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OLUMBIix. J Sunday Morning, August 5, 1806. ; -===== ? -= -g--yjf l in Position of Sc.??m Caiol?ua. We publish, this morning, by re? quest ol that body, tho official pro? ceedings of the ; Convention of dele? gates from the various Districts of this State, which met in Colombia on the 1st instant ' From this official record, our rend? ers, outside of the State may learn correctly tho true position of the people of South Carolina at this junc? ture of our political affairs. No State in the Union has been more misrep? resented, slandered and wilfully be? lied, than South Carolina, and it is highly-proper, that this authoritative record should go forth to repel these slanders and misrepresentations. The position of her people, as thus an? nounced, is clear and unmistakable, and he who hereafter may seek to question their loyalty to the Govern? ment, or their adherence to the great principles of the Constitution, would not blush to defame the virtue of his own mother. There are no long-winded resolu? tions, no discussion of past issues, no re -affirmation of doctrines which have been said to be peculiar to tho poli? tics of the people of South Carolina. The simple action of the Convention is embraced in these half dozen lines: "That this,.Convention approves the restoration policy of President Johnson as opposed to the radical policy of Congress, and that we ac? cept the invitation to unite with the conservatives of the country in the National Convention to be held at Philadelphia, on the 14th of August." Such is the "platform," such the only declaration of principles put forth by the people of South Carolina in Convvntion assembled. Their most prejudiced political enemies can find no fault or flaw in this mauifesto comprised in a single sentence. Those who expected bluster and a meaning? less string. bf political declarations have been disappointed; and those as well, among her friends and admirers who expected what they might call "a manly declaration of principles," have also been disappointed; but the disappointment of the latter will, on calm reflection, give place to appro? bation of the line of policy adopted. The fact is. these representatives of the people were delegated for a ccr lain purpose-their constituents de? sired to bo represented in the Phila? delphia Convention, and they did no more than to provide for such repre? sentation and declare their approval of the policy of the President. In carrying out the first part of their duty, the delegates, in selecting our representatives, have chosen the right kind of men, some of the ablest and most conservative in the State-men who will discluirge the trust commit? ted tr> them in such a manner as will command the approval of those who confided in them. OiHclal lit-l'uni (ion. The thousand stories of cruelty to Federal prisoners of war meets an official refutation from a quarter whose authority will hardly be gain- j sayed. It comes from the War De? partment, in reply to a resolution of tho House of Representatives, asking for the number of prisoners of either side held and that died during the war. The department makes the fol? lowing report: Number of Union pri? soners, South, 260.940; number of rebel prisoners, North, 200,000. Inion prisoners died, 22,570; num? ber of rebel prisoners died, 26,400. From this statement the calculation may be made, that two Union pri? soners died in Southern prisons out of every twenty-three; and two Con? federates in Northern prisons died out of every fifteen. But this official refutation of base slanders of alleged cruelty at Ander sonville and other Southern prisons, comes too late to prevent Wirtz from au ignominious death, or Major (lee from months of military persecution. The falsity of all the allegations is more clearly demonstrated, when we remember the Northern soldier was poorly acclimatised for this confine? ment iu a Southern latitude, which fact, taken in connection with tho difference in the mortality indicated in the above report, is of itself the most complete vindication of the character for humanity claimed by us for Confederate officers, and puts to flight all such testimony as hung Capt. Wirtz and punished others. Mrs. Winiam Cullen Bryant died last Friday. Harder BratKjpk, of ir??r Taric. I Ther# ia, perhaps, no ^publishing boase in thj?. coantrjf which, lia* pocketed more of tbe money Of the Southern people than thatT>f Harper ?fe Brothers, New York, and yet their regular periodical publications exceed any other in Yankee literature in their studied malignant vinification of these same Southern people. J This is a strange inconsistency, nor , can we account for it in any way, and the inconsistency becomes