Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TH? ?BMOORATIC TICK?*? For President, HORATIO SEYMOUR, OF N. % For vice-President, GEN. F. P. BLAIR, OF MISSOURI. -_v ? STATS anecron AL TICKET. J<Vr ?Sate crt Large-J. P. Thomas, ol Richland; J. D. Kennedy, of Ker? shaw. First Congressional Dislricl^R. F, Graham, of-Marion. - Second Congressional District-Hi Ki' Rutledge, of Charleston. Third Congressional District-A. C. Haskell, oi Abbeville. Fo urth Congressional District-E. C. MoLuro, of Chester. COLUMBIA. Sunday Horning, September 6,1868. THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. To die People of South Carolina. It was referred to the State Central Executive Committee, by the late Democratic Convention, to inquire into the disabilities imposed, by rea? son of the war, upon a portion of our people, restraining them from the exorcise of the elective frnnchiso in South Carolina; and to publish the conclusion attained, for the informa? tion of the people of the State. The committee, in tho discharge of that duty, announce that they have ex? amined the subject, ?nd beg to blaiu: 1. That no such disabilities now exist by or under the Acts of Con? gress, known as tho Reconstruction Act, the State having been officially declared to be in the union. 2. That no such disabilities exist under the so-called amendment, known as the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the disabilities therein ex Sressed having referenco to offlce olding, and not to voting. 3. That no suoh disabilities exist by thu so-called State Constitution of 1868, under whioh it is claimed that the State has been reconstructed and restored to the Union. The undersigned, therefore, an nounon t.lmt nn suoh disabilities exist by force of any law, or supposed law, or authority whatever; and they urge their hitherto disfranchised fellow citizens, in every part of the State, to exercise their right to vote at the coming election for President and Vice-President, pf which right they haVe been so long deprived by mili? tary power. By order of the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, #3?": AU of the Democratic papers in the State, will please publish at the head of their editorial column. - Canvassers Appointed. Agreeably to a resolution adopted by the recent State Convention, the following gentlemen are appointed by the State Central Executive Com? mittee can vasse! :i in the interest of the Democracy:. State at largo-Gabriel Cannon and A. P. Aldrich. Second Congressional District--J. B. Kershaw. Third Congressional District-D. Wyatt Aiken. Fourth . Congressional District-W. D. Simpson. Canvasser for First Congressional Distriot to be hereafter appointed. WADE HAMPTON, Chairman. -<-?-?-? THE COTTON Onop.-r-The Mobile yearly cotton statement puts down the crop of the cotton State? this year as probably reaching 2,225,000 bales. This is a handsome figure, all impo diments and drawbacks considered. At present rates, this crop will be an addition of some $250,000,000 to the substantial oash-produoing products of tho country. It will go a long way towards the restoration and recon? struction of Southern industry and prosperity. It will supply the South? ern people with a thousand things which they want, while tho North, in supplying their wants, will reap a large share of the profits. This is practical reconstruction, and it is but the beginning of what we may expect from Southern agriculture with the final settlement of the negro question. Goy. Pickena, of South Carolina, ' says a correspondent of the Herald,1 in a conversation with General Ro sencranz, at White Sulphur Springs, said that something more than tho installation of the Democrat? into powor is required to save the oountry. He suggested that the right plan would be for New York, as the most powerful State of the Union, to call a convention of the other States, to remodel tho Constitution to suit the new order of affairs. Cretina to Bouffiern Mcrcliunt?~WKKB Pruapeuts cf Trs??. The New York limes says: We have inquired of some of the leading me?chnuts of tho city, as to the meet* ing announced by a Brooklyn paper, to have b'.