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WINNSBORO Nonday Norning, September 4,'1865. We tdesire to 1irect the special atten tiott of the reader to the advertsoments of our business friends that appear in this mornings issu'e, where it will be seen that Mr. JAB. D. il.Non has opened a splendid assortment of goods opposite Bank Range. Messrs. E.LLOTT & 0&., No. 4, Bank Range, have received a lot of new goods. Mr. M. L. BROWN is doing business tinder the old Winnsboro' Hotel. Mr. D. B. MCCnE1oUT has soaps, &c., for sale. Messrs. LADD BRo. (Leventritt buil. ding,) calls attention to their establish. ment. t Mr. JAs. M. DALY has opened a stock of watchep, 'jewelry, &c., at Ladd Bro's. Drug Store. * Mr. C. M ULLR advertises that he is *home again to meet his frieqds once," in the watch and clock business. Mr. JNo H. PnorST, Agt.. has loca ted at No. 2, Bank Range. Our liItle town begins to assume quite a business-like aspect. New stores are springing up filled with valuable stocks of goods of every description and .at reasonable prices; buyers, from the fairest blonde tp the darkest ebony, are looking for bargains, and refurnishing their somewhat impoverished wardrobes. We have hear4 of bridal outfits, and from the energy and taste of our adver tising friends, we have no doubt that great assistance and valuable facilities would be afforded to those who may be matrimonially inclined. These are symptons of reviving life, of which the no distant future will give fruitful testi mony. There is life in the old land yet; let none despair, but let us all be utp and doing, and sooner than the most sanguine - expects, we shall be a prosperous people once more. By a private dispatch received at this place we learn that bur fellow-citizen, Maj. W . 1R. ROnERTSON, has been pardoned by the President. The PhAmn. Columbia, S. C., and Ccrolina Times, Charlotte, N. C:, will find an advertisement in to.day's paper to copy. In Charleston, its we learn by the Daily News, the managers of election have.declared that, in accordance with Gov. PERnY's proclamation, no voter will be received at the polls who was tant qualified to vote in 160. This isquite an important.decision. We notice by the Charlotte (N. C.) Democrat that they are to have a Na. tional Bank Jocated at Charlotte, and that that clever and accommodating gentleman, Tuos. W. Dm.wxy, E.M, will be the "Cashier." Our Position-Our Duty-OurProspeot. The events of to-day, in Winnsboro', are big with consequences either. for weal or woe. Thought~less, heedless and ignor ant persons may make light of it, but the sober-thinking cannot. - ~Fivp year's ago, to have been called upon to vote for men who are pledged to adopt an anti slavery Constitution, world: have been, in our opinion, the death-knell of our country. And to day, if we shut our eyes to the history of four years past, the same conviction would be ours. But those four ;a" ra have worked tremendous - changes, atnd our present position, demand that we to ,day exercise our privileges with an eye to that change. The noble JOs. E JoHNrSroN haar reosntly published a letter in which he makces a staement which appeared in the columns of the NEWS, inl a com~munication froi our corre'sp'on dent "M,"' a-few week abefore that letter *wag'publislied. Thst statenient is thtat the point-atisu-etshhop an-oneth has bee9 lefte the dec ohf Sieyvord; hbp swerd hasp ga'M uw, adit bpeonas 'a graqyfel to yiel&' Al .snsble ileh paobe *1ioitib, ~$ oiNiask tobeg J Hc o T ~ n o n h sI 0h s e enough. Let the delegates to the Con. vention be instructed to carry out speedi ly the policy sworn to by - those who elect them, and who have taken the Am. nesty Oath. The terms of that oath are too plain to be misinterpreted. There is great need of caution. of moderation, to avoid giving occasion to those who are dictating o*ur course for imposing up on us further requisitions. Taking this course, we secure to our selves all the advantages of a position of equality among the other States ; we secure the well-d*efined Government of civil law, instead of the capricious one of military. Business will resume its old channel. Every man will have the privilege of managing -his own affairs, and in a few years prosperity will again bless our land. Who Can Take Seata in the Approach. ing State Convention. 