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MHHKTla restraint of HUrOtd liw;and at
OHHm ttew tendered to the Inhabitant* the
JP^nvRege and Che mean* by which a majority
(P^ In any one of the rebel Btntee might organise
? legal government and be re-admitted to the
Union.
Now, the qnention for the Sooth la, whether
to reject this laat opportunity, end thereby
okallenge Congress to do Its worst, or, by aceepting
In good faith the proffered terms, put
a end to seven years of strllb, save what !
left, and regain nt least, If not political power,
a large measure ef political rights.
The fruits of tho policy of the past seven
years are seen la the contrast between the
terms of settlement offered by President Lincoln
on the 4th of March, 1801, In his first Inaugural
address, and tho terms now proffered
by Congress in the Act of Jnly, 1807. If Lin
coin's peeee offering had been aoccpted, the
wealth, prosperity and power of the Booth
would bare remained uaimpored, and all the
eaccitses of a long war saved.
Acquiescence now In the measures provided
t>y Con free* to restore tranquility and establish
legal State Governments In the conquered
territory, is an obligation resting upon all
who have taken the oath of allegianoe and re.
eeived aasnesrty. For at meet It ean only be
said that (he messages of Congress impose
upon the vanquished, the Institutions of tho
victors. And if it be true that antagoslstieal
Institutions rnhde us enemies In war?then
without homogeneous institutions we may not,
even in peaee, bo friends.
It stay be aaaumed that no disability will be
removed from these who resist, oppose, or discourage
reconstruction, in e?ety State whete
the terms offered by Congress shall he rejeetedi
ft lb frisks that banoeforth political power
Will be altogether and finally remitted to the
hands of those who have been ever loyal to
the Union. By the rojoction of the terms of
reconciliation now offered, tho prcmotors o?
discord will, sooner or lator, find themselves
without nossossions. without franchises, and
no longor the peer of the bnmblest citison of
the republic?and then will the rebellion hare
worked out upon ita unrepentant authors it*
own impreaelve and signal retribution.
The partioalar grounds of oomplalnt suggested
In your remonstrance remain to be considered
:
You take exception to Paragraph VII of
General Orders dS, which declares that certain
contracts if hereafter made by dealers in intoxicating
liquors shall be doomed and treated
within this Military Districts, as against pub
lie policy ; also to Paragragh IX, Qeneral Orders
Si, abolishing distress for ront- and substituting
in lieu thereof certain liens; also to
General Orders 10, staying the remodies for
tfce enforcement of certain classes of dsbts.?
It is to be inferred from your statements that
you regard the revocation of these orders as
essential to the interests of these engaged in
commerce and trade.
It is not always possible to ohtend to eomtncroe
tbe facilities most desired by merchantsIt
should he remembered that while it is the
provisos of commerce to direct the materia'
resources and energies of tbe oountry into
channels of enterprise that nourish material
and moral development, yet ootametee itself is
dependant upon domestic seeurity and oonfi
den045, and the productiveness of labor In tha
department* of agrlcftltafo and manufactures.
So far from oomplaining of temporary inconveniences,
those whose fortunate privilege It la
to eonfrdl the currency and Capital of (bo
country, should ho willing to forego other peculiar
prirtliges for the sake of promoting the
prodaotkms of labor, from which the profits of
commerce are mainly derived.
Tot object to.Paragraph VlL of (General
Orders No. U, because certain Northern, Western
and foreign distillers had, previous to the
ofdetj Consigned liquors for sale within this
Military District| that the eustolna duties on
foreign liquors, and the excise Us on domestic
liquors, had been paid, and yon regard it as an
act of liOnstlbo to thoee parties to 44 suddenly
withdrawn all protection from said property
against fire, and also to protect the owners of
said property from collecting their just debts
at common law." Ton will find, by referriug
tot hs paragraph in qusetioD, that it has not
the retrospective operation complained of.?
It does not intcrfcro with contracts of sale,
storage, or Insurance already made when the
ardto wont into operation, nor does it prevent
the sale of such liquors by aproperly
lie meed dealer, who eoafonas to the prescribed
Hiditiw for thist raffia.
