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GEORGIA WEEKLY OPINION THE WEEKLY OPINION. BY W. L BCBDOOB BHD J. B. DOMBLB. OFFICIAL PAFEE FOB IBB COCHTIES OF Butov, Bibb,' ■ Bottt, CUWU, Cbbttoogft, Clayton, Cobb, Dtit. DoKoft. Fayette, Fulton, Owlnnott, Bbrnloon, Hoard, Henry, Jaaper, Monroe, Murray, Newton, Paulding, Folk, Spalding, Sumter, Upoou. ATLANTA, Q-J^.z WEIWESDAY JIOItXING, OCTOBER 30 or Oooil order prevailed at jtho poll*, anil throughout tho city, yesterday. Tho prectillonary step of closing the saloons, was a wlse moveincnt. The vote polled was light.' The Registration record contains the names of 4,330 voters; oitly 781 voted up to tj o’olocklast evening. The managers imilfbe more active If the full vote Is polled within the prescribed time. Tub Nasiucilus Election.—Tho Wash ington Star, of the 20th, furnishes a short synttpsls of the report of General Thomas to General Grant, In relation to the late election in Nashville. The document, It is stated, contains tho official communications which were exchanged on tho subject; tho proclamations, respectively, of the Gov ernor of Tennessee and the Mayor of Nashville, and also the outers for sending troops to that city, and that of Gen. Grant directing Major General Thomas to go thither, “to remain until after the election, to preserve peace.” Major General Thom as spccltlcally details to General Grant his condnct and movements in the premises, and, with a vlow to a proper performance of duty, asks for instructions. These aro given in telegrams, to tho effect: “I neither instruct to sustain the Governor nor May or, hut to prevent conflict. The Governor is the only authority than can legally de mand the aid of the United States troops, and that must be by proclamation declar ing Invasion or insurrection exists beyond the control of other means at Ills hands.— It Is hoped your presence and good judg ment nnd advice will prevent conflict. Your mission Is to preserve the peace, and not to take sides In political differences until called out In accordance with the law. You arc to preventmobs from aldtngclthcr party. If called upon logally to Interfere, your duty Is plain. You aro not to prevent the legal State force horn the execution of its orders.” Such Is the substance of tho orders to Major General Thomas. Fortunately no occasion occurred fur tho employment of the United States troops, and Major General Thomas, on the 28th of September, telegraphed to General Grant: “The election Is over. All quiet.” Important meeting of Cotton mu« Woolen manufacturer., extract from the Philadelphia Ledger The Election. Less than one-llfth of the registered toters of this olty and county voted yes- , „ . terday. This result astonished ill who i ^ Rowing report of y. Important meet- wltnessed the crowd around the polls da- !"*.*'“ tttm and woo,cn ntanufucturers ring tho day. Tho dutles to bo performed by the officers were of such a novel charac ter as to cause some delay, but hereafter speedier action will nrem redly occur, snd It Is believed that ample time has been al lowed to poll the entire registered vote. Tho good order that prevailed through out tho day was generally remarked. We heard of no disturbance whatever. The colored voters polled the largest portion of tho vote, and It was Universally admit ted they conducted themselves In a becom ing manner throughout the day. It Is to bo hoped the remainder of this great epoch in tho history of till’ State will pass so quietly. Let the voters he brought cut la their full strength. The importance of the ques tions at Issue demand this. It is our only hope for a speody settlement of our iron hies. The friends.efiUceonstructlon have nothing to fear frqpi a full expression at the polls; therefore let them labor to sc- euro It. Tho Selma (Ala.) Messenger says Mr. C. C. Sutor, of Oallaa county, who left with bis family for ilra*ll tome months ago, hao been heard from by his friendse- Uo writes to W. J. A. Russell, Esq- that he la oven better pleased with the country than he expected to be; and that Mrs. Sutor, who went very reluctantly, is de lighted with her new home. Mr. Sutor Is an Industrious, energetic, pushing man, a practical farmer and bis opinion Is entitled to much weight. ZW~ At latest accounts yellow fever still prevailed In many parts of Interior Louis iana. It held Its own In Shreveport, Alex andria, St. FranclsviUc, New Iberia, West Baton Rouge, etc. At Washington, Ope lousas, there had been four hundred coses and flfty-three deaths, ZW Tho Anti-Reconstruction ticket named for the Augusta District, was with drawn yesterday morning. We hope to hear that the example was extensively followed throughout the State. In tliat city An adjourned meeting of cotton nnd woolen manufacturer* wo* held yesterday afternoon. At tiie Hoard of Trade room.