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~ -- - - ."--.--- - - - - --- -. 4L4 F TRA A ax&,i FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE.$lVRAL .NAVNE AM L pq cuap. ~'g~~~AY ORNING, 4*4 Maa AS/3WZ INl CURRE Y - omgaonan - wth~lafIS a~ ~~~-~Omeetion drawsi - - esinrCour - e aong~ 4 nV,erition ~ WgO &f ate af hi of State offices, -.r - diabosa of Cngressional -nore,and -moro *i ao -believed that Vill adjo0 about qkEw" a VeAtird Rhe aM on-th of 1he Legislature. gUa4atueas pro or044Mearly in ApriL. 01io9thus far - A ende'ee dby - the - yb mmbers of - ismquesTao which ea %baje given rise - rieswu~.heet - -w a R m # z tra t h - a e p - i baggtto the"en eeoghest -680 -a-. .L. . 3IOS V.ftla 9Elmi. - d'eb*,be Sec %db Coven'on. In th :e mnn cadteshare 3.OetDna ofO NewuSbey Allen, o Greevile,ad . h lattrdnt. Hie elceGovernor, Mr ilbr is alsow apoken. a ah I~Filn candidatesfr setnar-oe Dorie .. Gos,ofUio -.M laattr t.bTerlee Goveror strong- cohtest to secure the nomi nation of Governor. The candi dates are Col. T. J. Robertson, of Richland, and Gen. B. K. Seott, Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The friends ofboth parties are busily at work, and it is hard to tell at present who will secure the nomination. It is due, however, to Gen. Scott, to say, that the use of his name by his friends is unauthorized, The long discussion yester'day, rel ative to the term of residence as a requisite for eligibility to this of fee, was- believed to be an effort _o the part of the friends of the former to thus get rid of their most formidable rival candidate. The latter, however, carried their poiit, and succeeded in altering the time fixed by the Committee from four to two years. &&tary of tate.-This office .seems to be held in reserve for several who, should they not se cure some higher position, will consent to accept it. Among them are 8. J. Moses, Jr., B. 0. Duncan and F.- Cardoza. 'The latter has recently been electea President of the Grand Council of the Union Leagues of this State, and has gone to Washington on business connected with the League, and not to seek admission of colored men into CoE.gress as reported. Attorney-General.-D. H. Cham berlain, formerly a Massachusetts lawyer and a graduate of Harvard College is the only candidate -for this position. utperutenIdent of Education.-J. K. Jillson, of Kershaw, is support* ed by 'Many frieads for-this posi. eig M. B. Tomnlinson,,the pres taSaia]nra :diicatios ig Darb'ai ofkh66e 'Freii en and Abandoned Lands in gis tate, is also poken of. Treastwr.-The only' candidate wbo has yet appeared for this-po sition is N. G. Parker, of whose nQmination there is very little doubt among his friends tNes&ae f6er.-Gen. Stall, brand,.formerly ofherman'sarmyi is entioned by some for the po eitioof Majo-Generatof the Mi liia, and others for Adjutant and aspeetQgGeneral. '0. P. Lieslie is mentioned for .Comptroller4ene rf j Mjt. ILeslie, however, we be ieve declipes to be a candidate. Di'.'O. . Neagle, of York, is anothi :erandidte for this position. Al ready the. Conventi.on hah peti ioned Gem~ Cay for theapp.int me of Wm. E. Ro'se, ofTork, as Superintendent of the Peniten tiary. Another petition is in cir clation for the, appointment of Dr. IL. B. Johnson as Superinten dent and -Physician of the State niuatic.Aylum. G'enr4Aasemiby.-The Geners Aseiby, it is supposed, will be cosgiosed of many members of.the ovenltion. -At least seventy or eighty, if not more, members, of te%nvention~ are counted upon as al.estMr-ffbig elected to A,prene Nort.-A strong desire sexpressed to secure Judge-Moses s Chief Jgustice, but it was not kown wjether be would accept. C0..A. '. Willard, Chief of the Bikaw of-Civil Affairs, Maj. D. T. orbin,' District Attorney, and 3udeBozer~ sie mentioned as As sociate yudges. A planter near Savannah con signed his cotton erop~ to a mer chant of that city, who sold the goods, .pocketed the money, and failed; after- which he wrote thus to his confiding countryman: "Dear friend, I feel that my God has forgiven the sin, and I trust that you will, as I're taken the benefit of the bankrupt act. .Af fectionately, your triend." - "Have the jury agreed ?" asked the judge of a court attache whom he met on the stairs with a bucket in hishand. "Yis," replied Patrick, "they have agreed to send for agalon of Prom tha Chaleston mercry. The Last Three Days at Washington. The events of the last three days at Washington exhibit, in a stronger light than ever, the rev olution which is rolling its tides over the Government. Hereto fore, Congressional usurpations, reckless as they were, had put on no appearance of violence-they had all been made under colour of regular and legitimate procedure. Contempt of executive authority had, in every case, been grounded on a pretext of law, or covered with some show of respect for constitutional forms. But now the-revolutionists have thrown off all disguise. They have seized arms and unfurled standards. The newly appointed Secretary of War has been arrested and is held to bail for obeying an order which proceeded at once from the he-d of the government and the Com mander-in-Chief of the army. The twice-ejected Stanton, having regained possession of his former office through the bad faith-of its temporary occupant, keeps it by the bayonets of a Prmtorian guard. He openly avows his determina tion to recognize no other than himself as the rightful or the ac tual incumbent-he flatly refuses to respect the commands of the Presidnt-he instructs the em plo .ees of the department to re g.no authority- but his own he stations sentinels at his doors, nd defies the Executive to com bat. Gaverfament, for the time b4ing, -is at an end. 