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Il r -H-ER -A-LD -Devoted to t e Ii sepia , n of General Information OLUME I. NE BERRY, S. C., E NESDY, JUNE 148. NUMBR 5 STE WEEKLY HHERALD . IS PUBLISHED. AT '. NEWBERR Y C. H., TERMS, co FOR SIX MONTHS, IN ADVANCE. Payable in Cash or Provisions. } Advertisements inserted at $1 'per square; for "?irst i iertion 50 cents for suhsequeiit.inserLious. arrtage n t~ ' TReralFnvitatior t r "nn- ' arirCommunications of pe son:lnterestcharged as advert ents. . CoMXU 1CATED. What Shal We'fo? Is it better'to write 4he truth or withhold it ? Is it befter to state fac'ts to the people 'as they are, so that they may be enabled to know their ,positon, or to play "hide and. seek," with them accordiug to the political *way, and. delude them still further down the road to ruin.. Which is .preferable ?.. The demagogue would say don't.do t i It wont do. Don't, Qpen their eves. You'll-1 never get ofice. Well, we-ha'e decided that we re-now in ' kee country, where a man can ex pre$ s is opinini n withont ear ol hia ai,gfted of he happens to differ with sectional party policy itud views. - We believe that the people must I and.sttould know the truth, the whole truth of the present state pf affaitt., - The enerni. order No V), ennnating from Nlnjor Gvner.rl. (ilimore, miliiarv commander of ihis State, is ah index of tle policy to be adopt - " d tb tli. U. S. nthorities witlr reteence to the matter of re-c"onstruction. ..The exccitive ofli ers or the insrgent States in his department, viz: A. . MX';r:th, of this State ; .Jos. Ei -:roVwe, of (in",'va A. A. -Alisou, of Fla., who 'have i sed pr'ochunm:tions, .are set down as iraiturs. and their" prMelaniations are declared etul nut,i vid. The people ar ennjrined to give - nto lcedtoth.bem or anf'orher piv.ma ,ons un- I the l..5. '.at hOlities. It is atnne+lmC'r! that the black race are free * vitizts arlt thtat they will be prot.'cted as stlch. Citireus, whit' -!id black, are remioded that it is th eir duiy to observe the laws of compensated Iater., The goverinment of the . U. S. i ill1nubtless ale kinownrat an early day the .iet.hod to be -t td on sttti,g or .iiig the exereiss of jeir politioai.rights. This much isce-tain attld coihisive: the ef azs et' 'a une, he his ptizitiun what it may in t cQ-eali rebe!lions States, to restore- theoo " litii cal-ri_hts of ihe States, will not be-recogmzed - by the C. : t thorities. * . tIns situa tion, the question gat'urally arises, -'What shall -we do ? Me ii seem to be iti a pet .ect stand, stal;,nt a dead balt, They seem to be amralvzeil'; nanr seh-'bc 1aftd1v cousciias t aybey are living beings. The .effe t fthe amegro being a freedman seems .almott ~to dest1oy .%he wits of many. toipe seem to..be outraged, iand.harp iess:antly about the-constitution,laws, &c.' isotne seen not wiirng to 'all in with the " *ecent changes. ?ome are still talking of some thur tlht'yto turn up, for which there it not the leas; tougdition. i'tis Ls hoping against hope. It'is folly. . ,t is the heighth of nonsense. We - qote-for the benefit of all,, the logical as well as the commtsr sense views of Gov. Magrath, in his ret4nt aidresse Ife says: "I urge. upon you --.low citizens, the resumption of your peaceful puirsuits, a&4 the adaptation of yonyselves to thoseebhges which may be madegn. .yone con dition. - Do not: be misled by extcitemenat.:(a nmo heed to pastion. Deal resolutely with facts. * Look. the- truth calmly .i-n the face. Spill no uove 14od. Aeeept $vith the dignitywh even 'misfortune :can commn ti1A .:~ n wdehI you caUnot avert." .This ja thej angua~ge ~ of' the late-able governor .of the.State ; pram,l statesnianlike, honest and appropriate. .It ia4g * thme 'point. ~It is the beet of advice. "Reason * overns .tIV wise man and a cudge4 the fool." Thst the institution .of slavery as it was has ceased -to exist., is bey6iAd the shadot of a doubt. - There is ino use for ariy one to deceive himself v:ith hopes to th^e con:rary. It is irrevoTcably abolished. The negro-is no longer to be cort sidered as a chattel or transferrable- property. 