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#r 4fr' j * - ' Tl* I ' ' ' Tl If AMI I NOTOUR Jun? If. tTha opinion of lh* Attorney-General U too Ubsrate for ttUfrtph and Ui? reaeonIng too close for a aynopeis. The following verbatim extracts cover the conclusions: I find it impossible, under the provisions of this Aot, to comprehend such an official as a Governor of one of these Statos appointed to offiee by ono of these military oommanders; certainly he is not the Governor reoognised by the laws of the State and olothed as anoh with the ohief executive power; nor is hs appointed as a military governor for a Stata which haa no lawful (governor, under the pressure of an existing necessity to exercise powers at large. The intention, no doubt, was to ap point him to fill a vacancy occasioned by n military order, and tc put him In the plaee Wfcf iKa vnmnvail AAwarnaa fn Avonnla ike ^hnettons of tb? office aa provided by law The law take* do eognixanoe of aoeh officir 1, and ha is clothed with no anthority or color of wutbority. What is true as to the governor U squally true as to all the other legislative, executive and judicial officers of the Stalo. If the military commander can oust one of them from his office, he can oast them all; If lie can fill one vacancy, he can fill all vacanoies; and thus usurp all civil jurisdiction into his own bands, or tho hands of those who hold their appointments from him, and are subject to his power of removal, and thus frus trnfo the very right secured to the people by this Act. Certainly this Act is rigorous enough in the power which it gives, with ail its severity. The right of electing their own officers is still left with the people, and it must be preserved. I must not be understood as fixing limits I to the power of the military couiraandera lu caso of insurrection or riot. It may happen that an Insurrection in one of these States may be so general and formidable as to require the temporary suspension of all civil governments and the establishment of martial law in its place, and tha same things may be true as to local disorder or riot, in reference to the civil government of the city or place where it breaks out.? Whatever power U necessary to meet snob emergency, the military commander may properly exercise. 1 confine myself to the proper authority of tho military commander where peace and order do prevail. It is not allowable to displace tho civil officers and appoint others in their places under any idea that the military commander can bolter perform his duties and carry out tho general purposes of Iho Act by the agency of ?ivfl officers of his. choice, rather than by the lawful incumbents. The Act gives biro no right to resort to such agency, but does give him the right to have a sulfieient military force to enable him to perform hie duties and enforce hie authority within the district to which he is assigned, in the suppression of insurrection Bud ritl. The military commander is wholly independent of the civil authoiity. So, too, in the trial and punishment of eriminala and offenders, he may supersede the civil jurisdiction. His power is to be exercised in these special emergences, and the means are pnt into his bands by which it is to be exercised ; that i? to pay, sufficient military forco to enable auch officer to perform his duties and enforce ids authority; and military tribunals of hie own appointment to try and punish offenders? these arc strictly military powers to bo exo cutod by military authority, not by the civil authority or by civil officers appointed by him to perform ordinary civil duties. If theso emergencies do not happen?if civil order is preserved and criminals are duly prosecuted by the regular crimiual courts the military power, though present, must 10'unio pafsive. Its proper function is to preserve the peace?to act promptly where lltA nfffiffA \n k?rnki>n aihI rffsinrn nrrlpr ? When that is done, and their authority may again safely resume its function, the miliary power becomes again passive, but on guard and watchful. Tbir, In my judgmont( is tbo whole scope of tbe military j ower conferred by this Act. In arriving at this construction of the Act, I have not found it necessary to resort to the strict construction which is allowable. Case of Cokjurino.?In the District Court yesterday, Uulleo Scott, one of tbo