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Ali papers discontinuad at the expiration of tb? time fox which tboy have been paid. RATES OF ADVERTISING. w PAYABLE IN.ADVANCE. Advertisements will be inserted at tho rate of ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS' per Square (lu Minion Unes orl?is,) for. tho first insertion, and ONE DOLLAR for each subsequent insertion. A liberal discoant will be mado to thoso whhing io~adVertisd by the year. ^ ' Announcing Candidates $5,00, in ot vance. ESTABLISHED AS02. CHARLESTON" COURIER, ^ kl DAILY AND TRJVWELKLY, BYA..4. WILLING TON & CO. Daily Paper,- . 88.00 per Annum. Tri-W eekly Faper, $1.00,per; Annum. . ,. - j--o-. THE COURIER, has entered ou the sixty sixth yea,r of ita publication. During this long 'period ofifs existence, despite the mutations of fortuna' and time, it "haa^beeu-liberally sup ported^ wb.ii.st. many, of its. uontempo raries have beon compelled to saccqmb to financial necessities. Wc gratefully record this evidence of the appre ciation ofotfr own,-"tha? tho efforts of our prede cessors, to.make it ?hat <tt is, and always has bean, ..ONE AMONG "THE. LKADINtf COM MERCIAL AND NEWS JOURNALS OF THE SOUTH, and wllr"renew oar exertions to adJ-fo its acceptability tb tb* public, as well, aa U- place it easily within -tb? 'Toaoh of .?Ul who. desire a FIRST CLASS CHEAP.PAPER. In furtherance of this purpose \ve now issue tho Daily'and Tri- Weekly Currier to our Sub scribers, ?af the rate o*-eight and four'dullsns per .mourn ^ospeetively. Our purpose is to- furnish a first class paper j upon, the most reasonable living prices. Charleston, Jan 20 GT*?* 4 . The- Great-Popular Paper ! . TU iAlSTiil'. WS. S UBSCIUPTION^PRICB, - Six Dollars a lear I THREE DOLLARS A YEAR-TWO DOL LARS FOR SIX MONTHS ! - . --o-; TERMS, CASH IN ADVANCE! * i -:-o ^y&~No Paper sent UDICSS thc Cash accompa nies J the ordor. " " t3?*No Piper sent for a longer time than paid for. RIORDAN, DAWSON & CO., PROPRIETORS.' Chariest-. . , Stol 1868 ? THE SOUTHERN FAVORITE." BURKE'S WEEKLY - . ii> -? % .. . F OR BOYS AND1 GIRLS. -r:-S- - " , Beautifully Illustrated, and Ele gantly Printed. V ' -o-! Pronounced by the Southern press to be thc . most elegant and talented young people's paper printed in this country ! Wo are noir publishing Marooner'? Island, a Sequel to the Young Marooner?, and Jack Dobell, or a Boy'* Adventure* in Terni, by one of Fan nin'S "men-pronounced " equal to the bett of .Mayne Reid's stories." We shall begin, in tho firat number of 18SS, a thrilling story, by a lady of Virginia, entitled " ELLEN HINTER: A Tale af the W?r," which will'run for several months. Amottg-the regular eontribiUort to BURKE'S WEEKLY are Rev. F. R. (JOLLDING, autbor.of "The Young Marooner'?;" Mrs. JASE T. H. CROSS ; Sirs. FOUD, of Rome, Ga. ; Miss MARY J. LVsucr., of Norfolk, Va., and tanny others.. T?Btts-r$2 a.year in advance; Three copies for SS j. Five copies for $S ; Ten copies for $15, aa<f .Iwaccy-one copies for $:fl>. Clergymen and Teachers turnishod at $ 1 50 per annum. ^ Th a volume begins with the July number. Back numbers can be sapjdied from thc first, and all yearly Fubscribers may" receive the num bers tor tb? first six months, stitched in an elegant illuminator cover. Address, J. W. BURKE A CO., J'ubliiher*, Macon, Ga. Dec 25 tf " 52 . 23^nb?rcriptioffs received at tho Advertiser Offiee for BURKE'S WEEKLY. UNIVEBSALiST HERALD, J?OTASL'L?A, ALA. JOHN C. BURRVSS. Editor & Proprietor. . Term-, $2,ui> per Year in Advance. nnHIS PA PER has entered upon its lf.th Vol JL Ufuefc It" is tfie Organ -of tho Universalist denomination in the Sooth ?.qi Southwest?,... Try it a yet. .Monty can be ?eat by mai!, at the risk of the editor. Feb 21 lui . 9 P INSURANCE AGENCY. ARTD?S wishing to Insure their DWEL LING?, GOODS, Ac , can'do soon-tbe lowest terms, arid io tho BEST COMPANIES, by call ing ob'the Undersigned. - ? ? + D: R. DURISOE, Agent for A. G. HALL'S Insurance Agency. PLANTERS' HOTEL. AUGUSTA, GA. Kewiy Fttr*ish*d and ReG??ed, * Unsurpassed by any Hotel South, Wa* Reopened to tho Pubfc Oct. 8,18&6, X? S. VICK K RS ON, Proprietor, J*i?. 1. tf 1 Estate Notice. ALL peroras h avio e claims against th-- Estate of W. E. MIDDLETON, dee'd , are notified to present tba sanie to (he undersigned without delny, nnd those indebted to said Estate are re quested to pay up forthwith. - .... J?T. MIDDLETON, Adm'or. Oat. 8.1 ??7 *\v 41 Fair Warning. IFOREWJJtJl ?ll Per?o".< from Selling DR. J. J. McRRTDE'S KIN:; OF PAIN. unie** - li.l T>*c*orfs are daly anthemed by myself, n* I am the Sole Agent for the Sale of said Medicines j fur th? D'Hrfrict of Edge-field! " Merchants supplied at Wholesale prices. L. C. McNEARY, Agent, j Frog Tere!, Newberry Dist, S. C. ] Apr? 2?n? 15 I An Interesting Letter from the G North Wcsr. ? "A friend has placed on our t?bl?the ft ing letter received by him" from a etti:? Aiken, now on a tour th tough the ? Western States, which will be found unu lyJnterosting. W.e.should be pleased to from " E.- F. R." frequently during his soj North: ' . , ? - . ? LAFAYETTE, Indiana, June 15,186 DEAR SIR: Knowing that you would to learn the exact condition,of affairs ir great North West,, from a Southern whoso privilege it ia to observe daily, ^ iUrocs31 ofvthe great struggle for the lij deaihr?i the government of the United St of America, I ara persuaded that you peruse (perhaps wiuT interest) a ccmniur tion from, even as humble an individm myself. My opportunities for observation throi out the entire.North West have been i advantageous, my business bringing mi conta?t," daily, with the- masses, and'thus fording mc an' opportunity Of "feeling pudiicpulsiJ' as it were, and preparing m form a just and unprejudiced opinion of state aud condition of political affairs. lt has been my privilege to attend a H number of Conventions in this section of country,-both-Republican and Democratic wW-pnes'ent-in Chicago, when-General Gr was selected to carry the standard of'tl.