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THE ADVERTISER. JAMES T. BACCI?, EDI?OB, WEDNESDAY, OCT, 18, 1865. Acknowled s?ment. We return ?mr kindest thanks to Mr. BABON HOLME?, Ii. C. BRYAN, Esq., A. RAMSEY, Esq . and Capt. LEwi.^ JONES, for valuable and much-needed ? pupers of Ute date. We'a^aio bec our friends to ?ive un ?ny paper*, tbat m?y full into their bands. We hftve.no dmrbe cb: new y?.ir will be upon ns before we have atty rotular wails. Valuable Furniture, Ac, Ac, for Sale. We call special attention lo the advertisement of Prof. F. S.HOLXES, to be f?mod in another column. Here ia tho best p ssible chance fir perseus wishing to purchase furniture. People must bear in mind that they cannot buy furni ture in New York, Charleston, Augusta, as they wera wnat todo before the WPT; that ia, not fur anything like the same price?. Now-a-days they would have to give three times as much as formerly. Prof. IIomiES has furniture of nil kinds and quantities-much of it neat and plain-much very elegant. Every taste or fancy can bo ac commodated at Balmoral. --- Never " Found Wanting." Toa "Weighed in tho balance" these many years, and "never found wanting." Who? Our universally ' esteemed townsman, B. C. BI;VA.H, Esq. He has just returned from Charleston with av fine sloe lc of new, elegant und fashionable goods . and act only elegant and fashionable goods, bot stout and useful goods. Who Un? ws, or ought to know, better than he, how to choose and pur chase a gord stock? He will be found nt his old Bland, end will welcome hts troops of friends wi'b his old.honest and cheery smile. Ilia name is a synonym for worth ond honesty. Hasten, one and all ; to welcome him ia this his new beginning. ?4 Something Rotten in Deninark," We hear of oft-recurring nocturnal meetings among a certain class of our population. We hear of military drills, in which corn stalks and boo helves take (for how lons?) the place of | muskets ?nd rifles. We hear of plote, combina tions, secret discussions, surreptitious doings of ] all sorts. De all these meetings and drills and discussions mean something or nothing ? We Are not an alarmist We will not write a long raw-head-and-bloody-booes article cn the subject A homely adage it is, but v> ry trus, that " a nod's aa good us a wink tc a blind horse.*' We will end then by simply-sayiog to every man, womal? and child : Watch diligently, an? report to the proper authorities all-tending in the direction we hare hinted at-that you may see. Sloep with one oye open. Be prepared for anything. Eternal vigi lance may, in this case, be the price of life. Of A communication ?ligned " OLIVER,"' in relation to this matter, will appear in our next. The S. C. Conference. ? The South Carolina Methodist E. Conference will eonvenc iu the oily of Charlotte on the 1ft day jf November. Bishop Pierce will preside. Information Wanted. Mrs. Martha C. E. Wheelor, at Marlin's Depot, 8. C., is anxious to learn what beoame of her husband, M. E. Wheeler, of Co. B, 3rd Battalion, McLsw't Division, Loijgatreots Corpa, who has not been hoard from since tho 19th Oct., 1864 - fight at Fisher's Hill. Any information will be thankfully received by his afflicted wife. Our Railroads. ' On Thursday'last, 12th Oct, thc South Carolina Kail rood was oponed to Hopkins's-a point some twelve miles below Columbia. We had hoped that ere this the cars would Lave been running through to tho Capital of the State ; bat, in these unsettled times, when everything hes to be done under _reat disadvantages, we must be thankful fer what bas already boen per formed. At Hopkins'.', thc difficulty of communicating with the interior of the State will be vastly less than at Orangoburg ; indeed, thc amount of travel te ba done to reach either Winnsboro, the termi nus of the Ch:trlotto Rai road, or Alston, tho-ter minas of the Greenville Hoed, will bc hardly over half. The quantity of work still to bo done to open our cominuiricatious is considerable, but with anything like suitable facilities it could soon he overcome. The preaeat break in toe railroad ia from Hop kins's to Winnshoro, a distance of about 37 miles; and the same to reach tho Greenville Road. The meat important section, however, is the Augusta branch ef twe South Carolina Railroad-say from Branchville to Johnsen's Tuvnont, about 45 miles Ung-which, is very Lally broken" up. When these connections aru made, which will require the rbbtiilding of about 100 miks of Railroad, and vhen the Sautee bringo ou the Northeastern Road is repaired, our Railroad connections in South Carolina will be complete. Restoration of Churches. President Johnson has ordered that all South ern Chnrohes which have been in the hands of . Northern ministers, through the military, be re stored to the ministers of the Church South, who will ossame control and enter npan their minis terial duties. President Johnson and the Colored Troops. President Jonssos reviewed thc Colorad Troops in Washington on the 10th. In a-speech made' npon the occasion he urged the necessity of the freedmen exhibiting try tboir eonduot that they were'entitled by their industry, virtue and intel J ligence, to freedom. He enid that if ia tbe pro gress of events it waa found that they could ext harmonize with our system, that Providence would point