oolored prosecutors, stated his ground for bclioving the prisoner, l'rince Burns, to bo guilty, that he had discovered the fact by conjuration. lie d -cribed tbo ceremony of conjuration oAmawhnt as foliowa : " I nut four slicks of different lengths on tLe door, fid 6j?id sacred words; I then put four tones of different size* on the > %nd sa>d more sacred word-; I cove- ibe tones with my hat, and said more sacred words; I turned my coat wrongside out, and sr:d r ore sacred words ; I covered the sticks with my coat, and aid more snored words; I gave the four sticks and four stones, one of each, to four negroes, nnd said more sncr^d words! I examined and fonnd Prince ])urns had the longest slick and the I I biggest stone, and I went to ibo Magis trato aud swore he bad my money. [Charleston Mercury. Fsrmjcrs look well after yow hen manure. We adopted a plan some years ago, by putting boards about two feet below (be roosting poles, upon which they deposit all the manure.? f Tb?n, once or twice a week, Lave it well Iseraped, and put in barrels. Yoti will then have, in the course of a fear, the very beat manure you could possibly sue for your com end other crop*. TWo Cincinnati Enquirer mjk tint i Col. ft. ft. Carpenter, of Covington. (Ohio,) ha* received the appointment of Registrar of Bankruptcy for the State of South Cat o lina. Ocn. Pope li"s irsned orders against ' int<-iforonoe with llio freedom of rp<*<?ch nnd ' ( the pre-* <>o the (>art of port eo??[ f ,,T J8 B j ( Jje Jpmifjimt (gntnpmt. GREENVILLE^ 8. C. THURSDAY, JUNE SO, 1S67. Btcti^wlas to Vote?Do our JPeoplo Caro for fhtmitlTM ud their Oouatrr t Many of tbo editors aire expressing doubts and misgivings as to tbo intentions of a numerous class of white mcti, in this and otber Southern States, wbo nro not disfranchised, whether thoy will rculixo tho importance of registering their names as voters under tbc Congress Military Bill. We ask ourselves, can it bo possible that there Is a single white man to be found, not a lunatio or idiot, entitled to register, who will neglect or rcftase to do so 7 and by so refusing, transfer tho power and government of Iho State into the hands, perhaps of dest rue tires for a generation to come. Those who are entitled to register, and wry fow are disfranchised, indeed, who shall nes gleet- to do so, will demonstrate their utter unfitness for solf-gOTorument, and prove that they desire and?ought to'havo political in as ten. They will betray every principlo of jus" tie? to themselves and to their kindred and race, and provo that they have never deserved any other treatment rroui Congress than to l>o made tbo subjocts and inferiors of Afrieans.? Let every man, as he values his birth-right, his self-respect hereafter, tbo good opinion of every good man and woman in tbo civilised world, fail not to register, to secure, nt any rata, tho right to voto in tho new Government of tho State that Congress seeks to establish For ourselves, if entitled, (tho Senior Editor of this paper Was a member of tho Legislature before tho war, and is dis'-.inchiscd) wo would mako almost any sacrifico to socuro tho registration of our name as a voter. Wo are inclined to believo that ether men ' tako tbo same view of this matter with our- ' reives. Wo do not soo how there con bo two ( opinions, yet no les^authority than tho Char- ' lesion JVetes insists that among tho white pcov ' pie there w'M bo but two parties of any consequence, thoso who will register and voto convention or no convention, and those who will foolishly, (and wickedly, we may add,) I nogloct or refuse to register becauso they are disgusted with politics. Ilow unwise tonban- ' don tbo country to tbo chances of negro ig- 1 noranco, and tho scheming impostors who may i seek to mislead them to their own destruction and tho destruction of all that is really civil- ; i od and decent in society, merely from a fooling of t -mporary disgust and indiflbronco. Let no man suppose that ho takos no part in politics by refusing to register, or that he docs not thereby voto ono wny or the other.? Most emphatically ho does take part by refusing to register, aud ho docs give a vote in favor of that which ho airucts to abhor. Suppose, at any nrociuct. there are ono hundred rotors, or persons entitled to register ; there are forty-nino of thorn ready and willing to register and to voto any way they may be told to voto by the emmissary of Stui'IIkxs, or I somo other destructive leveller, ntid fifty-one j of ^hp hundred arq really will-informed and honest men, who have seme conservative ideas and real respect for frco institutions, as well as for their fathers before lint. . *d lee .