'The soon'er therefore every one can induce him self to believe this the better.. .Whether it will * improve his conditioni as ~our northern friends - - think, time and circ4ustances alone will deter mine. . - What we should do now is not to lament .and woa- over what has been done, but to throw -aside all despondency, rise up like' ment who h~ave somnetinm' to live for, and go to work ilaan. fully and heart7v. It is the only atternative left. What signifies sitting down, folding oar arms, aeting sulkflr, wishing and hopitgg fog better] 'times. We cap only make the tjones bgter by *bestirring ourselves. In she language of~ por Richard, "Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hope will die fasting. Theie are no giswithcut pains, then proceed to work. H that bath a trade bath an estate,and he that hath' a oalling'hath an'edilce' of profit and honor, but then the trade moust be worked at and the calling 'well followed or neither t.he- estate nor the oeice will enable one to pay.his taxes."I What is the use to complain and fret ? .It is c.,. at'd r -. The neonief theSouth took up the sword to vindicate and assert what they called? their rights. -They submitted the n#&tter to t arbitrament of arms. They fought long an well, but th& firal.re ult was uafavorable' an ended in their overthkw. It Ias their own pr position. They .threw down the ga ntet. I wass Aaken up. For the consequen ..o " ots! can be blamed, but themselirs.' "never nn or a nation gb to war, it nmust be expected no mattsr how one 'may philosophise on itt ti ends and purposes.- Everything is fair in That is the long and short of it, 'and all histo " ! teaches; to the victors belong the spoils, as w as va victis! - Since, however, the affair hasterininated dilL ferently than we expected,-for if two parties go to war one must prevail. Let-us not act as fool and madmen, but submit with as good a-grace a possible to the powers. that be, and try by al means in our power, to become good and usef citizens, to commence building up, repairing an esnscitating a badly damaged and atmost ro ined and bankrupt section of country. It is th best thing we can do. It is imperatively demand ed. .It iiof no use to be conjuring tip what evil wilLbe or what will happen. Like Frankenstei n in the plav, to be frightened at the monsters o our own creation. No, no, let 'us be more ph r losophic. "Sntlicient unto' thb'day - is the-,v thereof." , "Whate'er betides, by destiny 'tis,done, Ahd better bear like n:en than vainly seek to shor." What shall we do? Let the blacksmith, th tailor, the carpenter, the shoemaker, the farmer the platner, the liwyer, the doctor, the minister or iuan of w'hatever occupation or'profession, a once turn his attention. to work. There is at abundance to do. The "Creator giveth us raiJ and fruitful seasons" and causeth "the herb t grow for the service oft man," but it is equall true that only ie who tilicth his land shall b sati,.fied with bread, while "she slrggard'sl" >e in lar,est and the idle soul shall sfTer -hung;l "Idle hcarts only the dark future 'orightens. Play the sweet kess 'woulc st thou keep them What shall we do? Do not get worried, exc ted, uneaCy. "Air dangers-are. not deaths," andi van will 1R d that the con4ition o society, of te, human race,. South, will, by no means, he half t. ad as street corner soplistsand chiney-dorn tatesmnen are ilisptsed, with a nod of the head poitiv lv to predict. We firrely believe that il, the peopie of the Southilil esChew politics fot the present, slop discussing what ivi!] be done b the Federal Congress, what is right. and wha is not according to their' vews, and 'put