Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?-lin m i -iwii i mn i ? in From !Vevr OI-ICWK. MIDNIGHT SEARCH OF dENERAL BEAU? REGARD'S HOUSE. NEW ORLEANS, August 25.-I have to relate to you a most extraordinary affair which took place in this city on the night of Wednesday last, about 1 a. m., at the residence of General G. T. Beauregard, on Esplanade street. About the hour indicated, the family, including the brother of Gen? eral Beav.rjgard and a number ol guests, were wrapped in profound slumber, when an extraordinary noise was heard in the court-yard of the house below. The lathes were first aroused, and became suspicious that i burglarious entry was about to bi made, and accordingly they awoke th? General and his friends, who weni down to the back doors and into th? yard, where they found some men ii citizens' clothes, ?f whom they de manded their business and errand. Thc reply was a seizure of the poi? sons, of th?; General and his frieuds declaring them under arrest, and tin opening of the gates and doors, lettinj in a small body of United States sol diers, under whose custody the prison ors were placed, separated from on another so as not to be able to comniu ideate. The apparent civilians am their military assistants then com menced a search of th?* premises, in vailing* every spot, ever so sacred from garret to ground, not foruvttin the coal-hole, and inflicting buyout stabs injmattresses, pillows, sofas, ete Of course General Beauregard prc tested against this mode of treatin au officer and a gentleman, who ha given his parole of honor to tb United States, and had not bee charged with a violation of it, but n t attention was paid to this, except t make the manner and style of trea ment even more rude and insulting The search went on, but rev?ale nothing which could bring discred upon the distinguished object of the: attentions, and some time after da; light it was completed, and its faihu to reveal any thing improper, ma? manifest. RUDENESS TO THE LADIES. At the time of thc alarm, the kuli? had come down and were mute spe taters of the singular arrest of the relative and host. Observing one i them, the, general, who was stantlii under guard in the corner, spoke ' her in Eronch, and advised her to ? to her room and complete her toile The chief of the invading party fi lowed her to her room and push? into it after her, Upon ber remo struting with him at this iutrusio lie made an insulting remark, ai threatened her with violence if she 1 pcnited what she hail said, which s nevertheless did, without his venti ing to carry his unmanly threat, in ' execution. At hist morning came, and ?1 brought with it an end to tins singu domiciliary visitation; the search v given up, and the apparent, civilis and their soldier-aids departed, lea ing their prisoners weary and w? but at li 1 >crty. Before they left, G< Bemxregaril asked their leader name, and it was given him as C Young. GEN. HEAT-REGARD AND GEX. SH CHID At the proper hour, Gen. Beau gard repaired to the headquarters Mstjtir-Gencral Sheridan, to v.h presence he was ut once admitted, : by whom lie was treated with greatest consideration and courte ? Gen. Sheridan assured him that .had not directed, nor was lu* awan any intention to make any such sea or to inflict any such insult upon former, and assured him tha#he wo take partii'ular pains to see that n such should take place in the fut? * These particulars have been furn el by live-witnesses and subjects this very singular and most reprel sible piece of espionage, and ar presume, altogether correct. But v tiier strictly true or not, I think right-minded persons, not war-pros < rs, will admit that neither the t nor the place, nor tho objects of search, were rightfully chosen. Gen. Beauregard, when rclesisei Iiis parole, was guaranteed the p? lego id remaining at his home, un iested, and his private eft'ects i free from surrender cr capture, there were suspicions that he public property in his possessioi bad entered into any subs?quente bimition, in violation of his pin the first act should have been to ai him, ami not to search his pren without arrest; if there were only picton o? a violation of Iiis parch indignity should hilve been of! him, not based on probable cs The search could have been mac easily in the day as in thc night, a city full of soldiers, detectives policemen cannot easily bc fled f had there been a fear of his es? by one so well known aa is G. T. I regard. THE