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THE PALLADIUM: FUDLI3HKD THURSDAY MORXIXGS, BT D. P. HOIXQWAY B. :Wt DAVIS

FAT ABLK IX IDYiltl. ALL KINDS JOB 'PRINTING, Dom ia the best naantBrid at fair tm,I 2 V Office Wararr Bsijaie., Ricaaaoad, lad. WELCOME HOME. (The follow in r paefa, rontriUiatd Jo tbe CiBcianeS Gaaette, by A f.M.lleraf tba Laosaeler OaactU,. aiUppyaylJOay O, tha mea who foojrht and bled, f O, tha elad and rallast OBa" . . And the bright ukur owerbead, Wr Irvine botuvl JO O, tba brare returning buy, U. the OTerBowine: He And tba rune anddunia and aoiae, ' ' X Welcome bane! - V ,. . - ,T r r ' Lat the deep awtced eaoas asar, ' t ; Opaa efary aae ad Oar, . . - Poor out happy paopla. pmr, Welcome hornet Bloom. 0 ewvwera star all, j i., ; "T1 ' Vrr arary roof and wall, , , ... Float and tut, and eaiee and fall . . - - WiIcuom bo ma! Hplendid column moTlne; down, IroneeWtrana, wiled and brown, tftffltfflXSbu: TIT Thar Oi a S laWi al f nA1- A A With tber while baryta fll.f J5JT Kainina: dnwa the ffTutnad ilwwtrt, Uo tba dear men starching bouMrt Do yon HoinettrinaLjaikaaTirQ look dilna. And a (Jury makea bum tnne, - .,- rkol ik oil ra tie) Look where tha Oaf narealf, tronrh yoar tear, end eurla. Cie welcome, nappy stria! WelcnJ tak)nj tinme frpaawarl VVelroiai Weitu.i aa. d Mwtir 1 Z' W.ieua home I 1 - Ptronf Men, with ti.e aeriooe faea -If you lw Vm in hi plaoe, ; Marchiaa swift to jrou aaabrsce, i; Camina; hoaie, Yuu vntU waap with fcbul aararaa At tha hr bad hoy that baa L'Balernaath tha Sauahwra akkt, ," Tar from borne. Woroeni with tit iealaayo,r : Weepine.waalaiha huwa a y, ' Wall wa know what nukea you ay, Ood be WiTh yoo in yotir pain, f You wirt Vw and hi Tain, ' ' U winner eomasrio'm - .... g, tomel ' Ho amid our, joy a wa weap , ,:;tv:.. r'or tba tWe dead whw aleap Jn tba ala aod an Uw alaep. ! . i - aTittaoail For tha Mf wh fonM o well, - ' For tba i'ltejieVtHNHtt who fall r j . ; By tha cbMett SaT of Iteir, ' - ' t mU.w I i. And wautboaial And wa-lwiik yvm. Waary dal.';.7. "u" And the "boats of wrong; are flud, ., . ... ad tharjhl.pravaila iimUad,-. i , . j i, ,l . x Weiouna homai ' ; ' . Limb and tongue, and preaa ara free, 1 And tba NatM'S abouU tuea. , , - . - All the (l(a- aa a ba -..--..- .rf ,w i - t Walooma Uaaal ...... For tha bloody work la dona, . . . - ' Aal tha people ahal b one r t UaderaUtn Waaler auX - - .wcu 'i : i ! Waleaioa boiaef i i" . Man no eaite orkinfr ahall know, . White and black ahall ne and grow, And to amAiaa fejrht! ahall IftJ rT T T f f :.n,j.ijj.' Jb'f, at.1 Suffrtfl In th 014 .SiavwXtotM. It will be intereiting ''iini' -pWftUWW this time to look bclc iom ixtjr yesra go and see bow the aUve States managed the all-important questioa of ' suffrage: '.mui'u,- ,:. D&LAWiU. .-,,... ... .... The Declaration of Bights prefixed to the Coattotion of Delaware, and part of that document, declared : . "Every frtei&an, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest, with an attachment to the . community, hath a right of suffrage." ' " MARYLAND.' ' " ' The Coaatitutioia of Maryland provided: :';: " v"; ; "All frttvMn above twentv-one years of age havjng s frf eliold of fifty acres of land in the connty ut wnrcn-xney oner 10 vote, and residing , therein, and all freemen having property ia this Stat, a-bov. the value pf thirty pounds current money, and having resided in the county in which they otter to vote one whole year next prectitlUkg the election of ' delegates for such county." ' 1'. VIROtKtA. . i s . i The Virgiul Declaration of Bights provided : r - "All tntn having sufficient evl.lencs of permanent comrtwa tnterese, ,witn an at taobineut ,l tM omffiBDiiy, right of suffrage." - . . ,. , . XUUTU CAKOL1XA. have the Cilia ?. 3: The Co.'iaCi.tiUo-of Korth Carolina contained this trbvWion ; v. 1 " 1 "Allfrtmtri ot the age of twenty-one year, wh have been inhabitants of an no county within the State twelve month iiniscUlatcly preceding'' the day of an., cleHn, unJ hall have paid public Uaes, .hall be entitled to vote for members f tLa House of Commons foe the countf Ju which tuey reside.' -xync:iA. ., ..'v The Constituticn Georgia declared that ' ;- ' , ' 'The electors of the meters of both branches oC the1 General Aemblv sfcej! be citisenS and Inhabitants of Vka State,

