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COLTJMBIA_ Friday Morning, Aug. jg lggj - AVhat is to br Done I . Briefly, the Conventions of tliqj* pie of tho several Southern States., J so to revise the existing Constitutif of each Statp, afld.jri&put. .disctussi or debate-for these are idle-as abolish slavery within the limits oft State. /"Che Sfcate Legislatures of t South are also severally required adopt the amendment to the Fcdei Constitution, which declares ?lave: forever abolished throughout tl Unitod Sfc?tes.. This is all which the, bodies ?tiu be required to do by tl Government of the United State preparatory to their readmission i the Confederacy. In the event of til C .invention refusing to euact thus, c the Legislature subsequently, tb State remains in a sort o? tcrritorii condition, and continues under mil * ta ry government. It is for the men hors of the Convention to decide fe themselves which slat its '. they sha . prefer. We do not see that any oth* r?quisition L cr can be. made, on thes . - . il bodies, as lo the work confide to their hands. In general terms, the are to devise a republican form ( government. The. standards for sue a frame-work are to bo to md in an dozen of the existing Constitutions^ * o country-nay, in that,, of Sont .'.'dina itself. We do not see thn . ? our Parish system, to which ol has boen so frequently math i. abject likely to occasion Congres r ..d animadversion, since ever . is permitted to decide ;'or itse] l^tuils *of representation, accord it > its internal policy, and to dt ..re with whom the rights of sui age shall reside, and what sfiall b ie degree, of representation confide t t) each precinct. Not that we ciire jr rfeed to care any longer for the pe? culiar privilego^in the Senate, former -ly accorded to thc Parishes. This Ava ' only important while the character istics of property were derived fron the use of negrcj slavery. In the de struetion of this interest, the conch" tioa of things must necessarily change the standards of taxation, must al chango, and the nipmbers of the negr< will take the place of his valuation a so much property. It the Parish vot? .n the Senatr is lessened be assured i must necessarily increase in the House Hither way thq. difference wflTbe im material to the section. in question The value of lands will diminish ii the low country, aud rise in the mid d: ' and upper country, in all part; above the -malarial region. But w? need not af present dilate on this sub ject. lt may be well to add, what wil be the further requisition of the Unitei . Skates Government and the Congres upon the'people of thfi South. The; art- required to. '.accept in good faiti jtiio chang? in the status of the negr< and to made ""no attempt, indirectly ': / rei luce the emancipated slave to i Titvvi of practical slavery." We di 'X idly see how Cou gross .caa de . . ; suck i subject, or whac will Ix ' ': >\f.ion of Klay.ery, where a sys - . .J. ..tuv-. exisb, depending upoi uo '.racts between- ifcha parties. Mei .?/A- ?ink or-rise in-th? social positioi ;. riling to laws of mental and mora .?: . /i talion. .In degree with their tie ?pmeuts in thesj respects, ortnei a: r.o develops, mast they rise ii ?fti-.? )i le?cen?. to conditions which i cal! it slavery or not, wil .Ly a <..ve condition. Yoi CUT.:-. ., -jj anv legislation, keep nm. tue condition to which thet shall eondact them. Tnat i biv'ery v? which tlie individua '. . "ie level proper for his moral . . re piisitions like these that w 'io seed sown for constant con - , engendered by meddling or lac or usurpative parties. 'he Election?