Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Jlorap anto Jfads. In a Berlin military hospital some amputations are performed with oironlar saws':- " A witty printer, who quit business, studied physio, and became a physician, gave his reason for so doing that in printing all the faults are exposed to tne eye, but in physio they are buried with the patient. An old lady who had insisted on her minister's praying for rain, had her cabbages eut up by a hail storm, and on viewing the wreok remarked, that she "never knew him to 'undertake anything without overdoing the matter. A clergyman lately traveling in the oil region oaw a child stumbling and falling. He kindly picked her up saying; "Poor little dear, are you hurt!" When she oried oat," "I ain't poor; dad has done strook iie." Hard robber oollars are to be the next novelty. A process of bleaobing robber has been discovered, and, after hardening, it can be made into oollars, wristbands, &o., and the enthusiastic think they see the end of the paper oollar business. The Petersburg Express says:? "There are only nine tobaooo factories in operation in Lynohbnrg now, against abont sixty before the war. The difficulty iu obtaining the raw material is said to be the reason that so few manufacturers are engaged in the business." The idea of having a car on passenger trains, next to the tender, so arranged that it will carry sufficient wateT to sprinkle the traok from one water-tank to another, is being discussed by railroad men, and will probably come Into general use before another season. Beaufort, South Carolina, whioh was fnpmarlo ?n aristnnrfttifi winter resort of the Southerners, has beoome completely Yankeeized with New Englanders. The Mayor of the oity is a New Englander, and every office-holder, land owner, and storekeeper hails from the same section. ?? The latest advices received here from , Vera Crux, state that au Austrian vessel was taking in a large qaantity of provisions. It was rumored that Maximilian intended to leave on her with a body goard; but that Marshal Bazine would detain him, foroibly, if necessary. A horticulturist advertised that he would supply all sorts of fruit trees and plants, especially pie-plants of all kinds. A gentleman thereupon sent him an order for one package of custard pie-seed, and a dozen mince pie-plants. The gentleman promptly filled the order by sending him four goose eggs and a small dog. The report of Generals Steedman and Fullerton upon the management of the Freedmen's Bureau in the Southern States, has been submitted to the Secretary of *.t _ - mi. a.i .1 war. xney biuib iuul iucic m ? uopuiauiD lack of system in the entire organization of tbaJBsrao, and, in conclusion, deolare that the style of oontractS-enforoed by the Ba reaa is simply slavery in a modiSediare^ A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer, mentions that Robert ?. Lee is among the visitors at the Rockbridge Alum 1 Springs. He states.that when General Lee 1 arrived riding the well-known "gallant gray" whioh he bestrode daring the war, the whole assemblage at the springs, men, women and 'ohildren, crowded aronnd him to extend a ( welcome. The New York Citizen, savs : "We have authority to contradiot the report that ' Jeff. Davis repudiates any portion of Col. 1 Craven's book. On the contrary, Mr. Da- i vis bore testimony, do later tbau last Toes- , day, to the marvelous aooaraoy with wbiob his conversations are reported in the 'Prison Life'?adding that be wished Craven had not been so acourate, 'as some of the reported remarks about Southern politicians , and generals were extremely embarrassing.' The Generals of the regular army now raok in order of their names in the following list : General Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant-General William T. Sherman, Major- ' Generals Henry W. Halleok, ^George G. ] Mead, Philip H. Sheridan, George H.Tho- , mas, WLafieldS. Hancock; Brigadier Generals Irwin McDowell, William S. RosecraDS, Philip St. George Cook, John Pope, Joseph Hooker, John M. SohoSeld, Oliver 0 Howard, Alfred H Terry, E .O C. Ord. The Columbia Carolinian of the 4th inst., says it is highly probable that the extra session of the legislature, which we have been expecting for some time, will not be convened until the close of the present month. This opinion is quite plausible, in view of the absence of the Governor while attending the Philadelphia Convention ? We are informed by one who knows, that the Legislature will be convened about the 27th instant.?Spartanburg Spartan. If as^ed, "Why do you not assure your life ?" some will tell you it is as much as they can do to maintain their families; . that the present wants of their wives and ohildren absorb all their limited means, and that they can spare nothing to make a future provision for them. Allow that it is so, and inquire if, with the husband and father in health and strength to toil for them, if, with the clear head and busy band