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Desportes, Wiliams & Co., Propriet9rs.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. [Terms---$3.00 per Annum, In Advanoe VOL. 1.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1868. [NO.t TIM wAIRFIELD HERALD US PUBISMD W1t-K.V ItY DESPORTES, WIL1LIAM1S & GO. Terins.-TtS I1RALt is pubishe Week ly in the Town of Winnsboro, at .00 in varmbly in advanice. MEW" All transient advertisements to be paid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per square. Selected Poetry, DARE TO STAND ALONE' Do firm, be bold, be strong, be true, And dare to stand alone ; Strive for the right, whate'er you do, 'lhough helpers there are none Nay, bend not to the swelling surge Of. popular sneer and wrong ; 'Twill bear. theo on the ruin's vergo With current wild and strong. Stand for the right I lunanity Implores with groans and tears Thhie aid to break the festering links That blind her toiling. years. Stand for the. right ! Though falsehood reigns And proud lips coldly snee-, A poisoned arrow cannot. wound A conscience pure and clear. Stand for the right-and with clean hands Exalt the true on high ; Thou'lt/tind warim and sympathizing hearts Among the passers by. Men who have seeki, and thought and felt, Yet could not hardly dare The battle's brunt, but by thy side Will ever dangers share. Stand for the right-proclaim it round, Thou'lt find anl answering tone In honest hlearts, and thou no more Be dooned to stand alone I Catechism for the Black Democracy. CH1APt,rvit i. Who has given the blacks the right to vote ? The Republican party, by using the U. S. Army and abtsing the power entrusted to them, have, contrary to the wishes of the white people of tie North, and against the consent of the Southern white people, giv. en the right to vote to every black man in the South, without qualification. Are tie white people of the North indig. nant at this action of 'he Republican party ? Yes, and every election hold duri'ng C,ho last year indicates that they are going to turn them out. of office. Is tihe right to vote, without and against the conscht of the white people of the South, worth much or to be greatly desired ? No. It is worth very little and is not to be desired at all, for it excites the white man's prejudi3es and hatred. It is a right duo simiply to force, and force will change hanls, when it will be taken away. Can the liepublican party possibly pre vent tihe whito.people of the South control ling this question of who shall vote, after a lit tie, just as they please ? It cannot. The Republican party cannot save jnolf. It will be -overthroWa at the eleotions at the North this coming . fall, by the Northern people. When, then, would the right to vote be worth having by the black man? When ie gets it, not by force, from the Republican, or any other party, but by the full and free consent of the white people of th South, with whom he is to live. What, then, should the Black man do?i ie should beware of using his vote, that has b'oen given him by the armiy without, -the consenit of the white people of either t1ie Noirth ov tho Souith, without any quali.. fmoation of property or education.whatever, against their interest and his own, for it, will create feelings of hatred and iroverige, andi he #111l suffer byl.tin the etid. Row then should he vote ? Iloe hould vote with the white people he is . obliged to work and live with, and con ciliate their friendship and favor. What would be thme consequence?i Would th6y oppress him? No, thmey have given him already every right possessed by their wives and. daugh'. ters and their sons tudekr t,wenty-ono years of ngb, nd if he w6uld'skiw a confiding spttwh he shall have beie educa and shmal1lfAve got, a listtlo, propetr.t, he ill al~t get wit thqis pee egsert, withoute tu, isorder, thme right to vot9. Why de the respootable white pe6ple' not wish the blacks to veo at present ? - - Because theoy e\re ignorant, and itruoate pd, and don't understand what t,hey are d4 Ing. D5o they propose to educate them ? flefd. D fo they wIekhthem to make 'money and pi'ospert - 'They~ do.- ., - ,C~anaho .blAok man. prosperj.nden. .ad governtiw yj lo,1:p4 gonernmnent.s the. greM9skoti e' * a0 gotertiment be god when h oia don't'understand what- hey are.voting for?i Neve'. - They will;be .simpo*sed uIIo!l y1 offio~eots *he only-wisk office.i to ttil the people white and black -heavily, htid then-te&l thietoney.. Can oarpet.bag yankcees '.6o can't get.the * owest offio at th'e North9 and who conto *here to make I14bftby and thet' 16a,e, past fielws otote #ople Who are-to live had - M -ro thlig d6a't Iddetidi whh't the ennu' try needs. How, then, can good laws be passed?i By letting t,h0se only vota who are aa. fled to vote, so the best and wisest men born among us may be elected to make our laws. OAPTER II. 1 Why are corn, bacon, sugar and flour sell