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i&v jif . THE WEEKLY OPINION. BT W. L. BCnUGOl AHD J. B. BUBBLE. GEORGIA WEEKLY OPINION TUESDAY:: till!) SEPTEMBER 10. DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES OF TllK UHION BEPUBLICAH PABTY OP QBOBOIA. ADOPTED BY TOE STATE COSYESTIOi, Atlakta, July 4th, 1807. Whereas, We, humbly nckootrlodglnff our tie* licmlencc upon on overruling Providence,.who I'liapcs thedustiniesot men an<I nation*. thank Al mighty God for having, through Agencies and strumentalltie* in Hi* winloin selected, prcscr*«* our Government when its deepest foundations were being shaken by the mighty upheaving* of the recent rebellion. And \Vhekkam, The loyal men of Georgia desire the earliest practicable settlement of tho dlsturlicd condition of the country: and whereas, we believe that the establishment of Justice is essential to en during iKsace, that patriotism should Ikj exulted ns a virtue, and It is tho duty of the State to cher ish all Us people; and whereas, those who assert these principles are called Republicans, through- fcclve* in alliance with the National Republican party of the Union, afid for tho unconditional sup port of tho Union of these states. Rftolced. 9. That wo pledge our hearty support to tho reconstruction measure* of the Congre.S of the United State*. ....... /tesolctd, S. That it is the #lnty of the State to educate all her children, anil to that end. wo re commend tho establishment of a general system of free school*. littolted. 4. That the Union Republican Party is identified in its history and by it* essential prin ciple* with tlic rights, tho interest* and the dl ty of labor, and i*ia sympathy with tho nia»Sci of society, and that tho working Georgia will receive at its band* every encourage* ment ami assistance that may lie necessary * sir full rights; and, that THE COLORED SCHOOLS OF ATLAHTA. Tho Macon Messenger expresses much surprise that tho State Educational Asso ciation which assembled in this olty a few days since, should admit to.its councils such “Yankee interlopers as a Mr. Ware, teacher of a negro school tn^Atlanta.” That paper says; The Radical party having made tho edu cation of this (dass a governmental affair, it strikes us that a call for a meeting of the teachers of the State, did not include such missionaries as Mr. Ware and his co-labor ers: and that ills being present was a sig nal) Uustrat Ion of Yankee impudence and ollieloiiRncHS. We all know pretty well by this this time, what these men tench In au dition to the prescribed course laid down iu the so much vaunted, “Dree school sys tem of the North. They arc nil either fana tics or knaves—lit the proportion of about live of the latter to one ol the former, and their sole mission is to stir up strife and sow the tares of hate nud evil in tho minds it the distil tho toiling rklng men of VUZ _ . pro* ; lu the tnalntcn- .3 position taken nml the principle* -a Have t!i[,uay iirowcil. wo cordially Invite til. tto-niKtration ol* nil citizen., without regard to their Iioliticu! antecedent,. Duolrtd, B. That the Cnton liepubllcnn Fort) of the statoof tlcorglt, pledge, itaelffe, maintain the fret and legal right, of all men, and It abide hv the prescribed term, of re, to rat in electing to place tlio,o uien ouly who etta comply, la all reaped,, with tltoretjulremenUof the Aetval Congress,, raid who prefer the .tiovernment oftht United Mate, to any other that could be framed. MISS MUniBACH S HISTORICAL NOVELS," Thero is somethin" chnrmlnff in the Itlen of a woman who nUils to the zeal ol’ the historian the imagination of the poet Turn her loose among the archives ami trinli- t ion' of courts, ami she is sure to Hint a "rent many thing* which no man would over think of looking for—just tho things, too, to glvo tho liulshlng touches of truth fulness anil beauty to the historical picture, We learn from Miss Muhliiacii not only how Frederick William anti Frederick the Great. Joseph the Second, the. Empress Cathaiumk, Maria Antoinette, Sophia Dohotiia. and other brilliant lights of a former era, walked and talked in their grand roles, hut how they powdered their lialr, lllrted and teak ten. Nothing Utoo trivial to escape Miss MfHLitAcn’s notice, if In any way It can add to the back ground of reality, against which her heroes and heroines perpetually move. No writer has more entirely ldentillcil him or herself with the spirit of a past age. Tills Is the only way History pan be written that will com mand readers. The writer must not lie •content with a knowledge of thu great per sonages and events of tile time, but must he familiar with the cii-totm and manners, the dresses, the caitlue, the little foibles and the whole social by-play of a people ns well. This was the great secret of M.v cauley's Histories, ‘-Ills History of Eng. land is nn Interesting