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1. J11*"-"'''!.' Articles of Agreement. STATE OKSOUTli CAJ. UNA. JjlSTJITCT. The Agreement Entered into between of tlie one part, anil the Frceilnien ami "Women of l'lantatiou of the other paxlWitncssah: That the latter agree, for the remainder of the present year, to reside upon and devote their iahor to the cultivation <>!' ihe plantation of the former. And tjjuy fur:her agree, that they will in all re: peels confirm to such reason aide ami necessary pinuhti n rules and regulations as nun' pm-cribe: that tlnty will not keep any gun, pistol, or other od'wsivc weapon, or leave the r-h.ntation without the permission of their employer; that in all.thi'.ig* c. ..neetcd with their duties as laborers on said plnntstion, they will yield prompt ob(dicr.se to ell orders IV mi or Ills agent; that they will be orderly and quiet in their conduct, avoiding 'drunkenness and other gross vice:-;' that limy will rivt misuse any of the plantation tools, or agrl. ultura! implements, or any animals entrusted to their rare, or any boats, fiats, carts ' or"wagons; that tlicy will give up at the expiration of the. contract, all tools; ,tc., belonging to tuc plantation, and in ease any proper** ty of any description belonging to the plantation shall he willfully or through negligence destroyed or injured, the WiluiT of the articles so destroyed shall be deducted from the portion of the crops wlr'cli the persons so offending shall he entitled to receive under this contract. ' Anv devj.it ion fro in the conditions of the foregoing* contract-shall, upon sufficient proof, bo punished with dismissal from the plantation; At* I?t on/alt ivihof rouimni" ne Kn Wl 114 V/VliV,? I ?1U ii 11VI UO IliHJ VU 14^1^,1 U'.iliVU by tlic Provost Onuri; and the person or persons f.o dismissed; sliall forfeit tbo whole, or a pari of iiis, her or their portion of the crop as the Court iuav decide. In consideration of llie foregoing services dtily performed, agrees, after deducting bushels of corn for each woltk animal, nx dusivcly used in cul tivr.ti ug the crops for the present year, and the iiueunt of Cotton tiercs?ary to pay for bagging and ropes, lAlun: v \- v t<- the said freed, ween and women, one-half of the remaining cotton, corn, rieo, peas, p?iiatoes, wheat., C,-c., ^ made this season. He further agiv?-s u> furnish the usual rations until the contract is ner, formed. All cotton seed produced on the plnjitapon io to be reserved for the i:Ciofthe plant alien. Tho. freed men, women and ehildrci; are. to be treated in a manner consist'.nf 'vi:h :Jicir freedom, iNeeessnry medic:1.! 'ivnuaneo will' be furnished as hmavefnm. Any deviation iYo::i Ihe conditions of ibis contract upou tLc pan' c-f ths s*'d or his agent or agents, .shall oc punish-! oJ in such manner as ma\ bo (IcUe-nr'nod i-v ] Provost Court or a military Commis.-ion. This ! agreement to contimTe t.i!i the Hirst ilav of Jan* i nary, ISGG. Witness our hand's r.t this | day of 18G5. ?| ? ? New Vokk Miij.!0.\k.s:i:>.?- Wm. II. Astor is sixty .five years old; worth millions; a round-' faced, pleasant, anict mannered "onilcnian on ! the cloudy side of sixty; owes two thousand dwellings, is a lenient landlord. A. T. Stewart, tliib, nervous, dignified; vorth thirty millions, and libcial i:t e;:s(sof benevolence which appeal to his ^sympathies. ! Commodore Vunderbill i? white.-haired, red chrkcd,, seventy, worth forty niiiiiwus, drives a fas* horse, keeps a fast boat, controls two fast' raihoad companies with fast men, and gives 'awav- his money very lavishly. \ugustJBelinont, twenty millions, coar>.e, atom. ';fty, and very German. George Opdykc, fi-e millions, fifty, but looks younger; an Hgroablcgenti?.i.?:.n. J*hks Gordon Bennett, live tuilllors, seventy-t'nrce years old, diguified in manner, broad i Scotch accent, lenevoleut to the poor. The venerable John Ii. Gibbon, Esq, has; been appointed by President Johnson ..ssaycr j1 j'or the Branch Mint at C'bniiotU*, N. C, \ ? # ~mm*mygfci nwymriinrV.iTrVfl *&** CAiTXI>EIV, FRIDAY, A UGLTT 4. Mr. H. F htti.s-.ny. it will scon by advertisement, has open. . new stock o. .i.ujrs, medicines, &c., at the old aud w. . *nown stnti! ??1" 11. W. Annot, llrst door above A. M. x it. M. ?en> Ei.r's store lioiuc. He calls the attention of tlie public to his stock. Give him a call. -------- Thk Charleston Dailv News.?By . referring to prospectus in onothc-r column, it will be. seen that Messrs. McMillan, Catiicart and Norton' are about commencing the publication of a daily newspaper en' tilled the "CharlestonHaiti/ 1Vciim." TVc wish them every success in their new undertaking. Charleston is much ;u r.