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THE DATE OF THE NEGRo PERIoD.-The
Cincinnati Enquirer, of last Saturday, says:
The date Of the negro equality period in
the Northern States may be fixed at Octo-
Der 9, 1866. In Ohio, the negroes were
allowed to vote, without distinction of CO.
ior, at all polls-outside of a few Counties
where radical judges officiated. 1t was
the same i'll Indiana and Pennsylvania.
One correspondent writes us:
XENIA, October 9.-Every negro voted
to-day that offered his ballot.
CEDARvILLE, Greene Co., hio.-Forty-
five full-blown blacks voted at this pre-
cinct to-day. The judges took their votes,
declaring that under the civil rights bill
they were as we'll entitled to votes as the
whites.
RICHMOND, Ind, October 9-The judges
here allow full-blooded negroes to vote the
same as whites, and ju, ify themselves
ander the civil rights bill.
The Enquirer adds: We have no doubt
that throughout Ohio anu indiana where
there were radical judges of election, with
rare exceptions, negroes Of all colors were
allowed to vote.
We cannot say that we object. The po-
pular will must be carried out. The people
of Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania believe
the black as much entitled to suffrage as
themselves; to be jurymen rs themselves;
Judges, Governors, Congressman, Sena-
tors as themselves; they have the right to
say so, and enforce it. We submit to the
popular will, that considers blacks as good
as whites, socially and politically. We
don't believe 50, and never will; but poll
tically we submit to the decision of The
ballot-boxes of October 0, 1866. Negro
suffrage triumphs! 1t is hardly worth
Willie to submit the question directly to
the people of Ohio.
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THE T,,popr,Sr Npwc rpo,, 0Tcv

The IMPORTANT News FROM MExI-
co.-The news from Mexico, partly
anticipated by our special dispatches
of October 2, and published in the
Herald of October II, is of very
important character. Gen. Meiia, in
command of a French force, had ad-
vanced on Monterey and defeated the
main Liberal army, under Escobedo,
completely routing and pursuing it
toward Matamoras The expectation
was that an engagement would ensue
at the latter point, and it probably
took place on the 10th inst. The
force of Mejia was much larger than
that of the Liberal commander, and
the second battle doubtless resulted
like the first. The defeat of Esco-
bedo and the occupation of Monterey
and Matamoras is an important gain
to the French, as it will give them
complete control of the line of the
Rio Grande. from which NIeiia was
lately driven, and also possession of
one Of the most important sea-ports
of the republic. The defeat of Esco-
bedo's army, the best of the Liberal
forces, is heavy reverse to the Libe-
raj cause.-Ne,O York: Herald.
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COLUMBIA
Sunday Morning, October 81, 1866.
Observation-Disclosures.

