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COLUMBIA., _-_J-1?- S > Tuesday Morning, February 4, The Africanization of the South. The enormity of (he attempt which is "being made by those now acci? dentally in possession of the power ?ad/ ?aaohinery of Government to .circumvent the American people and avert ?he re-assertion of (heir right? ful authority, has never been more clearly exposed than in the thorough ?????lyt<ia made in the speech, of Mr. JBaokalew, in the Senate, on Wednes? day-a speech which strips the pro? ject of usurpation of all the false pretexts with whioh it has been ?ought to disguise ita over-reaching purposes. Notwithstanding a ma? jority of nearly two millions of white population in the South is shown in HM cen sn s returns of 1860, the regis? tered blacks, under the Congres monal process of reconstruction, out? number the registered whites in five, at least, of the ''outside" States. These five States are Mississippi, louisiana, Alabama, Florida and South Carolina; while in Georgia the number of whites and blacks is about wqual-an aggregate majority of ?bout 78,000 blacks registered in the niae States. Mr. Buckalow gives an ?-explanation of the means by which a black minority in the South obtains the preponderance, which is by re? gistering all the blacks and excluding all the whites possible. Instead of there being but 50,000 of the whites disfranchised, as stated by Senator Morton, of Indiana, Mr. Buckalow says it can bo proved by a compari? son of the census returns, and by a .comparison of the returns of elec? tions in the Southern States, that 300,000 of the white men of the -South had been disfranchised, and included in this disfranchisement there were as many constabas as the Senator from Indiana said were dis? franchised altogether. The disfran? chising clauses are retrospective, not emly affecting those who held civil offices during the war, but all those who had ever held an office in the Southern States. In addition to this, the l?econstruction Conventions have power to impose test oaths, as that of Alabama has done, which may have the effect of excluding from the bal? lot-box a majority of even the regis? tered white voters. The practical ?effect of this is to reduce the white majority of population in the South to the rule of a black minority, the object being to perpetuate the politi? es! ascendancy of the dominant party in Congress. Mr. Buckalow, in the amme speech, refers to a statement he han prepared of the votes given in tho States represented in Congress at the last elections in those States, in eluding Tennessee, by which it ap? pears that the Republican vote amounted to 2,134,554, and tb* De? mocratic vote to 2,019,169-showing a Republican majority of but 115,385 out of a total vote of 4,153,733. By th? rule of proportion, the majority nought to have 28 votes in the Senate, -and the minority 26-instead of which the minority has but 10 mem? bers and the majority 43, and the ?anse proportion prevails in the other ?house. Whilst, under our present representative system, a minority, however nearly it approximates the mmerical strength of the majority, lay be deprived of all representa -a defect whioh, in a former |ech, Mr. Buckalow proposed to by personal representation or dative suffrage-he refors tho |t glaring inequality in the tho inequality of popula >me of the States, and to the Lof communities to repre the Senate which were ^to it by their numbors ming to swell the radical the Senate. With tho (. .->'.?*. . -. '. same object, whilst thinly-peopled Territories of the West are admitted, the ?Wfcs ipi thiSattth aVe k?j>t oat till they can oojtne^in with tho ap? proved political complexion. ??lheee facts certainly show,vin the language of Ur. Buckalow, a very "uurepublican state of affairs/' and result in enabling "a few extreme radicals, really representing'a small minority of the people, to shape the whole destinies of the country." With this result Rn ob--?r!7 2G??UI1 struted by Mr. Buokolew, is it not (the Baltimore Sun asks) the very height of audaoity in the party now temporarily holding power, to endea? vor to perpetuate their minority go? vernment by such measures aa the disfranchising registration Ants and the Acts to reconstruct reconstruo tion, the bill requiring two-thirds of the Supreme Court to pronounce any of its laws unconstitutional, the bill lookiug to a suspension of public officers during a trial upon impeach? ment, and the plaoing the army at tho command of the court of im? peachment; the bill empowering the Presidert of the Senate, in cases where he shall succeed in tho Chief Magistracy, to hold over beyond the time for which he shall have been elected as Senator-all evincing a consciousness that its purposes aro revolutionary, usurping nnd subver? sive of the institutions o? the coun? try and tho will of tho people. SAMBO'S SAFEGUARDS.