and shall have ' attained to in ge oruowiicr, if not brighter, than the full twenty ono y-4rs and shallc have paid radl of davv whippowil began its Us forthej?t prceedin. tne fIhl01.. UCVS-song from Us perch on the - ...' " i 1 mnntlii WRh.tAl.1 jr . r

and shall aiave resiawu 7. in the county. , TKXMKSSSB. The Coistitution ot Tennessee allowed tf frte mWVtitfther white, or blacK, 'to Tote and made them do tnlliury duty, OCTK CAHOLWA c..;.i. rUelUn. a Ktate which never

had a repp Wican or democratic form : of - governmenCwhose 1 people Aevac voted for President, where only the few wealthy s citizens were neU oBpaWi" of folding otBce, the Constiintloa of this SUU pro- : , Tided that- . . y - The qualifications of an elector shall

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BE ALICE'S ROSE-TREE. BT EMMA OARKI90X JOSE8. Tub genial sunshine of a sweet May afternoon fell in flickering wave of gold over tbe moa.y roof and ivy-hun chimneys of on old farm-house, standing in a- greet- hollow, in the roidwUof the pleasant hitl-country which stretches southward front the red ' battle-grorrnd of Jdananaas. , In the neighboring wood, the turtle cooed " her plaintive love lay, the partridge whistled, and the robin twittered to her young; and from the surrounding meadows came the dreamy cardie of the brook) and the musical tTnUreoT T.ells from the cattle dropping thcsfhrclferthat sprang up, gren tandit-pdor, in -the warm hhadoA' Of the hrH." ' - - The orchard ,round about the old house, wan on rnasi of fragrant, milky bloom ; and the lilac bnshes tossed their purple A ums, through the low windows, thw soli Winds, scattering the leaves over tbe 'sanded floor, until the great, hospitable rflom, with its ever open doors, and yawning fire place, gave forth odors sweeter, than everlllled the vales of Araby the KleatJ - -- On the low window-sill, overlooking the garden, a young girl sat on this same May Afternoon, her little slippered feet hanging almost low enough to tonch the Star-like dandelions on the grass-plot beneitth; her pretty, golden hair thrown back in wavy disorder, her checks flushed, and her tender, blue eyes brimful of tears, as , they looked, with a serious, p a: ! a..ai.1 1 Avaninif sun, just slipping out of sight bebind the swaying summit of the distaut pinegrove. , j - Why, Alice, ' cried a manly voice, "how's this ? Come, come, I thought you sacant to b so brave ?" ,; , - "5o J did." her voice faltering painfully ; "but it is so hard so hard. Archer, to to " And she dropped her pretty head on his arm, and gave way to a good cry. ,v ) . He -'stroked back the soft mass of gleaming hair tenderly, and said, ' I"I know it is hard, Alice harder for me than you .child though you mayn't think so but it can't be helped ; I must go And, the sooner the better. Tonight."' e ', 7 , v "To-night rf ' J ' . : Yes to night You don't blame me for what I'm 'doing P A j 'Blame you, Arche?, Oh, you know better!" And a kindling flash lit the tearful bine eyes. -'"' " ' " .-t---:i i "Yes. ves. I do know better, he said. "But I wouldn't mind, if it wasn't for you and mother, .It almost seems wrong to leave yon exposed to" these. Soothern troops, with no one to protect yon. But what can I do? I cannot fight against my country. Old Jacob Bradford would vise up front. Uis grave, ir his son was to turn traitor; and my grandfather, who fought at Trenton, would come back and eurse me. And yet, if I stay here a day longer, I'll be conscripted for Lee's army." C There were no tears In the blue . eyts now ; they gleamed like an unshearthed sabre. - . . . " "You must go, Archer," she said, her lip, that had quivered a moment before, curving proudly; "God will take care of your mother and me." f"5 ; "I have something for you, Alice," he said, after a pause. "See here," and he drew from his pocket a tender, little rosetree with the roots carefully wrapt in paper. "I got it up at Mr- -Ashctm s today ; thev say it ieror rare species, and blooms every month. Come, we'll plant it, and it shall be my parting gift.'! s He caught up the little garden hoe that lay near b3 and wnt round to the old sitting-room window. Alice followed him in silence. "Right here," be said, digging up the soft, black soil, "where you can. see it, whenever you look out at the window ; and mind it shall be a token between us, Alice as long as it thrives ana blooms, you may be sure I'm alive and prosperous; but if it wilts and dies " "Don't Archer, -don't' she cried, her tmcm growtDar whit, in the deepening twilight, "don't , say that; it may . die. and-" ' ' z U will live, Alice ; and I shall live, and eome back to you again God has told me so." ' "She looked up, with something like awe in her face, aa she heard his confident words. He smiled, and, leveling the soil about the root of th little tree, repestedbalf to her, and half to himself, lt will live; and I shall' live and our country will live, too." Then he kissed her softly, and she tripped away to the kitchen, leaving him standing there alone. The May moon was coming up over the top of the old oak tree that stood off to the eastward. a . r flooding the surrounding hills, and ail i the green hollows with a subdued lustre. 1 jy?v Vnu',ne, and the frogs set

