Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, August 21, 1867, Image 2

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?\t %Wtx??m. i'?HLldUED EVERT WEDNESDAY MOEN?KO B T D?BIS0E, KEESE & CO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Tho ADVERTISER ii publUhed regularly OTory WEDNESDAY MORKI.NB, nt THREE DOL LARS per annum : ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS, for Six Month*; SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS for Throe Months,-?/icay* ?? ?t/ranee. All papers discontinued at the expiration of the time foi which they have bceu paid. RATES OF ADVERTISING. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Advertisomcntd will be inserted at the rate of ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS per Square (10 Minion litton tr less.) for tho fir?t insertion, and ONE DOLLAR for o ich ?ul^equcn: iu^ertion. JT-?* A liberal discount will be m?tdo to these wi.-bing 10 advertise hy tba year. Announcing Candidates Sj,00, in advance. Thc Removul of Stanton-The Corres pondence in Full. Thc long expected order suspending Secre tary Stanton was is-u.-d yesterday morning, and Geuoral G rant was assigned to the charge . of the War UIKCJ ad interim, with ins-true lions to enter at. once upon the discharge of thc duies of Acting Secretary of War. On Sunday thc President announced that the sU-p'-nsiou would not take pkco until Tues day, and cousetpUiiitly thu promulgation of the order yesterday created a little surprise. Immediately upon receiving the order front I he President Gen. Graut proCrjcd^d to the War Department and informed Mr. Stanton that he was ready to lelieve him. Mr. Stan ton without hesitation retired from his oilice. and Gen. Graut assumed control. Many of the subordinate officers of the Department were not aware of the change that had taken place until after office hours, while others ftupp)acd th'it Mr.Stanton hal at last oftvred his resignation, which supposion gained ground from thc fae: that Mr. Stanton Sfttr io the President a letter of retnons;rance, the cont-'nts of which not being known, were pre sumed to be a lorm.il resignation. It is gen erally assumed that G?n?rai Grant's tenure ot ofiicc will bo short, as it is well known thai the President ofl'ertd the porlf dio of the Wai Department to General Jam^s li. Steadman, of Ohio, more than eighteen mouths ago, and that he telegraphed to New Orleans n quest ing that cffiet?r to proceed to Washington im mediately. General Steadman has received a leave of absence frotn his cilice of Int- mal lleven ac Collector, but was detained in New Orleans by illness iu his family, and the Pres itlent, in the urgency of the circumstances as ue red from his stand point, was ccmpelled to telegraph him in person. Thc following is n verbatim copy of thc cor respondence between the President, the Sec retary of War and General Grant : THE PRESIDENT TO SECRETARY STANTON. EXECUTIVE MANSION, ) WASHINGTON, August 12, iso'". $ Sir:-Dy virtue of the power aud authoii ty vested in me at President by the Constitu tion and laws of the United States, you art hereby suspended from oilice as Secretary ol War, and wilL cease to exercise any aud ali functions pertaining to the same. You will at once transfer to. General Ulyss? > S. Grant, who has this d.;y been authorized and empowered to act as Secretary of War od interim, all records, books, pipers and other public property now in your custody and charge. Very respectfully yours, ANDREW JOHNSON. To the Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. MR. STANTON'S REPLY. WAI; DEPARTMENT, ) WASHINGTON CITY, August 12. $ Sir :-Your note of this date has been re ceived, informing me that by virtue of the powers and authority vested in you os Presi dent, by the Constitution and laws of the United States, I am suspended from office as Secretary of War, and will cease to exercise any and all functions pertaining to the same; and also directing nie at once to transfer to General Ulysses S. Grant, who has this day been authorized and empowered to act as Sec retary of War ad interim, all records, books, papers, and other public property now in my custody and charge. Uuder a sense of public duty, I am com pelled to deny your right under the Constitu tion and laws of the United States, wiihou; .the advice and consent of the Senate, aad without legal cause, to suspend rac from office as Secretary of Wer, or the exercise of any or all functions pertaining to the same, or without such advice and consent to compel me to transfer to any person the records, books, papers, and public property in my custody as Secretary. But, inasmuch as thc General Commanding the armies of the United States has been ap pointed ad interim, and has notified me that ?*e ??aa accepted the appointment, I have no .liternative but to submit, under protest, to .superior fence. Very respectfully, yours, EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. "To the PRESIDENT. GENERAL GRANT TO SECRETARY STANTON. HEADQ'RS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, ) WASHINGTON, D. C., August 12. 1867. $ lion. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War: SIR :-Enclosed herewith I bare to tran.t mit to you a copy of a letter just received from the President of the Uuited Staten, noti fying me of my assignment as Acting Secre tary of War, and directing me to assume those duties at once. In notifying you of my acceptance, I cannot let the opportunity pass without expressing to you my appreciation of the zeal, patriotism, firmness, and ability with which you have ever discharged the duties of Secretary of War. With great respect, your obedient servant, U. S. GRANT, General. THE PRESTOZVT TO GENERAI. GRANT. EXECUTIVE MANSION, ) WASHINGTON, D. C., August 12, 18G7. J Sir:-The Hon. Edwin M,6tanton having been this day suspended as Secretary of War, you are hereby authorized and empowered to act as Secretary of War ad interim, and will at once enter upon the discharge of the duties of the office. '. The Secretory of War has been instructed to transfer to yGU all the records, books, pa pers, and other public property now iu his custody and charge. Very respectfully yours, ANDREW JOHNSON." General ULYSSES8.GRANT, Washington, DO. MR. STANTON TO GENERAL GRANT. WAR DEPARTMENT, ) WASHINGTON CITY, August 12,1867. j General:-Your note* of this date, accom panied by a copy of a letter addressed io yoa, August 12, by the President, appointing you Secretary of War ad interim, and informing me of your acceptance of thc appointment, has been received. r ?"nder a scuse of public duty, I aci com pelled "to deny the President's right, under the laws CS *-be knited States, to suspend me from office a* Secretary of War, or to autho rize apy other parson to enter upon the dis cbarge of the datie*' of that office, or to re quire me to transfer IO you, or any other per son, the records, books., papera and other pub lic property in my official custody, as Secre tary of War. Bot inasmuch as the President bas assumed to suspend mo from office os Secretary of War, and you have notified me of your acceptance of the appointment of 1 Secretary of War, ad interim, I have no al ternative but to submit, under protest, to the J ?ilp?ripr force of the President. You will ; please accept my acknowledgment of tho kind | terms in which you have notified rae of your i acceptance of the President's appointment, I ?id my cordial reciprocation of foe sentiments I expressed. J I am, with sincere regard, truly yours, \ EDWIN M. STANTON. I Secreter cf Wir. i Ceaera] V. 3, Gu*T. JJ The Dangers of Negro Rule--Another Significant