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J. T ?E?SHMAH"-Edito*. Rates for Advertising: for one' Square?ten lines or less?ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS for the first insertion and ONE DOLLAR for each subsequent. Obituary Notices, exceeding one square charged at advertising rates. Trannsient Advertisements and Job "Work BUST BE PAID BOR-IN ADVV ANCE. No- deduction made, except to our regular adverfslng patrons. Terms of subscription for one year $3,00 in advance; if not paid wilhin three months from the time ot subscribing, $4,00. General Sherman on the Burning of Columbia, S. C. * Heado'es Mil. Div. op the Miss., > St. Louis, Mo., March 8,1866. $ Bent. Bawls, Columbia, S. C.: Dear Sir?I have your letter enclo-. sing a petition to the Congress of the United States, asking to be indemnified for the loss by fire of' your house and of fltn fitvko r\? nm? A/tnnrtofirtTt wuvouuoj av wiv umo va viu vwu^/muvm i in February, 1865. I assure you that I feel deeply for you and all others who lost theif property in the fire; but if the United States were to assume the liability, it would be an admission that we bad done wrong. This is not true. The rightful authority of the National Government had been resisted in the State of South Carolina for years, and we were compelled, at a great cost of life and money, to conduct thither a vast army, and our progress was resisted by all the force the State could obtain. Your own citizens resisted our approach, not only with arms, but by burning the bridges over the Edisto, Congaxee, Saluda, and Broad Rivers. They burned the depot in Columbia before we entered the city, because it contained corn and Btores they supposed we needed, and set fire to thousands of bales of cotton rolled out into the streets, and which were burning before we entered Columbia. I myself was in the city as early as noon, and saw those fires, and know that efforts were made to extinguish them, but a higji and strong wind kept them alive. I gave no orders for the burning of your city,' but, on the contrary, the reverse, and I believe the conflagration resulted from the great imprudence of cutting the cotton bales, whereby the contents were spread by the winds, so that-it became an impossibility to arrest the fire.' I saw in your Columbia newspapers the printed order of General Wade Hampton, that on the approach of the Yankee army all the cotton should be burhed, and, from what I saw myself have no hesitation in saying that he wasv the cause of the destruction of your property. Tour true remedy is against him, and such others of your own citizens as conspired with him and made the military occupation of your city an absolute necessity. I hardly think it is fair that Congress should tax [the. people of Ohio, Illinois and Missouri to pay such losses; but as it is not my province to judge in such matters, I send your petition according to its address. I again assure you of my personal sympathy by reason of your age and infirmity, but this must not lead me to endorse a WTone principle. I am, with great respect, your obedient servant, W. T. SHERMAN, Major-General. Destruction of Columbia, S.C.,?Who is Responsible ? ?Letter From Gen. Wade Hampton. Columbia, S. C., June J 6, 1865 To the Editors of the New York Lay Book : Gents : In your paper of the 6th of May I have just 6t?cn General Sherman's official report of his march througli the two Carolina?. As this report misrepresents me in the grossest and falsest manner, I trust .that you will not deny me the right t.o vindicate myself. It is due to hjBtory, if not to me, that the falsehoodspf General Sherman in reference to th^ destruction of this city should be exposed.-* This ehali be done in the briefest possible manner.The -repprt says: "General Wade Hamptojo,..who commanded the Confederate jrear guard of cavaliy, had, in anticigat)oix,ofrour capture of Columbia, ordered ^ajt. all cotton, public and private, abonld be moved into the street and fired .to^prevent our malting use of it. .*'? * Some of these piles of ocitlon vrere turning, especially one in the very heart of, the city, near the court house, but the fire was partially subdued by the labor' df bur soldiers. * * * Before one single building had ncen fired by order/the -smouldering fires set by Hamplon'a order were rekindled by the wind/and communicated to the buildings around, ;About dark tbev began to Epread and gqt; beyond the control of the brigade on duty within the city.