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"o of lit Bill to Amentf ilic- iarol 'rr wll b 'Tle voto message of Governor Orr will be ,Il( below, and we give it a place because is the IRet veto message sent to the Gene I Assembly untder tile uew Constitution. ader the Constitution of 1791 the Gover *r did not possess t-he veto,power. *As the essago was received very late in the day eceding tie adjournment,- it was not final disposed of by the Senate: SrAT1,or SouT1t C.iOUNA, EXF-UT1VF D:rAILTU11T, Col'tnu, December 10, 1865. r . Prcaident and Genthimen if Me &nale I cannot approve the,bill which origina. it in the behate, entitled "An Act to fiend the 'atrol L6ws ;" and the Constitu m of this'Stato makes it obligatory on tme r1:t1uritit, with I ty .Ijetiot,s, "to that ouse fromt which it sh:1l1. have originated." .An Ordinance was ratified by the State ,ovention on lie 27th of September last, tled "1 0n OrdiiktumIce to decl'ara in forco o laws 4.retoloru inl force in this .State, Id tlie Acts, allicial. limblic and private, ie, anl appoi lit ment s antidelections made, dfert aut hority oft :he sami1e.' The second etiln lectres alt laws, &c.,' of this State .loree whielk we-l' t fort,ce on tie 119th1i of -Cembeilir, .16o The third section declares ,!it all i ws IMsed Sinci1e thlIa1 date are of rce onttil reopealed,c.,: /'rr/!, /weeer, hat all t:iWs. resolutiotn's, ortlers or utiles itbra-ee'i witin termls of' this andt the pore uly sectionl, Which reclignize tle xis nee it' slavery, aId1 re--ilaite the rel:t1ions i'..,tr atil save, adtit delitn anti eifoi-ce o rigit. antd1 lties growiig thereout, or vat. and punish offences agaiist aich gIlls. or agailist the public policy of the tate in reference it slavery,. have become "no further or future Force or effect by. .ison of the extinction itf slavery." The Acts ot 1839 is entitlel "An Act to .duce all Acts and clhtiues of Acts in rela - 1n t) the patr l (it this State - into one tet, and. to alter and amen1wid, 11t Bthsic," and ras illtedt'd solely to securo subjection nid subordiat ion ot hle tnegro race. Every eClion in the bill was intended to sustain 'tle public policy of the State in reference o sl-avery," and i lie Convention, by:soleuim )rdiniance, has declared that laws for tlat I'lrpoCe-"have beconie of no further or tt. ure force."1 Is not. therefore, all the pro. visions of the Act of 18:19, and amendments thereto, as effectually repealed as the Act of 1744), or any other law recognizing or regtilaitig slav6ry ? If an Ordinance of a Convention can repeal a law. there wotld peetll i) b little doubt that every enact Iieit ill this State as to it patrol had been effectually tnwept, fromr thp sltatite hook. The first seCtioni of tho lill under consider. atiol, itt repealing tile eleventh, t w(lthI, thirit eent hi a nil'tteenth sections of the Act. ot1 839, assitues that all the other autions it lie Act lire still it'leve, The t.or stituitin oft lie State recognizes tie u niversal fre,,dom of the African race, aid prolibits their re-enslavement. The Ordinitce it t he Convention expressly-re peals all laiws regulating tile the institution, aili this assittm;lion of the hill is eniirely inconsistent with both. Is not the provis ion in the fifth section of the Act, which authorizes the pat rol to take up all slares found without the limits of their owner's plantation, and give them noderate "lbip Piig, anti in It sixth sectiol authorizing id reliiving the pitrol to c.ter Juto ali 41ovderly iuse, veyel or bol,at su'slpecto, d of harboring. trallicking or dealing .wiih 1ur1oes,. whether the s:ne be occupied by Wilie porsons, free inegroes, mulattoes. iliest izoes ' or * slaves : atnL to correct ill slaves found ,there, nad to report the free ne%roes to a magistrate, al to retain the proidlits of tralle till iniqiir'ed into, just as i,consiient witi the freedom, of tile negro is thes-eciions prop>sed-tlo le repealed by this bill ? I an entirely satistiel that the whole Act, for the rea.ons Ataled, is no.longer la in South Carolina, and I ant willing to rmk a 4Iuestion by now rtpcaling somle secti*lsand ilowing ot-iers to renain. I objectto Ile seconI section of.the bill, becauise it tildertakes, w'nongst other I hings tInterfere with th le private rights andl Etusiness of the citizen, whent the puiblic safety does not requiire suchl interpo(sition. The'o tier s e