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Jtoaps and farts. A lady in Washington was divorced last Tuesday morning, and married again at noon. ?? Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Boyd, of Kentucky, claim to be the oldest couple in the country. They S are respectively 110 and 107, and have a boy of 90. A Yankee has purchased an island in the Ohio river and stocked it with black cats, to raise the animals for the sake of the fur. Deerfoot, an Indian, who ran a race in Detroit last week, made a quarter of a mile in one minute and a quarter. The drought in Illinois continues. The cisterns and wells are all dry, and in many cases the ? water is hauled for miles. A monster cheese weighing seven thousand pounds, broke down a truck in New York, on Friday. That was a heavy fall in cheese. A young woman fainted in a New York theatre a few nights since, and water being thrown in her face, she revived, exclaiming: "Oh, my new bonnet!" Prentice says the Radicals of Tennessee talk of building a mansion for Urowniow. msiatner, the Devil, has one already for him?well protected from the cold. A Parisian house, which sells goods as low as any other establishment, executes a bond, well secured, to refund the whole of the purchase monev thirty years after date. ?- The Radicals are all taking the back track on the cotton tax question., Colfax now comes out in favor of its repeal. Boutwell has also brought his judicial mind to the same point Fitz Green Halleck, the well-known American poet, died at his residence at Guilford, Con- i nectacut, on Tuesday evening, in the seventy-third i year of his age. Prom Brazos, Texas, oomes a report that not more than one-third of the cotton actually made will be gathered. - Neither money, moral suasion, nor force, will induce enough negroes to Work and gather it i The United States army has cost, during the first sir months of 1867, no less than $56,000,000, which is not far from double the cost of the English army. Gen. Corona married Mrs. Bowman, a San; Francisco widow, by proxy. The CoUeetor of Customs at Mazatlan occupied the tantalizing position of representative bridegroom. "Massa, I know a young lady dat wants to make your acquaintance veiy much." "What does the young lady want to make my acquaintance for r" ' Cause she tinks you make a fust rate playmate for her poodle dog." It is estimated that there was distilled in the last year 114,000,000 gallons of whisJcey, ana yet die Government has only been able to collect the tax on 14,000,000 gallons. The Government is thus defrauded out of $200,000,000. A negro Register in Charleston, who, in August last, violently resisted a white citizen, and encouraged the negroes to violence, has been sentenced by military commission to imprisonment for six months at hard labor. A correspondent writes the Charlotte Dem ocrat that a negro Grand Juror in Union county was detected in robbing his employer's pocket of $45, in les3 than one week after the adjournment of the court in which he served as a juror. By direction of the President, Brig. General R K. Scott, Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for South Carolina, as well as Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, have been honorable mustered out of the service of the United States, to take effect from January 1, 1868. An exchange says: "Fasten a nail or key I to a string, and suspend it to your thumb and finger, and the nail will oscillate like a pendulum. Let some one place his open hand under the nail, and it will change to a circular motion. Then let a third person place his hand upon your shoulder, and the nail becomes in a moment stationary." ??rThe Wilmington (N. C.) Star says: "The white men are deserting the Union Leagues in the western counties as rats desert a burning barn. A most gratifying reaction in this respect is going on in that section, and very soon it will be difficult to find a man who will confess that he ever belonged to one." "It is a suggestive fact," says the Washington Chronicle, that many even of the country papers throughout the North, are beginning to advocate the repeal of the Cotton tax. When the current of public opinion drifts so strongly that newspapers representing no great manufacturing interests feel its influence, it is not difficult to predict the speedy result The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, under date-of the 23d instant, says: "The main part of the President's Message has been finished, and much of it was read in Cabinet meeting to-day. The message will probably be printed in pamphlet form and mailed to the prin. cipal newspapers, so as to arrive at their destinations simultaneo lsly with its reading in Congress on the first Mono in December." The New 1' ork World says that Republican senators and representatives who have arrived in Washington, express their determination to stand by the reconstruction measures, and they maintain ? that if a maiority of the white men of the South stand aloof and take no part in the elections, then they are in favor of placing the governing power in the hands of the negroes and the few whites who act with them. Advices from Yokohoma, to the 25th ultimo, say that including the shipments per the Great Republic, the exports of tea to New York this season are ten millions of pounds in excess of last year, all of which has been shipped direct, exoept 100,000 pounds passing to San Francisco. The Caradacus, with 672,400 pounds tea, and the Pauline, with 650,200 pounds tea, have sailed for New York, leaving four vessels on the berth, to carry 2,100,000 pounds, of the same marks. Thaddeus Stevens has under consideration 'the advisability of dividing the State of Texas into two or more States, and has announced his intention of introducing a Bill for that purpose during the coming session. Saturday last he was for a long time engaged in collecting information respectin? the population, condition and interests of the different sections of the State, and he requested a Texan editor to ftirnish him with all the information obtainable, bearing upon the question. The New York Herald has discovered that negroes are not eligible to Congress. They did not become citizens, until the issuing of the emancipation proclamation in September, 1S62. No one is eligible to the United States House of Representatives until he has been a citizen seven years, or to the United States Senate until ho has been a citizen nine years. The negroes have only been citizens five years, and the Herald infers that none can go to Congress before 1869. In New England, who should be dubbed the "mother of inventions," they are said to be making pious mouse-traps, that only catch mice six days m the week. On the seventh day, they only hang on to them. There are many whose business matters are managed in the same way as these mouse traps operate. These pious persons don't exactly "do business" on the Sabbath?they only get things ready for Monday morning. The English trade reports for the first threequarters of 1857, show that that country does a great deal toward replenishing the wardrobes of the world. During that period, it exported over 2,000,000 yards of cotton piece goods; 200,000,000 