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T HE TRI WEEK LY NE W VOLUME I.] WINNSBORO, 8. C., TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 29.-1865. FNUMBEA 71 IHE TRIWEEKLY NEWS: .Y .I. Im. jriiON. TI3S TRt-WEEKLY NEWS Is pablished ,pnTuesday, Thursday and Saturday, st ONE DOLLAlt per ionth, in advancoe. Single copies TaN Cx*r. Advertiemrents inserted it ONE DOLLAR Or square, of eight line or less, for the first, And SEVENTY-FIVc tehte for each suban. qqent usertion-, Invariably in advance . An Ill-Timed Proposition. We are rather sorry to see a proposi. tion thrown out by I Memphis contem. porary, for a convention of the Southerin people to be held, in order to give sua an oqpression of their loya!ty to the Union as will satisfy the Governmeni and the North that they have no desire or intention to -interpose the slightest ob. stacle or difficulty in the way of that foll and complete restoration of the old ties, political ,commercial and docial, to tei accomplishment of which end the states, manship of the country is now anxiously .directed. We have never had any filth in conventional machinery. It bai been the source of infinite public mis chief, and we have yet t8 know what really good purpoose it has subservod that could not just as wall have beer subserved without it. The people of the South at present are not in a condition to) give their attention to unnecessary convocations of it. They have enough to do to watch over their troubled and confused pecuniary affairs, and cannot afford to indulge in such political luxu iios as Conventiong, except such as are indispensably necessary to adapt the constitution of their respective States to the changed ordor of things at the South. 'We do not believe that this is the way to convince the northern radicals, who are the only assailants of the southero people. We might hold , fifty conven tions and they might pass unanimously a thousand resoluius declaratory of our loyal dispositions and -intentions, -without -making onr sincerity 'a whit inore credibly hy the ultra agitators of the Phillips school. What we can do .through a convention we can munh mere effectually do by voting right in the elections that are to como off for Coq. gress and State Legislatures. These will open to us a straight and broad and smooth road to the .onfidence of the federal government, and of all the hon. est and right-minded people of the north. It is in vain for us to eek to propitiate the favor of the Radicals. They would not belive the avowals of a, convention any mora than they believe in the rep. resentations , of the southern press, which dailv meet their eyes, We are e osed to the objet of the suggest. ed Convention, which, wo should re. joice to Ise effected, .Blt we object to the-Convention process. becanso we Pon *seientiously believo that it would be abortive. As we said 'before. we can * uch. more .easily and effectually 'ttain the desired end by our votes in the elec. lans0for Oongrews and the Legislatures, whos they come on than in any other way: Yet still if it should please a ma jerity of our people to try the virtue of a .onvention we should interpose no ob. staple to'.this method of gratifying their %wishis,-however .ersuaded we might 1b within ourselvhe of its inefficacy. ~'** . (Petessrg apres. Orque .-De Beqwl of Do Bow's )ate B is in Aichimond, and an ap hioant (or pardos, lIe was one of the .Pomastsee appointed by. the press of that city to mkce artangements for the recep ,tion of *1resident, Johnson when, -he N..' 'ond, .ri hec June. 181, number Po ow siys: [B.a 7 ericand4ag..28. Tf.g army of the' is s remarka ble for its base materi urs, foita high mnorality. Item do not go a-rogueing (this is Mr. liow'. own word, spelled exactly as lhe it,) and the attack on the South is a edly arogue's expedition. Th4 No ern troops are, with. very few exosp: tions, pavpers, thjevos, ignorant foreig*. .ore, gaurderers, bries and crimin~als oi .every description. They are'uol half so wel,. inaformsed as our negroes, asid. it .add uch to the indignetion anc,egaspe wation. of arz .troop. that the, -have to i sit4 ionis severd ohi Ute tt awot hv% "I a in, ohfv th r Military Service in Virginia. Maj. General Terry. - commanding the Department of Virginia, having been informed that many of the men serving in the volunteer 'regiments of his command, suppose themselves to be legally entitled to theii- discharge, on the ground that they enlisted to serve for a fixed time, "or during the war." and that the war has ended, has issued an order announcing that the war has not yet terminated in such a sense hs to entitle them to be mustered out; that there are no organized rebel armies in ,the field, but by the