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in which you
.ltiou of North
jl towards re
relations ; but
done to render
An acceptance
lent abolishing
and States by the
is, iff, my judg
o the successful
desired by all.—
fly the questions
to me, it will be
Mon must depend
loldeu will be again
exercise of his tunc
iOr until be shall have
i by orders to tjiat
flis that the President
anything further to the
hoy have complied fully
die following telegraphic
Perry, of South Carolina,
erest .
. tho 4th Is just received.—
oas been done in South Carolina
live to peace and restoration, the
thinks it impossible to antici-
He expects, therefore, that you
) exercise tho duties heretolore
you as Provisional Governor of
until you shall be relieved by
Jserves, with regret, that noith
in nor State Legislature have
debts and obligat ions contract
of the State for unconstitntion
ellious purposes to be void. He
i that the State seems to decline
mal amendment of the Constitu
nited States abolishing slavery,
jd to you yesterday as follows :
a. .dent directs me to write you that an
early adoption of the Congressional amend
ment of the Constitution of the United States,
abolishing slavery, by the South Carolina Leg -
islature, is deemed peculiarly important, and
specially desirable with relereuce to the gen
eral situation ot the Union. I have only to
•ay that the President’s opinion before express
ed remain unchanged.
[Signed] W. H. Seward.
The Resources ok tub South. —No country
has such mjources as those which tiie Southern
States, have within themselves. In their area
nearly all the productions necessary for the
subsistence of man, or that enter into commer
ce, are found. The best flour comes from the
wheat fields of Virginia, and other parts of
the South. It is the best und greatest tobacco
growing region in the world. The Gulf
Stream and a suitable soil make it the only
Country where the long staple cotton can be
growu. Com will grow luxuriantly and yield
abnudantly, with little labor, and in many
places by scratching the earth. The sugar
oauo rises and swells to au enormous sizs, full
of juice, from the teeming soil of Louisiana ;
ami where is there any rice found like that of
South Carolina and Georgia, Look, too, ut
the grazing lands, the fine siock, and the wool
ot the South. How valuable, too, are the
forests of oak, of pine and other timber which
onr ship builders appreciate so much. The
mountains are full of the finest iron, coal, cop
per and gold. FrQitd of every description
grow abundantly. Nowhere, perhaps, do the
peacb, melon, grape, pear and pineapple thrive
better or with as little trouble. In fact, the
productions of the South are so varied and
valuable that we cannot enumerate them an
within the limits of this article. ■
Now, all tin# is wanted to make our sunny
land wealthy and prosperous, is to have these
immense resources developed. Every one
should do all in bis power to accomplish this
desired obj ot It it cauuot be doue by one
kind of labor it cun by auother. If the freed -
ineu will uot work, the white emigrant will.
Let us give the former a fair trial, offer them
•very reasonable and encouraging inducement
that can be asked or expected. Then, if noth
ing can be dene with them, letus import white
labor at onoe from Europe. 'I here is no time
to'dally or temporise. Soon it will be time to
commence preparing for the next crop. The
emergency is a great one. It affects our
future. Let us be prepared for it. Those who
sucoeed iu raising large crops the coming year,
will be amply repa’d all the pecuniary losses
Buffered during the war.
Tks Fibs in Hamburg. —We learn that the
turning of Mr. Batter’s barn and outbuildings
in Hamburg, on Tuesday night, was quite a
•erious .if!air. The fire occnrred between ten
and eleven o’clock. The barn itself cost over
$5,000. Besides this there was burned fifteen
hundred bushels of corn, other forage, several
wagons, and seventeen horses aud mules—
•ome of them very valuable auimais. The
buildings were set on fire. The incendiary, a
negro boy named Joe, has been caugnt and seat
to EJgefield lor trial. There was no insurance
fiO the property.
’ Ol ' t£ *‘\ - ruccd tor .be
t£ *.• iiales that the j
‘‘ r •** tv * ‘ / the id'Sfcf-g Os I
i"'"' “-'d. -• .a or n ,
'"tend*
<Jree.
w-
t propagate the }
- tO the uf/nogt o f 1
. I
3 State, dtotric?, and
■oer controlled by
is veeti'd Si a j
• md tfiouse of |
«i«ie of ift’le
-'cs and dis- I
■sflt'detl dcleg!**e j
a. ml ■ rs. The tbnate is
«’* lutmbers, nominated by a
:• root each State and district
sentatlves or delegates
■Uricts- a two thirds vote
: 1 cct. TLe usual rules are
'/enimen’of the two Hon *.
'* • P etHeot to nresidi- i
its i , rn, vbo is also Vice-Prcsi- j
iLot the • •. an ujo vacancy occur- j
: bee .. i iir, P>. de.o. The Congress is j
semb'e a ast once o year, on tLe first 5
■lay it t ; tuber, ~6 such place as i
let shall Me). Propositions for -air 1
r, iDU- in; t origin.ie iu the .Sonata and !
ret' .o tho President for his approval I
a w< -(Lit-.- vole n overrule tho vt io.
P .„j!. -••n by La tot by a get,era] ’
vote ot he two .Houses, and holes'; is offlis for
one year, lb oempensation « fixed by Con
gress. J is nquired to nominate for tin.
appro Ml
Affairs, of the T -ea-iuv, of .Naval AJFaiis, and !
of Civ 1 d'.vrs.
iht .dent, wiiit tho .mate, has power \
to make treaties- and alliances with persons '
and pow.'i fv' \. } to the objects of the!
