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MM ... .Min. i.. i, a. '-V-J!. v \ HOB'T. A. THOMPSON, Editor. R; A. Thompson, W.H. Holcombe, R. Young, PROPRIETORS. T li ll .MS.-Ono Dollar end Twenty-five Coals f >rsix months, in advance Provision also lakon in payment, at thq market rate?. ??.?y* Advert isomonts inserted at $1 per squnro for tho first insertion, and 50 cents for cadi subso qUOlit insertion, casli or provision. jj?,y* Obltu iry Notices exceeding fivolines, Trib utes ol' Rospoot, Communications of a personal character, and Announcements of Candidates, will bc oh urged for as advertisements. ?n?T* Job Printing oxecnted with neatness and despatch,.for cash or provision. B?S1* Noccssity compels us to adhere strictly to tho requirement of cash payment. PICKENS C. lt., S. C.: Saturday Morning, August 4, 1800. iCSETWo arc dependcut on private enterprise for thc mails. j?5?~ Mrs. FLORIDE CALHOUN, relict of thc late Hon. John C. Calhoun, died at her resi dence, in Pendleton, o? the 26th ultimo, in thc seventy-fifth year of her ugo. jtiT Tho following post offices in South Carolina have been re opened : Bachelor's Retreat-GRIEF ORENSHAW. Table Moun tain-RKIJKCCA ll KID. B?y- Thc Tax Collector has lodged with tho Sheriff, tax Executions to thc amount of about throe thousand dollars. jCS?" Wc are pleased to learn that thc post office at Pendleton has been rc-opened. ?i5>"' On the Bist, in New York, cottou was 36 to 39. Cold, 19. J5Qy? Wc notice that, iu several Districts in thc Stntc, application has been made to Ordi naries for "letters of administration" on the estates of freed people. Valuable Real Estate for Sale. WM. A. LAY, Executor, will sell, at this place, on Saleday in September next, tho Re al Estate of JAMES LAY, deceased ; situate in Cheohcc. Tho place is a valuable ont. md tho terms favorable. Tho Commissioner in Equity will also sell on thc samo day,- that desirable Homestead, known as Oconcc Station, and other valuable lands in various parts of tho District. Seo advertisements. Entertainment. The community is under obligations, to thc young folk, for their very lino entertainment on Thursday night of last week. Thc sub jects of the tableaux, charades, etc., had been selected with good taste, and their execution reflected much credit on the actors. To par ticularize would not only bc invidious, but a breach of editorial etiquette; wc there fore, forbear, and simply return thc thanks of | tho delighted audience.for their performance, as a whole-not forgetting, however, our young friend who personated so well thc "in imitable nigger." M -*- tm - Death of Mr. Cary. "Wo regret to have to announce thc death of our friend and neighbor, Mr. JOHN W. L. CARY. This sad event occurred on Monday morning last, after a prot racted illness of great suffering. Disease had boen preying on him for years. Mr, CARY was well known to our readers. Ho had bcon Tax Collector of tho District for a long term of years, arid had discharged thc duties of that office to the satisfaction of thc Stntc and a very large majority of his fcllow citizens. As a lesson to tho youth of the country, nothiug can bo more convincing or interest ing, than to state that Mr. CARY rose from obscurity to a position of prime usefulness in thc community by his own industry, energy nnd indefatigable exertion. Ho was buried by tho Masonic fraternity. -- m -?- m mr Thc "Charleston Courier" of thc 30th says : " Tho prisoners, Messrs. V. G. SPOW ERS, CRAWFORD KEYES, RODERT KEYES nnd ELISHA BYREM, who have been confined in Castlo Pinckncy, sinco their conviction by a millitary commission, and for whom a Writ of habeus corpus was recently sued out by their Counsel lion. ARMISTEAD BURT and Conc om? JAMES CONNER, were on Saturday night, quiotly rotnovod, under guard, from thoir placo of confinement, and it is believed, sent North beyond tho jurisdiction of tho United States Distriot Court for South Carolina. Wohavo not boon ablo to loam under what authority, pondiug the decision of tho President, in ref oronco to tho habeas