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j&fflpjs and |atts. j Gen. R. E. Lee, it is said, is to be appoint- ( ed President of the Covington and Ohio Railroad u of Virginia, and his son, Custis, is to be chief en- ( gineer. g No less than 100 newspapers have been Ij started in the District of Columbia since it was a made the seat of Government, and all but nine s have expired. li The Declaration of Independence was read ? to the negroes of Memphis on the Fourth, at a pic- ^ nic. They became highly incensed and the most 1 of them left, declaring they didn't go there to hear such d?d rebel stuff. li A correspondent of the Sumter Watchman i who looks on reconstruction as an event likely to } occur, nominates John D. Green, Esq., of Sumter, ^ as Congressional Representative for Sumter Dis- 1 trict in the reconstructed Congress.. According to the reports of the population c of the United States, it appears that there are 730,- ? 000 more males than females in the country. In I the Western States particularly, there is a great ( preponderance of the male population. j The New York Herald says the friends of a Mr. Davis have purchased a house for him in one 1 of the most aristoeratio streets in the city of Mon- e treal Mountain, and he contemplates making this t his future home. I It A correspondent of the San Francisco Bui /% letin states that near Monterey there are irogs weighing twenty-five pounds, and that their croak- S ing can De heard six miles. The same veracious ' authority avers that they are used in place of fog bells, and cost nothing to keep in repair. A short time since a surgeon was called as J a witness, for the purpose of proving damages up- : on an action of assault He deposed that ne had bled the plaintiff; and being asked if bleeding had been necessary, candidly answered: "We always n find it necessary to do something, when sent for." A Chicago paper says they had a Cole and Hiscock affair in that city lately, except that it did 0 not reach the shooting point The injured hus- v band demanded $10,000, but the injurer talked him down to $35, which was paid and receipted r for. . * f! It is announced that fractional currency of g the denomination of 15 cents will be issued in a _ few weeks. The face of the note will bear like- j nesses of Generals Grant and Sherman, and tbd* back will be green, with the figure "15 on <#k h side. ' d The glut of money in the London market is I represented as almost unparalleled, and likely to J force the Bank of .England to reduce its rate of ? discount to the lowest point ever, known. There was increased dulness on the London Stock Ex- a change, where money was abundantly offered at * II per cent A caricature has been published at Mata- j moras, which represents Uncle Sam lying flat on j his back with Canada underneath him, and his head in his Russian purchase, taking an ioed drink, . his legs cramped up by a ricketty fence named * Mexico. Uncle Sam meditatingly says he will have j to stretch out his legs directly. ? The London Owl says that no European intervention will take place in consequence of the r execution of the Emperor Maximilian. In the first ^ moment of horror and anger it was proposed, both j at Paris and Vienna, to take some immediate step toward reprisals, but reflection has shown that , such a course would be politically as unadvisable ^ as practically it would be useless. . Advices from Nashville state that a riot occurred at Rogersville on the 26th ultimo. A shot ^ was fired at Ethridge, the candidate for Governor \ in opposition to Brownlow, when continued volleys were fired by both parties. A white conservative and a black radical were killed, and seven mortally, and thirty slightly wounded. Etheridge was unin- P jured. \ The New York Tribune says: "A great & many rash, unwise projects are broached in either a House, but how few of them ever obtain any sort ^ of sanction ! Mr. Stevens is the oldest and ablest , representative; yet his confiscation scheme, though pressed for many months, has not yet been even a seconded, and he, positive and brave as he is, has ^ never yet ventured to ask a vote upon tt" n ?- The Austrian Government has received from I Mexico intelligence leading to the hope that the v body of the late Emperor will be delivered to Aus- 8, tria. The Pope, through an extraordinary pleni- r potentiaiy, has sent an autograph letter to Juarez to that effect. It is also reported that the French D Government, in concert with the Austrian Cabi- s net, have addressed to Juarez peremptory demands I upon the same subject } ?? The Texas papers speak of a general dispo- I sition among the farmers of that State to lessen the quantity ana improve the quality of the land they c mi _ t _ 1 | A, ill & cultivate. JLU1S cnange is ottuscu uy luc ogoiuy of labor, which leads to improved cultivation and an increase of production from a given quantity of land The improvement in the system of cultiva- * tion in Texas will ultimately extend to all parts of the South. . At one of the fashionable Churches in Pitts- 5 field, Mass., strangers are seated according to t< dress. If elegantly dressed they are shown up the ti broad aisle near the pulpit: if well dressed they tl will secure a sitting about half way up the broad a aisle; if ordinarily dressed thev are disposed of in s< some one of the side pews under the gallery, and ti as near the doors as possible. Verily 'to the poor the Gospel is preached," but at a distance. si -7^ (Tp-ranl m*m n?*r. <Wai burning of a girrhouse and a lot of cotton near that place last month. The manner in which the loss was occasioned is somewhat singular. A pile of " cotton seed on the outside took fire from exposure x to the hot rays of the sun, which was communicated to the adjoining building, causing its total des- h traction. It is advisable that our planters sntml^ look into this matter, and take timely precaution to prevent similar occurrences. Montgomery dispatches of the 22d ultimo, t] say that General James H. Clanton, as chairman of the Executive Committee of the State (Jonven- "j tion that appointed delegates to the Philadelphia *? Johnson Convention last year, has issued a call for v a convention of Conservatives of Alabama, to meet o at Montgomery on the 3d of September next? v The colored people are invited to participate. The proposed convention is warmly indorsed by the an- , ti-reconstruction journals. The Vice-Consul at Havana has notified the State Department that a cargo of coolies may be * expected at New Orleans, in violation of the Act ^ of Congress of 19th February, 1862, and the Im- c migrant Act of July 4th, 1864. The Consul has reason to suspect that there is an extensive scheme j on foot, for tne introduction of coolie labor in the South contrary to law. Instructions are in course ^ of preparation at the Attorney-General's office for e the action of the District Attorneys, should the a grounds appear, of a violation of these laws. g Sleeping in church is a serious crime in Rhode h Island. Last Sunday afternoon a poor Irishman p went into one of the churches in Providence, was v shown into a scat, took a quiet nap during the services and was peaceably retiring at their close, when he was arrested, tried and sent to jail for ten days. 4 A good deal of trouble has arisen from this reek- a less invasion of the right to sleep in church, to x which so many lay claim. A local paper referring v to the affair, says the judicial procedure "touches not only the pews, but threatens the pulpit also.? If a laboring man is to be sent to iau for sleeping I during a sermon, how much more should a preach- t er suffer for a fikilure to keep his hearers awake ?" ] C?