-?Convention. -? the peopie take heed of what i cted at tneir hands, dismiss thei -.ay, and .prepare their votes fo members of the Convention, Th dion takes place the first Monda, September-Monday week next I the Convention begins its eessioi ,n . he 13th proximo. There is but ; ?LT ll interval of time between thes daces and the present. Tho nomina tiens seem io be made sluwly, and-in the more remote rarely ?ejgijOna, the probaB^ility" "is t?at no votes will be taken at oil, ?ad probably nd election held. The Jxatn'?s, our people seem to take no, interest in the subject, and seem quite indifferent as to what sort ?f .Goverument ehall sway their future destinies. - lu- their almost universal pecuniary distress, and the humilia? tions of the late overthrow, they have grown ?eckless ?nd regardless of all politics. We shall urge vainly against this apathy, addressing the ears of meu, so loug as the pressing necessi? ties of life so grievously weigh, upon their energies. We could wish it otherwise. Dates to the 19th inst.., inclusive, from New York, afford us the follow ing as to tire condition of the cotton and gold markets: * Thexotton market was more active; and prices?, though not quotably high? er, were some stronger, especially to? ward* the latter part of the day, the market closing steady at our quota? tions below. The sales comprised 2,000 bales. We quote upland us fol? lows: Ordinary, 3G; middling, 43; good middling, -?6. Tue gold market has shown increas? ing th'Hihess. The opening price was lt-1., from which it advanced to 143, tuen relapsed to X^l:\, but afterwards rose l43??(o>8, at which it closed. This accession of strength is owing to tue temporary suspension of gold sides by the ?ub-Treasury, and the improve? ment in tho rates ol' foreign exchange, which have now reached a point at widen specie coidd be profitably ex? ported. .Leading drawers have asked 10\)J.? for their sixty days' sterling; tout, a lew sales were made, . second hand, at 100j?8('/: s8, early iu the day. Tue demand, at thejsaine time, is not large. Should no ?dvanc?^ in 5.20's iidke place abroad, au early resumption ol coui exports must ensue.. The money market luis been easier, and loans at seven per cent, on cull were less difficult to obtain by ordinary borrowers, but .considerable caution with regard to collaterals is still exer? cised by lenders. The discount line is unchanged. Commercial paper is quoted at 7,W?@9, and 10(<?jl2per cent, according to quality, but only prime signatures are iu favor. TiRcfr T>-^.ijOTAi.TX.-*-It is known that we a. idebted to certain "strife correspond cs" of Northern papers for a large .-.nare of the misapprehen? sion and distru-1 with which tho. loj-i? ty and good faith of this noble old State is now said to be regarded, (for we behove that all the world knows that we are sincere.) The Baltimore Sun uses the following language: "Tho class of correspondents whom the Republic thus rebukes, are akin to those travelers, who, having rushed through a foreign country in a word, assume to write essays on the manners, custom?:, laws aud moruls of tho peo? ple, and set themselves up as oracles upon everything rolniing to them, or worse, are pestilent fellows, anxious to stir up strife, and controlled by deep-ro?ted and narrow prejudices, or base and sinister motives. They be ! long to the same order of persons with those who have been actively en? gaged recently in getting up colored conventions in Virginia to agitate the q;iqption of negro suffrage, and to de? nounce the President and Governor of Virginia. Those restless schemers do the colored nice an immensity ol damage, but we agree with the Wash? ington St>tr 'that it is hardly fair to .hohl tho colored people, as a body, responsible for tho doings of these colored conventions, which are got up und manipulated by selfish, designing whites, to aid them in pulling theil OWTS politicnl chesnuts out of the fire. The latter are bad men, who have not fie paace of the country or the resto? ration good feeling at heart, bul ?viio raise the cry of disloyalty against ivery one who fails tb act with them, md foment detracting issues, to pro m ne their own personal and political i^grandizemeat. They gre beginning :o be Understood." TKRIUUUG HcaKiCANK-ISLAND DE ?bOYKi>.