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; fi $ ? iinH^,ihiMW?u,?ll>i1,ii('t.''(.,?i<ti.|i,l,|1'si,i<t?,i'i1n,i'(l'l4|i(|ithi<,i'?t'i.i,i."illi?.11 " BT D?RISOE, REESE & CO. .,.^>.tNjnimiiirii*Tif*ii*'r" **"** *"***-J*****-J*"******"****."*.?!**M*tHMHiH?i?iHrt?nii?mrfw* EDGEFIELD, S. C., AUGUST I, 1866. . M|,l1,^.Mlt^<l.l*..n?**u,",,,,',**l'."MM."*'"*">'"",,*,,*',u,,,,",,,,',""", VOLUME XXXL--IO? 31. I _"?:?fi_ _?j :"_A f"ntr nno- I From thc Macon Journal & Mcieingcr. Professional Card. HW. ADDISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW . and SOLICITOR IN EQUITY for Edge field and adjacent Districts. Edgefield, S. C., May 22 4m 22 JOHN E. BACON. ~~M. C. BUTLER. BACON & BUTLER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND SOLICITORS iN EQUITY, EDGEFIELD, S. C., Will Practice in the Courts of this State, and in Augusta, Georgia. Jan 30 lm 5 J. L. ADDISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICI TOR IN EQUITY, EDGEFIELD C. H" S. C., Office in Law Rango. May 22, tf M. L. BONHAM, Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Equity, E D G E FIE L D, S. C. Office formerly occupied by EMMET SEIBELS, Esq. Jan 29 tf Dentristy. DR. J. B. COURTNEY respectfully in. forms his old friends and tho public general ly that he is prepared to do all work in the DENTAL LINE, ju the best manner, and on short notice. He will wait on parties at their residence when requested to do so. Letters ad dressed him at Edgefield C. H., or at Granite viWo, will re?oive prompt attention. May 22 3 Vm* 21 For Sheriff. Tho Friends of Capt A. P. WEST respectful ly announce him as a Candidate for Sheriff of Edgefield at tho nest election. NOT 7 te? 45 ^sy* We have beon authorised by the Friends of Capt. H. BOULWARE to announce him a Candidate for Sheriff of Edgefield District at thc next election. Apr 12 te* 16 For Tax Collector. The Many Friends of D. A. J. BELL, Esq., respectfully nominate him as a Candidate foi Tax Collector at the next cloction. Oct IS to 43 Y or Tax Collector. THE many Friends ol Capt. JAMES MITCH ELL respectfully nominate him as a Candidate for TAX COLLECTOR at the next election. SALUDA. Dec ? te? 50 CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY, EDGEFIELD, S. C. THE Subscibers respectfully announce that they are now prepared to do all work in the COACH MAKING and REPAIRING BUSI NESS that may bo entrusted to them, in a work manlike manner, and with neatness and dispatch. We have on hand a fow CARRIAGES and su perior BUGGIES, of our own manufacture, which we will sell low. All kinds of REPAIRING done promptly and warranted to give satisfaction. ^-As we sell ONLY FOR CASH, our prices aro unusually reasonable. All we ask is a trial. SltlITH ?fc JONES. Mar 7_tf_10 FISK'S PATENT METALLIC BURIAL CASES .A.INTO CASKETS! THE Subscriber has just received an assort ment of these beautiful Rosewood finish METALLIC BURIAL CASES and CASKETS Air-tight and indestructible-for protecting and preserving the Dead-which ho will sell at but a moderate advance on original cost and transporta tion. Wherever introduced these Cases have the proference over all others. ty Orders promptly filled. Terms, of course, strictly Cash. J. M. WITT. Edgefield. Mar 1? tf ll I. N. TEAGUE, -EDGEFIELD, S. C HAS leased the Whitaker Stables for the pur poso of conducting a general SALE AND LIVERY STABLE BUSINESS. HORSES left in his charge will receive the best attention. BUGGIES, CARRIAGES and HACKS, and good gentle HORSflS, to hire whenever called for. DROVERS will find ample accommodation at my Stables. tST Term3 reasonable. Feb 14 tf 7 UNDERWRITER'S AGENCY, THE Subscriber haring been appointed Agent of the GERMANIA, HANOVER, NIAGARA & REPUBLIC FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES Of New York.-the aggregate Cash Assetts of which is NEAR THREE MILLIONS OF DOL LARS-is prepared to take risks against loss or damago by Firo on liberal terms. Z. W. CARWILfi, Agent Feb 13_ tf 7 ~~ SP E CT A0LE S For Old and Young IH WE on hand a large and choice variety of SPECTACLES, including Patent Pexe3Copic LENS and ecnuine Scotch PEBBLES. Aho, ?YE GLASSES, EYE PROTECTORS, 4c. Give me a call. I can suit your Eyes. D. F. MCEWEN. Oct 31_tf _ To the Public. DF. McEWEN, having received a COM . PLETH ASSORMBNT OF WATCH MATERIALS, would respectfully inform his frieudB and the publio generally that be is now prepared to exocuto, with dispatch, all work in the Watch Repairing Department. {^"A!l work done by bim will be warranted. All styles of HAIR WORK and SOLID GOLD JEWELRY made to order. TERMS CASH. No work will be allowed to leave the Shop until paid for. O :t 31 _tf_44_ Just Received, ONE CASE GENUINE CONGRESS WATER. For salo by TEAGUE & CARW?LE. May 23 tf 21 D Just Received, RAKE'S PLANTATION BITTERS; RUSS' ST. DO MINO O BITTERS; GREEN'S OXYGENATED BITTERS, For sala low by TSAGTJB ? CABWLLJ?. ?vs tf a The Mother's First Grie She sita beside the cradle, And ber tears are streaming fast Por she seos tho present only, While she thinks of all tho past Of the days so full of gladness, When her first-born's answering k Thrilled her soul with such a rapta; That it knew no other bliss, j 0 those happy, happy moments, They bat deepen her despair ! For she bends above the cradle, And her baby is not there. There are words of comfort spoken, And the leaden clouds of grief Wear the smiling bow ef promise, And she feels a sad rolief ; But her wavering thoughts will wan Till thiiv settle on the scene Of tho dark and silent chamber And of all that might have been ; For a lillie vacant garment, Or a shining tress of hau*, Tells her heart, in tones of anguish, That her baby is not there. She sits besido the cradle, But her tears no longer flow; For she sees a blossed vision, And forgets all earthly woe. Saintly eyes look down upon her, And the voice that hushed the sea Stills her spirit with a whisper " Safer them to come to me." And while