-?~ AamJUIA Virtrr/vi AP f OUiiiC luca Ul tllC ICIUUIU uavvA/ ui nai *uuj v be gained from the following figures: "In the t desperate encounter at Chickamauga, Eosencranz f lost 16,851 men, and at Murfreesboro 12,085 ; at Pittsburgh Landing Grant lost 13,573; at Vicksburg, 9,875, and at Mission Eidge 7000; at Gaines' ^ Mills, Peach Orchard, Savage Station, Glandale, f White Oak Swamp and Malvern Hill, McClellan b lost 70,000, and at Antietam, 11,426; Hooker -lost b in his campaign in the Wilderness, 20,000 ; Burnside at Fredericksburg, 12,000: and Grant's united losses, from the time of crossing the Kapidan, in his final campaign, to the surrender of Lee, are c computed at 90,000." c The New York Tribune has the following a fanny paragraph relative to one of the "dead- t locks" between the President and Congress: The c Tenure of Office law had an unexpected result, r which we hardly know whether to call deplorable s or comical. A postmaster was suspended for defalcation ; the Senate rejected the person nominated as his successor; and under the law the de- T Hnquent had to be reinstated. In communicating b to him this amazing result, the Postmaster-Gcncr- z al politely requested him, "as a favor to the De- f partment, to use as little of the money of the jj Government and make as few false entries as possible." It is not said whethfcr there is any legal punishment for stealing, in the State wherein this c gentleman lives. o ?-The term "bottled up," which Gen. Grant e applied to Gen. Butler, and which the latter claims s o have been used by him first, appears to have \ een used by neither originally,* though Gen. But- 1 ;r makes the claim. A correspondent of the New , )rleans Picayune, however, asserts that General irrant derived it from Carlyle. Alluding, in volime 5, page 35, of his history of "Frederick the 1 rreat, to Prince Mobitz's failure to bring up his ' iteen thousand men at the battle of Prag, Carole remarks: "As it is, the Austrian army is not nnihilated, only 'bottled' into Prag, and will need ieging." On page 220 of the same volume there ] kewise occurs this sentence: "Lehwald was just j nishing with the Swedes, and got "bottled up' in . itralsund." Truly, there is nothing new under , he sun. ??President Johnson is a ^on-professor of re- 1 igion. Of the seven members of his cabinet, ' here is only one professor of religion, Secretary 1 Velles, who is a communicant in the Episcopal ! Jhurch. Secretary Browning attends the Presby- , erian Church; the other five, when they go at all, , ;otothe Episcopal. Of the nine Judges of the supreme Court of the United States, two only are hurch members. Chief Justice Chase, who is a 1 dethodist, and Justice Grier, who has long been < i ruling elder in the old school Presbyterian j vhurch. The United States Senate contains at >resent fifty-four members. Of these, nineteen ] .re professors of religion. As two of these are Jnitarians, it leaves only seventeen belonging to 1 vangelical churches. They are distributed among J he religious denominations thus: Episcopal one, ^ teformed Dutch one, Baptist two, Presbyterian bur, and Congregational seven. wl. Ifl?UIJUHIU 1 EDITORS I 1 AS. E. WILSON. _JAS. F. HART, , YORKVILDE. S. C.8 i THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 1, 1867. J = I Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that ur terms for subscription, advertising and jobrork, are cash, in advance. < X.?The paper will be discontinued on the expi- ] ation of the time for which payment has been nade. A Subscriber finding a (X) cross-mark on he wrapper or margin Of his paper, will under- i tand that the time paid for has expired. ] ***' \ APPOINTMENT OF REGISTERS. , General Sickles, in General Orders No. 60, i iated July 18th, announces the appointment of > legisters for South Carolina. Three Boards of ! legistration will be organized in York District, j our in Chester, three in Union, three in Lancaster, , nd three in Spartanburg. We subjoin a list of j he appointments in the above mentioned Districts, ^ District of York.?P. J. O'Connell, P. M, ' Valker, E. E. McCaffrey, Hugh Simpson, H. A. ). Neely, Leroy Crook, Matthew Williams, J. A. ' r. Graham, W. J. Cullender. < District of Chester.?W. Ferguson, John A. ' larion, W7 M. Walker, W. B. Drennan, John 1 lood, R. Morrison, George McCorraick, John A. ' lafner, W. F. Farley. T. P. McKeown, A. W. 1 imith, Rev. G. M. Pickett. T.nn?r,atw ?T)r W. 0. Armfield, J JSl&ll W JL#VVftW?Vl-W . *r., . , - ? - , reorge Sinclair, Dudley M. Ussery, Alfred Anrews, J. T. Copeland, F. K. Bruin mett, H. L'.' ( leek, R. R. Thompson, James L. Barr. District of Spartanburg.?Samuel T. Poinier, ( ohn Thompson, J. M. Barnett, John Anderson, , T. Wooa, Moses Wakefield, Silas Benson, Dr. ] H. Shores, B. H. Steadman. District of Union.?Hampton Huckaby, Jesse j labray, T. J. Gault James Orr, R. G. Otts, ( efferson Whitlock, W. T. Sim, S. Choab, R. < Cnight \ In several of the districts, negroes have been ap- ( ointed on the Boards. Such is not the case in f fork. The appointments made for this District, J a far as we have heard auy expression of opinion, s re satisfactory to the people. The appointees, j| owever, are not all generally known throughout I ie district, and as some inquiry has been made 1 s to the residence of each member of the Boards, 1 re have obtained the information sufficiently accuite for practical purposes. Mr. P. J. O'Connell, ort Mill; F. M. Walker, four miles above Yorkille; E. E. McCaffrey, Yorkville; Hugh Shipon, near Coate's Tavern, 8 miles below Rock <; Till; Leroy Crook, 8 miles below Rock Hill, } ear Taylor's Creek; Matthew Williams, in the t ime neighborhood ; H. A. D. Neely, Smith's e 'urn Out; J. A. J. Graham, six miles above j rorkville; W. J. Cullender, near Wright's c erry. * f We subjoin the following extracts from General T ickles' order: i "Registers will be required to take the oath pre- (j bribed by the act of Congress approved 2d July, t 862. Blank forms of this oath of office will be irnished to Post Commanders. The election precints established by law or cus- ^ )m as voting places in the Districts; Parishes and If lunicipalities of South Carolina, will be designa- r k! by Post Commanders, as the places for Regis- j ation. It is desirable that not more than six of j. icse and preferably a less number, be^included in Registration Precinct and assigned to one Board, s ) that ample facilities may be afforded for Regis- c ation. 