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An Independent Family Journal?Devoted to Politics, Literature and General Intelligence. VOL. 3. ANDERSON, S. 0, WEDNESDAY, AU&UST147T867! NO. 9. BY -EOYT & WALTERS. ? TEEMS: TWO DOLLARS. ?ND A HALF PER ANKUM, lH TJNKTED STATES CURRENCY. > v r_?_ RATES. OF ADVERTISING. .. -Adsortisemenls inserted at the rates of One Dol? lar per square of twelve lines for the firstinsertion and Fifty Cent3 for each subsequent insertion, j Liberal deductions made to those who advertise by the year. - For announcing a candidate, Five Dollars in advance. Another Letter from Hon. B. F. Perry. To the Editor of the Columbia Phoenix: The. action,of the rump Congress, the other day, in extra session, ought to con ? Tince every one that the Radical party have no ihteation of restoring the Union until the Southern States are thoroughly liadicalized, and will elect Senators and members of the House of that party. The Kentucky representatives?nine in num . ber, and all Democrats?havo been denied their' seats in Congress, simply because they were not Black Republicans. If the Southern. States, under the reconstruction policy of President Johnson, had elected Radicals, and given any assurance of their -adhesion to that party, no one can sup? pose ithat their representatives would have been excluded from Congress. In -the fall of IS64, one of the first things done-fay Congress was to purge the Sen? ate, and exclude Democrats enough from that body to give, them a two-thirds ma? jority. The question will be for the people of the Southern States to decide, in the ?coming elections, whether they prefer to. remain" as they are, or by calling conven? tions, adopting negro suffrage and elect? ing-Radieals, go back intothe Union. Tfriat advantage to the South will it be to increase the Black Republican majorit}* "in Congress? How can we be benefited by strengthening the hands of our op ,pressors? What interest can wepossibly have in being represented in Congress by traitors to the . South?men whom we . must scorn and despise as Judas Isca riots 5n politics ? It is a sad and melancholy ; reflection on human nature, to see men wboinaugurated the war,and were going ? to die in the last ditch, now seeking to go "back into the Union, stripped of every -'principle and right which they vowed to tiefend, with Black Republican collars " around their necks. ?AJV disgustingto see base, unprincipled wuitc men seeking office and position by- hypocritically pan? dering to the ignorant, criminal and ru? inous prejudices and aspirations of the ? .riegro! .1 would greatly prefer seeing -every office on the State filled by the .honest intelligent negroes, than by such unprincipled and shameless men. I once said to President Johnson, in ?.reply to a dispatch sent me, about Union men.being excluded from office under the Provisional Government, that I had mado it a rule through lifo" to confide in the 'politics of no one who was not morally itonest and trustworthy in private life, and: that my experience had taught me .the fact tliat a man-who had no moral principle could have no political principle. J Hence it is that we see those who were I foremost in succession, while secession was in the ascendant and the road to honor and distinction, power and position, now fawning at the feet of the oppressor, while ; tyranny and oppression are all'powerful. "Tbey.earo not whom they serve, or what "-?principles they advocate, provided they can promote their own selfish views. But - they would even have us believe that the great interests of the country were foro .most in their thoughts. ^ Immediately after it was known that j shivery ?voyfd have to be.abolished, I ex? pressed the opinion that it would be wise ?' and.prudent to "permit negroes, who had - acquired a property and-educational quali? fication, to v*<xo in all the Southern States. ? I thought itj$s would be asafety valve for political society. It would gratify and .'appease the, intelligent and most iufluen ' tial ,pf that class, and make them good .cHteeriSy-itJfstead of being disturbers ot tlie -- 'peace', ylt. would hold out an inducement tt) all^-hd.had any disposition or wish to rise ...above tho common hord ! And no ;ev.ih?coul.d result frow it, as I supposed very few, comparatively,~ would ever bo abre to attain tho privilege, and when ; t?vy did, they would always vote with ? ^he higher and better educated class ot Avhites. I expressed a similar opinion .