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luako for himself as a freeman, and by tho ro Bult of that comparison, we aro willing to bo judged. A groat responsibility is lifted from our shoulders by his emancipation, and wo willingly commit his destiny to his own hands, hoping that ho mny provo himself worthy of the now position in which he hiiBbcon plaocd. As a slave, ho was faithful to us ; as a frco nian, lot us treat him as n friend. Deal with him frankly, justly, kindly, and my word for it ho will reciprocate your kindness, clinging to his old homo, his own country and his for mer masters. If you wish to sec him con tented, industrious! useful, aid him in his ef fort to elevate himself in tho scnlo of civiliza tion, and thus lit him not only to oujoy tho blessings of freedom, but to appreciate its du tios. Thc csseutial points then, in thc policy wo should pursue, aro, it appears to mc, these : That-wo should fulfd all tho obligations wc have entered into, to the lotter, koepiug our fa;th so clear that no shadow of dishonor can fall on ps ; that we should sustain Mr. JOHN SON cordially in his polioy, giving our support to that party which rallies arouud him ; that wc should yield full obedienoo to tho laws of the laud, reserving to oursolvcs at tho some timo, thc inalienable right nf freedom of specoh nud of opinion ; and that, as to thc groat ques tion which so matoriully affected our interests, th.o abolition of slavery, wc should declaro it settled forever. Pursue this course steadily ? bear with patience and dignity those evil* which ere pressing heavily on you. Commit ourselves to tho guidance of God, and what over may bc your late you will bo able to fact the future without solf-reproach. Brother-soldiers of Bickens : Tho grntefu task-your kindness imposed on mo is finished I wish that I could have discharged it tn i manner moro worthy of you, of tho occasion nud of thc men whoso memory you aro nov honoring. But your kindness, of which ] havo had so many proofs, will induce you t< overlook tho many faults of my performance I.am sure, knowing ns you must do, how fulb my heart is with you iu tho sacred work yoi have this day commeuccd. . It only remains for mo to thank you for tin courtesies you have extended to mo, on th i occasion j to thank you, as I do most grate fully, for thc spontaneous and unsolicited com {dimcnt 3'ou paid mc a year ago at thc ballot lox, and to wish that you may bc prosperous happy and free. AN IMPORTANT ORDER.-Our renden particularly those who are engaged in agricul turo! pursuits, will peruse with satisfuctio tho following order : IIEDAQUARTEKS, STATE OL' So. CA., } Charleston, S. C., Sept. 20, 1$06. [General Orders No. 20.] I. During thc season for picking cotton an harvesting rice and corn, and until thc cror shall have been prepared for market and div ..led among those who havo produced them o shares, persons will not bc permitted to trad ur barter in these products on tho highway commons, rivers, creeks and inlets of thi Military District, without a written liccnt from tho Mayor, Intendant, or other compi tent authority of tho City, Town, or Paris) countersigned by thc Commanding Officer < tho Military Post, within which such persor may be found. Traders and pedlars may t treated ns trespassers when found on plnnti tions without tho consent of tho owners. II. Any person who shall buy cotton, lit or corn raised on shares before thc same sba have been prepared for market* and divide according to contract, or who shall buy thci products from persons employed on plant tions, may bo required, on the complaint any citizen, to produco satisfactory cvitlcni to tho Post Commander that all tho parti interested have expressly consented to tl salo; nnd in default thereof, such purchase shall bo deemed guilty of receiving stoh goods, and punished accordingly. III. Violations of those orders will bc pu ished by Post Commanders by a fine of n less than $50, nor more than 8500. For t second offence, tho accused, on convictie shall bc lined, and imprisoned not less th sixty days. IV. Citizens oro authorized, in thc abscn of competent authority on tho spot, civil military, to arrest nny person found violati theso orders, and to bring thc offender befe tho Post Commander for his action. V. Cnsos arising under these ardors will reported by Post Commanders, and their i tien stated. By oommand of Bvt Maj. Gen. it. K Seo II. W. SMITH, Bvt. Lt. Col. and A. A. General. Official : E. W. EVERSON, 1st Lt. V ll. i Bvt. Maj. Vols., and A. D. C. A RECIPE WORTH ONE THOUSAND D( LARS.