moro glaring when Ave know tho fact that after all we have suffered as a people, that a support is still given to these periodicals by Southerners, who turu a deaf car to tho application of agents from the offices of DeBow's Review, the Crescent Monthly and the elegant weekly family papers which have been started at the South since the close of the war. It is a burning shame, and a severe reproach to the patriotism, literary taste and appetite of our people, that Harpers' WeeJdy should find a single purchaser in the Southern States. Of all the radical papers published, none can equal this in the coarseness of its abuse aud misrepresentation of the Southern people, both in its let? ter press and its disgusting wood cuts; a? nu exchange says, "there is nothing amoug us too sacred to be? come the objects of their coarse satire and heartless burlesque. Week after week they traduce all whom we love among the living, aud pollute, by their slimy touch, the memory of all whom we cherish among the dead." It has been well and pithily said, that had this disgraceful sheet been pub? lished during our Savour's stay upon earth, it would have given its reader.? a burlesque of the miracles and ii caricature of the crucifixion. But not alone in their monthly au ?J weekly publications do these bast publishers poison the minds of hun dreds and thousands of reader; throughout the country, but in even publication of a more perninnen character that issues from the press The Now York J len iii / gives a seven criticism of one of thc most recen of these, eutitled a "pictorial histor; of the rebellion;" we presume, a re ha.--h of their weekly lying carica tures. The Herald says, in relatioi to the pictorial part, of this work: "With rogart! to the so-called poi traits of eminent men. and a port ?ol of tho illustrations, we cannot speal so well. Tliey have a very chea shoddy stamp about them, and lool fearfully ghastly. The Southern men especially, have painfully forbiddin; portraits; whether purposely mad so or not, we cannot say. if so. i would Ix? in keeping with the spiri of the work and with the purpose probably, of pandering to tho tast and prejudice of people by makin all the Southerners look like ghastly hard-featured conspirators and mm dorms. " How can tho Southern people stq port such a publishing house? 1 may appear a waste of paper and in to thus repeatedly admonish tl Southern people against the intrt duction of snell publications int their honseholds. But, as jon rmi ists, it is our ditty: and, having dot this, whatever ovil may befall fro the baleful influences of such tami reading, our skirts will be clear any guilt in the premises. Tim CHARLESTON HOTEL. - Tl Charlo; Lon papers state that M William White and Mr. George Mi er have associated themselves for tl purpose of conducting the affairs this old-established and pop ul house. The ability with which !M White has managed the intricate t rangements of this largo hotel f years, is too well known hythe pu lit: for us to attempt to complime him at this late period; and the sk of Mr. Mixer, being long an assista to his father, one of the best hot keepers in the South, is too famili to all to cause a doubt for a mome that it will be superintended in a s perior style. Alterations and repa are now being made in the interior the building ou a large scale, whic when finished, will cause it to lie cognized a? second to none in t country in its cuisine, its comforts, its cleanliness. ^ ? ? The Lanrensville Herald says: Since our last, rain has fallen spots and corners of the Disrri reviving the crops ami hopes of \ Farmers. But there are neighborhoc where th. refreshing showers hu not fallen, and the corn crop:\ are retrievable lost. Wm \ anWyck, of Pendleton, 0., has been appointed and confir ?d as Assessor for the Third Distt 3? South Carolina, in placo of Col. F. Elford, who declined taking 1 >oth of office. ? ? ? - ? ? ? -1 - ? mn - ll I Tho Richmond Time** is jubilant over the ton? and spirit of the press of the South at this time. It mys: There never was a time when the Southern press was performing its duty to the South more vigilantly, fearlessly and usefully than now. The evidence of this ability, fidelity aud efficiency can be found in the curses, imprecations, groans and yells of all the detected, flagellated and exposed petty military tyrants, un? worthy judges, thievish cotton agents, and mousing agents of the Freed? men's Bureau, who were turned loose to prey upon the Southern people before and at tho close of the war. But for tho press, these harpies would havo stripped our people as bare as a pack of cayotes devour the carcass of a buffalo. But the press has been the terror of these rapacious reptiles throughout tho Southern