ing so high, and why are your wages so low that you can't get much of any of them ? It is bcoau;e the Republican party mis governs and taxes the whole country so heavily, and the burden falls In the shape of high prices upon the laboring man. Does the laboring man pay heavy taxes? No, but. those who employ him do, and have less money, therefore, to pay him as wages. Does the Republican party promise to les sen the taxes ? Yes. But they have had the government three years since the war closed, and have increased the debt of the country in spite of their heavy t axes, which they have not lessened. The proof that they don't intend to di it, is, that they have had the chance and haven't done it. CHAPTER 1II. Is this the first promise they have made with no Intention of perf ,rming it? No, they promised tle white people of t.ho South that, if they would stop fighting and free their slaves, they should come back into the Union just as before, and they have broken that promise. How have they brokeir that promise ? Three States, Virginia, Texas and Missis sippi are not yet admitted to the Union, even on the new terms they have made, and the other soven States are admitted, not as equal, but as unequal States of the Union. How are they unequal? Why, they have admitted them on condi tion hint they shall never control the right of suffrage, as Ohio or Massachusetts can do. OI[APrxR jV. Is there any other lie that can be proved on them. A great many, bu the biggost lie of all is that they fought the South to set the black men free, and that they set blacks free because they loved the blacks. What, is the proof? Why, Abraham Lincoln offered, during the war, more than once, to guarantee that they wouldn't set the blacks free, if the South would stop fighting. Who then set the blacks free? God Alnighty, and none else, making use of war and the passions of fighting men. Who submitted to the word of tie Lord, and ratified the black man's freedom in Con vention assembled, and gave him every le. gal protection necessary for his welfare and happiness ? The white men of the South, his former masters, and now his neighbors, employers and best friends. Ilow, then, can the black man rise Not by voting agnirst the interest of his white neighbors but by voting with them, and by looking to work alone as the mcans of making a living, educating his family and becoming prosperous. OHAPTER V. Does the black man owo his ignorance and want of education to slavery ? No, on the contrary, slavery has taught him to work, which is the best part of edu cation, for no other black men in the world are as civilized and intelligent as he is. And slavery has made him a christian, for all of thfi rest of his race in Africa are gross idolaters, utterly reprobate, fighting with and even'oating each other. Ie should thank God for slavery and also for his pies ont freedom, What, should he remember on this sub sect? Tihat, It was NoTrthern men who sold him into slavery to make money by It, and that, it, was Southern men, and especially men from South Carolina that insisted that the yankees should cease bringing Africans Into this country, ad.put the abolition of the slave-trade Ia 1808 Into the United States Constitution ; and it was Southern men who builtfor the Idolatrous Africans, when they came here, churches, and paid for preacherq for them; and Southern men who would have gradually freed the blacks, just as General Washington and'Thomas Jefferson, both Southorh men, favored their doing, so soda as it became best; to do so. The blacks would have been -better off In th, cad, had Sout hern mon been let alone, Did any very great Southern man, though he fought, f,or the South, still favor the gra. d,qe1 eniation of the blacks?i SYes., . Onerat Robert l'. Lee, iate Com mandeir of' the Confederate Armies., who whipred General Grant in every fight1 until t,he great, Butcher brought, two hundred and sixty .thousand men against thirt,y--six thou sand. Learn to be proud of your own country anid your own people; oCfAPTER VI. *Is there not another lie which the Repub lican party palm off on the blacks almost as as greatras-tbe one Jost.exposed?I Yes. They tell the blacks . they used the Arvmy.to glio themi the right, to vote (for which, rpmiqmber, the Northern people arc .goA0gIo0Augs them out,of office) from kind Verty f w4ros It,. dhop -6rakf'ered the white people 11 bavgaing g get IGI of terms that they never heard,.of Miah% hey agreed to stop lighting, esig'No tpprteegth Con. et4t,ionei 4gedpge$),,,A$ Aadu,p noion. of~ giqrg thep blck cle righ~0ipoe, Bunt when&e.een o. the Squ4Jh res his,new bargain, apd .stqd, "go never agreedfo drop fi6hting on those terge, aqd we won'ggcee to them either.". 