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F .. 1 ._ _ 1______ _lr4wl44-AW Desporte, Williams & Co. Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. VOL. 111.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2,1870. [NO.33 THlE FAIRFIELD HERALD is runmianza WYAKLY 11y DESPORTES. WILLIAMS & GO Terms.-Tus lmnAL is publisherl Week ly in The Town of Winnsboro, at 93.00 in Varea6ly in advance. MV' All transient advertisemonts to be paid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per square. The Oficers Funeral in Prison. BY CAPT. T. V. TIDUARsI. No military requiem grand Swells round his lonely bier; No muffled drum, no mourning baud, Attend the warrior here. 1 To him all funeral pomp's denied, No ufe, or trumpet loud, No guard of honor by his side, o banner for his shroud. No trophies won in daring fights, Alorn his coffin rude, To attest the stalwart warrior's might, And prove his noble blood. No last saluto is tred o'er The hero's now.nuade grave, Sunk close by Erie's sloaping shore, And Wached by Erto's save. Calmly he sleeps beneath the sod, His last parade is done ; Alone with his country and his God, lis last groat fight is won. The Way the Win4 Ilows. The New York Herald prints a leador discussing the Republican par- t ty and the Presidential succession, I the conoluding paragraphs of which 1 are those ; Looking at the division in the e dominant party on vital questions of public policy, at its violated promiesi and shortcomings, at its reckless ex- I travaganoo, at its want of defined rinoiples in the management of pub- j i aff and at its indifTrence with regard to supporting the administra- c tion It has chosen, we are naturally c led to inquire what prospoot there is a for perpetuating its power, and what t chance there may be for the opposi tion party. There was a positive is sue on the slavery question-the one, e in fact, which brought the Republi- 8 cans into power-as there was, too, in the prosecution of the war ; but neither exists any longer. The Re. publicans, however, have used the slavery agitation and the war for po. litical capital long after the questions were settled and until they are worn out. The proplo are tired of them, and look for other questions or issues I that bear upon the present and future. % In this respect the dominant party t does not meet the wants and expeota tions of the country: for, as was said, it has no positive policy, no platform of principles, and no unity or cohe siveness beyond that whioh the spoils I of office give. Who, thon, is to gov ern this country? What party can take the place of the one in power? I Are we to drift along in this negative way without principles or statesmen, or shall we have a party with a defin ed policy, that will represent the sentiment of the country and the liv. I ing issues of the day The Democrats have a good pros. peot before them if they know how to use their opportunity-if they will leave the dead past and take a newt departure in accordlance with ostab- I lish ed facts and the spirit of the times.< They may elect the next President, tholureho hinra antmu y ginittoa th hthocangsat of the Reublican, ty an theidepirelarthan peoleio war Yeor hwoulde theard oulreai ah piialreoluhion aviisralto the Deoratins of the laReletican fry an eesir of ogetheyol gained thansgtey Thae shown sigte of New. turnik liftae Athe he aradinas hoiav raevoutriond farable- t toe etas. thelaowerlention Sot embaes the havges eity oviedr. reansid mera lean inanyhre lalitle ctins Ahe large shonrtn of th eroe. willing lie. thought on adcl I0 estiali~shtoes; or .th South-l se rthate the nteest arcidenticl, and rehe motheevs from threi oftl doat thae Sthertaers will beflDemo wlowithngi gh ht epeoo.d liticl guetion; forthey will e thatther inere th e wnia. andr Dtrqursncprpht tou aept ta hat. partyoic o the Southern- laflt 4 wih.Jndingefromcassithe tognseof theties, the me drntsv to good an ce d;orthe sdetasoth on pee tioee Hoev ene u ppoe before to soe otf they ahergoo theirv obd,,n mde, whthben acchnolishd wyant peacoe.pLente Deocrthenarp.r< Ntherna ps; ecasmacpt theprge- I plafor and oliy ntonal ahotnd le teadwit a pholcsidns t he < sngoe and theomendeng to the fuue n otiunThey ma eeanhePrntio