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THE :FAIRFIED HERALD WINNSBORO, S. U. Wednesday Morning, Sept. 29, 1869.: Desporios, Wlliams & Co., Props NiggepolR9y po1ned fbr the Phoenix. We 'ldd thint' the rsultsof the election of Grant being now conceded alji prealalped by the Democratic Pross of South Carolina, the so-called )e6ifoorptio party of South Carolina bihs stepped upon the platform of the sodallpd .third party. as advocated by the WVinntboro News, and is in reality a onservative ,Republican party, that clinge, with a delusivo 110po that 1na tional Democratic polities ern aid it, to a name most unpopular with the eighty thousand black voters in the State, who surely cannot be orpectod to show more lntelligence as to names not meaning things, than tho very loaders of Democracy, whon acknowl edging that things havo ohange,1, but insisting that namens should renain. 2. We hold that the anti-radical party (the paper of largest circulation iu the State has suggested tho name, though Vo' would prefer not a noga tivo, but a positive name, such as Jibeyal or Liberal RIei)ublican,) he ing now a republican party, acknowl edging all the just rights of the nogroe, 'hould now study the science of "nig goology." By "niggerology" we mean the study of the negroc character with the 0lesign of conciliating the no gtoo voto. Hitherto we could not even cominenco the study. -But now, the black man's rights being conceded, wo defy the carpot-bagger incondiary to mako a single bid for the support of the black man, that we, if we will only first exalnino that bid closely, cannot honorably and offectually over bid. The land commission bid, for instance. It really seems to b)e the main dependence of the Radicals. But it is clear we can manage that. The lame editorial of the South Caro lina RepublcNan, in reply to our pro p6sed method of dealing with that cunning clap-trap, is sigiificant. It is said that our open proclaia tion of our programme "has united the Radicals.' It cannot be meant the suffraguns, but the politicians and (ofioe-holder8. There must be power in a : programme, that alarms and unites the offio-holdors. Perhaps, to, it i6y restraiA them tis winter, to somb extent at least. It way make soveral that we could mention bid for fifty thousand votes. We are willing to join with such as show respect for our just rights, when it is in thoii powor'to trample them. We propose to watehi closely.. 8. We believe that the next consus will open ojos of Liao South to heci natural allianico with tile intensely ro. publican Western States. We should like to see the poor, plucked, and to be plucked, South earnestly attoud tc State Govertonent, therefore, and, in dopoident of all presont national par. t~y organisations, quietly watching ani Waiting on futuro events. A4. In oolusion, we cannot comnplai If 'the intended fun and humor o some'of our remarks are conistruei gravely and seriously, instead of be. ing heartily Jaughed over and enjoy, ed even by opponents. This is a mer< mnattet' of taste. W~hy,niot to know' the meaning of nig gorology--that latest and most inter esting of seiencos, that even Hiuni boldt didn't live to see 1 We hai thought the Plivnix wa~s really ir earnest in advocating "a pioro practi, oal, oduoation for the South?" but10o it looks dorbtfully at one of tht primary branches, the most practica of all fog' tots years to come. A po litical loader in South Carolina in 69 lgnoringinIggerology I Why, a doe tor 'Could'as soon ignore Chemistry ; o' a divino, the E~pistles of St. Paul It is th'o most util of the ologios either for runningy a plantaation, or foi s-nraing for the hiogislaturo. Shame If yankees continue to beat us at thl, sco9noe i We have every natural ad .vantage, and ougbt to take "first lhon or" ; the yaukses tnay como in for thi soa apoiunment." Highet Wages. Weaenot disposed to be unfall ehftio Dr. 86ott, and tv-ould not havi 6ot~&to his othertation to the no g9to 4emanrId higher wages," ii ,Ji hde Ite5ame time, exhorted h~to better', more skilful, anm '90 t~adt w~k, Hligh -enges anm t mfo neong th< - 9N :99 I; ,thp'4rue test of nai tienahrogressalbAteah only be at taine-d'byildt.lgence ahd- persistent inQ a nma U~et emigda principl< 10anbienl ddvifo abor?' N'foV tomW~hfdkrm that"i.l toa les Neffrd it ifA tTofioally it d ivisi 0i oflabor, bakd by a 414. Ur cientp'itlag of capital, wo Ieannot qb Jet. fluti to antal1 farms qa under- A stod by the negroes, with griouIlturo carried back to its primitive and least in profitable stago, and worked by a soil- V tary laborer with a solitary skeleton at of a mule, or a bull-calf, on the five es hour syston, every true patriot and h intelligent man must object. They as can neversustain theinsolves through m a single unfavorablo season, much less he increase the comfort, or add to the wi prosperity of the laborer. Scientific dr culture demands a combination of ni powerful forces and several laborers W1 to manage them, as well as intelli. gent direction, backed by a suflicient outlay of capital. And it is to scien tifio agriculturo demanding harmony i and mutual dependence, that the to iniedsof all agriculturalistsashould be an turned as the ineans of bottering the to condition of all. Mutual depondence th i. the law of progress -the cause, as oIl well the effect, of high civilization. Iy The deep fallacy of much that is h ( wriiten upon the subject of "small 09 farms the need of the country" thus be plainly appears. If smaller farins i cairied with them the certainty of more thorough and skilful tillage, fa< they would be dosirable.. But ar just it )resent, ithey d,) not ; and the to unreasoning imsinet of the landhold- co or leading him to hold on to his land, th until a really soientific farmer is will. ey ig to come and offer him a high t price for it, and even then to make lot, money by buying it, is just one of ge those conservative forcos of nature, of th which a deep observer will not com. " plain. Improve your agriculture, f and wages would rise, and land in- . crense in value, and land-owners be thi be willing to sell, and small farms to would be plentiful. Lot the labor be. ' comoe more skilful, and let it be under th more intelligent direction-there is re the root to strike at, Dr. Scott. de '8mall farms" and ' Labor Unions," th without this, are the merest delusions, ti and will prove the bitterest disap- tl pointments, for they cannot in them- w! selves bring higher wages, or greater de profits to the laborer. ac Apathy-Its Meaning. Wi Great changes have taken and are is taking place in our social industrial Ot and political system, and the only a choioo left us is, to take part in and cc modify them, or to leave them alone o% to be carried to their extreme by by radioals. The apathy of our people thd means, that these changes are d istaste ful to them, that they can take no n< earnest or enthusiastio part in them, hl that they nauseate them, and that it. so is useloss,thorefore, to urge thom tv P take part in them and modify then S1 for the better. This is allvory na- th tural. But it is not wise. To do b< nothing ourselves, Is to permit a great W deal to be done for us and our clil dren. The result will be the untram moled triumph and free course of ox. it, tromoe radicalism. With the knowi- h< edgeoof these facts and the expecta- le tion of such a result before us, we yet are calm and hopeful. We frankly say , it--we do not expect tho'poople of the ~ State to adopt thod istateful line of con- G duet we have recommended with any a earnestness until 1874. Meanwhile, . many matters of the utmost imupor- d tance wvill have quietly regulated and C<n bettered thomselves. Immigration, ii for instance, will have begun to be en-d couraged and understood; a more sei- eo entifie agriculture, to be practised; and 4 a fuller sense of the mutual depend. Si oniec of all classes of our society and ir the wisdom of harmony of action be. 0< tween them, to be realized and to cI prevail. Oharleston Survivors' Assooiation, b One objeot of the meeting of the Fairfield Soldiers' Relief Assooistion next Monday, is to send delegates to a