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, I II\tLancaster TOLL'MB XV. - LANCASTER C. H., S. C., JULY 18, 1866, MMIt|| 23. To the CitizftnR of Snnth Cnrrt. I W?. th*?. h??? ih? I - lina* FbLLOW CtTIZKSB : Ao vie* Protidoot of tho National Union Club, for tit* 9tat* of Boutb Carolina, I oarnraily invito your Bttontion to tk* call for a National Coa vontion, itiuod bj the Ezocuiite Com initio* of tbat body, and r?coram?ndv<l by many of th* moitominont and patriot* I/* m?naKova a# Iv?oU 1 * *' WW I - <11 irwiu uiaucues OI me praa ci Con gr tea. Th? importance of this infesting, and the beneficial conaequencee ta reault from it, can scarcely br exaggerated. Scpara* tad aa we bare bean for lh? laat lira yeara from all comiMfeiicalioo with ilia people of iba North and Wait, knowing but lit* tie of their opiniena, except aa expressed through the unjust and ppreasive action of th? hitler partisan m*j >rity which at preaent coatrola ilia National Legislature, thia ia the first opportunity which baa bean offered ua lo take free and ei^ual counaal with tlmae who fori impelled by a aanaa of high patriotism Lp oppoaa the Cijnat achetnea ol (ha radicala in theif systematic efforts to oppreaa and humiliate the people of theae Ktatee, and defeat, if possible, the reconstruction of the jJuion Indefinitely. The addrest atataa alaarly the piiocip'ea upon which we are expected to act ia common, ami ii in* to iii? that lher? i? not qpp to which ()ii Stat* cat.not uh* crib* jf) honor ?n<J yilh ?ii,c^fitw. We imply rrcogmie tho?f r u11? wlrch th? ot* qf the ! '.? *?r li*v? placed beTend ilia boumla u/ apjr future politieei diacuaaion ; reaulta in which we have un aaimoutlv and aincerely aripiieaced, and in cnuformitv t* which we have already # .? ??1 m*dfi<?d ouy Cupatjtmiou, our fjegiajalure, end our polipcql aaniiuianta. W* ar* invited to j.jje in aq ackpoyiedemaat of the fifdnin of that policy bt which An dretf Johnaon, President af the Uuilaa ha*, jn the midst of difficulties onparqllflfd in the history of any ad minis >u>|uiai?i?u luf imagrilf *1 lb# Constitution, ideq'.iQad lb# #prci?# of Eiacutivp pof#r with lb# rula# ot urict jiMtic# QpJ the spirit of marer, and pro*?d hi# legitimate fif lif to #ucc##d the gr#?| founder# of th# Republic m Chjaf Magr#Irnt# ol n cammoa country wbicli can b# and# and frmrrtd u #n? nalion only by lb# p^nal ada)iai?lfaljqn o' juet nnd Th# purgoa# of tb# Convention will b# to org?ais#, upon th# principle# ##t fonb in tb# Comn.itt*#!# a<jdr#tp, conHr?i> tie# r*#p of n|l #cti<>n? nnd #f nil former parti#*, and. -f possible, dri?# from po???r that radi:al party oho at# daily tramp* ling under fool tb# Coq#titution, and fa#t converting n gcftatitmioaal r#f>u|>:jc into ena#o!tdaf#d dnpoiiini. Tb# gr#?t ma## of lb# p#"p'# Nerth nnd W##t bnt#% higher iai#r##t in party than through it to N?ir? th? wiee, anlighlaoad aad juet gaaarnraaat of tha country, and whcto organisation ia at|?c(a<), ad tha 1'raaidant's enlightened policy o( reeooatruetioa ia praaaatad for thair ap proval or ?aadaoiaatio|t ibara can ha lit tia doubt that ba afill be triumphant'^ aataiaad, and oar as equsla ia a raatorad Union fqlly conceded. ' Tba compact organization of the eon cervctire man if q neceaeity ta meet auc caaafally tb| organized banda of tha radicals, * '! mMD * ^aapproaaa of the tyrqpifal aad nnwiaa policy of tha lattar aboqld join in thie aalional, patriot la laaaua to We in without representation in bo'h 1 klouaea of CoigriM, neither our opinion* or condition con bo officially knn?a to 1 tho country?unjuat and diacriroinatiaf laioo aro inpoaod oo u*?a people i*dly itnporerUbed by tbo oalaraitioa of tho loot , fvo yoara?and wo ara allowed oo voieo ( of protect avow in tbo coonaola of tbo , Nation*. Qor loyalty to tho Qoo-rnwont I of tbo United Siatea io impofaod ia tbo 1 face of oar oatha of allocianoo, takon J aeleaialy ard io food faith, and the poot | privilege of ao official denial ia withheld. I i Wo ftr# ihreotenrd villi diofrneebiMmont, < mm! being rei?er.d?d to * territorial eon* dilion, and we nro to bo doniod oil it ft ^ right* and prifil*(?