BwrTia.oo PER ANNUM.
|Bi!P'"vfft?'(ftd Cm?. .
BBEMBp|Mji? HQkt wrt yy iM (he ikon to
' pjAn'ilhc waters below ltvn'i dsilc and deep;
^vVhere thb fbgged pine In it* lonely pride,
Latuw gloomily over Ihe murky lide';
Where reed* aod ruahea ere leU end rank,
Arid the weed* grow thick on the winding
b.?k,
AVliere the shadow U heavy the who'e day
- through,
LIVfer At4ts thboring* Hie old crtnoe.
The nacloa* peddle* ere Idly dropped, f
Lilte a wa-\hrA\e wing* that the storm Uath
>i lopped,
AhffbrokMJ on tfieTalHng. one o'er one,
Lfk* folded hand* when the work ia done;
While busily back end forth between,
The apidet stretohea hi* silvery acreen.
And the aoletnu owl, with hi* dull "too
boo;* ' !* " :
Ncatlee down on the aide of the oM canoe.
The atern, half wank in the slimy were, ' *
Hots slowly away in iu living grave,
And the green vow creep* o'er it* dull da
y. ' I* til
lltdi?g the mouldering du*t away.
Like the hand that plant* o'er th* tomb a
flower,
?9 tl.o ivy that maatlaa a fallen tower;
Wldi? many a blossom of llvlieat hue,
Sl^dag*op o'er (he alern of the old canoe.
T^e $uri-eoUeas waters are daad and itiil?
But die light winda play with the boat at
will,
And bully in and out again.
Itidoata the length of Ua ruaty chain.
Like fhe weary March of the hand* of lime,
Thkt meet and part at the noontide ehliue [
And the shore le klsaed at each turn anew,
By the dripping bow of the old canoe.
Oh, many a time witn a eareleca hand
1 have puehed it away from the pebbly
trend,
And paddled it down where the etreara ran
. j gnlck?
Where the whirls were wild and tlia storm
was thick;
A ad laughed as I leaned o'er the rocking
side,
Akd looked below in tbe broken tide,
To see that the faeea and boite were two.
That ware mirrored back from the old
canoe.
Put now. aa I leitfl o'er the ernmbling tide,
And look below in the sluggish tide,
The fsee that f se/ls graver grown,
Abd tbe laugh that I hear baa aaobtrton?(
And the hands that lent to the light skiff
wings,
Have grown familiar with sterner things;
But! lore to think of the honfs that flew,
Ajt'I rocked where the whirla their wild
spray tbrew:
Eke the blossoms moved or the greet) gram
grew,
O'er the moaldering slero of the old csneo.
' u What doth hikdm mr to br Baptized
f w?This question received a new
solution in Haiubutg, 6. C , on Sunday
1 Aat. In ail the colored Baptist churchen
in and around Augusta, a great revival
baa been going on for some weeks,
and many had been baptised or im?
merited. This contagion baa not confined
Itself to the Georgia side of the
Savannah river, but spread into Scuth
Carolina, with like glorious results, tintil
the raw material or that which
was accessible, was well nigh played oot.
On 8nnday, ho'wever, a solitary subject
was found, and he, headed and surrounded
by the minister and a large crowd,
took up the line of march for the Savannah.
On arriving beside the swift running
stream, and the subject was almost
ia the attitude of tbs Eunuch with
which PhiHp rode in the chariot, M Here
is water?what doth binder me to be
baptieed," when the poor candidate's
eyes were suddenly opened by the tnin
Liter propounding to him the solemn
nuestion," Are you married fH ~Nosir."
' Then you can never be bapthred so
Ibttg as you are living In Illieit' inter*
course without a woman, thouoh von
fouy consider her your w{|jb. ^hi? fell
like ? bomb?bel! into ap enemy's camp
aiid iht b'tb to tbtaking, bot not wish
iftgtb spofr the show, and jeopard bii
cfcwneea for kingdom come, be soon
made op hie mind and Intimated bis
willingness to oowspfy with the letter of
^>e lew, and the woman (dressed in a
plain,aod iiaedipg ^suspectingty,
ip 4l>e crowd to aee him dipped) r ai
trotted ont before the assembled throng,
the knq4 tied on the bank and ber husband
accordingly immersed wf|h all the
?>tes and oarfrooniaa.
