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.1 4 & ... ~. S.. '~ *.~ '-~ 4 '.4. _________ FYI rE.. I '1 ' VOL IL WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1866. NO.34. _____________________________________ '4 THE HERALD Is PUBLISERD EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry C. H., . By THOS. F, & R. H. GEENEKEE, TKRMS, $8 PER ANNUM, IN CIURRENCY, OR PROVISIONS. Payment required invariably in advance. Advertisements inserted at $1 per square, for first insertion, and 75 cts. each subsequent in&r tion. Marriage notices, Funeral Invitatiou, Obitu aries, and Communications subserving private interests, are charged as advertisements. Special and I.gal Notices, $1 per square each insertion. The Philadelphia Convention. ADDRESS OF GOY. ORR. PHILADELPIIIA, August 14.-Trains last night-ard this morning were heavily loaded with dekgates and visitors to the great Conven tion, and the hotels are over dowing.. The reception room of the -executive committee has been thronged with delegates registering their names. Every State and Territory is represented. The harmonious feeling of yesterday is still more marked to-day. Fernando Wood, in a letter declining to appear as a delegate, has made hin. many friends. Vallandigham will not go into the Con ven tion ; he has written a letter to that effect. At a meeting of the chairman of the variouts delega tions last evening, the foi lowing business was agreed upon: Each delegation is to report one of its number for Vice-President, one for Secretary, two for the Comrttee on' Finance, two for the-Natiial Union Committee, . two for a committee to wait upon the. Presi dent with a report of the. proceedings of the Convention, one fcr a G nmittee on Credentials, one for that upon organiza tion, and. two upon resolutions and address. There will be no discussion on the resolutions. The interchange of opinions among t'e delegates has ex hibited an'wanimity of sentiment upon this subject that forbids discission. The resolutions. will substantially embrace the prop >sitions contlined in the call for the Copvention, which, is honestly and eordially apjiroved by all delegates here North and South-Republican and Democratic. It "s proposed that the Convention shall 14sue a general address to the country,.and, in addition to the address of the Convention, proper South ern delegartesshould unite in a separate address, stating more in detail the posi tion they occupy, the reasons by which they are influenced, and the results they r 4ope te obtain. An informal mteeting was held last evening of the soldiers of both Northern atnd Southern armies, in whi ch apro position was made and received, with favor, to all a Convention of the soldiers <>f the two armies, at some central point', within a few weeks, where men who fought bravely against each other may ? meet in a.spirit of conciliation and deter mine to stand together in the maintaining the Union and the Constitution.. Governor Orr spoke at the National Guard's Ball, .last mghbt. He said the people.of the South believe they had the right to secede ; the North did not agree on the question, and submitted it to the arbitrament of arms. The North ern interpretation of the Constitution has been firmly and legally established ; a that decision was pronounced on the C field of battle, and the decree is incontro vertible. The South has surrendered her principles, and' accepts the Northern in terpretation; we are willing to abide byc it forever. By this war, the people of the South have, to a very .large extent, been stripped of' their property ; their banks and, their credit are gone. In many localities, the great stand-point of civil~law has been lost. Thus, the peo ple.of the South have fa.r more need of a stable Government than you have; and it is mad folly to charge that they will not fultill their oaths to suppor-t this Go vernment. We claimn this as our Govern ment as well as yours; but, that we may be equal, we must have representation in Congress. It is not just to tax US gna e;clude as from representation. Montgome~ry Blair and others, also, ~spoke. The Convention wil organize in the wigwam. LATEST --P. M.