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* '*oestay Xorning, September 19, 18O4 The proceedings of the Convention, frown the time of its meeting up1 to thle 17th inst., have been received by us, through the Cohunbia 1it nix. We 6 will cOnmence the publicationi of the proe'edings in our ie)t, having received theni too late to do so'in this issuq bf o'ir pApor.r The message ofGov. Pzxauv to the Con. vention has also been received. Our friends who wish to read the proceedings and the message, prior to their being published in our paper, can do so by 'call ing at our orice. We are ploased to Welcome the re appearance bf .he hester Standard, - which reached us' last week. Our friend of the Stendard has had a heap , of ups and dotons latoly. We hope he may now'be able. to "keep afloat" with. oiut~ furtli- interfuption, and'i.hat.his shadow may no'pr grow less, but keep expitnding until it reaches the dinen sions it ujoyed in times gone'past. on. Win. Aiken. ,Tthe Charleston. Courier of the 12th inst., says of this ditinguished ihdividu al: "We have the intense gratification of announcing-thIS.morning the full and coni*lote -)ardon by .Presideht JoHSON - of our universally estemned and honored fellow ci tizbn, Hjon. Wv.. Aimesx. TPhe good n, 6vw willbe joy fmuly received in this commniity, although it' hats beei.. a miys. tery and- fatter of 'surprise how ony charge'of difsloyalty to tile U. S. could have be'n brought nirainst this venera. * ble and beloved'10x-Governor." We perceive by tile Charleston ("Our. er of the12 l instans thatltheSuate Convenli9n of Miesissippi ha Adjourned sine die.; having aitDndd ilheConstitu tion in coifOrlity to'jhb new order of thinllgr.; reorgaili'inig and accepting with dignity' aln grace, that social coinsidera tionuiich heo decrees of anirresistaible fat haimnposed upon her, and providiig for the exigencies of an untried future, as far a~s.human foresighlt enabled ier. Tle President has 'approved the c tiez.of the Conveintio' and expresses the belief, that all obstaclea 'to , the speefly reAoration of that 'State to the Federal Union, with 'her' constitutiomual rightsil and rivjleges, fltkeus tnodi;d'anjd estqbliabed, are fast giying'way A niost pleasing opisode i tlhp Oohn rention wias a muanly and di'niet, yet tender aid touching, appeal t6ihte"msi 4isnt, signed by every inuember the Convntiuix, for tho -prdomof i JKPFERSolt DA (Fand ill. unshed Soother&gue teld in .prisorf by'ihe' United W usierel at that "resideist 'p for that of thi Gaebat seitsefe the bleeld hum'yn e ad for 'the tioble gesple / i~ which .her liteej Metp do'(ipqe ~ princely an i ' of mn au~ijoi1 pie l1%')hapa '~d' of' chris an.i4? fl*"tl~f~# gf gtimnt ei his, si th tioji ha. s1 ani %f the 'iJnlon 'tiekt ' of the 'pid /$ollki ayeof vo~j pohi4 dred sand idae~ .tw .4j 'of the f a~1 '' b4 a re . and 4 S Asaed feature in the9 g ~ he vot.:wuhacynelarly two-thirds of .the, tiktin h aious, ballot boxes wv'-re re owi0 gthc, personal preer. encessof thte voel0: ON.i PRKENTE D BY THEt ELCT1ON. Election day py.,eed off very qtietly. No-solbers were pormitted about the pols. General BI3ennctt's.orders to the officers of the day were that no guard should be stationed it any of the ward precincts, unless special request was made needsaary. The citizeis generally are very much pleased with the result, and deny that any issue of trionist or secessionist was raised in -the selketion VuVd election of candidates. They claim that they Pre Union and nothing elso, and that all will cordially support the views and policy. of tha administrai.ion. As. -an ovidonce ofthis imontion they. instance the elec. tion of P. J. Coogan, aI open aid avowed Unionist during the war, who received a respecta.blo - and successful vote. On the other hand, tle friends of Dr. A. G. -Mackey aid the "Union ticket" view the result as it compleote triumph of the old hunkers and secessionists. The election of Mr. Coogan, they say. was efflted byitbat candidato me'rging 'him. self with'the .secess3ionistt. 