-r many, years ago, in regard to recapturing ^logitive slaves. I thought it well for so ' ciety that whena slave had acquired such ii'Iove for freedom as to prompt him to flee to the Northern States, and possessed 7 intelligence sufficient to make his escape, ho ought not to be brought back. In . this way tho bold, daring and reckless? they who wcro most likely to disturb the public peace?would be out of the coun? try, and there would be greater safety from (hose left behind. But my opinion thus expressed was de? nounced by those who are now urging universal suffrage for the negro, or at advocating tho call of a convention, by which universal suffrage is to be estab? lished. I likewise advocated, at the samo time, the:propriety of permitting negroes to give testimony in all csises in our courts of justice. This, too, was sternly resisted by those who are now willing to confer on the negro the right of holding office, to get back into the "glorious Union," which they once hated and despised so cordially. In one of my previous communications, I stated that Professor Agassis had proved conclusively that the negro was of an in .ferior race to that of tho white man, and had a different origin. In saj-ing this, I did not intend to insinuate, as some of the negroes seemed to think I did, that God ? was not their "father," as well as the ?white man's father. They are certainly both creations of the samo Almighty band.' They are doubtless, too, equally under the protection of tho Almighty, .and equally dear to Him in their respec? tive spheres?spheres in which He placed tbcm and for which he mado them. The horse and the jackass are both alike the creations of God. Ho did not creato them of the same type', or make them one and the aamc animal. Ho gave to one beauty of form and symmetry, spirit and fleetness; and to the other strength, en? durance and other valuable qualities. So He distinguished between the negro and white mailt To tho former he has given a black skin and a woolly head, greater strength and less brain. He has adapted him to labor, and given him pores which defy malaries and fevers. To the other He has given a white skin and a head of hair, less strength and larger brain, adapted to higher thoughts and greater intellectual improvements. But God loves his whole creation equally, and it is to be presumed that he has the same regard for the owl that he has for the eagle, and so with tho jackass, the whito man and tho negro, provided, always, that the one is as faithful in the discharge of his mission on earth as the other. It is by no means a crime or fault on the part of the jackass, that he can? not run as swiftly as the horse. Ho was not created for such fleetness; and so with the negro, he has not been endowed by God with tho same volume of brain that the white man has, and he is not to blame for being unable to compete with him in science and knowledge. Ho is an inferior animal to the white man. God made him such as he is for wise purposes, as he made the ass inferior to the lior*e. It is as foolish to think of making poets, artists and statesmen out of negroes as it would be to make a race horse or a spirited charger in battle-out of a jackass. You may give tho negro tho right of suffrage and the right to hold office, and make him a legislator; and so you may enter tho ass for a four-mile heat with the blooded horse, or you may mount him in buttle for a charge on the enemy ; but both would be equallj unwise and disastrous, for you are attempting to pervert nature and the laws of God. Professor Agasssiz, of Harvard Col? lege, Massachusetts, the most learned and scientific naturalist the world has ever produced, declares most confidently, after a lifetime of thought and observation on the subject, "that the negro and the white man were created as specifically different as the owl and the eagle. They were de? signed to fill different places in the sys? tem of nature. The negro is no more a negro by accident or misfortune than the owl is the kind of bird he is by accident or misfortune. The negro is no more the white man's brother than the owl is the sister ot the eagle, or than the ass is the brother of the horse." "There are," says the same great authority, "over one hun? dred specific differences between the bonal and nervous sj-stcrn of the white man and the negro, indeed, their forms are alike in no particular. Thero is not a bone in the negro's body relatively of the same shape, size, articulation, or chemically of the same composition, as that of the white man. The negro's bones contains a far greater per ccntagc of calcareous salts than those of the white man. Even the negro's blood is chemically a very differ? ent fluid from that which courses in the veins of the white man. The whole physi? cal organization of the negro differs quite as much from the white man as it does from that of the chimpanzee?that is. in his bones, muscles, nerves and fibres. The chimpanzee has not much further to pro? gress to bceomo a negro than the negro has to become a white man. This fact science inexorably demonstrates." It is agreed by all scientific men who have turned their attention to this subject that the capacity, by measurement, of the skull of the white man is ninety-seven cubic inches, that is, the average of cme thousand or an}-greater