corpus Writ, tho prison ers havo boon thus romovod. This myste rious proceeding would certainly appear to ig noro thofactof tho existence of a United States Court in this Stato." Tho nows from Moxioo oontinucs to bo uni )rablc to Maximilian. V&iuo of Real Estate Now, that uogro slavery no longer exists, real cst ito is tho ouly proporty of any groat value, in whioh investments oan ho safely made. There has been so littlo moons in the country upon which to trade, that thore has becu fow sal os of real estate, and uo well de fined value for tho samo. "Wc learn, however, that a tract of land, known ns tho CAPEHART Mill place, and which sold anterior to the war for about ono thousand dollars, has been sold by tho owner to two public spirited citizens of our District, for tho sum of seventeeu hundred dollars, oash, in gold. Tho purchasers contemplate Greeting on this Gue water power, machinery of various kinds. As much of mr prosperity depends upou tho development of our ample rcsourocs, in this respect, wo hail with pleasure this in tention on the part of these reliable gentlemen; und, at some future day, hopo to bc able to speak more advisedly on tho subject. The Legislature. Tho proclamation of Gov. Olin, convening the Legislature in extra session, will appear in a few days-perhaps before those lines appear in priut. Tho immediate measure for consideration will bc, probably, tho amendment of thu " ne gro code," giving tho negro tho right to testi fy in all our courts, with his other rights as guaranteed by Congress. The sooner this is done thc better for nil parties. Thc doubly "vexed question"-relief foi debtors and creditors-will doubtless como in for a full share of legislative attention. Wt trust that something may bc dono, but whal thatsomething is wc have not the remotest iden Thc failure of thc grain crop of tho State h suggestive of action. Relief or starvatioi stares thousands th tho face. Could not tin State, with its means and influence, procun corn from thc teeming West, nnd place it ii every district for sale, at one dollar per bushel Wo arc opposed to the donation system. Thc Political Aspect Congress adjourned on Saturday tho 2Stl ultimo, after a prolonged session of eigh mouths Our readers will, no doubt, with u feel relieved by the announccnientof this eveu It can scarcely be denied that much of tba bitterness and hate, so apparent when Con groas first assembled, has very pcrceptihl oozed out. The admission of Tcnncsseo, t her rights as a State in tho Union, is justly r< garded as the most favorablo omen of the soi sion. It forever sets at rest the question < confiscation, except in cases where tho offci der has beon regularly convicted of treason. Tile assembling of thc Philadelphia Coi volition, which promises to bo a most i in po: ing body, together with thc independent an straight forward course of thc President, lu doubtless affected favorably the aetiuii of Coi gross, and other departments of tho goven ment. Prom these sources, we expect niue in tho future. Whilst "all is not well," it a oatl?faotiOn io bo able to unnouuee a parti improvement in our deplorable condition. Our exchanges bring us tidings of anoth revolution. It is charged, that rather th; give up tho government, the radicals will t tompt lo hold their position by force. Tl wc do not believe. In thc first plaoe, there no present likelihood that the radicals can 1 defeated. And in thc second place, if th wore, a revolution is not a necessary com quenco. Wo do not think iV.it revolution ai bloodshed is tho continued desire of thc pn cnt generation. Ono of tho Great Events Thc Atlantic cable, over which so mu has been said and writton, is n success. T Great Eastern arrived at Heart's Content, tho 28th, with thc cable. Tho distauco 1 tween shores is 1,609 miles. This pine America and Europoin hourly comtnunicutic Thc latest telegram is from London, Jv 28, which arrived at Pickons C. II. on t 2d-just fivo days. The despatoh is as f lows : LONDON, July 28.