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The Eunorzan Evrow, every Wednesday, at Six Casts per copy, $4 perannum to any part of Great NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘This being election day no besiness will be transacted in either the United States Cirouit or United States Dis- trict Courts beyond the formal opeaing and adjourament of the same for the day. - ‘The stock market was weak snd unsettled yesterday, Dut closed steady. Government securities were dull, Gold was feverish and closed at 141 # 14134. Business in’commercial circles was exceedingly light, and almost all of the leading commodities were lower, Coffee was moderately active and steady. Cotton was dull and again 3c, per Ib. lower, Linseed oil declined 30. per gallon, On ‘Change the markets were generally dull and heavy, Flour was 10¢, 5 20s por Sorrel lower ia most cases, Wheat and corn declined 2c. a $c, per Dushel and oats were dull at lower prices, Pork was dull at a reduction of 250, per barrel, while beef was almost neglected and lard quiet and beavy, though not quotadly lower. Freights were generally firm, Naval stores were also firm, while petroleam was heavy and but little sought after, At the National Drove Yards yesterday the market for beef cattle was moderately active, and prices were gene- rally }4c. per Ib, higher, extra low selling at 1630. o Itc, ; prime, 6c, @ 16%¢,; first quality, 150. a 153¢c.; ordinary to good, 120, a 143g¢., and inferior, 9c. a 1130. There wore 1,600 head on eale. Milch cows were quiet, but fire at $55 a $130; sales were made at tho latter Cgure Veal calves were fully ic. perib. higher and in good de- mand. Extra lots were selling at 13c. ; prime, 12c. a 1230. and inferior to common, 10c. a 11%c. The supply of sheep and lambs at the Fortieth Street Yards was large, comprising about 5,500 head, but the demand was faar, and prices of sheep were %c. higher. We quote extra 6340. ; prime, 53g a 6c., and inferior to common, 4c, 250. ; extra lambs, 73¢¢., and inferior to good, 5c, aie. The hog market was. not very active, and prices were }sc. @ Sc. per Ib, lower than last Monday. Tho arrivais were hgavy, fifty-five car loads being on sale at the Fortieth Street Yards and eighty-four at Commupi- paw, They were selling at 63;0. a 6X%c. for heavy prime, 63ge. a 620. for fair to good and 63¢c. a Go. for common and rough. The total receipts were 6,150 beeves, 94 milch cows, 1,347 veal calves, 32,386 sheep and lambs and 43,672 swine, MISCELLANEOUS. Britain, or $6 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage, | == |} Volume XXXL . 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FoRNce AND Ant, | TRIPLE SHEET. | £ea WE Ws. a EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yos- | torday evening, November 4. ' The idea of submitt ag the settlement of the Rowan | question to @ vote of the intabtauts of the Papal pro- | ‘vinces Was spontaneous with Italy, Prussia and France, | and act personal wih Napoleon, The vote of the towns an the province of Rome is unanimous far Italy. Napo- Joon, it ts said, will retire from Rome if Victor Emanuel ‘expels Garibaldi from the territory. The Papal troops ‘are tw assume the offensive. There aro only iwo French regim in Rome, but remforcements are daily leaving Toulon for Civita Vecchia, The French govern. ment, in an imperial nole, demands of King Victor Emanuel an expiavation of his advance into the Papal territory ‘im violation of law and treaty.” Count Bis- marck states officially that Prussia is “‘ab present’ now- tral in the Italo-Roman question. Russia, France, Prossia and Itaty have addressed 9 joint note to the Sultan of Turkey on the Eastern ques Won, in which they repeat the different represen. taions which bave beew made by the Christina Powers to the Porte in favor of the Can- diana, and on the condition of the Christians q@enerally in the Ottoman empire, and allude to tho rejection of the representations, The note ends by de claring that the Saltan will be hela answerable for the consequences which may ensue. England remains dis- turbed by “Fenian alarms’? and Fenian treason trials. Spain has issued an amopesty to political exiles, The first squadron of the British war expedition has left Adon fur the coset of Abyssinia, The Viceroy of Egypt offers material aid to Queen Victoria in the Abyssinian war. By the steamship City of Antwerp, at this port, we have our special mail telegrams, special correspondence and European files in detail of our cable despatches to the 24th of October, embracing matter of very consiler- bie interest. THE CITY. Flections wil! be held