her soul is lifted On the soaring wings of prayer, Heaven's crystal gatos swing inward, And she sees her baby there. ? . ? - TUE OLD CARTMAN. A TRUE 6T0RY. I have a mind to tell a little story, it is brief may be seen at a glance, an it is true I most emphatically avow, reader despises it because of the first, editor rejects it for the reason of the then will I eschew truth in the future devote my self to fhe elaboration of lie chapters, and the purest fictions into vo of seventeen hundred pages each. With this understanding I proceed al to remark that five years ago, or there-al John Ainsley-or Pap Ainsley," as b familarly called-was the owner of a I cart and earned a living by conveying cellaneousjpurcels from one section to anc and receiving therefor the reasonable r neration of fifty cents per load. To designate the occupation in the pn language possible, he was a hand-cart ani when not employed, could alwuv found during working hours at the et of Montgomery and California streets. His hair and long beard were quite and bis limbs feeble ; and if he could shove as heavy a load through the deep or up the steep grade above him as tho wart Teuton on the opposite corner, the losing many a dollar, all the light loads it neighborhood fell to his lot, and kind-hoa men not uufrequently travelled a square two out of their way to give an easy jo " Pap Ainsley." Four years last September, (I recollect mont J, for I had a note of four thous dollars to pay, and was compelled l o some pretty sharp financiering to meet having two or three dozen volumes of bo to transfer to my lodging, I gave M Pap A lev" the task of transportation. Arriviog at my room just as he depos tho last armful on the table, observing I thc old man looked considerably fatigued, ter climbing three flights of stairs fire or limes, I invited him to take a glass of bra -a bottle of which I usually kept in m r rc for medicinal and soporific purpose.*:, though grateful for the invitation, he polit declined. I urged, but he was inflexible, was greatly astonished. " Do you never drink ?" said I. " Very seldom," he replied, dropping i a chair at my request, and wiping the p spirntion from off his forehead. " Well, if you drink at all," I insisted,t; j will not find in the nextsix months so fair excuse for indulging, for you seem fatigt and scarcely able to stand." " To be frank," said tho oldman, "I not drink any now. I have not tasted int ?eating liquor for fifteen years-since' since-11 41 Since when ?" I asked, thoughtle?sly, < serving his hesitation. The old man told me that sixtee;:i yes ago he was a well to-do farmer near Syracu N. Y. He had but one child-a jitught While attending a boarding-school in th city, the girl, then but sixteen years of a? formed an attachment for a young physicis Acquainting her father with the circu? stauces, he flatly refused his consen. to h union with a man he had never seen, and r moving her from school, dispatched a no to the young gallant, with the somewh pointed information that bis-presence in tl neighborhood of the Ashley farm would n meet with favor. The reader of course surmises the resu for such a proceeding could and can have b ene result. In less than a month there was au elop ment. The father loaded his doul.ile-barr shot gun, and swore vengeance ; but, failic to lind the fugitives, he took to the bottl His good wife told him not to despair, but i drank the deeper and accused her of encoui agiDg the elopement. In three months the wife died, and at th expiration of a year the young coup e retun ed to Syracuse from Connecticut, where the learned that the old man, after the death < his wife, of which they had been apprisec had sold his farm, squandered the proceed; and was almost destitute. Learnin j of thci arrival, Ainsley drank himself infra phren zy, and proceeded to the hotel where the were stopping, attacked the husband, wound ed him iu the arm with a pistol shot, an< then attempted the life of his daughter, whi happily escaped uninjured through the inter position of persons brought to tho spot by thi report of the pistol. Ainsley was arrested tried, and acquitted on the plea ol' insanity The daughter and her husband returned t< Connecticut, since which time the father hnc not heard from them. He was sect to a lun atic asylum, from which he was dismissed af ter remaining six months. In I8(il he came to California. He had followed mining foi two years, but finding his strength unequal to the pursuit, returned to this city, purchas ed a hand-cart, and-thp rest is known, f! Since then," concluded the old man, bow ing his face in agony, " Nor have I seen my child." I regretted that I had been so in quisitive, and expressed to the sufferer the sympathy I really felt him. A'iter that I seldom passed the corner without looking for f Pap Ainsley," and never saw him but to think of the sad story he had tdd mo. One chilly, drizzling day in the December following, a gentleman Laving purchased a small marble-top table at an auction room opposite, proffered the old man the job of con veying it to his residence on Stockton street. Not wishing to accompany the carrier, he had selected the face prpbahly giving the best assurance of the careful del.very of the purchase. Furnished with the number ol' the house, the old car tm an, after a pretty trying strug gle with the steep descent of California street, reached his destination, and deposited the teblt ia the fea?, lagaiBg a rn? icc?, the Ja dy did not seem to surmise the reason, until he politely informed her that her husband (for such he took him to be) had probably by accident neglected to settle for the car tage. - " Very weH, I will pay you," said the lady stepping into an adjoining room. Sho re turned, and stating that .che had no smaller coin in the house, handed the old mau a twenty dollar gold piece. He could not make the change. " Never mind-I will call to-morrow," said he turning to