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The Inauguration of the New Govei ment. HEADQCART'S SECOND MILITARY DISTRICT CHARLESTON, S. C., Jone 30,1868. [(/trurol Ordtra Ko. 120.] Ia conformity with the law of tba Uni States passed June 25, 186S, entitled " Act to admit the States of North Carpl? South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alaba aud Florida to repr?sentation in Congre: all officers ot the States of North Carol and South Carolina, duly elected and qu !iea under the Constitutions thereof, and prohibited 5rom holding office in said Su by the third section of the proposed ame ment to the Constitution of the United Sta known as Article Fourteen, will, upon ratification of tho said amendment by Legislature, be inaugurated without del taking the oath of office prescribed by Constitutions of the Stetes in which they h been elected, and otherwise qualifying, conformity with the laws of said States. 1. So much of the provisious of Gen? Orders No. 79, of May 2, and No. 83, of S 12, 1SGS, from these headquarters, as de nates the time for the officers elected un the new Constitution to enter upou their ties, aud requires them to take the oath ] scribed by tbe law of July 2,1862, being perseded by the law above cited, is heri revoked. 2. The third section of the proposed ame ment to the Constitution, known as Art Fourteen, is republished for the informat and government of those whom it may con? ARTICLE XIV. **.-..?#*? SECTION 3. No person shall be a Senate Representative in Coigress, or Elector Presuie -t und Vice Piesident, or hold i office* civil or military, under the Uni States or under any State, who, hiving ] vioa>ly taken j.n oath as a member of C gress, or as au officer of tho United States as a member of an}* State Legislature, or un executive or judicial officer of any Sti to support the Constitution of the Uni States, shall have engaged in insurrection rebellion against the same, or given aid comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congi may, by a voto of two-thirds of each Hot remove such disability." * * * * ? . . Should the disabilities of any of the offic elect not have been removed, or if they sho from any other cause be unable to qual the fact will oe immediately reported to 1 Governor of the State, and the present cumbents, if they are charged with any act administrative duties, or with the care of p lie records, or with the custody of public c ney or public property, will, in conform with the law, hold over until their successi be duly qualified. 2. To facilitate the organization of the n State Governments, the following appoi meats are made : To bo Governor of North Carolina, W. ' Holdent Governor elect, vice Jonathan Wor removed. To be Lieutenant-Governor of North Ca lina, Tod R. Caldwell, Lieutenant Govert elect, to fill an original vacancy. To take effect July 1,1868, on the meet! of the General Assembly of the State North Carolina. 3. To be Governor of South Carolina, R< ert Iv. Scott, Governor elect, vice James Orr, removed. . To be Lieutenant-Governor, Lemuel Boozi Lieutenant-Governor elect, to fill a vacan< To take effect July 6, 1868, on the meetii of the General Assembly of the State Sooth Carolina. 4. The County Courts of North Caroni and the District Courts of South CaroHi having been abolished, the records of all sn Courts will be transferred to the custody . the Clerks of the Courts of the respect! Co un tie-, and all unexecuted processes i other unfinished business of the said Coui wilTbe returned, in the? former State to tl Superior Court, and in the latter to the Cou of Common Pleas and General Sessions, the first ensuing session held in such Count} and in like manner the records, papers ar public property in the custody of the Clerl of said County and District Courts, as we as in the hands of Clerks and Masters : Equity in North Carolina, shall be turn? over to the incoming Clerks of said Superb Courts and Courts of Common Pleas. 5. Unless or until otherwise directed by tl General Assembly of North Carolina, tb duty of approving the bonds of public office! of Counties will be devolved upon the Count Commissioners elected under the new Cot stitution. 6. For the purpose of organization, th County Commissioners elect of each Count in the State of North Carolina shall, on th day provided by the Constitution for them t enter upon their duties, or as soonHhereafte as practicable, assemble together at tb CourUHouse in each County, and elect on of their number Chairman, who shall there upon request the Chairman of the retirin? County Court to administer the oath of offic to the said Commissioners; and the sail Chairman of the retiring County Court i hereby empowered and required immediately to administer to the said Commissioners, ssv orally, the oath prescribed by said Constitu tion ; which oath having been by them thei aud there taken and subscribed, said Boar; of County Commissioners shall be deemec duly qualified and inducted into office. The County Commissioners elect in Sou tl Carolina will organize in like manner, there tiring Ordinary in each County administering the oath. 7. Until the General Assembly of the Stat? of South Carolina shall expressly prescrib? by law the duties of the Sheriffs, Coroners and Clerks of Courts chosen or authorized tc b i chosen at the election held in said Stat? on the 2d and 3d of June, 1868, the office? so elected shall, after qualification, perform thc duties prescribed for said officers by law under the existing provisional government oi the State. 8. Until otherwise provided by law, the Judges of Probate elected in South Carolina shall perform the duties heretofore performed by Ordinaries ; and in respect to business appertaining to minors, and the allotment ot dower, and in cases of idiocy and lunacy, and persons non compotes mentis, shall conduct their proceeding? as far as possible in con formity with the rules and regulations govern ing the practice in like cases in the Courts of the Provisional Government now authorized by law to take jurisdiction of such business, and records and public property in the hands of Ordinaries will be transferred to the Pro bate Judges. 0. In like manner, nntil otherwise provided by raw, the powers and duties of County Commissioners in South Carolina, shall in elude the powers and duties heretofore per taining to Commissioners of the Poor. Com missioners ofRoads.B i Ige -, F?rr;e? ai d Cuts Commissioners of Public Buildings, and Com missioners to Approve the Bonds of Public Officers, and in discbarge thereof said Coun ty Commissioners will be governed as far as practicable by the laws and usages regulating the functions cf the offices, the powers and duties of which are hereby conferred upon them. 10. It shall be the duty of each of the Boards of County Commissioners in South Carolina, immediately after their organization, to ap point a Treasurer to act until otherwise pro vided by law, who shall be required, before entering upon his duties, to enter into bond to the Board, with securities to be approved by the Board, and in amount to be fixed by the Board, conditioned for the faithful per formance of his duties, which bond shall be filed with the Clerk of tho Court for the County; and such Treasurer shall safely keep and disburse all funds belonging to the Board ; and for his services shall bo allowed a com mission, to be fixed by the Board, an all sums received and paid away, but no commission or other fee shall be allowed on the transfer of fund8tothe Treasurer from b:s predecessor, nor from the Treasurer to his successor, nor shall the commission allowed no the Treasu rer exceed the* ra te of two per cent, on moneys received, and two per cent, on moneys paid away. 11. The Circuit Judges, who shall be cho sen by the General Assembly, shall, until otherwise provided by law, ba authorized to exercise in suiis in equity hereafter commenc ed all the powers heretofore pertaining to Chane ellon, subj ect to rules of procedure