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BY ?TO THINE OWN SELF BK TUUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW, AS THE IIOB'T. A. THOMPSON & CO. iummMmnmt?i?fm*?m)?mm i m j '-_ ^ M I I - - rn Milli II I I I I i i n II irn?ri?. m.mi mniii PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1801. NIGHT THE DAY, THOU NO. 5& * POETRY. Tho Heroes of Industry. nv. o', l*. n. I,cf others write of those who fought Oh many fi bloody fiel! - Of those whose darling deeds wero wrought With sword, ?nd speiir, and shield; Btlt I will write of heroes bold, The bravest of the brave, Who lought for neither fame nor gold - Who lill au unmarked grave! Heroes who conquered many a field Of hard and sterile soil Who made the sturdy forest yield To nnrciniitliig toil ; Heroes who did liol idly stand. lin! dealt such fearful blows, That acres broad of worthless land ?Now blossom like tile rose. Heroes of the plough and loom, The anvil and the forge; The delvers down amid thc uloola Of yonder rocky gorge ; Heroes who built yon 1 fly tower, And forged its heavy bell, Which fall li fully pro bi i ina ihc hour, And marks its Hight so well. Heroes who brought from every clime Kich argosies of weall h. Heroes of thoughts and deeds sublime, Who spurned what came hy stealth ; Who WOll a guerdon, fair and bright, Ami left no.bloody slain Ko hearth profaned-no deadly blight Upon Clod's wide domain. These world'whlo common workers CIMVO No laurel wreath of "fame - No monument above their grave ; They toiled bul for a name Among the lowly ones, who p od Their weary way ?long, With faith and confidence that God Correct et h every wrong! Kl"", i ."J 1 ."??mi- ..i REMARKS OF vi KN- W, K EASLEY, AT ?UKENVILLE, S. C., 'On the occasion of tho mournful ceremo nies of the Ladies, in decorating the graves of thc Confederate dead, nt that place recently. Cen. EASLEY said : t {/.nina nf tho Manorial Associait mt : Tt ts with 110 lillie embarrassment that I ott OUI pt to address you, conscious how far 1 shall full below thc beautiful rhetoric of my more foi t? nate associate I desire not to disturb the pleasant impressions which these singularly becoming; and appropriate ceremonies and his eloquence must have produced. This'snd day, thc ?ti nive rsa l;y of the turning point in our fortunes, these ceremonies, this multitude, these young maidens veiling in sorrow their bright faces, thus beautifully typifying tho mournful fortunes of these proud States, once so full of life and hope and energy, now so broken ; the unsympathetic brilliancy of Na ture; the green turf of this quiet churchyard; theso silent sleepers, slumbering in dreamless unconsciousness of the fate of that county they loved, and in whoso cause tho bh^tl i-f gomo of them was an unavailing sacrifice, lill tho mind with thoughts and emotions which so throng and.crowd up for utterance, that the little I ahull have the honor lo fc.iy to you must bc imperfectly expressed. You have heard that overv wisc and culti vated people have cherished the memory of their di id. and seek to keep alive the. recol lection of past glories by hulloing tombs and monuments to thc memory of tho good and Kreut whoso achievements have advanced, their interests or adorned the history of their conn-' try, conscious that that people cannot fall far below the standard of their fathers ho con tinue to remember ' with prido the glories of tho past. What G rook: ; by the graves of Thertnopyliti ; what Roman, by the tomb'of Regulus, felt not that " it is a great and glori-. 6us thing to die for one's eountry !" And centuries hence, thousands of .those who aro to c?me after us, standing hy tho monuments hereafter to bc erected to tho inomory of our Confederate dead, shall bo filled with tho dc fliro to equal their virtues mid to achiovo their glory. Thus it in, that high aspirations and noble resolves aro born and nurtured into lifo and aotion. And now, in this hour of gloom, wo hail with hopo mid gratitudo this movomeut, inau gurated by our eountry women, because it as sures us that Woman, nt least, has not forgot ten lier mission, mid that, unbroken by mis fortune, sho still strives, by tho breath of lier approval, to exalt and to honor those feelings and emotions