'Many persons, loyal citizens, who are excluded from the former privileges and franchises by reason of their fliling with. in one or the other of the excepted class es of the President's proclaination, have written to us and ask us whether one who is prohibited from voting at the election, can, if elected as a delegate, take a seat in the Convention ? Our own opinion is very clear that he <annot; for the reason that it was not intended by the President of the United States, that any person tainted with treason to the United States Government shall take any part by voting or otherwise, in reorganizing or reconstructing the Glovernment until the taint has been re moved ; that the only way hy which the taint can be removed from a person coming within either of the fourteen ex ceptions, is by a.pardon fron the Presi. dent, and that no bie is eligible to an election even until a pairdon has first been had and obtained. Hence, in or der to avoid trouble and disappoint. nent, we aulvise our friends who may be so fortunate as not to have received a pardon before the day of'election, an~l who may desire to be in the Convention, not'to allow their names to be rim, for, if elected, they cannot take their seats. These are the opinions, in which we are sustained by every one with whom we have conversed, and common sense teaches that it is the only sound opinion. There are several of our warm personal and political friends whom we would he pleased to see in the Convention, who are to he parponed and -who have not yet filed a petition. We hope they will hasten and qualify themselves,'run and be elected... On the other hand, any person who is loyal and who does not' comieovithin the excluded elasses of the 1resident's proclamation, but who, if he does, has received pardon, can take a seat in the Convention, as it matters not how many offices lie may hold, either State or Na. tional.-Ralcigh Standard. ELxcToNS.-It is time that some rule should be established or under. standing had in regard to the elections in all the Southern Sta'es. The people desire to know whether the rules hid down by the President for the elections in those States recently in- rebellion are to be overridden by some subordinate at his own bidding. Unfortunately, Presi Johnson's health has been such that lie has not been able to give this question the attention which the necessities of the case seem to demand. But the action of General Palmer in Kentucky furnish es him an example which we have ne doubt lie will thoroughly investigate, and clear the whole qifestion up. Un. der the proclamations of the President in refurence to the reorganization of the South he has wisely directed that the laws regulating the elective franchise, which existed prior to the' rebellion, shall be enforced, with the condition that one and all shmall take the~ 0ath of alle gianace before they can exercise that n~ght. In addition to that, certain classes are .excluded from taking the oath or voting until they have received special pardon. ' Now, all who take the prescribed oath aire, in the eye of the law, as loyal as any peorson in the North, and are entitled to all the rights of citi zens,' voting included, protided they are -not excluded by -the provisions of the State laws. N either the military nor uny other authority has a right to ttrfere in the exercise of that privilege, or set aside- the result on' the pretext. that thiose elected were once secession~ te, or hose who voted for thenm ,ere suach. is thb duty of the mil~i.,t sst ecivil offcial. in masii~i de an' n reeni or Ohio, is in violation of the laws, and Ruch we believe will be the decision of President Johnson as soon as he can have an opportunity to give this ques tion his'attention.-New York Herald. The Next Sesklon of Congress. The question of theAdmission of mem bers to the next Congress from the Southern States is now agitating the public mind. With a law of Congress prohibiting any one from holding a seat in that body who had been engaged in the rebellion, it is difficult to solve the question who the South can send ; for there is no prominent nian alive i the Southern States who has not, directly or indirectly, been concerned in the war. Tthe fnist matter to be considered, then, is manifestly, the repeal of the law, so as to relieve the South of the disabiht.v of being fepresented I the National Con grese.. Will tli Radicals consent to do this? That is the question. We have no doubttliere will be an intense struggle to kece the South out, but the people of the North are more anxious for the South to come back than the South her self to return. Hence, if the majority iusist 11pon carrying out their plains, and closing the doors of Congress upon the South, the Northern people will arouse tlhel3Ives to the necessity of putting down the Radicals and opening the por tais ot the Union to every wayward sis. ter who come's back, casting over her the cloak of- charity and forgivenes, with the complete oblivation of the past. The South has been restorcd to her po. litical riglyts by the arnnesty proclama, tion andl by the oaths of allegiance taken by her citizens. No further teats can be-roquired unless it be the test oi