novel,” every hotly -aid. True, !t Is a novel In respect of its picturesque and dramatic accessories. It is essentially a novel, too, in the free sweep which the author permitted to his Imagin ation in speculating upon tho causes of acts anti the motives of actors. Miss Muiilbach's novels are histories ns much as Macaulays’ perhaps, with this dtlVereiicc, that she owns, at tho start, that they uro novels. But they do thu olllco of history as well as grave and uninviting records, and are therefore worthy the at tention of the student ns well ns the Idler who seeks only amusement. Never wtu history ntado more fascinating. Her “Ma^ hie Antoinette and her Son,” is a mnstcr piece of art. The heroes anil heroines of the first French Revolution, nro brought before you face to faeo In living reality. You enter Into tho court life of France, and get an insight Into the details of that great event, and of the persons and motives which Inaugurated It, nowhere clso to be itad. Lamartine'* glided pictures of the second Revolution, possess neither the ik>- etle lit*, the romance, nor tho historical accuracy here found. Her perceptions of proportion and relative distance, colors ami shade* nro artistic. Her characters arc not incongruous nor huddled together. Every person movi clear and unobstruction through Ills or her part. Her talents are varied, and cqunl to all occasions. Battles, halls, flirtations, love-making, Intrigue, law proceedings and diplomatic jugglery, she describes with tho same facility. Her stylo Is free from mannerisms. It possesses marked In dividuality, and yet It is scarcely noticed as style. Tills is because It is froo from af fectation or pretension; in other words, because U Is good The Aitletonb, of New York, have al ready published faithful and spirited translations of her “ Fiiedkuick tho Orcat and his Court;" -Joseph tho Second and ills Court,” “ Marie Antoinette nnd her Son,” and “Tho Merchant of Berlin.”— When tho extraordinary merits of these works Iteeomc known, they will bo found us common on tho parlor tables and library .helves of the reading public ns the Wa- vorly Novels onco were. “riT ArrLEtox A Sons, New York, PublUhers, Gordon County.—Col. J. E. Farrott, of Gordon county, was In tho city Monday. He represents things In Gordon and unjoin ing counties os being liopeftil. A great change lu public sentiment In that locality has recently taken place In favor of Recon struction. HIT A deserter from tho Tennessee State militia ha, been sentenced to one year In the penitentiary. laving teachers? Now such nonsense as this is wholly out of place. The wore intelligent and respcc- taplo portion of tho Southern people do not oppose the education of tho colored people. On the contrary, they aro disposed to encourage it. Many of them have given of their scanty means to that purpose. Why then should they ostracise a North ern man who is only carrying out what all good men in the South hesitate not to sanction? Mr. Wauk is a gentleman of line culture and irreproachable char acter, and is doing* noble service in the cause of education. So too. of ids as sociates in this city. Men who know most of the practical inside working of these colored schools are the last to countenance such sentiments as those uttered by the Macon editor. The schools arc conducted in a highly creditable manner; nnd we cannot, if wo would, close our eyes to the fact that these colored children are making progress iu their studies that is at once gratifying nnd astonishing. No one here, who knows anything about the manage ment of these schools, can he made to be lieve that ill*. Wahk or any of Id* co- laliorers seek to stir up strife between the races. On the contrary, it is a notorious fact that tho colored people connected with these schools are more polite nud deferen tial to the whites than aro the generality of negroes. If being a zealous friend of education is a crime, then Mr. Wake is unworthy of association but if not, then the mere fact of his being a “Yankee ” should not be made u occasion for this exhibition of Httlene and ill feeling. We had hoped that this contemptible prejudice had lost place at least among the frieuds of education, nud those who make pretensions to intelli gence. TOO LATE! Speaking of the President's renewed warfare upon Congress, the Macon Telo- grnph says: As it has now been reduced to a question of power, tbc President has as much right to reconstruct the South and promulgate an unconstitutional law as Congress; there fore let him issue Ids proclamation for all the people of the South to participate iu the coining elections and the formation of State constitutions without restriction upon their action. They will all agree upon the impartial suffrage system, nnd members of Congress elected under it should tie made secure in tiieir scats, if force should lie required to make them so. The country would sustain tills action. There was a time in the history of the reconstruction controversy when the plan above suggested Would have been practi cable. Universal amnesty and Impartial Suffrage was all that the majority in Con gress asked in the Spring of 1SCG. A few Southern men had the nerve to advocate this measure, but wo nil remember how it was received by tho very men who now urge its adoption. They even went so far as to say that they never would, by any act or word of their own, sanction any measure of settlement whereby negroes should be admitted to tho privilege of suffrage.