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I -ON -*'I t ~ - -- _ - . ""'sport's, o, Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. [Terms----$3 00 per Ann, In Advance VOL.1 WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUS 7 1867. T1' I N'~ F.AIRFIELD HERALD is I'tll B1.1311ND) WE'ICYi BY ESPOR'E, WILLIAMS & UO. Tr. II- ilAL is publiheI Week ly in the Town of Winnsboro, at 93.00 in vcmreably/ in uwl,'nce. Ij All transient advertisements to be pail in advani'e. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per Selected Poetry, WHICH? The following tells its own story, and a beatiiful one it is too-- to be read best andl([ sounding i'weeter when (lie family circle have gatlhered arouid thl1e evening- lamp, perhlaps : -Which simii it bo i which shall it be ?" I looked It .ohii-.iohn looked at me, (Dear, patient John, who loves mo yet As well is the' my locks were jet.) And when I thil unt that I Iiist. spIWtlk, blMy voice seemed strangely low an1 weak, "'ell mile agaill what I bert said ?" And I hen I list'ning bent Ily head. "This i hil letter : "T.wifl gi ve A liouse and ltil while you shall live, U, inl r-0111ra, from11 Out y-Our SOVZan, hie1 child to ke for nyo is given. I looke.1 at John's old gairller.f worn1i, 1 thouht ot'ail it hat .ioih had bornc Mf poverty am-Iff v ork and Care, ,Which 1, tholul.gh willi1ng, could not spare, 1 thought of seveii 1110111s to feed, tisevel little children's Ieed, And then of this. "Come, John,"' sail I, ''W"'ll cloose amolng 1he iasl (hey lie Avleu:p:" so walking hand inl hand, Dear, John aid I surveyed our band. First to ti;o eradlle lightly stepped "Whoe Lilian, Ihe baby, slept, A glory 'gainst i ho pillo w hitle, Softly her li 1.or stooped to lay 1is rough hand down in loving way, When druamo or whisper made her stir, And hiuskily he said, "Not her--not ler." We -i ooped besile I he 111i1undlo -bed A nid one long ray (it' lainp light. sled Althwart ihe boyisi face:; th-ro I, Aleep So pi Itil and fair ; I s:aW oil .h ull ie's rough, rel cheek A toar undrlied.. Ere J ohn could speak, 'le's but. - baby too," S:1id, I, Arnd kissed hi In as we hiurried by, Palo, pat ielt l1lubbie's Angel raoc, Still In his sleep bore sufferinig's traco. "No, for a Ihoulsan Crowns not himl, lHo whispered, while our eyes were dim. Poor Dick ! had lick ! oir way ward son, Turbillent. rocless, idle one Could lie be spared ? "Nay, lie who gave, Iidls Is bfiriend him11 to the grave; Only a Inotlier's hIealt can ho Patiot ellough for such as he; And so," said John, "I would not dare 'L'o send him from her bedsido prayer," Then stole we softly up above And knelt. by Mary, ohilil of love. "Pe'orhiaps for her, 'twouild better be," I said to John. Quite silently lie lifteil up a curl that lay Across her check in witrl way, And shook his head. "Nay, love,not thee," The while Imy heart. hent audibly, Only one moro, our eldest lad, 'rusty and rtiuthful, good and glad Ho like his father. "No, John, no 1 cailot, will nIot let him go.'' And so we wroto in courleous way We Auld not drIvo one child away And afterward tol lighter seemed, Thinking of that of which we dreamod, Happy in truth that not one face We missed from its accustomed place; Thank'ul to vork for all the seven, Trustirug th0 rest to Oxn in HeavenI Lotter from HEn. B. F. Porry. .To ilhe EdIitor.l of the C'olumbia Phoenix: Th'le action of 11)0 rump Congress, thle olier dlay, in extra session, ought to con vinice over'y one that thle radical party hlavo no intention of restoring the IUion until the Southern States are thior'oughly radical. ized, and will elect Sonators and members of the 11louse of that party. The Konitucky reopresentativs--nino ini inmber, mid all Democrals-.have been denied their seats in Congi'ess, simply hecause they woro not Black Reopublicans, If 11h0 Sout hern States under theo reconstruction policy of Presi dent Johnsoni, hlad elected radicals, and given anyi assurance of their adhesioni to that par'ty, no one can suppose thlat. their representatives wouldl have been oxOluded f'romn Congress. In thne fall of 1805, one of the first things done by Congress was to purge the Senato, and exclude D~omooi'ats enough f'rm that body to give them a t wo. I bi'ds mnajori ly. Tihie quest ion will lie for the people of the Southlernl States to decide', in the cioming elections whether they proefor t.o r'emain as they aie, or' by callhng conventions, adopt. log negi'o sutl'uags andl eleeting radlicals, go 1~ 1into the IUnion.- What adlvanitage to 'V'?outhi will it be to increase the Black Ilopulblicain majority In Congress? Ilow cani we be heneittod by stre ngtheninag t ho hlands of our oppressors ? What Interest. can ivo possibly have in being represented Ili Congress by trtitoi's to the South--mon wh~omi we must scorn and displso as Judas .Iscariots in politIcs ? It is a sad and mel. anclioly reflection on huiman nature, to seo men wh i11naugunrated the war, and were going to die In the last ditch, now soeking Sn go back into the Union, etrlppedof every prmielcple and right which they vowed to do -I'ond, with lilack ltep'ubliennl collars around their necks. hiow diagnsting to see base, unprIncipled whIte taen seeking oflice and position by hypoorltloally panduring to thse igniorant, ormuonal and ripious prejudices and1 aspiirations of tho negro ! I would greatly prefer seeing every office In . the St ate tilled by the honest, Intelligent ne groes, than by such unprinicipled and shame less mn. I onco said to President Johnson, In ro ply to a