The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-20 00:00:00

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The Georgia Convention is reported to have una-
nimously adopted an ordnance for ever abolishing slavery.
The election of Wade Hampton as Governor of
South Carolina is contradicted. Governor Orr is said to
have a majority of 500 over him.
The South Carolina Legislature have elected Pro-
visional Governor Perry as United States Senator.
The Government, desirous of benefiting all the
railroads within the limits of the Military Division of the
Tennessee, has arranged for the sale to them, on credit, of
such rolling stock as is not needed by the United States.
President Johnson has informed the Governor of
Georgia that the people should not hesitate to repudiate the
rebel debt, as they never will nor can be taxed to meet that
liability.
It is semi-officially announced that James Orr,
the Governor elect of South Carolina, has been pardoned ;
but, as South Carolina has not repudiated the rebel debt,
she has failed to prepare herself for official recognition as
a State loyal to the Union.
President Johnson has instructed the Governor
of Arkansas to continue the re-organisation and restora-
tion of the State to the Union, and that the Government
would not interfere with his proceedings.
In response to a communication from a Southern
gentleman who proposed certain measures for re-establish-
ing the labor system of the South, General 0. 0. How-
ard, Commissioner of Freedmen's Bureau, has replied as
follows, under date of the 10th inst. :—" Any specific plan-
tation regulations which are not inconsistent with the
freedom of the employes may be adopted anywhere, and I
will cheerfully aid in their execution ; but I am equally
anxious to afford as much latitude as possible to individual
enterprise, without assuming to interfere too much with
merely local regulations."
Since the suppression of the rebellion 35 National
Banks have baen established in the Southern Statas with
an aggregate capital of $1,474,400.
The Montgomery Mail defends the Convention for
voting to repudiate the War debt incurred by the State.
It says:—lf, as was at one time contemplated, the respec-
tive States had indorsed the Confederate debt pro rata, it
would have been absurd to contend that Alabama should
now in honor pay her share of that debt. It would have
worked untold hardship, and impoverished the people for
generations to come. The present state of affairs is bad
enough. We have the old State debt upon us, our distri-
butive share of the Federal war debt, and the onerous
revenue taxation; and but little left us to pay with. If
upon the bulk of all this were superadded the State Con-
federate debt, and the State's distributive share of the Con-
federate debt, we would have had such a mountain of obli-
gations to move under that the hope of future prosperity
would have been crushed out for all time.

A correspondent of the Liverpool Post gives to that
Journal the following letter from the Treasurer of the
Freedman's Aid Committee of the Society of Friends in
Philadelphia :
Esteemed Friend,—l have thy letter of the 11th, and
have drawn for £4OO at three days' sight as authorised.

Although our political affair; may look gloomy in some
respects, yet I hope all our suffering has not been in vain.
I have strong faith in the wide-spread intelligence of our
people. One of our large school-book dealers informs me
that he is constantly refusing orders for books, the demand
largely exceeding the supply, though presses are running
night and day. This indicates a large Southern demand,
and in a very short time I hope to see school-houses a
thorOughly national institution for all classes of people.
The actual need of labourerp in the South, and the great

profit to be realised in the cultivation of the land and other
industrial pursuits, will have a strong influence in over-
coming the present prejudices and ill-feeling against
the freedmen, and I do not despair of seeing in a few years
all classes working in harmony together. A most singular
fact in our politics is that one of the members of Congress
elect from Virginia, an original rebel, who refused to take
the oath of allegiance to the United States, without which
ho is disqualified for a seat, even if Congress admit the
members from that State, is now speaking in New Jersey
in favour of the Republican tickets ; the issue is that
State being pretty fairly between the Northern and
Southern sentiment.

I send then a copy of The Nation, which will, I think,
interest thee. Thou wilt notice General SaxtonsB appeal
for clothing, &c. We have sent 500 pairs of blankets and
29 cases of clothing, and are preparing some more. We
fear this winter will Prove one of great suffering to all
classes in the South, butespocially to the blacks. The demand
for schools is vary great. We are sending some teachers
into North Carolina, and if our tunds permitted would like
to have at least fifty employed ; but as the Go'vernment
does not furnish rations now the expanse is greatly in-
creased.

With thanks on behalf of our Association for the timely
donation of your Society,—l remain respectfully,
RICHARD CADBURY, Treasurer.
Philadelphia, 10th mo., 29th, 1865.