Tbo objection pramM by you to r*ragraph
IX. of General Order* No. 89, abolishing
Mm for rent, baa bom repeatedly rejected
by the court* of tbo conn try. To Modify
o roMody for tbo enforcement of coo tract*
doo* not Impair their obligation. In several
of tbo State* of tbo Union tbo abolition of
dlatooo* for rent bos been mooted without regard
to existing looooa, and tbo propriety of
mob legtaleilon bod boon Judicially aanctloood.
While appovlng tbo nmauro at largo, you baa*
your onlj objeotiow to it on the erroneous suppooittow
thai partlao making oontract* bar* a
right to demand that there shall bo no change
to lb* prinetpt* or potley of the code of pro?
odors daring tbo oslotoaoo of mob oontrnot*.
A* tbo duration of contract* 1* ordinarily
wttbto tbo control of tbo ooutmctlng partieo
you win pOrooiro that tbo oflbet of your pre
pooMoo would bo to mbjoct tbo public inter ots,
ooaoumod In tbo administration of Justice
to tbo interests and eron caprice of indirid
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fc^REITTU
( la proceeding to consider your objection* to
! Qen?ral Order* No. 19, staying certain remedies
for the oollcction of debt, it will bepfupet
first, to notieo your itatMmt that th* Leglslata
re of 8outh Carolina passed a law for th*
am* purpose, aad which, a* 70a obocrr*, waa
declared by th* Court of Appeal*, unconstitutional.
Thl* olrcnmitano* ha* groat weight
In th* promulgation of the order in question.?
Th* action of th* Legialatur* waa regarded a*
proof that in th* belief of the people at large,
th* public safety demanded such a measure.?
The Major-General Commanding was untrammelled
by provision* of tb* so-called Stat* Constitution,
adopted in contemplation of events
quite different from the actual situation; ho
could not fall to see that many thousands of
fhmllles. In deep misfortune and destitution*
wore menaced with ntter ruin by the inconsiderate
aad cruel pressure of creditor*, nor
conld he, without being Inssnslbl* to th* general
appeal of a suffering people, refase to afford
seme measure of adequate relief.
At tb* time when the Ordors No. 10 were issued,
the people of th* Carol inas, and mora
especially of South Carolina, were axposmd to
overwhelming disaster from th* seisnre and
sale, under Judicial ptoses*, of all th* means
they possessed. Their scanty stores of previsions,
their worn-out hou?ob*old furniture, and
their few implements of husbandry, saved
from the wreck of tho industry of tho country,
would bars availed nothing to creditors, yet
were ef inestimable value to the population.?
Time and opportunity given, Industry would
recover from paralysis, despondency would be
overcome by fortitude, the oraditor would be
ultimately paid, and the sad condition of an
Impoverished people ameliorated. To arouse
and stimulate the energies of the people?to
Inspire the hosbandmen with confidence that
he would reap the fruits of his labor?to assure
'him that he might rescue himself and
family from want?and to recall from haunts
sf diesapn tion and idleness those who had been
driven thero by despair?would contribute
much to the public peace, security and order
the Commanding General is expected to maintain.
In the sucoees of thoso measures no interest
is more coneernod than the commerce of
the counlty.
You have yourselves described the condition
of affairs that existed. You observe that
" at the opening of the Courts after the wan
the people in the country commenced racing
each other. The debts aro nearly all local
and you add that " the Northern cities and
Charleston wore scarcely represented, nor
have tbey since to any extent pushed their
claims at lawand you add the remarkable
and significant statement that a largo portion
of the debts suod in this Military District are
for snms not over twenty dollars.
