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r*M" ttl n->-?? "T r : , - .?. - .* ~"T ; Trodden Flowers. BT ALFRED T?NBTSON. . There are some hearts that^like tho roving^ vine, . : Cling' to unkindly rocks and ruined ?ow?rs, ." Spirits tbajt suffer and do Rot repine Patient and Bweet as lowly trodden flowers; That from the passer's heel arise. And bring back odorous breath iuatead-of Sighs. But there are other hearts that , will not feel The lonely love that haunts their eyes .and eare: * That wound fond faith with Anger worse than'steel; And out-of pity's spring draw idle tears. O Nature! Bhall it ever be thy will 111 thing -with good to mingle; good with ill! $ "Why shonld the heavy foot of sorrow press The willing heart of uncomplaining, love Meet charity that shrinks not from dis . tress, Gentleness, loth her tyrants to reprove? Though virtue weep forever and lament, Will One hard heart turu to her and re? lent? WJiv should the reed be broken that will "bend, And they that dry the tears in others' eyes \ Feel their own anguish swelling without end, . Their Stimmer darkened with the smoke of sight-? Sure, love to some fair Eden of his own Will flee at. las!, and leave us here alone. Love woepeth always-weepeth for the past, For woes that are, for woes that may betide; Why should not hard ambition weep at last, Envy and hatred, avarie-? and pride? Fate whispers, sorrow ig our lot, They would be rebels; love rebe'.leth not. The Suicide of the Oldest Secession? ist in America. All who were witnesses of thc scenes of the Charleston Convention, will J remember well the rosy face, and keen blue eye, and long, snowy hair of Ed? mund llulnn, of Virginia, lie was, at that time, an avowed secessionist, and boasted that be had been one for ? inore than thirty years. Animated bv j the prospect of the consummation of ; the hopes of bis life, he labored, with more than youthful vivacity, to defeat i all schemes of compromise that might I preserve the integrity of the Demo ! eratic party; and, as the contest deep- j oneil, and the quarrel became irrecon- j (diable, bis keen eye glittered with ! joy, and be devoted himself to Inflam ing the bot blood of tho South, and cheering the fiery spirits, to a pitch of: insolence that be knew would be in? tolerable. The Southerners looked upon bim .13 a pro .diet, and the venerableness of his appearance, and the dignity of his personal bearing, bis well-bred style, singularly mixed with the glowing, fanatical zeal that made him importu? nate in advocacy of his ideas, assisted the illusion with which they pleased themselves and him. It was honorable then, as the master spirits of the South looked upon it, to have boen a dis- j unionist for a generation. Those who | saw and heard, have not forgotten how 1 Edmund Jluffin, of Virginia, was in- I troduced as the distinguished gentle mah who bad always been 'a traitor,' | as the Hotspurs of tho Gulf States i sometimes put it, fancying they were most excellent jokers. Stories were told of what a 'mag? nificent plantation' he had. how many slaves he owned, what superb wheat fields adorned his pos -ssions-in short, how rich be was. And there were other stones of the brilliancy of his powers. It waa,a favorite phrase that he could have held any office he wanted; but, with his principles, of course, he couldn't hold office in the Union, lt was even whispered that Calhoun could hardly be counted bis superior. The old man triumphed at Charles? ton. Ile saw the convention dissolve, and his intensest desire was, that the dissolution of the Union was the next thing in order. When the seceders from the Charleston Convention met in Richmond, Edmund Rufiiii was there, his long hair, white as lamb's wool, hanging on tho collar of his Quaker cut broadcloth coat, and a large, silver headed cane in his hand. His activity to defeat the efforts that were made to heal the breach, was incessant, and thc measure of success that he attaiued is well knowfr. He did not engage ip the final convulsion ,at Baltimore, re-: gardiug it as beneath ,the dignity of a true Southern . man to follow the Northern delegates, who were deter? mined to nominate Douglas, across the Potomac. Tb'.t he looked upon the .process of precipitating first tbe cotton and then the border States into the revolution, with pride and joy, is certain; and I when it became clear thnt there might ' be an exchange of hostile shots in j Charleston Harbor, he hastened there to begftbat the battle might begin, in. order to drag Virginia after the 'way? ward sisters' already gone, and to get the glory of firing the first gun. He could not literally fire the first shot of the war, for that had been done by the cadets, of Charleston, aimed at the steamer Star of the