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A MEMORY. An ! don' yot t remembor that stamner night, When wn togethor were sitting in that dint old room, where the shadowy light Was over and over flitting. The uneasy wind was ehing without, The rain was fitfully falling, The moon looked down through the drifting clouds With an ornilious face appalling. At the noon of night we left the gay throng, Smiles on our lips still weathing, But flto mask fell off as you olaspeid my hand, And then there was only grieving. Words surged to my lips, but were all un breathed ; Did you guess how my heart was aching ? You told me you loved me-vain comfort to know Your heart, too, with mine was breaking. Close, close to your breast, you drew mae then, Your lips on nay forehead lying; You brethed in my ear such words as you ootti , And f-i longed to be (lying. Very (enderly then you made a grave And Fate took the seal in keeping, 1 het we tearfully laid away our lwpe, aid Love at the heart sat weeping. Tite grave is fresh os it was that night., And love is ever weeping, But I am alone, with the shadowy light Of the old time round me creeping. Speech of Governor Seymour of Now York. EXTRACTS. If $5(0,000,000 had been duly and honestly used to pay our debts, to-day the tax payers would have been reliev ed, the mechanic, laborer, pensioner, would be paid in coin or money good as coin, and would not be cheated ont, of one-quarter of their dues by false dollars. The holders of bonds in saving banks or life insurance would be better off as their securities would be safer and worth more. There would be no question how they should be paid, for this ques tion grows out of the follies of those in power, and will disappear when they disappear from the places they now hold. The bondholders would no longer stand in an odious light. Ho would not be charged with the taxation which has been used to hurt., not. to help, his claim. If a wise, an honest, use of the public money would have done this good in the past,, it will do so in the future. But the Republican party at Chicago, pledged iti elf by its nomtnations and resolutions, tokeep up its negro policy. It is im possible to give untutored A fricans at the Sounth uncontrolled power over the government, the property and laws of the people of the ten States, by exeltd ing white votes, without nlitary des polism. You cannot give to three millions of negroes more Senators than are allowed to fifteen millions of white men living in New York, Pensylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indianna, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Michi gan, without keeping up great standing armies. Wathout a general amnesty, and the restoration of the suffrage to all the whiles in the South, a great stand. ing army must be a permanent, institti lion. In orler to curse the Sout.h with umilitarv despotism, negro rule and dis organized labor and industry, they cursed the farmers of the North with taxation, the mechanies with more hours of toil, the labtorers and pensioners wvith debas od paper. the merchant, w ith a shillting atanda trd, and thu public creditor with a dishnlotred and taintetad inational faith. A re these chasses to turn and see how each can push theo burdens upon each ot~her, or are they to miake common cause and do away w ith thte curses of a bad governmenti .lIf thae Repuabbean policy prevails, this strtuggle must begin. Either the laborer or thbe esniialists must go down. 130thi cannot Ii' < uindelr it, and men must chtooseo between. if, on the other hand, the policy of sellisha amtbition and of sectional'hate :s pail down, our country wall start, tupon a new courso of prosperity, itand aill classes will reap ina common the frmits of good gov crnimont. \Vo say to the bonadloladers and to the labourer who has put his maonety into the saving bank :"Weo do not wvisha to harm youa, we do not seek to give you bad money, but to get, a goodl currency for nll. It will not, help us to break down the credit, of your bonds; it. hurts us; it, keeps up our taxes by makingna pay high iantorest; bnt we ask you to htelp sav e us, as tax payers, fromn the cost of negro and(1 military poli. cy at. Lane South. It is hiardl for us to pay' if yoau