States, from the Rio Grande to the Potomac. "Who does not know that the agony of unen? durable suffering and torture from a hundred keen pens made Underwood bej^ow like a half-flayed bull of Ba? shan, when he was last here. How very refreshing are the ana? themas of tito Hamiltons, the Brown lows and the Holdens, who suffer the same merciless tortures. A Southern editor feels tho grim joy of a veteran grimalkin at thc squeaks of the rats in tho drawers of the Freedmen's Bureau, when they are hunted down and caught stuffed with rations and dishonest perquisites. Tho latest tribute to the usefulness of the press is the denunciation of the able journals of Memphis by the mendacious and thoroughly unscru? pulous committee o? Congres3 which was sent to that city to manufacture copitnl for the radicals out of the "negro riots." Messrs. Gulliver, Munchausen and Sinb;t<l, of tho com? mittee, expected to have an easy time at Memphis concocting slanders aud libels upon the Southern people. But the Memphis journals straight? way fell upon these emissaries of Ste? vens and roasted them elaborately every morning. lu their report, they are almost as abusive of the Memphis papers as the tortured Underwood was of the loyal press of this city. Tiie unanimity with which these dis turbers of tho peace of the nation, and most unscrupulous revolutionist' and disunionists, abuse the patriotic press of the South, isa splendid tri bute to its efficiency. When a South ern editor chips a blister-plaster be tween the shoulders of one of thes< malignants, ami hears a bowl of pail from the patient, ht) knows that tin blister is drawing lindy. In sud eases, it is best to "establish a raw,' and omit to dress the inflamed cutich with the usual comforting cabbag* leaf. ?-? . Tm: GiiK.vT JOHNSON WIOWAM. Tiie Johnson Club of Philadelphia li.ive pitched their wigwam at the in terseelii?:i nf Twentieth street am Girard Avenue. The builder has a work a large force of carpenters, um the building will be completed in te: days. Tho Convention will assembl on the 14th. A description of tb building is thus given in the News: Tts outside dimensions are 1-46 b 1C,"> feet, lt will be constructed < boards, and will be used as a hall fe mass-meetings during tho comin campaign. The interior will consii of a vestibule, an amphitheatre, tw galleries and four ante rooms. Int the vestibule a door twelve feet wici will open from Girard Avenue, door of equal size will lead to tb amphitheatre and lower gallery, an a private entrance will open into tl" ladies' gallery above. The anti rooms will be used for commitb purposes. At the head of the buib ing will be placed the speaker's ?les! and on either side the tables of tl reporters. The amphitheatre will 1 70 feet by 140. Prom it the gallen! will rise in nearly the same mann? ?us the seats in the square for the ll of July celebration. Thc capacity i the building will be over 1 (),(>( people. The largest audience ev seen in the Academy of Music cou be seated in one wing of the i m men galleries. The .standing room upi the floor will accommodate 3,00 while there will be seats for 7,U0 The galleries will be supported 1 iron pillars sixteen feet apart. The will be. hung with evergreens and fi tooned with flowers during the si sioiis of the Convention. -? ??? ?. ? NEGRO EMIGRATION rnoM TH CITY. J. Wood Davidson, the C Inmhiu contributing editor of tl i'orkville Enquirer, writes to th paper as follows: "We have not mude any person inquiries upon the success of tl negro emigration scheme in Colui bia, but we hear that the moveme is likely to result in the emigration considerable numbers of them. V bave heard it stated that, up to tl present time, a thousand names ha been registered togo. Liberia is ti Instillation of some, we hear, ai >ome are goin# to Florida. It minored th.it Gen. Fly (some tit igo of the Freedmen's Bureau in ti :ity) is engaging hands to till lan Or him in Florida, '?'hut is a bett atitude for them than this. V vould encourage their going. " --. The widow of John C. Calhoi lied in Pendleton. S C., a few da igo. TIM Blot. The following brief summary will inform our Maden, at a glance, thc canse of the late riot in New Orleans: 1. In the year 1864, under Federal patronage and support, a portion ol the people of Louisiana, within th? then Federal military lines, held o convention by delegates, for the pur? pose of altering tho Constitution ol the State to conform to the chang?e circumstances in which they .jere placed, and to set on foot a penna neut loyal State Government, in con tradi8tinction to that existing at th? time. 2. This the convention accom plished, providing for a general eleo tiou of State officers, from Governoi down-whereupon, having doue al that it was called upon to do, ad journed. It had spent its force, an< was no more a living, vital body thai that which adopted the first Consti tution of the State. 