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COLUMBIA. .Friday Morning, August ll, 18f35. The Greenville and Columbia Rail? road. We havii had the pleasure of a long and interesting conversation with Col. Perrin, the President, of the Green? ville and Columbia Bailroad. He re? ports very favorably of what has been done and what is still doing, with nil possible energy, to put Greenville in early and complete communication with Columbia. Of course, the road hus been sevej^ly scorched ; first drowned in the freshet, and then Sher nianized. -?Jut the evils begin to ap? proach their remedy, and the work is , advancing hourly, lint for tho want of money for travel muong our citi? zens, there would not be n moment of | delay or embarrassment in the pro? gress of the work. At this hour, there are 1-40 miles of road in full j operation. The machine and work-1 shops are in full blast. New and very splendid cars will, in the course < ot' a few weeks, ho put upon the route, j and the plans of. the company contem? plate improvements which will place the road not only in continuous ope? ration throughout t!i? whole line, but iii a degree more prosperous than ever. The want, of iron, which depends upon the opening of the South Carolina Railroad, is an embarrassment which, it is hoped, and expected, will not be of long continuance. It is a mistake to suppose that a new line, calling for much delay and protracted labor and uovei expense, is to be insisted upon. The present policy is to repair and continue the former line of route, und to take advantage of all the sections which have been left intact in the broken road. All the grading, ties, rail?, &c along the ancient route will be worked in as before, and no fears need be apprehended that the direc? tion, short of means, will bo so besot- ? ted as to think of planning a new route as long as the old can be made subservient, to tra veling purposes. Nor can Columbia, nuchae any circuir.- | stances, be omittechMffom the calcula? tions of thc company. Columbia is one of their termini, absolutely essen? tial to the other terminus and to the integrity of the whole route. Let us recapitulate. The rom I is in highly successful working condition for 110 miles, conducting to numerous points, irrespective of Greenville, lt is the great avenue by which AVC iire to re? ceive our supplies in Columbia, lt will require but few weeks of indus? trious and energetic working to over? come the small gap of twenty-live miles from Columbia to Alston. The company will resume its labors at Columbia and work up to Alston. But something will depend upon facilities offered by the South Carolina Bail road. On this road, the President, (Magrath.) it is understood, is press? ing forward with all the speed which can be commanded in the present con? dition of the country. These roads and ttfeir officers are now working together. They are in full co-opera v' tion. We do not despair of seeing Columbia bound together by both roads, clasping her at each extremity, before the lirst December. We are at least assured of the pyrpo.se of the Greenville and Columbia direction, to press forward in tho re-establishment of the old Une of road. With tin exception of this miserable gap of twenty-five miles, the whole road, with all its branches, is in successful pro? gress and operation. Col. Wood, formerly editor of the Vicksburg Whig, is in New York, ar ff ranging' for a rebel expedition to Brazil. He goes out on behalf of ?orne five or six hundred Mississippi . families, to see if he cannot purchase a, tract of country tu elve miles square on the Amazon, for the purpose of a permanent settlement. The capital subscribed is said to be one million of dollars. Wood is commissioned to procure the Emperor's consent. </ . / Important from Virgina. The recent municipal ofafoons held in the city of Richmorf have been declared void by the nyatary authori? ties, and the persons ^c-eted prohibit? ed from exercising tlfc duties of their respective offices. /The following or? der from Maj. Gen/Turner, command? ing the departing in which the city is located, will explain the reasons: HEADQ'KS D/TRICT OF HEXMCO, Richmond, Va., July US, 18b?. Srecial Orders fa. 72- -Retract. V. Whereas' satisfactory evidence has been fun/shod at those headquar I ters that at ila- election held in the city of Ki</ mond on the'26th instant, for municipal officers, voters were excluded/)" the ground of having lost their resdeuce by reason of their ab? sence a/soldiers in the United States army