The New York Herald Newspaper, October 7, 1865, Page 1

a THE-NEW ¥° — NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1865. ee ary et ae Meee nee eS a eee eee WHOLE NO, 10,631. PRICE FOUR CENTS. t election, and result waz the choice of the de 8 , NORTE CAROLINA. |is jie ee asta fe in eae in that Oonvention were unable to resixt success. fully, aad, after throwi: in the way, bent before the storm of secession. 4s bat little doubt tm the minds of those who understand ‘The State that, had it mot beon for the violence and ter- Tesorted to by the secessionists, the popular vete at any Gime have been fifty thousaad against Be- ‘The remainder of the @logates are plain, steaight- Yk eee \ 4 Importp at Procecdings of the Convention. rat | ey ceresaen eee wae « 27 orks ; The. State Has Never Been Out} trots, Materiy autt-soceuion, "Tue poneral feeivg ofthe was evinced yesterday When a member pro- to temporarily’ the rules governing the Con- veutian of . There was really nothing'in the propo- sition, but the Convention, by the _promptness tone of its’ that the lig! proved action sowght'to:take the Stato ont of the Union. of the Union. NJnantmous Declaration that the Be- cession Ordinance Mever Hayt Any Legal Bffect. A AtCABAMA.”A Repudtating the State War Debt by the Convent! e OUR MONTEOMERY CORRESPONDENCE. MontGomeny, Sept. 28, 1866. ‘THE STATE DEBT. ‘In the Convention to-day Mr. Elmore, from the ‘Com. i) enittee om the State Debt, to which was referred an ordi- Wevtion to be Held on the 2d ‘os | 19% repudiate tho war debt of tho State, reported a P ‘substitute for the same, which was adopted by yeas sixty, . (November, '| ‘hays ‘nineteen, ‘The following is the ordinance :— Be st ordained, &e., That all debte created by t ‘Of Alabama invaid:of ‘the late war, di are hereby declared void, and the Gen: the State ‘ghall have no authority, and they are hereby ‘forbidden, to ratify the same, or to assume or to provide for the payment of the same or'any part thereof. And be it further ordained, That the General Assembly of the State shall have no authority, and they are hereby forbidden, to assume or make any promise for the pay- bo igttees a yeriie. A ms Mag faye ecetagfer gu " E rectly or'indirectly, tlie fede! 8 OF esttion of the State in 1861 and me Po a rr pa 1865. A 'SPROMURN OF THE PARDONRD REBELS. de. Tho Ordinance of 1780. as Alwarys Beon in > Porce Since its Buackatent. of the Members of the Convention. ‘Parsonnel * * this city, are now and have beon, since and before the com- mencement of the late rebellion, the owners and propric- -Bppotdtment and Reporte of Conmmit~ | 16:5 of tho Tallapoosa Cotton Factory, located in Tallapoosa ‘teos—Provisions for the Election of | county, in this Statc. They bave made during the war Members of Congress and Legisla= | a5 immense amount of money, as favored contractors of ‘ture, dic the late so-called Confederate government. The partics : Raunan; Ochst,' 008-1 Losing the’ company were persons particularly, hos. ‘Fhe Convention metat eleven o’clock. tile to the United States government, and delighted to A resolution to hoist’ the national tlag over the Capitol Reg ot at and punish Union citizens who adhered to the vas adopted. of their country. During the war they refused to Mr. B. F, Moore, from the. Business Committee, made | {tfnisl a at. gine Se ceecmncanea Cites tera ‘ap important report; embodying work for the Conven- | man'ifactured eloth for the soldiers of the Confederate en, and; among others, resolutions for the appointment | army,’ At the close of the rebellion they found them. Ives in possession of a, large amount of cotton, est- “@f committees in refer:nce to the secession ordinance, | mated at two thousand five hundred bales. Much of this re: ‘to the abolition of-slavery and to the procurement of a | coltop was the property of the rebel government, general amnesty. Looe to the factory to be manufactured into clothing for e army. ‘The rules'were suspended, and the report was at once | ‘This company, coming within several exceptions of the = i veh prorated proclamations and abale factory bein; “Pho President appo com nance:| U8 mu @ acts of Congress, en, ‘sen ppry treme, acon aged the services of a prominenteitizen lawyer and contracted ‘@f secession, who at once retired, and soon after returned | with him to obtai enti reported an ordinance declaring null and void the se- cession Ordinance of 1861. The report was unanimous. ‘The ordinance was laid over for one day under the rules. ‘The President. appointed a committee on abolition of ‘Mlavery,'With Mr. Settle, a strong Union man, as obair- man, anda committee on procuring a general amnesty, ‘with Judge Gilliam as chairman. Mr. B-F. Moore introduced an important ordinance ‘providing for the election of members of the State Legis- in pardons for the various members of the company, for which he was to receive one-third of wetse. patitions ded. fe e were propared, recommended and for. warded to Washington, in due time the pardons ape Finding themselves pardoned and free to act they compromised with the attorney by paying the hand- some sum of sixty thousand dollars. was to present to the Secretary of the Treasury a large claim for compensation. The Hon, Hugh McCulloch will have @ good time examining into this claim. James Q Smith, United States District Attorney, a= Be The next move ing all the prominent. rebels were pardoned, ature, to convene on the third: Monday of November, hent finding the when the above facts came to snd fet itember of Congress, mid 40 be’ | eRe All tie facts eae Sgr eery edd aa the free. Thureday of Norember, Undch its | Gauci at Weskingion for