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'?'MW?iV VOLUME VI.-NUMBER 94*3 CHARLESTON, S. C., SATURDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 12, 1868. EIGHTEEN CENTS A WEEK THE NEWS FOB THE CAMPAIGN G BEAT INDUCEMENTS TO CLUBS. ' The importance, of tho great political con? test upon which we have 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 tho welfare of these Southern States, should five an active, personal end un? flagging support to the candidates of the National Democracy-SZTMOUB and BLATB. A triumph of the Badi cala will 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 truit, to the exclusion of the 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? ple shod J be thoroughly informed to accom? plira this, and THE NEWS will be an admirable means of diffusing this information. In order to place the paper within the reach of all, we have 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 are determined that THE NEWS shall be the cheapest and best newspaper in the South Ita blows will fall thickly, steadily and rapidly and if the friends of law, order and the Con stitut ion do their duty by extending its cir cu 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 THE CHARLESTON NEWS. BATES TOE THE CAMPAIGN NEWS. Daily News (four months).$2 00 Tri-Weekly News (four months).1 00 CLUB BATES. live copies Daily News, four mouthe, to one address.(8 50 lite copies Tri-Weekly News, four months, to one address..4 25 Ten copies Daily Hews, four months, to one address.15 00 Ten copies Tri-Weekly News, four months, to one addre-s. 7 5t) One copy of THE NEWS free to ?very person who sends a club of ten subscribers at these Tates. The cash must in all cases accompany the Older. These prices should secure fer THE NEWS a rast circulation, which would result in a cor? responding benefit to the Democratic cause. Slay we not confidently ask the kind offices of our friends in this behalf? Remittances can be made by money order at our risk, and all letters should bo addressed to RIORDAN. DAWSON & CO.*' Charleston, S. C. BY TELEGRAPH. Our Karo IM-a ii Dispatches. [FEB imano rnmn.] INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF WOBXXNOMEK. EaussELs, September 9.-An international convention Of the workingmen of Europe has been in session in this city during the pact week. The attendance was very large, and the proceedings hara;onions and orderly. A rt. ration was - adopted' as follows : "That in the opinion of the convention workingmen cannot obtain complete emancipation from theoppres< sion of employers through the means merely of local strikes; that all strikes should be sub? ject to a code of uniform roles and regulations that councils of arbitration be formed to a : difficulties between employer and emp oyed and anally, that trade societies be established in those countries where they do not exist, and that all such societies be organized so as to be able to act- in close connection and counsel with one another ?fbr a general improvement of the status of workingmen throughout Eu? rope." PROTECTION OE GERMAN EXIGEANTS. BERLIN, September 9.-Consul-General Bos ing, the agent recently appointed by the North German Government to treat with the authori? ties at Washington for the re-establishment of more efficient regulations for the protection of emigrants from German ports, sailed tor New York on board the steamship Hermann. Our Washington Dispatches. WASHINGTON, September ll. -The Tenues see delegation had an in tor view with the Presi? dent, but the details are suppressed. They are to have another interview, when the com? mittee w?l themselves telegraph the result to the Tennessee Legislature. The delegation express themselves as satisfied with the pro? gress of events. In their address they urge an immediate reinforcement of the Federal troops in Tennessee, to act with the civil au? thorities in the preservation of order, the en? forcement of the laws, and the prosecution of criminals. Acting Attorney-General Ashton decides that tho Quarter m as ter-Ge narai, under existing laws, has no authority to allow compensation for premises used for army purposes in the South during the war. The test case was that of Elliott, of Tennessee, whose premises were used as a hospital. Under this ruling, similar claims, aggregating some thirty millions of dollars, now on file in the War Department, are ignored. Tb? Maryland Immigrants. RALEIGH, N. C., September H.-Col. De chert's party of Marylanders, who have been prospecting in the South with a view to found? ing a settlement, are buying land in Western North Caroona, which they consider offers greater advantages to the settler than any sec? tion they have visited. More Indi* n Outrages. PHILADELPHIA, September ll.-A special from Fort Wallace says that the Indiana dash? ed into the town of Sheridan, and afterward captured several Mexican trains, killing three men. Colorado advices report five hundred ?ead of cattle stolen and twenty citizens scalped. The fight near Fort Lyon resulted in tho death of two soldiers and four Indians. From Central America. HAVANA, September ll.-Late advices mee tion tbe suppression of the rebellion in Puebla. Generals Lucas and Bonilla have surrendered. The rebels were also defeated at San Miguel and at Tetteda. General Negrette has fled. Georgia Legislature-The Negroes to toa Kip riled from the Senate. ATLANTA, September IL-Tho Senate has allowed the negro senators one hour each to defend their eligibility, and the day was con? sumed in the discussion. It is the general im? pression that the negroes will be declared in? eligible by a small majority. F HOM THE STATE CAPITAL. LEGISLATIVE DOINGS -PEN REM HABT, KDUCA TION AND ELECTION BILLS-ACTS BIONED Br GOVERNOR SCOTT-PUBLICATION OF THE ACTS OF THE ASSEMBLY- COUNTS PROSECUTING AT? TORNEY-THE IH DIC AL STATE CONVENTION AN "OHOAN" TO BE ESTABLISHED-THE AD? JOURNMENT. [SPECIAL TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY NEWS.]] COLUMBIA, Friday, September ll.