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GEORGIA WEEKLY OPINION. VOL. I—NO. 17.1 ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26,1867. ITERMS—$3 00 TUESDAY MORNING: Mb. Chase ix Virginia.—The Richmond Dispatch, speaking «f:lie recent visit of Chief Justice ('hase to that city, says: “Mr. Chase claims that lie is more Radi cal iu name than in fact and complains that ho has indiscreet supporters. We un derstand this to menu that while he favors negro suffrage In the abstract, ho is oppos ed to forcing it upon any State, hilt desires each one to decide the question for itself." Insurance Vkudict.—The Norwich and New York Transportation Company has recovered a verdict against the Western Massachusetts Company, for Insurance on tlie steamer City of Norwich, which collid ed with a schooner In April, I860, took fire and sunk. The defense was that the risk was merely a lire risk, sad they did not take marine ones, and the loss was occa sioned hy the perils of the sea. Plaintiffs claim tiiat the boat would not have sunk hut for the hurtling of the upper works.— Amount awarded, 94,923. cir The Secretary of State tins referred to the Attorney General a new and inter esting question, arising under the emanci pation amendment to the Constitution.— The captain of a British vessel recently brought Into Key West three bluck sailors, whereupon the local authorities indicted him under State laws, which prohibited tlie importation or immigration of free ne groes. The captain appealed to Mr. Ford Charge d’AffUire* for Great Britain. who Immediately addressed a note to Secretary Seward. Pending the netion of the At torney General, the proceedings against the British captain were stopped. Mcd.—The Paris “mud crop” sold this year for 9120.000. Could not the mud of the cities an this side of the big pond be made equally profitable? What a tine open ing, for instance, for an enterprising man, Atlanta would present during the rainy season. Softiysithe Augusta Republican. The al lusion to the Gate City suggests that If there is any enterprise in tlie pnragrapliist of the Republican, lie will try tho speculation. He is half right, perhaps; hut we should like to see him “stuck in the mud” of the other half. ^ FiHK.fi in Tennessee.—Tho Chattanooga Union of the 17th says, passengers rejiort a large fire yesterday morning at London. A number of dwellings were burned, and it was rumored that a life was lost. Tills we arc unable to vouch for. Another Arc was discovered yesterday morning, at tlie largo saw mill cast of Athens. Tlie mill was completely destroyed. Price of Tknxksskk Lands.—In the ta ble of average values of land per acre Imthe several counties, furnished by the Comtsol- ler of the Treasury in his report, the value of land in Hamilton county Is averaged at #12.00 per aero. Personal.—lion. A.J. Fletcher, Secre tary of State, for the State of Tennessee, has purchased a nine thousand dollar farm near Cleveland In that State, where lie pro- ]loses settling permanently. t3T The Alabama Convention, by a vote of.53 to 32, has adopted a resolution ap pointing a special committee to enquire Into the expediency of removing the State Capitol from Montgomery. Skksirlk.—A dispatch to the Commer cial gives the following: At tlie session of tlie Maryland Baptist Union Association, now being held here, tlie question of negro equality wnadiscuss- ed. and some of the white members em phatically said they would never admit the negro to social equality; that they never would sit down to the same tabic with them, hut would willingly extend to them the hand of religious fellowship. Tills de claration was meekly received by tho co lored brethren present, one of whom said the colored people did not desire social equality with til • whites, and the equality, like water, would find its own level. Sensible, so far as both slues are con cerned, _ {Jr A special to the Cincinnati Commer cial, from Washington, says: The otUce of'Collector of Customs, at Brownsville, Is vacant, owing to tlie death of tlie former collector by yellow fever. There are many applicants for the plnce. The salary ana perquisites amount to lesa than two thousand dollars annually, and greenbacks don’t pass there readily; hut as considerable smuggling is carried on along the boundary between the United States and Mexico, the politicians think there is moaey in the place. The Presi dent will make no appointment till after Congress meets. This amouais to an Insinuation that It Is expected the appointee will derive some perquisites from smuggling. |WT A large meeting of the 13th army corps was In session at Chicago on the 14th. The officers elect were General John A. McClcrnand, President, General W. B. Scales, Adjutant General, and Colonel R.B. Hatch, Quartermaster. A banquet was held at tlie Briggs nouse ta-night. __ or A, wo probably have iln, enough of our own to answer for, tho Atlanta Htw Era anil Oi’iNioN will oblige ua by not giving credit to the Telegraph for artlclca which they clip from oilier paper..