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FROM COLUMBIA. . " " From tue Columbia correspondents of tte Charleston Courier and Daily News, we con* tinue to furnish our readers with a synopsis of the proceedings and doings of tho bogu3 Legislature-still in session ' in Columbia legislating (so-called) ostensibly for the good of the country, but in reality only for the ?G per diem, which they are so wantonly stealing from the oppressed tax- payera of South Caro - lina. Go on, ye damnable freebooters, and viie usurpers, in plundering and despoiling this once fair land of ours. Now's your day, and now's your hour. But bear in mind : There's a day of reckoning coming ! 'COLUMBIA, S. C., August 10. In thc^J^u^.^e^gbir^Uie..Comptroller Gerjeral elect )-bnd the-followfagrpaper-read * ; by: the Clerk : ~" .' -3 , 1 <: Wjhereas/certain affidavit/? have appeared in* th?^t?harleston Daily News, emanating fcora'?'cerjain Rock 'Hill Conservative- Club, ma?ing the infamous attempt to fix on mc an .infamous crime,- therefore I'-re.quest the ap . pointaient-, of ? Commitiee?of five, with irj. ..srrnct?oT?s'to examine evidence-! propose to produce, and report .tb-the House as io.the .-.corre?tnes,*-of; tho-affidavits." - . ? - Nearie, in" explanation, contended that the -affidavits Were 'gotten up by parries who .wajitedlokUl'hlm."politically, that they .p??-I, -^sesss.ed no shadow of truthj and- that the par ' ties^would-Jis9assibatahin> if they dared. Ha was prepared to prove th-2 whole thing an in famous slander. ?Thc Uouso agreed to ap point tho^committce as asked. " ' 'An it'v?!'b.c'.t:a? effort was ."made to.allow . ''^Speaker Ale's ci '$? per diem extra from'the ^edmmencement '"D?the sessiun^ou account of his. arduous labors. A r^ohrtion was adopted providing fo? the" ^..:??(tt?oh of ???'hf/CircuitJudges on Thursday. Sa nf. ?.2C (mulatto") Tnt^ucVd"^a'BflUo Wpea'Ijfcfl Charter o?'.?be towji of Hamburg,-" jdiihh^was,, read nuJje/erred to the Commit tie.cu^'?ue?.rp?^itions. ' ..... xi co^municatioa was. read from Qener&l' ' 5?tftt, Vnapu?cin?hfs."i?-)px?val of the Acta , tli?rizmjgAtoiin^r^t??.OOO.' ;' ?n Ike Senate! the Bill tc regulato the ten b'F? bf'.certain officers, was amended so'as to allow all Slate and Cuohty officers,- eleetedsiq. Aprit'/or'^Jb'a?j to file their bonds "w.f?jiu ' twenty <biys ?'r?rn the paVuge of the Act"., 'AvB'rft proposirjg to lill all offices ?nly vrilL pi-rsong- favorable to Che" pre's?"t"Staf c Govern ' -me'?t wis-'iaBled-/ . .*"' "The' Le^islatiife has been'in sossi?tf thirty ftc'eVms, during which 'tune it ha? passed" "Tive BiRs. of 'rgio warrant?, was brought' Vefoce A?.J. " Wiil?irrVfliis mprinttg_v 'T^e 'informati6?;Jset.s . ont that Walker "was p&?^oner ot Richland Coituty, bu}. Wm. 8. Jahhyoti,\yi\o,vva|;elc'ctcd ***'nndcr the"?lb? confution. Wajker pleaded . t? 'thc ^jurisdiction," of thc* Court on.'three.I \gr5Hnds; Fifs.t."Tli?t D..H. Ch^mbsdmu'was. ' "iiot'XttQjjwy-lGeueral, but I. W. Hay ac... Sec ' ond.;YhVt* Wollar?.;; w^s, pot? "Associate Justice.. . 1 but that Chief Justice Dunkin andris osso-' eiaies 'cojistitute' the Supremo Court of the. ' Si?ifcT thifd. ThoL. the 'so-called court has s ?o)wis3ictrx>n fa Richland District, ajad there is'njjsusb" jurisdiction known ns the, County ' -o?3iea.l?n?f in "the constitution; The'counsel'for the respondent are Messrs '"3\srV, iraWefl, F. W: Ficklmgaud Joseph ? D. Pope. , ':.. .' " - Mr.. "CfcimbTrhm rnoved peremptorily;, to dismiss.the.jSea.' \ ' ' Mr .-Poje, responded, and positively jr^f?sed t? argue any. r?o?ott except on constitutional cruestions.. ' . . ~/'v. Mf". pickling followed, and addressed-'the court l?;May it please your honor." - " Chanibwlafa jaierposed, ^saying that tue counsel'^"mode of address was Itself ari: ad mission o"f jurisdiction. Mr. Pickling replied that he. had been edu cated 'in & school'which taught pjliteness be tween, t?embefa .c?.thejbar... He wept on to sayiliat, he did not rec?gn;ize,'the persorKsit .ting'on the bench as an Associate. Justice :t?onstitat?onjilfy ?Inctcd, nor ?he Attornsy Gencrat'as sack, nor Johnson, .as" Corcher'of ' tho District, nor Walker as Coroner of the County.. .. r. Willard overruled the glen, of .jurisdiction, On the ground-that to grant u would be io ad mit, that the State Constitution,,the elections, i < his 'ow/i office, and the whole system of gov | i . eminent was a nullity, fie would hear no such argnmcnt.. Thc counsel.for thc respondent theu'asked for time.to argue.the case-on its.merits. Mr. .Chamberlain, opposed the-mction. Mr. Pope said. iL was the .first time in his career that he'kad ever known such a motion to be opposed Mi". Chamberlain said, tba community was in danger, and in-behalf of good ordetheielt it, is bis duty^to urge thpspeediest hearing.of ^he questions involved.. . MJ. lVadowoll .said that, ."rom tba course ol' argument -of .counsel ^ind the manner in which motions: bad lieen overruled, he felt en tirely convinced* that the court and,the at u?"rney-g?n?ral intended" ta conduct the case iu d?banlo of all the mles of justice and jxffiUf, law or the.- constitution. The casa iva* then adjourned until to-mor roT.-. Ir lin'dt-rstnod that it will be carj?eti up to t?ia iiupreme Court. " I'KRaoxxE," the Columbw correspondent -of-the News, says : The.Scnato to-day was made a tolerably 'l?vcly~place by Leslie, who with bis usual hu morous frankness, took occasion to ventilate bis opinions orr the subject of the Land Oom fttwiob biH.'which has already been published find criticised in-yonr coromna. The measure originated with One Pardee, a Nw? York- speculator in lands, who arrived :bt Ronth Carolina difring the session of the (Convention, at once threw himself heartify icfto the canvass, for Governor, made" speeches tor Tom. Robertson abd embraced Gen. Scoht. He published a pamphlet in blue and gold ? n the resources of South Carolina, and was ap pninted secretary-c-f ono of the commi?sions "created by the Convention to investigate the ^affaira of the State. 'On the assembling of the Lcgislaiuro he deserted Will street, hnr .rltd to Columbia, and has; sit?ce been comfor "tably- ensconced in Nickcrson's Hotel, where ?he" precious bill-was prepared; which propo ees to confer upon two or three individuals, himself ?ncludel.'of course, the control of all tha'Iand'in- South Carolina that may be sold atrpublic' outcry.' .^Wheh the subject came " up to-day, in fhe Senate, :Leslie suggested that its consideration should be postponed until the regular sesaioc, when the financial condition of the Sta'te .svcnld ba- better determined than at present, and practical informatk>n,' derived .frpro'.coni I mittees, could bonneted upon' Hi3 argament.' was tha?if the party issued bonds now,.they .sfbuld do so "blindly. i; When are you .going to pay? Doti't know. What have.you got' to'pay.? Don't knyw. What-is the "proba bility'of. your eyer paying? Don't know." R-WSiTvery much like Cain's .pony. They must either have the cash down for it, or-a promise to pay that was very undoubted. . -B. F.iRaudolpb, .the colored Senator from Orangeburg, took 'the floor, and in his.usual pj?lrified style, talked aboat the infamous at: tempt made to stab the bill by denunciation. Parson Cain followed, singing his .usuaj psalm about lands for. the landless and;hpmes for the homeless; an<L' repeated one'of his - memorized Convention speeches, with whieh giboso witb>a long memory^are familiar. He .?.?g'cha?ges oh ."" the humrof busy machi ru?x, th'-"housewife with her ?hij.dren sitting ^kjjf?f}v 4lfe green vines ' growing around- the homestead, a'ad tho loverly spectacle of, spin ning, .wheels operand by indostfjous freed /Leslie suggested jhat he, haibctter^throw into bis picture forty ?cres and a.raule.. ?nit ot the filibusters for this bill.moved that lt-bVpostponed^ until Wednesday next. Whf-reupon Whitterr'.pre got up and showed fi^hitn favor of the-measure. Thi^ was UD derstjod by the "insiders'; to be a strong bid for a. i;OminaiioH to Congress a?er his present ?ie "couldn't sen" any of theirarga n.ea"-. He likei: jhe . old" DemQcrat'c.pian fhaf prevailed- in ??ew Yor t, when,the.Whigs w?r0 ytottyt' in debt; bot tho mottfr of t??r Democrats was u pay as you go." This ceQ^uirjE^ait.outiay .hy. the .State, and neit he'nor the State we're prepared for it. ' fact was, if " these men," pointing to C and Randolph, expected to become legisla! or to hold office, they must commence to hibit their tact and knowledge, but at pres he was surprisedat nothing ahoy said or < The Republican party was showing itsell be a great set lof asses. \ Randolph .flew into a furious passion., called the Bartjweli.senator to order ; wac to know if by the word asses, he ine "jack as8es,',^becaiise. if so, he was not in t category. ? The chair-sustained the point of order. Col. R. S. Sims (Democrat) quietly marked that he saw nothing inappropriat the language, used, as it was. emphatically plicable. Leslie defended himself by sayiug that idea of colored men knowing anything at finance was simply preposterous, and be no. confidence whatever in. the report that been made*, ^The Republican party, ou ? d.?Feren? ; occasions, had ddhe enough'to J themselves, /and if they kept "on. bu thou they .would.iiucceed in the attempt."' After a very acrimonious debate, the Sec finally postponed Che consideration of .subject until Weduesday? . . '.' -, ? COLUMBIA, August ll * The'House Judiciary Committee repoi favorably on Uf? petition of Joh'u G". Ilgen Charleston, for .permission to let stand wooden house erected in the Lower Wardt The-Coratnittee on Education reporte Bill to provid?-a tjam?orary ocganizatiot the educational 'dpp&rtmeot, with a supe .teiident, whose^ salary shall be ?2,500, v shall Bavo his c^ffice in Columbia^ rand si diges".t'fhe 'rep?rfs ol School Commissioin enroll ?irmales DOfweed the ages of 5 and years. School Commissioners ar?'tpbe? $j? per*day when employed. The ??nmitt?e on-tbeTcnUenti?ry r-apc ed that institution in good condition "as' gards";h^ltB'and:di?t. xhe comfort of pri ners'wetV provided foV ;155 'cells . complej and '233' convicts' id confinement, SOcr'jvh a"re to be discharged thismorith. There w iome com phi nts of-harsh treatment' Dy Ji guard. Tbe'commi'tt'ee 'recommend ? r? gaoiaatibn'by Uie appointment by the' Gov. nor bf three .Commis'si?ne?s,''Whd shall ch?c Superintendent and provide a guard, coritn ed. by the^amy regulations,. . - Pn the Senate, the Committee on Incorp ation= reported a Bill to amend the charter tSbarlestorrso' as td give the Mayor power .remove .policemen wneu he shallr, in;;hisjui ment, doem it necessary to the public go^d. John Heart, formerly of.,the. Chariest Mercury, bas bcen^ppciuted.Private Secre ry io. Governor Scott... .... - ..- . . Major General 0..0,.Howard,.of the Pree men's Bureau, addressed, the Legislature. 4 night. -"Mia speech was. Conservativo. ? congratulated tjiem on the condit?br/of poli .eal,prosperity a'pparent in the .State, and. sa .that it was'.a mistaken notion that labor, w scarce.. ..J?here was plenty of labor, all. th was wanted was capital. He .also, urged tl work of building, np schools and .educath tjieeh.Udjrcra. . . . ? -. ? . ' JChe-arg?ment-in tile-Quo Warr'anio-Pn 3erved.Ol^CpI^^ei'-.Walke^,. w*&"conticued't d*y. ' Tiie oounsrl-Hied a--petition to trans? tho case to the-United ?State? -Court..' Th was argued .by.Messrs.. .Pickling, . Pope ai Tradewel! lor tie pelitionuiyaud Chambe laiiHpe^the - State. ' W.Uiard, overruled .tl petition,.and the counsel thea put in a -ne plea, maintaining that - Willard, has no rig] wi issue a writ, as no. ? Judge of the-Suprcir Court, dr Chancellor, sitting, in .Camber ?ouUTdo so,, ? .. ' .. The .argument was-, very warm-, aa bot ?ides.. Thc case-will be couUnued<to-morrov .' - .'" 'C?tratBtA. AugusJ; 12," In thc Senate, the Bill LO Incorporate th Wando Company was engrossed. . The Coin'mjuee. on Rail Roadri> made. ?fi vocable report cn, a.Bill jo .extend, relief x the Savannah and Charleston; Rail Road. 'The Finance.Committee reported unfavoi ably on the petition of certain merchant t have the taxes-paid.by ' them on gross stile refunded. ....... In th Ho ute ?aa JjidAcjacy. Cammi i m made an unfavorable report on the* Bill ti prevent discriminations on .account o' coloi Bj persons doing business under license. Th< report was laid on the table. The. Committee of Ways and Means report id.a Tax Bill, which is very voluminous, bu noderate. Tho*Bill regulating the admission of Attor leys at.Joaw. to practice,? passed- wiibou imendmcnt. ... The Bill to repeal the - capitation tax wat ii8cussed to the hour-of adjournment. Th? lebate wis very spirited. The argument -in the Quo Warranioc&st ?ras continued to-day. No new striking'pointf aave been raised. Governor Scott sent the following,veto tc .he. Senate this- morning. It created, a pro found sensation, though not unexpected. Nc iction has been- taken yet. It is regarded cer iain that the Senate will sustain the Gover ?or, though a strong party pressure is being jrought to overrule the veto. A caucus of the Republican members was held for this pur pose tonight: . EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, ) COLUMBIA, August 12,1808. $ To the President and Gentlemen of the Se?ale: 'I have thc honor to return to the Senate, in which It originated, an Act to fix the amount if-official bonds of certain-public officers, and io impose pehaltie.ron embezzlements, without my approval, which l am constrained to with hold for the following reasons: The ptfblic credit must bc guarded at every " point, and the embarrassments encountered in the inau guration of. our new State Government Will be best overcome by proceeding in sncli a manner as will command" from the first the ?onfidence ?f capitalists; In the"financial policy of the S;atej any measure appearing to countenance a relaxa tion of the precautions with which the Slate ;?ards its fiinds, will impair the piibl.c credit -such' a r?eas?re now would be a blow struck it the financial- standing of the State atji time when all important considerations de mand that it should be vigilantly and vigot lusly upheld. To reduce at this time the bonds of these to whom the public finds are entrusted fer safe keeping, seems to toe to be dangerous to the public credit. Many of the men who have been elected to positions o( trust are new to the public service, they have not been tried. We belieVe they are true mon. Those who know them, express unqualified confidence in th?ir integrity) but the peculiar circumstaners in which they are placed, demand that they, should furnish the amplest guarantees of their official rectitude. Thc ability to' do this is the only suff?cientrauswer td the cften'.r?p?at ed charge that theparty in,-power* Bas advatrc ed to.positionsof responsibility and trustrtlipse who were without respectability and. 'good standing in'th? community. Were'th? question of anion at of bonds to be required of public offices.ii now ono,' the Bill HOW returned might, be unobjectionable, but the circumstances must be dnly weighed,, and it cannot bc-overlooked that' tho.'reduc tion.of these bonds nowVwill-.be understood,, a'nd.befieved to be'.made to meet individual, cases of men who wero elected with a fall knowledge ?fthe requirements of law. Leg.-' islation, to meet* special cases, is 'always ob jectionable, and the present is 'probably, a time when more"?arm will result from,"?nch legislation than atany previous moment in our history. , It Ts not pertinent, however, to enquire particularly what may bethe individual char acter'ot the officers who.cha'nce to be person ally, interested in. securing the pr?.?pnsed re duotion. The soucce of danger is in princi pie, and dojes^oot rest on- personal- grounds ; ihc precedent is bad. When wnco we begin to accommodate local requirements to suit special cases the mischief is done. . In the?.ca8e of some county officers ii is un derstood that a proposition is under consider iiion to diminish their responsibility by as signing a part of their, duties to other officers, in cases where tho responsibilities, may be thus reduced. Reduction of tho bonds, ro- j, rjuired would not-be- improper, but, upon a 1 :areful consideration of the whole subject, ! ind with, the deepest concern for the interest jf the 5ta;o, X feel compelled to disappro?? i the Act to reduce the bonds, now require/ by.law, of- those officeK-elect,. whose dutie and-responsibilities i?tnain the samo as thosi of the present incumbents and predecessors The section guarding against embezzlemen of public money? meets my unqualified ap provalh but I jim compelled, for reasons abov giveiSf-to-disapprove the Act as/a whole. . (Signed) ROBERT KTSCOTT, Goverrio COLOMBIA, August 13. In 'the Senate to-day'the House -resolution in reference to tbe death of Thaddeu's'Steve? were concurred in. Whittemore offwfed a r?solution providin that the Superintendent of Education shu prescribe the text books, and that all institi tions of learning supported out of the publi funds' shall bo turned over to the charge < the Superintendent of Public Schools an placed under tbe direct supervision of "tb School Commissioners of the several countiei also, tbat.a-spfeoial- committee of five" be*s| pointed-to investigate .the outrages on ?juio 'm?iij and the number of murders ?ommiitet with-the facts showing the existence ot' a dis loyal organization. The .resolutions-were. 01 d?red for consideration to' morro.w^and.fnen b'ers were invited to furnish nil the. facta the kuow bearing on the subject. Tbe object < thi3 ?nca3ur? is.io furnish electioneering ca? ?ila!. -..'-. %. ' ' i-.. The "Senate then proceeded to tbe-con.side tion of'the Bill ".to.Reduco the IJouBs' < Publie Officers, and in oqnnection wjth ittb .Message of Governor Sdb.rt Tetoiagvit, and th question, beigg put to the'Sonate, "'Shall th ?ii! pass, the objections of tue, Governor no Withstanding^" tho vote,*csuJLt?d 15 ayes.; e .the. ?ill, not .having rec?jwdj;be r-equisit.e.twi thirds vote, was lost.. . 'f ho3? voting in the affirmative were Arnin .Caju, Cjoghlan, Duncan, Hoyt, Montgomery Maxwell, Nash, Owens, Hamey, Rutlani S wai Is',, fright abd .Wim.bush. ,. , - T-ho?e voting j n .the .negativa .wer?... AJic 'Fieman, Back, Dickson, "Foster, Hayes, Hayn' ' jillson, Leslie, Ried,BAidgeis,.STm$Bnd,Y?hi tetnorev . . . TJ*e IIo^e8?e8x?law,Aafter ajong.dlsouusi'c over* a?' amendment ina k m <: 11 retrosnefctiyi Jwas passed-yeas 2Q, nays. t?. , ? In tho Souse, W- .E> Jnbusou. (colored) o .fered respj?tlqrfs deploring th?:death, o?Thai dbua Steyens, aud?Or?bri?e; the desks of ?th presiding officers of both Houdes to be drape with mourning'for.thirty'days, and the t?/g .tO;be hoisted at half mast .till after -the-funei ali ".The-resolution was adopted, k communication..was received ?r.oqa - th Secrptar?,of Stale, giving.the ?m?unt,.oflau under'tax exgoutiqns by tEo State, viz : 22 737 acres. . . r".. .. \ ? - .Qi) motion of Crews, t,he "Jbtlt ..preven tinj ^?smmiimt?gns on .aceoqnt of .race--or .colo Joy parties iyide^ f?cense,, was laid _ upop;.tb table"; alsq, Ne?gleia-.??l'repealing the.capjfts t? on fax. .. ." . -, The -House then went-into secret session wheo it was.announced that the Governor'Ba failed .to negotiate.a loan, and'could not d so Unlit the passage of tbe Tax biff. Mean .whi^e, there are parties-shaving the member* . np,tes, af thirty days a&.twenty iiye per cen? discount. .' j . .- - . ...... .. r -ur ->m '.' t -u"-' ~.y - ? - . '' . ' COLUMBIA, August 14! 'Ui.the H;d?seaBill was to day introduce* io 'fix the'amount of "th? "Bonds of "C?jrn.t; '.Officers.' It ma?ces.the Bonds of Cbarle-tui County aVfalWs : Judge of Ph ?ba te. $5 OOO Coroner, $5000; Clerk of/Com f, ^pOO^Sher "f? ?2o,OjOp t fhe oiner officers ^'reniain a 'now Required by law. "Tbe lo.ids"'of gthje counties are fixed atic< Tctsporiding fatef. ' ? B?1? to.r?g?l?i*? flin t?nur?.pf office pass e.d to its third readiae. j Tho'rest ?f this unir? during\he sessi n wai devoted t?'t?fe* consideration "of the "M?iiiui Bill. The D?ra"ocrafs.lighUii^*tt\with ?ftt greaten pertinacity, and using au dilatory ra-; tionK'ann qtK?'r" parli'Vment'iry tactics to stave offacti'oqs. This created much'feelih^ampugsi Republican members, and every effort.wa made to gag the D?inocrats, both "by th? m?mbers and Speaker Moses. '0-nly tlire' out of ninety sections' were read, woen the House adjoiirned. In the discussion- on the bill to. altr.r md amend tb'p'charter of the City of Charleston, ^fr. Corbin'moved to change ten dava re'ai OPTTCB"HT ttrrny xeaysr-fcca^Te^^'ovea sixty but Corbin's am" nd merit prevailed. In the cmrse of the debate Leslie said that those seuators who voted fut thirty days could not be trusted. Corbin exejriated' bim in his re ply, and ie was "censured by the Senate. The bill then .passed and was ordered to be en grossed. -? ? ? -;-: Signs of thc Times. . There are already mauy assurances of vic tory for the Democratic candidates the ap proaching November. ' First. The Democratic party united ^or the'fi.'St time in ten years, and the accessions to the party from the old line Whigs'and Con SirvatiVe Republicans are very marked and influential. Second. The country is weary of war and conflict in a time, of peace. The country prays for rest, and the people for that peace and quiet which never can bc obtained so long as the Radical party are in power. Third. The orily sound hope for business men In the future, and for the full restoration of the Union, is in thc success of the Demo cratic nominations. Democratic success means not alone constitutional liberty, equal taxes and a better state of feeling and business, but it means that confidence in republican insti tutions which has not been felt in ten years. ' Fourth. The Radicals are divided. They call each other hard names. Have no confi dence in each other. Have nominated their candidates on thc sole ground of expediency, and have no bond of union but the weak and miserable bond of hostility to the Democratic party. Finally, 'the success of tbe Democratic par ty means tbe reduction of tbe standing army oue-hali at least, aud a saviug thereby ol'fifty millions of dollars per annum. It means, also, reducf.d taxes, greater economy, and a stricter accountability to tho people. The inore' ?ts~"cra;n<"?'d'?tea.and pla;forms are stuclied the more'popular ihey will prove. _i- ? ?. ? HANGING OF THHE? GAMBLERS FOU CHEAT ING AT CABD?-Thc Omaha Jiqnibiican, of thc 3d instant, says : .-. Som? of the police of Tjur.city are said to be in- possession of intelligeuce-tbatthr?e men Were bung by a mob at Sioux City, on Friday. The parties'hung bad gone up-'from Omt?ba but a few days bpfore and opened a gambling institution in Sioux-City. Their house was liberally patronized'; but at length tboy were caught cheating in the game in such a man ner as is not tolerated by the code of the sport ing fraternity; Tins so exasperated their, .pa trons-that the parties were immediately sc cured-by their victims, and.takcu to au out ol'-tbe way.piuctf, before the authotities-or cit izens knttw anylhin . about it, p.nd there Vang-' ?? to a tree. The first public'' knowledge of -tho"B?rrible deed- was the discovery of- tbe Witless bodies suspended from tho tree a few hours after, and it-has created intense excite ment iu that usually quiet city. Tho uainc.s of the murdered men were Robert Ferguson, formerly of Ford's restauraut ; Johnny Green, oftfitTJon Ton, and "Doc'' Shaw, who for "meHy kept-the Bon Ton saloon, on Harney street. AU these three were well known iu this city. -. ? ?