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# - ? --T . .... , ? _ . .... >, . ? .^ t r i i t i .?v <- > -. x/ >* * .. ... ? . . ,. .... -- .1 .- ?{*/?. r | , , ,n 1 j._?<?*??wwwwwn mi i , ?? . lewis dc. qbist.proprietor.I Jn&mnirtitf Jainilj ^tefajsgaper: Jfor % Bromotion of fjjt folitical, Social, ^gricaltoal atti Commercial fititresfs of % Sonljj- fyba^a1*j?s. * -- ^ ?? --r-rr- r?.- ' ' ? > tm H ( VOLUME XII.' YORKYILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1866. , . M?KtC,15L " ' ? ? ?? r mm i ' i i . i jidertefo Jjueirg. i* "Sroxr ssouiiD e?er get married. If you should e'er fret married, John, I'll tell you what to do? Go get a ftttle tenement. Just big enough for two! And one spare room for company, And om spare bed within it? And if yon'd begin love's life aright, t. You'd better thus begin it <>. '* In fhrniture be moderate, John, And let the stuffed chairs wait; One looking glass will do for both, Yourself and loving mate; And Brussels, too, and other things, ~ . Which make a fine appearance, If you can better afford it they Will better look a year hence. Some think they must have pictures, John, Superb and costly, too, - ? Your wife will boa picture, John, Let that su$ce, for you. Remember how the wise man said, A tent and love within it, Is better than a splendid house, W1UI DiCKCiiagB c? i; auiiuiv And one word as to cooking, John, Your wife can do that best; For love, to make the biscuits rise, Is better Car than yeast. No matter If each day you don't BrtM tnrkey to the table; Twill better relish by and by, When you are better abfe. For all you buy pay money, John, Money that every day? If you would have your life run smooth, There la no better way. A note to pay is an ugly thing flf thing you choose to call It,) When It hangs o'er a man who has No money In his wallet. And now when you are married, John, Don't try to ape the rich; It took many a toilsome year, To gain their envied nlchc; And if you'd gain the summit, John, Look well to your beginning, And then will all you win repay The care and toil of winning. TUB NTHG THE TABLES Philemon Hayes and Fanny Ray had been just three weeks married. They sat at breakfast in their coozy din iug-room one fine morning in summer, to tally infatuated with each other Never such happiuess as theirs before ! The felic ity of Adam and his lady before tbey made the acquaintance of the serpent, was not to be mentioned in the same breath They kissed each other between every eup of coffee, and made a practice of embracing at least twice?sometimes, thrice?du ring every meal. Just now, they were speak ing of disagreements. Some friends of theirs had fallen out and refused to fall in again. "We never will disagree, will we? Phil, dear?" asked Mrs. Fanny. "Disagree! will the heavens fall ?" returned Phil, tragically. "I sincerely hope not. It would be decidely disagreeable," laughed Fanny; "but *? " ? -v?1J ?] II I CDOUgat we Buuuiu o?cr ^uauci, auu have thoughts towards each other, I should be tempted to terminate my existence !" "My precious Fanny !" cried Phil, springing up and upsetting the toast plate on the carpet, of which he was entirely oblivious in hia eagerness to get his arms around Fanny ?"My little foolish darling ! as if we should ever be so absurd ! (a kiss.) May I be drawn and quarted (another kiss) if I ever speak one word that shall cause a tear to fill the divine eyes of my dearest (a third explodon) Fanny!" "0, how happy you make me, Phil! I shall try so hard to be just the faithful, loving wife you deserve. Now finish your breakfast, deary. The toast will be grow ing oold. And Oh, Phil! did you notice Mrs. Smith's horrid new bonnet last night? I declare ! it destroyed all my pleasure in the music 1 I do wish people wbo will wear such untasteful bonnets would stay at home from those delightful concerts!" . "So do I, Fanny ! I noticed the ugly thing the moment we entered the hall! Blue flowers and pink ribbons, and she dark as a Creole!" "No, my love, the flowers were green? Green and bine look so much alike by gas Hgbt" "I know they do, bnt I noticed it so particular that I could not be deceived. Bine ?especially light blue?looks fearfully on a dark complexioned person I" "So it does, Phil, I quite agree with you, dear. But the flowers were not blue, they ' were green. I saw them at Mrs. Gray's shop before they were purchased." "My dearest Fanny, of course you think yourself right my love, but I have a very good eye for oolor, and I noticed these flowwith great attention. Blue anemones with yellow centres." <*Green hibuscus with white centres, my dear Phil. Very pretty for a light skinned woman, but for a brunette !" "Why, Fanny ! how absurd ! Ab if I could not determine a color when I studied it half the evening !" "But it was by gas light my, love. It would look altogether different by day-light. It was such a pale green." "It wes such a pale blue. I remember, I thought of the sky before a storm." "And I thonght of the sea. It was nearly a sea