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I - ' -r . - ... i i 3 "" i 11 1 .i .. - . - - --- . '' ' I I li"" I I i it r I .1 , tt I J. . m m- . i - , ,, ill 1 . ' " 1 .M-3V; VOL. 1. XGv.228. f O -H. i Hit! Jul THE VVILMmCTONfflEUlLtf. W WIIiMIIVGTON, AT. C jrOVXMUBBR 24. THE -LITEST NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.- A New Scheme of Reconstruction. The Trial of Winder and Buw can.,, ? APPOIXT31 EtfTS TO THE KG ULAR ABMlf. &c, &c., - &c i I Washwgtox, Nov. 20. THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. : 1 ,:' There is ho foundation , for statement made in the Washington papers, ; that the secretary of the treasury , will put forward a hew loan. No further loans will be asked, for by the secretary until .after the meeting Of congress, to whom the whole subject will be referred by the annual re-' port. The bonds on the 'last' fifty million loan have not yet been delivered. ' . ' " V A NEW SCHEME OP 3 ECON 3TKOCTION. A bill has been drawn up here for the presen tation to congress on the first tday of the session proposing a new scheme of restoration. It pro vides for the appointment by the president of a governor for each state laleiy in rebellion. The governor so appointed is to have the power of the appointment of all executive and judicial officers within the state, according to tha laws of the state in force at the time of . his entering' into of fice, except such laws or enactments as may have been passed by a legislature recognizing, and co operating with, the so-called confederate govern ment alter the passage of the ordinance of seces t Bion in such state. The governor is further au thorized to organize courts in accordance with the said laws of the state, - All of his proclama tions are to have the same force as the laws, -He is to open a registry; where all -qualified - voters can be registered on taking a stringent; 'oath Pf allegiance. They are then to elect ' legislators," who are to prepare 'a constitution, On which con gress is to decide. If adopted by coti igress, ' ajl military restriction on said state is to be aban doned... ' . ...j- 7'3",: The secretary of war this morning 'ordered the discharge of every prisoner from the Old Capitol who had been committed, mere joy detective .Ba ker, at the same time declaring that they had been there long enough without any charges be ing preferred against 4 them. , The order emana ted from the nresident." ' ' - : ' J n i ; J ',"-,,. , . ;., . .: , iV . THE TEIAL OF WI3TDEB AND D0HCAK There seems to be no doubt assifitoed u the command: of the- deDartmerif: nf of Oregon, in place of GeneraT Wright,4 Whd was lost by-the wree to 'tn-teameT" runn in-between Californirand OtegWr . ; BEonLia't;AvlRT8EN;r to1 rtxiL . : Mi he egtilaf cavalry regiminfsexceptiil uiu x uiu, uaic uctu uiucnuiui uuty iu me com mand of General Merritt; at San Antonio, Texas. ' COURT jCAKTtAI,'" captain Jonn Jienneayof the Two Hundred J mi5 k iL Tk . 1 1 ' 1 . . . . - nu xnjrveeiiiu eujAvaniaYcuunteerg, nea.by court martial for drunkenness on' duty. has been casnierett tne service to') 'ir REPORT OF TPBCOMMISSIONER.OFCTJSTOMS., The j report of the commissioner- of - customs ' which has, just Sheen, pent to the , secretary Qt- the ireasuryr wiy conxain some exceedingly interest ing facts in regard to abandoned and confiscated property dJi.if,e. 3H? 1 ..i. '; A GREAT DISASTER, i Destruction of p.n Entire ; Village ly Fire. H ali f ax,' Ni 8 Not. 20; f ! The towef reBch Sfe KeiTeMiomeioni'VasR S iren' oesiroyea Dy nreonjtftm, Ljne tmxidred and twenty houses were btinied.l "LoSfr 4,000,000,, WimilVGTOXrC. I.'M I. J EBICEJIYE CEMS. as fayorabfe fSt tiSs re'nmderof the" charactersy , .uv uoiauw ui tue picture is a aim one. fxteptx&tttt-mifmmSffilj aiT in- fc ' y lieWon, fi havmg , eehj somebody m Ihen enter unoft' thef istasre.5 ' sav? some- " ueu enter- upon1 the stage, sav tmng and. then' (depart,1 Occitsidnally;; also, .we remember to haTe heard aaimtu sonnd from the prompter's desk, and 'aometikuaMU& Vernon's -w t-ckjc, in a ainereni, ,pan oi ine piece .tharf ner dwh.A It totr had' 'Wallv thn t. r.tr should go apoh the stage with' parts so imperfect-: ; tommiip tot Q memory as r to need .distance B.Wadhag iaracter,wiule they tiietnsejves PM;PaY89PWluWhatevrito that chajactexl In the name of the public we ask it, -cannot a change for-the ibetter be made 1 i -; y Visit of Gen. Thomas to Mississippi. New Orleans Nov. 19. It is,tmderatood th Ginetai Th8masl visits Mississippi by order of the president to settle the conflict between Governors; Sharkey anLHum- phreys, both claiming the governorship of that state. ' ' . : , -:- c1-' Fenian Demonstration. . Wilmington, Del., Nov. 18. The fenians held a grand " torchlight proces sion this evening on the Brandywine. Addresses were made by J ohn .-M; Moriarty; Of Philadel phia; Hon. F. Pencott, P. M. Plunkett and others. The greatest enthusiakffi prevailed. V' : Change of Commander. Major General Gillmore left for the north on the steamer .4ttwr last Saturday This mili tary department is now underrthe command, of Major ; General Daniel . Sickles, Svho will make his headquarters in this city within a few days. Major General Devens will continue' in com mand of the district, . ' ' Brigadier General '"Bennett has command the post. Charleston Courier, 20AW s , . , ' MARINE INTELLSCENCE. of i I TORT OF WILMINGTON N. C iVOF.; 24. ,, . y , AEE1FEJ. v. , Steamer A: P Hu'rt.