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WINNSBOnO. Tuesday Morning, August. 29, 1865. e arer indebted to L. W. DuVa,, Esq., for copies of M. Yak, Phuladel phia aid Baltimore pner & *. inst., copione extracts from vhich will be found in our columns. Also to Mr. SALPt WOLFE and Dr. J. R. CooKE for similar favors. We are authorized -to aihounco Litat Mr. WYrraAN J. ALSTON is not- a can. didate for the Convention. This an nouncement is made as it is reported in the District that Mr. ALSTON was a candidate. The Baltimore American. says that General Avis, lately in co'nod of North Caitina, with headquarters at Raleigh, has been ordered to relieve Geneia HATC11, commanding the Dis trict of Uharlestn, South Carolina. At the sale of Government horses, which took place in our town on Friday last, the average price was $77.75. %Some horses sold as high ,as $180 while soms others went for $25 and $30. Swim people, who are in the excepted classes, nppear to be still* in doubt whet her it is necessary for them to ap ply for jiardon. We tell them that it is ne'eessary, accoraiing to the edicts of the anthorities ; and the sooner they do so the better. OLtvR WATERS of Cleveland county, N. C., a whisk'ey pedlar, was killed in an agray at Chester, S. C., a day or two since by a man niamed KISTLYR, of said District. At a public meeting in Chester, on Monday last., Dr. A. P. Wri:iF, Major C. D. M IEToN and James H it'n1t.1, Esq.. were nominated as candidates for the Convention. We notice a paragrapl in our ex. thanges that small pox has made its Ap pearance in Charleston, S. C. Saratog-, as we jtdge by the follow ing items, must be decidedly a fashiona ble place, at least in the faroline: A-New Yorker has lost $40,000 at faro at Saratoga. - A Troy man has won $25,000' at faro at Saratoga. The Darlington qoutherner says 24'0, . oaths have been taken in that District. Some might say "what profanity" but we have had thirty-three hundred and' thirtythree given here lately for which no forms had been printed. Everybody and his brother were in town on Friday last to invest in Gov ernment stock,-and he and his brother aid invest. To the surprise of all the rest of the community, those two indi viduals had moeney,-yes, had mnuch money. Well, man is ,a queer animal, :ndividumally, butt socially he is in infinite. . queerer. His arithnmetic 'is like him elt, very gneer. B efore SnuMAxx tat., ery body had nothing. After thtGeneral arnd hiis small body guard left (of course that little crowd couldn't eat muich,) there was very little moro than the nothing that' was on hand Ue fore ; lnt after the whole fuss "busted" np.. fract iotas were inadequate to express the inkuiteimnal reduction. As we gazed upon that great crowd around the aintioner that' day, and thought of'how many coulil once' command thousands, apd tow could not raise hundreds. we ,fltinl4a ieditation that need not here beiniserted. But the male begins, and lo I -what telde plse? 'Why the hun'dreds begin fo pour out.. Homes, Govern" tuent stock, frowii ~a Roelnante tip to a Buceplus, are kuonke|I ow for cash.. 2he ah oomnes,-asd-.-ell, bydy, we ~w that the d'y isa ~ aing - te fidsttiona 4 ~ne s'ystem of' taxation, t~ zt61 have itini m16~r 4 merits of whatever is's ftibjet fQr their consideration. Ne d-e Stq intentd to puggeet s iystem,; bpt to tako a few stiggestions upon o r two )TCA The whoe sel-az d hato. - Aon is. now notoriously at fault. Some' iew system is greatiy needed. There I q '_ poh. patiiarly to which it is lesirable that the minds of the people be lirected, and thmt is the propriety of tax ing specie. . It can be chosen, we think, that such taxation is desirable on ac. count of the advantage to the whole public, which is the fundamental princi. pie of all taxation. The subject is mere ly alluded to with the hoee that it nray receive general consideration. - The Convention. The time for electing members to our 3tate Convention, says the Yorkville ltnquirer, is near at hand,when we hope i large vote will be polled -From all %plplearances the people are preparing Ahemselves for the change before them, and the more readily that the garrisons have been generally removed, at least From the up-country. There are, per baps, some who are not willing to take blie oath, and go into Convention, and ,alk resistingly, but these are generally f that class who took canre, when occa sion offered to "snuff the battle afar off." r believe the Convention will be a bamonious one, though great changes have to be made in the Constitution ; be sides the slavery clause, the election of Governor and President will have to be given to the people, as in all the other States, and the Parish system of Repre sentation equalized with that of the en tire State. It is useless for any %et of mien to counsel inaction - the oath must be subscribed to, and the sooner our pno. ple enter into civil Government the better it will be for black and white--.espeoinlly ihe.former, who seem to be but illy in structed as to what are their rights, un der military law. We regret to see that there is about to be some conflict of authority in South Carolina, between the Governor's ap pointments and the military. heI re-appointment of tie old State officers by Gov. Perry has caused some dissat isfactio n.