-IN THE SENATE tc-day Corbin gave notice of a bill to provide for the government of the Peniten? tiary. TheTnll providing for a temporary organiza? tion of the educational department of the State was passed. A resolution was adopted directing the Comp? troller-General to issue a duplicate warrant to Woodward, in place of one which had been lost. The bill providing for the next general elec? tion and for the manner of conducting the same received its second reading. Wbittemore introduced a joint resolution in v tin? General Hawley to address the Legisla? ture, which was adopted. A message was received ?om the Governor announcing that he had approved and signed an act to determine and perpetuate the home? stead law; also, an act to fix the amounts of the official bonds of certain county officers. At the evening session the Chatham Bail road bill came up for its third reading. The Senate, however, was in no humor to pass it and it was postponed and made the special order for Thursday next, by a vote of 19 to 4. The explanation of this unexpected result is that the parties who have been engineering the bill through, failed to come .down with the promised cash, k which was to complete the balance of the loan to the State, and thereby BU the pockets ol' the impecunious and hungry legislators. . IN THE HOUSE, a joint resolution was adopted relative to the publication of the acts passed it the present session of the General Assem- 1 bly. The resolution provides for the appoint- ' ( ment of a joint committee, with power to se? lect the newspapers to which the publication ' s to be awarded. The acts are also to be ! rmbhshed in pamphlet form, for general dis? tribution. Jackson introduced a joint resolution inri- , ling General Hanley to visit the Legislature, adopted. The bill to 08tr'jhsh the office of County ' Tosecuting Attorney came np on its second eadine;. It was opposed by DeLarge as an unnecessary measure and on account of its xcessive cost. Whipper and Boseman de ended the bill as necessary for the protection r if the citizen. A motion to postpone the far- ? her consideration of the measure was voted 0 lown-yeas, 31; nays, 43. The bill provides J br one Prosecuting Attorney for each county, o be elected by the people every four years, 8 ind who is to take charge of all State suits * vhich are to be decided in tho county. Ad- ^ oorned. 1 The Republican State Convention has ad- \ ourned sine (tte, after the adoption of an ad- Q. tress to the people of the Stato and a speech 1 rom Morris, the agent of the National Bepub- ' ican Executive Committee at Washington, 1 Tho visits this State with authority to estab- A tah a daily Republican newspaper. It is the general opinion now that the Legis- \ ature will adjourn about the end of next ? ?eek. ' A large Radical meeting was held here fo? ught, which was addressed by I . S. Wallace, loge, and others. [ * 8 What Tra* Done In the Republican I E State Convention. I v . 8 The Columbia Phoenix of yesterday says: | ? - .o State Convention of the Republican arty of South Carolina adjourned last e ven? ns, after a very inharmonious session, in this dty, of three days. It was composed, as tearly as we could ascertain, of ninety-six no ?roes and mulattoes, eighteen carpet-baggers, ittracted from various points of that part of lus glorious Republic which hes north of the ?otoraao River, and ten waite men. The usual amount of buncombe and gas was >ermitted to escape, and an a verage quantity )f such courtesies as "falsehood," "no gem nen," and "I meet him out of dis house," were xchanged. To go further into the details of he proceedings of the hybrid concern, would tot only tax our professional patienoe too auch, but offend the good taste of our readers. Ve write this in no eptnl ot partisanship, but imply to do justice to an assemblage, which, br the ignorance and indecency ot its mem? bers, surpasses every other we nave ever seen n the South, lt is worthy of mention, bowov r, that the committee appointed by the Bable Urethren to inspect the accounts of tho chair nan of the State Central Executive Commu? ?e, Hon. (?) Rev. B. F. Whittemore, member if Congress from the First District, reported hat whilst they applauded the zeal he had dis? mayed in the cause of Republicanism in this ?tate, they regretted that he had not taken nore pains to secure receipts for the diabursc lentsof the funds (three thousand four hun Ired dollars) which hal been coveted and ilaced in his hands. We leave our readers to Qfer what was meant. After spending three days in the perfection f the job, the Convention has finally organiz d for the campaign, in the interest of Cant nd Grabtax, on the following basis: Chairman ot the St te Central Executive Jommittee-Hon. Rev. Senator Burnt District iegro Randolph. Chairman of the First Congressional Dis? tict-Judas K. JdlBon; Second District-Jero? mah B. Dennis; Third District-Amiable N. ?oozer; Fourth District-Liberty Wimbush, ?olored. For Electors of President and Vice-Presi lent-D. PL Chamberlain, General Charles J. stolbiand gentlemen at large; First District J. A. bwails. (mulatto;) Second District-A. T. Ranaier, (mulatto;) Third District-B. F. ?landolpb, B. D., (haif.breed;) Fourth District -J. M. Allen, (plain.) The rest of the session waa consumed in maring an address by the Central Committee o the "electors" of the Stato, and in gundry ittle displays of Demosthenic aspirations, by vhite niggers, brown niggers, molasses candy tolored niggers, and all sorts of niggers, tho Thole- terminating with a corn-suueking shake iown by the whole company, (without extra marge,) and three cheers for Cant and Grab a -- -At the Vienna Sch?tzenfest a few days igo, the Emperor, Francis Juseph, tried his skill, and made such a remarkably good shot that he did not dare to attempt another trial for fear it might be a failure. At the Wash? ington Sch?tzenfest, a lew days ago, Presi? dent Johnson, after ono admirable shot, made a second venture of bis skill, andbrougnt down his "bird" in the most beautiful manner. Why should not Andy challenge Frank to a great international trial of skill? He might be? come the Schulzenkcening pf the world. TUE CITY DEMOCRACY. BRILLIANT SPEECH OF GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON, OF GEORGIA. AN IMMENSE GATHERING. Last eight, in pursuance of the notice pre? viously given, about threo thousand persons assembled in front of tho Charleston Hotel to hear an address by General