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Desportes, Williams & Co., Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. erms---$3.0 per Annum, In Advance. VOL. 11.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESI)AY MORNING, JULY 15, 1868. -NO. 4 THE FAIRFIELD HERALD ;S 'UBl.ISI[ED w EEKI.Y BY DESPORTES. -WILLIAMS & 1O. Terms.-Tn's ilsnALi is published Week ly in the Town of Winnsboro, at 83.00 in. vareably in advance. U?- All transient adverilseients to he paid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per square. Message No. 1. of His Ezoellenoy Gov. 3. L. Ory. Gentlemen of the Senate aad house of Representatives : THE PULItC DEBT. By reference to the report of the Comptrolier-General, addresntd to this Department on the 25th of November, 1867, a copy of which is herewith trems. mitted, it will be seen that the entire public debt of the State, on the 1st day of October last., together with the inter. eat which had accrued up to the same date, amounted to $8,378,255 64. De. ducting from this sum all the bonds and stocks issued between 1860 and 1865 for military purposes, and the interest on the same, amounting to $2,854,679 08, the debt due by the State on the 1st of October last was $5,523,576.56. Of tips sum $5,407,215.23 is the principal, and $116,361.33 is interest. While this debt. is small as compared with that of many other States, yet in the present impoverished cot,dition of the people of South Carolina, the annual payment of $331,424.59, which is the interest upon the debt at 6 per cent., in addition to the maintainence of the State government, woli be excessively oppressive. The contingent liability of the State from endorsements of railroad bonds, is as follows : South Carolina Railroad bonds, payable in 1888 secured by first tiort gag e.. ... ...-... .$2,09,3,312.40 Charlestnn and Savannah Railroad bonds, paya. ble in March, 1877, so cured by first mort gag e..... .... ... . ... 505,000.00 Northeastern Rail Road bonds, payable March 1, 1869, secured by first mortgage.......... 92,1000.00 Laurens Rail Road bonds payable in 1879, 3e cured by first mort gagn.............. .. 75,000.00 Spartanburg and Umon Railroad bonds, pava. ble in 1878 and 1879, secured by first mort gag e.. ............350,000.00 Greenville and C'olumbiai Rail Road bonds, paya blo in 1881, 1882, 1883 and 1886.........945,471.21 Oithe endotsement upon the Grewn ville and Columbia Rail Road bonds, 700,000 dollars is under authority of the Act of 1861; and $203.848.89 is under the authority of tte Act of 1866, passed for the purpose of enabling the compray to pay the interest past due and to fall due prior to the 1st of Janu. ary, 1868, upon coupns and upon the mortgage and guaranteed bonds. This guarantee is upon cert.ifi rtes of iadebt edness. The sum of $41,622.38 is upon the outstanding debt of 4the company upon which thero is no lien- the guar. antee havimg been made where the holders of demands uppa the company aurrettdered thr'ee dollars of demand for one dollar of bonds. The ordinance of the Convention, adopted on the 15th March,% 1868, de clares "that all Acts or pretended Acts of legislation, purporting to have been passed by tho General Assembly of the State, since the 20th day of December, A. D., 1860, pledging the faith and credit of the State for the benefit of any .corporate body or private individual are bereby suspended and declared inopera tive tintti the General Assembly shall nssemble and ratify thte same." It is unnecessary to enter into any discussion at the present time concerning the legal force and efooct of the Ordi nances passed by the Convention, va rious opinions being entertamned .as to questions of their legal validity. But, in any pomnt of view, to remove all ap prehensions upon the subject of bonds of 'reenville and Columbia Rail Road Company, now held by citizens (.f the State, and guaranteed by the State, I recommend that the Aeof 1861, au fthorizing the issue of $900,000 of bonds, ;fptd the Act of 1866, providing for the guairantee of certiicateos of indebtedness, aind rdao of bonds of one to three to hatisfy other indebtedness of the Compt dy ppon which no lien existed, be vah gad by the action of your body. Per. A4ps.holding bonds tinder the Act of 1q61 hold therp in lieu of - the orinal mqrtgage bonds due them by the eom pa'ny, which mortgageg bonds were pur rendered to the Colspany-tho .guarat). teed bpads of the State being taken in paymeit ,pf the samq, 11p911 the fAIth of :the 4ct of IP61. It woiald operate ae .5 gross frau 1 upon thee bondholders vow to deolate their bonds VAid, Com-. mn honesty arould required .f the Act is not validated, that llperdotiE holdina guiaramnteed bond. should be, slhowd the privinlege of surrepdering the same, and of roeoving in llen thereof the. ogi: fla) mortgage bonds of the Calumabia anid Augmsta 8ail Company, atf bonds of the South LUaroiia Rail Road 0.onspar .nv. anA are entddad in o ene rly can. It is believed that bonds thus endors. 