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PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of ONS DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS per Square (10 Minion lines or less,) for the first insertion, and ONE DOLLAR for each subsequent insertion. A liberal disecan: will be made to these wishing? to advertise by the year. .Announcing Candidate i $5,00, in advance. ESTABLISHED 1802. CHARLESTON- COURIER, DAILY AND TRI-WEEKLY, BY A. S. WILLINGTON dc CO. Daily Paper, 88.00 per Annum. Tri-Weekly Paper, 84.00 per Annum. -.-o THE COURIER has ontered on the sixty sixth year of its publication. During this long pcriod-of its existence, despite the mutations of fortune and tim?, it hos beca liberally sup ported, whilst many of its contemporaries have been compelled to succumb to financial necessities. We gratefully record this evidence of theappro ciation of our DVD, and the efforts of our prede cessors, to make it what it is, and always has been, ONE AMONG THE LEADING COM MERCIAL AND NEWS JOURNALS OF THE SOUTH, and will renew our exertions to add to its acceptability to tho 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 we now issue the Baily and Tri- Weekly Courier to our Sub scribers, at the rate of oight and four dollars per annum respectively. Our purpose is to furnish a first class paper upon tho most reasonable living prices. Charleston, Jan 20 tf 4 The Great Popular Paper! fi t??m*Mm ra, SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Six Dollars a Year ! The Charleston Tri-Weekly News, THREE DOLLARS A YEAR-TWO DOL LARS FOR SIX MONTHS ! TERMS, CASH. IN ADVANCE! ?SF'So Paper sent unless tho Cash accompa nies the order. SS^^o Paper sent for a longer time than paid RIORDAN, DAWSON & CO., PROPRIETORS. Charleston, Dec 23 8tM 1868 ! THE SOUTHERN FAVORITE. BURKE'S WEEKLY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. -s Beautifully Illustrated, and Ele gantly Printed. Pronounced by thc Southern press to be the most elf saut and talented young people's paper printed in lin's c?DHtry! Wo aro now publishing Marooner1* Island, a Sequel to the Young Marooner.-, and Jack Dobell, or a Boy's Adventures in Texas, by one of Fan nin's men-pronounced " equal to the bett of j Mayne Rrid'd stories." We shall begin, in tbe first number of 18C8, a thrilling story, by a lady of Virginia, entitled " ELLEN HCKTEB : A Tale of the IPar," which will run for aevoral months. Among the regular contributors to DURKE'S WEEKLY aro Rev. F. R. GOULDINO, author of "The Young Maroon or's;" Mrs. JANE T. H. CROSS; Mrs. FORD, of Rome, Ga. ; Miss MARY J. JJPSHUB, of Norfolk, Va., and many others. Tnatf's-$2 a year in advance; Three copies ?tor $5 ; Five copies for $S; Ten copies for $15, :and Twenty-one copies Sor $30. .Clergyman and Teachers ?arr isbed at $1 50 per :&aa?tn. The yolunio begins with the July number. 'Back cumbers can be supplied from the first, rand alt yearly subscribers may receive tho nutn ibers for the int six months, stitched in an elegant illuminated cover. Address, J. W. BURKE .t CO., Publisher*, Macon, Ga. I>ec 25 if 52 JggrSubscriptions seceiyod at tho Advertiser Offrce-for BURKE'S WEEKLY. HBHVERSALIST HEBAID, NOTASULGA, ALA. JOjKI? ?. EV RUCK*, Editor & Proprietor. Torus, $2,00 pey V?ar >u Advance. THIS PAPER haB ontered upon it? 16th Vol ume. It is the Organ ot th# yjiyersalist denomination in the South snJ Southwest, Try it a yenr. Money can be seut by mail, at the ,T?8k-of tho editor. Feb 21 1m 9 P INSURANCE AGENCY. ARTIES wiihing to Insure their DWEL LINGS, GOODS, in , can do so on tbe. lowest termi, ?nd in the BEST COMPANIES, by call ing on the Undersigned. D. R. DURIBOE, Agent for A. G. HALL'S In?urauco Ag?ucy. Jan J J3' PLANTERS' HOT?L. AUGUSTA, CA. Newly Fifmisheii and ReOlied, Unsurpassed by any Hotel South, Wa? Reopened to tbe Public Oct. 8, 1866. T. S. NICKERSON, Proprietor. . Wt. tf 1 Estate Notice. ALT, t}or*onn hnvins claims against the Estate of W. ?,. MIDDLETON, dccM., are-notified to.preieut th? name to the undersigned without <deUy, aodtliose indebted to said Estate are re quested to pav up forthwith. Ii t. MIDDLETON, A dm'or Ont. 9. *Tv ?1 Fair ?Warnm-g. IEOREWARN all Person.? from Selling DR. J. J. MCBRIDE'S-KING OF: PAIN..unless said.perons aro duly authorized-by myself," as I am thc Soto Agent for tho Salo of said Medicines 'foi? the District of EdgefieH.-.. Merchants snpplied at WbWesale.priccs- : L: 0. McNEARY. Age?t. Frog Leroi, Newberry Dist., S. C. Apr? Ja? 15 1 Best of All. The world has very little it can give To make us happy ;. all its precious things What men call precious-and for which they 1 To a sad heart are worthless offerings. For what arc the gems, and what is tawny gol And rarest spices from sweet Indian blooms And silken fabrics, shimmering fold on fold, The costliest produce of tho Eastern looms They cannot save the soul a single pain, Or to the weary heart bring hope again. What is the flash of wit, the salon's glow? The wino may flash, and loap and sparkle u] From marble tables, white as wintry snow, And brim blood-rei the gold-incrusted cup; The air may languish, filled with perfume swe - Etruscan vases burn with roses red, And velvet carpets, sinking 'neath the feet, Give.back no echo from thc stateliest tread ; Hut human heartscravesomething more than th Splendor alone can never give us bli??. FAT more we prizo a gentle touch, The mute caress of fingers on the hair, A low word spoken-oh ! how very much These little tokens do to lesson care [ It matters little if our hume bo bare Of luxury, and what the world call? good, If we have only one true spirit there By whom our bettor selves aro understood, Whose deepest heart-throbs aro for us alone, With whom in thoughts and wishes we are one. -? . ? Speech of noil. T. Ai Hendrick! OF INDIANA, IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE, ON THE 4T JULY, ISOS, ON THE ISSUES OF THE PRES PK NT IA I. CAMPAIGN. Mr. Hendricks-Mr. President, it was m desire at this time to submit some rather e; tended remarks to the Senate upon the polit cal questions now occupying public attention but the condition of my health-to-day wi only allow a brief reference to them. I have observed for some days past a pui .pose on the part of Seuatois who represen the majority to avoid the position of the de fensive, and to assume, if possible, that of th offensive in this political contest. In m; judgment that is neither practicable nor pos sible on thnr part; it is nut in the nature o the case. For eight years the Federal Gov eminent and most ol the State government of the North have been controlled by tb< party now in the majority in Congress, and i is not possible that that parly can avoid a re spouse to the people upou the questions tha attiact public attention. Waiving au ioquiry into the conduct o that party during the v.'ar, which the)' claire it is not just to make, and confining the in quiry to the three years since the close of. the war and the return of peuce, lhere are cet taiu important questions that must be an swered. And, first, the