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important Democratic .Hceting. A large meeting ol the Democratic Ch Richland District was held on Monday, .t;h, in Columbia. The President, Caj W. B. Stanley, called the meeting to 01 nid stated the objects for which it had 1 called toge;.h- r. The fo?lowirs?f ? evolutions were introd and passed. Colonel Thomas stated thi? hal adopted the ?.ug^estLms of the Aug Cit i on ich d' Sentinel : Resolved, That, i:i t!ie opinion of this C the political affiliation of the colored ^ with the Conservatives of the cmntry, nishes the only h ?pc to his nee cf a prc rc ii s future. K' ? -lvt-d, That all colored men whe willing to trust their fortunes in the ham those? with whom tiny have bern born rared, are urged to abandon their Rai leaders, and to place themselves in the Di oralie Oonse-vative organizations of country. Resolved. That the members of the fi lani Democratic C!u>> renew their pled? give thu preference to their own mombo selecting mechanics, laborer.-", tradesmen servants of any kind. Resolved, That we a.Lrreenot tocountena support cr employ any one discharged member on account ot' his affiliation will Radicals or IV.yal Leaguers, unless he : have reason to assume that said diseha party bas honestly abandoned said oljocti aili!;ation. Resolved, That a lis?, of the colored m bc-rs of thc Democrat^ Club bo kept in s c-M.venicnt place, to the end that mern wishing to secure labor, may be able to r to the list, and that a Committee be appon ti carr}' out the details of tho plan sugg? in this resolution. Resolved, That arrangements be forth\ made to provide for a series of seiui-mon lectures for the benefit of the colored m b?rs of Democratic C!ub3 of Columbia-i lectures being dedgned to discuss the pn CA1 issues of the day, and to impress upon colored man his restions to the white n ar.d his duties as . itizen to thc goverurc cf the country. Resolved flirt' , That this we are prepa to do. and mor*,, if neceS?ary, on the prii plo of helping those who help us. and of con sen tin tr, to warm into life the viper t would sting us to tba heart. As a matter o? information to the memb and to invent misunderstanding rc-lativi nominations for municipal officers, Mr. Gib road section :i0, from tho Constitution rcc< ly adopted : SEC 30. Members of the General Ass? hiv. and all officers before they enter upon execution of the duti-s of tkir respective fices, and all members of tho bar. before tl eut^r upon the practice of their professi thal! take and subscribe thc following ca " I do solemnly swear (or affirm as thc c may hf) that I am duly qualified, accord to the Constitution of thc- Cuitcd Statis i of this Siate, to exercise the duties of office to which I have been elected, (ur pointed,) and that 1 will faithful y di-cha to the best of my abilities the duties there that I recognize the supremacy of the Ci stitu'.ion an ? laws of the United States, o' the Constitution and laws ol any State; a that I will suppOi't, protect and defeud I Constitution of thc United States nnd l Constitution of South Carolina, as ratified the people on thc-day of April, 18' So help ?ne God/' General Wade Bampton being present, v. r q tested lo address ?he Club, and Colon Th nias an i McMasicr and Dr. Heintish wt appointed to conduct, him to the staud, wli he ??poke ii substance as Pillows: FELLOW CITIZENS OF RICHLAND:-Wh the gent'eman (who so admirably iii!? d i position m Chairman of the Kxec:tivv Co mit tee, dining my necessary abs-nee.) ? q i sted rn-, to ba present ou ibis pleasing ( cisi?n, I accepted tho invitation, not expel iag to be called upon t'.> deliver a public u dress Bu?, ts many of you know, duri y.mr experience of four years with me. whi I was not prepared for a iight. T gave the bc I could. 6o in this instance, 1 shall ?o tl bi>t I can. Allhoigh abcont from the Sta fir a length of time, I have watched your or c.pi5::i;,'s with keen interest, and have bc< highly gratified. 1 dom that we have righ ia tho Union, ar.d that when wo laid dov our arms, it was with thc unders anding tb we wi re to bo re admitted to thc Union wit a!! . ur right"1, dignity and equality unin laired. -Mr. Lincoln SJ declared, and M S?w;?.rd so stated in his foreign iii pitches, was willing to see the Uuion restored, &n that when our States wore restored, our pei pla we'd J nndeavor to forgive, it' not forg t;:.-> past. Bu' I f.-ar ibu! many cf onr pc-.'pl were too ready to ifield concessions. Thc not ooiy.inei the Radical patty Laif Way, Lu wc:.; s'iii farther. 1 hope that the delegate sent lo the National Democratic Noutinaiin Convention, tj meet i.: New York in Jul next, will s -.: that the righ s of ihe Stat" ar fully upheld. I think tb? action of.j'our Cir v^-i'.ij:: wa* consistent and politic. \V??hou< g > willi the Dim icratic party if they advocat S ?ito riguts. 1 recent |y met two gration.'n from paiishe in L uiiMAua, \7hich Contained larg? colon mr-j ??ties, who stated tint thc colored per.pl had 1? properly informed . f tue positioi t!, y occupied, and thc consequence was thal \-.'. . of those pArislies, thrrc were 800 ma for thc Democrats, and in the other lUlvl." i..-t ihe e '1 jr. tl Iii.be told God^trUtl -that :l ho fXpcCli tu e-C?pe tiit f;ite ol th Indian, he rhould ^o in with th? J)<?mocrat'u or Conserva i?e part/. Nearly a year a^o, b} special request, I addressed '.he color, d peo p?e, at a mee ing in this town, and told them th;-- I believed all tho-e matters were uncon stitutional :;iid would be wiped i ut. I tole Jtriem that I was willing to extend to them ar educational and property qualification. The cd'?red men have not, it W true, carried oui thc views they then expressed-they wtu!ii nut mevt us half way. Many buvc been led off. Now. when the Democratic party is get tiir? into tho ascendancy at the North, and will shortly !>': in power, we could tum ou: h;;;!;.-; upou the unfortunate colored men,ami t il them wc would have nothing lo do with them : ; ut that should not b* thc- case. This matter shou?d bl; settled hythe Dcinocrutic Nomhi&ting Convention, t ? meet in New York. y. i< probable thar the question relative to suffrage wfi! h-i referred to the States, in r;>::.:!ii-i ?n, J will orjy say that 1 did not ex peet lo address you today, bot only hoped lo seo my old friends and fellow cit rons, and to assoie them that tho good work is going on, and that Forrest in Tennessee, ar.-l Gordon in Georgia, arc pushing thc matter, and are v.-ry sanguine of succc-sr. /> remonstrance against tLe reception of ?.he ???.'A* Constitution by C ingress having been prepared by thc Central Executive Commit tee, it was moved and adopted that Colonels John ?. Preston. L. D. Childs, J. G. Gibbes r.u.iJ. P. Thoma* ijs requested to proceed immediately to VVasnjngton. and furnish copies to^broainent members toe presentation Co u.-t body. . ...- ? --a- . - SxcotfttarUXti Iit.M I?:KATION.-The steam *Kip lined iroxa yaltitnoro and New York to Charleston, and /bo railroads o; this State amt their conhtcUotw, l??vve made arrange ments by which emigrants wiU bo taken from yiiltiroora or New York, riu Charleston to ;iny uoiat in the South or S >uth-west, at ex-1 cecdi:;g;y lo^v rates. From New York to Co- 1 lu ra bia the fare will bo only twelve dollars. Tuis i< the way io ?scourage immigration. Cjlumbia Phonix. ? -->? ? - NEG aa KCLLED.-A ncr/ro calling hirnse'f Prince Albeit was found liead ft low miles i'roui Blackville, on Saturday last. His Majes ty had, about two weeks previous to his death, broken into and robbed a corn crib, and us ho was making his v.r.y off wah a hag full of rho "stall'of life," so ne per?on or persons un known, shot Lim dowu. When lound, two tvevkfi after, the corn was still in his posses ^ioriy /In inquest win held over thc remains of the Prince on Monday last, and a verdict in accordance lyith the above facts rendered. | -Barnwell Sentinal, I ?c&~ la Dclawaro (Ind.) tfarpe brothers got into a quarrel, aod thc clJest struck the two youngest I over the head with au axe, killing them both, and ' then, to cap tho cliauf, bong himself. J ySf Aa unusually strong movement is devel oping itself in favor of fem alo snffrage ia the Pis- j1 ?ric t of Columbia. J I -3 _ "unj_""_ _j_i!r??