— Mr. Win. Devine. President of the Asso ciation, occupied the chair. The President ■tated that the object of tho meeting was to tako into consideration the ulralltlon <> reduction of the live per cent, tax on cot. ton. lie said the manufacturing Interest still feel tliat this tax is an unjust one. and it was important that proper measures should he taken to have the tax removed, lie liojied proper committees would be ap pointed to take the subject In hand, so that tho measures desired could ho properl brought before Congress, Mr. Devine tifo stated that this association was in commit' nication with associations in oilier portions of tho country. Mr. Kelley read an abstract of a letter from tho Rev. Dr. Bellows, of New York, now in Europe, in reference to the labor question in Europe, and the ncccssity.oi pro* tooting tiie manufacturers in this country. A paper was also read, giving tiie prices ol labor in Belgium and other countries. - Mr. Garsotl said we were hero to ask our law-makers to do us simple justice. Tex tile manufacturers cannot exist in this country unless they are protected against tiie pauper labor or Europe. II. could not understood the policy of Congress protect ing manufactures by a tariff, and then ta king more from them by a heavy tax upon tiie raw material und upon the articles manufactured. In Belgium wool-assurters were paid, a few years ago, CO cents jier week, and the superintendent of seven sets obtained $7 per week, while ho (Mr. Gar- sed) was paying 82.50 per day to a superin tendent over three sets. Personally lie asked no favors, but it was suicidal lor the Government to fix a tariff of seventy per cent, and the demand thirty-three per cent, internal taxes. There must be a total an nihilation of the tax upon the industry of tiie country, or tiie mills will be stopped. Tiie tax on cotton at present is ini|>oiitic and disastrous, and unless removed great distress will surely follow. If the uiauu- QET Speaking of tho election In West Virginia, tho Wheeling Intelligencer (Re publican), of tho 2Gth, s.ays: “The news from tho State, so far received, shows a diminished Union vote, but not enough so to endanger the gonral result. Brooke county lias given a Democratic majority. Last year she gave some forty-live or llfty the other way. The vote in Marshall ap pears light, but wc have no doubt tliat she is all right. It Is impossible thus early to make any estimate as to what tho returns from the State will foot up. Wc think it probablo tliat a generally diminished vote lias been polled in nearly every county. The apathy apparent hereabout character ized. more or less, tho whole canvass throughout the State. Somewhat of this feeling Is to be accounted for by tlic fact that we had no general ticket in tiie Held. There was, therefore, very little to excite tiie people. Next year it will bo vastly different. Then will come tiie tug of war over the Presidency und over all tiie State otllecrs. 2T* A dispatch from Toronto, October 24, says: “A run commenced on the Royal Canadian Bank tills morning, and continu ed with great activity, until about noon.— The run for gold being promptly responded to, the excltemont gradually subsided. In order to satisfy the public as to its ability to meet all demands, the bank kept open a considerable time after tho usual hour of closing. All tho other banks paid gold for ltoyal Canadian bills. Fraxce and Austria.