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TREE DoLLA-ERS A YEAR FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF VNEFUL INTELLIGENCE. [INVARIABL'Y IN ADVACE VL. T WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1868. NO 25. THE HERALD ]M3RY WEDNESDAY XORNING, A Newberry C. R., W TM F.. a 1L IL GIRM33= "E. 2MWV4 IN CUREMCY OR PRMVISIONS. P"mntrequired fnvariablyIn advance. sabrag Nodoes. Funew*l lvitations, Obit ms, ad Comnnastioms sabsting private tatsisa,ar charged.as advertisements. State DemoCratic COnventioi. .foXCMMWaRS O!tHZ FIRST DAT. CoWMIA, Jutae 8.-In compli ane with -an. iritation extended by the Democratic citizens of Mdgefield District, a Convention of the Democratic party of this Sate,met in Nickerson's hall, this fvf*iAg, at 8 o'clock. On motion of Hon. John E. Ca row,f Charleston, Dr. Thomas aSmih of Darlington, was ealled to the Chair, and A. A. Gilbert, Eq.; and Henry Sparnick, Esq., were yequested to act As Secreta rplI of Districts was then ma d 'the following gentle Asd took their seats as digta br* i"RIr,-M W. ULP.nvro-C. H. Simonton, Heny Sparni&i, Wm. Lebby, Jof9Nek1e[J B. Cohen, C. 3E. IE. afttt Z. Davis,P. C. T C. ampbell,. . S. B3VR9eti, Jr., T. D Ea son, Jon,B. Steele, G. M Gunter, Geo Hacker John. E. Carew, - Fdorsey; . I. Locke, 'A. Capop, YM-J. Pe4zer, W. J. G-ay er, J. k. Read, D. Lopez, F, Rich *~Whi~~.,E%Mikell, - I. XOIVer, Jos. 8; spgmbam, Dr. B,fmin,. D. . ]fnf. Tim mg .1 LeeB. F. W'iaimsen, J. IUifunson, 4c.Cbs. bzzwss-M. W.-Gary SMotiier Glover, Saw -. A, Qilbert, -Dr. H. a a e a Eet wit tomte fofn Onepfrom weach - ven4e ed:aspontdt oi nate e eers fo r th p'rmarl6 or gaimison fte ovnio,-n For. i Presidents - ik-Gov. Joiha L. Manning, Hon.. Thos. W. GIoser, Ben. Charles E. Fanrman, Hou.P. jBehardse.f Gen. M. C. Btter, uon. K, WsCharfes, Dr. Nr ggeynolds,.Hon. Alexander McQu, Cot -ohp 9G.~Pressley. For 8ecretaries-enyY Spar eOakbetg conducted tO the Ohairt Kr.2imontonl said: LZYI oP TamFVoNVENTJoN: eW have assembled aszdprese nta tives ota prtio.of heDemocracy gf8NoC Carolina, to express their egon epeetin)gthe Convention - oo' to mee't in ieyw Tork. In the diaehaz'ge of the 'duties thus devolved upon us, we should 'keeps two candiml points in view. .The erst is 6 ubhesittng 'adherence to the Democgratie' party of the United State8--and Thii -without qualifieation, wilhout 'considera tion, without reservatiojL"' are invited to pay.ticigste in the deilprtioyvof the Convention ~~~deistence as a State has ben~ ieogmized, and perhaps without j vote to assist in the election of the candidates which it may select. In the hands of the N?orthern people will be the decision of the canvass. They must decide upon its issues. Their wishes should govern in planning and in conducting the campaign. -We 'will set as guests at th,eir council board, confid utly entrust ing the inanagement of our inter ests to their diseinn. Theiroh ject is the defeat of the radical party; their success is of vital im portance to us. To achieve success, we must be prepared for the time to put aside other and less important issues. Until this is achieved, questions of State policy-the regulation of matters which should be decided .by the States alone-must remain in abeyance. The radical party, having been in possession of al most unlimited power for eight long years, is now seeking to per petuate that power by a central ized despotism. . Having bound the hands of the Executive, and threatened the existence of the Supreme Court, they are seeking to obliterate State lines, and to de cide all questions of State Govern ment. They must be defeated be fore the States can be secured in the right to decide these questions for themselves. Until they are defeated, the discussion of these ques,tions is premature. If they are not defeated, svch discussion will be unnecessary and idle. Let us then devote ourselves to these issues alone, which can secure us the victory, and when this is won, enshrouded by the experienee and the results of the conflict, we can determine our course for the fu ture. The other cardinal point we must keep before us is, that the Democracy in the State must not be divided. There must not, there cannot be division in our councils. There is not, there cannot be any difference of principle among us. Our motives, our objects, our in terests are the -same. A common dnger_fo*ice4a gnia among us. Kia'whatever the passions of one, or the prejudices of another, or the 'unpractised ability of other min seek to accomplish, the great heart of South Carolina can now sympathize in measures which tend to separate her people. Gentlemen of the-Convention, I thank you