-The Convention as semibled in t he'wigwam at 12.30 P. M. Mr. Randall opened the Convention, saying: Gentlemen, I have to announce that delegates from South Carolina and Massachusetts will now come, arm in arm, into this 2onvention. This announcement was greeted with ~ great applause. The entire audience rising at this moment, Major-General ~ Couch, of Massachusetts, and Governor Orr, of South Carolina, at the head of ~ their delegations, mrarched, arm in arm, with banners flying and music playing. Shout upon shout spontaneously rent, I the air, and tears filled the eyes of the C delegates and electors. ( Gen. John A. Dix was nominated as' I temporary Chairman. In accepting, he said: I regard this as a Convention of no 3 ordmna-y character, not only on account ; of the high ncinl nml politicnl snan ' of the gentlemen who compose this Con vention, but because it is a Convention of the poeple of all the tates of the Union. [applause.] and because we can not doubt, if its proceedings are con ducted with harmony and good judg ment, that it will lead to important re ;ults. It may be tru!v Faid that no body of men have met on this continent under circumstances so momentous and so im portant since the year 1787. [Applause.] The year when our ancestors assembled in this city to form a better Government for the States which composed the con tederation; a Government which has been confirmed and made more enduring, we trust, by the fearful trials wbich it has encountered and overcome. [Ap plause.] . Ten States have yet no repre ;entation in the legislature of this country, nd it is this wrong we have come to protest against, and as much as in our power to redress. When the President )f the United States deolared that the war had ceased, all the States had the right of representatiwn. The oxacting )f new conditions is subnversive to our fational liberty, and dangerous to the >ublic peace. [Applause.] Is this the 3rovernment our fathers fought to es :ablish, or whi.b we have fought to naintain? He trusted that in the de iberations of the Convention the main dea would .e to ch'n-e the present :mplexion of C-ngress, to purify the 1epublic, and hiing it back to its origi lal standard-one countrv-one flag )me union of cqna1 States. After, the appointment of the com nittees on crclentials. resolutions ,-nd' >rganization, the Convention adjourned intil to-morrow, at noon. Senator Doolittlee has been nomi iated in the committee organization as iermanent chairma n. Vallandigharn sent a letter to the Ohio elegation, declining to go into Conven ion ; it will be read before the body o-morrow. Pm1L.DELPYiA, A ugust 15.-Noox Phe Convention was called to order at Loon. The wng?ra:n was crow(ed with elegates and spectators. A large nurn er of ladies were present. General Dix, n the chair. Mr. B!air, from the com ittee on orp".ization, atnnouned Mr. )oolittle for Presidernt, which was re { eived wit' great applause: PmUADEnHI, Aug. 15.-A National oonvention.1'f soldiers of the North and outh is arranged to take place in Sep ember, at Cincinnati.: The leading offi ers of the Unioni and Gonfeder.te armies re active in this work .It will be a novement co-operative with the Union. lonvention. PHILADELPHLA, August 10.--The Comn nittee on Cred'entials reported in favor1 f the admission of Gen. Crosby's Maine 4 [elegation. The let ter~ of Vailandighatm ct with great applause. After stating hat the Ohio de:egation hiad passed eCsolutions endorsing~ him'as a duily lected delegate, his patriotism and fit ess to repi esent his conistituents, and. eclaring tht i rea liness to st-id by him i n the assertion at his righ ts ais a delegate,i hould he deem it proper to present him elf to the Convention, he says: "Yield-( aig my ownt deliberate conviction f duty rd right to almwst ann noiaious opinion nd desire of friends, whose wisdom and: oundness of judgment and sincerity nd purity of motives I may rnot question, 4 o the end that there shall be no pretext,< ven from any quarter, for any contro erted questian or disturbing element in be Convention to mar its harmony or< nder, in anyt way, the results to the ause of the Constitution, the Union andt ublic liberty which shall follow from its eliberations and its action, I hereby ~ithdraw froma the Ohio Demnocratic elegation, and decline taking my seat n the Convention. I am profoundly onscious that the sanctity and muagni ude and the interests involved in the: resent political canvass in the United states are too immense not to demand a acriice of every personal consideration n a struggie upon the issues of which lepends, as I solemnly believe, the pre ent peace, and ull;imately the existence >fa free Republican Gxovernmnent on this otnent. In conlCusion, I trust the< roceedinIgs will be harmonious, the etion wis~e, and that the results w ill bei roned .xith t: iumph."' The follo" ing despatch wvas received romr the President: ['o Hlon. 0. HI. Bro >ning and lHon. A. W.< Randail, Con vent ion, Ph iladeclp ia ; I thank you for you cheeringr and en ouragring de.s at ch. The liager of Provi ence is unerring and will gunide youv afely thronii. Th.je people mus!