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Scraps and Jaffa. - The official returns of Registration in North Carolina show an aggregate of 103,060 whites and 71,657 blacks, being a white majority of 31,303. ?? Gen. Schofield has ordered that the regular session of the Virginia Legislature this winter, shall not be held. The amount of aid rendered to the South since the war, throughout the North, is about ten million dollars. A caucus of the Legislature of Ohio has nominated Judge Thurman (Democrat) as a candidate for the United States Senate, to succeed Ben. Wade. Mexico is now more scourged by banditti than ever. They are now so numerous and powerful that they do not confine themselves to robbing on the highway, but even attack garrisoned towns. The Freedmen's Bureau in North Carolina has assumed a new role. It has become an adjunct to Shanks' Committee of Investigation into the treatment of Union prisoners by the "rebels," and has issued a circular calling for information. On the 8th instant, the Senate of Tennessee, reoonsidered its vote prohibiting distinctions, of color to be observed on railroad cars, and the mo tion to compel railroads to have special cars xor negroes is pending. The old "Charlotte Hotel," at Charlotte N. C., formerly kept by Maj. Jennings Kerr, was rented at public auction, last week, for the sum of two thousand dollars, for the year 1868. So says the -Pemonut. - ? Hon. James M. Mason, ex-Senator from Virginia, has published a letter, setting forth the advantages of Canada, as a place of refuge for Southerners. Mr. Mason has established his home in that country. The greatest "home run" ever made by base baUoa, was performed recently by a lot of young OHM*'Hannibal, Missouri. Some wicked person jpffc^tobon oil in their refreshments, of whicn they partook -freely on the ground, but none of Ufem . remained to see the game out The Freedmen's Bureau, of Vicksburg, has apractical way of settling questions of ownership. They are first allowed to De regularly tried, and then the gallsbt chief reverses the decision, and adjudicates the property to the first black man who applies for it The Agricultural Bureau report says that present indications place the Cotton crop at 2,500,OOOai^es. It will certainly exceed 2,000,000. The Tionfipbina sugar yield is estimated at twenty per per'Cent over that of last year. A decline in the - * v A. j toDaooo crop is maicaiea. Of the [Radicals elected to the Virgina Convention twenty-five are nogroes; a majority of them very ignorant, and some of them notorious criminals. That is a fair specimen of the sort of Republican government for which the Radicals are so loudly clamoring. Advices fronr Washington purporting to be reliable, State that the Government will be ready to proceed with the trial of Jefferson Davis on the 25 tn. Both rides desire that Chief Justice Chase shall preside with Judge Underwood, and it is therefore possible that it may be postponed a short time, to enable Judge Chase to make his arrangements to preside. A private letter from Glasgow says that, although the price of ootton is nearly as low as it was before tne war, there is no demand for goods, and the manufacturers are as badly off for orders and the operators for work, as they were in 1857. He adds: "There is more starvation in Glasgow and its neighborhood just now than at any time for ten years past" A Radical spread eagle orator, who recently addressed a meeting in New York State, wanted wings to fly to every village and hamlet in this broad land, there to tell the story of Andrew Johnson's perfidity to the Republican party He wiltr ed, however, rather suddenly, when a naughty boy sang out: "Dry up, you old fool; you'd be shot for a goose before you flew a mile." The Augusta Chronicle says: "We heard yesterday that a number of colored men, working on plantations owned by gentlemen here, declined to take part in the late bogus election. These men Bhuwed their oetme tit not* "participating in a oontest which is destructive of the best interests of both races. To their credit be it said this action was of their voluntary accord. :The Augusta Chronicle has election returns from all the counties in Georgia, except twelve, on the question of a Convention, which show that 8,i 201 votes more than a half of the registered voters, were polled. The returns show that but a very few wnites voted. In the Districts having negro majorities, the white delegates elected are mainly Yankee emmissaries and Freedmen's Bureau officials. The statements recently published giving the number of colored puplils attending school throughout the country are incorrect, making the number 238,000 more than there really are. Gen. Howard says the corrected number, as reported to him officially and unofficially, is 400,000 distributed 8s foDowB: In regular schools at the Sooth, 200,000: in plantation and family schools, 100,000; ia schools at the North, 100,000. A negro doctor, heretofore stationed in Fredericksburg, left there Saturday with a white Bureau school marm under his charge. The woman was put into the ladies' car, and the darkey attempted to follow her. The conductor refused him admittance, when the Doctor quietly susided and went into the negro car. What the "Buroo" joins together, conductors ought not to put asunder 1 In Kansas and Minnesota, at the late elections, the proposition to allow negroes to vote was submitted to the people, and it was rejected by a large majority. Tnere are but few negroes ineither State, and they were born free, yet these Northern people will not let them vote, but their Representatives in Congress want to force the Southern white people to put themselves under negro rule almost entirely. Great hypocrisy and inconsistency. ?? It is understood that a strong effort will be made on the assembling of Congress, to repeal the tax on ootton. The New England manufacturers are said to favor the repeal, and their voice is all 1 powerful in Congress now-a-days. There is every probability that the tax will be reduced more than one-half, if not absolutely withdrawn. Its effect ' upon the planting interests tend to cripple it, especially during the present condition or affairs at the South, growing out of the total overthow of the labor system. JtJrownlow is elected to the United States Senate, and will make a fair representative of all that is bad in our body politic. We should like to hope, but cannot, that attaining this once high r'tion; he will use the fading energies left him expiring nature, to do some good, (if good can come out of evil,) before he is gathered to his Father?the King orPlutonian Shadows: He in- 1 tends to be the "Governor of Tennessee" until his term of Senator commences, in 1868.?Memphis 1 Avalanche. A Radical meeting was held in Richmond a i few days ago, at which Louis Lindsay, a colored delegate elect to the Convention, made a speech. Alluding to the discharge of negroes for voting the | Radical ticket, he said: "Before any of his children should suffer for food, the streets of Richmond should run knee deep in blood. He thanked ' God the negroes had learned to use swords and : guns." All efforts of the more peaceable negroes to stop these demonstrations were wildly voted ! down. The citizens here are apprehensive of trouble. 