Convention to be held in Colnmbia o at the suggestion of the Charleston s Survivors' Association. The objet n proposed by the convention, is to take iv steps for the presorvatio~n of a truth- E ful record of the part played by the " Conferedato forces contributed by South Carolina during the late eivil * war. There is, too, a oharitable eb- o1 jeet at the foundation of the move ; cl viz to assist the orphans of the t< dead. We would suggest to the meeting (p of hext Monday the expediency p of inviting the ladles to form a La dies Cooperative Relief Assoola tion, from which the clergy and such men as never engaged in active ti service, will not be excluded. This I Is a wrork of charity. There is very a little to be gained by It, exeept the" ~pproval of, out consciences trhen tre b) shall hee doneo whM wq can, The Ae. -*0oiaion formed 1aet.yoar~ wedad have dose mwork if ther olergy atid th. las ai .died lad been drawn in te pagidigate 4 ktivelf iii fuirtlmriulktt bleee #,~r. pose., *, "Oh i 'wom~as, is our hours of .esser ergat o oplae fo ,d a . ea n hu wring the brow, rinest g Ie1,th ,I But port 8s hattiig takoet to teachl. I young ladles, -t4e editdr of th4 innsboro Naws is apt to oxagger D the Itaportange of the gentler sex. po'lally In niatteri of ubse1Isb arity. Yet if the gadllnt sgljlir who Led last year "what have the wo. )n to do with it 1" will only tell us, w the world Oduld got along at all thout "%he women," we will with. aw our suggestion, and leave the &tter solely to thq #prat de (.Vurpx. iere it belongs. Negro Mortality. Any one who has read the bh10,l1(1 re rts of the City of Charlestor', silie close of the war, cannot have faitled remark that the nmber of deaths long the colored pe-)pid, ao d4mpured those among the waite, has beenl in proport ion of two to one. This pro. rtion is, as wOA're infdirmed greater in ier places; and the qllest-an renturalI arises, why shoiild this thitag be. fore the war mortality was abont 3t among both races, but since peace a beeh re-ostatlished: the negro has on dying out much more rapidly than I whito man. To us the reason seenis to be in' the t that the colored people, as a ch1a, ! not laboring na earniestly find vigor ely as they could be compelled to do procure the necessary comforta wticlh iduce to health and to I cIgevlty. In. ) competition for bread which we fnd erywhere, the man who fplia bgl, .average amounit, of work vhich, lite man can do in a day, ~mnt at at want, if he does not starve. Hun r, poverty, and squalor-the fate of )8> who fill below this average-are t favorable to the- birth and-rearing children, or to the preservation of alth and life in the adult. They are a parents of disease and death, and D race that does not labor suieiently keep them off must, be constantly cimated. We notice thhi startclng fact, in orde-r rat our colored p-ople may seek a nedy. We aret interested not in th struction, btt in the preservation of a race. L.-t the Radical iianufak rers of opitnion anong the colored poo ) attempt, to poison thir minds as ey will, the day is not far distant ion they will se-n that they leave been luded by vile demiangogues, anxinus to cumnlate phinder at the expensie of a white and black man alike. They 11 soon see, as we see, that each ;race interested in the prosperity of tihe her. Every indcttrious laborer-is an ditional source of strength to' any untry, it matters not what mae he his lor, nativity, or hiq religion. ' Every rner of capital, every posse--sor of am, honestly applied, adds pocwer to n State and furnishes what labor re ires, and what labor will produce. iving side by side, the..White man can >t spare the black man, nor can the. ack man do without those who poq as the soil, the capital, apd a great rt -A the education and intellect of the ate. The remedy for this mortality among e colored pepulation of the State is to found in work, hiardi and steady ok, united with prudence anid frncgahc .By means. of habeir and economy e material concdinmon of the race will inmpoved, and with iniprokrement id material condition wcllI come better ~alth, increase of birth~s and .greater ngevity.