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V?T.TTTYTE VT -TOMBER 844] CHARLESTON, S. C., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1868. [EIGHTEEN CENTS A WEEK TEE NEWS FOB TEE ' CAMPAIGN GREAT INDUCEMENTS TO CLUBS. The importance of the great political con? test upon which we bate now fairly entered renders the dissemination among the people ftf sound political views and accurate and ear? ly information of the progress- and incidents oitho canvass, a matter of peculiar interest wild expediency. Every individual who has any stake in the welfare of these Southern States, should give an active, personal and un? flagging support to the candidates of the National Democracy-SEYMODE and BLAIB. A triumph ?f the "Radicals win result in the utter desolation and ruin of the South, and the placing of an ignorant and brutal race in all positions and places of honor and trust, to thtfexetasion of tbs white race. The govern? ment must . be wrested from the thieves and plunderers who now have control of it, and power'placed in the hands of a party pledged to give peace to a distracted country, and to make it a government for white men, and not for negroes. It is only necessary that the peo pie should be.thoroughly informed to accota-' - L1 iah this? and THE ? NEWS wfll be an admirable means of diffusing this information. In order . to placo the paper within- the reach of all, we hare'adopted a> scale of reduced rates of sub? scription for the four months covering the Presidential canvass, and offer besides peculiar inducements for the formation of clubs. We . aro. determined that Tra NEWS shall be the cheapest and beat newspaper in the South. Ita blows will fall thickly, steadily and rapidly; and if, the friends of law, order and the Con nUtuUi'itt do their duty by extending its circu? lation, its labors, can be made powerfully effec ti verier good. We appeal, then, to our readers to examine our remarkably low terms, and go to work with a wfll to get up large clubs for j THE CHARLESTON NEWS. '.. BAHS ron THE OAHTATON REWS. Dairy News (four mouths).$2 00 Tri-Weekly News (four months).,.1 00 CLCB SATES. J ?*\ Five copies Daily News, four months, to t*i-. - . .- . - one addrees......................... .$8 50 Five copies Tri-Weekly News, four months, to one address.. .> . .. * 25^ Ten copies Daily News, four months/to one address.15 00 Ten copies Tri-Weekly News, font months, . to one addreis.......^. 7 60 , Ono copy of THE NEWS free to every person >vho sends a club of ten subscribers at these xatss. Tho cash must in . all cases accompany the order. \ These prices should secure fer THE NEWS a vast circulation, which would result in a cor? responding benefit to the D?mocratie cause. May we'not_cpnfldent47 ask, .fee. Mud. offices of. onrfriends.m^tbisbehalf?-. Remittances can be made by money Order at -our risk, and all letters should be addressed to RIORDAN, DAWSON & co., _ ,. . Chtxleefcon, 8. C. BY TELEGRAPH. Oar, European DLipatcnea. . , IfXB ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.1 THE WAB^KSQUIH AMERICA-DEFEAT 07 THE ' BRAZILIANS. LONDON, August 21.-Bio Janeiro dispatches confirm the Brazilian .disasters before- Huma ita. This defeat gives a great impetus to the peace party. ? li * ?'' ' - - ': THE A^fqBTf AN YACHT SAPPHO IN ENGLAND. ' LONDON, August 19.-Soon after the arrival - of the American yacht Sappho at Cowoa, on Fri - da; last; P. P: Baldwin, the captain, issued a general ch??enge to the yachtmen of England for a race.- Tho challenge Tvas immediately ao ^oepted by the foUawing-.. named well-known J yaoto: Ohye, Cambria, Oun ara and Condor. A conference was held and the details of a friend? ly encounter agreed upon. The race which wfll be for sweepstakes of ?20 will occur on Fri? day next, the 2M. Ihe yachts start from Cowes, and proceed east through Spithead, out to sea, around the Isle of Wight, to. the west ' ward,.and through Salent to the place- of start? ing-a distance of perhaps 75 or 80 miles. The event has made a considerable stir in sporting circles, and a fine race is looked for. --, - "j SPANISH rntvany, LONDON1, August 19.-Dispatches from Mad? rid state that a crisis' has taken place in the ?Spanish' Government. The Minister of War has withdrawn from tho Cabinet, and the Captains General of Madrid and Barcelona have with? drawn. J . - " BULGABLAN BSVOLT. VIENNA, August 19.-Apprehensions are en? tertained that the recent attempts at rising against the Tnrkish authority io Bulgaria wfll be resewed.'Accounts received from that quar? ter, represent the country to be in an unsettled condition, and though the insurrectionary . bands have 'disappeared or been dispersed, the indications are that secret preparations of a formidable character are being made tor an? other and more extensive outbreak. The at? tention of the Austrian Government has been called to this threatening state of affairs by the qrwwnai demand for firearms from the other side of the Danube, and an order has been issued prohibiting the exportation bf arms or ammunition from Austrian territory into the Danubian Principalities. 1 Our Washington Dispatches. DZ MELITTA QUESTION-WHY THE ASHS ABE NOT GIVEN-A HAPPY OVERSIGHT. WASHINGTON, August 21.-A circular letter issued from the War Department to-day in? cludes the following extract from, the Army Appropriation bill passed at the last session of Congress: "Be il enacted, That aU militia forces now organized or in service in either of: the States of Virgina, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, be forthwith disbanded, and that the further organization or calling into service the said militia forces, or any part thereof, is here? by prohibited under any circumstances what? ever, until the same shall be authorized by. Congress." The publication of this extract is intended as an explanation of the refusal of Secretary Schofield to furnish arms for the militia of the Southern States on the application of their Governors, and also for the information of army officers now on duty in the South. There are over four thousand vacant offices ander the new Tax bul The castoras receipts from the 10th to the 15th August were over three million five hun? dred thousand dollars. There was a Cabinet meeting to-day, all the members being present but Welles and Ran? dall. Alluding to the militia in the Southern States the New York Times says editorially, that "the case'ie made a good deal plainer by the extract from the law which the Secretary of War in? troduces to explain his order. By one of those unfortunate blunders which have marred the progress of reconstruction ac almost every stage the South is literally without a militia. Not ouly have the local governments no arms for their use, but the supplying of arms by tho War Department f is forbid? den by a clause which, passed under different circumstances, is yet unrepeated. Congress, therefore, in its haste to adjourn, did more than neglect tbe distribution of arms, which a measure brought forward at a late day right? fully contemplated, but it left on the statute book a provision which restrains tho War De? partment from arming the militia, whatever the urgency. To this extent the reconstructed States axe powerless. Their authorities are paralyzed by an order which nothing less than the action of Congress can set aside." Gossip from thc Springs. ; GBEEKBBIEB (VA.) WHITE SULPHUR SPILESG3, August 21.