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WINNSBORo.' Saturday Morning, September 2, 1805. AN EXTRA.-We coiteniplate issu iu, on Monday next, (the day of the election,) an extra. of our paper. Ad vertisers will take due notice, as they will then have ( chance of informing nearly the whole District of their busi ness. It will be to the interest of our merchant-to have a word to say to the country folks in reference to their com modities, in that issue. Monday next is the time for the elec tion of delegates to the State Conven. tion, and. every one shouldhave takeni the amnesty oath. and be prepared to vote. - Those who hwe not taken the said oath cannot, vote., Those intending taking the oath are required to read carefully the amnesty proclaination, which will be found in another cohumn. Those ot our friends who desire to have advertisements in Monday's Extra of the Naws will please hand them in early this morning. They must be brougit it by 2 'o'clock, or else they camnot appear. Tbis is a good opportunity of inform. ing the country people, as there will be a large number of them in town on that 4ny, where they can procure the best .1nid cheapest commodities. One firm in London advertises to the - amount of $290,000 per annum. All the partnem have grown immensely . rich. Will -some . of the merchants o( Winnsboro' take a hint from the above. The reader is referred to the adver. tiseinent of Mr. J. H. -PoraPT,. Agent, in this days paper. 850 ieward is offered by J. A. MA Miox, fPr a stolen horse. We regret exceedingly to announce that our esteemed follow-citizen, Honl. R B. BoYr.STON, lies.seriously ill at his residence in this town. Our earnest wish is that lie may e spared to his family, to his State and country, as, in the 'present ordeal in which we of the South are passing throughthe services of good and true tnen,. such as he, can ill be spared. We trust that. in a feiv days we may be ableto chronicle his rapid recovery. Whether cotton is king or iot, there has been -quite a large amount of it shipped from oar town in the last week. We hardly thought there was as much cotton in the State as has been resurrect ed and shipped from Winnsboro', We notice in the North Carolina pa pere quite a lengthy correspondence be tweenm Goy.'Hor.DEN and Gerr. RUGEnr * commanding the- military forces in that State. The correspondence is in reffrence to t/td arrest of parties, and of the holding of them for trial by the military conm misioh, whsn it is made known by Gov. HolDEN'S proclamation that'ciyil courts ?have'beest established in the State and civit la w reignp supreme. The arguents giwin by both, the Q*overnor antIG en. RIUGEli ass quite l eng~thy, else, we would give them a * pliace in 6ur colmunus, as the matters dis cussed affects the whele people of the Goy. IHOZD3U- stands qp manfully for hiatposition and' thme right0 of hiis State under -his 'proclamation. He, 'qlims that, the civil courts are tire proper - iplsces to try %t64 9 and tiat the ad~try aveno ssighttos inte'rein e m ier-h ohet andtlge(0eneral eopitnanding use's thi argument Uhat * ili.la* has not been etal~Iihed.as yet in tie'~aeand'ta h~ds i 2to take oogn' npe of the pjtgr * ~'which tJM pa4~ greredtstagd olgtge Gov. %I6 JI says preotty pl Yl * that the milits~ ,' horitide oine view of the % 4d: oul'*.rr side, wbeh e A anAa *denies; l'The s 4~ ferred to Pr f*~,a w ile thme mattet fI~ 8dha the Soiath--tlie*i.il'r military authori, ties: Those of .our friends who may wish to read-the- correspohdence canl (10 ,so by callingdat our office, as it is a mat ter that all feel a deep interest in. The Richmond jmpublic of the 24th August says, in reference to the recent local elections in Riohrmond "It is now publicly stated by Gen. Schenck, of Qhio, in a speech