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COLUMBIA, S. C. Saturday ?ornine:, July 20,1872. For President of the United States. UOHA.CK QREELET, or New York. For Vice-President. B. GRATZ SHOWN, of Minoan. Tho Young Man from Howard. There appearod in the Union, ol Thurs? day's date, a letter ia reply to a recent editorial in this paper headed "Plain Talk to the Colored People." Tbe writer signs bia name ofter the latest approved Btyle-T. MoCauts Stewart and announoes himself as "a young colored man," fresh from the lofty bill of Howard. Aside from tbese little sophomoric pretensions, common to all oollege chaps, without discrimination on account of color, tho lotter of this "young colored man" is surprisingly well written and worthy of reply. Though a dapper young man, doubtless, who, judging from his modest signature, ports his hair in the middle and sports a tiny cane, he has evidently not neglected mightier matters, and has mads valuable nae of his time at Howard. The letter ia written in good-temper, is logical, though based upon error, and, as a mere piece of composition, is highly credita? ble to the author. We ore sorry, though, to eeo this promising young student of Howard content to toke his political ideas second-handed, and to stuff his yonng mind with all the heresies and false political theories dealt oat at the Badical hustings and intended only to gull fools that knaves may prosper. It is a petitio principii to soy that the De? mocratic party has been and is opposed to "free schools, free press, free spesoh and equal rights." There will be found nothing in the platform of the Demo? cratic porty, nor in the ntteronoes of any of its representative men, to show anything of the hind; bat, on the other hand, all their professions and their praotioea have been in perfect keeping with these principles which the "yoong man from Howard" olaims to be the ex elusivo property of the Republican party. No American who believes in a republican form of government thinks for a moment of opposing free speech, a free press ojr equal rights. Bat while free speech ?B a good thing, and should be inviolobly protected, it moy be abased No man should be allowed, nnder thc plea of free speech, to make incendiary harangues, HO as to endanger the livei and property of the community. Nc abolitionist, either, should hove beet allowed to proclaim his doctrines in ( slave State, where the immediate ten denoy was to incite insurrection, one thus lead to bloodshed and all the horrori of civil war. As to the assault upon Mr. Sumner, which the "young man from Howard' cites io show that the Democratic part] did not advocate free speeoh, the youn? man should know that the Democratic party had nothing to do with the matter Mr. Sumner, in the course of a speed in the Senate, had UBed language reflect icg personally npon Senator Batler, o South Carolina, who was absent at thi time on a siok bed. Mr. Brooks, wh< was the frieud and prolige of Senatoi Batler, resented the insult by caninj Mr. Sumner with a light walking stick No "life-blood flowed," nor was then any attempt' to do Mr. Sumner any seri oas bodily barm. The pablio indignity was the object of the caning, and notb. ing else. The "young man from How ard" has been singularly anfortanate ii the instances he has selected to oas odium apon the Demooratio party, a being opposed to free speech. Wo cai mention to him a for stronger oas against the Republican party, and in thi State, too. We refer to the meeting a Chester two years ago, when the Repab beana threw brick-bats at the Re fort speakers, and broke up their meeting Here was a plain violation of the righ .t free speech, oommitted by Republi eons, but we know it would be nnfair t argue from this that the party is oppose in principle to free speeoh. Next, "the yoong men from Howard cites the opposition of? the Demo ci at i party to the recent amendments to th Federal Constitution, as proof of the: antagonism to eqaal rights. The am?ne menta were not designed to confer equi rights, for while they enfranchised tb black people Of the Sooth they place the whites ander disabilities. Such wi the character at least of . the fourteen! amendment. As to the thirteenth, thei waa no opposition, that we are aware o by the Demooratio party. The objeotic by the Demoorats to the fourteenth ac fifteenth amendments was not beoaoi they conferred rights upon the colon people, but because they were both sei ona invasions npon the rights of tl States.' But we have not time nor space notice all the points presented by tl "young man from Howard." We w conclude with the subject of "carpet? baggers and scala waga." We would ha"? tbe young man from Howard to u j-^".at ?md that these are Bpeoifio terms. Oarpet-btigger, for instance, does not mean simply one who is born or bas been reared out of the ??tate, and now lives in it, but is applied to a peculiar, and in our opinion, a very low and dis? reputable class of