to-day im the States of New York, New Jorsoy, Massachusetts, Delaware, Maryland, Tilinow, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas, Mis- sourt and Nevada, twelve in all. In New York, Massa- chusetts, Maryland, Wisconsin, Minmesota, Kansas and Missouri the elections are for state whilo in the rest the rice is mainly for petty local offices, In Wisconsin Legistavare is to elect a Benatos to succeed Mr. . and im Maryland » Sena- tor to succeed Mr. Reverdy Johnson, In New York State = succor to ‘Sensor Morgan is to be chosen by the new Lagislature, In Kansas the question is entirel; an amendment to the constitation favoring negro and female saffrage. ‘Thore wore 367 doaths in New York last wo@k and 138 in Brooklyn, In his weekly statement Dr, Harris says the week was remarkably favorsbie to life, and attri. butes the fact to the purity of the atmosphere and the cleanliness of the two cities. Dan Noble, who has been on trial for a long time, charged with complicity in the Royal Insurance bond robbery, was yesterday discharged by Judge Hogan, the evideaco against him being deomed insufficient, He was, however, immediately rearrested on an old indict- ment, Morris Ephraim, who pleaded gallty to murder in the third degreo, m the killing of John Fitepatrick in Wil- Hamsburg, on ino night of the 18th of March Inst, was yesterday sentenced io the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Brovklyo, wo ono your's bard labor ia the State Prison. | | tegration of our nationality. The trial of Jeff Davis has been postponed until the May term of the Richmond Court, at tho request of counsel for the government, in order that Chief Justice Chase may preside and also to take measures for fram- ing o new indictment, James A. Sed:on'’s petition for pardon, which the President is now considering, is signed, among others, by Horace Greeley, Heary Ward Beecher, Governor Burnside and Augustus Schell, Our letters from Monterey, Mexico, are dated October 13, The vote along the Rio Grande border waa in favor of Juarez and the Re‘orm amendments, althouch in the city of Monterey Diaz received a majority. Quiroga, it was confidently asserted, had escaped across the border. The destruction in Mutamorog by tho toraado of the 7th ultimo appears to havo been most terrible, The loss is estimated at $3,000,000, Our correspondent recently bad @ personal interview with General Escobedo, at which the General expressed his views on the various topics of public interest in Mexico and the United States. The President is busy on his next annual message, which is to be largely devoted to Gnancial questions, The reports of the Cabinet members will soon be tn. the hands of the printers, General Grant's report as Socretary of War being partly in type. ‘ ‘The War Department has issued an order announcing thatall the appointments in the army under the act of July 28, 1866, have been made, acd s higher standard of qualification will be required in future, Second lieu- tenancies will be filled first from non-commissioned officers and West Point cadets, and if vacancies remain they will be supplied trom civil life, Lawyer Bradley, Sr,, of Washington, has returned answer to the rulo of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to show cause why he should not be pun- ished for contempt, by attesting that the regular time for adjourning the court bad passod by when he made use of his discourteous language to Judge Fisher, and that the note he gave him was not a challenge. There wasaterrific galeon Lake Eris and in the Western part of the State yesterday, A man was kijied | by a falling wall ia Rochester, and two seamen wore blown overboard and drowned Irom a bark at futfalo, General Sherman is soon to issue a general order an- nouncing the formation of a treaty of peace with the Indians and directihg tho cessation of all hostilities among the troops in his military division, John M, Kills, a mail contractor and exquartermaster, was arrested in Nashville yesterday, charzed with the collection of forged claims for $60,000. bearing the name of General moet, He gave $5,000 bail. General Mower's order removing Hayes, tho Shoriff of Orloana parish, La., bas been rescinded. It is said that General Grant disapproved of the appointment of Cath- bert Bullitt. A bank in Tremont, Il, was recently robbed of $100,000 by burgiars, On Thursday morning they had snow in Richmond, | Va. There were eighteen deaths from yellow Orleans during tho last two days, and ten in in New jobile, Taxation ang Revolution. The causes which produced ancient revolu- tions are not fully understood; but those