probation, and that ip, of course, out of the buestion. The men of the South who have conformed to the require ments of the Government are entitled to vote, and it is absurd to argue that they have not the power to select their own representatives ; and it is a still greater absurdity to say that these rep resentatives shall not be received whei elected. No such doctrine can stand before the American people. When a South. orner takes the oath of allegiance h must be regarded as being restored tc his former political rights. ie is ims good as an other citizen in the eye o the law. The Government must recog nize this fact, else why administer the oath at all ? No doubt President John son undbirstands the matter, and if th Radicals do nbt wish to'go before the people in the )ending State elections ir a position inimical to the admimstration, they will handle this subject with fair ness and moderation. The President regards it to be as much an act of dis loyalty to prevent a recussant State from coming into the Union as it is for one to go out ; and if the Northern States op pose the restoration of the seceded States they are as criminal as the( origi nal secessionists.--New York Hrald. Tit) Omro D oonI-rATI:0 STATM COx VETrMo.-The Democratic State Con vention of Ohio was held at Cincinnat on Thuisday, the twenty-fourth instant General George W. Morgan was nomi nated for Governor, and the Honorabh William Long for Lieutenant Gov ornor. The ticket throughout is atrong one, the convention exercisinl great good judgment in the selection o candidates. Rosolu'tions were pa~ssei opposing a consolidation power in the hands of the Federal Government maintaining the doctrine *of States Rights na laid down in the Virginim andI Kentucky resolitions of '98 ; die claring -the 'ordinances of secessior adopted by the Southern States to 4 null and void ; asserting that the Site: Are still in the Union, entitled to al their reserved rights and their due rep resentation in Congress ; denouncing al attempts to confer suffrage upon th< negroes ; discouraging their remova into the State ; comphmenting. the sol diers for their valor nd fortitude during all the trying scenes of the wvar ; regard lng the national debt as a national curse demanding the enostd rigid economy and retrenchmient.on the part of the Admiti 1stratiou, that. this debt may be paid, recommonding that the national tan may be collceed by- -the County Tree~s urera ; earnesy denouncing the arreal of citizenls by military authority, ani declaring that the cotinmued suspensior of the writ Qf Aalkau o orpus, the denia: of the right orl1by .'jry, and the in. terferenco wIt$ J9ebt6# by the milita, ry power, at rei iuiagand- destrnc tive of the ( tdi !j~o the tUntq $Iat. I 61tions fnrther de~'lkw ft thep t.Decracyv dt Oei tqatand ~ ~ r6~,4j egisistiion 46-o rstor t, fiVtst h ft [From theNoew York Daily News.] Proud, Brave and Noble. Proud, brave, nolle-without a tarnish upon her banner, without a blemish upon her fair fame, respected at home and honored abroad for all the manly quali ties that have been developed in: peace or war, the South rests from her struggle. With the prejudices.'of fifty years, and the education of a century moving the hearts of 'he people, she dared the perils of a revolution, encountered all its sacri flees, suf'ered its agony, and without stint gave men who lived great lives and ii death are not forgotten. She failed, and her sorrows will become as "old as kings of a grand and peerless line." She stands before the world to.day, not humiliated, but depressed ; not conquered but cast down. A new life opens to her view. Brought by force back into a Union from which she had dissevered herself as by the voide of one man, she finds presented to her, new conditions of political existence. The old fabric .o: society is undermined and is in ruins. Old institutions that gave her wealth and power and cortributed to the prds perous greatness ofthe common country are gone forever. As a nation the Soud staris afresh. Sie commences another lease 6f existence; and under a systeml with which she is all unacquainted, the aggressive, impatient spirit of the Nort demands that she shall at once and with out restraint succumb to the new relatioms that have been created by the war. We believe that she will. Before the South there looms up the forest of a mighty future, that wNill give shade to those who may reap the harvest.. But the seei must be planted now. By the voices o their living and tlhetr dead, the people are called upon to work now while the day lasts. Great duties are to be done; tremendous responsibilities are at stake The men who hereafter represent tli thoughts- and interests of the South, mus be, and have been true to her in hean