John B. Gordon, of Georgia. A stage had been erected in the same place as at the great meeting when Gen. Hampton spoke, and the second Btory piazza was devoted to tho ladies as on that occasion. Gen. Gordon was introduced to tho audience bj Gen. James Conner, who said that it had been their intention to privo Gen. Gordon tho compliment of a serenade, bul that there were so many grand Democratic meetings being held in different parts of the State which re? quire theservioes of the Charleston bands that there was not a band left in the city. He allud? ed to the similarity of tho careers of Gen. Hampton and Gon. Gordon, both of whom had only been known in the social circle before tho war, an! both of whom hal returned from the war crowned with laurels, and hiving a proud rocord of duly nobly done. Both had come home to do their duty in the cause of peace, pnd had both been sent as delegates to the New York Convention. He then spoke of tho high position oojupied by Gen. Gordon in his own State, alluded to tho fact of his having been the Democratic candidate for Governor of Georgia in the late election, and concluded by iitroduciog him. General Gordon is tall and slender, wears bis black hair rather long and pushed back from his forehead behind his ears, has sharply defined features, his face is marked with a deep scar, and he carries himself erect. He ?poke with great deliberation and calmness, in substance as follows : Ladies, and GentUmcn of the Club and my FeUow-cituens of South Carolina : lh appear? ing before yon to-night to take counsel con? cerning the preservation of the public liberty, and in returning my ackowledgments for the compliment you have seeu fit to pay me, I grreet you with great gladness-with gladness which I have not words to express-'or I bring ?rou elad tidings from your sister State of Geor? g? ia our State, my countrymen, there is no longer any division. Our public gatherings have ceased to be interesting, except ns the irrand and imposing pageants of a united peo? ple. Why, s, Radical is a curiosity in Georgia 1 iou are told in one section of the State that he s not in that neighborhood, but in the next. Ita there, and he is still further, and, in fact, rou can scarcely find him at all. I tell you, ?rs, that the white people of Georgia are a mit, and all the good-looking colored people lave loft the Radical porty and joined the De nocracy. And why should it not be so with pou, too, in South Carolina ? You have a grand listory, and your record of the past is honor? able. Why should the descendants of Rutledge md Marion be less truo to the principles of he constitution and to the public liberty for vhich they fought, than the descendants of he old patriots of Georgia? Why are wo so united *? thu south ? Lot me evie w the causes of the war- 1 will not detain ou long. The war, in my opinion, was a war >f theorems, of constructions, of constructions if the constitution, the fundamental law of tho and. In ad sections of the country; tn all ages ince the foundation of the government, from he time of John Quincy Adams to thal; of John X Calhoun, in Massachusetts and in South karolina, there has always been a difference of ?pinion as to the right of secession. Tho South [eclared ber right, and attempted to execute t. The North denied the right, and made war o prevent its exercise. The debate was re ooved from the halls of Congress, the hustings nd the press to the battle-field. Tho argu aents no longer consisted of words, but of bul : ts and bayonets. It was an undecided and lisputed right, and it remained so until j he surrender of our armies at Appomattox nd in Western North Carolina. Well, what ras decided by that surrender? Was it that 1 be exercise of the right of secession was trea on? No, sirs. I have never admitted, and I lever intend to admit, before my people or any ' rhere else, that the South was guilty of troa on. I will never trace with my owa finger 1 lishonor upon the ashes of the men who fell a defence of the South, unless some power 1 lightier than my own nerves shall control my j and. I utter no dieloyal sentiment in saying bis. Until the surrender the right of PGCOB- 1 ion was undecided. What was then decided? ' .'his and only this: That henceforth from tho ate of the surrender we would not at.cmpt B.'- 1 ession as a peaceful remedy. Hence I say I ' efy any court, j migo ur jury to convict of ( reason any Southern man who voted or fought ' jr secession. c We have accepted the Union and the Consti- 1 ation-the same Union and Constitution ( rhich the Northern soldier fought for, and nought he had secured by his triumph. The c ry of the Union and the Constitution rallied i heir armies around their fiog. That cry went 1 ut over all the North. No other cry would 1 vor have filled their ranks. They turned * heir mills into looms to weave Union calicos 1 jr their women to wear; they caught the ares of the forest and manufactured their wool * ito Union hats. They even in some places pread the communion table with the staw nd stripes, the emblem of the Constitution nd the Union. Their people fought for tho institution and the Union. If I had now 3 make an appeal to the Northern soldiers, would say to them : "Sirs! the Constitution ? nd the Union which you enlisted to fight for ? re now ask your help to save." If I had no w to j ?lead my cause or the cause of my countrymen ^ ?fore a jury, I would select that jury from . moog the men who fought against us in the j ield. You need not fear a bravo man, no mat- I er where you meet him. I am willing to ( rust the man who will peril life and limb, | .nd sacrifice his personal comfort for the sake if what he deems right. But deliver mo from 1 hoso men who have grown courageous since 1 ho danger has passed-thoso men who kept heir precious bodies far away out of reach of harm from your shot and ibell. Deliver me from tho judg nont of men who never witnessed the grand and imposing spectacle of marshaling hosts, whose pulse has never quickened with tho glorious excitement of the charge, whose Bonis have never felt the fury of the onset. They are the men who, with the spirit of ma? lignant fiends, followed in the tr ck of their conquering armies, and mangled tho bodies of the