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rho aroenvilIc "DaIegation..pi, 8

Mr.. EDITOR: I observe, in your
published list of the names of the
so-called Legislature, you have made
one piece of white humanity black.
I allnde to w. A. Bishop, of this
District, who passed q part Of his
time, since the war, in the Greenyille
jail, for stealing factory yarn from an
old negro woman, and other proper
ty from one of his white neighbors.
Through the influence of the Sheriff
of the District, (the Sheriff is not o
radical or scalawag,) he was admitted
to bail, and was tried at the next
term of the court for larceny. He
was defended by Governor Perry,
who had him discharged on techni-
cal grounds-the Indictment should
have been for robbery and not for
larceny. His home is in the noun
tains, on the dividing line between
North and South Carolina. I was
informed, few DAYS since, hy one
of his radical friends, that the farm
ers on the North Carolina side in
tended petitioning the ringed-streak-
ed-striped-and-speckled Legislature
of this State to continue in session
until December next, so they can
save their cattle and hogs. It is no
insult to him to have his name pub
lished in the negro list, but it is GER
tainly an insult to the negroes, and
they ought to request you to make
the necessary correction.
John B. Hyde, another member of
the so-called, is said, by those who
know him best, to be much meaner
man than Bishop. He and his pro-
genitor once had regular fist fight;
but the old man twho, by the way,
says he is q Democrat proving too
hard for Johnny, the young Hyde
has never since shown o belligerent
disposition.
Samuel Kinsley is also a member
of the bogus Legislature. He is d
good, easy, inoffensive, industrious
farmer, entirely unfit for legislator.
Unfortunately for him, he is bro
ther-in-law of Bishop. I know he
must detest his kinsman, and feel
ashamed of the relationship that ex-
lists between them.
Wilson Cook is mulatto, and the
only colored member from Green
vile. He formerly belonged to Mr..
McBee, is tanner by trade, faith
full. honest, Christian man. No blot
or stain upon his character, he stands
head and shoulders, in stature, in
telligence and honesty, above his
colleagues, and looks down with
contempt and disgust upon w. A.
Bishop and John B. Hyde,
James M. Allen, the so-called SEN
ator from this District, now occupy
ing seat in the upper House on the
lower floor of Janney's Hall, is q
Northern man by birth, but not q
carpet-bagger, he having livel in
this State several years previous to
the war. He is postmaster at Green
vile, and is notorious for organizing
Loyal Leagues in the up-country,
and being the medium through
which the radicals North transmit
their political documents to the
''trooly loil'' of this District.
GREENVILLE.
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COLUMBIA.
Wednesday Morning, Aug. 26. 1858
Canvassors Appointed.


AgreeabIygtola q resolution adopted
by the recent State Convention, the
following gentlemen are appointed
by the State Central Executive Com
mittee acanYassers in. the interest of
the Democracy: =. aIi'
State at large-Gabriel Cannon
and A.tP. AIdrich. ~ ;ffaosE (al2.ss
Second Congressional District-J.
Third Congressional District-D.
Wyatt Aiken. 'iic'G II oo:'s a--A'
Fourth Congressional District w.
D. Simpson. W. " s5 'a.. .,.,a.,, ,.',, Z
Canvasserifo for First Congressional
District to be hereafter appointed.
WADE HAMPTON, Chairman.
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A leading negro radical declared on
the streets of Raleigh, North Caro-
lima, n day or two since, that ''if
Seymour and Blair were elected, the
colored men of the Sould aOould not
submit TO it,"
This man, says the Sentinel, was
but uttering incendiary language, put
into his mouth by white renegades.
They threaten war and revolution, if
the people of the North decide that
the Constitution shall be restored.
Let Northern journals mako note of
this. t}fsrf n. y
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A C1Rou1AR 10 rHE Co1,orRRD Pro

a ClHcUbAB TO THE COLoRRD REo-
PIE.-The Jackson (Miss.) Clarion
says: :sThe following circular has
been addressed by CHARLES w. Fifz-
hugh to the colored people. He was
one ofithe most intelligent and pros
badly the best educated of the CO.
lored members of the late so-called
Convention, and one OF the most
ardent supporters of the radical party
in the body. His influence over the
colored members was greater, proba-
bly,, than that of any other member.