-sed of another daily jounj.nl, and we have no doubt but that under the management of those gunn. ?.?.. ~ .1 :11 ir?it.. a ? ~ ? uuiuru i:iu wiiut- wwi w \uu) bujjj>jii."u* nuy pur-runs vvisliinsx to.subscribe to tbo tfcics ctui have their subser:j'l ion forwarded immediately by calling at the Journal cfiieo* 0 Ei:vuj;n'in<: jMk?:iia.\'ts.?We are glad to see by advert i;-:c;neul in another column that Mr.1 J. N. UobSuJT, of Charleston, hss resumed his commission business at liis old stand, (J2 East "Bay. Webope the day is not liir distant, when llic old city -will again become an emporium in the commercial world. Mr. Itonsox won the heart of our people by bis urbanity and prompt business talent during the war pressure, while engaged in I ho bonevolcul task of supplying Charleston and Columbia with provisions. Persons holdiug cotton, tiour, corn, bacon or produce of any k.ind who desire to ship to the city at the opening of the Rail Road iu a few weeks, will find liiiu prompt and particular in all assignments made to him. Merchants wishing to lay in their fall stocks, or persons wishing lo make any purchases or having any business connected with the rcntin^of houses, the payment of tax or seeking any information of city business will find r.11 demands cheerfully met by addressing Un> a line. We bespeak for,his enterprise a liberal patronage. On the fourth page of this pt^ier will be found his excellency Governor Perky's proclamation, ordering an election f^r members of a convention, Ac., Ac. Tl! people of this district liavc now before them the highest anil most important duties that were ever connected with the elective franchise. They have to select two members' of a Convention, upon,^.decrees of which, all tho iot^f-pf-our beloved Stat*rwflh)6uig ?iijKtn which vn'll turn" the destiny of our children and eiir cbildrens children. Let us urge our citizens with a saddened ln-art, yet overflowing- with love and dev'iiion to our "Id home, to select their two very best inm f"i- litis post,?men of enlarged and libeVnl v?i vi_- fif miiiil 'Hilt h/int-S'until- wit' .1 iwl?l?llon. ::iui titisc-lflsli devotion 10 their country; of intellect expanded by the throbbing* of noble heart. V.'c have such men among us; lot us select them, eschewing all seif-.-.ecke's. 11 is true souse of our best men sire vet under the c\fC'jit.ious of Prt.-i'lejif. Joil.v.SQX.'but we I: vo others as good and true; let their services ho demanded; and let up true man withhold the service demanded of him. The Administration party at the 2v"orlh and the Black Republican party sire waging hot war on the subject cf universal stifl'rage. Tho President and his parly Per a gradual bestowal of the franchise on the b!:a lis, tiinl r tho management of the States within which tlicy reside.. The Republicans going iu for inime'iinto universal suffrage and unconstitutional atiieudiuciiis to the consthution. The Black Rcpulicans recently Ging out their banners bearing on litem, "universal amnesty]!o the rebels," ''universal suflrago to the blacks;" an ! the administration party, with sotnu little show of reluctance and modesty, accept these terms upon tho conditiou that the sufi'rage shall bO Cl'lldliullv lie*!or.'Ofl iind UllflftP rpmilntiAna pf tUn. i States respectively interested. These great questions, more vital to the South than those involved in the recent war, are discussed as if the people mostly concerned had no interest, and wero tohove no voice in the matter. Are theso people Mad; Hart nut blood enough been shed? Shall a war between races eucrimson the lairest portion Of our bud? V i 1 they force such a vrar upon us, with a knowledge that such a war cau only cease with the oiiinction of one of the rotes ? In the name of God, ;f nothing will answer them but the elective franchise for all ''black citizens of Hat United States,'them have it, but not within the borders of tho..g?itliern States., Let them colonize the ucgroes; Icttbeni build up in the North western territories tcrd or three Stales forihe tir/ks, and let them hire 'everything there ash-lack as n-qh', from a governor and ranr^'-crs t # ofcongress down to the boot blacks. Let a new "Dahomey" and "Ashauti" riso far in the interior of the American forests. For Heaven's sake let tliem not . * ? blot the fairest portion of our Atlantic c.