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VOLUME XXVI. CAMDEN, S. C? THUP,^)AY MORNING FEBRUARY 13, 1868. NUMBER 31, .r. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY "THOMAS W. PEGUES. [j TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. I ' Three Dollars a year C.vsti?Four Dollars ! ' >if payment is delayed throe months. j ] ""en or AIIVKRT1>I NO, l'KIt SgfATtK. | ) For the first insertion. Si.50: for the second, | $1 .00: for the third. 75 cents: for each sub- I sequent insertion, 50 cents. 1 Sdmi-monthly, Monthly and Quarterly ad- i Tertisemcnts, SI.50 each insertion. | f The space occupied by ten lines (solid, of j 'this size type) constitutes ft square. | Payment is required in advance from Iran- 1 ' sient advertisers, and ns soon as the work is | done, from regular customers Contracts made for yearly and half-yearly 1 " advertising (payable quarterly) made on ( ' moderate terms. { t ^ MISDELLAN?0US! li LETTER FROM GCV. PERRY, OF : f SOUTH CAROLINA. t Ml ..1.b?on,l kv s J n6 rOHOWing ll'lltl , aumiwui "j Ac-Governor Perry, of South Caroli- 1 nit, to Captain 0. N. Butler, of that State, but now residing in this city, I gives a graphic and deplorable picture ? of the present condition and future t prospects of the great Southern sec- c tion of our country: \ Greenville, S. C., Jan. 19,18G8. r 0. JVr. Jiutler, Esq.?My Dear i Friend: In your letter to my son you r say that the Northern people arc not rJ aware of the true condition of the ; i! Southern States, and that you wish | i me to write something on this subject i i for publication. I am willing, as I v always have been, to do anything and e everything in my power to enlighten t the Northern mind as to the frightful c and appalling condition of the South, f l>ut it does seem to mo that I can say I verv little not already known, through o ^ ' ""I the public press, to the whole rending : r community. a It is well known to the world that t ten of the Southern States have been stripped of every vestige of republican ! h liberty, and placed, by the wicked i r ? and unconstitutional legislation of a ; n Radical Congress, under a military ! v despotism, for partisan purposes. It d is equally well known that negro con- li cntions havehecn ordered in all those a States, for the purpose of establish- fi ing in tliein negro supremacy. In ri order to accomplish this, a very large j t portion of the most intelligent, virtu- v tuous and patriotic of the white race s have been disfranchised, and arc b hereafter to be governed by their former slaves and unprincipled ad- o venturers from the North ! These d facts arc well known, and their con- a sequences every intelligent mind may p wbll anticipate. i< When slavery was abolished in the tl Southern States, if the people had is been let alone in their State iegisla- .tl tion, and restored to the Union, all j fi would have been well. They would j tl soon have recovered from their ex- j c hausted and crushed condition, and f been once move a happy and prosper- o ous people. They would have added c hundreds of millions annually to the v "wealth of the republic, instead of cost- l it, as they now do, a hundred million ( every year, through the Freed men's <1 Rureau and a standing army. Rut j Ii the unjust, unconstitutional and sui- j e cidal legislation of Congress has par- ; j alyzod them forever, I fear. The tic- ii gro is no longer that industrious, use- v ful and civil laborer which he once 1 was, but an idle drone and pest to r society. Inflated with his new and 1 marvellous political importance, he 1 has abandoned bis former industrious 1 habits, and spends his time in attend- 1 ing public meetings and loyal league 11 gatherings by day and by night.? 1. The whole race seem disposed to quit t their work and resort to the towns 1: and villages, where they may eke out t an idle and wretched existence in pil- t fering and begging. v The consequences arc that our fields and plantations are uncultivated, the 1 f country pauperized, at the point of $ starvation, and filled with every grade j of crimo. Not a day passes over our \ llpjjds that we do not hear of some ! t flieft, house burning, robbery, rape or | s fnurder. I will mention one or two in-. j p. stances out of thousands which might! t J>e enumerated: Five men, last week, i 1 in Darlington District, went armed i J with guns, to a country store, robbed j ( the store, killed the clerk, shot a wo- J j ;Bian in the house, and