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Tucsday Mornitg, November 13, 1866. Qr T. P. S1.t1tsn, Esq., is the solo agent for this paper in Charleston S.C. (& Mr. JAS. II. SMnIT, formerly of this place, but now residing in Charlotte, N. C. is our authorized :gent fur the Nr.ws. Mr. SiTHrn can bo found at the Times oflice. An Important Juncture. The present is one of the most im pant epochs in the whole history of our State. A transition now threat ens us with evils which ages can nev er remedy, Take South Carolina in h' credit and her system of Judicial government in the past and there is not a State or a cnmmunity or corpo ration under the sun that could out strip her. And if the State in her Legislativo capacity, in her Conven tions, in her primary meetings, in her press, and all her citizens individually and collectively, had one year ago, proclaimed in tones as unmIstakably audible and impressive as Heaven's artillery that come weal or woe, she and they. .would not thol, and never should, even entertain a proposition that winked in the least at the im lairing of the obligation of contracts, to-day there would have bcen a finan" cial capacity so wholesome through out the State that outside capital would not have hesitated to vitalize it, It is true it is not too late to restore the invalid. But tampering with her now is dangerous in the extreme. Stay law tonics and the broth of the false hope extended to insolvent debt ors, spiced with the tincture of repu diation, will do the prostrate patient no good. But she mast have purga. ttaes, and active onos too. For citizens to cry to the State for relief of this kind now alluded to, is to teach the State to relieve herself. Bills on the Bank of the State are held at a large discount now ; not how ever, because holders believe she will never redeem, but becacse ther6 is but a faint hope of an early redemption. But holders of those notes will ve'ry reasonably conclude, ' the State im pairs the obligation of contracts for her tax-payers, that she will be likely to do the same for herself. And the conclusion is a just one ; and nothing will save the State from the threaten ed stunning blow which will paralyze her credit for generations to come, but the promptest, most unequivocal and decisive Legislative action that the representatives of the people can con trire. A Southern Li,temture, What the South . has lacked, and what will be a felt wyant in the future, is a literaturo indigenous to -bersclf (luring her long and brilliant career fromt the foundation of the Southern. States up to tihe Great Itevolution which has proved so disastrous to them adl. IIer social, political, agricultu ral, industrial and biographical histo ries have all been written byotsdr who were only not imday itr ested in her glory and prosperity, but whio were not prejud iced to an extent so prevalent, that they actually distort ed and p)ervorted the ideas of our own youth by innefidoes and false assertions in.our school books for-which we were dependent upon them. Posterity and foreigners will read on'r history froum the pen of our avow ed enemies. The history of the South for nearly one hundred yeal-s pa1st is engraved upon the mnem ories of the reading world only as it has been recoided by those who would stir up the hatred of that world against us. The blessings anal contentment which a ocru'ed to us so husg under the patri avehal system of master and servant, stand upon the pages of history (such as it is,) only as they can be faintly discerned,through the mirky haze of prejudice, hatred . un~j jealousy. No pear in that oud to reliev tlio' .drk back grouand by exhibiting how much domestic joy and light gleamed oot from its bosom, No Boswells survive that long period to build up classical bigornphy as a monument to the memory of thousands of domestic cir cles in which joy, peace and happiness dwelt, and owed their existenco to the very nature of the "peculiar institu tion." Who will write "Uncle Tom's Cabin" viewed from a Southen stand point ? Shall we not have the true part of the South engraved upon our literature ? Oultivation of the Peanut, Small farms subjected to thorough culture and made vastly productive must now come into Vogue in this southern clime. The oft quoted Lat in phrase, mullum in /rrvo, ("much in little",) will henceforth he the agricul tural motto in this region. Euergy, industry and economy will develop