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For President, HORATIO SEYMOUR, OP N. Y. ...For vice-President, GEN. F. r. BLAIR, OP MISSOURI. ?TAT%KIiKCrrOBAJi TICKET. For State at Large-J. P. Thomas, of RiohlEi?cl; 0*. D. Kennedy, of Ker shaw. Fif^ Congressional District-B. F. Graham, o? Marion, i Second Congressional District-B. H. ?Rutledge, of Charleston. Tliird Congressional District-k. C. Haskell, of Abbeville. Fourth Congressional District-"E. C. McLure, of Chester. COLUMBIA. Thursday Morning, Sept. 10. 11868.1 - Thc Carpet-Bagger. "Senne of the radical papers that. 'Como to us from the North are dis? posed to find a great deal of fault .with the name givon to those worth? loss adventurers who aro known as .carpotybaggers. Now wo Confess some surprise at this. The name, itself, is of Northern and not of ?Southern coinage. No people have been so apt and prolific of party <u?mes as these same Northern radi? cals. Wo have'the "Coco-foco," the "copperhead," the "plug-uglies," the "buck-eye," and now tho "carpet? bagger"-and a thousand other names used in party and political-slang--all -appropriate, we supposa, and all very useful to bring the party or person to .which they are applied into ridicule, if not into contempt. Among them all we prefer the "carpet-btigger,"as being at once homely, expressive and truthful,, These radical editors, how ? ever, go further, and declare that this . odious naino is applied to all Northern mon who cdnie South, and who would ."bring with them their means and f -:.hei r th vif t, Were they not thus treated ?with rid?culo and contempt. This ?assertion, liko almost every thing com? ing from the radical party, in refer once to tho South, is wholly devoid of truth. We despise the carpet-bagger, it is true, but the carpet-bagger is a creature well understood, and tho babita of the animal are as well de? fined as any other subject in natural history. Can tho naturalist tell you all about tho*"skunk," the "pole? cat," the "night-hawk" or the "ca rion-crow," so can the Southern people tell you all about the "carpet? bagger.1" They know him by his rig just as the sailor knows the foreign craft; and most crafty is the "carpet? bagger." lu sea phrase, he hos a long, lean piratical look about him. In plainor terms, he is one who, hav? ing no standing or character in his own country has left his country for bis country's good; and arrives -.-ac&ongst us to be what he, was at 'home, au unmitigated curse to society. You may know him externally by his faded greon cotton umbrella; his dirty brown linen duster; and, very often, by his white cambric choker; aud, ubovo all, by the inevitable car pct-bug, with one shirt therein and one upon his back. You [will gene? rally know him by his long arms and 'thin legs, pushed into a pair of black trousere, rather slick and sheory about the knees. Hear him talk and, ten chances to one, you will hear him say be is just from tho "North" and is -*'looking around" just before he goes "to hum" again. And ah! that "looking around" has a fearful im? port. It means work. He is u hun? gry looking customer, and is ready for anything-from stenliDg the pub? lic funds, under color of law, down to . stealing your private purse, without color of law. ? That is the carpet-bag? ger. He comes hore to hunt for offico and to cheat the poor deluded black man. Ho brings nothing, but comes to carry away all that he can find. A loud-mouthed, brawling, whining demagoguo, he talks of rights and looks for plunder. That is the carpet? bagger. No offico is too high for this lanky, prowling adventurer. He will take anything, from the place of a United States Senator down to a con? stable, provided it pays. He talks of constitutions and laws as recklessly as a child does of its toys. He will lay his fish-hook fingers upon ?ho most sacred things in the I mon with a lie in his heart and blas? phemy upon his colorless lip3. He hus n white skin, perhaps, hut a i}Eck.hw?