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lewis m. geist, proprietor.J $ni>epcnlitnt Jramilg itctospperi Jfor t|e $romotion flf t|e political, Social, Agricultural anb Commercial Interests of tjjt Sontj). jteems-? so a yeai^ aotahce. VOLUME XII. YORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLmA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1866. NUMBER 27. Original jaetrg. Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. HEBMIONE.-A SONQ. BY A.NACRKOS. Come back, my own, my wayward lore, There are no eyes like thine ; No other voice, which, like the dove, Drivcth music Into mine; Come to the shelter of this breast, Which ever pants for thee, O, come and soothe its wild unrest, Beautiful Hermione! The pale white roses of the spring, The violet's modest glance, But visions of thee ever bring? Of thee and the old romance: The stars which nightly gem the sky, Remind me but or thee? So bright, so pure, so calm aud high, , Beautiful Hcrtnione. Come back my own, my loved and lost, And give me hope and light, For thy absence is a killing frost, And thy smile the topaz bright: Come back, and ever reign supreme, Life, light and love to me; The source of every golden dream, Beautiful Hermione. Original Articles. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM ARKANSAS, Resources of Arkansas?a Brazil nearer home?Great inducements to Emigrants ?How the Freedmen work?Our Railroads, dec. Pine Bluff, Oct. 15, 1866. Mr. Editor: I have often promised myself, to write a brief sketch of the resources and future prospects of Arkansas, for the Enquirer, as many of your readers contemplate seeking new homes?some in the sunset west, and others, more visiooary, looking to Brazil as the laod of promise.? If you will glaoce at the map of Arkansas, you will see the mighty Mississippi sweeping her entire eastern border. Along this Father of Waters extends a broad scope of the fioeet alluvial lands, averaging forty miles in width, and as fertile as the far-famed delta of the Nile. Tributary to the Mississippi are the St Francis, White and Arkansas rivers?all fine navigable streams and belted with rich alluvial bottoms, as productive as any lands in the world. On the south-western side of the State, Red River, with its tributaries, offer the same flattering inducements to the farmer and cotton grower. Then there is the Ouachita, Bayou Bartholomew and innumerable smaller streams, all of which make Arkansas the best watered State in the Union ? You can form a correct idea of the inexhaustible land resources of the State, from oue significant fact. In I860, our white population amounted to 324,823, while South Carolina had 308,000?less than that of Arkansas. Notwithstanding this fact, Arkansas had 2,000,000 acres of unentered land, some of it capable of making a bale of cotton to the acre ; and the United States held cithin her limits, 16,000,000 acres While there was so much government land in the State, private individuals owned large tracts of unimproved land, and many of them are now offering them at from one to Jive dollars per acre, and in some instances allowing them to revert to the State for taxes. These facts show the land resources of the State, and that Arkansas, when settled up, is capable of supporting a population of one million with as much ease as South ~ - -~-l Carolina supports tier present Duuiuer w inhabitants. When we are told about the oheapness of land in Brazil, we reply, here it is just as cheap. You can enter it at Government prices, or buy from private parties at the lowest figures, and on your own terms as to time of payment. Those who go to Bra zil expecting to get fine improvements and fine lands for the same price they can pur chase wild lands, will be greatly deceived. To those who are able to make a cash payment, it is always cheaper to buy improved places. To buy improved places, generally requires a cash payment of one fourth or one-third. The first year's crop will pay the balance. What cheaper land should any one desire? The improved places on the Arkansas river are selling at from twenty to forty dollars per acre. The cost of clearing, feociug, draining and otherwise improving these places, is estimated at from forty to one hundred dollars per acre. They can be purchased now for less thaD the cost of clearing?to say nothing of the other improvements. Besides, you are living all the time in a christian communi ty?so-called?and are not under the disagreeable necessity of studying Spanish or Portuguese, before you can accuse your neighbor of stealing your hogs, or if yon are a baobelor, or should get to be a widower, before you can persuade some fairsigno- j rita to naturalize you. A great many people io Carolina may j think the figures given above for improved | lauds, very high, but they must not suppose 1 ? 