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. . "Ji" r-' . ??.?7.1: . ..' v.-Vj. '. : . .? i ?H .te! ,_.< - - i - i^ryy -' To. ihinc own-, self bc true, and it must follow, BY ROBT. A. THOMPSON, h CO. PICKENS COURT HOUSE, |;C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1867. di thc night t/ic day, t/iou can* st not ih?ri le false to\ny man." Kreditor?* fujunolioii, l>?rtiUo'n, &e. * of tho O oui I oPV^xxHv Joffe Torrn, ?il *?( deceased^!; ^ ^?o?od, . ; ii..mm The Heart. Ohl could wo road tho Immun hoiii't, Ita HtiMiigo mysterious depths exploro, What tonguecoiled, toll- or pon ln?p.nt Tho i ly lies of'its hid Jon lore T Safe from thc world's dislrns'ful oyo, What doop and burning footings play, Whioh o'en stern reason's powov defy, ' And woar tho nonda of lifo away. *lh>iik not beneath a smiling brow, To always find a joyous heart', For wit's bright glow, and rouson's flow Too oTton liiilo a cankering dart. Tho.bird with bruised and broken wing, Oft trios to mount tho air nguiu, '.Among its tunion to gladly si g . Its lust melodious dying ??train. Tho fire that lights a flushing oyo, May by a buvhidg heart bo fed, Which in its anguish yearns lo die. . While yet it seems to pleasures wed. Oh, do not harshly judge Iho heart, Though cold mid vain it sooms to bo; Nor rudely sock tho voil to part, Thal hide? its deep, deep mystery! POLi^rro XL Lotter from Hm. B F. Perry. To thc K<1 ?tor of thc Columbia Phoiu'x: Tho notion of thc Rtmp Congress, tho oth er diiy? in extra session, ought lo convince every one that tho radical party llave no in tention of restoring, the Union until the .South ern States aro thoroughly radicalized, and will elect Senators and members of tho House of ..that party. ' The Kentucky representatives iiiiie sn number, and all Democrats-have been denied their seats in Congress, simply j because they wero not Black Republicans. If j thc Southern States, under the reconstruction ' policy of President Johnson, had elected rad icals, and givon any assurance of their adhe sion to that party, noone can suppose that. their representatives would have been exclu ded, from Conoress, [n thc full of ISO.), one ot the first thi iga done by Congress was to purge the Senate, und cx?lude Democrats enough fro 'ii that body to give thom a two thirds majority. Tho.quezon will be for the pee pie of tho Southern -States to decide, in t hc coming elec tions, whether they prefer to remain as they uro, or by calling conventions, adopting tfgro autfrnge and electing radicals, go b?ek into tho Union. What advantage to tho South will it bo to increase the Pdebk Republican majority in Congress '( Jiow cnn we bc ben catted by strengthening thc hands of oilr op inressors '{ What interest can wo possibly lave in being represented in Congress b}* . traitors to the South-men Whom wo must scorn and despise ns ludas iscariot* in poli tics'{ It is a sad and melancholy reflection on bunion nature, to seo moil who inaugura-, ted the war, and were going to die in thc Inst ditch, now socking to go back into thc Union, stripped of every principle and right which they vowed to defend, with Black Republican . opilar? around their nooks. How disgusting to see base, unprincipled white men seeking office abd position by hypocritically ponder ing to tho ignorant, . criminal and ruinous prejudices and aspirations of tho negro! 1 Would greatly prefer seeing ovory office in the State filled by thc honest, intelligent negroes, than by such unprincipled and shameless men. I onco said to President Johnson, in reply to a despntch sent mo, about Union men be ing exoliided front ofhee under the Provisional Govonimont, that ? had made ita rule through eljfo to confide in the politics'of no one who was not morEl'.y honest and trustworthy in j private lifo, . and that roy experience had ta Ugh t mc thc fact that a tuan who had no mora) prinbjplo could have no political princi. plo. Hence it is that wo see those who Woro foremost in .secession, whilst secession was in the ascendant ?nd tho road to honor and dis tinction, power and position, now fawning at rho, feet of the .oppressor, whilst tyranny and oppression ar? ad powerful; Thoy~oare not whom they servo, or what principles they ad voooto, provided they can promote tbeir own selfish views.