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the Kxeluded Vo«* fiw »•*«*- "GOVERNOR ORR AND THE CoNSTlTU-
«>*'“*? tioxal Amendment.—The Greenville
A correspondent of the New fiork Sun desires to (S. Enterprise, alluding to a rumor set
know hqw the continued exclusion of the Sooth- afloat by & corre/5po „a ent 0 f the New I ork
era States would affect tbe next Presidential elec- Tr , ~T r , _ .
tien. He savs that those States will probably be Alerald, to the effect tuat Governor Orr fa-
represented in- the Democratic Convention, that vors the Constitutional Amendment, says
they will choose electors, and that they will pro- it does not hesitate to pronounce it false,
bably vote solidly agaicst the Radicals ^ The The Governor, it says is uncompromis
ingly opposed to the ratification of the odi-
THE FEDERAL UNION,
( CcrntioJ Hancock and Wilkinsonstrects.)
Tuesday Morning, October 30, 1866.
QP We cannot, under existing circumstances,
publish a daily paper during the approaching 6es
sion of the General Assembly, but we are disposed
to be accommodating and will furnish the weekly
Federal Union, which will contain the proceedings
of the Legislature, in condensed form, and all
matters of interest transpiring at the Capital, dn
ring the session, FOR FIFTY CENTS. Lists
of names, and the money, may be sent to us by
the members. '
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Not Ready.—Soldiers who have lost their
limbs, need not visit Macon at this time in hope
of being supplied with artificial ones. Dr. Biy
is not ready for them jet. We suppose public
notice will be given when the Agent of the State
is prepared to furnish these limbs.
A 0o!l Hcl.
The fall in the price of cotton, the absence of
exciting State .Election items, and the general
quiet pervading the country, have all tended to
render the past week one of littte interest to ex
citable people. Even the Baltimore imbroglio
sterns to have ended in smoke. Forney’s Army
it is now said will not be called out. The people
who own valuables w ill breathe easier. The Gads
hill thieves would not be more formidable, even
with the redoubtable Jack at their head.
The assembling of the Legis ! aturo of Georgia
in this city, will put new life into this part of the
country ; but even this body will find very little
to engage its attention of an exciting character.
Well, it’s all the better. The people have had
excitement enough for the past few years to last
them a life time. We could congratulate the
country, and the South especially, on the pros
pect of quiet times were it not that the U. S. Con
gress convenes in December, when Pandora’s
box will be opened anew, and the country be
flooded with passion, and all the evils which germ
inate in bad natures.
.The
question suggested is, will the votes of the States
excluded from representation be counted in the . _ . ' ,
electoral college ? The Sun takes a rational, just j OUS Amendment by boutk Carolina,
view of the matter, and asserts very emphatical- i ,
ly that their votes cannot be excluded. The con i CHARGK FOR AV ElGHIMG CoTTON.—WV,
stitution says that “each State shall appoint, in , understand there is complaint in parts of
such manner as the Legislature thereof shall di- , this State of improper charges being made
rect, a number of (Presidential) electors, equal to , t ... f. 1 T . , fo ] , , ® inaae
the number of Senators and Representatives to j weighing cotton. It should he generally
which the State may be entitled in Congress” I known that the regulations of the Treasury
The electors shall •• make distinct lists of all per- | Department only allow weighers of cotton
sons voted for as President, and for all persons j J\fi ecn ccn t s per hale. If more has been
voted for as Vice President, and of the number r . , , ■ , ue ,
of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and ! charged, the parties have the right to do-
The I.ogi.slnturc.
Day after to morrow the second session of the
present Legislature begins, under the new consti
tution. We shall give our readers its action on
all matters of public interest. The question of
“ Relief’ will take a prominent place in the pic
ture. Other subjects of minor importance will
engage its attention long enough we suppose to
fill out the forty days alotted to the life of a single
session. As the day for the meeting of the pres
ent General Assembly has been made public
throughout the State, we doubt not a quorum will
he present on the first day. Wo believe no mem
ber of the Senate or House has died during the
interim, for which peculiar providence the mem
bers of both bodies will be truly grateful. We
shall be pleased to see our old friends in our office,
as also others who may feel au interest in our
welfare.
Since the above was written we learn that the
Hon. W. S. Boynton, Senator from the 12th Dis
trict, died a few- days ago at his residence in
Stewart county.
Election in Sftw York.
The election for Governor, members of Con
gress, members of the Legislature, dec , lakes
place on Tuesday next, Nov. 6th. Hon John T.
Hoffman is the conservative candidate for Gover
nor against Fenton, present Governor, who is a
radical. Beth parties claim a victory as the re
sult of the race. We think the contest will be
very close. The radicals are strong outside of
the city of New lork, and will spend their money
freely. We expect a gain for the Conservatives
of a few members of Congress.
North Carolina.—Gov. \Vorth was re-elect
ed to the office he now holds, on the 18th inst.
by an almost unanimous vote. Holden and his
little Radical tea party didn’t dare to make a fight.