-Charlotte Dai - Where in the world did you get your information, brother Democrat. W1re, living in South Carolina know voting of a conflict of authority in -our State. The above is news to -us. There is no doubt of a mitake about the matter, or an attempt of soine enemy of the South to produce discord and contention among ltore in authority in every State within her borders, as in Virginia. Destitution in Charleston. The Philadelphia IAquired pubilishes the following extract from a prirate letter received in that city from a Sister of - Charity dated Charleston,South Carolina, July 7. 'Many hundreds of the citizena who have been accustorped to all the luxuries of life have been compelled tosue for and live on Government rations.-- Even these have been stoppedl. Could you but see these delicate ladies in houses void of furniture, reduced to the wash. tub and cook-pot, your heart wponld bleed; still more' wheni you refleet they have no means of procuring the bare necessaries of life. A fest who- were in .business before and during the war are making attempts to regain a footing, but. the plagting population around Charleston are destitute of everything. God alone knows the full tide of misery whlich has sot in on these people. Ve see a part of it but not11I. Still, if wve were made tbhe miediutn-of assistance tio them, we c-uld reaoh the bulk. We invite the co-dperatiouiof your citizens in this work for thie relief of these people, who will inevitably die of starvation if not assisted.' Thi* is a oause of humanity therefere personis'of all opinionk thay unite im it. Ihqpe tfus appeal will not be iiirain, and that you will be able to forward, ere long, pioofs of the good will of 'youk city for eiilerigwhereyqr'foind. ' -Co*went of oeur ary, Chatleron, -~ Ge by our eichtaau vJihsYt4I~ ost Can be I it 3Y whih imolasses is manufa4ttite4 kin ndinn cbrn--ng the sorgh'unrMt't talk, but an article derivd troith6 trpin itself, of a gpnalitbit'i inferior to 'it extracted frbm the 1st ceae, and ossessing the proper.y of novferrhenta ion to a degree which, if not entire. is emarkably devoid of that natural pro es in favor, body, color and sacharino iropetties. This article bears the most fat orablo comparison -with any kind or vhich we are cognizant, and we enter in the opinion that it will becomn.t avorite with the publi-. Brownlow the Amiale. Parson-we beg pardon-Governor 3r.ownlow, is somewhat fanious for the spprities and bitterness which have iaracterized his dislikes and discus ;ions. To such extremes has he indul 3d in unmeasured and unsparing denun. iations of all with whoml he has been rought into controversial collision, that , is the "gene'ral impression of people knowing him only by reputation that ie has an unforgiving disposition and a vindictive austerity of temper that ren. lers him a most undesirable enemy.' Yet it may be that Brownlow has been .wp harshly judged. What has been Inputed to hin as fierce intolerance and -indictiveness may be but an eccentric ink in his nature which makes him in ippearance what, in fact, lie is not. At il events, the incident which we are ibout to recite presents him in a point f view in which we recognize him as a inqd hearted and generous foe-very un ike tihe PAnsoN BROWNLOW so often -opresented by his opponents. In a letter recently written by the 4overnor to the Knoxville TWhVIg, with which, it seems. he is still in editori. 0 connection. he thus describes a meet ng that he had just, had with one of 'enncssee's formerly most distinguished itizens. The following extract is very ,reditable to the Governor and very in. eresting to the reader : I have had a long interview with John .ell. He is ten years olJer, in tppearance, than when the war began. Iis teeth are out, and that affects his speech. His hair and whiskers are very gray, and he is very much stoop. ad, and leans upon his staff like an ol n11an is expected to do. I treated him very kindly. He talks very freely about the rebellion and in opposition to it. Ile says the Secessionists in the Soitih are all lunatics without any lucid inter. vals-that is to say, they are crazy all the time. I believe it is a prinmciple in law, that ifA 1amm1ic ha've- lucid intervas At tines, he lb responsible for acts per. petrated in those intervals. And medi Dal writers say that himatics without lu. uid intervals are incurable. I accompanied the old gentleman to he headquarters of General Thomas, and after a short but agreeable interview with the General there tle old gentle. nau took the amnesty oath, and placed iimself right on the record. - . . 