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General Canby on the Removal of Polit ical Disabilities. The oiKcial testimony in fav? r of the adop tion of a liberal policy toward the Southern pople steadily accumulates. General Sickles was one of the first to dwell upon its impor tance, with special reference to bis own expe rience as Commander of the Second District. General Scbofi.-ld has'moro recently pleaded for it in Virginia. And now General Cunby t ansinits through (M?nerai Grant a communi cation in which he earnestly recommends a modification of so much of the reconstruction plan as rests upon au enforcement of the test oath. Thc conclusion arrived at by the present District Commander of the Carolinas is, sub stantially, tba: whicb has received tho en dorsement of all but extreme and sinister par lits. Adventurers from the Nor!li, whose chance for obtaining office is largely contin gent on the diMiualinV-tion of residents, and malignant partisans who would punish differ ence of opinion as a heinous crime, unite in praise of tests and disabilities as means of "making trea-on odious," and securing for loya?jj its reward. Apart from these classes, there ii an almost unanimous desire to relax the rigors of Congressional rule, and as far as possible obliterate painful and humiliating distinctions. General Cauby declares, as General Sickles declared before him, that jv ra vc interests suffer from *he exclusion from the public service of that large body of South ern .aen whom the law technically disquali fies. The men whem it is desirable to ap point to office, or to have elected to office, are technically debarred by the test oath; and thus, as General Canby remarks, " active and zealous friends of thc Union and of resto ration" suffer. The State suffers in a still greater degree, since it is deprived of services which in the p.-esent critical condition of af fairs ??rc pre-eminently required. The aid which thc test oath for the time renders unat Tamable is truly described by the General as " essentially important to the speedy or ganization aud successful working of the new State governments." Another consideration is suggested, which is little less important. Irresp"Ctive of the question of availability and service, it is desi rabie to remove whatever causes pf irritation tend to obstruct the smooth working of the new Governments. Neither the authority of Congress nor ?ho presence of tbe military can enable the country to dispense with pop ular good-will asan element in Republican rule. True statesmanship, then, dictates the removal of whatever tends to create opposi tion without producing any countervailing ad van ta?e. And foremost among the obstacles which may be thus described is, unquestionably, the test oath. General Canby urges its abroga tion, and the abrogation of disabilities gene rally, as a po.icy that will not only be accep table to a large majority of the Southern peo ple, but that "twill disarm much of the oppo sition which the new State Governments must exp"ctto encounter, and contribute gen erally to the permanent success of the work of reconstruction/' Tho loyalty and patriotism that inspire these recommendations should secure for them more than pacing attention when Congress puts the finishing touches to its plan by deci ding on tbe admission o? rcconstiucted Slates. -New York Times. Tbs Late Earthquake. A ian Francisco dispatch, of the 7th in stant, gives the following further particulars of the earthquakes, of which we have Lad a brief account by telegraph : Thc bark Comet, from Sandwich Islands, bri?gs accounts of a terrible volcanic eruption at Mauna Loa. It began March 27tb, and on the 28th over one hundred earthquake shocks were felt at Nilina. During the two weeks following, to April lo, 2t)00 shocks oc curred at Waiscbira. "he earth opened in many places. A tidal wave rose sixty feet high, overtopping cocoa trees a quarter ot a mile inknd, and sweeping human beings, houses, and eierything movable t c.'brc it. A terrible shock prostrated churches ind houses, killing many. One hundred lives were lost, besides thousands of horse-; and Cattle. T?e craters vomited lire, rocks and lava. A river ol red-hot lava, five or six miles long, flowed to the sea at the rate of ten miles an hour, decoying everything before it and forming ntl island iu the sea. A new crater, two miles wide, opened, which throws rocks and streams of fire a thousand feet high. Stream? of lava roiled to the sea. At one time the illumina lion extended lift}' miles at night. The lava his pushed out from shore one niiie at Wais chira. Three miles from the shore a coral island rose suddenly emitting a column of steam and smoke, while the Kono pr.cket was pass ing, spatteiiug mud on thc vesse'. The greatest shock occurred April 21. Prior to the eruption there was a great shower o! ashes and pumice. During the great shock thc swaying motion of the earth was dread ful. No person c>uid stand. In the midst of this, a tremendous eruption of ted earth poured down the mountain, rushing across tho plain three miles in three minutes, and then ceased, then came thc great tidal wave, and then the streams of lava. Thc villages on the shore were all destroy ed Ly this wave. The earth opened under the se?, and reddened the water. The earth erJption swallowed thirty persons, and IIK si a many more. Great suffering and terror prevailed in tue whole region affected. A loop (Live Yankee) bas been dispatched with provisions, tic, to rescue and releve the sui lerer?. Honolulu correspondence to the Bulletin, of tlii? city, gives the details of the volcanic disturbances, showing that the earthquake shocks extended to all the islands of the* Hawaiian group, but no damage, as known, except around Mauna Loa. Numerous and extensive land slides, accompanied by otber phenomena, occured, destroying life aud prop erty. The summit and side of a bill fifteen hundred feel high were thrown a thousand feet over tl'J tops of trees, and landed in the vailey below. The gases that issued after wards doV.nyed vegetable und animal lift;. Fathomless fissures opened iu the mountain sides. A ?ava stream flows under ground, breaking out in four jets six miles from the sea,.and throwing lava and stones ten or fif teen hundred feet high. The uaw island thrown up is four hundred fiict high, and is now joined to the main land by a stream of lava a mile wide. A large stream ol water bas burst from u?e mountain where the earth eruptions occurred. The base of the volcano, about three hundred mi!e3 in circumference, is desolated. At least half a million of property is destroyed. The king of thc Sandwich Hands has issued a proclamation for the relief of the sufferers. .Many visitors had gone from Honolulu, and will go from Sau Francisco. The worst is thought to bc over, but the lava flow con tinues, presenting a grand spectacle. The earthquake shock at Heraldsburg la>t night awoke all thc inhabitants. Severa! s?oeks wer.; felt in Califor.jia about tho period of the outlxeak in Hawaii. TUE ADMISSION OF ARKANSAS.-A Wash ington dispatch to the New York World says : Tbe passage of the bill to admit Arkansas to representation in Congress was tho impor tant feature of Friday'?j session, and it was rushed through under the previous question, it was admitted by members o:i both sides that they had ?over had an opportunity to read thc constitution of Arkansas, but Thad. .Stevens did not seem to think that would ? make any difference, and he declined to post- 1 pone the bill to allow members to become belter informed. Mr. Eldridge appealed to i the House not to perpetrate such an iufamy j r.s to force thc bill through at this lime. A brief discussion then followed, when Mr. Baker, an Illinois Radical member, took the i floor, and opposed tbe fundamental condition \ in the biH which provided that the State of j Arkansas should never restrict its present ( basi3 of suffrage. He chimed that Congress b*d no right to enact any such condition, but * ?he bill w?3 passed by nearly a party vote. 1 lt now goes to the Senate for concurrence. * It seems to be the intention of tho Radicals io pass this bill and the South Carolina bill, which is precisely similar, and admit the re- 1 presen ta Ure? from taose?ute*, without wait- * mg fas ft* ral?