Article. The following leading article appears in the New York Herald of Sunday. It expresses thc opinions of a paper which cares nothing for consistency, bot always endeavours to re flect public opinion. The Herald would not have taken so bold a stand, bad. it not felt sure that its views would meet with thc sup port of the majority of the Northern people : The scornful manner in which the negro President of the South Carolina Radie d Con vention accepted the rcsiguation of a white delegate, who could not subscribe to t he plat form adopted, was a most signiflcaut evideuce of the course about to be adopted by the ne gro majority in the South. The intentions of the Radicals iu Congress, or rather their an ticipation that the colored voters would be ruled by a mere handful of adventurers, prom ise to be rudely thwarted evon while the ex periment of negro suffrage is still in its in cipiency. There are none so blind as those who will not see, and it is utter folly for any one to pretend that Mr. Sambo Jefferson, of Rutland district, will quietly submit to having all the offices held by a few white men, when he and bis dusky compeers are the voting majority. Tho dwire for political elevation, beyond the mero privilege of casting a vote, i-i made palpable by the fact of there being seve:al colored candidates already in th lield, while one aspirant forasoa! in Congress is even now stumping the State of South Creina. Has not this experiment of negro enfran chisement aud while dislYaucbisument gone quite far enough, and is there not material danger to the Uuited States, in permitting ten Slates to be mied by an ignorant race, aided by a few unprincipled white men? This question must not be regarded rn the light of a present political necessity. We must look to the future, and reflect whether good can come from our present policy. In the State of L-uisianu there are in round numbers one hundred thousand white men above the age of twenty years. Of this num ber not forty-three thousand have been per mitted to register. On the other hand thc male negroes of the same age, who number barely ninety-six thousand have registered fully eighty thousand votes. Tbese ligures are appalling, although they can be easi.'y ex plaiucd. No white mau was permitted to register who held the petty office of parish constable, city policeman, notary public (a purely business ellice), or village alderman. And'while this rigorous sj'stem was pursued towards the whites, untutored negroes, and cvcu coloured n^iuors, it has been asserted, were permitted to register without question. The result, then, of the Reconstruction law. in one of the richest States vt the Union will be the inauguratiou of a State government filled with negro officials, and counterpart prcseulmeuts, of Parson Brownlow and the Radical Huunicutt. Nay, mure : we learn that negro members of the New Orleans city government have been demanded by the Re publican leaders and a'ready appointed by Genera! Sheridan. Wethus perceive the uat ural result of a policy of repression on the part of the government. What has becu said of Louisiana must bc applied to all of the other Southern States, excepting, perhaps, Mississippi and Arkansas, where the law has been liberally construed by General Ord. The sum total, however, will be the same. Now, the question h, whether the whites of the ex-rebel Statcswill cousent to be ailed by negroes, and whither the people of the North will compel such con sent. In thc first instance it would be well to reflect that na case can he cited where a superior raes eyer submitted to tue rule of an inferior one. But placing aside this point, which is, after all, but a question of opinion, so far as it relates to superiority and inferior ity, let us take thc question in auotber seusc. Thc relative position of the whites and ne groes in the.South is and will be that of tax payer and voter. This is the whole point in a nut shell. Will thc ruling negro be provi dent of the mouey that he has not to supply, or will he, confident in his numerical superi ority, vote just .-.uch taxes as his fancy or ca price shall dicla'e ? This is a point thal; can not be overlooked. We very much fear that a most unhappy state of affairs will bo the logical consequence of negro domination. Will the whites-land owners, tax-payers and sole dependence of the States for their mate rial prosperity-quietly submit to thc rule of an ignorant a?d poverty stricken majority, headed by men whose desire for office is prompted solely by their impecuniosity ..' If regarded purely as a political move, we still perceive danger in this placing white men un der rhe heels of negroes. Look at the policy through any lighr, and evils ever appear. The aggressive spirit of the blacks, and the impla cable hostility of tho Southern whites towards them as political equals, are most potent argu ments against pc^isteucc in a cjurse which must inevitably lead to a collision between the two races of a most dangerous character. We do not believe that the people of thc North are ready or willing to subscribe to negro rule. Thc day when they will welcome Fred Douglass as Vice-Prcsidont of the Uni ted States, and John M. Langston as Senator from Virginia has not yet como, nor is it likely to come for a long number of years. The negro must, therefore, be made to under stand that although he will never again be reduced to slavery, he must rest content with his personal freedom, and not aspire to that political and social equality which cannot fail in thc end to bring him more blows than hon ours. We repeat that thc people of the Nort h are not ready for negro rule, and if thc old copperhead leaders could be induced to retire from the arena aud leave the field clear for fresh ideas, a new organization, headed by Grant, and having for its platform the supre macy of the white man in the affairs of th'iH government, would, at thc Presidential elec tion next year, sweep the Radical party from existence, and restore the country to peace and prosperity. The" dangers are many, but until the DemocraCv cast aside their present leaders we eau hope for no change from the grievous errors which have been made by radicalism. The l>nty of the Hour, The Thirty-ninth Congress, controlled by the Radical Rump, passed .a law directing that all government printing in the South should be ai ven exclusively .to Radical organs. General Pope, the military satrap of this District, has recently issued his royal ukase, requiring all the C'vil and military oflicrs of the State to advertise exclusively in tho col umns of reconstruction papers. The Loyal League of this city, which, through the power of the military, has control of the city govern ment, eject from ofiico and patronage those who are not en rapport with Radicalism. In dividual Loyal Leaguers carry this spirit of prescription into all the transactions of life, and neither support or patronize any tracie, profession or calling which is not Radical. Js it not time that the conservative element in the SUte should profit by these examples, and confine their support and patronage to those who are opposed to negro supremacy ? Should not every white man who mels that his own js the superior, and should be the controlling race, determine to employ, patron ize, trade, or support none but those of both races who are opposed to the Radicals and their proscriptive policy? This system Las been commenced by the Radicals. Tncy aro pressing it to the utmost extremity. Shall we not, for our own protection and safety, be govcrned by the same feelings-those of race, color and interest ?