of the parent, their wants are but just supplied, what would be their condition if they were to lose him, and be left alone in the world ? The Philadelphia Age, of Thursday morning, has a double-leaded editorial, calling attention to oertain outgivings in the radical, press, that the Philadelphia Union Convention is to be mobbed out of existence by returned soldiers and firemen, etc., as an offset to the mobbing of the bogus negro suffrage Convention at New Orleans.? Should such an outrage be attempted, says the A(7e, in the event of the contingency J referred to, the municipal arm would unhes- j itatingly be raised to protect the people in their rights, and that failing, the stronger j power of the General Government will be j called upon. The Cincinnati Times has received J the following in answer to a matrimonial ad- ; vertisement; it is from Spring Hill, Ten j nessee : "Estella wants a husbands who is j not a farmer. In me she can find one of; many trades and professions. I left the plow ; and bade adieu to farming in boyhood.? | Since then I have been lawyer, artist, shoe- j maker, peddler, printer, phrenologist, mer chant and auctioneer. I have been employ* ed in various other pursuits incident, to win Estella's hand. I am a bachelor of fortysix winters; Esteila can have me, seleoting from my trades and professions which I shall follow for her support. I have nearly starved at them all." The Mobile Register says that a vessel which arrived there from the West Indies brought a monster boa oonsrtictor in a large box. One night the reptile broke out, and, after visiting the hen coops and feasting on some of their occupants, he coiled himself up iu the bow of the boat. Next morning he was missed by the sailors, who were most all foreign negroes, and search ?- *m MntrAaKin wca fnnnd WttO lUDbllUtUU* Alio Duaayaut^ ?v? ? at last, neatly ooiled up, and one of the negroes, boldly approaobing with a rope, succeeded in lassoing him. The monBter straggled frightfully, but was finally dragged to his box and safely imprisoned The snake is kept as a pet on the boat, and is not feared by the sable tars. ibe |0tM gwquim. VORKVILLE, S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16,1866. OUB TEBMS?IN ADVANCE. THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per year; TWO DOLLARS for six 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 CENTS for three months. Single copies, TEN CENTS. Ot^-Corn, Flour, Wheat, Bacon, Lard, Firewood, kc., will be received for Subscription, Advertising or Job-Work, at market prices. (ffj- The paper will he discontinued on ine ?ipirauon 01 the time for which payment has been made. Subscribers who find a (X) cross mark on the wrapper or margin of their paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. ?9- Mr. JOHN R. ALLEN, Poet Master, at Chester C. H is our authorized agent for Chester District. ft^-Col. T. P. SLIDER, at the Mllle House, is our sole agent in Charleston, for receiving advertisements and subscriptions for the Enquirer. ENQUIRER CLUB BATES. PER TEAR?IN ADVANCE. IN SPECIE. IN "GREENBACKS." a COPIES,., .f 4 50 6 00 5 COPIES,... 8 75 13 50 10 COPIES,... 17 50 35 00 and an extra copy to the person making a club of ten. ISF'Within one month from the date a olnb is returned and the money paid, the person making the club, may add any number of names at the same rate. X. Subscribers who find a (X) cross mark on the wrapper or margin of their paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. CASH! We wish it distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and job work are cash. "THE LAND WE LOVE." The August number of this valuable periodical reached us late in the' month. When we say valuable, we pass no idle compliment upon the merits of this magazine. If the energy, taste and editorial ability that has marked the first few numbers be oontinued, it must become a necessary visitor to the Southern fireside. We wish unbounded sucoess to the enterprise SOW TUBNIPS. The scarcity of grain this winter will evidently be great, aB a result of the great drought this summer. This may be remedied in part, if each farmer will bow several acres of his best land in turnips. They make excellent food for stook, and will fur ish subsistence to a large olass of persons who may not be able to obtain other food. Don't neglect this. The matter is important enough to olaim the immediate attention of every farmer. Five hundred bushels of turnips fed to stock are equal to three hundred and fifty boshels of com. Cut down the withered corn stalks, manure carefully, and sow rata bagas. The yield will provide amply for the deficiency in grain, if carefully managed. Try it, and upon our word you will be repaid for your labor. Dr. John May, at the "York Drug Store" has a supply of seed on hand. LIFE INSURANCE. The attention of the Southern people is becoming direoted, with an unusual degree of interest, to the subject of life insurance. In order to meet