Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, July 29, 1868, Image 1

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Advertisements will be inserted at tho rate of ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS per Square (IO Minion lines or less,) for tho first insertion, and ONE DOLLAR for each subsequent insertion. PS" A liberal discount win be niado to these wishing to advertise by the year. Announcing Candidates $j,00, in advance. ESTABLISHED 1?02. CHARLESTON- COURIER, DAILY AND TRI-WEEKLY, BY A. S. WILLINGTON & CO. Daily Paper, 88.00 per Annum. Tri-Weckly Paper, 84.00 per Annum. -o THE COURIER has entered on the sixty sixth year of its publication. During this long period of its existence, despite the mutations of fortuno and time, it has been liberally sup ported, whilst many of its contemporaries have beon compelled to succumb to financial necessities. We gratefully rocord this evidence of tho appre ciation of our own, and tho efforts of our prede cessors, to mako it what it ii, nnd always has been, ONE AMONG- THE LEADING COM MERCIAL AND NEWS JOURNALS OF THE SOUTH, and will ronew our exertions to add to ks acceptability to the public, as well as to place it easily within tho reach of all who desire a FIRST CLASS CHEAP PAPER. In furtherance of this purpose wo- now issue the Daily and Tri. Weekly Courier to our Sub scribers, at tho rate of eight and four dollars por annum respectively. Our purpose'is to furnish a first class paper upon the most reasonable living prices. Charleston, Jan 20 tf 4 The (ireat Popular Paper! THE ?iRlirilili? SEWS. 4 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE . Six Dollars a Year ? The Charleston Tri-Weckly News, THREE DOLLARS A YEAR-TWO DOL LARS FOR SIX MONTHS ! TERMS, CASH IN ADVANCE ! To Paper sent unless the Cusin accompa nies thc order. SS^No Paper sont for a longer ttme.tban paid for. RIORDAN, DAWSON & CO., PROPRIETORS. Charleston, Dec 23 Stoi 1868 ? -0 THE SOUTHERN FAVORITE. BURKE'S WEEKLY FOR BOYS,AND GIRLS. . . -s Beautifully Illustrated, and Ele gantly Printed. Pronouaccd by thc Southern press to he thc mst, elegant and talented young people's paper printed in this eouatry ! We ace .now publishing 2Jaroon*r'* Inland, a Sequel to the Young Marooner*, and -hick Dobell, or a Doy'-? Adventure* in Texa*, by one of Fan nrn's men-prononnced equal to tho ftV*< of j M'iync lU'id'i stories." We shall begin, in thc first number of ISt?S, a thrilling ?ton-, by a lady of Virginia, entitled " ELLUS IIUXTER: A Title af the H'ar," which will run for several months. Among the regular contributor* to BURKE'S j WEEKLY are Rev. F. R. GOULDI.NG, author of j "The Young Marooner's;" Mr?, JAKE T. H. CROSS : Mrs. Fortn, of Rome, Qa. ; Miss MARY J. Ut*9HCR, of No'rfolk, Va , and many others. TMMS-S2 a year in advance; Tbreo copios for $5 ; Fi vu copier for $S ; Ten copies for $13, and Twenty-one copies for $30. Clergymen and Teachers ?urnishod at $1 50 per annum. The volume begins with thc July number. JBack numbers can be supplied from the ficst, and all yearly subscribers may receive tho num bers for'tho first ?z months, stitched in an elcgan' illummated cover. Address, J. W. BURKE k CO., I'libltihcrt, Macon, Ga. J5ec ?? tr 52 Subscriptions received at the Adccrtiicr Office for BURKE'S WEEKLY. UmVEBSALIS? HERALD, N0TASUXGA, ALA. JOH S C. BURRUSS. Editer k Proprietor. Terms, S'2,00 per Year in Advance. THIS PAPER has entered upon UK 16th Vol 1111)., It is the Orgau of tho Universalist denotain?tioa in tho South ?nd Southwest. Try it a year. Wfon?y can he sent by mail, at tho risk of the editor. Feb 24 I?? 9 INSURANCE AGENCY. ?^ARTIES wishing to Insuro their DWEL LINGS. GOODS, Ac, can do so on thc lowest terms, and io thc B^ST COMPANIES, by etil ?ng on the Undersigned. D. R. DURISOE, i A -eat for A. G. HALL'S Insurance Agency ; Jan J ^ PLANTERS' BOTdSL. AUGUSTA, GA. Newly Furu?shc?l and Refitted, Unsurpassed by ?nj Hotel South, Wa* P.oopened to the P*i;ii? Oct. 8,1S66. T. S. ?ICKERSON, Proprietor. Jan. T. tf 1 Estate Notice. AXL portons hav?nt: daims af?*?nst thc Estate b of W.H. MIDDLETON, dee'e! , arc notified to present tho i"une to the undersigned witiinat detay, and those tadabted to said Estate are re quested to pay up forthwith. J. T. MIDDLETON, Adro'or Oct. 9, IR" *1v 41 Fair Warning. 1FOREWARN all Pornon* from Selling DR. J. J. MCBRIDE'S KING OF PAIN, unlesa -said persona are duly authorised by myself, as I am tho Sole. Agent for the Sale of said Medicines ?SOT tho District of Edgefield. Merchant? supplied at Wholesale prices. V L. C. McNEARY, Agent. frog Ley*l, Newberry Dist, g. 0. ?pro *?* 16 _? The Meeting. I met her in tho quiet laue One Sabbath morning early ; The sun was bright, although tho rain Still glittered on thc barley. The lark was kinging to his mate, The wild bells chimed their warning, We paused awhile outsido the gate ; We lingered till it was too late To go to church that^norning. Again wc met. The whispering leaves Glanced nigh in sight and shadow : The reapers piled tho yellow sheaves ; Tho bec? hummed o'er tho meadow. Thc royal sun rose up in state, Our marriago day adorning ; Tho bells rang out ; wide stood tho gate, And neither of us was too late To go to church that morning. ? ? ? ? Noblemen. The noblest men I know on earrb, Arc men whoso hands are brown with foil Who backed by no ancestral graves, Hew down, tho woods and till the soil, And win thereby a prouder fame Than follows king or warrior's name. Tho working men, whate'er their task, To carve the stone or bear the hod They woar upon their honest brows The royal stamp and seal of God ! And brighter arc tho drops of sweat Than diamonds in a coronet ! God bless thc noble wor' tug men, Who rear thc cities of the plain, Who dig tho mines and build thc ships, And drive the commerce of the main. God bless them ! for thtir swarthy baud; Have wrought the glory of our lands. -^-- ? ? ? Speech of Thos. A. Floyd, Esq. OF NEWBERRY, DKFORE THE PINE PLEASANT DEMOCRATIC CLUB, On thc hth July, lS'JS. MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: must congratulate your noble old District i the high ground she lately took, and ten ciously adhered to, in reference to one of ti most vital and dearest priuciplcs, at stake the issues of our day. If I were going to raise my feeble voice some of the people of our Di.s:ric% I migi introduce my remarks by a personified aue dote I once read, which ran somewhat r follows: Once upon a time. Water and 0 git into a broil; Soda, lauding near, ove heard the embroilment and slopped in b tween them. . The ?esultwas the toimatic of soap, wj.ieh mule a good substance t purge out the (??tu and ditt from all jbji ct, Application,-We as a peopb are struggtin with evil, li!;hy elements, and I am sorry t siy some c!" our people arc getting rathe dirty a:id smutty. Instead ol soda, the intel vention ol light is needed to make anotb'e kind of toap to purge, wash, and cleanse thu uiiiids and a>..