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4 COLUMBIA."! Tuesday Morning, March 5, 1867. * Save tl??- Republic. "Who now can save the republic in I in its direst need? The President I might do it. if, like Jackson, he took the responsibility. Then; is one, other way, however, and we believe it j is the only one left TIS. and that is a resort to the Supreme Court of the United States. We therefore agree i with the Richmond Enquirer, that it j is imperative to tust the bill for thc ; government of thc Southern States I by au appeal to the courts. Thc ? whole case lies there, for, while that law stands as authority, we can do uothiug except in conformity with it. Tf, indeed, as the Enquirer says, ? our State Government is illegal and ? invalid, as is alleged in this bill-if it : is provisional and dissoluble at plea? sure, it is at once bound by the in? structions of the law, and liable to be j swept out of existence at a word, if it depart from them. We will have , no right to call a convention or hold j an election of any sort, except in the mode and upon the terms therein prescribed; and to attempt totlo so would be considered contumacious and rebellious, and would provoke, and be alleged to justify, an instant wiping out of our whole system. Tho' bill, in this respect, is cun? ningly devised, for Congress has re? tained the power in its own hands to revoke or supercede the so-called "provisional governments" at any time. Therefore, instead of making up a case of collision of this sort, let us ascertain first if the proposed law will be recognized by the United States courts as binding upon the obedience of citizens. If they so decide, we have nothing left to do but to submit to it. If they rule otherwise, we stand as we are. It is, therefore, that we agree with the Enquirer-despite the reasons as-1 signed by its able cotemporary of the Timex, that we have nothing to hope for from the Supreme Court-in say? ing that the acceptance of the law without demur is to accept its suf? frage tests and to acknowledge that the State is dead; that its laws are waste paper; that its "decrees, its' judgments and its title deeds are idle words; that its imprisonments were assaults; that its death sentences were murders; that its taxations are rob? beries. We repeat, the first question, and the vital and absorbing question, until this matter is decided, is, will the proposed law bo held as valid V What our cotemporary says of Vir? ginia is applicable to this and every other State of the South-that those entrusted with its affairs are bound by all honorable obligations to test the question thoroughly. They have no right to concede that the State is dead until they have exhausted every means of vindicating its vitality. Their duties are now narrowing down to that-or rather, that duty over? rides all others, and its successful discharge is the condition ol'all others, and therefore it demands their first and their most zealous attention. As the Legislature of Virginia con? tinues its session, mainly for the pur? pose ol' awaiting the result of the Congressional legislation against the South, we hope ere it adjourns it will | take the step indicated by the En? quirer, and that in behalf of her sis? ter States. Virginia will bring to a decision whether they are live States or military-governed Territories. In another column, we give a less hopeful article from the Richmond Tiiiics, but trust that its despondent predictions will nr>t be realized. ----- OPPOSITION TO BROWNLOW. - We learn from the Louisville Courier that as negro suffrage is now established | in Tennessee, it is proposed to run a negro candidate to test the sincerity of the radicals, and see if they meant business when they made the negroes citizens. Frank Parrish, the well known barber, is spoken of as the | man to beat Brownlow. He is the I superior of Brownlow in almost every respect. He is intelligent, moral, in-1 dustrious; has a fair education; has j been a great traveler in foreign parts; is rennowned for his affability and j kindness of heart; is nearly as white os Brownlow, and is more of a gentle- I man. If he should take the stump, ! he would carry tho whole neg'-o vote, ! and beat tho cursing 'Parson badiy. ; If this be the true character of Prank, and we were in Tennessee, we would decidedly go for the barber against the blood-thirsty tyrant who rules the gallant people of Tennessee. Signs of st Commercial Tempest A lotter to the editor of the Rich? mond Times, from an 'intelligent wholesale merchant in thc city of New York, affords some idea of how the ?lotion of Congress is affecting the material interests of the country. Thc correspondent describes the condi? tion of affairs there as most unpro? mising, and as pregnant with com? mercial and financial disaster; and he correctly traces all the evils, present and prospective, to thc failure