-Tako ono pound of sal soda and a h pound of unslnckcd limo-put it in a gal] of water and boil twenty minutes. Lol stand till cool, then strain off, and put it i stone jug or jar. Soak your clothes o' night, or until they aro wet through-tl wring thom out, and rub on plenty of no and in one boiling of clothes well covet with water; add ono teaspoonful of washi fluid. Boil half an hour briskly-then wt thom thorougly through ono suds, rinso w water, and your clothes will look bettor tl tho old way washing twico beforo boiling. This is an availiablo rcoipo, and I want ev? poor tired woman to try it. I think with a tent washtub, to do tho little rubbing, t wash-woman might tako tho last novel a compose herself on tho loungo, and let I washing do itself. Thc woman who can kt a sooret has known this a year or two, but I husband told it while on an electioneering to ?- Cultivator. S3T Now corn is selling, in Anderson, 75 to 90 conti- por bushel, cueh in ourrouc^ ia ROB'T. A. THOMPSON, Editor. R. A.Thompson, W.H.Holcombe,R, Young, PROPRIETORS. T B ll MS.-Ono bollar and Twenty-flvo Cents tor ?ix months, in advance. Provision also taken in payment, nt tho market ratos. JB??y* Advortieomonts insertod at $1 por squaro for tho first iiiuort?on, and GO cents for oacli subse quent inser? ion, cash or provision. Stef?" Obituary Notiocs exceeding Avelines, Trib utes of Respect, Communications of a personal character, ami Announcements of Candidates, will be oltavged for as advertisements. BC?F* Job Printing oxocuted with neatness and despatch, for cash or provision. CS?" NooCBsity compels UH lo adhere strictly to tho requirement of cash payment. PICKENS C, H., S. C.: Saturday Morning, October 6,1968. Personal. Ono year bus elapsed since "wo re-common ced tho publication of tho CoyUlEtt. Anoth er instalment of ?1.25 ia du? us, of which wc stund greatly in need. Sundry advertisers will also obligo Us by paying up. Coin, cur rency, and provision, received in liquidating duca to this office. Will not our friends "stretch forth their hands," und ndd a few moro paying subscri bers to our list ! Gon. Hampton's Speech. Wo have the pleasure of laying before our readers, this week, thc speech of Cen. HAMP TON, delivered before tho Soldiers' Associa tion, at Walhalla, on the 22d ultimo. Wo hnvo been kindly favored with a letter from Gen. BnATTON, to tho same meeting which shall appear in our next issuo Court. Thc Court of General Sessions, for thc Wes tern Circuit, commenced its sessions at Abbe ville on Monday lust. Thc Court will bc opened nt Anderson on Monday next; and, at this place, on Monday thc loth instant. Judgo MUNUO will preside. Jurors, witnesses, and ?di other persons in terested, will take notico and govern them selves accordingly. Thc Legislature, by its recent enactments, did not suspend thc sittings of the Courts, but only directed that a certain class of cases should not bc placed on tho dockols. Saleday. There were a largo number of persons pres eut on saleday. Tho Ordinary and Commis sioner sold a considerable amount of real es tate, at low prices. Tho Sheriff, notwith standing his numerous advertisements, sold a watch only. Ho would not have been able to effect even this much, but that tho " said defendant" surrendered the same voluntarily ! " Nobody hurt" yet. Derelict Estates. A number of these estates have been report ed to thc Commissioner in Equity, requesting him to take charge of them as required by law. Hereafter, a list of property belonging to such estates must bc forwarded with thc request to proceed with the administration thereon. A Large Potato. Wo are indebted to the kindness of Mrs. LAWSON, Stewardess of the Poor establish mont of thc District, for a lurgc yam potato, weighing five pounds