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lina, upon the subject of abandoned lands, is hereby commissioned and empowered to make the matter of cotton seizure, in this State, on the part of the United States authorities, thc subject of his earnest attention and investigation at Washington, with a view to the protection of the people in this particular. Resolved, That this resolution be immediately sent to the Senate for concurrence. The following message was received from thc Senate : IN TUF. SF.N-ATE, November ll, 18G5. Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: Senate respectfully asks leave of the House to amend thc report of tho Committee of Ways and Means, of thc House, on thc communication of the Heading Clerk of thc House, and others, in relation to their per diem and mileage, as follows : 1. To add the words "Senate and" before House of Representatives, se as to include Reading Clerk, Assistant Clerk, Messenger and Door-keeper, in the provision made, for those officers in the House. 2. To add the Keeper of the State House and Librarian of thc College for their per diem, and to Wm. Collin and ScottEddings for $150 per diem each, for their attendance as Assistant Messengers ol' thc Senate during this prosont session. Rv order of the Senate. F. J. MOSES. President pro tem. On motion of Mr. READ, a message was ordered to be sent to the Sen? ate, granting leave so to amend. The following m^ssagv was received from the Senate : Ix THE SENATE, November ll, 18(55. Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen <f the House of Representatives: Senate respectfully asks leave to amend the first resolution of the Joinl Committee ol' Finance and Ranks, of the Senate, and of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, to which was referred a resolution thai the Committee on Finance and Paulis be instructed to make arrangement: for meeting the expenses of the Legislature, at the present session, b} striking out "and," and inserting after Solicitors and their Clerks, ant tin; Assistant Messengers of the Senate, so as to make it read as follows Resolved, That pay-bills be issued to the members of the Genera Assembly, tue Attorney-General. Solicitors and their Clerks, and tin Assistant Messengers of the Senate, on the Cashier of the Bank of tin State, payable on the first day of December next. By order of the Senate. F. J. MOSES, President pro (em. V)n motion o? "Mi. TiKA1>, "a message WHS ordered to be ?ont to thc Sen ate, granting leave to amendas indicated. The following message was received from the Senate : I:>* TUE SENAT;:. November IM, 18G5. .V/-. Speaker und Gentlemen of th" House of Representatives : Senate respectfully asks leave of your House to substitute thc joint iv port made by the Special Committee on the petition of citizens of St Helena, on a resolution from the House relating to thc ten per cent, pt annum on lands in St. Philip's, St. Michael's, St. John's, Collcton, Prim William, and St. Luke's, in thc resolution on that subject, which lui passed vour House, and has been sent to thc Senate for concurrence. By order of the Senate. E. J. MOSES, President pro tem. On motion of Mr. ELLIOTT, a message was ordered to be sent to tl Senate, granting leave to amend as indicated. Tiie Senate sent to this House th. following; resolutions : Whereas, The Congress ol' the United States, by joint resolution approved on the Isl day of February, A. 1). lsd."), proposed an amen ment to the Constitution of thc United States hu- Hie ratification ot' tl Legislatures of the several Stales, which amendment is in the followil words, to wit : ARTICLE Xiii. ''SECTION 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment fer crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicto shall exist within Hie United Stati s. (>L- any place subject to their jurisdi tion." .. SECTION 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by ?ppr priate legislation. " 1. Resolved, therefore, bj/ the Senate and House of Representatives, of I General Assembly of thc St>t(e of Soufli Carolina, in General Assembly m soulby the authority of the same, That the aforesaid proposed amendme of the Constitution of the United States be, and the same is here accepted, adopted and ratified by this State. 2. Resolved, That a certified copy of thc foregoing preamble and rei lution l.?e forwarded by his Excellency the Provisional Governor to t President of thc United States, and also to the Secretary of State of t United States. :!. Resolved, That any attempt by Congress towards legislating upon t political status of former slaves, or their civil relations, would be contri to thc Constitution of the United States, as it now is, or as it would altered by the proposed amendment, in conflict with the policy of t President declared in his Amnesty Proclamation, and with the restorati of that harmony upon which depends thc vital interests of thc Amelie Union. On motion, a message was ordered to bc sent to the Senate, asking les :o amend the resolutions by striking out the third of the scries. The following message was received from the Senate : IN THE SENATE, November 13, 1805 Mr. Speaker and G cul1': me ii of the. House of Representatives: Senate does not grant leave to your House to amend the resolution the Senat", ratifying the proposed amendment of the Constitution of t United States, by striking out thc third resolution. By order (?f the Senate. E. J. MOSES. President pro lem Thc resolutions from tho Senate were then concurred in, and were den d to h.