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?"JUL16UE1> EVERY W?DX?S1>AV UOfcNlNO B T D??BJSOE, KESSE & CO. TERMS O JP SUBSCRIPTION. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Tho ADVERTISE?, ii publi.-hed regularly every WEDNESDAY MORNING, at THREE DOL LARS per annum ; ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS, for Sis Month*; SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS for Three Month.?,-altcayt in ttdvancc. Jt^" All pupers dircoutinued at the expiration of thommo ?OJ which they have been paid. RATES OE ADVERTISING. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Advertisements will be iusertod at the rato of ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS per Square (10 Minion linea or fess,) for thc first insertion, and ONE DOLLAR for each suK-cquent insertion. /Ser* A liberal di?coant will be mads to these wishing to advertise l>y the year. Announcing Candi latrs $5,00, in advance. Politics in South Carolina. Thc New York Evening Post says : " The following letter from a well informed politi cian of South Carolina, gives a curious and intere.MiDg account of the condition of politi cal affairs in that State at thc present time. It is written, as will he seen, from what would bc called there a strictly conservative staud point, and shows, what is thought by thc men of that party, and what are their expectations ?md hopes of thc futuro:" COLUMBIA, S. C., July 19.1SC7. T-> thc Editors of thc Keening Post: What we wini in South Carolina and in every other Southern State is a party and a high toned part}' leude '. Governor Orr bas said it, ard the sentiment is rc -echoed by ?.very intelligent individual. B. H. Hill, c"t Oorgiu, Herschel V. Johnsen and others write and declaim sgiinst radicalism and.its carious sh-uies, and yet to day a?*eaIvocating the doctrines ol" conservative republicanism. Tra.', tiiey do not bel eve in the manuer ol reco'Utrucion, they do not accept as constitu tional law what Las been done by a Congres riional majority ; but the distinction between them, their followers and the conservative masies of thc N< rib in honest, union-lovii?g principles is as siight as a gossamer web. A "raiTi: M A vs PARTY" WANTED. Thc conditioti of tho public mind may be exhibited iu a few sentences. Am we wrliui: to bestow the privilege of universal suffrage upon thc negro? Yes, becauso thc law has declared it to be a measure precedent to re unhm : but we du so uuder protest, because the black race, as a mass, do ??ot uacerstand the responsibilities of citizen-hip. Are wc williup to make the negro an equal in the eye of the law ? Y'es, we hr.ve doue so, and the records cf our courts prove that wo have acted in good faith. Are we wiliirg , tu provide for his education at the expense ot the State, and to be taxed for the support ot colored paupers ? We are, provided tho bur den is legally and legitimately distributed. Are we willing to recognize that equality which permits any chosen negro to sit upor. juries, to represent property in w!iich he ha* no interest, tu vote away thc funds of tin State, to occupy places of trust ;>nJ honor in ber legislature orin Congre-s? No! Ar.d not uutil the race have made that progress in education and general intelligence which en titles them to coufid-.-ncc will this opinion un deigo a shadow of change. Such is thc present liberal sentiment pre vailing throughout thc South, and if a par?-, existed in this section, properly organized ami led by our own white citizens-in other words, .a white man's party-as distinguished from the Union Leaguers ri id oumc genus, eight tea thu of our people would be found in the ranks ind working warmly in the cause of reconstruction. At present you recognize a coolness r.nd in difference, Why ? The South was distrusted. The genius of the politician was expended in manipulating thc black man. The agents sent here to speak, canvass and organize, gave rent to revolutionary and incendiary diatribes against slave-holders. They excited the nc g "oes to revenge, to demand social equality. They held up the Union cf confiscation, pro voked idleness, crime and insubordination, . they created secret societies, and, in brief, they arrayed the black man against tue white These things were published, and the resuhs of such pernicious practices were manifes". on every side. THE COLORED TARTY. What Southern man could find affiliation in suck ranks? Nav, many ct>lored mer themselves (of whom Beverly Nash is a fair illustration,) denouueed those attempts to cre ate aa enmity between the races, until finally a conservative feeling took shape in that first meeting in Columbia which was addressed by General Wade Hampton, some moatha ago, and the tide thus started swept on ita healthy way. The benefits accruing to both races from tim mutual go ;d unders'anding bava been great) but still there is the colored jiarty-the only party in thc State-the Rad ical party; and the white man is driven from it because self-respect and self-preservation alike forbid him to stand upon the planks ol i?s crude, ill-digested, ungenerous platform. I am told that only the oilier day Genera! R. K. Scott, the Ass'stant Commissioner ol the Freedmen's Bureau, in reply to a gentle man who suggested the probability of his be i ig run for Congress from the Charleston Dis trict, remarked : " I would like to go to Con gress as much as any other man. I have am bition like other men, or I would not have been in my present place ; but when I go to Corgress, it must be as the representative ol the people, " not of a cla?s. It may be my fortune to live in South Carolina hereafter, and I cannot sacrifice my nocial status to a success gained merely from my influence amon^r tue freedmen. I krow that there is a senti ment in Charleston favorable to the organiza tion of a Republican party, which would be joined by many of its ablest citizens, and 1 should like to sec that organization perfected, but until that event takes place, I am nol prc pared to bc a candidate." General Scott does not stand alone in his opinion. But what are we to do ? Our white citizeus generally will not join and meet with the negroes, and either no one dares or no one feels inclined to move in the inauguration ot a party that shall unite ali upoq a common va :tage ground. To use a piebianism, the people seem to be " lying low"-waiting, per haps, for a leader, with no faith in the imme diate power of thc Democ-fuic party, and no lore for the Radicals. Yet. here they are anxious to bc taken in, and as true to the ear ly principles of government a3 are half thc inembers ot Congress. CANDIDATES. Although prematurely, candidates for Con gress are looming np in goodly proportion. The wires are being adroitly pulled by one or two designing whiles, and ?u? negroes arc al ready giving " pledges." _ For Senators three persons are chiefly a-oken of: General Daniel E. Sickies (whose aspirations are understood to incline hi.n likewise to the Vice-Presidency), Mr. Sawyer, the Collector of Internal Revenue in Charles ton, and Mr. C. W. Dudley, a native of the State. In thc lesser branch of Congress the Sute bid? fair to be represented by a pcrsou named Whittemore, a Massachusetts superin tendent of colored schools in D.irlinpton Dis trict. In Charleston a cclon'd man will prob ably be run, although several officers of the Freedmen'e Bureau are known to be on :he anxious seat: ?hile iu Columbia a citizen named Mr. Tom Robertson has consented to wear the honors when imposed upon him. ^Sy-Registration in Louisiana is completed, but it will take several week? to reviso tba rolls. Many who havo registered under thc Attorney General's opinion will bo itricken off. No accu rate ostimates of State veto can be made, but no doubt revised rolls will show a colored majority, g?FA delegation of Alabamians waited on tho President on the 1st, awl urged tho removal of Utnoral Pope, on tho ground that his administra tion of affairs in District No. 3 was equally ob noxicua aa Sheridan's. Tho Prendan* morely ?stiUd b* ro*M ? *t th* firoraacaa. 