-Chcarleston Coursi'. PLATronat op Naw Ydnic DnrtoonA r.-General Slocum is nmeciconed .for mporary President -and Lid'ntenant overtnor Beachy will be Miade Py'rj ant President. The platform will be rather conserva ye. It will not go so far as the Ohio amocratie platform, nor .will it. be a >py of that of the Massaohusettes de ocracy. Its leadinig points will be a itmand for the restoration of the South n States, general aminestv, a fulfilment the obligations -of -the 'cobctract .with gard to the govethment bonds, .oppo tion to the ptoposed flfteenth amend' ent, opposition to the amended State mnatitution, excepting the erticle .con-. 'rig the judiciary..- Theje Is general od feeling among the delegates, with larger shnre of conadeo than ban een witnessed at a Dreocratic Stats onvetiti for years. --cse iYorkc Jay Cookeididia nice thing this sum er. As the world knows ,he hpas a >dehdid estate at Puta4n- Bay Islands. [o invited a large fimbo? pf clergy ien to vist himn and spend a few weeks boating, Bshiine atid othier recreations. [e did not invite fashcioniable clergymen tlh large salaries and great fame. .He alected lowly mincisters-,-mean who eke it a scanty livelihood otn stal-valion larn, agents of ben.folent societies ra poor pay, and city missionaries who mnnot travel, anid who have no nioney spend at fashionable waterin~g places rr. Cook paid all the erpenses of trans 3rtation, made these clerical gentlemen ary ha py,;and put thoney Into tielr The Ulnlieity trnuse thicken. 0now hear that- lr. Joseph 4; ones has declined thte chair of~cetecig v to ,which lie had been elected. ~The 'amnu tells us tha6 Dr. hi ackey's -une 'ihlngnesa to join th e Univerusi .w aot that he loved Crosrr leschbut. c loves Ienie mor. Whiqi-I ome ?"-CAkprken cNe.ws. I Misslpina Ia ananA p) ig HAvy WB a Oif so, tould resp&fi ' Mr. <~enia,the fIow quebt bih, hold anIoe iq i A talative and one in the g*eo4tive Department ? How oan the General Asembly 'Inorease the compensation of one of its. qw .b ers?. (Mr. Moses.). How can the Le51slature pass Acts re)ati g rtp ',re than "one subject " Ho a the Legislature pass Aots, the subjoote., of which are not "ex. press#d1itfik title 1"'. How can the Legislature pass Acts aontracting public debts, which do not receive "the vote of two-thirds of the smembers of each branch " Ilow can the Judcges.grant divorces, before the mode and causes allowable h've beezi "prescribcd by law ?" How cau our Suprone and Circuit Judges fai to filo 'their dedisions tbin sixty days fromi the hat day 'of ho t,-M f o the Courit aV which the auses we, heard ?" How oanth iLegial~aturo pabs Acts which make "distitiQ On account' of 3olor V How oiRB taxes be laid i:ot "upon ,he actual value of the propertY tax 3d?" How ein the Legislature contei apon the Governor the power to ap. point to offiaes, which, the Constitu tiou provides, must be filled "by elo Lion I' We pause for a reply. When an 1wored, yoq will hear, again from 10NORAM US. [P11 n ix. A MAN BuIo ALivE.-A laborer, mamed Carter, was employed to go tbwn to the bottom of a well, on Long [land, for the purpose of fixing the pump. lie had just completed his work and was about to descend, when the well suddenly caved and buried him from sight at a distance of nearly rorty-foet.from the surface. A large tnumber of men immediately volunteer ed for the purpose of digging him out, but no one believed he would be found dive, as soveral tons of earth and stone had filled the well. The work was prosecuted with vigor all night, the workmen finding it necesaary to "shore" up the well as they descend ed. Thursday moruing the men at work were startled by hearing the man at the bottom of the well calling for them to hurry up, as he was at the bottom knee deep in water, and close ly wedged in' 6n all sides, and unable to move. A two-inh iron pipe was immediately run down to him, and by this means he was supplied with air, and the workmen were enabled to converse wiAV hiii. It seems that the well, ino4vipg. in, formed an arch im atediately ibove -his head,. Addi tiofial gans bF men volunteered, who workq oaletlly all day, but Thurs day.,ijht aqt.cedd in reach ing him. Ti onfortunate man had been in the yell over thirty hours without food. lie only complained of being very sleepy. Ku KLUX IN WaSUONSIN-MURnER ER HANGED DY A .e.