-HorVfrOm Fayettevflle trt Worth St Daniel. COMMEIiCIAL: Tlie Home Market. Wii.iNOT0W, N624-i-l'P. M. JCOTTO'- We. quote galea of,?L :tajes of Ipw mid 4 ing at 43 1-2c a 44c. ' ' " j'NAVAL STORES. No salet, spirits jtprpjgntine. Bales of 25 bbla crude turpentine at $3 10. ROSINNo falee.r . :-;h r'S'.J- j TAR Sales of 360 bbl'a at $5. :i 'PEAJSUTSi-jile of 360JBttBbelj t 3..; ; , I t " , , it in. well4nforme,d New ,ork Market By Maii.J , ' BRADST0FF8. 11itn4rkef-for 8tateiandWwtern Tiilitnnr nfrcTpTtbaf thi swoFtwrv' of'trkr r-r-.-kfionr "ued and ciosd quietly, Bhowing, however, con- , military wrcles mat tne secretary ox wr nasrw- Kiderala MtMty for a ishort.tm. iTha-fHten ar:w,2001 bbla at $7 70 a 8 lor supernne Btale; $s a 825 for common extra do; $8 30 a 8 40 for choice do; $7 70 a 8 for super fine Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, &c, ' and $8 10 a 8 60 for extra do including snippmgr brands ot round noop dered a-miMtarr court to convene for the-trial of Winder, Duncan, aud Gee, now -confined In the Old Capitol prison, upon a charge of cruel treat ment towards union prisoneis" at Andersohville, Major General, Mott, it is believed, will be presi dent of the commission. OUR TROOPS IN TEXAS. Letters received here from, Corpus Christi, Tex-; as, dated as late as October 23, state that it was very sickly among the troops. General Russel, commander of the post, and more than half his officers, were down with the broken bone fever. His brigade was in daily exjectation of being sent home and mustered out; but as the pressure for transportation was so great, it was doubtful if the troops were removed before the early part of No vember. It is probable that by this time the or der against mustering them out has reached the Rio Grande. GENERAL HOWARD. Major General Howard, superintendent of the freedmen's bureau, returned to Washington on Saturday from his tour of inspection through the southern states under instructions from the pres: ident, having visited all the states lately in rebel lion except Texas and Arkansas. On the whole he speaks favorably of the condition of affairs throughout the south. In some places the con dition of freedmen is such that the bureau might be abolished, while in other sections he regards it as necessary to continue its operations: Eo will make a report forthwith to the president. General Howard had a protracted interview to day with the president and secretary of war. He will lay before the president in a few days his observations, in the shape of a'report, after which the president will-immediately take up and dis pose of the question of turniug over to the orig , inal owners the property now in possession of ' the negros of the south. There are a large num ber cf persons now here who are waiting thede cision of the president in regard to this matter. t PERSONAL. , Governor Morton, of Indiana, had an interview with President Johnson this afternoon, of consid erable duration. Schuyler ColfaXT John'B:Has kin, of New York, and Wm II..Precott, of South Carolina, also called on "the president this af ter noon, and were duly received.- Senator Creswell, General Carl Sehurz, and General Torbert arrived in this city to-day. : ' , -' -1 . r Dr. Thomas E. Massey, of the city of Mexico has reached here. He was for many years -connected with the democratic press in Ohio and Minnesota previous to his removal to the repub lic of Mexico. ' APPOINTMENTS TO, THE REGULAR ARMT. H P BiaVs. Baltimore John Pipptaf - "ao Miss Pippin, -ioA..-fif ?j Miss Jones, 9 M Mriyo, do, -1 v F W Einanuel, S C, ' BJ Mitchell, If ewbern, ?0, Iotel Arriyals. vur JUUTEL. J H Burnett, Rocky Mount a. unmn dc j ladies, do, ; TPBarswell. . . do, 6 OBatbi do, J MceraWSah, JTe-wTTorkjf H L Palmer lady, do, , W L Jones, Nation'l Ex Co "K Ransom, Jr, do, W J Bnead,, -: r da : T C Lipscomb, mail agent. i il Rndgen, dti, a a Andrews, . do, CEDtjnn, : - ' ;' G F TownsffekTJfclaay'j Ra- leigh,..,7 i wm Klrby, Sampson co, W O Kinsr Petersburg. Dr T R Micks, do, WE Lay ton, Albany, K Y. BAILEY1 S HOTEL. .? ' - E Buck.Ga, OH.Baldwfair do, A BIWS, SO JiX UOy. Gapt A' II Bloker, Cumberland. J E Bakierr Trboro, ' H C Storms, Philadelphia, H B RigffR, New York, 3 P Van Hick, do, T ('omisky, do, C G- Street, do, F W Emanuel, S O, ' H M Briston do, E Manning, do, WW Walsh, do, N B Buston, Darlington, Geo P Lea, Charleston, DO Taylor, do, W F Pktnett, ' do, AF Reddit, Mobile, WROrrel, do, UE Baker, Baltimore. BY TELEGRAPH. The President and Gov. Huin- of Mississippi. back has just been discovered at the treasury de partment ' It is the Desti executed counterfeit of United States' currency afloat. '-it may 1 be 'de jected try the small JSgurea;,J"fifty dollars;1' at the ends of the bills, being inclosed far circular bof dersinstead ojf octagonaj-borders, as in the gen uine, ,YThet transverse Iinesr, through . the large figures 'f fifty dollars," at the , ends, .also fail to intersect, its in the genuine ; ' and the outline pro file and shade of the eyesy Of the picture of Ham ilton, are somewhat heavier j fiian in the genuine. ,T ;i .BAHSB TO BS TRIED fJT DBCEXBBB. Baker,, war department agent -- against i whom Indictments have, been . found for , robbery, false. imprisonment, and extortion Mr. and Mrs. (Jobb being the-'ptosecutors-appeared hi court this morrnhgand gate bail in. the' sum of $1,500 for his appearance, - The trial is to take place on the second Tuesday in December. ' ' F. P. Stanton is his counsel Message of the Governor of AI- abainai if f If? HE RECOMMENDS THE, ADOPTION OF TH CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. " Ac, " :xi"-"- ; From Mississippi j . n; o . jACKsoifj Miss.,' Nov. '23: ' 1 A bill has pajssgd the. house, allowing freedmen to testify when parties to record. ' V Gov. Hupphre ys,has telegi-apldr the1 president relatiye -to the withdrawal of ! colored troops. ; The; president TepKpd that it Trill be Tdonewhen border canbe maintamewi withotrrtheh. t -The'reWas no" disposition oh the part of lie-government to dic tate; but simply advise it as a beneficial policy. r 1 . .: i . . . v, i i iv . m w ' f MoSTOOMEKYiNov.! 