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Thqrsday Mornia& 96 We are requested to ethe tha Hon. t. B. Bor.8ToN is not a candidate for the o9vention, We are 4nthoted by Col. R. 8. MV&Ais to sate dhat lhe will not bh'a candidate fir the coming convention. Vol. MIAS' -sosence frotb the District hAs prevented him from sooner making known his intention. Reptudiatten--"urIsontitus." We r publish this morning the able and logical argument of JUI8OONSUL ru8 against the repudiation of private debts, nnd direct the attention of every reader of our paper to It. The arguments adduced by JURIScoN. VI.TUS - are so clear and of such force, (Whig from the '4ostitution of the Uni ted S'ates) that it is unnecessary for as to throw farther light upon the subject. careful and attentive study of the asicle is enjoined upon every one. All are equally interested in the matter. Tn'another column will be found a card froi Maj. Wit.' R. RoDEnTSON accept 'qg the nomination for the convention, and giving his views upon -the great que-tions of the day, i. e., the amend me1,t of our State Constitution, (accord ihg to the force of circumstances,) -and etiw matters for the welfare of the people. IEvery one will give a close and care ful -attention ,to the liosition taken by ,Maj. RODUCRTSON. His views are those thaty we think, will be adopted by a majority of the people of our Uistrict, and the course he has portrayed in ref. erence to other matters, not laid down by President JoHN5oN, is.su'h that meet our hearty approval, and will, we doubt not, receive the warm support of everf lover of civil and political rights ;i our State, The election for members'to the State Conyention gones off on Monday, the 40h day of September, and the only chatdllaie-s fiow for it in this District are GeI,. JoiN BRATTON, Col. JAs. H. Rios .and ajor W. R. RoBERTSON. Tiht6se who wish to exercise the elect. Jrp ThI seat the approaching election wIillhear in mind that they have to take th amnesty oath preaci'ibed by Prest. dent JOHNSON in Iis proclamation of Lhe 29th May, 1865. We learn from a gengeman just from Union District, tAat, at a pubiic meeting held in Union on' Monday last,,the-21st itmt, for the purpose of nominating can. didates for the app'roaching.State Con voittion, Col. T. N. Dawkins, Ex-Gov. ~at "sd 9e. .Wih. Wallace 'were umig tedI. In ree1)ville, as we learn by the Mountaineer, Dr. 'Jan. P. Boyce, Mfaj. T. j.Bolling, CapL 'Jas, P?. ILattimuer and LiW.t Win. 11.-Petry, have been noai*. nated candidates for the convention. The first step was takcen on the.7th towarde reorganiation in the late aeced .'4 StAtes. Mish&baippi, under the pro. .tlaeii of Sovernor Su gsplte fimbiers to a Convention whc st be hld thidthnst., to revise the' State eenstittioe, The. temnaining ix stg are eo bs$(eletions ad Con vsenterr sq fiolb*# . 2Vmeof Tme of Aibama, - N ep.l,8 A~~rlita,e p. 4, '5 ep., 13, '05 - Aitt a ptidpa ob~cbler -o' iights of these 4a~ (Ih n p "t e little impertinent fallow ..-N fe-noto notq in r9tA b - awoke witv', kdden re oll tII his origin suited the ap. p*A -, of .just such a place on th6 strot between the Court House and "these headquarters." Passing Zvent. Our own glass house has been so stormily -pelted for the last four years that very meagre has been. the 'opportu nity of ever peeking at those of our na tional opntemporaries. We don't pro. pose any-such game as projectiles, but ye can with dignified neutrality recon noitre their position. Beginning on this continent we find almost~ the Whole of South America in one grand war blaze. Brazil, the Et Dorado of restless South. drners, is not free from "entangling al liances." Poor Mexico, as all know, heaves and rolls under the chariot of Mars. Leaping across the Gulf, we find Hayti, the scene of eleven revolutions in six years, reeling to and fro in the madness of revolution. Across the At lantic, although the 'five great powers are not paralized by war, still its influ. ence is felt. In England, the Parlia ment is undergoing a change. The con test there is between aristocracy and democracy, with a probable success on the part of the latter. France is inivolv. ed in a struggle of Imperialism against republicanism, but more serious, because the appeal is made to the sword instead of the ballot box. This brings us back to this continent, and directs our atten. tion again to Mexico. That country concerns us because the position taken there bf Maximilian, the- cats-paw of Napoleon, challenges the consistency of our General Government. The most