The Charleston Ne,cs, in one of its
recent issues, has the following con-
cluding paragraph of political az
ticle:
sDisagreeable as the prospect may
be, we are forced to conclude that,
without any power in us to control
the tide of events, we are drifting
slowly back into the Union on the
basis of the constitutional amend
ment, and that we will only cease to
occupy our present anomalous posi-
ton when we are represented in Con-
gress by men v-''o can take the test
oath, and when cr,r State offices are
filled by men who have never violated
an express oath Of allegiance to the
United States.'
, Drifting into the Union on the con-
ditions proposed! Why, we would
ten thousand times rather that the
State should drift out into mid
ocean, as far from such Union as
possible, with every true Carolinian
Oh board, and, like the officers
and crew of the italian war steamer
Palaestro, go down in honor rather
than in disgrace.
No explanation, no excuse, can
palliate tho words above written. It
is libel on the people of South Ca
rolina to say that they have no power
to control the course of events-they
hore the power to secure themselves
from dishonor and disgrace, by re-
jccting the abominable proposed
amendments. Any newspaper advo-
eating such policy requires watch
ing.
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The CONFEDERATE STEAMERS. The
United States Government seems to
have gone into the geological depart
ment Of natural history lately, sueing
in the English courts for the recovery
Of the Penguin, Owl, Lark, Wasp,
Badger, Fox and Ariel, supposed to
be Confederate steamers. Mr.. Ben
Jamln appears as one of the counsel
of the reputed owners, and the United
States Government is to give bail for
costs and damages before they can be
heard further. If [ had any inhu-
ence with Uncle Sam, 1 should adj
wise him to consider twice before he
engages in an English lawsuit. The
processes are interminable, and the
costs enormous. When Mr.. Field
and the Social Science Congress have
accomplished q radical reform of the
system, Uncle Sam may get hold of
the birds and beasts aforesaid.
London Cor Neoo York Times.
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TRANSFORMATION OF PUBLIC MoSEYs-
The Secretary of the Treasury has lust
promulgated the following circular to col
iectors, officers or agents of the Treasury
Department engaged either in the collec-
ton or transfer of moneys of the United
States:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Oct. /, 1866.
contract having been entered into be-
tween the Treasury Department and the
Adams Express Company for the trans
portation over all the lines of the said
ADAMS Adam Express pre- Company, and, through
Harnden's, Howard's, Hope, Cheneys,
Eastern and Southern Express Companies,
of all moneys under the control of the
Treasury Department, you are hereby di-
rected to employ said Companies for the
necessary transportation of all moneys of
the Treasury Department; said transport
tation to be made for the purposes of de-
posting the money transported with the
Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer or au-
thoriZed depositary of the United States
for transmitting the moneys collected on
account of internal revenue from deputy
collectors OF internal revenue, to collectors
or United States depositaries, and for spe-
clal purposes; and under special circum-
stances, III accordance with instructions
from the Department, all moneys trans
mltted should consist OF the sum of 81 900,
or its multlples, as near as possible, and
should be sent by the shortest practicable
routes. The expenses of transportation
will be paid by the Department.. The
officers sending or receiving moneys will
certify, in such form of vouchers as may
be approved, to bills for the services rem
dered, stating the sum transported. be-
tween what points and to what Office the
moneys were sent, the date, and that the
services charged for were actually per-
formed. All officers or agents are eau
toned to carefully count and pack their
moneys to be transported. securing them
IN strong packages, sealed with their own
private seal in at least four places, and
with the amount, their own name and title,
and the name and title of the consignee,
plainly marked on the wrapper, taking re-
ceipts from the express companies for all
sums transmitted. II. McCULLOCH.
Secretary of the Treasury.
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GEN. SHERMAN AND THE COMING Re
voLUTIoN.-The announcement that
Gen. Sherman will probably accept a
place in the Cabinet has aroused a
remarkable degree Of attention
throughout the country, and imparts
new interest to his utterances. We,
therefore, again publish a singular
extract from the speech which he
some months since made to the stu
dents at Yale College. He said:
Look at the flag as Christian
object. Obey its dictates and follow
Its leaders. AS you go out into life,
you will find opportunities enough
to stand up for it; you may even have
a chance to fight for it. I tell you
that before you pass from the stage
there will be fighting, in comparison
with which mine will be slight; and
have had enough"
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The MEXICAN QuEsT1oN-THE Ala
BAN1A CLAIMS The ,Sun has the fol-
lowing special despatch, dated Wash
ington, October IT: Importance is
manifested in some quarters concern
ing the alleged inactivity Of the State
Department in the treatment of the
Mexican question, and demands are
also made for the adjustment of the
Alabama claims. L have high au-
thority for saying, that in a few days,
an official showing OF the policy OF
the Government in the disposition of
these matters will be promulgated.
Mexican affairs are assuming def
mite shape, and the controversy with
the British Government relative to
the Alabama claims will be urged to
q speedy and determined conclusion. !"
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The next annual session of the
Grand Lodge of the Masonic fraterni-
ty, embracing delegates from all the
States and several of the Territories,
will be held ii New York city on to-
morrow, October %. The last ses-
sion held there was in 1885, since
which time the annual sessions have
been held in Baltimore.
The Postmaster General on Satur-
day last deposited in the Treasury
thes sum of So, 102, the same being the
total of all moneys received in un-
claimed or dead letters.
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Equitable Settlements.

The Georgia Southern Recorder
says that Judge Reese, at the late
term of the Hancock Court, defined
the construction Of the State ordi-
nance in reference to the equitable
adjustment of contracts made during
the war, as follows:
The jury must confine themselves
to the contract" The Convention
says contracts in the war must be
settled "equitably," and "either
party may prove in evidence the
value of the consideration at any
time;' but you must construe this ac-
cording to the United States Consti-
tuition, which forbids the State to
impair contracts; and the Georgia
Convention is only the State. So
you cannot as a jury so construe
their Ordinance of November, 1865,
rs to impair the contracts of the
parties; that contract must govern
you, not the Ordinance or any notion
of yours about 'equity." The
Ordinance only alters the rule of
evidence, and that merely for the
purpose of showing by parole evi-
dence, what sort of money the con-
tracting parties actually meant; and
If they had no definite idea, then the
jury may say what sort of money was
probably intended by the parties.
The word "dollars' in contract pre-
sumptively means 'sconstitutional''
dollars; but now parole proof is admis-
sible, to show you that the parties
actually OF probably meant "Con-
fcdcrate" dollars. If so, then the
jnry must reduce the contract to gold,
and add the discount of currency.
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Bad State of Affair. In Tennessee.

