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AHBIBRW?, ?0 (Do Thursday Morning, October 4, I860, NEW COTTON. The first lot of the present crop of cotton was Offered for sale in this market last Saturday. It came from the plantation of W. A. Wilson, near Craytonville, and was bought by Bewley, Reese & Co., at 26} cents. -o PRESBYTERY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. This bouy convened in the Presbyterian Church in this place on yesterday. The introductory Ber mon was preached by Rev. J. S. Wilbanks. The early hour at which we go to press forbids further particulars in this issue. I -?, TO MEMBERS OP THE BAPTIST CHURCH. We are requested to state that an election will be held on next Sabbath, the regular monthly church meeting, after the forenoon service, for a pastor of the Baptist Church at this place. It is earnestly desired that there shall be a full atten? dance of members and others interested. -** EARLY TURNIPS. Wc have been presented with a fine mess of Tur? nips,?from the plantation of Mrs. E. MoFall, near Cray tonville,?equal in size to any we remem? ber to. have seen at this season of the year. The tops, however, were remarkable, measuring threo , quarters of a yard in length. We don't ask any? body to beat this turnip story. -^ . EXODUS TO THE WEST. On Tuesday last a large number of citizens from this. District, probably one hundred and fifty, began their pilgrimage to the El Dorado of the West, the far-famed land of the "lone star." While wishing that prosperity may attend the substantial, energetic farmers who are thus led to forsake the homes of t.hcir youth and manhood?among them we count many friends, and those who were com? rades with us in hours of danger and trial?we cannot but deeply regret that the old State is being depopulated in this wholesale manner. She needs all the energies and strength of her sons to recu? perate and recover from the losses of war, and can illy afford to part with those who were truest and firmest in their allegiance to her fortunes hereto? fore. EDITOR'S TABLE. Godcy's Lady's Book for October has been upon our table for eight or ten days, and has afforded its usual interest in the fashion lino, besides the variety of reading matter. The publisher exerts himself to please, and succeeds most admirably. We propose to make up a club of twelve or more for next year, at $2.50 each. Send in your names, .accompanied with the money. Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine, current num? ber, has also been received. This publication ranks foremost among the periodicals of fashion, . and is becoming a general favorite among the la? dies. Elegant patterns, voluminous descriptions, and the very latest freaks of fashionable folly, are displayed in the neatest style of typographical art. Published at New York for ?3.50 per annum. The JnUlUgencer and this Magazine one year for $5.50, . cash in advance always. BALED AY. There was a very large attendance of citizens on ? Monday last, and the town was quite lively during the day, especially \jhcn the effects of bad liquor became apparent. No serious difficulties occurred, although there was an exciting scene for a few mo? ments, caused by some parties in pursuit of a ne : gro, who had given cause for a breach of the peace. j . The sales attracted unusual interest from the '" . crowd, notwithstanding the inability of many to become purchasers when the cash was required. . The Sheriff knocked off one tract of land at less than $1 per acre. That officer also sold an old mare for $16, but made up for the deficit by ob? taining about $55 for the colt, two years old. Re? quiring cash payment, the Sheriff offers deoided bargains. The Commissioner, however, gives Some indulgence occasionally, and several tracts of land under his hammer brought excehent prices, in most instances from the legatees. 'Altogether, the liveliness and interest of the day was particularly refreshing, in these gloomy, dolo? rous, croaking, melancholy times. NEWSPAPER CHANGES. James S. Cothran, Esq., for the past twelve months the able and polished editor of the Abbe? ville Banner, has withdrawn from the conduct of j - that journal. His vigorous pen has proven an or . nament to the State press, and in his retirement we tender a fraternal adieu. He is succeeded by W. M. Fabbow, a gentleman of education and ?worth. May the Banner, under the now regime. maintain its ancient prestige. The last number of the Greenville Enterprise brings the announcement that W. P. Price, Esq., its founder and editor for many years, has with? drawn from that paper, and Mr. John C. Ballet, bis late partner, assumes entire control of its col? umns. Our friend Price is better engaged pecu? niarily, and we rejoice that his prospects enable him to quit "driving the quill," although sorry to to lose such a genial confrere and estimable gentle man from the corps editorial. The Sumter AW, a new and excellent journal, Is now published by Darr & Osteen, the latter gentleman having purchased an interest lately. We wish the firm a complete success. -o AN ALARMING DISEASE. The appearance of a new order of disease is so striking in this community that we are constrained to warn our fjllow-citizens against its ravages.? Already the spread of this contagion is so alarm? ing as to pronounce it an epidemic at the present moment, and fears are entertained that, like the deadly