S'eni. n Brotbeihood, to appoint envoys and
emb* jadore, and receive the gam-*. State and j
Disti’.et Centres, im-.iu tb# r-c i mdadoa ot
ami ,r ity ot the State del, gates , • appointed
Dy tb- President Var'ou . ..is -
eruu’ * of ti local circles it> / .en. Mem
hers be proposed a week I<.‘ore inilia
tion fftmbcrs whods lot atte-< i the meet
ings ;he circles or nay the ! iuo for en
wee. -rs cor. ide-eJ ia : .tandi > />£..d
cam ter ■ '••*-» Id. ,i , t ui ! bo ’
ity: .uov ng-» are id jt. ■
wee All : V s . religious or poin.ro .
sub . sou i t * . cts of the ord P .re
pro-ill .j. , fee !r: not i
ont uo ~ j i ies less tan ft,
ceu ......
- B n ai .ml ag the objects o
the ore ci > y uu;<'of:;- 5a puciahe ex
pn fim .-ri i. moving from , : ice to
plf cc must 1 -. * .ods or Lift or ■nt-ofi jc*
tie 1 »: .it t urion ciCbt pret *
tht > ' •• .‘-.il head* and pat
• V i>s b>. . • Uin-- •' *he netnution oi
the Fenian Brotherhood, whose Congress is
now sitting, with closed doors, in New York.
Whether it is 'published by authority or was
obtaiued surreptitiously we are not advised—
probably the latter.
Wtn Deserted.—The Atlanta Intelligencer
in noticing anew house in that city remarks
thus t
We desire to call special attention to the ad
vertisement of Howard & Robson, agents for
E. M. Bruce Jt Cos , dealers in cotton exchange
and coin. They have sight Exchange on New
\ork for sale, and we take pleasure in recom
mending this house as oue of the most respon
sible in the whole country ; and believe, with
the facilities at their command, they will
please all who may entrust business at tbeir
hands. Their relations with tho business
house cfE M. Bruce A. Cos., is evidence sufficient
that the most liberal and reliable transactions
alone will characterize the firm of Howard &
Ilobson.
The high and delicate compliment paid the
house of E. SI. Bruce $r Cos., of this city, in
the above paragraph is well merited. The
transactions of no house ever established in
the South have been characteriz?d with more
liberality and reliability. The head of the
house, lion. E. M. Bruce is a thoroughly
practical busins-s man in every particular.
High minded, honorable, aud liberal even to
a fault, he has withiu a few mouths succeeded
iu establishing in our midst, a business which
would cost most men years of toil and labor.
When Mr. B. first came among us and com
menced operations, wo heard many a man
prophesy that he would fail iu carrying out
his plans. Events show that he has succeeded.
And his career proves what au active go-ahead
business man can accomplish. Such men are
valuable citizens iu any community. They
set good examples of enterprise, and keep
things moving.
The Northern Elections. —The returns of
the elections held in New York, Massachn
seets, New Jersey, Wisconsin. Maryland, Mis
souri and Illinois indicate the complete suc
cess of the Republican ticket. In Massachu
setts the Democrats have elected six Represen
6atives and • the Republican party fourteen.
General Banks is elected to Congress.
In New York the Democrats elected but one
State Senator. The Republican gains in New
York city are about 13,000. There is no
doubt ot the election of Geuerai Barlow.
New Jersey gives a Republican majority,
electing Marcus L. Ward Governor, and se
curing a majoriiy in the State Legislature.
In Maryland and Wisconsin the retnrns are of
the same character.
Col. Chavez, the Republican candidate for
Delegate to Congress from the 'territory of
New Mexico, was elected by a majority of
2 331. A majority of the Territorial Legisla
ture is also Republican.
a a—
An Oi.d Maxim Verified. —lt is an old
maxim that politics makes strange bedfel
lows. We see by the papers that Gov. Par
j sons, of Ala , and Henry Ward Beechtr are
j stumpitg New England tozether. Such a
j thing before the war, would not have been
j 'bought possible.
Good New?. —The Louisville Journal has
| ‘ good reason” to anticipate the Teturn ol
General Breckinridge to Kentucky “before a
great while. ’ Such an event would be most
gratifying to the host of friends the Geneial
has in Georgia.
4 *iica- .?£ rLoifO .t.ES— The iafe j
P gro tr .-n: jo Jem .. emsed that >
HDCtit , 3.1 ,
!u f a a Lit! ’in -hv pulLc j reals A littlo :
ht *ory < th * is! »ni s ! ao it' discovery, wi 1 ,
Eut fcea;u : s-- tb '.- ore, a: t:e ptescut time.
Jamaica ta abe itiful is!»aJ, large and fer
sp toy cu * e
tons pop;’ v’, n. Is - 8 I° D S a:i! ‘
in extreme Lroactt, t.. da more than fou*-
rr i,..an &• re ! V\ .’ ad it was inhabi
-1 aiy ttigwMKfcra who, wiPJn fifty
y.*ars. w.:. -s- *ti >ni fit- l Dd beiore ;he
fisroe Ar, : ‘ and iv: .caring Caetilian
. 1 w s wrested from
. nmandeis of the
.v . nwell, and the
; ] ( quickly elevated
p. nin the British
auies.
i. ha.-, been grade Jiy ri- ini eg in wealth
i- iltiou of b avery.
ti— 3 whirrs hav’ag 1d: ’b md in large Biaa
b.*rs and the black , :-;ra r >n only slightly
i: -»?e ’ Tb ; mo.-* . - irlerr. -Hng of the white
popuiat’ot. have nigratc- i to the Continent,
and settled in ’MIUh G iin a, at Dcmerara,
ere they have c-.-iod fra: a capital and la
bor, and have le:t Jama ,t :a a decaying con
J ■ — ’ T - bavo intioduced a
large number oi '’ooiks liooi India, and lire
business and prosperity t . that Island Las far
outstripped that of Jamaica.