to be feed hy Justices of tba Supreme Coon j ana until the adoption of such rules existing rules of chancery practice sha followed. By command of Brevet Major-Genera E. S. OAXBY. LOUIS Y. C AZI ARC Alde-do-Carap, Act, Asst. Adj't Genet Proclamation by tho President WASHINGTON, July 4-A jproclamatioi been issued by the President, declaring whereas, in the month of July, 1861, ii ceptiug the condition of civil war, whicl brought about by insurrection and reb< in several of the States, the two Hom Congress did solemnly d te I.ire that thi was not waged on the Government in spirit of opposition, nor for any purpot conquest or subjugation, nor for any pu: of overthrowing or interfering with the r or established institutions of the States only to defend and maintain the suprei of the Con*tiiut:?rn of the United States to preserve the Uuion, with all the dig equality and rights of the several State impaired, aud that, so soon as those ol should be accomplished, the war on the of the Government should ceise ; and, w as, the President of the United State: heretofore, i ? the spirit-of that declart and with the view of securing for it ulti and complete effect, set forth several pr mations, offering amnesty and pardon tc .ons who bad been or were concerned i rebellion, which proclamations, however, attended with prudential reservations an captions, Uien Ueetned necessary and prc and, whereas, the said war has long ceased, with an acknowledgment by al States of the supremacy of lie Federal stitution, and there Dolouger exists any gr to apprehend a renewal of civil war, 01 foieign interference, any un."awful resisl by any portion of the people of any of Statea to t*>e Constitution and laws of United States ; and, whereas, it is desi] to reduce tbe standing army and t>? bril a speedy termination military occupa martial luw, military tribunals, abridgrae freedom of speech, of the press, and sus sion of the privilege of habeas corpus, ant trial by jury-such encroachmeuts upoi free institutions, in times of peace, being gerous to public liberty, incompatible thc individual rights of the citizen, cont to the genius of our Republican form of i ernment, and exhaustive of tie national sources ; and, whereas, it is believed am ne? ty and pardon will tend to seem complete and universal establishment prevalence of municipal law and order conioimity with the Constitution of United States ; and to remove all appeara or presumptions of a retaliatory or vindit policy, on the part of the Government, al ded by unnecessary disqualifications, pi penalties, confiscations and disfranchisemi and on the contrary to promote and pro complete fraternal reconciliation among whole people, with doe submission to the I stitution and laws; therefore, be it "kn that I, Andrew Johnson, President of? United States, do, by virtue of the'Gonai tion, and in the name of the' people' bf United Staten, hereby proclaim and dec unconditionally and without reservation all and to every person who directly or i rectly participated in the late insurrectioi rebellion, excepting such person or person may be under presentment or indictmen any Court of the Unjted States, having c petent, jurisdiction u^fci^J^ar^tres or other felony, a fu?rP^fo"J,8rjd*-amn( for the offence of treaa?n^giast' the Uni States, or of adhering f&g?j? enemies dui the late civil war, wita restoration of all rig of property, except as to^slaven, and ext also as to any property>5f which any per may have been legalry^dlvested, under?* laws of the United States. In testim* whereof, 1 have signed' these presents%w my hand, and have caused-the seal of United States to be hereunto affixed. Done at the city of Washington, .the day of July, in the year of our-Lord < thousand eight hundred and sixty-eip and of the Independence of the.-Uni States of America ninety-third. Bv the President. ANDREW JOHNSON WILLIAM H. SEWABD, Secretary of State. Washington News. On the 1st, Hamilton, a member o'f 1 House of Representatives from Florida, \ sworn in. The President has relieved General a Dowell from the command of the Fourth li kary District and ordered him to report the War Department for duty. He ia st ceeded by General Gillern. IQ the House, the Bill to appropriate moe for tte purchase of Alaska was under consi e ration. Mr. Washbarne, of Wisconsin, opposed a appropriation to carry the Bill into effect, is understood that a vote OD the matter w be taken on Thursday. In the Senate, Mr. Trumbull spoke again the Bill excluding the Southern States fro the Electorial College, and moved to atrii Florida and Arkansas from the Bill. No a j tion was taken. The consideration of the Civil Appropri tion Bil! was resumed. Mr. Sherman withdrew the Funding Bi ! which he had offered as au amendment. On the 2d, in the Senate, a joint resol tion was passed admitting six Japaneseyoutl to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. A bill was iutroduced convening the ne: session of Congress on the third Monday : November. A. S. Welch, the Florida Senator, wi seated. Pacific railroad matters were discussed i great length. A bill was reported giving $7,000 to tl ladies' Mount Vernon Association. In the House, the Reconstruction Com m i tee reported a bill dividing Texas into tw States. Ordered printed.. After disposing of several executive cou municatious of no general importance, th House considered the Senate amendments t the civil appropriation bill, and, without cor elusion, adjourned. Members of Congress are becoming ver anxious to adjourn, and will probably do s without touching the finances. Several Treasury clerks were dif-missed o the 1st, on account of no appropriation0. The object for convening Congress th i third Monday in November, is to have a re cess instead of an adjournment, to prevent rt mov?is by the President. Boutwell objects to the bill dividing Texas A joint resolution extending the Agricul tural College act to Arkansas, was referrei to the Committee on Public Lands. The Tribune says editorially, alluding b Grant's order, placing recently elected offi cials in office iu Louisiana : General Gran will to-day issue an order of the same naturi applicable to the States of Georgia, Florida Suuth Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama ? On ?he 3d, in the Seuate, a memorial wat presented asking fifteen thousand dollars foi deepening the St, John's (Fla.) river. The tax bill was reported and made tb? .special order for Monday, and until completed A resolution to adjourn for the 4th wat adopted, ten Radicals voting nay. Tbe balance of the day was devoted to District of Columbia affairs. Senate adjourned. The House considered appropriations in Committee of the Whole, ?gain rejecting the amendment allowing clerks extra compensa tion ; and after passing the bill forniuhing the militia of each Congressional district with two thousand rifles and two batteritjs of ar tillery, adjourned to Monday. The Corruption Committee report covers over twenty columns with positive facts or as sertions. The report labors to show the prob ability that money was raised and used to acquit President Johnson. The amount of din throwu is amazing. Scarcely a friend of the President or prominent political opponent escapes. Detective Lafayette C. Baber is dead. He leaves a quarter of a million. ??S~ The Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel says : The old and well-known firm of W. A. Ramsoy A Co. have sold out their stock to Mr. J. C. Par ter, late of Edgefield District, S. C., who wi!! con tinue the grocery business at the old stand. Mr. W. A. Ramsey will still be found at tho store, and will be glad to tee his frionds. We commend Mr. ???Kter to tb? ptftoatgo of ?or oMrou. . j THE ADVERTISER J AMES T. BACON, EDITO E. WEDNESDAY. JULY 8, 18C6. Editorial Correspondence. BA ns nu's HOTEL. BALTIMORE, June 28. Dear Advertizer : On Fr nd ay morning, at 10 o'clock, we find ow.... set down, noient volent, in Baltimore. On aooount of some Sanday regu lation the cars do