&a&s of ito fr&rttt&i ? amendment to the Constitution of the United States by three fourths of the States, as re quired by the fifth section of the supplemen tal act of 1867. THE ADVERTISER. JAMES T. BACON, EDITO E. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, I8G8. Promenade Concert. On Friday evening, the 5th of June prox., the Ladies of tho Episcopal Congregation will give an Entertainment and Promenade Concert, for the benefit of the Episcopal Church, in the Ma sonic Hall. Further particulars concerning this Entertainment will bo toado known in our next Ten Years Imprisonment at Hard Labor. W. R. PRYSOCK-who was convicted at this placo some months ago, of assaulting and rob bing MATHIAS SBCALT, and who appealod for a new trial-having abandoned his appeal, was sentenced lately by the Appeal Court to be hang ed on tho 19th of June next. In consideration however, of a petition for mercy in behalf of tho doomed man, Bigncd by many citizens of Edge field District, Gov. Onn has oommuted his sen tence to ten years imprisonment at hard labor in tho State Penitentiary. PRYSOCK, has already been lodged in the Penitentiary. Latest Washington News. Through the kindness of Capt. T. W. CARWII.E we are in receipt of an Augusta paper of this (Tuesday) morning, from which wo gather tho following: WASHINGTON, May IS. Thc House resolution setting the impeachment managers to work again has the following pre amble : " Whoreas, information has come to the mana gers which seems to thom to furnish probable cause to believe that improper or oorrupt fnflu ODces have been used to influence tho determina tion of the Senate up^n tho articles of impeach ment exhibited to the Senate by tho House of Rep resentatives against tho President of the United States." The statement that Mr. Chase paid a congratu latory visit to the President yesterday is untrue. Salutes in honor of acquittal wero fired in seve ral Northern cities. A doubtful rumor to the effect that Qoncral Grant has written a letter declining thc nomina tion to the Presidency, unless the platform con forms to his views, creates sotno excitement. Mr. Stevens offered a resolution calling for secret proceedings of the court. Ho said no ono could doubt thoro was deep damnation somewhero, rind he wanted to find out who was guilty. An swering a question, whether Senators would have been justified in committing perjury, Mr. Stevens said : u Well, sir, I don't think it would have j hurt them much." Th* resolution passed. After refusing to concur with the Senate fer a recess, tho Heute adjourned until to-morrow. " Gone to Hell." According to the Washiagton corresponden': of a prominent Louisville ppper, Messrs. Butler and Washburne, two head devils in tho Radical pan demonium, said lately, speaking of the impeach ment of President Johnson, that it was "gone to hell." And so it has turned out. Delightful consummation ! And who all havo gone along with it? Lot us see. First and foremost, there is the chivulrous Stanton ; then old Den Wailo : then the six worshipful Managers, Messrs. But ler, Binghntn, Boutwell, Logan, Williams and Thad S.evens; then Sumner; then old Horace Greely; then, in all probability, Ulysses Grant ; then Ashlov, thc dirty cats-paw of the conspira tors ; and finally, wc have good reason to think, the whole Radical party. On the 12th of the present month, according lo previous arrangement, thc vote upon impeach ment was to ha^-e been taken ; but tho impeach ers, finding it was "nogo," were seized with sudden consternation and postponed thc voting until tho 16th. The pretext for this was the ill ness of tho Radical Senator, Howard. On the 16tb, however, (bit Saturday,) tho vo- j ting bogan. Thc indictment against tba Presi j "lent consists of Eleven Articles ; and it would ? stem, from the despatches, that ibo Senators arc ! to vote upon each sepuratc Article. On tho oe-1 easton referred to, they voted but Upon one, the 1 Eleventh. This Article, if we remember aright, I embodies, as it were, all the rest; at ill events, it | charge' the attempt t-1 prevent the execution of tho " Tenure of Oflico Act,"-the most vital charge in thc indictment. The result wss 35 for conviction, 19 for acquit tal. Thirty fivo not being the necessary majority, Chief Justice Chaso announced that tho Presi dent was acquitted a? regards the Eleventh Arti cle. And hereupon the Radicals again postponed further voting until tho 2<5th inst,-that ii, until after the Chicago Convention, which is now in Session. But thc whole matter is regarded ns settled. The voto on Saturday last discloses that the Presi dont cannot he impeached. And the great " Im peachment Trial" turns oat to bo but thefizz of a squib ! Thc strength cf the Senate is fifty-four. Of this nu-liber, two-third." (thirty six) arc necessary to carry conviction. Twelve of the Senators ure Democra'.ic. Nineteen voted for acquittal. Seven of these were, of course, Republicans. The coun try should remember Heir names: Fcssenden, Fowler, Grimes, Trumbull, Henderson, Ross and Van Winkle. For one, we rejjiot greatly in t!:is result. To us nf the South there was disaster and humilia lion in the President's impwachment. Hi- remo val would have placed one of the must malignant and unscrupulous of all the enemies of the South ern people, in power. He would have proved not only a willing instrument in tho hands of Con gress, but a violent and dishonest leader of the crusade against us. And by ma-ripuluting skil fully the clements of power and patronage, by ?rau l and by force, tho Radical programme for the next Presidential election would have been made to succeed under his administration. And without a doubt, this result will bring about terrible division iu the Radical rank.*. The extreme Radicals will revilo aidostraciso those Senators who voted for acquittal ; whilo the latter, comprising as they do, the clearest heads, thc most honest heart?, tnt ripest states mea of the party, will still be trusted by honest Republi cans everywhere as loaders ami guides. Thc Radical party havo overdono|themsel ve? they have digged a pit and fallen therein. One more year, aud-as matters look now-wo imnll bo rid of them. " Caesar Medalia." High-sounding patronymic that ! And to think that tho owner of such a namo sb' ubi so fur for get himself as to steal greasy bacon ! Lamenta ble and unbecoming d?gradation ! But who is Cmsar Medalia? Ho is a newly enfranchised oitizen who was brought to this plnco a few days ago, by a party of gentlemen, and lodged in jail, for stealing a goodly quantity of bacon from Mrs. MARGARET JONES. Nor is Mrs. JONES the only widow lady out in that pRrt of the country who has been thus rob bed. In the courso of tho past ten days, tho smoko house of Mrs. JAMES TOMPKINS has been bored into, and somo SOO lbs of bacon abstracted thercfrtm. Thc " Medalia" who perpetrated the lust mentioned deed (unless it be thu so If-sa ino Crosar) is not yut brought to jnstico. The " Me dalia" family is frightfully numerous in this Dis trict Their most salient characteristic is that they wi.l nokbor work nor -tarv? ; but in lieu of either course, will-bub ! wo cannot utter tho word which is in our brain". Wo shudder to uso such a gross word ia Cunnection with a family so illustrious as the " Medullas." ?ST" Tho Charleston Courier of Friday last lays : A white man named Charles Hamilton, who s charged with various crimes, and who was to lave boen trjecj before a Military Commission in Columbia, Wednesday, .succeeded in making his ?scape from his colored guard, near Kingsville he guard having fallon asleep. Hamilton has leon confined in Castle Pinckney for some time. ??SS- Spartanborg is a Democratic District. !n that District there aro twonty-fivo Democratic Habs. How many Clubs have we foll/ organirr d? thiaPwtri?t; The Sunday School Festival. Tho May Festival of tho Sunday Schooh our town, took placo on Friday last, under n favorable auspices. The ovent bad been 1 anticipated, and the Teachers in the several S day Schools, ably and most generously assis by the ladies md gentlemen of tho different c grogatiens, and by tho ladies and gentlomei tho vicinity and surrounding country, bad m extensive preparations to render it in all respi a grand and joyous occasion for tho young fol They wero entirely successful. At 11 o'clock A. M. the leachers and Schol assembled en masse at the Methodist Church, i marched thence, in a procession, charmin fresh, beautiful and well-arranged, to the Bap Church, when an overwhelming congregatior their relatives and friends awaitod them. 1 services wero opened with tho singing of one two hymns, followed by a fervent and earn prayer, from the Rev. L. R. GWALTNEY, pas of tho Church, for the success of tho schools n tho spiritual welfare of the young pupils. A this was followed in turn by short and exceedii ly interesting and woll-conceivcd Addresses fr< ALTRED J. NORRIS, Esq., W. W. ADAMS, ES Rev. Mr. HERMON and Rev. Mr. GWALTKBY. 