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404 - a 14. x. P-. S - ~~~~ P.~FR TUlDSEIAINO USEFUL HNTELLIGER,...[NAIAL NAV? -WEDNE-SDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26, 1868. T'NOR.I 11-1ERAo 4i81im-- *a4 *a ese ~~ As aes Adh -rA ynillke of U %%sit fir I tI asi- m4wioi swina a%ireae aeo acoord with ~eM~re tr an - 4W At Apsd the test oft thege eMAL " am."AAhe.ir fesa ssbai| Nelli edi.ar e sp alia r t ishno esme# gy er nt ikile rfiPg'ety I a mo b'Iri$iWi4f lie a Is & ealyf th ease with coASma fe slaves ? The very esgtof sli contr)life-yalue for vale-hpge aie violated in all poaet*ig l$r slavescrng the last . ten:eW Swenty- years; The tig4es to slssie groperty have been found .pti4y unseend, ad ae conse getly, in the eyes of the law null and void. So that in either view of the #sse,'vs to th~e validity of the titles,orMa to the sae2red ness of centracts, ile - ar .ontitled to set-aside all these contrAEste7 in theeye of the law, absolutely illegal, n and voisd. Agin, al of us in this Convene tion aduOi that a*ry' was a tgreat morI amd political evil-a 'trie giist, ei*ifizatio and i ts thelight- of jus tienen4of tr Ci-5isiaity it movet couM have legay existed. -1satitution was' rglic of bar. barisi'-inherited from our fathers, and from the very seum of al latr the-Afrieanslave 1j&ers. Shidie wow'After hav. g sa 4deain getting free from thia enrdble ene;.silfontine to ogai$ i e lty in sny shape rformt Wa A nbt bat ogh to betAwied to recqgize it while it exieted, withoat ~eetinug to -do a. min it has-ceased to exist? ~Theng we hadsmostpotent reason .1os eeA not. o& aw itepnda en ,ouhlreer 1. Mia co 5*4 frfgeySj considered, les R4pefn<Ree aridger&onal g3Il hIefpio eaghismeas r hg pgae smniu fr asail'.. t Wer.weare not left;iqonr gedunes. These :Cbree a etevidehitt 1ri #aWes u s not -0ap taN:the . lDisiet urt of esisina -hps -delided against te1 a ity; -Ne. iielkIes, who 4enral,agi aside all debta er49i This he44%an -e - .e.r, at be 4of 4 g-se ao hd hbet h ent Valid Jie other sgt the bongres. of tsi a 4 itaji~a the 18th of -gysaidet N United~ AtWestIii~ of^the Repvbli esanal eme of -tri DemoeratC jef% of-thisAl.eleadJy desrisa.:Smlaves -' ntR Yrd 96e)i[bry demand? -6 es )d #oweygreniple- of pf, 1 jMgt'it -eidt he ~u~at WeotgMouy ci-ny wiiitemiemberof ~he f w)8d 02290' 3 iheC CR'y aiEd sene-ejtstice of ay! Mkipf~aan* to relgu3e that riaosayes donow;'or~ ever arist.' White I cannot ag~w~ m~ bry enlightened and- aceonplished friend froni .haresto4.boss he can never -give-oeWho ifaabought, or s slave, I do most heartily agree'wnh- hisn as to the great 'oag ofusavea'y and3 trust that le will agreewithga .lSas to the feeegiggn9f ,dstroying Jarw and foreverg every estige "of slavery, and eyeg seznblanee of.alrcgr tion of rightar bligation's -in iavery of whkatever kind. The opporf,anity is pew afforded us to get asido-.6e 018ims forever. .-11 is said by some, let the Courts de eide this. But I would ep7ly that the Conris mnust decide gecording to law, an4Ia .make a law by which they mnay decide. We are the representatives, direct from the people, with the power to mke a Qonstitution and.laws for the people, and Courts to be0 gov eried by; eveni piore, to ma~ke .the Courts themselves. ~The Courts are our creatures, and without pur action they weald have no exist ene Ifte makey - constitution gud laws which will be aepepted by th people, I believe no; State rCftit!R vyenture to set it aside. Maril 1 he]iege the day is far dis tante, whent the-Sapreme Court of the TUnited States will cease to recognze any obligations based on slavery. It is the great funda -2ental principle of our party,-that slavery and everything connected with it, or growing out of it, shall cease to exist. - I have all conf dence that a principle -so just and so n6ble will overcome all obsta cles. Let us, as the -representa tives of such principles in South -Carolina not fail, at the very threshold to do our duty. A few words in reply to. the gentleman from Fairfield who op. posed this measure last week. I can imagine two