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Thuviday Morning, ugust 23, 1866. ..g T. '. SL1DnR, .Esq., is the solo agent for this paper in Charleston 0. 0. 0:- Mr. JAS. H. SMITH, formerly of this place, but now residing in Charlotte, N. 0. is our authorized agent for the NzW Mr. SMITH cai be found at the 7Vnes offie. The Convention-Our flews-The Views of Its Friends. On the 14th of July we used the fol lowing language in the NEWS : "If Governor ORR is willing to put the cemeteries of the Federal dead nn der the peculiar care of the Govern ment, while those of the Confederate lie "unhonored and unsung," and if he can "sincerely" turn over to the tender mercies of that Government the families of those who died that Government might live, and leave those other families to the cold chari ties of a country that ignores them, we cannot. Heaven knows this State, even at the earnest appeal of Vice President Ona, can hardly "cordially" do such a thing." On the 19th of -July we said in the NEWs, "Our first proposition in the way of objections is, that a representations by delegates in the Convention would commit the South to measures that would be entirely humiliating." "We cannot do this without commit ting ourselves. We have not lost everything. We have some self-re spect left." On the 26th of July we said in the NEWs, "The State, if she enter that Con vention, does it with a -knowledge of the breakers before her." We declared for the dignity and honor of our State'for these were all she had left. The majority differed from us. We are now willing that they should be heard, when it is too late, upon the very point we laid so much st ress. What the Charleston News and the New York News think, will be found in another column. The Ph(enix says "some of the resolutions might have been very properly omitted." The Patriot says "Doubtless there are few amongst us who will be willing to re cognize as "principles" some 'of the doctrines set forth in the declaration, nor endorse all the theories contained therein-nor admire the terms in which these declarations are .made to us." The Patriot and all the friends of the Convention are obliged to recog nize those "principles," nolens volens. They went with their eyes open, if not they were purposely blind, If there ever wams a people in the world that wont into a share voluntarily, it was the Southerners when then the enter . ed that Convention. If the most enthusiastic friends are dissatisfied, how can they blame the . opposers of that Convention ? How ever, it is their own doings, not ours. With this expose we arn done. We will aid the good fruits, but discard the questionable means adopted to obtain them. McC. Is it Possible. From the New York correspondent of the Constitutionalist, we take the fol lowing extract. If this be indeed true, it will make a "fizzle" of the Convention sure enough, But read it yourself. If it be true, ab i it shows but never mind. , McC. It has been the boast of 'the South. erners that ithey have gone through a crisis of unpqralleled severity, and uniformly preserved their lntegrity and honor as a people. This, even g the more refieeelng Radicals have al wapa stood, ready to admit. Bunt ~4 Southern men must now pause and ask themselves whether they h~ave not been ~deraded by the course of those whoc have pretended to represent them in the Philadelnhia Conventin. Fiaali. ty to friends is a cardinal virtue, afid cannot be neglected without dishonor. During the progress of the late war there were a few men at the North who boldly vindicated the oasOe of the South ; who denied the right of the Federal Governmentto make war upon the States. These men incurred a vast odium. and many of them suf fered severe penalties for their cour age and candor. In the course of time the Southern people were compelled to lay down their arms and accept the terms of a conqueror. They are invi ted to a convention, purporting to have for its object the restoration of the Southern States and people to their right and privileges in the Fede ral Union. These delegates not only consent to, but champion the exclu sion from the deliberations of the Con vention, of those men who were and remain the vindicators of the South in her darkost hours. Is this manly and honorable I The Convention has adjourned this afternoon: and the net result is the betrayal of that view of Southern rights and dignity of which Jefferson Davis, under John C. Calhoun, was and is the pro per exponent ; its pro ceedings may be summed up in the following NOMINATIONS FOR 1868. For President, WILLIAM A. SEWARD. For Vice President, JAMES L. ORR. President Johnson has already dis covered that he has been betrayed in the house of his champions. It is true the above nominatious were not formally made, but they are known to have been agreed upon by the power