within the range of modern history have, in many instances, sprung from the efforts of the people to free themselves from those burdens of tuxation which bad government has imposed upon them. Nothing bears so heavily upon the resources and the progress of individuals as the fact that a very large portion of all their gains goes to the incxorable tax gatherer. | It is reasoned, and with truth, that there is no necessity for the enormous expenditures which demand such levies. From complaints, the whole nation, impelled by the same force and seeking a common focus, which is revolution, find in this a panacea for their ills. The fifteenth century gives us an instance in the German people, who were goaded to premature revolution by the pressure of Papal taxation. In the person of Tetzel we have a tax gatherer par excellence, whose promises of heaven were in proportion to the amount which he could force by religious fanaticism from the people. The results were the first great liberal and spiritual outbreak in Europe. In England forced loans to carry on the Spanish war, und finally the “Tonnage and Poundage bill,” set the revolutionary ball in motion, which qid not stop until the head of Charles LI rolled upon the scaffold. France, in the prelude to her great revolution, presents ® no less trist picture of the results of oppressive taxation. The people saw no exit trom it except by the sword, and with the sword they cancelled their debts. Our own revolution of 1776 gathered its force from taxation. South Carolina nullification arose from taxation. Our late rebellion, in its inception, found much of its strength in the discriminating tariff, which was an idea around which the Southern lenders could rally the masses. Spain rumbles with revolution to-day, because the people can- not stand the onerous imposts which a corrupt administration imposes. Mexico has just fin- ished a fifty years’ war to rid herself from the asseasments which the clérgy made upon al? her capital and energies. Cuba, at our very doors, is fast being forced into revolution, be- cause it is impossible for her to prosper under thepurdens imposed. Now of ourselves in 1867, As we glance back at the history of taxation we find that we ere taken it up experimentally, determined solve the problem of raising revenue if it coats us a half dozen revolutions or the disin- We commence after the fashion of 1598, and must ran through the phases up to the time we can say that the problem is solved. In 1598 Sully stated that out of 250,000,000 livres collected by taxation from the French people, only thirty million found its way into the publig treasury, It would be an interesting scrap of edge to us of the United States to know propor- tion of the revenues collected inures to the benefit of government Would it be safe for the government to invite revolution by placing taxation before the people in its true light? Our military government is to-day oduting us one hundred and twenty millions of dollars annually, and yet we maintain no armed force protection against foreign powers, but doubtless be kept under discipline by their radical white brethren; but these, looking to the black vote as the future fountain-head of the political power of the State, will doubt- less try some agrarian experiments for the bene- fit of the landless black race that will makes sensation even among the landowners of the North, The Gracchi will be nowhere com- pared with these Southern reformers—the Han- nibals, Scipios, Catos, Ciceros, Pompeys and Cesars of the cotton plantations—under the rather to dominate ourselves and increase the | wine of designing Yankee speculators and costs of government. Our tolal taxes swell to the enormous figure of one thousand millions of dollars annually—an impost of gigantic pro- portions in comparison with that of any other country. There is not a European Power ex- isting that could stand a proportionate burden without revolution ; and our government should understand that to be lavish in further expen- diture is to invite repudiation, a complete over- turning of the order of things now existing, and even a new rebellion. As matters now go the national banks, riding high upon the political tide that forced them to the surface, are reap- ing thirty millions of dollars annually from the bone and sinew of the country, which is heavily taxed to pay their enormens dividends, In fact, they represont a hydra sapping the public prosperity. In the train of enormous taxation follow all those eviis which prodace a feverish con- dition of the country. Taxation to excess means degradation, poverty, ignorance