23.0'i Gov, Paroiii' niessage tOjthe legislature urges the adoption of the constitutional amendment I abolishiug slaveryand the passage ofj a Jaw. pro- saysf vrtn 'secawho admission of representai hef tives in. congress and restore the state to all political rights. her Ohio at $8 80 a 9, aud trad brands of do at (9 05 a 11 75, and t louis at SlZ 50 a 1U. We quote: Superfine dtate $7 70 a 8 00 Extra State ...... 8 OOa 8 40 tJuperfine Western a 7 70 a 8 00 Extra Western........ 8 10a 8 60 Extra Obio........ 8 80a 9 00 DoTrade.r 9 05ajl 75. Extra t-Louis 12 50 a IS 00 Southeru llour u inactive. The sales include 450 bbls at , 9 30 a 10 20 for superfine Btimpre, and $10 30 a 16 for ext'ja do. There is not much ipquirv.'icwicQfB meal. GRAIN". The Wheat market is dult, Vvlth a decline of lc, yith sales of 27iH)0 bushels, at $1 72 a 1 85 for XJhieago. spring and Milwaukee club; $1 86 for am ler Milwaukee, , and 2 40 a 2 44 for new amber State. Shippers arellny-"' ing corn very freely, and are paying, full ' rates. The sales include 190,000 bushels at 93e a 96o for unsound; 96c a 97c for sound Western mixed; 97 l-2c a 98e for high mixed, nearly yellow, and 91c for damaged. , 1 COFFEE. The market is inactive, and we do not hear of any heavy transactions.' 1 COTTON. The market opeud with more firmness, being influenced by European advices, but closed rather quietly at Saturday' figure. We notice sales of 3S00 bales, and quote: Upland. Florida. Mobile. 1T.O.&T. Good Ordinary. 44 45 - 45 45 Low Middiiug.... ....... 49 49 . 50 51 Middling......:.....:.... 52 52 521-2 53 Good middling 53 ; 63. 64 ' 55 , NAVAL STORES. No sales of crude turpentine have 1-een made recently. Spirits turpentine is unset tled; we quote at about 1 10 a 1 12 1-2 for email parcels. Rosins rc quiet and steady;1 sales 380 bbls at $7 25 a 7?W 12 f common; 8 a 10 for strained abd No 2. Tar is i ia -ii.-; small. Bales of Wilmington at $8 a 8 50. - l'RO VISIONS. There is a moderate call for pork, but at low !' rates. We notice saies of 6,750 bbls at f32 50 a 32 lq for mess, cash and regular way, closing at $32 62 1-2, and $27 50 a 28 for prime mess. Beef rules in the buyers' favor. 1 The salts include 540 bbls at $11 a -14 for plain Western old inees; $L8 a 20 for new do;. $14 a 17 for extra old mess, and $'23 a 25 for new do. The market for beef hams is not materially changed, although ratheri ruling in the buyers' favor. , Wc- notice sales of 200 bbls at $41 a 41. Bacon sides art dull and heavy. Sales were made of 25 boxes Stafford middles, ice cured, at 19 l-4c There is u moderate request for cut meats, at uncb,angfd rates. We notice saies of 250 packager; at 19c a 22c for hams in dry salt and sweet pickle, and 15 l-4c a 16 l-2o for shoul ders in dry salt. The lard market preseuts no new fea ture. Sales were made of 700tie.-i and bbls at 24c n 28 l-2c for No 1 to prime city, and 2Sca28 3-4c for .Western. Tbe-butter market is dull and he ivy. SUGAR. The market for jaw. is still dud aud unset tled. We quote fair refining at 13 1-2 a 13 3-4, and good 'do at 13 3-4c a 14c. - We notice sklfca of 56 . hhda Caba at 14c. Refined are quiet, and are ruling in the buyers' fa vor. .We quote sof yellow. at: 15 1-2 a 17 l-2c; soft white at 18e a 19c, and crushed, powdered and granulated ax 19 3-4c20o. ' ' ' ; ' TALLOW is steadily held. The demand is limited. We notiee salep of 68,000 lbs at J4 8-Sf a 14 1 2e for prime city, and 14 3-4c for old Butchers' Association, ' ' WHISKEY.-3-The market is dull and nominally much easier. Choice Western is offered at $2 40. Small Jot of dredge are changing hands at $2 37. BY MAIL. An order has been issued by the war depart-, ment for a board of officers to assemble in this city as soon as practicable, to examine and Te- .port upon the applications and recommendations which have been submitted for, appointments in the regular regiments 'of the army. The follow ing is a statement of the vacancies, to be ' filled In the cavalry arm,' second' lieutenancies, 64; -iri the artillery, arm second lieutenancies,' 40;' in the infantry arm,' first lieutenancies, 60; second lieutenancies, 299 ; total number of vacancies, 453. After a .careful examination , of tlie testi monials and the military history of the appli cants, the board will select the iiames of a suffi cient number to -.fill the vacancies shown in the foregoing statement from"; those applicants; who have served in; the volunteeb at least two ears, and will submit a report, with a;tfst pf names as selected. In making the selection the board triDr apportion the whole number to be appointed, to equal the number of vacancies exceptltwentyjj the several states and territories according, to 1 he representation in consress.. '. The names -.se lected will be arranged according to the ,order,'of J merit, and the appointments will be made in that order. The adjutant general will lay s -before' flie board the list of applications,1 and the recornmeri-" mendationsiand other papers. , The board wilj1 he composed as follows: Colonel H. JCraig,' Uniied States army j Cplonel and Brevet Briga dier General HiBrooks? Fourth tJned States artillery Lieutenant Colon?l S; Eastman; Ufiited 