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WINNSORO. Tuesday Morning, September 12, 1805 The Convention meets to-morrow, in Columbia. We will have a regular re port of its proceedings from a special eorrespondenL The trains on the Charlotte & South Carolina railroad now run within sighit 'of our town. The managers of the road tell us they"will have the ttains running into town by to-morrow, (Wed nesday,) at the farthest. The Charleston Daily News of the 5th says that the election in that city for members to the.State Convention.pa' ed off very quietly-there beitg no par. ty feeling or excitement in the contest. The Convention. The following gentlemen have been <elected members of the State Conven. tioi from St. Phillips' and St. Michaels, Charleston District,.S. C., by the annex ed vote: Hon. Chas. Macbeth, 881 ; Ion. 11. D. Lesesne, 863 ; W. H Gilliland,.862; P. C. daillard. 845 ; James Connor, 838; J. A. Wagner, 735; H. Gourdin, '126 ; C. H. Simonton, 69.8 ; F. Melch era, 690; W. S. lHenery, 656 ; G.. W. Williams, 639; Hon. Edward Frost, 606 : 0. A. Andrews, 501 ; Hon. Al. fred Huger, 560 ;-Wm. Ravenel,,556 : PJ.. Cogan. 468; W. At. Martin, 467; Rt. Rei. P. N. Lynch, 457 ; Hon. Jne. Scfinierle, 455 ; James Rose, 454. The vote at Newberry 0. H1., S. C., as we learn by the Herald, stands as fol. lows. The District yet to hear from E. P. Lake, 183; Robt. Stewart, 132; 7-. Sumner, 125 ; J. H. Williams, 103; E S. Keit , 82. Shot. We learn that on Friday, 'Sch inst., a white man (name ndtknown)-a Texan by birth and home-was publicly shot at Newberry C. H.. S. C., by an order from a drum-head court martial, by a detachment of the 33d United States Colored Troops, for an attempted mur der of one of the troops. - It seems that the Texan nearly severed the negroe's head from his body, cutting from the 'back of his neck roumd to the jugular vein, beside6 stabbing him several times about-the face. At last -accounts the negro was no, dead, but it was positively set forth by physicians that he could not recover. A Word About Freedmen. The extraordinary change which has taken place in the condition of the color. ea people of our country, renders it im perative upon every citizen 'who his the well-being of our State at heart, to use every ef'ort to aid in adapting them to the change. Many of the colored peo. ple are absolutely incompetent to appre ciate the c'hange, and it~s bearing upon their condition. Next winter will be peculiarly trying to them. WVithout the Providence necessary to provide for'thie inier man, and lay up- for a day, many are apt to ~squander their earnings and pave the way for beggary before the in elemencied of the wmnter are past. With poverty will come the temptation to theft, against which it is the intellect of overy one to guard. The rew relation in which the negre * s placred, demands of hinm peculiar duties. No longer in that relation in which he was made the. peculiar care of'his form er master, he will add greatly to the Scomfort and immunities of 'his'present situation by being respectf'ul honest and isqdutrious. Letthofe ' e to bl~ 'that'- they ma~y reap not Whatever ynight have beena the pro. #eette uhte groi'tto in wealth a'nd gran 4our of cte UniteO 8tates, befbo ;theo et. watjthat rogres was utxionbtedly' aorimpsded by the the pan, is. Iwe jud ~ Mfrpw a sist cnfeest 'Ot s havedid ~thatha must take .bsand ph*lo0-itp: view Of th'e situation who would in some measure be reconciled to it. It ill-becomes a man who .studies the progressive greatness of nations, to weave a web of prejudice and puerile revenge, and pass judgment upon the whole from the preti~ises he derives from his circumscribed limits. He must for. get himself, or view himself as he really is, a mere atom. This is the spirit which must actuato every man now who has been compelled by the fortunes of war to resume his al legiance to the United States. It does not rehuire hint to fawn upon the gene ral Government. It does not signify that he must go into ecstacies of Uni6n. loving joy. It is-no compromise of his dignity or self respect to act in this spir it. t does, not mean that lie would represent himself as a consistent Union man during the war. The maost con. spictous' men engaged in opposition to the United States can thus enjoy a con .emiplation of the progress of the Union. With these preliminary remarks we advance the proposition that it is the duty of cvery man to add his mite in enhancing the power and respectability of the Union. - So intimately interwo ven now. is his interest witit that of the whole country, that to benefit her is to benefit himself. But more of this anon. J. L. PENNINGTON, editor of the Raleigh, (N.C.,) Progress, is out in a long card announcing his intention to run as candidate for the North Carolina State Convention. His "platform" is annexed: If elected to the State Convention I shall favor all measunres calculated to re store civil law throughout the State to restore the State