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Travel in Ireland. DUWJK. LONDONDERRY, Ireland, June 3. T>ubhn is a very beautiful city. The river Liffey divides it nearly equally, and the stone quays along*the banks "when the evening lamps glimmer through the rigging of the snips, or sparkle in the still water above the bridges, form a fine promenade. The people are very Irish. You would re? cognize an American as readily as a Chinaman; but with all their amusing characteristics, they seem universally civil and good natured. I have never answered a question in Ireland without a "God bless you" in return, or asked one without receiv? ing a polite, though unintelligible xeply. AN IRISH JAUNTING CAB. _ Thc street conveyances are curiosi? ties. I hod noticed, as we approached in the steamer, some enormous gin? gerbread pans on two wheels, standing along th? pier, and was nearly struck dumb with amazement on suddenly seeing gentlemen getting into them and being driven off. They were the famous Irish jaunting cars,'and I have yet to see a vehicle better adapted for discomfort and unsociability. The passengers sit back to back, facing the sides of the street. PECULIARITIES. Lathes of the better class, though not beautiful, have a warm, soft com? plexion, with that peculiar expression of sadness so often seen in the Irish face. The men have not the bluff heartiness of the English, yet they are very earnest and impulsive, speaking on half dozen subjects in as many minutes, and finding fault in so comi? cal a manner that one can scarcely tell whether or not they are in earnest. The greatest curiosity of tlic city is THE VAULT OP MICHAEL'S CHURCH, which has the power of resisting de? composition in dead bodies. I paid a visit to the church about twilight, but the old woman who acted as guide coidd not be induced to enter the vault after sun-set; in vain I urged: she declared a dreadful curse would come upon any mortal who danni to enter that holy place during thc hours of night, and cheered my heart for the enterprise by a most horrible story of a man who persisted in re? maining in the vault all night, but rushed up a raving maniac just as the clock was tolling for mid-night. Finding me bent on attempting it, she brought a candle, opened the doors, and down into the darkness I stepped, my heart, I confess, wild with fear, my knees trembling, and in my thoughts a thousand hideous forms, principally maniacs, rushing out ?f the tomb. I looked about for the bodies. Six or seven are exposed to view, and lie in a little recess formed by other coffins; the skin is shrivelled and drawn tightly over the bones, sounding when tapped like a loose drum head. The hair and nails are perfect, and I cut a piece of ribbon from the foot of one. corpse, which had seemingly been preserved by con- i tact with tlie skin, as all but a small portion had disappeared. These re- i mains are said to be one hundred vears old- The old woman was over? joyed to sec me return in safetj-, but she burned the candle and absolutely refused to accept the usual fee. EXPERIENCE IN A THIRD CLASS CAR. I bought my tickets for Belfast with considerable hesitation, and entered the ear with a very mournful expres? sion of countenance, for Irish charac? ter in a third class railway carriage I feared woidd be a most unpalatable dose. Let me confess, then, my dis? appointment. To be sure, it was a rough set and the men all ate ham for dinner, and passed it around to all the ladies; then there was a little wretch of two years who rubbed four or five molasses cakes into his face, and tat toed himself with tears and dirt with the most remarkable perseverance. Still, though the company was by no means agreeable, I did not see a single act of rudeness, but, on the contrary, an excess of politeness, and the men really seemed pleased when called upon to do a favor. THE SCENERY Ol" IRELAND Is very lovely; it cannot be praised too much. The moisture of the climate produces an excess of verdure, the tints of which ore constantly chang? ing. There are no stone walls, no bleak hills, nothing rough or harsh, but the whole country is a beautiful ?oft green. Think of dashing over a sea ol' emerald, where the trees make dark green islands and the little white cottages dots of pearls; even the shores are grass-grown, and the long grass bathes in the water when the tides are high. There wa3 nothing to be seen In Belfast, excepting the cabs, which open behind and shoot passengers out aa one wotdd empty cord from a tip-e?