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PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1801.
NIGHT THE DAY, THOU
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POETRY.
THE SABBATH.
?T ?III BD WA KU UCI.WKK L VTTUX.
* Fresh glides thc brook thal blows the gale,
Yet yonder hulls the quiet mill !
Tin whirling'Wheol, thc rushing mill,
Bow motionless and still !
Ab, tender was the law that'gnvo
This holy respite to thc breast,
To breadle 11 io gale, to watch the wave,
And know tho wheel may vest !
But where tho waves the goutiest glide,
^Vhat innige charms to light thine eyes ?
The suire rellccted on thc tide ?*
Invites thee to thc skies.
To teach the soul the noblest .worth,
Tho roat from mortal toils is given:
Go snitch the brief reprieve from earth,
And pass-a guest^to Heaven.
They toll thee, in their dreaming school,
Of i-oijer from old dominion hurled ;
When rich ami poor, with juster rule,
Shall sharo thc altered world. <
Alas! since time itself Ciegan,
That fable hath but fooled thc hour;
F.ach agc that ripeas po\.?.r in niau
Hut subjects man to power.
Vet every day in seven, at least,
One bright republic shall be known ;
Man's world awhile hath surely ceased,
When dod proclaims his own !
Six days may rank divide thc poor,
O, Hives, from thy banquet hal ;
The seventh the rather opes his door,
f\tv\ holds 'ds feavt for alli
POLITICAL.
Fro in the Columbia .South Carolinian.
Tho 8tatc Convention. ''
Pursuant to thc call ot' His Excellency Gov.
Orr, as Vino President of tho National Union
Olub, thc dclcuates appointed to the rHate
Convention,* ussombled ni this city yesterday
Morning at* ?levon o'clock ,in the Baptist
Church
Thc body being eal led to order by General
l?an ison, of Anderson, on bis motion, Ex
Governor Perry, of Greenville, \vat>#hosen ns
thc temporarv chairman.
Prayer was offered by Hov. Mr. Martin, of
- Columbia.
Messrs. Moses and DcPass were appointed
Secretaries pro tem.
On motion of Mr. Townes, of Greenville,
the delegates present enrolled their names ne
cord i mr to the alphabetical order of the sever
al districts represented.
One hundred and forty-one delegates en
rolled their names.
Thc enrollment of names lihving hoon com
pleted, Mr." Mikoll moved that a committee of
live *bo appointed to nominate the permanent
otueersof tito Convention, the Vice-President.-'
to consist of one from ouch Congressional Dis
tried.
Thc motion was agreed to and tho chair
named as thc committee., Messrs. Miko.ll, Rob
orison, Harrison, Campbell and Gibbes.
The committee, after conference, reported
tho following as thc permanent organization
of thc Convention.
President--Hon. J ;s. L. Oir.
Vice Presidents-Gen. Wade I lampton, B.
Brown, Esq., C. W. Dudley, Gabriel Cannon.
Secretaries-V. J, Moses, Wm. L De Puss.
RPBKC 11 OF dov. onu. .