- The whole of Wood'f division was brought in, but it was found impossible to check the flames, whieb, by midnight, had become unmanageable, and raged until about four o!clock,. A, when the wind subsiding, they were got under control. * * * I disclaim on the part of my army, any agency in this fire, but, on the contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And, without hesitation chargo General Wade Hampton with having burned his Own oity of Columbia, not with malioious intent, u the manifestation of a silly [ "Roman'stoicism," but from folly and want of sense in filling it with lint, cotton and tinder, Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish the flames." It would be difficult, if not impossible, to express, in an equal number of paragraphs. a greater number of falsehoods than are contained in the above extracts. There is not one word of truth in all that has been quoted, except the statement that "General Hampton commanded the Confederate rear guard of cavalry." He did not order any cotton to be "moved into the streets and fired," On the concontrary, my first act On taking command of the cavalry?to which I wns assigned only the night before the evacuation of Columbia?was to represent to General Beauregard the danger to the town of firing the cotton in the streets. Upon this representation, he authorized me to give orders that no cotton in the town should be fired, which order was strictly carried out- . I left the city after the beau ot Nherman s column entered it, and I assert, wbot can be proved by thousands that not one bale of cotton was on fire when he took possession of the city. His assertion to the contrary is false, and lie knows it to be-so. A distinguished citizen of the State?whose name, were I at liberty to give it, would be a sufficient voucher, even at the North, for the truth of any statement made by him?has given to the public a minute history of the destruction of the city. From thi6 document, which is too long for insertion in your paper, I will make a few extracts, which will show how true is General Sherman's solemn disclaimer of "any agency in this fire," and his claim to have "saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed*" The Mayor had been informed that he would be notified when to surrender *the city, knowing that ineffectual resistance on our part would furnish the ready excuse for all lawlessness on the part of the enemy. I would not allow my troop3 to become engaged in the city, and they were withdrawn on the Ujorning of the 17th of February. At nine o'elock A, M., on (hat day, the Mayor, at the head of the deputation of the City Council, went out to meet Gen. Sherman for the purpose of surren-* . 1 . 1 1 I ! 1 it ^ uermg the city, woicu nc cnci in inc ioilowing letter: "Columbia, S. C., February 17, 1805. HTo Major-General Sherman: "The Confederate forces having evac* uated Columbia, I deem it my duty, as Mayor and representative of the city, to ask for its citizens the treatment sccjrded by the usages of civilized warfare. I, therefore, respectfully request that yon will send a sufficient guard in advance of the army, to inuintain ordef in the city, and to protect persons and property of citizens. "Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, "[Signed]" T. G. GOODWYN, Mayor.,' The deputation met the advance guard of the enemy, under Colonel Stone?Fifteenth Corps?outside of the city, and Colonel Stone returned with theni to the town in meir eurnage. * The Mayor reports that on snrrcndering the city to Colonel Stone, the latter assured him of the safety of the citizens' and the protection of their property while under his command. He could Dot answer for General Sherman, who was in the rear, but he expressed the conviction tLat he would fully confirm the assurances "which be (Colonel Stone) had given. Subsequently General Sherman did confirm them, and that night, seeing that the Mayor was exhausted by tbc labors of the day, "Not a finger's breadth, Mr. Mayor, of your city shall be harmed. Yon may He down to sleep, satisfied that your town shall be as safe in my hands as if wholly in your own." * * * "At about eleven o,clock the head of the column reached Market Hall. Hardlj had the troops leached the head of Mainstreet when the work of pillage was begun. Stores were broken open in the presence of thousands within the first hour after their arrival. No attempt was made to arrest the bnrglors, 'Ihe authorities, officers, soldiers, all seemed to consider