malady of the desert-wind, all will wither before its prostrating power. Professors of the healing art are unconscious of its effects and even its presence ofttimes, and they have failed to de? nominate the malady among the ills of life. Be . cause of this singular omission on their part, there is ne remedy known to pharmacy to alleviate the pangs and throes of tho dreadful scourge. It is entirely connected with the brain, and renders the sufferer feeble and enervated in the shortest possi? ble time succeeding the attack. The symptoms are discernible by a desire to prate of confiscation, extermination, equal suffrage, and the like, and cannot be better designated than by the expressive name of the "Radicals. " Whenever it seizes, with fearful fangs, the unconscious victim, all else is forgotten, business neglected, and tho atmosphere in a political sense becomes duli and oppressive. If you would avoid this singular contagion, be cheerful, look on the bright side of things, and carve in letters of gold upon the escutcheon of you? hopes the brave motto, Ifil Besperandam._ Otherwise, succumb to the affliction, and render miserable and unhappy those around you. Have you got the Radicals '.' TBE SITUATION. The condition of poKtics is unchanged. The blatant Radicals are claiming success everywhere, and veak-kneed people in this latitude are pro? portionately discouraged. The approaching elec? tions are closely contested m the States of Pennsyl? vania,- Ohio, Indiana and Iowa, and in less than one week the decision of the people upon the mo? mentous questions before them will be heard in those States. We have not been one of those who, anticipating the results of the Philadelphia Con? vention as sweeping from the face of the earth the large and well-disciplined party opposed to tho President's policy of restoration, are now disconso? late because their grandiloquent ideas are a failure. The only success hoped for, through the so-called Conservative party, was occasional and incidental, and not absolutely unqualified. Having viewed matters in this moderate light, we are yet hopeful that we shall witness the kind of triumph predicted. Now and then the supporters of the President will gain a member to Congress in the coming elec? tions, and wo are confident they will lose none.? What is obtained in this wise is clear gain, and the Radicals are made to hesitate before entering upon their designs, monstrous and unnatural as they really Beem. Postponement of the evil may bring about a remedy for its arrest, and we are thoroughly convinced that a little more patience and forbearance will accomplish the dismember? ment of that incongruous party. Let alone in its violenoe, and allowed full sway in its extreme folly, there will speedily arise in its path the rock upon which splitting will Boon commence, and as in the case "when rogues fall out honest men get their dues," the South may expect justice only when these political thieves are sundered from each other. The exact measure or precise move? ment which will accomplish this object, we cannot pretend to point out. If events serve, however, to defeat this opinion, and the extremists continue in their work of destruction, only a few years, perhaps months, will elapse until the knell of free? dom will be tolled in this boasted land of liberty. In this event, the South may mournfully survey the Bcene, and with tearful eyes exclaim, "Thou canst not say I did it." -* SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION. The members of this organization, as well as others who may desire to unite in the praisewor? thy movement, will bear in mind that the Associa? tion meets on Tuesday next, for the purpose of adopting a Constitution and By-Laws for the gov? ernment of the same. We trust to see a general attendance. The annexed card from the President, Gen. Eilisos Capers, appeared in the Appeal yes? terday, and we transfer it to our columns with ex? ceeding pleasure, satisfied that its elevated tone and eloquent language will warm the hearts of survivors, and arouse them to the full aeasuro of t their duty in regard to the families of our fallen comrades: To the Members of the Soldiers' Charitable Asso? ciation of Anderson District: Your Association will convene at tho Court House on Tuesday, 9th inst. At this meeting, it is ex? pected that a complete organization will be effected by tho adoption of a Constitution, and such laws as are necessary to give] efficiency to onr efforts to assist the wives and children of our fallen comrades. I trust, my fellow-citizons, that you will be prompt in your attendance, and that you will each endeavor to secure the presence of a fellow-soldier, who was not at the initiatory meet? ing. Let eaoh man who has survived the battles and campaigns of the war feel himself bound in honor to be the fast friend of those who, by the fall of his comrades, are bereft of protection in this our time of greatest want. G^d, in His mercy, has preserved us, and let us do what we can to perpet? uate in gratitude, the names and mcmorios of those who sleep forever on our battle fields; nnd in ex? pression of our thankfulness for our return to our cherished families, let us visit and relieve as far as we may, tho wants and sufferings of homes, now desolate, in the absence of those who fell by our Bides. Sincerely thanking you for the honor you con? ferred upon me, I