reasons, why -be, as a la.yer, should oppose tiis rojposition. The one-his great desi-e that. there should not be even. a semblance of violation of law. B'atif he will go backof the law, to what-should-be'the fbgad ation of allaw; to the-great prin eiples of0justiee, his ~objection on this point must fall to the groend. The other reason is- one- common to-all lawyei- and which may ac coan in sohme'iassure fbr nearly every lawyerlopposing any meas tire of relief-the desire to have as many -law.miites possib, and as ma y people rained, so they can secure the loaves: and febei. have too much confidence in my friend froM Wisboro, to think that thi'slatter.motive -as any in Axenee with 1him. :But I fannot, for the lfe of me, find J.1y reaon wiy.he, sf indviidual -desrou& of the prosperity and welfare of the whole, people,'otuld oppose a meaare, so" wide an4djut, and eal ,ulated to afford so much relie. Th6 Late Bishop Hopklns of *'hea~ve a1eadyia(t te graphic Announcement of the death of Bishop Hopkins,of Ver mont. at his residee, near Bar Hi,gtonrinthat-State. Bishop Hopkins was senior Bisho o 'the Episcopa. Chdrch. was hora in Dublin n the 3thof January, 1792, and' was thereforer iio the sevenij-sixth y~eanfliage at'e triae of his decease. Re was.intended for the law,'tint afe feiing's elassi education he passed a y'ear iA-a counting-rqomn .In P,hblpa. In. his nineteenth ye6r e ton menethemanniacotur of iron n P?entsfiv4nia, 2nd lye yeafs Niaer married a jangbitr of 'Vas pa Qtto Mulier, aretired mner - chant.of Baltimsore. Having lost AlH his ueans by the prostxteion of.the iron trade, consequent npen the peace of 1815, he *urued his atention- to the law, and in 1818 was adulitted to the bar io- Pitts burg. Alter. pursuing~ bra profes sion fo)1-8everal years he lentered -the inipistry, and when ordained was c,hosin, in 1824, rector of 'Triity. Church; Piesburg, where he soon. becarne prominent. In the Diocesan Convention of 1827, he was nominated for the office of Aint Bishop of Pennisylkania, Dr. H. U. Onderdonk being the opposing candidate . The votes being equally- divided, Mr.. Hop kins. east his vote for Mr. Onder donk, and thus secured the ece tion of the latter. .1 n 1831, Mr. Hopkins was called to. Trinity Church, Boston, as assistant min ister, anid was chosen soon after wards Professor of Systernatic Di vinity in the Theological Semina ry in that* State. In the spring of 1832 he was first Bishop of Vermont, serving at the same time as rector of St. Paul's Church, Burlington. In 1836 he resigned his rectorship to devote himself more unreservedly to th~e 'charge of the dibeese and to the building up of the iWermont Epis copal Institute., L?st year Bishop Hopkins attended.the Pan Angli can Synod, held at L6ndon. He was all his life a dilligent student and a prolific .writer. In his lat ter days his sympat)y with the Sou,h gained him many warm ad mnirers in that section, but brought him into corresponding odium at he wnrh His wnrkf entitled "A Defence of Slavery," s the one by which he is best known to the generality of readers. The John Adams. The finishing strokes in- break ing-up the old sloop-of.war John Adams are taking place on the Marine Railway in Fairhaven. She was purchased from the Gov ernment for $10,000, and it has cost $4,000 to tear -her to- pieces, but, her present owners -will get enough copper and iron from her, with many good pieces of live oak timber, to give them a profit. Her keel isas good to.day as when she was built-50 years ago or. more. Some of the copper bolts passing throagh her stern dead wood were over ten feet long. [New Bedford. Staa4ard., The perusal .of the foregoing paragraph flings us back, in an in stant, upon the memories'. of fifty, years ago. We -dare not trust these memories so as to--speak with confidenee of -the facts, but there is no doubt that the John Adams was built in the wateis of Charleston harbor,- at the ship yard on- Cooper River, we think, but possibly at Ae~cabee, is the Asvly She was built somewhere bout. the begiDning of the war of 1812, and, if we