-In Portage City, WI., .on Thursday, William Spain, lawyeay add Barney Britt, far. met met in tbe'street and renewed a qUarrol thatiihd its origin when they wee em sof theNinetenth Wis coia- RAw n en s A t r t e a a revolver, and on meeting Britt again soon after wird shot and almost instant lykilled hini, scarcely a word being exchanged~ '8pain then deliberately walked dowd the street, flourishing his revolver, closely followed by Mar shal Hiokey, who arrested him. While he was passing up the street again an excited crowd of people followed, and when opposite the A merican express office a general onslaught was made upon the prisoner. The excitement increased fearfully, and cries of "Hang him," "Hang him," r-ent the siir. The c~rowd soon increased at the Ex presa uffic6 td the niutbei' of one hundred, who took the prisoner in thieir posses. slon, placed's rope about his neck and dragged him to th e nearest tree, be low the Ellsworth House, and hanged him. A Washington letter to the Balti more Gacaxe says; "The RtadioshE at'a despairing of.th eFifteeth Amend. ment. Governor Senter's organ, the Nashville Press and .Timnes, is out in doubleeaded leader spredioting thai the new Legielatute *111 repeol Ten. nessee's ratifloation of the Fifteenth amendment,. Before the final ratifi. cation ofan -anaendment to the Con, stltitton off ihe Unitied Statee by the re'qujired threefourtbs, any'. State, whichbhaa passed a ratification ordi. nance, may rightfully repeal it. 'Thu doctrine was broadly stated in .th< Senate -n1086f, by Hong: RBeverdy Johnson,.aty.d its correctness not de. nied by a sigle Radical senator. The only pointmade was that, after at amendmwent lhad been legally deolared adopted, aeState could not reverse iti action.e Doubtless,' whenever the cotultry shall be restored to the away of the conatitutioth' the Fourteenth amnpdment (ao.ealled) will be' ignor ad, togefhevtwith all the. reconstruc tiott laws 4( Congtees.. This oertarit result is tIle only .gitarented 6f; the political lIbrIss: of the Southand Indeed, of'?. Aoustrtt -large. IM?0PoA tORlK , PnOPOS$D Jr SOUTst'AI fa.1..-It ib propoued t< out at oon ft"n th' f akeabf 864Iit the Ashle ~Jer tot i I lor asy ak s~tii eo bh ho atty foauly Iet,, The oosl * *I~a I~-.S 9O , an I' LIttth, op~abl brghe thE meada da t ofs. hiue. W li ur ork 00d)04 ares b.o No nYrk '0 , y ton thous freiblj y i or .Clineso would have no difiotly j, nding kitohin work, ch ber workaqu 6otor household service to p rforul so high aro the expectations t lat, have .boon formod of their intelligence, industry and versatility. We soo it stated also that a lead ing merchant of Now Orleans has just gone out to Chiuaz as the representa Live of a number of commercial houses in that city to establish a lab. r agency at Hong Kong, Pekin or soime other advantageous .point. He will beaeompiaiied by a Chinaman of ex porience in the business, uad will vis it the various agricultural districts of China, to find which will furnish the best and cheapest labor for the cotton and sugar fields of Louisinua. His first inmportation, to meot the expen ses of which lio and his correspondents are fully prepared, will be from three hundred to 'five hundred hands. Similar movements, as the readers of the Yews have been informed, are go. ing on in behalf of our own and other sections of the South ; and ore many weeks we expect to herald the arrival of the first consigninenut of the coming I pigtails.