According to the Ceu>.;s of ISGI the popiula
tloolif fsaaics ■ - 878,433, of which
i..,80', were whbfco. The population
- "sarago was siger than it is now ex
oeedin ..; 'ibJ.Oof which GO.OOO were whites
Jauieica is the .«i<Ji.ace of the Captain Gen
era. ..u'l - rnor in Cniaf of the Windward
Isles, ard a British man-of-war is always
.ept mnntng about tho L'.and. The average
and ia Jamaica is I.COO
Loops "t -vh-i n BCU are blacks. The black
troops there -tsi? t.;n. are the First Wes
. nd’... Itegim , whose , yaliy is heigiiten<d
by an late’ - .< • . The black men in
uinform, be i■ i. despi«e tee n low black trash,”
* taey lev foo li eirowu color cut of
it—the late cipioci to the sentiment.
About 60 i'JO ot th: p> pulation ute mulat-
Uhis, between whom tha negroes there is
nrobabiy, as i gene.ally the case, much jeal
ousjr. »uo Maroon negroea have also peipejj
tim uu h atrocity and blood
shed Che !Ia ions ■ dee-’ended from the
slave.ri if the Spauio who when their ma’s
t .i, we:?-driven on ihe English, remained
1,1 cs of tho North, and
I " inually recruit ed by runaways from
i 11 */■■ sh sottleineiiLS, until they became a
>rm wo; annuity—alwavn, difficult to
; keep * in bou ■> ,; nd often indulging in
j torooioiii. rtbreakj. ‘ *
j !;i >ra of th.i present insurrection
, •-’*> “ i fully kept from the public, as
88 >id by the military authorities.
a truth in regard to
! reak, however, seems
toffi ’O' bo n icli . politicai organiz itioa,
’*ke ii n i ,na :miugo, as a violent ebuili
)n ' 'he blacks—straitened for sup
'' *'»•• indolent to earn, or re
‘ M i brown out ot work iu the
’• by .’tie .itc rematkable droughts.
, ' rivt o? ' nd could doubtless grow
I .apiuiy Li general class rising and
!,n In sixag* d-8 on the authorities and
! the wh.ti'g.
, A ft" • r..s c u • Right Direction. —We
| notice .'tat Cos! f“ own, of the Freed men’s
Bu:ea; 3 o-derod the agents in
tha l -k; t < (.5 ! tlm : he freedmon enter into
couu’ucta w 1 m ..ho have employment for
them, and that they be compelled to carry out
what they agee to do. The Colonel also adds:
When employment is offered on terms that
will provide for comfortable subsistence of
laborers, and keep them lrorn dependence and
charity, they should be treated as common
vagrants if they don’t accept it ; aud the rules
of the Bureau must be rigidly enforced.
This is a thing which should be done every*
where. We believe that the negro should be
scrupulously protected in all his rights—but,
unless ho has a competency to live upon, he
should be compelled to “earn his bread by
the sweat ol his brow.” Vagrancy is a right*
if it may be so termed, in which no inant
should be protected ■; be he either white or
black. Freedom is not laziness ; neither is a
lazy poor man a freeman ; he is tha most ab
ject slave that ever lived.
Many of the freedmen in our midst are work
ing with a will, and are showing every dispo
sition to help themselves. All such should
be encouraged. We to say, however,
that there are a great many who show no dis
position to work, even when they can get it
All such should be taken in baud at once* and
compelled to do something for a living. A
living they must have, and if they are not
compelled to obtain it honestly, they will get
it dishonestly.
Our cities are filled with vagrants of all
colors. The quicker steps are taken to make
them work, the better. If any officer, either
military or civil, has any power to check
and eradicate the great and growing evil of
vagrancy, we hope he will enforce it—and that
right quickly.
Report of the Agricultural Commissioner.
Hon, Isaac Newton, Commissioner of Agri
culture, in his leport for October, states that the
threshing of the wheat has shown that the in
juries from wet weather are over-estimated.
In the report for August, the returns of
the wheat crop showed in quantity and
quality that there was a deficit of 26,241,-
fifb bushels, but the estimates now made,
which are final, exhibit the decrease under
last yeai’s crop in quantity to be 12,172.993
bushels The increase in the oat crop in 1865
is nearly 50,000,000 of bushels, and of the hay
crop of 5,000,000 tons. The tables exhibit the
mil crops as most abundant. That of the corn
is all that could be disired. It will bo the
larges 1 ever grown in the United States, so
that plenty cf cereal food will bless the coun
try and the labors cf the farmer. The com
crop is equally good in the Southern States,
end as planting there is much greater than
ordinary, that section can consume only a
portion of the amount gio wn. It can, there- 1
fore, the commissioner says, devote t’ue next
crop season to a greater production of cotton.
How CitizevshU’ mat bs Lost.— The Secre
tary of the Interior has decided that a person
born i 1 the United States, and who remov.s
to a foreign country and takes the oath of al
legiance to the Government thereof, and sub
sequently returns to the United States, must,
on arriving make application for a patent, and
be regarded as a subject of the Government to
which he removed, until he complies with the
naturalization laws of the United States. The.
decision was occasioned by the application for
a patent by an individual born in the State of
Maine who removed to Novi Scotia and
swore allegiance to the Qieen, and who. at the
expiration of ten years, returned to the United
States.
He?;by Ward Beecker ox Gsx Lee —ln a
recent fi: mou Henry Ward B eci er made the
ar.ntxed remarks in ngard to Gtu. Robert
L:e : _ r
••I cannot read, except with disf&pprobafi n,
much that has been written with regard to the
Ftite of things at the South. I was pained
with many of the criticisms that were passed
upon Gen. Lee upon his assuming the piesi -
fvney of a college. When the war ceased who
could have been more modest f W'ao could
have been more true to his word and honor
than he? Aud when called by his feiiow ciil -
z?cs to bo president of a college, these carping
criticisms are iudulged ia. Must he not do
something for a living t For my own part I
v/as thankful that he was c-Lel to the presi
dency. and I have loason to believe that tha
young mm who graduate under him v/.il ia
the main he true amd fuith‘ui to tbo Gov
ernment he lives under, and that he will set
them an example. This irjuriou,; criticism is
not magnanimous;*we ttre the stronger party,
and if tOcro is to be magnanimity anywhere
we arc to show it.”