* door to on Amorieon( ood oono#eroud V?j tbo blood of the ho- ^ rooo of 1714. ottil we nWribe to terooe too degrading ood hootiliating to lw en? tortoiofd by ft frootftoo lor ?;?ioglo mo* V moot 11 the meeting of the Convention?is or' ganieing all cooaarvativa man to aid in trying out tha wit* and ganeroua policy of raconiitruction inaugurated by Preaidant Johnton, and I tlicraforo reiterate tba aarnaat hopa that you will take immadiata atapa to aacura representation for thia State io the Philadelphia Convention in Au gu*t, by th? wisest and ablest man iu th* State. ' A* tli* timu I* abort, and th* means of intercommunication l>?iw#?n th* different , Motion* of th* Stat* imperfect, I beg I leave respectfully to auggeet, that public I meeting* of ih* citizen* of each judicial district, be held on th* Fourth Monday in July inst, (23rd,) at th* Court House, that delegate* be appointed at these meet jngs to a Convention of the State to meet at Columbia on \V*.ln**d ?y, the first day of August, and that the State Convention appoint tbe delegate* tQ Philadelphia.? Kscli judicial district sending as many delegates to Columbia as may be coot venient or agreeable ; and that Conven lion determining the vote of each district, which m'l perhaps be, a vote equal to the represantatiet. of district in the llnu-e of K?preHaiil*liye*. Tim delegates from ih? several judicial district*, mnkiug op ths Congressional District*, will most likely bscharged with tli* se'eetinn of two delegates for llis dis trict, snd llio whole Convention select lite four delegates el large, to represent ike $tate at I*roe. The selection of ^lie delegates for the ?tala et large, would seem to require e State Convention, end if tt assembles, it would he desirable, as already indicated, that it should likewise select the dis net de legates. The suggestions as to tbe mode of se'ec'.ing a Convention?the time, piece of meeting, and tbp leasts of its organisation, are made in the hope qf certainly securing action in every district, and there is not time to settle otherwise by discuseion or consultation tbe details woich I have vsalursd to make. |AMP-S. L QRR, Vice President of the Union Club, for Seoth Carolina. Aadertoa, 8. C., J ily 4th. JQCG. Terrible Conflagration at Portland, Maine.?Half the City BurntI'ortlakp, Mai.ft, July 5. A tarribla conflagration occurred here yeaterd ?y, tka triad blowing a gala at :ha tima. The fira originated ta Commercial treat, inapt over a tpaceof one mile and a half in length, by a quarter of a mile wide, destroying everything iniu track. Half of tha city was deetroyed, includ a '"i 1 . * inf mil me puainaaa aectiona, excepting the heavieat buaineaa bouara. 8a?a-?! ehurehee, mil tba newapaper office*. bank*. puMie buildinga and many (Jwellinge warn deetroyed. Fifty kauaaa vara blown up In tha an 4*avor to ehack tba prograa# of tba flra. Tba Cuatam llouaa, being fira proof, aa taped. Tka lo?a ia enoraaoue, and, at present, aannot be ealimated. Ahout 1,000 tenia have bean aaat to the houselaaa people. Tha dpetrnation waa ao camplate that peraone can hardly tall where their hou?ee ware. [atCOND DISPATCH. J Portland, Me, July 5. Details of the great fira ahow that it wae terribly di*m*troua AH tha newa? paper mad inaurmnro office*, haoka and hotela, aigh\ charities and a convent, ,,l. *..!. JS . uia ri, iBnuilin^ VtlUt Me wharvo* and nearly trifj prominent 1 hueinaet home in ?ba city *? burned, at well at e (rtit itmbtr o( private dwelb irca The aetimated number of beutft ' ten turned ie tee thnetend end the Iota I itreeda $10 000.000. The ehur^hee not , burnt ere appropriated to the hemel???, ( tnd enromitteee ere engaged in the eti.. _ii?i-.- ?.- - - .wmwvr IV in* nmriM Of tpa tur I?