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5 -.- - - - - 1 - --i ,,...jesportes, Williams & Co., Proprietors,] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. [Terms---$3.00 per Annum, In Advnce. VOL. 11.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 24,1868. [NO. 1 THE _FAIRELD HERALD Is PU1tAStiu wIKKIY nY DESPORTES. WILLIAMS & 00. Terms.-Tux IIanAL is published Week. ly in the Town of Winnsboro, at 63.00 in vareabiy in advance. Mi- All transient advertisements to be paid in adivance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per square. Selected Poetry. THE EVENING STAR. BY JonN LEYDV.N. How sweet. thy mdoest light to view, Fair st atr, to love and lovers dear, While trembling on tho falling dew, Like beauty shining through a tear. Or hanging o'er that mirror stream, To mark each image trembling there, 'lhou seem'st to smile with softer gleam, To see thy lovely face so fair. Though blazing o'er the arch of night, The moon thy timid beams oitshine As far as Ihino each starry light 11er lays can never vie with thine. Thine are the soft enchanting hours When twilight lingers on the plain. .Aid whispers to tihe closina ilowers That soon the sun will rise again. 'Thine is the breeze that, murmnring bland As music, wafts the lover's sigh, And bids the yiehling heart expand In love's delicious ecstacy. fair star-! though I be doomed to prove That rapture's tears are mixed with pain, . h! still I feel 'tia sweet to love But sweeter to be loved again. [From the Charleston Mercury.] Trial for Murder by a Military Cominis sion. On the night, of Satu rda y, the 11th J ...uary, 186, the siokelitse of Isaac O,-ns. a )resident. of Kershaw District, was broken*t op,-n and robbed, the snokehoIuse' . ir within cirt.ilage'. onl'y at flw st'"ps from the h4olis', id t he broom i'd ge within te enclostre and the fence conist itut ii g the ettclosre, set fire to in several places and in a direction from the house reverse of the position of the smokehouse. These outrnges weer.) perpetrated under the tuost angra vate't circutnstanes, '[h'ter'' was a siatill su cial party at Mr. Robert Snyrl's a neigh bor, that evening; Mr Iinne Owen and hi son ilinam, a voitch of sixteen, were absent from hoett- an td a'. Mr. IRob. ert Smnyrl's. The oily members of the family at hote, were old Rielhard Ow. enah, aged, hellh.ss and a crippjihi'. Be. sides him w'r' hits aged wife, ttd their tnotherless little ones, the children of Isaac Owens. The tracks of the party who had per. petrated Lite felony were followed to within a iew hunderd yards of Mr. Rich aid C. Drakeford's that. night. Early the next morning the acensed procnred a warrant from Jamies T. Catithen, it a magistrate in Kersha w District, to search for 4te. stolen goods, and to arrest the offendiers. The regul'ir constablo being sick, Mr Owens, by authority of the ingistrate, called to Is assistance his nteighb ,rs, A. J. McDowell, John O'Shaler, his son Willian, and the freedmen Nelson Kirkland and Wesley Arledge. The party wiere armied for the scarch and arrest, tie well thley tmightm be, for outlawa who had cotmmitted the heinons off'etces, the double crimesa of the tght before. The search was regiulady and la~wfulhly mad,'' without violence or threat, after repeated resistancen by thte felons, whto first domanded "writing an, thority," and w~hien that was shown, they still denanaded anchority from the "head5( iman ait Camtiden'," meaning ,the "Bureatn Aget," or as lie is called by these people, "the Yankee Comtmander." Yetthcese officers of the law do not exe.' cute thei warrant. They sent for Mr. Richard 0. Drakeford, the owner of thie pretnises arid hotuses, who read the wvar rant to thetm, and said the houses, his1 hiotuses must be searched, and he led the search, which was thon quietly acqimes cod in ; the stoien bacotn, or salt pork, was found-eleyen pieces. a futll load, for two mttn to carry, was identlifled by ,Nelson Kirkiand, f'reedman, .as Mr.' ;I weivn's met, as ho, Kirkland, had .cf' ~of the pieces before, itn a particu. fIor manner. T.he party then arrested the thieves, York Owen.sod William Mickle, and carried thetm to Camidetn, where the Uourthiouse is at one end of the town, iyhihktheir approach was from~thte other ,*i. lhev. met, Ed ird E. Sill, the :Sheri of Kershaw Distrit ;- they ten=' de'resim tihe prisoner and ordered them to- dehtver them to the 'jailor, Mr. Shiurni,'in Camnden> W hen thes' reacit .eJdtwjnil It Was not open,'and'they at. ented to entter the vard throutgh a: gate an:,qpening which there wassome difi. .ciy.:".While :Mr. Owans-was stooping domgt4ito opttn the gateiwith one hand, his giua beingin .the other the :barre1 zeating.on the inside of' hi, elbow, the prisdra; wwre 'ted' togethart adl bymijYo rek Oweni atteihited to-piil The.tin wray - from -hin. 