resources not heretofore droamed of in the philosophy of our rural popula tion. What will pay best on an acre of land 1 will be the query now. Per haps this question may be partially answered by the cultivation of the groundnut or peanut, a/ias pinder alias goober. Upon sandy lands this will remunerate the farmer. From 15 to 75 bushels may be raised to the acre, The cultivation is not tedious, And so useful is the peanut that it offers an inducenient for its cultivation. It pays very well at one dollar a bushel. As forage for cattle, the vine is a id to be as valuable as the b .st Northern hay. The.nut contains an oil which when prepared for lubricating, Or oth er purpgses;does not gum. This oil is used for burning purposes in the preparation of medicines, and as a condiment in salads. Tho fsrty Law. South Carolina is not kcoping pace with her sister States, North Carolina and Georgia, in the rapid strides those States are makhfg in the devel opment of their resources. No d ,ubt one draw-back to her progress is the incubus upon the free use of money within her bounds. Thdse other two States have so modified their usury law as to open the way for capitalists to throw in their means, It is ,to be hoped that the next sessions of the Legislature will not let the occasion pass without making our State as ac cessible to Northern or European capi tal as any other. There will huebe a and cry raised for the relief of debtors, but Legisla tors had better respond to that appeal by oponing the channels for the in gress of money, than by any attempt to close up absolutely those which have been nearly dried up by the drainage of war. The Charleston Weekly News. -Thme daily News of Charleston has for sonme time been on our exchange list, and is always a welcome visitor. Quite recently the proprietors, Messrs. Gathcart, MoM illan & Co., have issued a weekly paper called the Charleston WVeek4y Newcs, which bids fair to comn pote wvith the best newvspapers of the day. It is a large quarto, ably con ducted, and contains mnuchm reading matter, both original and solce.tcd' and is scat to subscribers for $$. dol lars a year ; Semi-weekly $5. dol lars a year. The Eural Southerner. Thme publisher, Mr. RI. M. Stokes, has laid on our table copies of the flural Sou(herner of 'thme 24th ultimio, one of the handsomest and most readible pub lications of its character we have seen issued from a Southern press.O With an energy that knows not the word "fail," the publisher is urging on his undertaking, though lhe has been be set by difficulties that would have ap palled a spirit of less perseverance, if not have ibaffled it. Hism press cor dered from the Nortlh wau destroyed ith the to t o 'ba e r D. Wagner. The Southerner desorves the'patronage of southern readers, A Beque t, In behalf of the community we res peotfully foquest our town marshals to give notice of the meteoric shower which is expected nightly, by tinging the alarm l,'ll. If it come it will be worth while to be aroused to witness it. Report of the Trial of Henry Oastles, Esq. We have doferred the publication of the evidence in this case so as to have it appear in full in the next week's HERALD. Ifews Items. WASUtNOTO?, November 10.-A delega. tion of prominent Vestern men. including lion. Mr. Morgan, Member of Congress elect from Ohio, onlled upon the President yesterday, to urge the removal of Mr. Rol lins and the appointment of Mr. Spoontr as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Lieutenaut-Gcneral Sherman and lion L. D. Campbell, Miinister to Mexice, sailed to day for Vera Crux. It is thongut that lenity will be extended to the Fenian prisoner McMahon. Late Mexican advices say that all North ern Mexico, except Durango, is in Liberal hands. Mexican territory is clear of in diatts, 1tt. that of Texas, the fronfier mili tary posts being unoccupied, is full of them. The greatesteommercial cityof the world, London, sends out no mail, anb has no pos tal delivery on :uarday. So neither dues Wiunsboro. In Ohio, a machine has lately been intro dueed by which a welt sixteen feet deep, and one ineh in diameter, mnv be dug in forty minutes. The nachin-e sinks an inch pipe. The water thus produced- is said to be pure and cool. An Ari-.ona 'etter dated- October 12. says a scouting party from Fort McDowell killed and wounded fiftee' male Indians and .ap. tured,two squaws and seven children. The iartford. (Ct.) Tntiessays that the barns, for miles around that. city, are stafted with home-raised tobacco,. worth. more than e millioti of doll'ai's. lie! >Ron AvtiA.