-General Robert E. Lee arrived here last night, and was received with great enthusiasm. Governor Pickens, Governor Letcher, General Echote, General J. R. Ander? son and the Hon. Linton Stephens were among the late arrivals. Secretary Browning has en? gaged a -cottage, and will arrive Saturday. Generals Ewe Li and Longstreet will arrive to? morrow night. j A large number of railroad officials and direc? tors are here. Gen. G. T. Beauregard, the President of the New Orleans, Jaokson and^ Great Northern Railroad, Col. Beauford, Presi? dent of the Richmond and Danville, and Capt. Lo nia Zimmer, Agent of the Baltimore and Ohio, are here discussing railroad matters. Gen. Rosecrans ie now at Rockbridge Alum Springs, but bas secured a cottage here and will arrive to-night. It- is pre tty generally un? derstood that the meeting of Gens. Lee and Rosecrans relates to matters of great impor? tance to the country. Rosecrans was outspo? ken in the cara in regard to hie mission. A grand masquerade ball will be given on Thurs? day night in honor of distinguished visitors. The Good Work in Alabama. ! MoNTQOMEBT, August 21.-The Hon. W. B. Jones, the Presidential Elector for Grant in the Fourth Congressional District, has taken the stump for Seymour. Ho declines to serve as an elector for Grant. The Hon. Thoa. Masterton, representative from Laurens . County, has abandoned Grant and declared for Seymour. ; The Radical organ in this city has suspend? ed publication. It has not paid expenses. t ' The Tobacr > Interest. NEW TOBE, August 21.-At a meeting of the tobacco manufacturers a resolution was adopt? ed that no tobacco can be inspected except lot manufacturera of the same, and that the breaking of packages by dealers and peddlers for sale to retailers was clearly illegal. The meeting had official advices that the ten per cent, discount allowed' on other stamps was refused on tobacco stamps. i . " j_ The Georgia Legislature. j ATLANTA, August 21.-The bill in the House to exempt from taxation foreign capital in? vested in the manufacture of woollen and cot i ton goods, and Other fabrics, for the term of five years, was defeated. FROM THE STATE CAPITAL. j .< ? :o: . ?i . tires i IA? _. . ' ? ' TES' MONKEY QUESTION AGAIN-THE CHATEAU ! 1B AILBOAD- THE LOAN BILLS PASSED-THE NE j GEO EQUALITY BILL TN THE SENATE-BILLS AP PBOVEB. ' -: _ : [SPECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DALLY HEWS.'] I COLUMBIA, August 21. -In tho House to-day the greater part of. the time was occupied in ?ho discussion of the bill to pay mom bars their mileage and per diem; tho objectionable clause being that members should be paid in bills re? ceivable at seventy cents on the dollar. An amendment was finally adopted that the bills shall be taken at their face value. The bill enabling the Chatham Railroad to extend their line to Columbia was favorably re? ported on by the committee, and received its first reading. Also the bille fixing the amount of official bonds for certain county officers and establishing Justices' Courts. : A resolution was introduced by McIntyre that the Secretary of State, Treasurer, the Comptroller and Attorney Generals constitute the Board of Canvassers to meet after any general election to determine the votes and persons eleoted. Referred. The bil? authorizing the loan to redeem the bills receivable passed its. third reading; also, the bill authorizing a loan to pay the interest on the State ' debt. On both bills the Demo? crats voted in the negative. In the Se?ale, Whittemor? reported favora? bly on the-resoiu tion appointing a joint com? mittee lo-investigate the affairs of the Bank of the State. The bill incorporating the Home Insurance Company bf Charleston was recommitted, with instructions to amend, so as to require one half instead of one-quarter of the capital stock paid in before the company commences busi? ness, ij ' The bill to prevent discrimination by per? sons licensed to carry on business, on account of race or color, came np for its second read? ing. Sundry motions were made, and pending a motion to refer to the Judiciary Committee, the Senate adjourned. . The Governor has approved of the Appropri? ation bill to supply the deficiencies of 1867; also a bill providing for the recording of the certificates of the sales of the Tax Commission era in Beaufort. FURTHER BY MAIL. [FBOM. ODE OWN OOBEESPOKDENT.l ^ COLUMBIA, August 20,1868-Republicanism in South Carolina, as illustrated by present | actions, means, first, devotion to the interests 1 of individuals; second, protection to tho party; ' and third, and only incidentally, consideration ? for the welfare of the State. Measure this general proposition by events, and you will recognize its truth. There is scarcely a man in office who is not a stranger and an adventurer. How did he get there ? By deceiving the negro: alienating him 'first from his own people, and then, under the plea of friendship and of duty, binding him hand and foot in a political organization in which the white Republican has seized the kernel ot the fruit and left to his colored confrere only the dry and unprofitable husks. Take Bowen, or Cbrley, or Willard, or H?ge, or any other office-holder, and to what do they owe their brief honors but to the "rings" forued to de ude and make use of the black men who hold the votes. Money, whiskey and promises con? stitute the capital which nine-tenths of the so called "leaders" have staked on success, and with this small investment they have won. A single colored man-Gardoza-holds the only responsible office in the State government, and that, bestowed on him with fear and trembling, would h av 2 been snatched from his grasp by a white man, if it had been worth a sous-marquee. Let an intelligent colored man aspire to Congress, and he will raise a bowl among the carpet-bags that Eastern dervishes cannot surpass. Let him, on the other hand, come to the Legislature and sit week in and week ont, voting like an automaton on th? mea? sures prepared for him, and that is all right. He is precisely where the schemers want him; precisely where influences can be brought to