1 services were varied and gladdened through by Sunday School hymns and choruses, beau fully sung, and with great spirit and precisii by the whole body of pupils ; the accompa: monts being gracefully played by the obligi and accomplished lady who oonducts the mu in tho Baptist Church. After thc benediction was pronounced by Ri : Mr. GWALTNEY, tho charming procession w again formed, and pupils and congregation s journed to the grove of the Malo Academy, wh< a handsome feast-an extromely handsome fei -had been prepared for all." There was an en lessly long table for big peoplo ; and anoth only a foot and a half from tho ground, for t little creatures who looked like angels-and a angels yet awhile. But the pleasantest occasions must have i end ! And after much citing, and drinking, ai promenading, and chatting, and flirting, ai enjoyment generally, with nothing to mar tl sunshine of the occasion, the Sunday Sehe Festival of 186S came to an end. We hope f thing will become a regular annual observance ; is pious, pure and beautiful. And we hope i may all meet together a year h cr. co io t same spirit of brotherly love and neighbor kindness. Knowing that our readers will bo gratified peruse the chaste and edifying addross of o friend below named, we tako great pleasure publishing it entire. SUNDAY ScnooL ADDRESS or A. J. NORRIS, ES It has been tho custom of mankind in all hoi orable pursuits, from the earliest ages of Societ to occasionally celebrate their progress with in de, with song and jovial feast. Ia pursuance this timo-bouored custom, and in pursuance the divino injunction which requires us to assoc ble ourselves together to pay our devotion to tl great King of Kings; wo have come into the Si cred Temple to celebrate tho arniversary of oi Villago Subbath Schools. Wc are not here to ce ebrato an occasion of martial glory, nor to crow the conqueror's brow with victorious wreaths. H aro not here to invest with tho robes of offii some high public functionary, whose distinguish services nnd public deeds entitle him to the higl est veneration that man is permitted to besto upon man. These, with us, aro things of thc paf Our banner trails in the du?t. Our warriors ha^ sheathed their swofds. The voices of our state: men are hushed. No monumental marble tells i the heroic valor of our slaughtered dead, foreign soldiery treads upon our soil, and tho no of a tyrant makes our laws. We aro strangers i our own country, and instead of celebrating a da of national glory, at a time tl?ft witnesses ou deep humiliation, and the grievous and euormou wrongs that havo been hoaped upon us by an u: generous foe, it would well becom? os, like th captive Israelites,tu bang our harps upon thc wil lows and weep. But notwithstanding wc arc voiceless and pow less in thc councils of thc nation, we aro yet abl to do much to ameliorate our condition as a pee plo, and to aid in the recovery of that highes privilege of a freeman, the right of being gov erncd by his peers. Driven as wo are from th plice and the voice to which wc are justly cnti tied in thc government of our country, and com pellcd as we aro to forego our wonted celebration when the theme of our orators was our libert; Mud prosperity,-no occasion coul? better com maul our time or deserve our attention than tba which has brought us here to-day. It is manifei; that we havo not failed to appreciate its plcaf ure ur its importance; and thc interest manifested b; our people, is creditable alike to their social ant moral reputation. In thn beautiful and charm ing mouth of May, when nature is robed in Ilvinj green, decorated with innumerable fragrant flow ors, and enlivened by the music of thc sweet song sters of the forest, u period moro than away othei mgguestivo of the primitive era when our first par ents enjoyed tho felicities of their Eden Home all have stopped from their busy avocation? ant c-->ino here t3 do honor to tho cause by their pres once, their plaudits, and their cordial celebrator of the Anniversary Day. Korara the plensures of this era. of youthful delight confined to tho people of eur quiet Hitit village. Thousands of happy Vuieei arc unitin? themselves together dui ing this p'euiant month of May. Thousands of happy hearts aro leaping with joy and gladno.-s engendered by the events of this festive period. Tho Sunday School army is everywhere ringing out its anthems,-in tho midst of thc magnificence of the city, tho checriul mediocrity of tho village, and tho plain simplicity of rural life; und its san guine little songsters aro echoing and ru echoing their warblings at every cheerful fi resido in the land. Let us then out be disheartened nor dis couraged by the things that are untoward, but tran port ourselves back to tho day) of our child hood, and participate in thc pleasure, of tho Sun day School band. Tbut the Sabbath School ha3 ever been a most powerful instrument in tho moral training of the young, is a question that has been fully demon strated and established by tho achievements of the past. I's merits havo been oft repeated, and are as familiar as household words. It is a cause that no ouo CU reproach It is a cause that all must commond. Ic bas mo two-fold purpose of tr.tilling up the youth in such a manner that they mny be fittod to discharge thc high and responsi ble duties of the pre.ent life as good citizens, and at least, wheo they come to enter the "undiscov ered country," to preparo them to approach the grave like one who " wrap* tho drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." Taken in tho morning of life, whon the young imagination is quick and vigorous, they "listen with credulity to every whisper of fancy" and " pursue with oagernesa every phantom of hope." Like the leaflet that is sbakon by tho gontlcst breath of the zephyr, is the youthful mind suscep tible of being moulded and formed by the soft ministrations of Sabbath School instruction. A distinguished modem philusupbor says that the young mind is like u blank piece of paper, and that as it comes into contact with tho things of tim ' and sense, tho impression is mndo upon it and il retains it as IL written page. This theory is strongly sustained, by implication, by Victor Hugo, tho author of a series of French Novels, that recently muda their appearance in (bis coun try, under thc title of " Lu 3H?erabUs." Th oso who aro familiar wiih these novels know that thoy teach but ODO useful lesson, and that is in tho pow erful illustration they afford of what a terrible calamity it is to bo brought up io tho binnia of wretchedness and vico. How important then the duty, to teach tho young to shun the contamina tion of Evil ns thoy would shun tho poisoning fangs of the viper. Once tho scods of destruction are implanted in their innocont hearts, thoy spring up liko brambles and choke and suppress the growth of the nobler sentiments of Honor and Truth. It is not to be nupposed that tho Sabbath School exercises are laborious, wearisome, or irksome. Th- vimpls Inti? Af tb* W?A$K9 mail adopted to tho comprehension of tho young. It is with real, visible delight, that they master the story of j Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob ; of Samuel, of Saul, and of David ; of Mathow, of Mark, and of I John ; and none havo a keener sensibility of the sublime condescension of the Redeemer, for the salvation of ungrateful and