during the rebellion, when no such ground was taken as against sol? dier* absent in the rebel anny: and whereas, with bet few exceptions, all of the officers elected at said munici ml election have boon prominent and .onspicuous in inaugurating and sus? taining tlie rebellion; and whereas, tin- issue was distinctly made and openly avowed at said election, as be? tween those men who had aided and abetted in the war against the Uuitod States authority, and those who had, w.ith their lives, defended the ling of our country; then fore, justice to the thous:.nds who have fallen on the bat? tle-field orby disease in their efforts to put down this rebellion, anil to those who are now returning to their homes in this district, after four years of suli'eiing. toil, privations and dan? gers incurred in lighting treason, do mauds that these persons who were so lately contributing all their efforts to sustain treason and overthrow this Government should not be installed into office and trusted with power. Hence it is h o roby declared that the United Sb tes military authorities ol this eily wih regard the said munici? pal elections held in this city on tin 25th instant as null and void, except? ing only the election of the Clerk <>i the Hustings Court: and each and every person elected to office- except ing ?aid Clerk of the Hustings Court -is hereby prohibited from exorcising the dut ies appertaining thereto. Bv command of Brevet Maj. Gen. TURN viii. E. LEWIS MOORE, Ass't Adj. Gen. FROM CHARLESTON.-The fourier of the 8th, gives us small intelligence We note that riots and robberies stil continue, proving the continued ac tivity of the present, popular publii morals. Caroline Bainbridge's house in Princess street, was mobbed lry ; party of the 47th Pennsylvania, am the house of Mr. B. W. Warren wu penetrated by some colored phil an thropists, who desired only to spoi the Egyptians. On the da v before, ; sergeant of the same, regiment t I Pennsylvanians, was wounded in fight with one of thc negro soldiers. --?#. Jmici.vL PROTEST. Macbeth Buist, attorneys foi-Simons Luca;?, i thc casi- ol' Simons Lucas and certai freedmen, have filed a plea to th jurisdiction of {?io provost courts, o the ground that the establishment < the provisional government of tl) State, and the restoration to authorit of the former judication, supersei the use of all courts martial, in r< speet to the rights of citizens, an pleads that his rights, as a citizei should be adjudicated only by tl courts of said State and the Judg< thereof. The matter in issue is a ce tain quantity of rice recently brougl from Cooper Liver, certain freedrne being contestants for its ownership. ?tr-. The Florida Union says that tl afflicted father of Pavne, thc would-! murderer of Secretary Seward, b been makinga visit to Jacksonville, : that State. Thc Union savg: "Tl father of Payne called on us one di this week. He resides on a plant tion three miles from Live Oak St tion, on tlie Pensacola, and Georg Railroad. He lost one son at tl battle of Murfreesboro; anotherretur ed home maimed for life. 'Lewis' w his only hope in his old age. Tl afflicted father was a Baptist ministt as has been stat ed. ? In a general order, dated Baleig N. C., July 21, Maj. Gen. Huger orch the suspension of the publication of t Daily Union. Banner, issued in Sal j bury, of that State, for the appel ance of an article in its columns, the UHh instant, upon the freedrne which reflects upon Generals Rut and Howard and the military gei rally. Belle Boyd in PriBt. Belle Boyd, ol' Virginia notoriety, j variously known as tlic "JSCartinsfcurg ' beauty,' 'Bebel in Pot tico; it-;,' 'Con? federate Spy,' and 'Mrs. Hardinge,' has no idea of passing as yet from public notice. On tjae contrary, she has just published, in England, an autobiography, with an introduction by a friend of the South, "wherein she recapitulates her Virginia experience. Among other things, she boasts av. tol lows of having, upon a certain oc? casion, shot a Union soldier: One of the soldiers, thrusting him? self forward, addressed my mother and myself in language a;; ufi'onsive as it is possible to conceive. 1 could stand it no longer; my indignation was roused beyond control, my blood was literally boiling in my voins. L drew ley pistol ami shot him. Ile was carried away mortally wounded and soon sifter expired." This young damsel was accustomed to practice almost daile with her pocket pistol, and manyare the stories related Wy the people of Martinsburg and vicinity of h< ?