4hmy thyen, ~ou,igallqe' and hatred against the Southern whites, and to make the blacks their enemies, If they could unaoeed in their hataful purama and to keep the offices of tho government in their own handq, put the Snwat under tie army and give blacks the right to vote. Will it help them tI us to have risked a war or races, which has only been prevented by the prudence and1-1 forbear.ance0 of ihe whites ? No. It has ruined, hem, and they "have fallen themselves into the pit that they have made." C1APTEI Vii. Can (lte Republican pirty fulfill .ome of the promises they are now tin tking to the blacks ? No, they promise what they have no pow er to perf'ri, simply to get your vol es. Would t hey perform other of their promtis 0s, if it bec!ie their interest not to do so ? No, they atre utterly faithless, and that was the reason thio white men of the Souilh wished to get rid of tdhei and left tie Union when Lte Republican party got possession of the governmuent. They will prove as false to tho blacks as they have proved to the whites of the South. And :they will fix a plan for ruining the blacks if they can get oftice or make money by it. Don't trust them. CIAPTFn Vill. How long has the. Republican Legislature in Columbia been in session, and how much money have they spent already ? They have been in session twice as lonq as .ho forner Legislatures of the State, have passed only five unimportant bills, and have spent four tines Ilie ioney on them solves. When the Stale was rilh, what was the pay of a mctuber of the Legislaturo ? Three dollars i (lay. Now that th,3 State is pioor, what pay does a Republican Legislature take - Six dollars a day. Who is to pay ? The taxpayers of the Slate. But the laboring black man pays it. in the end, for lie gets lower wnges in consequence. Why (10 the intelligent, white people of the South and the greater part of lie white people of the North wish the success of the Democratic party? Becatso they are tired of bad govern. ment, high taxes, dear food and a scarcity of (lie 1omfort-s of life. WIhat will the Democratic party give the country 7 Good government for all, while and black, peace between tho whites and the blacks forever, low taxes, cheat) clothing, higher wages, and abundant f9od. C-HAPTER IX. Who founded the Democratic party? Thomas Jeflerson, the immortal, the au thor of the Declaration of Independence and for eight years the President of (lie United Stnes. Did Ito wish to free the blacks ? IHe did, and set free his own slaves. What. did lie thiik the great danger the black man had in store for the ruturo? le feared diat the black man would refuse to act with the white man lie is obliged in livn with, and if so. he said, it was certain that the whites would iu the end drive theni out of the country as they had done the Indians bofore them. Did the Indions at first outnumber the whites, when they began to come from En ropo to this country ? Yes, butt in spite of that the white inen killed many of them and drove tho rest out of the country. Do the blacks outnumber the whites ? No, there are threco whites to one black, take the ten Southern States roundl, and. immigrants are coming ever-y day, and if the blacks attempt force, they will all act as one man against them, And the twenty five millionus of whites at the NothI will help the whites against the blacks because they are of tIhe same race, and have not the same good-feeling for the blacks that their former masters have, Is it not of importance then, for the black man to keep the friendship of his former master ? . It Is of the utmost import ance for it Is only by gaining his friendship and favor, rind by voting and workig with hIm to restore good government, that tIhe black race can prevent Itself fro'm being gradually or perhaps forcibly and at once driven out, of the country or exterminated by the-bayo net, the bullet ani the sword. What, thea, Is It the -highest wisdom of the black man to do ?. To accept the fienodly offer of his for-mer mnastors at once, and thuns to help In restor ing good governimenit, lighter taxes, higher wages, cheaper clothing and more abtundant feod, In shot pence, happiness, prosperity, power and glory to his suffering country. OffAPTIIR X. What is the special doctrine of the Demo or-atic oreedl that a black man should think about and ponder? It is Itat minorities have rights that must be respected, that the weak mnst bo pro teoted by tlhe laws of the land, It believes in checking the power of the party that happeos to get the majority, so that It can not and will not .oppress the minority and the weak. Does the Republican party respect mino rIties and the weak ? No ; they will not admit those who. don't agree with them to Congress , no matter how regularlyoeoeted, and -General Grant, now candidate for PresIdent, declaredi last year in a letter, that the wIll of the majority ought .tp be the law of the land ; which means that minorities and the weak shotild have only sueh rights as their opponents choose to give them. Isn't that a dreadful doctrine ? It is; for ibannamaa sin who 