--Chronicle & Sentinel. PROBABLE REMOVAL, ol' THE MILITARY COMMANDERS IN THE SOUTH.-I have reason to think that thc next step, now that Stanton has been removed, will be the removal of Sheridan, and probably the other four milita ry commanders. It is Mr. Johnson's desire tb placp more Conservative men in authority over tba conquered Southern brethren-men who will execute the lavs of Congress with ts little harshness and show of d?spfitjsm as practicable. To do this effectively it is're garded ftf judicious to make a complete change 30 that no onfl identified with th? past harsh md oppressive administration of affairs in the military districts will romain in power, j By ibis means it is considered 'hy. the whiles FjR be secure ia their lives and property, md tho great danger" & 9e$ro supremacy na/ be fty^ded^whip^tott On. ff, Y, THE ADVERTISER. JAMES T. BACON, EDITOR. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 21, 1867. Our Club Hates. Wo aro now furnishing tho ADVERTISER to Clubs at thc following very low rates: Two Copies one Year, $5.50. Five Copies one Year, 12 50. Ten Copies ono Year, 22.50. Twonty Copies one Year, 40.00. No Clubs received for a less period than one year,-and in all cases thc Cash will be required in advance. The namos of the entire Club must be sent at one time. ?2?" Hon. Jefferson Davis arrived in Richmond, Va., on tho 17th. The CHumbia Phoenix. This e ?..silent and ably-conducted paper, which is now r .ecognized power throughout our State comes to us onco more in its former larg? and liberal shape. We aro glad to noto this evidence of a prosperity so well deserved. ' *. * Speeeh of the lion. B. H. Hill. Tho great Speech of the Hon. B. H. HILL, on the " Condition of the Country," delivered at At lanta, in July last, can be had at the Store of Mr. M. LKBESCHULTZ, at only five cents per copy three copies for ten conts. -!.. ? ? ? -? SgTThe "Georgia Printing Company" has sont us " Ex-Gov. Brown'3 Reply to B. H. Hill' Notes on the Situation," and the " Speech of non Foster Blodgett, before tho Union Club of Augus ta, G.I.," in pamphlot form. Wo return our thanks for the same. Appointments by the Governor. Mr. EDWIN R CUNNINGHAM and Capt. W. W WILSON havo been appointed Magistrates for Edgefield District-the former for tho town of Hamburg, and tho latter to fill a vacanc;* in tho Horse Crcok Board of Commissioners. Registration. As yet wc havo not been able to procuro thc results of registration at the precincts in our Dis trict already vixitcd by the Registrars. The work, bejjun during tho past week, will last, with more or less continuance, until the first of Octob-r. Aud again we souk to urge upon tho minds of .our people ?hat there cannot possibly be an excuse for tho abandonment of tho obvious and serious duty of Registration. As wo have said before, the citir.cn who ahnll prove a delinquent on this occasion, who from nay consideration shall fail to have himself registered, will stand in the attitude of one who deserts his po?t in a moment of great peril to his causo and country. His rights, his property, his every interest, call him to the duty of Ro/istratiou. Remember that tho Radicals aro thoroughly organized. Every voter whom they hope to infiaence in the coming election, will be brought to the registry lists. Shall wc, whose interests are so momentous, be less active and energetic than they ? Is there a single white man in the District whose time is so much occu pied ai to be unable to give a few hours to the servioe of his country, bis family, and the success of human liberty ? He who fails to register will have no voice in vjtiug for or against a Convention; no voice in olecting good men to tho Convention in case a Cinvention is culled; and, thorefore, caunot ex pect good men in th? Convention, nor a good Constitution from it. A Green Spot iu the Desert ! A green Epot is about .o dcvelopc itself in the desert of dullness and dumbness which is now spreading itself over our community. Wc are to bc awakened and refreshed ! We are to laugh ! Ia fact we arc to die with laughter ! Delightful prospect! And we shall depart with all the fra grance of a good deed about us. We shall have given a half dollar to the best of causes. What arc these causes ? The buying of a Sunday School Library for thc Methodist Church, and the erec tion of a new fence along the rear line of our Vil lage Cemetery. In short, the Amateur Minstrels design giving another tennce. It will take placo, in the Masonic Hall, on Thursday evening, 29th of the present month. They designed giving it on tho coming Thursday evening, 22nd, and this impression be came wide-spread. But on accunt of tho sick ness of ono of tho troupe, they have been obliged to defer it one week. On the occasion in question, Novelty will be the distinguishing feature. Their performance will be overpoweringly comical and attractive. Such things as were nevor seen ia this latitude, will be seen at thc teancc of tho 29th. Let it bc borne in mind that when they last ap peared before tho public, a violent storm prcvontcd their having a large audience Their prococds were however considerable, and were presented to thc Baptist Sunday School. Next week they will publish their Programme in full. Look out for it. It will draw you as the loadstone does thc needle ! Registration in the Oth Regiment. Mr. JoSEfii H. MCKP.NNA, Chairman Board of Registrars for tho 8th Regiment, sent us on Mon day last, the following Registration appointments for that Regiment: Colliers, Thursday and Friday, 15th and lfith August. Red Hill, Monday and Tuesday, 19th and 20th Ausrast. White nouse, Thursday and Friday, 22d Hnd 23d August. Liberty Hill, Monday and Tuesday, 20th and 27th August. Shatterfield, Thursdny and Friday, 29th and .".0th August Cheal ham's Store, Monday and Tuesday, 2d and 3d September. Pleasart Lane, Thursday and Friday, 5th and Cth Sept. Howie's Store, Monday and Tuesday, 9th and 10th September. Mr. MCKEKNA says : " Registration is going on briskly on this route-white and colored ta king a lively interest in it." Rains and Crops,--Disasters and Blessings. During tho past woek wo have had plentiful supplies of rain ; indeed a little too much. At Orangeville, on Thursday morning last, tho dam above thc Factory broke, and about four hundrod and fifty fcot ^of it was carried away. Two or three bridges were swept oft* and the Factory grounds inundated. Apart from this, no other damage was dono. At Vaucluse tho oil house and blacksmith shop, and the bridge ovor horse Creek were carried off. At Kalma Mills and Bath Mills the dams were also broken. On Horn's Creek too, nearer to us, the damage bas been considera ble. Wo learn that at Fuller's, at Bottix's, and at Devora's Mills, tho dams yielded to the floods. As yet, however, wo have heard of but little injury to crops from tbeso overflows. And al though the good farmers will grumble when all things do not come exactly to thoir notion, ytt wo art inclined to judge from tho luxuriant ap pearance of cotton, com, peas and rcgetables that they (tho farmers) must feol themselves in a tolerably high state of accommodation. Splendid crops are undoubtedly growing and ripening in Edgefield District. Stnnd Fast by This Man. We mean A. STEVENS, whoso Grocery Business in Augusta is venerable with years and honor. To our certain knowledge it is thirty-one year? old in tko patrcnago and confidence of the people of Edgefield. Therefore, say we, stand fast by A. STEVENS. His Groceries arc of all possiblo grades, styles, varieties and prices. See tbe list of Stuplos he mentions in another column. His stand is two doors below the Planters Hotel, and next door below the Dry Goods Palace of V. RICHARDS A BROS. Splendid quarter that.' .'flip Reason Why. The Now York tfe'rald think: tko foot that the blacks In Tennesnco did not run any colored can? dilates speaks well for their intelligence and sagacity. As the Constitution of Tennessoe, adopted by a Radical Convention, forbids negro ofBoo-holding, tb? " intelligence ?nd sagacity" aforesaid aro not ?o ap? areflt.