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V?T.TTTYTE VT -TOMBER 844] CHARLESTON, S. C., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1868. [EIGHTEEN CENTS A WEEK TEE NEWS FOR THE CAMPAIGN GREAT INDUCEMENTS TO CLUBS. The importance" of the great political con? test upon which we bave now fairly entered renders the dissemination among the people of sound political views and accurate and ear? ly information of the progress and incidents of the canvass, a matter of peculiar interest and 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 tho National Democracy-SEYMOUR and BIAIS. triumph of the Radicals will result in the ut?er desolation and rain of the South, and the placing of an ignorant and brutal race in all positions and places of honor and trust, to the exclusion of the white race. The govern? ment must he 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 fur white men, and not for negroes. It is only necessary that the peo? ple should be thoroughly informed to accom? plish this, and THE NEWS will be an admirable means of diffusing thia information. In order to plac? tue paper within the reach of all, we have adopted a scale of reduced rates of aub saiptron for the four months covering the Presidential canvass, and oner besides peculiar indue :ments for the formation of clubs. We are determined that THE NEWS shall be the cheapest and best newspaper in the South. Ite blows will fall thickly, steadily and rapidly; and if the friends of law. order and the Con? stitution do their duty by extending its circu? lation, its labors can be made powerfully effec? tive for good. We appeal, then, to our readers to examine our remarkably low terms, and go to work with a will to get up large clubs for TEE CHARLESTON NEWS. EA IES FOB TEE CAMPAIGN NEWS. Sail; News (four months).$2 00 Tri-Weekly News (four months).1 00 j CLUB HATES. Five copi?e Daily News, four months, to oca address.....$8 50 Sive copies Tli-Weekly News, four ? months, to one address.a 25 Ten copies Daily News, four months, to ene address.... ....,.15 80 - Ten copies Tri-Weekly News, four months, to one address.7 50 One copy of THE NEWS free to avery person who sends a club of ten subscribers at these ratee. The cash must in all cases accompany the order. These prices should secure fer TEE NEWS a vast circulation, which would result in a cor? responding benefit to the Democratic cause. Bay we not confidently ask the kind offices of { our friends in thia behalf? . Bfipftv*""?*?1 can be made by money order at our ri ? k, and all letters should be addressed to RIORDAN. DAWSON & CO., Charleston, 8. C. BY TEliEGBAFH. '." Our European Dlgpatchet. {FEB ATLANTIC TELEOS APE.] ? S CAED EN Al/S HAT EOE DE. MANNING. LONDON, Align?t 27.-Dispatches from Borne state that Bev. Dr. Henry E. Manning,-Arch? bishop, of London, is to be made cardinal. It is also reported that Monsignor Joseph Ber nardi will soon relieve Cardinal An to nelli as Secretary of State and President of the Papal Ministry. " " ' ANOTHER FRENCH NEWSPAPER SUPPRESSED. PARIS, August 27.-The Emperor will visit the" camp at Chalons on the 2d of September. Hie ul? of the Figaro newspaper in the streets of Paris has been prohibited. " WWTkT. ST STEM OT COINAGE. COPENHAGEN, August 27.-The Danish Gov? ernment has decided against the adoption of the decimal ays tem of coinage in national mints. TH If. ABERGELE RAILROAD DISASTER. LOUDON, August 28^the coroner's inquest on the remains ol tho jfRirns of the recent terrible railroad disaster ajTAbergele, Wales, was com? menced in that town to-day. A woman, named Dickens, living near the spot where it occurred, and who saw tbe accident, deposed that she went to assist the persons in the burning cars, and that some might have been saved but for the rael that aid was refused. Mr. Lettler, the company's agent, discredited the statement of this witness. He thought it was impossible for any one to go near the fife. He asked the issuance of writs to bring Castle, Bose and others who were on board the train, to testify before the jury, which was granted. Hr. Townsend and Mr. Hone, who were pas? sengers on the train, testified that at the time they thought the fire broke oat in the goods van they were nuable to see a yard ahead, and j that they left the scene, unaware that any death had occurred. The inquest adjourned until to-morrow. ?BM OP CABMEN. LONDON, August 28-Evening.-An immense meeting of cabmen was held to-night. But few cabs .are to be seen on the streets, which present an unusually solitary appearance. The meeting resolved to issue a protest against the conduct of railway companies; and that a par? tial strike should begin at once, whioh is to be? come general, if the terms demanded are not granted in a week. FINE AND IMPRISONMENT. PARIS, August 28.-M. Henri Boohefort, edi? tor of the La Lanterne, has been condemned to thirteen months' imprisonment in jail and a fine of 10,000 francs, in the second action brought against him for violation of the press law. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG. August 28.-Official advices from Bokan ara state that the Tfrnir has made a treaty with the Russians, accepting the terms offered by the Imperial Government, and the Bu ss ian troops have evacuated Samarcand. JAPAN. LOUDON, August 28.-Later advices have been received from Japan. The country is still in an unsettled condition. The Mikado has driven the rebels to the North. Foreign troops ?ti ll guard the city of^Yokohama. IEE PARAGUAYAN WAS-SAFETY 07 AN AMERICAN SCHOONER. LISBON VU BIO JANEIRO, August 28.-The Paraguayans have been starved ont of Homai '. a, leaving two hundred and fifty cannon and a I vast amount of ammunition and small arms. Four thousand Paraguayans are cat off in Oran Chaco and refuse to surrender. Lopez is hard pressed. The Brazilians think the war is near a suc? cessful close. LIVERPOOL, August 29.