0? talcing tho chair, His Excellency ad
dressed the Convention ns follows :
Gentlemen of thc Convention : I thank
you for thc" distinguished honor conferred in
selecting mo to presido overtire doliberations
of this'body. Your familiarity with tho mnoii
itios mid courtesies of debate will,' [ am. satis
v fled, make'tho duties of thc office by no means
onerous or sevore ; and allow mo to add, it is
extremely gratifying to sec so large ii repro
sentation from tho various sections of South
Carolina, on thc present occasion. It is indi
cativo.of thc lively interest which our constit
uents feel in tli'o groat movement about to be
inaugurated-a inovomont whoso consequences
ia ray humble judgment, aro destined lo.be
vast and-important. It may be unsuccessful,
and tho hopo it generates, I i ko mtinv of tho
brightest anticipations Wo have nherished. may
be disappointed, but it is neither -wiso nor
philosophie to cowor beforo tho calamities by
which wo aro ovortnkon. It should, rather be
'our duty to strive to repair tho wrong; and
honoo, I hiivo felt whntoVer may be its results,
now unforeseen, Mint.wo cannot take too deep
an interest in tho assemblage that is to con
veob tn Philadelphia on tho 14th of tho pres
ent month. . *
Tho uhjoct of that Convention is to solidify
all tho conservativo clements of tho North and
West in ono organization, so that when .tho
' Fall ano* Spring olootiqns ensue, tho voto cast
by tho pcoploof thoso sootious wiii bo for con
servativo men and mensures and thoroby dc
fvilt the Radical party who ha\o now control
.; , ' "* . . ' Wnw'
bf tho legislative department of thc Govern
ment. Tho issue has been fairly' ?nude be
tween the President on his policy of recon
struction- so generous in many of its essential
features-and that extreme, bitter and perse
cuting policy which it is proposed to adopt to
wards those States recently engaged in war
with thc North.
As has been stated, tho Radicals have now
control of thc Legislative department of thc
Government. Ry their legislation they also
contemplate a speedy seizure of the control of
thc judicial department. In one of their re
cent enactments reorganizing the Supreme
Court, they have provided that vacancies on
the. Hench shall not be lilied until thc number
is reduevd to seven ; and in view of the fact
that thc conferva ti yes arc thc oldest members
of that court, they have anticipated that in
tho course of human events, these will soonest
pass away from the stage of lifo, thus leaving
tho eitstody of tho judicial as well ns legisla
live department of thc government in their
hands. . _
Rut will they bo content lest op Micro 7 lu
my opinion, if the elections of the North do
not change the face of political affairs, and the
i Radicals are successful in maintaining their
irround Ihr??ugh these elections, they will, be
fore tho first day of January next, not only
possess the power, but they will use thc power
to impeach the President, turn him out of
ellice, and substitute ft loader-of their own ;
so that the Executive department will like
wise pass into their control. They have al
ready two thirds of Congressand although
? it may bu that we cannot destroy the. full
client of their majority, tho North and North
west univ, If the Philadelphia Convention
prove a suee ss, so far chango the pollen I
complexion of thc Senate and House of Rep
resentatives ns to enable, thc President to de
feat obnoxious legislation by the veto power.
11 therefore behooves us to go cordially and
heartily into this movement, and to sustain, ns
far us we properly can do, the tuen and meas
ures adopted. Thc call for thc Convention is
in my judgment, almost entirely unexception
able ! so much so, that it is neither wiso?nor
politic for us to raise a point concerning it.
The m<>ionty of the committee.wore members
ol the Republican party, and it ts to consoli
date willi it, tho war und anti war Democrats
that constitutes one of tho objects of tho Con
vention. Let us hope that its deliberations
will prove harmonious, and that thc conduct
and deportment of tho representatives of thc
North and South towards each other will bc
based upon tho same principios that actuate
two friends who have, quarreled ?md become
reconciled. Let them ignore the past and go
forward mutually intent upon healing the
breach that has been made, and again strive
in unison, to make tho country happy, pros
perous und dontontcd.
I invoke upon your deliberations ail the
wisdom that eau come from on High, and
trust that South Carolina will have cause to
oongrattrVlc you in coining herc for thc pur
poses of this Convention.
The Convention resolved to proceed to elect
delegates from thc State at large. Thc follow
ing gent lemon were elected : Gov. Orr, B.\>
Gov. Perry, James R. Campbell, John L.
Manning.
The following resolution was adopted :
Jtcf?d?cd, That thc delegates from each
Congressional District shall elect delctrafes
from their respective Districts,?nd report their
selection tenu adjourned meeting of this body.
The next business in order being the elec
tion itt* delegates from the Congressional Dis
I triets, a recess of thirty minutes was token to
allow a conference of delegations. '
On re-assembling, thc delegations from the
(^mirressional Dist riots, reported thc names of
the. following gentlemen as delegates-elected
to thc Convention.