1 _ Mrs. Lincoln's brothers, as is known, were in the Confederate army. The youngest or them 1 started in April, 1861, from Jsew Orleans, as a 1 private in the Chasseurs a Pied, and, being discharged for sickness at Richmond, in October of i the same year, returned to his home; but, though i still suffering in health, he left a wife and two < babes to join the Crescent regiment, in response to ' Beauregard's call, and fell at Shiloh. Another, Captain Dave Todd, started with Col. Tom Taylor, { of the First Kentucky Volunteers, and was also ) killed towards the end of the war. And the third. ! Dr. Todd, served throughout as a distinguished y surgeon. j A dispatch from Philadelphia says that 1 Thad. Stevens has a bill prepared which he will introduce upon the assembling of Congress, provid- i ing for universal suffrage in all tbe States by act of Congress. Also, a bill defining the status ot execu- 1 tive and judicial officers pending their trial on ar- 1 ticles of impeachment ^and a bill similar to the r one introduced in the Thirty-ninth Congress rcla- 1 tive to the confiscation of public enemies' proper- ; ty. Mr. Stevens mil also propose that the Joint Committee on Reconstruction he revived, for the ? purpose of examining the constitutions and State or- * ganizations of such States as have been reconstruct- * ed under the laws of Congress. If Maximilian, though hut recently executed in Mexico, is already worshipped by a great portion of the nation as a hero. The people have implored the Archbishop of Mexico to procure his body for their veneration in the cathedral; the women in all the ci ties are draped in mourning for his loss, and the wailing of the poor wretches in may of the towns, such as Queretaro, are heard night and day. They wear his photograph round their nedcs, kneel before his image and hang his picture on their walls. All business in tne capital was at a stand-still, except the sale of pictures and images of the Emperor. The old Mexican superstition or prophecy of three centuries ago, that a good ruler would be sent them from a far country, and that he would be slain by those whom he came to save, is applied to the Austrian Prince; and the feelings and fears of the Indian part of the population have been specially wrought upon. If in the face of all these things Juarez has been elected President, it must be remembered what a Mexican election is, and how it is conducted. At all events, there is no doubt that Maximilian has been apotheosized even before the removal of his body from Mexican soil. * fjorkvilfc (Shujww. EDITORS: JAS. E. WILSON. JAS. P. HART. YORKVILLE^S. C.s THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 14,1867. f- tntstw?It must btj distinctly undorstood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance. X.?The paper will be discontinued on the expiration of the time for which payment has been made. A Subscriber finding a (X) cross-mark on the wrapper or margin of his paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. . ELECTION NEXT TUESDAY. J We have heretofore refrained from any expression of Opinion upon the question of Reconstruction under the Congressional plan. First, because of our unwillingness to assume a responsibility not required of us; and secondly, because this paper has always declined to take sides with any political party upon politiwl questions. -In the present aspect of the Reconstruction question, we feel that our first objection 'to advising is not a heavy one, and the second one is no longer of force, for there can be no party among the intelligent voters of South Carolina, upon this subject. Believing then that the plan of reconstruction now before the people, to be decided on the 19th and 20th of this month, is one of wrong and injustice to our people, ruinous alike to their prosperity and peace, and destined, if successful, to convert our land into a desert waste, we do not hesitate to say that this monstrous wrong should not be oonsumated, with their sanction. Have we, the white people of this State, any means left us, by which to oppose this measure ? We have: and the strongest weapon of self-defence we can use, is inaction. -The following clause from the military reconstruction Act shows, that in order to hold a convention, a majority of all the registered votes must have voted either for or against a Convention. . We give the paragraph from the Act: "If a majority of the votes, given on that quertion [for or against a Convention], be favorable, then such Convention shall be held as hereinafter provided; but, if a majority be opposed, no such Convention shall be held under this Act; provided that such Convention shall not be held, unless a majority of all such registered voters shall have voted on the question of holding such Convention." Gen. Canby's order for the election, also states: "That an election be held in the State of South Carolina, commencing on Tuesday, the 19th day of November, 1867, ana ending on Wednesday, the 20th day of November, 1867, at which all registered voters of said State may vote "For a Convention," or "Against a Convention," and for delegates to constitute the Convention?in case a majority of the votes given on that question shall be for a Convention, and in vane a majority of the registered voters shall have voted on the question of holding such Convention." So to hold *a" Convention, it is requisite, 1st. That a majority of all the persons registered, shall have voted on the subject of a Convention; and, 2nd, That a majority of the votes polled be "For a Convention." If either of these propositions fail, a Convention cannot be lieR It is apparent then, that any registered voter who is opposed to a Convention being held in South Carolina, can make his opposition as effectual by staying away from the polls and not voting, as by going to the polls and voting "Against a Convention." Nay, even more effectual; for by voting on the subject he swells the number of those registered and voting, and increases the chances for the Convention being called under that clause of the Act requiring that a majority of those registered, shall vote on the question. Now it is safe to assume that all the negroes that go to the polls will vote "for a Convention." Many of them, perhaps, may not vote at all*; and if none of the white people vote, there is a probability that less than a majority of the registered voters will vote on the question. If this be the case, the Convention will be defeated. If, then, the Conservative white citizens of S. Carolina are contented with the present Constitution of the State, and do not desire to inaugurate a negro anarchy, we advise them, one and all, to stay away from the polls on Tuesday and Wednesday next. ; THE NORTHERN ELECTIONS. On Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, the 5th and 6th of November, elections were held in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Maryland, Kansas and Minnesota. Sufficient returns have been received to show the result in each State. In some of the States the Radicals will yet have control, though their previous ma i-? i .i- ?J?j j ri jonues nave ueen ieuuwu, tuiu tuc vi/u- ? servative interest continues to gain ground. In New York, the elections were for Secretary 1 of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, Attorney-General, State