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M1. Saber & Co , where he will be happy to wait upon all in the exercise of his profession. His object is to please the most fastidious taste, anid the keeping of his shop shall be atter to :nost unexceptionable style. Shaving, Trimming, Sbampooing, and General Garlington on the Situation. [From the Charleston Daily News.1 Let us see what that course would iikely lead to. It is argued by some that it will be better for us to continue under military domination than to participate in carrying into effect measures which contain such degrading terms that it will be more honorable to adopt a "masterly inactivity" and take no part in the registrations and elections which these measures provide for. The most objection able features of this scheme are universal suffrage and the disfran chisement of persons excluded from ofice .by the Constitutional amend ment. Universal suffrage is not only to be allowed in the elections ofmembers to frame a constitution, but it must be incorporated as an article in the Constitution to be adonted. These are most certain lv verv hard terms, and contrary not only to all our prejudices, but to all our views of justice and wise statesmanship. Besides, we have always cntended that the regula tion of the elective franchisL belongs, under the Constitution, to the States. But have we any elec tion in the matter, that is the question ? Can the people, (I mean those who have heretoi'e exei' 'Sci the elective franchise) by re fusing to regi:ter their names and 'eein away from tie polis, pre Vp rt th e eb itio n b ei g h e ld a ,li the nv ention from niecting. and in ihis manner retain over them military rule ? Will not that por tion of our population who have the elective -franchise conferred po:n them by the Military Bill. and th >se cting with them,gi ter themselves as voters an parti cipate ir the elections ? If they will, and I do not think there can be a doubt that they will, then by this course. by this masterly in activity, all power in the State is given up to these persons. They ill make a Constitution to suit themselves, and may carry out the octrine already advocated in Con ress, and sought to be engrafted n this very Bill, the distrarchise nent of all who voluntarily parti cipated in the rebellion. But for the conservative members of the Radical party this would now be the law. Will the people of South Carolina place themselves in this :ilemma ? It seems to me that it would not only be unwise and un patriotic, but sheer madness. An ther course is advised by sonme which I consider equally mischie ous and suindal. . It is this: Let hose entitled to vote go forward adi( register their names and then vote '-no convention." A dmit, for the argument, that a convention may inY this way Ue defeated, what will we accomplish by it ? It is true that we would be left for the present where we are now under a military government. But is there any ground for the belief that, by voluntarily choosing to remain in this condition, we shall thereby secure better terms in the future ? A new Congress has just gone iuto power, arnd from all that we kow-of-their. opinions, they will ofer n'o better te'rms to us than he last' congress. They are in Tce for t.wo years more, and have 1.wording majority of t wo-thirds. Hopeful, indeed, must be the man who expects that so great a change -an be. effected as to reverse this majority within the next two years. But it is said that a reaction is oing on in the Northern States, nd that at the next election, two years hence, or at some remote period, the Radical party will loose their power. This is a matter f mere speculation. There is nothing more difficult than to prognosticate political events. Nor is anything more unsafe in politics than to base present action upon changes to take place in the future, and especially when those changes involve a total reversal of the whole current of present thought, feeling and opinion. This reaction of public sentiment at the North, on the subject of slavery, has been rung in our ears for a quarter of a century, but my observation and reading have been to very little purpose, if public sentiment on this subject has not, from the beginning of the agitation to the present hour, been set in the same :irection, and gathering strength from year to year, has swept away every obstacle before it, until now f a'll other sentiments in the Nortern mind, it is the most powerful, all pervadir.g and uncom proitsing. It has never gone baward-onward has been its motto. You may aS well dream of sm-~c back the majestic current of arresting the progress of the re volution, which this sentiment is working, before it has run its course-until it has consummated its purpose. That purpose is, to place the emancipated slave on an equality, political as wAll as civil, with the white man. This result I look upon as the decree of destiny-no human power can prevent it. It is within possibili ty that it may be postponed. but it will come-it is inevitable. Why. then, contend against fate, agaiust tlhat which we cannot successfully oppose ? The eagle. as he strikes v'ith bold and fearless wing the storm that hurries him away. is an object in nature that claims our admiration; but he can rise above the clouds, and