green!" "Why. Fanny ! ridiculous ! It was a stiy blue I" "How you do contradict me; my dear Philemon. It was a very light green." "And I insist it was blue!" "Do you mean to ten me i ne: "I mean to tell yon, you are mistaken !" "Which amounts to the same thing !" "You make the application, Mrs Hayes." "Mr. Philemon Hayes!" "Fanny !" "I say it was green, sir !" "And I say it was blue, so there !" "You are a wretch, Phil! a real mean, heartless wretch I" and Fanny pushed back her plate angrily "And you are an opinionated, self-willed woman !" and Phil, in his agitation, upset his ooffee, scalding the cat's back and himself at the same time. "The deuce !" cried he, rubbing his red ' fingers with his handkerchief. "I wish I'd never seen a woman !" "What's that, sir ?" "Confound the women ! They're a curse to the world!" "You brute I" cried Mrs. Hayes, now thoroughly incensed?"take that I" and soiling the plate muffins she took aim at Phil's head, but being a woman, her aim was not so accurate as it might have been, and the plate went through the window smashing in the new title of Fitz James Jones, who was passing; and the muffins were scattered in wild confusion about the room ' Phil was indignant. He laid his hand on the poker. "If 1 did not scorn to strike a woman?" .he began. . /\l i ?u_ t 1-! J TL.h. /,:* _;ll 1 Un, sinae : ezuuuuieu rauuy, --m mu only be in place with yoar other oondaotDon't let any notions of honor restrain yon, because you never had any." "Fanny, beware! yoa may try me too far." "I'll go home to pa, that I will You inhuman monster, you I"?"I'll be divorced from you this very day. So there 1" and the platter of bam made a journey after tbe muffins. Just at that moment, Phil's Uncle John, a shrewd old fellow, appeared on the soene. He surveyed the group with an anxious twinkle of tbe eye. "What's the matter, Fanny? Anything gone wrong ?" he inquired. "Gone wrong! Matter enough ! -Oh ! Uncle John, he's a wretch, and he set out to strike me with tbe poker." "And she threw a plate of muffins and the ham at me !" "He's a monster, Uncle John. I'll bedi vorced from him this very day. He's worse than a savage!" "So he is," oried Uncle John, entering warmly into the spirit of the thing. "So be is"?stripping off his ooat?"and I'll settle the matter at once. Yon stand baok, Fanny ; I'll give him suoh a thrashing as he'll likely to remember. Striking bis wife with a poker, indeed !" I'll rectify matters and Uuo.Ie John grasped the long-handled feather duster and flourished it threateningly around the head of his nephew. "There, sir, take that 1 and that! and that !" exclaimed he, bringing down the feathers on the shoulders of the amazed Phil. "Fanny my dear, I'll not leave a bone of him whole." Fanny's ronnd blue eyes had been growing larger and larger?and now her indignation burst "John Hayes!" screamed she; "you're a heathen, and an old meddling vagabond Let Phil, alone 1 He's my dear, dear has Dana, aau you ve uu uuwucsb mj wwu him. He's so angel 1 He never intended to strike me. Be still striking him, or yon will be sorry !" and Fanny seised the broom from behind the door and prepared to do battle "Stand back!" cried Unole John, "he's a monster and deserves death. The man that would threaten to strike a woman onght to be hung." Fancy's eye's blazed?she flew at Uncle John with the spite of a tigress, and the way the trio weDt round the room was worth witnessing Unole John after Phil with the duster, and Fanny after Uncle John with the broom. Phil made a spring for the window, bat there was a whatnot in the way, and get ting his leg entangled ia that, be brooght the whole concern to the floor, ambrotypes, books, vases, rare china, and a hundred cherished curiosities, all were involved in direct ruin. Phil went down with the other things, Uncle John stumbled over him, and Fanny only saved herself by seizing the bell-oord, which brought her two servants speedily on the spot. Of coarse they took Phil and Uoole for house breakers, and if Fanny's explanation had not been enforced by sundry touches of the broomstiok, the consequenoes might have been serious The first moment of calm was seized upon by the young couple to embrace each other. "My angel Fanny 1" "My precious Phil!" and then followed a series of explosion like tH bursting of a series of beer bottles. And Uncle John left the house during this interesting performance, still firmly of I the opinion that the surest way of recon citing a wife to her husband is to get a { third person to help her abase him. Half the World at War?There ever was a period when the war spirit was so prevalent among the civilized nations as it is at the present time. With all the enlightenment and boasted Christianity of the present time, the barbarism of war still remains, and the world is making no apparent progress toward that era when "peaoe shall reign among all the nations." In Europe. the fighting force of nearly 100,000,000 people are now engaged in slaughtering one another. Prussia, Aastria, Italy