people will desire tc know very distinctly and emphatically what has been dono with the ?1.200,000,000 thal have been Collected from them under, the In ternal revenue law and the tariff system since the first day of July, 1S0'5. I know that $400,000,000 may be accounted . for at least itt part -iu the payment of interest upon the public debt. Then the people will want to know how it is, independently of the Interest upon the public debt, that it bas li ken ?800, 000,000 to; cxvry this--frtrvtn^ment-1 brough a period of three years, when ina time of peace it used to require but from sixty to seventy or eighty million dollars annually. The peo ple wilr wish to know during this contest whether this enormous sum of money, which has put the citizens everywhere oyer the land upon the observauce of the strictest economy to respond to the demands of the Govern ment, has hec-n expanded iu the promotion of the public welfare, or whether it has been ex pended in the promotion of the interests of a party ; whether it has been expended to ex tend the enterprises of the country or to maintain in the Southern States that system of government which had gradually proceeded from step to step in arraying one race against another; whether it has been expended in genuine acts of benevolence and kindness, or in maintaining apolitical system by which the colored people have been organized through out the South into a political party ; in other words, whether this enormous sum thal has been wrung from the people has been expen ded for their benefit, for the promotion of their interOsts and their good, or for other purposes ; and no arts of the orator or inge nuity of the sjphist can avoid an answer to the grave and important inquiry. Why is it, sir, that in a time of profound peace it hsB cost ?100,000,000 a year to sup port an army of fifty-six thousand. The peo ple especially will want an answer to that question when you propose to elect to the Presidency the head of that army, who for a portion of that period was not only the Gen eral of the army, but the Secretary of War. They want to know how it was that during the administration of the department by him it cost at the rate of $120,000,000 to support the War Department and army, when it used to cost but $1,000,002 to the regiment. The people will want to know why it is that in a time of profound peace, wmen we have no war, except inconsiderable strifes on our borders with the Indians, ?$95,000,000 were expended, in the fiscal year before thc last, to maintain the army, independent of bounties, and that for the quarter when the candidate for the Presidency was the Secretary of War, it cost about thirty million dollars, or at thc rate of ?120,000,000 per annum . 82,000,000 to the reoiment ; $2,000 to the man. Tho people will want tho majority in Congress, when they demand thc continuance of power beyond this period cf eight years, to answer why it is that so much money is drawn from them by the extraordinary power of taxation, that it may thus go to support the most expensive military system that has ever been known in thc world. I might speak of some of those expendi tures. ? mizrbt epss.k < f that-favoritism in a small way which bassb,b;vn jt?elf in lie pub lication in the newspapers that UFC favored by special legislation in the District of Columbia of notices for inconsiderable army supplies upon thc Rio Grande, aud at the-distantforts, when it was impossible, from the date of the publication that any man could receive infor mation by such publication .-which would en able him to compete in the bidding. I might spf-ak of ollie expenditures of like sort, in dicatirg a favoritism not worthy of any polit cal party that claims the confidence of the country, but I will not occupy so much of the time of the Senate. The people will wish to know duriDg this contest wliy it ii that the Supreme Court.has been denied the right to mqutre into the con stitutionality cf the legislation of this Con gress. The people know that tho Supreme Court was established as c-ue of the securities to their liberty, as one of the plops and pil-. lars underneath their institutions. They want to know wh^ tfjis prop and pillar has been strickon down, and for yhat political and par ty purpose it has been donei. if your legisla tion be constitutional,, valid, and right, then the.pec-pie will wish to know why Congress should shield itself in its enactments from that inquiry" that the Constitution intended should bc liad in regard to all legislation. The people during this contestwill wish to know why it is that the executive department has been stripped of that power which has ; been conferred upou it by tke1 Constitution ; j j why it is that Congress has assumed lo ftuMf ! ; all those powers which, for nearly eighty years, j .wera exercised j under the Copetitutio^ by the j executive department ; and fe'. what? purpose of good to the people this ir?s intended,1 Why is it that from the executive 1 been taken tho responsibility for the i eention pf the laws? Why is it that to l Senate has been assumed that responsibilit Why is it that Congress has said that thepov to remove from office shall be taken from. I executive when that power has been ex cised, and as I believe according to the spi of the Constitution, and as I know, aecordi to the construction of the fathers, by the E ecntive all the time; and that in the Senati many headed body, where responsibility is vidod so that it lights upon no particular i dividual, a responsibility should be assum which is worth nothing to tho people a guarantees nctEing to the fidelity and secur of the public service. The people will want to know why i three years a party with a majority of tv, thirds in Congress ha"e not restored t Southern States to tkcir practical relatio witb. the Federal Government; why is it th such a period has elapsed and no genu'ir peaceful, and permanent results have been i ta:ned. .They know what is tho condition affairs. They know what temporary ente prises bayo been set on foot in the Southe: States. They understand all that quite wei but they want to know, and they demand know, in.my judgment, with.a very carne demand) why it is that these States have n been restored in the spirit ol thc Constitute and with that harmony which will promo the permanency ct' the Union, the stability our institutions, and the prosperity of evei section of the country. The people will wai to know in this contest, why it is that Coi gress stepped in between-the Executive ac an immediate peaceful, practical and perm; nent restoration of the States to their pract cal relations to" the Federal Government why it was, that when we were so far at vanced in that work under the policy inaugi rated by the Executive, when States were a cepting thc propositions, adopting the Const tutions that were acceptable everywhere agreeing to everything demanded by tb North, acquiescing in the results of the W? in every respect whatever, Congress came ii and to some extent defeated that restoratio policy which