1 The Fall Trade. Front thc Ckarlctlon Mercury. * * * % * The things to which a country mei first looks when he contempl?tes a heay chase arc: The facilities ofreaching lui ket and of shipping the goods he may i their destination ;-the extent and vari the stocks from which he may make 1 lections ;-the price of thc goods that quires ;-thc credit or time that will be him for payment;-the assurance he wi! that he will be fairly and honourably with. In every one of these partit Charleston can challenge comparison any other market, and in several pani? she has, and can give, a decided advar Charleston, as is well known, is readi! cessible. The railroads of which this c the terminus do all that they can to co the convenience of their patrons. Fr trains are arranged so thai freights ca sunt on expeditiously and conveniently 5 the fleet of steamers which carry cut freights from this port have a high rcput for safety, economy, and quick passage, the matter of stocks from which their bi may select, our merchants are preparit meet every competitor. They will have s of goods in Charleston which will eml every article of consumption, and thes* si will have been selected with great care gentlemen of long experience, especiull this market. Aud what as tb price and t* those two most important considerations ? answer is contained in a few words. Our merchants will be prepared to goods as cheap as they are sold in thc X ern marketa, and they will sell upon sit terms of payment. Macy ol the Nort firms are withdrawing from the interior Se ern trade iuto which they niched in ISlic Tuey find that they can deal better witl large city merchant or factor, and pref have their transactions with them. A g part, indeed the greater part, of the ?, nought iu the North have been bough M thirty days," and where there has I any {rtvat extension of time, the differ has bi'en added in some way to th* prit the ^ojds. Every reasonable facility wi! ??ven here', and a buyer caa purchase us as ho can do in the North, while he s: both lime and travelling expenses. 'I a jain he is removed from ali danger of ti cry and fraud. He'knows with whom he to deal ; and that, in any event, there is a of high respectability and old standing which he eau appeal for explanation ncc dress. As far as we know, not one of tl benefits has been made too much of, and 1 they may be recapitulated :-A market ( of access ;-large and extensive slocks goods, especially adapted to the market the same credit that is given at the N >rth ??oods and produce at the same rates at wi they are sold in the Norih ;-honourable responsible merchants, whose words maj implicitly relied ou, and who will make promise that they will not strictly keep. Tuese are the grounds upon which Char ton rests her claims to business patroim and they must be kept constantly before public, ll will be necessary to give as mi publicity as possible to the advantages wh this city offers, and this must be done ia country districts as well as in the towns. P haps it may be said that Charleston sho command trade ina-muck as she deserves but in these days nothing is gained witb work. If our merchants and factors let th friends know what is the true condition Charleston trade, and what benefits the)* m obtain by coming to this market, they v most certainly do their business here ; but our business men depend on their own mer and good name alone, they will find that th busine-s will be taken away by those who tr talk loudly, and write constantly, in iavo of their own wares. This is inevitable; at as it is not necessary for any one in thu ci to use one word of exaggeration in its t half, it may be taken for granted that, by pc severing work for a few weeks, lhere may ! laid the foundation of such a Fall trade Charles *on in her palmiest days scarcely ev saw. The Mean " Critters." Every farmer knows that there are alwaj >nc or two "mean critters71 on every farr They will hook, kick, jump fences and cut 1 all sorts of outrageous capers. Wise farmei sell'such animulsas soon as possible for wht they can get, for fear they will teach the meanness to all their companions. Polilici parties are afflicted in the same way. Th Democratic party has been terribly injured i times past by these " mean critters," but for lunately, the war has relieved it of a goo many, if not all of this breed. They coul lind "better pasturage iu the shoddy party du ring tho past few years than at the cribs wher they formerly fed. The result is, a good rid lance to bad rubbish. Perhaps the mcanes ano cf nil these " m?an critters" who hav left is John A. Logan, of Illinois. When th rt-ar broke out, Logan, it is reported, '.?der with Davis, and talked of raising a corr pan in lower Illinois to join the South. At al ?vents, his sympathies were said to have beei 50 decidedly southern that members of hi family, if not himself, publicly cheered fo Jeff. Davis. No sooner, however, did Logai discover that the wind wr\s not blowing ii that direction, than he tamed squarely abou ind is now " out-Heroding Herod." Tht Mongrels, in pay for his subserviency, last fal sleeted him to Congres-, and in a speech th? Dther day in that delectable body, he an nounced that if he, the great and mighty Lo ?jan, if he had caught Jeff. Davis, no one would have been troubled wilh trying him He would have murdered him just as thal " big Injin" Juare:., did Maximilian. Yes, lu would. That's what he would. " What a dangerous little mar.!" Fierce a.' a Camanche and terrible as a sausage machine How much stolen property from the Soutl has Logan got? How many horses did be capture out of private stables ? There must be something he fears he will be detected in, or else bc would not try to kick up such a dusi in which to hide himself ! However, we wish the Mongrel party joy in their possession ol Logan, and'all suchmean critters." They aro useful in their present places. They will serve the good purpose of making the Mon grels still more odious, and we trust when they are buried in the last ditch," all " the mean critters" may be buried with them. New York Day Book. HYPOCRISY.-The New York Tribune says that when Wendell Phillips "has proved that the colored people have a greater natural fit ness for public employment than any other race, it will bo time enough -o ask us to vote for them simply on the ground that they are not white," The Tribune's philosophy is like that of thc Georgia Radicals. The freedmen are good enough to hcip the Rads into office, but not to share the honors (?) and divide the f-poiis. The colored Citizens should insist on a fair division of the ofllces, and we see no reason why the Radicals should object. If left to our own choice, there are colored men in 1I1?3 community whom we would vote for in pref erence to certain Africanized, whites. Let thc freedmen put the Radicals to the test, and O'.tr word for it, there will be a terrific howl among the white Leaguers. These men fra ternize cheerfully with the freed people in thc dark. In tho broad light of day, however, they find it convenient .not to recognize their colored Leaguers of tue previous night, bot give them either an indirect nod or the cold should'.-r. Ob, ye hypocrites, how can ye hold up your heads, when your actions belie your professions ?-Chronicle & Sentinel. SENATOR WILSON Owospp TO CONFISCA TION.-For myself, I want no morp punish ments than have already been inflicted on these men, They have suffered, aud have been disappointed more than any bi dy of men in the history of thc world. Their idea?, principle', and policies are all gone forever. The hope and a?piration of their souls are lost. They are baffled, defeated, humiliated, conquered. For one, I have it not in my heart to pursue the system of confiscation or any other systems that shall bear harder than those that have already been adopted to bring them into thc country and make them a pait Ot thc ?puntry- I don't want an Ireland or Poland jn Amprjca. [Applause.]