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M OH *4 M ami vet, the prohibition against ex post facto laws, is just as explicir as that against laws impairing the obligation of contracts. Now is it not clear that one accused of crime is protected from new laws of invest igation and procedure fron new remedies for the ascertainment ol his guilt—just as creditors are protected from changes in their remedies! Is a mere pecuniary right more sacred than a right of life or liberty? These ftases civil and criminal, constitute an unbroken current of authori ty in support of the important and necessa ry doctrine that the remedy is a matter within the control of the political power, so long as all remedy is not withdrawn— is not taken away for an indefinite period. It must be particularly noted that these decisions, not mere remarks of judges, do incontestibly overthrow the doctrine which has been set up in opposition to the cons stitutionality of all stay laws, which is the indispensable foundation of such oppo 6ition—the doctrine that the obligation of a contract is impaired whenever the rem edy for its enforcement is impaired. The remedy of imprisonment, is undoubtedly a very powerful one for the enforcement of contracts—to take it away must impair the remedies of the creditor—must greatly lessen the efficiency of his remedies—and yet, the courts of this country, including tb<rSupreme Court of the United States have expressly held that this remedy may he taken away from existing creditors, provided all other remedies are not also abrogated, or suspended for an indefinite period, which is equivalent to an abroga tion. Tiie whole confusion on this sub-- ject comes from the original false assump tion which has sometimes been made in the obiter dicta of Judges, but which has never been decided by any Court, and is inconsistent with the unbroken current of decisions before mentioned—the assump tion that the obligation of a contract is the existing remedies for its enforcement.— The obligation of a contract, it is very true, is not to be found always in the terms used by the parties—it is to be found in tbe liability which the existing laws at tach to those terms. Indeed, the obliga tion of a contract is the liability which the existing law attaches to its terras For il lustration, a contract in this State to pay twenty per cent, interest, has no obliga tion beyond seven per cent., the rate fixed by law; and coutract to pay money for the killing of a human being, has no obli gation whatever. Parties may make what engagements they 7 please—these do not constitute their obligations—the law ex isting at the time, comes in and attaches its own liability to the terms used—de fines aud fixes the obligations arising out of those terms. These obligations are to be enforced by such remedies as the polit ical power may provide from time to time; and the Courts can never inter fere with changes or modifications which the political power may make in the rem edies, either qnickeuftig or slackening them, so long as the right is not abrogated by the indefinite withdrawal or suspension of all remedy. LINTON STEPHENS. POSTSCRIPT. The whole fallacy of the veto message cousist in the lalse assumption that the ob ligation of a contract is the laws for its enforcement—that is to say the remedies existing at the time when the contract is made. The message itself after taking this position, yields it in saying (I do not quote the words hut give the substance) tiiat there is a power intfbe Legislature to modify the remedy, but this power has two qualifications—first, that it must be used in good faith with a view to the gen eral improvement of judicial proceedings ; second it must not be used to the injury of existing lights. These qualifications are wholly gratuitous, not warranted either by pri uciple or authority. But the admis sion that the Legislature may modify the remedy at all, with or without qualifica tions, is fatal to.the idea that the remedy is the obligation of the contract. It is equivalent to saying thaX tbe Legislature may modify the obligation of the contract ; for if the romedy is tbe obligation, then a modification of the remedy is a modifies tion of the obligation. Now a modification of tbe obligation can not take place with out imparing it—without changing it in one direction or the other, rendering it more or less stringent—either enlarging or diminishing it. If by the modification the reined v is made more efficient, tbe obliga tion is rendered more stringent and is changed in favor of the creditor. If the remedy is made less efficient, then the obligation is rendered less stringent, aud is changed in favor of the debtor. In ei ther case the obligation of the contract is changed. But this is precisely what the constitution inhibits in declaring that no State shall pass any law impairing the ob ligation of contracts. The constitutional idea is that the obligation of the contraet, whatever that may be when the contract is made, is sacred from all State interfere ence, from all change in favor of either party, the debtor being just as effectually protected against such changed as the creditor is. The obligation of the con tract is impaired whenever it is changed for or against either party. The admission that the Legislature may modify the rem e dv is the sure doctrine, extorted by the uniform decisions of all the courts; but the very fact that the remedy may be modi fied is plain proof that the remedy is not the obligation ; for a modification of tbe ob ligation of tbe