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op e MLt'' thef brought the tears to as Arther Uradford's ey bro4 chest beneath es,"" and made- the neath his folded arms weuconvulively tender and dome...;. His hewrt w.io omeUc ; all his affec were cemred in th.a old Virginian hon, . ions ui ma utt-HOTe lavished upon his dotin old mother tad Httle, blue eyed Alice-1 not his sister, ut something, as we have seen, nearer an, dearer. . By te o'clock wery arrangement completed, and ArcWs satchel, packed with clothing on on aide, and eatables on the other, stood, htked and strapped on the kitchen door sL He picked it up, ana awuug i. ua ui9 vioaittcr. -Well, mother," he sa putting his rm round her and kissing Vet tenderly,

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" I must be off, or I shan't get across the river by day. Take care of yourself, and may God bless you." - "And you to my boy." He turned away, pained by the sight of her tears, and strode out toward the old, red gate. Alice followed him. He kissed her through the bars, on cheeks, brow, and eyes, and then, without another word, walked rapidly away. She watched him uutil a sudden turn in the road took him from her sight; so did the poor mother, sitting on the door-sill, thinkiag.of both of them, no doubt, of the weary days of woe and war that would intervene before they looked upon his face again. 'The" spring wore away; summer came, and the thunders of battle rocked the old farmhouse to its very center; but the rose-tree did not wilt. Though the. air was hot and sulphurous, it shot up young tendrils, and burst into fragrant bloom ; and Alice said to herself continually, "He will live he will come back to us." A cold and cruel winter another spring the harvest trampled down before they ripened; tbe beautiful hillcountry made desolate by tbe ravages of war ; still the rose tree bloomed and grew, and Alice's heait was full of hope. But when the summer passed, and the fall came, and the scanty harvests were in ; and one by one the fathers and husbands, left at home, were conscripted into the Southern army, leaving weeping children and wives in comfortless homes, a change seemed to fall upon the land; the sun wore a murky glow; the sky seemed brass, and God too fnr-off to hear. But in those days of desolation, the rose-tree drooped and wilted, and as the winter came on, all life seemed to go out from branch and root; aud Alice's hope failed. No letters reached them from Archer; and they heard rumors of terrible disasters daily befalling the Union force. 'lie is gone, Alice we" shall never see him again," said the poor mother; and Alice found no words to disprove what she said. The winter was dreadful. Scanty of food and fuel, the two mourners sat by their lonely hearth, with an unspoken sorrow in their white faces that awed even the fierce guerrillas, that prowled about the old farm-house, into something like pity and respect. But there is nothing in this world of ours that does not, sooner or later, come to an end. The wheels of time may seem slow, but they are sure. The lonely winter dragged itself awaj', and spring came "a snowdrop in her hand, a solitary lark above her head." The bine sky smiled down, and the sweet sunlight fell in genial beams, and the gen tin rains descended on fields blackened and blasted by the ravages of war, bringing' np the tender grass, and meek-eyed violets over the nameless graves of the fallen brav. ; In the garden, at the old farm house, tbe pinks came up and opened their odorous petals, and the hollyhock buds ' swelled almost to bursting; the bid-fashioned roses budded, and the lilacs tossed their purple plumes through the low windows, as in days gone by. Alice felt a strange balm dropping into her sore heart, and day by day she watched the little wilted rose tree, as one might watch a dear face on the verge of eternity. And at last at last her hopeful faith was rewarded, for on the topmost branch a tiny green 6hoot appeared. "Oh, mother, mother !" she cried, running in, "he ins't dead ; he'll come back to us again the rose tree is alive." But the poor mother turned despairingly from the happy face and shook her head. Age is less hopeful than youth. 'Xo, no, he'll never come back again," she said. But the spring advanced, and the little shoot grew, and one after another new shoots came out, and by full summer-tide the rose-tree was in blossom, weighed down with fragrant, crimson flowers. Still to tidings came from Archer; but Alice hoped aud waited. In tha meantime. Lee's forces retreated before Grant, and the old flasr waved asrain over that portion of poor, desolate, mistaken Virginia. I An evening came, in the cloudless olory of regal June. Bradford sat upon the doorsill, swaying back and forth, and murmuring to herself in a dazed, melancholy way; Alice sat on the Krui close by the blooming rose-tree. The snme hiu nioed on the old o-rind-stonc ; the same stars " gtrwn overhead but where was he? Heaped up amid the nameless deal on some distaut battle ground languishing in some far-otf hospital yearning for home and friends. Her blue eyes grew dim with a mist of tears, and her brave heart sick with deferred hope. But a gentle wind stirred the branches of the rosetree, surrounding her with a cloud of delicious perfume; and at the same instant the old, red gate swung sharply on its hinges. Some one was coming down the little foot-path ; a soldier, with a blue, armless sleeve dangling at his right side. Such visitors, finding their way back to Washington, and so home, after the terrible battle in the Wilderness, "often dropfinat the old farm-honse now. Alice rose up, and placed a chair beneath the little woodbine arbor. "Won't you sit down and have a drink, sir?" she said, sweetly, as he came up. He sat down, while Alice darted off to the kitchen, to get a drink. "Bring some cider, Alice," called the old woman, wiping her eyes. "I like to give 'em the best ; my own poor boy was a soiaier. Alice brought the cider, clear and racy, a. lump 0f jce tinkling in the bottom of the goVlet. The soldier took it, raised it to hi lipa, heard ths ice tinkling with u k a ref"rbing aoond. as he had heard it hundreds of times in his bovhood iidSV!"- W-itfelL e ua i eel wim a passionate "Mother, Alice don v i?oaknownia. aiu laey taow him ? Let their happy