diections va the presalon. ‘Provisions ‘no one is to be eligible to aseat or cape ~ Se-4¢ voting who, being free in all respects, shall. THE TOWISIANS. ‘Bet defore the 27th of May, 1865, have: velntarily taken and sutseribed to the oath of amnesty preacribed in the Proclamition of President Lincoln with the ‘purpose to ‘@uppress the insurrection and restore the authority of the United States, and thenceforward shall have observed ‘Me mame, or who shall not have taken the oath pre- @crtbed in President Johnson's proclamation of the 20th of May,'1085; or who shall be excepted. from the amnesty. Laid over for one day. Several other ordinances for the election of municipal eMicers,.ds0., and several resolutions wore Introduced. ‘The Convention is wholly and thoroughly Union. Mr, Settle, from the Committee on the Abolition of Slavery, will to-morrow report the following :— A ORDIBANCE PROHIPITING GLAVERY IN THR STATE OF ORTH CAROLINA, Be it. declared and ordained by the delegates of the ores the Btate of North Carolina, in convention as- Th Rambles Through the City Yes- terday—Visit to the American 1: ute Fatr. Our visitors from Tunis did an immensity of sight- seeing yesterday. Rising early, they had thé articles in the various, papers concerning them translated. They seemed quite astonished ab the idewof all their move- ments being known to the press and recorded. Probably there are no such things.im Tunis as ubiquitous reporters, ‘which accounts for their wonder. They started early, ason the previous day, in order to see as much as possi- ble of the elty before they left. Driving up Broadway, the first place they stopped at was BRADY'S PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY. Here they were shown all the photographs of notabili- tieg, to the list of which they would soon be added. The Portraits of the great military and naval commanders, ‘They seemed well posted on the matters connected ‘ Crear Holden to with oer ale menerenuse well. ae, tas leading facts in ae he Ordinance of Seces- | by Mr. Brady, the ruins of Ri slomDeclaved Null and Veld, de. tiueh admired. Pho. heroes ‘of the Revolutious & “ as the eolloction of of our President Wasuunarox, Oct. 6, 1868. Day eee Doubtless our Cor ‘The President thie evening received the following while in Tunis, to them on the histery deepateh from-Governor Holden :— rd opal yA ee ee ee ‘Rarmon, N. C., Oct.-6—6:15 P. M. ‘Dern of the embassy sat Photography is not a from France @n—the Convention bas just. passed the following by Run that they were quite 6 Convention of the State of | again , and vi adopted and ratified the constitution of the yay wee mach interested with the works acts of the art collected there, The Rgyption, Separtmeat of the ae. museum hed considerabte attraction for them, and they full foree SOSe Barcnes Say tutored see tancee , meoreaoes frm Suse oe lants oe pu 3 void. anything Tunis in one of theie museums z . Perey m ey ty 4 no toafford them jnformation in bis, power Me fires Thureday Fogarding all they bave oope and beard. . : A DRIVE THROVGR W. Governor, ‘Wail ajeet was the best, place, whieh they drove z i be i i of the difference between the “ aol become more acquainted with the mombers of the wesied la any pevroioarn Conventionand their antecedents Ifind it tobe a yet | We hope if they did that no more decisive representation of the Union sentiment of | cal quotation, “‘atriking il ‘he State-than I had at first supposed. The people of | their great consternation. met North Carolina appear to have been so desirous to make | Ti rendering this and other terme ; Pond Geir repentance and reform clearly understood that they huey ther currency deperates 74 made the degree of a candidate's Unioniam the criterion | Jay Cooke or his ‘nati blessing,” jeard of @f their choice. Thus many mon. but little known and | 4 ~—t or Ketchum, Truly thelr land must be an @nly of moderate capacity, who had been bold and fear. evening they returned to their hotel, where a 3 23 Ress in their denunciation of secession, triumphed over eandidates of established reputation and admitted ability. ‘Thus im’ Yadkin county Thomas Haques, a plain, unas. @uming.man, without any previous prominence, defeated Obief Justice Pierson, one of the ablest men in the State, 4 @d #0 astonished the public as to become the observed ° » ‘© all observers. Justice Pierson was a moderate Union | tion, and ob olset celose eadaees to Soomeouhetron, ‘man, while Haques has always been defiant and extreme | on their way calling at Mr. Blatohford’s whore n.his opposition to .exession, and hence his success, A Wea ey aete seed tee ee Se saree es hs similar result was shown in soveral other districts. | and the other managers, and escorted throagh the build- ‘Tiree of the delegater to this Convention—Gen, Dockery, | ine under the escort of Superintendent Kennedy and a : detachinent of police. The fair, usually ero Judge Gilliam and Col. Thomas J. Faison—were mou | Hired tn replovion task evening, and it was with diMeuiiy ‘Dore of the Constitutional Convention of 1835. ‘® passage Could be cleared for them. Crowds of enger ‘tHe CONTENTION OF 1861. al; htecors pressed from ail sides to catch a glimpse of our ‘Tho position of the State of North Carolina in 1801 is distinguished visitors. They examined minutely all the juteresting epeciimens of Ametican inventive geni probably not geverally understood inthe North, aud as 1 | with which the building is. filled, and frequently ex. Have made several allusions to the Convention of tit | Pressed their Bo gs gh fy en . seeing each article, oy te eve ing for them- gear It may de as welldo give a delet account