Ihe <tii District.—There have been an
nounced the names of some six or eight gentle
men to fill Gen. Wofford’8 place outside of the
U. S- Congress. Among them we see the name o-
Col. Waddell, present Clerk of the House of
Representatives of this State.
certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the
government of the United States, directed to the
President of the Senate.” This having been
done, “the President of the Senate shall, in
presence o. the Senate and House of Represen
tatives, open all the certificates, and the votes
shall then be counted, and the person having the
greatest number of votes for President shall then
be President,” etc. The foregoing language is
certainly strong enough to give the Southern
States an equal voice in the electoral college, for
it leaves nothing whatever to the discretion of
Congress.”
The correspondent of the San takes a very
reasonable and constitutional view of the subject;
but what was constitutional a few years ago is
not constitutional now; and what is constitu
tional now will not be constitutional a few years
hence. The Radical party will find a very conve
nient way of getting over all constitutional bar
riers in respect to this question of the excluded
States voting for President in 1868. They have
a procrustean way of meeting all difficulties that
oppose their radical schemes. They stretch the
subject when too short, and cut it off when too
long. Our Northern Democratic and Conserva
tive friends will save much time, temper and
stationery, by letting the constitutional argu
ment slide. They know as well as we do that
the constitution of the United States has been
violated again and again, and that it is perfectly
iu the power of the Radical majority in Congress
to adopt another amendment to that instrument
excluding the Southern electoral votes until the
Southern States shall be represented in Congress
by “ loyal men.” We at the South lately had
strong hopes that there was good sense enough
among the masses of the Northern people to make
the Radical leaders pause in their mad career.
But this hope is dead. The masses of the North
have said to Stevens and Sumner, “ well done
good and faithful servants,” and have instructed
them to go onward in their work. Constitutional
arguments, if used at all by Southern waiters,
are used because onr people have not quite got
out of the habit of talking respectfully and fre
quently about this once sacred and revered basis
ot their laws and liberties. We led now that
there is no constitution to which we can appeal;
hence we are submitting patiently to ichalercr
corn's ntxt.
Inronifa for I M>5,
The Columbus Sun gives the following list of re
turns of income, which it takes from the Collector’s
Books in the 2nd district of Georgia. It will be inter
esting to the general reader, as exhibiting the impov
erishment of the country. It is true there are some
handsome incomes in the list, but how very few, and
how small in comparison with the incomes of these
eitizensprior to the War!
The Editor of the Sun says he took only those in
comes from the books which were f-1,000 and above:
Bibb Cminty.
$62,080 Juo L Jones $3,368
Jas II Wulfolk 4,327
T II Cheek 4 519
1) B Cook 4,286
TLake 4,008
Jas H Anderson 12,650 O A Locbrane 4,089
J T Wilkinson 4,876
6 W Adams 3,448
Mrs E Askew 3,788
TR Bloom 3,136
O A Caldwell 3,584
Tlios J Flint 3.161
Thus Hardeman 3,550
W S Holt 3,323
E Kirkland 3,563
A Nix 3.546
Jno I? Ross
W S .Moughon,
Jos Bond
Es J A Ralston
C A N utt in
\V S Moughon
Win II Ross
O G Sparks
L A Jordan
Skelton Napier
A L Maxwell
Jas Seymour
Chas Day
E E Brown
J no Hollinsworth
16,945
15,639
15.180
12,108
10,281
9,873
8,859
8,131
8,000
8,832
6,510
6,905
6,448
mantl its return, and if they refuse, to have
them arrested. If the planter or merchant
furnishes the scales and hands for weighing
the cotton, they cannot charge anythino* le
gally.—Xeics.
The Gold Excitement, (says the
Athens (Ga.) Watchman) in the upper
counties still continues unabated—indeed
seems to be increasing. It is confined
chieffly, we believe, to Dali, Lumpkin
Dawson and White counties. In Luuipkin
and Hall sales of celebrated mines Lave
been made at high figures. Among the re
cent sales in the bitter county, that of the
“Glade mine” has attracted much atten
tion, as it is believed to be very rich. It
is believed there are other mines in the
same neighborhood. We were lately
shown specimens of gold found on an ad
joining tract which are certainly very rich,
and we learn that from the signs it is be
lieved to be abundant.
Conceded.— Ihe elction of John Mor-
rissy the prize fighter, to Congress, from
one of the New York districts, is generally
eonceded.
Sugar in New Orleans.—The Cres
cent states a curious fact in reference to
the commerce of that city Instead of
being exporters of sugar and molasses as
was formerly the case, both are now large
ly imported.
Tragic Death.—Our usually quiet
town was thrown into intense excitement
about noon on Wednesday last by the mel
ancholy anouncement that Mrs Field the
lovely wife of our young townsman .James
II. Field, Lad put au end to her life by
throwing herself into a well at the house
of her mother-in-law.
f Dalton Georgian.
Signs of a Hard Winter.—The phenomena
which usually pressage, according to the notions
of the very observant iu such matters, the ap
proach of a hard winter are becoming very mark
ed as the season progresses. Hives are said to
be overflowing with honey ; the husks of corn
are declared to be of extra thickness, and the furs
ol animals are pronounced exceedingly rich and
heavy, ft is observed, too, that the rats are trav
elling esstwardly iu great rinmbers, and that the
squirrels are making arrangements on an increas
ed scale for the storage ot nuts.