am, fellow-citizens, Truly, your obedient servant, ELLISON CAPERS, Pr' .dent Association. FINE CORN. [ Our fellow-townsman, Bias H. Beaslrt, ex? hibits a few samples of his crop of corn raised this year, (to be seen in this office) which beats any? thing we ever remember to have seen. The ears of corn sent us average thirteen inches in length, and eight inches in circumference. Several of the cars were sixteen inches long. Tho corn was filled out fully and perfectly, from one end of tho cob to the other. Some of this corn, Mr. B. assures us, was grown upon upland, and some upon the bot? toms, on the farm he is cultivating near the vil? lage. This does not look like hard times, by any means. Our friend will certainly have corn to sell, if he planted to any extent this year. Who can beat him this wet-dry year ? What do you think of this corn tale, brother (Anderson) Intelli | gencer t Why, that it is a very poor tale, brother Herald. One of our friends?we will not mention his name, for fear you are as well acquainted with him as we are with Bi. Beabley?living about a mile, mile and a half, or two miles from town, has informed us that there is growing upon his placo a mam? moth stalk of corn, containing eight ears, either of which will measure eighteen inches in length, and large-round in proportion. The corn is equal to the best production of the fertile West, and was raised so far upon the spring-branch bottom. He thinks the late rains have renewed its growth, and until it fully matures we will not attempt a precise measurement. We hav'nt seen this wonderful freak of nature, and promise when our friend brings in this sample of his crop, at full maturity, to notify the Herald, that ail doubts may be set at rest. -+ FIENDISH ATTEMPT. As the passenger train on the Blue Ridge Rail? road was returning from Pendleton late on Monday afternoon last, another fiendish effort was discov? ered to throw the cars off the track, about one mile from this place, and but for the rottenness of the timber used by the scoundrel the train might have been precipitated down the embankment at that point. Fortunately, no damage ensued. This was an extra train, and the perpetrator of the deed must have known that it would not return un? til a late hour, when his purposes would be more certainly accomplished. -o For the InttUigencer. Mr- Emtor ; Permit me to call attention to the notice for a public meeting of the citizens on Mon? day next, and to urge upon them the importance of a general attendance. The members of the Legislature and tho Senator for this District are expected to be present, and aid with their advice and counsel. If the people desire to oxpress their opinions, and to be heard here, and in the Legislature, they should come up in force, and give proper direction to the action of this meeting. A CITIZEN. .-?-o Anderson, C. H., Oct., 8, 1866. Cotton market aotive, at 25 to 26} cents. ; OTTS CHARLESTON CORRESPONDENCE. ? Charleston, Sept 29, 1866. I- In spite of the many disadvantages to which Charleston has been subjected since the close of the war, and particularly of fate, she is making rapid strides towards the attainment of her former prosperity. Much of the lethargy which the stag? nation of business during the summer, and the un? healthy condition of the city for the past few weeks had occasioned, is disappearing before the influx of trade, and the cool, bracing breezes of Fall cot? ton, yet king, is re-asserting its sway, and through all tho ramifications of life, commercial and social, is its permeating influences producing new energy. Bales upon bales of the staple are already finding their way hither, and making glad the hearts of the people, from the humblest carrier who toils in its transportation up to the moro fortunate mer? chant who measures his commissions by hundreds and thousands of dollars. Vessel after vessel is bearing it away, and bringing in return the com? modities and luxuries of life. The effect of this traffic is visible in the brilliant display of the goods, wares and merchandize with which the stores of Meeting and King Streets are absolutely plethoric. Charleston has every reason, but one, to be san? guine of great material prosperity. Her advan? tages for trade havo always been recognized as superior to those of any other seaport south of Baltimore, exocpting New Orleans, and the com? pletion of the Cincinnati Railroad, the prospect of which is by no means bad, will lend an incalcula? ble impetus to her growth. She needs but one thing and that is the confidence which political quiet wonld give. Had the people of the North accepted the invitations of her merchants to settle amongst them, and been magnanimous enough to employ some of their surplus capital in developing the resources of this State, instead of engendering and encouraging political strife and commotion, the Wvste places of the country back of us would have blossomed like the rose, and this city itself would had been free from many of the melancholy traces it retains of its sufferings during the war. But it. has been otherwise ordained, and so onr eyes are yet saddened with the sight of the shape? less rains of hundreds of once happy homes, and our hearts yet falter with fear for the future. Not the least difficulty under which we have heretofore labored, has been the apprehensions felt by strangers with regard to the health of the city. These are now