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J??etsJ?E Intelligente THE. -BACHELOR'S BABY. A. T?fcTJE STORY. ?jo:? Mr.~Ellery Corban was a' very nervoi maa. - He came honestly by thc failin for his mother was nervous before him: Hr. Corban was a bachelor of forty-fi v remarkably well preserved, and ratherfii looking.. ?le had a portly figure and flor complexion, and a head of dark brov hair, which any mau might have been e cused for feeling proud of. Mr. Cor bi was very well off He had never kept . house ; perhaps he kne w that elderly bac elors and widowers were generally fat? to marry their housekeepers and Mr. Cc ban regarded marriage aud the gallows : about on a par. Women and babies 1 considered a very unnecessary part of cr ation. The mystery of their having bec allowed an existence he never could solv He could not "help regarding their creatic as a grave mistake somewhere. He boarde at Mrs. Gregg's, and had made his hon therefor, fifteen years. Mrs. Gregg was? much like a man as she could be and sti be a woman. One day last .summer it became evidei to Mr. 'Corban that he must take a journc West. The interests of his business d manded it ; .so he put up a few things im a valise, said good-morning to Mrs. Greg and set out to the depot. Ile was in minutes late, for his necktie had given hi a great deal of trouble, and had been un ble to find a pair of stockings which wei not destitute of toes. But he had comfor ed himself with the reflection that, as 1 bad boots on, no one would be the wiser: regard, to the condition of his toes, and i last he got oft He heard the whistle, ac starred or. the run. If. there is anythiu calculated to put one out of temper it having to run io catari the cars; and 01 hero may he excused if, when drippin with perspiration and completely out < breath, he rushed into the first car whic offered ; he was irritated with all the worl< himself included. . The car was well filled. In fact, thei ?was only one vacant seat, and that wi beside a woman. Corban tried to seek tl next car, but was met by the conductor i ' : the door. "No room in there, Bir. All full. Ann versary meeting at Parkersburg; there a seat, sir !" indicating the one beside th -woman. Corban was troubled with a touch of th rheumatism in his left knee, and could nc stand comfortably ? nothing else coul have-forced him to get so near one of th sex. He stepped up to her and made th stereotyped inquiry : "This seat engaged?" "No, sir," replied a very sweet voice and Corban saw that the speaker had ea presjsive blue eyes and golden hair. He took the seat, and the lady drew th bundle she had been partially resting o the cushion into her lap. "Bettie]* let me put your bundle np o: the rack?1- suggested Mr. Corban. The lady opened her eyes in indignan amazement, whipped off a layer of flanne from the package, and displayed to th horrified eyes of our bachelor*friend th red, puffy face of a moun-eyed baby. ? "Aluzzer's little 'tweety sugar darling !' she exclaimed by the dialect which is per fectly intelligible to all babydoin. "?luz zer won't let the naughty man put th* little lammie, lump baby up on the rack!' . The baby struck out menacingly with it fat fists in the direction of Mr. Corban, am gave utterance to a yell of triumph. Mr Corban broke into a cold perspiration. H< had never been so near a baby in all h ii life?and a baby and a woman, too ! I was almost too much for him. He had a strong mind to stand the re mainder of the way, or until somebody vacated a seat, but his knee gave an extrc twinge and decided him to try and endure tile terrible state of thing?. He took ? paper from his pocket and essayed to read but the baby had lunched out in one o "hose baby refrains which is like music ir th? ears of all mothers, and the cooing sc confused our bachelor hero that he took nc sense of his paper ; so he pocketed it witl the savage determination to petition thc next Congress for women with babies tc be kept in cars by themselves. At the first stopping place he was on thc lookout for a seat, and to his joy discoverec the gentleman in the next seat making preparations to leave ; but before he wa? fairly out of his seat, an old lady, in a green shawl and poke bonnet, had edged into it, and cut off Mr. Corban's hopes. Of course she turned round and began at once to talk to the baby : "Dear little chicken! How old is it, marm ?" "Almost eight months,'" said the proud mother.* "Well, "I declare ! What a large child of its age! Why, there was my Enoch, when he vas a year, he warn't a mite no grain h;.?;?:.