sael - andsucceead ; fors lheas of thwe pe The Coming Contest. The one great weapon to be wield ed in the coming contest with South Carolina Radicalism is-a policy of the present and future; a liberal, broad and progressive policy adopted to the wants and conditions of the times. The details of this polioy-the platform of the South Carolina De mocracy in the State elootions--need riot be defined at this time. It is im portant, however, to declare at once what are the points to be insisted on, that we may begin the canvass with iope, carry it on with onfidence, and rown its close with tidings of great joy. 1. The Democracy of South Caroli ia must look to the present and future, ind not to the past. They must sub nit to the inevitable necessities of he political situation ; having. how. iver, no part or fellowship, upon any ,erms, with South Carolina Radical em. 2. The civil and political equality of the colored people with the white aco, under the laws of the State and he United States, must be frankly idmitted and acknowledged. 3. The declaration should be reit rated that what reforms we need aust be obtained by constitutional neans and agencies alone. 4. And to the people of South Ca olina, white and colored, should be uade this simple statement: We ome before you as the party of jus ice and equal rights, as the party of onnst government and low taxation. Ve come before you pledged to repre. ent equally and faithfully every lass of people, to encourage and orotect every interest, to admit no menopoly and to put down class legis ation, to maintain the State credit nd faithfully pay every dollar of her ust debts. This is promising no more than we an and will perform. It gives to the olored people as much as they have, s much as they are entitled to, all hey expect; it holds the white peo. Ilc firmly together; and it unites the rhites and the blacks in the common auso of good government and oppo. ition to Radical corruption-. Charce. )n News. Universal Negro Suffrage. The fifteenth amendment requires iow only the vote of Georgiaor Texas n order to be proclaimed an article f the federal constitution, "the au remo law of the land." Within a reek or two we expect this p roclama ion will be made. What then? The mendment declares that neither the Jnited States nor any State shall nake any abridgment of the right of iffrage on account of race, color or revious condition of servitude ; and t further provides that Congressshall ave the power to enforce this thing iy appropriate legislation. The States f Delaware, Maryland and Ken uoky, therefore, in the next elections will have to admit the right of the egro to vote, which they have here ofore denied him ; and if they fail to ro it Congress wil'l interpose. And o with any one of the States. The democrats have resisted this mendment to the last ditch, and on ho- ground that it gives to Congress he power to regulate the machinery >our elections in all the States. We sold that it simply gives Congrees the o-wer to en'oree the equal rights of he colored race in any case where a statc may refuse to grant or fail to nforcc them. This, of course, may ovolve iLn certain cases an overaal og by Congress of the State election nachinery; but we do not suppose hat the amendment will be construed or iostance as turning over to Con ;less the man-agemwent of' trhe polls of his city from thi~e sachems of Tam many Hall, unless they exclude Pomn ey from tho ballot box.. It follows that the policy adopted iy the old line democrats of Virginia nd elsewhere down South-the poli y of reorganizaing the- negro.-and eul-. ivating him as a political ally-Is the mnly course now left for the demo. rats in all the other States, anid the ooner the Tammany Regeney act ipon the idea the- better it will befor hem and their candidate for the next !residency ; for negro suffrage is fixed, ~nd there will be- no getting Round It. -NV. Y. Herald. The Washington. oorrsbspondent of lie New York J/erauld says that there ias been developed in the House of hpresentatives a great deal of feeling cetween- the freetraders and. the-protec. ionmstir, and thair the former are in a lecided majority. This lat ter statement niuiastoish the conialry. If true, it is