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INTELLIGENCE^. ??? ;-1-* j^ndersofi? S. C. VOLUME I. . . NUMBER 4." a?at i i i- mi ' 11 .MEMORIAL. At a meeting of the citizens of Abbe? ville District, held on the 21st ultimo, the following' memorial to the President of the United States was unanimously adop? ted, and each paper in tho State was re? quested to copy : To his Excellency, Andrew Johnson, President of the United Stales*: The memorial of the citizens of Abbeville District, South Carolina, assembled in mass meeting, respectfully sheweth, . <" That South Carolina has laid down her arms, hostilities have ceased in her bor? ders, and yet our people enjoy neither the blessings of peace nor the protection of law. We have not, and know not any persons in this State, who have the pur? pose or the inclination to renew the con? test in any ibriri. Tho speedy and com? plete restoration of our relations to the Constitution of the United States and the Union, and the peace and security which they guarantee to the citizen, are our un Jeigned desire and the grout want of our whole country. In view of these desira? ble ends, we pledge, in good faith, ready and unreserved submission and obedience to all lawful authority. The state of our exhausted means and resources requires the fostering care ol law'and order. Parts ot our State are under the inconvenient restraints of mili? tary authority, whilst large sections, in? cluding that in which wo- live, are 'with? out any form of government. All civil .rule and rulers are'suspended, and men are subject to no other restraint than those which habit, or their own sense of pro? priety imposes. All experience attests that these voluntary restraints are inade? quate to mispress the rapacious and other vicious passions of men. Crime, Outrage aud wrong are perpetrated with impunity upon the ^peaceable and helpless. Our community depends upon voluntary and irregular organizations foPthe protection of persons and property, aiid a sense of inseturity depresses the energy and dis turbs the repose of our people. .The efficiency of the grout laboring class of the State has been seriously, aiul. we fear, disastrously, impaired by inconsist? ent military regulations..1 This whole body of laborers has been demoralized by the removal of the domestic regulation* to which they have been accustomed, and the lailureto substitute any other discjp line or government over them. The able bodied men and women have, in many in? stances, abandoned the farms upon which they were employed, leaving behind them the children and tho old to be supported by the proprietors. In some instances htTsbands have deserted, their wives and children, and we have known both father and mother to abandon "their infant to be Scared for by others. We have not seen that these laborers have been requhed by any order to remain upon the farms and to labor for the present year, or even to assist in making and harvesting the grow? ing crops. Many of those who left the farms have taken with them the "mules and .'iiorscs which were indispensable fur the farm work. Those who remain upon the farms arc generally indisposed to la? bor as they had previously donCj or to be orderly and industrious, and many are loitering idle and mischievously through tke country. The devastation of whole districts of our State by armies or raiding parties?remo? ving or destroying every animal for labor or lood. every article for tire subsistence of man or beast, every implement and ap? pliance of agriculture, has kft the whole agricultural population of the country in a most deplorable condition. The cotton crop of tho-last four years has been incon? siderable, as but'a small area was allowed by.law to bo planted; and even now the supply of the mere necessaries of life is not only meagre everywhere, but'in some distriots'whoily cxhausted. Thiaisection is without mail facilities, and its trnnnii nications by railroad have been wholly interrupted, and are not likely soon to be resturea. > These evils arc greatly aggravated b} the total ""absence of any circulating mc tiiuin. Gold and silver are possessed by but few, and by these few in small sums. ' The stock of cotton on hand will supply but little if any more money than will he necessary to pay taxes, and we iear that a large number of farms must inevitably be sold for that purpose. The growing crop of cotton can add but little, it is be? lieved not one fourth of a million of bales, to the existing stock, which probably does not amount to one and a half million of bales. - Amongst the jlcat disasters which the \vi:m a-rtf prudeut^amongat ns behold in tho immediate future of our unhappy country, is a conflict between the white and black races, which there is much in their sundered relations to incite, and in many parts of our State no power of .civil *ov military government to repress. . This danger is fearfully augmented in its immi nenoy. and in its horrors, by the superior numerical strength ot the blacks over the whites, a ul by the fact that the lattei* are generally being disarmed of all offensive weapons, while man)' of the ftrmer are in the possession of fire arms and are exrjsvi itrtho use of them. These political, social and industrial evils have greatly paralyzed tho mechani? cal and agricultural Industry of our coun? try, and sa'dly depressed, the spirit and energies of our people. In tender Consideration whereof, we crave the prompt aid *4 the government, by remedial and preventive measures, to mitigate tho evils that disturb us at the present, and to avert the calamities that menace us in the future. We pray that our legislature may be allowed to hold its usual sessions, and may have wisdom to devrso measures suitable to the necessities of tho State. That a .convention of the people'may be a#eem | bled; that the Congress of the Uniteo. States may exhibit the magnanimity and statesmanship which the difficult posture of affairs requires; that the President of the .United States may'so exercise the high powers entrusted to him by the con stitution and. laws, as to acquire for him? self imperishable^renown, and for his ?ountry the blessings of peace, harmony and universal prosperity. That courts? Federal and State?may again exercise their beneficent powers among us, crimes be restrained, contracts enforced, contro? versies peaceably settled, and opportunity given for easy access to judicial authority. That postal facilities may be.again afford- ? ed to us.- That' our public offices may be, re-opened, and our private avocations safely and profitably resumed. ' And that in all respects our State Government may re-assume its functions, and the relations of our people and State to the Constitu? tion and Union be speedily re-established; "We recommend to our foilow citizens in other parts of our State, an early ex? position of their views on the subject of Qitr deliberations.. Wo destfe that this memorial be respectfully laid before the President of the United States; and to ?ive greater effect to the voice of the State, as it may proceed <from primary meetings, we suggest that,a- deputation of citizens should, if permitted, wait upon the President. We, on our part, nomi? nate as ono of such deputation, our fellow citizen, the Honorable Armistead Burt, who is possessed with t-l)e sense of this meeting, and the ills wo suffer, much more fully than we have been able to ex? press tl em; and if this should be agreea? ble to other meetings, we hope they will confirm the appointment of Mr. Burt, und add to him other suitable persons f.om their respective districts or sections. " ' -;-:-*--L-'- ? ? Ee-organization.?The work of re-or? ganization of the Slates is being pushed rapidly forward. The following have e 1 ec led^'cgul air govern ors : Kentucky, Tl.bmasE. Bramlettc; Mary? land, ThomasSwann; Tennessee,William G. Brownlow; Virginia, Francis H. Pier point; Missouri, Thomas C. Fletcher; Lou isiana, James M. Wells. . The President has appointed tho fol? lowing Provisional Governors for the fol? lowing Statesi North Carolina, William W. Holden; Georgia, James Johnson; Mississippi, William L. Sharkey; Texas, Andrew J. Hamilton j Alabama, Wm. E. Parsons. Provisional Governors are yet to be appointed for the States of South Carolina and Florida. ?s?-o-' Tax on Cotton.?As there appears to be a wide difference of opinion, even among well informed men in all quarters, as to the pretise effect of the Executive proclamation of the 13th instant on the cotton, trade, it is thought proper to state that all restrictions, on trade in that arti? cle east of the Mississippi are removed, and the only tax it is now requited to pay is that of two cents.per pound im? posed by the internal revenue laws.?ST. Y. Herald. [ Cotton lias been selling, in. Columbus?7 Ga., at 22 cents. It'is worth 18 cents at. 1 Abbeville in grecn-bauks.