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THE DKHO?lUTICTICK.?T. 1778 ' For President, HORATIO SEYMOUR, OP N. Y. For Vice-President, GEN. F. P. BLAIR, OP MISSOURI. - BXrBKSBNTATTVBS IN C0NGBESS. First Congressional District-Harris Covington. Second Congressional District.-A. p. Aidrifte^r^'TTf*? r*r Titird Congressional District.-J. P. Rood. Fot?f?t (hngressional District.-W. D. Simpson. STATE ZtiECTOBAIi TICKET. For State at Large-J. P. Thomas, of Richland; J. D. Kennedy, of Ker? shaw. Firsi Congressional District-R. F. Graham? of Marion. Second Congressional District-B. H. Rutledge, of Charleston. Third Congressional District-A. C. Haskell, of Abbeville. Fourth Congressional District-"Ei. C. MoLure, of Chester. ~ COLUMBIA. Tuesday Morning. Sept. 22,1868. Dent! Debit Debt! The object of the present radical Legislature in South Carolina seems to ho solely to involve onr State and people hopelessly in debt. Turn where yon will, you see nothing hut debt and taxes. The Convention that assembled in Charleston out out for na a Government and a Constitu? tion that coll for nothing but debt; and now the Legislature, the crea? ture of that diabolical Convention of negro delegates, follow np the teach? ings of that unlawful body with a hearty good-will. Any one who has taken the pains to read their legisla? tion, (if such it can be called,) can? not fail to be impressed with their reckless extravagance. It is every? where and upon everything. We understand that the tax bill, which hos been sent to the Governor for his approval, covers a roll of paper which weighs nearly forty-five pounds! Everything is taxed, and for what? To pay ten dollars a day to the late negro Convention, and six dollars a j day to the present negro Legislature, and the enormously increased sala? ries of their worthless carpet-bag and scalawag officials. The salaries of the Governor, the Judges, indeed the every office, great or small, have been wantonly, corruptly and reck? lessly increased. The great men of | South Carolina, who have dignified and adorned our judiciary, were satis? fied with $3,000 a year; tho present j worthless and ignorant batch have been honored with a largo additional compensation. Tho office of Attor? ney-General, which, from time im? memorial, hus boen considered a j place of great dignity and influence, had a salary of Sl,100, with fees of office. This is entirely too small a matter for tho present incumbent; he is to have, wo see, $3,000 a year. We presume that tho solicitors, when ebcted, will each havo at least $2,000; | and so we go. Debt! debt! debt! tax! tax! tax! Two or three millions of dollars of bonds endorsed for a I railroad pass as for nothing! Any amount of money, for negro schools or for any other purposo under the sun! Tho printing bill alone, which could have boon done nt a cost of $16,000 or $17,000, hos already cost, for sixty-five days of tho session, $29,250. The groat object, as we have said, seems to bo to ruin the State with debt and destroy her credit. And why should it not bo so? The sable and radical mountebanks who vote away the very life-blood of tho State, pay nothing. They are above taxation and abovo the pres? sure that must soon come upon the people But it seems, notwithstand? ing this reckless extravagance, that I these carpet-bag officials cannot be satisfied. Like the horse-leech, they oannot have enough. Look around, I and you will see as many as three or four offices held by a single individ? ual. Mr. Corbin is District Attorney of the United States, where it is said he makes a large income, mainly from his indictments in the direction of the whiskey laws. He ia a State Senator, at six dollars per day. He is one of the Judges eleot, and has been selected, we believe, as one of the codifiers of the laws. Mr. Moses is Adjutant-General and also Speaker of the House, enjoying his salary IUI ein uuv uiuuB nuu ula poi. uicui for tile other, and then, only the otbor ?ruy, they wished to add four dollars per day more to his pay aa a pnro coxnplimont. Mr. H?ge has jost been eleoted to tho high oiflo* of Associate Juatico and now he is oat for Congress. Mr. Rutland was Senator and Judge, and it is pro? posed to make him a codifier of the lawB. What a great mani Mr. Boozer is Judge, Lieutenant-Gover nor and President of the Seriate. The