ertainly. remarkable that the latter nasa should for years have ruled Ccon. trees with, a todi of iron,. and. should iow control every committee in, the Ione. We Awast funrher informa ion. The Golos, of St. Pbtereburg, says : ':We are informed that the government iad recently under consideration a* >roposal to authorize all Polieb. refugetes, iithier duripg the last revolt or in p re nious insurrecuions, to return to their od.The pig sation, ana a serious toihraa abeta oa -. Tle Coning Elections, Controlling, as they do, the patron age and power of the State Govern mont, with their emis.aries, in the bi shape of the "oonbtabulary police II force," distributed throughout the w country to guard their interests, and, ol by fomenting discord, neutralize the b eftorts being made for the establish- y, iont of more friendly relations be-w tween the two co-existing races, the i carpet-bag party are doubtless gloat. C ing over the prospect of a continua- o< tion in their career of fraud and vil- F lainy by obtaining another lease of at power at the coming elections. am Shall they have it? We hope and ti believe niot. The Democracy, Anti- tv Radicaliats, or by whatever name may le br called those who maintain honesty gt in office, economy in public expendi- A tures, equal rights, low taxes, and de- ei centralization, will enter the field or under more hopeful auspices than they [, have ever been able to do since the to war. The Issue will no longer be in black man or white man (that sole w) prop of Radicalism in Carolina). The st< question of race should and will dis- E, appear from view when the welfare of H a common country is at stake. Reck. lr lesL ..quandering of the public treasu- l ry and consequent excessive taxation I? will in their baneful effects upon the M industrial prosperity of the State lo, "make no discrimination on account th of race, color or previous condition." er All alike will be swallowed up in the M molstrom of Radical ruin, towards he which the good old ship of State is st, rapidly approaching. bu Thore no longer exists any rational tr< grounds for dissension between the th races. On the other hand, the me- of tives of kindly feelings, in order to b mutual advantage, are manifest and indisputable. In, Unincumbered, then, by the burden D of maintaining views which, however he correct in themselves, were certainly su unpopular with one entire class of the b, voting population of the State, the $ opponents of Radicalism in South ie, Carolina will come before the people Li as honesty vs. theft-virtue vs. vice 0, -intelleet. w. ignorance. E Whatever Radicalism may be at the $s North, here it certainly is the eon- in summation of all that is depraved in P morals and villainous in statesman- re ship, and we look forward with hope- CI ful confidence to hearing its death- en knell at the coming elootions.-South- H ern Guardian. re AN OPRA HoUBE AND HoTicL.- R The plan for this purpose has been well matured, and the place has been select- 1 ed The locality embraces 362 feet, fronting on one street, and 145 fronting on another. Nearly every Northern I man in Columbia, including several Ih members of the Legislature, have agreed ai to subscribe five thousand dollars each. b Even Tim Hutirley has piit down his. name for that. amount, while such men I as J. J. Paterso., the rail roadist,' Gv. p ern-r Scott, Leslie. Chamberlain, Par- 1u ker, Price, Dennis, Denny and anoihers, are pledged to see the thing through. Mr. John T. Ford, the famous theatrical manage will give $10,000 and fittings, o and lease the opera house for five years, In at five thousand dollars a year. As it is proposed, in connection with the W Hotel and Opera house to build a num- I ber of stores a la Niblo's, in New York, a number of the merchants of Columbia have expressed a desire to come into the arrangement as subscribers. 'lhere is ri1 everys probability,. thiereforie, that wuhin in a year a monsler building will be erect- ' edi on Main-street in Columbia, which in will pay citizens and stockhiolders a no hands~ome per contage for their enter. shi prise, besides constituring a source of th attraction to the people of the State. mi The cost, according to present estimates, pc will be about $100,000. Tim Hjurley, an in his curions way, says he thinlts it. no more thain fair that since the town was of i>ptured by Sherman and his bumnmersad it should be recaptured. byr earpet' be baggers. 