LOUISIANA STATE GOVERNMENT. We ?ire quite at sea as to oar exist? ing State Government. It is "under? stood" that Gov. Wells is recognized by President Johnson as the Provi j sional Governor of Louisiana, but no direct intimation of this has been re? ceived by him so far as I can learn, ?nd assuredly no proclamation has been issued which* nominates him to such an office and instructs him to organize the State as one not yet pro? perly furnished with a loyal Govern? ment or an anti-slavery constitution of its own choosing. To-day, there ls published in one of our city papers a communication from a Louisianian temporarily in Wash? ington, who is said to be a most re? liable man and i earnest Unionist from the beginning, who writes under date of August 5 to this effect: * It is understood that the President has announced his decision in Louisi? ana matters to be, that he sustains Governor Wells in bis official acts, but demurs to approving the so-called j Constitution and State Government of ! i 18G1. Ile therefore proposes to ap I point J. Madison Wells Provisional j j Governor of Louisiana, with thc same j 1 powers and duties as Messrs. Sharkey, j Perry, &c, in their several States. I | j am not sure but this will please our j people as well as any" other possible j solution of the vexed questions. It clVeetually dismisses the Banks-Halm I "election" of last year. That set may, I indeed, be said to have no friends i here. Whatever queer notions some j enthusiasts may have of the supe? riority of the Africo-Amcriean to "whitewash as a man ami a voter," no person of any sincerity wishes to trust j his principles to the care of such men I j as ruled in Liberty Hall last year. ? Tho negro suffrage movement, gene- j j rally, is in a bad way. Many rouser- j vativo Republicans are plucking up j courage: to declare then: aversion to it. j Gen. ('ox's letter, in this sense, is a 1 twenty-inch shell among thc radicals, j and has the amens of five-sixths of the soldier voters. One of the most seri- \ ons questions involved is thu widest ; abrogation, by such a policy, of those powers and duties of States, which are j as plain and neeessarv parts of the ? National ( ?onstitution as is the Federal power itself. Thinking men of vari- j ons past associations are beginning to say: "If Congress is to prescribe the ' condition of suffrage, we have no longer the Government which was ? established in 17S7, and which Jack- ; son maintained and Webster expound- j ed, but as much another as ii" tho j separation attempted in 1SC1 bad j been successful." To my own know- j ledge, one member of the Cabinet so ? views it, and, perhaps, a majority of j that body. Evidently, it is tho view of the President. A vast amount of "pressure" is preparing to force aside these two principles when Congress meets. We shall see, then, whether "pressure"' has the same material to j act upon as heretofore. [Cor. JSrew York Ti nu?. Tile Atlantic fable. LETTER FROM CATT. ANDERSON, OE THE GREAT EASTERN. ? GREAT EASTERN, August lt?, 18(35. i MY DEAR Sn:: I have no Joui)? you I will read with some interest the oj ti- I nions of a sailor whom you know, re- j speeling telegraph cables across the ; Atlantic, and especially as io the cause of our present failure. I was former? ly a doubter: then, as I became inti? mate with the men and means to be employed to overcome all the difficul- 1 ties 1 had thought ot*. I bi came hope- i fui; but now that I unuorsvand per- i sonally the difficulties in the way of practically laying a cable in an orean of great depth, 1 have become san- ! guine. _ . j The cable has failed fbr the present, ; principally from the cause of its own wires penetrating tho gutta percha | core, and that cause has been so far , fatal only because it was unanticipated. ; I mean by that, it' we could have fore- : seen this probability, and sufficiently 1 understood tia; action of this ship, appliances could have been arranged that would haw recovered the faults ; without the elaborate process that-past experience has taught to bc efficient. They ran generally tell immediately when ii fault occurs/ Very little-<^ily j a few miles-is necessary to bc hauled \ in; for this purpose, the cable has to ; be passed from the stern to the bow of | the ship, at the bestof times a hazard- j oas thing to do, and in this very long ship a difficult operation. An engine ' applied to the paying-out gear, so as to reverse and haul in at once before the cable bad reached^the bottom, and : while the fault was being located, I would have reduced our three faults to a very small risk.,.