lot mon in powver lake the money we give in taxes to reduco your claims atid use it to uphold military'des. piotism. We see eleitrhy that, a state of affairs which will compel you to ;ake a debased currency will force every la borer, farmer, mechanic and creditor to tske a debased currency as wvell, If your claims were all wipled out to.mlor row by an issue of greenbacks, it would not relieve thie fear of patriots; labor would still be cheated by falso dollars, our standard of value wvould still be shifting. Taxation would be kept up by the reconstruction policy, for it is despotism more than debt thaat makes taxation so heavy. Nothing would he settled. The judiciary would still be trampled under foot, the exocntivo would still b.o manacled so that it could not punish crimte nor protect innocence. But strike dowvn the Congressional poli cy, arnd all will be set right. Since the wvar closed in 1865, the government, has spent for its' expenses. in addition to payments on principal or interest of the public debt the sum of more tihan $1, 000,000,000. Of this sum there htas been spent nearly $800,000,000 on the army and navy, and for military purpo ses. Thais is nearly one.third of the na sional dlebt. This was spent in the time of peace. The cost of our navy before the war was about *13,000,000 eatdh Sear. Sance the war, when our ship.. plng has been swept from the ocean by taxation. the annual average cost a. been $30,000,000, nlthouigh we have now no carrying trade to protect. While rooney* is thus wasted without scruple upon the army and navy,, if any aid is sought to lessen the cost of transperta. lion for the fariners of the West, or to cheapen food for the laboters of the IS-ist, we are at once treated with Con gressi,,nil speeches upon the virtnes of econoiy. If from this amoiunt there had been saved and p'tid unon the debt. the sun of $500,000,000, Low chatnud woubi our coihtiion have been. \iith this p'avnent which would have cut down the debt to a bout. $2,000,000,000 our credit would at beast have been as good as that of Great Britain. It is be cause we do not Ihus apply this money to this purpose, but. spend it, upon the negro policy, the military despotisms and other abuses of government, that our credit is so low. The world saw] that, we were violating our faith with the public creditors and the tax payers alike, when ;he money was used for the partisan purposes of keeping the South out of the U nion until sham govern. ments could be manufactured by milita ry violence and Congressional action. The world not only saw the monstrous diversion of the money wrunu from the people by taxation, but it also saw that it made, through a long series of years, still greater annual expenses unavoida ble. \V hen the entire control of the Southern States is given over, ancheek el by the inteligence of the wh.ito race, to untutored negroes, whom the peopler of the North said were unfit to be vo. ters, whom the unfurtunato Afruqans, drunk with unusual power, and goaded ont by lad and designing unou, shall make life aind property iusafe, and shall shock and disgust the world with out rages, we shall be forecd to raise and pay still greater armies. Up to this time the South ias had at least an in- I telligent tyranny in military oflicers. Every man who is not blinded by hate or bigotry looks forward with horror to "lbe conal tion of the Soul i under negro domination. The bad faith to the pub lie creditor and tax payer in thus unset tling our Union, of keeping the South in t conldition where it cannot help the National prosperity, but. is made a heavy load upon the country, is the rcal Ca Use (f our dlebcused credit. The tax payer was told tho burdens put upon him were to pay thbo debt; but the emn oy was not used in good faith to him, for the debt still stands; nor in good faith to the creditor, Ior lie was not paid what he should havo been ; but it was used in a way which harmed both, in a iway that tainted tihe nations credit, i kept, tip taxation by keeping up the rate of interest, while it snk the vatio of the bonds, and with them carried down the i papu'r currency, anid thus wronged the laborer and the petsuoner. But for the poly of bad faith, of partisan purposes, mad folly, we