-r than that child. But then, Enochj he had the whooping cough, and ?!ie-??iea,si(:?, and the nettle-rash, and the eoliaretta infanticide, afore he was eleven months. And I expect t hem diseases had some effect on his constitution." "? shcuid think 60," replied the baby's mother. "You look tired, dear," went on the old lady ; "the baby must be dreadful heavy. '?hy don't youJethispa take him ?" with an expressively reproachful glance at the savage countenance of Mr. Corban. "I'm not his pa!" grumbled Mr. Corban, pulling his hat a little further down over his eyes. "Ob, you ain't ! Well, now that's cu? ms," said the old lady. "I should have thought that you was, sartain ! The baby is the image of ye?jest the same kind of j a nose, and his eyes has got the same ex? pression.** Expression indeed ! Mr. Corban was boiling over. He had always particularly prided himself on his expression, and here was this orge comparing him to that dum? pling-faced, huckle herry-eyed baby. ''Wall," said the old lady, slowly, as if she had reached the conclusion afte'r some thought, "I s'pose as its likely this is a Eost mortem child, which means one as is ora after the death of its father, and you married its mother rather soon after the husband departed this vale of tears. Wall that's got to be dreadful common now.? But my Elijah has been dead nigh on to nineteen months and I hain't begun to uk of a second partner. Though Squire Hudsen?he has been rather attentive to me lately, and the Squire is left so hopeless and uufortimt with them six children of his, that 1 don't know. I hope the Lord, will show me my duty and give me strength to take the Squire, for better or for worse, if its right and best. I don't never want to shirk my dutyr marm. When did your husband die, marm ?" "Prirkersburg!" ?creamed the conductor. "Stop five minutes for refreshments and change} cars for Walliugford, Amsterdam, and Myrtle Ridge!" The woman with the baby rose quickly. A thrill of joy went through Mr. Corban. He thought she was at her journey's end. He, too, rose with alacrity." "Can I assist you any way, madam ?" he asked gallantly. "Thank you, I will just trouble you to hold baby while I go and get a cup of coffee. I breakfasted early and need some? thing warm. Be careful and hold his head high; he is subject to the croup." And before Corban could utter one word by the way of refusal she had put the baby in his arms and was rushing ofF with the orowd. Our unfortunate hero felt himself grow? ing hot and cold alternately. He had served two years with credit in the war and been in a score of battles, but through it all he had never experienced such a sinking at the stomach as came over him now. Most of the passengers left the cars, and Corban would have done likewise, but he feared he might lose sight of the baby's mother, and the train would start without him. So in an agony of terror lest some? thing dreadful should happen, he stood there in the isle holding the baby at arms' length and fixing his frantic gaze on the door through which his deliverer would come. "All aboard!" cried the stentorian voice of a new conductor and the people rushed in. But the passengers were, most of them, new ones, for there was a junction at Par kersburg, and worse than all the baby's mother was][not among them. The bell rang; the cars were moving; the door was shut with a bang; and the train was off. Corban waxed desperate. , "Halloa, there r he called to the con? ductor. "Slop! This train can't go on ; there's a woman left behind ! She went to get a cup of coffee! Stop, I tell you, this instant, sir!" "What's up ??' asked the conductor. "She's left the baby?" "Your wife? Oh, never mind. Such things occur frequently. She'll come next train." "I tell you stop ! I shall go crazy !? And-oh, what shall I do with the baby! Say, I'll give you five dollars, ten dollars, twenty?yes, fifty dollars, if you'll back and let me off at Parkersburg!" "I should have no objection to the mo? ney, sir, but I couldn't oblige you if you were one of the Rothchilds." And the conductor passed on his way. "Bless your soul!" said the old lady in the next seat, giving Corban a nudge with her parasol, "you'll suffocate the baby ! Don't you see you're holding him with his feet where his head ought to be ? He's wrong side up ?" Corban hastily rescued the youngster, which uttered a shrill cry at his treatment. "You ort to be ashamed of yoorself!" went on the old lady, indignantly, "to loss that blessed child round in such an onlm man way ! A man never ort to have no children that don't have no natural