i!ten. or sijouirner,whohiires fteetttn or lottre liiborer's, whwethier whiite or coloredh, is miost ctifhpjetent to determIne what s'upervision his labnorers may require. It his labtrers becomie troubilesome to his neighborns by Iituuhlious or disorderly con ducet, they may he~ indticted antd punrished. If they rob and phitndter, the law will avenige lhe~ oustrage on the indifldual and on so elety.. - - Now that freedloino hans been accorded to Sihe A frican race in ouar midst, dety' and poli cy alike tgdmn$nlsh uts to give htimi all the (oniuoi.nitants of what hue regards so great a boo... Emancipation has9 changed -our i'e lations to him-mtnst,. esseintially, so lo'ng as lie was a slave, thuough -his moral trahiing was not neglected,.it was our policy to pro. hiibit him from learning to road and 'write. Now ii. is our'piolicy to onlighten and ele vate hint, fo'r it makes himt anore.''tratstwor thy, and reduces .oritto and p)agporismt in our mitdst. . . , . JIm every slav,eholng country Ib6 owners have endea~vore~d, lby stringent. legislatjon and a rigorous polled, to gumard again.st the dangers of roelt antd iri'rectiont-intsur rectiont ,to scutre fr'eed?om'; (bis wvas the rea son wrhy the legislation In tiro-South requtir ed the, pt'eseunce of' wr whte Ian on every far.iorantatiottw'here thtere wer'e tp or esore,slaireA, fJtat ai yigilant. wAtck inay be kept J$br4h-tnu and the'r- movehvments The necess t.has'ensed, and thie.law should be polio. j'roe to,aid the magicstr'acy in sup pressl t * n ,vljesa, .a,t$ in ,onforcing law pmnd-'ord nt't lf boamujiity, msight prove a the iliiwdconuideration, i my judtg. dight, wrouldu be.3:est 'pen.ioiona. - - ---, - - ANas. E. Oa. To sefept nutmqge piu(hemt.with a On.t If they av$ go4'time .ohl wIll -tnstant,1y npriai aTotihd the puncture'. \ j'e WINNSBORO. Tuesday lorning, ebrVary HO, 1866. T. P. SLIDx, E4.,sq., is the sole Agent for'this paper in gharleston, S. C We have received a hew and large supply of paper suitable to job printing Of all descriptions. New Advertisements. We direct special attention to the no tices of Elliott & Co. The Abbeville (S C.) Banner' of the 13th inst. says : "The reports which conie up from the various portions of. thtt District, are, in the n'ain, favorable to the interests of -planters. Much of the labor oif thoe 'couitry has been -ab. sroLd, .and if it can be make to stick, we hope yet for favorable requits. The bad I'arming of the last five years, which rC'sulted from the withdrawal of so many intelligent and efficient managers froin their farms, has left the fields in bad coilditivit-fencing destroyed. by time naid want 'f ordinary repairs ditches filled up, fields washed, manur. ing neglected, and, in short, all the inci dents of- bad management, are every where visible. It is necessary now to inaugurate a new and better order of affairs. Matly of the owners have re 6.nried from the army, and they are de. voting their skill and energy to repair. ing and renovating their wasted estates. Most of the means for accomplishing this objuct are within the reach of the owneIs, being su'pplied by industry and energy, and such labor as the freedmen can be induced to bestow. There is one want, however which must be sup lie(d in part from abroad-that is man Destitution In Lancaster DIstrict. The Lancaster Ledger reports -that in some portions of that District there the poor is actual suffering among for want PC prbvisions. They have no means of bujing corn, and if they had, the article cannot now lie procured, ow inLe, either to its scarcity, or to the .n willingness of thbie who have it to sell' TmuAl. oF CAPTAIN SYMI.--The Washington correspondent of the Rich mond Dispatch, writes As the Presient, .after reading the recent letter froW Oplptain Semines, ex pressed himself as opposed to any for. ther delay in the proceedings for his trial, it is thought that the board which -hc hai ordered 'to be organized will be designaed during the present week. The..procrastination has beep owing to the difficulty experienced in the selec. tion of -officers to comioso the cotgt,' part of which will he from'the army, atd part from - the .iavy. The deferice which will bo set upr, it is considered, will be~ e of the inost vigorous, as well as oR* tth e solundest, ever argued be. fore # military tribunal. A QAnicATn.--The Richmond Timecs says:. 