not run further than tbii point to day. Therefore wo shall not seo New York as soon as we expected by 24 hours. So it is in life. How seldom do the proposing of man and the disposing of God run in the tame groove ! And now that we are brought suddenly to a stand-still, we make it our first duty to achieve a few jotting? for the Advertiter. They will be higgledy-piggledy, pell-mell ; for that is the way we feel, after two day? and nights of dirty, sleep less railroad travel. When we get to Now Tork we will proceed to indite you Convention pros pects and Convention doings. Loft Augusta on Friday morning, in pelting rain. Hope you had some of it ! Bought Ex cursion Ticket to New Tork and back for $32.00. Chose npper route, via Columbia, Charlotte, Dan ville, Richmond, to. ""Was informed that we would reach N. T. on Sunday morning. Railroad men aro as deluding as women ! Thought the cars would be jammed with distinguished public men starting to Convention. On the contrary only three human being?, including ourself were passengers. Felt like Jonah in the whale's belly. Not having traveled fora long time, was nervous for fear a disaster would befall us. Felt constant ly in one pocket to see if excursion ticket was safe, and in the other to see if financos were ditto. The long and elaborate ticket made much larger roll than the finances. Struck with nothing between Augusta and Co lumbia but the splendid orchards in the vicinity of Orangeville and Aiken ; and with the appa rent extreme poverty of thc people all along the line of the road. At Orangeburg met with Ridge people getting on the cars, and upon arriving at Columbia, saw them take the train for home, left Orangeburg at 2 P. M., and would reach the Ridge by 6 P. M. So mach for the Columbia and Hamburg Railroad. At depot in Columbia saw some hard-featured strange looking women. Won dered much what they were and where they came from. Turned out to be Yankee school-marms laboring and loving (negroes) in Columbia. Four of them embarked, and formed a study for us of human character, until we happily lost sight of them at Richmond. At Charlotte, N. C., things began to look more prosperous,-premises in good repair, fences whitewashed, inhabitants clean looking. And this became more and more the case as we neared Virginia. Passed over the new Piedmont mad, and by the beautiful and thriving town of Dan ville, destined, it is said to be one of the greatest tobacco markets in America. It is situated in the heart of as beautiful c. oouotry as we have even seen,'the whole land exalting in growing Corn, groin and tobacco. Contrary to expectation, obliged to lay over in Richmond* four hour*. Repair to Spootswood Hotel, and thence make an incursion into the city; in company with Dr. Irvine and his daugh ter of Greenville. Richmond beautiful, airy, clean, healthful, guy,-prosperous Walked about the bright and bustling streets With a sickening sensation that South Carolinians are the poorest people upon God's earth. Truly no people seem ti be so sorely stricken as we 1 Why can ire not recuperate like the inhabitants of other sections? We say it with groaning; that cannot be uttered, but really as soon as we crossed the South Caro lina line we seemed to emerge from darkness, death and long despair, into life and sunshine and prosperity. From Richmond to Washington via Acquia Creek. Up the Potomac at snails pace; could have towed a largo steamer up Beaver Dam in exactly the same time. From Washington to Baltimore on Sunday morning. Whole oouotry one soene of beauty, wealth and civilization. Cars crowded with Irish people in Sanday clothes. Dropped by the omnibus at Barnum's Hotel. Hurry through crowds of distinguished and ele gant-looking men, who, we fear would be demon stratively disgusted at the appearance among them of so grimy and dirty-looking an individual, and hurry to a chamber. Begin to jot down these items, when loud laughter and tumultuous footsteps are heard io the hall. These proceed from two individuals woll known (shall we say '-and loved?") in Edge field. Gen. M. W. GARY and Capt N. 0. BUTLER. They are both popular here; indeed they "weed a wide row." They bring with them a couple of gay triunda ; and much is said and done that would amuse a dead man in a coffin. This party, ourself included, will depart for New York to-night. Fear we have written some what egotistically; if so, pardon us. Hav'nt bad time yet to find out anything about anybody else, or any other matter. More anon. How does the public square look ? J. T. B. ? ? Disappointed. Through some neglect in the Post Office depart ment we have failed to receive our Editorial Cor respondence from New York, which we have eve ry reason to believe was mailed in time to reach here on Monday last We regret this. But hopo to hear from Our Editor in lengthy detail before our next issue. ? ? ? Amnesty. Prosident Johnson's Amnosty Proclamation has at length been issued, and will be found on an other column. The Charleston New? says, allud ing to this Proclamation, " Right worthily has President Johnson done his part in the restoration of peace and order to the Union ; and though the partisans of a Radical Congress may oontinue to howl at his course to the end of his term, his place in history is assured among the eminent men who have dared encounter undeserved obloquy and persecution for the sake of their country's weal." A Superb Basket of Fruit. M. D/T. VAUGHN places us under everlasting obligations for a large basket of magnificent Peachos and Plnms-decidedly the finest we have seen this season. We are ready at all times to give warm welcome to such contributions, and are now anxiously awaiting for some other good fellow to remember us out of their abundance. Who will it be ? ' -? ? ??-; Turnip Seed. Mr. G. L. PENN, the ever reliable merobant, bas on hand a large supply of Buist's Genuine Tur nip Seed, which Mr. P. is willing to warrant tobe of the very best quality. Call on him and secure your seed forthwith. None better can be found anywhere in these United States. " Well Done," Friend Body. Rev. J. P. Bonis, a warm and good friend of the Advertiter, and the Advertiter corps, sends us from Kirksoy's X Roads a Club of Thirty New Subscribers, accompanied with the Cash. Thank you-thank you-thank you, dear Mr. B. Long may you livo in the land, and may hoalth and prosperity attend you alway. Who will send in the next Club? Comoon, everybody. We still have room for your names on our Subscription Book. "Castle in the Air,"--Poetry-will ap pear next week. Lost. Lost on Saturday lost, between Gran i to vi Io and this place, a pair of Gold spectacles, in a black Merooco case. A liberal reward will be paid for the delivery of said spectacles at this office. Some years back a Survey was made of the contemplated Railroad from Aiken to Ninety Six. Can any of our readers inform us of the then estimated cost of building said Road accord ing to said Survey ? Who will respond ? The Legislature of North Carolina assem bled on the 1st inst Governor Holden sent in a brief message. In the House the Howard amend ment was adopted by a voto of 78 to 20, and in tba Senate bj ? rote ot H to 2. j The Batesville Barbecue? ^; Business engagement?, of a pressing SB pro von ted our attending the Batesvillo Cel Hon on Saturday last, but at our urgent rcqn friend who was pre pant, bu preparad for n following very interesting account of the pro ings and incidents of that nevcr-tc-bo-forg oooaslon, to which wa invite especial attentif In ncoordanco with previous annonnoe very extensively circulated, the Barbecue P and Railroad Celebration carno off with eolat at Batesvillo Depot, the present termi? the Columbia and Augusta Railroad, on Batt the fourth of the present month. At a very early hour the ronds from all i ter* were thronged with multitudes of pc pressing forward to the scene of the festiv and by ten o'clock an immense crowd had ai bled upon the ground. - The first object (hat attracted attention wo