**': publican party "in the great Presidential CE paign which is soon to be inaugurated. Gt enthusiasm prevailed , among tue partiel party, nominating him ; but in thc sober cq tenancea. ol thousands- of. staunch old Dei crats, could-be plainly seen written that mistakable evidence of a determination make'a tremendous effort to overthrow Republican party, and redeem the lest chai ter of this great nation. And thus it is over the North West. Meu are tired i w?th-tbe, continued persecutions uf thc Rn cal party, and they are not only beginning see, buLlkey are feeling-the galling yoke rpp>ession which, has weighed down up the people of the "iate " Southern -Confede cy,*; [so called.) iu there very midst ; andi 'hi^h handed"ineasures which arc being i troduced'into the national! legislature, sir ing. at ihe.vital interests of the " Eoyal State: [so-called,) will cause thousands to enrol u [1er.the-Banner of Democracy, which-belt might have thrown the whole of their iud ?nce'into the Scale "on the other side. Take for instance,"the -introduction of bili in Congress by Mr. Shallabargcr, of Oh: declaring 'void the <; A'isibT? Admixture Lav >f Ohio, sp far as it relates to the election Keprcsenra'ir.'s-iu COirgrc?sl" Tbl-' "oin w referred to the Committee- on Electiot From what. I-can learn, in conversation wi iher" knowing ones,'* Mr. Shallabarger is member of the Ohio bar. He has been, y< know, several years in Congress, and if heh been faithful to his trust, (which is doubtful (ind made a proper use of his opportunity he ought .to be, by this time,, pretty wt versed in the (ext of-the Constitution, a~id bave a tolerably distinct idea of the legal v lations subsisting between ike Stales and tl Union. Now a bill of this kind, to the inte lig?nt North West, is so abhorrent to the ideas of the character of this relation, andi in conflict with all past legal and judicial ii Lerpretatious of it, (that is so far as tluy fl North West are INDIVIDUALLY concerned that they are compelled to see that the part to which Shallabarger belongs (Radical) blind to laxo and Constitution, through thi moral obscuration which attends those wi are afflicted with that dreadful disease " Ft naficism." In the. political history of the country, it. a new tiling (to this section) for Congress 1 attempt, by-bill, to repeal or overrule th statute laws of a State. It is a new thing fe Congress to attempt, by bill or otherwise, t confirm thc decisions of a Stute Judiciary The function of Supervisor of State laws, c of Slate judicial opinions, certainly was neve uuderstood, by them, to belong to the Fed? ral Congress. So far as I have auy know edge no attempt has been made to exercis this function, in respect to any of the" loyal States,-and the people now plainly seo, tba' if this supervising power existin'lhe one cast or in respect tb one subject, or under on state of circumstances, it exists in all case? in respect to all subjects, aud under all state of circumstances. They see, ii it exists, us matter of right, it exists also us a matter c obligation ; and therefore, it is a duty of-Cor gress to pass under its review, and confirm o annul all the laws of State Legislatures, am all" the opinions of State judiciaries j ant this with no rule of conduct bat its owi discret ion. You sec they have not been, accustomed ti these outrages up here. Heretofore the prin ciples of u States Rights" have never beet ignored, and now, when the " shoe pinches' at home, (just where it ought to,) they cai not only Sympathize with us down South but they 'can and will ?ive their support t( thu jjomjneo of the National Democratic Con vention, whoever ft may be, (and Pendletor seems to bu the sUongeat. candidate.) anc thus rid the country of the ton i bio tyrunnj of a fanatical party. You know wc have qfteu spoken of taxa tion, unjust taxation, and I cannot soon for get how. foi ably, you, on one occasion, im pressed upon me thc fact that in the simple question of taxation lhere rested the fiual de cisiqn pf a full settlement of all our national troubles, tirant you know accepts the nomi nation of the Chicago Convention, and en dorses its platform. Now Senator Morgan's great funding bill, or *.t least tho plan for the settlement of '.he National Debt which he advocates, is one of the planks in this Chica go. Convention Platform, Th?3 bill proposes to issue bonds bearing five, four and a half, and four per cent interest, payable in twenty, thirty and forty years. Now the debt is $2. fi00,000,000 ; five per cent on that is one hundred and thirty millions, and for thirty years wonld be pOO&OO.OOO. Add the principle to the interest, and you haye the enormous stupendous sum of sixty-five hun dred million dollars, which is .proposed to levy on this and tbe nex't generation, aa the legacy of the Radical "party for trusting I with power for.seven years. - But that is not all. If paid' in gold, proposed, it would add thirty-five p?r'cej the vast sum, uaaking'in all one hundred i sand million dollars. Great heavens.'! ] times sis much as the debts 6i.all Uie Nat of Europe. This canbot.be disputed. You-know old saying " riggers dont lie,"--and the ii untial men of this country know that election of Grant is just -precisely =wh have stated above. They know that it is extra'tax which the people would >ote TJ themselves if they were to 'elec't^Gen. Gr And therefore thc whole influence-wea reputation, and in fact everything they 1 aud are,-will be thrown into thc.scale.irj vour of the Democratic party, livery cl -is being made by tho Radical party to re the reins of government. To this, end I resort to every subterfuge in order to del the objects of'the Democrats. But if South is allowed a voice in the coming e tion, there is no doubt in my mind but w Pendleton will bo elected. You have doubtless noticed the passagt an act by Congress recently " to provide the inauguration ol State officers in Ark sas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Lou ana, . Georgia and Alabama" tie object .which"is to vest in the present Congress ' power todetcrmine when those States sh be recognized as "political entities, and en rights which belong to members of the Pei .ral Union j in other words, to determ: .whether they .shall be in or out at the corni election for President. The majority in Cc gressare determined to keep the South in own-hands, and use or not use-it in' the eli tiori; as it shall deem expedient. The pwpc of thc minority is to make sure of so mu capital, to esiablish in its favor ibis inequa ty. This act I regard as the most,flagrant all the.reconstruction usurpations, because is., in. the very face of the pledge) that t States should be reinstated as a matter course and their Representan ve*-be receive It is, however, Only in keeping~wlth'theirpa conduct. ' "Now to " Oust" a pa'rty^hav??g : muchL strength', and sb infernally ' unscrup .bus in its exercise, wit! require such.an file a? only :t p.urly deeply, indignant at palpab hjustieu can exert. Therefore, it is as I stated in the outsc t he coining election'eve ry .ono feels, is to be Kirugglo fbr'the very life of the governmenl and I. a m. confident that, "as such, it will I conceived by an. overwhelming -majority the Democrais of the Nortis My opinion ;] that although Grant ? will .make a good rm J'c ^JU tiltedtJ?O.Lcd:. il? o?rt?.