--_ *, 42t7*Ta.QFrontUr Index," of tho 24th July, published at Laramie City, Dakota Territory, says : " Gen. Horse Sambo Useless Grant; accom panied by Gen. Sherman abd several other promi nent military men, pussed through Laramie on Saturday last, en route .for the end of the track. We have heard .of no demonstration on the entire route from ?rhinn (o Benton, except at Wyoming where the General wns received with tremendous ohe'ors-for Seymour and Blair. W0 uuders":aud tho purty returned to Sbian on Sunday uud toole dinner at a tjegro restaurant " fiST Tho North is alarmed lest the negro vote become a bnlonco of -power. Culculutmg the black vote at 714,000, it is shown that this num ber would buvo changed the three last Prosideu tial elections, and will, probably, if permitted, deoide the fourth. The Goorgta S?nats has confirmed ex Governor Jo-cph Brown as Chief Justice of Georgia by ? rot? of twenty-six to ?ourtoea, ? THE ADVERTISER JAKES T. BACON, EDITOR. WEDNESDAY, AUG 19, L9C8. FOR PRESIDENT, HORATIO SEYMOUR, : OF NEW YORK. F Ott VICE-PRESIDENT, FRANOIS P. BLAIR, OF MISSOURI. Extraordinary Peaches. . Wft express our abounding thanks to Miss "TiriTftiTMuMDY, of the Antioch vicinity, for a basket of such Teaches as we have never before saan ur tasted, Clear.stone Poaches-yellow- and of fabulous--size, and fabulously delici?os flavor. If. a finer peach ever falls into our possession, we will certainly reservo it for Mis3 MUNDT ; whioh promise, b<5wevcr> Ie'avos\?ur amiable friend with out tho slightest prospect of. ever receiving a fetich at our hands. . P. S:-And even whi!o,.we Wfito there.?omes to us a-royal basketful fromvo^r venorabJo^aod-much respedt?d friend^,, Mr^ Lr.wis Jo.snSjJSr. W thank him a thousand timer o'er. Bol" still wo fiad none wo ooul&re*ervc.for M'ss-'Ki?&Y. SS^rVe Waslfii^'?n^C'?roHicVe i? p'ubii?hiog a list .of pprsoha whose political disabilities have been removed by . Congress, during .tup-hut ses sd?n. La the. list.- we .find ?io -folio wing from thia District: ?towart Harrison, W. F. Durisoe, Eli I ?ah U. Hyreor,^->t?nder Act approved July 20tb, 1868;.; v Gov. Seymour's Letter of Acceptance. .This week we/proseat to our roadets-"Hr..Sey mours-Jotter formally accepting the Democratic nomination foi. President. 'There ? tut little heed to comment upon; th ia hone'at and manly let ter. Ere'r-y' Southern man, of tho right sort, who reada.it, will bo fdlysaiisficd with ju . Mr. Sey mour leaves not the slightest deubt.as to how and [.where ho stands*- Indeed in this letter he comes up to the-high mark .of Frank Blair, .who snjB : "We must have a 'Pro.-i dent who will execute the ^will-'of tho people ^-by trampling into' dint the utarpationt of*-6ongren Jen?te? iii the' Reeomtruc ] fiori Actr?1' Th4s"fir. Seym?ur'virtually promises to-do/' AndHforejutb we should arl be content ' . Death"of T?Wi; Stevens.* ?'. Old Th?drStevcus'is'-dea'd? ' He gaye np the "ghost in Washington,o'n. WednesdttT.1jjgt, old and full oi^days; And "his. body was laid in state in the.Capiu5l,.and guarded hy negro soldiers. And .the uegro. soldiers as .they., .entered, the Capitol j gates for this purpose, fought among themselves, Land a negro barber was killed. Grim and ghastly --but entirely- befitting thc great occasion. - And on Friday tho" *?ld joan's body" was taken . to Lancaster in Pennsylvania-whete bo had' lived, I-and where Confederate soldiers'had destroyed his iron mi!!.--,. And now be sleeps ,h,is last sleep, for getful alike, we hope, of xhe said destruction, and I of, the failure o? impeachment* He was a smart [ j old .mao,, but .pot good.; and consequently not .happy.: His party will not miss bim. Indeed he he.vriU.be loss .missed by his friends than by his -foes. ''His name will-soon .bo' forgotten. ' "And there shall bo no more 'remembrance of the wise man than of the foil forever." ' Scott and Smith- Give a Good -Sign. Smith" tho' Rndrda! GoVerndr of Alabama bas vetoed the Bill, pissod recently byThc"Legisl"atar? of that State, taking 'ho Eleciofal vote fro'? the people and giving it to ?aid Legislature. ?ndhis veto ad^??Q sustained. Bullyfor Smith I . And .??'colt, the Radie-il .Governor of unfortunate South Carolina, has vetoed tho Bill of the Colum bia Zebras, reducing the official bonds, of State Officers. And this veto is also sustuinod. Bully for;Scottl ----- ..".. But wh it do- s it amout>? to ? Or wiH ititaount io-anything? For tom-J'ol -our newly eleoted Edgrfltild. .yffi?ialaarn '"trit"'" m---^for""fn_?TH fro with their commissions in their pockets. - Their flimsy bonds bave beco upproved by tho County Commissioners and Qov. Scott has signed their commissions. It seems to us ho should havo waited a little while. What is to be done with these bund j aud commissions dated before the veto ! Shameful Insult to the Zebra. Wc mean tho real four-fuoted, beautifully striped, clean, honest Zebra, on bis native plains of Asia or South America, or wherever it is he roams. Wonder if ho knows that tho Charleston papers call* the members of tbe South Carolina Legisla ture, " Zebras." Ala* ! that tho pretty' Zebra* simply because bo is striped, should be so basely coupled ! If he know it, he would undoubtedly change his skin, or, failing in that, would lie down and dio ,in extreme shume and ignominy! Ho just couldn't stand it ! A Weekof Prayer with the Methodists, . The Southern Cfa ietian Advoc?te- says : M The observance of a week of.prayer last year, through out tho Church, resulted in great and, we trust, lasting good to the cause of Odd. The appoint ment for the present week is August 23-30,'that ii the week from the fourth to the fifth Sabbath in August, inclusive. The intervening Friday is to be observed asa day of fasting and humiliation. It is hoped that there will be a gen en? 1 assem bling of thc members of the Methodist Church during that week. To this end, let the appoint ment bo kept in view, and preparation, made for jt6 observance. -.-.-.?g?.- i Peach aud Apple Brandy. By a recent ruling of the'Commissioner of In ternal Revenue, dated'August 1st, the license tax for'thc distillation of peach and apple brandy is four huridred dollars a year from May. to May. Those commencing August lat will hare to pay three hundred dollars up to May next, which al most amounts to prohibition. We are informed that-Several -parties have taken oqt- their papers with the expectation of paying at-the rate of $l? or $2(1 a year. Cheering Signs. Tho Washington L'jprcie, of Wednesday, saye : "The prospects of the D?mocratie p?rty are hourly brightening, and its success' in November next may be considered certain. A friend has lately "been travelling through portions of Penn sylvania, Ohio and Michigan, and ho saw. in every direction and among all classes of people unmistakble evidence-of the approaching .ownfaU of-the Radicals. In 1884 large numbers of sol diers wero furloughed and allowed to rctun home on condition ' that they would voto 'for Lincoln. They are now determined to vote'tho Democratic ticket,'and it is safe to tay fr U fully three quar ters of the soldiers will voto the Same way. Among th'e fanners and workingmen - generally there is a feeling thiit thoro is something .wrong; that the cost of living is too high, and their taxes entirely too largo, aud they are determined to have a change in November. We have-no doubt they will get it." The Columbia Phanix. of Saturday.says : " So-called Judge,Willard gave bis opinion, yes terday morning, in the oaso cf the-State vt. John Perry. The defendant is to give bond in.the sum of $2,0*00, with euflk r-at surety, for his appear ance at thc next Court of General Sessions for Edgcfield District. Mr. Chamberlain for tho State, Mr. Bacbuian f?r the prisoner. . ?ST" Five or six hundred former Republicans were at the Seymour ratification meeting in Chi cago. They chc?red lustily tor the Democratic nominees and will vote right in Novonibor. pS-Gold closed in New York on Friday at 147. Cotton woe less active, and unchanged. In Liverpool cotton was firmer and active.' Sales 15,000 bales. ?ST In a recent speech in Cincinnati, ex-Sena tor Pugh desoribed the carpet-baggers who infest that South as "a class of vermin, meaner than tho meanest thing ever before known on the face of tho carib." j i Partyism. Th? old adage; "whom the gods would destroy they first make mad," may, perhaps, be applied us tho explanation of the present party exhibi tions in this country. Men who think alike on great political quostions will always organize for oarryiog out thoir views. But in so far as men are intelligeut und honest, party tics will alwaya rest lightly on them, leaving them free to follow tbe right courso outside of any political organi zation. - Of late, however, party has become everything. It bas trampled down constitution, laws, the amonities of social intercourse, and that common honesty without which ?ecent society is impossi ble. Either this is a sign that the oountry is about to be irretrievably ruined, or it it an indi cation that party ipirit will soon be much modi Jed. We incline to the latter view of the case. It CHU hardly be possible that the attempt to ?place party foremost in everything, and to sacri fice to it all that is honorable and sacred, will fail to awaken the universal disgust and indigna tion of the people. It lins taken some time for partyism to reach .its present wild extremes, and it may, for a while longer, seem tb enjoy a sort of pre-emi nence ; but it cannot help adding constantly to the evidences of its dangerousness, and thus com bining mon against its conduct and its claims. The late split in the Radical party, , by whioh Chief Justice Chase and his friends have been separated from the extremists, and the course of Fessenden, Grimos, Ross, and other leading Radical Senators, indicate that no party which seeks to exist solely for the sake of its own as l'c??denoy and aggrandisement, without any refer ence to honesty, docency, or - the. good of tho rcountry, can accomplish its end. Such selfish ness is too colossal and unmitigated to last. Par tios which would live by preying on the country instead of promoting its interests, must at last bite deeply enough to touch thc quick and prompt tho fatal blow of popular self-defence: Washington Medical University of Baltimore. We have lately received the "Annual An nouncement and Catalogue" of the Washington Medical University of Baltimore, and we find it among the most interesting of our complimentary receipts. It is certainly most gratifying to read of the well-being and high usefulness of this emphatically Southern institution. While in .Baltimore recently, wo had tho pleasure of be coming acquainted with .Br. Edward Warren, one of tne leading professors of the Washington Medical University, a gentleman, both scientifi cally and socially, of the highest accomplish ments, from whom we learned much of the char acter and status of dbe institution. Consequently we do not laud the Washington Medical- Univer sity without being considerably acquainted with its real deserts. It's range is very wide aha com prehensive, and ifs professors, thirteen or- four teen in number, are wall known to science and to fame. Its President, Rev- Thomas. E. Bond, M. D., either as preacher, teacher,, practitioner, or writer, is undoubtedly, ono of tho most brilliant minds of our whole country; . . . ? From the Catalogue before us, we -learn-that I the number of studonts in the Washington Medi e?l University, for-session of IS67-08 was T?O, of whom 55 graduated. And it ls, ai singular fact, and one which, under existing circumstances, stamps the.Institution most favorably,.that every ono of these 150 was from the South. And two of the lauding professors of the Wash ington Medical University, Edward Warren, M. D., and Charles W. Chancellor, M. D., are about to commence -the publication of a monthly Medi cal Journal to boontitled The Baltimore Journ?lof Medicine and Surgery. This Journal Will be a Southern work, edited by as good,' talented and true professional men as the en tiro country can furnish ; and we bespeak for it, in advance, the patronage of our medical men and students. As to the Washington Medical University, ex oelsior is its working motto, and excellence its ? aim, if these can be attained by incessant, con scientious and judicious labor. -? -?- ? Tho man who buys a vote and' an offico by turning Radical (says the"RTcFmond rrnig) \i a double-dyed traitor. He is a traitor to his country and his Creator. He goes over to a party which is disloyal to the Constitution, to the best, interests of the .nation, and to humanity. To oppose that purty is to bo loyal to the country, and to tho solemn obligations to the Supromc Being. Some persons of facile dispositions-ami accommodating logic may argue with"themselves that to accept the proffered bribe will be" the best way of conquering tbe Radicals; but ibo mun who acts upon such an idea takes a leap into that deep-down gull of prostitution and dishonor from which resurrection is the fori on est of hopes. Are Ye Chasing the Butterfly? And hunting fancy from whim to whim ? Or irre yo shooting harmless mon at midnight? Or what are yo doing? We propound these queries to our honorable Representatives in the Legista turo at Columbia. All so-called ! Du hot the exigencies of thc suffering people .of JBdgefieJd District admonish you that you should'no longer be standing idle in tho market place-? - - But ofter all, it is infinitely better you should not s'peak. It will redound to the honor of tbe District. We earnestly hope, a's certainly appears to bo the case, that you have all boen struck with hopeless dumbness. Bah! ex nihilo nihil Jit.' Wo take baok our queries. We would not hour a word from you for any consideration upon earth. Turning Pale, and Wriggling Round.. Tho late mognilieent Democratic victory in Kentucky is making the New York 2VtA?M?'tttrn very pale. It hes ceased its tono of ridiculous assurance, and is beseeching the Radicals to work-work-work.' To work as they never worked before ; for upon the hardest sort of work alone rests their salvation. Which hard work, wo sup poso, mouns further ' dishonest und tyrannical Radical legislation. And the facile Herald is not only .turning pale, but, as usual, making, distinct preparations to wriggle round; But its prcsent-- wriggling is not so light ?nd graceful as usuaU It wriggled so heavily for Chase, that it cannot wriggle, now for Seymour without evident pain and suffering. And still it mun be dono. The Herald always wrig gles ultimately on the right side. ?S" Thc colored men of Mississippi, since the late election, are going over en mane to the Demo crats, lo a singlo county one thousand of them have procured certificates of membership of Democratic pl?bs. It was the negro vote that beat th?" Radicals in Mississippi. They were lit erally hoisted on their own" petard, 'lue Radi cals had better begin to extenft proscription from the Southern whites to 'tho Southern blacks, if this thing keeps on, 1ST Wall street men attribute the tise in gold to the expected action of foreign bondholders, and the possible political occurrences here in the next two months: ?yA,A, Bradley, negro Sonat?r from the first District to the Georgia Legislature, waa de clared inelegible by the Sena'e, on thc 12 tb, by a vote of 35 to 5. The said Bradley now intends to ?un for Congross from the same District. * ?ST At Saratoga Springs, New York, a few days since, a bet of $3,000 was made that New York would give Seymour and Blair 70,000 Tma jority. The same offers were made by others, and no taker?. " fST Montana Territory voted on the 30th ult. The Democratic majority, by the latest accounts, roached 1,700. Several counties have not as yet been heard from. pg* A bill has passed the Louisiana House di recting the City of New Orleans to immediately collect all outstanding dues in greenbacks, or dering tho destruction of all the city currency and the plates for printing the same. This ac tion virtually repudiates $3,300,000 of city cur rency now outstanding. jgT Tbe farmers of the Northwest are in the midst of tho harvest, but they find it almost im possible to obtain sufficient help. Jive dollars a day ?sd board ?ra now offered for hoads, FROH COLUMBIA. f^^gv^^-V-V J.::, r.-- ;~" . .. .'..'?? From tte Colombia correspondents of tte Charleston Courier aud Daily News, we con tinue to furnish our readers with a synopsis of the proceedings and doings of tho bogu3 Legislature-still in session ' in Columbia legislating (so-caliedi ostensibly for the good of the country, bnt in reality only for thc $G per diem, which they are so wantonly stealing from the oppressed tax payer? of South Caro ^ lina. Go on, ye damnable freebooters, and viie usurpers, in plundering and despoiling this once fair land of ours. Now's your day, and now's your hour. But bear in miud : There's a day of reckoning coming ! . * ' ?? C'OLU?IBIA, S. C.. August 10 In thcuiiuusa, .iieagi?f4Uie,.Comptroller General elect ) had the- following paporread '-, by tho Clerk: '. 'v , ' i '. ';^her?as'certiin affidavits have appeared in- th?.'Charleston Daily News, emanating fcora'?'ceifain Rock '?lill Conservative Club, ma S i rig the infamous attempt to fix on me an .infamous crime,- therefore P-request the ap .p??ntment-. of u. Committee* of five, /yith iq. ..atrncttons'to exjimine evidence! propose to produce,; and report to -the House as io. the .-.corre?tnes^-of' the? affidavits." - X?agle, iii explanation, contended that the . .affidavits were-gotten up by parties wljo ^vajttedto kUl'hlm.'polititaHy, that they .p?sH, ..ksess^ed ?o shadow of truth} and- that-the par ' ties^would ag?assibatahiny if they dared. He was prepared to prove tbs whole thing an in ia^nqus slander. ?Thc Houso agrcexi. to ap to, allow froia'the . i?cpurit of his arduous labors. , A' re^^idfl SJits adopted providing .for), the' ..Itviiori of fti'j/ht"Circuit Ju^geSjon Thursday. " Sam". ?.3C (riiula?o) iut^du'ce?',aT Brillo 8ape?'Ij?b cjia?tfei of\iiie tpwu of Hamburg^ ^jdiiisb^was.?e^l aud.rufern.-d to t^e'Coaiaiifc t?e.cm'?ucorpoiations. .... A co?poutHcatipa was. read from faenera-I ' Scott, announcing his approval of theAct.au ' t!i?rizmj;K'lo?n or^f25,?00. . ^nlLe'Seiate,,theBni tc regulato the.ten 1'uro of'certain cancers, was amended so'as to allow all Slate and Comity offlcere,- cleated sin. ApriPor ",fano'3 to lile their bonds w.rthjiu *. 'fw'et?iy d?fs fru'tfi the?passage of the Act"., 'A Bift -proposT?g to'l?l- all offices only \tiih ' persons^f^vCkrabT? to tte present"Sta?c Gqvern meo^ w?s'?abled?'* J kl 'Th? Le^hjlaV?r? has been ia'SeiMotf thi.rty flcWn'vs, during whic-b time it 'has passed" ?ve BiBsj" C**" Jtt J . . ' 'rv*';'jiicjtaS oill wjlt call'for am?llion'of dollars. 'ThcTcasV of the AtfottToy-G?riera;t Cbana L ._ -nv--; rr Tcr,>; . ._?' '_ Democrats was " pay as you go." This bill required ap,outlay .by the State,.and neither he nor the State we're prepared ibr'it The fact was, if " theso men," pointing to Cain and Randolph, expected to become legislators or to hold office, they must commence to ex hibit their tact and knowledge, but at present he was surprisecVat nothiug^.tliey said or did. The Republican party was showing itself to be a great set "of asses. Randolph. dltttvlbto a furious passion, ami called the Barqweli.senator to order ; wanted to know if, by the word asses, he mean* "jack asses,7J>ecause. if so, he was not io that category The chair sustained the point of order. Col. R. S. Sims (Democrat) quietly re marked that he saw nothing inappropriate in the language used, a3 it wat? emphatically ap plicable. Leslie defended himself by sayiug that the idea of colored men knowing anything about finance was simply preposterous, and be had no. confidence whatever in. the report that had .b?eu. made. "The Republican party, ou 'fifty different-occasions, had done enough'to juiu themselves, e.nd if they kept'iAjje thought [hey .would/succeed in the' auenipt . After a very acrimonious debate, the Senate finally postponed " Che corisidecation of the .subject until Weduesday, *. ' "*C -. - COLUMBIA, August ll. * The "House "Judiciary Committee reported favorably on the petition of Jotiti G. ItgeO, tf] Charleston, Tor .permission to let stand a wooden house erected in the Lower Wards. The-Committee on Education reported a Bill to provi?e.a" tjySporary organization of th? educational 'department, with a superin tendent, whpse salary shall be ?2,500, who snail Bavo his office in Columbia^.abel shall dtge^'flie "repdrts ol School Commissioirers, em-oll all'maleS"botwe?? the-ages of 5 and-18 years. School Commissioners ai-?'tp be?aid \$? pe'r*dav when employed. The ?pinmitt?e on-tbe l'cnU?nti?ry report ed that instituci?n in good condition 'as' re g^ds'it?ealtH'and'diet *?he comfort of priso nersVeif provf??d fefr ; 155 'cells . conipleted and '?$5' corrvfets iii confinement, 30-nfjvHom ure to be discharged this morith. There were out that '-VFaH'-cr was pot??rorier cf "Richland A t....'HP-?, r* 'rku-~~...r<-v:~\..i??~i--l~A .groands; Pj.r?t/'TIi?t D.H. ChimberJtnh'-was '"not Att'jr?wy-.G?ue:al, but I. W. Il?ync.^ec ' ' ond..'1'fiat" \Vj.llariVwals,po'f'Associate Justiee.. 1 buMb'it Cfcief Jofljc'o -Dunkin and-Iiis asso- ' c'.a??s''cojistitute' the Supreme Court of thc. Si$$ third.'That-.ti?B s?-oaUed court has * ?a jiurisdictron fn Richland District, a^nd there ^s'no^u^li jnrisdi'ction known a3"th?j County . ot Riehl?ntfin ?he constitution; - The'op.nn'sel'fbr the respondent are ^??ssrs. '"Jas. D. J^achiwe?l, F.'\V: Pickling aud Joseph ? V. Pope.. .. Mr.. Cn'jmbTrh?n moved peremploriIyr to disii.is.the^leary ' .'. ,fj .. .. Mr. Pop3..responded, and piisitively jreflised to arMte miy.nioti.on.ex'cept on constilhtiohal .CToestLons^ ' .. ' Mr. Pickling followed, and addressed-the court 1?;May it please your honor." ChaTobsrlain inierposed, ^saying that tue counsel^, mode of address was itself ari ad> mission of jurisdiction. ' Mr. Pickling replied that he", had been edu ,catsd KI a ?cho?l vvhich taughl pjlilenfesslwr tVeen members* 0T theJ)ar. He weqt?nto saylliat. he did not re.c?gnize.thepea;son;;sit .ting'on the bench as an Associate. Justice Constitutionally elected, nor the Attorncj Gencrar?s snch," nor Johnson, as" Coroner of tho District, nor Walker as Coroner of the County. .......> Willard overruled the pie;', of .jurisdiction, On the gFOund- that to grant it would be io ad ipit,'tbat the State .Constitution,,tho elections, Jhis 'oW office, and tfie whole system of gov . eminent was a nullity. -He would hear no 'such argnmcnt.. , Thc'counsel.for thc respondent then asked for lime.to argue.the ease-on its merits. Mr. .Chamberlaui. opposed the-mction. Mr. Pope- said.iL Warthe .first time in his career that he'had everjenown such a motion to he opposed. . - -.^ Mr. Chamberlain said.tha community was in dauber, and in-behalf of good ordetheielt ir, is his duty,to urge the-speediest hearing.of jjgte questions involved.. .. Mr. Tiadowell .said that, ."rom the course of.'argument -of.counsel jind the manner in which motions'bad lie'en overruled, he felt en tirely convinced, that tho court and.the at ui'rqey-general intended" to conduct the case in defiance of all the rnlcs of justice and ^o.jUity, law or the; constitution. The base wai then adjourned until to-mor Tr ia uodcrstnod that it .will be caf'rieo up to tito Snpreina Court. . ?C PKR30N.N*E,!' the Columbia correspondent .oMie Xews, says : ' The.Scnato to-day was made a tolerably "liVnly^place by Leslie, who with his usual hu morous frankness, took occasion to ventilate Bts opinions orr the subject ?f tte Land Oom frt'wion bill.'whicn has already been published and criticised in your cohrmcs; The measure originated with one Pardee, a the Act to reduce the bonds, now required by.law, o? those officere-elect, whose duties and responsibilities remain the samo ns those of the present incumbents and predecessors. Tho section guarding against embezzlement of public moneys meets my unqualified ap* prova?; but I Jim compelled, for reasons above giveiVto disappfove'the Act os.a whole. (Signed) ROBERT K.'/SCOTT, Goverrior ? i' ? . " . ? .? . CoL?iiBiA., August 13. InLhe Sunate to-day^the House resolutions in reference t<? the death ?of Th'addeus'Stevens we're concurred in Whitemore bihyed a resolution providing that the Superintendent of Education shall proscribe the text books and that all institu tions of lea?uiug supported out of the public 'fuuds shall be turned over to the charge of the Superintendent of Public Schools and placed under the direct supervision of "the School Commissioners-of the several counties; also, tbat.a-sp?o?al- committee of five" be*ap pointed-tp investigate .the outrages on Uiuioir-; 'me.?j and the number of murders committed, with-the facts showing the existence of a dis loyal organization. The .resolutions-were-or deje'd for consideration to' morro.Wj ,and.fnein bers were iuvited to furnish all the. facts.?bey know bearing on the subject. The object of this pleasure is.io furnish electioneering cap ital. -I %_ ' i-.. The Senate then proceeded to tbe.?onsider tion of'the Bill "-to.Reduce the ljoutjs" of Publie Officers, and in connection w.ith itthc .Message of Governor ScSa.rt yetoiagvit, and"thc question being put to the Senate, ''Shall the Bill pass, the objections of the, Governor not witbsjaudingj" the vdtejfesuJLt?d 15 ayes.; so the. Bi ll, uot having re.ce.?yed.t}ie requisit.e.two thirds vote, was lost. . Those voting in the affirmative wore Ajf?im, Cain, Coghlan, Dnacan, Hoyt, Monigomoryi Maxwell, Nash, Givens, Rainey, R?tland>' ^Swaild,.