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11 Ik ^^ri He* m L KKp,' th? ?on|nm|^Mihitr? $?|HKt^t=ekV PRRber, and nRwM their Mats fn _ ... . . beeanee they were not wTl If the Southern Stelea, ?alvtba reeoaptrgollon p*1^ ?' President ^ -Johoeon, |um| elected radloefe, 8iTen may mir>H|H ,?f their adhesion U> ?"*' party, no auaan eoppoee thatjhair r?prewentaUroe tm4 hay b??a excluded frc m Coogreaa. Iatbe fall of IBM, ono of the Arei.things done by Cotfrees was to perge . the Senate. and exclude Democrats enough from that body to girl them a two thirda majority. . m . Tba qumHea ,wtH he lor the people of the Southern Statea to decide, in the ooming elections, whether they prefer to remain aa they ere, or by railing eoorantlona, adopt leg negro enflrage and *1 acting radiaala, go book leto tha Union. What adrantaga to tha South wH] U bo to ioaroaoo tbo Black dtapnblUan majority la CoagroaoT Bow ? nan we ha banadttad' by atrongthening tha : bands of oar oppraaaora I What interest can we poorlbly hare In being represented in Congreaa by tmitera to the South?men arhoaa we mart Nan) eed daapiae ee Judas Iaeariota in politleef It la e aed and rael? ancholy reflaetion On haman nature, to see n vm Inaugurated Ibt war, and were getag to die la the laat diteb, now aeeklag to go back into the Union, stripped of every principle and right which they vowed to defend, with Blank Republican collars aronad their necks. How disgusting to ace bear, unprincipled white men eeeking office and position by hypocritically pandering to the ignorant criminal and ruinoue prejudices and aspirations of tits negro t I would greatly prefer seeing every oflloe in the State filled by the honest, intelligent negroes, than by such unprincipled and shamelam men. I once said to Preeidcnt Johnson, in reply to a deepateh eant me, about Union men being excluded from oflloe under the Provisional Government, thet I had made it a rule through life to oonflde in the politics of no one who was not morally honest and trustworthy in private life, and that my experience had taught ma the fact that a wan who had no moral priaoiple, could have no political prinolple. Hence it is thet w# ace those whb ware foremost In secession, whilst secession was In the ascendant and the rr ad to honor and distinction, power and position, iawi faurnini* af itia faaf nf llta r%nr\raw/tr whllit tyranny and oppreeelon are all powerful. They oara not whom they serve, or wbet prineiples they advoesta. provided they can promote their own selfish views. But they would even have as believe that Use great Interests of the eoontry were foremost in their thoughts. Immediately after it tree Icnown that slavery would have to be abolished, I expressed the opinion that it woold be wise end prudent to permit negroes, who bed acquired a property and educational qualification, to vets In all the Southern States.? I thought Ihta would be a safety valve for poll Ileal eoeiety. It would gratify and appease the intelligent end moat iaflnential of thai diss, end snake them good eitlnens, inateed of being disturbers of the peetee. It would hold oat uu inducement to all, who had any disposition or wish to riee above the eemisB herdl And no evtt could re. Milt (Tom It, as I suppoeed very few, comparatively. Would ever be able to attaih the privilege, end when they did, they wonld - * - SLUL iL ^ Ll-t. .is .J iwsjv tow who hi? iiignvr ?na u?u?r nml ?UtM. I dipNMed ilm< Iter opinio* Majr jMn ego, in regard to recapturing fugitive slaves. I thought it well h* miety thet when * sieve hed *eeaeh * love for freedom *e to prompt him to flee to the Northern Steles, end possessed lutelHgeues sufficient to roske his i Sleep* he ought not to be brought back.? la tUs we7, Iks bold, daring sod reckless? thcp who were most likely to disturb the 11 '"^sWie poeao?would bo out of the country, I had there would h* grsntsr safety from those IsA behind. ?* iM my opinio* thra aapw waaad wit d* * qmwwri by ihsm wIm wn mw ?rgiii( onit?wwN*t(allNf* fcf th* itgm, or ti Uu( U > rowtfwf th* Mil of * aonwaatioa. by wbiah * oatramal a??vo suffrage talob*established, b | >b?4w>d*iuliil,?