-cn hold by merchants of New York, with respect to credits to be given to Sontheim merchants, and len vu that they knew nothing of tho affair. If it had any existence nt all, certainly it was not atteuded by hoy considerable number. Indeed, there .is this marked feature about the action of tho largest houses in the trade, that, they move on in their respective spheres on their own in? nate strength, without regard to tho notion of their contemporaries in trade, ond without consultations Of any description. Their strongth con? sists in individual accuracy of judg? ment, and in the habit of acting promptly and strongly on their own separate views' of pohoy. The idea of fixing a rule at a meeting of mer? chants, to guido their distinct action in particular oases of ore dit, is simply preposterous. Each case would stand on its own merits, and would need to be decided by the standing of the dealer, for which no special rules could be prescribed. All who are familiar with the trade pf the city, know full well that there ate he uses at the Sonth Whose stand? ing from long before the war has been high, and who can parchase at any establishment in the city all that they desire; for it is well known that their self-imposed limits are always on the side of prudence rather than of ex? travagance, and that no skill- in drumming, or any persuasion of sell? ers, could lead them from the path of accustomed safety. It is as to new houses that scrutiny is employed; and as to those the rules of dealing with them are as various ai are the degrees of prudence exhibited in o?hcr transactions. Credit is not given by any geographical rules, but according to the standing and merits of each applicant. The expectation is quite general, and is well founded, that the Sonth, which is always represented hero by its merchants, wi? be a larger con? sumer of staple goods than it was last year, because its crop of food is abundant for its own wants, with some perhaps to spare, and its crop of cotton will furnish it with the means to obtain extensive supplies. The gratification is wide-spread that this condition has been reached, and that all relations, commercial, social and political, will soon bo restored on what promises to bo a firm and lasting basis. The New York Journal of Com? merce, referring to the above, says: It tarns out now that the repre? sentation is wholly false. Wo have inquired personally of "the leading dry goods firms of New York," and they declare that they nevor heard of this meeting, until this paragraph was published; and that they pro? pose to mako no change whatever in relation to their custom in the South? ern States. A LETTER FEOH F. P. BLAIB. Col. E. A. Alston recently wrote to t3en. Blair, enclosing a copy of the Atlanta (Ga.) New Era, and referred the General to the linos at the head of that paper, in whioh it quotes Gen. Grant as saying "Let us have peace!" aud Gen. Blair as saying *'Let us have war." He recoived tho following letter in reply: POET SAUNDEES, WYOII?INQ TEE. , Tuesday, August 18, 18G8. Cok R. A. Alston, Atlanta, Ga. Davit Sra: Your note in regard to the misrepresentation of the carpet? bag editor at Atlanta, is received. This is tho business for which ho is paid and by which he gets his living. I would not advise you or any other gentleman to notico him in any man? ner? except to correct, through tho prow, any falsehood which you nifty consider injurious to our cause. I have never made any such stntement as he attributes to me. On the con? trary, I am for that policy which alone can give peace to the country; and although Gen. Grant says "let us have peace," he seeks to achieve it only through the military power and actual war on the principles of tho Government. Yours truly, FRANK P. BLAIR. A gentleman who has been travel? ing through tho upper Counties in Georgia informs the editor of the Macon Telegraph, that in bin travels across the" country from Wilkes County in the East, to Cobb County in the Western part of the State, he never saw such grain crops as have been nando this year in the country through whioh he traveled. Some of the people talked as if they thought oom in that section would not bo worth moro than forty couts per bnshel. AN INSANE WOMAN THEO WINO GHD> DEKN OUT O? WINDOWS.