'The gt wenuo e nd-killed: Mickle, thie our er prisoner, and York jerkingloo'so rh of,. Such arq the' plain 'facts of the deneFM-5 ' 1 . %, O t o 3 haao Owene was bt uglai'ta:b1 fore a military oommission for this of. fence and entwed a pleaotJeting to the jurisdiction of the court as utzconstitu ional. Tis plha was overruled by the court, ,lid the prisoner was put upon his trial or murder, and after hearing the evi. 'once and the report of the Judge Ad .'ocate, and of the counsel for the prison. .r, the, court found [saac Owens guilty of manislaughtor, and sentenced him to' tive years' imprisonment at hard labour in IWort Miacon. ''he arguinment of \WTilliamn M. Shan. non, Esq , t he counsel for the accusd, has just. been puibhshed in pamphlet, form, and is a rare specimen of legal eluiience, adroitness. and ability, It expr.sse.s perfect confidence in the intea rity and justice of the court, which the 1 sentence shows was entirely misplaced ; and it will be handed down to posterity as a memento of one of the many out. rages which have been perpetrated in the South by our military rulers in the sacred ajni of justice, under the au thority of the infamous Reconstruction acts. Magnanimity. Many beautiful lessons of magna nimity are to be found decorating the I pages of classic story-lessons which t should prove instructive to those who jv are now in positions affording them opportunities for its exercise. CiOsar, when returning to Rome at the head of his joyous veterans, allowed a statue of his rival Pofinpey to be erect ed in the Capital, and gave his follow ers place and power in the adminis. tration of the government. le in dulged in no test oath-he used no shackles-he hunted no victims with Il a keen and savage thirst for blood, but with a deeper insight into the na ture of the human heart he granted l full amnesty to all who fought against I his Eagles, and endeavored to brace his throne with the affections of the 1 people. 1 Indeed, no victory was allowed to the successful hero in a civil war, be cause it kept alive the aniimosities which should be buried -'deeper than' -ever the Plummet sounded'' in the ~ graves of forgotten transactions. -e When Sparta was conquered by Thebes no trophy was permitted in ; honor of the victory, because of a de-?: eree by the Council of Grecian States. Y' that "it was not fitting any record should remain of discord between $ Greek and G reek. Instead of following these wise and humane examples, the South is pre scribed from the seats of power, her voice is no longer heard in the coun cils of the nation, but she has con stantly preying upon her vitals a rav enous horde of the carpet-bag frater nity, who still feed, vulture like, with accursed avidity upon her mangled ] and prostrate form. The ear of her. peaceful and law-abiding citizens is constantly assailed by bloody orders " of military satraps, and upon a more " suspicion of guilt are dragged,.before military commissions to answeor oharg os and suffer insult. The South had accepted defeat had taken het vow of allegiance which ' he would have kept to the very let- ' ter--tho last syllable. Though the wild blast of war had desolated her.. I homes and wreck and ruin crushed all "t the parts of her fair domain,still she t was ready to let the dead past bury '1 its dead." She invoked no jibes, no At animosities. She drank dee p of the,1 bitter cup of defeat ; but 81n0 would .C not murmur at the draught did not < these red-mouthed fanatics, with ' "breath of Ate, hot from hell," con- i tinue to "cry havoo and lot slip the ~ dogs of wvar." BouTwIt-L ON T ii E PnEIDENT1AL1 R ACE.