- accurate aim. She asserts the truth of the story so current in tho Shenandoah Valley, as to her havingonoe conveyed informa? tion to Stonewall Jackson which led toa victory. She says Jackson wax advancing against our forces at Martin.sburg, then commanded, il' we mistake not. by General Hanks, lt, was of tlu- greatest importance that ho should die informed of t he disposition of our troops. Having appealed iu vain to se veral gentlemen to undertake tin- duty, she resolved to perform ii. in person. Skirmishing between the1 outposts was going on. The artillerymen on i both sides were pouring shot and shell against their rcspt elive foes. Not rwithstanding this, she crossed tho I groin el then swept by the lire, t ho I bullets whistling around her: her I dress was pierced by several of them, j and she was oven obliged to tall dat on ! the ground in order to escape de uh I from a shell which exploded within I twenty yards of lier feet. Howeve r, j she persevered, gained the Cont'odo : rate lines in safety, and there impart? ed the intelligence which assured J victory to her friends. As a ree.ogni I tion of what she had done. General 1 Jackson wrote to her as fellows: ..! 1 thunk yon for myself and' the army, j for tho immense s"Tv:ee tier yoe. have i rendered vonr count rv to-dav." I After tho recapture of* Marthis ! burg by the I'nionists she was allow I ed to romain for a time unmoleste d by ; the Federals. But Mr. Stanton soon ' ordered her to be arrested and "carried i to Washington. Thither she was i taken under the escort of two hundred I and fifty cavalry, ced east into prison, i j?eyoud the unpleasant fact of incaree ? ration she had not much to complain" I of. She tells us that Mr. Stanton ordered that she should be kept on j bread and water diet, but adds that ; this order was not carried out. The I following is the bill of fare of her ! dinner; "Soap, beef-steak, chickens, ? boiled corn, tomatoes, irish stew, j potatoes, bread and butter, ennto I lopes, peaches, pears, grapes." She ; was afterwards exchanged, with two I hundred oilier prisoners. j She likewise continus the statements j as to her having learned through I Federal officers pf the Federal plans ? in Northern Virginia. On obtaining : any information of this kind, she ? would gallop off towards the rebel j lila's, and by some means impart' it lo the insurgent leaders. On one occa i sion her horse ran away with her, and she was captured by a Union picket and taken to headquarters. Shjfcsaid to the commanding oilicer, ''You I must know I have been laking a ride i with some friends; my horse ran away I with mo, and carried me within your lines, j nm your captive, but I beg you will permit me to return." He believed her story, and sent, her back with an escort, which she conducted into a rebid ambush. She relates'nu? merous other incidents, already fami? liar to the soldiers who have served in Northern Virginia. Not satisfied, however, with a reca I pitulation ol' her exploits, she proceeds to inform the English public that she knew all about the assassination con? spiracy. It was concocted, she says, by vice-President Johnson, General Butler, and "Jim Lane, of Kansas." They planned to make way with Mr. Lincoln, Grant, Seward and Stanton, and then raise themselves into power. She adds, "not only were they doomed, but so .dso were all those most in favor of conciliatory measures toward thc South."-AW* York Commercial. . THE COLORED Tnoors. -Adjutant General Thomas estimates that there a re. 100,000 colored troops in the ser? vice. Previous to the close of thc . rebellion, there was 110,000, which . was reduced by the muster out ol State organizations, ? gussie - SsSssasBBBsg-i-j-m Tho ??ov7 York Mercantile Journal, in an arli.'.'.o on the cost of tho war tc; fie North, sums up the aggregate to be-on the part of the nation, State and local debts, additional tajg-tior., sanitary contributions, &c, a? loss uf earnings-$5,200,000,000. Thc writer sa vs : "This'total cf $5,200,00C,0GG dees not represent the losses to commerce by the transfer of our* carrying trade to foreign nations, in consequence of the_ depredations of Anglo-rebel cruisers. These losses, together with other items not included in thc above estimates, m ny bc allowed to balance the difference between euri ency and specie, and renders the sum of five thousand million of dollars in specie a fair and appi^oximately correct esti j mate of the actual loss to the Northern . Slates by thc war." I The cost to tiie seceding States, thu i same writer estimates to be in the I aggregate $3,025. OOO, 000. Exclusive ! of the value of slave property in 1S50, I the entire%>roperty of the slave States. I ho says, was estimated at 8-1,000,000, .000. * Of this $3,500,000,000 have been j annihilated, leaving only $1,1)00,000. 