Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Sept 5 tf SS Dentristy. DR. J. R. COURTNEY respeetfully in forms h ii old friends and the public general ly that he is prepared to do all work in the DENTAL LINE, in the best manner, and on short notice. He will wait on parties at their residence when requested to do so. Loiters ad dressed him at Edgefield C. H., or at Granite ville, will receive prompt attention. May 22 3Jm* 21 For Sheriff. The Friends of Capt A. P. WEST respectful ly announce him as a Candidate for Sheriff of Edgefield at the next election. Nov 7 te* 45 jf??r* We hare been auihorixed by the Friend* of Capt. H. BOULWARE to announce- him Candidate for Sheriff of Edgefield District at the next election. Apr 12 te? IC For Tax Collector. The Many Friend? of D. A. J. BELL, Esq., respectfully nominate him as a Candidato foi Tax Collector at the next election. Oct IS te 43 For Tax Collector. THE many Friends of Capt. JAMES MITCH ELL respeetfully nominate him as a Candidate for TAX COLLECTOR at the next election. SALUDA. Doc 6 te* 50 CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY. EDGEFIELD, S. C. T??E Subscribers respectfully announco that they are now prepared to do all work in the COACn MAKING and REPAIRING BUSI NESS that m ty bo entrnstod to them, in a work manlike manner, and with neatness and dispatch. We havft on hand M few CARRIAGES oad su perior BUGGIES, of our own manufacture, which wc will sell low. All kinds of REPAIRING done promptly and warranted to give satisfaction. jZ^-As we sell ONLY FOR CASH, our prices are unusually reasonable. All we ask is a trial. SMITH dc JONES. _ Mar 7_tf _10 FISK'S PATENT METALLIC BURIAL CASES AND CASKETS t THE Subscriber has jost received an assort ment' of these beautiful Kosewood finish METALLIC BURIAL CASES and CASKETS Air-tight and indestructible-for protecting and preserving tho Dead-which he will sell at but a moderate advance on original cost and transporta tion. Wherever introduced these Cases have the preference over all ethers. 83P*0rders promptly filled. Terms, of course, etrictly Cash. J. M. WITT. Edgefield, Mar 13 tf ll ? I I. N. TEAGUE, ?-EDGEFIELD, S. C HAS leaiod the Whitaker Stables for the pur pose of conducting a general SALE AND LIVERY STABLE BUSINESS. HORSES ieft in his.charge will receive the best attention. BUGGIES. CARRIAGES and HACKS, and good-gentle HORSES, to hire whenever callao for. DROVERS will find ample accommodation at my Stables. SST Terms reasonable. Feb 14 tf 7 UNDERWRITER'S AGENCY, TUE Subscriber having been appointed Agent of the GEIttfANU, HANOVER, NIAGARA & JfcJEPiJBLIC FIftE INSURANCE COMPANIES Of Now York.-rthe aggregate Cnih Assetts o: which is NEAR THREE MILLIONS OF DOL LARS-is prepared to take risks against loss or damage by Fire aa ?bend terms. Z. W. 43ARWILB, Agent. Feb 13 _?_7_ SPECTACLES For Old and Young IHAVE on hand a large ond choice variety ol SPECTACLES, including Patent Perescopic LENS and conuine 6c.otcta PEBBLES. Also. EVE GLASSES, EYE PROTECTORS, Ac. Give '? .> a ?ll. I can suit your Eyes. D. F. MCEWEN. Octal ._tf_ To the Public. DF. McEWEN, having received a COM . PLETE ASSOi'.MENT OF WATCH MATERIALS, would respectfully inform his .frwnds and the public generally that he is now .prepared to execute, with dispatch, all work Waten Repairing Department. J?kT, All work done by him will be warranted. . AU styles of HAIR WORK and SOLID GOLD JfE WE LR Y made to r.rder. TERMS CASH. No work will be allowed to (eave the Shop until paid for. 4)at 3! tf 44 Jusrfc Received, NE CASE GENUINE CONGRESS WATER. 1 Fer tjfe !?/ TEAGUE A CARWILE. Jiusic of Labor. Tba banging of the hammer, The whirring of the plano, The crashing of the busy saw, The creaking of the crane, The ringing of the anvil, The grating of the drill, " The clattering of the turning lathe, Tho whirling of the mill, The buzzing of tho spindle, The rattling of the loom, The puffing of the engine, The fan's continual boom, The clipping of the tailor's aheara, The driving of the maul These sounds of honest industry, I love-I love them alL The clicking of the magic type, The earnest talk of mon, The toiling of tho giant, press, The scratching of the pen, The tapping of the yard-stick, The tinkling of the scales, The whistling of the needle, When no bright cheek it pales, The humming of the cooking atove, The surging of the broom, The pattering feet of the childhood, - The housewife's btuy hum, The buzzing of the scholars, Tho teachers kindly call These sounds of active industry, I love-I love them all. I lovo the ploughman's whistle, Tho reaper's cheerful song, Tho drover's oft-repeated shout, Spurring his stock along, Tho bustle of the market man, As he bias him to the town, The halloa from the tree top, As tho ripened fruit comes down, The busy sound of threshers, As they clean the golden grain, The husker's joke and catoh of gie 'Neath thc moonlight on the plain, The kind voice of the drayman, The shepherd's gentle call These sounds of pleasant industry, I love-I love them all. Ob, there's a coon in labor, If wo labor but aright, That gives vigor to the daytime, A sweeter sleep at night; A good that bringeth pleasure, Even to the toiling hours, For duty cheers the spirit, As dew revives tho flowers. Then say not that Jehovah Gave labor as a doom, No !