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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1867)
88^JlATED~PRg^ 1SFATCHES - From W ashington. Washington, September 22. AJlading to 8 tbe pr eat regret which SerSnally anY officially, at the course President and hi* advisers iu this "aSw replies, explaining bis ednrse, thank ing the Governor, and argues the case gene- has referred to Stanbery Fitz John Porter’s application for anew trial. The doc aments cover a letter from Gen. Pope, oppos ing anew hearing. God. Banks accompanies Romero to Mdxico. Washington, September 23. A dispatch from Lancaster says Stevens is Tory sick and snpposed to be dying. Counsel in the case of the united States vs. Frazer, Trenholm A Cos., are endeavoring to Close matters. Cushing, the United States oonnsel, give-: a dinner to the opposing law yers. The War Department has a dispatch from the Dry Tortuga* : Major Stone's wife, Dr. Smith’s non and Lieut. Orr are dead. Major Stone is aiek. The lever is not abating. Revenae to-day, 1500,000. Register of Treasury, Colby, is dead. Commander Geo. W. Toung, commanding Snwanee, dead and buried at sea. fThe Washington Agent is slow. We find the following epecial telegram to the Herald in its issne of the 21st;j Saw Francisco, September 14. • Commander G. W. Young, of the United States steamer Bnwanee, died off Manzanilla about the 6th inst. He was buried at Manza ailla. Washington, September 23. The Confederate Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Mallory, has been pardoned. Hancock is being serenaded to-night at the Metropolitan Hotel, which is brilliantly illumin ated and blazing with fireworks.' It is expect ed the President will speak. Hancock said he intended to operate not for partisan purposes, but for his country, and, he trusted, for the beneflit of the people entrusted to his care. Sickles responded at length, and Hancock and Sheridan very briefly, to the serenades. Hancock will not assume command until he arrives within the fifth military district. , Stevens is better. Commissioner Taylor telegraphs to the Indiaq Bureau, from Omaha, the prospects of peace with the Indians are more nattering than they have been at any time, the council with them at North Platte being perfectly satisfactory. R. G. Horton, editor of the New York Day Book, is dead. There were five cholera deaths in Omaha yesterday. Specials from the North Platte reiterate that the conference was very unsatisfactory. Indian affairs are as threatening as ever. There was a two hour’s Cabinet meeting to day. Stevens still improves. Revenue to-day, $281,000. Sheridan had a prolonged interview witji Grant. Our Consul at Malaga writes : The Spanish Government has declared the whole United States foul with cholera and yellow fever. All vessels arriving thence are quarantined. Washington, September 25. It is said Stevens has dropsy of the chest. Dispatches from Nashville to the President And Gett.Grant, state the city authorities intend holding the city elections under the charter, in defiance of Brownlow. The Btate authorities are equilly determined to bold the elections tinder the new franchise law. Gen. Thomas has Been, ordered to Nashville with instructions to maintain order, but otherwise not to. interfere Secretary Seward writes the United States Consul at Toronto, to-day, returning Dr. Luke Blackburn’s oath of allegiance. The letter concludes : “ The President’s proclamation of fers no immunity in this case. It is understood th<s State Department is by no means despondent of a fhir settlement of the Alabama claims, though delayed by the death of Sir Frederick Bruce. Revenue receipts to-day, $395,000. Hancock had an interview with both the Pre sident and Grant to-day. Depredations attributed to the “ Qrows ” were perpetrated by the “ Arapahocs.” Sheridan left to-day for Philadelphia. Bets are made here six to four thousand on Pennsylvania going Democratic. • Washington, September 26. Advices from Nashville state there is more quiet in consequence of the Federal proposition to suppress disorder. Both parties will pro bably hold elections and take the question to the courts. Hancock will not go to New Orleans till the subsidence of the fever. In the meantime Mower is responsible. Mower telegraphs encouragingly regarding the health of the military in the sth district. Hancock and Sickles have left. • Revenue, $406,000. Tybee Island: light house, at the mouth of the Savannah river, is to bo re-established.