'We have seen it1 private circulation a car'maturA which we think is worthy of a wider fame.- It represents Mr. John. son standing on the threshold of the 'constitution, his attittude and expression denoting extreme anxiety and perplexi ty. In the fore-ground are two figures, a big boy and a little one, representing respectively the .North and the South. The larger urchin is -'vigorously pound. ing the smaller one, who is stretching his hands imploringly towards Mr. John son and the Constitution, and struggling violontlato get to them. Mr. Johnson looks out upon the struggle and ex claims. "Did anybody ever see the like I I sent tbe boy out, to bring his lhttle brother in out of the cold, and now see-the child wants to comes back and the rascal won't let him I Hie is aptual ly holding him dut-there an'd wallo\viig him in the mud and snow I" Someobody ought to let that big boy know that Mr. Johnson, tire4 of expos sulating ?nd scolding, in vAin, is raaly bearing down upon him; armed wiha long, keen birch, evidently int.ent on anm noying his rear. Hie. had bet.tsr straiht eh up, even if it costs him his hold on the little fellow. We are.-ausured by s6me of the' worst boys in this nity that the stooping' posture is the mnost disad vantageouls that cant be assumned under sucha circOtmstances, .News items. Gen. R. 1. Lee was in Baltimoro on Sunday, and attended seriice at St. Paul's. Great anxiety was manifested to get a glin'ipse of the Confederate hero. ' Mr. Jas. G. Fernandez, of Union District, was shot and killed, last week, by a;party of soidiers sent to effect his arrest. Miss Harriet Lane, niece of ex-Presi. dent Buohanai), has been made happy she married a Baltimore banker, named Johnston. On the 7th inst., Thos. Flynn, a poor white man, was transfixed by a bayonet in the hands of a negro soldier at Gen. Stonemn's headquarters, near the Navy Yard, at Memphis. Subscriptions are being taken up in London for the relief of the widow of "Stonewall Jackson." A Yankee paper * says : Virginia is reported to be on the eve of another outbreak. The presence of Federal troops there is all that prevents the Old Dominion from resort to her old tricks of'61. We fear we shall have to make a province of her after all. A number of loyal Alabainians have arrived at Washington, for the purpose of representing to the President.the 6on dition of affaire-in Alabama. They say that the State officers, from Gov. Pat ten down, use the influence of their po. sition to oppress and persecute, the Un ion men of the State, whose condition is much worse tha'n at any time during the rebellion. A. message was received from the President by Congress enclosing a com. munication from the French Minister in relation to a proposed international coi. ference at Constantinople on the sub. jeot of cholera. Congress'will consider the propositipn. Dr. Craven, the medical adviser of Jeff. havis since his 'capture, has been mustered -out of service. .arepreesnts the health and spirits of hii late charge as excellent; and being furnished with the various papers and magazines, Mr. Davis keeps well posted upon the cur. rent topics of the day. " He appeared re. signed to his fate, whatever it may be. - The New York 7Wbhne says the municipal electiof at Reading, Pennsyl. vania, last Friday, resulted ih the sue. cess of the Denocratic ticket by over 200 majority. Ai. friends of Messrs. Stanton, IIr. lan and Attorney General Speed, say that these gentlepen will resign their positions in the- Cabineo if the Presi. dent vetoes the negro bureau bill. A mass convention of all ,rho favor President Johnson's rostoration policy is called at Nashville, Tennessee, on 22d of this month. A fire-alarm telegraph has been put in operation in Cincinnati. The biaryland Legislature adjourned en Thursday, after refuzsing to change the registration law. Stephen Rogers, the Cbilian consul at New York, has been arrested for violation of the-noutrality law. There is r. poweiful movement on foot throughout the Northwest in favor of free trade and a modification of the protective tariff to a revenne basis. Free trade leagues are being organised im the loading towns and cities.' The Sumter Wadmran,, of theo 14th inst., fears the growth of tpo much cot. ton. It says: "We Iro fearful' bat soms of our planters, in their anyloty to make cot. ton, will nelect thelt corn,fielderThmefo is danger o f groat' scarcity of bread the 'comi r. We are apt to go from one .ex' e to the,.other, And then the pricf cotton is so temptingly high. Brit -1. shotzig be reme*mbered that oven an apprommuation to a full crop will gr@41y reid'p the prie of the stapleo;-and tba in al jirobability.a loss. or amoutit ,1 yield an equal.rnmbor of dollars w4 a grester, whiile frors the forrmer we ..must ijs.lIse .a more abun dant supplpof brea." - T'roube isA It fdbeIween th e holders oflPaciflo Rilplandganits and sankt.fars andh lanAJ European News. NVW .YORK, Feb. 13.