-So that even this cable-which in qS^otixcr respects seems perfect-cotua^be effioiehtly laid when we have obtained the ap? pliances v our new experience has taught to be necessary. , - *??> j . i jgg?ggggs i ! ! 11 -" It never was anticipated that we should have to attempt thc recovery of a lost cable from the depth of two and a half miles, and for tho same reason we failed. Our grappling gear was inefficient. Three times' out of four attempts we hooked tho cable ami raised it from the ground several hundred fathoms. Upon two occasions the swivels of tho giapnel rope broke, and upon the third occasion our rope, which was made ap of ship's stores, added on to the proper rope, and when we had once more begun %} be hopeful, if not sanguine, a good look? ing six-inch rope broke like a thread. This much, however, we have estab? lished-we can have the cable when? ever we choose, and we fairly believe that, with propel appliances, wc can lift it and complete its laving. No oncean be blamed for not an? ticipating this unfortunate result. Every kind of experiment had been tried and the wno had never before penetrated the core. This and some other aspects strum to have fixed thc idea in some of the leading minds that the faults have been the result of malice. I incline to the opinion that they were thc result of accident, as 1 1 know by experience that accident will produce more carious results than design, and they are as easily explain? ed ono way as the other. Hut this follows, that appliances should be used that would prevent such fatal results, whether produced by one t aust? or the other. This cnn bc done hereafter by machinery we now know how to construct, find the additional security can bc had of making ?bose wires of a number of smaller ones, so that no ono would bo sulliciently ? strong it> penetrate! the core; or, if ne? cessary, cover the core with canvas or wive gauze, to make it still more seen rc. This don?, there can really he no ctiftieulty with this ship in laying sub? marine Ciibbsall round thc world. It would bi! a long ami useless story to ell youhow our hopes alternated betwixt hope and hopelessness during j the ten divs that wc grappled and ? hooked aid' lost tiic deo- obi thread, j Our back?are very much up, and .all: of us lon;; to recover thc cable 'ami j restore ou: prestige. I have become. | positively eager, and hope circnm- j stances will admit (d' my finishing what I have begun. Ny ophion now i<. that the com pa- ; nies interested in the success of filia j cable are really noun the point of sue- I cess. I have a fear they may lie dis- j hcartemd, ami no wonder; but an- i other a.tempt cannot fail, humanly ? speaking. We know the cable is per? fect in its insulation or capacity for transmitting messages; wt; know it has j thc right specific gravity ami thc right | strength; ami we know it only fails in j one poiit-that of wounding itself; j and even if that cannot bc completely j overe?me, with our new experience, j we know how to meet it, recover ami repair it | 1 daresay thc hope will bc thought , vision?r; by many. Yet. in your own j interests I hope all concerned wilt at once oner a new cable to bc made and.! completed by May. Th'- Great East ern coull then .-ail, lay it with cor tainty, aid in the same season pick 1 up and completo the one for the pre sent abaulimed. This would bo, beyond all question, j the liest way now io economize the ' affairs of all thc companies embarked ! in this enterprise, and my regret is that a number of capitalists were not herc to imbibe thc confidence that ex? perience has given a?l ol' us engaged in it. At all event .. tho attempt should be made to pick ?it? the cable, and there is ns fair a prospect of success as there can be about anything not yet accom? plish* d. Weare returning to England with thc h:>pc that capitalists will M C it as we *:<?. Mr. Field is buoyant and hope .'ul beyond us all; he would at once go at the picking up, and i would like n> indulge his wish. Hut we can? not possibly get the necessary ap? pliances in the way ol' machinery, wire rope, and complete the necessary re-1 p;?rs to the well-used boilers of this ship within two months. It would probably be more- could not be less; Hind there is every probability t hat tho winter gales Would drive us from our work, and