go. " No, no !" replied the lady glancing pity ingly at his white locks and trembling limbs ; u Twill not permit you to put youraolf to so I much troable," and she handed the coin to Bridget, with instructions to see if she could get it changed at one of the stores or in some of the markets in the neighborhood. " Step into the parlor until the girl returns, the air is chilly and you must bi cold," con tinued the lady very kindly. " Come," she added, as he looked at his rough attire and hesitated." " There is a good fire in the grate, and no one there but the children." " It is-somewhat chilly," replied the old mao, following her intothe parlor and taking a seat near the fire. "Perhaps I may find some silver in the house," said the lady, leaving the room, " for I fear Bridget will not succeed in getting the twenty dellar gold piece changed." " Come here, little one," said the old man, coaxingly, to the younger of two children ; a girl about six years of age. " Come, I love . little children ;" and the little child who had been watching him with curiosity from behind the large arm-chair, hesitatingly approached. " What is your name, dear," enquired the oartman. " Maria," lisped the little one. " Maria," he repeated, with the great tears gathering in his eyes. "lonee had a little girl named Maria, and you look very much as she did." " Did you ?" enquired the child with in terest; "and was her name Maria Eastman, too?" "Merciful God I" exclaimed the old man, starting from his chair, ana again dropping into it with his head bowed upon his breast. " This cannot be ! and yet why not ?" Ile caught, the chiid in his arms with an eager tess that frightened her, and gazing into her face until he saw conviction there, suddenly rose to leave the House." I canno" meet her without betraying myself, and 1 dare not tell her that I am that drunken lather who once attempted to take her life, and perhaps left her husband a cripple," he groaned, as he hurried toward the door. The little ones were bewildered. " You are not going?" said the mother, at that time re appearing and discovering the old man in the act of passing into the hall. He stopped and partly turned his face, but seemed to lack resolution to do aught else. " He said he had a little Maria once, that looked just like me, mother," shouted the child, her eyes sparkling with delight. The knees of the old cartman trembled, and he learned against the door for support. The lady sprang toward him, and, taking him by the arm, attempted to conduct him lo a chair. "No, no 1" he exclaimed, "Dot until you tell rae I am forgiven." "Forgiven?-for what?" replied the moth er in alarm. " Recognize in me yoflr wretched father, and I need not tell you," be faltered. '.My poor father!" she cried, throwing her arms around his neck; "all is forgiven -all is forgotten." All was forgiven, and the husband, when he returned late in the afternoon, was scarce ly less rejoiced than his good wife at the dis covery. Whether or not Bridget succeeded in chang ing the double eagle ? never learned ; but this I do know-it took the honest female all of I two months to unravel the koot in which the domestic affairs of the family had tied them selves during her absence. Pap Ainsley still keeps bis cart, for money would not induce him to part with it. I peeped into the backyard of Dr. Eastman one day ls?t week and discovered the old man dragging the favorite vehicle round the en closure with his four grandchildren piled pro miscuously into it. THE BiNKR?rr BILI?.-In the Senate Mr. Poland reported, from the Judiciary Com mittee, tho House bankrupt bill, with several amendments. The third section, which gave the appointment of registers to the judges of the several circuit courts upon thc nomina tion of the Chief Justice of thc Supreme Court of thc United States, is amended by ?iving the appointments to the district judges, ?md striking out the nomination by tho Chief | Justice. The tenth section, which required the Chief j Justice of the Supreme Court, with five com missioners to be appointed by him, to prepare general orders for regulating practice under the law, is amended by requiring the Chief | Justice and two associate Judges to make rules. Tho fourteenth section, which, in addition to other property exempted from the opera tion of the law, exempted all property exempt ed by the laws of the several States from atr tachment and execution in the year 1864, is amended by striking out the exemption under State laws, thus ignoring tho State homestead acts, that the law may be uniform throughout the country, as provided by t.?9 Constitution. The thirty-fourth section; which gave credi tors two years to apply to the court to have a ba?jkruptV discharge annulled for fraud, is amended so that the time will be ono year. Tho i'.tuendment which ignores the home stead exemption laws of thc respective States will, doubtless, give rise to some discussion, i cing unacceptable to ti e members from the West and the Pacific States. J5?ST H it was a striking example of polite ness ia Charles tho Second, when, ou his deathbed, ho begged pardon of Cha oompany in attendance " for being finch an unconscion ably long time in dying," scarcely less re markable on the part of a gentleman who, at the funeral of his baby, apologized to the audience for presenting io small a coffin to so large an assembly. That man was a gen tleman, you may be sure. J?3T Red River papers re?ord two more ?nurders by Dcgroes. Having made an ap peal to the commanding geueral, which prov ed ineffectual, the citizens have called a meet ing for self-protection in which they state that ander the present condition of affairs neither life nor property is safe. Romero, the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Juarez or Liberal Government of Mexico, as serts that ho has positive information that Napoleon, in spite of all his assurances to the contrary, is still sending troops into Mexico. jfcZiT A New Hampshire man, having lost his wife, caused a stone to bo raised over her grave, upon which, in the depth of his grief, he had ordered to be inscribed : " Tears can not restore her ; therefore I weep." ?3T A learned Doctor of Divinity says in the Christian Inquirer: "Tho waltz is so ciety made ideal ; it is a mau and woman set to music, and moving in the sphere of beau tiful art." NAUGHTY FELLOW.