individuals, who flocked like vultures to the South in the wake of the invading armies, und sought political preferment at tho bands of the colored people, with a view of filling their pockets with pnblio money. The gratitnde which the * 'young man from Howard" expresses towards these people docs much credit to his heart, but precious little to his head. If they had dono the great things for the colored rao? and for the State, which he seems to believe, they would bo deserving of his profoundest reverenee. But we fail to see how they have, in any way, bene? fited the colored people or the State. They have spent enough in the last foui years to have supported the State Go? vernment, at the lowest estimate, for al least thirty years. They have debauched the morals of the oolored people, witt whom they have associated, and have brought upon the State and the coloree people the stigma of establishing a go vernment which is "a disgrace to ci viii zation." Now these carpet-baggers while all these enormous sums of moue] bave been collected by taxation and thc millions added to the bonded debt o the State, have been rolling In weal tl and luxury, while every public inetitu tion, from the free schools down, ha languished from want of neoessar; funds. They, "young man from How ard," have filled their private coffer while they despoiled your native State burdened yon and your posterit. with a monstrous debt, corrupted yon leaders and cast odium upon your whol race. If yoa oan be supremely gratefu for such favors, yon are certainly a won dori ul "young man." THE GBOWTNQ COTTON CROP.-Th oommittee of information of the Nc Orleans Cotton Exohange has pnblishe its monthly statement of the growin ootton orop. The report is dated Jnl 6, and contains details of informatio from all the ootton States. The gen en tenor of the accounts are favorabh The cotton worm has appeared in som localities, bnt not to a sufficient extei to occasion alarm, the worst feature, t far, being the fact that the weather now such as to promote the inorease < this pest. The indications are favorab for a fall yield in Alabama, Florid Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia at Mississippi. In Louisiana and Soul Carolina an average yield is looked io while in Texas the crop will be vei large, provided the weather continu favorable. Perhaps the worst aoooni comes from Arkansas, where only a ba average is anticipated, even nnder tl most favorable conditions of the weathe But all the accounts from all the Stat ooncur in representing the orop an in very much more promising conditio and as looking and doing better than this time lust year. The New Orlea Price Current, an excellent authority < the subject, estimates the orop at 1,00( OOO bales, and later information receiv at the Department of Agriculture, Was ington, confirms this view. POLITICALI D?TTINGS.-One huudr oolored men have united in a letter Mr. Sumner, praying his advice in t present political situation. A Grant organ produces the f olio win "Motto o? the Greeley Democracy-*^ stoop to conquer.' " This is almost good as the motto of the Grant oflh holders' party-"We steal to conquer. The San Francisco Alta Bays of Grat that "we have had peace daring his t ministration, and we will have four yei more of peaoe if he is re-elected." he is re-elected. That "if" is as tall the highest peak of the Himalaya Mot taine. There is still a vast amonnt of feeli manifested in Grant's papers. Th weep for "the glory and traditions the Democratic- party." The sitnatior very affecting. The Louisville Courier-Journal pic rializes with a white hat and the sign osnt motto, "Come nnder." The papers from all quarters bri announcements of changea from 1 ultra Republican ranks to the Libe causo. A batch of snob announceme has recently come from Pennsyivan Yesterday we had information of the foliation of Mr. Taber from the N York State Bepublioan Committee s his accession to the support of Greel Mr. Taber is a man of ability and' tensive inflaenoe, and his wunara from the Grant party is one of the h viest blows it has sustained in the ? pire State. The cause is prosper everywhere. Look to Congreu? lu tho excitement of the moment over tho Presidential contest, we would warn our people not to forget another struggle of at least equal importance, not alone to each particular State, but to the whole country, North as well as Sooth. That struggle is the one for possession of the next Congress of the United States; and it will require the more earnest and un? remitting, work for the reason that moon of it will oome in detail between this day and the one in which the two great armies deoide the victory in November next. Coming thus, at intervals and at localities far distant from each other, this contest for supremacy may IOHO its vital import to oar eyes before the con? centrated lights brought to bear upou the Presidential issue. And coming thus, and being, moreover, exposed to the intrusion