1? ??J an ?naK q o Waam nrtAHC I LIU litUU 10 duvu no iucy uavu ui'tu avvua- i tomed to regard as the first quality. The! best lands in York District are one hundred per oent. below our best. Then some fear! the; cannot hud good society in Arkausas Here, too, they are in error. The people here are iutelligeot and progressive. It is also a hallucination to suppose that in comiog to Arkansas, the emigrant is "going out of the world." The nearer you get to the Mississippi river, the nearer you get to the great heart of the western world. Pine Bluff is about the size of Yorkville, and we have twice the fashion and extravagance here now that Yorkville had before the war. This is evidently a recuperative country.? You can form a justideaof the difference between your State and this from one fact ? Here negroes hire, very readily, for twenty dollars per month, and we cannot get enough at that. Would the best lands in York District justify such prices 1 ( A question of no little interest is the 'irrepressible" negro. The freedmeu here are doing well?all things considered. They, of course, will not do as much work as before tbe "year of Jubelo," but then they will make six or seven bales of cotton to the band, besides the corn and otbei crops?worth at present prioes twelve bundred dollars A Railroad spirit is beginning to manifest itself in this State once more. Before the war, three or four extensive lines bad been chartered, surveyed and much of the grading completed. Some of these have passed into the hands of Northern capitalists, and the work will be immediately resumed. This will bring money and labor to tbe State The following extraot from the corres ? J r - \T_-.i ?v. pOUUCUCC Ul a nuiuiciu paper, vruucu wjr an ArkansaiaD, gives more in detail a view of the resources of this growing State : "Our best lands are of alluvial formation, or as they are popularly termed, made or bottom lands There is no State in the Union, perhaps which has more bottom land ?land that will never wear out or wash away, than Arkansas. The Nile, in its palmiest days, never yielded more abundantly than the lands on the Arkansas and Red Rivers, and there are few more fertile lauds than those on the White and St. Fraoois, and numerous smaller streams, to say noth ing of those sufficient lands bordering upun the great Father of Waters, with an average breadth of forty miles, and familiarly known as the Mississippi bottom. Many places in all these bottoms of course overflow, but a great deal of it is either above or adequately protected by proper levees The bottom lands on all the rivers above mentioned are of -the greatest fertility and adapted to the growth of cotton, but the lands on the Arkansas are, par excellence, the ootton lands of the world. Those on the Mississippi and Red Rivers yield as much to the acre, but the crop on the Arkansas is said to be more certain and freer from disease, with less danger from overflow. The average yield is one bale to the aore, though sometimes two, and more rarely in an extraordinary season, three bales have been gathered; 400 pounds of ginned cot ton is generally considered in most parts of the south as a bale of cotton; but the planters on the Arkansas by a bale of cotton mean one weighing 500 pounds. At the present price, 33 cents, this is equal to near ly two hundred dollars per acre. How it is under the new system of labor I cannot aav hut hpfurn thfi war a pond hand Was W*V ? - - o expected to cultivate tea acres ia cotton and five in corn. This was equal to ten bales of cottoo, and coru enough to feed himself aDd horse, to the band What other farming will yield a greater profit ? Nor are the lands on the Arkaoeas good for cottOD aloDe They are equally good for corn I have beard of eighty bushels, and in one instance as much as one hundred and ten bushels was said to have been gathered from a single aore The average production though is not more than fifty bushels, for the planters seldom car^ to make more coru than will do them, and take no pains in its cultivation. Millet and Hungarian grass grow luxuriantly; and the few who have tried it say that timothy and other grass will do as finely. The world cannot produce finer peaches and pears, and when our railroads to Memphis and Cairo are completed, we can supply those cities and St. Louis with the earliest fruits and vegetables. Unlike most bottom lands, the lands on the Arkansas are not stiff or wet lands, but for the most part a fine sandy loam, for which reason many farms never get muddy or miry, and some of our best roads are found in the river bottom. Gen. Shermau said in his speech last winter at Little Rock, chat be did aot know of a single good road io the State, but be had uever traveled down the river seveD or eight miles from Little Rock, or he certainly would have thought we had some good dirt roads. Another advantage is that we sometimes have a good deal of snow in the winter, which pulverises the soil, and makes it easier to cultivate the rich lands. In fact, while we are far enough south to raise the finest cotton in the world, we are far enough north to raise fine corn, grain, etc., so that, be the most profitable staple for the time being what it may, no part of the country promises richer returns to the plaoter than the valley of the Arkansas. At preseut, though, and probably for many years, cotton wiil he the most profitable staple, but when our railroads