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HARPER's WEEKnY.-The National
hateQigemcer thus rebukes this notori-
GUS and mischievous publication,
which, we regret to say, is exposed
for sale at many points in the South:
In recent number of Harpe,.'s
Weekly, the rumiliating confession is
fippantly made, that in previous
editorial articles respecting a matter
no less important than the recent
veto message of the President, they
had abused him on the supposition
that the message virtually abolished
the Freedmen's Bureau forthwith;
and, further, that the sense of the
document was, that no national par
ticipation whatever in the care or pro-
lection of freedmen was to be here
after countenanced.
We venture the opinion that it is
morally wrong to circulate so extern
ely paper of such q grade of
editorial ability. If the success of
the Weeklg is really so splendid, can
not the publishers afford to employ
competent editors?
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ONWARD MARCH OF THE CHOLERA.
The United States Consul at La Ro-
chelle, France, under date of Febru-
ary 20, informs the Department of
State that the cholera appears to be
moving along the Western coast of
France. After appearing at Caen and
Brest, it has followed the sea-ports
and is now actually at the S..bles de
Ouloune, within the consular district
of La Rochelle. The Consul says that
the winds are cold, and blow inces-
sently from the Northeast, rs in 1882,
accompanied by rain. From present
appearances it will sweep down the
coast cia La Rochelle and Bordeaux,
into Spain. The Consul recommends
rigid quarantine measures from those
ports.
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COLUMBIA.
Tuesday Morning, March 81, 1856.
Escape OF stephens from Dublin.

Escape OF stephens from Dublin.
There is perfect .fus'ore amongst
the Fenian Brotherhood in New York,
on account of the news brought by
the latest steamer, contained in two
letters from Dublin to the New York
Ne,os, announcing that, on the night
of Sunday, the 4th instant, Head
Centre Stephens made good his es-
cape from Dublin, in which city he
had been secreted since his wonder
full escape from the strong prison in
which he was confined.
The details of this escape, as mar
rated by the two correspondents, are
too long for our columns. We will,
therefore, briefly state some of the
main points. At\fEE..s
On the evening referred to, about
6 O'Clock, five gentlemen, said to be
Americans, in an open carriage,
drawn by four fine horses, ridden by
postillions, drew up before second
class hotel in one of the best streets
in the city, when sixth person (Ste-
phens) Joined the occupants of the
carriage, when the carriage moved
leisurely through the principal streets,
until it reached the outskirts of
Dublin, when it started off at rail-
road speed, travelling thirty miles in
three hours. It drew up at a sandy cove
on the coast, near Skerries, where a
fishing smack was in waiting, and
conveyed Stephens alone to q large
vessel, lying out some distance-whe-
ther large steamer or sailing vessel
is not known-and the vessel imme-
diately put out to sea. It is not
known whether the destination of the
vessel was France or the United
States, but it is generally credited it
was bound for this country, where
the presence Of the ssHead Centre" is
much needed. Stephens is said to
be one of the shrewdest and most
far-sighted men of the age, and GER
tainly his escape from o prison dou-
! ble-bolted and double-guarded, and
,Nis escape from a city where he had
luietly remained for several weeks,
pd which was filed by thousands of
detectives, whose sole duty it was to
arrest him, certainly iustifies such a
character. w S~l-' =
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The New JOHNSON PARTY.-The
National Union Club have, through
Hon. Green Clay Smith, chairman
pro lem, who has been a consistent
Republican, issued q call for the
Union people, without regard to party
or location, to meet at the City Hall
In Washington, on Saturday night,
for the purpose of endorsing and sus-
tanning President Johnson in his
bold and determined purpose to
maintain, in its purity, the Constitu-
tion of the United States against all
opposition.
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MORE IMMIGRANTS. We learn from
the New York Herald, of the 18th,
that q lecture in the Danish language
was delivered, last night, at Dramatic
Hall, i'll Houston Street, by Just NJ.
Caen, upon emigration to the South,
who advises scandinavian emigrants
to settle in the Southern States, and
there to form communities, as they
have done in the West.