-Speech ai Saratoga. pit' King William, of Prussia, has issued a. proclamation assn tn in g tb? duties of sovereign ot. the Nerti Ooaun fltatM. 1 THE ADVERTISER JAMES T. BACON, EDITOR. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7, I8G7. Our Club Rates. We are now furnishing the ADVERTISER to Clubs at thc following very low ra'es: Two Copies ono Your, $5.50. Fire Copies ono Year, 12.50. Ten Copies ono. Year, 22.50. Twenty Copies one Year, 40.00. No Club3 received for a less period than ono year,-and in all esses the Cash will bo required in advance. The names of the entire Club must be sent at ono time. .Registration to Begin Immediately. In General Orders, No. 05, dated August 1st 18fi7, Gen SICKLES commands that Registration in tho Second Military District, comprising North and South Carolina, shall commence immediately. The said Orders aro extremely long and minute so much so that, having received the Charleston papen, containing them, at a lato Lour, we find ourselves unable to publish them this week. Next week we will give thrr sum and substance to our readers. For Edgefield District, nino Registrars have beon appointed-six whiles, three colored ; three for i n Regiment. These boards will move about from precinct to precinct at tho command of tho Past Commander, Major WALKER. W presume this officer will publish his ordors next week. The Registras repaired to Aiken on Mon day last to receivo his instruetions. We under stand that Major WALKER designs that Registra tion within his command f bull begin on the 16th inst. A Universal Exhortation. A universal exhortation from all agricultural pnpers and from all writers on agricultural topics, is that Southern farmers and gardeners should pty more attsntion to the culture of Turnips. Read the articles on this subject which are to be fouud on the outside of our present issue. With a new advertisement, which will bo fouud in another column, Mr. FEXBLB has sent us an in fiuite varioty of raro Turnip Seeds, with instruc tions upon tho papers as to time of sowing. Tho period runs from the 15th August to the 1st Octo ber. Consequently there is no time to bo lost. Mr. PEBBLE'S Seed Store is on Washington Streot, Augusta, Ga. Tennessee Elections. The recent election? in Tennessee have gono ."0,000 majority for BROWNLOW and his Radical Republican party. All eight of the Congressmen will be Radical, and a Radical will aiso bo olected to succeed PATTERSON in tho U. S. Sonate. There is great rejoicing in Yankeedom over this election. A salute was fired on tho 2d in Harrisburg, Pa., by order of the Governor in honor of the Tennes see victory. Butin any State where 50,000 of her best citizens r-re disfranchised, as is thc case in Tennessee, Negro Republican majorities may always be expected. Easterling & Kennady. With much pleasure we call attention to the card in our advertising colr.mn?, headed "J. M. YoU.VGBLOOD With EASTERLING A KEN.fADV." The popular firm of R. C. A ll. H. EASTKIILING his become, by the reiiriog of one of the Ea.?terliDg brothers and the coming in of Mr. KKSNAHV, ' K ASTEF.LING k KEXXADY." This firm is so well nnd widely known, not only in Augu.-ta but throughout Edgefield District, that it needs no wor l of approbation from us to give it popularity aud patronage. As for our universally esteemed young fellow citizen, Mr. JAMES M. YO?NGBLOOD, the most promiuent falesman at EASTERLIMG k KEN.VADT'S, he will most undoubtedly prove a pillar of success to any house which may secure his services. The Fifth Military District. The Washington correspondent cf the Baltimore Sun says: "It may bs some days yet before the nrd-T rnlia.Ug aenerai eocnti.a of BTe co m tu noa of tho Fifth Military District is issued. The President has not yot determined what officer shall bo assigned to succeed General Sheridan. Tho successor will doubtless be either General Meade or General Hancock." A lato dispatch from Washington says : The ordor for the removal of Sheridan ha? not yet been prcparod. lt is said in circles usually well informed on public affairs, that Gen. Thomas will supercedo Sheridan ; that Hanoock will take the oosition now occupied by Thomas ; that Sheridan will be ordered to Lt. Gen. Sherman. An Institution Deserving Much Patron age from Edgefield District. Tho Medical College of Georgia, that prido and ornament of our fair neighbor, Augusta. Thu oid and well-tried Institutiou, undoubtedly of the very first class in every respect, stands, as it wore, at our very door. Citizens of our parts who over look or ignore this fact by sending their sons to far distant schools of Medicine, assuredly fall far short of their duty to their own section and their own people Tho session of the Medical Collcgo of Georgia for 1S67-GS will commence on Monday, 4th No vember 1S67, and end on Saturday 3rd March, 1SCS. Tho faculty embraces tho well-known names of Campboll.JEve, Ford, Geddings, Rains, Dugas, Doughty, Ac,-all of them distinguished physicians, polished gentlemen, men of profound science-most of them eminent writers and lec turers. . Than the Medical Collogo of Qoorgia, no In stitution offers a moro systematic, more thorough, moro practical, and at tho same time more popu lar niethor! of Medioiil Education. Read This, All Ye Who Arc Ambition of Beautiful Poet. Of course wc mean feet with Shoes on. Th beauty of tho naked foot is a matter of but littl consequence ; except perhaps to husband and wife, who alone are permitted to look at each other's feet.uncaparisoned and unadorned. Bu that's neither hero nor there. Wo havo only to fay to all who ore ambitious of beautiful Shoes and Boots, that they must patronize our gentle manly young friend and townsman Mr. Wu. RA MKY, whose Shop is in the triangle formed by the Advertiser Office and Mr. Sullivan's Store. Among his workman are Berryman Kemp and Albert Jon ncrson (formerly Brooks,} two journeymen whose skill and experience aro unsupassed. For Ladies as well as Gentlemen, Mr. RAM^T lurns out fhe most exquisito work. And since seeing is believing, we challenge any one to produce more perfectly beautiful and durable Shoes than those just presented us by our genorous young friend above-named. We shall consider it our duty to woar them as a sign In fact we "are so profoundly obliged, and so full of admiration, that we havo a notion of taking to walking on our head, that Mr. RAMEY'S bandi work may bo tho better ."eon. An Immense Union-Rcpnblican?Radi cal-ttongrel Convention. Such a Convention wss held in Virginia, nt Richmond, on tho 1st and 2d inst. Pretty much of the stripe of the ono lately held in our own State; a concern which it defiles a decent white man even to road of, let alono to take part The pure and distinguished John Miner Botts en deavored to take prominent part, but was con siderably flouted by the more respectable ne groes. Tho.proceedings of the Convention were disturbed on tJ;o scpond day by one of the princi pal spoukers (colored) b?ing publicly accused of " stealing a borso from a one-armed negro !" This highly decent, dignified and fragrant Convention resolved to support Gens. Sherman and Sheridan for President and Vioc-President on account of their amiable deeds to the South. QTTbeN. Y. TI i bu ne says: "A groat many rash, unwise projects aro broached in either House, but how few of them ever obtain any sort of sanction ! Mr. Slovens is tho oldest and ablest representativo; yet bise infiscation schemo, though pressed for many months, has not yet bann even secondod, and ho, positive and bravo as he ie, hat turor jet ventured to uk ? rote Reported Wealth, Intelligence and Prosperity ol' Southern Negroes. Wo scarcely ever pick np a Northern paper, es pecially one in the Radical interest, without seeing in it the inoet extravagant and untruthful statements ref peeling the enormous number of negro schools- in the Southern States, and thc immense amount of money deposited by the freed men in their own saving* bunks. These state ments are made by Southern correspondents of Northern Radical journals. To us who lire in tho South and are " to tho manne:.