man Whittemoro is State Senator and a member of Congress. What a riso for him! And so we could con? tinue. The poor negroes alone get nothing. We suppose, however, that six dollars per doy is a fortuno to all of them, except a very few. Such is radical legislation in South Carolina. The worthless adventurer rolls in fat offices and large salaries; the true patriot and upright citizen and the gentleman of cultivation walks in poverty-his character and his uprightness being rather a re? proach and a stumbling-block to Iiis advancement or sucoess. Of course, all good men are disgusted and hu? miliated. Tho only surprise to us is that some of the respectable colored members of the so-called Legislature do not feel themselves disgraced at being classed with such a corrupt and degraded party. There are colored men born upon our soil who must feel the humiliation of such an association. How can such men as DoLarge, O. M. Wilder and P. E. Ezekiel, and others that we could name, seek companionship with such a crowd? These are respectable men men of good character and of good manners. When they measure them? selves with many of those by whom they are surrounded, they must feel their immeasurable superiority and a degree of disgust that, as men born npon the soil, they cannot but feel for the interloper who comes to advance himself at the expense of others and the expense of thc State. The time will soon come when such men must feel it a disgrace to be found in such disreputable company, and will despise themselves for their present position. Tho thing is work? ing to this end. TIDAL WAVES.-Tho confirmation of the news of tho great earthc lake in South America, by intelligence of the effects elsewhere, shows how severe must have been tho calamity. Upon all parts of tho Pacific coast tho tidal wave was felt, and although it could not bo accounted for in many places far from the seat of the cala? mity, it was apparent that tho con? vulsion of nature was producing its effects in other parts of the world. The great earthquake did its damage on the 13th of August. At the Ha? waiian Islands the tidal wave was ex? perienced on the l ith. The distance, in a direct lino, is over 2,700 miles, so that thc effect of Mio earthquake upon the water must have been im? mense. Even at San Francisco, and along tho wholo coast, the effect of the earthquake was visible in tho sud? den rising and falling of tho water. Theso matters are well worthy the attention and study of philosophers, affording them means of improving aud strengthening tho littlo know? ledge of tho phenomena of earth? quakes which modern science pos? sesses. NBGRO OoTBAOKS.-A negro named John Williams, a nativo of Florida, on Monday, met a German woman, aged sixty, in tho vicinity of Albany, knocked her down, and, after beat? ing her, committed an ou trago on her person. Ho afterwards robbed a farmer's house, in Niskayuna, of $100 and a watch. Tho miscreant was tracked to Cohoes, yesterday, ar? rested and lodged in jail. Ho has made a full confession. A Gorman girl, near St. Louis, was shot, on Friday last, by a negro named Jordan. It is reported that he made improper overtures, and, on I Friday, attempted to effect his object by force, but was foiled in his design and procured a gun and shot the girl. Yesterday, an incensed crowd of Germans took the negro from the officers having him in charge and hung him. A negro named John Hawley, at Bridgeport, Conn., who acknow? ledged to having committed a rape on a littlo girl named Anna Kubuska, aged twelve years, in the woods at Stratford, while she was on the way to Sabbath Sohool, was detected, lost Sunday, in the act, and ran down by Peter aad Charles Wolf, uncles of the j girl. He jumped into tho creek and was rescued from drowning jost aa he was going down tho last time. He is held ander 83,000 bail. 5?"',,"???T^T?