Now Depot, a very handsome rnd commo building just completed. In a grove hard b speakers stand bad been erected, and seat? pared for the > occasion. These latter were filled with ladies, and the array of beauty presented waa very imposing. In another i further on a very long and capacious tabli been erected in the form of a square, and ?ni yond this was the pit where an active coi cooks were engaged in the preparation ol viands. A committee in the table rcjuairi busy receiving the baskets, which poured i goodly numbers, well filled with savory thin As a train Was looked for from Columbia, ? body was on the tip-toe of expectation, and < for the Iron-Horeo to make.bis appearance did not remain long in suspense for at a teal ble hour the shrill whistle told of the nea: proach of the train._ Then followed a nub. 1 Depot and long linos of peoplo formed on side? of the road to await its arrival. A seconds more and there it stood " Sn all its ^ OU8 attributes"-a novel sight to many, a gladdening sight to all. It was a long t heavily freighted with the beauty and the cb ry of the Capitol of the State, together w numerous delegation from Lexington and the Stations on the route. ' Thoy were crowded o platforms, on the tops of the oars, and even oi cow-catober in front of the Engine, and we 1 that many were left, on acoount of the wa room. The arrival of this train swelled th ready im menso crowd to overwhelming num It was estimated by good judges that there now present from two to three thousand pe< A Committee appointed to receive the Presi and Directors hastened to meet these jgentlei and after extending to them a cordial welcon the festivities of the day, oonducted them tc speakers' stand. JAM KS E. LEK, the irrepressible and uni ven popular " squire" of the Batesville oommui presided as Chairman and Master of Ceremoi with his usual urbanity and courtesy. A Band from Columbia now struck np itt m and contributed greatly to the life of the o sion. We noticed on the stand OenL M. C. I LiR, F. 6. Da FONTAINE, Esq., Capt. F. W. D SON of the Charleston AVI.-I, and others. The Chairman rose and announced that WILLIAM JOHNSON, President of the Road, wi address the audience. Col. JOHNSON was received with applause, proceeded to address the audience at consider length in a very practical and happy style, represented tb? prospects of tho Road os hi very encouraging, and expressed full confide in its early and rapid completion. The grac had been nearly finished to Graniteville; the i had been purchased and was being hurried : ward as rapidly as possible, the stocks were gi uaily appreciating in value, and that he bad m a recent sale of ten thousand dollars of the Bo of the Road at seventy-five per cent in ca?: expressed congratulations that tho political pi pects of the country were brightening, and i mated that he did not think Chief Justice CHA the worst man in the world to be run as a cai date for tho Presidency. Ho alluded in com; mentary terms to the valuable services that 1 been rendered the Road by the people: on Lexington end of that route, and in this conn tion made especial mention .of Messrs^Bjn Bou KNIG HT, LEWIE and othors,and saidee m>] that the people of Edgefield would como to rescue with the same enterprising and resol .spirit. Dinner was then annonnced, and tho crowd paired to the tables whioh they found lader with a sumptuous supply of all sorts of gc things, and they yielded a very willing obediei when the Master of .Ceremonies directed them j i* Pitch in, for it was a free repast." In the meantime, upon the arrival of the tra the Depot was pressed into service by the you folks, and was at once converted into.a Terp ebore Hall. With tho exception of a short int val at the dinner hour, the motto at the De] was "on with the dance, let joy bo unconflnei We have omitted to mention that on the w from the stand to the table, there was station by the road-side an establishment with a ve conspicuous t iga hung out, marked "Democra Ice-CrcBm Saloon." -The individual who was t presiding genius here, although a "Vay-fari man," was by no means a fool. At all events did not "ere therein." The day was intensely h and his establishment was so well patronized tt wo venture the presumption that bs would ha been a very fit subject for thieves and robbers , ho returned to his home, for we do not doubt 1 a moment that hit. pockets were well lined wi great wada of " filthy lucre." Dinner now over, and the crowd having be refreshed, all bands again repaired to the Star when a loud and very general call brought o friend Mr. LE KO Y F. Yo UM ANS, the distinguish Solicitor of the Southern Circnit to his feet. Il was, as it was expected to be, a spirited and ol quent address, interrupted with frequent applaui Ile urged the paramount importance of buildii up the internal mprovoments, and fostering tl internal resources of our country, and illustr?t his position with groat practical effect by a glan at English History, from the time of Bacon that of Gladstone, to prove that whatever polit cat dissensions distracted the English peoplo, th< never ncgleoted to foster these elements of ni tiona! greatness, and that as a reward for the vigilance their proud old Commonwealth stnnc to-day peerless in Commerce and the mistress i thc Seas. He concluded with the following sent ment, which was well-timed and happily receivec " WILLIAM JOHNSON the.Railroad King of Norl Carolina. The old North State has not domai of sufficient area to monopolize his energy, a bi! it and enterprise." Calls were next made for Mr. DEFOKTAINI the inimitable ".Personne," who declined in favc of Captain DAWSON. Tho remarks of this speak? wero in good taste, and were well received. Loud calls were frequently made for Genera BDVLER, but he did not respond on account c indisposition. Two colored Democrats from Columbia, whos names we regret that we failed to obtain, foll o wei next in order, and made staunch Democrat! speeches. General PAUL QUATTA LB A UM then madeashor address and the day closed. The whistle blew-and then another rash ti the Depot-some to get on the train, and othen to see them off. Another blow of the whistle and a few lusty puffs of steam, and the Rioblant and Lexington Delegations were out of eight homeward bound. Thus terminated an important day at Bates, ville Depot. Though the ocoasion was not po litical in its inoeption, and though this Depot ii situated in Lexington District, yet there wore numerous and unequivocal signs of the rapid progress of a sound and healthy Democraoy. It would seem that the Democrats are about to take possessing of the once glorious u Fourth," and restore it to its primitive ronown. Let the citizen* of Edgefield be on the lookout for the locomotive, and whonit comes, let us too, like the people of Batesvillo, have a grand old time over the occasion.. X9T William Little, Editor of the Bennetts ville Journal, was married on the 2d inst., to Mill Martha C. McBride, of Charleston. Meeting of the jLeglslature. According to Qov. SCOTT'S orders the Legisla tor? of South Carolina assembled in Columbia on Monday lost. As yet wo have heard nothing therefrom. A special dispatch from Columbia to the Charles ton Courier, dated the 4th, says : Abont forty members of tho Legislature arrived here to-day. i The canvass for United States Senators is very warm and excited. The friends of T. J. Robert son and Dr. A. G. Mackey have united and claim their election on the first ballot-the former for the short and the latter for the long term. A lively canvass fur?the Speakership of the House of Representatives is also in progress. W. J. Whipper, (colored) has withdrawn in favor of R. B. Elliott, (colored) who will be run against Franklin J. Moses, Jr. Nickerson'a Hotel, of this city, appears to be the headquarters of all political parties. Choice Floor? Through the courtesy of Capt Nonius we aTe in possession of a Saok of Extra Family Flour, kindly sent us by Mr. Jons G. ABLE. The Flour is very beautiful, and