You maintain that had a few oxocution*
been pushed, the wholo debt could have been
paid with a very small sum of money, that A
owed B twenty dollars; B owed C twenty dollars
; and so on to the end of tho alphabet; but
it is very evident that twenty dollars wonld
have paid the wholo of the indobtednesa." A
better argument for the stay law conld no'
have been adduoed ; for all that was requirotl
to roalite tho easy modo of liquidation yon have
elucidated wo* time, so that these interchange*
might take place. It is precisoly this the
stay law affords, leaving as the pleating assurance
from to high an authority, that within
a brief period the financial difficulties of the
State may be resolved with a sum of money
insignificantly small.
lict ns see, on the other hand, what would
have been the effect of refusing this allowanco
of time. When Gonoral Order 10 was promulgated,
there were pending in tho courts of
the State forty thousand suits for debt By the
iastoenstts there were only forty thousand white
voters in the State. Allowing the sum of fifty
dollars In each ease, as the amount of costs,
fees, expenses, lost time and depreciation of
values by hurried liquidation, yoti have two
millions of dollars as the loss in effeeting, by
litigation, a settlement, eapable, according to
yonr statement, of being effected with twenty
dollars?through some peculiar proeess known
to the Board of Trade in Charleston.
Ton proceed to observe that " if every exeontion
has been pressed, the Aggregate Wealth
of each District or County would not have
been lessened, the property wonld merely hare
changed local ownors." Ruroly It is not a
matter of small Interest to the merchants oi
Charleston, that the property of the farmery
mechanics and tradesmen should pass into the
hands of IsWyerS, constables?and the vultures
that flock to judicial sales.
So far as relates to the local transae lions of
Charleston, yonr statement that creditors residing
there had not sought to enforce their
elaime, shows that the stay law has not Injur*
ed the business of the oity; nor is any iqjury
likely to be produced worthy of comparison
with tho manifest facllitiee afforded to agrioul
tare, from wkleh the trade of Charleston derives
all its thrift.
Y u will not fail to observe that the sue
pension of remedies is confined to causes ol
action aruing between the lUth of lieeent
ber, 1860, and the 15th of May, 1808 ; that
after the expiration of the temporary atay
of proceeding* fur twelve month*, exoen
tiooe for debta oontraoted before the wai
ean be enforoed without bindranee; and
' that aa to all tranaaotiona ainee May 18th,
1888, all the reniadlea afforded by the Uwi
of the United Btatea and of South Carolina
not only remain intaet, but they are invigorated
and reinforeed by military regnla'
1 tiona and tribunal*
It will therefore b* aeon tbat partem
aeeking to invent capital and abgage it
bnaineee enterprise* within tbb Military
' Diftrict are entitled to all the remediea ear
have free aeeosa to all the Iribnnala thai
belong to a nettled order of socie.y ; *n?
. that it i* only those transaction* ine'dent t<
the lieor let* of a lonp war ntvl ' > 'he o!
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QX OF PC
GREENVILLE* SOUTH C
ay at em ( servitude, that irt affected by
th? military atay law.
Since the month of January, 1867, the
market prtN of the public stocks of tbs
Stats or So tit h Carolina shows that tha
Credit of tbs State, far froth recSdimr, has
improved. Gentlemen as familiar as you
arc with tbs operations of finanoe, are
aware tbat the credit of the Blata cannot
suffer by tnsasurss which establish consld
erate and Arm authority, promote the induatrUl
welfare of the population, maintain
order, aud provide for tbs permanent
adjustment of the political relations of tbs
inhabitants.
His Bxoslicnsy, the Governor of Sooth
Carolina, in an official communication ad.
drasaed to the Commanding General, has
been pieaaed to aay, M I have perused with
great satisfaction your General Order 10,
dated April 11, 1867, and beg leave to expreaa
my hearty aoaeurrenoe in all ita provisions;
so fsr as 1 have been able to aaoer'
tain publis sentiment, I think it maeta with
the unqualified approval of our entire pop
ulatlon.**
In eoneluslon, gentlemen, I am to Inform
you that tha Mejor-General Commanding
fails to dieeover In your suggestions sny
sufficient ground for revoking or modifying
the orders in qneation ; and he indulgea the
hops tliat temperate oounsels, acquiescence
in the measures provided for the present
exigency, and stronger tlee of fraternity
among the people of the oommonwealth,
may encourage the labors of thoss who desirs
and ess in the future of South Csrolins
even more than bar ancient prosperity and
renown.