* ildrcu tha. nro to cuuio after tbcm, which wo prosutno ovory honest whilcuian living docs possess j now, lot there bo only two of tho fifty-ono neglect to register, and they thereby rote fifty of their friends powerless at that precinct.? Let throo of tbo fifty-ono refuse, uud these throe thereby vote?giro thoir voices particularly in favor of tho forty-nino, and make thorn tho majority. Wo would havo equal respect for a man who registers and votes wrong, as for ono who would voto right, if ho voted at all, but rofusos to cxorciso tho power of obtaining a voto by registering. There nro many sins of omission more bonious and unpardonable thna those of eomnu'ttion. Ho who, govcrnod by passion, impulse, ignoranoo or artful persuasion, does a wrong deed, or commits aggressive crime, is innocent Compared to bun, who, knowing whnt is right, and having power to aid in preventing wrong, coldly aud indifferently ncglocts to cxorciso tho opportunity of doing good or preventing mischief. There is a fearful proof afforded by llim who is to bo the final Judge of all men of this great truth. The sins enumerated, for which tho wicked shall bo turned off iDto hell with the devil uud his angels, are not thoso of commission, but tho sins of negloct and omission of duty. Lot us liopo tbnt there will be but few whito men in South Carolina who r>rc teud to honesty or patriotism, or who have any rogard for their follow-mon, that will ro? fuso or noglact to register. Lot them nogloct it, and no after ropontanco or remorse can ever rodocin thorn, or cntitlo thoiu to forgiveness, if they have sonto enough to ho called accountable beings. We are satisfied that cvory man whoso attention is called to this subject will, upon a littlo reflect ion, feel called upon to register his name as a voter, and after ho docs so, ho will have it in his power to vote as he pleases, or not to vote, If ho chooses, on any particular occasion. Every man who thinks . as wo do, should feel it his duty to cncourago the hesitating and indifferent to register by all mcaus. ? ? ?? Tho Military Commanders' Power to Btmovo Civil Officer*. Altorncy-Ooncral 8tasisbijrt lias publishad an elaborate opinion on the Reconstruc. tion Ac , and lake* the ground that the Commanding Oenerala have no power to remove Governors, Mayors, Sheriffs and other civil officers in the Southern States, We refer to an extract from tha concluding part of the Attorney General's opinion, which we take from the telegraphic column of the Phuniz. To. 4 ti..i iL, T>_ f J A us Bii|i|Mmvu I nut tnu i ri'Biucni will orJar tlie ristoruilon of that liavt been removed A Now l'oat Oflloe Building. Wo are tdeaaed to elate that the Tost Ofllce has been removed into the new and very neat building recently erected on the east aide of Main Street, by Mr. Swapdaijc, nearly opposite the Manaiou House, and adjacent to the public square. We eon" gratnlnte our excellent Postmaster, Mr. Am hr.s, and the citixena of the Town, on having the post otfice so well and conveniently situated. e*3jr The article on our outside, headed " film rafter of 'he Ch'n e," should he t i. v 5 iTJI E Snj The Radical end Union PtHr< Practically we ere ell radicals and unionists le this State ; wo here conformed to tbo nitre Limoolr programme. South Caroline la ea much e non-alavoholdlng State ea Ohio or New York or Maaaeohnsotta. There ia noheatilo element between ua; nobody in South Caroline hea any designs against the Union ; on the contrary, Tory body ia mora enxiona to reeonatruct it, and preaorre it ea it wet, then tho ultra Radicals of tho North, end more in fhror of peace end quiet, then thoy possibly con be, for we hero more Interest in it then they have. In truth, we feer many of tho politician# there do not went the Union restored, or poeoo cither, for they gain temporary notoriety by koeping up strife end oontontion. Wo *eu no uso in anybody, for any good or potriotio purpose, striving to stir up (w*; vl^wlMMMVU IU IUU OMHI. ? U Wlllll Tory man, white and black, to hare only their Juat