contrct is the very thing which is foibidden by the constitution — The argument is a strange one which the Message draws from the part of the State constitution which provides that the Leg islative, Executive and Judicial Depart ments shall be distinct each being confided to a separate body of magistry, and nei< ther exercising any power properly belong iug to either of the others. This argument is faulty because it proves too much, and end6 in conclusions which mast be instant ly rejected as beiog subversive of the constitution. If the Legislature cannot dictate to the courts a!t r judgment, how can®it do so before judgment 1 And if it cannot do so before judgment it is simply ousted of all power. The very function of the Legislature is to dictate rules of ac tion, to the other two co-ordinate depart ments, and to the people. That this power reaches beyond judgment, regulating the proceedings after judgment as well as be fore, was expressly decided" by the Su preme Court of tbo United States, in the Rhode Island ca3e before cited, where that court affirmed the validity of a law dis charging debtors.then in jail under judg ment. The whole error here arises from concluding that because the Legislature and the Judiciary are made distinct by the constitution, they are therefore indepeu dent. The} 7 are distinct and they ore co ordinate, but they are not independent.— In truth, neither one or the three co-ordi- dinate departments is independent of the other two. The Executive and Judiciary are both dependent upon the Legislative for the rule or law of their action, while the Legislature is dependent upon the oth er two for the application and execution of the rules prescribed by it. It is surely men, Mr. Gr#e1v has simply proved that he does not know them, and that he knows still less the common laws of pry** priety. Secret Pol tiral Organisation. General Grierson says that he believes that "there is a secret organization through out the Southern States foi the Teuewal of the rebellion.” We have only to sav that we think General Giieison is wholly mis taken, and we thiuk we are quite as like- just ns competent for the Legislature to , | 0 know the Southern secret as he is. - - give direction to the process of the courts'j the thought of renewing hostilities y ear or 8,> > became engaged in gambling, Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial. AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY. Indianapolis, Ind., March 7. A startling affair you may say I am about to describe, and I promise your readers not only to vouch for the truth of what l write myself, but will give you the best references in the city in addition “on call.” A mechanic in this city by the name of Orren Elder, went to California in 1853, leaving a wife and two girls hero. Upon arriving at California, be went to Shasta City, and after having mined for a after judgment as before judgment. Pnn ciple and express authority concur in this conclusion. LINTON STEPHENS. against the United States authorities were 1 ®° d w * s 60met * me i n •ha tall of I860, kill- in any one’s heart, we believe that thef e , d _ ln H drunkenbrawlm that place by » community en waste would regard him as From the Courier de.s Etuis Unis. The Women af the South. For some days past the Tribune, which generally possesses the virtue of self-re spect, not knowing, doubtless, how else to give vent to its ill humor at the turn of af fairs, has lavished insults upou the women of the South. It seems to us that a thou sand reasons, not to mention the simple one of property, should restrain a Nor thern journal from 6uch attacks. The Tribune should remember, too, the hero ism displayed by tiie Confederate wo^nen for their cause. Whether this cause were good or bad, the Southern women have sustained it nobly, aud with a force of char acter which recalls the ancient women of Sparta, and which has everywhere com manded respect and admiration. Not satisfied with attacking the South ern women, the Tribune institutes be tween them and the women of the North a comparison as odious as it is unjust. "Our women.” says Mr, Greely’s news paper, ‘‘are everywhere a most cultivated class ; tbe women of the South are more illiterate than the men.” We dispute the truth of this .assertion* There are at the South, as at the North, educated women and ignorant women, well bred and ill bred, vulgar women. But we do not believe that tbe proportion is so unfavorable to the South. The ladies of Charleston, of New Orleans aud of Rich mond have shone in all the European sa > loons where they have appeared, as bril liantly as those of New York and Boston. That the Southern women are less literary than their husbands is very possible, but we do not consider this surely as a reproach. ' We do not like learned women ; we j aie repelled by women versed in Lat in and philosophy, and unlike Mr. Greely, take the part of Henrietta against Annande. A woman may be educated certainly, but let her never become a ped ant; ana above all,let her never parade her learning. We do not see at tlie South such physical and philosophical ladies ; we see only too many of them st the North ; and what these gain in science, if science that may be called which consists in a great number of ideas, almost always con fused and superficially understood, join ed to enormous pretension, lose in grace aud and attraction. We say this wirh out intending any injustice to those charm ing Northern women who avoid the gro tesque and rediculons aud resemble in this their sisters of the South. Let us permit the Tribune to insist upon the “gross ignorance” of tbe Confederate women, aud to refer to this ignorance then- energy aud constancy during the war.