\V.right a?d.Wim.bush. .. , , \T-b<i?e voting ju .toe negative .were.AJJc '.B/i'eman,irock, Bie.kson, P.o8ter, Hayes, Hayne; Jillsdn, LeslLe, Ried, JMgers>Shnsan.d,Wtii&'l teinore^ . Thje Ilpraestead^lajiv^after ajong dtscussiod over an aoifendmet?t..n^king-..it. retrosncctiye, .was passed-yeas.3Q, na?'s^C.. THE ADVERTIS ER. JAMES T.BACON, EDITOE, WEDNESDAY, Al C 19, L8C8. "?ome com phi nts of-harsh treatment' By Jth?J^ In tho House, W. .E> JiQhnsqa (cofored)" of;' fered .resp.lutiops deplpringtli?-de?th, o|?Thad dcuaSt?yens, aniordori?g thede?ks.?f ?the presiding officers of both ??oo?ea to be draped with mourningfor.?btrty'dav?, and. the fiags' .to-be hpisted at half mast .til I after-the-fune.r-.' 'The r?solu tion. waa adopted, ?ruard. Tbe comniiMee 'recommend a reor gani?wtibn'by the appointment by the' Go'yer iior* bf thr?e C?mmiisi?ners,-who" shall bf??&Jt Superintendent and provide a guard, coritroll-' ed. by the^army regulations, - - > ~* Pn the Senate, the Committoe on Incorpora a>ipjis seported a Bill to amend the charter bf] ' ? communication.was received from. the t??rleston's?'as td give the Mayor power to-"f xemove^)olicenien wnen lie sbal? in; his judg-r ment, docm it necessary to tho public go~>d. John Heart, formerly of ..the Charleston Mercury, bas bc en* ppcinted Private Secreta: ry to. Governor Scott... . Mnjov General O..O^Howard,.of the Freed men's Bureau, addressed-, the Legislature. LO uight. ? ?ia speech was. Oonsenyjtcivo. . 'Hp congratulated them on the conditibrx"of politi .^prosperity a'pparent in the .Slate, and. said that it was^.a. misttken-notion-.that labor, was" scarce..-j?iexe was plenty of labor, all. that was wanted was capital. He .also. UFgedthe work of Jauih?pg up schools and .educating Uie cbUtlrpp....- . r- -. ? . T'he.argnmeut' in t?ie-#??o iF?.?7'an/o-Writ served.om.Cor.ouei,-.Vv'alker. w?iST:onticued'to ai; Secretary.of State, giving.the a'mduntpf laud under tax executions by tEp State, viz : 22, 137 ilcrei.s- . . .. *L .. . . . On motion, of Crews, t,he hi\{ ..preventing di^cumina'tipns on ae.c?oqpt pi.race- -or color J>y pa/f??s jiadejr lY?ense,. was laid . upon,, the table".; akq, Neagle^s-.bill'repealing the cap.fta tio? tax. ....' . -, The -House then wont'into secret session, I when it wa^Announesd that tie Governpr Bad failed .to n?gp?iate.a loan, and could not do so tintR the passage of the Tax bill. Mean while, thgre are parties -sbaving the members* [aptes af"thirty days. at>.twenty live percent. discount,. .. ; .;." .;.., MV . -1 day^.: Tho oouns?l-file? a^petition to transfer thc case to the..-United ?State1' -Court..- This was acguediy.Messrs. ..Pickling,-Pope- and ?,rradewell tor tfje p.etitionui-,-aud Chamber Lain for^the State. Willard, overruled- .the ^petition,^vnd tho counsel, thea pat in a -new -plea,4naiutaining tfiat ^Willard, baa po right 'wi issue a writ, as no. ? Judge of the-Suprem? Court, dr" Chancellor, , sitting, in .Cambers, could;do so. , r- t .- . - .-.The.argument was-, very warm. on. both ?ides. Thc cose-wilf becoutinuedibj-morrbW. New York speculator in lands, who arrived :iti Sbnth Carolina chfring the session of the ?OonvCntionj at once threw himself hcartify irlto the canvass; for Governor, made sp?eches for Tom. Robertson abd embraced Gen. ScoM. He published a pamphlet in blue and gold Cn. the resources of South Carolina, and was ap pointed secretary.t)f ono of the commissions created by the Convention to investigate thc 'affaire of the State. 'f>n the assembling'of the Legislature he deserted Wall street, hnr xtt-d to Columbia, and has sit?ce been comfor "taBly-ensconced in NickcrsorFs Hotel, wBcre Che'precious biRwas prepared; which propo ees to confer upon two or three individuals, himself include%'of course, the control of all thailand' in- South Carolina ttat may be sold afrpublic'"outcry." ^ ! .*? Wheb {he subject came ' up to-dav, in tte S?natc, -Leslie suggested that its consideration should be postponed until the regular session, when the financial condition pf the "State .swjpTd be* belter determined than at. present, dud'practical information,' derived frori.con) ! mittees, could bo-acted upon' His argament; was tBa?Jf tito party issued bonds now,.they \fhuid do so blindly i: When are you.going to pay ? Don't know. What have.you got to pay? Don't knyw. What is tlie'prpba biTity -of your ever paying ? Don't know." lijrs?ver? much like Cain's .pony. They must either have the cash dov.-n for it,.bra promise to pay that was very undoubted. - B. F.'?andolpi), .the colored Senator from Otangebnrg, took'.?be floor, and in his usual petrified style, talked about the infamous at: tempt made to stab the bilaby denunciation. Parson Cain followed, singing-bis .usual psalm about lands for. the'landless and b.bmes for tte homeless; and- repeated one 'of his - memorized Convention speeches, with whioh #those with? a long ineinory^are familiar. He ^iang'changes ob /' the hutn'of busy njacbi-. n*X> th"-"housewife with her children sitting .y?^r 4lfe green vines ' growing around- the' homestead,'a'iid the lovely spectacle of.'spin uinj' wheels operand by industrious frCed m#',r /Lralie suggested jffiat h&.BacLbetter?.throw into bis picture.forty acres and a.raaie.. On? ot the filibusters for this bill,moved that it bVpbstpor.ed until Wednesday next. WbM'eupon WhUterr'.pre got 'up and showed fishtin favor of thc-measnre. Thi^ was uo derst jod by the "insiders'' to be a strong bid for a, nomination to Congress alter his present TEVT- He " couldn't- sen" any of their argn menvHe l^e^, -{he,oid 0^qcxat;c.pJan .. 1 - " CoLvjiB^^Augusi 12, , In the Senate,the Biiljo lupwrporate the Wando Company was engrossed. ..The Com'miuee. on Rail Roadth- made. & fa vorable report un, a:RiHjo .extend, relief tu the Savannah ami Charleston Rail Road-. 'The Finance.Committee reported unfavor ably on the petition of certain merchants; to have the taxes-paid.by'.them on gross siiles refunded. In. th?^JE?OU?A -tba .Tp^?jnrjy rnmrai'U. . made an unfavorable report ou the* Bill io prevent discriminations on .account o' color, oy persons doing business under license. The report was laid on the table. The. Committee of Ways and Means report ed a Tax Bill, which ia very voluminous, but moderate. Tho*Bill regulating the admission of Attor neys at.LAW., to practice,'passed-wiihuut amendment The Bill to repeal the - capitation tax was discussed to the hour of adjournment. The debate was very spirited. The argument -in the Quo Warranio case was continued to-day. No new striking-points have been raised. Governor Scott sent the following /veto to the.Senato this- morning, lt created, a pro found sensation, though not unexpected. .No action has beeu- taken yet. It is regarded cer tain that the Senate will sustain the Gover nor, though a strong party pressure is being brought to overrule theveto. A caucus of the Republican members was held for this pur pose tQ-night: . EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, ) COLUMBIA, August 12,1808. $ To the President and Gentlemen of the SenaJe: T have thc honor tc return to the Senate, in wh'ich'?t originated, an Act to fix the amount of official bonds of certain-public officers, and tb impose penaltiesron embezzlements, without my approval, which lam constrained to with hold for the following reasons : The ptfblic credit must be guarded at every point, and the embarrassments encountered in the inau guration of our new State Government will be best overcome by "proceeding in s'ucli a manner as will command' from the first the confidence bf capitalists-. In the'fioancial policy of the S'.ate. ad measure appearing to countenance a relaxa tion of the precautions with which the Slate guards its ftinds, will impair the piibl.c credit -such' a measure now would be.a blow struck at the financial- standing of the State .atp, time when all important considerations de mand that it should be vigilantly und vigoi ously upheld. To reduce at this time the bonds of these to whom the pnblic finds are entrusted fer safe keeping, seems to me to be dangerous to the public credit. Many of the men who have been elected to positions ol trust are new to the public service, they have not been tried. We belieVe they are true mon. Those who know them, express unqualified confidence in th?ir integrity^ but thc peculiar circumslatfcrs in which they are plao?d, demand that tbeyj should furnish the amplest'guarantees of their official rectitude. The ability to* do this is the-only "sufficientianswcr tci the often*.repeat ed charge, that the party in-power has ad vane ed to.positio.n8 of responsibility and trust, those who were, without respectability and 'good .standing in 'th? community. Wer?"tb? question of amount of bonds to be required of public offices ,?i now one,' the Bill BOW returned ml?h1., be unobjectionablej bnt the ?ircu?ast?nces must bei dp ly weighed, and it cannot bc-overlooked thaV tho.'reduc tion.of these bonds now'-wilLbe underatoot),. and .believed to be .made to meet individual, .cases.of men who wero elected with a full knowledge of the .requirenlents bf law. Legr* islation, to meetvspecial cases, is always ob jectionable, and the present is "probably, a time when moretarm will result from,"flinch legislation than atany prevl-us moment in .our bistcry. . . ItTs not pertinent, however, to enquire particularly what may bethe individual chnr acter'ot the officers who,chance to be person ally, interested in. securing the _ pr-.pased re diictiou. The soucce of danger is in princi pie, and does^not rest on- personal- grounds ; ihe precedent is bad. When wnco we begin to accommodate lpcnl requirements to suit special cases the mischief is done. . In.tbej.ca8e of some county officers it is un derstood that a proposition is under consider afion to diminish their responsibility by as signing a part of their duties to other officers, in cases where tho responsibilities, may be thus reduced. Reduction of tho bonds re quired would not-b.e improper, but. upon a careful consideration of the whole subject. ? 'tJoLUMBiA, August 14. "Iiithe jpo?se ti "Bill was today introduced ro 'fix the amount bf the "Bonds of "County '.Officers.' It make's.the Bonds o'f Chai le<l.ou County as'follows: Judge of P'robRt?.'$5?00$ Cofoper, $5000; 'Clerk'oFCpuif, m?NW? iffi'S25,OjO? ;' fhe other officers ta remain as 'now required by law.. "The bo.ids"'pf "?tiler cobnties are 'fixed at c< r'? sporiding fate,-. ' A Bill to r?gulai"" the ten ure,ol office pass ed to its third reading." ~" Tho'rest Af the time during the sessi n was devoted '?'thV considei-a'tio.'i of Uie Mfliti Bill. The Dp.raocraf8 lightjng. -lt with tie greatest pertinacity, and u>itig .U?*aU?it?ry m tionR'am? 'other parliirment-iry tactics to stave oflfactipi-s. This created much feeling am?ugst Republican members, and every" effort.wa made to gag the D?inocr?ts, both "by the m?mbers* and Speaker Moses. "Only thro out of ninety sections' were read, when the House adjourned. In the discussion- on the bill to. alter and amend the chart?r of the City of Charlearon. Mr. Corbin'moved to change ten djiyajrjsi - oerreeto" inrny /cmys.-tiesner-tiiovea sixty but Corbin's amindment prevailed. In th? course of the debate Leslie said that those seuators who voted fot thirty chys could not be trusted. Corbin excoriated him in his re ply, and he was censured by tte Senate. The bill then .passed and was ordered to be en grossed. -? ? ? ... Signs of thc Times. ? There are already mauy assurances of vic tory for the Democratic candidates the ap proaching November. ' First. The Democratic party united for the first time in ten years, and the accessions to the party from the old line Whigs"aud Cod gYrvative Republicans are very marked and influential. Second. The country is weary of war'and conflict in a time, of peace. The country prays for rest, and the people for that peace and quiet which never can bc obtained so long as the Radical party are in power. Third. The only sound hope for business menin the future, and for the full restoration of the Union, i's in the success of the Demo cratic nominations. Democratic success means not alone constitutional liberty, equal taxes and a better state of feeling and business, but it means thal confidence in republican insti tutions which has not been felt in ten years. ' Fourth. The Radicals are divided. They call each other hard names. Have no confi dence in each other. Have nominated their candidates on thc sole ground of expediency, and have no bond of union but the weak and miserable bond of hostility to the Democratic party. Finally,'the success of the Democratic par ty means the reduction of the standing array one-half at least, aud a saving thereby of fifty millions of dollars per annum. It means, also, reducf.d taxes, greater econ?tny, and a stricter accountability to tho people. The more' jig "candidates and platforms are studied "the more"popular ?hey will prove. FOR PRESIDENT, HORATIO SEYMOUR,, : OF NEW YOBS. . " roil VICE-PRESIDENT, FRANOIS P. BLAIR, OF MISSOURI. Extraordinary Peaches. ; W& express our abounding. tK?nka to MifS T?riTft?rMiTMDV, of tho Antioch vicinity, for a iasftet'of euch Teaches ns we have never before -asea or tasted. Clear-stone Peaches-yellow-'and of fabulous- size, and fabulously delicious flavor. If a finer pouch ever falls into our possession, we will certainly reserve it for Mis3 MUNDT ; whioh promise, b?wev'cr> l?avor.b?-r amiable friend with out tho slightest prospect pf. ever deceiving a peach at our hands. , Fi S;-And even whilc^we w*ito there.ieoines to .na a.royal basketful,fromvanr venorabJejiod-mueh respetad friend^, Mjjj. LEWIS JOSES^ Sr. We thank him a thous?nd timer o'er. But" still wo fintfrnone-we ooula^rOTervc.fbr MiisM?it?Y. ?S^^he 'Was'iii^'o^C?roHi'c/e i?jpab?iihing a list of person d whose political disabilities have bean renipyed by Congress, during .tup-hut ses aieii, In the list.-we .find ?10 fellowing from tbis District: Stowart Harrison, W. F. Durisofi, Eli ?ah U. B?jrnor,^u*nder Act approved July 20tb, .186&.? : ? <? ? . - * ' - . . Gov. Seymour's Letter of Acceptance This w?ck we-pre?cnt to our ro?"dei;B-'Mr.-Sey mour"S-Jottcr formally aecejiting the Democratio nomination foV. President. '"Thiro is *5iit little need to emu ment upon-,lbw honest and manly let >e'r. E?)'r-y'Southe'ra man, of the right ?ort, who reads.it, will bo. fdly-iaiisfiod with jL . Mr. Sey mour leaves not the slightest, doubt as to how and .where ho stands.- Indeed in this letter he comes up to the-high mark .of Frank Blair,:.who says "Wo m cst have a Pro.- iden t who will execute the will-'of tho people >by trampling into' dint the utnrpationf afr-Gewgrtn kn?us? iii fAer* Iieeonttruc t?oh AetrP T|w3"Sr. Seymour'virto'aljy promises to-do." And therewith we should all be' content! - . -. - . - ; - Death of Th ntl. SteVeris.* . Oldi Th?drStev'eus'is'-d?aTij " He giy? np .the ghost in" Wasaington,o'a Wednesday^lijit, old and full of day?. And ti?body was laid in state in tbe.'Cap?tdlj.and gu ardo d^by negro soldiers, And .the negro soldiers a.s they, .entered, the Capitol gates foe this"purpose, fought among themselves, .and ? negro barber was killed. -Grim and ghastly but entirely- befitting, tho .great occasion. - Aid'on Friday tho* ?hi joan's body'Waa taken-j to Lancaster in Pennsylvania-where bo had' lived, an? where Confederate soldiers hail destroyed his iron mills'.'^ And now he sieej)s'l\l3 last sleep, fer gotful alike, we hope, of the said destruction, and of the failure ut impeaehmenL. He was. ? Euiart old .man, but .pot good.; and consequently not h&upy.< His party will-not mies him, Indeed ho he.will.be loss .missed by bis friends than by his foes. ' His name will-soon .bo' forgotten. ' "And there shall be no more ' remembrance o'f the wise man {fian of the fovi forever."" HANGING OF THIIILE GAMBL?RS FOU CUKAT LNG AT OABDO.-Thc Omaba Republican of bhe 2d instant, says : Som?of the police of nur .city are said to be in- possession of intelligeuce^thatthr?e men Were hung by a mob at Sioux City, on Friday. The parties "hung had gone up'- from Om?ha but a few days before and opened a gambling institution in Sioux-City. Their house was liberally patronized-; but at length they:were caught cheating in the game in such a man ner as is not tolerated by the code of the sport ing fraternity; This so exasperated their pa trons that the parties were immediately se cured-by their victims, and.taken to au out of-J.be way.pi?ce, before the a.utbotities-or cit izens know anythin / about it, nrtd there tang-' ?b tp a tree. The first public " knowledge of the "horrible deed was the discovery of- the lileless bodies suspended from the tree a few hours after, and it. has created intense excite ment in that usually quiet city. Tho names of the murdered men were Robert Ferguson, formerly of Ford's restauraut ; Johnny Green, ofili?iBon'Ton, and uDoc''Shaw, who for merly kept-the Bon Ton saloon, on Harney street. All these three were well known iu this city. Scott anti Smith- Give a Good -Sign. Smith" ibo' Radical GoVerndr of Al?baaia hoi vetoed the Bill, nisiod recently bylbcTiegisl?tarp pf that State, taking 'ho Eleeto^U vote fron the "people and giving it to ?aid LcghiialuTo. Andhis veto U?s^can aiTst-iined. Buiiy.for Smith I . .And.^cutt, the ltauicai.Governor ot unfortunate South Carolina, has vetoed tho Bili of the Colnm* bia Zebras, .reducing the official bonds, of Slate Officers. And thia veto is also suitainod. Bully for;flcottl - - - - . .- . But wh it do- s it amour.' to ? Or will it?mount (?-anything? For t-om . ol our newly eleated ?ilgffluld sflcfalU are "tnt"*" finirai_ fro with their commissions in their pocket?. Their flimsy bonds bave beoo approved by tho County Commissioners and Qov. Scott has signed their commissions. It seems to us he should havo waited a little while. What is to be done with these bondi and commissions dated before the veto ? Partyism. Tho old adage, "whom tho gods would destroy they first make mad," may, perhaps, be applied as tho explanation of the present party exhibi tions in this country. Men who think alike on great political quostions will always organize for carrying out tboir views. Bat in so far as men are intelligent und honest, party tirs will alway* rest lightly on them, leaving them free to follow the right course outside of any political organi zation. Of late, however, party has become everything. It has trampled down constitution, laws, the amenities of social intercourse, and that common honesty without which Recant society is impossi ble. Either this is a sign that the oountry is about to be irretrievably ruined, or it it an indi cation that party spirit will soon be-much modi fled. We incline to the latter view of the case. I It CHU hardly be possiblo that the attempt to -place party foremost in everything, and to sacri fice to it all that is honorable and sacred, will fail to awaken the universal disgust and indigna tion of the people. It hns taken some time for partyism to reach its present wild extremes, and it may, for a while longer, seem tb enjoy a sort of pre-emi nence; but it cannot help adding constantly to the evidences of its dangerousness, and thus com bining men against its conduct and its chums. The late split in the Radical party,. by whioh Chief Justice Chase and his friends have been separated from the extremists, and the course ? of Fcssenden, Orimos, Ross, and other leading Radical Senators, indicate that no party which Beeks to exist solely for the sake of its own os 'condency and aggrandisement, without any refer ence to honesty, decency, or ' the, good of the. Lcountry, can accomplish its end. Such selfish ness is too colossal and unmitigated to last. Par ties which would live by preying on tho country instead of promoting its interests, must at last bite deeply enough to touch thc quick and prompt the fatal blow* of popular self-defence: Washington Medical University of Baltimore. We have lately received the "Annual An nouncement and Catalogue", of the Washington Medical University of Baltimore, and we find it among the most interesting of our complimentary receipts. It is certainly most gratifying to read of the woll-being and high usefulness of this emphatically" Southern institution. While in Baltimore rocontly, wo had tho pleasure" of be coming acquainted with Dr. Edward Warren, one of t?e leading professors of the Washington Medical University, a gentleman, both scientifi cally and socially, of the highest accomplish ments, from whom we learned much of the char actor and-status of dbe institution. Consequently we do not laud the Washington Medical- Univer sity without being considerably acquainted "with its real deserts. It's range is very wide and com prehensive, and its professors, thirteen or- four teen in number, are wall known to science and to fame. Its President, Rev. Thomas. E. Bond, M. D., either os preacher, teacher,, practitioner, or writer, is undoubtedly, ono ot\ tho most brilliant minds of our whole country; . . . * From the Catalogue before us, We -learn-that the-number of students in the Washington Medi oai Univ?rsify, for-session of I867-'C8 waa li0, of whom 55 graduated. And it ls ai singular fact, and one which, under existing circumstances, stamps the.Institution most favorably,.that every ono of these 150 was from the "South. And two of the leading professors of the Wash ington Medical University, Edward Warren, M. D., and Charles W. Chaneerlior, M. D., are about to commente-the publication of a monthly Medi cal Journal to bo entitled The Baltimore Journ?tof Medicine and Surgery. This Journal will be a Southern work, edited by as good;' talented and true professional men as the entire country can furnish; and we bespeak for it, in advance, the patronage of our medical men and students. Aa to the Washington Medical University, ex celsior is its working motto, and excellence its aim, if theso can be attained by incessant, con scientious and judicious labor. Self-preservation the Frst JLaw of Nature, &c. Let all white men read what follows, cut from the Charleston Jveic*, and, ns the negro oditor says, "be aware." And being "aware," they would be wisc to be also ready ! These orgt.ni. zfttions, and drillings, and armings are beginning likewise to be practised among us. And decent solicitude for our wemen and children, to say nothing of ourselves, our property and our rights; sbonld admonish us to be ready; THK NECRO MlLlTAAY OnOANIZATIOXSIX?HAn LESTON.-It is well that tho people should know that for three months past bodies of armed ne groot have been drilling nightly at four different places of rendezvous in tho City of Charleston. They make no noiso or disturbance beyond giving the word of command and going throagh the or dinary m:litary evolutions, but they aro working patiently and steadily to ranke themselves trained and disciplined armed associations. The new constitution, by which all negroes swear, decUres that " people have a right to keep and bear arms for thc common d?fonce " This means that they have thc right to bear them openly and iu tho light of day. There is no in terference to be droaded, for tho negroes can drill upon the Citadel Green at noon if .they desire. They have no one to molest or disturb- them, but they still do their drilling in the dark hours of the night, and in qnarters of tho city where they a-e hidden from general observation. It is evident that this conduct admits of but one rational explanation. If .the negroes were only organizing because they aro fond of playing at soldier, they would not lurk in out-of-the-way. corners and ktep thoir movements, secret. They would parado openly and in public ; and now that they so far give up their natural love of show as to exercise where they have no spectators but themselves, it is reassnably tertain that they are gathered together for no good or peaceful pur pose. The military organizations of thojoegroes .iu Abbe rille, and Union, and upon the sea islands, should teach us a lesson. All over the Slate there are -negro oompanios, battalions and regi ments. It is their avowed purposes to overawe the white man," to keep him down by force of arms. Have the similar organizations which ex ist in Charleston any other aim?' IQ this connection we desire to call attention to a significant, extract from the lost number of the negro Cain's negro paper. It is as follows . " When the issue comes, there "will be 50,000 loyal men who will sp ring-to arm.