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tears, their tender embraces answer. Clasped in their arms, he, the strong man, the soldier, bronzed by the smoke of half a score of battles, sobbed like a little child. But after awhile they grew quiet, and Archer sat down beside bis mother on the door sill, with a fresh goblet of cider in his hand ; while Alice, with a shine in her .blue eyes, beside which the June stars looked dim went back to her seat on the grass. "I knew you'd come." she said, softly, her sweet face dimpling with happy smiles; "and I told mother so, because your rose-tree came to life." Archer looked over at the great, crimson blossoms, and said almost solemly, "Yes, Alice, I live and. the rose-tree lives : and, better still, our country lives also." "And tha night was filled with gtadnesa And tba earea that infested the day, Foldwt up their tenta, like the Ara be, And aa ailently itole away." The Suffrage Question. From tha Waahingtoa Daily Chronicle. We have heretofore endeavored to show that any attempt on the part of the General Government to enforce the principle of universal suffrage in the late rebellious State would be inconsistent with the theory that said States have preserved their legal ttatut as members of the Federal Union. ' We have endeavored to show that such an attempt would be inconsistant with the theory that the loyal citizens of those States have lost none of their political rights under the Constitution by the treason of a portion of their fellow-cituens: and. consequently, have the right to resume their former relations to the Union, with all the powers which pertain to the citizens of other States. Entertaining these views, we have been unable to preteive bow the question of universal suffrage in those States can be made a practical issue in national politics, under the Constitution as it now exists. We have also heretofore expressed our doubts whether, even if there were no constitutional Impediments in the waj it would be wise and expedient for the General Government to confer at once upon the emancipated slaves, without any discrimination, regardless of existing prejudices, the privelege of voting in all elections. We have heretofore given our reasons for doubting whether such an exercise of power even if possessed by the General Government would be an act of real kindness to that unfortunate class of persons, and shall not here repeat them. - r- - - T All this, however, has nothing to do with the question whether it would not be wise and expedient, as well as right and just, for the States themselves toextend the right of suffrage at once to all such colored citizens as are competent to exercise it intelligently, and to adopt such measarcs" Bay will td'swpreparot alt others so to exorcise it . at as early a day as practicable. Upon this subject we have no doubt. We believe that the people of the Southern States will in the highest degree promote their own interests by conceding to their eolored-iellow. citzens equal political and legal rights with themselves, and by withholdingfrom no colored jnan the right of suffrage' except for reasons which ought to disqualify a white man. We believe that injustice this ought to be the rule in all the States, and consider it discreditable to the States in which slavery has not hitherto existed, that it has not long since been made the rule within their, limits. Upon the ground of abstract right and justice, the question is the same in all States; but upon the ground of expediency, it is of special importance to the late slaveholding States. For many years to come, the capital in these States will be chiefly in the hands of the white people, and the colored people will occupy the position of hired la borers, it will be oi tne "tuaost importance to both classes that s good understanding and good feeling6hall exist I., tween employers and thoe who are employed by them, between the capitalists and the laborer. This good understand ins n.l crnrwl fWlmcr can never exist while the-fcring classes are oppressed and degraded by their esoiojeret while thev are treated as inferio beings. . and denied all participation a govermental affairs. While the neg3 were slaves, it was, perhaps, to the iiterest of their owners to keep them ite most profound ignorance. But that they are to become b.i ibres of their late tn--, eot subject to e governed by the lash or the oversee? theyj must be enlightened and elevatl in tlie scale of humanity to make sociar in tlje Southern States tolerable. Ibthingcan tend so directly to their enghtennent and elevation as offering theights of suffrage and Hber political right) to all who may qualify themselves for a intelligent exercise of such rights, lothing can be more important to tbe jterests of the white population than thtenlightenraent and elevation of this degaded race. While it is clesr to us hst the white people of the late slaveblding States would greatly enhance Our own pros perity by adopting the abenl policy above indicated, we must cotfess that we have not the utmost cenfidmce that the ruling classes will see thetnatter in ' this light. We rather fear thafthev may strive to keep tbe negroes in state of degradation and fervitude as narly like that of slavery ascircamstancq will permit. If the genral Government lacks power, under tht Constitutiod to interpose in any effecual way for tie prevention of this renlt, why may not the Constitution be mended so as to confer tbe necessary -power? Slarcry will doubtless very son be abolished in every State of the Unon by an ameidment of the Constitution It is but reasonable to suppose that eery State concarring in this Constitutional amendment be willing to concur in such futher amend-' menu as thii freak change may render enviously netesary and proper. It is not to be soppostfthat, when three-fosrths of the States thai bav Baited in abolishing