despatch sent me, about Union mn being exoluded from oillcounder the Pro. * visional (lovernmeont, that I had mado, I a rtule through life to confide-In the politic. of no oue who was not morally honest and trttworthy in prlvato life. aLt. that my ex. plerienco had taught me the faot that, a maon v'ho h~ad no moral prIncIple could have no pbolitical prIncjple. .Hence It Is that, we see those who wore foremost In secessioni, whilst secoossion was in the asconidant, annd the road 1o honior and distinICtion, power' aun . ~ l mlion, nlow fa'v nint at t ho feet. of sion are all powerful. They care not whom they serve, or what principles they advo cato, provided they can promote their own seltish views. But they would even have us believe that the great, interests of the cou~naary wore foremost in their tehoughts. Inmediatoly after it was known that sla very would have to be abolished, I express. ed the opinion that it would be wise and priuent to pormit negroes, who had acquir ed ta proporty n(l edcational qualification, to vote inl all the Southern Statee. I thought t his would be a safety valve for po liticat society. it would gratify and ap pense t-he intelligent and most infliontial of that class, and make them good citizensI, instead of being disturbers of the peace. It would told out an induceanut, to all, who had any disposition or wish to rise above the common herd I And no evil could result from it, as 1 supposed very few, compara. lively, would ever be able to attain tlho pri vilege, and when they did, they would al ways vote with toia higher and better educa ted class of whites. I expressed a similar opilion many years ago, inl regard to recap luring slaves. I thought it, well for society a hat whent a slave had acquired such a love for freedom as to prompt hna to flee to the Northern States, and possessod intelligenceo sl'licient to mAke his escapo, lae ought not b. iie mght back. In this way, the bold, dbii,- and reckless-they who were most, liheil to disturb tie publio pence--would be out .f the country, and there would be greater safety from those loft behind. But my opinion thus expressed was do. nouncd by those who are now urging uni versal suffrage for the negro, or it least ad vocal ing sulfrage for (lae negro, or at least advocating the call of a convention, by whiel univrsal negro suffraige is to be os'. tablisledl. I likewiso advocated, at the same time. tie propriety of permitting aae. gron.s to give testimony in all casos in our courts or justice. This, too, was sternly resisted by those who are now willing to confer on the negro tlie right of holding otlice, to get back into the -glorious Union," whilt they once hated and dispised so cor. dially. In one-of my previous communications, I stated that Professor Agazziz had proven conclusively that the negro was of an info riot race to thatt of tie white mn't, and had at different origin. In saying this, I did not intend to insinuate, as sone of the negroos seened to think I did, that Clod was not their "fiatlaer," as well as the white mau's fat her. They are certainly both creations of the same Almighty hand. They are dotmless, tog, equally under tiae protection of the Ahnighty, and equally doar to him in their respeotive sphares-spheres inl which heo placed them and for which he miande t hem. The haorse and the jankass are both ialike the creations of God. lie did not creat o thoni of tle S1amo typo, or make them one aid the same animal. le gvo in onla beatuty of form and symmetry, spirit it id led tiess ; and to the other st rength, endurance amd other valuable qualities. So lo has distinguished betweon the negro and whito man. To the former lae has giv cia a black skin and a wooly lacad, greator strength and less braint. lie has adapted hitt to labor, and given Iiut pores which defy malarias and fevers. To the other lho has given a white skin and a head of hair, loss strengait and Larger brain, adapted to higher thoughts al greater intellectual imt provements. I;i( CGod loves lis whole creation equally, and it is to be presumed tat he has ito samo regard for the owl as he has for the eagle, and -o with lthe horse and jaukass, (le white mann and negro, provided, al way s, ttiif he otne is as falthfurl inl thla discharge of his mission on earth as the other. It is by no means a crime or fault. oan (lie part of toh jackass, that lie cannot tun as swiftly as the horse. lie was not created for saelh Ilectntess ; and so vith tle negro; ie has not been endowed by God with tho same volne of brain that the white man has, and le is not to blame for being unable to onpoto with him inl sciece and knowledge. Ile is an Inferior being to tle white man. God made hin) such as lie is for vise pur. poses, as lae mado the ass inferior to (lie horse. It is as foolish to think ot' making poets, artistiaand statesmen out of negrocs ats it, woutld b)0 to make a race htorso or a spirited charger in battle out, at' a jackass. Yotu may give theo negro the right of stilY, r'ago andt the r'ight to htold otlice, antd imake haim a legislator, and so you may enter the ass for a four mile heat with thme blooded htorse, or you may mount him itt bat tlo for a charge on te enemy ; bt, both would be equally unawiso and disastrous, for youa are attemplt ing to pervert nature and thoe laws Professor Agassi:, of IHarvard College, Massachusotts, the most learned and soen tific naturalist the worl hans ever produced declar'os most. oonfidenttly, after a life..time of thotughat, anad observation ont the subject, "That the negro