1 Every Board of Registration will choose its pre- \ ding officer, who will represent the Board and ] nfiQunce its action upon all matters coming before Regulations, for the government of Regishiii ie discharge of their duties, will be duly published s s soon as practicable, for general information." \ The time for the commencement of registration, s as not yet been announced. LAST HOURS OF CONGRESS. ( When Congress adjourned, several members of j lat honorable body were considerably stirred in f pirit, because they had failed to secure a vote in 1 ivor of immediate impeachment. The President's e cto message of reconstruction bill No. 3 acted up- t n Messrs. Boutwell, Butler and some others, c ery much as salt does upon an old sore. Hav- { ig, as they supposed, effectually frightened him ^ y the mysterious procedings of the Judiciary com- r littee since the previous session, these gentlemen c rere naturally wrathy, when he ventured to tell j liem that he. would not be responsible fpr the exe- c ution of this bill, if it became a law. r Another thing that stirred their bile was Mr. i OHNSON's assertion that they were putting upon 1 welve millions of people, a most galling and intol- a rable despotism. After the reading of the mcs- i age, Mr. Stevens proposed to vote at once and c o home, "leaving the Judiciary committee be- t ind to perform its duty diligently for the im- t eachmcnt of the President." But 31 r. Bout- 1 cell's wrath could not be restrained. Bight s hen and there he wanted to go to work on the lit- i le job of removing the President. 3Ir. Randall, 1 , Democrat, dared the Radicals to impeach if they 1 fished, but expressed it as his opinion that they 1 rere afraid to try it. ( This brought out the stopper and unbottled 1 Sutler. The Beast fairly fumed in his eagerness ( o impeach, but was obliged to confess that 3Ir. Iandall's charge was true. He admitted that ( hey dared not impeach, and professed to make 1 he admission with "shame and confusion of i ace." This statement we are obliged to consider 1 , figure of speech; for Butler does not know 1 fhat shame is, and he indulges in confusion of ace only when called upon to meet "impudent re -1-'' ?Awmn irk lion^e nnnn fV>o fiolrl nfl rcis WILLI c&1ux3 1u WiV/u uuuw, mv?w v? i iattle. Mr. Stevens came to the rescue of his cmbar- ] assed friend, but he, too, confessed the want of ' ourage to impeach. But he put it on the ground ( if "impracticability," whatever that may mean, . md contented himself with a pretence of arguing hat the Southern States are not States, but con- . [uered territory?a position which the President's nessage refutes from former acts of Congress it- 1 elf. < Mr. "Wilson, of Iowa, chairman of the Judicia- 1 y Committee, closed the debate by stating that le considered his duties to be judicial, not parti- 1 an; that he wpuld not favor impeachment simply j or the benefit of his party; that no amount of po- 1 itieal pressure should turn him from the conscien- ! ious discharge of his duties, as he found the case ! ontrollcd by the law and the facts. The chairman J f the Judiciary Committee having thus astonish- j d his colleagues by the expression of sentiments i o new to them, it was of course useless to press i the matter, and the House adjourned. Butler lyas i bottled until next November, though we think it ivas unsafe to put him up in a state of fermenta- 1 tion. Unless Stevens was thoughtful enough 4o put a little of Spear's preserving fluid in the bottle, the Beast will hardly keep so long. HON. B. H. HILL'S LETTERS. The "Notes on the Situation" by Hon. B. H. Hill, of Georgia, have been printed in pamphlet Form by the proprietors of the Chronicle & Sentinel, in which paper they originally appeared. These "Notes" are worthy the perusal of every Southern man, whatever his political sentiments. The views rf Mr. Hill are expressed with remarkable clearness and calmness, and sustained by able arguments. Hie scries is not complete, other duties having jompelled him to discontinue them for the presjnt; but it is his intention to resume the subject j it an early day. The letters already written have, however, become part of the history of this country, having been extensively circulated in the North, as well as the South. The^ame parties have also published Mr. Hell's recent speech in Atlanta. A single copy of either pamphlet will be furnished for five cents; fifty jopies for $1.50; and onehundred copies for$2.50. - - - ' ii rrt i. a Persons desiring them should aaaress vnromac w Sentinel Office, Augusta, Ga. A FREEDMAN'8 SPEECH. Some time ago, a grand mass meeting was appointed to take place at Durham's Turn Out, N. 0.; several distinguished speakers from Raleigh tvere to be there, and altogether it was to be a real nouser of the people. But when the time came 1 round the "distinguished speakers" were not on iiand, and the crowd (mostly colored) were com- 1 pelled to draw on their own resources for intellect- 1 aal entertainment The results, as published in : he Raleigh Sentinel, were two speeches from ool- 1 )red orators and one from a white one, all of which 1 contained some sense and some nonsense If we bad the space to spare, we would like to give our readers all the rich feast of reason there spread be- ' fore the public; but as it is, we select the decided- 1 ly original speech of Solomon Geer, (colored), as J fellows: 1 YHe said "making speeches was a new business 1 royum ; he dident know much and couldent say i With; but what he did know he could say any- ( ivhar. He had been raised by white folks, and had , ernt white folks' ways, and hoped he'd try to imtate them as long as he lived. Dat niggers whur vas raised in the Quarters dident know how white oiks done; dat is de reason why so many niggers 1 vas doing no good. Dey thought to be free was to i Jo nothing: dat won't pay. Inever lef my home; ; [ work on ae same'farm wharlwas raised. I work ! aard, but I get plenty of corn and wheat and bajon to do me and myfamilv, and some to spare, I ! ret everything I need, and I know if I work I will always have plenty. I know I must be honest and J ell the truth and work. Dis is deway white folks i jet along; dis is de way I expect to get along. De ] vhite man have got de land, but de niggengot de Dower. Now you put de nigger power on de white oiks' land, and all are benefited. White man ( san't do without the nigger power and the nigger J ain't do without the white man's land, so we must i Dull together and all can live. I don t know any- | :hing aoout politics, but as I am free and am .to < rote, I would like to know how to do for the best, i [ would vote for Mr. Graham, Mr. Phillips and Mr. Joe. Turner. I can't vote for Mr. Holden.? ' Je went over to the Yankees too soon. He has 1 ihanged too often, and Mr. Holden said, when he ' :hanged to stop do war, "if you stop de war now, < ve will save de nigger." What ho mean by "save , le nigger?" Why, I understand, he ment, if you lon't stop de war, de nigger will be free; nut v nr.,*, owl ofnn Ao war. wfi will held de ' I yuu UU Iuy> Tfi*J UUU UW(/ V.W ... ..... ?? linger in slavery. Now, if dey minded what he < laid, the niggers wouldn't been here to-day?all ( >een at home in de corn field under dey master.? ( Sow dis was Mr. HoldenVpolitios, den ; new Mr, : lolden trying to get all de niggers to vote his wav J md say he de niggers! friend and guying long with ( ho Yankees ana say uipe set de niggers free I" I < isn't vote for him, NqtI ain't going his way." ( MERE-MENTIOlf. J The Athens (Ga.) Watchman atinounoes the : leath in thaf place, on Sunday of last week, of Yilliam N. White, editor of the Southern Cultiva- , or. "The commerce of Galveston, Texas, it is istimated, will reach eighty million of dollars this 'ear. Brownlow says he sleeps with it quiet