\:f? . . Mr. Chairman, the criti.'sally serious situa tion under which we labor as a people, ant the calamities and misfortunes which beset us have brought with them problems that I fee! would lake abler brains than mine to grap plc with and haudle properly. However, ac cording to my reflections on our situation, the; resolve it more into the grand, and lo us ni less vital, problem of Ethnology than that o' Politics. To make the term plain lo my hearers Ethnology is a word from the Greek language derived from ctluios-race, and loyos-de fcription ; treating of the different races o men, their distinctness from each other, ant their comparative merits, physically ant mentally. According to my knowledge of this science the ablest ethnologists claim that at presen lhere exist three distinct races of men, tbt Caucasian, the Indian and the Negro. Some of the natural sciences, especially Geolog) and Historical Relics, haye developed th< fact that other races hare existed and pass?e away, probably before the existence ol' tht present races. I feel satisfied that the old anc trite doctrine of thc unity of the races is ex ploded. Twenty years hence this idea wil not be entertained, I am a believer in the plurality of the races: I believe the Indian and the Negro were ere ated before Adam and arepn-.ldauiite races. Ev* ry race which God created, he placed hec to fulfill its own peculiar mission. As to the II ?S?ion of those obsolete races, we might speculate upon it, but it is sufficient for us tc know God had a purpose tn creating them, and that purpose is with Him. When that purpose was fulfilled He saw proper to remove i hem and create others. As to the mission of the Negro, le is here ; bis history, so fur as known to the Caucasian, can speak for itself. In his native land his condition is gross mental darkness, depravity and heathenism ; there he lives on scanty patches, spontaneous fruits ol' the earth, : ni vyj?d game. This has been his condition there since the dawn of his history; but here in the Western Hemisphere, especially in tL'> Southern States, under (he government, imme diate command, compulsion, and management of the White Man, he has been strained to a somewhat higher status. He WJ-.S made to produce in abundance thc great staples Cot ton, Tobacco, Rice and Sugar, which clothed, fed and luxuriated the world, and poured wealth into the laps of the Caucasian ; which wealth served as a means and a medium to mature discoveries, develop indentions, and increase get.orally the grand mai ch of civili zition. Rut this inisikn ol'tho Ne^io is now euded, and I confide it to* time, the touch stone of truth, to tell the tale of his melan choly future. As to the status of thc Indian, it is some what similar to thai of the Negro in his na tive wilds, subsisting by scanty patches, spontaneous fruits and wild game ; but the lud?an is superior .to tba Negro in mental ap titude and thrift, and as a wai rior. A ro mantic race, his mission apparently was to supply the bold Caucasian adventurer the food of bis scanty hospitality, and to attract and stimulaie his aasrebes after valuable furs and precious minerals and mettle. But when the ailwiso .iud beneficint Crea tor, in his own due tin.e. saw fit to illumine the earth with civilization, He also saw lit to eluate a race of superior organism, texture, and capacity of brain, as a medium through which to accomplish this purpose. When He Baw fit to adorn the earth with tb? bright lastre of science; when He saw flt to beitow - ..j...., i... mngai..? .??????nrrrrrmi iw II II on earth a lustre of still brighter effulgent the revelation of bis own divine will, Ile ci atcd Adam. He added Adam to nature ; A am the great federal head of the Caucasi race. We need but trace history, to become co vinced of this. Every step in the grand mar of civilization has come through the brain the Caucasian. Egypt, the cradle ot scienc colonized Phoenicia; and Phoenicians i vented and launched the first small barks i thc turbulent waves of thc Mediterranean, exchange thc products of one clime for tho of another. And this was the beginuing commerce. Cadmus, a Phoenician, introduci sixteen letters of the alphabet into Greec< and this was the beginning of literatui Gioga invented the Mariner's Compass whit guided the Caucasian in sail vessels- over tl wide waves of the Atlantic and Pacific. Ga lileo invented the mechanism of the clock, 1 compute tho hours of day and night; an the Telescope, to scan the planets of spac to compute their size, distance and motio Sliwartrz invented Gun-Powder, which i many respects places the weak individual c a footing with Ute strong. Gutteoberg, Shoe fer and Faust invented the Printing Pres thc car of intelligence for thc diffusion < knowledge. Hall invented the Steam Engirt' which propells wheel carriage? on our Kai ways and vessels on our water?. Fulton ar plied it to Steamboats to navigate our grea rivers. Whitney invented the Cotton Gin t prepare the lint to clothe the world. Mors invented the Telegraph by which we cai stand ott one spat of tue globo and convers with our antipodes. Sir Isaac Newton discov ercd thc laws of gravitation, steam and light Galvani, the laws of galvanism ; Harvey, th circ ulation o? the blood ; Gall and Spurzheim the system of phrenology ; Franklin, the con trol of tte lightnings of tho heavens. Every great Artist the world ever produced every groat Naturalist, every great Physi cian, Metaphvsican, Poet, Historian, Orator Statesman or Law Giver, Military Genius Theologian or Divine,-all, all, were Cauca sian. Noah. Abraham, Moses, Solomon, Da viii, Christ, his Apostles. Luther, Mclancthot and Calvin.-the direct vehicle of revelation (that Polar Star of the heavens, which guides the great ?hip of civilizUioa as it passes ?ts brilliant path over the waves of time to iL? great and glorious destiny) the-c too were Caucasians. Mr. Chairman, is it not an axiom, a self evident lt util, that the mission of this noble Caucasian race is peculiarly brilliant and. pre eminent ? Superiority ! Superiority ! It is it.s heritage ot Leaven ! It is its inalienable right of God ! Th". nhiloRonhv nf history will nl?r> an.9tai? (bis great truth beyond contradiction, lo wit. Wherever two distinct races, a superior and an inferior, are brought to dwell in contact, one of four results will follow cs a natural consequence under the operation of natural laws. First, The inferior will become sub soivient to thc superior. Second. If not tb??, the superior. . Third!