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The letter is dated Augusta, August 1,18651 I am very glad that you have gone so much at large into the question of the reunion of the churob, as it gives. me an op' portunity of plaoing before you my views ia regard to matters, which differ somewhat from your own, as expressed in your letter to me, and also from the action of the church in-the dioeese of Texas. A /llrtAflOO I UXy UUJCUUUU IV UUC nvwuu va buo uiuu?oe of Texas is no* so muoh as to what she has done, as to her manner of doing it. That reanion will take place and that very soon, I have no doubt; but it ought to take place in such wise as to preserve our faith to onr brethren and to each other. Texas seems to have forgotten that as the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States we performed oertain acts whioh needed reoognition and confirmation, and whioh should not be left in justice to others, withoat.settlement in fbe very act of reanion. Of these, the conseoration of Bishop Wilmer is the moBt important, not only on his arooount but because it involves in ~ his official acts since his entrance upon his episcopate. Besides this we bavo admitted Arkansas as a diocese and have elected Bishop Lay as its Diocesan Bishop. These aots do not indeed involve such momentous consequenoes as the other, but they are nevertheless of importance enough to demand recognition. Besides I think that it is onr dot; to guard the memory of our deceased Bishops, . Meade, Otey, .and especially our beloved Polk. Not that we should ezpeot any indorsement from the General Convention of their views and aotions, hot that we should feel assured tbab-no reproach either direct or implied, will be oast upon their graves. About ourselves, the living, we?are but lit tie; we are here and can defend ourselves; bnf the reputation of the dead is in our keeping, and we oan fraternize with nobody who would willingly disturb their ashes.? They have lived and died for us, and bow ever wrOng others may think them, we revere their memory and weep over their graves. when recalling the worthy, high toned men who once formed onr General Convention, any action that would be disparaging to them or painfal to as; bat yet I feel it to be the daty of the obaroh ever whiob I have been ealled to preside, to guard against any suoh possibility. Silence, if yon please, but let it be distinctly understood that there shall not be a word of obloquy or dispraise. Let them stand or fall to their Master and oar Master oqe far more oompetent to judge of them and as than we are. of each other. In pursuance of these preliminary views my opinion is, as I have expressed to Bishop H. Potter, in reply to the letter to whioh you make allusion in yours, "that,if at the meeting of the General Convention in October, that body was to pasa a joint resolution, returning thanks for peace, expressing the hope and desire that it might lead to a reunion of the dioceses, and appointing a committee 01 Disnops, uiergy ana uzuy to meet a like committee from oar Council, which sits in November, with fall power to conclude an arrangement, there will be no further difficulty. I cannot now speak authoritatively for anybody, but my opinion is that by this method we oau be saved much trouble in the future. God knows that 1 for one, de sire nothing more heartily than peace, bat then it must be peace which is pure, and without hypocrisy. I have been, probably, as earnest a Southern man as anybody, and yet I never found any fanlt with the church up to the moment of our secession. What has happened sinoe on either side, has not arisen from the normal action of our organisation, bnt from eztraneoos*influen ces which have now partially ceased, and will soon entirely cease." "I like this plan better," so I continued to Bishop Potter, "than oar going back and casting ourselves upon mercy and sufferanoe, not because of any false pride, but beoause I think the union will be more cordial and the feelings of self-respeot will be better preserved on both sides. And the church should desire to maintain and up^ hold the self-respect of all its members, remembering that they are of the Body of Christ. In this way shall we become in our reunion, the admiration of the country, as we were for so many years, daring all the fieroe wrangling whioh preceded secession, its wonder, for our reticence and selfoontrol." So muoh for the church; now for myself. You wonder, in your letter, that the Bishop of Georgia did not lead the way in such aotioo as the Bishop of Texas has taken. I could not oonsoientiously have done so, for the reasons given above, even had I desired it, and I confess that I was not anxious to be the first to submit myself to the yoke which has been prepared for me.: Jt is very easy for you, sitting in the midst1 of plenty, with everything flourishing flbont you, with the world fawning upon you because of sucoess, with a future seemingly as bright as prosperity can make it,: to wonder at our backwardness in aoknowl- i edging