—It is stated in tho dispatches from Europe, that the reception of tho Emperor of Austria in Purls has been most cordial and gratifying. Ills visit is popular with tho Parisians, and when ever he appears In public ho meets with enthusiastic manifestations of welcome from the people. A profound feeling of sympathy for tho brother of tho unfortu nate Maximilian heightens the respect nnd esteem with which the Emperor is regard ed by all classes. The Journal and Messenger of yes terday morning announces that there would bo no-Conservative” ticket in the field, end argues therefore, tliat all who vote at tho election now progreasing must be Radial Rbconstructlonlsts. And the Journalwhi/ts those who vote to be u mark- . We suggest that those who do ho| vofco will bo marked. There will bo two wxrfe* kept, most probably. £3*ln a letter from Nqw York to Hie Montgomery MAH, Col. Lewis Owen, Presi dent of the Montgomery nnd Euftmla Rail road, states that he.Tfiia made Such arrange- Wiiy Gen. Ord Removed Ills Head quarters.—Tho removal of General Ord’s headquarters from Vicksburg to Holly Springs, has already been announced. Tiie Vicksburg Republican, in speaking of the removal, makes the following revelntlo :n We regret that General Ord found it ne- cesnary to make this change, particularly as it was forced upon him by pecuniary reasons. It is a sau commentary upon the narrow heurtedness of Vicksburg, that the cost of living is so utterly beyond all rea son tliat even tiie Commander of the Dis trict could not afford to maintain his head quarters hero. The exorbitant spirit of property holders here is well Illustrated in the fact tliat he was charged eight hunderd dollars a month rent for a very common establishment. Servant hire, provisions, goods of every description are so merci lessly beyond the reach of all who are not blessed with extra pocket money, that Gen. Ord und ids staff found it impossible to maintain themselves here. At Holly Springs he secures one of.the finest and most costly residences in the State (Mr. Cox’s) at eight hundred dollars per annum, while every other necessary item ean be obtained ut corresponding low ligures. We part with them with regret, and feel mortified for the fair fame of Vicksburg that it became necessary. Tho rebels, however, tire loud in tlieir rejoicings, and hope they will bu The Recent Failures in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Press of Monday, in its money article, says: The failure of three or four houses, hitherto in good standing, last week lias Caused quite a commotion in business cir cles, especially in tho d:y goods trade, in which theso failures occurred. Tiie community are at a loss to account for these breaks. One would think that, with the advancing tendency of tiie gold pre mium, such disasters, with moderately fair management, would bo impossible of oc currence; but the decline in muslins and some other description of goods brought with it those inevitable conscnucnces which happen to largo holders trading on bor rowed capital. Wc are happy to state tliat the losses are by no means so serious as was at lirst imagined, and the anxiety which was so widespread on Friday, was entirely without enuse, as was evidenced by the smoother aspect of affairs on Satur day, when tiie real extent of tho failures was definitely known. Rumor hud bandied about the names of certain parties whose financial standing has always been first class, nnd thence the fears that were so widely entertained in the exoitement of the hour. Th* Fever in New Orleans.—Tho Time* says: Every member of tho Howard Associa tion has had tho fbver in his household, in one or two instances prostrating each one In tho family. The physicians of the board of health and the citizens have also been nllllcted in the same manner. All of our phycieians have suffered either from fatigue in tiie prosecution of their noble duty, or by sickness at home. From tiie visitation of the epidemic, 110 office of a newspaper in tills city, no business has Iraen exempt. Indeed, it may be announced as substantially true tliat the disease has visited every family resident lu the city. All these circumstanses prove liow univer sal has been the sickness, and also how very few deaths have taken place com pared with the immense number of eases. , C^*Tho Washington Chronicle mentions a new invention, just patented, to facilitate voting in.Legislatures. By an arrange ment of wires similar to tliat of tlio iiotel annunfelafor, connecting thd desks of tho members of a deliberative body with tho voting apparatus, members aro enabled to vote all at once; and after a moment’s time being allowed lor a chnnimof vote by Arty Mffiber who may de.slro it the result— that Is the Individual