snnd the white an were enteted as specifloally different as the owl andl the englo. They wore designed to fall dliffet'et, places In the systema of natauro. The negro is no more a negroe by accident or misfortune titan theo owl Is the kinad of bird heo is by misfortune. Tho negro Is no more the white man's brothter thtan thte owl is tihe sister of thae eagle, or than the ass is theo brother of the horse. There are," says thto same great authaority, "over otto hutn dreda speeitie differences hetween thto bonal and ntervous system of the whaito nman and te negro. Indeed, their forms are alike In no particular. There Is not a bonte In thte negro's body relatively of theo same articulation or cmically of' the samo comn position, as that at' thae whito man. Thte negro's haonoua contain a far gareater per conttage of calcaroons salts thaon (those of the whaite man. Even the negro's bleed Is chtemically a very (different fluid from that whaieh couarses in the veins of thte whilto mani. Tihao whole physical organization of the negro dIffers qutito as much from the whtite man as it (does fromt thtat of thte chain panz'iee-that is, int his bones, mu~tseles and tibres, 't helhimpanzoo has not macli further to progress to become a negro, titan the negro lasa to become .a . whiteo man. Thais fact soience Inexorably demonstrates." It is agreed, by all shintillo men whlo htave turned thteir attention to thtis subject that "the capacity,, by measutreanent, of the skull of thae white man Is ninety-seven ecubic Inches, thaat is, in thte average of one thoeuaand, or any greater nunabor of skulls.. The negro has sixty -sixc cubic inoee; the North American Idin has sixty-three euble ineohes the natlre Atustrallan haq fifty-six cubio inuches." Sit' Char'os Lyalla than whoma thore enan be nolhigher authori ty, saya flho feet and hands, the arlts ain4 legs of' the whild maon aand negro are -unlike. In mdasauremoent. The hand of thoie' gro is one-twelth larger, 'and ono-tenth bratkedor Itan the hand ofthea white man; his feel is one-eighth lngore, and ones-nintht broador, lhan alto whaite miani's: his for'e~-rm is onp. tenthi shtor'ter atnd the saute is trauae of a hie hones fromt the knee to the ankie. The skeleton is unlike in the wholo w weight and mensure ment, and unlike in evo(y boeo of it. In tle most. adlirablo speech of the lion. W. Munegenc, of Ohio, lately delivered in Congress, (and to which I am greatly indebted for much that I have said,) it is boldly asserted, on the authority of soionti lio men, that the world does not afford an instance of a mulatto in thoe.fifth generation. The hybrid race becomes oxtint, after the fourtih genoration, nualess I hey have inter mixed with one or the other of the original raoes. So it is with all naimlcs. The mu111lo does not breed at. all. The wolf and jackal, the dog and fox, havo produced hybricla, which always becomo oxtinct. in lie third generation. These aniials, like (thopegro and white man, woro regarded, at ono tiamae as oanly different varieties of tlo xaaae spe. cies. But experiment shows theml to have boon different creations, as it does the negro and white mann. I ropeat. what I have said in a former article, that I have over been lhe friend and pirutuetur of thu iagco t1ihrough hfe. This my former slaves will voucl for me. My houso-servants, eight or tote in number, havo never left ie. and are still living with tio on tle same terms tley did whilst slaves. It is because I wish woll to the negro, that I am unwilling to see him placed in a false position. lie is nnfit to exorcise tlo right of stiflrage, nI will bocomo the dupe -and tool of bast a I lesignang enen. A war of races will m , and the negro, being the weaker an , . intelhgent, will bo extormei' nated in such a war. Extinction will be the result of this great boon bestowed on them for the solo purpose of strenagtheninag ihe radical party ! eneral BInejm F. uaxtler said to me, eighteen months ago, Chat all tle radical party wished was, to have "4 impartial suffrage." lie said that we might declare that ano one should vote, unless le was a graduate of the South Carolina College. All that file radicals then thouglt of was equality between tlae races. Upt, now, they are deterinied to have the negro %oto, in ordex to radioaliz) the South. In a negro convention which snt the other (lay, in Columabia, it was claimed t hat in (lee next Presidential election, there should be placed on tle radical ticket a negro, eilher for President or Vice-Presi dent- it was contended, too, that tihe lands should be divided into small farms, so that each hoad of a family might got a home stead. If the land-owniers eofused this division,then their lands should be ta'xod so ieavily as to force themc to part with then. There is a considerable ingennity in this solcmee of Contisoation. The wAites who vote for a convention, to avoid coniscation oe tle part ofiCongress, will findthemselves nicely caught by tie anegroes in convoenion. Ai I have already said, they will aind that, after sncrificing dlchir lonor, time rights of tle State, and the principles of sell-governc eaneout and const ituionld liberay, they leave lost their lands into tle bargain. Another sobemo of tle negroes, promlulgael ice their recent convention, is to have nothing taxod but property. This will 'release, feomce a1ll taxes, as they do not. own property. Then, the property of the1 State is to be tnxed, to establish free schools and collnges all over the State, for tie education of e heir children, withontexpeneso