The Nashville Union and american. of
the 10th, has the following unpleasant in
formation:
Considerable excitement prevailed in the
city, yesterday afternoon and last night.
by rumors OF q contemplated outbreak Ly
the negroes. The first intimation the city
authorities had of the contemplated yio
lencc, was through the Executive Depart
ment of the State. Well founded rumors
had, it appears, reached the Officials at the
capitol, that the negroes were iii Il state of
intense excitement, in consequence of the
recent arrest of colored vagrants and their
confinement in the work-house Letters
were also read in the churches (colored)
on Sunday night, that the negroes confined
i'll the work house for vagrancv and other
offences, had been sent to Mississippi and
sold into slavery.
The scoundrels who would thus ATTEMPT.
by q foul libel on the city authorities. to
invite the negro to deeds of violence and
bloodshed, that would result in his certain
humiliation, deserve severer punishment
than is known to the law
Ihe story that the negroes were being
sent South and sold into slavery, is as
false as it is absurd
VI the gang OF laborers taken to Arkan-
sas by MIR. L. +. Cheatham, not one went
against his will. They were under sentence
to serve out certain terms in the CITY pri-
son, and on the offer being made by Mr.. c.
to pay them out, and give them employ
ment picking cotton, at remunerative
wages, almost every negro in the work
house stepped forward and accepted the
offer. No influences were brought to bear
upon them. They had their free choice to
| go or stay. AS an evidence OF this, ouite
number preferred remaining in the work
house to working i'll the cotton field, and
they are there yet, while their more sensi-
| bic companions are probably now picking
cotton and making from $40 to $50 per
| month.
| We learned from hi Ii authority, vester-
day, that when Gen. Lewis, Assistant Com
missioner of the Frecdmen's Bureau, heard
OF the gang OF laborers Mr.. Cheatham had
taken with him, expressed his entire salts
faction in the movement, and considered il
as relieving the city of q bad class of citi-
zens. Prompt measures have been taken to
prevent any outbreak, and we have no
doubt but that any attempt at riot will be
! speedily put down.
, We would have our city authorities ferret
out the black-hcartcd assassins that have
been instrumental in melting disturbance
among the negroes. If probed go the bot
tom, We believe a different object will be
revealed than now appears upon the sur
| face.
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a statistical table, exhibiting the
rates of increase OF the population
of the United States since 1860, the
date Of the last census, is being pre-
pared. In 1860 the population Of
the United States was 31,443, 321,
and it is calculated that at the present
time it is fully 35, 100000.
900 dead bodies were picked up in
the streets of Balamc, India, in one
morning. Famine.
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The receipts from the internal re-
venue sources exclusively, up to the
18th, amount to $5115, 500, 900, which
is in excess of 81, 100000 per diem,
from the beginning of the present
fiscal year, the 1st of July. 1t is be-
Heved that the income frcm this
source will reach to nearly the same
figures as those of last year, which
Will be largely in excess of the
amount estimated and required, leav-
ing heavy surplus to be appro-
prlated to the liquidation OF the ma
tional debt.
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Local Itoms.