* th* mo?? time, th* propriety *4 permitting wiffiit to giro '< UiltMW^ la all MIM la Mr court* of joe" to*. Thla, too, wo ateraly naiwtad by those who aro mow willing to confer on th* nrgro th* right of-holding office, to gc t haek lata tb*"gtoio?s Uaioo," wbiah they oa?? Ititl wrf drtfiied tttanHtllj. % *ff* lb Mff of hap-ftaeloas eemtnoaleatUo*, TWMM that hiitaa Agwoti bad proven lotMblyAHMit aegm war at as Into- I (hoe to "that of (ha wtrtto roan, and bad *Vh. ** iu^i>f*r this, i Mrm " iwrtl * Uriah-1 did, that oad wo-lt Wbli.tthtli^' Mwallai tbo whit* Mil father. Th?y ar* certainly boj^ ajfatioe# *r 'if ii. ?:' '0\ ?L. REFLI MPPV Alailfltltjr hemL They .re HRPiWOf too, equally under the protection fl^Slmlghty, and equally dear to him ijPtheix reepectlve epheree?apherea in THiioh he placed them and for whieh he made lb tea. The hone and the jackaea are both alike the creations of God. He did qot oraate then ot the tame type, or make them one and the earn* animaL He gave to one beanty of form end ayrameiry, eplrit and fleetneee; end to tha other at reogth, end nr. nnea and ether valuable quelitlee. Bo he haa diaUnguiahad between the negro and white man. To the former ha haa given a blaek akin and a wooly . bead, greater atrength and laaa brain. Ha haa adapted him to labor, and given hia poraa whieh defy malarlee and fevera. Ta tha other ha haa given n white akin and a head of hair, leaa atrength and larger braia, adapted to higher thought* and greater intellectual improvements. Bat God lovee hia whole creation equally, and it ia ta b? preaamcd that-he haa the aama regard for tha owl that hfehaa for the eagle, and ae with the hone aad the jackaaa, the white man aad the n eg re, provided, always, that tha one ia aa faithful in the dieebarge of hie miction on earth aa the other. It ia by no mean# a orima or fault en tha part of tha jaekaaa. that ha eannot mo aa awiftly aa tha bone. He- waa aot created for euch fleetneee; aad eerwUh the negro ; he baa net bean endowed by Qod with the Mm* volume of Wii(|hnt the white men hee, and ha la net to llbme for being unable to compete with htm la eetence and knowledge. He la an inferlot animal to tha white man. Ood made him^tuch as he is for wise purposes, as ha made the ass inferior to the horse. It Is as folBsh to think of making poets, artists and aUtftemen out of negroes as it would be to mak^a race horse or a spirited charger io battle fut of a jackass. Ton easy give the ntgt? the right of suffrage and the right to hold 01lee, and aiaka him a legislator, and aeyou may enter the aee for a four mile heatvith the blooded horse, or you may mouothim in battle for a eh ergs on the enemy ; hut both would be equally nnwlae and disss trous, for you are attempting to pefnrt nature and the law* of Ood. ' Professor Agaeeif, of Harvard Colhge, Massachusetts, the most learned and edlsntifio naturalist the world has ever produtefl, deolatee most confidently, after a fifetime of thought and observation on the subject, " That lbs negro and tha white ware erc&ted as specifically different at the owl and the eagle. They were designed te fill different Dlacee in the avetem of nttoM The negro is no more a negro by sccidsat or misfortune then the owl ie the kind of bird be ie by aecidsnt or misfortune. TV negro U no more tbe white men's brother then the owl ie the sieter of the eegle, or then the see is the brother of the horee.ee 'There are,' Mye the seme great authority, 'over one hundred epeeifle differene*/oe tween the bonel end nervous system of the white men and the negro. Indeed, their forme are alike in no particular. There ie not a bone in the negro's body relatively of the seme shape, slse, articulation, or chem* tcally of the same composition, aa that of the white man. The flegro'sbonee contains a far greater per oentage of oaleareone salts than those of the white man. Keen the negro's blood is ehemioally a very different fluid from that which courses in the ve'ns of the white man. Hie whole physioel or. ganlution of tlie negro differs quite aa much from the white man aa it does from that of the ehimpaunee?that ie, in hie bones, muscles, nerve and flbrea The ehlmpansee has not muoh further to progress to become a negro, than