— We attribute the great qualities of which tbe Southern women have given noble ex ampleto a higher origin. Ignorance,the Tri bune has 6aid it a hundred times, can en gender only vice and meanness—and, if the Confederate women have been heroic, it is because they had faith in their cause. There are no occasions in history when women, whose mission in ordinary times is to make the good wife, the tender moth er, and to polish manners by the charm and grace which she brings into all social rela- tious.may rise above herself ar.d give exam plesofthe highest virtues. These occasions occur whon the sacred soil oflier country, and with it (or through it) the domestic- hearth and the family are threatened with invasion. These high virtues tbe women of the South have practiced without osten tation, without theatrical parade. They have borne all privations, they have defied all outrages by their proud and impassable attitude. Soldiers, drun ken with blood could outrage their bodies, but their victims remained as pure as those Christian virgins whose memories the em braces of the executioner eouid not defile. All that is precious to women—dress, jew els, the luxurits of home—all these the Southern women gave up—they did not even recoil before sacrifices still more pain ful—they did not fear to break their hearts by sending forth their eons to do battle for a cause, sacred in their eyes, like that Lacedemonian mother who showed a shield to her son and said simply—return with it —or it—do thy duty, or die. Do not ex pect such trials from ignorant women, from souls without elevation ! And while desolation over all the hearths of the South, while mothers had each day fresh tears to wipe away, yet bravely bore their grief, how were the women of the North employed ? In developing a costly luxury against which the Tribune itself cried out, calling attention to its scanda lous extent, feminine prodigality became more and more unrestrained. We know to what disastrous result this state of nffaics had led. Some ladies, it is true, lik Miss Anna Dickenson, gave tiresome lectures to promiscuous audiences, others clamored for pretended woman’s rights, and exposed themselves to the derision of tiie public ; and others still enrolled themselves under the banner of miscegenation. It i« among a madman. We have seen no such man, nor have we heard of one: and we doubt whether there is such a one alive. Dr. Wayland relates a story which, as wc have not read it in some years, we must repeat as best we can from memory : A steamboat in a dense fog was drawing near to the wharf at Newport, Rhode Island. The passengers were struck with the gigantic size of some persons standing on shore. Presently one Colossus fell on one knee and the other giants began to caper around in a manner very unbecom ing to men of such huge proportions. It was presently found that they were little boys playing marbles on the wharf, and the log had by some optical illusion mag nified their apparent size. It is well known that things which are dimly seen chum, one George Edicott, since which time memory and name had almost faded out of the remembrance of his acquaintan ces here. His wife, deserted by her husband, reduced to the most squalled poverty, for three years, has made a living at the wash tub. Last week (Thursday,) her youngest daughter, Janet died and a few friends gathered in to watch the corpse. There were, in the party who set up, John C. Rieves, an engineer at a steam mill, Thou. Tanners, a brother of Mrs. Elder, Mrs. Shawmut and Mary Williams and myself. About 10 o’clock in the evening, the doors and windows all closed and shut, we wcie not only amazed, but strick en dumb by the appearance of Elder him self among us in bis palpable earthly form, as we knew him years ago. I tell it to you as it was, and if you wish to make frequently appear to be much larger than , . i...: j i.; _ i. this appear more readable you can pnt the they are, and that things which are not seen at all sometimes appear to bo immense. We think General Grierson is iu a fog.—» flourish aud high sounding words to suit yourself. He deliberately walked to the Wbat be sees ho magnifies and what lie T"® 0 placed upon it a bag of melalic does not see is dreadful indeed. Just here another story occurs to us of a fellow, who went into battle and there load ed his gun six times, but never fired it off. substance, and as instantly disappeared.—- Common sense got tho better of us after a while, and upon opening the bag we found. 8670 iu ten dollar gold pieces, and a little On coming borne lie told bis mother what [ ac *. a P °! » ith ^ 0 words U “*“*■* lie had done, and the old lady persuaded i U , , r V, nft a ° ’ a , r ^* ... , . ■ • ,. i- , - ii l-i I he woman lias a certificate for the biui to discharge the piece. He did so, 1 . * . . , .. • . ., a , , ... i money now on the first National Bank in aud it instantly burst to fragments, kicking' ,. 3 . T . , , . him over, barfing bi.n a little a,id rearing! ,b ' 6 1 ‘ 0 ° il ‘ ba ?,* T him a good deal” As be lay hall dead! «'P*}*" “P ‘° “i 0 *“ r bo with fright, bis mother was abont to pick' had “ at ■*> f°* ,**»' bad t"” ‘!“* ,r WIIU lilCiln, 1113 UlWlIjm tvcio AUUUl 1>V JILE ... x II. 11# .i • itp a piece of tbe dismantled weapon when' ‘•* u ”?»>*- ' la do f »' d anything be exclaimed, “Don't touch it, mammy its 1 a f ? u . * ar ! ^ a ! a won go e ere i , ,, . . .,*+.