'The power )fadministration is no longer in the functionary whom the constitution has desig iated to exercise it, bat, seized by the Radicals of Congress, is dele gated to their tool in the War Office. An order emanating di rectly from the President has been set hside and countermanded by a super who holds his place tbrough the instrumentality of arnied soldiers. No attempt even is made to-gain the coloar of legal vindiation. The issue is boldly made on the point of force! This means war-this is war. The basilisk was a fabled ani mal, whose look used to be fatal to whatever living thing encoun tered it ; and in the pursuit, hun tets wouild carry out mirrors, which should catch and 'reflect upon itself the deadly glance of its eye. There are other creatures than. the basiliek whose -venom may be destructive to themselves. Histo ry has more than once shown iw a just retribution turns back upn their own heads the. meas ures which men have devised for te oppression of- their fellows; Enrohmnt. despotism, -anar 1hy, aDd then destruction, are four stages that, -in almost inevita ble succession, have marked the career of usurpers and tyrants. We -see in the:present posture of affairs evidence of the speedy dowfall- of Radical supremacy. This downfall may result from the action of the courts, before which the President is said to in tend bringing the case that has furnished occasion for mutiny on the part of his subordinate. Or, a civil war may break- out ; a war no longer between sections but between parties-fanatice and revolutionists on the one side, and, on the other, men who will not let the government be de stroyed, for which they fought and bled. In either event, we be lieve that Reconstruction-that is, negro Reconstruction-will soon be at an end. The people of the North are. everywhere strip ping- off the illusion wich had been thrown over them ; and the great West is not now adherent to the revolutionary policy. . Even as we write, the news comes that, in New York City, lists are circu latn~ of men who pledge ~thei-x fortunes and their lives to uphold the President in his dignity and his power. We believe that the political fate which our oppressors have been preparing for us, will soon settle on their own heads. The proscriptions :of Marius have, perhaps, ran their course. Proscriptions more righteous than those of Sylla may be about to follow. From the Charlesten News. Labor is Honorable. One of the Rabbis of the Tal mud, more than a thousand years ago, declared that he who teach es not his son a trade is as though he brought himupa theif. Thelcon ditions of society have changed much since then ; but tlh re is still a deal of truth and force in this "ancient saw." "In the sweat of thy, face shalt thou eat bread" is the divine decree ; and until this mandate is revoked, man cannot emancipate himself from labor. True, with the progress of society, came the demand for different kinds of labor. New w*nts were developed, and mere muscle soon became subordinate to brain work. Talent, skill; industry and frugali. ty produced propcrty,-and proper ty asserted its rights, exempting its p6ssessors from the more men ial offices. This has been and is the case in every- civilized com munity. A man is only. emanci pated from manual labor, 1. if he has wealth, either amassd or in herited; 2. if he is endowed with some faculty, or has acquired skill in some art or science, rendering hia servieeiin -a-hi-4up&ty PU: culiarly valuable to his fellows. No man can be said to be exempt from work because of his birth or station. Yet, although this doctrine would seem to .lie at the very foundation of society in a-republic, it has tiever been practically ad nitted and acted upon. to - any great extent anywhere in the Tuited States. This is due to many causes, of which,.the abun dance and consequent cheapness of fertile lands, the vast and con stantly increasing. tide ,of immi gration, -and the institution of sla very, have perhaps been- the chief. For generations, the great bulk of the actual labor, in city, town and country, in clearing forests, dig ging ditches, building railroads, and tilling the soil, has been per formed either by European immii grants or by negro slaves. 1%r ia fhis all. Many of the more ardu onis trades and handicrafts hare had to recruit their ranks mainly from -these same two classes of our population. Nowhere in the United States is it common to see poor white girls -of .native birth, serve in the. capacity -of house maids.. They will starve as seams tresses, or, in their necessity re sort to various questionable avo ations in the large cities, rather than secure plenty and respecta bility in the, capacity of house s.rvants. How rarely we. find a native blacksmith, tinner, lock smith, bootmaker, or even tailor. No, the genius of the American generally disdains to stoop to such pursuits. He prefers to live by his wits-to "get along" without work ; to be a "clerk" a book keep% a "drummer," over-seer, shop-keeper,~a doctor, a lawyer, or, in default of all these-a "gen tleman." .In the days of slavery this was practicable. When there was a certainty that a moiety of the population at least was engaged in the cultivation of the soil, it was