of tho human soul which elevate and dignify humnn character. And thus it has ovor boon, in former times as now, in all othor countries os in thia, woman lins beon thc noul of all that is good and noble. In all ngos, * and among ?very pcoplo, bor spirit bas anima ted the patriot's zeal ; her heroism tempered tho soldier's courago, and her devotion strongth I ched llio Apostles' faith. Though .soft and I yielding herself as the spirit of gentlest peace. wherever on earth there has been freedom or j glory io win; whenever duty or honor has i called the soldier to the field, she has distin guished herself as thu soldier's friend. And in that great contest-the smoke of which has not yet cleared from tho (Irma m ont above us -strengthened by the proud and free spirit . of .our country-women, their husbands, and brothers, and lovers, have gone, forth, und I mingling in the battle, have illustrated the j great strength and intrepidity of man, when, i-with a full heart, he loves tho liberties of his j country and trusts in thc God of his fathers. ; And so in all that is good and noble, her j hand has been seen, her influence felt, eleva ting ?lid purifying, softening and smoothing 1 down the rough asperities cd' mini's nature, ns I if God had given her tho beaut ifni mission, j willi go ti tlc ham] to loud him back towards j that high estate from which, through her fol ly, be is said lo have fallen. \o wonder, then, j that by the highly cultivated in happy onur tries, by rude soldiers in their camps and sail ors in their-ships, and by ruder savages on far oil'shores, wherever the earth fools a human tread, she is cherished and honored, turnround her still iingois what little of Edon has been left to man. Wheil we look around upon tho ruins of our country; when we see her great cutes in ash es, her towns mid villages, once gay with V and prosperity, deserted ; wide tracts of coun try, once fruitful from tho industry of man, now w? ste and desolate ; co'Magc and mansion, once the abodes of domestic bliss, now charred and blackened, or left to silence and decay; her finances broken; her people bankrupt; society confused, demoralized, upon the verge of anarchy; her labor system destroyed, ?ind herself prostrate, ?iud powerless at thc feet of an insulting and vindictive conqueror; when WC look around upon all this ruin, and see, as sometimes we see, some of her children prov- . ilig false to her name and dignity, joining to asperse her character, and fawning over the hand that has smitten her, wc almost sink with despair,, and begin to fear that the usual fate of a subjugated people will overwhelm us ?duo, and that soon it muy bc Said of us that " Freedom now so seldom wakes, Thc only throb she gives, is when some henri indignant breaks, i To tell that still Blip lives." But when we soo such scenes ns this; when ' we lind that the past hus not been forgotten . winni, we lind that the heart of the inullitr 0 is sound, we renew our hope; wc fee11''1"*' ? there is life ?ti tho old j ind yet.'! *'or w0 . know if we preserve our se If-rcs poe* a uottor " day will one tin if dawn upon /ur eon fi trir j > nm! that, though it may not co"0 iu il:i< 't will surely shine upon our ch'uVC"- U 0 ,,ovo J not been utterly en,st dow destroyed, nor d can we be. A people."''10 ,li,vc rul lort'1 tho energies and crea?'d t,,fi rCMttro?s that we j haye, shown nillieroatfid J who have endured j as wc have Hdurcd, and fought ns we have . fought sv^i time, riso above misfortune, ? ami fro'' ruin spring to new and vigorous life. ^ Roasting ami .vaingloriousness aro cnn temp- -, tibie, butti just pride is the Inundation of all j Jilgh character, ?is well of nations ?is nf indi- ^ cullinia. And if anything can save Us" from fl the baseness and servility which ever threaten to sink the. character of a subjugated people, it must be the proud ?iud cherished memories ol'the, past. J>o not lotus forgot, then, that our cause was ti good and noble cause; that it was for the right of scll'-governiiicnt wc strug- ? j g'ed - tho cause which hus. in every age, fur- ^ night I tho highest examples of human virtue, and illustrated most the nobility of niau ; thc . s uno noble cuise for-which, iut-lic olden time, j .Miltiades