-rt, and I went ont at once for _ TEE GIANT'S CAIi iEWAY. The train stops at Port Ku-jh, pas ?engers taking jaunting ears to the Causeway, which is eight miles be? yond. The whole coast of Northern Ireland is grand. There are startling pro? montories, jagged, cliffs, where thc rocks seem gnarled and twisted, arches which form gateways to enormous caverns, from which come up low moanings of the sea, as if it was mus? ing to itself away down amid the dark? ness. On an isolated rock, high above the msjiing sea, stand thc lonely walls of Dunluce Castle." One is disappointed in the Giant's Causeway, it being a low lodge of per? pendicular columns limning ont to the sea, but the cliffs about it and the two caves seen from the water side exceed in grandeur all anticipation. The guides are intolerable. You tell them that you wish to be still, to think, to admire what is before you, and you no sooner begin to fed the true beauty of the scene, a cons iousness of awe and solemnity, than a guide dashes your thoughts to ea; th again by some miserable story of where some giant broke his neck, and f.uother jumped into the -sea, and whose bowels i re still floating as sea-weed, *'U yon de? voutly wish that the same fate would befall your persecutor. [Cor. Basion Traveler. The Estimated Population of Rich? mond. Col. O. Brown, Assistant Commis? sar >f the Freedmen's Bureau for the State of Virginia, on the 15th ultimo made a report to Major-General O. O. Howard, some of the facts stated in ? which must excite surprise. "The only barracks occupied'.by j negroes in the vicinity of Richmond I are those known as the Chimborazo : Hospital. A portion of these bar? racks has been set apart as homes for such persons as could not afford exor I bitant rents, and for the reception of j such persons as have been forced to i leave then; homes by their former I masters. I "The whole number of freedmen I received at these barracks is twenty j five hundred and seventy-one, and all I of these, except eight hundred and I eighteen, have found work ami homes j elsewhere. All of the eight hundred j and eighteen still left are supporting j themselves. Meanwhile there have i been ninety-eight white persons simi I larly accommodated with quarters in I the barrack:;, sixty of whom are sup? ported by the Government. Thc I entire population of Richmond is I computed by officials p.t about fifty I thousand, of whom one-half are I colored persons." ! If the population of Richmond was, I on the 1st of July, 13G5, only fifty j thousand, ns computed by tin- officials, it had decreased at least fifty th- us nd j since the 1st of April List The popu ' lation of thc city before the evacuation ! was largely over one hundred thou? sand. If there aro now twenty-five thousand negroes in the city, fifteen thousand of thom have come- hither from the country since the occupation by the Union authorities. The col? lapse of the Confederacy, and conse? quent downfall of slavery, has altered very little the condition of the former slaves in this city; they are generally living with their former masters, and are supported by them just as former? ly-some receiving wages, sonic only their victuals and clothes. The negroes who have emigrated from the country an; generally young and able bodied. Among the resident negro population who are living to them? selves, there are few widows and or? phans, the male negroes not being ex? posed to, and not having perished like the whites by, the casualties of battle during the war. Many of the whites who draw rations count from two to five negroes in their families. During the war, women, whose husbands were in the Confederate service, flocked to this city with their families to obtain the work putout by that Government and the. food distributed by the Citizen Relief Committee. Many of those unhappy people remain here. They have no where to go. Thousands of white men during the war went Norfh to avoid military service, leaving helpless families in this city. Their families remain, but very many of the men have not come back. Winnen whose husbands are at work, making two dollars a tlay and over, are thaw? ing rations, fraudulently representing themselves as destitute. [Richmond Republic. A lump of pure gold, weighing six pounds, was found lately by a boy who was fishing on a creek near Vir? ginia, ti small village in Clark County, Iowa. He refuses to point out the locality where it was found. The