feeling toward 'em. Sir, you was a baby once yourself!" Just then a thin, yellow-faced woman slipped into the seat of Air. Corban. She was middle-aged, but her dress had all the gushingness of sixteen. "Lovely child 1" she exclaimed, insinua? tingly. The baby began to squizzle up its face and flourish its heels and fists. "Dear me, how forward it is ! How old is it, sir?" inquired the spinster, for such she was. "I don't know !" growled Corban. "Been a widower long, sir ?" inquired the lady. "I ? No; I never had a wife." "Bless me !" cried the lady; "then she's ran away and left you? Dear, dear, how could she leave such a nice man and such a dear, darling little baby." "What's that," inquired a middle-aged gentleman near by, who was evidently a little deaf. "Your wife's gone and left you, sir? Ju6t my case, sir?exactly. My poor Jane departed this life last May. I got her the handsomest gravestone that money could buy. There's an angel on it, with all her wings spead, and this Latin inscription: 'Requires her eat in peace.'? The gravestone maker said that would be a good epigram, and I consented, as she was fond of a cat." By this time the baby began to cry lust? ily, and the whole car sympathized, espe? cially the female passengers. "It's got the cholera morbus," said the old lady previously mentioned. "It'll die for sartan if something hain't done." "Die ? You don't think so ?" cried C or ban. "Dear me!" said the thin-faced lady, "what an inhuman woman its mother was." "Take it, my good lady, do," cried Cor? ban, imploringly. "I'll give you a hundred dollars to take it." "What is all this row about ?" said a sharpnosed little man with a newspaper in his hand. "A child, is it? Fall back, gen? tlemen, and let me look at it. If it should prove to be the one!" "How? What do you mean?" inquired a dozen voices at once. "It is!?it is ! It can't be no other!" exclaimed the sharpnosed man, excitedly. "How strange that I should chance upon it ! Listen to this, gentlemen," and he read from a paper in his hand the notice : "Stolen !?Supposed to have been stolen from its carraige in Central Park, on the morning of the eighteenth instant, a male child about nine months old. Said child has blue eyes and rather dark hair, and is a remarkably forward and interesting child. Any person who will return him to his afflicted parent at No. - Forty-ninth street, or give information that will lead to his recovery, shall receive a reward of three hundred dollars, Lewis Uoscoe." "Wall,I never !" exclaimed the old lady. "I must be the very baby. This child has got blue eyes and dark hair, and 'pears re? markably fbrw'd." "Yes, ma'am; unquestionably the very same," remarked the sharpnosed man con- j fidently; "consider it my duty to take pos-1 session." "Ob, take it, do !" cried Corban implor? ingly; "I'll give a hundred dollars to get it off my hands." "No doubt you would, my man ; but I ain't took it in that way. My name is Sinithers?Peter Smithers, sir, and I live in Albany; I am a magistrate, sir, and I arrest you for child stealing." "I tell you I didn't steal it. She went off after a cup of coffee." "Don't trouble yourself to repeat that story again. I understand the case fully," said Mr. Smithers, promptly. "Conductor, is there a place on the train where this rascal would be any safer than here ?" "We don't run prison vans," responded that worthy, sulkily. "Well, gentlemen," said Mr. Smithers,. blandly, "you are all men of honor and have wives, and children, or ought to have, and you all have feelings of sympathy, doubtless, for the parents of this unfortu? nate babe; and I depend npon yon, gen? tlemen, to assist me in guarding him until in the charge of the proper officials. At the next stopping place I will telegraph to Bridewell and have constables ready to take possession of him the moment we ar? rive." "You shall pay dearly for this," roared Corban, now fairly infuriated. "Yes sir, I'll take the law on you the moment we get anywhere where there is any law. Call me a rascal, indeed !" Just at that moment the sharp signal to "down breaks" sounded, and in a few mo? ments there was a slight shock, and the train came to a sudden stop. Everybody rushed to ascertain the diffi? culty, and it was found that the wheel of the engine had broken and the locomotive was partially off the track. No one was injured, but it would occupy some time to get things so that the next train could run; and in the meantime, Mr. Corban thought with rapture he could make his escape. He formed the plan of dropping the unfortunate baby and fleeing to the