are- not greatly 1ee6ived_in-our memories,-by the Sateef South Carolina, aba pre ented by that rebellious 8tate to 6he Got6rnment of the Ufited 3tates,. then a feeble mariime power, without a navy,..r one y aneered at by Great Britain is "half a dozen eoekboats, with ;tripod buntingat the niasts." It wras throngh the-__ .A-nof ueh rebels as John~.' QCalbdn William Lowndes, aid such men, fthe rebelr State of South Caroli ma, that Congress carried that war .hrough triumphantly, ar.d .in pitefthose -virtuous Puritans-of gew Englaid-all-the virtues who thin -opposed the Gov'ern neat, got up the Hartord Con Fe0tion, andthreatened secession --all the while being' bisied ii ending 4i' and comfort t the mniy. Th4se ae a11'interesting. ygones, awakened in memory:by his little~ paragraph about the orvette John TAdaYni. What is said about her, touching her cpn. iten at breaking Up .conveys sa tsking conptiment toithe Char-. Leson ship builders -at that day.f Were the -Governme~nt of -thre United. States ceapale of that grand sentiment of veneration,~ she1 wuld have been rebuilt, restored and kept renewed. forever, as a monunent ofi period when there was patriotism. and virture in -the land. We shall be pleased if any: of oue old inhabitants,-drawing upon memory shall be -able to supply our-deficiencies in -the facts re grding this vessel. We should be pleased, among other ibings, to b'bfe to put upon record the name. of her builder. We have the farther impression,- that, though vessels had been built in Charleston barbor, even in colon ial . times, the "Ship Yard"-so know--wse permanently estab lished first on Cooper River for the construction of the Johin dams.- Charleston Courier. The editor of the Nashville Banner has seen a corn cob, shaped like a human fore-arm, with a perfect humpi hand and fingers at the small of the cob. The thumb and fingers of the hand are complete. Even the veins of the wrist and the finger nails are visible, and the simili tude is so striking that he could almost,imagine the veins and sinews instinct witih -human life. May it not, inquires the Banner, be a warning hand upr4ised, tell ing us to abandon t e sultures of cotton, and give oup undivided at. tention to corn ? THE LATmst.-We-learn that in stead of asking a man "What will you drink ? it is becoming fashion ba ino ay "Nomninatev'ournoison." Social CondItIon of England. The London Review devotes its leading article for the 'new year to a retrospect and a confession. The confession is certainly can did: "At this time there is no coun try, no matter how embarrassed or how poor, in which there is so I much pressing and painful pover- I ty, so much vice, so much misery, I as in England. We have failed 4 with our rower classes to suph an extent that in the country we find I some of them working like cattle, I fed and housed worse than cattle, 2 while in the towns we. do not I know what to do with them uptj they are ripe for dropping into I the seething pool of vice and I crime. With all our wealth, and England is*a wealthy confty, we I have not succeeded in distributing A happiness or coatent in -he pre portion of which- we 'eould be 1 proud. We'fiAd massed against 4 us a gloomy -and ^ threatening spirit of insubordination, 'and a gathering--of ominous eleoents, from which-soices -re heard,, that I having broken dowu in our task I we should give it up to thosie who I will change aU things. Criticism- I is nolonger a function limited to < odB elass. Our tutdre masters be- I gin to take stock and vaht of us. I "In that social life~ in which i most of us are concerned, whiek may be placed above the reach of sordid wants, can weongiatulate Durelves upon a distinct adfance? Around us on all sides we- learn of ramilies living upon fi6itos il oomes, we find a rate -of increase in the taste for luxuriIes so iconi meiirte with Uemeaf r - fing them. honestly, that people J satisfy-the craving with a reek. lessness which brings ruin upon thtm. Comfort is a word the meaning of which is beginning to lisappear. Every one- desires to I be rieh, and