-Mrs. Hub ley, an insane woman in Philadel? phia, on Saturday last, seized her grand-child, an infant three months old, and dashed it headlong from tho window to the pavement. Tho litlte one came down with great violence upon tho front part of its head, and sustained injuries from which it ean hardly reoovor. This is tho third ohild Mrs. Hubley has thrown from upper windows of her residence. Corre?i>onU*>uco ot tb? Phoenix. | NHW YOBS CfgVffiMgg^1' ?S?S. Thc city already nhows signs o' rovi val. The sum mer is over. Sontheim merchants are beginning to como on. Great numbers from New Orl?ans. City men of business are coming back from the sea-side and the moun? tain resorts to business, and to thc busy haunts of men. Merchants here expect a larger trade this year than last, from the South especially. Pollard's Political Pamphlet is the new thing in the journalistic way. The first issue appeared last Satur? day. It is a telling thing. His pen is dipped often in nitric acid. The leader, on Grant, is capital. Another article, on President Davis,' is in Mr. Pollard's usual vein-bitter, denun? ciatory and unsparing. I don't soe the uso of this. The South is not ready-knowing, as it may, all II?B faults-to denounce Mr. Davis. But when Mr. Pollard strikes a point like Grant, or Congress, or radicalism, he makes the sparks fly. Among the notables in New York Mr. Pollard is one. He walks Broad? way with a slow step, his left hand under his coat, his right holding his cane, wearing a yellow beard and a tall white hat, looking meditative and a bit unhappy, and speaking slowly and always to the point. Then Ashley, the great impeacher, whom Columbians saw last spring, is here-burly, healthy and confident. Then there is Raymond, of the Times, just returned from Europe. He is a small person, with a liberal supply of side whiskers and an en? gaging air. But Greoly is not here. And the incorruptible Bennet ia not. And Barnum is not. We are, therefore, desolate. By the way, speaking of mutton, these Northern mon think it is just a bit funny for Mr. Orr to be made a judge in South Carolina. They talk about folks taking pigs to a bad market; and abont the "ingratitude of Republic(an)8." They also, very naturally, ask which of thesonow judges is a negro? Is it Corbin, or Plntt, or Green, oi Rutland, or Boozer, or Williams, 01 Vernon, or-or? Is not one of them a negro? Then, indeed, "men and brethren," you have been sold again Where is Whipper's demand for ? negro judgef And where is Wright'' threat, in case none of his race were elected judge? And where, oh where, is Randolph's nomination of i nogro vice-President? And tell rae ye winged winds, where is Beverly Nash's Bweet dream of hand-in-hanc enjoyment of equality, social, politi cal and official? A Pennsylvania Dutchman came t< Now York once, and a sharp-nosec nows-boy offered to sell him a copy o the Herald, which would tell hin everything. Hans wanted just sud a newspaper, but had no change nothing smaller than a five-dolla greenback. Boy told Hans it was al right; "here, take the paper, an< I'll get the money changed righ round the corner, here, and you wai here till I come back.*' And Han waited. Waited threo mortal hour before it ocourred to him that tba sharp-nosed news-boy was not co min: back with his money at all. My dear "men and brethren," ha it ever ocourred to you that you ar standing at a corner waiting for sharp-nosed radical party to brin back your five-dollar greenback? I suppose not. Therefore, I say unto you, "wait. It is a good thing to wait. It makes you men of weight. And that, you know, is tho mai thing. D. -?-??-? The Fall Fashion*. "Jeannie June" says that tho ladi( will not resign their pretty summe dreftg?s in-orely because Soptonibe has como. It is the month of a others to wear them. The almanai Jeannie thinks, needs reconstructing so that autumn may commence wit October. It is impossible to find costume suitable for the "heate term," except, perhaps, that < Mother Eve before she ate the appl Muslins, grenadines, tho lightest ti sues, tho must delicate textures, cc lapse and lose brightness and beaui before the steadily melting proce which goes on, with the thermora ter for weeks in the neighborhood ninoties. September, above all others, is tl month for country visits nnel the e joyment of unadulterated count pleasures. The pic-nic dresses a the prettiest this season that wo ha ever seen. One wo remember striped cambric, lilac and white, tl stripes of the petticoat wider tin those of the pelisse, which open? part of the way down the front, d: closing a little of the under wah and a hroad sailor collar in the wi stripe, turned back from the thrc and tied with a ?imply knotted gre neck-tie, the shade! of the ribbi round the little sailor hat of whi ohip. Another costume was of buff line with a petticoat striped in wood col und white; and a third, of whi lawn mada en panure, and trimm with a wide sash made of scarlet si) White dresses, whether for day evening wear, were never more fa? -n