—Macon Trleijraph. It we hare credited tlie Telegraph with anythin# good, that ahould have been credited to«oraebody else, we owe an apolo gy to aome one; if we credited tlie Tele graph with anything bad, an apology la due that journal. Orr von LtRRRU.—Several hundred fteedmen pasacd through Augusta la»t week, on their way to Liberia. :NOV. 10. Washington item*. Tho General Fite John Porter ease, about which there has been much gossip, is stated by tho special of tlie Commercial. from Washington tho 15th, U3 follows: It i» u - derstood that in the interview to-day in- tween tlie President and Fitz John Porter, respecting hfs ease, the former fndicaUt! that if General Porter eould secure tlie fa vorable recommendation of General Grant to have the case reopened, it would In- granted. What aetiou tlie Attorney Gen eral lias taken respecting tho legal ques tion involved has not transpired. Personal, lion. 8. S. Cox has gone to Europe, to lie absent two or or three months. On ids re turn he expects to run for Congress In tlie district lately represented by II. J. Ray mond. An Evening Democratic paper of New York has nominated Gen. Sherman and Com..Stockton for President and Vico Pre sident. Rev. Dr. Breckinridge, of Ky., was In Washington last Saturday. Something of an effort is proposed by North western Republicans, to induce the Senate to go into an election of Clerk of that body, whim view of electing one from tlie West in place of Col. Forney. Gen. P. W. Strader, of Cincinnati, of railroad fame, it is understood, will receive tlie appointment ofrAssessor of the First District of Ohio, vice General Laugdon -de ceased. Hon. Wm. E. Chandler, Assistant Secre tary of «the Treasury, will withdraw from the department of the 1st of December. Secretary Welles Is slowly recovering, and It >is hoped lie will be well in a few days. The male of the well-known “Aztec Children” died recently, in Charleston, South C irolina. General nancock and family, and seve ral members of his staff, left St. Loads on the 15th, for New Orleans, where lie will assume command of the Fifth Military District. The Empress Eugenie Is cultivating a moustache. Our fashionable ladies will of course follow suit. II. B. Claflin & Co„ of New York, during 1800 sold 973,000.000 of dry goads—the largest year's business of any wholesale house In tlie world. tar Senator Sumner, we see h, stated, has lntely given to tlie library at Harvard University a large collection of pamphlets and four hundred hound volumes. In five years he has given to this library seven thousand pamphlets and one thousand vol umes. ty Tlie Tuskogce (Ala.) News < following account of an occurrence, that happened in that place last Sunday week: On Sunday evening last, as a constable was conveying several negro prisoners to tlie jail in this place, a large crowd of freed- men made a serious effort to release them and It was with difficult) that the guard, aided by several white citizens present, could prevent it. The prisoners had con fessed to stealing and for tills offense had been regularly committed by a Justice of tlie Peace. The town negroes seemed de termined and indeed expressed their de termination that no more negroes should Ik* put in jail. They were led by Amos Phlllpot, Henry Cook, and Jliu Bcntly. Who swore they eould shoot ns often ami as accurately as any **d—d wlfite man.” and after the officers had succeeded in lodg ing the prisoners in jail, called on their followers to “tear down the jail** and “clean out the whites,” By tills times offi cers Sinclair and Green had heard of tlie affair. nn<fnt once arrested Cook nnd Jfent- ly blit failed to secure PI ill pot. On Monday the two former were brought before Esq. Dougherty nnd the ease thoroughly Inves tigated; (’apt. Ferguson representing the State and Messrs. Me Ivor nnd Cobb the de foliants. Tlie defendants were required to give bond in tbc sum of§300 each for tbelr appearance at the next term of the County Court, to answer a charge of unlawful as sembly and inciting to riot, Ao. Thk Anti-Masonic War in Cut a.