and its attendant evils. It means a drawing of very broad lines between rich and poor, and the creation of classes—a powerful aristocracy and a lower class, which bubbles into war when oppression can no longer be borne. It means governmental corruption in its worst forms—an increase of spoils, and, conse- querttly, a hotter contest for office at political elections. It means the creation of an army of officeholders who feed upon the public purse without, as individual members of the nation, producing anything for its support. It means the subversion of all those principles which we have so long labored to keep in prominence as the true bases of our repub- licanism. This we point out to the people, and tell them to guard well the future. The men they placed in power to carry out the demands of the times and overturn rebellion were weil selected and did their work bravely. Now, however, other issues demand brains fitted to meet them, and brains of another class must handle the great questions that follow our war. Failing to recognise the truth of this we shall lapse again into revolution to settle by tho sword those questions to which rebellion gave birth. Tux Dirverence.—The poor workingman who labora twelve bours a day gets paper money for his wages at the end of the week and has to pay a heavy additional price for house rent and for every article of food he bays, in order that the government may deal out gold to, the wealthy bondholders, wio do no work at aH, except to draw interest in cain out of the national Treasury. The Approaching South Sante Conven- tionsPompey in All Hie Glory. The members elected to the Constitutional State Convention of Alabama, in pursuance of the reconstruction laws of Congress, will aw semble in Mon!yomery to-day in response to an order from Geacral Pope, Commander of the Third Military District, which comprises the States of Georgia, Flerida and Alabama. Tho business of this Convention will be to form a new State constitution on the terms laid down by Congress and subject to its ap proval or rejection. The registered voters in Alabam: (exclud- ing certain classes of rebels), whites and blacks all counved together, and the vote on the Convention present the followin 66,289 7,672 ‘Total of voters in Absentees from the polls. The important facts connected wilh figures are these :—First, that as in the elec- tion on the Convention question a majority of the registered voters must participate, to make the election valid, the regis- tered whites, excepting a few scatter- ing shots, abstained from voting, © as the only chance for defvating the Convention. They adopted the same policy in Lonisiana and Georgia, but failed in each case. Sec- ondly, they failed because the blacks turned out en masse in each case for the Convention ; and having @ registered majority in Louisiana and Alabama, and having only some two thou- sand less registered in Georgia than the whites, and being supported by some white radicals, they carried the day in all three of those States, In Virginia the registered whites, having a ma- jority of some twenty thousand over the blacks, were encouraged to make a square firht against a Convention, but were here also defeated by the diversion of some fifteen thousand whites (radicals) to the black man’s or convention party. So far, then, the radical Congressional scheme of reconstruction has been successful in Louisi- ana, Alabama, Georgia and Virginia in secur- ing in each a State Convention and an over- whelming radical majority therein of whites and blacks. The Georgia Convention has not yet been ordered ; that of Lonisiana is to meet on the 234 instant; that of Virginia on the 34 of December next, while that of Ala- bama, as we have said, meets to-day, and in the State House where Jeff Javis and his fellow conspirators met in February, 1861, and set up first the provisional government and next the coristitution of their bloody Southern Confederacy. It is, indeed, a remarkable his- torical fact that under the very roof where the rebel conspiracy of Southern slavcholders proceeded to establish an independent South- ern contederation, on the corner-stone of negro slavery, in 1861, there will be assembled to- day, by the vote of the emancipated slaves of Alabama, a Convention to rebuild the State on the cornemstone of negro equality, as the practical beginning of this work of Southern reconstruction. ‘ This Alabama Convention will, in a few days, be apt to reveal its true character and its purposes. We may look for some curious, grotesque and amusing proceedings, and per- haps we shall not have long to wait for some