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Jfrrxp* and Jarts. ?? A broker being aaked the other day how his child was, answered, almost in tears "Veiy ill; I would not give over two per cent for his life." The largest ox in America has just died in Manchester, N. H. He was seven years old, and weighed 5,000 pounds?two tons and a half. Mrs. Ella Merriok Thomas, of Amherst, Mass., is the youngest mother in America, being only thirteen years of age. By official returns at the Bureau of Statistics 5,067,025 acres were planted in cotton this year, yielding about 1,568,357 bales of 450 pounds each. A correspondent informs the editor of the Charlotte Democrat that kerosene oil is an infallible remedy for hog oholera. Rub the hog with it, especially about the jaws. ? The Treasury holds $378,898,070 as security for National Bank circulation and public deposits. The total circulation of these Banks is $299,107,000. A Radical paper "makes the statement that "negro suffrage is stronger in Ohio to-day than ever,'* to which the Hartford Times responds: "Yes; it smells rank to heaven." European meteorologists are predicting an | early and hard winter this year, tor tne reason that the birds of passage have begun their migration Southward at least a month earlier than usual. The Treasury Department will disburse on the 1st of the coming month about twenty-seven millions of dollars in gold, as interest on five-twenty bonds. This is the largest amount of specie that has ever been paid for any half-year's interest Arrangements are now being made to hol<j, in the city of Philadelphia, commencing on the first Wednesday of November, a National Convention, composed of delegates from the different branches of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. The New York Commercial Advertiser says "the result did not turn half so much on the question whether colored men should vote in Ohio, as whether we should, by military law, oonvert the Carolinas, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, etc., into St Domingos." An aged Democrat of Concord, N. EL, who died reoentjy, gave strict orders before his death that none but Democrats should officiate as pall- 1 bearers at his funeral, and that no minister who meddled with politics should conduct religious ser- i vices over his remains. His wishes were strictly , earned oat , The English harvest is reported by the agri- , cultural editor of the London Times to have produced a wheat crop under the average, a barley crop ten per oent over the average, oats fifteen : per cent over, beans an average crop, and of 1 peas below tbe average. A letter from' Syria gives terrible accounts of the condition of the Cretans. With tne exception of a few cantons and villages, it is doubtful whether there is a village standing in the island, or at 1 least in a condition to offer shelter to its people , during the coming winter. In a railroad of five hundred miles in length, ] the expansion of the rails caused by the heat of , summer amounts to nearly a quarter of a mile from the point of contraction in winter. This expansion is all taken up by the joints between the 'i rails. A young Englishman, of wealth and culture, 1 reoently fell in love with a young squaw in Omaha, I Kansas, and married her. The next day, she got f drank, and turned somersaults in the street The j young Englishman of wealth and culture, at last accounts, was seeking for a divorce, on the ground ( of incompatibility of tastes. 1 A new electric light has been tested on the ! Battery at New York, which proved to be of im- } mense power. A captain said the following morning, that he had read his newspaper by it at a dis- < tanoe of six miles. The apparatus is not expen- , sive, the expense being two cents per hour, exclusive of the cost of the power required to drive the generative machine. The Northern papers generally oopy and fa- , vorably speak of the recent letter of Gov. Orr to the President, asking him to revoke the iury order of Gen. Canby. It has produced a telling effect i upon the masses. A few more such masterly doc uments would cause the scales to fall from the eyes i of the Northern people, and exhibit our pitiable condition as we ourselves see it -?-Judge McCandless, of the United States j District Court of Pennsylvania, has decided that in bankruptcy cases the bederal courts have not the power to restrain by injunction any action of State courts in such cases. The Judge intimates that i thepewer should be bestowed at the next session of Congress, in order to make the general bankrupt law effective. . ? 1 The Washington Lincoln Monument Association has closed a contract for a monument, to be Wit of white marble and to have a height of thirty-six feet, including a statue of Lincoln eight feet high, of Italian marble. Over $7,000 has been 1 collected for this purpose, almost entirely in Washington. The monument will be placed in front of the Citv Hall. At what time, however, is at present unknown. The Philadelphia Press says the President has returned General Sickles' application for a court of inouiry to the War Department, with his disapproval and his reasons therefor, the principal of which is that General Sickles has already appealed for redress to the bar of public opinion, and if he was to order a court of inquiry, it would simply be giving him another hearing. If not satisfied with the verdict of the public, the President intimates he may demand a court martial. The Charleston News says: "We gave, some months ago, an account of the monument to ; be erected over the United States soldiers buried in Magnolia. The project has not been abandon- : ed; for we see by our exchanges that fifteen hun- i dred dollars were raised at Beecher's Church on j Sunday to defray the expenses of a soldier's monument in Charleston. Three hundred and ten bodies of Union soldiers are placed in Magnolia Cemetery." 1 The distress and destitution among the ne- 1 groes on Edisto Island is so great that they are 1 leaving the island and crossing to the main land by < hundreds, in search of employment We learn < that a large rice planter, a few days ago, employed thirty abled bodied men at thirty cents per day, and they find themselves, and received one hundred additional applications from other able bodied negroes willing to work on the same terms, but whom he was unable to employ.?Charleston Mercury. Gen. Sherman, according to a Washington telegram in the New York Herald\ is entirely opposed to the ~ revolutionary ultras, and in favor of the constitutional principles upheld by the President He was free to express these opinions a few days ago when in Washington, and all state ments to the contrary are pure inventions ol tlie enemy. Every man in the North knows, too, that besides being Conservative, Sherman is far superior to Grant both as a civilian and as a soldier. In opening a course of medical lectures at New York, Professor Loomis, of Yale College, recently paid a iust tribute to medical science; by stating that tne improvements in medicine have increased longevity 71 per cent in Paris, in sixty * years; that one hundred years ago the death rate ' was one in twenty and is now one in forty, and that there is a greater difference in the average longevity between the eighteenth and nineteenth century, in London, than there was between a year of general health in that city and a year of cholera. The Courier says that at an informal politi cal meeting in Charleston, on Friday last, compos - ed of old, respectable colored men of that city, the _ following independent ticket for members of a State Convention was adopted, and a Committee appointed to wait upon the parties named, to solicit their consent'W'become candidates: Hon. Wm. Aiken. Son. A. G. Mackey, Hon. George S. Bryan, Hon. 0. A. Andrews, Daniel Horlbeck, George Buist, G. W. Williams, F. L. Cardoza, S. L. Bennett. It has been remarked by a practical man, that whenever breadstuff's rule high, cotton is depressed, and vice versa. He states that he has never known it to fail. The Southern people, in their present poverty, should draw a lesson from thifl strange coincidence, and abandon the culture of cotton on so large a scale, and take to that of raising grain crops. It is very certain that the price of provisions promises to be high, in spite of reported good crops, and before making arrangements for another year, planters would do well to mulfp very close'calculation as to the profit or loss of cotton raising, to the neglect of oorn and wheat. -The President has ordered that Captain Morris Schaff, commanding the United States arsenal at Mount Vernon, Alabama, be. tried upon a change of the murder of Frederick B. Shepard, a citizen of that State. It will be recollected that the homicide grew out of an acrimonious correspondence between Schaff and Shepard, which ended in the latter challenging the former to fight a duel Schaff had Shepard arrested and brought within the arsenal, and, it is alleged, instantly shot him, the ball taking effect in the neck. Shepard lingered some davs, and died. In the meantime, Schaff was tried before a court-martial for conduct unbecoming an offioer, and found guilty. These proceedings will be annulled, and the trial for murder go on. EDITORS: JAS. E. WILSON. ?JAS. F. HART. rORKVlLLE, S. C.:~ THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 31,1867. Cash.?It must be distinctly1 understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are'cash, in advance. y?Tho nnnor will be discontinued on the expi ration of tfie time for which payment has been made. A Subscriber finding a (X) cross-mark on the wrapper on margin of his paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. HOW TO VOTE. As the time to vote oil the question of Conven- 1 tion is at hand, it becomes important to know what is to be voted for and how the ticket is be 1 written or printed. Like eveiything else connected with reconstruction, the process of voting is complicated and not easy to understand. There are two things to be decided by the election: first, whether there is to be a convention; and second, who are to be the delegates to that convention, if held. The law requires that both of these questions must be voted on by the same ticJcet. On one side, must be written or printed the words "For a Convention," or "Against a Convention," 3 which is to indicate the voter's verdict on the first 1 point to be decided. On the other side, must bo 1 written or printed the names of the persons for j whom the voter desires to vote, as delegates. It is also prescribed that the ticket be so folded as to display the word "Convention" on the outside, : and conceal the names of the candidates. This ' method of folding is required, because the ballots are first to be counted for and against a convention ; and then the votes for the candidates. It is 1 essential that the words "For a Convention" or "Against a Convention" be observed; for those are the forms prescribed by law, and votes given ' in other forms, such as "Convention" or "No 3 Convention," may be thrown out by the Boards. , # , i MACHINE FARMING. I We find in an agricultural exchange, an admira- I ble illustration of what may be accomplished by the J use of machines in farming. Mr. 0. Dalrymple, 1 of Minnesota, raised, this year,' a crop of 42,500 1 bushels of wheat, on 1700 acres of land. His land ' was divided into three farms, on one of which is a 1 field of 720 acres, enclosed by a substantial board ' fence. During harvest, 73 men were hired on this ' farm, at $2.50 per day and board, and seven Mc- i Cormick reapers, each drawn by four horses, fol- ' lowed each other in regular order, cutting an ag- ' cpregate swath of 49 feet The machines were set ' in motion on the 12th of August, and in twelve 1 lays the entire crop of 1700 acres was harvested. 1 On the 22nd, five threshers and cleaners coramen- 1 ;ed operations in the field, the wheat being hauled ' in wagons to the river, as fast as it was cleaned. Within three'weeks after the work of harvesting ' commenced, this immense crop was on the way to 1 market The amount of the crop is estimated by the 1 iournal from which we get the facts; the estimate ' being founded upon the lowest figures guessed at I by the neighboring farmers, who thought the yield 1 would be from 25 to 30 bushels per acre. This 1 crop, at $1.50 per bushel would be worth $03,750, 1 and the profits of the owner, above all expensess, 1 are said to be $20,000. The land upon which this crop was made, is rolling prairie, broken up last 1 spring, and the seed was put in by the machine 1 known as the "broadcast seed-sower," several of which are kept on each farm. 1 The above facts enable us to form some idea of 1 the way in which the immense grain crops of the ' Northwest are made. The people of that section 1 have learned the superiority of machinery over 1 manual labor. POLITICAL NEWS. ? The majority of General Haye9, the Radical candidate for Governor of Ohio, is 3558?all but eight counties official, The vote is the heaviest ' ever cast in the State. ?A Washington dispatch dated the 21st inst., j says that Postmaster General Randall, in reply to a friend in Wisconsin, asking what he ought to do ] about supporting the Republican State ticket, ' writes that he would never vote for any man or any ticket who favor impeachment of the President; 1 that there is neither reason nor excuse for this war J upon Mr. Johnson; that the latter has endeavored to bring about, upon just terms, a complete restor- 1 ? -f Aa TTnl/m l,o Vioc InllnTOrtd flirt rwVlirt.V of ^ tiUUU Ui tliC UU1UU ) 11V uuu AVWHVM ? w t ^ . Mr. Lincoln, which all Republicans once approved; he has had no other policy, and if this policy had been carried out, there would have been perfect J peace, the Union fully restored, and represents- ' tives, loyal all through the war, from the Southern 1 States, would be filling the vacant seats of the House of Representatives. He says that the Republican party, as constituted ' to-day, does not favor a single principle upon which the government carried on the war; that it is time the work of the dominant party, outside of the ' institution, was stopped, and the country restor- ' ed, as it ought to have been long ago, if the Re- ' publican party had not abandoned its own tenets ' and made war upon the President because he was true to the principles upon which the people elec- 1 ted him to his high office. 