a way for their separation from us. and indicate a land of promise for them. . Important Railroad Project. " Wennderstand that Mr. CAHILL, an eminent boniness man of Charleston, during a late trip North, of aome months duration, mado vcr;. B strenuous exertions among capitalists to rabio stock sufficient to\uild a railway branch from the Charleston and Savannah Railroad to nilton ?J" .t?4. '?? " ' ? ' Head, and that every evidence warrama the be lief that at a very early day the work to tho ac ' ' ccomplishtacn t ef the desirable end will bc com menced. It is thought, and with a great deal of : - good reason, that if auch a road was in existence, tho harbor at Port Royal could successfully in vite ships of the greatest draft to enter that haren, where they would find a capacious harbor, with room enough to occ.omiU'jdate the shipping of n groat commercial mart Ships of the heaviest draft could como luto Pyrjt Beyal JUrbor loaded | for Charleston or Savannah,' and with this con necting railway link, their freights" Could be im mediately transported to l?tjr''??4*0natioft.' Wo hopo Mr. C?BIM/S project wfll a?o?T? a/fast ac complished. . -*~r*>.M?&,, -, A large fir*ao?arr?dV?J Augusta, . oh tho evening of the 11 th, result"ug in tho d: al ruc tien of a great portion-of fijjj^ building? formerly oC' copied by the late Confederate States ?uvornnsoct \ .as machine shops. Tho ? t a lion ary, engine*, boil. ~ ers,'latos, tools, Ac, 'aro euj^fecely destroyed. An ?dj oin? ti g corral was also bu.rc.ed, bat all (ho hortes wero oared. Theftr* lam&ea*tiebo (ho j work Of aa incendiary. J - ? omi ' nhl i.ii' !'MfrTr'^matMr-TTTI' I Connecticut Flouts the Negro ! Ye?, the Woodpn-Nufmsg State flonlM the negro. It ii excosiively droll, but it ia nevertheless quite true. Old JOHN BROWN'S soul will certainly eeaee to "march on" after thia! The Sute of Con necticut contains something >vcr 460,1'"' people, of all age?, sexes and conditions. Of this norn bor 8,627 belong to the African race, ao belovod by SUMNER, WILSON, an I BuTLRR the Beast Out of thia S.027 negroes, 2.2SI are mon of age to vote. And St MXKK, WILSON, and tbo Beust say that they are poaiieRSod of quit* as much learning, inteiligeoce, and understanding aa the Germans, Frenchmen, aud Iriahmen ia Connocticut, who are entitled by reason of their color, to asuffrago whicJ is not given to a ?. 1 iee of poople peculiarly and emphatically American, lieeaose thia Utter class is rather darker in Beak-tint But the peo ple uf Connecticut do not seem to think thus,* a?d in a rory recent election in that State they have gono several thousand votes ngainst negro suffrage. Therefore, they have not only floated the negro, hut they hare flouted SCMKER, WILSON, tbo Beast, Creely, Phillips', and the whole radical wing of the Republican porty. For this good deed, we venerate the people of Connecticut. We wish that each one sf their 8,627 negroes wa? made of gold with diamond eyes, and too nails of pearl, and belonged to tho whites ia feo simple. Could wo wish them anything better-whites or blacka? So New England is not a unit in i's blind ado ration of"the negro. We believe that ell the other. Now England States allow, negroo? to voto ; but the enlightened, enterprising and pros perous Stute of Connect icul will not have it so. Despite the dictum of the " friends of freedom" in Lr-r sister Staten, she refuses to regard the ne gro as the equal of the-white man. j It seems to us that the inorul effect of tho de feat of this measure in Connecticut will be im I mensa-and that for good. Already the so-call ed Copperheads and Copperhead papers are shouting triumphantly over t J is grand defection in New England. How can Sumner, Wilson, the ; Beast, Greely, Phillipa, and Beecher, dare at tempt to compel us of the South to do "justice" to the negro, when - one of their own States re , fasea that samo "justice ?" Connecticut ia profoundly right A negro bas uo more to do with roting and making laws than in framing the enactments of thc Medes and; Per sians. - There seems to bo no doubt that the wbolo North U growing tired and disgusted with tho extrema and extravagant style in which thc claim? of tho. negro have beon pressed. By n very activo and peremptory school of political and social reformer?, tbo claims, interests, cour age and character of thc whitea have been made wholly subordinate to those of the blacks. Thero must in the nature of thing?, bo a re-actien to all thia; and the Connecticut eleotion indicates that it bas begun. How far it will go, or what results it will aceemplish, remains to be seen. It will probably, at all even Li, somewhat dampen the ardor of certain ambitus and unscrupulous politicians, who have heretofore supposed blinff and fanatical devotion to the nogro tho only win ning card. -? " O, fairest Summer, Stay !" After a cold and wintry rain, lasting a day and night, we have glorious fall weather. Tho sky is bright and bino, and the sun warm aud glisten ing. But cool shadows fall at eventide, and in faded gardens the last rosea are dying.