nearly dispelled. The main? tenance of quarantine regulations has clearly demonstrated the practicability of protecting us in future from the pestilence which has chiefly afflicted us in the past, for since 1868 the yellow fever has ap? peared only in sporadic cases, a majority of which were imported. Tho healt h of Charleston will now, under ordinary circumstances, compare favorably with that of any other city in tho South. It is true, that for the past four weeks, we have suffer? ed from the visitation of a singular epidemic, which has prevailed more generally than any other dis? ease has ever been known to do hero, still it has proved faUl in very fow cases, and then only when combinod with some other malady. Its symptoms were those of the break-bone fever of a very mild type, its origin purely local, perhaps malarious, and I am happy to say that it is rapidly disappear? ing. A case, which will probably excite considerable interest, is in preparation in the District Court of the United States. During the war, the Gas Com? pany of Charleston returned, under orders of tho Receiver of the Confederate States, 3776 shares in that corporation?representing in the aggregate a par value of ?94,150?for sequestration, as the property of stockholders resident at the North, and then alien enemies. These shares were sold, and are now in the possession, by purchase or transfer, of merchants and others, natives of this State. The stockholders, whoso interests were thus disposed of, recently demanded tho surrender of the shares, on the ground that the sale was ille? gal. The demand was refused, but the Gas Com? pany proposed to issue new shares to the claimants, in order to avoid tho litigation with which it was threatened. To this they object, on the ground, that such issue would, by duplicating the shares, whilst the capital stock of the Company remained limited by its charter, proportionately reduce the dividends of the legitimate shareholders, and thus violate their rights. Accordingly they have filed a Bill for Injunction and Relief, in the merits of which all of the questions necessarily involved will be tried, and amongst them, Judge Bryan will be called to decide whether the Sequestration Acts of tho late Confederate States can protect the parties who purchased under tho sale of its Receiver. It will interest your Catholic readers to know that tho new Chapel Room, which has been built on Queen Street, in the rear of the spot occupied by tho ruins of St. Finbar's Cathedral, will be con? secrated to-morrow. The services, which promise to be very interesting, will be conducted under the auspices of Bishop Lynch, to whose energy the ac? complishment of the work is principally due. The labor of rebuilding the Cathedral will not be de' layed, and when it is completed, the Chapel will be used as a school-house. A new weak-\j paper in the interest of the American citizens of African descent, and chris? tened the "Charleston Journal," has been started in this city. I have not yet been favored with a glanoe at its columns, but am thoroughly satisfied that it will prove an ignoble failure. Those of our colored pcoplo who can read, are perfectly satis? fied with the ?'Courier" and "News," and those who cannot, are utterly unconoerned about the publication of any literature which docs not tickle their fancies with such elegant, chaBte and truth? ful illustrations as appear in Harper's Journal of Civilization. Max Strakosch, the itinerant prince of the mu? sical world, is to "do" Lucretia, Norma and Cris? pine la Comare for us noxt week. Strakosch is an enterprising fellow?has the best artists, pays them well, and d?ns tho expense with as much equanimity as the chap who called for an Ice and six spoons. We shall patronize him to the extent of Two Dollars, unless we can get our hats chalked et the door. SCRIBE. ? ? NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. M. Lesser, Agent, offers an unusually attrac? tive assortment of goods to the public, which he will sell at low prices, but for the cash only. Read his advertsement and give him a calL Bewley, Kef.se & Co., announce the reception of Fall and Winter supplies. Their entire stock has not yet arrived, but customers and friends are invited to examine their advance stock before pur? chasing elsewhere. I J. E. & T. Harper, located at McCully's corner, ! are also receiving a full stock of seasonable goods, at prices adapted to the times. This firm is wor? thy of patronage in every respect. McGee & Nicelt, Auct ioneers, Commission and Grocery Merchants, at the corner store of the old Anderson Hotel, will offer an attractive lot of goods for sale on Monday and Tuesday next. The sale is positive and unreserved. Also, see advertisement of R. M. Morris, Ed. Noble, Executor, Gbo. W. Williams & Co., Charleston, J. D. Aiken & Co, Agents for steamer Dictator, Bale of personal property by Dr. John Wilson, Executor, A. B. Towers, Bibles and Tes? taments for sale and gratuitous distribution. ( Contnbittorxfll? BY WARBEN D. WILKES. Calhoun, S. C, October 4, 1866. THE TICKET. Our exchanges are suggesting as an appropri? ate ticket for the next Presidential election, Ben jamin-F. Butler, of.Massachusetts, asPresident, aud W. G. Brownlow, as Vice-President. Butler to represent the military skill, courage and honesty of New England, and Brownlow the piety, truth and decency of Southern Radicals. There