and the lesser German States have marshalled their armies upon the battle field, and a des; perate struggle will be the consequenoe. France stands upon the brink of the Ger man war, and we hear, at any time, that it may enter the lists. Russia stands in a similar attitude, ready to strike Prussia or Austria, as opportunity may offer. SpBin has all it can do to keep the kingdom safe | from revolts by the military arid the people, and nothing is apparently needed bat the right kind of a leader to insure the overthrow of the Government. England is, just now, at peace, but its Irish population are ripe for revolution, and they only await a favorable opportunity to make the strike for freedom. Crossing the Atlantio, we find that eight South American nations are now i engaged in war, while two or three others are contending with revolters and insurrectionists. Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine Confederation are allied in the war with Paraguay ; and Chili, Pera, Ecquador and Bolivia are allied in a defensive war asainst Spain. ComiDg Northward, we find | Mexico engaged in a desperate straggle to | disengage itself from the yoke of monarchy; and from Cuba we get the news of a formi dable insarrection there. Last, hot not least, we have the contemplated capture of Canada by the Fenians, the time of wtiob is not yet definitely fixed, bat dae notice, of coarse, will be given. It is not far otat of the way, therefore, to say that half the oivilized world is at the point of war. The Chester Harder. The information famished as with reference to the marder in Chester, and published in oar last issue, being in some respects .. .. - .. , . .r . incorrect, we dip tne lonowing rrom toe Standard of the 20th ultimo : "One of those terrible orimes that shock and appal a whole community, was perpetrated near this town on the night of the 22d instant. The circumstances are biefly as follows. Mr. Alexander D. Walker, residing within half a mile of the oorporate limits, was roused from his sleep abont 12 P. M., by a negro man, wbo stated that a Mr. Owens, of Spartanburg, oamped near the bridge, was very ill and desired some tea. The tea was prepared and seat to the supposed sufferer. In twenty mioutoa after, the same negro returned, with the information that Mr. Owe'ns was dying, and requested Mr. Walker to aooompany him to the oamp. Mr. Walker at once aroBe aDd in oompany with Butler Estes, his cousin, obeyed the summons After proceeding some distanoe, the party was bailed by, a man in the woods aud informed that the wagon had been moved some distance baok. They retraced their steps and were joined by a second negro, w nue warning id me direction of the supposed wagon, the two white men somewhat in advance, Mr Estes was alarmed by a half-stifled shoot, and on looking back perceived Mr. Walker was in the grasp of the negro who first visited the house. At the same ins'ant the negro who had joined them on the road attempted to seize Mr. Estes, who, being unarmed, fled to the house. He outran his pursuer and before reaching the house, he heard the discharge of a pistol. Fifteen minutes afterwards the front door was burst open by the same two negroes, one of whom discharged a pistol, the ball from whioli narrowly escaped striking the aged mother of Mr. Walker, who was lying in bed. They then ransacked the bouse at their leisure, remaining for an boar or longer, and aeleoting snob articles as suited tbeir inclination. The body of Mr. Walker was fonnd early Monday morning, lying in tbe oentre of tbe pnblio road. A pistol ball bad entered tbe right temple, traversipg tbe brain and producing instant death. No other wonnds were discovered. Mr. Walker was one of outmost esteemed oitizens, and bis nntimely fate has elicited general sympathy. The two murderers are still at large, and appear to have been complete strangers. One is described as a stout, ------ . i? black fellow, twenty one or two years 01 ape and quick speech. The other is copper col ored, taller and heavier than his companion Both were armed with pistols. Col. Bliss, the oommandant of this Post, in conjunction with the oitizens, has spared no efforts to secure the arrest of the vidians. The murder was most boldly planned and deliberately executed, and has occasioned an intense degree of excitement. It is sinoerely to be hoped that the scoundrels who oom mitted the atrocious crime will speedily be captured and brought to justioe. P. S.?We learn that two negroes, arrested in Charlotte on the 24th inst., and supposed to be the murderers, were lodged in the jail of this town this morning. Up to the time of going to press, no examine tion of the suspeoted parties has been had." Labor in the West. Col. T. C. Weatherly, State Senator from Marlboro', S. C., has just returned from a trip to Nebraska City. He has given bis observations in a series of letters to the " t 7 e .L. I . Uennettflviiie journal, xrom me ia?i uuujber of whioh we make the following extract: From Louisville I passed through a fine country to Nashville; from Nashville to Chattanooga it is almost one continual battle-field. Yon see at almost every yard something to remind you of the awful struggle in the way of forts, block-houses, graveyards and field works. The oountry around Murfreesboro' presents a sad picture, no fences or enclosures to be seen in many places. A few new houses ha'Ve been erected about Chattanooga. From this point to Atlanta there are evidences everywhere of the desolation of war and the terrific oharaoter of the fighting. After leaving Chattanooga I saw no good crops until I reaobed Home, Ga., and very little life and business activity except in Atlanta. 