* born," those fluttering account? of the mental, moral, physical and pecuniary condition of th? emancipated blacks, are no loss amusing than astonishing, According to these wandering Munchausen?, the freedmen hare built and now support from their own moans, "six hundred schools;" they h aro hundreds of thousands of dollars in bank ; their labor is in tbs greatest demand ; and wages rule as high as sixteen dollars a month, with board, which is quite as much as fsrxn laborers can now earn iu tho Western and Northern States, or tTon in New England. And, altogether, the freedmen* as a class, are to-day thc most pr<-?perous people io tho South. If a tithe of theso tales be true, there is every reason f. - rt once getting out an injunc.ion upon the ll .jd States Treasurer to prevent him from i -suing a single dollar to the Freedmen's Bureau, which is clearly obtaining money under the false pretense of clothing, feed ing and protecting a class of people who are fair ly implored to take the highest wages ; who build seminaries of learning for their children ; and who have flourishing bank accounts. Every tax-payor, as woll as every true philan thropist, will hail with satisfaction all indications that look as if the freedmen were likely speedily to bo nn entirely self-supporting population, and no longer a burden upon the public treasury, or, worse yet, a protcxt for tho payment of salaries and fat fees to a wholo army of political parasites who are nominally " protecting" something which is generally supposed to be their own individual pockets. This millennium, however, is by no moans near enough, as yet, to have attracted tho attention of even Dr. Cumming. Cat the animus which inspires the enthusiastic and extravagant Radical accounts of the progress and general prosperity of tho latoly emancipated blacks is obviously this : to show that tho negroes are en tirely qualified to exercise tho elective franchise, and to dignify the mission of the army of prowl ing and interested Radical orators now invading tho South ; and to make it appear that, at evory point in the Sr-uth, theso orators can preach Radi calism to largo audiences of highly intelligent colored citizens, who have statoly school houses | j of their own building at their backs, and bank books, with a goodly row of entries on the right side, in their breeches pockets. But when one begins to unveil Radical lies, when and where will his labon end ? I " Thc Christian Neighbor." This is to be the title of t Weekly Religious Paper to be in.-nguaratod so?n by the Rev. Sim T. Bftomnt. This reverend and learned gent?o uan, so lately Presiding Elder of tho Circuit of which Edgt?cld forms a ptrt, and so well and favorably known throughout our District, is preaching now in Marion : aid at Marion C. H., in all probability, " The Chritian Neighbor" will bc published. The Mariou Cr.ieenl, from whose jffice. if we mistake not, tbisnew paper will be issued, speaks of it ss follows : By reference to another coburn it will bo seen hat Rev. S. II. Browne, of the So. Ca. Confer ece, propose.' tn publish a r.spcr, non-sectional ?nd eminently christian in its ?pirit ni,d ton lluldir.g thc internal unity of the church apnu ill externalist*}, yet by no means hocking f iw.iy with denominational existentes or peculiari ios. With a square front he opposes :hristianity to rrar in all forms, and vows unooDlitional ciel ?ion of all types of politics from rcigion. One of tho chief excellences of TIE CHRISTIAN S'KCIWOR will bc its singleness of motive in ?oliling religion to its proper missie*, and thereby touriding the legitimate sphere <f politics and ciudred quostions. To say that we heartily recommmd the .nter 4.'. _ii .i_r.i^uo? ur -vmammlCy uuuiu orrry ay what we long sinco fervently desired, that oma one would tike hold of the mater and giv he ehurch throughout our country a paper as his promises to be. From our knowedge ol' Rev. dr. Browne, and his antecedents ii the South karolina Conference for twenty years, wr> feel issured that this commendable enterprise is in bc hands of one, who with thc favor of theMos Iigb, will make it a success and a great bleting Wo very heartily endorse the opinion o our espected contemporary, and hope that uny 3dgefield friends and admirers of tho Rev Mr. IROWXK will, without delay, send him heir tames as subscribers. We aro authorized t say hat subscribers after giving thtir names and fficos may rest until the first number o?'The Th'rUtian Neighbor" shsll be received, after rich, iaym:nt will bo due. The price (govtrnJ by izc of sheet) for 6 or 13 months to bo fort I ora ng on the reception of the first numbor. All lommunications must bo addressod, " Si? H. ?ROWXK, Marion C. II., S. C." fr Wonderful, Wonderfnl I We enroll among our exchauges the Fruit" fndex, a Mend-weekly paper published at Jles )urg, in Nebraska, the present terminus o the .reut Union Pacific Railroad. This is OOO iles iVest of Chicago, and ?80 miles Wost of tholis 'ouri River. Think of it! Nine hundred riles >f Railroad directly West of Chicago! Andhis listance inado with but ono cbango of cars. V-ily .here are but few people in the South who diam hat this greatest work of tho nineteenth comry -thc Union Pacific Railroad-is so far complied. Two or threo years more-say in 1870-andhe :ars will bear ui from Now York on ibo Atlanti to san Francisco on tho Pacific-over mounlin lescrt, river, prairie. A great country this ! Tell nay the American Eagle be always flapping is -rings and making a tremendous fuss in the wort ! Judging from tho Frontier Index, life in Juls jurg m nu be a somcwr-t exciting and uncertin jusi*"*"*. And y' ..ey seem to have thercil! :ho omi.- . . ol civilisation and high cnlightn nent-theatres, portablobuildings, stores, ?c., tc. But tho wild Injuns swoop down upon themit my time, and scalp them by tho dozons. Wat i new and delightful sensation it must bo to >e icalped ! Read some of thc paragraphs from tho Jule curg index. Julesburg is still growing as if by magic ; thee ire twelve new buildings going up since our hut ) burradoo. ATTACK.-A party of Indians attacked Mr. Hines' train day before yesterday near Kud Springs. They were repulsed, with thc lo? of | ono mulo; only one man wounded. Tho sbek and men were saved by takiog rofugo in a co:ral i mile or two from thc scene of the first charge SQL'ATTKRS.-About fifty persons started outfor Crow Creek on Wednesday to sieze lots in Ch-y snno City. They swear defiance to the R.B. Company. Such conduct is child's play; forin tue first place Cheyenne is not positively locatid, and in the scoond place Uncle Sam is thereto protect the railroad town-site. Sncr.DBRfl COMING IN.-A long train of secedes froul tho Mormon church-tho land of Brigham anived in town yesterday. They are journeyiig towurds Illinois to join the Josephines. jjKrr,-A lrrge Mormon train consisting of eight mule teams, loaded with merchandise, left Julesburg yustorday for Utah. . A scout just in from tho Smoky XI il 1 valley r? ports the i*iin*b<T of whites in that country, 0?; Indinn?, 7,500. Fight-as long-as-life oilers ponies and promotion for white soldiers scalps. NOSH KILLKD.-Only sixty- thrcp loud quarrels on'Front street slnco our last issue. >o ono killed since tho birth of the city government. A whaling row in town last night j eighty seven in thc fight ; fourteen w.oundod and six missing t|ie killed not counted, Tho poji?e are after the riqg leaders. 215 A DAT.-The U. P. R. R. laid two mile? and three quarters of track yesterday. Read and Casement aro shoving ahoad. F ?