• . • . J i of being a fool for his labor, in giving this got to go off live more times yet J” , .®,. , . mt * ,, ( J , i story to his readers. As to the character I nc Southern Confederacy is exploded.: T , . . . T ,. . . i. i - . • r . f . 1 bear iu this community, I would refer you 1 here is no harm in the fragments. It- . XT n r* n . . T 3 u • ji , „ iy vj- , .u n i to A. H. Conner, Esq., .Postmaster, Joseph will not go off again. We hope tbe Gen- T ,, . h;. , , T> r j -U .11 i ru. - .• i j Lawson, Esq., Col. Richard Ryan, Rev. erai will not be alarmed. — Christian Index. r ,, r • , i\r J J. H. Lozier, and Dr. Wanger. . c. Gen. Wade ! Destruction of Colombia, 5 Who is Responsible ?—Letter from m Hampton. ’ Columbia, S. C.. Juno I9:h, I8G5. To the Editors of the Nets York Day Bock: Gk.its : In your paper of the 6th May I have jo.t aeen General Sherman's unk-i:[ report nf fcis march through tbe two Carolines. As this report misrepresenls mo in the grossest ner, I trust that you will not vindicate myself- It is dr me, that tho falsehoods of General 8hera.au in ref erence to the destruction of this city should be ex posed. This shall be done in the briefest po.aibie manner. The report says! “General Wade Hampton, who commanded the Confederate rear gua cavalry, had, iu anticipation of our captu.e of luinbia, ordered that ail cotton, public .mu private should be moved into the street and fired to pre vent our making nse of it. * * * Some of these piles of cotton were burning, especially ouc- in the very lioart of the city, near the court bouse, but tba fire was parsislly subdued by tbs labor of our soldiers. * * * Before one single public building had been fired by order, the smoulder ing fires set ‘.by Hampton's order were rekindled by the wind, and communicated to tiie buildings around. About dark they began to spread and got beyond control of the brigade on duty wirhiu the city. The whole of Wood’s division was brought in, but ’twas found impossible to check tho flames which, by midnight, had become uuman- agable, and raged uaril about four o’clock, a. m., when the wind subsiding, they weie got under control. * * * I disclaim, on the part of my army, any agency in this tire, but, on the contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unesnsumed. And, without hesitation, charged Gen. Wade Hampton with having burn, d his own city of Columbia, not with malicious intent, as the manifestation of a silly ‘itoiTian stoicism,’ bat from folly and wautTif sense in filling it with lint, cot ton and tinder. Our officers and men on uutv j of the snfferer and laughed to scorn the prayer for ! h«r safety. Another iady was but recently con fined. Her life hung upon a hair. The demons were apprised of tne facts in the case. They overwhelm, d her with terror that she sunk ui:de- the treatment, survh ing but a <isy or two.” Again driven forth, numbers I muL* their way -^to recesses of Sydney Park, and [ lio.c f incied to find security. But the ingenuity of hate and rnalace was not to be baffled, and fir 9 brands thrown from the height into the deepest plcm, | jioilows of «i.e Pnk taught the wretched fugitivos r. < 0t i0 G-spair vf any esespe from enemies of such un- t Co- j v< . e; , r i e d and uuremuiiug rage!” iug rage! But enough of .this atrocity, the recital ol which makes humanity shudder, the heart grow sick.— Sureiy enough has been quoted from the nar- rative of these horrors to prove that General Sherman alone is responsible for tiie destruction of Columbia and for the many other atrocitiea ."iHiudttcd by his army, lie declares that the fires set by my order consumed the city. I have shown how false is this statement; bu: even if were true hew dees he clear himself of the — t«il* of burning private dwellings outside of the city limits l Early in the afternoon of the day ha entered Columbia, my bouse which w hs, two mile* from tho city, was fired, soon after the home* 0 f Mr. Treuholm, Gen. Lovcdl. Mrs. Stark, Dr Wal lace, Jlr. Arthur, Mr. Leatta and Mrs. English, in the same vicinity, shared the same fate. Gener al Shermau cannot deny that these house* w 9 ra burned by bis men, nor can he deny that he de stroyed, in part, or in whole, the villages of Barn well, Biackville, Graham, Bamberg, Bofurd’* Bridge, Orangeburg. Lexington, Alston, Poimma, Winnsboro’, BUckstocks, 8ociety-Hi'd, Camdra and Che raw. Does net the fate of these unoffen ding towns give the lie to his disclaimer of any agency in burning this city! Along the line of march followed by him there is scarcely one house worked well to extinguish the Haines.” It would ba difficult, if not impossible, to ex- j standing from the Savannah river to tho Pedee press, iu an equal number of paragraph, a greater j Hl!(] yet he dared to declare solemnly that ho did uot burn Columbia! I do not wonder that ho number of falsehoods than are contained iu the above extracts. There is not one word of truth in all that has been quoted, erc-pt the statement that “Gen. Hampton commanded tiie Confederate rear guard,of Cavalry.” I did not order any cotton “moved into tbe street and fired.” On the con trary, my first act on taking command of the eav- i faLsehood. But he shall i airy—to which I was assigned <mly tho night be- ; ^ t ^ 6 scat e^uat for fore the evacuation of Columbia—was to repre- j taken his arnrv in tliu siiouid strive to escape the infamy which like tha leprosy of Gehasi, shall cleave onto him and unto his seed forever, tor the commission of this dark deed. Nor am i surprised that he should natural ly seek to escape by taking refuge behind a not for hia impunity make his sins. Wherever be . . r, , n . * . , . ,— , is Stats, women have been ■®“t to General Beaurev&rd the danger to ihe town insulted or outraged, old meu have been hong of firing the cotton iu the streets. 