*-The Secretary of State, oi ia- 13th, sent to the Navy Depart aent a communication from -S. li 'Juan, the United Sfates Consul a' Tahiti, Society Islands, giving an ac .ount of a hurricane which had visit .d . that point, entirely destroying Palmerston Island, . and doing im nense damage to others. The sei .ose fifty feet above high water mark md swept everything before it. When Palmerston Island lay, there are nov lothing but breakers. The*reef thu.' brmed is invisible, except when th? ea is perfectly calm. A number o ' vessels have already been lost there. I f H Uto ry of th? Fifth and Lut At? tempt to Lay the fable. - The totr-news rVtim~1irc*Gr?5t' Eastern informs us that, after laying 1,200 miles of the cable, it parted in latitude 51.40 North and longitude 38 West. The followuig facts embr?uro the history of the attempt to lay the I ca-bl*, including the details of thc dif , Acuities encountered oh the 24th and j 29th of July: THE FIRST DIF^ICX'IJTT, ANI>*HOW IT WAS REPAIRED. The Great Eastern arid Caroline, which were chartered by Glass, Elliott & Co., and tiie Terrible and Sphynx, detailed by the English Government, and compossng ixe? cable squadron, rendezvoused at Valent ia on J illy 19. On the 22d, tap Caroline succeeded, after one mishap, requiring the under running of the .shore end, in laying that niassive cable. On the 23d, the splice of the shore end and deep sea cables was made on board the Caroline and thrown overboard, the Great East? ern slowly steamiug Westward. On the morning of the 24th, shu was fairly under way, when a defect in the insu? lation ?as discovered, and the -Great Eastern hove to, about eighty milos from shore, in order to repair it. The difficulty was repaired in a few hours, and proved to bs as curious as serious, and is thus explained: As the lengths of wire of 100 or 15(1 miles were manufactured at Messrs. Glass' & Elliott's, they were taken down in barges and coiled away in .? | tanks on board the Great E. t ! Each a's it am vt d was of course splice t ? up to that which had preceded ir. ....d j this was often Cone in the tanks them solve.*. The operation of split ing not only means joining tho conductor, )>ut also joining tho outside wires, the junction of th? latter being .made at j different-length*-tho bits of wire cut j out being thrown away. It seems. I however, that nie of these atoms of j wirtv about two inches long, ?aid as j tliick asa stout darning needle, fell on* , the coil unnoticed. The weight of the layers of cabh laid above this frag? ment pressed it firmly into the tarred hemp which forms the outside cover? ing of tin; cabkw To this it adhered. While in the tink it dui no harm; but when this portion t aino tobe paid out, the small diane ti roi the eight leading wheels which give accuss to the pay? ing ont maciine,' and the wc.?'at of the jockey pilleys over these, which keeps the ro;.>e in its.place, bent tho stout iron vire so sharply that it passed between the hemp, pierced the mitta percha through at, least two or three of its four folds, und there re? mained. In this state it was fotui|l, and instantly recognized as a piece o. wire from a splice joint. A short length of effbitywas at once cut out, a new splice made, vigilantly tested, .uni : gradnully sunk. When on tue bottom it was again tested for s >:no hour*, and "tim signals were shown to bo ab? solutely perfect. THE ACCIDENT OF THK 2'.)TU ULT. - The ship again sped on tier way, and all wont well until tho 2'Jth ult., . when insulation suddenly ceased, about the time that seven hundred miles were payed out. The cause of this defect lias not yet bren explained, 'and doubtless will not be until the work is resumed and the cubit; safely laid, lt was repaired in twenty-?o'.u hours, and the Great Easte.ru again resumed her journey. On