was bringing again permaneti union and permanent prosperity. That qne? Lion will be asked by sensible, thinking pee pie, and it is for the majority in Congress, an for their partisans over the country, to give iirect, plain, and unequivocal answer. The people wilL want to kuow in this con section why it is that by thi< political conftc reny that Congress bas gotten up with th Executive, strikiug down the policy that wai then almost a success, the return of trade production, and of prosperity have been in infinitely delayed. They know, as Senator, snow, that irom the time when this contro rersy ?was gotten up by Congress to breal iown the policy of restoration, then alraog completed, the productions of a large portiot )f thc country have, from year to year, lallet jff, and that the pxports which those produc ?ons furnished, enabling us to keep up th< lalauce of trade somewhat in our favor, have allen off so much that in a large degree thal jalance has been made up in guid and in the jovernment securities. Thc people want tc enow why it is that trade caunot be allowed o return to its ancient channels ; that the ndustries of the country are not encouraged, )ut that, on the contrary, they are kept in .hat disturbed condition that investments dare lot be made by capital, and that labor ie ilraid to.inaka'aiijefi'v'rL e.Vfin if capital should ie invested. 'The people will ask one further question, a-b?t has been gained by this controversy, like he question that in former times was asked jy the grandchild of the grandfather in rela tion to the great battle, " What has all this been about ? ' Seiutors know very well that ivhen tho Thirty-ninth Congress met, -thc work ol'restoration, according to the policy >f Mr. Johnson, was almost completed. Con stitutions had been adopted in the Soutlu-ru States abolishing slavery, or declaring it .abol ished forever, repudiating the Southern debt, ind making every pledge to thc Federal Union which Northern sety.iinent demanded ; but Congress intervened against that policy ind interp(>sed its own, and now the people, jfter two or three years of delay, of distrac tion, of the disturbance of trade and com merce, want to know what has been gained by it. When you come to answer that ques tion to the people you cannot show them a singl? Southern Constitution which any Re publican mind can say is a better Constitu tion than had been adopt.'d under the Johnson policy, unless you say it is a better Constitu tion because the negroes arc enfranchised and ii part of the whites disfranchised, and the power in the great section of the country taken from the white men aud given to the colored men. The people will want to know .why it is that after the close of-the war, after there was no longer a rebel soldier with a gun in his hand, after the South had amended its Constitutions and changed its laws according to the demands of the North in every particu lar, after they had declared slavery abolished, secession a fallacy, aud the rebel debt not to bc collected, why, then, in one-third of this country, did the party ia power break down State governments and establish in their stead military governments ; why wa? it in that work you made the civil law subordinate to the military law; the judge upon the bench subordinate to the commanding officer, -and gave to the military officer the power to drive the legislators from the halls ol legislation, and to substitute mon of his own selection in their place, and subverted all the principles of free government, recognized, honored, and reyered in this country, sud -established in their stead a system of government that finds no paraiiel in any of the countries of the world since the days of the proconsuls. To that question, it seems to mo, it will b*c diffi cult to lind a suitable answer. It is not enough to say that in neighborhoods there were broils and murders. Why, sir, some time ago I read to the Senate, from one of the papers published in this city, a telegram coming from the eentrul portion of Alabama, that the filth white mun hod been murdered in the same neighborhood, and no notice whatever had been taken of i' ; and that, too, under the goyernptent? militar}', powerful, and despotic, which you had established there. Mr. President, when the people of the coun try demand to know of their legislators why civil law is subordinate to military law; why Lhe judge upon the bench is stripped of bi? robes of office, andjn.his stead there is sub stituted a military commander to decide upon the rights of the people ; when they demand to know why in secret commission and mili tary coort the citizen is tried for a criminal offense, or touching a civil right, why these things are done in this country in a time of profound peace, SQtrre grave and weighty an swer must be given tb?m. They will want to know why it is that yon pretend for tho time to repudiate on the part of Congress the right to establish negro suf frage in the Northern States and yet estab lish it in the Southern States ; why- it is that you rally up on a platform attempting toavoid the responsibility of this issue at home, aud yefivould seek to establish such a system of suffrage in' ton of the -J?tates of the South ; and what answer will you give? Do you tell the people of the North that they are not in terested in the question of suffrage in the Southern States? You cannot make that answer, for this fall it may occur, that thc ne gro votes of the South will, decide the Presi dential election. It may occur that a major ity of the electoral votes in the North will be o?syconTo by.the negroTyptes-of tho'Sb^jil^ Jt j may.not .sa occur^ but:, yet if it does ocouY, | and if the colored people of the Southern , States, holding the balance of political pawer ' in this country, shall deeide who is to be _ President of the United States, is not tb" coming home, as a practical and direct qu tion to every Northern man, his vote bei overcome by the vote of the colored man the South, and that, too, by an. act of Ob gress ? So that the people of the North want to understand how it is that you pr tend not to force upon them negro, suffrage at home, and yet to establish it in ten of tbj States, of the South. .jj The people will want to know why, in I time of peace, the rights of the citizens haw been trampled under loot, and the aucient writs of the law which protect and secuta them in their property and their personal liberty-bave been abrogated; why^is it that instead of the courts of law where men a?e heard face to face, the - witnesses called face to face, the jury from the neighborhood heqpr ing all tbc evidence, deciding tho case, why; that mode of trial in court has been abolish^ and in its stead has been established the mil itary court, where there are none of the guar? and securities for . justice that a thouss years of experience have shown to be essi tial? Mr. President, the two parties into whi the people of this country uro now divided have declared their platforms of principle^ they have put their ticket in nomination, it is for