number of skulls. The negro has sixty-six cubic inches; the North American Judian has sixty-three cubic inches; the native Australian has fifty-six cubie inches. Sir Charles Lyall, than whom thero can be no higher au? thority, says the feet and hands, the arms I and legs of the white man and negro are unlike in measurement. The hand of the negro is one-twelfth larger and one-tenth broader than the hand of the white man ; , his foot is one-eighth longcrand one-ninth broader than the white man's; his fore I arm is one-tenth shorter, and the same is j true of tho bones from the knee to the ankle. The skeleton is unlike in the j whole in weight and measurement, and unlike in every bone of it. In the most admirable speech of tho j Hon. W. Mutigen, of Ohio, lately delivered in Congress, (and to which I am greatly indebted for much that I have said,) it is boldly asserted, on the authority of sci? entific men, that the world does not afford an instance of a mulatto in the fifth gen? eration. The hybrid race become extinct after the fourth generation, unless they have intermixed with one or the other of the original races. So it is with all ani? mals. The mule dots not breed at all. The wolf and jackal, the dog and fox. have produced hybrids, which always be? come extinct, in tho third generation. These animals, like the negro and white man, wore regarded, at one time, as only different varieties of the same species. But experiment shows them to have been different creations, as it does the negro and white man. I repeat what I havo said in a former article, that I have ever been tho friend and protector of tho negro through life. This mj- former slaves will vouch for me. My house servants, eight or ten in num? ber, have never left me, and are still living with mo on tho same terms they did While slaves. It is because I wish well to the negro that I am unwilling to see him placed in a falso position. Ho is unfit to exercise the right of suffrage, and will he como the dupe and tool of base and de? signing men. A war of races will ensue, and the negro, being tho weaker and less intelligent, will bo exterminated in such a war. Extinction will be tho result of this great boon, bestowed on them for the sole nttroose of strengthening tho Radical party. General Benjamin F. Butler said to did, eighteen months ago, that all the Radical party wished was, to hare -'im? partial suffrage." He said that we might declare that no one should vote, unless he was a graduate of the South Carolina College. All that the Radicals then thought of was equality between the races. But now, they are determined to have tho negro vote, in order to radical? ize the South. In the negro convention which sat the other day, in Columbia, it was claimed that, in the next Presidential election there should be placed on the Radical ticket a negro, cither tor President or Vice-President. It was contended, too, that the lands should bo divided into small farms, so that each head of a family might get a homestead. If the land? owners refused this division, then their lands should be taxed so heavily as to force them to part with them. There is considerable ingenuity in this scheme of confiscation. The whites who vote for a convention to avoid confiscation on the part of Congress, will find themselves nicely caught by the negroes in conven? tion. As 1 have already said, they Avill find that, after sacrificing their honor, the rights of the State, and the principles of self-government and constitutional liber? ty, they have lost their lands into the bargain. Another scheme of the negroes, promulgated in their recent convention, is to have nothing taxed but property. This will release the negroes from all taxes, as they do not own property. Then, the property of the State is to be taxed, to establish free schools and colleges all over the State, for the education of their children, without expense to the negroes! Again, they declare in convention, and have made it a part of their platform, that the old negroes, and infirm negroes and paupers, are to be supported by the property of the white men, instead of taking care of their o*vnaged parents and pauper kindred. In the twelfth article adopted b}- this Radical negro convention, they avow openly their purpose of disfranchising all who have served in the Confederate army, or aided and abetted the war. They are disposed to take a step, and a wide one, beyond tho Radicals in Congress. The whito Radicals havo disfranchised only those who have filled public offices; but the black Radicals arc determined to ex? tend it to all who wore, in the army, which includes almost the entire white population. This will be accomplished in that convention which the white people arc going to vote for?a convention to disfranchise themselves, confiscate their property; and place the State absolutely under the control of the negroes. Was there