Engineer, Surveyor, one Canal Commissioner, one Inspector of State Prisons, State Senators, and Members of Assembly. The latest returns shows a Democratic majority in the State of over 40,000. The Assembly is Democratic by eight majority, and the Senate Republican by two 1 majority, giving the democrats a majority of six ; on joint ballot Massachusetts elected a Governor,"Lieutenant- < Governor, Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney- ( General, Councillors, State Senators and Rcpre- i sentatives. John Quincy Adams, a son of Hon. 1 Charles F. Adams, Minister to England, and a grand-son of ex-President John Quincy Adams, j was the Conservative candidate for Governor; and the present incumbent, Governor Bullock, was the i candidate of the Radicals. Adams has been defeated by 20,000 -majority. At the last election 1 Bullock was elected by a majority of 64,350. There ' was a strong contest in the State on the question ! of "license" or "anti-license," which has been de- , termined in favor of the license party, by a decided ] majority. The Legislature is largely Radical in ' both branches. Jn JNew Jersey, one-tnira 01 tne state senators, md the members of the House of Representees were elected. The Democratic majority in the State is put down at 12,000. The Democrats have J i majority of 10 on joint ballot of the two Houses i if the Legislature. Last year the Republicans 1 bad a majority of eleven on joint ballot In this 1 State there were no side issues, but the questiou 1 was fair and square, "For or against negro suf- 1 rage," and the result is that negro suffrage has i >een defeated overwhelmingly. In Wisconsin, elections were held for Governor, I jieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treasu- 1 er, Superintendant of Public Instruction, Attorley-General, Bank Comptroller, State Prison Com- t nissioner, State Senators and Representatives, t rhc Republicans have carried the State by a ma- c ority of four thousand, though the Democrats * [ain five thousand on the last election. The Leg- slatnre is Republican, which will secure the de- . eat of Senator Doolittle. This is much to be re- i ;retted by the people of the South. \ In Maryland, the elections were for Comptroller of the Treasury, two Commissioners of Public Works, one-half of the State Senate, and Members of the House of Representatives. The Democratic majority is over 41,000. We see a statement that not a single Radical candidate in the State, was elected. In Kansas, the election was for memtters of the lower branch of the State Legislature. The Republicans are successful by a reduced majority. The issue in the election was upon striking the word "white" from the Constitution, in order to establish ' 'female'' and' 'negro'' suffrage. An exchange remarks that in "Kansas, the idea of extending the right of suffrage to women, was received with more favor than any where else." Yet both propositions have been voted down. Negro suffrage by a large majority. Minnesota has gone in favor, of the Republicans, with universal Democrats gains. Negro suffrage has been defeated by a large majority. THE TIDE STILL TURNING. The Charleston Mercury says: "We have reason to know, that many letters have been received from Radical members of Congress to gentlemen in the South, proposing compromise, and a friendly adjustment of the negro-suffrage matter." orcntlflmen have heard the murmur of the rising waves, and they have sailed on the political ocean long enough to know that there is a storm coming. They think it time to take in sail, and, instead of ferocious threats of what they will do to the South if she declines their reconstruction plan, they propose compromise. The wind is blowing so strong against them, that a chance of tack is absolutely necessary to save them from shipwreck. A few of the most reckless and despairing of theii number, like Colfax, who is prating about restoring Stanton and desposing Johnson, are still talking about crowding on sail as if the wind were fair^, but the majority are getting alarmed. The Northern elections tell a tale too plain to be misunderstood. Ben Wade may swear, Thad. Steves threaten, and Sumner philosophize ; bul their several labors are in vain. The Northern people have lost faith in the Radical party. It maj linger on in a nominal existence ; it probably will seek to revenge itself on the South during itsjadl year in Congress;'but its glory has departed, and its doom is at hand. THE FREEDMAN'S BUREAU. Gen. Howard's annual report of the Freedmen's Bureau is an instructive document, and contains some interesting items. This Bureau will expire by law next July, and Gen. Howard does not recommend its continuance after that time. Whether he has heard the thunder in the Western sky, or has squeezed the sponge till it is diy, is not ol much consequence. The fret that he no longei desires the concern to.be kept up, is gratifying, a? it is ominious of its collapse. The report states that there are in the possession of the Bureau 215,024 acres of land and 959 pieces of town property. "This is facetiously termed "abandoned," though the owners have been trying to recover it for two years. The appropriations made to the Bureau for the year ending July 1st, were $3,836,300, and the expenditures for eleven months were $3,597,398. Transpoitation was p?--1-j tto ?C. ? ift qui 4'kujmon IUniiBUCU IU IIO iciugcco auu AVjm jiwu?w? $553,916 were devoted to educational purposes, which partly explains the prevalence of radical sentiments among the "wards of the nation." The The doctor's bill was $331,000, and the salaries oi agents, clerks, &c., amounted to $5111,420, and claims paid to colored soldiers, $350,000. The remaining expenses were for subsistence, transportation, clothing, quarters, fbel, and "special relief." The numbor of scholars reported is 130,735, some of whom pay tuition to the amount of $14,5^5 monthly. _ The Bureau is certainly a great institution, and well worthy of being the pet elephant of a great nation. MERE-MENTION. Land is offered to settlers near Jacksonville, Florida, for fifty cents an acre. This is dirt cheap and ohcap dirt Hon. James A. Seddon, exSecretary of War of the "so-called," has been pardoned by President Johnson. "The Charleston Courier says that John M. Schnierle, formerly oi that, city is now a Captain of Engineers in the Mexican army. Capt Schnierle will be remembered as at one time a Cadet at the King's MounMilitary School in this place. A dispatch from Charleston says that Gen. Canby has suspended all municipal elections, and present incumbents will continue to exercise the functions of the position. Both Houses of Congress assemble on Thursday next, the 21st inst, The President will probably not send in any message until some time in December. Rev. Mr. Mack, of Sumter, has accepted the call to the co-pastorship of Glebe Street Presbyterian Church, Charleston. A first installment of nearly four hundred emigrants has arrived at Norfolk, Va., in care of the Virginia Immigration Society.." "'" "Three Kentucky mules were recently sold in Savannah for $240, $230 and $200 each, respectively. 