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About Tri-weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 18??-1877 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1868)
CONSTITUTIONALIST. AUGUSTA, GhA. FRIDAY MORNING. OCT. 30,1868 THE “BLOODY SHIRT.” Forney is waving the bloody shirt. He publishes what purports to be a history of the New Orleans riot of 1866. By whom, think you? By an ex-member of the “ Louisiana Tigers.” And who were these “ Tigers ?” Forney tells us thus: “The Louisiana Tigers were a military or ganization which gained an extensive notoriety during the late rebellion as embracing the very worst elements of the city of New Orleans." From some bribed cut-throat or thief, therefore, Forney has contrived to elicit a “ thrilling narrative” for the edification of the trooly loil. Bad as the “ Tigers” may have been, we believe Forney has libelled them by pre tending that this narrative of horrors ema nates from any member of that company. We believe Forney himself to be the veri table “ Tiger” and nobody else. Have we not seen him in the character of a “Union Washerwoman” and an “Ex-Confed,” be fore to day ? We are fortified in this belief by the following extract from an editorial allusion to this “ Thrilling Narrative of a Louisiana Tiger." He says: “We hesitated in believing the dreadful cir cumstances related by the author as forming a part of the New Orleans tragedy. But on turn ing to the report of the committee of investiga tion appointed by Congress to ascertain the facts, we find the narrative to conform with wonderful exactness to the testimony of the witnesses in that investigation." That lets the cat out of the bag, and con firms our suspicion as to the authorship. The Proteus who disguised himself in the Grecian Bend of “ Jane Catherwaite, a Union washerwoman with ten children,” would find no difficulty in skulking behind the trowsers of a Louisiana Tiger. The improbity that deliberately falsified a dis patch from the late John E. Hays, to suit a base partisan purpose, need not hesitate in turning the Congressional Committee’s report into sanguinary narrations of a Louisiana Tiger. It may be that the pious Forney has, indeed, eliminated from an “ organization embracing the very worst elements of the city of New Orleans,” an element baser than the rest, a scoundrel meaner than his clan ; but from the established character of the man who wrote the Jamieson letter, we are constrained to believe that the bloody “Tiger” is only anew perversion of a great original in the trick of flip-flap and artful dodging. The confusion in Louisiana is sufficiently bad without any interference from Forney. No doubt, he and his party have instigated much of the trouble which now rages in that unhappy and “ reconstructed ” State. Radicalism dearly loves bloody reprisals at the South, and always contrives to'inaugu rate “ Southern outrages ” when the North ern heart needs fresh supplies of hatred. Julian. the outrageous frauds by which his ELECTION WAS SECURED. lo the Electors of the Fourth District of Indiana: To my political and personal friends in the Fourth Congressional District, I desire to express my warmest and heartfelt thanks for their kind and generous support in elect ing me as their Representative to the Forty tir»t Cougress of the United States. True, my opponent, the Hon. George W. Julian, the present member, disregarding all honor and the expressed wishes of the Electors of the District, has endeavored, by fraud and chicanery, to thwart the inten tion of the people, and has obtained for the time being the disfranchisement of eleven hundred of the citizens of Wayne county, by rejecting, through the Board of Canvass ers of that county, the precinct of Rich mond, in which I obtained a majority over him of 201 votes. But such conduct is condemned by all good men, whether Re publican or Democrat, and returns with tenfold power to crush forever the perpe trators of so great a wrong to the rights of the people. The South precinct w,a& established by the same board which created the North; and the election was conducted under Re publican officers, under a copy of the same registry as the North. Whatever was done by the South precinct was equally applica ble to the North, and both must stand or fall together. At the North precinct Julian received a majority of 685 votes over me, and I received in the south 201 votes over him ; but the South poll was rejected with out any proper cause, by a board without any legal authority, and under the advice of the honorable gentleman. The Repub lican State ticket was defrauded out of 188 votes, and I of 201 votes, in order to secure him the certificate of election. Against this great wrong I have filed a protest with the Secretary of State at In dianapolis, supported by the affidavits of Colonel William A. Bickle, of Richmond, one of the disfranchised voters, and shall do all in my power to correct it, and vindicate the rights of the people to a fair and free election. That Mr. Julian was beaten by eighty seven votes is acknowledged by his brother’s paper, the Radical Republican, and it was only after mature reflection by him and his associates that it was decided that the vote of the South precinct of Richmond should be thrown out, in order to save his election, regardless of the danger to Governor Baker and the Republican State ticket, or the rights of myself. For the present I have taken legal steps to stay the issuing of the Congressional cer tificate to him, and to obtain the certificate to myself as the legally elected member, and shall do no act which will injure the rights ot the citizens of Wayne Township ; but will demand a fair and a full investiga tion of every thing connected with the action of the board, and this infamous con duct in rejecting the whole vote of the pre cinct. Again I thank you for your kind and gen erous support, irrespective of party, and subscribe myself your legally elected Repre sentative. John S. Reid* [From The Land We Love. A Loyal Juror. Under the protection of the Freedman’s Bureau and the teaching of the loyal Fetich, the negroes of the South commit more crime every week than the aggregate crime among them during the two hundred years of slavery. Rape, robbery and murder are of daily occurrence. Still, amid all the outrages committed, there has been a good deal of the ludicrous not unworthy the Hav ersack. When the order came from the Big Boss of each of the “ five Districts ” to put ne groes on the jury, the colored brethren were not slow to learn that the pay was two dollars per day. Many of them walked ten and fifteen miles to town, saying that they had come to “ jine the jury.” One of these, who may bear the generic name of Pompey Squash, did get on the jury. Dur ing the whole trial, lie sat meditating upon the goodness of th? Big Boss in letting him have a chance to get his two dollars a day. He understood not a word that was said by witnesses and lawyers, but his meditations were, nevertheless, sweet upon the forth coming greenbacks. “De ole woman shill git a rael, shore nuff caliker frock, and shan’t go to meetin’ in a copperas frock, like de white trash.” In the midst of these pleasant reflections, the Judge gave a solemn charge to the jury, explaining the points of law and enjoining them to discharge their duty faithfully. The jury retired to their room. “ Did you understand the Judge’s charge, Mr. Squash?” asked one ol the parors. Instantly Pompey’s face became a shade blacker, his eyes rolled in his head, and the whites of his eyes looked like snow flakes on a "coal pile, “ Bless de Lord, is de Judge chargin’ us ? I tot we wos a gwine togit pay 1” We will conclude the anecdote. We never liked the style, “ the rest of this thrilling story to be lound in Bonner's LeJger next week.” Cloe got her “ rael caliker frock,” and looks down, with queenly contempt, on “ de white trash.” Gen. Blair Charged with Disloyalty —He is Disfranchised. —We were loth to believe the reports in circulation Monday evening, to the effect that the Board of Re view in session at Gucrdemann’s had enter tained objections to Gen. Blair as a voter in the Eighth District. The Dispaich , how ever, having taken pains to inquire into the matter, says that it is literally true, and that on the books, opposite his name, are written the words, “ Objected to by the Board.” This entry was made after the General had left the’ city to fill an appoint ment in another State. Though there is no legality whatever in the proceeding, it is a characteristic illustration of our beautiful system of suffrage under Radical rule. The charge against Gen- Blair is “ disloyalty,” of course—and surely no better evidence is required than