1t cert-ainl'y bids fair to be so, 'mi for they own to day according to ofil. m cial exhibits, $162,000 of re'al estate d withiuthe city limits. and. nearpy 800 'th 000 worth of bank stock and other -so capital. for The snrveying pairty, ordered to a make- a eeientitle e.speratiorn @6 the a Lthmus of Diurten, wilF be unter the CC charge of ie'utenant Commander "ii Thionas 0. Selfridge. The soientifica party will, consist ot a geologist, a li botanist, a, telegraph operator, a phioto-- P~ grapher and a drauaghtsman. The tale. ti ghaphi operator is psovided with. eighty 01 miles of wire and, a, Gross' battery, of- s forty cups.. Fulli sets of army and, navy Ce aignals- have been fbs nihbed to the-ships. ai Beads, trinkets snd' various trilibs .for ti dist ribution among the Indiana are also. to be taken. The object of the expedi tion- is to. aaocztain. whether there are c any breaks in. tle mountains through he which a camnal can be cut, and to fi the m triue lofigitude-and l.atittude of Pmnatua y, and Aspmnwall. The Q'olumbian Gov- re esament, it Is atispated4 willassd the Si exptedition. oi Gou.-The influence 9f Groeley A over the radlogl, of Congne4.. They don't toind' hiwia bitoona In ldading the cause of sounad pblloy.: i would thus appear that his going bail fot el Jefferson Davis tras as bad- for him ,y am ia ligt if he had A rnAnyJohnapu.A- r Destructive Fire isa Ciester. CTIsCaTn Cf.H , January 23, 1870. Editor Columbia Phenix: A fir roke out this morning, atbout 1 o,cloel< i the store of M. B. Friedlerger & Co. bach destroyed property to the valu, $15,000 or $20,000 before it coul checked. The cause of the fire is a 't unascertained. The builinir ii hieh it began was a two-story fram, mISe, belongmng to the estate of Danie arroll, dvcealsed. The first. floor wa 'eupied as a dry goods store by M. B riedlerger & Co, and the second floo the ressidence of Mra. Carroll, an the sleeping room of the members o e said firm. Mrs. Carroll retired be reen 11 and 12 o'clock. Mr. Fried rger ad Mr. Lucks, his partner, hat mne to their room about 10 o'clock bout. 1 o'clock Mrs. Carroll wias awak Od by the roaring of the (lames, and al ice aroiied Mr. Fredlerger and Mr icks. The fire had then progresse o far to allow them to save anything the building. Next to the house in ich the fire originated was a three. )rv brick uilding, belonging to Mr. ff. Able, o-:cupied 'by Mr. saa eyman as a dry goods store on the at floor ; by Messrs. McLure & Brad r as the printing office of the Chestei oporter on the second floor, and by the asons and Odd Fellows as a comn moi Ige room on the third floor. Next tc is buil 3ing was a small one, the prop ty of Mr. J. L. Aguas, occupied by r. McNinch as a confectionery, Thi. use of Mr. Agurs was torn down te p . the progress of the fire. The ilding of Mr. Able was entirely des >yed, together with the contents ol e second and third stories. The stoch goods of Mr. Heyfian was removed, it necessarily mot damagv.d. The loss may be summed up as fol w.a House belconging to estate oi iniel Carroll, (uninsured,) $2,500 ; use belonging to E. H1. Able, (untl red,) $5,000 ; house belonging to J. Agure, torn down, (uninsmred,) ,000 ; stock of goods of M1. B. iried. -ger & Co., insured in the London, verpool and Globe for $4,000, in the ,orgia Home for $2,500 and in ,he iterpriso, of Cincinnati, for $2,500 - 1,000; Isaac Heyman's steek, insured the Georgia Home, $5.000, and in the atnam, of ffartfoard, 40,5oo; less by moval $1,000 ; McLare & Bradley iester Reporter-loss $2,000- in red for $1,500 in the Putnam, 0l art ford ; I J. McNinch-loss $200 by moval of goods -uninsured ; Wylie, ,ddy & Agurs-loss probabiv $2,500 removal of goods. coverel by nsur ce in the Liverpool, London and obe. It was by the most strennous exer us that the wholo business portion ol u town was kept from abvaring P nilar fato. In those exertions noui re thenselves better than th',- colored m of the town. They work nobly. ie coal thoy manifested in sasving the opert.v that was endangred cannot I to b. ing about a better feeling be. 