1. pon tnis rep- t<J exfl , r t nxm them hidden treasure. The fruits resentation, he authorized me to give orders that j of rll0 earth have been destroyed, leaving starva- no cotton in the town should be brad, which order | tion wLore ^ ty 0 - Jce reigned, and the dwellings atnctij carTi^u out. I leit tiie city at.er too • 0 f and poor alike have beeu Said in ashes.—* head of bhomiau a column enters, it, a*iu I assert i p or these deeds history will brand him as a robber what can be proved by t.ious.tnds, that not uue j incendiary, and will deservedly “damn biin to bale of cottnn was on fire vrher. he took possession j eve^*asti r u»- fame ” of the city. Hia assertion to the contrary is false, j j am your obedient servant. and he knows it to be so. A distinguished citizen WADE HAMPTON, Lieutenant General. of this State—whose name, were J at iibei iy r.> give ; it, would be a sufficient voucher oven at the North, for the truth of any statement made by him-hr.s fieneia! sfccrInaD on tae Burning nf C«luh given to the public a minute history of the destruc ; tion of the city. j ®* a * 5 • ®* From this oocument, which is too long for in- \ The following is tha letter of Major Gen’l 8her- tells Respectfully, wilber g. McIntyre. The Hew Slave Trade. The Nashville Banner of tbe 4th the following singular story : j How Newspapers Appreciate Orato- Slavery in a new phase, and under the by.*—The difference between a man’s own cold-blooded manipulation of “new 7 hands estimate of himseif, and the estimate in at the business,” has just come to light, which others hold him, is nowhore more which presents features of a startling char*. raa rbyd thau iu tne cases ol the statesmen of acter, and substantially explodes the im- the present day and generation. There arc pression that the only Ameiican slave Congress assembed a large number of drivers are to be found among the planters gentlemen who believes honestly, no doubt of the Southern States- We find the loU that without the assistance of their intellect lowing paragraph among the Telegraph * n ^ voices, the coantry can never have a items going the rounds : j thorough understanding of the great prob- “A letter from Havana says the land- of reconstruction j hence they exorcise ing of siaves in Cuba from Africa con-| their constitutional right of great verbal tiuues. A lot of one hundred were recent- expectorations, from truly charitable and ly sold for -$80,000 to a planter, who, it is commendable motives. Not only do said, some time ago entered i D to a cove- the .f think h t!ieir ri S ht and dul y to a P ea k, nant not to deal in human flesh.” but the / are confident that it is the duty We have information from the most re- tbe uews P ft P ers ^ print all they say, liable sources of the landing of negroes—' . O ue who thus believes, made a speech not “slaves,” in Cuba, and not from Africa, * u House a few days ago, and the next but from the United States of America ! wag paired to find bis two hours effort In conversation with a leading merchant boiled down into about twenty, lines in and estimable citizen, yesterday, we learn- tb e Now Tork papers. He was indignant ed that a gentleman, and friend of our iu- “ho was mad he wrote to tbe editor, formant, and formerly a large slave owner, _ a c0 Py i°* .bis speech in the has just returned from Havana, (and arri- Glol f> aud inquiring whether be wouldn’t ved in Nashville a few evenings since.— do him the justice, and his readers the fa- Whilst in Havana, be was attracted by vor, of publishing his “argument” entire, an unction of slaves at a negro mart. At r cpiy» he received a note from tbe ad* the moment he drew near the scene, which V0r tiaiug clerk, informing him that his was not unlike such pictures in this coun- speech would make so many squares, which, try, some years since, he noticed “upon 80 uluc h a square, would corno .to so the block,” a negro man, who caught his niuc h» actually $1,500. 1 hink of asking eve and there was an instantaneous ami a P 00r Congressman half his years salary undoubted and mutual recognition. Tho l ' ,r P“n‘iug his “argument.” Tbe M. O. sale concluded, the negro was “knocked tbiuks the editor is a wretch, and the press down to the highest bidder,” aud our of tbo country is awfully demoralized. Southern plauter was in the act of moving _ ,, . , _ " , . , _ away, when he felt his arm grasped, and Baldwi “ ; be Rad-cal member of Con- turning beheld the negro who had just been f? rese and editor of the Winchester (Mass.) sold, and who addressed him by name ^P^ ’ hoard the President s speech the nth- called him “Master ,” and begged : er evening and thus writes as to the man- tliat he might take him back to his old ne1 ''. * .t famous address:: homo. It was one of his former servants ‘ B,s v p lce 18 ® iear » J iars h, powerful and and slaves. Upon further investigation, penetrating. When he seems speaking he learned that sixteen others of the very w ’ f h most excitement, he is evidently the slaves who were horn and brought np on coo ' ea ^ mun m the world. I watched him his own plantation, and subsequently "\ t] \ the awakened interest of one who emancipated by Mr. Lincoln’s proclama- felt the magnitude of the crisis the 6poaker tion, were there in Havana, and