1 ed to the amount of nearly $3,000,000 will be pr9mptly liquidated by the coin panies as they fall due, and that the guarantee of the State will be discharg. ed to that extent. As to the remainder, there is more doubt; but in no contin. ;:nfcy isi it pronbable 'lhat in cone quence of the failure of the companies to meet their bonds, the State will have to provide for more than $700, 000. The report of the Comp troller General further shows that the cash balance on hand, on the first day of Octo ber, 1866, anouited to.................$211,190.83 t That the receipts from all sources from the 1st of October, 1866, to 'the 1st of October, 1867, was................ . 454,302,23 J Making a total of....*..$665,493.06 This includes of Bills Re- t o e i v a bl e$222,000, which had been sign ed, clipped and carried to cash, pursuant to the provisions of the Act of 1865, authoriz. ing their Lsuc. The expenditttres during the same period wore. .. $474,453.37 Leaving on the 1st of October, 1367, a cash balance in the Treasu. ry of.................191,039.60 The report of the Treasurer, made to this Department and hereby transmitted, shows the operations 9f the Treasury from the lst day of October, 1867, to the 1st day of May, 1868. From this statement it will be perceived that on the 1st of October, the balance of cash on hand was.......... $191,030.69 'The total receipts of the Treasury f r o in all sources since that time has been.... .......303,387,73 Which, added to the cash on hand, male the available means of the Treasury.... ........494,427 42 The total expenditure during the same period has been..............398,881.16 Leaving on the 1st day of May, a cash bal ance in the Treasury of ........ ............95,546.26 This amount will be materially redu od durintg the month of May by the presentation of clnims against the Treas- r ury for payment before the expiration of the tern of the present administra tion. It will be observed, from the renort of the Treasurer, that the Convention t levied a tax which it was sipposed would realize the sum of $75,000. Sufficient returns have not been receiv. ed from the variots tax.collectors of the State to enable him to say whether the i calculation will prove correct. The I actual sums drawn. from the Treasury, by order of Major.General Canby, to defray the expenses of the Convention, amount to $110,000, which is an ex- 1 penditure of $35,000 more than was provided for by te tax bill of the Con vention; assutming that said bill raised the estimated amount. By the Act of December, 1865, au thority was given to the Treasurer and I ComtrolerGenraltoissue *500,000 of Bllsrecivale. These officers found that it was not necessary to print more titan were embraced iri the first 1 contract with the engravers, to wit:-4 $390,000. Of this suam only $222,000 have been signed and carried to cash~ in the Treasury. On the let clay of May, 1868, there was outstanding and in cir culation of these Bills Receivable only Sl35,687, TAxES ANfD TAxATION.4 No duty Is ever devolved upon the legia later Involving such delicate and ramilied interests as that which looktto the creation of a just and equitable system of taxation. It is an accepted truth In political eoono. my, that in levying taxes upon the people, it should be done in a manner whiolb will enable them to pay the same with the greal,. est facility, and witbput unnecessary op. preeuion. The sudden change in the system of laber which has prevailed in South Care lina fep so many yea; the destruction of mere than one- halt of the estinmated wealth of the State by the abolition of slavery ; the devastation of dk1.s, towns, villa ges, farms and homesteads, by the ravages of war, snua by invading and retreating armies; the disastreus drought which existed through out the State in 1860, cutting off almost, entirely the cotton and greatly reducing the provision crop, thereby rendering it neces sary to purehase large supplies from abroad for the subsistanee of the population ; the