1 was told that there is more demand for real estate in this oity than any place in the South, and property sells higher than it ever did. A great many Northern men have purchased real estate with a view of settling there. Many who have formerly been engaged in planting are disposed to abandon this and undertake the mercantile or manufacturing business ? Tbey regard planting as unprofitable and ruinous with the present system of labor and surroundings, but I can't see bow any other busioes is to flourish and prove profitable unless somebody plants, and this business is successful. I am more and more convinced that the production of cotton in ?nnn!Jiii.?klo nnontito ia nnf nf tho U J wuo.ut.?,u.v -1- J - --- ? question with oar present system of labor. From present prospects I very mnch fear that most persons will be so thoroughly disgusted with it as not to engage in it another year, particularly where they have anything to lose. It is full time, it seems to me, to be looking for some other system of labor which may present stronger probabilities of suooess. I am inolined to think that for the production of ootton no foreign labor will likely succeed bo well as the Coolie. But restricted by aots of Congress to oontracts for one year, it is impossible to import them with any success. If left unrestricted, they could be imported for about sixty dol lare per bead, and could be placed unde contracts for eight years, at sixty dollar per annum. They are active, hardy am willing operatives. These restrictions oai be removed only by the defeat of the part now controlling the politics of this country I was much pleased to find in the North west much excitement on the subject, am from the best information T could get, think the fall elections will settle the mat ter against them. Oar only hope in th Soath is in their defeat. Hence, weahouh earnestly ioin in the effort now being mad by those opposed to the extreme radicalise of this party, aod who propose to meet ii Convention in Philadelphia oo the 14tl Aagast, for the purpose of organizing tbi opposition party. -. It may be asked why I have decided, ii my owd mind, so positively against tb probable success of our present system o labor, in the production of cotton. In re ply, I have to say that in all couotriee where the slave has been made aod denly free, be has ceased to work efficiently From my observation this year, I am con vinced that very few of our women wil work another year, and we oan only depen< upon the grown men, who were properl trained to work before the war, for hones oontiDued labor, aod only on about half o these The young boys and girls don' know how to work, and never cao be trainee to do bo, in the absence of all means o enforcing discipline. They care aothioj for fines imposed for bad work, or not doini their tasks. This leads me to ask what consider a very grave question : What wil become of them 7 I think about five pe ?. -r .i :,i j : ? i:? cent ui uieiu win auuueeu iu uiaoiug a n? ing, if left to themselves, if they are do robbed by the worthless, and I fear this i a large proportion. These are glaring re flections. Bat I cannot close without ask iog what will become of the large, worn oo plantations of oar old State? I leave th answer for those more hopeful of the fatur than I am. I thank you for giving a place in yoa paper to these scattering letters, written, a they Were, by the way side, mainly to giv me occapatioD, and yoar readers an ide of the immense northwestern section of thi country. T. C. W. Forrest's Own Account of the Pursui and Capture of Strejght. Late one afternoon, long after this, i the moment when the entire Confederao was ringing with bis pursuit and oaptare c Colonel Streight, Forrest came into th editorial room of the Rebel, at Chattanoogt where three or four of bis old friends wer collected, and gave ub a minute narrativ of the recent campaign. His desoriptiv powers are naturally very good, and on thi occasion he was full of his story, and spob with the enthusiasm and simplicity of obild. He had pursued Streight's colamc fighting every day, for nearly a fortoighi over an almost barren country, for ove several hundred miles, and with an inferic force, capturing him at last by stratagem "I wasn't certain when I demanded hi surrender which would have to give io, hii or me. But it was like a game 5f