of Congress to bring tho- Sooth into peaceful harmony with the rest of the States. Wc give an extract: .'Tin- failure of Congress to reha? bilitate the Southern States is re-act? ing unfavorably on all business pur? suits, and thc whole country lan? guishes in consequence. Business herc is killed, incomes have been re? duced, internal revenue receipts aro decreasing, factories aro closed, work? people aro thrown out of employ? ment, poor people accumulate, chil- I then sillier and die, and all interests, ! financial, commercial, agricultural, stagger like a drunken man, ignorant of what te> do and how to act. The re-action is coming on us, and it will culminate at sonic carly dato, but when or how cannot now bc predict? ed. The amazing part of reconstruc? tion legislation is thc desire to refer to a barbaric class, the negro, the suffrage which the constant clamor herc is, ought to bc limited to white people at the North, because of the negro's iguor.iuce of its value, so far as any proper exercise "of thc fran? chise is concerned." Tho views of this correspondent must strike every unbiased mind as singularly correct in their application to tho present state of the country. And it is passing strange that Con? gress caunot and will not see the effect of its action. But they do see; they must see. Vengeance, however, is sweet, and the exercise of brute power supremely attractive to some minds. Though the country should perish, party rage, like that of the famished and furious wild beast, must fix its fangs on the throat of its help? less victim. We see by the Charleston papers that Capt. George C. Hoyward was brutally murdered by negroes, near Savannah, on Friday last. He was also robbed of his watch and money. He leaves a wife and sixteen children. WH.VT THE RADICY LS WILL PO . The Baltimore American, of Tues? day, says: The loyal people intend to purify the institution.- of this great repub? lic. They have resolved upon this, not only as a measure of abstract propriety, but of political and na? tional safety. In this, they will not be hindered by the Supreme Court or any other other branch of thc Government. The people are the Government-the controlling power. The judges, like the President, art th*- mere instruments through whom they work. All must yield by some means or other, sooner or later, tc the deliberately formed judgment and will definitively expressed by the peo? ple. And the Gazette, of Wednesday, commented as follows: So passes away the Constitution ol the United States, and with it, con? stitutional government and civi liberty. Millions of men on this con? tinent, to-day, staud as completely divested of political rights and tin protection of any laws as ever dit the liege subject of any absolute mo? narch on earth. Into the futuro, w< shrink from gazing. Confiscation une rapine, min and confusion mustsoor begin their ruthless work, and when and whoa they will complete it, nt man may know. BELIEF FOR LANCASTER.-The Char lotte Timen, of Monday, says: We were gratified to learm fron Col. Wm. Johnston that he had re ceived several donations for the suf fering iu Lancaster District-2f>< bushels of corn from the noble cit] of Newbern, and S300 from Boston contributed by the editor of thc Pilo and a few friends. Thc Colonel als* received a letter 'rom an infiaentia gentleman in Yr'ashington City, in quiring if tho reported destitution ii that and other sections was reliable He responded, fully endorsing thc statement of Col. Mittag aud others and we have reason to hope substan tial aid from that quarter may be ex peeled. NEGROES NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE T? NEW YoitK.-The New York Asseiu bly, np. Wednesday, voted down ? proposition to let negroes in tba State vote for delegates to the Con stitutional Convention. Yet a ina jority ol'this same Now York Legisla turc is in favor of thrusting negri suffrage upon their countrymen ii thc South-and not only that, but ii favor, also, ol keeping them out o the Union until they consent to it. [New Vurk Express. In one of tho churches at Albany New York, war has been declare! ngainst moustaches, the female por tion of the congregation having de dared au unalterable dotcruiiuatioi to bc kissed by no mau weiring tin nasty things. Thc Mm? "Who Blazes 1??? Way. Wendell Phillips is tho man who j furnishes brains to the radical party. He blazes the way, and marks out the path they shall tri ad in their work of destruction. He says to one man, go, and hegoeth; to another, come, and he cometh. Even Brothel* Beecher consents to walk by the deceitful glimmerings of Wendell's dark lan? tern. Wendell made a speech at Chi? cago last Thursday night. The fol? lowing is an abstract of his lecture, as we find it reported in the Chicago Post: What brought on the Mar? it was thc conflict between two ideas, as Mr. Seward told us, at Rochester, be? fore