- A peddler, at Cedar Falls, Iowa, assumed female apparel, and went round selling the ladies corsets and auch things, fitting them, and so forth. The ladies did not learn that he was a maa till he waa goac The Federal Soldier's Soliloquy. I "We find the following in the La Crosse (Wis.) Democrat: \ Good bye, blae ruin I Go into the tab into the rag-bag, anywhere out of my sight. For three years I wore those bine duds, and now, thank God, they are off, and .once more I am in command of myself. What the devil did I go to war for ? That's the question. What did I eat hard tack drink commissary whiskey-carry a mule's load-sleep in the mud-suffer in hospital and lose this limb for 1 Who knows '? I enlisted to save the Union. I went to war to put down the rebellion. I fought to punish the traitors. I killed the people to restore the harmony of things. I went to war because that was in old times the way to patriotism. And what was there gained ? I had thir teen dollars a month. I rode shank's mare from Bull Run to Red River almost for noth ing. I fought to keep this Union whole, and now, when the war is ended, I am told that fighting divided, and that legislation alone can restore the Union ? Then why in thun der must I lose three years of time and a limb if all this work must be done by Con gress ? Why were a million of us killed by drunken, thieving, cotton stealing, silver ware bunting, conceited upstart, political gen erals, who went up like rockets and came down ?ike sticks, if Congress can or could restore the Union by Legislation ? I wer' to war in good faith. I fought a score of times, and the more I fought and the less I stole, the slower came promotion. * I helped tomake a dozeq generals, fifty col onels and a hundred officers rich. I have lagged many a piano, rosewood bed stead, marble-top table, cabinet of books, mahogony sofa and such stuff of Southern bornes to be sent North for the use of my superior officer, and the adornment of his home in the North. This was the big dart for putting down the rebellion. And I went to war for jess wages than I could have earned at home. And my wi/ was often starving while I was away. Ana my cLldrcn became ragged and dirty-my farm ran tu weed3-my shop ran down-my !-"?ols were stolen or lost-my place is filled by another-I came home h cripple, filled with disease, and am now looked upun by the same men who wanted meto goto war, much as people look upon somo dead beat who has gone through them f'r alftheir spare change. And the abolitionists who fought to take care of soldiers-the abolitionists who told us that the Democrats wanted the union dis s lved-the abolitionists who said tho Demo crats were traitors-the abolitionists who staid at home and dared not fight except in tho form of a mob, in the attack of some de fenceless Democrat, now tell us that Thc war did not restore the Union. The war was therefore a failure. The white men of the North were no match fur the white men of the South. The war would have ended in a defeat fur the North but for the niggers. That is what abolitionists tell us. Reckon they will have a good tide getting us return ed soldiers engaged in another crusade for cotton, niggers, mules and stolen plunder, taken ly force of the bayonet- from women and children. It seems to me as if the late war was a gag -a humbug-a wicked, treasonable unconsti tutional gag. It did not restore tho Union, but it made a pile of abolitionists and war Democrats rich. It never prevented secession, but left this Union in the shape we did not find it in. It never bettered any one, North or South, except thieving soldiers, army chaplains, ?wlf??liiig contractors, drunken officers, in competent generals and other such peta of the late admiuistration. It didn't help the white people. lt didn't help the niggers. It impoverished half of the Union. It didn't make the South friendly to North ern ideas, interests or people. It piled a big debt upon us and took from us two-thirds of our means to pay it. And now I am back from the war to find that I must pay the mo^t exorbitant laxes and to find that old Grudgings, a mean nar row-minded, stay-at-home Cuward, is rich, with a safe full of U. S..bonds, for which I must work the balance of my life out to pay interest on, while bo escapes taxation and lives in idleness. I had a hundred dollars bounty to go to ?ar. Now I come home to find the town, county, city and State in debt for the money I had-thc wealth of the coun try is in bonds-the school houses in ruins the court houses ?tc, in ruins-the bonds and their interest to be paid besides all the other taxes, and thc holders of bonds living in luxurious idleness, ith large income, and not one cent of tax to pay anybody or for any purpose. lt was bad enough to fight for such cow ards. It was bad enough to have it said we could not have whipped thc South wilhout the aid of these high flavored negro troops who are now to bc called our equals. It is bad enough to have enormous taxes to pay to repair the damages time and war have wrought. But it's worse thau all to have to pay six hundred million dollars a year of interest to the men who hold bonds exempt from taxation-in other words, to go to war, and then come home and pay our selves for being shot at, wounded and killed. Abolitionism don't pay. Now I'm as good a man as any of them. No man has a right now to lord it over me. I wear no badge of servi tude, advertising that I am a fit subject for shoulder-straps, dams, cutts, kicks, guard houses, ic. I uni a returned soldier-u poor man who must work or starve. 