0EXERAI STEELE A88IOS ED TO OEEa04 Majofenjerif Bteelejo hasfc just' Wtufhe' LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. Mayor's CouBT.The docket at this court to day' wa$ rather a dry one Only one case was brought before the mayor, and ev ii in that one the charges, as yet, have not been Substantiated.' ; Josh Hewett, a r.egyiaiv.was arrested and brought before ..e, mayor,' on suspicion of having stolen some cloth which was - brought to thjs blace from the wrecks of the steamer Twilight It is charged that the- doth; was-stolen from, oflF Captain Sellare' wrecking schooner, which is en eaffed i inZi-emotihsr " the. damaged cargo of the Twilight. , Aa the principal -witness - in -the case-, Captain Sellars,' is now absent, Hewett was Temandea to ius ueu ui ttwu.ii, ui arrival ,JPRO?I THE "SpiJTH." Jlicliisa'tXioops Cumin p Home A Steamer l ired Into;Outragi s by Nt-ro Solciiers Fearful jnortality Hvpectea Among the Negro, j ;i 'i i .- -' 'i ; - " Special Despatch to the Chicago . Times. i Cairo, 111., Nov. 13. J The 10th Michigan cavalry arrived to-day, and proceeded homeward by railroad. A rise of 10 feet is reported in the Alabama river. ' ' :' Mobile paper report that when the steamer Creole was passing Fort Powell a blank cartridge was fired at her when opposite the fort, and, not stopping her wheels . instantly a solid shot was fired at the boat. The .cause of this periling the existence of the steamboat and all on board was that some officers of the boat wished to get on board and go to Mobile. Mobile papers loudly complain of such reckless wickedness. Active measures are on foot for the early com pletion of the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas railroad. Mobile papers complain vehemently of the daily and hourly outrages committed .by negro soldiers, and record numerous instances of men being murdered in broad daylight, and the mur derers in every instance escape punishment. The Mobile Tribune says v " The cold snap last week is telling fearfully on the negros, and un less something is 'done death 'will reap a harvest among them. We saw enough this morning to tell the most rabid abolitionist that ever howled that the howling of these fanatics is making their poor victims shake and howl, but master i3 not there now to feed and clothe them, and the freed men are beginning to pay the debt of freedom May God have mercy on them." The New Urieans Delta says oi the negro sol- diers of Shreveport : " The negro soldiers, armed and insolent, roam over the whole country, in fest the public roads, the streets of the city by day and night, perpetrate "robberies with impu nity, and murder ; where resistance . is offered. These are public facts, capable of the most exact authentication, of -almost daily occurrence, and repeated on nearly the same spot, in the same day, on the highway, not three tniles from this .city, apd about the same distance from camp. These soldiers,' in the name of common sense. why are they here at all 1 There are 'or have been no disorders but those they have created or occasioned, ,. and we have every reason to fear that, in;; despite of the. benignant intentions of government,' jthey will be the. authors of the greatest calamity that ever befel a people. - It is their boast that the whites are unarmed and dare not arm themselves, and we must be excused for not expressing any great confidence in the im mediate commanders of these troops being able jto hold them y cheeky however much disposed to do so they may be." ' : . . S v ;s ni L::jhississipfi. -' Tbe Abolition of Cotton Courts by- the Mis sissippi legislature Ueclared Uiiconstitu tionalGeneral Howard's Opinions Ke , crardinar b ; Witb.drawal - of tbe ffreed " meu's lureau. ' . f .. Jack'soh, lliss. NovC 16. Judge Swan has declared the action, of the, legislature in abolishing the cotton' court uncon stitutional. Governor Humphreys vetoed the bill, but the legislature passed $t oyer his veto. The legislature had adopted a memorial to President J ohnson, praying him to . remove . the . federal troops from the state. . The house of assembly has rejected, by a . decided vote, the proposition to admit negro testimony against white men. General Thomas and General Thomas J. Wood arrived at Vicksburg. The latter has assumed command of the federal troops in Mississippi. The Vicksburg Herald says that Gem Howard has stated that he had discovered . that . the con dition of affairs in the southern states were not sufficiently promising to justify him in recom mending the withdrawal of the freedmen's bu reau. He regarded the condition of the freed men in Georgia and Alabama as unpromising. THE TESTIMONY .OF,- COLORED PERSONS AD- - JUTTED. New Obleaks, Nov. 18. The Mississippi house has partly revised its refusal to allow nesro testimonv asrainst whites. It has now passed, 47 to 4S,,the following law in i addition to the cases in which freedmen, free ne-. groes and mulattos l are now: by law- competent witnesses shall be a party to a record, and m wmcn tney snan oe parties, ootn piamtins and defendants, and in all criminal cases in which the offence charged was committed (against the person or property of the 4 freedman, free negro or. mulatto, so oflered as a witness f provided no eedman, free negro or mulatto shall be examin ed as, a fitness in any .case whatever , only upon the stand and in open - court. . ; The senate will probably adjust this sentence! --i-- ! i PUOIII , DETROIT. : Supreme Court Decision'-'Arrest of a For- S:eii;onvictea .pt, isurglary. '; . Peie6w; Mich., Nov. 13. The supreme'couH to-day