-'''But they would ovon hove us believe that the grcat intorests of tim country wore forenicfft in their thoughts. Immediately ofter it was known that slave ry wo?ld have to bo abolished, I expressed tho opinion that it^ would be wiso und prudent to permit negroes, who had acquired a prop erty and cduootionul qualification, vo vote in ?1) the Southern States. I thought this would . brt n safety valve for political sooioty. It. would gratify-nnd npponso tho intelligent and most influential of that cla&s, ?nd mako tbeni good citizens, instead of boiug disturber^ of th? pcnCC. It. would hold out nh inducement to all, who had any disposition or wish to riso above tho common liord I And no evil oould rcault from it, ns 1 supposed very few, conir . paratlvoly, would over, bo able to attain tho privilego', and:when they did, % they would al *fTays voto with tho : higher and better educa ted class of whites. I. expressed a similar opinion many years ago, in, regard to reooptu ' Ting fugitive slaves; I thought it well for . society that when a slavo lind ftcqulrod snob a lovo for freedom as te prompt him to floe to -the Northern States, and possessed intelli gence stifnolerttj t?.mak? hisoHonpe, ho ?tfght . '?ot. tole br?naht back. In this way, the bold, daring and. reckless-.they who woro rnptit likely t? disturb tho public pea jp-would to'ont of tho country, and there would bp gfoatqr safely, fr?mthoso jolt bebind. Brtt/ 'tiiy opinion thus expressed wap de? nOUnped! b? Ihty WhoJaro now urging unlyer/ . t*l snHra^o for thi>3c^eox*:SJc aVlcM;$i(&K ting tho Onll of a convention, by .whioh uni versal negro suffrage is to bo established. I likowiso ndvooatod, at thc sumo timo, thc pro priety of permitting negroes to givo testimony .in all cases in our courte of justice. This, too, was stornly resisted by those who aro now willing to confer on tho negro tho right of holding oflioe, to got back into tho " glorious Union," which they pneo hated and de?pised so cordially. In oue of my pi*cvious communications, 1 stated that Professor Agassi/, had proven con clusively that tho negro was of nh inferior race to that of tho white man, and had a dif ferent origin. In saying this, I did not in tend to insinuate, as some of tho negroes seemed to think I did, that God was not their M father," as well ns the white man's father. They arc certainly both creations of tho same Almighty hnnd. They are doubtless, too, equally under the protection of the Almighty, and equally dear to him in their respectivo spheres-spheres in which ho placed them and for which he made them. Tho horso and jackass arc both alike the croations of God. He did not create thom of tho same typo, or blake them one and tho same animal. Ho gavo to otic beauty of form and symmetry, spirit and fleetness; and to thc other strength, enduranco and other valuable qualities. Hp he has distinguished between tho nogro and .white mau To the former bc has given a black skin and a wooly head, greater strength and less brain. Ho has adapted him to labor, and given him pores which defy malarias and fevers. To the other he has given a white skin and a bead of hair, less strength ami larger brain, adapted to higher thoughts and greater intellectual improvements. lint God loves his whole creation cqunlly, and it is to bc presumed that bc has thc same regard for the owl that he has for the eagle, and so with the horso and the jackass, the white man and the negro, provided; always, that, tho ono is as faithful in thc discharge of his mission on earth ns tho other. It is by no moans n crime or fault on the part of tho. jackass, that ho cannot run as swiftly ns 'ic horse. He was not created for such fleetness; and so with the negro ; he has ?'Ot been en dowed by God with thc sam? volumo of bruin that tho whiteman has. ?od he is uot to blame for being unable to compete with him in sci ence and knowledge Ile is an inferior ani mal to the whit? man. God mnde. him suoh asihe is fpr rf?8c purposes, as ho made the ass interior t" tho horse. It is as foolish to think of tubing poets, artists and statesmen, out oC newnes as it would bc to make a raco horse or a spirited charger in battle out of a jackass. Von,may give tho negro the righ* of suffrage and tho right to hold oflioe. ?nu make him a legislator, and so you m?y enter thc ass for a four milo lieut with ?he blooded horse, or you may mount him in battle for a charge on the enemy j but both would bo equally unwise and-disastrous, for you are attempting to per vert nature and tho laws