dead-men who liko vultures bore away the victims of battle and fattened on the blood of soldiers. From the judgment of such men I pray God I may escape. The South has yielded secession and accepted the Union. The North fought against secession and en? forced union. Hence it is that the white boys in blue, and the white boys who fought for four long years in gray Jackets, now march to get hermana lock shields beneath the same ban lier, lt ia a strange spectacle, bat it is easily accounted,for. The white boys in bine and the white boys in grey have found a common ene? my. That enemy is the Radical party, which has deceived the South and cheated the North? ern soldier oat of the just trophies of bis triumph and the price of hia blood. I could ahow how the Radical party ia the enemy to everything essential to the prosperity and W3lfare of the people, but I will confine my remarks to a few things. In the first place, they are the enemies of the constitution. They prate about tho constitution, it is true. The members of Congress are Bworn to sup? port the constitution, and they say that they are the friends of the constitution. Let us see. Suppose I could call up the spirit of the great leader of their party here to-night, and propound to him this question : "Wore yon, as the loader of your patty, a friend to tho con? stitution?" What would be his reply? Why, he would laugh me to scorn. He would say, I have openly declared that I have acted outside of the constitution, and you ask me if I am a friend to the constitution. Why, my acts, which speak louder than words, are in direct violation of every principle of the con? stitution. I voted to deprive you of the right of trial by jury and the writ of habeas corpus. I voted for tx post facto laws. I voted that ten sovereign States, like the captive monarchs of old, should be dragged at the chariots of tho conquerors. That all your constitutional rights should be crushed beneath the wheels ol this triumphant tyranny. In the face of all tb ese facts, you ask me if I am a fr ?en j to the con? stitution. You had as well ask the assassin, whose hands are reeking with the blood of his victim, if he is the friend of the dead man. As the Radicals are the enemies of the consti? tution so they are the enemies of the Union. For this is a government of constitutional law. The Union exists by virtue of tho constitution, and without it the Union could not exist. Therefore, as they are the enemies ol the con? stitution they are the enemies of the Union. But they have also proved that they aro the enemies of the Uoion by their legislative enact? ments, by their Chicago platform, and by their indisposition to readmit us into the Union. These people say that they are for peace. Tes, they are for one kind of peace. The peace that England maintains in Ireland, Russia in Poland, and which Austria main tainod in Italy until recently. The peace o the bullet and the bayonet. Th is peace is typified in their ticket, where Grant, the sol? dier, occupies the first place and Colfax, the civilian, the second. On the other band the Democratic party is in favor of a peace of law and order, and on their ticket Seymour, the statesman, takes precedence of Blair, the war? rior. When these men tay peace they mean war of races in the South. They cry peace with one heath and call for rides with tho next-rifles to be wielded by the dusky le? gions of the South. The speaker here took occasion to address tho colored people in the audience. F ad? dressed them in plain colicquial style, exposing Radical falsehoods, and warning them against the evil advice of men who tried to stir np ill reeling between them and the white people of the South. He tuld them the Northern peoplo bad owned their fathers as ?laves, and if they aaa set thom free for love, the freedom would have been accorded them then, and they them? selves might have been born free and have ulready owned the forty acres of land the lying scoundrels had promised them. Ho ?rave them an account of Helper and his b*ok md pointed out to them its bearing on the juest ion of the war of races and the extermi? nation of the blacks. He warned them against the consequences of turning a deaf ear to all that the Southern gentlemen told them, ?nd declared to thom that if they continued to lis? ten to and hoed the counsels of designing bad men, "tho leaves on the trees now green wmld aol be turned red by the autumn frost beiore hey would be stained with the blood of the ?vhite man and the black." He was interrupted by the negroes answer ng him "No 1 no 1 no 1" to various questions hat he put. Many of them doubtless acted "rom the want of better sense, while others frere trying to raise a disturbance, in which, ?ve aro happy to say, they failed. Having finished his remarks to the colored people, General Gordon turned again to the whites, and said that he would have been glad to say something on tbe subject of taxation, sut he only had time to call their attention to he sublime impudeuce of the Chicago plat 'omi, in prating of economy, when tho party ?ad spent more in the titree years sinco the var, than the Democrats and Whigs had in ioventy-two years, including two wars. After some remarks on tho almost certain luccesB of the Democratic party in the forth joming election, he concluded with a short ad? ir?es to the ladies, urging them to use the jower which bad beon given them by the King )f Kings, and Lord of Lords, to control tho rill and mould thc minds of men, for the good if the Democratic party. At the conclusion of General Gordon's ad lress, Hon. J. ?. Campell, being loudly called or, made a brief speech-rebuking the colored loople for their rudeness in interrupting Gone al Gordon, and urging them to coalesce with he Southern whiles in tho preservation of law ind order. Other speakers followed, and at a late hour he vast assemblage dispersed. Things in Orangtbarg. [FttOM AN OCCASIONAL COE RESPONDENT.] OBANQEBUBG, S. C., September 10-Sale day is quite an institution at the Courthouse-we have*nt learned to say "county seat" yet. It is the day when every countryman feels it an mperative duty to renounce any demand op? posing his visit to the burg, and yielding to the irgument of his wife and daughters, equally asrsistent in then: claim, he hitches up his ;eam and drives in. Monday was unusually quiet, on account of a learth of business in the Sheriff's Hue. which oas fallen off remarkably in the way of sales. Lot us hope that tue outrageous and saddening Bacrinccs of homes aud property, so common Bince the war. aie about to cease. 