possible for the remainder to live as non-producers. But.this is the case .no longer. Society has undergone a radical change. To all intents and purposes we have been thrown back more than a century in our civilization,'so far at least as the demands of i-ntel letnal labor preponderate over physical exertion the source of wealth is gone, and with it must go the exemption from labor, and much of the luxury of higher edu cation. The learned professions, so-called, always crowded, have become so overstocked that in many cases they yield but a pre carious subsistence. The clergy are ill-paid ; many of them are not paid at all. The physicians find but little paying practice. Not over one-fourth their number can now depend on their profess ion for a livelihood. The lawyers, perhaps, have enough to do for the present. But once the suits, arising from the war. are settled, we opine that their ranks also will have to be greatly thinned.. We all know how many at the close of the war resorted to trade as a means of support. Merchant's sprung up like mushrooms over night. Every village had shops by the score ; every railroad sta tion, and every country cross roadqad its "store." How many of these are in existence now ? How many of their proprietors have filed petitions for bankrupt cy, and- bow many more will do so in- the course of the present year ? "Clerks" we know are oit of employment, by thousands, everywhere. This sad array of facts should teach the great lesson that society has undergone a radical change, and that we must adapt ourselves to the new orde.r of things or we are lost. We must lay hold with our hands. We must make the most of the "labor"-God has given us, our own hands; and others will soon emulate our ex-amnI. The salvatimi of the State de pends upon evory man g6ing to work, and using all his influence to make every other man, white. or black, go and do likewise. I Always Pay My Debts. There had been a sad failure in our community. A prominent basiness man was obliged to sus pend- payment and give up- his business.' Investigation showed he had not been prompt in his dealings. He never paid his little debt.s, and at length they so ac cumulated that they brought on the sad crisis. A.. prompt business man, speak ing of the-affair, said : "It is un pardonable. .The man ought to fail, lie shoul( have paid his debts when he could. I always pay my debts as I go along, and so I always know where I stand. I have not a single debt," becon tinued. A friend standing by, gently paced;. hand on his arm, saying: "You mistake, Mr. H--; I know a debt that you owe." I"It is false,"~ was the quick re ply. ."I challenge you or any one else, to put a finger upon a cent that 1 owe." "But I can do it," continued his friend. "I knoiv of One who len t you the fine house to live in, the money you have in the bank, all the riches by which you are sur rounded, and call them your own. More than this, He - gave you health and friends. How much have you ever paid Him ?" "Ah ! that is a different thing. I don't think about such things; but I always pay every cent.I owe to my fellow men." "You are like the merchant who. pays all his little debts and lets the great ones go, and then boasts, "1 always p-ay my debts." My friend, the great debt of gratitude is yet unpaid. Take care lest the Master east thee into prison. Thou "shalt not come from thence until thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." TEMIPEANcE.-Temperanceputs wood on the fire, meal in the bar rel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit irn th'e country, con tentment in the house, &ithes on thie bairns, vi-gor in the body, in telligence in the brain, and spirit in the whole constitution. Rights and Privileges. The Club House Convention made a great blunder in its legis lation on Friday. Following the lead of an ambitious, imported mulatto by the name of Randolph, that body sagely resolved that "distinction on account of race or 1 color, in any case whatsoever shall be prohibited; and all classes of citizens shall enjoy equally all common, public, legal and political privileges." The convention has stultified itself by this action; it has gone quite beyond its sphere, which embraces questions of rights only ; it has attempted impossi bilities in incorporating social dis tinctions and privileges into the organic law. And, in claiming too much, the members of that body are imperilling those privi leges which they now possess, and those provisions which are essen tial to their security and welfare under the new order of things. Those who are teaching the freedmen to believe tliat liberty and social equality are the same thing, and are instructing theni to insist upon both, are their worst enemies. They set their- simple minded disciples in array against the public semtiment of the whole country. They begin a conflict which will inflict serious evils upon the-African race, There is room for both races at the South and work for both-room for the white capitllist, if there is labor to be employed; and room for the black laborer, if there is capital to be invested. Not so, if the latter challenges the former to a rivalry in which one or the other race must-ZLYw doom of tbe, red inan betokens what that of the black man will be. Liberty does not at all require the confbnding of all race dis tinctions. There are three things essential to liberty.;-first the pro tection of society from the interfer ence and violence of