Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^WLUMB?A. i&ursday Morning, June 14, 1866, InvWialHlcN lu (hr ll?'venue Liftwa. Among the Washington iteniB?j>ub - Dabed iniVruesday's issue of theP??; ?rix, were noticed some decision* of j Conitmaaioiier et-- Infceraai Bm* venue,-tfhioh deserve some notice, aa bein? in bur opini?n, unequal and unjust. " ; ORO of these decisions is, that pro? m?t?, br income, rather, derived from stocks pr otKer ?astable securities will be regarded as 'fisted incomes. aflrya ia manifestly unjust, the income * from such a source being precarious, - ?aid, in no sense, can be regarded as fixed. The income from a similar in? vestment in real estate, bonds, 'lots, houses, ?ko., are "fixed," and being, as must bo assumed, generally in? sured and protected, are fairly liable to a fixed rate of taxation as perma <v nent incomes. The rentals of Toni estates, in a series of years, fluctu? ates very little, -while the income from other sources is liable, by any revul? sion in politics or trade, to become ? n o tight-nothing. Bnt the second decision, to which we particularly desire to call atten? tion, is that of taxing "salaries" as income from business. This is the ^inost onerous tax that could be in? flicted on the mass of the people. As we understand it, the term "salaries" embraces wages for labor of all kinds, whether for clerical duties or the weekly pay of journeymen iu any ' trade, craft or calling. Tho injustice of this must be apparent. There is not, in the whole country, a salaried man (and especially is this true at the present time of depreciated remune? ration and high prices for all the ne? cessaries of life,) who receives more for his labor than is barely sufficient to provide food and raiment for his family. The employer pleads the stringency of the money market and the dull state of business as his justi? fication for reducing salaries to the starving point, while the poor sala? ried drudge has to pay from fifty to one hundred per cent higher for every article he consumes than what he hail to pay when salaries were .equally as high ; iu fact, higher than they are at present. Is not a tax on such a slender in - c?mo a bnrden that is unequal coin pared to that which is derived from business? The merchant makes, we say, for the sake of illustration, in a small business, $1*500; the indus? trious clerk or toiling mechanic makes the same amount; the former has his stock always on hand upon which he is trading; the latter's 1 'stock" may be annihilated by sick? ness or lack of employment. The former buys his supplies at whole? sale or reduced prices; the latter must pay for the same that price, with the ret? lier's profits added. E in addition to this inequality, there remains another consideration : to show that this tax is unequal. The ! only guarantee the clerk or mechanic j has for support, should he be stricken with illness, is his ability to save a slender surplus to lay by, as the or? dinary saying is, "for a rainy day." But on his narrow income this tax is inflicted, and swallows up that which might be otherwise laid aside tor the contingencies of want of em? ployment or sickness. In short, such a principle of taxation is wrong, and bears that inequality on its face which tends to make the rich richer and the poor poorer- an unfortunate admi? nistration of the laws for thc people of any country. Thc whole principle of ta\iug in? dustry and labor is based upon erro? neous premises, and is cruel, unjust and oppressive. "While the landed proprietor can receive and enjoy his income and lead an idle life, pays his medicum of taxes, tho salaried man, the artizan and mechanic, must pay the inevitable tax, while, at the same time, he is daily contributing, by the sweat of his brow, to the wealth and prosperity of the conni.ry, because he manfully does his part in developing her resources. Any measure which tends to cripple these productive ener? gies and efforts is inimical to the best interests of the general community and the wealth of the country. Eight or ten millions of logs are blocked up on the Allegash River, in ?Maine, for lack of water, and will probably not be got out this year. What a pity the poor deluged peo? ple of Mississippi and Louisiana could not transfer their surplus to the bed of the Allegash stream. (EDITORS PHCKNTX. 1 Tine Cotto? T^x^?t?r?<??**.?