'Tle Union, ien and former friends of Mr.'CooLran have no confidence in any guod result. ing frefi his election. Ther-also sav the most monstrois falsehoodi,calumuiles 'and slanders were -heiped upon Dr. 'Mackey's personal character to effect his defeat. lie was ojienly ' and imniformly dendiuneed in street conversatione ns a traitor to his native State in ho- Ime of troubbet arid ditress. Many of tle Ma sonic brotherhood opposed Dr. Mackey .on account, of his visit North whicl they characterized . as begging tour, notwithstanding that visit w made at tlhe urgoeit solicitiktions of his N orthern brethr9n. . i6 fact, the Utiion.men clum that all sorts toflies and tricks were re sorted tp for tle pnrpose of. keeping their candidate-the frilid of TfniounisI,. hiptmlar rights and prog- estiwu filmprove mntlits-away fromt the convention, fenr ful of his intellciual abilitio .:and inflii. entce in gligootintg oliga.ehy and aris tOcracy. Eucil' nre ti- ttterpotits -yu will hear froin the two ides at the hotels, in the stoles, on the streets. or at private resi dances. 'IXroxiT OF COLYcTol1. 11ACKY's IR.:. 3oYA.. A report was in cirenlation 'that Col. lector Mackey was to bo displaced from the Custom -Honso nnd tho.ormer in, -eninbent, Collector Ordcock, veinstated. I. wis said that this report arose frpina letter received here, witten by a muin lber of Congress, 4tating that Collector Nackey's nomination yonid not he con firmed' by - the F'eiato. This report, raised innditttoy beforo the elet-tion, niso excited 'the indi$nation of the Doe. tor's frienld., wh6 re'sudedit as .mnotlier trick to inflame popular prejudicoiginst him. . They believe ii thip eae .his ene miep will be defeated- The .greateat ob. jection to Dr. Mack<'y by th'e old fqgies, arises, hiq friends y, from the Pres .mit ha'ving honored htn. with - an fe'to' which oly the chifairy prefltitled, for ,gd~tiqg that resident Jg1aWAnIIlikte t)Iy ~present cOoletor of C~hirLeston, isea B 11" nnadea mntf.' As' id ivdtM~ of this ffeligetey'stilpo 4 tho 1~~ *enlce~o gresidentto an s , ~Preidlent Linaola "Migal aplitt Thwfing We Als fvd- .?bbdWd * TX[P 'OnIARp! es guetng a 1k s.hta k-edtblilslid" 'lt. lime Rthett,c rs' A flood ideal1 oept'idsikis Ito~s I'prte ths t the 'nditor of th coGonstj n d amentdierst abol ~1h4 tI# 1 - Afaee tole um otde~b no u 7 99 e&ild coce Jig Id s~ neihotfofadapting~ teto1uIives.-tofj -6nditir.s by which thoyirp surrouti il'e roVetl n convesation this Il, ng.v it a. :gentkitan oC.conside ;4althybotre the' war bogan and ~ e ?rosent owner of two large plautations n Georgia. He intends returniiig home mniediately, subdividing his plantations ito sindll lots containing from ten to Pifty acres each, and leasing then out fAr i number of years to the most reliable' md industrious of his former negro. 3ervants, at such rates as they will tgree Lo give and can weil affoid to pay. *In some instances he will. give 'the right of purchase at the expiration of the lease. When the negroes ar. settled he Will Drect a cotton gin and open a country Iry goods and grocery store for supply mng them 'with necessaries, and he be liores that in ten years. his incone will ltindrulple what it was beforo the war. 11o is too sonsiblo to be long without followers. Tte true interest of large Soutliern landholders is in this direction. THt: SUJJECT OF PARDcNS. The reported project of establishing an executive burean for the ' speedier transaction of business pertaining to par. ions lais given rise to considrable dis eussiion concerning that business as at present discharged. But two opinions are hold regarding.ir. Ono class of mien feel vindictive. and belitve no pardons siould be grunted until the people of the rebel. lious State have at least passed through a severe probationary period.. Thu others IC ill favor of pardons, but believe the proscit lnboriotns method' af eliniinig efasesC wholly impracticable. 