[Aufuetm Chronicle and Sentinel,
CftOWIMO OV aft A VlCTORT.?'Oit
Naysrille (Kentucky) Bolletia. In hot);
or of the reeent Democratic victory in
H}at ffcate, heeds eU the columns on
l?eth its inside pages, with large cuts oi
roosters, a double column rooster Lead<
ing the two ooltuuos containing tbe elec
RnHP^1'')'''' > it iff y tnwr. ? *? * fct?/r
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| An Effective 8p?rcL .
Senator Wihwa has found a lion in Ma
path. At Montgomery, Ala , he challenged
arty Southern man to reply to him. The
gage of battle wee accepted by Oeneral
Jus II. Clanlon, who, though taken byeurprtae,
delivered a telling and eloquent
epeech. To the exclusion of other mutter,
"1 we reproduce the anbetaaee of hia ratnarke,
for which we are Indebted to the Montgomery
Mallr
! * friend* and FH W C'h'nn*:
I returned from ttie country a fow minalee
since, and waa informed that some colored
men had called at my office, to invite
mfc to attend ibfa meeting. 1 appreciate
this act of Mrtdndei, confidence and friond
ahlp on their part. My colored blende, we
are Southern men, l>ol;n upon thasamcaoil,
live in the same eonntry, and will slcen in
the eanrne grave yard when llfe'a tronnlea
nnebver^ and Otir destiny is the same. If ,
Jort preapeY, -the white race of the Sonth ]
will prosj-'Cr; and if the white race proa- j
peYs, you must proeper; and whatever mis- '(
ibrtune ia visited i?| on the South, must be ,
horno alike by both raco?. It is alike your (
duty and intereat to cultivate friendly re~ (
lotions wl'h your neighbors and your lop.
nier owners, who are to-day, and ever have '
been, yonr beat friends. For one, I can
proudly aav that no ooa in thia assembly
can aaeert that 1 ever opprcseed him whea
i he was a slave. On ena occasion I fought
for ona of you io theee a'reeta. On another,
jrhen a white m*? bad bean waylsj-ci and
murdered, and hia neighbors had acrembled,
and taken the law in their hands with the
avowed purpose of executing the two soppoted
leaders, who wye colored men, I iplerposrd,
with others, and suceceded in
having them placed in jail, and a fair trial
given thsro. Oue was convicted and hung ;
the other acquitted, aud still lives.
The Senator from Massachusetts, who has
just addressed you, mod who lives several
thousand mileadistant, has noliUsl to >nn
ill* object of bis political pilgrimage South.
Be ha* challenged any one prevent to meet
him in diacamion to night, and haa offered
to divide time with any one who would
accept. I wa*born and raited in the South,
and hope to be burled In her eoiL I have
nv t the bifiVe men of the Korth on many
field*; they outnumbered and overcame us;
and I certainly have no fear of their politi
ciana. But for my family, life would have but
few charms tor me. Neither the Hear of the
gallowet the^gibbef, or the bayonet, will
ever cause roe to des<-rt my people, forsake
tlds bright Southern land Which gave ni*
birth, or dnter me from the expression of
my honoat sentiments under anv circum
stances. Some young Southern Radical*,
who have recently addressed you. Siy that
the Sherman bill which thay ar* ad voealing,
would disfranchise them, and henoe their
efforts were purely unselfish, whilst at the
time their application* to be relieved from
tha disabilities of that measure are pending
at Washington, and they are doubtless ex
peeling to call on you for your Votes at the
next election for this State.
I will here state my own position briefly
on thl* point.
i believe that bill is unconstitutional?I
believe it is oppressive to a certain class of
oar best men.
As soon as that bill passed Congress, a
high Federal official with the kindest feelinga
for me personalty, aald to me: ''You
were nol an original secessionist Congress
will remove your disahtiiliaa tinder tha
Sherman bilk You mast sand on an nppll
cation, find t will approve it, and help you
to gat it throngl^" I replied that tlia Republican
party had no right tinder the Con
ftitution to disfranchise me, and 1 would
nevfir ask for relief at their handa, and
that i? my poskiob to-night.