-nly iras not tl man fur the Radical party to select ; fur tl idea of a military man lor President is al horrent Dot only.tothe Democratic party,bi to a great many Radicals. Thc Federal government will, on the 4i j{ March 1SC9, when Andrew Johnson term of olSce expires, have been in operatio eight year?.. lt has been administered b civilians, whohad nothing to do with militar affairs, fifty-eight years out ol' this period ; c the remaining twenty-two years, eight wer under the administration of Washington eight under the auspices of GeuL Andre* Jackson, one month nnJer Harrison, one yea undi r Taylor, and fuur yeats under Pi; ree In all these military exceptions, . save in th instance of Genl. Taylor, the men electei Presidents were civilians as well as soldicti Washington you know was forty four year old before he did auy military service,exeep thc brief campaign against the French am Indians in 1754 and !53. Ile v/as a Vir {?ima planter, land surveyor and legislator be fore be was General of the Continental Anny he was a member of the Continental Con gress from Virginia in 1775-was he not ? being.chosen on account of bis high repula tion as a civilian as well as a military man After the war of the Revolution, he wa elected a member from Virginia of the Con vention which framed the oid Constitution o the United States. Ile was the President o the Convention. Who, therefore, was sc proper a mau to administer thc Government under the Constitution, as its first Executive officer,-as the President of thc Conventior which made it. No other distinguished Gen eral of the Revolution was ever run for tb? high ellice, which shows conclusively that oin Revolutionary fathers had no disposition tc place military men in high trust,-with tb< exception of Washington who was as much (if not more) civilian as he was soldier. Au drew Jackson was elected Uuited States Sem alor from Tennessee before he had seen any military service. He was afterward a Judge in That State, being a lawyer by profession, and in fact he filled other high civil trust*, and therefore bad civilian experience, united to ruilitiuy capacity,-when elected. But mark you, like Washington, when be was ohoseo he was iu -privaio life-had retired from the army. Harrison was much moro a civilian than he was soldier. He had been a Governor of a Territory, United Slates Sena tor and a Foreign Minister ; and in fact had filled almost every high civil position under the Government, when he was nominated.for President. Taylor is the only strictly milita ry man ever elected, whose position is at all analagous with that of Qeu. Grant, and. his election was owing ?imply to thc accident that the nomination of General Lewis Cass had rent the Democratic party m twain in Now York, which gave bim that State, and that State made him President. He was grossly inr-ompetaut, and any one who is at all acquainted with tho hislory of his admin istration knows that it was a perfect failure 5 and if be had not died as soon as he did-in July 1850-we sboujd then have bad disu nion and cjvil war. And, to be truthful with you, I wish he had lived, for (hen disunion would have been successful. Now, Grant has not bad any experience at all jn civil af fairs,-and to all thp thinking, educated meo, who are not blinded by fanaticism, it looks like share madness to place a man so grossly ; incompetent, in the highest civil office the I nation can bestow upon any man,-and think I that he can, without the experience pf the ! paist tp Instruct or govern bim, master the ! abstruse science of political econopjy. The j Jews, as a great body, will vote against.him. s YSu 'remember "his infamous banishment of this people. This alone shows him to be in political matters, criminally foolish, if, not wicked. vK - . . Bot enough of-this. You. raay>re3t as sured of one thing-ih&Democrats m? carry the Norflt ' Wist in the coming ?lections! ' I start from here on Tfe'dn?'sd?y for Boston, Mass. Ifit'would've interesting in tTie least, Iwonld lake pleasure in writing.to you occa. sipnaUy, and letting.yoaJsnQW the exact con dition of affairs-ia tbe-North and East, as they may come under my observation: - If yon can spare the time I weald - be glad to hear from you in Boston. I shall'stop at tho R?v?r? House. I am anxious to know how South Carolina stands, and what'the condition of thiDgs are in my own beloved State. There are millions of Locusts throughout this State and Illinois, .but they do not seem to be-injuring the crops. 'Prospectavery good for an excellent crop this year ; weather er^ cessively war mr general health of the coun try good. ' - ' 1 " " ' . ? - - ' E:E.R.' ss:_?"V ? : ' ? ? For tho.?tlvertisar.--? , - . Old Fogyism.. Mn'. 'EDITOR.-It seems hard for our people J to realize the tact that we are under tho heel of our oppressors, and that they are anscru pulou?, ungenerous and unforgiving; and wc should consequently shape ourcour.?c so a-* Jo disarm them}>.a,nd give theo no .holp in de-. | feating onr,-Northing .friends.It has beep denied hy the Ridicals that>we have ever sur rendered -in "good faith, and as evidence they point to our public" meeting*,* and' ih almost every instance they see the old Fogies Wking the lead again. . I think, Mr. EDITOR, with but few excep tions, our appointments to the New York Con vention have been unfortunate, unwise, and in bad taste. Wo.m*ost5*remember, that, un der the leadership and "advice of these very m?n. thc State seceded, and now look at the j consequences: "The Government, ia-a.deapo tism-p'State Sovereignty is gone ; war, with J all its attendant horrors, has brought devasta tion and ruin to almost every door-; our ne-1 groes*freed arid demoralized j our peoplej des; pondi np, and Radicalism glorying iatbe-re-.* suit. I.kribw that 'th?s'? dist?ngu?sb'ed'"'r?enk whom-.,South Carolina delighted to honor,, were sincere and honest,'but nevertheless th'?