serious test of the position of the United States upon the Monroe doctrine is now before the world. France, in violation qf the principles enunciated by Presi dent Monroe, and endorsed and re endorsed by the Government, seeks to overthrow the effort to maintain a re publicait government in Mexico, and es. tablis4 instead thereof an Imperial one. The Unitdd States must look with jeal ousy upon such an attempt. Once es. tablishing a foothold upon the soil of any power on this bontinent, no one could define the limits within which for. eign powers would be circumscribed. If the United States maintain their. groitnd, their relations with France must soon assume a delicate character. If France persist in sustaining Maximilian, it cap be only because Napoleon has.the nod of all the other' great powers. And if this be so, and the United States ef feet no compromise, or do not abandon their position, the ftture is fraught with events that one could not venture to portray without r#inning therisk of a charge of lunacy. But there is a pro bability that Nspoldon will not push matters to an extremity. If thirty-five thousand be the Atrength of the Imperi al army in Melico,' and no further addi tions be made to it, there is no chance for Mfaximiliasi to esablish himself peace full3y npon the Mfexican throne.' Con. fesions of telling significance are al ready made by French joarnali. They acknowledge that-the foreign troops are entirely .inadequate to put down, the in surgente, and that the country evidently rejects the intervention and the empire. Napoleon -has .mbe than once, surpris ed -the world by the abrpipt t'erminous be' has~ put upon bomie of, h'ia natibusal scheines. rTot has he ever-lef want ing in. those plausible preteuta Ivhich, dr~udg nqig frmthe brilliancy of hie, ith addd tis rnown ad a dI' - ~O~tiQ. 3aKDI4tangs upotfite 4jb de 'o~llau~auif puetvatIdns 'e~e~ites~dM . Whatrf~ tiitem4 wh1 soele with# h e"Ieperg Aoh tries th - the id#th be p dy toft4e ~~e ofeos o( fretm'he Trl-Weelya ?4'ws, Aug. 17.-Canm. Th~eie is a very geVts t .iou onthe part of oqrlwople 4A this subject.' To it1tae ettiVt the 1te would be benetited by the passage of a 4;w cancefling all existing private debts, is a question thatheed'not be consideWa, if it id. injposai4l to enact Such a law. Now, can uvci a law be passed ? The "Convention" can pass no specific laws. It can only, by a Constitution, prescribe jitat R2ind of laws the Legis. lature may, or may not, enact; how these law; are to be enacted, and how executed. Can the Legislature pass such a law ? Our present Constitution, Art.'IX, Sec. '2, declfreg that "no law impairing the obligation of contracts, slall ever be passed by the Legislature of this State." This the Convention can strike out. hnt it eannut ordain the contrary autiorizing the Legislature to pass such a law. The Constitution of the United States. Art. 1. Sec. 1. declares "No State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of o6ntracts." This prohibition has beeni uniformly held to apply to contracts made by the citizens of the same State, as well as between the citizens of differ. ant States. This prohibition is final, for the Constitution of the United States is the Constitution of each and every one of the States. S'iould our Constitntion allow, and our Legislature enact, a law impairing the obligation of contracts, the Constitution of the United States would make such a law nnll and void. Our Judges would recognize such a law. By Article VI of the United States Con. stitution, that Constitution is mtde the supreme law of the land ; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby ; anything in the Constitution, or laws of any State, to the contrary notwithstauding." To render this pro. vision the more eficient, the same Ar. ticle requires that all the Judges of the several States "shall be bound by oath to support this Constitution." ' There are several classes of law, wich tay be passed for the relief of debtors,-such as bankrupt and insol. vent debtors laws, exemption laws, and stay laws. All bankrupt or in'solvent debtors laws, withent exception, that have ever been passed by any State or by Congress, require the surrender by the debtor of all his property. And in respect to them, Kent in his commenta. ries en the Constitution of the Unite'd States, gives it as decided that in Order for a -tate law not to violate the Uni ted Constitution "the debt must have been contracted after the passing of the Ac." Vl. 1. p. 422. Exemption laws are always prppec. live. Thus, odr exemption A ct of 1823, and the Hlqmestead Act of 1851, in er press terms, are made to apply only to "debts thereafter contracted." This was necessary to render them constitu tional, in not impairing the obligation of existing contracts. How far stay laws can be extended without impairing the obligation of con tracts, has not yet been decided. These it is the province of the Legislature- to pass. We conclude by stating three propo. sitions, which we, hold to be, in point of law, udeniable : let. Without, an amendment of the Constitution of; the United Sates.no powey can pass a valid lnw, cancelling existing private debts. 