the blessings of peace and reunion; i but the case is very different with us, whose homes are desolate, whose friends and relatives and ohildren are utterly impoverished, whose social order is totally subverted, whose future is dark and almost hopeless. I can humble myself under the mighty band of God, and I call my people to pa tienee and endurance; bat even through grace, I can do no more. I do not mean it to oomplain; we entered upon this straggle, re which was irrepressible and forced apon as, fe after having counted the cost, bat 1 should w be a hypocrite if I oame forward with any hi smile apon my fiice and said that I rejoiced p< in it. . ? tr 1 do not rejoice in it; bat I have taken ri the oath of allegipnoe, and mean to keep at it; and I have advised my people to take -fct it and be good citizens, and above all to do ct the best for the poor, unfortunate negroes, n< whose fntnre is dark and miserable beyond re conception. ' Already they are perishing by thousands, and the whole raoe will now*go io oat be?ore civilization (so called) and oom- ea petition, as the Indians are doing. We a can survive the obange, and one -day floor- M ish again, but "not they; their fate is seal- la; ed; and the ediet of puritanism has al- pi readv Mne forth, "if von cannot and will at ^ 0 / J not work you most die." The farthest I can go in behalf of fhese fanatics, is to try, be "Father forgive them, for they know not al what they do." pi 1 cannot write any more now. My heart ca is too fall. I have written to you frankly fic and fully, and you can makq any use of this en letter you please. My opinions I desire to ? be known ) I wish nothing concealed before m reunion, therefore, am I-glad that my ser- fa mon oyer the body of my beloved" friend at and brother, Polk, was republished in the Christian Witness; If I have erred, and he oan be shown my error, I shall be ready, by M the graoe of God, to humble myself and us acknowledge my sin} but until then, I wish uj all my words and deeds to be "before all Bi Israel and before the sun." I am afraid ap of only one judge, and He is the judge of ro the ooaqueror'as well as the conquered.? th Sucoess, with him is not the measure of tu right and reward. oo at THE ATLANTIC CABLE. as letter from caft anderson, of the great cq eastern. Great Eastern, August 16,1865. ^ My Dear'Sir: I have no doubt you will read with sqme interest the -opinions of a ^ nnilor tshnm tnn tnnw rojmpntino. fplptrrnnb cables across the Atlantio, and especially as to the cause of our present failure. I was, j . formerly a doubter; then, as I became intimate with the men and meaoB to be employed to overcome all the difficulties I had thought of, I became hopeful; but bow tc that I understand personally the difficulties re in the way of practically laying a cable in ap an ocean of great depth, r.have become to sanguine* oo The cable has failed for the present, priu- G< cipally from the cause of its own wires pen- fui OMutlug, iiliu -girWo -pcrctUT" OGtV, auii tbai oause has been so far fatal only because it W was unanticipated. I mean by that, if we foi could have foreseen this probability, and we sufficiently understood the action of this to ship, appliances could have been arranged an that would have recovered the faults with- ed out the elaborate process that past ezperi- de enoe has.taught to, be efficient.' de Thev can erenerallv tell immediatelv oh when a fault occurs. Very little?only a foi few miles?is necessary to be hauled in ; we for this purpose, the cable has to be passed th< from the sterfi to the bow of the ship, at the b^st of times a hazardous thing to do, ne and in this very long ship a difficult opera- rig tion. An engine applied to th^paying-out If gear, so as to reverse and haul in at once pr< before the cable has reached the bottom, thi and while the fault was being looated, la\ would have reduoed our three faults to a ag very small risk. that even this cable? ? wbioh in all other respects seems perfeot?- ch could be efficiently laid when we have ob- &n tained the appliances our new experience fro has taught to be neoessary. _ . bu It never was anticipated that we should if I have to attempt the reoovery of a lost oable th< from the depth of two and a half miles, an and for the same reason we failed. Our Fe tTrftnnlinc unar was insufficient. be e*-rr?CJ o? * . Three times out of four attempts we be hooked the cable and raised it from the an ground several hundred fathoms. Upon of two occasions the swivels of the grapnel gi' rope broke, arlti upon the third occasion our If rope, whioh was made pp of ship's stores, toi added on to the proper rope, and when we Je had once more begun to.be hopeful, if not ly sanguine, a good looking six-inch rope an broke like a thread. This much,* however, sol we have established?we can have the ca? It ble whenever -we choose, and we fairly be- mi lieve that, with proper appliances, we can otl lift it and compile its laying. ha No one can be blamed for not antioipa- El ting this unfortunate result. Every kind