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and Jfocts. *^5'/ jg1 1 '. . *.. "" The Russian Government has forbidden the Poles to nse their own language in religions matters. For the future,-all Roman Catholic catechisms and books of devotion intended for Polish use, are to be published in Russian. ? "An attempt is being made in-Paris to introduce the fashion of three-cornered hats for ladies.". How pretty the dear creatares wijl look in oocked hats, especially those of them that are already in the habit of wearing the breeches. About four hundred editorials'upon thePresident's Message from as many journals in the United States, have been received at tbe White Honse. About ninety nine per centum of ail these essays heartily endorse the polioy pursued by the President in the past, and approve apd commend the measures he proposes for the future. General Spinner, United States Treasurer, has received a contribution from a beggar, amounting to one cent, which he tendered as his contribution towards canj oeiing the national debt. The donation has ' been Moepted, and transferred to the vaults of the Treasury, passing through the same - channels and forms that a more munificent sum would. The Chattanooga rolling mill is now , kept in operation both day and night.? Some five hundred hands are employed in re-rolling rails for the use of the Southern roads. It will require several months to get through with the immense quantity of damaged material now on band. The rails are made as good as new, and are shipped off as-soon as finished. ? The New Tork News says: General Lee writes to a gentleman in that oity in reference to the recent senseless rumor that he had requested permission of the Government to .retain oertain pieces of artillery at MOA hia olnrlAtifo 1(T aujt iuo uog vi uia oiuuoum "a have nothing to do with the Military Institute here; did not know there were, any guns here ; have no use for any guns, and never made an application for them." ?? A gentleman of intelligence, a large planter residing near Demopilis, Alabama, states that all rumors of disorderly conduct * of the freedmen in bis neighborhood were unfounded. That although the negroes were not very willing to engage for the next coming year, it was not from any belief they had in the pretended division of property, but amply because the working op shares has not proven favorable to them for the balance of the year just expired. ^ mi rii. m _ i?. I, , xne oiaie 01 iuiBsiqpippi, wuu a wane population not exceeding 350,000, bad sixty three regiments in the late war, which numbered about 73,000 combatants. Of these, 15,500 died of disease; 12,000 were killed jot died of wounds; 19,000 were dis. charged, resigned and retired; 11,000 deserted or were dropped ; 250 missing; and 1,500 transferred to other commands Total loss from all canses, 59,350 ; balance aooounted for, 18,750. Thus it appears that more than one person in five was in service.. following summary of a days' events in that blessed city : Fight between two mad dogs. Robbery of an actress- Highway robbery. Two men dead from starvation. An entire family poisoned by arsenio. A bloody encounter in the street. Horrible tragedy? a man kills' his wife and is shot by bis neighbors. Another bloody affray upon the pnblio thoroughfares. A nigger soldier killed by a wagoner. In fine, horse racing in the afternoon, followed by a disastrous fire. . ?- A special dispatoh from Washington to the New York News, says: There is reason to believe that the ' English Government has made a formidable demand upon Mr. Seward for the suppression of all public Fenian demonstrations, and that the failure to do so will be regarded as a hostile aot. This demand is based upon disclosures recently made in England relative to the strength and object of the Fenian movement, and the matter was considered in the Cabinet meeting. The Radicals are getting somewhat uneasy. k The New Orleans Crescent says: We learn that a conference has been held between a number of prominent planters of the State and a leading agency of this city, whiob has resulted in an arrangement by which a large number of Germans are to be invited to come to Louisiana as laborers upon some of our cotton plantations. These gentlemen, by way of experiment, propose to cultivate one plantation with white labor exclusively, so that a practical comparison maybe made of the results of'negro and white labor in the culture of our great staple. The Charlotte Times learne "from a reliable gecLleman that a large number of negroes bave congregated on James and other Islands, on the seaboard, and bave refused to be dispossessed. They bave evinoed ? ai? A r A. I soon a mauooDi spine, mat. ior iue sme*y of tbe white inhabitants, General Sickles has-telegraphed for 20,000 more troops.? That oountry seems to be in a dreadful condition, and a good deal of apprehension is felt. Tbe negroes are largely predominant, and are disppsed to give trouble?all owing to the misapprehension under which they are laboring in regard to the division amongst them of the lands of their former owners." 