^.rirt*-' Hypocrisy . We see it stated in ^rexchafige* that the people of New JS?gland, es penally of Boston, jirte/ioud and vio? lent iu their oppodtion to the pro"/ po^d cotton tax. - They-?ny it will discourage the growth of the staple %pc<n whick ?they ate much more de? pendent for bread than are the South* ern people. This is ?ll true; the pocket nerve has been agitated, and radical legislation on the subjeet will have to take a step backward. But the most amusing exhibition of alarm on this subject comes from those whom the Tribune calls the Northern cotton planters, now ope? rating on plantations in tho South. A telegram informs us that Brig, ?on. A. Ti. Gurney, now at Selma, Alabama, has sent to Washington a remonstrance against tho tax, signed by the Union officers and soldiers en? gaged in planting in that State. They say that cotton cannot be raised at a profit under the weight of such a tax. Well, if these officers-most of them, we presume, attached to that delectable institution, tho "Freed? men's Bureau," with its superior ad? vantages of procuring freed labor at a cheap race-advantages which are, in tho majority of cases, denied to the Southern planters-cannot culti? vate cotton with any profit under the proposed tax, what is to become of those to the manor born who are try? ing, with broken down mules and patched up plows and wagons, to raise it on their wasted and impo? verished plantations? But the evils of rampant legislation are thus com? ing home to roost. So be it. But the capstone of the argument? used by these official Northern cot? ton planters, as specified in the tele? gram r-eferred to, is that, if Congress levy this tax, il will tlriee out 50,(XX Northern emigrants, noir there, ano prevent Northern emigration, with out which these loyal cotton planten say the Southern States cannot be parget of (I'isloyalty. Well, we must confess that tin dose of the Bureau, as aualyzed bj Drs. Gens. Steedman and Fullertoi is sufficiently powerful to ??urge tin "Southern States of anything obnox ions to their social and political well being, but wi; imagine we see sign of the medicine being disposed of a different operation. But, seriously are these men crazy, or are they de termiued in persisting that the South ern people are not acting in goot faith towards the Government the; have pledged themselves, now am hereafter, to sapport, simply for thei own emolument? It is wrong, per niciously wrong, thus to misreprc sent the people of the South. Ther is not an intelligent and candil United States officer, now at the Soutl on duty, or who may have visited il from General Grant down, but wh knows such statemerts must be mad from interested motives, and nx*e no bused upon the truth. These repr? seututions, however, may have th effect desired-to stop ultra legislatio as regards this cotton tax. Foo WING vp THE REMAINS OF TH CONFEDERATE DEAD.-While th noble and benevolent women of th South, are engaged in strewin flowers over the graves of the Cor federate soldiers who fell during th war, the negroes are busily employe in plowing np tho bodies of "th brave Confederates who fell upon th battle-field of Franklin ! The Buffal (New York) Courier, in noticing th: fiendish atrocious barbarism, sayi "The Freedmen's Bureau, preside over by a radical, whose pretension to extra jue ty have been used t throw a cloak of respectability ovt the iniquitous Bureau, has turnee with fiendish maliciousness, th battle-field of Franklin, Tennessee where thousands of Confederate den from every quarter of the South la buried in shallow ditches-over t tho negroes of the Freedmen Bureau. The ground is being plowc up, and the bodies of the dead ii humanly disinterred and abuse* Such brutal vandalism should 1 rebuked bj' the people of tho Nort in somo public manner, or they wi forever be disgraced in the eyes ? the civilized world.'' In contrariety to tin; above, tl Augusta Cons, :tioiuilisl learns from gentleman of that city that the Co federate dead who fell in the thr engagements about Franklin ha been carefully re-interred in the nf cemetery near that place, to the sn dening number of 1,511. NEOKO MUTINEERS. -The 57th rej ment negro troops mutinied lately Fort Smith, Arkansas, and refused start for New Mexico. They wc surrounded and disarmed by the (white) cavalry, and sixty of the riu leaders put under guard for trial. Tnt* President's Or g on on the Final Repart We made some extracts on Tues? day from the final report of the Re? construction Committee; with run? ning comments thereon. The Wash? ington Republican, the acknowledged exponent of the President's views and opinions, has ? trenchant criti? cism on the reporti from which we make one or two extracts : 'This Government has boen a monstrous engine of wrong and usur? pation; this war has been a crime of unparalleled atrocity and infamy ; and every American soldier has been a murderer of his fellowman in fact and intent, unless every Amerioan State is an integral part of this Union, and every person born and residing in them is an American citi? zen. Under the great charter, of tl ie Constitution, our armies went upon the territory where