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full in war; which tend to refine so
ciety, to make manners lovely, action
graceful, to crown thought with fancy,
and wing ideas on their way to other
regions, as the generous breezes watt
those leaves detached from the tree
which carries, each Of them, q seed
within the leaf. Nor are we to regard
and treat as an offence that commu-
nifty or section is, in certain respects
which we may call purely physical,
small and insignificant, It.still CON
stitutes community, o component of
the State, necessary to its welfare,
which ought to be-. by very reason 81
its feebleness, entitled to its special
protection. The agency of these
small sections is important to the
whole, rs contributing to form those
checks and balances by which the
more powerful arc kept from en-
croaching upon the lights of reebles
sections. This is one Of tie first
necessities of every Nell-constitptcd
commonwealth, and tie whole reason
for the several divisions of a State.
TO destroy these is to'disturb all the
balance wheels of political society,
break down distinctions, and gricv-
ously to impair the securities which,
from time immemolial, have been
established in order that each of the
elements of State s,ould have free
expression, and that Ill should be re-
strained from those usurpations to
which we owe disruption, anarchy and
war. Destroying tie States as sove-
reignties, the United States Govern
ment has resolved tie whole into one
imperial power, which, in previous
history, for six thousand years, has
been the one fruitful secret of general
disintegraticn. Shall we, on a small
scale, initiate this usurpation? Are
the feeble never to be secure? Does
craftsmanship mean only the aggran-
dizem2nt Of the particular section
which it represents? And is the
struggle to go Oh everywhere for the
increase of dominion, rather than for
its development, beauty and refine
"ioHt: J'.et so long as this continues
to be the blind aim of the politician,
just so sure is the loss Of all that
makes States grateful to their. pos
SCISSOR, and glorious as examples for
the future All these ochlocratic
movements, for such they are, are
fat:,l to vencration, and veneratien is
the one secret by which we cherish the
beautiful, teach faith in the good and
gentle, polish mere vigor into grace,
lift the heart, elevate the sentiment.
and make of the sonl winged thing
forever soaring for the skies!
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Mounce & Calhoun,
cQMMtS. MERCHANTS.

NORNEK Gervais and Gates streets,
~ (near s. C. and G. 4 c. r. r. Depots,)
Columbis. S. c., receive and forward all
kinds OF Merchandise, Tobacco, Cotton and
all Produce, or store the same Parties
coisisniiig to Us VII find their freight
shipped with despatch from Orangeburg,
Aston, Wjnnsboro or other points, by wa
gon, during the breakage on Said roads.
We keep two two-horse wagons for city
hauling.
r. H. MOUNCE. J. w. CALHOUN.
REFERENcEs.-J. G. Gibbes, Edwin J.
Scott, Columbia; Johnston, Crews Il Co.
Charleston; Linton Dowty, Augusta, Ga;
VIM. Taylor 4 Co., Montgomery, Ala {; Cox,
Braynard & CO., Mobile, Ala; w. A. j.
Finney, DanviHS, Va; Robert Lumpkin,
richmond, Va. Sept u LIMOS
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COLUMBIA.
Sunday Morning, Sept. "a. 1866,