mi ii II i i i ? iou abie than nov. Some very pretty ns?" suite ordered for early fall visit? ing at country houses are wada of white mohair, with cuffs, epaulettes, and revers of colored satlu. A nat ruffle out on the cross, and bon nd with the color, finishes the bottom of the skirt. Accompanying these were some very handsome dresses ip nar? row striped,|oheoked and chang?ablo silk, which could be worn upon al? most any occasion. The dresses were short, and divided ot the back into immense length wiso puffins, which spread ont, fan-shaped, toward the bottom, over petticoats made in silk of the contrasting color, and trimmed with flat ruches, three narrow frills or one wide ono. The front breadths aro perfectly plain, the bodies high and trimmed square and low; tho RIOGVCS long, and ornament? ed with three straight puffs, ruches or frills, matching the color and style of tho petticoat. These dresses aro very stylish in effect, but only suitable for somewhat tall and slender women, tho petticoat and panier's reducing in appearance the height of the figure. Short dresses of any kind, it must be remembered, are no longer to reach to the top of gaiter boots, but sufficiently long to just "clear the ground." Short or changeable silks will be very fashionable for fall wear, and aro richly trimmed with a fringe mado in the two prominent colors of the silk, headed with a braid or twisted piping mado of satin in the same colors. In dark rich shades, chameleon silks harmonizo admirably with tho tints of an India shawl for visiting toilette. The bonnet to wear with it is a small high chapeau of Italian Btraw, trimmed with velvet, black lace, and a plume of short curled ostrich feathers in tho two colors. Feathers are to be revived this season-the graceful willow feathers and tho long, curled ostrich plumes the most distinguished of all orna? ments. There is a strong, perhaps, it would bo too much to say determined, effort in progress to abolish tho small bon? nets and introduce large ones, but at present it does not seem likely to suc? ceed. The cliifjnons aro largor than ever, and the latest style of bonnets very small and worn very high. The fullness given to the dross be? hind, compels tho adoption of a some? what larger hoop skirt than has been worn for some time past; but they can never reach tho exaggerated di? mensions again that have mado them ridiculous in times past. The golden mean seems to have been found at last, and the shape is, as adjusted by the leading manufacturers, that the front of the skirt remains fiat, while a graceful sweep and a tendency to expansion is given to the back. The lowest authorized size for ordinary wear, is two and a half yards round at the base. This is very moderate, and suited to walking dresses. The next size is two and three-quarters round, and the third throe yards. This last is not too largo for a very tall lady for street wear. These sizes may be considered standard. A very short person, requiring a still smaller and shorter hooped skirt than the two and a half yards, should inquire for the largest misses' size. What shidl we say of those outrage? ous innovations, the paniers and the "Grecian bend?" Fortunately, they have not yet been adopted by ladies South of the Potomac; and, indeed, so great has been the storm of ridi? cule which greeted them, that they have not flourished anywhere but at Saratoga. If women were but pnp pets, we should not object to the fashion; but to see women of flesh, and blood, and heart, and brain, lend themselves to such aping of horrible deformity, is worse than saddening; it makes one fear for them a dreadful retribution, which man may not even hint at. For the honor of woman, we hope that the panier, the "colic j stoop," and the mincing step, may never appear on the streets'of our Southern cities. Some drunken white men and ne? groes got into a difficulty at Hamp? ton, Va., on Saturday night, and quite a riot grew out of the affair. Troops wore summoned to the scene, and tho mob refusing to disperse, a volley was firod by the troops, which hud the effect to scatter the crowd. Several persons were injured in the affray, bat none seriously. Another disturbance occurred the same night near Hampton, between drunken sol? diers and negroes, resulting in the I wounding of three soldiers and one negro, and the capture of throe ne? groes. HEIK TO THE GEEEK THEONE.