made at Chillicothe, Ohio. on the 16th, that it was with the sanction of President Johnson himself that the elections in this city were set, aside. General Sehenck savs that, only ten day,:s ago,in a full aiC fer interviow with him, the President said lie regarded the local governments set up in the rebellious States as temporary experiments. &c., and that, im) adverting to the recent election in Richmond, 'whore the citizens manifested their re bellions spirit by electing to -,office the very men who had recently been in arms against the Government,' the President stated that 'it was with his saneioin hat the military authorities had set aside that clection, awln ha y:rc this as sin exampl) of what mightbc cepctled in cases of a similar kind." Is IT So.-The Winnsboro' (S. C.) News, in noticing the fact that the Salisbury 7iion Bonner had been sus pended by military order for publishing an offensive editorial to the nmilitary au thorities commanding that post, adds: "North Carolina editors, with a few exceptions, have been in the habir, for years past, of calling one another very hard unes, and even going so far as to bring up personal family natters.in discussing political subjects in their papers. As tht twig is bent, so the tree will grow. From blaspheming one another, they have gone to using pretty rough-language towards the military." It was not known to us. before this Rnnonucement that the Editorial carps of our good old State had won special distinction as the employers of 'abusive epithets, and we ai-e still indisposed to acknowledge the charge of "blasphemy" or "rough language towards the mili. tary." The limnits oflegitimate discussion have occasionally been transcended in the warmth and excitement of political cam-n paigns, but as a general rule the presses of this State,in their intercourse one with the other, exercise as large courtesy as those of South Carolina. Blit we do admit there is room for improvement in the newspaper world generally, in the practice of professional amenities, and we trust it will be mtide. [Raleigh Progress. CoNOIATULATo1Y LEoTT FiroM PRSSIDNT JOHNSoN TO THE Miss.s stirvI CONvENT1.-The Jackson'( Mis sissippi) Times, of the 24th insit, says : Qovernor Sharkey communicated a telegram front President Jolmson congra tulating the Convention on the progress they are making in paving the way for re-admiksion into the' Union, qand hopes all obstacles will soon be removed. Io sayshe- will restore the writ. of habcas corp u. and remove the troops at the earliest possible moment, or so soon as the'State shall have made sufficient pro. gress and hier people returned to thmeir all~egianco. Ho hopes thme examnple of Mississippi will he followed -by other States. Judge E. S. Fisher was nomi nated for Governor, and ,the Conven ttoni rhen adjourned sire die. -e Thec Washiington correspondent of the New York Heral'4ef the 25th, says that the, Emu eror Maximilian wvrote by a pro mninent. exican a letter of condolence on thme d th'of Mr. Lincoln to the Presi dent. Mi'. Degollado, the gentleman bringing it, applied for an interview to present it: "The answer to Mr. Degollado's Ap. plication catme a't last, and it was not long in cornitg, for there was nothing t~o hesitate about. Thme sagacious Secretar-y of State and our clear-headed President did not eado t11e naatter.when submitted to them, 5ut ofeot~rsy 'or oontplimoent. T'hey were:asa'd to receive a letter krom the Eimperor 'or .Mexico. Tiheyr know iosuch person, krnd would not receive .the letter. That *sadthe answer." - 'h'e corespondent says, "this ih slt ant itnaginaIrfscene of an event, but a f , TO Kixmc Bu-rnxn Coo.,.