groat reduction, in many sections of the State, of the cotton crop of 1867, by the spoliation of the caterpillar and belt worm ; and the pressure of debts contracted aterl. or to tha wab', when the basis of wdalth and .0916 was so essentially different from that vlutpl exstst at the present time, admonish u"th ,,he peopl~e of South~ 'Carolina are unable".i9 beat a burdeu pQf taxation whiet, prIor~e$io aeumstfAtios ,@f these misfortuses, woi g,~en delmued mode rate anid lno .oab~ Wlthler there. fore, ydu ldok t" the eti 4 tgtent of the ioor the raateta Pr*eity of the t 6Is' the diote4 o~~mThat you ishould exercise the most Ifd4omy and redee expenses by te Iiates and Je lyneces ap o e dla ttiot of The taxation of the present and proedQ ig year has been a subject matter of grea6 oomnilat. The largea number of tract. of and, as well as other property, levied upon >y Sheriffs in the various Districts, for the ton-payment of taxes, unmistakably evinces he extreme ditlloulty encountered 1-y citi ens in raising money to meet this demaml f the State. Whenever taxation t ecomes bus oppressive upon a population, its inthi. neo cannot but prove tisastrous, hecause t tends first to lemnoralization, to dishon. sly, to the making of false returns ; and econdly, it is calculated to drive from the Itate a valuable portion of the community, o seek other localities where the remune. ation of labor and capital is not paralyzed ty such heavy biridens. The expenses of the Convention, and of he present session of your Legishiture diose labors cannot, in justice to the vari. tus changes proposed in the new Constitu ion, be terminated short of four months rill, of themselves, add to the expenses of ho State not less than two hundred and tifty housand dollars. The judiciary sys. em, which you are required, under the onstitutlion, to put into operation, will trove much more expensive thun that which ow exists, and add to these burdens. To illustrate : the expenses of grand urors for the city of Charleston, and for the ountry, assuming that they are occupied y three (lays at. each term, will be $13,32.1. or petit jurors for the Court of Sessions, hree terms of the city and country. assum ng average of live days per term, $51,818. or petit jurors for Courts of Common 'leas, city and country, two terms, five davs er term, $34,660 ; making a total expendi. ure for jurors alone, under the new Consti ution, of $09,224. The whole expense for jurors and consta. ties for the year ending 1st October, 1867, and this includes them for the District ourts,) amounted to only $12,202.88; bowing a necessary increase of expense for his service alone of $66,931.12. This evil may be obviated to some exteut codifying the law so as to provide for pan, Is not exceeding eighteen in number for rand jurors, and twenty-four petit jurors, rith authority to supply the deficiency at ho term of the court, should there be any y drawing tales jut ors. The expetses of dieting prisoners will ot. be less than $60,000; for continuing the onstrrction of tho Penitentiary and for carding and subsisting convicts, not less han $75,000; for salaries, according to stimates, $80,000; for contingent aecountw, ti0,000; for public printing, $10,000 ; for ontingent fund of the fxecutine Depart. sont, $20,000: for the Lunatic Asylum, 21,000: for the University, S12,000 ; for lnims against the State, $10,000; for other xpenses, ordinary and extraordinary, ), 100; making a sum total of $470,224; to rhich add for expenses, of the Legisla sture, $160,000 ; for deficit the present. 'ear under Ceneral Canby's tax order, end. ng October 1, 1808, 100,000 dollars; and +381,414.69-being the interest on tto tate debt duo 1st t Iotober, 1808-and the mount to be raised by taxation will reach he enormous sum of $1,057,638.50, without no dollar being appropriated for free chools. To redeem the Bills Rceivablo, which nay bo outstanding on the 1st. day of Oco er next, to pay the interest upon the State lebt which may be due at that timo, and.io urnish sulficient funds to carry on the opu ations of the State government until the axes may be collected in the spring of 18609, reconmmend that 1,000,000 dollars be bor owed by the State upon bonds, provided he l'onds can be disposed of at no greater liscount than twenty per cent. It is now believed by the financial officers fthe State, in which opinion I concur, that he tax order of Gen. Canby, together with he tax leviel by the Convention, will not. ealle to the Treasury more than $376,000. 