-'tis the richest mercy From the cradle to the tono. Then lot us still be doing Whate'er we find to do, With cheerful, hopeful spirit, And free hand strong and true. For the Advertiser. Letter from Mnj. Joseph Abney. To Messrs. Ii. E. Campbell, Jno. P. Wat H. K. Carter and E. G. Simpson, Committee. GENTLEMEN:-Being unable to attend tl meeting of the people of Laurens, ai Oro Hill, on the 14th, inst., on account of a pr vious engagement to address the citizens Abbeville and Edgefvld, at Woodville, < the same day, I have ventured to substitu this letter, as containing, perhaps, a clear expression of my views, than could be pr presented -in a speech. What we are striving for now, are practie measures of relier, it matters not how su? gested. We are too much iii earnest to I moved either by the accomplishments < manner, or the graces of oratory. It is tl eloquence of action that our case demand We are beset with the most appalling difl cul ties that ever oppressed the energies of an race. The horrors of our late struggle wei mercies compared with the sufferings of thi inglorious peace. From the gigantic effort put forth by the State, for the achievemer of our independence, from the great f acrific of property in sustaining the cause, fi om th loss of all our ready money and our earning for many years by the depreciation ot Cor federate Treasury Notes and Bond?, f.'om th emancipation of our slaves, who constitute three-fourths of the wealth of the countr and the basis of nearly all its credit, from th reduction ot our labor, for at least the year' by the absence of the whole able-bodied whit i population in the field, from the devastation of the enemy, the destruction of out planta tions and homes, the pillage of our cities and ravage of our coasts and Sea Island; the slaughter of our young mon ia battit and the accumulations of interest all th while, and the decline of real estate, we ar the most exhausted people on the face of th globe. Theire is scarcely wealth eioughl the State to furnish its inhabitants a decen burial. There is certainly noa enough to pa twenty-five cents on the dollar of its indebl edness, or even ten cents on the dollar, wit! costs of suit. The money must yet be made theo, by th industry of our men and women, ard to rec der that industry available aud effectual those who are honest and well- inclined mus have time allowed them for the payment o the'r debts. With a new system ol labor b organize, a>d with the scarcity of the mate rial for farming, that prevails from the moun tains to the sea, it will be utterly iinpossibli for the Debtor, after having fed bis famirj and paid bis taxes from the present crop, ti spare a single dollar to the demands of hil Creditor. But he must be protected, or hi will be sued, bis property sold for a trifle, tb? hom? for which be " braved the battle anc thc breeze," desecrited by unfriendly intro ders, his wife and children thrust out to per iah of hunger, and " the pekings of the pit' tiless storm," and thus driven to despair, ht may be impelled by the same spirit, that hurled bim upon the phalanxes of the enemy to wreak a vengeance inconsistent with bi: fair escutcheon, and revolting to societj itself. Something must be done Ly tbe thought ful and the true to save this man, and the wife and offspring be loves more than his own soul,-and something must be done to save the State from absolute ruin and degra dation. It is true that there aro those among us honored for their reputed wisdom, who a?e BOiCallODa to our sufferings, or are so ig norant of our real condition, as to persuade themselves that the evils by which we aro encompassed will rectify themselves, and ?31 that is required of us, in this dreadfi gency, is to permit events to take thei course. This advice is like that of the c who would tarry on the banks of the 8W' flood, for its waters to run out, that he i pass over in security and dry-shod. " Rupticus ezpectat dum defluat amnis ; at Sed labitur, et labeter, in omne volubilis noi . No, my friends ! This is a juncture men are called upon to consult togeth? act, and to take measures for the public quility, and for the welfare of all they dear on earth. They must not corer heads in fancied security, while the s howls without, and the tempest thic above ; but, with manly fortitude, they ? encounter the raging blast, for they: he are in danger, and their little onen a jeopardy of their lives. There is a pe in the life of man, when love conquers and devotion to principle banishes the d of death. The time bas been, when, I tho myself, I could lead " the forlorn hone,1 eu ter the " imminent deadly breach." A the conflicting opinions of our people, the constitutional difficulties that hrdg in, and panlyze the mind, it seems ah impossible for any one man to discover a < t*f ?scape, or to devise a plan of relief shall be free from objection. But " in .multitude of counsel there is safety," "by united'thought and enterprise" al can we arrive at the goal of security peace. I have had the honor, on various occaaii of suggesting the following remedies, wi j are as little subject to constitutional prol tinns, as any that have occurred to my m: j or any that I have seen proposed by ot j gentlemen concerned about the fortune the State : A liberal Homestead Law has appearec me, as a measure calculated to do more i versal good, than any other that