The spirit shown by Beecher on this occasion
is highly commendable. I is evident that he
believes iu forgattinr the past, and for ail to
unite and make our common countty a great
and prosperous one for the future. We do
not believe in many things Beecher does ; we
think Li:n generally radically wrong. But it
is gratifying so observe that he has lately
shown a more conservative and conciliatory
temper than in days gonc-by May other
Northern radicals follow his example, as long
a. he continues iu the right path.
Executive AmuNTiiENTs —By direction or
request of tho State Convention, ,Provis
ional Governor Johnson, has lappointed two
most excellent committees, who are to make
reports in order that they may be laid before
the next Legislature.
One of these committees are composed of
the Hons. Thomas P. Satfold, of Morgan ;
Charles J. Jordan, of Jasper ; and 0. A Loch
rane, of Bibb. This committo is raised to in
vestigate the financial affrirs of the State, cov
ing the transactions of the past four or five
years, and will commence fhtir labo«* at the
capital on the 20th inst.
The other committee consists of Messrs. E
Starnes, of Richmond ; Linton Stephens, ot
Haucocit; Wm. Hope Hull, of Clark ; Logan
E. Bleckley, of Fulton ; and L. N. Whittle, o
Bibb. This committee is raised to prepare a
code of raws for the protection and govern
ment of the lreedmenand freed women of Geor
gia, and to report tho same at the earliest
practicable peiiod to lay before the Legislature
ot the State.
The U. S. Navy during the AVar.— lt has
been officially ascertained that during the war,
the Federal Navy lost 1,406 men killed, and
1,G38 wounded. 75,0G0 sailors and
are on the rolls, .inclusive of all losses on
ground battles, on the Mississippi and at
Charleston, Mobile, Fort Fisher, and elsewhere.
The whole expense of navy, Bince the begin
ning of the war, including the construction
and equipment of all its vessels, and their
maintenance, has been less than $230,000,000,
or only about seven aud one-half per cent, of
the national debt. The Federal Government
has constructed, sincß 1861, two hundred and
ten vessels of war, all 6f which are of the most
improved models, and contain all the ap
pliances of modern offensive and defensive arts
of war. Tlieio are now ship* onongh in the
service no snow Tor rne money spent, to consti
tute what is probably a better navy than that
of either of the European powers.
The Cholera in New York —We notics by
the last papers that the excitement concerning
the cholera in New York has nearly died away.
No new cases had appeared upon the infected
steamship Atlanta. The Board of Health has
resolved to make a thorough medical examina
tion of the disease upon the steamship. The
uninfected passengers are to be received on
board the old receiving Bhip, North Carolina,
which is to be sent from the Brook! in Navy
Yard to the Lower Quarantine for that pur
pose. A meeting cf the principal physicians
Las beeu held to deriso proper measures to be
taken in the eventof the cholera making its
appearance in the itv. It was proposed to
raise a fund of fifij thousand dollars to estab
lish hospitals in ev«ry ward for the reception
of the sick, aud tomake other necessary ar
rangements to prev?nt the spread of the dis
ease. The Bteamshp Europe baß been released
from detention at tie Lower Quarantine, and
allowed to come tothe city.
Heavy Exports^ —The returns of export
clearances from theNew York Custom House,
for the week ending November 7, made up the
extraordinarily heaFy aggregate of $6,608,467
in currency, or aboit one hundred per cent,
more than the tofel for the corresponding
week of last year. Included iu the week's ex
ports have been 14621 bales of cotton, valued
at $3,523,735. Ofthis amount 12,450 bales of
the curreccy value of $3,001,449, were ship
ped to Liverpool; 1,741 bales, valued at $430,-
898, to Cork, doubtless “for orders,” as the
frieght brokers plrase it; and 430 bales,
valued at $91,308, to Havre. These enormous
shipments of domestic produce must favorably
affect our foreign trade balances, increase the
supply of exchange, lessen the demand for
gold, and vastly aid the chief financial agent
of the Government in his commendable efforts
to restore the National finances to a specie
basis.
The Fenian Movement in Canada. —The
Montreal Transcript furnishes the annexed re
port of an extraordinary speech delivered on
the Fenian movement :
On Sunday, th>' 29th of October, immedi
ately utter High Mass, Mr. Perrault, the repre
sentative in Parliament of the county of R’ch
elicu, addressed the large assembly attending
the s rvice at Sorel, from before the church
door. Mr. Perrault declaimed against the con
federation of the Provinces, and augured from
it miseries and disasters. As this portion of
the discourse was of the stereotyped order, it
need not be particularly advened to. That
portion which was of the moie extraordinary
nature was hi3 discourse to the French Canadi
ans shorn he addressed upon the Fenian move
ments, and the orgin.aims, and determination
of that body, Mr. Perrault told his audience
that the Irish were driven, by the tyranny
of England, to Avenge themselves upon their
hereditary foes and tyrants in the manner they
are now doing. The Society of Fenians was
iucited by the wrongs of an injured people.
He Faid that the Fenians would invade
Canada during the ensuing winter, and would
hold the Upper Province. That they could do
so was no matter of doubt. They would then
have the money of the Provinces in their hacd3,
with which they could buy and equip ships,
and carry on a war against England. Mr. Per
rault then expatiated with energy upon the
wrongs Irelaud had Buttered, und which had
driven her to seek this mode of redress. The
speech was extremely energetic, and e ded by
h s reaFserdou of the intension of the Fenians
of the United States to invade the Provinces,
I and ol their success in so doing. Mr. Pc-r
--j rauit's representations were ot so positive a
: nature, as’ti induce a belief that hs authorities
| came irem other soorces than mere surmise ;
' and : hat the warning came from actual au
i thoriiy. Upon listening to the conversation
of those in the crowd assembled, there appear
ed to be a foil belief in the alarming informa
tion he Lai given, and the people departed in
much agitation and alarm.
