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V* * . ? . , * MISCELLANY^ From Washington WASHINGTON, Maroh 10.-Tn the Senate, Mr. Stewart offered resolutions, declaring in favor of universal suffrage in return for univer sal amnesty, believing as nogro suffrage seems to be the main impediment to Southern resto ration, its adoptiou would insure tho admission of the Southern representatives. The Uouse was engaged in the consideration of the Loan Bill, which gives the Secretary of the Treasury new powers in the management of tho country's finalices. The Captain-General 01 Cuba, in an official communication, denounces ?is untrue the state ment made by Sunatoi' Sumner, that freed persons from the South have been tnkeu to Cuba and sold into slavery. The Supremo Court has before it eases in volving,, the constitutionality Of Missouri's test oath. WASHINGTON, March Vi.-Thc House of Representatives, last night, defeated the Loan bill, 64 to 70, thus condemning the Secretary of the Treasury's financial policy. Tho bill would give bini very largo powers. It is sup posed that it will bo revised and passed. Thc defeat occasioned great excitement. The Secretary ot' the Treasury, on yester day, sent a message to the Uouse, showing an available balance iii the Treasury of over $128, 400,000. WASHINGTON, March 10.-In the Senate to-day Mr. Fessendcn reviewed (HIV. Graham's letter published in the " National Intoiligen cer," which li6 said was written to show tba: the investigation of the Reconstruction Com raiUee were not impartial. Mr. Fcssendei said that he did not regard tho lately rcbollioui States in tho light of criminals on trial, no was ho acting in the oapacity of a prosecutor If Governor Graham desired to introduce fur ther testimony in ?he case of ATorth Carolina he could do so. The House to-day reconsidered the vote b; which the Loan Rill was, rejected and ?ecom milted it to the Committee of Ways am Means. WASHINGTON, March 20.-/flic House ha passed a Rill to protect from legal prosecutio Union officers for acto com ni it ted during th war by order of superior officers. Gen- Sherman on the Burning of Cohunbic South OaroH$a. The following is thc letter of .Major-Gei Sherman on the burning of Columbia, S. C. " II EADQUARTEUS M i f. I TA It V V> \ V1 SION \ OF THE Miss issi PIM, r ST. -LOUIS, MO., March ??,.l800. j " Benjamin Ru wis, Coi'um Li t, /!?. C.: u Dear Sir : I have your letter onolosin a petition to the Congress pf tho United State asking to be indemnified for the loss by fire < your house and con ton ts, td t he time of oi occupation in February, 1805. . [ assure ye that I feel deeply for you and all others wi lost their property in that lire ; but if tl United States were to assume the liability, would bo an admission that we had done wron: This is not true The rightful authority ? the National jGrovornmout had been resisted : thc State of South Carolina for years, and v wore impelled, at great cost of lifo and mo ey, to conduct thither a vast army, and oi progress was resisted by all t he force the ?Sta could obtain. Your own citizens resisted oi approach, not only wit?i arms, but by bur nil the bridges over the Kdisto, Congareo, Salud and Broad rivers. They burned thc depot Columbia before we entered tho city, bccau it contained corn and stores they supposed \ needed, and set liro to thousands of bales cotton rolled out iuto tho streets, and whi< were burning bofore we entered Columbia, myself was iu thc city as carly as noon ai " saw those fires, and know that efforts we made to extinguish thom ; but a high ai strong wind kept them alive. I gave no < dors for the burning of your city, but, on t contrary, tho reverse, and I believe the conf gration resulted from tho great imprudence cutting the ootton bales, whereby the cpntci were spread by the wind, so that it becamo impossibility to arrest the fire.'' " I saw in your Columbia newspapers t printed order of General Wade Hampton, tl on tho approach of the Yankee army all t cotton should thus be burned, and, from wi I saw myself, have no hesitation in saying tl he was the cause of the destruction of ye property Your true remedy is against hi and such others of your own citizens as c< spired with him and made the military oc< {mtion of your city an absolute necessity, ?ardly think it is fair that Congress shoi tax tho people of Ohio, Illinois and Misso to pay for such losses ; but as it is not I province to judge in suoh matters, I send y< petition according to.its address. Ut I again assure you of my personal sym thy by reason of your ago and infirmity, 1 this must not load mo to endorse a wri principle. " I am, with great respect, your obedi ?ervant, W. T. SIYKUMAN, " Major General.' The Dignity of Labor. lu our old regime of wealth and the elegant indolence which wealth conspired to eliminate, thc