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PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1801.
NIGHT THE DAY, THOU
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POETRY.
Summer Dying.
On Hie scarlet mountains yonder,
Hummer lies down tn ?lie ;
She gnthers her robes of splendor
Around her royally.
lier tender, purpling mosses
Pillow her royal head ;
lier myriad, gentle grasses
Are weeping about her bcd.
It foiled, thc precious promise
Ot her beauty's golden reign ;
ll came, thc loss, the longing,
The silence ami lite pain;
.She was cruel in her splendor,
She mocked us in its reign
She held her careless carnival
Above our idol slain.
'Tis aol thc hnnd thal crowns us,
Thc hand held out to bless
'Tis I he hand I hat robs and wrongs us,
Thal we oftenest caress.
Billi, O, beguiling Summer,
We o'er thy beauly lean ;
Thou ilidsl rob tis. yet we love I bee
Discrowned, we hail thee queen.
All passionate fervor fildvd*
With eyes nt last sereu??.
Turned towards thy conqueror. Autumn,
Thou arl "lying, 0, our queen !
All Hint thou gayest lo us, *
In thy morning's gracious glow,
All thou hast taken from us,
Only our (led can know.
Outrages in North Ctrolina.
A correspondent writes to tho " Haleigh
?Sentinel" from Franklin, Macon County, N,
0., September 23, as follows :
His Honor Judge Shipp held court in
Cherokee last week. Hut few decisions of
importance were made. Thc curt had its
d?lib?rations very much disturbed, on Mon
day, by thc return of some noted individuals
from Tennessee, by thc name of Morrow, well
armed. They made nu attack on a man by
tho name ?if Tatham, fired a pistol at him'
while on his h orso in thc net of leaving for
home., thc ball missing him mid taking cll'cct
in tho neck of his horse. Tatham, who, it
seems, had been apprehensive of un attack,
was also uruicd o,nd returned tho (ire, killing
instantly one of the Morrows, mid rode off.
Thc other Morrow mounted u horse and pur
sued him a snort distance, but not in tho
range of gun-shot.
lie wheeled his horse, entne hack to whore
his brother was lying dead, ami deliberately
fired on a lawyer by the naur! of Hoon, killing
him instil nt ly. ll o i ap po. ; to have been
unarmed, not having suspected any attack.
After killing Hoon, bc fired on a man by the
name of Cooper, quite a peaceable and inoffen
sive man not, engaged in thc affray, indicting
on him two severe wounds, from which his re
covery is d seined doubtful, nnd .Morrow then
made his escape in the direction of Tennessee,
where he resides. These outrages by men
from Tennessee, neting under the advice of
Gov. Urownlow, who published thc opinion
that it was right to kill the. rehs wherever
found, and that bc would purdon the o?hnce,
nro becoming too frequent to be continuel]
much longer without producing a border war
fare much to bc deplored.
A man by the nunc of Cline, residing in
t'ne lower part of Jackson County, was allot
down in cold blood, ti short time since, by a
band of marauders from Tennessee, known as
the Robert 1?urjhfield robbert). Four of them
carno to the house of Cline, a little while before
dark, called him out, and pretended that they
wanted a candi? to count out their money.
As soou as the candle came, without saying a
word, two of thom shot him-thc balls taking
effect near his heart, causing instant death.
Ile leaves a wife and a large number of small
children to mourn his loss. Thc murderers
were enabled to make their escape to thc do
minions of dov. Hrownlow.
Another portion, including thc notable Hob
burchfield himself, about thc samo time, pen
etrated into thc lower portion of Cherokco
County, went to the houso of a Mrs. Gunter,
fired upon her two sons, wounding one of them
8criously. The}', too, mudo their escapo to
tho same rendezvous.
Will these murderers of our peaceable citi
zens along thc border, as in tho days of yore,
bo surrendered and turned ovor to the civil
authority for trial nnd punishment?
