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'The Railroad Difficulty.
[ fram the Culitutbi-t l'koe?tjr, Jim. 22.]
Xlsssns EDITORS:--As thc readers ofy-vor
paper, both in the city and country, have
manifested] consi Icr.able interest in the con
test now (Toing on between tte South Carolina
and the Columbia at:d A'h"?U"?ta Railroad*,
a i l as every oar, especially your country
r. a h rs. art* not sufficiently acqn-iiuted with
tho ?ac?s t?? judge if ibo in T??S of lite "con
troversy, as one who bas beena looker un
and observer of tue ibff;reiit p' of the
eist-, I wooli plica before them, as succinct
ly ai p;v>sib!c. th ? facts as I have been ena
bled tu learn thom.
H is known that the South Carolina Rail
road Company die-la "iii!!" i<> ei join alto
.Tether the construction of the Columbia and
Au/u-ta Railroad, and asking ?int the Gean
c-iilur might order the Woik up>n it to be
discontinued immediately. . This bril wa-;
ably aignctljor several days before his Honor
Cbar:coi:or Carroll. Tho argument opon the
sid? of the ?South Carolina Riad, man}* of
yjur readers have uViubifeis seen, as ii was
published in the llailroul Journal, of one of
iii-.' Northern cities, in a few days, after it was
delivered before iris Honor, and very gen -r
?illy disseminated, both in this citv and Au
gusta, by an extra i<sue of tho Charleston
.Sew*, which was sent " free "rntis and for
nothing" io everybody and the '. rest of?man
Kind.'' His Honor the Chancellor haa-iiu!
as* yet render d any deere? irithc ca<e. owing
t<? ino multiplicity of other ciscs which?re
quired his attention. ?
Until a decree was rendered enj tining
them, the* Columbia and Augusta Railroad
had tho legal right to KO on With their W UK.
under '.!:? grant of itieir. charter; ibis char
ter, by the way, is tho offspring ut that same
p-jwer which give existence, to the South
Carolina Railroad, but this hitler is DOW
crown so old and p-jWer?ul and self-willed
that it is disdainfully d?liant and dcflautly
disdainful:of. all thc laws and authorities of
its progenitor.
Wing on with the construction of their
work, a. they thought, it ?as not oniy their
right,, but their duty, todo, the Columbia
and Augusta Railroad, upon attempting io
pu: in a crossing of thc track ol' the South
Carolina Railroad: were again brought before
his Honor the Chancellor upon a second
..bill." asking that tkvy bs stopped from so
doing. This second '. bi!!r' w?s also arrimu
at sumo length,*anti dismissed by the Clian
celi e. up:?!i several grounds-among others
tout lii>; construction cf th-' Columbia and
Augusta Railroad across the tracie of th<
S jiu h Carolina Railroad would do no injury
to the later, whilst^ to delay the ^Columbia
and Augusta Railroad in tho prosecution o'
iheir work until tho decree in the first case
-which might bc some?m,ontLs-should be
rendered, might subject them to great dam
:>. a.e and loss. The authorities of the South
Carolina: Railroad were duly notified of thii
decision; bul instead of acquiescing in thc
dec:sien>of the court whose aid they had in
voked, in coutempt of that court, they at
tempted, !>v force of their own .' strong arra."'
to prevent thc work of the C lumbla and
Augusta Railroad from bein;; carrird on by
placing obstructions across the street along
which the latter passed.
Upon application to tuc- Mayor and Couneo'l
of the city, by whom the use and occupancv
of the strict had beor, granted to the Colum'
bia and Augusta Railroad, ar order was is
sued to the ager.tof tba S 'Uth Carolina R jad.
residing in Columbia, t- remove the obstruc
tion at once, or it would bc removed by the
marshal of tho city. The order cf the Maror
was treated with tho samo contempt that the
decree of his Honor the Chancellor had been
Thc Mayor then sent the marshal io cause
thc engine and cars, which constituted the
obstruction, to bmvmoved.
As soon n.s the obstructions were removed,
the Columbia and Augusta Railroad com
menced opera'ions, and put in tho crossing
so that, thc evening train of thc Sou: h Candi
n i Riilroad passed over ir without let or hin
drance. This v?as dene upon Saturday eve
n'ng : upon Monday evening, the supervisor
came up, with "about forty hands ; his engine
passed over and went to the depot, but soon
returned and began tearing up the track, and
cutting up the embankment of tho Columbia
and Augusta Railroad for .some distance upon
each .-ide. The Mayor, upon boin?: informed
of the facts, sent down a force and had' thc
supervisor and several others of thc party
brought before him, and fin? d them to thc
full extent of tho law for their riotous con
duct. Yet, notwithstanding all this, thc au
thorities of thc South Ci'oliua Railroad still
keep an engine standing near thc site of the
crossing, with "steam up," for the purpose of
interfering and annoying the workmen when
they shall a^ain attempt to proceed with thc
work : but 1 imagine from what I hear, they
v ill have to go again.
This procedure of thc supervisor was an
Oltrageous deli mee and contempt of both the
cu r; and thc city authority. I understand
he boasted of and exhibited written authority
for his proceedings from one of the highest
o'H'-:a!s of thc company. I learn also, from
good authority, tba*, this is not the ot.lv case
iu which they have taken the law into their
own hands; that one of their employee?, with
his force of hands, torc down the trestle-work
erected by the- Columbia and Augusta Rail
road Company, near Graniteville depot, and
he also alleged that he had directions from
the same official.
There is a littleness and childish malicious
r.rss about these act3 which is entirely uu
w,>rt?y tiie authorities of any responsible cor
porafion ; aad I cannot believe, that the Di
reiji'prs of thc South Carolina Rai broad, com
poicd as their board i-'- of such fair and bono
rabie gentlemen as Messrs. Forman. Rose,
Gourdin, Trenholm and others, can bc aware
of and sane!ion such proceedings. It is not
possible that, they could lend their counte
nance to the persistent contempt and defiance,
nf i hp decrees of tue court, and to thc muni
cipal authorities of the capital city of their
State.
By acts such as these, they may harass and
annov the Columbia at.d Augusta Railroad
Company f?r?a time, but the mind must bo
of small comprehension, indeed, that would
expect, by such means, to arrest thc construc
tion of a work which onu-third or more of
tho people of the State aro interested in scc
jiif carried out. Besides, these acts of vexa
tion have generally to be atoned for through
the'court, and from all the manifestations of j
opinico that ? hea-, the Columbia and Angus
ta Railroad Company need not s:int them
selves in their demand for damages in the ac
tion which I hear tbev have instituted.
LOOKER OX.
ANSWERED - -An cflicer of ono of our street
railroads went intC a barber shop a few days
arro to shave. The kr?phl of tue razor who
relieved him of his bea*e\ ?sked,Why don't
you aliow colored people' 19 rido on your
cars?'' The officer replied": .''/ will an
swer by asking you a question. by- .?orrt
von permit colored pocpl? to shave in j Our
shop?" The barber honestly answered:
" Because to do so would destroy my busi
ness. 1 would lose my white customers, and
the colored would no: sustain nie.'' Thc pitt
--<>A fnr mp.''_Nn?h
I-.'
The Light Breaking lu.