soar again to his "pride of place." Not so with a people situated as we are. who stand in the way of the march of events. who attempt to stem a mighty popular movement. which has its origin in, and is impelled forward by. the sentiment of nations-by the spirit of the age, they will be submerged beneath its resistless waves. pcriaps. never to rise again. Events have proved that it would have been wiser in us to have yielded sooner to in exorable necessity, and to have prepared the way for the gradual accomplishment of the result whieh has been forced upon us lidde1i. an! wih so s reat a But if we are to base our hopes for milder and better terms of restoration to the Union upon a reaction ofsentiment in the masses of the Nor.h. controlling the legis lation of Con grress, it wouUlK "ee1 tIhat our true policy would be to 0lace ourselves in that position where we will be able to exert the greatest influence in promoting t his reaction. In our present po,si tion we exert no influence, either in or out of Congress, in shaping the course of political affairs. But. once admitted into the Union, we becoine a power in the State. We may then join our true friends there in their efforts to bring the Government back to its ancient landmarks of power, to bring about the reaction hoped for and and so much desired. But, as I have already said, I have no con fidence in any change 'n Congress that will prompt the #ffer of more favorable terms to us. On the contrary I very much fear that, if we should rejee~t the p)roffered plan. it will give political agitators re newed power to exact of us still severer terms. The in dientions are, that any new element of dis cord introduced by us at this time in the settlement of this contro versy-any exhibition ofobstinney. undue pride or resentment on our p)art v/ll likely lead to the adop tion of more proscriptive measures. to the imposition of still greater burdens upon us. The disfran chisement of rebels and the confis catio of their estates have already been proposed in Congress. One of the greatest orators and States men of Fnglzand has saidl, thbat :revolutions arc faivorable to con fiscation," and I firmly balieve that no proposition has yet beeCn made, w\hich presents so strong 'an ap peal to the Northern mind, to its cupidity and passions, than this to divide our estates amongt the soldiers of the UJnitedI Sta tes as a reward of their va!or and triumph. or to confiscate them to publie use in payment of the expenses of the war. This measure is much more likely to succeed than any reac tionary movement, and unless it be prevented by timely action on our part, I regard it as by no means an improbable result. The great alta of the party in power, is to secure to persons _of color the elective franchise-this is the end they propose. -They believe, or a*ct to believe, that this measure is necessary to pro tect these people in the enjoyment of the freedom and civil rights which have been conferred upon them. This is the settled convic tion of th.e public mind at the North, notwithstanding our most solemn declarations to the contra rv. and in the face of constitutional provisions which we have made, and the laws we have passed on this subject. They have the power and, as I have argued, they will carry this point. This being then a foregone conclusion, it will be wiser, safer and more statesman like for us at once to yield to the necessitry, while we m4ay, than to contend any longer against it. When this has been done, the agi tatior. about slavery, which has so long disturbed the country, and ha.s orve to be the fruitful cause of "all ou.r woe," will have run its course. The party which has fed exist, fall to pieces, or be compelled to save itself upon some other issue, to consolidate its power upon some other basis. Then the question of self-government of the enfranchised race will be put to the test. Then it will be seen whether the elective franchise, when extended to the descendants of the African race, ignorant and uneducated as they are, will con tribute to the preservation of the liberties of the American people. to the stability oftheir institutions, and to the progress of civilization. Then the ideas of the age, the pro gressive age in which we live, and which have so long striven for mastery and conquest, will be submitted to the "second sober thought," subjected to the crucible of truth. and stand or iall in the trial. Then. and not till then. may we hope that a reaction will take place, that the past will be review ed, and its errors corrected ; that thcse humanitarian theories will be dissipated by the more enlight ened reason of the times, iike the mists and vapors of the morning by the rising sun. T iversal suffrage being in my judgment a fixed fact. I shall not offer an argument as to its expedi enev-whether it will promote the aen~eral i.ood.