- Char. Kees Mrs. (-noral Rawlins was captured in Vioksburg !)V the late Secretary of War, and subsoqiently became the wife of her o6'ptor. - it seems that prior to the commiLcement of hostili ties that lady went Soath, in the capa city of governess in one of the best families, and remained thus eimp!0YOd after the war begun, was shut up :Q Vicksburg during the siege of that city by General 0 rant, and was among those who surrendered. Ocneral Rawlins then saw her for the first time. Tihe house occupied by her was taken possession of by General Raw lins, the lady still remaining in it. Intercourse aid friondly relations were established, and soon the Gene ral found that instead of capturing the enemy, the enemy had really eap tured him. The fair lady went North, and not long after the general follow ed-all ending in the general proffering his heart and hand and the lady ao cepting the same. JAiES' TWIN COTToN.-An Alaba. ma paper thus described this new species of cotton: "This variety of cotton, which is to give fame and for tune to its discoverer, if it shall stand thle test of. succe.fal experiment, has bolls considderaiy larger than ordin. ry cotton, and a staple longer than the Peeler. One striking peculiarity of this variety consists in the fact that the stalks have no limbs. The cotton breaks out in clusters from the stalk, and sometimes there are from seven to ten bolls in a cluster. INL. James is confident that he can gather four bales from one acre of this cotton. le has no seed .to upare, as lie had but.thir teen rows planted ; but from these he intends to select the best seed, add next year, if his cotton proves to be as good as he thinks it will, he will introduce the seed." NEcno RIOT tN ALABADIA.-The papers chronicle a riot at Wilson's Station, on the Montgomery and Eu faula . Rail Rad. Two negro men atteked Mr. Charles MieDade, and the latter killed one of them with a knife. 1AleDaide then surrendered himself, and while on trial before an examning Court, the negroes broke up the Court, and by last accounts hold McDade and the S3heriff beleag ucred in a house which they weie threatening to burn. The Sheriff was anxiously awaiting the arrival ofa detachment of troops which had been sent, to take him and his prisoner out Qf the hands of the infuriated A fri cans. TIIE Poon SOUrh--A Washington letter tolls how the South is to be plucked:. ."The prosperity of the South war rants the statemeut that the internal revenue receipts from that section will be nearly fifty per cent. greater for the present fiscal year than for the last year. Among the modifications of the revenue law that will undoubt edly be recommended to the necxt Congress will be a tax of one gent per pound on cotton. It is believed that such a tax will yield fully fifteen Imillions of dollars for a year. This it is presumed is cogitated with a view of relieving northern man ufac tures, and would find favor with con gressmen to the extent of. enabling them to repeal that portion of the law Impoing special taxes. i dndleton, f9ear, will be beaten in Olio, if the* Republican bankers are not stopped from sending money into that State. They have actually gone around with the hat among foreign banke aM'd bondholders to beat Pen.. dheton, and have succeeded in collect ing a large stum, which is almost daily .transmaitted to the Buceye State, and they have promises of more, only tojeofeat the greenback candidate, hear of no Democratic nmovement to offset the 'abuse. From Pennsylvania theo pues is more cheering. Asa Pack er Is' In a fair wray of being elected by * handsomne majority, though a ~cod deal of work will lmat'e to be $pne during the next three weeks.-Cor. Couyier., * No PEA C IN RoDIE~-Le~don, Sept. Sa-The London 'Jeraph estimates the declaration of Fther- Hyacinthe as~mnerely one of the mnany manIfest* p long tevealIng the coin motion ini the RomnaAihoig Church, whioh lomis es toemk 4he IumdnicalCounell the, ocoasiont of aiyiig but epiritual peace. \,* orh'ma e don Natupd orth. ' Notioe. ' Suabscribis io ui'e .in arrotirs fo~r the Ni's wil grqatly ,bllgg 0slY pay. ing at the carliust moment possible. We will soonl comince another new Volume. Unless those who are owing us pay up, (and wonean particularly those residing in town,) the visits of the NBws to their homes will be dis continued. John