---1 State Politics. The Central Executive Committee of th State Democratic party has issued tho lollov ing circular, which explains itself: Tn reply to thc resolutions adopted at tb meeting of the Democratic party of Edgefiel District, the undersigned Executive Commi tee deem it c::: edicnt to state that they c not think it wisc or proper to invite any otl cr Convention of thc- people of the Sta'c i this time. The Convention recently a.?seti bled, represented, we bclievo, the sentimei of the State, and any other line of policy no would be disastrous to the unity and hannon so necessary to success. The resolution adop ed by that Convention was based upon tl right of each State to regulato for itself tl question of franchise, and in giving an expre .-nn of what they believed to be tbe opinioi of our people, the Convention acted delibc ately, calmly r.nd, under the circumstance wisely. The action of the Convention mee with approval every whore in the ranks thc Democratic party, and we ar? dispose to abide by thc action of the Convention I politic, prudent and just. As the organ i that body, our duty is to uphold its actic and lay it before the country ana the Stat accompanied, nevertheless, with our solera protest against the instrument called a Coi stitution, which is about to be forced upc us by Radical rule and military dictation. WADE HAMPTON, J. P. THOMAS, F. w. MCMASTER, JOSEPH D. POPE, For Central Executive Committee. Washington News. WASHINGTON, May 7.-The Court openc but immediately closed doors and went int secret session. A Massachusetts member of Congress ti day remarked in alluding to tho impeaehe that their friends were much disturbed. Gen. Gillern has made a report to Gei Grant statiug the incompletable show of ? majority of over twelve hundred for the rat fication of the Constitution in Arkansas. Lis order had been complied with the resu would have been indisputable, but there ai in the counties of Pulaski and Jefferson nim teen hundred votes which cannot be ascei fained to bc either for or agaiust the Const 1 tution ; where these irregularities occur eac party charges thc other with fraud. The delegation with the Nort'a Carolin Constitution and several members of tho Coi gressional delegation have arrived. "WASHINGTON, May S.-The South Carolin Democratic Committee will protest againi I the Constitution before the Reconstructio Committee. St wc. s received th2m with chilling remark, that what the protest clain ed as grievances they regarded as virtue! Col. Thomas addressed the Committee, raak ing the points that the white people woul i:Ot patiently sub nit to negro supremacy ; an that while they would be compelled to sui mit to the yoke there could be no real peac until it was removed. The question ol taxi liou seemed to impress the Committee social ly. Stevens -uggCitcd the plan of allowing th ?.roperty-holdeis to fix tax ilion. Many South erners were present in the Committee room and the Committee are hopeful of some modi fication of the most objectionable features o the Constitution. The Committee are favoi ably recehed, and their views fully endorse, ed by representative men hereof the North ern Democracy. Tue Republican Congressional Committei have advices from Florida that thc Constitu (ion has been adopted. The Legislature i: Radical. In thc House, Stevens reported a bill ad uiitting Arkansas. Ile considered the Con stitution unexceptional and did no; desire ti debate the bil!. Several members complain ed they had never scon thc Constitution. B.iker, thong1! favoring the provision, doubt ed the Constitutional power to enforce thi s ipulation regarding suffrage. Business o this kim! should not be done hurriedly; no should the bill piss until the Constitution wai examined. Stevens said there was not a clau?< ?ii the Constitution objectionable lo a ina: who favored freedom. Stevens demanded th? previous question. The previous que;tiot was s'-coiided and the main question ordered Stevens having the floor yielded fifteen min utes to Woodward, who, never having tcot the Constitution, declined speaking. . Beck claimed that if lime was allowed hiir he could demonstrate that the CotistituMot never received the vote of a majority of the p-i.pl'i ol Arkansas. Few days would show liiis. Therefore they rushed, the bill through Beck said the franchise and educational claims are particularly obi.oxious. The bili tina'ly passed 110 to?'2-B^ker, Loan, Spauid. ing aud Williams, of Pennsylvania, votii^ nay. Shanks introduced a resolution declaring :he others recently elected in South Carolina to be the provisional government ol tLe State -referred to ilia Reconstruction Cnrnmit'ee. Paine reported a bill admitting South Car olina-ordered printed. A deficiency ol i? 7. ? ? f i : > h.r the administra tion of liicReconslruciiou Acts wasconsi lered. Retorted a joint rest lu tion ordering the President lo s<-nd war vessels to tho Gu!;' o' St. Lawrence lo protect lubing interests a::il to demand reparation for certain injuries. Lillee .Urse of debite Mr. Pike said, '. who Ls a'raid of war.*' The resolution asks notb ing but that your laws'shall be enforced. Ttl* amendment proposed to send vessel-; lo Ihr .roast of Ireland to tak.? car.; of American In tercsts lhere was rpjeeb-d. Diiri g the de'.f.o Pike thought soine <>:ie called hun a coward, and made some inaudi ble remark, for which he was called to order. The^ Tariff question was indroduced. Pike wanted ftvs trade for shipbuilding materials. Eldridge asked if free trade was good for >iew England shipbuilders, why it was not for Western laborers ? Afte* a long discus ?ion, comcwhat jocular in character but show iug considerable sectional acrimony, the res olution was passed by a vote of i'2 to 30. Robinson ottered a resolution expunging thc Impeachment Resolutions from the jour nal. The Speaker declared it not a privileged qnestioa. Robinson said he could bring it up again ; it was antere question of time, and it would ultimately be expunged? Stevens introduced a bill for the admission ofArkausa*. It was ord" red tobe printed. The House adjourned. S?mate, The Court, after a prolonged se ers: session, resulted in the adoption ol the following; That the Court adjourn to Monday at ll o'clock, wheo it will consider voles and the vote on the several articles shall bc ta keu at noon Tuesday without debate. Speeches shall be limite?! to fifteen minutes on the en tire subject and not nu each article. Mem bers may file written opinions within two ijays after the vote on the articles to be published with the proceedings. A motion regarJu.g the form in which the Chief Justice shall pul the question to Sena tors was tabled. WASHINGTON, May 9, noon.-The mos: absolute uncertainty exists regarding impeach mc-nl n suit. Sc ?atora keep their own couti sel. Judicious people applaud thc Senator* for their conduct in ifei? respect. A tcrnblu case of human ?paotaneoui eombuslion, which reunited in dsath', it reported ii Cleveland, Ohio. Tho nauio of thc m in w:w Uremor. Wo lo .ro that Lo drunk, JO a wngcr, jix large drinks of whiskey anil a pint "f stock a'e, at a sitting, Ji'jtb blazing face a:.it starling Dyes ho retied toward* u ga* j-:, ju orJer to light (rs pipe, when thc HOX'OUS gases ifsning fretn hip oiouth were instantly ablaze, and the poor wro'ch tr** suon being consumed by an inward (ire. .JSErt?en. Meade hos telegraphed t ? (jrant that bjtb branches of the Georgia and Florida Legis latures arc Radical. ^P?-Aduel was fought at Baltimore, on thp >tfc, between Col. P. X. Green, of Missouri and Biniel Ct. Wright, of Baltimore. At the firstihot ?oth were wounded-Oreon in tho shoulder, ?Y'right in thc leg. A second shot was demanded, ?ut tbe seconds refused. The affair was ended, i mt tho difficulty still unadjusted. ] ?3?" The office of Tax Collector is not provided I orin the Scalawag-Negro constitution,nod hence. I ho Legislature, it is presumed, will pr?vido for 1 >n ejection for that office. < ??S" A Boston speculator is reported to have t node $120,000 by buying cotton at li cents s c wand and jelling it at .19 coota, j ? THE ADVERTISER. JAMES T- BACON, EDITOR. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 18C8. Our Club Rates. Wo aro now furnishing tho ADVERTISER to Cluhs at tho following very low rates: Two Copies one Year, $5.50. Five Copies one Year, 12 50. Ton Copies one Year, 22.50. Twenty Copies one Year, 40.00. No Clubs received for a loss period than.one year,-and in all cases the Cash will bo required in advance. The names of the entire Club must bo sent at one time. Advertiser Agents. The following gentlemen are our authorized Agents, and will receipt for all monies for Sub scriptions or AdvertisomenU sent through them : B. W. HARD, Graniteville, S. C. M. M. PADGETT, Mine Creek, S. C. CHAS. NICKERSON, Big Creek, S. C. Rev. J. P. BODIE, Kirlcsey's X R'd', S. C. JACOB HUIET A BRO. Huiet'* Store, S. C. Where to Send Your Baskets. We aro requested by the Committee of Ar rangements for the Sunday School Festival, to say that they will receive baskets of provisions, and other contribution?, at tho Male Academy, from ll to 12 o'clock, on Friday next. Service in the Catholic Church. We aro rcquestod to state that tho Right Rev. Bishop P?rsico will preach in tho Roman Catho lic Church of this town, on Sunday next, in the forenoon. Subject of discourse : Unity of the Church. Still Another Chance to Register. The Board of Registration for tho 7th Regi ment, will open their Bocks for Revision and further Registration, at Orangeville, on Monday, the ISth inst., and closo them on the following Friday. s? New Drug Store." By an advertisement in to-day's paper, headed as above, it will be seen that Dr. T. J. TEAGUE has just received a New and Fresh Stock of Drugs, Medicines and Chemicals, r.nd invites his friends and patroLS to call rmd examino tho same at tho " Old Stand" under Masonic Hall. Here, thor. Ls another depot from wheoco our people au advantageously supply themselves with any iud every character of Drugs ?nd Modicir.es, and on f .ir and generous terms. Meeting of the Legislature Postponed. The following ia the official order from General Canby, relative to the postponement of the meet ing of tho Legislature : HEADQUARTERS 2D MILITARY DISTRICT, ) CHARLESTON, S. C., May, 1868. J General Orders No. 82. The meeting of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, appointed for the 12th of May inst, is hereby postponed until after the Congress of the United States ?-hall have approved the Constitution under which it was elected, and of which due notice will be given. By commahd of Brevet Major-General ED. R. S. CANBY. LOUIS T. CAZIARC, Aidc-dc-Cauip, A. A. A. G. We Exalt His Horn ! Whose horn? That of CHARLIE GRAY, who wields his right arm at CHEATHAM'S Bar, two doors West of tho Printing Cflice. Yea, wc lift his hora very high ; for he is a prince B3 regards courtesy and the preparation of cooling drit.ks. Yesterday, seeing that the Advertiser, fraternity looked blue and ?kinny, (newspaper people never have enough to eat, you know !) he sent us such a waiter of Icod Drinks as caused all our dry bones to smite together for very j iv. There was Claret Puucb, and Sherry Cobbler, and Gin Cocktail, and Mint Julep, and-but wo are too virtuous to kuow .my more names ! And truly words ctnnot express the delights of that liquid feast ! Wc wi 1 not attempt to describe it. W- cnn only s iv, call on CHARLIE GRAY, aud enjoy yourself as wo did. The I ni pi* ac li in cut Trlnl. The shameful and abominab'e piece of business, called tho Impeachment Trial, i.? about to come to a close. To-day, Tuesday 1-th, is thc day fet apart for thc voting. Thu very latest accounts from Washington represent that the re.ult of thc matter is still wrapped ia profoundest uncertain ty. Betting upon this rerult seems to be thc nll engrossing pastime in the national capital. Bets tun <(]Ual!y high for and against conviction. To day, no doubt, the wavering Scriators arr in their place?, with their backbones fully stiffened by party pressuro. The key to the result may be found io this fact, viz: -its probable effect upon the Radical party. If they think it will strengthen their party tn dcp.-i?e the President, ibis will bc dune ; otherwise, he will he acquitted. They have utterly faiK-d to establish a*iy sufficient ?rounds for conviction, and the result is merely, as above staled, a question of partizan policy. But it boots nothing to say more on the subject. To-morrow wc shall lenrn tho result. The Trial of John Surrntt. And n"t only is President JOHNSON to lu weigh ed iu the balance to-day, Tuesday 12th, but also JOHN, tho unfortunate son r.f tje murdered MARV S c it it A TT. That is, to-day has been set apart for bia trial. But no one helleres ho will be tried. Ho has bceu a prisoner for many months; and Rudie.il vengeance can only bo satiated by his continued incarceration, for every impartial mau in America knows his conviction is an impossi bility. Thc -Remonstrance Committee. The Central Executive Commltteo of the Dem ocratic Party of South Carolina, appointed by thc Democra?c Convention lately held in Colum bia, have prepared a remonstrance against thc reception, by Congress, of thc new Constitution for South Carolina, and named a Committee to take the said remonstrance to Washington and present lt io t?ougtj?*i. Jhis Committee consists ef Cen. Jon* S. PRESTOM, Col L. D. Crimps, Col. J. P. Tn-.M.vs and J. G. GIBBES Esq. They are now in Washington, and have presented their remonstrance. And though thoy have been al ready openly snubbed by the amiable Thaddeus Stevens, yet their reception bns been rather a avorablo one, and their representations and sug gestions stem to command respectful considera tion. What will como of tho undeitaking re mains to bc seen. We hope much. We expect nothing. t?rou'iug Old Gracefully. Our particularly esteemed cotemporary, the Sumter Watchman, has lately enterod upon its nineteenth year. Wo congratulate our honest, gallant, and ever-ci-nsialent friend upon this oc casion, aud aasure it that in our sanctum its birthdays will always be marked with kikdly iu terest In imparting correct intelligence, in its political tone, in its editorial conduct, in tho se lection of its literary matter, there is not a more valuable j ramal in thc ?t;jte than tho Sumter Watvhmin. Friends GILBERT it FLOWERS, we shake bands with you across both Congarce and Wa terco ! /TMT-Thc Democratic Clubs in Kershaw, York, ville, Lexington, Anderson, Oconeo, Orangeburg, and other Districts, have made their nominations for District Officers, and tho party ure hard at work to secure thc election of their nominees. ?difTht following is, we believe, the status of :ho ^egislaturo of this State, as to color: House d'Repr?sentatives-whites, 44; colored, 80. Sen ite-whites, 20; colorod, 12. p2r- General Grant tent a mossago to Congress >n the 8th, covering a communication from Gonc .al Canby detailing the evil effects of compelling state officers in North and South Carolina to take ho test oath. Many good men acting with the Jnion party cannot take it. Other good men who tould tako it deoline doing so lest unworthy mo ives be attributed to them. Grant expresses no pinion on the subject, but merely transmits flea? ral Conby'? letter. Thc Democratic Party. It is both refreshing and encouraging to read the Doinocratic press of tho North, East and West. Poople and papers are alive with the sounds of preparation and organization for the great battle of liberty they are to fight with their Radical enemies in thc coming November. And moro cheering even than the intense energy end activity manifested by this great party, ?rc the sound and catholic political principles upon which they plant themselves at the. very initia tion of their campaign. The speeches of their orators, tho platforms of their convention., tho resolutions of their primary assemblies, and the utterances of their press, are all pitched on ono and thc same key of State Bight? and Free Gov ernment. Every word and line o'? th o?c utter ances should receive the hearty approbation and enthusiastic endorsement of general meetings throughout the South. Foremost nmong tho cheering signs of the times are thc zeal and activity manifested by the