1st Congressional District-R. Dozier, Hon.
P. J. Moses.
2d Congressional District--T. Y. Simons,
ijjSfj., Hon. W. P. Shingler.
Sd Congressional District--Hon. D. L.
Wardlaw, Hon. Sam'l. McGowan.
4th Congressional District-Hon. T. N.
Dawkins. Hon. Jumes Farrow.
There being no other business before thc
hotly,
On motion of J. Barret Cohen, Esq., thc
Convention adjourned sine die.
AN IMPORTANT PARAGRAPH TO COTTON
Hoi.DF.ns.-Tho Internal Revenue Cominis'
stenier has received his official copy of tho new
revenue law, and is consequently required tc
collect three instead of two cents a pound up
on cotton, by thc ferma of tho act, "on.-mic
after tho first day of August, 1800." Par
ties holding cotton con moko their tax return!
before that day and snvo ono cont per pound
[Macon Journal <(' Messenger.
Mr. Henry Spnrnick of tho " Cha'rlcstoi
Courier," luis boon appointed tho agent of tin
Ladies Memorial Association of Oakwood Com
etory at Rich monti, Va., and calls on tho oiti
zftns of tho Sta?>? to forward him oontributiom
to bo oxpondod in marking and preserving tlv
graves of dead soldiers in and aroufid Rioh
mond. . " ' -
Terrible Riot in New Orleans- .
. Nw ORI.KA.NIV July 30.--Tin! Rndioal
Convention nt tempted Co cou veno today, which
caused a tembl? riot. ' ?
The Convention met at 12 o'clock, twenty
six members present. Largo numbers of ne?
. groesformcd in procession, with drums beat
ing, and marched to Mechanics' < Institute,
where thc Convention was in session., The
most intense excitement prevail J. . Indis
criminate (iring occurred in several s'reeti^nnd
a, number of negroes were killed Vpd sonic
whites wounded. Thc police surrounded the
Convention building and endeavored to main
tain order. On the meeting of the Conven
tion the populace surrounded the building,
and an immense .mob of negroes were both
inside and out-ide. Tho police and people
finally became masters of thc situation antf thc
building was closely besieged.
The, police attempted to enter tho building,
when they were fired upon. Tro firing theil
commenced from thc mob outside on thc mob
inside. And finally thc parties inside surren
dered tn a. body. ) .
. Some fifty or sixty were killed iii thc fight.
Ex-Gov. Mahn was dreadfully cut up. Dr.
Dostie and John Henderson were killed. The
President of tho Convention and members
thereof ure beinjg arrested one by one and
confined. A little more order nnd quiet now
prevails.
NEW ORLEANS, J uly 31.--Citizens arc pur
suing their usual business avocations. The
prisoner? arrested yesterday haye; been re
leased hy General Baird.* Thc casualties sum
Up 80 negroes killed and several policemen
dangerously wounded. Dr. Dort ic. reported
mortally wounded, is dcud. ? .
LATER.-The following lina - just been re
ceived, and will bc promptly executed :
WASHINGTON, July 30, 18G6.
To ANDREW S. HERRON, Attorney General
of Louisiana : '
You will call on General Sheridan or Who
ever may be in command, for a sulliciont force
to sustain thc civil authorities suppressing all
illegal- or unlawful assemblies who usurp or
assume to exercise nuy power or>authority
without first having- obtained the consent of
?t..v -f ?'.. Ci.?... if .1.1 --Li. L... - -
Convention let it bc corn posed of delegates
chosen from the people of thc whole State.
The people must be first consulted in reference
to changes in thd organic laws of the State.
Usurpation will not bo tolerated. Tho laws
and Constitution must be sustained and there
by peace and order.
(Signed) ANDREW JOHNSON.
From Europe.
