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jhetouknalt" Cam gen, June 3,1809 1 DIVINE SERVICE. i Rev. Dr. Peck, of the Union Theo- ; logical Seminary, Ilampden Sidney, , Va., will preach, Providence permitting, , in the Presbyterian Church at this place, on next Sunday, at half-past fen o'clock in the morning, and at half ^ past eight in the evening. ( \ LECTURE. TVe are requested to state that Mr. 1 Wm. Pinkney Starke will dcliv- 1 erhis next leoturc on to-morrow (Friday) evening, at Towu Ilall, at half past eight o'clock. THE AGRICULTURAL MEETING. i ~ * nnnrir f rnipr C earuoswj uusv uw> t?v.j . in the district who is awake to his own , interest or that of the community, will attend the agricultural meeting on Monday next. In the new departure forced uprn ' us in our agricultural pursuits, concert of action is indispensable; there is' strength in union and many sources of improvement arc within our combined reach, inaccessible to our individual attainment. When shall wc reach a general condition of improved agriculture, if individual experiment only is to be our teacher, shall each one go on in the same path, making the same errors and blunders, while by free communication each can start at the point of >ucoess achieved by another and guard against the evils from which another has suffered ? A practical, working agricultural association will add immensely to the general resources of the district. It will eost nothing to work it, for a judicious ! distribution of prizes of improved stock, .. __j j. ? ill , implements, ieriiiizers ana sci-us, wm i add (too dollars to the wealth of the i people tQ every one expe nded in their i purchase." All are interested in the r success of this scheme, but the most di- 1 icct and immediate interest is with our t country friends, and we ho^c they will t all be here to take an active, prominent i and efficient part in the organization t and working of this society, and that i trey will select as officers and commit- t tee men, practical, energetic, intelligent \ and industrious planters who have the j i capacity, will and leisure to make the t work go on. ? DEATH OF AX AGED CITIZEN. J Mr. Lewis Watts, aged ninety-two, died very suddenly on Sunday evening last; -athis residence, three miles from j' Camden. We are informed that he |( had a presentiment for some weeks that j ' his' life on earth was soon to end. On j ' parting with a son who lives a few miles j ] from him, the week before, lie remarked ' that that was fhe last time they would j c ever shake hands, andSunday morning |. told jiis wife he should die that day.? 1 He was in bis usual health and spirits, 1 passed the day pleasantly, and retired 0 to bed at his usual hour in the evening, r t shortly after which Mrs. Watts hear ing him groan, went into the room, and 1 found him a corpse. He was a native ~c v?t " j 4i._ .1 4 c s U1 JLYCIbUUW, fiUMUIIJUl II1U tllUlUUlt'l UI an hortest, upright man, anil at the 11 time of his death was prol?bly the old- c est citizen of the District. c t THE CROPS. " The favorable weather of the past | week has had a marked (.fleet upon the j growing crops of corn and cotton and on the spirits of our farmers. Ir. place j of long faces, we sec smiling c- unto- | nances, and can detect a disposition on j the part of many to brag of their pros-1 j pects. ..Wo heaniof several who have commenced.harvesting wheat. ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING. Mark Sykcs was wounded by the accidental discharge of a pistol in the hands of Edward Couway, on Monday evening * last! The parties, both colored were examining the pistol, when it was discharged, the contents entering the stomach of Sykes. The wound, we understand is a severe one, and was at first c thought to be mortal, but learn from 1 tho attending physician that there is a prospect of his recovery. The New Orleans Republican of the 18th ult. says: "All attempts to stop the Lafourehe crevasse have been abandon ed, since the cost would be at least $2o,000, and there is no ruoney to work with. 