3. When the Congress propose? the pending amendment to the Con stitution, it was thought necessar by the Louisiana radicals to conven this defunct convention to ratify il It is well known that, if this dea body had had life, it would have bee unlawful for it to act in the premia ? since the amendment was exp rossi referred to the Legislatures cf tu States. 4. Tho president of the conveutio was asked to call it together, but rt fused. A few of the members, bu not a quorum, met and tried to re-oi ganize by the election of a president This failed, for lack of numbers t give it respectability. 5. They next called upou tho Gi vernor to order electious to fill vac ai cies. The Governor was absent au could not be found for several weeki but finally turned up, and consente to order the elections as demande.!. ?. In the meantime. Judge Abel ot' a Now Orleans court having crim nal jurisdiction, in charging the gran jury, instructed them that the men ber* of this rump convention wei acting criminally, and were each an all liable to indictment and punisl ment, under the laws of the State. 7. For this charge, in his offici capacity, Judge Abell was arrested 1 the military authority, and kept ot of prison only by giving the requin bail. 8. Tho usurpers, to help forwai their atrocious scheme, procured, few days ago, a universal! suffirai meeting, in New Orleans, principal composed of negroes, at which i flamumbuy speeches and proceedin were made and had. This product great irritation, and led to the inti fereueo <>f the Lieutenant-Govern< in opposition to the Governor, tot despatches to the President and the proclamation of the Mayor, given. 'i'll,- iMiilnrft-lpliisi Convention. Tho following timely article wee! fruin the New YTork Di titi/ Xetrs: "\\ hat should bethe great onda aim of this Convention ? What the noblest object to which it coi devote its labors? The only ti reply is To cement together, w all possible harmony, all tbe Sta in Union under tho Fcdeiut Cou.' tution. Who are the parties m likely to consummate this desii end? "Are there not, at the South, d< gates who would represent truly 1 great mass of thc South, so as to sure the representation of the r and general sentiment? Nothing more clear than that the people the South ul ways considered tho deral Constitution as the best mis? government ever devised, and subject of slavery being now cxol ed, the ground of contest had been moved, and the most violent dur the war behove that a sacred ad renee to tho Constitution is the 1 gu?rante?; for the general welfi and of course there can be no fit representatives. "The 'peace men' nt the Nortl those who urged peaceful measu which would certainly have resto the Union iu closer bonds-and i opposed coercion as inconsistent v republican principles, repudiated the Constitution, and which conic resorted to only by the erection ( despotism over the South, to acci plish (by the sacrifice of liberty millions of lives, ami thousand; millions of dollars, by untold Mit iiig, devastation and demoralizati that which could peaceably be d without any sacrifice or danger to Constitution. Surely these pe< would be safe delegates to a Com lion honestly intending to restore to uphold the Constitution in al integrity. "Tho crime of, the peace men what no honest and candid mind loubt wits practicable, to re-u the States by peaceful adj list n iu a manner immensely to strengt the bonds of union, and knowing x> be practicable, to oppose coen is a Pandora's box. Now that ?onie extcut, we can count the coi coercion, ii there not the best rei :or repentance that the peaceful ?ealing policy was not adopt There can be no holier or better ii tho Convention than 'peace' c rates. " ? ? ? ? ? The Governor-General of Cub: >ublished an official contradictio he reported insurrection at Po Principe. Ho says the rumor ? mt of a collision between a s >arty of thc people of that city a quad of Spanish soldiers, w unounted to nothing serious The South in thc Prc*l<lentl?l Klec * "?Sf" fe* The following, from tho Washing? ton Republican, (tho President's or? gan,) in its issue of Wednesday lust, is pretty plain talk, and indicates the policy that will bo adopted in thc event of any attempt to defraud the Southern States of their votes in the next Presidential election : It will be recollected by our readers that we intimated a suspicion several months ago that the radical members of Congress had entered into a con? spiracy against the Constitution to shut out the electoral vote, in 186b, of certain Southern States, and that about a month ago we stated more