- or whether it is in tended or wil lead. as President John:on1 Says. to 'Africanizing the soltieIn p;art of oM' t..rrory." I wi m-erely say tl:at I (o nut be lieve that it will le:d to this result -that I believe the evil will correct itself in the future-that property and il:telligence will finally assert their supremacy and control over th:s power in the State. I also re fer to it again as additional proof of the progressive spirit which char acterizes the party who now insist upon it. President Lincoln was certainly, during his time, the ex ponent of the ainflus and opinions of this great party. In his last public speech. made at the White House. when the news had reached Washington of General Lee's sur render, he stated that it had been objected to his policy that in the Louisiana Government, which had been established in pur. uance of it, negro suffrage had not been allowed. And in answer to this objection he said, "I would myself prefer that it (the elective fran ehise) were now conferred on the rery intelligent, and on those who serLed our cause as soldicrs." T his was as far as he was willin g togo -what a stride has his party since taken on this subject ! The provision in the MIilitary Bill which'disfranchises, in -thie elections to be held in pursuance of it, the classes of persons who are disqualified from holdin.g ofh~ee by the terms of the Constitutional iendmienit; is considered1, and justly too, as very objectionable on the ground of' th~e injustice of the discrimination which it makes. The object of this provision was to puis the leaders, as they are calei! of the rebellion. and it pro ~eeded upon the assumpjt ion, that t hose w ho had been in public life, who had held ofihces which required that they should take the oath to support~the Constitution of the United States, were the leaders. Ordinarily this proposition may hold good. But when I say, that such was not the fuet in this case. the remark is made particu'lrl in relation to the seceSSioni ofSot Carolina. Here, there wer e no leaders in the movement, 0r if there were, they had nearly all passed from the stag'e of action. The principles which led to this result had been deeply implanted in the minds and hearts of' the people hy the great men of the State, who came into public life. during the first quarter of the pres ent century--the contemporaries of Webster and Clay, and their anti podes in politics. These men, of whom MIr. Calhoun was the ablest thinker, educated our people in the nolitical faith that in our comp)ound system of government, the State: ] were the sovereigns and were united by a compoact of union, the Federal Constitution. which when violated by Congress, each State, judging for itself, had thge right to annul, and withdrawv from thbe Union. These men also taugzht our people that Northern majori ties had for' a long series of years legislated for the peculiar in terests 1 of that section, to the neglect and injury oftheirs, and were aiming 1 to abolish slavery in the States, I and would do so whenever they had obtained control of the gov- I ernent. Under the infiuence of 1 these teachings, when Lincoln was I elected President, they believedi that the only cheek upon the ex- 2 ercise of the power which they: had so i dreadd had been re would be overthrown. They then rose up as one man-and deter mined of their own voluntary choice to make a practical applca tion of the principles which ani mated them, with all the fervor of. a religious faith-to make the ex perinent of secession. It was a great popular movement in which the people sprung ahead of their former leaders and demanded of them the action which was taken. Under such circumstances, it does appear hard and oppr'essive that, where all are equally to blame. or have incurred equal responsibility, a distinction should be made among them in the imposition of penalties. But viewing this as a practical question. it is fortunate that the common guilt of our peo ple did not bring down upon them a colnm n punishment. It is cer tainly much better f>r us in a po litical view. that universal disfran chisement has not been visited up on us; that only a few have been Placed in this categorv. These few should not complain of their silent submission to what th.oy cannot help will result in the general good. It is humiliating to then1, is a punishment which ther must keenir feel-to be de pried of what they have hereto f*re looked upon as their dearest lir l:right. But if they do not fCl the derIadation. they are nut e e I. myself. belong to this iinfr0in ate cl:ss of p)er:sons. but if my exclusi'on from onieC and the ri2ht of franchise. if the surrnderof all the hopes which ambition may have in the past ex cited in my bosom for political preferment. is necessary in order that the people among whom I e. m have peace and all their rights in the government restored to them. be it so.-I. for one. am read' for thc sacrifice. I feel no degradation in taking this position. Why should one takinn" it feel more de radcd than Gen. Lee did when hie suirrendercd his sword to Gen. Grant? There are those who insist that it is our duty to submit the ques tion of the constitutionality of the Military Bill to the Supreme Court of the United States, and await the decision before any steps are taken by us towards carrying its n)rovisions. I have little hope that the court will entertain juris diction of the q,uestion, or if it should, that any good will result from the proceeding. If I am not mistaken, it has been the doe trine of the leading statesmen of this State, that t he Supreme Court of the United States is not the rihtfuil arbiter of such questions ts'this, questions arising between the Government of the United tates and