profoundly for the dis tinguished honor you have confer red upon -me, and invoke your aid in presiding over your deliber ations. On motion of Mr. John Hlanckel, the rules of the IHouse of .Repre sntatives were adopted for the government of the Convention. Hion. James B. Carnpbell offered the fo}lowing preamble and reso lat ion, which were adopted: Whereas, It is understood to be the mutual desire of this Conven ion, and of the Executive Com inittee appointed in April last, that a conference should be had for the purpose of producing har monious action by the Democratic party of this State, Be it .Resolved, Th.at a commit tee of seven be appointed by the President, for the purpose of .Jon ferring with the Executive Com mittee of the said Convention, and that the result of the conference be reported to this body. -Under the resolution, the Presi dent appointedthe following com mittee: Messrs. Campbell, Gary, MIver, Glover, Peizer, Gilbert, and Hanckel. The Convention then adjourned until 10 o'clock to-morrow morn ing. sECOND DAY-MORNING sESSION. COLUMBIA, June 9.-The Con vention was called to order at 10 o'lock, the President, Hon. Chas. H. Simonton, being in the Chair. The journal was read and ap proved. The following gentlemen ap peared and a ere enrolled as mem-' bers of the Convention: Barnwell District-Joseph .Er in, Darlington District-Henry It.. Morris. Edgefield District-James J.. Gregg. - Georget#wn District-Richard Dozier, F. S. Parker, R. J. Middle ton, Jr., Samuel Samson and A. M. Forster. The Cammittee of Conferene appointed the preceding day made the following report, through its Chairman: The Committee of Conference with the Central Executive Com mittee of the Convention of April last, beg leave to report: That in the discharge of their duty, they met that Committee in free conference, and after an unre served interchange of views, in which it became manifest that each Committee was unanimous in an earnest desire to harmonize and unite in a common purpose, that Committee submitted the fol lowing proposition, namely: "The Central Executive Committee hav ing been invited to a conference by the Convention now assembled here, and being most solicitous to secure harmony in the State, beg leave to submit to the Conference Committee now in session the fol lowing basis of union, namely: That the Convention proceed to the nomination of delegates to the National Democratic Convention at New York, to fill up the delega tion of the State. And the Ex ecutive Committee pledge them selves to use all their efforts to have these bominations confirmed by all the organizations i-epresent ed by the said Committee. The Executive Committee further re commend, that an Executive Com mittee be appointed by this Con vention, to act with that selected by the Convention in A pril last; and that, in the opinion of this Committee of Conference, it is ad visable that the two Executive Committees should be consolidated at the earliest moment possible." 4uenCmritte-think that no stronger evidence could have been offered of a spirit of conciliation and harmony than this proposition presents. It offers to this Con vention one-half the appointments to the New York Convention the other one-half of them only having been made by the Conven tion of April last. This Committee thinks it unbe coming=in this Convention to re vise the appointment for one of he Congressional Districts of the tate, namely, the *Fourth, that ~istrict not being represented in his Convention. We therefore ecommend that the appointments from that District be declined, and, with this exception, the proposi ion be accepted. Delegates at arge having been already appoint d of residants of the First and orth Districts, we recommend hat, in appointing the remaining wo delegates and alternates, resi ents of the Second and Third Districts, respectively, be select ed, nd that this Convention appoint oe delegate and two alternates rom the Second District, and one elegate and one alternate from he First and Third Districts, re petively. We also recommend the ap ointment of an Executive Com ittee, to consist of seven, and hat, as suggested, the two com ittees shall -be consolidated at he earliest moment possible ; also, hat the Executive Committee ppointed by us be anthorized to fill any vacancies in the appoint ents made by us. JAMES B. CAMPBELL, I Chairman. The report was unanimously adopted. The same Committee also sub itted the following as a supple entary report, and asked its ref rence to a comimittee 'on Resolu tions, to be. appointed hereafter ; hichi was agreed to: Resolved, That the Democratic arty of this State duly appreci ates and accepts