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THURSDAY MORNING 21
Church Squabble.—The extraordinary
scene In the Presbyterian Assembly, in
Philadelphia—the fraternization of the Low
Church Episcopalians with tho members of
that body—Is creating a tremendous breeze
among the High Church Episcopalians in
New York, who say that something must
bo done to counteract tho demoralizing In
fluence upon the Church of such proceed
ings. They will stand it no longer.
CJTThe new Democratic Councils of
Baltimore Imre refased to have their ses
sions opened with prayer, old bold mem
ber asserting that “preachers had done
more harm than good, and had caused the
late rebellion by their praying influence.”
That is complimenting the reverends with
a vengeance.
HTThc Tribune's Washington special,
writing on the 19th, says: “Thaddeus
Stevens informed gentlemen who called on
him to-day, that he feels stronger at pres
ent than he has felt at any time during the
last live years, lie also stated that he is in
receipt of letters from all parts of the
country indorsing tho financial views put
forth in his recent letter.”
Fire.—The Macon Telegraph states that
the gin house on the farm of Dr. A. J. Sim
mons & IJro M in Crawford county, was set
on lire Tuesday morning, just before day.
We regret to hear of this serious loss to
those gentlemen. The gin house is sup
posed to have had fifty bales of cottou in it.
all consumed.
The New York Times’ Washington
special says: Thu muster out of Major
General Sickles leaves him with his lineal
rank of Colonel of the 11th United States
Infantry, veteran reserve corps, and Jfre-
vet Major General. His regiment is sta
tioned in this city, and if he should be as
signed to duty according to ids Brevet
rank, he would be in very close proximity
to his Excellency.
Railroad Items*
We learn from tho Opelika Recorder,
that at a meeting of the new Railroad Di
rection of the Savannah and Memphis
Railroad upon its organization tiie follow
ing ofllccrs were elected for the present
year:
1. J. R. Slaughter. President.
2. Col. C. B. Darkle, Chief Engineer.
Mr. Hanson Estes, of Columbus. Ga
was elected a Director of the Company In
place of Geo. P. Swift, declined, and Sam
uel G. Jones, of Lee county, in place of W.
•Warren, of Tuscumbla, declined.
JL J. C. W. Rogers, Secretary.
-John M. Kennedy, of Lee, waa appoint
ed by the Board, agent, to solicit subscrip
tions of stock to the Company.
The county ot Fluvanna has. by a vote
of eight to one (33S to 10,) directed
a subscription of$30,000 to he made to the
stork of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
Alleghany voted on the 18th inst„ and it is
not doubted will vote the same way.—
Goochland votes on the 2(5tli.
On Tuesday, at Lynchburg, Va„ all the
Railroads on the lino from Bristol, Tenn
to Norfolk, Vu« were consolidated under
one management. Gen. Wm.Mahonc, late
of C. 8. A n was elected President.
A passenger train on tiie Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad ran into tiie rear end
of a freight train at Anderson switch Frl-
■npreme Court mi Georgia*
non. C. W. Dubose, Clerk of the Su
preme Court of Georgia, gives notice that
the following is tho order in which the
Circuits will bo called at the December
term of the present year:
If Pataula Circuit: Campbell—1 •
Stewart—a 0. Coweta Circuit:
Terrel—8 Fulton—13
Randolph—0 Merrl wether—2
Clay—1 Troup—3
Webster—1 DeKalb—1
2. South W. Circuit :1Q. Flint Circuit i
Calhoun—1 Newton—2
Deartur—1 Spaulding—1
Dougherty—6 Munroe—1
” ’ * • 11. Northern Circuit
Elbert—3
Lincoln—1
Taliaferro—1
Oglethorpe—2
. Hancock—2
Washington—1 12. Western Circuit:
City of Augusta-1 Gwinnett—1
Eastern Circuit: 13. Chattahoochee C.
Baker-1
Sumter—4
Lee—4
3. Middle Circuit:
Richmond—7
Burke—1
Chatham—8
5. Southern Circuit:
Pulaski—1
Cherokee Circuit:
Cnfoosa—1
Murray—1
Whitfield- ~
Schley—5
Marion—2
Talbot—2
Muscogee—8
Harris—1
Chattahoochee—1
Taylor—1
7. JIluc JUdge Circuit:14. Macon Circuit:
Lumpkin—1 Iilbl»—2
Pickens—1 Crawford—2
Gilmer—2 Poole) — 1
Forsyth—1 Macon—1
8. Tallapoosa Circuti:lo. Ocmulgee Circuit:
Polk—I Morgan—1
Floyd—8
Bills jof Exception, by 33rd rule of the
Court, must distinctly specify the points of
error upon which Counsel expects to rely.