^ Tba^ fi al?arpfelH& g?. He will toll yon thnt he is an ordainerjl minister of Christ, aud that lie prayed 'to God all night to be informed whether he waa "called" to be a United States Senator, and, next morning, will produce six arti? cles, written out, as revealed to him by God, and with thom endeavor to cheat a brother "carpet-bagger" out of the office. He will tell you that the long-establiahod laws and institu? tions of a country mean nothing and should not be reverenced, and aro no more than cob-webs, made to bo brushed away. He does not know the difference between liberty and license, and has never yet found out tho difference between your property and his own. That is a "carpet-bag? ger." One of his chief characterist? ics is unblushing effrontery, and, like a fool na ho is, ho will undertake to tell you that you know nothing of that which you have made a study all yonr life, and will actually undertake to instruct you therein. This is a carpet-bagger. Ho will destroy any society where ho holds sway, and will reduce to utter ruin the best and wisest system of laws that was ever ordained by tho wis? dom of man. Like the wild bull in the China shop, ho carries destruc? tion upon his brazen front. By the respectable people at the North, the carpet-bagger is as much despised as he can possibly be by tho peoplo of the Sonth, If these are the men that tho radical party and tho radical presses complain that wo do not countenance and encourage, then let them complain. "Whenever the Northern man comes amongst us, feeling for the prostrate condition of the South, sympathizing with his own race and blood, bringing with him a heart and n hand to aid in building up our fortunes, while he advances his own, to such a man we shall always extend the hand of friendship and our hearty good-will. Such a man is no carpet-bagger, but a producer, worthy tho name of a citizen and a true patriot. To all such, wo say welcome. To all such, we say-hero are our fertile-Hands, abandoned for tho want of labor; here are our fruitful fields, from which tho "carpet-baggers" have driven the laborer, by converting him into nu idle, worthless politician; here are our noble rivers rushing to tho sea, inviting the loom and tho spindle; here aro our healthful moun? tains, with the green grass and clear streams, asking to bo converted into rich pastures for stock; hero is a country that you can make your home, whore you and your family can bo happy and prosperous; hero is room for your capital and your industry and your merchandize; and to all such, we say come and occupy, under tho protection of the Constitu? tion and tho laws, as an American citizen, standing upon American soil. Who of this class has mado his appearance amongst us? If there be any such, let him speak, and, like us, he will denounce the miserable, vile, corrupt "carpet-bag" adventurer, no matter what may bo his position, and will speak in terms of kindness of our people and of tho laud that ho honestly intends to make his home. THREATS OF A NEGRO INSURRECTION. The savage threat uttered on Friday last, by Pinchback, tho mulatto who was recently installed into Mr. Jewell's placo us Senator from tba Second District of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, is a startling confirmation of tho barbarity attributed to tho negro when his head is turned, and his vanity is swollen by thc perilous possession of power. Tho fiendish spirit which kindled tho horrors of St. Domingo blazes forth iu Pinch back's lurid prophecy of "the dawn of retribution," when "10,000 torches will bo applied to thisoity," and New Orleans "will bo reduced to ashes." Nothing can exhibit moro clearly than this dreadful threat, tho utter unfitness of the class of which Pinch back is a type to bo "Senators" and I rulers in tho land. [New York Herald. Among tho liquor sellers in Bos? ton there are a few Jews, who claim that under tho provision of the statutes allowing them to do secular business on the Sabbath, they have a right, when lioenseci to sell, to keep their shops open on tho first day of the week. Tho city authorities do not assent to this, and the question will be settled by the conrts. X>ut>llc ?>I?cM?stoT? Between Demo? erato ?nd Radical? ia? Littleton. MB. EDITOR: A public discussion louie placo nfc Littleton, in tho upper part of Richland District, on the 5th instant, an account of whioh your readers, perhaps, would like to see, as it1 is the first instance we have known in which the radicals have invited the Democrats to meet them on the hustings. At the time appointed, a consider? able crowd of, colored folks, of both '?exes, and about fifty whites, assem? bled, and a programme for the speaking was arranged, satisfactory to both parties. The sponkers were limited to forty-five minutes each. H. W. Purvis, (colored,) Repre? sentative from Lexington, -after