mokes delightful cake, bis cuit, Au. We are a thousand times obliged to you, Mr. ABLE, and will ever romember you, and your well-timed liberality, with emotions near akin to the love we cherish for those dearest to us on earth. Capt NORRIS accompanied the Flour with the following note, which wc take the liberty of pub lishing, inasmuch as it gives the location of Mr. ABLE'S Mills, and other particulars which may be of interest to those having Wheat to grind : Mn. EDITOR,-I herewith send you a sack of very superior Flour, Which I have been requested to torn over to the Advertiter Corps hy Mr. John G. Abie's the proprietor of the " Abie's Mills" in Lexington District Mr. Able has now in splendid working condition a first class Flouring Mill, and is daily returning to his customers a very fino article of Fionr, with a guod "tarn out." The " Ablo's Mills" make very readily from good wheat a yield of from forty-four to forty-five lbs. of Extra Family Flour to the bushel, and have made os high as forty-eight I tried some of Mr. Abie's Flour lost year, and havo again just had the pleasure of sampling some of the same kind that he sends yon, and in both instances I have found it to be'No. 1. The " Abie's Mills" are situated on Lightwood Creek, one mile above Quattlebaum's Mills, and about five miles East and South of Leesville. They receive tho undi vided attention of the Proprietor, who is thor oughly experienced in the business. A. J. NORRIS. I Graniteville Hotel. This beautiful and quiet little town now glories in a well-kept Hotel-a desideratum long felt in that place-under the able and acceptable man agement of Mr. NOAH CONLEY and his estimable lady. It was our pleasure to stop with Mr. C. a few days since and we were highly pleased with the neat and comfortable rooms, the well furnish ed table, and the very kind and oourteous atten tion extended by Mr. and Mrs. C. to the comfort of their guests. Persons having business in Gran iteville should by all means make it an object to sojourn whilst there at the Graniteville Hotel. Ice Cream. Albert Jackson and Philip Johnson, (known previous to May 1S65 as Albert Boulware and Phil. Hill) both noted for their orderly conduct and politeness, are running an Ice Cream Saloon -and are doing it to perfection. We were the delighted recipients, on Monday, of a large wai ter of Ice Cream from their Saloon-and none bettor was it ever our privilege to test They are disposing well-filled plates of this most excellent and pleasant compound at thc astonishing low price of fifteen cents a plate, or two plates for twenty-five cents. Give them a call. ? A Flan of Organization'. A 7ery simple and yet very, efficient plan of organization for the Conservatives of this State, is suggested by the Columbia Phoenix. It is this : 1.. When each district is folly organized with clubs at the court house, and in every convenient locality in. the district, let each club elect five delegaisfi! t?o-meet and form a District- Central Club, for the moro thorough organization of the whole district 2. Lot each District Central Club then elect one delegate-these delegates meeting and form ing a State Central Club, which meets os often as it may see fit. , - In this way the whole State may be thoroughly organized. The pion has this merit, that it will not interfere with present organization of the I Democratic Clubs throughout the State. A Campaign Paper. The Augusta Conetitutionalitt-a true Southern paper-and conducted in all its departments with ability of the first order-will be furnished to subscribers during the Presidential Campaign, from 1st July to 15th November, at very low rates, and we advise those who wish to keep part ed on all tho political a fairs of the day, to sub scribo at once. The Proprietors make the following announce ment : The Conetitutionalitt will be mailed to clubs of five, or more, from the first day of July to the fifteenth of November next, at the following rates : Daily.& 50 per copy. Tri-Weekly.,. 175 ?. Weekly,. 75 " The oanvass will undoubtedly be the fiercest and the results the most important of any that has taken place in this country, for the real issue is a Constitutional Form of Government or a Despotism, and every man should keop fully con versant with the great struggle. IfST- Note ii the Time to Form Club*. The rates aro put down so low that no pecunia ry profit can be realized, and those who want a sound and reliable Demooratio journal for the oampaign wonld do well to subscribe immediately to the Conttitutionalitt. See advertisement of Mrs. M, C. FULLMER. Her " Wsshing Compound" ls as represented. We have tested it-and would not be without the 1 Family Right" for ten times its cost Enclose $1 to Mrs. M. C. FULLMER, Frog Level, S. C., and we will warrant satisfaction. Col. J. P. THOMAS, has, we regret to-an nounce, retired from the political management of the Columbia Phoenix, which position he has most creditably filled for the last three months. Mr. SELBY, the Proprietor, will hereafter "run the machine" alone, and promises to " exert himself to'continuo the good name nf tho Ph cen ix," Suc cess attend his efforts. > On tho 30th, General Canby removed the Governors and Lieut Governors of North Caroli na and South Carolina, and appointed the newly elected officers in their stead to take effect on the meeting of the Legislature, and was done to facil itate the inauguration of the officers elect which takes place when the Howard amendment hos been ratified. - The Camden Prisoners (says (he Charles ton Mercury) arrested for supposed complicity with the Dill murder, it is now understood, will be tried before a jury of their peers in a civil court, and not by Military Commission. Thomas Williamson, one of the guards employed at the State Penitentiary at Columbia, was accidentally killed by a gun in the hands of comrade Thursday afternoon. ' In Mississippi forty-seven oat of sixty-one counties return a majority against the constitu tion of 13,906 ,* four of the remaining counties wil] return majorities for thc constitution. E5T Gold was quoted on the 3d, at New Tork at 40}. The New York cotton market was a shade firmer. Sales 1000 bales, at 32a32$o. At Liver pool cotton closed firm and unchanged. Sales 8000 bales ; uplands Hid. V. Young, Senator elect from Abbeville Distriot on the Radical ticket, deolir.es to serve os suoh, and says " I am no Radical, and have no sympathies with the party, but on contrary am a Democrat ia the strictest sense of tho term. A weak ship on the breakers is rather dangerous) and some people know it. ty The Editor of the Chronicle & Sentinel hag boen favoured with arness of fine Sweet Potatoes the first of the season. ?&- A Mississippi nowapnper thuB graphically describes the oratory of a political opponent : " He ranted, raved, fumigated and scala wagged, mongreled and kangarooded the Republican par ty, bat tooompuihed nothing." Por the Advertiser. Notice to Democratic Committees and Clabe. A meeting of the Central Democratic Committee is hereby ordered for IO o'clock Saturday, 18th Inst. * V . Members of the Sub-Committees, and Demo cratic Clubs of thc District, are hereby respect fully requested to bo present in the Court House on that day, as matters of importance wi?l'be brought before thea for full discussion. P. \y.PICKENS, Chairman of Central Committee. - For the Advertiser. As " RIDGEWOOD" remarks in your issue of the 24th, in regard to Edgefield Railroads, the ic i nd work has been repeatedly done ; yet without a certain amount of wind work the necessary ?team will not be generated. The first step to be taken is to get the people thinking seriously on the subject, and convince them that tho project is not only feasible, but will add directly or indi rectly to the comfort of themselves and neighbors. With doe deference to " RIDCKWOOD'S" views, I suggest he is in error in thinking the larger scheme kills the smi.ller one. That might be the case if it depended isolely on the small population