Democratic party. The *?lierents. of that or ganization have accepted the assurance of the coming victory, and are preparing to make it thorough and complete. From Maine to Califor nia the samo spirit animates the men, who, through all tho d?rk and troublous past, itood by tbe Union and the Constitution as the sheet anchor of tho nation's hope. Convention after conven tion gives forth tho same battle-cry. Democratic leaders and orators preach from tho samo text, |find enunciate the same principles. The journals of the party stand like a wall of fire around the government as our fathers made it, and declaro that " this is a white man's government, made by wbito men for white men and their posterity for ever." While the Radical party are daily tend ing to disintegration and decay, tho Democratic party is growing stronger. Thc Radical party have bnt a single plank upon which to stand negro equality-and that is sliding from beneath their xeet. Upon the tariff, tho currency, re trenchment, economy and reform, they are a disjointed and confused mass. No two of their leaders agree as to any of thoso measures. Nor arc the sections likely to join hands upon the questions which now confront tho party in power. The Eastern Radicals cannot unite with those of the West upon istues of a practical character, and the Radicals of the Middle States are denouncing the policy ?greed upon by Sumner, Wilson, Wade and Sherwin, as calculated to uproot tho best intcrosts of this section. The end of this wicked fuction is well nigh nt band ; and the people are looking to tho old constitutional Demojuuitic par ty to assume tbe helm and put the SbwFof State once more on the right course. \J Should tho Democratic party of the United Slates fail to conquer the revolution of usurpa tion ?ct on foot by a faction of a Congress in league with the General of the Army, and now nearly culminating to its crisis, the people of the United.States may bid a long udieu to the experi ment of Republican institutions. The whole fabric nf government so direfully and so painful ly erected after the revolution of 1770, will be overturned, and the nation will be ruled by an irresponsible national assembly, to be soon fol? lowed, in all probability, by a Dictatoria King, or an Emperor. This is thc path of Nations in r?volutions like the prcfent, and it is marked with unerring distinctness on every page of his tory. Next November will bo the last time that the American People can have a voice to save their liberties. If they lose it, then the sword of power and the terror of Bi?tiles will uyike it dumb until auother revolution and another gen eration arise to break the spell by turee, and one? more assert the right of mankind to govern them selves. The prevent revolution hangs in the- balance, and it ii for the People of the United Stutcs to determine b??w it .-hall turn. Either Grant and the Rudienl Congress will get thc loftiest of falls, or they will come out of the ftrugglo thc masters of thu American people. " Caliban." We have jost receivod a Pamphlet bearing the above title. It professes to be a sequel to "Arie'," and consequently treats of tho ftegro. .. Sh'Tily after the close of tho war,^r1i#t al .tho incipiency of the agitation of negro-quality, uni versal ."uSVajre, etc , our distinguished townsman Gov. Picken*, it will bc reu? lubered by many, in a letter to a New Orleans paper-a letter which attracted much alt'ntion-alluded to two distinct creations as recorded in Genesis, mid insisted that one of these creations wai fur superior to the other,-the superior raco being the Caucanan, the inferi >r race the nepro, 4c. Since then, which was the first time we remem ber to have lind our attention directed to this cu rious mid Interesting matter, diver? articles upon the same subject, from different authors, have ap peared before the public ; among other*, " Ariel," ?which provoked much comment, and produced great exciirment ns well in thc political us in the re ligious world. The present pamphlet, "Caliban," is more mod erato in its scopo ihnn " Ariel," und, if not as in genious, certainly as interesting. And if we mistake n'tt, il'views are almost identical with those expressed by Gov. Picken?, in the letter tu which we have referred. We hnvo been especially pleased with the ex tremely apropos quotations from Shak.?puare\ " Tempest." What c>ulJ bo moro so in regard to the coiimim typo of tho negro than Triuculu's inquiry i " What have wo lure? A nun or a fish ? He smells like a tish, a wy ancient und fish-like smell. A strange fi ?h. Wire I in Eng land now, nnd had this fish painted, nota holi day fool lhere but would give a pioco of silver. There would thia monster muke a man; any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lamo beggar^ they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." And what more poiuted than " Caliban's" song : 'I Ban, Ban, Ca-Caliban Has a now uiiutor;-Gut a new man. Freedom, hey-day! heyday! freedom, ?rpedom !' This song really seems to have leen written for our present rice of freedmen. '. Caliban" differs with " Ariel" in soveral im portant points. He innis's (hut there were two ctcntious, but tunke? one of them Pre-Adamite, by Qod in his character of " Elohim, or ull-pow or.'ul," and tho other by Qod in his character of " Juhoruh, or intelligent and holy." The fir?t cru il:u:i,he contends, was spontaneous aud sprung' forth immediately at the fiat of Elohim ; the s ec ind was gradual, as the formation of Adam from tho dust. Tho first, ho suys, were, and still arc, savage and burbar ms, as the negroes always W ll be; tho second, laborers aud tillers of the soi!, ie, as the Caucasians of to-day. Up to the second creation, our author says, quoting from Gonosit, '' thero was not a maa to till fbe ground." " Deity therefore resolved to crette a nev/ race, a rapo of tillers of the ground ;" aud fur this purpose, Adam was cteatpd. This is the mistake, we venture to suggest, made by thc New Orleans Letter, by Ariel," " Caliban," and all the Writer*we have read upon this subject. Adam, it was evident, was never lotend?d by God to be a tiller of the ground. After his creation, and that of Eve, they were placed in tho garden of Eden, where, according to Genesis, they wore surrounded by every comfort, by nil manners of flesh and fruit, tho latter of which they wore to eat, sayo of the Treo of Knowledge. Now it is distinctly and succinctly 'tated in the accounts that God never cursed Adara iintil after tho fall. Then it was that tho curio Mme: "In the sweat of thy faco shalt thou eat Dread." That is, thou shalt work, Evidently, Adam was God's favorite creation, and he did not nloud him to be a laborer; on the contrary, he iras formed in the imago of God himself, and jlacod in the garden "only a little below thc-nn jels." Ho was surrounded with all things beau iful, and all things necessary to a being of a eu >er(or ordor. And tho /cry curso itself was work, abor, toil. This in fact has been from time im. nemorial, and is to-day, the curse of man. And, lisguise it ns wo may, both white and black hate t equably. This much, however, wa have Ten ured by way of parenthesis, as we do not intend o argue the subject. The next announcement of importance in the >amphlet before ns ii that tho Flood wai only partial. "Tho nctjoo of ? universal flood bu 1, been abandoned by all intelligent theologkni Tho Bible does not teach it, and science utter! ignores it." This may bo so, but the book i Qeneiis expressly says that "the waters wei upon the osrth forty days and forty nights." Xe upon a part of the earth, but "upon the earth, It is said, however, that geology, and osironom contradice this fuct, and therefore, tho scripta] sttitoment must be untrue. This is rather moi startling than " Ariel's" a-?ertion that the Negi is a beast. "Caliban" and "Ariel" agree, however, in tl statement of the latter that miscegenation is th unpardonable sin. And Caliban is of tho opinio thiit all the present woes of tho South have apron from the illicit intercourse between the white an black racos. Certainly not ?ii illogical sequcne provided we believed tho major premise of tl