-It is thought the American schooner Colgate is safe, as she was spoken off the Isle of Man on Monday. Re? ported loas of life unconfirmed. Our Washington Dispatches. TEE TENNESSEE - DELEGATION-PO WEES OF THE PEES ID EOT -THE SOUTHERN MTTiTTIA. WASHINGTON, Augusta 29-Noon.-W. W. Harden, .heretofore shorthand writer to the President, has been promoted Assistant Pri? vate Secretary to the President. Mr. Harden is well koown as Data of the Bal time re Son, Cito of the Now Orleans Times, and Wallace of the Richmond Dispatch. It is announced through papers supplied with White House items by the Assistant Pri? vate Secretary, that Otis H. Russell has been appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fourth District of Virginia. It will be satisfactory to papers supplied by the Associated Press to know that their agent's expostulations "against the White House news monopoly are met by the Assistant Private Secretary's statement that Connery, of the Herald, gets no news at the White House. Hon. John C. Burch and Colonel L. C. Beech were recently appointed a delegation by Ten? nessee Conservatives to visit the President. Burch was unable to come, and delegated his powers to Colonel David Looney, who, with Colonel Beech, had a prolonged interview with the President. The President referred the delegation to recent orders as a limit ?^Execu? tive power, but assured them that every power authorized by the constitution and laws would be used to secure the freedom of the ba Hot without interference from the State or Federal troops. The President takes ground that the consti? tution forbids the maintenance of standing annfes in any shape, and that the act of 1865 disbanding and forbidding a militia and volun? teer force is absolute ia the South. The Presi? dent's ground is, that militia duty is incum? bent upon every citizen; that it is an emergen? cy for a subject to be called from the plough, or the loom, at any moment, and from which no citizen can escape; but that a standing army of paid troops in any State, unless called for and controlled by Federal authority, is repug? nant to the constitution and laws. Every pow? er of the government will be used to put down standing armies of paid troops in States. Gen. Beauregard and daughter are at Wil? lard's. Senator Morgan had a conference with Rol? lins and other Radicals to-day. Nothing definite regarding September ses? sion. It seems generally conceded that it will be too late to arm Southern militia in time for the \ election, and there appears to be no other busi? ness, and a meeting is improbable. Attorney-General Evarta has advices thai a habeas corpus for Mudd, Spangler and Arnold has been applied for in the Southern District of Florida. . Rosecrans visited the President. Revenue to-day, $480,000. The Negro Question In Georgia. ATLANTA. August 29-In the House. Sims." negro, had the floor in defence of the eligibility of negro members. He was at the Democratic Convention in Charleston in 1860, and he was glad to see Mr. Yancey withdraw his delegation, for it was the silvery lining of the great cloud of liberty for tbe colored man. A point of order was raised whether the fif? teen minute rule was in force. The Chair decided that each member had un? limited sway. Sims continued his speech, and said if they were turned oat tbey would rally again; such a rally aa the people of Georgia never saw before. "The Northern people love us, because we are Citizens and of the same blood. If all the tri? bunals of Georgia sustain oar expulsion it shall not stand." God would cot, he said, allow the North to succeed ia the late war until eeg roes were declared citizens, and Chief Justice Ta? ney's decision had been reversed by God. Sims held the floor during the sos sion, and opposed every motion to extend the time to give him a chacee to finish, and he held the floor o a adjournment. - Turner, negro, will follow Sims, and BO on until twenty-seven negro members have made a separate defence, unless cut short by a vote of the House. It will take many days. Affairs in New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, August 29.-The police force of New Orleans has not been paid for five months. Yesterday a committee from the force waited on the Mayor, setting forth that many officers are without means to procure the commonest necessaries of life. They stat? ed it was not charity they asked, but pay for labor honestly performed. i he Council con? sidered the memorial, and passed a resolution declaring their inability to move io the mat? ter, and referring the memorial to the Legis? lature. The House also passed a bill prohibiting any distinction on account of race, color or previ? ous condition, on routes of travel, places of entertainment or public resort. Senator Bacon offered a resolution ia the Senate yesterday Betting forth that charges of bribery and other improper practices against members of the Legislature while acting in legislative capacity hiving obtained currency, it is the duty ol the Senate to vindicate its character by calling for o committee of investi? gation. The resolution was saddled with half a dozen amendments, intended to kill it, and lies over until to-day. Arrival of Speele. NEW YOEE, August 29.