--A. ,4~e mogl of )Nopihg butter in warm Ade~c is- not Jiarld$ isa *conison flowepo o~ et th itteds'laj. -Th~' A pltantor .froni tho Toish of 'st. Chrles. l consideta hiin9selfally posted onl the, cottol) stotistics, inflffrin the New Orldans Th tht the.re nver were over 400,000 baleqf cotton raised. an senson west of the Mississippi. . He h s that there were nearly 300.000 bales between the Mississippi 'and the Rio Grande when Kirby Smit.h surren. dred, and that 40,000 balos will.he add ed by this year's crop. Of the old crop a great deal has already been hurried to market. and the new crop as well as the old will be entirely cleared out of the country before the 1.t of Marci next. With I te limited stock on hand and the crop prospects now beforp us. he thinks sixt.y or seventy cents per pomil will be the prevailing price in Janinury next. REAwronRTo OF SOuTHEruN ESTATES TO PAiniOns) OwNxs.-During- tle last week, upward-i of a' dozeni' citizens of the South, who had obtained their pardons, made personal applicetion at the Freedmen's Bureain for the restoration of lands which had been taken into 'the custody of the lhareau. Onl production of tihe certificates of pardon, the appli Uant-s were jirnishied with orders upon the local ngeits of the Bnreaus in the f4outh for Ithe restitution of the property I claimted, With the provision that theI owners be made to compensate the blacks for the crops they maity be cultivating thereou, or lerave them in undisturbed possession until th-, same are harvest ed. A CIrANO Foin R.UI.noAAD.-The Government is making ai rrangelnI1ts. to sell, during the monti of October, tibirty locomotives hud two hundred and niniety cars, at Manchester, opposite Riv-Imonid, Va.; five locoinotives and.fifty one cats at 1'oi tanout.h Va.; and. fifty locoino. tives and seven hundred and fifty cars at Alexandria. There will also be at, Al. exandtrmia 1.wo thousand tons of raidroad iron, and at City Point four thousand tons.--Peersbu-q Express. A Washington dispatch says that an imposing eff6rt is being put forth to securo the infilence of Lieut. Gen. Grant, in behalf of the pardon, by President Johnson, of a nnmlier of General Ofimers of the late Confederate arily, with every probability of success, as the distinguish ed military chief is known to favor such a general policy'as promises the earliest pacification. CoNFE.DJuATE GovEnNMENT COTTON. -An important question had grisen at Liverpool as to the ownership of Con. federate Goverilment cotton. The deci sion was in fhvor of tile- United States as the owner, on the ground that when the Government of the Confederate. States came to an end, its property became that of it~s -Successors. The matter is st-ill open, however, to discutssion. The pardon of Alexander Dudley, President of tlhe York River railroad, has been revoked by the President. As the power of tie- President. to revoke pardons, after they have been granted, is thus clearly set forth, those who pro. cure the precious and coveted document hadbetter not put on airs too to soon. [Erchnge. SOUrn C4ROLI1NA HAInUOAD- 're are informe~d that the track from Oran geburg 'to (Cqinmbia is proceeding very well from both sides, and .that the bridge over the Conga rce River will be comn pheted this week.--!Carleston News. R IAuIoan InioN.-AV are. pleased to announce that tli, Soiuth: Caroima Railroad Company receivedl yesterday per bark Iunni'e, from Ne'w York, about five hundred tons railroad iron. which will be' immpdiately used in i laying their t'ac.--Charleston Coun'cr. 1 Mn. A Lxx..' H. STRPJIENs.--TheC President hmos ordered the'- commandert of Fbrt Warren to all in his powe'r to 1 rendler Alex. H. Stephens. thme distin. I guished prisoner in his .possession, 'asa comfortable as poagible. Goixe, Noann.