*'*"***"*a'"''^M*"''0"a^"S!3BSSiB3MI Add rca* of Billion S. Kcltt, Esq., of South Carolin?. A meeting was held, on Taesday evening, in the rooms of the Young Men's Democratic Union, on Broad? way, near Twenty-second street, New York. In point of numbera and en? thusiasm it was very successful. The speaker of the evening was Ellison S. Keitt, Esq., of South Carolina, from whose address the Herald makes the following extracts: If the people of the North under? stood the real sentiment and condi? tion of the mass of the Southern people, there would be no difficulty whatever in settling and re-adjusting, in all its parts, thc great problem now before us for solution. If there WU? a greater commingling of tho masses of the people and less heed given to political tricksters, who, for pelf, and self, and power, spend their time peddling out seeds of dissension, it would redound to the welfare of both sections. When the late great war, from which, I trust, our country will soon successfully emerge, WP s inau? gurated, I was not in political life: but when my State passed her ordi? nance of secession and called upon her sons to rally beneath her flag and defend her, we went forth, and wc heard the first and the last gun of the revolution fired. lu that great con? test we fought not to destroy the North, we fought not to overthrow any of your institutions, we fonghl not to interfere in your domestio af? fairs, we fought for self-government, we fought for the independence and separate nationality of our own native land, we fought for the preservation of those great and grand principle: which were embodied and established by a heroic and virtuous ancestry ir 1789, after seven long years of heroic sufferings, privations, defeats anc victories, that we might transmit them, purified, chastened and refined, to generations yet unborn-yes, thal we might make them perpetual anc immortal. You, on your part, ai proclaimed by Mr. Lincoln, foughi for the maintenance of the Constitu Hon and the preservation of th? Union in its integrity, and not foi the conquest and subjugation of th< South. This, ho proclaimed, was th( only ground upon which he roule rest the justice of the war, eithei with you or with foreign powers We have failed to achieve that foi which we fought. You, by over whelming numbers and greater mate rial resources, have prevailed. Ai wo were desperately sincere and earn est in our determination to win whci we went into the contest, so whet we sheathed our swords and stackee our arms upon the battle-field, anc turned our backs upon the vas armies of Gens. Grant and Sherman we did so with equal sincerity anc determination to go to our homes anc spare no effort in re-building ou: broken and shattered fortunes, ii restoring our country to law and or dor, and bringing her back to peace prosperity and happiness, and ii rendering every assistance in ou power to maintain tho Constitutioi and preserve tho Union in its intcg rity. We not only acquiesced in the abo lition of slavery, but wo gave tb black man all the civil rights enjoj'e* by tho wliito man-he was allowed ti sue and be sued and testify bofor the courts. We placed the Stat Government upon a wiso and econo lineal basis. It took ubout $000,00 to administer it beforo tho'war, but the people being so reduced by th war, we reduced that sum, by re trenchment, to $100,000. I will her state that, in addition to giving th black man all the civil rights whicl tho white man has, the whito peopl of tho State held a Convention, i: Columbia, last April, and adopted platform, in which they recoguizei tho negro as an integral element c tho body politic, and pledged them selves to give him a qualified suffrag the moment they have the power t do so. It was not until tho last day of tho fourth and lost session of th Legislature that tho proposed amend ment known as tho fourteenth articl of the Constitution carno before thn body. It was not rejected, os i affirmed, becauso wo wero require by it either to givo the negroes th right to voto or not to count them i the basis of representation. Thc WHS the least objectionable fcatur< Tho main reason of objection to : was, it tended to a consolidation c tho Government, by a subordinatio of tho State judiciary to thojudiciar of tho United States, and it disqual fled forever from holding office ever man in the State, from Governor an United States Senator down to constable, who bad over held a civ office and given any aid to the Stat in the war. At the end of tho war, tho Fcden debt was something over $2,700,000 OOO, which, to this great country an her grand resources, is a small sun and could easily have been paid, an tho general Government boon pi upon a wise and economical basi During the last three years, $1,594 000,000 have been collected from