The 14th rule requires the plantlfT In error
to furnish each of tho Judges and tiie Re
porter with a copy of the Bills of Excep
tions, and a note of the points or questions
to be made, before the cause Is heard.—
These rides will be strictly enforced.
A Big Murindle Developed.
Tiie following report upon the condition
of tiie “Bank of Tennessee” was submitted
to the Legislature and referred to the Com
mittee on Banks:
State of the Jlank of Tennessee. October hi.,
1867.
Domestic bills
Discounted notes
Notes ami bills in
suit
State bonds
Bills receivable
Notes discount*
id South $43
Bills andch’cks
for loans made
South S
State Treasurer
State Military Board
Due from other Banks
Cash on JIand, viz:
Bank of Tenn.
notes
Bank of Tenn.
Torbett issue
Bank of Tenn.
notes
Southern bunk
notes
Currency
MEANS.
$092,801 44
783,297 CC
330,514 21
100,000 00
133.011 37 $2,192,32:
804,400 00
80,214 00
13,103 00
403.187
125.822 13
180,710 72
Balance
1,011,101 82
5,005,759 91
day evening, throwing tiie baggage car oft’
the track. No one was hurt, nor any ma
terial damage done,
At a meeting of tiie Northern Michigan
Railroad Company held In Detriot on the
18th, the following gentlemen were elected
directors of tiie company: Hon. Krastus
Corning, Albany, N. V.; Gen. H. II. Bax
ter, Rutlnnd, Vt.jThos. Swinyanl Hamil
ton, Ontario; Nathanial llaycr. Boston;
Henry81 veils, X. Y.; E. B. Ward, Detroit:
Henry 11. Cross, Flint, Midi.; Hon. Roswell
Hart, Rochester; Orlandcr M. Barnes,
Xausou, Midi
A freight train on the Buffalo and Eric
Railroad, laden with crude oil, from
Brockton for Buffalo, took lire near Irving,
on the 18th, destroying twenty-one cars
and a bridge over Mud Creek.
Tiie United States Senate.—The term
of twenty-one United States Senator! will
expire on the 4th of March, 1809, of whom
fourteen are Republicans and seven Dem*
ocrats; but it Is scarcely possible, says the
Baltimore Snn, for the Democrats to break
the two-thirds power of the Republicans
in that body during the existence of the
Forty-first Congress. They have, howev
er, gained ono in Ohio and another in Cal
ifornio, but have lost one in Tennessee,
Governor Brownlow having been elected
over Mr. Patterson. The Ohio and Cali-
Tornla Senators have not yet been chosen.
QT’Tlie New Orleans Crescent gives no
tice of n “Workingmen’s Convention,” to
meet in New Orleans on tho 15th of next
month, and to contain delegates from
Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas,
and Arkansas. The Crescent says: “The
members of tills association are nil respec
table colored men, raised in tiie South,
and of no mean claims to intelligence and
Information. It Is thdr earnest desire to
withdraw tiie attention of their brethren
from tho mad pursuit of ollicc und politics
to tho more reasonable, useful, and profita
ble occupation of agricultural labor.”
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock $3,079,008 33
Individual depositors 119.773 40
Due other Banks as
per bank books 83.704.03
School fund bonds 14.082,50
School land districts 387,154,30
Certificates of deposits 32,750,70
Collections 1,400,00
Sinking of contingent fund 85,715,01
Circulation, viz:
Tenn. Bank notes,
old Issue $3,029,100 00
Tenn. Bank notes,
Torbett issue 1,081,300 00
Tenn. Bank notes,
frae’ul currency 100.138 00 1.810.791 CO
*10,221,109 53
In this statement the $440,719 10 in gold
which was converted into United States
7-30 bonds, is not reported a* a--K- or
means of tiie Bank, because it ha* never
come into the hands of the present Board
of Directors or Trustees of tiie Bank, but is
claimed by the State as part of tiie school
fUnd, Nor are tiie Confederate notes
bonds, and Tennessee War bonds in our
hands, amounting in nil to $8,052,081 »0.
embraced among the reported means of
tiie Bank, as tliey are believed to l>e wholly
without value.
Thu item of “Notes and Bills in .Suit”
are notes and bills upon which suits were
commenced prior to the return of nssets of
the Bank to tiie present Board of Directors.
It is ascertained that a very small amount
of tho same will be collected.