those wh are not i rieh k-cp up the pren'ceuitii - the wolf-is-at-the doo.., rhe- ChInese Reb on-' Wholesale SlaugIter Aeeo,ding to oui- latsig advices ] Fotu China, (Hong KoRg~ DeeDi ber 16,3 "the 'war in thb Trt,h be tweej the izpperial fr' rebel I orces. is being vigoro#s ~waged." I losh'o how vigorousl we' are old that a .gr6at" battle er Shan- I bung promoato?y resui (1n the I lefeat of the rebel an y vhich Let 80,000 mien. But:snbsequeont-. v the imperialists werl defeated n theirtiurn "in severalkvere en- I ~agements, with heavy loss." A I oss that may be ileseribed as- I heavy"~lcoparison to that of ~ 0,00 men, whieh seems not to I uneunt to much in CThina, must aeleeni heavy indeed.. Perhaps it is better to put it at'frve timnes I 0,00, mere or less, or 40,000. This Chinese rebellion~ has been < going on for somewhat more than I sigteen. years, during- Which it ~ as been estimated tIet from f hirty to forty million lives .have f een sacrifived; If it continues < ror twenty years longer-and 1 there seems to be no special reason f why it-should not, unless forergn - ntervention puts. a stop to it-, I even the 500,000,-000 of Chinese r population will begin to be percep- j ibly thinned out. Should the e hinese persist in destroying each other at such a seale of wholesale slaughter, as in the recent battle t Shantung promontory, the Rus sian Czar may be constrained, if only by motives of humanity, to step ov'er the "Great W "erected s a protection against Tartar in e~ursions, to overrule the emnire ad spel; ?ekin, like Gen-ghis t Khan, in 1812.-N. Y. Herald.I OcoNE.-The last -number of J the Keowee Couriet ainounces hat its next.issue will b'eiit Wal-< alla. The Anderson jntelligencerr states that a meeting was to be holden on Tuesday~ to locate the Court House of.Oconee, the newt n;is.ri.t or'Qonnty whikin Wal-4 Asylum for Useless Young Men. In every community there is a. aertain percentage of useless young, nen, whose ultimate condition must excite the sympathy and -onsideration of every philan hropist. What will become of hem? We do not put the ques ion as to their future state, but iow will they round off their arthly existence? They have no risible means of support, still they wang on, they vegetate, they keep tbove the ground. In a certain iteral sense, they may be said to ive,;Oove, and have a being. They ouge in e promenade the ;treets, appear at social amuse nents, play the gallant to good latured ladies, and attend to the iecessitiesoflapdogs. Theirmore juiet atid undemonstrative lifeMay )e -described as an intermittent orpor, in which 'meals, cigars, Irinks and sleep mark the changes. Pheir existenee would be a mys ery, but for their bearing rel.. 4tions to other s'ubstantial peo Ae known as "pa," "ma," or (bct, er half," who are able .to make rovision for the waste -and pro etion of their b6dies in the way >f clothing and food. Still, ought bese tender young men. to be left o the cbances ofparentaT or domes. io affection? All are not equally ortuniater What shall we do. with those whose dependence is precarious? rhey do not admit of any util tarian disposition. I. cannibal ountries they could be eaterwas a substitute for veal; their bodies would als make excellent fertili ors for sterilelands, but the; pr udices ofa Christiuheople would !evolt at the solution ofthe problem. I certain number could be em >loyed as lay figures in the shop windows to exhibit,: clotbes on, mt the tailors might not have con. idence, in them.. -Most of them *uld eplor meerichaumb, but-this usiness would prode little r*v nue. What, then,aball be done? Phe tax now falls upon -a few, and t ought to be <istributed. - We >ropose, therefore; a State Asylum or useless, young men. JAn in titution of this king could be eas y fi1ed~ with those between the ~gs cof eighteen. and. thirty, who ~hould be group~ed and associatedt gether so that the r4gj jstling ad frietion of the working world vould not djsturb their delicate ierves. Here they could cultivate their noustabhes, part'their hair.behind, sad practicei attitudes. In