- returned to the Senate. Mr. RYAN, from thc Committee on Offices and Officers, made a rep on the communication of Hon. li. !.'. Dunkin ; which was agreed to, ; was ordered to !>.. sent to the Senate for concurrence. Mr. PRICE, from the Special Joint Committee of Conference, on resolution as lo Hie sade of Hie State Works, nt Greenville, made a'rep? which was ordered loi- consideration to-niorrow. Thc Senate sent to this House thc report of tho Special Joint Commitl of Conference on Hie resolution as to the sah-of the State Works Greenville; which was ordered for consideration to-morrow. The Senate sent to this House, A resolution in relation to slaves; which was referred to thc Commi on Colored. Population. Mr. SCOTT, from the Committee ol Ways and Alean-, made arepor resolution for paying H." Keeper of the State Rous.- and Grounds for vices at this session ; which was agreed to, and was ordered to bc sou? the Senate for concurrence. Tie- Senate returned to this House, with concurrence, Resolution authorizing the transportation of Public Records f Chester ; Resolution providing for compensation for extra duty imposed on College Librarian; Resolution providing for mileage, and suspending thc per diem du Resolution empowering Hon. Wm. Henry Tr scot to act at Washinj with reference to colton seized in this State ; He? .oi l of thc Committee of Ways and Means on communication ol L. Farley, and others ; also, On resolution as t<> pay of State House Keeper for the present ca . .sion. The SPEAKER announced at 3 o'clock P. M.. that Hie House w recede from business under the joint resolution of tin- Genend Asseni until 7 o'clock H. M., on Saturday before thc 1th Monday in Novel next. I Thr Aitti-Rmlleal Meeting at St. The St. Louis papers have elaborate j reports of the great public demonstra i lion to protest against the "lest j oath," and to take counsel with re? ference to upsetting, by lawful means, the radical faction, who gave birth to it. The speakers included many of the most eminent men of the State, and the enthusiasm is said to have j been very great. i Major-General Blair made the first speech. Another speaker, Judge Hicks, in illustration of the way in which the bogus Constitution works, said: Gentlemen, the history of all the tyrannies of the world-you may talk of oppression in Boland by Russia you may talk of oppression in Hun? gary by Austria-you may talk of oppression in any other country, b:.t nothing like it has been seen in tho world, as the attempt of these men who made the new Constitution. Every line-every word-the whole theory of the Constitution is based on fraud and oppression. All the rights that are dear to man, especially to a j man who has once been free, are taken I away from him. His right of pro? perty-there are many things he cannot do unless he conformed to thc requirements of that Constitution his right to labor, his right to thal greatest of all things-the right tc worship God in a manner and a mode that he professes, is denied to him All thc rights ure taken away fron him-and what was the object of that' Tin? object, gentlemen, was simpb this: It was during a war betweei extreme sections of the Union, am these men believed that by makin; such a Constitution as they did the} could obtain power for an indefin.t length of time; that these men, thes Methodist preachers, lawyers, teach ors and others, they wanted to get ri of, would leave the State; that all wh had not gone plum into the Loy; League Association would leave th State, and these fellows would h av a happy time in enjoying the office and the honors ami the glory all b themselves. They knew it would m last forever, but each one thought i would lust long enough foi-him. J was a nice thing. I say tin- histor of tin' world presents nothing like i Now. what is our remedy-what sha wi' do? Gentlemen, the remedy easy. Now the new Constitution is i force; thousands of men cannot vol any more. If the next Legislate carries out one of the requirements ? the new Constitution, there is no tel ing who will be able to vote. Her after it is one of tho requirements > the new Constitution that the Legi lature shall appoint a Register : each County of the State to registe I believe, six months before an ole tion, the name of each voter, and the man's name is not there he cai: vote. But, mind you, the Regist so appointed has the power to sa when you go there to have your nan registered-suppose it is Mr. Seb;i tian, of St. Francois, goes there ai says: "I want to have my name reg tered." "Where do you liver"' "St. Francois County.