some of the inquiries on this subject, we subjoin a brief exposition of the nature and objects of suoh Societies. A life insurance oompany proper, is based upon very nearly the same principle as a savings bank. By the payment of a small sum annually, whicji sum goes into a gen eral food, and is run through all the improvements of banking, year after year, the insured receives a policy on.his life which is drawn by his family after death. The sum thus paid in, called the premium, is collected annually for a number of years, or for life. The person paying such a premium, reoeives a polioy on bis life?for one year or a number of years, for any amount he may wish, and according to the amount of premium paid. This policy may be renewed every year, or changed to suit the oircumstances of the case. Now if the insured die in a few years after taking his policy, the probabilities are that he has only paid one or two hundred dollars for a poli-! cy, that draws to his family one or two | thousand. On the other band, if he live longor than bis allotted period, and should have paid one or two thousand for his policy, the money comes baok to his family, and he has only deposited his yearly earnings in a savings bank for their use. These principles have rendered investments in life insurance policies highly popular. In the present uncertain condition of property, and the hazards of life, no principle is more just than that of laying up a fund in this way for one's family after death. It is a fond that creditors oannot reaob nor accident destroy. It is sound in policy and humane in principle, and many are the widows and. orphans who have lived to bless the fore-thought that has made this wise investment for their fatare necessities. We know of no investment of one's annual savings calculated to insnre a more profitable return to his family after death, than that of life insaranoe in a safe and reliable company. In connection with this subject, we notice from the Report of the Southern Mutual Life Insurance Company, at Columbia, S. C., that the widow of General M. Jenkins, of this plaoe, has reoently been paid 310,000 on a polioy taken by this lamented officer before his death. BE HOPEFUL. The people of the South are now undergoing the bitterest ordeal that has yet tried them as a people. It is not usual that i? * *1 if < calamities more disastrous tuau tuose aruuug from war, befall toy olass of persons; yet snob has unquestionably been our fate. There is more poverty, suffering and sorrow in the South to day, than ever the fiercest battles of the war brought to its firesides. But the "better time ooming" is a oheerful thought that ought to animate us in these dark days of adversity. Oar condition might have been worse than it is now ?may be worse still, but the oloud with the silvery lining hangs out upon the future, and if we keep it in view, all may yet be well with ub. DespoDdenoy never mends a bad oaae. Cheerfulness frequently does. But there are reasons, and substantial ones too, why we need not despond. Our present misfortunes are aggravated by the oomplete revolution in the labor system of the country, and the prospective suffering before us arises principally from its present irregularity. A year or two of experience will devise other expedients by which the difficulty may be overcome. Debts and prospective ruin darken the prospects of many honest men. Better at once relieve yourself of the burden. It may be hard to give op the old homestead, where so many precious memories are treasured, but if need be, make the sacrifice? give the oreditor what be demands, and with an easy conscience and an honest manly purpose, begin life anew, and earnestly. The sacrifice is cheaper than the burden of care aDd anxiety otherwise entailed upou the possessor. Political dangers threaten us from the machinations of the dominant party.? Never mind them. The matter is none the better or worse for your anxieties. Very few persons have any business with political opinions at best. Besides, the excesses committed by the party in power oomplained of, are the sorest remedies for righting the ** * !? ye country. I on cannot ao u uy youreeu, hence, where the use of your pains npon the snbjeot. Is starvation threatening many sections of the once happy and prosperous South ? Be not alarmed, but remember that God's decrees are just, and his meroy abundant to those that seek it. RICHMOND NEWSPAPERS. The Richmond Timet in a late issue, publishes a high compliment to the press of tbo South, lauding the ability with which it has advocated the interests of its people in their trying emergencies. In endorsing, to some extent, the views of the Times, we willingly concede to the Newspapers of Richmond, the highest place in the oompliment so graoefully extended. There has been no period in our late eventful history in whiob the Richmond press has not been faithfully upon the watch tower, in advanoe of almost every other exponent of