'een them and the white eilimens 01 wn. Nothing was saved fron the -porter omce but the books and' a few ses of type. The press ail type oi e Chester Slandard was packed away the cellar of the sane building in ch was the offiza of the Reporter, also was entirely destroyed. Rarour an. lMxfraA-rrmf nVY ColNI8.--The hear plan for those who desire to settle the South is :hns clearly stiated bv a Weekly Tribune :"T he Souili rites immigration as she never did- till w.. Her llands are stil' verv chear s is better timbereu in. theI a-verage, an ih WVest. ; her chInmati invites ; her ope'ned niines and unueed water wer cali loudly for enterprise, labor d skill. it is absurd to insist that r soli exhausted- when not one-ethird it has ever ret been'plowed. t do not 'vise solitary migration to the South cautse she nee ds schools, road.s, bridgeP, 11., &c., &c., which, the solhtary ia. gra nt esaw neither providia nor w dl withent ;- andl 3 have no- fssuranca at b~e-,.1 obliged to work out for pre nt, hread, would find those ready t< mploy and willing to pay him ;, but~ le hundred. Northorn rarmers and' me niues weethi $1,000' to $3,.000 encl nmbine- to- sel'ect (ithrough ehoser ents))srnd buy' te or twelve thousand res mt nme Sbuth'ern 8'at.', embracing II and vale, timber andtillage',. watei 'wer and minerals, and divide, it equi bly among th--naelves, after layingi at with roads, park, * village plat 'es flr chuarchlea,. schools, &c., and l' an nfident that they can thus make pleas it homes more cheaply and speedile ore than almoab anyjwheve else, Taut MAfnA sT.-The ineanest, inos entemptible, meat dhgraded splecimeni.o amanity knowndto civihhed society is i an who will take a ndwspaper for mar,. without paying for it,. and t~hei fuse to take it frm the post offee itoh .4.man will contamiate the abod, Skan, anid will be aan eye-sore to a] retche.,. So say the Goldsboro Mes ng,esa.., A Rtohtnond arobitegt hs per~oot I a plan by which a floatinig olt ay be built in the middle of .th A~lautio ocean.. fis drawings arq a) aadypand nothing idawntlng~ ionae.-...anau. UNFOnTUNATvI HUT Nor OF A BAn DisrositioN. -Apropoi of thet exirato. dinary epidemic of Iright fut ci imes which has lately brokon oit i litrope, the f.,reigi newspapers are crawded with singiular aniecdotes and deinils of rentark. abl criminal.i. Here is . specimen, uneiqure in itsi kind,], we trust. A man named Moniely murdered a voung friend of his with a razor, then ctt the body into s.mill piece-s and packed it in a trunk. It appeared on the trial that while engaiend in this horrible work the r niiirderer kept singing a senitimental I song. The reporter of a newspnper, who had obtained a brief interview with him in prison, puit sorne qujestiorns to him in reerence to this particular hut, obtained no satisfactory answer, and, indeed, was treated rather in perciliously by the prisoner. The next mornig, however, h. received a note couched II Lhn following worda: "PRISON OF OR.EANS "Monsieur,-In our interview yes. serday I took you for a person moved only by impLrtinent curiosity, and whose opinion was perfectly iniifferent, to me. I have since learned that you are ajournalist., and as you might dishon. or my name in attributing to me itenti. ments which are nnworthy of mue, I an. swer your que'stion. "It was neither in bravado nor from rar that I sang at the moment of my accident. I sang naturally, without thinking or any preoccupation of mintd,a. any man might do while packing his trunk. "I am unfortunate, but not really of a bad disposition. "Aceept my salstations. KO>NTEL. J. R. B. correspondent of the New York Herald supplies the following bit of Information to those Fenians who in q-iire where the money goes, He says - -Let then ask themselves how mi'ach thir unfortunate country is benefited by Ihe- outlay r-Item 1, the C. E., only $3,000 ; item 2, the secretary and great grand high, the Lord knows what $1,560 ; item 3, the financial secretary, Becertary, $1,3U0 ; item 4, the "poor clerk, "$780 per annum. So in salaries alone, we have the handsone sum of $6.640. Add to this gas, stationery, rent, travelling and other expenses. aad the amont, falls very little if at all, short of $10,000 per annum, If the receipts ex.ceed thi' sum, and I believe they do not, how much of the snrplus goes to Ireland ? not one cent. Thus it is that the weekly contributions, reli. giously kept by many an honest Irish. man out. of his poor wages, thinking it goes to help the boys at home,' is de voired-devorrred 6y salaries to men who, were never, witlh one exception, Ykniane antl t)ey received a consider. ation for their conversion." - - - -.0 .4 . *'- -. . The Army and Navy Journal dipetU. ses the San Domingo ep'tionl with its usual gnod sense alnd thorough knowl edge. It thinka that wp need a naval foot.holll i the Antilles far more than we did Alaska, It anys : 'The cies. tien of annexiilg Alaeka was one thing thet of procuring a West indiani statio for coaling, repair, and snpply, both in peace axd war,. is quito a different one ; and we have urged lthe latter strenuouas, ly. It is many years ago since Vice. A-lmiral Porter (wo think lie was Lieutenant Porter then) made liveniga. torns on this subljet, touchmieir t bis very Island of Ilavti,. and' reportede tIhe r,-suilt to the Secretary of the Navy. The matter, however, has always dragged, and the revival of the sub'ject, befuo the war was but temporarv. How. ever,. during the war need becamie manifest. Even ini deys- when our war mehips were not so dependent on coal, there was reason enough for effe.cr.ig a ptur ihase, and the ernising ditties of' the war made tl-e mastter cl-ar. H-aid we tehezwbeen i,.volavedia was with 11ngiland or 13rance, tlhe nee I of such a s'ation 'vuld have been still more imperative." A man who has strength to do twelve honest heurs of labor in twenty-four and no more-, aboul'd do but nine or ten hours' work. The reserve powor keeps the bod.y in good repair.. It rounds out the frame to full propor-~ tions. It keeps the mind oheerful, hopeful, happy. Tha person with no reserve force Is always incapable of taking any more reaponlsihiliay than he aetready has.. A little extra ox-er tion puts him out of breath, lie cannot increase his work for an hour Iwithout danger of an-exploii.o. SMohx are generally palo-, dyspeptic, betoodi loss, nervous, Irritable, desp ondeint: gloomy-we all pity them. The great source of power lin the Individual Is the blood. It runsethe nadhinery of lIfa,, and upon It depends our howith andt strength.. fW JLt A f Tua.O1TDon.-A strange stony comes from. Texas, .which quite eulipees the imons preformjance accred Sited to .William Tell, thes Swiss patriot. We ace- tield that some few months sinco a party oft1exan4 were p.ractibing wit~h sit shoot'ea t a tAeget, when ai wager was prdeposed that a pieh* of silver shoukd be plaoed on a-cork on the head of op0 of the number, and tlhe oork.hot out, leaving the coin 'ressin on, the -- an's heads. The wagr Was iiade.nndw y at a, distanoe o9 fief pades the partie a were placed in posit~ions the target adjus. .II lqdb and ttfat performed ,without get. . ~ tm I9ansplton and Forrest. Another of the great leaders of the South has spoken. Forrest, the dauntless Murat of the West, joins his illu.strious compeer in fame, Hampton, in the interests of peace and an abandonment of sectional pro judices. Who will gainsay the right of- our incomparable cavalry chief tains to counFol their fellow-citizens, and to speak in behalf of the people whose name they have made illustri ous for all time ? Surely not those unprofitable politicians who were peace men in war, and are now ardent war men in peace. 11ampton's oration at Macon is win ning goldon opinions throughout the country, and as we predicted a few days since attracts most favorable comment at the North. It was in deed a noble appeal in behalf of the policy of enlightened humanity and progressive ideas. The broad cosmo politan spirit of the following pas sage has been especially commended : "The one great need of the South at this moment is a large accession to her white population, and 'the sturdy Englishman, the canny Scotch, the gallant Iri-bman, the gay Frenohman, the thrifty German, can all find here congenial skies and congenial occupa tion.' At the same time a warm wol coma is extended to the capitalist, the engineer and the farmer of the North." The sentiment avowed by