be. hind the throne. Trhis inglorious result marks the Convention as a fizzle, and plunges the South into greater uncer tainty than ever. For the South, I take it, will never support the above ticuet; and it has no strength at the North. Objections to the Convention, On the other hand, we saw much we (lid not like. There was an obsequious. ness on the part of many of the delegates from the South, a too evident anxiety of compliance with any and every demand, --the faintest suggestion even from the other side, that cannot be pleasing to our people. The speeches of some of our own delegates are open to this objection. A proper dignity and selfrespect would have dictated a differeist course. We know that this was dictated by policy, but with all due deference to the politi cal wisdom of our seniors, we opine that the same end conld have been gained by a more manly course, and we heartily agree with the New York Daily News of the 17th, when it says "We will confess that to its the im pression was painfully conveyed that the South, if fairly represented at the Con. vention, is bonding too low in its eager. ness to conciliate the N.rth. There are. it, is true, soei noble exceptions in the persons of men who realize that man hood need not forfeit either dignity or independence in misfortune ; but many of the Southern delegates seem to have tnried their pride of race in the grave of the Confederacy. They w.>re too much the aspect of courtiers at the footstool of power to be true types of the people who fought so wvelh, and who endured so much for the maintenance of th eir politi. cal Ilith. We do not for a moment be. lieve thsar. these men are conscious of self-abasemnu, that they haive deliber atehy aissumed the office of time-servers; we simply believe that they have over estimated the price that they -nust, pay for their political rehsabilitation."~ "The inevitable results of the wai must be accepted, and it is well to ac, cep' them grascehudly and with no sullei submission, but a cheerful acquiescenet in a dlstsiny that is irrevocably wvritten But it is not nsecessary to sacrifice that niminly indieendence w hich wats thsi con.spicuous virtune of the Southern race It is nomt necessary to be the a bject slavel ofex pedienicy. It may be necessary t4 stoop to conquter, and we admit tha manyti precions South'.rn rights have I< be regaiined b)y conquest in polities warfar o, but not to u:oop so low ; not t crawl to conquer." Owinig, doubtless, to this same policy was the presure bronght to bear, on th part of the Executive Committee, upol certain delegates, who, during the whi had been prominent Peace Democrati These were exclud*d from the cottnsel of the Convention. Their crime ? staunuch friendship to the South in he hour of trial. We cannot approve th sacrifice. It is all dqne to pacify th Radicals. But. it will not avail ; the, will yelp on in spite of any attempt a compromise, nna U nion man willa halbo ter to make no further ooneeions to a party that is b6nt on w!tr te the knife. We have an objection, also, to one of the oauses in the "resolutions" and "declration of pincipfes," which could have bet omitted without any sacrif6ce of prinolple. and certainly would udt have been introd.uced if the movers had been actuated by a proper regard for the feeling* of the Southern people. We refer to the recognition "of the services of the Federal soldiers and sailors, and the debt due by the nation to then and to their widows and orphans." We are to form part of this nation, if we rightly understand the programme. We are quite willing to let bygones be bygones. But rurely we cannot be expected to thank the soldiers and sailors for what they have done to us during the past five years. We admit this would, be Christian, but regret that our people have not yet attained to tiat degree of Christian perfection to offer "the other cheek." General Grant very properly disapproved of the motion, on tie part of some of the flag.worshippers, of plac. ing the guns, taken from the "rebels," as trophies at West Point. le said that there, where the youth of every part of the nation are to be educated, there should be nothing to recall the late fratricidal strife. For the same reason, we shoild have preferred to have seen the "resolutions" without the objectiona. ble clause.--Charleston News. Honarna SUICIDE-TNPOSSIBILITY TO IDENTIFY THE VICTii.