—An Havana letter of tlie 4th instant, says: ‘•The anti-Masonic movements on the part of the Government still coiitbtucs.— On the 28th ult. tho rooms occupied by the Masonic; Lodge of Puerto Principe were visited by agents of the Government, but us the brothers had received information of the proposed visit long previously, no papers or documents were found, nnd al though it was a regular stated meeting night only four persons could bo found in the building. Male visitors in the houses around tlie lodge were very plentiful that evening. The four gentlemen found were taken into custody by tlie guardians of tlie public peace and morals, and liberated again after a confinement of three hours. Whitt the end of all this will be, nobody knows. The Government is alienating from itself the sympathies and good-will of a largo body of its most influential citi zens, and without tho least possible chance of gaining a friend, except among the Ig- noraut.” Woman’s Rianm—A dispatch from St Louts, of tho 14th, says: Mrs. Elizalietli Cady Stanton, of New York, who. with Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone, has been canvassing Kansas during the past summer for woman’s suf frage, spoke on that subject, to-niglit, in Mercantile Library Ilall, to a very largo audience, ncr address was very able, and presented the questions of woman’s rights and female suffrage in nearly all tnclr bearings, eliciting frequent nnd loud ap plause. A large portion of tho audience wire ladles, who sympathized heartily with the speaker, and showed very positive evidence of deep nnd growing interest in the question. The Female Suffrage Asso ciation will hold a meeting here to-mor- row^nn I a grand rally fovtne advancement of tills cause is announced for the 2Gtli Instant, at which George Francis Train will speak. tyTlie anual conference of tho Metho- ist Episcopal Church of Virginia Is in Mston in Petersburg, Bishop Doggett pre sides. This being the first conference In which laymen are admitted, a large dele gation are present. Walrussia ! from Mr. McCoook, the United States asiiini,ton, Nov. 14.—The following re- i Minister at Honolulu in the Northwest, ports have lieen made to the Secretary of — tho Navy: Tlie following letter has just been rc- Navai. Oiiskhvatorv, \ . ooiv«|gt tho Department: II. A. N Washington. Nov. 14.18G7.) , have tlie honor to submit tlie fol- I nvliminnry report of the inctebrfo ■ •!’ tfil- morning. The display of was the most brilliant scon in this since tli • great shower of1833. In ice with the request of Professor •wton. observations in tho north* * United States Leu tween the liotin rioN at Honolulu, Augusta 22,1807. Sin—From paragraphs in *hc few new: itipcrs which reach here. I am led to bc- levew climate and resources of the Rns- iian territory, recently purchased by tlie , tilted States are greatly misunderstood »y some of tin: press and people of tlie At- paradox wen* made be* luntio States. Many of the seamen wilt l 11 and 2 o’clock. Very frequent these islands, have made voyages iwever. till 1 o'clock.-*- tqjhocoast ami islumlsof Russian Amerl- Tho observations were made and the track ItHOtfr years past, and l transmit to you of tlie meteors drawn upon the map of'tfcHw limited information concerning Main. Llndoiiknh. Timhrock & Fitinan, a *thtt conn try us I have derived from them, partyofasfilstautsoftlie United State* Coa*-t trusting that it may prove acceptable, ana Survey, who volunteered their services. ho|f*’ Forty-six meteor tracks were mapped \yon_ „ down by the United States Coast Survey. 1 “Captain'Meek*, an old New England Observations In conjunction with Professor ♦ hi pinaster, and one of the most intelligent darkness, of the Observatory at Richmond- L? tills community, says that lie tra- for parullex was commenced shortly alter dc ■ *Jitli tlie natives of Russian America three o’clock, by the Observatory part} , for inure than twelve years. Dnrlng that consisting of Messrs. Newcomb Eastman, j time he passed t wo winters in Sitka,and saw Harrison, Doolittle and Gardiner. Arrange- very little snow on the coast near the harbor ments bad been made by the courtesy of tlie during either winter; in one—the winter manager of the American Telegraph Co., to of 1828—none at all. although tho uioiin- exchange telegraphic signals with Prof, tainssurrouudingthescttlcmentwerocov- IIarkues8,on the appearance of each meteor, ered. Rain fell through a great portion of ‘ ’ ’ each winter, ami heavy logs frequently prevailed. The winter temperature is not so low as at points on tlie Atlantic coast, from thirteen to fourteen degrees south of the same