7 Congressmen from Virglnia. A correspondent of the Richmond Bulletin, writing from Waalhington, gives hisaviews very frankly of the duty 4fthe people of the South, so far as poli y. is concerned. Hie sas: "I have learned enough Since my ar 'ival herre to satisfy me that the great duruggle when Congress meets will le on the question of admitting the Southern representatives to their seats. 'Yon: may rely upon this ;.if any man elected to Congress from thme South whose "loy. dmty" during the war was not above re proachi, he will be refu.ed admittance. majority of such rejections will place the south in a condition of non-represen sationt in' Cougress, 'and will -contiq~ue military Government in the States. It >ehooves your electors,, thereforo, to pre., pare to meet the Radicals upon this is nue by electing these who can pass mus ter. As the Flrench say, e'est que le reca ni~i er pasieout.- Your first stepamust be to secure representation in Congress. That done1 the way will be ulear for the turs developmenta of your policy. Justice to Mr. Johnson requires this at he hands ofiethe,South, and it is to-be hoped that they will tiot fail to elect meon who were .not identified with the Confedera. -citue !Iu. poley. 4y manmds the~ anty~orpeope shodld1Agi. outh'won t~h ve de~ n the coeb o~r 4 r 'r uno 4f b Balt~mi kaa ag vriting ondel date of thg41. ii~f., uf A sight was iitnessed on the caial bank this evening at the font of Tenti street. Over 100 Swedes, men, women :11nd" children, healhhy, robust looking peopic, with red cheeks and shnrp-toed shoes, were uniting to. takn tho boat for it farm ill Goochland. The first -immi grants front Swede'n arrived here on the t 15th of M-ay, twenty-two in number, and the next iot, it is supposed, will ntmbei several hundred. [hey go to a farm upon which a beautiful little village has alkeady been built for them, and on one of the whitecottages is "Stockholm" in hirge letters, a name that will rejoice their eyes. The colored people, of whom there were a good many standing arbnd this newly arrived "labor," sem 'n-. ed .very much disgusted at the. turn things has taken. A great many re marks were made, in hope of discour. aging the Swedes, but as they didn't understand a word of English they were all lost~to them.. A favorite expression was, "Whtt you all come from your rich country down here whar we's poor I as nuffin'." The idea with the negroes was that they were from the North; but while they missed where they came from, they were smart Niough to know what damage their arrival here does the colored race. - These emigrants get $12, a month for the males, and 88 a month for the feialtn, and fed. . No male re - ceives pay unless he'is over fifteen years old. Co Nsst.ssON Diaci.iNE.-Governor Pierpoint has declined to give a com mission to Brigadier General Wim. C Wickman, 'who was elected a magis trate in fanovel. His Confederate of flce debars him from serving under the State. From Chester. We make the following extracts from a correspondence of the Yorkville En quirer, written from Chest-r, under date of August 13, which our readerd will find somewhat interesting . Our hapless community has, for two months, heen whirled about "the un. willing spirit of circumstance and pas sion." First, we had with us Captain Brown, with a detachment of the 9th Ohio cavalry. Their policy was to fraternize entirely with the colored breth ren. They held the ultra northeri doc trine that a "white man is as good as a negro if ho beliav'es himself." Through the teaching of sonic of these men, the negroes were led to believe that the Agrarian doctrine was to be the law of the land-that this Fall there was to be a grand. "divide" of everything. In pursuance of their supposed rights, the. negroes in a good many places aetually marked out their respective shares of God's.green earth, in some instances squabbling among themselves as to the quantity of wood land, arable hind, &c., to which they were respectively entitled. - - "After an administration of several weeks, Capt. Brown was relieved by. a Captain-a DutV.hman-whose - name is beyond my orthography, He, the Dutchman; was as far on one , extreme, as Captl. Brown had beeni on 6he other. A few days after his arrival, lie enlled a mass meeting of the citizens of theI Dietrict, and delivered himself in a quito lenigthy speech, in whlich lIj represented that the rightsof the white man as em- 1 ployer, were far greater and more ab~so hatethan had ever b'een the righats of the master under the State law - His ree dy for all improprieties on the part, of the negro was to knocjc him down, and if that did not suaice, to kill him. The resumlt of his teaching was, that a good many men who had got behind in the matter of pimishing their negroes durmng Capt. Browads admmistration, went horne and brought up the average itnmediate- . ly..J "Capt. Dutchman's reign was a short one-only about a week, lie was suo ceeded by an interregnumn, during which Lie remus of power were in the handa of a home . organization with Mr. 