GF’Yes, aud many of us who made no cotton,
and haint got uo greenbacks, and wood hit a risin,
feel like doing something, but don’t know exactly
what.
I?*A reward of $200 is offered by the Governor
f«>r the apprehension and delivery of Isaac Bfugdon,
(freedman,) to the Sheriff ol Gwinnett county. Said
Isaac Brogdon was found guilty of the murder of
Henry Moore, another freedman, and sentenced to the
Penitentiary for life, and while 02 his way to Milledge-
ville he .was on tlje night of the IHtli inst., lodged in
jail iu Mouticello, Jasper conntv, during which night
he broke jail and made his escape.
L®* Astronomers say there will be a recurrence
of the extraordinary meteoric showers which oc
curred in 1799 and again iu 1833, on or about the
l‘Jth of November.
iy Two daily Gains will be run on the M. &
G. R. R. during the session of the Legislature.—
See notice headed “An Extra Train.”
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Sherman in Washington.—Washington Oct.
26.—Gen. Sherman arrived here last night and is
the guest of Gen. Giant.
Pardon Issued—Washington, Oct. 26—The
President has ordered a pardon to he issued to
th<: ex-Confederate Treasurer, Trenholm.
Fenian to be Hung.—Toronto, Oct. 26.—Ool.
Lynch, a reman prisoner, has been sentenced to
be hung on the 13th of December.
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A man’s trials can not be insufferable
if he lives to talk about them.
T C Dempsey
5.033 Davis Smith
3,1 i.J
Henry Horne
5,268 LN Whittle
3,056
J .8 Schofield
5,765 B A Wise
3,840
M I’ Calloway
5,750 E A Wilcox
3,856
W A Cherry
5.000 J F Grier
3,743
Ambrose Gaines
5,000 G H Hazlehurst
3 000
J A Seymour
5,025 LW KasdaU
3,430
Jas M Boardman 4.934 Est Berry Rogers
3,829
Howell Cobb
4.600 S A Sheurman
3,820
S F Dickenson
4,267
This county reported 462 gold watches.
Muscogee County.
J T Flewellen
$66,513 Chas Rogers
$5,393
Juo M Stark
15,818 Mrs A E Sheph’d
5,320
Jas Rankin
11,060 W J McAlister
4,860
W W Garrard
10,220 W 11 H Phelps
4,948
Jno Foimtaine
7,624 Mrs L 11 Comer
4,104
I) F Wilcox
7,442 II II Eppiug
4,0t>0
Est Sea’n Jones
7,119 John King
4,811
T 11 Duwson
6,076 G K Thomas, sr
3,163
Mrs H W Hill
5,363 J N Barnett
3,990
W F Alexander
5.282 Jacob Fogle
3,600
A C Flewellen
5,830
This county re
jorted 425 gold watches.
Macon County.
A Bryan
$12,652 W W M’Clendon
$6,835
Dooley County.
Wm A Maxwell
$6,025
Houston County.
H Tooner
$7,755 It W Baskins
$6,315
W M Haslam
3,409 Jno It Keen
3,011
Dougherty County.
E G Ku-k
$21,600 S D Irwin
$6,960
H J Cook
15.500 J 'I* Dickenson
4,300
T H Willingham 8,550 I)A Vasou
4,600
T J Bulrcll
7,211 B E White
3;000
B tt Lockett
/ ,000 Mrs W Jennings
3,200
Toy lor County.
Jno B Lewis
$3,824 Wiley Cobb
$3,000
G G Potter
3,980
Crarford County.
W McCrary
$3,288
* Clay County
II Farrow
$3,nob
Chattahoochee Counts.
H King
$6,700
H' 4
Calhoun County.
n T Thigpen
$1,890
Butts
and Spalding Counties.
J L Woodward
$3,500 Jno Stillwell
$3,5(4) 1
Baker County.
B L Willingham
$6,500
Randolph County.
C E McDonald,
$6,000
Schley County
•4
J T Lumpkin
$5,800
Sumter County.
Jas Stewart
$10,158 If R Johnson
$4,000
B B Hamilton
7,578 C W Felder
4,500
Juo B Price
6,1<>7 J XV Furlow
3,240
T M Furlow
5,5 L0 J A Kendrick
3,070
Talbo( County.
J-s-e Cartel*
$4,612 JF Matthews
$3,000
W S Durham
3,427
Terrell County
Jno It Jones
$4,600
Upson County
G P Swift
$5,252 N Respass
$4,500
IV P Itespass
4,500 JR Respass
4,500
Webster County.
E B Boyles
$3,600
IVo Prosperity W ithout Pence.
Mayor Hoffman, of New York, in his
recently delivered speech at the Central
Park, is reported as having said : I dined
the other day in New York with Governor
Jenkins, of Georgia. lie tola me that iu
the Mate of Georgia, which is the Empire
State of the South, they had resources
enough to contribute all their share to
ward the payment of the debt. “ But,”
said he, “ we cannot develope it. Every
thing is unsettled. We passed last win
ter a series of laws for the incorporation
of companies to iuvite Northern capital
down there to develope our resources.”