— Lights will be exhibited on the Ist of October. Washington, September 27. * Fraser, Trenholm A Co.’s-case hqa been set tled. The terms are unknown. Gen. Crawford's command has left Louisville for Washington. . > . The Hero H's special says the U nion Leagues Id Virginia are being abandoned. Customs, for week ending yesterday, $4,108,- 000. ■ Revenue to-day, $441,000. „ . Professor Ferguson, 'of the XTbltgd States Naval Observatory, is dead. The Consul at Palermo reports the continu ance of cholera, but of a milder type. There waa a Cabinet session of two hours *, all present. Secretary McCulloch has issued a circular forbidding Subordinates from communicating i Treasury news to correspondents. Washjnotox, September 28. The settlement of Fraser & Trenholra was entirely satisfactory to this Government. Thp defendant’s counsel acknowledge the correct ness of the principles claimed by the Govern ment, and have provided for securing tire prop erty claimed. Further act! od, however, is necessary in the Federal and British courts. Judge Underwood and Attorney Chandler arc consulting relative to the trial of .Mr- Davis, whose friends and bondsmen represent him Anxious for a trial. Congressman Shanks has, gone to Richmond in pursuit of evidence regarding the treatment of Federal prisoners. Securities held by Government, $879,000,000; National Bank circulation, ; re venue to-day, $477,000; for the week $2,500,000; for the year to date, $54,750,000. Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Fleming is dead. Washington, September 89. *£**»<» S harl ®* King, President of Colum bia College, New York, died in italy. Krom Raleigh. Raleigh, N. C., September 28. There was a grand rally of Conservatives last mght. The resolutions declare devotion to the Union aßd constitutional liberty; against A tekite man’s party, confiscation apd 'proscrip tion ; opposed to drawing party lines further than hostility to Radicalism. A half dozen speeches were made and there was great en thusiasm and perfect harmony. From Havana. Havana, September 25. Bolaaasado has been sworn in as Provisional Captain General. Manzano died of typhoid wrar. From New Orleans. Nzw r Orleans, September 33. According to the Republican's figures, the whole number of deaths from yellow fever, from the commencement to Saturday morning, 21st inst., i6 1,214. The deaths for .he twenty four hours to Sunday morning, were 69; for the twenty-four hours ending this morning, 77 —being the largest number of any two days since the epidemic began. New Orleans, September 23.. From Mr. E. Schmidt, President of tb£ How ard Association, we learn it has received money sufficient for expenses thus far. The members have acknowledged iu the dailies of the city the receipt of liberal donations from all the principal Northern cities. The expenses at present are $2,500 per day. Applications for relief arc registered for to-day, up t 0.6, p. m., from sixty families, in some of which every member is sick. There were about the same number of applications yesterday. The num ber of cases and deaths are daily on the increase. From these figures will be seen the necessity of continued and liberal material aid from the friends of humanity everywhere. The Howard Association of this city has been extending re lief to the infected districts elsewhere in the Stale. Interments from fever up to six this moruiug were 82. Letters from LaGrange, Texas, to be laid be fore the Howard Association here, state the number of citizens remaining in town to be barely live hundred, yet the interments reach ed twenty-four in two days. Average mortality, eight; those attacked are almost sure to die, the disease provinjf'iatal iu nine cases of ten. Every house is filled with sickness and death; whoe families are swept away, and in some cases tbei'fe is no one to bury the dead. The disease is spreading in the country. There are no provisions in town and the country people will not venture in with produce. On the 9th; not even meal could be had to make gruel for the sick. Business has ceased entirely, the stores are dosed and newspapers have ceased publication. The jail has been emptied Os its inmates, who fled in terror from the scene of desolation. • • New Orleans, September 25. The denths-frora yellow fever to-day are six ty-eight. New Orleans, September 26. Interments from fever to six o’clock this morning, 57. Two hundred and fifty privates and seven officers are now under treatment for yellow fever at Jackson Barracks. In the Ist regiment United States infantry there have been, at the barracks and at the military hos pital, upwards of one hundred deaths from fever. New Obleanl, September 27. Interments fVom yellow fever, to six o’clock this morning, seventy-seven. The Republican has a full return of votes to day iu the Ist, 2d and 3d municipal districts in this city. First district, 2,540; 2d, 2,258; 3d, 2,297; total, 7,090. Nearly all the votes cast were for convention ; the number of registered voters in these districts is 24,235. The Repub lican expresses the. apprehension unless the vote is heavier to-morrow, iu proportion, for convention it will fail. The law requiring a majority of registered voters to vote or the election falls. New Orleans, September 28. Yellow fever interments up to G this morn ing, 67. New Orleans, September 28. General Mower issued an order to-day modi fying military orders relative to juries in the State of Texas, so as to render it practicable to obtain juries in that Btate. The order requires jurors to be drawn from those registered and none other, and no other oath is required than that of registration. The 'election passed off quietly both days ; no official returns yet. In the fourth municipal district the total vote polled wns 1,260. ' The Republican desponds of the vote being large enough to render the election valid, and