the pcoplenow to decide, which ?jat of .principles they will adopt, and which | of candidates they will elect. Upon t subject I have but very few remarks to ? mit. 1 Tn my opposition'to the ticket that w$s nominated at Chicago I never expect to plitpe it upon personal- grounds. I recognize the gentleman at the-head of that ticket as an eminent military.man, and his associate j distinguished . civilian. Against them, sonally, I expect never to express a se ment. I oppose their ejection because haye become, by acquiescing in their no? nation, the represeutat?ves of the sentir that have controlled' Congress for the three years ; because they stand upon a ' Corm which is objectionable in part and ec ocal in part. The Convenfiou at New York has expi ed its views in a platform which in no sec eau be misunderstood. The man that may read and understand.. The plaine well as the most learned will inierpre alike, ft declares our views and our poses so distinctly and emphatically, that people are hot and cannot be rh?sl?d. The contrast between the two platforms struck me with great force as I listene?j?io the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. Freftlg buysen] some minutes since, as ho- "read 3f the sections of the Chicago platform^ blaring that the public debt must be pnjo iccordance with the letter and the spirit thc law. What does that mean ? My " league would say, I have no doubt, ti means one thing, and the Senator from j J-crsey would" claim that it means anott pery different thing. M?qy Senators dja?m that the spirit of the law is that the bends juail all bu paid in gold ; while other Sena tors, eminent and clear-headed, say that, it meaos they shall ba paid in greenbao?jif ] Congress chooses so to pay them. The resolution of the Democratic convec tion is as follows : " Payment of the public debt of the Duii 2d States a.s rapidly as practicable ; all moneys liawn from the pcoplq by taxation, excej&fco [n^cJ?isJsj^Qjijs?^ aaej_aa_jsj^qjn?i^^ Grovernmeut, economically administered, be-f ug honestly applied to such payment ; and ivhere thc obligation's of.the Government do lot expressly stato upon their face, or the aw under which they were issued does not provide that they shall be paid in coin, they jugut iu right and in justice be to paid in the lawful money of the Uuited States." The resolution declares that, unless the ob ligation issued by the Government, by the law authoriziug its issue, expressly provides that it is to be. paid iu gold, it may bo paid in lawful money. The Ia>v authorizing the issue of the five twenties provided for a lawful money, and declares Troasury note.?, with the legal ten ier clause, to be lawful money ; and neither the-law nor the obligation provides that these bonds snail -be paid in gold. G oven-or Seymour atandsupon this plat form, and I claim that the platform explains itself, and standing upon the'platform, his position is not and cannot be misunderstood. I had thought of reading one or two other of tho resolotioris adopted at New York, in contrast'with the resolutions adopted*at Chi cago, to show that at New York positions were assumed plainly, distinctly, directly, so that the people could not be. misled by any thing thal was there said. But, sir, as it would likely take more time thuu 1 nm able Lo accupy this morning, I will not go further in that direction. With a platform explicit aad direct upon all the great questions that now attract public itteution, it only remains to i'oquire who are the men that stand upon it; 1 need not, in addressing either the Senate or the country, 3ccupy much time in speaking of . Governor Seymour.. He has been long lt now n to the sountry as one of the irrst ot her statesmen. A ripe scholar and profound thinker, ia rimes ind in positions of great difficulty he bas done the State much .-ervice. 'He has filled posi tions the' highest iii this country except that tb which he has bpen nominated', and to whiph, in my judgment, he will be eleeted.- A states man cool iu thought and efficient in action he will command the confidence of the coun try. I know that criticisms have been made upon his conduct during the war. I am glad that it requires, but a sentence to answer all criticisms. So efficient was he as the Execu tive of the great State of New York, in the raising of troops, and especially in the aid he ?jaye to the Govercment about the time of the hattie of GettysDurg, that Mr. Lincoln re turned bim, in the most earnest and emphat ic manner, his thauLcs. Ho is an Eastern, man, but he -is accepta ble to thc Northwest. We know from the sentiments that he has already expressed that he is not a sectional man. He is a man who, it the head ot this Government, will recognize ill sections, and respect aud labor to promote the interests of each. : While the chief Exe-1 cutive of tho State ot Now York he favored, publicly and privately, that policy w'nich would encourage the producers of the great North west. He favored on the.part of the State of New York the adoption of a policy that would allow our heavy freight to pass over tho State canal almost without charge"; and if his policy had been carried out to the ex tent that he desired the Northwest would bave been benefited to the extent of millions of dollars. A national man, fair to all sec tions, be may well receive the support not only of his own but of that section from which 1 cbme ; and 11 'ieye that he will receive a Bopport, whether sufficient to control the votes in tho South or not, I will not say, but a cordial support in that section of the Union. Whether he eau obtain' the doctoral votes in the Southern States will depend, in my jndg. ment, upon the question whether the milita ry are kept organized in those Stntes, and the Freedmen's Bureau, with ita party maofcjnery, to control the elections. Of Gen. Blair, tho candidate for the Vice Presidency, I need say but little to tho Sen ate. He was at one time a member of the other bmnch of Congress, and recognized by all as possessing high attainments and abifi tieB.; Talented, generous, and brave, he will receive an enthusiastic -support* 'Coonected with the army, and participating in-..some of.| its grand movements that have made'ita her. roes immortal, his name and fame will be cherished and guarded by his late associates rin arms. The criticisms, sharp and ing?ni ions, that have been made upon the views which he may have expressed upon the con dition and rights of the people of tho subju gated States, will not be heeded by the peo-, pie when they reflect that you have shut the door of the Supreme Court against all inqui ry in regard to the legislation which he lins denounced. You havo declared that your legislation shall not undergo that review and ! 