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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.]
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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.
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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." > ' "
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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
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e 1ST A pit# hunber raft from the Wisconsin pi
neries, floated down the Misaaripp, the other day> .
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