-An I heir to the Greek throne, child of Queen Olga, was born at Athens, Augnst 2, last, and on the same day received the name of Constantino Henry Demosthenes, amidst great re? joicing. 'The joy of tho people at j the birth of the Prince is represented to he unbounded, sttoh au event not j having before occurred within four centuries. A carious row took place at Nor? folk, a few nights ago. A party of negroes were sitting up over a corpse They called themselves Baptists, and being joined by another party, who professed to be Methodists, and thinking the latter were seeing a bet? ter time than they did, they tried to drive them off, which ended in a gen? eral fight. Some dastardly scoundrel cut a heavy rope used sta Democratic r>olo raiaiog on Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y., about G o'clock, last evening, causing a heavy derrick to fall among a large crowd in attendance. Fortu? nately, tpc crowd obsorvod the acci? dent in time, and by surging to the right and left, escaped without in? jury. Governor Smith, of Alabama, has called an extra session of the State Legislature for the 16th inst., to con? sider a registry law. It will be re? membered that when the Legislature adjourned, which was until early in November next, it had under consi? deration tho Governor's veto of tho bill to place tho power of choosing Presidential electors in the Legisla? ture and take it from the people. Tourtelotto is the name of the im? pious Springfielder who enclosed a , church which adjoined his premises with a high board fence painted black, to darken the interior. As he is insensible to kindness, the congre? gation hold noisy indignation meet? ings in tho street before his house, and thero fervently and loudly pray that his heart may bo softened. Five negroes uro in jail at Homer, La., for taking one of their own race to the woods, tying him to a tree, whipping him until all were exhaust? ed, and then shooting him, leaving him for dead. Tho unfortunate negro managed to crawl home, and upon his death-bed gave information of the deed and names of the murderers. We advise the radicals not lo make contracts for tho Irish vote, either with sponters or intriguers. All in? dications show that the great power of Irish citizenship on this conti? nent (except Orangemen and the like) will roll itself up in a solid mass for Seymour and Blair. [Irish Citizen. Miss Eunice Warner, formerly of Great Barrington, Moss., became a mother at thirteen years; a grand? mother at twenty-seven; a great grand-mother at forty; a great, great grand-mother at fifty-six, anda great, great, great grand-mother at seventy four; after which she lived several years. A Massachusetts paper, under the head of "Books and Magazines," contains tho following: "A Worces? ter cow has had seven calves in three years. Her last exploit waa to have 'three at a lick' on Thursday." The Paris Si?cle says that "tho Chassepot rifles, having been manu? factured in sufficient numbers for the French arsenals, the War Depart? ment has issued orders for the imme? diate manufacture of rifled cannon." Now Jersey Democrats say they will elect a unanimous delegation to Congress, and replace United States Senator Frelinghuysen by John P. Stockton. Let them be as good as their word. A firo broke out in the store of Mr. B. M. Butler, corner East Bay and North Atlantic Wharf, Charles? ton, on Friday night. The stock of goods was somewhat injured, ns was, also, the stock of Messrs. West & Jones, next door. One of the Jenkinses, writing of a I recent hop at Saratoga, Bays: "A very pretty girl passed by us, leaning on the arm.on a gentleman who was dressed in Swiss muslin and pink sash." That gentleman must have been tho cool of the evening. The Chinese hold the .office of school-teacher to bo the highest in tho world. All tho people there are educated, and the instruction of youth is universal. Tho only crowd a printer can en? duro with anything like patience, is a crowd of advertisements, or a crowd of delinquents calling to foot up their bills. The Marion Fire Company, o? Charleston, was tho recipient of a beautifully ornamented silver punch bowl, a present from brother-firemen of Philadelphia. Greeley calls Colfax tho "young lion of the West." Colfax the lion, and Grant tho lamb, will "lie down together" in November, and wo shall have peace. Tho "gamo of Ufo" is very like a gamo of cards-timo deals, death outs, and everybody is waiting for tho last tromp. A Westen, newspaper reports that the corn in Iowa has grown so tal] this summer, that a man on horse? back