1 love my country. I'm a bettet- patriot than tho man who makes the poor mau to pay taxes and interest on the bonds exempt from taxation, and I say it boldly that the next time I shoulder a musket it will be for equal taxa Mon, equal rights and a free country: I don't \ like the idea uf repudiation, but if the Gov- j eminent don't tax her bonds, may I bo bang ed if I cvor pay a cent of taxes, for my crip pled limb is a better and more honorable bond than the Government ever issued. If all are taxable alike, it is well. If not, its repudiate, or another fight. 4 man named Darius Hyatt, livjng in Franklin couuty, Missouri, on tho 11th in stant, cut his wife's throat with a bulcher knife, killing her instantly. He threw bis money, $6000 in greenbacks, in the fire, and burned it np, and then sovercd the arteries in both of his wrists. A small grandchild was in the bouse at the time, and summoned the neighbors. It is doubtful if he recovers. He and bis wife were 70 years old ewb, and had been married nearly half a century. Ill li eal th, consequent on diptheria, is supposed to have rendered him insane, and caused him to commit the deed. A late number of the Catholic World says : "Nowhere has the Catholic Church increased so prosperously, within tho last fifty years, as in the United States of America. About 2000 churches and chapels built ; an increase of 1800 clergymen ; 160 schools established for the Catholic training, of 18,000 boys and 34,000 girls. Moreover, there existed, in 1857, sixty-six asylums, with 40(^8 orphans of both sexes; twenty-six hospitals, with 3000 beds; four insane asylums, besides many other charitable institutions, all supported by thc private charity of Catholic*/' Tue normern nacvivui We find in the New York Times, day last, a very remarkable letter : editor, Hon. H. J. Raymond, dated ' ton, July 15. The revelation which of a deliberate purpose to resort io the Radicals, if necessary to maints supremacy in the Government, is m ent from what has been long believed and what the speeches of Boutwell errs in thc late caucus sufficiently < bat the allegation has not before appi such competent and responsible authoi Raymond also discloses the fact that i of preparation for tte* premeditated c has already been commenced ; and he the country that under the operado previous questions, and without other < tiona than had been given to the fai private and confidential conversations, lution has passed the House for disarn Federal Government, organizing the of the Radical States and distributing them two-thirds of the arms, ordnai ammunition belonging to the country preparation for war was made with secrecy and celerity of a 6tolen march haps these developments may serve to General Shrman's recent declaration bigger fight was approaching than a have yet passed through. The follow tracts from Mr. Raymond's letter will 1 with interest : You may have noticed the passage House, a few days since, of a resolutio; ed by General Paine, of Wisconsin, on the States to organize, disciplit equip their militia, and directing tba thirds of the arms, ordnance and am nu now under custody of tho General G ment be distributed amoug the States, t tribution among the loyal States to tak< immediately, and that among the Stats ly in rebellion to bo postponed until f orders. Tho resolution came up fror Committee on Military Affair* and was ed to a vote, without debate or delay, the previous question. It attracted a> attention in Congress as it has in thc try, and the public will doubtless receivi incredulity the assurance that it was i ded, by those who secured its passage, i first step toward preparation for anotha war. Although no debate was had nj members wore urged to vote for it by i conversational appeals on the floor < part of tho few who were privv to its ductioD. Some were told that it was j sary to enable the Southern loyalists ti tect themselves ; others that it was sin matter of detail in the War Department era that the arms must be taken ont o hands of the President ; aud others tl was proposed at tho instance of the Seer of war. An appeal was made hy Mr. Ka ot Iowa, to allow debate upon it, as it s ed to be a matter of importance, but this refused. Most of the leading and reflecting Rai in Congress take this view of the politic: fure : If tho fall elections reRultin the cl of Northern Democrats enough to consti when added to the members from the Si ern States, a majority of the House, the; same that thin majority, thus constiti will claim to be the Congress, and will accordingly, and that they will be recogr by the President as the body to whict will send his message, and whose session will, if the necessity should arise, protcc military force. They assort, on the o hand, that the Union members from tho al States-if they constitute a majority I those States-will claim to be the only 1 Congress, and will, if necessary, inybko insurrection of the people to maintain ti in that position. They do not in the 1 conceal their purpose, in thc event of sm collision, to appeal to force,anil to "drive rival Congress, with the President and Cabinet and supporters, into thu Potomi to use the language of the nbiust and n sincere of their number. If you will re thu remarks of Mr. Boutwell, of Massae setts, in iast week's first caucus you will ihis movement clearly foreshadowed-ind avowed. Ile declared his belief that an is of loree was rapidly approaching, and that must be prepared to meet it. He acts, i all who co operates with him in these m sures p.ofisr. to act, uaJcr the apprcbensi that the President intends to resort to fol -that he means to disperse thc present Cc gross on iis reassembling in December, if re usos to admit the Southern members ; a Mr. Faruaworth ascribed to Mr. Seward t declaration that this Congress should neu re-assemb!o unless the