opinion. The ability, the faithfulness, and the high tone of these newspapers deserve from tbe people of tbe Sontb a nearty recognition. Woe to tbe luokless Bureau Agent, Military despot, or political demagogue, who abuses the trust of the people in Virginia. Scorobing satire, rebuke and exposure are as sure to fellow him, sb night the day. Let the man who desires to run a bureau machine for the profits and emoluments thereof, keep away from Richmond, if be does not want his name tattered like a thread bare suit, and most mysterious peon, lations unravelled by persevering reporters. We owe muoh to these fearless advocates for the servioes they have rendered the ?I--'- f^ia noniA/) r\f Kor jKqmn WUUIC UUUIU tup iUlO pblivu V* UV* DUHU.V and sorrow. Better days?paying patrons, and plenty of items to them. PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION. H. J. Raymond, of the N. Y. Times, lays down the following programme for the National Convention, that met on Tuesday, in Philadelphia: I. Security for the future to be guaranteed by a faithful execution of and submission to the Civil Rights and Freedman's Bureau laws. 2 Adoption of the proposed amendment j of the Constitution. 3 The immediate admission to their seats in Congress of ail loyal men who can take the test oatb, and 4. The recognition of the rights of every State to regulate the qnestion of saffrage in its own way. Tt is well for the oonntry that, this mash- j room politician possesses bat little inflacnoe with any honest party j otherwise the pat- j riotio efforts of those who desire to restore : peace to the oonntry, wonld be unavailing, j It is evident, nevertheless, that a class of men will gain admittance into this conventionk whose objeot will be to foment, rather than allay the seotional animosities that now paralize the nation. Radioal men, npon radical platforms, will bring their credentials there, in order to destroy that harmony on which alone depends onr hopes of a republican Government. We trust that this thorn in the body will be pluoked out before its festerings sioken the great oause for whioh it assembles. Men of the Raymond order of politics have no business there. There presenoe is dangerous?their friendship deceitful, and their promises faithless. We hope this Convention will prove successful in its patriotio effort to unite the people in restoring a constitutional government in place of the faction-rule by whioh | they are now governed. It may suoceed, but we have our doubts; and these doubts are trebly magnified, when snob names as that of H. J. Raymond appear among the list of delegates. THE HEW ORLEANS BIOTS. Mayor Monroe, of New Orleans, has written a scathing letter in explanation of the oauses of the reoent riots in that city, in whioh Baird comes in for a share of the blame. The Mayor expresses mnoh surprise that where military aid was solicited to suppress the disturbances, it was not forthcoming; but when from its absenoe soenes of riots ensued, and the city was immediately put under martial law. General Sheridan commanding the Department, in his offioial telegram to General Grant, gives the following version of the affair: You are doubtless aware of the serious ' riot which ooourred in this oity on the 30th. > A political body, calling itself the convention of 1864, met on the 30th, for, as it is alleged, the purpose of remodeling the present constitution of the State. 1 The leaders were political agitators and revolutipnary men, and the aotion of the < convention was liable to produoe breaohes of the publio peace. I had made up my midd to arrest the head men if the proceed- ; ings of the convention were calculated to ' disturb the tranquility of the department, i but I had no oanse for aotion nntil they ( committed an overt act. I About forty whites and blaobs were killed, and one hundred and sixty wounded. Every- 1 thing is now quiet, but I deem it best to mAintnin n mili^nvrr onvwnmo/in in f V) o oifr I uiaiubniu a ujuim>i y ou^iouiau^ iu vuo vivj * for a few days, until the affair is folly in- i vestigated. I believe the sentiment of the general oommonity is great regret at this unnecessary cruelty, and that the police could have made aoy arrest they saw fit 1 without sacrificing lives. ] P. H. Sheridan, ] Major General Commanding Notwithstanding the olear and truthful statement thus made by one of the organs of the radical party, that class of people j seem determined to work the matter into a , huge bill of indictment against the whole | South. Truth, justice and right has fled, 1 but we hope not forever. jsditobial inklings. E. A. Pollard has just issued from 1 .1. e t m tj.i jv ( tee press 01 JU. JL JL aiuici vu \j\j> j jLfoiviujviO) | ^ bis new history of the war, entitled the : "Lost Cause," oootaiuiog over 800 pages. The work is popularly received. I Several of our exchanges have contained notices to the effect that General 1 Beauregard, now on a visit to Europe, i had been tendered