the invitation from the Executive Committee of the Democratic party of the Uni ted States, to send delegates to the general Convention to be held n New Ygrk, on the 4th day of uy next, to nominate candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Pres,. nyro the United States--but, in asmuch as the military despotism under which South Carolina la bors, will render it imp6ssible for the white race to cast the vote of the State, at the next Presidential election, it is recommended to the delegates appointed from this State to ask the counsel of their brethren from other States as to the propriety of their voting in the Convention, and to govern themselves accordingly. Resolved, That having entire confidence in the principles and patriotism of the Democratic par ty, and believing and trusting to their assurances that they will, if triumphant, restore and main tain at the South, as they have done in the North, in the East and in the West, the supremacy and government of the white race-A WHITE MAN'S GOVERN MENT-leaving to the States them selves to regulate their suffrage laws; and also that they will ex punge the usurpations and the fraudulent , governments created by the military power, under what are called the reconstruction laws, and thereby restore to the Union the Southern States, such as they were before the enact ment of said laws-we hereby pledge ourselves to the support of the candidates of that party for President and Vice-President of the United States, to be nomina ted at the coming Convention in the city of New York, on the 4th of July next. On motion, the Executive Com mittee, elected by the Democratic Convention held in A ril last, were invited to seats on th. floor of the Convention. Gen. M. W. Gary offered the following resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Resolutions: Resolved, That aIll questions re lating to suffrage shall be consid ered as in abeyance, to be at some future time discussed and deter mined upon in full convendorn of the Democratic party of this State. Mr. Davis offered the following resolution, wich was adopt'd : Resolved, That a Committee on Resolutions, consisting of' one member from each District repre sented in the Convention, be ap pointed, to whom all resolutions, not ordered for immediate consid eration, be referred. Under the resolution, the Chair apppointed Messrs. Rhett, Dozier, Green, Epps, Spain, Good.wyn, Gregg, Vennin~g, McIver and Gal luchat. Mr. Venning offered the follow ing resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Resolutions: Resolved, That the discrimi na tion attempted by the radical Convention of Chicago, between the right of the people North and South to regulate suffrage among themselves, is an insidious attack upon the exercise of the right everywhere; and if by ungener ous and artful appeals to passions, excited by causes which no longer exist, universal negro suffrage be forced upon the South, a cardinal principle for the protection of the rights and liberties of the people of each State will be destroyed, and an immense stride in the es tablishment of a central despotism accomplished. Mr. Cohen moved that a Com mittee of One fi-om each District represented in the Convention be appointed to nominate delegates to the National Democratic Con vention to be holden in New York on the 4th day of July next. Adopted. Mr. Hinckell offered the follow ing resolution, which was referred to the Committee-on Resointions: Resolved, That, inot represent ing any .recognized vote in the Electoral College, it is the -delibe rate sense -of .this Convention, with-the present lights before it, that our delegates to that Conven tion shouil not vote in the choice of candidates, but having full con fidence in their prudence, patriot ism, and judgement, this Conven tion leaves them untrammelled by instructions. Mr. Rhett offered the following resolutions, which were referred to the Committee on Resolutions : 1. Resolved, That there can be no free government and no liberty to a people without fixed funda mental laws, which the interests and passions of transient rulers cannot overthrow; and when ad ministrators (as the majority in Congress,) seek to overthrow them, they are usurpers and revo lutionists-traitors to the Consti tution and enemies alike to the people they assume to represent, and to free government in the world. 