the nenro has to beeotna a white men. This fact science lneahorably demonstrates.'" It la agreed, by all seisntiflo men who have turned their attention to thia subject, Uat " the capacity, by measurement, of the ikull of tho white man la ninety-seven cubio inches, that is. the avaram tit ana thousand. ?e hit greater number of skalis. The negro has fix. ty-six eublo inehss; tho North American In. dlan hu sixty-three oablo inchea; the native Australian baa fifty-six cubic inches.'' Bir Char lea Lyell, than whom there can be no higher authority, aaya the feet and handr, the arms and legs of the white man and negro are unlike in measurement. The hand of the tie* gro ia one-twelfth larger, and one-tenth broader, than the hand of the white man ; his foot 'a one-eighth longer, and ene-nlnth broader, than the white man's; his fore-arm ia onetenth shorter; and the same is true of the hones from the knee to the ankle. The skeleton is unlike in the whole in weight and measurement, and unlike in every bone of it. In the meet admirable speech of the Hon. W. Alungeo, of Ohio, lately delivered in Oongreee, (and to whieh I am greatly indebt d for much Umil kav? ?nid.\ It (i hcMlw mm mted, ob the authority of wUntiflo man, that tha world doaa not afford an inatance of a melatto la tha fifth generation. The hybrid raeo hooonaoe extinct, after the fourth generaIlea, ueleee the/ hare intermixed with one 01 the other of the original race*. Be it le with all animal*. The male doe* not breed at all. The wolf and Jackal, the dog and fox, har< produced hybrid" which hare alwayi lM?n< extinct la the third generation. Theae animela, Jihe the negro end white mah, wen regarded, at One time, aa only different rarietiee of the enme epeelee. Bet expert ment ehewt them te have been different area Lioni, M It doefc the negro and whlu maw. I repeat what I hare told iff a former arti fit, that T hare ertr been the friemfi and prelector of tb? negro through life. Th4? n?y ( 6 * . t I ?t f r., 4 ? ! ut ,'/?b I . ex: of i=?e **' * '? l*.i t : >t.;-?.1 ?44 <f.i i>^ ,{n$mt greenville. south c,i an'!1 'gggmeaaii <i'iMni>MBtttttt I former claree %U1 reueii fw me. My boaeo- J paWrMita, eight or Wr U atuM, hart aeear .... ?, muix are MtM Mir tog villi. in* m the (urn* t#rmi the? did whilst .Urea. It ia bes o.naa I wiak wall to Ma negro, that I am unwilling taiwhla ptaeed ia a fala* position.? n Ha ia unfit to exercise the right of suffrage^ 0 and will baaoai the dope and tool of base and . designing men. A war ef ram* will eo.ae, g aoA the negro, being the weaker and leM intelligent, will he extermtnsted in aneh a war. Extinction will he the remit of this great been P bestowed on them for the tola pnrpoee of k strengthening the rad leal party I General " BtoJMM 1. Better raid to me eighteen month* 11 ago, that all the radical party wished was, to ? hare " impartial suffrage." He said that we 1 might declare that ifb one should rote, nnleaa u be Was a graduate of the Booth Carolina Col- b lege. All that the radical* then tbogght of I tl waa equality between the race*. But now, .1 they are determined to bare the negro rote, ai in order to radidallae the Booth. |t In tbe negro convention wbioh .at the other g, day, in Colombia, it waa alabned that, in the a rtexl Preeidential election, there ahould be placed on the radical tiehot a negro, either for ^ President or Vloe-President. It was contended, too, that the lands should be derided into small farms, so that ssch head of a family ^ might get a homestead. If the land-owners ^ refused this division, then their lands ahould be taxed so heavily as to force them to part with them. Thoro is considerable Ingenuity in this B1 scheme of confiscation. Tbe whites who rot* *' tor conrention, to aroid confiscation on the part of Congress, will find themselves nicely caugbtby tbe negroes ia convention. As I have R already said they will find that, after sacriflo- di ing their honor, the rights of the State, and " the principles of self government and consti- tuticnal liberty, they hare lost their lands into the bargain. Another scheme of the ne- n, I groes, promulgated in their recent convention, | is to bare nothing taxed but property. This ^ ] will release tho negroes flrom all taxes, as they . ( ! itn nnl " **1 i1l- ? ? , ? ? l?r"V * ?