went to the ! { ( ^dwelling of the oWner and killed hiin. i 1 A short since, a parcel of negroes! t b pUced obstructions on the South Car-1 ] L oliua Railroad, which threw off a train * ?. of car* in the night time. Again, j at another point on the same road, \ .? parcel U i^roes fired into the ? lr?ii trvd ec?? ?erj near killing 1 gc*?r?l passengers. Last Fall, at Pickcqs court, seven or eight negroes < |k ' were convicted of murder and seven-! teen or eighteen ofhers sent to the penitentiary. Highway robbery, an offence which was scarcely ever heard >f in South Carolina for years past, lias become a very common crime h the neighborhood of towns and villages. Theft and burglary arc of constant occurrence. In the country t is almost impossible to raise hogs, I diccp, and cattle. A gentleman told no tlin ntlinr d-iv that he had lost the I ast one of his sheep?forty in number?all stolen by the negroes.? tVnotlier gentleman who had been Governor of the State, imurine I me hat he had eighty-five hogs to kill ast Fall, and that thev were ail sto en by the negroes except seven. The support of so many prisoners md convicts in our jails and penitenia ry is becoming alarming. We hall not long be able to feed them; lor will the prisons contain tlicrn.? The country is so much impoverished :hnt it is difficult for tlie negroes to ;et employment, if they really wished o do so. The failure of the cotton rop throughout the United States, rith the government tax and low trice of the staple, has rendered it mpnssiblc for the planters to continic their business the present year, flic difficulty, too, in getting the ne;roes to work during the past year ios discouraged aud disgusted a great c o o iiany. A very large Cotton crop i'as planted last Spring, and a great ffbrt was made by the planters to r<jrieve their fortunes and give employDent to the negroes, but universal uiiure and bankruptcy have ensued. am not able to state the falling otT f the Cotton crop this year, but the ice crop has fallen from otic hundred ml thirty or forty thousand tierces o twelve thousand tierces. The present year everyone will lave to devote his attention to the aising of a provision crop. lie w ill ot rqeuirc so many labourers, and < ould not be able to feed them if he < id. The negroes have nothing to ? ivc on the present year, and arc un- 1 hie to make crops by themselves.? i diey will have to steal or starve. ' .'his greatly discourages farmers in ' ' <*' ,1.:. Tr < lie oouuiern ciaics ai mis nine. u ou make a good crop you have no * ecurity that it will not be .stolen or i urnt up by the negroes. 1 In regard to the political condition < f the Southern States I am in deep ] espair, and have no hope except in i returning sense of justice on the ' art of the Northern people. The ' lea of placing the government of ' licse States in the hands of negroes i 5 preposterously absurd. None of t lieni have property, and not one in vc hundred can read or write. In ; he recent election for members of a onvcntioa many of the negroes had orgotten their names, and scarcely ne in a hundred could tell after the lection for whom tlmy voted. They rcre controlled blindly by the loyal eagties. The tickets were printed in Charleston, with a likeness of Prcsi lent Lincoln on them. There never j ias been before such a wide field opend for the demagogues and unprinei- j led aspirants to office. The negro I j the most credulous being in the! rorld, and most* easily imposed on ! ?y vile wretches who are disposed to ! >ander to his ignorance and passion. | Emissaries from the North, white and duck, have couie here and prejudiced I tim against the white race. lie has j >een told that unless he voted the iadiacl ticket he would be placed j ?ack in slavery, and that if he voted hat ticket lie would have lands and nules given him. In some instances he negroes actually brought with hem bridles to take their mules borne villi. By military order in South Caro- ! ina negroes arc to sit on juries. In | ouie districts of this State the negro lopulation is so much larger than the , vliite that they will compose almost; he entire juries. How it will be pos- j ildcto administer justice, with such j uries, in complicated cases, is more haii I can tell. I am equally at a ; oss to know how the offices of the j state are to he filled. The 4'iron clad . >ath" excludes from office all who ! ire competent and worthy. This dif-j iculty was foreseen by General