-Tho City of London with Liverpool dates to the 1st has arrived. Cotton was dull and declining: .Sales of two days 18,000 bales. 'Five twen. ties 661 661-; Consuls 8GI, 861. Tiere was almost a panic in the money mat ket. - Fenian Conimution progressing. It was rumored parliament would be re quested to suspend the habeas corpus and give the government authority to deal with foreign conspirators. It was officially announced from Vienna that negotiations for the rorma. tion of a new corps of Austriins for Mexico would shortly be concluded. The steam ram that was detaitied in the Thnmes was built for the Eeruvian government, and- has been allowed to depart. A ran built by Lairds for Peru recently left Liverpool and was at Brest where it is announced she will be detained until the Spanish and Peruvian difficulties are settled. Tennessee Ilarmonizing-Row in the Legislature. CINCINNATI, Feb. 17.-There va's great excitement in..the 'Tenneftee House of Represeit,tives yesterday, growihw out of- the discussion of the franchise bill. Hard -wordsisossed-be. tween the,speaker and one of the melp bers, and the former' threw the mAllete at the latter's head. ' Gen. Lee Before the Reconstruction ,Com mittee. WASHINOTON, Feb. -17.-Gen, R: E. Lee was examined- for geyeral hours he. fore the committee on recofistruction t day. - Georgia Legislature. , MILLF.DnOrI..1.C, February 16.-The House of Repr'esentatives has passed the bill submitting to a vote of the pqople the question of the Penitentiary. Press Convention. MONTOOMERIIY, Feb.' 1G.-The Con. vention re-assembled at 10 o'clock to day. Representatives are pres,mt from the Mobile Time, Tribune, Regiser; Macon Telegraph; Atlanta- Intelligo'ncer, New Era; Montgomery AdvortiWer, Mail, Ledger; Columbus Sun; Selma Timei and -Alesseiger; Tiusc ee New., and other. Mr. Clark,. (if Mobile, ws chosen President; Mr. Williams, of:Selma. See retary aid Trpasure'r, Me.W'. F. G. -DeFontaine, A. F. Crutehfield, Thos. DeWolf, Seaton Oe5, and, S. 0. Reid were elected kectors. Resolutions .of Auanks to railroad con. panies'and others, for.cottrtesie@ exLend ad, were af'e(ed, and unan'imously adopt.' ed. The Con ventidn took a reces.r unti 15, P. M., allowing time foetmiti-ing future buseness. - .* REPORT OV A FAtous CAuraroN.-.. Gene.ral Brngg's official report of'the fa. in 'us campaign of Kentuicky has just been given to the public' zhrough the medium of a Southern jouronal. , Tihat campaign was one of the mnost'inipor tant of the war, and as the Confederate General advanced his banners nort,h, ward, it looked as if~ the Confeddracy would be a fact accomplished. - S. trn umphant had beeni the march of Bragg, that Mr. Davis declared "i1 was indeed a glorious achievement to redeein Ken. tucky." But the tiiumph was transient% and after the fierce battle of Perryville the Confederate ,GenerAl was forc%d to' to retire fr6m the S8ite, with jGeneral Buell in clbse purstait. Gene;ui Braggi endeavors to showj in his repost that his orders to bring on the b ' tIe of Perry. ville early in the mofbin tvere disobey. ed, and claims that i(.t blow had been delivered accortding t4 rde'rs,- he lnight have cut-Buell's arm "detail. About this, however, the is a kif'e?tence of opinion am'ong h Southern and Northern Gene -and it was a soure of much contre y in the South sub. sequent to Bra *Etreat.--Neto Yorg Newa:os Brigharm o a men,.1 mad. keta, pistols anon and amiuailon enoqght an to use them, and that he' will us's t fis Ghe Gtiles eqinoto Utah to interfg ,polygabny He. den.ouee the #eve 6rand deelares thea be wHi beth t 3af itatana L'o11 the vvme Jburna1] - TIlE 660 0141'1 DIEAM . - DY B. M. ,MAUL.'