it a matter of course. And woe to him who carried a watch with gold chain pendant, or who wore a choice hat, or overcoat, or boots, or shoes. lie wa6 stiipped "by ready experts in the twinkling of an eye." * * * "About twelve o'lock the jail was discovered to be on fire from witliin. This building was immediately in tbe rear of the market or City Hallj and in a. densely built portion of the city. * * * The tire in the jail had been proceeded by that of Borne cotton piled in the streets. Both fires were soon Bubdued by our firemen. At about 1 1-2 o'clock P. M., that of the jail was rekindled and again extinguished." * * * "The experience of the fireman in putting out the fire in the jail was of a sort to discourage their further efforts. They were thwarted and embarrassed by the continued interference of the soldierj'. Finally, their hose was chopped with swords and axes. and pierced with, bayonets so as to be rendered useless. The engines were in some cases demolished also. And so the miserable day wore on in pillage, insult and constant confusion and alarm. "We havo shown that the robbery of the persons of citizens and the plunder of their houses commenced within one hour after they had reached the Market Hall. It continued without intermission throughout the day. Sherman traversed the streets everywhere, so did his officers, yet they saw nothing to rebuke or restrain." * "Bobbery was going on at every corner, in every house, yet there was no censure, no punishment." * "Among the first fires that evening was. one about dark, which broke out in a filthy portion of low houses, occupied mostly as brothels. There wore then some twenty fires in full blast, in as many different quarters, at nearly the same moment, and while the alarm sounded from these quarters, a similaralarm was sent up almost simultaneusly from Cotton Town, the northermost limit of the city, and from Mainstreet, in its very centre." .# # # "The wretches engaged in this appointed incendiarism were well prepared with all the appliances essential to their work. They carried with them from house to house pots and vessels containing combustible liquids, and with balls of fire saturated in this liquid, they conveyed the flames with wonderful rapidity from dwelling to dwelling." "What remained h ~ the morning, of engines and hose wer ? brought out by the "fifeman Vmt. thane ware onnn driven from their labors by the pertinacious hostility of the incendiaries. Engines iters tumbled over and disabled, the^ofce were hewn to pieces, and the fireman, dreading worse usage to themselves, left the field in despair." "Old men and woipen and children were to be seen, often while the flames were rolling and raging around them?while walls were cracking and rafters tottering and tumbling, in the endeavor to save their clothing and some of their more valuable effects. They were driven out headlong, pistols clapped to their heads, violent fronds laid on throat and collar, and the ruffians seemed to make but little distinction in their treatment of man and woman. Ladies were hustled from their chambers under the 6trong arm or with their menacing pistols at their hearts* Their ornaments plucked from their breasts?their bundles taken from their hands." # * "A lady undergoing pains of labor Jiad to be borne out on a mattrass into the open air to escape the fire. It was in vain that her situation was described to the incendiaries, as they applied the torch within and without the house. They beheld the situation of the sufferor and laughed to scorn the prayer for her safety. Another lady was but reI - Jl - - /* TT_ lf/?. 1 cenuy connnea. jaer me iiung upon u hair. The demons were apprised of the fact in the case. They burst into her chamber?took rings from the lady's finger, plucked . the watch from beneath'her pillow,' shrieked offensive language in her eatrs, and so overwhelmed her with -terror -that she sunk under the treatment, surviving but a day or two." "The churches were at first saught by many streams of population. Thither the hellish perseverence -of the 'fiends tallowed them, and the Churches of God were set on flame. Again driven forth, numbers made their way into the recesses of Sydney Park, and here fancied to find security. 