are completed and under our new system of labor, the large plantations have given place to small farms, as they will, and villages and towns have sprung up, there is no knowing the capacities of the soii and the various profitable purposes to which it will be applied. I have said our alluvial lands are our best lands; but there are ten or twelve counties in whioh ootton is raised to advantage on uplands. These uplands generally yield from a fourth to a half bale per acre, aod are more productive than the same class of lauds iu Georgia, Alabama aud Tennessee, from which the bulk of the cotton iu those States is made. They were settled before the war, mostly by planters working from teu to twenty hands, or a less number, and were preferred by them for their superiority, cheapness aod greater advantages for schools and churches?the plantations on the rivers, under the old system of labor, being generally too large, and the populatoo scattered to keep up good schools.? Many persons by practising industry and ecouomy have become wealth by the cultivation of these laode, and they have been for the most part filled up with an active and intelligent population. North of the Arkansas, with the exception of a few counties, not much cotton is raised. It is generally a rocky, brokeD, and in some places, mountainous country ; well watered with beautiful streams, and interspersed with rich valleys and fine settlements of land. It is well adapted to i grain growing and stock raising. It produces fine corn, wheat and oats, and no part of the United States, perhaps, produi oes finer apples than some counties in north Arkansas. Owing to the shortness of the * winter, stock require muoh less feed than in the colder regions of the extreme north. Before the war, droves of cattle were driven from this section to Illinois, and thenoe to i the New York market. I Horses and mules though, were generally driven to south Arkansas and Louisiana, i and sold to the cotton planters Sheep do well, and there is an abundanoe of water power sufficient to drive any quantity of machinery. In this part of the State are numerous lead mines, and fine beds of coal and iron are said to exist io many places. Considering its bealthfulness, its capacity for producing grain, and its mineral treas ures, it is easy to see that energy and en- I terprise, with a denser population and a few railroads, are all that is needed to make | this a valuable section of the State So far, I have only spoken of the agri- j cultural resources of the State But many ; intelligent men believe that the mineral > wealth which lies hid in its bosom is equal, ! perhaps to any State east of the Mississippi, ! and that great fortunes arc awaiting those j who understand the mining business, and j bring the requisite capital and energy to the ) task. There are said to he valuable mines of lead, iron and coal in various parts of the j State, besides manganese, plumbago or j black lead, and other mioerals Some of j these mines have been worked, and, after a few years, abandoned for want of eoergy, i want of means or some other cause. The true difficulty, 1 apprehend, was that as long as slavery existed, everybody's am bition was ??to make more cotton ; to buy more negroes; to make more cotton;" and the mineral treasures and every other source of wealth in the State was negleoted.? Within ten or fifteen miles of Little Rock, the capitol of the State, there are valuable lead mines, and also a bed of coul. Within a less distance there is a bed of the finest kaolin, or porcelain clay On the Ouachita are fiue quarries of slate, and everybody has heard of the Arkansas whetstones, which are already worked to some extent, and the pro ducts exported to the eastern cities. Why is it these various mines have not been more </?rieral!v worked ? I see no reason but the I 0 J want of enterprise, and the fact mentioned, that ootton was the absorbing pursuit, and swallowed up every other ambition. Since the abolition of slavery it is to be hoped that a new era will dawn upon the State for development; and the increase of mate rial prosperity seems to be the necessary law of free institutions. All that is needed, it would seem, to make our mineral resources a source of wealth and profit, is the right sort of men, to take hold and "carry things through " But, to do this, capita! is sud ly Deeded, for the war has left most of the people in an impoverished condition, and is to the north and cast we must look for the capital tooarry on new enterprises." B. .. . . ? ?. For the Yorkville Enquirer. DEBT AND_PAYMENT. Mr. Editor : Inasmuch as very many persons are interested, aod much has been said on the ways and means of discharging the indebtedness of the people of our cood try, I will also give my opinion. Hitherto, little or nothing has been effected towards this end by public meetings or legislative action, except that a few mouths of time is afforded, wherein debtors may do much with their creditors, towards an adjustment .of their debts. i It seems to me that the ways and means of settling our debts, is properly within the province of