bear upon him that will control not only his vote on the floor, but the suffrages of his great constituency. He is looked upon as a creature of profit-an object of barter and sale-and the white man who can give the greatest proof of his undying regard'for these legislators, can be elected to any office in their giff. Gal? vanized Confederates-"the good old rebels" of the war-are especially popular, and next to these are the ex-officers of the Freedmen's Bu? reau. The confiding colored man believes that both of these classes are his best friends, and with an unselfish devotion to what he con? ceives to be "principle," votes for thtm with an energy that is irrepressible. The more intelligent of the race have dis? covered the mistakes of the past, but too late to. remedy the evil. The men they have chosen to put in office cannot be ousted, and the color? ed people must content themselves with being represented by those to whose personal charac? ters is attached a record that is damnable both to the individual and the party. To consolidate the work thus commenced, all sorts of plans are being devised. Various offices are being created, with handsome sala? ries connected therewith. These are promis* edin advance to somebody who will secure a certain number of votes for somebody else who expects to be a member of Congress, or a judge, cr a solicitor, or a commissioner. The bait takes; the bill providing the office is rushed through with railroad speed; no? body stops to criticise or amend it, and if he did-especially should he prove to be an unfor? tunate Democratic member of the House or Senate-his proposition, however wise, would be voted down with the most immutable unanimity. It is by this mode that the party organization is preserved intact. The public weal is subordinate to party zeaL Show to the men who pull the wires that there is par? ty strength or personal profit in any enter? prise, and it will go through both bodies of the General Assembly like a dose of salts., If on the contrary, there is nothing to be gained, a motion is made to postpone the matter to a more convenient season, which is a polite way of killing the measure. Practically, therefore, the State has not received one iota of benefit, from the present General Assembly. The tax bill is ' still incomplete ; money has to be raised on securities which the Governor cannot readily obtain ; the assets of the State Bank are not yet "gobbled ;" the bills receiva? ble are not likely to command a high price ! the proposition to aid the Charleston and Savannah Railroad hangs fire ; the Greenville and Columbia Railroad, which asks a renewal of endorsement upon its bonds, is kept in the background, and even the Blue Ridge Railroad' the pet measure of the party, to the comple? tion of which a considerable portion of tho.Re? publicans of South Carolina are informally pledged, has scarcely boen thought of beyond the portals of the Executive office. While tffo General Assembly are thus legisla? ting on matters of inconsiderable benefit, look? ing after the interests of individuals, and creat? ing offices, great enterprises which are calcu? lated to promote the prosperity of the State are held in abeyance, and D ever may be reached by the present body. The proceedings of both Houses to-day have been covered by the synoptical telegram pub? lished in THE NEWS of yesterday. Much of the time of the Sonate was occupied in discus? sing the "bill to cioso tho operations of the Bank of the State." Corbin was tho chief op? ponent to be encountered, but the bill was amended so as to extend tho privilege to all billholders to fund their money and receive bonds therefor. In the House, on the con? trary, some of the members were anxious to reconsider the vote of the previous day where? by the bill was ordered to its third reading. The vote waa accordingly reconsidered, and the bill was recommitted to the committee. I believe it will be brought up again and passed. Stoeber, of Marion, made an effort to have all bills printed and laid on the tables of members at least twelvo hours previous to action upon them, so that they could be scrutinized; but the House voted it down, apparently satisfied that a few seconds perusal of any bill would enable them to vote with the majority, which, after all, appears to be rogarded as the essence of legislation. The bill to declare the right of way, &o., was passed to its third reading, and when duly enrolled and signed will becomo a law. The bill regulating the elections in Charles? ton, and amending the charter, passed to its third reading, and was ordered to bo enrolled for ratification. I enolose a copy of tho bill as amended. . The HOUBO would have considered the sub? ject of per diem and mileage to-day if it had not been for tho accidental mixture of two bills, neither of which came from the proper committee. Ii is proposed, however, to tako the bills receivable at the market rate. This will make a very pretty sp?culation should the Governor succeed in redeeming them, as he undoubtedly will do, because, from all the indi? cations, the B. R.'s will go down nearly to zero, and give every one a chance to make a hand? some percentage by holding on. Tho State will, of course, lose tho difference. PERSONNE. Items of Stete News. -A negro was caught on the morning of the 13th instant stealing corn out of the field of Dr. Thomas Powe's place, one milo above Che raw, by a colored man who was working in the farm at the time, and who shot him. Tne thief ran a short dislance and then dropped dead. -The Darlington Agricultural Society, on bhe 11th inst., was largely attended by farmers from various parts of the district. Tho anni? versary address by Major J. L. Coker was lis? tened to with deep interest, and was an able production. Immigration, mixed husbandry, root crops, grape culture, orchards and fruit were the subjects discussed. -The Darlington Southerner says, for moro than a week past the weather bas boen rather mild "for the hottest month in tho year." Du? ring the middle of the day it is warm onoagu, but at night it is so cool that oxtra covering ia very acceptable. The cotton is eaid to be seri? ously injured by rust in some parts ot the dis? trict, and also suffering for rain; this with tho cool nights will materially injure cotton. -The Bennettsvillo Journal says : "Daring the past two weeks the seasons have been ad? mirably adapted to the CTOwth of corn and cotton. We have conversed with several friendB from the country, and it is the opinion of all that the crops are better now than they hive been at this season for many years. The far? mers are all in good spirits, and are sanguine of a bountiful harvest." THE ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIG.V A POWERFUL