> ?, mo pru|?jriy of the But* i? to b? taxed, to establish free schools and college* all orer the State, for * the education of their children, without | expense to the nogrees ! Again, they Jc- 81 elare in eonrention, and haro mad# it a part of th?ir platform, that the old negroes, and ^ infirm negroes and pauper*, are to be support- *r ed hy the property of the white men, instead of taking oare of their own agod parents and pauper kindred. , lc In the twelfth article adopted by this radi- a I eal negro convention, they avow openly their v pnrpose of disfranchising all who hare served t j in the Confederate army, or aided and abetted n the war. They are disposed to tako a step, Q and a wido one, beyond the radicals in Con- n gress. The white radicals hare disfranchise ^ ed only those who have filled public offices j but the blaoh radicals aro determined to cx tend it to all who were in the army, which includes almost the entire white population.? w Tl.!_ _!l 1 I ll-l-l I- .1-. .. e jluio win uo accuiapusncu in mm convenuon " which the white people ere going to rote for? " a convention to disfranchise themselves, d confiscate their property, nn<l pinco tbo'Stat* ^ absolutely under the control of tlie ncgroos.? tl Was there ever such folly and madness heard b of before, in the civilised world? Tn sack- ti clotb and asbes, they will have to repent of e their stupidity and dishonor. h This negro radical convention further de- y mands a revision of our laws and tho re-orga- j, 1 nisation of our courts. They, a set of pau- ^ pers, ignorant and debased, are to govern the State, and the white men, who own all the property, are to pay tho expenses of the State, they speak of building railroads ! No doubt v a thousand schemes will be concocted for ? Mending the white man's money, for the bene- (l t of the negro, before they procaad to take it from him by foroe or ffadulent legislation.? T. Horrible, most horrible, is the futuro of our I P*r State and degraded people. No one o Moss to realise our true situation. It is now h el it was in the days of seoosaion, We are <1 steading, like idiots, on a magasino of pow- * dsr, Nourishing in our bands a fire-brand, and ' laaghing at the bsantifnl ring of ribbon it ? makes la the dark. The explosion will eome, * mast eome, sooner or later, and bring with it * unlrarsal death and destruction to the people > anf property of the State. ' la Liberia, where there la a nation of negroes, sent from the United States, and where, f they lave f irmed a Government, no White ? m*a Is allowed to bold ofilce, er vote at any s election for any office. This Is wise and prop- I er; tad thoy have thought it nseasaary to make tl this exclusion Tat their own peaee and pros- o pcrity* Have not ths white men the same I right It exclude the negro from the right ef a suffrage, when they know that the negroes h "?'w Ijor.bj in mo rjiaio, auu irui boiicidb t Ooverntaent of th? Slate, If permitted to el vote? ' b It ii Idle folly to Ull the people of South Carolina. that capital ud immigrant* will o flow inte Uie State, wlieu reeonetruoted on the 8 Black Repablioau platform. On th# contrary, a* e i (oon a* tbl* negro government la organiied, b every dellu of foreign capital in South Caro- a Una will bo withdrawn, and not one eent will tl come hare aeeking in. v*tment. Nor will any p foreignene move here to eeUle, under negro ?] , role, and the eenfnaien and diaturbaneo which d i it will give rlaa te in the State, llr. Calhoun It predicted, yearn ago, that If the negro wai aet ii ' free, the Northern people would inaiat on hi* tl i right of aafcnge, and if allowed, the negroe* a wonld tela* the (loverement, and the white 1 , people hev? to Jeave the State! He j, further (aid, that the former owner* would ' loee all iudneuoo over their freedmon, who*# " ympathiee and partialitie* would he for * i Northern nt and rile emtaaariea aant here to a j eoolrol tbetn, I think it ie pretty generally _ acknowledge^, even now, that all control of " the negro, nthe coming eleotlon, It already n gone from their