The item of $189,770 72 reported to be
due from banks and agents is tiie amount
u it stands on the old liooks of the Bank.
Correspondence and settlements made with
these banks and agents show tlint a very
small amount, not exceeding $30,000, Is due
from them, and of this amount upwards of
$27,000 Is In dispute and suit.
Tho Item of Heal Estate reported to be
•155,041 67 Is tiie nominal value of the real
estate as it stands on the former books of
the Bank. A portion of tiie real estate has
been sold, and the remainder will be offered
for sale as soon as the situation of tho
country where it lies will Justify us In of
fering It.
The Item of Notes, Bills and Checks dis
counted South, amounting to $539,050, are
loans made by John A. Fisher, a large por
tion of which are made payable In Confed
erate money, and probably of little value.
From our report of the State of the
Bank, it w ill be seen that we have on hand
$804,400 or old Issues of the Bank. This Is
about the amount collected since we have
had charge of the Bank. Deducting this
amount from $3,029,100, the amount ap
pearing from the books of the Bank to
nave been Issued prior to Gth of May, 1801,
will leave $2,804,010, which Is the amount
of the old Issue outstanding.
There Is a possibility that this large
amount of the old issue ($804,466) now on
hand might be abstracted and put Into cir
culation again. The keeping of It Imposes
a heavy responsibility upon the Trustee,
and he respectfully asks that authority
should bo given to burn tho same from
time to time, an accurate record being
kept of the amount and denominate i ol
the notes burned. H. Watson,
Trustee of the Bank of Tennessee.
Tiie General Assembly of the South-
kiin 1’jtEsuYTKRiAN CuuKCM.—This large
and Influential body, composed of Commis
sioner* from all the Presbyteries of the
South, will meet In the city of Nashville
to-day.
Headquarters, Third Military Du*t,)
(Georgia. Alabama, and Florida.) >
Atlanta, Oa., Nov. 19,1867. )
General Orders, No. 89.
Whearas, By General Orders No. 69, from
these Headquarters, dated September 18,
1807, an Election was ordered to be held In
the State of Georgia, on the Twenty-ninth,
Thirtieth and Thirty-first days of October,
1807, and by General Orders No. 83, said
election was continued on the First and Se
cond days of November. 1807, at which
Electiou, In pursuance of an Act of Con
gress, entitled “An Act to provide for the
more efficient government of tho rebel
States,” und the Acts Supplementary there
to, the registered voters of said State might
vote “fo; a Convention,” or “against a Con
vention,” and for delegates to constitute
the Convention in case a majority of tiie
votes given on that question should be for
a Convention, and in cose a majority of all
the registered voters should have voted oil
the question of a Convention.
And Whereas, At an election held in pur
suance of said orders, and in confer mlty to
said Acts, there were polled on the ques
tion of a Convention votes to the number
of One Hundred and Six Thousand Four
Hundred and Tun, (100,119.) being more
than onu-haif of One Hundred uml Kiglity-
Eigiit. Thousand Six Hundred ami Forty-
Seven. (188.017.) the whole number of reg
istered voter* »id statu; and of the
whole nuinb« '<>* polled on the ques
tion of a < One Hundred and
Two Thou*. . i mi red and Eighty-
Three, (102.. a majority of the
same, were < invention.
And Where.. id Election the fol
lowing,'nan,.'d p« owns were elected as Dele
gates to said Convention from the resis
tive Election Districts in which they were
so chosen:
From the First Election District—C. II.
nonkins, James Stewart. A. A- Bradley,
Walter L. Clift, Isaac Seeley, W. 11. D.
Reynolds, M. H. Bentley, A. L. Harris.
From the Second Election District—T.
G. Campbell. William A. Goulding.
From the Third Election District—A. M.
Moore.
From tiie Fourth Election Dlsti ict—F.
M. Smith.
From the Fifth Election District—P. B.
Bedford.
From tiie Sixth Election District—Levi
J. Knight, Lewis II. Roberts.
From thu Seventh Election District—M.
C. Smith, W. C. Carson. J. L. Cutler.
From the Eighth Election District—R.
U. Whlteley. B F. Powell. John liigden.
From the Ninth Election District—II. H.
Christian, William W. Dews. Charles C.
Martin.
From the Tenth Election DUtrict—John
Murphy. F. <». Welch, Philip Joiner,
Benjamin Sikes.
From the Eleventh Election District—
W. H. Noble. J. A. Jackson. Rottert Alex
ander, John Whitaker.
Form the Twelfth Election District—J.