The following extract, which we clip from
tin Ail mia correspondence cf the New Yoi k
Tim':, (Repub ?can.) .-hows that the true
character of ibu chi relations which existed
between master a::d slave in the South is i> .
ginning to be realized ami admitted by some,
at least, of the Northen: Republicans:
. I bad no idea, until 1 saw and heard for
myself', to what intern, the confiscation hum
bug has taken hold ol' the. negro mind, espe
cially in tho towns, and how con li den I ly they
look to being presented with aneaPfarm and
stock, ''When Congress meets.'' Tho delu
sion has penetrated tho rural districts, and 1
h ive been freq ii-, m ly asked by nerves to tell
them l* the straight of thc stciy." When I
have explained to them that confiscation
mears taking the laud an 1 oilier property
away from tee white p> opie who new employ
them, and who fernie"!v owned them, and the
dividing it out and selling it to the colored
people. I have seen very lew of the plantation
degrees who wished for the operation. They
would like to get land anl own a house; but.
if they can only get it by ,; stripping old 'oas
ter cf thc little ho has left," they prefer to
remain as they aro At least, this is the wsy
they talk, and I :.m credulous enough to be
iievo tl em. In the towns, the negroes feel
and talk very differently; They are foi* the
most part uproarious radicals, and damn the
rebels with as much unction as Wendel Phil
lips ( r Pars --u Brownlow.
Thc plantation negro is a very diff?rent an
imal. Ho has been born and brought up
where be now live*. Ile has played with thc
children of his old master. He has boen
nursed when sick by his old mistress, ile
has always talked of tho pi?ce.a' "our plan
tation.'' Ha hus ?bared thc-joy and sorrow,
the prosperity u:?J adversity ot his owuer, and,
th ugh conscious of his freedom, retains thc
old attachment and admiration fur "de fami
ly," and alludes IV dingly to ' dc heap o' m(
ney Mass-lost when all his niggers war
s >t free." These people, ns a mass, would
rather aid their former masters and mistresses
than deprive them o'" anything. No depen
dent laboring class iii the world ts treated
with the same familiarity at.d kindness asare
the negrees by those who used to bold them
as slaves. This was caused by the impassable
social gulf between them ; and thc negroes
?mw cannot change their ht bits and wa) s ol
thinking. What another g?n?ration or two
may think is auoiher thin;:. They have al
ways de-pised the K poor white folk who never
ovnccl the bair of a nigger." And nov."
wheo they see these very men pretending to
oe their devoted friends, and asking them to
'. vote agin, their old. masters," they smell thc
mice evidently, and halt to reconnoitre in
f ont. In the cities-this one, for instand -
manhood is asserted in varions ways, which
ara more demonstrative than pleas mt. 1
thick that thc radicals may count confidently
o: alargo negro vote here; but when they
fail to present tho well-stocked farms, and it
is fi und that liiey ware only ..fooling de nig
ger," I think thai a revuhvionis not improbable.
Negro Juries.
The Atlanta Intelligencer publisher the fol
lowing extract from a letter received by a
gentleman in that city, from his brother, in
Texas:
''A negro ?nan hid hired himself to Mr. A.
for $15 per month, and at the expiration of
t n months sued Mr. A. for ????130. A. admit
ted the contract as alleged by thc negro, and
admitted that he (thc negro) had worked for
him thc length of time for which the negro
claimed wages. The case was submitted to
\Xi2 negro jury, under the charge of the court,
fend to the oslouishrneut ol all present, they
brought in a verdict in favor of the plaintilf
for ?110. Tho judge told them he did not
see how they could render sucha verdict;
that the negro plaiolilF was clearly entitled,
by tue admission of Mr. A., to ?ijT?O. A
large, dirty, greasy negro juryman raised up
ia the jury box, and with much gravity in
formed his honor that .fjil 1 per month was ?ill
the negro's services were worth : that he
knew thc plaintiff to be a lidding, lazy scoun
dre!, and that the jury would not allow hin.
any more. The white mau (Mr. A.) of course
has no cause fer complaint at the verdict.
But this is a sampie o? their ideas of law and
facts. At thc elise of the first week cf court
in Houston, the,ncgro jury were paid off at
mc rate of ?2 per day lor their services as
jurors. And on the Monday morning follow
ing, when court opened, thc negroes literally
besieged the court house to get upon the jury.
Une old crippled negro stopped tue judge on
his way to court, and begged for a place on
the jury, urging his crippled and almost
helpless condition as a reason why he should
be selected, and further proposed to take the
?ob of sittiug or. the jury by the year. When
the judge informed him the cogrt would be
Lu session only three or four weeks, he seemed
td think this was only An anful dodge of his
honor to avoid closing the contract, and in
geniously proposed to lake the job by thc
year at f$l per day ! This is tho pur? and
undefiled chancel through which verdicts
now How."
SHERIFFS COSTS.-Ax IMPORTANT DECISION. ?
-Some weeks iiatc. a meeting of severa! of
the Sheriffs of this State way held in Colum
bia at which a preamble and resolutions were
adopted, recommending that Gen. Sickles so
modify paragraphs 2 and '.'> of Urder No. 10,
as to enable ihe Cleiks of Courts to collect
ccsts which have accrued to them since thc
l?ih of May 1805, from thc plaintiffs, tho ser
vices having been tendered of course at the
instance ol such plaintiffs.
The preamble and resolutior.3 were for
warded to Gen. Sickles through Gov. Orr,
who fully endorsed the request of these offi
cers, lu response to this application, the
Sheriffs and Clerks have been authorized un
der General Orders number 10 to collect all
costs that have accumulated hince May I8?5.
from thc plaintiffs. O en. Sickles says " the
views and recommendations of His Excellen
cy, the Governor; aro approved, lt is not
perceived however that any modification of
Gen. Order Xo 10, current series is required ;
inasmuch as Paragraph 4, authorizes the en
forcement of judgment and decrees for causes
of actions i'rising subsequent to the 15th ot
May 18(15.''-South Carolinian.
Gov. VANCE, ina fetter-to sotne colored
citizens of North Carolina, says:
" Your old masters do not come to you
eating their own words and giving the li? to
every profession of their lives ; nor do thev
come betraying the rights and liberties of
their own coior to ingratiate themselves with
yours. Many others do, however, and the
majority of your people will believe them,
until they learn a very plain and simple truth :
thal a bad man among the whites will be just
as bad, or worse, am eng tho blacks ; and thc
change of sides is fi-r from making au honest
man of a hypocrite and a trickster.
Much damage will doubtless be done before
your people see thc designs of those who
wish to lead them now. but I hope .?OOH for
better things. When actual and bitter expe
rience has opened your eyes, then will be our
time to address you with a hope of success.
When you come to know the true power of
capital and labor combined in friendly e'.'ort,
how dependent the one is upon the other, and
how ruinous to both is enmity and distrust,
then I shall hope to see tho day when slavery
shall be abolished in fa;t, both for black and
white, and when animated by a common spirit
of industry, harmony, and love of country
and of human progress, all shall labor to
make our State blossom ns the roa-, and turn
her waste places into seats of refinement, and
delight. My word for it, my friends, there is
not a good man among your former masters,
but prays for tho hour to come when he may,
.withoutdisfranchising himself, work for you!
As you are to be citizens, we want you to be
intelligent citizens; as you are to be our
neighbors, we want you lo bekindand loving
neighbors, in every a?p?ct of thc case, it is
our Irue interest to help you fit yourselves
lor the new life to which voa are called. If
you will permit uS. we will do it.
A good thing is told of thc President in
Raleigh. While responding in a feeling man
t?^ to the welcome given him, he used the
expression. " Let us. my friends repair the
breaches*'^-aW before he could add " made
by the war," an oW woman exemnned, with
perfect delight,:< Bless ?he dsar man, he has
home airain to work at his old trade !"
TEE ADVERTISER .
JAMES T. BACON, EDITOR.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 18CT.