West. He did, however, fire tho first gun at Fort Sumter, and the' Charleston papers were enthusiastic in describing the picturesque old man who had made a long journey to claim, as a reward for a long life spent in thc cause of South? ern independence, the immortal honor of firing the first gun in the struggle that was to redeem his country. They saw a peculiar, singular and beautiful propriety in the opening of the drama by the venerable Virginian, and when the siege was over, the old man had an ovation in Charleston that rivalled tho triumph of Beauregard. The termi? nation of the career of the old traitor has not been wanting in tragic interest, and, perhaps, we rna}' add. poetic pro? priety. I he Richmond Republic, of Tuesday, says: "On Saturday last Mr! Edmund Ruffin, a very distinguished agricultur? ist, of Virginia, committed suicide at his residence, near Mattoax Depot, on the Richmond and Danville Railroad. Ho retired to his chamber at an early hour in the morning, and, taking a seat in a chair, took a gun h aded with shot and slugs, and placing the muzzle to his mouth, discharged the piece by pushing the trigger with a stick. The upper portion of Iiis head was entirely blown off! In a diary of his was found a memorandum, stating that he could never live under the United States Covernmenf, and took death in preference. In thefaxne memorandum he said that he would have committed the deed on the Otb of April, (theday Gen. Lee surrendered ) but was pre? vented hy the presence, of visitors in his house. Mr. Ruffin was well known in Virginia by his efforts in behalf of agriculture in the State, and was once editor, we believe, of the Southern Planter. He was well known through? out the country during the first of the war, from the ardor with which he embraced the Confederate cause, and particularly from the fact that he was the man wdio Tired the first gun at Foit Sumtar, when Gen. Beauregard bombarded that work in 1S(J1. He was over seventy years of age." . The Whig says: 4Tt is now stated that Mr. Ruffing mind had been very perceptibly affect ed since the evacuation of Richmond and the surrender of tho Confederate armies. For a we?k previous to ter? minating his life, Mr. Ruffin kept his chamber, busily employed in writing what subsequently turned out to he s history of his political life. He alsc wrote letters, and in one of them lu left directions a3 to the disposal of bis body. He bathed himself, put ot clean under and outer clothing, ant directed that his body should be burier! in the habiliments he had put on without shroud or coffin. De thet seated himself in a chair, put a loadec musket to his mouth, and, leaning back, struck the trigger with ht hickory stick. The first cap did nb explode, and he replaced it by another which discharged the musket, tin charge of ball and buck blowing ol the crown of the venerable old gentle man's head, and scattering his brain and snowy hair against the coiling c tho room. When the family, alarme' by the report, reached Mr.wiffin' room, he was found lying back iu hi chair, the gun leaning against bin and lifo gone. A paragraph in th letter left for the pernsal of family an friends explained the tragic deed. ] j reads: 'I can not survive the loss of th liberties of my country.' " It was said by Mr. Ruffins admire! in Charleston, in 1860, that his co jgaggiSBiSB resp?nflcnce with leading. Southern men. Iud been very extensive and im? portant:. We presume it is trite, and' an effort ought to bo made to secure bis papers. There can be no doubt of their historic value. yCincifinali Commercial. ?Speech cf Provisional Governor John son. .1 .At half past eight o'clock Provi? sional Governor Johnson was intro? duced by Judge St.-.rnes in a few brief remarks to a large and respectable "assemblage of our citizens at the City Uah. Governor Johnson said: Afrer a sanguinary conflict of four years, wo find ourselves without civil rights, wo have been compelled to yield to su? perior numbers and resources. We are now deprived of all civil govern? ment and stand under the military authority ol the United Slates, and must louk to that authority for pro? tection and the administration of jus? tice, but I do not think the peuple of Georgia desire to always remain under militar}'- nile. The Administration desires todo al! that can bc done to assist you in restoring c'vil govern? ment, and placing the Slate ia her proper relation to thc Union. For that purpose I have been appointed Provisional Governor, and L am here to-night to make known my views. My duty is plain and simple-the making of needful rules for thc assem bling ol' a Convention at the earliest practicable day, that thc people, the true sohrce of all rightful power, may creel a civil government. My