— Not content with opposing tids meas ure, they carried their opposition so far ns to denounce those who advoca ted it, ns fanatics or cowards, who to avoid an imaginary evil, were willing to make terms with “tho enemies of our only friend, the President,” Well, time passed on, and tho very condition of things which the advocates of that meas ure then predicted is now upon us. The negroes are all enfranchised, whilo many of the whites aro disfranchised. Twelve months hence, should tho present scheme of reconstruction fail, these same men who now oppose it will lament their folly in not accepting it; or they will advocate the adoption of the present measure when it shall have become obsolete, anil urge it in the hope of defeating a still moio rigorous measure of settlement. Mark the predic tion ! THE PRESIDENT’S PROCLAMATION. Our dispatches, this morning, contain n Proclamation from President .Johnson. Tids document, we have no doubt, hud Its origin in tho fact that Geueral Sickles decided to disregard the mandates of the U. S. District Court, lately held in North Carolina, over which Chief Justice ChABR presided. The action of General Sickles in oppostion to Judge Chase, gave an op portunity which has lieen quickly em braced. It was a crumb speedily “gobbled up.” Gen. Sickles was ousted for suffi cient cause, we udmit; tho honesty of the motive of the Kxecutivo may be doubted. Mr. Johnson embraced a politician’s trick to create a schism in tho ranks of the Union Republican Party. We can award no greater merit to the document printed this morning. or Col. John A. Orr, brother of tho Governor of South Carolina, is ono of tho Radical leaders In Mississippi. Personal. The Jonesboro (Tenn.) Flag expresses its preference for Gov. Brownlow as Uni ted States Senator, to succeed Senator Pat terson. Major Ewing has been appointed Gener al i Superintendent of tho Nashville and Chattanooga railroad. Dr. Paul F. Eve. of Nashville, reached home on tho 1st instant, from a tour to England and the continent. A part of his traveling party remained to enjoy more of trans-Atlantic life. The National Intelligencer’* articles calling for Cabinet changes, arc said to have been written by George Black and Montgomery Blair, and inspired by a clique of politicians who w ish to put Mr.Clw:o in McCulloch's place, and clear the whoio Cabinet of Its present occupants. Homicides in Monroe.—On Monday Inst a negro lad named Guilford Bfyrlek was accidentally shot, and instantly killed, by the discharge of a pistol in tho hands of a lad named Robert Stanford, clerk in the store of Mr. J. II. Dumas. The pistol was being examined with a view to its pur chase by the colored hoy, when it was dls •barged while in the hands of young Stan ford—the loud passing through the head of tho unfortunate vietim, killing him in stantly. An inquest w as held, and a ver dict rendered in accordance with tho above facts. Captain Belcher, local agent of the Frccdmen’s Bureau, was present during the investigation, and. we under*tabd, fully coincided with the verdict of the jury. A murder occurred in the same county, near Crawford’s Station, on Saturday last. A negro named Simon Morgan, an emjtloyee on the plantation of Mr. Job Taylor, while seated but a short distance from the resi dence, was approached by another frecd- man named General Taylor, who, uttering nn oath, accompanied by the declaration that Morgan had stolen a pumpkin from him, presented nn Enfield rifle and shot the latter through the head. The negro Taylor was arrested by a number of freedmen, who carried him to Forsyth and placed him in custody of the Bureau agent, who turned him over to the civil authorities. The culprit will most probably bo tried during the term of the Superior Court now in session. Tennessee.