-Congressman lBoutwelJ to-day~ ventured to give the status of the seve-! ral Democratic candidates for the Presi denmtial nomination as viewed from a Radical standpoint. Pendleton, ho said, t was entitled to the nomination, but would be easily beaten under the cry of~' Copperhead. Chase's sympathies, lie smid, were all with the Ruidicals, and should the Dbmocrats elect him tlhey~ would 1b0 sadly disappointed in his p oh. cy. Johnson had been seduced from the Radicals by the whiskey-drinking Democracy, and would make no run. As to Hancock, he said, we admit his intellectual calibre, but lie has no expe' rice as a statesman, and would be an unfortunato selection. Ho was particu larly severo on Hancock, and ridiculed the id-ea of his headmng the Demoeratie ticket. Of Hlendrics lie spoke inm flat. tering terms, both personally and as a party leader.. Boutwell then recurred to *Grsnt, and said :"Grant is all right on reco~nstruction, but lhe does not know the Radicals. Hie does not. know where they are hastening hdi." Hie ' spoc'e 4onfidently, of qra~ngs eletion.--Waal ington Lotter in Bait. aaze. The Radicalis, It ieinis:'a getting diagnsted. with - Sickles': already. Col Forney,n .iglepturon QlipngQ to'the Philadelphtaa Preas, sepeaking of ethe election~of Hawly as Preident of the tCobventien lt~t 41 4t on dyrgf 1 Sikethe lattet t ewf 'Yorkc refusing td voto ( Meri 1hiks if dt~ Ibe well poatod long before a ha b Praaldent. Now York Cotton Market. I The Comncrcial and Finencial (iChron. icle, of' Saturday 13th instant reports the cotton market as follows: By (ipecial telegrains received by us from each of the Southern ,orts, we are in possession of tile returns showing the I receipts, exports, &c., of cotton for the week ending this evening. June 12.-] B'rom the figures tis obtained it an-a fears that the total receipts for the hist, seven days have reached 3,579 bales a against 4,001 bales lst week, 6.441 i ales the previous week, and 10,950 1 hree weeks since), making tho; aggre aote receipts Sineei September 1, 1807, ip to this date, including the returns by elegrah to-night, 2,146.805 bales, igainst 1.793,679 bales for the same period in 1866-07, being an excess this season over last season of 353,126 bales. Tihese returins forcibly' indicito the very small amount of cotton remnining I n the interior. At this rate of receipts r we cannot anticipate that the further r arrivals at the ports this season will ( each more than about 40,000 bales, so t .hat the end for the year, after all omis. t 3ions live been added, witl probably he a ibout 2,250,000 bales. The exports for ho week ending to-night also continue < rery small, the total reaching only ' 13,. ? 309 bales, of which 6,050 bales were to 1 Liverpool, and 3,056 bales to the Con- j inent, while the stocks, as made up this welling, are now reduced to 126,563 a >ales. Comparing the foregoing statement t or this week with that of the corres- ( onding week of last season, we find a t lecrease in the ex ports of 10,800 bales) 1 to that the total increase mn the ship- t nents since September 1, 1867, as coim-i tared with the same period of the prei.- c rious year, is reduced to about 225.000 C.t >ales, while the stocks are 140,029 1 )ales less than they were at this time ac gear ago. The market this week has been dull, .d hough a litahe more active towards the. lose, with prices today If cents otT',, rom our ql.omat ions of last Friday. Our~ >wn crop reports are very emieoo'roging,V whle the markets for goods both heie It md abroad continue greatly depressed. i hence, althouigh our stocks' and weekl y eceipts are reduced to an extremely low : tiint, there appears very naturally to: >e a "want of heart" among many hold f rs, although we believe the bulk of the .a tock in this market is still held above I mr qnotations. The sales of the week < 0ot up 6,499 bales. [From the Mobile Register.] Murders in Choctaw C ounty. Bi a gentletan jist from Bu tler we earn that, on Tuesday last, om11 friend N ' Thomas, editor of the Choctaw 7eral, was murdered in a most, cow- 1 rdly mananer by Joshua Morse, the e ttorney General elect to the scalawag , ligarchy which the s'o-called Congress ' t Washington has just voted to r'cog- r ize as the lawful government, of what ( vas the State of Alahan.a. He was assisted by one Wim. Giln-ore, a less minent member of I he gang of renegade vhite men, but well enough known. Mr. Thoma has not been backward I n expressing his opinion of these crea- t ures, and it seems they took the occa- V ion of the abscee of nmost. of his friends e mn a fishing excursion, or simething of. he sort, to visit. htimt at, his (llice iandi rovoke a difilinh. Gihinore maide lie t ott~nnoneent and brought on an alter atien, which resulted in Tlhronuas firintg 'J pistol at him. Morse who hadl kept a a the back ground, appears by this timet o have provided himiself with a doubile e >arrelignn, with whlich Ite