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THF, pk|uc;u?v x:cii7t?f? '^^^^^^^ HORATIO SEYMOUR, OF N, Y. 2""or Vid'President. OEN. F. P. BLAIR, OF MISSOURI. STATE XIiECTOR Ali TICKET. J?T?r-St?fe ai Large-S. V. Thomas; of Richland; J. D. Kennedy, pf Ker? shaw*."'" Firel Congressional District-R. & Grui lam, of Marion. Second Congressional District-B. H. Rutledge, of Charleston. Third Congressional District-A. C. Haskell, of Abbeville. Fourth Congressional District-E. C. MoLure, of Chester. COLUMBIA. Saturday Morning:, Sept. 12,1868. -vii 1 Radical Change tn the Form and Action of til? Government. It is time the people should awake to the alarming radical chango that has been made by the revolutionists in the form and action of our Go? vernment. As the Pittsburg Post says, there AVOS a time when Our Go? vernment was administered in obe? dience to tho requirements estab? lished by the people in the fundamental law; when we lived under a constitutional Government. But it is not so now; a change has been mode, a change not authorized by that instrument, and in opposition to its true spirit and meaning, and made by a party for party [purposes, and not for the good of the country. There was a time when the President of the United States, elected by the people, was recognized by Congress as the executive officer of tho whole body politic. It is not so now; a radical Congress, without law or right, and in derogation of both, and contrary to the Very instrument under which they hold their own dffices, have made the Presidency subser? vient to tho will Of another depart? ment of the Government-Congress; and subservient, also, to the War Department, by illegally taking away constitutional authority from the President and transferring it to a general of the army, who . has, pro? claimed himself before the whole world to be their obedient tool. There was a time when tho Supreme Court of the United States stood forth before the couutry as the high? est and most independent judiciary the world had ever seen. It is not so now. A radical Congress, by the most barefaced outrages, have tram? pled , upon its once sacred powers, and rendered them subservient to the will of the radical party, and stripped it of its independence; while even its chief head, a leader of the same proscriptive party, has lowered its dignity and lessened its weight by himself stumping the land os a seek? er after political power, os a petty bargainer and bidder for the Presi? dential chair. Thero was a time when the Congress of the United States met at periods stated in the Coustitution, conducted its business for the good of the people, and ad? journed, receiving reasonable and fair compensation for their services. It is not so now. This same Con? gress, controlled by the radical party, has made itself, practically, perpetual; meets when it pleases, adjourns when it pleases; pays its members what it pleases; and taxes* all the people, proscribes whom it pleases, and is, ia faot, entirely outside of tho peo? ple's true Government. All this, the radicals have brought about in the three years since the war; and they are'still going on, concentrating more and more power in themselves, and ?gradually changing the form and the i spirit of our institution! from a pOpnlur government to an oligarchical government, being no? thing mor? than the will of a iovt insolent radical leaders. Li it not time, asks the Washington Evening Star, for tho people to make au effort to get back tho power thu? wrested'from them? ? ??? The California election did not taki place on the 6th instant, as has bees generally believed. It will take place in November, at the time of the Pre sidential election. Three years, ou of four, it takes place in September but whenever there is a Presidencia election, the two occur the sam* Jay Tho villainous conduct of the bogus Governor of Arkansas baa just boen brought to Ughfe by tho follow? ing, ."speaial" to tho Chronicle. Our readers can soe that the radical fac? tion means, at all hazards, to mono? polize every Southern electoral vote, ? and to do this by openly-confessed j fraud and force. MEMPHIS, September 5.-Tho Ava? lanche's Little Bock special, to-day, j says Governor Clayton, of Arkansas,, has prepared instructions for hi? registers, fer tho. registration now I about to commence. Ho says, among the powers and duties of each register, are to reject any one whom the registers may think not entitled to register, though the applicant has already taken the oath before magis? trates, and calls upon the sheriffs for a sufficient number of armed men to assist him, and, if not furnished, then to call upon the commanding officer for any troops in tho State and a guard to furnish promptly such aid? . An applicant for registra? tion is also required to prove his innocence by evidence satisfactory to the register, that he has not been guilty of a number of specified nc ts (luring a number of years, ono of whioh is that ho did not sympa? thize with the rebellion. If he fails to establish this, he cannot register, his oath to the contrary notwith? standing, unless ho voted for tho present Constitution. If tho re? gister is satisfied, or thinks he ought to be restored, and before being