had was 'treating, and am convinced that all he been kidnapped and sold again into the SH,d was wei S hed aud “easured, and which will show hovr solemn disclaimer of ‘ and his claim to have remains unconsomed.” true is General drier man’s any agency in this lire,” ‘saved what of C**iurr.fiia The Mayor had been in formed that he would be notified when to sum*; l- er the city, knowing that ineffectual resistance on our part would furnish the ready excuso for a!! lawlessness on tho part of the enemy. I would uot allow my troop# to become engaged*iu the city, and they were withdrawn on the morning oi teresting as giving Genera! Sherman’s views on tiie payment of Southern war claims: “ H * A D‘-iU ART t KS MrLITART DlTISIOK 0»* THE MlStlSSlFPI, St. Louis. March d, 1306. “Benjamin liozts, Columbia, S. C. : “Dear Sir:—I have your letter enclosing a > to tiie Congress of the United States, ask- we had done wrong. This is not true. The right- Natioual Government bad been following letter: “Columbia, S. C., Fob. 17th, I860, j ful authority of the To Major General Sherman: , resisted in the Statcof South Carolina for years .and The Confederate forces, having evacuated Co- | we were compelled, at great cost of life and money lufubia, I deem it my duty, as Mayor and re ere-; to conduct timber a vast army, and our progress oent&tive of the city, to ask for its citizens the heat- j was resisted t»j* ail tire force the State could ob- nient accorded by the usages of civi.ized warfare, j tain. Your own citizens resisted our approach, I therefore respectfully request that you will sena j not Only with arms, but by burning the bridge# a sufficient guard iu advance of the arm 7. to main- j over the Edisto, Congaree, S&Iuda and Broad riv- tain order in the city, and to protect iue persons j ers. ^hey burned the depot in Columbia before rire- Very re2pect1u.lv aud property of the citizens your obedient servant, [Signed] T. G. Gocowtw, Mayor.” Tho deputation met the advance guard of the enorny, under Colonel Stone—Fifteenth Corps— outside of the city, and Colonel Stone returned with them to the town iu their carriage. The Mayor reports that on surrendering the city to Colonel Stone the latter assured him of the safe ty of the citizens, and tiie protection of their prop erty while under his command. He eouid not these classes of women, who defy good sense and modesty in public exhibitions, that the Tribuue finds its idea. Let this journal, then, cense (o insult these conquered women* of whom tho de feat has uot diminished tha greatness, let it cease to embitter aud # dishonor its pen in sustaining an indefensible paradox.— The North, like the South, has its contin gent of good.greceful and well educated wo men ; it has, perhaps, a larger number of that class who so little deserve the name of women, and for whom certain announce ments are made in the journals : it possess 63 also a greater share of learned and ped antic laums—but for those, will New Or leaus not become envious of Boston. As for good and well bred society.it is the same everywhere^ and the Tribune may be sure that a woman of the world, coming from Boston, would not feel out of place in New Orleans, nor would the contrary be true. In columniating tbe Southern wo- servitude and bodago they had known, , , , ... , , from birth i the tumult of applause which greeted his Who could have taken these unfortu-1 fitl ‘> n g e8t denunciation and most virulent nates over there, but the agents ap p oin . 1 ^fck was surging around, those cold eyes ted to deliver them out of bondage in this * nd tbat "afty smile could be seen cal- couutry ? Answer it, ye bleeding hearted | elating the entire seeing and its accessors, philanthropists of Massachusetts. We are also informed, and we have rea son to believe the information correct that The Cjilon Fraud. The Transcript says, we call tKe attention of ... 1 • 1 .l- . co • 1 • 1 the Government officials to the frauds which have the extent to which t.i*s traffic is being : keen ui )blush»ngly carried ouf. in tbe rich cotton carried 011 is considerable. An iustance j region of ttouthwestern Georgia. We converted is mentioned to us where a party of indi yesterday with a reliable and prominent planter viduals from tho North, and among them, from that region who state# that Treasury agent# pel SOUS lately holding offices aud military j whatever, and against the oaths aud affidavit auswer lor General Shermau, who was la tiie roar, imprudence of cutting the cotton bale#, Vhereby the contents were spread by the wind, #0 that it became an impossibility to arrest the fire. we enlT-red the city, because it contained corn and stores 1 hey supposed we needed, and set fire to thousands cf bales of cotton rolled out into the streets, and which were burning before we entered Columbia. ‘*1 m*seif was in the city as early as noon and saw those fires, and knew that efforts were made to extinguish them, but a high and strong wind kept them alive. I gave no orders for the bani- ing of your city, but on the contrary, the reverse, and I believe the conflagration resulted from the but he expressed the conviction that lie would ful ly confirm tha assurances which he (Co'onel Stone) had ' ~ ‘ " confirm or was counseled him to retire to rest, saying, “Not a fin- t!ins b e burned, and from what I #aw myself, ger’s breadth, Mr. Mayor, of your city s'-mii be u0 hesitation iu saving that he was the cause of harmed. You may lie'down'to sleep, satisfied the destruction of your property, Yourtrnerem- tfiat your town shall be as said