unworthy man, than the young Sabbath School Student. One of tho most enticing characteristics of the Sunday School is its music. Tho ancient? well understood the power of music, when thoy repre sented the effect produced by the strains of Or pheus' lute. Trees danced to its melodious inspi ration, the wild beasts became tame, the wheel of j Ixion stood still, and Tantalus forgot hit thirst; And when the children in tho temple break the silence, and with rapturous voices of angels, sing anthems cf praise to Him who over rales the des tinies of men, who that can listen unmovod to their youthful Hosannas, and not catch the inspi ration from the lips of the infant throng? If ever there was a time when the highest duty of a people was tho mental and moral culture of | the young, that time with us is the present Largo numbers ef our race will bo too poor to pay for the advantages of tho commonest education. The tendency of poverty and ignorance is to go hand in hand with wretchedness and vico. They must chooso on the ono hund this pitiful career, or they must recent on the other that worse alternative of | social equality in the common school system about to be inaugurated in our State. The contact of | two races, so widely different in moral culturo, cannot fail tobo injurious and seriously detrimen tal to tho one-tho most refined. The lower order will bring down the higher order to the level o? the preponderating mass, and thus our individu ality as a race will be gone. This is a most start ling and appalling consideration, and the evil can only be averted by vigorous and persistent effort. Let the lamp of the Sabbath School bo carried into every villago, and every hamlet, and into every Church and every school houso in the land. Tell me not that you do not owe it to yours? Ives, to hunt up those little paupers, and rescue them from ignorance and vice on the one hand, and the loathesome doom of miscegenation on tho other, -and preserve, by the magic influence of Sabbath School instruction, the purity of your race and the dignity of the Anglo-Saxon blood. We can not afford to lose them from our ranks ; we cannot afford to see them afSliato with the destroyers of j our peace. Wo have lost our liberties, we have lost our property, we have lo3t the prestige that the once proud name of a Carolinian bore. -TS esc aro the jewels that are left us, and wo must-polish them, and brighten them, and preservo thqtjtan tarnisbed from the cankering influences thafisiay surround them. If we be true to oursclvcipurae to thememorios of the post, true to the youth?nd maidens of our land, this threatened doom will be dispolled like a mist of the morning, and the dawn of a brighter day will soon beam upon us. Our nobie women have ever been tho first and the foremost, to step forward in tho timo of great public emergencies, and with the goncral influence of a high moral sentiment, and the tender minis trations of their good Samaritan lahori, haveftoh tributed in1 no ordinary degree to the present ?re ces of Sabbath School training. Where the in fluence like that of the Mother when she bidgee bravo littlo boy and tho tender little daughter to hasten to the school ! What more potent than the affection of a Sister to win tho erring brother from his waywardness, and inspire him with a love for the duties of his class. I am told by those who are acquainted with the early history of our Tillage, 'hat it is to the inde fatigable exertions of one of these ministers of mercy, that the Sabbath School of this Church ?wea ita first Organization. When yo? aro woo lering through tho Villago Church yard, and re flecting upon tho career of those who have gone before us, stop when you como to the namo of ELIZA JOHNSON DRISDALE, and recognise the tomb of tho founder of your School. She it was who first gathered tho little band together; sho it was who led it triumphantly through tho period of its probation ; ?ho it was who, in tho time of its greatest ncctssity, worked for tho School with a zeal aud a devotion worthy of tho noble cause. Let her memory not be forgotten, and upon each rccurritig anniversary da}', lot her tomb be decoj ruted with your most bc lutiful garlands, and em balmed with your choicest flowers. Years have now passed, since the School has been in operation, and those who were pupils then, aro now numbored among our oldest citizens, scarcely enough of whom aro loft to preserve the traditions of its early days. Many who have been members have passed away to their final account, and many have carried the useful lessons here taught them into other spheres of life. Our Schools aro now in a most flouriihing con dition, and under thc ethe i cut management of their present organizations, promise to do good work in inculcating tho wholesome truths of tho Biblo upon the rising generation, and bringing up our youth co that they muy become useful and honorable men and women. Thc impressions here made help to rear up a sound and hoalthy consci ence, furnish ready themes for sermons and profitable reflection, and amidst thonoiso of youth ful .-ins and follies, keep alive in the bosom a monitor that is ever ready with tho finger of re monstrance and reproof. And uow, my Young Frionds, I havo just one word for you. Thcso are the golden moments, of your life, and the privileges and opportunities which they confer upon you, will foon have winged their flight into the deep gulf of the past As you value your live.?, as yon vulue thc high hopes of the future, suffer them not to slip by you unimproved. Like the littlo busy bco, you should improve "each shining hour,"-and with t!:o same care that sho stores away the sweet food that she makes, you Bhould treasure up the truthl that you learn in tho Sabbath School class. Strive to be always preparod and perfectly familiar with tho lesson that is assigned you. Learn to regard your teacher as your friend, acd do not get angry when ho admonishoe you to your duty. No one appreciates so well as the teacher tho quick per ception and tho ready will of his pupil. Do not causo him to be diicouragod by your nogligence or your indiffuronco. Remember that his self, imposed task is a labor of lovo. Put on smiling faces, perform well and cheerfully tho duties of | < the cbs*, and lot each song bo sweeter than tho one that precoded it. If you ?ct well your part, tho Sabbath School causo will nover fail to flour ish ; its numbers will constantly increase, and the return of each anniversary day ??ill fiud the tide of your prosperity flowing onward, still on ward. It will contribute greatly to your tompo ral pleasures, and may be the means of inuring you a passport to the great Colebration on the b?ulcs of tho " Beautiful River that flows by tho throno of God." Thc " Omnibus Bill" in the House. Tho following bill, called tho " Omnibus Bill," (why or wherefore, wc know no?) was pnssed in the House of Representatives of the Un: tod States, on TLursday last, by a voto of 1"8 nyes to 35 nays. "Bo it emoted, That tho States of North Caro lina, Soutii Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia and Ala bama shall bo entitled and admitted to represen tation in Congress os Stites of the Un!, ii when the Lesriaisturo of en rh States, respectively, shall havo duly ratified tho amendment to tho Consti tution of tho United States proposed by thc XXXIX. Congress, and known as Article XIV, upon the following fundamental conditions : That tho Constitutions of snid States shall never be BO amended or changed as to doprivo any citizen or class of citizons of the United Statoa of the right to vote who are entitled to vote by tho said Con stitution respectively, except for such crimes as are now felonies at common law, whereof they shall have been duly convicted; and no person shall ever be held to sorvjpe or labor as punish ment for crime in said State, except by public of ficers charged with tho custody of convicta by the laws thereof. Second. That if the day fixed for tho meeting of tho Legislatures of said States by the Constitu tions thereof, shall bnvo passed before the pass ago of this Act, such Legislatures may bo conven ed within thirty days thereafter hy tho Presidents cf the Conventions which