THE grading of tho Charleston city rnilwny
was commenced yesterday. Tho route will bo
from tho Exchange, (or old post office,) its
down-town terminus, and pass up liroad to
Mooting, up Meeting to Calhoun, tip Calhoun
to King and through King to Shepherd street,
its up town terminus. Thcro will bo a doub
lo tr.iok'ttfiuig this entire distanoo. Heindes
< tho main routo, there will be a branch road,
diverging from tho double track ot tho corner
of Mooting and Wentworth street?, and pro
ceeding through Wentworth and Ilutlcdgo
to Ituticdgo nvenuo and thonoo to the corner
of Spring street.
Tn BUE aro 80,000 white citizens of Ton
nesseo who cannot vote undor tho present
S Inte ls uti.
[l'Yotii (lio Columbia Pheonix.]
Moms. Editors : You will much oblige n
subscriber by publishing thc Subjoined letter
of thc lion, B. F. Moore, on the subject of re
; pudiatieu, stay laws, Ac. Thc author of the
letter, familiarly called " Batt. Moore," ranks
KS one of the first lawyers in the United States,
and hence hhs legal opinions should have great
weight. W.
HALMO H, Sept. 17, 180i>.
Mu. RICHARD Suer..-Dear Sir : I have
received yours, asking my "opinion, in n few
words, whether private debts can he repudia
ted or not V
I am greatly surprised that it is deemed
necessary to ask this question, after a national
existence of eighty years under the Constitu
tion of the United States, one clause of which
declares that " no State shall pass any law im
pairing the obligation of contracts.
Now, every man is bound to support that
Constitution, aud every sentence of it. And
every person who may become an officer of the
State or mcminn of tho Legislature is com
pelled, ns a necessary qualification before ta
king his seat, to swear that he will support
said Constitution j which bc cannot do, and
will not do, if he shall pass, or try to pass,
any law impairing the obligation of contracts.
ICvcry law which annuls a contract or repudi
ates it, impairs tho obligation of a contract,
and is, thorofore, unconstitutional and void.
Every man who votes for it commits a perjury
and lifts his hand against tho majesty and
honor of his country.
Surely, sir, no man in our country would,
if he could, so dishonor himself or his State,
as to invite all men to break their faith each
with the. other, and allix a stigma on the name
of North Carolina, which no time may efface.
I God forbid that my eyes should ever Colloid
this disgrace upon thc " Old North State."
Such a condition would place her lower than
any people of whom wc have any account.
I have answered your question, and gone
somewhat beyond, but my surprise has been
the cause. 1 nm, respectfully, yours,
B. F. MOOTIK.
P. S.- The coulta of tho United States,
and of every State, have declared such legis
lation void.
Nr.w YORK, October 10.-Thc steamship
Scotia, wijh Queenstown dates to thc 7th, has
arrived. The following aro the principal con
ditions of the treaty of peace between Austria
and italy : A mutual exchange of all prison
ers of war; Austria consents toa union of
Venetia with Italy; tho frontiers to bo added
to Italy are those which constituted the ad
ministration of Venetia while, under tho Aus
trian dominion ; the. amount of debt to bc as
sumed by Italy is 30,000,000 florins, payable
in (deven instalments in twenty-three months.
An Athens despatch, dated September 29,
says the French Minister Mouthier has warned
tho Creek Government that Franco would
break off diplomatic relations with (Jreece if
thc latter did not observe the. strictest neutral
ity during the insurrection in Candia. The
Cretans National Assembly had called on thc
Creek nation to take part in the insurrection.
Thc English and Kreuch Consuls in Candis
arc opposed to thc movement.