-That Sam? bo's consideration for number ono is paramount to even other govern ment? al provision, is shown by the resolu? tion relative to expunging the terms "Yankee" and "negro," introduced in the South Carolina Reconstruction Convention, a few days ago; and the offioial oath decided upon by the I Louisiaua Convention, the main fea? ture of which is the obligation to make no effort to strip Sambo of any of his new honors. It reminds us very much of the conventional obli? gation generally entered into at bap? tism, "to renounce the devil and all his works," an engagement always assumed, but seldom, if ever, lived up to. The New Orleans Times re? minds Sambo, that if the tenure of his franchise, rests only on that, its duration will be short indeed. He must cultivate other claims, demon? strate his actual necessity to the wel? fare of the country, and enlarge his capacity both in intelligence and in? dustry, before he can hopo for any security in his new fledged privi? leges. The fragile paper safeguard offered him by the carpet-baggers, emblazoned with a mere formal oath, will be found as powerless and worth? less as their mendicant political poverty. Is this tho sum of his greatness? a flimsy crown of straw "paper for battledores." THURLOW WEED TEARS HIS HAIR. Thurlow Weed seems to despair ol tho Republican party. Ho says "Tho loss of half our strength, in t singlo year, ought to open tho oyes oj those who are responsible for th( welfare of the party. But it doei not. A leading radical at Washing ton said to n conservative Republi can, last week, that the object o: Congress was to secure tho vote o: tho ton rebel States for its Presiden tial candidate, and that if tho Sn prcmo Court stood in the way, iti teeth would be drawn, and that if th< President interfered, he would b< impeached. Hence we said, what w< repent with all the emphasis tha language oau impart to tho warning that 'Congress is hazarding the losi of twenty white States for the con trol of the ton blaok ones.' " ,. THREE IN ONE.-The Mobile Times Register and Advertiser and Evenim News have been merged into one pa per-the "Mobile Register" Interesting to Merchant*. The following lotter, in roferonco to taxes to be collected on aale?, will be read with interest by oar mer? chants and business men: HBADQ'BS. 2D Murr ARV Darr., CH?B??5StoN, ?. O., January 28, 1868. Wm. 3. Hastie, Esq.. Sheriff Charlea inri District, Charleston, 8. 0. SIB: Beferring to your communica? tion of December 20, 1867? I am in? structed by the Commanding General to reply to. your inq?iriQc ?wl?o-o. Iou inquire, "where goods were sold ou commission in 1866, and set? tled for, previous to the passage of the Aet of 1866, is 20 cents on the $100 to be collected, or not?" Although your inquiry is confined to oases of sales on commission, where the proceeds were accounted for before the passage of the Act, the reply is applicable to all other cases embraced under the clause in ques? tion. Assuming the facts, ont of whioh ?our inquiry grows, to be as stated y you, and it appears that, during the year 1866, prior to the passage of the Act raieing revenue for the year 1867, there was no law in opera? tion subjecting to taxation transac? tions of the class referred to by yon, but that by the last preceding Act on the subject, the rate of taxation was fixed at 20 cents on ti e $100. In this case tho proper amount to collect is 20 cents on the $100, that being the amount fixed by the last law preceding that of December, 1866. Your secoud inquiry is as follows: "Merchants having done business continuously on their own account, or for account of others, during 1866, delivering their goods ns they sold them, aro they to pay the tax of De? cember, I860, ns passed by tho Le? gislature, or is their tax to be scaled down to 20 cents on tho 8100, or is no tax to be collected?" Merchants doing business on their own account, stand on thc sumo foot? ing with commission merchants. Sales accompanied by the transfer of property effected by them, prior to the passage of tho Act of December, 1866, are not liable to taxation, under the provisions of that Act. As to this liability of such transaction to the tax of 20 eents, an answer has already been given, under your first inquiry. Your third inquiry relates to the proper rate of chargeable taxation, in the case of newspaper publishing. The business of publishing nod vending newspapers, including the sale of advertising space, is regarded as mercantile in its character, and accordingly the provisions of the first clause of General Orders No. 92, are applicable to taxes, laid upon transactions in the course of such business. The rates chargeable upon the gross earnings of such establish? ments, are to be fixed with reference to tho principles hereinbefore laid down, in regard to the general mer? cantile business. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, LOUIS V. CAZIARC, A. D. C. and A. A. A. G. ROYAL PAY FOK NEGRO LEGISLA? TORS.-The negro Reconstruction Convention of South Carolina forms a high estimate of its services. The Sambos who used to be glad to get a few dollars a month for working on the cotton or rico plantations, have fixed their pay, as constitution mak? ers, at eleveu dollars a day and twenty cents mileage. Our white Congressmen, who get eight dollars a day, will envy these happy blacks. When tho darkies come to Congress they will undoubtedly endeavor to raise the dignity and emoluments of our national legislators in the same proportion. If a negro member of a State Convention bo worth eleven dollars a day, what ought a negro Congressman to get? Thirty dollars a day, at least. How astonished these South Carolina negroes must be with their extraordinary chang? of fortune! They can hardly realize whether they stand on their heads or heels. To cap tho climax of their ridiculous presumption, they should have proposed to pay the white mem? bers of the Convention half what they get themselves; and that, after all, would be only somewhat in pro? portion to the estimate in which the two races aro held in the South just now. A white man may be nearly half as good as a negro. [JVciv Vurk Herald. The oldest inhabitant of Quebec asserts this to bo tho coldest winter in his memory; not so much from the occasional state of thermometer n*> the steady averago degree of cold. UN?TED STATES GOVERNMENT GEMS . TERT AT BEAUFORT^-A large cerne-" tory baa been hud out at Beaufort, S. 0., the United States Government, for tho purpose of, having tho bodies' of soldiers killed nt points along tho coast' collected and interred, in one common ground. The cemetery is being built upon a scale of magnifi? cent proportions, and will prove very costly. AU the bodies of Uuitcd States- soldiers who were -killed or who died on the islands off Charles? ton, are 'being disinterred nnA ?ML?ve? to .beaufort. The steamer Pilot Boy, Capt. MoNelty, made an extra trip last week, and brought down 600 corpses. Euch grave is marked with the name, regiment and company of the deceased soldier, and the cemetery is neatly and substan? tially enclosed with a fence, through which thero uro several beautiful en? trances. The cemetery will cover- a large plot cf ground, and the num? ber of interments will be very large. [Savannah Republican. FIRE ON KINO STREET.-A few mi? nutes before ll o'clock, Saturday night, flames were seen issuing from the store, No. 323 Kiug street, nearly opposite Society struct, occupied by Mr. H. Rosen thal, as a retail dry goods, clothing and notion store. A prompt alarm was sounded, to which the several engiues as promptly re? sponded, und in a very short time the fire was subdued. The lowei story? that occupied by Mr. Rosenthal, is badly damaged and charred, und his entire stock damaged, principally by? water. It is supposed to be the net of au incendiary, as tho fire originat? ed in the cellar, to tho rear of the store. Mr. Rosenthal was insured for 810,000 in various Northern agencies. The building is owned by Mr. S. Woolie, who vas also insured in Northern agencies for 87,000. Iie?s thnu 81,000 will repair damages. [Charleston Mercury, 2d. TERRII?LIE bUFFERINQ IN ENOLAND AND FRANCE.-The London Times, of the 1 Lit 11 ultimo, states that the dis? tress in the East End of London is disheartening. The number of per? sons dependent on the Government for relief is 40,000; but the measures adopted fail to meet the need and the increasing uruouut of pauperism. Sad tidings come from every part of France. 'The Lyons manufacturers ure paralysed. Tho uncertainty of tho political futuro ia tho chief cause. Hunger and destitution are making terrible havoc among tho opel uti ves at Nantes, Rouen, Bordeaux, and other places. Much scandal has been occasioned in n commune near Puris, by two young follows enteriug the confes? sional of a church. One of them playing the part of a priest and the other pretended to confess. By-and by a lady closely veiled approached, the young man on his knees hurried away and she took his place. It proved to bo the lady to whom he was engaged, and hearing some disa? greeable disclosures, he rushed from the box iu a rugo und repudiated her. Tho sham priest is now nuder trial for causing a scandal in a church, and outraging the practice of reli? gion._ Mrs. E. A. Pollard