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Can 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. ' i— I !»■■ ■ 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.” — ♦ — 1 * 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. I — -- 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.