framed tho Constitutions of such States. Third. That tho first section of this Act shall take effect when the President of the United States shall proclaim tho duo ratification by the Legislatures of said States respectively, of the Constitutions of said States respectively, of Arti cle XIV, of the Amendment to tba Constitution of th? United States proposed by tb? XXXIX Coagrm." Our Neighbors Are Leaving Us Fal Behind. -Yes, our neighbors'are leaving us far behi in the race of human progress. In moro th one of the Districts above us, the poople are rr king practical and tolling efforts to introdu whito laborers, and to encourage immigration general. Particularly is this the case in Newbi ry and in Oconee. Our neighbors of Ncwbcr aro marching boldly forward in tho great matti They have organized a large and practical) working Immigration Society and are subscrib? monti/ in large sums for the furtherance of ti all-important object They seem to havo gone work io tho right way ; we honor them for thc spirit and enterprise, and wc here earnestly e treat our own people to follow their good exai plo. And in Oconee the people are making rem for the reception of a whole colony of Germa from the Rhine country. Two wealthy landholdc in the last named District (CHRISTOPHER JONI Esq., and Col. C. HAMPTON, a brother of tl General,) havo expressed a willingness to dona ?overol hundred acres of land to German and oth industrious foreign immigrants, on the conditit of their permanently occupying and improvii them. Another example worthy of imitatioi Let thrifty* Germans dot a port of your loni with smiling farms, and you can soon sell i much of the res" as you choose, ai prices thi will pay well. And is there nothing in feel it that you have been instrumental in building u your native section ? Would you havo an oxemplo of what immign lion has done for a country ? Look at Utah tt country of the despicable Mormon?. During tl past winter $50,000 have been collected In ama sums, in Utah to aid in the immigration of Eur? peon laborers this spring. Hero lies the wh'ol secret of the admirable success and astonishin prosperity of the Mormons as settlers and as af riculturalists. Knowing the value of immign lion, they have been willing to pay for it. By t doing, they have overcome disgust to their filth doctrines, disgust to distance, disgust to the: oold and bleak location. If the Mormons cou] command such success in tho face of such difi :ultios, what cannot we of the South do, with on rich and valuable soil, and a climate that wit admiration from all who come to live under it How valuable will be our lands, how vast th produce of our industry, how teeming our wealtl whan we are as wise and enterprising as the Mot mons. We abhor and spit upon their religion but as regards thoir immigration polioy, we wonl do well to profit by it What they are doing, w cando; and with a degreo of success that wi leave thoir achievements for behind. Old things have passed away; all things or new. An entirely new system of industry mu; be inaugurate!! in the South, and the zaind an talent of tho superior race which formerly direct ed and controlled the labor of the negroes, mu: now be employed in a new and ultimately mor remunerative channel. It is of no avail for u to supinely wait in idleness for better times o moro favorablo circumstances. Necessity require the exertion of every power yet left os for tb improvement of our condition and the recover, of the prominent and commanding position whicl onablod us once to control the policy of tbe Unitei States, and enforce tko respect of tho wholo civ ilized world. We urge that wile, considerate, patriotic peopl -all people in fact-will carefully ponder thi subject and exert their influence, both by won and deod, to extend theso views on this importan subject. Tr? Immigration, in a great moasure, Wi must look for our future prosperity, and for re lief from our present impoverished condition, ou financial difficulties, and thc desolations of a gi pantie civil war. ? ? ? For the Advertiser. Democratic Meeting at Mt. Willing. MT. WILLING, S. C., May 9th, 1868. At a Democratic meeting of tho citizens of Mt, Willing and vicinity, hold May 0th, 1863, Mr J. P. MICKLER proposed that thc meeting organ ize by calling Col. E. J. GOCGANS to thc Chair B. J. BOUKMGIIT was then requested to aot as Secretary. Thc Chairman stated the purpose of the meeting to organize u Democratic Club. The Committee appointed to preparo business for the meeting, E. Vf. Seibols, J. M. Norris and f. P. Mickler, presented thc following Preamble ?nd Resolutions, which wero read, and after ?orne discussion, unanimously adopted. WUEBEAS, The unhappy and unsettled condi tion of our country, renders it necessary that :vory good citizen should aft bis part in concert Frith some organization and thus assist to avert me impending storm. Be it therefore Resolved, That tho poople of this Battalion jouestly believe that the salvation of our country, ind tho welfare of both whito and black, depend jpon tho defeat of thc present Radical party, and tho triumph of the old Democracy, whioh bas ;ontrolled thc country so long and so well. Resolved, That we will cordially unito with the Northern Democracy, and use every lawful means a our power to secure the success of that party. Resolved, That wo acknowledge tho colored jnpulation as nn element in the body politic, and hcrefore clearly entitled to full protection in per ion aud property. Rt solved, That we really believe that univer?al lufirage will bring ruin and disaster upon the ivholc country ; but wo hereby declare our wil ingnes* to give the colored citizens partial suf rago upon educational or property qualifications. Rttoltti, That wo sincerely advise the colored loople, as their best friends, to consider well their "uture prospects, and to cast lh>ir vote as thc} .xpect t? cast thoir lot, with tho?e, and for those, ,vith whom their destiny, for weal or woe, is in loparably connected. Resolved, That we condemn all lawless acts, ;hreats of violenco or intimidation, by either whito or black, as entirely at war with tho true principles of Republican Liberty, and entirely ?epugnant to our faith as true Democrats. Resolved, That wo invite the freedmen of this Battalion, to form a Democratic Club, and the Sub-Committee ore hereby instructed to take such itops as will secure an early organization. Resolved, That wo will carry out existing 00') ;racts with the freedmen in good faith ; but in ill futuro timo wo will give decided preference to .boso who volo the Democratic ticket; nor will wc tmploy a Radical, if a Democrat can bo found. Resolved, That in furtherance of our views, as txpressod in the foregoing Resolutions, wo resolve lursclvos into a club, to be called the MT. WILLING DEMOCRATIC CLUB. Resolved, That a Committee of Five be ap jnintod by the Chair to report a Constitution and dominate Officers for the Club, and that they -eport immediately. Committee consisted of E. W. Seibels, P. B. ?Vaterr, J. M. Norris, J. P. Mickler and Mahlon Padgett. After a briof absence, the Committee oturned and submitted a Constitution, which was ido^ted. The Club then proceeded to tho election of Dfikore which resulted as follows : Col. G. D. Il c KT was unanimously elected President Col. E. J. GOGGANS, J. P. MICKLER and J. Y. JULBREATH Vice-Pr?sidents. B. J. BOUKNIGIIT, Secretary and Treasurer. E. W. SKIDBLS, Corresponding Secretary. It was unanimously resolved that these pro icedings be published in tboEdgefield Advertiser. No further businoss, tho meeting adjournod, to noct at Mt Willing, at two o'clock P. M., on saturday the 23rd of May. E. J. GOGGANS, Chairman. B. J. BOUKN.GHT, Sec'y. <t Treat. -? ? The Kesult in Georgia. As in South Carolina, so in Georgia. Negro ladical supremacy has been established over the rr-Ue people of both Slates. Tho actual result it ino lato elections in Georgia hos not been iflicially announced ; but enough is known to aake certain the faot the Democrat", although trey fought a good fight, have not triumphed, lufus B. Bullock, the Negro-Radical candidate or Governor, is elcctod by a small majority. The iegro-Radioal Constitution has been ratified by i majority not far from ton thousand votos. Meade eiegraphs to Grant that is both branchos of the jegislature the Radicals arr in the majority. It i useless to indulge in (peculation concerning he causes that produced this calamitous result, r to conjecture in what way it could have been oado different As in South Carolina, so in leorgia. The die is cast The fate of these itates and their poople, for a while at least, is | eaiod. Wa CM do Dotting bot qait?ly ratait, , and await with patience another opportunity tho ballot box to better our condition by defoat and hurling from position tho party now so raf ly bringing us to ruin. White men must ce remaining away from the polls. And white 1 most not flog in endeavoring to c pen tho eyei thc negroes, nnd winning them ores to the ri, side. -?