onscience. Then his conscience has a dirty bedellow. C. C. Bowen, who was arrested some j reeks since by order of Gen. Sickles, and oonfined n Castle Pinckney, has been released upon the leposit of six hundred dollars, for the benefit of j hose persons whom he had fleeced, The ex>enses of the Indian war are now" $1,000,000 per reek, and up to the present time every red skin j :illed has cost one million of dollars and ten white uen's lives. The centre of the United States ?as been definitely fixed. It is Columbus, Netraska, ninety-six miles Wes; of Omaha. In . ome Parishes in Louisiana, many freedmen are lying of cholera. Fatal cases have oocurred at j i^icksburg. New Orleans registers 29,207 ^ 'Oters with a black majority of 183."" " Doctor t lobinson, of Bennington, Michigan, died recently, , n consequence of sprinkling chloroform on his pilaw to produce sleep. Sixty people die, and ( evtHItT-jufants are born every minute in the world, vhich naturafly puts the lniantjmhead in the core. ^ Some time since Gen. Sheridan issued on order losing all the gambling establishments in New 1 Weans. The gamblers have offered $50,000 for J jermission to "open up" again, but Sheridan reuses. "The Common Council of New Orleans f lave appropriated $60,000 toward the mainten- c mce of colored schools. The annual loss by * he wear of coin is estimated at one-tenth of one per ent, and the consumption by the arts and loss by j ire and shipwreck, at $3,000,000 a year. "The peat tabernacle of the Saints at Salt Lake City is 1 ~ ? * T- j A :.i 1 IOW tinistiea. It IS ZOU ieet wiae, auu luunsuus omfortable sitting room for over ten thousand peoile. Dan Rice, the other evening,, in his cir; ius, said that he was not going to defile the fair ecord of thirty-seven years, as a respectable shownan, by becoming a member of Congress. The tfcw York Constitutional Convention has adopted in amendment, disfranchising all who participated n the late war against the United States. A proposition to confer the right to vote on boys of 18, vas rejected. The Columbia Phoenix, owing o the hard times, has been reduced in size. The jody of Maximilian, after he was shot, measured >ix feet three inches. Ilis heart, it is stated, was inusually large. Mr. Robert H. Wardlaw las been appointed, by his Excellency Gov. Orr, District Judge for Abbeville, vice Judge A. C. [iaskcll, who resigned the office upon his recent ilection to the Professorship of Law in.the State University. .'Fred. Douglass declares that a ;olored man must fill the next United States VicePresident's chair. The net profit to the Government, from the Cincinnati post office, last year, vas over $212,000. Most of the gold now gong to Europe is to pay the expenses of persons low travelling there, and it is estimated that they ivill spend $10,000,000 this season. HON. A. H. STEPHENS. A corespondent of the New York Times, recently visited the Hon. A. H. Stephens at his home in Crawfordsville, Ga., and publishes an account $ an interview with the distinguished statesman j jf Georgia. The following pen and ink sketch of : the honorable gentleman will be read with interest by our readears: ( I had never seen Stephens before, nor from his i portraits should I have known him. Imagine to 1 yourself a figure slight and fragile, nearly six feet i nigh, but with the student's stoop in the should- j srs, and a pale, wan, careworn, wrinkled face, on i which no sign of beard appears?that would be 1 what first strikes the eye. But this would fail to I rive the impression of the ensemble of the man.? i There is in nis whole personnel a certain unearth- 1 'iness that moves one partly with awe and partly i with pity; awe at what seems almost a disembodied 1 spirit, and pity when you see' that it is humanity I lfter all, and suffering humanity, too. I have fre- 1 luently seen Stephens' face described as the face 1 if a boy, but a boy has not a face covered with the I furrows of grief. To me, it is rather the face of a I woman?of a mother who has borne many suffer- < ings, who has met these sufferings with gentle re- < signation, and whose resignation heaven has rewarded by that inward peace which illumines the countenance with an evanescent light from beyond the tomb. In his physique, he hss just enough of the material to malte him subject to the law of gravitation. There is a pair of scales on the baloony; I took the fancy to stand on it and weigh myself. Stephens, with a little laugh, stepped on after me?how much do you suppose he weighed ? Ninety-four pounds avoirdupois! Perhaps there are some other traits that I might mention. His -head, without being imposing, is very fine in its contour, as though modeled by the hand of the sculptor, and the brain laid deftly where it best belongs. His hair is of a silky fineness, brown originally, and now growing gray. Finally, he has a pair of marvelous eyes, dark and liquid, and full of intensity and power. He is 55 years of age. Stephens' life, as you well know, has been one long story of pain and travail, through which the struggling spirit has, in its workings, "Fretted the feeble body to decay, And o'er Infbrmed the tenement of clay." EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Death of Hon. E. G. Palmer. ??The Columbia /%ce/iirJannounces the death, at Ridgeway, on Saturday morning last, of Hon. E. 6. Palmer, of Fairfield. He had represented his District in both branches of the South Carolina Legislature; and at one time was President of the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad. Rain Record in New Jersey. A correspondent of the Farm and Fireside, who has kept a rain record in New Jersey for the last six months, states that during last June nearly ten inches of rain fell, a quantity greater than has fallen during any Summer month, for many years. During the first six months of this year, up to July 1st, 30$ inches fell in the same vicinity. We should like to hear from the clerk of the weather for York District, as to the quantity which has fallen here during May, June and July. Where are you, Major? Why Greeley Opposed Female Suffrage. Horace Greeley's propensity to "isms" being well known, it was a matter of general surprise that he should have reported against female suffrage, when the subject was referred to the committee of which he was chairman. But the mystery is satisfactorily explained by a little circumstance of recent occurrence, The philosopher has a wife, who desires to vote. She has headed a petition to the New York constitutional convention, asking for female suffrage at their hands.? Having done this after her husband had publicly taken his stand against the movement, Mrs. Gv is evidently possessed of "a mind of her own."