Very raspost/ully,
J. W. CLOUS,
Ceptata 88th Infantry, A. A. A. G.
Rbsolt or AN AnvanrtsaMKNT.?-Many
persons eouruin ido miaiMer. opinion that IDadvertising
column* of n new*papor aro not
generally road by tba public; that this part is
examined only by person* wishing to learn
where they oan get aotne particular article.?
That this is a mistaken notion, we think we
can prove by a little piece of personal experience.
When the proprietor of the Enquirer was
superintending the making up of the paper for
publication two weeks ago, a vacancy of two
lines occurred iu ono of tho advertising columns.
After trying iu vain to shift tho advertisements
so as to fill up the hialue, it occurred
to him that a few blackbeirios wore
needed in his homo department, and he determined
to make known his wants. In accordance
with this idea, the following modest little
notioc was inserted :
" BtacKBEiftuKS WANfsD.?Apply at the
Enquirer Office."
This was placed at the foot of a column, no
attention being called to it in tho list of now advertisements.
Yet this obscure statement produced
an effect as magical as if a trumpet bad
been rounded through the land. It was proclaimed
to the remotest corners of tho District
ftkfit KUrlfliprriAfl *nrf< wantp/l nml Mnr>klii>r.
rice eimo; the people responded to the appeal.
Within a week some twenty persons appeared
at our sanctum, with auppliea of the juicy fruit
for aalo ; ao that there ia no longer room to asaert
that blackberriea are wantod at thia office.
The influx of berriea would doubtless havo
broken the concern, If wo had not atopped buying.
Moat of thoae who camo to aeli, had not aoen
the advertisement themaolrea, but heard of it
from othera. Thua it ia aeen that the circulation
of an advertiaemetU extends far beyond
that of tho paper in which it appear*. It olao
provea that no part of a paper fail* to aecuro
it* (hare of reader*. Reflet on thia, all ye
who wiah to call publie attention to your busineaa,
your profession, your want*, oryonr auppliea.?
YurktilU Enquirer.
A Radical Vie# or Naono OrricE-noi.nino.?The
Nation, the ableat of the Radical
weekly prpota, diseuatca the negro claim* to
office, and thinka there ia aomething very
amuaing in Mr. Waridctl Philips' simplicity in
trying to persuade himself and othera that aa
' soon as people aaw a nogro foisted into the
Vico Presidency by politioal manuveriag, the
white* Would begin to respect the colored pop.
i ulation more than they had previously dono.
On the contrary the Nation argues thua f
> Elect ion to office is, and always baa been'
and we truat aiwaya will be, the roault of Iho
popular esttrtfato of a man's character, not
tho eause of it. Therefore, wheneVor we ace a
negro h? the Vioe-Presidency, ft will, wo admit,
be a sign that negroes, as it ctaas, have
risen in popdlar estimation. Tho office* of
Oovcrnment, as we undoratand Government,
aro established for the dervioe of the
whole community, and not for consolation
of tho unfortunate or unsucoossfbl, and if
there bo one political abuse from which, utore
than any other, the oountry has in thuae latter
days sufforod, it U tbo practice of bestowing
nomination* and appointment* with reference
not to Uie candidate'* fttnosa or to tbo public
' needs, bat With reference to *uoh arbitrary
and *on*ole*? consideration*. If the day
should over come when high political position*
shall bo distributed, as Treasury Clerkship*
and Custom lluuso places new are, as a tnodo
of relieving or encouraging the helpless, or
friendless, or destitute, or Inoompetent, a serious
blow will assuredly be struck at the stability
of the (Joveroinent, and we, for our
1 part, khpe that nothing of the kind Wilt ever
1 be submitted to by the people, either for the
sake of the negroes or any other race or tribe,
' because Wc freer* that when negroes hsvc onn'
tributed tborr fair share to tbo work of eivlllI
sntlon and good government, no prejudice ran,
) In a fW>o Christian country, prevent tbem
1 f.-Vn rvaivin ?hcir fnir rhnrc "t 'be i rL'vf.