'Ino Central Club of the District was largely represented by delegates from nearly all the numerous precinct ciubs comprising the De? mocracy or Orangeburg. The "committee of arrangements for the expected ratification mass meeting, reported favorable progress, and it is expected that the Democrats, plain and colored, will rally gallant? ly under the Seymour and Blair banner. A bar? becue will bo tho pimie consideration, after the speeches. Tho provision crop of our district will prove abundant, but the crop of cotton has been ma.orially shortenod, by uufavorable seasons and the caterpillar. Yet the aggre? gate of crops will exoced in valuo that of any year einco tho surrender, and put a brighter face on things generally. Just now business is distressingly dull, and at noon when old Sol ?B doing his warmest we. ?rf t THE NEWS, which dissipates our ennui. We aro glad to read that Pillsbury ls on tho mend; wonder if Collins has beon dosing him ? Yours, QUELQUEFOIS. -Belton Cline, the colored man charged with the murder of Mr. A. D. Walker, died tn the jail at Chester, on Monday last, of con? sumption, POLITICS IN GEORGIA. THE EXPULSION OF THE COLORED ME MU EES" OF THE LEGISLATURE. [Correspondence o? the New York Timea] ATLANTA, GA., September 4.-The decision of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of Georgia, that negroes are ineli?i ble to seats in the Legislature, is the subject of discussion which excludes all others at this moment. While it was under debate nobody seemed to think of anything else, and now that the question is settled, and the House has de? cided that under the constitution and laws of j Georgia free persons of color are ineligible to omeo, everybody seems to concur in the deci? sion except the colored members, but there is a very general anxiety felt as to what will be the result of tho step. The fact that only so few white members voted in the negative deprives tho action of tho House of any partisan character. D?mo? crate, Radicals and Independents all voted yea, and there can be no doubt that the speeches of tho negro members, in defence ot what they called their righto, did not convince many, but, on the contrary, inclined many who were in doubt to give tho benefit of the doubt to the proposition to exclude the color? ed persons. Chief Justice .H rown's argument io tavor of negro ineligibility has had great weight with Radical members, and his influ? ence has been exerted with great effect among those who believed that citiz'nship necessirily carries with it the right to hold office. Gov? ernor Bullock, it is said, favored the viow ta? ken by th' Chief Justice, and is much grati? fied by the action of the House, believing that it relieves him from the importunities of negro applicants for office, whoso number is legion. Lawyers, without distinct on of party, or rather, I should say, without reference to party, sustain and oppose Judge Brown's opin? ion; and many pr minent, jurists hold that, un 1er the existing constitution of Georgi*, and since the adoption of the Constitutional Amendment, negroes aro os eligible to seats in the Legislature as would be Daniel Webster and Henry Clay, were they alive and residents of Georgin, and that there is no necessity for any express enactment declaring negroes eli? gible to office. They are citizens beyond the possibility of question; and if they are males over twenty-one years of age, and residents of Georgia for the prescribed time, they can be elected to the Legislature just as legally as a white man. They may not be fitted for the dis? charge of tho duties. They are not, it is uni? versally admitted by all parties who have seen or heard them since the Legislature met. But the same obje tion lies to their exercise of tho right of suffrage, which nobody denies is conferred upon them by the existing constitu? tion. When the new constitution was framed by the Atlanta Convention, a proposed clause specially conferring the right to hold office on the negroes was struck out by a very large ma? jority. Bryant, I think, voted for striking out on the ground that it was surplusage, and, therefore, necessary. But Bullock, Blodgett and Brown were said to have advocated it, for the reason that if negroes were declared eligi? ble to office, the white mm of Northern Geor? gia who favored reconstruction would certainly oppose the constitution and defeat its adop? tion. During the sitting of the Convention ex-Governor Brown made a speech, in which he emphatically warned the Convention not to confer the right to hold office, as the Reconstruction acto did not require it, and plainly told his audience that if the right were granted he should use all his influence to de? feat the constitution, as dangerous to the best interests of the State. During the canvass he maintained that the .constitution did not con? fer the right, and he has since steadfastly held to that opinion. Citizenship, he holds, does not carry with it eligibility to office. Wo? men and children are ci izens, but they cannot hold office; and in proof that such is the" opinion of Congress, alto, he pointed to the fact, that when it was intended to confer the right on nogroes to hold office in the District of Colum? bia, where Congress is omnipotent, it waa fmird necessary to pasa a special statute to that effect, in addition to the previous acts which declared them to be citizens. Whether this reasoning be good in law or not, I do not presume to say. Certain it is that it has influenced the members of the Le? gislature, and that, as judges of the qualifica? tions of their own members, they have decid? ed, by an immense majority of the white re? presentatives, that negroes, with more than one-eighth negro blood, do not possess the ne? cessary qualifications. The question now is, what will the negroes do? Will they submit peaceably or will they resist ? Will ttaoy, aa some have