Mr. EDITOR: When the excel
lent Ephraim Badger was beaten
by Dick Sledge, the cerpulent black
smith, he ,inwardly resolved that
II was necessary, for his own peace
of mind, and dignity of position,
that he should beat somebody in
turn. Sore with his own bruises,
he determined to, infict cores
ponding bruises on some other
susceptible person aud the more he
meditated the matter, on his way
home, the more fixed became his pur-
pose. Unfortunately, for this reso-
luton, he encountered no proper sub
ject in his progress, and it was only
after reaching home that lie concluded
to beat his wife. This he did with1a
degree of vigor, corresponding to
that which Dick Sledge had shown in
cndgelling himself Ephraims wife
was an easy victim: He could use his
fists with impunity and without very
much fatiguing himself. And he salts
fed his sores and wounded dignities
by sharing them with his help-mate.
We have something of a parallel to
this case, in the history of the war
which has been waged upon the
Parishes of South Carolina. The
Parishes constituted the feminine ele-
ment in the organization of the State.
There is a duality in States as in the
natural world, and certain sections,
by natural causes, confirmed by law,
are made to constitute the feminine
portion of the State. They are dis
tlnguished.by their greater.feebleness,
their superior delicacy of organiza-
ton, their more exquisite sensibility:
and these qualities necessarily pro-
duce refinement, grace and elegance
IN superior degree. They are we'd
ded, as it were, to the masculinitv of
other sections, more distinguished
for power, force, audacity and mus
cular exercise. These feminine sec
tions, while the masculine portions
retain their ardor, are greatly petted
sections. It is only when youth gives
way to age, that age, in it's selishness,
degrades the pet of his youth into the
drudge and scullion. The change of
character in the one party, and OF re-
latlon besaveen the two, may be illus
trated by tragic story told by Ma
turin. There were two lovers, fondly
attached to each other, and prepared
for any. sacrifice for each other
Their Haison is to be punished, and
they are. lodged together in a dun
geon, doomed to perish by starvation.
At first, for day or two, they di-
vided the bread and water, the man
yielding more than his share; and
nothing can exceed tho beauty and
the tenderness, the sweetness and the
devotion, which they bestow upon
eacn oCher. Their careSSeS increase;
their pledges are resworn. They bind
themselves to each other for lie and
death. But, as Famine creeps upon
them, the man devours his and the
share of the woman; and when the
supply of food utterly ceases, and
they perish, it is found that the low
ing lord has gnawed his way through
the shoulder of his beloved one.
Thus age and external pressure, hun
ger. thirst, and the desire for the ex-
erclse of. power, will make the mas
cullne o despotism over the feminine
power. When the dowry which she
II
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beaten themselves, take their revenge
out of the feeble help-mates, and de-
prive them of all that repains Of
their original dowry! What had
been the offence of these Parishes?
We're they unproductive? unprolifc?
Quite the contrary. Were they ILL
beral in their intercourse with the
more masculine sections? This is
not their reproach. They had sought
to share, not monopolize, Offices; nor
had they been costive i'll their appro-
priations of money to all public inte
rests; nor had they been mean in the
salaried endowments of public officers;
and they had always been among the
first in the encouragemento Of arts and
education; and their taxes had been
freely paid, though sometimes heavily
tGsproportioned to their means
and to the powers accorded to them.
1t will be found, we think, that Of the
public Offices, for twenty years past,
and perhaps longer, they had obtain
ed but 4 very small proportion. Yet,
what have been the contributions of
these Parishes for eighty years, to
the intellectual and moral capital of
the State. What q glorious record of
grand names, identified with noble
histories, do they exhibit, beginning
long before the Revolution, and COM
ing down almost to the present mo-
ment. We recall the brilliant and We
hement eloquence, as well as the
patriotic devotion, of John Rutledge;
the stern, stoical fxedness of pur-
pose of Christopher Gadsden; the
admirable partisan warfare and un-
selfish virtues of Francis Marion; the
dogged courage of William Moultrie;
the political foresight end eloquence
Of VIM. Henry Drayton, and-but
what list when we recall the Mid
dletons, the Draytons, the Hugers,
the Legares. When we remember
VIM. Lowndes, and Robert Y. Hayne,
and James Hamilton, and the Rhetts,
the Barnwells, we find any mere re-
ooHd iInpacSible. n"1 nnlor;.,.11 falls
to find adequate words ior Just de-
scription. Very marvellous, indeed,
have been the contributions of these
''rotten boroughs' to the moral and
intellectual, to say nothing OF the
physical, capital of the State 1t was
not that these men represented the
Parishes thnt they attained power
1t was because they were instinct with
equal intellect and mcnhood, so that.
from the scaboard to the mountain.
there was but one voice-that of q
multitudinous instinct of the State,
which called them to the high places
OF responsibility and authority. The
power in themselves, trained by the
femininity attributes of the Parishes,
was the sufficient secret of their e1eva-
ton to power. There is degree of
femininity in oil truly great men,
grounded in. their more exquisite
sensibilities, their greater snscepti-
bility, the warmth as well as the vigor
of intellect, which. is equally inform
ed by the imaginative faculty; and,
living in smaller circles, less among
the masses, in homes rather than in
hustings, they preserve a domestic
delicacy of constitution which keeps
their sensibiiities alive, and quickens
ali the mental instincts; and the Pa
rishes, like the "rotten boroughs" of
England, were Of the highest impor-
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Brass FOUNDRY.