2. Resolved, That when the late struggle for independence ceased, South Carolina was prepared in good faith to resume her position as one of the States in the Union of the United States, and, when rejected from this position, to which she was invited, and a mili tary despotIsm was put over her, she attributed it rather to the policy of a party using the unsub dued passions of war than to the sober convictions of justice and statesmanship; and whilst suffer ing with some degree of fortitude the tyranny put over her, she looks to the people of the North to redeem the pledges which brought the war to an end, and to restore the Union in its reality, equity and peace. 3. Resolved, That the United States is a Constitutional Govern ment and a white man's Govern ment ; and that, by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United St.-tes, it is determined that South Carolina is a State within the Union and under the Constitu tion ; and that the attempt of a party to control the elective fran chise within State limits through the general. Government, with the design of manufacturing polit ical power by lifting to suprema cy over the white population the inferior black race lately slaves, and thus to make the State a prey to anarchy and strife, and forever incapable of enjoying the privile ges and blessings of frec govern ment, is a revolutionary and de structive outrage, at war with the prosperity and peace of the whole country. 4. Rietolred, That the Demo cratic party has ever been the party of the Consti.ution--recog nizing its limitations in the pow ers conferred on the general Gov ernment, and observing the inde pendence and sovereignty of the States in their reserved powers, upon~ which alone, as a system, rests the union, the peace and the liberties of the people of the Uni ted States. 5. Resolced, That it is with great gratification we have wit nessed the course of the Demo cratic party of the North, in their opposition to the despotism put over the South-a despotism as iaconsistent with the Constitution and free government in the coun try, as it is faithless to the plain anid explicit pledges of Congress and of the Government of the United States voluntarily put forth to the .Southern States as the terms of re-union a~nd peace. 6. Resolved, That in the opin ion of this Convention, the next Presidential election is the most important which has taken place since the organization of the Gov ernment, because it will determine whether free government or des potism, liberty or tyranny, is to prgvail over the -people of the United States ; and althouigh the white race of South Carolina, un der the bayonet and negro domii nation, is pdwerless to influence -this great issue, their devout hopes and aspirations, and. their erofou ndest sympathies are wvith the efforts of the Deniocrats of the North te save the country. On motion, a committee was appointed to nominate additional members of the Democratic State Central Committee. The Convention then took a re cess until 7 o'clock P. M. EVENING SESSION. The Convention met at 8 o'clock p. m. The Committee on Nominations for delegates to the National Dem ocratic Convention, made the fol lowing report, which was unani mously adopted: For the State at large-Hon. Wade Hampton, Hon. J. B. Camp bell; alternates, Hon. C. M. Fur man, Hon. J. P. Carroll. First District-Hon. A. L. Man ning; alternate, Hon. R. Dozier. 2nd District-Hon. C. H. Simon ton; alernates, John Hanckel, Esq., R. B. Rbett, Jr., Esq. Third District-General M. W. Gary; alternate, Hon. A. D. Fre derick. The Committee made no nomina tion from the Fourth District, as no delegate from that District was present in the Convention. The Committee on Resolutions reported that while they concur red in the views expressed in the several resolutions before them they deemed it advisable for the Convention to confine its expres sion to the resolution reccommen ded by the Committee of Con ference, thinking it sufficient to stand on the platform of a white man's government, leaving the question of suffrage to the decision of the States and the question of voting at the New York Conven tion to the discretion of the delq gates. They therefore reoom mended the adoption of the supple mentary report of the Conference Committee. The report was adop ted unanimously. The Committee appointed to nominate additional members of the State Central Executive Com mittee, rocommended the names of Hon. V. D. Porter, T. G. Barker, Esq., John E. Carew, Esq., Robert Adger, Esq., Henry Mc Iver, Esq., W. P. Fnley, Esq., and A. A Gilbert, Esq. The rep)ort was adopted. Col. John E. Carew, of Charles on, with a fe.w eloquent and ap ropriate prefatory remarks, of fered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted; Resolve'd, That this Convention ecognizes in the course pursued ince the assembling of this body, y the Central Committee appoin ed by the Convention in April ast, a spirit of concession and