4 The War Department computes the number of deaths in tbe Union armies since the commencement of the war, at 325,000, and of Southern soldiers at 200,000; making at least 525,000 lives that have been lost, a part of the costly price paid for the defence of tbe nation's life. At Gettysburg 23,000 Union soldiers were killed, wounded or taken prisoners, our greatest loss during one campaign. Gen. Grant's I losses, from the time he orossed the Rapidatr until Lee's surrender, were about 99,000. Great as were our losses, they were far below those incurred in European wars, -owiogHo oar saperior medical and sanitary arrangements, and the care of the government for its troops.?iVern York Sun. A letter is published from Consul Dudley in the Liverpool papere, regarding the cotton Bnpply from America. Mr. Dudley appends a letter addressed to him on the 27th of October by Secretary McCulluck, who says that, from the best informs tion be oQald obtain, he estimated that the oldootidnin the Southern States fit for market at the time of the capture of Savannah, did not exceed one million fit bales. This year's , crop, he adds, will probably not exceed three hundred thousand bales. Mr. D. says that when recently in America ho made most anxious inquiries on the snbjeot, and he estimates the present amount of cotton on hand at little over seven hundred thousand bales, including the new crop. The report of the Comptroller of the Currency is very interesting. He takes high conservative ground- in regard to the finances of the country, and his foots and arguments showing where" we will land if our cnrrenoy expansion and excessive importation ar? not checked, are very convincing. Mr. Clarke disousses the entire question of finanoe in all its elements, ourrenoy, taxation, tariff and revenue, urges a readjustment of the tariff with a view to cheok importations, and the consolidation of 'oar system of internal revenue by restricting taxation to a few of the leading articles at high rates, such as cotton, tobaooo, die tilled and malt liqaors, stamps, licences, etc. As wehave heretofore stated, no increase of the national bank capital will be recommended, except npou such conditions as will prevent any farther inflation of the onrrency. The report will also ^iow that the amonot of cnrrenoy in aotive cironlation is many millions less than is generally sopposed. * Ik forkiik YOR.KVIL.LE, S? C. THURSDAY MOBKIKO, DECEMBER 21,1865. OUR TERMS?IN ADVANCE. THREE DOLLARS AND FJFTY CENTS per year TWO DOLLARS for nix months; ONE DOLLAR for three months?payable In "greenbacks." When payment Is made In specie, TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per year; ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS for six months;'SEVENTY-FIVE CENT? for three months. Single copies, TEN CENTS. (J(f-Corn, Flour, Wheat, Bacon, Lard, Firewood, kc., will be received for Subscription, Advertising or Job-Work, at market priees. The paper will be discontinued oa the expiration of the time for which payment has been made. Subscribers wbo find a (X) cross iparkon the wrapper or margin of their paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. {??- Mr. JOHN R. ALLEN, Post Master, at Chester C. H-, is our authorized agent ibr Chester District. ENQUIRER CLUB RATES. PER YEAR?IN ADVANCE. * | IN SPECIE. IN "GREENBACKS." ? COPIES,.. .8 4 50 6 00 5 COPIES,.;. 8 T5 12 50 10 COPIES,... IT 80 25 00 and an extra copy to the person making a olnb of ten. After a clhb'has been returned and the money paid, the persoD making the olnb may add as many more subscribers at tbe ' rate of tbe original olnb, as is desired. x. . 5 Subscribers wbo find a (X) cross mark on , tbe wrapper or margin of their paper, will ^ understand that the time paid for has ex- . Dired. 