residing on *he short road. One of the sugges tions made by the writer of this, was, if it wu found impracticable to push through the Aiken and Ninety-Six Ros.d at present, then the loca tion of the Edgefield Branch should have some referonce to tho ultimate completion of that Road, so as to benefit and be benefitted by iL But tho building c t the Aiken and Ninety-Six Road is not a work Of such stupendous magnitude as to render its cons tr action impossible, even under existing circumttancts. Should our country be blessed with propitious seasons the farmers of Edgefield will be next yoar in a condition to ren der some assistance. Could the people be aroused to a sense of the importance of the euterprize, a fair proportion of the Stock of tho Company might be subscribed inlands, materials and work. It rests with the people of Edgefield to take the initiative. Co-operation and i assistance might thon be expected-snd obtained from the various Railroad lines and Corporations' which would be benefitted. As stated in their former article, tho South Carolina, Greenville and Columbia, and Columbia and Hamburg Railroads, as well as the Port Royal Railroad, and the City of Charleston, are all deeply interested io the construction of this com paratively short link, which would connect ulti mately the teeming plains of the West with the Atlantic Coast. Apart from the assistance these Corporations could and wcold render direttly, their influence could be brought to bear on the Legislature of the State for additional aid, for this is no merely local euterprize, but one which will affect the interests of thousand*. Postponing action to a more favorable season, may loose us the influence of rome one or moro of these Cor porations. Now is the time to bid for their assis tance, and take the preliminary steps to secure their aid. Augusta is urging the construction of a Road from Athens, Ga., to Clayton, and if counteracting influences are not brought to bear, the Port Royal Road is likely to identify its in terest with thoso of the Georgia route. PROGRESS. For the Advertiser. " ' Pleasant Lane. Democratic Club. PLEASANT LANK, S'.C, ffiti June '68 lu pursuance to'a Call m ?'de ly thc surround ing citizens, a meeting wes -convened - this after noon, at 2 o'clock, for thc-pbrposo bf. organizing a Democratic Club. .?4<T??t? - The meeting was called to>?tder hy.LcKK C?L BREATH, Esq., wkereugon. -St^kN-LAK^ was elected ad Chairman 'w.itQ- J.'.-M*-. '"BJE.LL. and FELIX LAKE, Jr., acting Ee#re^r^.V %K#?: After some very ptrtixW^^mkijftom the Chairman, the followIt^^uKarr^^i^appointed to draft a Constitution -for^.tlrc' cfiib, to wit : P. Dorn, Dr. F. R. T i mm ons,' L. G. Holloway, S. C. Strom, Dr. R. C. Mayson, R. Timmerman and Dr. W. A. Culbreath. After retiring, the Committee reported the fol lowing, which vras unanimously subscribed to: ,JxLordor to aid in restoring Constitutional lib erty to the people and States of the United States, we, the undersigned, residents of Pleasant Lane, do hereby form ourselves into an association to be known as tho Democratic Club of Pleasant Lane. The object of the association shall be to co operate with the Democratic party of the State and United States, for tho purpoce of maintain ing the Constitution and Union, and preserving our Republican. Institutions, State and Federal, in their original purity, as handed down to us by our fathers. Article l?t-The Officors of this Ctab sbaJl con sist of a President, vice-President, Seoretary and Treasurer, to serve six months from this election. Art. 2nd-The President shall convene the Club upon the application of ten of its members which number shall constitute a quorum-and he may courene it at his own discretion whenever any exigency may roquire it. Art. 3rd, It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a record of the proceedings of the Club and to aot as Corresponding Secretary. Art. 4, The government of the States and United States being a white man's government, we, to maintain it in its original purity, as such, aro uncompromisingly opposed to negro suffrage un der any qualifications or restrictions whatover. Art. 5, To arrest the degradation and humilia tion imposed upon us by Radical rule, we do mu tually pledge ourselves to give employment to no porsons who in future persist in voting the Radical Ticket. Art. fi, Any male person, twenty years of age, may become a member of this Club by signing this Constitution. Art. 7, This Club shall hold its regular meet ings onco in every month. Art. 8, This Constitution may be amended by a vote of two-thirds of its member* present, vo ting after two consecutive meetings/ (Fifty-Seven signatures.) After the reading of the Constitution LUKE CDLBBEATU, Esq., addressed the meeting at sumo length, heartily approving and urging its adop tion. On motion, a committee consisting of G. S. McNeil, R. Timmerman, J. A. Nicholson, G. W. Burton and Jas. T. Adams, were appointed to nominate Officers for the Club. The following nomination was approved : Dr. JOHN LAKE, President L?KE CULBBEATII, vice-President. J. M. BELL, Secretary. L. G. HOLLOWAY, Treasurer. Moved that these proceedings be sent to the Advertiser for publication-. There being no further business, the Club ad orned. JOHN LAKE, Chairman. JgT General Sherman has adopted the son of the late Kit Carson, and will provide for his edu cation at Notre Darno University, Indiana. Hi*- Tho Columbus prisoners, charged with the murder of Ashburn, are now being tried be fore a military commission in Atlanta. The trill commenced on the 30th, and is expected to be long and tedious. Two of the prisoners have turned S tito's evidenoe against their companions. One of them named Marshall has been examined and his testimony will go hard against the prisoners. The other infermer is named Bots, a oitisen of Columbus. Sr- Tho Galveston Bulletin notices the arrival of immigrants at that port, by the bark Weser. They are mostly from Bohemia. Part como pre pared to buy lands and begin a career as inde pendent farmers. Others ?ill seek paying em ployment, and in good time will also possess their share of good lands. They are all hardy, tem perate and intelligent. They come from a land where the law oompels every parent to send bis children to school. They are the. people, there fore, who make their " mark" with the shovel and tho hoe. 9- Rev. Mr. Craig, who seduced Miss Mc Clellan, at Peoria, 111., resulting in her death, a few weeks since, has committed suicide at El PAM. The State prison it chested of ? victim. Number V. Closing the Free Slave Trade soon caused i propeTty slave in the fertile sad genial South, t be worth as much as six or eight horses or mulei or rather ns much as six or eight* Free Trad Slaves useci to be 'worth;../This /induced th Northern people to sell their Africans to the Soutl and to import cheaper white labor from al row It also caused the South to reduce the broe din of Africans to a science. This greatly iuorease value of the Slave likowiso soou taught his mast? not only to treat him tenderly; but to guard hil jealously, as ho hod legs. The poor native whi*? here, as well as poor white men from the Norit and from Europe, either wanted land in tho Soutl or employment at good' wages in our delightft climate, but could get neither on account of th competition of negro labor, and the monopoly c land by the ?lave owners. It was not long there fore before these poor whites began ta wai Sambo out of the way, and often instructed a well os persuaded him to use his legs. As whit population continued to multiply, these same poe white men, to get land, or employment themselvei made, open var with constantly increasing bit terneesoath; very institution of Slavery.. Ib i caused tho slave owners not only to repel poo white laborers from abroad, but to expel, pao white men from the South, or to drive them ii colonies as it were' to the thin lands of the South The nat?viti?t bf population ic the United'Statei os-disclosed'by the lost Federal'Censer, beor wit ness to this fact Before the war South Cnroli 'niant wera accustomed to think that the fltate-wa being overrun by Yankees, and that our cativ whites were too well pleased with slavery, am too strongly opposed to the abolitionists to aeitl among them, yet in 1360, there were Natives of South Carolina in Free States am Territories, ! ' 10.65?. Natives of Freo States and Territories in Senti Carolina, 2.297. Even in the wild Territories of the North-West beyond Karisa*, our State had 215 native repre eontatives in 1850, of whom 37 were revelling ii . the beastly rites of Utah. What aggravated still more the jealousy of th? slave owner,- and the hostility to sk very pf th? poor white man in th? South, at the North and it Europe, was the second fatal policy of tUe South ern people, not to develope any ind jf try but agri culture, and to avoid manufacturing; mining ont commercial pursuits, because they would bege towns, and introduce poor whites, who it wai thought would demoralise thc slaves, ?ad ander mine the institution of slavery itself.