Said I, “ Why don’t you send up your
laws here to let the people know what you
were doing ?” “ Sir,” said he, “ we did
not have money enough iu the State
Treasury to pay for more printing than
was needed iu the public offices.” Now j
that thing would not continue if we had j
peace in the land, aud if these men were
T'fce I*arnut
Since the close of the war nearly *.11 of Jth
principal cities of the Southern States have been
niauitesting a keen ami active interest <11 railroad
enterprises ’Jfliey have made themselves rivals
by their coinpPitkm foil paper) for the trade of
distant sections of the country aud their zeal in
favor of roads that will give them the shortest or
cheapest access to that trade. None of these rail
road enterprises have yet received assurance of
success at auy early period. The hopes oftheir
leading advocates' have ratlnr been dashed by
failures to obtain anticipated subscriptions.—
Thus it has been with our projected road from
Opelika to Tuscumbia—110 city interested has
yet materially aided it. So it has been with the
road Montgomery is so much interested in—from
tl-at city to Decatur. So with the Griffki and
North Alabama Railroad. Quite recently Mont
gomery has taken fresh alarm at a Mobile project
to build a road by way of Selma to the Tennes
see river; but we presume that this project, like
the others mentioned above will have great diffi
culties to encounter, and will find no Aladdin's
lamp to give it magical existence.
We wish to submit to our cotemporaries en
gaged iu urging these several railroad enterprises
the question whether the home industry of the
South is not now suffering more embarrassment
and more needing recuperation, than its commerce?
Do we not, first and most of all, need productive
thrift at the South to sustain the commerce so ea-
gerly grasped at ’ And if the thrift and prosper
ity of our home labor was restored, would it not
command the building of such railroads as were
needed lor its accommodation ! Wouid not capi
talists readily invest their means in railroad en
terprises, if they iiad assurance of the stability
and prosperity of the trade to be reached !
It seems to us that we are trying to make the
cart go ahead of the horse. We are try ing to
build railroads before we have re-established the
basis of the trade that is to support them. Sup
pose we begin at the right end, and build up pros
perous business pursuits that shall invite and re
quire closer commercial relations with other sec
tions. Then, in our opinion, there will be little
difficulty or delay in securing the needed rail
roads—securing them because they are needed.
l’o bring about a condition cf tilings requiring
an exteuded trade with other sections, our peo
ple at home must have adequate and profitable
employment. They must be abie to consume the
products ot other regions, and must have pro
duce to exchange for them Our unusually large
population now without profitable employment
must be found with work to do, and our disorgan
ized industrial system must be restored to order
ly, stable and reliable prosperity.
Railroad building will not do this. The fact
that we have railroad lines connecting by air
line routes with prosperous and thrifty sections
of the country, will no more make us prosperous
aud thrifty by the contact than the Russian tele
graph, when it extends to our great Western
States, will make Kamschatka also wealthy and
prosperous because it connects with them that
unenviable part of Russia.
Our unemployed peoplo can find profitable
work iu the manufacture of cotton; and our
drooping and deranged agricultural system can
find heathful diversion and receive a fresh stimu
lus by the building up of this new business a-
mong us aud the addition of the thrifty popula
tion engaged iu it. Can any other scheme ac
complish these results so surely aud so quickly ?
If there is any other scheme that can, it has not
yet been pointed out:
Our opinion, then, is that the Southern city
TFWwi the Journal r St Messenger:}
Messrs. Editors : I have read the able and con
clusive argument ot “ A Sufferer,” in relation to
the redemption of a portion of the Treasury
notes.-issued by the State All that he state's
must Be admitted to be historically true.
Bur there is another view of this disgraceful
repudiating business 011 the part of the conven
tion, which I think is worthy'consideration I
think it will not be very difficult to show that
the ordinance of repudiation is unconstitutional
and invalid.
In the first place, when the State issued her
notes, she entered iuto a contract with the holder
of the nojes that they should be paid The or
dinance of repudiation impaiis the obligation of
contract. The Constitution of the United States
sajs. that no State shall pass any law or ordin
ance impairing the obligation of contracts. The
ordinance of repudiation being in violation of the
Constitution of the Uoited States, and of the
State, is, therefore invalid.
But I hold that this ordinance of repudiation is
unconstitutional on another grouud. By refer
ence to the 5th article and 8th section of the
State Constitution, and it will be seen that “ all
rights, privileges and immunities which may have
vested in or accrued to any person or persons,
under and in virtue of any act of the General As
sembly”—“ since the first day of January, 1861,
shall be held inviolate by all Courts before which
they may be brought in question, unless attacked
tor traud.” Now, what were the rights and privi
leges which accrued under these laws. They
were, that these Treasury notes -hould be receiv
ed “ in payment of all public dues.” Suppose
one of these State Treasury notes was offered to
a State Tax Collector in pay ment ot taxes, (pub
lic dues,) aud he refused to take it, and the case
was carried into Court, can there be any doubt
about the decision ? Not forgetting another im
portant fact, that it was after the adoption ot the
Constitution, securing these important rights to
all persons, that the ordinance of repudiation was
passed, it would seein to me that rights and
privileges vested in individuals by the Constitu
tion, could not be easily taken from them. And.
as the instrument relied on to do this, impairs
contracts, and destroys vested rights, it ought to
be considered unconstitutional and invalid.
Much more might be said about this matter of
repudiation : but I have but little time to write.