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IXPTTI^lH
AROLINA. AUGUST 22, U
Hark Ye, Girls!
It is high tima that somebody tcld
yon a littla plain truth. You have
been watched for a long time; a cer
tain class of you; aod it is |)laio
enough you are laying plans to cheat
somebody. You intend to sell chaff for
wheat, and thefe is dangef that sofhe
of the foolish " gudgeons " will be sadly
taken in.
It may not be yont fault that you be*
long to the 44 one Idea party n?that the
ingle idea of getting a husband is the
only one which engrosses much of your
lime or attention. Your venerable
mother of Eden memory, was called a
44 help for man,w and you are looking
for a man to help you; to help you live
in the half idle, half silly way which
you have commenced. Men who are
worth having want women for wives.?
A bundle of gew gaws with a string of
flats and quavers, sprinkled cologne and
set in a carmine saucer?this is no help
for a man who experts to raise a family
of boys and girls and veritable
bread and meat.
The piano and the lace frame are well
in their places, and so are ribbons and
frills and tinsels, but you can'! make a
dinner of the former, nor a bed blanket
of the latter. And awful as tbe idea
nuiy seem to you, both dinner and bed
blanket are neocessary to domestio enjoyment.
Life has its realities as well
as its fancies, but you make it all a
matter of decoration, remombering the
tassels and curtains, forgetting the bedstead.
Suppose a young mas of good
sense and of course good prospects, to
be lookiog for a wife, what chance have
you to be chosen ? You may cap him,
or trap him, to catch hiin, but how
much better to make it an object for
him to catch you 1 Render yourself
worth catchiog, and you will need no
shrewd mother or managing brothers
to help you find a market.
How to Diminish Litigation.?Tho Round
Table, discussing law reform, makes a pointed
suggestion that all contracts of puro credit>
wherein one man willingly trusts another, be
taken out of the Courts by being dcclafod unlawful.
This would effect a positive good by
reducing tno mass of litigation at loast ouc?,.ir
ti,.
Coses of fraud would bo fowor than they are
now. In the first place every one would se?
loot his agents and bin debtors With more care >
> in tho second placo fiduciary agents would bo
better paid, because of a general anxiety to
got the best; in the third placo, agents and
debtors would bo mote faithful, because want
of fidelity to a trust would be punished by society
with romor?elc?8; unforgiving cruelty.?
Society is instinctively unmerciful to sins
which injure it, and wliioh are not punishod,
or cannot bo reached by the laws?as witness
its treatment of fallon woman. Character
would have a higher pecuniary value than it
has now, to the groat improvement of tho
moral tone of society. Many a rich rogue*
now trurted only because of his woalth, would
find hiinsolf powerless to command a dollar on
more credit; on tho other band, many an honest
man, now scraping hard for a living, wonld
find his servieos in ready demand at good pay*
So far from increasing tho number of frauds'
tho leaving of credit to regulaU itself and tho
enforcement of its own eonlracts would, at the
same time that it lossened tho mass of litigation,
improvo the moral tone of. society by
Kivinsc honest men a more caual chance with
rogues then they now have?in fact, by putting
them above the fogitcs in oredit and in
power.