AnoSa1 Com9.
Messrs. Brown & Schirmcr-in Volger's
new building advertise a large stock of
corn, oats, peas, hay, &c. Give them
call.
We arc indebted to the National Express
Company for Charleston papers, of Satur-
day-the mail having failed
The lady who did not think it rcspecta
bic to bring up her children to work has
laociy heard from her two sons. One OF
them is bar-keepcr on u fiat boat and
the other is a steward in brick-yard
OUR GIRLs.-Can We not-asks Miss
Mulock-since, while the power of the
"ofld Is with men, the influence lies with
women-can we not bring up our girls
more useful and less showily-less depend
ent on luxury and wealth? Can we not
teach them, from babyhood, that to labor
Is higher thing than merely to enioy:
that even enjoyment itself is never so
sweet as when it has been earned? Can
we not put into their minds, whatever NAV
be their stations, principles Of truth, sim
pllclty of taste, helpfulncss, hatred OF
waste, and, these being firmly rooted, trust
10 their blossoming up in whatever destiny
the young maiden may be called to?
The LAMP OF LIFE. glow of health
and beauty is nowhere more pcrccptible
and beautifully attractive than in the
ruddy, healthful glowing, beautiful COM
ple1lon OF healthy person. The COM
plcHion is radiant, and the lamp of life
burns brightly, so long as it is supplied
with pure blood. The Queens Delight and
Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier, is u
cleaning and searching Notwithstanding
strength to the feeble, invigorating and
restoring the old; cleansing and purifying
the young. The Queens Delight and Sar-
saparlla is for sale by Fisher & Hcinitsh.
pharmacists.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES THIS DAY.-Trinitv
Church Rev. 2. J. Shand, 1Ol 4. m. and
81 p. M.
Presbyterian Church h-Rcv W. L. Bocgs.
Pastor, 103 a. IN. and 3! p. III.
st. Peters Church-Rcv. J. j. O'Connell
10 a. m. and 3! p. m.
Lutheran Church Rev. A. b. Rude, 1Ol
a. m.
Christ Church Lecture Room-Rev J. M.
Pringle, Rector, 10i a. m. and 81 p M
Washington Street Chapcl-Rev w.
I. Capcrs, Pastor, 10a a. m. and 81 p IN.
Baptist Church-Rcv Mr.. Vebber, 1O3 a.
m. Rev DIR. Smythc, II p. m.
Marion Street Church-Rcv A. G.
Stacy, 1o3 a. m. and p. IN. Rev T.. G.
Gage, Pastor, 8! p. IN.
| ----- '>-0-~---~--~--~-
New AI7ErTIsEMENTs. Attention is call
ed to the following advertisements, which
are published this morning for the first
/ time:
Brown a. Schrmer-Corn, Oats, etc.
E. E Jackson-Drugs, Pomades, &c.
J:& I. r. Agnew-Buckwhea &c
| Field to Rent.
Convention of Stockholders C. 4 A.R.R.
D. 3. Miller-In Common Pleas
| A. Il. Phillips--Auction Sale.
Meeting of Independent Fire Company
Levin PeiXotto-Milch Cows at Auct'n.
b C-House keeper Wanted.
Reports of District Officers.
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A project is on foot for supplying
New York city with gas manufactured
at the coal mines in Pennsylvania.
1t is proposed to convey it through
iron pipes, distance of one hundred
miles, to the city. 1t is asserted
that it can be furnished at q much
cheaper rate than is now paid.
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The travelling delegation from the
Black-and-Tan Convention, known as
Southern Loyalists, have issued, or
are about to issue, an address to the
people Of the United States, in which
the recommendation is made that the
Governments Of the Southern States
shall be abolished, and new ones or
ganized upon the basis of negro
suffrage.
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List Of Arrivals at the National Hotel
October 20. 1866.

w Bennett, Union; Hiram Mitchell,
Spartanburg;J Bowles, Augusta, Ga; + +
Raworth, Aiken; G A Fink, Lexington; e NJ
Gilbert and son, d Lapcr, John I TAYLOR,
Charleston; John A Stuart, Ninety-Six; c
b Buist, Newbcrry; J y Henderson, John r
Fuller, Hogan Notes, Laurens; Mrs j II
Adams, Miss Ellen Adams, Richland J L
Thames, Master Thames, John O'Brien,
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The MASS MEETING. radical
Republican meeting at Cooper Insti-
tute last evening was very successful
The hall was crowded till scarcely a
foot of standing room was left unoc-
cupied, and five or six thousand pco-
pie gathered about the outside stands
The fprincipal addresses were deli
vered by Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, ex-
Vice President, and Senator Wilson,
Of Massachusetts. It was notice
able feature of the assemblage that
the more radical the utterances of
these thoroughly radical orators, the
greater the applause and enthusiasm
of the crowd. The sentiment uttered
by Mr.. Sumner to the effect that
while he recognized that the South
ern States were as much in the Union
as ever for all purposes of taxation,
&C., they could not be represented in
Congress until Congress chose to
admit the men they sent, was received
with great cheering, and cries of
''keep them out The speeches
were eloquent, faceticus, and some
times argumentative. Mr.. Hamlin' s
exposition of what the constitutional
amendment contemplated was re-
ceived with much favor. \ more
enthusiastic assemblage has seldom
been called together for political pur-
poses. The object of the meeting
was the ratification of the nomina-
tions for State officers by the Syracuse
Convention. -Neu York Times, 1911.
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AFFAIRS IN GREENv11LE. E.--The
Nou,,toinee1.. of the 18th, says:

Mountajnee1., of the 18th, says:
yesterday, the sale of machinery,
&c, at the State Works commenced.
There was not as large crowd of
bidders present as we expected to
see, and many of the articles offered
were knocked down at rather low
prices. There was some competition
for 25-horse power engine, which
fi"allv brought about 81, ,545. The
S very wisely reserving por-
ton c le machinery for use in the
propC penitentiary. The sale will
continu, to-day
At a public meeting of the citizens
of the District, held on Monday, the
following resolutions were adopted:
Resozced, That we do respectfully
recommend that the Legislature of
this State be petitioned, through our
respective members, to call q conven-
ton at an early day, to take into con-
sideration the condition and wants Of
the :people, and, if practicable, to
provide some adequate and certain
means of relief and to rectify any
imperfections which experience and q
sober second thought may show to be
wrong and unjust i'll principle, and
injurious to the general welfare and
and good Of ali the citizens thereof.
Resolred, That we do further re-
commend that similar preliminary
meetings be held in this and other
Districts throughout this State, and
that a general meeting, to carry into
effect the foregoing objects, be held
at each Court House on the first
Monday in November next.
Resolced, That we heartily approve
of the efforts used by our Senator,
Hon. G.. +. Townes, to introduce
some measures of relief for the peo-
pie, at the last meeting of the Legis-
lature, and in advocating the same.
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IN COMMON PLEAS.
NHEREAS, the plaintiff did, on the
w twentieth day OF October, 1866, file
his declaration against the defendant,
fwho, as is said. } is absent from and with
out the limits of this State, and has neither
wife nor attorney known within the same,
upon whom copy of the said declaration
might be served:
On motion of FickiinS & Pope, the plain
titfs attorneys, 1T is ordered, that the said
defendant do appear and plead to the
said declaration, on or before the twenty
first day of October, which will be in the
year OF our Lord 1867; otherwise final and
absolute Judgment will then be given and
awarded against him.
d. b. MILLER, c. c. p.
CLERKS OFFICE, Rchland District. Octo-
Der 20, 1866. Oct 2IQ4
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HOUsE-KEEPER WANTED.

WANTED, a WHITE WOMAN to take
w the position of head-servant and
house-kceper in a private family. A mid
dlc-aScd woman preferred. Such q person,
well recommended, can obtain a comfort
able home and a reasonable salary. Re
fercnccs required. Address "a Il c.
Cmouvillc, $. G.. Oct 81 3
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Notice

The Annual Convention of the Stock
holders of the Columbia and Augusta Rail-
road Company will take place in this city,
on Thursday, the first day of November,
1866. Oct 81.
Augusta, Ga, October 20, 1856.
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R EMO v AL.
General Intelligence Office.

THE undersigned have this day aseo-
4 ciated themselves together for the pur-
pose of carrying on the above business
Pegsons in need of servants, and freed
mrn i'll want of employment, can, bv
ceive information in regard to their REQUIRE
ments. We are i'll correspondence with
houses i'll different places throughout the
Southern States, and will give an earnest
and assiduous attention to all business en-
trusted to our care. Applications to be
made at our office, next door to the Post
once, between 4. IN. and O'Clock p. m.,
and and o'clock p. m
II. Il. SWINTON e. co.
H. Il. swINToN. J. G. EDWARDS. d. r. CLAYTON
Oct 1S limo
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WANTED.

CHARLOTTE ROAD past due Bonds
~ and Coupons.
Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Road Cou-
pons.
City OF Columbia Bonds, and
Lamar Importing Company Stock
Apply to EDWIN j. SCOTT.
Oct NTH
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Notice to Emigrants to Liberia

Notice to Emigrants to Liberia.
HAVE been informed that the vessel
4 bound for Liberia will be in Charleston
Harbor on the 30th inst. l hereby notify
an persons who have applied for transpor
this city by the Both October, on which
date special car will be here, chartered
to take them, free of transportation, as
soon at teleSraphed for by
JESSE OXENDINE, Jn.,
Oct 20 2* CORRESPONDING Secretary