he lost his bruins. [Applause.] In 1861, was revealed thc irrepressi? ble contest. Non- what is the reme? dy? The prophet at Ply mont Church and the Secretary of State say. pul the pieces of the bursted gun toge? ther, lill it with powder, apply bot coals, and hope it- won't burst. I Laughter. ] He would say of the thirty-ninth Congress, that it has conducted the affairs of the nation on principles which, if a business man-had applied to his business, wouldhave made him bankrupt at once. The Congress bas not omitted every good act. It has given us a Bureau, a civil rights bill, and a glimpse at negro suffrage, but it should not have left a moment wasted iu trying to put the parts of the nation together. Except in thc past week, Congress has done nothing toward reconstruction. The South is as firmly set in its way as she was at first-defiantly convinced that her barbarism is as good as our civiliza? tion. It says, when labor touches government, it is a revolution. The white race at the South is a race with convictions which half a dozen defeats have not washed out. How many defeats would it take to wash the Declaration of Independence out of Massachusetts and Illinois? In spite of a hundred Bull Buns, we should still say, "All men are born free and equal." Had Jefferson Davis succeeded, he would have had the right to enforce his doctrines. We conquered, and we have a right to en? force ours. We are dealing with a race that believes its principles as strongly as we do ours. Here, in the West, a nation has been constructed by the talent, the blood and the mo? ney of the East, and it can no more be separated from the E.ust than you eau cut oil' a slice from the Kooky Mountains. So the North must re? construct the South, just as the East constructed the West, by planting its civilization there. When Lincoln was elected, the South saw that she must remodel the Government to her ideas, or she must go out of the Union. The party that conquers, it is well settled, has the right to stamp out rebellion that it shall not again arise. We have laid 300,000 martyrs in their graves. We have pledged tho credit of the country for ?3,000,000,000; we have mortgaged the real estate of the countrj' for two generations, and now the voice of justice demands that we fix unalterable guarantees for future safety. If we had a good President, it would not matter what laws we have; and as we have a bad President, ri does not matter what laws we have. Our President is a traitor; he is la? boring to save the South from the consequences of her defeat, and he knows how. Once put Southern statesmen inside the capital, and we give them power to fight over the battle again inside the Government. The speaker said that he would notice next that crowd that have wriggled their way up to Congress, nobody knows Low. If the South should bring a bushel basket of her money and say, "You shall have that money if you vote right, and we will build palaces for you if you do it," he knew one Congressman in Massachusetts who. would take thc offer at once. The amendments cry to the white men of tho South, "Come back and be the Government, and sit down with us. We hope to put you under such motives that you will, by-a?d by, admit the blacks to vote, but wt do not compel it." Has the South, said the speaker, ever obeyed a singh clause in the Constitution which sht did not want to? What's the us? now of adding idle clauses to tin Constitution? He proposed to pul the ballot in the hands of the blacks, but Congress lets the South come in, aud then talks about re-organizinc her. The white men of tho Norti and of the South met in the thirtietl Congress, and shut thc black mar out, and called it compromise. Wt have cheated and swindled the verj race that helped us to defeat tht rebels. The amendments are a swin? dle. Throw them out of one win? dow, and Congress out of the other, and begin anew. Remove and im peach the rebel at the White House [Long continued applause. | He did not want to punish John son; all he wanted was his room. Th* seeds of reconstruction will not grov in a day. The negro is iu an abu or mal state; for two generations he has been crushed down. Give him tht suffrage" and he could not hold bi; own yet. The South is not going ti give up the struggle for one defeat If we can put her down and wash ou: her oligarchy in five years, it will b< the first instance in history. Whai we need is-Northern men at thc seal of Government. [Ap2>lanse. ] To be sure, it is dangerous to im? peach the President. Jt was danger? ous for Grant to move on Richmond, but be did it. [Laughter.] It is a dangerous thing to impeach tho head of thc nation, but our fathers know that when they framed the Constitu? tion. They know that it would bring two parties iuto conflict. But they set up a Government which could stand such a conflict. There is not a .man strong enough to shuni up! , against the voice of the people. Grant, tin: most loved mau in Arno rica, when ho said, "I pul on the uniform ot no party," foll in tho csti ; mation of tho people. lie is tho high : constable ol' tia: nation; ho is paid to i : make our flag respected in Now Or-1 leans. If ho does not do it, he fails! in his duty. This is the crisis of our nation. Twenty-four thousand changes will j re-elect Andy Johnson, though the. Republican party is now so strong. We do not know how it may change, i Common .