could be acted. In addition to this, let the Insolvent De or's Acts be so amended r to answer, nearly as practicable, the ends of a Bankr law, or, at least, let imprisonment for d be abolished as contrary to the spirit of age. The man that takes all of anothe property bas no right to his person, and allow him such is a relic of the barbarism the past, and in an emergency of such gr w&nt and distress as that we are passi through, when no mau has confidence in neighbor, or his neighbor's bond, may le t<> a degree of oppression and misery that v sho-.k the sensibilities of mankind. Then, it has been decided by the Supret Court of Alabama, that the same Legislate that grants one impedance to a Dcfeoda may grant two or more, or require a suit be in progress two or more terms before t obtainment of Judgment. If it has the pow to grant two imparlan ces, may it not, frc the necessity of the timex, grant eight, ai require four years for the obtainment judgments. It is needless to urge the bene cial effects of such a law. It would gjvo tl Debtor a breathing spell, afford him time collect hia energies, and marshal his mear and induce Creditors to make compromise thousands and tens of thousands of debi that can never be paid in full. It appears to me, moreover, that a la might be passed, without doing violence the Constitution, or sacrificing the inter?s of Creditors, restraining the Sheriff fro: satisfying more than one-fourth or fifth of ? Execution during the same year. If I ai correctly informed, such a provision exists i the Stay Law of Georgia, and has not bee pronounced by her Judges to be unconstit* tional. Could our Legislature not ventui upon such a measure too? It might be sui tained from the noble end it had in view. 1 would be conducive equally to the interest of Debtor and Creditor, and it would hav the same happy effect in promoting compn mises and settlements, as the law we hav just above referred to. Besides these remedies for the establish ment of the relations between Debtor an Creditor, in connection with the general ic debtness of the country, their are mea?ure which might be applied to debts of a specif character-such, for instance, as those con traded for negroes. The .slaves were final! set free, by an amendment of the Constitu tion, and the obligation of every contrac based upon the sale of such property, am which relied upon it for payment and satis faction, was, to the extent of the value of tha property, most positively impaired by opera tion of Constitutional law. Hence, it occur to me, that it is perfectly admissible for th Legislature to pass a kind of declaratory ac for the guidance of all the people, enumera ting and classifying such contracts, as hav been rendered, wholly null and void, and sud others as have been destroyed or annullei only in part, by the fiat of superior power The Convention did pass a Resolution or Or dinance according to Juries, the right o deciding in all contracts entered into sine eighteen hundred and sixty-two, by the stand ard of Equity and Jmitice, and, withou doubt, they will observe he same rule in al suits brought for tho rece very of negro debts where the consideration has either partial!] or entirely failed, by the Proclamations o the President, by Act of Congress, by Act o tbe Sovereign Convention of Sonth Carolina and by actual amendment of the Constitatioi of the United States. Is it possible, that h would be unconstitutional for the Legislatur? of th? State, in complaisance to irresistible authority, to enact a law for the rcgulatiot of the amounts to be paid on these contracts which law had become indispensable to jua tine, by the amendment of the Constitution itself, and by the highest act of sovereigt power that could be exercised by the peopie 5 Admit that the Juries and Courts of Equity will properly decide these cases on suite brought, should not this expense be avoided -and can it not be avoided 1 There is one certain mode, if no other, by which this can be accomplished. Let that body of men; and that Judiciary who have done so much to comply with the requisitions of the Federal Government, address their united petition, or a set nf respectful Resolutions to the' Federal Congress expressing in unambiguous terms, the wide spread ruin and the unutterable woes that are impending over our State, ?od tao whole Sooth, from the indebtedness i people, and their absolute poverty, am as the Black Republicana' are, they v only too glad to exterminate the last vt of slavery, by annulling and modifyii contracts for slaves themselves. Thi? perfectly admissible for (hem to do as we it is for us, for there is no clause in the 8titution forbidding Congress to " impa obligation of contracts," and a party from motives of policy, could set at m the Habeas Corpus, and roll up the Con lion for five years, would have no scr about the performance of TO act, which v alike benefit both North and South, doubly strengthen the probabilities o Northern merchant's obtaining the den: due him by the Southern people. By the enactment of some such mea as those indicated, by the enactment short law, admitting negroes to their rights in Court, and by the repeal of the gro Code, which, with its thirty-odd Jui and their Satraps scattered over each Dis their eternal Courts, and innumerable Ji would keep up an endless commotion ii