-The Aspinwsll steamer Alaska brings half a million in specie. -The New York Times remarks with a good deal of truth : "The crop of cotton and other staple?which the Southern planters will raise this year will be their own to a far greater ex? tent than any of the crops they had raised dur? ing the last two or three years. Last year, and the year before, a great part of the crop had to go for the payment of advances that were made to the planters. The proceeds of the crops did not go into the pockets of those who raised them, but into the bands' of those who had loaned the means. This year, however, tbs planters, to a mach greater extent than be? fore, Btarted oat clear. The reason, doubtless, ia most cases, was that they could not obtain advances in the North or elsewhere, so hard was money to procure on South tm account. On these grounds, the crop this year ia the South will realize more benefit to the planters than in previous years." - -Edwin Forrest is at preseat securing sev? eral first-class actors to travel with him the coning seasoc. FROM THK STATE CAPITA1 THE COT CHARTER BILL-THE PEACE CTE Cl THE BOW TN THE SENATE-A NEOBO AO PUSS IDE-LIVELY TIMES EXPECTED-TH FICOXTT BETWEEN T.EflTiTE AND MAXW. SENATORIAL FIGHT. COLUMBIA, August SO.-It is very pr that the Governor will veto the bill ame the charter of the City of Charleston, ground that it is special legialatiou ; is of i fol constitutionality, and that it is in g bad policy. Governor Scott's circular lotter, in reg armed organizations in the State, and c upon the people to preserve order, will sued to-morrow. There is some probability of ano the ure to obtain a quorum in the Senate tc row. Lieutenant-Governor Boozer is st sent, and J. J. Wright, the negro senatoi Beaufort, will preside. The discrimiJ bill is the special order of the day, and times are anticipated, quorum or no que The political partnership hitherto ex: between F. J. Moses, Jr., Speaker o House, and R. B. Elliott, colored, ie solved. The card of Moses, Sr., ii gard to Elliott, repudiating any tolerate ! social equality between the two races, wil bably be fatal to the political prospects of father and son. In the difficulty between Leslie, the Bar senator, and the negio senator, Maxwell, the adjournment of the Senate yesterday former flourished his penknife and threat to cut off Maxwell's ears and nose. Les lie to Maxwell, "I should like to skin a dozen senators." THE COLLISION BETWEEN THE OOVEBNOB ANI HOUSE-TROUBLE BBEWTNO-THE NEW : ROAD BILL-A NEOBO PRESIDENT TN THE ATE-NO QUORUM-THE NEGROES HAILI OUB-THE SANTUC DISTURBANCE-THE 703 A WOUND AND WOULDN'T TELL WHF.KF,. [raox ons OWN OOBHEOTONDKNT. 1 COLUMBIA, S. C., August 29, 1868.-Io proceedings on Friday there was little of i est except the discussion in the House or Citizens' Sari ogs Bank charter,and in the ate on the discrimination bill. The sp ii the discussion is shown by the short sumz I have made in the notes of the proceedi It is a feeling of hostility to all whites wb not succumb to all the demands of the n< for political and social equality, and a dote: nation to maintain those claims at all haza The same animus instigated the oppositio the ruling of the Speaker of the House reg ing joint resolutions. On Thursday when joint resolution providing for drawing mc out of the treasury for paying the per diem, ?cc, came np, the Speaker drew a dist inc between concurrent and joint resolutions, ruled that although a concurrent res tion required but one reading, a j resolution required to be read tl times on three several days in each house, on Friday, when the matter was brought again, he stated that the Governor was of same opinion and would not allow any mo to be drawn out of the treasury by a resc tion that had not been read three times. 1 statement raised the dander of R. B. Elb negro, who seemed to have no idea of allow the Qovernur to domineer ovor the Legt tore. He made a speech, violent in langui and manner. The following detailed sentent which I took down verbatim, will give BC idea of his style : "It seems as if s o ni eb are afraid that the Governor, with his b power, will shiver this Legislature to alon: "Let it be known at once and forever after t the members of this Legislature bow in rev ance at all times to those who control I other departments." This fellow is educat shrewd, and of boundless impudence, posse es, as far as I oan judge, three times as mc personal influence as any other member of ei er the Senate or the House, is a bitter extreu and may one day gire great trouble in this Ste He, however, like the other leaders of I body, is "on the make," and can be quio with a silver bullet or greenback wadi The only difficulty is that they see suchgolc vistas in the future plunder of tho State, ti they would not be willing to sell out exce at exorbitant prices. DeLarge, the Cha man of the Committee of Ways and Meal became very uneasy at thia discussion, a rose to advocate the reading of the r?solut] without lurtber talk, but being very nerve he made a mistake in the first sentence tl made everybody laugh, and kept him fluster all through. It seems that he has been great pains to cure himself of a habit whi he had of saying, "gentlemen?," but when '. is excited the lost 8 wanders about his in gination, and although he may sncceed dropping it from the end of "gentlemen," y it will come in and attach itself to the begi ning or end of some word in the same ;<e tence to which it does not properly belon So m his speech yesterday he commenced 1 saying that he hoped "Gentlemen wouldi have any more ?quibbling over the resol tion." In the Senate on Friday the only new bue ness introduced was the notice of the bil which I telegraphed you, "granting a chart? to certain South Carolinians to build a railroa from Columbia to Camden, from Camden i Cheraw, and from Cheraw to the North Can lina hue." This is a move to head off th Chatham charter, asked for by North Carol nians; and the telegram as printed in TH NEWS was devoid of all interest, from tha fae that the printers, or whoever revised the tele gram, left out the words "South Carolinians/' The proceedings in the House to-day wer utterly without interest. In the Senate the: were unable to obtain a quorum, because th Democrats and other members, opposed