that the accused is a candi date on the Democratic ticket. Whether or not it was Gen. Blair’s intention to vote at this election, we are of opinion that the parties to this outrage will see reason to regret their action. [(BL Louis Republican, 21 st. American Eloquence —A French View. The Frankfort Teaman is indebted to a literary friend for the following translation of a recent French criticism on the decay of American eloquence and the conditions necessary to its resuscitation: ECLIPSE OF ELOQUENCE. Many of our American editors lament the absolute want of eloquence which character izes the pleadings in the Johnson trial'. With the exception of Mr. Evarts, who is commended lor a few fine and stirring pass ages, no speaker has risen above the most dismal platitudes. Are we to conclude, then, that eloquence has died out, in the United States, and that the present genera tion is inferior to the preceding one, which never could equal the fathers of the coun try ? It is easy to answer this question. If eloquence be not dead in the United States, it is, doubtless, very sick, and the present generation, of politicians at least, is, without contradiction, inferior to those of the first and second periods of American history. As early as 1832 M. De Tocque ville drew attention to this decline. He observed with his habitual judgment and impartiality “ that the first men ot the Union would be reckoned, elsewhere, only as happy mediocrities.” And yet he had known Clay, Webster, Jackson, Calhoun, &c. What would he say now ? The rea son of this decline of the oratorical art and of the political value of American states men is easy to discern. The first is to be found in the general defectiveness of educa tion, which stops short half way, or rather one-fourth of the way, from the starting point. A thorough knowledge of history is indispensable in politics. Members of Congress frequently give us sad specimens of their historical knowledge when they venture into this region, but little explored by most of them. The 'limes and the World, who require eloquence .absolutely, would do well to call to mind what Cicero and Quin tilian required of a citizen before awarding to him the distinguished title of Orator, and let them tell us how many public men of the Union come up to those require ments. Besides the deficiency of general educa tion, the tastes of a democracy do n t in cline it to choose the primes inter pares.— Men truly eloquent, those possessing capa city, taste, and fervor, are not those to cap tivate popular meetings. These require coarseness and a violence which overflows ; the masses require the language which can best be understood by them. They are carried away by stump speeches, the haran gues or rather the vociferations of cross roads demagogues, whose influence prevails in the elections. These in their turn are sent to Congress, and in place of orators we find shriekers, noisy disturbers of order, whose sallies bear no comparison to the in terminable milk-and-water harangues of the Assemblee. If the democracy of Athens allowed itself to be governed by great orators, It was be cause it resembled in no regard our modern democracy, and, least of all, the American democracy. The Athenian people was a great lord, served by slaves, who lacked not the leisure to cultivate his understand ing. The same crowd that were moved by Alcibiades or Pericles wept to the verses of Euripides and Sophocles, and understood alike the discussions of the Academy and the subtleties of the Portico. It was natural that this refined society should applaud fine language, should be able to distin guish vehemence from violence, true fervor from fury, learning from ignorance and the sublime from the trivial. It would be expecting too much that the American democracy, whose material labor absorbs every instant of time, should, in this respect, be the equal of that small im mortal people upon whose restricted terri tory was for so long a time concentrated the highest expression of genius. If the fathers of the Republic were more eloquent than their grandsons of 1868, it is because their instruction in morals and in the humanities was better. Many of them had been brought up at English universi ties—all were students. In our day it has got into the heads of the Americans to hurry up everything by steam, and, conse quently, since the human faculties are al ways the same all is done superficially.— An engineer is made in two months; a doc tor in "four, a statesman in three, and all boast of universal aptitudes which turn to profit. Cicero, for the making of an orator, a term which, m) his estimation, was equiva lent to that of statesman —Cicero, we say, required a period of a good number of years. Quintilian, still more scrupulous, took the orator in infancy and conducted him from the pretexile robe on even to many years beyond the virile robe. Have the Times and the World, who weep over the defunct American eloquence, asked themselves why it is that the French Chambers, notwithstanding a system of government ill no wise favorable to speak ing,are so much admired for the eloquence of debate? It is because their members, especially those of the opposition, are great scholars. Thiers, Jules Simon, Pelletin, Favre and Olivier have all given themselves to profound classical studies. Doubtless these studies cannot create orators and statesmen; if natural aptitudes be want ing, they only make meu scholar-like in words and sometimes blunderers in action ; but, on the other hand, natural aptitudes will be perfectly useless if they be not aided, controlled and developed by the study of the humanities. Ifonr brethren intend to recall eloquence into the assemblies of the country, let them at once advise about elevating the standard of general studies. Let them disabuse the multitude as to the real value of the men who court it. and let them cease to applaud with so much beatitu *e when political honors are conferred upon an ex-rail-splitter or an ex-sawyer. Not that we have the silliness or the bad taste to make a man’s former occupation a matter of reproach ; all work is honorable. But it is evident that such callings are not precisely such as ren der men apt to govern their fellow-citizens or especially to "rival Demosthenes or De mades. It may be that they have studied in after life, when the period of youth was past; but the elements must ever be want ing, those essentials so unwisely disregard ed by the teaching classes, and still more so by the learners in the United States; and especially must they lack method—the knowing how to make use of their faculties to good profit in the prosecution of after studies. When all the necessary reforms in instruction, in general ideas and in morals, shall have been accomplished—when self sufficiency shall have disappeared and moral sense come to life again in a measure, then may our editorial friends count upon the approaching revival of eloquence in the United States. Tak# Notice. — Wo furnish our readers this mooting with the law of Georgia relative to the coming election. It is a matter of much importance that the provisions of the law gov erning and controlling this matter shonld be fully understood by ajl voters, and we advise our friends to cut it Out of the paper and file away for reference. We shall .speak of this again. CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF GEOR GIA GOVERNING THE ELECTION. Constitutional Provisions. ARTICLE 11. FRANCHISE and elections. Section 1. In all elections by the people, the electors shall vote by ballot. Sec. 2. Every male person born in the United States, and every male person who has been naturalized, or who has legally declared his in tention to become a citizen of the United States, twenty-one years old or upward, who shall have resided in six months next preceding the election, and Bhall have resided thirty days in the county in which he offers to vote, and shall have paid all taxes which may have been required of him, and which he may have bad an opportunity of paying agreeably to law, for the year next preceding the election (except as hereinafter provided), shall be deem ed an elector, and every male citizen ot the United States of the age aforesaid (except as hereinafter provided), who may be a resident of tbe State at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be deemed an elector, and shall have all the rights of an elector as afore said. Provided, That no soldier, sailor, or marine, in the military or naval services of the United States shall acquire the rights of an elector by reason of being stationed on duty in this State, and no person shall vote who, if challenged, shall refuse to take the following oath: “1 do swear that