decided that the late election of -Moore, recorder,-was illegal and void, he proper notice cot having Jteen given, and the eommon council have already appointed Judge "Witherell to fill the vacancy which existed. . A man," named Fmley McGregor, was arrested Saturday, charged with passing forged checks to the amount ot $100,000 Upon the Exchange bank, ptpiyde, M9i-uutJZr K. ''r,'v; Bai jtey Duffer,' a noted; f pugaistasgR)idai? convicted of burglary and larceny. . " Anthony bchoder, the government .treasury thief, was to-day arraigned, waived examination, and was held for trial in the United States court for the District of Columbia. His bail was fixed at 60,000. est interests of our "state, let usl by 'a faitbiul.'bb servance, of the obligations we:, have assumed, ana by ail the moral power ; we may. exert, sus tain the president in his; .herculean - endeavor to defeat the radicals, of the north in their efforts to 'destroy twi"-$ a j-h "'iiiiv.:.y, ?M '. Let us demonstrate to these" enemies -to truth, to principle, and sound policy, that tbe men : of uiv oum, wnognave oeen reaay 10 vmaicate witn their; lives t the honor (of their 1 section and ';the cause they helieyed just arid holyj are niost ' reli able, in their observance of plighted, faith and truest to the principles of the constitution, i Dik ficulties of the greatest1 magnitude oppose our political and material advancement ? but let- us gite ourselves to the task of overcoming them, with brave hearts and wise, unremitting toil.' spieech of hon. schuyler ' ' -'Colfax. ' ' His Views on the Situ- i :. auon. He is , of Opposed to the Admission Southern Representa tives in Congress. Tlie ffew Governor of Alabama. The latest advices indicate that Col. Bulger has been chosen governor of Alabama. The sub joined speech made by him at Selma, during the canvass, foreshadows the policy he will desire to carry out : Colonel Bulger apologized for his feeble health bv stating that he was suffering from the effects of an old wound in the lungs, which to a consid erable degree incapacitated him for public speak ing: He designed to be brief and to the point, and no one had. any reason to complain of his departure from this promise. In the agitation of ! the secession movement he had been strongly op posed to the dissolution of the union, and could pever be induced to sign the ordinance of seces sion, though a member of the convention of 1861. But after the state had become involved in war, he did not feel that the difference of a few years image was a sufficient reason to keep him from the field, w. hen. his friends and fellow citizens were going forth in defence of the state, and he therefore went with them, and continued in the service to the end of the war. In that service he' had lost the use of his right arm and poured out his blood, but the south had been overpowered by superior numbers, and had been again subjected to the law and the consti tution of the United States. The result had made us traitors and rebels, but the president had been pleased to extend amnesty and pardon, and he for one had availed himself of that par don, and had done it in good faith. We were now in the condition of a man - whose premises had been swept by a tornado, and it was our place now, not to sit down and mourn over the ruin, but to go to work and build up again, and if we could not build such a mansion as we had before, we might at least construct something that would serve the purpose of a shelter for our heads. He was . in favor of the south taking strong and decisive ground for the defence of her remaining rights, and thought the government of the state should do all it can to protect its citizens TheTesult of the war had only settled one phase of the' negro question, which was that of emanci pation; but there remained two others to be de cided : the first was that; of suffraae the other would be the question of social equality. The same men who for forty years had agitated the former would continue to agitate the latter also. He thought we should give the north to under stand that, rather than be forced to live with the negro on terms of equality, that the white race would quit the country. 1 The rHEAtla-Bathef slM audience fwas in auenuance last, nigut to witness uie piay ui fSamule." This is to be i regretted, as we have never seen Miss Vernon annear in a character better5 sustained .thanr eho jdid-ithalT of t-Camill) r It is estimated that in advance of the annual XjeT acting w Uiuwu umjr uuo, - iu uioujr paiut, i message JTresiaeXKi JUUIiawu rm M3uo a FKOItt. V ASHIIVGTO W. .. 'fi jVk 1 "Washixgtoji, Nov. 19. y'--: DISCREPANCIES tS ACCOUNTS. " The settliha ud of the accounts of a large num ber of officers connected "fitti. the quartermaster's deDartmeni ;guowa laraeraiscreyancy; ,wwwu their statement and Chose of the accounting'of- ficers of the trQasuryJ H Of isaBCOHSTBUCTIOH. i- - Wticularl v in those- rhere the Reeling j are sup- nosen to oe lllSflll V nruuuv uuvu, sue n auuvrat - c i. n.A. pft1'lvmn4Ar rTnlt TiQ TO KoAn if it had ever, ppssessed. a local habitation and a nromls Mons.''Duval tcr renounce'all pretensions to an alliance with his son, her grief and sorrow are so well disnlavedas to eem ' almosf genuine. And then in the scene: foDong Ibat Where she parts, as sheuppbsfoln BerJover Jforeyerher anguish and despair are so well evinced that it almost cheats .the realty oi its own. . , " i Tfe Iwartily 'wish XtnX we could say something mation defining more fully rthe policy to be pur- suued relative to reconstruction m tne soutnern states.' : r.i - . ... . i . BIOT 13 WA8HI5GT0X A riot broke tut last night at one of the bar racks, here, between the regulars and some o: Hancock s-troops. Umcers ana men aiise par ticipated. . It was duelled hy S battalion of troops who came to the scene, op the double quick. ; No one was kmea,tthough .a, large numoer were in ured during tbejuieJeeiiiVi - ."'ul .DAHGER0U8 C0C5TERFEIT. -i A yery dangerous counterfeit fifty-dollar greeri- Bishop Davis, of Sontb Carolina, Opposed to Church Etennion. ! Bishop Davis, of South Carolina, has issued a pastoral to his flock oh the subject of reunion with the northern church. He professes the most impartial and dispassionate Judgment upon this important question, but takes the strongest ground against reunion.: He wishes that "the southern church may. be enabled to maintain her present independent position." t He flatly contradicts the theory that was maintained by the general con vention that the" southern church went out of its own free accordwithout coercion of any kind, and declares that "the cause of severance was both involuntary and overwhelming." Bishop Davis, however, is satisfied that the country is too large, and that its "heterogeneous and discor dant population is "too vast for one church. . Letter from Major ; General Gordon ; of Georgia .. , . - Major General J. B. Gordon in declining to ac cept to run for eovernor of Georgia said : ' ) Several gentlemen have been : named, whose character and i talents fit them for ' the position. Let us select from these one whose long civil ser vice, mature experience and 'unblemished5 recti tude preeminently qualify him to 'conduct the state through the shoals and quicksands that n viron her; and, while we thus consult the high. Washingtos, Nov, 18. This evening a large crowd of friends of Speaker Colfax repaired to his quarters and com plimented him with a serenade. In response to earnest calls, Mr. Colfax appeared and addressed tnem as follows :' - Mr Friekds I thank- you for this pleasant serenade with which you welcome me on my re turn to thia sphere of public duty. Since 1 left here I have travelled as you are well aware, many thousands of miles,' over plains and moun tains to the Pacific slope, and up that coast to the British possessions in the extreme northwest. But I will not detain you with any allusions to its scenery or incidents,' as "t have already pro mised to. speak in regard ' to them 5 in ' this city next'month.. j: , ck' ! -. 4ih:-' . My thoughts more naturally turn this? evening to the auspicious condition of our country now compared with the closing of the ' last ' congress.' Then, an alien and hostile flag waved over cities, and portSj and capips and regiments, and we went home in March to assist in raising niore troops, called for by the president. Now, there is peace , over all 'the1 land'arjd 'the flag of the republic waves unquestioned- Over every acre of our na tional domain.- - f Cheers. yf. We-never knew -the value, of. our institutions until the hour of their periL If we had failed,' there would have "been no resurrection from the tomb of nations ; but, thanks to our heroicl defenders, no Gibbon will write thefhistory of our declineand fall. I shall hail the day when all the. states t shall revolve in their appropriate orbit around' the central gov ernment,' and1 when we can behold theni distinct asi the: billows?' buti one as the sea. ' But we can not' forgeb that history 5teachea us -thai - it was eight years after, the surrender at Yorktown, in the revolutionary war though our fathers were of one mMd as to its necessity -that the consti tution was adopted.' : ,!;;. ' -,, - ; - . i: It is auspicious that , the ablest congress thjlt has sat here during my knowledge of public af fairs, meets next month, to face and settle the monaefitous. questions , which will be before it, It will not e governed by any spirit of revenge, but solely by the duty to the country. I have no right to anticipate its action, nor do I hind myself to any inflexible, unalterable policy ; but these ideas occur to me, and I speak them with the frankness with which we -; should always ex press our views. Last March, when congress ad journed, the states lately in rebellion were re presented in a hostile congress and cabinet, de vising ways and means for the destruction of this country. It may not be generally known, but it was repeated to me on the testimony of members of the so-called confederate congress, that Gen. Lee, the military head of the rebellion, declared last February, in his official character, that the contest was literally hopeless, but their congress and cabinet determined to continue the struggle; seventy thousand fell after that , time on both sides, n the battles around Petersburg, Rich mond, Five Forks and on other battle fields. Since the adjournment of the United - States congress not a single rebellious state voluntarily surrended. Not an army, laid down its weapons. Not a regiment abandoned their falling cause. But the union armies conquered a peace riot by compromise or voluntary submission but by force of arms. Some of these members of the so-called confederate congress who at our ad journment last March were struggling to blot this nation trom the map of the world propose, 1 understand, to enter congress on the opening day of its session next moilth, and resume their for mer business of governing this country they have struggled so earnestly to ruin. They say they have lost no rights. It seems as if the burning the ships of our commerce. on the ocean, starving prisoners on land, and raising armies to