7 cash r ; 'We wish it distinctly understood that , our terms for subscription, advertising and J job work are casb. , 1 ho paper next "week. \ In accordance with custom, and to enable i the employees of tbe Enquirer Office to i enjoy tbe Christmas holidays, no paper will be issued from this offioe next week. The next number of the Enquires will be issued on Thursday, the 4th day of January, t 1866. We extend to our readers, in ad- ] vance, the compliments of tbe Season, and , wish them a merry Christmas and happy ( New Year! : ^ prices tumbling. i The Phoenix says that in Columbia, prices ; are tumbling from the giddy height to i which they had ascended. For ourrency, prints are selling at 23 cents per yard; ' good brown sugars at 12 cents per pound; i flour at $13 per barrel, and other articles at j nroDortionate rates? We hone that this is ' r r >? so indication tbat the "good time is com- ; ing" of which we have heard so much. , IMPORTANT TO REFUGEES. 1 We make the subjoined extract from a private letter received by a gentleman residing in this place, dated Hilton Head, S. 1 C., December 8th, 1865 : 1 "A business house here has. agreed to 1 furnish all the planters about Bluffton, with < every thing they require for themselves or negroes, at 20 per oent. advance on New York prices, and seven per cent, interest until the crop is sold." /' * !?: * . ( MASONIC ELECTION. At an election held by Philanthropic Lodge, No. 78, A. F. M., on Monday night last, the following brethren were elected officers for the ensuing Masonio year: COL. ASBURY COWARD, W. M. Col. SAM'L W. MELTON, S. W. PORT AT WATT JfiP 7 tO iiuuxivii, ?/. rr. Capt. T. S. JEFFERYS, Secretary. P. B. DARWIN, Treasurer. ABSALOM CODY, Tyler. ~~ CHEERING. We are pleased to learn from the Charleston Courier that Governor Perry received a dispatoh from President Johnson, one day last week, informing him that he (Governor Perry) would be relieved as Provisional Governor in a.few days, president Johnson's despatch farther says "that all is going well, and it is probable the members of Congress from the South'ern States will be admitted in a few days." A Washington correspondent says that "the Southern delegates to Congress are be ing treated with courtesy and consideration by many who hold seats on the floor of the House, aud, it is said io Republican quarters, that they will oertainly be admitted at l an early day if they come np to tbe requiremeDta of the anti-slavery majority of both branohes of Coogresa. The Tennessee delegation have more sympathy than any other, probably because President Johnson is a TennesBeean." AN" ORIGINAL STOB*. On Thursday, tbe 4tb day of January 1866, we will commence the publication of an original story, written expressly, for the Enquires, entitled BLUE AND GREY, ?v-, ^ THE FORTUNES OF WAR. A Story of the War In S. Carolina. BY CLAUDE F0HRE8TER. T* 1 ? IThis story will probably ran through fire or six numbers of tbe Enquirer. Persons who desire to secure the story, complete, are advised to subscribe at an early day, as owing to the high price of paper, we do not propose' to print hat few extra copies. . . THE LEGISLATURE. This body adjourned tine die on Tuesday < last, at *12 m. We have not received the pro-. ceedings of a later date than Friday last, and are anable to determine what has business aotually been completed: It is rumored that no ohange has been made in the "Stay Law" heretofore existing. Taxes have been reduced as low as possible, and the expenses of the State have bees curtailed as much, probably, as an effioient administration of the governdsent will allow. We hope to be able in our next issne, to lay before oar readers snob of the Aota as are of general interest. Oar memben may be expeoted at home to-day or to-morrow. JUDGES AND CHANCELLORS. Elections were held on Tbnrsdayjast by the Legislature for three Law Judges and two Chanoellors. T.N Dawkins, of TJnion; F. J. Moses, of Sumter; and A. P. Aldrich, of Barnwell, were elected Lap Judges. H. D. Licsesne, of Charleston; and W. D. Johnson, of Marlborough, were elected haooeIlois. The three Law Judges were eleoted on the first ballot. The vote stood: T. If. Dawkins, 98; F. J. Moses, 97 J A. P. Aldrioh, 82 ; Simeon Fair, 74; B. C. Pre8sleYj57; J W. Wilkinson, 6; 0. P. Sullivan,*8. Two ballots were had for Chancellors.: ' First Ballot?W. D. Johnson 77 ; C. D. Melton, 68 ; Thomas Thomson, 44 y H. D. Lessesne, 55; W. F. Hutson, 22; C. P. sullltan, 14. Second Ballot? II. d. Lessesne, 71 j C. D. Melton, 68. -rsram a-u v ajitxojljlika Tfl'. 1. A. Brown, O. V. D.?Citation?J. W. Avery?G. F. L. Maswy, deceased. Z. D. Smith, Adm'r.?Batate Sale. ", . r. W. Carroll?No Credit. Madame Sophia Sosnowski?School Notice. London A Zimmerman?Colt's Revolvers. " i " ?Cheap Dress Goods, ke. K. Illlng?Millinery and Fancy Goods. Mrs. J. G. Blum?School Notice. i rhe Misses Manlgault?School Notice. 