of God. Professor Agassiz, of Harvard College, Massachusetts, the most learned and scientific naturalist tho world has ever produced, de clares most confidently, after a life time of thought and observation on the subject, "That, thc negro and thc white man were created ns specifically different as the owl and tho eagle. They were designed to fill different places in tho system of nature. Tho negro is no more n negro by accident or jnisfortuno than thc owl is tho kind of bird no is by accident or misfortune. Tho negro is no more the white man's brother than tho owl is the sister of the eagle, or than tho ass -is tho brother of the horse. There ore," says tho sumo great au thority, *i over ono hundred specific differ ences between the bonal and nervous system of tho whito mun and thc negro. Indeed, their forms uro alike in no particular. There i's not a bone in the negro's body relatively of tho same shape, size, articulation, or ohemi cally of thc same composition, as that of. the whito man.. The negro's bones contains a fur proofer per eontngo pf calcareous sajj^s thnrv those of tho whito man. Even tlio ;n#gro's 'blood is chemically n Very different fluid from ' that which cotfrscs in tjho veins pf tho*white man. Tho whole physieitloi'ganizntion of tbe. nogro differs quito ns ni nob ft'om tlio white man as it does from that of tho chimpanzee that is, in his bones, muscles, n'orves and fibres. Tho chimpanzee has not muoh fur ther to progress to becomo a negro, than tho nogro has to becomo a white man. This fact science inexorably demonstrates." It is agreed, by all scientific mon who have turned their attention to this subject, that " the capacity, by measurement, of tho skull of tho-white mau is ninety-seven cubio inches, that is, tho average of ono thousand, or nny greator number of skulls. Tho negro has sixty-six cubio inohes j the North American Indian has sixty-throe cubic inohes; tho na tivo Australian has fifty-six" cubio inches."-i Sir Charles Lyall, than whom there can be no highor authority, says tho feet and hands, tho arms and logs of tho white mon and nogro are unlike in measurement. Tho hand of thc negro is ono twelfth, larger, and one-tenth broader, than tho hand of tho whito. man ; his foot is one-eighth lotlgor,' and one-ninth broader, than tho whito man's ; bis foro.nryi is one-tenth shorter j and the samo ia truo of tho bones from tho kuoo to tho ankle. Tho skeleton is unlike in tho whole in weight and measurement, and unlike in ?vory bone of it. In the most ndtnirablo spoeob of tho Hon. W. Mungen, of Ohio, lately dellvorcd in Com gross, ;(and to whioh I am greatly (ndobted for muoh that I finVq aald,) it ie boldly* assert cd, on tho authority of Scientific mon, thtt 'tho- *ajtorld?.d^?!i*. not'. .alford, an instance of a mulatto in tho fifth gotieratiqn. Tho hybrid race becomes ^xtinot, after tho fourth go o era? tion, unlcss^oy: havA intermixed with one or tho other of tho oHgin?t races'. So it is with all ftulruati;' . Tito ^itja dqes not brood at ell.,; Tho wW and jabkaL tKe. deg and fox, havo prtjduty?d hybrids, whioh always hcocmo ox ti net in tito third generation.These alom?is, like tl>e negro ana white tuon, wore rct?rded, at ono timo, as only different varieties^?.tho samo species. But experiment shows t$em tov have been different creations, ns it dTfa)fe/ negro and white man. t ? I repeat what I liuvo said in a forme** arti cle, thut. I hove ever been thc friend, anti pro tector of tho negro through lifo, Thfy my former slaves will vouch for mo. My l&us*? sorvauts, oight or ton in number, hav.e'lfW*^ loft me, and aro still living with mt?' o^-?W same term? they did whilst slaves. It*? be cause I wish well to the negro, that I aft) .Un willing to see him placed in a fulso ?>?$$W\ I Ho is unfit to cxeroise the right of suffrage, and will become the dupe and tool of basajjnd designing men. A war of races will rjisue, and tho negro, being tho weaker and lere.in telligent, will bo exterminated in such njwar. Extinction will bo tho result of this peat boon, bestowed on them for the solo purpose: of strengthening tho radical party ! G?n?ral Benjamin F. Butler said to mo, ?igljt?en months ago, that all thc radical party webed was, to have " impartial suft'rugo." Ileranidj, that wc might declare that no one shouldWoto unless he was a grudunto of tho South Colf???i* na College.