2nd. The .Legilature is the proper authority to-pass lawso foir 'the relief of debtors.. 3rd. All such laws must be so framed as not to impair theo obligation of exist. ing contracts., JoursdoNSULTUS. FROM TExAs..-Provisional Governor Andrew J. Hamilton r'eached Galveston on. the 21st.ult.Vhere, on .the 2pth, lhe ised his proplaination to -the people, announcing his appointment by the Presideopt and. forpsbadpwIng his~ designed courbe of proced~re ink the performnance of his duties.a Me .$xes no time for the election.or (Conventtidng but states that they would bghd4as sei as proa ble. -He adaybnishes )le Texane to dis pel the delusion, under which many of them are tatoryg, tht isrr. sril ex. ista, and infurnis 'se ti t is I pflec tuially' dea .ha to treat repeentauve iWI1RtJ!4M* dorhi of the tV4 'hate-done~r~q 'yt jiqho etedt~ At is: ens of the: i el& da at the Coift1 for prpos f nominatilg candidates t a e Contention, ordered" by his Excellency, B. F. Perry. Provis. hinal Goverhor of South Carolina. Col. W. C. Beatty was elected Chairman, and H. F. Adickes &ecretary of the meeting. The Resolution was aubmitted by H. F. Adiekes, which was adopted : 1hat a conunittee of seven be appninted to nominate suitable condidates for said Convention. .The Committee appointed were H. F. Adicker, G. W. Williams, J. L. Ad. anm, Newton Stenle, Givens Gallagher, William Caldwell and TJ. Bell. Af. tir consultation, haid committee reported the following names as proper candida. Les for election, viz : Rev. R.' A. Rosm, A. S. Wallace, Esq., W. I. Clawson, Esq., and Mr. J. Newman McElwee, Sr. Maj. B. F. Briqga submitted a reso lution : That the above nomination be laid on the table, and that the names of W m. C. Black, Esq.. Col. Cad. Jones, Rev. R. A. Ross, MAnj. J. W. Avery, be suibstituted in the place thereof, ds candidates ; which was adopted by the meeting on divisinn. . Col. Cad. Jones offe'red the following tesolution, which was. unanimously adopted. . Resolved, That we approve of the call made by His Excellency, B. F. Perry, for a Coavention of the State, with a. thority to alter or amend lthe Constitu. tion thereof, to restore civil . authority, and to exercise all powersnecessary and proper to restore the State to its consti. tutional relations to the Federal Govern ment. On motiqn of T. J. Eccles, Esq., the proceedings of this meeting'vere or dered to be published in. the Yorkville En'quirer and the papers ofthis Stato. -W. C. 13lAry, Chairman. H. F. ACrNs, Secretary. . Yoikvillh, S. 0., August 1-, 1805. Tur CnoPs.-Though the wheat crop has proven almost a failure throughout our District, the i.eaon has been most propitions for the corn, which promises to he the largest yield we have had for many years. Vegetation, generally, in flourishing. .while the fruit trees are breaking down under their unusnal burthen, thoUgh the fruit is by no means good. having been afected by the wet weathet. But liile cotton has been planteil, while seed is scarce ; yet, from the obundance of grain promised the farmer, he )ooka forward to next year for his raturn, as far as possible, to the old systen of cnlIvatiion. It ib a mia take to suppose that therb is any large quantity of cotton ii the District, and it is also a mistake to suppose that holders will-be compelled to - sell at - the low prices offered ; though it is desirable that a market may be made, that our peopler 'may have some sort of enrfenoy to oper. ate (vi: I.- Yorkville Enguirer. . KX11Os hfiUNYAIN RAI R9Ar.