ever such folly and madness heard of before in the civilized world '( In sack? cloth and ashes they will have to repent their stupidity and dishonor. This negro Radical convention further demands a revision of our laws and the reorganization of our courts. They, a set of paupers, ignorant and debased, arc to govern the State, and the white men, who own all the property, are to pay the expenses of the State. They speak of building railroads ! No doubt a thousand schemes will he concocted for spending the white man's money, for the benefit ot the negro, before they proceed to take it from him by force or fraudulent legisla? tion. Horrible, most horrible, is the fu? ture of our poor State and degraded peo? ple. No one seems to realize our true situation. It is now as it was in the days of secession. We are standing, like idiots, on a magazine of powder, flourishing in our hands a firebrand, and laughing at the beautiful ring of ribbon it makes in fho dark. The explosion will come, must come, sooner or later, and bring with it universal death and destruction to the people and property of the Slate. In Liberia, where thcro i$ a nation of negroes, sent from the United States, and where they have formed a government, no white man is allowed to hold ofiice, or vote at an}' election for any office. This is wise and proper; and they have thought it necessary to make this exclusion for their own peace and prosperity. Have not the while men the same right to ex? clude the negro from the right of suffrage, when they know that the negroes have a majority in this State, and will seize the government of the State if permitted to vote ? It is idle folly to tell the people of South Carolina that capital and immi? grants will flow into tho State when re? constructed on the Black Republican platform. On the contrary, as soon as this negro government is organized, every dollar of foreign capital in South Carolina will be withdrawn, and not one cent will come hero seeking investment. Nor will any foreigners move here to settle, under negro rule, and the confusion and dis? turbance which it will give rise to in the State. Mr. Calhoun predicted, years ago, that if the negro was set free the North? ern people would insist on his right of suffrage, and if allowed, tho negroes would seize the govornment, and the whito people would have to lcavo the State. He further said that the former owners would lose all infiuenco over their frcedmcn, whoso sympathies and partiali? ties would be for Northern men and vile emissaries sent hero to control them. 1 think it is pretty generally acknowledged even now that all control of tho nogro in the coming election is already gono from their former masters. General Hampton and his friohds had just as well try to con? trol a herd of wild buffaloes in the vast prairies of the West as the negro vote of Columbia. B. F. PERRY. Gheenville, S. C, Juiy 27,1867. _-o ? A. "monster in human form" says that the only timo a woman does not ex? aggerate is when she is talking of her own ago. A Ghost Story. . The customary monotony of a country town, not far from Cincinnati, has recent? ly been broken by an occurrence that is rather ghostly in its surroundings. It seems that a wealthy old farmer lives there who, like wealthy old farmers gene? rally, possesses a young and beautiful daughter, which he loved passing well, hut much as he loved her, (and she was his only child, and comfort, too, for that matter, his wife being dead.) he loved massive and glittering greenbacks more. It has been remarked that young and beautiful daughters of wealthy old farm? ers are not long without suitors, and Ma? ry had one?that's her name. Her suit? or suited Mary and Mary suited her suitor, which made them both suitors. Another peculiarity connected with the wealth}' old -farmer-and-beautiful-and-only - daugh? ter business is that the suitor is poor, which don't suit the old man, however well it may suit her. One day, having come to a perfect understanding with Mary about the matter, this poor young man called upon the father and stated his love for his daughter, and his desire to pay her board and washing for the rest of her life?in short, to marry her. The old man was thunderstruck, (there being no lightning lying around loose at that mo? ment to hit him.) The audacity of the poor young man paralyzed him for a mo? ment. It was almost equal to a doso of numb palsy. Recovering, however, he kicked him out of the house in a summary manner, (he thought some Marys wouldn't do it.) and ordered him never to set foot in it again. Then he ordered Mary to her room, and locking her in, kept her for weeks on bread and water, beef-steak and stewed potatoes, ham and eggs, brook trout, to? matoes, green corn, tea and coffee. &c, with tlie evident intention of starving her to give up her lover. But, notwith? standing this exhausting diet, she didn't fall off