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Tuesday Morning, April 7, 1868. An Appeal to tb* State. lu lieu of au editorial, this morn? ing, we publish the following paper, furnished by the State Central Execu? tive Committee: ADDRESSES VOR THE PEOPLE. We published recently, for the in? formation of the publio, an admirable address to the colored men of the State-a paper eminently truthful and genuinely philanthropic, and well calculated to make the persons ad? dressed, pause and think. The char? acter of its author, too, adds much weight to the sober words he utters. A gallant General in the late war, an accomplished man of soience and let? ters now, we trnst that words of cau? tion from such a man may not bo spoken in vain. Thia morning, the committee placo before the State and couutry two more addresses. To these important papers, we respectfully call the atten? tion of all classes of people, and men of all parties; and wo would ask all papers of the country friendly to the cause of truth, to copy them and givo thom the circulation they deserve. Address No. 1 is strong in language, bold in tono, and lofty in spirit. But at the same time, it will be found trnthfnl in stateuiont and law-abiding in advice. It tells tho country of our sad condition in the Southern pro? vinces-a condition more tho result of radical misrule and persecution, than of the disasters of the late war. The analogy traoed by tho able author of the paper under consideration, our present condition aud that of c ar forefathers on tho eve of the Revolu? tionary war, is very striking, and its fidelity to truth must bo conceded by every impartial mind, North and South. As a remedy for tho evils threatening us and those- we arc now enduring, he urges us, as the only practicable course which our op? pressors have left us, to unite with the great National Democratic party of the United States-a party that hos absorbed much, if not all, of the conservative elements of the iand-a party tho banner of which now courts the breeze both North, South, East and West, nud the increasing co? lumns of which, wo trust and be? lieve, aro now marching with un? broken front to the rescue of tho free institutions of our country-to tho rescue of the Government of Washington and Hancock, of Jeffer? son und Adams. Address No. 2, which, like No. 1, emanates from a source pure and able, states, in brief terms, the powerful and unanswerable objec? tions to bo urged against tho radical Constitution now before tho people. Lot the people, both whito and black, observo how disas? trous to their interests and how fatal to their harmony nud ponce, tho in strumout will prove, and lot them unitedly make a grund effort to vole it doten. Fellow-citizens, arouse! arouse! Tho emergency demands it of good citizenship. A sinking Common? wealth calls you to its rescue from n vandal bordo of mercenary whites and misguided black men. By the memory of the past-by tho enjoy? ment of the proscut-by tho hopes of tho future-in consideration of nil wo have of home, property and family-in consid?ration of our ge? nial climate and teeming soil, now breaking forth in the luxuriance and beauty of spring-in behalf of tho living and the dead-wo appeal to you to rally, to work, and vote the Constitution down. J. I\ THOMAS, For tho Committee. --? ?~ ? George Alfred Townsend writes from Washington: "Boutwell is the black-haired energy of this impeach? ment; Bingham holds the helm; But I?i io Iii tho main top, with a carbine to pick the enemy off by glib shots; Stevens is the admiral dying on deck; i Wilson and Williams are tho handy seamen; Logan is the boatswain, who can yell the loudest; but Boutwell is tho steady wind, blowing strong aft, to carry tho vessel into action." --? ? ? On Thursday, tho 2(>th ultimo, a difliculty which occurred at tho plan? tation of Mr. Middleton Bull, in lover St. Matthews, between Essex nnd Roach, two of his employees, culminated in tho murder of tho lat? ter. Tho loss of a borrowed gun was tho casus disputant!. Conti it lo? and Prospecta of til? Blue . Rid ge Railroad Company. j~f '_ ' i T Trr fr_i.?;..? *v ,_. .? . . C?CMC7JIJ'. TI. uoiiimm, fxosuiuut of tile Blue Ridge Railroad Company, has jost published in pamphlet form (for a oopy of' which he will accept our thanks) an admirable letter whioh he addressed to Governor Orr, sot? ting forth the condition and pros? pects of that company. The follow? ing reply from Governor Orr contains a snmmary of the contents of the pamphlet, and fully endorses the points made therein: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, S. C., CoLUiiniA, 23d March, 1868. General J. W. Harrison, President Blue Ridge Railroad Company. DEAR SIR: I have received and rend with very great pleasure, your com? munication addressed to me, on the subject of the Blue Ridge Railroad. Your history of the enterprise is exceedingly interesting, and recalls many of the incidents connected with tho inception and progress of this great work, which ? have passed from tho memory of tho old, and which aro now for tho first timo brought to the attention of tho younger mem? bers of society. Tho importance of a railroad