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JULY SO, 1865. slavery, they-will be willing to permit; the other one-fourth to pursue a policy towards the emancipated slaves which deprive them of all the legitimate fruits of their freedom, and keep them in condition little if any better than that from which they have been emancipated. . It would perhaps, be unreasonable to expect the States to agree to any modification of the Constitution which would yield to the General Government the power of prescribing the qualifications of voters in the - States. We are by no means certain that it is desirable that they should. We believe, however, that a very simple amendment, obviously just in principle, and which would not,in the least, encroach upon the rights of the States, would secure the extension of the right of suffrage to all classes of citizens, by the States themselves, as speedily as it would be expedient to extend it This would be simply to provide that -representation in Congress should be apportioned among the States according to the number of legal voters in each. A limit might be fixed, beyond which the right of suffrage should not be extended; as for instance, that it should not be extended to any but male citizens of the United States of the age of twenty-one years and upwards. But, subject to this, or some similar limitation, every State might be left entirely free to prescribe the quali-1 hcations of voters.' The desire or every State to increase its representation in Congress would be a sufficient inducement to extend the right of suffrage to all classes within the prescribed limits as speedily as it would be safe and expedient to do so. Under the existing provisions of the Constitution apportioning Representatives in Congress amonsr the States ac cording to population, without regard to the number of voters, manifest inequality, which it is difficult to reconsile with any just principle, results. For instance. South Carolina, with a voting (white) population of only 201,388, will be entitled, under the census of 1800, (now that the negroes are all free) to six Representatives in Congress, while Hew Hampshire, with a voting population of 625,579, is only entitled to three Representatives. And in like manner the State of Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, each with a voting population about two and a half times as numerous as that of South Carolina, are each entitled to precisely the same number of Representatives as that State is. In other words, two voters in South Carolina ; have an equal representation in Congress to live voters in. any one of the Northern or Western States: " : , ; If the Representatives in Congress were apportinoed among the several States according to the number of qualified voters. South Carolina, under the limita tion of the right of suffrage , to -white persons, would only be ; entitled to two Representatives.' ? How long would she hesitate to extend the right of suffrage to ber colored population, if by doing so she could increase ber representation in Congress three-fold? We do not doubt that this simple fe manifestly just amend ment of the Constitution would lead to the prompt extension of tbe wight of suffrage to the colored people of tboM States where this class is numerous.. The more numerous, the stronger would be the inducement to enfranchise them, and gain the additional representation due to their number. The Income Tax. The Collectors are about to serve the notices to the tax-payers that their anual contributions towards paying the liabilities of the Government are now due. As the Philadelphia Ledger says, every man soouid be prepared to give the Government all that belongs to it, and not be driven to the expedient of explaiuing how the published report of nis income is so much below what is ex pec ted of him from his known mode of ning ana tue supposed pronts of his business. If there i -great financial truth lying under the notion that national ueot is a national blessing," we hope those who see it clearlv and know so welt how la'niyu-a It, will set themselves diligently at work to make the Income tax universally popular. come people are so dull in this matter that they try to escape their liabilities, and indulge in all kinds of equivocations and reservetions to keep down their tax. They are even so blind to their own good iimi uiey are aesirous or putting the taxes au upon their neighbors. But if there is any one in the notion that tha debt is a blessing, they ought to assume their share of it with the most lively sentiments of gratitude to the Government for such a bountiful distribution of it, that every man with an income over 8600 is sure of enjoying bis share if he is only honest enough to make a correct return. What would generally commend it to popular favor, if this idea be true, wonld be the fact that-the blessinw is j one of those likely to stick to as during our lifetime. Tbe joys of this world are proveruiauy evanescent, but the blessings or debt, national or individual a a . . . are usuany nam to get rid or. j The Crawfordsville Journal of Julv . uTI 1 . . V am, saji: -aue wueat narvest in this county is being brought to a close ranid ly. The wheat crop this season is what the farmer term a complete failuremany pieces naraiy wortn cutting. . Henry S. Foote, now in Canada, pubew 3 Z aw . nsnes a caru, ia .nv aotk paper, relative to the treatment of Union prisoners at the Sonth, in which, he confirms the prevalent reports of barbarous conduct towards the captives. Wheat in the neighborhood of Quincy, Dl., will not be half a crop. ' Corn, oats' and barley give better prospects than ever before, --x-y. : There are 100.000 widows, mothers and orpbsns of soldiers, and. 75,000 In. valid soldiers, who are now . receiving pension. j

