Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? Ulli IJ ?.?.VU 1 T ' 1 11 ?!? ?l?IIIIIIIH??IIM ~ C0LO?B?A. Thursday Morning1, Aug-. IO, 1S85. When bees lose their queen, the ?whole Live is thrown into confusion. They all quit work and run hither and thither without awy apparent aim or object. They seem to lose their senses, or, to speak more correctly, their proper instincts. Ants, too, are thrown into the same disorder when their hills are rudely broken into. They are called a "wise folk" in the inspired volume, but on stich occa? sions they appear to lose all of their wisdom. We have recently witnessed, in these Southern States, says thc Richmond Times, an exhibition of the same character among the laboring class of the South. The hitman hive lost their head, the African ?int hill was broken into, and from hive and hill the swarming thousands poured in confusion. Chaos i? scarcely a word strong enough to describe their condition. The idea of freedom, free? dom from labor and restraint, with all the vague visions of happiness it in? spired, acted upon them like so mindi exhilcratiug gas. lt set them to run? ning about, jumping and gesticulat? ing. The plantations upon which they and their forefathers were accus? tomed to work were abandoned, their homes desolated. Packed down with all their worldly goods, they-filled the public: highways leading to our cities. All sc .ned bound "for the happy land of Canaan." Scattered, con? fused, unemployed and homeless, they soon found that labor, so much dread? ed by man, is maids greatest blessing. It is his capital, his money, his bread and meat, his home, his source oi comfort and happiness. A few months have passed, and in the lapse of that time a marked ( bange has taken place. Pilgrim negroes m longer throng the thoroughfares lead ing to our cities, and no longer occupy the street corners, the unbuilt lob and the cellar-caps in the cities am towns. They appear to have settlct down. Chaos has been reduced ti order, and the wandering tribes hav< found resting places. Many of thc negroes have returned to their forme. t homes and gone to work, finding by ; bitter experience that freedom with out labor is nothing but freedom ti starve. Others, influenced by a vagu apprehension that their title to free dom would be incomplete and unsatis factory so long as they remained wit] their former owners, have sought ?un found employment with others. Man; unable to provide for themselves hav been taken in hand by provost mai sh;ds and officers of the Freedmen' Bureau, and have either been hire out pr provided with quarters nut: they can be permanently settled. 1 is seldom now that the eye falls upo a traveling negro, loaded down like pack mule, with his goods and chai teds, and in quest of ii new homo. Th great bulk of them appear to be sn; plied with lodging places. But th warm season is rapidly passing awn} Spring has been succeeded by sun mrr, and summer will soon ba io towed by autumn. Then the rigorot winter, with its blasts and snows, wi come upon us, and the troubles of tl negroes will begin in earnest. Tl fruits, vegetables and fish which no afford them a chea}) subsistence, wi be gone, and solid meats AN ill have 1 be purchased. The genial sunshin which warms the world without cos will no longer be felt, and for sev? long and dreary months fuel will lia to be bought. Happy those who c? provide themselves with it. It is be feared that great numbers of tl emancipated negroes w ill be unable, do so. and will have to shiverthrou/ the h>ng, cold season, with few blan ets and no fuel. We ure all alik poor here now. The whites find almost impossible to take care themselvi s, and are altogether anal to assist the colored people, howev much they may desire to do so. the Government does not provide } them, either by furnishing fuel, or keeping up steady fires at certain si tiona, day and night, their conditi -vt}) b . deplorable indeed. Plantations and Crops. A correspondent, writing ns from the two Edistos, in Oraugeburg and Barnwell District?, says: The corn crop::, with some excep? tions, are generally good. There will be enough made, 'perhaps, to support the country. There is little or no cot? ton planted. I have seen but two fields on the whole of my route; in these the cotton looks well, though not large, and is bolling tolerably well. If it gets the adequate work, those fioMs will turn out respectably, as in days of old. But I perceive that nearly all thc corn is laid by in grass. Grass spreads everywhere. In many plantations, large tracts of corn have been abandoned wholly, lacking the necessary labor. In these fields, the planters can hope for nothing, and tiny- will be converted into pastures. To attempt to gather the small quan? tity of corn and fodder, would cost more labor, if it could bo had, than would bo repaid by the production. 