important commands by 1 several sovereigns there, and indicated the probability of bis acceptance of one of { them. These statements are premature, as the distingnsshed soldier would hardly violate his parole?whioh the President remitted for a brief period?for any command tbat might be offered him. - ? The fieroeness of the war in Eu- 1 rope has not obscured the few gentle sparks of humanity, that usually characterize true bravery. We are told by all the war correspondents tbat the Prussians exhibit equal care for the wounded Austrians with those of their own side. Burning towns and cities have not marked the invaders track through Bohemia, nor is the peasantry per mitted to be interferred with by the Prussian soldiery. A Prussian soldier who had killed, in a barbarous manner, some wounded Austrians that fell into his hands, was immediately tried, convioted and executed for the orime. And these were Hessians! a name, before our war, more execrable in America,- than any other known in warfare. Since its close, some Americans have cbanged their opinions, and believe that Yankees henceforth, deserve the highest place in the catalogue of brutality in war. Perhaps so. "Send him to prison and thus let . him know that he lives in a land of liberty" was the sage paradox uttered by one of the members of the famous Louisiana Convention, concerning an offending representative of the press of New Orleans.? This is a novel way of teaobing "liberty" to a people, but, nevertheless, a highly pop ular one. Ex-President IMVI8, U. U. Clay, Mallory," Stephens, and others, , have all been reoeiving instruction gratis on this subject, and the result will no doubt be the dissemination of a better understanding of tbe meaning of this term than was previously had in this country. The ooraing generations in tbe South, will probably become so well informed as to the meaning of this term, that the merest tyro will be able to answer any questions that may be put to him, in a trice. The school in whioh liberty is taught, according to this defini tion, is a pretty iarge ooe, and many are taking lessons?without oharge bat not exaotly fret either. Senator Doolittle, of Wisoonsin, is one of the few men in the present Congress who does not seem to fear either Thad. Stevens or a Federal baatile. An earnest, intelligent and determined supporter of the President and Constitutional liberty, there are few men of his views who speak with more boldness, or carry more iofluenoe with their counsels. At a recent speeoh delivered in Madison, Wisconsin, he nsed the following language of stern warp*' ing: But, fellow-citizens, I tell you, and I assure you, it is as certain, in my judgment, as God lives and reiens. that unless the people in this country sustain Andrew Johnson now in his determined effort to sustain this Union and to arrest the mad oareer of this wild tendenoy to centralization, your constitutional liberties are engnlphed in a vortex from which they will never rise. [Cheero.j That tendency is to despotism, the despotism of a tyrannical canons?the meanest of all despotisms from the days of the seventy tyrants down. [Cheers.] The trial of Ex-President Davis will be an important era in our history; as its results, if fairly oondaoted, are to establish important questions now in dispute. iV, will decide 1st, whether or not a State oan commit an aot of treason against the Gov. eminent. 2d. Whether or not a de facto government, such as that of the Confederate States, exercising authority over its territo* ry, does not, of right, control the 9ction of its people. The negative of the first and affirmative of the seoond principle ever es Ml L. J- ? aL. Daonuuea, so win do. buub turever tut) biusij issue of treason so long mooted. Ad exchange famishes as with the following sketch of the new Post-Master General : "Alexander Williams Randall, Mr. Johnson's new Post-Master General, was born in Montgomery ooanty, N. York, in the year 1819, and is therefore only forty-seven pears old. He emigrated, in early life with bis parents, to Wisconsin, studied law, and in 1847 was a member of the Territorial Convention that framed a Constitution for the State. He was elected Governor of Wisconsin in 1856, and held that office when the war broke oat. He supported Mr. Lincoln's war policy very energetically, ind on the expiration of his term of offioe, in 1861 or 1862, was sent as Minister to 1 Rome. He soon resigned and returned to America, and in 1863 was appointed First Assistant Postmaster-General, an office which be continued to noia until nis recent promotion to the head of the Post-Office Department." 