~t be ru stedVlu I tIi'o co unitr will be restored. y faith is un .uhken as to the ul t imate uccess. (Signed) ANDREW JOHNSON. The Conven; ion adIjourn:ed until to-1 rnrro * at 1 clck,d when tiie Cominrdttee on Resolutionis wvill report. Senator owan is Chairman of the Committee on esol uti ons. PmjILADE.PUIA, AUgust 16--The Con en~tion met at 10) o'clock. The wigwamn ras cron ded to its utmoslut capacity~ af of the audience being ladies. Senator Cowan, from the Committee :n Resolutions and Addresses, presented t declaration of principles, which was unanimously and enthtisiastisally adopted. It declares that the war just closed has maintained the authority of the Consti tution, and has preserved the Union, with the equal rights, dignity and au thority of all the States perfect and un impaired. That representation in Con 'ress and in the Electoral Colleges is a right abiding in, and a duty imposed upon every State, and that neither Con ;ress nor. the General Government has 2ny authority or power to deny the right to any State; that. Congress has no power over the elective, franchise, but that right belongs exclusively to each State ; that no State has the right to withdraw from the Union ; that, on all onstitutional amendments, all the States bave an equal right to vote_; that slavery s abolished anr forever prohibited ; that the national debt is sacred and inviolable; nd the Confederate debt invalid ; recog .izes the services of the Federal soldiers ind sailors, an i the debt due by the mation to them and their widows and >rphans ; and endorses President Johnson 'or his steadfat 'devotion to the Constitu .ion, laws and interests of the country. lie address was prepared by Raymond, >fNew York, was read by thatgentleman, xnd unanimously adopted. The National Committees, Execu ;.ve and Financial, were then announced. Senator Doolittle said, in his opening iddress: It was the first National Con ention in six years, and, in the interim, ,ere had been bloody agony and tears; mUe brothers had fallen and our resourses >een wasted on a thousand battle-fields; >ut, thank God, the assuranceshere tell as peace. has come at last. If the people )f the whole country could see the fra .eral feeling here, there would be no uruggle at the polls this fall ; [great ap )lause ;] but, as a whole people cannot )e here, to witness what is transpiriiig, he greater work rests on us; from this ine until the election of the next Con ress, we shouid be untiring in our foirts to see that the next Congress, if his one shall continue to refuse this acred right of re,presentation to the qual States, stiall recognize them. [Ap )ause.] When that is done, the Union s restored, and when the Union is re tored, we shall be prepared to. enter ipon a higher and nobler career among he nations of the earth than has ever et been occupied by any Government pon which the sun of heaven ever hone. [App)lause.] ognzdb h The Convention was ognzdb h -ection of J. Ri. Doohttle as President. tong the Vice-Presidents arc J. WV. 3rockebrough, of Virginia: John A. ilmer. of North Carolna; Judge Ar(ian, of Sou th Carolina ; Richard 3. L ons, of Georgia ; Judge Randall, of ~loidla ; Cuth berth BuileLt, of Louisiana ; iM. Tibbetts, of Arkansas; D.. J. Bur ett, of Texas; George LI. Houston, of iabama ; Thomas A. R. Nelson, of Ten-. essee. Edgar Cowan of Pennsylvania, s Chairman of the Committee on Reso utons. In this committee, are Geni. ouch ; Senator Dixon, of Connecticut ;~ ~amond, of New York ; Bigler, of ennsylvania ; Reverd' Johnsou, of karland ;Graham, of North Carolina ; Jornor Perry, of South Carolina; C. 3. Kngdon, of Alatama ; Wmn. Younger, if Mississippi ; John R'iy, of Louisiana-; JcDougal, of California, and others. 2 P. M.-The Convention adopted a leclaration of principles and adjourned, ine die. There will be an address issued o the people of the United States. DErrh FIO AL oVERI A MIELON IIN.-WXe clip the following from the orfolk Old Dominion: "Yesterday morning, at about 8 A. M., Irs. Elizabe~th Young, a lady of some 60 rears of age, while on the sidewalk in ront of the dry goods establishment of Jessrs. Seldner, Wertheimer & Co., ~teped on a musk melon rind, which ;lip'ping, caused her to fall. she was nmmediatelv lifted, and taken to the >ack room of tihe store mentioned and a >hysician called in. Dr. James D. Galt :arne immediatel'-, but found the lady in morbund condition. .It is supposed at she fell on her head and side, and hat concuissionl of the brain ensued. ovulsions followed her fall to the iaver.t, and she (died in a comatose We publish the above as a solemn varnino to vevsons in this city who are n the l1nbit'-of throwing melon rinds and ~eeds upon the sidewalks. It is exceed ngly daingerouls, and should be made a ishable offence WORTH l'NowNG--A poison of any ~oncivable description and degree of po eney, which has been swallo" ed, inten ionall- or by accident, may be rendered dost instanti!v harmleSS by swallowing wo gills of swseet cil. An individual vith a "erv7 strong constitution should ake tw~ ice'the quantity. This oil will eoutralize every form of vegetable or nineral noison~ with which physielans n chmniists are acquainted.