poker I called him on a single 'pair' to his 'full trusting to lock. He seemed al first t have very little confidence in my hand, bu I eaid : ?I give you five minutes. I've foi lowed you and fit you for two weeks, an now I've got you just where I want yon I'm tired of sacrificing lives, and offer yo a ohance to stop it. If you don't, I war you I Won't be answerable for tbe const quences." Streigbt was "fairly bluffed." He wa in a strange country. His adversary wa known to be a desperate man His oom mand was jaded. What could he do ? I he stood out any longer and was mistakei he might be sacrificed. He surrendered and in a few minutes himself and his me wflw disarmed nrisoners under the esoort c one-fourth of their number. "Where i the rest of jour command, General T asked Colonel Streight. ~ Forrest smilei grimlj and made no reply Presently when they arrived in the village of Rome the mystery was removed aod the gal lant but outwitted Indianian saw his blun der. It was during the pursuit of Streigh that an incident occurred wbiob Forres reported with great satisfaction. The chas was becoming ezoitcd and the Confederate were beginning to be eager for its conclu sion, when they reached a stream ove which the enemy bad crossed in safety but which had in the u eantim? risen s< rapidly as to be impassable. Forrest rodi along the banks baffled and angry, whiii the bullets from the other side spun througi the trees and whistled about his ears Af. ter vainly seeking for half an hour, hi came to a cabin which stood alone in thi ! wilderness near the water's edge. ?- ' ? . _ . 1 O - . There, as a last resort, ne inquired ror i ! ford. A young girl ran out and said. "] ' can show you one if you take me up bebinc ' you." The mother was very much shocked ; but the girl continued, "I'm not afraid You're General Forrest, and will take cart of me." "Hop ap, then," said Forrest J riding close to the fence. The girl bourn ; ded upon the horse, olung tightly to the { General's sabre sash, and away they rode down the stream and through the bust wood, to the rattle of sharp-shooting anc ' the whizzing of Minies. "What's that?'J said the girl, innocently, as one of these j came near. "That," said Forrest, "is a skeered bird.' They reached the ford in safety, the com maod passed over, and the General turned ; to his gallant little guide and asked vbai , he coold do for her? She replied that bei | brother had been captured by Colone! ! Straight and was a prisoner in his hands] j all she desired was his release. "Yerj 1 well," said Forrest, taking a note of the name; "yon shall have him by 12 o'oloob tomorrow." 1 It was turned of eleven the next daj I- when Straight surrendered. Immediately st r Forrest called for John Sansom, who rt s promptly appeared, glad enough to be red lieved, and wondering what oonld be wann ted with him by bit own General "I 2 y promised your sister Emma," said Forrest, when the yonng man appeared, "to send - yon to her at twelve o'clook to day.? ol d Time's nearly np. Take the best horse si I yon can find and put ont. Doable qaiok ' - now?mareh!" As related by Forrest him- ^ e self, with the earnest delight of bis nature, ^ d and in that quiet little editorial room at tbe ' e olose of a summer day, with all its freeness 01 o abont it, tbe Btory was thrilling, and we at ff a onoe resolved to make a heroine oat of the m h little rustio, Emma Sauaom. Iu 8 Subsequently she received a grant of u land and a vote of thanks from the General 0 Assembly of Alabama; bnt the reraem- 71 e brance of that ride behind the moat-daring f cavalry leader of the American Continent i- should be worth more to her than all the i, grants and resolutions wbioh Legislatures 1- have power to give. I know that Forrest looks back upon it with a pride that exceeds f1 i- the sense of the victory which it secured, u >1 and never alludes to it without a touch of ^ 1 the old fire and a quick returning of the y old flash.? Correspondence of the Nashville n it Banner. F ,f .< mm n t A Tennessee Short Method. tt i The Copperhead members of the Tennes- r< if see Legislature, aa it is well knowu, are p g trying to defeat the passage of the Oonstitu- n g tional Amendment, by abaeutiog them- T - - 1 i- * A m A.1 I Beives ho as 10 prevent aquoram. unities- " [] day, last week, the Speaker of tbe House ti r issued warrants for tbe arrest of tbe refrao- g r. tory members. The proceedings that fol- tc ,t lowed were somewhat riob. One of tbe aj s skulkers, named Overton, was found in ai , Knozville, and speedily brought to the re Hoose. The others bad fled, vowing arm- tc !t ed resistance should any attempt be made e to arrest them. b e Two deputy sergeant atarms got on tbe track of one of tbe fugitive legislators, and Q r followed him to bis borne foarteen miles is 8 beyond Carter's Station. About midnight ai e they reaohed tbe honse, and loudly knock- It a ed at tbe door. The nnsnspioions victim, fi g whose name was Williams, protruded his w head to ask what was wanted, when he was ?