'here is one striking ai even alarming act with reference to the pecuniary anid nancial condition of the State, to which it here proper to advert. Notwithstanding lie oder of Gen. Canby provided for a more articular and accurate assessment of real state the present year, than has been made eretofore, a revision of the assessments hows a very considerable decline in the alue of all real estate and town proper ty. ands in the country are worth from fifty to no hundred per cnt. less than they were n the 1st of September, 1866. Nearly as reat a depreciation exists in the villages, ownt and cities of thme State, especially rhere the lots are not yielding tents. The bove estimuate, wvhich it wvill be necessary oryou to provide for, enmbracs only the rdinar-y ex penses of tise State governments, nd does not include the amount necessary or free or public schools. If the taxes ef hie present year proved oppressive to all tranohes of industry in the State, andl yield d but three hundred and seventy-five thotu and dollars, the expenditures of the next oar should, if possible, boecurtailed by the eduction of salaries and otherwIse, so as tot to exceed that sum, exclusive of the nterest on the public debt. By the new Constitution the poll tax is equi: ed to be appropriated exclusively t ducational purposes; and, undler the cir umstanoes, it would be unwise, Ins my judg ment, to appropriate any other sumt. The lazing power is always a delicato ne to manage, and is invariably regarded y the tax payer with jealously. In the 'eceni pelit~ioal changes that have occurred, he f'aot oninotbe denied that the General lassembly are the representative of a very noonsiderable proportion of the property. molders and tax-payers of thie State. Thte oloreg population, who constitute the large ntajority of voters, have lIttle property ; and ret all the expensive machinery of courts, uries, jails and the Penitentiary, .lsas much .o give protection to their persons and pro. terty as to (lie tax-payer himself ; and it would seem to be oinly righ t an:l proper that eoms portlen of tisi burdlen of taxatior iould lt' borne by this most numerous olasi >f society. If the General Assembly, re gardless of these views, should levy 1hc intire tax of the Stato upon properly, ii would necessary led to much dissatlsfactiota md disortent among the class thes tared -very many of whom are net only prohibi Led from filling eny oilal positions in ti State, but are actually excluded from ih ~rivilege of the elective franchise. { To6b Continued.J The Troy Times relates the followmj instance of longevity: A gentlemar who lives ott Ida 11i11 informs us tha' ten years ago be. bought a piece o enameled cloth for a table cover, which thenre was at the time and ha been ever since a small knot or banoh apparently in 'the make of the oldth,', day ot two since a child of bii soratohe the buueh with a knife, when out cray 4d a bed-bag, as lively and happy u over. PROCEEDING - OF TIIK SOUTH OAROLINA LEGISLATURE URO. TEM. I'IRST DAY rnocL:tIN(s. On motion, the House proceeded to the nomination of a Speaker. W. J. McKinlay nominated F. J. Mt.ses, jr, W. J. Whipper nominated It. B. Elliott, a colored man, sustaining his nomination ini a leughty speech, in which to said that he purposely nomi nated a colored miai, because it was high time one of his color should be called to some position of honor - the t offices having heretofore been invaria bly given to white men, on the pre text of policy, and that they had full- I en into the hands of many who were I incompetent and ignorant; that El- I liott was as good a mann, intellectually and otherwise, for Speaker, as Moses; and that if the Rejpublican party could not venture to put black men in office, but must content itself with in t ferior white men, it was time it should i fall to the ground.d This created i great deal of atimiat- c ed debate, during which, at 3 o'clock, the House took a recess until 5 . o'clock. nsss. At 5 o'clock, the House was called j to order, and after some preliminaries, ii proceeded to ballot for Speaker v, ti ( the following result: n F. J. Moses, jr , received 60 votes ; b It. 1. Elliott, 32 ; J. I. Jenks, 4 ; '1 A. J. R ansier, 2. ( On being conducted to the Chair, by a a committee appointed for that pur- it pose, Mr. Mosses returned thanks to ( the louse for the dist.inguished honor which had been conferred upon hiin, r and, giving a tbrief review of the con- I seqluences of the late war, said, that, whilst