--- ', For the Advertiser To the Citizens ol' Edge field. We havo heard, with emotions of pride s .pleasure, that the Central Democratic or Oona vathre Committee of Edgefield, in conjunct with the Battalion or Sub-Committees of the I trict, aro now considering and maturing th nomination of candidates ter the principal Cot ty Offices, provided to be filled by election, in i Constitution lately ordained and ratified by 1 people of South Carolina. The Officers soon to elected, and into whose bands the most vital terosts of our citizens are to bo committed and posed for the next four years, are a Clerk of t Court of Common Pleas, a Sheriff, Ordinary Judge of Probate, Tax Collector, Coroner, Schi Commissioner, a Board of County Commissione Justices of the Peace, Constables, ?c. By this Constitution the powers and duties the Clerk aro greatly enlarged. Indeed the ve responsible office of Commissioner in Equity merged in'his. And that is not all. In the 27 Section of the 4th Article, it is provided, that shall, by virtue of bis office, be Clerk of all oth Courts of Record held in the County, and t General Assembly is only empowered, withe being constrained, to provide for the election o? Clerk, for each or any other of tho Courts Record, and to authorize the Judge of the Pi bate Court to perform the duties of Chub for I own Court Now, when we reflect, that by t 16th Section of the same Article of the Constit tion, it is ordainod that -tho Court of Comm Pleas shall have jurisdiction in all matters Equity, and that by the 1st Section, the Judici Power of the State, is to be vested in, besides t' Supreme Court, two Circuit Courts, to wit, a Coo of Common Pleas, having civil jurisdiction, ai a Court of General Sessions, with criminal jori diction ; in Probate Courts, invested with au mentod powers, in justices of tho peace, and such municipal and other inferior Courts, as mi be deemed necessary ; and whon we reflect fu rthc that upon whomsoever we shall elect Clerk of tl Court of Common Pleas, may 'be devolved n< only the duties and liabilities of Clerk of all these Courts, but also the high and delicate fun tioo8 now discharged by the Commissioner i Equity of the District, we are almost startled the arduous character of his labors, and at tl unexampled magnitude of his offico. It alroac requires a man of education, cf the bast rcgnli ted mind and temper, of upright deportment ai correct habits of living, of patience, of honorab Intentions, of unshaken firmness ard decision charactor ;-in a word, a man of only a little ic industry, learning, astutoness, and legal acumei than the very best of lawyers in our midst,-I discharge well the singlo office of Commission! in Equity. At his Courts of Reference, quostioi of tho gravest moment, and of the most doubifi character, aro often sprung upon bim, by men bers of tho Bar, and of opposing Solicitors, an tho very highest qualities of bead and heart ai required to be put in requisition for their propc solution. At a period like this, his labors too, i thc settlement of Estates, are absolutely Herci lean, and if his energies be failing, and bis pors< veranee fitful and uncertain, be is lost in thc mai of his official business, foundoredin an untxplorc sea of intestate estates, guardian account?, an insolvent bonds and mortgagos, and with his il! starred craft, sink the fortunes, and perish th estates and hopes of minors, widows and orphan all over tho District ind State. But consider fui ther, that unr^-r tho new order of affairs about t be inaugurated, nearly all the business transac tiens of our peoplo are to bo carried on throug' the agency of this Clerk of thc Court of Coturno: Pleas, and it, nt once, occurs to the mind, that bi is the most important office, so far os every indi vidual is concerned, not only in the District, bu in the Stato. Ho is tho Chiof Banker of .tho Dis trict. Upon hia fidelity and integrity, thc desti tuto women and children depend for bread ; upoi his intelligence and zesl, all the citions rely fo thc progress of business ; and upca his accorac; and skill, thc Bocch and the Bar implicitly rel; for the preparation of causes for trial. Itbehoove, .vsry man, woman, and child then, in tho District to look well and anxiously to the selection of i fit and proper person, for this greatest of all thoi places of trust It behooves the Central am Sub-Committcos, to ponder well the subject, ant canvass tho qualifications of every available mai of their acquaintance, beforo tkey decide urot thia person into whose hands they may bo com mitting not only their own fortunes, but tho for tunes of their families, ana" of all their fellow citizens of thc District. We are free to declare, that nono but the most worthy and capable citi zen of Edgefield, should be chosen for this posi tion, which while it will be most highly remune rative to its occupant, will entail upon him a weight of business and responsibility that thc thouMrrs of no common man can bear. It is true, that he should be able ?ad obliged to exe cute a Bond, with good scruriiy, in tho ponalty of, at least, one hundred thousand'dollars, for the faithful ditchargo of his trust. But if wc rightly comprehend the duties and interests that may be tutru.-tcd to him, oren this enormous Bond will lilford no protection to the peoplo, when we con sider tho vast amount of property that must come under h'u control, and tho great and absorbing qoostions that must rest upon his decision. We aro at this moment surrounded with perils and dangers greater than those which encom passed about the armies of Lee and Johnson. Emerging from a Revolution, and attempting to organize a now Government on the broken frag ments of an old, bul conservativo und once glo rious one, that has been crushed and destroyod by vandal hands, if our citizens do not enter into tho work, with heart and soul, to elect tho bost agents to give expression to their will ; if they do not organizo, as a party, to combat a party ; if they do not labor, with system, with ceaseless vigilance, and with an invinciblo resolution to sustain and strengthen their causo by every moans that God has given them, and snatch thoir government from the rapacious bands of unscrupu lous, mendacious, and rapacious adventurous, we are irretrievably ruined, the State is irretrievably lost, and a blight and a curse is fixed upon our posterity to thc latest generation. Furthermore, by the 30th Section of tho 4th Articlo above alluded to, of the Constitution re cently established for our governance, a Shoriff and a Coroner are soon to bo elected, ?ho will have to discharge an unparalled amount of old and new, and complicated business. A Court of Probate, with a Judge or Ordinary thereof, with vastly enlarged powers, by the 20th Section, is to bo established in each county, with jurisdiction io all mattera testamentary and of administration, in business appertaining to Mi nors and tho allotment of Dower, in cases of idiocy and lunacy, and persons non eompot mentis. By the 2nd Section of 10th Article of the said Constitution, a School Comiiissionor is to be electod in each county, for tho supervision of publio instruction therein, with powors of on ex traordinary character. By the 19th Section of tho 4th Article, three persons are to be electod n Board of County Commissioners, which shall have jurisdiction over roads, highways, ferries, bridges, and in all mat ters relating