says the white vote is. about one-tenth of the whole. The entire vote of the city is estimated at 12,000. The whole number registered is over 28,000. Several instances were not ed of negroes voting or offering to vote under different names than that on their registry papers. Cable Summary. Washington, September 25. It is rumored Kelly and DeEasy escaped from Liverpool in a steamer. A special commission tries the Manchester rioters. In a collision at Limerick between the people and soldiers seven of tbe former were bayonet ed ; one is dead. The conduct of the soldiers is condemned. The Roman Government is concentrating troops in Italy and removing troops to the frontier. There have been many arrests in Rome. . Troops hare left France for Rome. A Florence dispatch says: Garibaldi was ar- Yested by the Italian forces when crossing the frontier. Bismarck declared in the North German Par liament if the German nation would unite there 1 is no power strong enough to prevent the union. Reviere has resigned the Presidency of the Credit Mobilier. A special Florence dispatch says Garabaldi is confined in the Fortress Allessandria. His Ita lian companions are prisoners and his muni tions have been seized. There is intense ex citement. Toulon, September 25. Transports and war vessels arc ready to as sist tbe Pope if necessary. Foreign. [by cable. J . i ! Constantinople, September 28. j The Sultan refuses the Czar’s Cretan de- i mantis. The Czar declines meeting the Sultan personally, nothing personally to say. A large party in Greece are for the King’s" de-j position, and the proclamation of a republic ‘| under the protectorate of, or annexation to, the j United States^ Florence, September 28. Garibaldi’s partisans aro tumultuous in va rious parts pf Italy. Ills reported the King is about proclaiming i an extraordinary session of Parliament. The Garibaldiari riots have been suppressed, I and it is officially announced that the country ! is tranquil. London, September 28. Italian accounts are conflicting in regard to ! the accounts of the riots at Madena,' Milan, Genoa and Naples. The Pope thanks Napoleon for Garibaldi’s arrest. mu | i • From California. I San Francisco, September 22. I Haight declines being a candidate for the 1 Senate. j The steamer Shubriek stranded at Brooks’ Is i land, and has a hole in her bottom. Three i steamers, valuably freighted, left for the Pa | ciilc coast to-day. twrnm • “ From Nashville. Nashville, September 27. Thomas holds a conference with the authori ties to-day. It is stated Gen. Cooper, in a se cret ■ meeting, said, there were three ways to meet ike emergency—bullets, bayonets and matches. | From the Facific. Ban Francisco, September 28. An Oregon dispatch says Lieutenant Small’s company of Ant United States cavalry fought JjJ*® Steake (?) Indians, killing 26. capturing I*s. The soldier* are unhurt. r From Richmond. Richmond, September 23. . General Schofield has issued an. order similar to that issued by Gen. Canby to self-exiled Confederates, who have subsequently returned to the country. Richmond, September 24. About one hundred delegates to the Soldiers and Sailors’ Convention arrived to-night. A caucus has been held and a platform determin ed on, as follows: Equal rights before the law —encouragement of education—more equal taxation and fostering industrial interests of the State. Schofield has decided that the only restric tion imposed upon eligibility to membership of the State Convection is having taken the oath to support the Constitution of the United States and afterwards having aided the rebel lion. The tobacce factory factory of Reuben Rag land, at Petersburg, was burnt this morning. Loss, $20,000. Richmond, September 25. The ex-Officers, Sailors and Soldiers’ Con vention met to-day. One hundred delegates are present, representing all sections of the State. Gen. H.‘ H. Wells, of Alexandria, is President. The convention adopted a set of resolutions pledging itself to the support of the recon struction acts and to carry out the other points telegraphed last night. A motion to endorse the Radical platform adopted by the State convention of April, was seconded by the only colored delegate present, but was laid on the table. Resointion urging the repeal of the usury law of the State was adopted. The convention adjourned sine die. Three ex-general officers were among the delegates. The following letter will be published in the Whig to-morrow : Headquarters First Military District, ) State of Virginia, £ Richmond, Va., September 24th, 1867. ) To Mr. Jos. McDonald , Richmond , Va. : Sir : I have received your communication of this date, asking my decision of the question whether delegates will be required to take the oath prescribed by act of Congress for officers of the United States, and by section 9 of the act of July 19th, for “ all persons hereafter elected or appointed to office in said military district, under any so-called State or municipal authority or by detail or appointment of the district commander.” In reply, I have no hesitation in saying that delegates to the State convention cannot be re quired to take the oath referred to. Section 9 of the act