stat? ing the object of the meeting to bc "the consideration of the great questions now agitating tho conn try," moved "that tho Hon. S. B. Thompson, (colored,) Representative from Richland, take the Chair." Thompson called the meeting to order, and announced the order o? speaking. Our young and gifted friend, C. O. Marshall, led tho charge. His exordium was just the thing to enlist for his speech tho closest attention of his audience. He then proceeded to give them a masterly exposition of the origin of slavery in this coun? try, and of Yankee cupidity and hypooricy. He proved to them that the radicals were not entitled to tin credit of having set them free. H( refuted various vile radical slander: against Seymour. Ho demonstrated in tho clearest manner, that tho into rests of tho colored ruce and th? interests of the whito nico in th< South are identical, and he warnet' them, with touching pathos, that tin bitter antagonism of race agaius race, engendered by the foul machi nations of unprincipled renegades and traitors, could only result, if no arrested, in the ruin of their race. The speaker touohed upon man] other points. I wish I could givi you a synopsis of his speech. Ther were passages in it of great beaut; and oloquence. That speech, if pub fished, would be a good'cumpnigi document. Tba Chairman, S. B. Thompson followed in reply. Said he had na intended to speak to-day; was un prepared; would make a fow rc murks, leaving the most of his tim to be added to that of his colleague He confined his remarks, mainly, t a repetition of the stale slaude against Governor Seymour, (airead refuted by Mr. Marshall,) of bein responsible for the hanging of ut groes, during tho great riot in Ne' York, reminding his audience of th "freedmen's code," and telling thei if the Democrats get into power, tb "code" would bo re-enacted, an their condition would bo tantamoui to slavery. He said if tho white had given them their rights, iu 18C and 18G6, the colored people of th State would have yielded to them tl reins of government, and really di sirod to do so. But tho "freedmen code" showed that tho whites woul never accord to the blacks the righ of freemon. Hence, they were coi strained to join the radical party-tl party of equal rights. The speak was mild and courteous in his toi and manner. The next speaker was Dr. E. 1 Tnrnipseed. Tho Doctor said tl duties of his profession did not alic him to dovoto much time to politic but he felt it to be his duty to r spond to the invitation to spec to-day. He hoped the invitath was given in a kind spirit. He w their friend and would tell them tl truth. He took up and refuted, detail, tho leading points advauci by the preceding speaker. Hespol of the stupendous crime and luna of radicalism in attempting to conti vene the laws of God by the elev tion of tho negro race above tl Caucasian. The Almighty h stamped inferiority upon the bia race. All the mad efforts of crazy fanat: and higher law infidels could ne\ reverso it. He was their most da gerous enemy who would tell th? that they were the equals of t white man. Tho doctor would t thom the truth, and ho did so i their good. They wero not t equals of tho whito man. This attested by tho revelations of scioi and all the facts and teachings of h tory, beyond the possibility of doubt. The radicals themselves not believe it. They are bypoci and liars. There is no truth tl would not pervert, no crimo tl; would not glaze over, to comp; their fell purposes of plunder a ruin. Let tho colored people bewi of their luring snares. Let them with tho white people of the Sou their reul friends; let them uui heart and hand, with tho Demoora and he could then seo, in the futu a picture of marvollous beaut; South Carolina prosperous and h* py, capital and labor working gether in harmony, the State dot all over with fertile farms and hui homes. He could hear tho mi maid's joyful song; the conten ploughman's merry whistle, could see stately factories lining < water courses, cities rising 1 magic, and everywhere, from of thrift, prosperity and happiness. Dr. Turnipseed, skillful as he is with the instruments of surgery, evinced no less skill in handling the1 weapons of political controversy. Next in order carno H. TV. Purvis. He began his speech by saying he was one of the "unfortunate raen" to which the doctor had alluded. If his race was unfortunate, the white race had made it so. He said