Li VV.RPOOT., July 30.-Sales of cotton 12,
000 bales, closing timi
Tho "'New York Herald " has tho follow
ing :
LONDON, July 30.--A groat reform meet*
ing was held here to day. Thirty thousand
persons were present. Resolutions were adopt
ed declaring they had no faith in thc Govern
ment. -Petitions were read which will be pre
sented to Parliament, demanding an inquiry
into thc conduct of thc Chief bf Police. Thc
procession was immense, and passed off qui
etly.
Thc " Tribune's '.' special says : Peace was
certain at Berlin on Saturday. Prussia car
ries all her points'. Austria's naval victory
was much overrated.
Hyde Park riots and movements for an ex
clusive reform league meetings have periled
thc Derby Government.
The " New York Herald's * City of Mexi
co correspondent says that tho reorganization
of Maximilian's army is progressing finely :
. American citizens are pressing their Con
suls for nationality papers on account of tho
impending draft.
An attack on Jalappa was going on when
this dispatch loft Now*York.'
.Company capitalists have juirohnsftd the
Florida Railroad grant, and eogincer? aro al
ready nt work.
WASHINGTON, August 3.-D. .Thurston,
United States Consul nt Toronto, informs tho
Stato Department, under d*ato of thc 28th,
that Dillon, Ellis, Corney and King were two
or th reo days ago1 discharged from prison by
tho Canadian Government. These parties
were American citizens arrested at Fort Erie
on tho charge of offoring to engage in thc Fe
nian'raid, nnd wore discharged on tho evi
dence submitted of their iunoceooo.
FovERTY^i.N SOUTH GAROMNA.-An offi
ocr writes tjp> tho Freedmen's Bureau from
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, under dato ol
July 8th, nn.d says that there is great dostitu
tion amongst tho people there, both white ami
black, nnd it is cxpootod thatboforo the cropi
aro secured thero. will bo a great doal of suffer
ring in tho back part of {he district. In go
ing to St. Thomas, this oflicor saw. on n goot
many of tho rice plantations, men and womct
working in a stato of pudity, not oven invest
ed with an apology for a fig leaf. . Titer
will ho \stirring appeal made to obtain oloth
ingfor these pcoplojbeforo winter comes on
for their scanty supply lins been, in a greu
many oases, completely exhausted.
Tho End of a Southern Romance.
.A SOUTHERN COTTON FACTOR'S DA Od II TE It
IN TROU RLE-A OAMHT.KR's VIOTfJ?l.
-In tho spring of 1801, when Fort Sumter
had surrendered to the mob whiclwsurrouudcd
it, vherc was a fever ot excitement in Charles*
ton relative to raising troops to invade thc
North. A company .of young men belonging
to tho first families Ul the city hod been or
ganized, nod .tho ladies belonging to thst cir
cle had made lt their provinco to raise tho
money necessary to equip tho company, fur
nish it with arms, ami scud it'to tho seal of
war in a stylo which should reflect credit upon
thc patriotism even of the first families .of
Charleston.
Tho excitement was intense, and thc young
Lily friends Of tho soldiers were in a fever
heat as to which should do tho most toward
aiding tho cause and firing the Southern heart.
A fair was held, at which thc beauty and chiv
alry were present, And from this u* huge sum
was realized. '
One young lady, a beautiful and well edu
cated girl, daughter of a New York merchaut
who had settled as a cotton factor in Charles
ton some thirty years before, threw ber whole
soul into thc work. She forgot her relations
in thc North, forgot her father was there born,
forgot everything but her deep interest in aid
ing the cause of thc South, and, with a fool
ish romanee, which only tho excitement of the
times could explain, nt the fair spuken of,
offered her heart und hand in the ni file, thc*
only stipulation bo'lllf, that thc person who
(hew them should be of respectable parentage
and it soldier. :
The novelty of thc proposition added a croat
interest to thc fair,, and au immense sum was
realized, aided by the rallie, she being a pet
ted child of Southern society, young, beauti
ful, gifted, und wealthy. The holder of tho
prize ticket was u gamblor and spendthrift,
wluj had run through his fortune, and civil
war was an excitement just suited to his ner
vous temperament. Ile wira a member of tho
company-the Cb. rios to ll, Tigers-which thc
ladies were fitting out, and was a scion of tho
family of Rhett.