armony that entitles them to the onfdence and support of the pople of this State, and that it egards the measures proposed nd adlopted as calculated -to en ure that concert of action so ne essary to thbe success of the Demo ratic party in this State. After the passage of complimen ary resolutions t.o Hion. Charles I. Simonton.President, and Henry Sparnick and A. A. Gilbert, Esgs., Secretaries of the Convention, eneral Hamplton. who was an nterested spectator, and had been nvited as a member of the Central State Executive Committee to-a eat on the floor, was vociferously alled upon and responded in a rief and eloquent speech, thank ng the Convention for the honor one the Executive Committee ad himself; and cordially endor ing the action of the Convention. After which, on motion, the onvention adjourned, sine die. ATHLETIC EXER cI#E.--Gen. ashington, at a village gather ng in Virginia, once .jumped twenty two feet and one imh" on a dead level. The. prize was a village maiden, w.hose father vas a monomaniac on the subject f juniping, and swore Annette hould be won only by the- yong an who should -excel at - this thletic exercise. - Tgyenty' -one eet and six inche'*as made by, nnette's'lover, and the -embi-yol eneral resigned'- his claims to~ nry (Carroll. Lager Beer. BY JOSH BILLINGS. I hav finally cm tew the concla. sion that lager beer as a beverage is not intoxicating. I hav bin told so by a german who sed be hed drunk it awl nit* long, just to try the experiment, and was oblighed tu go home en tirely sober in the morning. J bav seen this same man drink, sixteen glasses, and if he was drunk he was drunk in german,. and nobody could understand it.. It is proper enuff to state that this german kept a lager beer saloon, and could hav no objectin stating what was not strictly thus. I believe him tew the full e4teit or my ability. I never drank but three glasses ov lager beer in ml life, and that made mi hed ontwist as tho it was hung on the end ov a string, but i was told thatit was owing to mi bile being out ov place and i guess that it was so, for i never biled over wuss than i did when i got hum that nite, My wife thot that i was going tew die, and i was afriad that i shoul da for it did seem as tho every thig i had ever eaten im mi - life wac cummin to the surface, and i dw realy believe that if ni Wife iduet pulled off mi boots jest as she diA they wod hav cum thunderin Ap too. 0! how sick i wasl 14yei& tg& and i can taste it now. I never bad so madh 'xperrnce in so short a time. Ifanny man ehud tO f thO. lager beer was not intoticating, I shud have beleve him;:bat ifle# shud tell me that i Wasd't Aiif that nite, but that mi bti*ic)rl' was out ov order; i s6ud "s hinl tew state over a few words, jesi how a man felt an acted when he was well set up. If i was drunk that nite i hA sum ov the most niatural sinptuhi that a mafi ever had, and kept sober. In the firAt place it *A9 a6unf 80 rods from where i drank the lA ger beer to mi house , and i wat over 2 hours on the road, and A. hold bustid thrn eah etda be nii pan tlootd neez, and did n't -have any hat, and tried to open the door by the bellpull, and hichupped; awfully, and saw everything hid the room trying to get onth backside ov me; and in eetting down in a chair i didn't wait long enuff for it to git exactlyifinder' me when it was gain round, rnud i sot down a little too soon and mis: sed the chair about 12 inehe; itud couldn't get up soon enaff td take the next one that earnse alongj and that aint awl; mi wife god I waz az drunk az a beest, and si i sed before, i began to spin 6f things freely. nt If lager beer is o intoxidatinjj it used moe most almighty miean, that i know. Still, i hardly thinik lager id#ef iz intoxicating, for i hdv beri told so; and.i am probably the -only man living who ever drank enny when his life was not plumb. I don't wa'it to- sag dnylhirig agin a harmless temperance bt ridge, but if i ever drink ad *ufoe, it will be with my hands tied b bind me, and mouth pried bdi I don't think lager beer iz intor icating, buit if i remenibei tight, i thin k it tastes to nie like .h glass of soapsuds,. tlat g pickle had bLa put tew soal in:. Some of our Charleston friend. made the point that they were not properly called upon to participate in tbe Columbia Convention, inas much as they were not specially' invited. Now, we had a right to expect that the proor etiquette certainly have been adopted by them ini their proposed convention and yet we have not, thus far, heard of one gentleman in Columbi-a being consulted on the Subject of this convention, or specially i.i e?ted to attend. Wd have not list - even a telegram.