could to-day borrow mon. ey as cheaply as Great Britain; but we have cursedL tbe tax payers, the laborer, the pensioner, tle public creditor, for the sake of cursing the peiople of thbe South with military despotisnt and negro doimi. nation. But we see that the War Department this year spent $1 28,858,4G6, when the year before it. spent only about $95 - 000,000. Tho longer we have peace, the mt.ri t nhe armiy costs. In w is this ? WV eli, it, costs a great. deail Lio keep 8(ol. diers and Freedmen'~s Bureau agents, and to feid atnd clothe ntegroes at the South. But why do you do it? Let the niegroes supplort. thtemselves, as we do. You make the laborers of thbe I Northi work to feood and clothe these idle Africants. 'Trute; but by so doitng we get, their v'o'.e, andit the'y will send our travuelintg agents to Coiigress ; we siml Iget 20) Semiatotrs ini thts way. while a maijorit~y of tihe pieople of the Untited 1 States, living in nini States, have only 1 8. The people may voteo as theyI le(ase, but thley' canntot get the Senate, nor r epeail any oif the laws we got thiroughl for our ndvianitage ; we have| mianagedl it, so tha't onie.quiatter of the pelehi havie iiore power in the Senate thatn the three quatirters. We niow owni the n tegroes of tie Sout~h. D)id we not, buy them by y'our blood and monev ? We nowv see wvhere the moiney goes ; we nowv see why the credit of outr con, try is so tin ited ; weonow see why the value of our paper money is sinking it was only at 21 per cent. discount im 1 866, it is now at, a discoiut of about 20 port cenit. ; we tiow see why our laborers and~ puensioniers are cheated by false dol lars. Ii the mechlanic cares to know why lie works so mlany hours, let him stutdy tihe reports of the Secretary of the T(reasuiry. It is clear why btusiness is hindered and~ business men~ perplexed. We now know why the public creditor is hiarrassed by our dlishoniored credit,i and lie tax payer is huntted down by the1 tax-gathierer. The negro military poli-I ey of the Ropublican party is at the bot, tonm of all these trotubles. We now get at the real issues between parties. The: Republicans, by their nlominaitionls and rcsolutiots, are pledged to keep up the niegro and military policy, with all itsi cost and taxations. These will be great er hereafter. Tho govilrnmtent of thei Sotith is to go in the hiands of the ne groes. Wee have said they were unfit to he voters at the North. The Repub-. licans say they shall be governors at the South, We are clearly opposed to this policy. We have seen how much it costs the tax payer, thte icudholder and: the laborer in the past three years. It wvill be as hurtful in the future, WeVo have also seoen how our policy, of using the money to pay our debts *ould have helped the tax paiyer, the bondholder andi the laborer in the past. It will do as much in the future. The whtole question is brought down to this cleari point: Shall we use otur money to pay our debts, relieve the tax payer, make our money good in the hand of the ha. borer or pensioner, and help the bond-. holder ? or shalhl we use it to keep upi tmilitary despotis food idle negroes, 4 break down the judiciary, shaeklo the Executivye, and destroy all constitutionalI righins? The Barbarism of Despotism se When says the CI;arleston Mercury, n the late war, all the usagei of civiliz. ign id warfare were violated against the o U Southern States, we attributed it to that On >arbarisin which all war ia calculated to Mi roduce. But here we are in profound thi aeaco. The Southern people are per. ed, 'ectly aware of the desire of the wretch- led 1s, who now rule the United States, hat they should riso against the oppres. tw :ione they inflict upon them. They were pri ishered into power by war, and they dui magerly deire war to sustain their pow. ed r. The Southern people are therefore a I atient ; and wait for the opportunity, ho next Presid,-ntial elect ion will ri ifl'ord, to cast. their persecutors from cek tower. In the meantimt', however, ant a going on in the Suns h'rn count ry, a 'o yranny which has bee-) n lenrd of in hl Surope, since t.he middle ages. To wa ompel confessions by the rack, we had p' loped, was gone forever with the inqui ition, and the despotism of the Borgias; G< ,utt here in this once free country--widh fit ,o Anglo-Saxon race, the fiercest in ant -esisting oppression--we have all the tits torrors of the dungeon and rack, delibo. de rately restored, as the legitimate instru- ex nentalities for the suppression of crime, vit itnd the administration of justice. The .' 