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The Wflds Wild Woods.
VI! FANNIh.
A day in the'ep&th of the willi, wild wood,
hlow plensant to spend one there:
Where the mun's rich light in goldetn floods,
Glows o'er the towerets fair.
Waint a M illness Veigis in lie wild. will
Ior the ripI 'of a pearly stream,
tDr ihe htllitg botes of gny song-birds,
Ifitt 'is'rle the a1%l frotn its (I:-am.
Dyright lo*rs gtir iu lte wild, wild
woodd
How vaA Iltheir rolors are,
The sepher lightly the tall tree nods,
And ioitls o'tr the oirest fhr.
The spirit, 1eels iii the wild, wila wo-ods,
A rush of thought sublime.
And o'er the heart a feeling loods,
Whhose bource is a holier clitne.
Then give ine a hotno in the wild, wild
woods,
When buy spiris sonrs abovez
'Tis a caltm retrent where stillnes bo'ods,
Thnt seetns like the lanml or Low.
Address of the Democratic Memberis of
Congrem
To the People of' the Uitet SM les %
Our presence and official duties at
Washington have enabled us to
become fully acquainted with the ac
tions and de.signs of those Who conti ol
the RI dical party, and we feel eilled
upon to utter a tew words of warning
against the alarming strides they have
made towards the ecntralising of pow.
er in the hands of Covgremaand the 1x
ecutive. The time and attention of
the Radical leaders have been almost
wholly directed to devising suoh leg.
islation as will, in thoir view, best
preserve their !sxcondanef, and no re
gard for the wisc restraints imposed
by the Constitution has checked their
reckiess and desperate career. The
President of the United States has
been formally announced as a candi
date for re-election. The declarations
of his selfish supporters have been
echoed by a eubstdised presit and
the discipline of party as already
made adhesion to his personal for
tunes the supreme test. of political
fealt . The partiman legislation to
whic we refer was decreed and
shaped in secret caucus, where the
extromest counsels always dominated,
and was adopted by a subservieut
majority, if not with the intent, cer
tainly with the effect to place in the
hands of the President power to conmi
mand his own renomination, and to
employ the army, navy and militia,
at his sole discretion, as a means of
subserving his personal ambition.
When the sad experience of the
last two years, so disappointing to
the hopes and generous confidence of
the country is considered, in connhe
with the violent utterances -and. rash
purposes of those who control the
President's policy, it is not surpris
ing that the gravest apprehensions
for the future peace of the nation
should be entertained.
At a time when labor is depressed,
and every material interest is palsied
by oppressive taiation, the public of
fleers have been multiplied beyond all
precedent to serve as instriuments itt
the perpetuation of power. Partisan
ship is the only test applied to the
distribution of tihe vast ptatronlsge.
Honesty, ftness and moral wvorth are
I. ~ openly discarded in f'avor of trucklhieg
submission and dishonorable com p1 i
- ance ; hence enortmous defaleations
and wide-spread corruption have fol
lowed as the natural consequencesi of
x ~ this pernicious system. Bly the oi
olal report of the Secretary of the
Treassry, it a ppears that after the
deduction of all proper credits, many
tnillions of dolbirs remdin from ex'
oolleotors of the internal revenue, and
that no proper diligence ha,, ever
been used to collect thoem. Reforms
in the reventle and fiseal systems,
which all experience demonstrates
to be necessary to s frtugal ad mninis-1
tration of the government, as well as
a measure of relief to an overaburdena
ed people, have been persistently
postponed or willfully neglected,
Congress now adjourns without hav.
. ig even attempted to reduoe taxation
or to repeal the glaring Impositions
by which indistry is ernwhe d and
impoverIshed. The tresry is over
flowing, and ant excess of $80,000,000
of revenue Is admitted i and yet, in,
stead of some .mdasuro of present re
lief, a barren and delusive resolution
is passed'by the Senate to consider the
tarIff and exoise systems hereafter,
au if the history -of- broken pledgee
and pretended remedies furnished
any better aurane for future legie
latlon than experiepce has dono in
Shpbuildipig and the, carrying
trkde, once sottfees of iatloal prIdo,
and prosperity, now Mnguish under a
e-hng ladoftaxation, tpd toarly
ev'ery other business intetosti Is str dg
gling without profit to niaintain itseolf,
Our agriculturists, while paying ,
henvy taxes on all they consume,
e!iet to the Goverinment, or to mo
nopolists, flind the prices for thloir owh
products to reduced that honest labor 1
is denied its just reward, and industry
is prostrated by invidious dkcriminai.