community, and entail an expense upon public calculated to bankrupt any State, I by a magnanimous exercise of forbear: on the part of oar citizens, our beloved ( I mon wealth may yet be redeemed, and I arise from the desolation of her ashes, newed, reinvigorated, and disenthralled. But the first four measures, I have propc are deemed, by many, to be liable to same Constitutional objections as the ? Law. They may be construed by the C of Errors, as repugnant to that clause in 10th Sec. 1. Art. of the Constitution of United States, which prevents a State f passing any law " impairing the obliga of contracts." These words so are exceed ly vogue that it is doubtful whether tl is a scholar in christendom, who, by sin reading the text, and without consulting decisions of the Courts, and the proceedi of the Convention that adopted the Con tutlon, could arrive at the same conclu: concerning them our Judges have dc Nevertheless, it has been decided by tho preme Court of the United States that "obligation of contracts" and the remet for the enforcement thereof, are converti terms. In other words, it has been dei mined, that your remedies, and the me afforded yon by the law, to compel the 1 Aliment of your contracts, are the obligad thereof, and any law, destroying, retardi or obstructing the same, so as to materia diminish the value ot such contracts h conflict with the Constitution. It is not c tended, that the remedy may not be modif or altered in conformity with existing eira; stances, even after thc. ratification of a ci tract or agreement, but that it must not done to the essential injury of the Credi or beneficiary of such contract. But, ii crisis full of horror like the present, we i enabled to look beyond the mere language the decisions, and the abstruse terms of t Constitution, to the true intent and meani of that instrument, and to the objects bad view by its immortal framers. Their purpc was to protect tho Creditor against Stt laws, which might so thwart him in the c lecticn of his demands against his Debti as to render them, in a measure, valuele and unprofitable. It never entered into lhi conceptions though that they were adoptii a clause, that should be so whimsically co strned as to prevent a State, in tiimes of gre peril and unexampled pecuniary embarras meut, from passing any lawB whatever, reg lating the collection of existing debts, whit might reasonably b? supposed to redound the benefit of both Creditor and Dobtor. any one had doubted the correctness of th position, they would have replied to him i oar Lord said to the Jews, of the Sabbath, the Constitution was made for man, not mt for the Constitution. If that sacred instn ment is too inflexible in its provisions to me the wants and relieve the necessities of tl country, it is unworthy of preservation-it not worth the parchment upon which it engraved, and future ages of advancemei will supersede and annul it in all its paris. Even at the conclusion of the Revolutioni ry war, child's play as it was, compared wit our late terrible conflict, our ancestors i many of the States, were compelled to paf Stay Laws and Installment Laws for the prc tection of the people. And what were thei necessities* considered with the uecessities ( the present times ? South Carolina alone, i oar late struggle, furnished nearly as man; men, lost nearly as many men, expende nearly as much rooney, sacrified nearly a much property, and when we contempl?t the loss of her Slaves, lost nearly as muc property, as the whole Thirteen Colonies i: fighting the battles of the Revolution. Th view I take then, is that the interests of th Creditor as well as of the Debtor, demani the passage of some such laws as I have sug gested, to prevent the useless .tacrifice o property, and to save both parties from irre trievable injury, and the State itself from con fusion and depopulation. When the subjec is contemplated in this light-in tho light o humanity and true statesmanship,-I can sei no impassable barriers, no Constitutional pro hibitions intervening. We aro so situate? now as to be constrained to act or perish, ant what is worse than all, to seo our women ant children, our household Gods, and our belo vet State herself, perish along with us. We an placed in a dilemma, in which tho conduct o the boldest is tho wisest <; He that dallies ii a dastard, and ha that doubts is damned." If there be no restraints placed upon suiti at Law and Equity, the levy of erecu tions and the sale of property by the Sheriff no man can foretell the misery and starvation that are to ensue. The Credit or himself aftei having ruined the Debtor, and exilod hil fuaily, will scarcely realize, from his merci less oppression, the costs of suit. If he take his land, it will be valueless for the want ol labor and capital, for the Yankee and th( foreigner will not invest their funds here, they are afraid of " Hotspur" dead, and oui noble men and women, " whose blood is fet from fathers of warprodf," and those g?oriooi warrior sons who have made your bosomi ' ewell Mt tho mention of their exploits, and. in times past, have made you proud of the name of Confederate and Southerner, can never consent to remain here and delve as hired servants on premises of which. they were once the lords and proprietors, but which, in many cases, and by the most singu lar freaks of