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Tile TRA RRI6 LY NEWS, ADVERTISING RATES. 13 PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURS- Oe averlsents,) ig*ne .DAY AND SATURDAY,TH NEW at $1.00 fo the .DATAND ATURAY,first insertion anad 76 cent# for each sub By Gaillard, Degportes & Co. It Winnaboro,' S. C., at $6.00 per an- L adotoa w4waocontrac nun, in advance. ------- THE FAIRFIELD HERALD, T pf I - t E10.I00. SP D EVERY WDNEODAY MORN- I obarged the same as advert isementt, wn S fy, V 4 2 over ten IIn and must be pd for ha handed In. o they will not earor, THE WRONG BIDE OF TIB CURYB AN NX-2INotNER's STORY. Among the many incidents that during the late rebellion were connected with that greit national artery, the Baltimore and Ohio railway is the one I will relate. In the fall o 1801,' having been detained by busitess in ti.e town of Cumberlaid, I was at last about to itart for' Wheeling, witen I learned by a disptoi that 0114 road was occupied below ,1Riper's Ferry by a force of rebels, and the-elore no train can pass. This prove4 to be true IA reference to ordinary trains, bat usipeoinl" with which was the lion. Mr. Pierpont. anda few other notabilities, -had passed before the rebels out the track, and was therefore aproaoh ing. On inquiry, I found .the e of thu coming train had been one o - 'y n chamis ere I had discarded engiU :Aivii for a more profitable business. My frien Joe M- was a cool, bold. skiIIul eWt gineer, aud as generous as reckless,d&a ger As I expected, [-no sooner saw him and stated my wish to go, ap the road, than he swore that.special ot ' special, I should ride withl him, it for nothing but to see t,he fast time his engine *Wiidfire" could make. As we dashed rapidly along and went through Black. Oak Blottom, a couple of ill looking fellows in citizens dress fired at tAe engineer, but doing no damage, merely provok\:d a laugh of derision troan him tor the want of narksmanship. On arriving at Oakland Md , we were agreeably surprised by receiving a telegram informing us a party of rebels were making great haste to reach tihe railway at a point, many miles ahead of us. Also, they seemed to know w-lid the special contained. and would ther. fore use all endeavors to capture or kill us. There was but one car behind the engine and iu it was briefly discussed the question to go or stay, while Joe was having the tender refilled with wood and water. Mr. Pierpont's business was too urgent to admit of any possible delay; two or three others concluded to risk the trip. and I well, if it's not too egotistical to say so-I ha,d run risks on railways too often to baik out because there was danger ahead, while the ret concluded to stay and trust to luck for the opportunity of getting away. Julst is we were about to start,. the fire mia, making a misstep on the "running board," fell to the ground with such force as to break his arm. Joe hurriedly picked tp the poor. fellow, but time was preolous just ihen, so leaving him in care of the gee Ilemen who had accompanied us, lie started directly toward me, asking me to come and "run" for him, as having no fireman, lie would have more than he nould do. I told him, however, to Loousider we his Breman for the rest of lte trip, as he was best Be quainted with the road, so without any more ado I doffed my coat We jumped on and away we went, past, hamlets, through wildernesses of stunted bushes, up grade and down hill, at a speed rarely equalled. Our light train rade firing a'n easy task for me, and I had frequent leisure to scan the beatutiful ranges of the Alleghanies along which we skirted. Joe was sit ting as usual with hin. with his lett h.and on the throttle. lover, and his-body half out Ie side window of the "cah that he might better sean the track ahead". A few miles 4outh of the famous Cheat river bridge is a deep gorge, with precipi tolls rocky sidcs. It is shaped like an hour glase, wide at each end, but tapering each way towardthe middle. 