Proclamation of the President, Virginia and others of the States are still insurrectionarv dis. tricts; are still without civil government, or imperfect civil governments, and until civil authority shall be fully rest'red, and that until those States shall ha'e returned to their former relations to the National Government, it cannot be said that the war has been brought to a close. Officers o. every grade are reminded that they are responsible for the disci pline and good conduct of their com mands, and that to their responsibilities they will be rigidly held. No relaxa tions of diciplinie or negligence in the performance of duty will be permitted to pass unnoticed. [Peersbury Erpress. The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger says : The circular from the Burean of the Refugees in this city addressed to the Bureau at New Orleains, is not approved by the Presldhnt, and will be of no ef feet where a full pardon is granted by the Execentive. The attempt to retain possession of the confiscated hands in Louisiana is the same as has been made in Tennessee, iand the rebuke of the former by the President will be no less pointed and emphatic than was the lat ter. In Tennessee those in charge of the Frdedmen's Bureau were compelled, by order of the President, to restore to those who had been pardoned the prdperty formerly in their possession, and the rnile will be applied to all 't.he States. I write thus "by authority," and you may rely upon it that in all cases where President Johnson affixes his signature to a full pardon, that pardon will carry with it all the riqht and title to property heretofore possersed by the person to w'h..n the pardon is granted. OvE.R-ZEAI.ou.-We think some of our contemporaries, who like ourselves have becom e converts to the frceh doe. trineo, in their devotion to the new or 4er of things, are rather over zealous. Tl:e pitch into "rebels" and "Secession. iste," and "Southerners," with a vim that would honor the other side of Dixie a few Vmonths ago. We were re!bels,' and as such have "done the State some service," but now, having' taken the Amnesty Oath, as well as those who have not, will he.ve to do, we consider ourselves as loyal as ny in the Union, without being called on to ahow an ox tra devotion to prove vre are in earneat. We are all "LUiion men," now, but see no use in imitating the Patlander, who, destrous of blending the National niotto with that of the- old country, had painted on his sign-board, "rin go unum, K Puribus bragh I"- Yorkville, Lnpirer. PosTA. AFFARs-The Pos'tmaster General us gradually restoring the Postal service' all over the Smith. -He has informed the ProvisLonal Governors, thst s soo -a reasonab1E b~deu are received, he will authorize the transmissui of the mail otree a week from each county sat, t4 the nenrest railroad point, At is also stated, that herernfer all letters adldrega~l to post potoflces in th* doth, wvhich havo n'ot henre-open. .d aInce the commhenerent of 'the war will hye forwarded to reopen'ed offices rest the ones fbr which' they are de. & toremain, iithey ate' not pre y alled for;:nntil uffoe tb whti, the ad~dreesed' shmelf 40e egin it e~ cest qo900 o fte (Jse betw . lI$ ad~ & u4 *teleran~ ~ ~ tOI eawisoer steenooaga DISTRESSING AFFAIR.-A Jury of [nqnest was impanneled in Yorkville, :n Friday last, the 18th inst., to inquire nto the cause of the death ofa colored womair, named Oarey Ann Smith; who rendered a verdict that the deceased :ane -to her death by a pistol shot fired it her in tho streets of Yorkville by Win. Ihown, a youth of about 10 years a age ; in defence of his own person. The body of the deceased was taken to the home of her forme- master, the nsae night, for interrment in twe old bu. rial ground ; another evidenen of the last lingering nttachment of the master to the slave.- Yorkville Enquirr. Or:swINo POSTAL ROUTES AT THE SiOUTi.-A telegram from Washington lated Friday evening, August 18, says: The Postmaster General has ordered t contr ict with t he Central and Northi Darolia.i Railroad Company for the con reyance of the' mails from Goldshoropgh to Charlotte, North Carolina, including he intermediate offices. The distance as two hundred and twenty-three miles. Service will be resumed oin the other Southern routes, from time to time, as ioon as it shall be reported that th', roads have been repaired and are in run sing order. PU1tt1ITUIE,.