'Rained planters and rained families arc the result." It adds in another paragraph : "It is reported that some three or four hundred of the small plantations of Lafourche and Terrebonne are now submerged." FOR THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. b 1 he "ancient community" of Camden v jannot noic claim to be either scientific 1 jr literary. Ti e exacting claims of the ? praotical present engross the time and 11 thoughts of most of our people, but there ' H vet a remnant of'he old leaven, which 1 in the halcyon days of tlie past, cutisti- j a luted a cultivated, refined and educated F society here, and a memory, at least, 1 which still preserves an uppiecia'ion for v the learning of science and the delights a l>f literature. 1 Twice, very recently, that memory 0 and appreciation and their accompany- c ing taste, have been greatly gratified.? 1 First, by the lecture of Gen. JAMES ^ Cues.nL'T, delivered at the request of ^ "The DeKalb Literary Society," in c which that accompli-hc-d orator and ' scholar, on the subject of "the advance- a merit of the human family,"as demon- a slratcd and illustrated in general histo- ' ry, in the varied phases of'civil liberty ' nid religious knowledge drawn from 1 taried fountains of truth and arcuniula- ^ cd in reservoirs of solid rock, to gush 1 forth fresh and sp irklinj^ at the touch 1 if ilie master's wand?but this was one ' >f a series of home productions, and )nly intended for use among fitends.? * flic second occasion for gratul ition was I >fa moro public and general nature.? ' l\r?. Pinkney Starke, who since r diildhood, has had his name identified 0 r. this State with science and letters, * vas persuided by bis many friends here ' o d. liver a series ofloeturcs on Kgypt !l uid therewith Hieroglyphic Art &e., ' ind on Palestine. 1 There were those of us here, who, F icarly thirty years since, had taken the 11 ailier essays in knowledge, in science, c itcraturc and arts with him, anduho p hen wondered at the giant strides of c lie buy-man, that left us on the inoun- * ain sides, mere seeming loit- rers, while c' ic, a solitary pilgrim, reached the gid- ' ly heights, and while the hosts of young ' nen whom liarnwe'l, Henry, Klliott, u riiornwell, Lieber, Twi>s, Kile', Stuart, r [loopcr &< , wou d have inspired with he loveof lei tcrsand devotion to science, '' urncd aside to the practical callings of s lie bar, mcdicTiie^-dommrrcrnnrrnwl-. I urc &c., and ruslicd into the busy con- F ests of life, ho, almost alone, adhered r o his fifst love, and spite of the allure- ' nents.of wealth and the blaiidishnicnts ' if society, which so invitingly and r emptingly would have lured him off, v 'till made letters alike, his passion and w tiis life?his laborious studies only va- v ried by arduous travel. ? Hi> pursuits w. re so difFercnt from, ^ >o superior to those of Iiis fri?-iul- of an " jarly day, that with men it woti'd ' lave resulted in separation and isolaion, but bis genial nature, great eon* 1 rcrsational powers, ready capacity for 1 mparting knowledge, bis enthusiastic 1 :lo?|uenee, amiable traits aid gentle " necdin# kept liiin ever a prime favor- " te and chosen companion, with those '' rho, although tiny could not emulate, ^ uiuld appreciate him, and while his s :rcat utlainuic-ts would ever icm-win ir wonder, his amiable charactcrisics ever proved a barrier to envy. !' When be appeared a few evenings ^ ince. before a Camden audience be was ! it homo, among his friends, and he has ^ lontributcd as much delight in private rirelcs, as he has instruction in his lec* . urea. Ik-fore we touch upon his lectures, et ns drop a sacred tear over the past \s wc gaz-d upon that classic brow, ^ "urrowi d with thought, memory carried is back to 1840. &c., when he was in 5. C. Cell ego, and when tlt?