and two ounces. Who can produce a finer otu; ? Attempt to Break Jail. Tho " birds of passage," now in the jail of tho District, attempted to escape on Monday night last. With n small pocket knife, in fifteen days, they had cutan opening sufficient ly largo to escape Their bedding had been torn into strips, and propnrcd for " sliding down." Hut thc boat laid plans oft times comes to naught, and this ono was destined to share such a fate. In their haBte and anxiety to get away, an alarm was raised, and tho wholo party locked up in a more secure room. New Advertisements Rend tho various new advertisements to bo found iu our columns this week. The Markets. Tho prico of cotton and gold is going up. In New York, on thc 2d iiiatnnt, cotton was 42 to 44. Gold, 48 J 1 The New Garrison. On tho 25th ultimo, a garrison, consisting of sovouty-fivo men, arrived in Greenville. Lieut. BitiTTON, who is in command, pub lishes tho following order : HKAIIQ'RS, Mir,. POST OP GUKKNVIIJ.K, I Greenville, S. C., Sopt. 20, 1800. J [General Order No. 1.] Pursuant to Spcoial Order No. 8, Head quarters, Dopartmcntof tho South, tho under signed hereby assumes command of tho Mili tary Post of Greonvillo and Piokons. TH OS. BRITTON, 1st Lieut. Otb Inft'y B'vt. Capt. U. S. A. Political. Gloom pojrvados tho public mind iu tho South. Why? Not because of reality, but merely in anticipation. All the elections North havopot gono against us. And, oven if they doy tho '.constitutional amendments" to tho constitution, objectionable os they are, arc left us. Thore is neither "confiscation" nor hemp" in them. The prcsout "lunge" for tho "spout" is wholly unnecessary, discreditable to our an tecedents, and not warranted by the facts or surroundings of tho case. Hold on I " Don't give up the ship " The Corn Prospect Just proviens to tho adjournment of the Lcgislatufo, the following preamble and reso lutions wero adoptcd b/ that body : " Whoroas, in acoordanco with the Procla mation of .flis Excellency Gov. Orr, one of tho avowed objects of the present Special Ses sion waa to,, grant relief to a suffering consti tuency in'Ounscrjunncn of n long and contin ued drong)*; and where-.", U ts not only the prluilofic? biiijLhc duty of the General Assent* lily tn mnnifcf t their sympathy hy some prac tical method for proving their faith by their Works. Ho it Resolved, That the Governor bo, and he is hereby authorized to pledge the faith and credit of tho Slate for the i&sue of Ronds to tho amount of ?31)0,000, in such manner and form ns bc may deem proper and most expedient, tor thc purpose of purchasing com for tho popplo of this State, provided such bonds shall rc .il i/o. thc delivery of 300,000 bushels of corn, including freight und trans portation. Resolved,-That the Governor shall bo au thorized to appoint an agent to carry out tho objects of tliO foregoing resolution, the com pensation of js-tid agent being $1000 tmd tra veling expense?. Resolved,'"Tdiat the said agent shall be re quired to report to thc next regular session the result of his mission through His Excel lency the Governor, and that the apportion ment of tho corn, when purchased and deliv ered, shall bo made through a Special Com mittee, consisting of ono member from each District iu tiro State." Pf.RSONAfy.-Wo regret to learn, says thc " Columbia Carolinian," that Gov OUR was suddenly summoned to his home on Monday last by tho illness of his two sons. Ono of them was announced to bc at the point of death by parties who came down from Allder? '. son on Monday night, and wo greatly fear that His Excellency will bo called upon to endure a burden of affliction, before which the I cares of Stat?^)vill pale almost into insignifi cance. Ile Ima tito sympathy of our people, ono and all, in these domestic trials, and their earnest prayer that his beloved ones may bc speedily restored to health. We learn from tho Anderson popers that horse stealing continues. IilHAM and WAHREN T. MA JOR havobecn lodged in An derson jail, charged with that often00. Tho Fall Term of the Court of G en crai Sessions for this District opened yester day morning, says the " Abbeville Banner," of the lid instant, Judgo MUNRO presiding. Tho business before thc Court will probably not occupy more than two or three days. jftjy" Tho Constitutional Amendment has, so fur, been ratified by tho States of Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Now Jersey, Ten nessee and Oregon. ?