vote of each nicni- bet. together with the aggregate* respcct- — the name of each member voting is printed for tho use of tho reporters of the press. would u»t be troubled upon the subject, but we use the same machinery* while the price of labor is four-fold. Mr. A. Campbell contended tliat tiie po liticians were endeavoring to take more from the {leople than they were willing to give. He thought it would bo better for the manufacturers if every Custom House was abolished, and excise inen discharged, than it is under tiie present system of tax es. Tiie men engaged in producing should agree not to vote for any man for office who is willing to tax the producing inter ests for the benefit of the politician and otiier non-producers. Gen. Patterson stated that there was no country on the globe so ground down with taxes as our own. He asked no favors of Congress, but simply justice by biking off tiie grinding tux upon the industry of the United States. The country is maintain ing a large number of men to collect tax- eft, and a largo number of other men de vising menus to spend it. He would not say the officers of the government did not perform their duties honestly, hut lie was satisfied tliat it took tiie entire tax of two and a half cents on cotton to pay the sala ries of the officers appointed to collect it. The system also draws from Industrial pur suits a large number of men who ought to bo producers. Every article used by la borers is taxed, and none of them cun live comfortable unless they get large w ages. Wc must insist upon an economical ad ministration of the government by tiie dis charge of the many loafers who live up on it. Mr. Blakely said this country could not go back to the old expenditure of $17,000,- 000, because our country lias grown and expenses have increased, lie tsdieved the officers of the Government were as honest now ns in previous years, lie thought it would ho better to ask that the five jx-r cent, tax he abolished than to aboifoli the entire system of customs, as had been sug gested by several of tiie speakers. General Patterson was in favor of Cus tom Houses and Collectors, but he thought it would be bettor to abolish them alto gether, than for the present grinding taxes to he continued upon tho industry of the country. Ho said goods could he Imparted through New York at ono-tliird the rate fixed upon by the Government. Mr. Garrett submitted the following: Resolved, That tho Manufacturers* As sociation of Philadelphia ask our memlters of Congress to use all honorable means to remove all taxation on the industry of tiie country, where such industry requires to bo protected against the cheaper labor and capital of Europe. Agreed to. Mr. Kelley offered a resolution, that the whole subject lie referred to the Executive Committee, and to take measures to have removed the live cents on goods and 2, l n conts on cotton. Adopted. A motion was made and agreed to to take up the subjeetof fixing the tare 011 cotton bales, the same as tiie trade have lu Liver pool. Mr. Kelley stated tliat the tare on cotton bales bound with rope amounted to four and four and a half per cent., and about six per cent, on bales bound with iron. Mr. Uarsed thought the manufacturers should fix upon some regular rate of tnre, and unless tills is done the tare will bo in creased by the planter. Somo of the bales have cost iron hoops, and in some Instances pieces have got into the picker, doing great ftfrF moved to refbr tho subject to tho Exocutfve Committee, for the purpose of having a regular tare Axed on bales of ootton. Agreed to.' Adjourned. New York Dry-Goods Market.—.Veto Turk, Oct. iV-The dry goods market Is languid and depressed, yet a few leading houses are doing a very largo and fair trade at the reduction already observed. The prico of Delaines lias been finally fix ed. by tho agents at 20c for all new styles, and 10c for all old patterns less desirable. This enables Jobbers to offer the goods at 19c, on which they arc having a small run. All standard prints are in steady request at l2Mc, and standard sheetings of tho best makes, iu brown, are quoted at 15Uc for Atlantic A, 15c for Pacific A, 16c fordo.II, 13c Roxhury; und for Atlantic A shirtings. Bleached muslins of tho bc*t makes arc steady at 25c for Wamscttn 4-4. 33)£c for do. 0-4. 