tu of experiment had been tried and the wire had never .before penetrated the core.? I 1 This and some other aspects seem to have he fixed the idea in some of the leading minds Cc that the faults have been the result of mal- sol ioe. I incline to the opinion that they were an the result of accident, as I know by expe- th rience that accident will produoe more cu- by rious results than design, and they are as sy easily explained one way as the other. But en this follows, that appliances should be used ba that would prevent such fatal results, wheth- wt er produced by one cause or the other.? br This can be done hereafter by maobinery on inn nncD L'nftw hno fn nrvnofrnrtf and thfl nd. DC wc uun """j ?? -r rditional security can be bad of makiag at those of a number of smaller ones, so that sp no one would be'sufficiently strong to pene- 6U trate the core ; or, if necessary, cover the wi core with canvas or wire gauze, to make it hs still inore seoufe. of This done, there oan really be no difficul- an ty with this ship in laying sub-marine ca- is bles all round the world. at It would be a long and useless story to jv tell you how our hopes alternated betwixt hope and hopelessness daring tbe ten days I that we grappled and hooked and lost tbe at dear old thread. Our backs are very much fr up, and all of us long to recover the cable and restore our prestige. I- have become ly positively eager, and hope circumstances hi will admit of my finishing what I have be- at gun. hi My opinion now is, that the oompanieE iterested in the suocess of this cable are tally upon the point of success. I have.a ar they may be disheartened, and nc onder; bnt another attempt oannot fail, nmanly speaking. We know the cable it jrfeot in its insnlation or capacity foi ansmitting messages; we know it has*the ght specific gravity, and the right strength j id we know it only fails. in one point? tat of wounding itself; and even if thai innot be completely overcome with oty jw experience, we know how to meet it; icover and repair it. -I dare say the hope will be thonght visnary by many. Yet, in yonr own interts, I hope all concerned'will at onoeordei new cable to be made and completed by ay. The Great Eastern conld then saQ, I it with certainty, and in the same season ok and oomplete the one for the present tandoned. -This wottfd be, beyond all question, tbe ist way now to economize the affairs of I- tbe companies embarked in this enterise, and my regret is that a number of pitalists were not here to imbibe tbe ooulenoe that experience has given all of us igaged in it. At all events, the attempt - should be ade to pick up ^the cable, and there is as ir a prospect of sncoess as there can be lout anything not yet accomplished. We are returning to England with the ipe that capitalists will see it as w? do.? r. Field is buoyant and hopeful beyond all; he would at once go at tbe picking >, and I would like to indulge his wish, at we cannot- possibly get the nedessary ipliances in the way of machinery, wire pe, and complete the necessary repairs to e well-used boilers^ of this ship within '0 months. It would probably be more? uld not be less; and there is every problility that the winter gales would drive i from our work, and without the sun we uld not find our fishing ground. * ? ? ?- ?- ? ?* ! * 4*>Vt A^ iYfl meat) upimuun iue iu duvomuvo nu? I.engaged upon this enterprise really feel, ere iB na reason why yon sbonld not read eoi to any whom yon may think they mid interest. With kindest regards to yon and yonrs, remain, nay dear sir, very truly yours, JAMES ANDERSON. Letter from General H. A. Wise General Grant.?Oar readers will member that General Wise recently made plication to General Terry for permission retnrn to his home in Princess Anne nnty, as under the terms of his parole.? jneral Terry (through General Mann) resed for apeoified reasons. ^fadcr-daae uf Qeptcmlrm lat, Qonoral ise has written a letter to Gen. Grant, :warded through Gen. Terry, from which i make extracts. HeJreplieB in succession the Points made in the letter of refusal, d after deolaring tbat he never "abandonhi3 home" ezoept in going to camp to feod it ag8iD8t invasion, with the fall termination to Tetnrn to it as soon as the ances of war should permit, ha says, "I md no new home for my family \ they ire simply refugees from the old." He Bp writes as follow*: "If General Terry was governed by earst and honest oonviotions of -duty, of ;ht and authority in all he did?so was I. he was .a patriot?so was I. Jf he gave oof of his devotion?so did I. If he ought be had the shield of constitution af v and politioal sovereigty to protect him ainst the oharge of rebellion apd treason so I thought I had. If he loved and erisbed the Union of these States, I loved d cherished it so cordially that I never >m choice would have seceded from it, t prepared to ngnt no toe union; ana be wonders bow I cow can truly declare jse sentiments, after voting for secession d taking up arms against the acts of the deral Executive and Congress, I