in her love for her Edward, nor in flesh. One thing that added to the rage of this stubborn old dad. was the fact that he desired her to marry a rich old bache? lor, (now we are coming to it,) who own? ed a farm adjoining. Uniting two loving hearts was very well, but uniting two fine farms was a great deal better. So he told Mary, but she couldn't sec it by the small kerosene lamp with which her chamber was lighted, and so the old agricultural wretch got madder and madder, and fi? nally swore she should marry tho farm adjoining (the other name is immaterial) whether she would or not. He actually set the day, and had the farm?wo mean the old chap who owned it?come over to be married. In his anger and rage he had forgotten about the necessary adjunct of a clergyman; so leaving the party, be mounted his horse and rode fiercely away after the adjunct. We cannot describe the feelings of the girl, as we were never situated precisely like her. "\\"e can im? agine them, though, and so can tho read? er. j An hour, perhaps, had transpired after the departure of the cruel parent, when ho came riding up the lane which led to the house as though the?well, as though somebody was after him whose acquaint unce he did not desire to make. Reach? ing the porch, he tumbled oft' rather than dismounted, and was so paid and affright? ed in appearance that any man who owed him money and couldn't pay him wouldn't, have recognized him. His knees smote together, and he looked down tho lane as though he expected some pursuing foe to appear. He was assisted to his room and went to bed at once, so great was his ex? haustion. He ordered the daughter re? leased and brought to him. and then he ordered the expectant bridegroom, tho old bachelor farmer, out of the house. Iiis daughter came, and when ho was sufficiently recovered to speak, he reveal? ed the cause of his affright. Ho said as ho was riding toward the Parson's, and while passing through a narrow portion of the road lined on either side with trees and ?hrab'ociy, suddenly his horso stopped short, and snorted with tear. He looked, and saw a figure as of a woman, although her face was conceal? ed, all in white, standing in the middle of the road, pointing a stern and threatening linger for him to go back. He instantly heeded the supernatural warning, and turning his horse's head, rode back much faster than he came. "And who do you think it was, father," said Mary, who had been listening with almost breathless attention. 11 The spirit of your dead and gone moth? er, child." And then his old terror coming over him, ho covered his head in the bed clothes, and shook the bedstead with tho terror of bis fear. He became calmer at length, but said he was satisfied ho would never know peace until he had repaired tho wrong he had done his daughter. Ho was satisfied the spirit of his wife had stood in his way to signify her displeasure with the course ho was taking regarding herchild. Long stories are tedious after ono sees tho de? nouement. Briefly, then?ho sent for Edward, who was found surprisingly soon; then he sent for a clergyman, and with something of his old impcriousncss, or? dered the lovers to stand up and bo mar? ried. They wouldn't stand it from anybody but him, of course, but they obeyed, and tho ceremony was performed. A curious smile stole over the features of tho gush? ing Edward whon the story of the ghost was related to him, but he expressed duo amazement. It afterwards got whispered around that Edward played tho ghost himself; but no man is going to roako a ghost of himself to win a wife. This is an o'er true tale.?Cincinnati Times. -- How Tennessee was Settled. "Yes," said Tom. "there she is." "Who?" said I. "Did I never tell you," said Tom, "about that old woman you sec over there buying snuff and calico at the cor? ner grocery? Well, you know this part of the country (West Tennessee) was settled originally by old Virginians and a large sprinkling of people from the State of Buncombe, in North Carolina; you know the State of Buncombe, don't you?" We confessed our ignorance of geography, and Tom went out of his way to tell us that Buncombe was situate in that region cd' Tar river which burnt up some time ago, and consisted of four counties known as Upper and Lower Hog Thief, Promise Fair, and Never Pay. "But, as I was go? ing on to tell, the way this part of the country happened to be settled was this: Some families from Virginia, in moving out West, passed through the State of Buncombe. They all had regular old fashioned covered road wagons, the hind wheels of which were, as usual, much larger than the fore wheels. A wagon of any sort was something new in those parts and everybody turned out along the road to sec them; a great many followed them, expecting every moment to see the big wheels overtake the little ones. In this way. they kept on until they got clear over west of the