*rt Thn (Uin?4 ?r? Mill |mnhl*n?? i n diiTmni pirti of iba ritr. Iftulf all , ,l?a hoaa hnr?t and aavaral flra angina^ ( vara uaad up. imi m ^ I Tbo Pran.dant, yantardav, aathori I lad tba i*aua of a pardon to JVof A. T. i iiladaoa, who, in iba aarly part of tba t rar, waa AaaUtaot Hacratary of War no* 1 lar tha Oonfadarato Oovarnmant. Tba ? mrdon ?aa aamaatly raeommandod by I Jon. Or II. Bmwniaf and etUaca. I inc Education of Freedmen. 8ince we published our article on tliia object, in Tueedey'e Phatnix, we find the following in onn of onr Georgia exchangee. It ia n aeriaa of meaturea propoaad bj the people of Oxford, Mi?a., and eovera the or h ft IA flrfAU?/l le- J-e?:i ?L! t ?... p.vauu u uaiitu, wuun wt Meant I to indicate in our brief article on the sub1 I ject. In regarding tins subject in it# religions point of view, the second proposition is extremely appropriate and torching, and will find a response from many a heart in South Carolina. That the time hat arrived when some measures should be adopted by the Southern people themselves to provide the waje and means of educating the freedrnen, ie a conviction te which we have been led by the following eonsiderai lions : 1. This people are now thrown upon their own resources, in a stats of freedom, for which thvT are to a ceriaia prepared. 2. They consider us, their former own, rf, to be bow, as we here elwnys been, their natural guardians end their beet friends. 3. It ie our interest, as well a? our duty, to diffuse the blessings of education as widely as possible among all classes of people in our country. 4. If it ever was goo I policy to keep them ignorant, it certainly is oo longer so, but tb? vary reverse. 6. Tba right of suffrage will, in all probability, ba gi*a> to tbia paopla at aatue fiilura day. G. Ignorant voters ara tba cursa of our country. 7. If wa do aot taach (bam, soma one alaa will, and whoavar thus benefits thera will win an influence ovar tbam which will control tbair votas8. If wa perform this service, than, wa shall secure their identification with us in promoting all our interests. So much for policy and interest?the leant eleraied furtn of tha argument.? Let u* look at tba eubjeet in it* moral taurine*. 1. Tha Church i* (ha HgM of tha world ; it in, tli*r*fora, bound (a illuminate tba eurroundinf region. Tbara i* no apeeial injunction to enligktqn tba white rare only, but ?a ar* to "preach (ha Qoapel to evfry etealure.n Saarch tha Scripture*' i* (ha command, not addreee d ta our race enly, but to mankind.? Gad "enmataadaih mil men, everywhere, to repent." Wa ara unquestionably re? poneible to (Jod far our influence **d ability to do Load. "J*he poor ya haya alway* arith vou," i* the declaration of our Saviour, and, by bi* providential *r tangainent, wa ara eonaiantlv remind*'! lb hi we live not for oun?U?i alone; the colo?od r?c? are bow emphatically "the poor among the people." 2 But do w# not owe it to them u a debt of gratitude f We remember how they, for our aakee, endured boot and cold, ?ot and dry, aummer and winter, cultivating our fielda, ministering to our comfort*, promoting our wealth, improving the country, and actually advancing civilisation. by tbeir phyeical labor ; attending upon uo at all atagee of our livee, Burning our childroa, waiting upon the iick, going with oa to tho burial of oar (load, and miogliaf I hair toon aiih ours ia th? opoa graso Can it bo that alt Jiia ia forgotten f And ia it aot a small roturn for all this, that wo ara asktJ to mako, whoa it ia proposed that wa thai I giro thora that modicum of instruction which wi>| onahlo thorp to road, or at loaat to know tha way of Ufa otaraal I? [t iouador tho proas a ro of tbooo and limh lar oonaidoratioao, that a fow of tbo Htisona of Oxford have boon morad to take tho initial# thia enterprise. Wo prnpoee tha oatahliahmaot of a Habbatb School for tho oral instruction of I ha colored pooalo, as (fall at Jo touch i ,hero to raad. Wa hava organiu! this I ichool wiib mora than \00, pa pi la, *ad | ,?rclra taacbara. fUgular praaahiag a Wo I pi