* Plain tive-mourning dovos are cooing sadly to their matee, telling of the dead summer they ao well remember. Patriarch swallows have called their flocks together, and fled from frost and snow, seeking summer lands and fairer blossoms. Very soon the winds will whistle chillon Held and plain ': and the beautiful eummor will be quite gone. A sense of grief and loneliness comes with the falling leaf, and memory makes the eummer doubly pleasant. These falling leaves make a man pause and ponder- Soon, the feverish dream of life will bc ended. Let us try to eoe in our autumn dreams, a future summer, surpassing the fairest glo.-os of the present. And let us keop watch and ward with diligence that our disem bodied spirits start not upon the broad journoy rugs of oternity without a friendly guide, and without a calm and holy hope of reaching the shining goal of inGnite :>.nd endless blessedness. " Empire" verene "Fanchon." This is a paragraph exclusively for the ladies und for those deeent and thoughtful men who aro going to buy their wives new bonnetB. A cor respondent from New York writes to the Pen-ft*. tutionaliet thus : The neat aud stylish Fanchon bonnet, which has met with S J much favor and bad so decided a ran here, is going out ni'h the season, and giving place to a new thing (and you know, 'adie*' new things aro fashionable,) but a confounded ugly t thing, railed the Empire. The Fanchon is a light, airy end handsome bonnet, without crown or cur tain, an invention which necessity, the aoiversal mother of ?uch affairs, got up for thc proper dis play of tho waterfall. The Umpire is a small bon net, with large crown und narrow stiff curtain, dressed and trimmed with flowers and feathers; ugly and Antique, but neu ; and as novelty and nut beauty ?a the insanity of fashion, why New York bon-tun will bo expocted to go mad over th? hybrid of tho milliners. Tho Fanchon was too simple too easily made at bom*, to suit tho arriar?a-hence the Empire. One good result, however, from ita adoption : It displacea that abomination known a8 a waterfall. ' Sc tho " Fanchon" bas gono np the spout of fashinn-a long and large one -V.eforo it fairly roached Edge-field. Lamentable ! But we assure you, ladies, that the "Empire." in not ugly. We have alreJfty seen a couple, and they aro beauti ful. And to think of getting rid of those vile waterfalls ! Why npon earth should a huge com pact, greasy, oblong lump of mess and false hair, covered with a silken no' strung with glass beads, be called a roaterfall? To cali to hideous a thing by such a protty naroo is %crnal blasphemy. We are a firm advocate for fashion, but we never could stand the waterfall : it always carried ns back to the lime when we stu J ?cd natural history, and made na think we raw a section of tho boa constrictor protruding from the posterior bump of the female cerebrum. So hero's a health to the " Empire, " and a final* kick to tho hage, compact, greasy, oblong lump of moss and fal*e hair. The Island Lands. - We are pleased to announce through the kind ness of a friend (says tho Charlesten Courier) I that the efforts of Mr. JUMAN MITCUKLL, of this ? city who baa for somo time been laboriously and persistently urging npon the Government the pre-' pricty of restoring the "island landa" to their original owners, have nt last met with completa nueces?, and that an order will shortly bo issued miking full restitution in the premian*. It is es* peeled that General Howard will visit this De partment to give personal direction to its exe cution. MEETING OP NEGROES IN GLOUCESGER.-A A meeting of negroes wa* Iwld'afc Gloucester Court House, Vii*ginia,.afc^,4ay?.fliuce. The prevailing.idea with those ta attendance was that they were tb Bare t?de;''?fVett them. !A lct?r to tho Fre?>ri?ksb'nrg Era says : S? " Tbo'agent of tba Freodmen'a Bureau also -xnade aVspecch to them,! raying that h* wish ed to disabuse their minds of the impression that they were to own lands except by pur chase. I hear tbst tbo negroes afterwards called bim a <1-d ' secesb,' nod said they intended to report bint." i M?xlntilkin and Mexico. The latest news from Mexico shows boyond a doubt that the imperial causa.has 0/ late attained, a most successful condition. Tho soldiers of Maximilian bave obtained repeated and decided victories. Cortinas has been beaten, Alvarez has been beaten, Negrete has 1>oen beaten. Tbe em pire of Maximilian may be scoflad at, and not recognized, in certaiu portions of tbe oountry, but that price* certainly lias it in his p*wer at present tn fix h ?ti throne os ho pleases. And what is tho social condifion^of the country meantime? It is overrun with guerrilla bands and gangs of robbers. Courts martial are con signing to tho gibbet scores nf Mexican patriots and hundreds of Me^oan thieves. Tho expres sion of opinion upon all public questions i's sup pressed by m litnry power. Tbe mercenaries of thc Emperor, the French, navy included, are com mitting frightful outrages upon non-combatants. The town of San Goromino, and] twenty sugar plantations adjoining, havo been destroyed, and Tlacctalpan sacked by French sailors. Tho Egyptian troop.? have burned two hundred and forty houses at Cocinto, and simiUr devastation hos been spread through m.ejgftothor Districts. Such being thc positioai-iofiSSljfico undor the present regime, it would se?m?