- All that tho radicals then thought., of was equality between tho races. ?3utiw>w, they are determined to have tho ncgro'TOtd, in order to radicalize tho South. }r ! In thc negro convention which sat thcrotji cr day, ih Columbia, it was claimed thai, in' tho next Presidential election, thcro slttuld bo placed ou tho radical ticket u ucgro, ofthpr for President or Vice-President, lt wnsjeon tended, too*, that t! e lands should be divided into small farms, so that each head of a funi ly might get a homestead. If thc land-i?jwu ers refused this division, tho"' their- Klr?ds should bc taxed so heavily as.to force thom to part with them. There i*? Considerable ingo nuity in this scheme* of .confiscation. The whites who voto fora convention', to.nvoid conflation on thc part of Congress, w?fi .find ihemsclves nicely caught by tho negror^ in convention. As I havo already said. tj?ey will find that, ofter sacrificing their honor, tho rights of the State, and. tho prinoiplos of self-government and constitutional liberty, they have lost their lands int?'tho bargain - Another ssheino of tho negrota, pro-mul?vv*?? in their recent convention.-!- Ua^nowitng taxed but property. This will release- Hie negroes from all taxes, ns they do Mt own property. Then,, the property of thc Sftitfe is. to be taxed, to establish free schools and colle ges nil over tho State, for tho' e1*hjrcal!ton of their children, without expense to' tlio ne groes I Again, they deolare in convention, ?nd have mudo it a part of i'h'?rr flatform,, that the old negroes, and infirm negroes and paupers, nre tb bo supported by thc property of tho white mon,'instead of taking care, of their own aged.parents' and piulper kindred. In tho twelfth artiolc adopted by this radi cal negro convention, they avow open ly their purnoso of disfranchising ?ll who have rt?ryed in the Confederate army, or aided' and*abetted tho war. They are disposed to tuke' a step,* and a wide ono, beyond the radical*? itv Con gress. Thc white radicals have disfranchised only those who havo filled publie ofllfces ; but thc bluok rndicnls arc determined to extend it to all who were in tho army, whililV includes almost the entire white population. This, will bo accomplished in that conv^mtioh'wTiich tho white people aro going to vote for-a conven tion to disfranchise themselves, cohftttpnte their property, and placo tito State absolutely under tho control'of the negroes. .Wps'thoro ever snob folly and madness hoard of* before, in the civilized world ? In sack-cloth and ashes, they will have to repent of their stu pidity and dishonor. This negro radical convention' f?rtho/ <?d mandu a revision of our laws and the re-organ ization of our courts. They, a setof pR?pcrs, ignorant and debased, aro to govern tho' State, and tho white men, whb'owti ail tho -property, arc to pay the expenses of the State. They speak of building railroads ! Np doubt a thousand sehomos will beconcootcd for spend ing the white man's money, for the benefit of (flip negro, before they proceed to take it from bim by force or fraudulent legislation!- Hor riblo, most horrible, is tho future of oar poor Stato and degraded people. No ono seenis to realize oiir" true sr?uucion. It is now as it was in ehn days of secession. Wo aro standing, like idiots, on a magazine of powder, i?ouriBti ing in our hands a lire-brand, and laughing nt tho beautiful ring of ribbon it maleen in tho dark. Tho explosion will como? must obmo. sooner or Inter* and bring with it universal doath and destruction to tho people and prop erty of tho State. In Liberia, Wh?ro thero nt> ?ft.ti.on of ne groes, sent from the* Uni ted States, ?ndfwbofo they havo formod a Government, no whito man is allowed to hold office, or vote nt any oleotion for any office. This is wise and proper; and they havo thought it neoossary to make this exclusion for thoVf OWjrtpeace* and prosperity. Have lint tho white men tho Same right to exclude tho. negro from tho right of nuffragp, wbon thoy kupw that tho negroes huvo a majority in tho State, and will seize the Government of tho State, ir-permit ted tb vote '/ It is idle folly to tell tko people of Seuth Carolina that capital and immigrants will flow ipto the Stato, whpu reoonstructod on thc Black Republican platform. On tho contra ry, as soon as this negro gevprnmontis organ ized, ovety dollar of fproign capital in- 8?uth i Carolina will bo withdrawn, and not ono cent ? will borne horn seeking investment. Nnr will any fpreiguers move hove to sottlo, undor no gto rul?, ?nd, the confusion and diaturb?ih?e which it will givo rise to in tdio State, Mr. Calhoun prefliotod, years ago, that if thia li?