proposition. " Caliban" is another vory curious, interestinj thought-provoking book ; and wo commend I those of our readers who ore pleased with ingi nuity in argument, to procure it, and while ?wa in its perusal a? much of our present ennui i possible The denunciation of tho reckless an godless Radical party is superb 1 The Tax Collector at Work. Capt. BEN. ROPEH, Tax Collector for this Dil trict% will commenro his work of Asseising an Collecting Taxes on Monday next ; and to em ble Tax Payers to be the better prepared to mot him, we republish Gen. CABBY'S Tax Order, nu also the special Tax Ordinance passod by tl " Ringed-Streaked" Convention, lately assen bled in Charleston : GEN. CANBY'S TAX ORDER. Gen. CANBY, under Goneral Orders, No. 13) dated Headquarters Second Military Distric Charleston, Dec. 3, 1S67, isued the following oi dors : I. To provide for the support of theprovisioni government of South Carolina for the year con: menoingonthe first duy of October, 1887, an ending on the thirtieth day of September, 186! the Act of the General Assembly, " To raiso snj pilos for the year commencing in October, on thousand eight hundred and sixty-six," approve December 21, 1866, will, as hereinafter modifi?e be continued in forco until superseded by legii latiou or until otherwise ordered by proper au thoritj Arlxclet taxed f,ad valorem." 1. On all real estate, twenty-fire cents on ever hundred dollars : provided, that on such lands s may be in the possession of the Bureau of Refu gees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands on th first day of January next, and the owner or claim ant is thoroby deprived of its occupation and ns) such tax shall not be collected ; on tho oapiti stock of all gas-light companies, twenty-fiv cents on every hundred dollars ; on articles manu factored for sale, barter or exchange, between th first day of January, one thousand eight bun dre and sixty-seven, and the first day of Januar} one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eighi twenty cents on every hundred dollars, to b paid by the mauufacturor ; on the market vulu of the gross amount of spirituous liquors mano ftetured trom tho first day of January to th thirty-first day of Decembor, 1S68, five per cent to Ve paid quarterly at the end of each quarte to the Tax Collectors of the Districts in which i was manufactured ; on buggios, carriages, gol tnd silver plate, watches, jewelry and pianos, o band ou tho first day of January, 186S-excer. when held by dealers for the purpose of sale sue dollar on every hundred dollars. " Tax on incomes." 2. Upon all gross incomes derived from em ployments, faculties ?nd professions, includin the profession of dentistry, (whether in the pro fession of the law the income be derived from th costs of suit, or fees, or other source of profes ?ional income*,) excepting clergymen, two am one half dollars on every hundred dollars ; froc commissions received by brok.rs, vendue muster: factors, commission merchants, dealers in ex change (foreign or domestic,) or in mortgages bonds and other negotiable papers, two sud un half dollars on every hundred dollars; from pre miums received by insurance companies or un derwriters, two dollars on every hundred doll irs from thc receipts ol' express or other transporta ti ou companies earned within tbe limits of tin State, one dollar on every hundred dollars ; am from the receipts of telegraph companies earner within the limit** of the State, two and one bal dollars on every hundred dollars; from the viii of newspapers or magazines, ouo dollar on ererj hundred dollars; on the gr->ss receipts of news papers published in the State, twenty cents ot every hundred dollars; from thc sale of goods wares, or merchandize, embracing all the articlo: of trade, sale, barter, or exchange, (cotton taxei by the United States excepted,) which any persor shall make between thc first day of January sst tho thirty-firft day of December, 1S8S, to bo pail quarterly at the ond of each quarter to the severn Tax Collectors, twenty cents on every hundred dollars ; on the gross profits of all banks or bank iug institutions, two dollars on every huudreii dollars ; on the gross incomes derived from thc arts of photographing or dnguerreotyping, on? dollar on every hundred dollars : on all income: fr<>m salaries, rents, dividends, ?nd money at in terest, one dollar vu every hundred dollars in ex c ss of li v ; Lundred dollars ; on the gross iucomci of all railroads (not exempted by law,) from ear nings within the State, one doll.ir on every hun dred dolUr?. All I'l-rsou.- kuiipinj* li o tot a .-lml! pay a tux of two dollars on every hundred dol lars of gro.-s income ; all persons keeping restau rant? or eating houses shall pay a tax of two dol lars on every hundred dollars of gross income; all i er<?nu* keeping livery stables shall pay a tax of two dollars ?ii every hundrod d liars of gross income; all batchers und hucksters ?hall pay a tux of one dollar on every hundred dollars ol gross income ; all persons koeping billiard tables shall pay a tax of tva dollars on every hundred dollars of gross income ; all persons keeping bowl ing Hlleys shall pay a tax of five dollars on every hundred dollars of gross income-; all persons keeping bar rooms, vhetber connected with a hotol or otherwise, sb til pay a tax of ten dollars on every hundred dollars of gross income; nil persons keeping ferrier- or bridges ?hall pay a tux of ono dollar on every hundred dollars of gross income ; all persons keeping toll gatos shall pay a tax of one dollar on every hundred dollar.? of gross income ; each person or company keep? ?Cg n public race track Miall pay tnx of one linn dred dol?an; upon pooh public hack, stago coach, baggage wagon and omnibus drawn ky two or moro horsos thero shall be paid a tax of ton dol lars, and upon each dray and cart or baggage and express wagon drawn by ono horse a tax of tiro dollars. " Taxes imjtosed for certain privileges." 3. All persons representing for gain or reward any play, comedy, tragedy, interlude, or farce, or other employn ent of tho stage, or any part therein, or exhibiting wax works or other shows of any kind whatsoever, shall pay a tax of ten dollars por day, to be paid into tho bands of tho Clerks of Ibo Scurty, or of a Magistrate in the absence of the Clerk, who shall be bound to col lect and pay the same into the public treasury, except in cases where the same is now required by law to be paid to corporations or otherwise. Upon every takinir out of a charter, ^except for religious, charitable and educational institutions, them shall be levied a tax of twenty dollars ; upon each renowal of a charter liable to tax under this Order, tea dollars, and all companies incor porated in other (states shall pay for the privi lege of carrying on their business in this State the samo chartor fee as is required of companies incorporated in this State. All circus exhibitions, to bo puid at the time, fifty dollars per day. Each and every person keeping % dog or dogs, shall pay a tax of one dollar for each dog. For the priviloge of selling lottory tickets within the limits of this State, fire hundred dollars per month, to be paid monthly or quarterly in ad vancc to tho Treasurer of the State of South Carolina, who, upou such paymont, shall grant a license fur the timo for which such payment has been made, but not for less than one month. " Special tax. 4- A ?'rPlf?!'?11 ta? of one dollar ?ball bo paid by every ninfo personAbetwepa thu age* of twobty one and sixty, residents of the State on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, except such as are incapable of earn ing a support by reason of mental or physioal disability : provided, that doublo executions for the non-payment of the capitation tax of tho past year shall not be enforced, and that in all cases where execution has not boen bsuod and no costs have bcon incurred, the tax may bo discharged by the paymont of Jhe original amount on or be fore the first day offtiarch, 1868. 5. AU laxes levied on property os prescribed in this order, sh.