former me*tern. Om. Hemp- tl tow and hlfeflhewda had Juet a* well try to aontrl a herd of wild huffaloee In the vaat prairiei of the Veet, a* the negro vote of Coinm- , bia. B. F. FBBnr. ^ >! OrttavriilB, ?. C,. July 27,19U. ^ r V + t>* v-mm ft-* aft iia^V S?? j u* biei, ^ r.JJ ' uif, ana are then marohed around a srkened room, and welcomed by the Good Chairman," in the following aorde: The good and true aie always welcome." You have now marched round the room ad are placed before an altar on wbioh is >read the American Flag. Here also Ufb pen a Bible, and a book with the old orig ial, unaltered Constitution of the United Late?, gift of our father*, as it was, is, and rer should be, unchanged. There, too, lie oroaaed two common vords, such a* are worn by army surgeons, et ween the point* i* a mysterious looking ronze chalice, tilled with something, the nell of which reminds you of " Old Rob. rteon," On your right, at a small altar, stands >ng, lsnk, lean " Forty Acres behind you t another desk or alter, stands a once Pro ost Marshal. Around this long, d irk, dirf room, sit the Loyal Leagucra, some black nd some white, and among them some of ur most worthy citizens There sre also ot a few whoso " copper " sticks out trough the whitewash given by this Loyal tongue. The gas is darkened, " Forty Acres,'? rith eyes upturned like a "duck in a thunerstorm," his lean hands onened out to 'nr<U llcaven, mumbles out a prayer I This one, the Cliairmaii (the jolly, good natured, ind looking miller, not of " Mansfield,-' bough quite as portly) steps forward with ook and match in hand, and fires the mys eiioua looking cup. which darts up a flickring blue flame, such as is represented an urning in the " Eternal Hades." With our right hand on the book, and tho left 11 the air, you now take the '* oath of allowance," known to all, and are most parties larly required " to defend the Const Union of the United States," (unaltered) on rhicli your hand rests, and the Constitution f the State of Tennessee. What Is the latrr Constitution T Who can tell you? Youaro also sworn to keep the secret of the .osguc, " to rola for none but loyal men, " Ac. n that long, dark, dirty room, on tho right f which stood one hundred old rusty muskets a such presence, beforo the flickering blue lame, which but made " darkness visible,'i rith the nasal twang of "F< ity Acres' " voice a prayer st 11 sounding in my cars, I was with then made a Loyal Leaguer. Surrounded rith parapbornaiia of humbug, we were sworn lso, as before said, to do oven uato death all n our power to make liberty eternal, " to vote or none but loyal men," Ac. We wore ne*t initiated into tho signs and lass words, Ac. Let one suffico; but if you vish, you can hare them all. To pass yourelf Leaguor, whou questioned, give the "Foui ,'s"?as follows : right hand raised to llearon, bumb and third finger touching their endi ver the palm, and pronounce " Liberty."? (ringing the hand down in a line With the boulder, pronounce " Lincoln." Dropping the sod open at you* i, proaonnoo " Loyal." i'itb your hand t . ungors downward in the boat, the thumb thrust into tha vest or waistand, across tha body, pronounce " League." There is a groat deal of other " torn fooling' f the saute character, unworthy of plaoe hereuffi:o it to say that such is the oharacter of a omblnation which bids fair to rebaptise un appy Fouthern souls with blood??och is the 'illlng or dupod sentiments ready to carry (nil be will of our modern Jeffreys and Dalrymles, Masters of Stair, Olenlyons and Lindleys*?such are the Loyal Leagues, which in arkened rooms, before blue, mysterious wklog fires, cross swords and psalm-sing>g humbugs hare sworn in " about forty-fire kousaod" simple freedtnen, and take from aeh a miserable half dollar fee of initiation, 'hose poor creatures hare stood beforo that lue flame and all the other grim paraphorna1a of this dark room humbug, with a supsrtitious awe, mingled with (ear. To them it 'as the " Carloo Pitliaa" of their native Jun los, the " Obi Man," with his polsonod eocosut. They will never forget that blue flame, bose crossed swards, the wild upheld eye ol Forty Acree," with ominously uplifted finer of the worthy " miller," as be prouounees ha " Anathema MaganaLka" on all who so?