of the con: | Feivog, “During the evening General’ Haskins was pro: ition of affhirs in the State at that time. In February, | sented with a very fine sewing machine bj Miss O'Connor, 19861, the question of a State Conveation was submitted bo hag A of A. San Ib hy ay Hag — ‘ a " fore the party made a cirou! the buildin 0 vote of the people, the ballots deing “Convention” | wien they ‘rewuened to the Astor House, very well ‘and “No Convention,” and the delegates to the Conven- | pleased with their event e Sion wete votell for at the same time, with the under- The embassy et @'anding shat if the Convention should be ordered they mould meet, and jf not ordered their eleation should be void. The jasue of secession or no secesdjon was made fo the fominations for candidates, and thy roault was pone aon “ein the usual Astor style, was read: oir a wi rpened z ane Taschion’ was much shai by the AT THE AMERICAN FAIR. During the day the embassy alte ly this morning Attempt of Dr. Mudd to Escape. Fortunes Monon, Oct. 6, 1965. ‘The steamship Daniel Webster, from New Orleans, on Sint exghty four stron and decisive ant-paced on Imion | the 220 ult, for New York, put in here short of coal. were ¢ ‘owt of one hu and twenty | She reports landing some prisoners at the Dry Tortugas, ‘mem! an vote which showed a popuiar 4 arin ‘of arty ae and that Dr. Mudd had made aa attempt to escape. He ame t the ‘No Convention” ticket pravailed | Was found secreted in the coal bunkers of the steamer about od as majority. The reasqn of | Thomas Scott, and put to hard labor, wheeling sand, o ‘eccoseion candidaten und so voted. agaivin | ThE quartermaster of the Boott was arrested for bav. holding @ convention under the Fi pins t ing aided Dr, Madd in his effort to escape, Mat would finally ettle ion. The secession| = all voted for the convent @@ felt confidence in their Nominations, wroo, Oct 6, 1865, and eo did such Unionists Senatortal and a lity to carry @ large ma- ity of the delegates. The Convention w erefure, Johit J. Wolcott, of Fulton, has been nominated in ene 0 held. as Whorelores | ein dintejot for State Senator, instead of Bare Colwell, as 4 fow weeks afierwards the State Legislature p- | ported ithe New York papers. ‘Worily ordered a convention without submitting the ques- “ Bine Bixa, N. Y., Oct. 6, 1966, Gon tome pre, and an election for representatives Abthe nip Convention of the Assembly ctis- wag ordered. All, or nearly all, the other Btatos had | trict Pip county, held at Croton Dam, to-day, Ge bas ee was in @ condition of wild ox. | George 4. Brand, wth was rengminated for memper of Pk 907 Yeas wage Wwe A Apoubins,- " it they would not tolerate even jj Beeming Tecogwition of the body whose Release of Ex-Mayor Lennox from Confine- Barnett, Micon & Co., composed of several persons of WASHINGTON. Arrival of General Grant at the National Capital. Increased Demand for Public Lands in the West. ment in Fort McHenry. &o. de. &e. Wasinnoton, Oct. 6, 1865. ARRIVAL OF GENERAL GRANT. o'clock this morning. During the forenoon he ¢alled on the President and Secretary Stanton on business matters. As the General, dressed in citizen's clothes, entered the War Department, unconsciously puffing his cigar, con- siderable merriment was excited among those who recog- nized him by @ young lieutenant politely tappitig him on the shoulder, in blissful ignorance of who he was ad- dressing, and informing him that smoking was forbidden in the building. DEMAND FOR PUBIIC LANDA, : The activity of the demand for public lands continues with remarkable increase throughout all the West: The reports from local land agents to the Genoral Land Office of the business transacted during the month of Septem- ber, indicate the extent of sales. The offiee at Boone- ville, Missouri, reports twenty-eight thousand acres of government land taken up and actually settled upon, be- sides the net cash sales, which amounted during the same month to nearly three thousand dollars, The lands bought for cash are mostly alternate reserved railroad sections, which eell at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, At Fort Dodge, Iowa, nearly five thousand acres are reported entered and settled upon, and at Menasha, Wisconsin, two thousand dollars from cash sales is re- ported. The Commissioner of Public Lands received intelli- gence to-day that a man named Braden, recently a con- testant in an extensive and valuable land case, had been forced to drop his litigation, having himaclf been dropped at the end of a rope by a vigilance committee of the Ter- Titorles, for alleged horse stealing. GENERAL BUTLER ON RECONSBRUCTION. General. Howard entertained an audience of four or five hundred ladies and gentlemen with a miscellaneous ad- dress at the Union League rooms to-night. A statement was received by proxy from General Butler, who was expected to be present, giving a few peculiar views upon reconstruction, calculated to tickle the soldiers. He fa- vored the confiscation of all Southern lands travelled over by our armies, and colonizing them with discharged soldiers. He anticipated that the first call for help from the South would be from former slaveholders rather than freedmen, and intimated that in such a case Mas- sachuselts would not be among the most active States in farnishing assistance. ME-MAYOR LENNOX RELEASED FROM FORT M‘HENRY. Walter Lennox, formerly Mayor of Washingtow; has, after a confinement of twenty-one months, been released from Fort MeHenry. He left this city at the outbreak of the civil war, but was subsequently arrested in Balti- more and imprisoned as above en the charge or suspicion of being a rebel