rtghta; nobody opposes this. Tho negroes wore protected by the State law in all tboir personal rights and Hbcrtios, eron before tho Military Bill. Thoro is no powor to erade impartial suffrage under the powers that he; in fact, tho Stato was prti>ored for impartial suffrago to all now citiions who hod never voted boforo, oven prior to tho Congress Act. W hat wo need in this Stato, is a party who will dovoto themselves its truo interest and proas parity; who will favor aodornto taxes and unito as ono man against tho unjust tax on cotton laid by Congress, and who will bo willing to elect good men to office, known to bo friends of tho best interest of tho peoplo, and who are determined to prcscrvo all tho most valuablo of our ancient laws and institutions adapted to our changed Condition, and to thoroughly reform or ropudiato thoso that aro not. Wo uro equally opposed to ultra Radicalism and nltra Conservatism. Thoro is a class of modorate Radicals at tho North. Tho best men of their party who ?ro earnestly in Tavor^of union and poaeo, theso and tho Democrats and Southern Conservatives, may all unite for tbo good of the country ; call thorn republicans, unionists or what you please. Locturo by Rev. J. O. Furman, D. D. Circumstances prevented our having tho great pleasure wo had anticipated of hearing l)r. Puiiman's lecture before the Literary Club on Tuesday evening lust. Unfortunately tho weather that evening was very threatening, and tho large audience that would otherwise have assembled, was kept away, ladles especially ; they did uot expect the lecture would be delivered, owing to th?* rain. We are informed, however, that a very respectable assembly was present on the occasion, and wo have learned from gentlemen of llio highest enpneity of judg" ing such things. Mint the lecture on Demcmtiievks' opinion of eloquence was both ntde find interesting. The reputation of Dr. Fcrman as one exaelling in genuine ?lo qucoce, good taste nnd sound logic, made tho theme lie s-lccted promise a fine enter laimncnt, which those present doubtless cn i-yed Religious Kotico. The Southeru Baptist < Convention, which met lust month, at Memphis, appointed Saturday, 22d instant, as a day of humilhi tion nnd prayer. ltuv. J. C. Furman, D. I) , will conduct tho r?lljfiou? oxcciscs on thnt day, in the Greenville Dnptiel Cburuli, nl 11 o'clock. Tuk Spartanburg S[><trtun says that it is requested ta announeo that there will bo n Barbecue, after tho stylo of bettor days, given at Pacolot popot on the 4th of July next. Tho above paper also says that by tho request of suudry citizens in tho neighborhood of Hobby's, sovcral gentlemen h.tvo consentod to attend at that placo on Saturday, tho 2t?th day of Juno Inst., to diicau tho imjiortant political subjects of tbo day. It is hoped that the citizens will generally attend, as the condition of tho country makes it tho duty of all to seek information, and consult as to tiro best policy to bo adopted. Chorrica. Wo return our thanks to Mr. W. II. Was sox, our friend and subscriber, for a basket of nice ripe Chevrlea. This kindness of Mr. W. has subserved two purposes, via.. it has furnished pies for our table and an item for the news psper. rr> O. II ? 1 I ? iiic iunriuu oicir, an uAiuuuia uxt'iiuugr, m tho versatility of its " luuko up," gives its readers tho following : A bachelor friend stepped into our office, recently, nlid said he wanted a wife, a good economical wife?one who wears " her own hair," bcr own " buixuuis" and her own " calves," that in the present scarcity of money, hooould not iiffbrd to buy such things. Wo think him decidedly sensible?generally wo don't think so much of bachelors?and commend to him tho " glial" who is fond of cider, and too economical to buy it, but prefers to oat the apples and then have some nice young fellow to squooxe tier afterwards. Doubtless such a couple would mako a " livio." Tho Star has received a bunch of vory fine ouioos, the largest of which iuoasurod cloven inches in oircumfercnoc. Pair Yield. A little pateh of wheat, jnst below onr printing oflioe, owned by Mr. 8. Swanoai.b, about one half of an ucre, yielded twenty bushels of clean wheat. This la vary good; if any of our raadera can beat it, we want thaw to tend na word. Can't " Ijvte Bo ginner " eelipae ill Fa/ up the Goats. Attention ia called to the adrerliaemenl of our very worthy District officer*, Sherlfl Siilmatb and Maj. McDaniel, Clerk of tlx Court. Aa theae gentlemen are dependent upon their cfficea for the aupport of themselves and families, their request should r? eeive the ottention it deserves. Wo have Iteen authorized t<y thorn to aay that they will receive, in payment of coste, corn wheat, bacon, flour, or anything of horoi produce that conduee to the well being o! their families. Take heed. The Leeturo before the Literary Clnb or next Tuceday evening, will be delivered by Ilcv. Profotaor J \mks II. Caruvmc, of Woffonl College. Subject?United States Conai Surv.