mountains, and not having over sense enough to get back, settled down right there." " Look here, Tom," said one. "you don't intend we should believe that ?" "Pledge you my word it's true as preaching?yer.." "But what about the old woman. Tom ?'' said one of the party. "Well," said he. "she was one among those first ones who followed the wagons from Buncombe. After she had been out here about ten or fifteen years, her father died in old Vir? ginia and left a parcel of negroes to be divided among his children. There war'nt many negroes in this settlement, and those who did have them were looked up? on as sort of aristocrats. So when that old woman heard of her fortune she at once made arrangements to get the chat? tels, and one Monday morning, bright and early, she and the old man harnessed up the only horso they had, put their best leather bed in the bottom of the wagon, and started for Virginia to bring their ne? groes home. After weeks of travel they reached the old homestead, and secured their share of the common fortune in the shape of an old negro wench by the name of Nancy. They placed her right in the middle of the big feather bed and hauled her all the way back to West Tennessee. The}- of course had to walk, but that was nothing; they were the proud owners of slaves and could afford to do a great many things that their poor neighbors could not. "When they arrived home the old wo? man was so proud of being called 'Miss Betsey' that she would go to the door of the log cabin and call to Nancy, who was in the kitchen, N-a-n-c-i-c; and the an? swer would invariably come back. 'What do you want Miss Betsey!" ?Nothing at all; only want to hear you call mo Miss Betsey.' Fact," said Tom, "and one time 1 was* there just alter they got home. Eli and some more of us were going up on the crooked fork of Little Sandy to fish, and stopped to get a little water to mix with something one of the boys had in a jug. Nancy was down at the spring just under the hill doing tho washing, and tho old woman went out in the back yard, and yelled at the top of her voice :N-a-n c-y!' and way under the hill I heard the answer, 'W-h-a-t d-o y-o-u w-a n-t, M-i-s-s B-c-t-s-c-y ?' Then tho old woman sung out again, 'Oh, nothing, I only wanted to hear you call mo .Miss Betsey from the s-p-r-i-n-g!'" By this time everybody was laughing fit to kill themselves, except Tom, whose face was without a wrinkle. "Yes, sir," said he, "I believe in ancestry; nothing like knowing where we all sprung from. I Come, boys, if Judd has any schnapps left j let's take a drink."?JST. 0. Crescent. Andersoxville vs. Camp Morton.?If the rebels deliberately starved and tortur? ed our prisoners to death in their vile prison pens, why is it that the reports of tho War Department show a greater pro? portion of deaths among rebel prisoners in the North than among Union prison? ers in tho South ? Why is it that rebel prisoners at Camp Morton, Johnson's Island, and other points, who were kindly treated, comfortably clothed, well fed, and scientifically doctored, died out of the ser? vice more rapidly than our own men who were starved, frozen, shot, inoculated with hospital gangrene, and otherwise fiendish? ly tortured to death in tho hells of Belle Isle, Salisbury and Andersonville ??7/i dianapoiis Herald. - How it was Done.?An Irishman, ad? dicted to telling queer stories, said he saw a man beheaded with his hands tied be? hind him, who directly picked up his head and put it on his shoulders in tho right place. "Ha! ha! ha I" said a bystander. "How could he pick up his head when his hands were tied behind him?" "An'auro what a purty fool ye arc!" said Pat. "Couldn't he pick it up with his lathe? To tho devil wid yer bothera? tion !" ? Miss Buchanan, onco rallying her cousin, an officer, on his courage, said: "Now, Mr. Harris, do you really mean to tell mc you can walk up to a cannon's mouth without fear?" "Yes," was tho prompt reply, "or a Buchanan's either." And he did. -?-<a? ? If a woman docs keep a secrofc ft is pretty pnre to be with "rsllfnj:" offooi-. ' The Intelligencer Job Offiife. ITaving recently made considerable additions to this department, we are prepared to execute In the neatest style and on tlie most reasonable terms. Legal Blanks, Bill Heads, Posters, Cards, Handbills. Pamphlets, Labels, and in fact every style of work usually done in a country Printing Office. fiS?