woods. In the bustle and confusion it could easily be accomplished. But he had reckoned without his host. Mr. Smith? ers was right at his elbow. He had no no? tion of allowing that tempting reward to slip through his finger, and a couple of other gentlemen kept guard with him.? And there stood poor Corban holding the whimpering baby, and expostulating, and blustering in a way that made' all the ladies decide that he was a monster, and they gave him and the baby a very wide berth. Suddenly the whistle of the next train from Parkersburg was heard. A bright hope sprang up in Corban's breast. It was possible the baby's mother might be on board. He rushed forward, but Mr. Smithers seized his arm and held him back. "Be quiet, sir," 6aid he. "Remember you are under arrest." The train had been warned of the deten? tion by the first express, and came to a halt at a little distance behind, and the moment it did so the door of one of the carriages was burst open aud out leaped the baby's mother. A cry of joy came from Corban, and with one bound he broke the grasp of Mr. Smithers upon his arm and rushed toward her. "Ob, my baby?my precious baby," screamed she, snatching the child from Corban. "My darling!?my little angel darling!" and she fell to kissing it in a way that set all the ladies round about to pulling out their handkerchiefs and ex? claiming : "Did you ever ?" "God bless you 1" cried Corban enthusi? astically. "I never was so glad to see any mortal "being before!" "Oh, you dear, delightful man!" cried she, shaking hands with him, "I am so much obliged to you for taking care of my little lamb. You see 1 got belated a moment?the coffee was so dreadful hot." Mr. Smithers' face had grown very Ion?. "Then it is not Mr. Lewis Roscoe'a chilcl? And it has not been stolen ?" he asked dubiously. "I should rather think not," replied the mother, indignantly. "It is my child, sir, ?all I have left of my dear husband, who gave up his life at Cold Harbor t wo months after the baby's birth." "I mostly heartily beg your pardon, sir," said Mr. Smithers, addressing Mr. Corban. "1?I?that is, I didn't think, you see-" "Mind your own business, cir," replied Mr. Corban, shortly, "and continue mind? ing it for the rest of your life?that is my advice, sir." Mr. Corban and Mrs. Brent?for that was the young widow's name?got very friendly and familiar by the time the train was ready to go on, and Mr. Corban took the next seat by her side with a real feeling of delight now. She was going on a visit to some friends in the very city where his business called him, and he obtained per? mission to call on her, and inquire about the baby. i Aud in due time?I cannot tell how it came about, for there is no accounting for things of this kind?Mr. Corban concluded that he was tired of boarding?Mrs. Greg? had become so neglectful of her boarders' j comfort; so he led Mrs. Brent to the altar and set up a heme of his own with a wife ; and baby. Go to him now and utter one word against women and babies and you would get shown to the door without ceremony. -o The Homestead Law. The following is the homestead law as passed by both Houses of the General As? sembly : a BILL to determine and perpetuate the homestead. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, Section 1. Whenever the real estate of j the head of any family residing in this State shall be levied upon by virtue of any mesne or final process issued from any court, if the same be the family homestead of such person, the sheriff or other officer executing said process bliul] cause a home? stead, such as said person may select, not to exceed the value of one thousand dollars, to be set off to said person, in the manner following, to wit: lie shall cause three appraisers to be appointed, one to be named by the creditor, one by the debtor, and one by himself, who shall be discreet and disinterested men, resident in the county, and shall be sworn by a JuBtico of Peace to impartially appraise and set off, by metes and bounds, a homestead of the estate of the debtor, such as he may select, not to exceed the value of one thousand dollars: and the said appraisers shall proceed ac? cordingly to set out the homestead ; and the set off and assignment so made by tho appraisers shall be returned by the officer, along with said process, for record in Court; and, if no complaint shall be made by either party, no further proceedings shall be had against the homestead, but the residue of the lands and tenements of the head of a family, if any more or other he shall have, shall be liable to attachment, levy