lie congratulated the members b upon the fact that they constituted an v assembly whlh represented' the rights a of all men, instead of the -dd aristo- ii cratical oligarchical elemon,s of the t State, lie hoped that they would be o governed by wisdom and nderation, c and act with an eye single to the wel- n fare of the whole people ofJhe whole I State, Mr. Neagle gave notice that, as soon as the propor time arrived, he would v introduce a joint resolution to adopt the proposed amendment to the Con. c stitution of the United States known v as the Howard or Constitutional e amendment. I A Committee of One from each c County was appointed to nominate v officers and effect the further organi. n tion of the House. A resolution was adopted, inviting p ox-Governor Orr to seid to the House p Iany information lie might have in ref erence to the condition of the State. u The rules of the House of Repro- c sentati ves of the United States were adopted as the rules of the House, v and, after the appoiiitinent of a com- i ini.ttce to inform the Senate that the t House was organized and ready for the transaction of business, an adjourn- t ment was made to 10 o'clock this r morning. SKCOND DAY'S luoCFKInXoS. SENATE. Pnrsuant to adjournment, the Senate convened at 12 M. yesterday. The journal of the p~revions day wase read arnd confirmed..I After the transaction of sonme unim portant business, B. F. Whittemore offered a joint resoliition covering the proposed XIVth Ar;.icle of the Consti tution of the United States, which, afteri a brief debato, in the progress of wvhich J1. J. Wright., B. F. Rindolph. C. P. Lieslieanid othiers, expressed their dis.t inclination to vote for~ any measure wuh ich contompla ted thec d isfranchiise meat of any man in thn State; but felt Iconstrained to sustain the resolutton, as an act of expediotney and necessity -- T~ihe resolution was passed by a vote of ' 23 ayes to 5 nays, the latter being I Messrs. 11. Buck, of Hlorry ; D. Biet man, of Oconee; J. H-. Rleid, of Ander son ; 'I. A. flogers, of Pickens, atid R M. Simse, of Lancaster. The resolu.. tien went to the House for coneur r.-nce. The drawing for seats was then made, with the followinig result Long Term-Four Years. -Corbin, Arnim, Allen, Bucmk, Biemman, Hayne, Hayes, Leslie, Montgomery, Owens, Rainey, Rutland, Randolph, Rose and Wright. ~Short Tern---wo Years.-Cain, Coghlan, Duncan, Hoyt, Tillson, Max wvell, Nash, Reid, Rogers, Sims, S3wails, Whittemore and Wimhish. The rest of the session was -devoted ho the reading of a message from ex Gov. Orr, which was ordered to be re ceived as information, and to busir~ess of no public interest. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. fThe Houise was called to order at 10 o'clock A. MI. The journal wan read and confirm The resding of the message from em. Gov. Orr consumed the principal part of the session of the day. The rsiessege .was received as Information. s.- A joint resolution, covering and pro nouin.a to adopt the conatitutional amend. nent., was received from the Senate. Imd made the special order for to.dav, at Ialf past 12 o'clocki. After uiinpartilit business, tie Itnse adjoirned until 12 im. today. PnioCEti~niNGi, m:. -ritF. THItRD DAY. SF N A TE. The Senate was cillel to order at 12 clock. P'rays.- by the chaplahin, Rev. E. J. danms, colored. The minutes of yesterday were read id confirted. 'I'he President pro ten. announced the Landing comrnmittces. Mr Joel Foster, Senator elect from partanbnrg, appeared and quali. On the motion of Mr. Montgonery, of dewberry, pernistoii was extended Mr. 'oester to record 11he vote lie would ave east on the quest.ion of constitu ional aniud men, had lie be:'n present I esterday, hut Mr. Foster declined to r ole Mi W hitteirn we, of D.rlingtoon, at hle request, of the President pro ten., ,ok the Chair, when Mr. Corbii gave otice that to-morrow he would intro. lice a hill to organiza r the County a)rls, and a hill to validate the laws of I be provisional governmuet of Southi i jaralina. I 'IThe first bill divides lie Stae into e iglht circuits, which, of course, will in. essitate the election of eight circuit idges. It also provides for three terms each County, each year, of tihm ourts of General Sessions ail Con. I ion pleas; also the thnes of places of' oiling those 'onirts in each County. 