Southern membi were admitted-in support of this belief, need scarcely say that Mr. Seward never ma any remark of thc kiud. nor that the proje ascribed to the President is purely an inve tiou, or at best the crazy dream of a politic nightmare. But in either case it serves tl same purpose. It covers and is held to ju t i fy the determinatiou to arouse the Nort and prepare for a resort to force upon the a serubliug of the Fortieth Congress in e?ti or in regular session j and this detcrminatic ia avowed. And the resolution to which have referred lor an organization of the mil tia aud a distribution of arms in tho Norther States is thc initial step to its execution. I do not propose to corn,ment upon the rt suit of such'a movement, lt is obvious thu if any such contingency should ?rise, the wa would net bo sectional, as was the last; i would be a wac of political paitiea and neigh burhoods. Not only have the groat body 0 the Union party in Congress no sympath; with these views ar.d purposes, but they an in the main ignorant and incredulous ot Ihei existence. That the extreme Radicals enter taia them, however, there is not the sligh test doubt, aud we know, from tho experifiuci of secession in Icol, how few men it some times requires to plunge a great party o?- z great nation into war. * ?. * ?* * ? Thc Union party must hot forget that thc Philadelphia Couventiou is doe entirely 10 itt own failure to comprehend ?iud meet tho n? ce;;si*.ies of the Lour. When the war was over and tho rebellion auppresied a pow/jrfhl public sentiment, pervading all parties, de manded tho prompt restoration of nar,io: il action under the Constitution and iu accord ance with t! ? fundamental principles of the Government. If the Uniou party had respon ded to ihat sentiment, which was very pow erful in ranks-if it had co operated with the President, who did comprehend and sympath ize with it-and had made the restoration of union, poaco and concord the first object of its endeavors, it would have broadened its own foundations and left neither motive nor exense for any such movement as that which is now on foot. If Congress had, two months ago, admitted to their seats loyal members from Southern States, who could take tho oath prescribed by law-in other words, if they had admitted the members from Tennes see and Arkansas, thc only States which have sent such men, the Philadelphia Convention would never have been heard of. Unfortu nately tho Union party, contrary to the judg ment of very many of its own members, sur rendered itself to the guidance of men with whom other things were more important than tho peace and harmony of the country. It followed the lead of men who insisted upon "reconstructing" the Government from its foundations, instead of restoring the Union whrth the rebellion had for tho time destroy ed, and repairing the breaches which the war had made. Itlistenod to tales of the provinces it had conquered, the new rights it had ac quired, the'absolute, unchecked'power it now enjoyed; and while it was indulging its dreams of subjugation, of confiscation, of amversal suffrage and the elevation of the negro race. *MO ciic;ji_> i[uitu_, aic^Licu lu auu iuva session of the stronghold of the Union and Constitution, where all ita victories had been won, but which for-the moment it seems to bave deserted. These defaults of its own have given the Philadelphia Convention a degree of strength which it is not wise for the leaders of the j Union party to ignore or underrate. By jn . dicions counsels at the outset they might have prevented it ; at a later stage they might have controlled it ; it is not yet toolateto save themselves from being rained by it. But they will make a fatal mistake if they con tent themselves with ignoring or denouncing it. If it should happen to be under the guid ance of wise and patriotic counsels-if the Southern delegates who may participate in its deliberations should proffer.in their words and their action, unmistakable evidence ot the sincerity with which they accept the ad verse result of the war they waged, and of ?heir readiness to adapt their laws, their hab its and their whole political action to thf necessities which that result has created-if the Northern Democrats, who share its ac tion, should cat loose from the men and thu measures which made them so justly obnoxi - ous to public censure during the wat, and should pledge themselves to the honor of thi nation and to a liberal policy, worthy alike of its history and its destiny-if the platform of principles which the Convention may adopr, and the action it may recommend shall prove > thus responsive to the Qn?argW and lofty as pirations of the national heart, it may fcc j found that no party organization, however j compact it may seem to be, and however strongly fortified by tiie memory of past ser vices. can withstand ita influence upon the sentiments and the action of the great body of the American people. It is a mistake w deem a party organization so'id and unas satiable mon ly bccatise'it looks so. A politi za! party, like thc ice of a frozen lake, melts away* from ueuealL, and while at evening its surface uiuy seem to be perfectly solid and uutouched by rift or seam, the.breeze of a sin gle nigh; may perfect the work which weeics of silent, unseen decay have been preparing. Doubts aa to the continued necessity or use fulness of a party never begin with its lead ers or active workers, but always with tijc silent masses v/ho merely watch and think while others act, and whose action, in a sea son of commotion, can never be predicted t-.vo weeks ahead. Nor must-it be forgotten that thc position of the Union party to-day is ene which it has never held before. The issues to which it will stand committed are new to its organization and to the public mind. The people have never yet been called to vets upon them, and while they may seem to their zealous advocates and authors to