? Being accustomed to a vote (probably a deciding vote) in domestic affairs, she desires to extend her sphere so as to embrace national affairs. Poor Horace I Is it any wonder he opposes female suffrage, united as he is to one of the "strongminded?" . ; Registration in Virginia. General Schofield has recently issued an order, giving a list'of the "execute and judicial oficere" who are disfranchised in Virginia, according to the construction given the registration oath, by Congress. "The order directs the transfer to the rejected list, of the names of aD persons who have been itpproperly registered; and the registration of all persons entitled to vote, who may have [ailed, from any cause whatever, to be registered, Fhe following is the list of executive and State jffioersin Virginia: "Governor, lieutenant goverlor, secretary of state, auditor of the land office, itato treasurer, attorney-general, sheriffs, sergeant )f a city or town, commissioner!, of the revenue, jounty surveyors, constables, overseers of the poor, sommissioners of the board of public works, judges )f the Supreme Court, judge of the Circuit Court, udge of the Cpurt ofcHustings, justices of the sounty oourts, mayor, recorder and aldermen of a rity or town, coroners and escheators, Inspectors of )f tobacco, flour, &c., clerks of the supreme, disrict, circuit and county courts, and of the Court )f Hustings, attorneys for the Commonwealth." Old John Brown'i "Character." A Boston olergyman proposes to lecture on 'The Lesson of American Manhood afforded by ;he character of John Brown." The history of hat old gallows-bird is no doubt full of instruction 0 the young, if the reverend gentleman can only joint It out to his bearers. The great "lesson" aught by bis lifb is, that a blood thirsty fanatic has vithin him all the olements of a great oriminal ajainst the laws-of Gbd and man;.and that he is, .hercfore, quite likely to^die a feloriV death. But his same malignant wretch, a murderous assassin, U intellect a dwarf but in crime a giant, is more ban likely to be eulogized as a martyr, when he is nade the subject of a lecture before a Boston audiince. Verily the standard of moral exoellence, in imerioa, is high. With Brown arid Lincoln for ts martyrs, Beechor for its saint, Brownlow for its jatriot, Sumner and Stevens for its statesmen, and Butler for its gentleman, the American nation nay well exult"ra its superiority over all the naions of the earth. With such models as these beore their eyes, the next generation of Americans oust surely eclipse hell itself, in uuhlushing wick(dness. 1 Gentlemanly Class. Some time ago, Mr. Leonard W. Jerome nade an endowment to provide yearly a gold medd, which was to be presented to the first gentlenan of the graduating class at Princeton. College, he recipient of the medal to be selected by a vote >f the class. The well-intended prize has been dedined by the graduating class of this year, who aslert that they are .all gentlemen, and that none of hem wish to be advertised. 'This is oertainly a gratifying announcement, and highly creditable to Princeton, if it is true. But it would have been nodest in this exemplary class, if other people had isserted this. It is an easy task for any set of nen to vote themselves all gentlemen, and any dass of any college in the country would probably lave done the same, if the question had been subnitted to them. But the public might render a lifferent verdict as to some of their number ; for t is a notorious fact that the graduates of colleges ire not all gentlemen. In this case, the refusal to elect by vote the first gentleman, may have been saused from every student's voting for himself.? He this as it may, the object of the offered prize vas good, and none of them would have lowered linisclf by eeftpeting for it, much less by being 'advertised" as the first gentleman of his class. [Ionors to the Snltan. The Saltan of Turkey having visited Engand after leavjjpg Paris, the English government jot up a grand naval review on the 17th ultimo, in ronor of the occasion. The following description is urnished by the cable reporter: "It was the most magnificent spectacle ever witlessed in English waters. The squadron numbered eighty vessels, including ships' yachts and enders. There were fifteen iron-claas and twelve anarmored gunboats, and the unannored 6quadron numbered ^ twenty ships. Oueen Victoria and suite, the Sultan and suite, the Viceroy of Egypt ind suite, the Prince of Wales, both Houses of Parliament, the Lords of the Admiralty and the members of the Government were all present? There was a mock battle? a grand display of bunting, and an illumination in the evening.'' Revenue Frauds in New York. The Metropolitan Record thus exposes the Frauds daily committed in New York, in the payment of the liquor tax: Thirty thousand gallons of whiskey are marketed each day in New York and Brooklyn. The tax en this would yield $60,000 a day, if it were col [ected- The tax actually collected does not average more than $1,000 a day. All the efforts of the Revenue Department to prevent whiskey frauds ire impotent. Collusion between Distillers, Collectors, Assessors and Inspectors effectually stops the collection of the tax?two dollars a gallon. A good authority says that the highest price that whiskey has brought in the New York market in several months is $1 60 per gallon, forty cents less than the tax alone. Large quantities are sold daily at $1 20 per gallon. The cost of making a gallon of whiskey is from 40 to 45 cents. The difference between that and the selling price, is divided between the distillers and the Revenue officers who are in the ring with them. Secretary ,McCulloch is accused of responsibility for the frauds, because he ioes not remove the corrupt officers. The fact that the Secretary has no power to either remove or appoint revenue officers, is a sufficient defence against this charge. , The Union Republican Convention. The correspondent of the Charleston Mercury furnishes the following analysis of the "Union Republican Convention of South Carolina, recently in session at Columbia: "The following is a short analysis of the composition of the convention : White men; 16 ; colored and black men; 49. Of the whites six are Northern men* feeding on government pap2 one is a Southern man supported by the same diet, two are Northern men who have been long resident at the South, and the remainder are ignorant Southerners. Of the blacks and colored, six to ray knowledge are Northern men who were never nere before the war, and all these six took a prominent part in the proceedings of the assembly. In fact these men, with DeLarge and Wilder, seemed to control the convention. Some of the wnitc men, it 1 is true, made speeches that met with applause, but it took the black and colored to carry the measures.'' Brownlow's Militia. The Tennessee papers contain numerous jokes on that intensely hated band of licensed murderers, Brownlow's melish. The Murfreesboro Monitor sayB: Mr. Etheridge tells a good j'oke on Brownlow's militia. He says that tne best looking squad of the "military" force he has seen was at Greenville. The were a crab-headed, bandy-shanked, bow-legged, cross-eyed, cock-eyed, slab-sided, hip-shot set of loons, dressed, manv of them, in gauay patterns of sjtriped calico, and with one exception, were barefooted. He asked them the meaning of this ?why were they all bare-footed but that fellow, who seemed to be undergoing untold tortures at 1 the idea of having to wear shoes. He was like a dog with a collar on, and looked as though he was forever disgraced. "Oh," said they, "that is the way our captain has of punishing us. If we are guilty of any disobedience of orders, he forces us to wear shoes!" We suppose if the offence was a serious one they would also be compelled to wash their faces and change shirts once a month. An Australian Sampson. The Home Journal publishes the