yards of woolen and worsted manufactures; 162,000,000 yards of linen piece goods; 2,500,000 hats; 10,500,000 pairs of stockings; 2,250,000 pairs of shoes; 700,000 silk handkerchiefs; scans and shawls, and large quantities of other apparel, valued in all at more than $350,000,000 in gold. Twelve hundred tons of steel rails have been laid, in place of iron ones, on the Boston and Providence KaUroad. At Roxbury, near the repair shop, they have been in use upwards of a year, at a noint whore one hundred and twentv trains or locomotives pass over them daily, and as yet there is no perceptible wearing away. Iron rails had to be relaid seventeen times a year at the same place. As fast as the iron rails wear out, on any portion of the route, the Company intend to replace them with steel ones. The bank of England keeps all its cancelled notes in what is known as its library. This apartment contains more than sixteen thousand boxes, about one foot in height and breadth, and eighteen inches in length. In these are bundles of assorted notes, and on the outside are painled certain letters and figures, which tell to the officers of the bank the date and rank of the defunct. The number of notes kept there is about one hundred millions, and their nominal value is $15,000,000,000, about six times the amount of the national debt of the United States. The Charleston Ncics says: One of the en franchised, who was not used to the wiles of the world, accosted a gentleman in the street yesterday with the modest request that he would buy his ticket Some surprise being expressed at this novel demand, he was requested to explain, and thus unbosomed himself: You see, boss, I stays on John Island, an a man gim me too ticket an tell me to put one in de box, an to sell de oder in Charleston. Ise bin all ober de place, and dey all has dere own tickets, an I'll sell ais now for a loaf o' bread.'' It was not considered advisable to open the eyes of the wandering voter; but he was politely informed that his ticket was no't saleable in that auarter. CufiFee opened his eyes, gave a desponing grunt, and went on his weary way hunting a bid for his ticket The Keowee Courier, of the 16th instant, publishes a petition from a portion of the citizens of Pickens District to the State Convention, should it be held, asking for a division of the territoiyof Pickens District into two Judicial Districts. The petitioners ask for the division on the following considerations: 1st, Its extensive area, and the great inconvenience thereby caused to those living at the extremities in reaching the present Court House, being compelled to travel, in many instances, over a broken and hilly country thirty or forty miles, in order to do so. 2nd, Its large population, composed of at least 20,000 inhabitants, for the transaction of whose proportionate judicial business the present consolidated arrangement is believed toDe inadequate. It is thought that the division proposed will greatly promote the convenience, prosperity and happiness of the people. f arMle grnqnim. EDITORS: JAS. E. WILSON JAS. F. HART. YORKVILLE, S. C.: 7" THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 28,1867. Cash.?It must bo distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance. X.?The paper will be discontinued on the expiration of the time for which payment has been made. A Subscriber finding a (XJ cross-mark on the wrapper or margin of his paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. THE ELECTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA. The returns from the election come in slowly. Bat little interest is manifested in them, our exchanges being generally content to publish the results in their own Districts, and not concerning themselves about the State at large. From the returns whieh we have seen, it is evident that there was a sufficient vote polled to ensure the success of the Convention, though the majority is far short of what was expected The voting throughout the State was almost exclusively performed by the negroes, the whites having staid away from the polls with remarkable unanimity. The political complexion of the Convention will, of course, be intensely Radical, as the Conservatives had no candidates in the field, in most of the Districts. The nominees of the League almost everywhere walked over the track without any opposition, and they have been triumphantly elected. South Carolina is in a fair way to be reconstructed. THE ELECTION IN NORTH CAROLINA. From the returns received from North Carolina, it is pretty well ascertained that the State has voted in favor of a Convention, and that the Radicals have a large majority. The Raleigh Sentinel says: "The additional returns received from the State only serve to confirm our fears that tho State has gone Radical, owing to the sheer indifference and neglect of the white Conservatives, and the superior activity and nromptness of the blacks and the few white Radicals in the State." CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Both Houses of Congress assembled on Thurs day last, in tne senate sevcnu peuuuua were presented, including one from the negroes of the District of Columbia, complaining of discharge on account of voting, and praying for relief. The Secretary of the Treasury was ordered to communicate the documents and reports bearing on the repeal of the cotton tax. Mr. Sumner introduced a bill striking "white" from the district laws and ordinances. Mr. Edmunds introduced a resolution that debt, unless expressly otherwise stated, is payable in coin. A Bill has been introduced, repealing the law allowing the Secretary of the Treasury to contract at the rate of four millions per month. In the House, the credentials of Mr. Butler, of Tennessee, were referred to the Election Committee. Pending the report, Butler was excluded, by a vote of 117 ayes, and 38 nays. A discussion was sprung by the Democrats, on referring the whole Tennessee delegation to the Election Committee, which elicited an angry debate. The Democrats voted against excluding Butler. Mr. llobinson, of New York, introduced a resolution impeaching Minister Adams, for neglect of duty in failing to protect innocent Americans charged with Fenian-! ism in England. Blaine, of Maine, renewed his resolution regarding the repeal of the cotton tax. Adopted. Mr. Wilson announced that the Judiciary Committee would be ready, on Monday, to report on impeachment Both Houses adjourned until Monday. THE ALABAMA CONVENTION. The reconstruction convention which is now laboring to bring forth a constitution for Alabama, being the first of the entertainments provided by Congress for the Southern people, naturally excites muoh interest There is little doubt but that it will be the model for all the others. From its performances hitherto, there is little room to hope that reason, justice or common sense will have any share in the construction of constitutions for our government. The prominent objects of the specimen convention, seem to be to squeeze all they can from the whites and to support the negroes, as far as possible, without labor on their part. One of the resolutions requires that former owners of negroes shall pay wages, for their services