After it was known who tho lucky man was,
Iiis ^miii^iSX^W^S WiciYi^lue'.ll'fe
offered by tho lady's parents to make her re
cede from the promises she had made. No
she had given lier word, and her part of the
contract should bc religiously kept. With
great eclat the parties were married-thc oc
cisi?n was thc theme of much talk for a few
d iys, and then disappeared before thc stern
realities of war.
War brings strange revolutions. Thc fath
er of the young lady saw his property wasted,
and ho.died in poverty, Poor now, thc folly
and romance which had once been the theme
of nil praise, Was 1 nighed at ; but tho most
singular 111 i 11 !T of all was, that tho young lady
loved the object upon whom she had so strange
ly placed her hoart. Ile had gone to Virgin
ia with his company. Shodieard of and from
him regularly until thc summer of 1804, when
all traeos of him ceased. The " Tigers " were
broken up as a company organization, and the
few of them left were scattered through other
regiments, lier ceasing to hear from the man
led thc lady to believe that ho was dead, and
ns a martyr to the cause she loved, (Was ho
mourned,
When, however, thc war ceased, and the
scattered fragments of Southern chivalry came
straggling back, she learned that her husband
had been taken prisoner near Norfolk, and en
listed in n company of United States volun
teers composed of deserters from the Southern
army, and had been with them sent up into
Minnosota for duty on tho border. This was
a tragical termination to her romance, but it
did not quench tho love which had grown up
from nothing tn hor heart, and a few months
airo sh* loft Charleston, selling what little of
her jewelry sho had left to rjrtlsO tho necessary
money, went to Washington, searched through
the rolls, but could r.ot find the name/of her
husband, and if bc had been there it was un-'
der an assumed name.
She bad expected this; but laying her enso
before President Johnson, she was fdrnished
with tho necessary instructions to tho com
manding officer pf tho department in which
hor husband might be; to sccuro his release
from service, and she came west with the'in-.
tcntion of proceeding along tho track tho
troops had taken until she could obtuin somo
information of him.
Arriving in Chicago, she was fortunato
onough to meet there a man whom sho had
known in Charleston whcr?sho was'tho hello
bf the city-a man who hnd deserted tho rebel
flag and joined the Union army with her hus
band. From him she learned that what she
had heard was true--that both had boon mus
tered out on surgeon's certificates of disabili
ty, and hod come back to St. Paul after thc
lndmn campaign was over.
Both had too much pride to return to their
homo now; and while sho had como on to
Chicago, thc. husband, had remained at St
,Paul to pursue his reckless courso of gambling
under tho assumed nnmo of Grantley, nmd was
ejtbor thorp or on tho r.vc-r. Unpleasant as
wss tho intelligence, it was welcomo to tho
? . , S "''fl
poor woman, who at onco set out for St. Paul.*
While nt thc depot in Chicago she liad her
pocket picked of nearly all the money she lind,
and when she arrived in this city on Wcdnes
day she was in a destitute condition.
Yesterday morning she went to thc oifico of
Major Tallmndgo and told that gentlemen*her
situation and tho desire she felt of nt on co
proceeding to St. Paul, in hopes that she
might there find tho.object of hori?caroli.-6h*;
said that she was here without a friend to np'
ply to, and ns humiliating ns it wns, there waa
no other course left for her.
A slip from thc '< Charleston Courier " gave N
the incident which wc have related above.
Although older in years than when she was
guilty of the romantic net, and exhibiting ev
ery trace of sorrow, she still looked beautiful,
and her sincerity of manner, still controlled
by Southern hauteur and pride, spoke th? -
?ruth of her assertion. It is needless to say'
that she was provided with the necessary
means to roach St. Paul j and we trust she
will find her husband, wdio, if ho has one rem
nant of humanity left in him, will take care
of and kindly trent this once proud but dcvo-,
ted and unhappy wife.