was still in jail ou Wednesday evening. In the thiok part of her right hand is a wound, which she says she received during the scuffle at Dr. Moore's store. Mrs. Pollard told friends who visited her on Wednesday, that hav? ing had her trunks aud effects seized by the proprietor of the hotel where she was left by Mr. Pollard, she, on Tuesday, wandered out half frantic, to endeavor to hear or find hor hus? band. She disclaims any recollec? tion of having tired the pistol. In the case of Henry Elias, ac? cused of swindling under the title of "Clark, Webster & Co., Managers of the Bankers' and Merobants' Gift Enterprise," un examination was had nt the Now York Tombs, by Justice Dowling, ou the 28th ult. Elias was allowed to romain nt large on hail, pending a decision in the case. As he left the Tombs ho was followed by an excited crowd, by which he was roundly anathematized and pelt? ed with snow-balls. HOUSE BURNED.-We are sorry to learn that tho dwelling house of Mr Mai eus Kirby, living about ten miles below this town, was entirely con? sumed by fire on tho 23d ult. Mr. Kirby lost everything in the house, save a few beds. The fire is believed to be accidental-loss about $1,600. f Carolina Spartan. Xiooal Xtemv . --i^^^t?^-~?&-j CASH-PAT UP.-Erom ?hd after January 1, 1868, (fte eco system will bo strictly enforced. Persons who are now indebted for .subscriptions, and who wish their papers coutinued, will coufer a favor by paying np at onco. Those who fail will have their papers discontinued. Cash will also be required for all advertisements Persons forwarding advertisement? from a distance, must send a remit? tance. Job work cash on delivery. FORETON PAPEBS.-Maj. John Alex? ander has furnished us a batch of English and Scotch papers-Loudon, Ghtsgowand Iuverness--of late dates. The papers are on file in this offioe. MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.-The post office open during the week from S>? a. m. to 6 p. m. On Sundays, from \\4 to 2)4 p. m. The Charleston and Western mails are open for delivery at 2 p. m., and close at 9 a. m. Northern-Open for delivery at IO1.;' a. m., closes at 1 p. m. Greenville-Open for delivery at 3 '$ p. m., closes at 8 p. m. SALES OF HEAL ESTATE YESTEBDAY. A number of valuable building lots were disposed of, yesterday, by tho Commissioner in Equity and Sheriff -a portion of which were the follow? ing: A lot, 26 feet front and running back 263, corner of Main street and tho Court House square, brought $4,050, one-ninth cash. A lot adja? cent, sumo dimensions, $2,800. The adjoining lot, 26 feet 2 inches by 208 feet, $2,325. A fourth lot, same dimensions, $2,350. The lot on which the residence of Dr. Gibbes formerly stood, fronting 70 feet on Plain street and 130 on Sumter, $1,300. Tho lot adja?eut, containing a brick dwelling and stable, 130 feet front and running back 130 feet, brought $3,050. All of the above belonged to the estate of Dr. It. W. Gibbes. A two-story brick office, belonging to the estate of John Banskett, Esq., adjoining Court House Bange, brought $3,000. A lot adjacent to the above, 70 feet front by 130 deep, $800. This was a cash sale, in addi? tion to which a dower of several hun? dred dollars was to be paid by tho purchaser. . To CLEAN TIN.-Bub it well with pulverized charcoal, then wash off. Pulverized brick-dust and soft soap cleans brass very well. Iron and? irons, made black and sleek as Top8ey'8 well polished brow, in the good old days when salamander fin? gers applied the meat skin, by taking a gill or more of common molasses, in which an egg is broken, add a lit? tle water and apply a mop weekly or semi-weekly only. How is it, when two persons como to high words, they use such low terras? NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.-Attention is call? ed to the following advertisements, pub? lished this morninp for tho first time: AI. W. Bvthewood-Auotion Sale. B. T. Dont-Cash. H. H. Blease-Acknowledgment, Ac. Meeting True Brotherhood Lodge. K. Pollard-Violin and Guitar Strings. Meoting Palmetto Fire Company. REMARKABLE ESCAPE.-Ou Friday, a sleigh containing a woman and child, was crossing tba track of the Boston and Maine Railroad, between South Reading und Stoneham, whon it was st indi by au approaching train and demolished. Tho woman was knocked into a contiguous snow bank, but was not seriously injured, nor was the child, although it was caught upon the pilot hoard of the engine and earried along until tho train stopped. A letter bas been safely delivered to the person lo whom it was address? ed in Iowa, whioh had, besides the usual, superscription, these words: "There is a ten dollar bill folded in this letter, aud if yon want it any worse than my mother dees, take it.