. Come gently. oh yQ wetern winds. ,And soothe my brew of taro. Dring back to me, in goldeq:dreamnil. The good old days that wero; Oh, now ye wake my weary,ye,.. And rustle Through my hair. see again my lowly co, Beneath the rock-Abbed hil, Where often in my youth I played Beside the langhiig till; - Anti listened through the'stmmer evo, To the mournful- whip-poor-will. And -there the school-house-there the. spring-. Its waters pure and'boll V The maple, with its weallh of loaves, sied In the autumn's gold So beautiful I Oh glorious -ore Those bojAish tays of old!. The teacher slumbers in the dust The scholars, where are. they ? Some tread the hills of art, atid some Are aead for many a day;. A few, the bravest-of them all, Were slain iti- battle's fray. And yonder in the' distanco stands, Beyond the woods, the mill, Whose wheel went clacking all the year, And never would be still; Its music tones-the water's flow, Goed through me with a thrill. And just behind the woody 'opse, The stone church lifts its ipire But., silent as the graves where sleep The minister and choir, The swallows build beneath the arch Gone out the altar's fire. There.rest the dead of other yeArs, Whose busy feet have trod Those voiceless aisles. w(th gulideless hearts,. Tq humbly worshl God; And trough afliction and threugh faith To ow beneath his rod. An old man now, I vAnder o'er The wide eart.h all alone; Perchance snme strange's kindly hand, At last, will place a stone To mnrk my tht, or shall Ileep Forgotten and unknown ? Oh. death thou end of earth)y toll, Thy cold lips press to nine, And kiss this little life away To die thus -.in no orime For long enough this shattered bark Has braved the sea of Time. SLAVERY NOT DiAD Y.ET --A Colonel Dan iels, who married some divorced woman, lectured with his wife at the Cooper Insti tute, New York, to a large audience, con sisting of t he repotorial corps of the Tribune, half dozen Sambds and Dinahs, and a dozoa strong-minded viragoos. The Now Y&k Tine8 says Mr. Daniels expressed the opinion that slavery wits by no means dead, and Mrs. Daniels wanted to know why this was thus. Mr. Daniels somowhat startled the thirty odd people wito were awake with the asser ion that negrots are perpetually in bodily danger, and that. it was rather a mark of honor for a reconstructed rob 31 to have kill ed his colored 'rey. Mrs. Daniels thought it' this was so something should be done 'about it, and proceed6d to argue learnedly on the points' whiQh at present materially embarrass the powers at Washington, and. occupy the thought of the wisest men of the land. Mr. Daniels said that dead negroes are in groat abundance at Othe South, so much so that one man fished up fifteen from some named creek; that gangh of old rebels. wander from place to place, murdering the 'men, outraging the women and children, and virtually doing all they can to extermi. pate.the rate - that the people of the South little the Noilth, think they did right in at teilpting to secede and only want-the oppor tunIty to prove it. Mrs., DAniels thought that these whut epeople shtould bemade to feel t.he iron heel if they decline to recognIse the new stato of affairs, and contrasted the gay amit festive position enjoyed by the eh seri's of Russia with.that of the ex-ulaves of: freo'(thils was Irony) America. Mr. Dan iels nar'atedl art Incident within his personal knowleige by wvhich it appeared that a loy al white woman, a teacher, at the Sout~b, was literally murdered for her sent'Ioents, after wlidhu she-was buried by. 'blacks, and nio ones of her ,assasns was punished. .\rs. Daniels oldjected to the use of the term .freedmienas Indicative of a former blot on the naioural eutohxoon, but did note suggest, any improved appollation. DUsPAuava$ OfIAO.-.A lian& of negroest - went, on Tues -bglhtlast~ a little after. dark, to- tbhbg -h f,ohti Gooding, living;. In the,uppet pat of this oounty, and order edt nj ot to1 ralse hise eye from the fire or tu would blew out bitt brains.. They then. rna ked his house, toold bout $a0 in spe. eie endi nearly all hi. Eed clothies antd iu guns They t.hen took hIs horse .,and oRrts andI hau).d off all isi pz'ovisione, and wound - up thei- 'depredellpa, 'by shooting a ball through the shoulder of.his dlaughter a beaqg lifl y.oung lady. These partlds go up. the river. In bet, lasia And comsit, these, out ragse, and then.t*ten wIAJ tkeR booty. These facto hav ooe to.us frot sn rsda blitble soutec, whiph w, also leyraL that . tt n ~'t tap.the. Neuge' yot M4~ or two tre shall have. to" -'n6 t.I0 j.t ' 1 l* 4 little $79o. a - B1 eon *o6 efv4*4