'G; J.. Patterson, a discreet and equitale gen-, ~ tleman, at its ha.d. Ding' the two weeks that we had matters in our nm hands, quiet and order reigned, streets were not filled with va nd freedmen, ahd things began so a f more satisfactory aspect.. 'un the midst of this die ~.ther. garnisoi came down upoA ' nmand edby: Capt. Bleimette of n Indiana regiment, '.Capt Bonne and . apt. %aes, Provoast ehl. ith the men 4t dr their gotntnn uacted th'em. Ev~ nthmo.1V ly fetner, ad iamh 4VO.,uuIt gc pleth t / td iTon vgtddhn aoepaf, e Ir 6 liscipline tQ hq them o ."Our. peoplo are Tpidly restorin selves to 'th position of good' on4' oval citizens by meaint of the Ainekty )at.h. True, there 4re some men who ive a considerable distance from ihe'bi ond, and who are still keeping. waI nd. ward over the dead' body Of slater,. he refie to talct.the oath, bhacustr,. ny they, they will thereby tdnk that heir negroes are free I "W e had some amusement here some ime ago in getting up a petition 'tq ?recident Johnson for the restoration of ivil government. -The fun consistedin eariig the petty quibbles of -tlbode who vere averso to signing any thing.-., )ne great quibble was. that in tho >etition. tho war was called a "civil var." I uiink Webster's Dictionary mswers this very contlusively. Ano. her was that secession was not an "ap. >eal to the God of.Batdes:" Th, peti. ion stated "our State, contrary to tho Iarnest remonstrances of many of ns, ap waled to the God of Bttles." On the lsumption that secession was a "peace ble remedy." their criticism wasrigh't; aut I am of opinion that the events of he last four years have rathor knocked he bottom out of that doctrine. Some, mnd it. is almost incredible, in fact, so nuch so, that I would rather tell it to narines than to sailors, objected :to ign ing because the sentence: "We herefore, humbly submit," began wish L small "w" instead of a capitaf "W)' Lt spite, hovever, of all these forniidA. >lo criticisms, the potition was a Com-: ileto success. Over six hundred of op.' Nood and true men as there are in or ou )f the State, signed it. And when 30., Pary wia in Washitigton, Preii lent Johnson hunted up the . document md showed it to him, with the state. nent that in point of lnngnage and orep, it was superior to anytihing-of-th cind that had been forwarded from the "Chester is beginning to assume its >11 appearance. The doors on the pubble iquaro that have ieen closed so . long tre opening up. All departments ot, >siness are being revived. Cotton.iis 'Viniing in quite freely, and in cteo - luence therhof. gold is quite plenty.A 3old or silver is the only. circulating nedium. People sre instinctively.,afrai5 of 'greenbacks. They quote in justift. ,ation thereof, the old saw, that- "a )urnt child dreladi the fire," Most oftheni ;ot burned with Confed., andnow they ire indisposed, to handle anfthing.b l he metallic currency. "Corn crops bid fair to be. ntr abuw lant, than they have been- fhr m tv' rears. A blessed thing for the- hi&: Ireds of freedmen who will ipevitvi-fr >e homeless and wandering nesty& .. [f onr Lngislatore-, when -it . heets/cAsa mucceed in making wiser laws fe&. tb rovernment of this chks,, I do note. en irely despair of once more seeing pros ierity within our bord, re. - The.Mississippi. 0avzntfor. Private acceunts :receIVed in 'Wash. ngton report muherch. e dtig 'Ccent dehates in tho Mississippi 06 iont ion upon. t* stavery question, s;'e )f the member, delu3g tat te.1 ,ie 6nld not th-e horiedly befored pon hie South, while othesdogataed e is he subject res altogeher. O .Frig ast it was resolved 'by the eoep ety o hat the ol clia.e in the Constttaqio - 'elating to slaves shonkd be stuk dek~ mit when it-eanw to pnttingi C these .a stipnietiern that skyery to longer exs* therpnwasa fierce epQ ition;,-and a isn'a adjournmnt -,~i etiton. No doubta sunqjoriy of the eqa' -ention wedul$ be wery glad to strike di~' he inmmatral claies at presen~t Ii the Jonstitnsioni, and. let' te attr' here, but that willings a'atig' hort of total pfrohibitiot, ' aiet Miss., dugusd j:be~ loigconstilttioal irn itedent'his int p'ssd thuecoinet ighiv4si1 to elevmnia d The inistit ati n ery havin beenU eatroyed itn State of Mi ip& ' *either a .li nor' involqhtary se 'ide, .'iethan forthet hisnitio~ fwhereof the pat:illbe dny toted, shafl. hereaf'tuef thi lte ; and the legiistti n ext lesion, and thereaftets tl1 blie wet. ire miay require, shall pro*ide by law >r the protection and *euiy 6i the ersonsind prop~tje thu fhaedtgfen f'the Stater egnA a~~ .d te tate .gtitsst any evi a pshyM se r 5enau deafmteV '