to the Union and to relieve our peolo of military rule. I shall most cheerfully and zealously support the administration of President Johnson and the administrat.ion policy of Gov. Holden. I shal advocate the election of Gov. Holden to the office he now holds by the appointment of the President, when the people shall be called on to elect a chief magistrate. In or out of the Convention I shall oppose negro suffrage. I shall advocate the enactment of laws for the protec tion of the person and property of the colored man, but I in opposed to ex tending him the right of suffrage or any other political privilege more than he now has. I shall oppose the assumption or pay. ment, aby the State, of any debts or bqands, State bonds, Confederate bonds or County bonds, issued for the prosecu. tion of the rebellion. I shall favor the settlement of all debts of an individual character, con tracted during the rebellion, upon ajust, fair and equitable basis. I shall favor the insertion of a clause in our State Constitution declaring slavery or involuntary servitude, unless as a pimishment for crime, forever abol ished in North Carolina. I give these outlines of my political principles for the benefit of such of my conservative friends as may have been influenced or prejudiced by the false hoods anid slanmdgra that h ave been circu lated against me, but I will give th-em more in detail before thle people. Tna SAE ox' FsmmnA.-The sale of Government property attracted the largest crowd of citizens wye have seen in towvn, since the advent of Robinson's old circus ; many came from afar, from the burnt district, in hope of picking up something cheap to replenish their ex hausted farm stock,. the consequence of wilich competition was, that horses, mules, 'wagons, &c., brought good pri. ces, with but few exceptions. We learmn that the stile footed up some $7000 to $8000. All of the property on hand wads not sold, and it may be probable that anorther sale will take place 'at a future day. In -connection, and as a peico of information of interest, we would state, that the total aimount of' cotton received and turned. over to the Gova erntment, by Col. Tyler, is. thmree .i dred arnd elevens bales. [WTewberry IHerak. The maniaging direot'or of an indue~n. tidl company in France, formedindet thb,us ices of tlge FrenchGovenntuo S mn .dsv~iopmg the resourmq;eo c6tuianp,Soutnh Amerioathaas# S'dho-liurwea dmp*~ Applications for Pardon. His Excellency, Governor Perry, has1 furnished us with the following rules to he observed in making applications for Pardon.: The Petition must be addressed to His Excellency, Andrew Johnson, Presi dent of the United States. It should state the residence, . oc cupation and age of the applicant. Whicl of the fourteen exceptions lie is liable to, and that lie is excluded from the clemency of the Anuesty Proclamation by none of the excep. Lions. Let him state fairly and truthfully, any circumnstinces which may etititle him to Executive clemency. , Ho must express his loyalty to the Union, and his purpose in good faith, to preserve and maintain it for the fut.ure. He must state that no proceedings have been taken out against him or his property under the confiscation act. There are two oaths to be endorsed or accompiny his Petition-one that he has read the Amnesty Proclamation, and is not liable io any other of the fourteen exceptions, than those stated in his Petition-the other oat h is that prescribed in the Amnesty Proclamation of President Johnsgn. Where any person is in -doubt, as to whether his taxable property amounts to over twenty thousand dollars, it is safe to make application for a pardon and 'state his doibts. The Yalnation of the property must be at tihe date of President Johnaon's Proclamation. All property nmitst be included which is liable to be taxed, lands,money at interest, Bank stocks, &e. It is not necessary for Post Masters, who were not appointed by the President awl approved by the Senate of the so called Coifederate Government to apply for pardon. They were not so appointed unless their parquisites ainonted, to $1500. It is understood the Attorney Generitl has decided as above stated. As to what partivipation in the rebel. lion renders an application necessa'ry, it may be answered, any "directly or in directly." ' The Petition should be written on foolscap paper, and folded twice, with the vriting, and not across it. The uiame of the applicant, and noth ing more, should be -ndoresed on lie Petition after being folded. All applicatiois made to the Provis ional Governor will be forwarded by him to the President, unless otherwise directed.-Greenvilk Mountaineer. RIor AT CAnSTFn.