revolt existed to make the rebellious citizens submit to the laws, and enable the States disturbed by individual insurgents to resume their functions and exercise their rights, or else the national pre? sence there was unjustifiable, and eacli mon who upheld the flag on that soil was an invader. Yet this astute oommittoe does not consider the de? bute on this question 'necessary.' lt dared not face the issue; for to admit that the eleven States were over out of this Union would be to confess that either their act of seccssiim was legal, or their act of resistance suc? cessful. " As to the slanders on the people of the South, and the denial of their fidelity to their obligations to thc Government contained in the report from which we quoted "and comment? ed on, the Republican is very severe. It says: "The report, iu its opiuiou of the loyalty of the Southern people ami its canvass of Southern affairs, seems to have sunk all respect for truth and ali claim to statesmanship. Accord? ing to it, there is throughout the South 'an evidence of an intense hos? tility to the Federal Union.' We pronounce this false. The organic law of every Southern State recog? nizing its fealty to the National Go? vernment, the almost universal quiet and order of the Southern populace, the unexceptionable teaching of the Southern press and pulpit, which now inculcates obedience to the laws, the example of the conspicuous civil and military leaders, all stamp this state? ment of the committee without foun? dation and without excuse. We also deu3r tlie right to interpret dislike to the thirty-ninth Congress and its dis? organizing influences, whether at the South or North, as 'an evidence of hostility to the Federal Government' It is love and revereuce to tho Go? vernment that causes us at least tobe hostile to Congress." This is the truth fitly spoken, and shows np the rump Congress in its true but offensive and repollan i co? lin's. IV o Backer?-\o Precedent*. The radicals have no backers, among all the statesmen, lawyers 01 writers on national law to sustain them in their present attitude of hos? tility to those whom they please tc call former "rebels." Montesquieu, one of the ablest of the French wri? ters on these topics, says: "As soon asa Republic hits com? passed the destruction of those who wanted to subvert it, there should be an end of terrors, punishments, and oven of rewards. Great punishments, and, consequently, great changes, cannot take place without investing some citizens with an exorbitant power. It is. therefore, advisable in this case to exceed in lenity, rathol than in severity; to banish but few, rather than many; and to leave them their estates, instead of making n vast number <?f confiscations. Undei a pretence of avenging the Republic's cause the avengers would establish tyranny. The business is not to de? stroy the rebels, but the rebellion. They ought to return as quickly m possible into the usual track of Go? vernment in which every ono is jun tected by the laws, and no one in? jured." This opinion of an aldo lawyer nut; statesman is peculiarly applicable al the present time when confiscatioi: and disfranchisement, test oaths am' military commissions, arrests ato persecutions are the. tactics of th? radicals. After a year lias elapsed Min-, tho termination of thu effort to sub vert this Republic, there is not ye quite an ?'lid of "terrors" or "pun ishments." Rut this radical faetioi will not heed thc teachings of an; jurist, statesman, ortho ablest pt ?lit i cal writers.as we heard a legal flinn onco say, in another sense, however "you might as well try to spout clo quence up mi elephant's trunk" a to make the effort to drive reason o common souse into tho knotty head of the party of Thad. Stevens. Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, ha written a speedily forthcoming "His tory of the Episcopal Church." The Hartford Theological Institut* has received a $f)0,(KX) donation froi .lames R. Hosnier, of that city. TH* RfronstrucUon Schnur. ' Tho New York Herald, nf the llth instant, professes to have private ad? vices from Washington, but we are inclined to doubt that thc President will heed the intimation or sugges? tion of the Herald, that kio "will not think worth while to push the war with the radicals to extremities." ?'rom all we read in those journal? supposed to bo in his ooufideuoe, we believe he will, unless they recant their heresies and como over to his policy. The Herald, on the faith of ita '"private ad vices," says: The constitutional amendment, as it has passed the Senate, designed tc cover the reconstruction and re-ad missiou into Congress of the lately rebellious States, will probably, with? out further modification, be passed by the House to-day under the pre? vious