foreign StateD; secondly, the protection of the itizen from injustice or oppres sion, by the maintenance of an ad ministration ofjustice ; thirdly, the participation of the citizen in th1e benefits arising from public appro priations for relief and for educa tion. None of these condLitio.ns require a monstrous amalgama tion of races and colors. It may be well enough for "car pet-bag" members of- the conven tion to urge a measure,-.however hazardous, which secures them a temporary popularity. -What ever 'evils miay result front the agitation of society and the wvar of races, the'y will not, be affected by the general ruin. They came among us yesterday ; they will be gone to-morrow. They are the trumpeters to a battle where they expect to do none of the fightiug. But the black 'man whom they have seduced by their mad.follies will reap the consequences, when the worthless demagogues have gone back, with carpet-bags well stuffed, to Massachusetts and Ohio. The white people of the South are not unfavorable to the adop tion of such measures as will guar an tee -the rights of the colored people. They feel it to be neces sary that both races should co-opi erate harmoniously in the develop ment of our -resouirces. If we are ever to emerge from that state of impoverishment to which we have been reduced by the war,- -and in which we have been kept up by hostile legislation since the war. the united industries of the whole population must effect our deliv erance. No difficulties beset us no# which diligence and resolu tion cannot master. The only danger which would paralyze enter prise is social anarchy ; a French Revolution in which all ranks and distinctions are levelled down ; a general, disorganization such as that whiich the carpet-bag dele gates have already .inaugurated and are striving to maintain ; a law of disorder-a liberty of li THE LAS-r SUTTEE.-Tbe Ma harajah of Oodeyporc, the head of all the raputs and the represent ative of the oldest royal family in the world, died in 1861. Each of his numerous wives 'was-asked to save the honor of the Sesodia clan, the head of which never burned alone, but all refused. His favorite slave-girl was then appealedto by her own brother, who pointed to the fact that his master's laf - queens had shamelessly given her - an honor, and the opportunity of attaining a renown in the songs of the bats, it were madness to neg lect. She consented, and this was the scene :-The royal corpse, dres sed up in regal attire, -was con' veyed from the palace to the buri ing-place in a species ofsedau chair the funeral procession, composed of all the loyal subjects of theState one and all, high and low, rich and poor, even the successor to the throne, proceeded the whole dio. tance on foot; one alone in this vast multitude was allowed to ride, and she had but a short time tq live. Mounted on a gorgeously caparisoned horse; herself ricly attired as for a festive occasionj literally covered with jeweI and costly ornaments; her hair -loose and in disorder; her whole coun tenance wild with tfie excitement of the scene and the intoxicatint effects.of the drugs she had- swali lowed-she issued forth with the body. As customary on such oe casions, the victim, as ther -proces sion moved on, undlasped the orna ments with vihich she was Vro fusely decorated..andAng,nt1-T to tie rigait and to the left amongst thFfe crd eahing4hv pliosi of suttee, in a space closed lby teW walls the corDae ws unrobed, an the slave-girl, seating herself with---' the head of the lifeless body in her lap, was built up, as it were, with. wood steepedin oiL. The kamits" or canvas walls were then removed and the pyre li ghted ; .and, as tte flame shot up bright and fierce the crowd around raised a great clamor, which lasted until thW dreadful scene was over. It is sA tisfactory to learn that this poor slave-girl was the last' pablicsiutte. Since that time the MIaharivo f Kotah has died, and the onlIy oneo of his wives wvho was anxious to be consumed with him was pro vesited by his son, the present chie f-London Freeman. A MONsTEa SUta.-The Chiiago Post 6f the 30th says': Among the cases to he tried be' fore the United' States Circuit - Court, is one against Albert Cook, Isaac Loot, Charles C Thurmn and. Elisha Taylor, the U'nited States being plaintiff. Mr. Cook was Postmaster of his village, in~ Kendall County, for a time, bat beconiing tired:of it, resigned his position; His resignation being' accejted, orders were &ent for himi to send his postage stamps and accounts by express to headquar ters. He did so, but shortly after received notice 'that the acco'unt. was eight cents short, to which he paid no attention. . Seeing anotie that himself and bon dsm'en wer6 implicated ini a suit he- at once. harried to-Chicago, and, employ ing counsel, went to the Court ioom and found that the Post master-General had sued hin for eight cents ! He further-discov ered that the clerk's cost had reach ed $10, and the State - Attorney's $5, and-that the Marsha'l was pre paring to visit him at Kendal& County, which would add $26:nore to the costs. Mr. Cook confessed judgement, paid costs and left Cbi cago, with the impression that th~e Government is a "big' thing." The Rocky Mountain. Herald~ advertise1r fo~r single women.' 1.000. girls, it is said, dould get hus bands and houses in Colorado, be fore the spring. MoURNFUL.-"Nat what are you lean ing over that empty cask for ? "I am mourning over departed spirits."