I hope “ A Sufferer,” or some other able writer
will take hold ot it aud calculate it more fully
than I can.
VVoald it not be a good thing for the Legisla
ture to repeal tuat odious ordinance of repudia
tion, and provide some equitable mode for the re
demption of the Treasury notes, so that the foul
stain upon the honor aDd credit of the State would
be wiped off! Tne State has abundant meaus to
do this, and I hope it will be done. I think it
would meet with cordial approval by the people
of the State; and it would, no doubt, have anoth
er good effect, to stop, to some extent, that gen
eral cry for relief. A Farmer.
Governor Worth, of North Carolina, to the
Freed idea.
Delegates from different portions of North Caro
liria to an educational convention of colored peo
ple met at Raleigh last Monday, and continued
in session througnout the week. On Wednesday
they were addressed by Gov. Worth, as follows :
“ I h-ive come here, npou your invitation, to
ive you by my presence what countenance and
10 nave civil H, lr ,
ghsh papers, and especially the London *' c ‘
are linger the impression iLa.t this coni.. pcctator <
the verge ot another civil war \\ l ! ry 18
such fears ; butatill it cannot be denied .V! "°
have memo bath Sections who would 0 • t w °
seeit; still we believe the masses of V ej01ce «o
both North and South, have too much^ p,,0 P ,e '
kJ,n>o anj sucb di.gr.cf,, I , nJ
At the same time it is necessary f or ,u
to be on their guard. There are , Be 11 peop, «
State and every section ready to f an the fl eVer ?
hatred, to embitter prtjudicts, to fi re iiiA^ 6 ’ of
those they can influence. tbe bl °od of
There is plenty of hot bk>od on bath
there are but too many reckless and h 9u1es -
lous men in every State, ready toseize
first occasion to rekindle civil war n “ P ? n th e
people remember that such a sten ;7 1 ? t,be
will be, as the Spectator rightly remarks “L J 1
side every hearth ;” it will Mexican!^’,1 #rbe '
try ; it will destory liberty here at J tbe C0UD -
eyer, as well as peace and prosperify 1 ^ foN
t of civil war under any possible pre^exAnow 6 "* 1
be simply ruin <b the country ; it „ n ’
over to interminable disorders ; h w u Us
the Constitution, and set up over onr K° b t Vert
despotism. The authors of such a mA®** *
wouid be cursed forever as the enemies‘noAT
nfthe Amencau people, but of the caus" e of J 7
people everywhere — G’a. Citizen f tb ®
”
The November Elections— W«
me.it below in regard to elections to oJSSS’
ensuing month is correct: ‘•“r in the
Louisiana-First Monday in November
Delaware-First Tuesday i„ November'
Illinois—First inesday in November.
Kansas—F'irst Tuesday in November
Maryland F'irst Tuesday i„ November
Massacbuset s-Ffirst Tuesday i„ November
Michigan First Tuesday in November
Minnesota-First Tuesday in November
Missouri-First Tuesday in November
Nevada-First Tuesday in November’
New Jersey—First Tuesday in November
New York—First Tuesday iu November
Wwconmn-First Tuesday in November'.
Snith ^°-S econd Tuesday in November.
South Carolina-Fourth Monday in November.
»«ly of Tsubj IUr„ j B ,|, c
The Southwestern, a journal published at Sbreve.
port, Louisiana, in the couise of au article upon
the wants ot the South, urges the youiq ^
encouragement I could, having understood that
. - , , , -all your proceedings were conducted in a becom-l
that soonest encourages and builds up extensive j iBg and ordFr)y n!anner . j was not 110tilied thal
cotton manufacturing establishments will sooaest I rema.ks were expected from me, till your
take a step in the true road tint leads to home j p res i d e nt just informed me. The few words J
prosperity and extended commerce. We Believe sliitil say are unpremeditated.
In the first place, iet me assure you that I am
disposed to do everything 1 can, as a citizen anC
as Governor, to protect you in all your rights,
and to encourage you to be industrious, to edu
cate your children, and to make yourselves re
spectable and happy ; and while yon may expect
my protection while you do right, I shall be equal
ly ready to have those punished who do wrong
I ou are very poor. Your first care should be
i by industry aud economy, to provide good sup
It is proposed to manu- | ^ ies °‘ ^ead'. and devote ail you can
facture woolen goods on a large scale, making a *X * - T0,lr ch:ldren ; * nd remember
specialfv of Balmoral skirts. This movement l lt “ lh , e ‘“ tortSt both races that
results from the manifest advantage which must f dlo * ei *° £ T0 ' V , m P between them,
accrue to the British manufacturer, in locating A * * ar 83 tb * general feeling of your late
his factory convenient to the raw material, tl.uf! 1 he wb ‘ tes feei
avoiding heavy Heights, and also enabling him f ^
* . c*. 1 1 1 «a? a 1 orderly conduct during* tue war, ana you shoula
to put his goods in the hands ot the American . i J ^ f ,» / ,
p T * 1 » i- 1 ! endeavor so to act as to keep up this kindly feel
consumer tree ot the heavy reveuHe charges j - b . *. two v 1 3
which would be levied on the same goods if ” . , • * ,,, . ,
b I J_<et me advise you not to meddle with govern
induced this dis 1 lue,lta * a ff a i rs * You know how few of your race
that our Southern cities could not lend their cred
it to objects more deserving of their regard, more
promotive of the prosperity ot their people, or
more certain to bring them enlarged commerce
and secure their rapid growth and far reaching
enterprise—Enquirer, 21*<.