tion. Nearly 200,000 ,0O aores of ,
public lands, which should have been I
resorvvd for tho boueit of the peo
ple, have been voted am ty to
giant cerporat ions, negleuting our sol
diers and enriching a handful of greu. f
dy speculatort and lobb) ists who are t
thereby enabled to exercise a most I
danigerous and coriutpting influence
over State Federil legislation, 1i the ,
career of thes., coorspir ators be not
checked, the downfall of free govern- t
met is inevitable, and with it the f
elevation of a wilitary dictator on a
the ruins of the republic.
Tnder pretenise of ptsing laws to i
enforce the iou rteenth amendmeint, i
and for other purposes, Congress has u
conferred tihe most detpotic powers
upon the Executive, and provided ru
official machinery, by which the liber
ties of the people are menaced and
the sacred right of local self govern.
ment in the Sates ignored, if not ty
ranically overthrown. Modeled Ip
to the sedition laws so odious in his
tory, they are at viriance with all the
sanctified theories of our institutionls. h
And the construoti in given by these M
Radical interpreters to the fourteenth h
amencndment is, to use the languago of g
an eminent Senator, Mr. Trumbull, 1)
of Illinois, an "aninibilator of States." P
Under the last enforcetneit bill "the a
10'xecutive may) in his discretion 0
thrust ale the government of any t
State, suspend the writ of habeas cor- Y
pus,'' arrest its Governor, imprison or e
disperse the Legislature, silence d
its judges, and trample down its d
people under the armed heel of his 11
troops. Nothing is left to the citizen
or the State which can any longer be 0
called a right ; all is changed into I
mere sufferance. Our hopes for re- c
dress are in tihe calm, good sense, the
"sober second thought," of the Ameri- t
can people. We call upon them to
be true to themselves and to their S
past, and disregarding party names and a
trinor differences, to insist upon a de- 01
cent equalisation of power, the res- g
triction of Federal authority within b
itsjtst and proper limits, leaving to t
the Statov that control over domestic n
affairs which is essential to their P
happinesn, and tranquility, and good ti
governmeut. 0
Everything that malicious ingenuib "
ty could suggest has bte done to d
irritate the people of the Middle and 8
8outhern States, Gross and exagger. n
ated charges of disorder and violence tl
owo thei r origin to the tuicbievous n
n)(ls of potential managors in the
8enate amd [louse of Representatives a
to which the lhecutive has, we re- ti
gret to say, lent his aid, and thus 0
helped to infisme the popular feeling, h
tn all this course of hostile legislation f,
and har.sh resentment, no word of con- t!
eilintion, of encourngement or frater,. s
nal feeling has ever been spoken by
the President or Congress to the pen. h
ple of the Southern States. They P
have beeni addressed only in the lan- 01
guago of proser iption We earnestly t1
entreat our follow-citizens, in all a'
parts of the Union, to spare no efforts &
to maintain peace and order ; to care. I
fully protect the rights of ever citi- 8
sen ; to preserve kindly relations
among all mn, arid to discountenance I
and discourage any violation of the 0
rights of any portion of the people a
secured under the Constitution or any b
of its amiendmients ; and in conclusion, 0
we eartnestly beg of you iiot to give
aid to the present attempts of Radieal b
partisans to stir up strife in the land ;u
to tenew the issues of war1 or to ob- 9
truct the return of peace anid pros- n
purity to the Southern States, be. d
cause it is thus that they seek to o
divert the attention of the Qoutntry ri
from the oorriuption arid extravaganca in
ini their nndministration of public b
affairs and the dangerous arid profli.p
gate attempt they ar'e maiking towards n
the creation of contralised military r
government. jSi
In the five y ears of peace following bi
the war the Ra~dlcal administratior's e
have expended $1 ,200,000i,000 for or- tl
dinary purposies alone, being within h
$20J0,000,000 of the aggregate amount a
spent for the same purposes in war a
and in peace during the seventy-one n
yeatrs preceding June 30, 1861, not c