-y on the other a?eUonCH^P^KwP|^H^^I^^^| the Saluda course, were very fullTIISJp^MMHHfl^H toms and carryirg off Wveral^WWBjB^HBj regret to learn that Dunham's Bridge^HfWI Anderson road, has been carried awajT^^Jj Ton Court of Equity for Abbeville District was oonvonod there on tho 10th, says tho /Ve??, bis Honor, Unapt 1>. Lc*?s ksab, of Charleston, presiding. Xhe fris* further says : Tho Dockets of tho Court are crowdod with largo incroaso of old business and an unusual array of now oases, but most of thoso involve no matters of litigation and arc being rapidly disposed of. ?<4?^e?> Mr. IToyt, Editor of the Anderson Intelligencer, bss roturncd home, from a recent I vt.li In hi, *. 1.1!... In T an,.n. ni.lptnl rejuvenated and reinvigorated. Conduct ors of the Press can appreeialo going from labor to refreshment; but alas liow seldom do they indulge in that sort of a thing. If it were possible, we would expect the Intel ligenccr, after this temporary relief of its Editor from the toils and anxieties of his position, to double its interest He reports the crops of Laurens District as exeellont. In liis absence, his plsco wss filled by Rov. W. E. WalTkhr, of tho South Carolina Baptiet, a gentleman whose cloverneos is exceeded only by his qualities as a Christian minister. Long live tho Anderson Pros*, say we. By the way, this latter gentleman has but recently taken to himself a " bettor half." We wish him, although at a late dote, all the follelty that can ei'her be itn ngined or realised. The Intelligencer has received the tallest specimen of oats, grown upon upland, it has ever seen in that aection, by Mr. James Webb, of that Distriot, Five feet and six inches is the measurement, and of the kind known na black oats.** Can none of onr Greenville farmers beat this? Tho poor of Willianistou return their thanks | through tho Intelligencer, to Mr. C. Gravely, of Charloston, for twenty bnshols of corn, gratuitously distributed among them. Tho Laurcnsvillo Herald, of Friday last, records that two prisoners conflnod in jail at that place, made their oscnpo on Wednesday, 12lh, by sawing out tho grating. Tholr names are W*. J. Eimks nnd Jamkr A. Greer.? Thcso men were sentenced at tho last term of our Court, to the Penitentiary, ono for stealing cotton, tho othor for homo stealing. A reward of ono hundred dollars each it offered for their nrrcsi, uy mo oiicrui 01 l.aurcns jmstrlct. Tbo decease of J. 0. Hunter, of (hat District, Is rcporiod by (ho Herald. Ho was highly esteemed by alt who knew him, and Lis loss is a serious one to tlio District, as ho wss a tr.nn of fine Intellectual attainments, and a lawyer by profession, though-at tho time of his denth was not in tho practice. Laurens is going to havo a Billiard Club nuil Heading llnotn. Tho editor is requested by somo of tho young men of the village to mention tho fact that efforts nro boing made to rcvivo the old Bi'linrd Club, alistfor which purpose will bo found at tho Drug Store of James, 1'ratt <1 Co. It is also proposed to establish a Bonding Room in connection with tiio Billiard Club. Tho Newberry Herald, another of our very readable papers, gives its rcadors tho annexed paragraph : " A Promise or Luck.?A dcarfriond is informed in nnswer to ' whether we arc suffering from a surfeit of vcgotublcs,' that though wo havo a ' garding,' tho truck ' is not superabundant. llcl-g unfortunately located in ' gravel town,' vegetation is on tho spindlo shank order, therefore a supply of tho things mentioned, such as cabbage, beans, cucumbers, squashes, potntocs, Ac., would eomo in very nicely, just now. 8ho can send them along, togotr - with a few spring ohickons. Wo nro rchrioed to 'earn that sho has mora of tho abovo limn can possibly bo