I have not given or received, nor do I expect to give or receive, any money, trcht, or other thlDg of value, by which my vote, or any .vote is affected or expected to be affected at this electiou ; nor have I given or promised . any reward, or made auy threat, by which to prevent any person from votiDg at this elec tion.” Sec. 3. No person convicted of felony or lar ceny before any court in this State, or of, or in the United States, shall be eligible to any office or appointment of honor or trust within this State, unless he shall have been pardoned. Sec. 4. No person who is the holder of any public moneys shall be eligible to any office in this Btate until the same is accounted for, and paid into the Treasury. • Sec. 5. No person who, after the adoption of this constitution, being a resideut of this State, shall engage in a duel in this State, or else where, or shall send or accept a challenge, or be aider or abettor to such duel, shall voW>or hold office in this State, and every such person shall also be subject to such punishment as the law may prescribe. Sec. (i. The General Assembly may provide, from time to time, for tbe registration of all electors, but the following classes of persons shall not be permitted to register, vote, or hold office: First—Those who shall have been con victed ol treason, embezzlement of public lunds, malfeasance in office, crime punishable by law with imprisonment in the penitentiary, or bri bery. Second—ldiots or insane persons. Sec. 7. Electors shall, in all cases, except treason, felony, or breach of .the peace, be priv ileged from arrest for five days before an elec tion*, during the election, and two days subse quent thereto. Sec. 8. The sale of intoxicating liquors ou days of election is prohibited. Sec. 9. Returns of election lor all civil offi cers elected by the people, who are to be com missioned by the Governor, and also lor the members ol the General Assembly, shall lie made to the Secretary of State, unless otherwise pro vided by law. Sec. 10. The General Assembly shall enact laws giving adequate protection to electors be fore, during, and subsequent to elections. Sec. 11. The election for Governor, members of Congress and of the General Assembly, after the year 1868, shall commence on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, unless otherwise provided fcy law.— Statutory Pro visions from Irwin’s Code. CHAPTER I. QUALIFICATION OF VOTERS. § 1303. The qualification of voters for mem bers of tbe General Assembly iB contained in tbe following oath, which must he taken wheu the managers of an election require it: |“ I swear that 1 have attained the age of twenty-one years; that I am a citizen ot the United States, anil have resided for the last two years in this State, and for the last six months in this county, and have considered and claim ed it as my home, and have paid all legal (axes which have been required of me, and which 1 have had an opportunity of paying, agreeable to law, lor the year preceding this election.— So help me God.”J $ 1304. Persons qualified to vote for mem bers of the General Assembly, and none others, are qualified to vote for any other officers, civil or military, unless said privilege be enlarged or restricted by the constitution, or some special enactment. § 1305. Auy qualified voter for members of the General Assembly may vote for any candi date, or upon any question which is submitted to all the voters of the State, in any county of the State, and for any candidate or question which is submitted to all the voters of auy dis trict or circuit, in any county of the circuit or district, iu which is embraced the county of the voter’s residence. §1306. [A voter cotpiug under the preced ing seetiou shall take the following oath when required by the managers of an election : “ I swear that 1 have attained to the age of twenty one years; that I am a citizen of the United States, and have resided for the last two years in this State, and for the last six mouths iu this District or Circuit (as the case njay be), and have considered and claimed it as my home, and have paid all legal taxes which have been required ol me, and which 1 have had an opportunity of paying, agreeabje to law, for the year preceding this election. So help me God.”] § 1307. The Superintendents may, iu their discretion, or ii demanded by a qualified voter, compel a person offering to vote to also take this oath: “ £ swear that I have not this day voted at any place in this State, for apy of the candidates, nor lor any other person, for any of the offices to be filled. So help me God.” § 1808. When any county, or portion of a county, is changed from one county, or one dis trict, or one circuit, to another, the persons who would have been qualified .to vote for members of the General Assembly in the coun ty, district, or circuit from which taken, at the time of auy election, shall vote in the county, district, or circuit to which they are removed, aud if required to 6wear, the oath may be so qualified as to contain this fact. This provision, when applicable, appertains also to military elections. CHAPTER 11. ELECTION FOR MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL AS SEMBLY. § 1309. The persons qualified to hold such elections are Justices of the Inferior Court. Justices of the Peace, and freeholders. There must be three superintendents, aud one must either be a Justice ot the Inferior Court or a Justice of the Peace, except in a certaiu con tingency hereinafter to be set forth. § 1310. Before proceeding with the election, each superintendent must lake aud subscribe the following oath : “ All, and each of us do swear, that we will faithfully superintend this day’s election ; that we are Justices of the Inferior Court, Justices of the Peace, or Freeholders (as the case may be) of t.bis county ; that we will make a just and true return thereof, and not knowingly permit any one to vote unless we believe he is enti tled to do so according to the laws of this State, nor knowingly prohibit from voting who is so entitled by law, and will not divulge for whom ar.y vote was cast, unless called on under the law to do so. 8a help me God.” Said affidavit shall be signed by the su perintendents in the capacity, each acts in full, both as to name aud station, and not by abbjy viation. § 1311. Said oath shall be taken before some . officer qualified to administer an oath, if pre ' sent, and if none such are on the spot, and act ing at the time required, then said ents may swear each other, and the oath shall be of the same effect as il token before a quali fied officer. § 1312. Such election shall be held at the court house of the respective counties, and if no court house, at some place within the limits of the county site, and at the several election precincts thereof (if any) established, or to be established. Said precincts must not exceed one in each militia district. Such precincts are established, changed or abolished by the Jus tices of the Inferior Court at a regular term of the court; descriptions of which must be en tered on their minutes at the time. § 1313. The day oPholding the same is the first Wednesday in October, 1861, and biennally thereafter, aDd the time of day for keeping open the elections is from 7 o’clock, a. m., to 0 o’clock, p. m., at the court house, and front 8 o’clock, a. m., to 5 o’clock, p. m., at the pre cincts. § 1314. If by 10 o’clock, a. m., on the day of the election, there is no proper officer present to hold the election, or there is one, and he re fuses, three freeholders may superintend the election, 6ball administer the oath required to each other, which shall be of the same effect as if taken by a qualified officer. , § 1315. All superintendents shall have such elections conducted in the following manner: 1. The vote shall be given by ballot. 2. There shall be kept by superintendents, or. by three clerks under their appointment, three lists of the names of voters, which shall be numbered in the order of their voting, and also three tally sheets. 3. As each ballot is received, the number of the voter on tbe list shaH be marked on his ballot before being deposited in the box. 4. When any voter is challenged and sworn, it shall be so written opposite his name on the list, and also on his ballot. 5. The superintendents may begin to count the votes at any time in tbeir discretion, but they shall not do so until the polls are closed ft a candidate in person or by written authority objects. • 6. When the votes are all connted out, there must be a certificate signed by all of the super intendents, stating the number of votes each person voted for received, and each list of voters, and tally sheets, must have placed thereon the signature of the superintendents. 