to flee negroes! Againl, they declnre in coneventdin, anad ha~vo amad' it a part. of I heir ipla to , that tto old .to iroos, ined iNtrmex negroes tnd pl.ormeeles, are to he supported 1-y the cpoperty of tle white menl, instead of taking care of their own nged parents cted liuper kitlrd. In tIe twelfth article axdopted by tlis radical negro convention, they avow openly their purpose of disrxanchising all who leave sorved in ithe Confedorato army, or nidedl ad abetted (the war. They are disposed to take a step, aced a wide onxe, heyond (le radicals in Congress. Tho white radicals lenvo disfranchised only those who have fill ed puablio oflices ; but tle black radicals are determined to extend it to all who were in the army, which incluedes almoit the ontiro white population. This will be accomplish ed in that convention which the white peo ple are goicg to vote for-a cocnvenction to disfranchise themcselves, conliscato their property, and pla:co [le State absolutely unader thce conttrol of the~ negroes. Was there ever such folly and anndnoss hecard of before, in flhe civilized world ? In ack clothe aced ashes, thcey will heave to reponct of thceir stuapidlity and dishoncor. This negro radical convention futrtherx decmanxda a revision of our laws anxd the re-orgaizaction of ouar. courts. They, a set of paupers, ignorant .ancd debased, are to govern thae State, and theo whlite tmen, who ownc all the property, are to pay ihaox peni., ses of fle State. 'They speak of building rnilroads I No doncbt a theousandl schemes will be conocted for spcndiung flee wheite manm's money, for the honcofit of flee neegro, before thcey proceed to take it fromc him by force or frauduelent legislatione. Jiorribale, most horrible, is the future of our poor State and degraded p~eople. No one sceome' to realize our true situation. It is now as It was In flee days of secessionc. We are standhing, like idiots, on a cmagashno of pow, der, fiourishaing in ouer heands a fire-brand, and~ laugheing at lice boeautifual ing of ribbonx itrmakes inc ihoe dark., Thxe explosion will come, rmust come, sooner or later, and brintg with it ueniversnl deathe and (lest ructioni to thme people and property of the State. In Liberia, where there is a neat Ion of nogroes, sent fromi lee UnIted States, acnd wheore they heave .formed a goverhmaent, neo 'wheito man Is allowed to heold office, or vote at any election for any odico. This is wvise acnd proper; and thcey have theought it neces sary to meako tis exlusonm for thceir owcn ponco .and' peosperit~y. Have ncot thae wheite rhen the same right to exclude flee ncegro from-thce righat of suffra'cge, whcen they kceow ft. flee r~egroes leave a mnajority ine Ice State, and~ will seize flhe Govereent of the State, If permitted to votoe? It Is 1(dle folly to tell the people of Soncth Carolhna thaealutal axnd immxigrants will flow int~o the Stato,cwhxen reonstruct6d on t~leo Ilack Ilepublicn platforme. On fle contrary,. as soon as ies neegro governmnent is organized, every (dollar of forelgn cagital In Soueth Carolina will be whidrawn, anid not one cent wilhl come hero seeking invest ment, Nor will any forelgners move here to settle, nneder ncegro. rule, and thee conmfi. sion and disturbance which It 'will give rise to icc the State. Mr'. Calhoun predIcteod, years ago, that If thee negro was -set froo, .lhe Northern people , would insIst on. his right of gsuffragos.attiallowedl, thenegrops would4 seisothe Governcment, and the whIte pe~op)e wouhl bayq tolqayeo thje State 1 . ie futrtheteaid,~ that the. ormtu~own era would lost. ,h ,iala04c000 toyerdh4letr freedmen, 'whosge6ylphipfLe and~ partia.ities swould be for No~-ihorn ieen and vileoemissar'ies sent, hero to eontrol thorem. ,1 thlik I6 is pretty gaeriil!y aekknowledged, 'even now, that, all cntrol of the negro, ina thee cming elect iona, is already gone' fromc their formter iaestees. G en. 11aimnian acnd hi i ex..d. had j. ..s well I(ry to cmirol a heit of wil butralops in the vast prairies ef the West, as the negro vote of Columbia. .B. F. PEttitY. O ni:t:s v ., 8. C., July 27, 1867. The Virginia Cototdion. -Rotnctioxn, July il.-A large number of delegates arrived here on the train this evening, and the streets are alive with col ored delegates wearing the bluo ribbon, the badge of last. convention. A I irge crowd is gathered airound the Republica:i heat-quar ters on (iovernor-street. Ticre ltve been four or five caucuses alroaly to-day to ar rango matters for to-morrow. Up to ten o'clock to-night, about three hundred colored and one h undred white delegates have -irrived: lucl more inter est shown by flo oitizens in tie proceed. ings of this convention tL.ati was evinced towarda the last, as among the aties of the delegatos are the familiar ones in Virginia of the Carringlons, Watkins, Flournoys, Gorlons, Lewis, and others. Caucuses are being held at the Nt. Uharles lotel and Custom llouse. At. the former is being Sulbliitted 'Mr. ltts' address to the people. The blacks of the city will he ent the co:nren tion oin masse as invite'd to be by Mr. Iflun nicut in t speel last night. To day thoso employed in the tobacco factories no tified their employees that they would not be at work to. morrow The ibbeo hotels for colored people are packed by the arrivals, and in 0he vicinity of all the animated galh, erings of colored politicians, discussing fihe events of to-morrow. The names of MesSrs. Botts, llattxhurst, McKenzie, Lewis and Underwood. are bting discussed to night for President of' tlie Convention. A