parallel: and altlu ’ no tliermometrtcal record wuo kept by lie believed the climate during these ter* to be warmer than the sea-coas Southern New York or Northern Virgin ia. in the vicinity of Sitka, line potatoes are raised, and all the oilier vegetables of tlie tan iterate zone. Barley is al reaby cul tivated, and a little wheat, and all tho oth er cereals could no doubt be cultivated to advantage. Kodiac is one. of tlie largest of tho islands, and the best for all purposes. The soil Is good, tho country less moun tainous, and the cod and other fisheries ex tensive. On tome parts of tnost qf those islands and ooasts, stock can be grazed for about nlno months in the year. During three or four mouths they wotfol have to bo housed and fed. Grass Is abundant in tho localities fitted for stock, and apparent ly rich and nutritious. The summers of the westerly islands are cooler than those of Kodiac or Sitka, on account of winds from tlie North, which sometimes blow witli much violence. The forests on tlie but through some derangement of tlie wires, communication could not tie established. One hundred and twenty-five meteor tracks were mapped down before 4:30 o’clock.— When the meteors flew so think that Iden tification of those seen from the two sta- stons here became hopeless and simple counting resorted to. one thousand mete ors were counted in tlie 21 minutes be tween 4:14 o'clock and 4:35 o’clock. Af terwards successive hundreds were count ed in the following intervals: 4 min.; 5 min. 30sec.; 5 inln. 35 see.; 5 mitt. 44 sec.; 0 min. 6 see.; 1) min. 37 sec.; 10 min. 31 sec.; 18 min. 20 sec. - The first thousand being partly counted while mapping was still going on, it is probable that one-half were not seen, so that It may be estimated that '1,000 really fell in the coarse of 21 minutes. The time of tlie maximum thick ness of the shower was 4h. 25 min. This is two hours later than given by the Euro pean observations of last year, showing a slight change in the position oftho stream. The radiant point was very well defined, lielng in right ascension, 10b. Ian., declina tion 22 deg. 30s. Next year the shower, If there lie any, will not begin until 10 a. Washington time. and. therefore, will lie -seen only in tlie Pacific Ocean. Many were remarka ble for their brilliancy and for a brilliant train, which usually vanished in a few se conds. but in one or two cases lasted se veral minutes. Signed. B. F. Sands, Cnnidr., Superintendent. Tiie Pittsburgh Explosion.—The Pitts burgh Commercial gives further particu* law of the dreadful explosion at the Fort Pitt Iron Works In that city, which re sulted in killing thirteen men and wound ing twenty-eight, The Commercial says: Tin* ruins were In such a confused mass that it is almost impossible to describe them. Tlie explosion had made such a complete wreck tiiat not one board on the building had been left standing. A por tion of the structure used in rolling iron, and located on the cast side, and about twenty feet from the forge department, was torn down by tlie ex|Kt>*don. Two large smoke stacks in this building were thrown down hy the (lying timbers, and failing on a shed near hy were beat very badly. In tlie largo department the ruins in some places had mussed very kjgh. None of the timber belonging to the building was blown any great distance, but principally fell In a confused mass together. Singular to say, all the chimneys in this building were left standing, although everything else belonging to the building was a com plete wreck. A number of pieces of the boilers nnd timbers were thrown a con siderable distance from the ground. As soon as tlie flames had been subdued suf ficiently to admit of tlie removal of the charred timber and Iron, efforts were made to take out the bodies from the ruins. Many of the spectators present assisted In the work, and succeeded in recovering about half a dozen of the some of which were so terribly burned us to be al most unrecognizable. A sad spcctnblc was presented to the eye of the spectator os he reached tlie scene of tlie disaster shortly after tlie explosion. As a laxly was extri cated from tlie ruins, women, little girls and boys would crowd around It to get a glimpse of the corpse, fearing to discern in it the features of some husband, father or brother, who had been employed in the mill and was missing. The agonizing tears of file women and childrcit as they recog nized in some mangled corpse the well known features of those nearest and dear est to them, was heartrending in the ex treme. and the bystanders could but look on and pity them. As tlie bodies were ex tricated from the ruins they were laid on uml near by or taken into the ud- S houses. The injured were re- Into tlie houses, where everything possible was done for them. As soon as the nature of tlie disaster had been ascer tained, a number of physicians from this city and viclnty repaired at once to the sconce and administered relief to the in jured. A great many of the bodies tnd Injured men were conveyed to their homes during tlie afternoon In wagons. Farbaout in Clover.