iu my hands :-.s if udy is against him and such others of yonr own citizens as conspired with liiin and made tho inil- wholly iu your own.” * * * “At about eleven o’clock the head ol the column reached Maiket pary occupation of your city an absolute necesi- Hall. Hardly had the troops reached the head of by- I hardly think it is fair that Congress should Main street, when tho work of pillage was begun. people of G’uo, Illinois and Missouri to Stores wore broken open in the presence of thorn*- j pay for such losses; but as it is cot my province ands within the first hour after their arrival. No i to judge in such matters, I send your petition ac- attempt was made to arrest tbe burglars. Tne 1 cording to its address. authoiitics, officers, soldiers, all seemed to consider ; “I again aasura you of my personal sympathy r ami ir.flr.nilv Knt Hii« n>n*c it a matter ot course. And woe to him wno car ried a watch with gold chain pendant, or who wore a choice hat, or overcoat, or boots, or shoes. He was stripped by ready experts in the twinkling of an eye.” ***** * * “About twelve o’clock tbe jail was discovered to bo on lire from within. TLis building was imme diately iu tbe rear of the martet or City Hall, and in a densely built portion of the city. ’* * The fire in the jail had been preceded by that ot some col ton piled iu the streets. Both fires wore soon subdued by our firemen. At about 1 1-fl ! by reason of your age and infirmity, but this must not lead oie to endorse a wrong principle. “I am with g.eat respect, your obedient.servant, W. T. SHERMAN, Major General.” Mr. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, in his speech in the Senate at Washington on Wednesday, said: ‘1 wo radical ideas—radically false, however— ^ ally false, however- brought on the war which has cost the nation mors than oO'J.oOO lives and untold million# of treasure- let, I hat States had a right to secede: w^ 0 i^«dit a ffi O h f e t d h " jt ‘ il * WaS * ekiK * lcd That slavery i# a blessing. Th! surrender of firemen iu putting out the S °°‘ h “ “<>"*• P— \ U , Ja w : vas rrf * £0ir j 8oppose v.e stats tbe question differently. Twe ige their e^orts. rhey were . radical id'■•as brought on the war—Jet, That tho nd embarrassed by the contained inter-; Constitution is a league with hell; 2nd, That tho the soldiery, inuahy, their hose was j Union existing by virtue of it must be destroyed. fire in the cotton in the jail was to discourage their further efforts, thwarted and fereuce ofthe iun. aa s V "as j 1,man existing by virtue of it must be destroyed, chopped with swords and axes, and pierced wen j This is as near the truth as Mr. Doolittle -ot in bayonets so as to be rendered useless. positions under the government, engaged io carry a ship load ot sufi'ering and des titute treedmen and their families, from tho Carolina coast to New Orleans. The philanthropists, representing capital and religion, furnished tho transportation in tiie form of a good sea-going vessel. The \essel sailed trom the starting poiut, but alter repealed inquiry and investigation, no account so far, of its arrival at the port of Now Orleans or any other United States port has been mentioned or heard of. The vessel never landed again iu America with its cargo of three hundred souls, aud inference, we think, is plain, coupled with similar rumors of instances of a like start ling nature, that an extensive traffic is go iug on between this country and Cuba, and the crime is being perpetrated only by those who have the means, the political influence arid the military protection to pull the wool over official eves. If we mistake not, some other investigations are necessary down about the Gulf, then those of mere cotton frauds by those who are viug faithless to their high trusts. Wild ducks feed 00 wild celery from the bottom of the creeks, aud a “dead duck” will flap and waddle as long as it cau draw its salary from the political mine.— Wash. Hep. For one mau who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who siut cerely hate our success. that proved it to Lav* been quite unconnected with the cotton loan, branded it with tbe Govern ment mark, and sent it away to Apalachicola. Th ay would not give the owners, in many instance#, the opportunity to prove their right#. Whenever plenty of cotton could be found, they seized it “upon suspicion.” It was understood, however that by giving up one eighth of the cotton, the remainder would be unmolested. Our iuformaut state# that he refnsed to pay the black mail; he would rather lose all than submit; and tbe result was that two hundred bale* ot cotton, (strictly private property) wore taken away from his plan tation, which is about forty miles below Albany, aud seut down tbe Flint River to be shipped to New York. He expect# never to see those bale# again. He says that this case is aii illustration of what is going on throughout that section of country. Tue official who seized his cotton, after vainly striving to turn a part of it to his own per sorial account, is said to have had the effrontery to add, that “all the officials iu that branch of the Government, from the Secretary down, had a her ring in his hand and would tak.- salt !” Wc pub lish the statement in order to show what the char acter of agent# in that region has sometimes been, and what iiqury to the fair fume of the Govern meut and its most incorruptible representatives have accrued from their employment. Srit.iTUAL Maniklstations.