destroy the nation would impair some of their rights till these new governments were recognized by con gress. - The constitution, which seems framed for every emergency, gives to each house the exclusive right to judge of the qualifications, election, and return of its members, and I apprehend they will exercise that right. Congress having passed no law on reconstruction,-President Johnson pre scribed certain action for these states, which he deemed indispensable to their restoration to their former" relations to tbe government, which I think eminently wise and patriotic. First That their conventions should declare the various ordinances of secession null and void, not as some have done, merely repealing them, but absolutely without any force and effect. Second That their legis latures should adopt ! thevconsitutional amend ment abolishing slavery, that this cause of dis- sention and rebellion might be utterly extirpated Third That they formally repudiate the rebel debt, though by its terms it will be a long while before it falls due, as it was to be payable six months after the recognition of the confederacy by the United States. This reminds me of an old friend m In diana who Baid he liked to' give his notes payable ten days after "convenience. Laughter ' and ap plause, and cries of " sooov'i "" But ' there are other terms on which I think there is no division among the loyal men of the union. '" First That the declaration of independence must be 'recog nized as the law Of the naud, and every man, alien or native, white or black, protected in the inalienable and God-given rights .'of life, liberty and the 'pursuit of happiness.;, Mr.' Lincoln m that emancipation proclamation, ' which' " is the proudest wreath in his chaplet of fame, not only gave freedom to the slave, but declared that the government would maintain that freedom. We cannot abandon them and leave them defenceless alt the mercy of their former owners. 1 They must be protected in their1 right of person and prop erty; and these freemen must have the Tight to sue in courts of justice ' for all : just claims, and testify also so as to have security against outrage and wrong. 1 1 call them freemen not freedmen. The last phrase might have answered before their freedom was fully secured' but they should be regarded now as freemen of the republic; Second The amendments' of their state "con stitutions, 'which have been adopted by many of if -not all, the conventions halve declared, them in j' force without any ratification by the people." ! When that crisis lias passed can they not turn T around an4 say that these. were adopted tinder duress, by delegates elected by a meagre tfotay! under provisional governors,': and military an- thorities, rand never ratified by a -popular ivote, j and-could they not turn over anti-Lecompton ar gtxments against "us and insist, as we did, that a cohstitutiou not ratified by. the people may; have legal effect but ho moral effect whatever ' n f Third; The president can,' on 'all occasions; in- sist that they should elect congressmen who could take the oath prescribed by the act bf '1862, but .T in defiance: of this and insulting to the president and the country, they have in a large majority of , instances voted down, mercilessly, unldn 'men whd could take the'oath and electedr those who boast- ff ed; that they could not, would not, aye, and would feel disgraced if they could.; 4- Without mention ing names, a gentleman elected in Alabama by ay large majority, declared in his address to the peo- , tt pie before his election that the iron pen bf history ' 1 would record the - emancipation act as the most ' monstrous deed of cruelty that ever darkened the j v annals of any nation. , y ,.t . , t And another one who avowed that he gave H4 ' possible aid and comfort to the 'rebellion, denotin ced that congress of 1862 as guilty in enacting ; r such an oath. .. A voice "Put them on proba-;i tioh." The south is filled with men who can take . th oath ; it declares : "I have not Voluntarily ' taken part in the rebellion." Every conscript rav,; the southern army can take that oath, because he was forced to the ranks by their conscription act, and every man who staid at home and refused to except civil or military official positions could J take that oath. Bui these were not the choice of the states lately in rebellion. . .r.wi, ' Fourth -While it must be expected that a mi -nority of these.states .will cherish,, for years, per? wi haps, their feelings -of . disloyalty, tlie country ;haSyiu j a right to expect that before their members are - j admitted to share in the government bf the conn'" try?,"a clear majority of the : people of each of - vf i these states should give evidence of their 'earnest'1 and cheerful loyalty not by speechest'as are sb, . Cfimmnn ' "that. tliAV ''mThrmffo1 th ' iccna tn l' ' the ftVhitrament nf war" iiiit. that, tlnaxr ara wJli . - ling to. stand by and, fight for the flag 4of ,tha: country against all : ats .enemies, at home-or ;ri abroad. The danger is in too much precipitationVl t , Let us, rathef, ,make haste, slowly- and wecaii ?! then hope ' that the ; foundation'pf our 'govern- ment,1 when thus reconstructed 'on the : basis of indisputable loyalty, will be as eternal' asf the stars.?" '::':,- V -. :sv .'!: In President Johnson I have unshakehconfl-'.'. depce, and cannot forget that in . the senate,- at the opening of. the? rebellion he, was the only .