pjon.lad far tbaaj hj tba raoidaal mia i atara of tba ok arc baa of Oxford. < IVa daairf. to aoJipt ia tbia work all Ofr I llow>eiti*ana, ai tbara 14 roanj aaoagb I or all, aad work aaoagb for all. Ii aacb I t work m tbia, aa doabc, tba aogrielioo I ... . \ | 7 of duty, and tho command of God, should bo auflBcisnt molivos to actuato us. But whils wo would sot pload for tbo authority of f reat asms* as a sanction to our cotirso, or an inducomsnt to othsrs, at lbs Mm* time wa rejoice to find, thet in many pert* of the South, the prominent citizens ad official digeiterie* are actively moving In this matter. In South Caroline, Governor Orr and the first citizens of Charleston are urging the establish meat of the common school system for the freedmen. In Alabama, ex Governor Moore aed ex Congressmen Curry are engaging in the movement, end elsewhere in Mississippi, ibis field of labor is occul pied by some of the most distinguished of our citizens. All this shows that the influence is at work which is to put into general operation an effective system of instruction fur this people, in sacred and in secular knowledge. Let us, therefore, engage in the work in earnest, according as God shall open the way for ua, and ss you consider your duty in coaneetton with the work, we ask yen to decide upon that course that you will probably approve when the light of a coming eteroitt ball b? ?h?d upon lb* subject. J. N. WaDDELL, 8. G RURNEY, a. I. QUINCHE, T. E. B. TEOUES, WM. DELAY, J. W. MoRUERSOK, Oxford, Mim, June 12, I860. Columbia PKanix. Dangers of Famine. The news from all part* of the South, give sad news of ib? ciopa io tb?ir tactions ; failures of the whaat, cotton and corn crops are reported from every quar* ter. In Alabama and Georgia, destitution prevails to an alarming extent, and in no State in the Seath can the people mors than auatain tbamaalraa ; what than ia (a b? th? eonaaquaoca tha coining win tar I F*mio40kara lha country in tka faca. Tha paopta ham no manay ; tba ouly reaourca of the South, tba Cbtton crop, ia almoat a total failura. Louiajana and Miaaippi hava auffarad graatly by tha high wat?r aad tha conarquaat darnaga to cropa, whi!a in otbar Stataa the cropa hawa autjarcd naatariallv from tha contin. uoua wnt waaihar. Tha South, tbarafora, will ba dependent on tha Northarn 8tatea for proviaiona. JJut thara ia now avary indication that tha graio yiald in tha North will not raacb ona half a crop for tha nr?*??nf : ?1,1 , >?u |irii'W will consequently be high. In riew of such circumstances, erery article of fqod should be carefully husbanded, erery resource derelcped, and lb* greatest ecoaoroy practiced. From present indications it would aeem (hat groat euffeiieg null ensue the coming Winter months.?Richmond Ex> aminer. It baring become quite eommoo te mark paper* oa the margin with aa X on the aspiration of eubecripiioua, a aab subscriber haa recently responded in the following, X-ceedmgly X cedent X.cerpt: Mesa ra. That your X-position ia X cu sable in tbe X*tf* ^ ^'bibited on the X lerior of your last issue, you will allow me to X press my readiness te remit) Please examine the enclosed X change, and if deemed X piation for my remiaei ease, it will be X pected that you will X tend to me aa X oaeralion from your X actions, by X purging or X sanding tbo said X from my next paper. Nat that your mode is by say son X cap tiooable, in X erasing a right, hut rather too*X tolled, as a very X peditious one is gashing X-anapiss of delinquents. youra uttfj. Thin is ttiditM mrj handof tbo d?*ir? ( Coagrm to idjovro. Thi committooa oro finicking op tkoir bo*iooaafaod both boo mo oro closriof tboir caloodorc of o fatabor of ooim/vprt^t bill*. Tbo tariff and ta{ bill*, mod tbo bill for ro or* gaaiaiag iho army oro tbo only important taoMurea yot to bo diapoaod of. Vb. military conaroittaoa of both houaoa wore ingagad. to day io perfecting a now army bill whicb will bo oeooptoblo to botb L ounce. Qoooral Oroat io tory aaxioaa for tbo poooago of to as a bill ioeroaaiog ;bo regular amy at tbio aooaioa. 