the States, as to the ex ent of their respective po-wers. But I will not go into the argtu ment on that point. .To my mind. he difliculty in set tli::g thequ on by a decision of the Suipreme ourt is. that it has no process or o-,ver by which ite decisi-on can 1:e a freti:tan- ether the Unie *ed tha t CongrPess will yield the. dont.ifdcie aainst them, an eCconliz thiese States as States 'ow in the Union, and entitled to 'epresentatio-n at WasThingrton ? Elow would the Suprm Court :nforce its de0cision L.aainst Con ress ? But even supposin that t should decide tha t the Mdiitary Bill is unconstitutiona and veld.a ndi be able to carrys de~Cacision .nto effect, it would only leave us where we were before ; it would til only leave Congress to enact mother measure of reconstrue ion. I do not, therefore, see what ~raical good can be gained by :he suits now pending in that ourt. Mday there not be reason o apprehend that they will only erve to prolong and exasperate he controversy, and hinder and iclav our restoration to the Union ? It is urged by others that we hould look to the Democratic artv as a means of securing to us atter and more honorable terms > restoration to the Union. I have dreay touched up on this point in v bat I have said on t he probability f the reaction at the North on this iestion. Persons who take this iew, it seems to rme, forget or iverook the history of the Demo ratic party. The power of that arty, as a national party, always, r at least for many years before he wa.r, resided in the South. So ong, therefore, as the Southern ta'tes remai~n unrepresented in the sovernment, that party is des ied to remoain in a minority, un ess a total change of public opin on sho.uld take place at the North. .f it was not the very question i~w before us, they were onestions kifl to Zt, growir.g ont of the same rupture of the Democratic party and secession. The party was torn asunder because its Northern wing could not adhere to the prin ciples of the party, and breast the storm of popular sentiment that was raging there. Accordingly. Ncrthern Democrats began to trim their sails to the winds, tack about. and finally abandoned, as the South thought, the principles of the party in order to retain power. The result was that this sacrifi'ce of principle destreyed the unity of the party without accomplish ing the end proposed. It would indeed be strange after all this, that we should no7 hinge our hopes] upon this party. But the truth is. the party now has no- power, and never will have any. until the South is restored to the UnioI and returns to its fold. We can not. therefore. rely upon it to aid us in the present emergency. I have now gone over the ground which I intended to occupy in this comm iuuncation. Wh%at I have .writen has not been done with the expectation tlhat it will he any weight in de ciding this grIat question ;bt if it should be the means of aiding any one n coming to a proper concision as to his duty in the tryin circumstances which sur roun' us. I si:all b. iuch gratified. I hae no p:urpoCe to serve but nv cu:iPry s good. My cofnitry ! .I may be told that I have none. But I have. The State of South Carolina is my home, and I feel a deep. abidingi interest in all that cgncerns1ner prosperity and the happiness of her people. She was one of the Old Thirteen who drew the sword in '76, and threw off the dominion of the British Crown. And notwithstanding her peeul.ar po iti:;n in the past-her isolation in the g;rcat struggle of parties which convulsed the Union in for me;r days-and although she was the first to attempt its dissolution, her people now desire that she should be restored to her old com panions, and that a genuine and lasting reconciliation may follow that restoration. . They are re quire."d to recant no political creed nor to adlopt a new one. They mar remain State-rights men or Democrats. as they like. All that is required of them is to be good citizens, obey the constitution and the laws, and faithfully execute them-to protect the rights and liberties of all who are entitled to pr1otection. They feel now that their rights are insecure-that a overnment has been established over them which is contrary to all the ideas of fret government which her have inherited fron their atlters-that no go.vernment is f:ee where the military power is he ruling power, where it has credto e the instvrmentof and subordinate to, the civil au hority-thai however mild and ust may be its sway in the hands1 ofhim whlo now holds it over them, here is no security for the future htth tneney oi' all irrespon ble nower is to degxenecrate into tranny and oppression-tniat it ay fall into the hands of those wh"o will abuse it and extinguish he last hope of'fedm They herefore :irc prepared, in my udgment, to make an earnest i fort to escape from existing evils. nd take refug~e again under the rad reis of the Union, in thef Iope that a brighter day will dawn o' n them-that the country will ter unon a new career of pros >prity that society and govern nnt will settle again firmly upon heir new basis, and that all the reat interests of the country will evive and flourish-that its agri ulture and commerce will be re usitated-that all the arts o1f eace-that education and moral mprovemenlt, wvill again scatter. heir blessings over a smiling land, ad that a united people, under a >owerful government, will march mward to the fulfillment of their creat destiny. 