'I he track runs for quite a distance along otso side of ths gorge, makes a very abrueL turn across the chasm, a very deep one, in straight line nearly parallel with the track on the opposite side for three fourths of' a mile. We were pitching along with that peculiar, rocking, boandifg n.otion, so differsnt from ihe jar of ordinary fast speed. As we swept to tho grade around the side of a hill that commanded a view of the gorge-Joe and I both on thie lookout-we saw at a moment's glance, enough to make us concentrate our thinking faculties. and act Ia a hurry what ever was best to be done. There on the straight track, just at the near god of the gorge, a lot of men In grey un1iftorn were hastily piliag up some old ties, logs, eto.- while at th, point where the curve was the sharfest-before reaching the gorge-were several more tuggIng f\r riousaaly at a rail, ona end .of whiehl- seemed 'to baflle them as the, pulled it outwards. We were within a mile o( the an .when we discovered them, and as we noticed them, s he shout came eimnltaneously from both of uas--the wrong side of the ourve!I" 'The miserable fools were pulling out the inside rail Instead of the outside. In. the lai.ter case nothing could have saved us from run. ning off the track, and probably Into the gorge. 'Ohr single brakesman, seeing the danger-I suppse from~ habit-was com. anencing to tlghkn the tirake, but a look f rom.Joe, I *Igit*iegI -"'off brakes," Joe mneanwhile opened the throttle to Its widest extent as wo dashed dowp the grade a6 a positively'frightful voloolty.s A. we neared thema, a party , of them huddled together neara th,e track.- I seized a light stick- 91 wood, intending, if possible to hurt "setme. body." We were goldg.altogether too swift ;t, ftar their takingt aim at us; and for that iatter, suppose they cotsi<er * truction such a certainty thoa at would e seedlease. I pstri"i stick or wood, and gutioin i mithe speed-'ve had some $rateie it - parcels from trains in 11otion suddenly pulled the whistle r hoarse shriek seemed tstartle (ha instant ; they buddled 0 to ther, I totsed tha stiok outwa ad waUg ' I had barely titm* t4ses itc' 4 iro M group with thr ot'ikunderbo 0, rith ajarring a struck lhe nk ed se. It ouble %ve hadefbaidut I ie,91 he Il petus of the ebine'waa almod.sure to mt*se it mount the . taoi again. On the track again, but a few yards-ahead'of us was he., fortmidable barricade, and belApd that the yawning chasm. Joe was .61 .ing up now with his eyes blazin. still holding the thtIn ti" wide open, as he brdeed hiseilf for tke shook. I had grasped the break-rod of the tender the instant, I threw the Mtick of wood Crash I my hold didn't, avaii - 0e, and I was pit.cied head over heels against the fire box, aed laid flat onmy back on the foot,-board or Btor of the engine. Joe was as suddenly Jerked halt way around, his back striking a little door in frout or where lie stood, breaking the doot and shivering the glass to atoms. But we were through ; how. I couldn't tell, except we were on the traok, and thaidering over the gorge. Joe's spirits toe with the c asion Extricating himself almost as sud denly as he had been deposited in the little gls door, he Jerked a tin Bask fronm his pocket. sprang to the top of the tender, and from thence to the root of the cab- Steady. ig hiasselt for a mnment with his face to wards the rebels, he shouted "good bye," and made thew a low bow, and took a drink perfectly regardless of the wbate pit of smoke, as onesfterauother dischtrged their picces ai him, as he afterwards explainvd, the eigine made too much noise for him to 1iear the bullets, as they didn't seem to be hitting anybody. After having, in spite of sore bones, per. formed a jig he had extemporised for the occasion for the express edification of the robs. Joe descended from his perch, and do lieately *-%##1tt 6W stwam Vepped '. We were ae111 in sight of them, though at a t9lerahly safe distance, and now I saw a group of them standing near soveral men who had been wounded, perhaps some killed by that -irrepressible" stick of wood. Our damages were a few bruises each, but no serious hirt*. Our engine suffered the loss of the pilot, or cow-catcher and head-light, the front of the stooke box was' stove in, besides sundry dents and btuisea on the brass casaings of the cylinders ; but, was, for running purposes, absolutsely an. injured, the rebels having piled she logs squarely across the top of the trok, the point of the cow-killer had gone under them and though broken by the shock, had raised them sufficiently to keep them fron under the wheels, while the engine dashed them r:ght and left into the gorge. The