disposed of in tho family. It is very true as sho says ' that Editors livo goodness knows how, and that judging from the papers they scarcely have anything to cat, ever,' this is all so; hut when sho further says that' eating is not in our lino' sho is mistaken. Her very loud invitation to 'go down, cat and grew fat' is accepted; in tho meantime send along tho promised blossings, that wo may livo till that happy season." It adds concerning tho weather, Ac : " Sinco last Wodncsday copious showers of rain havo fallen, much to tho benefit of garden vegetation. Tho soaaon has been very favorablo so far for the kiuhon garden. Our citizens have luxuriated for sct^ral weeks past upon such delicious esculents as snap beans, squashes, Irish potatoes, beets ; and latterly tho cucumber lends its llnvor to tho noon repast- Green peas and fresh crisp lettuce,etc., are yet in seasou ; while corn, tomatoes, okro, melons, cabbage and hosts of other edibles, uro just" boiling ahoail," as fast as thoy cau to keep our people from starving. A garden is a fino reconstructor." The Herald complains that all classes of Newberry community arc now suffering for tho want of somotbiug to do?there is nobusinoss ?literally nothing doing. The very etreets aro deserted, o^opt by the clerks and their merchants, who stand upon tho curb stones, from " early morn till dewy eve." Greenvillo is " some " on hard and dull tiinos, 1'ko bor neighbor. ' - ' - or The Editor of the Athens (Geo.) Watchman advertises for two Aeree bull '< dogs, for which he offers a reasonable prior. 1 Can't the boys about Greenville furnish him who nunarea i or The weevil lies appeared among the t wheat near Richmond, Va. C V%T Why cannot yon prevent tho Missis, ippi from overflowing ita banket Because, dam it you ean'U Reports Irom every section of the country, North, South, Eaat, and Weet, represent tho cereal and fruit crops aa generally lino. ) tW The flret Minister ot State aver eent this eonntry from Oreece has just arrived > in Washington, ^ The total remittances from California for the Southern Relief Commission amount to , #74,000, in gold. < tw Tho citisena of Charleston are mneh I depressed because ot the sweeping natnro I of Oon. Orders No. 31 City stuck fa!l:n 10 i to l r. per cent. o tho molt U raisod; though tables may bo dispensed with, enionoo than corn, yet they r*af?raBHH| order in point of iinportanco amongUxVBEj&S* series of life for subsistence, and roqraHBB little labor and attention to be raiaod^HSK| county of tbo State. Cattle, hogs, shdwjjfl&il horses, without which no Toxlan wdjfljHs? j that ho could get along with any comfoiv^H raised almost without snit in anv Mart of the! State. Immigrants fVom other couutrios are astonished to And how easy it is, onywhoro in Texas, to have as many of these animals as thoy have any use for, and how little capital and labor aro inquired, with industry, to accumulate large fortunes in every part of our State, in stock raising. It will, howoror, be bo socu that certain portions of our State are bettor adopted to raising cattlo and horses; ethers to raising hogs, and others again to slioep raising. Tho western counties present a vostoxpanso of tho finest gracing for stock in America, where herds of thousands aro annually becoming markotablo beevos without any expenso tho year round, but that of hordi ing and branding. In thoso counties aro also found somo of tho best ehocp ranges, whore fortunes aro being mado on tho smallest enpilal, merely enough to purchase the finoet breeds of rams, by which means tho eoorso Mexican wool of twonty yoars ago, has now bcon generally so improved in quality, as to command three or four times tho prioe. No forago or feed of any kind is required to be gnthcrod for winter uso; cattlo, shoep, and horsos food themselves, winter as woll as sumin or. In tho more northern oountios, howovor, whoro tho stocks aro smaller and tho wintor colder, many farmers find it better to have some hay or fodder to food to their tniloh eows and shoep in the worst weather. In those eountles, tho stock ranges aro frequently timbered lands, which afford protection fnasn the cold. Tho cotton region of Texas embraces nearly all tho conntics cast of the San Antonio river, and eastward of a lino duo north flrora tho town of San Antonio to Hod rivor. But tho conntics best adapted to