'lie jurors summoned to attend the ourts of (general Sessio , $1sall also u end the next eisiing Conri of Con-I ion Pleas, except in the (ounty of f harlestont.s It. 1H. Cain oflbred the following ?solution, which was seconded by mr. e toyt.: Resolved, That a Committee of Five e appointed by the President pro ten., rith instruct ons to report whether the t enators who voted in le negative I the ratification of the iiienulin ut of i me United States Conistiu.tion--haisvi, i lave not, iolated their oaths and i ommitted plaii'ry, and if so, to recom iend what course should be adopted by le House to vindicate tihe purity of its . rganizatiti. (:i motion of J. J. Wright, the motion 'as laid on the tnble. On motion of W. 13. Naish, the Judi inry Committee were directed to report hi her the State Solicitors are requir.. d to attend during the session. of this general Assembly. 13. 1". Randolphi f'ered the following resolutions, which t rere referred to tiie Judiciary Com. 1tte : Resol'ed, That. all offees now held by ersons who are disfranclhiped by the pro osed fourteenth article or .mendment f the Cons: iniion of the United S:at es e, and they are hereby, delared va amut.. Resolved, That the Governor, by and 'iih the consent of the Sennte, be ant borized to fill such vacancies until el :" ions shall be ordered. A fter some unimportant business, ho Senate adjourned until 12 in. to Saorro wv. 10USE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The IHouse was called to order at 2 im. Mr. E M. Stopher, one of the mem.* ers elect from Marion, appearedi and nahufied Resolutions wore adopted appiointmiig Committee of' Five to make arrunge. nlents ('or the manuguration of Governor cott, to-morrow at 12 o'clock. TIhe rest of' the session was spent n a violeint discnssion over the pro urioty of admittinig the delegaiion from anderson, againist whom there is a pro est. Without definite action the Honse djeurned to 12 m. to morrow. PUOCEKDINoS OF TiIJ' FOUJRTH D~AY. The House of' Representatives was' alled to order at 10 o'clock A. M.| Afler the call of theo roll and read. iig of the j->urnal, the report of the Jomnmittee on the Inanguration of' ,be Governor was received as informa, ,ton. 'The committee appointed to suggest iow many officers would be required to ,ransact the business of the House, and o nominate suitable persons f'or sueh ositions, made a report, covering tihe ollowing nommnations: Sergeant-.at-arms, J. P. F. Caimp ; A~ssistant Sergeant-at-Arms, B. Byas; Door-kee per, John Fitzsimmons; As mist Door keeper, hewis Pinkuis ; Chiief Mfesseniger, TI. A . Crews ; A ssistant Messengers, E. B. Thompson, A. Ruflin, and A. T. Atterbury ; Clerk, A. 0. Jones ; Assistant Clerks, J. A. 1Hon. drix, James Just and G. E Tuckesher- I ry ; Recording Clerk, J. Hf. Fros.; Pa. ges, Ben. Simons and Charles Brown. The committee-further reoommendemd that no ohaplais be chosen, as there wore a number of reverend gentlemien on the poor, who would, no doubt, on invitation, gratuitously serve in rotation, They also rteported that it was desirable to have the services of a st~enographer, but no suitable pero could be found. The committee also recomepned the adoption of a concurrent resolution, &n. thorising the Attorney.General to en. go the services of engrossing e eries, not to exceed six in number, except by express authority of tihe (irneral Asreni. bly, and also the services of two compe. Ltent legal gentlemen. to aid in the raitter of draftinig bills, reto')lutions, The report and ieut) diiion were made lite special order tor to-morrow, at 12. 30 P. M. The busiuers of the H one recurring to the undetermined (uetiotin of privi. lege raised yesterday, in reference to the exclusion of the Anderson delegation from their seats, on motion of 1. 13. Eilhot t a resolution was adopted, by i vote of 82 ayes to 28 nays, rescin'ding he order of the House by which they vere comipelled to stand aside, admitting hem to their seats, and referring their redentials to the Committee on Privi eges and Elections. 'These gentlemen, viz : John Wilon, 3. 1". Sloan and John 13. MIoore, were hereupon qualified, and took t heir s"ats, S also did It. M. V"alent in e, of A lbe ille, T. Frank (lybiurnie, of LaUcaiter, nd Samuel I lletotrn. Itobert M. nith, Iv Iryan t and C. C. Turner, of S;:artanburg. who had just mado their I ppea rance. The joint resouitron. rat iii' the iroposed fourteen th artiele to tie Con titutlion of the IJited States, which had rssed the Senate, was then taken up oid passed, twelve members- all Demo. rats-voting iin the nie"ative. Their notes ane O. NI. 11-ll, W. ('. Keitt, V. 'T. t'heir, S. l..it.tlrjohn, It. Ai. )rmith, .l. IBryan, C. ('. 