1 find a great deal of discontent anion;: tho planters and the freedmen. Tin former complain that the latter onl\ work as it suits their humor; that thej are continually breaking away fron work on the smallest pretexts, alic] leaving the crop to its fate. Iji most of the contracts between theplautors, the fodder c rop, for example, hasbeoi reserved wholly to the planter, lb owns the stoek, mules, horses am cattle, and has to provide for thor food; ?md the fodder was essential t< this end. The freedmen, having n< interest in this article, work languidly at stripping and curing it. if no stripped and eared at tho right season it becomes worthless. The work goo on so badly that the danger is that ; large portion ?d' tin- fodder will b lost. Tho work of revend hauch several days, will not. I am assured yield enough fodder to feed tho oatt! for a week, lu many eases, the freed mon refuse to strip fodder altogether They are sullen, ?ire perpetually con I plaining, and daily thc: provost court are crowded with complaints, on on j part or thc: other. Where the encanrf ments of thc soldiers an: to be foum tho trouble is tho greatest. The con plaints against tho soldiers aro em less. They an: said to enter the fru orchards, the melon patches, the om fields, and help themselves uti Writ mi and all expostulation is unavailing. 1 could report ?cores of cases sort, wher?? tho proprietors ave a. entirely shorn of ali means of sup]? No plantation is secure from trespas In sotm4 precincts they enter tl ground.--, gardens, kitchens, and eve dwellings, without any regard to pr pricty or thc: rights of property; an perhaps, the only remedy wiil 1 lound in tho submission of af&davi to the heads nf department ut Was ington, describing truly the comillie of the country. All ex ?Kirie stal mon?s are to be received with caut?n but facts duly certified are irresistibl and will make themselves felt at Wa?* ington, and through thc Norther presses, which are constantly lill with most reckless statements in \ gard to the progress of events. Steady Progress cf the Extincti of the Black Race. WASHINGTON, July 2f>.- All the : counts which reach here from t South show that there are two can operating in all the Southern Stat which will not only prevent ne-; suffrage as a fixed institution, 1 which will also dissipate' the' Utopi dreams which have been indulged by those theoretical and false friei of tho negro who know nothing of real capabilities or the actual reepii ments of his nature. These e au are: The' alarming and terrible ni tality among the negroes, and steady increase of the introduction white laborers, who are rapidly tak the place of negro laborers. The tire change in the habits and mode life which sudden emancipation brought upon the negro; their fi propensity for idleness; their Imbi congregating together in vast m hers, in places where they cannot tain subsistence; their,iilthy aud lie tious habits, and their utter inabi to take: care of themselves, are cai ing them off, in every State, by th s aids, every week. The planters, thus left. destitute agricultural laborers, would have s their own families starve during coming winter, if they had m>t 1 able to secure white laborers from North to take the place of the neg: who lnive deserted them. A ste stream of white laborers from North, and from Europe, has, 1 ever, set in during the last tl months; and tl lis iuiliix will cont, to grow larger lor nine month cennc.. All the second-class train: the Baltimore' and Ohio Railroad, ning te> Parkersburg, on thc: ( River, as well as those on the rad I between tliis city and Richmond, just j opened, are crowded with- Irish and ? German laborers. They are going j down t!ie Ohio and Mississippi Rivers I in steamboats, to vivrions points iti I Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Lou I isiana and Arkansas, and to the inte ! lior o? Virginia, North Carolina and .South Carolin.:. WHITE E.VV.OREKS SCFEBSEDIXG NEGRO L.W.oE AT THE SOUTH. Even with their short experience-np to thc present time, the planters lind that they eau accomplish more with ten white laborers than with forty \ able-bodied negroes, and at one-tenth ] the expense with which they were for I morly burdened. The example set by ? Gen. Howard in