&~ The New York World says : " If it is al ready apparent that tho Republicans cannot suc ceed without General Grant, it may be evident, by tho lime the nominations aro mado next year, that they cannot succeed IOIVA him." jfSt" Sickles has removed the police of ?he town of Sumter for alleged maltreatment of blacks and inefficiency. Ile appoints two colored and ont whit? policemon to succeed the late incarn ants. I An Insult to Peuce and Prosperity. The election for State officers in Tennessee, which carno off on the 1st inst, has result. J in the triumph of the old hell-hound, BROWNLOW; ?nd of the Radical faction generally. What an insuit to peace and prosperity to continuo in power a party that drives both from our lind. Not the wiihoj of tho pcoplf, however, huvo done this, but tyr.tnny und the bayonet. Surely this ma? BROWNLOW will yet learr. something. Lan that deprivo nine tenths of the intelligent peoplo of the Stato of their dearest rights certainly cannot be enforced much longer. To believe it seems like madness; ?.nd BROWNLOW will learn it. At pres ent there is nothing in Tennessee bu; tyranny, discord and hatred-all to end in blood-in the blood, let us hope, of this demon who should bu bereft of tho sympathy of man and accursed by the justice of Ilcaren. Colored Marshal for Columbia. U. S. Marshal J. P. M. Epping has appointed C. M. Wilder (colored) his deputy for the city of Columbia. Mr. Epping says, that th? white mon who can take the oath are not Ct t<i hold the office. Ile appointed one of 'icm as deputy mar inai, a short time since, says the Charleston Mer :ury, and ho had been in the performance of his duties but a few days, before his removal became necessary on account of his having received a bribe. Colored Congressmen. It is altogether a mistake to suppose that wo in lulge in a bad joko when we advise the negroes in the present condition of things to prefer their ; }wn color as Senators and Representatives in ! Congress to imported scalawags or pale faced renegades. We prefer them an hundred to one, j ..nd wo do not see why the negroes should cot do it We prefer thom, because, in the first place, ire caa trust a Southern black mau when we can iot trust a whito traitor or a Yankeo speculator n nogro votes. If u reconstruction"-so-called s to bo carried out on the plan of the last supple-, nent, the choice ls between tho two classes we lave named, and it is no " Robson's choice," ?:.th (r. Give us the Southern negro, every time, be bro either a domestic or nn imported Radical. 3o says tho Mobile Register, ?iud we very sincero y endorse every word of it. Coolies. The S'.r.tcs of Louisiana and Mississippi have noved in the matter of Coolio labor. / h Yuc, a ?oinmissioner from tho Chinese Government, has ntrodnccd a goodly number into these States, ind bas contracts from Alabama and Toxas banters for five thousand more, to arrive within i few months. Wo learn from tho New York Tun et that planters "expect to profit greatly by bo introduction of this ch?; of labor, to supply he place.-) of the women aud children of the reedmen, who sro now supported by their bus mods and fathers, attending schools. "Ghost of the Past Constitution." In his late spocch on the Conference report, ommcnting upon thc fact chut the Senate was icbind tho House in the march of Radicalism, lr. Stevens said : " Some fragments of the old ehatterod Constitu ion had stuck, perhaps, in the kidneys of soino ienators [laughter] aud troubled them at Dight. Vhcn they tried to progrc<-s, the ghost of the a?t Constitution was found ?n their way, and ob truded thea. .Perhaps thal u-.ts natural enough, ie did not find noy fault wi'li it." This is gracious, and peop'" who .ire haunted y " the ghost of the past Constitution," or who re iifflicted with what may now be termed Ste en*' '.' disease of the kiJcov.*," have reason to be luinkful. It is a natural frailty that thc grand ?ogul of Radicalism makes all duo allowance >r. We like the frankness of the avowal. The Constitution i.-< pronounced to bo dead by the ?der of the dominant party, and it is only its h c. that r. Mv ard then stalks through the halls f Congress, complaining, perchance, like thc host of Hamlet's father, of its own murder: " Murder most foul, as at the best it is ; But this most foul, strango ?nd unnatural." Will this open thc eyos of the American people ? hey have prided themselves upon their Constitu r3Atftlu"lwa?kc"or'*&e'ir civil liberties. It is now disease of the kidney's, a thing of the past, a host! nterestiug Letter from u Freeman to his Old Alaster. RAYMOND PLANTATION FLORIDA, Pilatka, Florida. il y Mutt Kind und Tottering Hatter: It is ?th diffidence that I bring myself to yournotice, i ask a few short moments of your time to hear om and talk with your boy Henry. Master, it roduces a very pleasing sensation to feel that I u speaking with you again ns of old ; and I suro you it is one of the pleasures of my life carry my thoughts back to tho home of my lildhood and youth, and to the days, to me the ippiest I ever knew, or ever will know again. I lew not what it was to want for tho least that was not granted me. Food, clothes, fruit, fun, ?lie, joy and gnyety, all were mine ; and the I ritch, with a good strong hand to nie it, (and it ( ?ver ramo too often,) for to it und your own .od judgment, I um indebted for what good j ere is in me. I fear nono of those good old j ya are by tho wayside for me,-gone, forever r. ?ne! ? They tell mo I am free. Yes, Sir, I am free to s ark as hard as any negro on your plantation I er did ; and my pay (and I am in a County c aere labor brings the very behest price,) leave? , e not as much monoy in my po?i;0t as your ne- j. ?ooi used to carry in theirs. Ana J. have the c eaeant, or I should say unploasant, reflection to J ?ing to my mind that if I am sick, your kind s id protecting hand is not by me, with your b oney, doctor and medicine, to reliev* tne ; ned t i my old days nono to lay mc away in master's d rave yard. But this is the fruits of fre-dom. I ??pose I am to eat it with or against mywiH. I * now many a poor negro is suffering for tic help ^ ? a master's hand. c Master, I want to tell you where I am and p hat I am doing. I am awuy down in Dixi,_ v i a land they call Florida ; where tho cot?n t< rows out of reach, and fruits beautifully; cov a rows well, but not equal to the best lands oj tl eorgia and South Carolina. Sugar cane grows o > perfection ; rye and oats very well. Sweet po-/' itoos, casava, compta and arrow root, plants' iat grow Uko potatoes, and aro used for bread j* y tho Indians, and now by all classes, ore indi enou? *o ?he soil. Lcmoui, limes, tamarinds, ranger, gu?-\.c, pine apples, bananas, and all ?opic^i fruits, grow almost spontaneously ; many f them in wild groves. Thc oranges grow liko be oak forrest of Carolina. Innumerable Fish, ed bass, drum, floundor, trout, piko, jack, mud rim,-all varieties, sites, shapes and colors, that ny other waters float, arr found hero. Deer, urkeys, partridges, beor?, panthers, wild cats, nd some wild Indians are Wt in the ?vergladss. Sattle roam over the pine woods and prairies likt ho locusts of Egypt; some i-tcck owners owning .s many as 25,000 head. The plantation I am on is said to bo one of tho nit in Florida. I assure yuu, Sir, it is on? of I he finest I ever saw. I hav avery prospect of | ?elping to gather a very largo crop of cotton, iorn, ?c. Mnster, pleaso tell me how uncle George, aunt r^ucy, Maria and Georgiana, aunt Elsey, uncle falce, wy sister Maria, and Stephen and Elvira ? ire. Georgiana's husband (Griffin) is in Middle Florida. Also, please tell me how unele Steven is, and all my acquaintances. Master, plea?e remember me to old mistross, to foung mistress, master Jim, md mistress Julia. I am, master, yqur obedient and dutiful ser rant, HENRY MORSE. To COL. WW. II. Moss, EJgcfield, 8. 0. j73Er* Messrs. Radcliffe and Dailey, who were brought from Columbia on a charge of assault and battery, committed on Northern men, were yesterday sent to Castle Pinokney. So says tho Mercury of the 2d. Several of the freedmen who emigrated from Charleston to Liberia last year have just returned, bringing very discouraging accounts^ Letturs from thoso who remained in Liberia are to the same purpose, advising Southern freedmen against further emigration. ?lf Registration closed in Savannah on the itA White?,3,203; ffe?wfts,3?