29c for do. 0-8,12c for 4-4 Tuscafora, 43e for 4-4 Almy’s, and 15c for 4-4 Egles. Woolen trade is both languid and depressed. Foreign goods are in tho same condition. py A now style of hoop-skirt* Is short- • to bo introduced, which will enable la- _Jcs and gentlemen to 1 get into company, and. in fact, walk together, should it come necessary or agreeably A secret spring; oporated quietly by the wearer, opens a section 6t the hoops, and the gen tleman can approach tho lady. Invcnuvo ago l miscellaneous Items* The civilian game of huso ball is finding fiivor with tiie West Point cadets. They disperse corner loungers In Phila delphia by pouring water on them from tiie upper winders of the corner houses. A Church to the memory of Abraham Lincoln is about being established in Lon don in connection with tiie Lincoln school in tliat city. The insurance companies In Peoria. III.. have agreed to forbid smoking in such buildings as they lusuro as extra hazardous. The hair of a copper worker, in Buffalo, has turned perfectly green. Tho Illinois Methodist preachers are taking very decided grounds against tiie tax and divorce laws on that State. Ninety thousand dollar* worth of Nich olson payment has Just been laid In Co lumbus, Ohio. The Cable rate* for telegrams are to bo reduced on and alter tho loth of November. it takes 2.500 vessels nnd 10.000 hands to supply tho New York oyster trade. A decision by the Supreme Court of New York affirms the right of a police justice o commit for contempt though no statuary law to that effect. New Brunswick papers are becoming alarmed At the continued and apparently Increasing emigration to tho United States. It was claimed that confederation would stop this, but It has not. \ Franklin Wctherbv, Salisbury, Connec ticut who ha* been ill for some time, re lieved him«elf on Monday by vomiting up a snake nine inches long, nnd apparently of the spotted udder species. Tiie truth of tho story Is vouched for by the best author ity. Thurlow Weed’s estate is said to be worth a million of dollars. “Scalper,” is the St Louis slang for hackmaii. American ladies In Rome have given the Papal Zouaves a Hug. Never were chesnuts more abundant than this season. Cleveland has just adopted femulo clerks in the post office. The total vote in Pennsylvania at the last election was 535.000, or 02.520 less than at tiie previous election. Tiie Democratic majority was 1,202. The Republican boasts of a visible in- •ease of the hu-ines* of Augusta. Tho Kentucky Grand Lodge of Odd Fel- >ws reports having raised the past yea; ■ver $100,000 tor the Widows’ I tome and Orphans’ College at Harrodsburg. Competition has placed the fare from New York t«> Alban}’, one hundred and fifty mile*, at fifty cents. re men fs have Inen made to bold, in the city c»t Phihulelphu. commencing on the first A fdifivtday of November, a Na tional Coi vcntlon. composed of delegates from the different branches of the Presby- riim C-hutvh in the United States. The Cincinnati Enquirer is out with a ashing leaner in favor of George. II. Pen dleton, of Ohio, as tho Democratic candi- itc for President. Miilcdgcville is bidding for the location of tiie Machine Shops of the Macon and Augusta Railroad at tliat city. Tiie house in which General Zachary Taylor was ixirn, ncarOrange Court House, Va.. is now used us a baru. Thirty thousand people have fallen vic tims u> yellow fever in N. O. Tiie upper slopes of the Whlfco Moun tains are now covered with snow. A large cave lias been discovered In Berks county. Pa. It is three hundred yards deep, und ends in a yawning chasm. The chasm 1ms not yet been explored. A Texns editor, on being asked how lie got along with his paper, said lie bad writ ten one editorial and shot three men in the previous twelve months. A German ?lr! of sixteen had her right and taken off nt the wrist in Buffalo last week by a circular saw to which she was attending. A large, muscular Irishman, in a party crossing the Rocky Mountains, lately idi his friends to chase a grizzly. He was nf- rwanl found torn into ribbons, and the ar lying dead a low yards distant, pierc ed with six ImlleiH. It take* 2,800,000 soldiers to keep the peace in Europe. Tiie International Ocean Telegraph Com pany will open their line to St. Augustine, Florida. In November next. The exten sion will be of service to hundred* of |x;r- sons who visit tills place during the winter months. Gov. Chamcrlain has appointed Thurs day. Nov. 28lh, as a day of thanksgiving in Maine. Tho Buffalo Express says that the Sab bath Is now actually tho important market day of tiie week in the cattle yards of that city. The custom prevails In Russia of cutting oil' the hair of a widow and burying it with tho body of her husband. So rigor ously is tills practiced, tliat the blonde locks of the young and iMMUitlful Countess de Moray were not spared, though she was the w’ifo of a Frenchman. Office Brokerage at Washington. Everybody knows of tho corrupt pardon brokerage business which was, not long siiice.so brisk at Washington. The President closed out what little remained of tliat with tho Amnesty Proclamation. Office brokerage, prevalent long.before, has now entirely taken Its place. Tho Tonure-of- Offiee law may interfere somowhat with this, but, over and above all drawbacks, it probably pays handsome profits. A letter has just come to light, which shows up tills branch of tlsc executive duties. It is from John B. Haskin, of New York, to Andrew Johnson, and dated March 21,1860. Has- kin urges tho appointment of Gen. Henry W. Slocum to the Colleetorslilp of the port of New York, telling tho President that “tho man who holds that office should bo bound to yon with hooks of steel.” In a postscript he tells the President that the letter will bo handed him by “our ubiquitous friend Fe lix MeCInskey.” It was #0 handed to “A J„” who Is said to have made upon It tiie following indorabment: “Referred to Ooyio, Wendell «fc Florence, per F. McClHskcy, A. J.” Following tills Indorsement by “A. J.” Is another by the “ubiquitous” McCluskey. from which we copy tho following para* graph:—AtmpMe J>ost. •: >• < My Interviews with Johnny Ooyle, Cor- noli nendcll and Tom Florence nave not been satisfactory. They have opened an Intelligence office in tho White House, whore, os office broker.*, they sell offices nnd contracts in tho gift of the President and the Executive departments. This kitchen cabinet of offioo .brokers insisted on my securing them $20,000 for General Slocum’s appointment—$10,000 In cash and fldjWO In assignments of his salary in ad vance. Of course I, as the l'rlcnd of Gen. Slocum, with scorn and indignation, reject ed tho infamoe proposition. I'ELESttAVUlC INTELLIGENCE From tiie New York Press Association. The Colton Tax. Memphis, Oct. 2tL—Shipper* instead of sellers must pay the cotton tax. This adds two and a half cents to local quotations and unsettles tiie market. There were seven interments from yellow fever for the past twenty-four hours. The agent of the Associated Press is au thorized by Dr. Bard, editor of tiie Atlanta New Era, to state that, tiie reported con versation betwee*, Gen. Grant and himself, pit hi i*hed in the New Y'ork Tribune and other papers, was totally unauthorized by him. and is erroneous in several important particulars. Brig Lost. New York, Oct. 29,—The brig John, from Norfolk, was totally lost on Barba- does reef. Foreign. Florence, Oct. 20.—News received here states that Garibaldi was victorious in u fierce buttle near Monte Rotunda, captur ing one hundred prisoners and three gnus, Many were killed and wounded 011 both sides. Garibaldi had four battalions. Paris, Oct. 28.—Garibaldi’s force Is 12,- 000. The Papal forces are concentrated before Rome with instructions to act on tiie defensive. Troops have sailed from Toulon and are expected to reach Civita Veecbia this af ternoon. Rome, Oct. 26.—The Pope, in his letter to the Roman Catholic Bishops throughout the world, says the patrimony of the church has been assailed by tiie Revolu tionists, and asks them to order prayers in all tiie churches for the Holy Sec. The police, on Friday, in searching a house, met with resistance. They attacked tiie house with bayonets, killed fifteen Garibuldian* and took thirty-six prisoners. A quantity of arms and bombs were al*o captured. Election Returns. Columrus. Oct. 29.—Tiie election to-day passed off quietly. No disturbance, and but little interest manifested. Six hundred and fifty-eight ton** (Milled. Four hun dred for tho county, and two hundred and fifty-eight for the city. Only a few white Radicals voting. Registered voters for county and city about throe thousand. Conservatives take no part in the election. .Vim awl Times. Macon, Oct. 29.