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COLUMBIA. Friday Morning, December 1,1865. Principle thc Guide. Thc Wilmington Journal has some ex? cellent remarks, defining what should be? the true guide for Southern Legislatures and the Southern people. It has been truly said that, hy standing between thc mass of the Southern people and the sweeping confiscation ordered by Congress, and eagerly urged by many leading politicians at tho North, Presidont Johnson has entitled himself to the warm? est regards of those whom he has thus protected; and we feel assured that thc people of the Southern States are neither unmindful of, nor ungrateful for, the favors thus accorded to them, although it is not to bc supposed that any one, piaccd in Mr. Johnson's position, could have failed to interpose more or less encrgcti sally to save the nation, of which he is the executive head, from a course which would have been a stain upon the civilization of ?he nineteenth century, and entailed upon .fhn country a reproach that would have endured for ages to come. But, making ,aU allowance and deductions, Mr. Johnson -does deserve well of thc Southern people, ?nd their obligat ions to him arc freely ac Itnowledged; indeed, we are even inclined to believe that too much waight is some? times attached to them, or at least that .gratitude has a tendency to run into sub? serviency. Wo have no ascertained political status ourselves, and consequently it may, per? haps, be out of place for us to speak of rwhat is, or ought to be, our policy; still, :ae we have a sort of <?uasi oxistenco, and ;are required to hold elections, so-caUcd, al Meast, it behooves us to examine carefully the principles upon which wo act, even within the limited sphere permitted to us. This is due not only to ourselves, but to ?others. It is a duty we owe to the country, arid an obligation imposed upon us by our .oaths, to support thc Constitution of thc United States. We arc not acting in accordance with the .spirit of that instrument when wc consent Ito accept a man in exchange for a prin? ciple-an individual for a policy. If wo -ire eaUcd upon to perform any act, we nought to do it according to our best judg nient, and most conscientious conviction. ?We submit to thc course of the United ^States Government in all things, but the cnoral responsibility must rest with the party dictating such course, and such party cannot, in fairness shift that respon? sibility to others by requiring them to br tome the involuntary agents of saddling jfc he load upon their own shoulders. .South Carolina and all thc other South? ern Siates are anxious to be restored to ?he Union, and to their rightful position as ?nenibcrs of that Union. They have been required to sacrifico much to prepare them tor such restoration; South Carolina has .done everything the President has sug? gested as proper for her to do, and yet it Appears highly probable lier Senators and ^Representatives will be refused admission io Congress. Whatever of principles she may have sacrificed, from thc indications in our Northern exchanges, we judge will have been sacrificed in vain. Tho Southern people have accepted the results of the war, and have suffered the penalty of failure. They have honestly and faithfully aided the President, in the way he has indicated, in his effort to rc storo the Union; but while they do this, it is surely proper to consider and to pause cbefore they establish any precedents of subserviency to the radicalism of the North, who would demand more of us than wo have already done, before admitting us .to our legitimate rights as co-States of the Union. We may still hope, however, that thc Pr< sident will bc successful in his efforts to complete the re-union of the tStatcs, and that no further sacrifice of principle will be demanded by thc radical majority in Congress. We have boen permitted to publish tho following telegram from President John? son to Provisional Governor Perry: WASHINGTON, November 27, 1805. To J!. F. Perry, Provisional Governor: I ilo not think it necessary for the mem? bers-elect, for South Carolina, to hi; present at tin: organization of Congress. On the ?contrary, it wili bo better policy to present their certificates of election after thu two houses are organized, which will then be a ?impie question, under the Constitution, . of tuc members taking their seats. Each house must judge, for itself, thc election returns and qualification of its own mem? bers. As to what the two houses