>62, A Batch of Blacks in Congress, and . what Then? Thc New York Herald is ever prepared to veer round with the current," and ils many changes of course during the last few months prove its anxiety not to miss the occasion for increasing its reputation for enterprise, sagaci ty and inconsistency. More tbau once it has hinted that the North would he fretful and snappish if the doctrine of negro equality were pu.?hed too far, and in an editorial pub lished on Friday last, it makes the is3ue fair ly and then squarely mc?ts it. Thc Herald alludes to Mr. SUMNER'S admo nition that within twelve months there would be in the United Slates Senate a sprinkling of colored Southern Senators, and says it will not be surprised if the outside Stales send ten or twenty such to the halls of Congress. In these estimates that there will bc io the 1 South five hundred thousand black voters against six hundred and ??ty thousand white voters ; ai.J that,-allowing for thc disfran chised classes, the indifference or disgust of those whites who are not disfranchised, and the fractions of the whites which will go with the blacks,-from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, thc Republicans, ?'ill hold the game in their own hands. The H'rald continues as follows : So, from the facts and figurrs before us, the actual situation of things warrants the 1 conclusion that the Republican patty will car- ? ry nearly all, if not all these tia outside revolutionized Southern States, in their work of reconstruction. Nor is it likely that the blacks, constituting in all these States the i bulk and strength of the party, wi il consent J ' to do all the work without any of its rewards. I They have only to demand a share of the I honors and offices to get them. Hence, we 1 may confidently expect, and during the pres- i ent Congress, that sprinkling of members I of African descent in both Houses suggested 1 by Senator Sumner. ] Wc are called, then, to inquire what will ( be the moral effect in the political world of this startling innovation upon the old order ! of things ? We may be sure that negro < equality, proclaiming itself through negro i voices from both Houses of Congress, will f make a profound impression upon the public I mind throughout the North. We apprehend i thal the result will be a general reaction against < the Republican party in the Northern. States ; 1 for wc know that there is a stronger wall of t white prejudice against the negro in the North than exists in the South. This prejudice elected Buchanan in 1856, and would have elected Douglas or Breckinridge in 1S60, had the Charleston Convention consented to unite upon either. Wc may expect, then, when 1 the blacks assume the political balance of power of ten reconstructed Southern States, and send up their black representatives to Congress, that there will be a revolutionary r reaction against them among the whites of ' the North which will upset thc Republican j party. This may be the real object of those leading Southern white politicians who are urging their people to the experiment of al- ' lowing the Radical and the blacks all the j rope they may desire in this broiness of I j Southern reconstruction. Let us push this ,j thing of negro eqne?ty, ?UJ these Southern lenders, into Congres*, and then tho laboring 11 white masses of the North against this South- c ern negro political balance ol' power will take the alarm, and a Northern reaction of the whites against the blacks will be the inevita- , ble result \ and thus the Repnb'.icun negn.< party will be destroyed by its own weapons. This will, in all probability, be the solution * of the experiment of the political organiza- * tion of the blacks against the whites in the Sou'h-a reaction of thc whites against the s blacks and the Republican party in the c North. Meantime, however, we suspect that u the spontaneous and powerful popular move e menu North and South in behalf of General E Grant for thc succession will carry everything * before them; but with thc'sett.emcnt of th?3 question there will unquestionably come a decisive Northern revolution on this other and momentous issue of negro political and ^ social equal i ty. - j s nauivm onronnsnt. I fj The National Intelligencer says : The " do - h main of politics" enlarges its circuit while increasing the swiftness of its current, as an L ever-augmenting whirlpool, threatening to y draw the whole social sea into its delirious ol vortex. Unfortunately, it fa in the power of one side to drag with itsrif tbc other into w whatever sphere it may choose to curry dis- p( cuS8?on. If Radical enthusiasts should engage is in partizin expostulation against the use of tobacco, there is no doubt they could force al the practice into issue at thc hustings. The- e\ ology, polity, physical science, industrial art, th domestic economy, etc., ore all distinct de- pe partments, naturally and rationally. But tbc in baleful tendency is to swallow them all up in le an exaggerated, unnatural and degrading id prevalence, everywhere and in every matter ur rf political partizanship. fo These reflections painfully strike us in th contemplating the shameful spectacle which ha .bo vulgar weakness or the despicable obse- A luiousncss of the coroner at Alexandria, oe- th :asioned at a recent inquest in that city. Thc su nnuipresence of Radical intolerance, the un- ba beling baseness which is known to bo thc st? jractice of that party in collecting capital, md the unsparing severity with which its ou ollowers are put to the bitterest tests and les ?nerifiecs, compelled this poor coroner, on re: min of party disfavor, to carry into the mr VV [ucst over a suicide the disgusting pretences pe md coarse afleciationsof the pro-negro stamp, wi V poor girl-innocent as light, young and | de leauliful-tortured bv some hallucination, :ast herself into the Potomac. Her body is aid on the. bank. Her weeping brothers land there, for the tenderness of all humane ?eings, and the sympathy oven of the most irutal. As they look upon the body of their lead sister, in that public place, what must a ystander bc who could reckon up partisan onsiderations, count toe votes which might c carried out of their anguish, or forecast he mean reproach of the meanest of Radi als for omitting at such a tin'p and place to arade negro enfranchisement ? A jury to iew the body of this white maiden was not a consist of white men, even for so simple nd sad a duly, but negroes mu<t be brought ) exult in political fellowship over the body f a poor girl in the face of ber brother Vere ever two ideas more remotely separa jd than suffrago of a class of men and in ucst of a suicide ? Were ever such incon ruous things associated before in the lowest ?ind ? Sucu n spirit is mr-re than disgusting. It isjathsomc. Barbarism must surely over tax a society, however splendid and lurai NO; its civilization shines, if such .Npf:claclc3 failo evoke general aversion and rebuke. N;ROES IX NEW JERSEY.-Speaking of the Raditi Convention's resolution, the Newark Jour>l says; "Jlhe Frelingbuyjiens, the Catties and thc Pipers, of New Jersey, have no more self-ref>ct nor regard for their own race than to saucon and applaud this mongrel scheme, no matt- what may be their motive, they will soorjiscover that they do not lead thc indepenmt white mon of their party, and that for ta folly they will be laid on theshelf, never agu? to take part in political life in New Jersy. The negro suffrage politicians ire a dooud race. " Tho Hat to hold office, to sit on juries nd on the'udicial bench, and generally to >ingle in evry public walk of life promiscu ity with tr> whites, accompanies the right ! voting, wbm the Republicans propose to tnfer upon ie ignorant, incompetent, and Uapablo ncgjcs.1' -*-r-rr )ErAKTURE f PRISONERS KOR TJIE PENI Ti.Tuar.