—The editor of tlie Albany Knickerbocker, now in Europe, discloses tlie ffict that Admiral Farragut wot almost Smothered with kisses” by the ladies of the Court of the Queen of Sweden. Ills officers seem to have been less lucky, as their hair was only “treasured os souven Ira, and laid away In gold lockets by many of tlie most elegant louies of Stockholm.” The Pestiferous Peripatetic Still Marchino on.—Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 15.— Weston, after remaining here part of yes terday and last night, and visiting the theatre, left early this morning for bis walk West. By calculation here he has got to mako fifty and three quarters miles daily to get to Chicago in the next eleven days. Silver Creek, N. Y n Nov. 15.—Weston arrived here at 3 r. m. He remains here until 12 midnight, when he will start upon his one hundred miles trlnl trip. HP*The Chronicle and Sentinel says: Mr. Bancroft, of Athens, Georgia, has f licked this season from one anil tlirce- ourth acres of ground 4.200 |khiiu1s of cotton, and expects to get 800 ponmis more. Tlie reasons for this yield are one hundred pounds superphosphate, one hundred pounds Peruvian guano, and one hundred pounds of salt. main land are large, tlie trees of luxuriant growth, and capable of furnishing an al most inexhaustible supply of ship-timber. Tlie fact tiiat the coast and islands have many good harbors makes the timber ac cessible and consequently valuable in the ftiture. The country abounds in coal of a quality not known. The Captain has seen native copper, and there has always been a tradition utnong the traders that gold ex ists. although he has never seen any evi dence of tho fact. “Tlie natives are treacherous, warlike and acquainted with the use of arms. “For many years, one of the prli ^ articles of traffic with them has been small arms and ammunition; consequently, they are nearly all armed with guns. The fact that they are constantly at war among themselves, lias heretofore made them less troublesome to their civilized neighbors. The voyage from Honolulu to Sitka has been made in ten days, and in tho same line from San Francisco, under sail.— Judging from the imperfect description these men have given me, the country, taken altogether, is anything but the un inhabitable, desolate, frozen region many ncwspaiiers I have read represent It to be: on the contrary, it contains thousands of square miles of land as well adapted for cultivation nnd stock raising as many parts of the New England States. “Its fisheries are rich and extensive, and require only development to make them a large and profitable source of Rovenue. It possesses that inexhaustible supply of ship timber which we will need to build a navy and merchant marine on the Pacific, when the United States pursuing the policy you have so successfully inaugurated, wilihavc become masters of the great commerce of Chinaand the East. It will become the birth place and nursery of a iiardy and enter prising race of seamen, who will man our ships and make our commerce as supreme on the Paeilic coast as it once was on the Atlantic, and it will become to the Pacitie coast what New England was to the At lantic before her rare of adventurous and intrepid seamen had given place to genera tions of thrifty manufacturer*. I have the honor to be your obedient servant. Edwin M. Cook. “Hon. William 11. Seward, Secretary of State.” Railroad Meeting — Indianapolis, No vember 15*—On Thursday of last week, a meeting of the Superintendents of all rail roads centering in or miming through In dianapolis. will Ik* held here for the pur- |K>se of arranging the winter time-tables to suit each other. The Indiana ami Illinois Central Rail way running from this city to Decatur, has received a new impetus, and there is a probability of something being done to ward its completion. A responsible com pany is ready to take hold of it for the right of way nnd the donations already granted, provided 972,000 of stock held by W. II. Talbot Is bought. To effect this, De catur has voted 940.000. and the