- in this State at the sound of the first note. Every plantation has its captain; and the mc.n and iomiu are pro pared to stand by '.?:ir liberties. They stand on the defensive, and no aggressive measure will be taken by them ; they are determined to keep tho peace and abide by law and order, and see that theAibcrties of their children are guarded' with rleepless vigili.nce. Let their foes becaware!" Important Rumor About Grant. A Washington telegram of August ll to the New York World soys : Most extraordinary ru mor? are afloat in<{rb?8 city touching tho unex pected 'return of General Grant'from his Western tour, and its relation to'the political canvass. From all I can'gathoramong thoie best acquainted with the views of the memb'ers-cf the Republican National Committee, it appears .that-private letters havo been received from members of Grant's I'-party, showing an anxiety on-Jthe part of the General tb throw up thc candidacy" for the Presi dency. To thfs he has been moved by overwhelm ing evidences from every quarter of the utter want of spirit in the Republican canvass, and 'ho tremendous popular tide running in favor of the Democratio ticket. -AH the loiters roceived'hor?, both by the Congressional and National Repnbli can Committees, are sorely discouraging to the Radical loaders, nor are the letters from the South lers alarming/The blacks cannotbe controlled; and all efforts on the partof carpetbaggers, to prevent excesses have so far failed, and the Radicals see that a coni?iuance of these riotous and incendiary acts on the part of the colored population will add hundreds of thousands to the Democratic vote in the North. Hence thc sudden stoppage of Grant 8 Western trip, hence the rumors that lie is about to throw up the car "dacy, and the intimations thrown out in political circles that the Republican National Convention will be called together again, and rumors have it that the nomination will bo. tendered to General Sherman. Pnblic Meetings on At i ."eeting ho?dat.Edge Shameful Insult to the Zebra. We mean tho real four-fuoted, beautifully striped, clean, honest Zebra, on bis native plains of Asia or South America, or wherever it is ho roams. Wonder if ho knows that tho Charleston papers call* the members of the South Carolina Legisla ture, " Zebras." Ala" ! that tho pretty' Zebra? simply because bo is striped, should be so basely coupled ! If he know it, be would undoubtedly change his skin, or, failing in that, would lie down and. die ,ia extreme shame and ignominy! Ho just couldn't stand it ! <. A Weekof Prayer with the Methodist*, The Southern Chrietian Advocate- says : " The observance of a week of.prayerlast year, through out tho Church, resulted in great and, we trust, lasting good to the cause of God. The appoint ment for the present week i's August 23-30,' that is the week from the fourth to tho fifth 8abbath in August, inclusive. The intervening Fridny is to be observed asa day of fasting and humiliation. It is hoped ?bat thero will bo a general assem bling of thc members of the Methodist Church during that week. To this end, let the appoint ment bo kept in view, and preparation made for its observance. that preTailod'i? ^w Y?r';? when,the.Whigs I and with, the deepest concern far the interest wiro .alway* io ^ebt; bot the motto of the I of the Stat-o, X feel compelled to disapprove w J^-Tho'-FrontUr Index," of the 24th July, publisbod at Laramie City, Dakota Territory, says : " Gen. Horse Sambo Useless Grant; accom panied by Gen. Sherman abd several other promi nent milititry men, passed through Laramie on 'Saturday last, en route .for the end pf the track. We have "beard .of no demonstration on the entire route from Sbian fo Benton, except at Wyoming where tho General was received with tremendous oheors-for Seymour and Blair. We uuders":aud the parry returned to Shian on Sunday and took dinner at a negro restaurant " pf Tbo North is alarmed lest the negro vote become a bnlnnco of .power. Calculating tbe black vote at 714,000, it is shown that this num ber would bavo changed the thrco last Presiden tial elections, and will, probably, if permitted, deoide the fourth. ^SrTbe Goorgia Senate has confirmed ex Gevernor Jo-eph Brown as Chief Justice of Qoorgia by a roto of twooty-six to fourteen. Peach and Apple Brandy. By a recent ruling of the Commissioner of In ternal Revenue, dated'August lsf,'the license tax for'thc distillation of peach and apple "brandy is four liutidred dollars a year from May. to May. Tboao comineociug August lat will have to pay three hundred dollars up to May noxt, which al most amounts to prohibition. We are informed that several -parties have taken oqt- their papers with the expectation of paying at the rate of $J? or $2(1 a year. Cheering signs. Tho Washington Exprese, of Wednesday; sayfi : "The prospects of the Democratio party are hourly brightening, and its success' in November next may be considered certain. ? friend has lately been travelling through portions of Penn sylvania, Ohio and Michigan, and he saw. in every direction and among all oleases. of popple un m is tak bio evidence-of the approaching .own fall of-tlte Radicals. In 1884 large numbers of sol diers wero furloughed arid allowed-to re tun home on condition1 that they would yoto "for Lincoln. They ?re now determined tb vote tho Democratic ticket,''and it is safe lo -eay fr U fully three-quar ters of the soldiers will volo the'sime w*ay. Among th'e farmers and workingmen - generally there is a feeling thut thoro is something .wrong; that the cost of living is too high, and their taxes entirely too largo, and tbey are determined to have a change in November. Wa hare-no doubt they will got it." _? The man who buys a vote and' an offico by turning Kadical^ays tneTKTcFmorid WKfg) is* a double-dyed traitor. He is a traitor to bin country and his Creator. He goes over to a party which is disloyal to the Constitution, to the best interests of the .nation, and to humanity. To oppose that purty is to bo loyal to the country, and to tho solemn obligations to tbe Supromc Being. Some persons of facile dispositions-and accommodating logic may argue with'themselves that to accept the proffered bribe will be" the best way of conquering the Radicols; but thc man who acts upon such an.idea takes a leap iuto that deep-down gull of prostitution and dishonor from which resurrection is the fori on est of hopos. Are Ye Chasing the Butterfly? And huntiog fancy frem whim to whim ? Or irre yo shooting harmless men at midnight? ' Or what are yo doing? Wc propound these queries to our honorable Representatives in the Legisla ture at Columbia. All so-callod ! Du ?ot the exigencies of the suffering people .of Edgefiejd District admonish you that yon should'no longer bo standing idle in tho market place ? - Bat after all, it is infinitely better you should no* speak, lt will redound to the honor of tbe District We earnestly hope, n's certainly appears to bo the casi*, that you have all Boen struck with hopeless dumbness. Baa ! ex nihilo nihil Jil ! Wo take baok our queries. We would not hoar a word from you for any consideration upon earth Far Nobile Fratmnw. The Columbia Phonix, of yesterday, says : "A colored fair bas been going on for several nights in a building on Washington-street: ' A night or two since, Mr. Speaker Moses, of tho (so-called) Legislature of" South Carolina, and young Mackey, tho would-be-Sheriff of Charles ton, were present-the one fanning and gaily chatting with the dusky damsels; while tho other promenaded the room with a young lady, of mixed breed. This is tho statement of an eye witness." The Great Campaign Papers. We invite' attention to the peculiar advantages of tho Charleston -Otii/y and. Tri- Weekly iVcici as Democratic campaign-and family papers for coun try circulation. Great care is tiilo-n to give nil thc latest intelligence by mail and telegraph-, so that each paper is u frosh and attractive, completo and compact, record of curren te ven ts in the world of politics, literature, society, re?gion and trade Special telegrams keep the readers of the -Yt-ie* informed upon all important point.- of State and National information. Tho Tri-W?chig Hewe i published on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and embraces all tho reading matter contained in the Daily Neics, and all the latest intelligence published in the daily paper of the same date. The club rites of tho Tri- Weekly A'eie* aro : Five -.pt-, I... ... ..i.l \m ?18 f'hmm m I , '. .,-4^.-?^?-?*I drees, $25; fifteen copies, to one address, S3tl twenty-five copies, to ono address, $55; fifty copies to one address, $100. Clubs- may be formed for the Daily Ne ic s nt double the rate named for the tri weekly edition. Tne proprietors, however, being determined to put a sterling Democratic paper withiu the reach of every man during the campaign for SEYMOUR and Blair, havo adopted the following unprece dented low rates for subscribers for four months Five copiej Daily Ncics, to ooo Bddress, four months, $8.50 ; five enpiei Ti i-Weekly Neics, to ono address, four months, $4.25 ; ten copies Duil-? Ncxes, to one address, four months, $15; ten copies Tri-Wcek'y Neics, to one address, four month.', $7.50. Thad. Stevens is Dead I WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-Thaddeus Steven?, of Penn., died here rather suddenly this morning. LATER.-His body is guarded by the Butler Zouaves,.nograes, uniformed and armed. A great majority of visitors arc negroes. Tho exhibition attracts very little atUsucioa. Thc body lies in the centre pf. the Retunda. TL ere are no unusu al decorations or drapeYy in the Capitol. WASHINGTON, Aiig! r4-A Company of Bntler-j Zon&vefe, negroes, marching to relieve guard over Stevens' dead body, fired a volley down 21st street -to-day in response to a stone hurled at t iem. A nogro waiter, standing in the door of a private residence, WAS shpt through the thigh. The Express says when they reached' tue Capi tol some disagreement 'arose' between themselves and they had a regular free fight. The'Scar, ofter speaking of the^firing and Ita results, says a largo crowd immediately gathered, and,;fo.r a iboat .thne, there wa? every., .prospec t for a eerious disturbance, -but the police o? -duty, as well aS-tho reserve, appearing in force prompt ly, by surrounding the Zouaves, oheeked further proceedings", and, when order was restored, al lowed them to proceed. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, noon.-Slovens' re mains, with tbrao passenger cars of escort,-left for Lancaster, Pa., at 10 o'clock. Turning Pale, and Wriggling Round. Tho late magnificent Democratic victory, in Kentucky is making the New York Tribu ne turn very pale. It,has ooaaed ita tone of. ridiculous assurance, and is beseeching the Radicals to work-work-wcrk.' To work as they never worked bafore; for upon the hardeat sort ef wprk olone Nits their salvation. Which hard work, wo sup po?e, moans further ' dishonest und tyrannical Radical legislation. And the facile Herald is not only .turning pale, but, as usual, making, distinct preparations to wriggle round.- But its present- wriggling is not to light ?nd graceful as. usuaL It wriggled so heavily for Chase, that it cannot wriggle, now for Seymour without evident pain and suffering. And still it ?iutJ.be dono. The Herald always wrig gles ultimately on the right side. The Columbia Phoenix, of Saturday.saya : So-callo.i Judge .Willard gavo his opinion, yes terday morning, in the oaso of the-State vs. John Perry. The defendant is to give bond in tho sum of $2,000, with suffi' -ut surety, for his appear ance at thc next Court of General Sessions for Edgefield District. Mr. Chamberlain for tho State, Mr. Bachuian for the prisoner. . ?if Fivo or six hundred former Republicans were atibe Scyiuour ratification meeting in Chi cago. They choired lustily lor the Democratic nominees and will vote right in November. _^-Gold closed in New York on Friday at ll7. Cotton wot less active, and unohonged. In Liverpool cotton wa* firmer and active." Sales 15,000 bales. ?ST In a reoent speech in Cincinnati, ex-Sena tor Pugh desoribed the carpet-baggers who infest that South as "a class of vermin, meaner than the meanest thing ever before known on the face j of tb? earth." Thc colored men of Mississippi, since the late electien, are going over en masse to the Demo crats. In.a singlo county one thousand of them have procured certificates of membership of Democratic pliib^," It w? the negro vote that beat tb'? Radicals in Mississibpi. They were lit erally hoisted on their owif petard. 'rije Radi cals had better begin tb extenfl proscription from the Southern whites to "tho Southorn blacks, if this thing keeps on, . , jg?* Wall street men attribute the rise in gold: to the expected action of foreign bondholders, and the possible political occurrences here in the .next two months; jgr A. A. Bradley, negro Sonat?r from the firat District to the Georgi* Legislature, ires de clared inelegible by the Senate, on thc 12th, by a vote of 35 to 5. The said Bradley now. intends to ian for Congress from the same District * pS* At Saratoga Springs, Now York, a few days since, * bet of $3,000 waa made that New York would give Seymour ?nd Blair 70,000 Tmo jority. The same offers were made by othera, and no takora. ' t5F Montana Territory voted on the 30th ult. The Democratic majcrity, by the latest.acccunta, roached 1,700. Several counties have not as yet been heard from. yST A bill bas passed the Louisiana House di recting the City of New Orleans to immediately collect all outstanding, dues in greenbacks, or doring the destruction of all the city'currency and the plates for printing the same. Thia ac tion virtually repudiates $3,300,000 of city cur rency now outstanding. |y The fanners of the Northwest art in the midst of tho harvest, but they find lt almost im possible to obtain sufficient help. Jive dollars a j day ?nd board ara sow offered for hoads. A Valuable Work. " The Warhetmeenthe States, Hs (Janies, Chnritc'cr, Conduct and Itcsnitt," by HON. ALEXANDER H STEPHENS, fs tho title of a wluable work just (med by TUE NATIONAL PUBLISHING .Co., At lanta, Qa. . Histories of tho late civil .war have sprung up like mushrooms, and they can now.be numbered almost by hundreds, but all who ure desirous of arriving at a correct understanding of the causes? and a clear -history of the events of tho late la mentable war, have felt cbc Want 'of- a reliable history of the samo -from a Southern-standpoint, by soma representftivo man of tho South. This want is about tc bc supplied by ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS. Mr. STEPHENS was a most earnest protestant against rebellion, and only Miccuiubcd at the last momcn. Tho hare announcement that this distinguished Statesman had determined to write a book-, would of itself; bea sufficient to kindle a lively and wido-spread intorcst in nil sections of the country ; but when itls known that ho" has chosen as Iii.-. themo tfi? ouo ?o.fru,itfy.l as T?t" EA'TE'?M?TK ICAN WAR, the absorbing interest of the tubject together with tho evident and singular litness of the author for its treatment, unito in awakening a curiosity entirely unparalleled in the annals of American literature. Jt presents a careful political analysi.? of thc past, separating REAL from APPARENT cm es of the late unhappy conflict, ind gives iho.-c inte rior lights and: shadows of the Groat War, "ONLY KNOWN TO THOSE HIGH ort-'it'ERS, who watched the flood-tide of Revolution from its fountain-spring?, and-which -were so accessible <o Mr. STLPHENS from his position.as second officer of- the 'Con federacy. . To a publie that has been surfeited with AP PARENTLY SIMILAR PRODUCTIONS, itpre lents a change of faro, both agreeable and saluta ry, and un intellectual treat cf the highest order. The Groat American-War has AT LAST found a historian worthy of its importance, and at whose hands it receives that moderate, candid and im partial treatment which truth and justico so ur gently, domand. This most valuable work is sold only by sub scription, and the publishers want an agent in every County. Chief Justice Chase, in charging tbe United States Grand Jury of West Virginia, said,, in effect, tEat in order-to suppress the rt bel li cu it was ne'ce??*ry to create a large -pabHc debt, anjr that the -debt must he-paid ; for Under the four teenth amendment to the Constitution of tbe United States tho nation wtu plcdg<id-"toiL The amendment bc recognized os' valid, and therefore charged thc jury to see that the revenue law?, which were made to pay the debt, were strictly enforcod. . ,- ... p!3r Tho first bale of tho new crop of bolton was received at New York on Thursday, tho Otb, from Texas. It was classed os strict .middling, and sold at 35 pents per pound for export .to Liv erpool. pjf Tb'd following is going ibo rounds of thc'J papers: "Ono of thc most annoying and painftu little troubles is a felon. A genuine, remedy is worth circulating. It is said that a poultice of j: onions applied morning, noon and hight for three or. four days will cure a felon. Na matter hew bad the case, lancing the finger will'be unceces sary if thu poultice is applied. The remedy.is a sure, tafe and speedy ene." 83^ The following epitaph in a Pennsylvania churchyard touchingly commomoratos the ghi ttony of a husband and the grief of bis widow: .Last. ATi .';eetingheldat.Edgefiel!tt7C.H-,on Mon day ljfih inst., for the purpose of receiving Re ports from, tho different Democratic Clubs of the District relative to tho labor question, and for tbe further purpose of organizing a CcLtral Demo cratic Club, in accordance with, the suggestion of the late Democratic Con vea tion ir. Columbia, Major George Boswell waa called tc the Choir, and Orlando Sheppard requested to act os Stie re tary. A. J. Norris, Esq, offered the following hts. olution : Resolved, That we recommend that each local Club in Edgefieid District appoint Delegates to meet at Edgefield C. H., on Sales-day in Septem ber, to-organisera .Central Democratic Club , in ac cordance" with tbe suggestion-cf the Lie Demo cratic Convention in Columbia; andjj^?*i mat tera pertaining" to the lalJbr'ques^on^p?atp-oned io that day ; and that* the various Clubs of the .District be- very earnestly requested to ?ead Dele gates to tho propos?e! Meeting. -, This Resolutio.?^being submitted.to the'J^?etinf, was-unaaimously adapted. / On motion, it was resolved that the proceedings of this Meeting be. published in "tho Adver User. Thc Meeting then adjourned. . J GEO. BOSWELL, Chair. 0. SiiEPP-iju), Scq'fj,. . .... Upon .thc :Aj.ourament of the above Meeting, another Meeting waa then and there callad, for ,the pErpo8t> of organizing a Denrb'cratic -Club in Edgefield Village arid its vicinity On motion of G cul. Bu thy. Gov.. Bonham nras Gilled to-the Chair, and A. J. Norris-requested to act as Secretary. Mr. J". L.' Addison .then tnoved that ?*listlre prepared, and that ?ll present, who are.-.-disposed to join the Club, be inyitcd to come forward and subscribe their n?mes upon'tho roll. Geni. Butler m^ved ?hat a Committoo of Seven be-appointed by tho Chair to reconl?iend Perma nent Officers and preparo 'a ConstUurunr sud By. Laws-for-the 'Government '?f'the' ?d^rcffjdd Vil lage Democratic Club, and 'that they, rep,-"^ .t^an adjourned Meeting of the Club to bo hold in the Goui-trHousonn-SatuTday-twatat li o'clock. Tho-nroKon wna*~?dopt?'c?f-arid-t>B? Choir ap pointed the following named gentlemen on the jeaid; Comtoilt?e : My C.'BuQ?r, fcf^^tfttno v?n?T?.VW:rGary, A. J. Norr^T^/Carwire, J. L. Addison, J. Walter. Hill. On motion of Mr. M; A. Market, a. Committee of Seven waa appointed to canvass the communi ty dad procure names, with a riew't?o^hior?tafelho membcrslHp and inflnence of this Democratic- Club. The following gentlemen constitute the Com mittee: M. A.'Markeri, B. 6. %rysctt) Yf'. AV^Son ders, fr A. Che?%amVLukfl S: ftn?tJ/H: W. Can non, W. H. Moss. ._ . On motion orGtm.M. W.-.Gary tho Meeting r.d jotrrnecf. "* ?" " M..L. BONHAM (Tiiairnion. ?, J. NORRIS, Sec'ry*.- , . ....--r-T-- -.-?i* For the Advertiser. . At a nice tin g of-the' Oom mi tte* of-Arrange ments for the Grand .Ratification, Barb- cue, on the 15th, the following Committees were appoint ed : - - ;r.ty ?'.'.? . - - . Committee -cn Preparations ' and 6tf?rinten ttYnce cf Binder : Stownrt "HornJnn, James A. Liaicr, Julius Doy, John F. Burns, C. A*.Cheat ham, F. M. Nicholas, li.- B. Gallman,. John H. Fair, ?. H. Youngblood; E.'Wi Petry, Jolnton A. Bland, "Luke Cnlbreath, Cheslcy Attaway, T. D. Padgett > y g. \ Committee on Platform, '.Tablee, ic.,-T. L. Smith, M. A. Marketf, .Ja.me8 patcher, Nat Ha mey, Sr., S. B. GKriiii ri; \ ' . ' . . By order.* * Z. W. CARWfcl, Ctfair. AV. T- GARV, SccVy. Canvassers ..Appoiuted. Agreeably. t> vs: res -dation adopted/by tb?-??w ce'nt State Convention,'thc Yollowirig gentlemen a-n' appointed by/the Stiti Central -Executive Committee canvasser? in the interest of the Democracy : * Jnfr" Stato at large-Gabriel Cannan and ' A. P. Al dcicb. . _ 1 ^. Saccnd Cpngrc?sion?l DisTnct-J". B. Kershaw. Thixd Congressional Djjtrict-D. Wy??t Afken. ^?**^5 - -j- 'Tou?ttft?^ Canvasser for. First Congressional District U> be hereafter appointed. 1 " i ,VL To her deer Ji.hn, who died-of eating crab! ' pST Notrlong tinco, a gentleman telegraphed to a friend, af Cleveland, "an interesting family affair as follows : " S-r.ib and the. little one doing well." Tbe telegram reached its destination and read thus : "Sarah and litter are doing well. " The recipient telegraphed back the startling, query : " For Heaven's-sak?, how many ?" - pf Ah e.\<mango say? : " We were comp*elled to refuse ari efl'cr of job printing the otier doy by a man way back, who innocently called to get some po?tuge stamps printed* He wa$-quite.dis appointed because we could not do the wurt; be ! lf,t box in Novembsr next WADE HAMPTON, Chairman. For the Edgefield Advertiser. Democratic'Meeting. According to appointM?nt, thc Leesville Demo cratic Club, assembled Wi thc- 1st dary of August A goodly number were present upon the occo sion. -Not only tfca.-y"ung of our neighborhood, but our yrand-fnfhers were rocre'w *ittcst that they u.aai to CU thur places in ranks at the bal pB- The Trenton Gazette has the following : "The last survivor of the.party of young .ladies who strewed flowers in the path of. Washington, aa he poseed through this city in 1789 on his way to .New York to assume tb" ".esidency, is Mrs. Sarah Hand, now nine' years of ago and a resident of Cape May C -inty, and, notwithstand ing her advanced ag J, is still vigorous and in good health. On Sunday, Juno 14, she'walked to church at Capo "May Co'urt House, aud'back to her residence, a distance of half a milo." pS*. The New York World truly says : "The real question is not so much whether the negroes and carpet baggers are te rule tho South, but whether they are to rule us. Alroady thero are twelve of th cae 'loil' leeches ?in tho Senate and thirty-three in the Houte. Are thoy to rule us ? Thot ia the question." pf The Kew York Evening Mail says that a lawyer in that oity bas mado over a million dol lars in two years, simply by axaieting merchants and others in evading government taxes, penal ties, Ao, " wonted 'em real bad to put on a letter be wril io a gal, and it cost too-much to Buy 'em-of the post-office feiler?-."