tired twice ipon Tho~mas, lodging thirty-eight. buck hot in his body, cansinig his deathi with. s a half ati hour. Both the assassitns im nediately fled. and it isuutderstood thati hey have made their way to Atlattia, c o shieler themselves under the prote. ion 6f Gen. Meade from the venigeanco f the people of Butler, amnong whom e nod throughout t~he neigh borhood, where r dfr. Thomas, beitng highly and de- e ervedly esteemed, there is mutch ex- t utement.. We also learn that Mr. Pierce, over ler of the plantation of Mrs. McCor nick, formerly Mrs. Lewis, was fouttdt lead on the road, having been shot ritd r tis head shockingly beaten with a club. 5 in( trace of his mutrderer has beotn found, t >ut public opinion connects the deed r pith a di~enity he recently had with a nan named J ais. TntE MYrETFRY.-Two darkies hajl itohe a mess of pork in partnership, bitt I am, having no place to put his portion n, consecnted to etntrust his share to Ju. 1 lits' keepinmgd The next eniorning thtey S n1et, when Spm ,said, ."Good mornitg, [tillau ; aby thibg happen strahdo or mya. I eriorus downinm ydtlr vicinity,.liately ?" Tasa Sam,,pnost strAnge thmtg happen at yhoeyetratnight. All mystery .me:PW~h Jfine hat was dit ?"a eW11 10ntdpi y'no. ie eiorn ngTwnd6n it he cellet for, to' get piece ob hog ferdie darkey'es break ass, andrl put my hand down inito' thw, ~rine and felt ro~nnd, :but tio pboyk-'all ~ r t~i4 tT frl nd, Nati ~ra~p#u de. rats hadeata. hold{ loan tro toar ob de barlem and husband, Wife, and Lover, all take Po son and Die. Another of those fearful tragedie: 1o soul-siekening to all, occurred i his city on Saturday bight and Sur lay, the facts of which,so far as the Tre known to the public, are as fol ows. It appears that a man name )wens, wi o has been for some month resident of thiscity, did some year go entice from her homne and frIend I young girl of rare beanty and pron se, and took her with hiin to the fa Nest, residing with lier in 1 Montan and Idaho till last. full, when the ame to this city. Last winter tht roung womnin, di,'atislied with he >osit ion, insisted that Owen.s short! nake her his lawful wife, whicb h efused ; thereupon a young ma amed Hooker, who for some tio >ast has been concerned in a brewer ome.six or seven miles up the traci >ropesed to marry the girl, and sh 0 cding to the oroposal. tIhey wer narried last winter. Since that tit )wens has resorted, at different time o every means to secure possession e he woman, usitrg, it is said, both fore nd tfraud. At any rate, Owens anid the girl rc ently made a trip to Omaha togeth r, where he expended considers le money for lir in clothint ewelry, &c. Upon their returr Tooker, learn ing of her wherebout ud that she had taken up her abod rith Owens, and being deiied acce o liar, did on Saturday commit sui ide by taking strychnine. He too lie poison about fioon, and when I egan to fool its elfects repaired to tt ouso of Mr. Clarke in this city, an nforimed the family what he ha one. Medical aid was summoned ut lie died abolit 9 o'clock in th vening. The wife, hearing of the affair nine to Mr. Clark's about the time h ied, and remained till Sunday mori ag, when she went to the drugetor id procred pois'i, went hack to ti onse where her dead husband la lile an inquest was being held upo is body, swallowed the poison, an. a a few minutes she too was a corpse. Owens caihe to 'he house while sh a in the agonic of death, and seen d much afl'ected;4 but only stayed ow minutes, when ihe left, and it i umored that he, also, its connitte uicido ; but wo.cannot find that an ne knows the facts about it, and w oubt the story. However, le i Missing, antl no one knows his where bots.-('/cyne Star. The New York lJtropoltaa 1 ccord ublishes the following extraordiir hiscovery. Its corresi.ondent writes ain the discoverer of an iimens avertn in the Palisades of the hIud on, fully one mile in length and a cast a half mile wide, with a vaulter oof, higher than that of Trinit hureh, sup }ported by innumerabli illars, which must have been ereate< y rho hund of man tuany centurie ince, and furnished with innumerta to side recesses, ante-chambers any Dng winding passages of tho mos roniderful construction. Ruins o iat have evidently been altart reeted thousands of years ago, ar bundant,together with the moulde rng bones of beings of einormous sta uro, as if belonginig to a race of giant hat formerly inhiabitod the earth he floors of this remtarkable