County Commissioners of Hendricks county yes terday appropriated 910,000, conditioned upon the completion of the line from In dianapolis to Danville within two yean. Citizens along the route arc moving active ly, and there seems to be no doubt tiiat the work will be speedily commenced. Charles K. Reddle, Master Mechanic of the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Rail road, hns been promoted to the Superin tendency of that road, vice J. D. Herkimer, appointed Superintendent of the Terre ifnute and Alton railroad. T. E. Frazee, formerly clerk In tho In dianapolis Post-office, has been appointed paymaster of tho Terre Haute anu Alton railroad. Narrow Escape of Senator Sumner.— non. diaries Sumner met with quite a se vere accident at Elkart, Ind* a few days ago, and had a narrow escape with his life. On stepping from tiie ears, not noticing they hud started and were under consider able headway, he was precipitated violent ly forward U|>on his head. Ills lint broke somewhat tlie force of tlie Bill, and perhaps saved his life. As ft was, he was rendered nearly unconscious, and badly bruhed about tlie face, shoulders, and other parts of the body! millions of tnnchlnes are made and used dally, or about nine to each of the populo George II* Pendleton* Tho following article, descriptive of tlie non. George It. Pendleton, is from tiie New York Tribune of the 8th: Tho Democrats of this section have little knowledge of their probable candidate for next President, nnd will thank us for mak ing him better known to them. HU namo Is George If. Pendleton, and ho lives at Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, Nathaniel G. Pendleton, was a scion of an eminent Vir ginia family, who migrated to Cincinnati some fifty years ago, practiced law and made a handsome fortune there, and was chosen to Congress as a Whig in 1840, beat- Ing the Ifon. Robert T. Lytle, his Demo cratic competitor, by ten majority, If our memory serves. (Hamilton county was strongly Democratic in thosodays, but was carried tiiat year for Gen. Harrison on tho Presidential vote which followed the Htato election aforesaid.) Nathaniel G. Pendleton was an excellent, though not a great man. Ills son George has rather more civilization, and perhaps more natural ability though far from being a genius. But he U a thorough gentleman In manner and address: and if. outside of his politics, he ever did an unjust or un worthy act, we never heard oflt. We think he will be the Democratic candidate for tho noxt President, for these reasons: The party Is now on its high horse, and not likely to stultify itself, as it did when it ran a General on a peace platform. It believes it may consult its wishes rather in choosing its standard-bearer, and is not likely to he undeceived beforo making its national nominations. Now. Mr. Pendle ton embodies its ideas and its purposes as thoroughly nnd palpably ns Mr. Clay ever did those of tho Whig party. A Wlilg by education, lie is a Democrat by conviction and by deliberate choice. Never desiring disunion, ho had early studied Calhoun anu becumc a convert to his views of State rights and Federal limitations, and he read the Constitution as giving the Federal au thority no power to coerce or constrain a State. And, detesting the national debt, he is now open in Ids advocacy of its prompt extinction by printing oft’ two thousand millions of fresh greenbacks, nnd giving every holder of that debt" the face of ids bonds in currency, thus stopping tho Interest of tlie debt at once, and justifying a reduction of all Federal imposts and tax es by one-half. Mr. Pendleton is likely to bo tlie candi date, because the South and West arc now a decided overmatch for the East, while the Democracy of tlie West is scarcely distin guishable iu type from tlie Conservatism of tlie South. We do not believe there is a Conservative in all tlie South who would object to Mr. Pendleton; if there be one such, lie must be very bigoted and ex clusive. There are many bogus professors of Democratic orthodoxy, but lie Is the genuine article. His version of tlie Bible evidently reads, “God made the white man in His own image;” his copy of the Declaration of Independence sets fortli that “ We hold these truths to be self-evi dent that all whito men arc created equal." There is a silver lining to most clouds. If the elections of 1807 had gone like those of I860, wo should probably have had some ambiguous, half-and-lialf, shuffling candi date for President to oppose In 1868; but tlie late results have cleared the atmos phere decidedly. A square, clean Issue between tlie two parties will now be made up: the Democracy will select a represen tative man; and for such it lias none bet ter in Its ranks than George II. Pendleton. Tux! Legality of tux Emancipation Amendment.