-Our Coroner yesterday morning held an inquest on tht body-we insist on this word-on the body-of an unknown man, found dead in a room of a house on a street of this citv. The infortunate victim had, a few days ago, hired a suit of rooms, and not having been seen since he entered them the Intelligent fre!ed-woman, who plays landlady over the premises suspectitig something wrong,sent for the police when, the door being forced open, a hor. ible spectacle wits discovered. The headless body of the man was lying in state on his own bed I A suspicion of murder at once arose in the minds of the spectators, and the coroner was sent for who, notwithstanding the appearances, at once expr(rsed his opinion that the deat h was ni the resilt. of murder-But suicide I and while looking over the body a letter was buand in the hands of the victim, fiuly jistifying the coroners pro. visions. Th letter ran thus: "I have piq an end to my own life I was tired of existence in this ungrate. fill land and I left it of my own free willi There is monI in nty drawer sufficient to pay my funfal expenses. As to my name try not t4 discover it. To pre. vent indicationa I have hidden my own head where yot will never find it." This whole t 1insaction is thns destin. ed to remain s'iuuded in eterpal myste ry I-Mobile fina, 14th. Tif RAR.mY OTUa MONT CENt. A Florence leter says: "An interest. ing experimer. has lately been made on Mont Cenis, i presence of N. Behic, French Min(wr of Public Works, ac. compaied byseveral engineers. The portion of thrailwfiy already comple ted on the sloes along the carriage road of tho inountin was gone over by A tram, consistiq of several carriages, at a rate of eleve miles an hour in ascend. mng. and nine nd a half in descending. The incline anetimes attains eight and a half feet in ae one hundred, and some of the turninp have a radius of only forty metres tie hundred and thirty. three feet). .'he works of the Italian side are to bcompleted by the end of October nextso that there is reason to hope that byhe month of November next. Italy sci France may be united by an uninteipted line of railway. The aystem, as ya are aware, is that of Mr. Fell." CoL . 'ufVMI)UN8TON-Tjhis eminent gentleman, ho has made the Charlotte and South (rolina railroad one of the very best a! most lucrative in the Sonth, and bily engaged in accomplish ing simalar muits for the Columbia. and Angusta rg, has been recently forced, by the earra request of the stockhold. er,, to cont6e in offRce as President of a third roa-the Atlantic. Tennessee aitd Ohio. Ie endeavored to resign the latter jtion, but the sieckholders would not him. He has vim enongh for all his 4ra, great as they are, and .we congrafte. the diffprent corpora. Stions on, tiagaplty which haa secured the servicd such aundomit'able and aboomplih manhger as Cot. Wni. -Johnston,. Aupst ConsWtutonale Cuaapn p-..ho Philadelphians r are praisiae#se1ved boosiae the.e *aa s no ro* d1 the lat. onentifen. TPhree * regiments bsadiess'amds *era- pollo. force derneewever..speak -well fo' he inetin e mb. orny evletl wUent 4'g ? e rio,thetil hro*0n Neis. N1 YORK, August 20.-The steamet h&Ido at Farther Point, arrived out on the 19th. An affidavit made by Mr. Mulfluo, olerk to Howard, Dolman & Co., Solicitors in London 6o- the United States Governsent, havfng beeb presented to the Court of Ad mirality, setting foreli, that seven steamers, ex-blookade runners, lying at Liverpool, and standing in the name of Fiasei, Tren holm Co., were lawful property of the Uni ted States, having belonged to the Conftdi erate Government at the termination of the war, the Admirality issOed a warrant for L20,000 against each steamer, and took possession. t is alleged that three of these vesels are subject to pending chancery suit brought by the United States against privateers. Three others are bone fire pro perty of Praser, Tronhol-n. & Co., and one other belongs- to builders, having never beet registered. From Canada. OTTAWA, August 21.-Extensive'millitary preparations are making to resist the Fe nians. The same apprehensions of an inva sion are felt. 11,000 men are now on the Willard Canal at Thorald's; two battalions being volunteers and-a. battalion and' a, half. regulars, with artillery and cavalry. Fire arms and munitions of war are to bo admitted into Canada free of duty until the' 15th proximo, in accordance with-the orders from Counoil, to enable private parties to get breech-loading arms. Cholera II Cincinnati. CINOINNATi, August 12.-Sixt.y -one deaths by cholera were reported yesterday Erom Was hington. WAsTINOToN, August 21 -Rumors are revived of Stanton's removal. They are pro bably true There is a strong pressure against him. The Missouri C onvention delegation urges the appointment of Gene ral Frank P. Blair, but General Steedman will probably be his successor. Great Excitement in New Btrn-Discovery of a Conspiracy to Rob the First Na tional Bank, Nsw BanN. August 21.-Great excitement exists here this morning over the discovery of a conspiracy to rob the First National Bank of New Bern, by killing its cashier, H. If. Thompson. The leaders were arrest ed last night and are now in jail awaiting their examination, which will take place this morning before Mayor Washington. New York Market. Naw YORK, August 18.