rebels seeing us stop, started in pur suit, -but as we found nothing serious to im pe.e our fur her progress, and, as in the case, ' distance lends enehantment, to the view." we were off again in high spirits, and without further adventure worth re. couning. arrived safely at our destination. Poor Joe, after being shes at so oftes -as to have acquired sovereign contemp'. for rebel bullets, was shot dead sometime after, while running a goiernsent engine oe;r Chattanooga. The Natloal CouventIon. We elip the following from the Au. gnsta Castilutionalist. . What we want is Congressional Rep. resentabion oX. the basei of the- Federal Constittion. Tiiat we niig6t, posibly. obtain it by means of tkis Philadelphia Conventton is the oifly respectable argei. meit, we have yet ereD advanced in favor of our participittion therein. But how does the case staid ? And what is the poition-in this mat,ter of those who engineer this .movement? Let. us see. For our Iformation we have, first, the Plat form of tht, National Union Ohuh; t1en its Call; and then its late Cinmlar, appearing iia our isne to-dayv. After tis we have Pre'sideint Johnso~n'j posi tin, as define'd by hinmsell ;. thten the late dlecla rations of M r. Seward ; mnd ., Sitaly, the remaurks of Mr.Hendmri.ks.~ ef Indiana, some -few days sivia his place in the Senate. Let is take these several pastters uap itn tiurn, TIhe Platform of the National Untion 7. Rsle,That all the Stats o~ the Union are entitled by the Conituh. tion. of the United States to represhnnte. tiont in. the coutnoils of thq nation, and that ll loal mmbersdulyelec,ted n returned' hatii ' the i 'i trI,.....rierbylae shou@ a 1ouses, each Hou beini the 6of the eleotion, retu s aud qualin. ha of its own'tnembe ." ?he call for a Conte on issued by .t is.sane political organIgion, says: 'ach House of Conres is made by the Constitution t1he solo jtidge of th'e eledtion returns and qnalifivations of its .iitrbers, but the exclumott of loyal Seuitors and Represem#itives properly h*e>en. and qualiied u.nder the Constitiu. 'tio'n alid laws, is Uiijust- and revOutiuna. The late .irctlar is silent 'pon the Itubject, to, taking the position of the National Union Clob to lit defined by the language or its publishied dechara. tions, one fids that pusilioti to be in fa vor of the tadmission only of such Colo. gressional Representatives as can stand the t"-st of "loyal." Now- this, it is evident, is Wt, what we afe after, so let us thrn to our ot ey Iturces of nf.-rma. tion. It the Kloxl$lle ommerciul, a pnp,r which vigoronaly-:supports the Convention, we find, that' there is kept sanding, some matter, +titled "The Presidlent's Policy," from rlaicl we ex tract the f6llowing: "Thte Repreientatives of the States should be loyal men, willing to abide by and be devoted to the Union and the Cons itution of the Statesi '"All responsiWah pQsitiops and places ouight to be confined distinctl and clear. \ to men who are e abl and unquestionably logl."-i *s Re ply to the Virginia Comme ' "I hold it mty dnty'to re dnd the admission of every State 0 its share in ptiblic legislation when it resents itself in the persotis of Represen atives whose loyalty cannot be questioner -under a"y existing aonstitutional. or- :yc 64tet" Preeidentiet 'e '~~eW . Secretary Sew ad's position, as set forth in his Tammany letter, of the second of July last is as follows: "It, is said in excuse of the denial of representation, that the States and their chosen representatives still continue to he seditions and disloyal. I ask, is Tennessee disloyal? Is Arkansas aedi. tiota? Are the Senators and Repre. sentatives of those States dsloyal? I desire. in this respect, that eacI of the two Houses of Congres will apply the constituttonal test, with all the improve. ments of legislation lpon it, and thus admit those States and Representatives who are loyal, and reject otnly those agoinat whom tie crime of disloyalty fltall be established." On the eleventh of this month this same very eminent person addressed a letter to nIon. J. R. Doolittle, chairman of the National Executive Committee, approving the proposed Philadelphia Convention and then going otn to say : * "After ntore than five years of dislocA. iion by civil war I regard a restoration of the nnity of the country as its most imneiiate, as well as its moat vital in. terest That restoration will be complete -when loyal men are admitted as repre. sentatives of the 'loyal people *of the eleven Statez to long unrepresented in Contgress. Not hing but this can c011 ple it.' Nothing more remains to be done, pnd, nithing more it necessary." Siperadded to thus information, there is here subjoined the laniguage ofSenator Hendricks in a late occasion in the Sen ate, Mr. Ftmdricks being, as will be re. meubered one of tho Conservative Senators' .