must g him to remember that be and I have en taught in different schools of politics; d that will aocount for our differences opinion, and ought to allow a large mar3 for charity at least, if not toleration.? he* was trained in the school of Hamil3 and the elder Adams, I was in that of fferson and Madison; and he would boldexpose himself to the charge of bigotry d presumption who would charge either bool with teaohing rebellion and treason, is dangerous to either to adopt the dogis of treason and rebellion against the her,' alternating in domination as they ve done so often already in our history, ich might shoot and bang the other by rns in the coarse of half a century. If Gen. Terry believed in consolidation, believed in States' rights a'nd powers. If believed that the Federal Exeoutive and mgress, and the judiciary, possessed ablate, I believed they had only relative d delegated sovereignty. If he believed at they were unchecked and unbalanced ' other powers, I believed that the whole stem of the United States, State and Fedal, was composed of reciprooaroheoks and lances of the Federal Government. I is taught that the States were not unum, it c pluribus unum, and this many in one, \e in many. When called a rebel, I shall lint to the of* Virginia's buokler id olaim that my sovereign State is sole onsor for the aots of her own oitizens and bjeets. I am no rebel traitor, and never is, and my State cannot be either. She is still a sovereignty by the constitution the United States, and by the original itburjty before it ever existed, nnlcss she now utterly demolished by aubjug^on, id unless tLat is destroyed by any foroe bich has demolished her. These are still the tenets of my faith, and believe these truths will perpetually revive id prevail to preserve the republican eedom of the people of the United States, ''ben the civil liberty for whioh I devoutpray really comes again, I can, without ndrance, fall on the bosom of my country id weep with her "for any wrongs we ive done." I am now a prisoner on par i ole. I dare not now isi of her any favor, i great or small. I claim only of her good , faith, the precious privilege, promised me i *by her highest agents,jto go to my home , and be at peaoe. " , *. * * * * * So far from my being opposed to the i name "freedmen," as indicating the oondi; tion of slaves freed by, the 'war, the chief consolation J have in the result of the war ; ts that slavery is forehcr abolished, and ' that not only the slaves are in fact, at least i freed from bondage, but that 1 am freed from thtm. Long beibre tho war enaed, I had definitively made tip my mind aotiyely ' to advocate emancipation throughout the 1 South. I had detenn^ed, if I cottld help it, my descendantsjshcpld never be snbjeot - to the humiliation I have been subject to by the weakness, if not the wickedness, of sla; very; and while I cannot recognize as law* fnl and humane the violent and shooking mode in which it has been abolished, yet I ' A'm?? a ill* ol MA MM MM accept tuu iauv uiuot ueaiuty ao au 4UOUUip* lished one, and am determined not only to ' abide by it and aoquiesoe in it, bnt to strive by all the means in my power to make it beneficent to both races and a blessing especially to oar country. I anfeignedly rejoice at the foot, and am reconciled to many of the worst calamities of the ^ar, because I am now convinced that the war was a special providence of God, unavoidable by. the nations at either extreme, to tear loose from us a black idol from which we could never have been separated by any other means than those of fire and blood, sword . and sacrifice." From the Columbia Phoenix. HOREIBLE MTTBDEB. We give the following letter, from a gentleman of the first character, writing from Newberry,- giving an acoount of a most horrible murder committed in that precinct.. We had heard the facts stated before, in private letters, to the same effect, but less full in detail-. We doubt' nothing of the statement. It- was only what w$s to be expected fro/n the employment of negro troops throughout the State. We trust that proper steps will be taken, by the proper authorities, for bringing to punishment (he enactors of this oold-blooded tragedy. We li"a> */> an 1am Anf 4r r\ O-An AmI uovc DUHUiUbOU bug Qbabcuiouu iv vjiougim 'Ames, the*Commanding General in this Department, and shall bring to his and to jmblio notice every atrocity, of this or any sort, which shall be reported to as on any respeotable authority. We repeat oar in. vitation to all aggrieved parties, to sabmit their facts oq proper affidavits. We Bhall take care that they reach the proper authorities : -a*. ? On Thursday evening, September 7th, the 33d Regiment of U. 8. C. T. reached Newberry, by rail, from some point above. The oommand was camped near the towa ' daring the night, intending to maroh early next morning towards Orangeburg. Somenegro quarters near the railroad depot were made the rendezvous for all who could get oat of camp, and night was made hideous by their profanity and load talking?the resnlt