he was a "carpet-bagger," "a scalawag" and a member of the "so-called." He was born in Pennsylvania; his father (a white man) was born in South Caro? lin:'.. Not being in slavery, he had received an education ; wua u gradu? ate of a Northern college. Spoke of his alma maier; believed in the equa? lity of the races. Iioved the old Con? stitution, because it said all men were born free and equal. Gloried in tho doctriue that a mau was a man, what? ever his race or color. Had seen black und white children in school together. Did not see nuy manifes? tation,of higher capacities for learn? ing wherever his race had bad the chauce; had showu themselves equal, .in every respect. Had seen plenty of saud-hill men in Lexington who had little farms, but did not make enough to feed one hog; and could not writo theirs names. Two white men carno to Boozer's office, de? nounced the Convention for its igno? rance, and could not sign theil names. Spoke eloquently of the Mayflower aud her perilous voyage; the landing of the "Pilgrim Fathers" and many other matters. During his speech, while referring to o threatened war of the races, thc speaker alluded to Sherman's raid, and asked "Do you want, inore chim nies and fewer houses?" Dr. Wal lace, of Fairfield, interrupted bin with the question, "Do you threater war?" The speaker declared he dit not mean that-he was for peuce I This was tho only unpleasant iuci I dent of the day. Purvis is a gooi I speaker, tnleuted and nearly white (Dr. T. told him li? owed his mind ti his white blood.) He was affable am courteous, and more honest in debat? than radicals generally are. Hi spoke well, barring his radicalism He acknowledged that he was no j allowed to vote in Pennsylvania though a radical State. The next and last speaker wa Captain John H. Kinsler. He sai< he had uccepted the invitation ti address the colored people to-da; from a sense of duty and a desire ti do them good, although he ha< ' feared that it wus a foregone conclu sion with them to link their destiny right or wrong, with the radicals He did not come to make them a se speech, but to give them a plain practical talk, such as they coul understand. Badiculisin merited an would receive, could they but undei stand it, their profoundest scorn, fo attempting to lure them to her foi embraces, by inflammatory appeal to their passions, und playing upo their animal instincts. He wonl reason with them as thinking peoph He invoked their serious attention t several plain and simple reasons wh they should not act with the radical 1. They were a revolutionary fa? tion, led by the worst men in th country-the "rag-tag-and-bob-tuil of all the old parties-avowedly ac ing "outside thc Constitution," an ignoring it utterly in all their act He explained to them what tho Coi stitution is, and bow dangerous 1 follow the perjnrod outlaws who di regard its restrictions. 2. This fa tion had done nothing to promo the interests of their race. Ho call? upon them to name an instance < practical aid received. They did ni sot them free; did not let them vo for two years after they were freei That was a desperato effort to bolsti up their sinking fortunes-the gar bier's last stake. 3. It is a dying fa tion. The blood-hounds of justi are on its track. 4. The speak proved that this faction was impote to do them good, if it had tho wi 5. He showed them how this factic had brought the nation to tho veri of bankruptcy; how they were bleo ing our poor old State to death. I exposed the acts of the so-called I gislature, including the great bal swindle. G. He showed to them 1 what processes of lying and frai this faction sought to guli thei and, 7. By what foul moans th strove to antagonize the two races tho South. Captain Kinsler th presented many cogent reasons wi they should unite with tho Den: eratic party. He concluded by wai ing his audience that now was t very crisis of their fate. They wt three millions in the midst of thii millions of whites. God had ma them a different and a depende race. Why they were thus made, was not the speaker's business inquire. Wo must accept the fa Tho Democrats would take them the hand and lead them to suol condition of prosperity and hap] ness as wus attainable by their rai He remiudod them of their ?ixe plary conduct during tho lalo wi and tho result-their freedom. J advised thom to meddle not in t great political contest now going < but to stand aloof, be quiet, gatl their cotton, corn, poas and po toes, have nothing to do with pt tics, and all would be well with the After Captain Kinsler's speech, W. Purvis and Bobert Trice mt some remarks, and the meeting i jourried, w?tb tin co cbeerafor Sey? mour and Blair. We have attempted to give yon a fair and impartial account of tho great discussion at "Littleton. The assemblage was orderly abd attentive, and dispersed'in great good humor. JUSTICE. a ?