-Thc armistice of fe weeks from yesterday has been signed Prussia, Austria, Bavaria and other Germ ?3 tates. ---? - Tho Freedmen's Bureau That u nigger institution "-Congress, foro its adjournment, p:isscd an amendment tho act creating tho " Freedmon's Burcai continuing it for tho spaco of two years, wc aro all-black and white-U beholden " tho Bureau, wo publish on our first pago t "so-callod" oot, in full. ANOTHER. REHBI.LION.-Tho "Bnfl Courier" has tho following paragraph :4 " Gen. Grant rocontly romarked to^a g tinman of this city, who mot him in tho \V< that unless tho Southern States were speen ndmittod to representation in Congress i the right of self-government conceded to tin WO should soon have another rebellion." ?- *..?,' ' ;'** ( * >.i.w.J_' '. J-'-l.1... "? Legislative DocumentB ?ftor an unreasonable delay, and for Which, wo* approhend, no reasonable oxouso can bo given, the Acts, reports, resolutions, &o., of tito last session of tho General Assembly.-Tho like proceedings of tho same body, for 1804, (.'contraband," wo sup poso,) together witlrtho Constitution of the State have boen received at this place. Fi om tho "Act to cslablit?bcerlain roads, bridges and ferries," wo make the following extract: "Xii. That thc several Hoards of Commission ers of Hoads for the respective Districts and par ishes in this State, as existing or appointed at tho sossion ol the GonerarA.*scmbly for December, A. o. 18t>3, shall continue ia office and huve legal ex it t.moo ns snob, until tho end of thc next regular session of the Legislature ol lids State." . Thc following appointments were III ado by thc Legislature for this District: COM M i SS ION'KU S ni' HOADS AND DUI ntl KS,-James A. Hallinger vico L. N. Hollins. M. V. Mitchell vice James George, S. M. Crawford vice P. L. Dean, S. D. Keith vico Alex Hdens, deceased, L. W.Lusk yioe Benji Nicholson, Wm. Ribbvicc M. S. Messer, Wesley Pitchford vice W. .S. (Irisham. MAUISTUATKR.-Muddy Spring : J. H. Sanders. Georg?? Creek : John H. Oosselt. MANAOKIIS OF EI.RCTION.-Pickonsvillo : Al vab McW borter vice ll. C. liri ggs. B. IL Harton vico Rufus Catos. Joab Mauldin vice C. Odell. Jiosolvod, That a now election precinct bc es tablished at John Ross', to be called "Hickorv Land." and that Tims lt. Davis. A. ?. Kelly ami 0. R. Finley bo appointed Managers for. tho Haine. That Samuel Johns and John Vernor he Man agers at Bachelor's Retreat, in placo of John S. Dickson and Wm. MoWhnrtor. That P. M. Alexnndcr bo Manager at Picketts C. IL, in place of Joseph J. Norton. That James W. Poule and A. II. Ramsay bc Managers at Toxuway, vico Warron ll. Davis and Jool K. Jones. That James ll. Ambler, John ll. llagooi? and F. M. Burgess bc .Managers at Twelve Mile, vice. S. Drown, Benjamin lloldor and ll. J, Anthony. That W. C. Ilillhousc bo Manager at llurri cane, vice L. N. Rubins That M. L. Colo*. W, J. Harker and K. L Killian bc .Managers at Whctstnno, vice Danlo P. Robins, John Morehead and H. Fret well. That Joseph Hcardin be Manager at Center vica L. P. Harris. That P. L. Dean bc Manager at Fair Play vice D. L. Stribling. > " Negro Emigration * J. WOOD DAVIDSON, writing from Cohn? bia to tho " York ville Enquirer," says: u Dissatisfied with thc prospect of politics equality in South Carolina, and discourage at the business prospects ahead of thom, ou negroes are emigrating. Many have airead; .gouo; mainly, wc believe, to the West. Thc have established an Oll?co of Emigration ii Columbia, thc aim of which appears to bc ti secure concert of movements among them. Those desirous of emigrating arc invited b report their names to a secretary and to-Qun fer with him np<>?V, tho ways and means bee adapted to carry o<H their end?. We huv too many of thom--too many, for tho interest of either race ; and thc popular feeling seem to bc that the black man would do better t find homes in the West and Southwest-th Gulf const, including that of ?Mexico." Foreign Intelligence. FARTHER POINT, July 20.