Sr. LOUIS, Oct. ll.-INMAN OUTRAGES
-Capt. Barlow, of Gen. Sherman's stall", ar
rived yesterday from Fort. Dodge, where lu
saw two white girls named Poye,, ono seven
teen and the other thirteen years old, who har
boen ransomed from thc Kiowa Indians. Till
{.'iris say, that on the 27th of August last, tin
Kiowa? attacked their homo in North-weateri
Texas, and killed, scalped and burned theil
father. Themselves, mother and a sister cigh
years old were carried off into captivity, ant
treated in the most cruel and revolting man
ner. On arrival at tho Indian camp, thc cap
(ives were, knocked senseless with clubs, re
peatedly ravished by tho fiends, and wen
treated in this manner four or five times eve
ry day. On hearing of their condition, th
commanding officer at Fort Dodge, not havinj
sufficient force to rcscuo them, effected thci
ransom, and will send them to their friends ii
Texas ns soon as they recover from their terri
bio sufferings. Wbilo in tho Indian camp
thc officers sent to arrange their ransom sat
tho captives knocked down three times an
violated. Gen. Sherman will bc hero ou th
10th.
Thc "Democrat's" special despa.1 oh frot
St. Joseph says tho latest advices from Mor
tann report forty miners out of a party of sot
enty-fivc in the Green River diggings wei
killed hy tho Cheyonnes, and the others dril
cn away. Tho miners on Wind River wot
also driven off hy tho Sioux and compelled t
fly to tho nearest fort for protection. Lnrji
numbers of Idaho and Montana miners had a
rivid ot Salt Lake to spend tho winter.
NKOHO TESTIMONY.-The " Mississip]
Clarion " reports tho trial, conviction nnd soi
tenco of a whito man for tho killing cf a n
gm-tho conviction made on nogro tcstiinov
alono. Tho sentence of Judgo Campbell
full of interest. It is tho first oase In th
State, and perhaps thc first in tho South, whe
s whito man was conviotcd on negro tesl
mony.
Jefferson Davis.
Wo have published the accounts of many
intorviovs with ex-President^, Davis, but the
following, from George D. prentice, editor
of tho M Louisville Journal,Sjg#hioh he pdb
I lishes in his paper, of the 5j^}psr., will be
found highly interesting, jusjf.ht this time:
In the course of un ?uter\M^^^|??^^?dg
with Jeff. Davis, in JanuarggflKfy;: thc sub
of the (.erins of peace was if?roduocd. Mr.
Davis ?shed us what was th?*phicf? objection
of thc North to the recog?Kpp of Southern
independence. Wo amswcrSfthnt thc North
knew perfectly well, as uuqjStionahly he did,
that if she would lay down ?pr arms and con
sent to a division of tho Utmn into two con
federacies, she herself woul?Hcry soon be dis
solv J; that State after StgBp--States sirgly
,,aiid States combincdly-wogn'secedc. and the
whole North be split up insKfjetty powers, or
no powers, all of them cqlsjmiptiblc in the
eyes of mankind, and not Cu?ratf them willing
or able to contribute to trfldjffipnyment of the
national debt. Mr. DaviaJBRplied, with his
el oracterislic calmness, tKWffiiis was certain
ly true, but that the sainfflBftng would hap
pen, and probably happen ?OMnOsooner, if tb,o
North should continue to "T-VOROiMite thc war.
We thought, ni tho time.'T-^t Mr. Davis was
greatly mistaken, and toltt^ht!!) so. Wc still
trir-t that we were correct.Jil our estimate of
the character of his opini?n; but josi now we
eau i minkie no over eonlidi&O? that wc were.
The North continued to.?prosecute the war,
and the South, alter th CY? bravest nod most
desp< rate resistance k-oowi' tn war's annals,
wt s eom|uercd. Put nfflBBmes thc North's
trials. Now we are to seethe test of her in
ternal strength. If, out of the dreadful war
bet ween the North and th?.'South, a Northern
civil war arises; if Northeim armies mardi
against each other, vengeance before them,
and blood and death nn<JicVjS's'ert behind, many
Northern States will vory'so?n weary and sick
en of thc horrid work, f.t.ui'-'.riU.probahly ad .pt
secession, as the s u rQjWlgV't ''<( td uk est remedy
fully relying utxtn tmWp^L^htv troubles and
perils of thc Fedora! tiON-eVutiienl as ii perfect
security against coercion. Most, likely thc
North-western States will go off first, repu
dinting, of course, their proportion of thr
public debt, and thus piling higher tlx
monstrous financial burden upon the sholl!
