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THE WEEKLY OPINION, BT W. h. SCBUOfll ABB J. B. DPMBLB. OmCIAL PA PM BOB IHB OOUHTIM 07 BmUwla, BtrMWi Bibk, Butt., Ctrr.ll. rtfttu, IWtn, Owlat.tt, Hamit.., Hurt, Elsrp, Mump, Hnrtoa, FtiMlsf, Pott, IptMltf, »umt»r, Upson. ATLANTA, Gh-A..: 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