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THE.DKLY .PH(E NJX. DAlLy PAPEt e10 -A YEAR. "LET OUR JUST CENSURE ATTEND THE TRUE EVENT. ThI-wrELY 87 A TY. 3Y J. A. sLDYa . COLVUIA,'S. C., THURSDAY b[ORNING, AUGUST 17, 1865. * VOL L-NO.11 THE PHON?X IS rUSLOTED DAILY AND TRI-WEEKL T. XHD THU WimV GtSASER BY JTJLIAK A. SELBY. ' TERMS-IN ADVANCE. SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Paper, ?ix montfis.i5 00 Tri-Weekly, " " .S BO Weekly, " " .i 00 Single espies oLthe Daily and Tri-Weekly, 10 ?enta; or the Weekly, 15 cents. APT EUTISEIIE JOTS Inserted tn cither the Daily orTri-Weekly at SI per nqnitre for tho first insertion, and 75 ?ant? for each subsequent insertion. In the Weeklr, $1 a square. ?arSpecial notices 15 cents a linc. Tko filially OT HeS?<?ti?? Use Ol* * Cotton crops. Cotton is not king. That is settled. But for all ftnit, ft is a magnate of the *trery first rank. And it wifl be a most serious mistake not to be^ prompt to ,r recognize it as such, in rms new era. It must hereafter, as before, be the great regul?rer of foreign exchanges, and thereby the great conservator of our financial soundness. Herein it hus a certain divine right which we could not alter if we would. Providence has ordained that the belt of North Ame? rica embraced between the Atlantic and the Rio Grande, covered by the Southern States of this TJtiiojti, shall be the region adapted above all others, upon the face of the globe, for the growth of the best qualities of the cot? ton plant.. This can be said,of no ?other Ameir?an production. Wheat and all the grains, sugar, rico, tobac? co, every agricultural staple produced by us, can ba raised cbioNrboro, nearly if nof quite as well. Other lands are dependent npon ns for them only to a very limited measure, They can meet- but comparatively little of the heavy balance that yearly accrues .against - us. Without cotton, gold, the life-blood of our currency, mus? be cqntinually drained away to satisfy these demands. How soonest to. get our cotton pro duction back to its amount before thc rebellion-five millions of bales-h one of the most important problem* of the day. Two things only are ir the way; a civil insecurity, repelling capital, and the disorganized condi . tion'of labor, The first of these we trust will sooi disappear. We cannot reconcile i* -with any current idea of the practical .. ??ase of Americans to "suppose tha the Southern people will prefer to b< 0 in discord rather than harmony witl the National Government. The sobe second thought will proufpt them t< bary all past resentments, and to co operate with the Government for ai establishment of every civil safeguarc necessary to Tin i versal protection. W< cannot help believing that after alittl time every Southern State will exhibi the same respect for all the grea personal rights, as prevails here ii the North; that ail forms of politioa and social persecution -vyj^l disappear . and that capital will be able to plan itself anywhere in the South withou the slightest misgiving of any sort. The more terious difficulty is th disorganized co edition of labor. W have no feeling but contempt for th men who are eternally finding faul with the freedmen. Doubtless -the are faulty enough; but what Goi Johnson, of Georgia, said of tliem th Other day, in the City Hall of Macot is true to the letter: "Under tl peculiar circumstances with which tht . are surrounded, no people ever b haved better than the blacks ha^ done." Of course, they do noteasi adapt themselves to their new situ ?ion; probably not more easily than ( ihe masters themselves. * * * It is doubtful whether they ev? ?contract industrious-habits'as free men which will make good the amou of labor forced out of them under t: old system. It is certain that, at t -Very best, this cannot bo realized f many years yetv li wo rely up emancipation to restore soon the c cotton crop realized by slavery, shall certainly be disappointed. T training of the freedmen to bo capal " of this will require far longer til th?.n wo <jr?,o afford to wait. There ny be otfcer resources and other helps. "What are they? Northern and European laborers must be encouraged to become tillers of Southern soil. Applicatious have already been randa to our Foreign EmigrantCommissioners, from South? ern planters, for field hands. The pretence that white meiAamiot work under tHfe blaze qf a Southern sun is too stale now Cd bo