question, in order that this amendment may be submitted with? out further loss of time to the States for ratification. We understand, further, that an .extra session of our Legislature may bo looked for to inaugurate this work of ratification, and that it is supposed this exainplo will be followed by other States. The Republicans in Con? gress, we are also informed, aro san? guine that the requirer! ratification of three-fourths of tho State Legisla? tures can bc secured to this amend? ment in season to restore to their places in Congress most, if not all, of the excluded States during the next session. It is believed that the bill which is to follow this constitu? tional amendment, giviugthose States ten years credit on their share of the national debt, will have a decisive in? fluence over them, ready cash being an article of which they are now sadly deficient. We are not advised whether in those movements tho co-operation of Congress and the President is ?.\ pected; but as Congress has aban? doned ils main issue with thc Presi? dent-negro suffrage-and has adopt? ed his policy, he will not. perhaps, think it worth while to push the wai with the radicals to extremities on the issue between Executive anil legislative usurpation. There is som t generalship in tho idea o? a specia session of our State Legislature am of others, to ratify this amendment as it will clear the decks and give thi Republicans the actual occupation o the field in advance of the coming fall elections. In this view, weawai the action <>f the House upon the Se nate amendment as for the first ste] in a very important programme. -?-?-*-? An OU tous ?Icu.Mirt . The New York Mercantile Journal ?.f the 7th inst., hus au article re viewing thc provisions of the nev Congressional tax bill, from which w make thc subjoined extrait. Th Journal is a large, ably-condnctei and reliable exponent of tho commei cial interests of New York: ..ft is to be hoped that anothe effort will bc made in the Senate either to remove or reduce the liv cents a pound tax on cotton. lt i manifest that the South, with he ruined resources and changed condi tion of labor, is in no position t bear lins additional druin, lt i wrong every way. In a national poin of view, the tux will prove injurious because it will operate as a direc bounty on the foreign culture of th article. It is id-o likely to prove ii jurions becaus . i; cannot fail to <U: press still more th?; cultivation of th staple, amt impose obstacles on th success of the new experiment of frc labor in the South. Even i??i th plea that the consum? rs pay the ra alternately, und t h it. the bulk of th tux will l>e drawn from foreigner; still, it is plain that the amount mu; in the first plae< bo paid on this sid of the Atlantic. The ?10,000,000 < ?">0,n00,0o0 expected to be raise? must be paid into the United Stat? Custom blouses, and bonded war. houses, and will operate as a serioi and, perhaps, fatal check to Souther energy and industry. The energet protects of thc New England nu Western farmers against a tax on le; tobacco, und the rejoicings at th?; ne impulse given to th?; petroleum int rests of Pennsylvania, by the rope ol' the comparatively tnilling tax < crude pet rob um, should operate J a warning agaiust tho policy of tl proposed custom tax. It is to 1 hoped that ?i sober second thong] may induce Congress to reject a m< sure tl ml eannol fail tobo attend? with th.- worst possible results. EFFECT OF THE SVKD.VY LIQC< LAW.- The New York Herald, Monday, says.: Tin? weather being pleasant yest? day, the anti-Excisemen madeanoth raid on Jersey City and Hoboke The rush of visitors continued fro noon till night, and it is estimate that 25,000 people visited llobok alone. There was n<> disturban? although even body wa-i mort; less merry wi til wine. Thc H roa w.iv concert saloon-, with their wait? girls, were in i'uil blast during t entire day, dealing in icc crean soda water, lemonades and the milo class ot drinkables. One saloon h u. large organ in it, from which sacr music was dispensed. Three arre were made, ono of them a barb who wa.