000 as the present capital of the Southern States, which after all losses, the termination of thc war tinda the ! North in possession of a capital of fifteen thousand millions of dollars, ! iii" losses having been six thousand ; millions-the whole total losses of botli I North and South being eight thousand I eight hundred millions of dollars. ! Hov. appalling these; figures. Well j may North and South rejoice that the J war is over, and that benignant peace j reigns in the land. ! POLIT?C.VTJ CONDITION OK KENTUCKY. Kentucky is just now stirred to its ? bitter depths on the slavery question. 'A hotly contested political canvass is I agitating the entire State. The fol ! lowing ext ract of a letter from Briga? dier-General Fisk, Assistant Commis? sioner of Freedmen, depicts the con? dition of affairs in that State: ; Tho only issue before the people of ! Kentucky is the ratification of tho ! constitutional amendment for prohi? biting slavery in the country. Ken? tucky, I fear, will refuse to become jeno of the required twenty States. . 1 Major-Genera] Palmer, eommaml ' ing the Department of Kentucky, hus. ! bv >-ouera! order, released ali the ; -Lives who will leave thc State. ? roads, steamboats and f-?vry boa; ,, : : . ordered to transport all who present I the military pass and pay their fare. : These orders were issued on i lu* H>th : nit., and the result has boen that I thousands have crossed the Ohio : River, and are now crowding the i towns and cities of the State lying 1 opposite. i I am daily looking for a breeze from j Indianapolis or other Northern cities i that may lift up its voice against the j continuance of the black vomit. The emancipation and deportation foy general ordo]-, and the agitation caused by tile political canvass, has aroused every colored individual in Kentucky, and the consequence is ?that the negro population, tuen, wo? men and children, ?ire gene rally on the ?move. -U'ltihi'/dphi'i Kn '/firer. -?-?- - ..... I TUE SENTENCED CONSTUK.VTOKS. -The Government steamer Florida, which 'carriel the assassination conspirators Mudd, O'Lnughlin, A rm dd and Spari : gier to Fort Jefferson, o:i the Dry Toi ? tugas, arrived in New York on the 1st inst., from thar place on the '?{'Ah ult. and from Kev West, on the 27th. Mudd, O'Laughlin and Arnold, ns will be recollected, w re sentenced to nu I pivMP.ment for life, and Spangler for j six years. "The prisoners were not I aware until after starting on their journey that their destination had been changed from the Albany Peni? tentiary to this arid spot oil' the Southern coast ol' florida, and on be? ing informed of it were unpleasantly atl'eeted; but after their arrival, on rinding that the island, which is about 13 acres in extent, enjoys a fine sea breeze and is very healthy, was not so bad aplace as they had supposed*: they were agreeably disappointed, and con? gratulated themselves on thc change. They reached their place of imprison? ment on the 25th of duly, and were immediately after put to appropriate service-Mudd being placed in the position of an assistant surgeon. Ar? nold that of a clerk; Spangler set co work at his trade of a carpenter, and O'Laughlin put to an employment in which he can be useful. There are about 550 prisoners now confined at the Dry Tortugas. There is a great scarcity of female operatives in' New England at this time. Wages are nnprecedently high, ; yet agents have to seek for operative ; . in other parts of the country and in ? the Canadas. Five thousand are want i cd immediately at Lowell, and the : same number at Lawrence and Man? chester. W~r.E /.FX ins KiLrw,i:/ Pcua-,? -Tho stcrec cf ;''':nr.rE. Trey s?.r.d Mcli.tosh woro r.incct entirely stripped o?. their content;] cigfct befere ?ant. The::'-, robberies r r- {.o? frecuer.? to be pleasant r:??>:. FIN?IS, FINEST. Another instalment of delightful peaches yesterday afternoon, from Air. Geo. Shields, which "for size and flavor cannot be excelled. Tie will receive our thanks for his pleasant remembrancer. STAGE WV MAH. FACILITTUS.