Summer Fabrics. '
Indued Ladies' Dress Goods cd' all kinds, lu
principally, wo believe, Summer Fabrics. Wei
what of ILPUI ? Why, they arc hoing sold ?.if :
MANGET <t HARBISON'S at immensely reduce
j prices. Really at rates to which noire but an ur
reasonable miser could object. And they ai
extremely pretty too, aud in great variety. Ifyo
j go to MANGET i HARRISON'S for a summer dre;
of any kind-or any other sort of dress-you wi
not leave their counters without it; for they a:
determined to Sell out rapidly all their goods (
this kind. Wo advise nil Muslin-scckcrs an
Lawn-seekers and Calieo-coekers, and Drosi
Goods-seekers in general, to wend their wuj
without loss of time, to the popular store of tbos
obltgingcst of gentlemen, Messrs. MASC KT ?
HARRIS?*.
-. ?? ?<&??? >
Exchange Hotel.
Wc call attention to tho advertisement in anotli
er column with the above caption. Mr. GOI.I>IN
is energetic, managing, obliging. His mothci
who presides over tho house, is a lady whos
housewifely qualities, and kindness of heart an
manner, aro not to be excelled anywhere.
Tho Glorious Fourth.
Ninety-one years ugo on thc Sth of Juno lal
pan, RICHARD HENRY LEE, one of tho depntk
from Virginia, ruse and m ?dc a motion to dcclar
America freo and independent; and nccompanio
thc same with an eloquent speech. The furthc
consideration of thc subject was then adjourn*
to thc first of the following July.
On thc nrriv.il of thc day assigscd, thc subjocl
was resumed, and on thc 4rA of Jnly 17TC, (ninety
I uno years ago to-morrow) upon the report o
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Frank
lin. Roger Sherman, and Philip Livingston, th'
thirteen Confederate colonies dissolved their al
legiance to the British crown, and declared them
salves Free ind Independent, under thc name o
tho Thirteen United Stu lc* of America.
' This declaration was signed by all thc member
that composed that Congress, and was receive!
by the people with trnnspoits ot joy. Public re
joicings took place in almost all parts of thi
Union. In nil tho States, and in none pcrhap;
excelled by South Carolin?, the exultation exceed
cd description.
Little was it thought then that any portion o
these Slates would over attempt to hold gontl
Carolina, or any other State, as "subjugated ter
ritory." Nincty-ono years-ago ! Perhaps a few
thea porn, are living still, to sec thc sad event.
D irk indeed was that period of tho colonies
amid rt want, poverty and misfortune-support?e
by the porvading spirit of liberty, and guided bj
thc good hand of Provi lcr.ee-for nearly cighi
year." sustaining the weight of a cruel conflict
uj"ti their own soi!, till at length they were vic
torious.
They became Thirtocn Free, Sovereign and In
dependent State?-nt Peure. A wisc Government
sprang up from thc blond that was spilt, organ
ized under thu best Constitution thc world cvci
saw: a Constitution which dispensed the ehoieest
political blessiogito many millions of people down
to ibu period when they, or a great part of them,
ceased to live in its spirit.
That Constitution has boen rent and turn until
i: i' teemingly past repair. On to-morrow wc
rtmSl not, as in former years, sing a sung of rc
j'iifing. More appropriate far would bu the sack
cloth of humiliation !
Tlie Kindly Fruits of the Earth.
Never have we seen such a wondrous profusion
of Vegetables-nor such extremely fine ones. We
have t. thank Mrs. JACKSON COVAR and Capt,
BEN MltfS, caeh, for a basket of tho largest and
best. And although they arc so abundant, yet
still they aru like money-never come amiss. Be
cause thrro arc always some who havo none.
Apropos of th*s subject, thc 11th of July-Thurs
day of next week-is thc day appointed for thc
next amateur Horticultural Exhibition.
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The. Debt Question Again.
"CLOD Horran" gives us a communication con
cerning Repudiation, itu. Assuming that a Con
vention will bc held, it is certainly not unwiso to
look ;. its action upon matters which, although
not involving questions directly connected with
thu great issues of thc day, arc yet of thc most
vital importance to the people at large.
Thc question of debt, which hassoagitatcd our
State, ?ii!, in all probability bc brought up fur
consideration, and there can be no doubt that a
final adjustment of this difficulty is imperatively
demanded by the public weal. It should bc put
at rust, in order that confidence and stability in
'business relationships may again give life and en
ergy to our industrial interests.
Wc shall not now undertake to indicate what
should bc thc general basis or schema for adjust
ment, since thc fbried interests which arise in
volve complexity upor. wi iuh timo and profound
thought and elaborate discussion should first bc
brought to shed their light. But wo do hold that
ibero should bo no recovery on obligations given
in purchase of slaves. With the "death of the iu
stitution of slavery, and the destruction of flare
property, the representations of its value were also
destroyed. It follows as a logical sequence, as
unmistakably and as strongly as causo can pro
duce effect; and wc could not, if wo would, ren
der tho result otherwise). Thc Sou'hem people
have lost thc amount of money which they had
invested in slaves, and no one in any wisc pecuni
arily connected with thc institution, can sever
himself fr wa connexion with that loss. It hns
been and must bc individually felt and borne in
proportion to thc amount so invested. *Wc cannot
avoid this; it was one of thc irresistible results of
thc failure of ourgreut strugglofor independence.
The struggle was great ; tho stake was grent ; ami
the loss has been* great.
Who Can Beat This?
Cr->1. E. H. Vocxcutoon, who lives but a mile
out of town, and who is said to have the best crop
in thc District, sent us on Jlonllny Inst a large
Bouquet of Cutten Blooms. In it there were seven
full-blown Sowers-sume of thom already blood
red-and buds innumerable (or should wc soy
squares-or forms ?) upon thc verge of bursting..
Thc red ones had opened on tbe 27th or L'Sth of
June. Upon many stalks among Capt. Youxc
BI.OO?'S cotton, may already be counted from 2fi
to -12 forms for bio >ms. Who-among you old
farmers, way out on your big plantations-can
beat this? But wo eau explain the >curuc of this
wonderfully promising cotton. It is that Capt
Yu cse BLOOD, although he graduated at Princeton,
and was soon altor admitted to tho bar, has put
aside old things, and applied his own shouldur to
thc wheel-and his own hand to the hoc hclvo nud
thc plough handle. A very wise course. And
winn thousands of other Southern men, with just
thc same sort of antecedents, do thc verv same
thing, thc country will bu in a vastly better con
ditlcn. Niggers nro gunn. Foreign laborers have
not como. " Big pig, little pig, root hog or die."
Cheap Dread.
Tho Atlanta Era of Thursday says: "Wc
learn of sales of wheat yesterday nt $1,50 per
bushel. New #our, w? understand, will open to
day at tho mill ut $7 pur barrel. Wo hear of new
Hour to ho delivored in fivo days at $ii,50 per
barrel."
The Concctih Dnnncr.
Th is is thc titlo of a neat and interesting journal
published nt Evergreen, Ala., by W. A. MCCRKA
RY, and edited with ability by S. W. LAXDRUM,
Esq. Terms, $3 per annum. Tho Banner is a
welcome visitor to our sanctum, and we cordially
wish it groat success and prospority.
SST A widow in Paris, aged forty-five, married
a young man aged eighteen. By her first hus
band ?lie had a son whose ago at tho time of her
second innrriago was twenty one. She recently
died, and hy hor will left her fortuno to her son
and husband. As her husband was not of .?
New Mail Arrangement, and New
viiation to Friend? and Wcll-Wishi
o?* thc Adveitlser.
This week will begin a new order of tbinj
renrds tho transmission of tho United Si
"Mail. Mr. FOSKET of Grnnitcvillc, is tho cont
tor feir .ill thc mail ronfc? running from Edgof
Ho is to transmit thc mail between this and
gusta, via Gran?tevillo, thrico a week ; betv
this and Columbia, once a woek ; between
and ChoppcllV, onco a wcok; and betweon
and Xinety-Six, once ft week. Thcro will
be greater facility, greater regularity, gre
punctuality, greater pliability. Not that, we n
to complain particularly of tho pas'. When ti
aro so much out of joint, pooplo should no
too enjer to mark what is dene amiss.