-PwtirnUonaUrt, j Hercules, so Esop Informs Us, Help? Those who help Themselves. If thero ig ono thing, more than another, which would provo cheering in tho midst of our many misfortunes and discouragements, it would bc to witness a mighty rousing of the public mind of South Carolina in behalf of those enterprises which are necessary to the developemont of her latent riches; richos which are incalculable in value. The encouragement of immigration, the increase of labor, the promotion of agriculture, tho building of railroads, the erection of manufac tories, the improvement of navigation, the erec tion of telegraph lines, the increase of schools and educational facilities; to all these, and to many minor but important enterprises, tho pjople of South Carolina should now ' i fully alivo. It pains us to say, however that they aro not thus alive. ? And in this connect,?j, we call special atten tion to tho admirable speech of Gen. Jons A. WAGBSER, delivered lately before a meeting of our public-spirited fellow-citizens of Newborry. Gen. WAGERER, ns is well known, is, by appoint ment of tho Legislature, State Commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration. IIo is a vastly e f ergctic, intelligent nnd practical citizen of Char leston-a native German, or of immediate German descent. His efforts towards inducing European immigration to South Carolina are well organized, wise, manly, persistent. But without the help, strong and unanimous, of therpeopleof the State, ho can do but little. And why is it, that, when negro labor is so un certain, and when wc pay such burdensome taxes upon idle and unimproved lands, we yet sit silent and idle ? Arc.we listlessly hoping that some thing will turn np ? Something is continually turning up to thc advantage of those who employ appropriate meant. And how is it (hat we can best help Gen. WAG r.sr.n nnd the all-important causo of immigration ? Certainly through combinations of landholders. Combination is to bo the great secrot of success in developing the wealth of South Carolina. Sparse as is our population compared with our territory, and small as is our morned capital com pared with our resources, wo have numbers, power and money enough in South Carolina this day to accomplish every scheme of internal improvement we need, if we only combine. Individually we can do nothing. Proper combinations will ac complish everything. Combinations, of cotton planters cm erect cotton manufactories in every cotton district. Combinations of planters, mer chants, stock-men, land-holders, capitalists, rail road men, and municipal corporations, can build all needed railroads. Anil combinations of land holders can procure immigration and labor to an : definite extent. Our planter;, as a general thing, are not pleased with free negro labor. And certainly, under ex isting circumstances, there is but little prospect of the negro becoming more industrious, and more respectful in his deportment. Iudced so long as they arc under Radical influence and leadership wo can expect from thom bit little good. We propose thereforo a Landholder's Conven tion of th? planters and farmers of Kdgefield District for the purpose of inducing foreign im migration. If a few prominent landholders would move in this matter, all, whether their acres be many or few, would fall in, and work with good accord. But there it not a moment to be lost. Even should wo begin now, und work with all our tnigbt, we shall not moro than make the proper arrar.getucnts by tho fall of 1S68. Though hun dreds of planters might supply themselves with vjlurble and availablo whito labor by the coming spring. Let us begin in time, and thousands will bc added to our population, much strength to our labor, and millions to our wealth, within a year from this date. The Sedgwick Institution in Augusta. The Misses SEDGWICK-those vastly accom plished and popular teachers, of Augusta, Ga., will resume tho exercises of their Boarding and Day School for Girls and Young Ladies, on the 2nd of October. Jo^thetold scholars dtffr Misse.' SEDGWICK this simple announcement will be suffi cient to again call them urouud them ; and we earnestly hope it will also have the effect of in ducing others to piaco themselves under their tui tion. For ourselves, we can unhesitatingly com mend them as possessing all the faculties that go to make up successful teachers. Music in this Insti tution is a grand sp?cialit?. Miss WEBER, at the head cf (he musical department, is, without a doub', ono of the very finest performers in the whole South ; and no less gifted as a toacher than as a performer. We bespeak special utter.tinn for the card of tho Misses SEDGWICK in another column. Impeachment Again Threatened.. Forney's Chronicle, tho representative of the Radied party, fays SB to Mr. Johnson's suspen sion of Stanton, that the loyal nation must pre pare either to drink the cup of humiliation to the dreg;, or hurl this monster from his seat. ? ? ? Teach the Negroes. Tho following ir the concluding paragraph of a letter sent by the Hon. C% T. Porcher to the Ab beville Pr?ts: And now, sir, we are saying again-" It is use less to talk-negrois will not believe you." As a faithful freedman said to me the other day, "Mas ter, if the negroes go wrong, you must blame tho white people. Why don't they do as theYankces are doing-go around and teach them? Whenever they spenk, you speak, too, and besides jou can find colored men who understand the matter. Let them speak and kill t' words in the Yan kees' mouths." As I P-; ocforo, don't attempt to argue.-. " " -pt upon the high Scrip tural ground, ?..u tuen let us prove that we sym pathize with them by helping their schools, ic. Sympathy is powerful ! I nra working herc Will you nut stir up men elsewhere ? l&r- The Richmond City Council has adopted a protest to General Schofiold against the city having to support the pauper negroes who have immigrated to the city since the war. The order suspending the Freedmen's Bureau rations throws this class of negroos on all the cities of the South whoro they chance to reside. Tax on Cotton. Tho Cotton tax imposed by the Internal Reve nue laws is again to bo tcstod. An Alabama pa per reports that a large company, composed of men of influence and position has been forming in various parts of the Cotton States with the de sign of endeavoring to recover, for the planters, the tax that has boen paid upon Cotton. It is intended to bring tho subject before the Commis sioner of Claims at Washington, and if no success is met with there, to the Supreme Court, and, if necossary, finally to Congress. Exactly. Some Radical correspondent has been mousing about Canada nnd declares that Mr. Davis thus .addressed him on reconstruction. Whether the fellow was thus honored is more than doubtful, but let him speak : "When I broached that matter to bim he cut me rather short, though in a very gentlemanly way. Ho laughed immoderately when I asked him as to the opinion of the Southern people with referenco to the reconstru?tion acts passed by Congress. He answered mc, however, in seven words, and I would to God that Andrew Johnson could havo heard the reply as impassioaately. Mr. Davis, with a waive of the hand, which, al though not intendod to be gesticular, carried with it an emphasis which I shall never forget, when in a measured voice he said, ' We have nothing to dp ititi it.'