of July 19t,h refers to officers elected under authority of the so-called or “ provision al ” Btate governments. This cannot be con strued to include delegates to a State conven tion, elected under authority of the Cong Tess of . the United States. No oath whatever has been prescribed by law for delegates to the State convention, and there is no author ity but Congress competent to prescribe such <jfith. The only restriction imposed upon the registered voters in the selection of these dele gates to the convention, is that contained in the fifth section of the act of March 2d, viz: “No person excluded from the privilege of holding office by said proposed amendment to the Con stitution of the United States, shall be eligible to election as a member of a convention to frame a constitution for any of said .rebel 1 States.” Yours, very respectfully, J. M. Scotield, Bvt. Maj. Gen., U. S. A. Richmond, September 26. Gen. .Brown ha 6 issued an order directing the officer ol the Freedmen’a Bureau in this district to turn, over to the civil authorities all negro paupers and none other, who have been residing here since January Ist, 1861. Iu the case of Kecbler, a soldier, up on a habeas corpus before the State court on the ground of being a minor aud not legally held in the army, the military authorities refused to obey the writ. The soldier had been before tbe court, once, but before the trial of the case was ended the military declined to submit to the arbitration of the State court. The State, in the gradual sale of her. interest, in the railroads, today sold the interest in the Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad lor $50,000. Gen. Beauregard arrived here this evening. Judge Parker, of the Circuit Court of this •State, has rendered a decision that the old banks, making assignment uftder act of Febru ary, 1866, caniiot give preference to any class of creditors; that note holders have no preference over depositors, and that deposits in Confeder ate money are to be treated as debts of the bank to the extent of their valtle at the time of deposit. A considerable majority of the journals of Virginia oppose calling a convention. From Charlesto.ii. Charleston, September 22. Accounts from Edisto, Wadmalaw and other j Sea Islands, say the third brood of caterpillars | have appeared, and they are destroying the crop j with great rapidity. It is feared that the Sea | Island «y-op will be almost a total failure. Charleston, September 29. General Canby has issued General Orders No. 92, as follows: First. Numerous and well founded repre- i Mentations having been . made that illegal and oppressive taxes have been imposed in differ ent sections of the States of North and South Carolina, it is ordered that the collection of taxes be suspended in the following cases : First. Whenever any tax is or shall bo im posed otherwise than under the authority of j the Government ot the United States, which, j by the terms of the act imposing the same, or I by the action of the public authorities tbere ! under, shall apply to auy property or rights I parted with or any transaction made and com- I pletSd prior to the adoption of the act author izing the same. Second. Whenever the power of Congress to regulate commerce with foreign nations and j among the several States Is impugned by the ! imposition of taxes discriminating in commer- 1 eial transactions in favor of resident citizens : and against the citizens of foreign nations or of other States of the United States. Third. Whenever any tax is or shall hereaf ter be imposed for the purpose of discharging i any obligation contracted ip aid and further ance of the rebellion against the Government and authority ot the United States, or to re- I emburse the public treasury, or any local body j or public officer or other person, for any expe- ■ ditiou on account of any such obligation or > pretended obligation, commanding officers of posts are authorized to suspend the collection j of any tax. embraced in paragraph 1, reporting ; j their action and the grounds and ail proof* re lating thereto to these headquarters. From New York. New York, September 27. ; The Evening Express says the feeling in cot* i ton is very gloomy. Private telegrams from ! Liverpool report a'lurther dcc.ine—some quo tations as low as 8% to B>£. There are fears of more .failures. No cable news to-day received. Land wires not working. All such dispatches must have been of yesterday’s date. New York, September 29. j General Scott’s will has just been probated. 