Wnirn on Black Sup rem act.?Tho New
York Herald concludes an article as follows
" The wholo issue in tho South dopondi upon
tho spirit in which thosolaWs of reconstruction
are applied. If tho restrictions againfj
rebels are rigorously enforced, While tho negroes,
Without question, arc freoly admitted
to the suffrage, as they have been so far, the
negroes will rulo in the work of re-organiss
tion and send whom thoy please to Congress
If, on the other hand, tho restrictions agains
the Southern whites are somowbat relaxed
and the requirements to suffrage are faiirty applied
to the blacks, the white maijority; whrr<
it exists in any Southern State, will be brought
into action, and white ascendancy will bo thi
result. \fe believe, too, that under this system,
Southern reeonstruetion may be so fairly
accomplished as to compel even the radicals ol
Congress to accept it; for If the idea of universal
suffrage has now gone so far that i|
cannot be arrested, that other idoa of a goneral
amnesty is close behind. If Jeff. Davis
on the bail volunteered by leading radicals
(tgn bo turned loose, tfntely we need no longei
delay in lotting all the smaller fry of tho re
bullion go scot-free. Now, then, is tho tim<
for President Johnson to mnko the issue w<
have suggested between his mode of exeeut
ing the laws of reeonstruoUow, which mcani
Southern negro supremacy, and twonty 01
thirty negroes in tho two houses as a begin
ning before the expiration of the presen
Congress. Lot Mr. Johnson prepare at onp
to try New York end Pennsylvania on thi<
tout, and he will dieoovor, before tho rc-assembling
of Congress, that they aro not yet read)
to he jostled by Bambo in tho United Statoi
Senate."
Tna h#t6niGA*D?aa.? The Michigan Con
etitutional Convention has adopted a elaum
oonferrinjj suffrage upon the negroes, tin
Indians", and?'the tfomen. Wa dotfbi
whether tho Miohljan women will feel com,
pliniented by the order in which they come,
Ttie new Conailtu'ion does not go into ef
fe?? vn'.i! ratified lv the p. o, Is.
EYE iNTTS
m.
Virginia.?The list of registered to
tore, thus far, in the noble old, cyramou
wealth of Virginia, show* thiit she is
yet a white mss'i State. The Richmond
Enquirer has carefully compiled
a list of the registered soters in forty,
five. Counties, which giro ah aggregate
of nearly 34,000 tothrs, and, To these
Counties, the white majority is nearly
10,000. It is also to he noted that this
list embraces the leading populous cit*
ies of the Statte?Richmond, Petersburg,
Norfolk, Alexandria, Sc., all of
which gave large negro majorities.
Of the forty live Conn'ies, thirty-one
gave white majorities, and the Richmond
Enquirer believes that the full returns
from the entire State will exhibit
something like a similar proportion of
the two races. This is gratifying intelligence,
for although some of the whites
registered may be of the Hunnicutt
stripe, yet it is pretty certain that the
conservatives of the State will have the
control, and thus remove the apprehenT
si on that the political intriguers dna
mischief makers would csrry the Old
Dominion into the fold of the political
agitators, who have been incessantly at
work among her people. Shotild the
hopes entertained of the fiolitical complexion
of the remaining Counties be
realized, the result will be bailed as a
favorable omen throughout the South.
Nil dttpcrandum.
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Tiik Exciiakob ot Prisoners.?The
telegraphic despatch from Oen. Grant
to Gen. Butler, in August, 1804, is reproduced
in the New Yoik Tiibune, of
Wednesday, as forming part of Gen.
Butler's report to the committee of Con
grecs in relation to the exchange of
prisoners. The Tiibune says:
* In August, the rebels offered to renew
the exchange, man for man. Gen.
Grant then telegraphed the following
important order : " It is Lard on our
men held in Southern prisons not to e*
change them, but it is humanity to
those lefl in the rnnlcs In finlit nnr Kai.
? -ft?
tie*. Every roan released en parole, or
otherwise, becomes an active soldier
against us at once either directly or
indirectly. If wo commence a system
of exchange which liberates all prisoners
taken, we have to fight on till the
whole South is exterminated. If we
hold those caught, they amount to no
more than dead men. At this particular
time, to release all rebel prisoners
North would ensure Sheraton's defeat,
and would compromise out- safety
li6re."
This is a clear avowal of a policy,
and appears to relieve the Confederate
authorities of the responsibility which
it has been attempted to fasten on
them, of refu&iug to make an exchange.
. [Phanxi.
OaiotN op "Yankee Doodle."?
Mr. Bryant, of the Evening Post, who
is traveling in Spain, gives the following
curious story.