-Gold $1.48j. Flour dull at $10@16. Wheat dull. Corn one cent lower. Oats one cent lower. Pork firmer; Moss &28. Lard dull. Whis key unchanged. Cotton quiet; sales 1,000 bales at 84@36 foi Middlings. Sugar firm. From Washington. WAS1SOToy, August 21.-The President officially annonnees to Goveinor Hamilton that he is relieved from his position as Pro visional Governor of Texas, the affairs of that State having been remitted to the con stituted authorities chosen by the people thereofp From New York. Naw Yoax, August 21.-Deaths from cholera the past week 250, other diseases 428. Steamer Northern Light from Aspin wall, brings threo millions one hundred thousand in Gold. Steamship gremer, from Southampton, has arrived. Buffalo dispatches says the Fenian pie-nio was largely attended, but no raid on Canada proposed. General News. NEW YOnx, August 19.-A special despatch from Washington states that Stanton will soon.be appointed Minis ter to Spain, and General 8toadman placed in position as Secretary of War. An Ottoway special correspondent says the Canadian authorities een tintue to make. preparations to resist the Fenians. A letter frotm Heart's Content of the: 7tha states thait obe shore end of the cable got foult of an. saihr on the 6th, beooglj to a coal voasel, but was released:by.a di,era The President has imsued proeema. tion dealering .trit- the. insurQtion whiqh heretofore existed in the State of Tosta,s a a a, daete,be lbenoe. jotth so ..gred Ia thast Stat.. A.' to the oth& $ta4hdk which the sia insurraatlon was ' danienod to be at an,ond by. the pro ation of April 2nd, .18", the Prei4ont further pro. claims that the said iisurfetti"'In s at rs end, and that peace, order,. trtie quility and civil authority now ouxst in and throughout the whole of the> United States of America.. From New Orleans. NEw ORLEANs, August 19.-Deaths by cholera yesterday twenty-six. The sooarge fas reached. tfie country par ishes. From Wahington.. WAsHINGTON, Aughit 19-A meetA ing of officers and soldiers was held last night at Willard's Hotel. It was decilded to hold a Convention of sol diers from Morth and South at Chica go, on the 17th September. A Com mittee was appointed to draft a call, which will be issued during the pres. ent week.. Soldiera Convention. WABIIINOTON,- August 20.-The Sol. dier's Convention-at Chicago will be ex clusi'vely Union soldiers, who endorse the Picsident.- It Is proposed, howev er, at a' later day t;o have a convention comprised'of Northern and Southern soldiers.. liir eli ! ersby City. NEW Yoxk,-Ang. 20.-The loss by fire in Jersey City, yesterday, reached nearly two- millibus dollars. Ten or twelve lives wit. a. large amount of oil, cotton, tobacco, atfid a large num ber of schoonerst-were-lost. Fourteen new eases-of cholera were reported yesterday in-Brooklyn. Fire il Chicago CHICAGo, August 20.-A lie fire has destroyed Van Horn, Mutray-& Co's. tobacco warehouse-end adjbining buildings, occupied. by C. W. Church, Cady Tilhman and others. Loss five hundred thousand dollars. Cholera Reports. ST. Louis, Aug. 20.-Over six hun dred deaths occurred from eholera during the past week, excluding quar antine deaths. CINCINNATI, Aug. 20.-Fifty-four deaths reported yesterday from chole ra ; sixty-nine on Saturday. BERLIN, Ang. 18.-A bill is under discussion in the Prussian Chambers which has for its object the annexation to Prussia of the kingdom of Hanover, the elitorate of Hesse, the duchy of Nassau and the city of Frankfort. PAnIs, August 18.-The Emperor Napoleon denies having any design of annexing any of the territories of Bel gium to France, PRAGUE, Aug. 18.-The Peace Con gress Is In session and negotiotions are making favorable progress. The rati fications of a treaty of peace will, it is expected, be exchanged in ten days. Prom New York. NEW YORI, August 20.-Thle first bale of new cotton arrixed yesterday, from New Orleans. It is a fine speci men, and speaks woll for the quality of the erop now picking Gen. Sweeney has issued an address, exhorting the Fenians to avoid form ing party political associations not con nected with the cause-of Irish freedom. From icielso. Wasuiubxoor, August 20. -' The Mexican Legation has adviees of the evacuation of Monterey 'and' Saltill6 by the:Imnpelialiste, and their occupa. tioty'the Liberals. 0~~t~phe b L~u E Ptosi Old IRomeo, ohe -of Dan Rice's elephants,. ~rok-oopn In Dsifa!o J.,ey' and getting libtia. *01l ato.preoden, proceeded 1.4. saVely 19 pack his tokn and elhest .i11. all rAanner of wegsta1e goodess We had a a'oaiUg feast Ad'didn't tes much gardean. 33x r,AnnDUizpiusas.-.JtiIs reasrked li.v 3glanda , all bough. Barl Derby's go-v 9Fb*yR bt ~ezain ppwer only-a month, It 60Irh Ie'se the eipenditure by e aph 1,alt g millIon. pcunds. Of sh'. a goodly proportionw Ss. fbz- beeelhloaders ad turat.shin.