and heart and hand. They will come t< Congress.. they will becalled upon t9 min gle' heir influences, social and political in the current of the Union, but those influences should illustrate the South or nothing at all. We want earnestness truth, reality ; and when a brave mar Who has fought, be it morally ot physically, through this wanr in lighalf ol Is cause, and consceientiously comne forward, acknowledgihig his defeat, an< pledging himself to future support of the Constitution and laws of -the Unite< States, we would rather see such an oA standing upon the floor of Congress t< express the will of his people, oi occupying-a station of honor and trust than all the so-called. "loyal men of the South," so pliantly quick to do their mas ter's work. in whom God has breathed the breath of life. We say therefore to the people of the South : elect to yonm public bffices your best citizens-not those who have played the hypocrite during the war and the traitor since, but meen whom you have tried in the fire and not found wanting-nen who have sealed their devotion to your cause and shared your weal and woe. . Let n< arbitrary nower of sword or bayonet-, oi threat of radical politicians deter you in thi, a. sovereign right. Go into the Unior and vote. You will come to the door of Congress as a Union party, and yot will be admitted as suich ; or, by the grace of God, there will be a ~:hiism it the ranks of your enemies, that wil: scatter them to the four winds of heaven, We wvant, likewise, new men as well ai true. The issues destined to arise in the halls of national legislation, demand young, fresh thoughts and vigorouc brains. The era is one of reform, the spirit of thme age is progressive, and te foster its good or combat it~s evil, will reqmire the brightest and bravest intel, lects that illuminate the South. For a while they may be suppressed. Obsta, clee may be thrown in the waiy of theit election, or acceptance, but let the peoplk persevere. ' Change, if absolutely necep, sary, the object of your choice, bat ylehc not one jot or tittle of the right which the law of the land confers, and befoh many months have elapsed it will lei cogered that, if theSouth bel trne t herself, thme majority .of the .peopkc of the North,. vhethler kunwnn b one plitical naute or anothbtr, *l equally firm in the assertion #n'd tenance of a free. govermet. th this co-operation seer wil onbe more feek th,~ a hbei veins somne of -lier'fah ry, 'im rising, from the d .''i shwh enter t4 race that it sf, - fo and ,win, perhaps, a noblpr ti tha,. any oi uJ~eh 'he ripw; #rs in, he t ir ay last there era tpro, thani* soldiers so - eron ther, Mr e t;a th .A'itas . .1a1LLause. WOULD respectfully Inite the citi zens of Winnaboro', and of the Dis. trict, to an exminiuation of his stock now opening opposite Bank Range, consistingof GROCERIES: White and Brown Sugars, Choioo Greetw and. Black Tea. Cof'ee. Fanoy'ftd Yellow Soaps, KVis Mackerof, Ceis*, Ale, Pbrw Wine, Drakes' Iiitearr, lMastard, Cheeew, Soda, Cinnamon. Cloves, Spices. .1ak, B'few Stone, Indigo, Madder, Dorax, Matches, Se. gars. HARDWARE; Coffee Mills, Knifes and Forks, Pooket Knives, Spoons. 'lates, Augers, Gimlets,. Pad Looks, Stock Locks. Candle Sti6ks, Cur ry Combs, Screws, Tacks, Shoe Thread, ]torso lRasps, Files,. Scissors, Shoe Knives,. Shoo Ilainers, Tea Kettles, Frying Pans,. Saucepans. &c. DRY GOODS: Calicoes, Alpaccas, Muslin De Lalues, Cas. simeres, Blue -Denims, Colored Cambrie, Stockings. Linen Cambric and Colored Pocket Handkerchiefs, Towels, Brown Shirr. ing, Brown Sheeting, Brown Drill Papew Collars, for ladies and Gents, Hoop Skirts. ALSO, -Men's Felt Hats, Men, Women and Chi. drons Shoes, Epsom Salts, Copperas, &c., &c.. &c. , I Will receive In the course of the next week an invoice of'Crockery, Plates, Dish es, Bowls, Basins, Tumblers, &., &o. sept 4'05 NEW GOODS JUST RECEIVED. A large and well selected Assortment of DRY 00DS-, GROCERI!S. HAT, PETROLEUM' OIL' AND and a variety of FANCY 'ARTICLES. ELLIOTT & CO., sept 4'65- No. 4, Bank Range. TO THlE PlrBLtI. - r 'HE undersigned has commenced' business.in the store under the Winns. boro Hl,4, where he intends keeping ab STOCK OF GOODS suitable to tho'country and town trade, con sisting of DRY GOODS,, GROCERIES, U1ARDWARE, and. FANQY .AITICL . - o will purchase or tatke in eoh 'ge e6wktry produce ol all kinle, abdsoli ta a. sharo of publio patronage sept- 4' -, M. L. BRQWN. WATCHES, JEWELRY, &c. HTAS re-opened next to his 014 stand-opo~it~e the Bsak. SPECTACLES,, WATCNIES - and . , MATBlRIALS F'OR RlEPAIRINfG. A Anu afook tot JEW*LRT, o# he lateat stylesd4ill be *pened in a fet'rby. 'he P,'eni, Columbia , ,aund cop, the above once a wee~k i&f6 u and forward bill to "a~ Trment.$*Q P BHIi e e n es a