The honorable Senator from ktarsachusells
has said some things which cvinpe
good fealings cn his part, and which 1 ap
prove, lie haa also said many things from
wbieh I must dissent and made many a* 1
teiiions which the political history, and ;
particularly that of our recent ud fort mm to
war, proves to be untruo. He commences
with the history of slavery in the South
since he came upon the stage of notion, and (
endeavor* to fit the responsibility of the j
existeneeof that institution upon IheSouthern
people, with all of Its horrors as depicted
by his trivid imagination. 1 will
cairy the gentleman back to the starting
point of the institution op this continent,
snd before I take my seat I will prove to
you that the North is responsible for the
existence of slavery with whatever evils
attached to It; and I am frank to say that
there were features in slavery which were
wrong.
Many years ago, my friend*, before the
United States had an existence as a nation,
your forefathers inhabited the homes of
your raee?Africa. The Northern people,
who were thon as no* a commercial people,
owning many ships, went to the coast
of Africa and I ought some and stole or
kidnapped your grandfathers snd mothers,
placed them in the hold of their veaaelr in
great number*, and in chains took some few
to their Northern homes, nod sent most of
them to be sold to the Southern people for
slave*. In this work they had'vnlunble colaborers
in the English and' 8panisb. Iky
this traffle la human flesh they made large
sotDDgot nH>n*y,
TKa VLvnlkarit n.i/tnla a ? as*.?t era I vnla
X?re cppoeed to th? nlare trad*, when the
ilonift threw off the joke of Droit Britain.
the Southern Goloni?? emonoet them,
end one of the principal reeeoo* which they
pnblWhed to the world In jiittlfieation of
their Cauae, ?H that (he mother country
had itnpeeed elarery end the alave trade
1 upon them ngalnat their withe*
When oar. isdeneodenee wa* aeknowlodg
1 ed and we fbrmeo A Uuion of the Colooiaa,
f the South waa till oppoeed to the alave
trade, and It would hgva then been deeltred
piracy, and half qftyour.raee In the United
State* wonld tint nave b?en here now, bat
1 in Africa; but the Northern men eognged
, In the trade, found It to be ao profitable,
. add ao entirely free from eny eoneelentioua
, eeroplea were they, that they loaUtrd that
their pione operation* ahonld continue
twenty rente loog. r, and the8outh.yjalded.
Theae alave trader* inveated their money
Im lend*, hoaeen end other property* et the
North, which made taeey of their grand
1 children or great-grandchildren rioh. nod
tome of whom are now leading Republl
i oana.
i The elavrholdera of, tiyi Northern Sty tea
f did the Mint thing in moat i?etei*eae by
tendiog their alavctto Virginia, apd other
' Southern fliat.a, and veiling them, whan
their atava l.ib*>r became lcaa profitobla in a
cold climate than white laber, and have
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,.,.ii.f i ..nr^mirwuti t ?si
aceamused themselves by baaing the
Southern peo^S 44 ikivf drivers?and ths
Senator,, the descendant of these man, ia
here to-night reminding yon of the wrongs
you have received at the lianda of your former
owners, and advising yon to avoid political
alliances with you (rienda and neighbors,
and to seek no alliance with people
in distant Stater, the Republican* of the
North. I repeat that the consoienclous
scruples of the North w ere not seen cropping
out until they had your race to their
pockets, where tney have taken good care
to keep you ever elooe.'
There are many goad people at the
North who are your friends, and who have
neVer engaged in the slave trade, owned
slaves, or approved of slavery. The aan.e
can be said of the South} and If let alone bv
the North that class would have been mXich
larger in the South. More slaves haVcbeen
freed by the act of their owners in the
South than at the North. George Washington
owned al>cnt rthe thousand, which
lie freed at hit death. Mr. Randolph did
ihe same. General Oglethorpe opposed
slavery in Georgia. There is a man on this
Mage who knows that 1 had an angry controversy
many ycara ago In this city formJoining
Henry Clay's emancipation scheme
for Kentucky. He was my political leader,
I never knew 1dm to do Wrong, but I fear
we will never look upon his like again.