startling developments as to the rights of property, taxation, and other little things of that sort, The Convention includes seventy- eight radical white delegates, sixteen black radicals and four opposition or conservative white delegates, The black delegawa will white radical aavezturers: Tittlebat = Tit- mouse’s two polar stars of “everything for everybody and nothing to do” will probably be the upshot of this Alabama Convention. It will be under fall headway by the meeting of Congress on the 21st instant, and we are entirely prepared to see the wildest and most ridiculous schemes of the radicals at Washing- ton completely eclipsed by the mixed commis- sion of radical whites and blacks at Mont- gomery. Sauce yor THE Goosz Nor Savcz FoR THE Gaxper.—The republican rallying cry is “Paper money for the workingman; but gold, gold, gold for the banker and the bondholder.” Important News from Italy. . Our cable despatches announce the im- portant intelligence that Garibaldi has been defeated and routed by the Papal troops, aided by the French detachment serving in Rome. At an early bour yesterday morning the Pope’s soldiers assaulted the position of the General at Monte Rotondo. He was reinforced by some Italian troops, but the Zouaves were supported by the French, and Garibaldi was driven from his camp, A telegram to Paris says he was killed in the battle, but another account states that he fell back and surren- dered to the Italians. When it is remembered that Rome is isolated from the rest of the world—the telegraphic wires having been cut and the railroad torn up—it will not be wondered at that our news from the Eternal City is meagre and somewhat contradictory. In the Huraup of yesterday we printed acable despatch which stated that Garibaldi was posted with his troops at Monte Rotondo; that he was walting the arrival of reinforcements in order to make an attack on the city, and that to a summons which had been addressed to him to disband his army and give up his enterprise against Rome be had ex- pressed his willingness todo so, only if the present ministry were removed and a new ministry appointed in accord with the national will, It was also reported by the same tele- gram that Napoleon had proposed the sottle- ment of ‘he question by the voice of the Roman people, but that the Italian government would not conseat, Despatches received yesterday and printed in this day’s issue give us the state of affains up to a later date. From these it appoare that two French regimenis ure in tho city of Rome, and that large numbers of troops are continaally leaving Toulon for Civita Vecchia, Wo have the curious and incomprehensible announce- ment that the plebiscite was not the proposal of Napoleon, but the ¢pontaneous and simul- {ineous suggestion of Prussia, Jtaly and France. Somewhat later we learned, o3 will be seen by referring to our telegraphic columns, that the votes of the towns in the province of Rome were unanimous in favor of incorpora- tion with Ialy. Napoleon, it was reported, had promised to withdraw his troops if Victor Emanuel would expel Garibaldi. Bismarck, it was stated, had officially declared the govern- ment of Prussia to be neutral at present in the Roman question. The case, as it stands, involves but four perties—the Italians, the French, the Gari- baldini and the Romans, As yot Prussia is neu!ral; but the official announcement of Count Bismarck must be accepied a3 non- committal, For tho present Prussia is neutral ; bui the uentrality, we may rest assured, is dependent upon contingencies, it is evident at a glance that the whole sitvation is rendered awkward and embarrass- ing in the extreme by this battle. Neisher Napoleon nor Garibaldi nor Victor Emanuel kuows well what to do. Napoleon has no de- sire to shed blood. If it can at all be avoided he is little likely to allow himself to come into collision with either the volunteers of Garibaldi or the soldiers of the King of Italy. It will not surprise us if it be tound that he has no other wish than to get‘as easily as possible out of @ difficulty. He could not see the September Convention trampled under foot. His own honor and the honor of France forbade it, Na- poleon has ever shown himself feriile in expe- dients, and itis by no means improbable that he. already sees the loophole by which he means to escape. His situation, however, is by no means free from difficulty. Victor Emanuel can have no desire to allow himself to drift into a war with France, and it-is hard to believe that the King’s troops would fight with the volunteers, The situation, in truth, is as confused and com- plicated as it well can be; but there is hesita- tion on all hands, and the hesitation encour- ages us to hope for a peaceful solution of the question, The September Convention, it may already be taken for granted, is doomed. It is condemned not only by the Italian people, but by the almost unanimous voice of Europe and of the world. Rid of this troublesome and thankless business, it will be well for Ne- poleon henceforth to leave the Pope and the Italians to setile their own affairs. If he must have protection, we can see no good reason why he should not be as willing to trust bim- self to the Catholics of Italy as to the Catholics of France. . Her. at Last.