General Forrest at a recent celebration of the Chattanooga and Alabama railroad are equally deserving of praise. Said Forrest : "1 think I perceive a lighting up for the future, a bright prospect for greater prosperity. I see Northern men with Northern capital coining forward to aid in building up our country-to aid you and yours in de veloping and improving what is left from the wreck of the past. Friends and comrades, second their efforts, help them to help you, and thereby bind closer the bonds of lasting friendship and a national unity. We are now one people ; we have but one Government ; we live under and claim the proection of one flag. Come forward, then, and contributejto thea grawth :avi prospnri'y of \l hn. ma and hersiber cetatus, tv& 4 r w h those friends who have conic so far to help you. I exhort you, my fellow citizons, feDow-comrades of other days, to 0Om1o forward and follow now where I lead, as bravely as you have done in other fields. Henec, to-day, burying and forgetting the pamt, I gladly rmeet those Northern gentlemen, your guests, laboring for your good, as brothers. With you I accept their efforts to develop our section, and uniting mine with thoir, exhort you to the same coarse, to be followed and crowned wihb prosperity, peace and unity." Almost simuItaneounsy these two men, the greatest cavalry leaders pro. dtroed by the late war, avow senti ments, which practically carried out would in two years relieve every Southern State of the blighting sway of vice and ignorance. Neither of these men ever lost a battle. Hamp ton fairly routed the soi disant "iav alry leader" Rhapidan in the only real ec~valry battle which the latter ever fought, with one-half the Federal force, and to-day lhe has no peer in the Fedepal army LSa command.e, oS Ihoruc. Forrest's caree~r was equally brilliant, lie had every req~uisito of distinction; skirt,, valor, cooiness in action, and above nll, success in all hiis'oampaigns. Are suoh men to be rated by the Soutlh as' l'ess worth~y to counsel her thtan mere vaporing poli teciaus.--Wilmington Star. A NEW BANK FoRCoUMfIA.-For seome time pait a new bank has been talked of, sud now it is almost an accomplished fact. The merchants of Columbia have long been inconveni enoeud by the limited banking capital empl'oyed here,. and those of Republi can stripe have experienced great difficulty in getting any accommwoda tion whatever. While the business of the city is. as large if not larger tihan before the war, there is burt w small proportion of capital now In use. Who new proijcot hae for its movers the sammn parties who lhave purehasod the Greenville and C'lurmbii Railroad. The corporate name of the bank is to be the South Carolina Loan and Tru. t Comnpany. The clurter, whibsh has already been obtained fi-om the Gene. ral Assemibly, is~a very liberal one, and is identical to thub granted the South Carolina liprovemnent and Trust Company, and just amended' so as to give them all the power confer red' on banliing nnoitutions- generally. The-eap ital. stpok Is $200,000-, and isi I ow alit taken-a l argo portion by I caitalists in Now York and Pt~nnsyl vania. It is nob known' yet who will be the officers. Several persona high in offi.. cial position here are talked of.. The bank wIll. of course, become the depository of Sta4,e funds, and! all Sthe business of the Blue Ridge' Rail road will pass through its channels. The New York 77rnca says "iho do. mand.for a-reduciiom of the taxes has now reached a paint at whiich to e etb'ment could & ffrd to dirarm ii.' Death of Judge Boozer. We are grieved to be compelled to announce to our readers, says the Phamix, the death, on Sunday even. ing last, of Hon. Lemuel Boozer, Judge of the Fifth Circuit of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions, while holding court in Cam. den. A good citizen, an intelligent lawyer, a capable and impartial judge, the great destroyer, in striking him down, has subjected the whole State to a mournful calamity, covering all the people with gloom. Although a Republican in politics. we thank God that, in the sterling vigor of his moral coistitution, he was able to lift his mind far above the murky region of party politics, in the ad miniotration