* ' ^?**The Montgomery Advertiser notices the return from Brazil of John M. Harris, W. J. De Berry, G. E. Jones, Tho*. McCant?, T. A. MoEl roy, John Standfield and D. W. Braziell ?nd families. The Acfierrtfer'represents these par ties much disappointed with the country, and thoroughly ourod of tho Brazil fever. Their rep. j'oaentuUons diffor very materially from the state ments of many estimable mon that have gone t0 Braxil from Alabama. ?^Fornoy's Press calls Thad. Stevens "the embodied success of a great idea,"also a "rugged old Spartan/" and ventana th? prediction that ho .jil) "*OP dwf ?? Bbxtiuifs (totter/." From Oar Memphis Corresponden MEMPHIS, TBWI , Aug. lOt?, 18( Mn. EDITOR:-The election for Governor, members of Congress, and of tho State Leg ture, about which there has been eo -much fe ish anxiety, so many hopes and so many f hu at length come off; and our worst fears been realized in (ho election of Brownlow ant entire Radical ticket. So far as neara from, Radical party have elected their candidate overwhelming majorities. Brownlow clain majority of 30,000 in tho eu tiro State; but that number is probably a fair estimate of triumph of the advocates of corruption, mean and profligacy, over the standard-bearers of orly and justice alfte to all. For Mie first in tho history of Memphir, aa olection has I curried by men unable to reid oven tho nann their candidates. The entire white Radical in Memphis and its suburbs does not exceed 1 yet Brownlow received 4,200 votes, 3,500 b cast by tho newly enfranchised citizens of Afr descent. Tho entiro white v"te, if cist agi Brownlow, could not bavo materially changed result. All told it did not exceed 2700; wbi the 3,500 negro votes coat for Brownlow and party, 1500 more blacks would have beon ad bad the polls remained open one hour after time prescribed by law. At least that nun with tickets in their hands were swarming al tbs polls like the locusts of Egypt when the ? hoar of four o'clock arrived. The Radicals o shot tbs mark. They feared to trust the cou: nogroes 'o their employers and ordered them tho city to vote. Half the polling places i allotted to them ; but, these proving insuffici they crowded iato the jr bi tc precincts and mom lized them to tho exclusion ef the white?, 1 drcds of whom were elbowed from the polls, after waiting hours for the black iaundntio subside, finally left in disgust without eas their ballots. The Registration Commissio with the most unblushing impudence, issued tifie&tes of citizenship ac the Ballot Box to groes who had just loft thuir employers in Mi; sippi and Arkansas to vote for Mr. Brownlow Memphis. This, together with their lying thn and specious pron: isca to the native blacks, elected the Radical ticket by an overwhelm majority; and Tennessee for two year? mor doomed to an existence to which the vilest ie tude is preferable. And the greater and be part of the population, the bone and siuow of State, will still have to support *> gorernmen which they have n 3 voice. The election came* off on Thursday, Aug. and by Saturday n::ght, 3rd, inst, 500 black?, \ on the 1st were struck with excessivo ad ration for Brownlow, were cast adrift by tl employer*, who tell them they must look to tl, friends (?) for employment now. On this acco the Freedmen's Bureau, nn orticlo of furnit heretofore almost totally discarded by tho blue has since bein in great demur.,1; and Uncle Sal agents are eontinutJIy beset by these unfortun followers of Radicalism to procure them sit tions. It would be well for people of all Southern States to consider well the condition Tennessee, with her reconitructio?, before decidi how to cast their votes in the -coming ele'-tb throughout the Soi.th ; and to choose bctweei Sickles, a Sheridan or a Pope on the one hai with military mle, and a Brownlow, (or his lik on the other hand, with tho blessings of peace which Tennessco now cDjoys. In this connection, I would state that the spee of ilon. B. II. HOI, of Georgi? is highly co mended by the leading men of this City a State, who heartily endorse bil views on rece struction, and who would adviso their brcthr of tho South to give their votes for " no conve tion ;" and to rest satisfied fur a timo with mi'.: ry rule, in preforenco to a civil goveramont pi sided over by men who would roo them in pock and deprivo them of all their rights of citizcosh: In the midst of our own overthrow and degi dation, however, I am glad to say that not all oar friends are involved. The election in Kt tacky has resulted ia a Democratic triumph, by majoiitjr pf GO^OO, showing a clear gain of por cent over the last Democratic majority. Tl Kentucky papers say that our Tennessee farce w worth 20,000 vole? io the Democratic parti/ in th State. We "ran the thing in tho ground" so coi pletcly here, as to open the eyes of all the blii there; except tho few who will not see. And the hands" of Tennessee are but untied, ando honest men allowed to vote, she will rival her si ter, evon with the weight of'the black vote carry. But enough of Politics. Thc crops in Tennessee and adjoining State are better than for many years past ; .'.nd if tl seasons but contirue propitious, one of the large crops will be harvested this fall ever made in th section. The merchants of this City arc vet jubilaut over the prospects, as, many of thei have been obliged to suspend business on accoui of the inability of the planters to meet their lil bilities of last seaton. The City, since my last, has made some con mendable moves in tho way of public improv< ment The Nickolson pavement has been laid o .<ome of the principal street?, and by the begit ning of the wihtor season tho bottomless mud holes, so dangerous to life and limb last wintei will be replaced by a smooth, i eautiful and noise lest pavement, which will fully repay the cost c construction. Preliminary turveys aro also bein mado for the' construction of a system of Water works and Sewerage, which, if carried through will tend groatly to promote the general healti of tho City. And, if the extreme measures c tho "powors that bo" do notsc.ire away emigrant! Memphis will soon be the Queen City of the Mis susippi valley. I four however that, under th management of the Radical crew, with Brownlow at the helm, the Ship of State will sink, and will her will be wrecked the material prosperity o thousands of the citizens of the commonwealth Tho Cholera, which has prevailed to some ex tent for the post month, hos somewhat abated und we indulgo a hope that unr experience so fai will be all that we hare to fear from tho droadfu scourge for his soo*":.. As it is, it has been con. fined mos tl; co the lower classes, and the new. comers ; and the majority of tbeso hare been at tacked through some imprudenoo of diet. South Carolina has many representative! ic Memphis, both in mercantile life and in tho vari ous professions and trades ; i?nd some of thea fully sustain the anciant prestige of ber name, In the learned professions ber representatives, thoagh young, promise to attain a station far abovo mediocrity. In the future the prospects hero in all pursuits will be dependent upon the coarse pursued by the party now in power,-ex cepting only the Law. That profession will ne cessarily thrive upon the eudless litigation brought about by the exactions and oppressions, of a mi nority party in power; ?nd, though there are quite a number of the legal profession, many emi nent too, it would appear that that pursuit of all others will present the best opening fur distinction and suocess so long as the parti-colored party hold the reins of Government. Every thing oise will droop and wither so long as the State is con trolled by a people who are the antitheses of eve rything noble and great. Tae truly great haye no superiors, and aro over generous to those whom they control ; but that other class have no inferi ors, and, following their own mean instincts, hate, oppress and plunder s.ll whom tho accident of power emboldens them io attack. Truly, l'ours, 4c. w. n. M. ? -* -?