- arrested for sponging ) customers'fact's with bay rum; 1 the Justice let liim off with an J monition. Tlio Kniii liv of Korrie y. We hayo another piquant article from the pen of "Mack," the wide? awake and intelligent correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, in the sketch of the "Dead DuckV quack? ing relatives and immediate family, which we publish below. "Mack" deserves credit for this interesting notice of the "house of Forney:" toKNKy, THK nisrOTKBBerntD i ATBIOT. Every once in a while the great^ American toady, John W. Forney, speaks of the party which supports tho President ns made up of "hire? lings," a word which he borrows from the vocabulary of the late Southern masters. The public may j like to know how purely disinter- j ewted Forney is, and has been, in support of the Republican party- j how much self-sacrifice he displays in ? the premises, in fact. Firstly, then, there is John W. \ Forney, the dead duck in jrropria \ persona^ Clerk of the Senate, at ? $3,500 a year and stealings. Secondly, there is D. C. Forney, publisher of the Chronicle, cousin of; the dead ?luck s, in pay of the Senate, drawing a salary of about $2,000 u] year for work which he never per- ; forms-a clear swindle. Thrrdlv, there is another Forney, j a brother of the duck's, mail agent' between here and Philadelphia?. Fourthly, then? is another brother, i mail agent on flic Pennsvlvania Ccu-: irai Hoad. Fifthly, there is a junior Forney, who all through the war was a staff! officer, on duty in Philadelphia. Sixthly, there is another sou of the I ?lend duck's who, early in the war, was gol a commission iuthenavy, under a solemn covenant never to be sent to sea, nor exposed to the rude fire of rebel guns-and he never was. Seventhly, Forney is carried about the city of Washington in a vehicle owned by the Government, drawn by a horse owned by the Government, and driven by a man paid as a labor er in the Capitol grounds. All of which may bu strictly patriotic, hut it is not legal. Eighthly, Forney has for a private servant a man who is paid as a la? borer for the Senate, which is con? trary to the law iu such eases made and provided. Ninthly, Forney gets the Chronicle edited by men who are pani as clerks of the Senate, which may be patriot? ism, but looks like .swindling. Teuthly, Forney will employ no? body as clerk or messenger in the Se? nate who will not help t?> edit either tho Chronicle ot the Press; which is good eeonomv but bad morals in the dead ?luck. Eleventhly, Forney wrote a beg giug letter to the President about six months ago. The President did not giant the prayer of tin; petitioner, and the Chronicle immediately came out against Andrew Johnson and his policy; which may be disinterested, but doesn't look that way; looks rather like an unsuccessful attempt to t ii.i/h thc pregnant hinges of ttic knee. When thrift may follow Fairney. What a self-sacrificing patriot, For? ney is. to bo sure! MACK. Not long since, Elkan H er zm ann, Rabbi of a Jewish synagogue in Brooklyn, New York, was kicked out of his church by a portion of his congregation, who objected to his ministration on sectional grounds. He, on Thursday, brought an action against them, and received SS00 da? mages. lu response to ? requisition signed l>y many eminent merchants, the Lord Mayor of London had called a public meeting at the Mansion House, for the 21th of May. to take steps for tin' erection of a statue in London, in honor of George Peabody. Gen. McClellan has given it as hts opinion that, in a war between Prus? sia and Austria, Prussia must go to the wall, and, adds a London writer, "He knows what lighting is, mid who look like fighters." Tho iro n ls of President Johnson, Gov. Swann, und the opponents of j negro suffrage, will hold a mass meet? ing in Monument Square, Baltimore, on Friday evening, the loth instant. The speakers have not-yet been an? nounced. Horace Veruet's picture, "Joseph seid by nis brethren*? brought at the recent sale iu the Hotel des Ventes. Paris, Cl,500. This is considerably more than Jose] di's brethren received fi >r t he original. A Frenchman bas obtained a divorce from bis wife in Paris, on th?-ground that, after absenting her? self for twenty-three days, she refused to give an account of her proceedings liming that time. The officers of a widely-advertised oil company ure under arrest at Philadelphia for conspiring to de? li ami the stockholders. Among the accused aro two well-known clergy? men. Miss, Salli.' ii. Polk, daughter of the late Right Rev. Leonidas Folk, (General C. S. A.,) was married, ou thc 1st inst., to Capt F. L\ Blake, of ( '.hnrleston, S. C. At Trenton, (N. J.,) on Wednesday, thc grand jury indicted two members of the last State Legislature and threo lobbyists for corruption. Tie re Wits a fall c?f meteoric stones near Mobile recently, some of which wen- so hot they could not be held in tin- naked hand. Local Item.3. ?tV>ft^gt's ?nd Cojiv^jtaiKt r. ot lit-,.: ;.; ? tat? Tor salo at thin office. - - . ti - - ? ?j . x?*^' .- - . Don't forget the Cpkctni of th** Johnuv Rob?. to-night. TUE WKATUM;.- -Tuc Wot spell still con? tinues: the thermometer intuit nave noted, yesterday, ?boat 05 degrees Fahrenheit. ."BOOK .AJSI? Jo? PHINTINO. -Thc I*inrni.