emissary. POSTAL SERVICE IN THE SOUTH. The contracts for six important mail routes in Southern Arkansas and Leuisiana were awarded this day at the caster, Homer, Shreveport’ and other towns near thé border of both States. RATIONS FROM THE PREEDMEN’R BUREAU. The Chief Commissary of Rations of the Freedmen's: Bureau reporta that the consumption of government rations by depondent freedmen and refugees has been less during the month of September than at any pre- ceding time since the war. ILLNRSS OF GENERAL RORACE T. SANDERS. rs, in this But hittle hope exists of even partial recovery. A PROVOST MARSHAL’S OFFICE ABOLISHED. Orders have been issued abolishing the office of pro- vost marshal of the defences north of the Potomac, and Colonel T. Ingraham, Thirty-eighth Massachusetts, who has long satisfactorily filled it, bas been honorably mus- tered out of service. The order will also necessitate the retirement of Captain George ® Walbridge, another popular officer, Colonel Ingrabam's assistant. The dimin- ished business of the local provost marshal’s department will be performed hereafter by officers of the Distriet of Wasbingtoa. PERSONAL. ‘The rebel cavalry General I. D. Imboden ts at Wii- lard’s. ‘The State Department has engaged rooms at Willard's -for the Embacsadors from Tunis, who are expected to arrive to-morrow. Benetor Garret Davis arrived in the city this morning. THE NRW FIVE-TWENTY BONDS. ‘The statement that the new five-twemty bonds of he one thougand doliar denomination were ready for sale ‘was ina measure premature. Five or six bundred copies have been printed and perfected, it ie true, bat it ‘a purposed not to commence the delivery of the bonds until there is a sufficient stock of all denominatiogs te OM the subscriptions as they come in. This will bein the course of ten days. THB OOMPOUND-INTEREST NOTR COUNTERFEITING case. Detectives are digging away at the one hundred dollar compound. interest note counterfeiting case. It in under. stood that a large amount of conclusive evidence bas been uncarthed in different parts of the country, and that several persons have been arrested or put under surveillance in accordance with it. The whole story of that wonderful fraud will transpire in due time, THE UNION LEAGUE ROOMS. The Union League rooms on Ninth street in this city—quite a popular resort with loyalists during three or four years past—are rapidly going to the rate for want of pecuniary support. The janitor of the building has recently been around the departments soliciting subscriptions for the pay- ment of thé fent and #upport of the reading room, and Feports that he met with very little encouragement from those who were wont to contribute when professions of loyalty covered a multitude of sins. The collector got Money enough, however, from wounded soldiers and Joun;ers on the avenue to pay a couple of months’ rent, ‘and the rooms will go on for that length of time. Tho reading room has been supplied for a long time from the old exchanges of the Chronicle—Forney's paper—but for some unexplained reason that tap bas lately been cut off, APPOINTMENTS. The President this morning made the following ap- pointmente:—John V. J, Fintry, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third district of Maryland, and Tenac Morgan, direct Tax Commissioner of the State of Ala- bama INTRANAL The receipts to-d amounted to $905,509, ENUR RECKIPTA, it the Office of Iaternal Reyguue GABINET SRSSTON. The only members present at the bricf session of the Cabinet to-day were Postmaster General Dennison and Secretaries Stanton and Welles, the other members being absent from the city. THY TRIAL OF GENERAL BRISCOR. Colonel Arhmosess, ‘of the Provost Marshal General's Department, testified in the Briscoo trial to-day in corro- boration of the evidence previously given against the accused. The witness, with General Curtis, went into General Briscoe's room and arrested him. The prisoner war searched, and the stolen property was found ina chest in the room. CORRECTION. By a telegraphic blunder an item in today’s New York papers was made to read aa followa!—"Tt is anid that Mr. Russell, Postmaster at Davenport, Canada West. General Grant arrived in the city unattended at six Post Office Department. The new routes touch at Lan: | ‘appointed in his stead.’ The true statement is that Mr, ‘Russell, Postmaster at Davenport, Iowa, has been re- moved, and General Saunders has been appoiated in his ‘etead. THE MISSISSIPPI GOVERNORSHIP. Private information said to have been received here by certain parties announcing positively the election of B.G, Humphreys, a rebel brigadier general, as Governor of Mississippi, creates some speculation as to his eligibil- ity. The assertion that he is unpardoned may prove untrae, Southern men here gay that he certainly ap- plied for pardon, that he was recommended for Execu- tive clemency by Governor Sharkey, end that he would scarcely presume to solicit the suffrage of the State with- out an intimation that it would be forthcoming in the event of his clection, if he has it not already in bis pocket, His canvass for Governor has been made with the knowledge and consent of the governmental authori- ties, if not at their instigation. As a corollary, bis par- don is certain. Mr. Humphreys was expelled from Weat Point by court martial in 1827, before graduating. The Governor Elect of Mississipp!. The latest news from Mississippi indicates that Judge Fisher, the nominee for Governor of the reconstruction convention of that State, has been defeated. His suc- cessful competitor is said to be General Benjamin 6. Homphreya This individual is not merely one of the