Siccles, and he requested of Congress he removal of the 6ath. General Meade has recently suggested the iame thing in Georgia. It will be mpossible for the negroes and the worthless whites to 611 some of those >ffices, or give the security required it U^r. Property of all kinds, and especially re&l ?state, depreciated in value one half or two-thirds during the pat year. No one is disposed to purerals anything, and foreign capital been driven out or deterred from coding here for investment. Prof)$SP' sold by the sheriff brings nothirigWr^ The marshal of this State told me life other day that he had sold a plantation.. well improved, containing f*8> thousand acres, in Horry District^gn public -auction to the highest bidd^L; for five dollars. Mules brought on|y five dollars apiece. A great many persons are movipjg* from the lower country, where ther?r are so many negroes, and thatsectHSi of the State is destined to becomegt wilderness. The same thing mu$t occur in many portions of Mississippi and other States. A gentleman juAt returned from Mississippi tells ntfe that lands, which rented last year for fourteen dollars per acre, were now offered at two dollars per acre, and no one would take them. Unless there is a reaction at-tlw! North, and better legislation for the Southern States, they will be an in4 cubua to the Union, utterly destruC-Jj tive of the whole republic. Tho present military force will have to be kept up to maintain peace between the two races, and there is no certainty of their ability to do ?o long. I have for sometime thought that when 0 1 the negro government went into operation it would be impossible to pre-, serve the peace of the country. A war of races must ensue, and it will, be the most terrific war of extermination that ever desolated the face of the earth in any age or country. I am, with grout* respect and esteem, yours truly, &c. " Jl. F. PERRY. Bait. Mun, Feb. 3. Fm:i). Dowlas to ins People.? fn a late speech at Akron, Ohio, Fred. Douglas, addressing the colored people, told them that the Gov-: ernnic it emancipated the negroes as I i mat ter of policy, and not froni any j Christian motive of right or justiee^j arid that they had no more reason to j be thankful to the Government for their freedom than had the Hebrews j to feel thankful to Pharaoh for their ' deliverance from bondage. Douglas i said that although it was possible that, naturally, the colored men were equal to the whites, they were not so practically, and that they must rise through their own exertions to a ? i ? c i-A-ii: tnuen nigiicr aegrec 01 iiiieiugcimu before being allowed all the rights and privileges of the white man. ile added, that they were now on probation, and if fifteen years hence found them as they now arc, it would be almost impossible for them to make any advancement. Perhaps this advice from an intelligent colored mr.n may be received by bis race as the counsel of a friend. It is certain that the competition against which they will have to contend for the means of support, must increase, by immigration, every year, whilst they can rely on no such addition toth?ir numbers, hut must make up for the inequality by increased efficiency.? The ignorant and degraded, of whatO O * ever color, must always he subject to superior intelligence, ami it behooves the colored people to reflect whether those are their true friends who would plunge them into polities without previous preparation and training, or those who would help to fit them, as far as may be accomplished, for the discharge hereafter of such duties as may devolve upon them. Col. Phoenix. I Cotton for Charleston.?Last Sunday morning, we witnessed a sight on the Greenville and Columbia Railroad; a train of ears so heavily freighted with cotton, that it required three engines to move it along. One engine pulling, one pushing and another in the centre. It was a long train, and a cheering spectacle. We learn that there must have been something like 1,200 bales on the train, and all for Charleston. The' like we had not seen since auhl lan?r _ , , C sync.?Neicbcmi Herald. * vT m The Freedmkx's Bureau has at last gone to work in the right direction. By reference to an advertisement in another column it will be seen that J ieutenant Ilambrick promises to supply all in want with labor. Should hesuccecd in this undertaking, and get the negroes to go to work, he will deserve the thanks not only of the farmers and others who w ant labor, but of onr own overcrowd ed popul ation .