without the sun we could not find our fishing ground. As these opinions are in substance what all engaged upon this enterprise really feel, there is no reason w hy you should not read them to any winna you may think they would interest. With kindest regards to you and yours, I remain, mv clear sir,' very truly yours, JAMES ANDERSON. Shakspcare says that "use strength? ens habit.'' Somebody states he tried the experiment on a coat, but it did not answer at all. THc Jacobins anil their Journal of Civilization. Tho Harpers are very respect-able printers, four of" them in a row, and all very pious-so pious that when they go in ut the gate of Heaven, Mary Magdalene will fall down and worship them. They have money, and can buy an indifferent kind of art and a species of milk and watery intellect, and these they usc in the publication of a "journal of civilization." By this they mean nigger civilization. That they propose to uphold and de? velo]) at any and every expense to the country. Pretending to can; for thc national credit, t hey would double the national debt rather than not give every nigger a vote; ridiculing the notion that they- are Jacobins, they would carry the country to any ?ex? treme of political anarchy rather than give nj) their little iden. That is, tin y care not a pin for white civiliza? tion, for the tranqirilily or political welfare of the country, whenever the national tranquility and welfare aro put in comparison with the all-import? ant topic ol nigger suffrage. This journal of civilization "declares that there aro no fixed rules of politi? cal right and justice that we. are bound to observe, except those that apply to the nigger. Nigger suffrage is defi? nite; everything else "depends upon circumstances." lt says that the Pre? sident has no policy, and that there? fore there is no party opposed to his policy and no Jacobinism, and in the next breath it indicates that it holds the very policy that we have denounced as Jacobinism, and intends to resist the settlement and pacification -of tin; country by ov-fery factious means, if that settlement does not (.rush thc Southern white man out of-existence aud put the nigger in his place. We have not waged war to put down rebel? lion and re-establish peace in the Southern States, but to put down the white man and sOt up the nigger; not to abolish slavery, but to abolish thc slaveholder; not to wipe out tho poli? tical errors of a people, but to wipe out thc whole vast society that held those errors, unless that society will go down tm its knees and humble it? self before the radicals in general and these- four pious printers hi particular. These are the -.W'ws of the Journal of Civilization. lt is curious U> observe tho accompaniments that this kind of civilization has on the other pages. One of thc illustrations of this same issue includes a view in a Broadway concert saloon, und another i:< au. (liti? gant brothel, in which the women rival one another in tho display of their charms-tho very ?lass of pic? tures that is most demoralizing in thc yellow covered literature-tho very prints that in their yellow covers might move thc lofty indignation ot" the four pious printers all hi a row. Since sueli civilization has such ac? companiments, we do not wonder at the preference of the publie l'or Bon? ner's Ledger, which sells to t hree times the extent of all the Harper publica? tions toge ther. If people want a reid journal of civilization-a journal whose civilization is not rotten with cant and hypocrisy, but is healthy and pure, and which treats the questions of thc day in a manly ami vigorous spirit, we recommend them to buy Private -Miles ( I'Beilly's Citizen. [New Yuri.- Herald. MAGISTRATES .ALLOWED TO AUMIN IS? TER THE OATH.-AW learn that His Excellency Gov. Perry has received a despatch from President Johnson, as? suring him that the President fully sanctions the course lie pursued with reference t<? authoring magistrate's to administer the oath of allegiance. The1 oath already administered by them are considered valid, as will be those hereafter administered. [ ( fret n etile Enlt vrprissl* A contemporary, speaking of the proposed oceanic telegraph, wonders whethe r tin-news transmittedthrougn salt water will be fresh. A Court of Common Pleas VNO 0 EXEU AL SESSIONS for ltichland I ??strict, will he held ai Columbia, on tin- :-: MONDAY ia October no.t. s, pr. Ri I*_D. li. MILLER, C.. C. P. Several Gentlemen (IAN bc accommodated with comfort a i-lc 1 rooms, by applying let Mrs. JOHN PALMER, South-NV est corner Cervais loni Henderson streets. sept 1 FOR SALE." VCOMMODIOUS and WKLL-VURNISH ED COTTAGE RESIDEN I E wit ii ail necessary out-buildings and a good we ll of v.