militia. generals of which Mississippi and all the South- ‘weatern States are so prolific, but a bona fide rebel gen- eral. He tried’to be a regular United States army.officer, but while a cadet at West Point in 1827 he was court martialled and dismiesed for some offence. General Humphreys is a resident of Sunflower county, Miss., but was some years since a Senator in the State Legislature from Claiborne county. In the days of the whig party he was an old line whig. Since it has be- come fashionable among Southern gentlemen to declare that at the beginning of the war they were devoted Unionists, whe fought secession until compelled to fight for it, General Humphreys has laid claim to such character; and his friends now say, we know not how truly, that he wasafirm Unionist in 1861. Be this as it may, we know that very soon after the fatal firing on Sumter Humphreys had raised and was commanding s rebel company known as the ‘Sunflower Guard.” His friends seem to think that his sudden abandonment of his own principles and adoption of those of his friends and State was.a great virtue, and one of the papers of Mississippi advocating his election lately said:—-*‘Ben. Humphreys was.a Union man, and opposed secession; Dut when the State wonld try to get out, and war was mavle on her people to keep them in, he took off his coat and went in to help bis hasty neighbors.” Since General Lee set the example of fighting against his own principles because his friends were going to do 80, this sort of cheap virtue has been eatin vogue among our Southern brethren. The Sunflower Guard became a part of the Twenty-first Mississippi rebel infantry, and Captain Humphreys be- came colonel. His regiment was to Richmond, and took part in the days’ battles on the Chickahominy and in the second battle of Manassas; was at re Ferry and Antietam and the retreat which followed. Humphreys served with the regiment during the winter of 1862-'63, being engaged at Fredericksburg, and sub- sequently at Chancellorsville. He also participated in the campaign in Pennsylvania, and during the battle of Gettysburg he succeeded the elder Barksdale in command of his brigade, He was promoted shortly alter (Ang. 12, 1863), to the rank of jer general Confederate States army. He was ¢! or in this capacity at Chickamanga, whither he been sent with Long- street's First corps to the aid of Bragg; took part in the ‘unsuccessful sieges of Chattanooga and Knoxville; ran away from East Tennessee to be in time at the Wilder- ness and Spottaylvania Court House. He was sent after the investment of Petersburg to operate in the valley with Sate Tn ths engagement ot October 19, 1664, he was im the chest, and in the December follow- ing be went home to recover#tom his wound. He was yet at home when the surrender of Lee to Grant took phreys is umdoubtedly a man of intelli- Reven although confined to State irs, and he is not far from being a tative of the rebels, represen’ reconstructed ‘No announcement has i iat been Fe of sa rou, ay ai Sharkey on 5 ahh ol, and will doubtless be granted. Orry axp Cooxty Orricens.—The Kings County Republi- ‘can Convention yesterday nominated the following ticket :— District Attoracy—F. L. Sanderson. County Treasurer—Avdrew B. Hodges. wintendents of the Powr—Francis B, Kirby, John Mont ‘and Andrew Hegeman. Suastire of the Court of Sexi me—Wm. H. Hoyt, Coroner—Jobn W. B. Smith. ‘The Republican City Convention met last night and nominated the following ticket, and it is a very strong one:— Mayor—Samnel Booth, by acclamation. Comptrolier—William G. 7 Collector of Tara—General £L. Molineanx, by accla- ion. City Treanerer—General Samuel Roberta. Auditor—Sergeant James McLear, ef the Fowrteenth regiment. Tus Recesr Excavation Accwexr.—John Hieman, Vise or Auman Farnaccr ro 4 Pomc Scnoo.— Vice Admiral Farragut, accompanied by his wife, Hos. Moses F. Odell and several other gentlemen, visited Pub- lie Sehoot No. 15, in Brooklyn, yesterday, The “Old ng of Negroes Tennessee. Nasnviner, Oct. 6, 1866, A great mare meeting of negroes and freedmen was held at Bagefield yesterday afternoon, six thousand per- sons being present, An address was made by Brigadior General Fisk. He rejoiced that the negroes of Tennessee ‘were free, an God intended them tobe. He told them that they must prove themseives entitled to freedom by industry, sobriety and integrity. His duty was to see that they discharged their duties. He would put the black man in the jury box and on the witness stand. His remarks were received with great enthusiasm. Ho ‘was followed by teveral other speakers, after which the meeting adjourned. General Fisk states that during the past week six or seven hundred negroes have been sent to their former homes in different parts of the State, and have contracted with their former owners to work for wages, Within a month there will bea general clearing out of negroes here, arrangements having been offected to prooure them davor in different parts of the South. me ‘Bax Franorsoo, Oct. 4, 1865. Dates from Kanagawa, Japan, to August 26 have been received. The receipte from the interior had been liberal, but the extreme prices demanded by the natives almost precluded purchases, Silke had also advanced #6 much as to check business; stocks were accumulating. Thore was an active demand for silkworn eges for ox- port to Europe. Exchange ob London and China was Jowor. . There was nothing new in political affaira, Tho birth ‘of Napoleon 1, was celebrated during the week pre- eneding August 25, at Hakodadi, all tho residonts of foreign birth participating apparently with equal interest. Tho fete wound up with races, and a