5. G. Brown?Auction Sale of Furniture, Watches, Jew- j elry, kc. IV. A. Moore?School Notice. lifted Stiiwell?House and Lot to Rent and Furniture for Sale . , 1Y1 K;K.yi-IYl P. fx TiUXX . A Bank has been chartered in Charles:orf, to be called the (<People's National Bank." D. L. McKay, Esq., is President, rod H. G. Loper, Esq., Cashier. The Courier says the "Directors confidently ex pect to be ready to go into operation by the Jrst of January next." The Libby Prison and Castle Thnnder, at Richmond, ire to be transformed into storehouses. The trains over the South Carolina Railroad, between Charleston and Augusta, are now running to Bamberg?fifteen miles below Branch vil 1 e. '-'-The Oharlestown Va., free Presr, says that OLD ToNEY Blue, who was a cook for "Stonewall" Jackson, died suddenly in his chair in that place a few days sinoe. The N. York Herald says: When the name of Robert E. Lee, recently the leader of the Confederate army, was mentioned by a speaker at the Cooper Institute meeting on Saturday evening, it was received with vigorous oheers. The Herald thinks it was in bad taste. It may have been from the Herald's stand-point. " We don't think so. One of the strangest sights in the politics of the day, is to see Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York, the noisiest Northern friend the South ever had before the war, now acting and scheming with Northern extremists to-keep the South out of the Union and hold the Southern States as conquered provinces. The Richmond TPAty, of Saturday, says that Mr. Seddon, late Confederate Secretary of War, arrived in that city on Friday evening. His health has not been seriously impaired by his long imprisonment. -Hoffman, the Democratic candidate, has been elected Mayor of New York. pAmntfnllflf r\f fTin /lnvwnns*** Into ? j. uo vuujj/MVIIVI v* ??u? uuucuujr uao uuar tered 1,612 National Banks. Wm. L. Sharkey, of Mississippi, B. F. Perry, of Sooth Carolina, Lewis E. Parsons, of Alabama, and ? Marvin, of Florida, Provisional Governors, have been eleotod to the U. S. Senate from their respeotive States. Governor Parsons, of Alabama, recommends the passage of an act declaring that the freedmen shall have the same measure of protection as is nowseoured by the nonvoting population. A Monroe (La.) paper speaks encouragingly of the~prospects of cotton planting in that section. The planters seem to be disposed to give the freedmen a fair ohance. The same paper also says a large Dumber of emigrants from 1 Alabama and the contiguous States are go* i ing to Texas. Advices from Nassau, e N. P., announce the presence of General e Jtjbal A. Earlt in that plaoe, wbere be t is residiug for the present, and is engaged t in writing a history of bis campaigns.-"*" i P. W. Alexandre, better known as "P.. f W. A," the war correspondent of-the Sa- f vanDah Republican, is engaged in writing a 1 history of the war. He requests all per* 1 nnt who mtv hu? miliiin or naval reoorta. 1 rT " / / -- ?? r? orders sod maps, plans of campaigns, bat- 1 ties aod sieges, private letters from the i army, Congressional documents, and mea- t sages of the President and Governors -of t the Southern States, to forward them to him * at ThomatUnon, Upson co., Ga . The pa- } pers will be returned if desired. ' i General Sterling Price has applied for t pardon. . v8abscnber8 to the ENQUI- 1 bse in York District can receive the paper Without the payment sf postage. ? .Georgetown, D. C., heing within sight ( of the PresidentWmaDsion, was within the < Union'lines throughput the civil war, and t under military sorveillaooe; and yet she is < said to have furnished one hundred men to 1 the Union, and four hundred and eighty to ' the Confederate armies. A little fel- < low going to church for the firtt time, where < the pews were very higb,was asked on com- ] ing out, what he did in obnroh, when he replied: "I went into a cupboard and took t a seat on the shelf.";*- Johnathan 1 Worth, Esq., was inaugurated Govermfr 1 of North Carolina, at Raleigh, on Friday last.***:* -The doOrs of ill public build- < ings in Moscow have been ordered to be 1 made to open -outwards, that people miy' ' have free egress in case of firt or panic. * Bird H. Young, the original of f "Simon Suggs," died in Tallapoosa county, Alabama, a few days since, aged seventy 4 years. * "Bolly," a leading gambler 1 in Cincinnati, distinguished himself the 1 other day. by escorting a crowd of shoeless ' refugees from North Carolina to a shoe store, 1 covering their.feet with leather and paying * the bill. . In some parts of Burgundy 1 persons furnishing their own barrels oan c purchase new wine at from four to five cents I per gallou. The best of French brandy * can be made at Less than a dollar per gal- 1 loo, bat eheapness in Earope is not likely 1 to affect the price in 'this conn try, where 1 Bpeonlation and adulteration have away. ( The State Senate of Mississippi has 1 passed a