*rmpossibIe that im perialism, despite its present apparent security, should become a permanent institution in that unhappy country. It would stem oontrary to tbe or dor of things that Maximilian should es tablish himrelf at the head of a Mcxioan empire ; contrary to the spirit of this country that imperi alism should be permitted to exist upon the Wes tern continent under a foreign prince. BuLso it \B at present. The United States Government bas often declared its policy on the American continent to be fixed and unalterable. What has become of the Monroe Doctrine? In our opin ion, it will be fully dcvoleped- in time-by force of arms if necessary. When the hour strikes, that time will come. The Cholera. Ever since early Spring, we have been reading of tho fearful ravages of Cholera in.Egypt, Tur key, and along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. And now, on the arrival of every steamer from Europe, we are informed that this fell and merciless destroyer of th? human family is rapid ly progressing Westward. It is already raging in Italy, in the South of France, and in thc East of Spain. Considering this fact, and in view of the immense -and constant intercourse between Europe and America, who can say that this dread plague may not very soon make Ita appearance on our shores ? And should it do so, it would not ho for the first time ; in 1831 and 1832 it provo ?led to a largo extent, and was attended with torrible mortality, in Canada and the Northern States. Not however, with tho devastating malignity which has always characterized it in the old countries. This malady bad reached Ancena, on important city of Italy, in July last. A traveller may easily reach Paris from Ancona in two days Or from Marseilles and Toulon, where it is sweep ing off hundreds daily, a travollor may reech Paris in ono day; on the following day he m av be in London ; in eleven days more he may be in New York ; and in two days more he may be walking the streets of Charleston, S. C. We may well say of the Cholera then in Europe, "Thou art so far, and yet en acir!" At intervals of from thirty to fifty years, the old world hos been ravaged by the cholera erer siace the earliest ages. In the 'year A. D. ?42, during tho reign of Justinian, Emperor of the By zantine Empire, it'broko out and prevailed for a calamitous period of fifty-two years. Such was j the universal corruption of tho arr that tho pesti lence was not checked or alleviated bj any differ ence of the seasons. In time, its first-malignity was abated and dispersed, bat the disease alter ly languished and revived ; and it was no t till the .nd of fifty-two years that mankind recovered their health, or the air resumed its puro and salu brious quality. No facts have been preserved to sustain an account, or even a conjecture, of the numbers that perished in this extraordinary mor tality. .We only find that during threo months, five, and at length ten thousand, persons diad each day at Constantinople ; that many cities of the East were left vacant, and that in several dis tricts of Italy, the harvest and vintage withered on the ground. The triple scourge *f war, pesti lence and famine afllicted the subjoots of Justini an ; end his reign is disgraeod by a visible de crease of the human specios, which has never been repaired in some of the fairest countries of our globe. The pestilence now raging with such rjolcnco in the cities on the Mediterranean coast, and making such rapid strides Westward, is believed by some to hive been brought from Asia by Ma hometan pilgrims returning from Mecca and Medina in Arabia. But a far groater number of people believe the causo ef the mortality is to be found in the cattle distemper wbioh raged in Egypt last year. In the course of a few months, during the fall of 1864, there died in that oountry, oight hundred thousand oxen, and as many sheep, goats, eamels, and other animals. Three-fourths of theso dead bodies were thrown into the Niio, whose water ia the only drink for man or beast in Egypt. And at the samo time that this mod *'n plague commenced its ravages in Ancona, italy, a pestilonco was raging among the cattle of that country. And at this very day, suoh a pestilence is raging among tho eattlo in certain parts of Russia. - Some idoa may be formed of the dojtructivo nessand malignity ef the eholera now existing on the Mediterranean, when we record tho fact that, oh the 26th June last, nine hundred human boings died in Alexandria, Egypt. It approaches like an Infuriated storm the oak built roan ; it falls with equal violence upon the inaocont child; it stops not at the Eontinel guarded palace"; it walks boldly Into the Senate chambers of empires. Wiso men of every age agree that great plagues aro apt te follow great wars, whero a vast number of animals of different kinds have been slaugh tered and improperly buried ; or, as ia often tho ; case, not buriod at all. ? Having informed ourselves concerning the chol era or plague in the old countries, let us apply attention to our own laws. Let us ask ourselves if we have no danger to fear from a plague. We hove juit passed through a war whose magnitude was, and still ii, the wonder of nations. Ia that war an innumerable host of men and beasts were killed; and thousands upon thousands of them to this day remain rotting but a few inches under gr.' nd-at least not se deep but that the gases arising from the decomposed bodies find a way through tho thin ,Crust of earth, and then sprend into the drifting, air above. We have been told again and again tbat^after heavy rains, ono might, in walking over a battle field, see the Umba protruding above the. .