-m-Riahmo r> <1 Dispatch, From the Square and Compass. THUE DIGNITY OF LABOR. .BY REV. EGBERT IIAYWOOD OSBORNE OF TENNESSEE. * Multitudes ofmen believe that the necessity of Labor originated in the apostacy of Adam and Eve, and therefore the duty of labor grew out of the evil of sin, and formed a portion of the penalty of violated law. With nrnfmirid rcsnect for the onin .... , 5 - , ion's of men, we tr-ust it is with becoming modesty, that we humbly beg jiSnnissibir to differ from this hypothetical: deduction of popular theology.We believe that labor was the primal law of mean's physical, intellectual, and moral nature, and therefore essential to the complete development of all his powers. If labor was r.ot necessary to the happiness, prosperity, and triumphant success of mankind, then infinite benevolence, and ctcinal justice, would never have predicted the greatest good of the human family upon the sublime duty, and invested it with a royal dignity. Sin, is the transgression of law, labor is the result of sin. therefore in violating Divine law, man brought about the necessity of developing his grandest powers, for the good of humanity. Such is the logic of that hipothesis which declares that the jutccssity of labor, was a Dart of the curse pro-1 " *""1 - ? , , nounccd by God upon man for transgressing his holy law. God placed an uiifaUcn Adam in the Garden of | Eden, "to dress it and to l:ecp\t"? -This could not have been done withl out labor. "In the sweat of thy I face thou shalt eat bread," no more I implies the necessity of labor, than fho otliicr duly to dress and keep the garden of Eden. The amount and (the ch iracter of the labor may have been increased by the earth's producing "thorns and thistles," but the : o 1 necessity of labor was not the result pf sin, because labor is necessary to the development of all the powers of the mind and body. The law of pro-' gresaive development, rests forever | wjkm<t-l?e law of labor. labor, no [development, no laborer, no progrcsi-ivcness. .It was a glorious inheritance bequeathed by Divine Benev-j olence to man, a high, and sacred j ' ^i- :..i.I duty enjoineu upon uic jHiiaumnno </* a primal Eden, and a fallen world alike, to developc every power by the obedience to the first grand law of nature, the law of labor. The law'of man's physiological, metaphysical and moral organization. The law, without which alt human progress, allcducation, is worse than vanity. Indolence is the depression of every power, the complete prostration of every faculty, producing physical weakness, mental ignorance, and moral degradation; poverty, ignorance and crime, are the : necessary consequents of indolence j and idleness. God never intended man to he an idler upon earth, or he never would have made him a subject of law, and invested him with such solemn and sublime responsibilities, lie never would have made liiin a li-1 y bcl upon nature, a libel upon the al- j mighty power which breathed into; him the breath of life, and created j - 1 ' -C .1 *1. fum trom tno uusi 01 mo o?u m. Motion, action, progress, labor are | the grand sources of human power, I , the energies of his immortality, the ; sources of his accountability to God, | and his obligations to law. " Six i (lays shalt thou labor," was no after ! considera'ion with God, who is the < same yesterday, to-day and forever, 1 ; from everlasting to everlasting.?! There can bo no after conxideratioiis ! with God., who knoweth the end from i the beginning. Divine actions, are: O O ' certainly the results of eternal pur-1 pjses, founded injustice, and judgment. No action of God grew up out, of any human action, man's moral actions never produced, or created in the mind of the eternal God a new purpose, or caused a change of God's purposes, predicated upon a change in man's moral actions. God therefore knew; and knowing proclaimed, thjc fact, that labor was essential to the dignity of man's nature, and the education of his powers. The bronzed brow, and the toil worn hand of honest labour, is a nobler offering, a richer boon than the jewelled ? fingers of that soft and effeminate foppery which scorns the sun-buhrt cheek of % ? ? 