'examination which the Constitution itself con templated. You have declared that the judi 1 ciary shall not decide whether 3 our acts of reconstruction are constitutional and valid. You have therefore left it to the Executive to .decide for itself. ? Mr. President, I believe that the highest interests of this country demand the election of this ticket, and that it will be elected, and that the country will again be restored to permanent peace-peace that rests not upon subjection to despotic power, but upon ibo restored supremacy of thc Constitution and the rigtful authority of all the department? of tho Government-and to a prosperity as en during as that'peace. -? ? The Capacity of the Ffegro for Sclf Governuient. As in this country the experiment is now being made on a large scale of entrusting thc powers of government tothe negro, it becomes a matter of interesting inquiry (says the -Charleston Mercury) to know what capacity he has for the task. *To judge of this cor rectly, we should not confine our inquiries to the negroes of the Southern States, who have tor.j'cars been under the compulsory training of the whites. The superiority of the South ern freedman of to-day over the wildAfrican of a hundred years ago from whom he is de scended, only proves that the ra.ee may bc .taught, not that it will learn of its own ac cord ; that it can be compelled to improve, not that it has tho elements of progress with in itself, or even that it would voluntarily fol low au exampleof improvement. This could only be proved by an instance of a progres sive cpuutry controlled by negroes! That instance is wanting. History is all tho other way. The negroes of Hayti who became in dependent fifty years ago with a telerable share of civilization acquired by training, and .the advantage of a* slight mixture of Circas sian blood, now hive a government scarcely better than that of Dahome or Egba. Our freedmen are mostly the descendants of West Africans, and the nations, or rather tribes of . that part of the world are now as barbarous as when the first cargo of slaves was shipped to America. If W, J. Whipper, the- most intelligent.pure-blooded negro in the Colum bia Legislature, were to visit Dahome at the present time, he could easily find the coun terpart of I1?3 gi eat, great grand-father, sa*e only perhaps thut he would be armed with a musket instead of a bow and arrow, wear a calico mg in place of a grass tie, and drink blood fi om an earthenware tea cup rather than from w skull. If negro rule is allowed to become an established fact in South Caro lina, we have no reason to doubt that Whip per's great, great gra?d child, will also be an excellent counterpart of the venerable ances tor already mentioned. In confirmation of thefie views we take the following extract from " Routledge's Natural 'History of Man," a work prepared by Rev. J. G. Wood, M. A. F. L. S., &c., &c. There is a very re-, arkable point about the tirtie inegrp of Western Afrira^jiamefy, the use winch he has made of his contket'with civilization. It might be imagined that he would have raised himself in the social scale by his freqaent intercourse with men wiser and more powerful than himself, and who, if perhaps they may not have heen much better in a moral point of view, could not possibly have been worse. But he has done nothing of the kind, ?md, instead of giving up his old barbarous custom.*, has only increased their barbarity by the additional means which he has obtained from thc white mat). Exchanging the bow and arrows for the gun, aod the club for the sword, lie has em ployed his better weapons in increasing his destructive powers, and has chiefly used them in fighting at:d selling into slavery those whom he had previously fought, and who re.specred him as long as the arms on both sides were equal. And the strangest thing is that, even considering his captives as so much property, the only excuse which could be fourd for the savage cruelty with which he makes raids on every town which he thinks he can conquer, he has not yet learned to abolish the dread- 1 ful''custom" of human sacrifices, although each prisoner or criminal killed is a dead loss to him. --? . ?-; WHAT TO STAMP.-All notes and-cvider. CO8 of debt. Ove ceiiLs on each one hundred dollars; if under one hundred dollars, five cents ; if over one hundred dollars, five cents on each additional one hundred dollars ot part thereof. All receipts for any amount ? without limit over twenty dollars, two cents; . if tweuty dollars or under, nothing. AU deeds and deeds of trust, filly cents on each five hundred dollars in value of the property conveyed the amount secured; when a deed of trust is fully slumped, the note secured must not be : but-they should-be endorsed to show the reason why. . Mortgage bonds need not be s ta m pt. J if a tam ps are affixed to the mortgage Ail appraiaemont, estates or ea trays, five cents on each sheet or piece of pa per. Affidavits of every description are ex empt from stamp duties. Acknowledgments, to deeds, et J., are also exempt. Contracts and agreements, five cents, except for rents; when for rent, fifty cents for each seven hun dred dollars of rent or less, if not over three hundred dollars ; fifty cents for two hundred dollars or over tbrpe hundred dollars. Any person interested.can affix andcancel stamp-. GEN. JACXSON AND GEN. GRANT.-General Grant has a sentinel marching in front of his home night and day. Wheu his little boy ol twelve years of ago rides to school every day he is accompanied by two orderlies in the uniform of the United States army. In re terring to this a correspondent of the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph relates the following incident of General Jackson's last visit to New Orleans: "The fatigues of the day ended, tho old hero repaired with many of the citizens to apartments prepared for him in that raagnifi- ( cent structure, the St. Louis Hotel. The captain of an Irish company detailed a stal wart son of Erin as a sentinel at the General's 1 door. There he was, walking his rounds,' when the General observed him, and turning 1 to General Lewis, asked : " What does this mean ?" " Only a sentinel at you. door, General." 1 I shall ever remember that look, and the 1 exclamation, my God ! as he strode up to the ' sentinel with a manner which was the Gene- I ral's oqlyj !? A|y good man," said he, ? what ar-e you doing at my door with a musket iu your . hands?" " The captain placed me hero ae your guard, General." "Am I not in the. midst of the American people? Am I in danger from these? Or is this intended as an honor to mo ? If so I : despise it \ Go home, sir, and get your dm- j nen" and turning to hU guests he continued j j " Whenever an American citizen, by bis pub- ! lie conduct, renders a public guard necessary ? ; to his protection, beware bf that maD 1" .fi?