*ttface, in a decayed con dition. Next year may toll the sad result. Du ring this war there has been enough bleod shed upon the Republic of America to make a long, wide, and deep river. This blood was not buried. Soldiers di) not bury blood ; t,\at thoy leave as an indelible mark of tholr victory or defeat. Blood, being tho very esr.iace of animal life, wbon forced from its colls, moats with tho samo chan gos as does the body from whence it came ; it rote, and its odors- mingle with' tho pare air, contaminating it as- it drifts from placa ta place. This govorancrjt cannot be too rigorous) then, in its endeavors to arrest this most fearful of ?ll feu main calamities. State authorities, street com. missioners, and beards of health, have a weighty responsibility resting upon them.. Whether or not they assume it, doss not lessen thc faot. Fer the Advertiser. A Card. The undi reigned, being about to return tn bia homo in Charleston, after a si-j-mm in this Village of u'.arfy four years, would t i ki this opportunity of returning his grateful that ks toa large pro portion of the citizens of thj3- village, and the surrounding country, lor their uuremittcd kind ness nad goo?! feelings to him, and every member of bis family, during their temporary residence among tb?tu. And wbilet tho re.ulta of the past cruel war hnvo placed him in such u situation as to prevent him from repaying lleta for their macy favors, yet he leaks forward with a hopo that the time may yet arrive.when bo may bo enabled to show his gratitude in a stronger form than word''. They all have his best wishes individually and collectively for their future prosperity and hap pinosa. And tboulJ he never be permitted ti bold social converse with them in this world, he prays that he may be permitted to meet them io that better world, where nona shall ever again be troubled with wars or its ovil consequences. JACOB F. SCHIRM ER. Edgefiold, October Htu, ISCJ. For the Advertiser. A Card To the People of the Third Congressional District, composed of Abbeville, Edyfield, Newberry, Fair?eld, Lexington, Richland and Orangeburg : FELLOW CITIZENS.-At the solicitation of my frieuds, I have been induced to appear bofore you aa a candidate to 'represent you in tho Congress of tho United States, at thc approachingoleetton. In taking such a position, I am well aware that your right to know clearly my opinion on all po litical subjects is unquestionable. I now proccod briefly to give you my view* on such topic, as in my judgment mctly interest you at this time. I intend to speak plainly to you, for I want to le understood by everybody. Before assuming any position, however, or pis sing rnyuelf on any platform, it would bo woll for us to take a pasting glance, and traoe hurriedly tho deep and wooful ravages made by tho bloody and desolating tract of " cruel wir" upon oar own once prosperous and happy laud. What s pioture lies outspread ai we take this backward turn ! What a picture of contrast engravened, as it were by the iroa wrought pencil dripping with tho stream of gery-red that lins delaged oar mountalts and plaies, and hillsides and glons, during tho four past and lengthened years of the reign af " Cruel War." Then the storm-felt lash ings, whether of the adverse wind, the lightning*! sudden violence, or the wailings, in thundrous eohoos, of many bleeding hearts, do but add new terrors to the terrifie socne passing beneath our vision. I repeat again what a sad "picture of contrast " this, to tho- " sHnny Sonth of bygone days,"-blooming in prosperity, whose very moun tains and hills echoed their glsddest tones, and whose lovely vales aad gentle streams smiled with plenteous comfort, and flowed in joyous accents along, and whose light-winged zephyrs breathed but happiness. It is heart sickening truly to take even this cursory view of the picture, but we mutt weil survey our surroundings before deciding to take a future step. Furthermore, besides the deep re grets for happiness lied-and loved ones gone-* there is an evil of mv.ch loss depth, which perhaps may become of wide extension and bearing upou tho welfare of our nation, and which demands some consideration therefrom. This is the low state of approaching bankruptcy that scorns weighing us downward. Let tho " platform of action " of every man be one for the good of tho people, both as a nation aod State While ! am decidedly opposed to Repudi ation, I am equally averse to compelling the debtor to pey the full amount of debts contracted duriig the recent war. The practical muxim now with every one should be " to live and let live."' I am in favor of a judicious sud equitable compromise, and.unwilling to add oppression to misfortune. I trust tho next Legislature will enact tome equita ble law to tho general satisfaction of both creditor and debtor, and save ut from the ruinous conse quences of impending bankruptcy, that would in ! evitably ensue from a oour?c favoring only thrftui. The emanelpation of slavery by the Govern ment of the United States, and the acquiescence in this movement by our own State Convention, has brought us now to a stand of