mechanic arts languished and sufiered so cial degradation. Thc planter held dominion, and all other men contributed to make his position most enviable and most powerful. His sous were taught tho accomplishments of an cient Persiana, when Porsia survived in Cyrus, and, as inheritors of patriarchal acres, gave themselves little concern about the avocations which are pursued by tho sons of toil. The vicissitudes of lifo rarely shocked them by rude assaults and revolutions of sphere. They managed to live and die lords of the land, and, living however stintedly, they were seldom forced into what they deemed menial labor. All this immunity has passed away in a great degree, whether happy or not, wo do not pre ? tend to say, but tjio fact remains, and upon ' this fact wo propose to descant. Thc planter's ' sons, shoulder to shoulder in thc ranks of war j with the sons of mechanics, learned to know ! and appreciate each other, and, with thc gen erous impulses of youth, the social barrier has been immeasurably weakened by the light of battle wi)iou shono in thc eyes of either, aiid the midnight bivouac in which they shared their canteen ov haversack. Tho arbitrament of war being against us, old systems having boen uprooted and destroyed, and desolation hoing wido spread, it has come to pass that thousands of delicate hands seek unusual la bor, and thousands of scholars arte glad to earn n pittance from some Gradgrind that profited while they bled. Gloriously have these devo ted mon succumbed'to inevitable destiny and shown themselves worthy-of their proud estate of yore Profoundly do wc honor and rever ence this industrious nobility of spirit, justas profoundly as we abhor and despise those oth er men who prefer the insect, li fe of loafers to the hard ordeal of work. It is not the trade, if it bc creditable, that humiliates the man ; it is thc man that nukes the trade detestable or honorable. Labor is no curso, lt is, theo logically speaking, thc heritage of sin-?butin God's economy, it has become a blessing. There is no happiness for the drone, and he is made to experience this misery always and ^inexorably. A thousand times better is the man that gains a livelihood by honorable labor in health of body, mind and soul?; and a thous and times more respectable is he than the lazy creatures who scorn to work, and damn the miserable negro for the very idleness they wal low in themselves. The grandest thing hf all the Confederate story .is the alacrity with whioh our best and bravest have gone to work. They do not feel disgraced'; and they whe fought under Gardner at Port Hudson arc proud of their old commander as the local re porter of a New Orleans Journal. There if an undying halo 'round Professor Lee, and the old First Corps think none tho less ol Janies Longstreet, Comniisslon Merchant, anj more than tho cavalry of tho West would shin; N. B. Forrest, head of a saw mill. Thc monarchs of Europe aro all taught trades, and very useful do they sometimes fine them. Crowns and sceptres are uncertoir matters, but a substantial trade can never conn amiss. How shall a considerate parent imag inc his child lowered by being taught a trade when even thc Hapsburg and tho Bourbor have found the virtue of such tuition ? W( havc?n superb chance to elevate the mechanic arts in the South and mako them what thej shoul 1 bc ever deemed-honorable. To th< mechanic wc owe nearly all thc solid prosper ity ol' thc country, and that class which pro duced a Watt, a Stephenson, a Brunel, a Wi nans, and a host of benefactors of their race is more to bo regarded than all the desolation since thc flood, whether they wear tho shaggy crown of Attiiia or the usurped purple of Na polcon. It would bp a horculoan labor to sum u] tho responsibilities attached to the disciple of thc mechanic arts. Take, for example, ai engineer. What a cargo of precious lives doe he daily hold in his hand : what sleepless vig ilonco must he not exhibit-what fertile re sources husband ? It is a falso pride tha seeks to trample these mon ; it is the pures gentility to seek their advancement and respoc their worth. . Wo always foster any improve moots looking forward to the dignity am progress of labor; tthc man of honorable toi shall not find us lukewarm in his interest o cold to tho manifestations of his skill. [ A vg mia Const itu t io n al ist. Decline of the .Negro Race. Senator Doolittle, in his New Haven speed alluded in thc following language to tho los of negroes during Und since tho war : " Do you know/that the colored populatio has perished by thousands and hundreds c thousands during .thc war? Wc have no a< curate .dates upon which to state the precis number that have perished, but thc highcf officers in our .army state unqualifiedly tba in their opinion, at least one million have pei ?shod. Governor Aiken, of South