Robinson Coming South, John Robinson's great cireus and menagerie is now in Virginia. A correspondent of the New Yo-k Clip per says, thlat. it will be in Charleston, S. C., in October. Fire. The alarm vf fire was given about 12 o'clock on Sunday last, it was found to proceed from Mrs. McMaster Hotel. By the timely arrival of soine of the boardeis the fire was oxtin. guished with very little damage, Now Advertisements. The partioular .attention of on-r readers is directed to the notice in another column of the cotolidation of Charlotte, Columbia and Atigusta; Railroad. They are now prepared to, issue certificates of Stock.. Read it. Now Store-B. C. Rosborough. Rend the notices ol Kotchin,. M'c. Master & Brice, "For Carriage mual era," "New Books," "Fiesh Crack urs)" &C. A i:cw eupply of Plain Gold Rings, Sleeve arud Shirt Buttons, &c., at Charles Muler. Seed Oats-Matthews. Ladd Bros. & Co., are now receiv ing a large stock of.Vall and Winter Dry Goods, Clothing, Ioots, Shoes and Hats. Give them a call. Meeting. A meeting of the Soldiers .Relief Association for Fairfield will be held on the 1st Monday in October next. All me mbers of the Association and Confederate Soldiers generally, are requested to attend, as matters of in portance will be attended to. JOHN BRAT-rON, President. SA'. 1. CrOWNF.Y, Secrotary. Orumbs. The Barbecue given on Saturday last by a number of our citizens, and under the supervision of Mr. T. Mur phy, was a complete success, every thing dono up in style. Cotton continues to cone in-slowly. Most of our farmers, we are glad to say, are in a condition to hold their cotton for botter prices. Policeman disturbed on Saturday night by Opossu m hunters. fie threat ened shooting, if they didn't stop their "tooting." Our young friend Mo-, th-e /jnestrhen, who was thrown from his horse a few days ago, dlid good ser vice at the fire on Sunday as "Axe nian " Ku Kluixcs roaming about, one was seen, a few days slice, the alarm given, criesi of "landlord I" robbers ithe house, thieves I thieves ! Ku Klux eaptured and slightly caned. The wveather cloudy, with slight falls of rain. Tfhe wind very high, a perfect gale Sunday night. Fall fights about to open, heavy skirmiehing for the past few days. Negro conmes to town and draws ra Lions fromi his employer, and Is rob. bed on his return home by highway. men. Juvenile negro found in a groery store, at a late hour in the night, aslecep undelr the counter. Negro Representative intends open. ing a store, in the upper part of town. (Perhaps with a crowbar.) New buildings in process of con struction, Lots of wagons coining to town.. A ll dnos being settled. Heavy firing- in town nearly every night. WheVbro is the polic. Cotton comini lnvery slowly, pri ?es slim, farimo~rs with long faces, the low price of cotton another yankee trick. Several droves of horses and mules in town, they sell freely. Whlere does the money eomnef'romi ? we have not been able to see any wvith our "spooks." Orir morchants are beginninig to re ceive theli- falh stock, and if those who owe us continue to "sport" around, and don't pay up, we willhave to banish the idea of getting a "stoye pipo" hat this fall. Luxuriant Cotton. Messrs. Goo. W. Williams & Co., Fabtors of our city, have at their of fice on Hasyne Street, says Charleston Courie**, some spoolmnens' of cotton plant groiwn by John C. Maekrell, of Blaokstook,~ Fairfield County, 8. 0., which are suporior specimens of the rioh growth wh4hh thme cotton plant may attain 1:nc49, aisfl and splentI lne onltivation.. Eaok- of those plents 'Lad ati t6a0: aente ,850 bbol., were raised on lig1tsandy so9, that ~ on rich sroaak ,i.e at e ea ly fruited. The seed used was of the Dixon variety, and tho plant was tila nured with the Carolina Fertilizer. The Phrenological Journal, For October is full of entertaining reading. Among its contents are George V. Childs the Philadelphia publisher ; Philip Phillips, the well, known Singer 5 John A. Aoobling, the Rinient Civil Engineer ; oorgo L. lililler, the Omaha editor ; Phronolo. gy, is it a