The gontleman from Massachusetts savt
you ought to identify yonreelvee with the
Radical part}' of the North, because (hey
have waded through a bloody war of four
pears to osteon free, to give you lh? right
.<> mi upon juiiop, 10 rme on railroads, im
ify as witnesses in court*, and much else.
[ deny every assertion ha has made on (heaa
wlnts, and challenge him to the proof. He
a ho says that this war was commenced by
lie North to aetyon free and confer on you
ha right* which yon now enjoy, falsifies
lite history Of the country; not intenlionil'y,
I hope. The Government of the Unit
id*Slatee. during the war, again and sgain
leolared moat solemnly that this war was
not commenced or being waged fur con]ue*t,
or with a view of interfering with
wr property th slaves In the States Mr.
Lincoln urged us to return to the Union,
pledging ilia Government to receive u*
most cordially, and give slavery its proteo
lion in the State*. We wete threatened
with emancipation if we did not come hack.
In one hand the Government offered u*
Union and Slavery," and in the other war
rebellion and emancipation." Having
(one to war on principle, the South chose
he latter. No man know* this better than
he honorable Senator. Nor will he or
~>enemi Swayne. who is ott rh? stand, deny
he aweition that 1 ohi now going to u>uke,
lint we cobld have gone hock in the Union
ind held you a? our Slave* to-day. Von
ire not indrbted to the North or to the
South for yonr freedom, hut to God. In tend
ol" aburing us you ought to remember
lint tld* rebellion which you are taught to I
! Spies, by your enemle* nod our*, who only ]
:<>nte amongM. you for yonr vot?-S, was an
nstrument in tlic hand* of God for yonr
leftverance, so far as mortal aye can divine
he put potca of the Creator.
Tlie Southern people do not enry you
pour ft eedom. They would not restora you
to bondage if Ihey Could. Tfiey have jour
well being at heart, t did not lira a gun
lor elavery. Mora than half the Southern 1
irttiy never owned a e'ave. Hardee, Olehurne,
and many othera signed a petition
long before tho war cloaed. for your tree
4nm anf) In rnti an nnitw *
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volunteer and assist jotir %lnte Mends of
the South in achieving Southern Independence.
President Davit recommended tliii court*,
ind It in the theatre, in thit elty, endoreed
bie policy in the presence of a Very Infge
assembly, and tinted that I would lake
great pleasure in commanding colored
troop* Tou acted well jour port during
that unfortunate stiuggle, for which you de
serve, end have, the g.atitutle of every
Southern man and woman in our midst.
The gentleman toys that the Mexican
war wae brought on nud advocated by Mr.
Calhoun for the purpose of increasing the
area of freedom. No man ought to know
better lhau the honored representative of
Massachusetts that the statement is untrui.
Mr. Calhoun and also Mr. Clay, the great
Southern giants alive at the time, opposed
the war. Mr. Calhoun was to the Inst the
bitterest opponent of the war?predicting
aa he did the disastrous results upon the
peace of the country. Instead of that war
being wsged for slavery, it was vsry evl
dent, as the result proved, that any territory
adjoining us whieh could be acquired
would he free territory. That war gave to
the North, California, Utah and New Mexico.
Thongh only a boy, 1 fo lowed the
old flag through that war with many thousand
good and true fmen from my section
who only regarded the National honor of
onr common country. Again astoho-ctyou
became tree. The North aided to five you
wiih a bayonet and Military Pio'dnmntions
only as they believed it would injure us and
raise you up a hostile element in our midst;
and seemingly making your welfare a sec
ondary consideration. To render this set
of theira valid and eonatitutiowel, it was
nceeeaary that We should act. We nailed
toother oar Conventions, and without lies
itation, mad* you constitutionally free forever.