be very strong, others may prove to be still stronger than they. The Italian army suffered a sad reverse tho other day because, trusting in the good ness of its cause, it marched boldly upon for tresses whose strength it. despised. The Un ion party will consult its own safety and the good of tho country, by not throwing itself against the Philadelphia Convention until k knows a little more of the nature and strength of its armament. -? -V- ? From thc Anglo American Times, Mag 2\ih. Emigration to Urazil,--Discouraging Letter from Prof. Agassiz. AT SKA, 27th March, IS 66, J OFF TUE ISLAND OF GAIVOTAS, j . My Dear Friend: At last I lind a moment to answer 3'our inquiries regarding foreign emigration to Brazil. Before entering upo;: such details as 1 deem necessary for thc clear explanation of my views on the subject, allow ;no to make some reflections upon emigration in general, and to point out certain distinc tions, essential, as it seems to me, to a just appreciation of thc question. In this day emigration is not what it was twenty years ago. Then tho emigrant was generally a po litical refugee, flying, him and his, frota a more or less oppressive civil persecution. What he sought was a safe asylum and pro tection. His country was still the land where he was born. To-day, emigration is inore voluntary and more deliberate. The emigrant generally leaves his home in order to ameli orate his lot and to associate himself with the destinies of a now world. What he .seeks is a new country offering him advantage? superior to (lioso he has hitherto known. To look upon the emigraut as mercenary is gen erally to do him an injustice. It is because in the United States thc value of thc indi vidual man is fully recognized, the tide of emigration has poured toward her shores. With this order ol things, a couutry which established distinctions unfavorable tc tho new comer may hope in vain to attract i nu merous emigration ; in my judgment Brazil would deceive ht rse.'f as to tho future if she indulges the hope of speedy progress in an active and intelligent emigration, without having previously abolished restrictions which weigh heavily upon the stranger who comes to eetablish himself upon her soil. Let no one delude himself iu this respect; that which the emigrant seeks is that which is least easi ly conceded ; absolute equality loilhl/te inhabi tants, of older date, and even with ihe discen dania of the uldtal races. I would add further that I have observed in Brazil certain administrative customs, principally touching the acquisition of real e.-itate and the intervention of authority in the affairs ut individuals, which until they aro fundamentally modified must remain " an inviuciblo obstacle to emigratiou on a large scale. I alinde especially to the delays and formalities attending the entrance into possession,ur prucical occupation elland, iud which in ?he . y-a -f the 6trangor are tantamount I is c . plate exclusion. The immigrant ought tobe <bie to take possossion : r>f th?, ground b tween to -lav and to-morrow, i k?r te rarely has the means of waiting. True i-?jIi?C'il wisdom' should rather etimula-e him to establish himself 'ipou any territory not ! yet occupied, guaranteeing to him a right to any improvements he may make even upon soil which doe- not yet belong to him. An- ( uiner great ditliculty arises from the arbitrary . ma'incr in which subordinate officer* inter- . tere in the alfairr. of individuals. I do not , know how far the Brazilian, born in tho coun try, feels the necessity of the support and counsels, direct or indirect, of the pul lie ad ministration in his private affairs ; bat I do know positively that in our days the emigrant ? fears nothing so much as all which may be considered tutelage ; still moro when this tutelage takes occasionally thc form of petty tyranny. He generally leaves bisowa coun try to escape from this very thing, and will certainly not choose as the land of his adop tion one where it would pursue him e r^n into hia private transactions. The opening of the Amazon, will no doubt bring to the bor ders a number of industrious and tnterprt prising men, but a great emigration, such as rapidly augments a population, will never gather there as long as the order cf things : exists which I have observed in the Provinces i of Para and Amazonas. And vet I have j pleasure in repeating that, whatever may be said to the contrary even in Brazil, I know no country in tho world richer, more attrac tive, more fertile, more salubrious, more fit to be the focus of a numerous population, than this magnificent valley of the Amazon, j I am, Ac, Louis AGASSIZ. Nashville dispatches from high au thority sttteSbat there was no quorum pres ent when the constitutional amendment waa ratified by the House. The presidmg officer of tho House peremptorily refueec; to certify that such resolution waa passed by (Le Legis lature, there being w quorum preflfci. Reform Medical Convention. j Pursuant to a call a Convention of tho friends of Medical Reform met at the college in Macon on the 16th, when on motion the Hon. 0. A. Lochr&ne was elected President, and Dr. M. S. Thomson, Secretary. The committee on resolutions made the following report which was unanimously adopted: ?. Your committee beg leave, to report that it is just cause for congratulation, that amid the desolations of war the College with all its equipments remains intact, and its board of trustees and faculty have been spared to continue in the discharge of their business and important duties. It is therefore felt that, in view of the successes of the past, the requirements of the present, and the hopes ot the fi ture, the liberal .endowments and privileges conferred by the State, aa well as the many obligations due the public and the profession, a sacred duty is imposed to keep up our institutions of learning, and diffuse still further the blessings of sanitive, in opposition to poisonous medication through out the world. We therefore recommend that the College be opened this fall, at the regular term and at the old established rates of charges. We further recommend that inasmuch as :< any of oar young men, in this and the "ucrounding States have been disabled by wounds and war's casualties from obtaining a livelihood by physical effort, and are without the means of attaining professions, the Board of Trustees and Faculty pf the Reform Medical College, do cordially invite all such to come and enjoy the opportunity of acqui ring an honorable calling free and gratui tously. On motion it was resolved that all papers in this and the surrounding States, friendly to the advancement of such yoong men, be requested to call attention to at least that portion of our proceedings. 