will do, in reference to the oath, now required to be taken, before thc members can take their seats, is unknown to mc; and I do not like to predict. But, upon the whole, I am of opinion that it would be better for -.the rpiestion to come up and be disposed of after the two houses have Leen organ? ized. I hope that your Legislature "wi ll adopt a code in reference tc free persons of color that will be acceptable to the country, at the same time doing justice to the white and colored population. ANDREW JOHNSON, President. Surrender of thc Shenandoah. A portion of the Northern press de? nounce the action of the British Govern? ment in discharging, unconditionally, thc officers and crew of the Shenandoah, hold? ing that they should have been turned ovor to the United States as pirates. The New York Times, however, holds that the sur? render of the Shenandoah to our Consul at Liverpool as a Confederate war vessel, and his acceptance of thc ship in that cha? racter, pi eeludes us from all complaint against the British authorities for dis? charging the officers and crew; hut, at the same time, insists that Waddell was guilty of piracy, since he continued to make war after ''American captains had personally made known to him the fact of the termi? nation of the war,'* and no vessel "which he boarded and destroyed, during the summer months, was without some news? paper from the racine ceast, or other quarter, abounding with conclusive evi? dence that the Confederacy had como to an end." The Times should recollect that "American captains" had carried to differ? ent parts of thc world, at different times, false intelligence regarding thc war, and that Northern papers had more than once contained premature announcements of the fall of Richmond. The following letter of Capt. Waddell, from which we have already published an extract, to Earl Russell, her Britannic Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs, explains the conside? rations by which his course was shaped during the entire cruise of the Shenan? doah, both before and after her meeting with the Barraconta: "STEAMER SHENANDOAH. "November 5, 1865. "To the Rinht Hon. Earl Russell, her Rei tai>7iic Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs: "1 have the honor to announce to your lordship mv arrival in tho waters of thc Mersey, with this vessel, lately a ship-of war in my command, belonging to the Con? federate States of America. "The singular position in which I find myself placed, and the absence of all pre? cedents on the subject, will, I trust, induce your lordship to pardon a hasty reference to a few facts connected with the cruise lately made by this ship. I commissioned the ship in October, 1864, under ordert from the Naval Department of the Confe? derate States; and, in pursuance of the same, commenced actively cruising against the enemy's commerce. My orders direct? ed mc to visit certain seas in preference ti others, lu obedience thereto, 1 fount' myself in May, June and July, cf thif year, in the Ochotsk Sea and Arctic Ocean Both places, if not quite isolated, are stil so far removed from the ordinary channell of commerce, that months would claps? before any news could reach there as ti thc progress or termination of the Ameri can war. "In consequence of this awkward cir? cumstance, I was engaged in the Arctic Ocean in acts of war so late as the 28tb day of June, in ignorance of tho series o! reverses sustained by our arms in the field and the obliteration of thc Government under whose authority I had been acting. The intelligence I received for the firs time on communicating at sea, on the 2c of August, with the British bark Barra conta, of Liverpool, fourteen days fron San Francisco. Your lordship can ima gine my surprise at thc receipt of sue' intelligence, and I would have given to i' little consideration if an Englishman': opinion did not confirm the war news though from an enemy's port. "I desisted immediately from furthe: acts of war, and determined to suspenc further action until I had Communicate< with an European port, when I would lean if that intelhg nee was true. It wouh not have been intelligent in me to conve] this Y.;ss-el to an American oort, simply bc causo tho master of thc barracouta ha< said the war was ended. 