3arbarism of the late war, is carried o'at n the administration of peace. Not mnly are all the guarantees of the Con. un titution of the Umited States, bit all the tia principles of justice and humanity are et at deliance, to reach supposed offen- so lers, against the despotism over Its.- hot )ur readers, we are assured, will read with horror, the narrative, we give be- So ow, front the Naional Intelligencer, of pal lhe cruel outrages now going on in fac ieorgia in the Ashburne case. Per- Ste ianps, wo too in Soith Carolina will ant soon have to endure them. It. is utter- oar y impossible, for such tyranny, to pro- but luco any othor feelings than thoso of he odignation, and hatte and vengeance str Two infanous "(-dec ives'," of the all [Baker-Stanton sort, were suuinoned. Th oning, it is said, from Ilhis city, and d vent down to Georgia. They wero told m ,int they could "-arn this forty thousand nu lollars if they succeeded, and then the nilitary gave them carte blanche to rrest any citizen of Georgia, and full Fower over the unfortunate negroes, to Bribe, threaten, stt.rve, imprison and "ia orture these wretched creatures, who Cal iworo in the presence of Almighty God e .hat they know nothing about the mat- a or, until they should, to save themseles, WO rron& further suferin , consent to tell fot whatever stories foul monsters put in bir heir mouths. That they have done tih hese things can be proved by the testi- Ca noiy of the released negrues who have his e'en sujecte~d to these infernal cruelties de; We have published affidavits of some of hot hose, but they leave much to be st- lar ted, of Among the methods of torture em- lot ployed by these wretches upon the ie- an roes, to make them swear away human the lives, was the instrument known as the "sweat box." Thi-, we understand, to so a box of wood, inside of which the an victim is made to stand. The wooden S tides of this box, by means of a screw, litI ire compressed closer and closer, until pec l individual can scarcely breathe ; Ye hen a stream, of hot air or steam is "r brown upon the vic'.:m ; lie is almost ing tilled ; a pressuro put upon his heart to md1 lungs, unil t le airoiny of his posi ion is such that human nature sinks inder the infliction, and the poor ca- A. nre cries ont that ho is readly to testify COi o0 anything desired. We assert tha~t hoi >ir information is positive and reliab~le, Ilii liat these iinferral cruelties have becen hia iracticed by the Federal military in Cli icorgia upon black men, in order to hal ntake thenm swear away the lives of in- a iocent white anid respectable citizens kn uef'ore a milit ary conmmission, "organized ,a o convict," and with murder in their an, tearts. h One of these poor negroes I bus tor- thee ured was kept there so long that his, nee was actuailly burst open by the. pressure of blood. v The cells in w'hich the prisoners were o* di confined, and most of them are still ** ~onfined, arc t~wo feet ten inches wide, ste by ten feet long. There is one sanll fro iperture for air to the cell, no circulation '" nd ito opportunity for exercise has b~een tliowved. This is done in a semti tropical fre ~limnate. This it the month of June, to wvhent even here, with all the appliancees hn )f conmfost anid civiliation, mten suffer WO ~rom heat. Two of these victimis wvere released on heavy hail Suntday last, T and from those our inforniant derived thecse last facts. All are capable of by proof. ton Tlhe people of thte North will probably m sover know, as they cannot fully realize, r ill the frightful anid inhuman torturesur *nflicted upon the South at the hands of " luilitary satraps. Our attenition line sa seen called to a case quite as flagrant asvo hat of the.