The .Dnuntnili Coming to fTIahoiurt.
The Buffalo Express notices the removal of a
large woolen manufacturing establishment from
Scotland to that city.
manufactured abroad.
The advantages which have
cerning Scotchman to transfer his woolen mill to
permitted to go back into tbe Congress of j Buffalo, which is a desirable wool market, should
the country, not for the sake of holding ' also influence the cotton lords of Manchester to
office, but for tbe sake of feeling that
they were again a part and parcel of the
government, you would find no trouble
whatever in developing the resources of
the South.
TV ror.i Wnabinglon.
Washington, Oct. 26th.—Lieutenant General
Sherman, accompanied by Gen. Grant, nad an in
terview with the President this morning.
Washington, Oct. 27.—Gen. Sherman had an
other interview with the President to-day.
Napolrou’s dciilh liotirly expected.
New York, Oct. 27.—The Berlin crrespondence
of the Tribune, says that on the 27th, the Chief
Suigeon of the Prussian army left for Biaritaz,
to consult with the physicians of Napoleon on
the possibility of operation. A dispatch has
been received from the Prussian Embassy at Par-
is, saying there is no hope for Napoleon. His
death hay be hourly expected.
establish factories ill the cotton districts of the
South. Would it not be wise tor our State Leg.
islatures 10 offer some special inducement to such
investments, by exempting capital invested in
manufactures from taxation for a certain poriod 1
This Was entertained with considerable favor
years ago. and it applies with increased weight
to our present condition.— Chronicle A* Sentinel.
In Harris, Deoatur, Quitman, Monroe, Pike -and
Pulnski, and several Other count.es, not an income as
high as $3,000 ie repoited. The only gold plate re
ported in the District h 15 oz., by Henry Horne of
Macon.
A plank has just been brought to New York
from California which is believed to be the largest
ever seen in the United States. It measures
twelve feet long, eight feet four inek«s wide, and
is three thick.
THE MARKETS.
Milledgevlle, Oct. 27, 1666.
Good Cotton brought 314 here to-day. At Ma
con on same day the market ruled at 31 cents for
New York Middling.
New Y 'Rit,, Oct. 25.—Noon.
Gold 46g Cotton heavy at 38. Foreign ex
change, 109 1-4.
New Yons. Oct 25—P. M.
Gold 47. Ten forties, 100. Flour quiet; sales
700 barrels at $12 504i$17. Wheat quiet. Corn
dull; saies 1,800 barrels at $34 Cotton dull;
sales l,80o bales at 3cfe40. Spirits Turpentine,
$8 24. Rosin, 5 25'<M3 50.
Charleston, Oct 25.
Cotton market very firm; sales to-day, 300
bales; sales of the week, 2.100 bales; receipts
same time, 5,595 ; exports, 1,625; middlings,
36c.; Sea Island, rOcfe^Sl 30; stock on hand,
4,(568 bales.
Savannah, Oct. 25.
The cotton market is unsettled and declining;
New York middling, 2f>®36; sales of the week
656 bales; receipts same time, 7,8ol bales; ex
ports, 5,132 bales. Grain improving. Bacon
quiet. Gold, ’45<a)137.
New Orleans, Oct. 25.
Cotton easier; sales 2.500 bales of Low Mid-
diings at 36'S37c Ffiour, superfine, :j:13'S 13 25 ;
extra, $13 50'o>$]6. Corn higher, J5.
Gold 47|.
Mobile, Oet. 25.
Cotton—sales today 1,300 bales. Middling,
35'«>36 The demand iu the general market firm
at quotations.
Augusta, Oct. 25, P. M.
We have a slight decline to note in Gold.—
Brokers buy at J45 aud sell at J48; and buy
Silver at-137 and sell at 142.
Cotton.—The market is unsettled : the sales
are 391 bales ; 6 at 32. 2 at 32.}, 1 at 33, 48 at 344-
167 at 35. 16 at 3T>4 75 at 354 and 80 at 36 cents.
The receipts are.630 bales
Middling 34c.; Strict Middling 35c.; Good
Middling 36c.
Nashville, Oct 24.
Flour—In good demand. Superfine $9 50®ri0;
extra $12 50^13; family $14'& I5; fancy $154t>
Wheat—Red $2 20*212 25 ; white $2 35*29 40
Bacon—Stock light. Shoulders ie<2>i9c ;sides
224*2*23 ; plain hams 234*225.
Corn—95*2$1 20.
Oats—60.
ST. Louis, Oct. 22.
Flour—Firm at $9 50 for superfine; extra
$10 75.
Wheat—Red $2 85. , .
Corn—Mixed in bulk 85.
Oat6—48.
Mess Pork—$33 50.
Baeon—Shoulders lf> 1-4 4 clear $hlea I9J.
Lard—In tierces 15$.
are now capable of understanding matters of this
sort, and you see the strifes and troubles iu which
party politics have involved the whites. Avoid
politics. Practice industry, virtue, ana cultivate
the kind feeling which now exists between the
two races, and you will thus acquire competence
and elevate your condition
Iniprai'lnnrnl.