cavori rec as smooth anid hiardl as granlte biough covered (loop with the dust o cnturies. Hera and thiere a lowe cop is discernable through the a] ervadinig gloom, with spacious ston taps leading thereto. From thos systerious'caivitias the sound of rush mig waters falls upoin the car, witl ther reverberations of' a strange, uni arthily chiatcr TJhe caverni, iti maniifest, is not like the Kentuck aye, a freak of nature, but,. as al eady conjeetu red, the work of man i ome early period of the world's hi, ory.' Cabalist ica signs cover the bit es of somne of the pillars, while figure tearing a close resem~blance to th phinxes, deathts' heads, and mum ties, as of Egyptian design, adorn yr ious portions of the walls and reel hli editor of the Record states thas lie writer of the coimunication its esident of New York aity. A NOTIEER 0ARPF.TI3AGOER GoNE. Vo learn through a private source thu 'ierce Burton, the carp)et-bagger, wh ras at one timoi on thes hoard of' regia ration for this district, and who wit utbsequientlIy elected by the negroes< vfirentgo county as their Representativi us returned to Massachusetts. H vrites a gentleman in Indon, on bus eS, that lie wai niot return to Alabam ~niosa thed ner Legislature shall bt onvend. Inthat event, of course, hi omieaonsfrom Massachusettee to Moni ~oeferyi.o represent; the "trooly loil"< Uabama and draw his 1per-diem. .(Cctato HeraMd. A Texan murderer, who had falle Sto tho.hanids.o(:Judge Lynch, oete Se vetroible by perforniing, his :ow grcigt9),M .4tereupoe. d eimbed tqg,,wm b e.sry: edlityinga ~d mort ~eeob, Ate,4rp.wd5 warohpg them,1 4otb bie exam~ple, put the neoi out hula neck, tied the end of thio ro% o a stout hmb-and tinmOed. 1- Japa2--An Act of Reparation--The har Kars, ;9. On the 2d of this month, at 1:18 P nt 11 , in one of the 1-iogo temples, Iked -I, the author of tho recent tronble: y suflred death. He was the secretar of Prince Bezen, and gave the order t fire on the foreigners. The combine powers demanded his bead, and neithe a his own position nor the influence of hi 9 prince could save him. But he wa s permitted to conmit the hari-kari, th i rescuing his property from confiscatio r and his name from dishonor among hi a countrymen. Up to the last momer y heis friends sought his pardon. Each < e the six legations sent a representative a r witness, and to this number was adde i ant interpreter. The closest myster o shrouded the whole affair, and as fe, n witnesses as possible were permitted, i e order to impress the Japanese that th y execution was to satisfy the ends of jut :, iee, and not to gratify a purient curios e ty. The chosen ones left the legatio 3 during the evening, and walked to Hic e go, where a guard of Japanese soldier ;, met thet and cond ucted them throng f several narrow streets to one of the Tar e ger temples One of the ante-roon was placed at their disposal, and ther ,they indulged in pipes and cigars, an -awaited the event. .LL a few minutes past eleven P. M word came that all was ready. The arose and followed their conductor int ;," the main temple. Here in front of th a large and elaborately-finished altar, w a spread a green cloth, and over this - smaller red covering. Near the centr lstood a tray containing a number < a smnall knives, corresponding to the shari eshort svord of the Japanese, unaheati ed. The seven E uropeans sat dowi i oI silence on the matting, after the J panese fashion, and the same number o e native oflicials located themselves oppu site. Above them glimmered severe Jap anese paper lanterns, shedding ove e the altar a dim and spectral light, whic lost itself mo the mysterious darkness be eo yond. With a slow but firm and unfit e tering step the doomed man entered an . approached the altar. He wore tLi 11F, white winged state dress, indicative < I high rank, the "Kit ruiShino." Turi ing to the dimly outlined image of hi o gods, ho bowed and muttered a praye. - Then gathering his feet beneath hint, I a fat down, resting on his kne,-s, in tI s usual Japanese manner, beside the tray d It is customary for the individual pa y forming the lari-kari to complete the at e by citting his own throat. But thi a2 unhappy mani, fearing that at the Ia: - moment, his resolutionI migit. fail, cause one near of kin to assume the dty < headsmntn. The executioner took h , position behind hint, seiziNg the lon y handle in both hands. Hie raised th -sword anid asstimed the attitude of ott o about to st rike. It