< pounced apon, clothed or unclothed in his p t night shirt, in spite of the bowls of bis it aroused family, and tbe tears of bis better ti >t half, and compelled to mount a mole and I y set off through the dark. Williams was w long and lank, and venomous, and the 1 o a.: : j i ft uuiuuiuuBueoo ui luuauair was lucreuNUU uy " t, his refusal to put ou bis unmentionables I e until they were drawn over bis legs by a li e modest deputy. It seems that a body guard a e of guerrillas were to have been oollected d is the next morning; but tbe sudden pursuit p e and oapture beaded this off, and prevented tl a armed resistance to arrest. Still, as tbe f< i, neighborhood was intensely rebel, tbe cap p t, tors forced the hard-riding mule to show off a r her best paoes, beeping time to the grunts, a ?r grumbles and riproarious oaths of the rep- si resentative of a slumbering constituency. E is The next morning Mr. Williams, lanker p n than usual, tired, unwashed, and intensely si : indignant, appeared at the bar of tbe House, o where he was greeted with an universal p o grin. When his name was called, he rose j( it and refnsed to answer, saying he was under g I- arrest; that he bad beeD seized in the dead a d of night by two men, "one of whom is a d ? ? i. nigger," and carried ofF on a spavined old n Q mule; and, in the name of his outraged r< 0 constituency, be demanded an immediate . 5- investigation. The House "investigated" him by entering his name on the roll as a s "present," aod ordering the Sergeant at- 0 e Arms to keep a sharp eye upon him ' At last accounts, the deputies were close n f after other fngacions members, with a fair 8( ? prospect of obtaining a fall House shortly, e! while Representative Williams was "chewn ing the cud of sweet and bitter fancies," and ft ?f meditating, no doubt, the direst form of G 8 revenge, particularly upon that "nigger." M . ?? - al d . Gkid Save the Republic. ti When the representative of a nation uses oi , language like that whioh follows, when man S ! hood is lost, and villainy rtigns supreme, te i- when diabolism is substituted for virtue, w and billingsgate becomes the medium of oft ficial despatches, we may well exclaim in t the depth of disgust?"God save the Ree public" Witness this precious effusion, E s which wo find in the "Washington Chroni in ; clc" re r The following is the dispatch of -Governor tv , Brownlow to Colonel Forney, exactly as it m 3 was received : 0( b "Nashville, Jnly 19,1866. ta 3 Hon. John TP. Forney, Secretary United ri 1 States Senate: u? "We have fonght the battle and won it 8( i We have ratified the Constitutional amend- ea a ment in the Honse?forty three votes for it, T eleven against it?two of Andrew Johnson's tb i tools not voting. Give mj respects to the pc L aeaa aog or toe Yvmte riouse. ui 1 "W. G. Brownlow." di , Governor Brownlow also sent the follow- 9S . ing telegraphic dispatch to Secretary Stan- E i ton: , "Nashville, Tennessee, th "July 19?12 o'clock, M. (1 s To Hon. Edward M Stanton, Secretary ki , of War, Washington, D. C?: id1 i "My compliments to the President. We of I have carried the Constitution amendment in 11 ' the House. Vote, 43 to 11?two of his (1 j tools refusing to Vote. tii "W. G. Brownlow." pa ' "Governor of Tennessee." 14 It may be doubted whether there are two OG I men more damnably abased in the world 87 t than the author and recipient of one of these 1$ r dispatches?Brownlow and Forney. The 33 I former is too contemptible for more than w< ; passing notice. Of the latter the Baltimore It) r Gazette observes : "More senseless abuse, mi i more unadulterated filth, more disgusting ; slanders and more unparalleled falsehoods th have been discharged against the South by pe j him than by all the other officers of the lif inkpot brigade pat together.?South Ga \ iluiian. i - ttmm ? j Destitution in South Carolina. bBon. James L. Orr, Governorof South , Carolina ; As there seemsto be conflicting testimony j : an otherwise trustworthy oharacter, as to lffering for want of food in Sooth Carolina, \ id ae General Sickles has disapproved of ' ie ration returns, upon your statement \ lat the want is very mnoh exaggerated, id as these returns have been referred to { ie for offioial action, 1 respectfully request om you some statement that will justify le lor wiinnotaiag supplies, tor realty it i not the purpose to give where there is ot absolute want, and in no owe whatever I encourage idleness, bat the direct re erse. 0.0. HOWARD, Major-Get evaL Executive Depabtment, 8. C., 1 Columbia, July 9.1866. j General:?1 h^VB the honorjto apknowl3ge the receipt of your letter of 'the 3d ist., infoimipg me that there was truatwor-. ly testimony as to the suffering for waot of jod by the poor in South Carolina, of both ices, and that General Sickles bad disproved of the ration return upon my stafeleot that the want is very mooh exaggera d, has just been received, and I hasten to iply, with a view of correcting any misaprehension on the subject growing out of iy conversation