The New York Express analyzes Butler’s late
Cincinnati speech aud gives the following synop
sis;
1. The President of the United after a vote by
ji majority of the House of 28—not 38 States—
aud that Rump House, created in part, by the
expulsion of such Northern members as Yfiir
bees, Brooks, Baldwin, and others, is to be im
peached.
2 The thus impeached President is to be
brought before a Rump Senate of 52 members,
(26 states)—not 7*2, as required by tbe Constitu
tion. (36 States") and of these 5‘2 Senators to try
the impeachment, two are made by the process ol
illegal and tyrannical ejection of Senator Stockton
trom New Jersey—Stockton being against tbe im
peaching, anu the substituted man for.
3. The moment the Rump House arraign the
President, that moment Butler tells u ,*27 ot these
52 Senators, thus made can iy imprisoD-^Pl the
President.
4. Then anybody in the Senate whom these 27
'Senators vote to make President of—Chandler or
Wade, or Sunnier—becomes President of tbe
United States
5. This Chandler, or Wade or Sumner then be
comes Commander in-chief of the army and navy
of the United States.
6. The regular army, the West Pointers, &e.,
then, if not obedient to Chandler, Wade, or Sum
ner, “ are to be swept from the face of the earth,”
by a Butler, or the Bankses, we suppose, or the
Sbencks or the Sclnirzes, *tc.
t. And all the millions ot the Democracy of j
the country—with the Conservative Republicans,
are expected to look on and see this usurpation
completed.
Cotton Packing.—The Journal Messenger
has had occasion to look somewhat iuto the man
ner of packing, aud suggest a hurtful mistake
which is made by a greater portion of the plant
ers, in this particular. While it can easily be
shown that bagging and rope, when sold on the
cotton bale, really brings considerably more than
when purchased of dealers by the planters, we
cannot sec why to much of the staple is allowed
to suffer, both from stealage and natural damage,
for the want of sufficient good bagging, and prop
er care in packing. And another item: Only
yesterday we heard a cotton buyer remark that
he was willing to give one cent per pound more
for cotton when properly packed. Let this
matter be looked to and corrected, and we are
sure none will lose by its correction. “ Let all
things be done decently and in order.”
Declines.—Hon. Montgomery Blair declines
the nomination for Congress for the Ffiith Con
gressional District of Maryland in favor of Mr.
Stone, the Democratic nominee, on the ground,
of the predominancy of the Democratic element
among the President's friends in the district, and
the general fitness of Mr Stone to represent tine
Conservative Unionists as we.ll as Democrats.
Report of the Couiii)i»aioiici' of Cu«toia>—
Abolition of the Mpanith Stlare Trade.
Washington, Oct 24.—The Commissioner of
Customs has prepared a statement called for by'
resolution passed by the House during the last
session with reference to the disposition made of
all the cotton and other property coining into
the hands of the Treasury agents during the war.
The State Department has received a copy of
a Spanish royal decree, intended to make impos
sible henceforth the prosecution, of the AfiicaB
slave trade in Cuba and l’orto Rico. It provides
for the emancipation of every person who is in
slavery in those provinces whenever they touch
the peninsula or its adjacent islands.
li’hat Writings Require Stamps —The following
information will prove valuable to business men
generally, and should be kept for reference:
1st. Instruments of writing dated before Octo- i the power winch it is said he is about to exercise!
ber 1, 1866, do not require n stamp. ! It runs as follows : “ F’or official misconduct any
2d. Tho.se dated between August 1st, 1862, and j of the said commissioners may be removed by a
August 1st. 1861. may be stamped either before j concurrent vete of the two Houses of the Gener-
or after use by the court, regist ror recorder. 1 al Assembly, or by the Governor during the recess
3d. Those dated August 1st, 1864, and more\Quteof''* This is precisely the language which
than twelve months old, may btf stamped before 1 has been used in scores of law* which have been
United States Collector, without payment of tbe i heretofore passed in this State, and by virtue of
penalty of $50. I such provisions public officers have been displaced
4th Those dated August 1st, 1861, and more! under very many Governors. Bnt now the rep-
tlian twenty mouths old, can be stamped upon the j resentwttvtov ot' rhe miserable little faction which
payment of the penaltf ot $50. : has managed to take possession of this city.
And every assignment of. a note, which assign-! gravely assert that ttie police commissioners
ment is made since October 1st, 1862,1 without re-1 most be convicted of misconduct before some
gard to tho date of the uote, is to be stamped as (judge or jury before Mr. Swan ehn appoint other
in agreement, namely : five cents, no matter how ?- *«.->- ^ -•
large or small the note may be.
All persons having notes nn«(pmped. should
have them stamped at once. A receipt fer money
or property pf over $20, no. matter what the
amount, only requires a two cent stamp.