1 He bequeaths Pulaski’s sword to West Point; | that worn by himself in the Mexican war to his { grandson, Wingfield Scott Hoyt. Hayti advices to the Btb inst. say that conn j try is in extraordinary agitation. Gold is fabu lously high, provisions scarce, flour twenty f dollars In gold. Caeos is still in arms against Salnave, and ■ had pillaged Delmarie, a town in the South. , Thirty-four Haytien dollars are worth one Spanish dotiar. From AVilmington. Wilmington, September 28. A Jewish syanagogue will be consecrated to-morrow, the first in this State. From North. Carolina. Raleigh, September 23. « The Progress and Sentinel , Conservative newspapers, will contain the following call for a primary meeting of Constitutional Union men to-morrow, signed bv over two hundred influential citizens: Conservative Constitutional Union Men of Wake County : The undersigned, citizens of Wake county, friends of the American Union and supporters of the Constitution of the United States, being convinced tbatwthe incorporation ol the Brownlow-Holden Radi cal programme into the Constitution of the State would most surely embarrass, if not an nihilate all enterprise, al! hopes of recupera tion and would discourage all immigration, in vestment of capital, diminish and destroy the sources of employment. Our laboring popu lation do most earnestly Implore all Conserva tive citizens in every county of the State to hold meetings for the adoption of such plans as they mnv decut wisest and best for unitiug and consolidating the Conservative influence of the State to effectively prevent the success of the ultra Republican or Radical rule. Our State organization in the Congress of the United States has cut us off from all par ticipation at present in national politics. No thing is left us but the care of our State insti tutions. This movement has nothing to do with national politics or with hindering or at tempting to obstruct the operation of any law of Congress. ‘ It has simple reference only to preventing the incorporation of those Radical principles and measures into our State organi zation, which would place the control and gov ernment Os the State in the hands of the igno rant, vicious and most unprincipled among us, which would certainly result in the destruction of enterprise and the vitality of the State. All aid or encouragement, therefore, which this movemeut could give to the friends of consti tutional liberty and free government elsewhere, would be simply incidental. We, therefore, urge all Conservative, Constitutional Union men of the county of Wake, bolding these views, to unite with us in holding a meeting at the court-house, in this city, on Eriday, the 27th, to effect the above named object. We urge our fellow-citizens in the several registra tion precincts of the county to unite with us or hold meetings in their several precincts. From IVtofoile. Mobile, September 27. i Nine cases of yellow fever are reported for I twenty four hours ending six o’clock yesterday evening. Five the dav before. Three negroes who committed the outrage at Dog River, were hung to-day. Immense crowd but no disturbance. ’ , From -Philadelphia. Philadelphia, September 27. Political excitement is increasing. Hancock, Sheridan and Sickles are in the city. The City Council extended hospitalities to all three. Dr. M. Y. Gorman, Nat Revelry and Caroline Herron have been arrested with a large amount of counterfeiting apparatus. From "WTheeling. Wheeling, September 23, The stables of Adams’ Express, with thirty horses, have been burned. One man was badly injured.. * • From jMexico. New York, September 23. The Herald's City of Mexico special says Maximilian’s body had arrived there. Marquez was seen in the mountains, making his way to the coast. From Troy. Tkoy, N. Y., September 23. A million feet of lumber and two horses were burned in Freeman, Son & Co.’s yard. . From Key est. Key West, September 25. O’LaughlCn, one of the conspirators, is dead of the fever. The conspirators have been very attentive to the sick. From Cincinnati. Cincinnati, September 26. The Queen City distillery was burned. Loss, $60,000. The citizens have subscribed $6,000 iu aid of yellow lever sufferers. B rom Kansas. Topeka, Kansas, September 20. The German convention has resolved to sup port none unless pledged to oppose temperance and Sunday laws. 4 From Boston. Boston, September 22. The grand jury have indicted Ezekiel 8. Johnson, Thomas Tell, Andrew J. Houghton, all of Boston, for illegally removing whisky from Buffalo. Marine News. Savannah, September 29. The brig George, ol Halifax, from Caibarien which went ashore at Daboy Light, got off and was towed to Darien, leaking badly. The cargo molasses —is expected to be saved. Arrived —Steamships Herman Livingston, Huntsville and Cleopatra, from New York-, ship Gorilla, from Liverpool'; schr. Bodkin, j trora Baltimore. j Charleston, September 29. Arrived --Brig Model, from Boston. London, September 28—Noon. Seenrities unchanged. Liverpool, September 28—Noon. Cotton firm ; sales, 10.000 bales. Liverpool, September 28—Evening. Cotton closed dnll, owing to unfavorable Manchester advices ", sales, 10,000 bales ; quota tions unchanged. September 28—Evening. Under more fayorable trade, report Cotton ; firmer and more doing; sales, 12,000 bales.— ! Lard, 55*. 3d. New York, September 28—Noon. Stocks active and strong. Money in fair de mand, at h Gold, 148. Sterling—time, 9%; sight, 10. ’62 coupons, 13%. Virginia sixes,49. New York, September 28—Noon. Flotfr 15(g25 better. Wheat I@2 better for ; Spring, 3@5 better for Western. Corn, rye and oats quiet. Mess Pork heavy at $23 87%. Lard ! steady. Whisky quiet. Cotton dull at 22%. 