—An important question has been referred to the Attorney General for decision, by the Secretary of State, touch ing the legality of the Emancipation Amendment to the Constitution. It ap pears that a Captain of a British vessel re cently brought into the port of Key West, Florida, three black tailors, whereupon the local authorities indicted him under the State laws, which prohibits tiie intro duction ;or emigration of freo negroes.— The;captain has appealed to Mr. Ford. Charite <TAffaires of Great Britain here, who has addressed a note to Secretary Seward on tlie subject. Pending the ac tion of the Attorney General, action against the English captain has !>ecn sus pended. Tlie Constitution provides that the mi gration or importation of such persons as tlie States think proper to admit shall not be prohibited prior to the year 1808. Tiiat is. the slave trade should not be prohibited before tiiat date. As is well known, as soon as that date arrived, Congress in strong and elaborate acts, which have re mained ever since iu force, prohibited the slave trade. The language of one of the principal of these acts is: “Shall import or bring any negro, mulatto, or other tier- son of color, not being a native, a citizen or registered seaman of the United States, or seamen, natives of countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope, into an.v port or place of the United States which shall tie situa ted in any State which by law Inis prohib ited, or shall prohibit the udmlssion or im portation of such negro, mulatto or other ixuson of color,” etc. In most of the States in tlie South./re« persons of color are pro- hlbtcd from coming, or being brought into the State. Of course, no person Is a “slave” in any legal sense, until after he has been brought Into the State and sold. The question now Is, whether tho aboli tion or slavery by amendment of the Constlutlon. anu the passage, too, of the us civil rights bill, do not repeal all laws now In force prohibiting what Is known as tho slave trade, by removing all restriction to free immigration. Fobtuxatb.—A few days since a cloth ing house in Troy, New York, received a consignment of goods from New York city, and the lot was offered for sale. Among the goods was a large number of vests, several of which had been sold, when a note was received from the Boston house of which the goods was purchased, saying that in the inside pocket of one or tlie vests was a roll of money amounting to 9200, which had been placed there by one of the Arm, who had worn the vest and had carelessly thrown it among fhe pile ship ped to Troy. A search among tho remain ing vests was at once instituted, and very fortunately the very Identical vest contain ing the money was found. It had doubt less lieen handled and rejected many times by buyers. _ A New Loan.—Secretary McCulloch Is of tho opinion that a new consolidated live percent, loan can be properly Issued at this time, and will recommend the same in ui* report to Congress. He hns had fre quent conferences with various members of the Finance Committees, all of whom have expressed themselves as favorable to the loan, it Is thought that Congress will authorize the same early in the coining session. Society ot the Army of the Tennee* see—Election off Officers. To tho Western Associated Frees.) St. Louis, November 14.—The members of tho Army of the Tennessee, at tlie busi ness meeting this afternoon, elected tho following officers for tho ensuing year: President, General Rawlins; Vico Presi dents, Generals Howard, G# A. Smith, Belknap, 31cArtbur, Fairchild and Caven- der; Recording Secretary, Colonel L. M. Dayton; Corresponding secretary, Gene ral Illckenlooper; Treasurer, General Corse. Chicago was selected as tlio next place of meeting. The commlttcoon tho McPherson monu ment reported over 93,000 on hand, which was left In the bauds of tlio commltteo for disposal. During the afternoon tho members of tho society were conveyed In carriages through tho city, and visited all places of note m tho suburbs. In tho evening about 200 officers and citi zens sat down to a magnificent banquet at the Southern Hotel, at which the following regular toasts were given: * The Government of the United States, the Array and Navy.’