7. The superintendents of the precincts must send their certificates, and all the other papers of the election, including the ballots, under the seal, to the county site for consolidation, in charge of one of their number, which must be delivered there by twelve o’clock, m., of the next day. Such person is allowed two dollars, to be paid out of the county, treasury for such service. 8. The superintendents to consolidate the vote of the county must consist of all those who officiated at the county site; or a majority of them, at least one from each They shall make and subscribe two certificates, stat ing the whole number of votes each person re ceived in the county; one of them, together with one list of voters and one tally sheet lrom each place ol holding tbeelection, shall be seal ed up, and without delay mailed to the Govern or; the other with like accompaniments, 6ball be directed to the Clerk of the Superior Court of the county, and by him deposited in his office. Each of said returns must contain copies of the original oaths takeu by the su perintendents at the court house and precincts. 9. The ballots shall not be examined by the superintendents or the bystanders, but shall be carefully sealed in a strong envelope (the su perintendents writing their names across the seal), and delivered to the Clerk of the Supe rior Court, by whom they shall be kept un opened and unaltered for sixty days, il the next Superior Court sits in that time; if not, until alter said term; after which time, if there is not a contest, begun about said elec tion, the sniff ballots shall be destroyed with out opening or examing the same,* or permit ting others to do so. And if the Clerk shall violate, or permit others to violate this section, he and the person violating shall be subject to be indicted, and fined not less than one hun dred, nor more than five hundred dollars. — Such Clerks shall deliver said list of voters to their respective grand juries on tbe first day of the next term of the Superior Court; and ou failure to do so arc liable to a line of not less than one hundred dollars on being indicted and convicted thereof. § 1316. If said superintendents do not deliv er said lists and accompaniments to said clerks within three days from J-be day ol the election, they are liab.e to indictment, and on conviction shall be fined not less than fifty, nor more than five hundred dollars. Any su perintendent of an election, failing to discharge any duty required of him by law, is liable to a like proceeding and penalty. § 1317. The grand juries shall examine said lists, and if any voter is found thereon who was not entitled to vote, they shall present said illegal voter. If any person is suspected of voting for members of the General Assembly who was not cutitled, but was entitled to vote for some other candidate at the same election, the foreman of the grand jury may examine tbe ballot, and that one alone, and lay it before the grand jury and return it. If the superintend ents iail to return as required, the lists and the Tiallots, they must be presented. § 1318. The Governor shall furnish the seve ral clerks of the luferior Court all blank forms necessary for said election, which they shall furnish the justices of the peace of their coun ties at least ten days before election day, aud on failure to do so, shall be liable to a fiue by their courts not exceeding one hundred dollars. § 1319. If the superintendents of officers of such election shall make a fraudulent return thereof, or they, or either of them, while so of ficiating, shall influence, or attempt to influence or persuade any voter not to vote as he design ed, or shall take any undue means to obtain a vote, they shall forfeit for the ofieuse one hun dred dollars, to be recovered by information, and if the person be a justice he forfeits his office on proceedings for removal. § 1320. No civil officer shall execute any writ or Civil process upon the body of any person qualified to vote at such elections while going to, or returning from, or during his stay there, on the day, under the penalty of five hundred dollars, to be recovered by action. A reasona ble and lull time shall be allowed for the jour ney to and lrom the polls. § 1321. Elections to fill vacancies lor mem bers of the General Assembly take place under the authority of a writ of election, issued by the Governor to the Justices of the luferior Court of the county where the vacancy occurs, who must order and publish a day for holding the same, by giving at least twenty days’ notice. § 1322. All the provisions of this chapter ap ply equally to elections to fill such vacancies and any other special election. ARTICLE iV. ELECTORS FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESI DENT. § 1323. On the Tuesday alter.the first Mon day in November, 1868, and every fourth year thereafter, until altered by act of Congress, there shall be an election for Electors ol Presi dent and Vice-President ol tbe United States. 1324. On the twentieth day after said elec tion shall have taken place, it is the duty of the Governor to consolidate the several returns and immediately notify those persons of their ejection who have received a vote, amounting lo a majority, and to require tbeSFatlendance at the eapitol on the first Monday in December I hereafter, to east the vote of the State on the Wednesday following at 12 o’clock, m. § 1325. In the event all, or a majority of said Electors may not have received a majority, the Governor shall communicate the fact to the General Assembly, if in session, and if not, he shall issue his proclamation convening them in time to secure the vote of the Sl ate in the Elec toral College. The General Assembly shall, by joint ballot, elect as many Electors as have not received said majority. If a majority of Electors have been chosen by the people, they may fill the remaining vacancies tfieroselyns by ballot, which electiou shall be communicated to the Governor. If, when the Electors elected by the people, or by the General Assembly, or some by each, convene at the eapitol, any of their number shall not be present at the time specified for counting the vote, a majority of the elected may fill all vacancies; which shall be duly communicated to the Governor. § 132 G. if a majority fail to attend by said Wednesday at noon, from providential cause, those who do atteDd may adjourn from day to day for ten days, and if a majority is not pre sent at the expiration of that time, the Govern or shall convene the General Assembly on ten days’notice, who shall fill the vacancies by election. § 1327. The electors, wheu assembled to cast the vote, shall choose a President of their body lrom their number, and a Secretary not of their number ; said Secretary shall make a record of their proceedings in a book from the Executive Department kept for that purpose. § 1328. Such electors shall elfcet, by a ma jority vote, a messenger to convey the vote of Georgia, and shall, in regard to that and all other masters, proceed, according to the acts of Congress in such eases made and provided. § 1329. The pay of electors shall he eight dollars per day lor every day required in re maining at the eapitol on their mission, and eight dollars for every twenty -iniles in going, to and returning therefrom, said mileage to lie computed as that of members of the General Assembly. The pay of the Secretary shall be one hundred dollars, all of which is to be paid gilfiej; out of the contingent fund, or out of any njoney in the treasury, hot otherwise appropri ated, iu the discretion of the Governor. [From tbe Norfolk Journal. Where Are the Descendants of the Negro Slaves of Antiquity ? When Rome conquered the city of Carthage and its dependent territory, there were many negroes captured who were slaves' to the whites of Africa. These were carried to Rome and sold there. After that period there were always numbers of black slaves in the city and its im mediate neighborhood as long as the Empire lasted. There are no data by which we can judge of the number of thousands of these negroes in Rome ; but from the incidental mention made ol them in the Latin authors, they must have been quite numerous. In the centuries from their first importation to the end of the Em pire, there must have been at least a million brought into Italy—though this is most proba bly but a very moderate estimate. These must •have mixed in with the white race to such an extent that under the Empire there must have been many mulattoes. What has become of this negro blood? There are certainly no traces of it now to be found in Italy, whose inhabitants are as entire ly free from tbe slightest taint ot it as are those of Sweden. The theory that it might have been so diluted with white blood as to be at this time untraceabie, is simply absurd; tor every one who has studied the Subject of races, or observed the effect of mixture, knows that the original type, if it exists at ai), will crop out lrom time to time in a most unmistakable manner down to the thousandth generation. In Egypt there were also immense numbers ot slaves' imported from the negro tribes on its borders from the days of the early monuments down to the present time. Bat though there exist a tew mulattoes descended from the im portations of the last two hundred years, yet among the bulk of the inhabitants of Egypt there are no traces whatever of negro blood.