APPEAL. SPEECH OF THE HON. DANIEL W. VOOBHEES, OF INDIANA. AN ELOQUENT ARRAIGNMENT OF THE REPUBLI OAH PABTT-THE NATIONAL DEBT-EXTBAVA OANX EXPENDITURES AND.. UNEQUAL TAXATION -THE INIQUITIES OF RADICAL RECONSTRUC? TION-8E?M0UB AND BLAIR THE REMEDY. The Western papers bring OB foll reports of the speech delivered some days ago, at Texre Haute, Indiana, by the Hom?ahiei: W. Voor-J bees, one of the boldest and ablast Democrats j of the Northwest. We give some extracts : - THE PRINCIPLES' INVOLVED CT THE CONTEST. I need not, my fellow-citizens, seek by strong* expressions to enhance and magnil? tho importance o? the questions tobesetttecT by yon at the approaching election. They are the gravest, the mightiest, .and the most com? manding that were ever submitteed for decis? ion to the ballot of freemen. The great and original principles of free government are all at slake. The sacred blood of this revolution' cries to you from the ground to save the great charter of hberty for which it was shed. The whole framework of the government sways to and fro with an uncertain and .uneasy, motion. Its various departments no longer move ia harmony, but crash and jar in angry and dan ?rerous collision. The laborer no longer en oys the fruits of his toil, but is daily robbed by the unrestrained hp.nd of plunder, and unequal and unjust taxation. Since Adam went forth from the groves of Eden-the founder of the laboring man's party throughout the universe-the chief and paramount duty of. every government baa been to protect, its citizens in the enjoyment of their own' hard earnings. That government which fails to do this is on the swift, sure road to ruin and decay. Let us take a. survey of the facts on this point for which the Radical party ia responsible to the people. The. best test of. I the capacity of a party to bring prosperity to ar [ country is its use ot the public money. The Radical party has had entire supremacy in the legislation of the country for many years past, and must stand or fall by the record it has made. v THE VAST PROPOBTTONS OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. The amount of our national debt is known to be about two thousand six hundred millions of dollars. This is a sum BO vast that the public mind scarcely grasps it at amere statement, and yet it is highly necessary that every citi? zen should fully comprehend and measure its gigantic proportions. This debt exists as a perpetual mortgage on alryour property/and on all your labor, and on the property and labor of your posterity. Accord;ng to the poli? cy of Congress, it is tobe handed down fro R father to son for the next hundred years, dark? ening every doorway with its inexorable de? mands. Has it fully occurred to you what pro? portion this debt bears to your possessions out. of which it is to be paid ? A careful estimate of all the property of the United States sub? ject to taxation! would show a value at this this time of about fifteen thousand millions. Thus yon see more than one-sixth of every? thing owned by the Americas people is covered ' and absorbed by their national debt. This is a plain fact that a boy at school can demon? strate. Where, in the history of civilized nations, was there ever before such a deot in proportion to the means of payment? I challenge the annals of mankind. Other Dations have tithed their people-taken a tenth of their productions, but such instances have heretofore been cited only os bold illus? trations of audacious despotism. You are nearly double tithed, and the Radical Congress gives no sign nor promise of relief. At the close of the great Napoleonic wars of Earope, in 1815, England found her debt to amount to about three thousand five hundred miUiODS of | dollars, but to meet this liability her taxable property reached the" enormous sum of fifty thousand millions of dollars, making her debt bear the proportion of one-fourteenth to her ability to pay. Your burden, therefore, is more, than doable that -which lay upon the shoulders of the Englishman. let British statesmen found it necessary, in order to re? lieve their people, to reduce the rate of in? terest on their bonds to two and a half and three per cent., thus making a reduction of one-half of the public burdens. Shall tho American laborer be less an object of care and kindness on the part of his government than the subject of the British monarchy ? Shall, a crowned head be more tender and considerate to the demands of labor than an American Congress? Shall the old tyranny of King George, against which our fathers drew the sword, - become moro tolerable to the tax-payer than our own boasted asylum of the oppressed? But while looking at this question of our national debt, let us not forget that your liabilities do not stop there. It is, perhaps, impossible to as? certain the exact amount of the State, city and county debts which aro owed by the people of tho United States; but their amount will, at least double the national debt, which is known and ascertained. I trust the people will look squarely at these important facts, not as parti? sans, not as Democrats, not as Republicans, but as honest men who hold in their own hands the remedy for all evils and injustice in the legislation of the country. I speak to yon not for party or party triumph, but for the pros peri ty of the people. But it will bo said that this vast debt was mado by the war, and that the war was necessary to preserve the Union. Even if this were all true, and that no part of your debt was the work of those thieves and plunderers whom John V. Hale described in tho Senate in 18G2 as endangering the govern? ment and liberties of the people more than tho armed enemy in tho field, yet it would in no way affect or defeat the purpose I have in mak? ing this statement. I wish the people in the first place to seo clearly and plainly where they stand, how n-nch they owo, and what they have to pay w.. A. They will then be better able and prepared to appreciate tho crimes that have boen committed against them during tho last three years by the Congress of the United States. When the war closed, and a mountain of debt, as I have shown, lay upon the bended shoulders of honest toil, what policy on the part of your law-makers was so strenuously called for as the policy of economy-close, rigid, searching economy ? With one-sixth of your lands and their harvests, one-sixth of your flocks and herds, and every sixth day of | your labor under mortgage fora public debt, one-half of which was the result of robberies on the treasury by contractors and other birds of prey, it was not wonderful that from every farm and workshop, from every hearthstone where industry presides as a household god. there went forth an appeal for retrenchment and reform such as