fortune, will have been trans ferred to the genuine enemies of their coun try. "Would not a generous Homestead Ex emption be more becoming, more honorable, and even moro beneficial to the Creditor than this revolting state of affairs ? If it be un constitutional to destry the Creditor's lien on this property, why, let him retain his lien, and let the honest man retain in his hands, at least for a series of years, the means of profitable labor, whereby he may havo some reasonable hope and encouragement to dis charge all his pecuniary obligations. A wise and timely provision of this kind bv the Leg islature, together with the amendment of the Insolvent Debtor's Acts, so as to abolish im prisonment for debt, and afford any other practical and Constitutional relief to Debtors, or the passage by Congress of a nnifonn Bank rupt law, and the adoption of those measures for the postponement of the periods of ob taining judgments, and making satisfaction of executions, and for the regulation of the amounts to be paid on Notes for the sale of negroes, would give such an impulse to in dustry, and so much courage, hope, and con fidence to farmers, as to convince the Credi tors themselves, in a short time, of their wis dom and justice, and of their full conformity and compliance with the spirit, if not with the letter of the Constitution. Is it possible, that a set of men, who can see no " impair ment of the obligation of contracts," in the emancipation of our slaves, can hesitate ant} stickle at the adoption of the very mild and moderate remedies here presented ? Can those who swallowed that huge and bitter pill, make wry faces over the sweet littie grains we offer them to take ? Can those who had the hardihood to rob ns of three-fourths of our means of making payment, and to that extent to impair the obligation of all our contracts, come forward now, with a bnrst of ill-timed honesty and patriotism, and declare that we shall pay up right now, and to the uttermost farthing? Do not Justice a fid Equity appeal in our behalf for redress, and can the Legislature, the Convention, and the Congress who have reduced us to this ex tremity, refuse this last petition, and turn a deaf ear to our earnest Constitutional de mands,-to the cries of our children for bread, and of our women for shelter ? Surely they will grant us our Homesteads, for a little while at least ! They cannot turn out of doors, tho men, who by their gallantry and prowess, on so many fields, have made our names honorable, in all parts of the world. They cannot expel from their. comfortable homes, and expose to the bleak winds of beaven, the maimed, and wounded, and bro ken soldiers, who have toiled, and marched, and fought, and spent their substance, and spent their very life's currents, to win for the South an immortal crown, and to leave the heritage of freedom to our children. Thc women and children of the brave who perish ed in the vindication of our rights, on the ten tho:, nd battle-fields of the South, must not be deprived of their "humble cots," for they shelter the nurslings of heroes. They are our special care-they are the property of the State, and they must be treasured in our hearts, for their natural protectors, their hus bands and fathers, and sons and brothers, have fallen in our cause, and gone hence, where the rolling drum and tbe shrill-noted trumpet shall never sound them to the onset again. " On fame's eternal camping ground, Their .??lent tents are spread ; And glory guards with solemn round, Tho bivouac of the dead." JOSEPH ABNEY. - Habeas Corpus. Some very silly people are under the delu sion that the real Government of the United States is a written Constitution, and one An drew Johnson, President under that Consti tution, never omits the opportunity of refer ring to that instrument as actually in exis tence and entitled to respect and obedience. That production of a Convention, which, througn its adoption by the S Inte?, became their government, has very clear language and very precise ideas. It makes some pro vision about the non-suspension of the privil ege of the writ of Habeas Corpus, except in case of invasion or insurrection, which would probably control any official who felt any con stitutional obligation, but which of course, is very properly disregarded by one who docs not. In South Carolina it appears that the priv ilege of the writ of Habeas Corpas is still sus. pended. The General in command there,, having been a lawyer and a Democrat once, seems to have had the decency of a doubt about-ignoring the Constitution, and referred the matter to his superior at Washington. Mr. Stanton bad no doubt at all. and directed his subordinate to hold the civil subject to the military, and to refuse obedience to the process of a court. Mr. Stanton ?snot a great favorite of those people who believe in law, but to ono credit he is certainly entitled : he makes no pretences, there are no shams, he is naturally a despot, and he therefore takes as naturally to despotism as a Newfoundland dog to water. The President has now an op portunity of showing whether he really be lieves that there is no longer either a war or an insurrection. If there be, Mr. Stanton is very right ; if thefe be not, he is very wrong ; and the President should set him right at once. There is very hardened state of the cuticle of the public conscience upon the subject of liberty, which is a very bad-symptom. Real ly, men care no more whether the great safe guards of tbe individual are violated either in South Carolina or New York. They have pretty mach lost all belief in anything but strength. It will not do, of course, to expect much change in that respect until that sort ot gambling-table feeling generated in every community by paper money in excess, if chas tened by its explosion. Still, as the Presi dent talks a good deal about the Constitution, let us see if he believes in it.