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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.