-\ * ?'\-???- * : -^4>HB :X.KOISttA/rcj.lK. s^. PR00EEDK?GS OF FIFTY-EIGHTH DAY. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 'CoiitTMBiA, September 10.-Tho following bills were each read a third time and passed: A bill to exteud the time within which certain County officers may qualify. A bill to amend an Act entitled "an Act to authorize a loan torede?m the obligations knowu os bill* re? ceivable of the State of South Caro? lina." Notice was given of a bill to pro? vide a lien on buildings and lauds to parties furnishing materials thereou. The rest of the day was consumed in the discussion of the first two sec? tions of the bill to aid tho Blue Ridge Railroad, the opposition to it originating with and being abs? tained by Dr. J. L. Neagle, the Comptroller-General of thc State, who, as a member of the House, con? tested its passage, because he thought it would impair the faith and credit of South Carolina. His arguments on this poiut were not ouly in per? fect consistence with his well-known ignornuco and pretensions to finan? ciering ability, but also gave rise to such a well-grounded suspiciou of his palms having been greased by inter? ested parties, that, thc uegro Elliott having propounded to him the inquiry whether or not he desired the bill to be killed because he wished tho route of the road to pass through Spartanburg, and, having received from the financial light a negative reply, answered, with great equanimity, that ho felt obliged to doubt his word. This created a sen? sation, and Elliott was called to order by the Chair. Subsequently, he expressed regret that his feelings had betrayed him into making such a remark, but he was bound iu honor to say that he then did and still meant it. The opposition to the bill is well understood to bo superficial, and will cease to-day. SENATE. The bill to enable the Chatham Railroad to extend its route to Co lnmbia was read the third time and sent to the House of Representatives. The bill to aid the Blue Ridge Railroad (the particulars of which have heretofore been published) was passed without opposition. The bill to establish a Board of Land Commissioners was referred to a special committee, consisting of Whittemore, Corbin, Rose, Randolph and Nash. A bill to provide for tho appoint? ment of temporary magistrates was passed. The Speaker of the House appear? ed in the Senate Chamber and assist? ed in the ratification of the following Acts: An Act to fix the official bonds of certain County officers. An Act to determine and perpetuate the homestead. The rest of the dav was consumed in tho discussion of the bill to or? ganize the Supreme Court, and, without concluding its consideration, thc Senate adjourned. TUE VALVE OF ADVERTISING.-Al geutleman of New York, who has ! taken up his summer quarters with his family in ono of tho outlying suburbs, recently purchased seven ponnds of sugar from his village procer, and found it sadly adulte? rated with sand. The next day he inserted tho following paragraph in the village paper: "Notice.-I bought of a grocer, in this village, seven pounds of sugar, from which I have extracted one pound of saud. If the rascal who cheated mo will send to my address seven ponnds of sugar (the scriptural measure of res? titution) I will bo satisfied; if not, I will expose him." Tho next day niue seven pound packages of sugar wero left at the advertiser's house, there being nine grocers in the vil? lage, and each supposing himself to have been detected. CVV.C FOI! THE TOOTH-ACHE.