regatta, and is no- ticeable as showing the great cordiality in that mixed ‘Deg ROWRsmpytd abd thas Georme M, Aagdere has borg | cqmnmuyign, GENERAL LEE. His Installation as President of Wa ington Cellege. DETAILS OF THE CEREMON Opinion of Lee on National Affairs, &e. &. &e. Our Special Correspondence, Lexixatom, Va., Oct. 2, 1865. General Robert E. Lee was to-day installed President of Washington College. There was no pomp of parade, The exercises of installation were the simplest poss!ble— anexact and barren compliance with the required for- mula of taking the oath by the pe nothing more. This was in accordagee with the spectal request of General Lee. It was proposed to have the installation take place in the college ehapel, to send invi- tations far and wide, to have @ band of music to play en- hvening airs, to have young girls, rebed in white and Dearing chaplets of flowers, to sing songs of welcome ; to have congratulatory speeches, to make it a grand holi- day. That this proposed programme was not carried out was a source of severe disappointment. to many. But General Lee had expre: hie’ wishes ‘contrary to the choice and determination of the college irustees and the multitude, and his wishes were complied with. THE INSTALLATION CEREMONIES. The installation took place at mine A. M. in a recita- tion room of the college, In this room-were reated the faculty and the students, the ministers of the town churches, a magistrate and the county clerk, the last two officials being necessary to the ceremonial. General Lee was inducted into the room by the Board of Trus- tees. At his entrance and introduction all in the room Tose, bowed and then beeame seated. Prayer by Rev. Dr. White, pastor of the Presbyterian church, directly followed. To me it was a noticeable fact, and perhaps worthy of record, that he prayed for the President’of the United States. Altogether it was a most fitting and impressive prayer. JUNGE BROCKRNBROUGN’S SPEECH, The prayer ended, Judge Broekenbrongh, chairman of the Board of Trustees, stated the object of their coming together, to instal General Lee as President of Washing- ton College. He felt the serious dignity of the occasion, but it was a seriousness and a dignity that should be mingled with heartful joy and gladness, Passing a brief eulogy upon General Lee, and congratulating the board ‘and the college, and its present and future students, on having obtained one so loved and great and worthy to preside over the college, he said he could say a great deal more, had it not een voted against speech making, During the delivery of these few words—and they came, despite the Prohibitory voting, very near culminating to the dig- nity of a set as well as eloquent apeech. GENERAL LER'S APYRARANCR. General Lee remained standing, his arms quirtly folded ani calmly and steadfastly looking into the eyes. of the speaker, Justice William White, at the instance of Judge Brockenbrough, now administered the oath of office to General Lee. For the benefit of those curious to know the nature of this new oath to which Ceneral Lee has just subscribed, and as it is brief, I give it entire. It is as follows:— ‘Tar OAT. femmes Sheets of me by an ct entitled “An ect facorperating tho Tector and trustees of Liberty Hall Tgiemy” without favor, So help nie God. To this General Lee at once affixed his sig. mature, with the accompanying usual jurat of the te dod. Th appended. jose in- uisitive enongh to seck further Nght than that revealed in the copied oath ean look at the act therein referred to, and, when found, make a note of it. The tin the form stated was handed to the County Clerk for safe and tual custodianship, and at the same time the keys of the college were om fy the con- Rector into the keeping of the new President. ‘appearance indicated —betier, I should say, than when he surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House, the frst and only oceasion before the present of my having seen him. His looks and bearing have been often and minutely described, and I will not dwell upon them here. Most pictures of iki dj | é Hi F | : ; i HF F 1 i i re i z it is & cf F = i st tf H H 3 rr i ie . | i d | is Hy i Py dulations and the emerald beauty and richness of their waving woods, In all ite Woes loveliness, as far as the eye can nce, stretcher the expansive, fortile and gor. poy it Kanawha valley. But I need not well on the scenic bene 6 Meantine there have been @ thousand graduates at the college. Many of these have been distinguished in the professions, in the world of Jetters and art, in mechanics and war. HONTRR’'S RAID AND THY COLLRGR. General Hunter's raiding party, or army rather, that paid this section of Virginia a vimt in Jone, 1864, in ad- dition to the destruction of important grain mils, the Virginia Military Institute and other public buildings, ed to leave the college disagrecablo tokens of ite belligerent advent and presence. Hay none of the buildings, but the books o nearly all taken away, and the chemical and phi- losophical laboratory completely destroyed. Not eat) ily, they burned the library were fied with this, the invading wearers of Uncle Samuel's blac walked = with their poek ete full of mineralogical geological specunens i had taken half a centu to coll nd sald to be the finest ia the country. 