* grt* ww sot, free, tho Northern peotlo would insisto? bia right of su?rogo, and if allowed, tBo ??gr?es wctald s?lito tho Govern?ipnt, and thc white people wpuld hayo to teavo tho ps* ".' 1.. .1 Statu ! Ho further.?nid, that thc former own ers Would lose ?11 influence over thoir freed men, whoso Sympathie? und partialities would bc for Northern men and vilo emissaries sont licrojto control thom. 1 think it is pretty generally acknowledged/ oven now, th?; all control of,tho negro, in the coming cloe ion, ls nlrcady gono from their former mahers. wGcn. I lampton, and bis friends bad just as Wolbt-iy?*.? control a herd of wrtd .buffaloes iu .tKo'"vast prairies of the Weal, aa the negro vote of Cullimbin. . ' ; ' " B. F. PERRY. :. ORKKNYILLK, S. C.,. Julyp, 18G7. The Judioiary of New York City. In The North American Review for July 'there is n remarkable jirtiolo on tho judiciary of this city, written evidently by some one who has excellent means of knowing whereof ho.speaks. Thc piefvr- of corruption which it presents is indeed startling/:but we have unfortunately no excuse for thinking it over drawn,' There was n time whoo New York could bc proud of ber judges; whon tho bench was recruited from tho best men at the bar, and a stain upon tho ermine was almost unknown. Even under thc elective system the courts maintained fora while the honora bly roputeti'm which they acquired in previous ?roavs. That they havo-fullon to their prcscut pw estate the writer in The North American .attribute* to three causes. The first is the saino cause whioh renders every measure of municipal reform almost impossible in New York. The lust census showed that there were in this city 77,475 foreign born velors, and only f?l,500 native ones. Since then tho naturalizations have been so many that thc' proportion now is probably 100,000 to 00,000. Foreigners, of course, are not necessarily in capable of self-government; but the fact is notorious that in New York as in noarly all largo cities, thc great majority of the emi grants are ignorant and demoralized; they nave little at stake in the welfare of the com munity, mid they enpily fall a prey to political tricksters. They riot only support Democrat ic-candidates, but ns between two Democrats, th?y will, as a rule, prefer tho w^orso one. This was exemplified in a very curious man nor in thc contest between Daniel l<WTicinann Kirri l'efUaudo Wood for tho "Ma'yorslity li. 1857. Doti: were Dpinoern.ts, Tiemann, was mi honest mau,* universally respected. Mr. Wood-but wo know all about him. Well, Mr. Tiemann was elected by 2,328 mojority, which was within 100 votes of the preponde rance of nativo born over naturalized voters according to the census of 1855. An analy sis of the voto by wards showed that the si length of Mr, Wood's party, all through the city, was almost exactly that of tho natural ized voters, lt is this samo party which has recently elected a pri/.c-tighter to Congress. The wonder is that they have not brought the bench still lower than it is already. The second cause is thc dangerous amount of patronage at the disposal of the judges.- j With thc great increase during late years of referable causes, the courts have acquired thc power of appointing favorites to positions of enormous profit. Thc legal fees of a referee ?re nominally &3 a day ; but by the custom of thc bar bc is allowed ??5, whioh sum he char-, ges for every day ill which be does anything io a cause. Half the days charged are mere adjournments arranged by the referee's clerk ; tho other half aro very brief sessions, and many of these, too, are conducted by tho clerk. In pressing cases the referee can make what terms he pleases with the counsel ; and when'his relations with tho court aro such that there is a moral certainty of tho confirmation of his report, his fees often run up toan enor mous sum. Thon there are receivers, and commissioners for opening streets ; these are appointed by the bench, nnd get large fees for doing nothing. It bas been said that on tho ^settlement of a certain receiver's accounts re cently, tho judge who appointed bin? deman ded half tho fees, amounting to $10,000. Or.courso tho temptation to a dishonest