the contracting parties, and not by legislative or other action ; and when all other means fail to afford relief to debtors, then appeal may be made to legislative ac tiou, to place toe debtor beyond the power of au insatiable creditor. Various platforms have been suggested on whioh to settle a rule Sot the canceling of debts It seems to me that no rule can be set up for this matter, without having many exceptions, by which anything like a near approach oan be made to moral justice (I say nothing of legal justice) alike to debtor and oreditoi, for the following reasons : 1. The attendant circumstances under | which credit has been given and promises to pay have been made are various, and are irreduoible to an unit. 2. The basis on which very muoh of the credit in our country was predicated, aod on the legal possession of which tho prom- i ises to pay were made, has been irretrievably swept away. 1. By the aotion of an ir- I resistable aod irrespousibio military power. < 2. By a couveotioual power of our own I State. So that the Governments which i vested in our people the legal right of prop ! erty in slaves, have destroyed that right < against our wills. Whether now the pecu. ( niary losses so produced by the operations I I of the late war shall fall on the oreditor I alone, or debtor alone, or oo both alike, i may become a mooted question A credi- I tor will demand fall payment from his ored- < tor, and plead the civil law in his proteo- i | tion as the rule of right action in the case. < j A debtor may resist his demands ana plead ! his non obligation for the payment of the i whole, and olaim his exemption from some i part of his debt upon the ground that he | ! has been robbed by government of all, or i part of his available means, which had been i the basis of all his promises to pay, and < : that robbery was done iu a commou cause, i for which he had no redress; and that he I ' is, therefore, made unable to pay the whole 1 debt. i This inability of the debtor, it will be joooteoded by the creditor, is not his releaso < from his legal obligation to make good his promise to pay, and haviog no other urn- : i pire to decide between the contracting par- I ties, we will not bo able to set up a rule for j all the oases of indebtedness among us, ex- 1 cept the civil law. < Mr. Editor, it seems to me that certain i considerations enter into alt this matter, ' which brings this question within the pale of morals, independently of the civil law, j viz: The debts in question were contracted?some before the war, some during the I war, some for lands, some for slaves and other porishable property, some in seourity-! ships. Some are of loug standing, and consist, in great part of interest accrued by the run of time, some more modern, some for property depreciated in value by the operations of the war, some for merohan-1 diae at advanced rate of profit laid on, some j for monies loaned for accommodation, some for monies loaned as an investment for the sake of the interest accruing, some for secu!_ T) 1_ ! C ruv id dudu; issuer, Bome tur prupcujr cubanced in value by the war, &c., &c. Again. Some of us lost more or less in every species of property by the war; others increased their estates more or less by the war Some persons gave their personal services to our country and received nothing therefor in return, or were maimed or died. Others remained at home and spent all their time and energies in securing what they had, or increasing their estates Now, Mr. Editor, in the face of all this matter, I make the question, viz : Are persons who made their debts before the war, now bound in good faith to make good to creditors to the full, their promises to pay f I answer, No. 1 Because. All the credit which has been given by oreditors to debtors, was given by virtue of the faith of creditors being predicated ou the property which he saw or believed to be legally owned by his debtor; and this consisted in lands, slaves, merchan dize, manufactures, bonds or claims, jointcompany stocks, and some other personal property. Otherwise, no credit had been given. 2. Because, all the promises to pay on the part of debtors, were made on the fact nf hia faith in hia ahilifn tn nuo nnrl thin ability rested on bis being legally possessed of lands, slaves, merchandize, manufactures, bonds or claims, joint-company stocks, or some other personal property. Without this faith in an ability to pay on the part of the debtor, he never would have made his promises to pay. So then credit was given and promises to pay were made, and both were based on the same platform. The basis of credit, and of promises to pay, having been hurt or totally destroyed by the operations of the war, and that too, with out the agency of either party and against the wills of both, the result should fall on both alike as parties to a contract. It will be said, however, all debtors, when contiacting a debt, do, ipso facto, assume the risk of a loss in part or of all their property, and with that loss an inability to pay. No claims, therefore, may be set up now for remission or discharge of liability in the