threatened, maintain their clams by force, or will they ac? quiesce in a judgment which most of their most earnest friends have pronounced ? There is considerable uneasiness felt and ex? pressed on this subject. In many parts of the State, and especially in Southern and bouth western Georgia, reports are life of large negro assemblies organized and drilling as armed bodies; but as yet I have not heard of any act of violence or any throats of violence except from the irrepressible Bradley, whose am? bition it is to be another Toussaint Ouverture. Tho negro members who are immediately affected by the derision are very wrath, and talk very menacingly, but it is to be hoped that they will be persuaded of the folly and fruitlessness of any attempt to reverse by force what the House of Representatives have done by what almost amounts to an unani? mous vote. The great puzzle to the Democratic out? siders is "why the Radicals voted to exclude the niggers." There a< e all sorts of solutions given. One is that it is a dodge to excite the negroes to insurrection. Another is that the white Radicals are jealous of the negro aspi? rants for office, and want to have all the offices for themselves. Another insists that it is a grand scheme to influence the people of the North for Grant and Colfax, and that it is got up to order. Those who belive that tho Radi chi members voted according to their convic? tion of the true intent and meaning of the Con? stitution of the State of Georgia, Sud more diffi? culty in persuading others to adopt their view than those who favor the less charitable con? struction of the motives of the " scalawags " and "carpet-baggers." It is ? great relief to the people that the de? bate has come to an end. The tax-payers, who have to make up the hundred and seven? ty-five times nine dollars a day, were begin ning to grumble lustily at the waste or time and tho heavy loss to the State, and it ia now boped that necessary business will be transac? ted speedily, and that the Legislature will ad? journ before long. The cases of Fyall and four or five others, who have be.n classed as negroes, but who now ciaim to be white men with less than one-eighth negro blood, will be considered separately, and evidence' taken as to the jus? tice of the several claims. According to the cod? of Georgia any one bavin? less than one eighth negro blood is practically a white man, and if Fyall can prove that his 1 nigger streak " is less than the eighth he will be al? lowed to hold his seat. The "black niggers" are very indignant at this claim of the white men. They regard it SB a base desertion of race, and will visit it with great severity on all who attempt to urge it. Turner, of Macon, who glories in his color and his race, is especi? ally angry at those who are trying "to make Jacks of themselves," and assures them that if they turn their backs on th'-ir own color tho white men will not receive them, and they will be outcasts from those whom they have abandoned. 1 HE ASHBL'RN 1?KWOJER!?. BEPORT OF GENERAL MEADE - PROCEEDINGS OF DETECTIVES WOEKINO OP A CASE-TORTURE AND INTIMIDATION OF PRISONERS IN A SOUTH? ERN FORT-T.-IA LS BY MILITARY COMMISSION EX-GOVERNOR BROWN AS COUNSEL FOB THE PROSECUTION. Major-General Meade has made a report of his action, and that of the military officers un? der him, in the matter of the arrest and man? ner of treatment of prisoners charged with complicity in the murder of Ashburn, in Co? lumbus. Ga., who was killed in a brothel on the 30th day of Maa ch. It will bo recollected that some of tho parties thus arrested havo published a ?talement of the crueltins and in? human treatment they wero subjected to whilst under arrest, and that Reed, one of the detec? tives employed by General M ade and General Grant to "work up the case," has also reco:itIy mado an affidavit to the facts, which soo-? that certain persons among the prisoners were aub jected lo barbarous treatment, under authority claimed to have been received from the mili? tary commander. As a vindication of himself against the allegations, General Meade has asked and received authority to publish an ac? count of his doings. It appears that the mur? der of Ashburn, who had been a member of the Georgia Constitutional Convention, caused a great deal of excitement, which ultimately assumed the form of a political controversy. It was charged that General Meade and some of his subordinates entered into tho pursuit and irial of the alleged murderers in part for the gratification of partisans and to make poli? tical capital. The report, including exhibits, is quite voluminous, but the great bulk of it is made up of copies of orders for arrest, and returns of officers thereon. The report shows that the civil authorities at Columbus bad undertaken to ferret out and brine to trial the persons that killed Ashburn, and thatrthe mUitary commander, whose head? quarters were in that place, at first commenced tue action of the civil officers, but afterwards recommended that the military take the case in hand. Thereupon Major-General Meade orderod a military commission to try such par? ties ai might be arrested and charged with the crime. A number of arrests were made upon the suggestion of various parties, but especial? ly upon the direction or two detectives, White? ley and Reed, who were employed by the ad? vice of General Grant, and at the request of General Meade. The officer in charge of Fort Pulaski certi? fies, officially, that these detectives "came to the fort with the prisoners in charge, with or? ders to have the sole control of them; conse? quently I assumed no authority except to keep them securely." To discover whether two colored men, Wells and 8taplar, were in pos? session of information material to the case, the officer says, "the detectives thought proper to operate somowhat upon their feelings." Ihis operating upon their feelings consisted in lath? ering their heads, prepaiatory to shaving them; blindfolding tbe prisoners and placing them in a casemate of the lort; tuere the band? age was taken off, and before the prisoner's view there stood a soldier ready to fire off a cannon which was pointed at the accus? ed. Whilst these threatening operations were going on, the