'A New Orleans widow, on the sunny side of forty, has just taken to herself an eighth husband. The treaty with the United States for the sale of the Russian possessions in North America, was ratified by the Russian Government on the 21st. A fat cow of Durham grade was recently slaughtered in London, which weighed, when killed, 1,950 pounds, and yielded 340 pounds of rough tallow. "The War Department has received from the Treasury the sum of $110,000,000, since the 1st of last J anuary. NEGRO VOTING IN GEORGIA. The Savannah Republican gives the following v:_ _i._j._i? _r- j.i j: gnipmu ductuues ui iuc piuwcuiu^o vi mc ucgiu voters, at the late election in Georgia; the facta Bpeak for themselves, as to tho capacity of the said voters, and the fairness of the election : "Some amusing scenes occurred during the day. One negro presented himself at the polls, and on being asked liis name, gave John Smith. Finding that it was not readily adapted to him, he said, "No, datnotit?John Brown." Then thinking he had again made a mistake, he exclaimed?"Decdar to God I forgot; I'll run and find out," and away he went to learn from the pereon who was with him at the time, what name he registered. Another venerable darkey calculated the cost Said he, "Great God! I paid five cents for a doughnut It will take three doughnuts for today?dat's fifteen cents. To-morrow three more? dat's thirty cents: next day, three more?dat's forty-five cents. Declar' to God I can't stand it Ise gwine home." The old fellow hacl made no allowance for lodgings, and probably expected to make his bed in the street One man, giving his opinion of Bradley, said: "Bradley?he s a great Massachusetts lawyer. He's got forty acres ofland for us, and mules. He knows what for us to do." Others who came in expecting one mule, when they found things were going their way, declared they would not be content with less than t wo. An ola man came up to vote, and when asked his age, replied "two years old," and insisted upon it that he was two years old, which was probable, judging by his looks." ine negroes nnu taxes. The Marion Star states that a negro clergynan in that District, has written a letter to the military authorities, declaring in substance that 'though it may seem egotism to say it, his word is aw with the negroes in Marion District, and that re will die before he will pay the State tax." Whereupon the military authorities at Marion, imnediately issued the following circular: L The tax-layers of Marion District are hereby nformed that in obedience to instructions from the mmediate Commanding Officer, par. XVI. G. 0. So. 10, will, in future be enforced. TT. All tax-payers, white or colored, are notified hat in case of their refusal to pay their just taxes, heir property will be seized bv force, to the extent >f such dues, in addition to the just dues of the Sheriff for such forcible seizure. III. Any resistance to the action of the Sheriff n these cases will be met with prompt and instant junishment, and the Sheriff's authority will be 'ullv supported by the United States forces now inder my command. LOCAL ITEMS. HEW AE7EETI8E1CEHTS. T. M. Dobson A Co.?Fresh Arrivals of Sugars M 44 44 ?Molasses. 14 44 " ?Leaf Lard. 44 44 ??i-Coffee. 44 44 ? -i-Tobacco. 44 44 44 ?Cheese. 44 44 44 -Shoes. 44 44 44 ?Flour. 44 44 44 ?Liverpool Salt at $2.75. 44 44 44 ?Wasted. 1 Great Attraction at the Y<rk Drug Store. F. C. Harris, O. Y. D.?Citation?T. W. Camp bell, Applicant?Win. D. Poovy, deceasec Homesley A McCanta?Cheese. 4 44 ?agar and Coffee. 4 44 ?Jails and Brads. 44 44 ?handles, Teas. Soap, Ac. 44 44 ?Starch and Blueing, i 44 44 -Collins' Axes, Chains, Ax 44 44 -Worcestershire Sauce. 44 "u -Superfine Cotton Cards. 44 44 -Before You Buy. i 44 44 -A Lot of Popcorn. 44 . 44 ?Preserved Cherries, Ac. 44 44 -plow Moulds. R. H. Glenn?Ordinaty's Sales. ' A n?.iri Combination Show. W. E. Rose?Public Speaking. PUMITCIJB AT AUCTION. 1 An opportunity wil be .offered at Limeston Springs, on Thursday. the 21st of November, t persons in need of ftoritutt and other family ei | fects, of supplyingtheir wsota without the expens and risk of ordering from a distance. The. fumi 1 tare has.been well kept, and embraces some fin articles of rosewood, nahogany and walnut, be sides the plainer paptfiyals, -thus offering an excel i lent opportunity forfaiting selections. "We cal ' attention to the advertisement in another column CONSIGNEES BT K^'lIOtJNTAIN BAIL BO AD. The following are 'te consignees by the Bang' Mountain Rail Road* from the 6th,to the 11th c I November, inclusive'' i T. M. Dobson & t;, J. & E. B. Stowe, Di John May, Allison <SBratton, P. B. Darwin, H > F. Adickes, CarroffJClark & Co., John McGil Rev. T. R Gaines, i T. Allison, J. W. Secresl i Rev. R A. Ross, (3 Steele, R G. McCaw, G i Manigault, Kerr & Bach,: Johnson & Darwin. J r F. Allison. ' \ AfiB^'oAUGHT. In the Spring of uftwhile the families of Gen ' Wade Hampton aiKBen. John S* Preston were refugees in thjuiwu, a large portion of th family plate and jdMMeie concealed in a retire* spot, near the village ? protect them from'sheh ( man's ''bummers!1 ^ The ''bummere" did no come as was axpeotei, but the concealed valuable were stolen' from the hiding plaice, and not unti a few days ago, did t taest vigilant searches avai anything towards ad icrrery^of thdfr whereabouts On Saturday last, ( n. Hampton revived a tele , gram from Knoxvilld Tennessee, announcing tin ( arrest of one Robert McLain, with some of thi lost valuables in his issesaion; and also a state ment from McLAtN, rhere the remainder migh be found. On Tuesday evenii a haul was made upon th< , remaining articles, wich were concealed in th< ' house of a brother, AbHEUS McLain, about tbre< miles from this place This property is of a vei: valuable character, '< m prising jewels ted plate ( that have an untold \4ne to the owners as famil; heir-looms. The aAal value of the articles re covered in Knorvifyand here, is probably abou I five or six thousand lobars. Very few of the ar , tides are yet missing and th$se of small value P McLain will probabljbe returned to this plaoe fo I trial. He states thafoe found the box containinj the valuables, whileiit hunting, a few days afte it was hidden; and kving once appropriated it he could not commaa courage enough to return i to its lawful owners.-Very likely I [ / For the jrtville Enquirer. ' s .YORK DltS.T|tI(r~B IBiTiE SOCIETY. ' The Anniversary iqeting of the above Society ' was held, on the 9th f October, 1867, in the Pres byterian Church ?t?