And now, wilh thc increased mail facilities,
tho better promiso of stability in mail ami
monts for thc future, wc cherish tho hope of
scribing in our book tho names of ajany k
good-hearted pay-in-advancc subscribers. "'/Fa
Hope, Charity; but tho greatest of these is Ch
ty." Kin?ncss, Goodness-of-Heart, Payment
Advance; but the greatest of theso is Pflyiw
in-Advance !
Some very sharp and farseeing fellow
know not who-has spoken as follows : ?.?-<
Take (he most thorough man of the worb
your acquaintaoce-tho man most perfectly vei
in what goes on in all ranks and condition
life-and I ask yo? what would ho bo nitb
his newspaper? Hy what possible mn cb in
could he learn, as he sits at his breakfast,
last news from China, of the last ballet at Pu
the s'ntu of tho funds at San Francisco, tho n
ncr ot Newmarket, thc pantominc at tho Oljm
tho encyclical of ibo Pope?
Without my newspaper, lifo would narrow
self to the small limits of my personal cxperiei
and humanity }>e compressed into tho ten or fifi
people I mix with.
As for tho Advertisements, I regard thea
tho mirror of the ogc. Show mo but ono pag<
tho "wants" of any country, and I engage 1
self to give a sketch of thc current civilizatiui
the period. What glimpses of roso interiors
wo gain by those brief paragraphs ! How ful
suggestions and story they arc !
Al! this is profoundly true. Now-a-days, e?
number of a newspaper is a perfect book. . ?
without a newspaper your homes and your cl
drcu arc in outer darkness.
And us all this is undoubtedly true;-and
you have all made plenty of Wheat, and some
spare ; and as the crop prospect is amazingly fii
and as the Adrertittr is 'Still a right brisk
weekly; why pray open your hearts to .yo
solves, and to your families, and to tu j and has
forward to put your th*cc dollars into our pocki
and your names upon our books. As for <
hearts, the three dollars would effect for y<
names, and face?, and memories, a pormani
lodgment there !
Gen. Sheridan's Notorious Letter.
Below, will be found a letter from Gen."Sh?
dan, commander of thc Fifth Military Distir
Louisiana and Texas, to Gen. Grant. The si
letter which Gen. Grant has not yet ansjsen
bas necessarily attracted unirersai attention, a
excited, among ali but thc decpest-dyed Radica
intense indignation. This impertinent andej
lisiical iettcr is addressed by a subordinate to I
President of the United States, whom, the Cf
stitulion says, "shall bo Commander-in-Chief
thc army and navy of tho United States." T
registration in Louisiana having been conduct
"pretty much in accordance with Gen. Sherida:
own individual views and plans, (which look
thc exclusion of all who viii not roto on t
Radical side) bc was ordered by thc Preside
to extend thc registration one month, in order
have a fair and full registration according to In
Gen. Sheridan's letter shows for itself: there
no use discussing it. Hu has clothed himself
the robes of Jupiter Olympus and impertinent
hurled his thunderbolts into tho fuccs of t
President, thc Constitution, and the Suprei
Court ; for the latter body said expressly, wh
thc Reconstruction Acts were before them i
consideration, that tho duties imposed on t
several Commanding Generals "munt necettari
iv performed under the tjtpervition .tff-tJfc PWct
dent ai Cummaudcr in Chief." Dut Gen. She
dan's whola course in Louisiana aud Texas-loi
before thc perpetration of this letter-has prov
him to bc an unscrupulous agent of wickednci
strife, confusion, and party selfishness. Ho d
serves punishment ; and mn/ ho bo caught
ruin ten times worse than ours, ere he succcc
in his infamous designs upon our country.
HCAD'RS FIFTH Mi UTART DISTRICT, 1
SEW ORLEANS, LA., June 22, ISfi". j
General U. S. Grant, Commanding Armlet Lnilt
S'att*. Watkinson, D. C.:
General-I ara in receipt of a telegram fro
thu President, through Brevet Major Gen. E. J
Townsend, A. A.. G. U. S. Army, directing me
extend thc registration in this city and Sta
until August 1, uu'.css I have good reason* io ll
contrary, and ordering mc to report such roas?
for his information. Also, stating that in b
judgment thus extension is accessary to a full at
fair registration, and th?-it thc timo should bo ?hi
extended because thc other district commande
will not got through before that timo.
My reason* for closing;tho registration in th
city were because I had given the city two and
half months, ami there were no more to registe
I have #ivcn thc State two and a half month
and registration will bo exhausted by that time.
I did not feel warranted in keeping up boar.
t|f registration, nt large expense, te suit new i:
ssues coming in at thc eleventh hour.
The registration will ba completed in Louisian
at thc time specified, unless I um ordered to carr
out thc law under Mr. SUinbcry's intcrpretatioi
which practically, in registration, is opening
broad macadamized road for perjury and fraud t
travel on. I do not seo why my regUtratio
should bo dependent on thu timo whon other tl ix
trict commanders g*.t through. I havo give
more time fur thc registration of Louisiana thu
th'y propose to givo in their commands, for
commenced six weeks before they did. I regre
that I should havo to differ with thc Prei<tdcni
but i: must be recollected that I havo been 01
dared to c.xccuto a law to which thc President hu
been in bit'or antagonism. If, after this rcporl
tho time is lo be extended, please notify mc, an
it. will be done. I would do it at once, but th
President's telegram was conditional, and ther
is sufficient time left to issue the necessary ordei
. P. ll. SIIKMDA.V, Major Gcn'l.
??i~A gentleman from ncrrr Columbia, S. C.,
prominent leader during tho war, purchased, 1
few weeks ago, ?it Cuba, whore he has tv planta
t ton, ono of his former slaves, who had bcei
landed and sold by Boston skippers.
t^^The Charleston Savings Bank has bcei
seized by thc military authorities, for failure ti
pay full principal and interest to cortain Unitei
States soldiers of Fort Moultrio garrison, win
were its depositors when the war commenced
Thu bank is insolvent and in liquidation, and tin
directors Jiavo refused to consider these defaulter;
ns preferred creditors.
^sirThc jury in thc caso of Boag nm! others
tried in Charleston on the 20UJ, for tho murdci
of Roe, in the recent iluol, after twenty minutes
delibera!?on, rendered a verdict of not guilty
Thc piisoncrs were dischnrgod.
53c?" It is said that Carlotta, on hoaring 0:
I Mr-xitnilinn's capture and danger, appeared sud
tlcnly. to recover her clearness of intellect, and
said thit thc Mexican nation wa? incapable of sr
odious an net ai to raise tho murdoroug hand
against thc Prince, who had devoted himself with
so much self-denial tu tho regeneration of the
country.
??&~ Wo notice in the Courier that tho creditors
of thc Turner's and lvxchangc B*iink of Charles',
ton, S C., ora notified to provo their claims against
tho said Bank before JAMES T UPPER, Masterin
Equity, before tho 1st Oct. 1SG7, or thoy will bo
barred from any Uccreo that may bc mado in said
causu.
?KtT Thc Washington Star states that informa
tion ha< been received in that city that Admiral
Tucker, of the Peruvian navy, and formorly of
tho Confudnratu navy, has been dismissed from
service by tho Peruvian Government.
E3r"? A Judgo in Mitiouri lately entered a plea
for divorce, sat on hi? own case, heard tho plead
ing and entered a decreo dissolving tho bo*ds of
tnatrimnnj". Th.it beats Chicago.
2L-ST The Buffalo Independent raisos tho motto
nt its mast-head, " Equal and just taxation, or
rcpudiaiion."