* course' they advised-led..to our destruction, and n?w pf-adence,* as well as policy, suggest that the same raen^be not yet put forward,to represent tho State. - These men have a very objectionable political record to the whole North, for, be- it remembered tho- Northern people were almost a unit against * us a'few .njxiuxh* < u^o, . nod now by -aonding-those j "Rebel Generals :ind' Old Secesb,*'" as ihey call them, to ?cpresent us, it looks as if we, j glory iu the result of the w?r, and are wil ling tn follow the same . ra?u again. Men should bc sent to -represent us who have no political record, entire strangers to both par ties JNorth. Then they tan't predicate our intentions or pc-sitiouB by our leaders. I am satisfied some of these, gentlemen at least are not seeking either notoriety or posi tion, for I \.ave conversed with several who havo been appointed to go to New York, and . t'leysay themselves the choice is very injudi cious. But unfortunately all distinguished men have indiscreet frieeds, moro properly called todies, who never think of i he good of tho people, but advat?ee the claims of their champion for all the honors, both great and small. One need only look at tho comments of the Northern press to see' that we hnve, over since the war. played into the hands of the Radicals in all our public meetings. COMMONSENSE. '? The Man and Brother."-?High Life in Africa. .A correspondent of the London Times states that the war now being waged by the natives of New Calabar, Africa, with neighboring tribes, is conducted with unparalleled atroci ty. The Writer Bays : " On landing at the court-yard of one of the chiefs, the first thing we saw was some of the chiefs wives carrying a basket containing portion of a man's arm and leg, already cook L-dj and a man's hand, ampututedat th-.- wrist, waiting to undergo the same process. These were shown with feelings oi-great delight, aud" judging from gestures of -those around, the}' all vere delighted with- their cannibal toast. Wo hastily left, - and went to another chiefs house, and.there a sight met ns which was, if possible, more disgusting.* Tho head of one pf the captives par-boiled and taken out of u big Iron pot and placed on a boaid at our feet for oar inspection. Our next visit waste the King, and he, too, possessed some of these trophies of war. Ou our remonstrating, with him for-allowiug such cruelties lo be perpetrated and cannibalism to exist among his people, he replied that be was now powerless, to -stop*.itW they merely acted in the same "way* their'enemies cid. On being asked if there was- ho clause in the treaty with Her Majesty's Government to prohibit these things', he replied there was bot. The only thing the" treaty compelled him to abstain from was the slave trade;" .' B3y* A young lady gives the following cat alogue of different kinds of love: ''The sweetest-a mother's "oyo; the longest-? brother's love; the strongest-a woman's love; the ^dearest-a man's love ; ana the sweetest,, longest, strongest, deatestdove-a 4 love of a bonnet.- '"" The.New Albany. Commercial cau tions, people against eating squirrels during the locust season, as their ?leish ia poisonous from eating the dyiug pests. ?uybody that would eat a squirrel at this season oueht to be poisoned. ' , fft^ET Two more Columbus prisoners ar rived in Atlanta on Friday-ono of them was a mere buy-aud were forwarded tp the Bar racks, there to swelter and probably die in dungeons which, by mathematical pr?cision, have been reduced to the dimensions of 8 by ZI feet for the especial accommodation of ?Southern gentlemen. . . KS"** Mississippi is ablaze. Her orators are in the held doing battle gallantly against ber proposed Constitution. The whites through out the State will, it is predicted, turn out in full forpe,against it at the coming election. GOVERNOR O?it.-r-rWe. are informed, says tho " Phoenix," that after Governor Orr's farm of office terminates, ho will probably move to Columbia and eneage there in the practice of law. We are informed ' that a squad of United Stales cavalry came into Atlanta on Saturday bringing two white prisoners from Gwmett county, charged with frightening a ...The Miser's Dying Thoughts. I've never soothed ike widow's wail, Or orphan's bitter cry ; .iV > I've never wiped away a tear, - Or hushed a mournful sigh ! I've never thrown a choering ray '.' Of consolation's light . <" . ? Into a heart made desolate 'By death's untimely blight. Nor heard the tongue of innocence My coming footstcprbless; Or ever felt around my neck A " little one's" caress'. I've toiled through many obanging years, - ' . And Jived upon a crust ; I've robbed tho starving child of want. To gather "rLining dust." I ve trod life's weary way alone, Or social joys denied, ' And never dared' a sennty meal With others to divide. I've felt the stings of poverty, And shiverod with the cold, While sitting on my .atrnng- locked chest,. Filled up with yollow gold. ' I've wrung the heart of honest toil To heap the glittering dust, ?And sought to put if far "beyond ' "Tho reach of " mblh and rust." I've never wrought in friendship's ohain A single golden link, < Or heard, in music, sweeter strains . Than silver's ringing clink. ** 1 "Long years ago, in vigorous youth, ' I ' 'My life ami strength I sold My trusting heart, my soul, my nil, To bright, deoeptivo-gold. . *t - ,. - ^ . . .?. , ,'..,. i But Death has seized my. vitals now ; Ah ! what avails my gain ? I cell upon my golden god, But cry, alas, in vain ! My pulse is growing weaker now, And sight is failing.fust: j-' -'Ai . I feo! the sweat upon my brow';. - " The gulf will soon he past." No tear of sympathy will fall 1 " Upon my lonely grave ; I've none on'omh to weep for mc, And none on earth to save. ' v. ? Oh million?, millions, worthless now, How great hath beon thy cost! Bought with a soul, immortal soul I'm. lost I I'm lost ! I'm. lost ! -! , Marriugc and Divorce. ?he Rt, Rev.-Henry J..Whitehouse, D. D., \.L. h. D. Bishop of the Episcopal Church, in hitfjinnual address at Chicago, before thc Episcopal Convention, spoke thus with ?es pect to marriage and divorce : ? It ia not to be doubted that, in harmouy wif?i th? march uf 'deeper reflection, moral Bcn.se and religious principle of our Country, rf?tjpiaye Oben .shucked and startled by the i^jjiSuf!iiif.'