* Responded to by General Sherman. “The “Army of the Tbnnaasoo.” Re sponded to by Col.T. L. Dickey. “General Grant, tho first Commander of tho Army of tho Tennessee.” Response by Gen. Reed. “The honored dead of tho Army of tho Tennessee.” “March to the Sea.” Response by Gen. Howard. “Our comrades of all the armies of tho Union.” Gen. Belknap. •Tho commander of the Army of tho Tennessee.” Gen. Sclmrz. The Memory of McPherson.” Response by Gen. Strong. “The Volunteer Soldier.” Response by Gov. Fletcher. “The loyal men and women of tlio Union.” Response by Capt. Kllnk. ■Tlio future.of America.” Response by Col. Loomis. Our Invited guests.” Hon. Henry T. Blow. Telegrams were received from Generals Grant and Bawling, regretting their Ina bility to attend the meeting. The banquet was prolonged to a lato hour, amid mucii harmony and general good and hilarious feeling. miscellaneous* Tho receipts of customs from tlie 1st to the 0th instant was 93.366,390. Returns from Arkansas show that tlie State has given a majority for a Conven tion. A census of Washington and George town, for school purposes, shows the pop ulation of the former to be 100,000, and the latter 15,000. Mrs. Fuller, with three children, lias ar rived in Philadelphia, having walked all the way from Lynn, Massachusetts, in six weeks, a distance of three hundred miles, because Rhc was too poor to pay for a rail road passage to Norfolk, Virginia, where tlie jioor woman lias friends. A call lias been made for a Conservative meeting in Muscogee, to appoint delegates to the proposed “Conservative” State Con vention. The Mississippi Conference of tiie Meth odist Church lias been postponed by Bish op Paine, to December 11. Cluis. II. Gowcn has been appointed Spe cial Agent of the Post OfHcc Department of the State of Mississippi. His headquar ters are at Jackson. Capt. It. A. Davis, n nephew of Jefferson Davis, died at the residence of his mother in Vicksburg, on the 31st ult. His disease was yellow fever; ills age about 40. Tho Vicksburg Times says that a disease resembling blind staggers, is prevailing among the cattle In that city nnu Its vicin ity. The animals get sick, stagger about for a while, and then lie down and die. Forelrn Item*. Gen. Garibaldi, says a disputed dated November 8, will be tried in Florence. A subsequent dispatch, however, not only announces the postponement of the trial but declares that it is doubted that the Courts have jurisdiction In tlio east*. Ills sons have thus far escaped apprehension. The agitor’s friends aver tiiat at the battle near Monte Rotondo lie had only 4,000 men under his control. The jury in the of Castello, who was on trial in Dublin for alleged complicity in Fenianism, was unable to agree. Telegrams have been received in London stating tiiat a second tvphoon had occurred at Macao, in China. The damage to prop erty was Immense. Beyond this no details have been received. England, France and Austria have come to a common understanding as to the policy to be hereafter pursued by them iu their Eastern question. The Porte, iu reply to last Joint note of these Powers, declines to hearken to their proffered advice. A terrible explosion hns occurred in tiie Ferndale Colliery, In Glamorgnn county, Wales. At last accounts the mine was on fire. Of the three hundred miners it was feared that few would escape. Bread riots have broken out a new* in Devonshire. Mercantile circles arc much depressed In consequence of the news of the gaeat hur ricane at 8t. Thomas. At the Liverpool races on Nov. 8, Man drake won the Liverpool cup. A Word for Boys.— 1 Truth is one of tho rarest gems. Many a youth has been lost to society by allowing it to tarnish, and foolishly throwing it away. If this gem still shines in your bosom, suffer nothing to displace or dim its lustre. Promnity Is a mark of low breeding.— Show us the man who commands the best respect; un oath never trembles 6n Ills tongue. Rend the catalogue of crime. In quire the character of tliose who depart from virtue. Without a single exception, you will find them to be profane. Think of this, and not let a vile word disgrace you. Honesty, frankness, generousity, virtue —blessed traits! Be those yours, niv boys, and we shall not tenr. Yon will Malm the respect and love of all. Yon are watched *»y your elders. Men who are looking for forks ami apprentices, have their eyes on you. If roil are profane, vulgar, theatre- going, they will not choose you. If you are upright, steady and industrious, before long you will find good places, kind mas ters, and tlie prospect of a iiseflil life be fore you. t9* The Insane patients In the asylum at Lexington, Ky„ are to have a billiard table.