man to intriguo and bribe for thc suko of getting 8Uoh valuablo patronage" os this is almost irre sistible, and n man of lax ijfbrality on the bct?bb' ono 'hardly fail to becomo in timo a thorough soouudrcl. Tho third oauso of judicial deterioration lins resulted from the efforts of the bench in "limes past to interfere with tho frauds of tho Common Counoij. Tho plunderers of. the ^ public beoanio aroused to tho necessity of con t CrpMing tho civil conrts. In 1801 a notorious corrUptionist, after making a display of pa triotism in the Nominating Convention of his piirty, pf orbing for ro-oh otion to tho Suporior Cpurt Messrs. Hoffman and Woodtuff, two of tho best judges in tho State, and collecting a largo sum of money from thom for what bp represented to bo logitinmto oloctlon oxpenses, sold thom out nt the oleventh hour fur $10,. 000, ?nd oauscd other names to bo substituted. Tho largo classes interested in evil or illegal practices, tho gamblers, the odvpoatos of froe rum, the S\yiday traders, work hand in hand in this matter with tho corporation " liing," and httvo seourcd ? powerful influence over somo of tho courts, Tho history of the Ex cise, law affords a pretty good example of thc way iii which'this iofluonoe is exerted., The counsel for tho Liquor Dealers' Association told his clients nt tho outset that the low could not bo resisted. Not a single respectable law yer in Now York ventured to pronounco it unconstitutional until a 'brewer applied ton cortnin jtulgo for nrt injunction to restrain its oxooutiqn, cn thc ground that it could not ap. ply to dealers already lioonsed until thoir li censes .lind rub out, tho licenses being of the nature of contracts. Tho judgo promptly granted the injunction, and mcrcovot decided that thc entiro law was une?nstitutiooal and wholly void-^-a question which had "not bVen bofpro ,hlln at all. , And hav?ugv decided a point novor raised, he wo\?ld hoar ue atgrtmont .I." J...'.1 ' i?.'...'.J-. !J.'?L?.i'i'JJ-.liJJ ' ....J.......W upon it there titer. So thc Kxoisc Iqv/ was nullified for six months, until thc Court of Appeal* set things fight. The reviewer sketofies the oaieor of anoth er New York judg? vMiO'sn name he does not mention, nor shall we. Ile is understood to bo a zealous friend.of a notorious local politi cian, whos? name ia a' ?yuoirymoua with cor ruption. A number of HU? ta hud been brought against tbis politician, and action delayed from tune to time ?ntif delay bepa?io no longer pps* siblo. Finally, tfro?'a?ses wearne; pu fov trial before a judge from the interior .pf ?(io State. Tho defendant purposely allowed them to go by default, and then applied to thc judge of w h o m wc speak to bavo the default opened. Although tho fraud was evident, the application was granted, with nu.prdor for tho costs to bo paid by tho plaintiff to tho defendant. A bill passed tho Legisla ture a short time ago, the effect of whioh would have been to place in thc bands of a singlo judge all the enormous patronage con nected with refereueo, receiverships, and* sim ilar appointments. Thongh it created . such n lucrative office, thofe wV?e u-'auy good rea sons why the bill should bavo passed. This .same legal functionary was a candidate for tho place; To the delight of thc pnblio'hc sudden ly appeared as a Champion of tho tax-payers oguinst tho extortions of tho " King." Ho issued several injunctions against tho corrttpr tionists. The Citizen's Association, and many other excellent gentlemen, became his sup porters. Dut ho did not obtain the appoint ment. The injunctions were immediately dis solved and he moreover issued a mandamus, in a grossly irregular manner, requiring thc Controller to execute a notoriously corrupt contract. Tho mandamus was set aside. On one occasion a motion was made before his honor in behalf of a mun who bad bceu' im prisoned by the War Department on a oharge of fraud. " What !" ho shouted, " was Ijc put " in jail by those villians down there?" meaning President Lincoln and the Secreta ry of War-and immediately granted the mo tton. It is a well-known fact that in some of the New York courts there are certaiu lawyers who pan obtain any motion, or any favor, with out even plausible pretext. It is n common practico-with judges to allow ??tiftscl ou? ?f court to matte ex pane Btateiiiuuta vf ?ifc?? -jnu?ci?, in tho absauc? of thoirjOppoUCpt^j nnd virtually to decide them before