We also gave you the right to testify
in eaa?B where- you were Interested, and I
advocated in this State lie use your right
to teatify in all eaaea
You now enjoy many privilege*here not
onjoyed by your rate in the Northern
State* Aa the gentleman haa oungratu
laled you upon your improved aoodititon
here, and oreated still greater expectations
for your future political and social relations
in the South, let ute tell you what great
blessings the North.lias conferred uponyour
raoe even in hie own State.
First, until vary reeently, eltborgh your
rnee et the North are free, end here the ad
vantagee of the free school system of which
he boasts, and few in number% yet whilst
your numbers rapidly ineraased as slaves in
the han4u-of eruel master# referred to by
him. y^t with him at the Nerth Ihev have
diminished, your raoe have beeo and are
still excluded from Northern hotels, steam
beat cabins, relit oad ear#, and<plaees ot
amusement. They have been frequently exCI
led from such pleeea, end sometime# mobd
far claiming the right* of white people.
A*4 .whet hea been the reealt. ef every ef
fort em their port to obtain redrew end eetalrffsh
their rights by lew. Thay have in
eveary laatanoe, (unless it be very renently,)
eigsnl'y failnd. The courts of the country
wero against them. I aew, in Northern
newspapers, aud 1 beliatu it to It true, for
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caUoi.Ina. May 30. ipg
I lilvt no*h?r? It ?onln^1?lr4, that
about the last of 1RM, or the tint of the
prveest jeer. Fredrick Douglass, a mulatto
of Ne* York, Who U said to be a highly
educated and polished men, who conducts
himself with great propriety everywhere,
travelled as far Wret as 8t. I.ouis, and was
there and everywhere on Ids route refused
admission into the first class hotels of the
North and West Nearly evety Northern
State haa discriminated against tliem aa jurors,
witnesses, and heretofore at the ballot
box. They nowhere at the North enjoy. In
fact, alt the rights of white people, and in
moat States North th-y are by local lnwa
denied political equality at the nreaent
time. One or moro States went so far as to
deny them settlement within their boundaries
altogether.
You have been reminded, by the gentlo
man, of pecuniary ftvors conferred ; the
supplies voted you by hia party, and the
Burenit under General Swaynein Alabama,
as another reason why you should nut. with
the Republicans. I believe Gen. Swayne
to be a friend of yours. I believe the gentleman
wiio has addressed yon ia also a
fiiend. for thoy hnvj no cause to be otherwise
f but no better friend than I nm
and many other Southern men. Many of
us have been educated by your labor, and
I hope I shall live long enough to pay you
hack with compound interest In promoting
education among yon, whieh 1 tell you is
the only hope of your raee.
I requested that Gen Swayne be continued
over us; for although we aee things
front different aland points, yet I believe he
Wants to do right, and I never think less of
any one for an lioucst difference of opinion
merely.
Hut however worthy the motive of the
act on the part of the Government in assisting
tou through the Bureau, and for
r-'-'.h the Senator, amongst other reasons,
claims your votes for the Republican party,
it la an undeniable faot that the sums party
discriminates against you in the way of
taxes on cotton, and in this way wring front
tha sweat of your "brow one hundred dol
lata to every one teeilved by yoa through
lite svine Bureau.
With these facts staring you in the face
which the honorable Senator will not deny,
whatistlie obvious object of his visit Soutli f
It is this, inV friends: His nsrtv is in rwiw
er, and he ie lore aiding to keep them so
He ie here 10 form a political alliance with
you and what few whites can be induced to
join hint. They want office, they wont
spoils, and they Want to retail) power. It
in quite pleasant and profitable to them. It
is not because they love you better than
other people. I warn you against him and
all like him, at home or from abroad,
a a * e
I It occurs to me just al this moment, that
there it another portion of the honorable
Senator's last or second speech, to which I
will briefly allude, lie says I have mentioned
Cottle things he never before h 'ard.