11.8. 1 10. Saw,. From tba Baltimore Clipper, July 8, tj. Another View in the Solution f a Great Political Problem. There is an idea abroad. .precisely with whom it originated we are not able to say, although the President we. be--lieve is accredited with it, that the pe-. groes of the plantations Sooth could they ouce be made voters, might possibly1 be made an element of strength on the. side of the planters in any future con tests with the rest of the State for-po-litical power, instead of on the.sid of: that Union organization which has saved, the nationality from disruption.,. And the argument in' favor of such a'conelu-J sion is shrewdly put; becaose,feasoning' from analogy, the- idea is insisted upon that being landless, dependent, they would do as men in that ceadltton everywhere are apt to do in the absence of; much educational development, be in-i fluenced by the desire to make favor; with their superiors in wealth and information, with those upon whom they and theirs are directly dependent, not only for their subsistence, but for any com- ' forts besides, they might be able to pro-' cure at tbe expense of concessions so easily inade. , . ; - ; ; A case s given in the history of political matters in North Carolina, which certainly gives plausibility, and even strength, to such an argument, where a planter, years ago, when color there, as in Tennessee, was no disability per e. got himself elected to the Legislature by ' fftvinff freedom and vote to a rwoyJtteri slaves, in the pmeh of the last struggle. and when he found thatj precisely that number was needful to enable him to beat his opponent. And there are reasons, still, that might be advanced to sustain such a view of the case. The negroes are free indeed ; but the great mass of them are badly disap pointed, inasmuch' as freedom, simply does not mean all which to their1 untutored understandings they had vivid ly imagined of it. Under their old training, freedom, the palpable, legitimate effects f it, at ever tltnwnstrated btfor their eyes in the cute of the white man, meant, freedom from hard labor; the ability to idle around ; to ride, hunt, fish, t ad libitum. 1 hat has been the education in their cases, of a life time ; and the in.