—The. first bale of Tennessee cotton, new on the 31st. A school hoi night of last v Wilson county. op, s received in Nashville ras burned Thursday near Cumberland, iu s desperadoes who did the mischief had not been apprehended on the 2nd. The Banner is urging upon the merchants of Nashville to make renewed efforts to secure the Alabama and Georgia jobbing trade. CST* There has been a grand masquerade at I’ino Knot Springs, line Knot lias been regenerated nud baptized in another name—-The Chattahoochee White Sulphur Springs.” Tills sounds better. The elite of Mncon and Columbus were in attend ance. The beauty and the chivalry paid court. Goobers and peaches, and water melons and wild plums, country-made “terhaeker” and llahnnua*, had a happy union. All went off well. Corruaixmilence of the Opinion.] W«ihluflon.Gm*i|h Washington, September 1. General Steedman spent the day (Satur day) with the President. Ills presence here at this tlrao Is suggestive, in view of this fact that the removal of Commissioner Bollinb Is sought to 1>e accomplished. Generul Hteedman states, however, that ho has no Intention of taking Mr. Rol lins’s place. It was offered him several weeks ago, hut lie declined It. On the sub ject of ids taking tho War Department folio, he says nothing, hut It is still hinted by his friends that it will lie offered to him. Collector Kellogg and Stekpman’m deputy In New Orleans.are hereon Intenml Reve nue matters. The First National Bank, of this city* advertises for a large sum of Confederate bonds. They arc supposed to be for the European market. If the bonds can be b<.light here at one cent in the dollar, nnd sold to English agents at an advance ofone lit. the speculation would be profita ble. A clique of stock Jobbers, gamblers and whisky dealers, of New York are renewing their efforts for the removal of Mr. Rollins, Comiulssioner of Internal Revenue, majority of tids clique is said to bo Inter ested in the whisky frauds and arc bringing to bear all avoidable influences upon the President to secure their ends. Fernando Wood is said to bo a chief mover in the matter, and his recent visit here was for that purpose. Wood attribute! to Rollins the rejection by the Senate of ids appointments to the Internal Revenue Office in his district. Tills movement against Rollins Is very likely to succeed. The President dislikes him because he is a firm Republican, and the hibby bate him because they cannot use him. The fact that Steedman states that the place had been offered him indicates that he is surely to lie removed. An effort is already on foot here looking to tho reinstatement of Governor Wells, of Louisiana. Tills is. of course, a logical sequence of the removal of Sheridan. You need not be surprised should the Pre sident eventually yield* to this pressure. The parties who urge his replacement. aj*o Ex-Attorney General Herron, Judge Aiieli, Ex-Governor Vooriiees, and other politicians who are out of place. Should the President yield, this will lead to nnoth- breuch between him and Gen. Grant; thu General has the power under the law to prohibit the restoration of nuy offi cer heretofore removed, and he will un doubtedly exercise it. This will bring a fair test of the of the relative powers of Gen. Grant and the President, under the Reconstruction Acts. Edfar War of llaces. i Opinion: 1 f a war of races should Personal—I)r. W. S. Armstrong, Pi fessorof Anatomy in the Atlanta Medical College, left tills morning for Europe, where he will remain lor the next eight months in thu prosecution of studies pre paratory to tho discharge of the duties de volving upon him by his recent connection with the College. NAD ACCIDENT. A Young Lady Drowned at Savannah. Tho Herald of the 2d gives the following particulars of a most lnclnncholy accident which occurred near the wharf on the evening of the 1st instant: A young lady passenger. Miss B. Daley, in walking the gang plank from the steamer to the wharf, stepped off the plank and fell into the river, between thu vessel and the wharf, and was drowhed. There were several persons on the wharf who saw her fall and gave tho alarm, hut it is supposed that she immediately sank to rise no more. Efforts were quickly made to rescue her, but no traces of her could lie discovered other than a bundle which was found floating in the water, and which It is supposed she had in her arms at the time of tlie unfortunate occurrence. We learned upon inquiry, that Miss Da ley was placed on hoard thu steamship at New York by her father, and it is sad to reflect that that parting was forever in life- gad. that with her feet almost on shore site should be hurried into the Jaws of death. Forthcoming Amnesty Proclamation. The Washington correspondent of the X. Y. Trlbnne sends a dispatch to thnt paper, under date August 30tli, in which the fol lowing sentence occurs: Tho President has now under considera tion a new amnesty proclamation to rebels in the .South. Prominent Southern men, who were known as Unionists during the war, and who nro now Johnson men, have been urging this for some timo past. They have been aided by Democrats ot the North, who have Influence with Air. Johnson. Of course, tiie details are not delinitely known to any person outside of official circles. It will probably bo submitted to the Cabinet next week. Those Interested In tho matter state that tho new proclamation will in clude brigadier generals. None above col onels are now Included. They assert that the provisions of tho proclamation will bo very liberal, as Mr. Johnson is inclined to grant nearly all they ask, excepting uni versal amnesty. They fear, however, that his Cabinet will control him, nud make it more conservative, - Bound Over.