1 was in an em barr.using position. I diligently examine, all the law writers at my command, search ing a precedent for my guidance in th future control, management and tinai dis posai of the vessel. I could find none History is, I believe, without a parallel Finding the authority questionable nude which I considi red *his vessel a ship o war, I immediately discontinued eruisin; and shaped mv course for the Atlanti Ocean. "As to the ship's disposal, I do not con sider that I have any right to destroy her or am further right to command her. O; tho contrary, I think that as all the pro porty of the Confederate Government ha reverted, by the fortune of war, to th Government of the United states of Kort] America, that therefore this vessel, inat inuch as it was the property of the Con federate State;?, should accompany th other property already reverted. I have therefore, sought this port as ri suitabl one 'to learn the news," and, if I am with out a Governmen, to surrender the shif with her battery, small arms, machiner} stores, tackle and apparel complete tob? Majesty's Government, for such dispos tion as in its wisdom should be deeme HOME FOB JEFFERSON DAVIS.-It is pr< posed by the Jackson (Miss.) Neirs t purchase a homestead for Jefferson Dav: in some foreign country, whither he sha retire upon release from imprisonmen It is st ested that the funds necessai bo raised by Confederate soldiers' subscri] tions of one dollar each from the men, an as much from the officers as they please. Mn. BOYCE.-Wo see it stated that tl Hon. W. W. Boyce, who represented Sout Carolina in the United States Congress f< nearly eight years, is about to comment the practice of law in Washington City. Hi TINT, N. C., Nov. 24th. 1865. BILL Anr, SQIRE: I'SC been reeding yere tlokuments, and air afr&dc yu air not loyel. I wor a anyon man oil ways, opposed to thc wor, and kep ont of it til the con skripshun cotched mc. Then I jined the cavalrce, and wor in sum desprit chargea. In un big fite, wc bad too men badi": wounded by fallin nf tbare horses, and a mither hit in the bade by the fragmcn of a flien shell. I wor not in this herc tito, caus I jined thc wagun trune when things luked suspishyus. Wei, Tine glad of pease, and that them shrecking shells and bissin, sputtcrin minees air not a travcllin roun eny more. I luv thc deer ould Gag, and thc starrs and stripes air prcshyus to my sole. Tho niggurs and fedruls du not du in my enntre like yu sa tba du in vorn. Thc niggurs air sobur. industreyus, and sta at hom and do'nt malt milcstons of thair selfs, as tba du doun in Gorgee. The fedrul solgurs du not cuss, nor swair, nor chaw tobakker, nor drink whiskee. Tha sa that burnin houses, and robbin wimen and cbildrun, air .igin thc rools of civillized wor, and tba* unyun solgors did not fite in that wa. Tba sa' that tis oil a mistak and a slandur agin them, and that a rcbul colled Hamtun burned Columbee and them toons and villaigis in South Callina and Gorgee. Wei, Squire, we've had and lecshun fur Guvner. Won of the kanditaits wor oil things to oil men, as Sainte Jon sez in thc Bibel. He wor a nnllefver in 1851, a ceseshyunist in 1861, a consurvitiv in 1863, to-wit, naimly: opposed to the wor, and to Jef. Davis, and to Abo Linkun, and the abolishunists, in 1863, be is a Ande Jonson, unyun man, and kanditait fur Guvner. But be wornt lecteJ, and the reosun pears to be, that he did not get voets enuff. The nullefyers nullefyed him, thc ccseshyuuists ceseeded from him, and the unyun men scd that tha wonted a man who had oil ways bin union, and so he did not get voets enuff to lect him. Aud, now, we've gut ] too Guvncrs, with thare 6tafs and A. D. C's. j Sqire Arp, du yu hav any A. D. C's. in ? Gorgee? Wei, we had kords of era in the wor time. Tba road fine bosses, and wor coliod kurneis. but nay can privet opinyun is, that tho only miiitcry gu ty tba did '.vor to by cottun and tobakker to fede the wives and cbildrun of desecsed solgers in the armco. Wim of thees iraient knrnuls had cottun enuff when the Konfedrasce, so-called, bust up, to fede oil the orfin cbildrun in the emitree. But he satisfydo the C. S. Qortinnastcr bout it, to-wit, naimly: by pruvin that it wor his oan pri? vet propurtoo. And, now, Sqire, ha vin giv yu oil the misc in my eekslnm of the hemisfere, I kant konkludo this cpistel without hopin that yu ma becum more lovel, and that yor blu jaket ma lit yu, the bin serulyan volt of heven ma smile upon' yu, and that yu ma novar tret blu at a rcbul eloggeree ncvar, no nevar. Affekshunaitlv, JON SMITH, JUNEYOR. THE Poon NEOKO.