- * ? "*r "- f?3?? Tho Cleaycland (Ohio) Herald ineat:onf the death of.Miss Kate Keathley, thu Mhuouri piante;?, which occurred at her. borne near St. Louis, last week. She weighed eight hundred and twelve-pound?. She bad recently relumed frobi a trip fo Omulm, Nclrrtrjka. pf In. Cincinnati, a'in aa wiahing to .git a ch? ck cashed, hid no one to prove his Julenthy. Ho exhibited-bis name up'.n .bis Shirt, whereat the banker was satisfied, and paidc-arer thamoney ^Sf-Abo Gilmore (colored,) who sent thc first bala of new cotton of the.present* crop dircct to M..bile, was the recipient-this morning of a hand some pitcher and two silver goblets, presen tod-by Sessums ?fa Co. The articles were purchased ot M. W. Show's, on Tremont sfeeet.. It -gives us pleasure to chronicle rbis evidence of liberality on Ihe part of otro of our largest "cotton lira?, and we^ire not at all 8nfry*that a'wbrtby'and ?h: dustiious freedman was tho fortunato individual to reap the benefit. X?pKEdwin A. Stevens, toe-great millionaire or HoSokuo, dic.l ?rt PuTi-i'at noon on Friday" He hitd'bcer. ?.fflkted with rheumatism for two years ust When tho news reiiched Hoboken ori'Sat urday, thc flags at the ferry, and all through tho* ?.y, were displayed at halfjnost Through tho entcrpii.-o and energy of Mr. Stevens, Hoboken pru ag up from an unhealthy marsh to bc one of thc neatest and moat orderly cities- to bo found in the vicinity of New York. pf Justus K. Jillson, the "State Superin tendent of Education," ina speech delivered re cently t? 0 black audience in the African Church, Comden, sail "that if tho Democrats succeeded in electing -their President, there would be the bloodies, war-on record." . ? pf Miss Ann Lee, of Lawrence, Mose., lay flat on the bank.oftbe river* the other day, and held hor Taca in.the water until she was drowned, ber clothing not'haying beonvw?t at all. It was thc dryest suicido by drowning on record. pf When General Grant reached Denver, Colorado, all the soldiers of Company B, 3d In fantry, saluted him with o Seymour and Blair flog. The General felt unable to remain in that towri, er even to alight from the coa*cb. . pf A mon mowing in Pennsylvania cnt a rattlesnake in two, and -tho half to which the head was attached bit him to death. pf Intelligence received itt Columbia indi cates tho armin'g-of negroes in different portions of tho State and-thrcats of violence made. Tbo leidere publicly .soy there is a, captain on every plantation. The whites anticipate serioasOrofible. pf The Columbia (S. O.) Phanix says : " It is stated that Colonel Eadie, the commandant of thia post bas been appointed Assistant Comoii. tioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, vice Gen. R. K. Scott, resigned." In nil patts of the country -.tiomoeratlc dribs, white and colored, are being formed. The Barnwell Sentinel saya: ""Bamberg, formed a club a few weeks ago, whioh now numbera o.'or one hundred members, abd thero arc nccessk is The Meeting was called "W orderby -the Chair man, Dr. W. L. ADDY. Several accession? were made to the Club. A few'ptrtiiie?l'i'emo^ made by Gen. PAUL Q TATT LED A UV, after which die followio-g Ut-suNuions -were unanimously o looted: ' . < ; . > ,: Ii-juiced, That^ whila we fully, ^appreciate tho delicite duty, in the present 'criB?s; of selecting suitable candidates fcr;Prcsidcntan3 Vice Presi dent of tbe United States, we, tba Democratio Club of Leesville, Lexington District, So.uth Carolina, do most cordially approve 'of tho "Plat form* arid Nominations maac by tbe." ??a'?onal Democratic Convention, recently assenGkd in .Ne'w'Yoi-k,-?nd pledge to S?yraooTf Jt^Blair onr zealous support in thc approaching election-be lieving a*'wo'd.o-''thatf by -securing*th?ir***8ticcees the Union will bo rfcstorod upon th? broad princi ples.pf justit:, fW?xni'y and good-will aibong ibo people of tho several Stetes e imposing it, os laid down in'tbe .Constitution'adapted by our 'fathers. ' "*"" - .-*-..--?.*- - - Resfihed, That as wo have borne the joice of military pppresskn, ..?.nd now must beor the no Uss galling yoke of civil misrule fora' se'iuoa, wirh thc hope 'of righting our wrongs through the a; i-powerful agnncy of thc I allot-box ; and as the opportune period is near at hifndV *p call upon IQU, the, friends of. civil J^bertv every where througbout^he cnt;re.length krid ?re?dlh bf the .'.United States* ?o-cojue oqjj'o S[pvern ier next, and.help us ga?ja back ouiU'ojrt liperilef. T<rre?tori?g us our .right=, yo"u .maSae-more secure your own; fur we are yotfr jtflies *nd friends in thc groat Struggle for the maintenance of th? supremacy of our race. Resolved, .That os God bis mode a distinction between the white and block rkeps', WhWi ne-one can foil to recognise, it is sinful trnnah to-auempt to wipe-out this act of Divine Providence, and make all equal, cither socially or pclitk-iliy ; and .u*t^;wh?tc-.raca in tho! United^Stotes predomi nate bv'cr thc colored in the ratio ef eight to one, tho political power of tbe conntry must of right belong to the dominant race. How absurd, there fore, ?or .the few colored people, ' residing in tho Southern States, .to think of ruling for any great length of time,'these States, Srt?en tire* -#bites in tho South alone out number the blocks two to one. The North-'fts-elfrwill t??l lob*?" ibl?rtH* such a representation in Congress as that' now foisted upon them through this minority jn tho? Sirutii ichereby 'the one-thiht (the colored) over-rides thc two-thirds (the whites,) and sends iwcnty-two ad ditional vote? to the Senate to aink the Soufo, if possible, in.to deeper humiliation and more irre tritvable^nin. ? . .# j "s-v Resolved, That amid bur owrf" m?ef&trme* we ean but sympathize with thc'colorcd mon in JU/. and while we aro desirous of doiogliim ja.o?io in. ill things, by which his true, interest may pro moted, We can but.c-adviao .him^ogainafc'.tho pre posterous idea of bia ruling;tRl chantry, so long M tho whitoa ore, iu auch gre?t a^ceiAl'e'ricy ; ttrr pcr/iietorioe ja'auqh attempt must Ultbnoteiy pro du fri war'of'rtces,. in 'which thoHw?olrer'must of course go under. RcsolvcdjT)M& equal justice before the law,, with .qualtfi^Vuffruge,- is.oft*Such;aa tho black man cunireaaotiabJy cxpwPiu'a country*Tike that of the Uuited State?, where the odds ore so large ly agaiutt bim ; and wherp the oxy hos already been rafted by' ;hou?ands io (be Radical, tu well aa that of-."tJAe>D?nio?ran'c Patty, thot,- ** tb i s h a white uMiii'i government, anii Jae white man must ru.?.',' Sp ?uc'h ^coritoit-wfitiro: are Oje color-sd men' brid 1he?r*-rew whWall?Wto.at?nd 1' . Resolved, That, behaving many bf ouccoromd friends hare been dec"Tircd by the Radical party", and i.ndnced-by Ihem'to; Vote 4*or^b.?6ibst ubnox fof tu?' promotion lit their own daily to its ranks. Blackville, Willis ton, Aiken, Graham's-Turnout, and many other placea In-th? district havo formed clubs, 'and ore all in fine working order. -Our Democratic friends have de termined that the bedLihoH be kept rolling, and have rolled up their ileeree to the work." *. . ' iou? montures for "eclfieh ends-truth w^tbe'.d^f^^j^gmcnt atd d'iaqualiflc?tion from office,- of many iriFlhe bett, and wieeat white men- of tfje, co"unVy*for rio ot h tx offend" thon'thotof pe^amoap'tuevotion'uioVklkgi une2.tov their palive.Tt?jrr^ Jafid -bolieying tht& inOriyhavo become convinced .of (he gieot crrt-r thus committed, and of their determinaci?n to act arith us, or remain neutral in the future, we teador them forgiveness for the patt ; bu\f*prVoll auch aa ?t?H-ppr8ist,"in their , h?srjlity-towj?*u*8 us, and .iii their determination to adhere to our cuumies-, we hove no favors -to. prbmtBe4.ax^( ?id^to ask. Resolved, Thutthese1 prrtcee.di^gi be published in tho ColumbiaTAoeiiixan&Edgefield Advertiser. . B, F. BANKS, Seo'ry. FROH COLUMBIA. f^^gv^^-V-v j.::. -~ . .. .'..'?a From tte Colombia correspondents ot the' Charleston Courier and Daily News, we con tinue to furnish our readers with a synopsis of the proceedings and doings of tho bogu3 Legislature-still in session ' in Columbia legislating (so-called) ostensibly for tho good of the country, bnt in reality only for the $G per diem, which they are so wantonly stealing from the oppressed tax payer? of South Caro ^ lina. Go on, ye damnable freebooters, and viie usurpers, in plundering and despoiling this once fair land of ours. Now's ?y&ttr day, and now's your hour. But bear in miud : There's a day of reckoning coming ! . * ' ?? C'OUTMBIA, S. C., August 10 In tbcu.Ho.usjQ, .Xeag}?f4Uie,.Comptroller General elect ) had the- following ptper;read '-, by the Clerk: . 'v , ' i . i: "^"lereas'ceit'tin affidavits have appeared in-the.-Churlston Da?y News, emanating from'? certain Rock '?lill Conservative Club, ma Ki rig the infamous attempt to fix on me an .infamous Crime,- thereforeP-request the ap .paintment-. of u, Commitie&of five, /yith iq. .sfn'.ctto'Hyto examine eviden?e-I propose to produce, and report .to -the House as io.the ...corre?tnes^-of' the-affidavits." - X?agle, in .explanation, contended that the -affidavits were *gotteu up by parries wljo -wafted-to. kUI'h?m.'poJitic?lly, that they .p??-*, ..?sesssed ?o shadow of truth} and- that the par ' ties^would agsassibatahiny if they dared. He was prepared to prove th-2 whole thing an in fayiqus slander. ?Thc Houso agreed Lo ap to^ allow froBi'the . iCcpurit of his. arduous labors. .."'.. ', A' pe?p??idn Sjas adopted providing foi; the' .-lO'Uioti of ?vi'j/ht"Circuit Ju^gc4on Thursday. " *S"?nf. I.2C (riiula?o) iut^du'ce?".^ Brli.to capealJ?t? c?a?te? of\iiie towu of Hainburgr .whii^was. read nui? referred to! t^e'Coaiaiifc ' tie'qp incorporations.." ' .... A co)pmut>icatioa was. read, from (Ljener&l ' Scott, announcing bis'approval of the Act.au tli?rifmg '?.'lo?n or^f25,?00. . Tn Ihe S?iiaie,, the BDI tc regulato the.ten 1 'UPO of'.certain cheers, was amended so'as to allow all Slate and County offi?eie,-elestdlsiq. April"'OT "'fono', to file their bonds "vftljiu *. 'tw'ediy tfc?fs fru'tfi the passage cf the Act"., 'A B'ift -proposT?g to'ltfl- all offices*-only with ' ?erronB^tV.'ojabT? jk> tte present's tafe Govern ment was'fabled^ J " *' 'L...^ 'Th?Le^hjlaVtr'e has been in'SesMotf thirty fi, ra rn vs, .during v/hte-h time it 'has passed" ?ve BiBsj" C**- Jtt J . . ' 'ri"';Tti^ti.x Gill ffjl?cairfor amillion'of dollars. '*' 'Th?'ca'sV of the Att?rr?oy-Ge.riera;t ?h?m L ._ _--!.^"?U_?;-; rr iTr,>. ' ._?' '_ Democrats was " pay as you go." This bill required an,outlay .by the State,.and neither he nor the State we're prepared fbr'it The fact was, if " theso men," pointing to Cain and Randolph, expected to become legislators or to hold office, they must commence to ex hibit their tact and knowledge, but at present he was surprised-at nothiug;.ihey said or did. The Republican party was showing itself to be a great set "of asses. Randolph, .fl&wlnto a furious passion, ami called the Barnwell.senator to order ; wanted to know if, by the word asses, he mean* "jack as8es,''J)ecause. if so, he was not in that category. The chair sustained the point of order. Col. R. S. Sims (Democrat) quietly re marked that he snw nothing inappropriate in the language used, a3 it was emphatically ap plicable. Leslie defended himself by sayiug that the idea of colored men knowing anything about finance was simply preposterous, and be bad no. confidence whatever in. the report that had .heeu. made. "The Republican party, ou 'fifty different-occasions, had ddh'e enough' to juin thei?selycs, .und if they kept "uh he thought they .would/succeed in the aucrnpt"' After a very acrimonious debate,.the Senate finally postponed " Che corisideration of the .subject until Wednesday, *.' *~C -. - COLUMBIA, August ll. * The "House "Judiciary Committee reported favorably on the petition of John G". ItgeD, tf] Charleston, Tor .permission to let stand a wooden house erected in the Lower Wards. The-Committee on -Education reported a Bill to provider" tjySporary organization of th? educational 'dhp&rtmeot, with a superin .tendent, whose salary shall be ?2,500, who snail Have his office in Columbia^ ;a"nrT shall dige^t'flie rep?rfs ol School Comm issie irers, ecrrbll ill"males"botw??? the ages of 5 and-18 years. Schoo' Commissioners ai-?'tp be?aid \$? pe'r*dav when employed. The ??in;nit't?e orVtheTcniie^tiary" report ed that iriStituKon in good condition 'as' re g^dsit?ealtH'antt'diet. "The comfort of priso tiersiwe?r" provld?d fefr ; 155 'cells . cocrfpleted and '?$5' corrvrdti in" confinement, 30nf jvHom a't'e to be discharged this thoritb. Tberfe w.eic out timt '-VFali-or'was pot ("Toror.er cf'Richland .graands; Pj.rs.t."'Tliat D. H. Chambert?h'-was '."riot Att'ir;i-iy-Geue:al, but t W. Uayncv'^ec ' ' ond..'T&ut' \VjJlariVw4s,po?'Associate Justice-, 1 buL.tb.it ?&?ef JufLip'o .Bunk.in and-Iiis asso- ' c'af?s" "coj?stitute'-the Supreme Court of thc. Si$a$' third." That,,t?fe sJd-oaUed court has * ?a)uris3ictrbo fn Richland District, jind there ^s"ho^m;h jhrlsdiction known as the. County . ot Eiehl?nufin "the constitution; - The'counsel'for the respondent are ^??ssra. ""Jas. D. ^aWefl,V.'\V. Fickl?ngaud joseph -:D. Pope. . .. " . Mr.. ChymuerraTn moved peremptoriIyr to ' dismi?.?h?j^eai.^* ' .'. j .. .. Mr.-Pdp2 iespOpded, and pi?sitively jtf?sed to arjate miy.rriotion.ex'cept on constttiitiohal .gaestiens^ '.. ' Mr. Fickliog followed, and addressed the court 1?;May it please your honor." Chamlisrhon inierposed, ^saying that the counsel's, "mode of address was itself an afr mission of jurisdiction. ' Mr. Pickling replied that be. bad been edu ,cated KI a ichool vvhich taught politeness Jjer tween members* oT thej)ar. He welton to saylhat he did not rec?gnize.the])^son-;sit .ting'on the bdicb as an Associate. Justice :(3ou5titut?pnally elhctcd, nor the Attornsj Goncrar?s snch," nor Johnson, .hs" Coroner of tho District, nor Walker as Coroner of the County. ........ Willard overruled the pie;', of .jurisdiction, On th? g?ound- that to grant it would be to ad init|tbat the State .Constitution,,the elections, Iiis. oW office, and tfie whole system of gov . ?rnment was a nullity. -He would hear no .'suchargnmcnt.. , Thc'counsel.for thc respondent then asked for lime.to argue.the ?ascon its.merits. Mr. .Char?berlaui. opposed the-mction. Mr. Pope- said. iL was the .first time in his career that he'had everjenown such a motion to be opposed. . - Mr. Chamberlain said, the community was in dauber, and in-behalf of good ordetheielt i r, is his duty, to urge the speediest hearing.of jjgte questions involved.. .. Air. Ti'adowcll .said that, ."rom the course of.argtiraont -of.counsel jind the manner in which tnouoiis'had l?e'en overruled, he felt en tirely convinced,- that tho court and.the at Ui'roey-general intended" to conduct the case in lietianr'O of all the rnlcs of justice and .equity, law or the; constitution. The base wai then adjourned until to-mor i Ou , Tr ia understood that it .will be carried up to tita oiipreme Court. . ?c1'KR30N.N*E,!' the Columbia correspondent .oMhe News, Bays : ' ThcSenatd to-day was made a (olerably "ln'nly~place by Leslie, who with his usual hu morous frankness, took occasion to ventilate his opinions on the subject Of the Land Oom frt'wio? biH.'which has already been published and criticised in-your columns: The measure originated with one Pardee, a the Act to reduce the bonds, now required by.law, of those officer3-.elect, whose duties and responsibilities remain the samo ns those of the present incumbents and predecessors. The section guarding against embezzlement of public money* meets my unqualified ap* prova?; but I jun compelled, for reasons above giveiVto-disapprove'the Act os.a whole. (Signed) ROBERT K.'/SCOTT, Goverrior ? i' ? . " . ? .? . COLDI?BIA, AngU?t 13. In the Sunate to-day"the House resolutions in reference to the death ?of Th'addeu's'Stevens we're concurred in Whitemore offtYed a resolution providing that the Superintendent of Education shrill prescribe the text books, and that nil institu tions of learning supported out of the public 'fuuds shall be turned over to the charge of the Superintendent of Public Schools and placed under tbe direct supervision of "the School Commissioners of the several counties; also, tbat.a~8peoial- committee of five" be*ap pointed-to investigate .the outrages on Union; uteri) and the number of murders committed, with-the facts showing the existence of a dis loyal organization. The .resolutions-were-or d?je'd for consideration to' morro.Wj ,and.ifnein hers were iuvited to furnish all the. focht.?bey know bearing on the subject. ?he object of th?3 measure is.io furnish electioneering cap ital. -I %_ ' t\. The Senate then proceeded to .the .consider lion of'the Bill "-to.Reduce the IJouBs of Publie Officers, and in oqnnection with iiVthc .Message of Governor Scttrt yetoiagvit, and"thc question, being put to the Sonate, ''Shall the Bill pass, tbe objections of the, Governor not withsjaudingj" the vdte,fCsuJL{?d 1.5 ayes.; so thc. Bi ll, uot having re.ce.ived.the requisit.e.two thirds vote, was Ipst. . Those voting in the affirmative were 4rmm, Cain, Coghlan, Duacan, Hoyt, Monigomoryi Maxwell, Nash, O ?"ens, Rainey, Rutland^ ^Swails,,\V.right and .VVimbush. .. , . ^Thq?e voling jn .the.negative .wcre..4JJc r^cmaDTBack, Diekson, F.oBter, Hayes, Hajnc; jillsdn, Le'slLej Ried, JMgefs>Smis and,Whit", temore^ . TJie I^raeafeadjlajiv^after ajong dtscuasibri over an aruj?dmet?t..n^kinp-.it. retrospcctiye, .was passed-yeas.3Q, nay's^C.. THE ADVERTIS ER. JAMES T.BACON, EDIT0E, WEDNESDAY, Al C 19, L8C8. "?ome com phi nts of-harsh treatment' By '^th??T In tho ff?use, W- .E> Jflhosqa (cofored)- of;' fered .re8p.lu.tiona deploriDg-tli?de?th, o|?Tha? dcuaSt?vens, aniorderhig thede?kaof ?the presiding officers of both Kooses to he draped with mourning mr.ibirty *da.vi8, and. the Hags' .to .be hoisted at half mast^till after-the-funer-.' 'The'resolution was adopted, ?ruard. The'commi'M'eer recommend a reor gani?wtibn'by the appointment by'the' Gover nor* bf thr?e C?inmis'si?nets,-who* shall ehi'ct^ Superintendent and provide a guard, coritroll-' ed. by the^army regulations,. - > Pn the Senate, the Committoe on Incorpora o>iqns reported a Bill to amend the charter Off ? communication.was icceived from. the t??'rleston's?'as td give the Mayor power to-"f xemove^)olicertien wuen lie sliall^ im his judg-r ment, deem it necessary to the public go~>d. John Heart, formerly of ..the Charleston Mercury, has bc en* ppcinted Private Secreta: ry to. Governor Scott... . . Mnjov General O..O^Howard,.of the Freed men's Bureaq, addressed-, the Legislature, to uight. r ?ia speech was. Oonseuyjiciva. . 'Hp congratulated ^em ou the condition"of politi ylnrosperity a'pparent in the .Slate, and.said that it was-a mistaken-notion-.that labor.was' scarce..-j?ieje was plenty of labor, all. that was wanted was capital. He .also, urged t::e Wjofk of b.uih?pg up schools and .educating the .chUdron...... >? *?4 . jEhe-argnmeut- in t?ie-#i?o IF?.?7'an/o-Writ served-oniCor.ouei'-Walker. w?.st!ontiriued'to ai; Secretary,,of State, giving the a'mounLof laud arider tax ex?cutions by tEp State, viz : 22, 137 ilcrejs. . . .. *L .' . . . On motion, of Crews, .t,he "bill .preventing discriminations on .account pf .race- -or color Jay pa"rfies ixndejr lYcense,. was laid . upon,, the table".; akq, Neagleis-biU'rtmealing the cap.fta tio? tax. . -, The -House then went'into secret session, I when it wa^Announced that the Gpvernqr 'Bad failed .to n?gpt?ate.a loan, and could not do so lin'iilthe passage of the Tax bit!. Mean wh?,ej thgre are parties -shaving the members* l-UPtes at"thirty days. at>.twenty Jive per cent. discount,. ...; ,;." .;.., . -1 day..-;'The oounstrl-file? a?-petition to transfer the case to the..-United ?State1' -Court..' This was acgueii hy .Messrs. ..Fickling, Pope- and ?,rradewell tor t?je p.etitionetyaud Chamber Lain for^-the State. Willard, overruled- .the j^petitiou,Aad tho counsel then pat in a -new -plea, maintaining that ?jWillard, has no right wi i&su? a writ, as no. ? Judge of the-Suprom? Oonct, dr" Chancellor, , sitting, in .Cambers, could;do so. , r. t .- . - . The argument was-, very warm. on. both ?ides. The case-wrll becoutinueditj-morrbw. New York speculator in lands, who arrive"" 'ht Sbnth Carolina difring the session of the (convention; at once threw himself hcartify into the canvassi for Governor, made sp?eches tor Tom. Robertson-.a-tid embraced Gen. Scott. He pnbli?hed a pamphlet in blue and gold t n the resources of South Carolina, and was ap pointed secretary.t)f ono of the commissions created by the Convention to investigate thc 'sfFaire of the State. 'On the assembling" of tbe Legislature he deserted Wall street, hnr xhrd to Columbi, and bas; sicfee been comfor 'tably-ensconced in Nickcrsori's Hotel, where Che'precious bill was prepared; which propo pesto confer upon two or three individuals, himself includerVof course, the control of all thailand in- South Carolina that may be sold atrpublic'"outcry." ^ ! .*? When the subject came ' up to-day, in fhe S?nate, -Leslie suggested tbst its consideration should be postponed until the regular session, when the financial condition of the "State ^w?t?fd be'belter determined than at. present, dud'practical information,' derived from'.coih ! mittees, could bo acted upon' His argarhent; was tha?jf tl?? party issued bonds now,.they \fbm\l do so blindly. i: When are you.going to pay ? Don't know. What have.you got to pay? Don't knyw. What is tlie'prpba biTity -of your ever paying ? Don't know." lijrsitv?rT much like Cain's .pony. . They must either have the cash down for it,.?r-a promise to pay that was very undoubted. - B. F.'iKandolpb, .the colored Senator from Orangeburg, took "the floor, and in his usual petrified style, talked about the infamous at: tempt made to stab the bilaby denunciation. Parson Cain followed, singing, his .usual psalm about lands for. the" landless and h.bmes for the homeless; and- repeated one 'of his - memorized Convention speeches, with whioh ?those withv a long meinory^are familiar. He ^ng'changes oh."" the hutn'of busy .machi h?y, th-"housewife with her children "s.itting ^Jt%T 4lie green vines ' growing around- the homestead,'a'u.d the lovely spectacle of.'spin ninj' wheels operated by industrious frded /Leslie suggested ifiat lia.^had.bettet;throw into his picture.forty acres and a.muie.. On? ot the filibusters for this bill,moved that it bVpbstpor.ed until Wednesday next. Wbr-reupon Whitterr'.pre got -up and showed fishtin favor of the-measure. This was UD derstjod by the "insiders" to be a strong bid for a. nOmination^to Congress atter his present te'i>li2 "couldn't sen" any of their argu ment He liked^ fhe f oid Deaiqcrat;c.pJan .' 1 - " CoLVJIB^.^Aug.US? 12, , In the Senate,the Billyo Incorporate the Wando Company was engrossed. ..The Committee. o'n Rail Roads^ made..<fa vorable report cn, a;BilLto .extend, relief ju the Savannah ami Charleston Rail Road-. 