- ? PS?" A Florida negro was exorcising 'his civil ri?bt of thrashing his wife, when a noighbor in terfered. Taking up a shot-gun, tho wlfe-whip per shot at the other, but mhsod him and killed two of his own children. . /?"The President, through Gen. Grant, has instructed Gen. Sickles that no order can be issued by the latter conflicting with tho process of Fedoral Courts. This revokes Order No. 10, interfering with eases reoently adjudicated by Judge Chaso in North Carolina. ?5?:Ex-Secretary Stanton and wife have gono to Boston. Their son retains his olerkship in the War Department. The Cotton orop In Sumter county, Fla., ii said to bp rathor lorry-too much rain wef poUHcfJ. j The Two Questions to be Sobi to the Registered Voters. It is of grcit importance (?. ja the Chi Mercury,) that all persons who are not i chisod and can register boar in mind that, they register, they will not be able to TO either of the two question:) to be submittci registered voters under the military acts, tration is the test of qualification, and 1 whatever his condition, can voto unless h appears on tho registrars*, lists. The qiestions to be submitted to tho rej voters aro two : 1st. An election is to be hnld of delegat convention " for ?.he purpose of establis constitution and civil government," at election all the registered voters may vote, voting in favor of such convention shall ha\ the ballots by which they vote .'or delega words "For a Convention," anl thoso against it the words "Against a Coaventioi a majority of all the registered vo .ers vot the question of holding a convention, and, dition, a majority of the votes cast be in fi a convention, then the conveption will b There will not le separate votings upon : la holding of a convention; and 2d. The elec delegates thereto. There will be but ono which will determine whethor the conv shall be held, and, if held, what delegate be sent to it. It is nnder the provisions military act that the convention cannot h unless a majority of the yotes cast are in fn convention, and unless a majori'y of all tb istered votors do vote upon the question, tl have already explained that a man who rej and duos not vote dees as much to defeat thc ing of the convention as if ho polled hu against it. 2d. If tb? convention is held and a coi lion is framed, then that constitution will b mittcd for ratification to the registered vol tho Stato. And if a majority of the vote are in favor of ratification, and if, in additi least one-half of all the registered voten upon the question of ratification, then it sh submitted for the approval of Congress. I instance also the registered voter who do roto has as much power against ratification, who votes at the polls, against it. It will thus be soen tbat there are only tw portunities of expressing approval or disappi 1st. The holding of a convention which inc the election of delegates ; and 2d. The rat tion of tho constitution. Action npon ca the two quostions will be altogether indepen Any registered voter may vote for f^ave and against Ratification. Any registered may vote against CoBv$2?3a -ad for Ratifict Any registered voter may decline to vote Convention arid vote upon Ratification. Any istered voter may vote upon Convention am cline to vote upon Ratification. The only ci tion is that he shall be a registered vote" 1 Again do wc earnestly adviso every man can register to do so at once. Wo know not the future may bring forth ; but, under all cumstances and in any contingency, it is the of every man who is not disfranchised to rog without an hour's unnecessary delay. ? ? ? Acknowledgment. The Edgeficld Baptist Sunday School take method of thanking the Amateur Musical Clo this Village for their handsome donation of th? prococds of their June Concert, for the pure! of the different kinds of books needed by School. M. W. SAMS, Superintenden ^5&~Charles E. Hooks, charged with robbii TJ. S. officer of $10.000 in greenbacks, Gov? ment property, while the official was in on the hotels of Charleston, has been arrested at North, and brought back to Charleston for tri EtTMexioan advices, via Havana, say Jut has ordered Santa Anna's trial under the lav 1862, by which conviction follows identificati Vidal is closely confined. Marquer, was captu ..at Hacienda Paradous. Prince Salm Sala among the condemned. tSrM?j?r-General Sterling Prico is now cuperatiug his health at the celebrated Frei Lick Springs, Orange county, Indiana. ?STNew corn can be engaged in portions Texas at 25 cents a bushel. ?SSr*Georgo W. Kendall predicts that the fi negro role will be the heaviest ever counted, thinks that thc negroes will not continue to it an intereit in politics after tho novelty of voti has passed away. ?S^*Continuod accounts report great desiri liveness by thc cotton worm in Louisiana a thc coast counties in Texas. ?&?Midsnie C. D. Murat, relict of tho li Prince Achille Murat, died at her plantation Jefferson oounty, Fla., on Tuesday morning la She had attainod the advanced ago of seven years. ?39"In the Circuit Court at Baltimore, la Wednesday, two women claimed one child. Tl I eiue was ii puzzling one, and tbs chili! waa a lowed to make her choice of mothor. On findir this to be ber privilege rho selected one, savin "This is the mammy I want." The scene wi very affocting. pST* An Obie paper gives the names of thn prominent Radicals who havo committed suicid during the year past-an example which tho er tire Radical party is following with a certainty < . success. ?Sr* " WHAT is HOME WITHOUT A MOTHER? -A gathering sore that culminates in a step mothor. XSST Samuel Motts, a colored man residing i: Syracuse, one hundred and seven years old, i about returning to his old home iu Winchestei .Virginia, where he was formerly a slave. H< wants to lay down his bones on "do ole plantation.' ?3?*- The Brig Vim. Andmon, which brough a load of Coolie: from Hav ?na, and hnded then in Louisiana, has boen libeled and thc Captaii and man in charge of the Coolies bon clod in i thousand dollars to answer a violation of tbi laws prohibiting tho introduction of Coolies istc tho United States. ?*3T*An old Freedman in Tex-.?, was asked I few days ago, if he was not going to regiutcr. He wished to know how ho would have to proceed. On being told that he had to swear to support the Constitution, his eyes widened, and, drawing a long breath, he said he couldn't do it, because he couldn't support himself. .-? -?