-A mqeting of the stockholders of this Com. pany was held iu this place en the 51st ilt., to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of W. A. Latta, late Presid'ent, *end otherwlse to organize the Company; the. folowing gentlemen were elected officers, and have sptered upon thmeir du ties, wvit'h theeprobability of running the cars fromi Chestet to Guthgiosville, 7 miles fror this point, by thie lst of Oet., and th'roughi by the 1st pf January. It ipay not be generally known that* the iron for seven mie a been taken up for miliitairy~ purpoqes,-aund no~w has to be replaced, while~a genzeral 'reisair 'of the entire road has become necsary : John 13 Erwin, Presidlent,.E. M. Law, Geo. Steele, E. A. Gkenahaw, J. S. Bratton, J. H. Adams, n.Jhso AmnAIN ' AA DMai'he Ne'w Orleans Picayune of J*lg.28 eaya : *We learn from a wqlhigformned mem ber of te Alabama proel that the peo. pl#.of that Stete haye taniivseally uua cepted tjhe political-hitotion and'efttfd downa in their old geesful opursuitg.ie. fthink,,drain ebservatida in theVinttier ft4eontr*, t phajt~abb-fest ittkt ge nerally a. .N fih pia 4ery 'where heual #49 tjl pestie U0I* derm 1 os la ah sh a no 1 4 t ' SCONT 'Idar, Aug. 14. B4y, , Aug. 16, 1865. zJ1t h , through a schoner 6e e.i which arrived at 1nrbor Grace Aug. 14, that at 4 o'clock, A. M, on the 5th of August, shoe *.mGat 7n andQ a~ Marge sure'* steamer in latitudd 51 40 north% lpngitude 8 west. At 6 'clock, A. -M., on the same day she saw a beacon- buo ., with a flag marked "Great 'astern, N. '6.5 The ships were'at the time about fivd iniles southeast- the 'buoy, and the. weather was exceedingly thick and foggy. The Captin of the First fZit ondeav ored to near the steamer, but owing to a calm * was obliged to give up the effort. The screw steamer went alongside the schogner and spoke with ier, The Captain of the steamer (which is Supposed to ho the Terrible) informed the Captain of the schooner thitt tho caible parted on the 2d instant, and that the buoy was the mark where the cable was. list seen. The Captain of the schooner further state that he is not certain of the buoy. having had no pbservation for several days. The news caused <uite en excitement among the inhabitants of Heart's Con. tent. We had been expecting f9r. several days that some disaster had occurred to the fleet, but, were not prepared for the actual annoucement whent it reached'u. We do not. however, give up the ex. pedition as a failure, as when last seen the steamers were endeavoring to dis. cover the location of the buoy, showing that they had not abandoned al hopes of eventually laying the cable. Mr. Mackay, the Superintendent of the New-foundland Telegraph line, is, yet hopeful that the Great Eastern will ar rivo in the course of a few days with the cable all right. I cannot describe to you the deep dis. appointment which prevails among the people in general. - There is no diguising the fact that the general feeling is..after so many failures, that the Atlantic Cable is a thing whic will never be successfully accomplish. ed. All the visitore from St. John's and' other places have gone home, and the reporters and -telegraphers are all that remain of the thousands who filled the village last week. . I At the time of the cable breaking it was about six hundred miles distant frbui the coast of Newfoundland. HKART's CONTENT, Monday, Aug. 14, Via Aspy Bay, Tuesday, Aug. 15. Asa corroboration of the news bronght by the First Fruit, f may add that-a vessel arrived at Harbor Grace on Friday last, which reported having seen, four days previously, a large buoy two miles distant from his vessel. The Ca ptailn of the First Fruit repo ts having asked -the Terrible. whetier they .considergd the cable lost. The answer was "Could not say." . Provisional Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi has lately levied, for 'the purpose of defraying the expenses.in. .ident to the calling of the -convention shortly to assemble- In that State,- a special tax of cdne dollar on each baleof copon sent to the mnarket. A numbar of the cotton holders having. retast~o pay the assessmenti the Goverueiots issued anl Qrder requiring the oomsty Sheriffs to sew4 al) cotton, the'holepf which' refuse payment, and to ..sellI sufficient portion of it to ~ay thi tr and an additional -one deda pee be New Orleans Pi 'p bwinU to the demoralisahaup of tpo, . bor mnmany parts of .'hm white popidattor have ' yg' industriously taken h dhe. work themselves, an4 a itoing some of 'the best crop. ea owinag. The peo pio are eg' 'aee that wnder the new sy 'f. frican alabor, ~.,want. .of-.s 2brter, np further depuendeue. ia.. put in-thatace, and - hey, bave r ved to do theoir~work tSom~seqe. France is trosbled by~tko. viqa-of Federal trops ws Te aa deJ~t4Iu Rlio Gratud*. Alaay lrs, ar to magndy thtelrgeoa geam the Impeial fprg as q ,~4 wish for *ulsto~ 4 a~ Wa* D rtnenJuM ~ b.* to di ll jaie~W "o"he. saan