*-, If not cither of these two, the inferior, by overwhelming numbers, bruto force and lawlessness, will exterminate or expatriate the superior. Fourthly, If not either of these three, it will bo because the superior has become so corrupt, dppraved and degraded as Yo tfm-ilgarrmte with the inferior, nore then is mongrelism ; where the blood of two distinct races, coursing through thc same arteries and veins, aro antagonistic elements, warring with each other, and resulting in a malformation or defective brain,-the pre pared seat of aH unbalanced mind, the want of the capacity of self-government in the in dividual. An aggregation of such individu als, form just such a similar society. Society is always properly the creator of government. Government is always properly the creature of society. The chip will always partake o'f the property of the block ; the offspring will always inherit more or less the quality of the parent. If society hr; corrupt, degraded and rotten, thc government emanating of it will also be corrupt, degraded and rotten, and will crumble and topple to extinction, entailing the 3atne awful doom on the. society from which it sprang. W,e need only trace the history of America for examples of this mo mentous truth. The slaves of America were examples of the first instance ; the Indians bf America arc examples of the second ; San Domingo is an illustration of the third; Mex ico and many of the South American States arc this day living examples of the fourth. Mongrelism may be aptly illustrated by a dozen of army caterpillars cooped in a jar; tba strongest will devour the weakest, and then thc strongest will bc metamorphosed ifrto an ephemeral fl)", will dwindle, languish and expire. Mr. Chairman, the logic of facts makes the conclusion inevitable that the great cause of the Democratic.party is the cause of civiliza tion-is the cause of Christianity and Civil Liberty. She hus unfurled her colors; she is maishaliing her invincible legions on tho great moral field lo subdue and crush thehid eous demon mongrelii-m. Mongrelism did I svy ? Yes ! that hideous demon, begotten of hill-parent of vice and ignorance ! When ever vice and ignorance fasten their demon piutch, and holds their sable iron grip of us cendency, government corrupts, degrades and rots ; 80jiety languishes to extinction, through all the spasmodic agonies ol earthly woes. But whenever virtue and intelligence, badge companions of a pure Caucasian caste, hover and brood their gentle, lovely-their Heaven born wings.-?iud hold the glittering, golden grip of ascendency, then will be perpetuated a humane, equitable, and a wire government; a happy, prosperous and noble people. SHELDON'S NOTIONS or MORAL HONEST*. They that cry down moral honesty, cry down that which is a great par? of religion-sdv duty towards God, aud my duty towards man. What care I to see a man run after a sermon j if he cozen and cheat, as soon as he comes home? On the other side, morality must not be without religion; for, if so, it may chaDge, as I seo convenient. Religion must govern it. He that has not religion to govern his morality is not a drachm better than my mastiff dog ; so long as you coax and ' please : him, he will play with you as fine os may be ; i he is a very good moral mastiff ; but, if you hurt him, ne will fly into your face and tsar out your throat I Another Letter from Texas. .?r> Written for the Advertiser. EUTAW, Limestone Co., Texas, July ] Otb, 18G8. ME. EDITOR,-Since the publication of my., letter to Ex-Gov. Bonham in the Advertiser, some mouths ago, I have received several communications from certain good people of South Carolina, who wish to know if they can get employment here; what prices are paid for labor ; which is beat, to labor on the farm, or herd and drive stock ; &c, &c. I bave concluded to write you a short letter for publication, and thereby answer all their i' - Lerogatories. Those who wish to labor on the (arm will riot find auy difficulty in getting employment aere. There is always a demand for laborers, and youDg men from the old States are pre ferred to the citizens of this State, as they have more energy, industry and perseverance than those who have been here sometime. It is.said that persons coming here, soon j becomo lazy and 'indolent, and will not work !ike those fresh from ide old States. The people here usually furm or shares, and very ieldom employ hands by tuc year for staled ?vage3. I know of some few bands being cm ployedjit from $12.00 to $15.00 per month ipecie-provisions furnished ; but those who ?rnvon shares usually average more than tbi?. ?. good hand can cultivate here from 20 to iO acres of land, and generally realizes a handsome prolit on his labor. I know white nen here who have cultivated 40 acres, but .hey had a-=si.-.tur.cc in gathering in their :rops. . This loose sandy soil docs not requiro tie ?vorlc of the red bfla of Soulh Carolina, and the farmers seldom give their corn more than me or two good plowings. If tbe seasons' ire favorable a man can mak? in this country/ nore than bc ca:i gather. During the cotton-! ricking season, a good band can earn splendid] vages. Last year a short crop was made j rere, on account of the caterpillar ; and cot-; on was then selling at a low price. Yet the, armers paid from 75cts to ?1.00, specie, perj 100 lbs., for picking cotton, and furnished nj it ns besides. Those who are willing to work ian make more money he-re than in South karolina, and this fall will be a favourable ime for you to come hither. But if you do not wish to work, and that lard too, I would advi?e fba to romain where rou ure: this is no place for enjoyment, and none.y will nut How into your pockets voluu arily. IC you corre here during thc fall, you viii liuve tu ridk your health for the benefit >f your pur--e : though, this vicinity has not ieeu very sickly during the present year. If 'ou have resided in a malarious country eeo not be afraid to come to Texn?