-Linch Geo. D. Prentice's Personal Beauty. The editors of the Journal and the Courier at Louisville are constantly '-chaffing" each other about their good looks. The last lick is struck by the Courier man, who tells the following story on Prentice: The Journal is very fond of dispara ging our really handsome face. An incident in the life of our neighbor is revived in our memory by his persistent and frequent paragraphs on ugliness. Our readers will remember that several years ago our neighbor tried his hand at lecturing. On one occasion, at an inland city of Ohio, his fame as a wit and poet-a fame, by the way, honest ly won and gracefully won-attracted a very large crowd. Some repairing go ing on in the pit of the theater he was to lecture in made it necessary to lav a temporary flooring over the pit. This flooring was rather a frail structure, and was densely crowded. In about the middle of our neighbor's lecture the treacherous planks gave way, pre cipitating fully one-third of the audi ence into the unknown regions below, This unlooked-for accident caused the greatest consternation among the audi ence, many believing that the house was falling in upon them. Ladies fainted, and all rushed foi- the door. The news that 's theater had fallen, and killled and wounded the Lord knows how many people, spread through the city like wildfire. The sisters of mercv, ever first where good is to be done, were quickly on the spot, alleviating the sufferings of the few who were hurt. Our neigh r, in passing cut of the door, was es ied by one of the sisters, who hastened to him with lint and bandages tnd soothing lotions in her hand an'd loving charity in her heart. "Stop a moment, my. poor man," she said, "and I will endeavor to ease your pain somewhat." "But, my dear ma dam," persisted our neighbor, ."I have no need of assistance, I am not in the least hurt." She looked in his face in tently for a moment, as though hesi tating whether to. believe him or not. But the gas-light shining full upon his .countenance showed her that "there was neither bruise, cut, nor abrasure." "I beg a thousand pardons, sir," she said, apologetically, "I thought your face was terribly mashed up, but I now see it is natural malformation" and the good and innocent creature tripped off to hunt up some one who 'vas indebted to accident and not nature, for his mis fortunes. A CHILD's THoUGHTs.-During the war one of the most respectable families in Charleston was blest by Heaven with the gift of a very fine son, and, in honor of the gallant Southron, then command ing in 'that Depar tment, he was chris tenid Beauregard. When the days of little-Beaurie begani to be numbered by the months, he became the centre of at traction and the loved object of observa tion, with those in whose way he chanced to be carried-so lively, frie~ndly, and af fectionate was he. When the chubby little fellow first learned to lisp his mother tongue, he did not talk,as children generally do. On the contrary, he conversed y ith great ease and good sense-almost s.lways ad vancing some really original, ideas. In the revolution of time came that most doleful of all nights-the one which wit nessed the evacuation of the city by ethe Confederates, and its occupation by the Federals. Thbe night preceding the one on which it was supposed the city would come under the perfect control- of those who had so long and unsuccessfully laid siege to it, the child, concerning whom we write, awoke, and calling to his mother, said: "Mother, my name is Beauregard no longer. Don't call me by that name now..' "Why, my darling, why not call you Beauregard ?" queried the mother. *"Because, mamma, Sherman will be in the city to-:morrow, and if you call me Beauregard he will think I am the Gen eral, and will hang me," responded the little innocent. The mother's bi-ightest jewel was not long called at all ; for Beaurie' s name was, a month after the incident above related -occurred, enrolled among those who had takeu leave of this transitory scene for one where all is an unchanging reality. An amusing spectacle was recently witnessed at Long Branch. There were 1100 guests at the Continental, and 'all the rooms being filled, the proprietor spread aboi.t fifty beds gnd-iammocks in the dining hall. About midnight the occupants each having a sheet wrapped around him, filed out in solemn procession, first to the bar for a drink, and thence into the yard and elsewhere.. The ap pearance of this special file of speechless beings attracted much attention, causing a general "wake up" all over the place, and occasioning much merriment. A n ndablehi ne-a carh-nnele. Interesting to Freedmea. - We fiud the following letter from the Fenian Secretary