— Indeed, considering the large number ot negro slaves in Egypt at all times, this freedom from admixture in that eouutry is even much more remarkaDle than in the ease of Italy. There i6 one way of accounting for these facts, and but one—aud that is, that so different are the Caucasian and African races, that they can not be permanently mingled together. The mixture produces a being, which, il not a par tial hybrid, is at least so subject to disease that it can be propagated to but lew generations, when it dies out. We see .this tendency in this country already most forcibly 6hown in the small number of the descendants of mulattoes. Now and then we see a quadroon in Virginia, very seldom an octoroon, and beyond that de gree tbe blood cannot be said to exist at all. It is this tendency of the mongrel to die out that has destroyed all traces of negro blood among the Indians and Egyptians. Those of them who were sprung from negroes died out many centuries ago, leaving the original stock as perfectly pure as if there had never been an African imported into either Rome or the King dom of the Pharaohs. And thus will it be in the South.' Not only will the pure negro race vanish from the earth in the course of a very few generations, lrom causes which must make every inlerior race disappear, but not even the slightest admixture of blood Will be left among us; the same effects will result in the South as in Italy and Egypt, and there will not be left a trace, save in his tory, of the African race having ever existed in America. [From the Nashville Republican Banner. Dr. Eve. HIS RECEPTION AND INTRODUCTORY LECTURE AT ST. LOUIS. Dr. Paul F. Eve, latq otthis city, who was re cently appointed to the Chair of Surgery in the Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, deliver ed his introductory lecture last Wednesday.— Forty or fifty medical gentlemen and a large number of students were present. The report of the lecture fills opr two closely printed columns in our St. Louis exchanges. We make the following extracts: Who can scrutinize the dealings of Provi dence—they are indeed past finding out. Little did I think when, less than four weeks ago, while struggling hard to assist in organizing another college in Nashville, Tennessee, I should be so soon standing in the footsteps of a dear friend, who, though he fell at the mature age of sixty-threejyears, yet such w»s the vigor of his constitution that like Double, of Paris, who died at precisely the same period of life, we all deeply deplore, and doubly mourn his loss, because cut off in the midst of his useful ness. Long recognized as one of the greatest surgeons of bis day and generation, acknowl edged to have been the first to deliver a medical lecture on this side of the great Mississippi, and known to have left no superior, he lived, fortunately, long enough to found this college, henceforth dedicated as a monument to his memory, and to chereish and preserve its honor and reputation shall be my chief end and aim. I am, gentlemen, here for the Winter, with no divided affection. I honor the good old Commonwealth of Georgia which gave me birth; I love Tennessee, the State wherein I have so pleasantly labored for the past fifteen or tweniy years ; but I am now in St. Louis, Missouri, and by the help of the Almighty the interests of St. Louis shall be in me. All this head can conceive, all this heart can be made to feel with its warm affections, and these hands, still strong and willing to labor, can execute for this college, will now be exerted to their utmost. Doctor Eve here gave a brief outline of the origin and history of surgery. It his fallen to my lot, gentlemen, to pass through the usual trials incident to our respon sible profession. 1 have often prayed that I might place a proper estimate upon human life; for we must first love man, that we may practice our art with the right spirit. To com mit an error in medicine, to jeopardize the existence of a fellowbeing, to lose a patient by death, is indeed a most distressing event; and vet to err is human, and life itself, how un certain ! Man proposes, God disposes; and if we do our duty, experience has taught me, He will do what is right. I have always felt deep ly, keenly, when a mistake has been made in diagnosis, therapeutics or prognosis, but when ever I could conscientiously believe the best had been done that could be under the circum stances, regardless of public detraction and petty jealousy, leave the responsibility of the case where it belongs, to Him who governs all things well. If, in the faith of duty, I staud ready to bow submissively to His will, come what may, he it weal or woe. It is now forty-two years since I commenced the study of medicine, and they have been to me years ot labor of love. Eighteen years I occupied the Chair of Surgery in the Medical College of Georgia, and left it with a class of one hundred and ninety-seven students, a num ber it has never reached since; theu the same professorship for one term in the Louisville University, and seventeen in that of Nashville, its best class before the war having attained four hundred and fifty-four ; ands do sincerely hope that it will uoi require that long to ftil every seat in this college. Dr. Dudley, ol Kentucky, is the only professor of surgery now living who remains of those lecturing on this department when 1 commenced. It is said of an old scarred veteran, belong ing to Napoleon’s favorite corps, who exclaim ed amidst, the disastrous defeat of Waterloo, “ the guards die, but never surrender,” when desperately wounded and captured, and while undergoing a painful surgical operation, cried out to the English surgeons, “ Cut a little deeper and you will find the Emperorfor this was the idol engravened upon his heart. This head tuay be white, and these furrows may he becoming deeper and more numerous, but, thank God, these hands tremble not; this voice falters not; nor do these limbs refuse to bear me promptly to every appointment. But what of this poor, frail, perishing body ? It is only the house in which I live. Look within, cut a little deeper, aud see if the professional fires, kindled nearly a half century ago, are not now burning as brightly and as vigorously as ever ihey did. “Wc live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings; not in figures on a dial. We should connt time by heart thiobs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, nets the best. And he whose heart b ats the quickest liv :s the longest; Lives in one hour more than in years do same-- Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.” Dr. Eve concluded with a touching eulogy on the character and professional services of the late Dr. McDowell, [From the Savannah News, October 27. Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia. HON. JOHN ERSKINE, JUDGE, PRESIDING. The adjourned session of the April term of the United States Circuit Court met at the court rooms iu this city, at 10 o’clock yesterday morning. The petit jurymen were called and answered to their names, as follows : Nicholas Geil, fore man ; Robert 11. Tatera, W. A. Thomas, H. Phillips, B. H. Hardee, Joseph R. Ripley, B. G. Tilden, C. R. Goodwin, S. A. Silverberg, W. J. Miller, C. B. Ashe, John R. Rowland. The jury was then discharged until 10 o’clock this morn ing. Hon. William B. Fleming was re-admitted to practice at the bar of this court. William D. Harden, Esq., was admitted to practice at the bar ol this court. The Court adjourned until 10 o’clock this morning. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, FOR TJIE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA —HON. JOHN ERSKINE, JUDGE, PRESIDING. Tho adjourned session of the August term of the United States District Cojrt, for tlie South ern District of Georgia, commenced yesterday morning at 0 o’clock. The jury was called and only six members answered to their names. These were dismissed until 9 o’clock this morning, and the marshal ordered to summon talesmen to be in attend ance at the same hour. IN RANKRUPTOY. Edward F. McKenna and Heyman Roths child, both of Savannah, having complied with all the requirements of the bankrupt law, and paid all costs, were finally discharged by the Court. The District Court then adjourned until 9% o’clock this morning. The following prominent members of the bar, from Other portions of the District, are in attendance upon the United States Courts : R. F. Lyon, of Macon ; Arthur Hood and Robert Fielder, of Cuthbert; Samuel Hall, of Fort Valley; S. H. Hawkins, of Amerieus; P. J. Strozer and R. K. Hines, of Albany. Educate Yourself.—The New York Sun is urging workiDgmen to cultivate the intel lect, and become as intelligent and well in formed as any other members of society : “It is surprising (says the editor) how much may be obtained by devoting a few hours each day to study, duripg a series of years. Gibbon produced hie great work rather by the regu larity than the protracted nature of his daily studies. Frauklm became the wisest and one of the best read of bis cotemporaries in the midst of incessant labor. And if the workman, with his healthful mind so well prepared for the reception of knowledge, will give two hours each day to cArefnl study, he 'may, in a few years, surpass in general information the great majority of college graduates, who so often obtain a diploma without deserving it, or who have laid aside their learning the mo ment they left their preceptors. He may ele vate his own intellect by coming into com munion with the eminent intellects of the past.” Among the persons who recently received gold medals from the French Government, for deeds of great courage and devotedness, was a young matron, Franeoise Triadou, who was bitten by a mad dog, in the midst of a crowd of children and women, and vVko was self-possess ed and uoble enough to cling to the dog until he was killed. The furious animal would otherwise have bitten at least fifteen or twenty other persons. Madam Triadou was fortunate ly saved. The French Government again suppressed the New York Herald on September 22d, on account of its articles on French politics. An Ancient Toast. It was a grand day in the old chivalric time, the. wine circling around the board In a noble hall, and the sculptured walls rang with sentiment and song. The lady of each knightly , heart was- pledged by name, and many a syllable significant of loveliness had been utttered, until It came to St. Leon’s turn, when, lifting the sparkling oup on high— • “ I drink to onb," he said, “ Whose image never may depart, Deep graven on a grateful heart, ’Till memory is dead. “ To one whose love for me ehalUast When lighter passions long have passed, So holy Mis, and true ; To one whose love hath longer dwelt, More deeply fixed, more keenly felt, Than any pledged by you I” Each guest upstarted at the word, And laid a hand upon his sword, With fiery, flashing eye; And Stanley stud: “ We crave the name, Proud knight, of this most peerless dame, Whose love you count so high.” St. Leon paused, as if he would Not breathe her name In careless mood, Thus lightly to another; Then bent his noble head, as though To give that name the reverence due, And gently said—“ My Mother.” No Wonder. —A young man was re cently executed at Newport, Kentucky, for burglary and murder. In his last speech on the gallows, he said: “My father was a church membe*, and so was my mother, but they never gave me any advice. They went to church every Sunday, but left their religion at the churoh. They never ex plained to us the doctrines of the Bible.”— If the dying testimony of that young man was true, it not only .explained his own sad history, but should be accepted as a solemn rebuke by thousands of Christian parents in the land. No wonder their religion be comes a subject of mockery, when the child marks any evidence of their regard for its solemn truths beyond bare profession. In the church they profess to believe that their children have souls, yet they utterly neglect their salvation. If the force of this argument, which our fallen nature so promptly grasps, is overcome by the efforts of the minister, it is a wonderful affair.— Were the parents deliberately to concen trate all their influence on the mind of the child to efface every good impression made upon it, they could employ no means more effectual than profound indifference. With what silent, yet mighty energy, is this force being applied to the hearts of many boys and girls in the land. Their parents be long to the church, go to preaching on Sunday—look solemu, that is all. The ex ample of their week day lives make their children hypocrites aud infidels. Better have a mill-stone fastened around our necks and be cast into the sea than to have our children say when they die: “My parents belonged to the church, but never were enough interested in my salvation as to speak to me a word about my soul.” _ [Texas Christian Advocate. Judging Horses by Appearances.—l of fer the following suggestions, the result ot my close observations and long experience : If the color he light, sorrel or chestnut, his feet, legs and face white—these arc marks of kindness. If he is broad and full between the eyes, he may he depended on as a horse for beiDg train ed to anything; as respects such horses, the mote kindly you treat them the better you will he treated in return. Nor will a horse of this description stand a whip if well fed. If you want a safe horse, avoid one that is ujsh faced. He may be so far gentle as not to scare, but he will have too much go-ahead iu him to he sate with everybody, if you want a fool, hut a horse of gieat bottom, get a deep bay with not a white hair about him. If his face is a little dished, so much the worse. Let no man ride such a horse that is not an expert rider ; they are always trieky and unsafe. If you want one that will never give ont, never buy a large, overgrown one. A black horse cannot stand the heat, nor a white one the cold. If you want a gentle horse, get one with more or less white about the head, the more the hotter. Se lections thus made are of great docility and gentleness.— Exchange. Bogus Money—Counterfeit Fractional Currency nearthed. —Amoug the unclaim ed freight exposed for sale by the Southern Express Company to pay charges, was a box, supposed from its weight to contain paper packages. It had been shipped from New York in the name of John Williams, and con signed lo “ Ada Lodi, Memphis, Tennessee.” The lid of the box was marked “ valuable— ssoo,” and according to custom in such cases, it, was opened and examined by the officers of the company. They were not a little surprised and startled t,• discover that the innocent look ing box contained counterfeit United States fractional eiinency, in packages of ten or twenty dollars, to the enormous figure of twenty-five thousand dollars. That box was not, sent to the sale. This box was received at the Express office in this city about the time L paii and Oishie were arrested as alleged counterfeiters, but no one ever called lor it. No doubt the sensation created by that, dfdr prevented *• Ada Lodi” (an assumed name, of course, as was “ John Williams,”! from obtaining hi.< pn eions freight. [Memphis Aral niche, October 15 th. “Let Jicemes Go.”—The hand IVu Love gives a model Idler from a young lady whose sweetheart was in the fifth South Carolina regi ment, to Mr. Davis, President of the late Con federacy, asking for a furlough lor her lover to come home and get married : “ Dear Mr. President: I want you to let Jecmes Clancy, of company Ith, sth S. C regi ment, come home and get married. Jecmes is willin’, I is willin’, my mammy, she is willin’, his mammy says she is willin’, but Jeerncs’ cap tain, he ain’t willin’. Now, when we’re all wil lin’, ’eeptin’ Jecmes’ captain, I think you might let up and let Jeemes come. I’ll make him go straight back when he’s done got married, and fight just as hard as ever. Your affectionate friend, &c.” Mr. Davis wrote on the letter, “Let Jeemes go,” and Jeemes came home, married the affec tionate correspondent of Mr. Davis, and re turned to his regiment, aud did fight as well as ever. Henry Clay’s Cane.—This interesting relic of the great Commoner, now sacredly treasur ed, is one ot the rarest combination of artistic skill and historic associations that we have ever seen. The start’is of live oak, cut. from a tree that overshadowed the tomb of the immortal Cicero; the head is made of verd antique, obtained from the house of the great Columbus at Genoa; it is octagon-shaped, and ornament ed with exquisite medallions of those two famous orators ol ancient and modern times— Rome’s Cicero and America’s Clay. The me dallion of Cicero is modeled after the celebrated bust iu the gallery at Florence; that of Clay after the bust of the noted sculptor, Joel T. Hart, who presented the cane to Mr. Clay through Col. Warren Grigsby, who brought it from Europe. It subsequently came into the possession of Hon. James B. Clay, who pre sented it to John S. Wilson, Esq., to whom we are indebted for the pleasure of an examina tion of it.