—Messrs. Bowie and O’Ha ra, arrested for forgery, had a hearing be fore Justice Randolph yesterday morning, when they were required to give bond in tho sum of $600 for their appearance at the ensuing October term of the CUy Court. Not being able to give bond, they were committed to Jail.—Jfoiifflomery (Ala.) Sen tinel 31s t. r“*ult from the present state of affairs it ill bo the fault of the men who, in defl- tance of the inevitable, set themselves against the enfranchisement and ]>olitieal equality of the negro. Were there any hope of success—were it probable even to retard it—there would be some sense iu the effort; though wrong, it might not have any evil results. But, as the case stands at present, it is hopeless. The ne groes will have a majority of the registered voters; and the man must be demented, indeed, who hopes to get them to vote against their own political equality with the whites. What can men like Mr. Hill hope for! What motion does he present to tho negro! Does he not fear, whilst he is talking so glibly about refusing this and that to the negro, he may put it Into the negro’s head to do this and that to him. Who is it that ten ders the issue’of races? It is not the ne gro; lie, poor fellow, seems to have no re- seutment, nnd will be satisfied if he gets equal rights with the white men. But does not every body see that, possessing as they do the power—having tho majority—that If the issue is forced upon them,they may meet it in the same spirit in which it is made. If you think it right to disfranchise them, they may think it right to disfranchise you. It’s a game two can play at; and the worst of it Is, tho negro cun play it best, because lie not only has a majority of votcs t hut he would meet with the favor of tho party controlling tho United States, should he decide to disfranchise the leaders of the late rehell Ion. Take care, gentlemen hot heads, you are playing with edged tools, and you may get your fingers cut. Union. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE from the New York Fret* Association. Washington, Sept. 3,—Grant was absent from the Cabinet session, which lasted two hours. • Revenue receipts, one million*five hun dred and ninety-one thousand. Senator James A. McDougald, of Cali fornia, Is dcud. Farrugufs official re] ort, off Cronstadt, say s: “Our reception here by the Russian au thorities, naval and civil, was most grati fying, faith nationally and individually.” Admiral Davis, of flag-ship Guesoiere, arrived at Rio Janeiro July 20th, twenty- nine days from Boston. He relieves Admi ral Gordon in the command of the squad ron. Prince Alfred was received at Rio Janei ro with royal salute, State dinner and ball, In which the officers of tho American squadron participated. * proclamation iiy the president. Whereas, By the Constitution of the Uni ted States, the Executive power is vested in a President of the United States, who is bound by solemn oath faithfully to execute the office of President, mid to the best of his abilities to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and I j| olwe U by the .Erne Imtrujnont made Command- Jtet ,; rng fn)111 tlon , of the State cr-ln-Chi.* of tho army and Davy of tho llllll( , (ltfi tlmt tl|(J luU!re , t rogl.tn.tlon I. United State* and la required to take care Hanging. Tho black, have ao fur more tiiat the laws lie faitiitullv executed; | And whereas By the same Constitution I net tids m«*rnihg. I he i*n*»id»*nt hoped last night that it would bo disposed of to day. The proclamation will he based ujion that of March, 1862, Issued by Johnson whilo Provisional Governor of Tennessee, which was approved by Lincoln and Congress. That proclamation said, In effect: While conscious that treason may bn punished, no vindictive or retaliating measures will lx? adopted, but a genera! amnesty for all past act* and expressions will l>o granted to tho people on tnn single condition that they yield themselves citizens under the majesty of thu law. He ap]>ea]ed to all erring nnd misguided people to return to their allegiance and avail theiuselvcN of this amnesty. An abundance of coal has been discov ered in Colorado. One vein fifty tulles north of Fort Union is ten feet thick, ex tending fifty square miles, and equals the best Pittsburgh. A sc raw pile light house has been erected nt Hooper’s Straights, Chesapeake Bay'. The light will be exhibited there for the first time on the 11th of September; visible eight miles. [.EATON, Sept. 3—Gen. Can by ar rived here this afternoon with his family and staff and took quarters at the Wells Sheriff Salks Yesterday.