" I have mentioned the Ba?ques, and
I have an incident to relate which cons
nects them curiously enough, with our
own country. Some time since, when
Mr. Perry, Secretary of the American
Legislation at Madrid, was in one of
the Barque provinces, he heard a baftd
playing their old national airs. The
Basques hAve preserved whatever is pe
culiar to thein, their language, their
customs, and many cf their political
rights, from the earliest period in which
they are knowD to history ; their
: national music is claimed to l>e of the
. same antiquity. After the band had
played several other airs, it struck up
11 4 Yankee I>oodle,' the very tune, in ev
erv note, which is so familiar to Araer*
i ican ears. Mr. Perry immediately
> claimed it as our national air. 4 It it
- one of our old tunes,' said a gentlemat
to whom he spoke, 4 and I can convince
1 you of the fact. For hundreds of yean
? it has been a popular air among us.'?
' The gentleman afterwards made good
' his assertion, by showing Mr. Perry s
1 manuscript of great an iquity, which
' contained the identical musical notes ol
Yankee Doodle.'
^ KsLioions Sects in Europe.?From a ta
bio recently published, giving the nnmerica'
t strength of the different religious sects of Eu
rope, wo loaru that there are 137,300,000 Ho
' man Catholios, 65,400,000 Protestants, 74,000,
000 Qreek Catholics, 354,000 Dissenters, 3,300,
' 600 Jews and 3,300,000 Mohammedan*. Then
aro more Roman Catholics In Prunoe than it
' any othor country, 1. e., S5,700,DtfO. Austrii
9 eomos noxt with 37,500,000; Italy tfSxt will
' 14.923.000. Snain next with 15.700.000. I>
' (treat Britain there are 5,860,000 Romai
r Catholics. Swollen hits the smallest OA'mbe
s of any Kuropoan country, 1,000, and Denmarl
1 has ouly 1,500. Great Britain has the mot
' Protestants, 33,000,000 in all. Next is Prus
s sia with 15,109,700. In France there are 2,
000,000 Protestant*, in Swoden 4,107,700, ii
' Russia 2,000,000. There are in tho latte
' country 29,300,000 Greek Catholics. Russia
has moro Jews than any other country, 1,500,
000. In Austria (bare are 1,050,000, in Grea
Rritian 40,000, France 150,000. Tho .Mnhnm
' medans are confined to Russia and furkoy.
t TfiT'.*.?SpeawiuR of the recent reeonstnie
tion measures, a Texas correspondent asks hii
Northern friends to " hold up until we cm
swallow the dose, lot It work, and let thO pa
tient either die or fret well, without any roon
ivvili Tin " jaw about it "
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London, August *?j P. M.?Despatched
r??eJvod today fiom Athene bring tho
intelligence that the Greek Government
haa announced the determination of deil irtog
war against the Sublime Porta on the
Tat of September, should the hootiUUee
against the Christiana in the island of GeodlN
not i>e ended by that time. Great military
preparations are being made (or aneK
a contingency, and orders have been Igaued
calling o(it the ebllte rhservee of tlia kingdom.
Pasrrn, August 4.?The election of Kcesuih
to the Hungarian Diet from Weitaen.
causes a stir among the oonservalltea of the
nnngarfans, who fear his extreme views
may disturb the e-lstlng agreement with
llift Emperof of Anatria.
Ciiablkstox, August 1H.?Qorarfl Sickles
has spprovsd the aentenee of the court
martial, in Ihc ease of Radcliffe and Daly;
who recently assaulted two Northern mad
in a bar-room at Columbia. The sentence
ia six months imprlsoncbeiit in Port Macon,
N. C.
CiiAntKBTox, August 11.?The crop a<>
counts from nearly every District in tlia
middle and upper sectlona of the State represent
corn Rnd cotton in fine condition.?^
The damage of the caterpillar along the
coast is; so lar, inconsiderable. ^
Washington, August T.?In connection
with Fcerctaty Stanton's official refusal to ire*
sign, it IS statod that ho will not bo allowed to
participate io Cabinet councils. The President
will not movo any farther In tho matter*
| during Stanbcry's absence.
