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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.
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EDITORS I 1
AS. E. WILSON. _JAS. F. HART, ,
YORKVILDE. S. C.8 i
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 1, 1867. J
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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.
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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
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Fertile Yorkvllle Enquirer.
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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.
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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
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