detectives endeavor? ed to force the prisoners to make some some disclosures about the murder, but in vain, for they protested they knew nothing of the killing. They were then placed m "sweat boxes," described as a closet m the walls of the fort, a little wider than the prisoner's body, the door closing within three inches of his breast, and the only air admitted being through a few auger-holes in the door. Here they were left in the belief that thpy were to be kept there thirty days, unless sooner they should disclose important facts. They were allowed to romain here thirty-three hours, during which time they were nearly suffocated, and again ques? tioned, but with no success. It is shown, also, that neither of the persons arrested-some twenty odd-were permitted to consult coun? sel, or converse with anybody, and that they were thrown into and incarcerated within the prisons indiscriminate]v. i he prisoners who were confined for a long tame, and afterwards discharged without tnal, describe their cells aa being some four by seven feet-others two feet ten inches wide, and dark: no ventilation; that they bad bad food, &c. Upon the matter of the size of cells, the report Includes a letter of one of the prisoners to the military officer in charge, setting forth that cells had been reduced from six to two feet; that they could scarcely breathe in them, &c., Ac. This letter, with others of like character, was forwarded to the Commanding General, who shortly after gave instructions that 1 if these prisoners will give bonds not to attempt to escape, or to hold intercourse with any persons but snch as are authorized by the commander of the sub district of Georgia, the prisoners can be re? moved to the officers' quarters, and be made as comfortable as is consistent with their being under proper surveillance." Another charge of the released prisoners is that they were arrested witaout affidavit, or I warrant," or charge, and were not permitted to confer with cooneel or friends. The report upon this point shows, that m tho first in? stance, and for some days, the order was that the prisoners be not permitted to converse with any person whatever, but that at a later period they were allowed to confer with coun? sel. The report shows, further, that after the ar? rest had been made, namely on the 80th of June lost, General Meade informs General Grant and the Secretary of War that upon, leaving; Waahbagtoa ho waa of opinion th^t civil prisoners mi ?ht and should be turn? ed over to the civil au horities upon the ad mission of the State, but tho developments of the Ashburn murder case has modified this opinion, and he thinks that all military com? missions pending when the State id admitted should be carried out by tba military authori? ties, and asks if Congress can take action in the matter. Four days prior to the loregoing communicatioo. namely 36th of June, General Meade sent to tue Secretary of War the follow? ing communication : "I deem it of the utmost importance, not only for the ends of'justice, but for my per? sonal vindication, that the Ashburn murderer! should be tried by military commission, and I have accordingly ordered tho trial for Monday next. Before going North I retained ex Governor Brown as counsel fur the gov? ernment. I deem his services of great importance, not only for bis legal ability, but for the influence his position in the Slate will give the prosecution. He has been aotively employed during my absence, but to-day, on my asking him what his fe? would be, ha re? plied -five thousand dollars.' 1 stated I did not feel authorized to pay such an amount without the sanction of superior authority. He expressed bis .ul.ingncsa to withdraw, and not to communicato any information he had ob- j tained." Gen. Meade then advises the employment of Governor Brown in vie w of the importance of the case, and the fear that defendants would hire him, and concludes by saying tho evi? dence is of the most positive kind, and leaves 1 no ground ta doubt the conviction of tho prin? cipal actors. Items of State Sewi. -John Graham, son of T. M. Graham, Unit? ed States Assistant Assessor, has been appoint? ed Tax Collector of Chester District, by Gov? ernor Scott. -Geo. Pither, Esq., of the Chester Stan? dard, has gone to Brioksberry, New Jersey, and expects to find a home there. Dr. C. H. Lambert and family are going to the same place. -A letter from Chester says: "The continuous rains of the last two weeks have injured the cotton, but the weather having become more favorable, it is thought, with a late fall, the crop will be fair. The wet weather, too, has in Jared the fodder." -The Chester Standard eays : "Bev. E. J. Mevnardie, the able, zeaious and eloquent Methodist Pastor of the Charlotte Station, has paid us several visits within the past three weeks His many fri imbi, m distant parts of the district, will be pleased to learn that he was lookiog well and enjoying general good health." -Of 6ale day in Chester, the Standard savs : "The following property wai sold by the Cnn missionor in Equity at tue priced annexed : seven hundred and twent.t-TOUT acres, Oeing tho land upon wuioh Dr. Thomas W. atr-ore now resues, Bold lor $2090 ; two hundred aud seventy acres for Sido; au improved lot, in the Town of Rookh m. urk D.strict, containing one acre, changed Uandi at the iow sum of $150. The sales were cub." -The ?orkville Euquirer says: "The com crops ot this district are now supposed to bo Bato beyond peradventure. Although the quantity ra? sed will not bo aa great as was ex? pected some some weeks ago yet tn ero will be a sufficiency lor homo consumption, and ui the upper sections of tuu dis.r.or some to spare. Cotton has beeu seriously domagod by the late wet weather, and ia running too much to weed. The prospects for this crop aro not. as xavorab.e as they were a few woe?s vu, before me roma begau." -The BennetiBv?L? Journal says : "We have bud occas o.i to converjo with farinera from d ffoient portio.is of the district recently, who inlorai us that the cotton croo ia serious? ly injured by thc lust ar d that nut moro than ? about tw j-t? ir us ot u co,J W, U bo mido, i he corn crop, buwover. has nitnB'ood u<e auddo.i ChP'igOS Of t.io weatavr, and \.r /ai .eoj a g od hiU'vec t. Fodder baa naar.y ml baon gat-iox- i in. iud many fanners wm mako inure oom on tho bime aroa O? ?rodad Uuu was ruado last year." -The Yorkvilio Enqu'rer, epeaking o' sale day, says : "The amount ru property sold was not large. The Sheriff sold one tract of land belonging to the estate of Elijah Aiken, de? ceased, of over three hundred acres, for $300.. A'so. one tract of land belonging to the estate of Wm. Berry, deceased-one hundred and eighty-nine acres-for $800. The Ordinary sold one tract of land belonging to the estate of Mary G winn, deceased-one hundred and eighty acres-at SI per acre. The real estate of Abner Hatnbri tr ht was sold by his assignees in bankruptcy at seventy cents per acre. A small tract ot six teres of land, belonging to A. Hambright, brought three cents per acre. The Commissioner m Equity sold the real estate of William P. Berry, deceased-t*o hundred and eighty-four acres-at $140 per acre." -i-->r-i,: j t- .. V _i IfcTHE__FALLJ TBADE_I,JN_ NEW_ Yong-DEY GOODS.-The New York correspondent *of tho Philadelphia Ledger writes under date of the 8th instant : us^iSSE ??''tw* The fall trade id now fairly under way, and on all sides increased activity is reported. Within a day or two past country merchants have taken hold freely. Dry goods, carpetings, hardware, boots and shoes, a..d hides and leather are especially brisk, without, how? ever, any marked change in values. Many of the large houses are kept busy packing goods up till near midnight. The orders are chiefly; from tho West and Southwest; still the Sooth is buying quite liberally, all things considered. The dry goods auction sales to-day had sun? dry features of interest. One house offered a largo assortment of Lupin's fabrics and Brit? ish dress goods, of late importation. The com? pany present included representatives of the trade from Ntw Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, and other remote poi ats. The bombazines, merinos and plaids, sold quickly and brought satisfactory prices, but wool de? laines were not in so much request, and sold low. The catalogues were noam all disposed of, and no duplicates were offered. Another house had a sale of linens, silks,, dress fabrics, ?ic., which drew together many out-of-town purchasers. Alpacas a d mohairs realized faur prices, as likewise did the linens-, with some lots duplicated. There was also a large sale bv another firm of fancy goods and trimmings. The attendance was chiefly made up of city retailers. Tut few lots were passed. Prices showed no notewor? thy changes from those realized for the same kinds of goods last spring. _frags, Comical*, (Ctr. g P E c I A I, NOTICE? IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE ENTIBE DESTRUC? TION of our establishment by fire on the morning of 22 3 June, we have removed to the extensive prem? iaos formerly occupied by HA VIL AND, STEVENSON 4 CO., MO. 23 HATKE-8TBEET, And will be prepared ia a few days to exhibit the moat extensive Stock of FRESH AND CHOICE DRUGS, MEDICINES AND CHEMICALS^ That have ever been opened in this market. WE SHALL CONTINUE TO IMPOET ALL THU LEADING ARTICLES IN ODE LINE FROM THE BEST LABORATORIES, ONF. OJ OUR FIRM LEAVING IMMEDIATELY FOB EUBOPF, AND WU HOPE TO HAVE OUB FALL IMPORTATIONS IN STOBE BY THE 20TH SEPTEMBER. HAVING MADE ARRANGEMENTS IO FELL ALL OBDEBS WITH DISPATCH, WB SHALL CON? TINUE OUB BUSINESS AS USUAL, AT TTTB ABOVE LOCATION, WITHOUT INTERRUPTION, GOODRICH, WISENA? dc CO., DIRECT IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CHOICE EtT ROPEAN DRUGS AND CHEMICALS, Ne. 03 Hayne-atract, July 8 amos CHARLESTON, S. a R OSADALI S PURDIES THE BLOOD, AND CUBES SCROFULA. ASS ALL CHRONIC DISEASES ar TBS BLOOD, LIVER AND KIDNEYS. Recommended by the Medical Faculty and Many Thousands of our Bett Citittns. , 49? For TMiimonlalj of remarkabU cores, see ?Roaads.Ha Almanac" for thia year. PBXPABBD OKLT BX DR. J. J. LAWRENCE & CO., NO. 2? BALTTMORE-STRKET, BALTIMORE, MD. FOB SALE BY DOTTIE die MOISE, No. 160 Meeting-street, corner HAB al. July 32 tam SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD. GENERAL RUPERTNTENTENT'' OFFICE. 1 CHABUKKOit, 8. c., September 9, 1888. J ON AND ?FT ER SEPTS ?BER lora. RICE" will be carried from Charleston to Cincinnati, and St. Louis br the Oreen Line at NLlcTTY CENTS PrR ONK HDNDJtEO POUNDS. Parties shi pa: to St Louis must take the risk, or inf uro from Hickman to .?t I-oats by pscksta. ?o Insurance necessary oa the route to 01ndn> nati. H. T PEAKE, General Snperlnte ident. September 10 thstulmo CHAKLKSTO? CITY RAILWAY COM PANY OFFIOB CHARLESTON CITY RAILWAY rO.,1 CORNER BROAD ?XO EAST BAY S?RIETS, > OBAJUIXSTOX, Ho ^A , Mtv 18, 1863. J SCHEDULE CP THE CUAllLESION UTI RAILWAY COMPANY. KINO-STREK? UNE. Leave Upper Tenn\H*t Lcav Lo-.ter Termina al 1.30 AM-, ''ail at mvJf. ol 8A.lt., uud al Inter? vals ot eicht (8; oiiuutes vi LS ot aght is; minutes during thu day till the during the d*y lld 10 P. lait trip at 3.J0 P. J. -J. N.*.-Leave tho Batt- ry aa flows: On the hour, "nd twelve <i2) m-nut'* ol tue hour, from ? A. M., except at iwtive (12) i iw*'ej oj 9 o'clock, A. IL Every other trip from ?hr Oi. Hortofflce jotD 4.88 P- JU trom the Upper loruuuuu, when all tho uni? are to the Battery. _," RUTLKDOE-s I B^ET L NE. Leave Ut pty Ter Mirna I Leave Lover Terminus ut L3? A.M . un i at intor- a< 8."5 A.M.. ?:ud atiatar nla of teo ,10, minuto. I vals of ten 10, minute, luring the d?y CJ 0 ?3 j d-.n-Kthoday ttl ?.66P. P'".k-Leavo ec B"turyatjiftetn (13 wumtes aiier che hour, , nd C W Itt] MtuuU?af? t?*. hovr ero pt a 8.M A. II -v WT ojh?? trip frc -, thc old Poa'tufe? nata P. *t ?l'P? Terrona, when all the tilf> ". -"W r '??y. Rj.\'(?-MTh;-.l'.T l.Li??. Leavo C. ,rr 'l *rm I I**?V* the Loiter i'?r ni? al 9 A..d., and ot lute: . j fHt? ,* J *' A il., an-l it t x oV 0.:.tn i:5, min- \ i- i?*v*L >?! ateos, (IS), uic, tUl 7.UI P. ll 1 ?"i-i !? f: ' L?J P. iL U.R.-AU th J tr.!fif ?.o to tilt rv UHJ. LUlljy-?^Tlit?i uCr.'f . Los*-* Upper 'Set,-.-.' - I Ix -ve / *<-r Terminus at ? A.U, - ;d c: LM - j ? u v :.. und wlnttit. v.-> of evurj tx uti wi. of ' ; ilw*,^W o inntee ? : ?.<o P. l. i - ".' ?~? 1 *. N.B.-All tho ?ip? axa to ? SaT iiay 17 fcootviary aaa lnaeSBflb