>. I won hi not advise any young man to herd ir drive Mock, as this business is usually All owed by men who are too lazy and trifling 0 work ; and the associations would be anv iling but pleasant or agreeable to persons of my refinement. Thc company you would jeep would, be calculate 1 to lead you into )rofanity, intoxication, &c. Slock men some iiiica pay their hands very fair wages, but jersons coming here from thc old States could lot get the pay of old, experienced hands at ;he business. And now, Mr. Editor, after a few words as A3 the crop3, prospects for the future, icc, I >vill close. Wo have beeu blessed this year with splen iid rains and favorable seasons, and the crops ire very fine. Forward corn is already made, md tbe recent rains will be suffioienr. to make the most o? that which is Pf ter. Wc cen aow calculate with all safety upon cn abnn Jant harvest of ecru. The farmers on tbe Brazos have planted largely in corn this year [as they cannot rely on the freedmen to gath jr a big crop of'.cotton,) and I understand their corn was never bettor; Cotton too is loing splendidly and with favorable circum stances, promises an abundant vicki. It is aow maturing very fast, and I understand is beginning to open below herc on thc Brazos. [ expect there is more cotton planted in thi? portion of the State, and in Northern Texas, than ever before. Tbe wheat crop of Texas is almost a complete failure. The grasshoppers last fall and this spring, together with the ex treme cold weather and the rust, almost com pletely destroyed it. I learn that most of the farmers expect to get their'secd wheat for sowing from the East. If we succeed in makiDg a good crop of coru and colton herc this year, this State will again bo in an easy condition ?utncially. . . 1 am not posted in politics, aud you, per haps, know more of the proceedings of the Convention of this State than I. Politics are never discussed here, and the people seem to take no interest in the matter. I would be glad to see my friends from thc old Slates here. Come on ! " Nnff said." , Yours, Truly, B. F. O UZ I'S. BARBARISM.-Henry Means, a colo.ed mitti, died in this city on Thursday night, and be cause he voted the Conservative ticket his color refused to assist at the burial. This fact coming to the ears of one of the leading citizens, he made it known, and at !) o'clock on Saturday morning thirty-five or forty gen tlemen went to his house, and proceeded, with the body to the cemetery. They had pre* pared a nice coffin, and all other arrange* roents for a decent burial. Thus he was bu ried by his white friends, aud n beautiful wreath of evergreens placed upon his grave. The services were conducted by the Kev. Mr. Hal tom, of the Methodist Church. Had tho fact of the refusal on the pavt of his color Leen known sooner, we doubt not but that hundreds of our citizens would have been present. And it was their plain duty to seo that the man did not receive detriment be cause be was a friend to his country.-Char lotte (N. C.) Times. THE POSITION OF MK. CHASE.-The Wash ington correspondent of the New York Herald [?ive3 the following Delphic paragraph con cerning Mr. "'iase : Chief Justice Chase declared to day to a Western friend that while he could not per sonally accord with the resolution again?t the Reconstruction acts, and believed that the ? present constitutions ?. South ought to stand , till changed by tho people of each Stute, all voting, yet he was a Democrat, a State Rights : Democrat, and in full sympathy with the Democratic party. I Speech of the Hon. Geo. H. Fendletoi 'Thc Democrats of West Virginia held the &ate Convokion on the Kith inst.. Moi than ten thousand persons were in uttendatic excursion trains being run over the varioi : braucht s of the adjoining railroads. M Oleo. H. Pendlelon and Senator Thurman, < Ohio, and others, addressed the assemblag Resolutions endowing thc nominations an platform of the New York Convention, an wmanding the repeal of the registry law i fyrce in that Slate, were unanimously and er jjjusiastically adopted. ^Mr. Pendleton on coming forward v/as ? f" ivcd with great cheering. He said : Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: The ?bah loan of vour State executive Committee, whe invited me to attend your meeting to-da^ Ibid mo that 1 had no "truer friends in tb j|nion than I would meet here ia West Vii ?tara. You have proved his statement to h tjrpc. 1 came obedient to your bidding. .desired to see you, to make your personal ac fijaintance, and to return to you my thank for tho warm and constant support of you delegates to the National Convention. I cam th show you that no personal disappointmen hubers in my breast, or dampens for an iii want the ardor of my efforts for the succ?s tfr your party- | cheers ]-but that fir j.bovi a]l personal considerations, I rate the suecos oj the principles in which 1 believe, and tba ''whoever shall bear the flag on which tbos' Jnnciples are inscribed, 1 shall be lound ciosi by hid side in thc thickest of the fight, t' "*ieer bim with my voice and to aid him will "thy arra. 1 came to urge upon.you, Demo erais and Republicans alike, trample unde .fjpot every possession and prejudice ami pus ?on, if ir were as "dear as life itself, aud, tUiu( ft the height of this great struggle, to reinem fier that we have only a "lifo to give and a no We and enduring government to save. [Ap o?anse] I am a party nian; I avow it, but not, 1 fl rust, in any narrow or sec tarian sense. 1 :i m attached from conviction to the principle! '( f the Democratic party ; I have studied it.' . ?story from ibe foundation of thc govern I lent. In the States 1 have found it to be tin ? arty of liberty and progress. In the fedsra ?veruruent I have ?uimd it to be the expo ; lent of that fundamental principle of thc ?' bnslitutior. that all powers which are nd jj pra?tcd are reserved, lt has been the con ?Stent opponent of consolidation in the om ??etern and of excessive administration in tin lither. It has been at once the firm supporte: of tho rights-of the States and ol thu jusi gowers of tho federal government. In ever) vicissitude of our history it bas appeared tc direct us with its wisdom and to extricate uf by its courage, and io day it stands as it did ??'1798 and 179i), tinder the guidance of Mr ^fferson, pointing us to the path of saTety. j?pich is now, a? rt w:rs then, the path cl tilt constitution, ol' frat-.-rnai' hannor-y and peace T!:e Convention wliich sat. in New Yeti: was an august ss.iemblag?. It was the true sCtfUiicil ol our par'y. lt embraced our bes; ?Dd purest ninl wisest, men. The roll of thc Sjatcs was called av.il not one was wiihouf. a jfeppcsentativc. Tuc tull of the districts was ^Ued and not one of them was missing ??rrF?fiC'CTrtJje Of State rrnctdo wac not recog: nixed-the dissolution of the Utiioii was not acknowledged. Every State was invited tu he present, and evrry State accepted the invi talion. Erery State selected such citizens as she chose, and thus it happened Not th Caro lina and South Carolina, and Georgia and Virginia .