allowed to register, he must subscribe' to an oath setting forth that he accepts tho civil and politi? cal equality of all men, and agree not to attempt to attempt to make any ohangea. Ten days before tho election, tho boards of registration meet in each County, with power, upon their own knowledgo or in? formation, to strike from tho list tho names of voters they consider disqualified. By tho registration law, the courts aro forbidden to issue any mandamus or other pro? cess to registers. Let Northern men ponder upon this infamous scheme, and decido for themselves whether they will suffer a clear majority of their own votes to be neutralized and over? come by elections conducted ' in such a manner. This is preoisely what is in contemplation, as is plain upon the face of the "Governor's" action and his whole programme. The cry of "Ku Klux outrages" is a mero ruse the better to enable the rabid leaders of a faction to stifle its own voice. -? -?-?-. None but cowards, sneak-thieves and camp-followers make war upon disarmed men, who have taken their paroles and trusted to thc honor oi their captors. Yet the wholo radical party are daily invoked by their lead? ers and journals to keep up their wai upon tho Southern people. The true soldiers of the Union army-the McClernans', the Ewings', the Eosen cranzs', the Halpines', tho Hancocks', the Blairs', and all the other brave leaders of the Federal hosts, have given the order to "cease firing." It is only the Greeleys', the Forneys', the Butlers', and the rest of those who did no fighting when the war was going on, who want to do the fighting, now that tho South is dis? armed. ? ?.??.? Mr. Jumes L. Muttis, a farmer, from Edgefield District, while on his way from Hamburg to his home, (about eighteen miles from that town,) on Tuesday last, was fired upon by a gang of negroes, about thirteen miles from Hamburg. Thc negroes ordered him to stop the bug gy, when Mr. Muttis drew his pisto! and continued firing until ho rac them off. The next day, a party o] white men tried to catch them, bul found nobody in the neighborhood. -?-?-*-. TEimiBiiY SCARED.-The radica! journals aro evidently beginning ti see the "hand-writing on the wall.' The Ohio State Journal, a violenl radical sheet, frantically exclaims: i For Heaven's sake, friends, work Work, from this day until election, or we are beaten in Ohio, in Indiana in Pennsylvania, in New York, anc in the whole country! The cable reports another uprising among the Maories, or Aborigine race of the British colony of Nev Zealand. These wars are very mucl snob affairs as our Indian wars on th? Western plains. It is only about tw< years since the last war was brough to an end, and it wos a long, trouble some and costly little war. It wa. brought about by the English colo ni ats in greed for the land oooupiec by the Maories, and the present out break doubtless bas its origin in tb same cause. The Aborigines ol Nev Zealand now count about 50,000, am are as warlike as our Indians, bu carry on their operations with mor skill. To the ?ttorney-Oenerol. Sm: As I am not conversant with law, ("new Btylo,") I beg to ask in? formation on the following points: ? 1st. Are the powers of government ; in Sorra Carolina, vested in three ' deportments, to wit: the Legislative, Executive and Judicial? 2d. Does the office of Adjutant General belong to the Executive De? partment? (1 Kent's Com., 282.) 3d. Does the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives belong to the Legislative Department. 4th. ls section 26, article 1, of the Constitution, which provides, "in the government of this common? wealth, the Legislative, Executive and Jud ?cal powers of the govern? ment shall be forever separate and distinct from each other; and no per? son exercising the functions of one of said departments, shall assume or discharge the duties of any other" of force? I pauso for reply. Yours, respect? fully, OLD FOGY. LETTER FROM GEN. FORREST.-The following is a copy of Gen. Forrest's letter to the correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial: MEMPHIS, September 3, 18G8. I have just received your letter in the Commercial, giving a report of our conversation on Friday last. I do not think you would intentionally misrepresent mo, but you have done so, and I suppose because you misun? derstood my meaning. Tbe portions of your letter to which I object are corrected in tho following paragraphs: I promised the Legislature my per? sonal influence and aid in maintain? ing order and enforcing the laws. I have never advised tho people to re? sist any law, but to submit to the laws until they can be corrected by lawful legislation. I said the militia bill would occasion no trouble unless they violated the law by carryiug out tho Governor's proclamation, which I believed to bo unconstitutional and in violation of the law, shooting down men without n trial, as recom? mended by that proclamation. I said it W?S reported-and I believed tho report-that there are 40,000 Ku Klux in Tennessee, and I believed the organization was stronger in tho other States. I meant, simply, when I said the Ku Klux recognizo tho Federal Government, that they would obey all State laws, and that they re? cognize all laws