Sooth Caiujxisa Laws iS Recahd to Fkeed
v. n. —lhe Columbia Pi a* dx publishes the an- j
n x i synop-is of .he law? introduced into the
Legislature of that State in regard to freed
men :
Ail'i.ee ncg'-c*8 I mubtiloes and mestizoes,
ail heedmen and tieod women, aud all d;cc«id
auT 3 tt rough either Bex. of any of these per
sons, feLai; be Known as persons cf color, ex
c pt that every descendant who may nave of
Caucasian blood siv.n eights or mo-e shall
be deemed n white person.
The statutes and regulations c- ccernicg
Eiaves, are now inapplicable to p-Upons ot
Cj'.or ; and a though such persons are not en
t’t.’ed to soo al or political tquality with white
pers. ns they shall have ;lie ri'ht to a qulie ovin >
and dispose ot properlty ; to mak" contracts
to oL’j :y the frails of tbeir labors ; to sue P.nd
to be sued ; artu to receive protection under
their persen s mid picp^rty.
Is : relations between husband and wife are
nmp y provided for, making recognition of tbs
pai iies sufficient evidence.
With regard to the apprenticing of the child
run of freefuicu, the following sections are re
commended :
A child of coloied perents, or of parents oi
whom one shall be a person of color, over the
age of two years, may be bound by the father,
if he be living in the District, or in case his
death or absence from Ihe District, by the
mother, as an appreut.ee to any respectable
w hite or colored person, who i j competent to
make a contract —a male, until ho shall attain
tho ago of twenty-one years, and a female un
til she shall attain the age ot eiguteen years.
Illegitimate childre-U, within the age above
specified, may be bound by the mother.
Colored children between the ages mention
ed, who have neither father nor mother, living
in the District in which they are found, or
whose pat cuts are paupers, or unutle to affoid
tnem a comfortable ftaintenauce, or whose
parents are not teachiug them habits of indus
try and h nesiy, or are persons of notoriously
iad character, or are vagrants, or have been
convicted of infamous offences, and colored
children in all cases where they are iu ’danger
of moral contamination, may be bound as an
ptentices by the District Judge, or oue of the
Magistrates, for the aforesaid term.-.
Maks ot the age of twelve yeats and females
of the age ot ten years shall sign the inden
ture of apprenticeship, and be bound thereby.
Yv hen the apprentice is under these ages,
aud in ail cus sos compulsory apprenticeship
where the infant refuses assent, his signature
sha:l not be necessary to the validity of the
apprenticeship,-and the master's obligation of
apptenth”ship shall be executed iu the pres
ence of the District Judge, or one of the Magis
trates, certified by him, and filed in the office
of the Clerk of the District Court.
The indeutuie of voluntary apprenticeship
ilrail be under seal, and signed by the master,
the parent and the apprentice, and attested by
t vo creditable witnesses, and approved by the
District Judge, or one of the magistrates,
All perrons of color, who make contracts for
service or labor in husbandry, shall bo known
as servants, and those with whom' they con
tract shall be known as masters.
Contracts between master and servants for
more than one week, shall be in writing, and
attested by one white witness, and shall
be approved by the Judge of the District Court,
or by one of the Magistrates.
The period of service jthall be expressed in
the cent act; but if it be not expressed, it
shall be until the twenty-fifth day of Decem
ber of the pear in which it is made.
If the rate of wages be not stipulated by the
parties to the contract it shall be fixed by the
District Judge, or a Magistrate, on application
by one of the parties, on notice to the other.
A person oi color who has no parent living
in the District, and is ten years of age, and is
not enapprentice, may make a valid contract
for one y ar’s labor or service.
Contracts between masters and servants may
be set aside for fraud or unfairness, notwith
standing they have been approved.
Contracts between masters and servants
shall be preFeuiea ior approval within twenty
days after tlieli execution.
Contracts shall not be binding on the servant
unless they are in writing, and have been nre
sented for approval within the time aforesaid.
For any neglect of the duty to makea con
tract as herein directed, or the evasion of that
duty by the employment of persons of color,
from day to day, on his premites, the party of
fending Bhall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
be liable, on conviction, to pay a sum not ex
ceeding fifty dollars, and not less than five
dollars, for each person so employed. For the
approval of a contract, the following fees shall
be paid down to the District Judge or the Mag
istrate, as the <-a3o may be : For a con tract of
one month or less, for each servant, 50 cents.
For a contract net exeeding three months and’
more than one month, for each servant $1 00.
For a contract not exceeding six months and
more than three months, for each servant,
$2 00. For a contract of one year or any time
more than six months, for each servant, $3,00.
For a Contract for more than one year, for
each year or part of a year over one year, for
each servant $3 00. ’lhree fourths of which
fees shall be paid by the master and one-fourth
by the servant.
TH 1
Gen. Tilso.vs Address at Athens. —Gen.
Tilson, cf the Freedmen’s Bureau, delivered a
speech iu Athens on Sunday. The Watchman
speaks thus of it :
Gen. T. informed his colored hearers, in the
mo3t emphatic terms, that there will not be,
at Christmas or any other time, any division of
lands or any other property —that if the ne
groes wanted homes the coming year, they
must hire to those who have houses to live in .
and land3 to cultivate—that they would bo ’
compelled to comply with the bargains they
made, and that if they failed to make contracts
the Bureau wwsjd make them for them ami
compel them to femiply, even if they had to
attach a ball and chain to them, as the Gov
ernment was determined they should not
spend their time in idleness. He also cau
tioned the freedmen against insubordination
or any sort of insolence to the whites. An
other subject to which he gave great promi
nence was the habit of stealing—assuring
them that this would not be tolerated, and
that they would be severely punished.