1 MEBE-MEITTIOTT. A foreign correspondent says that the Austrian surgeons report that the wounds inflicted by the needie-gun are generally slight. *. Additional French troops are going to Mexico. The Atlantic cable is the fifty fifth deep sea line iu working order. It is said that the chances are good that the Demoorates will elect, eight af the eleven Congressmen in Indiana, this fall. The river Danube flows through two kingdoms and two empires. It begins is a Protestant rivulet, then becomes a Roman Catholio river, and finally turns Turk ~ A sentimental youth: "My dear girl, will you share my lot for life ?" Practical girl: "How many acres are there in your lot, sir ?" Gov. Throobmorton was inaugurated Governor of Texas, at Austin, on the 9tb instant. His address is of a conservative and conciliatory nature. Mayor Monroe, of New Orleans, performs do otboiai acts or mattes appointments witnoat ooDsalting the military authorities. An exchange asked, "How shall we build a dam to stop this drain ?" To which the Boston Herald retorted. "We don't know? Congressmen don't seem to care a dam about it." Before many years it is expected that St. Louis will have a continuous wharf seven miles in length. The Raleigh Sentinel learns that the neoessary stock having been taken, work will be at once commenced upon a railroad direct from Charlotte, N. C., to Atlanta, Ga. A Columbus (Miss.) colored woman recently gave birth tofoarboys, whom she has named respectively Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Henry Ward Beecher and Horace Greely. Scene in a New York tenement house: Corpse of a cholera patient and 22 persons sleeping soundly within a yard of it. Average weight of a bale of cotton of different countries: American, 475 lbs ; T-> T T OOT . 1? i.: oi l . Hiasc loaian, o"/ xua.) xugyfrnau, un iva. , 1 Brazilian, 182 lbs.; West Indian, 165 lbs. General Basil Dabe is now engaged in writing a history of the life and military 1 services of General John H. Morgan A colored Convention, representing all Tennessee, is in session at Nashville The State Convention of North Carolina, at Raleigh, on the 10th instant, appointed Wm. A. Graham, George Davis, R. C. Pnryear and George Howard, as Delegates for the State at large, to the Philadelphia Convention. A movement has been inaugurated at Charlotte, N. C , to pot the Statesville railroad in working order. The work will be commenced as soon as 875,000 are raised. The big crops at the West indicate a fall in prices. There is room for mi ?1 i.u I It. j.ue man who uevenuiu au eunur ( bow he coald better his paper has gone oat j West, to marry the woman who never look- j ed into a looking-glass. Old shot and I shell, cannon, &o., pioked up on battle- j fields, Bold for 8112,000 in Savannah. Mississippi Lunatio Asylum.?Gov. Humphrey, of Mississippi reports to Gen. Howard that the Insane Asylam of that State is so crowded that be is daily compelled to refuse admission to white citizens, ' and is therefore UDable to provide for the imbeoile blacks. The reverses of the war, j subsequent to the bankruptcy of the people ! and present sufferings for food and olotbing, are thought to be the reasons for this in- j crease of idiocy. LOCAL MATTERS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. John M. 8herrer?Candidate for Tax-Collcctor. John A. Brown, O. Y. D.?Citation?G.L.McNcel, Applicant?Jane Bankhead, deceased. John A. Brown, O. Y. D.?Citation?W. ?. Campbell, Applicant?Robt. Campbell, deceased. T. 8. Jefferys, Agent?Equitable Life Insurance Society. Tboe. K. McKnlght?Not accountable for Debts of others. Floyd, Dobeon fc Co.?Notice to Persons to Pay Up. " " " ?Selling Off at Almost Cost. G. R. Ratchford?Country Cured Bacon. ". " ?Liverpool Salt. " " ?Coffee, Sugar and Rice. " " ?Ginger Preserves. u ' ? Assorted Cizars. " " ?Lead, and Shot of all sites. " " -Superior Apple Vinegar. John M. Jackson?Accepts nomination as a candidate foi Tax-CoUector. The Drouught, Some of oor farmers say there has nol been a dew in many parts of this District since Jane. Whether this statement if exaggerated or not, we have not had a general rain in nearly two months. The eorn if twisted into yellow ribbons, and the hall grown cotton pods have began to open nearly a month in' advance of the time foi maturity. As the government has donated several million aores of lands in the West to freedmen, and probably transportation to tbeii new homes, they had better take the bint and leave. There will not be food enough raised , here to feed those who are not the favored pensioners of the government. Ii the blacks leave there will be a larger share for the hungry. ^ ^ The Cholera in New York, The New York World of the 4th says: "It is idle to disguise that the oholera is rapidly and violently increasing in this oity; and, assurances that snoh would not be the case in the past having proved abortive, it is necessary to look for still greater increase in the coming weeks. The culmination of the disease was in 1854 reached during the second week in August. At that time the deaths per week*, by cholera alone, were two hundred and forty one, while daring the week ending yesterday, the Dombet of officially noted deaths was one hundred and twelve. Counting in the, doubtless, large nnmber that have been really killed by oholera