including In either case the sum upon t
principal or interest of the publio r
debt. It is trifling with the intelli- It
gence of the people for the Radical o
leaders to pretend that this vast sum a
has been .honestly expended. Hun.. 'I
dreds of mtillions of it have been wan-. d
t ,nly squandered. The ex penditures a
of thie Governmnent for the fiscal year d
ending June at), 1861, wer'e only *62,- t<
000,000, whbile fo! prgeisely the same hi
purposes-civil list, army, navy, pen. tl
sion and Indirans-$64,00,000 wore I
expended during the foal, ypar end- a
ing June 80, 1870. No inn~ goatiou h
oast be too stern sod .no scorn too. e
severe' for the ass rtionaby unserupu- f
Ions RadIcal laadera that the great il
D~emooratio andyeonse'Vativo party of
the Union lhas yroan hpve sympatby
with disordei'servil1nce in any Myt, a
of the comntry, or .In 'th4'deprivation E
ofany nian of hij rieli ts'nder the. 1
C8ifstltutidn' 'It h'-te protedt and I
navnetnate the rights wkich every free. 1
nan cherislies; to reive in 'all heartt
he feeling of friendship, affoction
ind harmony which uare the best gu:ar
Luttes of law an'd order, and to threw
LrOunl'd the humblest Cit'Zen, whero.
ver he may be, the protect ing mgis of
hese safegnards of personal liberty
vhich the fundamentail law.i of tihe
and assurc, that we invoke the aid of
Al good meo in the work of peacet tnd
econciliation. We invite their gene
ous co-operation, irrespective of all
ormer difTrencces of opinion, so that
he larash voice of discord nay
>e relieved, that a new and
langerous ,ectional agitation may be
lekdd * thAt the. burdits of t axation
irect or indir(et hfAy bea redueA to
lie lo west point consistenit with good
aith to ivory ju-t national obligatioul
lid with a strictly ecmoinlical ad utiA
stration of the Governient and
hat the Atatei miy b Irestored in
heir integidty and true telations to
ur Pederal Union.
rFron the Charleston Couricr.j
overnot stoitublid his Rcaonsibility tot
the Condition of Affairs in ounth Caro
[nY REQUEST.1
In the three pfecedibg lettura I
ave shown Scott'& guilt y connection
'ih the legisl itive eorrnptions during
is administration, the avarice and
eneral malice against the white peo
lo, that induced him to aecare the
as.age of the lato infamous tax
shemes by which the entire property
I the State is to be confiscated, and
)e lust of power that moved him last
ear to rob us of the eleotit-o fran.
hise. I p.oposo, in cont.1udon-, to
iscuss the manner in which he has
ischarged the duties devolved upon
im by the State Constitution.
Section 12 of that instrument do
[ares that "he shall take care Lhat the
tws be faithfully executed in mer
y ;" and Section 15 provides that
the Governor shall, from time to
me, give to the Geneial Assembly,
iformation of the condition of the
tate," and "recommend necessary
nd expedient measures," Since the
)mmencement of his official career,
in and dwelling houses have been
urned. people mobbed and killed by
o League and militia, large sums of
toney appropriated by law to specific
urposes have been drawn from the
'easury for other uses, bonds and
.her State securities have been issued
ithout legal nuthority, the State
ebthas been increased including the
terling Fund), more than sixteen
aillions of dollars, reaching at this
me the enormui suil of twenty-two
ifllonsauf dollars. With the exoes
v taxation heretofore imposed upon
ad paid by the people, and thisgigan
e indebtedness, not a mile of rail road
r canal, or even a single school house
as boon built, yet he has not only
ailed to communicate this informa
on, but by the most wanton suppres
on of the facts as to the amounts of
tate Securities issued, to whom they
ave been disposed of) and for what
urposes --to make it appeat to out
reditors and citizens that the debt of
ie State is less than ono-third of its
3tual amount. lie recommended to
.e last Legislature the Bluo IUidge,
and Commission and Sinking Fund
wind les ; to the present General As
ambly the Sterling Fund, Greenville
.ail Itoad C3onsohduation Acts, and
thuer like legal nimntrosities ; thd
lvice havinig been in each instance
noked by argumntaof a chairactor at
aice uirithmetial aid profitable.