mneeting of ex-Federal ofticers was held to-night and re-oltios adopted, ndvising co-oeratioll with all who would strive for the restoration of pence to thd country. It appointed fii'oen delegates to'tihe oonven. tion. Tihe following is one of the resoli tions-: Rcsolocd, That in the spirit and chivalry of true soldiers, who have toiled and sulter. edl, foutght and blued, to uphold the emiblemna tic colors of (,ir cause and couitry, no are disposed to forgive and forget the pa-st ith its errors, grievaniees land calamities, to en fortain inalice towards none and extend clarrity to all who will now and for the fit ture come forward with the open right hand of patrilotic fellowship, resolved to make the nat ion once again happy, and we cordially offer I lie olive branch because we feel in our .joldier hearts, secure of the approbation of the no loss gallant and gencrous Atnerican peol)e. Tho platform of Mr. MotIs, which was subimiitted to-night to tle caecus of tle Con servative wing, was approved :It favors tle restoration of the great body of the peo. ple to their political rights, bat urges the disfranchisement of those more artftl lead , ers. It was stlated that the pttforn has al ready been submittted to and approved by the other wing of the party. The Presidont and the Oouut-y, The long-il-awn batt l, says file Charles, toin Nl ws, between ihe President, and Coi gress, may non fairly be considered closed. First, lie cnleavorel by I lie exercise of his Execttivo )ower to restore the Soithern tat es by t plan of recon-struction, which, nlthohtgh not tre. frot diffiluity tind olect tin, wai yet ill 1 great dogree both just and gencrous. This was dofeated by uon gross, who inatugurated, after two yea-s of controversy, their own plan, which wRs neitler just noi- generouis. This plan thle President. oliposed by his veto. That was overruled. Then the President. undertook to modify its execution by his method of construction and administration. Congress imtediately met, and by a new law madeo I teir construction explicit, and took the administration of file law out of his hands. And in his last. veto, which has been over. ruled like all t ie otliers, le concludcs the Atruiggle with this emphtlic language: The rltiedy must. comlie frot thlie people themselves. They know what. it is, aind how it is-to be applied. At the present ti me they cannot., according to the Consti tution, repeal liteso laws ; they cannot re move or control this dispotlism. The reme dly, neverntheless is in their hands: It, is to be found ini tihe ballot, atnd is a sure 0one, if not contr-olled by fr-auid, overawed by arbi trai-y power, or t'rom apathy on the~ir part too boug delayed. Witht abidling conitidonoe in their pthe i-ism, wisdom andl integrity, I anm still -hopeful of tihe future, and that, in the end the rod of despotism will be broken, the armed rule of power be lifted fronm the neeks of the people, and thme principles of a violat ed Count-!tution preserved. NothIing can lie cleatror; the surrender of Gon. Lee was not. mrc complete than this abdication of Executive power. Like the Souith, tie President submits to his conquer. or, ,and waits for the returning seniso of justice of thme "'people"-tmeaning thorieby lie Noirther-n people-to terminate "the despot ism" wvhich tyrannizes over hinm as well as its. And how, inudeed, could It be otherwise ? Netano SurI-nAOn xx Nr~w Jansar--We must do the lhadicals of New Jer-sey the justice to say that thtey have come ouit fair ly anid squarely in favor- of negro sulffrage. At, a Stato Convention, hold ini Trenton ont Tuonsdaiy, they passed, amoig others, the following resolui.n: "Resolated, That, tlthoRepiiblican par-ty of Now Jersey, encouragedI by past trititmphst, and pt-end of tihe high rcord of its oxoeu-. tive, its legislature, its senators and repre seuntatives In CongresN, chieerfutlly accept the issue of Impartial suffr-age as one of the most important questions to beoltiscssetll in thme approaching camnpaign, confident that, it, will he sustained by the calm judgment and patriotic sehtimentt of the people ot thia..dtalo, and by lhto grace and approval of Almuity God." The World'. corresponident says:. "The loading fladicals give tup * the State as hopelesstly most., and say. 'Ali gone up. lBy New Jersey law: the -tamendment they propose t o the Slate Uonsltituionmusmt pass two successive 4egislatuires by a majority vole, and it then becomes a part of that in strumoehL. Tnrmusuxura OxaA-Ono' of' .thte muost healthy and nytiltous vogetabic~s ls the okra, whti'oh Is Iaised in such abundaunce in our climato. W~e are surprised that so little attention Is given to preserving it .for use all throught tho winter, when It can be done so easily andu so choartly, The follow ,ng recipe for d'obiig It is" funished by one of oarmoest, praeloitsdan exporienoed garden qruaandaagrioulludsisl:... the shlt.ithen, ba'this', aVuotfiet layet' of okra au befofe, 74g~o otn till the barrel is futll, or.yomu have ptt as much us desireqd, cover-inig the whole when done with at thk buver of salt. e Colreo was first brought to Marseilles in 10 - from- Egyipt. At Ma rsei:le. also, 1671, was opened the first store for the sale of colleo. London had been using (te fra gratt berry for ten years before it reached Parls, but in 1072 an Armenian opened a ca/c in L'aris, which, however, obtained no Success, and the owner was obliged to )lose it, and emigrate to London. liis'successor was i little, humpbacked man, who sold coffeo in the stroots, and who