11 . | i _ manly toil, and the hard honest lanor. That sickly exquiaition which vainly strives to ape the royal gift of genius and prates in lisping accents of pittifui weekness, of the drudgery of ceaseless and tireless application fills us with pity Hoo profound for* words. Labor alone will insure success; it is the shout of victory. It knows no such. word as fail. Its prophecf arc triumphant utterances of succes fulfilled, it may be through toil, ar pain, but yet, fulfilled forever in tl sublimest realizations of truth, tl grandest convictions of duty. Labor conquers all things. It dij nifies and ennobles all it touches. . strengthens the powers of th and robes the intellect with vest^n of beauty, crowns it with wisdom.In every department illuminated b its light, and dignified by its majc ty we behold the triumphs of exce lcncy. Genius, however brilliar. may not divorce itself from thcoffe ings of labor, or exile the might of i power from the imperious dictates < this irrepressible law of nature. Fai urefixed, and forever certain, inu: bla.S' the highest dream of ambitioi and chill the warmest desire for su cess, should inan close his ears to tl appeals of labor, or shut his eves I fl..? /.fiVn-o/l /?? /,,i-ri /-if irlnrTT Whf lilts UlivllU VI V" II. W? ^?V? the sickly ephemera,, of the loftie: native genius, who blindly ignore the dignity of labor, shall have fade away from the records of mcmor; the toiling mind, blest with no rai gifts, but crown,cd with sound judj ment, and kneeling reverently at tl shrine of labor, the only mecca of ui dying dreams of greatness, will rii on supcrsensual wing amid the ui clouded splendors of thought at power, and carve the record ofi llight, where the stars glitter and tl angels sing. The munificont hand < labor lias held the w ine of Oatis, his lips, and unlocked tho mystcrii of the universe before his enrapturt eye. Labor is the true brother vowor. 'tis reason's child, and insoir r , - -r - , ^ k tion is its father. There is no tri greatness without labor. It gives dignity, grander than the dignity < Kings. Let tlie youth of our lar go up to the mount of labor. Stripvi for the sublime battle of life, standii amid the lonely ruins of a proud, ar prosperous country, let them list? to the sad appeals of martyed libe ! ty, wailing from the broken altars, many a blighted Tiothb^anti hear tl requiem of dead hopes, dirged by tl ghosts of buried warriors; let the look around upon the lonely ruins civil war, and register a vow to lab* for the restoration of enduring year and brotherhood, labor for the ovc throw of sectional madness; labor evoke the genius of liberty, and la1 justice and charity, from the bouin less demoralization which like son avenging > uuuru guigco u.icu ujn tiie selfish lusts and remorseless gre< of man, and blackens the fairest pro pccts of life! A Mkeii Dies Counting H Money.?We learn from Gen. Mi ler, one of the most popular of the mer bers of the Board of Supervisors, tl particulars of the death of a vie beggar in the village of Grccnbus' named Fodorick W. Rowhl, whic exceeds in dramatic interest any thir we have read in a long time. Row; came to Grcenbush a few weeks aj clothed in rags, thin, emaciated, at apparently half starved, looking tl very picture of poverty and wrctchci riess. J lis npparance was enough 1 excite sympathy and charity of ever beholder. lie was an old man, bei with age, his hair was whitened wil the frosts of many winters; sorrot rn-ivr>rt v find misnrr hail evident! been his companions thrbugh life. T1 miserable wretch secureds a room a tenement house in the village, ar was there attended for a time by charitable lady, who brought hi food and otherwise administered his wants. Almost every day the o man would beg in the streets, ar with such good fortune that as oft< as he sought alms he returned to li hovel with well filled pockets. Nothir was known by the villagers of thejhist ry of the old beggar, butitwassuppc : ed by all that he was what he secmd j be to relieve the distress of a folic ! was believed to be their dirty. J> more than a week ago, the old m; disappeared. The door of his room w fastened, and even the kind lady wl had given him food knew nothing his whereabouts. Thus matters we on until Dec. 15, when the landlor who had allowed Rowhl to occupy room in his tenement, concluded hurst open the door, little supposii however mac in so aomg nc won come upon the corpse of the old be gar. But such was the case. Streteln at full length on a little pallet straw lay the dead body of the o man. He had been dead apparent more than a week, and from the ma ner in which bunk notes, bonds, dc<* cs and bank books were lvir.g upon the s, i floor about