of the American Colo- - nization Society published in our Georgia exchanges. In connection with it, we copy the following comments of the Au= gusta Chronicle and Sentinel: Many of the colored people are in spired with a laudable ambition to rise in the social scale above the general dg. radatior of their race. It is very evident that, no matter how many civil fighta bills and declarations of equality cumber our statute books, the white race is bound . to be the governing class.. It is so in New England, where most of the pesti. . lent champions of equality originate, and it has been so from the time Noah en tered the ark, wherever the white and black races come in contact. It is. not strange, therefore, that-the colored peo-' ple, who wish to have a fair and open field in the race of advancement, should seek the land of the black man, where all the avenues of advancement are open,i o and where there can be no jostling of races. The history of Liberian progress, .. * it is, true, is not of the most cheering - character. It is much fairer, however - than the history of those localitie,s where - the colored people have sought political power in connection with the white race. The only place in history where the colored man, as a race, has made pro gress in the scale of civilization, has bedn ' in the-condition ofservitude. 'The voite f of civilization and philanthropy (so-called) have torn him from that *congenial ad. happy sphere, and inspired him wit'..' restless longings for a condition of equal- rf ty which is incompatible with the-struc ture of our society-abhorrent to reason and repugnant to nature. It is~ better, therefore, tbat those who aspire to rise. above a condition of dependence,- shottd. , be colonized and removed from the dis turbing influences which attend their - present condition. It is for these rea sons that we commend the circulir f . the Colonization Society to the attention '. i of ail.freedmen who have imbibed .the teachings of equality which have obtained such mischievous currency among them R Coio:czAixoN Rooxs, WASHINGTON, D. G., Auf'6, 1866. Mr DBAR SIR : In your paper of a late date, you mention that many of the co*)red people in your State are agita ting the question of going to Liberia'atd 4 you want to know where are the agents - of the Colonization' Society. ' It is truet ,' we have no agent at present, in your: State, but we have not been idle. We>, have written to many, and brave sent .t, copies of the African Reposity and of , " our last annual report anid of various tracts and short articles to thousands in your State. We have had many letters from persons-in Macon and in Sparta}4 and we have promised to have a ship ; ready at Savannah the 1st November, to' take.one hundred people from each place~. and about fifty to seirenty-five from New. berry District, South Carb1ina, and we' ' promise them a free passage to .Liberi I and six months support there. 'And w~ are prepared to promise the same to~ s many worthy people as will be ready to sail by the 1st of May, 186T. We shall be happy, to have you State these facts in your paper, and say to any' one -who want to go this fall 'or nkext~ spring, that if they will inform. us, we will afford them all information and every facility in our power. I send you herewith specimens of the ,. tracts we are circulating among the-~ colored people. You may find in themi material for a paragraph tbat may dg good. We will send you the Repository reg-' ularly, if you desire it, that you may see' waisgoing on in this clime. . W. McLAMN, Financial Secretary A. . A SOUrH CARoLINA SoLIE.-The Cor- - responding Secretary of the Hollywood Cemetery writes the follow ing note, which. we find in the Winnsboro News, and, publish it as .information: "DEAR SI: I have had reported to me, as an officer of the Hollywood Mem. Association, the name of J. E. EHarIey, or Harlie, Co. 0, 1st S. C. V., killed Maf < 26, 1864-buried in the yard of Mrs. Buff; at Hanover Junction, Va. Ceptral~. Railroad. Please advertise the fact, as -';~<~ friends may wish t'o know.". An exchange savs that when a piece of iron is thrown inth a trough where chick ens drink water, they are not affected with chicken cholera. A gentleman who has tried it says 'that his chickens are thriving, while those' of his neighbors are dying daily. As the chicken cholera is raging to some extent throughout -the country, it might be well to try it. Iron will not hurt fowls, and a trial of it. might be beneficial. MORE REvIvALS.-We are indeed grati' fled by the intelligence that the spirit of inquiry is spreading among the churches. The Methodist churches of Waterloo and Tabernacle have been thus blessed. The rain has began to fall; may it gather' more strength each day, until the whole ine-yardi r the Lord is watered.