war-horse of Stonewall Jackson is 3aid to be on exhibition at Newport, Rhode Island. i magnanimous Temper of the South? ern People. The subjoined article from tho New i York World contains many just state . ments mid judicious reflections, which i we trust tho Administration and thc > ' people of the North generally will i calmly ponder: The bearing of?the Southern people under their defeat and the immens? loss of property involved in the eman? cipation of their slaves, is more gene .rous, manly and self-respecting thar we had any reason to expect. Froir the Potomac to the Rio Grande, there is not a single guerilla band nor am demonstration of resistance to th< Federal authority. Ti.e influential statesmen of the South and 'theil .trusted military leaders, are disposed to a man, to acquiesce in re-union ant make the best of the situation. Gen Lee, whom the Southern people almos revere, is an open applicant for par don, and lends his weighty exampl. to a sincere and faithful submission U the laws. Gen. Johnston, who stood next t< Lee in Southern consideration, ha publicly given as rational adrice t< h:s fellow-citizens a? could have beei dictated by the staunchest friends o the Union. Mr Boyce, of South Cn rolur.i, Governor Brown, of Georgia j and other Southern statesmen of equa ! distinction, have made addresses conn j selling acquiescence in the abolition o I slavers' and fealty to the Federal Gc I vernmeut. The Southern newspaper are almost-universally conducted i: j the same admirable and manly spiril j There is no contumacious sullenness j no captious defining on the Constitr tion, no refractory assertion of Stat sovereignty, no harsh criticism of, th policy of President Johnson, none c j the haughty tone of self-assertion one 1 so characteristic of Southern publi men. And yet there is nothing servil I or craven in the general tone of n< quiescence and submission. It is th simple manifestation of good sens and manly feeling, which accepts th ! inevitable without womanish petulcnc I and seeks, in a straight-forward mai i ncr, to adapt itself to thc actual situ: tion. As Americans, the South has <rivc us no reasons to be ashamed of 01 countrymen. They made, to be sur a terrible mistake in proing hito th j contest; but or.ee in, they bore ther ? selves with a resolution, gallant:' persistence and fid< !ity to each otho ! which did no discredit .?0 their publ spirit and soldierly qualities, ii herculean and protracted exertion were compelled to make to sabdi them, attest, their vigor and arde and after so tough a cont'-st we cann deny them the possession of ere qualities without humiliating seif-d: paragemcilt. But the frankness their submission, when ?hey sew fu were beaten, is a.-: conspicuous a jere of magnanimity as the chivalric tl termination with which..they foug against superior odds. Ii .-.dds t-> o sense of national strength that, future wars with foreign powers, " shall have th" support of men wi understand so well thc duties of s' diers and citizens. Considering theirp" ?sent admiral bearing, ought we to treat them friends or as, enemh s? When ' separated from Great Britain we pi claimed to the world, in tito Beela: tion of Independence, that we shon hold the Britons, like other forei peoples, "*eiu*i es in war, in pei: friends." Shall we treat our own pentant brethren with less magna miry than foreign tuitions praet toward each, other? Having treat these bravo and misguided felic eomitrymen as enemies in war, sh we re?ase to trent them ms friends peace? Why should our newspap teem with calumnies op their char ter? When they so frankly accept 1 new order of thing';, and thc mig] revolution in their social system, wi sense, what magnanimity, what < coney even, is there in subject] them to needless humiliation and dignities? Nobody fears a new rel lion; nobody believes that the fra submission of the South is feign? and it is unworthy tl 1 character o great nation to practice a mean, s picious, and irritating surveilla' over a proud and spirited commun who bear themselves with such se: and self-command under one of < greatest trials through which any p pie was ever called to pass. , A water-spout, consisting of six i ferent streams, ranging in height fr ten to thirty feet, which seemed burst from the earth like water fr large-sized hose-pipes, was noti near the railroad in the South part of Cheshire, Massachusetts, other day. A German, named Vanderhav has been arrested in Chicago, char with!having