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AMENDMENTS TO TEE UNITED STATES
CONSTITUTION. The New York Post
(Republican,) ridicules the number of
amendments proposed by Congress
to the Constitution, and very truly
says:
Our Constitution is not q thing to
be brought into Congress and tossed
from hand to hand in a sort of con-
tempt for its imperfections, and
finally mended like an old shoe, with
new heel and new toe-piece, q
patch upon one side, and patch on
the other. We fought the rebel
States, which had thrown off its au-
thority; we poured out our blood like
water in its defence; we mortgaged
the revenues of long prosperous
years to come that we might reduce
the insurgents under its dominion;
We eulogized it through the four
years of that cruel war as frame of
government which had never been
felt by the rebel States and their
population, save in the benefits it
conferred, and we brought the insur-
gents back by persevering efforts and
immense sacrifices to their allegiance.
1t does not become us now to treat
this venerable instrument as if it
were the work of sciolists, thing yet
to be licked into shape, and upon
which every man who happens to be
returned to Congress is invited to try
his ingenuity.
TRIBUTE TO THE GALLANTRY OF
CONFEDERATEs. Hooker, in
his testimony before the Committee
Of Congress, on the conduct Of the
war, pays the following tribute to
the Confederate troops: "Our artil-
lery had always been superior to that
Of the Confederates, as was also our
infantry, except in discipline, and
that, for reasons not necessary to
mention, never did equal Lees
army. With a rank and file vastly
Inferior to our own, intellectually
and physically, Gen. Lees army has,
by discipline alone, acquired
character for steadiness and efficiency
unsurpassed, in my judgment, in
ancient or modern times. We have
never been able to rival 1t. Gen.
Meade speaks of the "brave and
gallant advance" of the Confederatos
at Gettysburg. Hancock talks of
their wonderful spirit-nothing
could have been more spirited"
Gen. Pleasanton, describing the dis
graceful running away of the 18th
army corps at Charlottesville, ac-
counts for it by "the combined
effect upon the imagination of the
sound of musketry, the yells of the
Confederates and their increasing ar
tilery fire. 1t was theatrical effect
Stonewan Jackson could produce
better than any other man l have
seen On the field of battle. You
could tell one of his attacks any
where-and the turn of the battle
was Stonewan Jackson's DEATH
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Letters from the East Indies. repre-
sent the cotton trade greatly increased
during the last year, over the previous
one. The receipts from the various
Indian provinces amounted to 40, 900
bales, three times the amount of the
previous year.
The young men of New York took
the initiatory step, on Tuesday, to-
wards the formation Of what will be
series of organizations in sspport of
the restoration policy of President
Johns0n
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CAsH.-Our terms for subscription, adj
vertlsing and job work are cash. We hope
all parties will bear this in mind.
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Local ITEMS.

We are authorized to state that Clark
Waring, Esq, declines the nomination for
Alderman.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Attention is call
ed to the following advertisements, which
are published this morning for the first
time:
Capt. Holcombe Wanted.
Nomination for Mayor and Aldermen.
w. Hitchcock -Declination.
H. White-Charleston Hotel
A Traveler-Beware of Imposition.
H. Simmons-Bakery, &c.
VIM. Simons-To Debtors and Creditors.
Richard Caldwell-Breakfast Bacon. &c.
&C kerosene Oil.
Meeting of Israelites
DR.. c. H. Mot-Removal
p. Cantwcll-kerosene Oil
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Such language acquires a peculiar
significance when it is used by one
President, who declares himself
threatened by violent death, stand
ing over the dead body of another.
No one can, of course, estimate the
degree Of peril to which Mr.. John
son considers himself subject; but it
is, at least, significant of the violence
OF the passions and the ierceness of
the animosities which tho civil war
has called forth, that we should find
the President even alluding to the
probability of his own violont death
In the same city where his predeces-
sor persisted only year before. We
cannot withhold our admiration from
the position taken up by Mr.. John
son, and the manly vigor with which
he maintains it. He does not appear
to be gifted with much felicity or
huency of language; but his thoughts
swell beyond his words, and give
them q weight and dignity scarcely
their own. He surely, if any man
ever did, occupies nobly and worthily
great historic position. The desti-
MES of millions of the human race
depend upon him, and he rises fully
to the height of the occasion. Men
whose nerves are shaken by the hol-
day politics of such country as ours
will stand aghast at the audacity with
which President johnson confronts
his adversaries. They possess large
majorities in both Houses of Con
gress. They WELD, at their pleasure,
the committees to which are dele
gated In America so many of the
functions here discharged by the
Executive Government. They are
supported by many States, by host
of preachers, and by legions of un-
scrupulous fanatics. To all this the
President has nothing to oppose but
his veto, his patronage, the power of
conducting the Executive Govern
ment, and his own firm spirit and in
domitable resolution. Yet the duel
is not SO unequal as might be sup
posed. The issue which has been SO
long maturing is at last ready for
trial. The people of America must
now decide whether the great civil
war they have waged was worth wag-
ing at all. They fought for the
Union, and now that they have OBJ
tanned it, q large party seems dis
posed to reject the very object of the
contest. They appear to have no
choice between bringing back the
South into tho institutions of the
country and holding it down by main
force. They incur the danger, on
the one hand, of being once more
by their vanquished enc
mics, or, on the other, of having to
keep them in subjection We do not
doubt that the President has decided
on the wiser course, and we wish him
all success in his mission of mercy
and justice. No man has ever strug-
gled IN nobler cause, and it is better
to fail in such an enterprise than to
succeed in policy of tyranny, con-
fiscation and prescription.