from January 1st, 1803, to May 20th, 1805. The Montgomery Mail estimates that these "wages" will amount to $50,000,000, a sum that would soon bring most of the land in the State -into the Sheriff's hands. Confiscation is the proper name for such a ineano/7 St. inns arlmnidl Another measure of confiscating tendency is an ordinance, providing that the loan of $225,000 to the Alabama and Tennessee Railroad, which was repaid to the State in Confederate currency during the war, must be paid again. This had not been adopted at the last accounts ; but it is very likely to pass, as the members seem anxious to go as far as they can. The Radical loaders in Washington have made several efforts to hold the concern in check. But they find that elephants don't work well in harness. A presentiment that their time is short, and must be used to the best advantage, seems to actuate the "menagerie," as the Alabama papers respectfully tenn their law-makers. Although the prospect of being under the authority of such legislators is gloomy; yet their very injustice will ultimately destroy their power. The Northern people have, in their late elections, pronounced against negro supremacy; and when such constitutions as the one made for Alabama, are brought before Congress, that body will hardly venture to approve them now. Such an act would destroy the last vestige of Radical strength at the North ; for the glaring robberies it authorizes, can not meet the approval of the masses there. But it may happen that Congress, in its desire fnr tVir> plfWnml vntos nf tVlA PTnlnrln.l Sfnfpc twill risk the consequences of approving these illegal constitutions. In that case, if the Southern people can stand the pressure until the election of a new Congress, these monstrosities will be swept out of existence and their acts be declared null and void. But if the tyranny becomes intolerable, there is danger of a revolution, involving the whole country and ending in a war of races. One thing stands out clear and distinct, among all the uncertainties of the future viz: the work of Congressional reconstruction will ultimately fall to the ground; but whether by peace or revolution, God alone can tclL THE METROPOLITAN RECORD. We desire to call the attention of our readers to this sturdy champion of Southern rights published on Northern soil No paper in the North has so consistently resisted the attacks of our enemies, either during or since the war. At one time, the paper was suppressed and its editor imprisoned, for the so-called disloyalty of opposing the war which has resulted in the disorganization of ten Statfe, and their subjection to military empires. When the struggle closed, the Record was among the first to advocate the immediate restoration of the seceded States, on terms of justice and equality. And though the prejudices excited by the war hurried the North and its press into a rash approval of the oppressions of Congress; the Record never failed to oppose them in eloquent and manly terms. Of late the columns of the Record have been prolific in roosters, cannon, &o., in honor of the victories of the Democracy; and we trust these emblems of victory may continue to adorn it There is no paper published in the North, to which Southern men can give a more hearty support, than the Record, published in New York, by John Mullalt, at $3 per annum. POLITICAL NEWS. ? In Wisconsin, the Milwaukie Republican says: "The Democrats have gained four members of the State Senate. The Senate will, there fore, stand fifteen Democrats to eighteen Republicans. In the last Assembly, the Republicans had forty-eight majority. This is a gain to the Democrats of fifteen members throughout the State." ? Returns from Florida show that the Convention has been carried by a decided majority of the registered voters?nearly all the blacks voting, and but few of the whites. A large number of negroes have been elected to the Convention. In Leon County, thrge out of four delegates are negroes. ? The Conservative press of Georgia are advocating the meeting of a Convention at Macon, on the 5th of December, for the purpose of organizing a party in opposition to reconstruction under the Military Acts, and with a view to defeat the Constitution to be submitted by the Reconstruction Convention, taking it for granted that no Constitution can be submitted that will be acceptable to their party. ? The Philadelphia Mercury advocates the nomination of Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, for President, and Hon. R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, for Vice-President, by the Democrats and Conservatives. These gentlemen, it argues, would form a strong ticket ?The Macon Journal and Messenger learns that General Pope has ordered Governor Jenkins, of Georgia, to hold himself in readiness to vacate the gubernatorial chair, at a moment's notice. James L. Seward, a third rate Georgia politician, is said to be the successor selected by General Pope. ?The Louisiana Reconstruction Convention met at New Orleans, on the 23d instant Negroes were elected to the offices of temporary Chairman and Secretary. No permanent organization was arrived at. Adjourned till Monday. Forty-four negroes and twenty-five whites were present in the caucus. It is understood that it was resolved in caucus last night, that the first step of the Convention would ! be to declare all State offices vacant, and to fill them with appointees acceptable to the Radical party. ? Sis thousand illegal votes were polled in Ohio. The Jacobin Hays is elected Governor by about twenty-eight hundred majority. Thus the white milllions of Ohio are governed by a handful of niggers. HERE-MENTION. The Raleigh Sentind announces the death, in Morganton, on Sunday of last week, of R. C.Pearson, Esq. Judge Bullock, of Kentucky, has decided that coin is the only legal tender in that State. "Jefferson Davis arrived in Richmond on Friday last, and is stopping at the house of his counsel, Robert Oold, Esq. "Horse oil," instead of butter, is frequently used in diessin^vegetables in Paris. ""Tnthe trial of the negro leaguers at Pickens C. H., South Carolina, recently for murder, a negro witness confessed that each negro on joining the league, binds himself by an oath never to reveal anything that passes, on pain of having his head cut offl The Washington Union has plaoed the name of Gen. Sherman at the head of its editorial columns, as a candidate for President. A bill before the Tennessee Legislature, to "Encourage and Protect Loyalty," provides that it shall hereafter be an offence for any person or family to have a picture of Jefferson Davis or Gen. R. E. Lee in their possisssion. The aggregate strength of the regular array is 50,000. There are 200 volunteer officers serving in the Freedmen's Bureau. Despatches from Washington state that the repeal of the cotton tax is a foregone conclusion. The records of the Surgeon-General of the United States show that 244,000 whites and 30,000 blacks died during the war. There are 80 National cemeteries, in which are interred 208,000, at a cost of three and a quarter millions. Mrs. Burdell, of New York murder notoriety, is plaintiff in a divorce suit in San Francisco. "The Body of Maximilian, in a badly decomposed state, has at last been delivered to Admiral Tegethoff. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. The Meteoric Shower. ? The grand display of shooting si:ars, predicted by the astronomers for this month came off according to appointment. It was witnessed by a number of observers throughout the country, some -X} _1 x.J ? 1 KAA V, ,,. Wo 01 wxium WJUIJICU ?13 1UUUJ> lu yi.1 iiuun 11 t have not heard of anybody in this secti on who saw the show. Our citizens, we presume, were all pcacefufly snoozing at "that hour, totally unconscious of the unusual commotion in the heavens. If any gay lark wa3 out of his nest, he could probably see shooting stars without the aid of meteoric showers. Negro Credulity* The negroes of Richmond aro very much exercised in consequence of a report that lias been circulated amongst them, that the doctors of the city arc killing negroes whenever they have an opportunity, for the purpose of dissecting their bodies; and that;no negro is safe if he trusts his carcass in the streets after dark. They say that these doctors have a wagon with India rubber tires, and have a horse hitched to it shod with India rubber; and that this wagon and horse pass noiselessly about the streets at night; and victims are picked up, put into the wagon and carried to the Medical College 'to be cut up.' The Trinl of Mr. Davis. The trial of Mr. Davis, which wjis appointed to begin last Monday, had not commenced at the latest accounts, because Chief Justice Chase had not arrived. The Court was adjourned until the next day, when it was thought Chase would be on I 1 Tk? nAA.*r,A,1 hnn Kaon in Piolimonfl IIUIIU. 1UC (IWIIOCU llttO IA?VU All AUVUIUVUW MV,W ral days, and his counsel are prepared for an immediate defence. The venire, out of which Mr, Davis's jury is to be selected, is one third negroes, which circumstance will, of itself, make the trial a farce, if there is a trial, which is still very doubtful. Gen. It. R Lee, ex-Govenor Letcher, and General Francis Smith are among the witnesses summoned by the goverment A Terrible Tornado. This autumn has been a season of storms, particularly on the Gulf of Mexico. It has beer but a weejc or two since we published an account of the storm which devastated the cities on the coast of Texas and Mexico. And now our exchanges bring intelligence of a still more destructive storm, or rather tornado, in the West Indies. The island of Tortola, which is about twelve miles long and four miles in breadth, was submerged, and ten thousand lives were lost The Southern portion of the island of Porto Rico was visited by the hurricane, which destroyed all the crops. By this disaster two hundred lives were lost, foiir thousand families were rendered destitute, and a number of vessels were wrecked. One steamer went down, with $5,000,000 worth of merchandise and specie on board. The city of Havana also sustained some injury from this storriL A later account says: The terrible story of Tortola?its being submerged, "although a part of it rises 1,620 feet above the ocean, and a good part of it at that; and the destruction by drowning, &c., of 10,000 of its inhabitants?turns out, as we anticipated, a story almost entirely made up of exaggeration. The island shared with others of the West Indies in the destructive effects of the great storm. - Some damage was done to property, and some few persons were drowned. A great fire, however, which raged during the storm, did considerable damage. The story nas served to inform the present generation that there is such a ! plaoe as Tortola?a fact few were aware of. Disturbance on Wadmalaw Island. The Charleston Mercury, of the 25th instant, says: "Yesterday morning a detachment of United > States troops left this city for Wadmalaw Island, to quell a disturbance arising ont of the recent election. It is said that the election itself passed off quietly enough, but that after it was over thp' nevroes took it into their heads that one of>tne managers, by the name of Cutter, had persuaded them to vote the wrong ticket, and they ordered him to leave, aud.theu took possession of the island, and established an armea patrol. Infonna, tion having-been-lodged at headauartera, the troops were sent down as above stated." The Presbyterian General Assembly. A corespondent of the Charleston Courier, 1 writing from Nashville, on the 21st instant, says :i The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States met to-day in the first Presbyterian Church, and was opened by an able Bermon from the last Moderator, Rev. Dr. 1 Kerr, of Memphis. There are already in atten dance a large number.. Our State is represented i by Rev. Messrs. Dow, Mack, Boggs, White, Strati ton, and Rev. Dr. Buist, (ministers) withvsoveral | ruling eldeht Rev. Dr. Moore, of Richmond, was elected Moderator, and Rev. Dr. Doremas, temporary clerk. The session promises to be one of great interest ' ? I Beecher on Lee's Army. -j . -y Henry Ward Beecher Bays, in the concluding chapter of his novel: "He (the hero of the stoiy) had part iff the last grand battles, stormed Lee s lines, earned every step by desperate endeavor, and after every advantage, found Lee still firm, defiant desperate. No one so well knows the incomparable skill and bravery of that now waning army of Northern Virginia as they who had for four years fought it, and now, in the hour of its supreme disaster, were grinding it to powder rather than forcing its surrender ; and when at length cut off from its lines of retreat by that lion of the battle-field, whose ramping cavalry lay crouched across his only path, , his artillery gone, his trains taken or destroyed, his ammunition expended, his chief officers slain or wounded, or captured, his men reduced to a handful, overwearied by nights without sleep, and days taxed to the uttermost, Lee's army yielded. Gen. Cathcart, and every other brave man, in their admiration felt that the heroism of Lee's army was the only worthy measure of the perseverance and bravery of the Army of the Potomac. In every generous bosom rose the thought: These are not of another nation, but our citizens?their mistake, their evil cause, belonged to the system under which they were reared; but their military skill and heroic bravery belong to the nation, that will never cease to mourn that such valor had not been expended in a better cause, and that the iron pen must write: The utmost valor misdirected and wasted.'" THE ALABAMA CONVENTION. . On the 18th instant, an ordinance was passed to a third reading, appropriating $50,000 to pay the officers and members, who are to reoeive $8 per diem and $8 mileage for every twenty miles of travel each way to the capital. The Committee on taxation reported a section to the Constitution, providing that all taxes shall be assessed in exact proportion to the value of property ; but the Legislature may levy a poll tax of $1.50 on each poll, to be applied exclusively to the school fund. Montgomery, Nov. 22.?The judiciary article of the Convention provides that the GovernorshaD appoint oil the Judges, Solicitors and Chancellors of the several courts, but the Senate must confirm the appointments. Magistrates are also to be appointed by the Govornor. The term of all these officers is fixed at six years. The Chancellors are to appoint registrars. The appointment of judicial officers was given to the Governor, in order to prevent the elections being controlled by negroes.