411'r from the majority to persecution, and itI was to Prevent such 1persecution, th".1;t lhe United States Constitution a-id Stale Constitutions, limiting the power of njorities, were made. Is the lilack man, abo,o Pill, interested inl tho success of the party that stands up t'r tho rights of the wes4 and of ninori. ties ? U reatly so, because lie i weak and in a minority,of three million tr thirty compared with the white men, and tl.kugh a party of wh ie mi ni mty seem to be on hi, side niow, lot th-kt party succeed in etablishing the rule o (General Grant, that the majority should do0 as they please, and the cor.se (Ittence will be that, when circumnstances and patrties change as they surely will, and very quickly too, id tihe mnajority gets fiercely tirted ayahmt tie black tin, there will be no hope for him whatever. It is, t herefore, his highest, wistlom to support. the party which snys, minorities atid the weak have rights, rights as dear to them tas life, and their rights imust and shall be respeeml. Th,3 champion of the rights of' tle weak against (ihe strong, of minorities ngainst. ina jorities has always been the Democratic party. How Popular Sentunonts Surge in the . West. The following account of a mass meeting at Columbus, Indiana, fur. nishes it pretty fair criterion of the Democratic enthusiasm throughout t-he West : INDIANAroi.Is, August 12, 1868. DEMOCnATIC MASS MEETING AT COLUDI Bus. The Democratic inass mecting at Colu.ubus, to-day, was, by all odds, the largest and most enthusiastic meeting that has been held in the State since the opening of the canvass. Thie largest estimato places the nuima ber in attendance at 15,000. The procession of wagons wa.s five miles in length. There worq_more than ascore of wagotns fati"fully decorated, con taining from thirty to forty young la dies each. The railroads brought large delega tions that did notgo in the procession. Three hundred white boys in blue, with two bands of music, went from this city. The boys were dressed in uniform, each earrying-h staff with an -Am terican flag. The-ro wore fully fI teen hundred persons from Brown county, with one hundred and eigh teen wagons. There were delegations from all quarters until Columbus was filled as it never was before. Inl a word, no political denionstra tion in this part of the State has over approached it either in numbers, character or enthusixsm. The mecting was addressed by 1Ion D. S. Gooding and Senator HeDdricks, but it was impossible for but a small portion of the crowd to hoar the speak ers. To-night there was a torch-light procession, fireworks and speaking. The whole country and neighborhood are in a blaze of enthusiaism, and a largely increased Detmocratio majori ty is conceded by all. Hundreds of Republicans have signified their in tention to vote with the Democracy. If there is any meaning in the size of demonstrations and the enthusiasm of the people, the Democracy must swoopl Indiana by a large majority. Tno Repub>lican meetings generally are coimparatively small and devoid of spirit. At a grand shooting-match at Amelia Springs the other day, as we learn from a letter in the Petersburg index, the prize for t.he best shot was a beautiful iced eake, and the worst shot w as re wardedt with a pretty ttLle dloll baby. The contestants for the cake Woro as follows: Misses Mattie and Emma Rahim, Mrs. S. S. Cottrell and Miss Nannio Cottrell, Mis hon Horn, Mrs. McClerland, Mrs. Hf. Bodeker, Richtmond ; Mrs. Wonzel and Miss Lou Morris, Amelia counaty ; Mrs. H. W. Burton and Miss Annie Ta ppcy, Petersburg. TIhae best shot wats made by Mrs, S. 8. Cottrell, Richmond ; the second best shot was made by Mrs. Fisher, Rich mend ; the third best shiot was made- by Miss Ei. Rahm, Rtchmond; the fourth best shiot was mado by Miss Annie Tap pey, Petersburg. The cake was awarded to Mrs. S. S. Cottrell, wvho very generonsly dividedl it among the "shooters /" The~ prize for the worst shot (the doll) was awarded to Miss Lou Morris, who received it, with "Modest, graceo And b,htshing face." The trial ofaskill afforded much amuse ment for the ladies, and all were delight ed with their efforts, whlich certmly de servo,credit. Thio cake was presented by Mr. Zimnmer, of Richmond. OUT.AGR fly A Nzono--A. TRAIN FULL ,Y PASSENGERS FIRED INTO. On Friday last, while the train on the North Carolina Railroad was passing a station between Se,lma and Raleigh, it was fired into by a negro. TBro shots wore disobasged at the passen-. get coach, and passed through the car, but struck no one. The thin at geo time *as crowded with delegates add others returnite from the Demo oratio Convention in Raleig.