struggled at .Marathon, and Hrutus died at Pljillippi; tho same cause which, in , later limos, ' summoned Tell find his hardy countrymen, amid Alpine snows ; and which marshalled bi.neath tho sun of ?Spain tho gay knight and swarthy, peasant, ? when Charle magne and all his peerage fell ?it Ft ;ita rubia y' tho same old and glorious causo for which, iu A uteri Oft j Washington fought, mid in Rttropc Kosciusko fell. And now, if thc cause was riglltbon?, if we put forth all our strength, if we cudi d nil of which humanity is eapablo, if wo did not yield until our resources had been exhausted and worn out with expectation and continual toil of battle, there was no long er nny help or hope of success, then thcro is nothing in tho past of which wo may not bo proud, and nothing but failure to regret. In this great causo wo fought and fell ns Carthago fell before Rome, and as Rome her self foll boforo thc Goths. Wo fought and fell, yet we havo tho proud consciousness that we struck a manly blow. And though we hnvo failed to accomplish the great purpose for which wo strugglcd/wo have yet written ono of tho most brilliant pago? itv the history of tho ontions, and furnished many of the moat brilliant oxamplcs of all that is great and ad mirable inman. Tho skill of our generals,- tho c?urago of our soldiery, the devption of our people, viii li yo and triumph in history,, cre ating sympathy, and calling forth from gener ation to gonoration admiration and praiso.. If greece truo to the past-, and fail not be* low tho standard pf it* virtuos, our country will ono day emerge from its ruin, happy and free. Truth is never lost; borne down and trampled under foot' in ono agc, she ari ses in tho next with renewed youth and accu mulated strength, to triumph over wrong nod to bear onward in thc grund nuirch of civili sation tho destinies of np?n. In this great cause wo'fought and fell ! Is there one here who ts not proud of his coun ty P Is there ono hore \vlio docs not obcrish the glorios of our soldier^ do0d nod living? Somo of them arc sleepily by \\s unconscious of our vain efforts to empress Our'love nod revere,,eo for them, nod some of them are ' listening in the crowd Und limping on the fragments of .shuttered limbs; some of the mon wh<?, amid the din and danger of the battle, have horne up t?Volr country's flag on : an hundred fields ; some of thc ayn wdio, without undue elation, shouted with the vic- i tors on the Chiekahomnny, and who saw un- ? dismayed tho disaster of Gettysburg ; some of i the men who made the bloody day nt Frank- < lin or who were with Lee lit Frederick shu r<_', ( nt the Wilderness ?it, Spotsylvnnia, nt Cold i Harbor, nt Peep ottoii, nt Petersburg, pla- \ ces their blood has aa nat ned, mimes their he- | roism hos rendered (minolta) ! Have those ' i men suffered and lough; und bled or died in j j vain? Has this prontot*struggle of modern ! ? times, all this toil of tin bnvouac and the bat- i tlc, this great putting fb til of human strength I ,v and of nil th? higher munn virtues, been | t in vain? No 1 men die olid tin ir names and 1 places arc lost in tho (list with which they i mingle, but great thougju and noble notions ( ucvor die, but live mu go on their endless ? mission, sounding dowi the centuries in the s deep, ? o .orous tones of 1 tornity : from genern- i; tion to generation ina lijng and rei aspirin g l; high resolve, nod runnijg and strengthening r? and multiplying thnmscjvr? through the nges c of Time Thus they wlq ."trike for the right, ii light the battles of all ados ind nations. Sleep t on, then brave soldier; ! ?on have not been forgotten-you are, i dc?d, blessed. You n have not soon tho ruinbtj your country, and t? yet it is your, high a nj happy fortune that ri your actions shall live centuries hence to clo- n vate tho minds and to iutluonco the destinies p uf mon. ' ,-- " " b "^j^i^orioita past. Overpowered wc 1< 'M0Uj anot vanquished. Prostrate wc nre, I h i ,A fallen. Our Covernment has vanish- a -j our armies have melted away ; our sol- \\ lora aro in their graves ! liberty and fortune p re gone j mournfully do ? wo stand by the ti rave of our country-mournfully, but proud- r for wo have saved her honor. Then, lot a s endure, with manly fortitude that which e rith manly courage wc sought to avert and t t. shall not bc said of us that we have our a ands on our mouths, and our mouths, iu thc e ust. 