'T'urner, 13. "ranik Sloan, John Wiisun, J. 1t. JIoore, T. 1. Clyburn' :nrd A. G, Stew. ri. A concurrent resolution, retlitioninig r'ss to relieve the political di sa ii ties of W. J. iixon, the un-ember rormr liarniwell, who cold not. take hi eat, by reason of bring dsqu rabhlir'1d by he constitint ionlr ani-ndmre:ir, was p,: (I, n'm. con. A resohrit ion was adoIt ed, instruc ting Special Committee of five to inqurire wbether a more suitable hall could not m obtained for tho Ilouse. A. J. Itansier presented tihe papers n tire nattr of the Ande,*i,nr oIre. ion. teferred to the Judiciarnv Com ii t.l.< . After some unimportant business, the louse adjourned until 10 o'clock, to norrow. Nothmig of consequencc was (onic ini senate, iFrom I)eflow's Review. Immigration of Whites. To this object, ind ueeinent., must be nfl'ered of the most attractive charae er. The political rights amsstred to 11 by existing legislation are so uni orm that foreigner.s c on o e into the ;outh upon as favorable termis a they tan go into any other State.* Th'e idvantages of education and of social 'ecognition are ns great in the South Is elsewhere, and the former of those rdvantges must be still more en argod. Southern lands must be of ered on as reasonable terms as any thers. The Government of the Uni ed States is a formidable competitor n the land imarket. It, 1hats gift lands nd parchment titles. The Southern itles are, on the other hand, deriva ive, and therefore subject to some Ionbt. TheIi vanlues are not fixed, ai.gl ire therefore susceptible of imore or ess difliculty of adjustment, when the punrchaser is often a stranger to the lanrguange of thu seller. TIo establ ish a ~ompetition betweeni tire privato land itles of thu South anti tho public ti ics of the government, will require in orgtanized presentation and verifi. ation of tihe p rivatte land titles ; also, t valiation of our landsi, wvith a fixed bligration on the part or the owners to toll and make tithe. This will re 'juire a Lanid Regisitry at all the prin ipal ports of the South, in which Lhcse evidees of title and value ihall be recorded. Imrmigrants and their agents may thus ascertain tire situation, title and prico of tine lands. PROTECTION TO IMMIGRANTs. The passenger act of 1864 provides for organizing a llurrau of Imrmigra tion in the Strate Department. It arcatos the office of Superintendent of Immigration, at the port of New York, whose dutty it shall ho to see that the Immigrant has the honefit of the laws for hris proteotion, and that le is not deceived or defrauded en his handing, and1 passage to thre interior. The provisions of this act should be extended to the port of Now Orleans, arnd to all other outlets of the WVest. ern interior. There should he a do, pot for the reception and protection ol immirgrants. Not only should th< Foderal government aid in the appro. priations necessary to give effect t( this arrangement, bot all the Statei interested in receiving immigranti through thne eutports should unite ir the same objeot. The interior Staten and the immigrant would then have the benefit of competing sines, and the *8outhern people would participate ihl the groat national provision to induce population to come into the Republio. *11. Is to be nroted that tire right of miif frage was extended to all white persons ii esomeoflhe Southern States before it wa -done in onne of the Free $tates, Sy a recetnt tuarriage in Maine, young woman of twenty is given oran~dmother of nineteen. Tur: i'aor.A MAToN --SoUTUrinN Paoren Tv A sM SourntIX EXIL.Es.--OUo of the re s1tith of the President's amnesty proclama iun. the Richmond Wtiqg, if indeed lernitted by Congress to ope~ate at all w% ill be to rectore all property of ex-Confed erates, now held by the Government, but not legally divested under the laws of the United 5tates, to the rightful owners. Hlonestly executed this proclamation would reinstate many suffering Southern familice in their possessions. Another result will be to recall from their dreary exile some of the best men of the South--nmong them the gifted Breckinridge, the accomplished Benjamin, the able and dig niflud Mason, the intrepidEarly, &c., &c. I or three years they have been wanderers; their families have been scattered and their energies and talents have been lost to the country. :oie of them have grown old hnd infirm and infirm and have trod the po. litical arena for the last time. Others, like Ilreckinridge, are in the vigor of life, and nmy y^t