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- . m <? . Man -- - -. ? ??j s \' ? ti - Wednesday Morning, Jan. 3, 1866. 1 ? - , i Southern MamiiftMStwrf \This is a. subject, which, owing to the change which bas occurred inpux a^ictiltu system ox labor, must hereafter engage the people of the * South. With free water power, na .Hural and fertile resources; even cot? ton hasoiot been -jnantifactured-the staple grown right by thc side of this water power has mat, been manufac ? tured* to any great extent. The Richmond 'Dispatch,' in commenting ?pon this, says that Georgia has, per? haps, ^ione more than | any other ^ Southern State iii the manufacture of coarse cotton cloths, and has exhibit? ed generally a creditable degree of energy in various departments of manufacturing enterprise. Large amounts of money havfs been raised, and great efforts made, for twenty o years, in South Carolina, to establish factories at various points in that State, but without much success. They even went so far as to bring . "ueratives from New England ; but the expci^Qjjt proved a failure. The war swept away %% last vestige from that unfortunate? State. Kor- has there ever been manuf?cturing, to any great Texfcent, in the planting States of the Gulf. ? story is told in the South of a planter'near the Savannah river who hauled his cotton by team from his plantation to the . river, down which if was sent to Savannah on a boat, from which, in time, it was sent by steamship to New York, whence it was transported by railroad to some town in the in * terior of New England, where it was manufactured into cloth, after which it was returned by railroad-to New York, shipped back again to Savan nahjicarried up the river, and then I hauled by team to the plantation from whioh it originally came, where it was finally used fof shirting for the negroes. , It was ncfb for the want of either machinery, kapital, or motive power, thdt9 this singular state of things existai. TMe planter believed it was more proMable to' devote his re ^^??jj?^i^J the production of the 0o his manufactured Hb. Nor was slave Tlic Rad?cula Against Gen. Grant. A Washington correspondent writes that Gen. Grant has given ?aorta! offence to the Radical Republicans by his report on the. condition of the Southern States, which accompanied the President's recent message. Mr. "Washburn's bill, to ravive the grade of General in order to raise General Grant to the rank, will, therefore, it is said, meet with a fierce opposition. Gen. Grant, it is said, has alreadj been smothered with honors. The rank of Lieutenant-General, held only by Washington, ought to satisfy the ambition of any man. With an army of a million men, the late war has been successfully ended under a Lieutenant-General ; a peace estab? lishment of 50,000 men, therefore, cannot require a higher grade. Great pains are taken, also, to show that in ? his recent tours all over the country, in which Gen. Grant was actuated by i persoual vanity, and was intoxicated by the incense of flattery, that he might, if he chose, have escaped the crowds and the adulation, by wearing plain clothes, instead of going about adorned with tinsel and attended by a brilliant staff. And it is said, finally, that he is fishing for the Democratic nomination of the Presidency. The Republican is the organ of these at? tacks, and while professing unbound? ed admiration of the Oen?ral, pitches into him thus: ' 'The bill proposes that when tho offiee of General shall become vacant by death or otherwise, then the act shall expire and the office bo abolish? ed. One cannot escape the conclu? sion, if they would, that the bill is simply a personal one, for this ap? pears on its face as plainly as if it was written. A bill to raise the salary of the Lieutenant-General and his stan" until he dies, or is elected President of the United States, and then the reasonable inference is that there is no man fit to become general after him. He has received honors enough surely to satisfy the grasping ambition of a Caesar, and we cannot believe that he desires to play the role either of the first or second Napoleon." The fact is, Gen. Grant has spoken the truth, but truth and radiuuliam have no fellowship. Ia there any Prospect of a. War with France? This question may be better an su-orod by W. H. Soward than by any one else; and he does so, we take it, in the following ediborial^aji^kiir) the New ^-o^^J??k r The Radical*. Tho Ilicl i mond Dispatch, speaking of the split in the Republican party, says: Thc radical party of thc United States carries within itself the seeds of a speedy dissolution. It may live long enough to do much mischief, but the period of its duration must naturally be short. No party