- At a meetiug of the London Medical j Society, Dr. Blake, a distinguished ' practitioner, said that he was able to cure the most desperate case of tooth? ache, unless the disease was connect? ed with rheumatism, hy tho applica? tion of the following remedy: Alum, reduced to an impalpable powder, two drachms; nitrous spirits of ether, seveu drachms; mix and apply to the tooth. _ _ Montana papera report that tho stoamer Guidon is to be taken over? land around the great falls above Beuton, and hereafter ply as a regu? lar packet in waters till now undis? turbed by a steamer's wheel. They describe tho mode of transfer by saying that "tho boat will be placed on skids uud snaked overland by bull trains." A mau in Milwaukie, who had at? tempted to dispossess a colony of martins that had built their nests under his roof, was attacked, and fairly drivon off the field by the birds. There will be a Democratic mass tfaeetiog at Ninety-Six, on the ISth instant. Gon. Hampton, Hon. J. B. Campbell, Col. J. P. Thomas and a host of other glorious Democrats are "expected tb be present. Everybody is invited. The Bepublicau Nominating Con? vention, yesterday, selected Mr. A. S. Wallace, tho Revenue Collector for this District, as their candidate for Congress from the Fo?rth Congres? sional District. His competitor was Mr. J. M. Allen, the so-called Senator from Greenville. CATAWBA Conn rants.- Mr. Barry, cf the "Carolina House/' Washing? ton street, has rccoived a few boxes of that most excellent wine, manu? factured from the Catawba grape, and he is compounding for the espe? cial beuefit of his visitors a beverage which is unexcelled. Call, see and be convinced. ANOTHER DODGE.-Wm. Potee, (a radical darkey,) who has a grudge ngaiust Dick Jackson, (a colored De? mocrat,) put a hog or two in the pen of the latter, and then attempted to have Dick arrested for hog stealing. The fraud was clearly provon, and if a magistrate can be .found to carry the case through, Potee will be made to suffer. This is the second time, wo believe, that such a trick has been attempted upon Jackson. All the parties reside in the .lower part of Bichland, known ns tho "?Fork." A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY. Yesterday morning, as a lady from Charleston was standing at her chamber door, in Nickerson's Hotel, impatiently awaiting the arrival of a servant to take her trunk down stairs, in time to be placed on the baggage-wagon going to. the Green? ville Road, she accosted a son of Africa and requested him to assist her. "Mum," said he, "Fee a Sen? ator; dis nigger is no sarvant;" and, with an air of offended dignity, he str&ightened up lus vertebral column,. and went on his way to tho room of a Congressional candidate, with whom he had an early engagement. SENATOR C. P. LESLIE. -From in? formation which we have received from an undoubted source, since the re-publication, yesterday, of an ex? tract from the New York World, in reference to so-called Senator Leslie, of Barnwell, we are convinced that the statement of that journal, of his having been "convicted of having kept an house of ill-fame," is erro? neous. We make the correction more cheerfully from thc fact that Mr. Leslie though, as. we believe, an earnest Republican, has not forgotten that he is legislating for the whole people, and not simply for the benefit of the party which placed him in power. MAII? ARRANGEMENTS.-The post office open during the week from -8)? a. m. to 7 p. m. On Sundays, from 4 to 5 p. m. The Charleston and Western mails are open for delivery at 5 p. m., and close at S_'.J p. m. Charleston night mail open 8J.? a. m., close 41? p. m. Northern.-Open for delivery at 8}.i a. m., closes at 2.45 p. m. Greenville-Open for delivery 5 p. m., closes at 8J? p. m. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. -Special ?t tention is called to the following ad? vertisements, published for the first time this morning: J. B. DaBose-Meeting. I. Sulzbaoher-Watches, &c. Ii. IC. Scott-Proclamation. L. Carr-To the Israelites. W. H. Wigg-Citation. Board Wanted. I. Grieshaber-Bemoval. J. S. McMahon-Notice. There was a heavy storm in New York on Saturday morning. People were washed out of their houses in Brooklyn, and in Williamsburg, Long Island, it is estimated that $150,000 damage was done by the storm, and flooding of cellars. CURIOUS SUIT.-A young woman in Elizabeth, N. J., has obtained a ver? dict of $4,000 d. mages against her father, for alleged slanders against her charaoter and chastity. There wa? a step-mother in the case. General Baldy Smith, who fought, is for Seymour. General . Butler, who stole, even his marches, is for Grant. The business part of the town of Alstead, N. H.. was nearly destroyed by fire on Friday night last. G. W. Williams, Esq., of York, re? cently elected a Circuit Judge by the so-called, declines' to accept the office.