following tough narrative, oil the authority of an English paper: 1 A native of Australia, Mr. J. E. Evans, recent- 1 ly gave an exhibition of remarkable strength, at 1 tne Spa Hotel, in Chesterfield, England, to establish his claims as the strongest man in the world. He held a fifty-six pound weight in various posi- : tions, at arm's length, and increased the number until he raised four fifty-six pound weights above : his head, holding them at arm s length, and, at the same time, standing upon four tumbler glasses.? ; He also held the weights on the top of the glass, < and allowed a glass of water to be placed upon the top of the weights. He laid flat uppn themoor, and let a fifty-six pound weight fall a distance of ' about a yard upon his bare chest, and the weight 1 reDounuea as tnougn u nau come in cuuutci, mui i a piece of india-rubber. A piece of stone, four ] inches thick, wa# next placed"upon his chest, and. : Mr. Hinch, blacksmith, smashed it with two blows i? fragments. Mr. Hinch and Mr. ^Earner then cut a piece of tw&Kinch iron in two across his chest ' with the haraiher and chisel. The fefits concluded ' bf-Professor Hercules lying flat upon the floor, and allowing Mr. Hinch to 'Strike him, with all *his < strength, with a sixteen pound sledge-hammer.? ! The blow was met by the Professor, and the ham- 1 mer rebounded without leaving a scratch upon his ' body. * i % > ? * ] Fertile Yorkvllle Enquirer. U i IN MEMORIAL. { MISS AUGUSTA G. JOHNSTON. ( The friends of this lovely young lady, in the community where she was so well known and so highly esteemed, desire at tfcis proper interval from ! the event of her death, to place upon record their j deliberate estimate of her worth, and commend to | the consideration of all who. may read this notice, a . few simple truths suggested by her early departure 1 from us. In this act we disclaim, in complete ' consistency with the desire and taste of her whonf * we have lost, any intention to make her the sub- ^ ject of panegyric. We take it forgronted that no one questions that "none either liveth ordieth unto himselfthat in the individual living and dy- " ing of each member of a community there .is a distinct lesson, which it is the proper office of those j who most habitually contemplated it, to preserve and employ to the profit of those who may be af- ' fected by it We noiEe, that by the life and death of our friend, we have signally illustrated the power of gentleness. It is not an uncommon idea with most \ minds, that force of character consists exclusively 1 of spirit, passion, self-assertion. Miss J. was not J without these, in a proper degree. But who that J knew her in life, or was privileged to attpnd her in 1 sickness, or in the concluding agony, was not im- a pref -ed with the gentleness of a soul, whose iatel- j lect was clear and strong, whose loyalty to convic- * tions of right and truth was ever firm, whose sym- a pathies with all that was ardent and earnest were lively, but whose quiet, modest gentleness secured y an influence for good, which eternity alone can ad- J equately measure. The. testimony of the now 1 desolate mother is, "she never by wilfulness or ^ insubordination gave me uneasiness or grief," and } the picture of her gentle assiduity in childhood, 1 at the couch of a dying father, never left the memo- ? ry of those who witnessed it, |1 Atfain, we note the lesson of the frailty of what 1 belongs to earth. Our friend had not completed her twentieth year, when a brief illness, as our t Lord's messenger, snatched her from us. In the c mystery of this untimely eclipse of so much that a was amit ble and precious, we are moved to exclaim J in the language put by the Grecian poet into the i mouth or Cytherea above the body of her. son, c "Everything beautiful descends, 0 Death, to s thee!" And "yet it is not all mystery. The Sa- t viour loved her and gave her early the glory He 1 had promised her, when nine years ago she conse-" \ crated her bright, sweetohildhood to Hia service, c We thought her earthly life would be long, for she 1 had usually good health, but it was needful that we ^ should be taught the frailty of tlmf fetter by which i( we hold all mortal treasure. a Finally and fervently, do we commend to overy 1 reader of this notice, that Jesus, whom in daily v duty our friend, so modestly, yet so faithfully fol- e lowed?ah! would to God, every avowed .disciple <3 lived such a blameless life! ?whose honor was of ' so much consequence to her, whose grace was so 1 richly given her in the closing season of bodily suffering and trial. Oh! that all mortals oould have v witnessed that entire triumph over the monster ( Death, which Death's only conqueror gave this young disciple! Her mind was unclouded and ( undistracted, except as occasionally the severity of physical distress surprised her into expressions s which were not complaint, but only the infirmity of nature. But fellowship with .Christ was illus- f trious in her patience, her humilityher supreme v solicitude toward souls that were neglecting Christ and His so great salvation, and in that calm coura- g geous peace, with which, by the confessed pres- c ence and grace of a faithful Saviour, she looked I the tyrant in the face and advanced unshrinking c to the encounter! And with that name upon her I lips, which we now commend to every soul, the t sweet and awful name of Jesus Christ, on the 1st of July, 1867, ' a "Her quiet eye-lids closed?she had a Another morn than ours." With what delight do we linger upon the thought of her welcome, through the "pearly gates" into the "beautiful Zion," of which she lov?d to sing. For besides her Saviour there are many akin to her J;? x o.i j l v: 1 aCUUruiIlg IU auu iiuuiuu lciuuuusiupo, wuu have been in Heaven for years, who surely greeted t her on the threshold of her inheritance of joy! Header 1 the call of this compassing cloud of witnesses is, first to Christ, then to Heaven. t War Preparations.?In spite of the Paris t Exposition and the royal visits, the empire seems drifting into war. Horses are being purchased ex- intensively, and the military workshops are in full ? blast. In Frankfort and other financial centres, ^ these war appearances are creating considerable k distrust Notwithstanding the doings of the London Conference, the next spring or early summer may witness Europe in arms, and the two greatest g military nations of the day in deadly conflict on the ancient battle-fields of Europe. g I?