In thul ho has none the advantage of mc,
for he has spoken of nlatiy thing* that he
did, that I have not lu.ard ol before. He
boasts of what the Northern army did. but
I did not know he was with them. It is
only vety recently that he invaded the
South, lie reminds mc or the bold frontiers
man, who, when the bear entered the cabin
door quite unexpectedly, ran up into the
loft. The goo 1 wife, having no means of
escape, used the pitchfork very freely, kill
ing the bear, the husband in the loft eying
out all the wldle at the top of his voice,
' Lay on, Nancy I lay on, Nancy I" When
assured that the bear was quite dead, he
descended from his safe retreatt walked up
to the side of his Wife, and, with the air of
a game cockt e)cclaimedv " Naney, oin't we
brave t" The gentleman o in afford to boast
n0? of wbatnts Aid}
In conclusion, let me say, that you have
known mo from my boyhood. I have al
ways done the besll could for you, and am'1
still your friend. Although 1 have been
deprived of citizenship, yet I love my coun
try and her people, and I will remain with
you. When I took the ontli to support the
Constitution And Union of tho States, I did
so after much r- flectic and in perfect good
faith. I did so with determination that
I would do all that. I could to promote the
peace and prosperity of my whole country,
and particularly your race, who were, and
are now so nr.'.eh in need of instruction.?
Thtre is a minister (Rev. Jnmot Newman)
of the Gospel in this city who knows that
during the war and at a time when the
South expected to be successful, that we
pledged ourself one to the other, to give the
energies of our life to the improvement of
your condition. Things have since changed.
I am prostrated by the war, but I will assist
) on all Ijsan, and am doing so now and encouiuging
others to do something. My henrt
was made glad a few days since when I
heard that a Southern man. notwithstAnd
rug our impoverished condition, had donated
a piece of laud in litis city lor a school
house for your children, and upon which, 1
learn, the Government proposes putting up
the building. But for the excitement and
prejudice on the question engendered by
politicians, NoVth and South, before the war,
your condition would have been a much
better one than it if. I believe yoa will
liear me out in the assertion that your forraar
Southern ownsra treated you quite as
well as the Northern men did, beiorc they
old you to ua, and as well as those who
settled in onr midst and owned slaves be
fore the war. Your own observation and
experience teaches you that the latter elsse,
whether from Maeaaehnsetta or any other
New England State, ware, as a general rule,
mere exacting titan our Southern born peo
pie
My father hired ont slaves for many year*
for an catate, and told me, what I knew to
be true, that those slaves never did rsfuse to
live with- or run away from any but twomen.
and one of theae was from Connect!Anf
an/I ft Kn aIKar fmm inma nllif-r Na*.K#ph
Slate. When you return lo your homea,
be Induatriou*, eobcr, and economical, *??
wages and buy and adorn \ our hotnea, howover
email, educate your euildren, cultivate
peace with all, and God wil' blra* and reward
your efforts, I thank you for the
respectful attention you have given me.
- The Southern baptist Convention,*!
its late immor, named Saturday before
the fourth Sunday in June next aa a
day of genera) prayer and humiliation
throughout the Southern Church,
Curat a phyeioian by leading a temperate
life, and the lawyer by Keeping
out of Uebu
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[ Marriage Agency in Europe.
The Pail Mull Gazette gives an
amusing expose of the operations of an
'* Office for International Marriages,"
said to be the only eatablybment of the
kind existing in England. It consists
of Mr. John Schwartz <fc Co , the " 00,**
being Mrs. Schwartz. In their circular
they say they have references of the
highest character, and are prepared to
correspond in any written language with
any customer who may be conjugally
incliued. They agree to ensure perfect
satisfaction in the delicate negotiations
they undertake, and no exception, certainly,
can be taken to tbeif terms. No
prepayment of any kind is required
from their clients, save for postage, until
after the honeymoon, and then the
matter is left entirely to the honor of
the parties concerned. As these terms
are much more liberal than those of
similar establishments in this country,
all of which insist npon payment of
h-avy fees in advance, we give ourfair
readers the benefit of the list of no
blemen who Mr. and Mis. Schwartz
have en disponibilile:
1. An Austrian Count, 32 years of
age, Chamberlain to his 1. K. Majesty
and Mxj jr in the army, possessor of
large estates in 8axony, with a yearly
income of 12 000 thaler*.