?Sa* "SeeNapler, and then die," said souishody
but a bachelor friend reminds us that China it tho
l*laco for a family man to dio in, for in that coun
trv tho Dhvtician who kills VOU has ta mmnnrt
The Minstrel Concert.
Thc Amateur Minstrels aro worthy of a bc
house .than tboy Iud on Thursday night '
But let no ""ono imagine that tho .-ibscncc.i
great crowd on this occcasion was attributabl
any doubt.conccrning the spirit and attractive!
of tho performance. "No indcod. Tho storm,
wind, tho thundery tho lightning, the rain, tl
wcro tho bugbcif?ra. Dozens of gentlemen
ladies who started from tho country, wcro o'
taken, and obliged to put in.to any port wi
I presented itself. Lut nfto? all, thc audience
exceedingly respectable both in quantity
quality; for scores ot fair ladies braved thc
incuts, and sccurod for themselves an eveninj
great enjoyment.
Tho performance was unique. There is n<
ibg exactly like it to bo teen elsewhere. ;
some of the minstrels nrc possessed of mus
and comic talents which would do orcdit to i
stage. Of course, whore all contributed so rn:
by their talent to euhanco tho charms of
ontcrtuinmont, it wr.uld bo invidious to sin
out one or thc other for special praise. Eut si
wo cannot refrain from saying that our yoi
friend, J. T. G., takes the rag off tho bush s
delineator of the plantation negro; as ho him:
expressed it, he can certainly "make darki
qnilo under." Over and over and over again,
Thursday night, his inimitable mimicry and
irresistible eowiytic drow down the house.
Nor should wc hesitate cTt'lior to spook parti
larly of tho violin performance of our esteeu
fellow townsman, II. A. G. Esq , an amateur
whom groat natural talent and years of pract
have lent mont unusual merit. To praise that gi
tlcman's handling of his instrumentis suporfluo
and to speak in other terms than those of warm
commendation, would be untruthful. And tl
the novelty and originality of his perform ai
upon thc Scotch Bagpipes ; it was certainly
markable for tho melody which ho brought cut
that primitive instrument. And as to tho beau
ful little " bairn" that -followed him around I
stage, in such bewitching childish innocence, w
it was tho most charming feature of thc wh
evening.
Ye3, on Thursday night last, the four, walls
tho Masonic Hall were scarcely able to cont:
tho wares of music and mirth that dashed agaii
them. 'It has been currently reported since, tl
a few notes fell into tho alley between the II
and Dr. PAREEH'S Office ; and that they we
knocked completely out of time "bj thc fall Tht
were said to bc certain hemi-dcmi-scmiquav<
of tho reckless sort. A careful search for t
truth, however,-in thc alley-has failed to ma
the story good. Thereby proving that every m
was secured by the delighted audience, and tret
urcd up in remembrance of the delight the Mi
streb had given.
But the best part remains lo bo told. It is th
Before very long, this inimitably pleasing ai
comic performance will bc repealed. And th?
thc eleraonts being moro amiable, we hope t
Minstrels will have thc overwhelming audicn
their talents and efforts so richly deserve
As to this last occasion, they must have rc;
?zed thc appreciation or their Eiiccess in t
pleasant emotions which brightened up thc cou
t<manccs of all present, and m ule thc ontertai
ment one of thc moat mcmorablo ever given
Ed?efield. ^ _
For thc Advertiser.
Repudiation and the Convention.
Mn. EniTon : I am fully convinced in my OT
mind that nothing short of repudiation will cv
bring our people again -to enjoy anything lil
true happiness Tn this lifo. I held that, as Co
gress has liberated our daves, which comprisi
three-fourths oC our property, and all our cree
was based upon tf?o institution of slavery, that
is unreasonable to expect payment of deb
based upon that foundation.
I am aware that it will bc argued (hat it is ui
constitutional and impolitic. I admit that
would, bc wrong in thc extreme ia ordinary time
or under circumstances quite different. If Coi
gress did right, then it would bc no harm for i
to fojlow that path which will lead us out of the:
difficulties. But if Congress did wrong, then
would only bc following them on a smaller seal
If it was constitutional to enforce laws so ol
noxious to our interests in timo of "Rebellion
as thc Radicals would term it, and freo oi
slaves in spite of all wo could do, then it woul
be constitutional to repudiate our debts, au
striko out all our claims, nt least up to the surrei
der, and say we will commence anew. But it ma
ho said that it was not constitutional, and tht
they had no right co free our slaves, and thi
they ought to pay us for them. If tho Yankee
would do that, we would not plead for repudiation
We will admit, for thc sake of argument, thi
they had no such right; neither was it constiti
tional. Hut it does not alter thc caso whatevc;
Slavery in at an end, " Constitution or no Consti
. tution." What do the Yankees care about const
tution so they carry out their point? Not x fi)
It is not constitutional for us to^have Militar
Governments in our midst, and yet tbsy are hen
"Wo say Congress had no right to freo our n?
?roes. And I argue from this point that wc hav
no legitimate right to pay a debt that was base
ou slnrcry. Lot us tnko fur instance a man tba
owned fifty negroes, and suppose they wcro wortl
three hundred dollars per head; thi? would urak
his estate worth fifteen thousand dollars in slav
property. I ask would it he just for him to pa;
a debt that he may owe to the .nu .mai of five thou
sand dollars, when, if Cougrcss had lot tho ne
groes alone, ho would have been fully able t
pay tho debt in full.
Again, herc is a man who borrowed five thou
sand dollars to buy ncjrroes with, or ho may huvi
been appointed guardian for some minor; hi:
credit was based on slave?, but they arc now fr?;o
and tho man is not able to pay 10 cents in thi
dollar.
Ilut thero is another flu/s, that of sureties
Thero aro hundreds and thousands, of such wh(
will bo ruined in tho end, merely becauso slaver)
?3 " gone up." .
There are Humorous other classes too tedious tc
mention. Whfro is tho right or justice, I asl
again, to Contend for that which Congress hos des
troyed ? I ?rn bold to affirm that nino-tenth? ol
thu debt? now existing were-made on tho basis ol
shivery.
I am awaro that thero are somo who Would ab
hor the idea of repudiation, mcroly becauso they
do not seo it in its true light, or becauso they owe
nothing, and have a good deal owing tb them.
Allow mo to remark juU hero that I have a good
deal moro owing to me, than I owe, rmd I lost
sovoral slavos by freedom ; but I am willing,,for
the sako of humanity, and tho good of our coun
try, to commence .mow. I think I would say Just
what I do, if I had thousands owing tn me, and
hy pushing at law I could recover lt. There aro
i thousands upon thousands who would rejoice and
bo glad. New lifo would spring up in eveny hovel
along tho valley, by the wayside, and in all our
affiiirs generally. Birt lot tho strong arm of tho
law bo opened for litigation, and every ono will
dread the consequences, but thoso who aro craving
tho small mites they may chanco to get. Look, if
you please, back to but fall court. What a reck
IOSJ state of affairs dues it present. It muk?s mp
shudder to view tho scone thatseems to loom upin
tho future.
Repudiation would, I thiak, give moro goneral
satisfaction than anything elso' that could bodono.
Wo talk about puaco with tho Radicals, and all
that sort of thi 1.tr, hut _;ivo us pence at homo,
nnd unanimity, and it will accomplish moro than
all our enemies may do.
But somo may ask h o rr will this thing ?orno to
pass? How aro wo to throw oil'this burdon?
Where will wo commence? We nniwor, in thc
Convention. But what will it avail us thero ? Let
as try and soc. It is unconstitutional to inter
iore with tho obligations of contracts. If so,
Congress is gully of a cross error whoa sho do
ctored that slavory should no longer exist. And if
Congrofs should try at any timo to annu|'any ac|L
coming from tho Constitution of tho State lei
tgeoi rsmcmher, that they have stepped oycf it
In tba most degrading manner.