> Lrkvillo. . The President o the Society, Rev. S. JL Watson, not being pres ent, Judge Wm. C. Ratty took the Chair. [ The anniversary serfon was delivered by thi , Rev. W. T. Capers, ith great satisfaction to tli< audience. , Reports, by the Giirman of the Executive t Committee, Rev. R. jathau ; by the Treasurer J P. B. Darwin, Esq. ; nd by the Depositary, Jas JeffarysjEsq.; were red and adopted ' .The follbwing resolutms were adopted: Whereas The Amenan Bible Society has gen erously made a donatio of three hundred vol umes of the Holy Scritures to the York Distric Bible Society through re Rev. E. A. Bolles, Stab | Agent, by which nobleind timely contribution, w< i have been enabled to retribute the word of lif( among many of thederitute, both white and col ored, m our District, b' it Resolved, Tliat the tanks of this Society, aux iliaiy to the AmericarBible Society, are hereby tendered to the Amerjan Bible Society for saic donatio^ with the assrance of our highest regarc of christian fellowship and* an earnest desire foi their continued succea undor Divine aid, in the great work-in which ney have beenlaboringup wards of fifty years, n disseminating the Holj Scriptures. : v. . Resolved, That all be Ministers of the Gospel who have charge of cngregations in this District; are most respectfully md earnestly requested U deliver, at l^ast one a year, a sermon to theu respective congregatios, on the importance of the circulation of the Hiy Bible, and to receive do nations, and take upjollections in their respective churches by the firstof January next, or as soor thereafter as convening to aid the York Districi Bible Society to puroase Bibles and Testaments and also to nelp the parent Society to enlarge it labor of usefulness aid benevolenoa. Resolved, That a jopy of the above, signed bj the President and atested by the Secretary, b< sent to the Board <? Managers of the America! Bible Society. Resolved, That th< Ministere, Church Officers and Congregations, if the District, are, respect ively, requested to sod two or more Delegates U the next annual meeing of this Society. Resolved, That tie thanks of the Society b< tendered the Rev. V. T. Capers for his eloquen and appropriate addess. Resolved, That tie thanks of this Society an due, and are herebytendered to Mr. L. M. Grist the publisher and proprietor of the Yorkvill] Enquirer, for the ire or its columns, in publishing from time to time tfe notices of this Society with out charge, and th'ft he is respectfully requestec to publish the prob&dings of this meeting in hi< useful paper. . ' # Resolved, That ths Executive Committee of thi Society are hereby, authorized and requested to se lect a Minister of the Gospel, to deliver the nex annual sermon of the Society, and that they als< procure the serric^of some young man, to deliv er an address siiitable to the occasion. Resolved, Thit the present officers of the So cietv be re-electtd ibr the next year. Kesolved^ 'ThvL the next annual meeting of thi York District BiMe Society be held, in the Metli odist Church, at Yorkville, on Wednesday prece ding the fourth Sabbath in September next W. C. BEATTY, Acting President. S. E. Moore, Secretory. THE ALABAMA CONVENTION. The Reconstruction Convention of Alabamans sembled at Montgomery on tne otn instant, in Mail says that it is "the most remarkable bod; that has ever assembled in the Capitol of that State The delegates number one hundred, composed o fourteen negroes, and a few Southern white mei of no character, while the remainder is compose! of Northern political adventurers, in the interes of the Kadical party.'' On the second day, resolutions were passed au thoriaing the raising of proper Standing Commit tees and the memorializing of Congress to remov the political disabilities of all who materially aide* "reconstruction." An Ordinance was introduce* to restore all property'sold by Executors and Ad ministrators, during the war, for Confederate cur rency, to the legal heirs of estates, without suit ii Court On the third day, an Ordinance was tabled, by i vote of 42 to 45, which was introduced by a negro proposing to abolish the present State governmen within twenty days. An ordinance was introdu ced and referred to the appropriate Committee, t organize a Provisional government for the State and vacating all important offices on the first c Januaiy next. The Provisional Governor to be ap pointed by the Convention, who shall fill all office by the appoinment of men who can subscribe t the test oath. . .... . - ... I CHESTER CONTRIBUTORIAL. BY WM. H. BRAWLEY. i. CHESTER, S. C., NOVEMBER 12, 1867. PERSONAL. James Hemphill, Esq., left Chester last week, as a delegate to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, to be held at Nashville, Tennessee, at the close of this month. Bev. Jas. E. White ? will leave, this week, for the same destination. The Bar of Chester, and the citizens generally, will regret the departure from our midst of Mr. Solicitor Melton and family, who have removed to Columbia, where they will live henceforth. We were absent last week, at Winnsborough, attending Court, and returned too late to send our usual communication to the Enquirer. TOTE TVTHTUTnT flOTTRT. This Court was occupied during the greater part of last week in the hearing of criminal cases; Judge McLure presiding with his usual dignity and efficiency. The State was ably represented by Maj. E. C. e McLure, who obtained the following convictions: ? Martha Walker?convicted of burning a fence. Sentenced to pay $5 fine and two week's imprisone ment l" Jenny Walker?Assault and battery. lined ? $1 and costs. p Shadrach Gregory?Petit larceny. Fined $10 ,j and costs. Jim Kee?Malicious trespass. Six months in Penitentiary. Caesar WaTJcer was convicted on three charges s of larceny, and in one case of malicious tiespass, ?f and was sentenced to three years and three months in the Penitentiary. Alas! poor Caesar! He . once strode like a mighty Colosssus among the * petty thieves. Jtfetrayed by the treacnery or an I, accomplice, he has fallen a victim to the law, so n often violated, and now there are "none so poor as . to do him reverence." In the case of the State vs. Richmond Pendergrass, charged with assault and battery with intent N vto kill, the Jury found a verdict of assault and u battery. The Defendant appealed for a new trial ' \ POLITICAL NOMINATIONSj At a meeting of the freedraen last week, at Gethsemane Church, the following persons were ~ nominated as delegates for the Convention: Willis Bladcxodl, Barney Humphries, Sancho Sctiv ? den, and Danid Witherspoon. All of the above 1 nominees are black?three of them Baptist preachres of the most radical stamp. This nomination seems to have been unpalatable to the Methodist or Conservative wing; and on B Monday, a meeting was held in the Court House 5 for ihe purpose of making a new nomination. " The meeting was held, a negro in the Chair; a nominating Committee was appointed, consisting of four blacks and one white man, (an obscure 3 vender of eggs and butter), who after a short 3 deliberation presented the follewing ticket: Bar2 ney Burton, (black,) Penis Kennedy, (black,) San7 cho Sanders, (black,) T. M. Graham, (white). ' The first named is a Methodist preacher ; the 7 second an industrious blacksmith; the third a Baptist preacher; the fourth is the Assistant Assessor fc of Internal Revenue for Chester District We'don't know whether Mr. Graham will ac' cept the nomination or not He was not present r at the meeting; and as he has not the ghost of a ? chance of being elected, he would do well to withr draw,*if he wishes to retain the respect of the ' white people of this District, who have no stomach fyPihe Loyal League and negro rule. As on__ Jy-tfiree delegates are to be chosen, it is evident ~ that by the nomination of four persons it was intended that the blacks might choose a clean ticket of their own color. This meeting was almost exclusively of blacks. 