* gnat < L'hornwcU deemed his the first intellect ?vor burnished within its walls. As r hesc thoughts came hack, they flashed; ^ hey did not wander?to the Potomac, t othe Mississippi, to the Atl mtic coast a fhe bright dancing waters of the first, .e lie turbid s'ream of the second and the iweet monotone of the third, all singing, j ligliiugor beating h requiem and a dirge || iver bright and noble comrades of t! at ?aily day, so vainly sacrificed. w Mr. Starke's first lecture was a most intertaining and instructing description u n detail, of bis personal travels and tl idventurcs in Egypt and Nul?ia, with ^ ivid delineations of Alexandria, <'niro 1'hebes &c , ??f tiic Pyramids and Tom- j, ales, giving fresh pictures Iroin mem- tl )ry, and many a new and instinctive w lesson from which the curtain never before had been drawn, for most of us ^ ?being among his old friends, enough a >f personal adventure and incident were nixed in, to give an interest beyond the w uerc instruction and delight afforded ^ jy increase of knowledge; but interest- ^ ng and instructive as this lecture was, tl .here was not much iu it that could nut y 0 learned I ruin but ks, cxcji'pt I hat a ein of independent and original bought made many an instructivesugestion, and moreover in these times, citIter leisure uur opportunity make hese books accessible to most of us.? Jr. S. too, is an admirable Raconteur nd gives a charm to such scenes which icnor pencil would fail to produce; but 1 was the second 1- cturc of Mr. Stark'', rliich, confessedly, gave more pleasure nd instruction to his audience than hey had ever similarly derived. He ' * " . c pencil Dctoru ttieui tits stores ui iv?.hru lore and gave an insight intoKgypiati art and know ledge, which all our looks have failed to do, and the hour levoted to Judaism, gave us more revrenee for the Hebrew than the Mosaic aw itself had ever inspired, or the extuple of Abrain, Isaac and Jacob, or issociation with their d< scctidatus had bstered?but the most remarkable feaare of this lecture, was the full at'd cotu)lelo exposition of Egyptian liiero:l;phics. Most of us iiave regaidcd liese as an irredeemably 'lend liint/nni/f. dystic symbols, with no concurrent iniriua'ion to enable their elucidation, a laik and tangled labyrinth with no bread to guide* through ifs intricate >u .-sages Current literature and trav1 hud given us no key to these long listed doors, hut while wc had bu.-icd mrselvcs with practical life and 1 ad let he "dead past" bo more deeply buried, lis acute observation and study of rare utliors furnished us not only thetranslaion to many an intcicstiug hicroglyphc. but gave tlv beautiful symbolicaliliabet by which even to us, untrained s we are, many a dark passage is made tear; all known alphabets arc probably yu bolic in their origin, btit brevity, oiid-'tisatioti, the expression of abtract thoughts &c., require a rapid h inge to arbitrary representations, and liu- in cultivated language, in niodeni imes, symbolic features are lo-t not nly in the alphabet but in the lanuage, but in the the beautiful Iannaoes of the Katit and the wonderful licroglypllic art of the Egyptians the ytnbol and the parable impressive as ipuutiful, make a knowledge of the aliliubct almost a knowledge of the lan"re io.? i 1 led in these hint's adequately t" c^jirc. * t!u: chai-.ns hose deciphered' mysteries wove aound us, we cannot more forcibly coney an idea of it. than by saying, that rliile we were more than ever impressed ,'ith wonder at the varied kn >wh dgc of iir friend, we learned enough to cease to rondcr ?it the enthusiasm which has evoted a life and mind to oriental and libiica] lore. Life is very short, most of us discover liar just as we bopin to work, ou<- day < pout'?cro we arc conscious of the nicidiun, iho lengthened shades ofcvcinp arc stretched over departed past, nd y-t this rare man, while we were usit d with the small affairs of life, has ecu pathcrinp all the wisdom of the ages, prophets and s<-ers of the past. A storm prevented the lecture on his >ved theme, Palestine, but under the rosurc of earnest solicitation he has romised to remain a day or two lonper, lid to piatify us with if; and, if possi le, he will at an early day, r'-pcat the .'etmc on Ilimpl)pliies. in response a many friends who were prevented 101n hearing it. IlE IIOBO AM The Xkoho Majority in South IaROI.I.NA.?To-day there are 100,000 jore ncproes than whites in South Caul ina. In ten years the two races will be fjtnl in numbers. It is a notorious fact that the ncpro ace does not increase as fast as the hire; and we shall assume that this eficiency of increase by hiiths is as Inee to four Should this assumption ppear excessive, we will throw in the renter immigration of whites. The mortuary reports of 1808 in ,'harlcstnn show that out of a pnpiilaion of 40,000, equally divided between lie two