th.i shoulder to the wheel, like earnest ninded me the progress an march of the South will he upv wards and onwan s. We )lave every facility in the way of climate nateial. tesou:c,s, wealth, &e., to make of" the South, independent of tbfb slave. institution, as it v as, one of the most glo rio lands that the sun ever shone .tpon. I4, the people of the S6h- wake ap to a fit of nergy, will and active determinnation and forthwith will be diffued a business like vitality sending its galvanic impulses to ever.v branch of productive industry ; nbt distant'will bg the pe riod wzen-curling volumes of smoke and flanm,, will beween rising like volcanic ieruptions, spiring joy' instead of terror. FPoin the frna of eery mineral locality,' thousands of wa falls will be taxed to the utmost extent of theh capacity ; macLinerf will fill the land with t noise of' its ceaseless revglations, n-ecbanic genius and entgrprise will-A used and a kened, while the progress a ngrncul"tural pros 'itv-illimitable fields of wheat, oats and rye their surfaces rising and falling as the waves the sea; corri fields bowing -downijundr th. weigh-roling meadows sinking under thn he;vyburden ; cotton fields white as the drt siebk ; orchards displaying ntich i -of~ e1 color and shad'e, will fill the soul-of the beholj with admirationt and secure a homnag comm - surate with her rich and- fertile broad dgnai4 rThen, may we say in ' devout aspiration, of 4 home,of the citizen-.of the -South, a/tlie insp~rd burd said of"Jerusalem, 'Peace be withia ty walls and prosperity within thy palaces." . Whata4shall we do e' Learn to bear mnisfortuye like a Socratic pgilosopher-to be good and u4e ful citizens, to atteng faithfully to our espect 'e duties, to inculcate lesso'bs of moraltjand 0 dience to the laiws of the iand; to practde industry, patience. and econonm're - bering as aretravel in the f'uture alongle the wy of. Mie,.'to practice as weli as to-imes a the mintas of9those who look up-to g fo~ a "To avoid politiciana and demagognes as would the devil, and never to break up a government with the Utopiane forming a better. The London Times says tha.t our war the Southi has been waged as a waTr of su gation. Indeed it hasn't, but our war. th Great Britain, if we have. oneg wil e. course we dont want a war with- her, but ~e onfess th'at we should like to have anc4e Trent afuair occur about this time. There are between teenty and twenty-fle thouand rebel prisoriers at Powit Lookou, most of whom will soon t.akt the oath of die giaic and be discharged. ,mnesty Proclamation of Pres. Jobnson. Whereas, the Ptesident of the United 'Sta on the eighth day of December, A. D., eighe hungel and sixty.,three. and oii the twenty-sixth_ day of 3Arch, A. )., eighteen- hundred and six ty-fouu did, with the object to suppress the exJ isting rebellion,.to induce all persons to return to loyalty and to restoi;e the authority. of the Uni IWtates, issue p , oatious =eferi ng.. a nesty an doan to ce to persons who h ;directly' er.bypliation ; rtici.ted iu the cebel lion- an. Wherea nanypersons, who "had .so.engaged in said re b n.4ave since the issuance of said proclanatio.. led or neglected to take the ben- l efits offered. theteby; Whereas, many persons, who have been justly deprived' of all clain to amnesty and pardor theretrder by'reason of their ,participatior, di reetly or by . implication, in said rebellion and contifined hostility to the governmient' of t,he ,U.. States since the. date'of said proclamation, hiow desire'-to apply for and obtain amnesty and par To the eid, therefore, tlat, the . authority of the government of the United St:,es may be res :ored, and that peace, order aAd ;.