-Cohipn bus prisoners. It scorns thtat about six weeks ago a r ['ederal soldier was killed at Warren- ass on, in this State. No clue, so far as thi wve can ascertain has yet been afforded No o detect the perpetrators of this vio. WO once. Blut the military authorities-. Or hose fine gentlemieni se'nt here to pro. ba: terve order and protect the innocent-.. lnj issumed full kntowvledge of thte caw; a ind withtout fuirthe-r cognizance of law, or mnd without the icebloshow ofaflidaviti rrom any party or parties whatsoever, irrested a peaceful and inoffensive citi ma~ son of Warrenton by the namie of Jody. *te l'his gentleman was hustled oft to Mu.l ett ledgoville, with mna'nacles on his ankles ple nd wrists. Whtile thus chainied, and in th4 i dungeon, lhe was brutally attacked by Oh our or five soldier., who had been im. Is. prisoned in the same apartment for triv. wit al misdemeanors. These soldiers set *m ipon him because they deemed him to msa 3e the slayer of one of their comrades. lay A~s their superiors did not give the on. n, ortutnate man a chance to exculpate Jse ummel, neither did these base under. ings allow him the cbarity of a doubt. )no of them kicked him in the mouth, E eavitng a hideous gash upon his lip, and i Wrr. Oody was finally saved from fatal rali tonseqnenes throunah the r.ana t of a-f geant of the gutrd. Ta military commission was then des. ated for his trial at Milledgeville, and 1 day's notice given of the time to Mr. arc dy ' counsel. Upon repairing to - Iledgeville the counsel was informed by t the order for trial had been revok- 4 and Atlanta substituted for Mil- q geville. he trial took place one hundred and M Duty miles from the residence of the So loner, and occupied twenty-one days, ha ring which time Mr. Cody was inarch. for from his cell to the court, chained like rot 'lon at his ankles and wrists. ro Now mark the sequel. After an ab. t seizure ; maltreatment when mnna I1, by Federal soldiers; transportat.ion 1 imprisonment remote from his resi- dlu ce.; a tedious trial, aind the d.grading lat idcufl's of a condemned criminal-lh for a nllowetd to go humewaril fully ac- b4 uted of the charge against him. wij T'here is not an innocent, man in 'l orgia who is not liable to a similar wi D. Will the people of the North abet of I encourage the aiwful humiliation of wi South ? If so, they may well slud. "h for their own fate, when ty ranny has inc iausted itselftupon us, and seeks its ist tims among thomselvos.-Augu.sta ot ntattionrist. soi ----+ -- bit YADE TIAMPTN.-The Now York World, tr the caption. of "Notable Men," pays followIng compliment to General Wade mpton, one of South Carolina's gallant 'pj s, whom the people always delight in cas coring: cal VADnA HAMPTON-The Murat of the fro ath. Ruben would have delighted to or it this man's face. A strongly marked (Ii. e. The face of a hero and leader of m n- col nding over six faet, the figure athletic wl I full, the shoulders ample and worthy to of ry a head which gives promise of firm pto quiet determination. In' brief, the to id of a man who has best represented the dis ngth and Intellect of South Carolina in ve the stiring years of her checkered history. tii s face is bronzed with the awoke and pa it of many a hard fight. Such a face as thi Sht be deemed the incarnation of the ftu r when once aroused. The eyes black coI I piercing, the chin solid, the jaws of a mould, and surmounted by whiskers of English Guardsman fashion. This 1 0 n's history is a poem in itself. We can 10 I to mind one man like him in the chroni. ho s of the Anglo-Saxon. That man was na nos Grahame, Viscount Dundee. Both 0: re sabreurst Both alike fought gallantly of a like cause, the cause of blood and 10 th, and both lost the great. stakes, which tot y had cast headlong in the fight. South for relinians will tell you with pride of his ha tory, of his thirteen acres of rose gar- ti is, of his stable of magnificent blooded ou see, the finest stable in all the sunny is ds of the South, of his genius, his pride rnoe,lhis heroism and self-sacrifice for the t cause, of the struggle which he made. I of his manly and dignified silence when. be, South was overthrown, horse, foot and tIl illery, by the armed might of the North, of L of his wise counsel to his people since th. n. iamption has, like most of the e ithern delegates in the Convention, but ed le to say . lie abides the will of the aft ple of the North quietly, and as ho said ed terday, will be content and satislied had h their choice. Mr. Hampton wears y pantaloons, a dark frook coat, is retir. in his necktio, and is slightly inclined in :orpulence. Aim L T HRnInItn SoENN oF Ss:.r-MUnDER.