never before rose from the hearts and minds of the American people. I ask you what answer has been made to this appeal? Has Congress cat off useless expen? ditures and lowered your taxes ? Has the gov? ernment returned to the simplicity and cconcn my of your fathers ? Remember that all the responsibility is with Congress, for by a two-I thirds vote all power is in their hands. Every dollar you pay has to bo sanctioned by Con? gress in an appropriation bill before the tax gatherer comes for it. Congress fixes the an? nual amount and sends the collectors. How, then, has the Radical Congress administered your interests and disposed of your money? EXTRAVAGANT EXPENDITURES. A short time since an investigation and pub? lication were made by a Radical gentleman of the name of Wells, in Washington City, with a view of answering tho charge of extravagance now made from every mouth against Congress. According to his own estimate, since the sur? render of Lee up to June 30,1868-a littlemore than three years of profound peace-you have paid for tho army $317,117,043, and for a navy "as idle as a paiutod ship upon a painted ocean," tho sum of $133,119,276, making for warlike purposes und preparations, iu a period or' perfect peace, tho appalling sum of $1,050, 237,319. This, for a period of throoyears, shows an average annual tax upon the country of over $300,000,000 for the army and navy alone! Is this to be borne? Who will vote to continue such a frightful curse? Three hundred millions a year for the army and navy! Before the war the expenses of this government, including everything, never reached over eighty-five millions per annum, and when they arose to near that amount during the Mormon war of Buchanan's administration, the people were aroused to fury by Radical leaders who now calmly behold the army and navy alone costing nearly four times that amount. No one noed hesitate to denounce this atrocious crime apainst the labor and the liberties of the" try. FALSE PROFESSIONS OFEOOKOMY Aim TTUn One of the resolutions of the Chicago ve nt ion is as follows: "The Government of the United SI shonld be administered with the etrii economy, and the corruptions which : been so shamefully nursed and foe tere Andrew Johnson call loudly for Radica form." With this false pretence of virtue and ec my in their, months, every expenditure been steadily increasing, and the scheme o construction upheld, by. the army is ons $40,000,000 more than it did a. year ago... 1 is Andrew Johnson responsible for this ? cannot spend a dollar that is not appropri; by Congress, and he . bas steadily opposei those measures which are enforced upon country by Congress .and which are crust you to the earth with taxation. We have t the Radical definition of the "strictest eec my,'' as practiced in the legislation'of country.- It means an.annualexpenditnr nearly $500,000,000 of the people's rhone' time of peace, which never' before cost' over $85.000,000. If ..this is , the "stric econemy" ofthat party it is time the econc ' of some other party should be tried. HAVE TEE PUBLIC BURDENS BEEN EQUALLY . JUSTLY IMPOSED UPON ALL?' , .rp. Now, if we hive up to this point obtaii som.' clear idea of the amount of our indebt ness and the objects in which the public rt uues are lavished, and of the. wholesale exti aganoe of the legislation and of the legielat of the present period, let us next asoert whether the duty of bearing these great b dens has been equally and justly imposed u] all. Has the party in power created any pr leged classes in this country by law?, Is .th any one man in tbe United States who hat pay out of his substance more than any otl on? man, in proportion tohia means, tb m the demands of the G o verum ent? If eb, t! euch enactments shonld be tom down,-and I party that fr ame d them be condemned, at I ballot-box. ' ""'?.J PRIVILEGED CLASSES CREATED BI RADICAL J ' GrSLATION. ' "'' ' I have already shown that the amount of t national debt is one-sixth of the entirejx sessions of the whol? people. But it will said in answer that lhere is no danger of 1 one-sixth of your possessions being disturb or taken, as we are simply paying interest the debt and waiting for a better day top the principal. Paying heavy .interest ?ai serous experiment to individuals or natioi You are paying to the bondholder, on our en< mons debt, an inter?st of six per cent, in go This is nearly., ten per cent, in greenbacl Hence you are paying the high rate of bo two nine and ten per cent.-interest on auch mon aa you have, for gold is not for the people u der Radical rule. Then if yon own a tai worth $10,000, and it would taue one-sixth of to pay your part of the national debt, will not take even more than one-sixth of its pi coeds, its income, its interest we will say, pay your proportion of this exorbitant int* est on the national debt ? You are paying gold over $140,000,000 interest without makti any reduction of the principal. Directly indirectly every dollar bas to be prodoc by the workingman, and it goes, wet -i his sweat, into the coffers of privilege wealth. But it will be said that this is i sacred debt, and not to pay the inters I would be repudiation. I am against repudi tion in all forms, but in the language of tl J)emocratac platform, laid down in plain wore [&t New York on the 4th of July, I am for "Or currency for the government and the peopl the laborer and the officeholder, the pensioni and the soldier, tbe producer and tho bom holder." I would pay all creditors alike. Tl pensioner is forced by a Radical Congress i receive tbe monthly, wages of bis pain, bloo and mutilated Umba in depreciated pap money. I would pay no bondholder upon earl in any better cur; ency than I would pay yondi soldier, leaning on his crutches. There is plank in the Radical Chicago platform whit warmly compliments the soldiers and sailors ; tbe late war, and proceeds to say that "tl bounties and pensions provided bylaw f< these brave defenders of the nation are obi g?tions never tobe forgotten. The wido\i and orphans of the gallant dead are the pe? pie's wards, a sacred legacy, brqueathed to tt nation's protecting care." - These are rh Bounding words, but bow cheap and deceitful Those who spoke them compel those brave di fenders of the nation.to receive their bountic and pensions in an inferior kind of mons; while the shoddy- contractor, who amass? millions during the war and never saw tt smoke of battle, is paid ingold. lithe om armed or one-legged pensioner is entitled, L law, to fifteen dollars a month, they pay hil in currency, worth about ten dollars, and repi diate the balance. Bat the bondholder gel fifteen dollars whenever the bonds. say fiftee dollars. .. , EQUAL TAXATION-THE CHICAGO AND NEW YOB PLATFORMS COMPARED. But there is