deep thought, as to what meatures next to adopt to better onr condition, and raise us once again to hopo and peace. Carious aro the opinions that have hoeo suggested as to what ?call bo dono with the negro. I can suggott no better pjan for the present, than for the negro to be apportioned out to each State io the Union according to representation, or pop ulation, or colonizo them in some nowly acquired territory. I am also opposed te conferring theright of suf frage on the recently freud negroes, because I know them to be incapable of exercising such a privilege; and bocauso I consider this a dan go rout clement to introduce into the system of our Government I well know that this question be longs properly to the icc: sion of each State,-but I am confident it will be brought beforo Congress, as the restless abolition party, flushed with suc cessive victories aro over ready to. enter into new fields of agitation. Thc pooplo.uf the North have alwnyt had 6010.0 nogroos aicong them, but nevar to my knowledge have they over raited these ne groes to an equal station.witt, themselves. If ono Northern Stato has ever had a colored Governor or Lieutenant Governor, or if ono of this sable raco baa ever been honored with a scat in tho Legislativo body, cither State; or Fedora!, it ia unknown to mo. In tho State of Illinois, the lato home of President Lincoln, tbore is a law extant prohibiting any mons negroes from settling in .that .State, ned tho right of suffrage is withheld from those olrendy thero ; and a similar law exists in Ohio aad Indiana, aad perhaps in other North- 1 ern States. Truly, "Consistency is a bright jewel." If the negro raco occupy, an inferior station North, why not place thom in their right ' plaoe South. The rory inferiority of the rice it most obvious to the mero physiognomist, and ichat the Creator has made black; man can never make tc-Aife. Then why not allow the South thc 1 right they assume to themselves? This Very in- t novation upon the rights of their brotherhood, j laid the foundation of the recent war-deep and 1 wide. Yet the abolitionists boast loadly that the 1 opening of this dreadful war hangs sot upon t their shoulders. Hod not fourteen of the .States ' I of tho North violated the Federal Constitution, 1 I as it regards the Fugitivo S1 ave Law, the South- j ern States would not have been driven to the ? j state of dctperatios, that has well nigh brought , ruin upon them. , r It is true that tho South wes precipitate in the j Secession movement, aael my humbie judgment t and feeble voice disapproved of the measure, yet t I have over taken for my motto, " equal rights to 1 the South es wall as ta tho North,"-end if the * Guidon Rule, " To do unto others, as yon would * have them do unto you," weto laid down as the ^ Corner Stone of tho building of eur National t Constitution, peace would forever dwell with us, t and war stay far, fur away. 0 Solong anthe Government woe in the bands d of tho Ptmooratje pnrty, o*r couotry was ease, J ir esporo ui and happy*; but uh tn tho helm was crested from them by overwhelming fanaticisnm, he Ship of S tuto ?as- badly wrecked, and well ligh destroyed forever, in tho whirlpool of Vne roby. I have great conti dence in the Democratic pnr y of tbe United States. I believe the tuoeers of hat party is our only hope in reconstructing the .Jo vern nient with tjjpal rights under the Coneti uiun. Our loading meu, in my opinion, commit ed a great blunder in breaking np the Democrat o party by "withdrawing fr<m" the Charleston invention in !St'?0, and I solemnly believe to-day that if Judge Douglass, Gov. Breckenridge, or Mr. Bell hud been elected President in 1SG0, we rr uld not have had the desolating war through which we have just passed. President Andrew Johnson, whom I happen to ?now personally, always belonged to the grea? Dmcacratic party until bc nm for ViceyPresident en the tickot with Mr. Lincoln ; and BOW that Provi dence has decreed, for wise purpose?; that he should hold the reins of Government in bia own bands, he will nu doubt return to bis first love, und do all ho can for bia orring children ; and plant himself firmly npon the batts of the Con stitution tor tho lasting preservation of that so ared trust. Let us then tupport tbe administra tion of President Johnson in good faith. Let ns take counsel together fer the good of oar eommon country; andi venture to s.n.j, notwithstanding th? great mistake made in the Act of Seeeaaion, we may yet, with the guidance of Divine Provi dence, become a prosperous, independent, and happy people. . * In conclusion, Fellow-Citi:ten?, permit me to remark, that if I am honored hy yon with a aeat in Congress, I will use my titmovt endeavor to preserve the Constitution, and to promote your welfare in each and o'very respect whatever, to the best of my ability'. R. C. GRIFFIN. --?-*?-.>-?