with Geo oral Siokles ? here is a great need of distributing rations irough the Freedmen's Bureau in every diarict in the State. In some (he necessity'is reater than in others, and whatl intended > impress npOD General Sickles was that __i;j-.r" _ ' j. u_ : ppnoauous . were ujuuu uy per?oua, wuue ad colored, who were not fit subjects of slief, and that, if all the btones wfrieb were )ld of the officers of the Bureau Id differnt sections were to be oredited, the distriution would embrace too wide a range/ t regret that Gen. Sickles should have nderstood from me that the necessity for suing rations to very many people, white , ad oolored, had passed. As early as March ist an estimate was made in the Cbestereld District, and it was found that there ere only seven bushels of com to each per-. >d in the district. Without feeding any ortion of this to the stock, the supply was ladequate to bread the people. Other disicts are nearly as destitute In Pickens, am informed that some 600 families are . ithout sufficient supplies of breadstufls? 'he scarcity is also great in Barnwell, Beauart, Colleton, Clarendon, Williamsburg, iexington, Spartanburg, Lancaster, Rich tod, 1<airneld aDd Hersbaw, and.the local nthorities cannot possibly famish the nee* y. The tax levied for the support of the oor i9 a direct tax, and it happens that in aose sections where the scarcity is most lit the general popalation are least able to ay a local tax, and hence there are tbouands in the State, white and colored, who last suffer for the commonest means of subistence unless rations are issoed from your lureau, and I regret extremely that any oinion of mine should have been so undertood as to justify or require the suspension f the issue of the rations which it was pro* osed to distribute in this State. My ob* ict and intention was simpjy to guard aainst the issue to persons without a claim, nd thereby increase idleness and vagabondim. Doubtless I did not sufficiently explain ly views, aud Gen. Sickles was justified in jaahing the conclusion he did. A month ago it was generally believed bat about the time of the wheat harvest an verage crop would be made, but since the rop has been thrashed out it is found not ) exceed half an average crop, and far less ilief will be famished the needy from that )urce than I had anticipated I therefore imeatlv reauest that vou will have the ra W A ? FX I i ons issued as estimated for by jour agents i the State, and which was disapproved by i en. Sickles. Proper instructions to dis- i abating agents may be, if they have not Iready been given to guard against imposi- 1 on from those who are not proper subjects f relief. I have written to day to General ' ickles, and have explained to him the exmt to which I intended my conversation ith bim to go. JAMES L. ORR, Governor of South Carolina , , The Wars of Forty nine Years in tjrope.?A writer in the London Morn ig Star says: "The following statistics ad with sad interest at this moment: Bereen the years 1815 and 1864, 2,782,000 en were killed in battle. Of these 2,148,30 were European and 164,000 inhabi nts of the other continents. Tbqs, dang forty?ine years the average annual imber who thus perished amoants to 43,30 men, not including the victims of dis ,3e engendered by the consequences of war be Crimean war (1853-56) was naturally ie most destructive, 511,000 men having irished daring its coarse; 176,000 of these ed on the field of battle; 33,000, from sease in hospital; 256,000 being Russians, 1,000 Turks, 107,000 French, 45,000 c nglisb, 2600 Italians, and 2500 Greeks, i The war iD the Caucasus (1859-60) cost i e lives of 330,000; the Anglo-Indian war t 857?59), 196,000; the Russian and Tar- i o?, naofi-Qcn 105 nnn . >,?> OU nai ^ LUMU?MW Jy Xl/U) VV/V y i/UU A WIIOU sarrection of 1831, 190,000 ; tbe civil war 1 Spain which raged from 1883 to 1840, f '2,000; the war of Greek independence 821-29), to whioh Lord Byron fell a vie- i n, 148,000; the various French camigna in Algeria, from 1830 to 1850, c :6,000; the Hungarian revolution, 142,?0; the Italian war of 1859-60, 129,- c 4; whioh last number oay be thus ana- c sed?96,874 fell on the held of battle, and ,000 died of disease ; of whioh 59,646 t ire Austriaus, 30,220 French, 23,600 i ilians, 14,010 Neapolitans, and 2870 Boms. . . 