July 3u, at a quarter past 4 a. m.. seven hundred ami fifty miles were payed oat. and on July 31, the tenth tlay out, nine . "hundred miles. . THE PARTING OF'THE CAItLE. \ All. was then going on well, but on . the 2d instant the vessel encountered a still breeze. It is not positive, from the news brought to Heart's Content . hythe schooner First Fruit, whe'I.er , it became necessary during tho c .! , nuance of this unfavorable weat;: cut the cable and buoy it, wilily . . vessels laid by, awaiting the return ol ; favorable weather, or whether the cable . parted unexpectedly and is lost. Thc 5 , latest news would indicate the latter to - be the case, and thc buoy as shown on our map simply locates the point at [ which the mishap occurred. 1 THE BUOYS, ; Such an emex'gencyas tue necessity for cutting the cable had'boen antici? pated by the, projectors of tho cable, - and provision made for it. Several i large buoys wore made and placed on - the Greast Eastern, each with a largt . Hag, marked with the name ?rf thc t cable, and numbered from one to five. - These buoys were equal altogether b - a weight of fifty tons, and capable o] r buoying rfp eleven miles of the cable. - Attached to thc buoys, and roany a< i all times to be attached to thc cable, , was a powerful win; trope, fully five 3 rudes long, and as, strong as the cable ir itself. The length' of this rope woule ?i admit of the sinking of the cabte te ?i tiie bottom ot' tue ocean in the deepest f water known, and thus secure ii against danger for the;- timo being while the vessel, cut loose from it, could weather the_.aJto?rn without dan.- - ger of straining the cable or endanger? ing lierseif. This effort to buoy was | not to have been resorted to until the last extremity. There is reason yet to hope that the (heat Eastern wat. com? pelled to cut the cabio a:id buoy it on the 2d instant, instead ol losing; it en? tirely. If such is tho case, as isoon as good weather sets in, the Crrcafe East? ern will doubtless resume her labors, and begin to windin the buoy rope and raise the cable. T1?3 can be done j at the'mte?of about a quarter of a milo ; au hour, and with as much acc. tracy I and care as thecablj caa ?3 o-iyed oat. I Sliould the cable be raised, tue splice j can be made, and the paying oat prj cexss again commenced. [New York Herold. The correspondents of the Jacobin press have been making terrible dis? coveries in the interior of .North Caro? lina. They found at nearly all tho court-houses stocks and pillories, not j rotten and neglected, but like that ! fanions pair of stocks erected by Squire Hazledean, in 'vLieh the lank legs of Dr. lliceaboeen w .... : ?*;'?ra rily encased; "neatly oaiiite?! ?iud" well protected from tue weather.", leaving exhausted their vocabulary of abuse upon "tuest- instill1 netts ' of torture, w u.eli \\; ; o used by the inhuman slave ho.? I ?. " tue illustrated papers sent d . 1 lists,-who have pr?pared very ci.iicv*. urifwiligs cfrfhese saine pillo? ries aaa stocks. The only drawback to the anticipat? ed capital which was to have been made out of these discoveries, is thc uniinportu^it fact that th**--'.- pillories and stocks have for many veal's been kept by the North Carolinians !?,r the use of white violators of the criminal laws of that Stute. We tliougl ' that eve ry bod v in New England kn, .. tliat the Old North State has al ....vs bi en known und dreaded by the whole fraternity <>f thieves as the."whipping and hanging State." Tiiey have no State prison there, but wln-n they convict men <>;" murder tn?y hang them, and when tiley convict offenders of the crimes usually punished in flus Stace by im? prisonment in the penitentiary, t!:e"y. ?mt thom ia the, pillories? and stocks which kivsV so greatly horrified tho radicals,' and .Hog them JU".