ders of the remaining States. These wil
have neither thc will nor tho ability tc
bea" up undo! the crushing weight, and st
others will secede, and then others, till thc
whole North shall be divided up into sucl
poor, little, non-debt paying, feeble mock na
tionalities, us a citizen of one of thc Mexioat
States, or of thc South American Repub
lies, pr of one bf thc petty, miserable Ger
mau principalities, might look upon with con
tempt and scorn. Jeff. Davis' declaration ti
us ns to thc consequences of thc war to tin
North, if prosecuted, will bo nmply vindica
ted, and whatever resentments, if any lr
cherishes against thc North, will bc nbun
dnntly satisfied. We tell tho Northern fanat
ics-as a lover of our whole country, wc sol
cundy tell them-that, unless madness ha
seized upon their hearts and brains, they wil
mit insist on pushing the dissensions bet wee
the President and Congress to tho lightin
point. They may rest assured that if th
light comes, it will be to them such an one n
they have no account of in either history c
tradition. Th?y will find it an infinitely ai
feront thing from thc war of tho rcbellioi
dreadful ns that w?~ throughout all its annal:
They will fiod themselves a divided peoph
divided almost equally, divided and mutuall
hostile, whilst tho whole population of tl:
South will be a unit, able to strike for thc
friends, or stand afar from tho flash, thc erac
and tho roar of war, as may seem best to then
The thick cloud now enveloping thc Sout
may bc partially lifted ; bul night and storn
surcharged with bloody ruin, will close ovt
thc North.
EUROPEAN papers arc publishing most fca
ful pictures of suffering in India caused I
thc famine and cholera. Emancipated mt
and women living skeletons-aro soon in cvci
road. Heads of families arc struck down 1
cholera, and the children fleo to tho count
only to bo overtaken by thc fumino and die 1
dcgrec80. Beneath tho shade trees of eve
highway aro seen thc dead and dying lyii
sido by side. Old and young, father so
mother and daughter, aro taken hy tho d
stroying angel of tho pestilence, or cut dov
by tho slow and terrible agonies of h ungi
Dogs and jackals hold high onrnivnl over t
hoi plops living as well ns the skeleton doad
Mothers aro found dead with living childr
at their cold breasts, and tho rapacious vi
tures hovoring over waiting for their prey.
Thc misery tints begotten has brought out
tho worse qualities of tho natives, and th
often leavo holpless wivos and mothers a
children to starve and dio. Starving motlv
beg foy their starving ohildrcn, and whoijsi
cessful sit quietly by and BCO tho little 01
devour tho fwd. At least 1,200 dio a. di
and most of tho bodies aro left to rot by I
roadside.
VtnTpc. not lineage, is the u&rk of^obili
il
. .A*,
WASHINGTON, October l?.-The United
States Direct Tax Commissioners will sell to
tho highest bidders, thc following Govern
ment property, situated on thc islands of Port
Royal, Ladies', St. Helena, Coona and Parry
-sales will commence as follows : November
1, 1800-forty-four lots and houses in thc
town of Beaufort. ; November 5-nearly three
Lthou.8ai)dv.ivts in tho newly laid out tow n of
I P6rtliuyat,'At the South-west end of St. He
I lon i Island ; December 8-thirty-three school
farms, containing about 0,000 acres. These
sales are to bc made under the Act of July
16, I860.
WASHINGTON, October 17.-There seems
to be no doubt but that Stauten will soon re
tirc from the War Department, and that
Lieut. Gen. Sherman will succeed him, for
a term, at least, ns Acting Secretary of War.
There is no probability whatever of the
President changing his pl cseu t position as to
his restoration policy-tx? his been intimated
in some of the papers.
OMAHA, October 17.-Official returns from
the Territory are nearly complete, and shown
Republican majority of between 000 and 700.
In the Legislature, there are over thirty Re
publican majority.
NB\V VottK, October 18.-Three large
stores in West and Washington streets, were
burnell hist night-ouc Oiled with cotton.
Loss 8300,000.