-New York World, 12th inst At the public celebration of the Fourth in New Orleans, Mayor Monroe, in introducing the reader of the Declaration of Independence, took occasion to bay, that " he differed from one expression of opinion in that document, to the effect that all men were created equal. Thejugger could not he considered th' equal of a "whit'i man j and xajt the writer of the declaration, Mr. Jefferson, was a slaveholder, it stood to reason that ie never could have meant to include tbe nigger in ihat assertion," Another Military Murder. The Victoria (Texas) Advocate gives the following particulars of a shameful atrocity that happened in that beautiful little town on the 23d ult: On Wednesday afternoon, 23d ult., Col. Hill and a man named Black were in " "he Smile1' saloon, when an altercation took place between them, resulting in an offensive move ment on the part of Black, with a heavy j stone pitcher, against Col. Hill, who imme diately drew a Derringer pistol and shot [Black. The ball took effect in hisbreist, and he died shortly afterward. I Col. Hill was immediately arrested by Capt Spalding, commander of the po?t, who hap pened to be in the neighborhood, and con ve Ted io jail. fhe 2d Michigan and 18th New York Cavalry were encamped in town, and became very much enraged at the killing of Black whom they claimed as a soldier, but who, in fact, was a citizen, having been mustered oui of the United States service over six mot tb? ago, and had been employed in the duties ot a civilian. At all events, this served as ai excuse for the atrocity afterwards inflicted?. Late in the afternoon, it became known that the soldiers intended to break open th?, prison, takeout Col. Hill and hang him; bm it was supposed that the officers of the r ?gi m en ts would exert their influence to suppress their intended outrage. Unhappily, thej could not or did not control their men, and one of the most brutal deeds took place -hal was ever committed in our State. About dark, the streets appeared to be free of soldiers, and some hope was entertained that the design attributed to them had teen abandoned. Not so, however; for shortly after onr citizens were alarmed by tho yells of the furious wretches, and felt inst i net i rely that Col. Hill's moments were numbered. It proved to be so ; for on going to the spot, it was found tbat they had burst open the jail door, killed Col. Hill with an axe, and after ward hurig his mutilated remains to the ban nisters outside the jail. It is said that Col. Hill, on the door being burst open, jumped into the midst of his enemies, knife in hand, and sold his life dearly. In the short fight, he was struck with an axe in the neck, and thus yielded bis life. Col. Hill was an old and well known citi zen of Texas, and leaves a wife and interest irg family to mourn the sad event which has so suddenly bereaved them of a husband and father. ----? ? ? DISTRICT MONUMENTS.-The accompli med Columbia correspondent of the YorkviHe Enquirer, J, Wood Davidson, says : We have been commanded by a lady to suggest the propriety and expediency of our erecting a monument to the memory of our Confederate dead, in each District of our State. Let there bc a plain shaft of white marble erected in the public square in iront of every Court House, (or in such other pub lic place as circumstances or taste may sug gest as better,) and upon this shaft write the name of every soldior ofthat District who fell in the late war-the name and rank only. As to further record of their deeds, Jet a register be kept for this. It is too soon to erect these memorial shafts just now ; but let the organizations be formed and funds be collected, and the names pre pared, with a view to erecting them t, few years hence. Let committeess he appointed to receive and solicit contributions, and thus keep thc matter before the people until the opportune time comes, as come it will, fer the work itself. Such is the suggestion we are delegated to make.' It comes to us fresh from a woman's heart ; and we feel a thrill of pride us we hand it to our circle of reading friends. We commend it to the hearts of our people, and ti ust that it will also commend itself to t hem. THE SYMPATHIES OF QUEEN VICTORIA Tho sympathies of the Queen of England must be very strangely divided in the contest now being waged in Europe. A Lc udor correspondent writes: "The husband of her eldest daughter commands a division of the Prussian army, in which near relatives of her late husband occupv prominent positions. The husband of her second daughter has a command in the Austrian army. I rince Reek, just married to the Princess Mary of Cambridge, has accepted a command in th? ' Austrian army, and sets out for the seat ot war, with his bride, before the honeymoon is half over. There is scarcely a member ol any royal family in Europe who is not mixed up in this war." In Alabama, thc girls are going off rapidly. The Selma Messenger, after diligent inquiry, reports every young lady in Selma as married or about to be, except one, who ?Bstill halting between two opinions, or rather some hal dozen opinions. Tho marketable material having been exhausted, resource must now be had to tho rising generation, engagements are being rapidly taken ahead, from three years old and upwards. ? - THE WHIPPING POST IN LAGRA>GE.