I am in favor of fr Convention upon the ground
that if wo wait longor, wo only lot ?bp Radicals
us into tbc Union their way, and no otbcr. 'If we
refuse to call a Convention, then they will no
doubt try other moans, more severo and moro de
grading if possibfo. Gov. Penar seems to hsrp
a good deal on thc evils of a Convention. Ho
dreads a great cs Jain Hy growing out of it. I am,
more afraid of tho many evils ho spooks of, Try
aegkctifig to call that Convention. If wo neg
lect it, wo may look fora general disfranchise
ment of tho white population at thc next session
of Congress. Let every Juan then ttfat is allowed,
rcgistcr-nnd voto for a Convention, notwithstand
ing the advice wc may have from others to the
cootrary. It would bc folly for us to sit down,
and lot our interest dio in our own hands. Ihope
thc.minds of our people arc ?io ted on this subject
well enough, at least, so a3 not to be led astray.
I may have occasion to say more some other time
on this topic.
I will remark, before I close, that I have the
purest motive? in thus addressing- the public on
this important subject. And that no selfish idea,
or speculation has ever entered my mind, but tho
deepest conviction of right and justice between
all parties. I wish the principle of rectitude
could he established among us, and that wo hid
a better and more etucicnt way to adjust all our
affairs. . CLOD-HOPPER!*
Ftom ?l?xica.
NEW ORLEANS, Juno 29.
.Tb? Austrian steam sloop-of-war .arrived at
Southwest Pass this morning and Ujided a
telegraphic dispatch for the Austrian Govern
ment. Her national ensign was draped in
deep mourning. This, and the teticunce of
her officers, is sufficient; the}", however, re
port thc city of Mexico captured by thc Libe
rals, on thc 20rh inst. Th?; particulars had
not reached Vera Cruz up to the time of
sailing.
Thc Mexican schooner Ada also arrived at
the mouth of the Mississippi this njoruiBg,
laving on board twenty-four exiled imperial
ists (Mexicans), who had been peremptorily
banished. Among them arc several military
officers. They report that Santa Anna was
transferred to the American steamer Virginia,
?,t Vera Cruz, and conveyed to Sisal. On ar
riving there tbe Mexican gunboat demanded
the person of Santa Anna, wbjch was refused,
wben the Mexicans threatened to fire upon
the Virginia. The' captain told them they
could take him by force, ho was not armed,
and then spread the American ensign on the
gangway. The Mexicans trod on the flag,
seized Sartfa Anna, and thrust him into their
boat, took him to Campeachy and con?ned
bim as a prisoner of war. Campeachy is in
thc hands o( the Liberals,' who are shooting,,
hf.nging and expelling Imperial sympathisers,.
- ? m ? ' i
Treason.
. WASHINGTON", June 25.
During the President's speech at Boston*
which was confined to thanks to the people
for courtesies to him asa citizen and Chief
Magistrate, three cheers for Congress were
cal?ed for.from the outskirts of tbe audience.
The cheer-5 were not given.
During Mr. Seward's speech, three cheers
for North Carolina were proposed. Mr. Sew
ard said : " You may well give three cheers
for the State of North Carolina ; she was the
firs". State to put forth a declaration of inde
pendence in the revolution against Great.
Britain. You may well give three cheers for
North Carolina ; she was the State of the
eleven who seceded who went last, and most
reluctantly, out of the Union. You may well
give three cheers for North Carolina; she was
the ?rst of the eleven wbo seceded to come
back again to the faroily fireside of the Un
ion, ard to-day nothing is wanting for herto
resume her aucicnl, honorable and most pa
triotic position in the family of the Republic
but Lue consent of the people ol' Massachu
setts Now. I know all that is coming about
ls coming ahou? very soon. I have seen the
earth and the skies full of tho elements ol'
fertility, of health and of vigor; and I saw in
North Carolina the cotton spring up which is
to supply, next year, the mills of Massachu
setts. I have seen, in New York, thc wheat
growing which is to supply the West Indies
and the Southern States. I know that nature
designs that ibis whole continent, not merely
these .thirty-six States, but thi3 whole conti
nent, ?hould be, sooner or later, within the
magic circle ol' the American Union.
THE J trat Box.-The Charleston Courier,
of the 2iilh, contains the following:
His Honor Judge Moses, yesterday issued
the following Order, in compliance with the
sugges.ions of General Sickles, and in fur
therance of his General Order No. 32. Its
purpose is to form the new Jury lists froin
all tax payers, without discrimination ol color:
For the purpose of forming a new Jury
list for the District of Charleston, the Sherill
is directed to procure from the several Tax
Collectors within said District a list of all cit
izens assessed for taxes itt thc tax collection
districts of each of such Collectors, and who
shall liive paid their taxes for the present
year (wliich list the said Tax Collectors are
. required to furnish the Sheriff between the
third and tenth days of July next), and from
said listM the Sheriff ol' this District, wjththe
assistance of thc Clerk of the same, fe re
quired, immediately on receipt thereof, to
transcribe upon tickets, each containing one
name, tlc names of all persons contained" in
said lists, and also upon other like tickets the
names again written of all of thc cilizr-ns
whose nantes appear on such lists who live
within thc city of Charleston, which tickets
shall be ready to be placed in the Jury box
during the present term, so that therefrom
the Grand, Petit, and Common Pleas Jurors
to serve at the next term, may be drawn.
F. J. MOSES.
June 25, 1S67.
THE STAT? DEMANDS Iv.-The Macon Tel
egraph, ia urging upon our people tu register,
properly says It is our duty to impress
upon nur citizens the importance of going
forward natl discharging this duty without
delay. They have bul little power left-even
the franchised-and they should not fail to
exercise their little in behalf of a suffering
country. No man can vote at any turning
election who fails to register, and consequent,
ly those who neglect it must consent lo sit
quietly by lind sec their Stale go into the
hands of those who arc utterly unworthy to
conduct its affairs,.and under whose adminis
tration the little they have left of liberty and
property ?ty bb taken aw.'.r. Then, let eve
ry man who has the right under the present
unequal laws go forward and put himself ina
position to render an acceptable service to his
State and country, and save them from at
least some If the evils to come."
SANTA AN KA AT VERA CRUZ-Gen. Santa
Anna and hh? staff traveled incognito to Vera
Cruz in the Virginia arriving at that place
on the 3d of June, and were warmly but not
openly welcomed by the Liberals inside the
walls. The American ?nd British Consuls
dined with him on the steamer, and all seem
ed to go harmoniously until the 7th instant,
when commander Roc, of the United States
8teuuier Taco.iy, and Commander Aynsley, of
thc British man-of-war Jason, appeared nn
board nr. 1 removed him, under protest, to the
Tawny. Thence he was taken to Sacrificios,
in charge ol'au officer and again placed upon
the Virginia, to the commander of which
Commander Roc gave orders to land him at
a foreign port. "On the return tripl?e vessel
arrived at Siaal on the 11th inst., When the
commander of the Liberal forces came aboard
and offered to arrest him. The General de
clared that ho vas a prisoner in-the hands of
the United Sta'.es, and the commander of the
Virginia refused peremptorily to ptirrender
him. Three Mexican schooners thereupon
ranged alongside the vessel with their guns
pointed ut her, and the demand being renew
ed, and a guard of murines boarding the ves
sel, it was considered useless to resist, and
Santa Arma was taken ashore. Gpneral Tay
oada, commanding the Imperialists at Yera
Cruz, had ?emendad a? explanation from
Commander Ron. The commands of Boryr
and Canales, at Tampico, ami the citizens jf I
that place havo formally pronounced for '.an -
ta Anna, and a pronAi-ciavfento to that ef
fect La? been issued. Genera! Flores had
been designated as Ut? person to present the
action qf the city to Santa Anna ant) orderea1
to proceed to New York for that purpose.