^ The black delegates opposed it strongly. An ordinance was introduced and referred, providing that the loan of one hundred and twenty thousand by the State to the Alabama and Tennessee Railroad, which was repaid in Confederate money during the war, shouldbe paid now in good money. Montgomery, Nov. 23.?The following is the Article on the elective franchise, as finally adopted by the Reconstruction Convention, as a part or the new Constitution: Seo. 1. Every male person born in the United States, and every male person who has been naturalized, or who has legally declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, twentyone years old or upwards, who shall have resided in this State six months next preceding the election, and three months in the County in which he offers to vote, (except as hereinafter provided,) shall be declared an elector: Provided, That no soldier or sailor, or marine, in the military or naval service of the United States shall hereafter acquire a residence by reason of being stationed on'duty in this State. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to provide, from time to time, for the registration or all electors; but the following classes of persons shall not be permitted to register, vote, or lold office: 1. Those who, during the late rebellion, inflicted or caused to be inflicted anv cruel or unusual punishment upon any soldier, sailor or ma rine, employee or citizen of the United States, or who, in any other way, violated the rules of civilized warfare. 2. Those who are or may be disfranchised by the proposed constitutional amendment, known as the 14th Article, and the Act of Congress passed March 2, 1867, except such persons as have aided the plan of reconstruction proposed by Congress, and accepted the political equality of all men before the law; Provided, The , General Assembly shall have power to remove the disabilities incurrred under this last clause. 3. Those who shall have been convicted of treason, i embezzlement of public funds, malfeasance in office, crime punishable by law with imprisonment in the penitentiary, or bribery. 4. No idiot or insane person shall be permitted to register or vote in this State. Seo. 3. AH persons, before registering, must take and subscribe the following oath: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and maintain the Constitution and laws of the United States, and the Constitution and laws t of the State of Alabama; that I am not excluded i from registering by any of the clauses of section 2 of this article; that.I will never countenance or aid in the secession of this State from the United Stat is ; that I accept the civil and political equal' ity of all men, and agree not to attempt-to deprive any person or persons, on account of race, color or previous coudition, of any political or civil right, privilege or immunity enjoyed by any other class of men; and furthermore, that I will not in any way injure, or countenance in others any attempt 1 to injure, any person or persons, on account of past i or present support of the Government of the Uni| ted States, the laws of the United States or the . principles of the political and civil equality of all men, or of affiliation with any political party." Several branches of the Constitution were considered and adopted, involving unimportant changes in the old Constitution, except the creation of the office of Lieutenant-Governor. The Convention will probably complete its work t this week. It is believed that all persons, who come within . the $20,000 clause of the President's Proclamation and against whom proceedings were instituted " ?'? ? '? .?A?./1nnA/1 ViorJ fn o fkrvAoT? i n anu wuu, on eenig poiuuuvuj tu Court and enter trie plea of "guilty" and "pardoned," are disfranchised. If so, 30,000 or 40,000 whites are disfnmchised at one blow. I 1 T 88?* Gen. Canby's report to Gen. Grant is pub' lished. There are 141 Commissioned officers and ! 2,773 men in the district Nine hundred and fiftynine cases havo been tried by military tribunals.? The expense of reconstruction so far materially exceeds a quarter of a million of dollars. [ ? 5S7* Brownlow's Legislature has refused to repeal that section of the Franchise bill prohibiting negroes from holding office. JSP" The smallest watch at the Paris Exposiition was bo diminutive that it was set in a gold pencil lease. . ', LOCAL ITEMS. t # HEW ADVERTISEMENTS, j Revs. R. B. Anderson and H. R. Dickson?York ville Female College. F. C. Harris, 0. Y. D.?Citation?Wm. B. Robertson, Applicant?Thomas Robertson, de ceased. Homesley <fe McCants?Leather. 44 . ^ . 44 ?Corn Cheap. W. E. Rose <k Co.?Rose's Hotel. McAliley <fc Brawley?Law Card. MAULEY & BRAWLEY. In our advertising columns will be found the card of this Chester law firm, to which we invite the attention of our readers. The Benior partner is well known as a lawyer of great legal lore, in whose hands the cause of a client will suffer no detriment by reason of inability. The junior member of the firm gives great promise of proficiency in the profession, and we heartily commend these gentlemen to any of our readers wno may require the sertfccs of legal counsellors in Chester. / THE CONVENTION ELECTION. The election in York District last week, for members of the Convention, and on the question of holding the Convention, passed off without any disturbance of the public peace. But very few of the whites voted, not exceeding sixty, as wc have been informed by several of the Managers of Election. The total vote foots up 1,773, white and black, the greater part of which were cast for, a Convention. The following persons are elected as the delegates: W. E. ROSE, (white.) DR. J. L NEAGLE, (white.) J. H. WHITE, (colored.) JOHN W. MEAD, (colored.) The vote polled was small, when compared with the registration lists. Of the 4,084 registered voters of York, 2,311 did not vote, and about 350 of these were colored voters. > ELECTION INCIDENTS. At one of the precincts in this District, an old negro came up to see how things were going on. Having satisfied himself in this particular, he was about to retire, when one of his colored brethren inquired if he wns not going to vote. "No, sir," said he, "there's something wrong about dis election. I don't see any white peoples voting, like they used lo do, and I ain't gwinc to have nothing todowidit" Another colored gentleman, of a very different * * .i r- J !J _ turn ot mina, came to tne same dox ana saiu ue wanted to vote. But on being asked for his ticket, he at first declined to give it up, saying he wanted to take it home. A vastainount of valuable breath was wasted, in explaining to this very competent voter that the ticket must go into the box ; but he could not be induced to give it up, until he learned that he could get another to' 'take home.'' Whether he was charmed with the lonely features of the "lato lamented," which adorned his ticket, or had "40 acres" on the brain, wo have not yet ascertained. ' INCAPACITY OF NEGRO VOTERS. Our esteemed cotemporary, the Raleigh Sentinel, draws the following moral from the late elections in the Southern States: "The manner of the exercise of the right of suffrage by the blacks in the South, in all the recent elections, and in this city, on yesterday, speaks out in thunder tones to the country and shows their utter incapacity, as a race, to exercise the privilege. Look at tne facts : 1. From the close of the war to the present time, with but few exceptions, the white people of the South have shown a spirit of kindness and a disposition to cultivate good feeling between the races. Old masters have been anxious to secure the services of old servants at fhir wages. In nine cases out of ten, this disposition, on the p&rt of the whites, has been treated with scorn by the blacks, in showing a preference to being employed by strangers, or persons with whom they have not liv eu. ?