- Wil minat$on Journal Yankee Pedagogues, For nearly one hundred years the Southern States of the Union have been the El Dorado to which the greedy adventurers of New England States have cast longing oyes, and to. ward Nwhich their footsteps have been directed when forced by the fear of starvation to leave the ungenial cli mate and sterile hills of their native States They caie forth to sell to our people the negroes whon they found they could not work with profit at home; they kept the slave trade open eight years after Virginia wished it abolished, and wore busily engaged during the whole time bringing car goes of negroes from the coast of Africa for the Southern market. Slavery having at length boon abolish. ed with then, because it was unproita ble, they forthwith became ranting abolitionists, and sought to.steal from us the property for which we paid themi our money. Our country was overrun with the emmissarics of aboli tion societies. They came as clock peddlers, clock cleaners, vendors of patent miedioines, drummers for North ern merchants, sellers of patent wash ing machines, clothes wringers and churns, agents for oatch-penny patent rights of all kinds, but principally and most hurtfully as schoolmasters and school marms. Along with the smattering of an education obtained in the free schools of the North, where they sung grammar and geography, and Webster's dictionary and section al histories of the United States, they imbibed all of the bigotry and intoler ance, and craft and double-dealing transmitted through the "Pilgrim 14a. thers" and their Puritan descendants by the Father of Evil himself. For years ihese people, whose ancestors fought Indians for the purpose of capinring and selling them into slavery-who passed the Blue laws-who burnt witche., and were guilty of crimes from which the savages o! Ashango land would have recoiled. were prmritted to pract ice their msidious and diabolical arts on the slaves of the Sotith, and to poison the minds of the children whom they taught, with the accursed doctrines of puritanism and abolitionism. They came in hordes scarcely a neighborhood could be found without its Yankee schoolmaster or melanni .sumr r"- A.)ir panpla, nsoinrnilly gen0erous, mn 11d not suspecting that others could be.guilty of what they scorned, fuiled to perceive the harm that was being done by these people, and it was only a few years before the war that their tricks wore discovered, and their number seisibly diminished in the South. The war came and whatever harm it did, it brought us relief from this post. The school masters and school marms, who had done what they could to stir up the hostility between the sections which culminated in the war, gathered what they hind gotten here, and, like wild geeso in spring, took their flight North ward. We were relieved of their pre sence for four years, and feel duly thank. ful for the dispensation of Providence which vouchsafed to us that much. But the war came to an end, and in an mn credible short space of time schools of male and female pedagogues made their appearance. A new field was opeoned to them. Slavery was gone, and the little negroes must be educated; they must be taught to sing through their noses, the rtudmnents of an educa Lion. By dint of hard begging they raised some funds in tho North and entered, as was their "dooty," on their "labor on love" with much alacrity. All went of swimmingly for a while'; their sable pu pils were taught singinig, and they sang their a-b abs and a listtle grammar and a modicum of geography, and "Rally ro,und the flag" and "John Drown's body lies monmdering in the clay." Their parents were industrIously taught mean while that their former masterb, are their deadly enemies ; that they must neglect their work, when they have 'any to do, and attend political meetmngs; that they have no friends on earth but Yankee schoolmasters end schoolmarm i; that they must vote the. Radical ticket al. ways and elect carpet.baggers and the meanest specimens of seal lawag4 to fill all the offices in the land, their build iings, which were used as school houses in the day time, were at night the ren dezvous of' loyal leagners and scurvy scoundrels'seeking to got ofice by gull. ing the mnegroes into voting for t,hem. 'When there is a prospect that the fpnds given them by Northern societies for fulfilling their "dooty," are about to be exhausted, some of them, with a do. gree of impdidene which approaches Bubbimity, ask to be -permitted to tar our people to raise funds to pay him and his colleaguies for stirring up strife be. tween us and our former slaves. It amounts to that. We have uhnown that they have always been the direst ene mies of Southern peop e. They do not egre a fig for the negro. What 'they want iiu money. Their greedy soul. long for it', "as the hart panteth after the water-brook." Will our legislators gratify them iynpifting free schools? Wll our.Qiyc opgo ahead of the Elak;roo a grn to Washburne the'dearest wish of his life-to put hia foot into the cIty treasury ? .If they do, then he will chuckle over their simplci ty I . pli There Is no such sentiment as grati