of personal prejudices and of abstract local issues, the Congres? sional canvass will demand even more delicacy, constancy and tact than its twin contest this year. Glancing at the present situation, we find that the terms of twenty-four Senators expire on the 4th day of next March. These are: Spencer, of Ala? bama; Rice, of Arkansas; Cole, of Cali? fornia; Ferry, of Connecticut-whose history is too well known to be repeated here; Osborne, of Florida; Hill, of Georgia; Trumball, of Illinois; Morton, of Indiana; Harlan, of Iowa; Pomoroy, of Kansas; Davis, of Kentucky; Kel? logg, of Louisiana; Vickers, of Mary? land; Blair, of Missouri; Nye, of Ne? vada; Patterson, of New Hampshire; Conkling, of New York; Pool, of North Carolina; Thurman, of Ohio; Cameron, of Pennsylvania; Sawyer, of South Ca? rolina; Morrill, of Vermont; and Howe, of Wisconsin. For the most part these Senatorshipe will be filled by the Legislatures to be eleoted before the 1st of next December; and, incases, the choice for them will be influenced by the action of their States apon questions of State policy, even more than by their action upon natioual questions. Not that we propose, foi one instant, to separate the two in the minds of our people; for we hold them as twin causes, that add strength and vitality eaoh to the other. The men whe believe in and mean to do real worl for true reform and honest administra tion of the Government, in its lowest branches even, will see that perfect unitj and perfect concert alone can brinf these tho happy issue we long for HUI expect. Else we had not placed thi names of Horace Greeley and Thos. H Herndon togother at our mast-head Bat, while the whole South rises witt one impulse and shouts the names o Greeley and Brown with one triumphan voice, let us also remember that to mak' their triumph sore-to leave aught but i barren sceptre ia the people's grasp when we have once more proclaimed tb people king-we must not separate thos who stand upon two great issues, insep arable and indivisible. Those issues ar reform and honesty. They move wit! even pace beside the State tickets am beside the national; and in securing tu separate triumph of the former alon can we make that of the latter as effect ive as it is already brilliant and assured That Horaoe Greeley will be the ne] President of tho United States we be lieve to be certain as any mundan thing may be. But to make his' Pros denoy all-powerful for the perfect rt form for which the people cry aloud an with one voice, from Maine to the Gul: that people mast hold up his hands b giving bim a Congress pledged to tb same policy and fully advised of its si promo will. We have heard more than ono though fol Democrat give, us one reason for sui porting Mr. Greeley, rather than an straight-oat and tried leader of oar ow party, that the latter could, in any poss ble contingency, only bo elected with Congress divided against itself and oj posed to bim; whereas the popular cu: rent in favor of the Liberal movemei could not only elect its candidate, bi utterly change the color of the Congrei chosen with him. Whether or not fl agree with tho deductions these Dem: crate have made from this fact, yet tl fact itself is one no thoughtful mau wi gainsay. Nor is the question one thi we can alford to lose sight of for oi moment. It demands, as we have san careful and constant thought; coustai impressing upon the people; perfect o ganizatiou and ooncert of action; and demands, in an eminent degree, courag delicacy and tact. For these reasons, we huve writtc these words of reminder. The Senate open to the people of this country open to eaoh and every voter who pr fers honesty to corruption, and who b Hoves in the people's right to govei themselves-to entirely remodel. Bi the Holiso is in their hands to make ne from its very foundation. Of the Senat one-third of its whole number are to I chosen this year. Of the House, tl whole number are now before their co st i tuen to.. Each State and each Ten tory will choose the men to represent 1 to misrepresent her; and it is now question of free choioe which of the tv she may prefer. The State elections, : many coses, fall upon dates prior to tl Presidential election, ai follows: Norl Carolina, Angust?; Kentucky, Montai and Utah, August 5; New Mexico, Se tomber 1; California, September 2; Ve mont, September 3; Maine, Septemb 9; Colorado Territory, September 1 Dakota, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Ohi Pennsylvania and the District of C lumbia, October 9; South Carolina, 0 tober 16. West Virginia, October 24. AU the States vote for President electors on the 5th day of Novembe and OD the same day the following ohoo State offioers: Alabama, Arkansas, Del ware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kunst Louisiana, Maryland, Masaoohasotl Miohigac, Minnesota, Mississippi, M souri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Yor Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin. A