A private letter, dated Monterey, Septem
ber 27, from Major-General Lew. Wallace,
has boen received by a prominent merchant
of this city. The Liberals were confident of
success, and were continually receiving muni
tions of war; and, ns they advanced, obtain
ing the necessary funds for currying on thc
war. At the time of writing, the French
were retreating instead of advancing.
WASHINGTON. October 18.-A letter has
been received ii. chis city from Lieut. Gen.
Sherman, discussing the politcaf situation,
and emphatically approving bf thc President's
policy of restoration.
Thc Secretary of War, on thc recommen
dation of thc Surgeon-General, withdraws, on
tho 1st of November next, tho military quar
antine established in Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
Secretary Stanton had a lengthly interview
with the President this morning. His carly
retirement from thc War Department is con
ceded to bc certain. Senator Cowan, of Penn
sylvania, arrived this morning, and also had
an interview with thc President during the
day.
NEW YORK, October 18.-Thc steamer
James S. Green, from Georgetown, S. C., ar
rived this morning, and reports that on thc
l-l th, she s-iw a large brig ashore twelve miles
South of Fenwick Island-the sea breaking
over ber. On thc 18th. she saw a schoonet
ashore six miles North of Barnegat. Thc
propeller Umpire, from Wilmington, N. C.,
is ashore on tho outside of Sandy Hook ; she
is logged and has three feet of water in bei
hold. lier cargo of rosin is strewn all ul >njs
the beach. She went ashore last night.
A large Republican ratification meeting wai
held last night, at the Brooklyn academy o
Music. Prominent radicals delivered speech
es, assailing tho public and private eharactci
of i vsident .Johnson, and earnestly urgim
on the people the importance of the adoplioi
of the constitutional amendment, as a securi
ty for tho future. A scries cf resolution! ex
prcssivc of their principles and ratifying tin
Republican nominees of this State, wer
unanimously adopted.
ST. LOUIS, October 18.-A terrific stean
boiler explosion occurred here this morning
in thu turning shop of J. H. Rnbrook, oi
Franklin Avenue, totally demolishing thc sho]
and two other buildings. Twenty two pot
sons arc known to bc buried in the ruins.
NEW YORK, October 16.-Parson Reecho
delivered an address at thc Brooklyn Acadt
my of Music, last night, in which ho advoet
tnd tho passage of the constitutional ametn
mont, as a necessity ; expressed bia confidenc
of tho good faith of thc South, and charade;
ized tho Republican party asthc trucguardiar
of thc Government ; declares it to be the du?
of thc North to educate the South into a rei
ognition of entire justice.
ALMOST A PROPHECY.-Thc "Nation;
Intelligencer" says: Mr. Calhoun, as f?
hack as 1837, proclaimed a groat truth whe
ho said :
" Emancipation itself would not satis!
theso fanatics ; that gained, tho next stt
would bc to raise tho negroes to a social on
political equality with thc whites, and that b
ing effected, wo should find tho present coi
ditton of tho two races reversed. They ar
their northern masters would bo tho l?ttster
and wo tho slaves ; tho condition of tho whi
race in the British West India Islands, ns bi
ns it is, would bo happiness to ours. The
tho mother country is interested in sustoinit
thc supremacy of thc Europoon woe,"
If Mr. Calhoun had been a prophet ho cou
not moro exactly have predicted what is nt
I taking pluto.
[From thc Morion Crescent.]
Tea
In addition to the culture of clover and oth
er grasses, in thc North and Wost, we have
tho prospect of having another plant ?f uni
versal use, brought into successful cultivation
on thc light lands of thc South. An article
on tho oultivalion of tea in Georgi?, hy Mr.
\V. Jones, of Liberty county, On., una pup
lishcd in the "Southern Cultivator," is worth
moro to tlx suffering South than all the
speeches of politicians. Augustus Ciesar paid
Virgil a sum which made him rich, besides
rendering him the benefits of his imperial
patronage for writing his Georgies, in order to
stimulate the Romans to cultivate thc soil.