of the great oflice of a Judge, and to keep his judicial robe folded around him pure and unspotted oven unto death. What a solace this conscious ness must have boon to him, as all mortal hopes and aspirations were passing forever away ! Judge Boozer's mind was not brilliant, but his judg ment was sound , and, although his learning may not have been so varied and attractive as that of some others of the legal profession, yet upon the Bench he was found to be fully equal to the high tasks of his position, and, after argument, capable of clear dis crimination and correct decision. The qualities, too, of patience, courn isy and neroy eminently adorned him as a Judge, whilst the social elements of his character enlivened his compau ions and made him acceptable oi till occasions. It must, indeed, bo very grateful to the feelings of his friends of the Columbia Bar, now that the grave has intervened between him and them, to remember how thoroughly lie had won their kindest consideration and how suitably they expressed it to him at the close of a laboroius extra term of his Court, in this place, in August last. Judge Boozer was a native South Carolinian, having been born in Lexington District, in 1808, as we are informed ; was educated at the South Carolina College, in the time of the presidency of the late venerable Dr. Cooper ; entered upon the practice of law, in the village of 1-exington, about the year 1832; and for novoral torms represented the peo pie of Lexington in the General As sembly, first as a member of the House of Representatives, and then in the Senate of the State. If we may refer, with- propriety, at all, to his recent political relations, we may record the fact that he was eleated, with great unanimity, by the Republi can party, in f868, to the oflice of Lieutenant-Governor, and, under tle constitution, became, ce officio, Presi dent of the Senate, over which body he presided with efnLro acceptability and success. 'Thie heart- of his sur viving family and friends, and of a stricken people, are weighed down with sorrow, but are comforted in the reflection that above the gloom of the grave shiuoa the light of a pure and honest hfe, The Negro Candidatesi for the Supreme IBench. After altl, V. J. Whipper is not to be allowed to walk over the course and seat himself without opposition on the- A ppeal Bench. T1he friends of Wright sre working like beavers, ,and' tho contest will be sharp and' close,. And, in truth, the place is worth fighting for, apart fromt the dignity of the thing. Theo Associato Justice is to be elected for six years, ending in 1'876',-and this long lease of the judicial ermine warrants a despe rate struggle. It may happen, how, ever, that the expected d ivision of the. colored forces will enable a white man to lip into glovy. Ihth W ri'ght and Whipper are pretty well known in the State, but a word about themi may interest "out side barbarians,-" who know little of the pcrsonnd of the South Carolina Legislature. Wright is State senator from Beau fort.. Heo is a Northern negro of some edueation,. and did claim to have been ad mitted to the bar in a Northern city. ILe has all the characteristies. of the full blooded. African, and is now Luinging suit against the Rich mend and D~amwille Rail roa dbecause he was ejected some what uneeremoni ously from the ladies' car' on that road by a very rebellious conductor. Whbipper, whose sta-r is in the aseen dant, is as black- as the ace of spades, but quiet and unobtrusive in his man ner. ie was rami-<ed in Detroit, arnd during the war joined a- regiment of' volunteers. Whenmi freedom came in he found huimself ina Charleston, where lhe practiced in the provost courts. lbo was delegate to the- (onstitutional Convention of l'868, and represent+ Beaufort in the lower house of tabo General Assembly. Whif.por is a. shrewd and4 sensible fihollo,- but a very poor lawyer,,although- he was employ ed by the General Assembly to codIfy the laws of the 86ate, *These are the two oanldidlates. rt ~matters little which wins.- C/wrk tOnl .?ews. The Mechanics' llhok of New Yorie has beeni victiized wit]h an maberei duheck from $50 to $1 0.00'1, citii' after it, was altered, and sold to a bro,' ker in W-ai'l srror - * ' '