1 Turpentine, 57%@58. Rosin steady. New' York, September 28—P.M. Money easier at Gold dnll at 143%. Governments heavy and lower. ’62 coupons, ' 13%. Specie exports to-day, $59,000; weekls shipment of currency westward, $6,000,000. Bank Statement. —Decrease in loans, $2,675,- , 000; increase in specie, $878,000; increase in ! circulation, $108,000; decrease in deposits, $4,161,000; decrease in tenders, $1,717,000. Baltimore, September 28. j Flour and wheat unchanged. Con dull and i scarce. Oats steady. Rye firm. Provisions active and steady, Cotton Y<? r J Bid -1 dlinga, 22%@53. Wilmington, September 28. Spirits turpentine dull at 53#. Rosin duil at $3 20 for common straiued. • Mobile, September 2?. Cotton dull and unsettled ; middling, nomi nally 19 ; sales, 75 bales ; receipts, 292 bales. New Orleans, September 28. Cotton easier; sales, 325 bales; low mid dling, 18#@19; receipts, 217 hales; exports, 588 bales ; sales lor tlie week, 1,225 bales ; re ceipts for the week, 1,883 bales; exports lor the week, 2,207 bales; stock, 18,302 bales.— Flour quiet and steady; 6uperfiue, $lO : double, extra, $lO 50. Corn firm aud unchanged.— o;.ts scarce at 80. Pork quiet and firm at $27. Bacon—shoulders aud sides dull; hams in fair demaud and unchanged. Lard quiet and firm ; prime tierces, 14#@15. Gold, 144#. Sterl ing, 5C@59. New York sight,### premium. Charleston, September 2S. Cotton quiet at a further decline of le.; sales, 28 bales; middlings, 18@1S# ; receipts, 366 halefe. Savannah, September 28. Cotton irregular and no demand ; middlings nominally at 19c; receipts, 1,131 bales. Weather cool and raining nil day. Report* of the crop are conflicting. Cincinnati, September- 28. Floar firmer and unchanged ; extra, slo® 10 25; family, sU<sll 25; fancy, sl2@lß 50 Wheat firmer and shade higher. Corn dull and lower— Mess Pork offered at $24. Bacon—shoulders, IS#; clear sides, 17#e.— Lard, 18#c. Louisville, September 28. Flour firm ; superfine, $7 75. Corn —shelled, $1 15; ear, $1 10. Bacon—shoulders, 14# ; clear sides, 18#, packed. [From Leiter Sheet of WUlis & Chisolm. Charleston, September 28. j Rice.— The market for the new- crop has j opened by the receipt of about 4,500 bushels of I new Carolina rough rice, which has been elean- I ed at our city mills, and some 150 tierces new i clean Carolina placed on the market. The arti j cle wns bright and well milled, but in some caseß, ii 6is eommon with new rice, the grain was somewhat broken by the cleansing process. We note sales of 40 tierces new clean Carolina at 12 cents $? lb.; 18 tierces new clean Carolina at 11 ets. $ DE>., and 40 tierces on private terms. The market is not sufficiently settled to give quotations. Naval Stores.— The arrivals amount to 600 bbls. Rosin, 200 hhls. Spirits and 150 bbls. Crude Turpentine. We note salea of pale Rosin at $4 50@6 y bbl.; No. 1 at $3 50@8 75 $ bbl.; No. 2 at $3, find No. 3at $2 85. The Spirits was disposed of at 51 cents $ gallon. The Crude i Turpentine changed hands at $3 $ bbl. Hay.—The arrivals of the week have been about 500 bales North river and 174 bales East ern. We learn of the sale of some 500 bales to arrive, at $1 25 y hundred. Salt.— The stock of this article is light and the enquiry continues moderate. About 1,000 sacks have been received during the week. We renew our previous rates for jobbing lots—say $2 60@2 75 ? sack. India Bagging.— The market is full? supplied with this article and buyers are purchasing only to a limited extent. We note sales durirtg the week at 25#e. f? yard. Dundee bagging, 44 inches, 1# lbs. to the yard, is held at 30(g)35c. Sea Island bagging, 45 Inches wide, 2 lbs. to the yard, is held at 60(§>65 eents. The Cotton Crop for ISO6-7.— We have re ceived from the office of the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, at New York, a statement of the cotton crop of the United States for the year ending September 1, 1867. ft says : We are uow able to give our figures showing the total crop and movement of cotton in the United States for the year ending September 1, 1867. The receipts, as will be seen, very nearly approximate those oflast year, the total reach ing 2,019,271 bales, against 2,198,987 bales for the previous twelve months, indicating a do -1 crease in the receipts this year of only 174,716 bales. It would be impossible to state with accuracy what proportion of this aggregate was the product of the last year, estimates differing so widely with regard to the amount of the old crop not brought forward at the close of 1865-6. We think, however, we may safely take this old surplus at 300,000 bales, and shall then have left about 1,700,000 bales as tire total product of the past season. They new year begins with an unusually small stock in the interior, aud we must therefore look almost entirely to the new crop for our receipts during the coming twelve months. i The Cotton Crop.— The past ten days have wrought a considerable change in the cotton crop—or, rather, the army worm has. The opinions of farmers are at variance as to what is the extent of the damage done. Some say the crop is cut short one-third, while others, and a majority, say oue-fourth will cover the loss. We give the opinions of onr planting friends from the fact we deem them more ac curate and reliable than ours, if we had any. We have visited several cotton fields in which there was not a leaf left on a stalk or a shuck arOnnd a boll. The bolls, with the exception of the top ones—probably a fourth of the en tire number—are too well developed to be in jured to any extent by the worm. We hope to be able to give a more accurate and favorable account soon.