another question in this immt diate connection on which I must also be plait ly understood. Property of all kinds must pa an equal taxation. Iou are taxed on every thin you touch, either directly or indirectly. Ye the man whose wealth is m bonds on which hi collects from you all, from the crippled soldie and the widowed mother, six per cent, in gold is especially by a law of Congress exempt?e from taxation. You are paying higher taxei than the people of Oreat Britain or the sub jects of the French Emperor, and yet this part; now in power allows a favored class, holding one-sixth of the whole wealth of the country to escape the visit of toe tax gatherer. Then is no answer for this party here. Ii they an in favor of taxing bonds,' as some claim why hare they not done so? Congress hai all the power over the subject, and ye they are to-day not taxed, an i your pro pert 3 is. There was no taxation in tbe Funding bill which recently passed. It was simply a bill providing that a man who held t bond paying six per cent, in gold might ex? change it, if he wished, for one paying onl 5 four per cent. This was called at Washington reducing the rate of interest on the paulie debt, while it was lett entirely to the present holder of the bonds to determine whether they should be exchanged for lour per cent, bonds or not. This delusion and snare, this cheat and fraud upon the people, was laid before the President for his approval a few minutes before the adjournment, and it was very properly not signed and did not become a law. Nothing, therefore, has been done for you on this great and vital question, nor will there ever be until ?ou change the political character of Oongreas. 'he Chicago platform has this deceptive plank: "It is due to the labor of the nation that taxa? tion should be equalized and reduced as rapidly as the national faith will permit." But the bondholder and the bondholders'' Confer osa say that "the national faith'' will not permit equali? ty of taxation-that while your property is tax? ed, theirs cannot be without violating "the national faith." As to the redaction of taxa? tion, the official figures show that you are now paving more by over a hundred millions than' you did at the dose of the war. Thus it is plam that you have nothing to expeot either from the promises or the practices of the par? ty in power. It does not mean to give YOU re? lief. It is opposed, as shown by its recorded laws, to the same kind of money for all classes alike; and it will never allow a Federal tax gatherer to cross the threshold of a bondhold? er. Listen, however, to the plain ringing sentence which constitutes the fourth plank of the Democratic platform, as laid down at New York: "Equal taxation of every epecios of property, according to its real value, including government bonds and other public securi? ties." What music there is in that glorious sentence 1 It is the clarion call of redemption to laboring millions. It bids the sweating face look up and hopo, ft proclaims that day is breaking, and that the night will soon be gone. You have been told that tho Now York Con? vention was controlled by tho bondholders. Yet, in a voice clear, direct, unequivocal, and high above all other voices in the ears of op? pressed labor, that convention proclaimed one currency for all. Lawful money for the bond? holder as well as for yon, and equal taxation of all property, according to its real value, including fovornment bonds sind other public securities, take my stand on these great maxims of truth and justice. Never before in all the his I tory of parties in this or any other country were the interests of the laboring men, tho tax-payers, so distinctly recognized and de? fended as by the New York Convention. Hs position is so plain ''that he that runs may road, and the wayfaring man, though a fool, may not err therein." It is the embodiment of th? hopes, the wishes, the interests, and tho prayers of every son of toil from one ocean to the other. Elect a Congress to carry the im? mortal principles into the practical legislation of the country, and every branch of industry will spring into a newness of life, as our decay-' 1 ing bodies in the fiaal day will arise at the trampet tones of the rcs arree tion. It JJ magna charter of the tax-payer, the palla of the working masses. THE INTERESTS OF LABOE SHOULD BE ? TECTED. I have thoa far, fellow-citizens, dealt in plain and simple terms upon the great t esta pf labor. Every financial system is b upon your toil. He who discusses with the expenditures of your government ant methods of taxation is talking to von al each h our of your daily labor ; about ill comforts as Well as all the privations and w of your homes ; about every dollar that owe and,all your embarrassments for wai means to pay; about all your cares for future, your hopes and anxieties for the p peri ty of your chi! dren when you shall i closed your, eyes on time and opened then eternity. It'is the mighty, momentous q tion of the hour. My interest in it is a pu my nature. I'inherit a sympathy with tl who eat their bread in the sweat of their fa I know their ways, their wants, and t cares, and should I be chosen their reprei ta ti ve in Congress, the protection of their teres ts would be to me as the protection bf own blood and kindred. . . . THE EVILS or CONOBESSIONAL BECOKSTBTTCrj CONSTDEBED. .' . There are other vast questions of nati< import which I will more tully discuss soon fore the people. . I have arraigned Congi and its supporters tooday mainly upon a sii issue. .My views upon Its policy of reconsti tion are familiar to yon all, andi shall h many occasions again to repeat and enfc them. By that policy it bas surrendered to negro a region of your country more vast, rr productive and fertile than any of the prom kinedoms of Europe. It has blighted the ? est fields of wealth and national revenue dews and rains of heaven ever descended ur. The Radical leaders are not content with ne equality. They have established negro premaoy in ten of the Slates. Once He Clay asked in accents of despair, "Who el rebuild this glorious Union if lt te once broke The leaders of Radicalism answer him as Bleeps bis honored sleep at Ashland, by claiming, " The negro! thenegrol" He is to i urrect fallen States and by his wisdom and in rigence restore their dedicate relations -to I Federal Government. In the hands of ai moire negroes in the South than -there are \ ors in Indiana has been placed the control ten States, and virtually the election of twei senators and fifty members of Congress.. 