- The Darlington Southerner, of the 26th ultinmo, ias sttement that a riot occurred at ' tes ter C. H., in this State, on the 12th, between colored soldiers and citizens. Welgive the statement as it appears in the 'Soiutherner: - It appears that on the. day named, (12th,) many of the citizens from all parts of the District had met on spe cial public business, . and anong them many who had been in the Confederate arny. Colored troops, who were sta ioned there, took every opportunity of insulting thein by jostling against them, or saying soinething very offensive. Eventualy', the parties insulted were forced to resent the indignities put upon them, and-a general. fight took place between thme citizens and the negro troops, in which three of the latter were killed and many on' both sides Wound ed. As soon as the riot was qhmelled, the Provost Marshal sent the .troops from town. INFS TIONOR 'NRH 'UT.-We are glad to observe t4.disposition on the part of sorne of the Conservative journals of the North, particularly on the part of the NATt iona1'Jielligene& at W ashinmgton to call upon the Genieral Government to indicate, as wes>.provided by old laws, certain journhis in the States late. lin arms against it, ifr'which The lawrs of Congress passed during~ the war andl up to the p resent times may be published for the imformation 0f th~ ISoithen pee ple. That people 'osftl41mc'rant of mny~ of th&, ?nnA n of he 'lasp two Congresses. Tle seligencer 4otes this fact to be0 patent by the number of Applications thbM'e~h them for most'important inte ng,o~ of this des cription. We are p#e ty :nach as, emi grants gewivarrive4I etranag .laind, andWit oufd be au ~tr *bjWh the. $othm woulds inoerely Gprca~if tk. Suirelary of 8 tsol~j ~ his to bet done.-:Gohsw '3?t [From the Petersburg Express.] Soith Caro1%oa. A portion of the Riciimond press has recently, in speakitg of the disastrous results - tio Virginia by the secession inovenient, very truly laid all our suf. feringe at the door of South Carolina. That State is qnquestionably chargeable with the whole catalogue of woes by which we have been afflicted, and un der which we are still,,and will be for a long time. groaning. Previous to the election of Lincoln, her leading polti. cians, her press and her peoplk had. for years, been manifesting a spirit of disaf. fection for and hostilty to, the Federal Government, which brooded only multi. plying troubles to the country. Hatred of the Union was the universal feeling in that State, and it was not concealed. It was evident long before the election of 1860,'that sie would eagerly embrace the first favorable opportnnity for prac. tically carrying out her cherished scheme of a "Southern Confederacy." The triumph of the Abolitionists in the eloc tion of Mr. Iiicoln was received in Charleston . with uproarious rejoicings. Why ? Because it afforded what was pronounced to be good ground for sepa ration from the North, and the occasion was embraced in tlie hotest kind of haste for precipitating upon t.he South the issue which for more than a quarter of a <:entury had been threatening to involve the two sections of the Union in bloody conflict. South Carolina was a unit for rccession. There were scarcely a hun dred of her people whose hearts wore not thoroughly and irreclaimably enlist. ed in its favor. They would listen to no appeals or argumens addressed to them from without in behalf o( temper ate and conciliatory measures. Vir ginia, at that time, was decidedly, over. whelmingly, opposed to disunion. We did not think that secession was the remedy to be applied in the case.* We thought that, as Mr. Lincoln had been fairly ind- constit.iitionally.elected, (how. ever-obnoxions the platform on which he stood,) and that, as the South had gone, into the election and was a party to it,-we thought, that., in view of these important facts, her proper course would-be to abstain in .the onset from all resistance and -to 'vXait until the new President should commit an overt act that would justify a resort to extreme n-asures for self.protection. AI'his %was what. we conceived to be the wisest al>d safest policy, and we accordingly urged it with all our ' humble ability in the long interval which clapsed . between the ele-tioni and the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln. Bitt notjting could restrain South Carolina. Abutting her eyes to consequences and'her cars to moderate oouusels, she determined to plunge heels. over head into the fiery abyrs, under the lamentable delusion that she would emerge not only in safety but. wit glory. EaRch of the other Cotton Statee hesitated in being the first to "break the ice" in the affair, but allpf them as good as pledgom) themselves to follow the one that would be -bold enough toiset the ex. ample. So South Carolina instantly went to work, and in six weeksafter the news of Lincoln'a election had beet re. ,ceived in Charleston, she was, as uch out of the Union as an Ordinasce of Se. cession, passed by a Convention of her people, coul put her. Six othier Sitates rapidly followed suit.