> offiec is n"W fully M applied with card*, colored ar.d wliite papier*,colored ink, woori type, etc., and is in condition to exhale all manner of book and joh print inj^w the gheirtest possible time. THK BCKNINO OF Cdt.o'jrJaA. Xn intel eating account ot 11 "Sack and D,e??tme tion ol' the City of Columbia. S. C.,"*.has junt been issued, in pamphlet form, hewn the Pliant ix power pr?au. Order? tilled to H ny extent. Single copiejw ?O e:cnts. THE JOCKEY CI I II. -Persons desirous of becoming UK'inbera of the above dub should apply to f.. T. Levin, Esq., Secre? tary, :it Gregg & "Co.**. lu tho list ot officers published a few daj s ano, the name of Wm. Hitchcock, E>q., as time-keeper, was omitted. M WOK'S COCKT.- In thia Court, vealer day aborning, J. L. Kirkwood wan arraigned ou the charge of driving a wagon apon the side-walk, on Washington street^ and for allowing hi-< horse lo walk in a brick drain, in violation of city ordinance. Fined ?5 in each catse. Several caaes were continued. Ci.osr. CONNECTION. Yesterday morning, fm- the t'.rst time since the war closed, we shared thf> advantage of a close connection between New York and Columbia by the Charlotte Railroad. We received the New York papers of Monday, 1 Uh mst., and the Richmond paper* <>f the lith. We are gratified at this desideratum having been gained, and award due praise to those through whose energy and <-. ?-operation it ha?* been attained. TUE LOST CAVSE-.I ??eec SoiUiism.li?t tory of the nar of the Confederation ; hy K. .i. Pollard, vj Virginia. Mr. S. AV. Rowan, tin agent for the sale of the j above book, m the Districts of Richland. Fairtield, Leviugtou and Newberry, will wait on our citizens during the next few day ii, for the purpose of receiving snb . scriptious for this work. Mr. Pollard wa? the oditor of thc Richmond Examiner. during tho war. ?niel bud superior opportn tunitics t??r the preparation e?f a work cf j thc kiueL The illustrations are executed j in the Very Lest style, anet the entire work . will rank with the lirst publications of the ' dav. .-- %. ..'j-j^r-- -- NEW BOOK.-We are indebted to Peter . B. Olas*. Ese]., of this city, fora copy of a i new work, just issued: '*ln Trust; or Dr. j Bertrand's Household," by Amanda M. j Douglass: !...<. A Shepard, Boston, pub I babers. ' This volunte will bear careful reading. j It abounds in well-defined contrasts ot character, investing each with a due share of the practical, n> we sometimes meet tlitm in th?- evory-day walks of life. The principal hero exhibits, throughout the : entire plot, a devotion of great moral force in the duties incident to the peculiar posi \ tion he is made to occupy, and forcibly fl I lustr?tes the patent truth, that ' the path i r,f duty is tho path of safety."' Tito typographical execution of this work I is good. PROVOST Corm. The proceedings be i fore- this C..nrt were rather unimportant I yesterelay. Besides several debt case?, the following wi r.- disposed of: ; The C'.i'ed States cs. Quash Byrmm, I Brazil Sam'er a ad Simon F.oyd, freedmen. i Charge, larceny. It was proven that these ' darkeys were old hands at the bog-stealing ! business, and had recently carried od' several of thcfc unclean animals from the plantation of Joseph Bates, near Colum? bia. Quash was released-the evidence I not being sufficient to convict: tho others j were sentenced to sixty days" iniprison I meat. 'l'!,e XTuVed States vs. Thomas Gamer* \ Simon Garner and Limns Phillips ana I otiters, freedmen. Charge, disorderly con I duet. These parties were charged with ' being participants in a general row, on certain premisos, in the upper part of the j city, occupied by a number of freedmen. Thomas Garner was acquitted anet Simon j and Limns were tined *5eacb. The Court adjourned until Friday. NEW AOVEKTISKJIKNTS. -Attention is eall ed to the following advertisements, w hich i are published this morning fen- the first i time;: . ; lt. T. Peake-To Contractors. I f.. T. Levin-"Congaree Jockev CInb.*" j F. W. McMaster--Nurse Wanted. : A. R. Phillips-Furniture, Shoes, etc. j J ?ynes Anderson-To shippers. I Cook Wanted-Apply nt this Office. Johnny lieb. Minstrels -Concert. i Sine*- Mr. Charles A. Daua left the j Chicago Republican, the proprietors i of that journal have received so nr?*ny applications for the post of editor that they have published the follow ! ing notice in that paper: ? "All persons applying for the po i sition of editor ed the Rejntblican j will be required to subscribe for the daily for one year, price ten dollars j in advance. By tho adoption of this j rule, wc expect to give our paper the j largest circulation of any journal in I the West." \Y. Y. Leitch, Esq., Surveyor of i Custom at the port of Charleston, ! has followed the example of his I brother oflieials and resigneel his po j sition. It is statcel that pickpockets relieved j Gen. Grant of his watch and Speekei. ' Colfax of his purse at Gen. Seott'e ? funeral.