Scienca I - Armmwers-6 ob-. jections ; the lbreinologist's Prophe-, cy Salem Witchcraft-..an elaborata review.; Our Convlets-what shall ba done with them I Vaccination--i. it useful I A new method of Warming House; the Tiger ; the Chinese Question 1 6ha1l we have "Celestial" Laborers I etey with portraits an other illustrations. Only 3octs. o' $8 a year. A-dress S. It. Wells, 389 Broadway, N. Y. The Novel-An Address by the lat Barnwell S. Stuart, Eag. This addreas, whihri we begin to' pubbsh to-day, wasr defvordtf, by re. qluest of a committee of ladies, to $0 very rarge audience, in Memphis,. Ttmnesoearr sonsetinio in the year 1867, and the money collectod for admission to the liali given to tix widows and orphans of Conf doeato soldiers.. Some readers may th-1i of the speak or l-innsilf$, when they remember the last year of' hiil i'fe id readi the fol fowing e:ttraot from tile add're.s-: - "Ile knew too well that "the pur-hi heart may be fiuneli-liuked," that the greaiest good iii life nkil 6o per haps loteve"n to Doe happy.. "Pover ty, illness, hum-iitionr may be re. wards and conditions of good, as well' as that bodily prosperity which all of' as unconsciously set up for- worship."' le felt life to bo-*no ilibore," * Bft. Iron dug frot ceitral gloor*. And healed no4 qvith burningMey And dipped ir baths e- hraaing fear. And battered with th slh oksf doomn' To shapo and uo."r Give the Devil Ris I8ijo -The Radical. and the University, We are not disposed to join in the cry of censure raised by the State press, upon the Trustees of the Uni versity. Their choice (arid the color-' ed Trustees were not present) has been good. Dr. Jones is said to have - no superior in the South, and Profes sor iart has decided merit. Dr. A I Or. Mackey has written an excellent book on Fren Masonry, and is more of' a scholar than some politicians and fa. voritoa that have been elected in ties past. Wo are glad, however,. that lie did not accept. And we are rejoiced that the Radical organ has. taken such decided stand in favor-of separate educational institutions for the white and blacks. This is all to be commeanded. Let us give the party in power the encouragement of a hear. * ty well-done, when they deserve it and not weaken the fore of our re monstrances, or the pers.uasivess of calmi, intelligent ad inaterested criti cisnm, by thoughtless anud inidiscrimti nate censure. We have lie sympathy with the recklesa abuse so popular with ninny. If we do not love Dr. Scot t or the Ilog of Oh io ourselves, it is because they aic both, the first, in> seine respects through yanikeo igno ranco, anid the second, through beast ly swinishness of nature, incendiaries obstructIve to the pacification and harmony of an afiliotod State. Jewels Set in Rhyms, W~O commend the following to all whom it may concern. There is truth as well as poetry in It, that. should rink deep into every dehin quont's heart, anid eause him to come to time, that lie may enjoy the sweets. of a conscience void of offense towa rds the printers and proprietors ? H-ow happy are they, Who the printers pay, And have aquared up for one year or -more ;' Tongue cannot express The groat joy of the pr'ess, When delinquents have paid the old score. Printers all the day long La bor b ard for a song-. A fate that is hard all agree They have worked night and day, An dof course want their pay, To buy sugar and coffee and tea. One could hardly beleve, What small sams they receive For the paper addressed to each hnm B~ut the price Is so small 'That the good people all. Will pay up for fear of the haie, Th En~'glish ritlihitio cbnmrehnmen na excited over ,ths thio decision.ol the Pope not to receive represent~atives of their body to seats, eithi privilege of debato, in the Eumenical Council.. T ~he Mongomery (A.) Mail is au thiorltf for the statemolit that 'ex-dov erh1or James L. Orr, in conjuonctoi *ithi other isnietly :anteriin and Walkem uth Ogrolina.' I. onr f nou health, girls. I)on't mmnd being cajled ."old fogy" be oanae you ta# 70 urselves up well and "E~.*%R0 t 9img she Bte