for nearly twenty years possessed an undisturbed montopoly of i he buriness. Finally in 1080, one 1rocope from Sicily opened a cafe op. posite (th present site of (he ieatro Fran eals, which is still in existence. lhen another enterprising Armenian opened a cafe in the Rue do Uussy, where ie devel oped the original idea offurnishing tobacco, pipes, and newspapers to his customers withIt their coffeo. The press that ttio wits represented by the Mercury and the Frencht Gizette. But thisliterary convenionce (did not become general in Paris till tihe timle of Ite itevoti ion. Finally, a third cq/e thl1e Cafe6 of Parnassus. was opened near tile Pont Neuf. This cafe has enjoyed atn artis tio reputation, greator almost than atny other, from the f-.ne of the I wits wiho were accusltoimed to assemtible ntround its tables- t Voltair, .loissy, Vernet., the Abbo Arnaud, Crebillon fils, &c. It is still in existence. Cafes rapidly became centres of the litera ture, and more especially the wit of the timo. In those days a man made his debut in a cafe with a new poem or epigram, as to-day in the colums of a newspaper. It was at the Cafe 1'rocope that Ilonssean weit to play chess ; and at the Cafe of the lie gonce, at -ithe corner of tfhe Place di Pidais lloyal, that lousseau, Voltaire, tihe Mar shatl de Rlicheliei, the imperor Joseph It., Franklin, iMa-imiontel, )iderot, St. .Foix. Desohapelle, Blarnardin St. Piorre anI Bonaparte we-e aiong tle frequent antd (listinguished guests. In 178 there were eleven hundred ca/es in Paris, and every one knows the prominent part they played in tie levolution. Bun, at the timo of the liestoration, th li umbuiher had mounted to three thousand, andl to-day they nre as the stars of heavel-innumie-tble. It is said fihat now, whenover a store is to be let on the boulevards, it is inmediately eigagel for a new cafe, so thirsty have grown the people of Paris. The following official information has been received at. the Greek Legation : Ao cording to the latest oflicial accounts from Crote, Omarr Pasha has been repulsel with severe losses fromt the itiouttain roedqm of Sphokia, and returned again to the Fortress lIerodeon, burning fifteen villages on his retreat, and dooming all (lie -iireks who fell into his power to denth by crieitixion. The f,:reign Powers have rejected the Suil taint's proposition of a (retan commi teo of inquiry to consist of Turk's alono, they in sistiig upon ta mixed Christian and Turkish commn1ission. ThO Turks will not consent to til itttil after the depariture of tire Grok volinteers froim Crte, while tihe Cretanis decline to accede until after the departure I of the Tukish and Igyptian troops. 'I he fimou. Grociani blockado runner Arrili has mado, in tie meantime, its fiftoentih expedi Hion to Crete, landing munitions and provi sions-, and onabling ia Ia-ge numbnher of Greek vomt-en and children to qa.capo froi Lte Sul tan's cruelties. In the New York Timas, of Tuesday, we find (lte following : "Your able corre-spon dent, 'Liber,' has given you a-faitltful pict ure of negro registration. I have beeni many such scones, and I can assuro you with pe feet sincerety, and free from all prejudice, (flat. not one in a hundred of tihe negroes whom I have seen registered had the most. distant. conception of the object of regisitra- I lion, of the meaning of the oath they took or of the purpose of' the sull'rage. Many of them believe that it is a compulsory census of tho colored people, that the Government, may learn the number who are to get "free fitrmip," andl that voting for the Radical is the prico which they must pay to acquire . these landed estates. It is this utter ignor ance which makes the prospect of* negro judlges, sheriiffs, ordhinacries, ftistices of t he peace, notaries, leginlators, &o., appalling 4 to those whto understand the duties of these olicos, and wvho see the rinii which this ig. norance in piower- must. of necessar-y br-ing upon01 thte whiole people. Naaors rn N-ew JEasY.-Speaking the Radical Convention's resolmation, the Nowiar-k .Journal says : "If the Frelolinysens, the Cattles and the Pat-kers, of Now Jersey, have no more self-respect nor regard for their own raceI thtan to sanction iund applaud this mongrel scheme, no matter what may b~e their mso tive, they will soon discover that, they do ntot lead the independent white tuon of thteir p arty, and flint for this folly they will be laid on the shelf, nove-r agaIn to take patt in political life in New Jersey. The negi-o - suift-age politieians ar-e a doomed i-ace. "The right to hold office, to sit on juries' andl oni the judicial henolh, and gener-ally to mingle in every publie walk of life promils eously with thte whbites, accmt panies fthe right of voting, which the Republicans p~ro pose to confer upon f-he ignorant, incomupo tent, anal incapable negroes." [Of course the Radieais deny that the nie grocs wvill be eligible-to ofile.] The artesion wells' in Algeria, long -t(,iptedl without, success, no0W nunmber pronbablyabout otto hundred, delivering fivei or six millions litres of water per hour, i andnnvertig desertitb gatrdenw whorov- te er thley ha'v~e boon bored. The work ia going en, defrayed by tax upon the boniellt. ted population,-and io destined to :roclara incalculable 'wantos, In a sliglo district thiat Ouled lRir--stretchiug far South into the dlesert,'andl now contaIning thirty-five wells,-2000 new gardens have been feormed,' antd 150,000 date lircos planted. Four mill-. -taif boring brigades, well provbalod with ' impteonts, andl