to tb discrimination bill, wilfully absented them selves, in order to delay that measure unti Corbin and others opposed to it, who are ne cessarily absent, can return. This occasioned great excitement among the negro members. Cain was for expelling members whe outside declared that the Legislature was az illegal body, yet used their privileges as mern ber3 of the body to defeat its action. Bural District Randolph was of opinion that a certain Senator (Leslie) had managed it all, and he wanted the Senate to deal with him according? ly. Whittemore rebuked the Burnt District, saying he should be more careful how he cast imputations upon the character (1) of Senators. S wails moved that the messengers be sent after absent Senators, which was done, but without result, and the Senate was forced to adjourn for want of a quorum to transact busi? ness. J. J. Wright (negro) presided over the rump Senate on this momentous occasion, and decided points of order with a promptness that showed they were still his specialty. A fter the adjournment of the Senate, Maxwell and other negroes beset Leslie, and I am told they came near getting into a row. The story of the Santuo disturbance, which I telegraphed you yesterday, has this much to . nbs'anti ate it-the wounds which the negroes showed to the Governor all being in] the body that proved that they were i from behind, and the account of the Bates. One of the negroes was shot t the foot, the ball entering the Bole, and ont on the top of the instep, showing that he at least was lifting his feet. 1 that when the truth comes to be knowi turn out that they were ste diing BOOH hogs, or robbing bis corn field or fowl Their account that they were shot i blood on account of their politics is a cc bull story of the liveliest Radical K. K. so.iption. Wben our people get so wi up that they must shoot somebody, will probably prefer to begin on Epping bury, Whittemore, Elliott, Cain, Randolf, a dozen other stirrers up of sedition, v could name if I were not opposed to vi paper, rather than on the deluded poop are merely their victims. The Governor still remains mum on tl Charter bill. Perhaps he intends to allo become a law without his signature. The proclamation alluded to in my tel< published on Saturday, will be issued 01 day, at least it has been prepared wit date annexed. LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. SENATE. FBIDAT, August 28, 1868.-Rogers ga tice of a bill to grant a charter to certain Carolinians to build a railroad from Coi to Camden, from Camden to Ghera w, anc Cberaw to the North Carolina line. The Tax bill was taken up, some se added providing for taxation of profes ?ve, and tbe bill was passed to a third rei and Bent to the House, having received Senate no less than fifty-four amendment The discrimination bill was taken u laid on the table to take up the subs ti 11 fered by Corbin. An amendment, was ad assimilating it to the old bill; other ai menta were offered. An angry diBcussi which Leslie and Burnt District Bandolpi tho principal actors, took place, and in thi of it the 8enate adjourned. HOUSE 07 REPRESENTATIVES. Hayne introduced the following resoli which was agreed to : Resolved, That tbe Judiciary Committee quested to m quire into the various acts inc rating railroad companies within the lim this State, and bscertain whether this Ge Assembly has power to establish a scbedc prices for the transportation of persons property over the same, and report by b otherwise as early as convenient. A resolution was adopted establishing a committee to declare what shall be the d of the clerk of the Sonate and slenograpl the House. The Chair appointed Boseman, Neagli Shrewsbury, as the committee on the pa the House. Attorney-General's opinion on the bill eli the operations of the Bank of the State, read, and the bill was made the special < for Monday. The following bills received their third i ing : Bill granting charter to Chatham Rail Company. Bill reorganizing the Penitent Bill establishing Justice Courts. The bill compelling owners of s took to them within safo enclosures was indefio postponed. The bill to provide for the election of F den Uni electors and members of Congress passed to a third reading. Messages were received from the Gove conveying the bill to provide a Governor's! sion with his signature, and a communie! from the Comptroller-General informing that the appropriation made by General Ci for the contingent expenses of the Treasu and Comptroller's departments was exhaui and asking for an appropriation of $2000. The bill incorporating the Ci?zeub' Sav Bank of South Carolina was taken np anc caaioned some debato. Tomlins ?n prop an amendment, requiring tho corporator pay up $50,000 of their capital. Whipper opposed the amendment, on ground that suoh requirements were UUUE Boseman supported it, on the ground the corporators were the enemies of the Lc lature. Ferriter supported the amendment, beoi some security to depositors was necessary. Ransier said that he was glad to see the before the Legislature for several reasi among others, that some of the gentle] asking the charter were men who, outside, lilied the Legislature, and said it was an Uli and unconstitutional body, and this appl tion gave the he to the language which t used outside. The amendment was adopted. Other ame menta with the same object of giving furl security to depositors were adopted. Fin the bill was recommitted. Considerable discussion took place on joint resolution providing for per diem, < bat it was at List passed to a third reading. The Probate Court bill was taken ap, i dorine its second reading the House journed. SATDBDAI, August 29,1868.