-- }it J. Clifford, of Mexico, Oswego counly,wi imitted~ suicide on Tuesday last, at the out toe of his wife's sister, near Plttsvillc. Th wife had retired to their chamber, and on< I placed their two children in bed, wrhen H< Ford entered the room, having in his ther d an open pocket-knife. Mrs. Clifford ly, ed him to go to bed and to give her the itt fe, whict lhe declined, saying that lhe his capable of taking care of his knife ; s I on turning from hInm to adjust the bed an drew it acreo'a his throat, making the cut of spor ont the left. side, and but slightly be atiding the breathplpo, but. probably dl. Li ing both jugulars. On turning rounad E rard him she discovered the blood flowing li y fast from his neok~ which she tried to p with her hands. He tore her handsli in the wound, saying, "Keep still and betn et." Soon help came, and it required strength of two men to hold his handls all mu tearing open the wound. H~e soon fell thuj he floor, and expIred from loss of blood an about five mliutos after Inflicting the M and.-Rochester Exrpress.ti lxxovi5O DIsAntLITIss or Ex:Runsts. o Hlouse of Rtepresontatives has passed, the required two-thirds vote, the bill row bo~ ving the ; olitical disabilities of some r ulve hundred rebels. The Democrats al- t st, unanimously voted against the meas' hai , beciause the names of two Conservatives re struck from the list. It was alleged, a 's the New York Herald, by a member, psi 'lug the debate prior to the taking of the rus e, that one of the parties named for Con. che aonal elemenoy had reeonmened the tjo assinatlion of President. Lincoln, and to t thme gentleman in quest-Ion was from tea rth Carolina. Mr. Broomall, however, roc uld not permIt the name to bi mentioned, to course not. The person, whoever he is, fer ijoined the Radical party, and by so do. has exhibIted positive signs of repon. I oe of any crime ho may have committed ed advised In behalf of the rebellion. H e+----des *LLINot5 OBRMANs voa CEtAO.--A gentle. vic a prominently identinied with the German lar nent of Chicago, and just arrived in this im! 7, states that, a great change has taken his 00 in the politlcal vIews of a majority of enj leading Germans of not only the city of the laago, but throughout the 8tate of Illino. mc The ueovement in favor of Chase meets ant h great favor, and is daily increasing towt h an extent that tisthought the feeling ho i be put down as almost unanimous. A INo io numnber of offloes-general, field, and -are at the head of the movement,--, e York Herald. colored member oftAe Loyal Leagueat aM hsburg, who has withdrawn from the den the hieves, says they charge theIr members f. eus per week, and if a man can'te 'e the money, old Mygatt takes a buehel phi totatoee In lien Ljha'eaf. n01 e AshleyPhosphates-Charleston Xin- be, ing and Manuraoturing Company. ine: l'his company, as most of our readers low aware, was formed within the past dep months, capital chiefly contributed nlea Philadelphians, Holmes, President; cap A H. Locke, Secretary ; Colonel the A. Yates, Engineer ; Mr. Samuel ed ant, Jr., Agent i~n Philadelphia, and the sers. Pressley, Lord & Inglesby, rati licitors in Charleston. This company tify constructed works of various kinds smi the exhumation of the phosphatic can :ks that abound here, and for facilita- -910 g their shipment. THE WOnKS. the works at present consist of a Ii ble screw washing maehini-, the pOj it. as is used in Ohio and elsewhere washmig iron ore, awd is an admira. contrivmace for the purpose. We r I meniion it tmore in detail firt.her on. Pr' e ground here is Covered with ('the jtc itish rock, dug up by the operatives (ui he company. ''he process is some at after this wise : A number of to Inds" dig a trench, say about twelve fot ies in depti, through what geolog tits call the alluvial deposit., but what er people know under the name of f I. Here they strike a stratum of be] eish clay, thickly interspersed with ere irregular boulders now k.aown as hlo spliate rocks. These are brought, by means of the