-The llibcrn an passed yesterday with Liverpool advices t thc 10th, which reports thc cotton inarki opening that day with a decided iinprovcmei in demand. Thc market was firm but prict not developed. Sales estimated at 8,000 bale Tho Great Eastern had laid nearly thn hundred miles of thc cable up to thc evcniii of the loth, anti waa progressing favorably. Nothing further has transpired about tl pence negotiations between Napoleon and tl contending parties. Tho Prussians defeated the Federals th sanguinary conflict at Oschaftonburg, ur marched towards Frankfort, which wasevac utcd by thc Federals. Thc Diethild remov< to Augustenburg. The Prussian headqua tors were at Brunn, Austria. It is reporte that tho Prussians have occupied Iglaw. The " London Times" thinks the Prussia will bo beforo Venetia on thc 17th, and doub if the Austrians can withstand thc victorio Prussians. Cihldlni occupied PaducaandV cenia and tho towns ou thc railroad to Venir It is declared in diplomatic circles at Stn burg that Russia has no present intention change her neutral attitude, and will not, ( oopt a forcigu power shall intervene in t affairs of Germany. JKS?*Mra. SARAH CALHOUN, oharged wi infanticide, is to bo returned to this district I trial. Her accomplice, Floyd, a freedom has not been heard from. &2T One of tho most important decisio mudo by tho Georgia Supreme Court, whi adjourned last Saturday, is that a failuie consideration on account of emancipation or not bo plead against recovery on u promisse noto given in the purchase of slaves. It hi that the purchaser bought with tho risk, a must bcoomo the loser. There aro tbousat of just suoh cases throughout the South, n wo apprchond that tho lute decision will allowed to control genorally. . ?tSf' Tho planting of cotton in Illinoie thus fara success. Accounts from ?hat St; say that tho oropi ave promising. Ono pli ter has two hundred aorcs under oultivatioi Jtgj" At tho evening session of tho Unit States Sonate, on Tuesday, a bill was posi to .pay Mrs. Amol ia Feaster, of Columbio, O., $10,000 for food and clothing furnisl to Union soldiora ami o ni oe rs while in pri at that placo during tho war. MERE MENTION. Tho " Southern Cultivator," for July, is o,n interesting periodical.-A negro died rc oently ip Louisiana, aged 120.--r-Tbcro arc niuo hundred steam railroad corporations in tho United States.----Thc losses by fire throughout tho United.States for thc past six months aro set ut $45,000,000.-Mr Alex. 1). Walker was brutally murdered near Ches ter C. II., on tho 22d ult., by negroes. Gov. Orr has odored a Reward of $200.00 for tho arrest of Palmer, who murdered Mack, tho freedman, in Union District.-Tho bricklayers in Worcester, Mass., struck for $3.75 per day on Wednesday.-Tho South ern Pacific Railroad is completed to Marshall, Texas.-After thc snow storm in Utah on thy 0th ult., Brigham Young made his wives useful in shoveling snow paths about his rcs? ?dence-The young ladies of Louisville, Ky., have taken initiatory steps to present General Lovell II. lloss?au with a cane, as a token of their high Appreciation of tho man ner in which ho disposed of his own on Mr. G l innell.-The " Albany Evening Jour nal " of thc 20th inst., contains a list of lands in tho State of Now York, to be sold for ar rears of taxes, which is twenty-eight columns of nonpareil typo in length.-The Spartan- ' burg Iron Works are offered for salo.-Un der thc influence of moro favorable weather, cholera is decreasing in New Yoik.-A white young lady of Mobile eloped with a mu latto ; both were caught and returned. Tho Louisiana cotton crop is estimated at one million bales ; sugar crop (50,000 hogsheads. -Mad-dogs iii Richmond, Va.-Gov. Orr has pardoned Win A Rose, convicted at Laurens C. IL, of manslaughter.--Asa Par ker has given 8500,000, for an Episcopal Col lege at Bethlehem, Penn.-The greatest king has never carried anything but a wind ing-sheet out of tho world.-Thc New York State militia enrollment shows 110,000 names for the city and county of New York.-If you have much, give of your gootls ; if you have little, give of your heart.