Carolini who has been a Union man, and Was one < tho largest slaveholders of tho South, oWnin at ono time over oight hundred slaves, bin .self stated to mc in Washington the other da unqualifiedly that at least a million had pe ma' "' ' ' . v . . "' . * ished, and in his opinion a groat many more. Also, thc Hon. Randall Hunt, of th^ 'nty of Now Orleans, states thc same opinL.i ; andt Capt. Haines, of tho Union army of Louisiana, who has lived always at the South, states his opinion that at least a million have perished, aud these gentlemen tell you the reason on whioh they found this opinion. Some, of course, have perished in battle ; perhaps fifty thousand have perished in battle or of their wounds ; but that has not been the prinoipal source of tho destruction. Sraa?l-pox and other terrible diseases that follow tho mardi of armies have prevailed among them to a ter rible extent, all the way from the Rappaban nook to tho Rio Grande. The small-pox has swept them away in camp and on plantations, and everywhere by thousands upon thousands. It is also a fact that when these diseases spread among those not accustomed to attend to the disease among themselves, they have, to a great extent, been neglected by the whole peoplo. The masters and those connected with them lost interest in them. They perished by hun dreds of thousands. These arc the appalling facts, and yet they ore true. I have no doubt that when we como to take the census of 1870 two-fifths of the whole colored population will have perished." I FREIGHTS ON THE RAILROADS.-There is still serious complaint about high charges for freights. We do hope that the South Caroli na and Green ville and Columbia Roads especial ly, will, at once, adopt a s?nle of charges that I will justify the transportation of grain and pro visions of all kinds from Charleston to the middle and upper districts, so that thc people may supply 'themselves at less than the pres ent starvation prices. It would be an arrange ment having the quality of mercy indeed, twice blessed. The Railroad would make a great deal where it gets-nothing now, and the hun gry would be fed.-'Greenville Mountaineer. INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTIONS AT THE SOUTH.-The Commissioner has instructed the Collectors of Internal Revenue in the Southern States to collect the tax on all taxa ble property within their respective Districts, and in case thc duty on cotton and other arti cles wJiich may hr ve been assessed is refused after demand being made, will prooeed to col lect, the same by distraint and sale of property, unless the articles are removed undor bond as provided by the regulations of October 8,1805. 'iiiRUE are now over five hundred large manufacturing establishments in 'Pittsburg and suburbs, among which are fifty glass man ufactories, fifty-eight oil refineries, thirty-one rolling mills, forty-six iron foundries, thirty three machine shops, twelve boiler works six large steel works, ten brass foundries, sixteen potteries., five cotton mills, four woolen mills, nine plow works, ten establishments for heavy forging; also a number of extensive white lead factories, chemical works, saw, axe, cop per and other manufactories of only the great staples of trade, turning out nearly MOO,OOO, OOO in value of her own manufactures; ma king ibis the largest manufacturing city of thc West._ Stn tc or Mon fi fi Cia roi i na. IN ORDINARY-CITATION. UTH ERE AS, Burrell Broom hath applied to mc f.Y for letters of administration upon the Estate ol Y?'m. li. Liles, deceased, lato of the District oi Pickons and State aforesaid: The kindred ant creditors of said deceased, arc. therefore, citod t( appear before mc at IMckens C. Ff. on Monday th< 2d-day of April, 18(il>, to shew cause, if anj they can. why said letters should not bu granted Given under my hand and seal this 19th day o March, 18<i(5. _ W. E. HOLCOMBE. O.P.?. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN ' BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS &C, 2 Hayne-Stroet, CORNER OK CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, S.? Having Resumed Business AT THEIR OLD STAND, 2 HAYNE STREET, CORNER OP CIJURCH-ST. ARE NOW R ECEIVING A LARGE ? WELL SELECTED STOCK OF BOOTS, . SHOES, . TRUNKS, &C. WHICH WILL RE SOLD AT TH] LOWEST MARK KT PRICE. THE PA T RON AGE OF F OK M ER FRLENDS < THE PUBLIC IS RESPECTFULLY SC LICIT JUD. D. F. Fleming.-S. A. Nelson-J. NI- Wilso* Jan (), 18?G__ .. - tf Notice PERSONS indebted to tho Estate of Middleto A. Maret, deceased, must,make payment ; nu those having demands against said Kst'nto will pn sent them to mo, legally attoatcd, within tho tin prescribed by law. A. J. MARET, Artm'r. CHARLESTON Oa/ridy !M[ etimfeiotory * nANDY put up in 26, 60, nnd 100 lb Boxes, \J manufactured from tho beat Standard Sugars. Warranted pure and unadulterated. Coloring mat ter purely vogetaUe. -ALSO IMPORTER of french Confection ry, Raisins, Nuts, Figs, PruncB, &o., and Dealer n all kinds of Craokers and Bisouitsj ftQjr* All ordors promptly attouded to. ?WARREN KINSMAN, &ft9 Klntf Street, Cliurleston. March 18, 1800^_27 '_1__ THE WALHALLA HOTEL, D. ."RIEMANN, Proprietor. 