13ut the ingenuity of hate and malice was not to be baffled, and firebrands thrown from?the height into the deepest hollows offhe Park taught the wretched fugitives to despair of any escape from onemics of such unwearied and unremitting rage." But enough of this atrocity, the bare recital of which makes humanity shud der, the heart grow sick, burely enough has been quoted from the narrativo of these horrors to prove that Gen. Sherman alone is responsible for the destruction of Columbia, and for the many other atrocities committed by his army. He declares that the fires set by my order consumed the city. : I have shown how false is this statement; but even if it were true, how does-he clear himself of the guilt of burning private dwellings outside of the city limits ? Early in the afternoon of the day he entered Columbia, my house, which was two miles from the city, was fired, soon after the houses of Mr. Trenhohn, Gon. Lovell, Mrs. Stark, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Arthur, Mr. Latta and Mrs. English, all in the same viciniiy, shared tho same fate. Gen. Slierman cannot deny that these houses were burned by his men, nor can he deny that he destroyed, in part, or in whole the villages of Barnwell,v Blackville, Graham, Bamburg, Bulord's Bridge, Orangeburg,' Lexington, Alston, Poraaria, Winnsboro', Blackstocks, Society Hill, Camden and Cheraw. Does not the fate cf these unoffending towns give, the lie to his disclaimer of any agency in burning this city. H. -T 1. ivn ,1 * Along uie nnu 01 uiarcn luuuweuvv him there is scarce^ one house left standing, from the Savannah River to the Pee Dee, and yet he dared to declare solemly that he did not burn Columbia! I do not wonder that he should strive to escape from tho infamy which, like the leprosy of Gehazi, shall cleave unto his seed forever, for the commission of this dark deed. Nor am I surprised that ho should naturally seek to escape by taking refuge behind a falsehood. But he shall not with impunity make me the scapegoat for lus sins. Wherever he has taken his army in this State, women have been insulted or outraged, old men liavo been hung to extort from them hidden treasure. The fruits of the earth have been destroyed leaving starvation where plenty once reigned, and tho dwellings of rich and poor alike have been laid in ashes. For these deeds history will brand him as a robber and incendiary, and will deservedly "damn him to everlasting fame." I am, your obedient servant, WADE HAMPTON, Lieutenant-General _ * What length ought a lady's crinoline to be ? A little above two feet. CAMDIHVV FRIDAY, MAR 30. W. T. Walter, of the firm of Derbec & Walter, (factorage and commission merchants,) is the only authorized agent for the Camden weekly Journal tor Colombia, 8. C. Igy Col. Tnos. P. Slider, is the only authorized agent of the Camden Journal for the city of Charleston. He maybe found at the Mills house in that city. Cotton and GoW in lew York. On the 23d irist., the best average cotton sold at 41 cents. Gold, 27 1-2. . IT! fllinnry and Dress Goods. See advertisement in another column of Mirs Wilson's stock of milinnry and dress goods. Her Stock embraces a rich and handsome assortment of all kinds and styles of goods usually kept in a dress establishment, and invite9 the attention of the ladies Heavy Taxation. The New York Tribune say a that the taxes in this country are heavier than ore, or ever were, borne by apy other thirty millions o^ people on earth. Adding onr Stale and Municipal to our national taxes, they amount to not a pennny less than $20 each, per annum, for the whole American people. , New York Dally News. The Postmasterat this place, Mr. J. M.Gayle, is the authorized agent for this valuable daily northern journal, and will receive and forward subscriptions for the same. He is also agent for " Godey's Lndy,s Book;" "Peterson's Ladies National Magazine;"" DeBow's Reviow;"and "The'Ladies1 Friend." Pavllllon Hotel. Merchants and others visiting Charleston will find the Paviilion Hotel handsomely furnished, the table supplied wit li an abundance of substantial, luxuries in great variety, the price moderate, and last, though not by nnv means the least item to be considered, the prince of hosts (Butterfied) to preside over it. See card in another column. Baum, Bro *& Co. This sterling firm are daily in receipt of dry good*, clothing, and gentlemen's furnishing ffoods of all stvles and duality. Kvervtliiue that is to be found in a first class establishment can be seen at this storp. The ladies are especially invited to examine his stock of spring dress goods?all of \rh:ch have been se'ected with care and a view to plen.se the trade of this B*c ion. See advertisement. Burglary. On Tu'S'lay : iglit