sweeping resolution repudiating all ' debts, whether on aooonnfcof salaries of of- 1 fioers, Treasury notes, bills of exchange, * or otherwise, that were incurred by the State between the 9fh day of January, 1861, 4 and the 16th day of October, 1864 Twenty thousand eight hundred and seventy immigrants 'were landed at New York daring the month of November, this year, of whom thirteen .thousand one hundred f and seventy-nine were Germans. I The SeoTetary of War has addressed a oir- e cular to each member of Congress, calling t Mb attention to the fact that he has the c privilege of nominating from his Congres- 1 sional District, two persons as applicants for the positions of first and seoond lieu ten ants in the regular amy. A little girl in Pennsylvania was lately reproved for playing oat doors with boys, and informed that being seven years old, "she was too big for that now." But with all imaginable innocence, she replied: "Why, grandma, the bigger we grow, the better we like 'em." Grandma took time to think. Bananas have been raised in New Orleans, this season, which compete favorably in rise and quality with thoee imported from Ha* vana.-- A Finland newspaper mentions a stone in the Northern part of Finland, which serves the inhabit ants instead of a barometer. This stone* which they call Ilmokiur, turns black, or blackish-grey, when it is going to rain, bat on the approach of fine weather it is covered yith white* spots. At Jefferson, Texas, the head of the Red river navigation, there are twelve thousand bales of ootton on hand, and about twenty thousand mare to come in.. General Pryor has been admitted to the bar, and is now practicing law in the courts of New York." - The colored men's petition, asking for the right of suffrage in the District of, Columbia, is ready for submission to Congress. It contains over 7,000 signatures. E. S. Joedan, Box 946, 1 Till ? ? I- ..In.^iaai tVtn+ Iia ? .11 1 VUlUBgU, JLIUUU1S, UUTOIViow vudi uo nui famish iaformation in "regard to any prison- ^ er of war who died at Camp Douglass, II. linoiB. Howell Cobb and Alex- t ander H. Stevens, of Georgia, positive- ' ly deoline being, candidates for the United States Senate. It is supposed that the object of a bridal party, who lately went up in a balloon from New York, was to see the honey-moon. An alarming amount of destitution . is reported in Arkansas. The wreck- \ era have succeeded in raising a large portion t of the famous Confederate ironclad, the < Merrimao, which was sunk off Norfolk.? x The composition wheel of nine tons, fifteen ? feet of the stern, and a section of the shaft t were brdneht up at one lifting and have ( been carried to the navy-yard." Ro- 1 man tombs, more than fifteen hundred years ? old, containing cinerary turns and fragments of pottery, have been ezbnmed close to i Queen Victoria's palace, at Windsor. i B?? L person from Texas report* that every road ? i filled With movers, harrying, and Jostling aoh other in search of new homes and fair- c r prospects. A spirit of restlessness seems o have taken possession of many and they aove simply with the desire for a ohange, 10 matter what. Van Am burgh, the * roll known showman, is dead. The 1 < * , olio wing is given as a- good speoimen of 1 iVestem eloquence and wit: "Where is * Snrope compared to America ? . Nowhere. fl rhey call England mistress of the sea.? * 3nt what makes the sea 7 The Mississippi 4 rilfl Si J mil iA ^A Ifl f/% fnvn C UMOD If) BUU *11 WO fO gVf fV UV to w nw? m he Mississippi into the Mammoth Cave and ( he English navy trill be floundering in the 1 nod."' "It is reported thfct General 1 Withers, Mayor elect of Mobile, has been * formed that he will not be allotred to ex- I troise the functions of bia office until he iaa received a pardon from the President. < The New Orleans Picayune in ipeaking of the Louisiana Legislature, says: ' 'It is a . consolatory and encouraging evi- 1 lence of the sympathy of obr people for 1 he unfortunate, that the Sergeant-at-Arms it the Senate is without legs, the Door- * ceeper of the House without arms^the Seo- 1 :etary and the Clerk of the Houses are both >n crutches. Despite these vnfbrtnnes, 1 ibese gentlemen all prove very efficient, ca- j lable and aooeptable officers. < A oompany has been organised in Spain i o lay a telegraph between Cuba and the 1 United States."*' Major General G. W. ( Smith is the National Express Company's , nansger in New -TorkJ ' The address | * - i >f the State Teachers' Association of Ten- 1 lessee says there are 89,000 sdnlta in .the State who oan neither read nor write, and 100,000 children withont school advanta- ' res." * " -The Wilcox county, (Alabama) Newt of the SOth nltimo, says a coon was saught in that county weighing twenty Kmnds. After the animal had whipped ;he dogs, it attacked the hunters.