—W. L. Hub bard, Deputy Sheriff, sold yesterday, before the Court House door in this city, an ele gant two-horse Express wagon for the sum of $176, and a now one-horse Express wagon for the sum of $147. This property was sold to satisfy a ft. fa. issued from Ful ton Superior Court in favor of George R. Crump A Co. vs. the National Express Co. Mr. Hubbard also sold an Inimenso amount of machinery, moulds, irons, etc* etc., be longing to the firm of Iloge, Mills & Co„ which, owing to the veay complicated con dition It was in, did not bring more than 2% or 3 per cent, of Its real value. A gen- tieman present notified the crowd that he held judgments against said property which had been issued against the same while It was owned by the Gate City Man ufacturing Company, and that be should proceed to make a levy upon it as soon as the sale was over. The bidding was lively and a source of mirth both to tho partici pants and by-stenders. Mr. Win. Solomon was tho purchaser of tho largest portion offered for sale. ^ ^ __TThe net earnings of the Union Pa cific railway, Kansas branch, in July, were $85,000; amount of business done for the Government, 664,000; gross earnings,$100,- 000. Length of tho road In operation, 235 miles. it is provided that the *aid Constitution, nnd the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, shall Ik*, the supreme law of the land, and the Judges in every Stale shall be hound thereby; And whereas, In and by tho same Con stitution the judicial power of the United States is vested in one Supreme Court and such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish, and the aforesaid Judicial power is said to extend to all eases iu law and equity arising under the Constitution, the laws of the United States, and the treaties which shall lie made under their authority; And whereas, All offioeers.civil nnd mil itary. are bound by oath that they will support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. And whereas, All officers of the army and navy of the United States, in accept ing their commissions under the laws of Congress nnd the rules and articles of war, took an obligation to observe, obey and follow such directions as they shall from time to time receive from the President or the General or other superior officer set over them, according to the rules and dis cipline of war; And whereas, it is provided by law that whenever by reason of unlawful obstruc tions, combinations, or assemblages of per sons, or rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States, it shall become impracticable, in thu judg ment of tho President of the United States, to enforce, by the ordinary course of judi ciary proceedings, thu laws of the United States, any Stntc or Territory, tho Execu tive, in that ease, is authorized and re quired to secure their faithful execution Iiy the employment of the land and naval forces; And m hercR«, Impediments and obstruc tions serious in their character have re cently been interposed in the States of North Carolina and South Carolina, hin dering nnd preventing for a time the pro- ]>cr enforcement there of the laws of the United States, and of the judgments ami decrees of a lawful court, thereof, in dis regard of the command of the President of the United States; And whereas, Reasonable nnd well founded apprehension exist, thnt such ill- advised and unlawful proceedings may l>e again attempted there or elsewhere: Now, therefore, I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do hereby warn all persons against obstructing or hindering in any way whatever tho faith fill execution of tbc Constltulon nnd the laws; nnd I do solemnly enjoin nnd com mand all officers of the Government, civil and military, to render due submission and obedience to said laws, and to the judg ments and decrees of the courts of tho United States, and to give all tho aid in their powers necessary for the prompt forccmeut and execution; and I do hereby enjoin upon the officers of tho army nnd navy to assist and sustain tho courts and other civil authorities of the United States in a faithful administration of the laws thereof, In the judgment, decrees, mandates and processes of the courts of tho United States; and 1 call upon all good and well- disposed citizens of tho United States to remember that upon tho said Constitution nnd laws and upon the judgments, decrees and processes of the courts, made in accprd- ance with the same, depend tho protection of tho livea, liberty', property and the hap piness of tho pcoplo; and exhort them everywhere, to testily their devotion to their country, their pride inslts prosperity and greatness, and their determination to upliold Its free institutions by a hearty co-operation in the efforts of the Govern ment to sustain the authority of tho law; to maintain tho supremacy of the Federal Constitution, and to preserve unimpaired the Integrity of the National Union. In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, and sign tho same with my own hand. Done at tho City of Washington, this the third day of September, In the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. [Seal] By the President. Andrew Johnson. W. H. Seward, Sec. of State. The amnesty question la before the Cab* than two-thirds of the whole number reg istered. Returns yet to come will proba bly reduce their mojorlty, but not ma **ri- ully. Raleigh, Sept. 3.