E. Blount. Thomas Crayton, c. W.
Chatters.
From the Thirteenth Election District—
II. Iv. McCov. J. K. Hall, F. Snead. Robert
Lumpkin. Jesse Dinkins.
From the Fourteenth Election District—
S. K. Salter. J. W. Trawiek. Simeon Stan
ley. J. 31. Buchan.
From tiie Fifteenth Election District—A.
J. Cameron.
From tiie Sixteenth Election District—
George Linder. E. W. Lane.
From the Seventeenth Election District
—J. A. Madden, J. M. Rice. Robert White-
head, 31. Claiborne. II. if. GHsson.
From the Eighteenth Election District—
R. B. Hulloek. Benjamin Conley. Foster
Blodgett. J. K. Bryant. S. W. Bcaird. Alex
ander Stone. John Neal.
From the Nineteenth Election District—
I). P. Baldwin. Joseph Adkins. Robert
Crumbley. John W. T. Cateliings. Henry
Strickland.
From the Twentieth Kin lion Distrht-
C. 11. Prince, George Wallace. C. C. Rich
ardson. Daniel Palmer. W. 11. Harrison
W. C. Supple.
From tiie Twenty-first Election District
—Samuel (love, william Griflln, Charles
Hooks. Ti.os. Gibson.
From the Twenty-second Election Dis
trict—G. G. Wilbur. M. A. Potts. F. Woot
en. A. Dowdoin. T. J. Speer. W. J. Howe.
M. Cooper. II. M. Turner.
From tlieTwentv-thlrd Election Dhtrb t i
—Posey Maddox. if. 11- Wnlion.S. A. Co!.:..
framed the hi id Constitution be submitted
for rati Heat ion to the registered voters of
said state us further required by law.
John Poke,
Brevet 3Iajor General Commanding.
Official: W. M. Dunn, Jr., Cant. 21st U. S
Inf’rty, B v’t Maj. U.8. A., Alue-de-Camp.
iBilerestiug It Exrcstan and Trw*
fees.
The following letter has been addressed
by the Internal Revenue Commissioner,
Hollins. to Assessor Frazier, of the First
District of Pennsylvania:
Trkasury Department.)
Office ok Internal Revenue, J
Washington, November 9,1807. >
Sir: The small amount of succession
ami legacy taxes received from your dis
trict, makes it necessary to bring the mat
ter to your special notice.
The press of work in making the annual
assessment having passed, immediate and
special attention should be given to the
assessment, of these taxes.
Von will urge your assistant assessors to
greater vigilance, and will Instruct them to
call upon clerks, registers and other officers
having tiie custody of probate records, ami
iijmjij officers having the charge of the reg
isters of deaths within their respective dis
tricts, and examine such records to ascer
tain the liability of legatees, distributees
and successors interested in tiie estates of
persons deceased. They should also exam
ine records of deeds to learn if any real
c«tato has been conveyed without valuable
and adequato consideration.
If an assistant assessor has been especial
ly designated for assessing succession and
legaey taxes In your District, or in an;
particular portion thereof, (Act of Afarcl.
2d. 1807, section 0, page 5, of compilation),
you will instruct those not so designated
to report to him all matters which may
comu to their knowledge relative to any
assessment to be made bv him, and where
there has been no such designations, to
proceed at once to make thu assessment
themselves.
A copy of Form 90 should be delivered
or sent to all persons liable to either suc
cessive or legaey tuxes. You will,of course,
understand that the limitation of fifteen
mouths for rc-asscssmeut does not apply to
the ease of a succession or legaey of which
no return has ever been made but that the
tux may be assessed at any time while
tiie lieu subsists.
Pains should be taken to acquaint execu
tor!. administrators, trustees, Ac., of their
jHTsonal liability for legaey taxes, and
that it Is not only their legal duty lmt for
their own private interest ami protection,
to pay legacy taxes, and the success lot
taxes under the section 138, upon eaeli sum
before it is paid over to the legatee, dis
tributee, or successor
All persons, so far as may be, should he
Informed that a succession tax is a first
charge on tho interest of the successor, and
of ail persons claiming in his right, in all
the real estate in respect whereof such du
ty is assessed, and that such estate is liable
to seizure and sale, even in the hands of a
bona fide purchaser.
It is believed that the difficulty of mak
ing salu of real estate known to be thus 11
able, will do much toward securing for the
government large amounts which are now
lost by reason of the ignorance of tiie peo
ple upon this point, and the neglect or the
assistant assessors.
[Signed] E. A. Rollins,
Commissioner.