this -esort, with -a little .enforced ex irise~ to keep their cireulation in iealthy state, -with dolls to play ith as a compensation for the-ab ence of Jladies' society, these use ess young mnen could be supported ith ease and comnfort, and all in. Lustrious people wouid be. willing o pay the expenses ofj this in titution, rather than bear the pain - iii solicitude in regard to the wel. are of these superfluous members f society. When provision has een made by the State for idiots, or insane, poor. agedand cripoled. s it not astounding that asylums ave never been erected for a still nore helpless class ? Let this ihilanthropie enterprise be started t once.- Watertoon .Refromer, TuE CoTTON CRoP.-'the cot ton peculators, having combined to aise the price of cotton, the South rn plantgra are in i staite of "high ink." The speculators design to timulate a large crop ; hence these rices in advance. They confi lenty rely upon the gullhbility.of ur farmers, and already rejoice hat the alluring bait has been awal owed. A corsespondent ,of the few York Herald thus writes; "The recent rise in the price of otton has -already produced a nagical effect in the South." Yes; and the decline in cotton ext fall, the Augusta Constitution list suggestQ, will produce another A.fet more melanohiolv than magi Cotton. This insidions enemy to oUr prosperity, says the Cheraw A. vertiser, under our cba*gederetIt stances, is agin lioldigan;* d0v lusive prom iiscs. After the prode cer has parted with the bulk of his crop, at a rainous los the price has advanced some five conte per pound in our seaports, Apt this too at a time when the plaWt, or must~ determine the acres be must plant the current year, is if to induce him to* risk the treach erous article again. Coald. we make our voice potent., it wo4 be raised in warning of 4h4 ata deceiver. But many ask, what shall iW - do? We answet first, yoi had better do -bothing than to d losing business, and second, th.t cor peas, potatoes,&c., will pa. better than cotton. Large quan tities of Tennessee, ReOrgia an Carolina corn are sold - daily in the New Tbrk nierket.' Thisket - of itself; prova6s that' it^ pali, Or it would not e' sip-edth Soot hCarolina ne-edi'a full -Cn crop to enable her plantrs to make cotton. Southern white corn sokL New York on the 11th inst., at $1.22 to $1.27.--Marion- Crescent. Ther New L1ngo, An exchg sYs tt th o lowin a'spedmen fron a18 grammar to begratuitous.y pr.u lated for -the use of Conveution&. The verb 14 -Pliz~ SLb" - 1 .Ifl V_ I3PE?EC1f. I donet We uns done It, You ans done it, They ans done it, IgoneIonert You gone done He gonp40C it. Weis goned4a9jt You ans gone done i. They '.ns gon'doie it. FLU P n. T rd~eonensdyp You 'done gone donse it, -le1ionie gone donet it. Plural. -- -We on oegone dine. it, - You uins done gone1done i, They uins-done gene -dons ~ FbTmR. - I gwine done t, You gwiion done,it, l1e ganedonwit, PluraL. 'We ains'gwTho done It You unis gwine &uine it, They uins gwine dgne:t, FUTtTR Pnsrsr. Igwine gone done. i~ Yoi gwirie gone done I, He gwine gone done t'. Plural. - We unageldeegopeclonet, You uns gwine g6ne done it, .They ur.s gwifne gone done it. The Early . -County -Newi Ia down-on Florida as heavy aa eyesid Alluding to the offer made by 4b Florida Railroad Coampany to give lnds to aetual -settlers. Bro (rouby says it is Iilge on?ping a fellow a thouasand dollars to take a front seat in hell. Well, if he don't want to go. to either placo, we reckon hte can stay where ha is for, a while. The people of Florida certainly don't want him, if those are -his -sentiments, and the inhabitants of the otherideeis -.-well, we stop right here foy the present. Renewed persecutions of the Jews are reported in Moldavia. Their houses are burned or teen down, theiF stores sacked, and their persons horribly maltreated. In some cases they have beega . obliged to escape secretly to save even their lives. It is said that the authorite.s did not -oven pre tend to prevent these outrages, All who attempted to defend the Jws were treated in the same manl;