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FROM HAVANA advices
from Havana, by the steamer Man
haitian, state that the numerous and
recent fires throughout the Island are
attributed, by one OF the Havana
journals, to negro incendiaries.
The discovery of plot on the part
of the shareholders to destroy one of
the Havana newspaper Offices is re-
ported.
A Cuban gentleman, named Fran
cisco de San Juan, who died recently,
left his entire estate, valued at $780,
600, to Spanish female school, with
a provision i'll his will that if the
Spanish Government shall in any
manner interfere with the legacy, it
shall revert to the United States Go
vernment. The Cubans are again ex-
cited by rumors that Chilean priva-
teers are off their coast. Among the
late arrivals at Havana of ex-rebels
from this country is Robert Toombs,
Of Georgia, who has been negotiating
for the purchase of sugar estate;
but it is said he could not raise the
necessary amount OF funds. Toombs
is reported as intending to settle in
Mexico as soon as he is convinced
Maximilian's throne is on q firm basis.
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If niger says he goes in for dis
mnson, is he a loyal niger, or a dis
loyal?
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i The Organs of Discord.

Nhe radical newspaper organs and
- latantp politicians ''of thatstripe, :"
Ahe people of the North, day
er day, that the rebellion III the
nth is not subdued-that the peo-
pie hero are as disaffected as they
ere when they took up arms-that
(e bitter feelings of hostility to the
Forthern people have only become
more intensified, and that it will take
~ years to bring our people to proper
and healthful state of subjection.
If this were true, as intimated by
2 Northern cotemporary, the disgrace
it would attach to the dominant
- >rty, for it is q tacit confession that
leaders of that party had not
gnanimity enough to conciliate q
]e, vanquished foe. eff, then,"
ae journal referred to remarks,
.ASouth is more discontented now
Me was at the close of the war;
the petty, irritating insults to which
she is subjected-the narrow minded
spirit displayed towards her by some,
and the base policy recommended by
others of the radical party-by such
men the Presidents generous policy
is neutralized and frustrated"
This statement of our cotemporary
is true as to what the aims and ten
dencies of the radical party might
naturally produce. But the allega-
eaQf the radical organs are not
n all the history of the world,
sebellions or civil wars, there
= such a prompt, sincere and
: - submission to the power the
fnts made war against, but
conquered them, as the South
- les have exhibited since their
They fek that President
: theis 5est guide to the
: : + sded and distracted
& promptly submit
=. s r. s'nisition he considered
= pary to IA completion of that
(. But, Notwithstanding this,
radical organs of discord and
T politicians in Congress- per-
{ e in their work of defamation, and
fan the flames of discdrd to the
gial injury of all sections of the
y by. We have still hope of the
of conservative policy, and
tators will cd ne to an end.
: 4 Aat about 30, 900 young
3 South are seeking
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DESTRUCTIVE FIREs.-The Charles
ton Neacs learns from passengers by
the North eastern Railroad that q
most destructive fire occurred in Dar-
lington village, on Sunday morning,
destroying large part Of the bust
ness portion of the town. Our CO.
temporaries-the Darlington 4Sowh-
eyner and Neac E'a--were destroyed.
At Marion, on the same day, carly
in the morning, some half dozen
buildings were consumed. These
fires are supposed to be the acts of
incendiaries, and the loss, at the pre-
sent time, will fall very hard upon
the communities of these villages.
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A meeting was held in Pittsburg,
on Thursday last, to endorse the
policy Of the President. W.