is but oui danger to that ticket, and that lies in the fact, that, it could not command the negro vote. -o THE COTTON TAX REGULATIONS. We have heretofore given our readers a synop? sis of the tax levied on cotton by act of the last Congress. Every day the iniquity of that tax be? comes more apparent, and it is manifest that, un? less it is modified, Southern planters will have to abandon the culture of cotton. The regulations adopted by the internal revenue department are most onerous; singled out among all the agricul? turists as an object of taxation, and made to pay a tax amounting to one-tenth of the gross value of his crop, the department has thrown obstacles in tho way of cotton producers which really appear insurmountable. They aro subjected under the published regulations to annoyances and burthens such as have never before been imposed on any class of planters in any civilized country. Before they can ship their cotton they must have it weigh? ed or marked by a government official, and in or? der that this may be done, the cotton must bo hauled, either to the nearest weighing station, or the expenses of the weigher must bo paid to the plantation. Even in this case the planter must await the pleasure or convenience of the weigher, and thus he may be prevented from realizing on his crop in time to make preparation for another season's planting. The merchants of New Orleans have presented the grievances of the planter under the law of Congress and the regulations of tho Department, to the Secretary of the Treasury, in a memorial, understood to have been written by Gen. S. B. Bccener. Prominent among the hard? ships imposed upon the planter, they show, 1st: That the cost of weighing will be greater to the planter in the country than at the point of sale. 2d. That it is to the interest of tho planter, as well to realize on his crop as to avoid the risk of its destruction, to chip it to market as rapidly as it is picked and bailed; aud that the sickness or neglect of an assessor, or numerous calls upon the latter from different planters in widely separated localities will necessarily occasion delay, which may provo fatal to the interests of the planters of an entire district. 3d. That the majority of plan? ters arc dependent upon the sale of their cotton to enable them to pay tho tax. They must, there? fore, either sacrifice their cotton, by selling to those who wish to speculate on their necessities, or they must give bond for the payment of the tax before the cotton will bo permitted to leave the district. This bond is a needless hardship, when the cotton is itself a sufficient security. The memorialists propose to remedy these evils by throwing all the cotton-growing States into a single collection district, for the purpose of col? lecting the tax on cotton. By this arrangement, tho cotton would bo free to seek a market at any point within the district, free from the delay, ex? pense and various needless restrictions now im? posed ; and the government would collect the tax at the point of sale with greater certainty, in a shorter time, and at a smaller cost. We hope the Secretary will adopt the modifications suggested. The only persons who could object, would be those officials who expect to make fortunes by means of fees, or those who sincerely desire to paralyze Southern industry. -O EDUCATIONAL. It is a lamentable fact that the late war exercised a disastrous influence on the education of the rising generation ; not only learning them many things whereof ignorance is bliss, but forbidding them from pursuing those branches of knowledge cal? culated to .prepare them for'the various possessions for which they had designed themselves. At the close of the late strife, our institutions were not in a condition to meet the demands of those who sought to redeem a portion of the valuable time they bad lost; and few of those younger ones whose refugee days arc over, or whose experience among the Reserves is at an end, aro ready to press forward in the ways of learning, and be fitted to fill the vacancies made by the last generation. Advanced age and depleted purses, renders time exceedingly valuable to the youth of the South, and they have need of the best of advantages to accomplish satisfactorily their desires. We want a system of education that is exceedingly thorough, and calculated to completely achieve its object in giving a finished education ; but, like the French system, in all points, is directed towards the pro? fession for which the student is destined. And we would have American parents imitate the French, in this: educate their children from the beginning, for a particular profession, and not have the children to choose one at random?the effect of which will be, to produce men perfected in tho branch they have undertaken, and every way prepared to do it credit. Wo were pleased to see the South Carolina Col? lege enlarged to a University, and we hope that it will be speedily perfected in all its parts. If so, it will economise time and money, and enable the student to direct his time and energies to the ac? quisition of suoh knowledge, as will bo profitable to him in the particular calling which he is to fol? low. As far as possible, we would have the French system pursued. In France, the boy is placed at school at the age of seven years. From this time, until the age of seventeen, he is prepared for the degreo