was a tableau in - pressive and awful. The long, razo t edged blade reflected the lantern lig! I with horrid effect. The executioner y eyes were fixed with fearful earnestnes on the victim before hi-n, watching em 1. gerly every motion. The doomed ma a methodically prepares his dress and n lsee a sword, grasping it firmly in hi I right hand. Then anmmoning all hi t resolution, lie plunges it into his side an f completes a traverse incision. At thi ,.momnient his head falls forward, and in a stantaneously the poised sword of th - headamant flashes thurouigh the air, art - the head tails with a dutll heavy soun' a upon the heavily matted floor. .]The seven robed and swvorded Japs noase oflicials how thIeir heads to th ,ground, exclaiinmg in a loud voice, "Ar f you satisfied?" and the seven European r how their fitces ini return, and reph I through thie interpreter, "We are sat a lined !"' They arise, and are immediait< a ly conducted away. - :This is the fammotus harn-kari allowe .1 to ofnecers of position as an alternative< ..- disgrace, Tme Iiucision saves their honc s and iheir property, and the gasht in th y thiroatt terminates their sulle5ras.-IHa - go ( March 18th) C'or. N. Y. Timens. THEc CoUatER s "FEAnFUL OUYTRAGES. 'Outr vetierable cotemporary on the Ba a startled the community yesterday wit a tale of horror and blood, the allege - scene of which was in Kershsaw Distrnie * he authority upon which the statemter 'was b~ased was vouchted for by our er terprising neighbor. as "indisputable. Duly imipressed wit~h the importansce< the item, one of the reporters of LI News was dispatcheid in hot hasto I gathier tup, even at the eleventh honu .t the harrowing "detaila ;" when onir e2 scitement was suddenly cooled, . by thi receipt of the following note from Di s trict Headquarters: Svecowo Mt;,ITARY DIsTRatoT, OsCuntlLETon, 8. 0., Junae 17, 1808. aTo the Editor of thse Newes: Sinf a In reply to an lngulry addres e d to Col. Edie, commatiding a Oau den, asking if their had been any did 4:atlty at that place, as reported In thi non~Ip Courier, the following h " %onn at on aht~or." n Veor rnei!n* OUrB V. OASrI~su, aA4setdaon te edand~ istaies afele San ar , [From the New York Revolution.] Ilke Repablioan Party Daguorreotyped by a Radioal and "Loyal" Pen, a Republicans elected Andrew Johnson i for party success; they impeached him Y for party success ; and since the day the 0 sceptre of power came into their hands, d hey have worked for party success r rather than the nation's life. s While they have deceived the people 9 with the cry of constitutional amend s ment, loyalty. negro suffrage, impeach i ment, they have shown themselves dis e loyal to the grand principles of our t Government, by their attempts to drag C down the Federal Constitution to their 9 low ulatform; to force negro suffrage on d the south while repudiating it, in the Northern States; and after proving the v President guilty of high crimes and mis n demeanors, strangling impeachment e with their own hand,. t And now the handwriting on the wall warns them that they are ."weighed m n too balance and found wanting." The Republican party stands today with its s ranks broken, divided, distracted, bir3' b1 ed. and the sceptre of power has pasJed -frome it forever. But this is no cause of si sorrow, for the sooner this party is :cat. e tored to the four winds of heaven, the sooner will the scales full from the eves of the people, and they will see tiat - their leaders have been but blind leaders of the blind. 3 Jeremy Bentham says "the people cannot be too distrustful of their rulers.' s When the American peopie learn that men and pat ties are tiuthiug unless bas. ed on principle, and that whether under Republican or Democratic dynasty, w< Slitve the same results--they will wak, to the responsibility of self-govern. ni ment. As we turn over the pages of history, we can see how other nations, groaninp under taxation, ignornrice and poverty. 