Maryland, of com? pelling the planters to feed, clothe and j support tlie aged and infirm negroes, I and the young negro children left on I their hands by their runaway slaves. I under penalty of the confiscation of 1 their entire estates, may be followed j by the military authorities in all the Southern States. Rut that will only alienate, the feelings of the people from j the Government which permits such acts, w'.iile it will neither prevent the j superccdure of n gro labor by white labor, nor hinder the certain ultimate ! extinction of the black race, i THE Niiono iNc.uwnLE or eitoriTAKLE VOLUNTARY LAI IOU. j In the meantime, it is not impossi I ble that negro suffrage may be intro I duced to a limited extent in some of j the Southern States, although it is I not probable that it will be. The I radicals are working day and night to I accomplish this, sending fresh men on here every few days; and they may I possibly succeed in the next Congress I although I do not think that they will I But as the negro race in America is i doomed to certain ultimate extinction, this cannot, practically, amount to I much. The radicals who come herc ! pretend not to believe this, and assert I that there is a bright future before the j negroes in the South, because they can b? stimulated by the same 'mo I tivesthat impel white laborers to pro j vidence and industry. I did net sec it. Those who have read history j carefully know that it is not so. Tin . negro is not impelled by the sana I motives that influence a white man. j The whole history of the negro rac? shows that he is incapable either o! j self-government or of profitable velum tary labor; and that, left to himself, he bas luade no advancement, eithei j iii civilization, art or science. ! TilE EXPERIMENT OE EUEE PLACE" LAP.ol IN THE SOUTH A FAILURE, i Look at the native African tribes ii A/rica. Tiny are to-day wind the; I were four thousand years ago. linn j nine- naked in the woods, they ?ir ! continually at war with each other, soil 1 ing their captives as slaves and cathi; their flesh. Where ure tho cities the; have built? Where are the book they have written? Where their sci entitle inventions-? Whore their mi numents and temples? Tiny hav none-they have never had them. I ! is not so with any other race of m< I on tho face of the earth.. Look a play ti-settled even by civilized m i grses->: republic in mime L'<>>- the la: ! twenty-two years. The island is a m taral paradise-production is almo: spontaneous-yet the Haytien liegi of to-day is as ern.ie a-he was twenty two years ago, and th y have prove themselves to be ?is incapable of in provement as the m .?, iv-inadc free? men of tin South, ? ive black lal? in the South will be found to be miserable failure, unless it is DRU compulsory, and then it will cease 1 i be free. i WU AT THE MA.TOR-iil'.NERALS ARE il l'E(TEl> TO 'no. The Major-Generals commandii j military departments will have litt I military duty to perform in most . j the States. Vet they ?ill have ene j niotisly larne stall's and large bodies . troops under their orders. They a evidently expected to do somethin What is' it? Can it ho that the tel graphic order of General Thomas, duly 21, in relation to Jnti?;?s cm'jt in the case of bhnerson Etheridg throws any light upon this qucstio TAKE CAKE HOW Vol VOTE IN VliailXI The Richmond Whig made its a pearance here again yesterday, ? the liichmond papers now maintain very demure and subdued tone, ai evidently stand in lear of military i terference. Thc article in the l?iptthl of yesterday, waining the people vote in a manner that will be pleasii to tho Government, is regarded rather sarcastic; but that is a dangt ons kind of sarcasm to indulge i I The Republic tells its readers, in sn stance, that if candidates distateful I the Government arc elected, that t i latter will adopt a harsh and rigorc policy. It says: ''The Government vv. hing tin: elections in Virgil with great interest, and its policy v be shaped by them. We wara t people to take care how they vot< a^rp-iiii.TKga--rtmm m nm \r m gar-W In other words, vote for wh?m. you please; but be" ?ure you vote for the Administration candidates. This would sound Tvoll in au Austrian or Russian newspaper, or under an avow? edly military government, such as that in France, when Liouis Napoleon was President and before he became Em? peror. 