&~ " KIND WORDS," for little children and Sunday Schools, is published at Green ville, S. C. See prospectus in our advertising columns, and then lend a helping hand. J?W The residence of VV. W. Holland, Kat]., near Hutton's Ford, in Anderson Dis trict, was totally destroyed by fire on Wednes day night, lf)th instnnt. Only a few articles of bed clothing and wearing apparel were saved from the flames. Tho fire was acoi dental. NEW Yonii, Sept. 20.-Wright's Circular for tho "China" to-day says tho new cotton crop comes forward Slowly, nod *"ree receipts ounnot be looked for before December. Plan ters are busy picking, but indcj ondontly of this reason, tho feeling is very gnucral in the South that Liverpool nmstndvarcc considera bly upon thc roports of bad pro* poets for tho crop, and thcro is a strong disposition every where to hold for this anticipated i dvanoo. Those views will be confirmed by tho higher prices here and in Liverpool during Mio past few days There aro already muro buyers than sellers in nearly all tho Southorn mar keta Tho accounts from Georgia nrc moro gloomy than any yet received. Estimates are still put forth nt various points, but nothing oan bo ovon guessed nt until wo know tho dato of killing frost and tho state of tho weath er hp to that period and for somo weeks be yond. Tho navnnoo sinco this day week bas been equal to three cents per pound. STATE TAX.-Wc leam from tho Federal (Ga) Union that tho property of the Stato re turned for valuation in about ono hundred and sixty millions of dollars letts than in 18G0, ex clusivo of slaves. Tho Govornor bas thoro foro ordered that one-sixth of ono per cent., or 16$ cents on thc ono hundred dollars, bo assessed and collected ns tax for tho prcsont year. Acta cf tho L?gislature. ?D tho first pago will bo found thc amend ed act to put the District Courts into operation. Also, tho act regulating tho sittings of tho Coulta. Below, tho acts to establish a Penitentiary and to define tho rights of tho freed people, appear. AN ACT TO PROVIOE FOU 'MIK KUTAMilSII MENT OF A PEN!TKNT1AUY. I. Be it onaotod by thc Senate and I louse of Represeiiativos of thc State of South Car olina, now met and silling iii G ?merni Assem bly, and by the authority of tho same, That for the purpose of commencing tho establishment of a penitentiary in this State, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, bo and is hereby, ap propriated, to bo paid out of any money in thc Treasury, and drawn and expended by certain Commissioners hereinafter named. II. That a Commission, consisting of throe persons, to ho styled Commissioners of the Penitcntiorj', shall bc appointed by Iiis Ex cellency the Governor, whyte duty it shall bc to soleot and procuro a proper sile, nt so.nc point, if practicable, .vherc water power maj bo made available for manufacturing purposes within thc enclosure, on which to oreel suita ble penitentiary buildings, with suilieienl space to enlarge and improve the same fron time to time, ns may be necessary. III. That it shall be thc duty nf said Com nii^sionerri to erect, as soon ns practicable, t imitable temporary ci closuro and temporary eells, for the safe keeping bf not less than OIK hundred convicts ; and upon tho complotiot of said enclosure and cells, or any part o them, to receive and detain, under r?gul?tioi to bc hereafter prescribed hy the Governor such convicts us be committed to them hy sou tonco of any of tho Judges of this State-. 