-.ouse says take the present ' hour. There i> no hope save in Con? gress. lt may suv tin- Presidential ! chair must be vacated, and i'. will be done. Tlie first obstacle is the Presi- ' dont: clear that away; send down j Northern capital; make it safe for the Northern man to live in the South, ??nd you make the nation homoge? neous and united. PROTEST AGAINST RITUALISM.-The committee of Lpiseopal Bishops a])- ! pointed to inquire into the subject of ritualism in the Episcopal Church, have made their report, lt is signed by twenty-eight Bishops, and con? cludes as follows: "And we, therefore, consider that in this particular National Church, any attempt to introduce into the public worship of Almighty God usages that have never been known, such as the use of iucense, and thc burning of lights in the order for thc Holy Communion; reverences to the Holy Table or to the elements there? on, such as indicate or impiy that the Sacrifice of our Divine Loni and Sa? viour, 'once offered,' was not a 'full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice, obla? tion and satisfaction, for the sins of the whole word;' the adoption of cleri? cal habits hitherto unknown, or ma? terial alterations of thoje which have been in use since the establishment of our Episcopate, is an innovation which violates thc discipline of the Church, 'ollendeth against its com? mon order, and hurteththc authority of the Magistrate, and woundeth the conscience of thc weak brethren.' Furthermore, that we bc not misun tlerstood, let it bc noted that we in? clude in these censures all departures from the laws, rubrics and settled I order of this Church, as well by de? feat as by excess of observance, de? signing to maintain in its integrity thc sound Scriptural and primitive, j and, therefore, the Catholic and Apos? tolic spirit of the Book of Common Prayer." If the military bill should be sus? tained by public opinion in the North, the South will be less a subject of pity than the nation of lamenta? tion. For, mournful as is the specta? cle of a free, high-spirited aud van? quished people subjected to the rule of the bayonet, it is not to bc com? pared, in terrible tragedy, with that of a nation of republicans so false to their historic memories, to their fun? damental principles and their life? long training, as to be willing te) curse any portion of their countrymen with the horrors of military domination. When men love freedom so little as to be willing to enforce tyranny on their fellows; when their recollection of the glorious deeds of their ances? tors fighting against a stamp act and a tea tax, is so feeble that they are ready to rear the sword of power above the scales of justice; when their habitual tlcvotion to self-government is so slight that they consent to be? come the instruments of wresting from their own countrymen the right to elect their own rulers and frame their own Governments-they have ' begun the inevitable march that will convert them from the instruments of tyranny into the slaves of a despot. He who will consent to enslave a freeman is fast preparing to become himself a slave. [ Kat ional Intelligencer. BUSINESS PROSPECTS IN NEW YORK. I The Now Y'ork Sun expresses the j opinion that if the present depression I in that city, continues a few weeks longer, many houses will bo obliged to go by the board. It is every day becoming more manifest that the radical policy, if not thwarted and checked, will ruin the whole country. EMIGRATION.-Emigration from Germany to the United States, ac j cording to letters written from Berlin laud Munich, will become a "com I plete torrent" as the spring advances. ! The troubles and disappointments i in Germany following the war ol last year add greatly to the tide that is setting towards America, i LARGE ESTATE.