with growing alill anid experience, are steadily pushinig otn the conqulest- of the desert,, anid with almno~L unerring success in every attempt. Thie 8c.lma Timre learns from a gentlemani who has recently traveled over Ilie gier part of Middle Alabamna; that the cot-n erop is magnificent. The entire country .10ooks like a land of promise. ,There is no doubt thyaffthe corn crop tIs year 'hill be oao of' the finest over raised in Alabama, The Miarion (Florida) Courier says then Otop prospoot in thtin (heckson) coamf ' is muoch hetter. than'it was .laayear-at this lIime. - Ootton -is. of- good ite ati -vigorons. Cesrl is growg Ainely, and thteoa~oli is too. far advanod f,~ at ast y o revent a~ 11 Aro(.bol ade. e an theri food Fifteen htippopot amus' Itides. orrosecnt - ly sent to a tannery in New Hoston, Massa chusetts, to be tannedl. They were 'in halves. and weighed togother 3000 inounde. 3pioy Corrospondenco Between Adiiiiral Semmos an([ Gen. Brisbin-Tho Radi cal Roughly Handled. A HAD. To A HEn. (nETING. LxixNo-roN, KY., July 18, 1807. Raphael Scmmes,% Editor Butlel'i, pirale, traitor, &c. Sin :-Someo 110e has sent me a copy )f your paper., in which you devote leIarly a wholo coluna to my late Ipeech In Lexington, Kentiek v.~ You hlinkl mie "-inconidmry, wickedo, 1',1d, and I party man on tihe Fourth or Jily." WV hat right have you, a vile wretch, ivig by the grace of Cod and the iner -y of a too humane (overnment, to ake a loyal man to taink for what le nay see fit to say ? H fave you so far orgotteni your Criles, or are you ins"ane mnough to believe that they are forgot. en am m101ien, and that treasoi after .11, is not to be punisled ? For ihe ake of your soul, 1 beg you not to forget he past, nor be unini ad ful of the futt re, or the day ik coming w hen you and o'erreSt will both be called to a jIst aIC ounmt for your misdeeds. Pirates and mlitchers of innocent monl cannot lone ivo in America unlmung. Be constant. y prepared, for you know not the (lay ior tle hour wherein the right onus udge will comli to do justice. Being Christian ii man, whlen your troulble is ,reat, and deep trih;lationi is upon you, end for me, and I will come and do all can to prepare you for your end hiougha 1 tell you fra k ly, I believe nio arthlily int.erces.ioni can save you front hli hottest hull in daml nation. Yor fear 'such meni" as I am, will 'ri.o t> pow. "on tle sholuillers of the black. vlen you recollect you r awful guilt, mld ti'.t by the laws of natbis you are m outlaw, wevll may your coward . con cielice mak you ear such an event. ou say mtich menr as I insti-ate the ie. ,roes to do la wes act.. You a pirate d a traitor, are a pretty fellow to talk hout instigators of lawless acts. TIo levil rebukig sinl would be a mild com. iarison. I have alwavs advised ilie iegroes to be law.-abiding, quiet, sober, ndustrious and peaceful, and shall con inue to do so. They have 110 occasion o tako the law in their own i hands, and vleu Iley do so, I sanll as mn uchl cou emn them as dI do you.We, who are heir friends, by the help of God ard a tadical ConlgresS, will in good time.', it) egal way, properly punish you and all heir enetes and the eCnics of the ?Iepublie, mnd in the meanatime the no. ,roes will be quiet, orderly :.nd ind u. rious citizens. Yours truly, JAs S. 13nam'nm1, U. S. ras. S. Bribin, U. S. A. : SiR-I former times. when a ner.;on. vho had the honor of signing U. S. A. ifte.r his name, felt ngrieved, lie adlress :d a private note to tihe party% w1ho Ie upposed meiant to offend him. Such a ite from yoit woildl have lound ready esponse at iy hands. This was a tile in the old service, where the il. orm was a guarantee that the wearer >f it was a gentIiant. 'W hat changs le birth of tho "New Nation'" )ra av iave bronught about among tioso who low wear shoulder straps .I am munble o say. As you . have departed from his rile, I ami constrained to regard roui as one of those new men of the armyw, whotse education has lbeen defec ivo ; though I know nothiin g of your' mntecedlents, never hiavinag heard of y'our tatte or fame until .I read your incendi.. try speech delivered by you to thlo >lacks~, at Lexington Ky., the other day. iaving voluntarily placed yourself vithout the palo of' gentlemen, by as.. atulting me, personally, t hrough the iewsp)apers, ther'e is no othier resource cft mne-uieas you should her'eafter hange your mind--but to r'eply to you broughi tho same chmamiel. I do lhve, hope, by the gr'ace of( God, buit not by he nilercy of the gover'nmenlt of which 'oi speak, since I puirchase myv perso. al saf'ety with a~ consideratiim which ins long sinice been~ paidl to, and( enjoy. d by tho other contractinag party, s.o. vit: theo layinag down of mny arms. anad he disbandment of aly troops. There~u re, no0 dloubt, plent y of such c reat ures .s your'self, who would be glad of the p)portni ty to disgraee the gove-rnmiient mudor wvhich they live, by counselling L to dishionor ; but I have the satisfac ion of believing that thero aro other nen in the United States ar'my besides lhe cana~1e, of th6 Brisbin oi-der w~ho 'rtun" the Fareedtinen's Buireau, a mlato v'ith negroes for siatistor purposes, and triko at, overything gontlo in the land n compliance'with the base ~istincts vith which an inscruftabio Providence ans ci :ted them. But I am wasting oson such nice follows ais -yoitrself ; .nd so, if you will permit mao, I will lose our correspondence by toliing you hat, mn my judgment, no, oflicer of thae 1itod States army, who eintertaineid lie senltimen~t of honor which shoutld har'aterino a noble profession, could a~ve. written the coarso anu slanderous ~t~a~k upon~m a cluetji9er which yout myve l.had thistinlction or p~roducling; or Llho jrati~eation of a certain class of anhckguanls with whomi probably you - MA'IIARtJ SEMMICs.. A. f'rien4i pays ho knows. bu iono iranch of' busrd~ss whioh is very pro ht'able nd buy 'littlo followel; auth hat is: "-Mind yono non ad The Difficulty in Columbia. Co .cu-m in July 30.