We do not pretend to do justice to Gen. T’a
addtess, as we only heard a part of it, and pos
sessed no facilities for taking notes. We have
only adverted to some of the most prominent
points. It abounded in sensible advice to the
colored people, and although of them
were greatly disappointed, we trust that,
having heard from the lips of the accredited
organ of the Government, they will now learn
what their real status is.
We think that Gen. is eminently qualified
for the position to which he has been called,
and have no doubt but that he will fill it with
great acceptably.
ITM BB
Creed of tub Successful Party in Louisiana.
—The platform of the Wells or “ .National
Democratic Party,” which appears to have
swept the ritate ot Louisiana, contains the fol
lowing among other resolutions :
Resolved, That we hold this to be a Gov
ernment of white people, made and to be per
petuated for the exclusive political benefit of
the white ra;e. and in accordance with the
constant adjudication of the United States !
Supreme Court, that people of African descent
cannot ba considered citizans of the United
States, and there cau, in no event, nor under
any circumstances, be any equality between
the white aud other racer.
Resolved, That the institution of slavery
having been effectually abolished in the South
ern States, we consider it our right to petition
Congress ior compensation for all losses sus
tained by the emancipation policy.
Southern National Banks —The following
is the list of the national banks established in
the Southern States, up to Nov, 10 :
Capital.
Virginia—fourteen $1,622,400
TennesFee —seven 1,000,000
North Carolina—two.. 100.000
Geoigia—three 300.000
Alabama—three 402.000
Mississippi—one 50 000
Louisana—two 800 000
Texas—one 200,000
f ■ an
The Indian Commissioner, Mr. Cooley, has
issued a circular requiring the Indian Agent to
subscribe that he will not be interested in any
: manner with traders at the post.
FUHKiU.N ITSMS.
The Liverpool Feist rep ats ih-j di
nvnisl.iug in Sontt ampic n. •*
Harry Kelley, the champion oarsman of
15 :g!nu i has accepted the challenge of Hamid
of Fitts’ urg, tbo American champion, for a
race to bo pu'led over the Champion Course
from l’u’L-. t i Morllakc. o ; the Thames, next
spring, for LAOt) a side, ihe Amereau champ
ion being allowed £SO for expenses.
Dr. Livingstone, the African ixp'orer, was
at Bombay at last accounts, arranging for
another expedition into the inteMor of Africa
A droll revelation in Polish affairs has j ist
appeared. It is that fifty Foies, compromised
by the revolution, and Rating to be hangtd or
sent to Siberia, toik refuge ia-t j ear in a
unat-'c asylum in Waitaw, vhe-.e c'hey have
safely remained ever since, maintained at the
expense c*' tho government from which they
were hidii g
The French papers nil exprees great satis
faction at Ihe prospect of a line of steamers
between Norfolk, Va, and St. Naznre,
France. It is stated that the emperor it so
o'eased with the enterprise t hat ho ho 6 an
nooneed his intention of taking sicck to a
large amount, in tne new lino.
The Emperor ot Morocco has permitted
telegraphic wires to be laid in his domains.
A rai'way is to be laid, under live superin
tendance cf the Scrv du government, between
Belgrade and Alexiuacz, near the Turkish
fortress of Niss.i.
An eat then vase has been found at Raven
na containing nearly oOJ gold pieces, bearing
the c trig os oi Roman emperors of first century
of the Chrisian tra Their approximate value
is set down at twenty francs each.
Great cuvicsity has been excited at Cher
bouig by a small vessel, propelled by elec
tricity. Hie inventor, aFi each Engineer, has
show n lt : B discovery to the Marquis de Gha3-
seloup Laubant, M nister of Marine. Another
scientific question is submaiue locomo
tion. Several trials have been made, but with
out success. However, an Italian engin *r,
Gnglielmo, G'nstiniadi, has presented D» the
French Government the model of asubmariue
boat. The French Government has directed a
special committee to examine aud report upon
the system.
A London paper publishes a description of
a curious invention, designed to ca.ch Bale
burglars. The depredator no sooner com
mences, iu peifcct ignorance of the secret ar
rangements, to torce open the uoor, drill the
lick or move the Sate, than by so doiDg, he
sends a telegraph message to the nearest police
effi.-e, txbibitiug the number of the bate he is
attacking, and this number, registered in the
poke; books, has opposite to it tao address ot
the house ia which tho robbery 1b being affect
ed.
Messrs Erlanger Sr Cos., of Farir, and Sob roc
der & Go., Loudon, slate that they have no
funas iu hand, or m any way under their eon
tiot, cr any property iu any way under their
control, vv.’iica could bo mace available lor tbo
payment of the interest on the loau, or which
wtu'd have been made so available, if the
confederate government had been still exist
ing The money received in respect of the
loau was, by order ot the confederate govern
ment, paid over to its accredited agent. The
money for the payment of the interest and
sinking fund on. the Join heretofore reached
them through the same agency. The amount
for the coupons and sinking fund, due on the
Ist inalaat, bad not beeu paid imo their hands,
although ’hey applied to; it
Over seventy inouaaud persons died of the
cholera iu Russia.
The engineers employed in boring Mont
Cenis tunnel have come upon a quartz which B
Ilk- ly to cause gicat delay iu its completion.
A fine statue of the Emperor Trojan is said
to have been found while excavating near the
Villa Lavinia, in Rome.
A y-ouug Scotch nobleman, still a minor,
has been lately playing at a German watering
place, losing on an average $7,500 a day.