— Exchange. A young man, not yet a voter, furnishes an example of personal security not often met with. He has worked with his brother, who is a Republican, and he himself has been consid ered a Republican voter “to be made ” when he should reach«his majority. Some talk was had about the political organizations in Hart ford, and he said he believed he should join the Boys in Blue. The oilier night his brother was surprised to see him marching with a Demo cratic crowd of Cholera and Fautums, and the next morning spoke to him about it. “ I thought you was a Republican,” said he. “ So I am,” the boy replied ; “ but I thought it all over about joining a club, and came to the conclusion that I’d go with the Boys in White, and I wouldn’t then run any risk of getting my head broke by stones thrown into the pro cession. I’m a Republican, but I don’t waDt , to be killed because I am !” \Har!ford Courant. • A Happy Man —The ex King of Portugal is considered the happiest man in Europe. He voluntarily laid down the crown, and has never for a moment regretted it. He is of Saxe-Co bnrg Gotha, a kinsman of Leopold, and very like him, except in ambition. He married the Queen of Portugal, and ou the majority ot his son, he surrendered the throne to him. He is very much devoted to the fine arts, and has a spacious palace filled with the rarest produc tions of the chisel and the brush. There he lives at his ease, or rambles about the streets of Lisbon smoking and chatting with every one he meets, lie is a great favorite with every body. He is on(y fifty-two years of age, aud has been spoken of as a suitable person for the throne of Spain. It would be a pity to mar so much felicity,— Richmond Whig. La Vie Harisienne cleverly burlesques the precocious little girls of Paris. Among other good hits it publishes the following: “Three little girls playing ladies. ‘ Good morning madame.’ 1 How do you do ?’ 1 Have you any children, madame?’ ‘No, madame, not yet; and you, madame ?’ ‘Oh, madame, 1 had three the first year.’ ‘Do you nurse your children at your own breast, madame?’ ‘My God, madame, I suckled the first one, but it exhaust ed me so much that my husband did not want me to continue. He then suckled the others.’ ” "A BY TELEGRAPH. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. AV asliington. Washington, October 28. Judge Chase holds court In Charleston, 8. 0., next week. Seymour speaks at Pittsburg to-night. Schofield allows clerks in his department to go home to vote. Dr. J. B. Littlefield, of Illinois, Is appointed chief clerk of the Freedmen’s Bureau. The President is announced as helpless, un der the reconstruction acts, in restraining dis trict commanders from interfering with the courts. A case comes from Texas, and Involves the postponement, by Reynolds’ order, of the settlement of an estate. Among the President’s visitors to-day were Mr. and Mrs. J. T. May, of Augusta, Ga. The Radical clerks held a meeting, and re solved to arm and organize for their own pro tection while passing through Baltimore on their way home to vote. The national banking capital of Virginia is $9,000,000. Louisiana. New Orleans, October 28. The city has been quiet to-day, and so far as heard from ; St. Bernard parish also. The following proclamation was issued this evening by Gen. Rousseau : Headquarters Department of La., I States of La. and Ark. > New Orleans, October 28,1868. ) To the people of New Orleans : Fellow-Citizens : I have received instruc tions from the authorities at Washington to take such action as may he necessary to pre serve peace and good order, and to protect the lives and property of citizens. As the city is quiet to-day I think it a proper time to make the above announcement; to call upou the law abiding citiz.'ns to aid me hereafter iu carrying out these instructions and to that end tuey are earnestly requested to retrain from assembling iu large bodies on the streets, to avoid exciting conversation and other sources ol irritation and excitement, and to pursue their ordinary vocations as usual. The police force of the city has been reorgan ized and inefficient members have been drop ped lrom the rolls and others appointed in their places and Gen. J. B. Steadman appointed Chief of Police, pro tern., by the Board of Police Commissioners. General Steadman and his police force will be supported by the military, and assurance is given, alike to the peaceful and "the lawless, that everything at ray command, and to the utmost of my ability, will be used in the endeavor to obey these instructions. For the present, political processions and'patrolliug streets by armed men are prohibited. Lovell H. Rousseau, Brevet Major General Gomd’g Dep’t. The Metropolitan Police Board desired to suspend Superintendent Williamson tempora rily, but he retused to be suspended, and was accordingly tried for infraction ol the Metro politan Police Law, in dismissing negro police men without consulting the police board. He plead guilty to the charge, and was dismissed by the board. They had previously endorsed Chief Williamson in the case for which he was dismissed. Gen. Steadman, at (Jen. Rousseau’s request, accepted the appointment, pro. tern., upon condition that he he allowed to choose his own subordinates. The Common Council this evening passed a resolution setting forth the unconstitulionality of the M etropolitan Police Law, authorizing the Mayor to organize a municipal police, under the charter of the city. Mayor Conway imme diately appointed General Steadman Chief of Police, although he had already accepted the appointment of the Metropolitan Board aud been sworn in. The Washington Star's arliele in reference to the First United States Infantry, telegraph ed here, excites the indignation ot the officers ol that regiment, who denounce the letter alluded to as containing malicious falsehoods. The facts are, that, so far as known, not a single man In the entire regiment served in the Confederate army. The regiment is composed almost entirely of re-enlisted men or those who presented honorable discharges from other United States regiments. The entire number of recruits does not exceed live per cent, of the enlisted men, and these were sent from Northern recruiting stations. The Star's article, though speaking only of enlisted men, is regarded as an insult to the officers and a reflection on the discipline of the regiment. New York. New York, October 28. General Blair addressed an immense crowd at Tammany Hall last night. AVest Virginia. Wheeling, October 28. The Radical majority is stated to be 5,000. Eortress Monroe. Fortress Monroe, October 28. The shipTww Boys, ashore at Boddy, Island, is stripped of everything, and will be sold at auction. Tennessee. Nashville, October 28. The contest betweeu Mercer and Prosser, both Radicals, for Congress, is warming. Pros ser’s friends raised a pole and run up a carpet hag instead of the national colors. Alabama. Mobile, October 28. The Register , of this morning, contains a letter from John Forsythe, to theJ4ew York World , emphatically denouncing the Times for misquoting and garbling his words. He proves the Register never said ; “ The Democratic par ty is beaten,” and quotes the context omitted by the Times. The letter concludes: “ The Mobile Register has not given up for an in stant the momentous struggle for constitutional liberty ; it has never writtefl, ‘ Wc are beaten.’ It claims Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana as certain for the Democrats.” Missouri. St. Louis, October 28. A special from Little Rock announces the arrival there of Representative Hinds’ body and its departure for New York. Hinds and Brooks were shot, by Geo. A. Clark, Secretary of the Democratic Committee of Monroe county, who had been drinking heavily and bordering on delirium tremens. Clark is in custody. lH"ar West. St. Louis, October 28. A Cheyenne dispatch says the Indians attack ed Hunt and Hall’s train near Perry Station, Sunday, killing four men and capturing four teen mules. foreign. | BY THE CABT.E. | London, October 28. It is fully confirmed that Prussia, Italy, Por tugal, France and England have renewed rela tions with Spain. IVtarine ISTews. — v New York, October 28. Arrived —Steamships San Jacinto, Huntsville, Albemarle and Clyde. Savannah, October 28. Cleared—Steamship Thames, New York. Arrived—Steamer Montgomery, New York. Charleston, October 28. Moonlight, Surinam; schooner ' Maria Hail, a Northern port. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. London, October 28—Noou. Consols, 9i%. Bonds steady at 73%. Su gar firm, both on spot aud afloat. Liverpool, October 28— Noon. Cotton buoyant; sales, 15,000 bales. Liverpool, October 28—Afternoon. Cotton buoyant. Tallow, 525. 3d. Liverpool, October 28—Evening. Cotton closed firm and unchanged; sales, 15,000 bales ; uplands, 11; Orleans, Bread stuffs and provisions unchanged. Havre, October 28. Cotton—low middlings, afloat, 127%. Havana, October 27. Sugar buoyant and favors sellers; large spec ulative inquiry. Sterling, Federal currency, 18@f9 discount. Gold, long, 4@5; short, 7~. , • New Y ork, October 28—Noon. Money active. Sterling, 9%. Gold, 134 V.— ’62’s, 13 ; North Carollnas, 66% ; new, 66 •Vir ginia ex-coupons, 55; new, 56%; Tennessee*. 69; new, 68%. New York, October 28—p. M. Money stringency severer than ever, but a shade easier at close ; discount operations sus pended under pressure. Sterling weaker at 9%. Gold little stronger at 134%. Southern Bonds Irregular ; Tennessee* firm ; North Caro lina* weak; Governments firm; Tennessees, 70; new, 70%; North Carolinas, 66; new, 65%; Virginias, 55%. New York, October 28—Noon. Flour 10@15 lower. Wheat 2@B lower. Corn 1 lower. Mess Pork lower at $25 90. Lard quiet; steam, 17%@17%. Cotton qniet at 25. Turpentine steady at 43@43%. Rosin dull; strained common, $2 40. Freights firm. New York, October 28—P. M. Cotton less active hut steady; sales, 2,500 bales at 25%@25%. Flour heavy ; State, s6@ 7 90; Western, so@9 45 ; common to fair ex tra Southern, sB@B 90. Wheat heavy. Corn heavy ; mixed Western, $1 09@1 12. Oats lc lower. Pork firmer at $26 50. Lard easier at 15%@17%. Whisky quiet. Groceries firm. Turpentine, 43@44. Rosin, $2 40@7 50. Wool quiet. Tallow active. Freights firmer ; cot ton, steam, 7-16@%. Baltimore, October 28. Virginia 6’s, old, inscribed, 47% bid, 48 ask ed ; 67’s, 48 bid, 49 asked ; old coupons, 55 bid, 56 asked ; new, 56 bid; North Cnrohuas, ex coupons, 66% bid ; South Carolinas, new, 66 bid. Cotton very firm. Wheat very dull, with prices ruling much lower. Corn dull; new white, 90@$1 ; old, $1 18@1 20. Oats dull; prime, 70. Rye dull and nominally 55. Pork quiet at S3O. Bacon firm ; shoulders, 13%@14. Cincinnati, October 28. Flour—little demand ; family, $7 50@7 75 - Corn, 60@62; old, 98@$1. Whisky dull at $1 10. Pork—new, $25@28. Lard dull; new steam, 10. Bacon nominally unchanged. St. Louis, October 28. Mcsr Pork, S3O 75@31. Bacon—shoulders, 13%; clear sides, 17%@17%. Whisky dull at $1 13. Wilmington, October 28. Spirits Turpentine dull at 40 centß. Rosiu quiet; strained, $1 60; No. 2, $1 70@1 75; crude Turpentine aud Tar unchanged. Hay, 75$ 100 lbs. Market generally weak and little doing. Mobile, October 28. Cotton—Sales, 800 bales; market quiet; mid dling, 23% ; receipts, 064 hales; exports, none. New Orleans, October 28. Cotton easier; middling, 23%@23%; sales, 3,400 bales; receipts, 1,889 bales; exports, 1,772 bales. Sugar steady; new Louisiana yellow clarified, 14%@15. Molasses active; Louisiana prime to choice, sl@l 05. Flour dull ; superfine, $7: choice, $9 50@13. Corn —rew Western, 90@1 05 ; stock light. Oats active at 60. Bran, $1 20. Hay—choice, S3O. — Pork quiet at $32 50. Baeou—choice scarce ; shoulders, 14 ; clear sides, 18%. Lard dull nnd nominal; tierce, 19%; keg, 21%. Coffee firm; fair to prime Rio, 15@17. Savannah, October 28. Cotton opened firm and closed weak ; mid dling, 24@24%; sales, 677 bales; receipts, 1,029 bales; exports coastwise, 356 bales. Charleston, October 28. Cotton dull and easier; sales, 500 hales; middling, 23%@24 ; receipts, 931 ha Augusta Market. OrjiOß Daily Constitutionalist, ) Wednesday, October 28—P. M. 1 FINANCIAL GOLD—Buying at 186 and selling at 138. SlLVEß—Buying at 130 and selling nt 135. SECURITIES.—Georgia Railroad Stock in de mand. Hales were made to-day at 95@96. COTTON.—The market has been quiet to day. VV« quote middling about 23. t;. Buyers were not willing to give the prices asked by sellers. Sales, 338 bales. Receipts, 697 bales. BACON—We quote O. Sides, 18X ; C. R. Sides, 18; B. B. Sides, 17X ; Shoulders, 15@16!(i ; Hams 19@23; Dry Salt Shoulders, 14;* ; Dry Salt C. R. Sides. 17. CORN—Firm. We quote white, $120; mixed sll6, from depot. WHEAT—We quote white, $2 25(32 60; red, $1 80 @2 26. FLOUR-City Mills, $lO 60@13 00 ; nt retail, $1 barrel higher. Country, $lO 00@12 00, according to quality. CORN MEAL—SIIS at wholesale, and $1 25 at re tail. OATS—BO@Sj. RYE—sl 60. Ilow to Manage Female Mutineers.— Speaking of the recent mutiny ot the women employed in the cigar manufactory at Madrid, the Epoch gives the following humorous de scription of the line of action pursued by a certain director of one of these establishments in a similar emergency : The women having quit work, left the manu factory iu a body, and with menacing gestures and angry shouts hastened towards the office of the director. The tumult reaching the ears of the latter, lie asked what it meant. “The hands have mutined, and have come lo demand— ” “ What?” “ Justice from your excellency. The whole of them insist upon coming in to see you, and they declare they will come in by force if you won’t admit them otherwise.” It was a difficult dilemma. The director re flected. At length he exclaimed: “ Good ! go and tell them I am ready to re ceive them.” “ Yes, sir.” “ But as there are so many of them, I cannot ace them all. They must, delegate three of their number for the interview." The messenger was about to retire with the decision, wheu the director cried out after him : “ Wait a minute. The three delegates must be the three oldest, and ugliest of the lot.” Strange to 6ay, the director never received the deputation. We believe that if the above course was strictly adhered to, there would be little or no trouble in controlling any set of rebellious in dividual members of the softer sex. Misapprehension.— We see it stated that some of our “ colored citizens ” having regis tered under a misapprehension, nre returning the certificates of registry. Now, under what sort of mistake did they labor when their names were placed upon the list, and who arc the parties upon whose opinion or at whose solicitation or desire they registorel? Wo have a wish to know these facts, as they may tend to “ lift the veil ” of mystery which covers several matters concerning onr city and its future. Let us have the reasons. We again urge our citizens to register their names so that they may have a right to vote. Nothing should prevent you from attending to this mat ter at once. We need a change, a great and en tire change in the affairs of our city, and upon us now rests the responsibility of making it at the next election. The power is iu us and with us, il we will only rouse ourselves and use it. Register! Register!! Register !!! The Yankee Photographed by One of His Kind.—Mr. E. P. Whipple, the popular New England lecturer, thus graphically paints a people with whom than himself no one is more familiar: “The leading defect of the Yankee consists in the gulf that separates his moral opinions from his moral principles. His talk about vir tue in the abstract would pass as sound in a nation of saints ; but be still contrives that his interest shall not suffer by the rigidity of his maxims.” “ Your true Yankee,” he goes on to say, has a spruce, clean Pecksniffhin way of doing a wrong that is inimitable. Believing, after a certain fashion, iu justice and retribu tion, he still thinks that a sly, shrewd, keen, supple gentleman like himself can dodge, in a quiet way, the moral Jaws of the Uuiverse, without any particular bother being made about it.” Horrible. —The Nonpareil says a young lady was struck dumb on the 4ih instant, at Council Bluffs, by the firing of a cannon. An association of married gentlemen is being or ganized for the purpose of having salutes fired near their residences once a week. The wretches ! We should like to see “ any organization of married gentlemen ” under take anything of the kind among us. They would be canonized if not niched iu less than a week. A Mrs. Louisa Wafer, in applying for an ex tension of her license to keep a'tavern in Lon don, adduced proof to show that during the twenty-four years she has presided over that institution, she has induced the enlistment of 28,572 men into the British navy. During his spare hours at Varzin, Count Bismark has devoted much attention to the improvement of the fine aquarium which he keeps there. Several new features which he has introduced in R will be adopted, also, in regard to the large aquarium at Berlin.