- ? ASSASSINATION OF THE TRAITOR LOPEZ Tho particulars of the assassination of Lo pez, the betrayer of Maximilian, are as fol lows : Lopez was stopping at a hotel in Puebla, where bis wife spurned him from her pres ence. Early one morning a Mexican Arrived and familiarized himself with an ostler in a livery stable adjoining the hotel. Q?n. Miguel Lopez was inquired for, but not being in, tho stranger was told tiiat the General would be at dinner- B.efcre the dinner hour Lopez returned and was pointed out to the stranger, who made special note of his man. When dione rwns called, Lopez and his assassin occupied opposite scats at tho table. After 3ome minutes, during which time the stranger called for and drank a glass of wine, ho deliberately rose, drew a concealed knife and sprang upon Lopes, .nd stabbed him nine times. The stranger then took his hat, and, as he started, to leave, said : "This is the way all traitors should be paid." No ono interfered or prevented tho assassin from leaving. Thus was the blood of Maximilian, Miroraon, Mejia, ye*, and thousaud8 of others, avenged. This re port is regarded as authentic. General Sickles, in answer to a pe tition from the citizens of Mecklenburg coun ty, North Carolina,' has granted the privilege of distilling wine?, ciders ? and brandies iront* fruit.', but not from gtain. ;C3T" There, is, says the New York Day Book, a rumor from the South, (we do not vouch for its truth) that Gen. Sheridan con templates tho removal of President Johnson, on tho ground that ho is " so impediment" to roconatroctieol ?4 From the West. OMAHA, August .'.-Details arc corning i of the battle, near Fort Kearney. Tho "in diana attacked a foraging party and stan peded the stock. The soldiers entrercur themselves behind the wagons and lough three hours, when reinforcements arrive and they drove the' Indians off. Sixty In dians and six soldiers, including Lieutepau J. Ennis, were killed. Major Powell, wh commanded, the forage party, attribute his successful resistance to the long rang breach-loading ann?. -? ? ? Frorc Louisiana. NEW OF.LEAN'S; August 17. Sheridan's anticipated election order wa issued to-day. It provides two days for th election, September 27tb and 28th. The cor vention is to be composed uf i:ioet?eigh members. Boards of registration are order ed to commence the revision ofrclls and fina registration fourteen days before the eleclicm The number of representatives in each pariel are designated. Otber provision?, of the ordc are unimportant and confined to the usua details of a general election, except thc fol lowing : Section 7. Should violation or fraud bi perpetrated at any of the voting precincts, oi the days of election, thu offenders will bi punished in the severest manner, and the clec tion within these precincts will be held ove again under the protection of United State troops. RESIGNATIONS.-The special corresponden of the New York Herald says : " Apropos of resignations, I am informel that the policy likely to be adopted toward the present military commanders will be on of gradual decapitation. Sheridan will prob ably be the first victim, and Popo the nexi Then there will be a pause. Should the ott er commanders profit by the fate of thes two and fall gracefully in with the Johnson ian policy, they will be allowed to remain ii oilier for a long time, and may not be stirrei at sdi, if their support is given heartily and ii real earnest^ but if, when Sheridan is re moved, the rest tea der their resignations, have no doubt no obstacle will be thrown ii tho way of their retirement." Registration. VIRGINIA.-Tho Richmond Enquirer of th 12th has registration returns from forty-fiv cities and counties in the Sta^o, which shov a majority of 18,358 for the whites. This re turn, includes the cities of Richmond, Peters burg, Lynchburg and Alexandria, where th< blacks have their heaviest majorities. Th< counties heard from comprise about onc-hal of the State, and tho Enquirer thinks thai the white majority in the counties to be heart from, will be as largo as in these already re turned. This will make the majority in thi entire State between 35 and 40,000. LOUISIANA.-Full returns of registration ir Louisiana, give whites forty-four tbousauc seven hundred and thirty-two; blacks eighty two thousand nine hundred and seven-tota one hundred and* twenty-seven thousand sis hundred and thirty-nine. The whites have a very small majority in ten parishes. Whitt m&jority in New Orleans forty. As soon as thc State is arranged into districts, Sheridan will issue an order for the election of members ol the Convention. ' ALABAMA.--The Montgomery Mail give? the result of registration in Alabama : whites, 60,045 ; blacks, 76,640. Total, 135,685. ELORIDA_Registration in Florida in six teen of the most populous counties has been heard from. The whole number registered thus far 8,940. Six thousand and seventy three colored and two thousand fire hundred and eighty-three whites. Leon eounly, the most thickly settled in the State, registered one thousand five hundred and thirty-seven colored, four hundred and seven whites. ? -? General Pope ?n B. H. Hill. WASHINGTON., Aug. 17.-Geu. Pope writes Gen. Grant two solid columns. The letters of B. H. Hill furnishes the text. The follow ing passage occurs: ''It is, however, my duty to state that, in my judgment, the condition of affairs in the Southern States, even should reconstruction be satisfactorily a:complished. will of necessity be a reproduction, in a mon or leis modified degree, of what now exists in Tennessee, unless Borne measures arc adopted to freo the country of the turhuleut and disloyal Wders of the reactionary party. Whilst these persons remain in the country to exercise the baleful influence they un doubtedly possess, there can be no peace.'' Northern Radicals and Southern Rene gades iu New Orleans. " LIBRA," the Spicy New Orleans corros pondent of tho Charleston Courier, pours a broadside into the Radical party of New Or-v leans in thc following style : Our community swarms with these Radical and Southern Yankeeized vermin. Men with out a home and without a character; name less creatures who have made their appear ance in a day, like an army of locusts seekirg what they may devour-the flesh-flies of so ciety, engendered iu the cess pools of revolu tion, pouring forth out of the rotting carcass of the State which their fathers have stung to death, and on which they in turn are feed ing. Spies, informers,demagogues, assassins of public credit, defamers ol'private charac ter, plunderers of the public fund, ready for tho dirtiest work, greedy for infamy, the pli ant tools of unscrupulous leaders, debased, debauched, mercenary, steeped to the lips in fraud and falsehood, covered all over with in famy as with a garment. So low have we fallen ; lo this complexion has the pure, free Government of our fathers come in less than a single century. And men ?tn yet be found, men not merely among but of us, who coun sel the people to throw themselves into the arms of a party which cac breed such spawn, and to surrender their last remnant of virtue, dignity and manhood, for the sake of quiet. Men, who like Hezekiah, can see far oft' the overthrow of their people, tba destruction of their country and the Rhame and ruin ot their children without an emotion, and say to thc prophet, "is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days." All honer to those bravo souls who refuse lo accept sach coward counsel j who dare op pose free hearts, free foreheads to the storms of fate, who, in tho hour of adversity, when tho weak are falling away, and self-seekers aro trampling on thc right, and cowards aro finding safety in defection, refuse themselves to bow the knee, and send their warning voices through thc land. Our last and only refuge is principle, and woe to us if we abandon it. Those who seek alliance with thc enemy will find out too late what kind of gifts the Greek brings. If we cannot save ourselves by our energy, we can, at least, not disgrace our children by our example. .-? ? TERRIBLE CRIMES CHARGED AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.