>'?.;. n elation of'tno marring* tie; the facility wftb which divorce Iron; ic ?sob taine:!,.and the demoralizing statements aud factson the Mibject which are shown in for ma! discussion, current literature, th j daily press, aud licentious cohabitation. . I would be thankful if reasonable doabt could be sus taimd'on this awful fact of our vehement age. It is more than an accident. It is linked with deep, unprincipled purpose. It is a nnve meut ol social-socialism and infidelity, of a multitude who have grown up creedlesa and hence godless, of a-? education which has in structed the ii.ma und neglected the alludions, of a philosophy which glorifies the lnsticts and passions o?' our corrupt nature and deifies I-animal iuipul-e, as the voice of God. As the marriage contract is only a civil obligation, and State law is, in 'many respects, loose, in the guard? and checks upon it, facilities ere offered for separation and divorce whicli tempt a resort to tuts lormal dissolution in cases ol mere domestic disarrangement and hardship. The moral effect of discipline, from the con viction of the all but irrevocably force of the vow, has thus become pervadipgly damaged. Husbaud and wile aiiko admit the practica bility of separation usa remedy, and the causes which ultimately force tk*> fii-al plunge are allowed to gather and roll on in heedless de fiance. .The facility of separation destroys' all mutual confidence and inflames every trifling dispute. There are solemn warnings on this fearful social decadence on the page of histo* ry. Greece ard Rome, for ages, shame our Christiau licentiousness. Roman philosophers, poets and satirists hold up to public scorn and indignation the wautou a.id extensive abuse of a liberty of divorce which probably did not equal ours. "The institution of Romulus made the marriage indissoluble, and though the twelve tables gave-to the husband the freedom of di vorce, yet the republic had existed five hun dred years when the first instance of"divorce occurred, and the ditinguished experimenter waa loaded for it with public opprobrium. Au gustus endeavoured by law to put somo re straint upon the facility of divorce, but the check was overpowered by the prevailing corruptness of rnauners. Jt was the heg'? njng pf life end, when that great nation perished, utterly destroyed by its own corrup tion.' . u Whed the French revolution swept away the usuage.of ages and the sanctity of relig ion, its special war seemed agatust the mar riage contract, and six thousand divorces aro said to have taken place iu the "City of Paris alone, in the' space' of two years and three months. "The'Roman Catholic Church sustains tho' absolute ind ^solubility of the marriage tie aud in the State of South Carolina, where the same scrupulous policy existed, it is . stated that not an instance occurred of a division of any kind, either by the sentence of a court of justice or by the act of legislature, frotn the Revolution down to the opening of the recent struggle. " If lhere be a truth beyond all question, where God's law, s|>cial experience, thc uni form record "of our species, every source of testimony, warning and appeal concur, it is the sacredness of the marriage bond, and the national decline which attends a tolerated, disregard or facile rupture of its diviue con stitutum. "Thc cannon law, though less peremptory in the esteem of thu Auglican churches than ?D the Council of Trent, oas fully sustained the obligations of'holy matrimony,' and will not allow any cause except incontinence as valid for contracting of another marriage. . " I know not what can stay our moral de cline in this relation, the source and conser v?tor pf all the substantial interests of time and eternity, and rouse an influential control through our legislative, judipial and ecclesias tical authority. But I must at least instruct you, brethren of the clergy, to exercise vigi lance pf inquiry and devout respect for its di vine significance in every case' ?f raarrjagfi coming before yoH. If the world degrades tho contract into a mere civil trasaction, you must never forget that in your own hands it is the office of holy matrimony, deep toned in its sacramental character, where every charge and prayer is from the conviction of a Christian'faith. Its solemn vows aro God ward, and the ch urce pronounces over those clasped hands, those whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder. . " Exercise a discretion becoming your holy I calling, and in every way within your power insist on its performance, as a solemn act of religion, or else decline to do it. Do not low er your parlour to a justice's office, on a sud den call from strangers, and without compe tent witnesses. Do not prostitute tho service to the mere legal union of those who esteem not enough the solemnity to come to it " rev eren tly, soberly, advisedly, and in the fear of God." We refuse our burial service So the unbaptized and the conscious suicide ; and I know not why oar church has uot nerve and discipline enough to Jequire the same religi ous qualification of baptism aud confirmation as preliminaries"for the office of holy roatri many. Our rubric prescribes definitely that persons to be married shall como into the body of the church with their friends and neighbours, or shall be ready in some proper house, and the. mother Church adds : 'lt is cn'enienttbatthe new married persons should receive the holy communion at thc first op portunity after their marriage."" Supplementary Report of Commission er of Immigration* SCTERVT BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION, J CHARLESTON, May 18,1868. $ : To His Excellency Governor James L. Orr. ! SIR :-Since my last report to your Excel lency, thirty-one persons have been register ed in this office, and have found employment in this State. There are now twenty per eontf OD the way from Germany and Scan dinavia, via Baltimore, and may arrive in a few days. The registries of lands now em brace 332 COO acres, in almost every District of the State, for sale at reasonable rates and on -favorable conditions ; and nearly (1,000 ucres of good lands in salubrious sections of the State have been registered to be given as ar free donation to actual settlers, upon rea sonable condition of improvement. lam glad to perceive a more favorable consideration of our State in Europe, and the indications are. that as soon as we.can ob tain greater and regular facilities for passage, we ahull certainly receive a share of immigra tion. Indeed, there would now be no want of well inclined laborfor tis. if our people could make the arrangement for an oatlay of the cost of transportation. In Germany, there are now three irrfluen tial papers that advocate our cause, although I am sorry to say we have, as yet, a multitude of very bitter .opponents. In Sweden and Denmark, our influence is also extending ; and, after a while, practical results will follow. In ireland, several gentlemen are kindly distri buting our pamphlets. I have mentioned to your Excellency, on a former occasion, that I desired very much the establishment of direct steam communication with Europe. With reasonable sacrifices this could be effected with Bremen. Hamburg and Glasgow, where ship-owner^ are very favorably inclined to our project. The rail roads from Charleston to Memphis being willing to transport immigrant passengers at one cent per mile, and their baggage at very reduced rates, would make this route to tho West a more favorable one than over either New York or Baltimore. It should be our constant aim to accomplish so desirable an arrangement, and I trust, when our political position is once more assured, -that the State will liberally sustain every nf r'ort that shall be made in that direction. I had, besides, intended to have published a suggestion for an industrial movement, which seems calculated not only to be of great ad vantage to our people, generally, but wonld al] TU facilities for the profitable employment of-a considerable number of immigrant em ployees. 