him, it was evident the id | beggar and miser had died in a strugle ! gle counting his hoarded wealth. In le his bony fingers he held a bank book showing a deposit of $700 in banks 2- at North Adams and Pittsfield, while It two $50 bills served as a pillow for , y, his head, and deeds of property in ts Pittsfield, Government bonds to a ? considerable amount were lying upon >y the floor beside him. The scene s- could not have been more dramatic 1- if presented upon the stage. The j t, gaslily, repulsive features, the tatter r-1 cd habit of the miser, and the wealth ts for which he had bartered his sou} Df lying around, formed a picture which 1- not even the mimic scenes of the stage st could rival in intense dramatic force, a, It exceeded anything the imagination c- almost can conceive.?Troy Timet* to One of the most thrilling trials m that ever took place in this State, says st the Old North State, is now in proid gress at Statesville. Thomas Dula, a id young man ;about twenty-five years y, of age, is being tried before His *e Honor, Judge; Shipp in the Superior g- Court of Ircdcljl county, for the mur? ic der of Miss Laura Foster. And Ann a- Melton it arraigned as accessory. It se appears from the evidence that in u- May, 1866 Laura Foster arose from id her bed in her father's house about ts an hour before day, and taking hef ic father's horse, which was tied that of night near the door traveled some few to miles on a road to a place to which cs her body was subsequently found in id the woods. Dula and Mrs. Melton ? l * i - vi ?eiu uuduut uuui tut:u ifjuiea tiie a- night on which Laura Foster left her ie father's ar;<l were seen next morning a in the neighborhood of the place of where the body of Laura Foster was id found buried. It is charged that Mrs. Melton was jealous of the atig tentions paid Laura Foster by Dula, id and, therefore aided and abetted in ;n the murder. The incidents, as der: vcloped before the'jury are of the of most thrilling character, and 4ho ie "Court TTouse,is crowded witfTan eager }c multitude who listen with breathless m afrention'to the evidence of Governor of Vance, with one or two others are or assigned as counsel for the prisoners, s, and J. M. Clement, of Davie. Mr. r- Boyden, of this city, and Mr. Solicito tor Caldwell will prosecute on the iv, part of the State. Ann Melton is d- about 24 years of age and quite a ie neat and interesting person in her ap>n pearancc. The evidence so far as 2?1 given in, we hear, is altogether cmQ | * O s- cumstantial. The prisoners hear themselves very calmly and appear to take great interest in the proccedrs ings, frequently rising to suggest in1 yuries and to prompt their counsel, n- The trial commenced on Tuesday, ic and'on Wednesday afternoon, when :li tho court opened, not more than oneh, fourth of the witnesses had been ex:li amined. We learn that there aro ig about ninety witnesses in the case. ;o The Temperance Movement.? id The interest in this cause at theprcsic cut time, indicates the beginning of d- a new and, it is to be hoped, cxtento sive reformation. In addition to y measures lately set on foot among the r?f nwiri aC P i'oil TY? An fl 11*0 LUIII JiUl ?l IIUU JUi.il VI ll.iuiiua/ii\4j rv v ill liave gratifying accounts from the v, country. An -old-fashioned Teetotal ly Society, under stringent ruhs, has ie lately been organized at North Runin meeting-house, near the head of the id Brock turnpike. Its meetings are a held every Monday night, and are rein markably well attended consideringto the state of the weather. The last Id one, though held on the bitterest id : night of the winter, drew out a good ;n ! audience of ladies and gentlemen,lis j who remained till 10 o'clock to hear ig ! addresses and participate in the busio ncss of the society.?Richmond Bis s. patch. to >w i Relic of a Veteran* Fox.?A nt friend has sent us a relic of the "Black in Creek Demon," a veteran rod fox of lls ! New Kent county, who has been 10 chased therefor the last twenty years, in the shape of his jaw-bone. This old fellow had become an old favorito (1> with the fox-hunters of the county, a who had followed him on many a t0 chase. It seems that he had become in as fond of the chase as the hunters, hi and that not long since, in the mad beg lief that he was not born to be caught cd by huntsmen, lie ventured out too of boldly, and was caught by Mr.-Joscpli Pcarce. His demise is regret* ted'by every hound in tho county.? i^1 nk. V'& f