*****"" t The Chicago Times thinks Mr. Sumner's < proposition that, in all States where one- j lixth of the popnlation are colored, one- ] ialf of eaoh grand jnry shall consist of col- j ired men, should be amended so that, in | daces where two-sixth of the population are j daok, all the jurors should be oolored, and ' vhere one-sixth are mnlattoes, one-half of i he jurors shall be colored women. < i white man named T. F. Gerald, who is i J sngaged in teaobing tbe oolored ideas how i to shoot, has been arrested in Mobile,_for , icalvng a luorse I Good Lord 11 ' * i 1 man ou a late trial being asked for a cer- j ificate of bis marriage, took off bis hat and { izhibited a huge soar, which looked as j bough it had been made with a shovel.? ] ftrw Judge downed the. eiidaute aatisfao- < ory. i . ?!! ? REPUDIATION"?STATE DEBT. The followibg is the communication re- | erred to b; Governor Orb in his message, 1 mblished last week, as having been receiv- ' id from Governor Perry, in reference to * he repudiation of the State debt, contract- 1 id in aid of the late war: , Sxecdtive Department, 8. Carolina, 1 December 9, 1885. 1 To His Excellency Gov. Orr: ' l My Dear Sir : I received, two weeks lince, a telegram from tbe Hon William 9. Seward, Secretary of State, in relation 1 o the repudiation of our'War debt, in the 1 following words : "Upon reflection, Sontb r Carolina wonld not care to oome again into ( he oonnoils of the Union enonmbered and dogged with debts and obligations whioh lad been assumed in her name, in a vain ( ittempt to subvert it. The President trusts f bat she will lose do time in making an j iffective organic declaration, disowning all t o ^ ^ o lebtfl and obligations made or assumed in ler name or behalf in aid of the rebelli jn. rhe President awaits farther events. io S. Carolina with deep interest." In reply to this despatch, I stated that it ivas impracticable,, now, to make any such 'organic declaration," as oar State Convenlion had been dissolved, by my advice, af;er having done all that the President had -equested to be done, qnd that I was opDosed to keeping a revolutionary body, like ihat of the Convention, in existence longer iban absolute necessity required. I further itated, that oar war debt was a very small )ne, and could not be separated from the >rdinary current expenses of the State? bat Sooth Carolina had been refunded, by ;he Confederate ?tates, a large portion of ler expenditures on account of the war? ind that no one in the State had any right ;o complain of being taxed to pay this debt, is they were all guilty in incurring it. 1 itated, moreover, that the estates of widows ind orphans had been invested intbiB debt, is the safest investment that coald be made ftiam nn/1 flint if (wamM raw Via nriaoo in_ Ui lucuij buai i? nvuiu uuff uo givoo *u- v uptice to this innocent and helpless class to t lisown the debt. . t Yesterday I had the honor of receiving he following -communication from Mr. Seward, through the maift : t Department of State, c Washington, November 30, 1865. ^ To His Excellency B. F. Perry, Frovi- ^ sional Governor of the State of South Carolina, Colur&bia. Sib : I have the honor to acknowledge a he receipt of yonr telegram, of the 27th | fl nstant, informing me that the Convention lad been dissolved, it was impossible to ' idopt the President's suggestion to reptr- * liate the insurgent debt, and to inform t fon, that while the objections whioh you 8 irge to the adoption of that proceeding, ^ ire of a serious nature, the President can* . rot refrain from awaiting with interest an 1 iffioial expression upon that subjeot from t he Legislature. I have the honor to be, t lir, your obedient servant, i WILLIAM H. SEWARD. Ton will please', sir, lay this communication before the Legislature, for their action fl n reference to the "official expression" t rbioh the President is "awaiting with in- 1 erest." I bavethehonor to be, jour Ex- ( ellepoy's most obedient servant, . B. F. PERRY, J Provisional Governor,.South Carolina. ? ;? s Geobola. Legislature.?The Georgia j state Senate has passed a bill regulating eon* , raete between masters and servants. Con* j raots for over one month must be in wri- , ing; work hours to be from sunrise to sun- , at; the servants to be responsible for dam- ; ige done to the property of their employira; wagee to be forfeited by leaving; the imployer may discharge servants for diiobe* lie nee, drunkenness, immorality, want-of espeot, leaving his service, enticing servants away; misdemeanor to be