-ijl be paid to tho Tax Collector for the District or'Parish [n which said property ls located, exe opt that the tax on railroad com panies, express companies, and telegraph com panies, shall be returned to and paid directly into the Treasury of the State ; and this return shall be made quarterly. 6. All individual taxes will be assessed directly upon and collected directly from the individuals from who in-tl cy are due, 7. Tho houses and lots on Sullivan's Island shall ba returned to the Tax Collector of the Tax District io which tboy are situated, in the same mannor as other town lots and houses, and shall be liable to the same rates of taxation. j}. Bpfcjrq th8 pollectjot} of the taxos herein provided for, cvpry ^.sse'scor or Ta? Collector, [neting in the capacity of ^ssossnr) in this fjftate, < ?ball proceed to malr.o an nd valorem assessment af all lands, buildings and improvements, without ' distinction as to city, town or country property, ' and upon which an ad valorem tax bu boen levi ed, with reference to the market value of such i property in United States currency, and without reference to any previous assessment; and nek ! ifiscssmonts shill be subject to revision, by milita ar * ry authority. Each Assessor and each Tax Col lector acting as Assessor, b?foro catering upon bis duties as Assessor, shall take and subscribo biforo the Clerk of the Court of tho District the following oath, which shall be endorsed on his commission, vii: "I, A. B., do promise and swear, that I will, to the best of my ability, exe .cute the duties of Assessor for my Collection'Dis trict, and wUl, without favor or partiality, ascer tain and assess tho actual valu? of thc property, real and personal, upon which an ad valorem tux 1* levied, before And for ths purpose of levying such tax." 9. Each Tax Collector shall attend at the Court IIOUES of the Tax District, (or if there be no Court House, at some other public place,) daily for one week previous to making his final return, for the receipt of taxes of his respective District or Parish. .All taxes on property imposed hy the provisions of this order shall have reference- both as to possession and valuation to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, ex cept where some of othor date is specially desig nated. All taxes on income imposed by the pro visions of this Act shall have reference to the amount of such income received between tho first day of January, ?ne thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and all such income tax shall bo due ?nd payable on or before tho thirty-first day of March, 1868. 10. Tho taxes berein levied shall be paid only in gold and silver coin, United States Treasury notes, or notes declared to be a legal tender by the Government of tho United States or notes of National Banks, or the bills receivable of this State, and als? pay-certificatea of Jurors and and Constables for attendance on the Courts. The Tax Collectors of the several Collection Districts shall be allowed, on all sums of money paid into their hands for taxes, a commission as follows, that is to say : the Ta:c Collectors of Abbeville, Anderson, Barnwell, Chester, Clarendon, Dar lington, Edgefield, Kershaw, Laurens, Newberry, Orange, Richland, Spartanbnrg, Sumter, Union, kork, Marion, St. Phillip's and St. Michael's, at thc rate of four per cent. ; tho Tax Collectors of Chesterfield, Fairfield, Greenville, Lancaster, Lexington, Marlboro', Pickens, St. Mathews, Prince George's Winyah, St. Bartholomew's, Williamsburg, at the rate of six per cent.; the Tax Collectors of AU Saints', Christ Church, Horry, Prince William's, St. George's Dorchester, St. Helena, St. James's Goose Creek, St. Jt mes' Sante?, St. John's Berkeley, St. John's Geilston, St. Peters, St. Stephen's, at the rate of eight per cent. ; the Tax Collectors of St. Andrew's, St. Luke's, St. Paul's, St. Thomas' and St. Denuis', at the rate of ten per cent. : provided, that in any District where .the gross amount of taxes paid in shall exceed the sum of thirty thousand dollars, the commissions of the Tax Collectors shall be two per cent, on such excess. 11. Io sales of real estate upon execution for non-payment of taxes, if the amount bid hr such real estate be not greater than the amount of tho execution and costs, it shall be tho duty of tho SharitT to bid ia the property for the State, aud tho title thereto shall thereupon be passed to tho State, subject to such equitable rights of redemp tion as may hereafter be determined upon by legislative authority. Imprisonment for over due taxes is abolished ; but whenever tho amount of the tax, eosts, ?fcc, of any person cannot be made out of any property of which he is possess ed, the Sheriff holding the execution shall make return thereof to tho Commissioners of Roads or Public Buildings, or other appropriate municipal authority, who may enforce the payment of the tax duo by labor upon thc road?, bridges and other public works : jtrovided, that the commuta tion value of such labor shall nut bo less than fifty cents for a labor day of eight hours. 12. All taxes levied by this order, except when such taxes are payable quarterly, shall be due and payable R3 follows : one half on or before the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, md the remaining half on or before the thirtieth day of June, one thou sand eight hundred and sixty-eight. Any person desiring te pay the whole amount of bis taxes (except such as arc returned quarterly) on or be fore the tbirty-firit day of March shall have thc privilege of so doing, and nball bo entitled to a discount of five per cent, upon the amount of taxes falling due on thc 30th day of June, 1808. 13. No Tax Collector or Assessor shall receive his commissioosJuitil bis returns have been re ceived at tba Treasurer's office, and been ap proved by bim 14. TAXA? levied by municipalities, corpora tion.', or other local authorities', under any gen eral or special law of the State, will conform in principle tu the modification;! hereinbefore made. THE SPECIAL TAX. From tho " Ordinance to Levy a Special Tax to Defray this Expenses of this Convention,' and Preserve the Credit of the State," passed by the Radical negro Convention of South Carolina, on tho 38th January, 1 SOS, we publish tho following .Sections showing the amount of Taxes oar people have to pay to defray thc expenso of that sweet-scented intituthn : SECTION 1. We, the people of the State of South Carolina, by our delryate* in convention Met, do ordain, That there shall be assessed and olloctcd by the tax collectors of the several Districts and Parishes, in tho State, in addition tu the tax al ready levied under General Orders No. 139, issued from Headquarters Second Military District, by Brevet Maj >r-Ucneritl E. R. S. Canby, Command' ing said District, dated Charleston, December 3. ist7, tho following taxes, which s?mil hocollecti-d by the persons and at the times and in thc manner prescribed by said General Orders : On all rea! ostates, seven|and a half cents on every hundred doli??, excep'ing such lands ns are exempted in Article 1 of said General Order; on articles manufactured fop sale, barter or ?xchanp<5, be tween the Krst day of January, IROS, and the first day of January, 18fi9, fifteen couts on every hundred dollars, to be paid by the manufacturer; ou buggios, carriages, jrold and silver plate, watches, jewulry and pianos on hand i.n the fir-1 .lay of January, 1888, except when beld by deal ers t r purposes of sale, lifty cent" on every hun dred dollars ; from tho ??le of goods, wares or merchandise, embracing ul! thc articles of trade, sulo. barter or exchuuge, (the cotton taxed by 'ho United Sutes excepted,) which any person "hall make between tho first day of January, 1863. and the thirty-first day of December, ISfiS, fifteen cents on every ono hundred dollars. And the tax collector?, sheriffs, or any other p.