-.-The mott? of our local statesmen was, " Ko Home Industry but Agriculture with Free Trade in the work shops, and markets of the world." They forgo that the white poor here and el; where had to Ii vi lomehow. With the cessation of the Free Slave Trade, thi only policy by which slavery could have lon j been maintained, would hare been in the Soutl diversifying her industry, to give employment U ail poor native whites, and to such as might chops? to corno hither from the North, or from .abroad Iusteod of this, all our surplus capital was investee in more negroes from the border Slave States, t< erbaust more land, to make more staples, to buy more negroes, to expel mort poor native whites and to repel more foreign w hites. This was fbi short circle, or rather tread, in whioh the South ' mored to work out her own destruction. Whili the surplus capital of the South thoa went to build up Factories, Ships, Rail Roads, Banks, Palocei aud Cities at tho.North, oswell as?to invite ene mies to Slavery in poor white' laborers from Eu rope, tho self murdering South kept nothing ti show but galls and gallie;, ?s most of her fixed capital was nailed up'in a co mr once every thirty three years, and buried'in the old fields. It i obvious that the Whigs were right in-seeking ti diversify Southern industry, tiace, if Mantrfoe turing, Mining, Ship-Building, and the like, hal been developed here, in all probability slaven would not have been abolished in the Unite? States for several generations to come, and thi Southern people would not note be so pc or e vc t with slavery abolished. As our ancestors wen blind in closing the Free Slave Trade, so theil children have been equally blind In developinj no industry but agriculture. Tho great void ia the Labor market of th? United States, created by closing the Free Slav? Trade, and by sending all the surplus capital o ? the South, Northward to develop* new industriel for white labor there, caused millions upon mil iions of Europeans to pour into the Northen United States, until the stream of white popula tion"having crossed :he Continent, terned- Sooth ward, when it was checked for? time by the bor der Slavo States. This temporary check onlj served to increase the jealousy of the slave owners and to intensify the hostility of tao swelling mas pe* at the North, until finally it cut minuted ;u a war, which h*s ended in the abolition of slavery (which was inevitable sooner or later) not for thc good of tho negro, but for his destruction, tc make room for thu white man, and the Northern masses do not intend to be cheated out of th? fresh elbow roum whioh they have acquired in this friendly climate and prolific soil. Th? senti mental fools, and the designing knaves who want office, moy prate as much as they please about the nigger being a "man and brother,"-about th? Inalienable rights', of humanity-about all men being born free and equal, and about negro suf frage, bat the masses-the sensible abolitionists, have no idea of admitting the negro into the ranks of the governing ol?ss. All. colored men belong only to the governed class in white society, and it is tho settled policy of that society lo so govern them that they may be happier out of the world than in it All practical fu'ure agitation about the nigger in American politios, wiU be bow .best to get rid of him, not how best to make "a man and bro th or" out of bim. As long os Qtuuhee was property, worth a monopoly price by the Free Slave Trade being closed, his master was under bond not only to treat bim weU, but make others do it. That shield having been broken, every white American now, except the sentimentalists at the North, and many of their old masters at the South, will prove an Ishmaelite to the colored gentleman. The right of qualified or absoluto suffrage has been given to a handful of negroes in a few States ot the-Nortb, but it was not done fr >in sentiment, or principle, but only from policy, os part of the electioneering machinery to abolish slavery et the South. The negroes were put into the army for the same purpose, and not to fight, os it is well established that Sambo can stand neither steel nor lead. It was pretended to make a soldier of him only to undermine and dobauch the institution of Slavery. The Southern whites mode Such a stub, bi rn and heroic defence of Slavery that the Northern mssaes bad fears for several months, af. ter the war, that the South might attempt to re store it This is the reason why the poor deluded freedmen have boan pattiod on the book by oven sensible and practical abolitionists. Bat now that . all fears of slavery being re-established have been dispelled,-now that the.iustitutiou has been for ever abolished, within the United States, accord ing to tho forms1 of law, tho negro will speedily disappear from the political stage. Negro Slavery hung over the South like a black storm cloud which had to discharge itself in a convulsion at some time. The worst of the convulsion has pas sed, and the political heavens"will ere long get serene. Let ns be thankful that the Sooth no longer has the white race ef the whole-world banded against ber. Let ns smile, rather than -Crown, at the antics of Gumbo in strutting his brief hour around his conquered old master, whose only crime was too mach humanity to the African, in giving four millions of them employ, mont to the excluiion ofthat many white laborers. Wo got well whipped for it, and as the Rndicel leaders arti trying to exhibit still atore hrjuanity to Cuffee by attempting to make a white-man of him, they will get even stilt worse whipped at the ballot box, and if necessary at the cartridge box. -When Seward-that greatest mind but basest heart'in America-said that thorc is.an "irrepres sible con fl i : t" between free and sieve. labor, he only told part of the truth, and os usual, with bia consummate skill, ho did not say hat/ whitt he meant. Ho intended to say that there is an irre pressible conflict between the white race and all the colorad races, not onlj OB to labor, but TABQ OM to .land, as. to political, .powe^.and even as to the right to lire. He would not tay thia because the ie nt imenial white human i tar i an s would hare been shocked, and because he wished to ne the South ern negroes as instruments to accomplish their own dostruetion-and (hey bare bee? thus used. All the wise negroes who desire real political and social equality in the State, ought promptly to uko advantage of the liberality of the private sentimentalists and Congressional knaves to get a passage to Liberia. By. waiting too long the ardor and money of these fellows will grow ema! jr by degrees and uglier less. Eren in Africa, Sambo will not likely be allowed to remain in peace for any great while, on account of the startling in crease of the ubiquitous white man, and from a climatic cause, which will be explained after first stating how a climatic cauie eame