'I - _ ,. IL-VI.TIMOUK, July 0.-Judge Bowie, Chief miine of thc Court of Appeals, rendered nu . iiiportiint deeision under the civil rights bill, ' ti thc case of the Commonwealth against Som rs, for beating a ncgro. It was contended , >y counsel that, according to tho laws of dairyland, a negro was not a competent wit less against a white man. The magistrate leeided that thc said law was null and void, nd had been abrogated nnd superceded by the livil righto bill, And required bail, which Sum ir? refused to give, and wis com r.ittcd. Ap diciitioti was made to Judge. Howie fora writ d' habeas corpus, which he declined to grant, rjvitt?r a written opinion sustaining thc mag strate- Ile admits thnt there are doubts ns to he constitutionality of the civil rights bill on jilter points, yet not seeing clearly a brcaoh of ihe Federal Constitution on a particular point bearing on this rnso, following usage and thc keisions of the highest Courts, hewn:} bound ti) assume thnt Congress had not violated the constitutional obligations and passed an un constitutional ?mt. Thc prisonor was remand ed to tho custody of tho olflccr. The statue of ( Jonerai Washington, taken from tho Virginia Military Institute by Ccu. Hunter, in his raid up tho Valley, two years nero, WHS sent baok yesterday by tho National Express Company to Lexington, Virginia. A NT HW EXPLOSIVK COMI>OI;NIV-Another explosive compound, moro ""destructivo than nitro-glycerine, lins been brought to light. This chemical mixture is called sodium amnl gam. It ia never manufuotured in largo quan tities, though it has boen advertised for snle in San Francisco, one firm claiming to'hnvo as muoh as two hundred ouuoos for sale. Tho amount is not largo, but When it is understood that tho explosivo power of one ounoo of sodi um is equal to thnt of. about twcnty-fivo pounds of gunpowdor, pr two and; hulf pounds of nitro glycerine, it can. readily bo conceived that even flftoon ipr twenty, ounces exploded in ono place would create immense havoo.-"" And vvlion ono further reflects that oven ?o little a thing os a spoonful of wator ooming in contact} with two hundred ouno?i of ?odium would oauso on explosion equal to that wnioh j would bo ooooBioued by tho ignition pf 0,000 pounds ot, powdar, or tho, concussion of 600 pounda pf- nitro-glycerine, wo oan form aome cpucepti?ti of ita ireaiendosuf dc*iraotiyo pow er. ..?', >i .' .... ' . . ,. ?-..<* [From thc New York Herald.] Income of the Government. It is estimated by the Treasury Department that thc iucome of tho Govermncnt from nil sources for thc fiscal year which ended Satur day, Jun? 30, will reach thc enormous sum of. five hundred and (?fly millions of dollars. Of* this three hundred and fifteen millions are de rived from thc internal rovouuo, and two hun dred and thirty-live millions from other sourc es. One hundred und seventy millions can,? from customs. Five or sir'years ago, Just previous to tho war, the total income of tl.? Government, and consequently tho expendi tures, did not roach one-seventh or one-eighth of this sum. Sixty or seventy millions a year was considered then a largo revenue. Wind ri revolution in our financial allai rs, as well ?is ?ti our social and political condition, within the brief period of a few years ! Thc customs yield nearly three times thc amount of our en tire revenue anterior to thc war. One huu Ired and seventy millions a year ?II the way )f duties on foreign importations ought tobe protection chough to home manufactures ; yet vc hear the rich manufacturers of New Kng- ! and and Cctinsylvahia crying out lustily for i nore. It is time that the masses of the pco dc-the consumers -who have to pay this in nercasod high prices, ?ind that tho great nj?, jcultui'al interests of thc West and Middle ?tatcs, and of the South, if it had a voice in j ho mutter, should look into a system of legis iition that benefits a few ?iud a purtieularsCc ?on ut the expense of thc rest of tho country, 'engross hus been for some time, and is now, mder the control of New England and Penn ylvania protectionists, lt will be