%ho approved the call for the Philadelit Convention The oon. gremional t Test Oath is the subjet of debate t -Mr. Ihndricks, (in response to Mr. Traubull, Radical.), "It, may aumt,. thte Senator's pturpose on the huflings,, but it will: hardly sit hi% puripo h,-re to say that I, or anly who at'- th me in- opmnioni,. are now advooash~ thesadminson to seats in thia body or ihe Hotuse of R.-presentatives of personi diatctly *uanneeted with the rebellan lThe Se.na to know* very wetll that thte .w st.at,de upein the statute book of qF'United. Stat.es ind upon the rules of @e.Benate, airsvion requiting every ~raon who takes a at in,the Senate t ake a sol.as .estA. Mr. um)anbull-Js the ,.fanator frota Indiana 'tfavor of that law and that L)fr 4ndminl sA is. a ...l4 beat express his views or% that question. Be had not asked to "epeaI the law. Does the Senator from Illinois consent to its repeal ? Mr. Trumbull-Certainly not. Will the Senator . from Indiana help we to keep it in force ? Mr. Hendricks replied that while the law remainAd, although he might have doubts as co jts constitutionality, lie would not vote for the admission 3f any man who could not take thet prescrihe'd oath. If he (llendricka) knew a man to be unable to thke that oath, he would be ,opposed to his adimis. ai,U --he qtwation was, however, not wheisier rrkels- oould take seats in Co* gre so it as not whether any man w1-'las been conneeted with the rebel li'o V in any. way, be admitted; is wa wn-ther wn sulected by competent, au thority hi the Southern States should be admit td. He (Hendricks) was not in favor of the admlission of Alexander H. Stephens or Hferachel V. Johnson while the tesl-iinth stood; if they could take that ohth, he would be in favor of their acmission. To which we add the following [JR. ED. N EwS.] In August last the following telegram was sent by the Presient to the Pro, visional Governor.of North Carol' It explains what loyalty meine. EXCOUTIv5 MANI Washington. Au gst 29e, Governor Wm. W. N. C.: Information comes- to me that ropotit are freely circulating in influential qsiar ter, and where, wi,hout contradictinn, they are calculated to-do.harm, to the*t fqpt-that in appointments to office, amni in the-venmenwton, fotappoitmetk.: the true Union men are totally ignored, and the provisional governors are giving a decided preference to those who have participated in the rebellion. The object of such representations is to embarass the government in its reoon struction policy; and while I place no reliance in such statements, I feel it due to you to advise you of the extended circulation they have gained, and to im press upon you the importance of en. couraging aid strengthening to the fill. lest extent the men of your State wHo HAVIC NEVER FALTERED IN THIIR ALLX 01ANCE TO WiE OOVXRNMENT. Every opportunity should b made available to have this known and' understood as your policy and. determmnavion. - Acknowledge the receipt of this telegram. - ANDRXW JOHNSON, President of the United States. A.WICLOOMI ALLY The Atlanta New Era of the l'th has an artiefe on the Philadelphia Con vention which closes as follows: As.friends to the moviment, as faith finl supporters of President Johnson, s friends of the Constitution and the Uniop of the States, ai)d above all as the friends of Georgia, we express our sincere conviction that Georgia shoMl not send delegates to the Philadelphia Conveqtion. Sympathy, interest and self-respect combine to forbid it. SIGNIFICANT. It appears that the Ohio Democracy lately resolved to send delegates to the Philadelphia Convention, and tie fact was supp.eed to speak well for the rospects of this nw party Messrs. Randall, Doolittl Iet al s, were~hatching. Fro... time Dayton (Ohio) Empire of the 14th mnst., a straighs out, anti war Dem ocratmo shaest, we IMans thai "The State a.entral Delmocratio Comitt., and the g.alen.en preet.int consultation with t. alL aNMe underegood tha*'th Phailadej phia. Convention way called with no-pur pose sohatiur of forming a hew party, by disbknin the Democracy ; and all we ikluato ppo.. aayv movement of S/at le(atewe very~ 5tmost. o.pe,. ration, nod feajon, i. U. s4a." Dodbtless this is the gentiment ofthe Northiern Demoracy elsewhere anid, ii so, lok-outfor a split in the ibhiladel. plhia Conwention not mansy days after thet fqearteenth of gst, Thejstorm has been smugle way out Isit the isnellt4 ti, call haL.. s.anA. ed-the nypmber of delegates hat been altered- and the very National Union Club itself has been changed by the fu sion with it of 'MontOmery Blair's "club." Belore the thing e a montth old it has commenced to assume Protean shapes, and Heaven only know atowhat complexion it may come at last.. Don't expect anything from this Conventipty and you'll not be dioappointed.-Agust' Constitutionalist. "THI E12ONB'UOTZD." Editor Bennet does not of -' the quill hinself, but whl nobody can mistake hia peqb1 k1 In the Herald of the 21dt Apearsi art-ele which takes a general view of Ahe politics of the day. sd in touching Ien the Philadelphia Convention, discourses on this wise: 'There was some talk of admiting t certain reconstructed rebel politiciantas delegaten from thebSouth to the Philk. delphia Convention, and as these phil. olophers usually travelF with -- bowie-. knives under their coat collars and pis. tole in, their pockets and' their boots. quite an exciting, session was naturally expecLed. Bnt in deference to the feel iig of the Hon. Henry J.- Raymond, 'who proved on the bloody fields of Sol p.and Bull Run that he was as "geous a Bob Aores this idea has U abandoned and neoody who.fought against the fnion in the recent war is be admitted-as a delegate. . This will practically e-olude the Sputhern tate#, or every representative,nian from* that section took part in-the retellionm WHAT DOE8 IVAEAN ' e We clip the'fos4owingfrom she Wa. li6nal tealligencer of the 16thi which. speaktby the card, and' italicize some portions: PXRSONNEL OF THE. PHLADELPUA. CoN VENTloN.. The Radical Disunion' pres are very anxious for ihe Convention, to be com posed of what it terms Northern copper. heads and Soutuarn secesionists They see in such a composition of the Conven tion a very considerable element out of which to make capital. But we appre. hend that in this regard they are.destin ed to a signal disappointment. The great Conservative Union party of the North will be represented in- the Con. vention by men whose devotion to the country has been conspicuous. The paity at the South, who seek so ardent lythe early And complete restoration of the Union will, doubtless, in the- selec tion of delegates to the Convention, send such men us, by their antecedents, wilt most. fully give the stamp-of nationality to the Convention. Men "who accept the national situation and cordially dn dorse the principle#" set forth in the call: appear.ing in the Convention from the South, urging restoration of the Union. would give to the action of the Gonven tion immense moral power. A delega. tion of this character from the South would exercise a vast influence f6r good at this time. We take i for granted that the pqople of the South,.in availing themselves of the Qppoitunity presented by this Convention.of making known the national setitiment of the South, will do so in such a manner as to give the fullest force to- their action. To a,. tain this purpose, they cannot have too mich r-gard for the perional of their delegations. The importance of this' mat ter is so obvious that it is unecesa. ry longer to-dwell upon it. ORDa. FROx. GECNERAx GRANT. General Grant his ied an o)rder di reeling all the department, distriot and& post commanders in thes States lately in rebellion-to arrest all persons wh~o have been or may hereafter be oharged .with the commission of criaes and2 offences against etfiers, against citisents and in hiabrtants of the United States, hyespec. Stve of color, in eases wher. the- oesl authorities have failed, neglected or are uaihe to arrest and bring stach partis to ial,and detamn them' ia military oon fisemenut unilA sath tIle he a properj. 4i.ial tribenal.may be tvady. and- ili as t7y thee.