of drink, we take it for eranted.? Daring the night, one of the negroes entered a oar in which some ladies were spending the n|ght?having cdfiae np from Alston and having no other available arrangements as the oar arrived from below at 11 o'olock P. M. These ladies were' under the -protection of Mr. Calvin Crozer, of Galveston, Texas, in bearing and appearance a perfect gentleman. Some words ensned and the negro being very insolent, and using offensive language, Crozer attempted to eject him from the oar into whioh he had intruded ~ A fight ensued, in which others participated; and, in-self-defenoe, Crozer need a knife on one of the negroes. Shortly afterwards a Sergeant find six armed negro soldiers returned and seized Crozer, pinioned his arms and took him from the depot. They kept him in custody until day break, when be was taken to a convenient point and deliberately shot to death with musketry." The sergeant in oharge, to*make his death a sure thing, fired a pistol ball through his head. A hole was then dug and the yet warm but lifeless' body was thrown in, head foremost, in a most disgraceful and brutal manner, and only partly buried. 'Soon after the battalion took up the line of march for Orangeburg. The ladies, exoosed in an open car, were in a moat painful agony of mind, and before leaving for Greenville on Friday morning, brought, the murder to the attention of the local authorities. A coroner's jary was dnly impannelled, and, after a protracted investigation, brought in a verdict that the deceased came to his death by shots fired from moskete in the hands of a file of soldiers from the 38d U- S. C. T., &o. . The remains of Mr. Crozer were deoently interred; after funeral servioes at the Methodist Ohurob, amid the regrets of the entire community. Memorial op the Mississippi Ladies in Behalf of Jefferson Davis.-?The New Orleans True Delta publishes a memorial, signed by over, four hundred ladies of Marshall county, Miss., and* addressed to President Johnson, asking Executive clemency for Jefferson Davis. After some preliminary remarks, the memorialists says: "It is well known to your Excellency that, for years past, seotional strife has | been seemingly fostered by extremists both I North and South, which led to a general conflict of arms and the shedding of the beat ! blood of the land. One party aqd section have been forced by the arbitrament of the i sword to succumb. To the victors and their success the plaudits of the great North has been given bountifully. Is it asking too much of you to grant the yielding party .. ... ?1 &0Q '118 0U16I (QB pwi tuviuia m uuucavj >v> the changes is government they' had in view. "Mr. Davis was but the representative of ' the defeated party} and called, as he was, i by the almost united voice of the Southern people to preside, over their eouncib and guide them through the terrible..storms of war, he was but doing their bidding in arm- 1 ed confliot, as he had before represented -f their views in time of peace. Is it, there- i fore, right that vials of wrath should, be i poured upoo his head, who, whatever his faults may have been, or tbe supposed er- ' rors of his cause, was devoted and faithful I alike to the people and principles he repre- 1 sented. - i "Sir, our once happy and oheerful peo- i pley have surely suffered enough. Could ' the tears that have been shed, the auguish i borne, the despair whfoh hss been our por- ! tion during this unhappy war, be brought i home to you By a vision of reality, we oould I not, would not, plead in vain for one whom i we honored in prosperity and respect and venerate in adversity." WHITE-LABOB HT THE SOUTH. Every Sontherner of intelligence with whom we have communicated, numbering many who, without prejudice, have investi i gated the subject, declares that the labor of .! the freed negroes cannot,., in the absence of ' oompulsory measures, bo made available to : supply the industrial wants of the South, i Reports frotn all quarters where the attempt i has been made to secure the servioes 6r the blacks, confirm the theory thit the freedman, < as a general rule, will not earn his daily bread with the sweat of his brow. The latent savagism of his nature reveals itself in his condition as a free agent; and, released from the restraints of discipline, his instinots seek only the gratification of animal appetites. Without oare for the future, without prinoipal as a restraint or incentive, his labor for the day is only sure so Ipng as his wants for the da; remain unsatisfied.? The philosophy of the Abolitionists may be sublime, but it does not exist in cultivating the wasted fields of the South. There .are millions of aores there that wait for tjie spade, the plow, and the hands of industry, and the decimated white population is not equal to the task of tilling those neglected, yet valuable lands. The freedmen cannot be depended on. When most wanted on the plantation, they are to be found herding in the crowded oities, yielding to the allurements qf indolence and vice. i It is