*' "How long?" "About sixty years." "Well, you can't vote; because pt haps, you had an uncle who was the rebel army?" "No, sir." "You had a son there?" "No, sir." "You were a rebel yourself?" "No, sir."' "Well, then, 3*011 had some niggc hadn't you?"' "Yes. sir." "Well, then yon can't vote; 1 cause, for a time here, a man who li negroes was a rebel." No doubt many of our citizens hil been in what is called the rebel ara Many of them have been what j called sympathizers, and, in the nu: of Cod. I behove most of the peo of Missouri have had some sympatl Why? Tiu-y are from Virginia. K tucky. North Carolina amt Tenness and. ie Hi.- name o God, didn't tl sympathize with their friends? (' tainly they did. I, myself, did. il COUld 1 lake that oath? My posit is well known; but how could 1 lr not sympathized with these men? * in their cause, bul sympathized h them as individu?is. When ev drop of my blood was from that co try, and my kith -md kit. were tin how could 1 say. as a human bei I had no sympathy w iib these peo] It is the refinement of cruelty to quire such an oath. I .sympatl with anything that suffers- with n or brute, or vermin, if lu- writ in plain before raj face, he ?ais sympathy; and to ask (hat the pc< should before exercising that gi right of franchise who are to adn ister tue Government-these Virgini "T-..1.,, .1- " _ ._1 * ". _ " .1 ?illO, IVUUtUviviUllH, Vyl'lKitUi.M... SJJtU Tennesse eans, whose brothers were engaged in that-call it, if you please, unholy-cause, but to require those men to go and swear before thc ever j living God that they had no sympathy for them, is a refinement of cruelty I that is not found in the pages of his? tory of thc human family. I A SON OF LOUD BYRON A MATT. ! ROBBER.-The Chicago Republican i gives a long history of "Pinkerloti's \ National Police Af/ency," from which j wo extract the following: i "In connection with the railroad .jusiuess there occurred many strange ? episodes. During the early stages of railroad enterprise in Illinois, great crimes were frequently perpetrated by j obstructing the track and throwing off the trains. Many were killed by these atrocious acts, although plunder was, no doubt, the object of j them. The Michigan Southern suf? fered most in this way; lives wen? lost and thc: mails invariably robbed. On one of these occasions, after a 1 tedious investigation >f months. Mr. Pinkerton arrested o'ie Augustus j Stewart Byron, who, with a nephew i of Admiral Napier, who was the? serving in the Crimean war, wa? charged with obstruction, robberj and murder by the obstruction. Thc ! fernier claimed to be a natural son o I Lord Byron, by an Edinburgh gir j named Mary Stewart. He had twx I or three manuscript letters written b; Lord Byron in his possession, am ? there were other authentic document j to prove tho truth of his story. Th? lattm-, Napier, also turned out to b I the person he represented himself t j be, although he managed finally ti I elude justice by running away. H I escaped from New York in a sailim vessel bound for England, although I Mr. Pinkerton was in New York am ? on his tr ick at the time. The so 1 of the poet was convicted of murdei by throwing a train from the traci then-by killing tho engineer, til I object being the robbery ol' the mail j He was sentenced to imprisonniei for life in the State penitentiary : ' Jackson, capital punishment bavin been abolished in Michigan. E died in prison, aged about thirty ? eight years." I RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN EA? j TENNESSEE.-The Constitution of tl United States guarantees the right 1 j all men to worship God according 1 I the dictates of their own conscienc I But it appears that no respect is pa I to this provision of that document : I East Tennessee, where it is open ! and shamefully violated. Membe and ministers of the Southern Moth dist Church are the peculiar objec of vindictive and cruel persecute there. They are dei rived of thc houses of worship, and threaten? with violence if they attempt to ho religious service in certain plac? We have just heard, in an authenl manner, of a most devilish outra committed on an estimable1 minist of that denomination at or near t town of Athens. For attempting exercise the functions of his hi; and holy office, he unis mobbed u ridden on a rail! The name of tl persecuted minister of God is R( Jacob Brillhart, a member of t Helston Conference, and was recei ly sent to Athens by Bishop Ear The Bishop vouches for him us bei a good man and worthy minist This is the treatment to which he: subjected because, like hosts of otl good men, he adhered to thc Soul ern cause during the war. Will nothing be done to restore 1 reign of order and justice to t! distracted country? Will not Pr< dent Johnson see that tin-same rig and immunities are guaranteed Southern people there that they permitted to enjoy els- where? Sb ing can be expected of Brown! >w ! an aggravation of the e vils. RICHMOND.