-The ship Golconda, which is to carry a cargo of colored ptssen gers to Afrio:i, arrtvod. In Charleston on Thursday. A ftooMY Vonsinoutso.-Dr. J. F. An drews, senior editor of the Macon Georgia Citizen. now on avisit to the North, writes the folloilng, among other things, of date October2',.to.h;s paper. The Doctor Is no sei ationalist, and whit, therefore, -so s.ther-minded ian as he mny Say, should ahnli'lenge the most serious cnniuleration. llirht here, ot:'Ctiwve the Uriin Ierald, let uma-ay, for fw i':af being mnismatlerstood, that. we hopr. 't)e4ontth, guirsantee or on gumrantee.neeer will pass the "constitution al ametidrt.ent,"j oveu. If . the act, keeps her out. of the Union for the next five hun dred year.e. lntito the extract . "With referenco to the action of the South on the tonstituti,;ntl amendment to be sub. mit ted to their ebnsidoration, I have this to any, as my opinion-not my wish--that, we will hs.e to swallow the bitter draught. to the dregs, or content ourselves with taxntion without represcutation for, perhaps, years to come I With 'this view of the subject without intending to advocate the adoption df th amendment--t. were perhaps best to let t ngs take their course. Could the South have any guarantee that no mnore would be required of her than that now p e sonted, it would perhaps be best to yield to the imperative eircumstanees of the condi tion, as has been done before, and submit, with the best grace we can, to the exactions andi humiliations'Imposed on a down-trodden people." A YoevTnrur. AmPIcA xT ton IvtoituR..--A youthful ap~plicant for divorce, at tihe Cir entit Court this morning, *'aserAtified is her desire to be separated fruom heri hu'sbandl. The name of the yotug wi-fe- is iKiletu J. Koeum, of Itilevilla, in this county. She was married in May, 1864. when fourtfeen years old. 11er husband a nman of nearly forty years of age, said that he had formed a fancy for the girl,- and. sIrs was old enough to be nmarried, and hter parents at length reluctantly gave their consent. The loving couple lived together tor a few mnotnths when the ill-treatmecnt by the husband, which had commenced about three weeks af ter the marriage, culminated in the wife being turned out of doors. Ever since the marriage, the wife asserts that sihe has beetn supported by her parets, her htusbatnd re fusing to- furnish het with eobbies, etc. The divorce was granted, on the grounds that the girl, when married, was tinder the legal age of consent, and cruelty of the huis band. As the husband Wasi proved to be worth $1,400, an alimony of $600 was giv en to t,he wife.-Deroit Tribune, Oihttanooga Une of the 81st ult., learns that a MeJ. E. 11. Whitman was to have left Nashville on the 1st, en a tour of Inspection through a number of Southern 8tates, and will follow the traili of Bherman's famous "march to the sea." Major Whitman has been Instructed to report as .completely ae possible, the list of graves of the Upion soldiers, their locality, and the condition of the bat tie-fieldir- of that renowned campaign. At this eit.y they will be joined by an ecort of tea men of the Fifth Regnlar Cavalry. The party will be proevidedi .w.ibi ll nieoei sat-y camp equipage, and expect "to be oc sutmed over two months makin. t,otr,. Our readers will h4vo been aware of the fact tbat elections .odonrred on the th in the $tates of.Mtesachusetts, Now York,,Delaware, Maryland, New Jor. soy, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan. Mis souri, Kansas and Nevada; and of the I further fact that the course of these elec. tions was looked to with much solicitude in every section of the country. It wa$ not expected of course, that they woulct change materially the relative strength of parties; but it was considered of im portance to know whether the tendency of public feeling was to sustain the Gov ernmtent, or still further swell the over shadowing power of the Repubilcan party. Tha returns from all these States have not been received, nor may those which they have received be entirely accurate, but it is reasonably certain, however, that the Republicans have gair.ed. There has been some diminu tion of the Republican majority in New York. Their majority in 1 865 was 27.800, andi it is now supposed to bo be. tween 5000 and 