tl people, in the way of revenue an taxes-an average of over 8500,000 000 a year-yet the debt is still ov< 82,000,000,000. Although the peop] hav? been drained of mora than on? half of the entire debt, by ts.zs.tio: in three yearn, yet the debt has bee reduced only a little over 8100,000 OOO. What has become of this vast sum which hos been extruded from the toil of the people? If the Go? vernment had been pnt upon ? wise and economical basis of $150,000,000 a> year, which is liberal, $350,000,000 might annually have been applied to the reduction of the debt, and it would have been only a little over half of what it now is. Tho little that has been paid, was paid before the passage of tho reconstruction measures, or before thoy had time to affect the country. Since the recon? struction measures wero passed, the debt has boen increased $13,000,000 or more. Should you, by your ballots in November next, elevate General Grant to the Presidency, and sustain the action of Congress and the plat? form on which he stands, and tho people realize the awful fnot that negro Governments are to be settled down upon them, not only will every kind of business be contracted and all money be drawn in, but a general paralysis and desperation will per? vade tho wholo country. You know, as well as I do, that there are restless men in every community. There will bo a difficulty here, and another there, when soon up goes the cry, "the rebels are rising." Already, from the far-off South, we hear faint notes of a collision of races. Anarchy and desperation will, with hurried foot-steps, spread themselves, until they pervade all of that once beauti? ful and wealthy country, extending from the banks of the Potomac to the golden sands of California, and you may prepare to raise 1,000,000 of men and dot all the South with garri? sons, for tho intelligent and virtuous of the South will demand it; and, as we can do nothing, can make nothing, you may prepare to foot the bills, and, if you do not look well to it, your onco grand and loved system of a republio will, in ono night, give birth to a vast and mighty empire. COTTON CROP OF THE UNITED STATES FOB THE YEAH ENDING SEP? TEMBER 1, 1868.-The total crop reaches 2,498,895 bales, while the exports have been 1,057,015 bales, and the home consumption 885,015 bales, leaving a stock on hand at the close of the year of 38,130 bales. Tho stock of cotton at the interior towns, September 1, 1868, not in? cluded in tho receipts, is 3,897 bales, against 5,703 bales lost season. The total receipts at the Golf and Atlantic shipping posts this year have been 2,240,282 bales, against 1,965, 774 bales last year. From the details of the production of each State we find that 166,587 bales were made in Virginia this year, against 127,867 bales last year. Exported from Virginia to foreign ports, 8,283 bales; to domestic ports, 158,893 bales. Stock on hand at the end of the year, at Petersburg and Norfolk, 1,000 bales. Stock on hand at tho beginning of the year, 1,589 bales. Tho total amount of cotton manu? factured South during ^tho year has been about 60,000 bales. Tho highest prices for middling uplands have been ns follows: May 1, in New York, 32}.<c. ; in Liverpool, 12^od. Last year, in New York, tho highest price was 42c. ; in Liverpool, 15?.(d. Tho consumption in tho Southern States was 87,650 bales (-100 pounds each) in 1860. In the Northern States, during tho same period, there were 703,950 bales.-AW York Commercial and Financial Chronicle. Those who take delight in the in creaso of taxes should not fail to vote with tho radical party. They have, in lime of peace, squandered $1,500, 000,000 in thrco yenrs, increased the national debt during the same poriod over $150,000,000, and aro continu? ing to increase it at tho rate of $10,000,000 a month. Surely those who aro in favor of high taxes and who considor a national debt a na? tional blessing, will not hesitate to vote tho radical ticket. A destructivo fire occurred on Fri? day last, in Lynchburg, Va. Eight houses at tho corner of Main and West streets were totally destroyed. Seven of thom were occupied ns tobacco warehouses, and belonged to James Clator, a Mr. Burden and Mrs. Murrel. All tho tobacco was de? stroyed, bat tho loss to tho owners is not very great, as most of tho stock was insured. Tho buildings