present case. I answer: Not so. True; debtors did assume to run the risk of loss of property by water, fire, adverse trade, robbery, theft, fugivity, or death, in slaves, &c., but in burglary, robbery, theft, fugivity, &o., the debtor had the protection of the laws of the land in which wo live, both to deter aud to punish all offenders, and for a reoovery of his property} but debtors never did assume to run the risk of a robbery and destruction of his property by water, fire, force, death, by irresistable and irresponsible invading armies, nor of the emancipation of slaves by military power, in the very government which recognized their property in slaves. Yea, more, which government made their property in slaves. The want of this as mi motion. thflrfiforn. dons taka awav from debtors, in part or in whole (as the case may be) their obligations to make good to the full, their promises to pay. Again. It will be said, to discharge debtors, in part or in whole from the payment of their debts because of their losses of property in slaves, &c , is to saddle their losses only oj their creditors. I answer: Not so, in ull cases. It is so only in cuses where debtors owned no proper ty but slaves, aud rightly soon the showing above. Besides, the case before us is one of mutual misfortune, in which both parties are equally interested, the faith of both parties predicated on the same basis for payment, and in which ueither party acted nor willed aotion in the production of the loss. It is quite as muoh the misfortune of a creditor to hold, or possess bonds of promises to pay, as it is of debtors to have lost their ability to make good their promises to pay. I have already shown that the estates of 3ome debtors maybe nothing altered by the war. In such cases, tbey have no claim for relief, but payment to the full. The estates of some debtors have redeemiug features, viz : whilst a confiscation (as I call it) has been made of all pioperty in slaves, aud robbery, &c., has been visited cn many, there has been no confiscation of cotton, and the gold value of cotton has been very much enhanced by the operations of the war, whilst a great part of the means of others have been consumed in living at the high rates of food, clothing, &o. These may of right be held io a more strict account io the reokoniug of their debts. Mr. Editor: Again I put the question; ?ro persons who made their debts before the war, now bound in good faith to make good to creditors, to the full, their promises \ to pay f Again, I answer No. The morality of the case (if not the civil law) sus* Inina m n in mn rlnnioinn T n mrvrolo IWIUO UJ \j IV LUJ UliOIOIUU. XU UJUIU'0) IHU spirit or binding force in all oontracts ia ; the consent, the true inteQt and raeauing, j understood alike by both contraotiDg parties. For example, in a promissory note, i whero it is expressed thus: "One day after j date I promise to pay to A. I?., one hundred dollars, &c." signed, C. D. Here, the i next daj after the transaction is the time i fixed in the note when C. D. is bound to pay to A. B. one hundred dollars. In all i ordinary business transactions of this sort, t this is not the time when this promise is to ( be redeemed?neither party so understands < it; bat some indefinite time in tbe future, when demand is made for payment And tbis "one day after date," only fixes the time between the parties, when the rate of in. tcrest begins to accrue. True, in the eye of tbe civil law, demand may be made, and a suit entered on the debt the next day after the transaction, but to do so, the creditor will make a breach of good faith with his debtor. Here now is a promise to pay the next day expressed in the note, yet the creditor, in morals, may not enforce it. Just so it is in other promises In cases TD Knfn A npn/1 i n! nnn n An tKil folfk nugiu a uicuuui ^ivvo u wi^uib uu IUU IUIIU of a creditor's ability to pay, aod this ability to pay is predicated oo his legal seizure, aod possession of certain property in lands, slaves. &o., valued thus and so. And where a debtor in this same legal seizure aud possession makes his promises to pay, they both intend and understand alike tbe nature of their contracts, and they both are bound in morals to abide by the terms thereof. The basis must remain unchanged. Now, since the basis of oredit aod of promises to pay between creditor and debtor is changed without the agency and against the wills of both parties, so surely the promises to pay of debtors are also changed in complexion to suit the hue of the changed basis of credit. What, now, is the conclusion of the whole matter? I answer: That creditors do consent to compound with their debtors who were solvent before the war ot who have been made ioaoivent by the war, at some per cent (according to ability to pay) less than their indebtedness. And to this end, let debtors make fair showings of their estates, unto their cteditors, either by assignments or otherwise, aod hand this over to their creditors for their benefit, askiog ouly some part of their estates to be reserved to themselves, or no part, upon Buch terms as may be agreed on by the parties; asking for a disoharge from all further liabilities in the premises. Mr. Editor, I advocate, not as a general nrinoinle for notion, renndiation of debt: r i? ? 