* Will Grant live to get' back-from his 1 Western trip?' Doubtful, lop he promised ,Wasbbnrne before- Jue started-that' " ao help him God, he would not touch.a.drop-pf whis key while he was gone." If God helps him this time, it will be more than he did before. Written for tho Advertiser. Castles in the Air. True taste ideal fancy feigns Whilst on poetic wings ; 'Cove earth, and all that earth contains, Unboundod fanoy springs. To dwell on earth's gross olement, Let groveling spirits bear, Whilst I, on noble plans intent, Build Castles in the Air. No neighbours there can disagree, Or thwart what I design, l'or tbero not only all I seo, But ali I wish is minc. No surly neighbour's leave I want To make or pull down fonce ; I build, I furnish, lay out, plant, Regardless of expense. One thing, indeed, excites my fear, Nor let it seem surprising, Since Radicals, from year tu year, New taxes are devising. Lest oarth being taxed,-os soon it may, Boyond what carib can bear; Oar Congressmen a tax should lay On Castles in the Air ! Well, with thc end tho tax would suit, Did they in theso our days, Ideal plans to execute, Ideal taxes raise. -. ? ? ?- ' Thc Israelites Down on Grant. ? large and enthusia?tic meet ol' the Isra elites ol' Memphis was held in the hall of thc Memphis Club, last night, (says the Avalanche, of the 16th,) in response to a call published in the city papers. Every scat was tilled, and many had to content themselves with mat-ding room. In point of numbers, wealth and re spectability, it was the mo.-t influential -cot ing, of a religious or political caste, beid in this city for some months. The following resolutions were adopted without a dissenting voice in this assemblage of Jewish citizens of all political stripes: ? Whereas, Ulysses S. Grant, General of the United States, "did, in his official capacity, is sue, or caused to be issued, an order known as General Order No. ll, dated at Oxford, Mississippi, "?j.cember 17,18G2, and which order is hereunto appended ; and . Whereas, Thc said General Order No. ll was an unjust and wanton libel, not upon in dividuals," but expressly made to apply to the whole race of Israel, branding us as faithless, dishonest and disloyal, and its purpose and effect Wero to persecute and prosecute those to whom it was applied, on account of their birth, which, with their re?gtou, is their only crime; and Whereas, The said Ulysses S. Grant is now before, the country as a candidate for tho highest office in the gift of the American peo ple therefore: Resolved, That we, thc Israelites of the city of Memphis, do believe that the said U. S. Grant has, by the said order, showD himself to be a man unfit for the high position to which he aspires, and incapable of adminis tering the laws to all clares with impartiality and without prejudice. Resolved, That we each and every one, in dividually aud collectively, as Israelites, who have respect for our honor and our religion, pride in-our race and love lor om' country, do pledge ourselves to use every honorable means in our power to defeat the election of the said U. S. Grant. Resolved, That this meeting is uuv called for any political or party purpose, but solely to defea.'. the mau who has, by his Oilier N - 11, insulted the whole Jcwis? race. Resolved, That we exhort and admonish oar bre-bren in this acid all other cities and towns in tin; Uu>ted States, as they value re ligious liberty and'heir rights, to do all in their power to defeat the caid Ulysses S. Grant. G. II. JCDAO, Rev. S. TUSKA, A. SKESSEI., T. FOLZ, L. KllEMEIi, J. S. MENKEN-, SETMOCT? L. LEE. Betrayed, aud His Betrayer. Of all men who may rightfully complain of the enormities of Radicalism, and who may rightfully denounce them, the Federal soldier has ihe best right and strongest grounds. We mean, of course, the patriotic soldier, whoen listed in tim army to prevent a division of the Union and the destruction ol' the Constitu tion ; who, accepting the solemnly plighted faith of the Government-that the war should be prosecuted for no purpose "of coi.questor subjugation, nor for any purpose cf interfer ring with the established institutions of any State, but >imply to preserve the Union un der the Constitution with the dignity, equality, and rights of thc- several Slates unimpaired'-" -responded to'the call for troops, as was the cape especially with all Kentuckians. Tbey have a rightrtocouiplain because they have been cruelly and shamefully betrayed by the authorities controlling the government. They enlisted to preserve the Union ; their services were perverted into its destruction. They assumed the duties and risked the dan gers of the camp and the battle-fi-jid td per petuate the Constitution ; their sacrifices and valor are made the means of ?ts destruction. They enlisted under the solemn pron ise of the government that the "established institu tions, dignity, equality, and rights of the States should -be preserved," and find, at the end of tho contest, that they have be^u made the unwilling instruments of utterly destroy ing all these sacred boons. They enlisted to ?ave to the ?nico ten States of white mer, and find their success made to substitute ten colonies of niggers for those States. * We make au oppeal to the honest, patriotic, gallant, chivalrous " white boy in blue," to poiider over tbe*e facts, and then answer us if he will longer, sustain his betrayers-. . Re member the promises of the men who, claim in? to be Union men, won your confidence, and look at their acts of shameless betrayal, then tell ns, will you " lick the foot that kicks you?" THE CA urET-BAGGERS.-Thc Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun has buta poor opinion of the new Congressmen. He says.: It is doubtful whether some of the gentle men claiming to be representatives will ever return to their reputed constit uencies. Having been elected by military influence: they will ?erve a briet season in Congress, pocket their five thousand dolfars per annum, and the places South that ''once knew thom will know them no more forever." The Washington correspondent of the Bal limore Gazette, under date of tho 24th inst., says: Since the introduction into tho House of tho Southern representatives (?) a novel inno vation has been made in the manner of vo ting in that body. Whenever any question is up and a vote about being taken, tiie carpet bag members aro visited bv the vages, who whisper (loud enough to bc heard hy orher>) " the Hpeakor ays vote aye." or ,4 the sppakor Bays sote nay." as the case may be. A few days since the Radicals divided on a question, and "General P""er ventured to instruct the new monibp- ~<? to how they should vote, but a brother- ' . dical spcing the " dodge," fol lowed,or .ifs track and gave each a lesson On the opposite side. The vote, was taken, and to ' ho great disgust of the heroof Bte Bethel, the carp?t-baggprs all voted against him, in spite of bis nods sod winks. - Gen. ltlair's Letter of Acceptance. ; The fellowing is the letter of General Frank Blair accepting tue nomination for Vice j President of tho National Democratic Con vention : OMAHA, NEBRASKA, July 13,1868. Gtneral George W. Morgan, Chair mun Com mittee Nul io ital Democratic Convention : GENERAL-I take the earliest, opportunity of replying to youjr letter, notifying me of my nomination for Vice Pre-idcnt ot thc United States by the National Democratic Cpsiyen. I tion, recently held in thc Cit) of New York. I accept without hesitation the ?omination tendered in amauner so gratifying, und give you and the committee my thanks for thu very kind and'complimentary language in which you have conveyed to me the decision of thc Convention. 