—The radical bondholders, shoddy men and bankers kept clear of showers of bullets during the war. To-day they will be brought down by « shower of ballots. A Nationat Curnency.—The government can give us all the currency we want. Everybody is willing to take greenbacks issued by the United States Treasury. Why should a lot of national banks, that are constantly breaking and victimizing thoir depositors, be authorized to force their own circulation upon us and make us pay them thirty million dollars a year bonus for the privilege of keeping their own paper afloat? Tur Last Services.—Ohio killed Chase and his national bank swindle. Pennsylvania fur- nished him a coffin ; California dug his grave. New York to-day will cover him up beyond regurregtion. Peace to his ashes! ‘The Capture of Jef Davis. We give in another column an sccount of the capture of Jeff Davis, in the official report of Major General Wilson, who, it will be re- membered, commanded the cavalry division by & portion of which the rebel leader was taken ; and this account, valusble in itself for the romantic and peculiar personal interest of the narrative, will be the more acceptable just now, aa te neat approach for the azz axed for Davis’ appearance in court at Richmond con- centrates public attention again on his career, and gives certain importance to the more striking points in his history. By General Wilson’s report we learn that he was acting in practical independence of any superior at the date of Davis’ flight from Rich- mond, having fifteen thousand cavalry under his immediate direction in Middle Georgia. He anticipated at once that on the break up at Richmond there would be a general stampede in his direction of distinguished fugitives, and made his arrangements to intercept whoever might come. He had his men very judiciously posted, when he was informed of General Sherman’s armistice with Johnston, in virtue ot which the movements of troops were to cease oneach side. Though acting independently, his troops were part of Sherman’s command, and he was bound by Sherman’s agreement— and thus became inactive; but anticipat- ing that the enemy would not respect this arrangement, he held himself and troops in readiness to sct if the course of the Confederates made it necessary. His em- barrassment on this head continued only till the authorities declared Sherman’s armistice null, and this gave the General ample time to 80 arrange his force that he had a double line of scouts drawn nearly across the whole country between Chattanooga and the Florida line, before Davis came into his neighborhood. News of Davis first came to Wilson’s camp on the 24th of April, when a citizen reported having seen him at’ Charlotte, N. C., a few days before, attended by an escort of Con- federate cavalry. His purpose, as given out at that time, was to cross the Mississippi. It was expected from ‘this report that he would move through the hilly country of Western North Carolina and Northern Georgia ; and the por- tion of General Wilson’s force in that direction was stimulated to increased activity. At the same time a force of twenty picked men, under Lieutenant J.0. Yoeman, were detached from an Obio regimeat on # peculiar and @ifficull duty. They were sont out to obtain definite information of the Davis cavalcade, and were disguised as rebel soldiers. This party went to the upper crossings of the Savannah river, and there fell in with Davis and his escort of two divisions of cavairy. They joined this body and continued with it several days, “watching for an opportu- nity to seizo and carry off the rebel chief.” But this daring -purpose was “frustrated by the vigilance of the rebel escort.” Learning, upon his arrival in Northeastern Georgia, of the national force at Atlanta, and of the troops outin all that country, Davis apparently de- «paired of escaping in that direction, and seem3, for a while, hardly to have been able to de- termine which way to move. Here