1 "i ? / but sir, I believe that in our present condition of indebtedness as a people, repudiation would be a greater public good than enforced payment. Repudiation would give diffused wealth, enforced payment will give concentrated wealtb. Nearly all the masses of the people poor, whilst a few will be very rich. York District contaios about 616 square miles, equal to 894,240 acres of land. This land, I assume to be worth, in a forced market on an enforced payment of debt, on an average, two dollars per acre, equal to ?688,480, which sum, I think, will fail to pay the liabilities of the people Insolvency, therefore, to a large amount, I take it, must and will eusue on enforced demand of the wb i'e indebtedness of the people. He is a wise creditor, I should say, who receves ourrcncy at par for debts, and who compounds with his dobtors By this last measure especially, wc will be freed from innumerable fradulent transac lions on the one hand, and a preference made by debtors among their creditors on the other All should fare alike. As to thatolass among us where property stands bouud as surety, for the issues of the Banks, I only say, I sympathize with them in their misfortune. We have regarded Baokers as public benefactors; we have need of some rich men in order to conduct the commerce of our country, but if these meu are required to make good the failures of the Banks, we will be poor indeed. But, Mr. Editor, it is usual even now, for Northern merchants to compound with Southern debtors; this is good policy, it is magnanimous, it is but moral iustice. ? D , w Hank issues, I take it, are chiefly held by persons uut of our State. Let these securities propose compounding too, on the best terms they may. Legislative interference is not to be expected iu the case. The faith of the holders of BaDk notes in the solvency of the Banks, gave them currency. They have been robbed of their specie, as others have been of slaves, &o Let us all stand or fall together. E A. Crensfiaw. Prisoner Davis. ?When the smoke! aod dust of this conflict shall clear away, and the record of the great assize of history be made up, aud the sentence pronounced on this most stupendous struggle for separate nationality, there will stand forth no figure so sublime as that of this gallant soldier, brilliant orator, sagacious statesman and christian gentlcmau, bereft of every earthly possession, shot out from all converse with the human family, guarded by mutes, jailored by a tyrant, accused by an assassio, trembling with paralysis, blind, manacled, tortured with an iugeDious cruelty which denied him sleep, with a brutal mob of millions clamoriog for his blood, yet calm, defiant aod undaunted, asking no favor of the best, and no guard against the worst, save a public trial in the oourts of bis foes. Life has been allotted to him well nigh to the verge of his three-score years. Honors have poured in on him for more than half bis life, filling full the measure of Amerioan fame. Yet wero his life to rival the ages of the patriarchs, and his honors to double the glories of the illustrious son of David, the bright particular year of his history would be that in which, a chained oaptive, the lust viotlm of a lost cause, he raised his voice iu perpetual claim for do favor of twenty millions of ememies, but justice. A feeble tongue, it may >e, that makes the appeal, but the cry pierces the tripple iron of his duogeoo, pierces tho massive walls of his basfile, drowns tbe multitudinous roar of the neighboring sea, rises above a victorious nation's ptens and a fallen nation's wail, and will go "soundingdown the ages," to assure the world that the virtue men call Roman, and the courage they call Spartan, died neither on tho Tiber nor the Eurotas.?Petersburg Index. PisallancflKS. MANACLED. The following touching lines Deed do comment?every Southern bosom will feel their application, aod a sigh of sympathy will be heaved for him who is still languishing in prison: Stop, soldier, stop! tills cruel act Will ring through all the land. Shame on the heart that planned the deed! Shame on the coward hand That drops the sword of justice bright To grasp these Iron rings! wn uiein, not me, msnonoriaus, To them tliis dark shame clings. Manacled! 