—Delegates to the Re publican Convention which assembles here to-morrow crowd every train. A large number are already hero, and still arriving. Tho present indications fore shadow an immense gathering. Tho white imputation are largely represented, nearly ail of whom are moderates of the Gordloe wing. Galveston, Sept. 3.—Fever unabated. I)r. Rowe, army surgeon, very low. Lieut. Adams Medical Director, taken. General Potter is thought to be improving. Gen. Griffiu’s only child and its nurse were ta ken lust night; he has telegraphed to re move the headquarters of the Fifth Dis trict from Galveston. Lieut. Garnetson has been appointed to take charge of the Freedman’s Bureau, vice Kirkham, dead. The Times of this morning, in its review of the yellow fever in the city, says that during the last half mouth of August only four natives of the State had died from it. A large majority of deaths are foreigners. Interments yesterday 25. Cleveland, Sept. 3.—Four hundred Spiritualists in Convention, California on ly unrepresented. Tho Fenian Congress convened to-day. President Roberts here. One thousand delegates in attendance. Proceedings pri- ntn. London, Sept. 3.—The condition on which England willingly submits to the Alabama’s claims to a Commission, is that the claims of English subjects against America for losses suffered during the rc- l>clllon be submitted to the same Commis sion. Cortes’ note announces the termination of thcCandia war, and a general amnesty to tho insurgents. Many reforms in the laws and government of Cundia aro prom ised. San Francisco, Aug. 31.—Past week’s receipts of bullion from mines, one million two hundred thousand. The Montana took out one million flfty-cight thousand. SrKEcn of Judge Chase.—Upon his arri val at Manchester, N. II., a few days since. Judge Chase was waited upon by a depu tation of citizens and tendered tho hospi talities of the city. Mr. Chase’ made the following address: Citizens and Friends: I am exceeding ly grateful to you for this most hearty aud cordial reception. The services which it has been my privilege and happiness to render tho conntry are more than repaid by tills ruccptlon, and these most happy tokens of your approbation. It has been tlie great study or my life to so act as to liiKrlt the approvnl ol my countrymen. To you It Is very fitting for me to say, thnt l am Indebted to the good old State of New Hampshire for my birth. [Applause.] In her public schools I received the rudiments of my education, while 1 afterward had the privilege of graduating from her honored college. It was In a New Hampshire church that I experienced that spir itual awakening that leads me to look forward trustingly to tlie life eternal. It has been said of New Hanipchlro that her only products are ice and granite. [Applause.] New. Hampshire ami Now England nro great in tho power and worth or their men and women, who go forth into every part of the country, sow ing broadcast the seeds of vlrtne. industry, Intelligence and godliness. Thus they lay the foundation ortho nation’s greatness. Almost everywhere you find the Yankee schoolmaster nnd sehoolmarm teaching alike tho white and black. New England does a great work for tho Republic, A na tion can only bo great In tho virtue, intel ligence and goodness of her children. I did not design to mako a speech this eve ning. and did not intend to lie betrayed in to these remarks, but you nro nil so good to me In New Hampshire that the heart will not allow tho tongue to be silent. [Great applause.] For this most kind and grati fying reception, allow me once more to thank you, and to say that 1 shall not forget your kindness to tlie latest hour of my llfo. [Applause.] , • Military Movements.—We find tho fol lowing items, in the Nashville Banner of the 1st: About fifty new recruits, for service at Atlanta, passed through this city from Louisville yesterday. The troops at Cumberland and Ash Bar racks were mustered for pay yesterday. General Duncan’s headquarters will be removed from opposite tho Chattanooga depot to Ash Barracks, Thursday/ All the troops now stationed In Nashville will be removed to Ash Barracks the Utter part ot this month.