-It is reported I from thc British Exchequer that during 1866 a single will was admit? ted to probate which paid into tho ' Treasury for taxes on its legacies and other charges the enormous amount of $961,900 in gold. The property bequeathed by this will was valued at $14,000,000 in gold. Mrs. Wilby kicked a conductor in the mouth, at Erie, Pennsylvania, because that unhappy man would not let herself and husband get on the train without showing their tickets. An exchange thinks Mrs. Wi I bj- has a new way of showing her ticket. WHY THE SOUTH IS HATED. -Topay no heed to what Congress may do or [ say; to submit in silence to every j new act of oppression timi, Congress j may inflict; to br?ale in? law ; to vio late no engagement;to vent uo scorn; ! to take no interest in polities, but to attend sedulously to their private affairs- -these, says the Baltimore du- j zelte, are the exasperating virtues for' "which tue radicals are bent upon I punishing the Southern people, it is J surely natural that tho latter should | love to dwell upon the sweet yet bitter memories Of the dead past; that they j should hold in fitting reverence their j heroic: dead, and that they should j shrink from branding as political pa- ! riahs the noblet and best of their j fellow-citizens. To d<> otherwise, I would be to forget ?di they have i fought for ami all they have suffered; j all the devastation, all thc license and ? all the. unimaginable horrors of a sys- j tem of warfare* whoso nearest coun? terpart can only bc lound in thal adopted by the remorseless Alva in the Low Countries at the dict?t ion of the most fanatical and big? tc I mo narch that ever sat on thc Spanish j throne. Our hope, says the (suzette, is, that the South will stand firm--not de? fiant, not recalcitrant, but quiet, passive-apathetic, if voa will - and let the evil thing come. It will come more certainly, if they consent to eat dirt at the bidding of their oppress? ors, than if they refuse to grovel at their feet. They were brave and en? terprising in war. Let them now exhibit to the world the grander spec? tacle of steadfast endurance under defeat and subjugation. It is a hard lesson to learn, but it has its uses. It has also its compensations. The fortitude that meets oppression calm- j ly, baffles and confounds the oppress? or. Where men have a moral stamina to confront the worst without falter- I ing, they are strong even in their weakness. There is a limit to the bitterest persecution, which cannot safely be over-passed. There is a he? roism in patient suffering that touches more nearly the sympathies of civil? ized nations than tho heroism of the battle-field. KILLED IN A PERSONALDiFPicuiiTY. At Atlanta, on Wednesday, two cit? izens named C. C. Howell and C. C. Creen, met in a dreg store. An al? tercation ensued, and finally Green drew a pistol and fired twice without effect. The struggle was then trans? ferred to the street, when tireen fired again, the ball taking effect in Howell's head and killing him im? mediately. The persons concerned were playmates as boys, and had always been intimate personal friends. I tireen is under arrest. KENTUCKY.-A mau living in Grant County, Kentucky, who has not yet reached three-score aud ten years, has now living fifty-four children. His name is "Chalk" Jim Webster. He regrets very much that he aid not marry early in life. We suggest that Kentucky send Chalk Jim to the Paris Exhibition as her contribution to tlie wonders of the world. A schoolmaster, not many miles from the common, was whittling a stick, one day last week, and acci? dentally cut his finger, which brought out the exclamation, "God!" Instant? ly, having several boys near him, he added, "save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." The invocation was very appropriate, as there is no Com? monwealth that stands in greater need of being saved. The Petersburg Index renews the lament on the continued imprison? ment of Jeff. Davis: "And this man is dying, meantime. Injustice prey? ing upon his soul, confinement wear? ing out his body, the neglect of his own people sickening his heart. Surely the crowning shame of those which disgrace the last six years of American history is this." The sensation papers are again filled with paragraphs as to the wherea? bouts of General Grant on the mili? tary bill, and all sorts of statements are thrust into the poor man's month. If the General has cultivated his or? gan of self-esteem to any extent, there is danger of his being led to believe that he is a power in the land, j NORTH CAROLINA'S ACTION.-In the North Carolina Senate, on the -20th ? ult., the report of the Committee on ? Federal Relations, adverso to the I Orr-Parsons amendment, and a pro- i position to substituto the Sherman | bill for that report, were laid on the ? table by a vote of 29 to ll. The Secretary of the Interior has i furnished the Ways and Means Com- j mittee a tabular statement showing that it will require $80,000,000 of j bonds to complete the various lines ! of the Pacific railways now in the i course of construction. Go it, Uncle i Sam! Dean Trench, in "The Study of Words," says tariff is derived from Tarilla, the name of the fortress or rock of Gibraltar, where the Moors, ?luring their domination in Spain, were used to levy a tax upon all ships passing through the Straits. CONFISCATED.