they have nc"u?d argument. This is in the higher courts. /In tho petty civil courts thc same ignorance and dishonesty prevail, but thc reviewer deems it hardly worth while to expose their condition in detail. '. K In tho crimnnl courts mattera ora even worse. .Bribery is less carefully concealed, and rapacity is thc general rule. Criminals are ^fleeced by the disreputable lawyers who aro popularly understood to pe in league witfb the justices, and what with tho harpies on tho bench, thc ''shysters" who undertake theil defense, and thc professional bail who go'Se curity for prisoners in consideration of fees ranging from $10 to ?50, and' $tvo then? tTp1 as soon as they have secured the money, it is not often that a friendless man, .whatever his guilt, get out of court with a penny in his pocket. For quashing'an indictment ou thc ground of some informality, a certain judgd is Haid to havcretfeivcd'310,000. During the war, it was a very common thing for prisoners to bo discharged on condition of enlisting. It is generally lind?r'ptbod' that mots pf tho bounty money in these cases found its way in to the pockets of judges and lawyers. - Dut we bavo no heart, to follow the re viewer further. *lf wo can find no way to ohcok at once tho appalling and fast-growing cvil.ot a dishonest, swindling, ignorant, demoralizing judiciary, there is small hope of future hap piness for our city. The Constitutional Con vention must do something for us. Wo must make tho bench an honorable goal for tho am bition of tho best men, and we must! render it possiblo for tho nest men. to get op thc buneb. At present s judgoship will hardly tempt a first rate lawyer, and he could bardiv attain it if it did. *> -?. WHAT TIIR PUKSIOENT MA/ DO -Tiu " Chrpniclo?" pf ^cdnesduy oxHract? r? pari of a vory short article which op'p?ai'ud rp iiih paper on Tuesday, nnd makes cotmnbntj whioh mimili, porlifph. have been spared i tho whole bad boon quoted. As wc then an nounccd, tho position of tho administrate has been substantially taken in tho matter o tho reconstruction statutes. If it is oxpected as'te inferable from tho tenor of ourcote'mpo ra ry's remarks, that be will become ?nany de grco, or under any circumstances, the inst'ru mont of bis own overthrow, then it nttributc to bim a disreputable quality. The Kxcou tire office is a unit, and, consequently, then can be no legitimate ??xooutivo notion bu that of tho P;osidcut. As an inevitable con sequence, any provision of a statute whlcl oontravenos it is not. law, and should be 'pro von ted from being carried intoefi&Hrt. If, fo oxamplo, the further insubordination of Geri Sheridan* should throw impediments in th way of executing, tho statute consistently wit! tho Constitution of ?ho Unit' * States, ; anj tho President should dototminp to suporsod him, it would bo au aot clearly wiihjn the oj oration of the ..principio wo announced, an from which tho Presidont could not doviatt in tho exercise of a sound discretion,' a? th only lawful Exocutivo of tho country, ?nlci at the cost, of sacrificing tho last vestigo < constitutional duty.- Xhtional Intelligence '?Ith. X CANNOT conceive, my dear, what's tl mattoT with my. watjoh; I think it must wai cleaning, exclaimed aft indulgent husband, his boHor half, tho other ?tay>? No, pa, sn l?s potted little daughter, I it now it dor warft,cleaning, becausb baby nn^ l'wwr?d in a basin over so long this morning. Cumulative Voting. Nothing teaches forbearance and. moderar tiou like being under thc weather; hence many truths' aro np\y palpable to tho porty oafiiug.itself J)omoeratio whicli?,'in tli?*4nya of. its irresistible mighjv it Would have light ly regarded. Tho ^presentation of;j??iuor iticB ?8 ot present n fovorito topic with its wli tors und speakers, abd bids fair, to re tua ru KO :. for roany years to como. And it U a frflitfuJ Qind jn-otitablc theme for tho political philosc?- ; phor. .. .?'.