connection with tho North? west to all sections of South Caro? lina, is not exaggerated by you, if her people intend to develop her great resources and keep her up with the progress making by our enterprising sisters. Tho estimates submitted by skillful and reliable engineers show that thc work may bo completed at less cost than nuy other trans-montane con? nection heretofore made, and that the successful completion of tho road may be certainly effected in two or three years, with but slight addition to tho burthen of taxation on the people; every ono of whom is to be a common recipient of tho rich bless? ings it will pour in upon the State. The debt of the company is small now, but smull as it is, the company is unable to liquidate it, and the bond-holders will soon exhaust their patience, and bring tho road to sale under tho sheriff's hammer, unless steps ure taken promptly to push forward the work to completion. Can tho State aud tho city of Char? leston afford to seo the mortgage bonds sued on to judgment, and tho road sold to raiso loss than 8250,000; aud tho work doue, together with tho franchise, pass into other hands, when their united interest in stock alono, exceeds $2,000,000, and espe? cially when tho completion of tho entire work will take less than ?3,500,000? Tho amount already expended by the State, city and pri? vate stockholder J is over 83,250,000. Although wo aro surrounded with political and financial troubles, is it possible .that with tho work half completed, its abandonment cnn bo for a moment contemplated by the State and the city of Charleston, and tho 83,250,000 of their money abso? lutely lost? Surely wiser counsels will prevail, and whatever may bo tho opinion of individuals as to the wisdom or policy of embarking iii tho Scheme original? ly, all must concur that the Stato is now too deeply involved to retreat from tho undertaking. But one course is left, to savo tho present largo investment, nnd that is to givo tho company such aid and facilities ns will insure tho early completion of this truly great pu i ?lie work. I trust that fpmr communication may bo laid beforo t'uo public, and I doubt not that its facts and deduc? tions will nronso tho attention of tho peoplo of the State, and incite them to such action ns will onablo you Speedily to resume work, and ero long unite tho great West with tho Atlantic coast of our Stato with arms of iron. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, JAMES L. ORB, Governor S. C. DISCOVERY OE A MASTODON.-About ten days ago, Capt. Boutello. of the United States Coast Survey, disco? vered on tho beach of St. Helena Island, near low water mark, and not far from where the city of Port Boyal has been laid out, the remains of a mastodon, buried in tho sand, with tho bones partially exposed to view. Capt. Boutello at once communicated tho discovery to Professor C. U. Shephard, Sr., of the South Carolina Medical College, and that gentleman, with tho assistance of Capt. Boutello, recovered tho grouter portion of tho skeleton; Professor C. U. Shephard, Jr., son of Professor C. U. Shephard, Sr., will go down to-day, and it is hoped that tho remainder of tho skeleton will be secured. I Charleston Mercury. 'r. I . 'f(.\*fl ,i I ! ?xi* t. . fc . .. ; v. . v?. i .. ? ? i i i -? r-?-r-i-;-?-~r AddrcBsca to tb? People of Sontb Ca.ro ' Un?. "G. I.-uuK UUHIMTION AND OUB POTT. It is useless to deny that the cou n try ia in a sad and most deplorable condi I tion. Poverty and want are broad? cast over the land. Where formerly j was the abode of wealth, refinement and a generous hospitality, there is now want, starvation and wretched? ness-industry has given place to idleness and vice with many of our people To a considerable extent, peace, security and protection have been superseded by violence and crime. Wo have been robbed of all civil, constitutional and political rights, and placed under a military despotism, as absolute aud perfect us Asiatic tyrauuy could have mado it, The lifo, liberty aud property of every man, woman and child, in tho Southern States, is held at the mercy of military satraps. Military com? missions and drum-head courts mar? tial have been everywhere substitut? ed for the trial by jury. And worse than all this, we are menaced with negro rule and supre? macy, at tho point of thc sword and bayonet. Sixty odd negroes, many of them iguoraut aud depraved, to? gether with fifty white men, Outcasts of Northern society, und Southern renegades, betrayers of their mee and country, have assembled in Con? vention and framed a Constitution for tho government of South Caro? lina. This Constitution declares and proclaims that every male negro, over tho ago of twenty-one, whether a pauper or a convict felon, shall exercise tho right of suffrage, whilst every white man, who has heretofore lilied any official station, and who sympathized with his bleeding coun? try in her struggle fur self-govern? ment, is forever disfranchised, and incapable of voting or holding office. In tho language of tho immortal Declaration of American Independ? ence, "the history of the present" Congress, "is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object tho establishment of au absolute tyranny over those Slates. To provo this, let facts bo subAtted to a candid world." "They hiivo refused laws the most wholesome and necessary for tho pub? lic good;" "they have dissolved rep? resentative houses repeatedly, for opposing with m-.'