-21he statement m\lo in the Now York Tcnes of this mnorningo is an exaggeratiol. Messrs. \V. Arllstrong atnl J. b. Tholipoiol1 correspondent of' a Cleveland paper, w(re assaulled niight, beforo last1 at ight o'clock, by two drunken men. Both were arrested before midnight, by the Chief of Polico, who is brother of one of the assailants. Citizens without excep tion deniounce the assauiit, 1 was the rilt, ofi loinor and entire. ly unpremediuated. ArIstrong is act mgas mag nni nol y in the :natter a ic behaved brave vin Iho b rief lgt. but Thompson desires to he con1tered a matyr, an 1s ssendiir out selsat lioll <lsjpatChesY. GJenerail rLhrol i.ay try the assailant by military Commlli.isioln, but il citizels ar aimall:4 to show - that tihe laws will b' vinid icated and lesire a civil trial. Whatever at teimpts to show premeditation or facts diilim-.t from the a b w sta t is false. 1This lipatclh explans the ca:se of tho spo Cial order imAt Will be fOund in our loclI colmn.--En. M:in.] The following order has been issued froi District 1[eadpuarters : IhuntDQUA rrr.ns, 9r.cosn Mul rut Dis-rRIC-r, Clarlest ol, S. C., July .;o, 167. I'Secbel 0rders NSo. IN I? Y\ i iT. J. T. Z.aley, a Maigistrato or Columinia, ichl Ditrict, South Carolina, is disml isseId from ofico for re leasing oil insufficient bail, Without (111do regard for the pible peace or the uranb t.y of whe offence Coil) III tted, Chlarles (". Hadelif l. 1 Owen I).iiley, eharged he foI' him11 with ae3al1tin1g andl heating .1. Q. Thompslmon. of New York, jourliahst and W. J. Armstrong, of Washingtol, tiken present at the capital of Souli Carolina, the fo.-mer as aecredited repre sentatives of the1 pless, anlid Ih latter an envoy of a national political orgalliza tion. ''ho Commandiring Olficer Militarv Post, of Cobunbia is charged with tihe execilion ofl this order. * * * * * By commainId of Major Genreral D. I,. Siehi . J. W. (1.mus, Capt. t U. S. llof1ul4ry, A. ). C. and A. A. A. C. Oii :lic.m: J. W. Cr.lsO. (iU'apt. 38'11 Infantry, A. D. C. andl A A. A. G. The announcemnt of the safe arrival of the life-sa ving raft at, Sluthampton will cause many exclamation of sur prise and wonler. "A fter thie," it will be said, '-10 only requires to oross tho meoan in a wash tub, or bowl, a littlo ronger tHian that which broke downa ilder the three wise men of Giotham." 'h'llat is: o10 view-the astonishing viewIV -of the occurrenco. But, there is an other viow, more commonplace and lensible. The Nonparicl was a raft. built expressly to save lives at sea, if sie had fonidered in mid-ocean, thiat event. wou1ld haIVO )r'ove( that11 she is not. a suitciently good raft, fmr it is her business to keep above water wheln nverything e'e would go to the bottom. The Nonlpareil fuhlilled hicr flnction, and i hat is all there is about it. hlad sho sulki, whein she was llade expressly to Iloat, with every conttrlvanice to that,1 01nd, we olught to hiave beeln moro surt pul sed than11 wo) now) are that shlo cross-. edi the ocean 1 safelv. Let 110 personi p'res'In Iu pon)10 thel srenlgth of her achiievemeini. to goto sea inacck boat. o i oke The Mobile1D)ady JTimes at the 2Gth says: The appeal of General Jame(s II. Clant on for a State Conivention1 of of the Conservative men01 of the State, is meeting with) the0 approvai of all true1 men withlout dlistinction of races. M~anv h~onet aned inftinen~tial colored menu haCv'O already inqujlired whet0Iher tho le'woubl. be admitte~d to tako part. inl its'proceed. inn, and( in) the prliina111ry meet01ings whiich will precede it, and wo' halve tio hiIghlest auIthori ty for anlswering tha t all1 such wvill be0 weleo:ne0, anid due reglard paid to tir0 interests. it is thnio to ratlly agrainlst. the0 'Irovt'i of miisereanltsI nnd(1agitators, and presen~It a bold front. against1 thlelIir mvidions mairchi amn1 Is in semeh of c h~h(2.od20 a nd lndI. WeI hand long~ since expre)sed~he hloplO thait the dlay was not far distant wVhenl tb tmoos it.tolligent of tho enlrranobised c1las. es would join) anyI party having'for itst object order, seculrity and1 prosperity. Says a San Fr~ancisco correspondent: Formerly the smaltlle'st coin im 1se wals, iln ntivo phlraseology, a two-b)it piocP 25 cen~Its. Of lato years the publie mmd11( has1 accomoda11ted itself to th1e nso1 of dimes, but) tihe manl who sholdh en dlevor to mai11e a purehaso .with it small.. or coii would( ha~vo thie articlo , presenit 0 idam11), nndc Iho itOlmdiately aslked, "Just from tho Staten, - aren't y'on ?" A t a frm11 stand( recenltly T met al nuew. earner trying to induce'tho~proprietor to~ paIL with1 one~ QfrangO for fitihy hiero. -"No, no--hoop Vour IlIoney," was the~ peirsistenIt reply ; ''wc ne ver soll an1 or. In1e. I'll give youI one-pIek it out." Amnze.d at teh nn1 eloeent, inl trade, the strang, fiding tho Imanl iln e'tarno, felt, bound to pniraiso eniouigh to pay for im the coim of Lila count1ry, Tn Nr~ono FRtiENDJ).-A negro' wasil lncdland'hanged by at partvy of United Staiton'mrarlnos'at Mound City, Iowa, cul I riday kaut. The ml~aines were al l adical.