1 have carefully read thc resolutions adopt ed by the Convention, aud most cordially con cur in every priuciple and sentiment they an nounce. . My opinion upon all of the questions which discriminate the great conteuding parties have been freely ' expressed on all suitable occa sions, ::nd I do not deem it necessary at thia time to reiterate them. Tho issues upon which the contest turns are clear, and cannot bo obscured or distort ed by the sophistries of our adversaries. They all resolve themselves into theold and ever renewing struggle of a few men to absorb the political power of the naticu. This, effort, under every conceivable r.ame,and disguise, has always characterized the oppoueuts of the Democratic p*r!y, but at no time has the attempt assumed a shape so open and daring as in 1 his coutest. The adversaries ol fre: and constitutional government, in defiance of the express language of the constitution, have erected a military despotism in ten of the States of the Union, have taken from the President the powers vested iu him by the supreme law, and have deprived thc- Supreme Court of its jurisdiction. The right of .trial by jury, nud the great writ of right, the? ha beas corpus-shields of safely for every citi zen, and which have descended lo us from thc earliest traditions of our ancestors, and which our Revolutionary fathers sought to se cure to their posterity Ibrever in the funda mental character of our liberties-have been ruthlessly trampled under foot by the frag ment of a Congress. Whole States arid com munities of people of our own race have been attainted, convicted, condemned, and depriv ed of their rights as citizens, without present ment, or trial, or witnesses, but by congres sional enact UK nt of ex pout facto laws; and iu defiance of the eonsiituiional prohibition de nying even to a full and legal Congress the authority to pass any bill ot attainder br ex post facto hw. The same usurpiug authority lias substituted as electors in place of the men of our own race, thus illegally attainted and d?8fi t.aChiscd, a host ot ignorant negroes, who arc supported in idleness with the public money, and combined together to strip the white rsc?of their birthright, through the management of Freedmen's Bureaus and the emissaries of conspirators in other Slates; and, to Complete the oppression, the military power of the nation has been placed at their disposal, in order to make this barbarism su preme. The military leader under whose prestige this usurping Congress has taken refuge since the condemnation of their sch ernes] by the free people ot the North in the cieciums of the last-year, and-whom th*y-'have selected. as ?heir candidate to shield t-Lemselws from the rcsuli of their own wickedness and crime, has i>niiOur.ced his acceptance ol the nomina te <ii, und Lis willingness to maintain their usurpa'ions over eight millions of white peo ple at. the South, fixed to ihe earth with his bayonets. He exclaims : u Let us have peace." " Peace reigns in Warsaw," was th?aniiounce ment which heralded thc doom of the liberties of a nation. "The Empire is peace," ex claimed Bonaparte, when freedom and its de fenders expired uuder the sharp edge of his sword. The peace to which GTaptinvites us i? the peace ot despotism and death. Those who seek to restore the constitution by executing the will of the people condemn ing thc Reconstruction act?, already pronounc ed iu the elections of la>t year, "and whici' will, I am co vinced, be still more emphati cally expressed by the election of the" Demo cratic Candidate as lnp Piesident of the Unit ed States, are denouueed as revolutionists by the partisans of this vindictive Congress. Nc gi o suffrage, which tho popular vote of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Ohio/Mich igan, Connecticut and other Slates have con demned as expressly against the letter of the constitution, must staud, because their sena tors and representatives have willed ir. If the people shall again condemn these atroci ous measures by the election of the Democrat ic candidate for thc President, they muH not be disturbed, although decided lo be uticon stitutional by the Supreme Court, and although thc President is sworn to maintain and sup port the constitution. Tho will of a fraction of a Congress, reinforced with its partisan emissaries sent to thc South and supported there by the soldiery, must stand against the will of the people and the decision of the Supreme Court, and the solemn oath of the President to maiutuiu and support the consti tution. It is revolutionary to execute the will of tho people ! It is revolutionary to execute the judgment of the Supreme Court I It is revo lutionary in tho President to keep inviolate ly oath to sustain thc constitution 1 This false construction of thc vital principle of our government is the last resort of those who would "have their arbitrary reconstruction 8-vay and supercedc our time-honored institu tions ! The nation will say the constitution must be restored, and the will of tho people again prevail. The appeal to the peaceful ballot to attain this end is not war, is not revolution. They make war and revolution who attempt to arres: this qniet mode cf put ting aside military despotism and the usur pations of a fragment of a Congress, asserticg absolute power over that benign system of regulated liberty left us by our fathers. This must be allowed to take its course. This is the only ro?d to peace. It will come with t he eleciion of the Democratic candidate, and not with thc election of that mailed warrior, whose bayonets are new at the throat of eight millions cf people in .the South, to com pel them to support him as a candidato' for the Presidency, and to submit to the domina tion of an alien race of semi-barbarous men. No perversion of truth or audacity of mis representation can exceed that which hails this candida e in arms as an angel of peace. I am, very respectfully, Your most obedient servant, FBANK P. BLAIR. HfOS* Leavenworth held an immense meet ing lor Seymour and Blair Saturday night. Hiram U. Grant passed through the town the day liefere, and only the postmaster was so poor as to do him reverence. Tho State Central Democratic Com mitiee'of Kentucky have issued a -virrin? ad dress for organization and work. Kentucky is good for a majority, whereof thc puaile. is whether ir shall be 80,000 or l?oXXK).- We1 advise the latter. Thea it will ncadjy be up to that di New York. A young woman astonished the assem bly at H ball in Nashville by going into a njca meric trance between the dances and treating them tu declamations, prayers and exhorta tions. 'Too much chicken salad and cham pagne were tue probable cause. HFOsT white m,aji has been turned out of the ?fSe? of bridge keeper in Coluaibos, aud I negro put io his place. Important urdcr. WASHINGTON, July 28. p. m.