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The Wandbiunq Jkw.?From , t\o
year 1818 (perhaps earlier) to about
1830, a handsomely-featured Jew, id
semi-eastern costume, fair haired, bareheaded,
his eye intently 6xed on a lit,
In nnnlnnt I 1- V--1J V-.l- 1 -1
?.iv.?n? 1/uvn IIC UUIU IU I7UIU UHUUH^
might be seen gliding through the
streets of London, but was never seen
to issue frotti or to enter a house or to
pause upon his way. lie was popular*,
ly known As " the Wai.dering Jew,"
but there Was something so digqifiad
and anxious, in his look that he waft'
never kuown to suffer the slightest mo*
lestation. Young and old looked silently
on hiin as he passed, and shook
thoir heads pitifully when he had gonw
by. lie disappeared, was seen again
in London some ten years later, still
young, fair-haired, bare-headed, his
eyes bent on his book, his feet going
steadily forward as hfe went straight on ;
men again whispered as he glided
through our streets for the last time,
"The Wandering .few J" There wera
many who believed . that be was the
very man to whom had been uttered '
the awful words : 14 Tarry till I come."
[London Athenaum.
Disease Producrd by Sleefixq Tooatasa.?During
the night, says a writer on bygenicn,
there is considerable exhalation from
our bodies, and at the same time wo absorb a
large quantity of the vapors of tho surrounding
air. Two healthy young children sleeping
together will giro and receive healthy exhalations;
but an old, weak person near a child
will, in exchange for health, only return weakneve.
A sick mother near her daughter communicatee
sickly emanations to her; If tbo
mother has a cough of long duration, tho
daughter will At some time also oough and
fdflbr by it; (f the mother has pulmonarycoBSumption,
it will be ultimately communicated
to her child. It is known that the bed of a
consumptive is a powerful and sure souroe of
contagion, as well as for men as for women*
and the rtore So for young persons. Parents
and friends ought to oppose as much as is in
their power the sleeping together of old and
1 young persons of the sick and of tho healthy.'
i A Cakd.?It is usual, Wt> believe, in oase of
flrtts, Ac., for parties whose property has beott
. rescued to return thanks to their felloW-eiti>
sens. In this spirit, the editor of this paper
t returns his profound thanks to the chcralirra
l fin (I nitric who visited his smoke house last
j Wednesday night, and after breaking tho lock
i and entering tho promises, were so eonsiderato
as to leave him a little more than one half hlc
| wheat.
i While roturning thanks for this kindnes#
I ho at the sarao time is "exceedingly filled with
f contempt" at tbo hoggishue*$ displayed iu carrying
off all hi* bteon !
At loast ono of these gentlemen making this
nocturnal visit is presumed to have been M
I radical, as the Impress I6fi left by his foot in
the yielding clay shows that the breadth wan
almost equal to tho length, While tho bolloW of
. it " made a hole in the ground !"
Thus courteously the Athens (Ga.) Wufcli?
man notices tK? s?- f - -
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t 0k5kt!AI. OnAifr.?The No# York Unlbfii
i Republican party, a few days ag6, nominated
General Orant for tho Presidency. On* of tho
> loading j.ufnals of that party?the Tribune
r ?It would appeaf, docs not endorse the n tnlc
nation. It says, hi reply to an artielo in *
t Chicago p-ipef r
" Wo afo not in the Presidency busineo*
just yet. We leu ,o that to &r. BcnAett, #k6'
n wants Orant and Leo, and the Soup Cbaadattr
tee up town, who think thoy would Ilk* to rdn!
>. Orant as a sort of huff~cr-appoa*ing, plutter
filling candidate. T! oro arb more imj.or.nnt
' matters on hand than Procidentia.! intrigues?
. tho finances, the tariff, reconstruction. When
tho time docs oonn>, wo shall try and find a
suitable statesman,' as, on the whole, there ara'
reasons why a statesman should he President
^ for at least four years."
It Is to he hoped the Tribune will be sueecr??
? tul in its contemplated senr'-h f. r ?
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