without the notice of the Board of Health, the latter figure, with the addition, will be a close approximation at least to that of '54. The large registry of forty-eight cases sinoe our last report tells the faot that the tens of thousands of the heedless, uncleanly, and in temperate in ouroity, are beginning to reap the fruits of their habits, and that the imminent deadliness of the oholera poison that deoimated the Continent in many sections, has lost not a whit of its power on this Bide the Atlantio. The lessons of care, courage, temperance, cleanliness, and ventilation it teaches with such terrible emphasis, will be 'appreciated without en largemeut, and commend themselves to all the refleotive. The attitude of the city now .is most praiseworthy. Stricken with an epidtmie whose victims are ohosen with instant severity and arbitrary, unannounced design, New York exhibits neither apathy nor panic, but seems to appreciate, and for that reason manfully to face, the invisible danger.? Among the intelligent there is no hegira, no soare?neither indifference nor stolidity ? That among the other class, whom, unfortunately, though not unnaturally, the disease seems wholly to select, there appears to be utter failure to appreoihte and guard against the 'danger, is a matter less for surprise than regret. The authorities look forward to a steady and persistent battle with oholera until the cold weather steps in, and vetoes, as it alone can, the march of the epidemio. Preparations fob the Philadelphia Convention.?Southern Delegates expected to Speak in Northern Cities?Washington, August 8.?Arrangements for the prooeedinge of the Philadelphia Convention have been or will be made that will prevent the delay and confusion wbioh would neoesearil* embarrass fcho business of so large a body. Without pre concert of aotion, memhere would soon become impatient of delay. They expect to arrive at conclusions very quickly. Instead of a week's session, which has been anticipated, three days would suffice, with proper arrangements. The resolutions, the address to the people of the United States, the committees and the offioers of the Convention oould all be agreed upon before the meeting of the body. After the conclusion of the business, delegates will have an opportuoity to ad dress the public in their ball, which will probably be kept open during the canvass for the next elections for that purpose.? The delegates will, no doubt, speak in other cities and towns, where they will fiod large audiences The Southern delegates will be called upon to speak in our cities. The present temper and condition of the Southern excluded States can be best known through them to the Northern people. There ha3 been a groat deal of speculation here as to the probable selection for presiding officer of the Philadelphia Convention. It is now reduced to almost a certainty that the selection will be made from the following: Hon. Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, General Dix, of New York, or Judge Curtis, of Massachusetts. The Southern delegates that have arrived here have bad several informal meetings, and have given very decided expression against the admision, as delegates to the Philadelphia Convention, of Vallandigham, of Ohio, and others of that ilk from the South. No speoial measures by which such men can be got rid of, when they come as regularly elected delegates, have been recommended. The Homestead Law.?The late Congress having passed a law granting to freedmen, who emigrate, a certain number of acres of land in Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi, it is said that many are preparing to go from Virginia and other States. it will not Dart as here id worth uarolma and Virginia if all the freedmen go. Charlotte Democrat. The Legislature?We learn thai Governor Orr will convene this body in special session on Tuesday, the 2Sth inst. A modification of the Negro Code, the relief of debtors, and a provision for the suffering poor, will constitute the important Bubjeots of legislation.?Abbeville Frees. fatnktoM V " BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. COLUMBIA, 8. C? 13th AU&U8T, 1863. Negro Emigration. The soheme of emigration to. distant parts doesn't work as well as it promised. Wboo it comes to the scratch, Coffee concludes be would rather stay. Hymen-colored. We are advised that the negroes hereaWts do not marry*as readily as they did ' while slaves. - Matrimony assumes a graver t aspect when it involves the supporting of i a family, and is not so easily pat off and , on as it was in the days of yore, when they did not have the liberty of starving when1 ever they pleased. * , f Crops. 1 A correspondent writing from North Carolina Bays that in the eastern put of that State they will make enough to. feed I them and to spare?enough to feed the State, is his estimate. So, it is to be hoped that fertile end fa' vored spots here and there all over our ; smitten land, will prodnee enough to pre, vent any suffering from want of food next year; and the promise will still remain, 1 that seed time and harvest shall not fail. Burglaries. 