<le or break tba terrible pledge. IV jj, ?? ?J ,?*? ?n-; ^ 4 A. R, jttmi ' ffi'i <*?H| ,Wt? l*'*.-'#' -i HOBHRnsBnann; ROLINA. AUGUST 8. IP i Loyal League Shown up by an a. .-n-A mm * u)mu<iu uemouT NAfiiviLt*. ??uly 9. 1B#7. To thi Edit or i of the fraahvilte Gazette : Many of your readers will doubtlhsa ro iMnbtr 'my letter, published in the Gazette f the 13th, which wee largely circulated y the preee of this sod other cities of our late. If there Is one aentenoe therein not t accordance with law aod the true princh les of liberty and huroau rights, I don't now what constitutes tbosa safeguards of tea, and 1 have beea " raised a fool." For rrltieg sad publishing that letter 1 was at nee - sxp died " from Loyal League No. where 1 had been sworn " to do area nto death," all in my power to " keep ever uming on the altar of the American heart ic sacred flame of Liberty." Let the world t in judgment on my life of sixty-flee yean, nd particularly on the part of It embraced i the paet ecren years. I court its inresti ition, and will abide cheerfully by its ward. Indifferent alike to flattery or t>use, I shall do my duty even though asses ray, aud dogs snap and howl. Expelled from the Loyal Leagna I Now, rutlemen, permit me to introduce you in> the sanetnni sanctorum of this political umbng. 1 promised this, I'll do it. At the flret door you give two light tops sd whisper through a hole therein, "LoyI Men." The door opens. Yon move on i a second door and give two taps A op hole is opened. You whieper"Muet ..1 H ^ t '.'J ' EVENTS owO '-fiH a*. fr>?T*>?>?t -arf m*** ->vf yV>W |I^W<??XWI ?*4f RKi eamtapaw. ', 5 J ' - ' ~' ' J>la, wroogad irwtuai f.?Io the wild etorma ef midnight, when the bias lightning thrueU iU fingers through the etonn tuaaed elouda, their imagination win bring out, clothed with tor* ror, that darkened room, that myateriows flame, the upturned ?ye of "Forty Aerea," and the " So Modi'i of the mixed multitude. Gentlemen, fellow cftfteaa, freemen?took at thia munmery?Ihtt political hrfmbug, and think that men of rank, of atandlng, of 'flno intellect and kind tieafM, are there. How oaa you aeeount for it, In tfala nineteenth century j What doee it mean T Haa the Lord our Qod foreakenua? Are we a people f Haa he made us unna tdm out ruin may be mora sure?? Leaguers andmadmen, bow*re! Lib* blind bainpson, you now ait b*a**th the to war, net of oppression, but of human rights. . You are madly grasping the law and the ballot box?the suro columns of liberty. lf you bow yourselves as he did, the beautiful structure will fall, and you and your children will perish unwept under its ruins. Leaguers, beware! A day of retribution is coming.? Blind guides leading the blind, bow can you escape T Every aet of your own and of your leaders Is calculated to provoke blood. Yon know this. Bo yon tblnk to grind the Anglo Saxon rase beneath the heel of yoar deceived colored dupes? You thrust them oaee Into tbe fiery furneoe of war to save your own ohildren. You emancipated them as a military necessity. As tbe last hope of our tottering Government to save yoursclvea, you and your party laid violent hands on the " colored clement," and now you say that it was all for lovo of that eloment. Let us look at Mr. Lincoln's letter to A. 0. Hodges, Esq., of Frankfort, Ky., dated April 4th,1804: " I believed the Indispensable necessity for emancipation and arming the blacks would come. It came, and I was, in my best Judgment, driven to the alternative of either surrendering the Union, and with it tbe Constitu" tion, or of laying strong bands on the colored element and arming it. I chose tbe latter." Further quotation is unnecessary, comment useless; and now, dear Leaguers, remember, wheu you toll the-poor freedman that it was your lovo that made him free, you speak not tho truth; wheu you tell him jrou gave him tbo right of suffrage on tho umo account, when 'twas to save your bacon, and that you can do no more for the poor freedtr.an than Balsam did for the poor bruto which refused to carry him. Finally, " Loyal League 3To. 1," I beg leave to say to you, when