punishable >y a fine of five hundred dollars or by im* xisonment for fopr tbontha. On the 10th .of this month, Provisional , Governor Johnson sent a telegram to (Washington, asking leave to be' relieved 'rom office, and recommending that Goverlor Jenkins be allowed to assume the duies of the Executive ohair. j In /reply, under dote of the lltb instant, t Governor Johnbon received the following .elegram from the President; The Governor eleet will be inaugurated, ind it will not interfere with the Provisionil Governor, who will receive instruetions in a few days in regard to* his being reliev. id. Why do you not eleet a Senator 7 I srould issue no oom mission's to members of Oongress but leave that for the incoming Governor. We are under obligations to you For the noble, effioient and patriotio mantier in which you have discharged your duties as Provisional Governor and yon will be sustained by the government. Andrew Johnson, President. A dispatch from Milledgeville, states that Governor Jenkins was inaugurated on Wednesday of last week. For the Yorkvllle Enquirer. ? THE TIMES. Mr. Bditot.: One of the prineipai resions why the first efforts to- colonize this iountry proved abortive, wa?the character of ;be individuals engaged in the. enterprise, [n some Instances the majority of the cololists were consumers. They left their naive land with their brains fall of exaggerated accounts of a land of fabnloos riohes. rhe avoraoions reveled in the thought that is soon as they landed on' the American jontinent, they woold find gold in infinite ibnndance. Others thought the riversposiessed the wonderfnl properties of rejnven iting the old and perpetuating indefinitely the bloom of youth. This class of colonists were disappointed. They were from their habits of-life averse to labor, and belog sadly disappointed in their morbid aopod and anostarsl erpeotations, fch?j ba?me vioions and ruinous to the general welfare. Now there are many circumstances which sake the condition of the Southern people lod the early settlers of this country aimiar. In many particulars they were more "avorably situated than we are j in o'tbets ve have the advantage. Now, the point ve have in view by this historic allusion, is limply this. The causes whioh promoted lappiness and proeperity amongst the coloiist, will, other things being equal, secure 'or us happiness and prosperity; and those >rinciples and practices which proved defcimental tb the growth of the early settlers will, under similar circumstances, blast eviry effort we may make to rise. $o. sum ill up in a few words, we submitit as a fact loduoed from history, that these elements ormed the line of demarcation between the irosperons and unsuccessful colonists. The ormer were industrious, economical tod >atient. The latter were idle, prodigal and jomplaining. The first class acted consiaently with the decrees of heaven and revived His rich blessing; the other class , vent contrary to the *laws of nature and ailed. . If there be any truth in the paralelism instituted, we ere justified in coming o the cobolnaipn that in order to the oltinate success of the South, the majority of ier inhabitants mast beoome producers and J be number of consumers must be reduced ' o its minimum. Heretofore, the Southern 1 >eople had but one idea in reference to heir industrial pursuitov The great prin- ' iple to whioh everything was made to 1 deld, was that it was cheaper to raise cot- 1 on and buy everything else, than any other oheme of labor that could be adopted.-rVhether this aver was a safe practice or lot, we will not undertake to deoide, but he future prosperity of the country demands bat that and all similar creeds and pracices share this fate of Southern slavery? J >e abolished. Wc do not advocate the ul-1. ra doctrine that we should cease to produce lotion. Such a praotifie would only be iulireotly hurtful to others, whilst it would 1 >e directly ruinous to ourselves. It may yet be prudent and for the gener- , >1 welfare, that some individals, and even iome whole communities, devote bis or their 1 rho'e attention to the growing of cotton.? ' Natural circumstances may he favorable to his end and unfavorable to any other. But i ucb circumstances will, on actual trial, be 4 ound to exist to a' greater extent in the ' . ? *' . .. . . . . 1 magioatioos or planters, man in the lata- ( ode of their looality. The prime neoesri* , ies of life moat be produced first. First, I a point of importanee,*and first in point of 1 irae. This is most strikingly true in oar see. We are poor. We dare not desire ] be luxuries ofjife. "They who are olad j / >rder w prooare the prime DMBwriw of 9 pleet gument worn by the out n^aindi- I ndaal, is a circuitous process. Doting the fjjgg put history of the South, she has, so far as J|& manufacturing has been concerned, been the moist dependent portion of the world. Scaroely an article, either of food^jnf. ^SS meet, necessary or luxury, b*t_1?