ordinary pickaxe. e rocks are thrown up in he ap then toi ried in small carts to cars which' run ml a railroad constructed for the purpose mi one enud of the hn to the "works" mull at the -other. Here the cars charge their loadls by e+ very simplo flS itrivance into the turning cylinders, diu ere the rocks are washed by means 110 water, raised from the river by a tic verful puml-, anl constantly supplied the washers. The washed rocks are Ph charged near the river'a bank, where qu isels take their cargoes, and carry pal m to the far of' markets. The con- del )y is not in a condition to sell any of s product, being under contract to Of nish all they can dig for sometime to mie no to their . Philadelphia agent. adi EXTENT OF YIELD. fige The company at present own about tin .000 acres, and hav- leased about ha 000 more. Among the farms they f01 d in fee simple we remember the ies of Ashley Ferry, Feteressa, The CO ks. Marysvill, the Goodrich tract and me Jeill's tract. They employ about sb 3 hands, and dig and work about 150 the a of rock per day. An acre is good about 600 totes. The Prometheus ce1 taken two cargoes now already. As COt bed is about t.en miles long and from tie, and a half to two miles wide, there fur, to danger of exhausting it yet a while. ne: HisTORY OF Ti[ESIc PILOSI'iIATES. op] Flow long these whitish rocks have gal m lying in their present beds, it is an( possible to tell. The memory oven he oldest, inhabitant runneth not to So contrary. Here they have certainly till n more years than is usually accord th( to the age of man. Here generation it 1 r generation of aborigines have hunt- to and fought, stumbling over, per >s cursimg these "useless" rocks,- COI re recently, the farmer and plant.er, str ho last two hundred years have been sern ch annoyed by those stones, wishing -it' mn far enough away. The roads are ~d with them.- The ruts are filled no bi the pulverized mases They cr0op 4 on the river side0 and on the' blufi, V hky were teen, but not heeded. No knew of their value. Professor to ines first had his attention drawni to 8CV mn about twenty-five years ago, pure. in hOWever, as a matter of geological 3rest. Ho scarchied for fossils, and search was rich!y rewarded. There tro 1o more fertile field for tihe geological the i paheontological student on tihe lace clu the earth than these same Ashleyge Is. Hetre, in faivoured spots, auch asg steepl river banks, the several strata tci mapped out with almnost mathiemati. 10t1 accuracy. Here we see the upper ] it of the seveni hundred feet of coceneth oAi, chiefly marl, or carbonate of' eo. Next the post-pleiocene, eOn. poJ uing the rocks above described. The it iocene is absent, here. The recent or 0Vy ivial deposit is biut a foot or two ek and the smallest outlay, of time I trouble will re w ard the 'geologist. 'cordinigly Professor 'Holmes has from ho ec to tumo shownt these deposits to W ~assiz, the la'.e Tuomcey, Pourtatlie~ ~ Leidy, and many otheor savants of h atmospheres-all surprised and Se. elling in tihe wealth of these hidden firr asures. wh J'he presence of marl in these beds del ilong been known, and to a limited ent this material was made nse of as~ ed artilizer; but the rocks were always Wvi sod by ais useless. Analyses wve're oul de from time to time by various ~mists, but without attracting atten. a. Phosphste of lime was thought be present only to the extent of fro>m Y. to fifteen per cent., whereas now the yei ks have been proved to contamn Afty mc sixty-fivo per cent. of this valuable [t was only last year when Ansted's ctnres on Practical Geology, publish, ma in London in 1865, fell into Professor T 'lies' hands, where he met witha cription of the phosphate beds in the Go inity of Cambridge, altogether simi- tWI to those of the Ashley, that the full be iortance of the discovery flashed upon ula mind. It is true ho had been muchd angc-d, about that time in the stndy of' in fossils of these strata, and he had he] reover been assisted by the chemical has lysis made by Dr. N. A. Pratt, to hoi om also no small share is due of the tour of this important discovery, 'LUE5NO 0F THlE DISCovERY oN THEth yUTUTRE 0? THESTATI4 ,i We are not agricultural chemist., and., are refore, of our own knowledge cannot