-The medical officers of thc Freedman's Bureau, of thc city ol Bichmond, report that an increase of dis? ease among the colored population of that city, now estimated at 25,000, is becoming very apparent. Thc major portion of thc above number have their quarters imme? diately in the city, while the residue aro gathered tn thc larger camps that every? where environ thc town. An orphan asy? lum for thc blaeks, instituted by th? Bureau, has recently been taken in charge by thc Society of Friends. There ar? about 300 inmates now being cared for. A Maryland paper says that quite f cargo of deluded negroes, who abandonee their homes in Maryland during the thin year of the war, fir freedom and felicity at Norfolk, was recently landed on th? St. Mary's River shore, in a destitute ant suffering conditio!!. Aged and infirm nc gros of both sexes, and children, constitute thc bulk of these unfortunate immigrants - FnoM CCBA. -The principal item of Cub: news, of interest, brought by the steam ship Corsica, at New York, relates to tin landing on the island of another cargo o slaves from Africa-an event of a kim formerly very common, but recently quit' rare. Thc number of negroes composing the cargo is variously estimated all th way from 100 to 8()U. The lauding wa effeeteel on the North-western portion o tho island, on tho plantation of a ver; wealthy man named Francisco Martinez ; Torrens. Some of thc Africans, it is said were seized by the authorities, but after warels given np to the slave traders. - SOMETHING OUT.-The New Orlean Times says, in relation to the rumors e naval ami military preparations: We hav information that we are not at liberty t disclose, giving positive corroborations t these rumors, and we hesitate not to pre diet that, unless the French troops ar withdrawn from Mexico before Christmas there will bc active intervention on belia of tho Liberals, anti the traditiemal polie of the United Stales be vindicated." THE HABEAS Conn's.- The President lu expressed to a friend his intention to re storo the privilege of the writ of hnbea cc. pus at the earliost possible time, and t do away with thc secret detective service -?-*-?-. Adams A Co.'i Express Company hs oaned $2,000,000 of its accumulated cap tal to several ?! thc Southern railroad and has thus enabled them to resum operations. The Sugar Intercut of LonUinna. From thc Planters' Dunner, of St. Mary Parish, wc extract the following interest? ing speculations and facts: We rejoice to see from week to week new proofs that the sugar parishes of Loui? siana will, in a few years, be in a flourish? ing condition once more. From twelve to twenty cents per pound will bo the price of sugar for at least ten years. All that the sugar planters now want is laborers, and they will doubtless be able to get more than half their original numbera without much trouble. They will be in full blast in three years, some will have a considera? ble amount of sugar to sell next year. And the surplus money of the plantors will not he invested as formerly. It will help to build np all interests of tito State instead of thc planting interests, and those of the "moneychangers." If negroes will not work, high prices of sugar will bring white laborers to the cul? tivation of cane. These lands will be cul? tivated. Sugar will be raised. While ? sugar brings twelve or fifteen cents per | pound, these sugar regions must prosper, i And sugar cannot become cheaper. This fact wc regard as indisputable. Our accounts from the sugar parishes \ from tho coast and all directions go to j show that the planters generally have an ardent desire to continence repairing da- I mages at once, where they have not already ! commenced, and plant cane and corn to 1 the oxtent of their ability. Confidence is j now being restored as rapidly as could possibly be expected. The idea is now al- j most universally adopted, that sugr.r-grow ing will pay, even under the heavy disad? vantages resulting from the war. Money and labor are needed, and money and labor the planters will have-perhaps not , at onco-but they will come. We saw a gentleman a few days since from the coast, who says that those who ' have taken hold of sugar planting in good earnest, who understand the business, have succeeded will. But they have had difficulties to contend with which they will never have again. The negroes' heads have been lilied with foolish hopes in re? gard to living in ease and idleness, The war was progrecssing while they worked their plantations, and sugar was lower hi p?rico than it will be again for twenty years. Changes now will all be for the better. We may niovo slowly at first, but with patience, industry and hope, ax-.r planters will succeed. The war has brought desolation to our fields, and free? dom to the slave. Ibu these los.