well for thc nnss of thc peoplo everywhere, and purlieu arly in the Wost, to remember this at the ap (roaching Congressional elections. This great OU ni ry, notwithstanding its tunny mid varied iiteiCsts, has been governed long enough for he benefit of one class and a small section. The statement of such an extraordinary mount of revenue must bo highly gratifying J every American, for it shows thc wondrful csources of the country, and our ability lo loot, without difficulty till our liabilities, or to ay tho entire national debt within a rcasonn le period. These resources, too, willincrc.ise .ss weighty, if" wc Haye pequi/tnA*H4 .I??......,* Inion, and if our finances bo properly man ged, lint with all these means and wealth, rith till oitr capabilities and the bright pros ed before us, we may throw away thc ndvan iges we possess, and be plunged into batik uptoy and ruin. Thc imbecility, corruption nd.reckless extravagance of Congress are tho vils wc have most to fear/ The members of ho present Congress are, for thc most par!, s ignorant of thc duties of legislation, and specially of national finances as children. 'hey are mere local politicians and cannot ais? themselves up to the height of great ria? ional or international questions. Their vis on is limited to mere party polities and their wu selfish schemes. Any one who has taken notice of their pro codings during the present session can como o no other conclusion. Then, as to corrup ion and reckless extravagance, we have only o look over thc list of bills passed and before hat body to be oonvinced that it is the must mrruptaml reckloss Congress that ever sa titi iVashington. Tons of millions arc appropria ed with- less thought or consideration than u cw thousand dollars were in former times, ind that for thc most infamous jobs. Tho .cry atmosphere of Washington reeks with corruption. Wc state what is notorious to jvery one acquainted with that eily or watch is what is going on there ? Here, then, lies the danger, that all our resources may bc dis sipated and only help to mako a corrupt ?ind oxtravagant Congress more corrupt and reck less still. Our only hope is in the people Ls that they will bu sufficiently enlightened tu return at tho forthcoming elections a difTcront und better set of men. Put we not only need n thorough chango in Congress, but want, more capable adminis trative officers. Mr. Mcculloch, doubtless, is a very rospootable man and good country bunk er, but oan he grasp tho vast subject of na tional finance? Oh, how mtioh in need til statesmen is this groat country. Imagine II man like Mr. Gladstone having the control <it' our resources-of an income of five hundred and fifty minions, und whit would bc do with it? Taxation would bo lightened, our legal tender currency would soon bc nt par with gold, and tho national debt would be but a trifle, and would bo put in piocess of liquida tion at once. Our actual situation muy bc compared to that of a rioh argosy freighted full of tho most valuablo trcasuro, but in the hands of inoapablo ef?loors and a stupid crew. Wc ought to begin to retronoh in ovcry do partmont of tho Government, and reduce thc rovenuo down to three hundred millions. Ta king two hundred and .fifty millions ayeai from the burdon of taxation would bo an im menso roliof. Three hundred millions ough to bo ample to pay tho interest on tho debt curront oxp?usos of tho Govbrnmont, and t< have a margin of twonty or thirty jnilllona n n, permanent sinking fund to extinguish th debt In faot, if legal tendera were to b ' i ' 'J *.- .' " \V ? used instead bf thc National bank circulation for our currency, three hundred millions of the interest bearing bonds could be bought ud or retired at onco, mid the amount thus saved could bc applied usa sinking fund. We urge upon the people to consider, and the new Con servative National party to take up these vital questions in earnest. If now caudidutes for Congress or any respecta plo party will go into thc next elections upon tho platform of re trenchment, abolition of tho National bank aystemj.and a thorough chango of tho present corrupt and imbecile Congress, success will follow. S'uoFi o platform Vould beat all tho negro platforms the Radicals eau construct. President