A D ? EL.-We learn from n genllemnn
who was near thc scene that n duel Was fought
at Moseley's Ferr}-, on thc Abbeville side of
the Savanah Uiver, on Saturday morning last,
between Captain Birch and a Mr. Knight,
young lawyers from Elberton, Ga. Thc dis
tance eight paces, and there was to bc no prop
osition of adjustment previous to the third
fire. At the second lire, however, Mr. Knight
was shot through both thighs. The wound,
though painful, is a flesh wound] and not re
garded dangerous. As usual, tho fight was m
.about a lady.-Abbeville Banner. .
NKW Youie, August 3.-An Ottawa, Can
ada, dif patch says information has reached tho
Government that another Fenian movemeut
will soon take placo; Gen. Dick Taylor to
command in chief. It is. thought the next
struggle will bc a severe ono.
VER? CRUZ dates to thc 27 th report that a
revolution was attempted at the cityof M.oxi
aa a'ntf ax^afHWdVii'4''-- ft**?* - ..
THK " Richmond Examiner" says tho Na
tional Union Convention has met with but
littlo opposition at thc South. Indeed, tho
unanimity of favor with which it has been
met by thc Southern press and peoplcjs most
remarkable.
DISTRICT MONUMKNTS.-Tho accomplished
Columbia correspondent of the " Yorkvillo
Enquirer," J. Wood Davidson, says:
We have been commanded by a lady to sug
gest thc propriety and expediency of our erect
ing a monument to thc memory of our Con- .
federate devi, in eaoh District of our State.
Left there bc n plain shaft of white marbi?
erected in thc public square in front of every
Court House, (or in such other publio placo
as circumstances or taste may suggest ns bet
ter,) and upon this shaft write tho nonio of
every soldier of that District who fell in tho
lato war-thc name und rank only. As a fur
ther record of their deeds, let a register bo
kept for this. ... ?
It is too soon to erect these memorial shafts
just now ;t but let thc organizations bc collect
ed, and tho names prepared, with a view to
erecting them a few years hence. Let com
mittees be appointed to receive and solicit
contributions, and thus keep thc matter before
the people until the opportuno timo comes, as
it will, for the work itself.
Such is tho suggestion wc nrc delegated to
mnke. It comes to us fresh from a woman's
heart ; and we feel a thrill of pride ns wc hnnd
it to our circle of reading friends. We com
mend it the heart?, of our poop]?? and ?rust
that it will also commend itsolf to them.
NEW Yonic^ Augusti>_.-Twenty-four OBBCS
and ten deaths by cholera woro reported m
tho city for yesterday. . Sixtcon coses and
three deaths in Brooklyn.' The cholera han
broken out in King's County, lhere bavo
been seventy-seven cases of cholera iu King's
County sinoo thc 27th ult. Tho inmates of
the institution aro forbid to como to Now York.
Twenty-nine thousand three hundred and
twenty-two emigrants arrived here from Eu
rope in July.
CORN'iou GEORGIA.-Tho u St. Louie? Re
publican," of thc. 14th instant, thus refers to
Colonel Maddox, who was recently sent to tho
Wost to purchase corn for tho destitute peo
ple of thia Stufe: " Colonol K. F. Maddox,
acting boro ns tho ngont of the Governor of
Georgia, for tho purchase of corn for the (lou
tit ut o iu that State, hna purchased and for?
warded ono hundred and oighty-threo thous
and bush?ls, tho last shipment being made
Thursday evening /in tho Stephen Decatur.
This will bo delivci ed In Georela at ft cost pt
less than ono dollar ,por bushel, in?ludiog '
freight and charges Tho corn has boen
bought and shipped within fivo "weeks, and
Colonel Maddox hos alr'oady lett for Georgia.'*
'Lv. ARNTNCt refines and elevates the m hi fl.
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