-Governor Orr having made a re cition on Shriff Carew, tho following pinera fake thir departure for the State Pitcntiary at ?lutnbia, S. C., this mom in, John Rantin, Jas. H. L. Smith, burgla ry Jacob Small, alias Quixall, larceny; I'h II.UUUSC.TOX manslaughter; John Brn, Jumes II irrn, Saul Cannon, Nagor Let Carrol Gaines, nrceny ; Merrick Moore, WlJrcen, larceny. The terms of impris onnt ibr which tht above are sentenced vnr;0m one to ten ytara. mc wc t.b< fro thc pa] try tht Ju tht ot' pai so mo des ns Th ak ma mo mo J. P. mg Ma abc and unt sibi i still ?c i (Mi say.1 Bar atel She l>er drei shot thc the draf. into A ms \uc neat mot the thc ainu but is it ded opir frou l?iuce thc announcement that the freed men^ upon hnvi-jg oie of their race upon i t tho \hiican ticket as the, oan^dijte for tho ! ?? t Vi?e^dontc?, \t is whispered' thal General j Wai ?i?W aol ww oatM ticket. j tc J ALABAMA CONSERVATIVE STATE CONVEN TION*_The Mobile Daily Times of the 2Gth 6ays: " The eppeal of General James H. Clanton for a State Convention of Conserva tive men of tho State, is meeting with the approval of all true men, without distinction of races. Many honest and influential colored men have already inquired whether they would be admitted to take part in its proceed ings, and in the preliminary meetings which will precede it, and we have the highest au thority for answering that all such will be welcome, and due regard paid to their inter est. It is time '.orally against the inroads of miscreants'and agitators, and presenta bold front against their invidious march among us. in search of blood and plunder. We had long since expressed the hope that tho day was not far distant when the most intelligent of the enfranchised classes would join any party having for its object order, security and prosperity." -? ? From Charleston. CHARLESTON, July 31. A large Republican mas3 meeting was held here Ia?t night, the freedmen largely predomi nating. Dr. Mackey, Collector of Customs, presided. Among the vice-Presidents were P. A. Sawyer, Collector of Internal Revenue, Di-trict Attorney Corbin and several colored citizens. A motion to add the name of United States Marshal Epping to the li it of Vice Presiden s was voted down by an overwhelm ing majority. After several speeches, resolu tions were unanimously adopted expressing an unalterable purpose to carry out in good faith and without reservation the Congres sional measures looking to restoration, endor sing the platform of the recent Republican Convention in Columbia, and declaring the maintenance of that platform, without quali fication, the only evidence in any candidate [or public favor-of devotion to the great party through whose exertions alone the South nan look for restoration. General Sickles has dismissed magistrate Sealy, of Columbia from office for " releasing )n insufficient bail, and without due regard br the public peace, on the gravity of the of fense committed," Radcliffe and Dailey, the wo men arrested there, charged with assault ng and beating J. Q. Thompson, a Northern jorrespondent, and W. J. Armstrong, of Washington. The military have rearrested .he accused parties. Sheridan nt Work. NEW ORLEANS, July 31. Sheridan has removed the Board of Alder nen of the City of New Orleans, and made lew appointments. The following order explains itself: .fHEADQUARTERS FIFTH MILITARY] DISTRICT, NEW ORLEANS, July 30. j Special Orders Ko. 105.] A careful consideration of the reports of ?revet Major General Charles Criffiu, TJ. S. irony, shows that J. W. Throckmorton. Gov troor of Texas, is an impediment to the ro onstructiou of that State, under the law. Ie is therefore removed from that office and S. M. Pease is hereby appointed Governor of ?exas, in place of J. W. Throckmorton, rc aoved. He will be obeyed and respected ac ordingly. By order P. H. SHERIDAN, Major-General Commanding. GEORGE L. HARTSTI'KF, Assistant Adjutant ?eneral." The issue of thc Republican of tho 31st in tant, states that Peas was recommended by L. J. Hamilton, and that he is a native of Jonnecticut, but has been resident in Texas ince 1833. He is a lawyer cf eminence at he Texas bar, and has served in both branches f the Texas Legislature, and was twice lected governor, serving from 185M to 1857. Ie was a consistent Union man during the rar. Why Is It? ??cre arc some facts which the public ought j consider : 1st. The public debt in May, 1865, was 12 682 *Utl?*0- Tor.-- .ears-tarer, lt ls ?S-, 90,581.289. Two years of radical peace ave increased thc public debt. Why is it? 2d. In May, 18G5, American securities in ondon were worth 73 12; now 71 1-2. Two ears of radical pcxce have lessened the credit F the go/ernment. Why is it? 3d. In May, 18G5, gold in New York was orth 1.81 ; now 1.37. Two years of radical '.ace have depreciated the currency. Why it? . Wc cir. tell you why : Within one week ter the surrender of Lee it was obvious to .erybody thal the North had won every ling it had professed to fight for ; and that :ace, harmony and prosperity were all with our reach. Just about that time, a few aders of the Republicon party conceived the ca of keeping the South out of thc Union .til its political power could bc controlled r the benefit of the thieves in office. All e wrangling, depression and expense which .vc resulted, are due to this purpose alone. few villains and thieves in Congress arrest e business of this great nation until they can bjugate intelligent white men to the rule of rbarian blacks, who will permit them to ?al perpetually. Tb??re is no other reason in the world wby r debt ?a not greatly reduced, our burdens ?sened, our credit enhanced, and our cur acy appreciated to nearly the value of gold, e desir: that our readers shall k^ep it per tually ia mind that, 'as war resulted from eked means to obtain power, so do the bur ns we tear now result from equally wicked ians lo keep power. How long?-Union imocrat. ABUNDANCE OF MONEY.-The plethora of >ney, like that of breadstuff:), seems to bo irld-wide. The grain ct ops in all parts of ? United States are reported good, and m the grain producing regions of Europe, i news is of the same favorable tenor. The pers in the commercial centres of this coun report money abundant and cheap, and ; London Morning Herald of the 13th of ly says : " Such is the abundance of nvirey it ?7,530.000 was offered on thc security c?usol.s 3'estcrday, at I1 per cent., but thc .ties to whom the proposals was made were fui! that they refused to lake it." While st people estoem'a cheap money market arable, the more reflecting know that it is ign of depresi?n and a lack of enterprise; at for which there is the least demand is ays cl eap, and that Which is most in de nd, ia -lsually dear. There is always the st demand for money when there is Ihc st busluess. URES\- OF J. P. M, EPIUKO, U. S. M.-J. M. Epping, U. S. M., was arrested last ht about ten o'clock on thc warrant of gistratc Kanapaux, on a charge of being iut to engage iu a duel with C. C. Bowen, i was retained at thc detective police office tl ho vas released on the personal respon lity of General Glitz. Lt twe've o'cl 'ck at night the officers were I in se irch of Bowen tm a similar warrant, j ?harleiton Mercury, 2d. i YOUTHFUL MURDERESS.-The Cassville ! Issouri) Republican of tho 17th instant, 3 a little daughter of a Mr. Martin, of rv country, only eight years old, deliber- 1 y shol and killed a brother ot four years. I said itho killed h'm "beoause he pulled I flowers," and declared *; if the other chil ? pull-?d any more of thora, she would lt them too." Mr. Martin, on hearing ? pistol shot, went to his bouso and found j infau- murderess, besmeared with blood, ging her mangled brother from thc room ' the'-ard. __ . -. j . BOY KILLED UNDER CHASTISEMENT BY FATHER.