- The Border States held ,back for a while and 'Vir ginia, especially, was slow and 'reluctans to throw herself into the boiling perilous waterp. .It was not until- tle last me mont, when *he coeuld -not longer pro . tract her decision, that she; in an 'eyil hour-, joined the ill-st.arred Confederacy --and in so doing~ exposed herself to the brarit of -the ,gigantic and desolatin'g war which was then comnmenoin. In South Carolina the Ordinance of Seces sion was greeted with the un~iversal :ac-. clamnations of the people. .It was haieod with enthiusiastic delight and'with pub. hiovejoiemngs from one end *t the-other of heriland. flow little did it entollito the thotuqhts of the shiouters that their soigs' of joy would be ehmig~e4 itohbit ter wadmig., and thai thtie'delig$as direai of an independezt, ~pwrtauf prtsperous "Southern ' pfeero #ould end in such -4e apU~t relities as are these wh4b'pis tto the, ploture of ththV.jl onurishinig State. oiaOt Carolina of 1860 tiih ti~~i 4. imd~f 186&. an4 h6 *n m19ttIful the ohange ws ' four itethvenfl yegrs .ha*e wOne ow| '~%hrl~on ipe H '9 , ity and sines. Of $20,000,000 in railroads no dividends can be expected. Of Ave-, thoumnd houses in Charleston ;fif.eert hundred have been burned, and oth:ere almost frreparably damaged. Of estates of decendents and minors, and of proper t Lin litigation, four-fifths ate reprusented by Oonfederate securities, and are thom fore valueless. Of our many merchants. lately of large capital stud unblemishedl credit, few havd assets to pay the small' debts against them at the bogInning of* the war. Of the many large and valua&-. ble estv.tes in Beanfort District-and- the adjacent islands, all have been abandon. ed, and many have been sold for taxes. Of the large cotton estates still further from the seaboar , many have been desolated. Of the cottoi on hand at the beginning, and raised during the war, (amounting in value to at least $20,000,000,) the larger portion has been taken or destroyed. Of tbe stock. horses, hogs, cattle, farming implements, utensils and furiiture- and silverware, all but an inconsiderable amount have been consumed, destroyed or taken. Of &li0 money in the hands ofour-citizens a the commencement of the war, or accroing from the sale of property, or the prac tice of professions, or the payment of debts, all has been vested in securities,-. of which nine-tenths have 'no possible. value. 01 the debts uncollected, few are expected to 17e paid. Of ;he funds of churches, colleges, charitstble institni tions and societies, all also, or nearly all, have been stink., Of tlo lands of the State not held by the government, little has any market value. Into this fright. ful gilf of ruin .has also been ae t the value -of four hundred thousand slaves, estimated a few years since at $200,. 000,000. And 'thus, therefore,ot the $400,000,000 worth of property in this State in 1860, but little more thian 0, 000,000 now remains. " ; "Sovon-eigths of her operty lost, her fairest citys in, ashes, her soi.1 in every direction pierced, torn and -blasted by the red ploughshare of war, thousands of sons slai0 and other thousands maim'ed and crippled for life, her homesteads de. stroyed, her people impoverished these are'the fruits of the tree of Seces. sion, which she planted and waterell to maturity I But- she is not alone in her sufferings. Ten other States. misled by her example, are sitting in sac k.clotle and ashes alongside of -her, sorroving over the black aud'dismal spectacles of ruin and misery within theiselvds, which rise before them in every direc tion." DUTY OF SOUTH EnN CONVRNTioNS. We eudorse the following from the re marks of tbe Nab-lhez Courier upon the. Convention nlow in' session in, the. State: "The wok for the Convention seems simple enough. The very fh't of the election iof delegates to a Gonventiow gal, led for such purpose as avowed, is a declarattion by the people that they ao cePt the tenn offered by the President. ana wish -to Td'usie th.Ir dities as eitizens of the United States. COugmli. ance with these terms coisists'simply in faithfnily Supporting the Constitution And the Union, .and gnuanteeirig; 6e. dom to th. negro. The flist pa-tof heviodition is ooigiied with, or ratlier the evdneof sueh templiance is given, by each individual, in'takag he~ aaes oath ; and the second part Is allt,hat as left for the' q9#vmnton tQ fulfdh a This is short and sipe hr is nothing in it~that ought to 6dei y the- Convention more than two) day4 ropn the. day. ofits orgamimationi. Thset. eed-be fib review of our late past. $tdrynanj'm~nbers enouigh. -.)eloo e ome~front decel1 matrons gnd;,eoI ~boult ,"negro auf fage," or sy~thitrg relating to the fmtste of the seogro, except& the mnattox of ihe. doi.a All disoussion relat p else b~t tleq Wptldituend y possibility, acomplish ag hbut. positvpbarm, - 6 ~&hat hat ledge eparoth hiis words. Sb fl' GEOUGIA -- Hoirurr. 01LARES. 43 KYOND ArL- mtUS. a ro.--The S.aainsh Hanwsaye: ell Cobb, 'who was in Augusta-se. s eiressed 'an -eardest desire to tln a rlyn t rmer oit lIon ihe.k tw., Sitrhe qusaid coal cut for all, smit, romnt d will :911a t3 t d tfeson josa ces& es a tearfkr dire e.~o -aiiedi