his cavalry escort became mutinous, and was disbanded and sent way, and from this point information was sent by Yooman that Davis “had relin- quished bis idea of going into Alabama, and would probably try to reach the Gulf or Softh Atlantic coast and escape by sea.” Thus an entirely new direction was given to the hunt; and it was the other end of Wilson’s long line that now had to look sharp. That river, the upper part of which is called the Ocmulgee, and the lower part the Altamaha, rises near Atlanta, and runs in a southeasterly course to the Atlantic; and Davis, in his south- ern flizht, had nocessarily to cross it General Wilson, therefore, arranged to have all the crossings of the stream that Davis could pos- sibly reach closely watched, thus establishing a Hne of scouts that it was confidently ex- pected be could not pass unscen. In addition to this the First Wisconsin cavalry, under Col- onel Henry Hamden, was on the scout north ofthe Ocmulgee to Dadlia, on the Oconee. Fol- lowing the departure of Hamden to Dublin, the conviction that Davis would make for Florida growing stronger on Wilson’s mind, he extended his operations down to the Ocmulgee, which belore went only so far south as Hawkinsville. Colonel Pritchard, with the Fourth Michigan, was now sent down the right bank of the Ocwulgee to watch all the crossings, with orders to pursue Davis if he should discover his trail, From this point the whole interest of the narrative is concentrated on the move- ments of Hamden and Pritchard. Hamden was started across the Ocmulgee eastward toward Dublin on May 6. Pritchard was started down the right bank of the Ocmal- gee on the next day. Dublin is about thirty miles distant from the Ocmulgee at the point at which Hamden crossed, but the going toward it directly south from Dublin, is about fifty miles from that town. Hamden reached Dublin at night on the 7th, having well scouted all the country to the north and all the roads near the town. He bivouacked without E made any discovery, thongh he had tl the ‘white people of the place sus- civil. At midnight “an intelligent contraband ” came into camp and gave infor mation that Davis, “mounted on a fine bay horse” and accompanied by bis family and having eight wagons, had passed through Dub- lin that day, going toward the Ocmulgee. Colonel Hamden was satisfied of the truth of this statement and began the pursuit at daylight of the 8th with sixty men. Every mile be made convinced him that he was on the right trail, and be followed it with hot foot. The trail led through pine forests and cypress swamps, and, followed in a hard rain, was oflen lost and recovered again with great difficulty. The day was one of excessive toil, and the pursuit was continued for forty miles. At daylight, on the 9th, It was taken up again and led across the Ocmulgee at Brown’s ferry. This, it will be remembered, was crossing the line on which Pritchard was to move as he swept down the right bank of the river. At this point Hamden learned that Davis was only a few hours ahead of him on the road to Irwin- ville, and here also he met the advance of Pritchard’s command. Sending his own party forward to continue the pursuit, he rode up the river, met and communicated personally with Colonel Prit- chard and then returned to his command. Colonel Pritchard kept on bis course along the river, but soon found reason fo conclude that It was his duty to join in the pursuit of the party that Hamden was following. He did not and by this unfortunate collision two men were killed and several wounded. Davis’ whole party was taken without trouble, as all were sleeping in fancied security without guards. This point in the narrative clears up a mat- ter generally stated, but whose truth has been made doubtful by the positive assertions of its filsity. General Wilson asserts, on the au- thority of the only persons who could possibly. know, that Mr. Davis did attempt to escape in woman’s attire. This occurred shortly after the whole camp was in Pritchard’s posses- sion. Lieutenant J. G. Dickinson had his attention called by a soldier to three persons in tho dress of femalea who were thoving from one of the tents toward the woods. He called to them to halt; but they did not, and were confronted and stopped by three men, under Corporal Munger, coming from an opposite direction. This corporalsaw the heavy boots that one of these persons had on and recognized this ferson as Davis. The articles of which his disguise was made up was a shawl and one of the common tweed ladies’ cloaks so familiar in our streots om rainy days. Such, in brief, is the history of the