-Notice was < en of the following bills: By Neagle-Bill to provide for clectior county officers of the County of York. By Bennett-Bill to amend the charte] the town ot Beaufort. By Chesnut- Bill to amend the ch arter of town of Camden. By DeLarge-Bill to incorporate the Calvi Baptist Church of Charleston. By Gardner-Bill to punish persons pursui horses and other cattle with intent to steal. The per diem resolution was read the tb time. ? A message was received from the Govert enclosing petitions and counter-petitions re tive to the charter of the town of Hambui The amount ot it is that the negroes want t charter repealed, and the white people doc The petition of the negroes was signed wi some thirty names all in one handwriting. Also, a message enclosing a communicati from C. C. Neil, Surveyor of the port Charleston, recommending the change of t ?uarantine station from the quarantine ship ort Moultrie or Fort Sumter. The bill to establish the judicial districts Bickens and Oconee was read a second time. The bill to alter and amend the charter the Cberaw and Coalfields Railroad, and cha ni the title to the Ghera, w and Salisbury Rai If o a was read a second time. The Probate Court bill was passed to a thi reading. The Wando bill was made the special ord for Wednesday. The Senate bill to fix bonds cf county office was read first time. The Senate joint resolution in reference l per diem was referred to the Committee < ways and Means. The bill establishing the office of prosecntin attorney was made the special order for Moi day. The Governor's Blue Ridge message was ri ferred to the Railroad Committee, with ii strictions to frame a bill embodying the vier* therein contained. Other pap?is from the Governor were refei rei to the appropriate committees. . -General David Hunter, Ure President of th Military Commission that tried and convicto Mrs. Surratt, is out in a card, denying tb statement first made in Radical papers that h had refused to sign the application for the pai don of Mrs. Surratt. He says in his card tba he has "always looked with utter contempt o the execution of the poor woman." Thus, on by one, the members of this court are try in | to get away from responsibility in this case Mr. Bingham, the Judge-Advocate of the court says he prepared the petition for pardon, an< added that every member of the court with om exception,' signed it. That exception, thi Radical papers said was General Hunter, ant now the latter not only decies it, bat says hi "lcoked with utter contempt upon the execu tion of the poor woman." Can the member! of the court explain why it was then that Mrs Surratt was pronounced equally guilty and de? serving of death with Paine, Herold and At zerodtr Why WAS she pronounced one of the chief criminals, instead of being placed in the category with O'Loughlin and Mudd, who were not adjudged guilty of offences deserving ol death ? It ?B rather late in the day for the members of tho court to attempt to escape from the responsibility of Mrs. Surratt's hasty extention. NEWS FliO?l WASHINGTON. THE MISSION OF THE HON. JAMES B. CAMPBELL AND ITS RESULTS. ' \ A Washington telegram to the New Tork Herald of Friday says : \ Senator James B. Campbell, of Charleston, 8. C., arrived here to-day, bearing a petition of the conservative citizens of that city addresses to President Johnson. The petition, which has already been published, represents the disturbed condition of the State, owing to the incendiary harangues of white Badical leaders, and requests the President to Bend back the military for the protection of the white resi? dents. Senator Campbell believes there is a deliberate and cold-blooded plot among the Badical squatters and bigots to excite the ne? groes to the murder and plunder of the whites, so that a riot may be stirred up and a pretext for interference in the freedom of election afforded. Several of the conserva? tive meetings since the New York Conven? tion have been disturbed and broken np by organized bands of negroes, led by whites, who have pelted bricks ana stones at the meet? ing houses and resorted to every species of rovocation ; but the white conservatives, nowing the design of these unscrupulous poli? ticians, have refrained from retaliations thus far and behaved with wonderful moderation and self-possession. The petitioners, howev? er, fear tnat some time or other before the election the negroes may be induced to com? mit more serious outrages, which might lead to retaliation, and that then the whole State would be involved in a bloody war of races. To prevent this, and also to obtain protection, which the State and civil authorities seem un? able or unwilling to grant, the petitioners have sent Mr. Campbell here with their address. Mr. Campbell had interviews to-day with the President,. Secretary Schofield ana General - Rawlings, and fully explained the situation. It is understood that the President has prom? ised to do all in his power to meet the wishes of the petitioners, and that some more ade? quate military foi ce will be sent to South Caro? lina. Mr. Campbell told the Preeidem that the services of the military would only he sought on proper occasions and when absolute? ly necessary. GENERAL HOWARD'S TOUS ANS HIS EE POET CAMPAIGN NEWS FEOM THE WEST. A Washington letter ot the 28th inst., to the Baltimore Sun, says : Major General Howard has for some time been upon a tour in the Southern States, looking into the operations of the Freedmen's Bureau down there, and upon his return the Radical carpet-baggers affect to beli3ve that such a re? port will be made of the condition of affairs in the South as will certainly secure a September session of Congress. Parties here profess to have already received such information from General Howard as will tend to show a "horri? ble condition of things" in the South; but after inquiry in quarters most likely to be informed, it is ascertained that no report