'Let us banish from our minds hat stoical indifference to onr fate. hich disappointed ambition or iespair may have engendered. It as an oldi Roman maxim "never o despair of the Republic." True eroism consists in meeting our ae with a brave and manly heart. rue patriotism consists in stand~ ng by our country, for weal or for oe, and in devoting all the power ~nd energies of our nature to se ure its greatest happiness and ~rosprity, Yours &c., A. C. GARtisoros. Mr's. General Gainde~ new mn li3a, on ~entral Park, New York, will cost $2,000, Tu-nty liv- thnsand ?rme~grs v!si High Rents, Dull Trade, and Little to Eat. These are the cries in nearly iRb our cities at present. With te prevailing stagnation in busine, it must be fatai to the-business of large numbers, not only of mer chants. but of heads of fariliee, to meet the obligations for rent. Those who relied upon a different state of things, and yielded to the demands of landlords last year, in the hope of struggling through until times improved, have been sadly disappointed. The political troubles of the country are not adjasted, but get worse and wore, cousequent'y confidence is not.1t stored, and all kinds of busine$s are prostrate. Those who have been accustomed to comfort, and even to .luxury. are. now depriving themselves of the common neees saiics of life, to meet the demands ofthe landlord. We refer to this in no spirit. of disresNect for the class referred-to. We hold it to be true that -rents, like trade, must be regulated by the great law of supply and de mand : but we submit that, had the present condition of things been forescen. the demand which lod to the - engagementa of . the current year would never have been entered into. It would be an exhibition of noble magnanimi ty-as wefll as a realLy equitaMe and just conces on-if ~landlords were to voluntarily reduce their rents. and thus, to some extent, relieve the pressure that is para lyzing the energies of the peoplev Who will set the example ? - [Augusta Press. Importance of Learning Trade. An exchange well observes that in times of commercial panic or stagnation. there are always mul titudes of young men thrown out of Clerkships and other -officees and reduced to distress . for want of some employment. They -a, acquainted with no particui trade or calling, because they .se out with the idea of making mon ey by faster and less laborions methods than the paths of steady toil appeared to promise. If these young men-had first made then selves thoroughly acquainted with' any one calling, even though they did not intend to follow it up,1 would.alwas afford them. 6 sup port to fall back upon in case of necessity. Goon Anytes. -The following chapter against extravagance, which is found~ going the rounds is given gratis in the hope that it may be beneflcial: If the, poor h- use has any terrors for you nev.er buy what you don't need. Beore you pay 3 cents "for a jewsharp~ my boy, ascertin~i whether you dahnot make iu-t as pleasant a noise by whist ling for which nature furnishes th~e mnachinery, and before you pay seventy fiye do!!ar.s for a coat, young man, find :>ut whe:hor your lady would not be j.ust as ghiad to see you in one that cost half the mner. If she would not let her -jack her own hazelnuts, and buy her When you see a man spending two or. three do2Iors a week foolishly, the chats ces are five to onec thiat he'll live long enough to know howi rmany cer.ts therQ are in a do!!ar; if he don't he's pretty. =ure to bequath. that privilege to hios idow. \V en a mani asks you to buy that for -:, i i f fn ave no use, r1o.:niat. ter haw cheaip, d,on't buy it. Monet barns in some folks' pock<ets, and .makqa. such a hi. ha it every thing that is put la d:ops :arough past finding. A Bor's Fmsi C oMPo.ITIoN.-An le :onge gives the flio irg as a genuine roduictioni. jt~ as it came frcm -the peg f a ius e;il, it in his first composi tion." Thze iulj c: Oxen :'' "Oxen is a very s' ow animal, they are rocd to brake grounrd p. 1 would drather ie her.,es if the d int h ;ve kollick, which they sayi' is wit.d coHletted. in a unch, whi'h rates.' it dangerer for. to eep horses the people would have to wheni thare wood on a wheal-barrow, iL w"uld take two or thiee daysto wheal a orud a mih-. Caws is useful to. I have eard some say that if they th.d to be othler or an ox they wood be:a cow. 1M t I think when it cumn to have theitr ~its pulled o: a naornin they' woo,d wish ar wa-s t, f r oxen don't generally have ol raie. eat es. if i had to be enny i wood ater be a becffur. But if i coodent be a i fr and Ue to be both i wood be an x." "Josh B iiir gs." A riemus Ward, and ho *t of other professional, paid humor. is, h;.rdiy e'er beat this'in genuinQ umnor. Hz.vy Smr.a.T OF Corroy.-1VQ earn'f thlroungh thr Savannah papers that leCssrs. Crar,e & Graybill cleared, on ~aiurday, the ship L. B. Gilchrist, Cap. in Watts. for Liverpo -I, with 2,T[0 ates of upland and 559 bales of see dand cotton, which is the largest ship ent of sea islad this season. One ho,use in Aeric's has present<d e editor of the Repuhlican with an edi. rial chair, arnd another with a ban4, -rn gol pen a nd pncil. Re ongh te