-eedom. may be established,.I, A,bra:w Jo6sso.'; President f LheUited States, .do proclaim and declare *hat hiE grant to.ai petsoWwlro bnve diroctly tr in tly partiipe'd exisdg rebel. idn, &#pt as hereiftCr exipted, antnestyand pardon, with. iogoff1 rights of proper tv, .cept as ' ves: snd except in cases chereteadptoce , sder tl ; , las of the United=S;ates providing for the confiscation of property' bf persbins engage in rebellion, have' )een instituted, but on the condition, neverthe ess, that every such person s x, ake.-and su I ,cribe the' following oath, .o neirspation, and f ,henceforward keep.and maintaIiiI oath invio ate, and which oath shall 'be registred for per uanent-preservation, and shall be -of the' tenor mnd eff'ect-illowing, to wi :' - J-c .I- , do solemnly swear or aflirm, in )esence of, Ahmigh ty God, "tiut I .will hence orth faithful'y -upport and defend the consticu er, abide 'by and faithfully support all law'and roclamations which have*eeuu uade during 4he xisting rebellion with refefrence to the emanci tion,of slaves. So help .me God. The fo lowing' classes of persons are:excepted 'roem 'e benefits of this proclamation ' Fiiisr-Ail1 who are, or sialliate been, pree'. ended civil 01' diplomatic. ofleers, or otherise lomestic, or foreign rgents of the pretended oudecrate government.. ;epcn-All who left judicial stations' under be- Uited States to :id the rebellion. TIRD-4ll who shall 'have been. military or aava fficers of said pretended Confederate gov nrent'above the rank of Colonel in the irnry n lieutenant in the navy. FoUrr-Alf who left seats in the Congress of tie United States to aid' the rebellion. . rrri'--All who resignCc or tendered resigna-, ions of their commission. in the army or rfavy f the United States to evade duty in' resisting :he rebellion. SIrxrn\-All who havo engsgeil in any way in reat-ng otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of ar peirsons'.foun& ii the United States serviee, s officers, soldiers, seamen, or in .other capaci ies. - SExrrr-All persons who have. been. or are hsentees from the United States for the .purpose f aiding the rebellion. EIGHTH--All military. and naval officers .in the ebe serv'ice hLei'er ed 'ated by the govern nent in the' Mlitary Academny at West Point, or h United States Naval 'Acadetny.. - Nai---llpersons who held the pretended ifcsof G~overnors of States mn insurrection t theUtd States4. states, and passed beyond eT 1~ ral miuitary ines into the so-ealled Confederate States for the pnrpose of aiding tlie rebellbon. EtystrI-All persons who have been en-ga ged,in the ,3estruction of' the commer.eCe of the nited Sates upon the high seas, and all persons ho haye made raids into the United States from ~mda, oi- been engtged in destroying the coi,n-I merce of' tie United States upon the lakes and river that sepa~i'rte the British. prormees from the Unitestates. - T wELFr.-AII persons ,who, at the inne when theyseek to obtain the bene6ts hewcof by. takingr the oath' herein prescribed, are btaniiary, naval1 or civil confinement or custody, or under bonds1 of the civil, military or naval athrities of aents of thc United Statesas8 p$ris4oners of..war o persons. detained for~ offences of any kind ei thefore-draftegonRviction. THuiTENTH -Al e.rsons W'hoharonfti ly 'participated.i's said rebellion, and the emai.na td s'alue of whosedtaiable property is over-twch ty thousapd dollars. FoRTEETI.---Al persons who have taken the. oah of-amnestY as prescribed i11 the president's proclamation.~of' December eight, A.