Throngh his inufluencae offices have
een muitipmlied and salaries inicr'easid
ntil the country now swiarmua with
[lioial locuas, devouring the widowvs
ite and the orphan's patrimony, and
estroying with their Sirocco breath
r greed, leaf blossom and fruit of ag
culture, maufactures and com,
aerce. The pardoning power has
een prostituted to the basest of pura
ases i nd the most degmaded cr1 mi'
als have been encouraged in their ea
ser by Executive clemency anal sub.
seinent elevaition to official position
y Executive appointments What
rime has not bad the clemency of
lis unprincipled, venal and profligate
dmisistraition wasted upon it ? Hats
ot larceny t llas not rape ? IMa
ot arson I Has not robbery ? Ilus
ot burglary ? The two or three hun
red convicts turned out of the peni
antilary to prey upon the people due
ing last year, give a fearful aftirma
ive to these questions. DId not one
f the Governor's intimate friends and
'apporters receive from' the State
reasury a rewartd of flye thousand
allars for honicoide t'is not proot'
bunidant that he employed a band of
esper-adoes to come from New York
murder citisens'of this 8tate, who
ad become obnoaious to haim because
boy had elposed lisa ooirptionst
lu it is a wastei of tIme to make
pefieo charges against Governor
cott, His alogle object, clearly dig'
ernable through all, hi.' changes,
alsohoods and tergiversationer 'has
eon to rob whild ho ihsulted the pep
le. No oatd has-been keptn mforoniik
aa been sacored, no l~w hetestry en
eted, or faithfulJ~ eieo(hted. 'Wh
caeGoversaen, in a'wordlis a ro?
ey,"diforl o n the ass eg.
loyed and tI'mtiai b3 his6 1
lniitors are kenown from the high.
' wayman Who pleseuts l.s pistol An'a
says "stand and deliver." Let no
ore think the,o btatements are ex.
aggerations
"Look on the icture, dechii it not o vet.
charged.
There is no trait that might be enlarged."
In the portrait I have drawn of the
GoverIor in this and the three pro
teding communications my tnily me
tives have been to expose to the pub
-, lie view a great criminal, and thun
render the Stato a substantial ser.
vice ; peisonal antipathies have had
no part vr lot in matter ; truth and
justiae have been my: only weapons,
and I uA tueprsM.ibly pained find
deject~e.o when I rteiot how weak
and p-owerlmss they are to stem
the tido of corruption hoW flowiug un
ceasingly over the tvt'e. I have ex
posed the enrmounm tritmes nv0'y day
p)rp0trated blider the fborms o
law ; but the motivos that K1v0 such
sweeping lietense to 'avarice, rapacity
and t~tortion, and have delivered our
on1 tmblie Stete t'o b onstantl
"plundered by a 1egalited banldittjt
are improghable to exposui-e er refu
tation-." But time will cure all this
Assure as the great and renownedl
statesmen of Soutl CArolinW shall
live In history, and bd held up to the
futuro generation# as t ni'entotsi
guides and lights of their raoe and
age, so sure will this cesspool, putrid
with corruption, which we dignity by
the nam'e of the State G3overnnent, be
ukeerated by the Wise and good of the
future, andj b conduct of its principal
actor and his myrmidons will be re
garded not only as a foul wrong,
"against the peace and dignity of this
State)' hut as a libel upon all Gov
ernment and a loathsome plague-spot e
upon humanity.
JEFFERSON.
!The Cost of Groving Cotton.