war? rant for the authority I may exercise is the proclamation of tho President appointing me. The duty of tho people is to take ti;e oath of amnesty as prescribed by the ]'resident's proclamation of May 20, which ?tauts a full pardon for all political offences, to all who wero en? titled to take it; and he did not think that the oath was inteniied to humili? ate the people, but only as a necessary measure to prevent those getting kite power who were not friends of tin Government. If flu re were any who deemed that subscribing t-j the oath as prescribed by President Lincoln was sufficient lc return them to the rights of citizenship would not say whether they won legally right or not, it was a questir* useless to argue, as the President hat distinctly said that ;.o .one should b< eligible to seats iu the Convention o be entitled to vote for delegates wh< had not taken the catii prescribed Maj 29; and he would, therefore, urg< even- one to come .forward and taki the oath, that they may assist iii form ing a Srate Covernment. J Ie had been informed that eotrn wen.* hesitating to do so, on thegroum that it compelled them to support au? obey the Emancipation Proclamation which they did not believe const itu tiona!. To such lie would say that whether constitutional or not, it woul make very little difierence, as h thought slaver}" would soon be abolish ed by the amendment to the Constita tion, which now wanted hut the censen of but two more States to become tji law of the land, and lie thought tba consent would soon be given. BL1 whether given or not, as a lawyer, h believed that slavery was and is legall abolished by the proclamation, i virtue of the power given to the L'n si'dent as Commander-in-chief of th anny and navy, which gave him th right to declare what should be cai lured or destroyed, and having declare slavery dead, iL ceased whenever an wherever tho power of their arm extended; therefore it would bo unwis to re:use to be qualified so ns to tak part in tho affairs of the State on th ground. Paroled soldiers who bav taken the oath of allegiance woul also bo required to take the amnest oath. He expressed a hope that ever one entitled, would go forward and L qualified. For himself ho would say that h policy would not be to punish, bi rather to restore every ono to the rights as c'i'i/.i-'iis, and he felt autb rizerl in saying, from an iutervie which lie had had with the law ollie of the Government, that it was n the intention o? tho Administration humiliate or harrass the people, ai no onl>, ho believed, would ever 1 prosecuted for treason after taking t! ohth of amnesty; or if so, they would never suffer sny of the penalties for it. 'Mr.---Johnson concluded by exhort? ing tbci people to benevolent feelings and charitable acts; and asking their co operation in th? duties imposed by his responsible position. We have given but an outline of the Governors remarks. They were list? ened to with marked attention, and were well received by a large and in ? telligent audience. \A?igusta Constitutionalist, 8th. A correspondent of the New York Herald, writing from Richmond, under drtte of .lune 30, says of Col. Nor? throp, late Chief Commissary General of the Confederacy, and ot ex Gov. Let cher, of Virginia: Col. Northrop, the rebel Commis? sary General, and peculiar protege of .Ted*. Davis, is now living in North Carolina in great distress. Having resigned his otiice here some live months before the evacuation, in con? sequence of repeated charges ol in efficiency, made against him in and out of Congress, he went, lo Non h Carolina, where he applied himself to farming. He was enabled to make a start-in t-his new held of enterprise, through the kindness of some friends; but just as ho had planted his crops, Sherman's army came that way and ruined all. Ho is left without any means for tho support of a large family, his property in Charleston, South Carolina, having been either destroyed by fire or confiscation. Truly is the late of the rebel leaders a hard one. The destruction of Gov. Letcher's house at Lexington, by Hunter's raid? ers, has left Iwm in a condition of real distress. So utterly stripped is he of all ? means of subsistence that his family have had to rely altogether upon kind friends for their support ever since his imprisonment. A few of his friends had actually to raise for him, by contribution among them? selves, thirty or forty dollars-on the morning of bis arrest, to serve as a means to purchase some little require? ments beyond what is served in Iiis place of confinement. ..How it is Extra Billy is at large, while Gov. Leteher is a prisoner, the military au? thorities alone can tell. It excites some strange comment here. The last earthly possession upon which