion. 'fhe citizens are not wholly salisii.-d with the rebel Governor Mngrath's proceed ure'; and*are inclined io the impression that, hud he exerted him Self ns he should have don'e. State matters, might have been hi a much better condi? tion than they now are. All are anxious to have the communications opened v. ?th Charleston. Many of the people i;o*.ir living in the country were formerly resi? dents of this city, and, in numerous in? stances, their household effects are still here. They are desirous of being where ti?ev cnn ie?--ive thc protection ol !!.<: United Stales Government. Travelers reach. here by ail softs of moans; some coir.c in Vehicles, others walk: at at:y rate, all. it appears, nr.- determined to get heie in some way. There continues to be a scarcity of substantial provisions iu the large to .cns.- Charlestou Courier. A PCBLIC MEETING IS SAV/SSAH.-Thc following call for a public meeting ap? pears in the Savannah Herald, of the Sib: "We, tho undersigned, respectfully re? commend to un- fellow-citizens of the County of Chatham to asset'able in County meeting, ?ti the city of Savannah, nt the Exchange, on Tuesday, the uih inst., at il o'clock, for the purpose of devising some practicable moue of ascertaining the views of the people ns lo the speediest pian ot restoring the State to her original condi? tion in the Union, and to provide :or iii?: assembling of a convention of the iv Ute people of Georgia at some suitable time and pl-ice for that purpose." The above call is signed by over '!'<>) ul the oldest, best known nnd iiiflue'ntihl cit i zens ot Savannah, seule. 1 by Mayor Ar? nold. N". B. Knapp, Wwi. JJ. Hodgson, et?. An ord.-r from Gen. Halleck allows all person?, wit bout regard lo rank or HU. ployment in the civil or military set .-iee of the, late rebel Government, lo take ti,,, amnesty oath, mid will iee.-ive the corr?-? ponding oort ?ti cute. These excluded from the benefit ?>f ?ii 'i an oath'can make ap? plication for pardon mid restoration t?> civil rights, which application will be re? ceived and forwarded to proper channels for the notion ot the President of the United States. The fact that such persons have voluntarily com.- forward nnd taken the oath of allegiance will be evidence of theil intention tb resume the stains ol loyal citizens, and constitute a el-mu for Executive clemency. ^ Harried, On the 14th tr^t.. bv Rev. J. S. Connor Dr. GEO lt GE W. HARNETT to Mrs! ELIZABETH B. CARSON, nil ef St. Mat? thew's Parish. AUCTION SA LKS. Zealy, Scott & Bruma WILL sell. THTS DAV, at 10 o'clock, op. posite their Wareroom, Assembly st ree , SilverWaro. Furniture, Clothing. Crock erv. Kitchen Utensils. Colton Cards. Shoe Thread, Augfirs, Plane-. Gliisejs, Com? passes. 4c; Tinwar*-Buckets, Kettle?, Fans, Cans, Coffee Pots, Lanterns, Baking Pans, ?c. ALSO, 100 lb?. Potash, 100 lbs. Black Lend, 2 Wagon (..'overs. 1 C?T; enter's TOO' Cilest AT PRIVATE SALE, Bacon, Lard, Molasses, ?c. Unlimited articles received np to hour of sale. T-irnif cash. Mnv LO 1 " . Lost or Stolen. OME Urge red BUFFALO COW. with left eye sore; also, one red "DEVON COW-was dry when she left my house, but may possibly have situe lind a calf. When last seen, they were in the neigh? borhood of tho Race Creek. - A reward < ! fifty pounds of bacon will he paid for their return to me. or for snob information as will lend to their recovery. may 19 1?_THOMAS R. SHARP. IWILL be found in the South Carolina College buildings, iu the Library, fron. 10 a. m. to 12 m. M ay 4 J AM ES D. TR ALF. W E LL