A correspondent of the Matiehstor
(England) paper, under date of .anuu t
uary 13th, prints the fbi lowing ektract
from a letter received b.y the writer t
from a Southerner, "Who has ,pent all
his life in the cotton States, and
thoroughly knows the South and its
people :"
I am informed by a planter run
ning three large plantations that ho
can raise cotton at 8a. per pound
low estimate, I think, as it is gener
ally estimated at 12o. (sixpence 1 bit,
with abundance of fixed labor, I boa ii
lieve it can be raised under 10. This t
refers to Alabama and Geongla) in d
this neighciorhood. In Missimsippi, I h
Arkansas and Texas, where the soil '4
will yield more than the producor con I
pick, it should not cost above 8t. If t
cotton can be raised at 8o., as is here a
stated, we may depend upon it that I I
planters, having netted fully 20e. d
this year, will put more ground under vi
cotton than they did last, and I. think s
twenty per cent. not at all an unlike- e
ly inorease. The only circumstance
.dat will deter them from gi catly in- 1
ereasing their production Is the knowl- d
edge that if they grow 5,000,000 bales o
they will net lessi money for it than 0
if they grew 8,000,000 bales, and s
their succeeding year's chance of a It
good price would also be injured, 0
This next season the ndw erth of i
cotton plantibg Is about to be Inore I
fully developed, and proof given that p
free labor (whether white or black be e
employed) is fullowed by much. beta If
ter results than undler the old system I
of forcd labor. Not only Is free
labor more productive from the em
ployees working better, but it is It
cheaper. Formerly, a good field t
hand cost at least $l200, and *as a
generally heltd ott bot-rowed capital, I
on which ten per cent. interest was t
paid. This gives $129 per annum.
Keep masy be taken at another $10 e
per month, or $l20 0' olothing andi y
amedicintui $203 ; and allowance for in.I t
suranice and waste of strength, sait f
per cent., or $90, (as if the ungt-o tied I
under the old syhtem he Was a totala
loans) T1his gives us $llh0, or M70 per i
annum. Now the negmo owns himself; I
his wages calculated fully are $li5-per
month ; keep, say $10 ; in all, *800,
.?60 per annumi The conclusion
seetus 1'easonable, thieref'ord, that -as
planters in formet yeafs - iadte tatmge I
fortunes eith niiddling~ Orleans rut-t
ing at 6d. to 8d. in Liverpool, and
with the wasteful system of borrow-1
ing, they can now, when they have
capital of their ~w~n to work on, af
ford to sell at these ratesj antd find
cotton piby them handsomely. (ibttoh
planting is so proifit able that'the tide J
of immigration into the more South.
erly cotton States will steadily <
opsitinue increasing.
tdome :'rench physlans~ ha've- con- 1
chided that salt mn at dbl~es not pla1y so
great a part in the production of sourb
Vy:ss is generally 'Mtppoed, - ad i
writer. in.a Ifarie. otpsl shys the- era
perience of,:the gatfm~i1 at Mlets set
tles all, doubte -wthe. :mattet. ''Ali
though ddprived oftiaall mntfear 1~a
tho,4'th of!84ptemVer'steotlie 1th ef I
.Ootoher, the'garrisongsuffeted tefribly
froai sourvy. The disease 4nattribats
ed to~ old 6ted, dampito.the1.Adan6 of
fresh; wegetables,a toilaverpIdvldi 2
driI1, and,'Abey6 allt' 4.ssAdIah
thirty years' existence.
A Pant in a circus.
The Indianapolis Journal of the
12 bh says :
"Ytsterday afternoon during the
profress 't thle performance in Robin.
ion'st cirus a number of the keepert.
in the caiviss adjoining were engag.
-d in feeding the anihuls and cleaning
he cages. Ah usil at that time all
he wild beasts are greatly excited
nd exceedingly ravenous and more
han the usual care is generally taken
;o prevent aouidents ; but, ti:rough
ome nagligence, the largest leopard,
ms escaped as the door was opened
o throw in food, tand like a flash the
tihal Mhs 1roudhing among the
vagons. The tent whs 0lled with a
irowd of mes, women, and children,
nd a scene of wildoat terror at once
30sued. The latter ran soreaming in
ivery direction and the valiant rep
,snaitatives of the atthgtr sek gave
ungue Vis loudly, and were fully as
igile in their effort to escape. As
he leopardess struck the ground be
hat an tfl'ort to scile the lot of h
bW ttanting 6j) but fortunately, he
as protettol by a heavy boot-leg,
nd the teeth baYeIy passed through-.
t is supposed that the screams from
ill bidos frightened her before fur
1'er harM was done, nausing a re
teat.
A numberti the empl6yers of the
iruut obtained topbsas soon as
Pessible, and after teoVrtl efforts
1d the display of considerable
kill succeeded in lassoing the animal
nd hauling her back to her quarters.