not our purpose to upbraid the Abo- i litionists for the evil they have wrought, i for in the presence of the necessities of the hour, there is no leisure for crimination.? The rioh soil of the South must not be idle while philanthropy makes its experiments, i Words and argumentt will not bring forth fair orops, nor will the logic of the Tribune insure our supplies of cetton, sugar cane < and corn. There must be delvine and planting and honest husbandry before there can be rich harvesting, and the wants uf the Republic forbid that its most fertile section shall remain unproductive for laok of hands to till it. .v The Southern landholders have come to the conclusion already, that they must have white labor to work their plantations profit* ' ably. We can point conscientiously to the South as a fiol'd where the white* laborers of the North can find employment that will remunerate them for the trouble of seeking ' it. They can command better wages than I in the North, and the opportunities for ad- 'J vanoement in the social scale will be far 1 greater. Every intelligent and industrious < ? ?" ??* A* QnntkAMn tnill Anrl 5f I CUilgiaui* \#J bUO UUUlUOi u UbObVO nui uuu IU within his power in good time, to purchase ; a farm oat of the proceeds of his labor, 1 from the seotdoos of large plantations that ' will be thrown into the market by the ohange ' in the industrial system. We commend 1 this snbject to the attention of the working 1 classes as one in which we are deeply, inter- 1 ested.?N. Y. JJewg. . '-J A SEEMON B7 BEIGHAMTOUNG. Mr. Bowles, of the Springfield RepMi can, one of the Speaker Colfax party, visiting Mormondom, in his laRt letter, writes as follows: Brigham Young's preaching to day was a very unsatisfactory, disappointing per ! formanoe. There was every incentive to him i -to do his best; he had an immense audi- 1 dienoe, spread out under the "Bowery" to < the number of five or six thousand; before i him was Mr. Co'ifax, who had asked him to I preach upon Mormon'doctrines; around 1 him was all bis elders and bishops, in una- ] saal numbers; and he was fresh from the i excitiner discussion of vesterdav on the sub- i . w ? W jeot of poligamy. Bat his address lacked 1 logic, lacked effect, lacked wholly magnetism or impressiveness. It was a carious medley of soriptaral exposition, exhortation, bold and baro statement, coarse denunciation and vulgar allt^ions, cheap rant and poor cant. So far as his statement of Mormon belief went, it amoanted to this: That God was a human, "material body, with like flesh and blood and passions to ourselves, : oniy perfect hi all things; that he begot his < Bon Jeans in the same way that ohildren ore begotten now; tHat Jeans and the Father 1 looked alike %nd were alike, distinguishable I only by the former being, ftlder; that oar I resurrection would *be material, and we ] should live in Heaven with the same bodies < and the same passions as on .earth; that i Mormonism was the most perfect and true i religion; that those Ohristians who were not 1 Mormons would not necessarily go to hell < and be bnrned by living firs and tortured by \ ugly devils, bat that they would not occu- < py so high places in Heaven as the Latter < Day Saints. -? 1 ?KaKif r*f all fT)A i mat poiyg?LUj *? ?uw ??v children of God in-the earlier ages, and was 1 firsfr'abollahed by the Goths and Vandals 1 who oonquered and ctmstrnoted Rome; that ( Martin Lather approved of it in a single ease at-least; that a clergyman of the > Chnroh of England once married a man to < a second wife while bis first was living, and j that in England now, if a man wanted to y change hie wife, he had only to offer hoc-at I auction and knock her off for a pot of beer 1 or a shilling and marry anotfyr. (This last < statement oalled a voioe of dissent from an 1 English working face in the audience.) A good deal of boasting of the sncoess of the I Mormons, their temperance, frugality and honesty, and sharp denunciation of the "few stinking lawyers who lived down in whiskey street and* for five dollars would attempt to make a lie into truth," were the only other noticeable features of this discourse of the President of. the Churoh of the Latter Day 3aints. It was a very material interpretation of the statements and truths of Scrip* ture, very illogically and roughly rendered, and calculated only to influence a cheap and vulgar audience. "Brigham Toung may be a shrewd business man, an able organizer of labor, a bold, brave person in dealing with LI 1 if LfiM.. .r iff. L i. me praoucuumuea 01 me?ua uiuol, liiueeu, be all of these, for we see the evidence q)l around this city-and country ; bnt hie is in no sense an impressive or effeotive.prcaoher, judged by any standards that I have been aooustomed to. HOW IT'WOBKS. The following, says the Whig, is an extract from the letter of a gentleman in Buckingham to his son in Biobmond. The writer is a oitizen of high steading and influence, and a skilfc! and successfol farmer, and his statement may be implicitly relied apch. The Whig