-es may yet b?' compensated in a great measure hy the high price of sugar, which is also thc result of the war. LOUD PALMERSTON IN F.WOK OK AIDING THE SOUTHERN STATES.-A writer in Blnek tco'xi, for November, asserts fhat Lord Palmerston was anxious to go to war more than once-with the United Statt s, and says: "The first of these occasions was the Trent affair, in which it is now no longer a secret that Lord Palmerston made up his mind to go to war with the Federal States. He had borne with impatience the bullying and insolence of United America on n?any occasions, and saw, with the clearness of his earlier yoars, that the opportunity was at length offered of putting a stop to this bullying in time to come. The Emperor of the French, equally long-sighted, agreed with Lord Palmerston; and had there not been with him in the Cabinet men to whom the thought of war, under any circum? stances, is dreadful, the message sent to Washington would have required a short and categorical answer, because a fleer, equipped for action, would have escorted it to the mouth of tho Chesapeake. In the Cabinet, however, there sst at that time not only Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Milner Gib.'- n and Mr. Villers, but Sir George Cornwall Lewis, the most subtle of political reason? ers, the most pacific of ministers, one who could never be brought to see that in the lives of nations, as in those of private par? sons, there are moments when, though it can never bc becoming to do wrong for its own sake, it is perfectly justifiable to anti? cipate others, and to avert an injury mod' tated against ourselves by inflicting it on them. We had, when the outrage: on the Trent was committed, a long list of out? rages to bc accounted for. Wo had been cheated - for there is no other word for it in the Ashburton treaty. The States claim? ed as their own territory what they had in their possession the clearest proofs be? longed to us; and. as if to cap this out? rage, the island of St. Juan, admitted to be ours up to the moment of its occupation by an American force, was invaded and kept military possession of. These, with other lesser-but not, therefore, unim? portant -wrongs, rankled and festered, and the Trent outrage presented such an opportunity as could never be expected to occur again for righting them all by a process which would have ben efl tt ed the whole world. Had wo struck then, as Lord Palmerston was anxious that wc should do, the Southern States would have achieved their independence, and become to us faithful allies, as well as our very best cus? tomers. Put a section in the Cabinet ob? jected, bord Palmerston gave way, and we are, with tho Federals victorious, conduct? ing, through Lord Bussell, one of the mest vexatious ' ami. we fear, unsafe, corres? pondences tin t ever the mir.i-.ter of mo power was called upon to conduct with the minister of another." THE PRESS OF THE SOCTH.-We clip the Following editorial from the Louisville Journal, of thc 20th ultimo: There is three times as much editorial talent and typographical excellence in the papers of thc South now as thero was before the war. Whether they havu passed ?nto new and abler hands, or whether the mighty events of the war have deepened ind strengthened and intensified men's souls in the great section that has expe? rienced such dreadful sufferings, wo do not inow. From the Land of Sunrise -far off Asia some the aromatic roots of which Fra? grant Sozodont is composed. In this pre saration, the chemistry of the toilet nae ichieved its most remarkable triumph. Pure, unsullied teeth and agreeable breath, ind absolute exemption from all diseases .nat effect tho gums, are the results of a lady application of the Sozodont. f Local Items. CASH.-Our terras For subscription, ad? vertising and job work are cash. Wc hope all parties will bear this in mind. Attention is invited to the auction sale of furniture, groceries, etc., this morning, by Messrs. Darbee A Walter. This sale was postponed yesterday, on account of thc weather. Thc Ker. J. M. C. Breaker, Wno has been for the last six. years the pastor of the Baptist Church, in t>id city, has re? moved to Spartanburg Court House. THE BURNING ur COLUMBIA.-An inter? esting account ol the "Sack and Destruc? tion of the City of Columbia, S. C.," has just been issued, in pamphlet form, from the Phoenix steam power press. Orders can bc rilled to any extent. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.-Attention is call? ed to the following advertisements, which are published this morning for the first time: Clarkson & Talley-Plough Steel. K. A W. C. Swaffield-Clothing. Durbec & Walter-Furniture, Ac. Griesbaber A Wolfe-Owuer Wanted. Carriage, Buggy, Ac, for Sale. E. Pollard-Drugs and Medicines. " " -Superior Cutlery. '. " -Skirt Braid. Principal Wanted for a Male Academy. - --.... Tuc SURRENDER or THE SHENANDOAH. It has boen already announced that the Confederate cruiser Shenandoah was turn? ed over to Mr. Dudley, the American Consul at Liverpool, who took formal pos? session on the t)th instant, and would despatch the vessel to New York. Her condition is thus described by the Liver? pool Mercury: "Everything seems to have been con? ducted on board in an orderly manner, the same discipline being mantained as is observed on board a man-of-war. The vessel, on her arrival, tris a model of cleanliness and order. lier rigging is taut, trim and man-of-war like; every rope ana spar is in Its proper place and in working order, and from her appearance altogether one would more readily believe she was about to proceed on a voyage than that she had been buffeting about for many months in the Pacific. The seamen spoke in terms of admiration of ber sailing qualities, asserting that she could sail at the speed of sixteen knots an hour, and that the vessels which were in pursuit of her would have some difficulty in effecting her capture. The tars wire evidently proud of the craft, and when the last bate!; left, one said, Tam sorry to leave the ship, especially as the Confederate flag is not at the gaff, where it has been so long." Another Liverpool paper says: "It is ascertained that the Shenandoah has about thirty-five chronometers on board, a large quantity of cabin furniture and some oil, which she no doubt retained from the cargoes of the whalers for thc purpose of lubricating her engines. Cap? tain Waddell, it is said, has on board a large sum of money, besides valuables, which ho has preserved and declined to convert into cash, regarding them, as the war is over, as the prope rty of the Federal Government. These, ne now says, he will not use for the ship's purposes, and he and his officers and men are therefore without means." THE OATH OF MISSOURI -Tho late State Convention of Missouri imposed a test oath, and it is giving a good deal of trou? ble. It went so tar as to disqualify ah persons from preaching. Before the Gospel should be delivered to tho souls waiting for it, the oath was indispensable. One Catholic priest, who refused to obey the mandate, we sec, has been fined ?50?. The oath, too, has excluded Gen. Blair from the right of suffrage. At the recent election in that State he went to the polls, and his ballot was refused because he would not swear. He put the question to. the inspectors as to whether there was any other reason for disabling him. Thc reply was in the negative. And so he shook the dust of thc canvass from his garments and went his way, utterly disfranchised. The Missouri Convention was very much like that of Louisiana-contemptible be? yond expression-governed by nothing more than prejudice: or corruption-a bad, ignorant set of delegates, who are not fit to associate with gentlemen, much less with patriotic men. - Mobile Tribune. A CUTE TRICK.-A fellow who styled him? self Morgan duped a number e>f Afric's sems emt of sundry sums e>f money at DeSoto, opposite herc in Louisiana. All of the land over there was disposed of to them by the sharper, and deeds of same furnished in pencil writing. Great was their deluded surprise when they were in Cormeel by thc real agent that they were in arrearage for rent. [ Vicksburg Herald, 12th. A veteran fought his thirty-third duel in France the: other day. His less expe? rienced antagonist bas been out but t we n ty -1 b rc e times. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, November 27.-Cotton quiet *t 53c. Naval store? mil. Gold47j. WILMINGTON, November 27.-Sales 520 bbls. crude turpentine, at 5.25; 171 bbls, !ar, at $'?) ' >; 302 bbls. common rosin, at $5@5.2: 1 80 bbls. No. 2 at $8; 87 bbls. spirit uitine, at 60c. Sales 9 bales low mid .g cotton, at 41c, and 10 bales middling at 43i. SHIP NEWS. PORT OF CHABLE8TON, NOV. 29. ARRIVED YESTERDAY. Steamship Andalusia, Bnrsley, N. Y. Steamship Cumberland, Dentin, Balt're. British bark Florence Chipman, Jones, Liverpool.