3Jut, if it is not sareasm, is it not a strange waining to be given under a Republican Government? RUMOR OF AX EXTENSIVE NEGRO E\'3LT. EECTION. There are some very painful rumora in town in relation to a formidable g aera] rising of the negroes in some of tim Southern States. It is said that there is a wide-spread conspiracy among the blacks toiisesirnultaueous ly on ?i given day and.to repeat the bloody scenes of St, Domingo on a seale that will blot out the memory of that horrible massacre. The plot is said to have sprung up and matured within n month or two past, but the design was not to strike the blow until next December. It was thought by the leaders that that length of time was required in order to secure tim entire success of thc atrocious design, lt was not to be confined to one locali? ty, but was to be made general all over tho South. Yost numbers of muskets and other weapons are said to have* been provided, and the ne? gro? s seem to have been persuaded into the belief that they wove numer? ous enough to make a clean sweep of the whole country, und to carry every? thing before them. The pretext with which the bailors sought to stir up the ignorant blacks was that the pro? mise ot' the ballot mudo to thom was a mere sham; that there never was any intention on the part ol' the Govern? ment to give them the ballot, or the right to vote; that the Governmc inti lided to keep up a large militar force in tho South, in order to keep them in subjection and make them work; ?iud that in consequence of being forced to work, they were as r?nch slaves now as ever before. They seem to have bern deluded with the iden that their condition would be greatly bettered if they could remove their former masters by violence and take possession themselves of the planta? tions ?md other property. No steps have yet been talion to arrest even thc ringleaders; but the plot hus boon divulged to the authorities, and it is to be hoped that measures will li; taken to prevent tho outbreak. AN INSViatECTJON WOCLD ONLY HASTIO THE rcxTEKMi:?CATI?N UV THE KLACKS. Such an outbreak, however, may Ix looked for at almost any time witliii the next live years. Siu-li feelings uta sentiments among the .blacks, us tin legitima*e consequences of the touch tugs that have bei a in-dulled into tia negro mind by Hie pestilent Abolition ist, ever since the war begun. "Wh? it <?oes take place, it will be spa'',lil; repressed, but then will commence,ii earnest, the extermination of Hu blacks, li" one white fa in ?ly is mur dered by' negroes, ia u negro rising the live.-; of a thoitsaud blacks will pu; the forfeit of the crime. We lian made pretty much of an -idol of th black man. [f he is wise, he vii adapt himself io his changed eondi tiop. and settle down quietly to can his living by hard work, as white mei are compelled to th?, lt' he listens t those who would hire him into plot for the massacre of white people, !i will onlv be hastening his- own ?loom [<%rres?,otl<('-uw Xcr York AV?.*. - -- DESTITETION IN VntoixiA. A gen tlenian, who has just returned from tour through the counties of Stafford Spottsylvnnia und Orange, Virgiuii reports that ho found thc inhabitual in a very destitnte condition, with n money und very little of ?inythin aside frbm the present crops. Th corn crop, though not very extensiv in acres, will he universally large i yield, lt is thought that more cor will be raised in proportion to tl: number of acres planted than was ev? before produced in that section of tl State. Tin* common people ure wc sutisiied with the termination of tl war, and the ? ebel soldiers who hal been longest in the ii.-ld appear toi thc best sntisiied with the present coi ilition of affairs. The preachers, cd tors ?iud politicians ol' the old ''Stut< Lights" school are tho only ones wi still adhere to thc' idea of Southei independence. In many instances e rebel lieutenants, captains, majors ai colonels ?n e engaged in tilling the so: who, before the war, would have co sidered such un occupation degradin . -,- ti-- ? A vicious cat in Somersett, Pen sylvania, which delighted in killii young birds, was recently attacked I si.v or eight robins, the latter ha\ii combined their torees for the purpc of revengo. The contest was vp short, the cat having her eyes pick out, and receiving such other injur: ab io caus>e death, soon nf ter. Xjocal l?oms. Our readers ou Arsenal Hilt eon now pro? cure their supplies of groceries, etc., with? out .thc asnal wear and tear of shoe h atlicr, Mr. Pratt Inivint; opened a, store in Assem? bly street, ne.ir lli-hh'nd. Messrs. Ken'.: rh & Gib*. ?Cl ;.. J *s P. >w. have, wc believe, the largest stock of goods for sale in the city-in fact, almost anything from a pair pf scales to a indi-'..' enl! ni. Doubters are invit ?d to call, sec and "ne eui., vineed. DEATH O? A CITIZEN.