In, words of fervid eloquence, he
sends out this note Of warming to his
brethren. May we not ask the CO.
lored people to give it their calm
attention?I rG r' sf
WooDv1LhE, Miss, July 81, 1868.
FELLOW CoLoRED CITIZENS OF
WILKINSON: The time has come when
our race must be saved. An election
was held in this State to vote on q
Constitution that was framed by the
Convention held in Jackson, COM
mencing January 7, 1868. That
Constitution was defeated by @ large
majority. Why? Because it was
tyrannical, overbearing and ruinous
to the State and citizens thereof.
The colored voters of this State acted
wisely and justly in voting against
it. =,
Now, fellow-citizens, you are living
in the South! Your interest is at
stake in the South! My motto, for
the people to prosper in State, is
for all to live peaceably together.
You are living among the Southern
people; you have been raised mp
among them. Although they held
you in slavery, forget everything of
that kind. Let the past be the past.
Come under the protecting wings of
your only and best friends. They
love you and study your interests.
You are q poor people; come; and
your starving children shall be fed.
The question presents itself to us
who framed that Constitution? Was
it men who had the interest of the
citizens of this State at heart? No;
but men who came from the North
as adventures to monopolize the
offices, and distress the peaceable
citizens. God would not suffer such
to be done. He used His all mighty
power, and slew those who tried to
devour us, and to-day our State is
saved.
The radicals have made you great
promises-such as, "Come with us,
and we will do you good" What
good have they done you? Have
they given you the homes that they
promised? Have they fed your chill
dren? Have they given you any
thing? No; but they have caused
yon to suffer hunger and want.
Now, save yourselves. Come with
us, and let us live peaceably together.
The time has come when you can
save yourselves. More anon.
Your fellow citizen,
CHARLES w. FITZHUGH.
P. S.-The employers of colored
people will oblige me by reading to
them this circular. G. w. +.
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Correspondence OF the Phoenix.
NEW YORK, August %, 1868.

NEW YORK, August %, 1868.
The skies seem to be Frightening
still. The Democrats are losing
nothing and gaining constantly. I
know @ man of this city who has
hitherto been q consistent Republi-
can, and has always voted and felt
with the party. He owns millions in
real estate in this city. Presto,
change!
The political platforms of the two
parties now are seen principally in
their relations to finance. The radi-
Gals will save the bond-holders at the
sacrifice of the real estate holders.
The Democrats do the opposite.
The real estate owner, of whom I
spoke above, has visited Mr.. Sey-
mour at his home; they compare
notes; and the result is, my real
estate friend comes out with pen,
tongue and dollars for the election of
Seymour. So will do every large
real estate owner in the country.
The bond-holders are all Republi-
cans already. The Democrats gain
the whole element of land-and house
property and lose nothing in return.
The Democrats are doing twice as
much work, apparently, rs the Re-
publicans.
The negroes of South Carolina are
losing ground by every demand for
new privileges and social equality.
Encourage them to go on. Let them
not pause until the blindest and
guiltiest fool in the country (North)
shall see exactly what the negro is.
Let cuffee show his hand. It is all
that the Democracy needs.
meet Carolinians every day in the
city. There are several sojourning
here for the summer; some here on
business; and few-I have met but
one-are touring for pleasure.
"a Everybody is in earnest, and the
future is to be brighter for us than
the past has been-brighter, because
it viii be lighted by Individual and
personal energy; by self-reliance
begotten of trial, and we'll fitting the
manhood that has not been crushed
by the most infamous of government
al tyrannies.
Thad. Stevens is not moro dead
to-day than is the party power by
which he did his best to ruin us.
A political weekly of this city,
that. upon the action of the Tamma-
ny Convention, asserted that the
nomination of Seymour was equal to
the election of Grant, has just re-
viewed the situation, and frankly
states, that SO great is the revolution
in public feeling since then, that the
chances now Enthusiastically incline to
the Democratic side; and that, unless
something unforeseen prevents it,
the election of Seymour is well nigh
certainty.