cotton, nro thoso on tho (Jttndnlttpc, the Colorado, tho Brazos, Old Canoy, Oyster Creek, tho Trinity, Sabine, and | Red river, whore, in ordinary soasons, tho viold has usuallv been almost a halo pounds) to tbo aero. Thoro has never yet boon cultivated ono hundredth part of tbo rich cotton lands of those counties. Tbo vast wealth of tbo cotton region of Texas is still undeveloped, and millions of uercs of the finest cotton lands iu tbo world ore still lying useless as t!u y were fifty years ago. Hut although tho river lands abovo designated yield tho largest crops of cotton, yet. tho uplands in all the counties designated usually yield from one-hall to three quarters cf a halo to tho aero, and their cultivation is often found to be quite as profitable us tho bottom lands, from thogroutcr facility of cultivation. Taken togcthor, tho cotton counties constitute near ouo-tbird of tho area of Texas, and havo a larger ninount of rich virgin soil adopted to this atopic, than probably all the cotton States cast of tho Mississippi. Tbo wheat region of Texas, though it embraces scmo thirty counties, and perhaps many more not yet settled, is not as extensive as that adapted to cotton, lty this wo mean tboso counties especially adapted to whoat, tbo avorngo yiold of which, in ordinary seasons, is about 22 bushels to the aero. Wo say this because, in fact, wheat may bo, and often is, growu to a limited extent in most of the cotton counties down to the ooast, the yield being 10 or 12 bushels to tho acre, ltyo and barley are inure generally grown, and ylold better In tbo lower and more western couutlos than whoat. Indeed, barley, bus proved to bo ono of tho most reliable and profitable products in must of tho cotton, as well as wheat counties. Oats are also quite goncriUly raised in all tho more settled portions of Texas. Tho wheat region, properly so-callod, embraces chiefly tho northern portions of Texas, Dallas being near tho contro of it.. I will givo you a description of Dullas county; as It is genorully admitted, to bo tho host for irrowini/ wlifint in ihn A?b?a of Texas. This County was orgunixed in 1847, and then contained a population of about 600 inhabitants. Tho County embraces an area of 900 square miles, nnd now contains a population of 12,COO whiles and 1,000 blacks. Tho land is black, sticky prairio, liberally interspersed with t mber, in sufficient quantities for nil agricultural and manufacturing purposes. The soil is exceedingly rich and lortilo, and whon well cultivated most abundantly rowards tho husbandman for his labor. Dallas, tho county seat, has about 2,000 inhabitants, and is increasing ic population more rapidly than any town in Northern Texas.? Lancaster is a flourishing Tillage, situated 16 miles south of Dallas, and contains about 600 inhabitants. Cedar IIill, Seyono, and lirockinridgo are small villages, situated in the midst of an industrious and onergotio population. Tbero nro a large number of flourishing schools in the county; nnd Dallas has been solectcd by the Cumberland l'rcabytoriana as the location for a college, to bo under tho eontrol of that Church. Tho poople are industrious, moral, and rcliuious. and take rront into rest in tho establishment of good school*.? Tbo principal product* of tho County arc wheat, coru, onto, ryo, ut,d hurley, onch of which i* raised in larger quantities than in any other county in Texas, and the ylohi per aero equals that of any section of tho Union. At Lancaster thoro is a foundry, where all the castings required to repair wills, reapers, and throihcrs aro undo promptly und on reasonable terms. At Dnllns, Cedar Hill, and Lancaster, aro machlno shops, where renpere and threshers, and nil other agricultural implements, arc | manufactured as cheap as anywhere in tho North, and of a bettor quality.? Labor employed In tho production of whoat, barley, and corn pays tho most remunerative wage?, more so than when employed In anyi' ing Tin p 'ff >.f unlmp'ovcd lamb Tor/'uaofni Poultry ta rtiiaod in settled county in tho State. If thefw^B|??