last the storehouse of Mr. James Jones wasVnie ed and a considerable amount of goods stolen. Karlv the following morning Capt. ScunocK wasintornied ofcirrumstam es attending the robbery which led to the detection aud arrest of tho burglar, who confc nea ins gum &ud macntf evuTonce nga nst.nn accoinplice, who has fled Pom justice, and is supposed to have carried with him a portion of tho articles extracted. Strange to say tho money drawer, containing some dollars in change, was left untouched, The punishment for this outrage is death?according to our Slat-a laws ?so the offender may have a hard but short road to travel. We also learn that on Friday night last the store of Mr. K. W Rox.nijy was entered, and the contents of iho money drawer lifted. Fortunately there was but a few dollars in change. Since penning the above, we learn that the fellow who ronbod Mr. Jonks' store has mado his escape from the cell in which was confined, and is now at large. An ancient Eastern adige hath it "that woe tumbles in pailftils, while good luck is distill, d by drops." Surely we of the Southern States have had our pails full of woe during some rears past, and they are yet not only full, but ruuning'.'ver. A cause which we believed just, hopelessly lost, our noblest and be.-l sleeping in strange graves, all in vain, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande; our land filled with widows and orphans, noble.men despoiled of tbeir Ciir proportions, greeting us on all sitleB, while sor-. row for the (had and p easing care for the living divide the thoughts of all earnest people. It would indeed seem that if this people have siuned, th<?y. have been sufficiently punished. Tet, the hand that smites us is not yet stayed. We "must yet be further punished," is the cry of a powerful party in the North. "Of the little that we have, that must bo taken." Poverty, affliction toil, dependence, are not sufficient. That poverty must bo cheerless, that affliction hopeless, that toil sad and dreary, 'that dependence humiliating, ere our repentance can fit us to be received among the faithful. There are a few of our woes which would tequire a book ot Job to record, of Jeremiah fitly to lament. Yet, thank God, the little dr psof "good luck," (we continue the words of the addago, but we tneun thereby the pure distilled drops of God's mercy,) infuse their bright influences over our whole lives. We mourn our noble dead with pious, pleasing memories; we meet our cares with earnest effort, supported by calm, eheerful reliance on Providence; we embrace our poverty with a bright smile, which bids defiance to his powers; we bow to our afflictions with humble thankfulness that our lost ones are "moved from the evil to come;" we bcud ourselves to toil wuh a heartiness that not only disarms it of its terrors, but brings its present reward ; and we acknowledge our civil dependence with truth and loyalty. Wo pledge a faith to the United States, proved in the crucible m which perished our peculiar views of our Government For all these drops of Heaven's dew we are thankful, and trust that President Johnson has been raised up to protect us from abject humiliation and degradation as a people, and tlut we shall yet be a unitod poople, with truth on our lips, faith and loyalty in our hearts, and not with an enforced penitence, humility and objeclness, which not only gives the lie to all the past of our people, but guarantees falsehood and hypocracy for the future. Municipal Eketfoir. The approaching municipal election for In* tendunt and Wardens for the town of Camden will take place on Monday next. Tltertr la but a single ticket before the pec$o'?aJll'goodfond , true men. Sfiofclctfthe names of other of our ( citizens be presented, it is to be hoped that i each voter will have'at heart the best interest , for the ftiture of our town?casting aside pred- i judicea and vote with judgement and intelli- ! geuce. The voter should see that the candidates are gentlemen of intelligence, of energy, of judgement, of moral worth, of pleasiDg address, of legislative capacity, and of financial ability. These are all qualifications our municipal author ities should posaess Po this and we shall have reason to be proud of our City Fathers. From Washington. Washington, D. (J., March 22.?Although there is no certain data on the subject, a report generally prevailed among members of Congress to-ilav, that the President W'll veto the Civil Eights Bill. Great Fire in Cincinnati. .'Cincinnati, March 