That comes from a paper that is
pretty fully established on the Re-
publican side.
should say to our Democrats
Work. t'A
To the negroes-Dcmand more. Be
aggressive. Show your hands. Go
it strong.
To carpet-baggers-Be We also
ready.
To scalawags-To your kennels, or
cmigrate.
TO all good men-Hope. D.
The Hartford livestock Insurance
Company has been suspended, having
lost $40, 900 within the last twenty
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SUPPOSED Loss OF EIaHrY- SEVEN
AMERICAN SEAAIEN.-About the 1st of
November, Mr.. Dabney, the United
States Consul at Fayal, Azores
Island, wrote to the Department. of
State. at Washington, that there was
large number of American seamen
on these islands, principally deser-
ters from whaling vessels, and that
in order to get them home he had
chartered the Portuguese brig Evar-
ista, to bring them to this country.
He shipped on board of that brig
eighty-seven seamen for the port of
Boston. The brig has not since been
heard from, and it is supposed that
she. with all on board, has been
lost. .,J
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A Labor Parliament" is to be
held in London, this month, for the
purpose of carrying out decision of
the Workingmen's Association, to
return, if possible, at least dozen
bona fde working men to Parliament,
and for the purpose of fixing upon
twelve candidates and twelve bo-
roughs. The Association hold it es-
sential to the interests of the indus
trial classes that there should be n
direct representation of labor In the
new House The London Press
(Tory) thinks nothing could be more
desirable than that their efforts
should meet with o certain amount
of success.
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CURSES COMING HOME TO Roosr.-
New England is squirming under her
commercial prospects. She sees
trouble ahead. Commercial decay
threatens her. For thirty years she
has acted the Thug towards the poor
South. Present appearances lead the
Nov York Day Do0h TO predict that
in ten years more the prosperity of
the one will be exchanged for the ad-
versity Of the other. The curses she
hurled upon the South bid fair to
return home with compound interest
added. When New England struck
at the South, she stabbed her best
customer, and the only one she could
have held through all time. The
West is rapidly severing her COM
meIciai connections with New Eng
land. The South of 1860 never
could have done it; but the South of
to-day, like the great West, will
The income returns of four New
England States for 1867 and 1853,
tells the world that commercial decay
has commenced. We find New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Copnec-
ticut and Rhode Island, to have
shown an income tax in gross for
1867, of $5,SO8,776. In 1865 it was
reduced to $3.50, O59, showing q loss
of near $1,000, 900, or nearly 90 per
cent, and the evidence of reduc-
ton of general business equal to the
sum of $10,000,000. AS we are now
in the fourth year of peace, and as
the radical papers all profess to see
posperity, not only to the immediate
future. but in the present. the Til
bnne having asserted in January last,
that 1868 would find the country
"'once more On the high road to
thrift" the recorded evidence of the
gradual commercial decay of the
richest portion. of New England, is a
proof that the curses she heaped
upon the South are coming home.
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West Point, since its first estab-
lishment, on March 16, 1902, had
admitted 1890 cadets, of which 2,218
we're graduated. The total appro-
priations for the academy, for the
period of sixty-six years, have
amounted to So, 500, 339. This in
cludes the cost of the grounds, i'm
provements and educational appara-
tus, as we'll as the pay of the profes-
sors and the subsistence Of the cadets.
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The Status or the Negro.

The Status or the Negro.
In asserting that ''this is q white
mans government the white people
of the country by no means fore
shadow injustice to the negro. They
know and rejoice that the old institu-
tion of African slavery is at an end.