-at as in tuc days of the revolution, in fraternal council with Massachusetts and New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and that Hampton and Preston and Forrest sat side by side with Steadman and Morgan. The convention was the sign and symbol and tho prophecy ol' a restored Union and a harmonious people. It rose to the dignity of its high duty. The eyes of the world were upon its proceedings. Greater than the holy alliance which subjugated people and divided empires, its mission was tu enfranchise a peo ple of our race, to restore the union of our States and to maintain thc institution of civil liberty. For the first time in their history the American people realized that free gov ernment was in danger and that tho fate of the Republic trembled in thc balance. They had been taught lo believe, that freedom was indigenous in our sr.il, and sl utting their eyes to thc teachings of Jill history, shutting their eyes to the facts co nected with our own ro.' olution, they bad hugged to themselves the delusion that in whatever storm of faction, or passion, or revolutionary fervor, liberty at least was safe. They hud awakened from the dream, ami as they sent representatives to the convention they charged them-, as the die-, tutor of old was charged, to see to it thal, un detriment happened to the republic. Ilya unanimous vote they adopted a declaration of principles, fidelity to the constitution. fidelity to thc Union, fidelity to the rights of thc Slates, fidelity to Hie rights of the citizen, fidelity to the principle? of civil liberty, fidel ity to that policy in mattera of finance and taxation which, by paying thc public debt in legal tender notes, will lift from the shoul ders of labor the burdens which oppressif, and by lightening the measure of taxation ?ill secure to it the just, rewords of a cheerful and contented industry. |Cheers.J Thc speaker then referred, in many eulog istic terms, to thc nominees of thc Democrat ic Convention and said if anything more wcio needed io fire tbe'heart with enthusi asm, let it be drawn from thc contrasts ibe country to-day prcseutcd. Thc Republican party had been in absolute power for eight years. Where was thc constitution they swore to uphold? Where was the Union they swore to maintain V After brielly dilating on the course pursued by thc Republican party since tho war, more particularly with respect to the reconstruction of States, he went on to stale that Congress had usurped to itself all power over the t?jate governments ot tho South, and had, in fact, destroyed them. Adverting to the military government, Mr, Pendleton continued : It is reproducing in our country thc lessons of all history. Thc despotism ol' the legisla tive assembly is thc worst despotism in the world, It iii the most selfish, the most cruel, tho most audacious aud the most, short lived. It ends in anarchy, and this is speedily follow- j ed by Hie calm repose ot the order of the . sword. Recall the history ol the Roman Sen- j ate and Ibe Empeora. Recall thu history of the Long Parliament and the tyranny of the ? Commonwealth. Recall the history of the j Legislative Assembly of Fwi.cc and of the : Consulate and the Empire, and read in them ; the certain prophecy of thc fate of this gov- j crnment if congressional usurpation shall run its course. Have we not already a part fill- j filment ? Congress has despoiled the Presi dent of tho just powers ol' his office and has yested ihcip in the General. It has despoil- i cd the States ol their rights.of civil govern- | mont and vested them too in tbesau?e officer. : It has given him power over all the military j commanders, and to his decision it has refer j red every question of interpretation and exe cati?n of the reconstruction laws. Aud this aamo officer, wielding this enormous power, backed bv the anny, sustained by all tue mil-1 itary organizations by whatever name they I may be known, appealing to their fervor which yet remains after the struggles of a terrible war, demands that he shall be elected Presi dent of the United States. And.this party which supports him declares that if they can not do it by the votes of you men of tho North, it will elect him by the votes of the negroes and carpet-baggers in the reconstructed States of Iii? South. Gentlemen, do y^)u see no dan ger here ? When, years ago, we predicted this result, and warned against ibe first step in revolutionary progress, the Republicans laughed sit our fears and called us Copper heads and traitors. [Applause.] When Na poleon was called on, young, unkuown tn his countr3'men, never having had command even nf a regiment, to quell the revolt of tho sec tions, ho did it effectually. In four years he was First Consul and master of tho French people. How grand the theory which the Democratic party opposes to this whole sys tem of the Republicans I I read from the de duration of principles: " First-Immediate restoration of all the Statte to their rights in the Union anti under the constitution and ol civil government to American people. "Second-Amnesty for all past politicil silences ami the regulation of the elective fran chise in thc Slates by their citizens.'-" Tho Republican party is the party of usur pation. It is also the party nf corruption. Read the report of the Commissioned of In ternal Revenue. Count the number of clerks who are seeking in vain to discover the nmount of peculation in the Treasury De partment. Go to the War Department and *nc the mutilated archives, and ask why they were destroyed. Visit ?.he penitentiaries and :ount 'be public plunderers who are confined there. [Hear, hoar.] He reviewed the ex pcndilurt'S of the federal Government from July 1,1805. to July 1, 18(18, showin that the Democratic administrations bad .been much more economical. Moreover, be would ask why was it that the amount realized fr tn taxes fur 18(18 would bj less thin the amount r alized iu li>ti7, considering s hat the rate of taxations was .substantially the same ? 1 nave been represented as hostile to the bondholder. Gentlemen, you shall jimVo mo. I au; hostile to ro class or interest in ?he country. 1 simply desire io bojnst-ju>t to ti.e bondholder, just to the pt-ople. I would live up with scrupulous fidelity io the terms Ol' our contracts. 