to taxes, disbursements of money for oounty purposes, and in every other cns, that may ho necessary to the internal improvement and local concerns of tho respectivo oounties. And by the 21st Section or tho 4th Article of the said Constitution, a competent number of Justices of the Peaco and Constables are to be chosen in each county by votu, and the Justices are to havo original jurisdiction in cases- of Bas tardy, and in all matters of contract, and actions . for tho recovery of fines andi forfeitures, where ! the amount claimed docs not oxoeed one hundred dollars, and such jurisdiction as may boprovided ( by law in actions ex delicto, when the damages' , claimed do ?ot exceed ono humored dcdlars; Md J < prosecutions for assault and battery and otb penal offences less than felony, punishable t fines only, or by fino and imprisonment not e: ceeding thirty days. We bare thus, Fellow-Citizens, briefly attemp od to designate the officers, enumerating thc powers and duties, who in a ebert period, by tl provisions of your new Constitution, are to a sum? the administration of your affairs, who ai to govern you) who are to collect your mone; who are to tax you, and in a word, who are I control you, almost at will, who are to ezercii ['nearly all jurisdiction over you and yours, ai to decide all issues among you, except the issui of life and death. And, in conclusion, wo appe, to you, in the name of our State, and on beha of our opprossed people, to rouso yourselves to senso of tho solemn crisis at hand. For the sal of yourselves and your wives and children, labt with sustained effort, and faint not, to secure tl election of-good men and. true, into whoso hanc ara to be reposed, for tho noxt four years all tl interests, and all tho hopes of our people. For a the glorious memories of the past, support tl conservative party, cherish unanimity of sent: munt and action, and fight with a determinatio never to yield the field to the foe. HENRY. - The F atare. Col. John Foray th's, latest communicatio to the Mobile Register is a most inter?s tin, document. We copy such portions as mm prove entertaining and instructive, in view c the tremendous future toward which we ar driving at such headlong Speed. Col. Forsyt says : A If Stanton could bar ont of the War De partaient an appointee, ad itiierim, of hi lawful chief, it would seem that the Presiden could hold the White House against a Sei g?ant at-Arms or a Federal marshal, wb< should be sent to execute the judgment of th Senate. The next step would be force, an< the lover of peace, to the ' last extremity, will object that this is the begiuning cf re vo lution. No : the revelation is already mau garated, and is in rapid progress. What it does is only to make two parties to the r?volu tion, and not leave it a? heretofore, to be rui exclusively by and in Radical interest. If i .party can afford to push the nation to thc verge of civil war to maintain its ill-gottot power, the people can certainly afford to risk it for tko purpose of defending their cherish' ed institutions of government and preserving their liberties. These thoughts are busy ii men's minds-far more so than five week: ago, when I first came here. If you add tc these elements of conflict between govern mental forces, the intense bitterness of per sonal foeliog betweeu the parties, you wil gad as pretty an assortment of combustible materials oat of which to kindle a civil wai s,8 you might desire. u At a public dinner table a few days ago where I was almost a total stranger, wher the President's trial was mentioned, a man (I cannot call him a gentleman) broke out in profane and furious denunciation of Mr. John con,-and swore if he had his way be would not only depose, but hang kim. I learned af terwards that this just person was very close te a Radical Senator, and thought this a good jiign for A. J.'a acquittal. Forney has been giving out some similar signs in his papers lately, very desperate and very mad. Take another instance of pirty hate : a A few days ago the carriage of General C. (who commanded a division in Hancock's oorps) was standing'at a private door. An armf officer in uniform came along, and ask ed the driver whose carriage it was. " Driver-Gen. C's, and he is in the house with Gen. Hancock. " Ojicer-And do you drive Gen. Hancock about ? " Driver-Yet, *ir. M Officer-Well, instead of doing thal, you ought to take thc first opportunity to make your horses run away, upset the carriage, and break his d-d copperhead neck. " Driver-I am hired to drive safely, and not to break people's necks. Gen. C. will be down presently, and may be you had better wait and tell bim this. *' The officer passed on. This ia an actual occurrence. Grant ba3 become very bitter himself, and, as he is the fountain of military favor, the army oilicers on bis side are catch ing the fever, and the timid and time-serving are afraid to go about Gen. Hancock's head quarters. The latter general has no personal relations with Grant-disdaining all inter course with him, on the declared ground that General Grant had grossly insulted him in those New Orleans orders upou which he ask ed to be relieved of his command. If old Ben Wade gets into the White House, I fancy the first order will bc to send Hancock and the plucky and fiery officers who surround him far away from Washington. " To illustrate bow every element of calcu lation is drawn in to forecast the result of tho impeachment, I may state that the latest discovery herc is that there an- sixteen Ma sons in the Seiiate, ot whom fourteen aro Re publicans. It is argued that, under the 3a cied obligations of a Mason ty du justice to a brother and stand by bim in his rights, it ?* quite impossible for these Senators to vote guilty, where the evidetice bas swept away all suspicion of guilt. While I do not pia my faith much to the theory, I may state that I adhere to my first judgment, and that is, that thc President will uot be deposed. " In uttering the icaults of my own labor, I am able to speak cheering words to our peo pie of tho future. I have not a doubt ot the verity of a deep and widespread popular re action against Radicalism, ar.d, if nothing un toward happens to check ?us progress, I am prepared to witness a revolution of thc masses next November, the like of which has not been known in tho annals of American poli tics. The white stomach is sick unto nausea of the party deification of the negro. It re volts at sharing the powers of government with him. In Michigan, I learn from a Fede ral General .distinguished i ti the late war, there is a perfect aud compact organization of 51,000 ex-soldiers, who will vote ins?lido against even Grant himself, if be is weighted with the abhorrent dogma of negro suffrage Michigan, remember, is the Massachusetts of the West, and you may infer the reality cf what I am told from the vote she cast last month-changing from a Rulical majority of 20,000 to 35,000 against a State constitution, because it bad the Radical black idol in it. The Radicals hero feel the shadow of defeat which is thickening upon them, and, worse than al!, they aie losing faith ia the prestige of Gen., Grant. With bim as their trusted and fated best bower, they find their bark dragging its anchor and drifting rapidly to leeward. Instead of Grant's popularity car rying them, they are beginning to find him a weight to be carried. The feeling broke out in the late speech of so uncompromising a Radical as Donnelly, of Minnesota, who thc other day distinguished himself by the fiercest and coarsest piece of invective altered in the House for many a day . After representing Grant as the band-orgg.n of Wasbbnrne, and the whole Washburna family mounted on its top, holding out their bats for pennies, he but thinly concealed his satire under the after eulogium which bo felt called onto pronounce on the great Ulysses. The grand collapse is coming, and, when Radicalism . goes np,' General Grant will go down to occupy a very humble niche in the Pantheon of greatness. n The le&son from all this to our people ls, to summon up a new stock of patience and forbearance,' and although I know how hard it is, when I read of our fellow-citizens filling Southern prisons by military order, with de nial of bail and civil trial, and feel from my own heart how the blood must swell and boil in their veins under provocations and wrongs so great, jet I draw the argumeot of forbearance from tho very enormity of the p.