- . - . . . to tbe plantations, to the protection of their old masters and to their usually hard vocations, is a process notcaloulated to further euamor themT ibr the present, at least, of their blue uniformed deliverers ; and for a good while to come, and until they can comprehend th e '-mJ-benefits of the inestimable boon s of freedom conferred upon them, there will be a reactionary feeling which will , go. far to enable their late masters to influence them to any extent or in any direction almost they may desire. Besides, we know well the nature of that sorcery which powerful minds exercise over weak ones ; and without going further back for historical examples than to the late terrible conflict, we see how. - - r the "poor whites" down there, were victimized by the comparatively fewtalented engineers of the rebellion. Claiming a population of "four millions," more or less, the world saw a mere fraction of tti?tc saw --inree hundred Uiousauil" elatcbotdere. eweep Into the4" defence of their favorite "institution" the entire isources, financial, military, and all els oi uie wuoie bouth ; and not until a quar ter or a million of hvea were ruthlessly sacrificed could the inferior clasa the "poor whites" be exempted the few comparatively that were left from th. terrible fate, the hardships, slaughter and preparett xor, tnem by. the in siancea lew. . . , . . . Ana wnat is worse let It be noted mrougn an this pandemonium of norrors wnere they have been driven, the luuiusuon, mentioned, continual- k. leauers oi . tDe rebel 1 inn still .i. . . ., . .... - - poor wnues." fclse. whv An r, u ... ... I.UC latter, now that the old tvranntr la i;r from their shoulders, the militr - . . vww w wibo. laice the onmrtmi ty to pay eff old scores, upon those same cue i ana li tney do not do this who shall say that the attemntd r.wi., accompiisned anvthino- rr rr.r,., 1 m opening their eyes ? Sullenlv. anh mitting only, do they not as a eeneral : n i . i a)""." mane tae cause of the slave uoiaers ineir cause ? and aware of this miner a oj mis, are the people of the iree owes prepared to trust them, to ex peci, aayiomg irom tAem, at -present, in. """"S y w nion pnnciples r 1 e oow iaey are not, and what is the oe prooi that this is so ? Why, desiring tr ri bta tKa.m tha aWw , i o y - svuc bers here in the rely, instead, upon the blacks, as aseored uhtikis oi me union?- , ; e nite luumaiea that th nTnk i the leaders of the-rebellion, wooid still wield an influence over the blatra -m if this is so, is it not the casa thtK.-. political power would be exeat er and A.. ser concentrate than ever before. w 1 see von tney nave been enabled tr, A in. the past by their influences r.H,. .uw viu miiuiuoa OI m am fkair I iu uiaatng weir slaves a reatnre In government was marked and w-e j t; .v . in-' f The nwo fifth." ; daaee gave them that much political canital, aisolut)v v. Wwkooed upoa in every great nrntaat.

iatuanon, wiiu vast nuuiuers, nas not F5 - rivu4 vw.- , been in this regard much less than that j trolled hint, must for the present COtttrnl f of the poor native Australian; who, . for M nim- . Let Government and PBtl?, n, some crime was ordered to be hung by the take care .that ,ha la not t5 ;gw6T British authorities, , went dancing andi mischief to an extent, poUticilj,. nCh " skipping on. his way to the scaffolds-- 2 as might give back, to the tajtwltly When asked "how be could have bo little 'Nott their ojd , Jower for evil. ft Test of 4eath Thia reply .was "Oh ! ? gnnT us to new quarrels, new troubles, that is nothing, for I shall turn up a wbitv uch m,gllt. tet u backward' In ' the man altera while, with plenty of money !"Ypatn1ry of Progre8 and ntail on'ua;r To be a white man, or to approximate ' again a narrow policy ax long our enrae,; his condition as exemplified in past years i aud at last the cause of civil war,-; in lives of idleness, what sacrifics would , . j LY-' " m J. ' VnlI ii be too great? ,s lL -Bf jtM Votf... tV.ttJ1 We ay that disappointed alady, d T maM resident of Onea mod i. fr?m ?chb. Rich-J wtJ for many ye-ra a constitueSTf Joe mr??I lC!?' w,ar3DU her ,! places V Lane, at one time Oregon's greeAest pob ',' hL- l? 1 ' tb?,F,e?erTl. TOmM1derticlan..r,I propo.. teiling the re! of I nave been cnmnelled to dnvn thamliaolr w .. r . .7" ...