races, there were 1.2(18 deaths ?38''whiles 818 negroes. That is one bite in every fifty one dies per annum, nd one rit ?roin every twenty four; hioli i <frsxfhmi tioo per cut. of whites nd more limn Jour p- r cent ol negroes. In-re being 20(1,COU of each in the city, luuicipal re?u'aiinns and public bus itals make the moita'ity among the egrocs probably 1 ss in tlie: eity than it s in the country; but we will reckon it lie same. It is about (lie same with hi tea. NTnu- thorn are 700.000 in this State. f which 400.000 nrc negroes and 000,00 whites. That if. the difference, ns Ircady stated, is 100,000Two per cent (the deaih rife of tint hites) of 300.0(H) is G.000?the ninner of whites that die each y> nr in the fate. Four per cent, (the death rate ' the n'-pfro'-s) of -100,('00 i? 10,000? ic number of negroes that die each curiu the State, I Tlic difference between the nej . (Jcad of each )<nr (lt?,U0tl) ami 1 white dead (0,000) i-just 10.000 That is, then; arc 10,UU0 more nc| deaths than white deaths every year The numerical majoiity .of the jrroes to-day is 1CO,OUO. Divide t number by the niinual difference of crease (100.000) and tlie result is t That is to say, it will take ten m years to remove the present iiiajui and make the numbers ot the two ra eijnal. "* The estimate of 700.000 divided above, was made for 1865 If tin hove calculation is true at all, it i date from that year, and 1875 is end of the ten years. Kor convenic and brevity we have spoken of the i jority as beit>?r that of to-day, instem four years ajrn.?./ Wood Dnnith corrci-powfrtit Y>rkriUe. E? quirt r. THE STATE DEBT According; to the report made hy Comptroller-General to tlio Gem Assembly, the debt of the Slate ol So Carolina on October l.-t, 1808, wu: follows.: Three per rent stock 9 33 33' Sjx per rent, (fire loan) 314 451 Six per cent.. Slate House stock..2.'28(>.(i0t Six per cent, bonds and stocks. ..1.282.51?! Five per cent., fire loan bonds 464,44! Six per cent., Blue Ridge Railroad, bonds ,.1.000 00( S5,407.30( Interest overdue to date >nd unpaid 434.791 85,842 991 Bonds issued January 1 I869, to redeem bills of the Rank ol the State 1,033.901 Total debt at date $(>.875 99' The State lias assets of the noiiii value of 82.754.a60. which nitty day produce ?100.000 or 8200,000 that we have practically to meet the tercst on. and provide for the pay 111 of. nearly 87,000,000. As security this debt we have real and personal | pcrty to the amount of SJU0,000,0 property which is increasing in vt every day and will be worth half much again as soon as the Hat! 1- - I . . jii> l/.llinl <V*fP!<r)tf Ml.lKt; ! ? PC'ltiltn "I nun u .. ...p This is ait aniph* marg n. anil make seem unreasonable that the >ix per c< bonds of the State should sell at 75 which rate they trill pay 7} per a on the investment. Arrangements h heen made, wc believe, for the pom of the interest due on and after Jul; and this interest will continue to paid, not by new loans, bub by the | coeds of taxation.?('hor/vston Ncic. Increased !<kpreskntath?n ?' Wilmington (N. C.) ounittl has m on mill |uihli?he<l an ehtborale stuteni of the increased repc-entatson which tlu> South is entitled under new order of tilings, ba>iu<! its cale tion on the population as furnished thecensuMif 18(50 According to this . representative strength of the Smith ho increased as follows: Mary lam Virginia 8, Nor:h Carolina 4, So Carolina 5, Georgia 0, Florida 2, 1 b'iniii 5, Missis?ip|)i 4, Loui-ian; Texas 2, Missouri I, Arkansas 1, 'I ncssce 3, Kentucky 3?equal to an crease of fifty iu the lower House Congress. Neuro Bonds.?Judge Carper has rendered a decision in the casi Klliott vs. Trescott and Whaley, wl was argued before some weeks ami which the question of the validit negro bonds was involved. TheJu sustained (lie validity of the bomb the ;:ri>und that the law invalids tlicni is in contraveniion to the chi of tlic Constitution prohibiting the | sage by tiny State of laws impairing obligation of eontraefs. Thcdicit of this case has an important bear upon many others, and it is pr h; that it. will ?ro up before tin- liigl Cuurtsofthe land ?ffiurlrntoii < our The Fkkijno in England?Si; nk.lt and Hriciiit?A letter frtiui h don, of May 1 Othf to the New Y 