1 ?Returns from fifty-seven out of ninety coun- 1 ties in Iowa give a Republican majority of 54,070. 1 ? The returns of the votes taken in Ohio for or against the amendment to the State Constitution extending suffrage to colored men, show that in 1 thirty-eight counties, which gave General Hayes, the Republican candidate for Governor, 6,394 majority, the majority against negro suffrage was 16,74-1. This is said to indicate a majority throughout the State against negro suffrage, of over fiftythree thousand. ? It appears by the full official returns of the late election in Pennsylvania for Supreme Judge, the vote stands: Sharswood, Democrat and Conservative, 268,032; Williams, Republican, 266,824. Majority for Sharswood, 1,208. At the Governor's election last year, the vote was, Geary, Republican, 307,274; Clymer, Democrat, 290,096. Majority for Geary, 17,178. The Democratic vote is 22,070, and that of the Republicans 39,070 less than last year. ? The Police Board of Baltimore have published an order, forbidding parades, processions, or assemblages of armed men, other than the regular State militia, within the limits of the city, and similar gatherings at night, whether the persons j engaged therein be armed or unarmed. The ob ject of the order is to stop the parades of the union League and colored military companies, who have lately gotten up serious riots, by their arrogant demonstrations. ? Gen. Mower has, in Special Orders issued on the 21st, announced the result of the vote in Louisiana, on the Convention question. The total number of votes was 79,174, of which 75,089 were for Convention. As a majority of the whole number registered voted, and as a majority of the votes cast were for a Convention, Gen. Mower notifies the delegates elected to assemble at New Orleans, on the 23rd of Novem^r. The order does not state whether those who voted for a Convention constitute a majority of the registered voters. ? Major General Pope, commanding the third military district, has ordered the session of the Alabama constitutional convention under the re construction acts, to commenoe on the 5th of November next A very small proportion of the delegates elect are Conservative?scarcely enough for a corporal's guard. ? The Constitution of Ohio does not give the veto power to the Governor. The new Democratic Legislature will, therefore, be independent of the Radical Governor elect ? A special telegram to the New York World says the returns of the election in Iowa indicate the defeat of the negro suffrage amendment to the Constitution of that State. This has been done in the face of a reported Republican majority in the State of 20,000. ?The total number registered in South Carolina is estimated to be 125,000, of which 45,000 are whites and 80,000 are blacks. In North Carolina the total number is estimated at 174,717, the pro * Stota Hpincr three whites to One JSV/iflUU 1U UiUV uiuw w?MQ MMW .. black. ? An election is ordered in Florida for the 14th, 15th and 16th of November next, upon the question of Convention or no Convention, under the Reconstruction acts. Forty-six delegates are to be chosen, and bitter oomplaints are made that General Pope has so gerrymandered the State that the negroes will have thirty-six out of that number. Under this arrangement, the Tallahassee Floridian complains that while 1,322 negroes can elect one delegate, 3,304 whites are required to the same end. ?Brownlow has been elected United States Senator from Tennessee by a majority of twentytwo votes. So, poor Tennessee is to be misrepresented for six years in the United States Senate by this wretched old dribbler, unless Providence sooner removes the affliction. GENERAL GRANT. No man in the country is so closely watched by the wire-pullers of American politics, as General Grant. The most insignificant remark that drops from his lips, if it can be twisted into an expression of his political sympathies, is telegraphed over the country as an important piece of newe. As it has long been taken for granted that he is to be a candidate for the Presidency at the next eleotion, and with good chances for success, his sentiments have become a matter of importance to the people. Indeed, those who cherish a love of republican institutions, begin to think more importance is attached to the opinions of Gen. Grant, than those of any man under heaven are entitled to. For it is ominous of evil to a country, when the eyes of its people are anxiously turned upon , l ? ? Sf+k* one man, ana ne a mere unmury uunu, <? u ?? fate of the country hang upon his decisions. But the destinies of the American nation are aot, after all, so dependent upon the nod of the modern Ulysses, as they seein to be. The umpire-like position which Gen. Grant has succeeded in gaining, between the President and Congress, is mainly due to his having hitherto kept his lips elosed. He has for several months been in the hands of experienced trainers of nags for the Presidential races. These jockeys resolutely muzzled him at the first, and with some difficulty have kept him muzzled until very recently. By so doing they have kept up his strength, which was acquired by his so-called genius as a soldier, and have mode it a desirable thing to both parties to have him for their nominee in 1868. But, unfortunately for their schemes, the General has unwisely opened his mouth. He evidently leans to the Radical party, and yet he does not go. far mough to please the leaders of that party. In a recent letter to Dr. Lieber, Grant says he trusts he may have strength to answer any responsibility that may devolve upon him; that he will accept any responsibility, however solemn, if the country demands it of him. This language is considered as an assurance that he will obey Congress, in case the President is impeached and refuses to be removed previous to trial. How he is to ascertain whether the country desires such a service of him, we are not informed. But if he takes this position, his chances for the Presidency, by popular eleotion, are gone. If the country shall reach a crisis when the right to rule the country is to be settled by arms, there will Ire no more Presidents. But if no such crisis occur, which is more probable, Grant's expressed willingness to 3ettle it by arms, will ruin his prospects as a candidate. Nor can he afford to lose ground now; for the extreme Radicals already favor another, ind the Democrats will not take him up. THE VIRGINIA ELECTION. Despite a noble effort by the Conservatives of Virginia, aided in some places, by Federal officers who spoke in favor of Conservative candidates, the Old Dominion has been carried by the Radicals.? The majority was small; but the State Convention has been sustained, and the members elect are Radical by a majority of fifteen. Hunnicutt, Underwood, Morrisey, and two negroes were dec ted