has yet been received. Whatever, therefore, is said upon that Buqject at preseut is manufactured ont of whole cloth. It is beginning to leak ont that what the carpet-baggers now want is that Con ?ress shall, before the elect i .ns, enact some w placing arms m the bands of the colored people, contending that they will need them for self-protection. The order-loving South? erners of both parties deny that the negroes need these arms for protection, and the only effect of their distribution will be to stir up strife and ill-feeling, with the inevitable jesuit of bloodshed. Letters from the West received here within the past forty-eight hours contain cheering in? telligence for the friends of Seymour and Blair. lu Obio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri espe? cially, the Conservatives are thoroughly or? ganized ia every city, town and township, and are working with the earnestness of men who appear determined not to Buffer defeat. One letter from Southern Illinois saya the meet? ings held there have been ail laigely attended, and great enthusiasm has been manifested everywhere. The converts from the Republi? can party are numerous, and the Democrats confidently claim the southern district, now represented by Mr. Baum. In Missouri the Democrats are making a strong fight, and the State is positively claimed for the Democratic ticket throughout. QENEEAL E0SECBAN3 TN WASHINGTON-HIS CON? FERENCE WITH THE REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF THE SOUTH-THE? DESIRE PEACE, FRATERNAL FEELING, PROSPERITY AND HAPPINESS-NO AD? DRESS HAS BEEN PREPARED, AS WAS RE? PORTED. A Washington letter to tho Baltimore Ga? zette contains the following : General Rosecrans arrived here from the Virginia Springs to-night, and kindly granted your correspondent an interview. During an interesting conversation the General said : "I visited Virginia on my own judgment alone, and not at the suggestion of any one else. I had known the great power of the- rons resentative men of the Southern people dur. n g a terrible struggle of four years, and I had a desire to see and converse with them freely and ascertain for myself if that great power coull not now be exercised for good. I saw these men. 1 saw the very heart of the South? ern people, and I am happy to say I found it all right. The great leaders of the South desire peace, fratercal feeling, prosperity and happi? ness, and they are preared, if allowed to do so, to exert all their power and infiueuco to that end. Our conferences were free and unreserv? ed, and I am fully satisfied that it ia not the Southern people who stand in tbe way of a full and complete reconciliation." But, General, would you favor me with a copy of the address which it is reported you have in your possession, and which you are to deli vor to the Democratic National Executive Committee for distribution? The General replied : "I have no such address, nor has any sucb been prepare J. rJ he report to which you allude is a pure fabrication, as was the telegram from this city that I sought the interview with the Confederate Generals at the instance and request el certain parties li oro. I have written nothing on the subject. Lu a few days I shall have completed my business with the State Department, and will thon return to my home in Ohio, where I will reflect upon the whole subject of my Virginia visit. What my conclusions may be I am unable now lo say. 1 have the facts I sought for, but I have yet to determine the precise use to be made of them. I only wish the whole Northern people knew their* Southern brethren as well as I do. Ii they did there would be no necessity for the cry 'Let us have peace,' for there would be peace and prosperity." Such is a brief report that General Rosecrans bas furnished your correspondent of an "in? terview" which has attracted! the attention of the whole country. WILL THERE BE A SEPTEMBER SESSION OF CON? GRESS ?-THE FROS AND CONS-A KEW BATCH OF FALSEHOODS IN REGARD TO THE CONDITION OF THE SOUTH-PERPLEXITY OF THE RADICALS. The question of the expediency of calling together Congress for a September session, which was left to the discretion of General Schenok, of Ohio, and Senator Morgan, of New York, is just now the absorbing topic in the national capital. The Washington correspon? dent of the Baltimore Sun says : The Radicals are daily becoming more and more clamorous for a September session of Congress. Some of the latest reasons urged are tnat Governor Bro ralo w's life is constant? ly threatened in Tennessee ; that Kentucky re? sounds with threats ; that Alabama is literally in a state of siege, and that Gocrgia and South Carolina are overrun by madmen who are endeavoring to plunge those States into a new revolution. It will be observed tnat all these States are in the Union and have repre? sentatives in Congress. Kentucky never se? ceded. The other States named were kept out of the Union by the Radical Congress, but having been "reconstructed" au-i re? admitted, are again sovere.gn States, as much so as Ohio, Pennsylvania or Massa? chusetts. The question therefore naturally arises, what caa Congress do wita these States if it does meet, or how can it remedy the evils complained of, and which are in the main imaginary ? Will it repeal its own laws declaring these States entitled lo repre? sentation because, forsooth, the carpet-bag? gers cannot control them? Mississippi, Vir? ginia and Texas are unreconstructed. All the rest have votes for Presidential electors. If Congress meeta it will be to devise means to carry lue Presidential election for the Radicals, and its assembly for this purpose will be s tacit ackgowled ement of weakness at the North and abaolute ependence npon further mani? pulation at the South. The Washington Star has the followii g : From our positive information to the effect that members of Contrress generali; nave ex? pressed themselves adverse to coming to Washington in September, in consequence of their pressing home engagements during the canvass, we hare believed, up to this time, that there would be no September session. Within the last week however, the appeal of Republicans-leading Republicana-of the South, have been so urgent noon the party lead? ers of the North for a speedy meeting of Con? gress that the expediency of holding such a session is now being seriously discussed. The representations from the South to the National Republican Committee are to the effect that the white pupulation is almost a unit in oppo? sition to the laws of Congress, and makes every exertion by threat or promise to win over the black vote. The President's instructions to the southern mUitary commanders, just pub? lished, are regarded ai placing the loyal popu? lation more completely at the mercy of the secession majority element. It is claimed that the only course for Congress is either to re? peal the law of Congress authorizing the re? constructed States to vote for President, or else to confer the choice of Presidential elec ; tors upon the respective State Legislatures,' It is urged further, that if the 21st of September goes by, without a meeting of Conprosa, that even more violent me sures will be taken by the rebel element to get political control, and that a system of terrorism will be instituted in every Southern State, making it impossible for a Republican white or black to cast a vo*e, or even to hold life or property in security. Those opposed to tbe September session maintain that it will lose more votes to the Republican arty in the North than it will gain them in the outh; tuat it is doubtful if Congress can do anything" more than it has done to remedy the condition of affairs in the South; and that as a mere matter of expediency, the Republican party will gain ten votes at the North to every . ono they will lose at the South, by the revolu? tionary connie and counsels of the Forrests, Cobbs and Hamptons. On the Bame subject the correspondent of the New York Times writes : The pros and cons of the September s a* s ion question are eagerly discussed by politicians of every stripe. The advocates of a meeting at that time are nearly always Southern Radicals, who fear that they cannot carry their States without assistance in the way of a repeal of the law prohibiting the organization and arming the militia. They say that the order issued to-day from the War Department instructing military commanders in the South as to their power of interference in case of political or other disturbance is a nulity, so far as practi? cal results are concerned. They argue that the mere presence of troops, without authority to act, as contemplated in the order, unless appealed to by the civil authorities, will not weigh a hair's influence against the inclination of the Democrats to interfere with the election, i hey further argue, after the Marshal, Sheriff, or other civil authority in the locality of a political disturbance, has taken cognizance of it, the delay necessary to the issue of a f i vd writ and obtaining military as? sistance, will give any party, so inclined, plen? ty of time to complete their design of control? ling the polls. Many of them are extreme enough to say that the order will result in the loss of the South to Gran t and Colfax. On the other hand it is argued that the reassembling of Congress in September will ta e from the canvass, both North and South, two-thirds of the ablest and most directly interested speak? ers in the Republican ranks; again, if Congress should meet and pass such a bill as is demand? ed, the veto which would undoubtedly follow, and the time consumed in perfecting it, would prevent the possibility of ita becoming a law until October, when it will be too late to or? ganize and equip the m?itia in the South. On the wnoie, it ie conceded that the adjourn? ment to meet at as late a day as the 21st of September was a great mistake, and may be attend jd with fatal results to the country. BLOODY AFFHAY Irl UNION DISTHICT. THE CAUSE OF THE QUASSEL-THE NEOEOEI FTRE FIB8T-BATES, AS USUAL, THE SEN'O LEADEB. The Unionviile Times gives the following particulars of the bloody affray which took place at San tuc Depot on Wednesday last : We regret that a serious affray occurred Wednesday as ... ntur Depot, in this District, between negr > a and whites. It seems that several anne 1 n groes hud assembled at the depot to meet tl e negro, John Bates, who was expected to arrive upon the train from Colum? bia, whither he had gone, as waa said, to pro? cure bacon for the negroes. During the fore? noon a quarrel arose between a white man and a negro, which resulted in the outting of the white man by the n?gro with a knife. This produced excitement, but the white people, anxious to avoid a collision that would be perverted to their prejudice, refrained from hostile acts and prevented an affray at that time. When the train arrived, John Bates was on hoard, end a body of armed negroes advanced to meet him, and informed him that a difficulty had occurred there during the day^ when Bates went to his carpet-bag, took out a pistol and rejoined the armed negroes. Bates was approached by a white man, vho asked bun by what authority he organized military companies. What Bates* answer was we are not inf o? med. He was then asked whether he was for peace or war, he said he was for peace. He was then told if ho desired peace, to take these armed negroes away. The body of ne? groes moved away from the depot at a slow pace, and had gone a few scores of yards, when they halted, and one negro named Frank Hob? son, armed with a double-barrelled gun, turned