-rsan whose duty it may bc to collect, or the treasurer of tho State, whose duty it is to receive, shall be liable upon their respective official bond.', for neg lecting or refusing to collect, safely keep, pay over and disburse Ike same in conformity to the ordern <>f this Convention. SEC. 2. Ile it further ordained, That a sufficient amount of the sum thus realized is hereby ap propriated to refund tu tho treasurer of the State of South-Carolina any lum or slims which muy be advanced hy ibo order of Ger.or.il Cunby, or otherwise, for the payment of the per diem, mile age, or othor expenso* of tbi-t Convention, in bills receivable of thc State. Agricultural Jon -mils for May. Our Agricultural Journals for this month have all como to hand with theil' usual punctuality. 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Tho Sour Acra Culti vator and Maryland Farmer will be sent to ono edd res f fur &l.j)Q. " The American Farmer"-the oldest Agricul tural Publicitlun ia the United States-and cer tainly ono in tho front rank of A.icrioan Agri culture and Horticulture Journalism, comes to us freightod with a most inviting array of well-pre pared articles on subjects af tho utmost impor tance to our planting friends. Published by WonmiNoroN k LEWIS, NO. 4, South Street, Bal timore, Md., at $2.00 per anna m. "The Farm and Garden,"-an Agi ?cultural Newspaper, devqted to tho Interests of our sunny 1 South,-published monthly at $1.00 per annum, by JAS. R. JACOBS k Co., Clinton, S. C., is mak ing rapid improvement in each succeeding num ber, and being the only agricultural journal pub- - lishod In our State, our poopls should extend to it a liberal patronage. j - ??r A New Orleans correspondent write? rela tive to the Louisiana sugar crop, that the planta tions are doing well this year, and it is "estimated that there ir oana enough |n thc ground tn produce DOO hundred and fifty thousand hogsheads of su- j jar, provided it is not killed and choked out by. j politics." j A man named Grogg, arrested at Tusca- , t ioosa by the military authorities for shooting and painfully though not dangerously wounding a ne gro,, was brought to Selma on tho Sta, io irons. THE PROPOSITION TO POSTPONE THE VER DICT.-Tho .Baltimore Sun's correspondent says : Another strong effort is.ib progress among the Republicans to postpone the verdict in the impeachment trial until after thc meeting of tho Chicago Convention. About a week ago a movement in this direction was stat ted, but did. not meet with sufficient encourage ment to make it a success. Yesterday those who favor the project started the idea again, and it meets with so much more general fa vor than was expected that considerable alarm is. created among the Wade faction, who, as suming the certain conviction of the Presi dent, desire an immediate termination of the impeachment trial and the consequent posses sion of the White House in order that they may have dispensation of official patronage and thereby possibly make sure of Mr. Wade's nomination at Chicago. Among those who favor the postponement of the verdict are several Radical senators. The friends of can didates for the Vice-Presidency, except tho Wadeites, quietly favor the postponement. An informal meeting of Republican leaders bad the matter nndcr consideration to day, bul up to the present time no assurance of the requisite number of Radical senators in favor of the ne w movement has been ob tained. TEose of the tena tora who are best advised of the propositions to bo disposed of in the Senate as preliminary to entering upon the consideration of the impeachment case in se cret session, say they do not look for a final judgment in the case at all events for ten or twelve days. From the handtboro (Sliti.) Democrat. Another Outrage by a Negro. We are reliably informed that a most hor rible affair transpired on Ship Island in the early part of this month. It appears, SJ far as we can learn, that a young negro so liar gained access to the sleeping apartment, of Gen. Mower's daughter, a beautiful and ac complished girl, about sixteen years of age. What was accomplished we know not. and can only surmise from the subsequent results. It appears that a younger child called her father, and he and the officer of the day, who, upon arriving at the spot, found thc negro in possession of the guard, which was stationed in the vicinity of the General's quarters. It appears that a court martial was at once or ganized, the negro soldier sentenced to be ex ecuted by hanging. But the General inter fered and the sentence was suspended, but it is currently reported that the negro was killed inside Tn the fort, put into a sack and thrown into the gulf. While bloody knives and other weapons, bearing the signs of be ing used, were seen on the Island, and the under officers spoke freely of his dispatch and hie well-deserved deatb, yet the negro sol diers on the Island were still led to believe that the dead negro was sent to Mobile on a vessel leaving about that time for Mobile. While wc look with horror upon transac tions of this kind, and believe that the brnte who would attempt the chastity of a white la dy could not be visited with too severe a pun ishment, or one that could be considered cru el, under any circumstances ; yet we might be excused for thus thinking, for we have al ways deemed the negro as property, as our fathers did before us, and we fought to the best of our poor ability to keep them as prop erty-the place that God and nature design ed them to keep-but G?nerai Mower et id omm genus sought their freedom, and, by might of numbers, succeded, and taught Sam bo that he was as good as anybody, and a little better ; he made councilmen, policemen, aud other civil officers of them, and thereby inculcated the idea tbat the negro was, so cially, the equal ol' the white mau. And now, General Mower, after doing more than per haps any other officer of his class to instil this idea into the negro's head, has, with a vengeance, felt tLe application of his doc trine. His lovely daughter, just blooming in- j to womanhood, ch d in the white, loose, tas ty habiliments of night, with her hair loosed to thc wiuds of thc Gulf, rccliues upon the couch, aud there in that position, is desecra ted as to her person, by the embrace, clawing and feeling of a disgusting negro. No won der he complains. No woudcr the negro is miking. But bad it been some Southern born lady, who had lost a princely fortune by the craft. legislation and social teaching of General Mower and his followers, it would have nil been well, and had the negro been troubled, as in this instance, the party or par ties, even suspected of breaking the law, would be held "to strict account, and so we wish to hold General Mower. Wc again ask, where is the negro that com mitted this outrage upon the daughter of j General Mower'/ Tho Now JJaaip?kjre State Convention buvo ii 1 H j tc J regulations favoring Cr.mt and itu poachuient. Letters wcro read iu the Convention from Butler and Waihburae giving assurance of oonvlctlon. gjtr* In Georgia it is now understood" that tba test oath will mu bc required nf Legislative mem bers and that the Legislatura will lint bc assem bled at Milledgeville, as a provbionnl body, to take action on thc Constitutional amondinent and then adjourn. ?5?" "?Jack," tho Washington correspondent of tho Cincinnati Commercial, assorti that the ondorsomont of Pendleton by the Illinois Conven tion secures his nomination at Now York. gOMMEBgE^E AUOUSTA, May 9J GOLD-Brokers aro buying at 110 and selling at 141}. SILVER-Buying at 138 and felling at 187. COTTON.-The market continues stagnant, only 12 bales being sold to-day. The receipts amounted to Al bales. BACON-Smoked Shoulders, li} cents'; B. B Sides, 17; C. R. Sides, IS; C. Sides, 19; Old Salt Shoulders 14 J j Old Salt C. R. Sides 16}; Hams lS@22c. CORN-Now White $1 15, Mixed $1 14 WHEAT-White, $300(2)2 75; Red, $2 70? 2 SO. OATS aro quiet. Wc quot^e at 90. For Sheriff* WK havo boon authorized by the friends of ] Mr. NAT HAMEY, SR., to announce him as a Candidate for the Office of SHERRIFF of Edge field District at the ensuing olection. May ll to 20 Fer Sheriff. WE have been authorised by the friends of Major ISAAC BOLES to announce him as a Can didate for olection to the Office of SHERIFF of Edgcficld at thc ensuing election. May 5 te* . 