0 my God! my God! Is tills a Christian land ? And did our countries ever meet And grasp each other's hand? O Mexico! on thy red fields I battled 'midst the fray; My riflemen, with steady aim, tVon Buena Vista's day. Manacled I far down the South Let this one word speed fast, My country, thou host borne great wrongs ; But this, the last, the last, Will send a thrill through thy high heart, Despair will spurn control, And these hard Irons pressing her* Will enter thy proud soul. Manacled! O word of shame ! King It through all the world! My countrymen, on you, on you, This heavy wrong is hurled. We flung our banners to the air; We fought as brave men fight, Our battle cry rang through the land: HomeLibertyand Right Manacled! For this I am here, , Clanking the prisoner's chain, We fought?and nobly did we fight; We fought, but fought In vain, Down in that billowy sea of blood Went all our jewels rare, And hope rushed wailing from the scene And took herself to prayer! Manacled ! manacled ! Words of woe, But words of greater shame; I've that within me which these wrongs Can never, never tamo And standing proud in conscious worth, 1 represent my 'and. And that Lost Cause for which she bled, Lofty, heroic, grand! Things in Chester. We clip the following paragraphs from the Chester Standard, of last week : General Jail Delivery.?The pre- j siding Judge, Solicitor, Sheriff and Grand Jury will be spared much trouble next week, owing to the fact that doring the night of the 15th iost., the jail in this town was emptied of all its occupants Seven prisoners, two whites and five negroes, escaped, leaving only two in confine ment. One of the latter is severely wounded, and the other refused to accompany the fugitives. Among those who escaped are the two negroes, Belton Kline, alias Williams, and London Jones, alias Adams, who so brutally murdered Mr. A. D. Walk er of this District, on the 22nd day of last July. Two whites, Janeway, charged with horse stealing, and Street, acoused of larceny, also affected their escape, together with three negroes under arrest for cowstealing The Jail was restored to the civil authorities oo the 13th iost. The matter demands astrictinvestigation, which, we hope, will be rigidly instituted. P. S?Since writiog the above lines, London has been captured near Broad River, and has been placed in his old quarters, from whence it is to be hoped he will not again escape. Nothing has been heard of tue rest of the fugitives Lamentable Casualty.?Miss Hannah Moore, a young lady residing in this town, came to her death, on the morning of the 15th inst, under the following sad circumstances About 8 o'clock, A. 31. she rose and stepped into the front piazza of her residence, and while re-entering her bed room, was shot twice by her brother-in law, Mr. G. W Teates, under the impres sion that she was a burglar Medical aid was at once summoned, but the sufferer only survived an hour after receiving the wounds. Before dying, she fully exonera ted Mr. Teates from any criminal inteut The deceased ladv was a native of Ireland, about eighteen years of age, and had beeD residing in this country about ten months. The family have been most sadly afflicted by this melancholy occurrence, and have the sympathy of the entire community. The Jury of Inquest returned a verdict in accordance with the above faots. Soldier Shot.?A difficulty occurred on the uightof the 14th iost. between privates Coliigan and Monaghao, belonging to the garrison on duty at this post, which re! suited in a severe injury to Monagban Surgeon Jessup expresses the hope that Mouaghan, although dangerously wounded, will ultimately recover. Progress.?The Provost Court at this Post has been discontinued, and the Jail restored to the custody of the Sheriff, in accordance with the recent orders uf Geu Sickles. Several culprits uoder senteoce of imprisonment for a longer period than thirty days, were sent down last week to Castle Piockney. A number, in confinement for trivial offences, were discharged. The Neero Revolt in Tennessee. We copy the following from the Memphis Avalanche, relative to the reported insurrection of negroes in the vicinity of Memphis : I For somo time past, the planters living on and about the Burgett plantation, have been watchful of the cooduct and manoeuvres of the negroes about them, who, our informant states, number somewhere ia the vicinity of 500. As many as three or four times have they (the planters) been warned by their friends here to watob their every aot, as it was known that they had purcbaso?ma on/1 ommilnlfinn in frhia niftr anrl U U CiiUJO UUU HUJUJUUibiVM *u vu v V J J Muva had unwittingly hinted at their murderous designs. On Friday evening, while the negroes were weighing cotton, the suspicions of the overseer were aroused by hearing them in. terpolate the text "Dixie," with the words "Ohs will be wine to morrow," and "tomorrow," "We'll baje fun," &o. He said nothing, but when the time ^rived, dismissed the negroes from their labor, and repaired as quickly as possible to his own quarters, where he found the ownera of the plantation, the brothers Burgett. He related to them what had occurred, and sug- f gested the propriety of immediately taking < such measures of defence as in their judg- i ment was necessary to preserve the lives of i all the white people aboattbe pltee. Ia the . meantime, the; bad learned that on the following da;, the negroes intended to at* tack them in the field. They then determined on devising plans, whioh, they thought, would entirely oiionmvent those of the negroes', and obviate the necessity of shedding blood. With this end in view, they started next morning for the field, two of the part; riding off toward the road? two riding in rear of the plantation. Tbe brothers Isaac and Henry took the road, each heme armed