HNhE subscriber, thankful for past pa
Il tronage,. would inform his friends
ana the public that he is stiK prepared
to furnish all kinds of BRASS CASTING
III workmanlike manner and with de-
spateh. ROBERT McUOUGAL.
suiy 81 III Gadsden, near Washington 81.
Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-07-20
COnsIaIenCY.

The Abolitionists are eternally harping
upon following the principles of Wash
ington, jefferson, Madison and jackson.
Let us see.
Washington denounced sectional par
ties the Abolitionists organized one
which flooded the country with blood and
plunged it into debt.
Jefferson and Madison were the authors
of the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions
of 179S and 1899, containing the entire
States rights doctrine, which doctrine and
resolutions have been repudiated by Abo-
litionists.
And General Jackson's greatest pride
was his war upon the banks; whereas
now the country is flooded with National
Bank" notes, and jackson is denounced
as having bought Chief Justice Taney.
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tagonists, and undertakes to Justify their
action by saying they have followed the
example of their opponents, This reminds
us somewhat of the fellow who undertook
to justify himself for stealing provender
upon the ground that his noighbors did
the same thing when "feed was scarce.''
We were not aware that the journal wa
so susceptible, or of such "easy virtue"
as to feel itself justified in committing a
second wrong when it found some one
guilty of the first. Epithets always evince
a disability to cope with an opponent, and
for this reason we feel free to excuse the
journal for its many virnlent epithets
while discussing the issues Of the present
times.
Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-07-20
TaX-Payers.

While the war continued, the people bore
their burthens cheerfully, and such burthens
as were never before borne by any nation
But now that the war is over, and peace re-
stored, there should be economy and reform.
We are taxed to the last point of endurance,
and the people begin to ask for relief AL
though this ia matter which concerns every
voter, there is no hope of relief except thro'
the action of the Democratic party Itis to
bs regretted but it is none the less true, that
the Republican leaders have become so accus.
toned 10 plunder during the past four years
that they don't know how to stop.
The Democracy propose a reform. which
will, if adopted, reduce the taxes Of the State
more than FIVE hundred thousand dollars an
nually. The plan is simple, Let the intern
al revenue be collected by our County Treas.
urers, which can be easily done, and thus, at
Que dash, an army Of Office holders will be re-.
duced to private life, and the peoples taxes
be reduced more than half a million dollars
Tax payers, what say you to this proposed
reformP Think of it, and mention the matter
to your Heighbor, whether he be Republican
or Democrat. Let the word be--Economy
and Reform, and to secure this, there must
be a changs.--M Vernon Banner.
Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-07-20
"SHERMAN'S SHAME |"

The man who misrepresentsd this district
in Congress, was opposed 10 feeding, clothing
or paying the soldiers in the field, and mani
tested his opposition by voting against hppro-
priations for this purpose In this, he was
sustained by the Empire and its Copperhead
associates, but was discarded by the people,
Dayton Journal.
The above is deliberate falsehood and
the journal knows it. The following ex-
tracts proUe its utter falsity:
On the 9th July 1861, Mr.. Stevens,
the chairman of the committee of ways and
means, asked unanimous consent to report
bill appropriating six millions to pay
the three months volunteers. Mr.. Val
landigham said
81 presume there is no objection to the bill
at all"
1t passed unanimously. - Congressional
Globe, p. 81.
On the ID of'December 1869, MIR. Val
landigham moved to pay the soldiers fif-
teen dollars a month, to be paid in gold.
See Congressional Globe for 1929, page
257.
In answer to note from gentleman
in Hamilton, o., dated October 6. 1862
Mr.. Vallandigham said
In reply to yours of yesterday, l have to
say that supported all the measures in the
last Congress looking to the giving of invalid
pensir ms to all soldiers wounded or incurring
disability in the military service Upon a
question like that, no just or humane man
could hesitate moment, Every soldier who
has performed service is entitled to the pay
and bounty promised him by law, and all dis
abled in any way during service ara entitled
to pensions; and have never, either directly
by vote or indirectly by refusing to vote, with
held either, where the service had been rem
dered or the disability incurred; nor would /
do so"
Further comment is unnecessary.
Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-07-20
Democratic DoctrIne.