&C. A SMALL lot of Furniture, Mat trasses, &o., on hand yet. .A. W. LADD. aug 29'65-1pd A1U3ROTYPEi. A T the solicitation' of several per tsons, I have. opened my Gallery tor a Aort time. Call soon if you warnt pictures. A. W LADD. Court House, Up Stairs. aug 20'65-lpd itle to tlent-925 tehoward. DARK Brawn (nearly black) Hoirse Mule, 8 to 10 years old, mark ed E. an neck a. d 1. C. on shnukkr, was stiileu from my yard in Choster. on the Right of the 25th inst. A reward of twenty. Ilvo dollars will given for the'return of the mule,'or such iformat ion as will enable me to get him. FRANK ELDER. aug 295-:lpd Chester, S. C. GR ANID AUCTION SALE OF QOVEIRNMNT STOCI COMPRISING HORSES, MULES, ARMY WAGO.NS, etc., etC., etc., etC. ON PRIDAY,.SEPTEMBER I, 1865. .AT R~WDBERY COUIT- 1D6J8E, SOUTH OAROLINA, Sae to cgmmence at 9 A..li. 1et Lijeut. and A. A. Q' Z Dijb ~Weetam South Ogro1Ias By the Provisional Governor of the State of South Carblina. A PR9OCLAiIATION! W HEREAS, His Excellency, Presi dent Johnson, has issued his pro clamation, appointing me (Benjamin F. Perry) Provisional Govertor in and for the State of South Carolina, with power to pre scribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for convening a Con vention of the State, composed of delegates to be chosen by that. portion of the people of said State who are loyal to the United, States, for the purpose ofaltering or amend. ing the Constitution thereof ; and with au thority to exercise within the lmits or the State all the powere nneessary fand proper to enable such loyal people to restoro said State to Its constitutional relations to the Federal Government, and to present. uolh a Republican form of State Government. as will entitle t4o State to the gudranteo -of the United States therefor, and its people to protection by the United States against in vasion, insurrection and domestic violence : Now, therefore in obedience to the pro. clamation of His 'Excellency, Andrew John son, President pf the United States, I, BEN JAMIN F. PER RY, Provisional Governor of the State of South Carolina. for the purpose of organizing a Provisional Government in South Carolina, restoring civil authority in said State. under the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare that all civil officers in South Carolina, who were in ofhce when the Civil Government of the State w. s suspended, in May in9t, (except those arrested or under prosecution for treason,) shall, on taking the oath 'f allegiance prescribed in the President's Amnesty Proclamation of the 21th day of May, 1865, resume the dut ics of their oflices and continue to discharge them under the Provisional Government till fur ther appointments are made. And I do further proclaim, declare nail mnake known, that it is the duty of all loyal citizens of the State of Soutn Carolina to pror.;ptly go forward and take the oath of allegiance to the United States, before some magistrate or military officer of the Federal Guernments who may be qualified for ad ministering oaths; and such are hereby aui thorized to give certified copies thereof to the persons respectively by whom they were made. And such magistrates or offi cers,are hereby required to transmit the originals of such oaths, at its early a day as may be convenient, to the Department of State, in ithe city of Washington, D. C. And I do further proclaim, declare and make known, that the Managers of Elec tions throughout the State of South Caro lina will hold an election for members of a State Convention, at their respective pre cincts, on the 'FIRST MONDAY IN SEP. TE MBER NEXT, according to the laws of South Carolina In foroo before the secession of the State, and that each Election District in the State shall elect as many ncmbers of the Convention as the said District ha, members of the House of Reprosentativea the bails of representation being population and taxation. This will give one hundred and twenty-four members to the Convention -a number sufflciently large ip 'represent every portion of the State most fully. Every loyal citizen who had taken the Amnesty oati, and not wl.hin the excepted classes irk the President's proolamatsion, will be entitled to vote, provided he was t legal voter under the Constitution as it stood prior -to the secession of South Carolina. And all who are within the excepted classes must takc.the oath and apply for a pardon, in order to entitle them to vote or become members ,ofthe Convention. The' members of the Convention thus elected on the first Monday in September next, are hernby required to convene in the city of Columbia, en WEDNESDAY, the 18th day of September, 1865, for the pur p ose of altering and amending the present Constitution of South Carolin, or remodsel lng and mazing a new one, which will con form t9 the great enuges which hiavo taken place in the State, and be more in accord anee*ith Republican principles an4 eiluality of representation. And' I doe further sroolaita and -make known.