* Samuel McNincb, an old citizen of Chester, died in that town on Friday of last week. t LOCAL ITEMS. HEW AD VERH8EMEHT8. Rev. R. B. Anderson, Principal?Yorkvilie Female College. A. A. McKenzie? McKenzie's Mills. Concert on the 16th instant. T. M. Dobeon & Co.?Wholesale and Retail Grocers. ' military sentence. .We learn by a communication received from Maj. D. D. Lynn, Commandant of the Poet of Chester, that Ned Tats, a freedman of this District, who was arrested some time ago on a charge of carrying a deadly weapon, in violation of the order of GerL Sickles on that subject, has been tried, found guilty, and sentenced to be confined at hard labor for two months. The sentence of the Military Court in this case, has been approved by General Sickles, and it will be executed under the direction of Major Lynn. A PUBLIC BENEFACTOR. The Rev. J. J. Sams, Pastor of the Episcopal Church at this place, has given his attention, since the close of the war, to ameliorating the condition of the poor within the precincts of his parish. In addition to bis regular pastoral duties, be has taught a school composed of the children of those who were unable to furnish the means of paying for their tuition. In this pious and exemplary work, he is accomplishing an amount of good inestimable in its importance. But his labors have not stopped here; and we are gratified to observe that his influence has also been exerted in behalf of thf temporal well-being of these unfortunate children. Last week, a donation of twenty bushels of rn was received by him from Mr. John Rowland, of Norfolk, Va., being a contribution from himself to the children of the school! Also, a lot of clothing from Miss Mart Bell, Representing several young ladies of asewing society in Norfolk, a donation to the children of this school, and the poor generally. These donations we are informed, have been distribute in accordance with the wishes of the givers. Our community will not fail to cherish, such acts of disinterested philanthropy as those above enumerated. CONTRIBUTORIAL. BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. COLUMBIA, SOUTH OABOLOTA, 39TH JULY, 1867. Comforts, etc. Hot weather prevails to a deliriously exaggerated degree. Mosquitoes are unprecedentedly popilous. Fleas are reported in the suburbs. Crowds levote themselves to perspiration and fanning.? Liveware out of ordei^?also watches. Hot water s atj^Tdiscount?also State bonds. Negroes have j Convention on the bran; also confiscation, and a arge crop of nonsense, rhe Sheriff of Richland. The term of Sheriff Bent expired, and General Sickles has appointed Green in his pipce. The ncumbent had-done well, and the community are inanunpus in the feeling that the introduction of a lewlhan without experience into the office is wholy uncalled for.? This feeling does not in any degree, bowerver, arise from any opposition to jfeg 3-reen ; bu^is upon general jprinciplee. ChorelTFaigjg * The negroeshad a Methodist fair last wddlf during the gfcand Convention, and in the same building?the basement It was tn'eating fair, with some fancyworks for sale, and was gotten up by the negroes for the purpose of aiding in the finishing of their new church. It continued several jvemngs?three, wft. believe?and had a reasonable success. We got the points from one'who was airing part; and he spoke cheerfully and hopenlly of the project; and thought it quite a success, jonsidered as a pleasant place of recreation for the routh of their oolor and denomination. The announcement of the fair in the morning's 3aper was rather ambitions?claiming to emanate rora the "ladies of Columbia"?but this was only i mistake of taste. ? > ^ Yew Books. % :* Professor R. L Dabney, so well known by his Life of Stonewall Jackson, has just published A Defence of Virginia (and through her of th? South). recent and pending contests against the sectional )arty. The questions here discussed, are the living ssues of the day, and Dr. Dabney, like "Stonewall" n the field, never spares an enemy in his front; md deals heavy blows about the heads of his op>onents. (?he book is patched by* Edward J. lale & Son (Sontbern men) New York;'at $1.50 . copy, and they will send it by mail for that price. Ihe Diary of a Southern Refugee, the I rar, by a lady -of "Yk, is another new tolume list out by the same house, at $2, The author of his book, was a refugee who lived in and near Richmond, the greater part of the war, and gives is her experiences in hospitals, in hard living, and n life in general, in a vidid and elegant style. This an also be had by mail Or, X^ifiie & Chapman, n Columbia, will soon have them for sale. 3ee-Keepfng. k We have the best of reasons/or wishing to,see his subject well understood and property approbated by our people. We have recently examined i J lJj.il-?1 A rr.ii jt i nanasonie uiuu voiume upvu we buujwi?we Bee-Leeper's Text-Book, by*N. H. & H. A. King, ieaidoa an outline, of thg philosophy of bees, it ontains a great deal of practical information?on wanning and now to manage it, what to plant for >ees, how to arrange them in apiaries, with the est methods of protecting and fhvoring them in rarious ways, what sort of gums to make, what to lo with your bees during every month of the year, iow to improve bees, and how to get the honey.? Phese points are illustrated, so that one previously gnorant of the subject can Jearn all about it. The luthors are practical bee-keepers and have pubishcd a pamphlet called Hints to Bee-Kecpert, rhich they will'send gratuitously to any bee-keeper who will send his address to them. Their adIress is H. A. King & Co., Nevada, Ohio. The Text-Book can be ordered by mail, for 75 oents. The Radical Convention. This meeting technically styles itself "A Convenention of the Union Republican Party of South Carolina." It is what popularly is known as a Radical StateJonvention. It is practically, in many of its aspects and reults, a Negro State-Convention. We estimate the elements of this body to be bur-fifths colored (mainly mulatto) and one-fifth rhite. On the first day were present fifty-six (56) deletes .that represented nineteen districts. The iistricts represented are: Abbeville, Anderson, krnwell, Beaufort, Charleston, Chester, Clarenlon, Colleton, Darlington, Fairfield, Greenville, ierahaw, Lexington, Marion, Newberry, Orange>urg, Richland, Sumter and York. On the second day, six more delegates (not from my new districts, however) reported; making the iggregate sixty-two. The Platform was the main work of this second lay. The main new features of this astonishing locument are: 1 ? That schools, colleges, etc., be uniform, open o all (meaning negroes.) 2?That courts of justice require re-organ izaion. 3 ? That ad valorem be the only tax levied. 4?That every officer in the State, "except hose of the Judiciary Department," be elected by he people directly. H... 5?That Andrew Johnson's administration has een "unjust, oppressive and intolerable" to the Dyal people (meaning negroes, chiefly) of the South. 6?That the tax on cotton should be removed. 7 ?That participants in the (so called) rebellion hould be kept out of power as long as possible. 