0 A few whites straggled in occasionally, but soon finding that it was no place for them, they did not remain long. 1 COLUMBIA OONTRIBUTORIAL , BY JA8. WOOD DAVIDSON. ? COLUMBIA, SOUTH OABOLINA, 11TH NOV. 1867. The University. Matriculates number 110. Dr. Darby having " arrived from Europe, the Faculty is now complete, j. Cotton is King. > The cotton ctod of 1867 will probably be two and 3 a half million bales?nearly half what the full crop J used to be. University Lectures. A new feature of the University is about to be r inaugurated. A series of lectures is. to be delivered j in the University by the professors, free of charge, ' to which the public at large is invited. One lec[ ture each week for tho ensuing twenty weeks, is the present arrangement. The series, not a course, r is to commence on Thursday evening, the 14th instant, with the delivery of a lecture on the life and i genius of the late Henry Timrod. This is to be ; followed by lectures on science by the Le Contes; . and on other appropriate subjects by the other pro. fessors in their turn. We believe all are to take part. J The Conservative Convention. ^ The meeting of this body in Columbia, on the 6th and day following, is the great event of the j past week. It is one of the most respectable bodies that has met here in many years. It is 7 hoped that good will come of its action ; but no5 body expects anything immediate in that way. 1 The great thing to be done by this Convention is } to appeal to the sense of justice (whatever that is) of - the whole country, to avert the calamitous results ) of the present Radical rule of the South. We presume that the proceedings in another j; column will speak for themselves. The address adopted speaks solid truths in a manly and dispas? sionate style. All parties, negroes above all, should pray for s the success of the measures aimed at by this Con5 vention. j We say "negroes above all," because, while the 3 effect of continued Radical rule is loss, disaster, and financial ruin to the white, it is extermination s and death (o the negro. The day of terror is near us now ; and nothing 1 should be left undone that may possibly ameliorate if not avert it. Books. Months ago we had occasion to mention a series of Southern Readers, published by Richardson & I Co., of New York, under the supervision of Prof . Holmes of the University of Virginia. The whole series is called the Southern Pictorial University Series. Messrs. Duffie & Chapman, booksellers of Columbia, have this week laid upon our table the Fourth and Fifth volumes of the series. The literary contents is in every respect to be commended. e There are now two scries of Southern Readers y before the Southern public. We have spoken of both. f One is Sterling's Smthern Readers, which we J have frequently mentioned with favor. t The other is The University Scries of Southern Readers, and is the one before us. Sterling's Series is complete; the last of it?the r Speaker?having appeared a few weeks ago. e The University Series yet wants the SpeaJcer to 3 complete the set 3 The same publishers?Richardson & Co., New York?arc issuing a series in Mathematics, also un^ der the patronage of tlte University. Professor a Venable, formerly a Professor in the South Carolina College, standssponsor for these books. Messrs. a Duffio & Chapman nave put into our hands two of i, this scries? Venable s First Lessons in Numbers, t and Venable 8 Mental Arithmetic. These works i- are fully illustrated, and are prepared upon the o Pestalozzian method, which is now universally aoi, knowledged to be the best The system is induof tive and objective. The hoy is led on from first - principles, by means of .familiar objects presented s to the senses, up to the highest principles of the o science. Both these Arithmetics strike us as very .1 good. . j: THE CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION. As heretofore announced, the above named body, composed of representatives of the Conservative white citisens of South Carolina, assembled in Columbia, on Wednesday of last week, the 6th instant We make up a report of the proceedings from the Chronicle. Two-thirds of the Districts in the State were represented, as follows: Anderson?John B. Sitton, B. F. Whitner. Barnwell?Judge A. P. Aldrich, Augustus Eaves, Junius Black, J. B. Bates, S. T. Dunbar, Robert Aldrich, General Johnson Hagood. Beaufort?Joseph Daniel Pope. Chester?Dr. A. P. Wyhe, A. H. Davega, J. R. Culp, S. P. Hamilton. Chesterfield?Judge John A. Inglis. Colleton?H. W. Rice. W. S. Harley. Edgefield?R. W. Addison, Lewis Jones, R W. Seibles. Thomas Jones. Fairfield?W. J. Alston, Dr. John Wallace, General John Bratton, G. N. Reynolds, H. C. Davis, T. W. Woodward, B. E. Elian. Greejiville?Ex-Governor B. F. Perry, G. F. Townes, J. W. Grady, Davis W. Hodges, H. P. Hammett, J. W. Morse. Kershaw?General J as. Chesnut, General J. D. | Kennedy, W. L. DePnas, A. D. Goodwyn. Oranaebura?A. G. ?alley, F. M. Wannama ker, W. F. Barton, J. R MOlhouae. Lauren*? M. M. Hunter, N. S. Harris, James W? Watts, Williams Wright, George Anderson. Lexington?Henry A. Meetze.F.S. Lewie, John H. Counts, Colonel John B. Palmer. Marlboro'?J. A. Peterkin. Newberry?Simeon Fair. Pickens?A F. Lewis, J. W. Crawford, D. Bieman, J. J. Norton. Richland?General Wade Hampton, W. F. DeSaussure. F. W. McMaster, E. J. Scott, JohnS. Green, F G. DeFontaine, James G. Gibbes, John Waties, F. W. Fielding, Colonel J. P. Thomas, Jno. T. Sloan, William Wallace, John English, ID. W. Ray, W. Adams, Hon. E. J. Arthur, Hon. Theodore Stark, General John 8. Preston, L. D". Childs, W. B. 8tanley,T. W. Radcliffe, A. R | Taylor, S. W. Melton, W. H. Talley, D. B. DeSaussure, Henry L Caughman, James Douglas, J. H. Kinsler. Sumter?A. A. Gilbert, J. D. Blanding, J. S. Richardson, Dr. Mark Reynolds. York?James F. Hart, General E. M. Law, R G. McCaw. Union?B. H. Rice, S. M. Rice. On motion of James G. Gibbesj a Committee of one from each Congressional District was appointed to nominate officers for a permanent organisation. The following are the names of the committee: Messrs. Gibbes, Aldrich, Richardson, Peterkin and Whitner. These gentlemen retired, and after consideration, made the following report: For President?General James Chestnut For Vice-Presidents?General Wade Hampton, Ex-Governor B. F. Perry, Chancellor John A. Inglis, Judge A. P. Aldricth, General John D. Kennedy, General John Bratton, Simeon Fair, Esq.; Joseph Daniel Pope, Esq. For Secretaries?F. G. DeFontaine, Esq., John, T. Sloan, Esq. The report of the Committee was adopted. ' General Wade Hampton moved that a Committee of one from each District be appointed to take into consideration all resolutions, reports. Ac., and report thereon to the Convention. The motion was agreed to. General Hampton stated that circumstances of a nrivate character would not allow him to serve on the Committee, and therefore begged that the Chair would waive the rule which, as the mover of the resolution, would make him a member of the Committee. The Chair thereupon named His Honor Judge John A. India as Chairman of the Committee. Colonel FT W. McMaster moved that all matters submitted in writing he referred to that Committee. The motion was agreed to. Hon. F. W. Fiokling, EsqM submitted a communication from a Committee of the citirena of Richland District, in relation to a memorial to Congress. Hon. Joseph Daniel Pope offered written suggestions on the subject of reconstruction, for the consideration of the Convention. Hon. G. F. Tov/nes offered resolutions declaring the principles and opinions entertained by the people of this State on pubHo affairs. All of which papers were referred