Tbs Directors of the East Prussia Railway
are now having iron boxes made, which will
be fixed in front of the locomotives, and filled
with sand. By a simple process, merely turn
ing a cock, the driver can open them as re
quired, and the sand falling on the rails gives
he necessary purchase for the wheel®
t The Russian Government rm™ not, appear
disposed as jet, to release its heavy grasp on
Poland. Its latest act with respect to that uu
happy country is an order to a'l the Univer
sities to restrict the number of Polish students
to one Until of the total number admited.
Poland haß now no longer a university within
its limits.
A railway is to be built through the Alps by
the pass of 6t. Gothard. highly yeaisof labor
and an expenditure of e'ghty millions of francs
wiil be involved in the undertaking.
A dentist of Edinburgh has pateuded an in
genious modification of forceps, which admits
artificially cooied air through its points
to the gum, so as to deaden sensation pre
viously to the extraction of the tooth, and
thus render the operation painless.
Some of the features of the Paris exhibition
of 1867 is thus noticed : The park which will
surround the exhibition is to be laid out in the
English style, and will contain an international
theatre, aud a lawn where the games of all
nations will be played. There will boa lec
ture room, with a laboratory, for the use of
any foreign savant who may have anew theory
to propose. Ihe exterior enciente of the park
will contain the agricultural exhibition, with
model farms, domestic animals, and exhibition
of horticulture aud pisciculture. There are to
be twenty entrances, and it is proposed to es
tablish a communication by railway.
Steam scavengers and “macademizsrs” hav
ing been found to answer their purpose ex
tremely well in the streets of Paris, there is
now in daily operation a steam roller for crush
ing the stones and leveling and consolidating
j the roads. This powerful machine weighs
about 14 000 kilogrammes, and is being worked
with the utmost facility ou tho Point Royal,
making the asceais aud decents without the
least difficulty. Two men—au engine-driver
and stoker—are sufficient to work the engine.
Gaiibald'i offers himsolf as a candidate for
representative of Tuiin in the next Italian
Legislature, with a view of preventing the an
nexation of Savoy to Franca, and of hastening
the conquest of Venitia and the Papal States.
At a concert given in Killarney, Ireland, re
cently, “God Save the Queen” was hissed.
In conformity with the agreement between
Louis Napoleon and Frances Joseph, as an
nounced in the Moniteur, the official gazette
of the French Emperor, the enlistment of
Austrian troops lor Mexico is rapidly pro
gressing, and Count Bcmbelles, Maximiltian’s
special envoy, is expected at Vienna to super
intend the military affairs of Mexico in the
Austrian empire. In reply to Mr. Sewards
remonstrance, tho French Emperor may again
assujp Mr. Bigelow that no further troops are
to be sent from France ; they will be »ent
from Austria and Belgium.
The cholera made great ravages in the con
vents ot Spain.
About five hundred persons died per day in
Madrid.
Earl Russell is in his seventy-third yeai.
The Trial of Mr. Davis -The Norfolk cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Press writes of
the trial of Mr Davis, in his letter of ihe sth
iust., as follows ;
“Since the removal of Davis from his quar
ters in the casements of Portress Monroe to
the more comfoi table and distinguished ones
at Carroll Hall, there -has been a marked
change in hi3 physique and spirits. He is
more communicative, more hopeful.
“His correspondence with the counsel he
has selected lor the approaching trial ( f or, if
it ever comas, it is surely approaching) is
large, and every argument found in his lavor
will undoubtedly be brought out. His friends
here Beem to have the impression that the
President i3 opposed to trying him before a
military commission, though several of the
Cabinet are iu favor of that mode.. They as
sert that he is cf the Fame belief h inself.
Whatever the fetling against him in the North
may be, there is undoubtedly a strong feeling
iu Lis favor tbrciugh n ut the South. Some ot
the prominent men of this State have already
exerted themselves strongly in behalf,
while even in Maryland, furthe.* North—is
Baltimore, indeed—there are petitions circula
ting, which receive numerous signatures.
An effort is being made to establish a national
Bank at Atlanta.
The small pox is on the increase in Macon
A National Bank has been organized in
Macon. .
Busness at Columbus is on the increase,
NKW4 EIMMVUV.
Archbishop Cullen has just if:md a mar.j -
festo to the cjor.-y of the a-eh o.o> ere of D- b
lin, against the Fenian broiherLuod. thorough
ly cmdenviing it. He denounces Orangemen,
Ribboemin, Feuinns and Free Masons, aid
*ays tha Fenian'sm is a compound ot wicked
uees and folly.
The wine of Champr-gne and Burgundy will
be of rare quality this year ; the vintage was
never so favorable, not even in the famed com
et tear.
Northern men are investing largely in Vir
ginia lands.
The German c gar and tobacco dealers in
tend urging on Oougress, at its next rea-iou,
the necessity of abolishing the law taxing
manufactured, tobacco.
Witbiu the past four months more than a
dozen gold aud silver mines in Colorado. Ida
ho, Nevada and Calaifornia have hern sold in
L mdou by American agents at largo prices,
aud there is now a large numlnr of English
men on their way to examine other mines
with a few to purchasing.
The United States Secretary of Wav h is restor
ed to W A Graves, oi Norfolk, his thipyard «ud
marine railway.
Railroad communicaiion is now perfect be
tween Jackson, Meridan and Vicksburg.
The “bieak-bcne’’ fever is somewhat prev
alent in New Orleans. Acclimated persons
are not disturbed by it, while few strangers es-
cape ita annoyance.
An extraordinary billaid match has just
been completed between two well known citi
zens of Denver. They acieed to play for
SIUO a game of one hundred points, and to
continue it witlioi t bleeping, eating or cessa
tion, until the party most exhausted should
agree to forfeit SSOO to the other. It lasted
for twenty-two hours, and £l2 900-was lost by
the superior player, who gave odds cf forty
points to his antagonist, and the victor paid
the toifeit of 8500. During the latter portion
of the contest the stakes wero SBOO per game.