to fcavc much to do with abolishing slavery in the South, and why the same cause will prevents negro suffrage from being established here. The dettrpction of ne gio Bravery/ja^e JJnited Sutes, -nu der the molt fi.vorable circa matan e ey was only a question of time. The trat normal movement of a dense population in the temperate regions is toward a similar climate either in aa Eastern or Western direction, or to high table lands southward, al climate depends as much on elevation as on latitude. After ail accessible temperate: climates have been occupied, the second normal movement of a dense population is toward its natural grate-the tropics-whare human life ia short and unprolific-where hat little.foot, fael, ?helter, or clothing is mwes'sary-where, as vegetation is a perennial jungle, and os every other1 tree hal somethrXf-good to ?et, maa need hare no care for subsistence, hut may indulge his passions withont/ stint,-?hif* wind seither has the native power, nor feels th? necessity to exert itself, where premature decay, idlens.v, vice, war and pestilence reign so supreme that a g ray haired .moa .. ilmost esteemed a wizanL . All intelligent mon therefore opproaoh the tropics wi'.h-great re luctance, in search of a permanent heme. Before the war it WAS generally tlWgutat the Norththat most of the Slave States,.and especial? iy'th'e CottorStatos;WtteTratortl-kboeXmMa or tis, d i'soaVe and death'to tle hWiilg white man. It was the former prevalence of th .'. leiisf, North of Mason t Dixon's linc,' that* somewha^ieeoD eiled the,Northern nuises, to a sullen tolera ti or. of slavery in the States, where it was establUhei ; but experience bas Jemonstrated^tbat, faning cli mate, health, soil, and Variety of produetions Into consideration, perhaps the bestepW?? the ?Nerth 'American Contlt??nVin* wbioh for a whfto'n?a? to make his home and better his condition by hil own kb or, is in these Cotton States.' During the war the million of men in "the Federal Arm j bed ample opportunity to ase er tads. ail thats feat?. Contrary to all expectations, etan of Souhoroer^ both the Federal and Confederate armies camped ' and slept on the naked ground often, in tact? usu ally with no canopy but beaven, and with perfect impunity, in all sorts of weather,'both lbj day and by night, ?ai all seasons of the year, o vet is the rice fields of Carolina, or in the sugar aw.vmpe of Laosiana; The moment this salubrity of the Southern elimata became known io tho hr dy Teutons of the Federal 'Arm/' (for the bulk of that army were either Germans or Irish, not Yan kees,) that moment the fa to cf slavery and of the llave was sealed; Those soldiers determined so longer to permit tie negro,' with an indefinite prospective increase of his race, in a state of sla very, to comber, the ground in such a country, to tho e'r eic ?ion of the'white'man ; and these ro tara ed soldiers are the voters who hare bf en giring such heavy majorities against the Radicals of late, and they ?re.the' won who will commxrod'their former Commanded in ?be next Presidential elec tion. For .perhaps-., wo year? after th? commence ment of the war, most of the Federal soldiers were- strcnglyopposcd to the abolition of slavery, but for months before -tha'-end of the wn?? and mostly from th? cause just indicated, that army were almost unanimously in favor-of destroying the institution. Therefore, at the close of hostil ities, President Johnson knew tknt it was idle for him to try to redeem the pledges he had given at .* a Sonator in regard to Biavery^ ard he bail been most foolishly, as well as unjustly abused for net essaying to make good those pledges.' Since the South formally abolished slavery, tt c President has stood hy her with sm honesty, ability, courage and fortitude that entitle him to our gratitude, not to our denunciations. The only thing'for which no patriot, either North, South. East or Weit, canf will, or ought ever to forget or forgive in tho President, was the introduction into American politics, in time nf perte, both' the fact and name of that omin?os Mexican institution, "Provision al Government ;"'but doubtless ho was inspired to do it by his evil genxus-TSeward." "* La tieri y 4 ni tu ns great a cb ange hal come o vor thc opinion of Europeans, ia regard to the cli mate uf.middlo Africa, as has taken place in the minds.of the Northern" people in reference to the climate nf the Sooth.' "T^ro'erry^ Equatorial''SLf rica was believed to here tho worst climate ia the world, and to be the most fatal to the white man. This is n ow considered true only cf a strip lion g . the Western Coast, as nearly ail the great unex plored regions of Central and Eastern Africa have recently been discovered tobe high table lands of fertile soil, with an equable aniLxivther good olimate, quite as desirable t's several ol' the climates in which some families of the white race are now doing welL Livingston, and a nut ?her of late Missionary travellers, nave establiihed these tacts. Since tb? commencement of the Modern Crusade-, every thing concerning the col ored man is done for the sake 'of religion, mo rali ty, humanity. England has taken the lon 1 in this* sacred work of sending religio tu Miisk^ariee in every direction, at the expanse of lac public treasury, to report on soils arid climates, and to suggest how betti? send tho heathen to Heaver., or somewhere, so the white man can got bis land. Cortes and Pizaro conquered both Mexico -and and Peru for the good of Religion. ' One God and morality saints of Now England have also eent the Indian to his long borne, and then brought the negro here, through piou* motives. It was likewise devotion to humanity which sada them latoly lore the Southern slave so dearly. Napier tod bas jost knocked Klng'Theodore oa-the bead for the sake of humanity-to release a few con temptible criminals, or Missionary spies from prison.-Bah ! To make cotton on the land of Aby sin ia, tri th the labor of itsmongrel owners as stares, or rather Apprentices, I believe Ur.? Phi lanthropic English cali them now, which msani a colored u-.an apprenticed to a white man, not to learn '-ow to live, but how to die, by hard work and cruel treatment. England's great Colo ny of white men in Southern Africa li fast push ing the negro toward the Sahara Desert, like the Americans hare driven the Indiana toward the Rocky mountains, and now that the bu made a lodgment in Eastern Africa,-now that her de vout Missionaries report so favorably, on mos : of the un ti I recently unexplored African soil and climate-let the negro even in his ancestral home, which wan long thought to be impregnably forti fied by nature against the white man, prepare to seek peace in oblivion, for he may not be permit ted to enjoy it long even fat'Africa. The. negro govern any portion of the United States indeed? The practical Abolitionists of the North'have abolished slavery, and it is now their purpose to drive the negro .(rota tbta.eoun try in order to secure lo themselves the rich fields of tho Sunny South. Bat they will never be guilty of the absurdity .-of enfranchising four mtlliont of illiterate blacks-tho lowest type of maa*-to go???, or assist in governing thirty four millions of white Americans. The Caucas liam of this Uuioa, whose pois? is seid to beat nearly two strokes faster than that of any, people in the worid, and in whose vein3 commingle the fiery blood of the best fighting stock on earth, will never brook auch an insult to their manhood, even from ? world in arms. I will now close these papers, leaving un too ch ed the many other causes which aro demolishing the Radical Party,-believing I hove shown that the permanent establishment of negro salb age in the South in. nn na tu ral an i impoulbl?, -lt at the Radical Party ii doomed,-that too much South ern humanity to the negro asada, the Radical party, and'too touch Radical .humanity to tlio ne gro will destroy the Radical iarty. . ',~ -jTfititeifeur. li . K jj * ?**V&Z 'Q. j !.."??'i - 'Ova