>ast? an everburning shame in the very face of tho civilization and refinement of the nineteenth century. The productive labor of the negro has been destroyed in his emancipation; and lias been made an incubus on the soil of ten or twelve States of the Union. What is the remedy which will save the black race for the experiment of civilization ar.4_will preserve th* South from utter and complete destruction ? Wo answer, colonization?gradual colonization?not across the seas?that is impossible?but colonization to tho north-west territories. It could be accomplished easily within five years. Koch instalment would not only prepare homes and food for its successor, but would find in its successor a market for the crops it had produced. Wo know that our page is au humble one, . that wo occupy but an obscure corner of this' afflicted land, but wc believe there is apkKcrnity of truth in those views, and that if some 3cficino of this nature is not drvised, the future ofthe South is dark indeed) and the United States will find h* its conquered provinces valleys of dry bones, instead of peaceful happy homes where peace and plenty abormd. The nineteenth century lias exhibited most remarkable advancements and transitions in all that is material, as well as what may be generalized under tho liead'df the speculative. Among all the wonders presented to our consideration duriDg this wonderful era tliero is no one more striking than this.fact, thatbutafew mouths sinco the people of the Southern Stales presented an instance of devodun and loyalty to the Southern ConfedcracyVnsurpassed. To-day the same people arc as earnest and true in their loyalty to their late enemy, the United States. A fact, at the first glance, most surprising; and yet reflection presents it in a most : reasonable light as the logical sequence of erents.? \ The Southern people were true to the government of ' Minir /tliAt/v* liitf nil llinir* Ii/hiao #/?% Hioh riTwarTMiwant ! were centcrod in the armies of Gens. Lke nod JottsS30K. "SS^iLli the destruction of theso armies perished their every hope, and here llio sagacity of the federal administration oxhibited itself iu a striking manner. If wo had been conquered merely and held as conquer, od provinces, not otrif-w^tdd thoro have been no restoration of good feeling but dosperation would have produced constant outbreaks. ]5ut the Federal government have held out !o Iho people of tlie Southern Slates all the hope that their wrecked position could' justify. Slavery and their cherished rights of seccs: siou were ruinidelessly gone it is true?most of the properly of the South was destroyed, but yet motives for lileanil action remained; and all tlwsc motives have been strongly appealed to; and that those moLives could only be readied through- the oath of i IliVf-ifmru nl'tii*ou<?nt;nr# on Imu I a n e ~*l " UK UWV-!.*, nua ..*11 a source of increased earnestness to the loyally of the people of the South ; for although the oaih was-obnoxious, in the first instance, yet calm and earnest rejection and consideration was necessary to prepare minds to acquiesce in it?that reflection and consideration necessarily led to the conviction that- taking the oath was not only the best thin"o be done, but (hat really tlio.State governments having been destroyed, the Confederacy passed away, and there was no earthly objection to our resuming our fealiy to the United States in the new form presented. This reflection and.consideration proceeding the oath begat, too, a settled serious determination that, as tire oath was taken as an alternative, with a deliberate choice, it wits a most solemn and binding obligation which shut out all nossibiltv t>f reservation and evasion. Tn ntlier words, that the highest moral, religious aud political obligations were assumed individually by each ?he who took the oath. IVo do not censure?wo applaud this universal exhibition of sulmwion lp the necessities of our condition. It is the submission of a true and brave, though conquered people; and the quiet thoughtfulriess evinced by our people now, with the devotion exhibited by them to the late Confederacy, give the highest evidence of the loyalty to be expected from our people in their new relations with - the United States. i TVc know,of but one instance offered in the course 1 of the Southern people of acquiescence in the view and | the course of the government from which wecarnestly \ dissent. "We arc satisfied that it is out a seeming acquiescence, or rather a seeming appthy, resulting