.nly firmness their invasion on tho rights of tho people;" "they have obstructed tho adminis? tration of justice" and displaced our judges; "they have erected a multi? tude of now offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our peo plo and eat ont their substance;" "they have kept among us, in times of pcaco, standing armies, without the consent of our Legislatures;" "they have affected to render thc military independent of and superior to the civil ?lower;" "they have com? bined" with our former slaves "tc subject us to ft jurisdiction foreign tc our Constitution nud unacknowledged by our laws, giving their assent tc those Acts of pretended legislation;' "for quartering large bodies of arineil troops among us; for protecting them by a mock trial from punish? ment for any murders which thej should commit on the inhabitants ol these States; for imposing tuxes or. us without our consent," and with? out representation; "for depriving us in many cases of the benefits ol trial by jury; for abolishing tho frei system of English laws in all these* Southern States-"establishing there in an arbitrary government, and en huging its boundaries, so ns to rende: it at once an examplo and fit instrtl mont for introducing the same abso lute rule" in the Northern States; "fo taking away our Constitutions, abo lishing our most valuable \&v&, an< altering fundamentally tho forms o our governments; for suspending on: own Legislatures, and declaring them solves invested with power to legis lute for us in all cases whatsoever." "They have abdicated governmon in tho" Southern States, "by declin? ing un out of their protection, an? waging war ugninst us;" "they wil soou" be organizing "largo nrmie of" black "mercenaries to complet tho works of death, desolation au? tyranny, already begun with ciicuin stances of cruelty mid perfidy scare ly paralleled in tho most barbarou ages, and totally unworthy thc heat of a civilized nation." But mor thftu all theso complaints of on revolutionary forefathers against th King of Croat Britain-tho preson Congress have usurped all oxecutiv and judiciary powers to themselves disregarded tho Federal Constitution which they aro sworn to support : destroyed the rights of the States, and overthrown onr ronnhlionn form of Government, by establishing a central consolidated despotism nnder military rule. "In every stage of these oppres? sions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms," and re? monstrated against their injustice and cruelty. "We have reminded them" of the sacred principles of our common Government-of that love of liberty which actuated our com? mon ancestry in the revolution, "and we have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, aud con? jured them, by tho ties of our com? mon kindred, to disavow these usur? pations." "They have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consan? guinity." Wc mu?t, therefore, unite cordially, heartily and actively with the National JJcmoantic parti/, North and South, in their most vigorous efforts to pre? vent all this monstrous injustice and oppression and subversion of tho American Republic. Wo have reason to hope for a re-action of the North cm mind in this great and perilous crisis of the country. Thero are un? mistakable signs in the political horizon, which induce us to believe aud hope that the radical party may bo overthrown at the next Presiden? tial election, and that a Democratic President and House of Representa? tives may be elected next fall. For years past the Northern Democrats, in and out of Congress, have defended Constitutional liberty and Republi? can principles, the rights of the States and self-government, with a zeal, patriotism, learning, ability and eloquence, worthy of the best days of Roman and Grecian history. In the meantime, we must unite amongst ourselves ns ono man, in South Carolina, to defeat this bogus Constitution, which is submitted for ratification on tho 14th of April next; and which,' if adopted, will render our condition most ignomini? ous, and to manly spirits, galling in the extreme. It provides, not only for our government by the negroes, but that our sons and daughters shall be educated with their children, on terms of equality; and that they shall have tho right of taxiug our property ad libitum, and spend tho, money as thny please, whilst at the same time, they contribute compara? tively notbiug to tho treasury. It is our sacred duty, too, for all who aro permitted,' to go to tho polls and vote for State officers, members of tho Legislature and members of Congress. Wo should not only vote ourselves, but persuade tho negroes, aud show them that it is their inter? est to voto with ns. And in order to concentrate our strength in the elec? tion and have unity of action, we would earnestly impress upou our pooplo tho duty of forming Democra? tic Clubs all over tho State, at once, and in every neighborhood. Let ac? tion-political action-bo tho watch? word from the mountains to the sea? board, and let tho people of tho State, white and black, old and young, rally and work for the endur? ing interests of this ancient common? wealth, threatened now with a politi? cal invasion wor.se than that of Goth, Vandal or Hun. NO. n.