to represent Richmond. These results were foreordained by the ruling powers, and they were accomplished by any and jvery means, fair and unfair, that could be used, rhe military found it necessary to patrol the streets of the city, to quell the disturbances caused by the mob of ignorant negroes who favored the Rnrliriil roiiap Snflh nesroes as voted the Conser native ticket, did so at the peril of their lives. Not mly in Richmond, but in the other cities in the 3tate, these voters were pursued and taunted by the mob; and the interference of the military alone protected them. Hunnicutt's son was arrestjd and sent to the Libby, for tearing up Conservative tickets in the hands of negro voters; but he svas soon released. Some Conservative negroes ivere driveu from the polls, without being permitted to deposite their votes. The election was continued in three wards one day more than was first ordered, to ensure the election of Radical candilates. To call the reception of votes at the polls in Virginia a free election, is a misnomer. The form of in election was preserved; but the results were determined beforehand. General Schofield, in the first place, so arranged the districts which were to elect delegates as to give the negroes a controlling vote, although the whites have a majority of 15,000 registered votes in the State. But even with this advantage given them, the Radicals had to beg an extra day to manufacture voters in Richmond, and to resort to violence and riots throughout the State, in order to carry Virginia. This is a fine specimen of the freedom of the ballot-box under the Reconstruction Acts, and the people of the South may as well make up their minds that their States are to be counted Radical, whatever the sentiments of the people. One more resort is nominally left them, viz: to vote down the constitutions framed by these conventions, if they do not like them. But in military elections, as has just been demonstrated in Virginia, the General commanding can produce any result he desires. Military republicanism is a monster, which possesses none of the benefits of monarchy or democracy, while it combines the faults of both, to wit: tyranny and mob-law. Unless this monster is swept away by the Northern people in the next Congressional elections, the prospects of free government in America are dark Fortunately for our country, the indications are that the Northern people will slay this mongrel form of government at their first opportunity. | The Pickens Riot.?We have not ascertained any further important particulars concerning the disgraceful riot near Runnicutt's Crossing, on Saturday night, 12th inst The military has efficiently assisted the civil authorities in making arrests of parties engaged in the riot Among others, we learn that Alex. Bryoe, jr., of Walhalla, and several negroes in that vicinity, were arrested by the military and lodged in the Pickens iail. Upon affidavits, the civil authorities arrested Rev. Elias Cannady, (colored,) of this place, and he has been sent to Pickens jail for trial, as one of the leading spirits of this horrible outrage. He is a Baptist preacher, and well known throughout this section. A gentleman who left Pickens on Monday afternoon. informs us that the grand juiy had found true tills against seven of the number arrested.? Anderson Intelligencer. MERE-MENTION. . iXj y The Pntaiao Government has ordered a translation of Major Seott's "Partisan Life with Mosby" for the purpose of adopting "MoBby's Tactics" in the Prussian service. "The house in which General Zachary Taylor ~wbs born, and which is located near Orange Court House, Virginia, is now used as a barn."* Senator Rogers has offered resolutions in the "Senate of Tennessee in favor of paying the bonds in greenbacks. He is one of the oldest and ablest radicals in that body. < -The Georgia papers say that General Pope has issued a circular informing the candidates for the Convention, that they will have to provide for paying their own expenses. General Howard says the negro population has decreased over a million and a quarter since emancipation. "The indebtedness of Southern railroads to government is between six and seven millions.* Competition has placed the fare from New York to Albany, 150 miles, at fifty cents. Cattle are guillotined in France, instead of stunned and stabbed. Rev. Dr. Muhlenburg, author of the hymn, "I would not live alway," is in his seventy-second year, and has been a minister forty-six years. Mrs. Lincoln has decided to have a subscription opened for her benefit, in lieu of having her shawls and jewelry sold at auction. Ward meetings held in Philadelphia favor Grant, and ward clubs are forming to support him.** It is reported that Gen. Sherman is writing 4 book on the war, to be published posthumously. " George Wilkins Kendall, senior associate editor'of the New Orleans Picayune died at his residence, Post Oak Spring, near Boerne, Texas, on the.2ist insL, of congestive chilL The Philadelphia cotton merchants have voted to request the reduction of the cotton tax. The Red Sea is to be drained to recover the valuables lost with Pharoah's host. "The Darlington Southerner contains a four column advertisement from the Sheriff of that District, of property levied on for taxes."""" The President has appointed Thursday, the 28th of November, as a day of national thanksgiving. According to Blot, "the great cookist," ooffee or broth should never be allowed to BoiL In coffee the aroma escapes with the steam, and with broth the essence of the meat escapes. The Mercury says the indebtness of the city of Charleston is five millions of dollars, which, divided among a population of twenty thousand white persons, exhibits an indebtedness of $250 per head. < . EDITORIAL INKLINGS* Botts Down Again. The news from Virginia is not cheering; but there is one item which affords some consolation. John Minor Botts, the notorious hanger on to all parties in turn, was the Radical candidate for Culpeper County, and was defeated by 62 votes. It ? *31? :?j .I. ?. r ?? is said lie ruceiveu iuc vutca ui ocvcu ituuq uicu only, six of whom were foreigners, and the seventh was probably Botts himself. It is well he was defeated ; for the Convention will be sickly enough, without having the "bota" Sheridan Kissed. During the reception of Gen. Sheridan at Boston, he was publicly kissed by two young ladies. This flattering welcome was not entirely a mark of the esteen which the fair ladies felt for Sheridan. There was a bet involved, and the ladies gained iti as well as the gratifying consciousness of having kissed a live general. But it is to be feared there was some sweetness wasted; for, if he is not greatly belied, Sheridan would rather smack a glass of whiskey than all the girls in Boston. A Congressional Committee in Charleston. | A committee of stray Congressmen made their appearanoe in Charleston last week. Their avowed business was to investigate the condition of certain Southern railroads, which are indebted to the U. S. government "But if their proceedings are any test of their object, these