- We are gh d to announce that Mr. C. V. Poole, son of the veteran sis gc contractor, will carry mails and passengers, thrice a wt?!;, along the route between Columbia and Greenville, Ile will carry small packages ?Voe et charge. We can vouch tor his fidelity, and congratu? late our public, in town and country, upon the facilities thus afforded them. The friends and patrons of thc I'fwnir may nov, Oe assured tiiut they wilt regularly get the issues of ?ear paper a circumstance of not * the moot inferior importance to them or 1 o ourselves. Lol no one now lack or complain of the lack of proper facilities for keeping u?> a proper intercourse between themselves, their friends, thu publisher and public. SUFFRAOE AMNESTY OAT?.-Let none of" our citizens fail to asuure themselves of the right of suffrage ai the approaching elec? tions. Either they propose t > continue citizens, or they do not. If the f irmer is their purpose, the:) let them, by ?il! means, strengthen' their hands, for their own se eurity. They will need to look about tta*:n and choose wisely in the future, ii they would repair the errors ol' the pr.st. They ?must no longer send blockheads to co the publie business; but to send anybody, th?-.} must* be sure" thai they have the rijdiV lo vote. This will need that they take tho amnesty oath, as prescribed hy Prc.-iden t Johnsen. Many persons taney i hat t lie rin-t oath, as prescribed by Lincoln, will servo them. Tney will find themselves mistaken. Let them lob'.: to it, and . atisfy themsi Ives in simson. - -~s<. -y"-*>-- - . ACCOMMODATIONS.-AVc beg to tir.-ov. <'i:T. a word in season to our people. The Con? vention is tu meet herc in September: the sessions of the Legislature will follow hard Cpu!: it. Tiie.se bodies will 110 doubt bo quite able to procure thu needful hal's for their deliberations; but ii will be matter of more difficulty to procure lodgings for tho delegates. In the want of I10icl5.it will become incumbent on tho citizens lo devote as mam spare beds in cs cl; dwelling asper? e?leto i his object, and to furnish private ac .?!::!..' ?dations for boarders. By a t?nel;, preparation, this can bc so well done as to leave to visit?is nothing t> regret as re? spects food and shelter. Priva if h.milies prepared to n ceivc lodgers, ahould make the fact seasonably known, and we hard!;, needle exhort ?ill such parties thal, ;.:? this dav of small beginnings, they will do .\.-il ..md wisely to save a few extra greenbacks, eagles ur sovereign* by ti.:.- mottest . .re..-...- . They may. in fact, blend hospitality with profit, and practice thc Rraces of SainaTi tanism along with all the virtues of thc pub? lican. NEW AnvEirnsEMKNTs. -Attention l.-e-.dl'd i'< the fellowing advertisements, which .-e. o published for the tirst time this morning: S. J. C itch-tt-Ne,? Goods. .i. (I. (iihbes-Oovned This Dav. Mrs. M. A. Snowden- Li tu r i.V. ?. i". IL Flauigan-l?otise to Kein Itiehland Lodge- -itegiiiar fi.r? . College Campus -?'ora for ^t?o. Tin: RESTORATION OF TIIK *)OL'TH IN CONORESS.- The Southern pC?ple are electing to the various offices that thev have the right to till, men who are well known to h:tve Leen active, energetic, rebels. They choose to reconstruct a Southern State, thc men who did most to destroy it. and carry it out or the Union. They do this h-r a simple reason; there are no. other men whom the people will trust. Tliey know ! that, with a few exceptions, the sp ! called "Union men'" of the ?South are slippery fellows,"weak-kneed t rimmers, ! who were rebels when the rebellion '. was up'-and Union men when it was : down. Such men will not bc trusted I where they are known, and we ought to rejoice over it as a healthy sign of . the real honest republicanism of thc South. WV ought also to regard it as a healthy sign that the Southern peo? ple ehoe*o to be represented in peace hy the men who led them in war. I The Nort hern people will do the .same, No one has given up the rebel cause so I completely as tho Southern soldier., i No class of the Sout hern people is so ? fair or honest, orso sincerely earnest j in their desire to see the country pa? cified. These are the men that the South now put in office. It is. as we. say, a healthy sign-but there is to bc a light about, it with the radicals especially in so far as the South wishes to be represented in Congress by this class ol' men.-Neu> Yirri,- lln:ald. ?'' IMPORTANT Coracrij OF INDIANS. The largest and most important council the Ju.bau (ribos ever held upon this continent will assemble at for! < iibson about tin bt of Septem? ber nu.il, to . ettie upon their future relations with the Government. Some thirty tribe; will be represented, amt thc whole number will count upAvarda of 75,OOO strong. .