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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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? " '
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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