witb a snot gun aoa revolver. They had not advanced far before they were met by a body of about fifty negroes, who ordered them off their mules accompanying the order with rapid and indiscriminate firing. Fortuoately, none of the shots had any effect. Mr Isaac Bargett quickly alighted from his animal, and, raising his gun to bis shoulder, fired, killing the leader of the crowd, and wouodiDg two others. His brother, Mr. Henry Burgett, bad, by this time, got in the rear of the sooundrels, and, together with the other two gentlemen, who, it will be remembered, had started in another direction, poured a volley into their ranks which had the effeot of scattering them in all directions. It was here that the other negro was killed, and two more wounded. By this time, some ten or twelve men gathered around the place, and quickly succeeded in arresting and placing under guard the entire gang. Forty new rifles, thirty-five revolvers, a keg of powder and two large bags of shot were captured. In about an hour after the capture, two more squads of negroes were discovered about a half a mile off, but immediately dispersed in confusion, upon hearing of the disastrous defeat of their infamous brother-plotters and assassins. An examination, afterward, of about twenty of the negroes, showed plainly that it was conoooted by heads far more oapable of doing misobief than those of the ignor adt, deluded negroes; but the planners lacked the courage of executing their damnable schemes This part of the work tbey left to a negro named Bill Dickinson, who assumed the leadership, and who, as is stated above, was killed. This outbreak, which was to result in the murder of all tbe whitep in the neighborhood, to be followed by an indiscriminate plundering, was planned and originated herein Memphis. There can be no question about it. The ammunition and arms for them were purohased by white men in Memphis This is the testimony of tbe negroes. They say, too, that they were forced into the insurrection by the negro leaders, wbo told them that if they would but once take possession of the plantations, their friends in Memphis and at tbe North would stand by them. Dissolution of the Bump Parliament. The following account of the dispersion of the rump Parliament, by Cromwell, may be regarded with some interest just now: The Parliament by which Charles I had been met and overcome had dwindled down by various purgations to about fifty-three members, who aimed at becoming a sort of mild oligarchy for the administration of the Commonwealth. They were deliberating on a bill for the future representation, in which they should have a permanent place, when Cromwell resolved-to make an end of them. It was the last incident in the natural series of a revolution, placing military power above all other. Cromwell, having ordered a company of musketeers to follow him, entered the House, in "plain black clothes and worsted stockings," and, sitting down, listened for awhile to their proceedings. Hearing at length the question put, that the bill do pass, he rose, put off his hat, and began to speak. In tbe course of his address, he told them of their self-seeking and delays of justice, till at length Sir Peter Wentworth interruDted him with a remonstrance v against such language. Then, blazing up he said, "We have had enongh of this; I will put an end to your prating." Stepping into the floor of the House, and clapping on his hat, he commenced a violent harangue, which be occasionally emphasized by stamping with bis feet, aod which came mainly to this: "It is not fit you should bit here any longer?you have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. You shall now give place to better men. Cull them in !" be exclaimed, aud bis officer Harrison and a file of soldiers entered the House. Then proceeding: "You are no Parliament. Some of you are drunkards"?bending a stern eye upon Mr. Chalouer; "some of you are - a word expressive of a worse immorality, and he looked at Henry Martin and Sir Peter Wentworth ; "living in open contempt of God's commandments. Some of you are corrupt, unjust persons; how can you be a Parliament for God's people ? Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. Go!" He lifted the mace from the table and gave it to a musketeer, to be taken away. He oaused Harrison to give bis hand to Speaker Lenthal and lead him down from the chair. The members, cowed by his violence and the sight of bis armed men, moved gloomily out of the house. "It is the Lord that hath caused me to do this," be said. "I have sought that He would rattier slay me than put me upon aoiug tnis work." Sir Harry Vi-ne ventured a remonstrance. .. i*Oh, Sir Harry Vane!" exclaimed the Lord Gen-, ral; "the Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane 1" When all had gone oat, he came out, too, and looked the door. From that time, he was master of the three kingdoms forabont five and a half years. BOf A sausage-maker in Paris, having announced that a five franc gold piece was joncealed in one of every hundred snasages for sale in his shop, the demand for sausages immediately became enormous.