?ST'lirs. Abraham Lincoln hus given $C00 to
? BAND OF ROBBER'S IN* BAR.XWKI.I-' DIS
TuicT, S. C.-An old and highly respectable
citizen of South Carolina desires us to direct
thc attioticp of the authorities, both civil and
military, to the fact that there is -a lawless
band of r?ffi-in?, consisting 'of three white
m'ep anrl.semetour or jaorc. negroes^ within
the belt, of .country de-firicd by Lowef. Three
Kops, Kaolin, Horse Creek- Swampland the
Savannah Uiver,',crossing occasionally into
Scriven and Burke counties," Georgia. The
leader of this'hoad is supposed to-be Bolin,
for whose apprehension a.irfewarcl has been
offered by Governor Orr, of Sonth Carolina
(as will be s:en by reference to our advertis
ing column:.), i'jr having c mimitted "an
atrocious murder and robbery on tbe body of J
Janies John.ton, ac Station' 110 Sou th Ciro-*'
lina Railroac." The second of this white
trio is said to ho a man by the name of Shep
beard-a deserter from tho Federal army.
The-third seems to be aa unknown srranircr-.
The negroes seem to be employed chiefly in
gaining information and in securing spoils.
These- lawle&i ruffians oro thc occasion of
alarm to the good people of Beech Tlatid
by the depredations and threats of'vengeance
which are in circulation against such as ai-,
tempt to ente.: complaints or to discover their
whereabouts.
The-different civil and military jurisdic
tions seem to have produced some-distrust.
-^-Chronicle ?; Sentinel.
Much imp/ovement in the condition and
intelligence of the colored roce'wril doubt
less be effected by encouraging their educa
tion, and it is highly proper that every rea
sonable opport unity should be freely offered
to a people wLo have so long been held in
bondage. It i j an incontrovertible fact, how
ever, that tbc-i.- capacity for imprqvement, a3
a race, is limitod. They wi'! be likely to ex
cel in music ar. d dancing, and will progress
greatly in aesthetics ; but no sophistry or
partial reasoning can make it ?tppear t hat cul
ture alone is necessary to br;r.g them up to
the standard of the Angl?-Saxon.race. Such
an argument may answer very well for philan
thropic purpose-;, but it has nothing to do \
with the indisputable history of tho black
race. Inferiority may have teen the origi
nal cause of th ?ir enslavement, " and not its
result, though that furnishes no justification
for their oppression. The probabilities are
now that the real negro will gradually disap
pear from this continent, not by actual ex
tinction, but by being scattered al! over the
States,, by mixing with other races ind losing
the peculiar characteristics..of the African.
The negro population will, by degrees, be
wholly absorbed by and assimilated to the
more vigorous races, by whohi they will be
constantly surrounded. The negroes 'have
none of the qualities that wou'd lead them to
form exclusive communities and preserve<heir
nationality ; they look up to the whites and
incline to seek their company. The neg*/,
has none of that pride of moe which dist'w -
guishes the Indian, and hence the great prob
ability that, in the cou/se ot years, the for
mer will be lost sight of in the great and
I rapid march of civilization on tbis conti
nent.-N. Y. New.*.
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A DWELLING AND ITS CONTEXTS SI?vs IXTO
TUE GROUND-On thc 10th of Mr.y, a sin
gular and startling accident -happened near
Girardvillc, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania.
It seems that at that point a u hreast ot the
Boston ai:.d Mahony and Coal Company's
colliery had been worked to within about
twenty feet of thc surface of tho earth, and
that located just above it stood a two story
frame building, occupied by Mr. Thomas T.
Myers, a breaker boss at the? colliery, and
his family. He also hid a cumber of board-'
crs.
About 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon, as
Mrs. Morris Robinson, wile ot the superinten
dent of the colliery, who was OD a visit to
thc house, and Mrs. Myers were in the kitch
en, they felt thc houso moving, and rushed
into the open air. Two minutes had hardly
elapsed after they left the house -before it
sunk, with a surging, swaying motion, into a
huge chasm to the depth ol about eighty
feet. Large masses of earth and rook from
thc sides of thc chasm immediately closed in
upon the house, burying it almost completely
from view. The crash, when it went down,
was tremendous.
The complete entombment of the ^.veiling,
which was about thirty-five feet long, may
I-be imagined when we state that thc chasm
formed by the sinking of the minc would;
readily have admitted a building "over one
hundred feet in length. The house contain
ed seven beds and bedding, four stoves, bu
reaus and other furniture, besides a. consid
erable qunntity of clothing, a Sunday school
library, and some money. , 4
There was fire in several of the stoves,
aud shortly after tl?c occurrence smoko was
seen issuing from the earth which covered
the roof, rendering it almost certain that the
house bad been set on fire. Streams of wa
ter were directed into the chasm, and it was
hoped that thc house would not be entirely
destroyed. Fortuuately, the startling occur
rence was not attended" by the loss ot hu maa
life. Had it taken place at night ten lives
might have been lost. But it took place a:
an hour whe-n some of Mr. Myers' children
had gone to sahoul, while thc others were
playing outside.
THE HAIR ci* THE Doo.-Tho Mobile Rey
inter says :- " As for ourselves, we prefer great
ly to have no representatives et Washihgton
to having them tu thc perseus of Southern
renegades or Northern advebtnrers, who have
come among'Us to fawn and hide their real
principles, for the purpose of getting Sputh
. ern votes for Federal office. When it comes
to that, we shall bo prepared to advocate a
full delegation to Congress of black meu, aud
we aro already prepared to demonstrate that
sound policy, looking to our best interests in
the future, demands that coarse! Th? North
has given us the political negro, let us return
thc compliment iti kind/ and give him to tho
F?d?ral councils of the na'tion. It is the
shortest method of ?ure of the Radical dis
temper, and will speedily bring tin* question
home to Northern minds. Besidei this, on
Radical principles, there isn't a black man in
the South who is not entitled to. .sit ia an
armed and cushioned chair, with his hand
some salary of several thousand dollars a
yeftr, by the side of Sumner fn tho Senato
and Kelly and Butler and Stevens in the
House. Thc hair of thc dog is the best cure
for thc bite.:)
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MILITARY ORDERS VD LAW.-The military
orders of General Sickles subverting tho su
premacy of ibo civil authority in North and
South Carolina, says the Washington Express,
have not been very much heeded by the Chief
Justice cf thu United States, lt will be re
membered that General Sickles enacted a stay
law by military order, and assumed the func
tions of a supreme legislator for both of
those States. . Wisc as may have been his
measures, they were nnauthorized ; and the
Chief Justice, at Raleigh, pronounced them
without force in reference, to the pleadings
and practice in thc United States Circuit
Court. It does not, become tho Chief Jus
tice to give the sanction of law td the extra
legal assumptions ot a Military Commander,
though no one would be more ready than
Chief Justice Chase to uphold tho authority
of a military offiocr wi.hin bia own sphere.
THE WEATHER ASD CROPS.-AVe haye been
favored during the last few days wiih re
freshing rains, which have quickened vegeta
tion and revived tho growing crops. Thc
crops of grain are said to be very promising,
and encourage tho hope thht ir. good time
there will be no lack of "seed for the sower
and bread for the eater." Thu wheat har
vests are very abundant, as large quantities
have been planted, and tho yield hns been
unusually good. The effect is already seen
in thc diminished prioe of wheat, which has
been selling here, wo learn, as low as ?1.2$
, x bushel. With stich facts, before us, we?
may well anticipate the speedy advent,of
smiling plenty and thc rapid exit of gaunt
famine, with its lean and hungry train. This,
indeed, a (Fords substantial consolation after
all that wc have suffered, and atflid so tn any
evils present and prospective.-Abbeville
Prc?q. .