0 main blame of all 1 find, however, charged npon the rebel General MoGans- land, who, with fifteen handred men, bat the audacity to try to keep Hunter's army of thirty thousand from entering and taking the town, This General Mo ausland will be remembered as the one who has sineo been in- dicted for netting fire to Ch Pa. Althougb the shells dow about pretty 1 ime, none hit any of the college buildings, alt hit Prof. Campbell's house near by. It is a st fact Unat this shell passed through the roof and two floors inte the parlor, whore it harmlessly terminated ite erratic mission by severing the cord by which was suspended @ Hkenoss of General ‘Washington. The picture (vil several feet, but neither it, the frame nor glass wax in theslightest degree injured. Professor Campbell, who told this fact, spoke of it am, if not genuinely classical, certainly a pleasing and agros- able omen. THE WAR'S INTRRAUETION, While not a single Northerg college or university was feriourly interrupted by the war—and yet bundreds of their students inscribe their names Imperisbably on the scroll immort a) or by becomsne teer gol. Migre =the hal HRW aS eae UR Lond Tt tutions of learning. AM there lave been closed—Washing- ton College as well. as the reat, Ameatly as Juno, 1861, the college classes here were broken up. On the whole, the war proved a seriour interruption to the college, and it will take 0 ime to recover from its damaging ef fecta, Saying nothing of the loss of Ite library, labora. tory and mit ical cabinet, referred to elsewhere, tt has suffered other losses by the wholesale scatt: ring of ite claesea, and the intermediate and natural neglect of tte buildingR and grounds, The college, in fact, bas to begin over in, sfthougn, fortunately, With General Lee at ite be ‘under auspices bright and enooureging. ‘THE PROSPRT. OF THE COLLFOR About one hundred students are alrendy on the that within a vory ww President, and { fessor White soon starts on a tour to solieit contributions inits aid. Already the two hterary soeleties—the Gra- ham Philanthropic Society and the Washington Literary Society—have taken measures to make up the losses their Mbraries sustained by the imvasion of Yankeo troops. ‘There is the fullest contidenee that the people of the Old Dominion, and the South generally will liberally respond to this éall for substant al ad about to be made on them General Lee's ne, of course, will furnish the sta dase of bright of appeal, as it now furnishes the ectancy. It is not the first time Gene- ral Lee has ben an instructor of youth. As command- ant at West Point he hada two year’ apprenticeship, which may now stand him mot only In good service in his new position, but furnis! cuniary aid, GENERAL LER'S PIRoT ARRIVAL IN TOWN, On the 14th of last month General Lee made bis first appearance bere. He came on horseback, alune and up. attended, and riding the dark gray horse he rode most of the time during the war and at Rissurrender, A soldier's affection he evidently bas for this favorite steed. This horseback ride extended oyer a hut miles from. Cumberland county, where be aud his family bave been staying for some time, and where his tamily is still 8o- Journing. What must bave been bis thoughtsen this ri and What a theme such a veritable and distingu! solitary horgeman would have ‘been for novelist Jamest It was the intention to open the a term two weeks ago, when General Lee first came it the backward state of repairs prevented it. All the trustees, nineteen im number, were then present, and postponed the col- Jege opening till to-day. These returned to their homes: again, while General Lee went to Koxbridge Springs, where he remained till yesterday. THE GENERAL ON NATIONAL APPAIRE, A'gentieman with whom I have conversed, and who saw General Lee and heard him talk and express freely his opinfons about national affairs nearly every day of hie sojourn at Roxbridge Springs, spoke of him as the most modest and unassuming man he ever en- countered, and yet, while fi smost firm in giving his views. He counsels cheerful submission to the govern- ment and earnest striving to bring about the old state of peace, industry, thrift and content. He has the greatest confidence in President Johnson and the good and equit- able wishes and intentions of the government and the Northern people in carrying out the scl of recon- struction. ~* FOTURS RESIDENCE OF GEXERAL LEE. A fine two story brick house, with massive portico and pillars in front, and havin: two wings, and on the same row with the College buildings, isto be the future resi- donee of General Lee. It has a yard, beauti- fully shaded with oak, elm and locust trees, and a fine hedge-row of cedars. It is a fitting place for scholarly ease and philosophic content, At present the General is stopping at the Lexington Hotel ip town. It is expected that he will move with his family into his new residence about the last of this month. And here we leave him in his home that is tobe, secluded: and shaded and hedged about by imposing mountains, and miles away from railroads, and with never a longing thougiit, doubtless, for the great outer world and ites more enticing and splendid prizes. THE JOURNEY AND CONDENSED OBSERVATIONS, I cannot well close my letter without saying something about the journey here. the state of railroad and other travel, and general condition of the country and here and hereabouts. The steamboat and railroad jourvey was an agreeable one. Coming up the James river on a new mer one could notiail tobe comfortable. On the Central Railroad and to Staunton the travel is ant, Railroad travel is rapidly becoming im the South what it used to be before the war. ‘Staup ton here is thirty-six miles. As the stage not ron on Sunday, ‘and I could not wait over, 1 wok @ private conveyance. Some profound ‘moraliet has left it on record that there are few pleas- anter sensations than bemg whirled rapidly along @ good road, behind a slashing team. I found it #0, but notin thig case, Much less a team, I found it ex- ceedingly difficult to get a single horse and vehicular attachment. And such a horse and such a vebicle, and such an outfit generally, and such speed. After making known my wants to the two livery stables in town, being told that all the horses and conveyances had been engaged by the young men of the town for the wants, I pagiink te bribery. Lord Bacon gotrich by briberies, but I forgot he was not the bribing part ly bribery not only reduced my pocketbook to the of trasb, but left me a conveyance poor indeed. 