of Bachelor of Letters, to take which degree, they arc required to be proficient in Latin and Greek, History, Geography, Rhetoric, Literature, Mental Philosophy, Cosmography and the out? lines of the Physical Sciences. At eighteen years of age, he takes the degree of Bachelor of Arts, for which he is required to know Arithmetic, Algebra, Elementary Geometry, Trigonometry, Descriptive Geometry in part, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Natural History, Geography and Modern History, Mental Philosophy, Latin and Modern Language So far the course has been general, and the student is regarded a very fair scholar; but having finished what are termed elementary studies, he is ready to take up those branches especially designed to fit him for the profession for which he is destined. If it is law or medicine, the student is put forward in his literary studies, and placed in one of the schools devoted to those subjects. If it is the arts and manufactures, that he desires to enter, he spends two years in the study of special mathe? matics, physics and chemistry, and is then fitted to enter one of the great schools of engineering; and so of all the other professions, theory and practice are combined. Such a system we would have in.our State University,?education pursued with a great deal of system, each part of it thor? oughly treated before being left, and the student not, too much hurried. < RELIEF TO DEBTORS. The mountain has labored, and in onr opinion brought forth a mouse. After some weeks, spent in frothy declamation, in which the State and Fed? eral Constitutions were thoroughly ventilated, our Legislature gave us, as a relief to debtors, an act suspending the Sessions of the Court of Common Pleas, for one term. We are not in favor of credi? tors pressing debtors at this time, and we are in favor of every measure of relief for the debtor, con? sistent with equity and good conscience. But we maintain that the measure adopted is no relief at all; in our judgment, it is well calculated to ag? gravate the feelings of the creditor, as it will ex? cite his suspicion, that his debts are to be ultimate? ly repudiated, by destroying, or indefinitely post? poning hi? legal remedies for their collection, and impel him liest Spring to sue his debtors indis? criminately. Every law passed by the Legislature tampering with contiacts between man and man, destroys confidence between them, which is worth all the stay laws that ever can be passed, and when confidence is destroyed, legal remedies of course are sought. Wo sympathise with honest debtors, and it is evident that most of creditors do, or why is it that nine hundred old executions are now ly? ing in the Sheriff's office of this District, unen forced. The stay law, from its inception, was an unwise one, and but for its passage, one half of the indebtedness, which now hangs over the country, would have been paid off during the war. A class of men who kept out of the war, took advantage of that law, accumulated wealth by speculation, and let their debts run on. Those same men, to-day, instead.of payiug off their debts, are using their money in speculation, attending sales, and buying property. Such men should be made to pay. If the debtor can be forced to pay next Spring, in what respect is he bettered by a delay of six months ? Can he raise the money then more readi? ly than now ? We think not, for money is always scarcer in the Spring than it is in the Fall. But our Legislators either do not comprehend the true condition of the country, or else they resolutely shut their eyes to it. Now, the truth is, the coun? try is hopelessly bankrupt, and legislators should accept the fact, and act accordingly. The man who expects the indebtedness of this country to be discharged in full, is doomed to disappointment. It cannot now,. and will not be able for fifty years to come, to pay more than fifty per cent. The debts which have been inherited by this genera? tion, were contracted upon the security of negro property. That property has been swept away, and the debts remain with no property left ade? quate to their payment; and what hope is there, that our people can ever replace the four hundred and fifty millions of negro property that they have lost ? Absolute none. If, then, men cannot pay, what good will stay laws do them ? There will be no safe basis for business transactions until there is a general settlement. No man knows what he is worth?no man knows who to trust. The sooner, therefore, that the indebtedness of the country can bo adjusted, the sooner will confidence and prop? erty be restored. Men cannot pay their debts in full, and they should at once pay what they can, and take a new start. To afford the best measure of relief to debtors, as well as to givo any value to their action at the late Session, the Legislature must go forward, and pass liberal Homestead and Bankrupt laws. In the latter law, after permit? ting the debtor to retain enough of his property to keep his family from suffering, we would allow him to surrender his property to his creditors, and be forever thereafter discharged from their de? mands. If forced into bankruptcy, the debtor could then go to work with some heart, to take a new start. Creditors, in view of this law, would, we imagine, prefer to wait with the debtor, and let him pay as he was able, to receiving five cents on the dollar, in