1 would pay the interest, oj' the live-twenties in gol., because t!;e gov ernnient promised to do so. I would pay principal and interest of the ten finies in gold, because the government promised to do so. I would pay the principal ol' tho five twenties in legal-tender notes, because the bondholders agreed to receive them iu pay ment ; and as I would not repudiate an hon est bargain to make money fur the people, so will I not repudiate an honest bargain to make money for the creditors. [Cheers.] He did not think thal policy would give us a de predatory currency, but, on tbe coutrary, was of opinion that just as the public debt, was thus discharged, will the certainty of its ultimate redemption be more apparent, and its value be rapidly and steadily increased. Thpse bond operate as ? mortgage upon the property and labor of the country. Then are two ibous?nd millions of them. Pay off these two thousand millions, and will not the legal-teoders bc first in the proportion more valuable. I know the evils of a depreciated currency. I would not aid in depreciating our eurrency. I fought against it when It was proposed by tn^TRgal tender act. but" since itr wa* accom plished-?ince the debt was contracted in le gal tender-since it may be lawfnliy end honestly paid in legal tender-I am in favor of continuing it luitil we can secure -.he peo pie, who have already suffered all the evils, whatever good may be expected from the system. But, gentlemen, I detain you too long. I have sought to bring in sharp con trast the two parties and their re pective principles. Choose between them. [Cheers.] Senator Thurman and several other speak ors having delivered addresses, the conven tion adjourned at eight o'clock. TIIK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.-The New York "World" thus sums np the prospects ol the next Presidential electiou : In canvassing thc question, with the dele gates to the Convcntton since the nomination was made; the following State's are put down as su:e for Seymour and blair: Delaware.3 Kentucky.ll Missouri.ll Kansas.3 Wisconsin.8 Maryland.7 Total.160 Connecticut.6 Nev/ York.33 New Je rs ey.7 Pennsylvania.20 Ohio.".21 Indiana.l3 Oregon.3 Nevada.3 California.5 One hundred and fifty niue votes are all that is necessary for electlcr, und in the above tables there are one hundred and sixty elec toral votes without Counting one of the Southern States engaged iu thu rebellion. In tpt; list of States given, every une save thre~ in which a Stale election has been held in tLo last eighteen months, has gone Demo cratic. In all, the ??.cal elections h-'ve exhib ited great Democratic gains, sufficient to in suro the S'ate for the Dt-imu-raey ibis fad. We have not counted Illinois in i be list, but the d' lega Cs to ti-o Convention deciand ti-ai there WHS no doubt but Pendleton could car ry that Slate. Il it would be ceriuiu for Pendleton, then it can be safely counted for Seymour and .Blair. In addition to this, the States of Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi arc certain to give a Democratic majoiity with any fair chat ce forvoiiig; this will give twenty-four more electoral vol?'* and swell the Democratic column to 18-1. Bul the Repu,bi?cj?RS arc ja oying to exclude the votes ol' thc States of Virginia, IVxas and Mississippi, by l?gislation in Congress'. If the elector il vote? o! these States ?re not counted, then there will be ia thc Electoral College 2fJl voles, and HS will be all thal will tie ne cessary to elect. The Democracy can then lose Ohio, and still secure a maj? rity of the Electoral College, without counting any from the South ; or. by curry h g Ohio, they cnn lose Miss.mri, Wisconsin und Kun.-as, and still elect their ticket without receiving .. vote from the South. There is, ih?rolore, every reason for encouragement to the Democracy, and the election of Seymour and Blair may bo put down as a certainty. From the Mercury, of the 221, we clip 'he fallowing Mackey items; DISTINGUISHED ARRIVALS.-By the South Carolina Railroad train' yesterday afternoon, Dr. A. G. Mackey and his two sons in one carriage, and Mr.'F. Sawyer, United States Senator elect, in another. They report all quiet in Columbia. IL THE MILLS OF THE GODS GRIND SLOW LY."-That is true, but there are exceptions to all rules, and when Hon. (?) A. G. M., on tho Fourth of July, rolled the proverb like a sweet morsel under his tongue, he little thought that be would so soon be in the hopper. To LET_That large, handsome and weli furnisiied mansion in Washington, D. C., which has been lilted np in fashionable style regardless of expense, for the use of a United States Serator. who expected to be elected. Circumstances over which he had no control have caused him to change his plans, and the said mansion is therefore offered cheap. Ap ply between the hours of ten and two this A. M , at tho corfter of East Bay and Market streets. Entrance on East Bay. J???"When a single gentleman cannot pass a clothes lino without counting all the long stockings, it is a sign he ought to gpt married, and the sooner the bettet. The Homestead Law. The following is the homestead law as pass ed by both Houses of the General Assembly: A BILL T0 DETERMINE AN"D PERPETUATE THE HOMESTEAD. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Caro lina, now met and sitting in Geueral Assem bly, aud by the authority of the same, SECTION 1. Whenever the real estate of the head of any family residing in this State 6hull bo levied upon by virtue of any m estie or final procesa issued from any court, if the same be the faintly homestead of such person, tho sherill'or other officer executing said pro cess shall cause a homestead, such as said person may select, not to exceed the value of one thousand dollars, to beset off to said per son in the manner following, to wit: Ile shall cause three appraisers to be appointed, one to be named by the creditor, one by the debtor, atid one by himself, who shall be discreet and disinterested men,resident in the county, and shall be sworn by a Justice of the Peace to impartially appraise and set oil', by metes and bounds, a homestead of the estate of the deb tor, such as he may select, not to exceed the valu>3 of one thousand dollars; and the said appraisers shall poceed accordingly to sot oat the homestead ; and the set off and assign ment, so made by the appraisers shall bc re turned by the officer, along with said process; for record in Court ; and, if no camplaiut shall be made by either party, no further proceed ings shall ba had against the homestead, but the residue of thu lands and tenements of the head of a family, if any more or other he shall have, shall be liable to attachment, levy, and sale: Provided, Tbatupon good cause shown the Court, out of which the procesa issued may order a rcappraiscineutand reassignment of the homestead, either