1I> ruli/, says: "The feeling in England against i furtber concessions in tire Al rbima n ter grws decidely stronger every d and however averse arid unprepa England may bo for war, there is manner of doutit that no Ministry co exist a week that, should accede to propositions foreshadowed in Sumiii speach. Even the great apn-tlc peace John Bright is opposed to gn much further than th : Johnson Stan treaty contcmplat- d. On Saturday ] llright spent two hours at the Amerii legation, and was cmphatie in his d laration that England c uId n-ver yi the right she claimed to reeogize belligerency of the South at her o lime. He would, however, be willing express regret for tlie remissness il suffered tlie Alabama to escape, and I lie culpable act of allowing Iter to p sue Iter piratical can or. and to visit her will die KooJi.Ji colonial ports, a woudtleo a.*recto pay all the da sees she had occasioned, leaving nut the question tlie bogus claims of i cotton loan speculator-amnst the Unit S ales. There is a single statement, the way. going the rounds in politi circles to I lie eft ct that Bright receiv a Hlti r from Senator Sumner, wrin on the lOib of January last, in wlii the American Monitor states that it t Johnson Sliinb y treaty bad at lived Wsishili'nii a liioliib or six vv i k- so ! 'bin it did it would have been alun unanimously latifi d by the Senate, a express s a wish that such a result h becu arrived at. Mr. Bright makes u-ro Md'i't ?; llii.x k-it. i, and much curious tl.o comment is iii:i :e iip'Ui ilie striking in- j ? eoli.-i.-tency !? I wee11 its ulhgcd contents ; n;ro and the [Senator's recent speech." no. WAR RECORDS?THE SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, dc There wnsn meeting Mnrrdny evening en. i" the towns of the Howard Association ore on Camp street, of gentlemen who were rjij prominctly identified with the cause of ees (lie Sou'h in the late war, botli in the civil and military capacities. The ob as jcet of the meeting was to organize a j ?. permanent society for i he purpose ol col ivill letting and preserving tiic rycoias ana l|)e memoranda of'the (Viilederncy. A1'yet Iice there lias been no fall and cotiiprciieiiid;,, sivc history of the wur from a Sourli] (jf e:n stand point, and fiom the very nairjfi^ tureof tilings such ;>s his history cannot he written for years to come. Hence the nece?sity lor the organ z :thii of a society which shall be a repository "f tin so facts concerning the great snugthe gle, some of which now live in print, ral but by fur the larecs/ proportion of ulh which are unwrireii hi.Moiy, i.ec -rded in i us the incinoiie? of Mich men as I er, .jetfersc.n Davis, J- luisoii, Ht-uu regard, ; co Ureckcnridge, Generals Hooper, Bragg, > f'j "ury, Toombs. B< njaiinrn Matlory,. ? Hood, Wigfall, Juiige Campbell and a 151 host of others who from their position wore co uizaat of the interior workings } 00 of the Government, of which theoi.Mdc ; 27 world could obtain but a superficial and necessarily imperfect view. 'J'lie North |_5'~ and South, both, have had their wo uld 79 be historians, who, from hasty and in eoircet data, have given to the would 5 what they called histories of the war, hut are ically crude volumes, in. every ? 7o nawe of w hich is evinced their parti-au ' r n iiiil character. one The Southern Historical Society will .so endeavor to collect only ?s much ditu as in are perfectly roli b'e and correct of the ent workings of the Conftdeiatc Governfor mciit, campaigns, bu'tlig, sicccs and expro ploits of any character, and they invito 00; coinmunieatioiis from 'hose who may be ilue cognizant of intercstiii<! details and fact as ??r who may be in possession of valuable teal papers and documents eollected during ? or since the war. The society will ex3 it 'end throughout tin* Southern States. ;nt. and vice-presidents will be appointed in , at each State. cut. The Rev. Dr. R M. Palmer is Preive sident of the society, and General Bruxn?nt '"it Brajr??. Vice President. (jcticial H. y 1, E. Lee is Vicc-Presiilent in Virginia, he General John (?. Brcckeurid^c in Kenpro tuckv, Alexander Stephens in G> org'u, i ex Govenor 1. G. Harris in Ti nncssec, etc. The Those who may foiward contributions ado to the society tire requested fo