Vhen the panic had subsided and
11 fears were allayed by the capture
he surroundings were of the most
ftditrods possible char-acter. Sev.
ral silver.badgedand blue-coated
entleme who vere standing care
essly around when the alarm was
iven, had all mysterliusly van
,hed, save officer Tom Wilson
rho was seen descending from a point
Liward the top of the centre pole, up
thich ho had -shinned by the aid of
ho guv-ropes. A reporter of the Son.
inel, who is evidebtly a believer in
he Darwinian theory, thought his
rst cousins might help him in case
f emergency, was safety perched on
be top of the tlge of monkeys."
latry Ward Brecher.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has
giain ast bot upon that path ib poli.
los which for hbim Las always a hud
en turning. We are at liberty,
owever, to consider that the liberal
nitiflents Which lie publishes in the
Irooklyn Union are, until further no.
ice from Plmotth Church, the hoo
st and heefty opilfious of the man.
n this he is outspoken enough. Ile
eclares that the six years since the
ar have been wasted, that recon
truct ion ii a failure, thaxt the local
arpet-bag goVernhichts of the South
re corrupt, and that offcial knavery,
icoupetence and the elevation of
emagogues and dupes to the highest
M1des" marks the gross debasement
f polities unJer *hioh thd 8duth is
afforing. Mr. Beecher denounces
be exclusion of ex-rebels from office,
outrasting the character of Southern
epresentative men now with what it
aA before the *arj and as for the
ohicy of coercion and the recently
nacted Ku Klux bill, he styles the
rmer an "impoertinennce,'' and branids
bo latter as utterly and ihexcusab ly
neoostitutional. Ins forcible lan
unge he shows that nothing is safe
a libesty where such outrages upon
be fundameontal law are ccommsitted,
nd cohnludes that the samie prbts't
would justify any evasion or over
Isrow whtve. These are brave
ordsj and ti niely i but whild we wel
eme thetn a sawiling the voleS Sf
opular denunciation of the enormi
ies of a Radical Con gress, we cannot
rget that Mr. Mee r has before
bis ttkets just as noble and bold a
tahd hgalnst the wickedness of his
urty, only to eat his words when
'lymouth Church bade him awallow.
Mr. th. 8. Winaus, the bolting Ite
ublican Assemblyman, has received
be following awe. Ins piring doeu
uent, as we learn from the Now York
tepublican journals:
0. 8. WINg4Nd,
Iembecrfrm the .seconel District, dkaus.
IaUpa do'unty,.
Isasauil.V UIZANItEft A1iBAztY5 N. Y.
0. S. W INANS--We sepd ygc4 a oy
f the lBible anid'a strouag rope. Ash
our friends (if you have ary) to as.
let yeu, :Shoiuld you return to Dun
irk, w0 will try sud have you viewed
rom the starid point you deserve.
R BFPIJSL~Iea os W,~,txnq N. ?.
"8hculd hi "Ilyal fIen at the Soutth"
eoeiteosuch a "notios," howv lorton
ipd Blutler would howl over the out-.
ages. bf the $(w.Kluzes, while Grant
irnso aired ~plartiel law, suspending
he aboss Oprpui, apd pu t he army
'e Davyes~ ~war fpotlng.
TVhe ?hineess Ledis W6Jdte cake
pounds. It wars' dllshed #*th the
w ~rne, haurok, thhiees bird.
and sundry otbe, thinge.
Another Force Bill, AMI No Arftnesly.
We learn from Washington that
there is no amnesty this year. The
policy of repression is to kept up.
Instead of anenizty we have the Ku
Klux bill. Six years have passed,
and the lvading and mo't influential
citizen of the South are kept under
the ban of the dovernulent, white
negroes and oarpet-baggers are
maintained in the State cap
itals, to amuse themselves passing tax
bills and illustrating the progress of
American civilization with "mixed"
balls.