^^HB family in Toxua without obfokona, egg*, litter, It ia their own fkult; that ia, If ihoy . hare been hero long enough to raiea a crop. Rico la grown In but few countiea, and only for family use, and very few of our people know how to raise It The upland rloe may, Uowovor, bo grown successfully on the low marshy and hammock lands throughout tho State. Bcforo tho war, Sea Island cottoo was sueco?8.ully cultivated by a fow persons on the islands along our coast, and also en the main lands bordering on our bays. But the want of the proper kind of gins for separating tho roods from it, renders Its enltivatton rather unofl table, or loss so, wo boliove, than that of . j short staple cotton. It is, however, ad* mlttod by good judges, that, with a reasonable amount of capital end skill, tho Soe Island cotton may bo .profitably grown along noarly our wholo coast country. There are meay articles prodnood ia Texas, which our spaoa will not admit of at present. We may here remark that the castor oil bean, : or Palms Chris tl, grows with greater luxuriance) and more spontaneously than wa have ever known it ia any other country; wad If thoro is a market for tho oil, wo predict that it will constitute hereafter a profitable product for oxport,*and yield a largo rovonuo to tho State. But wo have no spaoo to enumerate all tho products of tho soil to which our State ia adapted; we ean, howovor, truly say that wo scarcely know of any product whioh is not, or may not, be grown In Toxss, as tho variety of our soil and cllmato is such as to adapt our Stato to both Northern and Sonthorn products. TKXAN, The New Orleans Picayune, of the 7lit says: We hoard, yesterday, of a merchant who went, one morning, among hie clorke, and v?,i tr ii.... ?.- i ??j o ? ?V" i? MIVJ Iiuu i rgimci uu. VUC UI told him ho had not, and intimated that ha did not caio to?would not degradohimMlf eo much?did not earo how tho eleolion weut?the country was gone to?anyhow I Well, said tho merchant, if you do not earo to vote, think yourself too good to do av ..nd do not care how the eleolioa goes, you cannot do justice to me, whoeo entire inter* cats depend upon the oity end State going; into the hands of safe, prudent and eonserv* ative men. I advise you to go and register; at all events, I have no use for your services until you do so, as I know that there la no impodiment whatever In the way of your registering, if you try. ~ ' " / Ax End or Wabs.?A chemist, of Marseilles, professes to havs invented a saw preparation of Greek Are, which, unless the the description is outrageously exaggerated, will certainly put an end to all war. With this terribla agent of deotroet loo, tho inventor claims that bo could envelop in flames an army of 100,000 men, from a distance of 1,000 yards, within less than Ave minutes. In a naval battle, be eould run into the enemy, and, in fifteen seconds, cover hie decks with a torrent of flame, which would barn tho rigging, penetrate the hatchways and instantaneously stifle all tho erevr. The invention seems to have one little drawback, however, which may prevent its general lisUoduction; for, as the chemist himself naively admits, " neither victors nor von* qniecd would return from tho Add of battle" on which this terribla fire was used,? In fact, as both armies would be destroyed, it would puzzle historians to decido which was the victor and whieb the vanquishedAcoucta, Jtine 17th.?The registration of voters commences this week In Georgia. A white man named W. 8. Flynn. tare keeper on the Alabama and Gulf Roa?, una been murdered by two freedmen?his head ; *n'i ihoc Mu>g onoppod with mi u< and his homo burned. The tuardorere were arrested by colored men. Their indignation *u to greet that it was with great difficulty they were prevented from lynching the e?iprlte by white citizens. Tun Poles not honorably and wieely In repadiating the attack made by a faaatle madman open the Emperor of They hare undoubtedly been wronged fry Russia, and their cause look# anything hopeful ; but any countenaaee given to f scheme of murder would have utterly rolaed it forever, and deprived them of tbecyarpathy of the civillaed world. g3T It ie stated' aa a remarkable fact, that, vlitrssssot a single lineal and legitimate descendant of Charles I, of England, is now la existence, the defendants of the i>.^? ? ... i. i ? / i i *. ./ i vwvwi mv w w n'uuu ?u oftrjr r?oi vc life abort of royally. m I Hiram Power*, the groat Amarieea sculptor, who hna been for thirty yaora absent in Italy, writes to a friend in Wtihiay ton that ha ia Coming tnek to tha United States In the fall. 1 to it now about sixty V?orr of Bf'e, * ' . . ' a