the bankrupt court, and have their claims forever bcrred. -4? WHAT WIIX YOU PLANT ? The time is near at hand for our planters to pitch their grain crop for another year, and we submit it to their judgment and experience if it is not their interest to seed down a larger breadth of land this fall, than they did last. ? It was our hon? est conviction st the close of the war, that the planters of this region should devote their atten? tion almost exclusively to the production of bread stuffs for the next five years, and tho present con? dition of tho supplies confirms our judgment. If the seasons had been favorable to the production of a full grain :rop, there would have been but a small surplus for sale; as it is, the supply will fall short of the demand*, and as a consequence, bread stuffs will have to bo imported, and the people put npon a short allowance of meat for another year. If our people had planted more wheat and corn, and less cotton, they would have made enough of the former to bread them and fatten their hogs; but in their wild hunt after cotton, they have missed a crop of either. The production of cotton never was remunerative in this region?much less will it pay now, that the government has imposed a heavy impost upon it Our true policy has been to raise the cereals and stock exclusively. Do you say that cotton is money ??we reply that, so are stock and grain, free from taxation. For sev? eral years past our farmers could readily dispose of either, at their own price and at their own farms. During the past summer, our people have shipped corn from Charleston and paid $2.25 per busbel; and they will have to do the same thing the ensuing summer. ? The cotton-producing re? gion of the State lies just below us, and always did and always will have to purchase stock and grain; we could supply this home market and en? rich our purses and improve our lands. We have noticed for years, that the stock raising and grain growing planters of this district, have steadily in? creased their wealth. What does it profit a plan? ter to raise large crops of cotton, if he has to pay it all away for bread, and stock to refit his planta? tion ? His land is gradually wearing away, and his ultimato poverty is only a question of time. Our people profess to desire an increase of popu? lation, but they will desire it in vain, so long as they raise notaing wherewith to support the immi? grant. Immigrants generally have to buy their provisions for the first year, and are generally at? tracted to those regions where provisions are cheap, and the land is fertile and cheap. If a tide of immigration was setting into our State, wealth would flow into it, and lands attain to something like their forner value. Let our planters study this subject and act upon it. -o A LESSON FOR YOUNG MEN. A young looking loafer coming along Chestnut [ street, St. Lcuis, saluted an old man past sixty, dressed in a threadbare coat, whose hat was bruis? ed and seedy, reeling from one side of the street to tho other, with, "Holloa, Jim.' Come and take a drink?" The old man's eyes brightened, and, arm in arm, he sauntered along to the nearest groggery with his companion. Five years ago that old man was James Green, United States Senator from Missouri, and in the days of the Kan? sas imbroglic he was, next to Stephen A. Doug? las, the ablest debater in Congress; and as Doug? las himself admitted the only man whom he fear? ed to meet in debate. But the war broke out, Mr. Green lost his property and his position, and now he is a poor drunkard, and earns barely a pittance of a living as a calaboose shyster.' j WADE HAMPTON. The Philadelphia Inquirer, of the 16th ult., ?- ^ publishes a portion of Lieut Gen. Wade Hamp? ton's Bpeech, delivered before the soldiers' meet-. . ing at Anderson Court House, on the 18th day of * last August, and endeavors to make capital out of it for the Radical party. Wade Hampton needs no defence at our hands. The peerless soldier and gentleman, there is not a better living repre? sentative of Southern honor and manhood,?none more beloved and trusted. Politicians may attend Conventions and misrepresent the manhood of the South, but we tell the Inquirer, that Wade Hamp? ton told the truth in that meeting, and he only gave utterance to the honest sentiments of our . people,, when he "professes to acquiesce ia thp final decision of arms, but at the same time insists that the cause for which he fought was that of right and justice,?I shall never say that we had not right on our side. I shall never hold my State guilty, or her sons traitors." Brownlow, D?baht and Hamilton, may admit it, but no man of re? spectability and honor in the South will; and before high heaven and the assembled universe,' we pronounce the terms "traitor" and "rebel" when applied to Confederates, living or dead, foul mouthed blackguardisms and lies. Beneath the mounds where sleep the martyred dead, there lies entombed a wealth of patriotism, virtue, honor, and noble loyalty, which the Radical host may envy, but which they can never emulate nor in? herit. For the living and the dead, whatever may bo said of the loyalty or disloyalty of any, in the [ late most lamentable conflict of arms, we may safely assert, that there was on the pari of the people of the South, no disloyalty to the principles of the Constitution of the United States. To that system of representative Government; of delega? ted and limited powers; that establishment which embodied in a new form the great Magna Charter, for the protection and security of life, liberty and property. Justified in our interpretation of the written charter of our liberties, by the uniform practice of its authors and the decisions of the. Courts, having triumphed in every arena of debate, the States lately confederated, when the Govern? ment passed into the hands of their Radical ene? mies, determined to withdraw from the Union as the surest means of securing good government? With the people of those States, the question was simply where their allegiance was due?which au? thority was paramount in the last resort?State or Federal.