1 V. That upon iiou'cC that an COclosur and colls are prepared for the reception o convicts, it shall be thc duty of His Excel loll cy the Governor, to appointa keeper, lissi sta ti keeper and such other officers and guards ovc seers as shall, from time to time, bc heooss* ry. to subsist, govern, guard and direct th labor of said convicts, and to make all sue regulations as shall be requisite for their sufi keeping and subsistence, and for di rec tin their labor, cither within or without thc ct closure, to getting out material and constru? ting, us far as practicable, thc necessary pe mnnent buildings and enclosures, and to sue other available branches-of Industry as wi best contribute lo the support of the instit* tion. V. That it shall be the duty of tho sui Commissioners, under the advice and with tl assistance of His Excellency the Govorno to procure plans, specification}! and estim?t for such permanent cn Insure and butldinj aa shall bc deemed neccoary for early use. tn report tho same, together with n full aeeou ot moir transactions under the authority her by conferred upon them, lo tho (relierai A seiubly, at its ensuing regular session. AN ACT TO DECLARE TH li lt Kl HTS OP PK BON? LATELY KNOWN AS SLAVES AN? : PUKE PEKSON8 OP COLOR. Bo it enacted, ka., That all persons hithc to know in law in this State as slaves, or free persons of color, shall have the right mako and cnfnreo contracts, to sue, he sued, I bo allia.Hs and give cvid Mice, to inherit purcluipo, lease, soil, hold, convey and assij real nnd peisonal property, make wills mid tt foments, and to have full and equal benefit thc rights of personal security, personal li ty and private property, and of all remed? and proceedings for tho enforcements ni protection of tito same as white persons nt have, and shall not bc subj coted to any otb ! or different punishment, pain or penalty I j the commission of ntiy act or offence, th I such as uro prescribed for whito persons coi milting like nols or offences. SF.C. 2. That all acts and parts of acts spc ially%rolntitig to persons lately slaves and fi persons of color contrary to tho provisions thia net, or inconsistent with any of its prov ions, bc, and tho same arc hereby reponlc Provifled-t That nothing herein contained sh bo construed to repeal so much of the 8th pi tion of an net, entitled 44 An Act to establi ami regulate tho domestic relations of purse of color, and to amend thc law in relation paupers and vagrancy, ratified tho twonty-fi dny of December, in tho year of our Loi one thousand eight hundred aud sixty-five, enact* that marriages between a white nerf and n person of color aimil bo illegal ona vo >?3r Tho "Washington Republican," (7 ministration organ) announces that thc Pr< dent lins appointed Major General John Dix to bo Envoy Extraordinary and Minis Plenipotentiary to tho Imperial Court Franco, vice John Bigelow removed. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28.-"Wo hit YO ru from Mazatlan, Mexico, to thc effect that Imperialists and tho ships of war had 1 Gu.ivnns to tho Liberals. A fight had occ red noar Mazatlan, in which thc French 1 ?300 and tho Liberals 250, killed and wound Tho garrison of Imperialists at Ure/. > cut tj pieces on the 4th instant, by Martin no quartor being given. Gen. Laniborg, Austrian commander, was killed in an cnga mont nt Guadaloupo on tho samo day It was thought that Mazatlan would pro bly bo evacuated by tho Fronoh in Octet Sonora was in tho undisturhoi possession tho Liberals. YVAKIIINOTON, Oct. 2.-Tho household foots left at tho Arlington Mansion by G Leo, or rather tho fragments romanining them, woro yostorday dclivorcd to thc pu authorized by Gen Leo to rcccivo thom. T was done, it it said, by order of tho Pr< deiR, rjrV MERE MjSNTION. Wm. Gilmore. Simms is preparing a " His tory of South Carolina for Sohools."--Mr, Bancroft is about to publish thc last volume of his History of the United States.-Tho Emperor of Brazil is to visit thc United SUMS. -Ex-Gov. Manning is reported seriously ill at his residence.--Three persons- woro killed hy accident on the Railroad near Con cord, N. C., recently.-Corn is selling in Iowa I from 80 to 40 cents per bushol. He only ia independent who can maintain himself by Ids own exertions.-Thc whip ping post is in requisition in North Carolina by both white and black.-Sotno of tho Chinese in California have silver wa tokes so large that they uso the outside to fry potatoes* in.-You hud hotter find out one of your faults than ten of your neighbor's.-Th* Prussian loss in tho late war was only 10,259, killed, wounded and missing.