15,000. It is supos ed, also, that the Democrats have gained in Delaware and Maryland, but; those advantages have been vastly overbal. anced by the returns already recorded in favor of the Republicans. In hIas. sachusetts they have gained 22,000 ; in New Jersev 30t0 ; Illinois 10 000 ; Wisconsin A000 ; that they have gained in Missouri is announced, though the amount isnot stated ; and in all the other States, from which * reports have not yet come in, it is to he inferred that -their success has been more or less <de. ci'ded. It is not to be exne:ted that these result.s will have any practical ef feet nprn the-course of political events, It, was not to nave been expected that. they could have been otherwise. The masses of the North, to whom the - ap peal was made have a common fee)ing that they have achieved in the recent war some greot. material advantages; to them the restoration of the Onion was not of the slightest consideration, and when the Government went bufore these masses proposing that, as An act. of justice-to the South, they shoult per mit the restoration of theUnion, but in < bing so they should forego the power to oppres it further,. and was met by the 1Zepub'ieans with- the proposition t.hat they shanld keep the States of the South as provinces to be plundered at pleasure. there could' have been no reasotb:,l,le question of the course the masses would approve., Men love jns tice in thd abstract, but the iost of them believe they pay every debt to virtue when they praise her, and few are willing to practice thiz or any virtue at what they conceive to be their own expense. This must have been evident to the Governmett before it accepted the is. sue, airt as it is certait, it has determined to sustain its policy-of restoratidn, it is to be inferreA that its' course will be independent of these results.-Carolina News. It is-stated that a clerk of one of the business houses of New York city was sentt out recently to inquire the price, of a dvaft of $4800 on California. le as certained that It would be three per cent., or $144. His principal direct ed him to go to a well-known banker, to see if better rates could not be ob. tained. . Tio clerk mistaking the name given him, called on Postmaster Kelly, and was informed that his mioney could be sent by postoffiee or (ers for $24. This was an unexcpeet ed condition of affairs ; money orders hm:i not been thought of ; but after (due consideration the sum it was proposed to send,to California was forwarded by means of these orders. The rate was just one-half of one per cent. BIaIlL VN,n PaAAuY.-Sonme fur ther dates have been received relating to the war between the Brazilians and P'araguayvans. They are from Brazil man source. The sinking ok the Rio de Janeiro is confirmed. Her eommand(er and sixty.four of the crew pe.rished. Th'le Brazdaians successfully stormed a fort, hold by the enemy, taking four pieces of cannon, three flags and a quantity of amimuiiion. Th'le loss of thme Brazilians in.the assault was 200 killed atid 805 wontlded ; that of the Paragiayans, wvas much heavier, as over 700 were buried by h rzl ianu. yh rzl OHiAe$oTTE ANDI A'rrAliA RALCOADI Wve had tho pleasure of meeting in the I Court room, yesterday, Govsernor Grahiami ad General Leventrope, both looking re raarkably welt-indeed we thought we had never aeon the (General'in such health. . We uenderstand hie is the President of the aleria line railroat rrom Atilant a via Yorkvlle It , this point, and that arrrangemont's are' now pettoeted to jiusha it right through. This Is an enterprise that .will certaInly make j thuig a great polut ine theo transit route froxs I th,o great West, and Sotithwest on tlie'East I end Novth ....rlo-2. Ti.-.1 A letter from Alexandria, of Octobor .0, ayt!: "The cutting of the Maritime Canal of h1eg, in the section from Suez to Cbalonf, vhich was the last counmenced, is being atried on with great activity. This see.' ion is divided into tlire" parts--one th t of he Quarantinid at Suoa,. tho other in thto'4 'lain of Suez. at a d:stance of four miles, utd that of Chalouf, ten miles distant. The itnber of cubic metres (the metro is about 1 feet 3} inches) to be removed in t hest lifferont points of the canil is 16,907.240. since the commencement %f the works 202, i42 cubic metres have bee.n extraetel. fhere conseguently remain to remove 15. 104,704 inct#es cube. 