'The Finance.Committee reported unfavor ably on the petition of certain merchants, to have the taxes-paid.by '.them on gross siile? refunded. In_the^JEoinu* J-ha -Tpdj?jnrj- Pummii?. made an unfavorable report ou the' Bill io prevent discriminations on .account o' color, oy persons doing business under license. The report was laid on the table. The. Committee of Ways and Means report ed a Tax Bill, which ia very voluminous, but moderate. Thc*Bill regulating the admission of Attor neys at.LAW., to practice,'passed-wiihuut amendment The Bill to repeal the capitation tax was discussed to the hour of adjournment. The debate was very spirited. The argument -in the Quo Warranio case was continued to-day. No new striking-points have been raised. Governor Scott sent the followingfveto to the. Senate this- moruing. lt created, a pro found sensation, though not unexpected. JNO action has been- taken yet. It is regarded cer tain that the Senate will sustain the Gover nor, though a strong party pressure is being brought to overrule thereto. A caucus of the Republican members was held for this pur pose tonight: . EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, ) COLUMBIA, August 12,1808. $ To the President and Gentlemen of the SenaJe: I have thc honor tc return to the Senate, in wh'ich'it originated, an Act to fix the amount of official bonds of certain-pubiic officers, and to impose penaltiesron embezzlements, without my approval, which lam constrained to with hold for the following reasons : The ptfblic credit must be guarded at every point, and the embarrassments encountered in the inau guration of our new State Government will be best overcome by "proceeding in s'ucli a manner as will command' from the first, the confidence bf capitalists; In the'fioancial policy of the Stjat?j ad measure appearing to countenance a relaxa tion of the precautions with which the Slate guards its funds, will impair the piibl.c credit -such' a measure now would be.a blow struck at the financial- standing of the State at. ? time when all important considerations de mand that it should be vigilantly and vigoi ously upheld. To reduce at this time the bonds of these to whom the pnb?c fu ids are entrusted fer sate keeping, seem3 io me to be dangerous to the public credit. Many of the men who have been elected to positions of trust are new to the public service, they have not been tried. We belieVe they are true "mon. Those who know them, express unqualified confidence in their integrity^ but thc peculiar"ci'rcumstaticrs in which they are plao?d, demand that theyj should furnish the amplest'guarantees of their official rectitude. The ability to* do this is the only'sufficientianswur tri -the often*, repeat ed charge that the party in-power has ad vane ed to.poaiti0.n8 of responsibility and trust, those who were, wjthbut respectability and 'good .standing in'tho community. Wer?"tb? question of amount of bonds to be required of publi? offices ,?i now ono,' the Bill BOW returned might be unobjectionable; bnt the ?ircuj?nst?nces must bei dp ly weighed, and it cannot bc-overlooked thaV tho.reduc tion.of these bonds now*-wi!Lbe understood and .believed td be .made to meet individual, .cases.of men who were elected with a frill knowledge of the .requiretn^nts of law. Legr* isl?tion, to meet**special cases, is always ob jectionable, and the present is "probably, a time when more"harm will result from,"flinch legislation than atany previous moment in .our history. . . It is not pertinent, however, to enquire particularly what may bethe individual chnr acter'ot the officers who,chalice to be person ally, interested in. securing the pr-pused re ductiou. The soucce of dauger is in princi pie, and does^nqt rest on- personal- grounds ; the precedent is bad. .When wnco we begin to accommodate local requirements to suit special cases the mischief is done. . In the,.ca8e of some county officers it is un derstood that a proposition is under consider afion to diminish their responsibility by as signing a part of their duties to other officers, in cases where tho responsibilities, may be thus reduced. Reduction of tho bonds re quired would not-b.9 improper, but. upon a careful consideration of the whole subject. ? '"COLUMBIA, August 14. "Tilthe rjoiise h Bill was ?oday introduced ro 'fix the amount of the "Bonds of "County 'Officers.' It ma?ces.the Bonds o'f Chai]e<fou County as'follows: Judge of Probate.'$5000; CofqpCr, $5000; 'ClerkoFCouif, ?20ipa0^her iff; S25,OjO? j.fhe oilier officers ta "remain as 'now requiredi by law:. "The !.o.ids"'of ytlijer cohritiea are 'fixed at c< r? sporiding 'fate;. ' A Bill to regula'"'' tue ten ure,ol office pass ed to its third reading.' K Th o rest 6f tho unie during the sessi n was dev:;t?;d r?'tife" 'consid?r?tion of Uie Mflin Bill. The Democrats lighting "-lt with ti e greateftpertinacity, and u>itig iUTaUatbry tri. tionR'anrl otKe'r parliirment-iry tactics to stave ?flfacti?n.s. This created much feeling amongst Republican members, and every" effort.wa made to gag the Democrats, both "by the m?mbers* and Speaker Moses. 'Only ihre out of ninety sections' were read, when the House adjourned. In the discussion- on the bill to. alter and amend tb> charter of the City of Charleston. Mr. Corbin'moved to change ten dayajresj ? oenceTO" tnrny "crays.-tiesrnr-?ioved sixty .but Corbin's atm ndmeht prevailed. In th? cour-se of the debate Leslie said that those seuators who voted fot thirty (hya could not be trusted. Corbin excoriated him in his re ply, and he was censured by the Senate. The bill then .passed and was ordered to be en grossed. -? ? ? ... Signs of thc Times. - There are already mauy assurances of vic tory for the Democratic candidates the ap proaching November. ' First. The Democratic party united for the first time in ten years, and the accessions to the party from the old line V\fhigs"and Con SirvatiVe Republicans are very marked and influential. Second. The country is weary of war'and conflict in a time, of peace. The country prays for rest, and the people for that peace and quiet which never can bc obtained so long as the Radical party are in power. Third. The only sound hope for business menin the future, and for the full restoration of the Union, i's in thc success of the Demo cratic nominations. Democratic success means not alone constitutional liberty, equal taxes and a better state of feeling and business, but it means thal confidence in republican insti tutions which has not been felt in ten years. ' Fourth. The Radicals are divided. They call each other hard names. Have no confi dence in each other. Have nominated their candidates on thc sole ground of expediency, and have no bond of union but the weak and miserable bond of hostility to the Democratic party. Finally,'the success of the Democratic par ty means the rer?uctiori of the standing array oue-hali at least, aud a saving thereby of fifty millions of dollars per annum. It means, also, reducf.d taxes, greater economy, and a stricter accountability to tho people. The more'its~c<yi4id?te3 and pl ut form s ure studied "the more'popular ?hoy will prove. FOR PRESIDENT, HORATIO SEYMOUR, v OF NEW YORK. . " roil VICE-PRESIDENT, FRANOIS P. BLAIR, OF MISSOURI. Extraordinary Peaches. ; "W& express our abounding, thank? to Mif8 T?riT??rMunDV, of tho Antioch vicinity, for a iasltet'of euch Teaches ns we have never before -asea or tasted. Clear-stone Peaches-yellow-?and of fabulous- size, and fabulously delicious flavor. If a finer peach ever falls in Jo our possession, we will certainly reserve it for Mis3 MUNUT ; whioh promise, b<5wev'cf> t?avor.b?-r amiable friend with out tho slightest p?osp?ct pf. ever deceiving a peach at our hands. , P. S;-And even whilc^we write there.?omes to Mi a.royal basketful,fromvanr venorabJo_aDd-mueh rcspeo??d friend^ Mjjj. LEWIS JONKSJ Sr. We thank him ti thousand timer o'er. But" still wo fiad-mone we oould-rtfservc.ibr M??B-1?UJ??Y. ?S^Tbk Washlo^m?rC?roH?c'/e ia p'uhji?hing a list of purs on d whose political disabilities have bean rempyed by Congress, during .tup-hut, ses ajeb., In the. list.-we .find ?io fellowing from tbie District: ^towart Harrison, W. F. Durisoe, Bli ?ah U. l?<jrnor,^t?nder Aot approvad July 20tb, .186&.? .. . <? ? . -* ' ' - . . Gov. SeVmour.'S Letter of Acceptance ?Shis w?ck we. pre??nt to our roaaerB-Hr.-Sey mour's-Jottcr form ally nccep" ting the Democratic nominaci?n foV. President. '"Thiro is Tut little heed to 'comment up'oir.fhb honest and manly let >e'r. EreV.v'3outht>'rn man, of the right ?ort, who reads.it, wilj bo fiillyt-fciisfiod withiL . Mr. Sojr mour leaves not thc slightest doubt as to how and .where bo stands.- Indeed in this letter he comes up to the-high mark .of Frank Blair,;.who says "Wo m nst have a Pro.-iden t who will execute the will-'of tho people >by trampling into' dint the utorpationi ?fi<?ongren kn?te? 't?6 the' Iieeonttruc t?oh Aet?V T|tis''Sr. Seym?ur'virtualjy promises to-do." And therewith we shduld all be' content! - . -- - - - ; - Death of Th tul. SteVeiis.* . Oldi Tb?drSteveus'is'-dea'd? " He gaj? up .the ghost in" Washington,o'n. Wednesdajrltjit, old and full of day?. And Ilia body was laid in state in the.'Cap?t??!,'-and guardedly negro soidiers, And .the uegro soldiers a.s they .entered, the Capitol gates for this purpose, fought among themselves, .and a negro barber was killed. -Grim and ghastly but entirely- befitting tho great occasion. - Aid'on Friday thct?ld joan's body'Wa? taken-j to Lancaster in Pennsylvanie,-wbeie bo had' lived, ?nd'where Confederate solJiers' bad destroyed his iron mifhi.'^ And now he sleeps'lUs last sleep, fer gotful alike, we hope, of the slid destruction, and of the f.rilurc ui impeachment.. He.was. ? smart old man, but .pot good.; and consequently not happy.' His party will not miss him, Indeed he he.will.be lessjuissed by bis friends than by his foes. ' His name will-soon .bo' forgotten*. ' "And there shall be no more ' remembrance o'f the wise man than of the fovi forever."" HANGING CF THIIILE GAMBLERS FOB CUKAT INC AT CAUD?.-Thc Omaha Republican of bhe 2d instant, says : Som? of the police of TjUF.city are said to be in- possession of intelligeuce^thatthr?e men Were hung by a mob at Sioux City, on Friday. The parties mung had gone up/'from Om?ha but a few days before and opened a gambling institution in Sioux-City. Their house was liberally patronized'; but at length they:were caught cheating in the game in auch a man ner as is not tolerated by the code of the sport ing fraternity; This so exasperated their pa trons that t-he parties were immediately se cured-by their victims, and.taken to au out of-J.be way.pi?ce, before the authotities-or cit izens knew anythin / about it, nrtd there nang-' ?3 to a i ree. The first public " knowledge of the"B?rrible deed was the discovery -of.-the lileless bodies suspended from tho tree a few hours after, and it. has created intense excite ment in that usually quiet city. Thc uames of the murdered men were Robert Ferguson, formerly of Ford's restaurant ; Johnny Green, oftligiBon'Ton, and "Doc''Shaw, who for merly kept-the Bon Ton saloon, on Harney street. All these three were well known iu this city. Scott and Smith- Give a Good -Sign. Smith" ibo' Rndhial GoVerndr of Afirbama has vetoed the Bill, pisiod recently byThcTiegisl?tariJ pf that State, taking 'ho Eleci.or"al vote fron the "people and giving it to ?aid_ Legislature. ?ndhi? veto u?s^hcaa sift Ut in ed. Buiiy.Tor Smith I . .And.^'cott, the ltadieai.l'overnor of unfortunate South Carolina, hus vetoed tho Bili of the Colum bia Zebras, reducing the official bonds, of Slate Officers. And this veto is also sustainod. Bully for;flcottl . . - . ' .. But wh it do- s it nmouti' to ? Or will itiaiount t?-anytbing? For tom'-.' of -our newly eleated JL\ilgffluld "PiTi^hare ~* -."?jjfin85._ fro frith their commissions in their pockets. ' Their flimsy bonds have been approved by tho County Commissioners and Gov. Scott has signed their commissions. It seems to us be should havo waited a little while. What is to be done with these bondi and commissions dated before the veto ? Partyism. *' Th? old adage, "whom tho gods would destroy they first make mad," may, perhaps, be applied as tho explanation of the present party exhibi tions in this country. Men who think alike on great political quostions will always organize for carrying out thoir views. But in so far as men are intelligent and honest, party tirs will alway? rest lightly on them, leaving them free to follow tbe right course outside of any political organi zation. Of late, however, party has become everything. It has trampled down constitution, laws, the amenities of social intercourse, and that common honesty without which decent society is impossi ble. Either this is a sign that the oountry ls ?bout to be irretrievably ruined, or it it an indi cation that party spirit will soon be-much modi fied. Wt incline to the latter view of the case. I It cnn hardly be possible- that the attempt to -place party foremost in everything, and to sacri fice to it all that is honorable and sacred, will fail to awaken the universal disgust and indigna tion of the people. It hns taken some time for partyism to reach its present wild extremes, and it may, for a while longer, seem tb enjoy a sort of pre-emi nence; but it cannot help adding constantly to tbe evidences of its dangerousness, and thus com bining men against its conduct and its chums. Tho late split in the Badieal party,. by which Chief Justice Chase and his friends have been separated from the extremists, and the course . of Fcssenden, Grimes, Ross, and other leading Radical Senators, indicate that no party which Beeks to exist solely for the sake of its own as cendency and aggrandisement, without any refer ence to honesty, decency, or ' the, good of the. |,country, can accomplish its end. Such selfish ness is too colossal dud unmitigated to last. Par ties which would live by preying on the country instead of promoting its interests, must at last bite deeply enough to touch thc quick and prompt the fatal blow of popular self-defence: Washington Medical University of Baltimore. We have lately received the "Annual An nouncement and Catalogue", of the Washington Medical University of Baltimore, and we find it among the most interesting of our complimentary receipts. It is "certainly most gratifying to read of the woll-being and high usefulness of this emphatically" Southern institution. While in Baltimore rocontly, wo had tho pleasure* of be coming acquainted with .Br. Edward Warren, one of t?e leading professors of the Washington Medical University, a gentleman, both scientifi cally and socially, of the highest accomplish ments, from whom we learned much of the char actor and-status of dbe institution. Consequently we do not laud the Washington Medical- Univer sity without being considerably acquainted*with its real deserts. It's range is very wide and com prehensive, and its professors, thirteen or- four teen in number, are wall known to* science and to fame. Its President, Rev-Thomas. E. Bond, M. D., cither as preacher, teacher,, practitioner, or writer, is undoubtedly ono of* the most brilliant minds of our whole country; . ? . * From the Catalogue before us, We -learn-that the number of students in the Washington'Medi .al Univ?rsify, for-sesslon of I867-'C8 was li0, of whom 55 graduated. And it ls a singular fact, and one which, under existing circumstances, stamps the.Institution most favorably,.that every ono of these 150 was from the'South. And two of the leading professors of the Wash ington Medical University, Edward Warren, M. D., and Charles W. Coaneeiior, M. D., are about to commente-the publication of a monthly Medi cal Journal to bo entitled The Baltimore Journ?lof Medicine and Surgery. This Journal will be a Southern work, edited by as goo?V talented and true professional men as the entire country can furnish; and we bespeak for it, in advance, the patronage of our medical men and students. Aa to the Washington Medical University, ex celsior is its working motto, and excellence its aim, if theso can be attained by incessant, con scientious and judicious labor. Self-preservation the Frst Law of Nature, Ac. Let all white men read what follows, cut from the Charleston 2feu>t, and, ns the negro oditor says, "be aware." And being "aware," they would be wisc to be also ready ! These organi zations, and drillings, and armings are beginning likewise to be practised among us. And decent solicitude for our wemen and children, to say nothing of ourselves, our property and our rights; should admonish us to be ready; THK NECRO MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS IXCHAR LESTON.-It is well that tho people should know that for three months past bodies of armed ne groos have been drilling nightly at four different places of rendezvous in tho City of Charleston. They make no noiso or disturbance beyond giving the word of command and going throagh the or dinary mrlitary evolutions, but they aro working patiently and steadily to ranke themselves trained and disciplined armed associations. The new constitution, by which all negroes swear, decUres that " people have a rigbtto keep and bear arms for thc common d?fonce " This means that they have thc right to bear them openly and in the light of day. There is no in terference to be dreaded, for tho negroes can drill upon the Citadel Green at noon if .they desire. They have no one to molest or disturb- them, but they still do their drilling in the dark hours of the night, and in qnarters pf tho city wh?re they a-e hidden from general observation. It is evident that this conduct admits of but one rational explanation. If .the negroes were only organizing because they aro fond of playing at soldier, they would not lurk in out-of-the-way. corners and ktep thoir movements, socrer. They would parado openly and in public ; and now that they so far give up their natural love of show as to exercise where they have no spectnfore but themselves, it is reasonably tertain that they are gathered together for no good or peaceful pur pose. The military organizations of tho-negroes .iu Abbeville, and Union, and upon the sea islands, should teach us a lesson. All over the Slate there are-negro oompanios, battalions and regi ments. It is their avowed purposo to overawe the white man," to keep him down by force of arms. Have the similar organizations which ex ist in Charleston any other aim?' In this connection we desire to call attention to a significant extract from the last number of the negro Cain's negro paper. It is as follows . " When the issue comes, there "will be 50,000 loyal men who will sp ring-to ann.- in this State at the sound of the first note. Every plantation has its captain; and the m?n and.icomiu are pro pared to stand by -L^ir liberties. They stand on tbe defensive, ard no aggressive measure will be taken by them ; they are determined to keep tho peace and abide by law and order, and see that the.libertics of their children are guarded' with rleepless vigih.nce. Let their foes becaware!" Important Rumor About Grant. A Washington telegram of August ll to the New York World toys : Most extraordinary ru mors are afloat in. tb is city touching tho unex pected 'return of General Grant'from his Western tour, and its relation to "the political canvass. From all I can'gatboramong thoie best acquainted with the views of the memb'ers-cf the Republican National Committee, it appears that-private letters havo been received from members of Grant's I'-party, showing an anxiety on-Jthe part of the General to throw up tbe candidacy" for the Presi dency. To thfs he has been moved by overwhelm ing evidences from every quarter of the utter want of spirit in the Republican canvass, and 'ho tremendous popular tide running in favor of the Democratic ticket. -AH the loiters received"hore, both by the Congressional and National Republi can Committees, are sorely discouraging to the Radical loaders, nor are the letters from the South less alarming/The blacks cannotbe controlled; and all efforts on'the partof carpet-baggers to prevent excesses have so far failed, end the Radicals see that a continuance of these riotous and incendiary acts on the part of the colored population will add hundreds of thousands to the Democratic vote in the North. Hence the sudden stoppage of Grant s Western trip, hence the rumors that he is about to throw up the car "dacy, and the intimations thrown out in political circles that the Republican National Convention will be called together again, and rumors have it that the nomination will be. tendered to General Sherman. Public Meetings on At i ."eeting holdat.Edge Shameful Insult to the Zebra. We mean tho real four-fuoted, beautifully striped, clean, honest Zebra, on his native plains of Asia or South America, or wherever it is ho roams. Wonder if ho knows that tho Charleston papers call'the members of tbe South Carolina Legisla ture, " Zebras." Alas ! that tho pretty' Zebra? simply because bo is striped, should be so basely coupled ! If he know it, he would undoubtedly change his skin, or, failing in that, would lie down and. die , in extreme shame aod ignominy! Ho just couldn't stand it ! <. A Weekof Prayer with the Methodists, The Southern Christian Advocate- says : " The observance of a week of.prayerlsst year, through out tho Church, resulted in great and, we trust, lasting good to the cause of God. The appoint ment for the present week i's Aagust 23-30,'that is the week from the fourth to tho fifth 8abbatb in August, inclusive. The intervening Fridny is to be observed asa day of fasting and humiliation. It is hoped tbat there will bo a g?ner?! assem bling of thc members of the Methodist Church during that week. To this end, let the appoint ment bo kept in view, and preparation made for its observance. that prevailed;in New Yor't, when,the.Whigs I and with, the deepest concern for the interest w?'ro "ahraya io debt, bot the motto-'of tho I of the Stato, X feel compelled to disapprove w jSd-Iho'-Frontitr Index," of the 24th Joly, published at Laramie City, Dakota Territory, says : " Gen. Horse Sambo Useless Grant; accom panied by Gen. Sherman abd several other promi nent milititry men, passed through Laramie on 'Saturday last, en route for the end pf the track. We have beard .of no demonstration on the entire route from Sbian K> Benton, except at Wyoming where tho General was received with tremendous ohe'ors-for Seymour and Blair. W? uuderSraud the purty returned to Shian on Sunday and took dinner at a negro restaurant " f?f Tho North is alarmed lest the negro vote become a bnlnnco of .power. Calculating the black vote at 714,000, it is shown that this num ber would bavo changed the three last Presiden tial elections, and will, probably, if permitted, deoide the fourth. $3* Tao Goorgia Senate has confirmed ex Governor Jo-cph Brown as Chief Justice of tfoorgia by ? roto of twoDty?iU to fourtocn, Peach (iud Apple Brandy. By a recent ruling of the'Commissioner of In ternal Revenue, dated'August 1st*,' tho license tax for'thc distillation of peach and apple "brandy is four liuridred dollars a year from May. to May. Those comineociug August lat will bavo to pay three hundred dollars up to May noxt, which al most amounts to prohibition. We are informed that several -parties have taken out their papers with the expectation of paying at-the rate ?f $l? or $2(1 a year. Cheering signs. Tho Washington Express, of Wednesday; says : "The prospects of the Democratic party are hourly brightening, and its success' in November next may be considered certain. A .friend has lately been travelling through portions of Penn sylvania, Ohio and Michigan, and ho saw. in every direction and among all classes. of popple un m istak bio evidence-of the approaching .own full of-tbe Radicals. In 1884 large numbers of sol diers were furloughed and allowed-to re tun homo on condition1 that they would yoto "for Lincoln. They a're'now determined tb vote'tbo Democratic ticKet,' and it is safe lo -sayrft U fully three-quar ters of the soldiers will volo the Same w*ay. Among th'e farmers and workingmen - generally there is a feeling thut thoro is something .wrong; that the cost of living is too high, and their taxes entirely too largo, and they are determined to have a change in November. Wa hare-no doubt they will got it." _? The man who buys a vote and' an offico by turning KaJical^ays theTCTcFmorid WKfg) is' a double-dyed traitor. He is a traitor to bis country and his Creator. He goes over to a party which is disloyal to the Constitution, to the best interests of the .nation, and to humanity. To oppose that purty is to be lcyal to the country, and to tho solemn obligations to the Supromc "Being. Some persons of facile dispositions-ond accommodating logic may argue with'themselvei? that to accept the proffered bribe will be" th? best way of conquering the Radicols; but thc man who acts upon such an.idea takes a leap into that deep-down gull of prostitution and dishonor from which resurrection is the fori on est of hopos. Are Ye Chasing the Butterfly? And huntiog fancy from whim to whim ? Or irre yo shooting harmless men at midnight? ' Or what are yo doing? Wc propound these queries to our honorable Representatives in the Legisla ture at Columbia. All so-callod ! Du ?ot the exigencies of tho suffering people .of Edgefiejd District admonish you that yon shouluVno longer bo standing idle in tho market place ? - Bot after all, it is infinitely helter you should no? speak, lt will redound to the honor of tbe District We earnestly hope, a's certainly appears to bo the casi*, that you have all boen struck with hopeless dumbness. Bah ! ex nihilo nihil Jil ! Wo take baok our queries. We would not hour a word from you for any consideration upon earth For Nobile Fratrnnw. The Columbia Phoenix, of yesterday, says : "A colored fair bas been going on for several nights in a building on Washington-street: ' A night or two since, Mr. Speaker Moses, of tbe (so-called) Legislature of South Carolina, and young Mackey, tho would-be-Sheriff of Charles ton, were present-the one fanning and gaily chatting with the dusky damsels; while tho other promenaded the room with a young lady, of mixed breed. This is tho statement of an eye witness." The Great Campaign Papers. We invite' attention to the peculiar advantages of tho Charleston Z*ai7y and. Tri- Weekly Ifcici as Democratic campaign-and family papers fer ccun try circulation. Great care is taken to give nil thc latest intelligence by mail and telegraph-, so that each paper is a frosh and attractive, completo and compact, record of curren te ven ts in the world of polities, literature, society, re?gion and trade Special telegrams keep the read-'rs of the -Vfie* informed upon all important point.