&J MiCrc are tliUU2?ftlJU3 ui luauauv^o ill niuvu old servants have become afflicted and needy, and have returned to their old owners for help and have been relieved. 2. As a general rule, the blacks have not sought instruction in political matters from their old friends, but from strangers. Trifling white or colored men, hitherto known to be men of little influence among us, have suddenly acquired a power over the colored people, and are leading them like sheep to the ballot box. 3. Perhaps the best evidence of the utter disqualification of the masses of the colored people to vote, is to be found in the fact, that blacks go almost en masse, as they are led or controlled by the Leagues or their leaders. The character of the men for whom they vote, appears to be a matter of total indifference. Men unknown, yet connected with the Leagues, are taken up and voted for by them, without regard to their former position or their qualifications. 4. As a class, the blacks seem determined not to believe what the truest men in the country tell them. Their old masters, to whom they go for help pecuniarily, arc not consulted, or their advdee is totally ignored ; so potent is the controlling influence exercised over them by the persons wo have described" A Glimpse at the Alabama Convention.? The Montgomery, Alabama, correspondent of the New World gives the following sketch of the personnel of the Alabama Convention : Of the eighty seven present, sixteen are negro barbers, coach-drivers, and valets, nineteen are men of Sou thorn birth, seventeen of such unknown antecedents as to seem, like Topsy, not to have been born but growed, and thirty-five "Alabamians," born in Maine, Vermont. Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, and Illinois. Eight of the Southern men and one old negro?he'll go to heaven for it?have some idea of mercy ; but there are three score and ten in Convention, who, if our Alabama brethren had one single neck, would strike off the head at a blow. One of these men was once ridden on a rail, and has never forgotten it. Another is unfavorably known in connection with adultery and murder. Still another has been in jail, and openly avows an intention to take it out. And still a fourth and fifth arc accused swindlers. Hcresits a pimp, and there a mutineer. This man deserted, ana that other played the spy. To day there spoke in favor of militaiy disfranchisement, one who raised a company of infantry for the Confederate service, and called it the "Yancey Guards," and yesterday an ex-surgeon in the same army introduced an ordinance that secession was "a parricidal crime of the deepest dye, for which those engaged in it should have been punished and impoverished"?that is to say, fined and hanged! On the left of the chair sits at odd times, the State commandant, Swayne, to watch his tender sheep. On the right stood General PoDe when lie told them what to do. and between the two centurions waves,a shrivelled little son of Gamaliel, who berates the Convention daily for writing its ordinances so illegibly in lead pencil on paltry scraps of paper, that neither he nor his Secretary can make tllem out. Of the Secretary I say nothing. Neither is it for me to speak the glories of the full debate, for lo pen could give that delicious medley, wherewith sweetly alternate the shrill twang of prowling Pu. ;tanical parsons, and that deep gobble which transports the ravished fancy to Africa's golden sands! General Grant against Negro Suffrage. "Mack" writes under date of November 15, from Washington to the Cincinnati Commercial, a Republican paper, as follows: Among the witnesses summoned before the Impeachment Committee, was Colonel Hillycr, formerly of General Grant's staff now a Federal office holder in New York. What lie testified to, or was supposed to know detrimental to A. J., I cannot say; but he yesterday met Mr. Eldridge, of Wis ?- ? ?zvi1 iUft A?1 "DnnnnTtl CUI1SII1, lliULUUCl Ul tUE VUUiuiiiiiXH;/ uu x ^uuojrivania avenue, and addressing him, said ho supposed it wouldn't be necessary for him to revise tno report of his testimony. "No," Eldridge said, "tnat would be all right" "Well," said JHillyer, "there's one thing you might have got out of mo, if you had put the question to me, and you came mighty near doing it when you were examining me about Grant" "What's that," said Eldndge. "Why," replied Hillyer, "I heard a conversation between General Grant aud the President some time ago?the only time I ever heard them talk politics. Grant seemed to be very earnest about it, and bringing his hand down heavily on the table said he (Grant): "Mr. President, demagogues may talk as they please, but this is a white man's Government, and none but white men should have a voice in it" A private letter from Gen. McClellan says he .will under no circumstances accept public office. CHESTER CONTBIBtJIOKIALl BY WM. H. BRAWLKY. V CHESTER, 8. C., NOVEMBER 2T, 18C7. PERSONAL. J. Wesley Davis, the young man who was reported lost week hs being mortally stabbed by Jamison Carter, is getting well, and is now thought to be out of danger. AmoeT. Estea, an old merchant of our town, died last week. ., . John A. Bradley, Jr., the Delegate from Franklin Chapter to the Grand Lodge in Charleston, has returned home. Our enterprising fellow-citizen, James Pagan, Esq., has a steam gin in operation in the rear of his store, in east Chester, which is quite a novelty in this Dart of the world. ? > BELTON CLINE. Mr. Holmes, an Agent of the Executive Department, arrived Here on Monday night, having fn His charge Belton CKne, one of the murderers of Alexander Walker. lie prisoner was lodged in jail to await his trial. , I HOMICIDE. : I, One Dorman, a private soldier of Company-K. 6th Regiment U. S. Infantry, stationed at this place, was shot and killed on Sunday night last by a sergeant of his Company. It seems that Dorman was in charge of the guard, who were oonveying him to camp; when opposite Chambers' saloon, he refused to prooeed and drew his pistol, firing upon the sergeant or threatening to fire, when he was shot by the latter; the ball killed him and passing through his body, struck a freed man, Andrew Reedy, who was mortally wounded and didd the next day. ? Acoroner's inquest held on Monday over the -body, of Dorman, found a verdict