invites publio attention to this letter, in the hope that those having control of the subject may at once apply the proper remedy: t>~?,?a?l o 1 qrt* UUUAJLnUXXAOlj UCJJV. AJj JLUVU. "All my hands struck oa yesterday, To the midst of fodder-palling, for higher wages. They admitted the contract I made with them, hot refused'to work any longer at the wages at which they agreed in last May to takei Whereupon, of oourse I discharged, or rather I refused to give them more. I have now only two hands, whioh I hired yesterday evening for a month. "I would be gM&tly- obliged to you il you would ascertain and write me'wiiSihffl you cau get me some white hands, aod at what wages. ? understand that the Swiss have an agenoy in Riehmpnd, from whom they oan be hired. I would prefer Germans, if they can be had. There can be. no relianqe upon the negro. He will not work, nor will he abidd any oentraot he makes. I would rather give 910 or 912 per month for a German or Swiss than to hire a negro at any price. I shall loose my foxier crop, and I begin to fear that I shall not be able to sow a orop of wheat, or indeed to gather my corn crop. "Let me hear from yon upon this subjeot as soon as yon can write me fully. Yon will have to enquire for the agencies who attend to the business of hiring oat foreign* era." Affectionately, yours, ?? COOPER BIV^R" PLANTATIONS. The rioe lands on the eastern and western branohes of the Cooper River, fqr many years before the war, were held at very high prioes; and they were seldom offered in the market unless the oftrner was compelled to Bel! to get clear of financial embarassment. This was'not so much owing their money* value as &q investment, which was bat small, bat from their having been possessed bj the forefather of the present owner for several generations, and. from the proximity of the rice fields to the city. The lands on this river are considered very fertile, and whenever the rains have been sufficient to freshen the stream, the yield of rice has always been heavy. For some years previous to the late troubles the crops failed for nearly every other year; but sinoe the war, the crops have been regular hud good. A successful year- on the river will give a yield equal to about twenty-five thousand tieroes of rice, wbioh at present prices would bring pne million five hundred thousand dollars. These are great results produced from the river front of a small stream of water; bpt it.swords ao instance of the great agricultural wealth of the South, when managed by skill aod experience We regret to say, however, that for ehe present at least, the vuluabie products of these lands will be lost to the country, and that for the crop now growing we may expect the most indifferent result. We are informed that the demoralization among the negroes on this river has been of snoh a nature as to prevent them from producing much more than will be sufficient for their sustenance, and some planters think that the orop for market will not equal one thousand tieroes. This has not been from any fault of the weather, but from an indisposition to work on the part if the laborers?the grass, in most oases, taking possession of the crop. This is truly i sad state of things; and- if remidi&l measures can be applied; they should be ased without delay. Charleston JNewsf 23(2 uU. ? ^ Visit to the Bihth Place'op Wash[ngton, Lee and Others?-A correspondent of the Fredericksburg Ledger writes: On Saturday last I paid a visit to the birth place of Washington; yes, the immoral father of bis country. Wakefield, for ihat is the name of the place, is situated on Pope's (not Bridge's, as Washington Irving srroneoualy states it) creek-. Not one stone is left upon another of the building in which the Father of his Country first saw the light of earth, and even the stone erected jn the place by the late O. W. P. Cuatis So.denote the spot has been destroyed or jarried off. The identioal spot, as pointed )ut by one of the descendants, and proba< 3ly Che oldest of the family, is now a corn ield. The land is owned by Mr. Wilson who married a Miss Washington. This estate has been in the Washington family for >ver two hundred years.. The family tomb is on Bridge's creek, iboat doe half- mile distant from Pope's jreek. It is this, probably, which misled Dir. Irving in stating that the birth spot was on Bridge's creek. Lack of time and the condition of the weather prevented me From visiting the birth spots of the other charaotors.. The house in which Monroe was born, and also that iir which Biohatd Henry Lee was born- are both gone, not a brace of them remains. That in which Bobt. E. Lee vu born, the Stafford House, is still standing is all its former splendor.' The Legislature of Virginia had, prior to the war, appropriated a nun of money to enclose the birth spot- of Mr. Monroe, but for some unexplained reason it' was never done. Tax Choleka The Washington Ra* publican of the 6th instant, hue the follow in'g statement in regard to thetaragesof the The State Department to-day is in receipt