What has the South done since the
war to exclude her frohi Wmnesty t At
the beginning of the war we had the
declaration that it was a war for the
preservation of the Union, "with all
the dignitya equality and rights of the
State* unihdpaired, and that as soon
as those objects were accomplished
tb vt ought to ftase.' Itow \\'as
this pledge kept ? The Union was
preserved. The next step was the
emancipation of the slaves. So they
had not only the Union, but emancipa
pation. It was then argued that it
would not do to stop just thete -s
they ghve thiam the ballot. It was
then argued that the ballot involved,
of course, the right to hold office. So
they were iatle eligible to ollice. It
was then hrgued that if they were to
be judges, they ought of course to act
as jurors. S they were made Jurors.
t was then argued that is they Were
freemen, they ought to have equal
civil rights with their masters. So
they passed the fourteenth amend
ment and the Civil Rights bill. It
was then argued that as they had be
come such a potential element in the
affairsof the country, they ought to be
enlightened ; and so they introduced
free school articles in the State Con
stitutions.
The progiamme has been carried
out more fully in South Carolina than
anywhere else. 'lhdy baie there 4
negro Judge on the ,bench of the
Supreme Court, who charges $1,250
for riding in second class ears ; they
have a carpet-bag Governor I they
have a negro Legislature ; aId negro
Justites of Peace, and negro Consta
bless and negro Assessors, and negro
0Ollectorb t and negro millitary balls,
where white ladies are embraced in
Varsovienne by negro mujurs. But
South Carolina is not quiet. Strange
to say these people are not satisfied.
Their sensibilities weria so blunted b.y
klavery that they seem unable to ap
prehend the magnanimity of the Gov.
ernent. They wince under the
taxes imposed on them. They get
mad when their sheep and hogs are
stoleii, and their barns and dwellings
burned. Admitted to the Oovernor's
mixed balls, and to the re-unions of
the Second Regiment of the South
Caroli-na National Guard, (where they
net the Miss Rollinses,) they pre
fer to ride Ku Kluxing and play the
outlaw. So Congress comes down on
them again. We have a positiVe re
fusal to pass an amnnest.y bill, placing
the old South Carolina planters oz
an equal footing with Major Dicker
son, of the Second ; and we have, at
the same time, a third force bill
by which nearly the entire criminaf
jurisdiction of the State (and it ap
plies to all the Southet-n States) is
transferred to the Federail cout-ts.
The President may send lhederll
troops there at his pleasuiio, and may
suspend the privilege of the writ of
habeas corpus whenever it strikes hiRa
fancy. Surely this ought to pacify
South ditrolina. Iis not similar
tegislation, tknging over several hun
dred years, pacified Ireland 1 Is
there not "order" at last in Warsaw ?
Did net Austria make a fast friend of
lttgary by this dbolaivo policy t-.
Riehmond Enqui.-er.
Important to Apoihecaries.
Mr Pleasonton, the Internal Rev
onud Commissioner, writes as follows
to R. M. Proud Esq., A asessor for. the
third district of Maryland :
SW~AnSiONrr, April 17, 1871.
Sir :I reply to yours of the 12th
inst. that the t-epecal of the special tax
on apothoaries, by section I of the
not of July 14, 1870, abolies, ohi
and after May 1, 1871, the exemption
heretofor'e providod for atpothecaties,
undler pai'agraph ha, seoutioni 'fl, of the
act of Junoe30, 1864 as amondbd and
renders them subject, after A pril 'JO,
1871, to just the. same liability as
any other persons whatever for the
sale of distilled spirit., wines, or
malt liquors, in any quantity, and
withoiit refprence to the purposes for
or manner in whioh they are sold1
Very respectfully~
A. PL.EAsONTON, OOM'R,
A French artisti being asked to dra w
an allegorical figure of benevolence,
eareful ly sketohed a bit of [ndia rub.
ber. ."Thief~ sid he, "is .the true
emblem of benevolence ; it gifeg mere
thad atif~ dther substance."
'lie pol Ice authorities are shtitting
up gatabiltig dens Ia 8t.'touis. 'he
pdt athe~ Is to proseoute the pro
prietors twide' a week and lay the
aba.ndtti their~nefartuahitsinese
The bIlok K6a Klar up in Mont-ce
cousgr ale 49mqitsiog horrible oot
irages on white folke' ohiekens, doks
and turkens.