- of State and National information. Tho Tri- Weekly New* i published on Tuesdays, Thursdays und Saturdays and embraces all tho reading matter contained in the Daily Newt, and all the latest intelligence published in the doily paper of the same date. The club rates of tho Tri- Weekly Newt aro : Five mmrftmm, > , ? ?? ?.i.l 1? ???, ?'?,'?.? ? Hi>.,-?^-?-?-?^ drees, $25; fifteen copies, to one address, S3? twenty-five copies, to one address, $55; fifty copies to one address, $100. Clubs- muy bo formed for the Daily New* nt double the rate named for the tri weekly edition. Tne proprietors, however, being determined to put a sterling Democratic paper within the reach of every man during the campnign for .SEYMOUR and Blair, havo adopted the following unprece dented low rates for subscribers for four months Five copiej Daily New*, to ono address, four months, $8.50 ; five enpiei Tri-Weekly News, to ono address, four months, $4.25 ; ten copies Daily News, to one address, four months, $15; ten copies Tri-Wcek'y News, to one address, four months, $7.50. Thad. Stevens is Dead I WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-Thaddeus Stevens, of Penn., died here rather suddenly this morning. LATER.-His body is guarded by the Butler Zouaves,.nograes, uniformed and armed. A great majority of visitors arc negroes. Tho exhibition attracts very little atUsucio?. Thc body lies in the centre of. the Rotunda. TL ere are no unusu al decorations or drapery in the Capitol. WASHINGTON, Aug. t i-A Company of B"utler-j Zouave?, negroes, marching to relieve guard over Stevens' dead body, fired a volley down 21st street to-day in response to a stone hurled ot t iem. A nogro waiter, standing in the door of a private residence, was shot through the thigh. The Express says when they reached* tue Capi tol some disagreement 'arose' between themselves and they had a regular free fight. The'?rar, after speaking of the^firing and ita results, say? a largo crowd immediately gathered, and,;for a iboJt .thoo, there was every., prospec t for a eerious disturbance, -but the police on -duty, as well aS-tho reserve, appearing in force prompt ly, by surrounding the Zouaves, oheeked furthor proceedings', and, when order was restored, til lo wed them to proceed. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, noon.-Slovens' re mains, with th me passenger cars of escort,-left for Lancaster, Pa., at 10 o'clock. Turning Pale, and Wriggling Round. Tho late mognilieent Democratic victory in Kentucky is making the New York Tribu ne turn very pale. It,has ceased its tone of. ridiculous assurance, and id beseeching the Radicals to work-work-wcrk.' To work as they never worked before; for upon the hardest sort of work alone rests thpir salvation. Which hard work, wo sup pose, moans further ' dishonest und tyrannical Radical legislation. And the facile Herald is not only .turning pale, but, as U8UO?, making, distinct preparations to wriggle round; But its present- wriggling ia not io light ?nd graceful as usual; It wriggled so heavily for Chase, that it cannot wriggle, now for Seymour without evident pain and suffering. And still it mux-be dono. The Herald always wrig gles ultimately on the right side. The Columbia Phoenix, of Saturday.says : So-Callo.i Judge .Willard gavo his opinion, yes terday morning, in the oaso cf tho State vt. John Perry. Tho defendant is to give bond in tho sum of $2,000, with suffi' -ut surety, for his appear ance at thc next Court of General Sessions for Edgcfield District. Mr. Chamberlain for tho State, Mr. Bachuian for the prisoner. . ?S3" Five or six hundred former Republicans were atibe Seymour ratification meeting in Chi cago. They chcrred lustily lor tho Democratic nominees and will vote right in November. _^-Gold closed in New York on Friday at li7. Cotton was less active, and unohanged. In Liverpool cotton was firmer and active." Sales 15,000 bales. ?Sr In a reoent speech in Cincinnati, ex-Sena tor Pugh desoribed the carpet-baggers who infest that South as "a class of vermin, meiner than the meanest thing ever before known on the face j of tb? earth." The colored men of Mississippi, since tho late electien, are going over en mane to the Demo crats. Ia.a singlo county one thousand of them have procured certificates of membership of Democratic pl?bs. It was tho negro voto that beat tb'? Radicals in Mississippi. They were lit erally hoisted on their own'petard. 'IJe Radi pals had better begin to exten? proscription from the Sopfb'orn whites to 'tho Southorn blacks, if this thing keeps on. . , jg?* Wall street men attribute the lise in gold to the expected action of foreign bondholders, and the possible political occurrences here in the .next two months; jgr A. A. Bradley, negro Sonat?r from the first District to tho Georgia Legislature, was do olared inelegible by the Senaie, on tho 12 th, by a vote of 35 to 5. The said Bradley now. intends to ian for Congress from the same District. * pgr- At Saratoga Springs, Now York, a few days since, a bet of $3,000 was made that New York would give Seymour and Blair 70,000 Trna jority. The same offors were made by others, and no takors. ' tSF Montana Territory voted on the 30th ult. The Democratic majority, by the latest.accounts, roached 1,700. Several counties have not as yet been heard from. ?$T A bill bas passed the Louisiana House di recting the City of New Orleans to immediately collect ntl outstanding, dues in greenbacks, or doring tho destruction of all tho city'currency and the plates for printing the same. This ac tion virtually repudiates $3,300,000 of city cur rency now outstanding. |y The farmers of the Northwest art in the midst of the harvest, but they find lt almost im possible to obtain sufficient help. Jive dollars a j day end board ?re DOW offered for bands. A Valuable Work. " The War bet ?Cen the States, Hs Causes, Charitc'cr, Conduct and Jletnits," by HON. ALEXANDER H STEPHENS, fs tho title of a vrluable work just issued by TUE NATIONAL PUBLISHING .Co., At lanta, Oa. . Histories of tho late civil .war have sprung up like mushrooms, and they can now. bo numbered almost by hundreds, but all who ure desirous of arriving at a correct understanding of the causes? and a clear -history of the events of tho late la mentable war, have felt tbe w mt 'of- a reliable history of the samo -from a Southern-standpoint, by some representitivo man of tho South. This want is about to bc supplied by ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS. Mr. STEPHENS was a most earnest protestant against rebellion, and only succumbed at the last momen. Tho hare announcement that this distinguished Statesman had determined to write a book-, would of itself; bea sufficient to kindle a lively and wido-spread intorcst in nil sections of the country ; but when itls known that ko' bus chosen as Iii. themo tho ono so.fruitful us Tills EATEl?M?TK ICAN WAR, the absorbing interest of ike subject together with tho evident and singular fitness of the author for its treatment, unito in awakening a curiosity entirely unparalleled in the annals of American literature. Jt presents a c-irefui political analysi.? of thc past, separating REAL from APPARENT em os of the late unhappy conflict, and gives iho.-c inte rior lights and" shadows of the Groat War, "ONLY KNOWS TO THOSE HIGH ot'Fit'ERS, who watched the flood-tide of Revolution from its fountain-spring?, and-which -were so accessible<o Mr. STLPQENS from his position.as second officer of the 'Con federacy. . To a publie that hhs been surfeited with AP PARENTLY SIMILAR PRODUCTIONS, itpre sents a change of faro, both agreeable and saluta ry, and an intellectual treat cf the highest order. The Groat American-War has AT LAST found a historian worthy of its importance, and at whose hands it receives that moderate, candid and im partial treatment which truth and justico so ur gently, domand. This most valuable work is sold only by sub scription, and the publishers wunt an agent in every County. Chief Justice Chase, in charging the United States Grand Jury of West Virginia, said,, in effect, that in order* to suppress the rt belli cu it was ne'ce??*ry to create a large -pabHc debt, and" that the-debt mnst be'paid ; for under the four teenth amendment to the Constitution of" the United States tho nation was plcdgc?V''toiL Tho amendment bc recognized as' valid, and therefore charged thc jury to see that the revenue laws, which were made to pay the debt, were strictly enforcod. , ,- ... ^Sir? Tho first bale of tho new crop of Oolton was received at New York on Thursday, tho Otb, from Texas. It was classed as strict .middling, and sold at 35 pents per pound for export .to Liv erpool. ?Sf Th'd following is going the rounds of thcdi papers: " Ono of thc most annoying and pninfu, litile troubles is a felon. A genuine, remedy is worth.circulating. It is said that a poultice of j: onions applied morning, noon and hight for three or. four days will cure a felon. Ne matter how bad the case, lancing the finger will'be unn?ces sary if the poultice is applied. The remedy is a Burc, safe and speedy one." %3f The following epitaph in a Pennsylvania churchyard touchingly comuiomoratos the ghi ttony of a husband and the grief of his widow: Last. AT?. .';oetingholdat.Edgefielitf^.H.,on Mon day ljfih inst., for the purpose of- receiving Re ports from, tho different Democratic CInbs of the District, relative to tho labor question, and for the further puipose of organizing a CcLtral Demo cratic Club, in accordance with, the suggestion of the late Democratic Con vea lion ir. Columbia, Major George Boswell was called tc the Chair, and Orlando Sheppard requested to act as Sec retary. A. J. Norris, Esq, offered tho following Lev olution : Resolved, That we recommend that each local Club in Edgefieid District appoint Delegates to meet at Edgefieid C. H., on Sales-day in Septem ber, to-organisera .Central Democratic Club , in ac cordance with the suggestion <of the kio Demo cratic Convention in Columbia; and that all,mat ters pertaining" to the la"rnj?'ques^oin^po?iponed Xo that day ; and that* the various Clubs of the .District be very earnestly requested to send Dele gates to tho pfopose'd Meeting. -, This Resolutio.?^eingsubmitted.to the'?^?etinf, was-unsfflimonsly adapted. / On motion, it was resolved that the proceedings of this Meeting be.published in "tho Advertiser. The Meeting then adjourned. . J GEO. BOSWELL, Chair. O..SHEFPAJU), Scq'ry,. . ,<^ : Upon .thc r?cura ment of the above Meeting, another Meeting was than and there called, for ,the purpose of organizing a De?ro'crntic -Club in Edgefieid Village arid its vtcin?fyi On motion of Goal. But Ly, Gov.. Bonham nras called to-tho Chair, and A. J. Nortis-requested to act as Secretary. Mr. J. L." Addison .then riaoved that ?**?rstlo prepared, and that ?ll present, who arc.-.-di sp o sed to join the Club, be inyitcd to come forward and subscribe their n?mes upon'tho roll. Gen!. Butler moved>hat a Committoo of Seven ba-appointed by tho Chair to reconlaxend Perma nent Officers and prepare 'a ConstUutfTjir snd By. ^Laws-for-the 'Government ?f the' ?d*g?ff?rld Vil lage Democratic Clppi a^d'^hat thoy.rep^-^.^n adjourned Meeting of the Club tn bo hi dd in the Gouit-neusoen-Sattfrday'-twat^t ll o'clock. Tho-nroKon waa*-?dopt?'?i}- ?rid-tlw Chair ap pointed the following named gentlemen on the jsaT?/ Comnwlteb : My C. BuQer, fcffj&^^tftno van?"M.VW:"Gary, A. J. Ko?rr^l^.?ftrmYe, J. L. Addison, J. Walfefi Hill. On motion of Mr. M; A. Market, a. Committee of Seven was appointed to canvass the communi ty ind procure names, with a vlew'to^hiorotaelho inembcrslKp and infliaencc of tbisDemocratic Club. The following gentlemen constitute the Com mittee: M. A.-Markeri, B. 6. *4ryiroi -W'. A>?an ders,V. A-. ChoV^am/Luto S: ffmit}j/"R; W. Can non, W. H. Moss. . On motion of"G?u.'M.-W.;Gary the-Meeting r.d joornecT. "* ?" " M..L. BONHAM Chairman. ?, J. NORRIS, Sec'ry*.- , ' '.. .-?4rr -W -.-?i* For the Advertiser. . At a meeting of-the' Oommitt?? of-Arrange mpnts for the Grand .R-if i fica ti og Barbecue, on the 15th, the following Committees were appoint ed : - - ;r.ty - . Committee -cn Preparations ' and 6tf?rinten ihnce bf Dinner : Stewart "HarnJon, Jinnee A. Lxnier, Julius Day, John F. Barns, C. A*.Cheat hum, F. hf. Nicholas, Ii.- B. GaUme.n,. -Joan H. Fair, ?. H. Youngblood; E.'W, JrVivy, '.rolnson A. Bland, "Luke Cnlbreath, Cheslcy Attanray, T. D. Padgett. j, y f?. \ Committee on Platform, '.Tables, ie.,-T. L. Synth, M. A. Marker.!, .James patcher, Nat Ba mcy, Sr., S. B. G?iflin, ' . . By order." * Z. W. CAR-Wfel, Cliasr. AV. T. G-Anv, SccVy. Canvassers ..Appoiuted. Agreeably. JAW: resJaliqn adopted/by the-f? ccnt State Convention,'thc "loflowing gentlemen u-o'appointed by/the State" Central Executive Committee canvassers in the interest of the Democracy : * int" Stato at large-Gabriel Cannon and ' A. P. Al drich.. ..... _ ~M Second Congressional DisTnct-?T. B. Kershaw. Thifd Congressional D^trict-D. Wyatt Aiken. - ^ 'Tou?tu-TJ?Yg^ Canvasser for. First Congressional District U> be hereafter appointed. 1 "^ i ,VL To her deer Jnhn, who died-of cuting crab! ~ Notlong since, a gentleman telegraphed to a friend, af Cleveland, "an interesting family affair as follows : " S-r.ib and tho. little one doing well." The telegram reached its destination and read thus : if Surah un i litter are doing well." The recipient telegraphed back the startling, query : " For Heaven'ssak?, how many ?" '?? -i flSS* An eximango say? : " We were'comp'elled to refuse ari efler of job printing the oilier day by a man way back, who innocently called to gel some po?tuge stamps printed. Ho was-quite.dis appointed because we.could not do the wurt; be ! '"t.l/tfx in Novembsr pext WADE HAMPTON, Chairman. For the Edgefieid Advertiser. Democratic'Meeting. According to appointment, thc Leesville Demo cratic Club, assembled oh the 1st dsry of August A goodly number were present upon the occa sion. -?Not only the_-y?"ung of our neigjjborhood, but our yrand-fiithers were rocre'ro "itttst that they rr eau to CU thoir. places in ranks at the bal jratT* The Trenton Gazette has the following : "Tho last survivor of tho.party of young .ladies who strewed flowers in the path of. Washington, as he passed through this city in 1789 on his way to .New York to assume tb" ".esldency, is Mrs. Sarah Hand, now nine' years of ago and a resident of Cape May C JU ty, and, notwithstand ing her advanced ag J, is still vigorous and in good health. On Sunday, Juno 14, she'walked to church ut Capo*May Co'urt House, and*tack to her residence, a distance of half a milo." jSr> The Now York World truly says : "Tho real question is not so much whether the negroes and carpet baggers ara to rule tho South, but whether they are to rule us. Alroady there are twelve of these .Joi?" leeches ?in tho Senate and thirty-three in the House. Aro thoy to rule us ? That is the question." The hew York Evening Mail says that a lawyer in that oity bas mado over a million dol lars in two years, simply by assisting merchants and others in evading government taxes, penal ties, ic, " wanted 'em real bad to put on a letter he writ io a gal, and it cost toemueh to Buy 'em-of the post-office feilen1."- * ? ,-1?3?~ Tb? Cleaycland (Ohio) Herald mantons the death of.Miss Kate Keathley, thu Missouri piante;.", which occurred at her. homo near St. Louis, last week. She weighed eight hundred and tivclve.pouuds. She bad recently relumed froni a trip fo Omulm, NcbTffjka. jfcgr-In. Cincinnati, amati wishing to ?gota cb? ck cashed, hid no one to prove .bis Julenthy. Ho exhibited .hii name up'?n .his shirt, whereat the banker was satisfied, and paidrerer themuney ^af*Abo Gilmore (colored,) who sent thc first bule of new cotton of the present* crop dircct to M..bile, was the recipient-this morning of a hand some-pitcher and two silver goblets, presen tod-by Sessunis ?6 Co. The articles were purchased at M. W. Shaw's, on Tremont skeet.. It -gives us pleasure to chronicle this evidence of liberality on Ihe part of orro of our largest "cotton Uras, und wo?tre not at all snfry*that a'wbrtby'and fh: dustnous freedman was tho fortunato individual to reap the benefit. E5?'r Edwin A. Stevens, the-great millionaire or HoSokuo, did ?rt Pirris'at noon on Friday; He hrtd'beer. i.fflkte'J with rheumatism for two years ust When tho news reiwhed Hoboken ori'Sat urday, thc flags at the ferry, and all through thp ?.y, were displayed at . half-mast Through thc" entcrpiUe and energy of Mr. Stevens, Hoboken pru ag up from an unhealthy marsh to be .one of thc neatest and most orderly cities- to bo found in the vicinity of New York. ^E?*Justus K. Jillson, tho "State Superin tendent of Education," ina speech delivered re cently to a black audience in the African Church, Camden, sail "that if tho Democrats succeeded in olecting 'heir President, there would be the bloodies!, war-on record." . ? MirfS Ann Lee, of Lawrence, Mass., lay flat on tire'bank .of*the river the ofter day, and held hor face in.tbe water until she was drowned, her clothing not'haying beon-.wet at all. It was thc dryett suicido by drowning on record. ^Sr When General Grant reached Denver, Colorado, all the soldiers of Company B, 3d In fantry, saluted him with a Seymour and Blair flag. The General felt unable to remain in that towri, or even to alight fro?i the coaeb. . pSr A man mowing in Pennsylvania ont a rattlesnake in two, and tho half ?V which the head was attnehod bit him to death. fjSF Intelligence received ?ri Columbia indi cates tho arming'Of negroes in different portions of tho State aridtthreats of violence made. Tho leader's publicly .say there is'a. captain on every plantation. The whites anticipate Eorious.tro?ble Tho Columbia (S. O.) Phanix says : " It is stated that Colonel Eadie, tho commandant of this post has been appointed Assistant Commie ??oner of the Freedmen's Bureau, vtce Gen. R. IC Scott, resigned." In nil patts of the country ^?omooratlc clubs, white and colored, are being formed. Th? Ea rn well Sentinel says: " Bamberg, formed a club a few weeks ago, whioh now numbers over one hundred members, ahd tuero arc nccessk is Tho Meeting was called'to OTderby -the Chair niuD, Dr. W. L. ADDI*. Several accession? were made to the Club. A few"pertine?lVeniaVl?"were made by Geri. PAUL Qr ATTLEE ADV, after which thc following Ut-suNuions -were unanimously a lobted : ' . < ; . r> ,: Il juiced, The^ while: we fm^y. appreciate tho delicate duty, in the present 'crisis; of Selecting suitable c.-mdidatcs fcr^Prcsidcnt and Vice Presi dent of the United States, we, the Democratio Club of Leesville, Lexington District So.uth Carolina, do most pord?iJJy approvo 'of the Plat form* arid Nominations "matre hy t*?.'?tefonal Democratic Convention, recently assembled in New Y?"k>-aad pledge to Seymour JE^Blair our zealous support in thc upproaching election-be lieving itt'wo d.of tha.^ by securing *t?ir*^ticeefs the Union will bo rbstorod upon tho broad princi ples.pf justic:, ftaiexni'y and good.will among ibo people of thc several Stetes e nnposiog- it, os laid down in'the .Constitution'adapted by our 'fathers. ' - .?-.?-..-'?.'' ?. Resolved, That as wo have borne the yoke of military pppresskn, ..?.nd now must bear the no Uss galling yoke of civil misrule fora' seiuoa, with thc hope 'of righting our wrong? through the a; i-powerful ag?ncy of the Vallot-box ; and us the opportune period is near nt ha^id; we call upon iou, tho friends of. civil libertyevery where throughoutjjie.cnt-re.length arid ?ie?c?lh 'of tho .'.United Statps* "o-cojue oqjjo th?jJoWy; S[pvem her next, arid.hetp us gajju back ou^l'ojrt liberties. r<rrestorihg us our .rights,' yo"u ?cal?i _tl;c more secure your own; fur we ore yotfrjlOfes *nd friends in thc great struggle for the maintenance of th? supremacy of our race. Resolved, .That as God his made a distinction between the white and black faCpa', whWi no-ono can fail to recognise, it is sinful irrmivh to-attempt to wipe-out this act of Divine Providence, and make all equal, cither socially or pctjtk-tliy ; and .ui?th>;wh?tB-.raca in tho! Unitcd^tates predomi nate bv'cr thc colored in the ratio of eight to one, tho political power of the conntry must of right belong to the dominant race. How absurd, there fore, tor .the few colored people, ' residing in tho Southern States, .to think of ruling for any great length o'f time,'these States, Srt?en tire* ?tthites in tho South alone out number the blacks two to one. The North-'ftsfelfrwill t??l lonjf MftdtoJ such a representation in Congress as that' now foisted upon them through this minority jn tho? S<*jtb whereby 'the one-thihl (the colored) over-rides the two-thirds (the whites,) and sends Cvcnty-two ad ditional vote1? to the Senate to tink the r*ou*fb, if possible, in.to deeper humiliation and more irre trievable ruin. . '.- . .# j Retolved, That amid bur own* misfortune* we ean but sympathize with thc'colorcd mon in JU /. and while we aro desirous of dOiOgnrni jttsaSao in. ill things, by which his true, interest may se-pro moted, we can bufcc-adviao .hini^againafc'.tho pre posterous idea of his ruling;Ino chantry, so long a? the whites are iu such gfe?t a^ceiAfericy ; titr pcr/Jsjauoe in'suqh attempt must Ultimately pro du?<Pa war'of'rtces> in'which ihoHw?alter'must of. course go under. Ac*oft??Th*A equal justice before the law,, with .qualtfi^s'uffruge,- is.as.?UCh'as tho black man cunire'asdu?bJy cxpecfrpa countryTike that of the Uuited States, where tho odds are to large ly against bim ; and wberp the oxy has already been raised by ;hou?ands io (ho Radical, as well as that of "^e.Denio?ratic Party, th>t,- tfiis h a white mau's gov'etnment, arid Jtie white mon must ru.?.',' Sp ?uch *".corilo?t.wBero. are Oje eolond meri'hridthelV-rew whWallres'to.stand i . Retolved, That, believing many bf ouccoroiv.d friends hare beep decCurod by the Radical party, and i.nduced-by i?em't?; Vote t?r^bjo*Sr1)st ubaox fof tu?' promotion-Mf. their own daily to its ranks. Blackville, Willis ton, Aiken, Graham's-Turnout, and many other places in the district havo formed clubs, 'and aro all in fine working order. Our Democratic friends have de termined that the balLxhail bo kept rolling, and hara rolled up their liewa to tbe wutlf ^ , ' jous measures for sclfieh ends-such as'.tbe..p,5f^m;,^SOTent utd ?*jstraaljflcation from office,- of maoy'^Flho Utft. end wisest w'hito men-of tfaj; TO"uhVy*for no otbYr offertes thanthatcf pe^amr^pT;3evotionwiollklkgi une2.tov their nativo. Tt?j?"; Jahd molitLyang thrA iniriy-havo become convinced .of (ho great crrt-r thus committed, and of their determination to act with us, or remain neutral in the I'utnrC, we tender them forgiveness.for the past ;' bu\forVall such as etiH-por8ist*"in their. h?sVjltty-tow^urTs us, and in their determination to adhere to mir cutirme?, we have no favors to. promf^e4.anJ('5i^to ask. Resolved, Thuttheae proceedings; bo published in tho ColumbiaThoenixan&'gdgefield Alirertwtr. . B, F. BANKS, Se'o'ry. Self-preservation the Frst Law of Nature, ?kc. Let all white men read what follow?, cat froi thc Charleston Newt, and, ?fl the negro odito says, "be aware." And being "awnrc," the would be wise to be also ready ! These orgi.ni stations, and drillings, end armings are bcginnin likewise to be practised among us. And deoei solicitude for our wemen and .children, to sa nothing of ourselves, oar property and our right should admonish us to be ready; TDENEGRO MILITARY OnoANizATioss ISGHAI LESTON.