- that. the Constitution and all laws of foree in South' Carolina prior' to the secession of the. State,' ate hereby made of force under tfhe Provisioal Governynent, except whetsain thtey' may contliot with the nrovisos of this Rv'olsmation, And the Jidges and Chtanoqllors' of the State, ae bereby required to exercise all the'powers and prform all the ditties which appertain to thecit tespeetive 4mees, and espeelally in, caiinal cass.el t, will be expected..of 1li F 1 mi pothorities now in.4ontli Caeat th it h'prityto ste ceMi vecer of the 1'otisioz~ Oo~uterient, for the j)4. of;' 4rcih the law. A114 es6abd ol edr pf the Ad4 e ers.n ane- e:(WU )rs of freed persons will be kind to them, mnd not turn off tle children or aged to pprish; ail the freed-men and women are arnestly enjoined to make. contracts. just ind fair, for remaining with their former owners. In order to facilitate as much as possi ble the application for paidons 'under the excopted sections of the President's Am nesty Proclamation, it is tvated for infor-. mntion that all applicatione mtist be by po tition, stating the excepti,.n, and accom panitd with the oath prescrit ed. This pe tition nhust be first approved .y the Provis ional Governor, and then forw.arded to the President. The headquarters of the Pro visional Governor will be at Greenvitle, where all commimications to hi must be addressed. The newspapers of this State vill publish this proclanmation until the elect it n for mom bers of the Convention. In testimony whereof, I have ler-unto set my hand and seal. Dol.o at tihe [L. s.] town of Greenville, ti, 20th day of . July, in the year of o-.r Lord 1865. and of the independrnce of the Uni ted States the nintileth. 1t. F. RRY By the Provislontn Governor : 4 W!LLI.-It HI. Pl.nm, Private Secretary. july "5 '-ep4.J7 A N NO U N CE M E N T S. Nossatlutiora. Mn. Etiron : The near approach of the day appointed for the election of members to the State Convention, renders it properfor us to consider who we shall select for that po sition. The declensions which have taken place very much restrict the range of selec tion. At. thislimportantjuncture ofour affairs, it.is desirable that thoso who are peculiarly fit, ted to serve the people should be callediforth. I know of no one more suitable in all respects than Mr. WI[hLIAj R. '.ROBERTSON. His well known good sense, his moderation of opinions, his business talents, his untir ing energy and'pract.ical sagacity, point him out as a man who can do us good senvice. I thereforo beg leave to present hits name to the people ; and I feel satisfied that while he does not seek the position his public spir it will induce him to ole$ the mandate of his fellow-citizens, who desire his services. aug 22'B5---te RNoan RiRa. For tlme Coaavea ioua. "Choose for the Conveition your best rind truest men ; not those who have skulked In the hoir of danger-nor those -who have worshipped Mammon, while their coun try was bleeding' it every pore-nor the politician, who after urging war, dared not encounter its hardsmhips-but. those who had lait their all upon the altar of tho'coun try. Select such men, and make them serve as your representatives." Ma. EsITcR : Deeply impressed with the immense importance of the above advice of the noble ilAMPToN, I propose as mem. bers of the Convention for Fairfleld JOHN BRATTON, JAMES H. RION,. aug 5'65-to Amon PATIaR. TUE CHRISTIAI INDMX. BY the First of October, or as soon as the mails are re-established, I will re new the publication of the "CHRISTIAN INDEX" and the "CHILD'S INDEX" Ihave been publishing. Price of -Index," per annum : $8 00 Price of "Child's IndeX,' - : : 50 Motley may be remitted at once,as my do termination is positive. My deshe is to se cure a large subscriptioi list with which to begin, and I Issue this prospectus that sub scribers may have time to forward their re mittances. It is my intention to issue first class pa pers, and no pains or expense will be spared to pseoure that end. The best writers and correspondents -will be secured, said the highest religious aud-literary, talent will -be given. to the .papers. The Cill LD'8 PA PER will be proniasely illusatrfted and will, in every sense, .be made to conform to its new title. Trhe dalld's Detighat. Monspy may be sent by Expresss'r dthpr wise- -If by Express, at my risk, ifthe ex press receipt is senmt me, on the resumptien of mall fscilies. .. a My Qonnmetion with 'the firm of J. W.. Buflte & Co., is dissolved, but I will estab Ush an o0eb64n Mason, Ga., where cosum nde'stions asgay be addressed. - SAMUEI, IOYIN'. he' Carolia Georgia and Alaba'taa pa pts, daily anud weekly, will copy one~uaosth viid send bill to S. B. adg 26'66-1m1d L 0Ui# aUIA , S. O. r 3adyeieds baftpf lasad the ~dW ad~. t1Ub ii pi t et ale q.~z~.g'Propr~ to .