you are about to turn a member out without cause, as Paul said to the jailor, "do thyself no harm." There Was no1 ono sentence in my letter which merits the act of " Expulsion." You kicked a bole in the wall, and let the world in* Sure of the approbation of bonest men, and regardless of all your threats, I am, respectfully yours, WILLIAM DRIVER. ** .yf Moravlay'* JTa**aere of GTrneoe.? Head and tremble, for the ijiirit ii here ! A Home 8 inks Into the (Ground. On Friday afternoon, 10th tilt., a singular and startling accident happened near Girardville, at the fool of Mahanoy Plane, about si* milea from Mahanoy Cit}*, Schuylkill Co., Penn. It seenia that at that point a "breast" of the Boston and Mahanoy Coal Company's eolliery had been worked to w'thin about 20 feet of the surface of the earth, and that looated just abova It stood a two story frame building, occupied by Mr. Thos. T. Myers, a breaker boas at the colliery, and his family. lie also had n number of boarders, whose clothing, Ac., were in the house. About 8 o'clock on Friday afternoon, as Mrs. Morris Robinson, of this borough, wife of the superintendent of the eolliery, who was on a visit to the house, and Mrs. Myers were in the kitchen, they felt the house moving, and lushed in haste into the open air. Two minutes had hardly elapsed after they left the house, before it sank with a snrgia?, swaying motion into a hngs chasm, , to ths depth of about eighty fact. Largs masses of earth and rock from the sides of I the chssm, immediately cloeed in upon the I house, hnrying It almoet completely from view. The crash when it went down was r tremendous. The complete entombment ot , the dwelling, which was about thirty five i feet long, may b? imagined, uya Miner'a Journal, when wo stale that the chasm ' formed by sinking of the tniao would readily 1 have admitted a building over one hundred feet in length. Fortunately the startling occurrence was not attended with the loss of human life. flad it taken plane at night, tea Uvea might have bean loat. But it took plaee at an hour when some of Mr. Myer'a children had gone to eehool, while the ethers were playing onUide. Dttraon a Cokorkssmas Elect.?Flake's (Galveston, Texas,) Bulletin, of the 10th Inst., ays : We have intelligence that the lion. Claib HubbarJ, member of Congress elect from this State, was killed at Columbus, in a baf-room fight, by a man named Spoor*, who wu alio killed by the guard, while endeavoring to make hie eeeape. The deoeaaed had loag been a prominent politician j bad been a member of both the United States aad Confederate Congrata. FacsmavT Joii.vso* baa received from Mr. Win. M. Lodley, of Richmond, the present of a comfortable arm chair made of s'rsw. It ata ccmatrnoted entirely by colored men in Mr. Ledlcy'a employ. tr Who Is the taxi est man t The furniture dealer; ha keeps chslrs and lounga* about all (be tlm*. WdtT t F : M * art I* I 'VII *d I li ! /* 7 ^ j J ? Mim 4*9 * 4t V? i?eB?wciw| .**0 <**4i ?" ( kv?< ay ? ?c? i nT ? * " ^ C ; " f " > ? i 1.?-I-JNO. W -1 ftMM . . fTha Spartanburg Spirt an, (aaja tba An(fprinn Infalll.r ? -? ' x - -* * ?in an aruole mildly rebuking no w- mikJ votemporary for pronouncing lbs 1 mt war ? " revolt" upon our part, thus correctty iUUi the condition of things AC tbe ftnure historian will riew them : _ J>1' " To aoy tint the South revolted from the Oovermsent of the United States, is not correct. "Hie equality of all the States forming that Oovernmerft, had never been disputed ; and If all the States were Mvsrsign alike, there was as much sovereignty in the eleven seceded States as there was In the greater number, from which they hed attempted peaceably to withdraw. If the States were equal in all their rights and attributes, individually or collectively, how is it possible to make out a case of revolt. A province may revclt or rebel againet the government of Its aoverelgn, and subjects may revolt againet their prince. But ours is a very different case. The Ineqnality in the nnmber and strength of the States en. gaged on each tide. In the late war (not revolt) was begun and fought to tha bitter end for self-government, and not alone for slavery and States^ rights in the abstract.? No, no 1 there was no abstraction abont it. The Sooth wanted peace and security at home, which she could not obtain in the Union. The parties to the war were belligerent*, (not rsvolterv,) as acknowledged by all the world, as well as by the govern ment at Washington. Equality and independence were as much attributes of the South as the North. We deny being Insurgents, rebels, revolters, traitors or deserters We were eltnply belligerents In a war for the defenee of onr rights, tn the failure of our arms, the Phoenix, only now, like Congress, has discovered thst the late war was nothing more than a revolt on onr pert.? We don't like the Word, because it conveys i censors on ssvsn millions of m?n who risked their nil in defeoe# of their rights. We don't want our children to remember ne only as self confessed insurgents, revoltera or insurrectionists.?> We-want to Stand In the eye of coming generations as patriots, in a war for independence?but in which we unhappily failed.? We believed that, however oppreeeite and odious the Union bad been, circumstances have now made it desirable that tbe Union should be restored. Then, as we can do no better, we give our submission to tbe reconstruction laws of Congress, and will continue to labor faithfully to restore tbe Union on that line, hoping that peace and prosperity may fblloW. The war and its results bare left onr country poor indeed; but there is no shame or disgrace fcttscbed to the South by her action in tiie latd war. We havo no consciousness of guilt or shame. Obsequious flattery, or oringiog servility to the arrogant pretensions and Usurpation of tbe Radical party of the North, can do us no good. Time and patience, and firmness and self-respect, will dispel the darkness and gloom of tho times?will drive sway and soatter our on amies?will restore prosperity and happiness to our land, and the South will be free from her present bondage. A Word more. Tbe men of the South, who stood shoulder to shoulder In the Lost Cause, until the last Confederate sword was sheathed, and tho starry Cross was lowered to a bloody and .?lii > ? * ' ' * * * ...... .vm.vi;?wnt not DC oranaeu, WfMA history is written, as Insurrectionists and re? Tollers. Oh, no?they will take their place fa the annals of time, with the heroes ef Tbermopylse." FiJt.* roa Earlt Mabbiaoks ?The Rev. Henry Morgan lectured a few evening* srnee, Ui Boston, upon " Young Men aad Early Marriagea" The Herald, at that city, the next morning, gave the following elaborate report of it: "Text, Prov. 18:22, 'Whoeo findeth a wife, findeth a good thing, and obtaiueth favor of the Lord.' Said the speaker: 'Nature, history and revelation declare, It is not good that man should be aloae.' He needs a helpmeet; a wife is the balance* wheel, the regulator, the gnardisn angel of a hatband's trust, confidence and prosperity. Politically socially, morally and spiritually, man requires a wife. Man needs a homo. The Romans gars baehelora no legacies. Corinth denied them sepulture; Athenians scourged them. To Plato's commonwealth, at the age of thirty five, they were fined. Man is but half a man without a wife. In all your gettinge, get a wife, and never rest from gstting till you get married. Better live In an attle under the hallowed influence of a wife than revsl in a palace of dissipation. Man needs a home. AtAPriBCA Si tKo luaUlmata Krmwtw VI |C1IUine home. Look at the deplorable condition of the young men of thia city without home*. Boarding houses hare no elevating aoeiety of women, no hiiM influence*, no plaoe of mental or moral improvement, no altar of prayer, no angel of love. In Philadelphia, there are more home* in proportion to its population then in Roe ton ; hence Boaton hes an nnrqnal eon teat in the battle of morals." Twelve old ladiea mat at a tea party in Palmyra (New York) the ether day. The aggregate age was 890 years; the average seventy one. The eldest was ninety-three. la Cleveland, n negro baby fall eat of g window nnd nearly killed a gentlemen gassing along the street. An exchange thinks ha had nigger on the braiu. Or Philadelphia aaasssnrs ?y that Phil advlphia is worth $840,000,000. A