-The fol^.w idg oidcr Las just beti? issued from lite War Department : Commanding Generals of I he Secon.3, Jliird, Fourth.aud Fifth Military Districts hiving-of fieialiy reported thai Arkansas, North Cuto linx, South Caroline, Louisiana, Georgia, Al abama, and Florida have complied with.the Reconstruction Ac;fi, including the Act of JUDO 25tb, 18t!?, and consequently so much of Act of Marchi 2d. 18G7^ aud all acts sup plementary thereto providing for military din riots subject to military'authority of tire Uoited Stales, a* therein' provided, have be-' come inoperative in said States, and com manding Genera!? have ceased exercising the military puwers conferred by said acts"; there fore the following changes will bo wade in the organization and command of military dis tricts and geographical departments: First. Second and Third Military Districts having ceased toexist, North Carolina, Sooth Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida will. con-titute thu Department of thc South General Meade to cooitnar.d, ?Ja hea-'quarr ters at Atlanta, Georgia. . Second. General Gillern will command tbe Fonrth Military District, comprising jki?&?s sippi. Third, General Reynolds wi1l command tho .Fifth Military. District comprising Texas, with headquarters at Austin. Fourth. Louif-iana and Arkansas wilieon stitute the Department of Louisiana; Gen. Rousseau commanding, with Headquarters at New Orleans. Geu. .Duchauan w,ilj.con tinue in command until relieved bj Gen. Rosseau. Fifth. Geu. George Crooke relieves-Gen. Rousseau in the Department of Columbia. Sixth. Gen. Canby i>. re-assia^eXto the command of thc Department of Washington. Seventh. Gen. Kdward, Hatch, Coi. Niuth Cavalry, relieves Gen. Bucha uah as Assistant Commissioner Bureau Refugee*, Freedmen and Abotidoned Lands iu Louisiana. THK COLORED DEMOCRATS.-A prominent feature in the Democratic Ward Club protea I sion, on Friday night, was the pres*cc*, of over three hundred colored Demoerutn. We are glad to note this, aa it is an iudic&tiou of tbe returu of reason. The colored people, we think, begin- to realize that their tnje.ru tcre&ts lie with those of the. while peojd^of the State. The events ol' the, recent elc^t^s .in the .State and the subjequent actions qf.?iie Legislature bave demonstrated the .fact _he yond the shadow of a doubt, that file Radical party only design using -tbem.aa40ftr.au)j^tB and tools for their own aggrandizement. .'Iiis must be apparent to all wbo aro not blind, *. and we trust that the eyes of the colored peo pie arc being opened to ibo fact. (JiU.il the laboring class of a community perceive that ' their interests are inseparable from those cf. .the land owners, complete harmony cw mot be expected, and the sooner the colored peo ' pie recognize thc truth of this the better for them. Tbe remarks of the speaker^ at tj:e ratification meeting of Friday night WTCre plete with good advice, aud did not, we think, fall unheeded upon the ears .of the col aced' people present.-Charleston Courier. -, MAXING LOVE WITH UMBRELLAS.-A cer tain dramatic writer, being caught in-a shower of rain, took refuge under the portico of a handsome dwelling -in New York.. Aa-soon as he had taken - the position a window was opened, an d n lovely female face a^jweawdi. . : which seemed to beam with sympathy and anxiety. She soon retired, and sent nim an umbrella by a servant. He fell at once des perately in rove, and thinking from her anx ious looks that the feeling was-reeiprecated, he called on her tbe next' morning, sent ap his card, and gave into ntr own hand a rery costly umbrella he bad purchased in place of the old and shabby one he'had borrowed, and then wound up all by making a profession* of love. The young lady, without even noticing the exchange that had been made, perceiving Low her act had been misinterpreted, naively replied : u I feel it to be my duty to undeceive you, sir. At the time of the shower I was anxiously expecting a gentleman who is, I confess, very dear "to me, who wished to flee me In private, and my only motive for send ing you the umbrella was to get" you off the steps." . - . One of our religious exchange? has thc following strong remarks on thc subject of debt: 'Men may sophisticate as much as rb ey niease. They can never make it right, and all the universe cannot make it right lui- them not to pay their debts. There ia a sin ia this neglect as deserving church discipline as .stealing or false swearing. He who violates tiis promise lo pay, or mthholda his power.to meet Hie engagement, ought to feel that in tho sight of all honest men he is a swindler. Re ligion may be a very comfortable cloak under which to hide, but if religion does not make a man deal justly, it is not worth having-? _ ' Hon Jefferson Davis and family sailed on. Saturday, ?e 25Lb, from Quebec Tor Eu rope. ,. , ?S$~ Secretary Seward baa proclaimed that the Fourteenth Amendment has become valid, to all intents and purposes as a part of the Constitution of thc United States. ?SiasT Jules Lefevre bad a painting *epre seuting a nude female figure in thc Paris Academy.exhibition, and it took the first prize. One story is that the Menken p*osed tor it, and that young Damas has bought it for ?5000 as a present to his father. Another account is that the face is the portrait of a beautiful woman of the kaut monde wbo sa*, to Lefevre but returned the portrait from some freak c. f fancy. In this way the artist took bis revenge and made the lady disagree ably immortal. JC33T Mr. Greeley declares that the Re publicans are delighted with the nomination of Governor Seymour. Thafsso; manyare so delighted that they intend to vote for him. Chief Justice Chase, Senator Doolittle, Sena tor Dixon, Charles Francis Adams, Andrew Johnson, and probably Thad. Stevens, are among the Republicans who will vote for him. ?ssT Jox says that jf a man feels much bice getting married, yet imagines he ougbt not to, the best remedy he knows is to help one of his neighbors to move a house full of furniture borrow about nine of his children and hoar them cry. If that fails, build up a fire .of damp wood and when the smoke in thc room is thickest, hire a woman to scold him about fourhour3. If be can stand aft these, ho had better get married the n?xt day-give his wife the pants and be the silent partner" in the great finn of matrimony. Tho reme dy is severe, but as every man is liable to these things after he yokes himself, it would do no harm to try? it before. ? ? In Dresden there is an iron egg^the history of which is something fike tbjs:" A young PrinC6<sent thia iron egg to a lady to whom he wai -betrothed. '"Site ree?iv?d it in her hands and looked ot it "with dis?ain. In her indignation that he shodfd 'send ber such a gift, she cast it to the earth? W^en it touched tho ground a spring, cunningly hidden in the egg, opened, and ? silver yolk rolled out She touched a secret spring in the., yolk, and a golden'chicken wes revealed;abe touched a spring in tho'chicken,, and a crown was found within 5 sha touched a'spring in the crown, and within ft V*8 found a diamond wedding .ringer . ? There is a mond, to the story.