—The |Lonisri!le Courier lately resolved itself into a committee of one to investigate ihe phenomena of spiritual manifestations, socabed. He says: Wo wrote upon different slips of paper several interrogatories, regarding fact# within onr cogni zance, fo’ded them securily, and were answered in writing by Ml*. Colchester with perfect exact ness and a remarkable degree of legibility. Sub sequently,, he requested us to think of the name of some doceasad frieud, and almost, immediately displayed his bare arm, upon whieh was written in blood-red letters, beneath the skin, ti e exact autograph of the person upon w hom our mind had been fixed. The en gines were in some cutes demolished also. And so the miserable day wore on in pillage, insult, and constant confusion aud alarm. Wc have shown that the robbery of the persons of citizens and the plunder of their houses commenced with in one hour after they had reached the Market Hall. It continued without intermission through out the day. Sherman traversed the streets every where, so did his officers, }et they saw nothing to rebuke or restrain.’’ * * * “Robbery ivm goingou ft every corner, in every bouse, vet thctc was 110 censure, no punishment.” * * “Among the first tires at evening was one about da.k, which broke out in a filthy portion of low houses, occupied mostly as brothels. There were then some twenty fires in full blast, in as many differ ent quarters, at nearly the same moment, and while tl»**larm sounded from those quarters a similar alarm was sent up almost siniulunou-iy trom Cotton Town, tho northern!.>st lin-ii cf tli • city, and from Main street iu its very center.’' * # “The wretches engaged in this appointed incen dial* ism were well prepaicd with aii thuHiiniiancea ! |i(-d essential to their work. They carried with them ' from house to honse pots aud vessels containing combustible liquids, and with bali- of iirc saturat ed iu this liquid, they conveyed the flames with wonderful rapidity lrom dwelling to dwelling.” * * * “What remained, from tii« morning, of engines and hose were biougut out by theiiiLiucn. bnt these wore soon driven from their labors Li the pertinacious hostility of the iiuvmiianVs. En gines were tumbled over and disabled, the hose was hewn to pecio6, and tho fircuieo, dreading worse usage to themselves, left the fled jo ues- pair.” » • • “Old men and women and children were to be seeu, often while the flames were roll ing and raging around ihem—while wails were cracking and rafters toiermg and tumbling, iu tiie endeavor to save their clotliing aud some of their more valuable effects. They were driven out, headlong, pistois clapped at their h-ads, tiolerit iiur.iair.iu*n hand* laid on throat and collar, and tiie ruffians seemed to make but little distinction in their treat ment of man and woman. Ladies were hustVd from their chambers under the strong arm or with their menacing pistol at their hearts. Thf ir orua menu plucked from their breasts—the r bundles taken from their bauds.” * * * “A lady un dergoing pains of labor, had to be borne out on a matrass into the open air to escape the tire. It was in vain that her situation was described to the incendiaries, as they applied the torch widen or without the house, They beheld the situation the statement v.*o have quoted, which is by means an assertion that it is tbe exact truth. i he. right of a State to secede is a question that would buye acquired r,o prominence as a pol. tiral i-s.-me bad all tne States been content with the privilege* accorded them in the Union. Ir was •j'.-gatisfHctffia with the Union that provoked in quiry into the question of the right to socede.— States as veil as individuals may possess number- boriC8K rights which they will never think of exorcising unless# circumstances occur which »ugge.-t the propriety for their exercise.— jir. Doolittle attribute# to a view of legs! light, upon a single question, occurrences orig inating hi passions and internets having no connec tion with that right. The cause of the war wes t he sectional haired created and matured by tne discussion of the sinvery question, and for that the North is as much responsible as the South.— Tiie Smith Las surrendered its position on this question, and the only reason why there is not now permanent peace is that this hatred is cher ished by the parry with whom Mr. Doolittle is al* i c:s is the simple truth in the matter, sod lie should he- ashamed to attempt to dodge it by pettifogging.—[Chicago Times. Gar.*. Grist and the Radicals.—Senator son, of Massachusetts, lately i" the Senate, an nounced Gon. Grant, as the candidate of the radi cals for tho next Presidency. The New York News says: ‘'Mr. Wilson' would not have hazarded the nom ination iu so ostentari ms a style, v ithont the sanc tion of Gen. Grant; and Gen. Grant wuuld not have permitted Mr. Wilson to parada hiui before the country 7 in such an attitude, if lie refused the Radical alliance. Indeed, tbe Massachusetts Sen ator wad carol'ul to proclaim that his party es pouses the Gomniander-in-Chicf for the special purpose of maintaining the (Radical ascendancy, and reversing ihe conservative policy cf the Ad* Ft how slow Gives up the President.—In are- cout-loiter cf Brownlow to a Pennsylvania Con gressman, he writes: ••When I put the President in nomination «t Baltimore for the Vice Presidency. J felt that he had so thoroughly commit:ed himself to the Union cause, and had been so baJiy treated by tbe reb els, it was impossible for him over to get round to them again, bnt I give him np os lost to the Un ion party, and as the mao who is to head tba eli and Democrats.”