-,! soithern senator who denounced it and its origin V ators " laithful among the faithless found.T' Nor; ik? can I forget that when on his way from the capi- " tat to his home insulted though h4 was 'at many - "'' railway stations he never faltered in' his devo tion to 'the union. Nor can" I. forget his speeches, wy) when military governor of Tennessee, to a mass meeting of colored men at Nashville, in which he dejblared that lie desired that all, men should have' a fair start and equal .chance in the; race ofvlife,." and let him succeed who has the most merits v. ' , ' You .will remember - his speech to' the colored -''f-regiment of the District of Columbia here hes'J- repudiated thatt.stereotyped - declaration, thajthis 5 is p. whiteman's -country. alotje, and inserted, that 3f i it was theirs also You remember, 'also,' 'his reiW marks to the South 'Carbllna" delegation.that the'-' c only right tystom w'a to protect ; all m'en) botli- k.1 white, and black, in their persons and property y arid that, if they got general .-principles, right de-J tails and collateral woid.' Iojjow ".Ye.'ail J?-; member his earnest disrtehestoKtbjes sputiiera :T v conventions, in setting aside the Richmond elec- VTt7 tions, when a disloyal maypr and common coun- cil were chosen and that he has signed the death v; warrant of every one who has '"been convicted of v? conspiracy. 1 " - i';'j,r,lt.:a The gre'at union i organization -of the: country ! carried it successfullyy aided by our. heroic de " fendere, tlirough tlie perilous crisis of the past r -four years our beloved martyr president leahed '' upon it in the darkest ho nr. ' ' '' . It stood by the national cause unfalteringly:!; . it voted -down the Chicago platform, which de- i, clared the war to be a failure, and which de- manded a cessation of hostilities. The people have placed the whole power of the government in its hands executive, legislative and judicial and reassured it by the brilliant victories of this fall. Let us emulate the example ' of its friends in all the states, and let us study ' ' unity in the light of duty, and I believe that the -executive and legislative departments! of thegov-i eminent, when they cerapare views together, will. v coruiany co-operate in tlie great work before us, and so act that the foundations of our union ' wisely and patriotically reconstructed, shall be eternal as the ages. ., . With a hearty acceptance by the south of the ,;, new situation, I rejoice to believe that under a system of paid free labor and Telpecting' the' rights o ' freedmen, it will go forward in prosper " ity, wea th and progress unequaled in its previous n! history. It has a more genial clime than we have in the colder north, a wider, range of produc-,, tions for it has cotton, tobacco, rice, and sugar. which command such high prices in the markets of the world and has boundless water power almost entirely unimproved. , Bid now of that shiftless system of slave labor, it will, with its loins giri anew, rival us in the race of prosperity.1' ' in conclusion, I can but echo the last words of i our departed president, in his last inaugural on -the steps of the capitol : " With malice toward " none, with charity for all, but with firmness to do' the right; as God gives us to see the right, and all will be well." :. ... , "i i f Virginia and West Virginia. The Richmond Enquirer pays,, on the division of Virginia : . The dismemberment of Virginia is one of the , saddest recollections of the war ; that an'part1 ' of her people would have laid violent hjndaupotl1' the territory of the state, and, through the con- s nivance of, a small body of men flitting ..between, wneenng and Alexandra, without constituency, , without character," undertaken to! dismeinber'and " divide the territory whose boundaries werenxed by "the fathers of the republic, can onlyibe aCno counted for by the demoralization of the,war.s,i That the congress of the United States should ' have consented to this dividing lip of an "old s state the- very mother ' of the constitution -s would be likewise iucreditable but for the actual , r I. v ' - 1 iaci.j ... . - . .-, , . - . . . . . .1, But the division has been made will it be per mitted to standi When reason and justice shall return, and passion and prejudice- subside; when'' v lrgmia snau have been restored tof the unipn,,,; and her people exhityt, to ..the satisfaction of, uouiuuun a.uu. uuuuuui tutrix ivjaiiy ana pur pose of remaining faithful to the spirit and let-'' ter oi ine, constitution', we do not believe that o this wrong will be persisted m. '. iti &di'M -m n From San; Francisco, k 'f . v ykir:zVi, Sax Fka9 Cisco, NovlTc.: Arrived, shir Macatdey from Baltimore. Du- . ring the last eight month's eleven vessels loaded with copper and silver ore have sailed from this iAM arrivM to-day from Mazatlan, with flOO,- uuu m treasure," and a considerable quantity'6f copper and silver ore",-' ; .' '.' t 11 ' i v r The full fcxpedition of.the western union, 11e. graph company arrived .at Potropolonski Rrts- sian-Siberia, on. the 16th of October, and were their nVentions-o reluctantly rmHa h nrMw I nrarreasinr very favorably - -' : " " ,i 'I sure of dispatches from the president apd seore-1 :;j ' ' ' i ".h'!)liK terybf stateonld Wrafied Wa'majority of ' During the last weelc'about 'lo'Ood' barrels their -neonle j W all ImoW t.hn hn '-ar en r.-..i .. ... , .. . uarreis OI -tappiea were receded in lioston over the Western poruon oinen-vpters paracipated m the elec-1 railroad;- and so far the present week upward ot tion of delegates ito these conventions iannearly barrels.- . - -JniA u ..'wA""5r
The Daily Wilmington Herald (Wilmington, N.C.)
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