m accordance with the aB&^e facts. ... We bebeve the general impression to be. that the sergeant was justifiable under the tircumstanoes. ( - ?? ? THE ELECTION Passed off quietly. There was some division among the blacks?not very much excitement It ia nnf Irnnnm viilt (wrt?inhf Whif>Tl fir>trpf via flkflf. ed. It is supposed the Union Rupublican candidates, Barney Barton, Penis Alexander and Sancho Sanders, all black, are elected?two' whining preachers (so-colled) and a conceited blacksmith, by the Providence of God and the policy of the Yankee nation, are entrusted, for a season, with the destinies of oar District This Reconstruction farce is so pitiable that we cannot believe that the sensible people of the North will permit it to be played out QRAlfD LODGE, A. F. ft. The Grand'-Lodge of Ancient Free Masons, of South<5aroIina, convened in Charleston, on Tuesof last week. On Wednesday. the following persons were elected offioers for the ensuing year: James L. Orr, of Anderson, Grand Master. James Conner, of Charleston, Depute Grand Master. . S. A. Durham, of Marion, Senior Grand Warden. ' . . . j James McCullough, of Greenville, Junior Grand Warden. J. R. Pickett,- of Graniteville, Grand Chaplain. H. W. Schweder, of Charleston, Grand Treasurer. i R. S. BrunSj of Charleston, Grand Secretary.. S. W. Maurice, of Kingstree, and & H. Bates; of Greenville, Senior Grand Deacons. I. W. Angel, of Charleston, and C. P. Townsend, of Marlboro, Junior Grand Deacons. . ( ...! P. K. Coburn, of Summerville, Grand Marshal. John Corby, of Charleston, Grand Pursuivant'! ft M Tnt-riftn riF Miifwnv. Mvl W ff Mflhr. nf Charleston, Grand Stewards. Samnel Burke, of Charleston, Grand Tiler. Correspondence of the Charleston Courier. ; FRO.T1 WASHINGTON. Nov. 21.?Members who have arrived here converge freely npon'the financial and commercial topics of the day, and seem to be impressed with the fact that the people ate becoming restive ui* der the pressure of taxation and the prostration of their industries. They are folly aware of the fact that the political change going on in the public mind in the free-labor states, is encouraged and promoted by the derangement and depression of business. Financial troubles in this country have always produced political revolutions. To the blundering legislation of Congress, the present fi? nancial disorders are attributed. Congress, as the ruling power, is held responsible by the people for the bad times which have come or are coming. As to the questions of taxation and currency, the membere seem to be bewildered and undetermined ; still they admit that they must do something for the relief of the country. Many of them are ready for dangerous experiments, which would perhaps, as they suppose, afford temporary relief The majority of them appear to be disposed to resist the administration policy of currency contraction, in order to return to the specie standard. Some of them favor an immediate expansion of paper by the issue of more greenbacks, or more National Bank currency. Much interest is felt in the composition of the Standing Committees of the House, which will be announced next Monday. Upon the construction of three or four of the financial Committees, will depend, in a great measure, the character and promptitude of financial and commercial legislation. Some doubt has arisen as to the result of the election in Mississippi for a Convention; but it is the general belief here that all, or nearly all, of the ten Southern States will accept the terms of congressional reconstruction, not indeed with the vote of the lately governing class of the South, who are not likely to take an active part either for or against the State Constitution which, may be submitted. The President will not probably send ill any nominations to the Senate, prior to the commencement of the regular session next month. ' Both ;Houses adjourned over to Monday, and may then adjourn again. Members were not inclined to plunge at once into business. Besides i ll - it. t _#il*J-_M ' tiiere is some aouoc as to cue legality 01 tnis session. The galleries of the House were crowded with darkies, whilo the sky over us has all day been hung with black, as if in sympathy with political prospects. ..LEO. General John S. Mosby in the New York Gold Room.?The New York Herald, of Wed: nesday last, says: ' w *. ! ? > About noon yesterday a strange scene occurred in the Gold Room on Broad-street Sitting by the side of the Vice-President, Mr. Hoyt, was a man wearing a grev coat, who. it was whispered round, was the ex-rebel chief, "Jack" Mosby. The breasts of the loyal brokers burned with indignation, which burst forth in the shape of a note, written by Mr. J. B. Colgate and sent to Mr. Hoyt, asking him if the rebel Mosby was sitting at his side, and if so, protesting against his being there. On receiving the note ana glancing over its contents, the VioePresident reaa it aloud and then said, "Gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you Colonel Mosby. Mosby then arose, and was received with mingled cheers and hisses. The brokers of the New York Gold Board were evidently never more divided than on this occasion. While some advanced to the Colonel to shake him by the hand, others protested against the proceeding by loyally shaking their heads and gesticulating their indignation. Amid the din and confusion, the following broken sentences might have been heard: "No place for a traitor." 'As much right there as anybody else.'' "Who have rendered themselves infamous by their rebellious acts ?" '' Colonel Mosby was a brave soldier." "Good iudge of horses." "A better man never lived." A worse was never hung," Sea. These delectable and entertaining expressions of tLa rtfnnininn in which ftfr. MV?hv von held by the brokers present were suddenly silenced by that worthy leaving the room and the VicePresident calling a special meeting of the Board, when he desired to know whether or not he was to be sustained in introducing his friends into the room. Tableaux 1 The Vice-President was supported by the majority, who endoreed his action in. introducing from nis elevated position, one of his friends (Colonel Mosby, the ex-guerilla chief.) to the loyal brokers of the New York Gold: Board. S&F Parson Martin, a colored man from.Pennsylvania?a preacher, school teacher and randidftfa for the Convention?was arrested injloxboro, N. C., last week, for stealing money from a Northern man, a personal friend of the ambitions parson, politician and thief v j CIOLUMBIACONTRIBIJTOBIAL BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. li POLPIIBIA, 801JTS OABOLDTA, 26TH JOV. 1867. Southern Home Journal. This elegant literary weekly, announced for the first, appeared on the 23d instant Jt will be remembered that we made mentioq^meral weeks ago of the specimen number. Thenegular issue it is that now raakaa ite. appearand and the issue ia to be regular from this time forth. May it live fofceair.l; ; The Elections. The election of deleg&tee to the State Convention, last Tuesday and Wednesday, passed off quietly. ir ":,r' r g [frR Nobody was hurt ' The grog-shops were shut. . The negroes voted, by hundreds. rk . Eight white men voted. ' There were four