-? uii niorciiuily. if any correspondent of tho r.i.7icil , papers doubts the t*!iii ol' vvh it wa j say, let him proeocu ::t niuo lu N'orih I Carolina, aud tuen und there ai a j watch or com mit it burglary, and if hu I d?>e.-; not v. ry soon un i out the exaet I uer ao l ilesjgii of ; "instruments of ! torture," we will take his place in til? I pairs ol' "stocks with whippiug-p tit \ acc.Miip .-iiii?e.nt," of which Frank j [.'-s/ie's Magazine givey au admirable I engrav ing. i A short time before the erac ;: ;: ! Bich moud, 11 noted ra-eal lei: ; ! '. . :\ j ii:ul proceeded to North 'Wv.. ?I 'wii^re he broke in? o a j? w Irv .- c?v j and curried off much val in Ide phie?.v. : He was arrested, tried, convicted and i sentenced, we think, to receive, rs sound flogging at the whip: sing-post. As j more than the Mosaic dispensation of "thirty-nine" was awarded him, the j fellow was allowed to receive his pun? ishment in broken doses. He receive ! I an instalment, we tin" 11 k. of tweuty-uve ! lashes every month. Wesj/enkfttb ised ly about tliis ease, ns the offender was needed'here a* a wit. ...-u one of tho eitv courts bofor/; ho lu .t-hj.3. hisslittle account" in North <'?":.?". and win n au officer was sent for him, ! he was puiiehy assured that he was ? entirely ' : . service of Virginia as I soon a* "iorclaims of North Cai'O linavpoit .> cuticle had been satisfied. !We ti-'.s' .mt this simple explanation .. ;.y the unhttppiness of tho .phiiists. Stocks, pillories and .> ::ippiug-pos?s in North Carolina are j infinitely more dreaded by the white ' than they are by the black criminals ? in that State. - Riefutiond Times. j SAO LN'CXDKXT OF TUK LAKK HI:?I?N I DISASTER. -Mr. C. Jackson, the first J engineer of thc Pawabie, last winter j became the husband of an, idolized j and idolizing wife, and this wits her first trip to the upper lakes. They were together in the engine room when i the collision occurred. The second engineer came to him and said: "Save . yourself and wife; 1 can swim, and i have no one to take (fare of but my? self." Jackson, in all probability, had > no idea that the boat was on tho point I of sinking, and thought Only ol* his duty to stand by his post, and accord ; ingly replied that he would not desert the engine to the last. His wife be ? came frightened and clang to him, . but be told her to bo cohn, saying he I woo ld take caro of her. Neither 01 , them left the engine room, so that in t therr doom they wore not divided, t Yet this sad scene was only ono of ; many orally affecting. Local Xtoxxxei To ir.smrt*, insertion, advertisers aro r? juesta? to band in their notices before 4 o'clock p. m. LAT?OB AT DISCOUNT_\\"o ar j told h>t negroes aro dii'^r oTisrlc; *k:::.selv-.T.c.\r work, at no higher prices ilia:: feud ? ai shelter. Tais would bo vcry-ijiicouragiag, as a prospect, not only for boase, bat faro* , * ??*Ork. But thoy pieter town cniplojihesit to tho r?gul?t: labor of agriculture, aad V..? complaLtt ia thin ?vea in housework, th?r? . Ll nu wallanee t-j be placed'ontheirc?Ltam anco hi euiployment.^Freedom move? theta to momentary caprices/and" theyicate ' . erk Tilth much more alacrity ?han they 30ejt it. Nothing but absolut? want will ..fie .a anything like a reform Si ibis respect, a.-bthe pressure-will need io be. long Con? tinuad, before it produces ita prover effect. ! The Soiree Musicale, on Wednesday riiglo.j wats not as well attended as it shoilld havo beon. Thc old Cwllege Chapel? ia too Tur from the generality of our residences for ? lady walkers, and few persons?have vehicles I nott. Besides, thu night? are dark, and th? '< wai.dug is :i sort ui cWdaruy oxejeiso, like [.that over Nor: h Carolina bring?*}. vV?shuuld I counsel our ei^i?lleat, musical frieoda, who deserve boii.i- lack, to engage a more cpn ; vonient hub. impossible, i*:d contract for a j ft.t,'h harvest muon. They pGOinls?.a t.k'd , ? concert smartly-a tresa ,bill of fare-now I varieties along* with old farorifes-and wt? j trusi will be :ible to lind a mure central ! place for exhibition; TUE HEASCS.