The Federal Government derives all its
power from the States, and it is limited
and defined and it cannot impart sover-
eighty to the people of territory, which
is necessary to constitute State. Congress
has the power conferred upon it by the
Constitution to admit new States into the
Union, but has no po,Cer to make them.
1t must be State, in the proper sense of
the term, before it can be admitted into
the Union, and the power to make State
must emanate from tie people, and not The
Federal Government. This is the dividing
line between the Democratic party and all
other parties springing up in opposition to
it, since the days of Alexander Hamilton
or the origin of the Federal Government.
These are the principles of Democracy
as advocated by Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, jackson, Calhoun and the il
lustrious founders of the Government. If
that is treason, the negro-equality party
can make the most of it.
VIII the Journal eondescend to give
us its views in brief on the principles al
luded to above ?
Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-07-20
The Veracity of the Press.

The New York Times says Messrs. Val
landigham and Pendletop, with others, "who
recently met in Ohio as a Democratic State
Convention, have just sent forth challenge
to any body to discuss with them the ques.
ton of slavery they affirming it to be the
proper condition for the negroes of the South
That is pretty cool, when we consider that
we have had no Democratic State Convention
in Ohio this year, and that Messrs. Vsllandig
ham and Pendleton have put their names to
no address whatever concerning the status of
slavery. So far as they are concerned, the ar.
ticle in the Times s a falsehood made out of
whole cloth Cincinnati Enquirer.
Our contemporary ought to remember
that "falsehoods out of the whole cloth"
have become permanent institution with
the abolition press, and such statements
surprise nobody. The story of the Times
is of course a lie, but very weak one.
Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-07-20

The trial of Miss Mary Harris for killing her
recreant lover, Burroughs, at Washington,
was concluded yesterday The jury brought
in verdict of acquittal, after an absence of
only eight minutes. The widest enthusiasm
prevailed. The crowd shouted, the counsel
for the defense kissed Miss Harris, and she
tainted, overcome by excitement and her sud.
den relief from long continued anxiety Gin.
Gazette.
The above is in striking contrast--as
triumph of civil law-with the proceed
ings of the military commission recently
held in this same city of Washington, in
which an innocent woman was brought to
the gallows for no crime proven to have
been committed by her. Trials by mill
tary commissions, if any are held hereafter,
may be taken to mean that the prisoner
shall be deemed guilty until proven be-
yond reasonable doubt to be innocent;
and they will be regarded as sample of
the justice mested out by the party in
power. Can the Journal now say Gus
tice is DONE" or not a?
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Current News Items.