1 intended to suggest and urge the estab lishment of at least one cot'on factory ina central and eligible position, in every District, fur thu making up of the raw material into yarns, the capital to bc subscribed in lands at a low valuation and the lands to be sold to omigrauts. To make the profits of' these es tablishments secure, the planters to pledge a certain number of bales of cotton to bc yarn ed on toll. I only indicate the outline of the plan for your con-idcratiou, deeming the con fused state of public alfiiirs unpropitious for attempting it at present. It seems that even ia the city of New York there is a percepti ble want of sufficient laborers for the farmers in the vicinity-the papers' complaining that the bettei class of- 'inmigrant*', however in largo numbers they arrive, are already, before they leave Europe, billeted for their destina tion in the Western States, and that ouly the worthless and indifferent remain for local en gagement. This agree3 entirely with my formerly ex pressed opinions, although it seems that some of our planters have obtained-labor from New York. I had made arrangements with a gentleman in Pennsylvania to furnish labor Of any kind, and-of a superior character, to such plauters as could comply with his terms -which were very easopuble-and whenev er 1 have been applied toi have furnished his address. But I still continue to believe that our resuscitation must be founded upon the incurring ol an immigration of small farmers, who will be followed by reliable laborers and skilled mechanics of every description, and that the most practical method pf effecting that iaJ direct steam communication with Eu ropean potts, proffers of cheap lands and a multiplication of our industrial pursuits. 1 have the honor to be, Your Excellency's obedient servant, JQHN A. WAGNER, Commissioner of Immigration. EXTRAOKDINARY DEMOCRATIC RE ACTION IN SOUTU CAROLINA.-Thc telegraph inform ed us yesterday that the Democrats had gain ed a mujority of tbe Districts in South Caro lina at the recent local election, having re cured sixteen out of the thirty-one Districts. There are aoout five white Districts in the State-Spartanburg, Qconep, Greenville, An derson and 'Chesterfield. But this gives only a'faint idea of the extraordinary ie action in the popular vote io the State as compared with the vote on the new Constitution. We find that in Union County the Democratic gain has been nearly two tkousand, in Ker shaw over seventeen hundred, in Laurens over thirteen hundred, in Chester over one thousand/and so on throughout the State. These local elections show the strength of the Conservatives in South Carolina, and are in dicative ot what they are capable of doing when they bring out their entire force. B eside the practical benefit locally of the Conserva tives ju the South Dolling a fuji vote, the m,qr al effect in the North and West is highly imr portant ; aud we suggest that hereafter, nt every election, there be a united effort in all ' the Southern States to bring out every Con ! servative vote that can bo relied upon. We ! have always believed that the white Conser vatives, with such sensible colored voters as are not under the thumb screws of the Radi cal cat pet-baggers, and submissive to arbi trary military direction, are capable of con trolling every State in the So;'th. lt would be a curious, but tolls a not unexpected event, to find thu Southern States instrumental in electing a Democrat as the next President of the United States. They can do it if they try. -New York Herald, HORRIBLE-A warrant has been lodged i in the Sheriff's office against David Hodge, a person of color, charged with the attempting aa outrage upon his own daughter.-Claren , don Press. j23J- Surratt has been discharged cn tho origi nal indictment preferred against him, bat held to answer the charge of conspiracy. His trial is fixed at an early date, ponding which ho has been I released on bail. The Southern Emigrants to Honduras. TO THE SOUTHBRX PRESS. Gentlemen :-Knowing no class of men more willing to correct error and injustice than tho.se who conduct the Southern Press, we, the undersigned, hope, through the influence which your immense circulation has on the current events of tho day. to contradict the ! gross falsehoods now circulating throughout ? the Southern States and elsewhere, iu regard i to the immigration at present established at Sun Pedro and the new town of Mee ina, in ! Spanish Honduras. We have left our homes, and with cur fam ilies have sundered the tics which once bound us to the land we love, to carve out a new destinv in this country. In feelings we are all Southerners, " and lo the manuel' born." We think a few plain facts will eet at rest thc falsehoods in regard to the country wc have adopted as our homo, as well as quiet the minds of many dear friends left behind us. It has been reported even tn the press that we were actually starving or suffering for the actual and common necessaries of life. This is untrue; weare all contented and know tue future will give us bright homes sur rounded with plenty and the comforts of life, untrammeled by strife or sectional dis sensions. Unfortunately, the immigrants here invest ed their all in cotton, and planted nothing else. .Tho worms came and ale thc cotton, aud blasting all their extravagant hopes, hit them without/ resources. New immigrants have come with capital and prudence; tho lands are being. cleared ; houses built; a < steamer is being put on the Ulua and (Jh&in clion Rivers ; au i this year the Valley ot Sula will bloom with all the luxuriaut'products of tue tropics, such as corn, rice, plautaius, sweet potatoes, tobacco, indigo, chocolate tree, su gar, coffee, and all the vegetables nearly that uro used in thc Slates. Thc soil is rich ; tho climate salubrious and delightful ; water.tine 1 labor cheap ; the Government willing to do all it can to foster immigration ; no taxes ; landa given fur the asking; the people ot tho