'The Vrepi Ient's life tilno would not slid& for a mnoiety of the work. Why, then, th'oy ask, (oes Io not submit .to the irrenme. diable necessities of thne case, designate by nnWor by ('lass flhe t'.vw whoni lie d)es-not intend to pardong'and declare sn nweeping.nipnsty for all tho others? To thi i complexion must it come st. last. AFFAIS IN GEO IA., !ni army oflict-r, who' has arrived' here dir.ct frot Georgia, reports that whifle recently- traveling from.,.Atlantia to Snvanngh. he sav in all directions teams loaded with cotton-on their yay to- points whenP'ce the stIAp conld- be transported to a nirkot, eidher by rail or water. Thero were large cuamitieb at Augtista, anti tlie article whs being conveyed thence by boat to, Sav'annah for shipment North. He states that the people of tihe country. especially those who hiatve severely suifferedy Hbsar express an apparently sincere desire t6 conform to the chiatnged condition'of af fits,and sustain tle general goverteiipt, while in. towns which have sustaineRi comparatively little dainfge by thi ivair" a spirit of dissLtiifact ion exiwts, pijnci. pally co finod to the yoing 9e who assutme to bolong to a boastell betts chisA of'soeie'ty, bit kew of whom have served in-thdjrebel army.. . . CoLofRKP TRxoP;1TO 1ltE MtISTMCnD oJi'. Orders have 'eep . issued , from he War Department of the c6mmahmding generals of the e tnients of North C'rolina,. Virginia, Florids, Tetas. Louisiana'apd ,Arkahgas,' diricting the immrediate-nmuster out.pf.-all orgniia. tions of colored troops, enlisted .itihe Northern Stts, thti mustert too. be by .eirit orgebizatiohs md iandei he r~tfatios qetibed b(G'eri i'dj-sy o. )IFI.' A The Podt Of1 Z ~ttmI t tdeay ordered a cor~itot'h *Arthr .LeadX of New York, to. .convey the tnAlas steamships from ntbat:pity IoOharlestn $. C., and ligektAwice a weoek also. ' f trtiau io SpfHs~ GA16. reet from $o Carolina,. ; e lrn thg) the queation o rfago'may prove 9onwsi *at embarg*f ato. Bonth Osit-ai representatdnzvtlay 4qo, ite bnpie,'htle qwm te'rests have hdrto ,en4~ 4 le$1slatior~ . 6 Wt:e lla' l 6 d. Governor Sla publihes the fol lowing cofrespotfnae It is believed thereocndei organIkod in each comuity at foce of ciizen militia to presrve order : and enforce the.eivil authorities of th6 State. Aiid' of the U'nited States. wv4chi-wtids. dnble the federal goterninent' reduce the army, and withdiaw, to a gr&ht oxrinit, the forces firom the State, thereby 'reducing the erjorious explnses of the govern mnlt.-, If thord was any danger from an or ganization of the citizens for the pur pose indicated, the military are there to suppress, on the first appearance, any inove insurrectionary in its Oharicter. One great object is to iiduce the people to come forward in defence of the Stato and federal governments. '.General Washington declared that the 'people, or the militia, was the arm of the Con .stitution, or the arm of the Ugited States, and, as soon as it' is pracqcable, the original design of the government should t fesimed nlndr the principles of the great charter of fredon handed do'wu to thr peopl, 'by the totinder of the roiinblic. *The pecple must be trusted Niit. their governmetit, and if trusted m opinion is that 'they will act in good faith and 'restori their former constitutiohal. relationg with all the States cornpoging the 'Union. The main object of Majbr Goneral~ Carl Schur's inision 'to the South was to aid, as'much as practibable, in carvitig out the policy adopted by the govorh ment for restorng the ISttes to their former relations with the federal overn mOnt. It is hbped sirch aid hs been given. The 'proclamation authoriitipg the restoration of Sfate government re. quires tho miilitaiv to aid the Provi'sional Go1TArnor in the pa'rfo mnAnoe of hi-s du tie aresrisdin the .rocinuvtioii,and ill nticmani'nSa to interford or throw im pelitiints Ih' tlid wy of the Coiasntnmt. Lion df the object of his appointment, at least w diont adviiig. thie govem#rit. of the.intende'd iiterference. A'NREW JoiNSON: o 0NYiTO 'NSS r3tUN~D OUiLrY op TitAsON.