tuden thaebreat da Yaa1,.. p.a.. g-gue. "The world is their oyster." Kindness shown thet is not appreciated. The sacred rights of hospitality are dis regarded, and the common decencies of Ie are unknown to thoin, or set at naught. Why, when one 'of thon is purimitted to accompany a par.y of ]a. dies on an excursion to this city, where tey are received hospitably, andi mark ed attention shown then, he goes back and fills two columns and a half of his local paper with nisrevresentations, perversions and abuse 1 Congress Caught in its Own Trap. The fourteenth Constitutional Amendment, now declared to be a part of the Constitution of the United States, seems to decide the manner of voting for electors for President and Vice-President in a very summary muanner. The section two of the amendment is as follows: "SECTION 2. Repreentativos shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But twhen the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-Presi dent ofthe United States, representa tives in Congress, the executive and jud icial officers of a State, or the mem bers of the Legislature thereof, is do. nied to any of the malc inhabitants of such State, being twenty-ona years of age and oitinans of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other oritme, the basis ofrepresentation therein, shall be reduced in the proportion, which the number of such male citizens s/all bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty one years of age in such State." The plain conclusion is that if in any Stato the election of Presidential electors is taken out of the hands !of the people and placed in the handsof the LOgislature, the whole number of citizens in the State, not members of the Legislature, will be excluded from the basis of representation, which would give the Stato no more than one-handredth part of one ropresenta. tive or vote in the electoral college instead of the number to which she is now entitled. It is to be hoped that the Congressmen from Florida whose btate haA already pase a law giving the elettion of Presidential electors to the Logislature, will at once resign the seats to which they have no right. [Charleston News. THr CaIrcAL. STATE oF AFFAIRs IN LouIsIANA.-An informal meeting was held last night, 15th inst., in the Governor's office between prominent members of both parties. 3oth con ceded that danger of collision was imminent. The Democratio gentle men expressed the opinion that the best and only way to insure peace was to stop the system of aggressive and oppressive legislation now In progress; that the Democratic and Conservative elements of the country expootod to ao complish nothing except in a legal and constitutional way, but that It was unwise and improper for the State Government to defy the sentiment and wishes of the people ; and that if the Governor would throw himself upon the people they would sustain hm, adit would not.be necessary to resort to force for the preservation of the peace. Governor Warmouth stated lhe was authorized to say on behalf of the Repulicns hatthere was nothing in. oesnwih they can do or concede which will not be done to sciuro har mony. IHo promised that measures. (not of party politics) Qbnoxious to the citizens willbe modified. HIe said he was in earnest in desiring to scure the welfare of all, and preserve peace 'and good order. Another meeting is to be hold in a few days, when it is hoped some p rae tical illustration of the mutual desiro for harmony will be presented. The moedecraze Riepublicans (unfor tunately b'ut few In number) concede that the system of legislation hereto fore arid now pursued is calculated to create strife. The Democracy say the preservation of order is what they most earnestly desire, and that It6tests with the Republicans. THE "WAR Foa THEG UNZON."-The war'for the Union seems to have paid some of Its heroes. A correspondent of the New Yor Mn, writing from the IWest, says: "We see men who wont into the army AS lieutenants, so poor their neighbors had to contribute an outfit to them, now, daishing about in fiea carriages, and pos sessed of fine es'ses. They never had more than a captain's pay. We all know that they stole all over and above that. And the other day our county treasurer eloped to Canada wih anotlier man's wife, lHe was a brave soldier, and a good, steady fellow, until he be came tiMasurer. He mighjt have fled' with no end of waves to Utah, or to the devil, but unfortunately for himsself, an investigationa of his books~ brought out the "act that he sought to make the public pay for his private gratiiekns, and o the Indigriant public tomok after him.and procured his arrest?" I his ben ascertained that some' la dies osa paint as all fiddlers do roein.Jto aid them1 in draw a bean. Horace Greely. In the same proportion that Greeley grows lugubrious, the Democratic journ. als become eager and animated. The 1World darted