to the standing Committee on Business. Hon. James G. Gibbes moved that when the Convention adjourn, it be to meet at 12 o'clock, M. Some discussion ensued and amendments were offered, bnt the question being formally taken, the motion was agreed to. On motion of CoL McMaster, the Convention then adjourned, to meet at the Hall in Nickerson'a on Thursday, at 12 m. The Convention re-assembled pursuant to adjournment. Judge Inglis, from the Committee on Business, reported two papers?one an address to the people of the State, the other a remonstrance setting forth existing evils. Both papers were read to the Convention, and on motion of A. A. Gilbert, Esq., of Sumter, taken up in the order in which they were read. Ex-Governor Perry moved that the address be adopted. The President of the Convention, resigning the chair to Hon. W. F. DeSaussure, opposed the motion, on the ground that it was inexpedient at the present time for the State to take' anyaction. He thought the document ably prepared and fully expressive of its purpose, but believed that it might do more harm than good. Ex-Governor Perry replied, and the debate became general. Messrs. Reynolds and Gilbert, of Sumter, Hamilton, of Chester, and McMaster, of Columbia, took sides with General Chestnut They were opposed by Messrs. BlandTng, Townest Ray. Addison.Pope, Judge Aldrich, Judge Inglis ana General Hampton. > . I The address was finally adojpted unanimously and about five o'clock, after passing a vote of thanks to General Chestnut for the admirable manner in which he presided over the deliberation of the body, and to the superintendent of NickerSon's Hotel for ? ? i J _1 I bis courtesy in providing bo convenient ana picas-1 ant a place of meeting, the Convention a4joorned j sine die. The following is the address adopted by the Convention ; which, we learn, was prepared by Hon. Joseph Daniel Pope, of Beaufort: To the People of South Carolina : Fellow JJitizens-In times of great public danger, the instinct of self-preservation prompts a people to assemble and confer together upon the issues that the stern logic of events forces upon their attention. The citizens of South Carolina stand, to-dav, in this position. It becomes our duty, therefore, to take counsel together, and to announce our conclusions temperately, but firmly and fearlessly to the public. In performing this duty, we shall avoid all terms of animadversion upon men, parties or sections. The vice of misrepresentation and detraction has become the order of the day, and both North and South have suffered from the evils which had their origin in this fruitful source of mischief. The Northern people, flashed with victory, have not been solicitous to ascertain the temper of the Southern mind; and the Southern people, crushed by the loss of their cause and their most cherished hopes, have been alike indifferent to events for which thev do not feel themselves responsible, and over which they have not the power of control. In the meantime, wicked and designing men, both at the North and at the South, have not been wanting, to keep olive the fires of sectional hate, until now they threatened to involve the whole country in misrule and anarchy. Of the late war, it is not our purpose now to speak-the sang uinary fact will stand forth in the history of these American States. Onr duty now is with present evils, and their future consequences. The emancipation policy of the Government was and is the great fountain-head from which springs, and will continue to spring, the thousandevilsby which we are environed. What but disaster conld follow in the footsteps of the hasty and inconsiderate polity, by which 4,000,000 of slaves, without education, and without the least preparation for the change, were turned adrift from tne discipline and interested care of the master, to provide for themselves. Must it not be self-evident to any thinking man, no matter what his prejudices, that nothing he can now propose will be able to convert an idle, roving, thriftless free negro population into the steady, healthy, laboring population that we formerly employed in our fields at the South. But gloomy as the prospect may be, the people at the South must regard this disastrous result as now fixed and settled beyond recall. Slavery is at an end. We do not i)utPwe do propose to show that with the present free negro labor, the industrial resources of the South are in no condition to contribute to the prosperity of the country. It is the part of wisdomto look out misfortunes in the face. We should ,pot deceive ourselves, either at the North, or at the South. Three years of experience by both Northern and Southern men attest the fact that the cultivation of both ike and cotton?the groat rf staples of the South??, under the present ays- tem of free negro labor, the most uncertain, the least remunerative, and the most harrassing employment in theaworld. Had a gradual system of emancipation" been adopted, men would by degrees have aooommodated themselves to the gradual change, and the industry of die country would have reoeived no such shock as now prostrates the South and overwhelms her in despair. Upon the agriculture of the country mainly depends the wealth and prosperity of the country. Bat a few years ago, the cotton exported from the United States controlled foreign exchange, and held the aooopoly in foreign markets. How* is it to-day, and how will it be in the future? Instead of five millions of hales, sent forward to exercise the former influence upon trade, we have not more than one-third of the crop of1860, coming into market, and that at aprioe per pound, in currowwythe revenue tax considered?very little, if any thing, in advance of what was realised per pound for the large crops of former years, paid in gold. Why is tins? it may be asked; ' The lands are the same?the seasons are the ?the climate is the same?why, then, the diflerenoe? We antioer, the labor is not the tame, instead or industry, we have idleness; instead of a system, we have disorder; and instead of profits, we nave losses. Shall we be able to drive oat competition in the future, as we have in the past? Sorely not Bat a few years before the war, one of our most intelligent planters represented this State at the World; s Exhibition, m Paris, and, upon his retarn, reported that he saw upon exhibition there, the cottons from Algiers and from the East which i were in every way equal to the finest productions of the United States. He asked why cannot tboee . ,, cottons compete with the American oottons ? Tho answer was, because we cannot produce the article for the same priced we are compelled to hire the labor whioh you own?oars is unreliable, idle andooetly, while yours is under oontrob steady and (heap. For these reasons, you will always be able to drive us out of market. But what now is the' oOndition of the Southern planter? His labor is much more costly than that of Algiers or the East, equally unsteady, and, probably, less under .his control, and he finds himself now, after an exhausting war, .driven from the market by prices which . his former oompetitora can afford to take. The .. present low price of cotton is hut the evidence of the cauao already stated. -And it may he that, in a few years, we shall be importing cotton and ribe into toe United