and fired at the group of white men. The shot struck two white meo, who thereupon fired with pistols in return. Several shots were then fired by both parties, when the negroes fled. We understand that one negro had hip thigh broken and some tew others were slightly burt. No whiles were seriously hurt. As we said at the beginning, we regret this occur? rence; and at tue same time we know bow the Eeople in that suction have been provoked and arassed by (hebe bands of armed negroes toing about the country, boasting of their strength, neglecting their work and destroying the sock cn the plantations. John Batea has induced the neeroes to believe that the white people were at their mercy, that when they chose to make the effort, they could appropri? ate all the land and other property in the coun? try. He claims to be Commander-in-chief of the military forces in Union District, and ex? ercises a despotic control over most of the ne? groes in that section of the District. The ne? gro, Frank Hobson, was arrested by the Sheriff, yesterdry, and committed to jail. The additional information given below is taken from a letter published in the Columbia Phoenix : Bates, the ringleader, lives on the premises of a widow lady; keeps his armed guard; has his public meetings on her lands, where armed negroes congregate, contrary to her wishes. To these meetings his men gather, passing through cultivated delds. Last Friday he inarched out with about ?ixty or eighty men. a northan armed, to hold a meeting in-another portion of the district. They marched through cultivated fields, con? trary to the orders of the owners. When re? monstrated with, replied, what can oue man do with a hundred ? They took possession of a church, used by white people, on the way, where the night was made hideous to the neighborhood by their loud noise and boisterous conduct. On their return next day, their behavior was such, in passing houses, as to be amenable to the criminal courts for riot, if we had law or judges. A few miles from Bates' headquarters, two wbite ladies were riding along the highway, a week or so since, when one of them was pelted by stoues thrown by a negro, and received a severe blow on the side of her fae . Bates ia a preacher, as weil as a politician, and a military officer. Says he is to receive (500, if tbe Radical ticket is successful in this District. Visits Columbia very frequently, aud h is impressed the negroes with his importance and power, by the general ordets he gives and reads Irom tho Executive Department of the State, (as he says ) and other important papers which he distributes. Tbe writer has heard a negro say that he joined tbe League, because Bates said that if be didn't he would have his head. Yesterday Bates was expected to arrive fi om Columbia, and about sixty or eighty negroes, many of them armed with guns, were at Santuc Depot, in this district, awaiting his arrival. During the day, and some time before the arri? val of tbe rain, a difficulty occurred between a whit;mau and negro, in which the former was cnt with a knife. The -hite poisons present succeede 1 in stopping the fight and restoring order. When the train arrived, the negroea were cits* hv lie armed ones with then: guns at "a Bhoulder.n W?en ?Jatea stepped ont, bis men moved np towards him. A gentleman approached Bateau showing iu;n that he was unirmed, and that his intentions were pacific, and asked why thisj demonstration was made; at tho samo timo al? luding to his (Bates) having his bandon bia pistol. One of the armed guard stood with hia weapon at "a present," and cocked. Bates re? plied that he was commander-in-chief of tua militia of Union District; that he always car? ried his pistol. Peace was urged, and the ce* groes were asked if they were for peace, to ga off. The parties separated, and were moving off, the whites being satisfied that ho further disturbance would be offered, when ona of the negroes fired into the crowd of whita ?arsons, and immediately thereafter fired ano? 1er gun.- A white man. who was hit, thea opened the fire with a pin il on the part of the whites, repeating, as fast as he could, when the firing became general on both sides, tho whites advancing. There were about twenty? five white persons present, with but one gun (loaded with small shot) and ten or twelve pis? tols. Bates was soon foremost by'many paces m leading the flight of his party, and it is said came near upsetting a horse m his hurry to leap a fence. The blacks soon made their escape through the woods and fields. Threa whites were wounded slightly. Ten negroes are heard of who are wounded; two seriously. Fortunately, for the oause of truth, tho affray occurred while the train was standing at the station, and was witnessed by bota white and colored passengers. Bates left his wounded to take care of them? selves, and made, it seems, a bee-line for tho Charlotte Railroad. Before you receive this, I ?mess he is in Columbia with a terrible cock and-bull story, and probably figures as one of the martyred heroes of radicalism. The wounds of the negro disabled were dressed by a Dem? ocratic physician, on the spot, and he was otherwise kindly cared for. Before the Gov? ernor decides this case, from an ex parie hear? ing; it is hoped that he win have an investiga? tion made. Sapping. NEW V'OKK AND CHARLESTON STEAMSHIP LINE. FOR NE W YORK. THE SPLENDID SIDE WHEEL} 'STE A M s HIP JAMES ADO EB, IocrwooD, Commander, will lea va .AdRCCft Wharf on Saturday, the 6Ul September, at Ei*ht o'clo-k A. M. The Steamers of this Line insure at three-quarter per cent For Freight or Passage, having elegant cahill accommcdations, apply to JAMES ADOBB k CO., Corner East Bay and Adger's Wharf (Up Stain). August 31 0 FOR MEW YOLK. 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