2. A Dutch Count, 33 years of age,
attached to the household of a Royal
Prince of Holland, and director of a
well known gas compagnie in a foreign
wumrj*
8. An Italian Count, 40 years of age,
holding a commission as LieutenantColonel
or Cavalry in the Italian array.
The e noblemen, being desirous of
concluding matrimonial alliances, do
not look for liigh family descent; they
would cheerfully offer their hands and
high social position to any lady of good
education, unblemished reputation and
possessing n jointure from ?20,000 to
? 10,000. The illustrious names of the
families or these counts, as well as their
own brilliant careers, are sufficient guarantee
for their honest intentions, and
any lady, either of the aristocracy or
middle classes, possessing the enuiner
ated qualifications, will have a rare opportunity
of acquiring not only a highly
gilted husband, but also of becoming a
member of one of the first families in
Europe.
Mr. and Mrs.Schwartz publish a nutn
her of certificates and letters to show
that they give entire satisfaction to their
customers. We give the following
from Chancellor Submit, a Prussian no
bleman, with a string of titles a yard
long:
tfiitORxnn, December Y, 1859.- Gens
tlemen: in reply to your honored letter
1 beg to announce that I am since 6evo
ral weeks married to Lady von Timoni
My wife is a very excellent person,
and I am quite satisfied, and there
fore I thank you again. As soon as I
shall receive her dowry I shall make
my thanks more substantial. Assuriug
you of our highest mutual esteem,
I remain yours obediently,
Sabatii.
Another gentleman announces that
ins wne, ouiair.eu tiirougn tiieir ottlce,
is extremely unwell, and Folicits (beir
services in case the illness should prove
fatal ! Could more touching evidence
bo given of his grateful confidence !
Peace in Europe.
Our cable despatches announce the
ratification of the terms of peace by all
the Governments which were represented
in the conference of Londou. Thus
the great wotk of the conference is con
automated, and the peace of Europe is
secured. It took the uine plenipotentiaries
but three days to bring about
this result?to prevent a war which
threatened to he more extensive, and to
involve more terrible sacrifices, than
any which this generation has known.
The promptitude with which all parties
have assented to the treaty, shows
that there was less of a determination
for war in any quarter than bad appeared
to be the case while the quarrel
was in progress. The eagerness of Bit
marck to try conclusions with Napoleon,
and the anxiety of the French to test
guns with the Prussians, were not only
amenable to reason, but both the one
and the other seized the very first op
portunity to submit their case to the
judgment of the North, and give assurance
that they would abide by its decision.
The proposition of the English
Government for a conference was no
sooner made (ban it was agreed lo on
alt hands, and tbe terms of tbe conferenee
were no sooner reached than each
power advanced to give tbem final rat
ifica'ion. If w<) recall no similar body
which ever met with graver business or
in a more perilous crisis, we know of
none which ever acted with greater
despatch, or completed its duties with
more satisfaction to all concerned.
Aa to tbe rnduraru* of tbe peaet
which has thus quickly been brought
about, no opinion from any q-iarter is
worth listening to. We shall doubtless
be told by a great many wise-acre*
that, notwithstanding the oonfhrence,
war must break out within a few
mouths, or at all events, by next year.
Perhaps it will; but then, again, per*
i
i
1 n
' No. l."
Imps it will not. If no better reasons
for it can be given than those whiolt
have just Wen refuted and laid aside bv
the conference, we shall not ha troubled
for some nrr.o at least; and even if far
better rfuom can be given fat .it than
these, we shall still refute to bo troubled;
fur we learo. in the ooarae of lime, that
there are many forces operating upon
etfairs And modifying their character,
which can never be taken into account
in arguments preliminary to the event.
We believe* notwithstanding all that
has been said, that it is, and will bo for
years to come, the general policy of
France, as well a? of England, to maintain
the peace of Europe, and to postpone,
so far as possible, all arg'.meni*
about distuibiog questions. There ar.i
but few matters of dispute about which
the voice of these two great powers
would not be potential.