- Uer, will be- seild a bargain. For particu? lars, apply to "Vv.M. WARDLAW. Si I >'" 1- 3* Two Young Ladies of Columbia T Ylv-dRE to obtain a SITUATION together I / in a school as teachers of English lite? rature. Mathematics, Vocal and Instru? menta! Music. Propositions will also bc icceived s< parately, though au engagem'-nt. where they could ile together is preferred. The bfft references given ard required. -?.xxotiorx Sales. By Durbcc & Walter. THIS DAY, 121 h St-pteiuber, at ?A a. tu,, in front, ?if our store, will be sold, witkotr. reserve, tho following extensive invoice Si good?, receive?! from New York, and be Jeet' d especially for thia market: Boxes Extra Family Soap. Starch. I. E. -Cheese, Shires Window Glaus ot ?ill sizes, Putty. Cases Bourbon Whiskey. Clients mwn Te?, Barrels .Brown Sugar, Cases Sardines, Baskets Heidsick Cham? pagne, Cases Olive Od, Boxes Paper Col? lars, Men's Hats. Pocket Knives, Spool Thread, Setts Tabb Knives and borles, a, lot of Furniture, Crockery, Glassware, Ac. ALSO, A neat little Cottage, on Laurel street, between Barnwell anti Henderson streets. .Sf?,t, 12 I SOLE LEATHER! ") LBS. vcrv superior ENGLISH ??.yjytVJ and HEMLOCK SOLE LEA? THER, just received and for salo low by Sept 12 $6* E. POLLARD. '('RACKERS. ri TWENTY hbls. unsorted CRACKERS, just JL received and for sale low bv Sept 12 pi* E. POLLARD. P?fiXLE?) POBK rilEN half -hbls. of very dioico PICKLED JP FORK, just received and For sale low by Sept. 12 j:i E. POLLARD. Cheese, &c. 1THE usual wenklv snpplv of Imitation . ENGLISH DM BY CHEESE, m ANO Wine, Soda, Buller ami Fancy BISCUITS, just received anti tor salo wholesale <>r re tail hy lllCIIAED CALDWELL. . _SepiJ2 _ 1? NAILS! 17T1FT} kegs NA 1?.S, assorted sizes, just received anti lor sat.- at CANTWELLS, Bedell's Bow. Sept. 12_1 Soda Biscuits. pr BBLS. fresh SODA BISCUITS, just Te ? J ceived and lor sale at Sent 12 1 _ _CANTWELL'S. ALE Km POBT?B I /\ CASKS Muir A Son's S< 'OTCII Abb. JA J S b bis. LO?D0N PORTER. For salo at P. CANTYVELL'S. S. pl 12 I Candles! fT|\ BOXES APAMANTtNK CANDLES t? f\ t ills, receive?) ano for >-i).- al t?. ;>l tri I l'.?.Vl vt r.Lii r>.-U H .-. Mo?. J?JST RECEIVED, (1ALTCOES assorted patterns. ' BEB NOE colors. DEL NI NES. MUSLINS and an assortment of FANCY ARTICLES. Gent's YVH ITU and COLORED SHIRTS. Boxes plain and Fancv Paner Collars. Do"cns Felt ?lats. AI-SO, Boxes Heidsiek Champagnt. '. Mnmm's " B'ols. XXXold'Kuiuncky Bourbon. Brandies, Wini's and other Lieners. Kits extra No. 1 Mackerel, and a general assortment of oilier Groceries, Fur sale low tor cash by SPECK A POLOCK, Sept 12 1 Gen. Commission Merchants. I EIC l-l IT Til LOK, BEl IS leave to inform his friends and ?ie public generally that he has just Jr. turn, cl IV.uu N.w York with a well --Ls, leVied stock of GOODS, consist ingot CLOTH, CASSIM I'.KF.S and VESTINGS, which bc will MAKE UP in the latest, styles io orel? r, at reasonable onces, for cash only. ALSO, LAMB'S WOOL UNDERSHIRTS, DRAW EBS. 11 ATS. Cull at my residence, Cates street, third door fn .n Washington struct. Bi ard s Bow. Sept P2 :>? C. \). I'.I. I. UH AB HP. Notice to Travellers NX EXCELLENT NINE" fifSSU "SHAT COACH, with a lino _??_?__ -j t four-horse team, is now ready fer anv point on the railroads, THIS MORNING. "WARD & HARN EY. Sept 12_1? Notice to Travellers. CUTXriBIA, s. C.. SF.PT. ll. 18?5. i AM ri; ming a daily line cf "FOX'R-HCRSE COACHES V-? _?-ftvni Columbia to Kingsville. 7 [.eave Columbia every day at Lu a. m., ronncdhig with train at Kingsville, 7'. o'clock p. m. lie-turning, leave Kingsville on thc arrival ?f thc i.'ain. I have a RE? LAY OF HORSES half war. S. ; t ?2 1 W. St. BECKHAM. fclrNcwbern UeraUL anti Greenville Hit? it .copy fuir ::n:is and send lull lo this oilicc. _____ JENKINS^ & CO., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN T E A S ONLY, }>ML.\ DKLl'JIIA, RESPECTFUL! .Y inform their old South? ern friend ?md otlu-rs Unit th? y eonti nue to furnish, ns heretofore, a superior article of TUA, in their neat, convenient aral secure sine of i.v ta'.h' ? ea -1 ages, con Uinhig ipiartiT, half a-. (1 - ne pound each; also, in caddie* Rial original hail i bests. <?.-,i, rH i,-, r :i-j;:pt ty exe -utett Terms