-? Yesterday morning a white man, named Wells, together with several negroes, wen whipped by the Bheriff of this county, Mr. Jarrell Oliver Towns. The white man wa convicted of larceny from a negro, and sen tenced to receive thirty-nine lashes j ester day morning, and twenty-five more on yes terday evening. At the whipping yesterday morning, a Unanimous petition, on tie part of the spectators, wa: to have been sent up to Judge B. C. Ferrell, of the Country Court, to remit the penalty of twenty-five (ashes. At the time of going to press* we do not know whether the .Judge granted tho p?ti tion or not. Since the above was put in type, w<> learn that Judge Farrell has remitted the balance of Well's penalty, and that he has been re leased from Jail. Wells is from Atie nta. La Grange Reporter. -* ? Mrs. Dr. Emily Gibson, a female " physi cian," weighing some two hundred a id fifty pounds, who is at Natchez persuading the negroes that they have snakes in their legs and charging them heavily for getting them out, was brought up before the County Court there the other day and fined tweity-five dollars for obtaining money under false pre tences. The faculty did not gallantly step forward and pay the fine. The Emperor of Austria has just rdopted a military rule which is observed with great advantage- in the French army. Marshal Benedek has been authorized to promote to superior grades, on the field of battle or du ring the campaign, all officers or soldiers who may distinguish themselves. Decorations and other rewards of honor are also to os con ferred upon them. The Emperor reat aros to himself the ratification of the nomination made by the Marshal. _ A workman in a brick manufacturing es tablishment at Columbus, Ohio, was kirked by being drawn in between a drum and a large cog wheel. He waa carried rc und by this wheel and thrown out of an opfniag in the gable end of the second story of the building upon the roof of a shed ac joining. Thence he rolled down into a gutter below. His body was horribly mangled and crushed. A Louisiana paper says that in that State horse stealing is managed as follows: Thc owner of a horse makes a bargain with a thief to take the horse to Iberville cr Bator Rouge and sell him, The thief bringa thc owner' half the money ?nd tells the name ol the purchaser. Then the. owner goal and ie daims tbe boree aa having been stol* a* " Repudiation is the Wat ch wa rd " From the following extract from a letter to the N. Y. Day Book, dated Mount Pleas ant, Iowa, it ia evident that tho people of the great North-West are growing restless ander be heavy taxes of the hut few yean, and are determined to resist the same by striking s blow in favor of Repudiation of the National debt,-the only effectual remedy for thc ex cessive taxation exacted from the people by the U. S. Government. " But there ia going to be a new revenue question raised during the coming season, and there is on foot a plan to test the validt* ty of the law by which we are taxed-not merely the details of the law. not merely the unfairness of the system which imposes u se vere tarifffor the protection of everytiiing manufactured in the East, and the imposi ion t?t enormous excises upon everything pro ducid in the Weat, but. a stroke will be aiujtd at the very root of the whole system. A question will go before the Supreme- Cc.urt ol the United States, challenging tho right of each a body as this disintegrated Co.: gre<-8 to levy taxes to bind anybody, and the consequent repudiation of the whole debt. This question will be raised. It will not t>e a party question, but a question which snail -hake all parties to their very foundation-a bold stroke for emancipation. If twenty S at S can legislate for the changing of laws and l o rn odeling of constitutions for thirty-four Stales until the fourteen a reout of the Union, and thin keep them out, then eleven States may change constitutions and|lawa for the remaining twen ty, and serve them in like manner, and tei ri. o ri . alize the nine, so may the remaining six ter ritorialize "he five, then three exclude I be two, and then two exclude the one, until lit tle Rhode Island and Massachusetts may give I a wa to the country, and little Sprague ?nd Booby Sumner give word laws and dictate revenues to all America. There is a wide spread feeling among western men, demo crats, radicals, conservatives, and negro--, that this great debt ought not to have bc ea made at all-that taxation was the mode to j carry on the war, and the measure of the peo ple's will to carry it on, and the war oug'it not to have outlived the taxation which could support it, if he had been right in itself. Kv* . body believes that these bonds can be pa i. Now, the Secretary of the Treasury says that nothing less than the most oppressive