0. A. LOCHHAMS, M. D., Pr?sidant. M. S. Thomson, M. D., Sec'ry. The ups and downs of politicians and spec ulators are not a little remarkable. A few months ago, Charles V. Culver was at the head of one of the most successful banking houses at New York (Culver, Penn & Co.), and was establishing banks, building railroads, founding towns, and endowing churches and colleges in the oil regions of Pennsylvania. He was elected to Congress from the Twen tieth Pennsylvania district, though he offered the convention that nominated him $20,000 for party purposes if they would leave him to his business. But just then he was prosper ous, rising and popular, and it is iu the geni us of American politics to elevate such men to public offices. A few weeks ago the dull ness of the oil trade and the estent of his business ventures and speculations necessita ted the suspension of Mr. Culver's firm, and now he has gone to jail to await trial on tho charge of traudulently obtaining from the office of the Auditor General of Pennsylvania the bonds of thc Petroleum and Venangu Banks. -? ? * D^isceuraging from lirazil. Rio DE JANEIRO, June 2. I beg leave, as an American citizen, to in sert a few lines iu your columns with regard to American emigration to this country-Bra zil. Much has been said with regard to tho .rreat resources and beautiful scenery, which .is all v.;ry true ; but as for its fertility for ag riculture and general farming purposes, more can be raised on one acre of good land in the States thau ten of the best here ; and the same proportion in regard to labor-one mau can accomplish morn in the States than ten here. During my stay here, (some eight months,) out of some twenty families that have como out here, a quarter of them have died-the general average-and most of those that were left wcro sent home by charity (subscriptions of a few true Americans who are here.) I fed it my duty, as an Amanean citizen and a lover of the American people, to ex pose and publish certain parties-heavy En glish, German, Brazilian and Jewish mer chants-who have formed a society or com pany, with a large capital, and who style themselves the "Emigration Society," to de ceive and induce Southern people to sacrifice their property in thc States to emigrate to a country represented as a Paradise, which has proved worse than a hell (if* there can besuch a thiug) to most of those who hare como here as emigrants, being cut off from all good so ciety and morality, and are obliged to associ ate with ?. mongrel race. Indian, negro and Portuguese, speaking a different language from Weir own.-Cor. New Orleans Picayune. IMPORTANT TO FREEDMEN.-The Scientific American says: "The*unpleasant odor pro duced by prespiration is frequently a source of vexation to persons who are troubled with it. Nothing is more pimple than to remove this odor much more effectually than by the application of such unguents and perfumes as are in common use. It is only necessary to proenre some of the compound spirits of ammonia and place about two table-spoonful ls. in a basin of water, Washing the face, hands and arms with this leaves the skin as clean, sweet and fresh as one could wish. The wash is perfectly harmless aud very cheap ; is recommended on the authority of a distin guished physician." MR. DAVIS.-Th* Louisville Journal Fay*' : "According to the most reliable account?, Mr. Davis, if not soon permitted io go at large, will dio in prison without a trial, after tho long confinement he has endured. Aud this, we cannot hesitate to say, would be a most deplorable thing. It would bc a calam ity in a national peiut of View. It would create a feeling of intense bitterness against our Government in the hearts of millions of our own people, while foreign nations would, with almost ono voice, and that a voice of thunder, cry out 'shame!' May Heaven avert any such monstrous evil !" J53T A farm sold a few days ago in Ma rion County, Tennessee, for the round sum of $60,000 in gold, which was at the rate of ? 100 per acre. J??y A son of Mrs. Keeney, of Bolton Conn., attempted to kill his mother with a butcher knife, bat was prevented by his sister. He had a cancer on his nose, which is thought to havo affected his brain. An Indiana schoolmaster was abont to punish a female scholar after the style in Cambridge, Mass., when a chivalrous bc drew a revolver and threatened to shoot ti master. The master then drew arevolv- i and shot at the boy, wounded him, and w tho next moment himself wounded by a pis? toi ball. Sckf " Do you enjoy going to church now 5 asked a lady of Mrs. Partington. u Law me, I do," replied Mrs. Partingtc " Nothing does me more good than to get : every Sunday morning, and go to church a. hear a populous minister dispense with t gospel." Maj. Gen. C. M. Wilcox, after a sojourn bf twelve months In the city of the Aztecs, h i3 returned to bis ? people," and is tow payii ?g a brief visit to Selma. The thousands of e - Confederates whom be has led over so ma . ]. victorious fields, will be gratified to learn t; i*> ho is in the enjoyment of fine health and ? " ?OW cast his lot among them*