-Buffalo, K. V. August 12. The Rev. H. Wendt, of Germantown, Pa., was arrested in Rochester this morning, charged with outraging the persons of seven girls, Inmates of the Germantown Orphan Asylum, of which he was superintendent. He had been practising his diabolical acts for over a year previous to his discovery. He fled from Germantown last week, fearing punishment, and came to this city. On his arrival he wrote to his wifo making inquiries as to thc feeling among the members of his church, and stated .ho would bo in Roches ter to-day, and would be the guest ot the lutheran minister. This letter fell into the hands of the trustees of the Orphan Asylum, who caused his arrest. Wendt has a wife and six children living in Germantown, Pa. He left in charge of an olficer from Germantown on the returning (rain for their home. WONDERFUL FREAK OF A BABY.-The Ot tumwa Mercury tells the following : " A few lays ago, in Keokuk County, a babosix months lld, was crying lustily, and the usdal appli inces seemed, to have no effect. It still cried, md, tho mother waa perplexed to know what tho trouble was. At last, after it seemed al most exhausted, it spoke with startling dis :?DCtness these words ; 'Give me a drink of ?rater!' Of course the mother was frightened, jut gave the water, when it immediately went to sleep. The infant had never spoken 1 jefore, nor since. We cm touch for the ruth of the r.bove, aa we are personally ac quainted with t> parra ts of too child." ''rom thc Petersburg Express. Poor Old Virginia. P?or .Virginia ! She may say with the patriare!D.-" My flesh is clothed with worms ar.^ of du3t> He bath also made me a by w ()f the peop]c . and aforetime I wasasatit j was cycs t0 tue blind, and fret to^ n And men waited for me aa for i\? and they opened their mouth wide - ;he latle? ??m. If I laugh ed on them tlbelieved it not. I cbc-se out their way, an^ chief and dwelt M a king S theT "my- ? now they that are yojnger than I have rae der?B?on whose fathers I would have diso d t0 bave set with the dogs or ray Hock But Job, afflict ^ned of his wealth io. flocks and serv JJ made the jest of the basest of mank. i?ved to ^ the jus tice of God vindic? and to be refltored to his former prosperity BbaU we be) it we imitate his patience^^ and n;8igDa. don. Let ns bear rai^y our misfortunes, and the day is comm^jjgn tbe ^ov?e of this country will awa^ t0 geceroaB sym pathies, and our revilerw?n excb&Dg3 their jeers for their old ancqo6uy WorthleS8 strains of sycophantic a?^job, Measures to Secare ?-,,igratioii into Tenueise Under a charter granted . Tbe legisla ture, an Organization has betformed in this city to dispose of lands to ^grants from the North or Europe. It haii,cadv secur ed the control of large tract'0f tbe best lands in tho State, and it profie8 to 8ell such lands, in limited tracts, on "~ ([me to industri?os and worthy settlers. *i| advance in the value of reserved tracts whe?ne coun try is Siled up will make the pro. 0f the company, whose main purpose is tc>riog in .a sufficient laboring population to\evelot> the immense resources of our Stat? The company has already received many otters from parties with means who desire tootle in Tennessee, and expects to locate atlast fifty families this Fall. Most of these wii be Hollanders who have means, and who %\\ have small farms in a community of wh'rt> the town is to be called Harlem. The cl. mate, the soil, the mineral resources, the geographical position, all invite settlers to Tennessee, and it is certain that political troubles and disadvantages cannot last a great while. A circular from this immigration movement to land owners is in press, and will doubtless be soon extensively circulated. The objects and modes of operating will be made extensively known in the North through the newspaper press,and. cooperative so cieties.-Memphis Avalanche. ? > ? * KIND FEELINGS.-Wr< gratified to learn that the colored men ot columbia have taken steps to petition Gen. Sickles for the release of tho young men Radcliffe and Daly, or rath er, we should say, for a remission of their se vere sentence. Such evidence of the kind and sympathetic relations between the two races speaks louder thau all the platforms, speeches and resolu tions in the world. The colored community know, like others of our citizens, that these young men are wrong ; but they are also as sured that they did net mean wrong, and in this action which they have-taken, they dem onstrate that no mere political differences of opinion can alter the allegiance which they have ever held towards old friends, associates and citizens. This petition isone of the happiest signs of confidence we have yet heard of, and it is to be hoped that, coming from such an honest source, it will be entitled to some weight in its consideration by the military authorities. It is the whito man who, when the c 1 Ted man is in trouble before our courts and mag istrates, affords the latter assistance; and now, when a young son ot Columbia is in a bad box, why should thc colored man not re ciprocate? He is doing so.-Columbia Phoenix. - SM St DEATH OF COL. CAMPBELL R. BRYCE.-We regret to learn, hy a private despatch receiv ed in this city, that this respected citizen of Columbia died in New Yotk on the Lit h in stant. He had just returned from Brazil, whither ho had teen, accompanied hy his son, and where, we understand, he contracted the disease which terminated his existence. His remains are expected by the famiiy this morning, on the arrival of the Charlo'.te train. Col. B. enjoyed the confidence of his fellow citieens, and, on several occasions, represent ed them in the State Legislature, and per haps would have entered more heartily into public life, had declining health not prevented it.-Columbia Phoerix. 17th. Usg* Rev. P. W. Beales, senior member of the Mesn'sfeniini Lutheran Synod of Penn sylvania Lr ncns'er, died while administering inc Lord's Su(p;r to his family. Agc, 91 years. There aro over six hundred visitors at. ttje Givtnbrier White Sulphur Springs, Va. ?3T Hon. John S. Pendleton, of Cul peper county, Va., a former member of Con gress has been arrested on the charge of perjury in having rcj/istered. TOMl?EBC??Lr AUGUSTA, Aug 17. GOLD--The brokors aro buying at 140 and selling at 142. COTTON.-The demand light and market dull,-quotations ranging from 23J to 26 cents. WHEAT-Red $l,60@1,75 j Whito at $1,80? 2,00. CORN-White $1,35@1,40 ; Mixed $1,35. CORN MEAL-City bolted, $1,55; Country $1,45. OATS 65@70 cts. per bushel. BACON-Clear Sides, 18J@lf ; Ribbed Sides, 18@181; Shoulders. 14J@15; Hams, 16@20c. BACON, LARD, CORN, MOLASSES, ?DC. HHDS. Clear RIBBED SIDES, 5 Hbds. CLEAR SIDES, Casks SUGAR-CURED HAMS, IO 5 150 15 IO 175 ?75 125 Sacks Liverpool SALT. With a FULL ASSORTMENT OF EVERY THING IN THE GROCERY LINE. ?SfTor sale at tho lowest figures by A. STEVENS. Augusta, Aug 20_tf_.'U_ RAGGING, ROPE, &c. Pkgs. LEAF LARD, in barrels, tabs and pails, Hbds. Primo Muscovado MOLASSES, Hhds. Claved Cuba MOLASSES, Sacks Prime White-bread CORN, Boxes Adamantine CANDLES, 12 225 125 BALES GUNNY BAGGING, COILS ROPE-best brands, KEGS OLD DOMINION NAILS-as sorted sizes. For tale by e A. STEVENS. Augusta, Aug 20_ tf 34 _ BEEF MARKET. I WILL FURNISH GOOD BEEF and MUT TON to the people of Edgefield on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday mornings, at reasona ble prices, but strictly for Cash. I will have Mutton furnished whenever want ed. A. A. GLOVER, Agent. Aug 20_tf_34__ Grreat IReductioii in KEROSINE OIL. WE HAVE jost reeoived ft fresh supply ef PURE KEROSINE OIL. which will be gold low for Cash only. Five Gallons $4,50. Sin gle Gallon, $1,00. TEAGUE &. CARWILE, Under Masonic Hall Acg20 tf U