-It is well that tho pooplu should kno that for three months past bodies of armed m graos have been drilling nightly at four differer places of rendcivous in tho City of Charlcstor They make no noiso or disturbance beyond givin the word of command and going through the 01 dinary military evolutions, hut they aro workin patiently and steadily to ronke themselves traine and disciplined armed associations. The new constitution, by which nil negro? swear, declares that " oeopic have a rightto kee and bear arms for thc common dofonce " Th: means that they have thc right to bear thei oponly and iu thc light of day. There is no ir terferenco to be dreaded, for thc negroes can dri upon the Citadel Green - at noon if .they desiri They have no one to molest or di.-?url- them, bt they ?till do their drilling in the dark hours < the night, omi in qnartors of* tho city where the a-e hidden from general observation. It is evident that this conduct admits of bt one rational explanation. If .tho negroes wer only organizing because they are fond of playin at soldier, they would not lurk in out-of-tho-wa . corners and keep thoir movements, secret. The would parado openly and io public ; and now thc they BO far give up their natural love of show 0 to exercise where they have no spectators br. themselves, it is reasonably tertain that they ai gathered together for no good or pcacoful pul pose. The military organizations of tho-negro? .iu Abbeville, and Union, and upon the sea island: should teach us a losson. AU over the Slat there are-negro oompanies, battalions and regi mente. It is their avowed purpoio to ovcraw the white man,' to keep bim down by force c arms. Have the similar organizations which ox ist in Charleston any other aim?' In this connection we desire to call attentio to a significant extract from the last number c the negro Cain's negro paper. It is as follows " When the issue conies, there "will be 50,00 loyal men who will spring-to arms in this Stat at the sound qf the first note. Every plantatio: has its captain; and the me? and.tcomeu are prc pared to stand by thalr liberties. They stand 0; the defensive, and no aggressive mensuro will b taken by them ; they are determined to keep th peaco and abide by law and order, and see tba thedibcrt'tes of their children are guarded witl sleepless vigili.nce. Let their foes be:aware!" ? ? ?-. ?. Far Nobile Fratrum. Tho Columbia Phoenix, of yesterday, says : "A colored fair bas been going on for severs nights in a building <m Woabingtor-street. ' i night or two since, Mr. Speaker Moses, ' of tb (so-called) Legislature of South Carolina, an young Mackey, tho would-bo-Sheriff of Charles too, were present-the one funning and gail; chaffing with the dusky damsels; while tho othe promenaded the room with a young lady, 0 mixed breed. This is tho statement of an oyo witness." -* ? * ? . ? The Great Campaign Papers. We invite attention to the peculiar advantage of tho Charleston Daily and. Tri- Weekly Nac? a Democratic campaign-and family papers for cous try circnliition. Great care is tuleen to give al thc latest intelligence by mail and telegraph-, s that each paper is a fresh and attractive, complet and compact, record of curren teven is ia the worl of politics, literature, society, religion and tradi Special telegrams keep thu readers of the Neu informed upon all important point? of State an National information. Tho Tri- Weekly Newt i published on Tuosdajs, Thursdays uod Saturday: and embraces all tho reading matter contained i the Daily Newe, and all the brest intcliigene published in the daily paper of the same date. The club rates of the Tri- Weekly Nette aro : Fiv dress, ?2j; fifteen copies, to one address, S3u* twenty-five copies, to one address, S?5 ; fifty copiei to one address, $100. Clubs- may be formed fo the Daily Ne tee nt double the rate named for th tri weekly edition. Toe proprietors, however, being determined t put a sterling Democratic paper witbiu the read of every man during the campaign for SETJIOUI and Blair, havo adopted the following unpreoe dented low rates for subscribers for four months Five copier Daily Nae*, to ooo address, fou months, $3. ju ; five copies Tri-Weekly Newt, t ono address, four months, $4.25 ; ten copies Dall. Neiet, to one address, four months, $15 ; tei copies Tri-Week'y Neict, to one address, foui month.', $7.50. A Valuable Work. ." The Warbeticcenthe State?, iii Cause?, Chat?eter, Conduct and Jicmiit;" by HON. ALEXA.NIIKR H, STEPHEN?, is tho title of a vrluable work jual issued by'Ti|R NATIONAL PUBLISHING -Co., At lanta, Ga. . _ Histories of tho late civil .war have sprung up like mushrooms, and they can now.be numbered a'mo.-t by hundreds, but all who-are desirous of arriving at a correct understanding of the cnusesj and a-clear history of the events of tho late la mentable wnr, haTe felt thc want "of- a reliable history of the anim -from a Southern' standpoint, by ionio represent .'tivo man of tho South. This want is about to bc supplied by ALEXAWDKR II. STEPHENS. MY. STEPHENS WAS a most tarneit protestant against rebellion, and only succumbed at the last uiomon. Tho hare announcement that this distinguished Statesman had determined to write a book, would of itself; bea sufficient to kindle a lively and wido-spread interest in nil sections of the country ; but when Has known that ho" bas cbosen hs Iii.? themo tlio ono so.fruitful a? TIIK EA'TEI?MRI'. ICAN WAR, thc absorbing interest of the subject together with tho evident and singular Inness ol' the author for its treatment, unito in awakening a curiosity entirely unparalleled in the annals of American literature. lt presents a careful political analysis of thc past, separating ft EAL from APPARENT om es of the late unhappy conflict,and gives iho.-c inte rior lights and: shadows of the Groat War, 'ONLY KNOWN TO THOSE mc ii OKPicERS, who watched the flood-tide of Revolution from its four, tain-springs, and-which -were so accessible-to Mr. STLPHENS from his position.as second officer of the 'Con federacy. . To' a publie that hhs been surfeited with AP PARENTLY SIMILAR PRODUCTIONS, itpre stints a ohango of faro, both agreeable and saluta ry, and an intellectual treat cf the highest order. Th? Groat American-War has AT LAST found a historian worthy of its importance, and at whose hands it receives that moderate, candid aod im partial treatment which truth and justice so ur gently domand. This most valuable work is sold only by sub scription, and the publishers want an agent in every County. --???--?-.> - ---- $?S* The Trenton Gazette baa the following : " The last survivor of the.-party of young .ladies who strewed flowers in the path of -Washington, as he passed through tbis city in 17S9 on his way to,New York to assume tb" ".?sldency, is Mrs. Sarah Hand, now nine' years of ago and a resident of Cape May C anty, and, notwithstand ing her advanced.ag>, is still vigorous and In good health. On Sunday, Juno l-l, :,bc'walked to church nt Capo "May Court House, aud' back to her residence, a distance of half a milo." jOr> The New York World truly says : "The real question is not so much whether tho negroes and carpet-baggers are to rule tho South, but whether they are to rule us. Alroady there are twelve of these Moil' leeches ?io tho Senate and thirty-three in the House. Aro they to rule us ? That is the question." The Kew York Evening Mail says that a lawyer in that oity bas mado over a million dol lars in two years, simply by assisting merchants and others in evading government taxes, penal ties, ko, ! Important Humor About Grant. A Washington telegram of August ll to the New York World soys : Most extraordinary ru mors are afloat indftis city touching tho unex pected -return of General Grant from his Western tour, and its relation to .tho political canvass. From all I cnngathor among those best acquainted with the views of the memb'era-cf the Republican National Committee, it appears that private letters havo been received from members of Grant's party, showing an anxiety on- the part of the General to throw up thc candidacy tor the Presi dency. To thfs he has been moved by overwhelm ing evidences from every quarter of the utter want of spirit in the Republican canvass, and 'ho tremendous popular tide running in favor of the Democratic ticket. AH the loiters roceived'hore, both by the Congressional and National Republi can Committees, are sorely discouraging to tho Radical loaders, nor are the letters from the South 1er s nlarming/Tho blacks cannot bo controlled; and all efforts on the part of carpet-baggers to prevent excesses have so far failed, ?nd the Radicals see that a continuance of these riotous and incendiary acts on the part of the colored population will add hundreds of thousands to the Democratic vote in the North. Hence thc sudden stoppage of Grant's Western trip, hence tho rumors that Ile is about to throw up the car Macy, and the intimations thrown out in political circles that tho Republican National Convention will be called together again, and rumors have it that the nomination will bo. tendered to General Sherman. Thad. Stevens is D?ad I WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-Thaddeus Stevens, of j Penn., died here rather suddenly this morning. LATE is.-His body is guarded by the. Bailor Zouaves, nogroes, uniformed and armed. A great majority of visitors are nogroes. Tho exhibition attracts very little atieucio?. The body lies in the centre of the Rotundo. TL ere aro no unusu al decorations or drapery in the Capitol. WASHINGTON, Aug. t4-A Company of Butler j Zouaves, negroes, marching to relieve guard over Stevens' dead body, fired a volley down 21st street-to-day in response to a stone hurled at t iem. A nogro waiter, standing in the door of a private residence, was ?hot through the thigh. The Expreta says when they reached* tue Capi tol some disagreement 'arose' between themselves-j and they had a regular freo fight. ; ' The Star, after speaking of the .firing and its results, say; a largo crowd immediately gathered, sud, for n ?boat time, there was every.. .-prospec t for a serious disturbance, -but the police on -duty, as well a3-tho reserve, appearing in force prompt ly, by -surrounding the Zouaves, oheeked furthor proceedings', and, when order was restored, lowed them to proceed. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, noon.-Stevens' mains, With thrae passenger cars of escort,, loft for Lancaster, Pa., at 10 o'clock. --* -? pf Chief Justice Chase, in charging the . United States Grand Jury of. Went Virginia, said,, j in effect, that in order to suppress the rebellion it . waa ne'ces'Ty to cr?ate a large pabHc debt, and" | th it the debt mnst be'paid ; for under the four teenth ?mcndnierit to the "Constitution" o? the United States tho nation was pledged'to iL The amendment bc recognized as' valid, and therefore charged the jury to soe that the revenue laws, which were made to pay the debt, were strictly enforcod. , $??r Tho first bale of tho new crop of Colton was received at New York on Thursday, tho Otb, from Texis. It was classed as strict .middling, and sold at 35 cents per pound for exportJto Liv erpool. pf The" following is going tho rounds of thc' papers: "Ono of thc most annoying and pninfu> lin lo troubles isa felon. A-genuine.-remedy is (Torth circulating. It is raid that a poultice of onions applied morning, noon and night for three nr. four days will cure a felon. No matter how .bad the case, lancing the finger will be ud'eeces sary if thu poultice is applied. The remedy.is a sure, safe and speedy one." ?3** The following epitaph in a Pennsylvania churchyard touchingly com inoinoratcs the ghi ttony of a husband nnd the grief of bis widow: To her dear John, who dicd-of eating crab! ' pS* Notlong rince, a gentleman telegraphed to a friend, at Cleveland, an interesting family .affair as follows : " S?r*h and the little one doing well." Tbe telegram reached its destination and read thus: H Sarah and litter are doing woli." The recipient telegraphed back the startling, query : " For Heaven'tfiaktt, how many ?" . - pf Ah exchange says : " We were compelled to refuse an effer of job printing tho other day Ly a man way back, who innocently called to get some pO?Ugc stamps printed. He was quite dis appointed became we could not do the wurk; be "wanted 'em real bad to put on a letter be writ to A gal, and It cost too -much to buy Vin of tbe post-office feller?."- * .,-$5?" Th? Cleaycland (Ohio) Herold uvcat:onf tbe death ol' .Miss Kate Keathley, thu Missouri giantess, which occurred at ber. borne near St. Louis, last week. . She weighed eight hundred nnd twelvcpouudj. Sho bad recently rclnrncd from a trip fo Omaha, NcBrrr-ka. J pf In. Cincinnati, a. maa wishing to ?get a cheek cashed, had no one to prove his .identity. He exhibited .Lu name upon .his shirt, whereat tho honker was satisfied, and paioVerei- the money. ^5?**Abo Gilmore (colored,) who sent tho first bal? of new cottox of the.present' crop dircct'to .M.'bile, was the recipient, this morning of a hand some pitcher and .two silver goblets, presentod-by A. Sessums & Co. The articles were- purchased at M. W. Shaw's, on Tremont sLreet. It -gives us pleasure to chronicle this evidence of liberality on The port of ono of our largest 'cotton .firm?, ami we*ro not at all snrry'that a wbrtby'ond in: "lustrions freedman was tho fortunato individual to reap the benefit. tS*"-" Edwin A. Stevens, the-great millionaire or HobokcD, dicil IA PuTi?'at noon on Friday." He had'beer. ?.fUtcted with rheumatism for two years ust. Wheo tho news reitcfie? Hoboken on Sat urjlay, thc flags at the ferry, and all through thp ci-y, were delayed at half.masL Through tho entcrpii.-o and energy of Mr. Stevens, Hoboken! sprung- up from aa unhealthy marsh to bo-one of thc neatest and most orderly cities- to ba found in the vicinity of New York. pf Justus K. Jillson, tho "State Superin tendent of Education," in a speech delivered re cently to a black audience in the African Church-, Camden, sail "that if tho Democrats succeeded' in electing j|heir President, there would be the bloodies; waren record." . - pf M?8*3 Ann Lee, of Lawrence, Moos., .lay flat on tue bank.ofthe river" the other day, and held hor faca in.the water until she was drowned, her clothing not'baying beon^wet at all. It was thc drgett suicido by drowning on record. pf When General Grant reached -Denver, Colorado, all the soldiers of Company B, 3d In fantry, saluted him with a Seymour and Blair flag. The General (elt unable to remain .in that town, or even to alight from the coaeb. . pf A man mowing in Pennsylvania cnt a rattlesnake in two, and -tho half to which the head was attached bit him to death. pf Intolligeuoe received in Columbia indi cates the arming-of negroes in different portions of tho State and'th'reats of violence made. Tho leiders publicly jay there isa. captain on every plantation. The whites anticipate seriomutrodble. pf The Columbia (S. C.) Phanix says : " It is stated that Colonel Eadie, the commandant of this post, has been appointed Assistant Couimis lioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, vice Gen. ll. IC Scott, resigned." pf In nil patts of the country .?Domoerailc clubs, white and colored, are being formed. Th? Barnwell Sentinel says: " Bamberg, formed a ulub a few weeks ago, whioh now numbers over ono hundred members, abd there' aro access!?, IB daily to its ranks. Blackville, Wilhstonl" Aiken, Graham's' Turnout, and many other places in the district have formed clubs, 'and or? all in fino working order. Oar Democratic friends have de-, termined" that tho ball shall bo kept rolling, and' karo rolled np their lim? to the Work." ". ' " Public Meetings ou ?aoflrdoy .Last. At i. leeti?g bo?d at .Edge??IavC. H., on Mon iayl*ih inst., for thc purpose of receiving Rc port? from- tho different Democratic Cinbs of the District,' relative to tho labor question, and for tho further purpose of organizing a Ccttral Demo cratic Club, in accordance with, tho suggestion of the late Democratic Convection ir. Columbia, Major Ueorge Boswell was called tc the Chair, and Orlando Sheppard requested to act aa St? re tary. A. J. Norris, Esq, offered the following Kee. olu ti on : Resolved, That we recommend that each local Club in Edgefieid District appoint Delegates to meet at Edgefieid C. H., on Sales-day in Septem- - ber, to-organisera Central Democratic Club , in ac cordance wfth the suggestion o' the lute Demo cratic Convention in Columbia; and.that all mat tera pertaining1 to the ln"bl>r'quesdo?-"bc'pWt;poned Jo that day ; and that* the various Clubs of the .District be- very earnestly requested to ?end Dele gates to tho proposed Meeting. - This Resolution-being submitted to thc Meeting. was unanimously adapted. / ? ? On motion, it was resolved that the'proceedings of this Meeting be published in'thc Advertiser. Thc Meeting then adjourned. . I -^Bei?B08WELL, Chair. O..Sn?PPJju), Scq'ry^ . J<v> .. Upon .tho rjdj oura meet of ;he above Meeting, another Meeting was then and there call ad, fer ,the purpose of organizing a De?ro'c'iatic-Club in Edgefieid Village arid ate! vicinity. On motion of Goal. Butler, Gov.. Bonham aros eil lcd to-the Chair, and'A. J. Nortis-requested t? act as Secretary. Mr. J. L. Addison .then moved that airstre prepared, and that .?li present, who arc.-.-disposed to join the Club, be inyitcd to come forward and subscribe tbtir names upeh*fbe roll. Geni. Butler moved ?hat a Com mitt oe of Seven bs -appointed by the Chair to recootniend Perma nent Officers and prepare 'a Constif utt)ff 2nd By Laws-for-tho 'Government "if'tte Edj^fieia Vil lage Democratic Club, and that they rep,jrt, to.an adjourned Meeting of the Club to bohiJd in the Gourt-nousonn'Sattfrday-tHsartat ll o'clock. - Thc motion waa "-adopted^- sntt-tke Choir ap. pointed the following named gentlemen on the Ba?iF C?mmilt?b : Sf; C. Bu??r, Rij?.iLJJimo va'?f, M. fir.''Gary, A. J: NorrtiTT?V.r(J?rwiI?, J. L. Addison, J. Walter H ill. Cn motion of Mr. Ml A. Market, a Committee of Seven was appointed to canvass the commnni ty ?nd procure names, with a view'to^rnxrret??e'the in cfnb crslKp ?nd infloence of this Democratic Club. The following gentlemen constitute the Com mittee: M. A/Markeri, B. 0. Sryan, TV. A>?au ders, fr A. Che'3ttram,'E.uk> S: ffm?tJi/"R; W. Can non, W. H. Moss. :_ On motion of Gen. M. W. Gary tho Meeting cd joarnecT.. '* ' M..L. BONHA^, (Tnairnzan. A, J. NORRIS, Seo'ry*.- - _.. . . '... ---- - - i a e . ' For the Advertiser. . At a meeting of' the' Committee of'ATrttnge m?nts fur' the Grand .E it iii c'a don, Barb;cuc, on the 15th, the -following Committees wtre nppoint '?? Committee -on Preparation J ' and Snr. erin ten ?<:nco of Dinner : Stewart Harrfibn, James A. Lanier, Julius Day, John F. En rn?, C. A.,Cheat ham, F. M*. Nicholas, II- ?. Gallmen,. -John B. Fair, ?. H. Youngblood; E.*W? Hetty, Joan:on A. Bland, ~Luka Culbreath, Cbeslcy Attawray, T. D'. Padgett. > v g ."?. . - . Committee on Platform, 'Tables, ?c.,-F. L. . Sinnig M.. A? Markeri, James Uatcber, Nat Ba rney; Sr., S.B. G?nflir>V '. ' >' "'Jjp . . By order.' Z. W. CARW&E, fet?air. W. X. GAHV, SccVy. Canvnssora Appointed. Agreeably.(.o-a:: resolution adopted 4?y the re cenl State Convention, 'the 'following g'entloocn a n appointed byythe Stit? Central- Executive Committee canvasser? in the interest of tho Democracy : . , Stato at large-Gabriel Cannon and ' A. P. Al drich. Second Congressional DisTnct-B. Kcrsbaw. Th?^d Congressional District-D. Wyatt Aiken, j * To?rtii C?1?gtcT?^naTTJlHtrttrt-*W. D." Simpson. Canvas-sot for, First Cwn^res-i ional District U> bo beJftaXter appointed. WADE IIAMP.TONj Chabman. Fur the Edgefieid Advertiser. Democratic .Heeling. According to appointment, thc Leesville Demo cratic Club, assembled oh thc- 1st dey of August. A goodly number were present upon the occa sion. >Nat only tba-young of our neighborhood, hat our jrrand-fnthe'rs were' rtere'fo "ittcst that they-rncaa to CU thur, places in ranks at the hal hit box in Novcmbjr pext. , . ' The Meeting was called to orderby -the Chair mao, Dr. W. L. A ORV. Several accessions were made to the Club. A few-'p^inr?lreaiaVlts If?re made hy Ged. PAUL Qr ATTLEBACV, after which [ ?ic following Itt-sulutiona -wero unanimously alobted: ] . < ; . ....?j _ #t ...... /.' -HUI?cd, That while wo fully, appreciate tho delicate duty, in the jjrescnt/emts; af selecting suitable candidate* fe^ I'rcsidcnt ~nn3 Vice Presi dent of the United States, we, the Democratio Club of Leesville, Lexington District, South Carolina, do inost cordially approvo 'of tan Plat form* and Nomi nations "made by thc'Nanon al Democratic Convention, recently assenBisd in New'York, and pledgo to Soy moir fElair our zealous support in tho approaching election-be having ita'wo~ do that' by securing"ftSir^success thc Union will bo rcrttirod upon tho broad prioci pl?s.pf Justit::, ft?terni'y and good-will among (be people of tb? several 'St* tes'composing it, os laid down in'the .Constitution aduptcd by our fathers. "* "/ Jieiolved, That ,iS wo have borne thc yoke of military pppressi?n, .And now must bear i'ae no less galling yoke of civil misrule fo'rV se?uon, with thc Lope of righting oitr wrongs through thu all-powerful agency of tho. V allot-box ; and us the opportune period is near'at hatid^we call upon JQU, the. friends of. civil Jibertv every "wa?r? throughout.the entire.length and UVeadth of the ;.??ited States4 to-coiu? .ouj-to tt?jlSH?'yj ?[pvenj her next, and.hetp us go^n back'our,Jost ?berlief. Ia restoring us our riglitf, you m ate,'_ttj c mora secure your own; fur we aro yotfr j?O?es' jmd friends in tho groat struggle for thc- mai??renanco of tb? supremacy of our race. ^Resolved, .That as God his made a dkt??ction between the white and black races', which aa-one can fail to recognise, it is sinful brino-h to-attempt to wipe out tkit act of Divine Providence, and ?abe gil equal, either socially or pci?ti*-illy : and .a^tb^iwhitBjraca in tbe'^rji?dfStaJiy ^rcdoaii naf? over tfio colored m the ratio ?f eight tb one, tho political power of the 'country must of right belong to the dominant race. How absurd, there fore, for .the few colored people, ' residing in thu Southern States, to think of ruling for any great length df time,'tnese States, Srnen tfifc "tfnites in the South alone out number the blacks two to one. .Tbe North-'itselffwill t?t lohg"' ?liraTe such a repr?sentation in Congress as that' now foisted upon them through thia minority \n ffrtr Sooth whereby the one-thihi (the colored) orer-ridm the tuo-lhirde (the whites,) and sends iwenty-two ad ditional votes to the Senate to tink the Souffl, if possible, into deeper humiliation and more irre tricvableruin. . . ?,.*. Re ?ol red] That amid our own* misfortune* are? can but sympathize with the;colored man in Kt /. and while wo aro desirous of dfjiogldm joisa?io in. all things, by which hi? true, interest"may aa-pro moted, wc can but. ad ri so him .agaiusji the pre posterous idea of bia ruling th? country, so long aa the whitas are iu such great D-rce'iAieucy ; tot pcr.dft?nc? in'such attempt must Ubunately pro duce-a war'of "wroes> in 'which tho-w?akermust of. course go under. J?c?ofeeji^h*t equal juilice before the lawy. with .qualtfi^s'uffrage,- is.a&mueu>aa tho black man can rc'as?iially e.\p?cf>ip"*a countrylike that of the Uutted States, where the odds are so large ly agaiuat him ; and where the cry has already been raised hy thousands io Cbc Radical, as well as that of-^e^Denio?re?'c Party, that,- .*? tfiis ii a white man's government, atfH _jn.a whuc man must ru.?.',' Ip ^uc"h^*c^estrwCe>o: 'arb Cae etilored men'hnathe?r^few whitfallfts'to,stand,' . Resoieed, That, behaving many bf ouccororv.d friends have been decVured by the Radical party", and i.nduced-b'y l?em'to; Vote f?r>tbei?W obuox [oiia meiisures for tu?' promotion ^Jf their own selfish ends-truth M;tbe\dwfwn^h?'sBjnunt ai>d ifsquabflcation fromi.office,- oFinaoy'^Flhe bert, md wisest white m??nr bf tbe, wunVy*fern'o othtr >trence than'thatof peramo^p^b'evotionanoVallegj lnec.to. their pative ?a*nj?) Ja^nd .bolieying thr.t ao-ny have become ccmyln'eod^of the gfeat error hus committed, and of their determ^don to act ?Ith us, or remain neutral in the future, we tender hem forgiveness for the past ;' bu^?pr^ili such a? iillrrparsist^in .their, hostility-toi^ajas us, and n their determination lo:adher.o.. tojjur enwmies-, ve have no favors to. promise, aq'd nbfi?rto ask. Resolved, That these prflcee.dingir be published n the Columbia Thoen ix and, Edgetield Advertiser. . Si EMBANKS, Se'o'ry.