had illicit interco", with his own daughter. London and Paris have each its object of curiosity at present; London is graced by the preseuee of the ex Queen of the Sandwich Islands and her train ; Paris by the noted and gal? lant Abd-el-Kader and his wives. The distinguished Emir occupies the hotel which was taken for the Siamese and Japanese Embassadors during their stay in Paris. He left three of his wives in Damascus. The two with him are young Circassians, whom he recently married at Constantinople. Abd-el-Kader is a warm admirer of the Empeior. He wears the "white oriental costume, from which glitters the cross of the legion of honor, con? ferred upon him by Napoleon fer his efforts to save the Christians in the massacre by the Turks at Damascus." A correspondent of the New York World says: "He wears the white I turban, and is of a remarkably ma , jostle presence, with an eye full of fire i and intelligence. His board, formerly coal black, is now slightly gray. His | j life, written in popular fashion and ' printed on coarse paper, is hawked I about the streets in every quarter." i A large and curious crowd constantly ! ' line the street on which his hotel is j I situated, anxious to get a pe?p at the ? i chief and his pretty wives. They do j I not appear to have been rewarded for j j their pains, although it is said that I there is a small arbor in in th ? garden I in which "veiled forms are sometimes j dimly seen."-Richmond Times. j COLORED TROOPS.- We think the Government would considt its own j interest by removing the negro troops j trom our towns and villages. We are ', subjugated, whipped, beaten, and we ! desire to be good citizens, a peaceable : people, and w ill support the Govern : ment and obey the laws, if given to j understand what our duties are. But I all our prejudices can't be overcome j in a moment, nor can we in a breath i transform the ignoi....t African, just ! 1 set free, into a well behaved Citizen, j ; There has been nothing but trouble in every town where negro troops have leen stationed in this State, and we are assured that at this very moment the most serious outbreaks are con? sidered imminent at Wilmington. Admit that the colored troops conduct themsetves well and fhat the discipline is good, and yet the danger to be ap? prehended from the demoralizing in? fluences of their presence on the I .negre population causes the whites to I feel that the y are constantly subject to j the bursting fo*th of an eruption that i may engmr an bi 4+ We ..rc! charging no thing upon K\? military au- I thorities, nothing upon the Govern- j mont-wo have nothing hu! the good of the State and country at heart, and it is us the friend of the Administration that w e say these things, The few i malcontents in this State make a good ' <!>?,,' of fuss, but we do not consider 1 them dangerous. - Raleigh Progress. Wm. J. Piekerson, of Winsted, a ?i?.Idi-'V. is nov. ceniinftd ac Fortress . Monroe, sentenced t->s'.x mouths'im? prisonment and forfeiture of ten dol- ! lar.* per month, *' e- <. ''inghis superior officer an numil ignted puppy. As he has pass- d through twenty battles, j ?with honor, his townsmen are peti- | tioniug for his, rel? uso. Aman named John Hill, in eusto- j dy of the Sheriff of Benton County, , Missouri, for being concerned, with 1 twenty-five others, in the murder of ; several Union men, war; foreddy taken : from the Sheriff's bauds, July 16th, i carried across tho Osage River, and | shot dead without ceremony. The peopl ' of West Virginia say j they want rest anet an opportunity to ? develop their enterprise free from i the presence of the military. The | people -here are all loyal and able to j take cave of themselves, if left to do so without restraint So many partial and incorrect state? ment5! have been made respecting the distributing of the rewards offered for the capture of Booth and his associ? ates, that it becomes proper to say, that no money has yet been paid to any one, either by the general or city authorities. The colored citizens of New York gave an immense pic-nic and Union emancipation jubilee, at Myrtle Ave? nue Park, Brooklyn, on the 1st inst. Fred. Douglas was present and deli? vered an address. Good order was maintained. J. M. Mason, late Confederate Com? missioner to Europe, has gone to St. Catharines, C. W., to reside. A disease prevails among the cattle, horses, etc., in the Mississippi bottom, which is causing great loss of hf e. Hon. Judah P. Benjamin, late Con? federate Secretary of State, and Gen. Kirby Smith, have arrived at Havana. Adeline Patti was betrothed, on the 38th of June, to a gentleman of Mibac -mercan'ile not ausieaJ. Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie has been engaged by the manager of the Boston theatre to appear there nett season. A man named Stacinnatten has been arrested in the -village of Oakland, Connecticut, charged with the murder of his mother and sister. The Commissioner on Pensions has decided that Confederate deserters, though afterward in the Federal army, are not entitled to pensions. Auction Soles? Variety Sale. BY JACOB JttSVTX. ON MONDAY MORNING. 14th inst., at my Auction Boom, will be sold. Sundry articleu for lauiily use. ALSO, 1 Jersey Wagon, covered top. 1 Two-horse Light Wagon. 1 Horse, 1 Mu:., &c. Aug 1? 'I FOR SALK. 4 FIRST-CLASS SINGER'S SEWING JA. MACHINE will bc sold CHEAP. Applj to C. P. REMSEN, Aug 12 1* Corner Gutes and Lady ats. Fairbanks Scales, OPENED THIS DAY, of various sizes. For sale by J. G. GIBBES. Aug 12_2_ Cabinet and Nectar Whiskfly. JUST received from Baltimore, a few cu ees of CABINET and NECTAR WHISKEY, which, for purity and age, cannot bo sur? passed. N. B.-The nbovf will only bc edd os the order of Col. Haughton. JOHN STORK, Rpar of old stand, below the Market. Aug 12_3 Rice, Rice, Rice. AT 25 cents per quart. Also, a small but select assortment of DRY GOODS and GROCERIES. For Bale bv SIMONS' & KERRISON, Asscniblv street, opposite Cathedral. Aug 12_1_ GUNNY BAGGING AND ROPE. 4) pr BALES superior Gunnv BAGGING ^ ?j 5U coils ROPE. For sale low fer ca h bv KENNETH <5c GIBSON. Aug 12_3_ Flour, Flour. A f\ SACKS FLOUR. For sale at sS.50 *dbVf per sack, bv _Aug 12 1_KENNETH .t GIBSON. Wm. H. Talley, Attorney U Lair awi Solicitor in Equity, HAS resumed tho practice of his profes? sion in Columbia and the Districts ad? jacent. During the rebuilding of his office -No. 4 Law Range - -ho may be found at Rev. N. Talley's residence, corner of Ger? vais and Eickens street.-'. Aug 12 *3* ffl^^jjfc ^ DT? REYNOLDS & EEY ^??_??j''' pared, resume the practic? of their profession in nil its departments. Z?. ? OlHcf, for Ute present, ~t i he Colum? bia Female Academy. Aug 12 7 T. D. DAYI?!. W. T. M'JFEAT\ Commission J? ixl Forvi'ordin^ Votice. rniHK UTid-rsigno.']. late officers of tho JL Greenvilh and Cotumhia Itailroad at Columbia, will, until tho ?aid road is repair? ed between Alston and Columbia, undertake to forward, with despatch, articles of every description, to uri! from all stations on that road and Columbia. They will also bay or sell on commission, and attend to business of any kind offered lo them. Address them at cither Newberrv or Co? lumbia. DAVIS & McFEAT. Aug 12_3? SontH Carolina-Kit Uland DiiirUi. Tty .mcob Bell, Ordinary of paid District. XTTHEREAS Edward ibu.; applied W to ne for lett?'rs of administration on all and singular the gooo-1 ciiattels and credits of Hi nry Ham, late of die District aforesaid, deceased: These are. therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular .he kindred and creditors of th? said deceased, to if and appear be? fore me, iit our next Ordinary's Court for tne .said District, to be holden"' at Columbia on Monday, thc twfcnty-rirst day of August instant, at 1') o'clock a. m., to show cause, if any, why the said administration should not be granted. (liven under my hand and seal of the Court, this fifth day of August, in the* year of our Lord enethousandoighthuiidredand sixty-rive, and ?TI the ninetieth year of American independence. JACOB BELL, Aug 12 s2 'Ordinary Richland District. _ Fresh Groceries, Sec? AFRESH SUPPLY of GROCERIES just opened, and for side asjeheap as can bo iiad in tho city, fey cash or barter for conn try produce and provisions. Call and see before purchasing elsewhere, as my object ts to sell low aiid '-ready sale 'iud short nrotits." I will also attend, with despatch, to tho <ales of any PROVISIONS that may be for? warded to mc* and accouni for or remit aa >rdored. GEO. L. PRATT, Assembly street, one door from Richland. Aug 10 ?3*_ To tHe Traveling Public^Xoticc PERSONS desiring passago to Wirmsboro or Alston, in a very comfortable ?AR ilAGE, can always find an expeditious and leb'ghtful riding vehicle at the* subscriber's. GEORGE CHISOLM, Aug 5 B Laurel street, noar Gadsden. TO REST, \,f Y HOUSE on Picken street, between 3X Plam sr.d Circlon. For oar?culi.-?, .ppiv ? RICHAPVD / LANIGAN: Aug !: 2 P. H. ?LANT'?Ayr