-The Richmond Ewt rergives a ?Jowi IQ picture of the r prosperity of the city. ^ We are t changing- scenes from a, theatre ashes and destruction to vistas of dnstrial monuments grow upon scenes as dreams grow and acorn late upon thc imagination. The n chants of Richmond beginning new era without money and aln without friends, are now, by tl own efforts, regaining with sure steady steps the path of their for prosperity, audopeninga still bro.i avenue to a still more extensive! ces-. In tito encouraging display Mi-.- mind to resolve, l!i<- will to , cute,' whi.-h {iuds expression in daily scones of industry and prog about us, must be seen a future ll mond far exceeding in al! thea butes of wealth and infbioiico Richmond of old." As fal- as our observation goes, thc Northern pictorial papers art unan: mously enlisted in tho cause of Radi? calism. The columns of these popu? lar journals teem with lampoons on the South and the conservative North, and their illustrated pages abound in caricatures of thc same malignant ten? dency. These sensational pupers wield a political influence at the North, thc magnitude of which is but little un? derstood with us; it is the power of ridicule. In political discussions they play thc nari of "the man in the crowd."' it is their business to turn serious, or even sacred things, to de? rision; to raise the laugh as choir leaders raise the tune; or, as occasion demands, to ^,'ive the signal for "the barbaric yaap." They sec a piize in every double inlendre; they systemati? cally labor to surprise their victims into tbi" commission of fa ux pas; they scrutinize every sentence in search o? a point on which to hang an epigram. Failing in these devices-if plodding reas< >n still makes hoad against them they have a never-failing resource ID the illustrious example of tho Hon. Tittlebat Titmouse, M. P.; they crow, or bark, or brag, or turn a summer? sault. Thc prominent array of this motley crowd under the Radical banner is significant of the character of the elements of the party and of the ma? chinery it employs. It indicates an assemblage of passion-guided, excite? ment-loving, sensation-seekers-fa? natics all; blind with the venom of their own malignity, ready te ascribe higher praise to an illumined cartoon, in which tho effigies of those they hate are hung, drawn and quartered, than to the highest achievement of oratory, philosophy or statesmanship. But this blind and furious mob is not, as it vainly imagines, left lo the direc? tion of its own instincts. The beast has masters who, ivliilo they seem to follow him, control and govern his every movement. "Wc remember to have read somewhere that elephants were, in ancient times, driven before advancing armies to trample down the opposing foe; but that they some? times capriciously turned on their drivers, and visited upon them thc destruction they had designed for others.-Richmond Times. -,m> Tun DEVOTION OT JOHN MITCHELL TO THE SOUTH.-Speaking of the re? lease of Jolia Mitchell, the Peters? burg (Va.) Index says: The release of John Mitchel] from imprisonment at Fortress Monroe, after a long confine? ment, will be received throughout tile limits of this State with unalloyed gratification. During the war he was connected at different times with two of thc most influential papers in Ride mond, and renewed among us the reputation lie has enjoyed, always and everywhere, of being a classic writer and an intelligent, thinker. All his sons took part ia thc war. One. thc youngest, was slain at Gettysburg, bearing gallantly the banner of his regiment, the First Virginia. An? other was killed daring thc world-re? nowned defence, of Fort Sumter, whose garrison, wo believe-, he com? manded at the hour of his -.loath; while the third was severely wounded in thc right hand. To add to his griefs, his wife and daughter had the misfortune to bc wrecked while en? deavoring to enter the blockade port of Wilmington, losing everything they possessed, and narrowly escaping with tlicir lives. -.Kfe. QUEEN VICTORIA'S DOMINIONS. The Queen of England is now sove? reign over ene continent, a hundred peninsulas, five hundred promonto? ries, a thousand lakes, two thousand rivers, and ten thousand islands. Her subjects number more than one hun? dred and fifty millions. Rv a wave of her hand sin' can summon VJ armv of live li.mored thousand soldiers, and a uaw of e thousand shins of war. and ul; so minster Abbey as the la ! resting transept. win relie buried Castlereagh, Wilberforce, the Cannings, diaries Jam is Fox, tile Earl of Chatham and his brilliant son. and a host of worthies whose names have adorned their country's history. The grave ts close to the hideous monument of Lord ("-latham ?it the great North door, entering from st. Margaret's church-yard, and on one side of the grave lies thc body of Fox, and on thc odie,- those of the two William