which comes into power upon a single idea can long retain its ascendancy. No destructive party can long continue to exist. The so-called Republican party is both a one-ideaed and a de? structive party. Its one idea is the negro; its general policy is the over? throw of the Constitution; not by revolution, open and with arms, but by legislation. Mr. Stevens, who is the leader of that party in the House, is bold and-impetuous enough, but, altogether, wants discretion. He has avowed his object too soon and too openly. The majority, even of the Northern people, have a respect for the Constitution. They will not con? sent to alter it so entirely that the very men who made it would not know it again, in order that Mr. Stevens and his party maybe enabled to keep the Democratic party out of office. This is what he proposes as the object of all the legislation which he has introduced. Even were the legislation of itself beneficial, the people would not give it their sanc? tion when they understood the mo? tive. The end of all legislation should be the benefit of the country. Any end of less importance will not justify any system of legislation. Mr. Stevens proposes to make tho reign of his party perpetual; and for this purpose he makes use of the powei temporarily placed in his hands. Legislation for the purpose of se? curing power to the party passing th? laws never has been successful in this country, and never will be. In order to secure the object-tilt continuance of the power and plun? der in their own hands-these .mer do not hesitate to tear down auj portion of the Constitution when it happens to come in their way. Thej resemble an engineer who should tear down half the houses in Bone street or Broadway, in order to hav( a straight track for his railway. Th< monopoly of the Camden and Amboj Railroad is annoying to some of th? members. The remedy at onco pre sents itself. Take away from th< States the power of regulating th? railways within their limits, and giv< to tho General Government the powe: of regulating the saine. The Consti tutiou says all powers not expressb granted by the States aro withheld This power certainly is not granted but what of that? Congress, like tin an IM iBMrti THE COTTON QUESTION-No TIMK TO BE LOST.-Under this title the Boston Journal, in speaking of the probable great decrease of the cotton cror>, informs the negro of the South that he must go to work. It says: But who believes that the product of the coming year will be four or five millions of - .des? Who can safely reckon, as appearances at present in? dicate, that it will bo one million of bales? The time for planting is close at hand. What is done at all for the crop of 1866 must be done within a few weeks, and yet the industrv of tho cotton States is all in confusion; capital has almost disappeared; tools and implements aro wanting; the laboring population is distrustful; tho planters are discouraged; the old order of things has passed away, tho new has not been established; the relations of master and slave have ceased to exist, those of employer and employee have not been announced or defined. We cannot but wish that this ques? tion of labor might take precedence in Congress for the time being over the other details of reconstruction. We wish this for the sake of the colored man; for existence comes be? fore suffrage, and his status as a man capable of labor and needing bread is of more urgency to liim than his recognition as a citizen; in fact, he must be kept alive in order that he may vote. While ?we aro calmly dis? cussing political philosophy, he is hastening to his grave; he implores food, we promise him the ballot; he claims our hearty and brotherly sym? pathy, and we are dealing with him as an abstraction to be reasoned upon and quarrelled about. CURSES COMING HOME TO ROOST. The Boston Journal has been showing the decline of commerce in Boston, the chief port of Massachusetts. It has fallen off $22,000,000, or nearly one-third part, iu the past nine years; and the Journal says : "This decline in value has been graduated through the period in? dicated, and docs not seem to have been greatly affected by the war. "With an unsurpassed harlxir, plenty of capital, enterprising and industrious population, we are told that the position of a first class com? mercial city is slipping from the grasp of its merchants." CONFEDERATES m CANADA.-A cor? respondent of the Cincinnati En? quirer, writing from Toronto, Canada, gives the following information con? cerning several ConfcdcrjHKfficers: THE INDIANS.