heeded by any? body. The non-slaveholding (J-er i mans of Texas long ago proved that Southern cotton-raising is no greater tax Upon thc white man's constitution I than Northern corn-raising. The lands which produce" cotton aTe ger.e : rally dry and healthy, and the white laborer needs only to be a little care I ful to be able to meet with perfect se ? curity every requirement in the ctdti vation of cotton, from the first plant to.the last piok.? . * Hat ?ha gr*** ft&nt for The agricul? tural rent-oration of the South ought to be labor-saving machinery, lt is this which has enabled the great Northwest to develop its resource? at such a marvelous rute. It was this which made good the great drain of the strongest laboring men of that section, occasioned by the war; so that, though huftdreds of thousands Were taken from the field to fight j through the four years' war, the I crops,, instead bf being reduced ia I amount, actually become larger than ever. It is a well-known fact, that labor-saving farm implements enable tho furniers.of th? Northwest to ac? complish three times the amount of labor that they could without rnein, wiUi the same number of teams and men. Thcs% implements are applica? ble, good judges say, to the planting and cultivation of cotton in all "its stages up to the picking, which must be ?lone by hand. Yet they hare never been used for that purpose to any extent worth "mentioning. Slave? ry never had enterprise enough to venture upon new methods.. * ' * i * * It was content with mere j brute force to produce its gains. Be I iug rid of it, an opening is now made I stich as did not exist before, for the I great inventions of #vilizatiqu. If a ! prompt resort Ls had to them, and if I their management is consign od to in? telligent and-faithful bauds, they will I very soon restore rhe old cotton crops, ? however backward the mass of the freedmen may be in coming up to the white'standard of work. The import? ance of securing this end,speedily for? bids its being left to the contingency of the disposition or indisposition of the freedmen to da regular labor. It should be subject to no contingency; and this -may bo secured by relying primarily upon white labor, and its mighty auxiliaries, labor-saving im? plements.-New York Times. PARDOX-SEEKISG AiioNG THUNDER AND LIGHTNING AND BUKSTISG WATEE PIPES.-While ex-Speaker Orr, of South Carolina, was boseiging thc throne of th?; Presidential grace, on j Saturday afternoon, for pardon, one j of Horace's Roman storms burst ovei Washington, and sent down dire ha? and floods of rain, amidst tike roaring thunder and the forktd lightning, th wiud all the while rising almost to i hurricane. A friend who was in tin j Executive ante-room 'waiting to se< the President, tells me the scene wa terrine enough to frighten tho offic> ! and pardon-seekors out of all proprie j tv, but, as if to add to the horrors o i th., occasion, one of the water-main< I of the mansion burst all at once aui flooded the building. Nothing coull exceed the confusion. The'damag done, he thinks, will amout to five o six thousand dollars. The Presiden may now exclaim: Jam satis terris nivis atqne dore . Grandinis misit Pater, et rubento fe boitera sacra jaculatus arces Terruit Urbom. Terrait gentes. _ The St. Paul's Press is "glad t state that the bloodhound stock is o the risc. A biuidsonSo fund has bee: subscribed, and an anent has' bee sent South- to procuro the' animait They are to be used in. hun ting tb Indians."-Exchange. . Bloodhounds to hunt Indians! Wei they onlv negroes, this would t shocking, but as the game is Indian humanity and philanthropy are not i thojeast disturbed.-Boston Courte In view of the importance of the trpproach ing Convention, it is -of vital consequence to us that we should bo represented by mon, not only ot patriotism a.nd experience, but of legal acquirements, ? beg, therefore, to present to thc voters of Richland the names of the following gentlemen, who aro emi? nently fitted for thc responsible poet for which they r.re nominated.: CHANCELLOR CARROL, * HON. WM. F. DESAUSSURE, COL. WM. WALLACE, COL. F. w. MCMASTER. An g 3 THE following gentlemen aro respectfully suggested a? candidates tor tho Convention to bc held in .September next: WADE HAMPTON, A. R. TAYLOR, W. A. HARRIS, _?T."_G. GIBBES. '. ' July 31 * For til? Convention. The friends *of th?