/$Ef- Quoin Victoria' was t"41rty ^car? on tho
throne of England on tho 2Qth inst., aria tbb an
' ON THE OTHER Sroifor' TH?LINE.-Two
or three weeks ago a mob at Junction City,
Kansas, bung two negro soldiers for some
inputed crime. Last Wednesday night an
other mob at Wyandotte, in the same State,
took two negro men out of jail where, it
tarns out, they had been committed for an
offense of which they were innocent, and
s'iot them dead in the street. If such things
as these were to occur in the South one uni
versal howl would go np from all Radicaj
doin, and a July session of Congress would
be insisted on for speedy punishment. Of
course we hear nothing said about recon
structing ? loyal" Kansas.-Savannah News
and Herald.
#3}* Thc national debt amounts to moro than
$ HO to each map, woman and child, in thc United
Stites, black and uMte. The debt of the State
of New York-am ou o ts to $51, -753,082,22, and that
of the several counties-^!! swell it to $140,000,000.
Th a debt of the county bf Albany is nearly four
millions !
13?" A Canada paper snakes the following ap- .
peal : " To those indebted to 9s we male our .ap
peal for assistance. Job's turkey waa a millionaire
compared with .our present depressed treasury.
To-day, if tho price of salt was two cents a barrel
full, w? could not buy enough to' pickle a jay
bird." . ' Qjgf ;
A l?talo .girl of three years wu say
saying her prayers, not long since, when her little
brother, about four years old, came up slyly be
hind and pulled her hair. Without moving her
beac1, sho paused and saki: ''Please, Lord, excuse
me a minute while I kick Herby."
?35~ In all things preservo integrity ; thc con
sciousness of thy own uprightness will alleviate
tho toil of business and . soften the harshness of
disappointment, and give thee an humble confi
dence before God, when the ingratitude of man
or tho'iniquity of the times may rob you of tba
duo reward. . ..*.
??.i* Helper, fho man who wrote thc " Impend
ing Crisis," a'short timo before the war, has just
published anothor book, in which he proposes to
give all tho -negroes notice te quit tho United
States bj a given Mme. The darkeys will con
clude .his Abolitionist an indifferent Helper, after
aU. . J.... 'V/ "
>C3*The census statistics '->f Rhode Island
sviow ?. far greater proportion of'deaths than of>
births among tho colored people in {hat State,
and the Springfield Republican believes ?hat un
less {hu colored race throughout New England
aro replenished from immigration from tho South,
the negroes in that section will soon disappear.
In Massachusetts, the negro population decoased
573 from 1855^0'I860, ?nd 4,297 from 1880 to
1865. ' '.'' ' . . . . .fi
$3* Mrs. GMO, tho mother of Sam. Case, the
lad who was hanged for. murder in Cincinnati j, r.
few daj.i ago, died ou Friday last, of shame and
griof.
Z&T A new method of improving tho roads has
been projoctcd in England. It is proposed to lay
two pain of nearly.flat rails, with a slight depres
sion in each rail, so that wagon wheels will keep
the track ; and also to lay a guide-rail in ti?
middle of each track for the driver to sight with
tho pole of his carriage, so. as te bc able to keep
the wheels in the depression. This system, it is
claimed, will materially lessen thc power necc?
sary to draw heav^y-ladon, wagons.
OBITUAEY.
DIET-, on tho i!0th June, MARGARET E.,
daughter of C-ipt. P. A. and Mrs. M. E. EICHEL
BERGER, a;ed 1 year M???S months.
COMMERCIAL^
AUGUSTA, June 29.
GOLD.-In good demand/ brokers aro buying
at 137 and selling at 13S. . .
COTTON.-There was a fair demand to-day
for good Cotton, mixed lota bc:ng unsaleable.
Transactions rather limited. Sales to-day amount
ed to l-l ? bf. les, 03 follows ? I at IS, 1 at 22, 7 ot
23, .md 136 bales at 23? cents.
COHN.-51,45 from depot, and $1,50 from
8*?WHE AT!-Red $2,20@S2,35 ; White, $2,40?
$2,45. The m:..ket cannot be consideren, hy any
means as being mettled ; and next week*, lower
rates aro looked for.
MEAL-In goad demand at $1,55@$1,T50.
Our Qhib !Rates?
Wo aro now furnishing Uto. ADVERTISER to
Clubs a: the .following very low rates:
Two Copie s ono Year, $5.50.
Five Copiet one Year, 12 50. ,
Ten-Copies one Year, 22.50.
Twenty Copies one Year, 40.00.
No Clubs received for a less period than one
year,-and in'all cases thc Crash will be required
in advance. Thc names of the entire Club mast
be sent at one tune. . .
EXCHANGE HOTEL.
THE Subscriber respectfully announces that
this HOTEL, situated un the back Street,
in front of tho residence of W. Wi ADAMS, Esc?.,
and vvtry convenient to the bn. 'ness port of tho
Village, is open for the accomuodation of Board
er* and thc Travelling PubFj.
No possible pains will ' J spared on his part to
render tho acrommoliiions of tho EXCHANGE,
in every respect, completely satisfactory to his
patrons.
RATES OF BOARD :
Board por day,.f......$2,06
Board per month,.18,00
SJnglo Kcal.*... ?5
Horjo per dap,.1?50
Single Feed,.'. 50
WM. T. GOLDING.
N.?E.-The Stage Office is now at the Ex
change, and persons wishing to procure Seats
had better calbaad hire their names entered,
j July 2 . it 27
TAX NOTICE.
MY BOOKS are now open, and will stand
open until the 20th inst,, for the Collection
of tho Quarterly Tax on Good?, Ware;, Merchan
dise, Liquors, Ac., ending tho 30th June, 1867.
Thoso who faH to comply by the date mentioned,
will be subject to double tax.
B. ROPER, T. C. E. D.
July 2 2t ,27
Commissioner's Notice.
THE Commissioners of Roads and Bridges of
tho Lower Battalion, -7th Regiment, are re
quested to meet at Hamburg, on Friday, tho 5lh
July, to transact basines* of importance. .
, S. W. GARDNER, Treas.
July ?_lt, ' 27
Pure Kerosine Oil.
WE HAVE just rtcoived ? fresh supply of
PURU KEROSINE OIL, which will bc
sold 16w for Cash ?n?y: *">c Gfcl??s $5,00. Sto
gie Gallon, $1,1 ?.
TEAGUE & CARWILE,
Under Masonic Hall.
. July 2 tf_27^ '
Panknin's Hepatic Bitters.
WE nAVE just received a rupplv of PANK
NIN'S CELEBRATED BITTERS.
For sale for Cash.only.
TEAGUE * CARWILE,
' Under Mr.iouie Hall.
July 2_tf_27 _
AM? O?fiKP?
THE Undersigned has on hand a v?ry HAND- '
SOME LOT of
Metallic Hases aud Caskets,
Which ho is now SELLING AT COST, trans
portation added. Also, a largo and elegant stock
jf COFFINS of his own manVactuve, embracing
ill styl?s ah? siioe, which he offers at prime cost,
>f material and manufacture. . . . . ,
Parties buyine Cases or Coffins will have
;ho uso of my HEARSE fAo of charge.
_sj5?f,Tertns, strictly Cash.
J. M. WITT. .
Jane 2?"_)_tf ' 26
Beef Cattle and Sheep
Wanted.
WILL pay thc highest market price for good
BE RF CAT ?LE and,'FAT, SHEEP. ?t
AM?S'. .' '
Jf preferable I will ?artcr Corn and Bacon
or Cuttle aud Sh,cep.
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