(3g?? |fi direct or indirectly, partly or wb<%yb?m 9 manufactured for as by others. Daring the B| war, when we came timm beiaj$$?depen. gS dent in this particular, the ladies sewed J Yankee buttons on oar clothes with foreign 9 needles and thread. The principle invjjt 4 Jjl ved, made blockade-running a profitable bu- 9 iin?* At present, a new state of things ^ . fl manufacturing. Not go a lafge ? 9 This wooid be impracticable at prestijj^md * 9 will be so for a long time. -Wb are too poor JH to think of manufacturing for foreign con- |gj sumers, and also too abjectly poor todapond Jg upon foreign manufacturers for the preparation of ^htiee things which are requisitwio jPfl our comfort and developm?n{jfl^^^Kg jfl crawl. . "fl1 ^9 "That those articles necessary for home 9 factored, there most be a distribatioa of ml labor?a system Which has bad scarcely a . JB nominal existence in our country. Onotr fl farms we must grow cottoo, rice and tobao* 9 staffs. Hones, mates, cattle and bogs, at 9 least sufficient for the home supply, must 9 be propagated. But there are othi|)N$|W 9 es of men just as beqefioial to society as the fl honest farmer. The blacksmith who slinga 9 the sledge, the carpenter who shoves the fl plane, and the humble schoolmaster who 9 teaches the child to read, are just aamsgptial 9 to oiviliation, as the man who tills the soiL. Sfl Hence, domestic workships moat be erected 9 in every community, and those things which heretofore have been thrown away, must he 9 cipal operators in all these establishments * |flg must be Soothera-born men and boys, of |fl pure Anglo-Saxon blood. Tbo aztpj|j|pi sentiment that a mechanic is bnt a agj&jlfc* |l9 io. must be speedily corrected, and nothing | bat idleness tod ignorance, and their legit- 9S imate offspring, regarded as disgraceful;? $3 The iudisidual who will persistently do jjffl society as a physical'and'moral nuisance.? M It is an admitted principle, that the sorest j|| way to ultimate success in any enterprise, in tellectual or physical, is to commeaoe right. * * * No man . it matters not what may be his nata- j|B by using an interlinear. Such an iodtvidifrl, may suppose he ia making progwes, JB but when too late will discover his delusion. <'There is no royal road to geojoetry," neither ih there/any royal nor efon an .1 easy road to greatness. These, principles ifaj being demonstrably true, our boys Ouut . j|| immediately obange their policy. losigtil H of spending all their energies in making ||a efforts to get behind counters to sail North- * IS era woods .because it is -light work, the* ?Si most go port-hjute into the fields, work- fl shops and other places of labor, and learn I the primary principles of agriculture and V mechanics, and afterwards practice tbem.? J3 The inn who sells Yankee fabric* is useful "|g and honorable, bat moat assuredly in a sub- fl ordinate degree to the man who if longer ]w diaoharges the fonctions of a meohanie. M by the negro and the poor. The negro waa & slave and' tbe white laborer was treated as ft just one degree above him, and tbe man |? felt the withering blight of soeh a perni- i*j oions sentiment, and,Junfortnnately, hqTlbo |g| m. ? __iia .* EftO often actea in accordance who me general nw opinion. Hereafteis if we are to tttooaed, Hi the man who labors mast be made to ffol Sj? that be is essential to the well beiogpf * / |B Southern development. Bat ignorance is |8? the mother of superstition and slavery ; B hence, if we would become a great and ||| happy people, we mast first become an ed. M nested people, both intellectually and mor- i? illy. H "Truat no future, hoyc'er pleauni1 Let the dead P??t bury their dead.! An act in the 11 vine Present: Ni Heart within, and God o'er Wad." fegfi K' 1 < ?* mm Speech of Speaker Colfax. fl . The following is the speech delirered in % the House of Representatives, Moo day, by l| Hon. Schuyler Colfax, tbe Speaker, after he was condaoted to bis seat by Messrs. Mprrill and Brooks: Hi Gentlemen of the Houee oflUprMto. 1 marking, as it does, tbe procession ef our oa- fl lional history, is always regarded With inter. sst by the peoplefor whom it is to legislate fl But it is not unsafe to say that millions ffl more than etcr before,. North, South, T5?|{t, ffl md West, are looking to tbe CongagM . fl irhiob opens its first session to day with an ?ftrfK?Btnpnq and anHnitnda nnonnaHed on tn m .' M