—The election to-day passed off’ very quietly; no whites voting; tiie negroes having it their own way. Four hundred and sixty-eight votes wero polled in the city, nnd one hundred ami thirty-seven in the country prcclnts. As far as heard from indicates non-action on tiie part of the whites. Augusta, Oct. 29.—Returns from all parts of tiie State Indicate that the Conser vatives took no part In the election, which passed off quietly. Nearly all tiie votes cost were for Convention. 1,CS5 votes were pollod lierc.—1,073 in tho city, and 712 in the country, all for Convention. Tho following returns have reached here from the Interior: Rome, 700 votes polled, nearly all for Convention; scarcely any whites voting. Marietta polled 301 votes, mostly frccd- men, and nearly nil for Convention. LaGrangc poollcd about 500 negro votes, nnd 1 white, nil for Convention. Excepting 10 e|ty nnd county officers no respectable Idle men were connected with the affair. Guii itn, Oct. 29.—Tim votes polled were 075; 550 for Convention. Blacks 175; whites 200 voting. Fort Gaines, Oct. 29.—In Clay county 300 votes were polled—all for Convention. N’o white man offered or cast a ballot. Americus, Oct. 29.—From 600 to 000 otes were (railed—all colored. Albany, Oct. 20.—The number of votes (lolled is 399 colored and 1 white, who voted for himself. All for Convention.— The whites kept away from the polls alto gether. Sa vann ah, Oct. 29.—Only one white vote cast. One hundred and seventy-four voters in tho city and eighty in tiie country can not be found on tiie Register’s books—for got tiie name under w’iiicli they took tiie oatii. The Boston Mulatto Bradley ticket is ahead. Few negroes know what they aro voting for more than they were Instructed take the tickets and place them in the box. Not a single arrest has boon made. Savan nah sustained her reputation ns a peace able city. Tiie co-operation of civil and military authorities are ol the kindest na ture. SAVANNAn,Oct.29.—The olcctiou to-day passed off very quietly. Many negroes from tho country, nnd some from South Carolina, aro here. The city vote is 682; tho country 440. Thero aro aboqt 250 re jected votes. All negrooa but three or four, and all vote for Convention and the negro Radical ticket. From Washington. Washington, Oct. 20.—Tho trotting stal lion Geo. M. Patclien is dead. Ho was val ued at $10,000, The hurricane which swept over Porto Rico on the 30th caused much damage among tho shipping, and caused the rivers to overflow destroying property to a con siderable extent. A npeeler was placed across the track of tho ’Richmond and Fredericksburg Rail road which threw three cars off tiie track sixteen'miles this side ol Richmond. Tho train due nt six o’clock this morning was doliiycd until nooh. Nonolmrt. The Cabinet was In session for two hours; All present. Gen. Grant has returned. Internal Revenue receipts to-day $397,- 000. Joseph H. Bradley, who was dismissed by Jddgo Fisher at the closo Of the Surratt trial, was ordered to show cause, by the fourth of November, why be should not be punk ,u *' 1‘cutcnifit, moauumo his «u»- -i continues. n V ’xrkinson and Tom Kelly fought ten round/* At<iula trei:k ' Kllly W0 " by foirt In th. “* ou '> roullJ > 20,—Two frailly*’!* TZ Ou,r,n., Or,:- ‘fO.-K-uven from yellow fever ocei- "*» “WOHJf them Lieut. Lee. w ,m ? ? •*}** as Assistant Adjutant O* ‘ifer* 1 ol the I'lull Military District iorsonu * tbne. Charleston, Oct. 29.—> r * en * Canbylia* ordered the cessation of Hit quarantine af ter November 1st. Richmond, Oct. 20.—Mr. R unnlcutt ad dressed a large crowd of iicgi oea 0,1 tll ° Capitol Square tills evening. la t,,e c * mr, ‘o of his remarks lie alluded to certa ‘ n Ibreaw made to kill him, und said“I'll m Don’t you know, fellow citizens, th. the assassin’s bullet pierces my bn in » or ids dagger touches my heart, more t * JUU one white man will fail 011 that day.” assemblage responded,“ Yes—yes.” Foreign Row*, Rome, Oct. 24.—Fighting within half, * mile of tiie city. Great excitement within tiie walls. The Revolutionists are prepare ing for a second u»suult. A proclamation has been issued forbidding tiie assemblage of over four persons. All persons within the house are ordered to close their shops upon tiie signal of alarm. Twenty-five thousand Garibaldians attacked Vertebo, yesterday, forcing one of the gates, but were repulsed with a heavy loss of men and munitions. Their leader, Deputy Acnrbedl was killed. The Roman citizens, including tiie aristocracy, are armed and patrol tiie streets. Turin, Oct. 20.