- , Circular from General Howard. The following circular Tetter was promul gated from the Freedmen's Bureau to-day: WAK DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OP REFUGEES, "} FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS, V WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 1805, j State laws with regard to apprenticeship will be recognized by this bureau, provided they make no distinction of color; or, in case they do so, the said laws applying to white children will be extended to the colored. Offi cers of this bureau are regarded as guardians of orphans and minora of freedmen within their respective districts. The pri ;ciple to be adhered to with regard to paupers is that each county, parish, township or city shall care for abd provide for its own poor. Va grant laws made for free people and now in loree on the stetute books of the States em braced in tbe operations of this bureau will be recognized and extended to the freedmen. Assistant commissioners will draw up specific instructions applicable to their respective States, ip accordance with tfyc foregoing prin ciples. 0. 0. HOWARD, ? Mt>jor-General and Commissioner. It is evident from, tbe following order issu ed from the Freedmen's Bureau to-day that the restoration of property now held as aban doned and confiscated is (o be entered into by the Commissioners of thti Bureau through out the South with scrupulous exactness in regard to the title of the same and the legal ownership thereof. The circular subjoined corroborates this view Assistant Commissioners are directed in their reports of abandoned or confiscated lands to arrange the names of former owners of 3ucb lands ia each count]?*, district or par ish ic alphabetical order. The number of acres herein required to be stated will always be given as nearly as the same can be ascer t ained. Copies of all orders returning prop erty to former owners will be forwarded to this Bureau as soon as issue.1, in compliance with special instructions from the head of the Bureau, and the papers in such cases will be returned with copies of the orders. From the Neto York Herald, itk iitef. Trial of Wirz. Some witnesses for the defence were exam ined before the Wira court martial yesterday. A German named Morsner, who was in the Union anny, taken prisoDcr.and sent to An cicrsonville, testified that ho waa parolod and placed in Wirz's office as a clerk. In this ca pacity he had never been required to do any thing inconsistent with his al legiance to the national government by Wir::, whom he had not known to be guilty of uhc cruelties to wards prisoners charged against bim; but he ha* known him to do things for their comfort and the alleviation of their sufferings, and had heard him express the trish that he was able to do more. George W. F. Reynolds, who testified that he was taken prisoner while a spy io the ch tional service, made some curions and very interesting statements regarding life, manners and customs in the Andersonville stockade.' According to him it was much like a compact city. There were thirty-three thou>and pris oners, tbe pen was laid out in streets, and most of the vocations known te urban Fifo were carried o?r within it. t There were about one thousand regular dt-altrs, iucludiog bank ers, brokers, provision merchants, bakers, tailors, shoemakers, barbers, jewellers, soup jobbers, ?vc, who kept open shops and offices and did a thriving business. At these estab lishments could bc bought, if one had the money, all the necessaries and many of the luxuries of life. The witness himself kept a shop aud drove a heavy trade. Ile ' said there were about half a million dollars in greenbacks in the prison. The prisoners had also among themselves regular judicial aud police organizations, and at ono time five disorderly characters among them, who had been found guilty by a jury of their fellow captives, were bung. He himself acted as a magistrate. He told many other wonderful things of a similar character relative to the interior lifo of the prison. He bad known suffering among thc men fron exposure, but could not say that he had witnessed it from hunger. ; During tbe day there was another sharp colloquy between members of the court and. Wirz's counsel regarding the questioning of witnesses aud the management of the de fence. The North Carolina Convention. Tbe ne tn bora of the North Carolina Con vention, whose movements during the first four days of the session appearcd-slow, on the 1th, went to work in earnest, and to some purpose. They passed, by a unanimous vote, in ordinance declaring that the ordinance of ?be Convention of 1789, ratifying the Consti ;ution of the United States, and all legislative teta ratifying amendments thereto, are now, md have been ever since their enact mont, in 'nil force and effect, notwithstanding the .supposed ordinance'' of Secession, which, it s further declared, is now, and has at ail ;imes since its passage, been null and void, rbis, ia effect, is ar? official avowal that tho state bas never been out. of the Union. Gov ernor Holden communicates.this intelligence n a dispatch to the President, and adds that be ordinance forever prohibiting slavery m he State-will be disposed of to-day, and that he State elections will be fixed fer tho 2d if November. One of the Raleigh correapon icnts, in speaking of the character and aen Iments of the men who compose the Conven ion, says that the majority of them are not j nly strong Union men but are, and were, uri og the rebellion, bitter anti-secession is ?a. n many districts, at tho'election (or dele gatea, where moderato or doubtful Unionista of superior talent?, were opposed by strong and undisputed Union men of only moderate abilities, the