States, instead or exporting these great commodities. We are now cxting, in the interior of 8outh Carolina, rice importedfrom China, and we have been credibly informed that East Indian ootton has been, imported into, New York., How soon the State-craft of GreatBritain may find it expedient to impose an import duty upop American cottons, who can tell? But it may be adred, is there no remedy,for [ these. calamities to the Southern people ? , We answer, most probably no immediate remedy., Time is the great master of the situation. If our people will give up .the delusive hope of growing rich by the cultivation of cottonr4nereby probably working their utter ruin? if they will cultivate less oottoo and more breadstuff;, raise for their own use and for sale horses, 'mulesaod atookof all; kinds: cure their own hay, make their own.tn&ef> and sell the surplus; if they. will lahor to fill the"land with they will, ina short rime, realize a change for the better in their, own condition and the condition'of the South-; at. , least they shall not have debts and disappointments added to their .other calamities. And in; raising our own food au^-aopplies at the jSpulh, .we: ments, upon oar. own soil There can be no mqrA auspicious moment than the present to begin, at ', the South^ ihe manufacture of goods from our owu raw matenaL This was done to4greft extentdn?* ring the war. JJo matter on how small a scale, let the work begin. TobesuccessfuL we must , gin at the beginning, cod woik upward, asour P9R-ulation and wealth increase. We repeat, .that we would not. now re-establish slaveiy at the South. It is too late to correct the error of its sudden *- m tinction. It is to our interest to moke.thamostcf > the drcumstances by- which we are surroundedWe cannot recall the past ? "Let the dead peat, bury its dead.". But let us not be entirely hopeless of the future. . , ' . Little more than half a century ago, the greatcommodity exported from this State was indigo. It ceased to be profitable here because it could more cheaply cultivated elsewhere. Cdtton was' introduced 19 its stead, and Was cultivated with unparalleled success. Tobacco and rice'contributed to increase tfie wealth of the' South. If these staples cease to be as remunerative in the future as they have been in the past, we stilTh&ve a great, country left to us, and, with ; something like goods government, our neoesaties; wffljpve^flpe to OSn expedients. To conquer our difficuItiesT we m&str meet them with patience, fortitude and courage. But shall we have good government ? Thntis the great question presented in the next point that propose to consider; . y . .. To admit as a fact, as has been assumed to' the result of the war, that the Government of the, United States is supreme, ana that the States hgvp* no rights, or if they have rights, that they are subordinate to the government of. the United States, or which is the same thing, subordinate to thewill of a majority having control of the Government, is to admit the abrogation of; the Constitu-. , tion, and to ignore the faots of history. In other words, it is to acknowledge that wb have a Gotejtp-; ment ot acaome powers msteaa 01 a government of limited and dusted powers. It is admitted, that any Government, however limited, may for a time usurp all power.: A .single man may rise up and say, I am the State.1' . Any assemby of meor may, for a season, arrogate to themselves all power; executive, legislative and judicial But the ques-tion recurs, is this law, or Is this usurpation r Is this good government, or is it revolution? Mere physical force is not law.N It may compel obedience, but it cannot give to its acts the sanction of law; unless it be in .those oopntries where the will of the absolute despot is the recognised law of the land. To admit that the -war has -established such a.power in tHeUnited States, is to admit that all constitutional government is at an end,'and that as States, or individuals, we hold -oar life, liberty and property at the will andpkasare of any majority, which, for the time being, may hold the power. Such, to-day, maybe practically the condition of ten.States of the American Union. But, are we prepared to endorse these proceedings and engraft so monstrous a proposition into our governmental policy? Thatis the question that thepeople of the North as well as of the SwHh are called upon to oonsider 1 The great object of laws, of constitutions, and of government, ia to protect the weak against the strong?to shield' minorities against the encroachments of majorities. It is a political I aphorism that a majority can -protect itself Act- ' ing by shea exercise of arbitrary power, a majority may for a time set at naught all laws within these States?it may enforce ap obedience to military decrees, from which there is-no appeal?it may administer a purely military government according to its own will, andas such it most be obeyed. But when we are cafled upon to sascrion such government as being in accordance with the constitution and the laws, we have a right to test the question according to the rule proposed and to withhold our assent We admit the factth&t martial law exists in South Carolina: but we do not admit the principle that martial law has the right to impose a civil government upon us without our consent Far beWfrom us to raise a factious opposition to the reconstruction acts of Congress. We believe that these acts and measures they propose are destructive, not only to our constitutional rights, but to our social peace. With us it is not a question of party, nor of political power. We care nothing far these things. We are quite wil ling tnac omens snouia enjoy &u cue Donors, all the emoluments of office. &D tne pomp and circumstance of place. What we desire is peace?not the semblance of peace, but the substanoe of peace; peace at our own firesides and throughout our borders. We desire peace to enable us to build up our wasteplaoeSj our temples of worship, our sacked and ruined cities now lying in ashes, our dis- I mantled dwellings and our prostrate credit We desire peace for its own sake; for its holy Christian influence, and for the civilisation ana refinement which spring up in its path. Do the Reconstruction Acts of Congress propose to give us this peace? No, they give us war and anarchy, rather. They sow the seeds of disoord in our midst, and place the best interests of society into the hands o f an ignorant mob. They disfranchise the white citizen and enfranchise the newly emancipated slave. The -slave of yesterday, who knew, no law but the will of the master, is to-day about to be invested with the oontrol of the Government In all popular Governments, the two great sources ot power may be traced: 1st To the exercise of the ballot 2d. The franchise of the jury box. Invest any people with these two great powers, and they have at once the government of. the country in their hands.; By the Reconstruction Acts sfi Congress, theee powers are oohfemd upon the negro?he can make and unmake the Constitution and the laws, which he will administer according to the dictates of others, or has own caprice. . We are not unfriendly to, the negro; on the contrary, we know that we are his best friends. While he oocoskd the position of a slave, he was protected ttftte ^according to his condition * * I 1