'The nu,nerof labor )re employed on the whole line is 2200. of whom 1500 are at Chanlouf, 859 hi the Plain >f Sues, 860 at the Qi-rantlie. The ex .raction is made at Chaleuf by metus of teveral inclined planes rfith locomotives, which present, the advantage of greatly as.. listing labor. Eighty mniners and two hunt Ired laborers are occupied in' blowing up he rock, which, in this place, is in the line t' the canal, and of which the volume'is 4,398 cubio metres. At the preseoit mo-. nent 13,850 metres hiave been retmoved, so hat there remain 10.63. The average nottthly work done on this rock beiog 2100 oubic metres. five mouths will still be ueces iary before it is completely flnished. The iarth-works in this place are, so to speak,. insigniticant compared with the rock; they amount to 113.500 oubicujnetres, of which B7,915 have already been tolken away. -For vstoe time past the recruiting of Arab la borers has been made with facility, anid the ergineers have succeeted in inducing Ihem to use wheolbarrows instradofooflins, which rte o th tmore coivenui;nt. If no obstacle sho,, ariso to disturb the recruiting, the prepat':ory works may be flnishetl before lhe period o,;inally fixed. The works of the qluarantine, and thoise of the Plaitn de Stez. consist in cutting two parallel trenches, which will give access tothe first tdredging madhine. These trenches are 20 metres wide ani nearly 99 ccntimetres tleep, andl are designated as Trench ofAsia and Trench of Africa. At. tiho qarantino these trenches are 4100 net res in length, amid the banks of the liani'itno Canal arc bus indicated for all this length, with a trench on ench side t(o tcCeive the lredging inchitfbs. In the Plain ofSnez, the Trench )f Africa is excuted to a 1'ength of 2-100 ales, and that of Asia of 2400. Certain it iications haverrrcntly been ntadt in Ic lino to be tollowed iit the environs of 3:z. A mass of rook of 800.000 metres imbe, inosrel of being cut throngh. is to be ur"ned, anti this will enn:"titute a saving of about 10,000,000f. (.C-100.00.) in the or ginal estituate. By a recent decision of .I Directors, the *ndth of the canal is to >e 102 metris in- those parts in which, it lies ,Mlow high watcr." BRECKINI-D6E AT BATON ROUGE.-I il'e Baton Rouge (La.) Advnate of th contains an piecdote of General 3reckinridge wIich we have never be. ore hoard : When General Breckinridge wat narohing on B&ton Rongo ho one day, inattondod by his aids, rodo up to a olitary pinowoods vidct.to, who had uat come in from St. Taminiany and vas new to the etiquette of army life.. L'he General had not the pas.-word, tnd the vidette had no advsntage of mi in that respect. "I wish to pass," said the General. "Well, dod durn you, pass on, who ares a cuss ; I ain't stoppin' this mere road are I 3" "You don't know who I am"'said ho General, smiling. "No, I don't ; that's a pooty loss rou are on, anyhow." "I am General Breckinridge, the ommanding 'officer," continued the eneral, much amused at the picket's dea of the duty required of hint. "You a., ar y.u ; well I'm 13o4 .higgers, an I am glad to ace you,.old ellow how are you ?" repiled the~ >icket, extending a hiad as large'aa Sfrymng-pan. '1 hie General shoolc hands and gal. oped on to avoid some lengthy in uinries about the hiealth otf ors. Ireckinridge and thie family. S-rAY LAw VECTO IN MISSstsirp. lovernor Ilumnphreys,of Mississippi. itn u recent message -vetoinig the Stay aw passedl b*y the State Legish4,uret, akes the ground that the act is .in -vios ation of the State and Federal Consti, utions, which are claimed to be omphiat c on the point that no law shall be pass d impairing the obligation of a contract.. nm the act in question. a stay is givenl to ho debtor for the payament of the debt xtending. over it period of four years, ad the Governor argues that if this IOWEr, thuts to stay execution, 6'Cist8 in he Legislature, he can see no limitation o its exercise except in legisl s retion. If it'ho comnpccnt 'zecntion during). period of o1mv is diflicult to pereive whta.there is to revehnt an inde.fhitea ex tension. Trhe isgislatutro post ponetd Itihe coinsitderaitin f the veto nmessage till Januairy niexl. A story is tola of a B3apist miisem ty in Meodina, whd ha,d bfoomou higeud p in land speentauions. Ont enttof in de pulpit recently, hieannouticod to onpu'regation, at the oponing of D)iv en 'rvici', that thto.text. wontli.hs foitdnn I. P'arz's ephie, to the Mitmo4)Sotiansm, .nLion fnar, ranu thr...