- There was no disloyalty to the princi? ples of the Constitution; we thought our allegi? ance to the State was paramount, and risked all, and lost all, under the belief. This did not con? stitute us rebels or traitors, for we always were more loyal to the Union, under, the Constitution, than tho whole radical faction. Nor do wc admit, that we violated our allegiance then in seceding.? If we were to attempt secession noic, we would be, traitors,?then and now are very different. Then tho Union was a confederation of sovereign, inde? pendent States ; now it is composed of dependent States,'creatures of the Union, bound to it in per? petuity. However we have differed heretofore, as to where our allegiance was due, hone for any practical purpose can exist now. We sec and feel that the sword has centralized the Government.? Whether the Southern States were ever rightfully out of the Union or not, their Conventions have annulled their ordinances of secession, rc-ordaincd the Constitution of the United States, as the organic law of the land, and are now in the Union so far as depends on their will and deed. The whole United States, therefore, is now without question, our country, to be cherished and defended a? such, by all our hearts and by all our arms. While therefore, we accept the issues of the war,?realize fully the radical change wrought by them in tho structure of the Government, and intend to main? tain an honest loyalty, Tire notify Jocobin Radicals that they will have to do the sane thing. If they attempt a revolution in the Government, we will readily rally around General Grant, and. teach them a lesson of loyalty and good manners. ? EQUALITY l\' LEGISLATION. Whtw men. legislate, we like to see them pass laws for tua benefit of all classes of society alike,? the poor as well as the rich,?the individual as well as corporations. The action of tho Legislature in postponing the Session of the Court, until next Spring, whether so intended or not, wiU operate chiefly to the advantage of the rich, and of banks and other corporations. Is not a man, wjo owcjs five hundred or five thousand dollars, as much en? titled to pay his debt, as the man who is not able to owe more than twenty or one hundred dollars ? If the property of the farmer should not be brought to sale, neither should that of the latter. Why then did not the Legislature forbid Magistrates and the District Courts to collect debts, uatil next Spring ? -:-+-: THE DIFFERENCE. - Democratic administrations used to run the Fed? eral machine for $70,000,000 a year. The Aboli? tion Radicals have run up the oost of locomotion to $560,000,000, or about $20 to every man, wo? man and child in the Union. Tbey have increased the expenses eight-fold in five years. When they succeed in including the whole negro population of the South, in the loving embraces of the Freed man's Bureau, a new system of computation will be required to calculate the increased expenses. -:?:??. EARLY FALL OF*SNOW. There was a fall of bdow in Southwestern Vir? ginia, the second week in September. The weath? er turned suddenly cold, and in the city of Lynch burg fires were found necessary and comfortable. POST OFFICE NOTICE. Arrival and Departure of the Mails. The Columbia mail arrives daily (Sundays ex? cepted) at 5.10 p. m. Open for delivery at C p. m. Closes daily at 9 p. m. The Greenville, Spartanburg and Union mail ar? rives daily (Sundays excepted) at 9 a. m. Closes daily at 2 p. m. The Pendleton and Walhalla mail arrives on Monday at 6 a. ra. Closes same day at 10 a. m. Arrives Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 p. m., and closes same days at 4 p. m. Persons will please get stamps during the week, which will prevent them annoying the Post Office on Sundays E. F. WEBB, P. M. Public Meeting. The special session of the Legislature having closed, it is of vital importance that an expression of public opinion be had, not only in reference to the proceedings of that body at the late session, but also in regard to matters that will be brought before the Legislature at its regular siUing in No? vember next. It is important at all times that the sentiments of the people should be made known and fully understood by their representatives, but more especially is it so in times like tho present It has been truly said that ,lin the multitude of counsel there is wisdom," and at no period in tfce history of tho State has more wisdom been requi? red to manage successfully the affairs of the Gov? ernment than in the present. The citizens gene? rally, therefore, are requested to meet at this place on Monday, the 8th of October next, and hold their meeting during the recess of the Court MANY CITIZENS?