19 For Clerk. The Friends of Capt. S. HARRISON will sup port him as a candidate for re-election to the Clerk's Office of Edgefield at the approaching election. May 4 lo* 16 for Prolate Judge or Ordinary We have been requested hy the friends of W. F. DUR IS OE, Esq., to nom?nalo him aa a candidate for re-election to the office of Judge Probate, or Ordinary, for Edgefield at the election in Juno.ncxt. May 4 * lc? 19 ICE ! ICE ! JUST received at ?he SALUDA ?QUSH, one of the best assortments of Pure Old Liquors, Wines, &c, Ever introduced into this market. ICE ALWAYS ON HAND. Families sup plied at reasonable rates. May IS lm 24 State of South Carolina, I EDGEFIELD DISTRICT, IN EQUITY. Jame. A, Devore, AdV., ) B?" " "??j, Susan Lanham, at ah ) A?etl* *?. BY Virtue of an Order of tho Court in this case, the Creditors of JAMES M. LAN IAM, dee'd, are rcquirod to prosent and prove heir claims before th? Commissioner cn or before he 15th day of July next, or in? default thereof >o barred the benefit of the decree to bo pro tonnced herein. Z. W. CARWILE, CB.E.O. May 18, lot 20 New Drug Store! THE Undersigned take? pleasure in informing his friends that he has just received an ENTIBE NEW AND FRESH STOCK OF Drags, Medicines, Chemicals, &c<, At the Old Stand under Masonic Hall, where he will constantly on hand full Stocks of everything in the Drug line. Pe -sons withing to purchase will find it to their advantage to call at the Old Stand. ^Sf-Tevms reasonable. , T? J. TEAGUE, Agt. Mi.y 12 .tr... ;. LU .30 H. T. WRIGHT, ATTORNEY AT, LAW, AY be found for the present above the Store of Mr. Li. C. BRYAN. May 5 tf 19 M AK DECLARATION. PLICATION IN THE COURT OF COM MON PLEAS for Edgefield District, South Caro lina, for the Creation of a Private Corporation, for carrying on the MANUFACTURE OF PA PER. This Undersigned, applicants for their creation into. a. Private Corporation for the purpose of car rying on the Business of Manufacturing Paper in Edgefield District, South Carolina, (without their or their successors incurring an individual liability for the indebtedness of said Corporation,) DO DECLARE: That the object and particu lar business which they propose to carry on, ii tbo Easiness of Manufacturing Paper in Edge field District, South Carolina, on the site lately known as the Bath Paper Mills, under the name of " THE BATH SOUTH CAROLINA PAPER COMPANY." The amount of Capital by them employed is Seventy Thousand ($70,000) Dollars, currer t funds, consisting of cash paid in, Six Thousand Four Hundred ($0,400) Dollars, and af the Land, Mill, Buildings, Improvements, Ma chinery and Fixtures, owned by the applicants, and valued at Sixty-three Thousand Six Hun dred ($63,600) Dollars." * The time for which they desiro to he incorpo rated is a period of thirty years, from the date of the* filing of this Declaration in the Office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Edgefield District, with such privilege! to in crease thc Capital Stock, as are'by statute in such case o rdained. And therefore, Do Pray, That after this Decla ration, and the affidavit hereunto attached, shall have boen filed in tho said Office, and publication thereof be had once a week for two months, in terms of the Law, the said Clerk may render to tho applicants tho proper Certificate, to he held and deemed as evidence of the Charter of Incor poration of the said Bath South Carolina Paper Company, in accordance with the provisions of an Act of the Legisla-uro of South Carolina, en titled "An Act to authorize and regulate the Creation of Private Corporations within thia State," approved Dec. 20th, 1866. WM. CRAIG, President The Bath So. Ca. Paper Co. JOHN D. BUTT, Sec'ry & Troas'r. Bath S. C. Paper Co. JOHN T. MILLER, GEO. T. JACKSON, W. E. JACKSON, J. W. BUTT, JNO. D. BUTT, Atfy for JAS. P. BOYCE. Slate of South Carolina,} EDGEFIELD DISTRICT. $ PERSONALLY appeared before me, Benjamin Baird, Magistrate for Edgefield District, S. C., a person authorized to administer oaths under the laws of said State, William Craig, who being duly sworn, doposes and Bays, That he is (he President of The Bath South Carolina Paper Company, the Stockholders of which have made the foregoing Declaration, and that the amount of Capital in property actually owned by said Company, consisting of Land, Mill Buildings, Improvements, Machinery and Fixtures, is of the value in current funds "the sum of Sixty-three Thousand Six Hundred (63,600) Dollars, and that the amount of Capital in current funds cash paid in ii Six Thousand Four Hundred ($0,400) Dol lars,-the whole amounting to Seventy Thousand Dollars in Currency. WM. CRAIG. Sworn to before me, tL. i 9th day ) of May, A. D. 1869. [. BENJAMIN BAIRD, M.E D. j _May J 2,_2m_20 Tax Collector's Notice. IWILL bo at tito timo and places hereinafter mentioned, to receive tho Assessment and Tax Returns, and also Collect the Tases due on tho samo for the year 1807, viz: Rod Hill, Monday and Tuesday, ISth and 19th May 1S68. Chcalham's Store, Wednesday and Thursday, 20th and 21st. Liberty Hill, Friday and Saturday, 22d and 23d. I.ybrand's, Monday and Tuesday, 2?th and 26th. G ranitevillc, Wednesday and Thursday, 27th ?n I 2Sth. . Hamburg, Friday and Saturday, 29th and 30th EJgffiold C. H., Monday and Tuesday, 1st and 2nd June. I Mt. Willing, Wednesday and ThursdayVSd and r4th. Richardson's, Friday and Saturday, 5th and ?th. Haltawanger's Store, Monday and Tuesday, 3th and 9th. Edgcfi?ld C. n., Wednesday, Thursday, Fri lly, SatnrJay, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th June. After which timo roy Books will positively close. , Persona having Returns to make, will bear in mind thal: tho Tax Order requires all parties due individual Taxes to make their pwn Returns in person, uidess they are sworn according to law. Parties interested w . .efer to the Advtriiter of tho 13:h May, for particulars in reference to the property on which they are taxed, the Pub lishers having kindly consented to republish tho Tax Or lc rs id that issue. Ail persons engaged in Merchandise or Salo of Liquors will make their Retaras for the last Quarter of 1867, and also for the first Quar ter tn 1863, by Saturday, the 16th May, or they will ba liable to double Tax. BENI. ROPER, T. C. E. D. May 5_tf 19 Sheriff's Sale. H. C. Garrott, . "j vs > E. Z. Bitney, Adm'or. J BY virtue of an Execution from the Provost Court, to me dirco1 cd, I will proceed to sell at Edgeiicid 0. H.,'on ibo first Monday in June next, the following pioperty, levied on aj^the property of Emerson Bussey, dee'd., to ?ito? ONE TRACT OF LAND containing^Tcur Hundred and Forty (4-10) Acres, more or leas, and bonneted by Lands of John Archer, Joseph Bussey ami A. Sharptot!, . TRACT NO.. TW?,'contalmng Two Hundred and Fifty (250) Acres, moro or less, and bounded on the Weat, North and. South by lands of A. Sharpton, ind on the East by Tract No. L Terms Cash. ISAAC BOLES, S. E. D. May 9 4te 20 Sheriff's SateT Bcnj. Roper, T. C., ) vs. > Single Tax Execution. E. R. Cunningham, j BY Virtue of a Tax Execution in tho above stated case, to m? ^.Kd?d/I wilt proceed to sell at Edgefield Oov.rt House, on the 1st Monday in J*ne neijt, the following property, of the De fendant E. R. Cunningham, to wit: ONE HOUSE AND LOT in tho Town of Ham burg, known in the plan of said Town as Let No. 14. Terms Cash. ISAAC BOLES, S.E.D. May 7 1? 63_ Ste_20^ ?Sheriff's Sale, Thos. H. Marshall, <A KJ3L vs Geo. De ?^edici?, ' ' . BY Virus oi au Execution in the above stated ease fr Jin thc Provost Court, to nie directed, I will proceed to sell at Edgefield C. H., on th? ti rsl Monday- in Jane next, the following proper ty of the Defendant George Do Medicis, to wit: ONE TRACT OF LAND, one mile South of G ranitevillc Depot, contaiaing Two Hundred and Forty Acres, mor* less, adjoining leads of C, Attaway, George' Killy and otherii, Terms Cash. I ISAAC BOLES, S. E. BL May 6. ' _ 4te ' ._- 2? Boot and Shoe Shop ! PARIS S'IMKINS takes pleasure in announ cing to the people of EdgcGcld. that his SHOE SHOP, in rear of Mr. Cheatham's Bar Room, is supplied with the BEST MATERIAL ind COMPETENT WORKMEN, :and that fae is weparod "to execute all work ir tho Boot and shoe line in the moat fashionable, substaatial and atiafactory manner. . ti avx HARNESS made to ord sr, or REPAIRED, itt ;he shortest notice. ^9"Price8 very reiurssahle. .tf . . ^