clearly what it was. As no Senator, Representative, or radical newspaper has presumed to deny the allegation, we take it to have been true. lt is n plot that cannot be carried out with impunity. We do not be Ueve it can be consummated without bloodshed. At all events, if the elec? toral votes of tho States thus unlaw? fully excluded will elect a candidate for President who shall not be elected without them, the people will find a way to have them counted, by put? ting tho proper President elect into the Executive office, and maintaining him there by force, if necessary. The exclusion of ten States from representation in Congress goes to the utmost verge of public forbear? ance. No further outrage can, in our opinion, be superadded to it, without breaking the public peuce and expos? ing tito country to the horrors of another civil war, in which the peo? ple of the excluded States would have the sympathy of the civilized world. GENERAL GRANT ON THE BUREAU. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald writes : A report was made to the Freed? men's Bureau, a short time ago, by an agent nt Annapolis, Md., of inter? ferences with the operations of the Bureau at that place by the white citizens. General Howard presented the report to Gen. Augur, command? ing this military department, and asked for a company of white troops to assist the agent in the discharge of his official duties. General Augur re? ferred the matter to General Grant, with whom General Howard had a personal interview. General Grant declined to furnish the troops, on the ground that Maryland was not one of the lately insurrectionary States, in which tue tinny is required to sup? port the Bureau, and, moreover, that lie was opposed to the interference of the military wherever it could be avoided, such interference only tend ing to increase the evils it attempts to allay, and excites the people t increased bitterness. SHERMAN'S FINALE.-The National Intelligencer, of Thursday, says: Lieutenant-Genend Sherman was serenaded, last night, by the band of tho Twelfth United States infantry. in response to the calls of the persons congregated, he remarked that he was a stranger here, and had nothing to say to them, and had no speech to make. He said his home was in St. Louis, where li? would be glad to sec them all, or on the plains, where he , purposed shortly to go. He thought \ the less a man said iu Washington, the better, and, us lie was his own best friend, lie would say nothing more than thank them for the com? pliment that had, on this occasion, been conferred upon him. THE SMALL THINGS OF CONGRESS. Congress, while it bas been exceed? ingly liberal in voting heavy appro? priations for jobs out of which its radical friends can make money, has exercised a most parsimonious spirit in dealing with such little matters as an appropriation for the improve? ment of the President's house and other things ol' a similar character. Having occupied most of its time in abusing and obstructing Mr. John? son, its latest act of meanness was striking out the trilling sum for the repairs of his mausion, while millions have been thrown away for the bene? fit of the negroes and the national j bank monopolies. This kind of eco? nomy will bo fully understood at the fall elections.-New Yaric Her ah I. Head Centre Stephens has address? ed a document from his headquarters in New York to the Fenian Brother? hood, in which ho says that tho Fe? nians in this country are of right sub? ordinate to the organization in Ire? land, and that they will do mischief instead of good unless they work solely to give aid to the organization in Ireland. He reiterates the state? ment that the light for freedom on Irish soil will conio off this very year. The Southern Railroad, to connect ' 1 Cincinnati with the whole South, is j ? silently progressing in the way of ; : subscriptions, and there is no doubt \ I that the $4,000,000 tusked for by the j Southerners will soon be furnished. , lt is asserted that so soon as the ! above sum ia raised, ten merchants 1 will give 850,000 each-making the whole amount from Cincinnati $1,- . 500,000. 1 - .. ?