country kind, willing and obliging, anxious to promote Ino welfare of every immigrant amongst them, as well as to aid those who wish to come. Our settlement is not got up fur speculative purposes. There are noue of us who have lands for sale, because new com ers can obtain as. good for tho asking. The new town of Medina is laid out in squares, and each person of good character ia entitled to an aero lot for building purposes, and on the limits of the town to one hundred more for farming. . The money for the building of the inter oceanic rail road is raised in London, an-1, in a few months' time the work will probably commence. It passes through San Pedro and Medina, and the noble port of Cabello will become the entrepot for the commerce of the world. No man need expect to succeed and do anything unless be arrives here with a capital of at lest two hundred and fifty dol lars, and who expects to work. This is no country for idle men ; wo have no use for them, hut ibr these who wish to recuperate their fallen fortunes, there is no country that offers such inducements as this. And now, gentlemen, having trespassed cn J your valuable space to this extent, we, sa Southerners, have one favor to request-'.hat 1 is, by giving publicity. to this statement, to contradict and deny the many -falsehoods cir culated against this settlement, and to invite the removal here of such good persons as (be ing dissatisfied in the United States) wish to secure a quiet retreat in a most picturesque land of plenty ; but we advise none to come here unless provided with a year's support, and .determined to meet and overcome diffi culties. Communications upon the subject of emi gration here, addressed to any of the under signed, will be promptly answered. With high considerations of respect, we are, J. M. Reynaud, Governor of the Circle San Pedro ; Geurge P. Frisson, La.; H. H. Brius,* Ga.; A. C. .Middlebrook*, Ga.; L. E. Burkmar, California ; T. M. Henderson, La.: F. E. du ran, Maryland ; T. R. Tindell, Ga.; R, G. Hyman, Ga.; George 0. Hatch, Texas; S. C. Vineyard, Texas ; W. H. Stivers, Ls.: W. A. Coleman, Ga; J. G. Harrison, La.; W. J. Walters, Va.; John L. Flynn, La.; F. C. Sap piiigton, Ga.; E. R. Williams, Tenn.; Pablo Hernandez. La.; Pedro Hernandez, La-; F. S. .Middlebrooks, La. From the Banner of the South. Let us Have Peace. Such are the words with which Gen. Grant accepts the nomination of the Republican party, ai their candidate for the Presidency of the United States. " Let us have peace." Why "not? Is then) aught to prevent it? Yes ; tho rod of tho Tyrant is here to prevent it. Thc sufferings of a ruined people are here to prevent it. The injustice of wicked and designing men is here to prevent it. And so we say how, ns one of the Fathers of thc Republic said, when the " clanking of the chains waa hea?*J on Bunker Hill," as it is now heard upon every Southern hill and in every Southern valley: " Gentlemen may cry peace, when there is no peace." Is that peace, which drags a citizen from bis quiet home and throws him into loath some dungeons, without giving him even the poor satisfaction of informing him of the charges against him ? Is that peace, whioh girdles election polls with bayonets, and yet refuses protection to the voter who will not cast his ballot for the dominant party? Is that peace, which keeps ten States under a galling subjection, forcing upon them Con ventions and Constitutions not of their choice, prostrating the energies of the people, and paralysing every limb and sinew of trade and industry ? Is this the peace that Gen. Grant woald givens? Is this tho peace that the man of cruel and. relentless war would have ? Is such a man and such a peace to be endorsed by the people of the United States? We hope not. We appeal to them to pause and reflect, before they give their voices and their votes to such a man and such a peace. And thia is not the appeal of the partisan-not the appeal of the politician; but the earnest warning of patriotism and justice. The woes of the South are not ?lone her woes. They arc the woes of the whole country, and as they aro meted out to as so shall they be ; meted out to others. If they are endorsed ? by the people of the North, the peace of Grant will bp the peace of sorrow, of deso?a- ( tion, and of ruin, for them as well as for ns ! . The iron hand of the military despot is broad , enough to cover the whole country, and the , greed of power is never satiated, but grows | with age and strengthens with time, until ] some vaster power comes to stunt its growth, j shear it of its strength, or strangle ita exis- , tence. How much better theo, to " crush it f in the bud"-to nip it while it is young and comparatively weak, ere it'grows to that pro portion which will be too formidable for the 1 popular will to extinguish. How much bet- i ter. then, to arouse now to a sense of the im- < pending danger, and avertit while weean. 1 How much better, then, to consign the lead- I era of this growing power and their greedy i co-workers to-that oblivion which they so < justly merit. Then, indeed, would we* have ? peace-not the peace that Gen. Grant would 1 give us-not the peace that thc Republican t party would give us-but the peace which 1 blessed our country in the palmiest days of ' ita prosperity and glory; the peace which < alone can bless it again with prosperity and ] glory. _t _ < J*y The first thing a young worn m want: lo ( do after she is sixteen, ls to become a bridesmaid, , and the next to have ont. < Southern Recreancy?White Kadicnlo South.' We nre not disposed to indulge in the lan guage of abuse and denunciation, nor irclin ed to bring into uncalled-for question men's motives. Relying upon the force of fuir ar gumentation, we wouid rather confute error than denounce its worshippers.