* ~ oouin, urges the young men 0 f
that section to devote their attention to avrienl
ture, and thus take the places of the thousands of
haVe ^ “*• ^thern State, or
been killed duemg the war. It urges them to
prtpare, during the coming winter, for the putting
in ot crops in the spring upon the rich but idle
acres of the South. Says the Southicestern :
have too many stout young men in the South
shameless burdens on the brawn and mu.de of
better men, who ride the laborer as the old man
of the sea fastened himself on tbe back of Hi n
bad the Sailor. It is time that they were shaken
on and made to sweat tor themselves. M
Yes, Pennsylvania is Ready. -TheLaue«.
ter Intelligencer thus responds to J. W. F''« an
peal tor Pennsylvania to be ready to aid the Rad
icals of Baltimore when they inaugurate another
civil war: “We can tell Ferney that Pennsylva
ma will be fully ready. All the manhood in the
whole mass of three hundred thousand Democrat
ic voters will be thrown into the contest at a mo
meat’s warning For the right of a free ballot
they will gladly do battle whenever and wherever
the issue of arms shall be joined against it.
Should the contest begin in Baltimore, hs For
ney predicts it will, two-thirds of the whfile fight
ing material of PenifcyUania will respond to ihe
call ot ihe President with a promptitude never
^aown in ail the annals of war. Yes! Pennsyl
vania wyi be ready, fuUy ready.'’ }
Exactly So.—1 he London Times has
come to the conclusion that the recent
civil war in the United States has revolu
tionized our form of government, and that
heneefoi tb, instead of Leing a government
ot limited it wall be one of unlimited power
— —
The latest style of collars for men has
turned down corners, on which
dogs’ and horses’ heads Ass’
worn a little higher up*
appears
ears are
Marriage in Vermont.—The Rutland
(Vt.) Herald publishes a letter from Mot-
pelier, which says three hills have been
Introduced into the Vermont Senate relat
ing to marriage. The tendency of most of
them is to reduce marriage to a limited part
nership, each party putting, in as much
capital as seems best, and the partnership
ttr be dissolved upon very small provoca
tion.
Dyspepsia.—Do not suffer with dyspepsia
when relief is so close at hand. Twenty thous
and people have been eured of this terrible disease
m the last year by tbe use of Roback’s Stomach
Bitters.
' ■ ■ ♦ tm\rn
Mrs. Cunningham, notorious for her connection
with the Burdell murder, was lost on the “Even*
uig Star.”
. ^ philosopher says that “a man without money
is poor, but a man with nothing but money ii
still poorer.”
A young gentleman of Arkansas, in attempting
to scare a young lady friend by crawling int'o her
window a la ghost, was nearly burned to death
by a bucket of Lot water.
Cyrus W. Field writes to D. H. Craig
announcing that after November 1 the tar”
iff on all message* through the cable will
be reduced fifty per cent.
I Jii
“Searfallelti,” “Pride of Betbel”
The Baltimore Difficulty.
The Baltimore difficulty, growing out of the
rejection at the late municipal election of the
new registration by the police commissioners, is
assuming a somewhat threatening character.
Latest advices would seem to indicate that a col
lision, something like, that which happeued both
at Memphis and New Orleans, may occur at any
moment, and be attended with consequences
equally deplorable. Tbe following paragraph is
from the Baltimore Gazette, on last Saturday :
We publish, for the third or fourth time, the
clause of the law which clothes Mr. Seward with
I l. —. ... . _ - M m. I. a a. I. 111. _ *Y V * V
AND.
^HJIiXjlOKJJaTnrr »
SMOKING TOBACCO.
Fine Chewing Tobacco.
I Cigars, Iffaccaboy Suuff and
Seedless Kalsias, at
Oet. 29, 1866.
CONN’S.
13 2t
South Corolina Penitentiary —Tlie recent
session of the South Carolina Legislature, con
cluded to establish ii Penitentiary ih that State,
and appointed a Commission to make a location
and purchase a site. We learn from the Colum
bia Phcentx that the Commission have located the
institution at Columbia, and selected and pur
chased fourteen acres of land from Dr. Thomas
J. Rawls an the Canal, near tbe river, for the iif»-
■titution. »„
DISTKIBUT! OS.
M ^5 u Id coll attention to the opinion of one ol
the leading papers of Canada on this subject:
Most of out readers have no doubt read some of the
naiwerous advertisements of Gift r.nter.pnsee, Gift
Concerts, &e.. which appear from time to time ih the
pnblic prints, offering most tempting bargains tothose
who will patronize them. In most cases these are
The London Times predicts another civil war in
America.
The Galveston Bulletin tbinkd that with fair
-.her Texas will produce 150,000 bales of.col-
Santa Anna is a confirmed and recklesagambler.
handsome and valuable articles are procured for a
v^rysmoH-simi, and what is more important, no one is
ever cheated. Every person gets good value for his
dollar; because, as we have atated, it.is intended to
act assn advertisement te increase their ordinary bu-
We have seen numbers of prizes sent out in this
way by Sherman, Watson Company, of Nassau
Street, N. Y., and there is no doubt that some of the
articles are worth eight or ten times the money paid
He will stake thousand^ for .the», while we have not seen or heard of a single
fe» of J mkno™ ,he “V"’* Tit «"•
own rooster. ^ coet* But this is onlv one of the exceptions of this
The Lowell factory girls have donned thei r ul ®' ,or 48 * general thing the parties engaged in this
Bloomer costume. They sav that it is mora ma. 1 * re “J'tbiag.but clever swindlers.