Gov. Leteher relied for a future start was ten thousand dollars worth of tobacco, purchased by him since the expiration of his term of office and that shared the fate of tho thousands of hogsheads of that article ^deposit ed in the public warehouse in this city. The Governor has certainly suffered much hy a war in the inauguration of which he had no instrument a liy. Ho remained true to the Union ns long as it was safe for him to do so. I WHAT TO no IN. A CASE OF POISON. ? Hall's Journal of Health, says if a ? person swallows poison deliberately, or I by chance, instead of breaking out I into multitudinous and incoherent ex? clamations, despatch some one for the [ doctor; meanwhile, run to the kitchen, j got a half-glass of water in anything that is handy, put into it a teaspoou \ ful of salt, a^id as much ground mus? tard, stir it in an instant, catch a finn j hold ot" the person's nose, the month will soon fly open-thou down with the mixture, and in a second or two up j will come tho poison. Thus it will answer better in a large number of cases than anything else. If by this time the doctor bas not arrived, make the patient swallow thc white of an egg, followed by a cup of strong coffee, as antidotes fot^any poison that re? mains in the stomach, because these purify a larger number of poisons than any other accessible article. Officers from New Orleans report, that Kirby Smith made nothing privately in cotton, but speculated in it to secure pay and subsistence for his army. His quartermaster lately turned over to Gen. Canby ?3,000 in gold as Confederate property.. Funeral Invitation. 1 Relative?, friends and acquaintances of Mr. and Mrs. JOSEPH M. AI NOTER and family, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services of the former, THI? AFTERNOON, at half-past !?> o'clock, at j thc residence of Mrs. Fenton, one square below the otate House. AUCTION SALES. Variety' Male. By Dnrbec & Walter. TH rs DAY, July 17, 1866. ve will sell, at our office, at 9^ o'clock, the following articles: 3 Mettras*"". Bolster?, Blankets, Cloth? ing, Chaim, Bureaus. Safe, Tables, Pots, Ovens, Decatnters, Shoes, Soap, Bucket*. Tubs, Pitchers, Jug?, Jars, Tools.' Lamp?. Stationery, Matches, Razoif. Spool Cotton. Also, ? wagons, a fin? Saddle, Bridle. <fcc Unlimited articles taken up to heur of sale. July 17 Wanted Immediately,* FIFTY WAGONS, to haul coflOD to Ornngehurg, S. C- For terms,?upplv to 'A. L. SOLOMON,' Commission Marchant, -i door above SBiver House, on Plain st. July 17 ._6 MES. S. E. PELOT, RAVING received a supply.of beauti? ful Enamelled VISITING CARDS, will HU orders ut the shortest notice, left at lier Writing Room, S. C College Cam? pus, iitxt door to fleadquai tero. Lier class in PENMANSHIP will meet evrry evening, al half past ft o'clock. Toi wg moderato. July "17 I Baptist State Convention of S. C. '"BMIC n.-xt annual meeting ol' this body ?L. will he In !-! at. Cross Roads Church, three miles from Chappell's Depot, eom meneing on Fill DAY before the fifth Sun? day in .Inly, (lin- 28th. inst.) U-d.'gates coming on thc Greenville Railroad will be met at Chappell's by convevances, Thurs? days and Friday. July IV J. M. C. BREAKER. Sec'y. Strayed or Stolen, fY^fi-i' FROM mv pasture, on the lith rxih instant, a B"A\" MARK, of medium si/...-, her cars slightly ?nelia. .! fl?p. ??.> marks remembered. A liberal reward will he paid for her rccoverv. July 17 2_ HARMON" KOON. Office Chief Com. of ?ub., Mil. Dist of Charleston. CHARLESTON, S. C., JULY IO, IS.;;.. IPROPOSALS will bu received at thia ..iii.:.- ii[> lo Julv '.!.r.. 18i'..">, FOR CON TRACTS Poll REEF CATTLE, (on foot.) to be furnished the V. i>. .Sub. Dept., tn quantities tobe specified in tho contract. Said eoutracts to lie made for four months. HENRY II J EN KS, Capt. 62d T. V- and A. 0 S.. Chief C. S. Military Hist, ot Charleston. it?piiSi? AND THF. GREAT /.V VIC ORA TING COR Ul A J. FOR Dyspepsia, General Debility, Ner? vousness and Depression of Spirits Has proven to be the bent LIVER INVIQ0RA?03. PERSONS advancing in life will find the-OLD SACHEM BITTERS"'invalua? ble as a REJLTEXATOR AND Mid! FOR F WV. V.Y DR. ?. MELVIN COHEN. Druggist anil Apothecary, Piekens street, head of Ladv etreet. . July 17 ' " 1 PUH.E DRUGS & MEDICINES! SELECTED AND FOR SALE BY Dil, I'. MELVIN COilEX, DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY, Piekens Street, head of Lady Slrael. HPx* ose riptioii? ?*REPARED, ol' the BEST INORE DIENT3, with accuracy. ? |?gg*" As this section of country i.^ filled with "Di-ug?,- ttnd Medicines" purloiner] from thc Medical Department-many o them being sjtr/d! and '.irrt, from.heat water and light-it is proper to say tba all articles sc M at our cstabli hmont an PURE and GENUINE. July 1 .' \