To revive itwould be step which
none but the insane would dare to
take. Being free, the negro is as
much entitled as his white neighbor
to the safeguards of the law. He
must be protected in his person, his
property, and all his material rights;
and for his infractions of law he must
be punished in. the same manner as
the white man is. In all other mat
ters he must recognize the preiudices
of immemorial custom and tradition,
and accept such q position as he can
work out for himself. He must re-
member, also, that though freedom
is word of superlative significance,
yet those who call themselves free
are not always free. In this world of
error and corruption there are many
kinds and degrees of slavery, and
that Of physical subiection to mas
ter, though humiliatingI and unplea-
SAINT, is by no means the most CALLING
and degrading. England for third
of century has filed the world with
the delusive boast, that whenever q
slave touched her soil, his shackles
fell off forthwith; and our Govern
ment, since the close of the war, has
taken up the cry and echoed it with
all the pharisaical vigor of fierce, un-
thinking fanaticism. Let. England
turn her eye to the slavery in her
factories and mines, and the worse
than heather ignorance with which
it is associated, and say, if she dare,
that her people are all free! Even
among those who are independent,
as far as the mere necessities of life
are concerned, there are thousands;
nay, millions, who are under the
grossest bondage to their vices-a
bondage infinitely more corrupting
than one of mere servitude. And
what may be said Of England, in this
regard, is almost equally applicable
to. America. The negro who has
been freed from the bonds of phys;-
cal servitude is, in nine cases out of
ten, less free than he was before his
emancipation was declared. His
habits have become worse; his health
is not so good, his wants are not so
well provided for, and beyond all
else, he has become the slave to selfish
and corrupt party demagogues, who
make him the instrument of plumber,
and, as far as possible, the shield of
their own corruption.
Now, in the present canvass, the
white conservatives Of the South,
who are the neighbors and must be
the employers of the negroes when
the rule of the carpet-baggers end
as end it must within very limited
period-have endeavored to convince
the negroes that to them they must
look for their true acknowledgements
for the ratification of every privilege
beyond equal protection to life and
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q, at ia caucus of the Republican
party. held in Janney's Hall, last
night, j. l.. Moore, of Greenville,
was nominated for the position of
Circuit Judge of the Seventh Dis
trict, and James L. Orr for the
Eighth. i Z q
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MIR. EDITOR: In looking over the
school advertisements in your CO.
lumns, we have been surprised to
find writing numbered among the
EXTRAS to be taught in one of the
schools. We hope that writing will
still be considered, as it ever has
been by the established schools in
this community, an ESSENTIAL branch
of education. A.
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LIE Roy Faxon, of Greenwich, N.
Y, young man of twenty-five years,
accompanied picnic party a few
days since, and was drowned in pre-
sence of his father, two sisters and his
affianced.
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Lost. Yesterday afternoon,
small gold bracelet, of child, was
lost on Main street, between Shell
toms store and McKenzie's saloon.
A reward for it will be paid at this
office,
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Eocal. Tte11asI...

Two companies of the Eighth In
fantry arrived yesterday afternoon,
and lookup their quarters on the
University Green.
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property. In the North, where the
radicals have been in power, they
have not extended to the few negroes
who reside among them the privilege
ofsimpartialI suffrage; if they have
given it IL the South, it was an act
ofafraud, intended merely tosserye
their own base ends.
We will not pretend to say that the
white people of the South are very
much better than the white people of
the North, but they certainly are
more reliable than the carpet-bag-
gers, and tho immunities which they
grant the negroes will be forever
granted. The course which the
Southern whites are to adopt toward
the blacks must be an honest one.
No people or party can, with impu-
nifty, sacrifice honesty for the pur-
pose of securing a political victory.
Let She negroes understand that the
whites are empowered, by the late
radical amendment to the Constitu-
tion of the United States, to restrict
negro suffrage, and the extent to
which that provision will be acted on
win, depend upon the behavior of the
oolored people during the existing
canvass, or up to the time when the
white people will again have control
Of their own affairs, and enjoy to the
full their rights Of self-government.
1t is probable that there will be re-
strietions on suffrage, but, if SO, they
will be framed in 8 spirit of sound
statesmanship, and will be enforced
without distinction of color. White
and black men who commit grave
offences, and are sent to the peniten-
tiary, will not be permitted to vote,
and possibly other equally wise re-
strictions will be framed on other
points affecting the public veal.
The New Orleans Times calls atten-
ton to the important fact, that wher-
ever negro rule has been attempted,
it has proved failure, and in q
country such as this, where the
blacks are in SO hopeless minority,
negro rule is impossible. Let the
blacks, then, as well as the whites,
accept the situation. It is useless to
cling to delusive hopes and contend
against the inevitable. The white
man will be the ruler in this land,
and the negro will gain q hundred
fold more by an honest, conciliatory
course, than he can ever extort in any
other manner.