zona holds her Terri tor lol election 1 the 8th of November. Herein is the golden opportunity; und, in all seriousness, we believe that its like has never before beeu known to our his? tory. Never bofore has the ebb of po? pular favor been so sudden, so rapid, and so utter from the feet of a popular idol; and the ace nm ula ted swell of popu? lar ire and populnr despair has now risen with a tidal wave, whose resistless power will sweei its produoiug-oauses into nothingur >s. Before its Burge, fraud, chicanery, and even bribery, will turn or be buried; and on its ere it for? gotten Right und Truth will ride tri? umphant to thc gates of Government. And now if our people-especially our people hero ut home-neglect to close their banda upon tho rich prize, born of this golden opportunity and within their easy grasp, then is the error, the misery, und the Bhame, that people's solely. If tho American people elect Horace Gree? ley and fetter his hands; if they ant with ono accord upon the national issue and yet permit pique, or personality, or pre jupice, or party, to divert them from the grave State redemption out of which this national issue is born, then have they shattered the Radical idol ouly to ping praises of the Ridical religiou and to subscribe to the articles of the Radi? cal faith. In every District, in every County, and in every beat, we implore our peo? ple to ponder upon these facts-to which we shall recur again in greater detail. And when they have pondered, let them not sleep upou them; but rather act like men of aotion, iu holding prompt conference, and laying at once thone de? tailed plans upon which they will rest when the hour comes tu be up and doing.-Mobile Register. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN.-Is there on earth one Republican who objects to the Cincinnati platform? Is there anyon? who bolds it not a full, terse, forcible, convincing statement of fundamental Republican doctrine? Who has evei contended that a believer iu that plat form is not a Republican? Who au 8wers these questions in the negative' Does any oue doubt that Greeley une Brown are sincere, hearty adherents t< thut platform? Hare not all their livei been giveu to the commendatiou and defence of tho great truths therein se forth? Is there a fool so foolish as t< fancy that they hu ve just reiterated th ci assent to these truths ouly to betray ant subvert them? "Ah! but the Democrats also profus to believe them." Very well! What reason have you ti believe them insincere? Did not C. L Vallandigham, moro than u year ago, in sist that this "New Departure" must b taken-not in pretense, but in verity Had not Storey, of Chicago, said th ?ame thing more than a year before Did not all discerning persons perceiv even earlier still that this new departur was only a question of time? The D< mooratic National Convention, yon saj had to adopt Greeley and Brown, i order to defeat Grant. Well, they naigh have done this without endorsing tb Oinoinnati platform. The Republican of this city supported John T. Hoffma for Recorder not long ago, but they di not adopt a Domocratio platform. The had given their last vote years bofore t elect Daniel F. Tiemann Mayor ov< Fernando Wood. So in other ease; But no one ever suggested that the could not do this without adopting Democratic platform. The late Democratic National Couvei tion might have endorsed Greeley au Brown without hinting at any change < platform. Men of all parties vote ft candidetes of other parties withot adopting their principles. No one eve said "you must not vote for our cand dato UUICH.4 you adopt our principles All are glad to obtain votes from me who reject their creed. But the Dem crats have chosen unasked, unprompted to adopt a substantially Republican plu form. They have suid, as plainly i words can say it, that they accept tl situation, and regurd all controversy r -peeling slavery and negroes a? forev closed. What reason has any one f< asserting that they do not mean wh they say? What conceivable motive bi they for saying this, if they did u mean it? Do you say that they ha' hitherto held adversu opinions? He many have not? How long is it sin Connecticut, and New York, and Wi cousin, and even Kausas, while strong supporting the Republican ticket, voti down negro suffrage? If Rep?blica may change on this point, why n Democrats? If you said it was dark hi night, must you persist in that assortit at noon to-day? The adoption of the Cincinnati ph form at Baltimore is an immense fa< We aro too near it to have its fall si nifioance popularly appreciated. T result of our approaching President oontest is of secondary consequent. For this time, we presume, most of tl blacks will be drilled up by the Uni? Leagues to vote for Grant and Wilso But Greeley and Brown will be eleote and then the blacks will poroeive th the bugaboo tales of rebel proscripta and Ku Klaz vengeance that were to I visited on them, as fruits of this trinmp were falso. Thenceforth whites ai blacks will alike divide on public qa< tions as individual convictions, not oolor, may dictate. The planter, t overseer, the field-hands and the bout servants, will take counsel of each otb as friends, and will vote with or agair. each other as their respective oonv: tions shall dictate. The Oinoinnati Co vention will then be seen to have bor beneficent fruits. Nay, even the deft of its candidates, were that possih could not wholly blast them. Rejoic then, patriots! that the era of he draws to a close-that the restoration fraternity is assured! Impeded, delay it may be; prevented it eannot be. T hands outstretched in proffer of ami from the South will not be repulsed the North!