John II. 1’hazif.r, Assessor First District
Georgia Gold Minks, and the Daiilon-
koa Mint.—Forney’s Washington Chronl-
•le has the following in reference to the
Lewis and Sprague Gold 3Hlies, situated in
iVhlte, and the United .States Branch Mint,
limited at tills place:
•• We were yesterday shown three large
ingots of gold, valued at $ 1,500, the product
of one week’s work, at the cost of $1,100,
from the Lewis gold mine, of the State of
Georgia. The company owning this mine
has been organized one year, and much of
their .stock has been owned in Washington.
We congratulate the holders of stock on
the brilliant prospect before them; we un-
der-taud there is none of tiie stock of this
company for sale, but a new company
called >pr:tguc. has purchased binds mf-
Joining the Lewis, which is equal in rich-
ness to that, and are making exu-usive nr-
tlon.
J. II. Anderson, Win. i\ Edward-. .... .- ,,
From tlw Tuvntj-fmirtli El.vimi, | .l"-.urW u! aiilil w ..
trlct—U. W. .\*!il>uni.M ini. TI :i< jo-ar Urn (.uM-rmiH-n: »
(Jilh'.Tt, Van M-»v. '■""'■ii '■ihloimira.wlu. il win sinpni<h-..
! ilurii!!! I ho war, but onl.rs Imvu Imcn
:iv given for its re-o|>euing.
the Twenty-filth Election Di-tr
—William Guilford. I*. J. Uostin. L. !..
Stanford, Samuel William* K. J. Higbce.
From tin* Twenty-sixth Election Dis
trict—W. II. Whitehead, W. 11. ltozar. S.
T. W. Minor.
From the Twenty-seventh Election Dis
trict—John Harris, J. W.* Christian, X. 1*.
Hotchkiss, U. D. Davis, James (’. Parton.
From the Twenty-eighth Election Dis
trict—11. S. Glover. William F. Jordan. J.
It. Hudson. T. P. Saffold, A. G. Foster.
From the Twenty-ninth Election Dis
trict—I). G. Cottlng. Lewis Pope. Josiali
Sherman. James Knox. Romulus Moore.
From tiie Thirtieth Election District—A.
T. Akcrman, J. McWhorter, K. S. Cobb. J.
Bell.
From the Thirty-first Election District—
S. W. Crawford, 1'hUlp Martin, W. F.
Bower*.
From the Thirty-second Election Dis
trict—Milton Moore, J. A. Woody.
From tiie Thirty-third Election District
—Madison Bell, Win. L. Murlcr, Benjamin
Dtinnignn.
From the Thirty-fourth Election District
J. Mathews, B. I). Shumate, S. E. Dailey,
Shadrick Brown, J. R. Brace well.
From tiie Thirty-fifth Election District
II. V. M. Miller, James L. Dunning, N,
L. Angler. J. II. Flynn, W. C. Lee, II. G.
Cole, David Irvin.
From tho Thirty-sixth Election District,
J.W. Key, P.W. Chambers, J. S. Bigby.
W.C. Smith, J. C. Bowden.
From;tlie Thirty-seventh Election Dis
trict—John II. Caldwell. Robert Robertson.
Geo. Harlan, A. II. llarrtsson. K. B. Martin.
From the Thirty-eighth Election Dis
trict—T. J. Foster, J. D. Waddell, It. B.
Hutcherson.
From the Thirty-ninth Election District
—J. G. Lott, 8. T. Houston, A, W, Hol
combe.
From tho Fortieth Election District—W.
T. Crane, John Bryson.
From the Forty-first Election District—
C. A. Ellington, Wllkey McIIan.
From the Forty-second Election District
—Wesley Shropshire, J. It. Parrott, W. L.
Goodwin, George B. Burnett, William A.
Fort.
From the Forfar-third Election District,
L. X. Trammelf, John 11. King, 8. E.
Fields.
From the Forty-fourth Election District
—Presley Yates, John M. shields.
ft is ordered: That tiie persons above
named do meet in Convention, at Atlan
ta, ticorgia, Monday, the Ninth day of JJe-
ertnber, 1807, and proceed to frame a Con
stitution and Civil Government for tho
State of Georgia, according to the provi
sions of the Acts abovo referred to. und
that when the same shall have been >o
doubt
tiie project of gold mining iu Georgia un
der tli< : energetic and enterprising men
who have taken hold of the work. Before
the war the mines were worked by privute
owners, with the most primitive and crude
means, and fortunes were made; the war
reduced them to dependency, and they
have inrun obliged to dispose of their lands.