gentlemen are out on an electioneering tour> for the benefit of the Radical party.. They appear to have had a very good time in the city, as they visited Fort Sumter and othelr fortifications in the harbor, dined with Gen. Canby, and held a political meeting, at which they gave vent to their superabundant "loyalty," in a series of spread-eagle speeches. The government doubtless .secured an immense amount of Railroad indebtedness by paying the expenses of this committee to Charleston, for the purpose of explaining to a crowd of negroes, why Pennsylvania and Ohio voted against the Radicals. Where the Spoils Went. ; A few days ago, a picture representing two children feeding a horse, which had found its way j to the Dead Letter Office at Washington, was claimed by and restored to parties at Columbia, S. C. The claimants stated that it was the only existing portrait of two deceased children, and had been "captured" by some of Sherman's bummers, during the sack of Columbia. These statements led to an investigation of the Dead Letter Office records; when it appeared that the U. S. mails -were regularly used as a means of conveying the trophies of Sherman's army to the North. The use of the express was forbidden to the heroes by military orders, and they used the mail as the only available substitute. It may afford some comfort to the rightful owners to learn that many of these stolen articles were lost to the thieves. The mails were so overburdened that many of the trophies were dropped in the dead letter office. There they accumulated until they filled a dozen large boxes, and the inventory of the articles covered over a hundred pages of foolscap. These boxes were transferred to the Freedmen's Bureau, and their contents were sold at auction. The proceeds, we suppose, we.e either pocketed by officials or turned over to the Bureau, as a contribution of Northern benevolence to the sufferings of the "poor African." Mr. Davis* Trial. A late Washington dispatch says: "Chief Justice Chase has written to Judge Underwood, that he will be present at the opening of the Court in Richmond in November. He refers to the fact that Mr. Davis' bail bond expires on the 4th Monday in November, and says if Mr. Davis is willing, he will take up the case before that time, bi^t will not remain in Richmond after the Supreme Court meets in December." Louis Napoleon's Title. The N. Y. Home Journal says the Emperor Louis Napoleon, became "Napoleon the Third" through the error of a telegraph clerk, and gives the following account of it: < "In the course of its preparations for constituting the empire, the Home Office wished the country to take up a word which should be an intermediate between President and Emperor, so the Minister determined to order that France should suddenly burst into the cry of " Vive Napoleon /" and he wrote the following order: Que le mot <1 ordre soit vive Napoleon!!!'' The clerk mistook the notes of admiration for Roman numerals, and in a few hours the forty thousand communes of Franco had cried out so obediently for Napoleon III., that the government was obliged to adopt the clerk's blunder; and Louis Napoleon, with read} audacity, hit upon the device of calling Bonaparte's son Napoleon II." Decrease of the Negro Race. The Raleigh Sentinel says: "It is stated, in our to-day's telegraph dispatches from Washington, that General Howard, Chief of the Freedmen's BureaUj who certainly .has the amplest opportunities of information, announces that the negro population of the South has decreased over s million and a quarter since their emancipation. This is a most astounding revelation, and we are inclined to think that the mortality is much exaggerated, although there can be no doubt that it nas been very great Is there not a lesson in thii for the black man? Will he not realize the disastrous consequences to his race of pursuing lives ol indolence and thriftlessness, and of cutting themselves off from reliance upon, and the sympathies of, those who are their best friends, and their nat ural protectors? At any such an approximate rate of decrease, how long will it be before the color ed race becomes a more insignificant remnant than even the abroriginal population of the country ] What will then be the condition of the negroes?? a feeble people, who have alienated the greatei and best part of the whites by insolent claims tc political power and supremacy, and by a course ol conduct,.' which is calculated to array the races againsteach other. Thus it is, that nature and physiology, themselves, proclaim that this is the country of'the white man,?his to govern and to advance to higher and still higher steeps of greatness and enligntenrnent. SUSPENSION OF JUDGE ALDRICH. It will be rembered by our readers, that Judge Aldrich, in opening the Court at Edgefield, a week or two ago, declined to obey the "Jury Order" of General Canby. The following Order, suspending Judge Aldrich, has been issued : Headquarters 2d Military District, Charleston, S. C., Oct 19,1867. [Special Orders?No. 183] [Extract.] * # # * * J * * # ' T fi'L - TT ? A T) ia VJOVOVvtt anaripn* IX. xue UUU. a. X. xuuiibu u uwvwj UUM|/WH ded from the exercise of all functions appertaining to the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions. Authority is given to His Excellency the Governor of the State of South Carolina, to provide by an assignment of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions, for the holding of the terms of the Court of Common Pleas aba General Sessions, in the Districts of Edgefield, Barnwell, Beaufort, Colleton and Orangeburg, heretofore assigned to be held by the Hon. A. P. Aldrich, suspended. Whenever, at the term of the Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions in the Districts of Edgefield, Barnwell, Beaufort, Colleton and Orangeburg, a Judge shall fail to attend, it shall be the duty of the Clerk of such Court to adjourn the same, from day to day, until advised that the attendance of one the Judges cannot be procured at such term ; and before the final adjournment thereof, it shall be the duty of the Clerk and the Sheriff i of the District, to coll a Magistrate,- and the said i Court shall be deemed fully and legally organoid for the purpose of making jury lists and drawing jurors. Said Court, so organized, shall then ana 1 there proceed in the manner prescribed by law, and in conformity with General Orders Nos. 89, and 100, current series, from these headquarters, ' to draw grand and petit juries for the next term of said court. By command of Brevet Major-General Edward B. S. Canby. LOUIS V. CAZIARC, ^ Aide-de-camp, A. A. A- G. A correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, writing from Barnwell Court House, where the Judge was holding Court when the above order reachpd him, says : "In my wanderings, I found myself at this place to-day, and at 10 o'clock, followed thecrowd to the Presbyterian Church, which is now used as the Court house. Judge Aldrich was to preside. As a Federal officer had arrived in town early this morning, it was supposed something interesting