'lhc Re-Katablishmentof Order. The Charleston News of ibe 2d inst., its : Out readers will be g'ad to learo that orders have baeo issued from the Headquarters of this Military District for the arrest of all vagrants, and to prevent the selling of liquor to freednsen. This is a "tsgpa the right direction, and shows that ths military authorities appreciate the situation and are determined to do all in their power for the restoration of law aad order, Below we give the Order in full; Headquarters State or So. Ca., ) Charleston, S. C., June 29, *00. J General Orders, ) I v n0 9 ? ' j I. The BreveuMajor General Commanding has aoticsd, with deep regret, the disposition oo the part of the /reedin en in the vicinity of Charleston and along the coast to disregard thair agree, ments on plantetiooe, to the neglect of the crops, and to either lay idling about their I houses, roam at largs over tha countrv, or congregating in Charleston and other trrwos. This total disregard of all obligalions to kstp thsir contract^ in good faith will causa an entire failure of crops in the ? !? --4 ?-- i i >uu ihuit mum d? destitution and starvation. The increasing amount of theft, drunkenneu and vagraney de? naaada that the moat prompt and severe measure* be taken by all officers to check the evil. II. It ia ordered that all men or women I wbq leave the plantation on which the^j are employed te labor, either by the ' month, for ahare of the crops or as renters of land, and thereby neglect their grow in/ crops, be at once arrested as vagrants and put to work on tba public reads, at provided for by Paragraph XII., General .Order No 1, Headquarters Department of South Carolina. All plantera who have freedmen em. ployed en their plantation* who do not I at thie important aeaeon of the year, give | their ent:re time to the growing erupt, re authorized, if after reading this order to tbem and they neglect or refuse to obey it, te report them at once te the officer in t< amend of the district who will cause them to be taken from the planta tions as vsgrants and to work ea the public roads. Their children, if anr, will ' be bound to such persons as will take care of them and learn them habits of 'industry. Ill A prison will be established for all persons of color convicted of such crimes as are not punishable bv death on one ef the islands, where employment can be furnished, and all convicts will be comi palled to laber from sunrise until sunset, under the control of aucb guarde aa will inaure their safety. Any peraon convicted of aelliue apirituoua liquore to a freed iwsn without a permit from tome officer having control, will he fined in any aunt not leae than twenty five dollara ($25) oer more than one hundred dollara ($100) for every offence of which he may be convicted. IV. Commanding officera will have this order read in the several colored churchea in their vicinity, in order that it may btcoma generally understood. By command of Brevet'Major Gaaeral R K. Scott. H. W. SMITH, Brevet Lieut. Col. end A. A. Gee. Oiticul n. XV. Smith, Assistant Adjutant Gen. Murder of Bi. S. RUctt, Sr. We are pained to learo that thia gentleman was foully assassinated on jester day afternoon, joat after entering bis farm aear the race course. So far as we can learn it appears that Mr. Rbett was rid. iag along aeauaeway, on the aide of which the murderer bed coucesled himself, un uei cv<?r wi mn unuorgrowib or brush? ad that after passing distance of tea fast, L? was shot from the raar with a double-barrelled goo, loaded with duck shot. Mr. $hetl was struck io the left cm and aids, lbs shot apparently penetrating the luag. lie rode but a short distance before falling from bis horse, and died where be bad falleo, io about three quarters of aa bour. Be gave no clue to the murderer. Drs. Mitchell and Oeddiags, who were io the immediate vicinity, could discover wo trace of him. Aa inqaeet will be held by Coroner Whi? ting U'day.?Cknrlttlon Courier. aaiMBfesB=g?? The Scandalous Whipping of the Young Lady at Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Button Herald gives the particulart of the whipping of Miss Josephine Foster, by the principal and assistant teachers of the Allttoo school, at Cam* bridge. From the statement of tbe young lady it appears that one week ago last Thursday, in the forenoon, while she was engaged in writing, Mr. Roberts, the principal of the school, spoke to her about aittinor tin ntrnirrVit 71 a ?