Witli the improvements given, the South,
under the new management, will rival her
sister States on the Pacific slope. Intelli
gent miners who have investigated tho lo
cality. pronounce the gold regions of Geor
gia superior to Cal fo ml a—Dahlonega Sig
nal.
Tkiiriiii.k Accident—Four Children
Jlurned to Death*—The Summerville Fal
con of tho 14th says that on Thursday last,
about four o’clock, u negro cabin on tiie
place of Mrs. Ward, near Macon, In that
county, was destroyed by tire, and four
children perished In the flames.
The cabin was under a hill, and could
not bo seen from tiie dwelling house. The
mother of the children hud put them to sleep
and gone out for tiie purjiose of milking,
and when slio returned, on opening the,
door, found thu inside of tho cabin so com
pletely enveloped in flames that she could
not cuter, and nothing could lie done to
rescue the unfortunate children from the
devouring flames.
The same paper says that tho gin and gin
house on Wliiburn place, about one mile
from the town, was destroyed by lire on
Tuesday morning, the 5th Inst., about 10
o’clock, together with about seventeen
bales of cotton. The place is under the
control of Mr.J. M. Gilliam, who is the
heaviest loser by the tire, eleven of the sev
enteen bales of cotton belonging to him.—
The house was tired by a negro boy about
fourteen years of age, Jim Phillips, who
though young in years, is, from all ac
counts, old In rascality.
A Challenge Bkktwkf.n tiirExolihii
Champions to Fight in this Country—
Also Oxk from the Irish Giant to Mc-
Coolb.—O’Baldwin, the Irish Giant, has
clmllegcd Jim 3Iacc to tight him in tills
country for $5,000. Muee Is shortly ex
pected here, hut It Is not known If he will
accept O'Buldwin's challenge. Mace Is un
der bonds not to tight in England for one
year. O’Baldwin has also forwarded a
challenge to 3Ilkc McCoolo to light in Eng
land or America for $3,000. It is thought
that Jim Elliot will give the Irish Giant a
call should they fight here. There will be
given quite an ovation to tiie big hoy on:
his arrival.
TELE6BAPII1C INTELLIGENCE
From the New York Press Association.
Washington Items.
Washington, Nov. 20.—Col. Wise will
be a prominent candidate for Revenue
Commissioner.
Collector Smith, of the Eight District
New York, has been suspended for com*
pllcity In the whisky frauds.
Gov. Ward, Chairman of tiie National
Republican Committee, wrote a letter to
the Soldiers lUnlon endorsing Gen. Grant
for the Presidency.
Death of Fits Green Ilallec.k
Fitz Green Halleck is dead.
Htemmer Hunk•
Moiiile, Nov. 20.—The steamer Ocean
Wavfe ran upon obstructions in lower Bay
and was sunk. No lives were lost.
Gone to the Toombs.
New York, Nov. 20.—Mr.31cliityre, one
of the Democratic candidates of the Demo
cratic Union Convention fired a revolver
into a crowd. He was arrested and taken
to the Toombs.
Democratic .Nomination.
Thu Democratic nomination for May
is John Am lion.
Arrival of the Arizona.
Thu Arrizoim has arrived from Panama
with $150,000 in treasure.
Chrlotlan* Katun Uy t'anibun.
Thu Austriuu canlbals Imd uutcii 8. Ba
ker, a Wesleyan 31iasionary, and six native
Christians,
Ship Wrecked.
TRe American ship Asia, has been wreck
ed near Cape Horn.
Itevoltsln Peru.
Revolts continue In Peru.
Pacific Squadron llecalled.
Tiie Spanish Government has recalled
tiie Admiral and a greater portion of the
Pacific squudron.
North Carolina Election.
Wilmington, Nov. 20.—Tiie election Is
closed. No disturbances, and not an arrest
made during the two days.
Napoleon** .Speech.
London, Nov. 20.—Tiie London Times
of yesterday praises Napolcan’s sjs*ecli as
the most liberal, peaceful and scnsiblo of
the second Empire.
EonwervutIre County Meeting*.
Augusta, Nov. 20.—County Conserva
tive meetings arc being called to elect del
egates to a Conservative Convention which
meets at Maeon on the 5tli of December.
South Caroll nn Elections.
Charleston, Nov.20.—Tho election to-
dav was perfectly quiet, and tho voting
confined to the negroes. Accounts from
the Intel lor Districts represent tho whites
as every where declining to partiepate in
tiie elections.