of advices from the United States Consul stationed at Palermo, dated August 14U? He speaks of the serious spread of &e cholera at Anoona, Italy, Where some eight hundred people have died, and isolated , oases have happened in other towns of Italy, France and Spain. The local authorities nave aamonzea seven. asys or yncramniB for all arrivals from Italian, French and Spanish ports, inoloding Gibraltar. The United States Consul .stationed H Port Mahon informs the State Department this morning, under date of August 14, of the arrival at that quarantine of a Toritfsh steamer which left Alexandria with 1,800 pilgrims. The steamer, he says, comes with 1,280, and reports baring loft oa the way 500. Twenty deaths occurred from cholera on the passage. The captain, on his arrffal at Port Mahon, reported all well, but on examinathB of the steamer, dead bodies were found on board in a sad state of decomposition,. The captain's statements are discredited, and the five hundred hot accounted for may have died by the same disease.: The Con#ul states that aooounta received at that station concur in the opinion that the oholera is making its way westward. Thus fax the oholerataa followed the pit- * grims who, he says, are paokedHkesandisee on shipboard. Their religiondocinotiJJitfW i them jwhile pualsg to andfroni Meoha, to sleep on a bed, to wash, ortcrSii^S^ food. They are oovered with filth and Vermin, and are spreading, disease all over the Mediterranean. Emigration to the South.?The em. igrants to the Southern States have thus far been necessarily limited. Sfaorfclv after th? breaking up of die war ? there was a great rash Sduthward.to the chief cities for speculative and. "prospecting" purposes, and to see th# ml condition and promise of aflairs. Bat there has not yet boeftfr. and it is natural there should not be-^fc important emigration of actual and pemutnent settlers, such as iacfeeiu and medbuwtrate the Southern States, ?rc?n the North, in the coming antnmn months. They will look around fat lt&dfc make inquiries as to employment, and see what are die opportunities for business. They w. II study questions of olimate, productiou, soil, trade, commerce and industry. tfltll up their minds as to theif chances. If * found favorable, they will oommnnipatewitk friends and acquaintances-; and neat spring the border States, and those on the seaboard will see the real beginning of a: genuine tide of emigration which will sweep over their snrfaoe, bringing enterprise, indwjjtp, capital, education and prosperity. Let us meet all that come in an open, fr**fr ftqd * generous manner. If they come among us tn hn rvf tis 1*1 ITS eit?nd to all a kind a. ception.?Charleston News. nKi . Gen. Robf.rt E. Lee.?Oar able and 080011 y well-informed oo temporary, the Ghicago Tribune, has some remarks which iure leseacouiate than usual. We quote from ittcolumns : ' "Gen: Lee, we understand, Jim applied for pardon in a roluminoas dooomeni denying, bia guilt?that is, denying that be is a proper ease for o pardon. On the other hand, it is largely oiaimed by Lee's Northern friends that the terms of bis snrretKfor to Grant amount to a pardon, and shield him from all punishment by the Government." ' . " Gen. Lee's applioation is not a voluminous document, but a very brief one, containing only some forty or fifty words.? It says nothing about his guilt or innocence, cither affirmatively or negatively. Nor have'we ever heard of any of Lee's frieadU who claimed thai his surrender involved nor/1rm THia ntmrat *1lO> inv AHA hu AVP.T claimed abort it is, that it guarantees his personal security so long' as be obeys the-"* laws in force at the place where he resides. JBut this is not pardon, because it leaves him without any civil rights, and liable to Am J m, ?L m nnS t>aiia A a ? - t? - 1 trial ana puniBQtnenc tor nii great pobtt6tl and unitary crimes, should he ever commit any infraction of the laws in question. " Chicago Republican. Rathe* Knotty.?General Palmer, in oommand at Louisville, reoently had the following case up before him for abjudication : -. . , An old negrb deposited, some time ago, one thousand dollars with agrhite man;? The man gave the negro a doe bill for the amount The negro presentedthe doit hill for payment. The man took the due bill from him, destroyed it and pat him ort d the store. The negro lived wfth the man 1 v m/\nt.ha Anna, and thmwht he knew him well enough to trust him with a $1,000. This wqs the Story told by the negro.? Here ie the one told by the other party: In the first place, I don't know the negro ,* I never did know him; he never lived with me; be-never do posited one thousand dollars with me; I never gave him a doe bill; I never pot him out ofay store; and moreover, General, yon may hang me if I ever laid eyee on the negro be&ee. The General was stumped, and took the ease under advttement. now ' ? ? gg^The woman of seatfoflily who pomes ses serenity and gbod temper, amid the in. suits of a faithless, brutal husband, wants ' nothing ol an angel bat ihuaortnlity. ?