The Auditor of Mississippi foots up the pro
bable indebtedness ot that State at
324 53,100.
The present indihledness of ihe State ot
Illinois is $9,021 200. bonded and otherwise.
The pioce.eds of the two mill tax this year will
bo $650,000 and of the Illinois Central Riil
road $500,000, all of which will be applied to
liquidatimr the bonded debt.
Extensive discovtries ot black su’phuret of
copper have recently been made near the snmici
of South Mountain, Caretown District, Wash
ington County, Maryland.
Suicides ami elopemeatß scent rife in all
parts of the country.
A man near Nashville a few days ago. uad
his brains dashed out by a blow from an axe in
the hands of a robber. Two watches were
stolen from bis body.
Amos Lawrence, of Boston, through an
agent, recently entered 12,000 acres of laud at
the Topeka, Kansas, land office These lands
are mostly located ia Greenwdfci and Chase
counties, and are designed for Eastern colo
nists It is also said a colony of three to fom
thousand Germans are on their way to settle
ii Western Kansas.
The N. Y. Chamber of Commcrco hsivo
adopted resolutions approving tho sentiments
expressed by tbo Secretary ol tho Treasury in
his speech at Fort Wsvne, as well as his recent
action in funding $60,000,000 of It gal tender
notes, thus giving the assuianceof his deteimi
ua'.ion to exert his influence and authority ia
favor of an early refutn to specie payments.
They also protest against auy attempt to in
crease the issue of the National Bank Currency
beyond the S3OO 000,000 authorized, or the
issue ot a single dollar more of paper monoy in
any form.
A machine for mining coal has recently beeu
undergoing a series of practical tests in one ot
the Pennsylvania mines, and the experiments
have proved in the highest degree satisfactory.
The power used in these experiments i.s com
pressed air, woiked at a pressure of from
twenty-eight to thirty-two pounds to the
square inch. With a greater pressure greater
results would probably be attained, but it iH
claimed that thus far tho machine is a complete
success, and promises to effect an entire revo
lution in the operations of coal mining.
** vote polled in Flori -
da at the late election—only three thousand
-votes in the entire State.
The planters of Virginia aro well pleased
with the prospect of an early supply of white
labor.
There have been nrganized three hundred
and five National Banks, three of which have
voluntarily surrendered their charters, while
one has been suspended Congress will be ask
ed to extend the National Banking capital from
three hundred millions to five hundred mil lions
of dollars.
An employee in Belcher’s saloon, Philadel
phia, bled to death on Monday from cu'ting a
wart off ons of his feet. He tried in vain to
stop the hemorrhage by tying a cord around
his leg, and was tound dead lying on his face
on the floor.
The White Sulpher SpriDgs of Virginia are
to be resuscitated as a popular watering place.
A petition, written by a lady, for the pardon
of Gov. Vance, is in circulation in North Caro
lina.
A suit has been commenced by Messrs.
Ketchum &Cos., againßt Charles Graham, to
recover a loan ot SIOO,OOO. Defendant admits
the loan, but claims that he deposited checks
for gold amountieg to SBO,OOO, which were
misappropriated
Gen. Beauregard has accepted the office ot
superintendaut of the New Orleans & Jack
son Railroad.
A steamer at New York was advertised to
receive freight on Friday, October* 2M,
lor Mobile. By daylight on Friday there
a line of drays and wagons that extended more
than half a miie from the dock where the
steamer lay. Some ot these drays did not
reach the Bteamer until the middle of Satur
day afternoon. During the n ; ght most of the
draymen removed their auimais, leaving the
vehicles and their loads in tho c*.rß of wateh
m a. The steamor was compelled to make an
end of receiving long before all the freight on
the drays was delivered, and departed ou Sun
day morning, carrying ail the cargo she could
get on board.
The speculators in Western produce are get
ting in trouble. The harve°ts h»ve pioved
larger than supposed, and they find it daiiy
more difficult to carry and keep out ot market,
*for the purpose of forcing up prices, the im
mense amounts of grain centering at the prin
cipal points in the West.
The citizens of San Antonio, Texas, rue
holding meetings to get up a State subscription
for Gen. stood.
Among other cases which will be argued be
fore the Supreme Court this winter, will be
one involving the right of a railroad or a
turnpike company to grant to telegraph com
panies the exclusive right to erect r'wts on it*
route. .
Gen. Henry C. Wayne, has been appointed
agent for the btate of Georgia,* for the Ameri
can Land Company, and agency located at 57
Broadway, New York.
An arrangement has been made between the
Boston and New Orleans Steamship Companies
and the Atlantic and Mississippi Navigation,
of St. Louis, by which freight shipped to or
from any point in the lower Mississippi valley
can be billed through as on one continuous
line.
The flax culture is anew branch of industry
in Canada, and promises well.
In the diocese of the Catholic Archbishop of
Baltimore, the sum of $9,302,58 has been col
lected at the Archbishop’s call, to be distri
buted among Southern widows and orphans
who may be in want.
The ground occupied by the dismantled fotts
surrounding Washington is to be turned over
to the owners as sqou as all the buildings at
tiched to the forts are sold.
The census of 1865 gives DubDque, lowa,
15,814, the largest city in the State. Daven
port is the next, with 14,068.
The new tea cent currency notes are nearly
ready for distribution. They are half an inch
longer and a quarter of an inch wider than
those now in use. A medallion head of Wash
ington forms the centre of tho vigneite, while
on the sides are minute representations of
masts of ships, warehouses, &c.; and on each
side of the medallion, in fancy lettering, the
figures “10.” The signatures of the United
states Tieasurer and of the Register of the
Treasury are appended to the note. The dress
is printed in green, and but little bronze is be
ing used.
The number of persons entitled to vote in
New York city is about one hundred thou
sand.
Two artesian wells have been completed in
Chioago, giving 800,000 gallons per day.)#