- But there is one point upon which, as we conceive, it is difficult for ono in the-e times to -think too : strongly, or to exprets himself too severely. There are times, and these are of them, when stern justice demands that words of trn?h should go forth lo wither and blast them who would degrade a gallant people, and fix upon the men and women of their section a yok? more galling and ignominious than ever (?elli, ' Vandal or Hun sought m impose upon con quered peoples. Our remarks pertain to tuoae white men of our section, who have unit ed with the radical-) of the North and tho freedmen of the South, to fix upon the South negro supremacy, or the domination of an ia lerior "race. There is some excuse for tho course of the colored people, miserably mistar ken as it, baa been. Power was offered '- to them, ?ind it was natural for them to grasp it. although it was to turn into a viper and ul timately to inflict upon the Knd that raized it, a fatal sting. But what Shall be said of that white mau. who,.forgetful of tbe^ties of blood, and of the claims of kindred, and who; recreant to thc God-imp! an ted sympathies of race, turns upon his own section, and hounds 3U the pack of wolves that seek to attack -the whites of the South even in their very homes.? Ibese Southern recreants may for awhile pur sue their unhallowed schemes-may seek tb obliterate all thc.aucent laud-marks of oui* laud-may spit upon the traditions of our pa*t -muy- trample upon the graves rf our . dead, and ?eek to degrade tho living ; but we tell them, that they cannot quench the death less spirit of the proud Caucasian. Tho re action will come North and will'come South, The law? of God will bo vindicated. 'Aud you, Southern radicals and hypocritical ne gro worshippers, you will meet with the fate that a wai us the mimons of tyranny and the workers of. bate. Ready to lay down your suple neck and allow the negro to plant upon . it his broad .and heavy foot-ready " to crook the pregnant hinges of ypur knee" to the col ored man, " that thriftmay follow fawning," you will live'to seo yourselves discarded by the very ela-s upon whose backs you ride into power. Know, ye deluded men, that ho wto v ls not wiOi the Southern whites in the great issue before the country, is against them. To every Southern man comes thu question, 11 Vader which king, Benzoni? Speak or die T^. Speak, or die in social ?talus, in good men ? opinion, in woman's approval, in; the. just verdict of impartial Wstory.--C&utnbia Phoe nix. ; ~. -?>-*T* Emigration from the South. In the New York Journal of Cornmerce of ' the 13th instant, appears a letter dated from the steamship Guiding Star, Caribbean Sea, May 29th, 1868, tro m which we make thc following extract : ~ "-On the decks below throng *500 pe-isca* gers, some of them bun:ueas men residing ia San Francisco or <;tber parts of the Pacific slope, but they are -ill mi. s try emigrant* from the Southern Statee, seeking" a land where they may be permitted to obtain a subsis tence. The accounts given by these men of the condition of the South are truly-deplora ble. They speak for nearly all sortions, fut, the most numerous representatives aro from Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, embra cing the large alluvial districts where negro labor is almost the Bole dependence. I am struck with the remarkable..large proportion who' are educated men, graduates of our liter*: ary institutions, or who ibrmorly were influ ential in mercantile life, like Dr. B., of Mo bile, a few years ago the possessor of a Ivge capital, but now a fugitive,. All alike aban don their homes in absolute despair, and ex press a belief that were it possible to com mand means adequate to effect a removal, emigration would commence on an extensive scale. Their last hope yields to a conviction that the negro will not work, added to which is thc prospect that in Several Slates negro majorities will soon have everything their own way. California, in thc estimation of large numbers of Southern men, is no?' the land of promise, and there appears no rea son to doubt that low fares across thu isthmus D( Panama or the completion of the Pacific Railroad would givo to tbis movement of pup. ulation a powerful stimulus." This is a sad picture. It is deplorable to think ot our people being driven from their homes by the infernal legislation of a Radical Congress. But having borne-with and suffer ed this condition of affairs solong, they should summon up fortitude enough to struggle on a little longer. Every day is bringing us near er to our deliverance. A year heneo this question will be solved in the interest of tho South, and tho Southern people will be rid, in a great measure, of the evils which have, so.grievously oppressed them. The success of the Democratic party in the coining Pres:-, denlial election will bury for many a year the questions which now distract tv, and the authors and abettors of the injustice aud op pression which has been indicted on the South, will leave for more congenial climes. Ii is, therefore, criminal on the part of our people to leave the South at this particular, juncture wh?n the future looks so promising. Properly of every discription must be sacrill ced if sold now- There are nene, we take il, who waut to go away and leave their property behind with the hope of returning, shou'd the South regain her Constitutional rights. There fore the people of the South should, stand firm ly together, and help to defeat this Radical conspiracy; which is falling to pieces fri?ni ita own inherent rottenness.-Chronicle it Sen tinel. A Ck.?iiiKAL's BROTHER EXECUTED BY MIS TAXE.-A deplorable mistake was recentljr committed in a town of La Mancha, Spain. A criminal was being conducted to the placo of execution, when he escaped arid took refuge in a hospital. As admission could on ly be enforced in presence of the civil author ities, the building was surrounded until trio corregidor (magistrate) could arrive. When that functionary came, and entrance was ob tained, and a person wearing a dressing gown and a nightcap was seen walking in thu yard, tin algnazil thought he recognized him ?a the fugitive, and at once arrested him. The man on being questioned did not reply, but ges ticulated with great animation; he was nev ertheless hurried away and the sentence-of execution carried out without his having ut tered a word. It turned oat afterward that tie was a deaf and dumb inmate of the hos pital, and the brother of the real culprit, which last circumstance accounts for thc re semblance. -? ? ? When war raged it was alleged that tho jarbarous Confederates", refosed to make a air exchange of prisoners. ?t ia DOW shown hat Grant prohibited it, though conscious of :he straits to which the blockade and desole ;ing war had rendered the South. G rant *as informed of the unavoidable sufferings ind deprivation* to which hts gallant mea in ti de the Confederate linea were subjected and ;he rebel government anxiously sought even ;o exchange the "disabled. ' Grant ter used. His published orde?s show this to be true. iVho dup graves at Andersonville ? CnnPfi- ? ?rate soldiers and people starved outside those prison walls, and Grant knew it, and v& 3rant so Joyed men who would have m.- iV r lim as the leader of'Uni?n armies, tibat he itmpelled their death aa prisoners Tu!*; \f in equal number of Confederates.-Iudianop }lis Times,