23.?There was a gri?nt conflagration in this city this morning, by which Pike's Opera House, the Enquirer office, and several prominent business establishments, were destroyed. Loss estimated at #200,OOO. Later from South Ameriica?Arrival of the AspinwaJL New York, March' 23.?The steamship Aspinxcall lias arrived from Panama, with Suuth American dates to the 15th iiist Two Spanish frigates have been re? pulsed in an attack on Chilian fortifications. Bolivia has entered into an alliance, offensive and defensive, with Chili and Pern, f Pern is preparing to take a full share in the war. The Colombian Congress has rejected a proposition to declare war against Spain. France, the United ' -K States and Mexico. In his last letter from Paris In tin New York Nexcs, John Mich*-1 gives it as his belief that there is no danger of tron? bie between the United stales and France, lie siiys: The name of Mexico is seldom heard here now. Every one seems perfectly satisfied that this is, if not actually settled, in a \erv fair way of settlement ' " ' ? ?' .1 - -? ?m r runcumcn ijhvu iiiu iiuhubu uuuuut;iii:?' in the good will of Anicri-una towardthemselves, which, indeed, they cordially reciprocate j and the utter absurdity of these two nations engaging in a horrible war ubont Mexico fvems to remove that event out of the bounds of ]H>*sit>ility. There was, undoubtedly, for a time, n good deal of nneadness in France lest American adventurers should gather in such force upon the frontier, aud become ho venturous that heavy skirmishing" might take place ; and if that hud befallen, undoubtedly there would have been a war; and all Frunze, though with sore reluctance, would have accepted the trial by battle. Ilappilv all chance of that appears now to be removed. Cotton in New York. W e understand mat me INcw uricans shippers hesitate about sending cotton to this market, owing to the high charges ^current here for cartage, storage and iu? surance, and owing to the loss resulting from theft. In several instances within our knowledge, captain" of vessels which have been 6ent out to New Orleans to load for New York, have telegraphed for permission to load for Liverpool direct, 'shippers refused to send their cotton here for the reasons enumerated above. It is to be hoped that this important trade will not be driven from our city by any such causes, and render the expenses of handling, <tc., less onerous. As to the matter of pilfering, it is done with impunity. It is no uncommon thing to soe alialfdozeD women congregated in the vicinity of a lot of cotton which is being handled by laborers, who permit them to fill their aprons and stuff their clothes full without remonstrance. In this way a good deal of cotton may be extracted from u bale, especially if it is loosely put ] up, or the bagging becomes worn out. Every house dealing in cotton ought to j appoint some one who can be trusted to oversee the handling of it, for the labor- , ers, as a rule, wink at the operations of the female thieves.?New York Price , Current, and Commercial List. Firs at Darlington and Marion.? < "We were pained, last evening, to leain < from passengers by tlie Northeastern ? Railroad, that a most destructive fire occurred in Darlington village on Sunday morning, destroying a large part cf the business portion of the town. Our co? temporaries Darlington Southerner and New Era, were destroyed. At Marion ( on the same day, early in the morning, some half dozen buildings were consrmcJ. ' These fires are supposed to be the acts of incendiaries, and the loss at the present J time will fall very hard upon the coinmu- ] nities of these villages.? Charleston News ' of the 26th. 1 '?* ? He who says what he likes, hears what he does not like. A foolish friend does more harm than a wise enemy. He who expects a friend without . faults will never find one. / Ex-Governor Allen on El A. Pollard. Tha following*article, from thtfpen of Px-Governor Allen, of Louisiana, and now editor of the Mexican Times, ia clipped from that paper of the 6th of January. It is a composition worthy of the immortal Junius. In its power, in its force of bitterness arid sentiment, it is an unequalled" piece of writing. Of" the personality of the article we havenothing to say, but submit it to our* readers as a specimen of most extraordr inory composition.?Charleston Mines. The civil war in America is ended, and the "banner of the bars" that waved over Jackson and gleamed upon the track of Stuart's reckless riders ha? been put away as men hide the trinkets of a dear, dead love. Although the blood of Virginia's best and bravest is not yet dry in the valleysr nor has the grass grown over the premature graves of the manly Confederates, who fell before Petersburg, yet Mr. E. A. Pollard, a pretty writer and talented flditnr. in A Inner nfiw(m?n?r nrS'nla. /flu. vmvv.7 ?