DI Rittsb;i6.6alttts 1 111DAY.A.111111711T 4, 11111/7. A WAR OF RACE& Gov. On; of South Carolina, is rep resented by newspaper correspondents who.have recently conversed with him; end particularly . during the recent sat. alone of the Itepablican Slate Convention et Columbia, ad "fall of &cony appre hensions," imagining them is nothing ahead but "a war of races." It is not wonderful the Governor to In an uncom fortable frame of mind. He belonged to the inner_terapleof the aristocracy of that small commonwealth which claimed and held the headship of the alsrebold•. ing States.`, tie was of that select few . who Indulged the , pleasing expectation of reducing the whole republic to the same abject - subjugation in which they held their own section thereof. At the very instant when they thought their power was ripening, it withered in their grasp, and they' wean plunged into an abyu of sorrows. . It weuld be Instructive to know where the Governor discturtred the indications which filled him with alarm. In the Convention whites and blacks Sat upon theiame benches, 'lntermingled in the debates, and cordially concurred in one Plotter= of Doctrine. blot the alight est incident happened to create a suspicion that ~the members of dif ferent In= would fall upon each other with direful intent. It is questionable whether,' during the last thirty yetue, a Democratic National Convention has been held In which • vastly intenser animosities were not die . closed. If signs of a fresh war were detected by the experienced eye of the Governor, he moat have found them outside the Conventions: and in quite different ranki. , But the Governor is represented as speaking of a war of races as something specially ferocious and terrible. A good many besides the Governor speak in this way. Are wars between different races 'worse than other wars f The people of this country hare just Opted out as bloody a war al ever existed in the tide of time; and it was not a war of races. Let any man of sober sense sit down and calculate how any war could be worse than the late one, considering the condi. lice of civilization, and he will be sorely puzzled to rake out the problem. No, Goremor I the people of pie 'United States, In the way of war, have -experi enced the worst that can befall. Other was. may, indeed, come in the progress of the centuries ; but . .jou onlj delude yourself by words without meaning in creating a phantom ofhorrm out of that phrase, "a war of races." It Slavery had continued to exist; if four millions of blackshad been retained In bou dege until their numerical superi ority had become vastly greater than it was when the Proelamation of Emend. potion issued; if the causes of aliena tion and fend betiicen the own, rs and the chattels bad gone on augruentleg from generation I. generation; and 11 the process of intermingling the breeds bad been continued, then certainly a ilmo would have arrived of war, not 'be tween races, but between castes,-which would have Ailed the land with desola tion. From all liability to such a con flict the 11111011 his been happily deliv ered.. Our people are now all free, and to the conscious enjoymenrbf their ina lienable ,rights. All that is needful to beep theta at .peace with each other Is mutually' to uphold and maintain the lib. crtice of all. = The failure of the FinttNational Bank of New Orleans has leen followed by tho failure of the National Bank of Una- Ma, New. York., the National Bank Of Newton, Maasschrusolts, and of . the National Bank of WeedeporyNew York. All those failures were caused by crimi nal. tidentanasternent. .By the New Orleans failure, the gov ernment was swindled out of half. a roll. Loa 'dollars, and live hundred local do. positors out a large sum not yet dete.rmi nOle. The individual deposits amount to about 'a million of dollars, and the sales aro of dallies tains, consisting malnly‘of_the autographs of promfnent Confedenstra. The chances are only for a swill par.centage: This Bank was in tentionally swamped for the ask° of plan- The Unadilla Batik was broken. by r1441:413 !peculation" in agricultural produce, the recent heavy declension in prices involving large lowa The deposits amount to 550,006, while • the securities held by the government exceed the circulation by 413,000. When the Managers of the concern found It to `bum a shades conditioii,•they flied an application to go into yohmtary Noel. dation; at the came time applying to tic Bank Superintendent at Albany, for per missionU. go on under State laws.j This dodge did not avail, as the Controller of Jim; Cruresicy at .Waahington tau( ap pointed a Recetver to wind up the con -4 The Weedipert Bank went under by reason • or speculations in stocks; and tho• Newton Bank from like causes), The condition of 'business affable-dur ing the last few years has encouraged speculations of 'various 'sorts. To a con siderable eats= Banks have necessarily affbrded facilities .to the operators. In some instances, as those now under re view, 3111114 have proved to be tha oper ators themselves. This Is a tiamust de parture from all the principles of legiti mate banking, - and endangers all who are directly or Indirectly connected with each intaltutions., Every hank that makes rucha depirture not only incurs the risk of falling, but ought to fall. Nay, all such banks, the moment they enter upon Irregular courses, ought to be wound up. - . This inggesto the importance, if not the necessity, of additional safeguards for the protection of depositma in Na tional , Banks. Thiitutands of innocent people, as the case stands," are liable to soJfer losses, often of most serious mug• Whole; public 'confidence in mone tary institutiotui is endangered, and a crisis of great violence may be precipi tated•. Them contingencies ought . to be prided againet. • , rouncAL TOLErt %Tim; Speaking of the contestants for the State. Senatorship to thu county, the Alt is pleased to say: "rimy are equally allies to pasty discipline and equally incapable of