The State appropriation bill will shortly
be issued by Gen. Cnnby. It provides lib
erally for Judiciary, Penitentiary and oth
er public Institutions. The State tax bill
will appear at the same time.
The ship Golcondn sailed to-day for
Monrovia with 320 negro imlngrants on
board.
Mourner Burnt.
3IOMI.K, Nov. 20.—Later accounts of tiie
steamer Onward reporteluven persons burnt
—Mr. Conklin, of New Orleans,nnd ten ne
groes. The cotton lost was valued at fifty
thousand dollars, fully insured; the boat
was valued nt twenty thousand dollars, no
insurance.
From Richmond.
Richmond, Nov. 20.—The colored Con
servatives of Richmond have called a
meeting for to-morrow night for the pur
pose of expressing their abhorrence of
such firebrands ami incendiaries as Liml
ay and others.
Seven distilleries around Richmond have
losed operations, the owners not finding
them profitable.
Reports to tho Military Commissioner
how that one hundred colored men in this
Uy were discharged from employment for
oting the Radical ticket, and two hundred
acre reported us being discharged for the
amu uau*e. Thu employers say they
had no work for them. Many colored men
reported who hud been discharged before
the election.
A prize fight came off to-day at Peters
burg, near Crater, between Rigby and 31c-
Dunn, in which the latter whipped tho
former tho fifth round. A company of
troops reached the spot while tiie crowd
was dispersing, and arrested the principals
and four citizens.
Nicw Orlkans, Nov. 20.—A incctiug of
Council was held last night for the purpose
of stamping city issues of the denomina
tion of tens and twentys—the notes to bear
interest at 7 per cent, for three years from
date. The stamping and cutting of five dol
lar bills was In process.
military Order.
The following important order has been
Issued by Gen. Mower:
IPd Q’hs, 5th Military District. )
Nkw Orlkans, La., Nov. 20, 1807.}
Sjiecial Order, No. 191—Extract:—
The present Incumbents being impedi
ments to reconstruction under laws of Con
gress, the following removals and appoint
ments of civil officers In Louisiana are here
by ordered:
Paul E. Thcord, Judge of 4th Dist. Court,
Parish of Orleans, Is removed, and J. II.
Boyd appointed In his place. Richard C.
Bond, Clerk of tho 4th District Court, Pa
rish of Orleans, is removed, and William L.
Randall appointed in his place. Wm.
Woelber, Clerk of 0th District Court, Pa
rish of Orleans, Is removed, and II. C. Caul-
kins appointed In his place. Paul W. Col
lins, 3d Justice of the Gth Parish of Orleans,
Is removed, and Eugene Stars appointed in
his place. D. C. Bycrley, Clerk of 3d Dlst.
Court, Parish of Orleans, Is removed, and
John Cartes appointed In Ills place. Tlios.
Iskcvv, State Tax Collector, 1st District, Is
removed, and John L. Davis appointed In
his place. By command of Brevet Major
General Joseph A. Mower.
Nathaniel Burdank,
Act’g. Ass’t. Adj’t. Gen’l.
Louisiana C'ouvunllou.
Homo forty members of the Convention
which commences Its session Saturday, met
yesterday In caucus. The hope was ex
pressed that the Constitution would be
framed and the Convention complete its
work by the Ut ot January. It was also
thought that the best plan to he adopted
would tie to elect Stutc officers when the
Constitution Is submitted to the people, and
in that event it would be practicabl to In-
Brcv’t. Maj. Gen. JOS. A. MOWER,
augurate a new State Government first of
February.
From Washington.
Washington, Nov. 20.—The Judiciary
Committee has im|Kixud upon Itself abso
lute seeresy regarding evidence and re
ports. They will probably report Monday.
There are s*x cases of suspension from of
fice in *he Treasury Department, which
require report ot‘ cause to the Senate.
The Southern Railroad Committee lias
summoned, farther witnesses.
Nothing definite regarding Davis* trial.
Revenue $255,000.
General Stevens, formerly a Confedeate
officer, lately superintendent of the Vera
Cruzo railroad is reported dead.
Dissident Lincoln’s Estate.— The
statement published in tiie Republican of
yesterday concerning the settlement of the
estate or the into President Lincoln, de
rived from official sources (thu County
Court of Sangumon county,) will settle fi
nally and forever all questions in refer
ence to the pecuniary condition in which
Mr. Lincoln left his family, and. in view of
tiie recent discussion of this subject
through the public press, will be of e?i>c-
clal interest. Tiie total value of the es
tate Is $110,295.91, of which $36,705.30 (one
third) goes to Mrs. Lincoln. This amount
is diminished by the trifling sum of $38.31
for debts.