8 ?That whatever the national Radical Party hall say do, ought to be done. 9?That monopolies in lands are ruinous; and hat the "Legislature should offer every practi i . \ ' cable inducement for the division and sale of unoccupied lands among the poorer dasse It will be perceived that the- squinting ? when it is less than a 'decided leaning ? is towards the negro. _ The Convention is rather a negro Confention. than a Radical Convention; and some of the white delegates (not out-and-out Yankees) are beginning g to realise this. The community realize it palpably. ' A negro lawyer, W. Wright, introduced a Resolution, daiming for the negro race the next Vice Presidency of the IJnited States. He made a set, written, and memorized speech on it1 Doesn't this measure appear rather negro in its tone, than Radical? As soon & the Yankee finds the negro getting in his way, he will be the first to crush his colored brother into the dust. The prooeedings, at first a Bit clumsy, became as the time wore on, noisy; the speeches full of ugjty personalities; the rhetoric principally invective; and the general tone and style of the whole affair to a degree undignified and vulgar. About the Convention* THa CftnvAntinn. now that, it in ovat. in fflli to he a failure. fL It is a failure in not haying produced a profound sensation. Y . It is a failure in the indigested mass it puts forward as its platform. It is a failure in having overleaped the bounds of Radical ultraism?in being more Radical than the Radicals. This appears in its scheme of election reforms, and of oonfiscationary land-tax. . . It is a failure in its over-estimate of the power of the negro race. It asks?in its general tone, but especially in Wright's resolutions claiming the negro's right to the next Yice-Preadtocy?it asks more than the Northern white Radical is going to concede, unless for a temporary purpose! It is ?failure in not being, in any sense, representative of the State. Nineteen-only, out of thirty of (he Districts, were repi&entedat aS, and many of these very imperfectly- Four-fifths of the delegates were mulattoes with a few. negroes.? There .were, maybe, half a dozen men of medium education in nil the Convention. The Mercury heard Carolina pronounced correctly by one man in the Convention; all the others left out the no, and called it Calina. J* It is a fearful failure in heing the step beyond all others in the alienation ofwhite and black races that will tell in the fatal {u&g? the unhappy | ^fhe^spirit of disoord seeaipd to pervade the Convention from its opening hour. Mr. (Reaves, an intelligent and gentlemanly mulatto presided i with great dignity and ability; bat befiad a rnde and ignorant rabble to regulate,' and found it any- * thing bat a pleasant ptfce .to be. 4 What w$Br the arrogance of some ntgroes-and the superft&ous flippancy of some Yankees, the President's duties were onerous in the extreme. "^Scores of times he had to peremptorily order down' a refractory member ; received impertinence times and again; had to orders rowdy member oat of the ball; and was himself repeatedly interrupted in ,"j?fe rudest and most unparliamentary manner. Personalities of the coarsest character were bandied about among ^ 'the delegates in a way that would have done honor t to?the UnitedStates Congress; as when Bowen madea fling at certain government officials, and Epping thffW'S. District Marshal winced under * the reflection, mxTBowen quoted tbwQeorgia Senator : "If yon shoot into a pack of dbgB^on can tell which one Has been hit by die noise he makes!" All this was fivdjsbtiough, bet it was undignified and gave trouble to t? presiding officer. Another remarkable sentiment was-wttered/ It was the first day, Col Robertsgtt Said: "We, as a people, tried to breiric np the best government the sun evershtmenpon. Wfe thaaMJocU" Col. Robertson is a native of this State, and fired in Colombia daring the war ^UiaON REptJULICAH CONYBNTldH. According to adjournment, the "Ujgon Republican Convention of South Carolina" assembled it Columbia, on Wednesday or last week.- la order to keep our readers informed of what is going on, we present a summary of the proceedings, collated from the Colombia Phonic, and the Chadeteon Newt, Mercurtfpnd Courier: i The Convention assembled in Janney's Hall, and at 12 o'clock was called to order by R. H. Cleaves, 3 an intelligent looking mulatto,- who was the President of tne last Convention held in Charleston^ and who in taking the Chair, observed that this being a I continuation of the meeting which was adjourned 1 on the, 10th of May last, they would resume the 1 business of that Convention. IL. : .1 jir 1 1 ?.* T? M ?? rrayer was uieu onerea uy me xvev. jjit. nandolph (colored),'after which the roll of the original Convention was called. The following members answered to their names: Beaufort?R. H. Gleaves. W. J. Whipple. Charleston?J. P. M. Epping, (J. Fillsburry, E. W. M. Mackey, C. 0. Bowen, W. J. McKenlev, James D; Price. Darlington?Isaac Brbckmgton, R J. Snellen. Kershaw?J. K. Gillson. . j Marion?R E. Hayne, EdwardRnman, B. A. , Thompson. c. ' Orrtjgebmg?T. K Sasportos. ... I A question was raised as to there-being a quonnn present,hut.on a call of the Districts, Dusinesa , was proceeded with. ' . ' * A Committee on Credentials,consisting of five, was appointed* of which Mr. Epping was Chairman, and two Sergeants-at-Arms were chosen to foreseryp order. Pending the presentation of the report of the last-named Committee, the President called upon Mr. Armstrong, of Washington, P. C., to address the Convention. Mr. Armstrougis a young man of four or five and twenty, who has been delegated by the Congressional Executive Committee to make a tour of South Carolina and talk to the people, but seemed to be, nauticaDy speaking, "thrown on his beam ends" by the abrupt and unexpected in- ^ vitation thus extended. V He mounted the platform bravely, however, and 1 after stating that he hod just arrived, and would 1 be prepared in a day or two to address a mass ' meeting, or the Convention itself, if it was so de- . sired, launched briefly upon his theme He congratulated the Convention on its appearance; said that for the first time in the history of the State this was a Convention of the people of South Carolina, and he hoped that what was done would find an echo in the newt of every loyal man North and South. He believed' they came here with malice toward none,, and good will to alL? They were to discuss, not men, but measurdfeThe conflict between individuals had ceased, irot the war of ideas Still progressed. Id all deliberations this fact was constantly to he borne in mind. Radicalism was not understood. If to be radical was to oherish hate, he was not such a man; but if radicalism or republicanism consists in the maintenanee of the principles of justice and equality to all men and the divine principles of government, tbethewas.a radical. If these principles were 1 properly put before the people of South Carolina, in the shape of ^ weh digested platform, they woiuu ue Buxxwsoiui, m nut, prejudice would still prevail and no. real good be done. Mr. T. J. Robertson, (white) of Columbia, being called upon, addressed the Convention. Mr. Robertson was followed by Gilbert Pillsbtuy, . a teacher in the Freedman's Bureau. The Committee on Credentials here returned, and reported the names of the following additional members, who had presented proper credendtials: Lexington?James Bawl, Lemuel Booster, S. Corley. ' * Darlington?Rev. B. F. Whittemore, Alfred Rush, John A. Barnes. Orangeburg?Rev. B. F. Randolph, Ed. Cain. Beaufort?E. G. Dudley. Sumter?J oseph White. Chester?M. Blackwell, Humphreys, D. Walker, Rev. E. Barton. Richland?T. J. Robertson, C. H. Baldwin, C. M. Wi)der,Wm. Myers, S. B. Thompson. Barnwell?Charles Fisher, Smart Folk, Fred. Nix, William Allen, E P. Stoney. Anderson?Samuel Johnson, Henry Kennedy. York?John W. Mead. Greenville?W. A. Bishop, Wilson Cook. Fairfield?W. W. Herbert^ C. L Reafb, Sandy Ford, Samuel Greer. Colleton?Gilbert Reese. The report was adopted, and the names of the new members were caBed. The delegates were then requested to arrange themselves by Districts on the nearest benches to the platform. I The minutes of the last Convention were read and confirmed. fil ' ?i-- iJtO i i.. .? , Cii. I . < 1 vV?i