would transpire. The Judge was escorted to the court -room by the Sheriff, and greeted pleasantly by the gentlemen of the Bar, who rose to speak to hiui. The Clerk called over the grand and petit jurors, but was not directed to swear them. When-tne list was called, the Judge proceeded to address them in-his earnest" manner. He first alluded to the sad memories called up by the deaths of so many of the members of the Bar in the last thirty years; then adverted to the present condition of the country, and the single issue of the war?to restore the Union; then to ? his course in Edgefield, which had been noticed by the military. He then read the modification of Orders No. 89, as communicated in a circular from Gov. Orr, and his reply thereto, in which he said the modification violates the jury law of the State as flagrantly as does the original order ; and the same conscientious and constitutional reasons , which compelled him not to enforce the one, will compel him not to carry out the other. He then read an order, which had been served on him this morning, suspending and not permitting him to hold any courts in his circuit The Judge then addressed the juries on the Reconstruction acts and the powers of the Military Commanders, which do not include his suspension. Rising from his seat he said: '' Gentlemen : In forced obedience to the command of Brevet Major-General Edward R. S. Canby, I , lay down my office for the present _ Personally, I feel no mortification at this indignity, because it has been put upon me for the conscientious discharge of my constitutional duty. I did not receive my office from him, or from any power which he represents, and he has no right to remove me. But it almost breaks my heart to witness the humiliation of this proud old State, we all love so well, in my poor person. Be of good cheer, it is only for a time. I see the dawn of a brighter day. The great heart of the American people heats true to constitutional liberty. The time is at hand when we will be relieved front the tyranny and insolence of military despotism. Gentlemen of the juries, for the present farewell ; but if God spares my life, I will yet preside in the court, a South Carolina Judge, whose ermine is unstained. My brethren of the Bar, be patients be loyal to to the constitution ; be true to yourselves. Mr. Clerk, as I am not permitted to perform any judicial act, you and the Sheriff will issue to the jurors their pay certificates as if the Judge had not attended. Mr. Sheriff, let the court stand adjourned while the voice of justice is stifled." THE NEW GRASS. A correspondent of the Charleston Courier, I roVinm tlint. naner calls "one of the most distin guished naturalists and botanists of this State," and whose initials are suggestively similar to those of Prof. Bachman, furnishes the following facts in reference to the new grass that has lately appeared in the South. He calls it the Japan Lu1 cerne Sespcdeza Striata. I have received from various quarters specimens of a plant resembling a clover, which has sprung up in almost every part of this State, especially along the line of the railroads, and also in several parts of Georgia and North Carolina, and I have heard of it as far West as Eufala, Alabama. It seems to be spreadingvery rapidly through the whole of the SoutherrrStates. A grass adapted to pasturage has long been a desideratum in our Southern country. This species which Providence has kindly sent us, seems to be admirably adapted to our present wants. Cattle are said to be very fond of it It grows in almost every kind of soil, and flourishes under shade trees, and roots out nut grass, joint and Bermuda grasses. It issaid, like clover, to salivate horses, but to fatten other cattle. It is represented as growing on the poorest kind of land. The top dies down in winter : but the root is perennial. A friend, (Mr James W. Watts, of Laurens District,) writes: "There are in this vicinity very dense pine thickets, under which nothing was ever known to grow before, that would now rival in beauty the finest lawns in the best cultivated yards." I have not time to quote all the favorable representations made of this grass. For the name wc are indebted to Mr. Gray, of Boston, who had been written to bv a gentleman of Aiken, signing himself H. W. K., who is, no doubt, Mr. Henry W. Ravenel, a distinguished botanist, who, in a printed circular issued from the Aiken press, gives the name and description of the plant. In what manner it was brought to this country, and the causes of its sudden and rapid spread throughoutthe land, are as yet inexplicable. The name Sespcdeza expresses no characteristic of the genus; it was given by Michaux in honor of Sespedez, a Governor of Florida. There areasmany as seven or eight species described as natives of , our Southern States. The English name I have proposed is "Japan Lucerne," inasmuch as it api *r, Iiottq mnra nf fViA AhnmrttAristins r>f T.n jJUUlO IV AIM V V 1 AAV/A V/ VA xuw v..~ v. ?... 1 cerne than of Clover. r I would advise that planters in the countiy ' where this grass exists, should mow it when it is ripe, during the present month, and have the seeds for sale, and distributed throughout our low coun, try. I have not seen it growing. I send a dried specimen, received through the kindness of Mr. Watts. Please let it remain at your office to be " inspected by the planters. J. B. "Parson" Brownlow.?The New York Times l (Republican), referring to the fact that Governor Brownlow is a candidate for the United States Seni atorship, remarks: We are rather glad to see Parson Brownlow's t bid for the Senatorship, and hope he will be electi ed. He does infinite mischief as Executive of Tennessee ; he will do none as Senator at Washt ington. Supreme where he is now, in Washing ton his eccentricities will be toned down, and he } will be forced to trot in traces. Besides, Brown low is a man who has "claims"?claims on the i party, on the people, on the universe generally. Men with claims have to be disposed of somehow, i and the only question is "how, most expediently ' and with the least discomfort He is an elephant ' drawn in the lottery, and what shall be done with r him is the question of the hour. He has himself, > proposed the best solution, and we trust it will be f gratefully accepted. . . ? LOCAL ITEMS. HEW ADVEBTMEHEHT8> % T. S. Jefferys and James Mason, Assignees a Thoe. G. Culp?In Bankruptcy. ^ T. 8. Jefferys and James Masoq,.Assignees of A. J. Martin?In Bankruptcy. Daniel Kerr, Chairman of Board?Registration in Third Precinct of York District. P. J. O'Connell, Chairman of Board?Registration in First Precinct of York District W. H. McCorkle?Auction Sales. Carroll, Clark A Co.?Liberal advances on Cotton W. H. McCorkle?The Stoves have Arrived. R. L. Crook, Chairman of Board?Registration in Second Precinct of York District J. A E. B. Stowe, Attention I?all people who aw interested in low prices. Public Meeting?Next Sales-Day. DEATH OP SAMUEL BAETEY, B8Q. ' ^ It becomes oar duty to record the death of Mr. Samuel Rainey, an old and respected citizen, who died at