* In all cases, the money will be required upon delivery of the work. Orders, accompanied with the cash, will receive prompt attention. Ex-President Pierce. "Warwick," an Alabama correspondent of the New York Day Book, is on the qui vice for the man for the next Presidency, and concludes thus: There is, under God. but one salvation for this poor country of ours, and that is in tho restoration ol the glorious Consti? tution of our grand, old, inspired fathers. Nobody can restore that but the people of the Democratic party. Away with the timid, temporizing, demoralized "leaders," who are harmless and lifeless as the huge granite lions which guard the avenues to an Egyptian temple. They are blind, and dead, and dumb, and cold, and heavy as marble! They, "having ejrcs do not see, having ears, they do not hear." They are dumb and motionless, and without a pulse of living power! Away with them ! "The Democracy" wants no such "Lead? ers !" A great work is to bo done! The ship is on fire in a raging storm, at sea. There is consternation in every face. Who is the man to Extinguish the Flames and save the Ship ? To save the Consti? tution, we have, first of all, to be in earn? est. We must satisfy the people that we are in earnest. I believe that Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, as a candidate for the Presidency, can bring to the cause of the Constitution, every Democratic vote in tho United States. He is tried, has a good, clear head, and sound, brave heart, and what is of infinite moment, in these times, "can speak well." Moses knew the importance of this in a Democracy, and God recognized it in the appointment of Aaron. "Say what they may of Frank? lin Pierce," said old Ex-Governor Marcy, then a magnificent Secretary of State, before whose logical battery Daniel Web? ster and the Federal host did not and could not stand, "say what they will of Frankklin Pierce, he can beat them all spealdng." Pierce had been talking to the heroes of tho Mexican war. Spealdng! Let no man say he has not been as great in action. Modest, almost too modest, he has always been courageous and success? ful. A hero in the field, a statesman in council, a patriot under all trials of provo? cation. We had as well begin to consoli? date a party on tho old foundations. Tho support of Franklin Pierce for the Presi? dency, by the true Jefferosnian Democra? cy, would be a long stride towards the ultimate victory which awaitsjthem. -? "Innocent Amusements in Texas."? Under this heading the New York Even? ing Post gets off the following excellent radical sensation. It only needs the en? dorsement of one or two Southern radi? cal papers to make it just as good as tho truth: The scene is a town of interior Texas. The actors are two planters of the old regime. They sit under a verandah, smoking and spitting. Jones?"Come, Smith, lei's ride home." Smith?"I'm not ready yet. I have not shot a nigger tc-day. I won't go home without shooting a nigger." r _? .... , ^ Jones?"\veli, it s late now; too late to shoot niters to-dav." Smith?"jNo.it is not; I'm not going ?home without shooting a nigger." Jones?"Shoot that bov walking over there." Smith-?-Iooking at him critically?"No, I won't shoot him;fire's rather a good fellow : I'll.shoot another." Jones?"Wellcome, mount; wo'll see one on the road." They mount and ride away. Present? ly t hey ride by a hut, in tho doorway of which sits a negro man. Jones reins up. "There. I guess I'll shoot him; he's a good mark there." Pu Is out his pistol, fires, kills the negro. Jones?"Now we'll go home; I made up my mind to shoot a nigger before I Went homo this night." Jones and Smith were arrested; being "gentlemen" they demanded to be hand? ed over to the civil authorities. They were at once let out on easy bail. There? upon the military authorities re-arrested them; and we hear they are to be tried by military authority, and will probably be hanged?unless somebodv bails them again." Sectional Oxen.?A minister traveling along a Texas road met a stranger driving his wagon, which was pulled by four oxen. As the minister approached he heard the driver say: "Get up, Presbyteriau ! Gee, Cambell ite! Haw, Baptist! What are vou doing, Methodist ?" The minister, struck with the singular? ity of such names being given to the oxen, remarked : "Stranger, 3-on have strange names lor1 your oxen, and I wish to know why they have such names given to them." The driver replied: "I call that lead ox in front Presbyterian, because he is true blue, and never fails; he believes in pull? ing through iu eveiy difficult place, per? severing to tho end; and then he knows more than all tho rest. The one by his side I call Campbellitc; he does very well I when you let him go his own way, until ho sees water, and then nil tho* world could not keep him out of it, and there he stands as if his journey was ended. This off ox is a real Baptist, for he is all tho time after water, and will not eat with tho others, but is constantly looking on ono side and then on the other, and at everything that comes near him. The other which I call Methodist, makes a great' noiso and a great to do, and you would think he was pulling all creation, but ho don 't pull a pound." - ? "Well, wifo, you can't say I over contracted bad habits." "No, sir; you generally expanded them." ? Give strict attention to your own af fairf - snd consider vour wife one of them.