1 der Radical rule the political power of one i gro. under the sway of a standing army, a sustained and fed by the Freedmen's Bore ls equal to the votes often'white menin 1 diana. The barbarism of the' African, whii never since the dawn of time estabbshei go ver nm en t, is made to outweigh and overa the civilization of the white man; both Noi and South. He is thrnst into the arena public affairs, clothed wi h ten times the pov that is given to yon under t the Constitutif His votes are to count ten. times more th yours in the eleotion of President. In the terest and under the leadership of wick and evil-minded partisans, the unie tte rf densely ignorant negro of the ?Sou holds the balance of power in this count and will he made to dictate its future politi and mark out its destiny. By the State cons tutions recently framed in the South by t blacks and their vagrant white allies, eve Northern man who does not endorse nee equality in its widest bearings is excluded frc the right to citizenship if he should wish Bettie in those inviting lands. - In all the : cent negro constitutions yon will find a clan like this, which I read from the constitution Arkansas: "All persons, before registering voting, must take and subscribe the folio wi oath: 'I-, do solemnly swear (or affin that I accept the civil and political equality all men, and agree not to attempt to depri any person or persons on account of rsx color or previous condition, of any political civ? right, privilege or immunity enjoyed any other class of men.' "-Article 8, section NEOBO SUFFRAGE. If, then, Radicalism is defeated in "its tempts, so often made to force negro suffira on the people of the North, at their own homi ?ct it compels the Northern man to swear tl e will support it forever, and never at tem to abolish it. before he can live as a citizen any one of tue reconstructed States. Last ye the Radical leaders made negro suffrage an : sue in Ohio, and were beaten fifty thous ar yet a citizen of Ohio cannot be a citizen of A barn?, unless he takos an oath .to change 1 principles. Again, thc attempt waa made establish negro suffrage last fall in Kansas, was defeated by eight thousand. Yet a ci zen of Kansas cannot move into the neigbbc ing State of Arkansas, and carry with bi the right to vote or hold office, unless, in t. most solemn manner, he first repudiates tl public will of bis preseut home. But a ft months ago Michigan drove negro suffrage fro her borders by forty thousand majority; y< in order to be clothed with citizenship in t? other States, her people are called upon to i verse this powerful record. Thus a barrier raised against emigration from the North the fertile fields of tho South. The doors ai open only to such as are willing to affiliate wu the negro, and to swear that they will- nev attempt to disturb his absolute equality wii the white race. Aro you, who are living in tl descending waters of the Mississippi Valley those channels which nature made for yoi communication, trade and social intercour, with the South-are you willing to be baited c the borders of Tennessee Arkansas, Mississipp Alabama, or Louisiana, by a negro sentine and made to swear allegiance to the policy i negro suffrage? You would repudiate by a hundred thousand majority i indina-yet in one-third of the boundarii of the republic no one of you can be citizen who does not embrace it, and seal his d Eadation by an oath-an oath reaching to a a future, and excluding in advance evei reason which might dictate a change hereoi ter. The whole South is thus to be Africai ized, her civilization destroyed, her fields ( cotton, sugar, rice, corn and tobacco, mad barren and unproductive; her capacity to ai sist you in paying the taxes of the countr strioken down, and all her fruitful lands an mighty rivers domed to you and your posteri ty. lam no foe to the black man. 1 wool make the government a blessing and not curse t) him. In the work of his own band he should eat bis bread, and I would protec him in the fruits of his industry. Norwouli I tax him, save for the education of his chi! dren. But from all participation in the affair of government. I would exclude him in all tb States as you do here in Indiana. The exam pies of the Almighty, the teachings of all his tory, and the deep philosophy of human na ture, all denounce the commingling c separate and distinct races. It is ai nnimaeinahle curse to both. Prosperi ty never blessed a land that attempted ii Every age and every clime in the annals of th haman race proclaim this great fact. Ian therefore for the supremacy of the white race and the rule and government of the white man He alone, of all the tribes and kindred thal have peopled the earth since the stars lhv> held high jubilee in the sky together, h ai shown himself cap.iblo of faelf-gjve;nraent. Into his hands, an 1 his alone, wu ai J I com m il tho mighty mission and tho lufty destiny ol my country. And, sooue-r or later, to ibis doc trine wo will all co.no, wich otis mind and with one heart, regardless of party ties or partj names. Then will our oouu,..y riso from hoi distractions and calainitijj, und pr?tent hei bright forehead without spot or wrinkle to tilt gaze of tho nations. THE PRESIDENT? AL CANDIDATES. On these principles, then, I am willing tc stand or fall at the ballot box. Horatio 8ey niour stands upon them, and I support bim ai a lofty, unsullied statesman. Party rage ma> assail him, but his record brightens as we be" hold it. To save the Union, and save it on the principle of civil liberty, has been the guiding motive of his life. Ou such a platform as we presented in New York, he will be carried high? er by the American people. And another name is with him worthy to be there. The intrepid leader, whether in the council or the field, the brave, chivalric Frank Blair-whose services are more conspicuous, whose escutcheon brighter with honorable action? He is charged with revolutionary designs. Was ho a revolu? tionist when in the dark, oponing hours of tho rebellion, he held Missouri in his iron grasp and kept her from plunging into revolution? Was ho a ravolutionist when at the head of his corps he fought his way with Sherman to tho sea? No; nor is be now. Ho asks that public judgment may be invoked against unconstitutional laws, the usurpations and the crimes enacted nuder the name of reconstruction, and that then such wrongs will cease. I, too, invoke the public judgment on this subject. Public opinion is a pow jr. When uttered at tho ballot box in a free country it must be obeyed. Governor Morgan cries out that we mean war, and seeks as usual to alarm the timid with visions of blood. Nobody dreams of war bot bjmM ML Who is miking preparations tor war excep & himself and his friends at Washington? lito? is boring rifled muskets at TOUT expense anti seeking to place them in the hands of pariissa organizations? He voted to purchase and dwi tribute two hundred and eighteen thousand a 3. a cost - of nearly four