~i.i ? _r - p,.... " VW.U her not to write any more until hia orders were given to do ao; and she was rood ordered to go down to the foot of the class and toatend there until she got ready to come to him. In the afternoon she was called up by one of the assistant teachers, Miss U odges, who asked her about whis. paring with another scholar, as Mita Gray, another teacher, said she saw ber % whisper. She was then Rent into the recitation room, where Miss Hodges toek a rattan and said "I am going to whip you." She waa then sant into the boys' drawing room, where the two teachers again earn# iu and were about to whip her with the rattan, but she refused to hold out ber right hand. At recess the teachers bald a consultation together in relation to tba matter, aud Miss Gray came into tie room with a long leather strap and saM, "I am going to whip you." She then called f Hodges to help do the strapping, came and tbey held her arms, tdiouli and bead, with one hand upon her mouth. She screamed, when Mr. Roberta cam# and took bold of her wrists and boulders and told Miss Gray to strap her, which was done fifteen or twenty times. After the punishment, one of the teaehi ere said, ''let us open the windows and get some air; let us get some water."? Wh'le the strapping was going on the boss in the school room were ordered to go through a military drill of marching and the music teacher played the piano. Miss Foster's little brother went borne cryteg, and iaformed his mother that Josephine bad been whipped and wit detained at the school house. Mrs. Fos* ter went to the school house and saw Mr. Roberts aed the teachers, but could get bo satisfaction or facts io relation to the whipping. Sha took cbarga of hsr daughter, and oa gettine boma tba latter'* wrists wara red and swollen, and there wara othar marks upon bar person, and she suffered greatly during tba night from tba effects _# *1 _L! ? ui in* woipping. miss roster it rattier a delicate young lady, sixteen year* of age, end has always borne an excellent name among the school girls for her quiet, genial disposition. She has also been a good pupil at the Allston school, as was shown at ths examination at the City ilatl on the Thursday night. B. VV. Roberts, the priocipa! of the school, is a member of the Baptist churchy and has been** tsacher for scms years, lis has hsd trouble with ths psrsnts of the children attending the Allston school in relation to the severe punishment of pupils. The ease ia not probably ended by the examination before the school committee on Thursday night, as the counsel of Mr. Foster will lay the facts before the graud jury of Middlesex county, at Coocord| on Monday next JiJm Rho.l.- !? 1.;. --.J t -r the Reconstruction Committee tbe other day, explain* very tersely and satiafactO' rily why tbe Southern people, in some instances, have elected men who were identified with the fortunes of the Con* federacy during the war, to till the offices. Saya tbe Judge: MWe really had no material of reapon* nihility to run against them." This is true, and it is the testimony of a Union maa. Tbe most respectable And intelligent people of the South, with a few exceptions, went into the "rebellion."? And yet the radicals would hare them pick up all the incompetent, inexperienced men and place them in poeitiona of power. lie Is the best accountant who can caet up correctly the aura of bla own errors. ?