— Panola (Miss.) Star , Sept. 21. .Cotton at Macon and Savannah.—Re ceived at Macon last week, 1,541 bales; total receipts (including stock September l»t, 912 bales), 3,440 bales ; shipped, 1,519 bales; stock September 27th, 1,821 bales. Savannah received the past week, of uplands, 3,689 bales; total receipts (Including stock September Ist, 511 bales), 8,064; shipments, 5,939; stock September 27th, 2,057 bales.— Total receipts of Sea Islands (including stock September Ist, 122 bales), 146 bales; and the stock September 27th was 125 bales. JCOSTQOMBRT COTTON STATEMENT, Stock on hand Sept. Ist, 1867 £OO Received past week 2,t98 Received previously 3,533—5,936 Total 6,490 Shipped past week 1,134 Shipped previously 2,491—3,625 Stock on hand Sept. 28,1867. 2,871 COXXMBCS STATEMENT. Stock on haDd September 1 353 Received past week . .173 Received previously .3,711—3,884 Total 4,242 Shipped past week. .1,438 Shipped previously*., .1,059—2,497 Stock on hnnd September 29 1,746 i New Rice.—The steamer J. A. Metcalf, Capt. i Austin, arrived yesterday morning at Haber sham’S Mill, from the plantation of Henry Taylor, on Back river, with 2,900 bushels of rough riee, being the fir6t of the season. We learn that Messrs. Rosed: Arkwright, of t.he Planters’ Mill expect a consignment of 800 bushels this morning from the plantation of Dr. Waring, at Mackey’s Point. ■ [Savannah Advertiser, 2Hth. Mobbing or a Neop.o Meddler bv llis own Color.—For some time past (here has } been unmistakable signs of dissatisfaction upon J the part ot the respectable portiou of the ‘ colored people of Savannah, in regard to a no torious negro adventurer, whose name appears in another place, ns one of the candidates ol the mongrel party for the approaching State con vention, and last evening their hostility took a tangible shape. From what we can learn, it appears that while he was returning from the African Church, on Green square, where he had probably been dis tributing his tickets, he was met near the cor ner of Broughton and Lincoln streets by a party of colored men, who knocked him down and gave him what he has long needed, a good beating. His cries of “ help ” and “ murder ” soon attracted a crowd, when bis assailant* 1 jumped iDto a that was in waiting, close at haand, and drove off - at a furious rate, before the police were able to arrest any of them. The party assaulted was not seriously Injured. Daring the mslee several bricks were thrown through the windows of his honse, which is near the place of the difficulty, smashing in flvfi 1 panes of glass.— Savannah News, 27 th. Letter from the Hon. Iverson L. Hams. Mili.kdoevii.lk. September 14. 18b<- To the Hon. Daicson A. Walker. Dolton : My Drak Judge I received yum >• u of the sth instant, referring to our J conversations heretofore co'iceniinK our condition as a people, and dt> .Tjßi » >v red nee to writing the views expre* y me as. to “ the status of Gt-oigta time, and the course which 1 l most expedient to pursue in reference to tin proposed call of a convention to rev - State constitution ; with the additional re quest that you might exhibit or publish .< same, as yon thought proper. u ... I sat down at once, to comply with tn request, to reduce my opinions to writing, hut found, after I had done so, notwith standing a constant effort at condensation, that I could not either fully or fairly pre sent them within such limits as the rules of good taste require in a letter. I therefore must beg vou to excuse me for not forward ing the article prepared, and to sulistitutt therefor, very much compressed, a mere out line of the course of thought, by which I have been conducted to the conclusions herein stated, and on which I would act, Avert I not disfranchised. It is my conviction, after long and ma ture thought, that the many great questions involved in the inquiry, “ hat is the state's ! of Georgia at this time?” cannot lie solved ' by considering them as falling within the province of either municipal or constitu tional law. , , , , . They can find n correct solution only oy the application to them of the principles »>, interneUional law, to which domain ol Juris prudence exclusirely belong the adjustment- I and determination of the controversies o? ; States lately belligerent, and the relations which, upon the cessation of hostilities, j they bear to each other. Let me in advance say, that, educate*l i from early manhood in the political school |of Jefferson and Troup, and believing in i the sovereignty of cavil State, and. conse I qucntly, in the abstract right of secession, j my opinions are, as you will see, the neees- I snry result of such an education. Now, I take it to be an undeniable fact, | that Georgia, by the ordinance of her con j vent ion in 1801, did dissolve her connection ! with the Federal Union, and renounce 'the j