* TJnion and "of their Statt?,? desiring to bring into her councils Sradical knowledge, sound patriotism ind evotion to her host interests, respectfully nominate t*?? following gentlemen* as dolo-, catos to the .State Convention from tho District of Richlands JOHN CALDWELL, . " WADE HAMPTON, A. R. TAYLOR, W. A. HARRIS. August 1* War Department, , . BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS, . WASMINOTOX, Julv 6, 1865. Cm ru LAB NO. ?). WHEREAS it is reported officially that a large number of destitute refugees, taking advantage of Circular No. 5, from this Buread have boen transported South, against their-int crests, to places where it is extremely difficult to procure food, and, in most eas?*, impossible to clo HO except when provided bj military authorities? it is or? dered tbut "hereafter no transportation be snantod to refugees, except when; humanity ?^?lcntlv demands it, and then only by the ! requisition of the Commissioner of this Ru- ; reau. O. O. HOWARD, Major-General, Commissioner. Ofllcial: S. W. S.vxrox, Br?*vet Major and ' ??. ?ie _ iL. AI"S.H . 1 ? Eeadq'ra Freedmen's ?ureau. CITY OF COLUMBIA, s. C., | Alamar 1165. SPECIAL qi<J)ER NO. 1. IT having come to the knowledge of thia, office that in several caaes planters have discharged and driven the fri*sdmen from their plantations without sufficient cause: Therefore. ;IH tin-present crops art* nearly matured and laid by, it is hereby <s Ordered, That in no ?-ase will thc freed? men be discharge*] <u- driven from tho plan? tations, without permission from this office or some officer or agent connected with tue j Freedmen's Un reau. brevet Prig. Cen. RALPH ELY. ] Act. Ass't Com. Freedmen's Bur?au. ? I _Au(i 13 _ _ Valuable Family Ilrsldcnoc, Wdh a. full supply of Furniture, in fine order, I ? . at Pr?vale Sale. THE abov?>*js situated on Plain street, in thc vicinity of thc Female College, lo? cated on li acres of ground. The house contains eight rooms, with servant's house of eight rooms, and nil other buildings re? quired, and a fine well of water. Attached t > the groands are a ch#$re variety of fruit trr-es and shrubbery. Particulars, with thc list nf furniture, can be. had on application at my office. JACOB LEVIN, Ruction and Commission Agent, Corner Plain and Assembly streets. Aug t>_tl? Railroad Notice. IT" ROM this dato, the trail on fhe Spar tanburg and Union Railroad will lttave hnartanburg C. H. Tuesdays and Saturdays of ? ach wetdr, at 6 &. m., and arrive at Shel? ton at ll a. m. Returning, leave SbelrTor at 12 o'clock m., and arrive at Spartanburg at 5.15 p. m. THOS. B. JETER, President. Union C. H., 8'. C., August 2,18C5. jti)- Thc Newberry, Chester and Charlotte papers ?ill please copy twice a week for one month, and forward bills to office S. ft U. R. K. Co., Union C. H., 8. C. Aug 14 j7? DENTISTRY. gas DRS. REYNOLDS A REY? NOLDS, being now tm?y pre? pared, resume th? practice of ] their profession'in all its departments. <S? Office, for tho present, at the Colum? bia Female Academy. Aug 12 1 ' Notice.-Charitable Appeal' THE ladies of the URSULINE CONVENT and ACADEMY are anxious to rebuild. | as spwilily as possible, an edifice suitable for their Monastery and Institut?;, theirs having been bumed in the goimral contla ?rati?JU of Columbia by the United StateH Army, under Gem,Sherman, on the night of February 17th. And while they are far from pressing their necessities on their fol? io w-safier?'rt) of the South, will gratefully receive any contributions wldch thc friend?? cf edacation and religion may donate them for this excellent work. Remittances may V; made through thc Expr?s* Company. PLoaje address i THE MOTHER SUPERIOR, Ursulina Convent and Academv, Cwre Dr. Joh?! Lynch, Columbia, S". C. -Aug 2 Ires TARES!! LEMONS and FBENCH CON J: FECTIONERY, at wholesale ard retad, by HARDY SOLOMON * CO. AugK_ _-j_3^ Just Received, ALOT of VERY FINE SYRUP, at retad, a| (!0 cents per gallon. Ang IC 3 H. SOLOMON k CO. CALL A Tn C. S. Jenkins' 9 Assembly Street, 'TIMID DOOR FROM FEN&LETON. Aug 10_;_10 headquarter* Military District of-j Charleston. DEPARTMENT SdUTn CAROLINA. ASSISTANT ADJ UTANT-GEN.'S OFFICE, CHARLESTON, S. C., July 27,1866. NOTICE. . * PERSONS desiring to publish Newspapers within the limits of this District, are j hereby informed thut it will first be necea-J sary to obtain the consent of the Major-1 Ge?efal Commanding the Department. By command of . Brevet I?rig. Gen. JOHN P. HATCH. LEONARD B. VEUBY, Ass't Adj. G*n. Official: i E. HAINS JEWETT, 1st Lieut, and A. A. A. Gen._Aug 7_18_ 1 The New York News. DAILY and WEEKLY. THE NEW YORK WEEKLY NEWS, a prent family news? paper-BENJAMIN WOOD, rropriet?r-.the largest, Ivst and cheapest paper published in New York. Single copies, 5 cents; ono copy one year, 12; three copies one jyear, 5.50; live copies one year, 8.75; ten copies j one year, 17; and an ey tra copy to any club of ten. Twenty copies one voar, 30; the ! Weekly Ncc* ia "sent to clergymen at 1.60. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. I To mail subscribers, 510 per annum; six I mouths, 5; payments invariably in advance, i Specimen oopjes of Daily a-rvl Weekly Nows ! sent free. ' Address 1 lEN*.(WOOD, DailT Nc*i?*iBiiikliiig, No. 10 City Hall Square, !fir-W York (Itv. Aug t)_^_ T?1E URiST?l?? INDEX. BY the FIRST OF OCTOBER, or as soon as thc mails are re-established, I will renew tho publication oi tho "CHRISTIAN INDEX" and the "CHILD'* INDEX" I havo been publishing. * Price of "Index," per annum.$3 00 Price of "Child's Index," " . 50 (A deduction made for Clubs.) Money may be remitted at once, as my determination is positive. 3{y desire is to secure a large subscription hst with which to begin, and I issue this prospectus that subscribers may have time to forward their remittances. It is my intention to issue first class papers, and no piting or expense will he spared to secure that end. The best writers and correspondents will be secured, and tho highest religious and literary talent will be Riven to the papers. Tho CHILD'S PAPER will be profusely illustrated and will, in every souse, be made to conform te its new title, , I THE CIHI-D'S D27I..IGHT! Monev may be sent by Express or other- 1 wise-if by Express, at my nsk^if the Ex- 1 presH receipt is sent me, on thc resumption of mail facilities. j My connection with the firm of J. W. Burke <t Co.', is dissolved, but I will esta? blish an office in Macon, Georgia, where communications may be addresser!. I Aug 5 Imo ' SAMUEL BO YUIN. ! FEWER, BEmJWMAN, I (Suc'sorsto Hotchkiss, Fenner A Bennett, ) ! COM. MEBCHJWTSt ; 40 VESSEY STREET, NEW YORK, AND MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. THO??. FENNER, ft. BENNETT, I). W. BOW?AN. MR. T. A. TOBIN, who was for a length of t hue connected with the old firm of Hotchkiss, Fenner & Bennett, lias an inter? est in the present firm, and will devote hit attention principally to the State of Soutlj ; Carolina. His address will l>e (.'linton, Laurens District._Aug 4 Imo SoutlT Carolina-Rlchlaurt~O?itrlct. Ry Jacob Hell, Ordinary of said Distrirt. ^TTHEREAS Edward H?nt hath applied W to me for letters of administration on all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of H?wry Hunt, late of thc District aforesaid, deceased: These are, therefore, to cito and admonish ali and singular the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to bo and appear be? fore me, at our next Ordinary's Court for the said District, to bo holden at Columbia on Monday, the twenty-first day of August instant, at 10 o'clock a. rii.? to shyw.cause, if any, why the said administration should not oe granted. Given undor my hand and seal of the Court, this fifth day of Augast, in thu year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred *.nd g?LXty-five, and in thc ninetieth year of American independence. JACOB BELL, <dl.Og E? *2 Ordinarv Richland Dietrich Headq'r* Ase't Com'r of Freedmen, FOB S. O. OA., AND FLA., BEA UTO KT, 8. C.. June 30,1*65. GENERAL ORDER NO. 1. ITHE foUowing Circular from Bud . quarters Bureau of Freedmen, Refugee* and Abandoned Laads, is repnblislMtt for the informaiion of all whom it may concern: ? WAR DEPARTMENT, BUREAU of FREEDMEN, REFUGEES AND ABANDONED LAUDS, WASHIKOTON, D. C., May 22,1866. CivcvUar No. 3. Whereas a large amount of land in the State of Virginia, and in other States that have been in insurrection, has been aban? doned by disloyal owne^p and is now ueing cultivated by freedmen; and -whereas th? owners uf such lands are attempting to ob? tain possession of them, and tims deprive thc freedmen of the fruits of their industry: It is ordered that all abandoned lands m said States now under cultivation by the freedmen, be retained in their possession until the crops now growing shall We secured" for ?heir benefit, niuew full and just com? pensation be made for their labor and its producta and for expenditures. * The above order will not be .so constrnad as to relieve disloyal persons from the con? sequences of their disloyalty, and the ap? Ehcation for the restoratiou "of their lanae, y this class of persons, will in no case ba entertained by any militarv authority. o. o. HOWARD,"Maj. o?n., Commissioner of Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees and Abandoned Lands. WAR DEPARTMENT, A WITT ANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, May 22,1865. All military "authorities will sustain the Commissioner ot the Bureau of Refugees. Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, and aid him in the execution of thc above order. By direction of the Secret arv of VVar. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General. TJ. The provisions of tim above circular will bo strictly enforced throughout the States of South Carolina, Georgia and Flo? rida. Complaints have boen made at these Headquarters that in many instances for? mer owners of plantations and slaves, who are now allowed to remain on their lands upon condition that they announeo to their former slaves that they are free, and make with them fair and equitable agreements, whereby full and lust compensation shall bc mad? for their fubor and ita products, are, in defiance of Ibis ofder, stid forcing their former slaves to work ?ir th*rm, ana continue to hold them in slavery, even to the extent of shooting them down if they dare to assert their freedom, and fail utterly to admit or announce b> them in any way that they are fra?. Such acts aro disloyal to the Government and m plain violation of its policy. It is hereby ordered that all persons em? ploying the freedmen in agricultural ann. mechanical purs aits within tho States or South Carobna, Georgia and Florida, who fail, by th"? 15th of August, to announce to those in their employ the fact that they are free, and fail to recognize them as free mon and to make suitable agreements with them whereby a just and equitable compensation will be secured to Chem for their labor, will bc held as disloyal to the United States Go? vernment, and their property will be sub? ject to seizure and division among the freed" men, in accordance with the prenions ol Section 4 of an "Act to Establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees)" approved March 3, 1865. III. As the harvest tims is near, and the freedmen have been regarded as free by tho United States Government ?ince January. 1869; and as a measure of necessity, to pre? vent them from becoming paupers on ita bounty, the freedmen must be paid for their labor on all lands, not abandoned since the commencement of tbs preparation of th% ground for s?bd up to the harvest time of this year; and unless full compensation is made, to tho satisfaction of this Bureau, the freedmen will be entitled to and will receive one-half of the crop raised. IV. Any person who shall whip or other? wise maltreat any freedman l>ecause he as-, sorts that freedom, or for other causo, will be held gu?ty before the law, and punished for assault and battery; and any ono who shall take the life of any freedman for Uko cause, wjll be held guilty of murder. V. No person will bc permitted to driva the taged, infirm and helpless from their prient places of. abode-^ they must bo allowed to remain where they are until snck time as the Government shall make proper provision for their support, VI*. Thc Assistant Cominissftmors in tho States of South Catalina, Georgia and Flo? rida are required to enforce this orderte th? j extent of their power, and to report to theso I Headquarters all violations of it. The aid of every friend of justice and fair dealing between man and man, is also requested to bring to the notice of the* Freedmen's Bu? reau any failure tb comply with its provi? sions. When the rales of exact justico shall be? observed uv the relations between all, Ihn ploycr anAenjploycd, and each shah regard the other's Qgnts, then win be practically . demonstrated, so clearly that none can doubt, th? advantages of the Lee labor system. By ordor of Brevct Maj. Gun. R. SAXTON, Ass't Com. Freedmen for S. C., Ga. and Fla. S. W. SAXTON, Brevet Major ami A. D. C. Aug 15 - t , , brought before him: will alsops ttend to drawing uo Deeds* Conveyances, Mort? gages, Contracts, and other ordinary legal instruments of writing. Fair copies of any document nirmttd with neatness and de? spatch. Angmjt 1