i from the engrossing nature of private and publiccares and duties. AYe allude to the view and treatment ? J* w>i3iotftiwBa?w??w?ww? which llie'government holds towards Jeffeiisois * . Davis . * The United Slates government look upon him as ? leader of the late rebellion?the master spirit of the movement; and are disposed to make hn example ol It'tre as a leading rebel and traitor. This is ail entire mistake and the records of the revolution prove it; and it is. unbecoming the people of the South to sit quietly and enjoy the few blessings which peace and pardon may yet have in#store for them, and let him suffer for their dins, without an effort to shield him, at Idst by an ac- ?. knowlcdgomcnt ol the Irurli. The revolution was initiated by the people, in spite of and in many instances, in direct opposition to the will of the politi- , cuius of llie South. It was started in South Carolina ?let the truth be avowed, whether for glory or for shnjno: and if anv classes were more responsible than* otliers, they were the preachers aud women?so if error there was, it eamo from a whole people educated* in Hie school of John*. C. CaLiioun. The members of Congress froffi the Southern Stalesdid not lead in the dissolution of the Union?thejr followed their constituency, and were regarded pretty generally as holding oa to the "flesh pots" in and,, about Washington. Of Jefeersok Davis this was peculiarly so. His love to the Union, his devotion to the "old flag"were well known, and the opposition k to him in the Provisional Government instituted at. Montgomery, anil in the more permanent government afterwards,'resulted from his known devotion^to tho ' Onion; his affinity to the North-western SL^esTand among a few, his aversion to the slave trade. It is universally known at the South, that he was not only not a favorite with the ultra secessionists, but ihat that party were exceedingly hostile and v bitter towards him, denouueing him as a traitor to the South, reconstructionist, &c. It is not pretended that he was any such thing. He was a devoted friend and servant of lite Confederacy?true to tho very last; true when all was lost, true when all others nearly ianed; but j:e is to be admired the more, even by a ioer for a truth and devotion which outlasted every liopo of success. Surely tlio government cannot expect, loyalty from those who deserted a cause to which they had expressed dovoiiun and fealty, when that cause- ? became dangerous. JeffeusOX Davis was not our leader. He was j our servant, devoted aod true, ami each man add woman in tiie couth should petition President Jbnxsox to extend to bim (lie pardon he has proclaimed toils. The public and private charaeter.of Mr. Davis. both give assurances of loyalty to any obligation hoassumes, while the boon of. his pardon would be a claim in the affection of the -whole Southern people. Such .petitions would lie untitled to and would receiverespectful consideration at Jeast; anil even if they accomplished nothing, they would be Titling tributes; from the people of the South to one, who, spire ut his misfortunes and evr?rs, served tliem faithfully audi devotedly. The Atlantic Telegraph. It may not be impossible that already the New and Old World are linked with lightning media, and that national sentiments ofcourtesy are being exchanged betwecu theQueen ofEngland and the President of the United States. The Great Eastern with her 2600 miles of cable, and all the nparatus necessary for the fulfillment of Jts important mission, was tohave bcguD her momentous voyage on tbc Otb or 10th of July from the west coast of IvclancJ to America. It was anticipated that, by the24th of the month, the laying of the wire would be completed. All that*human foresight. . and skill could devise for tbe Atlantic telegraph Las been done, and no apprehension is felt as to tbe consumation of the hopes of the Proprietors only in event of an nnlooked for storm; which, Capt. Andersen, who is to command the expedition, says "never blows long" or strong in the early part of July." The starting point is Valentia, Ireland, and Heart's Content, Trinity Bay, Newfonndlar-d, the destination of the telegraphic fleet. For the success of this noble endeavor, twite undertaken, wo wait with solicitude aad inter? j est to hear. May the first message he?"Peace <ra earth "ood will to all men.i-iVcwr Era of tfo: 25C& ult. ?-? The Spanish Government has uccondiiioEaly placed the war steamer Stonewall in the hands of the United States Government. . , I