wero nearly all frame. "Lot us havo peace." When tho third Richard stabbed Henry and smothered tho Princes in tho tower, ho was in pursuit of peace, and when Arnold botrayed his coun? try, it was only to secure a peace. There never was a moro peaceful country than Romo while Nero ruled. Let us have peace, by all means. The British steamship Melita, which sailed from Boston for Liver? pool on the 27th of August, was burned when five days out. Her passengers and orew were rescued by the ship Jacob A. Stander and tho bark Monequash. Col. S. D. Goodlett, of Greenville, has been appointed and commission? ed by his Honor Judge Bryan, "a Commissioner of the United States Courts for South Carolina." One of three negroes, who mur? dered a white man named Sawyer, at Windsor, in Barnwell District, has I been arrested. - - Bocal Items. Wo learn that, on Saturday night last, our energetic Chief of Police, Lewis Radcliffe, succeeded in arrest? ing a colored mau, named Calvin Campbell, ohargod with robbing tho money-drawer of Dr. C. H. Miot, on the night of the 25th of August last. He was turned over to Magistrate Walker for prosecution. THE COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.-The work on this road is progressing rapidly, and a large number of hands aro employed. Last week, an engine ran through tho streets of Graniteville, that por? tion of the road being completed. The track was laid in the main street by tho canal. MEDICAL COLLEOE OF GEORGIA. As will be seen, by a reference to om advertising columns, the thirty-fourtt course of lectures of this college wili be commenced on the first Monday in November. This college is looatec in Augusta, Georgia, and is conduct? ed by a faculty composed of the bes material in the State. DEMOCRATIC CANVASSERS.-Hon J. P. Richardson and Joseph Gallu chat, Esq., havo boen appointee canvassers by tho Democratic Exe cutivo Committee of Clarendon te canvass tho First Congressional Dis trict, in conjunction with Colonel R F. Graham, the elector; also, tba Mr. Galluchat has been appointed t member of tho State Executive Com mittee from Clarendon District. AN UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT T< CARRY OUT AN INCENDIARY THREAT An unsuccessful attempt was made on Sunday night, to destroy th building known as "Carolina Hall, owned by Messrs. J. P. Thomas an? James G. Gibbes. A portion of th flooring in the lower story was raise and firo placed beneath. A plank i: the stair-way was also removed, b which an entrance was effected t the seoond Btory. Tho only damag dono in the upper part of tho build ing was the upsetting and partial dc molition of a desk filled with paperi What puts a very ugly phase on th matter is, that three colored me attempted to cut the hose leading t the engines, but were discovered i time. As tho torch was applied earl in tho evening, it was, fortunately observed before auy serious damag was done. It is believed to ha\ been tho work of the individual sigi ing himself tho "hoad committee < safety," who sent Colonel Thomas a anonymous letter a few weeks ago. RADICAL Pow-WOW.-Tho sab sons and daughters of Richland wo: congregated in largo numbers, la night, in front of Janney's new Sta House, for tho purpose of bearii the oft told tale of rebellion, ema cipation and reconstruction, from tl lips of tho "elect." A tomporai stage had boen erected in the cour of the afternoon, by thc aid of dral mado on tho neighboring cock-pit ai negro bar-rooms, and over it hung dilapidated kerosene lamp and small edition of Horace Greeb "flaunting lie." On this stage we seated Hon. Boot-Black Nash, t Chairman of tho meeting; He Burnt District Randolph, He Chester Bar-Room Wimbush, soi fifteen other negroes of lesser no riety, Associate Justico H?ge, Mr. M. Boozer, and one moro miserai whito man whoso insignificant na: we could not ascertain. Groiq: around wero darkies of every i 8cription, from the harmless pic ninny to tho grave and revere Saucho Saunders; whilo, in 1 outskirts, Judas Moses, tho Spcal of tho House of mis-Representativ and Judas K. Jillson, Superintei eut of Education for the Stn were paying court to a bevy African damsels. Tho main speech of the eveni was delivered by J. M. Langsb of Ohio, a colored lawyer, and would be unfair to say less tb that it was remarkable for its log erudition