We do not believe that France has
lost anything in prestige, power or hoDor
by Napoleon's course in regard to this
war question, or in regard to the peacu
conference. To assert that she has, is
to take a very narrow and short sighted
view of her position in the European
system. Nor do we believe that the
Emperor's course has weakened his
bold upon the French people. On the
contrary, we beiieve.it has strengthened
bis Government in all re<pect?, and
brightened the prospects of his dynasty.
?JVetr York Timet, 18f&.
Gov. Perry's Letter.
The Charleston Mercury haa the following
comments on tha last letter of Gov.
Perry:
Mr. Perry, o/ course, has out before us
his anil war Unionism, which, considering
the experiences of the war, and the present
condition of things, eliciting hia letters.
cm* might suppose he would be thy of so*
nounoiug. Saving this harmless effervescence,
we object to one thing in Mr. Perry'*
letter, ami that Is the counsel he gives, that
the white race should, In South Carolina,
vote against the call of a convention, and
we Object to this counsel simply becsuse we
do not think that we con defeat the call of
the convention.
Mr. Perry himself, in a previous letter,
says that the black population in IhisStalo
are more numerous than the whites, by 60,000.
Deduct the women nnd children, and
this will give about 16,000 voters, 16,000.
therefore, is the majority of blaek voters.
Now, suppose the white population votea
against a convention, is it likely that no
portion of this 16,000 majority will reach
the polls! If it does, the convention will
be called. The relative strength o( tho
white aud blaek population will be ascertained
by the registry, when we will better
Understand the real state of the case.
To us it appears certain that a portion of
these 16,000 voters, will reach the polls, if
the white population opposes a convention ;
and a convention will be called. And if a
convention is called, by snch a division of
the races at the polls, will not that very anj
tagonism which Mr. Perry so strongly deprecates
be put into full operation t The
fiist election is to be held on this question ;
and if a division arise upon it, parties must
be formed, and their results secured for all
the ofter stages of reconstruction, by Its operations.
If, then, the white race united cannot prevent
the call of a convention in South Carolina,
what use can there be in their assuming
an attitude of organised antagonismt
To us it appears that it will be far wiser, if
possible, to endeavor to keep the two races
together in harmony with each other by
acting together. If we fail in this ?ffort,
through the influence of Northern emissaries
and the hostility of the block population,
be it so. On them will be the fearful
responsibility of the consequences which
will ensue.
The whole population, white and blaek,
voting for a convention, the organization of
pnrties will trulv arise on the election of
delegates to the convention. Here will he
a better field for keening the races together.
Tho candidates will have their personal influence
; and the white population, having
voted with the blaok for a convention, will
he in a belter position to influence them.
By a proper energy on the part of tho
white population, we have little doubt that
a conservative convention can be elected.
We beg leave, however, to say, that wo
are by no moans satisfied that the consequences
of the Military Act, so forcibly deCicted
by Mr. l'erry, will occur, even if tho
lack population should control, for a time,
the State. We have not the leeat apprehension
that they will rule the white population.
That result may be accomplished
hy a standing army of the vhitt roe* in
South Carolina ; but negroes, in no form or
numbers, can produce it. A terrible stato
of things may be produced by sueh an attempt,
but it will fail utterly. Nor have
we the least fear that a convention of nagtoCS
In 8outh Carolina will confiscate the
hinds of the white peoplo, for their benefit
or appropriation. It would require 10,000
United States troops In eaeh District in the
State to turn the white population oat of
their homes, and put negroea into them ;
and after such a work was accomplished, it
would have a deplorabla tendency to be
undone, whieb all the troops of ths United
States may fad to prevent.
Mr. Cyrus Fikld has caused to
published the Announcement that a
Urge iceberg has to damaged the cable
of 1806. lhat the tignnis through it
have censed. The cable of 1865 still
works well.
Th* McKinney (Texas) Enquirer says
that a farmer up there raised 175 bushels
to the Acre of the largest, finest and
most palatable sweet potatoes it ever
saw or tasted, and the Haatrop Advertiser
state* that a farmer of that county
raised 300 bushels to lb* aore.
Tnx Eakiikst Yst.?The Tampa
(Fla.) l'eninsula, of the llth instant,
says fine water melons have been
brought to that tuwkel for the past
| week.