cannot reach the tassels of the stalks. Tho Tribune explains the result in Vermont quite satisfactorily: "All the offices were in the b?nde of our friends." A New York gentleman left his boarding houso because his landlady had a habit of "shying tea-kettles at him. The national debt-the radical legacy-if piled in dollars, one row up, would be 398 miles high I George Franois Train is in an Irish prison for debt, and his laughters drive a stylish team at Newport. What would this world be without a woman? A perfeot blank-like a sheet of paper-not even ruled. Wheels, like men, are often tired and very frequently from a kindred causo-going round so much. The new moon reminds one of a giddy girl, because she is too young to show much reflection. . MOUCU. . jr.xems. Wo have been requested to state that visitors to the grand mass meet? ings, at Spartanburg and Union, on the 10th and 11th instants, will he passed over the Greenville ?nd Spar? tanburg Railroads for one fare. A bale of new cotton was received in this market yesterday, from 'the plantation of Mr. J. O. F. Sims, of Richland. It weighed 481 pounds; was classed low middling, and was purchased by Messrs. Copeland & Bcnrden, at 27. OPPOSITION TO WBTTTEMOEB, THE CHIEF OP CARPET-BAGGERS.-Joseph H. Rainey, a pumpkin-colored indi? vidual from Georgetown, it is under? stood, will be run in opposition to the black-whiskered member (so called) from Darlington, for Con? gress ml Representative from the First District. State Constable Hubbard has re? turned from Union, and his state? ment of affairs there is so damaging to the negro Bates and his party, that Gov. Scott has determined to arrest the incendiary. The Republican would-be Presi? dential Elector, from Georgetown District, is Frank F. Miller, and not Frank L. Miller, os published yester? day. We are particularly d?sirons of "rendering unto Cosar," etc. ; and, therefore, cheerfully make the correc? tion, for fear some genuine Southern man, bearing the name of Frank I<. Miller, may consider himself insulted. THE RADICAL MEMBERS. -A picture, representing the prinoipal white, pumpkin-colored and black members of the great so-called, has been pre? pared, and is being rapidly disposed of by boys in the streets. The portraits are excellent, and are arranged in the "streak of lean and streak of white style"-a white man between two contrabands. The great so-called went through the interesting performance, yester? day, of pocketing 8100 each; for ser? vices (?) rendered. Who furnished the needful, on what security, etc., are State secrets as yet; but the tax? payers will, doubtless, have some? thing to say about the matter after a while._wJv y/nrf'?:'i;i "NEWSPAPER SPONGES."-An ex? change makes the foUowing sensible remarks: "There o\a many people in the world who make it a business' to sponge the reading of other people's papars to save . expense. They are found wherever the paper 'is left-an a shop, office, store or, barbershop and often borrowing it before the owner has an opportunity of seeing it. This is done, by very many who are abundantly able, and whose duty would be to sustain their city papers, by subscribing and paying for them," REUG?OUS SERVICES THIS DAT. Trinity Churchy-Rev. P. J. Sh and, Rector. 10 J? a. m. and 5*? p. m. St. Peter's Church-Rev. J. J. O'Connell, Pastor, 10 a. m. and 3 p. m. Marion Street Ch nroh-Rev. D. J. Simons, 10K a. . m. ; Rev, S. H. Browne, 7}'? p. m. Washington Street Chapel-Rev. Wm. Martin, 10>? a. m. : Rev. D. J. Simons, 5 p. m. Lutheran Lecture Room-Rev. A. R. Rude, 10 J ? a. m. Baptist Church-Rev. J. L. Rey? nolds, 10)? a. m. Presbyterian Church-Rev. W. E. Boggs, 10,l? a. m. and 8 p. m. A "veteran student- of human na? ture" says: "If ono wants a flirt, take a brunette; if one wants a cook, take a blonde; if ono wants a wife; take poison." M AIL ARRANGEMENTS,-Thu post office open during tho week from 8}? a. m. to 7 p. m. On Sundays, from -I to 5 p. m. The Charleston and Western mails are open for delivery at ? p. m., and close at 8}? p. m. Charleston night mail open 8?-^ a. m., close IX? p. m. Northern-Open for delivery at B1.. a. m., oloses at 2.45 p. m. Greenville-Open for 'delivery 5 p. m., oloses at $>% V- tn. NEW AmE^mgEilRNTS.-Speoial at tention is called to the following ad? vertisements, published for the first time this morning: Jacob Levin-Auction Sales. U. S. A.-Wanted. C. Hoeffer- Open Again. Meeting Juvouilo Democrats. Meeting Board of Trade. Jacob Levin-Notioe.