candidates-- Nash, Wilder, Robertson, andThompeon?anil all wereof dourse elected. Hundreds of the negroes oa these elecion days carried in their hands canes, walking-sticks, clubs, and bludgeons, "Many negroes, on being interrogated on the matter of voting; clearly showed thatthey had not the faintest idea of what it was all about. Now what? " ' - :*j ) The BaltimoreiFrncas. The press generally, and especially that of the North, has said a good deal qbout the Wise-Pollard difficulty in Baltimore., The case is a strong one. . Pollard wrote some severe comments upon a published critique by Governor Wise. Two sons of Governor Wise went to Baltimore, to shoot Pollard ; "at sightand shot him, breaking his arm. I Among the coqunents opon this *f&ir that we have seen, those of the New York ?Ws are the heaviest on the Wises. The TitmtM says: "The braggart brutality which conaidera such an act proof of manliness and spirit, belongs to savages, not to the civilized and enlightened.". . ' It .may b? right to shqot folks that way^ but, if | so, we don't see it German Newspaper. ' ^ *, . We had the pleasure of meeting Mr. JSrckmaa, one of; the publishers of the new German weekly oewspaper?Die Charksbmer Ztitung?published > in Charleston. .fcEor the German settler among us, it is aU importaht tohave such a medium of cotnmunication with the news-world. Besides the news, especially su fch aa bears .upon the fatherland, then are miscellanies, narratives, and communications of various kinds in it. In 4he current number, continued, there is a translation into German of one of Gihnore Simms's sketches of the war, under the general title of Scoria in Carolina. The Zetoatfr is published ot^S a fear.- 1 W** ' JiJ* Books. A week or two ago, we made mention of .a new book oti die war?Richmond During the War; four years of personal observations, by a Richmond Lady?with a promise to recur to ft again. We have read the vrfameiridi umnudihterest It is a medium-sized duodecimo, published by Carle ton & Co., of New York, and. was written by an eyewitnessof muchthafc sherelates?one who heard the first shout over the. secession of Virginia, in 1861, who7 lived in Richmond Atartog those four dreadftil years ofwiur, and who witnessed the dosing scenes in 1865. The parraiive gives living pictures* of life in the Confederate Capital; and is the most interesting book we have seen of its kind ; and is not more interesting than valuable as are* Cord of the times?as history. Lectures. ' Prof! John Le Conte, ofthc University of South Carolina, is now in Baltimore, delivering a coarse of four lectures before the Peabody Institute, j'fhe ^nd lectare in. the series, paw current, besfbre the public in the University of South-Oarylina, was delivered last Thursday night by Prof t Joseph Le Conte^ upon the Law qf Circulation in Nature. The leaj-ned Professor, by the magic of ; his style, brought down the sublimities of science to the comprehenaon of unscientific mortals ; and Li l 'jk? Ifiil . .1 ' ^ upon ii suujew suggestive gx very iiiue to toe popular mind, gave us one of tile most charming xuid instructive lectures that we ever had.the pleasure of listening to.. It was wonderful in addition to immense scientific attainments, Dr. Le Conte has the peculiar and vpry rare art of catohing and holding the attention of the entire auditory. He is deservedly reckoned among the great lecturers of the College?among such men as Cooper, Maxcy, and Ellett of the pwt ;The time of Jhe next lecture?Thursday the 28th instont?will be occupied with an qntioo of. the Clariosophoic Society; so that the* next of this" series of University Lectures will come off on Thursday the 5th of December. We are pleased to see that a Literary Society in Winnsboro is taking steps to have a series of lectures delivered before that public, during the present winter. Why .not the same in every village and town in the State ? /; OBSTRUCTION OF RAILROADS. General Cacby has issued the following order providing further punishment of persona who obstruct: Railroads: If aw person, with, intent to obstruct, atop, hinder, demy, or .displace the cars traveling on any road, or to stop, hinder, or delay the passengers or others passing over the same, shall wilfully and maliciously put pr place any matter or thing upon, over, or near any rail road trade; or shallwiltfully and maliciousty destroy, injure, or remove the road bod, or any part thereof, or any rail, tie, or other part of the fixture appurtenant fo.or, .constituting or supporting any portion of the track of such Ran Road; or shall wilfully and maliciously injure the road bed, or the fixtures aforesaid, or any part thereof, with any other intent whatsoever; such person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on oonviction thereof oefore a military commission or other court of. competent jurisdn^ion, shall be fined not .exceeding one thousand dollars, nor less than two hundred- dollars, and be imprisoned not more than three yean, nor leas than six a _1 Yi 1: if. 1 /? t muuuiB , .auu anau uw uuiuiuiueu vo jau ou ne nna Barely tor his good, behavioiyfbr a spaoe of time not less than three nor more than seven years. ' And if it shall happen that, by reason of the ? commission of the offences aforesaid, or any of them, any engine or car shall bo displaced from the track, or shall be stopped, hindered, or delayed, so that any person thereby be'instantly killed, or so wounded or hurt as to die therefrom within Six calendar months thereafter, the party so offending, his counsellors, aiders, and abettors, oh conviction, shall suffer death ; and if any person shall thereby be maimed or be disabled in the use of any limb or member, then, and in every such ease, such offender or offenders shall, on oonviotion. suffer fine and imprisonment in the discretion or the Court ; Nxaho Journalism in Ambmca.?We learn from Trubner's Record that the Elevator, published at San Francisco, is edited by a colored man. and circulates 2,300copies. The NewOrieane Tribune, published daily and weekly, is managed and edited by men ojjoolor, and circulates about 10,000 ot each issue. The True Communicator. _ recently suspended, but to be revived, was published at Baltimore, and bad for its editor George T. Cook, a colored man. Eton's SUmdardand Wedeb/ Review, published at New York, edited by William Howard Day (colored), circulates 4,000 copies, has all its literary and mechanical work done by colored people. The Christian Recorder, Philadelphia, published by the African Methodist Episcopal Church, ana edited by Rev. James Lynch,"a man of color, circulates 5,000. The People's Journal, Brooklyn, edited and printed by a colored man, circulation 2,000, and the Freedmevf* Torchlight, are both published by the African Colonisation Society. The Colored Citizen, issued at Cincinnati, Ohio, circulates 2,400 copies, and is under the entire control of colored men. Confederate Money?Important Decision in Georgia.?We dip the following important intelligence from the Savannah Republican, in relation to the invalidity of notes, the consideration of which was Confederate Treasury Notes: The Griffin Star say!) that in the case of J. JMilner, a petitioner in Bankruptcy before A. G. A