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The WEEKLY .GLEANER.-The rron,,r
publication OF this paper will be postponed
few weeks. Persons desirous of sub
scrlbing, will please forward the money at
once. Terms 81 wear.
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The orange and jassamine trees il
the vicinity of Mobile, Ala, were
killed, and the fig crop destroyed by
O freeze last week.
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Tho Connecticut Elections.

The National Inteligence,', evidently
speaking by authority, contradicts
the statement that the Secretary Of
the Navy had written letter express
ing his desire that General Hawley,
the Republican candidate, might be
elected. The hteniqencea. states as q
fact, though solicited to do as sug-
gested, declined to yield to partisan
requests to that effect. Mr.. Wenes
holds that the late rebel States are in
the Union and under the shield OF
the Constitution, which is the para
mount law. TO those candidates for
office who are opposed to the restora-
tion or reconstruction policy of the
Government he is opposed, and those
who are in favor of it he favors.
The InteAigencer also states that the
Democratic candidate for Governor
of Connecticut has had several cor
dial and pleasant interviews with the
President, who appreciates the friend
ship of Mr.. English, and who, that
journal believes, would be highly
pleased to hear of his success on the
first Monday in April.
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IHE BURNING OF CoLUMB1A.-Au inter.
estlng account of the ''Sack and Dcstruc.
ton of the City of Columbia, S. c." has
Just been issued, in pamphlet form, from.
the Phenir steam power press. Orders
can be filed to any extent.
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THE WEATHER.-Yesterday morning pro-
voked some sad forebodings of DESTROYED
fruit and injured vegetables. About
o'clock, it made faint effort to snow, but
for short time we had a sleet fall In
time, before o'clock, the skies cleared off.
and it is to be hoped that this sudden
change in the weather will not result in
killing frost. At the time of writine tnis
paragraph, p. m., we are inclined to be-
hevc there will be no frost to kill vegeta-
ton or injure fruit. We hope it will turn
out So
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more remarkable for what it indicates
than for what it says. Fenianism, we
have often declared, IS less important
to the world for what it will accom-
plish in Ireland, than for the effect it,
will have in again awakening in Eu--
rope the suppressed, but not extin-
guished, spirit of republican freedom.
Appearances at present are against
the success of an isolated struggle in
Ireland; but Ireland seems destined
to be the means of lighting up Eu-
rope. Ireland, nearer to us in sym
pathy than any other land, has felt in
her veins the full influence of the
great war waged by our people for
free institutions; and, unable to use
it for her own good, she will commu-
nicate it to the people of Europe,
ready to receive it, and more likely to-
benefit by following the grand ex-
ample. Europe is uneasy. In Ger
many and France freedom has been
lulled to an unquiet slumber. It is
an indication>in this respect, that the
speech of M. Thiers is most signif-
cant. NJ. Theirs, in all his career,
was never more in sympathy with the
best and most earnest sentiments of
the French people than he is now. A
man of the people by origin, he has
been identified on the popular side
with the great movements in France,
and his antecedents of this nature
give double weight to the word e
now utters.
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in America speech entirely free
from twardy ornament or ambitious
metaphor, but conveying the irmest
determination and the most enight-
ened principles in the plainest and
simplest language. The Union he
was resolved should be preserved.
He stood where he did at the COM
mencement of the rebellion, to vim
dicate the Union and the Constitu-
tion against disunionists from the
North OF the South. He found
5000, 900 people condemned under
the law, but while he would punish
the leaders, he would extend to the
masses leniency and confidence. One
rebellion had succeeded another.
War was made to prevent separation.
Now, there was an attempt at con-
solidation of power in the hands Of a
few, equally dangerous with separa-
ton itself. Military power and pub
lie Judgment had decided that no
State shall leave the Union, and now
people assume that they are outside
it, and shall not come in. Treason
in the South is over, and now those
who seek to prevent the restoration
! of the Union are as much laboring to
destroy the fundamental principles
of the Government as those who
fought against it, He mentioned by
name Messrs. Stevens, Sumner and
Phillips, and declared that he would
neither be overawed by friends nor
bullied by enemies. He was called
usurper; but his only usurpation was
standing between the people and the
encroacnments of power. He was
threatened with being beheaded, and
indictments even to assassination
were employed. We're they not
satisfied with the blood already shed?
Let his blood be shed if it must be
so; the blood of martyrs was the
seed of the church,
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nj EW SKIRT FOR 1866.
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