-OBJECTIONS TO THE RADICAL CONSTITUTION ADOPTED BX THE DATE CONVENTION. In tho present condition of the country, wo do not presumo to address 3-011 upon general politics. That is a sealed book to UH. We liavG 110 voice and aro not counted in the great struggles of tho coun? try. These struggles, at tho preaont time, aro chiefly about us and our fate; but still we must be, if not in? different, yet silent spectators. Thero is, however, ono subject upon which we-that is, thoso of us who are not disfranchised-have been invited to speak, and as ic ima been thought proper to ask our consent, it is not only our right, but our duty, to speak. Even upon that, if it wero a mero question of policy, we would not break silence; but, as wo conceive it to be a question of existence itself, we venturo to address you. Tho Convention lately assembled in Charleston, by tho orders of Gen. Canby, commanding tho Military Districts of? tho Carolinas, has ad? journed ana the Constitution pro? posed by it for tho State of South Carolina has beon ordered to bo sub? mitted to tho registered voters for ap? proval or disapproval on tho 14th, 15th and Kith days of April, inst.; nud, as wo understand it, at tho samo [Concluded on Third Paje.] t Xjooal Xtems. Mr. Pollook dispenaes flrat quality lager to his patrons. Try it. He ia supplied from the celebrated "Lion Brewery." SALE OF VALUABLE MAIN STBEET PROPERTY.-The valuable piece of property, with two stores, on Main street, belonging to Mr. M. Win stock, were sold, yesterday, by tho Commissioner in Equity, (Jacob Lo vin, Esq., auctioneer,) and brought $7,200, cash. The lot measured 208 by 00. A Northern gentleman was tho purchaser. EDUCATIONAL.-Wo notice that Mr. R. O. Sams 1ms taken charge of the school lately presided' over by the Rev. Mr, Papo. Mr. Sams is a dis? tinguished graduate of the State Military Academy, and has, as teach? er, a good deal of experience. Being a thorough teacher, n good discipli? narian and au accomplished gentle? man, we have reason to believe that his school will be au excellent one. Mr. Sams is assisted by Mr. Stevens, n young maii of character and fine attainments. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.--A large and enthusiastic meetiug of thc De? mocratic Club was held last uight, for thc purpose of nominating candi? dates for the Legislature. Speeches were delivered by Messrs. J. P. Tho? mas, F. W. McMaster and S. W. Moiton. A letter wus also read from General John S. Preston, which we shall publish in our next. Tho pro? ceedings of the Democratic Conven? tion were fully endorsed. Tho fol? lowing nominations were made by the meeting: For Senator-James G. Gibbes. Repr?sentatives-Clark Waring, J. P. Adams, E. Hope, W. K. Bachman. MAIL. ARRANGEMENTS.-The post office open during the week from 8 Vj a. m. to G p. m. On Sundays, from 4>? to 5>? p. m. Tho Charleston aud Western mails are open for delivery atilj p. m., and close nt S Vj p. m. Northern-Open for delivery nt 8,V< a. m., closes at 2.45 p. m. Greenville-Open for delivery o'., p. m., closes at 8 p. m. Nrw AnvEr.TisKMKSTs.-Ail tuition ir can ctl io tho following ?nvertiht-mont?, pub lisbon this morning fur tho t?rst time Inquire at thin Office-To Bent. Meeting 'line Brotherhood Lodge. ll. Goodman-Notice. Meeting Palmetto Fire Company. Pollock Hon to-Lager Beer. Ladies' Industrial Association. Performance Southern Dramatic Asaoc'n. A. s. Wallace-Sale. Kdwin J. Scott-IJankor and Broker. J. S. McMahon-Notice. THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM "THE BURNT DISTRICT.-Quito o, crowd of negroes collected around the guard house, yesterday morning, says the Charleston Mercury, of the 4th, anx? ious to witnoss the examination of the caso of B. F. Randolph, by the Mayor. They waited some time, but Colonel Cogswell hold no court. While tho crowd was waiting, the following conversation occurred: Inquiring Negro'.-But hi, ain't be do nigger what run for de Senate, from Orangeburg District? Willy Negro.-Mebbo 'e ia, but 'o wunt represent Orangeburg District no more now. Ho represent de burnt district. A WELCOME INCREASE TO THE VOT INO POPULATION.-On Saturday, the rights o? citizenship wore conferred by Judge Bryan, of the United States Court, on forty-seven persons of Gorman nnd Irish birth, und an addi? tional number were debarred from tho samo privilege only by the ab? sence of their witnesses. Theso will apply at an early hour to-day, nnd be prepared to add their names to the lists both of citizens and of regis? tered votwr.s. Tho white residents of foreign birth are now nlivo to the importance of prompt notion. I ('Inuitsion Nexos. The League nominated for tho Se? nate, V. J. P. Owens; for the House, Joseph Crows, Harry McDauiol, Rico and Wndo Perrin-tho three lattor colored.-Lattrensvill? Herald?