BUBO - rer&4Viuoaej m months-.- ...... .ajBi " One rear Tr !rA liberal diaeovat aaade a lanaraaT M aaeeta. for tha aama So. of iaaertiaaw as at) JBw aal .mars" im ten tinea of (his I IBS. i V BBverttMBat maerted tor leaa than -a JW sh leaa than ten baeaaad Jer aaaBa. jMiiiu MMnikriiU rr C 2 ar-Reralar aseciaJa.Scwwaa 'Batten tafjdjMaat annals, li ceata new Una. r , . f . i ' day aAeanoaahaaaaaaaBaVBaaraaBB.' - vV -r "s-rrr 3wBTand and with th with Ur CWQajtaT wSwWrk ed. aWi rtaycswejwf Uu wkU aavaA and lw Yotea'ofthe pajor whites" on sop ax .'WIS l jr Banded together then, eompaetly, on all questions where there wb- any decided antagonism to tha Other ssotion, would not the sectionalisna aa) bbbob) deplored be perpetaated, at laaat, eatatinued, until little by little, ny tha .slowest degrees, the crt of thia easnparit axclusiveness could toreMtraAed aavd broken up by the influence of alementi: foreign aa suohea oonditkm of thiagB,.by tha, influx ef people and idaaa faomUaer State.? I ....IT iui i .;.i-i-Ti- fljuioiiJji; i. , '(I Let us insist that these aee grava con.i side rations, and aneh aa aboald not be? disregarded by tboee who wish ft fceoe negro suffrage by eome abort piaBsss,1 by a "mlliUry" process. 'Tba tr' States might in ancb wise, "boy an elephant"1 If the planter are shrewd cnongh,1 they 1 may see all that baa been Baggeated, and1 make haste to secure "an element of strength which might be made all6wer-t' ful in their hands. In the way oT thtr; however. it U tjwa . etimd Vm4i tierce prejudices, and tbe antagonism, which has , been taught by them to the "poor whites,"1 when the fear of "negro equality" was mad. a feature in ' the confiict to "bring ; the "pine-laudera".np to tha aoratsh. . ; Finally, when President Johnson aug- : jests that the very first step to be taken : down there in the way of a reorganization that is to be beneficial, and to wW, ia to 1 enlighten and rescue the "poo whites" . from the moral and political bondage in j which they have bo long dwelt, are, any . sure, that he has not solved th great yrobi Urn of the best manner of regenermrinp' the ' whole South ! The first great step taken. ?- in the emancipation of tha blacks, ia , not the next, in order, tbe elevation of., their compeers in misery and ignorance? ' should they not be encouraged to come'' out from their poor patches in the hoilows, from the swamps, from tha Band hills and pine forests, to get tha. benefits , of wider spheres of action, to get education, enlightenment and self respect?; ' No means that can be emmanded by the " Government great and powerful aa it i is will enable it to elevate: tha negro r Ltruui u pmeui uetu wwuww.y i- j r v : .AHitjM .f .1. pendence, in a year, or in any , 1 TH. . wl.. tjn fcwvh. th. iiMwar one or . Bin ai ar lioainaiiiiii t

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aoages, ana., now nicety n gov. esvugnt at it; I Uncle Joe was about to haste i a speech to the unterrifled on Long Tom, and stopped at Tom Brown's for dinner. He knew Torn to be a little ahaky, in fset, -quite inclined to be emU-Iaa, and u Uaele Joe -determined bo bring sdas over. -As soon as he entered tha house na com-.: menced his usual . tactics. . "WeiL God

blesa yon, Mrs. Brown ; how do yon do, and how are all the little onea?". After ' kissing the- dirty brood all : round, ne . asks for mother's pipe. "If there ia t anything I do like, it ia to smoke moth- , er's pipe; it's got some strength into it." and it does do a feller soma good. ' By-tbe-by, Mrs. Brown, they say Tom ia . going to vote agin me. I hep ha won't. He and I have fit Indiana together up on Rogue River, and camped out in the -mountains, and been good friends and Dim ec rats ever since wa came to Ore-; gon." .' " i . -1 ?- ? Presently dinner is ready, , and they have pork and beana of couraa.; Mm '

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uut says uucie joe, "iou could not ? have anything better; bless your soul, : we don't bava any thing half so rood is,; Washington, u Why my friends, - the f. President would give half his asiarr to i get such beans as these. Hare you got a pint you could spare ? ; 1 would so like . to Lake them to him for seed V -, l , ltt-' . i m .. " ' ' '

is a gut uDjsaw. ok tnenv savs . a Mr. "Well, now, haw lucky ! . If yon will . do up a pint of them. I will tnt them in , zny saddle bags sad take them oa to Mr. i t iJuchanaa, and I woald not be aarprised ; if it were the raeaoa of Tom getting one . f of Ute beat offices in tba State." . , "Sd. the the besaaa were mi nn a,ni stowed away ia Uncle Joefs asdaiiabera. and Tom's rota aavd indues rearmnVL. ' all sure. ; . t r. ..1 3 - In about a weak Tom and Ida wif ms up to Eugene to Tiait.Tom'a eldest sister. , Mxa. Smith. Uncle Joa had heen then. - , and made a first rata iaprsssion. i lira. -Smith tells Mrs Browa. Wket a mi , gentleman Squire Leoe is; so kind and sociable like ; I aad toon ha tUaba aA T mueh of Smith I Wooid yoa baliere it, V he brought as a pint of kaarat ailitaaij way from Wsafairartosu tha vskM tha 't President has oa his Uble ! ,-,- i them ha orougat joa ton?' 'jilt ?fTrry "Oh they are aa or white oneai with a "Gould yoo let aaa see "Certainly.' says Mrs. uem iteu,aaur Tha beans were In a piece of Jaaa ficosfa'a. Tula prodooadV & !h mw wi BjidSmhai wre.at They so taaareegkry ftaat .' tba?

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