-New York Tribune. m ? Mies Cunningham is to retire frc Mount Vernon. Eiooal Items. -. ? . CITY MATTERS.-The price of single copies of the PHOENIX is five cents. Mr. H. P. Adams, general traveling agent for the St. Louis, Memphis and Chattanooga and other railroad oompa panies, as also the H. I. Kimball House, Atlanta, Qa., atrived in Columbia, yes? terday. Mr. Adams is also arranging excursion tickets to Niagara and Sara? toga, via Atlanta, Ga., good nntil used excursionists having the privilege of stopping over at different points-Ca toosa Springs, Lookout Monntain, Mam? moth Cave, etc. United States Marshal lt. M. Wallace, Esq., has appointed Mr. J. A. Beattie a special deputy marshal for the Stato at large. Mr. Beattie was for a long time United States mail agent. The Galaxyr-lox August, maintains the high standing which this magazine has attained among American periodicals. The leading articles of the number are as follows: "Life on the Plains," "The Egyptians at Home," "Was St. Peter ever at Borne?" "James Gordon Ben? nett's Scintillations," which throws light upon a period of journalistic history with which few readers or writers are familiar. The poetic, scientific and literary departments are quite ap lo the high standard of the.magazine. After an intermission of two days, the rains were resumed yesterday, together with a liberal amount of thunder and ?ind. We furnish a ten-column supplement with the present issue of the TRI WEEKLY PHCESIX and WEEKLY GLEANER. This ii rendered absolutely necessary by thc great pressure ypon oar columns daily, and the general desire for politioal ai well os general news. Oar readers maj rest assured that the PHOENIX ant G LEA NEU will keep ap with the timei and tbs rapid marah of improvement We challenge comparison as to quantity and quality of reading matter with anj paper in the State. Chief of Police Jackson has succeeder in overhauling two thieves who havi been operating in different portions o the State. One of them stole a horse ii Laurens, and the other robbed the stor* of Messrs. J. Eli Gregg & Co., in Ma rion. The horse and a portion of th other stolen property were recovered. The thermometer ranged as follows a the Pollock House yesterday: 7 A. M. 83; 12 M., 91; 2 P. M., 91; 7 P. M., 84. Mr. McKenzie has the "latest out" the campaiga puzzle-a oornncopi filled with candy. By a peculiar expr?s sion, a likeness of oar next President i obtained. The general impression ?hat the sc called slang phrase, "too thin," is c modern origin, is an erroneous om King Henry VIII, to the Bishop c Winchester, says, in reply to some "sol nawder," by the Bishop, that is "to thin," otc. The Indian Girl declares for Woor hull and Douglass. To every couver she will sell for a mere song a lot of h< finest and latest imported cigars. Among the arrivals at the Columbi Hotel, yesterday, were W. T. J. C Woodward, the indefatigable, (who is i Columbia to attend a trial,) and Mr. I Jacobs-a candidate, it is presumed, f< official position, as he iuveeted a fra tiou of a dollar in peaches, and treate the crowd. They both hail from Charle ton. PHCESIXIANA. - Tho man who stole pair of boots the other day had a fit. If speech is silver and silence gob how much is a dumb man worth? If there is any environment which ca degrado a haman being or harden yoong heart it is the atmosphere < fashionable life, without that home ca ture which should be its natara! aococ paniment. It soon destroys all the tei derness of youthful nature, and tab away that beautiful modesty, which, i the beginning, would not have bec thought of. The local of the Macon Telegraph r plies to protesting gentlemen who do ni wish their names to figure in police r ports: "If you don't want the soo don't go up the ohimney." We give in. Harvard did not mean I dab Gen. Grant Doctor of Laws eft all. Her LL. D. was merely i a tende to designate him as the Late Leathi Dresser. Some ono wants to know what becom of the bits of a woman's mind. It h said that the ladies of the oongr gation of a popular English preaoher ai subscribing for a fa ad to procare him divorce. We won't ask whether tl movement is a selfish one. Under the head of "Trifles by Tel graph," the Chioago Inter-Ocean ea: "there were fonr fatal sun-strokes ye tord ay in Boston." These things ye , call fatal san-strokea are trifles oertainl; but yon will find few people who like \ be trifled with in that way. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to hu inanity. They are bat trifles, to be sare, but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. A smile accompanied by a kind word has been known to reclaim a poor outcast and change the whole enrrent of a ha man life. Of all life's blessings, none are cheaper or more easily disponsed than smiles. I?et ns not, theo, be too chary of them, but scatter them freely as we go; for life is too short to be frowned away. UNITED STATES COMHISSIONEB'S COUBT. Wm. Harter, of Union County, arrested apon the charge of violating the En? forcement Act, was, by order of Jadge Bryan, taken before Commissioner Boozer, yesterday, and gave bail in the sum of $10,000, for his appearance at j the August term of the United States Court, to be held in this city in August next. The prisoner is represented by Henry A. Meetze, Esq. DEATH OF AN ESTEEMED RESIDENT. We rogrot to learn from a letter received in this oity, of the death at Blackstocka, on the 17th, of Mr. James L. Rose? borough, who, for soveral years, has ? been freight agent in this city for the Charlotte, Colombia and Angosta Rail? road Company. He bad been in feeble health for several months, bat his death waa unexpected. He was an honest man and a good oitizen. He leaves a wife, child and an extensive oirole of relatives and friends to mourn his death. HOMICIDE IN FAIRFIELD.-A difficulty, which resulted fatally, occurred on Wednesday afternoon last, on the plan? tation of Mrs. M. S. Brennan, near Ridgeway, Fairfield Connty, between two freedmen, Charles Crey?n and Shad rach Harris, in which the former was killed, by a knife iu the hands of the latter. The murderer escaped, and has not yet been arrested. Trial Justice Finnigan held an inquest and Dr. R. H. Edmonds performed a post mortem exami? nation. Mr. E. F. S tokes, the "great un terri? fied D?mocratie war-horse," after con I siderable drumming, succeeded. in rais [ ing a promiscuous crowd, last night, on the corner of Richardson and Taylor ? streets. Although he repeatedly appeal - , ed to them as "Fellow-oitizens," it was palpable that he made bat little impres? sion upon his audience. After he had been expatiating for half an hour, a rain-storm came np, whioh scattered a portion of tbeerowd; buta goodly num? ber remained to hear him ont. Mr. S., there is no doubt, is earnest and honest [in his ideas, bat forgets that things I change, and old opinions must give way to the new order. OFFICE OF CLERK OF SENATE, COLUMBIA, 8. C., Joly 19, 1872. Editor of Phcenix-SIB: My attention having been called to the notice of Jadge Mackey's speech, by the Winnsboro News, published in your issue this morn? ing, please allow me space sufficient to say that tho statements made therein, aa to the publio printing of Sooth Carolina, are all false, with a Bingle exception, to wit: "That the Clerk of the Senate is President of the company whioh does the State printing, and the Clerk of the House a member." I deem these whole? sale fictions unworthy of farther notice. J. WOODRUFF, Clerk of Senate. CHALLENGE.-Mr. W. D. Evans, of Anderson, publishes the following chal? lenge in the Intelligencer, addressed to Judge James li. Orr: SIB: With a number of my fellow oitizens, I listened to yonr and other ad? dresses spoken on the 6th inst. Calmly and patiently, without one interrogatory pat, without one interruption obtruded, the audience beard, as I conceive, the most unfair and ex porte arguments ad? vanced, the most monstrous propositions enunciated. As one of the people, having a com? mon interest in good government, I feel unwilling that such wholesale error and tergiversation go unanswered and onre boked. Therefore, I invite yon, at no distant day, to a pnblio discussion at An? derson Court Honse, of the issues of the present political campaign. I can boast no knowledge of party manoavering or astuteness-an humbie farmer, I hm forced to labor daily for a subsistence in these degenerate times-yet I hope yon may not deem it a condescension on your part to accept the invitation; for, where more intimately known, I oan lay claim at least to some respectability, I some honesty of parp?se, some integrity I of character. It yon Uko up the gaunt? let thus thrown down, yon will please in? dicate your acceptance in the same me? dium through whioh this reaohes yon. Tho time and manner af conducting the discussion may, in the meantime, be agreed upon, and notice given thereof accordingly* LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Offioo Room to Rent. Woman's Rights at Indian Girl Store. REVOLUTION IN FIJI.-The Australa? sian mail at San Francisco, brings intel liger je that the Fiji Islands are "under? going inoipient revolution," ?tod that the exirting Government ie powerless against it.