--D. one ghbu-. sand eight hundred and sixty-five, ,or an oath of' alegiamce ib the goternmenlt tf the U. States since the date of said proclamation, anud ~'who hav not thenceforward kept arid m aitate d the UDm inriomateC P90ided, thnt specdal applhicnaon may. be niae to the President for pa'rdon by an.y per *Sf' bi-elQ1to the eie':pted ci'mes, and siih elemency will b o liberally extented. as may. be. consistent with she facts of the case and the .peace and digiity of the United States. The Secretary of State will establish rules.ar*d regulations 'or administering and ret:ording the said aninestf oath so'as-to insmre,its benefit to the peoplq; ard guard the govermnueui against fraud. * In stirnionr whereof, I hav. hereurft se iny hand auti .nsedthe seal othe Iste'I ws to be a16xed. Don a c iety of .inton,ti4ey:i " - day of May, in i iAS Mur-LorW, {fe thou= sand eight -hundretand sicty-fve, aed of the independence of the !United Stteteighty eighth. - ANDREW. JOHNSO5." By the President: WM. H. SEwARD, Secretary of State. FRpit THE EHASLEsTON Cou -Rd Free JAbor. IEAIDQL"ARTEES ORTHEE )ISThIcT. A Department of the Soutfi, Charleston, S.C., April.'23. Tok aters.r8sing oos the north bnk of the Ashleo, Cdbper and 'Wando rivers, and the Lower Sanee, Blackt Pedee and Wadafaw rivers: Numerous applicitions have been . made to - me for iltformation as to.the policy.to be adopted on the subject of labor. All can .ne&rstand the importance 6f'7aking a crop the present season,-a d foreseetheomisvy and suffering consequent upon its .1ilure. In the present unsettled state of th countrg, - nd in the absence of any' recognized State. an thorities,.I find it my duty tu assume control of the plantations near the military lines, and order as follows: - 1st. The-planters, after taking the oath of al leg ance, wll aissemble the freedmen,. (atey eir slaves) and inform them- that they are free, tesr n-xr s for $UPPO { "; rd. Equitable contracts in" ritig will. be made by the- ners of the land witi'Ahe freed Men for the cultivation of the lad 'daringi the present year. t Pa1 ment will be wade in $ n and tht r Ince of onebalf the crop zeecolumendet as fair em nsation for the labor theah146rd furnish bg .ubsistenge'until the crop is gatheed. .ie contractJ will be .sbuitted to th. "nearest miitarv and naval comm e- for approval When the above requirements*are complied with, protection will be granted as far as a necessjtyill allow ;.but where no contrac s made, the etop will be considered focfeited r the use of thy laborers.- Should-the owners- efase to cutivate it, they will Se considered as embar rassingthe Government, and the lan4 will be usea ?br colonies of feedmen from the interior. S Gen. Comd'g. A gentleman, who traveled on the Central road yesterday, informs as he net nnmerous parties of negroes on their way toward. their oI homes, wiu had tried the experiment of being free in Macon, with nothing to est,and no employmeit to earn money Their wretqb ad condition was beyond description, manynof them being alniost famished. He was ailso in fored that there were many hundreds laying rn woods'i the vicinity- cthe railro4in the same state of destitition; and that -at one point.three men in a single squad had died from starvation on Friday nighL 'Humn&nity would dictate That something be dotne. for the seci'Aof ecQntry wn wil. .w-- -- found, is, owing to.the. ages almost destitct of su01i11 forthewhites who are residen'ts, and ~they cannot possibly aid the runaway negroes.-Z . 4<w BRowN -Te.icnnatie.Commercial says i-many -suppose Governor. Brown, of Georgia, has been harshly dlealt with1,and the benevolent and forgiving think of the Gover nor as. languisiirgqi a loathsome dung~eon. A gentleman who called on the- President in the. evenig,. s few days ago was by hinibmade acquinted with "GofernorRTtn, of Georia who was going about the cit in a bsek,with out a-guard, and had caldat the White ose. - GRlEENBC-s- T~1?tb eeah kaoW1 that~ by aet of Congresstnie States~ !fesry Note.-eeral rmed "geen- 4 bAek"-4re legal tender for. all dues -except import and export dulties and the ierest on the public debt. Gold and silvcr can only rje rated as articles Qf mcrchandize. The~ should be undertod by one and afl. - MN- M-rm;v 15 Sr-.Eav!LE - *~ Unt xce(ing of the ciizelJtOf 'Mmmernll n'd the surround.itrI '-ontry was calledi by the initendan.to( the. town te take pkre~ Oi WIvudndaf.