rmn positively anythming in relation to m value of these discoveries. Ilut if 'WO Be roolf6 oontamn fifty per cent, of Isphate of lime, and if thisuja the im- T tant i'ertilisisg agant it is claimed to im r then have we certainly an almos chaustiblo source of wealth in thi country of South Carolina. Th osits extend along the whole coas rly of our State ; and as soon as th ital can be commanded, we feel sur e will be various factories establish t different points~for the grinding c io phosphatic boulders, and for sepa ng from the insoluble rock the fiuc ing principle. Theu, reduced to it .llest compass, our phosphate eart1 be profitably sent to all parts of th )0. CONGREsS AND THE STATES. the Senate of Thursday iding the bill prohibiting th ites not represented in Con ass at the time of the nex ?sidential election from vot at that election, Mr. Mortoi tra Radical) took occasioi say that the Democratic plat in, in calling the reconstruc iu acts a flagrant usurpation )posed a renewal of the re .lion, and invited the South States to resume their rebel NHir. Buekalew said Mr. Mor had made to-day wha ht be called the opening ech of the campaign of '68 e letter of Blair was writtei i declaration of his indivi 11 faith, made when he wa, nominated. The Democra committee made its owi ,tform, in which it met all the astions at issue between thI ties. The Convention had tied the constitutional powe Congress to impose tunda ntal conditions upon a State' nission, to lay down qualifi Ltions of suffrage, or to con ue military rule when the war ceased. It was impossibli any large body of men nposed of such diverse ele nts, to state specifically wha mld be their line of action of 4th of March, 1869. It wa tain that the question of re istruction was not finally set I3; there would doubtless b ther measures before then it session. He was still o nion that their action in re 'd to the South was- invalid I would remain so, unless th< athern people in course o: le should ratify it; or unless re should be a ratification o y the people of the North whom the question of th gressional system of recon action had never been pre ted. He asked what necs r there wvas to pass this bil Jongress has no jurisdiction r this matter nor any power pa~ss such a bill, or to adit eni States and keep out three his judgment, the peopk uild not acquiesce in the in luction of certain votes int< electoral college and the cx si6n of others by act of Con ss. He agreed with the ma al points of General Blair's er. d1r. Morton asked whether senator agreed with thai tion of the letter declaring ho duty of the President t< irthrow the State govern nts set up by Congress. M1r. Buckalew replied that ad vised no such course. 114 s not an advocate of violence disorder. He concluded by ing there was a courage ani rmess in the American peopl ich in this matter would b< ied. Reconstruction requir the support of the people hi that, it would stand ; with that, it would fall. EIonrTo SEYMOU.-The .N (Com~mercial Adver'tiser, y able and amongst the st respectable of Radical p a s, says: 'Mr. Seymour is the ablest n in the Democratic party ice defeated as candidate for vernor in tis State, and ce elected to that high ofliee is by all odds the most pop r and formidable Demorat ~his State. He has never d a national office. but he been loaded with' all the iors his State could bj e him, Mr, Seymour is a stron~ ninee, and he will raily a Democracy to him. Asfo iffected Republicans, if there any, he will draw quite as yas any other Demnocrat he high destiny for which Butler servod-tho alnm.. t RIOT IN MEiVPHIS.-A party of soldiers belonging to the Twenty-flfth regiment of infan e try went to the house of Ed ward O'Neill, who had shot a comrade on the 5th inst., and battered down the door. 0' Neill fled to the jail for safety, 8 but was pursued and fired at by the soldiers. O'Neill's friends, on hearing the firing, soon col. lected ; and but for the arrival - of the officer of the day with a guard a bloody riot would have ensued. . At a wedding in Delaware, recently when all was arranged, and the nminiN called on any to speak who who objec - ed to the marriage, a husky voice cried 1 out: 1 "I do." 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