-Tho great Railroad Bridge over tho Susquehanna River, at Havre dc'Gracc, has been destroyed by a tornado. Loss one million dollars.;-Civil law has been restored in North Carolina. A wisc man stands firm in all extremities and bears thc lot of his humanity with a divine tom por.-Thora is.a.uo&ro in Philadelphia whoso feet measure 21 inches in length. ' lt is supposed they will bo used as the next "Re publican " platform.-17,500 immigrants arrived in New Y'ork from thc 1st to tho 23d instant. ORIG?-INAL; FOR TlIK KEOWUK DOURI KU. Nero. For eighteen hundrod years that name has filled thc blackest and most infamous pago of history, lie burnt Rome and ordered his mother to bo assassinated. Rome was a city of immense wealth, und presented a display of buildings and ornaments as are common to all great cities. Thc crisis that is now on tho Southern people-eleven States-agricultural people-all history concedes they have more virtue than any other portion of thc human family; and nearly till the great mon of the world aro born from their ranks: General WASHINGTON, JOHN C. CALHOUN-CINCIN NATTus and DAVID-tho Shepherd-"Tho. man after God's own heart;" and distinguish ed names from thc same source that would reach around tho globe Gen. 1st chapter, 28th verse : " Replenish thc earth and sub. duo it." Nero burnt one city and.assassina ted his mother. It may bo in thc compass of figurosto tell the number of farms that will be desolated ; but I think thc census-taker would shrink from tho task of numbering thc tnoth ors nnd children (tho largest proportion wives and children of soldiers) driven from their homes, and uovor to say Homo again," and their offspring forever deprived of an educa tion. Thc great, grent Palmetto State, I fear, in history will bo on the same pago with Nero. In all tho official circles of tho Stato thoro is not ono intimation that woman and her chil dren will bc offered a shelter around tho great mid magnificent State House, costing ut least fivo millions of dollurs, und built by thc toil of hor husbands and sous. I presumo tho " Stay Law" and tho decision of hor Judges will bo filed in its archives in letters of gold. If I could think that my mito would bo mul tiplied liko tho widow's, which was of moro avail than of all of those that gave of Hicir wealth, in tho cyos of God, I would feign put tho name of Judgo Ai.uiucn in letters of gold. I think that th sro aro thousands of women and children, after their devotions to. God morning and cvoning, their Aspirations.. will thon bo offered in bohnlf of Judgo AI.DHIOJI. How patriotio, how cnthusiastio, tho Stat/.. Of South Carolina and her office-holders,' that thc pooplo should . sacrifice thc last dltuc Of ' ? .i - , . 1 ?-?g ?-r.-* their property to pay their debts ! Tho Con vention of the S tu to pf South Carolina en dorsed thc option of tho Iredorul Government on that of abolition. Is there n living man that dare say, if prompted by tho feelings of equity and justice, that a Government has iu a measure taken everything that the wholo of its citizens owned and could have paid their debts with ease. That tho State should in some way or other intervene between tho cred itor and debtor, history tells us a way in which it could bc done, and has been done for tho same kind of property : langland gare ono hundred, millions of dollars to her subjects for comparatively a few negroes on tho West In From Washington WASHINGTON, July '25.-Tho Senato last night passed a bill appropriating ono million and a half dollars foi' repairing tho Mississippi Uiver levees. Tho proposition to tack tho equal i/.cd bounty bill to tho civil appropria tion bill was defeated. WASHINGTON, duly 25.