and will obey them, so I have been informed, in protect? ing peaceable citizens from oppres? sion from any quarter. I did not say that every mau s house was picketed, and I did not mean to convey the idea that I would raise any troops, more than that no man could do it in five days, even if they were organ? ized. I said that Gen. Grant was at Holly Springs, and not Corinth. I said the charge against him was false. I did not utter the word "liar." I cannot consent to remain silent in the matter, for if I did so, under an iucorrect impression of my personal views, I might be looked upon as ono desiring a conflict; when, in truth, I am so adverse to anything of tho kind, that I will make any honor? able sacrifice to avoid it. Hoping that I may have this explanation placed before your readers, I remain, very respectfully, N. B. FORREST. "DE YANKEE AN DE CATTAIULEA." A gentleman planting not far from Charleston, a few days ago, after hearing the report of his "driver," who said that tho caterpillars were going ahead in their work of destruc? tion, suggested some plan for ridding his fields from this curse, which plan he had heard of or read somewhere, when "Jake," looking unusually solemn and earnest, remarked: "Its no use, massa, wo's gwine to 'avo do cattapilla jes as long as de Yankee 3tay 'ere. De Yankee mek de nigga free, and de nigga he lazy an good for nuffiii, kill de hog, kill de sheep, kill de turkey, kill de fowl, an kill do | bird, an do cattapilla he eat all de ! cotton. I tell you, massa, no use talkiu. We can't mek no more cot? ton 'ere, as long as de Yankee stay 'ere. De cattapilla can breed-nuffiii to stop em." This old dalkey was not far wrong, we apprehend, in his reason? ing. Tho cattle and tho hogs were turned into the field, and tramped the moth, eggs and all. The birds fed on these, insects, but since the school marms have come along, and have been teaching the colored idea how to shoot, the birds have either been killed or have migrated. The geese, ohiokens and turkeys, turned into a cotton field, used to clean it pretty soon of caterpillars. But now there are no cattle, no sheep, no hogs, no fowl-all gone, as Jake said-no domestic animal left but tho caterpillar. We agree with Jake as to the cause and effect-though not with his con? clusion, that the Yankees must leave here before we can raise a good cot? ton orop again. Jake, however, only meaos Yankee rule, and in this we are of the same mind. {Charleston Mercury. A 2>osl 'mortem examination was modo on the remains ot Thnddous Freeman, who died suddenly in Charleston, ?nd tho result of the medical investigation developed the fact that he Came to his end by "con? gestive intermittent fever of abdomi? nal type." .- . ? . ' . . . - Bocal Items. The, parties notified, will bear in mind the barbecue at St?rke's Spring to-day.. We. ?re assare&that something extra may be expected, as a 7iew cook, an "old dad," has been engaged. _' It is stated that, owing to a misun? derstanding relative to certain funds advanced by the projectors of the Chatham Railroad to assist in greas? ing the machinery of the so-called Legislature, tho whole railroad bar? ter has fizzled out. NEVER SAX DIE.-Mr. Cantwell bas resumed operations already, and can bo found in Assembly street, oppo? site the markot, until bis old stand is rebuilt. Wo are indebted to him for onu of those fine tongues (two feet in length and of a corresponding bulk) whioh he advertises this morn? ing. What a noiso tho owner must have made, with such a clapper in its head! Two feet! just think of it! WTe have received from a friend in Charleston, a number of copies of the "Address of the Democratic White Voters of Charleston, to tho Colored "Voters of Charleston, the Sea-board and of the State general? ly." These documents will bo fur? nished to the various clubs in the District, on application at this office. The same individual will also accept our thanks for a couple of caricatures, which have boen placed in the Phoenix picture gallery. We are requested by General Hampton to stata that, owing to his remoteness from any post office, many invitations to attend public meetings have not reached him until after the time fixed for the meetings. This, ho hopes, will explain not only his absence on these occasions, but his seeming neglect to respond to these invitations. Ho has engage? ments in the upper Districts of this State and in North Carolina, where he now is, that will occupy his time until October, when he hopes tc return to Columbia. AMERICAS PRINTING HOUSE FOI THE BLIND.