latter were successful, showing that a healthy national sentiment per?adas the people. The Sadden advance in t he'gold premium is not due, as some assert, to the announce* ment made by the Seer ?tur y of the Treasury, relative to the funding of the compound in terest Ie;al tender notes, bat rather to an in* creased demand for export. On the subject, the New York Herald aays: ; While our imports range from fire to near ly eight millions a week in gold value, our exports are at the rate of three millions or less per week ia currency value, those for the week just ended having been only $2,418, 527. Nor is there any imm?diate prospect of an increase in eur seaport trade, or a di minution in oar imports. The prieta' of all the leading breads tu fla and provisions range higher in this market than at Liverpool, and cotton hardly allows of profitable shipment. Moreover, we have no superabundance as yat offering at the seaboard. Under these cir* cuinetances, it is very ?vident that gold must be exported to pay the difference between the credit and debit sides of oar foreign accounts. It is true that the amount of gold in the banks of the city and the Treasury is lar?e, the amount in the latter, on September 30, having been $12,730,783, after, as ia to be in ferred, deducting $18,443,415 for the pay ment of the November coupons, and that the banks hold more than thirteen and-a-balf milsons. But the amount elsewhere in die country is small, the private boards having been to a great extent absorbed. For Commissioners of the Poor. The following gentlemen will be- supported aa. candidates for Commissioners of the Poor for > Edgefield District at the next election : W. L. COLEMAN, TANDY i. MA?TIN, GEORGE D., HU LET, . ' ' . DB. '0. W. ALLEN, n. T. WRIGHT. Oct 16 lt . 42 $1,000,000! , CONFEDERATE MONEY WANTED! POE which the HIGHEST PRICE will be given. Apply at thia Office. Oct 17 - lt 41 To the Public, JERSONS who har? left DEEDS,-BONDS or __. MORTGAGES in th? Clerk'* Office, to Re cord,are respectfully informed that the same hag been dene, and that their papers, daly stamped, are ready for delivery on payment of costs. Par ties are net i fi ed to apply soon for their respective papers. 8. HARRISON, Clerk Court Edgefield District. Oct. 17,_3t _41. : Law Notice. J?. ADDISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW . and SOLICITOR IN EQUITY will, prac tice id the Couria of South Caroline. Office, for the present, over B. C. Bryan's Store Oct 17_3m_ 42 DOCTOR GRIFFIN TJA VING decided te.remain ia Edgefield, haa JUL removed to the House of Ii. T. WBIOBT, Euer., lately occupied by Maj. MOBBILL, and will eontiaue to give prompt attention to all Pro fessional Calle. Oct. 17, 2t ' 42. Notice. THE undersigned would most respectfully in form their friends an J patrons that they will continue he PRACTICE OP MEDICINE in its several department.?, in the Tillage and adjacent country. Rut aa we have to pay Cash for every thing wo have to buy, we wiU expect the cash or its equivalent for our services Whenever the pa tient ia discharged. A. G. TEAGUE, T. J. TEAGUE. Oct. ll tf 41 Save your Lard and Soda BYuaiu|;.Durkee'a Y?AST POWDERS, to be had cheap at HODGES k JENNINGS. Oct 17 tf_42 Cooking Extracta, JUST opened a first rate aupply of superior EXTRACTS f?>r Culinary purposes, embra cing LEMON, VANILLA, ?c. HODGES A JENNINGS. Oct 17 tf 42 Potash, TWO Barrol's superior. POTASH-ju.t the -thing for making Soap. J; R. CARWILE, A CO. Oct. 17,_tf_VI Greenbacks. THE undersigned will receive GREENBACKS in payment of all Notes and Accounts duo him, from those who are disposed to pay daring the next two months. JAS. B. SULLIVAN. Oct 17 4t 42 For Sale, 1LARGE IRON SAFE-coed aa new; 1 CARRIAGE and HARNESS-i worn ; I Iron-Axle Two Horse WAGON-i worn ; 1 small bey SADDLE HOV SE. JAS. ii. SULLIVAN. Oct 17 4't 42 Stop the Thief! STOLEN from the stablo of Dr. Wm. D. Jen nings, at EegeSeld C. M., on Saturday ni*bt, the 14th inst., one blaek CARRIAGE HORSE, short nielt-tal?ed, when standing springs ferward in his hind ankles, carries himself np well when moving.-about eleven years ord. And, also, oae sorrel MARE MU LE, branded on shoulder, reaehod mane and Uli, left shoulder hart by collar, about S years old. They were seen in the possession of awhile man and negro on the 15th inst, oa the road to Columbia, near Watson's. " ? . A liberal reward will be paid for their recovery. A. G. TEAGUE? Oct. 17, rf' r 42 ? -:-1-?. Medical College of Georgia. AUGUSTA. THE regular course of lectures In thia institu tion will be.com monced on the first Monday in November next, and be continued four months. The outfit and advantages of thia College are un surpassed by any in the Union, L. A. DUG AS, Dean. Sept 2^_lm_39 Just Received. ODGES A JENNINGS bave jost received a fresh aupply of Norwood's TINCT. VERATRUM YERH)E ; McMun's ELIXIR OPIUM. Oct ll tf . 41 Dennis' Compound Dogwood Bitters, A SUBSTITUTE FOR QUININE. r' assists DIGESTION and itiemu?ati. and strengthens the sy.tom. Nature supplies the beat remedies in the cli mate in which the disease exista. Prepared by J. DENNIS, M. D. Augusta, Ga. Oct ll ' 2t 41 H W?KTT?D. THE COLUMBIA A AUGUSTA RAILROAD wanta 500 Good Able-bodied Hands'. Apply to - THOO. ALEXANDER, A^ent, Granite ville and VaueJast. Sept II let 37