- -, i The wigwam for the meeting of the ? National Union Convention will be situated in front of the Girard Col- I i lege, and is being rapidly, but sub- ; i stautiaily, constructed. Accommoda- I tions will be afforded for 1,500 dele? gates, with committee rooms, Ac, and about y,000 spectators. Tho place of ! meeting can be reached by three or 1 four lines of passenger railroads BLAKXS FOB SALS tera of Administr?t Bond or SoaJod Note, voyances of Berni Estate. ? We are indebted to R. P. Walton, Esq., of tho National Express Company, fur copies of late Baltimore aud Richmond papers. ? . ii Tu* BSSSBBBS OT ?8BBSSS * - * *. ?ate? eating account ot thu "Sack an-l ?wsirtv* tion of toe City of Columbia, H. C.," li.i Just boen issued, in pamphlet form,, from the Phmix power press. Order* fined u? any extent. Single copies &6 oenbK * | ' | Wc baye been requested by prof. Bern? hardt to return his sincere thanks to the citizens of Columbia for the lib?rai patron? age extended to him during his brief stay in Columbia, aud hopes in a few weeks to pay them another visit. SHOOTING AFFRAY. -A man named Bow era, a carpenter, bad a difficulty with an? other, named C. C. Davis, last evening, in which the former waa shot through the arm, tho ball lodging in bia body. The wound is not considered dangerous. MAU. AK RANGEMENTS.- The Post Office ia open during the week from 8 a. m. to 1 p. ra. and from 5J p. m. to 7 p. m. On San day, from 8 to 9 a. m. Northern mail opens 8 )... m.; closes2.j p. m. Southern " 54p.m.; ** 0 p.m. Charleston " ft? p. m.; M 9 p. m. Greenville R. R. " 8 a.m.; " Sip. m. Edgefield " 8 a.m.; " 8* p. m. AU mails close on Sunday at 2 p. Bt. OVKHHAT.-I.EI>.-We have been informed by Chief of Police Green thai the three suspicious characters who passed through this city a few days ago, and were pursued by him, have been overhauled near Lees? ville, by young Laue, arrested by four cavalrymen, and were expected io arrive la.it night. The parties are suspected of being implicated in the murder of Mr. Lane, in Newberry, last week. INQUEST.-George Belt, a freedman, con? fined In the military guard house, (by the Provost Com t at Sumter, > under sentence for assault and battery, attempted to ran from the guard, yesterday, and refusing to halt wbc-u ordered, was fired upon sad in? stantly killed, the ball going entirely through bis body. A jory of inquest waa empanelled by Coroner Walker, and the following verdict rendered: "That George Belt, a freedman, came io his death on the 4th day of August, 186C. from the effects of a wound causea by a ball fired from a musket, iu the banda of John Harding, Private in Company H, 6th United States infantry, while in the dis? charge of his duty as a sentinel at tho military guard house." REUOIOUS SKKVICES Tins DAT.-Trinity Church-Rov. P. J. Sh and, lftj a. m. and .0 p. m. Presbyterian Church -Rev. W. E. bogga, Pastor, 10.V a. m. and 5 p. m. St. Peter1?Church-Rev. J. J. O'Connell, 10 a. ni. and 5 p. m. Lutheraa Church-Rey. A. B. Rude, lOjj a. m. Marion Street Church-ltev. C. II. Pritchard, UH a. m. Rev. E. G. Gage, 5 p. ia. ., " _j tuiwpwui Christchurch Lecture Room-Rev. J. M. Pringle, Rector, lut a. m. and 5 p. m. Baptist Church Rev. J. L. Reynolds, 10| a. m. and 8J p. m. Kev. C. H. Pritchard, !> p. ni. THE LAM?-OF LIFE.-The glow of health and beauty is nowhere moro perceptible and beautifully attractive than in thu ruddy, healthful, glowing, beautiful com? plexion of a healthy person. The com? plexion is radiant, and the lamp of life burns brightly, so long as it is supplied with pure blond. The Queen's Delight and Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier, is a cleaning and searching medicine-giving strength to thc feeble, invigorating and restoring the tdd; cleansing and purifying the young. Thc Queen's Delight and Sar? saparilla is for sale by Fisher A Heinitsh, pharmacists. Msw ADVKBnsBacmrrs. -Attention is call j, ed to the following advertisements, which are published this morning for the first time: Laurrnsvillc Female College. Meeting of Firo Department. E. E. Jackson-Fresh Medicines. Apply at this Office-Snuff-box Lost. C. Hi Baldwin A Co.-Groceries, li. Salas-Sugar, Coffee, etc. Thorough-bred Stallion. AFT Ailis rs Missoula.-We clip tho following items from our exchanges: Tito St. Louis Republican says: Rev. Wm. Perkins, seventy years of age, and a good mau in every sense of the word, is under arrest, charged with the crime of preaching without having taken the test oath. A mob of Missouri radicals com? pelled a minister of the Gospel, in DeKalb County, in that State, to leave his pulpit, last Sunday, while he was preaching, because he had not taken tho radical political oath. The leaders of tho mob afterward got into A quarrel with a young friend of the minister, who shot and killed two of them. CIVTL WAU IMMINENT IN MISSOUBI. The St. Louis Dispatch, of the 27th ultimo, says: Wo have received information fi? ?rn Kansas, from sources that do not [icrmit us to doubt the statement, that tho "Jawhawkers" and "Red Legs" of that State are organizing to invade this State, to prevent citizens from registering as voters, and to aid in carrying tho November election for their friends, the radicals. ? -*-. ? The old United States ship, Penu ?ylvnnia, which was sunk in Hamp? ton Hoads, at the beginning of the war. is to bo raised.