Lincoln's Last Telegraph. We give below Mr. Lincoln's lust telegraph. It is only important as showing that he con sidered himself to possess full powers to recon struct thc Union There is no hesitation or doubt on his patt .ts to his authority to muko what terms ho pleased with the South : OFFICE U. S. MILITARY Tj-xronAPif, WAU DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April ll, 18(35. Maj. Gen. Weitzel, Richmond, Virginia: I have just seen Judge Campbell's letter to you of the 7th. He assumes, as appears to inc, that 1 have called the insurgent Legisla ture of Virginia together, ns the rightful Leg islature of thc State, to settle'all difficulties with tho United States. I have dono no such thing. I spoke of them not as a Legislature, but as " the gentlemen who have acted as tho L?gislature of Virginia in support of the re bellion. ' I did this on purpose to exclude ho assumption that I V.MS recognizing them is a rightful body. I deal with them as men laving power de /acta to do a specific thing, 0 wit : "To withdraw thc- Virginia troops md other support from resistance to the Gen ial Government," for which, in the paper landed by Judgo Campbell, I promised a spc lific equivalent, to wit: A remission to tho icopic of thc State, except in certain cases, 1)0 confiscation of their property. I meant his and no more. Inasmuch, however, as Tudoo Campbell misconstrues this, and is still iressing for an armistice contrary to the cx dicit staion.?i??'- vurii?i nus ?IUWW? u.cu ino* v irgiuta troops, so that giving a ionsideration for their withdrawal is no longer pplicablc. Let. my letter to you and thc pa ler to Judgo Campbell both be withdrawn or onntcruinndod. and be be notified of it. Do lot allow thom to assemble ; but if any havo onie, allow them safe return to their homes. A. LINCOLN. THE STAY LAW.-Thc ?'Charleston Newt," peaking of tho Stay Laws, say : " Misfortune!? must not be remedied by in ustice. Jackals prey upon thc dead. In infos of war and general distress there arc al lays men who fatten on the evils of thc land. Speculators, extortioners, traitors, cowards, ;row wealthy in the Southern States during Lc dreadful struggle through which wc havo ust passed, but it will never do in striving to leprive these wretches of their booty, to place 1 bar in the way of enforcing all just and ighteous demands." jC?r The radicals arc talking of calling a Convention in September next to make an out ind out radionl platform and put. Gen. Grunt it once in nomination for thc Presidency, in tho lopes of being able to gain a popular endors?* neut of their obnoxious programme. It is feared in Washington by the friends of tho President that should an issue arise between tho votes mist in accordance with thc Consti tution and thc vote as prescribed by Congress, un attempt will bc made to draw the sword by ranging tho army on tho sido of Congress against thc Constitutionally elected President in 1808. ._ ? NOTKWOTUY. - Henry Winter Davis is dead ; Senator Lane has just shot himself in a fit of mental aberration ; Stanton is not well ; Sumner has hud a return of his spinal affec tion, which next to his affection for tho nig ger, troubles himself and every one else, and Stevens bas water on tho heart, is dyspeptic, old, nervous, and don't expect to live. On thc other band wo find tho constitutional Union men and Domoorats all healthy. Tf wo may judgo from the few examples above ci ted-?'curses like chickens oro going homo to roost." Verily the ways of Providence are past finding out. 46gr Mr. H. C. McCormick, ot* Chicago, tho inventor of thc reaping and mowing ma?, ohinc which bears bis name, has given .$80, 000 for the endowment of a Professorship in tho Theological Seminary nt Hampden Sidnoy College, V irginia, and 810,001) for thc endow? mont of a Professorship in "Washington Col lege, Lexington, Va., of which' Gob. Leo ia President. Tho same gentleman, in I860, endowed tho Theological Seminary of tho Presbyterian Church of Chicago, with 8100, 000. Tho liberal donor isa native of Vir. ginia, and is a decided conservative. His radical friends ate not pleased at this direction of hia benevolence, but Mr. McCormick don't ear? muoh shout that. [Savannah (Oa.) xUlvertiecft