1 A ourious result ma; be deduced from ti e above?namely, that a greater numbet rish by the diseases incident to a camp a e than are aotuslly killed by shot and shell li or aoy other engine of dUUtollMr' the sums of money swallowed ?p by fhese wart, it it impossible to arrive it anything approaching a 'oorwot esfoalation. The Crimean war ooat Russia 2388 MttHott of francs (one million of ftfcne* it eqtttito 1600,000), Prance 1848 miHioflf, England 1820 millions, Tnrkey 1080 millions, Austria, tor mere demomeiretiens/470 utttlons. Efane Id two yean and a Mf 8628 ariDtoaa franca were spent. Tbe Italian war-of I860 eoet Prance 845 nilHone, Anstria 780 milKaieffiafr 410 millione. Than in two tnontbt MOOmflHoia were swallowed ?p. Tbe War in Booth iomwiao. It is lamentable to vitato ths dM^thr of brave sen in tbe JaagohwijhBaielto taking place in Sooth America, all sides, no doebt, inspired with ? beBef io tbe no utautj oi uimr ova oanxee, iqb nation to fight until the tmth ia viadisntod. The battles whioh bate taken pkns %fesly between Paraguay and the nifted Vmm of Brasil end the Argentine Bnpihih) are characterised fry a si?i ferocity randy paralleled. "JfaqtMf." totbe wanqaMhed seems to base been adoptoi M thanie of warfare. ? . Defenceless prisoners are ruthlaariy nut in pieces. < In the reeent attempt ef Ike Paraguayans to n?ptiiw thn island of I tapirn, they are said, to have Buffered a loss of 640 killed and ody 40 prisoners, moet of whom ware disabled. Ancftortmfcns battle took plane in the latter part cf May, near thn pass of fiateto Bellaeo, the ft?aguayaas making a furious assault,upon the allied forces, the cavalry repeatedly nhmgiog op to the mnsalee of the artillery; hot iaforoiatioD of the intended advance hawing been given by a deserted, they were repelled with fratfel slaughter. The Aigiod 'i? /r.*_. ' ^> a ijruwuo# u pwag ? wniim w this affair, s^ys; .-*rThis tremendous dneh wax an* 4kh steadiness by the troope attacked, only ft small oarpe of Corrientine cavalry giving way; the ohargee of the Paraguayan* wire received by the infantry in aqaare, with ft heavy Sre, which drove tbem back again and again, w bile the *Uwd cannon soon Obtained a decided superiority over that of the enemy, and, directed emialj oft the attacking masses, made eoefa havee among tbem as to quell the ardor of the Mink a poo the Hanks. This being effected, and tbe Paraguayans in a manner thrown apon the defensive, their oentre was theoMlaeiriid in tarn with vigor, end* after ? short feariBet of four boars they, were fomed io flee is disorder from tbe field of battle^ leaving three or foar thoassad dead, six pie set of artillery,, foar flags, a quantity of aans, and some prisoners, though these consist obiefly of the severely wounded, the wooded nature of tbe ground, and*the manner in (4 A Atti MM Mtslt ^ - ? ? J Wlliuu III 10 UUV up Willi puuuo tuu water-courses, preventing a close and effective pursuit. In this battle the' allies lost from 1500 to 2Q00 in killed and wind, two thirds of whieh lose van incurred bj the Brazilian army, against whiob da main attack was directed ... It is stated that A Paraguayan diviaioo of oOOO men was ''nearly annihilated." Nothing is said, about prisonera. In this batbarous warfare all parties seem equally enlpable. The conflict is literally a war of extermination. The Paraguayans alone are estimated to have suffered an aggregate loss, since .the commencement ofjlmatnggle a year ago, of more than 20,000 men. Mr. Truman's Opinion of tffa Mr. Truman. the traveling correspondent of the New York Times, in the Southern States, writes as follows: I do not care who that map ia, be he as radical as Mr Samper himself, if be is financially disinterestedt and entertains a regard or a respect for private opiqi$o%, as all true gentlemen do, he may fegjel.fthe Snnlli from nna and In Ilia ntlin anil at the termination of his journey he will deolare that the great body of the.geopU of the South are loyal, and are Graduating themselves as true American dtfeeae.? Send down an ass, who atastB .lH^ -the opinion that to be loyal the Southern people must sing hosannaha over their defeat, or ' go into Costarica over the unfurling of the American flag, that they most worship Gen. Sherman and cnrae General Lee, that fliey most trample upon instead of strew flowers over the graves of their fathers, husbands, sons and brothers, and he mispronounce against the loyalty of the people. There are many others who meander the turbid stream of sonllees fanaticism in. the aame canoe. Those snivelling Tax Commissioners and their associates at Feraaudfbs, Fla., who have sold oat two or three oities for almost nothing, deolare the entire South disloyal. The greater portion of the agents )f colored schools, and many of the officers f . U - n J ?. T>_ 2 5_ 5 .L . ji me rreeumena oareau, inaorae mu ibove declaration. , It has been customary since the si08e of the war to style it the bloodiMt one n the history of the world; bat the followng paragraphs clipped from an exchange, nay astound those who are not familiar with history: At the taking of Jerusalem by TItns, 000,000 Jews died by slaughter and With amine. Cassius at one time slaughtered 87,000 nhabitanta of Selencio. . ? I'robna pot to death 700,000 Qaals, opm rednoing their country. ilelisarions once had to kill three ban* [red thousand people to stop a fefolt in the lity of Constantinople. The Jews of Antiooh got mad at one ime and killed over 100,000 of the other nbibitaDts. 1 . , i ? I._I i ?.i. ni.i. At toe tnree oays ottue or uaaioosever 00,000 Hons were killed, with a proporiooate Dumber of the Gauls and their alues. Gibbon estimates that in the moot oreades five millions of Europeans lost their tves.