'PUB Proprietor respectfully informs his friends, 1 former patrons, and tho public generally, that he hps Be-opencd this Spacious, Well kiiow? Hold, For tho'accommodation of transient and permanent custom, and wilt take cape?la) pains to provide for the comfort and convenience of his guests. Walhalla is delightfully si tun fed- at tho present terminus of the Blue Ridge Railroad, and the Ho tel oilers a pleasant homo to regular boarders. Thc Hotel table is supplied with tho best the market, alfords. Prices reasonable. Walhalla. Dec 2. 1806 _if THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, lil Equity ??- B'lchenN. ". .VA'" !; w . I Bill to Perpetuate Tko Sohct or of thc \\ cs- V T^{Jfo\ tern Circuit. ) r '. HON. J. P. REED, Solicitor of tho Western Cir cuit, having tiled a Bill in my oflioo in con formity with a recent Act of tho Legislature, enti tled an "Act to perpetuate testimony in relation to Deeds, Wills, Choses in Action, other papers, and records destroyed or lost during the recant war:" It is ordered, that all persons interested therein, appear in this Court, and have takon and perpetu ated all evidence which they shall produce, in rela tion to such lost papers, records, and-so-forth. ROBT. A. THOMPSON, o.K.r.n. Co rn'rs Office, Mureil 3, 1800. 24-tf The State of South. Carolina, PIOKKNS-IN ORDINARY. John Ross \ vs V Petition for Partition. Jesse R.lloss A others, j IT appearing to my satisfaction that. Lu ns ford ?NL Ross, one of the defendants in this case, resides without, the limits ot' this State: lt is orderod, therefore, that the said L. M. Ross do appear in the Court of Ordinary, for Picketts district, at Piokens Court House, on Monday the 80th day of April next, to object to the division or sale of the Real Estate of George F. Ross, deceased, or his consent to the sumo will be entered of record. w. B. HOLCOMBE, b.p.n. Ordinary's Office, Jan 27, 18(50. 3m THE STATE OF SOOTH ISRQL?NA, IM?KCMS-111 B'qiiify. Mary A. Kl'rod, et.als, j vs. [ Bill for Relief, &c. Alex. Br vee. Sr, el als. j IT uprearing to my satisfaction Huff Silten Black burn, one of the defendants in this case, reside? . without thc limits ot' this State: On motion, by Norton, complainants' Solicitor, it is ordered that said absent defendant do appear in this Court, ei ther personally, or hy attorney, and plead, answer, or demur, to complainants' said bill of complaint, within three months from the publication hereof ; otherwise, an order pro confesso will be enteret! against him. ROB T. A. THOMPSON, G.W.F.D. Com'rs Office, Fob. 8, 1866 3m - THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, I? Equity-Picketts. ? Daniel* Broom. } Ru> to ahow Cauae TT appearing to tho Commissioner that Daniel I Bi ?oom. -Trustee of Barbara Kelly, is without the liants of this State: It is ordered, that Mie said Daniel Broom appear in this Court, within, nine months from tho publication of this notice, and show cause why his offico of Trustee shall not be ?evoked, and suit instituted on his official bond.. ROBT. A. THOMPSON, u.E.r.n.. Com'rs Office, Feb. 12, 1806 3m TARE D?E NOTICE,; ' AND * Govern Yourselves Accordingly. I N CONSEQUENCE of the death of W. H. Dendy, 1 one of the firm'of W. H.* Dendy k Co., all por sons indebted to said firm, either bv NOTE, ot*A0 COUNT, are requested to cai I on DR. A. E. NOR MAN, Walhalla, and make settlement ; so as it will enable mc to govern myself. Failing to do so, I will employ some one to call on you, whose ex penses you will have to pay. N. K. SULLIVAN, one of tho above firm, flor 10. 1806 10 tf THK STA/ljra Ot SOUTH ?AROL?NA, laR*Reits-lit B.qiiify. M. A. Clay I ou \ vs. I Bill for Partition, Hannah Clayton, et.nls. J nPHK defendants in this caso, te wit: S. John; 1 Clayton and Nathaniel Ouerinand wife Marga ret, resi te without t o Ruths of this Stato : N Ou motion of Norton, complainant's Solicitor it is or-, dered that these said absent defendants do appear in this Court, within throo months from the publi cation hereof, and plead, answer or demur to com plainant's s id Hil of complaint; otherwise, an ordor pro ooofesso will be entorod against them'. ' ROBT. A.?THOMPSON, o.E.p.n. . Com'rs Office, M Vroh 3, 1860 _gig SAM'L. MCGOWAN. | J. M. ADAMS. LAW CARD. .IMIBundersigned. ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND 1 SOLICITORS IN EQUITY, having formed a partnership for Practice in Picketts District, wilt give prompt attention to all Law Business placed in their hands. ' MCGOWAN k ADAMS. . Doc. 7i ISb? . . 13 tf