- Q " HiUiVj U17nouncea ex-President Davis, Generals* Lee, Johnston and -Beauregard, ancS says " the Southern people -disgraced- * themselves forever wrhen they refused to fight to extennin&tioh~;"fhat they lackcourage and endurance?statesmanship* and intelligence." He criticises campaigns, ridicules strategical movements, Bneers at retreats, andlanghs at every heroic effort of the brave men who leftto history an immortal name. Who is Mr. E. A Pollard ? He is * Virginian, the editor of the Bichmond Examiner, and the author of the "South- ern History of the War." We have grief for the first, blushes for the second,, and contempt for the lost. During all those years of carnage and. of blood, this Bichmond Examiner was* an insatiate fiend of opposition and hatred. Step by step it broke down the brave, fond heart of Sidney Johnston; again and again it lacerated and gored the sensitive soul of Beauregard; week after weok it denounced the horoic efforts of Joseph E. Johnston; and now, when Jefferson Davis is chained amid the waves of his rock-ribbed prison, it. tries to stab his reputatipn and his honor. It is not often that men like Pollard and Jordan can gloat over the agony of such a spirit and the , degradation of 6uch a name. It is not often that such a bosom as Lee s is laid bore lor tne thrust of every ruffian's spear, or the dagger, of every coward's hand. It is. not often that a desolated nation writhe? under the blows of its chtldren and the' cruelties of its own -offspring. It is not often that the world furnishes human hyenas to exhume the. bodies of hen sainted dead, and howl in horrid delight over the revolting feast . Pollard wanted extermination, buthtr was in New York city, hob-nobbing with Gxeely, and telling the pleasant story in his ploasant way of the four year's war. He wanted fifty thousand men to fight a million to the death, but he never fell in beside them and proffered to share a common fate. Like Job's war-borse, snuffed the battle from afar! Shoddy is cheap, and humbug is cheap, and Henry Ward Beeoher'? patent sermons are cheap; and siheeri^ ty, faith, honor, chivalry, manhood? ^ how pure and unpopular. Jt'oilara s mother otate lies prostrate in the dust, her hearth-stones desolate and her idol shattered. All over the land ho can see her bereaved daughters weeping for the young, fresh faces tUat looked back to them from the heat aiKit, yellow dust of the conflict just beforo the horses' feet trod them down. He caii almost hear tlio breezes from the "Wilderness singing their melancholy dirges over Stuart and Ashby, and Pelham, and Hill, and Jackson, dear to God. He has no love, nor veneration, nor tenderness, nor pity for any ofthese ; but tearing open the graves of the immortalized dead, he Bleiids them1 with the living in one sacriligioua anathema of contemptuous hatred. Drape the pictupe of a nation in its agony,and cover its laurels with mourning cypress. Purl the conquered banner. with a farewell look, and shrine its- . . memory in our heart of KeartsJ but tothe brutal hardihood-of those who curse and villify a ruined race, give vengeance, scorn, and a nover-dying conntempt. ' : History tells how Cofiolanus halted L 5. a 1 1 J il . TT.1 ms victorious legions peyona ine zoilow Tiber, but that' Nero.. fiddled a goodly tune while Home was burning. Amid the graves of his kindred,' the anguish and despair of brave men in. their crushing overthrow, amid the blueBkies and green fields of his nativity,. E. A. Pollard dips his pen in gall of the New England hate ana writes the record of has own everlasting infamy and disgrace." New MOinary Store. MISS MATILDA WILSON WOULD RESPECTFULLY IN FORM THFT Ladies of Camden and Kirk wood, and .lie public generally, that she Iras opened a MILINARY STORE A.I tlie old stand oi Mrs. Hnmmerslougb, where she is prepared to execute all orders in thp LATEST STYLE and at the SHORTEST N<~<riCE. Also, a fine selection of DRESS GOODS and DRESS TRIMMINGS for sale. March 30?tf PAVILION HOTEL, Corner Meeting & Hazel Street** CHARLESTON, S. C Rales of Board per day .JB3.TOII. L. BUTTER FIELD, March 30?tf ' Proprietor.