-Most civilized coun tries have mado provisions for the instruction of their blind in the pri mary brandies, but in tho genera means of educating the blind, then are great deficiencies. But few books comparatively very few, have beei published in raised letters, aufficien apparatus addressed to the sense o touch have not been prepared. Tin cost of publishing books in raisec letters, the small number of tin blind, and their inability to mee such expenses, make it necessary t< appeal to the public for means t< produce a library for tho blind-i systematic series of text books ad dressed to tho sense of touch. Five dollars or more will b acknowledged, iu thc next report and a copy sont to the donor. Dona tions vary from small amounts t< 62,000. Fifty per cent, will bo se apart, as an endowment, until th sum is sufficient for the interest ti meet the general expenses, thereb insuring the perpetuity of tho inst: tutiou. Donations may be forwarded through Messrs. Scott, Williams I Co., of this city, to Professor Joh A. Simpson, Teacher of Blind, car of W. J. Palmer, Deaf, Dumb an Blind Instituto, Raleigh; or, Dr. C W. Samson, President Columbia College, Washington, D. C. D. Ii. SIT ERR GD, General Agent. COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. ll. 1868. Mr. Sherrod, the general agent ? above, who is himself blind, is ( present in this city, for tho purpoi of furthering the commendable pu pose which he has in view. H: object is to establish an America printing house for tho blind, and, successful in his project, a uni vc rsi t for the blind. He brings tho highe recommendations, both of himse and his noble mission, from Bisho] Green, of Mississippi, and Whittinj ham, of Maryland, Governors < various States and many eminei officials. Tho clergy of this eil have also nnited in a cordial endors ment of Mr. Sherrod's philanthrop views. We trust that these ain may receive such State and individu bonn ty as will promote their speec accomplishment, for the benefit < these children of afiiiotion. There will be a Democratic ma meeting at Chester, on Tuesday, tl 15th, at which Gov. Vance and Gel Hampton are expected to speu Extra trains will be run from Cha lotta and Columbia, on that da, returning some day, for one fare. . l?.N !' .lill i- I-?. We ore indebted to Major John. Alexander for copies of late Edin? burgh arid Glasgow papers. They aro on file in the Phcenix office. A REPjroniOAN Pow-Wow.-Thero was an open air Republican meeting, last night, immediately in front of Janney's Hall, and several hundred colored men and avery slight sprin? kling of whites attested their devotion to the "great moral ideus party." Wright, (colored,) Bowen, (white,) Thomlinson and others spread them? selves. The paunchy little Massachu settsite, so-called Representative .'rom Charleston, has generally been regard? ed as somewhat conservative, but his oratorical display last night, effectu? ally dispelled such an idea. He re? vamped the thread-bare falsehood, that if the Democrats were successful, the negroes would again be enslaved. He also asserted, with a knowledge of its falsity, that the papers of the State, with but ono exception, avoid? ed publishing accouutsof murders by whites, while any little indiscretion among the blacks, was paraded before tho world; nud that the Phcenix made no reference at any time to a Repub? lican being killed, but gave column after columu relative to a white mau being put out of tho wny. We beg to inform Mr. Thomlinson that we publish a newspaper, and every item of iutelligence we can obtain is duly recorded. Of course, Mr. T. knew the audience he was addressing, and that but few of those present were able to state understandingly what is published in a newspaper. EXPEDITIOUS.-We are informed that Mr. Hammet and the South Carolina Railroad have now made an arrangement for loaded cars to run through, without breaking bulk at Columbia. THE JEWISH NEW YEAR-A. M. 5G29.--The Israelites will celebrate their "Rosh Ashanah," or New Year, A. M. 5G29, on Thursday and Friday, the 17th and 18th instant, but the observance of the solemn occasion commences tho evening previous, il being their invariable custom tc celebrate all their Sabbaths and fes? tivals from sun-set to sun-set, not alone because in some of their or? dinances the words aro to be forme "from evening to ovening shall yt celebrate," Seo., but in consequent of the record, "the evening and th( morning were one day," they com pute the day as commencing fron evening, or what is generally termet 6 o'clock P. M. The origin of tho New Year observ ance is to be found in tho 23d chapte: of Leviticus: "And tho Lord spake unto Moses saying, in the soventl month, in the first day of tho month shall ye have a Sabbath, a memoria of blowing of trumpets, a holy cou vocation. " The term seventh monti is used, because from tho time of tin departure from Egypt, tho eeclesi ostical year was mudo to begin a Nissan, to commemorate tho monti wherein their glorious deliverance had beeu wrought. Tishri, althougl thus counted as the seventh monti in religious observance, is neverthe less tho first month of tho year, ant the anniversary of tho creation of tin world. The cornets or trumpet which were sounded on the Ne\ Year, wore not those of silver whicl had heen made for uso in the Taber nacle, but were made of ram's horns a memorial of the au i mai which wa offered instead of Isaac, when Jeho vah tested Abraham's faith, and th anniversary of which event is on th second day of the New Year. Th day is also called a day of memorial because at the close of one year nm the commencement of the next, ni mankind should bring to mind thei actions of the past, and after a solem: review of faults and frailties enter as it were, anew into a covenant witl his Maker, the great King of Kings Creator and Governor of tho whol Universo. Tho new year also com menees the ten days of penitence, th last of which ia caiied "Vom Kipur, or day of atonement, of which w will give our readers an account i: due time. The services are of th most solemn and impressive oharac ter, and even the lukewarm Israelit always unites with bis brethren in th faithful observance of the "Day o Memorial." MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.