by the same apprai sers or others appointed by the Court : And, provided further, That should the creditors or debtor neglect or refuse, after due notice from tho officers executing the process to n<-minaie ar. appraiser, then said officer shall appoint the same. SEC. 9. Whenever the personal property of the head of any family residing in this State is taken or attached by virtneofany mesne or final process issued from aiiy court, and Kitid person shall claim the said properly or any p-irt thereof as exempt from attachment on account of the same bei og the annual pro duct of his or her homestead, or as subject to exemption nuder thu constitution, and tbc creditor and debtor do not agree about, the same, the officer executing said process shall causi- the same to be ascertained, and all ex empted property set out by appraisers appoint ed and ?worn 1er the purpose, as provided ir. the pn ceding section for setting out the homestead, subject to like limitations and provisions, and the residue, if any, shall be ijoid. which proceeding shall be stated in thc officer's return of such process. SEC. 3. The exemptions of sections one and two of this act shall not extend to an a t?chaient, levy or sale on auy mesne or final process issued to secure or enforce the pay ment ol taxes, or obligations contracted for the purchase of said homestead, or obliga tions contracted for the erection of improve ments thereon : Provided, The court or au ihoritj issuing said process shall certify there on that the same is issued for some one or more, and no other, of said purposes: Provi ded further, The yearly product of said home stead shall be subject to attachment, levy and .-ale to secure or enforce thc payment of ob ligations contracted in the production of the ikiD? ; but the court issuing th'e process there t r s?all certify thereon that the same is is ued for said purpose and no other. SEC. 4. Tne estate or right of homestead uf the head of any family existing at his death shall continue for the benefit of his widow mid minor children, and be held and enjoyed by them until the youngest child is twenty one years of age, and until the marriage or death of the n?dow, and be limited to that period. But all the right, title and interest of the deceased in the premises in which such estate or right exists, except the estate of homestead ttius continued, shall be subject to the laws relating to devise, descent, dower and ;ale for payment of debts against the es tate of the deceased. SEC. 5. When a widow or minor children are entitled to an estate ur right of homestead as provided in the preceding section, the same muy be set off to the parlies entitled thereto by the Judge of thc Probate Court, who shall appoint three disinterested persons, resident iu the county, who, having been duly sworn, shall pruceed to appraise and set out, bj metes and bounds, such homestead, and make return thereof to bim. If no complaint shall be made against said ?ppraisal and setting out of the homestead, within twenty days thereafter, hy any party interested therein, or any good cause appear to the contrary, the j same sball bc confirmed by the Judge, anfl ordered accordingly. SEC. P.. Appra?aers appointed to set ont the homer-tead, under this act, shall receive as Compensation two dollars per day each for such services, and the same .-hall be paid by Hie officer executing tho process out of tho property of the debtor ; or in case of the homestead set out to a widow or minor chil dren, out rf the estate of the deceased by tho executor or administrator thereof. Radical Outrage. We leam from the Lynchburg (Virginia) " News" that tho loyal" leaguers of Mount gi rn, Campbell County, perpetrated the fol lowing dastardly outrage upon one of their members, who, not likiDg the workings of the band, desired to withdraw therefrom : It appears that a negro named Nelson Ros ser, a former member of said league who had withdrawn, was suspected of having betrayed some of the conspiracies of that infamous or ganization. On Friday night las?, Norton Roberts, negro, President ot the organization, a-id two other negroes, went to the house of Nelson, called him ou,t, and charging him with treachery, urged him to repair, as taras possible, the damage he had done by rejoin ing tho league. Tuis Nelson stoutly refused to do, and Roberts and his comrades pro ceeded to execute upon him summary ven geance. Seizing their victim, they tied him by the heels ai d suspended him from the li:nb of a tree, in whioh oondition he was kept for several hours, his torturers all the time urging him to come back into the 14 fold." At the und of some hours, during which the u fortunate negro suffered intense agony, his spirit of resistance succumbed, and he con sented to accede to tho demands of the black di mons. He was then released in an almost exhausted condition, and again took upon himself the oath prescribed by the league, and in addition was forced to swear he would never divulge the treatment he had received. Thc Democrat!", party is the spontaneous j growth of tho average national character, ? and has always been imbued with intense nu ; tional feeling. It ha? the thriftiness of airee growing in a congenial soil and in its natural climate. It may pass through hard Winters, : its foliage may be beaten oil by hail-storms ; ; it may be riven by the thunderbolt: but its roots penetrate so deep, and its sap is so full of natural vigour, that it can never cease to grow. The Democratic party being founded on the opontaneous instincts of the American ; people ; being the outgrowth ?nd embediment of the national character, its enduring vitality is casi'y accounted for, and the |i-?9a of exa berant. almost exultant, activity, conrade, and bop? which U now exhibits, cease to be unaz I log,-World, "Baronet" Bonds. It would doubtless be a very comfortable thing lt the riebt of ihe State could bo paid, . or the interest funded, untH the people, under a Jegilimute gov rntnent, are able to meet their public obligations. Hut this cannot he doue by tho motley L?gislature now in ses sion in Columbia: norean the}-, bv the issue of bayonet" honda, provide, ns proposed, f?r the deficit in the animal revenue of the State. Tue Legislature will, of course, bleed freely s vi'ry pru pe. i iv-hoi der in South Carolina, sad is long as they usurp the machinery of the law, may compel the payment of taxation. Negro legislators, negro sheriff* and negro :0D3iabIes may distrain, and there the scheme sf financial white-washing will come to a premature end. Beyond this they cannot go. What capi talist would touch " bayonet" bonds issued by 3ur bogus Legislature 1 Would New York 3r Boston touch these bonds i-sued by au thority of a horde of negroes, and in face of :ho protest of the white people of the Stute '/ Would not our Northern brethren prefer to ?vak until after November? The Stato debt of South Carolina-the lebt now existiug-will be paid to the last :ent, whatever the General Assembly -may lo; but no " bayonet" bond, for whatever 'eason issued, will ever be recognize bv ?he vhite people of the State-Cbar.es:ou News. The Presidential Canvass,. The Washington correspondent of the Bos on Post, under date of the IC.h iu*t, sendi he following words of good cheer : Thc respective national committees are on irgetically arranging for?? liberal dis?ributieo if campaign documents. Tbe growlings first leard over the New York nominations n^rrir- ' sd the Radicals wiu a false hope. Tl1 ey vere j ubi laut, aHd everywhere they were q:w ing this Democrat or that Conservative- to >rove that the Seymour ticket was a failure. Chis continued* only a few- days, and uow ?othing of thc kind is heard. Chief Justice 3hase has endorsed tho ticket. Doolittle is mt with a letter approving it most'cordially. Com Ewing, Jr., advocates the election of seymour and Blair, and will deliver a .-^eech it the grand ratification meeting on Saturday ivening. Voorbees goes heartily into thc lontest and President Johnson assured your lorrespondent to day that tho ticket had hi? >est wishes and would receive all tbe-snpp'T? he Federal Executive was able to give. Tho ihairman of the State Central Committee of Pennsylvania is-here, and 6ays that Pennayl rania'is as certain for Seymour and Blair oe Uew York, not, however, by no large a nia ority. He reports the ratification mett-ng n Philadelphia on Saturday last to have been be largest and most eutlnwasuc ever known n that city, while the Radicals have thu? far ailed to get up a ratification meeting of any dud. Philadelphia alone is set down as good br 10,000 majority for Seymour. l"ho Dera> )crats carried the city at the last erection by ipwards of 3,000 votes. It is confidently sta :cd by well posted politicians that Judge phase's endorsement of the Democratic tick H secures the electoral vote of Ohio for Sey mour. Illinois and Indiana politicians, who jlaiin to know, say that their States will go ?uthusiastically for Seymour and Blair. The political aspect seems to have completely changed here within a few days, and the New ?'ork nominations are becoming as popular LS were the nominations of Polk and Dallas n the better days of the republic. Not a wreath of dissatisfaction is to be beard, and :he greatest enthusiasm prevails. A PREDICTION FULFILLED.-The following s an extract from a letter written in lf?45 by SOD. J. H. Hammond, of South Carolina, to rhomas Clarkson, Esq., of England. The iredictioB of the consequences following the ibolit:on of slavery has been remarkably ver led, and is becoming moro so eveiy day ; Released from their present obligation', ?heir first impulse would be to go somewhere, it first they would seek the towns and rapid y accumulate in squalid groups upon their jutskirts. Driven thence by thc armed police bree which would immediately spring into existence, they would immediately scatter in Ul directions. Some bodies ot them might sander to the free States, or to the Western wilderness, marking their tracks by their iepredtttious ano their corpses. Many would roam wild in our big woods. &ahy more would seek thc recesses of our swamps for se :uri covert. .Few, very few of them, could oe prevailed upon to d<> a strok-j of work .j lone to labor c-jr iinuously, vthile not a head of ;attle, sheep or swine could b*; f -und io our ranges, or an ear of corn nodded in 'Ur aban ijned fields. TLes . exhausted, oar (olds and* jjultry yards, bains and storehouses would 3 -come a prey. Finally, aar scutered dwel lings would be plundered, perhaps burned, ind thc inmates murdered. -? ? -V COLUMBIA, AXD AUGUSTA RAILROAD.-Wc. ire pleased to ler.rn that track laying on this ftoad is progressing rapidty. rre?ide.it, John ?n, who has been sojourning in our city tor I few days, informs us that iortj one miles of ron bare been laid-four miles on the Iiuu lear the South Carolina railroad, al Granite fille, and thirty-seven milc3 on the C* lumbia md. A contract has Been made wi' rt tho Scranton Iron works of Scranton, Pa,, for tile lelivery of the whole of the iron requisite by ;he first of October, and the iron"will bo laid lowu as fast as received. There is but littj* lonbt but the whole line from Graniteville to Columbia will be completed and running by he first of November. Indeed thc President s already extending an invitation to stock lolders to a free ride over the road at the ?ext annual Convention in November. The lino from South Carolina Railroad unction to Augusta has been surveyed, and ,he contracts let. The distance is a little less ban twelve miles. It is expected thal this )art of the work, grading arid supen>tructure viii be completed by next New YeaiV day. We are informed that the bonds of the Goo lany meet with ready sale, and that a prom nent banking house of New York is investing argely in the stock of the Company, having: recently purchased five hundred shires at narket prices.-Augusta Chronicle & Sea.? inel. -? " Never," says tho St. I??U?S Times, 1 in the history of Su Louis has a Presiden, dal campaign been inaugurated with- ouch lertain omens of victory as the present. From be moment that the nominations cf Seymour md Blair were- announced, not only did mere liffercoces of opinion as to men vauish lronv imoDg Democrats, but those of our uoreto ore opponents who had opened their eyes to .he suicidal course of leading Radic?is, open y manifested their adhesion to tho Democrat? c platform, and one and all, with euihusjas ic ananimity, pledged themselves anew to he fight or liberty. -?? 0 ? " Mack" of the Cincinnatiu Enquirer" saya ?hfl contest that commenced on Th -'Sday last, .vith Governor Seymour's nominell? u, is ne tween civil law and military despotism as to ,ho people j between venality one principle is to parties} and between brains v d bugt .OD3 as to candidates. jpg!* A young woman in a Wesiu ? towt.? it is said, has been fined ten doi-ars? tor kiss ing a young man against his w.n. A correspondent of our of oar conn try exchanges says; "Rev. B, P. Vfbuteuiore has a United States flag with (J?rau ?ud Col fax stamped on it now floating over Dalling ton. Though the' flag is a common pne, I understand he collected seveniy f u dollar* from the freedmen to p?y tor it."