p1 iy a prominent, part upon the the singe o1 American politics. To a man of the noble stamp of the Kentucky states. man much may be forgiven, even by bitter enemies, and as for friends there is nothing they would not do for him. English history is full of examples of men who have been driven by political troubles into banishment, only to return tiamid the salvos of the nation and to ill! moore eminent stat ions than they held before. It mny be so with some of our Southern ex. iles atter the excitement. of the present hour shall have subsided. There is no like lilood that any of these gentle'non will in decorously thrust. themsolves upon public notice or pretialltrely seek self-elovation. They will resume their private pursuits, re unite Iheir families and endeavor to repair heir uhat t ered fortunes. Mr. (hase does nut believe in making i-bldforms for parties but he has written one letter to John G. Cisco, of New York, in re ply to certain queries concerning the plat form which would he acceptable to him. In this teller Mlr. Chase takes the ground ihat, the suljeet of' Universal Sud'rage should be left where, in his opinion, ilie Constitution of the rUnited States leaves It, and that the (leniral (Goveruntent hna nothitg to do with it. Io is in favor of universal amnesty, and the removal of all disabilitios on account of participation in the late rebellion, and be lieves it. essentially necessary to the admin - istr.tion of good government. in the late rebellious States, and to the full and satis factory re-establishment of the practical relations of these 8tates with lire other States of the Union. Ile strongly condomns military governments in the time of peao as inconmpatablo with the principles of civil liberty, and bolieves that a free people will never sanction them. lie desires that the taxes should be as light as possible, and that they should be so distributed as to hear on the rich rather than on the poor. lie holds that, while all the national obli gations should be honestly fulfilled, no privileges should be granted to any classes of individuals or corporations. Mr. (I. has always believed and now believes In the fundamental doctrines of Democracy, and this paragraph very faithfully defines his present position. Ile seems tranquil and unmoved, and pleasantly chats with all who call on him. In a few days he leaves hero for Mintnesota.-- Tribune, Wuny War: LosT is NOMINATrO,1- A WAnINING TO YoUTn.-The Advande, the Congregational paper of Chicago, says that Mr. Wade ost, his nomInation for he Vice. Presidlency "because of a conscientious un. willingness on the part of the delegates to vote for one not orious for coarseness of manner, andl blasphemous profanity of speech di gusting to Christ Ian people and dlisgraeeful to the nation." TJho Covenant adds, by way of confirmation to the above:--"We know this to be the trtnth. Wa ocotupind a peal tion where we saw how thme whole feeling ran. Aft er the third ballot, when it beeame necessary for thme scattering votes to eon cent rato on some one, and the choice seemed to lay between Wade and Colfax, we saw how delegates were indaced to turn their votes from the former to the hatter, by the representation that Mr. Wade was horribly profane, very coarse in manners, and, al. thoutgh not a drunkard, a hard drinker The feeling against, the defeat, of the Presi dentlal Impeachment was so strong and thie impression 80 general that Benators wore led to vote agaInst it because of hatred to Mr. Wado--whether true - or false we know not-4hat we are inclined, from what we saw, to think Mr. Wade would have received the nomination for the Vice-Prsqsnt, b'u$ for the growing feeling among' Or' 'peopi's that, only sober, self controlled and gentle mahly metn shtould be put lato oficee of trusmt, We rejoice at tisi evidence4 of 1w. proving mofale. We pray for its contia, itance. -RuAsoxAsu~s...,A large numbser of sot diers and sailors, whoQ are Denyoorate, . ad whose n~rnes wogre strioken from the regle. try in Washigton city at the late oleotiop, have petition.ei to Congress on the eutdeot They saf m. "We, as 44fejpders of the flag of outr oountry during the lste way, "##s&#e frAemen, desoendanttof an illuslwytis white snoestry, appeal apost. estnestly to the see tion'. represenaatives for privileges asge$ I as are conferred upon the Afriw. The Reconettuotlon Oois4 on ICharleeton Natos, cost, tli dte :tie sum of $10OOp estinistet th th. ewtgla I'a session tour, months, et an etpeeso $2500,O, 'u ,