-The poa office open during the week from 8> a. m. to 7 p. m. On Sundays, fror 4 to 5 p. m. The Charleston and Western mail are opea for delivery at 5 p. m., an close at 8*? p. m. Charleston nigh mail open 8}.\ a. m., close 4'? p. m. Northern-Open for delivery a 8y? a. m., closes at 2.45 p. m. Greenville-Opea f?* delivery p. m., closes at 8J? p. m. SATURDAY NIGHT.-Saturday night makes people haman, sets their hearts to b^ati?g softly, as they used \ to? before the world turned them i into war drums and jarred thom to pieces with tattoos. The ledger closes with a clash, the iron-doored vaults come to with a berg, up go the shutters with a will, olick goes the key iu the lock. It is Saturday night, and business breathes free again. Homeward, ho! The door that has been,'ajar all the week, gently closes behind him; the world is all shut out. Here are his trea? sures, after all, and not in the vault, and not in the book-save the record in the old family Bible-and not ic the back. Maybe you are a bachelor, frosty and forty. Then, poor fellow, Sa? turday night is nothing to you, just as you are nothing to anybody. Get a wife, blue-eyed or black-eyed, but, above all, true-eyed. Get a little home, no matter how little, and a little sofa, just to hold two or two and a half in it, of a Saturday night-, and then read this paragraph by the light of your wife's oyeB, and thank God and take courage. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.- Special at teution is called to the following ad? vertisements, published for the first time this morning: Mrs. McGregor-School Notice. George Symmers-Crackers, ?c. iS. Agnew-Meeting. P. Cantwell-Smoked Meats, &o. T. J. Gibson-Meeting. W. H. Wigg-Citation. D. B. DeSaussure-In Equity, &c. G. B. Wing-Wanted. WHAT THE DEMOCRATS wmii Do - They will reduce the expenses of the Government one hundred millions of dollars a year below what they have been each year for the last three years. They will apply from fifty millions to one hundred millions a year to? ward the reduction of the national debt. They will not issue any more paper money. They will gradually call in the greenback notes, more equally dis? tribute the banking capital of the country, and start at once on the road to a resumption of specie pay? ment. This Democratic policy will re? duce the debt; it -will reduce tox.es; it will reduce the prico of sugar,, flour, molasses, tea, salt, clothing, boots and shoes. Our policy will, in less than three years, make a greenback as good as gold. Our policy will secure equal and just taxation of all property. Our policy will secure tho payment of every bond and every note issued by the Government, to the last dol? lar. If we thought Horatio Seymour would lift a finger toward repudia? tion, we would neither advocate his election nor vote for him. We be? lieve in taxing bonds, and paying every bond issaed, according to pro? mise; those pledged to be paid in gold, let us pay the gold; and all the rest let us pay iu greenbacks, as fast as all the bonds fall due. This is Seymour's doctrine; it is just what the Democrats will do. [ Washington Evering Express. BLOODY TRAGEDY NEAR THOMSON, GEORGIA.-From passengers by yes? terday's train, on the Georgia Rail? road, we learn the following particu? lars of the murder of two white men and the hanging of the negro mur? derer, near Thomson, yesterday. ,A negro, who was employed in getting timber for a saw mill just above Thomson, and who was ot work in tho woods, attacked the driver of a carry-log, Mr. Fortner, a white man, with his ax?, splitting his head open and causing i??liint death. ?lter this bloody, and,': aa our informant said, unprovoked deed, the negro said he would now go and kill tho sawyer, Mr. Lowe, also a white mau, who was unwell at bis house. Another negro, who heard tfye threat, imme? diately ran and informed the sawyer of it. He got his revolver ready to defend himself, but the murderer slipped up to him unawares And dealt him a mortal blow on the head with bis axe. He was, alive,, how? ever, wheu the train passed 'Tuom son, but in a dying condition. After this assault on the sawyer, the negro Sed to the woods, carrying the bloody axe, pursued by whites and blacks, and, when overtaken, was shot down, the shot taking effect in his legs, when the negroes who had been in the chase immediately hung him to a tree. [Augusta Constitutionalist, 9th. The report of the New York Mid? night Mission Society states that, since May last, when the mission house was first opened for the recep? tion of fallen women who chose to abandon their fearful calling, seven? ty-seven ha\4 been admitted. Of these, forty-t ix havo abandoned street life, fourteen of them having obtained respectable employment and seven having been restored to their friends, while twenty-two have fallen from grace. Ex-President Pierce is dangerously ill. ' ' **rfP* 1 ' *' ' 1