--It is asserted that 'over 8,000 Sott.hecrber.q, ebiefly young tnen, have settled in New Y'orkv ety, simto the surrender~f the Sotmern~ ar 'he Boston merchamit have been vol unteoring their opinidna wdntnoctions to Pifosident Johnison 3r ~e St:14dq of r'eonstructionm 'in the Sou. Ati a10rq *iuging rcently beld 1~ them in th ioriniof the ."Board of T ri(de of 4 1tt col~- aQmmitteg w~al, oipninted, yi, 'lb'et~sd ~ le~t.t~L~~r "We see, by the Augusta hronice and &ntg iel iha the caoe of Thomas S. Metcalf and Lopold Cohn, having undeigone oaicial invet igation 'at head. quarters Provost Marshil, Augusta, has been disposed oftis follows : The above gentlemen were charged with nttempt.. ing to bride Gene1l Grosvenor, a Uni ted States oflicer. in the, sui of *200,000 to decide a certain question.as to the title of a lot of colton in their favor, Mr. Cohn makes the following admission : "''I admit the truth of the charge and specifications coitained therein, in every particular, and appeal to Major-General. Steedman for his clemency in my bo half. L. Conx.'" "Said clemency was granted, and.Mr. Col ordered to leave the Department of Georgia in twenty-four hours. Mr. Metcalf, (sclaiming any intention to offer a bribh in connection with Mr. Coln, w:w, after apologizing fo'r impro per conduct. released from arrest. The money . deposited with General Gros vonor, ie andunt eleven thousand (101 lars, inl part payeinent of the offer of two htmdred thousaud dollars, Was ordered to bet distributed among the poor ot Angustd." The SuEN ANIoAn.-an Ihdafcisco, August A.-The SIeiandoahI at last accoits id destroved th dark Susan aijigal near ike gif ' of Anadair. It see(Ims the, Abiigal Iad Sia FraniicisoC( pa. pers of tihe 10th of Jiy, containing an accomit of t he collapse of thu rebellion, but, Waddell youl not credit them, as they came fro n Northern papers, and iontllnelied his intentiou of buriirg every American vessel lie could. find. - A ter destroing the Susan Abrigal tho pirate went toward 13ehring's Straits mnd the Arctic oce-A. At St. Lafrence slands Ie burned the bhip General Williaims, of New London. and thwnext morning he burned jive more vessels. Thei bark Genal Pike arrived a San Francisco with the crews of the fol. lowing vesseis : Brig Susai Abigal, ship General Williams, bark V. C. Nye, bf Now Bedford. barks Cather1Ir.s. Nimrod apd 13abelia, a'l of New- Bed. ford. The General Pike was-bonded by. tihe pirato fer Iorty-five thousand dollars. Two liidred and seivety.one officers and men of rho destroyed whale ships were put' on board for San -Francis. cO. Jt is be!ie-ved tin pirate will certain ly destroy fiity more vessels as they were all to the northward. The Bark.1Richmond was also warned .ff, and sie sailed from Prover Bay for 1iho Sandwich 1slhmds. Fx-rn PAnTort.Ans.-w York, A ugust 25 -Among -the people on the Bhenandoah was an Einglishman who seomed-to be prospecting for five vessels to put on a lino between Australia and New Zealand, anid would probably purchase'some of the captures made by the pirate. The officers oflthe Shenandoah talked, a arming two of tho whalers . to go up end-destroy whalers where they ,could not get, and they wore very desirous ;o enlist the captnred crqws and in om111 imstance-s ,they -were very sue essuttl in obtaining them. The Kanakaho, an English vessel Ia 1b-n 'with coal, was seen by the ship Wilianm Glifrd, bound for the' Sh~e andoah.. . T * ,1aAnIouT 'run NIGOEa Sot. 3ruEn8.--The nigger sliers now, -who iimbeor ovior fifty thousand; are giving I greatl (deal of trouble,-botli North and south.. The Mississippi Co'nverstion has ietitioned the President to i-emove them) 'rem that Stae,. as a kind faver. 