-"'T^|BB Mr: Buokalew of l'?nn^?vauja fe?catly ad dressed tho Seuatc in an able and lucid speeoh in advocacy of what is termed Cumulative Voting-that is, of allowing a Voter to givo (if ho will) as maliy votes for one candidato/? as there pre repfesonfativos to bo chosen. Thespian is v?ty ( fairly set foi th iu Kart.' OJroyjs.work on? ^Par?i?Wn?oty Reform ... (edi- :; tion ?f ?865.) .wherein ho saya : '.. Tho first of the reforms of a conservativo tendency which I should stiggefct, and onoV { which X should consider a great improVomoht Under any circumstances, but quite iudispon-' sable if any changes favorable t? democratic ; power aro to' bo ndmitte'cf; %yould bc thc adop tion of what Mr. .James Marshall has called I the " cumulative voto j" that is to Bay, tho principle of giving to every cleotor as ninny j v otos as .there aro members to ba ,e?eoted by - thc constituency to which ho bolong*, with the right of either giving nil these votes to u singlo candidate or of dividing them, QB ho may prefer. " Tho object of adopting this rule would bo to secure to minorities a fair opportuoity qf making their opinions and wishes lieard'^io thc House of Commons. In ordejrr*tliai it. might fully answer this purpose, the right of rettfrning members to Parliament ought to bo contributed that each constitucboy should not have less than th roo representatives to ohooso. Supposing that three members were to bo ejected together, nod that ejich elector wore entitled to. three votes, which ho might unite fri favor' of a single oandiflato, H is obvious that o rni'nority exceeding a fo"rth pf tho whole confftituc?cy would havo th? po .vcr of scouring the. . election of"?Jt?'? member. ' It is probable thn\ in general tpr?e member? vrould pc'thus return cd, caoh representing a different j ana.de of opinion "awong/the yotern. . V' " The advantages tlns'tuode Of voting would inakingsome 8uph provision for the represen tation of minorities, or.rathor, tho flagrant in justice of omitting todo soj have been so well '; shown by Mr. Marshall in thc pamphlet I have already referred to, and by Mr. Mill in his highly philosophical treaties on Represen fafive Qovernmentytliat it is. .quito needless foYm'e to observe that, in addition t?" It?tYo- . itjg right in principio, this mea?uro would bo m sf riot.accordance Wjth tho lessons of oxpo rien??.i^(ir?ad in tlielr truo spiyt.*' : -^-U'lie ^ra? needs further elaboration, and ip doubtless" susceptible of improvement, but the idea is essentially just. Let ovory olootor . bo ?niiblcd to vote with a moral assurance that hin ballot will avail, even though his.party "bo . leso than',*'majority, and its triumpn conso- . quently Hopeless. Suppose a State to contain i 40,000 Itepublioans and 35,000 Democrat* ' ' -like New Hampshire, for instanoo--why not so arrange'that those numbera bo mirror ed in the strength of tho rival parties in ;6-.sj& Iber branch of the Legislature ? Suppose it contain 130,000 llcpublicans and but 40,-,;, 000 Democrats, like Massachusetts: '^^^^^? allow the minority to havo such share of the??i;?' representation in Congress aud tho' Legisla- < ture ns their numbers will justify? Suppos? Massachusetts woro to choose her/ten represan- \ tatives in Congress under thia system^ tito Demoorata could say : ? By running bui two candidates and placing '.tho name of each nW ". times on our ballots, "wo cup make their election certain;" and thoy WQtt?dtbtus b&v/|; sd'ppli?d with a motivo for effort whiol? is now^ for??t ?lcforms arc always cfFof'ted slowly,^, 0'id it may tako years to render thia suflioient ..,; \y familiar to insure ita adoptionWe fe? confident, however, that the .principle iapoundy and in some form will ultimatelybe ?doplt^. [New York Triune, ??? I^BHOWNLOW'S MiMTiA.-^'boavx..:?. pnpors contain numerous joke? on that intVnso'if? ty hntoO band of .licensed hiu?dororR, Bto., ,, low's melisb, Thc " Murfr?caiboroiMonitot "? Mr. Etheridgo tells a good joke'oVV?IlioW^v low's militia. Ho says that tilt, best lookuH? squad of tho .?military" *>>r?o"he has Seor-] was nt Greenville. They.woripi^rafcch'0ftdi6?tV bandy-Bhnnkod, bow-legged, flpffy?fal, <io??}* eyed, slab siled, Vp shotHCtoClosns, arvj^i^ many of them* iri gaudy palt?rha of ?tr.irV^ calico, and with ono oxeopti?b, ^jf??ishfti footed. Ho asked tli?;tn- t?e;rti0a'ni'?g''v^;-?l^-'f .-why wcro they nil barefooted but fun ?fol 'low, who Hocmcd to bo ntl^rgoing untoift loh tures at thc idea of H&y.in<fc.to wear elioesv; -||< Was.Hue a dog with n cp^ar.oiv, abd ?W?CO?|>; though he wa? forevbrf disgraced,; said they, " that is tho,Way our o?ptoW;irt#y. Eunishing ne. . If we wo gulUy of any ?> S ?dienco of orders, bc fuyoos us l^o wbar sh<V^; Wo .suppose if tho oflraico wa^'/v. aer-<ou?.- .. ' they would ale? bo o?|uvmlW?? t<>, WS4^ "v..-/ i i'uora and chango shirt^ oneil ti month, j A roon FKi.r.o\^vot?;?t'o<i? [ io MagfrbVn '