state si inicnt p'y facts, without, cooiuieiit thereon, as tn tiie idea is t-onp'-'ie stattstif* t'ro-u the I which, in the fu are. history m v be iih). wrirtou by The inivc n *iit is one which mus* the receive the endorsement o! all riirh*will minded men, as it ?luatiates from a dc12. which exists in the hearts of all uth true Southern men that their actions Via- itnd motives be handed down to posteri t 4, I)') divested of the clouds by w hich ijj'.?? noiaiico and misrenrcseiitatioti have ob ill. scurud I hem.?jVac Oi/ni,.s I'irut/une. ! of Greei.y on tiik Future of tiie Southern Radicals.? Horace Grecly iter has written to tins edtor of tlic WheelL' of inir Intelligencer a letter, in wnich he licit jjives tin: Southern Radicals jrcneraUy , in a bit of advice, foil of tlic strong comy of moil sense characteristic of the uian djre The Icift r is as follows: ton New York Trirune, in?: New York, Nov. is, 1s'68. iusc My I)nir Sir: 1 have yours of the [ :>.?- 1 fitli. lt> leading positions have loinr the been nod wsfood ami appreciated in this don quarter. Now he ir nw. Kvery year one thousand of your re d'h* | bels die. ami one thousand (or more) of '-s' their sons become of ace. You can't disfranchise TtlEM. You have now five thousand majority. Six y.-ars at furMi tln-st will convert this into a rebel ma.011 - jnrity of t rie thousand. Tlien the roork bels will be enfranchised in spite of you, and the blacks will be left under foot? any and you undcr-estimotc these at two lut. thousand. (Jo your own way. and see if the reced bels don't have you under foot in !e.n than six years. u|,j I speak from a wide experience when the ' tc" >uu l'lut your liou-c is built on 2r's the sand. It cannot stand. Kvery 0f year will see the passions of the war j|j(f cool and the demand for amnesty - - - i 1 ,\7 i ]ey Streilgliieiicu. l\oic you can uunirsiji the rebels. Soon the question will be. E;lll shall they a in nosly you? Look at |,.c. Kentucky aid Mar) land, and read your ,.|d certain late in theirs. ,|lc Yours, Horace Greely. wn to llttiTisu Colonial Indfpendenck. It t Tlie attempted cousidiuutimi of a llritfbr isli North American Dominion in Canur ada in still repugnant to the political lit opinions, popular tendencies and com* it. i nn-reial interests ol the inhabitants of i.11- Nova Scotia, and the agitation for indc n' pendente and self-government. During ihe the session of the Legislative Assembly red in Halifax on Wednesday, Mr. Murray, bv member for Picon, expressed the wish* el os of the colonists on both subjects in ed tli-? words of the plain and utimisiakaen ble resolution winch appears in our ch columns. The gentleman decidedly lie protested against the one sided union of v* !.i. /i . i . _i : _ i A:... hi .mm it wiiii v^aii.ui i, uciik m me iit n?;!it nf the booic ""vi-rnmciit to force dm Ilia cons tucntB to observe it, and ml sk? tclie i nut a pi.ii, ol cure by uiincxaad tion to (ho United Status. Mr. Murno ray approved of "one more" appeal to tau Queen, and submitted his rcsolu' tiuti fur debate ?jd Tuesday. He is on the rinht track. Incorporation with our Union would settle the fisheries question, ftivca vast impetus to the timber trade and stud Halifax harbor with tiadirrj; sails.?*Nr.w York licrald. WHAT IS LOYALTY. There is a supreme and intensely ref?eslti'ij{ impudence iu the.air with which we hear the members of. that scl|.ri}?htenu6, but actually ; rottes.^ otr ^anizatimt," the radical party, prirtb 6f *'loValtY,""?-deuh v to the (joVBCUmCnt wliicli tliry claim ijloiic to possess. VVer hear them ask'every hour in-the day,, and yet nut so continually as formerly/ is?oa dso Hoy a 11" Was fab "loyal'* during the W ir ? Is this win-or that titer wif?? <>f a '-loyal" livintr husband, and thi" w iiJ.w or that the widow of a "li.y al ' .load In all c.ws, ih. v apeal* toWnward, as fruin a pinnacle or >Op *-' riori-yj the sell-Constituted- judges- o$ wh it lowily is, and the self-sppuhrfejl cen-ors and eoii'lotnuors off. wluit,- .in their bigotry, in olerance and insrU'tit pivti u-ions. tt is not. If the future historian, when lyr Come* to set forth the charicti-riMics jjf these times, and tor draw the nioriil lineaments of the,rudii*ii 1 party,; looks afa.'Ut him for a name | by vrludi to characterize it, to migui I aptly describe and baptize it as tbe ^arty ol tlic Phaiisi'ts. Nothing sopharisal(jil in |MjlitifS. nrtd nothing nore phari-uiral in anything else has over existed since the time when the 8f)f-righte<>us Pharisees of old, as the self-righteous radio I p irtyr do now, thunked'God they wore not as other wen: There is no toleration in ilu w for difference ofopinion. Every one who docs not think as they do is a tit subject for the stake, the cross, the prison house, or scourgings of any kind. Had they lived when S . Stephen was stoned to death, they wou d hare been in their ulcuient among the sinners. Had they been by at the court of Pilate among the Jews, when the Holy One was given over to crucifixion, and a malefactor was spared because he agreed with the Jews id opinion, they wonld have done as the Jews did, and been among those who cried crucify him?for opinion's sake? and lei loose a thousand malefactors, for no other reason than that they thought as they d d. What is loyalty, and what docs true loyalty mean '{ The highest notion that these men can get out of it is loyalty to every idea, new or old, fulscor true and even scheme, however wild, or revolutionary. or wrong, of the radical party. Thi- is their test and definition of loyalty; and all who do not conic up to it arc, according to them, disloyal. When wo eontrast this ilefi iition. not Imuran. be more oiliottjj anil usurpations ajid abominable th'ii the light in which the raiical party appears. \\ hat, then, dnca Idyalty really signify among us? To what are wo required, as goal and faithful citizens of one common country, to be loyal ? Certainly not to any political party, good or had ; f<T this would lead inevitab'y to the conclusion, oa we have always at hast two parties among tifl, that all the members of at least one of them must he disloyal?a gross absurdity, though not more gro-8 than the now dominant party have been guilty of. Certainly not to any one man, for that would be an autocratical despotisto ?a something to which we have not, thus far, at least, claimed to owe allegiance. If, then, it is not to one man, nor to many men, what rs it that we arc buiLwd to be loyal to? To this?the Government of the United States, as defined and limited in the Constitution of the United States. To this or nothing. This is cur poli-ical solar system. If wo maintain it, we maintain tha* round which our duties, by the law d' our political existence, revolve, and by which the machinery of our institutions is kept in its place. If wc do not maintain if, wo arc recreant to ourduty, essentially disloyal to the Government, no matter to what party we way belouir iind though we may about our own loyalty from all the hill tops, and grow black in the face in denunciatory declarations of the disloyalty of our ueiphbors. By this, the only true criterion, do the radical party?the party of the Pharisees?stand-condemned, notwithstanding their loud and labored pretentions to loyally and viru<\ By this, too, do* all who have upheld the Constitution, tho eh scourged for political opinion's sake, stand justified, and will appear so in due time, notwithstanding the obloquy which they have been obliged tocud are.?National Intcllige cer. The New York llrahl sees the clouds rising, the heavens bLckenihp.tiud hears the rumbling of the thunder of the approaching storm of popular sentiment itt regard to General Grant. It says thepress is the barometer of public sentiment, and that the press is now either silently murmuring discontent or flashing in in fury. It finds the Democratic press either silent or unfriendly, and tin;, radical press open in its hostility ?nd denunciation of the administration. ft asks what id the meaning of all this ? It answers that it looks 09 though the affections of the people are becoming estranged from the man who but a fewmonths ago was their idol. It administers the -following morsel of advice to the President: Let him brush away the parasites who surround him, who poison his ear with false accusations against good and true men, who sive bad advice, and whose avaiice and selfihness are bringing his administration into contempt all over the land, and fast causing the character