and eloquence. It oa pied moro than? two hours in < livery, and was received with gr .satisfaction by his audience, to vast majority of whom it wai string of pearls cast before-th who were unnblo to understand Langston was followed by tho c tomary buncombe of H?ge, v was spouting to his dear "fell citizens" when wo left. DEATH or A. WORTBT CITIZEN. Mr. G. W. Wright, who has con? ducted the black-smithing and wheel - wrighting business for many years in Columbia, departed this life, on Sun? day list, in the upper part of Rich? land District, from an attack of con? gestion of the brain. Mr. Wright was an Englishman by hirth-an ho? nest, hard-working man, whose sud? den death will be universally regret? ted._ 7^ Vox ET PnETERiA NnixD.-Tho House of Representatives, in a Bpirit of great consideration for the neces? sities of the people of this State, passed a bill, yesterday, appropriat? ing $25,000 to relieve the wants of the transient poor. This sounds rather funny, when it is remembered that the merciful body continues in session after a half dozen resolutions, fixing days of adjournment, have been passed, simply because they can't raise money enough to pay their per diem and mileage. SENATOR LESLIE SUSPENDED.-The doings of the so-called General As? sembly, yesterday, were, with the exception of the proceedings in re? ference to Senator Leslie, devoid of public interest. It will be remem? bered that, on Saturday, after four hours' discussion, which was'very fully reported in our columns, the Senate failed to pass the resolution offered some time since by Randolph (B. D.) to expel Mr. Leslie, for al? leged disobedience of the orders of the Senate and disorderly and contu? macious behavior. On Saturday evening, as heretofore mentioned, Mr. Leslie made a speech to a large audience of our citizens in front of Nickerson's Hotel, in which he de? fended himself and administered a scathing rebuke to his colleagues. This put the feather on the camel's back, as tho very classical Hoyt from Colleton said, when he moved that the voto of Saturday be reconsidered. His rn o ton succeeded, and, after sundry diatribes from Messrs. Corbin, Randolph and others, of a similar character to those made by the same distinguished individuals on Satur? day, a resolution was passed repri? manding Leslie and suspending his Senatorial funotions for six months. All of the Democrats voted against this action, believing that it was un? constitutional and extra judicial, and havo given notice that they will file a protest to-day, covering their objec? tions. So, the carpet-baggers and scala? wags have, by a process as unusual as it is unfair and unjust, succeeded in protecting themselves, in the Sen ato chamber, from Leslie's exposures of their ignorance and rascality, by excluding him, for a term which will include the whole of the next regalar session ; but, in so doing, they have not punished him, but his constitu? ency, and we will be very much sur? prised if the "dear people" of Barn? well, who sent him here, will consent to bo unrepresented on the floor of tho Senate for any alleged miscon? duct of Leslie. MAID 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 closo at S% p. m. Charleston night mail open 8j? a. m., close 4*fj p. m. Northern-Open for delivery at %}? a. m., closes at 2.45 p. m. Groonville-Open for delivery 5 p. m., closes at 8)? p. m. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.-Special at tention is called to the following ad? vertisements, published for the first time this morning: J. M. Davis-For Rent. L. A. Dugas-Medical College. J. G. Gibbes-A Card. Columbia Chapter No. 5, R. A. M. Meeting Boord of Trado. Acacia Lodge No. 94, A. F. M. Gregg, Palmer & Co-Tobacco. John C. Bryce-Strayed. R. 0. Shiver-Dry Goods. Tho monotony of the late long and dull season has boen broken by the arrival of a large lot of now dry goods at R. C. Shiver's, which, on account of theic beauty and cheap? ness, are drawing crowds of buyers. The Philadelphia Age, speaking of the result ia Maine, says: "Tho same proportion of change in tho other States will not leave Grant ton States in the Union. But it is not in tho New England States that wo expect the greatest changes. It is fair to calculate that the rest of the States will exceed tho emphatic chango in Maine at least 50 per cent,"