-I have just leared a v y illp"rtnt recent decaira. tioi niado by the President to .theAla. bsna deegation., who complained to hin of the ilighting effect of the pro. e 'p in confiscation -in that State1 eid reli tdtiem thtino confisoa. -tin could t4kel.kHce, of' havd a legal. efAect, ekcopt afte a 1gal coaviction of the parties for tfnason. ' You will at once realize the'efleet of'such a decision, for it will upset tnd' i'enduov null and void every act'of confisation -thalL hhs ben enforcedt the Sont, ,a I 'do.not be~ie" hi any one case 'hae pahies been previou ly .t-land convietad-of treason. I have this lnt6r:tdfroof jvrind, who Vs' he was told it bf on# of th de~ation ' wini it~ was whout' areigly astided byit." &th ertaidly the ..d d Inle ditYed& 1 f O r nd, tuitrat &h~rra~s o te o'lA ahli to a oi t ottNe#Gna thy is " O 106n un -h iij me ' r tg sbont1(uootville r g mi~any of ole~tinte f tiyae6tion to ritof iits a 'ghborlioo. Thisiiluence, ~g~ta ith the fetility' of the sirr rournding oittry, afid its rare facilitie of omAinion., itiet rapidly build ip 6he towi v BrUi tol.. The corn in thlehole -of Soutliwea tern Virginia and Past 4ngee is magnifceiat. . The orpps. of Qarghiu,. and buckwhea.areAlso lairgo 4t)V ub. We regret to han o state that;tle a" gion, usually prolific f jork, tbIM year nlot produce more tban enbi gli tor home consumptiop. .-The cholera haut killed the greater portion df Qe hogs. .fahnowi inmes. -ON DIT.-Ilb was currently reported on the strcets yesterday OvOning, .that parties, not of northein bi'rth, designed e tablishing in Raleigh a daily paper to be devoted- to the adv6oacy. of negro suffrage. \We do not vouch f6 the triath of thW report. though there are iidividuals. ini our midst willing to engage in suoli un ente:prise we verily beve. Ttis is. an age of free discussion, and if the newe boys should soon be ctjhig out. "1ie's your journal of negro suffrage, i would' not astonish us, however premidnitn such publication Nwobid be thought. Of course friehnd Penington will not object to the eiterpridep,16d a shbrt time sitece the Progreethanked God tha6 the inotitution of slavery ' s'abolishd that the slave.oWner would..") iv compelled to go to wor,&c . J e thoe cirounstuncen we have e oludete4 that the Progress'was in favr f*0n ceding the lkrgesi mensiri 6f iber the new nade freedmai of theS6u in of course ought to be.privilegeo tods.. and be seen, to hear and be luears A Di.. we "thank God," &o.,. whd NU 6; whole hog.- Oarloge T'mes. . POfATICAL . Mor AN Jix So6Tb 0Anou1 n.--A gentleman w io z hero from Hilton Hea4 last ey" ' says .the SAvannah eraMd 'of the 1t ult., informs us hat the people of "90114 Catolina are now aStively e4gg4in& -tie adoption of. preliminitry 'nonu & sneenre a full representation, A-n e proaching State Cotption whiph to tassetibhll, we helege, n te part of next Inoilth. 11o repgepent's derinant. sentiment as being m epelr accord. with thie greit Pjurposef t. contempl0ed, orgAnip reepastrpi 0 oi. in -o0t1 nvt ipon,,.1T ( Viwausentllyilats prqtpula ip i speechesanrd )ooa >4f o ly~appointed JProv # 8e vr r unopted,. %ithet retjsekv se tuting the tu4 policy o( os A .tQbe obaerved in the gonstritioni ft~, new-polieal Ak!)ric by the'.npproachN Cqnyvontipu A A,,ding At - . lY DAd th6ertoe'f o t t~ &c pl*bdO1 3Yie fi *Lth. rk rfned up-Co Esab t Epld q hett - uar t yd n ant d~ar