1 /Almost every night we have some new 'feat of this kind to regale oorselves with here in Colombia. The 4atest instances point to the servants employed on the premises as the only parties who eoold have had the necessary information. The burglaries are bungling jobs, performed without any art or skill?simple, stupid stealing, that almost any negro oould do if be ehoee. A few of the instances, however, show decided talent. To enter a door and step over the proprietor, who sleeps aeroes the door to protect his house; and to take out valuables at will, and to re cross the sleeping ftentioel; and all tbis without detection, is decidedly smart, aod indicates something like professional skill. - I The European War. The war lags. They hare abnndanoe of armistice, bat no peace. Trae, they have not bad the inhumanity to close itiUmidsammer with peace?we thought they could not be so cruel. According to last advloes, Austria is getting her metal op; and Francis Joseph is ready to fight ft otit. Helms given up Italy, on the South, until he finishes the little job oo his northern frontier.? Cialdini is' raging all over Lothbdrdy and Venice, jast dying for a fight; bat' the Aastrians have all decamped. Hertnhria Morelli is the name of a modern Joan of Aro, who in defenoe of ber own Italia, has won the wonder of the world. On the other band, Prnssia and h^King *TT!II? !.l TMJ1J J-Ll- El w imam, who his minister Dismaroa, ao not propose to yield a jot; and are likely to dictate the terms of a peace which shall leave Austria oat of Germany. It tctZT be a great relief to sobool-boys if they would simplify the Gcog\'aphy of central Europe. It has always been a nasty little pateh of bard words and interminable sub-division! We devoutly hope they'll at least make the geography easier. Prussia is taking another smart dodge against Austria?inciting that unparalleled scoundrel, Kossuth, to stir up rebellion in Hungary. It is a good oard. Kossuth is a great rascal; but he can make a muss for. Austria, atfd that is what Prussia wants with him. Stirring up a fuss is Kossuth's forte Poor Hungary will of oourse pay the piper; but then they will have attained their end?they will nave bothered Francis Joseph, of Austria.? Those Magyars have always had an itching to give trouble to the House of Hapaburg, 3 _ _ _1_ TT7 l it Ml ana now is a ooance. rrt nope icey will improve it. From the South Carolinian. D. D. on the Philadelphia Convention. Forney is oat io a letter to the Philadelphia Press, in which he makes a studied and attrooioas attempt to inflame the passions of the masses, and if possible, prevent the feting of the Philadelphia Convention. He prates about treason when he is himself a traitor of the rankest dye. He calks of rebels as if onmindful that he would to day, if he possessed the power, i sink the Constitutional Government iu oblivion. He is, in short, the worst strong irretrievably badwneo. In the letter to wbioh we refer, he uses the following language. The italios are Forney's own : They, (the members of the Convention,) are to meet now, these architects of treason, jihese pardoned yet impenitent destroyers of the peace of a happy people, under peculiar omens. Had they been invited by the oonqaering leaders of our ahnies, or by the chiefs of the mighty party that sustained these armies in their dark and bloody trials, they would have been welcomed by a magnanimous populace. But they will reach Philadelphia in response to the'call of a perfidious Executive, who, after betraying a generous and noble party, and taking to his bosom his own persecutors and theirs, is now attempting to surrender the Government into the hands of the traitors defeated sixteen months ago in their efforts to destroy it. They do not oome as captives, hut us leaders: not to set the examnle of peace, bat to lay down the conditions of Northern submission They come, according to tbe call, and in consonance with their own declarations, to insnlt and to trample under foot the principles of the great peopl? whose bravery and endurance vanquished them on the field of battle. In looking over the list of delegates, as far as published, I recognize many wellknown names. We. must not forget .that the absence of some or the original rebels is to be aoconnted for by the death or expatriation of most of those obaraeters. Davis is in prison; his faithful servants, Benjamin, Toombs, Slideli, Mason, Breck, inridge, Magrnder, are fugitives; and his other devoted followers, Keitt, Garnett and Jackson, are dead, bot his cause and bis hopes will be fully represented by men who i fought under his standard in the South, and who prayed for its success in the North. Virginia has elected none bnt politicians who sympathized with the rebellion. North Carolina will be represented by the same material.