his residence in this District, on Saturday last Mr. Rainey, at one time, represented the people of York Distriet in'the State Legisla ture, and was a member of the State Secession Convention of 1860. We are informed that h( was aged over eighty years. ? . w** THE SWEET POTATO 010P. We are pleased to learn from some of our farmers, that the swee't potato crop of this District has turned out well the present season. The potatoes are of good size and of fine quality. A potato of the African Yam variety was left at our of fice one day last week by Mr. John Dayinny which weighed three and a half pounds. He in formed us that he had "a few more left of th< same sort." > ' " . ! V, X MO SB LIGHT I The gas works, located in this town, have no been operated, except for a brief interval, sino the close of the war. From a cursory examinatioi of the subject of gas light vt. kerosine, we belien the advantages to be all on the side of gaa; am the preferences of consumers oertainly. Can not some of our enterprising townsmen do something towards resuscitating the worts, and afford to otu people, once more, the blessings of an-excellent cheap and cleanly light ? rviw-ii;? A i. i . . itxtyr 00H8IQHEE8 BT USQ>8 MOUUTAH BAIL B0A3). i The following are the consignees by the King^i Mountain Rail Rood, from the 22d to the 29th.d October, inclusive: < T. M. Dobson & Co., J. W. Avery & Co., Dr. May, Kerr & Roach, J. <fc E. B. Stowe, Allison & Brattou, L. M. Grist, Wm. Horton, R. H. Glenn, Carroll, Clark A Co., A. R. Homesley, B. T. Wheeler, W. H. McCorkle,B. G. McCaw, W. L Hopspn, A S. Wallace, F. M. Galbraith, Johr McGill, A. Coward, Rev. Monroe Oates, Mrs. A, C. Wilkie, Johnson & Darwin, L. Smith. THE DI8TBI0T OOUBT. This Conrt began the October Term, on Monday, and closed on Friday of last week. No case of special importance came before it for a hearing. In the absenoe of the Solicitor, G. W. Williams, Esq., represented the State on Sessions' Docket The following sentences were pronounced on Friday upon parties found guilty daring the week: Frank and James Clark, (freedmen) sentenced to four week's imprisonment for petit larceny. Henry Bnrris, (freedjnan) one week's imprisonment. Petit larceny. Andrew Estes, (freedman) one week's imprisonment Assault and battery. John Moore, (freedman) five months in the Penitentiary. Two cases of assault and battery. Miles Lindsay, $5 and costs. Assault and bat teiy. S. L Adams, fivei dollars and costs. Assault and battery. . ( Charles Hanna, (freedman) one day's imprisonment. Assault and battery. GusLatta, (freedman) one week's imprisonment Petit larceny. , Ned Hambright (freedman) one week's impris onment Petit larceny. John. Moore, Jr., (freedman) three month's im prisonment Petit larceny. . John Hoffman, (freedman) three day's impris onment Malicious trespass. John Pankey, (freedman) four month's impris onment in the Penitentiary. Resisting an Officer Phillis Miskelly, (freedman) fined $1 and oosts Assault and battery. , The following persons were drawn as Jurors fa the next term of the Court: W. A. Brandon, Br. A. L Barron, J. R. Moss, R. F. Clark, Joseph Miller, Esq., J. T. McCul lough, James Sarratt, Henry Glover, Wm. Carta or Carder, Robert Ash, E. T. Faris, M. Whit) J. F. Campbell, Kenser Sherron, (negro) RQeyBolin, W. J. Boyd. TB1BUTE OP BE8PECT. Catawba Lodge, Na 50, A.F. M.',Y October 10,1867. j The following Preamble and Resolutions were adopted by this Lodge: Whereas, it has pleased Almighty God, in hit Providence, to call from our midst brother TV. C. Gibbons : Resolved, lrf. That in his death, the country has lost a good citizen, and the craft a zealous anc worthy member. Resolved, 2nd. That while we mourn his death, we deeply sympathize with his bereaved family it their afflictions, and that a page in our minute t>ool be dedicated to his memory. Also, that we wear the usual badg> of mourning for thirty days. Resolved, 3rd. That a copy of these resolution* be sent to the family, and also, that a copy be sent to the Yobkville Enquirer for publication. J. T. HOTCHKTSS, ) W. 0. RUDDOCK, > Committee. T. B. WITHERS, j Opinion upon Cotton.?The Sumter Watchman says: We are indebted to a friend for the following extract from a letter of an old and highly intelligent Cotton factor of New York: ' * *"* The dissatisfaction with the prioes ol Cotton is natural; and if you had said dumay we should have easily understood it It is fearful indeed, and will ruin many people. Bat there ic no visible reason for anticipating any advance to compensate for holding, and our friends will be wist if they ship as soon as they can. Colonel C. will have given you the figures which exhibit the facts, viz: in a word, that our big war taugnt Jtturopc how to do without American Cotton, i by ac stimulating the production in all other Cotton producing countries, as to make up the needed supSly as far as necessities go, for the world, indepenent of American Cotton. This is the case boiled down. The product in India (Hindostan) ha* been very nearly quadrupled since '60. We are not 'Bears' in Cotton. We are friends of Cottot and Cotton growers, and wish it was $1.00 pel pound, and couldn't be had except in bur Southern States, but the facts are against us and it would be folly to blind our eyes to the facts. Hence, we endeavour to put the matter honestlv before otu constituents, as we see and understand it * * * Admittance to Bail.?The following order ha* been issued by General Canby: "Post Commanders may admit to bail person* not subject to the Articles of War, held in aires! by military authority, charged with offences no! oapital, upon security, as provided in the following paragraph: "Security shall consist: 1st, of a cash deposit, oi the amount for which bond is required as bail bj the State law in like cases: or, 2nd. of a bond it like sum, running to the Poet Commander, conditioned for compliance with all orders, with surety, who must be a freeholder and must justify in twice the amount of the penalty, and must under seal authorize any officer so ordered by the Post Commander, in case of default, and non-payment b\ 1 the surety on demand, to summarily seise and sel sufficient of the property of principal and surety to satisfy the forfeiture and costs: and immediate ly upon default made, the bond snail constitute i lien upon the personal property of both principa and surety. ' 'All bail and other bonds taken, under militMg authority will conform to the foregoing directions when not otherwise specially provided." ? ? ?i?? I?