-We regret m K arn that a triter was received by ile.- family yes? terday, from a funner resident of '.his etty, statins that the Rev. S. Towns? nd di- .1 "in Philadelphia, on the :30th ult imo, from an attack of billions fever. "Jr. fown-end w.vj known ami appreciated in this community for las business qualifications. LIMESTONE Si ai:-, .s FEMALE Sea. ve.. Tho render will Iv pleased to see tier, this ad? mirable school, nuder tho officient manage? ment of thc able proprietor, Dr. Cartis, i * about t'> resume operations, lt needs only that wc should dm .v public attention tn t.he fact. Tie Mip. >.: ,!. merits of this institu? tion are v..i w -ll :nid widely known to re? quire any ionia.eut. A '"'ruins; TY FOB li ARN I'M.- If a ny of our readers have tiny particular admiration for the great showman, they would .lo well to secure for his new museum a colored man who appeal's on ourstrei ta every day, willi more toes than tho law allow.*, viz: six ?n each foot. Wi- suppo.-e he could ?>.: ''bought IIP-*" Our citizens are under groat obligation-' to Messrs. Durbec A Walter for th. ir ear? nest and suce? ssi'iil efforts tn retai d;-. as far as possible, the postal d?ficient:"?. Mails for nea riv every section a ri- made up at their office, and they daily receive hundreds of li tters. All of this vari:, lie Lt. remembered, is done without compensation- their sole object being e> accommodate the public. Their office is ipiitc a sio.-dl une, "mit a large amount of business is transacted in it -not univ in the postal, but the unction linc. Persons uxpectim,' letters, after giving Messrs. 1). .v \V. a cult, wi mid do w. ;! to call at the Shiver Meuse. Messrs. '/.< dy, Scott A Drnus, and the |".^t ofli.-o in the College Camplin. The following is u list of letters remaining at the Shiver House: F. IT. Tri'iibohn. J. p.. Coh. u 2, J. Pringle Smith, J,. P. Moses, W. Connor, "..ibert Crardiuer, Mrs. t'. M. Choves ;!, Mrs. George Chisolm 2, Mrs. Arthur P. Havre, Mrs. IA (i. Doi' mtahu:, Mrs. John S. Pr, -;..a. Mrs. Arthur M. Maui-.rtiult. Mrs. E. II. Shaekelford. NEW AnvEr.THEMr.NTs. - A: tea*'.en is'-illed to the following adv rtisei tents, which are published for the fir ?' time th's morning: Wm. -I. < ?ayer ?? hiv i cuva t 'i i ims. etc. Ora'igehitvg'and Columbia S we Pine. Mesar-. Whited Thomson -Mah- School. !'. A. l?i?chiinan -Thurm", 'c. for Sale. .iae..J? Levin-P.e.vc" a rl Ihvniess. . '.'?o. J,. Pratt-(?recortes, Win. Curtis- Penni iv High School. Darbi ? .v Walter-Furniture, cte. C. S. Jenkin'*" Store -Assembly Street. Simons'A Kerrison -Copartnership. . Xonr.r. BEQUEST.-Mr. Ephraim M. l?ayuarci, :: highly esteemed and noble hearted citizen, one of the oldest and most successful planters <m Iv.listo Island, died very recently, leaving tho generous and mugnificeut bequest of ono hundred :u:d sixty-six thousand dollars, in city six per cont, stock, for tho benefit of tho Charleston College. This liberal gift for the cause of education reflects more brilliancy on the generous doma' wi icu the present condition and wants of our education? al institutions ere remembered. Oar youths have susttrined ti heavy loss in the suspension of the Charleston Col? lege, and wc hope to soon see it re? stored to its former usefulness under the guidance of its beloved President, N. Russell Middleton, and the asso? ciate profe: soc--, in that cherished in? stitution of learning which lats been so long the pride and boast of our etty. - Charleston 1 '< airier. THE Gums or ENGLAND. -A corres? pondent of th? Now York Times, de? scribing what he saw at an English watering-place, says: "Thefe isa startltng abundance of fine, bold, handsome English girls, who throw the long tn esses of their abundant i dach hair to the breezes to dry after the morning bath, as a cor? sair might throw her black Hag to the winds. There may have laen a time when English girls wcie shy or timid. We read of bashful maidens in ancient song and romances. But in ibis fast age they have got very bravely over it, and the British maiden of the present day looks thc enemy full in thc face, as if she had nothing to lear, and might have something to hope. It is the men who are sheepish. They aro in tho minority, and fight shy accord ingly. The women are having it their own way, and now th.it Mr. Mill is elected to Parliament, they hope soon to be a power in the l?tate. Madame Kossuth, the wife of the famous Hi-ngrvir.:-. Isador, has died a; Cfonon, after tan years ilhi?>:s