II is understood that neither Of the orders
recently issued by Generals Granger Custar
and others, which required negroes TO .have
passes FROM their employers, are approved by
the Secretary Of War. An order is to be
issued abrogating all these proclamations,
and giving the negroes the same, il not more,
rights than the whites.
The New York Herald's Fortress Monroe
correspondent says that the health OF JEFF.
Davis has been failing rapidly Of late, and
that he has become almost blind in one eye
he is not permitted to write or receive any
letters
There has been some ill.feelliug in Charles
ton between the soldiers and the citizens, In
which the negroes have been mixed up Gen
eral Bennett has issued an order requiring
the citizens to deliver up their firearms, and
TO remain at home after eight o'clock in the
evening
The South Carolina delegation, headed by
Governor Perry, has arrived in Washington
to have talk with the President about their
affairs.
The last of the old Army Of the Potomac,
except Wicoxs Division, has been mustered
out
A Nashville dispatch says that President
johnson has determined that all the laws pas
sed By the Tennessee Legislature shall be obey
ed, aud that all illegal voters shall be kept
from the polls
The Great Eastern, with the Atlantic cable'
was to leave Valencia, Ireland, on the 10Th
of July. ...
No member OF the press is to be allowed on
the passage for be might, by conversation
with the engineers ut critical periods, do mis-
chcs
The Confederate Secretar Of the Treasury
Mr.. Trenholm, has been rearrested, and i'm
prisoned at Fort Pulaski. lie has been out on
parole.
The Coroner's inquest in the case of the
murder of the Joyce children, at Boston, has
returned verdict that the crime was com
mitted by some person unknown. Stuart, the
alleged murderer, is to be examined at Dor
chester to-day.
The National Commercial Convention
closed its eight-day session at Chicago yes.
terdsy, with "a banquet 1t has disposed Of q
large amount Of business,
The reported capture of the late Coufeder
ate cruiser Rappahannock, is false She i
lying in the Liverpool dock.
The railroad has now been opened between
Richmond and Washington.
The trial Of Miss Harris terminated yester.
day in Washington, Hon D. W. Voorhees,, OF
Indiana, making the concluding speech fol
the prisoner.
Miss Harris has been acquitted at Wash
ington, amid loud applause. The jury were
out but ten minutes.
The cholera is raging earfully in Alexan
dria, Egypt, at the last accounts The DEATH
were up to $50 day Thirty thousand peo
Pile had left the city.
They have had terrible hurricane in Cal
cutta, India, doing an immense amount o
damage to the shipping.
The Treasury receipts for the last 81,
months have fallen of 81 100000
Gold closed at Gallaghers last night q
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GthNEhh SHeEulam.
Having nothing further to say concern
ing General Crook, in connection with the
banquet, we hope it may not bO considered
impertinent to inquire why it was that
there was no allusion made upon that oc-
casion to the character and distinguished
public services ofMajor General Sherman.
We remember no reference to General
Sherman's celebrated campaign, except in
the "neat response" Of Mr. Jordan to the
toast in compliment to General Grant. He
speaks of General Grant as having JoagLt
,Shcrm0n'S army through from Atlanta to
Savannah, &c Now, although we have
no disposition to detract from General
Grants fame, we protest against the "crop-
ping Of the honors" upon "the credit Of
General Sherman, "to make garland for
the head" even Of General Grant. We
must be allowed to say on behalf of Gen
eral Sherman, that the country has hitherto
understood that it was he, himself, who
fought his army through the States of
Georgia, South and North Carolina; that
it was he who projected that campaign,
and that his suggestion simply met the
appreciation of General Grant. The coun-
try understands, too, that it was this
Georgia campaign that first precipitated
the declining fortunes of the Southern con-
iederacy and gave the fatal blow to the re-
bellion. We believe, indeed, that this
was the light in which our self-styled
loyal friends always regarded that cam
paign, up to the time that Sherman made
his final arrangement for the capitu-
lation of Johnson's army, for which Sc
cretary Stanton published him all over the
country as an incipient traitor, and for
which latter thing, General Sherman re-
fused to take his extended hand in the
presence of an hundred thousand people,
These things are pretty well known to the
country, and we hope, therefore, that, we
will not be considered "impudent" to al
lude to them.
Now, when our loyal friends were toast
ing the army and navy and General Grant
and everybody else, how is it that the
only allusion to the gallant Sherman con-
sisted in detraction from the Importance
of his services
If the Dayton Journal and its friends
are to have the monopoly of praising our
gallant defenders" we insist that they
shall be impartial and just at least in their
commendation.
Is it because General Sherman regards
the restoration of the Federal Union OF
States as of more Importance then the
question of negro suffrage, that his inn
portant services are to be ignored ?
Perhaps the editor of the journal will
permit us to say word in Sherman's favor
We will see whether the friends of that
gentleman will regard our praise as disre.
putable to him and rush to his rescue The
editor of the Journal can embrace this op,
portunity to explain to his readers his pa
triotic sensations when he blazoned upon
: his Bulletin Board, the news of Johnson's
capitulation as
"SHERMAN'S SHAME |"
Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-07-20

The Queen of the Sandwich Islands passed
through Panama recently. en- route for
Europe. She is said to be very intelligent and
we'll educated person. She had some time
ago expressed desire TO visit England and
continent and as soon as the desire became
known to the British Government, a frstclAss
frigate was sent over the ocean and placed at
her disposal
Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-07-20
The Hamilton &C. W. Spectator says that

The Hamilton &c W. Spectator saws that
a disease has broken out among the live stock
in that part Of the Province, During the last
few weeks some twenty or thirty head of cat
tie and horses have died in one locality. In
hogs it first shows itself by q swelling of the
throat, and terminates fatally in about twelve
hours In COWS and horses, they are sick on.
ly about ten or twelve hours, and in every
case where they have been attacked, the re.
suit has been fatal.