Strange Words fromi i Siranle 4010%
In the course of an article depreca.
ting with much earnestness the pro%
posed measure now before Congrew
for the suppression of the so callo
k u Klux outrages at the South, the
Boston Ad vertiser, the leading Radia
Cal organ of Massachusetts, declares
that1
l'he South must to reconstructed)
if at all, by natural leaders-the men
of brains, character and influenct-a'
the most of whom, of ooutse> Were ik
the late war. This is sound policy
'hit opinion is held by hubdredA
'of unprejudiced people-old army oN
ficers and citizens-who have liVed
and owned plantations in the South
or have traveled there. The present
state of things is very bad. We have
been trying to create an unnatural
state of affairs, and the result Is a
failure,so long as the only intelli
gtnt men ale disfranchise'd, and the
ignorant and vicious are permitted to
control matters.
All accounts agree that the hostilia
ty is not felt towards the National
Government, but towards certain ob
noxious black and Wlitfl peoplei
Now, it is certainly too much to ex
poet a very active public sentiment
against the Ku Klux, if nothing bet,
ter is promised than the grotesque
travesties of governments which we
have seen in many of these States%
Let us try a new remedy, and give
brains, and character) and decency
a chance. First of all, let us stop
this wretched Congressional fooling
with communities as if they were
babus or idiots, 13y attlptlib g to
subject whole tates to the nontrol of
ignorant blaeks and whites, who are
both ignorant and viciotia, we invite
the very outrages of which we coma
plain. The country is sick of the
whole thing.
Ole Doll,
A New York cor-espondent writes i
Ole Bull is here, superintending the
completion of the new piano he has
recently invented, an instrument oom
binipg the best qualities of piano and
violin. He is extremely confident of
its success) and talks nre enthusias
tioally about himself than ever-if
that can be. Mr. Bull6 Vanity la so
innoeent ad abUndabt that it rows
quite picturesque. tie taks fit fot
granted that he is the most prothinent
personage in your mind's eye, and
distoufses of hitnself with each ena
gaging grace and lightntiss that yo
presently begin to think so too. That
lie will ever grow old is a thing imn
possible to imagine ; his gray bait
seenis thickor every year, his slendet
flgurb in hi inevitable black velvet
clohk more supple and graceful. Just
now he is rejoicing In the proud con
ciousness that an inifant Miss Bull
awaits his paternal eibbriane in Maine.
With Mlle. Nilsson, he Is about td
give a private concert at the house of
their uountryman) Eriospbh, the inven;
tor) It geltlathrn who is baid to be so
bashful that he never ventures away
from home until nightfall.
beath of Onier Pasha.
Omer Pasha (originately Mihael
Lat tas), whose death is reported bf
cable, was born in Croatia in 18064
anid aiftet Iuhanging hIs religlion and
becomiu'g a Mahometan in 15
subsequently became military Gov
ernor of Buckharest. In 1854
he succeeded ill suppressing the
revolt in Montenegro. Two years
later he tiook part with the combined
British and Frenoh forces against the
liussian army, and In the Crimeau
wair defeate~d a vtistly saperior fored
of Russiana, at Oltonitza,on 4th No&
vember, 1853; again at Citate, on 6th
January, 185$, and at the Ingour on
the dth November; 1 8d. He'wa
thereupon ptomoted, by the Sultant
of Turkey, to the title of Comman
detainadhief of the forces, for his
signal services. In November, 186'?
after a long struggle, he succeeded in
putting down, although with terrible
b loodshied, the revolt against the Tur.
kish tile on the Islatnd df Crete, In the
biedltea'andan, and at its conclusion he
retired frem astie life. In app ears
ance tOmer I'asha was strikingly hand.
some. At his death he was In hit
sixty-fifth year.
Dangefths tempanIoi.
As two civil engineers were at
work ini the wilds of Michigan a
codple of weeks ago, dighteen or
twenty miles from any camp, .one o
them began to muspdot that the othet'
had become insanae--a sus~pcIl which
was made certainly when hi. tie hipjiun
ion came to him and said :L "I sh
you wtould hide my revolver and thd
axes, for I came very near killing ydt
with them last nighft1 I got the res
valver and cooked it at your head
three times, but something told me
hot te kilt jyou *1tia that, but to get
the ax ;and then I was comnand d
not to kill you then, but I will if 7d4
don't hide them, and tied RiIdw. I
don't Want to hure any man." This
was not ter) pile*aiug informatloh5
and he did his bett to persuade hits
to go bask to the damp. fiig, 11i
this he left him, went booek aldeN
proonred assistanee, and 'the unfold
tunate man is new in an aoglum&