5 will not describe it, Before the children of larael ever dreamed. of chariots with whieh to cross the Red Sea this must have been built, and the horse had an ags-en that would justify the inference of his virth amtertay: that of the famous war steed Bucephalus. As it abundant opportunity to drive slow and take tions by the way of people and crops and thir no occasion from rapidity of passing mile stones the hallucination I hed read about, and any able Saeco that might arise ose, going through a country graveyard. in condensed form of my Seorvations. The come in well, Corn is wes ponent t. Hay is pi There are abundant fiel promising special basis of appeal for pe f i itt H { id di i williag and age fellow, to whom I was talking on the subject of negro labor, it is true, snapped his fingers, saying :— “Niggors are played out for working; an overseer is no ; Once we could lick them into working, but can’t Go this now, and the niggers know it.” But I found bim the exception, Money is becoming more plentiful, Churches have opened and schools also. ties of sorghum are being made ‘All are glad the war te natoa Bagg ol ares ww vesident Boy How, honed ple trouble themeclves ver je abou Eitough some of the Congrestonal candidates find thd oath required of them rather a sticker. There te good deal of horse stealing; but this is the work of the war bummers, who have not had time enough yet since the close of the war to lay aside all their old habite. Mean- timo I could not help but think how different t would hava been travelling over this route 8 year ago, to record, for the Henatp the movements of General Lee. Pursu- ing such journalistic occupation, 1 did indeed meet am interruption that took me to Richmond in aivance of our army, and I remembered of the road aa that I then tavelled over. I travelled it now with feelings some- what different. THE MONTANA TERRITORIAL BLECTION. Contest for Congressional Delegate—Cel. McLean Probably Elected and the De- mocratic Ticket Triumphant. OUR VIRGINIA CITY CORRESPONDENCE. Vinersta Crrv, Montano Territory, Sept. 8, 1668. ‘We bave just had our annual election for delegate from Montana to Congress, The democratic convention had ‘boon called on the” last of Jone, and W, Lo McMath, of our city, was the favorite candidate, But the friende of Colonel McLean, the present incumbent, succeeded in postponing the conventioe until his arrival on August 7. After a bitter comtest of two days McMath withdrew and McLean was neminated by acclamation, The people's (Union) party met on the Oth of August. Chief Justice Hosmer, Colone! W. F. Sanders (the nominee jast vear), and Attorney General E. B. Nesliey were (he competitors for this nomination. It lay between Banders and Weal- ley. They had eought it in the expectation that McMath weet Vo setaingte’ Sends meee toe which UJ 's frienda would wee Same: a jot an easy vicl tion all three withdrew i The content has been animated, the Keele, party @ con! o striving to make a point by sinking everyt 3 ‘what they call the local wants of the Territory. Thin scheme succeeded so far aa to make McLaan fall considerably be- hind bis bey bat return indicate his re-election by abont 1,000 majority ‘The principal places of the Terri voto as follows :— @ principal p na Virginia City. a3 pa oo Onty 7 Highland . Summit... + 50 Cy Helena City a7 652 Madison count, ves McLean about 680 majori Beaver Head Bounty gives McLean aboat 75 pnt 9 Jen county%yives Upson about 100 majority. Return from Deer Lodge and Gallatin counties wilt probably increase these majorities to about 1,000. News from Californ SHIPMENT OF TARASURE—VIOLENT SHOOK OF AR BARTHQ! AKE. Sax Franciaco, Oct. 3, 1866, ‘The steamer Constitution sailed w-day for Panama with $1,112,000 treasure for New York, and $942,000 for England. Tho small town of Eareka, on Humboldt Bay, was vio- lontly shaken by an earthquake on Sunday last, Nearly every chimney was torn down or cracked, goode in the stores thrown from the shelves, and much crockery broken, The damage is estimated at several thourand dollars, Fall of a Rock=Thre ¢ Men Killed, Boers, Oot. 6, 1866," A mase of rock fell yesterday at the Littleton State quarry, in Littleton, Mass, killing three men, named Jobu Caton, Patrick Folen and Daviel Hartington, Farin Mierane nv 4 Davcorst—A Litters Rov Por soxep,—Information reached the Coroner's office yerter- day afternoon that Thomag Bi, Lyett, a child three years of ish Parents teside at 415 Wert Fifty fourth stroot, bad died from the effects of poison administered to him by mistake, Deceased had an attack of croup ‘and Dr, Church being called in prescribed quinine a accordingly wrote a prescription, which Mr. fe took to the ate store of Otto Gram, 760 avenue. Dr. Graif at that time had a morphine Neha tion to fill, and after putting up both the quinine morphine, he by mistake gave the latter to yy Lyell, who administered it to ao ag b = 0 wan dincovey eiane sean Ae lo ucciedion fod priate, but — avail, and death ensued at half-pont six 0c yesterday morning. Coroner Gover will bold an inquest over the Tomas of deceas.d to dan