and sale : Provided, That upon good cause shown the Court, out of which the process issued may order areappraisement and reassignment of the homestead, either by the same appraisers or others appointed by the Court: And, provided further, That should the creditors or debtor neg? lect or refuse, after due notice from the officers executing the process, to nominate an appraiser, then the said officer shall ap? point the 6ame. Sec. 2. "Whenever the personal property of the head of any family residing in this State is taken or attached by virtue of any mesne or final process issued from any court, and said person shall claim the said property or any part thereof as exempt from attachment on account of the same being the annual product of his or her homestead, or as subject to exemption under the constitution, and the creditor and debtor do not agree about the same, the officer executing said process shall cause the same to be ascertained, and all exempted property set out by appraisers appointed and sworn for the purpose, as provided in the preceding section for set? ting out the homestead, subject to like limitations and provisions, and the residue, if any, shall be sold, which proceeding shall be stated in the officer's return of such process. Sec. 3? The exemptions of sections one and two of this act shall not extend to an attachment, levy or sale on any mesne or final process issued to secure or enforce the payment of taxes, or obligations con? tracted for the purchase of said homestead, or obligations contracted for the erection of improvements thereon : Provided, The court or authority issuing said process shall certify thereon that the same is is? sued for some one or more, and no other, of said purposes : Provided further, The yearly product of said homestead shall be subject to attachment, levy and sale to secure or enforce the payment of obliga? tions contracted in the production of the same ; but the court issuing the process therefor shall certify thereon that the same is issued for said purpose and no other. Sec. 4. The estate or right of home? stead of the head of any family existing at his death shall continue for the benefit of his widow and minor children, and be held and enjoyed by them until the young gest child is twenty-one years of a^e, and until the marriage or death of the widow, and be limited to that period.? But all the right, title and interest of the deceased m the premises in which such es? tate or right exists, except the estate of homestead thus continued, shall be subject to the laws relating to devise, descent, dower and sale i'ur payment of debts against tbe estate ol' the deceased. Si:c. 5. When a widow or minor chil? dren arc entitled to an estate or right of homestead as provided in the preceding section, the same may be set off to the parties entitled thereto by the Judge ol' the Probate Court, who shall appoint three disinterested persons, resident in the county, who, having been duly sworn, shall proceed to appraise arid set out, by metes and bounds, such homestead, and make return thereof to him. if no com? plaint shall be made against said appraisal and setting out of the homestead, within twenty days thereafter, by any party in? terested therein, or any good cause appear to the contrary, the same shall be confirm? ed by the Judge, and ordered accord? ingly. Sec. 6. Appraisers appointed to set out tlie homestead, under this act, shall re? ceive as compensation two dollars per day each for such services, and the same sha?l be paid by the officer executing tho pro? cess out of the property of the debtor; or in case of the homestead set out to a widow or minor children, out of the estate of the deceased by thc executor or admin? istrator thereof. From the Charleston Daily N'eut. Radical Sensation. the GREAT NEWBERRY DOCUMENT?WTIAT this MARTIN says?WHERE IT CAME FROM AND now it WAS USED?TUE SCENE IN the house?the negro militia?a CAMPAIGN rAPER. Columbia, S. C., July 20. The great sensation of the hour is the receipt and presentation to the House ol .Repr?sentatives of the following docu? ment : Newberry, S. C., July 13, 1868. Xu P. Iv. Scott, Hybrid Governor of South Carolina : Sir : In tho midst of scenes pregnant with trouble; of an epoch in the history of South Carolina fearful to contemplate, you have repaired to Columbia, our an? cient and time-honored capitol, surroun? ded by a rump conclavo of hybrid nig? gers and renegade whites, and have assembled in a body to represent the people of South Carolina as a legislativo body. You also, the Governor elect, have