-.Qn Tuesday night last, wo j had a very pretty thunder ?tonn. Th? i pyrotcclmieal display wa* very flue, and tba i figures as various as the lover of grand ? bights ?pould desire. The ruin fell beauti i fully ter nelda and gardftis, and tho atmot phere, delightfully, rarified, Sound us at 1 ..?orrm.v lelrualied ivuu cool auturuuiil I iiivam. :.iat.u played hariuuniuusi> arosum. j us tn rai ; .laut mo nay: .tta passe. v?ity:--a^ i taine Hi-a.s.tilj. coule/, AI night, tue 'soot . ne.-* coiitUiuC I to t.o.ioMKi., so mat, i? lng i '.-ii i'uiitTjuay. we :biu.l i.-a.'iiclvca voigm.,, ' i-i ;ui ttetaai ..librae.*: \situ lai.'t.'Ue/. V ui*'.. ! kel w.;s nut, iit!(tt*Si::?'/te treal '?"> p.'lit. to Jaw::, ami* tor ai. ir ..kier, io those wi.o, I loving eai-Uitjiii, m- ij.li . buiei'iaiu no* j auxti lie.-! It>r o/ealetasi. i** mle we writ-., vc j are as pleasant Iv cool .ts it a.: icooerg aad j ia/.liv rubed i?:.^K U;J tue Cougaive, ami lav 1 .v.-.iuuy ;i i tu? lapdog 1 <-?. ute* t-euet e c itieivuiiai coa?Uaitioiiji. I.uu uivaiivs oe I ware now c 1' e.ol: and i". 'Oe lu** l'Oa I .-ionabty e-.\p?xu cool oig?is, tiotwe?-?: - p. nu I anti Ouvhgut. Ji.;sioi?y AU.U ? ?'? ? : ero^aiily U<:c?me o:?.-vu:.*at, :;..?! .>'e seou..l guard I against '..ictu .?j i;.iV..:(, ?plii. .?..u eocene. !.. ?..?.;.. '.Vc iu..fit tl ii Oijj '?-. Lie a..on.li i n?n.loe, t.- J. p.-.l.a-*.o?,? .:..1i>w."..' J lo lue j I. .vi i. . :..:.? w . : . to*.? - Voa:* r v -..u... k ! N cv, Ai'V^ii:; ;.a.'a"?--' rs. -Attenilou is called .to f'dtov.-.iy. a*.v?rtiaemoats, which are i p.:*.lisbali ?,r tuc ?rd.lhae-th?s morning: ! I'l. .0. Coi:*. -bl.-.f. * . ! li. :-. '. url.vU-Fl i ilands V.*antod. ; Cio.?i-v.\ ?. X l.va.d- .v.potawooii Hotel. j A. I'- t*.T-iin V.'nre. j i. :,*.. . . p.-fleeting Palmetto Lodge. ? i* is generally conceded that until jr'.." ad volutes oj negro -ju: frage have ; .c.::* ? fo:* tbo five negroes w'to re? paie ia tlc "S?tliern S?.a.t:s ??M th? j ?a i-.'?; *.;... citi:-:t n'Ttit), cb?.'y will not i ?ivo t;n- ?.c!*.ock" to doniand it. of the {Southern 'States. Th * right of suf? frage is fimited .to "'white m ?de eiti j /.ens" by the constitutions of the fol ' lowing Northern, *Siiddlo and Westeaii Statec-r l'ennsylvan'a. Ohio, .Indiana, j illinois. Misso.tn, New Jersey, Mjohi |gan, Iowa, '.>'istv.r;si:i, Cali?irnia. j Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas. D.-ht ? ware. Mn:*yl;.nd ?:nd "Weist Virginia. I lu tome of the W-stern States, 71er I sons ot Indian descent are permitted ! ti vote, but imgrbes are distrainhisM ! by H!1 of the above-nani"d States, ir. I the State .0;' New York, negroes, 'where they possess Certain property j qualin ;ations)jBire permitted to vote, ; but th<-t are nhl placed upon terms of i equality with tin* white inhabitants of j'that State. In Massachusetts; Maine,- Vermoub j and lihode island, free negroes are* i permitted to vote without any special ! restrictions upon the right of suffrage, .and at the ballot-box they ure tin* I equals of tho white men of thoso IStAlOS. . In Couliccti'mt, only those negroes. vote who were freemen prior to 1818. I'rom this statement, it will be seen j that seventeen, a nd among them th? ! largest, wealthiest and mo.**? populous: : of the '"loyal States," th-ny to the ; negro the right of suffrage; two per-' ; mit certain classes of free negroes to ; vote, and five place no restrictions I upon tho negro franchise, i The State of Oregon expressly pro j vides "that no negro, Chinaman nor i mulatto shall vote." ^ . ? \Ric7imoMt'Times. I- A. New Yorker has invented a little machine for the convenience of ono armed per o is, by w?iich they are en? abled a. wv oh the remaining hand aud arm. -- -. * A young man named Irwin brutally ' murdered-his father and mother at? Deartown,. near l!a*tpjiton. Ohio. on. Saturday luf't^ ' '