-Half a million of dollars haye already been appropriat? ed by Congress for the support of in? digent Indians during the winter. Indian affairs have been so systema? tized-within the past year, that there ia every probability that the neody red men will get a heavy proportion of the money. Heretofore, agents, commissioners and contractors have been the principal beneficiaries of monies so appropriated. Notwith? standing the fact that this half a million is expected to go so much further than any like sum ever has gone, it is not enough, and Congress will be called upon to double it at an early day. Estimates have been for? warded to the Interior Department, fixing $1,100,000 as the lowest pos? sible figure at which we can purchase the famine-imperilled lives of the na? tives for the ensuing five months, or until they can again gather crops. Parties in "Washington, who have re? cently been among the suffering tribes, picture their condition as ter? rible in the extreme, and say that, in our overwhelming sympathy for the freedmen, we are losing sight of a much wider field for the exercise of charity. Western members of Con? gress, particularly, are waking up on the subject; and the Eastern public, who are supposed to know little, and care less, about red-skins, will be called upon to endorse liberal legis? lation in their behalf. A letter forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior, from Gen. Stilly, of date the 8th instant, says that there are a large number of Indians assem? bled at Fort Rice and elsewhere, on the Missouri River, who are mani? festing the most .?friendly feeling for the whites, and are quite willing to enter into the most liberal treaties. Gen. Stilly remarks that he forwards this information in order to give di? rect contradiction to the newspapei accounts of a contrary state of affairs among the Indians of that section. A delegation of four chiefs anti braves of the Shawnee Indian tribe arrived in Washington, to express tc their Great Father the hope that h< will make them some Christmas pre sents, and use his influence with tin Indian Bureau to liave their Kansai reservation exchanged for another lo cated further South. Scarcely i month goes by without the arrival o some of these "lords of the plains,' to pay their respects at tlie Whit House. They usually manage to bej a few hundred dollars' worth of pre sents, and, af ter a "big drunk, " clea out for home, leaving the Govern ment to pay the board bills. [New Yuri: Herald. GREELEY IN A GOOD HUMOR, New York Tribune has a Cha^fl article e^n^nitulatirujBrt^ajB? Iiooal Items. '"THE CODE."-Tho Acts passed by tho Legislature relative to tho freedmen, for ' sale at this office. Trice 20 cents; by mai! 25 cents. CASH.-Oar terms for subscription, ad? vertising and job "woik are cash. We hope all parties will bear this in mind. Tsa BuaniNO or COLOMBIA_An inter? esting account of the "Sack and Destruc? tion of the City of Columbia, S. C.," has ust been issued, in pamphlet form, from the I'lucn?t steam power press. Orders can bo filled to any extent. A CASE DECIDED.-A landlord and tenant case, which has created considerable inter? est in this community, and which has been on trial for two months, was terminated yesterday in the Magistrate*? Court. It was tho caso of A. M. Hunt YB, T. S. Min ton, for holding over. The vordict was for tho plaintiff. THE BRIDGES AGAIN.-Something should bo done" by the city authorities with refer? ence to the bridges about tho streota. Tho planks, from numbers of them, havo been partially torn up, making perfoct traps for man and beast. We very much fear that, ere long, wo will bo forced to chronicle a serious accident from this causo._ NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.-Attention is call tcd to the following advertisements, which arc published this morning for the first time: Scott & Heriot-Sozodont. " " -Articles for Che Hair. Supervisor Wanted for S. & TJ. Railroad. Charlotte Railroad-Laborers Wanted. " " -Schedule. Communication Richland Lodge. Jacob Bell-Citation D. B. DeSaussure. M. McKenna-Corn for Sale. EIGHTS OF SUFFRAGE FOE WOMEN. Mesdames E. Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan* B. Anthony, all of them ardent advocates of women's rights, have addressed a petition to Congress, asking an amendment of the Constitution of the United States that shall prohibit hereafter the States resp, t'-vely from disfranchising any of thc r citizens on the ground of sex. They claim that 15,000,000 of white women have quite as much right to be invested with the suffrage as 4,000,000 of blacks. A train of six hundred bales of cotton was lately seized by the mili? tary authorities at Corinth, Miss. Part of it belonged to General For? rest, who was reported as having been shot by the guard. Forrest is now a partner of a cotton firm in Memphis, and the statement of his being' shot was probably a ruse to