-Tn tho Senate, li. C. Moss, successor of Cane, was qualified Senator from Kansas. Fowler of Tenn., was sworn in. Tho Committee have not (?ported on tho credentials of Patterson from the same State. The Senate has agreed to adjourn on Sat urday. The Mouse subsequently concurred. Thu President having signed the bill reviving the grade of (louerai in thc C. S. Army, nominated Lieut-Gun, (?rant for thc samo; also Vice-Admiral Farragut tts Admiral, un der the rene ll I law. These nominations, and A. W. Kunial!, Post-Master General, were continued by tho Senate. On motion of Stevens, of Tenn., the mem ber.! receive pay from tho commencement of the session. Cooper and Loftwioh were .sworn in. Thc amendatory National currency bill was postponed until the next session. Stevens presented a scries of resolutions pro fessedly for the restoration of tim. Southern States to the Union, which were laid over un til to morrow. An net was passed amendatory of act 1789, establishing Judicial Courts. Thc amend ment provides that tho act of habeas corpus is mit to apply to tho ease of any poison, who is, or may be hold in custody of thc military authorities of tho United States, obarged with any military offences, or with having aided or abetted thc rebellion against thc Govern ment of tho United States, prior to thc pas sage of this act. A bill was reported, to restore the posses sion of lands, confiscated by authority, of tho States lately in rebellion. It makes it u duty nf the President, or tho Commanding Officer of tho military foroox within (bo purttoulur State or District on complaint of persons ?Ii? possessed of property, for adherence to tho Union, to restore him possession lo thc saino. Trimble denounced the bill as giving authority to tho military officers to decide legal ques tions, tis to tho title of real estates. His mo tion to lay the bill on tho table was i ejected, and tho bill passed. WASIMNUSON, July 20.-The Sonate con firmed G. IL Willman Collector of Customs iii Beaufort, S.O.; T. J. Mead Collector of Cus toms at Natchez, Miss; W. S. Williams Ap praiser of Merchandize, Savannah Ga.; L. H. V. Martin Attorney Southern District of Ala bama; Jas. IC. ?Stewart, Attorney Northern District of Miss; S. Wilson Conni'ined'Com missioner of Land Office. WASHINGTON, July 26.-In the Senate when the credentials of Patterson, of Ten nessee, were read Sunnier moved a reference to tho Judieary Commit too with instructions to inquire whether he could take the oath. Sumner said he was a judge under thc Con federate Government and therefore disqualified. After considerable discussion thc motion was agreed to. The Senate confirmed tho appointment of Major-General Sherman as Lieut-General, vice Lt-Gcneral Grant ns Kear Admiral, nnd Pear Admiral Porter ?ts Vico Admiral, vico Farragut promoted. The President sent a message to tho House inclosing a communication from Soward in reference to application to tho British Govern- S ment for the release of thc Fenians, and also as to thc discharge of thoso indicted in tho United States. Tho matter has been refer red to tho Attorney-General and it is probable that they will not bc prosecuted. WASHINGTON, July 27.-Mr. Harlan, this afternoon, sent a brief but courteous note to tho President, resigning his office as Sccrt tary of tho interior. The Senate passed a bill for tho admission of NobraHn ; also passed a joint resolution so modifying tho test oath nu to permit Senator Patterson, of Tennessee, to take his scat. This requires a ooncurronco of the House. WASHINGTON, July 28.-Thc Sonato has confirmod tho appointment of 0, IL ?Brown ing as Secretary of tho Interior, in placo of Harlan. Both houses remained in session all night. In tho House, this morning, Slovens made o speech on tho bill introduced by Hill lately, to restore tho States to their proper re lations in tho Union; in which ho advocated tho principles heretofore sot down by him with regard to equal rights, and dcolaring in favor of giving nogrocs thc samo .privile ges as tho whites. Tho civil and niisccllonc cous appropriation bill, after n lengthy strug gle by oonforonco oommUtoo, was concurred in-tho voto on adopting thoir report hoing vory oloso. It inoreosos the compensation oT members, and has.' appended ?0 it the bill equalizing bounties- Patterson was admitted to his seat in tho Sen a tb, this morling, oil taking tho presorted oath of ouTco. Tho IIouso. last uight; by n largo majority, rofusod to modify thc tost oath jo. his favor? Tho