boen inaugurated, delivered yourself of a mass of humbug, free-negro talk usn message, and really attempted to put in execution the horrible, despised and abortive free-nigger-loving laws enacted by an unlawful body of scalawags, repre? senting South Carolina, in a "Constitu? tional Convention." Indeed, it was a J "ConstitutionalConvention !'' Oh! shades of Calligula, of Nero, of Prance under Jacobin rule! The people (only the whites,) I will tell you, Governor Scott, ol our poor, povortj'-taxed State, would ; prefer absolute death to a government,1 instituted and ruled by renegades ami j negroes. We do not (never), with God's ; blessing, or by an}' power, intend to bo I in thc least overruled by an inferior race ; of nogroes and imported scalawags, or : despised Yankee emissaries. I want you to understand this subject as plainly as I have indited it. Never ! Never! \ You are very careful to recommend to j the hybrid assemblage a roquisilion upon thc United States War Department for j tho State's quota of arms, with the view ' of organizing and arming negro militia ! before the military protection is relieved, after civil government is resumed. Well, this is decidedly rich; fully as much of j tho genuine Yankee ot Pennsylvania as we could have expected. Negro militia 1 \ Yon say "our government must rest upon obedience to law," &c. But how, if you j have common sense, could you expect i "obedience to law," if there he such a thing in our Stato as negro militia? We cannot, and will not, tolerate a miserable negro militia. Enforce the order, if you will, sternly, severely ; hut we will not have peace, even euch a peace as we now have, no longer than these brutal, deluded savages?the negro melish?shall have been organized. No, never! Then you may expect?and \*ou doubtless hope to see it?a collision between our people and the negroes. Wo will then have no country, no peace, no family ties to pre? vent longer oppression by a relentless Jacobin enemy. God witnesseth that our people shall forever afterwards resolve to destroy the vile despotic rulers ot our country. You know, Scott, that you have no right to govern, or act as Gover? nor of, our dear State. And by the bless? ings of God Almighty, you and your party in the whole South shall be discom titted, despised, and, I trust, destroyed. The negroes could be made to do what is their plain duty, if there had not been outside Yankee and inside renegade in? terference with them, under Radical in? struction. Democracy will rule you yet, besides other help to our people. We will never have a negro government over us. Hero is m}' name. WILLIAM n. MARTIN. ADDIITIO.VAL WARNINGS. JR. K. Scott, Bogus Governor, not represent? ing the white people of this State?never : Sir: You may continue and fill the po? sition of Governor under the impression that military law h&? done its work too effectually lor our people ever to cast it aside, and undo all reconstruction as well as all military laws; but in this view you shall be wolully mistaken. And I can but hope that all who have taken a con? spicuous part in trying to humiliate the people of the South, under negro .Radical rulo, will (not lar in tho future) be made to feel the penalty of a sound constitu? tional law. severely administered by true white men of the Slate and country. Your career will be as short lived as you could well wish it, and much shorter. Just to think, for a moment, of our pres? ent condition?a condition rendered so intolerable, by inhuman fiends, with negro abeitors, as to defy any comparison with either ancient or modern cruelty. A savage, cruel, inhuman being?a negro? put over and above the only rightful peo? ple of tho Stale of South Carolina! Great God ! Well may we, tho Southern people, the best of all people, desire to yet live (though under severe persecu? tion) to witness the just reward in store tor Scott and all his coadjutors, and of his party and ilk. We will then rejoice, and feel that the day?yes. the year, too, of jubilee has indeed come. Receive these warnings in time. Your negro militia will not keep our people from killing thsia last enough. W. ii. MARTIN. July 13, 1868. The above was mailed i'r,om Ncwberry Court House July lb. sind addressed to -ilis Excellency R. K. Scolt, Esq." The Governor showed it to so me of his friends as a political curiosity. Said friends saw in it the elements of at first-class cam? paign document, and using DeLarge as stool pigeon, determined to invest it with all the blue light and pyroteehnio effect of a newly discovered mine of rebellion. Nobody believed