-ovocation. We cannot afford, in an out burst of unrestrained indignation, to throw away the chances of a full atonement in the near future. There are wrongs that can wait Lot it always be borne in mind that these in dignities may be put upon our people for the express purpose of forcing them to outbreaks if'law and order,' (so-called) in order to justify the continuance of the Radical war jpon them. So far, our compatriots- have bo baved admirably, and, as I have taken fre quent occasion to remark here, they'bave 1 i ?own mare heroism in the fortitude of end u- j raice than they even exhibited in the front J jp hettie, when the/ carried their cause on the points of their swords and bayonets. Let me implore them to endure yet a little longer. The hours Hy fast, and events are sweeping us 'swift to ou: revenge' through the Radical* damning votes of the American people-and not only our revenge, but the revenge of that great popular tribunal which Mr. Evatts told the Senate wa? sitting on its trial, and which did not mean to surrender ita constitution to any living power. God speed the hour when Americans caa again breathe the air of liberty ! J. F." Nomination of District Officers ar THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. The following Ticket 'has been nominated by the Democratic Porty for E dge?old Bis trie t ; ? For Clerk.-MAJ. Z. W. OARWILE. For Shtriff.-0*vt. Ir. YANCEY DEAN. For judge of Probate.-DTJRTSOE, Esq For Tax CoUector.-Capt BENJ. ROPER. For Coronen-Cd. W. H. MOSS. For School CommimOner.-Rov. L. R. GWALT NEY. For Bond Commissioners.-QZO. J. SHEP PARD, GEO. D. HUIET and BEN.' BRITTS. F. W. PICONS, . Chairman of the Committee. The election has been ordered to eomtaouee the 2nd day of Jaite next Heretofore there have been no -general, party divisions in the local elec tions in the State. Bat under the new 'ardor of tbiags that has been inaugurated, Loyal Secret Leagues have been formed through our " S tate to concentrate the votes of all radicaLs to carry ont extreme party measure?, without reference to merit or worth, and such an organization forces upon all, who ute not radicals, the necessity of organizing to save our local offices, so important to the District,.from Stiling into the hands-of to tally incompetent men. Our policy of nomina tions hos thus hean forced on us. In tho practi cal affair* of ocr every day life th eco local Dis trict offices are of the last importance to us. It is therefore.hoped that every person entitled to vote, will certp.'nly turnout at the election and do their duty fully. True we are all poor now, but then every, man wa?, ha? any property what ever, will feel io deeply if these District offices fall into the hands of in : o rape tent and bad dis posed men. The new Costitution, that has been proposed, abolishes the Court of Chancery, as administered under separate Chancellors, and merges Chancery jurisdiction in the Courts of Commou Pleas, and the duties of both are henceforth to be adminis tered by tho sime Judge. It will therefore be perceived that there is but one person to act as Clerk and Commission? in Equity. We have therefore nominated but one for both these offices. So too instead of our old " Board of Commis si on cr? of Road?," wo are now to have but three " Road Commissioners/' and wo have ioeatsd one in oich of our Regiments. As thu organization and nomination has been forcod on m by those who call themselves Radi cals, it is hoped that every. good and true man will consider himself as voting not formen alone, but for principles. Those who were for " Old Edgefield," as she was in prouder and better day?, are specially called on to stand by principle and virtue, in this cur day of trial and sadness. We desire noshing but to prim?la tho wclfaro of the District. We have no personal or indi vidual preferences to promoto. N F. W. PICKENS, Chairman. For the Advertiser. MR. EDITOR;,-The Gilgal Baptist Church unan imously adopt? d the following Preamble and Res olution, and ?equested their publication in tho Advertiser, viz: WHEREAS, The Executive Committee of the Edgefield Baptist Association and the Union Meeting of thc First Division, are to meet with us at Gilgal 01 the 5 th Lord's day in May and Saturday before, AND WHEREAS, The Association at it: last Ses sion recommended tho organizing of ? Sunday School Association, Therefore Resolved, That we invite the Sunday Schools in tbs Association io meet with us by Delegates at IO o'clock A. M., Saturday before the 5th Lord's day, to consider the propriety of formiug ruch Association. By Church, in Conference, May liith, ISfiS. D. D. BR?NSON, Mod. ?33* It is related by a Western paper that a gentleman who was owing another one hundred lullars borrowed from th* same creditor an equal tum, promising to settle for both in a few weeks. Ho then used thc loan 'for the purpose of going through bankruptcy, and wrote to his confiding riend th.it ho had redeemed his promise. The poor creJitor got not a cent of either debt. & pS" A young lady with blue gaitors, blue .Ires', blue sacqao, blue lace collar, blue hat, blue feather, blue parasol, blue fan, blue kid gloves, blue stockings, blue eyes and turquoise bracelet, aeoklace and ear-rings, attracted attention a day .?r two ago on one of the New York ferry boats. '<rj+/' The Court of Claims has awarded over ?500,000 for abandoned and captured cotton, in eluding one cr.se of $100,000. Two male pupils of Mr. Logan's school in Sumter county, Ga., were brought before the county cou x by the father of a little boy whom they had dreadfully beaten for crying "school butter" as he passed the academy. The matter was finally sel.tled in an amicable manner. pSr The story goes that a prominent Radical Congressman, from Ohio, lost thirty-three thou sand dollars while " fighting the tiger" on last week. HYMENEAL. MARRIED, on the 7th inst., at the residence of the brido'd fal.her, Capt. B. T. Minn, by the f .cv. J. P. Mcalinc: Mr. JAMES B. ADAMS and Miss MOLLIE J. .HIMS, all of Edgefield. Another fe?.st of Hymen ; and ?mother lordly present of Bride's Coko to the Advertiser brother hood ! Cake it wa: which was fit for the nuptials of a royal prinoess. We return cur thanks nc ?ess for the stbstantial enjoyment afforded, than for the kindly courtesy which prompted the civility. And for our happy young friends, we wish that the glad life they now enjoy may be renewed year by year until they reach that land where there is no shadow of change. MARRIED, at Mr. Wu. GLOVER'S, at 9 o'clock A. M.,-May, by Rev. J. R. Pickett Miss C. GREEN and Mr. JAMES POWELL. OB?TXTAIIY. DIEU, on April 3rd, at her residence, Mrs. FRANCIS, tsonsort of WILLIAM STREET, aged 58 years, 7 months and 5 days. After a short illness, which she bcre with Chris tian fortitude, she left this world of entanglement for one of uninterrupted quietude. For many years she wai a consistent member of the Church of Christ at Mountain Creek. Mrs. STRUCT unquestionably met death without alarm, haviig for years known what it is, and thereby attained the highest degreo of perfection attainable by the human mind. In all tho sircies of lifo she was inoffensive, honest, industrious and frugal, and her example is worthy of imitation She leaves a husband, children and friends to grieve, also un aj;ed father, over an hundred years old, to mourn her loss : but their loss is ber otcr nal gain. JOHN TRAPP. Religious Notice. Tho Union Meeting of the First Division of the Edgefield Baptist Association w?l meet with the Gilgal Church, at 10 o'clock, A. M., on Sat urday before the 5th Lord's'day- id May. Rev. JOHN TRAM* will preach the Introductory Ser mon. D. D. BRUNSON, Chair. May 19 _2t___jjl H, "T? WRIGHT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MAY be lound for the present above the Store of Mr. B. C. BAYAH. May 5 - tf -; 19 Hoes I Hoe?! IN- Storey ?nd for sale very low, TWBLYE DOZ BN BRADE'S SUPERIOR WEKW$0 HOES. O. F.CHBATHAIt rt t? tt?r-.t'ArfJ