-Decrees of condem? nation were entered in the United ; States District Court at Savannah, [ un Tuesday, against 118 acres of land i near Macon, whereon the "so-called" Confederate Laboratory was erected, ! and against the steamer Nashville. NEW ORGAN.-The New York (Jone \ mercieU has **?en purchased by the conservatives, and is to be edited by ? Thurlow Weed, lt will be issued j morning and evening. Have you a clod: or a watch? If not, call on Mr. I. Sulzbachor. who advertises a lerge stock for sal?'. COURT. Hie Spring Term of the Court of Common Pleas and General Si'ssions was began ou yesterday, his Honor T. X. Dawkins presiding. F IKE. -About "> o'clock, Sunday afternoon, a fire occurred in th" building opposite thc Phoenix office, occupied by Mrs. Rood asa millinery store. Thc fire origin.) '. ed in the cel? lar, among several cases of straw goods, and is supposed t?> be the work of some evil-disposed person. The damage to the building was slight, as the firemen were promptly on the spot, aud sm.li il in arrest? ing the flames, after the destruction of some millinery go-vis. "THE LAND WE LOVE.". -A notice has been circulated in our exchanges that Messrs. ty*. ?. Smith & Co.. of Raleigh, had failed, uno. in connec? tion therewith, that they were the publishers ot* that excellent periodi? cal, conducted by Gen. D. H. Hill The Land We Love. A private note informs us that the magazine is pub? lished in Charlotte, and we presume, therefore, the failure of Messrs. Smith A' Co. will not affect its pub? lication. NKW AovKivnsKMKSTs. -Attention ta vail? ed to the following advertisements, which art; published this morning tor the 6rst time: 1. Sulzbacher Spring Smek. \ Levin A Mikel! Auction 'l ins Morning. Meeting of Palmetto Pire Company. H. A W. C. Swaffield-Spring Good's. Mr. and Mrs.. Heed-Card of Thanks. Meeting of Indi pendent Fire Company. Meeting of Trim Brotherhood Lodge. Jacob Uell-Citation Mrs. Quigley. R. Allen and L. Piser- A Card. MESSES. EDITORS: Permit mc, through your excellent paper, to re? commend to teachers and the public generally, Sterling's Series of South? ern School Books. They are com? piled by one who has, for a long time, successfully conducted an insti? tute of some celebrity. The series are happily introductory to each other; drawn up by one who shows he has a practical knowledge of what constitutes judicious elementary in? struction. AN OLD TEACHER. ? A GOOD WILL,.-We heard, the j other day, of a man wdio once lived ! within a hundred miles of New Al bany, who was possessed of a large property, but like all men, be their property large or small, he had to die; though dying, he did what most men wouldn't do-he left a will bequeath? ing hali his wealth (being childless) to his wife, for her use as long as she remained single, the other half to be given to her when she marries again. If such acts were more frequent, charming widows would be more charming, and widowhood much shorter lived. [2Veio Albany Commercial. Queen Victoria is again to appear ! as thc leader of the London fashions, i Ou Febru ry 27 she is to hold a "drawing-room," in which she wilW for the first time leave off mourning^ and the foreign ministers have re? ceived instructions to congratulate her Majesty on her re-appearance in the state ceremonies. This drawing room, it is thought, will give great impetus to the London season. It is again announced that the Queen will pay a visit to the Paris Exposition, but nothing certain is yet known about it. FLATTERING PROSPECT.-The La grange, Texas, 2s~eic Era says: "On the Brazos, a gentleman recently leased a plantation of 1,200 acres for .$0,000, paying one-half down. At this time his whole force amounts to six hands, which divided out gives one hand to every 200 acres." The Era puts this down among the "flat? tering prospects. The members of the Tennessee Le? gislature, who have been in session fully fourteen months of the two years for which they were elected, now have up a measure to pay them? selves four dollars a day in gold. Some one,, who. probably has been noticing the sublime and masterly position of the Southern press on the military bill, says a pin has as much head as a great many writers, and a good deal more point. A bill has passed both Houses of the Virginia Legislature, and is now a law, securing au interchange of cars and through tickets on all Mic con? necting railroads in the State. Dissipated New Yorkers go over to New Jersey to get intoxicated as a matter of economy. In the latter place thc line is two dollars, and in the former tel . Several young men have appeared at fashionable receptions, in this city, recently, in something like couit dress-maroon velvet coat and breech? es, with silk stockings. \Home Journal. Mr. Charles A. Daria's new radical paper is to be styled the New York Chronicle, and is to be started on :\ solid cash capital of ?200,000. Darkeys in Norfolk refused to be vaccinated. Whiskey is still-born. "Whiskey drinkers ought to have been.