independent thought and sow n . ' Whiz them tarty. is their country, - and implicit obedience to its behests fills their idea of all political duty. Neither would ever see a wrong in the • doings or principles of their party, or acknowledge an evil resulting from its measures, though ever so calsmitons." It is not our purpose to defend either of ° the gentlemen from the charge thus laid at their door.' We deem it more suits= lila to call on our contemporary to ex hibit in practios the doctrine it enjoins on its neighbors. We regularly read good many newspapers, and have yet to find the frst nee that linmora strait-laced and ideated in its attachment to Its own party, or more proscriptive, 'intolerant and &mildews) , of those who adhere with ; egad tenacity to the opposing pity, than the Past. Its preaching of moderation and catholicity reastlis to mind a story that used to be told of the Bev. doom NZIVLA74I) ILWPITT. Bril liant and perieudve, foppish and world ly, he managed to combine the preaching the gospel with Indulgence in the Wilde' or Ufa After a. rousing die, amnia against the frivolities of fashion, .quietly sober-mindedclass-leader took him .quietly to task for not bringing his con duct, Into harmony with his teaching. uI nreaell;' • -• add lti*TT, "for, two thousand dollars $ year; ,but would not pretties 'wind.. rifled: for doable 'the • - monei;" ; • -, • . LADIES' FASHIONS Pcsere Crttlctsm—Thelr Indelicacy mad ludetency--Custame and Ms Mors els. 7-- Wrenn the nantrafff ite‘rinw.i • Nothing la more decielvely indicative at the real ralueor necessity of a thing' then th e f a ct that, while its presence Is hardly noticeable, it li. immediately missed and asked fo‘whini it disappears; and it is thus that the paramount Impor- m oo . of clothing . anseftti Itself by the I co n ypienousness of . Its absence. ot - 1 course, the first purpose of dress is, or I should be, decency, and, for this, quanti ty rather than quality is looked for. But as with the little cloud no larger than a man's hand, BO from the primary figleaf , or first element of dress, how great thing' have arisen 1 In respect to appli cation' dress may' be said to. have at tained its maximum when men wore -ruffs which nearly concealed their heads, and shoes a quarter of a yard longer than their feat- but "ritahlon" has its day, and now dress threatens to dwindle into something not far from Its original or fig-leaf dimensions. Another perfectly legitimate object of dress Is attractive rice% so that by its aid our persons-may be set on - to the best advantage; dress should also lie individual and symbolic, so as to indicate clearly . the position and character which we desire to obtain and hold. It is not of men's attire that'we have now to speak; that has been settled for them by the tailors' strike, which prac tically ordained that he that was shabby should be shabby; or even shabbier still, and he that had allowed himself to be thrust into the straitened trowsera and coats of last year should continuo to ex hibit his proportions long after the gro tesqueness of-his figure had been races , nixed even by himself. But it is of the dress of our women that we aro tom. pelted to testify, and It can bardly denied that at the present mouienr it of fends grievously in three partictibirs It is hadequato for decency; it lacks that truthfulness which is and should be the base of all that is attractive and beauti ful; and In lts symbolism it Is in the highest degree obJectional2le, for It not only alms it what Is positively hateful and meretricious, so that it Is difficult now for even a practiced eye to titian. gulsh the high bora maiden or matron of Belgravia from the Anony man who haunt tee drive and fill our strecta. This indictment Is, it may be raid, a severe one; lint If we examine, so far as male critics may venture to do r tlie coat of a fashionable woman of the day, it ma hardly be mid, to lie onjost. The apparent object of modern female dress is to assimilate its wearers as nearly as possible In appearance to _women °La certain class—the class to which it was formerly hardly practicable to allude, and yet be Intell•gible to young ladles; but all that is changed, and the habiu and customs of the denii monde aro now studied as if they . were indeed curious, but exceptionauly admirable also, and ohne a study, unseemly and unproar. able, has begotten, a spirit of imitation which has achieved *spirit of degrading success. "Car modest matrons meet," not "to stare the .itrumpet down," but to compare notes,l. to get hints, and to engage in a kind of friendly rivalry—ln short, to pay that? homage to Vice, and in a very direct way, too, whiclrVice is said formerly to have paid to Virtue. , lILUE-lIIACK 'stn • JCS° lIRONZB COY-1 PLEXION. It may be interesting to knoir, and we have the information from high, because soidisant fashionableranthority, that the reign of golden locks and blue white vie ages is drawing to a close, and that It is ! to be, followed by bronzecomplerionand blue-black hair—a 'I ..4fricaine we pre sume. :When. fashionable Madame has, to her Own satisfaction, painted endear nished her face, she then proceeds; like Jezebel, to tire her head, and, whether she has much or little, she fixes on to ' the back of Its tinge nest of coarse hair generally well baked In order to free it from the parasites with which it abound ed when it first adorned the person of some Russian or. North German peasant girt Of come this gives an unnatural ly largo and .heavy appearance to the cerebellar region; but amends not ex. actly wiutt'is aimed at, Mill lees refine ment. P/aNT AXD PORDEII.• Paint and. owder are, of course, the first requisites for the end. in view,. and thine adjuncts have to be laid on with such skill as the debutante or her toilet maid possesses, which is sometimes so small as to leave their handiwork dis gustingly coarse and apparent. There are pearl powder, rouge, bittre for the eye lids, belle donna for the eyes, white lead and black