* The Rev. Dr. Williams, of Greenville, Soutl Carolina, has been called to the pastorate of th Baptist Church in Raleigh, which Dr. SK **- n cently resigned. . ? -fr Pj ' COLUMBIACONTEIBUTORIAL / . " Wt JA8. WOOD DAVIDSON. OOTftJMBIA, BOUTH UABOLDFA, 28TH 0OT0BB1,1867. i Firewood. .'Icliir} .M 81 WSJ The street prioe of firewood i&qboat five dollars 1 a cord Whoever pays more?and many do?payB too much. Large loads, sell at that pric$;and small loads, like all retailed goods,- require more when estimated by the oowL We have measured and estimated some wnall .load s that would make ' the prioe to be over ten dollars a cord. Negro Voting. . We see by the election returns in Virginia and elsewhere/ that the number of negroes who voted > in the late elections is far less ? less by thousands, i than that of those who registered. Does anybody - know a better reason for that Ming off than this? I The managers of elections have been able to pre vent the negroes from voting at many timet each i as they managed to register. Polities. , ^The radicals in the North are beginning to doubt the expediency, and in fact the necessity, ofim peaching the President ' [ They are beginning to nominate Grant for the i next Presidency. ' They are toning down upon the question of fori dug unqualified negro suffrage upon the South. They begin to ay that Wright made afbol of | himself in the Columbia Convention, when he j claimed that a negro should be next YioeMPresident . ? / ^ ? Of course there is no partienJar. reason for all 4 these change* They soy that the conservatives t have not gained any advantages in Pennsylvania, } in Ohio, in^ Maine, in California, in?every State ! where elections have been held within the past i month. "And Brntu* is an hdoorable maai^ I The Negro, J HI ' ' .< > ' t" A discussion on the status df the Negro i?. just I now being carried on with warmth in the West r A Mr. Paine, under the nom de phone of Ariel, , wrete a pamphlet, in which he makes the attempt ? to prove that the Negro is a beast; and Ids logic is keen and hard to answer. In reply, a Rev. Mr. . Young has written another pamphlet to prove on er, sou uuu. Ann la au uaa. ?ue siauj ui uie argument seems to be this : If we grant to And the unity of the human race, and the literalneas of the : Scripture narratives, we most admit his conclusion ?' that the Negro is a man, but notahumtb being?an Adainic man?created in the Image of God. . \ ^ f ' The notorious Helper, whose Impaiding CVtrw " just before the war created aueh k political sensation in the North/has writtfch another book sinoe the war, in which he holds that the Negro is essentially inferior to the white race, and ie not entitled to political rights and should be wiped out Aj^ f:hin jrjfy bft fof before tliroo yo&nL >. ( jk ^ Then may tW'poor Npgrotprn to his Ifoer owner, and beg the privilege oftofling for his board.' Aaderaon lntellicc&eer? We welcome this week, with noordinair plq^ Contributorial Table. ^U'U ctwJuoted-bylHoyt & Walters, and represents in Hberal spirit that piedmont portion of oar State ; a portion that is destined to play an important partin the immigra) don measures that are to revolutionise the social conditionof South' Carolina. The prioa of the /* is $2 60 a year in currency. We have just spoken of the social revolutions t coming through the northern part of our State. Oar meaning is, that the milna-ef < foreign white population will be into the mountain districts, and tbence spread sonthwaid, sweeping the- itegro i withitentU he is swept from the country. Tom and twist it as you will, that is to be the eud of k Wt are no prophet ; bat we know that modi just dry-so. This torn of events will give the.sub montane districts aii dnusual interest; and, in this view, we hafl with onosoal' pleasure a kxal organ - from Anderson. .wmI-im ivr.' ?> We had die good^ortdne to meet oar qmB-bfo therHoyta few weekswgo; and ibahd hhn as we ' find the Intc&getuxr ? dever and wide-awake. We commend both the map and the paper to qur friends. 1 { r Literary. , _ We have received from the compQer^a copy of ' ' .CnuAmi dtumtnm TV !a RWU HMM ' than the fifth Reader that we mentioned several ' weeks ago; and filled with selections, verse tad I prose, the latter largely predominating, as is propthe author, are mmlp, mainly but not all exclusively, from Southern orators and poets. Die English sod even some Northern authors are drawn upon for matter, jrhen they afford hjtt ter than the South has produced upon the ffjen subject This volume appears to us to carry , out, and successfully, the plan of the whole series; and as we have already expressed our high apppe- , (nation of the series, we heed not here repeat it'of r the Orator. "We have no hesitation in 4XMnmendl ing Mr^ Sterling's books?in Beading, Writing, and Oratory?to our readers. We are gratified to see thatfJ. B. Lippinoott & | Co.; of Philadelphia, are issuing a handsome edi1 tion of the works of Swedenborg. We are obKged to Messrs. Duffie k Chapman for oopies of two of i these woiks-^wJStfewe Love and Wisdom, and Heaven and Jffl. They are new translations (from the original Latin), carefully edited, printed tm tinted paper, in. exquisite type, and handsomely bound in cloth with beveled edges. Messrs. D. k 0. have these works, the former at $2; the lat. ter at $2 50. This edition is superior to aB former , editions in the phraseology's being adopted to the M . present state of the English Language, free from w old or affected and technical words. We do not : propose at this time tp discuss the merits of Swei denborg's philosophy; bat take oocashmto say I that the student of theology who is ignoranfrofhis 1 system, is ignorant of what he ought to know. ~ j Many of our readers have read Poe's Eureka, [ and have been daisied with its brilliancy and power. Poe, it wfll be remembered, dispensed With 1 the Creator in his creation. If any one wishes to 1 see How pitiably absurd is Poe's theory of creation, j and how wickSd is his atheism,.let him read Swe. denborg's Dime Love and Wisdom,; and we venl tore he will be cored of Poe's Gfcfflees-univdrie i tnerorangs. Be intensely piotis cast of Sweden> borg's works remove them, in some degree, from popular reading; but the thinking mind will find ' food for much profitable reflection and genuine I religious exercise. ; The Harpers haverecently commenced a wedt lynewBpaperoffofihions, proWlyiDustrated, call- \ ed The Bazaar. . ;i , The last work of interest on the war is a kind of personal memoir by a Richmond Lady. It is en, titled Richmond During the War; four year* of . I . Personal Observation. J ; . Next week we shall have a copy of this work,' ^ ; and can then speak of its merits from our own obp servation. Meantime we beg leave to caHthe attenr don of our readers to the work. A northern critic, k speaking of the volume, says: "To ny that it is . one of the most interesting works that has been , produced on the war wooH give, after all, bat a J faint and inadequate impression of ha real merits. > Thehopee and fears, the resolution and self-sacri" fio^ the suffering privations, the heroism and cour| age, displayed by the Southern people, are described with all the warm affection and loving rev' erence of ntrne woman's heart?a heart whose } every throb beat in sympathy with the ea&rt of the Sooth*' When a northern man-speak thus of a j sonthern book, we may be sure^here's something , in it We happen to know personally something i of the authoress; and, from that knowledge, are Jj prepared to expect ranch from her boot l I" * ' " " 9 e 1ST A pit# hunber raft from the Wisconsin pi neries, floated down the Misaaripp, the other day> . i