Gz11
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The Hartford livestock Insurance
Company has been suspended, having
lost $40, 900 within the last twenty
two months.
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1t was currently reported, last
evening, that Gov. Scott has been
rendered loan of S75, 900 for the
uses OF the State, by the Chatham
Railroad Company, of North Carroll
ma. This is the corporation that is
now applying for charter to run
their road from Cheraw to Columbia,
and whose application met With
strong resistance, yesterday, in the
House.
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The TRoTr1Na MATCH. inter
esting match came off yesterday
afternoon, on the Congaree Course,
and Notwithstanding the stringency
of the times, a considerable amount
of money changed hands '.Billy
Grimes" won the race in two straight
heats, but the pony pushed the grey
pretty closely. Time, 3.01 each heat.
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The following is an extract of a
letter, from an intelligent colored
man, dated Santuc, Union District,
August %:
"We are still using every endeavor
to persuade the ddrhieS what is right
and what course their true interest
requires them to pursue. This place
is the hardest that 1 ever saw. Radi-
calism is rampant, and everything
indicates fight between the parties.
The negroes are more violent than L
ever saw them in my life. The white
people are endeavoring to conciliate
them and are making every offer that
justice requires. It all seems to do
no good, and it is to be feared that
there will be blood split. I leave
this point for Strothers Turn Out,
this morning, to fill an appointment
there.
"We had, at Poplar Springs, in
Spartanburg District, on Thursday
last, mass meeting and barbecue.
Lee and myself made speeches, and,
judging from what followed, made
quite an impression. Twenty-Five
darkies who, before this, were radi-
Gals, enrolled themselves on the De-
mocratic lists. The success of the
Democratic war horse has been
very good.
ga largo Democratic meeting was
held at Spartanburg Court House, on
tuesday, the 18th, and resulted in
the organization of Democratic
Club-thirty-four joining immedi-
ately. Among the number was the
President of the Union League at
Spartanburg, WHO was elected Presi-
dent of the Club. Joseph Hardy is
Secretary. We have been working
hard at this matter, and really feel
aattered that, ut such place and
among such o set, we should have
done so much. We have been kind
ly treated on all occasions"
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ACCEPTABLE PRESENTS. had
the pleasure, yesterday, of inspect
ing the contents of box, presented
by number of Democratic mer-
chants of New York, through Messrs.
L. j. Noise & Co., to the Democratic
Club of Columbia. They consisted
of monster banner, 2Ox15 feet, con-
tanning excellent portraits of Sey-
mour and Blair, with the inscrip-
ton: ''For President, Horatio Say-
mour; For Vice-President, f. P.
Blair" Besides United States flag,
12x1S feet. This testimonial win be
fully appreciated, and the generous
donors will receive the thanks of our
citizens generally. Messrs. Hope
have also received o lot of campaign
badges, which they are distributing.
MAIL ARRANGEMENTs.- The post
Office open during the week from So
a. m. to 7 p. M. On Sundays. from
4 to 5 p. m. ~ - 'ee"s5v
The Charleston and Western mails
are open for delivery at4I p. M, and
close at S11a p. m. Charleston night
mail open 81 a. m, close AZ p. m.
Northern-Open for delivery at
81 a. m., closes at 2.45 p. m. .-'t'
Greenville-Open for delivery 51S
p. M, closes at 81 p. m. ' E
New ADVERTISEMENTS. Special at
tention. is called to the following ad-
vertisements, published for the first
time this merning: haG rets,iE -
WI. Laval-Nfale School. E,"'
%. Pollard-Lemon Syrup. i.N,,
Mrs. Goodwyn's School. ''
Fall and Winter Importations.
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ANOTHER DRAWER CARRIED Orr
About half-past 7 o'clock, yesterday
evening, colored man, who was Hap-
parently on the watch, while the
clerk was near the front door, enter
ed the back door of DR.. Miot's drug
store, and carried off the money
drawer. He was discovered, and pur-
suit Immediately given, but the thief
succeeded in escaping with his plum
der. He dropped his hat in his
fight-which may be the means of
his identification. This drawer. rob-
berry is getting to be Of almost week
ly occurrence. |'i H@.