capture of Davis, the more detailed account of which, in another column, will well repay perusal. It is a peculiar chapter in the story of the war, and none other illustrates more happily the personal responsibility for results that every soldier seemed to feel, or the acuteness or energy in action that could be counted upon on the part of any officer in the United States army, taken almost at random. History Repeating Iteelf. Enormous taxation and the leaping of undue burdens upon the industry of the people have eaused most of the great revolutions of the world. The history of foreign nations, as well as the lessons of the American rovolution, teach us tais lesson. The enormous taxation imposed upon the peo- ple of the United States by modern republican- ism, to support a number of wealthy national banks, to enrich shoddy contractors and to enable thieves to prey upon the revenues of the country, lies at the foundation of the great politicat revolation that will sweep over New York to-day. State Elections. We publish in another column a comprehen- sive statement in regard to the elections that oceur in several States to-day. The most im- portant are those of New York and Massache- setts, although several interesting questions are involved in the decisions to be given by the voters in the Western States. New York will be called upon to take the leading part in the counter-revolution that is going on, North and West, against the encroachments of the radicals, Massachusetts will endeavor to shake off the burdens under which she labors as the most intolerant State in the Union, pax ticularly in regard to the sumptuary restric- tions which the reign of Puritanism and radi- calism has imposed upon her. The Western States of Minnesota and Wisconsin, in which fresh Legislatures are to be chosen, will show how far the newiangled financial notions of Jay Cooke and company have found root in their fertile soils; and Kansas will take a hand in the gam> of whether a nigger is better than & respectable white woman at the polls. United States Senators are to be chosen in New York, Maryland, Wisconsin ahd Minne- sota to fill the places of those whose terms ex- pire in 1869. -In fine, the great question of negro supremacy will be settled either one way or the other—either - be endorsed as the policy of the nation or te pudiated as unfit for this day and gen eration, as it has already been by tho recent decisive voice of Pennsylvania and Ohio. It behooves every voter to see that his opinion is duly deposited in the ballot box. Tas Twi Retics or Rervsiicanism—The “twin relics of barbarism,” which republicaa- ism pledged itself to eradicate, were Slavery and Polygamy. The twin relics of mode rn re- publicanism, which the people of New York are gcing to sweep away to-day, are Tyranny and Taxation. Hen, Thomas Ewing om Reconstraction. We publish to-day s communication from the venerable Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, in rela- tion to the meaning of the recent political re- action in that State. It will be seen he con- tends that the people of Ohio have always been Opposed to negro suffrage, and that they, in reality, are against the constitutional amendment, although the Legislature of the State adopied it. In this we think Mr. Ewing goes a little too far, although the adoption of the amendment wonld have been an interest- ing question if brought directly before the people of the State. But that matter has long since been definitely settled, and the statesmen of to-day should address themselves to the cure of those political evils which at present paralyze the indusirial interests of a large por- tion of the country, rather than to a revival of questions now entirely obsolete. OT Paytro Hm Orr.—The voters of New York will pay Chase off to-day, not in gold, but in paper currency. Bleed Against (old. Daring the war five hundred thousand good and brave citizens shed their blood to pre- serve the government and to give prosperity and happiness to the nation. Since the war one hundred and fifty thousand bondholders, ‘inclading the national banks, the shoddy contractors and the foreign capi- talists, are drawing the blood of the country and crying out “gold! gold! gold!” while the nation is struggling against bankruptcy. These leeches have drawn interest in gold, upon which they have realized heayy premiums, while they bought msny of our bonds at forty cents on the dollar in the hour of the nation’s adversity. They have been paid over and over again, even if they should give up the principal of the debt altogether. The families of the five bundred thousand