in its authenticity; no one imagined that any real dangrr was concealed in the sulphurous eloquence ot the unfathered epistle; but the letter was a God-send nevertheless, and a secret Mes? sion was determined on lor i he purpose of considering the mysterious communica? tion, and of impressing on the public mind that the Legislature of South Caro? lina was in danger of being immediately bombarded by the Ku Klux Klan. Accordingly, at an appropriate hour, tho business of the day being disposed of, DeLargo made the motion, the lobbies were swept of spectators, tho reporters were ejected, and the frightful missive was rend to the horror stricken repre? sentatives. How much hair stood on end, during this process, has not yet been definitely ascertained; how much courage was evoked by tho abominable threats of the tin terrified New berry rebel, can be measured by no moral thermometer we wot of; but it is understood that during tho interval occupied in the discussion, there were several patriotic detonations well calculated to affright tho most cal? lous heart, and a display of temper re motoly suggestive of manslaughter in the first degreo. To all ibis verbal blood and thunder, one of the Democrats on the Moor of the House, speaking for his com? panions, responded with tho brief remark that his parly were not responsible for the crazy ebullitions of any individual ; that tho people of the State demanded the settlement of ::he issues of the hour in hut one way, namely, at the ballot box; and that neither on the floor nor off the floor would the sensible people of South Carolina counsel the employment of force to settle mere differences of po? litical opinion. This declaration appeared to exercise a Mrs. Winslow's soothing sy nippy in? fluence on the perturbed imaginations of those who were not in the secret of the movement, and tho secret session was soon dissolved. The lont( and short of the whole mat? ter is. that the shrewd managers of Radi? cal influence found in the document pre? cisely what they wanted for a double purpose. -First, something to show that i South Carolinais one of tho most fear? fully unreconstructed States in the Union or out of it, consequently that Republi-j cans arc all patriots; and secondly, that! a colored militia must be immediately or-1 gunized and armed for their protection. I The last has already been discovered I to ho tho most delicate point with which the Legislature havo to deal. White Re? publicans aro opposed to it?especially Ihoso who havo lived in the State, and know the inflammatory elements which exist; while on tho other hand there is a strong pressure from the constituency outside for permission to bear arms and ; be considered as a part of the army of j South Carolina. 01 course a goodly num ber of offices are to bo distributed in the organization, and party power and influv ence is to bo extended. This is part of the milk hi the cocoanut. A very natural result of the Newberry letter will be the introduction of a bill lor the speedy formation oi the militia, and the question will thus be fairly sprung before the Legislature. How much ar? gument the foolish document has furnish? ed in behalf of such a measure wiil read? ily bo perceived. The unfortunate pare of the matter is? that the letter is to-night being printed for circulation at the North, and no man will deny that it will be accepted by the already prejudiced masses of that section as an evidence of the iniquity and gene- . ral diabolism which prevails in this State. It makes no difference that the Newberry delegation when questioned declared that they knew no such individual as William. H. Martin in the district, or thai the let? ter itself bears upon its face the evidence of forgery. It will serve the purpose to which it is applied, and our people will be held responsible b}' many a true Dem? ocrat for the reckless . efferverscence of" the anonymous joker. Strange as it may appear, the temper ; of some of the most influential colored ; men on the floor of the-House?and I will not except several of the whites?is thoroughly conservative. They believe as much as Democrats in qualified suf? frage; and when the proper timo comes they will cut loose from the ultra party who would dragoon them with whip and spur into extreme measures, and to de? stroy, by crazy epistles, this growing sen? timent, now in its chysalisstage? to bully, threaten and antagonize those who,in an humble, quiet, but certain way,are work' ing out a plan of relief for the people of the State, i.s simply to increase our own difficulties, arid