—The great popular demonstration favoring Rome for the Cap itol have adopted an address to the King. Paris, Oct. 27.—The Moniteur says the fleet was kept back at tiie request of Victor Emanuel, but subssquently sailed Imhmiuso Cabinet could lie formed, and Garibaldi was menacing Rome. The Moniteur adds that France and Italy are both interested in maintaining law and order. Muii. Roulicn, iu a dinner speech, hojad that Italy, under bad passions Would not fight France, but emerge from this trial purified. Garibaldi, with ten thousand men, was before Romo after tiie battle of Monte Rondo. Later.—Frlnee Humbert leads tiie troops piiust tiie French. It is said that Victor Emanuel abdi cates. Garibaldi was checked at Monte ICoiulo by reinforcements of Papais. Personal. Mrv’.JeflerHOh Davis is visiting Benning ton, Vu for u lew days. Bonner 1» said to realize over $150,000 a year out of the Ledger. y Maximilian'* autobiography, in three volumes, is announced in England. The wife of Hon. ,S. S. Cox, of Ohio, has come into possesion of a large fortune through the death ot her father. Pierce Ogden, one of tiie tost whalemen out of the port of New London, was re cently killed by n whale. Dickens denies tliat he lias been s-dtefui and ungenerous in id* remark* about the Yankees fol'thu last twenty years. A lady named Mrs. II. L. Leonard shot a bear recently near tne Kutulidin (Me.) iron works tliat weighed, when dressed, up ward of 3UU pounds. Josh Billing*, says lie don't care bow much a man talks, if lie savs it iu a few words. Good idea for those who write to newspapers. A young man named Glut ter, while en gaged in a game of base bull, ut Goshcu, Indiana, had hfo right arm broken ut the wrist. On the occasion of Admiral Farragut’s visit to Copenhagen, complimentary letters wero cxchangctf by tho Admiral and Mr. Yeaman, United {States Minister in that city. A. M Chapellc, a capitalist nnd real estate dealer, of San Francisco, committed suicide recently by jumping from the Oak land ferryboat. He was one of the earliest pioneers of California. Advices from Mexico say that Santa An na was to leave the country for Uavuoa on tiie 24th inst. Jose Marla Lncunzo, one of Maximilian’s Ministers, who has been executed, buried and embalmed, by the newspapers, Is olive and well in Ilav&na. Admiral Tegethoff Is still awaiting, in Mexico, tho final decision of the Govern ment on tiie application for tho remains of Mnximilian. There appears to be no prob ability of ids success in hls mission. James norring, tor twenty-seven yean Secretary of tho Grand Lodge of Masons of N. Y„ died lately in Paris. Tub Province of Newspapers.—The Loudon Examiner says: It is unreasonable to ox|icct that tho public press will always publish only such things as we, individu ally, shall like. A person of strictly reli gious habits and tastes will be offended If he secs in a newsjKiper tiie account of a prize fight, or of something obscene and sinftil. lie forgets that the newspaper is but tiie reflection of tho world at large; and if ho Is so fastidious, ho should retiro altogether from life, for in a single street lie will find, at auy given hour of the day, wliut will ofl’end almost all hls senses, lie need not read what he considers to be ob jectionable; in like manner, ho need not oat at a table (T hole any highly seasoned dlsli. Let him order something to his taste—u veal cutlet without sauce. But my Lady Godiva may like a few of Ih'c indeli cacies of the season, and Lord Coventry may have stomach for any tiling. A news paper would have few readers were its dishes of news to cousist solely of pious pastry and flimsy puffi*. While Use tonoof a newspaper U moral the publlo cannot complain. Tho music of an organ grinder may bo of tho purest Character, though thft oraan itself, und the organ grinder UkO- wise,*may sometimes show symptons of the mud and filth that aro picked up by or scattered upon them throughout the rum blings of the day. To the" port all things aro pure, and to find fault with a newsp K&ESWpr an Ignoramui.