Federal Constitution, j This act put Georgia out of the Federal i Union. I take it to be also an undeniable fact, j that Georgia, as a State, Juts not been re stored to her former position in the Federal Union. • * This being so, site is still out of the Fed eral Union. What interest or property as a State, if my premises are right, she has in a Constitution which site solemnly re nounced, aud which has not lioen re extended over her as a State in the Federal Union, and as it existed before her seces sion, 1 am at a loss to discover. Having none as a State, how can she, In reference to political rights and privileges, rightfully claim its benefits ami protection ? Upon tills view you will perceive that 1 utterly deny that there was a civil war in its legitimate sense—that we were rebels— traitors. A necessary consequence from this position is, that upon the termination of hostilities there can be no confiscation or amenability to the municipal laws of the conqueror. The claim that the Constitution is ours, and that wc have never parted with it, contains within it the fatal admission of our guilt as traitors. “ The status of Georgia, then, at this t ime,” is that of a conquered StaU out of tfu . j Federal Union. I If this is so, it is in the light only of the j laws of nations that our situation < :in be I properly considei^d. It must, I tliink, be conceded by ev. ry jurist, whose reading ha- extended beyor and ! Blackstone and the Constitution of the. I United States,-that it is a settled and un questionable doctrine of the laws of na tions, that the conqueror, according t<> the customs of Christian civilized nations, may rule the State conquered at his will, with no other restrictions on his power than tin; customary usages of such nations. The Congress of the United States, from : this source, and this alone, dem#d their pow ! or to pass the reconstructioipacts ; they do j hot spring from the exercise of enumerated ' and delegated powers to„ Congress, but j from the power outside of Constitution Inherent in the victor. Viewing those acts, then, m the light of terms imposed by the conqueror on the cou ‘quered—and 1 ain driven by a stern logic to look at them in that light, and no other —so regarding them, lam called on to de termine what line of conduct it is most ex pedient to pursue. I am conipell«*d, also, to remember at the same time, that there is no earthly tribunal to which the conquered can appeal for remedy or redress. Are wc ' not, then, by an inexorable necessity, com pelled to choose between acquiescing in those acts, or resistance ? Would not the last be downright madness ? The other al ternative is the only tiling left us. From the view I have thus taken of our situation, and thoroughly convinced that a convention will be called, that the opposi tion of the whites will not only be utterly unavailing, but actually prejudicial, I am constrained to say, being very much con trolled, in my judgment, by what I deem a wise expediency, as also by reasons which prtidence forbids the utterance of now, that if I had the right to a vote I would vote for the call of a convention. I would then cordially co-operate with the colored voters in the election to that convention of the most intelligent, independent, dispassionate and prndent delegates not disfranchised 1 could find. To them I would commit the high task of moulding our organic law ac cording to our altered condition, so as to ! fulfil the requisitions of the reconstruction ! acts, that Georgia may lie restored to the 1 Federal Union ; and if our present State | constitution needed other guards for the protect ion of public and private property against plunder or legislative abuse, they ! should be provided. By the adoption of 1 the provision of those acts in reference to suffrage, I would close at once, which, if I not thus disposed of, will prove a perennial fount of agitation, anxiety, alarm. 1 It is difficult to over-estimate the iinport -1 ance of vigilance and concerted action on the part of alt good and tnie patriots in pre venting the convention from getting into 1 the power or under the control oi selfish, 1 "Unprincipled', bad men, who for sinister purposes, it Is believed, are now industri ously occupied in striving to estrange and alienate permanently the whites and blacks. It is my best judgment that the course indicated by inc will move effectually con tribute to thwart the purposes of such vile creatures than any other. If. however, all effort to guard the con vention against a power and Influence so much to Ik? dreaded, should prove unavail ing, and a constitution under their manage ment, embodying fdlier prorimonM than those required by the reconstruction arts, of a proscriptive, unjust and offensive diameter to the whites, should be made by it, and presented for ratification to a popular vote. then let the whites unite, and with maidy scorn indignantly reject it. Accustomed to form my own opinimi* and freelj' to express them, I know of no sufficient reason why I should withhold the permission desired. They are, therefore, placed at yonr discretion. I am, Very respectfully, yonr obediCßt servant, Iyibson jU Harris.