Ile did great service to bis country by this ef
fort, and acquired immortal fume j but Mr.
Jones will bc thc nut) r of a grouter good tu
our beloved South, if bc can induce our far
mers to employ thc wide extent of our light
and most useless lands in supplying a whole
some beverage to our people, by which they
will not only save their money, but increase
their incomes to a degree which will in a few
years compensate them for all their misfor
tunes. He proves that four hundred pounds
of tea can be raised on an nero of laud, which,,
acc'/iding to his description, wc would not ex
pect to produce len bushels of corn without
manure, lie snys, ** all thc lands of Middle
Georgia and the Carolinas, which arc now con
sidered of little value for corn or cotton, ran
bc made available and grow tea to great ad
vantage. All the hill sides that are so much
washed ns not to produce grass enough to cov
er the soil from view, can bc made to produce
handsome returns to the planter." In theso
regions, where the land is worn out, thc cul
tivation of colton will decrease. Thc neces
sity of manuring to produce cotton will leave
much land uncultivated, and this cnn bc plan
ted in tea, which " requires but little field
culture." Hut rend his article and bc con
vinced, ns wc arc, that wc can make our usual
crops of corn and cotton and with but little
additicnn.l labor, make a crop of tea, which
would, by itself, make a farmer independent.
The information contained in the October
number of thc Cultivator is like n ruy of
hope from above, and demonstrates that wo
ore about to emerge from thc gloom of our
poverty and exhaustion, and become by a
change in our agricultural and farming opera
tions, a happy and prosperous people. " In
man's most dark extremity oft succor dawns
from Heaven."
FREEDMEN'S ZOUAVE OUOANIZATION.
Yesterday a number of freedman, who. had
formed themselves into a Zouave organiza
tion, made their appearance on our streets in
full Zouave uniform, red cap, blue jacket, red
brccchas, white legging and low quarter shoes.
Thc oflicers wore Zouave shoulder straps aud.
side arms.
Thc combination of fancy colors presented
such a strong contrast ns to excite considera
ble curiosity and remark. It was generally
believed, however, by thc uninitiated of our
citizens that they belonged to some company
of United States colored soldiers rcccutly ar
rived at this post.
After assembling about seventy in number,
they marched to thc Citadel, where some of
their colored female friends were in waiting
to present them with a beautiful banner. An
officer at headquarters had been requested to
act as spokesman. On the arrival of the pro
cession they were received by an officer with
an order from General Scott for the arrest of
those wearing shoulder straps and side-mas,
in violation of General Orders of thc Pop:?rt
ment, which prohibit military organizations of
any kind in this State.
Thc officers of thc Association were then
escorted into the parade ground, where they
were deprived of all their illegal military in
signia, and were allowed to retire wheu tho
Company was dismissed.
[Charleston Courier, \$>lh.
MANUFACTVUFS.-Let it be kept before
thc people that thc way to save fifteen dollars
on every five hundred pounds of cotton, is tn
manufacture cotton where it' is grown ; and
to nianufucturc cotton in South Carolina is to
qundruple its value to thc State. As tho
" Charleston News," in one of its able article?
justly observes, thc cotton mill has boen tho
moans of building up the largest fortunes in
tho world. Old England and New England
owo much of their great wealth to this cause,
and what may n^t South Carolina-what maj
not Columbia with her magnificent water pow
cr do in following tho same pursuit. Georgi!
and Alabama aro pushing forward in thc good
work. Tho Augusta, (Ga.) factory has just
declared its third quarterly dividend of fiv<
per cent. Let us not bo behind hand. Then
is a grand opening herc for capitalists, and hi
who coin?s first will enjoy tho lion's share.
Our publio spirited citizen Colong! Ti. T>
Childs, bas already lcd oft' in tho goofo work
Thc Saluda factory has been rebuilt and wil
be in running order in less than two month
with thc best machinery that oan be imported
A large number of ho.ids will thus bo employ
cd, and from four to fivo bales of cotton pe
day bo worked info the finest ^arn. Will rt*?
others follow.- Sont1 Carolinian,