-A fire iii Newborn di-atruycd property to tho value of $800,000''.-Tho people of England con sume annually S 100,000,000 worth of intox icating liquors.-A political riot ooenrred nt Pintie etty, Mo., on Saturday, ir: which three men wore killed and oightorten wound ed.-Military mon do not muko very civil nuthoritiis.-A negro lawyer has been ad mit ti:il io practice in Montrose, Penn.-A. *' respectable " lady has been stealing in In dianapolis.-(?od is angry with the wicked every d-y-S22 oases wore returned to Court for Union District.-They have u new infantry drill in New York.-Thero aro 8,000 negro votorii in New Xork, who will vote with the Democrats.-Tho anti-rent disturbances have been renewed nt Albany. N. Y.-The expense of the recent extm session of the Legislature was about ?30,000'. HYMENEAL. Happy they ! tho happiest of Iheir kind I Whom goutier starr) unite, and in ono futo Tlioivhcarts, their fortunes,and Ihuirbulngsbl??!." MAURI H O, ut tho r?sidence of thc brido'? fath er, in this village, on Thursday evening the 27lh ult., bv Kev. S. S. GAIL*, A NO, I>K. THOMAS A. KV I NS. of Andci ?on. to MISS KLI58A E., eldest daughter of W. K, Holcombe, I'sii. t&2f" This own den was fraught vrith pleasure unalloyed. .May the many kind nnnVipnfions of friends bo moro than realized by this liuftpy couple in their .tourney through life! WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.-Tho Seorotary <?f Wov liu? pohlinhed au official order, in which he refutes certain untruthful chargea of I lie enemies of the. administration relutfnc* to tho payment bf bounties to soldiers, undor thc act of Congress. He says the pymont fina not been delayed by 1103' action or interference of thc President or Secretary of thc Treasu ry, nor was the report of the military board appointed lo make rules on the subject sup pressed by cither of them. SAN FRANCISCO, September 30.-Tho Port land (Oro >n) Dispatch of lust night says that H. W. CORBETT, thc Union eu adi dake, has been elected United States Senator from that State by a strict party rote of *58 to SI. JtiFl'KKSO.N DAVIS.-Thc "National Intel ligencer," of Thursday, says: Wc learn that Samuel Tyler, Esq., of Frederick, Miirylu?d, one of thc counsel of Mr. Jefferson Davis, had, yesterday, an interview willi tho Atloc ney-General io regard to the trial of Mr. I)a^ vis. We have nut beard wbnt thc result of the interview was, but suppose that it was ru ncooidunce with what wo learn from tho best Source of information, that Judgo Underwood and tho Chief Justice havo como to. tho iron*, elusion, thut hoes USC of th? legislation, of tho last Congress, the adjourned court cannot bo held next month. Consequently tho case of Mr. Davis, with nil others, must he postpou od to a future day. NKW YORK, Oct. 2.-A special dispatch from a number of town elections in Connec ticut ycstcrdity, report that nearly ull beard from were oarricd by thc Republicans by su* increased majority. TRUTU.-Truth is Uko God's baptism up on thc bills. First, it, "IR likn dow drops si lently descending through a cloud of mist und vapor to kiss tho petals of some droop ing flower. Then it is a little pool gather ing tn souio tiny basin in a fratcrual etnbraco of atoms. Then it is a rill that goes cutting its channel way through tho green mos SU*j down tho ?loping hillside, hastening to meet ing of waiora below. Then it ia a stream, hur rying over precipices and down caRcadc rocks* turning the great wheel of manufacture, grin ding tho grain and working tho spindles ann\ shuttles of man. Thon it is the river, slowto rolling onward through its mighty ohanncr, upon which great lu/,y barges rock, and tho paddles of tho steamboat beat. And ihon-? then it is the broad sweep of tho Atlantio, UP,-, on whioh is borno, from lond to land, tho pro? ducts of tho industry of an ontiro world.-> And that's tho way truth comos. And that'd tho way truth acts. -J_ . 1 .. SBEHBgBfr RECEIPTS. Tho following persons huyo paid on thoir sub, sorlption to tho Cuwitn-m, ns follows! Maj. J. M. Adams, - . . $1 '??\ John IV. Clark, .... 1 2/"> Alex. A ligand, - - . 1 20 Wm, A. Lay, - - . - f> Oft Maj. J. IL Whituor, , \ 2?,