-Ou Saturday evening, a ?ou of Irew ? ackson, who resides nt Centre Hill, r Hudson City, N. J., was charged by his her with stealing twenty-five cents, and fathe in chastising bim, bad only struck second blow when tho boy sank down and ost immediately expired. The hov was nine years old. The grief of the fatb,e;r" dense at the falal result of what h? inten? for the boy's reformation, A divers^} of lion exists aa to whether, ?tc?.th. enmed \ the. activity of thc blow or was tho result bo. sydden. terror which seized the boy, as narkii of violence wcreyi.sinle-. Coroner j rren viewed the body and confided the case oatie- AJdridgo, THE COLUMBIA CONVENTION.-The Colum bia PJwenix, of yesterday, disposes of the late convention in a f<;w words. It says : '.'Thc Union Republican Convention of South Carolina, bas met and adjourned ; and with every desire to do justice toits delibera tions, and to keep the readers of the Phoenix informed of political movements in the State, ive have endeavoured, from day to day, to ?ive a true and faithful report of its proceed ings. Upon a careful review of these pro ceedings, and of thc platform adopted by this body we have no hesitation in saying that they do not embody the political sentiments or opinions of our people, either white or black; nor do they tend in any degree .to aid or.facilitate the great object in view, viz: the reconstruction of the Union. The whole movement must be regarded as a failure, not baviug the sympathy of tho majority of either class of voters in the State. If it was chimed aa an assemblage purporting to represent {?ie ?people of South Carolina, it was a huge bur lesque, and, in saying this, we claim tr. have the indorsement of the most intelligent of the people of this State, of both races." -:---? ? ? ??~A wedding was recently spoiled in Sche nectady by a long lost husband stepping into tho carriage with tho blushing young bride, and insisting that if aoy marrying was to be done, he should have the precedence. 8^* The Winston (Ii. C.J Sentinel states that the body of a negro who had been missing for several days has been found in tho river. Tho head was completely severed fronvtho trank. Suspicion was attached to his wife, 'who was ar rested and confessed her complicity with two white men. Yankes Radicals, in tho murder. Ono of the whito men had promised to marry hor as soon as her husband was out of the way, and with the assistance of the white men she cat oh" her husband's head. gSTlt is a very safe rule to wet your wrists beforo drinking old water, if yon are heated. Tho effect is immcdiato and grateful, and tho danger of fatal results may bo warled off by this simple precaution. ?33*An old Dutchman undertook to wollop his son ; Jake turned the tables and walloped bim. The pap consold himself (or his defeat by rejoi cing at bis sons' superior manhood. He said : " Veil, Jake is a tam sebmart fellow. Ile can whip his own taddy." ?3T*Tho partial official returns from forty-nine counties in Alabama show 28,000 whites and -.'0,000 blacks registered. Tho blacks will exceed th3 whites at least 25,000 or 30,000 in the State. Two additional counties, where the blacks bare a majority, will elect over half the members to the State Convention. ^?r*Considcrablc excitement prevails among cotton dealers in Philadelphia, owing to tho sei zures of nearly all the stock. The revenue offi cers seize all that is without tag?, declaring that certificates of payments of tax is not sufficient. Merchants declare that it is an attempt to levy black mail. ty Tho yellow fever is thc increase at Gal veston. jgTThe term of Sheriff Carew, of Charleston, having expired, Gen. Sickles has appointed W. S. Hastie to succeed him. Hastie is an old citizen, originally a Northern man, and until recently was Pre-ident of the Charleston Board of Trade. #S-Tho Fort Valley (Ga.) Gazette of the 27th July, reports that cotton bolls are opening in that section of the State. Tho Tallahassee Sen tinelraakos a similar statement in regard to cot ton in that section. ?sf In Fpito of his ?eeming aversion to fill the Presidential chair, General Grant* has reecetly confessed that ho was ambitious of that high office, flo addod, however, that it "must come to bim unsought and without pledges." When the Radi cal psrty feels thc nocossity of choosing so non committal a standard r-carcr, instead of a repre tcNiuuu mao, 1? ?xl?Litd * weakness not to be mistaken. A Good Idea. In England, the pastors ot tome of the ch?renos aro trying an experiment, which is said to meet with favor. They hold an carly morning service on Sundays, during hot weather, so aa to avoid tho heat of the day, and much largor congrega tion;, than formerly assembled during that season, aro reported as the result. Who will set the ox ampio here ? Wo verily believe the result would bo the samo-an immenso increase in the attend ance upon Divine service. What is the difference between a i'oung girl aud an old hat? Merely one of ;imc; one has feeling and the other has felt. OBITUARY. Departed this life, on the 21st ult, at the resi lenco of her beloved son, in this village, Mrs. MARGARET TEAGUE, aged 79 years ond 3 nor.tbs, after a long and distressing illness which ho endured with Christian fortitude and rcsig lation. Concerniog thismo?tcstimable lady much might o Faid by way of. eulogy, yet thc writer deems it ufficiect here to simply state that faithf il, consis ent and exemplary in all the relations f : life, ho has been gathered to a timely grave, both cpt nnd honored, leaving her friends the bright st evidence that their loss is her eternal gain. As a mother, her love and devotion were strik igiy beautiful, and to her bereaved children diose names she carried te the very gates of leaven-her memory will bc as the perfume of Redest incense, until j - '.' Beyond tho Eight of -time ' J . ^Beyond tho reign of death-> They meet hor in that clime Whero life is not a breath.*^ *? '?. ?' B. DIED, on the evening oX the 15th inst, at her isidence in Quitman, GA-, Hrs J. B. STA LNA :ER, in tho 57th jeai.of her ag*. She had long sen ii consistent member of tho Baptist Church, -was kind ami obliging in all the relations of fe, and in her last hours expressed perfect sub .issiun to the will of God. Sbo boa left an only in and a large circlo of relatives and friends to ourn their loss. v " And art thou gone ? the loved and dear,. Whoso uaroo and virtues wo revere; -Gone, bnt not lost ! in Heaven abovo To praise a Savior's dying love. Where sin and sorrow, grief or pain, Will ne'er disturb thy rest again ; Then let ns humbly bow to God, With meekness kiss the chastening rod, And say with ono of oin, I wiri, Tho' he slay mc, trust Him still." A FRIEND. Quitman, July 20,1S67. ??MM?E??I?XT AUGUSTA, Aug. S. COTTON-Market quiet, with no change in ices of yesterduy's quotations-middlings, 23o. .les of (he day aro xs follows : .2 at 23, IS at 24, at 2-1J, 2 at 25, 2 at 25$, and 6 at 26o. GOLD-Thc Brokerd are buying at 140 and Hint: at 142. WHEAT-Whit*, per bushel, $I,S0@$2,00; 2d, $1,90. CORN-White, $1,55@$U0 ; Yellow, $1,50. BACON-Shoulders. 15l@l?; Rib Sides, 17$ 1S1 ; Clear Sidas, 18J@ll).-Constitutionalist. Sheriff's Sale. John Landrum ) vs. [ Fi Fa. . John S. Smyley. J D, C. Tompkins, ) rs [ Fi Fa. The Same. "J |Y Virlao of the Writs of Fi Fa in the abovo \ stilted casos, and by consent of tbc partie?, >re will bo soil on MONDAY, the 2d day of ptcmber next, at Edgcfield C. n , the foliow 5 property belonging to the Estate of tho Dc idant J. S. SMYLEY, dee'd., vit: DNE TRACT OF UND, known as Cie jfect ; Street Tract, whereon the Defend?^ re).?jc?, tho time of his death, contain in" ?jeren jrun Hi Acres, more or loss,. adjoin vag*|-.Dd!l of Be^ itt, D. C. Tompkins, Wm, normand others. \lso, the Real Esratc af tt?? decoded in tho m&M ?vR? Y??Ic,0D:"'stin? of SIX STORE )USEb AND LOTS, now occupied by the fol ring named rentes: M. Lebcschulrx, John M. nt, A. Raraaay.-DavidHarris,. Jobo Colganand ;?inn,n i}oQf. fvrnu Cash. W. SPIRES, S.E.D. Vug6- lit SI ?Vheat Wanted! *4HE Subscriber will pay tho highest market . prico for-5000 BUSHELS WHEAT, ply carly. A, A. GLOVER, Agent July IQ lot 29