upon its antagonist the minute he slank away, and expedited his retreat withi a vigorous vis a tergo-. a terrible fire in the rear. Alluding to Greeloy's discomfiture, it says: "We are neither pleased nor sorry that the Republican leaders have at last a realizing sense of their weakness and naecurity. Activity will no more savo thein than supineness, so it maitters lit tLie whether they prosecute their cam paign in a sanguine spirit of confidence or With the spasmodic energy of despera tion. In fact., everything they have done for the last ten months is a syip. tom of decrepitude, but most of all the nomination of such a inan as General Grant. Why did they go out of their party to nominate hint? Simply be cause their party had so sunk in publio confidence that. they had no hope of sue cese with any of their old leaders. But the nomination of Grant has not helped them. III every election which has been held since it was determined on, the party has lost ground. And now, after elighting all their old leaders for a neophyte, and found that he is a weak candidate, they begin to feel the necessi. ty of casting aside all that is most char acteristic in their policy. Observe how, in the following paragraphs, the 2i. bune attempts to befog and shift the is sue : "'This is the real and only question," says Frank Blair. 'It is idlo to talk of bonds, greenbacks, gold, the public faith, aid the public credit. Wo rnust have a President who will execute the will of the people by tranpling into dust the utisurpations of Congress knoton aa the reconstruction acts. I wish to stand be. fore the convention upon this issue, but it is one which embraces evrythina else., "Frank was entirely right; this is the real and only question ; thisi does em. brace every tiling else. Shall the con stitutional amendment, now solemnly in corporated in the foundation of our law remain? For this amendment is the Congressional plan of reconstructie. 'rhO subsequent measures were adopted in order to secure the success of the amend ment; and now that the amendment has become a part of the onstitution, and is proclainied by the iecretary of the State, the military bills are of no further ef'ect ; they pass out of existence. Mili tary rule at the South, in all the States which have adopted the amendment, is at an end. It was never intended to be more than temporary. and its aim having been accomplished, it ceased. "The real issuo now before the peo. ple, that which they must decide at the next Presidential election, is.-Shall the fourteenth amendment stand as a part of the fundamental law of the land ? "Out of the general wreck of the ro ccnstruction acts of Congrees, the 2W. bune deems it neeless to try to save any thing but the new constitutional amend ment. It therefore represents the sta bility of that amendment as the chief, and, so far as regards reconstruction, the solo issno of the canvass We will not stop to remark on the dishonesty of this representation; our object is merely to call attention to the groat 'change of base' which the fears of the 'MWbune im' pel it to attemp'.. There is noting in t.he 'fourteenth amendment' which for bids the exclusion of every Southern negro from the ballot box. If thoy are excluded, the States will have proper tionally fewer representatives in the lower branch of Congress, but the amendment permits themi to regulate the elective rranchiise as they please. Tile fact that the Tribune tries to retreat to the position its party occupied before the reconstruction acts were passed, is a significant indication of thleir great un popularity, and such a confession of weakness as we did not expect from thlat quarter," Ruarons or WAR.--The New York cOIrespondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, writing Thursday, says : Large purchases of hay have just been made in this market, on acoount of the French Government. This fact, together with recent heavy purobases of horses for the same party, and the enormous accumulation of bullion in the Bank of France, (equal to $25,000,000 in gold, now, is look ed upon by not a few of the 'longest heads, In Ainancial and business cir olos here, as indicative of a coing war-notwithstanding the Emperor's protestations that the empire Is ~eace, Private letters from inte igent sources, on the other side, fall in with this expectation. They sy thero Is much dlssatlsfaction of a poUUcal character beginning to nanitet ftaelf in veryv unmistakable foring aefeng the masses, (though the public Jour-. nals are silent on the subjects and that the Emperor, to avert tiptela at home, may deem i6 politic toAget #p a war with his neighbors. That, we are assured, is the certain drift of all his late movement. Somebody calls courtship p with twoi mates an'd no paptina To frequently the purser doma craft. ~ Spain i nta ed condition of the country Is to dia troos result., and a Anan~i orsaatioipated.