taxa tion will satisfy the bondholders. Mr. Secre tary, verily, verily I say unto you, that notii ing less than repudiation will satisfy the la borers of the country. No constitutional en actments can pay the debt. Legislation can't j pay the debt. The properly of the country ? can't pay the debt. The mortgaged labor of the country for a century can't pay the debt in any event. The silly, wicked policy of the Secretary of tho Treasury is increasing the value of bonds, withdrawing capital from le gitimate business, wenkeuing the revenue, and I paralyzing industry, and hastening repudia tion by the worst of all causes, because it can't be paid. Teat oaths may bo euforced for a time, until Americans perjure them selves with the same alacrity .and ind i fier ence shown by the Florentines to escape tor ture. Military commissions moy play the tyrant by force, until the civil liberty of the country is lost in the labyrinths of public de gradation ; but the debt never can be paid ; there is not property enough in the country to pay it, if sold at auction to the capital ot the world. . " The spirit and purpose of the great body of independent men in the West is fur repu diation. Now, Messrs Editors, I propose, in my next article, to give you a general p an for repadiation, and the organization of Fi ce Trade, Anti Stamp, Anti-Tariff. State Rights Societies, to be established openly everywhere. On taking this bold course, let it be eut mm* raelcd by no party action, Democratic or Republican, or that most villainous of ail the trimmers, Conservative. The men who-lead these parties are, for the most part, a mon strous combination of mercenary, ignorant, conceited men, aspiring to be great upmi tho smallest capital that ever undertook to man age civil government anywhere, of far less ability than is represented on the stage, or in any other department of the busiusss of tho country. The leading speakers of the Cooper Insti tute for a whole season, including Beecher, John Van Buren, with all of the politicians, do not represent rrore ability ?han can be found among the auctioneers or hotel runuera of any first class city in the country. These are not the men to trust with our liberty. We repeat, with broken spirits " Our soul is beset with grief and dismay ; We owe a vast debt, and have nothing to pay. We must go to priaon, unies.; our dear I?urd, Who hath died and hath risen, Ills pity afford." " Every other debt of the country ba- been repudiated by Congress, even to thoscldiers'j io must this one be repudiated. Lc tile South be content. Let them vote .< .1 uo amendments to the Constitution. Le' ihana raise only what cotton they need for tiion aelves. Let them raise all they need cf .-ve ry necesnary of life, and buy nothing ex :opt what tLey need, and starve the North lor su gar and rice, as we have starved them by burning up theircountry and despoiling thura. Let them commence sending tho negroes North among their friend?, and get IrUbmva, Poles, Dungaricaa and other White ro?u tot' such ?vork as is absolutely necessary, i'icld in nothing. I am frank to say that it is bet ter for the South that Congress do not admit the wish washy, shilly-shally men who am now elected, simply because honest men did not dare vote. Let them elect their Lees, their Davises, their Wises, men of mind, men ol their own choice, which is the only thing worth calling an elepticn ; and until then, >et the South raise nothing for tribute; in tho meantime, let the people be duly enlightened upon the subject of repudiation, North, Sout h, East and West The history of all such debts is the same ; the subterfuges are the sat'.o ; the winding up is the same. Six months be fore John Law's great bubble exploded. Lits bonds were but slightly below par, but the bubble burst. Robespierre and Mira -au were abler men than Stevens and Sun, r, but assignats and mardats failed. One iva? son why we cannot trust our organization to political parties is this: These parties are made up of mon who want to gb to Congress, to the Senate-to be judges, constables and justices of tho peace. They don't want to build up parties on principle ; they want rather to ride the parties down already built np. But we want to establish this as a pre cedent : That a debt contracted to destroy our Government shall never be paid-that a debt which enslaves us shall not be used by capital to mortgage all the coming genera tions of labor to their use-that usurers, ex tortioners and brokers cannot safely speculate upon the public liberty. I wish all of the readers of your paper who sympathize with the movement, to write for The Day-Book their views, and organize openly, frankly for that purpose. One day's resumption of specie payment will blow the currency into thc air, and a general move for repudiation will fend the bonds sky high. Remember, Mr. reader* that you have more to fear from the tender footed Democrat, who talks gingerly about the bonds, than you have front the bloated . Abolitionist, Who has grown iull from bis gluttony of plunder. Repudiation is the ? watchword." i AH OLD BEAM.-Upon a beam of one of i the honses recently pulled down near No tra' : > Dame, Paris, the following inscription .waar f found cut in the wood: I was placed hire in . the year 1450, and wu six hundred jtare old when they took me from the forest"