'Thes 'little villain" of the republican partyis, Lbo sorelye trouled abiout, them, and'ho .j discussing the'subject ini a non--couhinit a~l way.. But it is evident that ha does iot ijnderstand them at ' alk- We coma >rehiend the case of the nigger;soldiers, horoughmly: LeM the firsK:etotor Ie sent to New York~ andt ie earn disi iose'ot thlem) among all the ;differenst is.' .nd in the harrbqr hndtare .The Loy .1 teague's willinot deb tre arixi'in' testnt tde galatleno hhith i lag,:jind 'most prphibly 'e Jai ih* WioytlLeagui. will presbit rt6hl. of th ragrant hevroks wit be u not. et of tihe iget s41401- she be a iot'hand sea r4fal vg~Ji~ nd citiest of N4wTn~n~~o~ eriiis riL1 I rying h(at rrI4(., p rison ni flt~i' dets who i il l6 ttj' ~ohnson. NEoito STAT'ITiCS iN .oUTH CARO m.jk Sonppthmg lis alreadg bestv sad otn isibject itlOnrF columns; nt it will not be amis to give the full list of those districts in this State in which the negro exceeds the white populatilir iin wnumbers. There are twenty. of timmu. and the retnsi are from the census of: Whit. Cored. A bheille,. I 1,516 20,869 B3arnwoll, 12,702 18,041 iUeanfort, 6,714 33,339 Charleston, 29,188 40,912 Chester, 7,098 11,024 Clarevidn, +,378 8,717 Colletou. 9,255 30,661 Darlington, 84,32 11,929 Elgefield, 15.654 24,233 Fairhield, .6,373 15,738 Georgetown, 3,031 18,292 Kershaw, 5,048 fLauirens,- 10,529 13,320 Marlborough. 5,:173 7,061 Newborry, 7,000 13,870' Oringehnrg, 8,103 16,788 Hiebland, '.863 11,444 ,6,857 17,002 8,670 1 965 Williasburg ,87 10,302 Couyties in whih white lpla. tion proponde-rates.. 10 Counities inl which coloreOd popnl. hition proponderates, 20 Viole unumber ofeountis in State. 30 THlE loNbON TIMI8s ON THE 'NICRO. -The London Times takes-o very ,dis. couraging view of the negroea in their present vondition It svs: Helpless, impulsive , ignorant., with little paymenit to expect for regular work, with ease. new-fonnd liberty, ini opportunity to tempt them' to violence and pminder, can we'wonder ifthe exist. ing industry of the South has very little to hope fromi the'auAitance of the. black freedmten, and if, on the other hand, the great mass of t be slaves seems destined to perish togtfheir with the system which, if it. tyrannized over, brutalized and do. graded them, had, any rate, the merit of providing them.with food, lodging and clothing ? It is easy for r victorians Go.vern. nm'cnt, by a few words, to striko off the feitters of the sive. :ind sudd- nly dirs. Incato anl destroy tIhe indiistry of, a whol: conmmunily. buit it is not easy to fid ni a i anw r to this awful qiuestiou, which it has raised for itself, and wlhich every day 'more and more importunate ly demands an answer. . PETa(otauM NKAn DENvEn.-Tho Deniver.G*'efte says that 'petiroleum,has been discovred- fifteen niles. froi that city: 4'A'n extensive arei of land,. covering an extent of over. thirtee'n acres, as we are informed,- is-literally . sattttqd- with the crudo petroleunt.. Otne, gentletri asstires.ne that thQ clay can be eren in the hand and the-oil wrug from 'it like a sipg." - N.w Yoar, August 22.-k specialP despatch to the World, ilaed NashviP. Auust 22d, says the, Roibel e l 'hcolor nas badly 'lueate-n to-day by" Colonel'Blackbuxrn. and Captait Qinn. - im consequence of a threat-tpmade y1ru:ne the war by~ "Wheeler~that he would'hill Blackbrnmif ha eVer took~ him p risoner, as h~e was a."...4 l140?1w'irde aA." Wlheelei- a. be ~d-when attaeTed, rdf was severelybeuateni. Tlhe city of" Atlaunttu, Geoujia, has' amendod its penal cd so ato place. blacks on. An eqmgality withu the white. since taking ciiauiof the army*6M1 Petwnro int '1864.foot'np 90,000 ~ tute of th VrAte.~ 9H$4'ud jives notep t at thmere organisat e ColreMe ods Epi '4o of e d Dhettlet, A. W, wilt tik plaea t shr 9 unday yg$, 4e ptember, )ergihg the church into the African' fitdist Episcopal 'Jpngregtooft 'thme The negting will *a4e p16os at 2} p. m. AU in ered od are r tid t~ro attend. h W.1 .,.. - 0 tn~~ .s I sept 2)6 K4I