prevent the use ol agen? cies which eventually will result in good. All that is {roir.g on cannot prudently be made pulilic, but many a wire is being secretly laid and operated by men of in? telligence, whose aim and endeavor is to rid South Carolina of the present unre? stricted power of the carpct-bag and Ethiopian. To threaten violence is only to consolidate tho opposition, and render progress in the right direction up-hill work. PERSONNE. . -??o Washington, July 20. The Senate confirmed E. H. Smith, In? ternal Revenue Collector for the First South Carolina District. The artist Leut/.e died yesterday. In the Senate, the rights of naturalized citizens abroad was discussed all day, in? terrupted only by the reading of the veto and the passage of the Electoral College bill notwithstanding--45 to 8?the.South ern Senators, except Pool, who was absent, voting with the majority. In the House, the credentials of~Lash, from North Carolina, and Boweu, from South Carolina, were referred to the Elec? tion Committee. Jones presented a bill ex? tending the provisions of the laws pajsed July 4, 1664, limiting the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims over North Carolina; which was referred to the Judiciary Com? mittee. Lash end Bowen were eeatc-fl. Mullms, opposing Bowen, said : "Bowen was born in Ohio, and went to South Carolina tens or fifteen years ago; when the rebellion broke out, he voluntarily went into Con? federate service, and accepted the commis? sion of Captain. He was subsequently promote'! Major?probably for his gallau try in shooting down Union men. While a Major, Muffins was reliaby informed, Bowen killed his rebel Colonel; but of that he would not complain ; for this act. Bow? en was incarcerated and put in irons, but was released when the Federal troop ad? vanced. He then had one of two things to do?cither be hung, or join the Federal forces. He did the latter and Mr. M- was informed by General Sickles himself, that in the Federal army Bowen acted so badly, that he had to be incarcerated by the Ked eral authorities. When the war was over, ho became a radical, and adopted the faith of franchise for the black man. He had no disposition to oppose the pardon of men who exhibited proper penitence, but he would not reward treason by making these people rulers over us, as soon as they came back. He doubted much whether the House was purusing the proper policy in this matter. The Electoral College bill was passed?134 to 36. Seward has addressed a letter "To whom it may concern," stating that Congress, in June, 1S6S, passed a resolution, proposing the amendment known as the 14th article, which he quotes. Seward states that the Act of 1818 requires the Secretary ofState to publish amendments when adopted; but no Act authorizes the Secretary to deter? mine and decide doubtful questions as to authenticity of the organization of State Legislatures, or the power of any State Legislature to recall previous ratifications. Twenty-three States have ratified the amendment and also bodies avowing them? selves as the Legislatures of Arkansas, North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina and Alabama. It appears furth? er, that Ohio and New Jersey have with? drawn their assent; but the efficacy of this withdrawal is doubtful. The whole num? ber of States is thirty-seven. He then proclaims the amendment adopted?pro? vided the original resolutions of Ohio and New Jersey are voted, notwithstanding the withdrawal. Washington, July 21. The Senate remained in session till mid? night. The military bill was passed. "It Te duces the army to 30,000. Three in* an try and one cavalry regiment shall be colored. It musters out all except the West Point band. Gives 1,000 Springfield rifles to each District on condition that the Secre? tary of War shall be satisfied that the mili? tia are loyal. The last provision exicited a sharp debate?Drake saying, that ho would, if he had his way, arm every loyal man in the Southern States with aSpi*ing field rifle and cartridges ad libitum ; and, so far as he was concerned, he was perfectly willing for it to be written on this bill, that these arms were intended for the proteo tion of the loyal men at the polls. Gillem's regarding Mississippi, says both parties charge fraud, but he can rind none that are within military reach. As the Constitution was defeated, and raillitary rule will continue, Gillem reccommends modification of the law, whereby all reg? istered and qualified voters may fill vacan? cies wJiich exist or may occur in civil. State or national offices.