1 have been deluged, blinded and destroy. r' ed, without dreaming mhat, we ourselves b are to-day the thoughtless victims ot 'selfish cud crafty rulers who think onl, - of their own aggrandizement. Just na dl Rome, with fet s and feasts, with holi. e days and deadly combats between man f and beasts, and gladiatorial exhibitions in crowded amphitheiitres turned the a3 poople's thoughts from their own wrong, r. -so do our rulers to day, with eanensseb, e conventions, campuigns, itpeachmnotu e trials and the coarse brutality of the - press and politicians, amuse the people, r- degrado the public taste, and destroy a the virtue of the nation. Unthinkmn s leaders inflame the North against all t rebeldom, and damn every man who I dares put iii a plea of justice and mercy ' to the South, with the unmeaning name " of "copperhead." To rouse the people's wrat h their brave sires and suns bl-aeb 0 ing on all those Southern plains, forget e ting that with their own hands they a built that sepulchre where our brave dead now stleep. The chain that held t the black boy in the everglades of A Florida and the slave girl in a New Or s leans market was fastened around the neck of New Eingland's sons and daugh. ters. Through our avarice and selfish - ness the land of orange groves and flow. S e lies ble, ding and desolate to-day. a Blame not the Soutlh, but our own con c stinutions, creeds and codes. But while we ended with the sword a - slavery of brute force, and overturned a! the Southern oligarchy, by cnning Ilegislation wve have substituted anothr Iform of sla very in our new system of finance. In our niatrgnal debt'ai Ba x. -ation, we lhavo placed the whole labor of the country at thme mercy of a rioney-* s ed aristocracy of baniks, hondholders arid 5 -land monopolists. Having jitst esca ped i' from the yoke of 400,000 slavehnolders. we are abou~t to bow our necks t o thme -yoke of 400,000 honrdholders. Fhnished with conquest. these "Hiugh Art Swin I diers" have bought tip the nation 'a vir Itue anid chioke'd otir prophets who have r dared to speak. -GRANT A TYRAN.-Granit is essen sentiaully a tyrant. As late as 1800, one year after the war closed, hre surppressed athe Ichomond (Va.) 1Examine, because lie did nrot like its political course. Its editor (Mr. Pollard) had ani interviewv with himn, which he thtus reported: "It was etvide'it that 1 had nothing .to hope from him, for lie said to muoex pressly, that if he hatd tire authority, he would that day suppress the New York ,News, the Cminnati IEnguirer andl the eUbicago Times, adding that the Copper. h Iead papers of the North, as lie designa ted them, were doing quito as much 'harm as the papers ini thre South." The only reasonm, therefore, that pre vents him from establishing a geneoral censorship over the press North as well as South, is the want of amthority. Him admits he has the disposition. A ppeals to reason and conscience, which he can not answer9 he wiould silence with the brute force of a despot.. Sneh Is Gen. Grant.---OnonnaaTihtguirer. ++. 'The reason why Butler bears the bimnt of the imptiaehment flasco was f'orshadowed In the Scriptual statement Sthat "Benjamin'. mecs- was flve times greater thanm tha~t oif his brethren?" (W~ re4p ottulya1qipate the inevitable al. lue o thcetp that was founds in; '. snuar freak~ of natur w~ seen b~ Arat~atowen to,4nty, in the man *Ith ihre. Wata one sia wd. of his head, and a thire~ h, iaIh blotged to another f~eollw.-wbe twaaEa kl 4 Semi-Annual Report of the Homo for the Moth 'rs, Widows and Daughters of Uonfedorate Soldiers for the Half Year Ending 15th April, 1868, The ladies In charge of the "Ilome,'' be having the public to be interested in their mission of love and mercy, would lay be 'ore those who have so kindly aided in thin chari:y a brief statnemnt ot what has been acncoiplished for the welfare of Its inmates. The 'Hono" has been in operation fot At t months, and numbers over eighty ocou p!.nts. Isere these destitute ladies and children, sonic of whom have been redned from afiluenceo to poverty, by the misfor tunes of war, find a comfortable shelter and a pleasant home. In t ho ceolusion of her apartment, each mother can carry on the work of training her children with tho same privacy ansd care that she could in her own iome, and the children can still enjoy the privileges and pleasures of the domestic cir. olo. Three times a week soup Is supplied in the institution; and, froni time to time, such provisior.s as have been sent by friends have been distributed among the inmates and most grateftully received. A school, numbering over fifty children, and constantly increasing, gathered front the families in the -Home," and from thsoe unable to secure education elsewhere, hne been orgatiirell, and is regularly and gra. tuitously taught by young Indies of refine ment and culture. The progress of the ehi ldren in acquiring knowledge has alrea. ly been such in to reward aud stimulate their disinterested teachers. The hat ge and accomnmodious building rented by the hoard of control, affording tho facilities, it is proposed, as speedily as possible, to adhnit a liint iteil tumber of girls. iughters of Confeilorate soldiers, who have ien impoverishied by tho war, and toafford them n home, in order to secure them the neans of' thorough eduention. TIiey will o placed umtler tho supervision of a dil. ireet and experioced ntily, as n a ron. For he means of tli ir education ant board, towever, the board of control makes earn es:t appeal to the liberal and benevolent.