mill io n s. Where ia th e foe ne is to meet? Where is the armed enemy Not in the North. Not in the South. Bis too late to ? practice upon the prejudices cr: fears of the people with the our cry of another rebellion in that region of abject enbrniasiott. and hopeless poverty. If is a thrice told tale, and taus dead upon the "intsIUgeht pobTicfjeazv FOR NEW YORK. REG UL AB LINE EVERY WEDNESDAYS THE STEAMSHIP MONTE HI'S; 'Captain O. BTDEB, wflT le*y*> H'anderhorst'e Whaif on Wcdnadmg* .August 26, at 12 o'clock. AL Auguat 21_ BAVEN EL tc CG. - NEW YOKK AND CHARLESTON ' j STEAMSHIP LINE. . L.t. FOB NEW YO BK, L, - ; . \ . - '? ? ta AMrm THE SPLENDID SLOE WHEES >;^Kf^|*gSTEA MS HIP JAS. ADORE ^|MEBW^ T. J LOCKWOOD, Commander, wi 1 3m3^=8S*?.":avo Ad?er'a Wharf on Saturday. iho-22d inst,- at 10 o'clock A. M. : The Steamers of this Line Insure at three-quart e> .. per cent . , For Freight or Passage, haring elegant cab 1 accommc dations, apply to . .. . . . , JAMES ADOEBtea. ( Corner Adger'a Wharf and East Bay (Up 8ta<nV August 17 . ?.. .*?'. ? ". .; FOR PH1XA.D?I.PHIA,. ..., r fhatm' Ig>? STEAMSHIP * FROME SZ?P0kY%5?, TtTEU??, Captain A, B. GHAT, W il <UQMf&W~ leaye North AtlanUc. Wharf, on .So? il fr IffiP'3m, lurday, 22d inst., at Eight o'clock.. POT Freight apply to - , '?UunstlS ?D .'JOHN & THEO. GETTY. I ~-~-?-i--.--!-? .. : MAC GREGOR LINE. DIRECT STEAM COMMUNICATION" WHIT ' .. EUBOME. . . 'M. THE GEORGIA AND LIVERPOOL. 1' LINK OF FIRST-CLASS NEW IRON CLYDE-BUILT STEAMSHIPS, com- [. posed of the . HAVANNAH.(t'ow Building.) SA TTL LA...;.....(NowBtdldlng.) WAVERLY.Captain Bnraox. LEITH.Captain BASNET BOH. STIRLING... ..Captain BLAHS. : RIGA....-..Captain HUKXEB. _ DON.Captain MANU. Proposed days of SJ tiing norn Savannah, 1st and. 5 IB th of each month, commencing on the 16th of No- . vern ber. - Through Freight taken to and from all points o f. Great Britain, the Continent and the Southern States? - and through Bills of Lading given. Extra Steamers of 1500 to 3000 bales capacity will r be dispatched to Liverpool, Havre, Bremen, Ham? burg, Antwerp, Trieste, Genoa and Crone tad t, when? ever Inducement offers. Apply to - WM. M. TTJNNO & CO., Savannah, Ga. In Liverpool to STODD A RT BROTHERS:. . And in Leith to DONALD B MACGREGOR. Savannah, August 15.1868. ? sSmo August 2? PACIFIC MAIL. STEAMSHIP COMFY?? THROUGH UAL! TO CALIFORNIA, CHINA AND JAPAN. FBEIQHT AND PASSAGE AT OBEATLY RE DU CED BATES I STEAMERS OF THE ABOVB line leave Pier No. 42, North Elver, foot of CanaLetreet, New York, s> 12 o'clock noon, of the 1st, 9th, 16th and 24th of every month (except when these dates fall en Sunday, then the Saturday preceding). Departure of 1st and 24th connect at Panama with steamers for South Pacido and Central American ports. Those of 1st touch at Manzanillo. Departure of 9th of each month connects wriix-i the new steam line from Panama to Australia sad ?.' New Zealand. . Steamship GREAT REPUBLIC leaves San Fran .' cisco, for Chira and Japan, October L No California steamers touch at Havana, but go direct from New York to A spin wall. One hundred pounds baggage free to each adult,. Medicine and attendance fro?. For PassageTiokets or further information apply at the COUPANY'S TICKET OFFICE, on the wharl- . foot of Canal-street, North River, New York. March 14 lyr F. E. BABY, Agent NORTH GERMAN LLOYD. STEAM BETWEEN BALTIMORE AND BE E ME Ny Tia Southampton. TBE 8CBXW STEA1TEB6 OV TBE MOSTE OEB1CAR LLOT? BALTiMOKK.Capt. VOKCKLEB. BEBLfN.Capt. UN'J?ETBCH, OF 2500 'i ONS A N D 700 HOBSE-Pi >WER. WILL BUN REGLXARLY BB? ? TWt-EN BALTIMORE AND BRu- ! ' Mi'N,'-vu. SOUTHAMPTON. ' From ! -Breuenon the 1st of each monia, : From Southampton on the 4th of each month. Fresa Baltimore on the 1st or each month. PUCE OF PASSAGE-From Baltimore to Bremen J London, Havre and Southampton-Cabin$90; Steer . age $36. From Bremen to Baltimore-Cabin $80" Steerage $40 .' . Prices of passage payable in gold, or its equiv? .. lent They touch at Southampton both going and re? turning. These vessels take Freight to London and Hull, for which through billa of lading are signed. An experienced Surgeon is attached to each vesseL <* AU letters must poss through the Poeto mee. He bills of lading but those of the Company will bs signed. Bills of lading wu! positively not be de? - livered boiore goods ore cleared at tho Cnsiomhouae,. - For Freight or Passage, apply to A. SCHUMACHER A: CO., No. 9 South Charles-street, Baltimore. Or to MOBDLCAl A CO., Agents, - East Bay, Charleston, S. C. April 20 fimos STEAM TO LIVERPOOL. CALLING AT QUEENSTOWN. THE INMAN LINE, SAILING SEMI-WEEKLY, carrying the U?. S. Malle, consisting of the following steamers: CTTY OF PARIS, CITY OF BALTIMORE, CITY OF WASHINGION, CITY OF BOSTON . Sailing every Saturday and every alternate Mor. dayl at 1 P.M., from Pier No. 45 North Elver, New York. BATES OF PASSAGE. BT THE KAIL STEAMERS SALLI-VO EVZST BATUBDAX. Payable in Gold. I Payable in Currency. 1st Cabin.$100 Steerage.$3 . 1st Cabin to London..105 Steerage to London... S - 1st Cabin to Paris....115 | Steerage to Paris.4 Passage by the Monday ste imers-First Cabin $f# gold; Steerage $30; payable in U. 8. currency. Rates of passage from New York to Halifax; Cabla, $20, Steerage, $10;payable ingold. Passengers also forwarded to Havre, Hai&burfl? Bremen, ?c., at moderate rates. Steerage-pasease from Liverpool and Queenstown. ?40 currency. Tickets can be bought here by per? sons sending for their friends. For further mformation applv at the Company*" offices. J OWN G. DALE, Agent*. No. 15 Bi oed <vay, New York?. June 4_y_"_6 mo [ONE TBIP A WEEK.] CHARLESTON AND SAVANNAH STEAB PACKET LINE, VIA BEAUFORT, HILTON HEAD ANDBLUFTTON STEAMER PILOT BOY.Capt. W. T. McNxxT* 81E AM ER FANNIE.Capt. FENN PEG*.. r -*TT**?W ONE OF THE ABOVE STEAMERS ?S?B-??SL? Will leave Charleston overy Tuadtrj Morning, at 6 o'clock, and Savannah every Ihurtdt^* Morning, at 6 o'clock. For Freight or passage, apply to JV'HN FERGUSON, June 29 Accommodation Wharf. FOR PAL AT K A, FLORIDA, VIA SAVANNAH, FERNANDINA, JAOKSONVTLXJa < AND ALL LANDINGS ON THE ST. JOHN'S- ! RIVER. " _rr?*?w THE STEAMER CITY P0LN2 , %^IIVTS1 Captain CHABLES WILLET, wi leave CharlestoL- every Tuesday Ntght at 9 o'clock, and Savannah every Wednesday Afternoon, at ? o'clock, for the above places. Returning w?l leard ? Savannah for Charleston every Saturday Morning at 8 o'clock. AU goods not removed by sunset will be stored at the expense and risk of owners. All freight must bc prepaid. J. D. AIKEN & CO., Agents, June 27 Math Atlantic Wbar YACHT MAGGIE MITCHELL. THIS FAVORITE YACHT, HAVING been thoroughly refitted for pleasure par? ties, is now ready for engagements by ap?. plication to tho captain on hoard, orto BLACK & JOHNSTON, April 7 tuthsCmos Agenta,