It will be remembered, however, that the
amount allotted to Mrs. Lincoln from the
estate does not include $25,000 voted to her
by Congress after her husband's death, nor
the contributions received from other
sources, of which $10,000 came from u sin
gle individual—Hon. 31arshall O. Roberts,
of New York. These would increase the
right, to at
’ the goods
to Mrs. Lincoln, In her
least *70,000, to say nothing of i
ami otlier personal property, valued at
$24,000. which have been offered for sale in
New York. In addition to this, it should
be remembered that 31 rs. Lincoln's two
sons, though not as amply provided for as
herself, arc yet not dependent upon her for
the means of support, but possess a suffi
ciency in their own right.—Chicago l!ep.
Financial.—During the week, ending
to-day. there has ueen received at the Trea
sury Department from tiie Printing Divis
ion, $451,000 in fractional currency. Dur
ing the same }>uriod the amount forwarded
was as follows: To U. 8. Depository at
Pittsburg, $40,000; to the Assistant Treas
urer at New York, $100,000; nt Boston.
$100,000; at St. Louis. $75,000; to Nation
al Banks, $01,884.06. Total, 401.884.00.
The securities held by the Treasurer of
the United States in trust for National
Banks, reported to-day, were: For circu
lating notes, $340.G82,750; for deposits of
public moneys, $38,030,450. Total, $378,-
713,200.
The amount of National Bunk currency
issued during tiie week was $118,580,
making the total nmount issued up to
date, $:I04.5S0.531. From tills should be de
ducted tiie currency returned, including
worn out notes, amounting to $5,133.02.),
leaving in actual circulation at this date,
$299,353,526.
The amount of fractional currency re
deemed and destroyed at tiie Treasury De
partment during the week was $407,600.
The receipts from internal revenue to
day were$280,778.79, making a total amount
for tiie week ending to-day $2,050,046.62.
and the total since the beginning of tiie
present fiscal year $79,892,547.51.— Wash
ington Star.
Complimentary.—Tiie Washington cor
respondent of tho Baltimore Gazette, tell-
the following story. Wade and Grant niu.-t
both belong to that church of which Old
Abe judged the man who swore so, to be a
member.
The other day, during a lull in a session
of the Cabinet, the Postmaster General
twitted Gen. Grant with Ben. Wade’s rom-
nlaint of ids reticence—that he could get
him to talk of nothing lmt horses. The
General replied to Randall that he usually
talked of matters that he understood: ad
ding—“And 1 know more about horses
than Wade docs about polities,—for he has
shown himself in tiiat way to be the d—d-
est fool in America.”
Shipments of Army Stores.—A large
number of wagons, sets of harness, horse
shoes, &c n are now being distributed
throughout tho West from Lincoln Depot,
in this city, and for tho past month or two
large shipments havo been made by way
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to
Parkersburg, where the freight Is trans
ferred to steamers. A large quantity of
harness, horse-shoes, de n has been shipped
to New Orleans; over COO wagons nave
been supplied to Jefferson Barracks, Mo.;
and a lurge shipment of wagons to Fort
Leavenworth was commenced yesterday,
when 108 were placed on a railroad train
for tho West.—Washington Star.
United States District Court for
Southern District of Georgia—District
Court—Hon. John Ersktne, Judae 1*residing.
November 18, 1807.—Tho petit Jury was
called and discharged until twelve o’clock
to-morrow.
On motion of Colonel Fitch, tho District
Attorney of tho United States, the United
States 3larsiml was directed to summon
each member of the grand jury os were dis
charged on Saturday, in pursuance of the
decision of the Court in the matter of Fos
ter Blodgett, to appear in Court to-morrow
morning nt ten o'clock.
The Court granted tho motion to give
Colonel Fitch an opportunity to submit a
motion, playing the Court to review Its de
cision ns to tho mode of trying the question
of disqualification.
Tho Court then adjourned until ten
o’clock to-morrow.
Dmpokal of Public Land?.—Returns
received by the Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land OlUce show a disposal of 17.216
acres of tho public lands during tiie month
of October Inst, nt tho local oflloc nt Ionia,
3Iichlgan. Tho greater portion of the hind
was taken for actual settlement and culti
vation under the Homestead law, and tl»o
remainder sold for cash and located witli
military land warrants.
A young man whose sister’s name was
published among tho *old maids” in the
Troy Herald, gave tho publisher a severe
thrashing. i