-. l'uition for then ci n be obtained, at some if the best schools in tie oily of Charleston, ,it one half the usual rates ; and the aveil mid the letermination of the young ladie-i to secure the moan of self-support, will, loubtless, onsure doublil the ordinary pro giess to that coveted remuIt. Fortunately, also, tihe spacious premises *iccupied by the "liome" has afforded shol. tr to persons in nod who d-o not come within the exaot letter of the purpose of the institution, but who hiivo gladly availed themselves of the privilege of occupying rooms in tlie builling which were not imme. diately required by those for whom they were .iriginally dlesigarid. The eagern-:s with which Indies have availed themselves of even a tenporary sholter, which they covenanted cheerfully to resign so soon itt it. shoulu be needed by those having a prior ^luitm, does but Inilient e the e:s remlty to which we aro relucd, the pationt tnag. nnnimity with whith it, is biorno, anti the timeliness of even the least elirt. and pray. er for its relief. While thankin,-. most gratefully, all who have assisted us in this untidertaking, we earnestly entrent them not to relax their generous endeavors on behalf of the "Home." There are many wants Of its inmates which we are uniable to relieve ; and we feel that our work is iticomplete until we por out t he full metaruire of'comafort. upon those protOctors yildhledi up their lives In defence of'their homt's anil ours. We fully realize t hin vast importarco of our undertaking, its grave responsibility. We know our work to be a noble one, to comfort the widow anti the fatherless, and to shelter the homeless '1lhereforo, with in abiding faith in the kindness of our peo ple, and a confident. trust hit the benevolent promptings of humanity, we earnestly corn. mend the "liomto" to the liberal and the philanthropic everywhere. Mrs. M. A. SNOVWDEN, M1rs. P. C. (JAILL.A u, Mrs. D. ;. IUG Ei t, Mirs. O EOltGE ]ROBlERTSON, Airs. WI LhtAM IIAVENEL, Mrs. IIENItY lAVENEL, Mi-s. J. S. SNOWIDEN, Mrts. C. i4. VEDDEiI, Mrs. WI. E. MfIELL, 1%Mrs. J. S. P'A 1.MER, Mrs. M. t'. MATIIESON, Miss M. B. CAMPhiELLT, Miss ANNA SIMPSON, Miss E. E. PA LMERl, Miss MATl IDA MIIDDL1ETON. Mrs. M. A. SNOWDEN, President. Miss M ATILDA M DIDLETON, Vice-Pre.d dent. \Iiss M. 1B. CAM1PBE~LL, Secretary aind Treasurer. Mrs. W'. E, MIKElLL, t'orresponding Seo tary. WtIAT Fonsav SAYS AUOUT ins Eazsenex aN YVanolNA-The Ohronicl, of yestord~y says: "Now that the bill admitting the two. Carolinias, Georgia, FlorIda, Alaaa anjd Louisiana, has passed both IUouses of Con. gross, It is time a little attention ssiiad be directed to the States which have not, progressed so far in the work of reconstkuo. tion. It 18 now just two months slncetho adjournment, of the Virginia Oonventtion after the completion of the new CnstslIu. tion. Not a step has boen taken since-thua t, tIme; and from present appcarancou iJk do* a not, seem likely that anythinig more will b e done until Congress shall take the itJttiW e In the matter. The State Convengon-Axe id a day for holding the election io/rollfy tri uq Oonstitutioni, but owing to the want ofLfurnicd wherew ith to conduct it, it was postpon .aL by General Sehofield; and-undmt proe'.e g, oircumstasoea thme only praahticable may tqQ. fix another day for holing it 1.s 19. th~, district commander to Issue an- o*4d11. fp) that purposo. But, 'as we have heretof9~ atated, we believe it to be Mir.' Jh plan to delay the admission of the Soulke.~q States In every possible way;' an&d iSf1 cage of Virginia the Aimplest' misther4i instmnet the military otmendef 1 the lin.u of an order for the oelri he will probably do, and th 'ad ias. 41 that State may thus be~a1ed indpiA KIfS therefore worth$:ths oonside*4~' a~gress whethey i j t~ to' paas a les jte State saay be reliev44 oeis.4~~ #pnthe Prefdh~ietlamidsita etsing idk.his otn~ ~ -