The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-10-10
FROM THE SOUTH.
Affairs in North Carolina,
THE ELECTION In GEORGIA.
Advices from South Carolina
.,s,u stephens and John H. Regan

New YORK, Oct. 9.-The Herald,S ga
| yannah correspondent says: The electloh
in Georgia was proceeding very quietly'
No military were near the polling places
and everything in connection with the
slection Waa being managed by the civil
officers. In the majority OF the countieS
but one ticket was being run, and IL Is
said that a good class of men have peen
selected for candidates in the interior OF
the State generally. Harmony ana qul-
ct prevail, and the people accept with a
fair amount of grace the new order OF
things, though planters coming into sa-
vannah from some sections, make strong
complaints of the negroes neglectlng
their work, and say that in consequence
next years crops will be failure.
The Herald's Raleigh correspondent
| saws the people of North Carolina, and
| ESPECIALLY those around Raleigh, are very
| decided in their approval of the emphatic
wav in which the State Convention dis
posed of the secession ordinance by de-
claring it not only to be null and void,
| but to have always since its passage
| been so The inhabitants are also repre-
sented as being extremely hostile to
| those men who assisted in plunging the
| State into rebellion In the convention
| on the 4th instant, resolutions were in
| troduced. but laid over for future action,
expressing the utmost confidence in Pres
| ident Johnson, and tkankin , him for the
| course he has pursued towards the erring
people of the South, to the gratitude OF
| all whom it is believed he is entitled
The resolutions also endorse Gov. Had
den, and express the belief that no State
will ever again have desire to abandon
the Union.
Advices from Charleston state that
Mayor McBeth and the common council
and other members of the old civil gov
ernment of that city have been restored
to the exercise of their functions and the
principal municipal buildings have been
given up to them in accordance with a
military order issued by Gen. Bennett,
commander of the sub-district ofCharles-
ton, on the I'd inst. The Mayor is to
| have jurisdiction of all cases between
whites, while the lie groes are to be turn.
| ed over to the Provost Marshal, but the
military pelice will be retained. The or.
ganization of the State militia is rapidly
| progressing in some sections They are
| to be subject to the national ofcers and
/
sion of the prevalent lawfulness Gen.
Bennett has issued an order directing
his subordinates to assist in the forma-
ton of this State forces, every member
of which before joining must take the
oath of allegiance.
There is q great stir among the South
Carolina politicians in anticipation of
the forthcoming State and Congression'
lot N
addresses to the people through the
newspapers. A governor, and members
of the legislature will be elected on the
18th inst
A Herald correspondent gives an ac-
count of a recent visit to the rebel Vice
President and Postmaster General Alex.
H. Stephens and John Il Regan, in Ft.
Warren, Boston Harbor The former
gentleman he found physically in the
same emaciated state which has charac-
terized him all his life, but with intel
lect unimpaired; while the latter is ro-
bust and in excellent health Both are
cheerful and hopeful, and conversed free
ly on public affairs, Mr.. Stephens looks
with distrust on the present activity OF
prominent rebels in the work of recon
struction. Judge Regan has written
and forwarded an address to the people
of Texas. He cheerfully accepts the re
suits of the war, saying owe staked all,
and lost all" He advises all rebels to
regain their citizenship as soon as posi-
BILE, and to hereafter be faithful to the
Constitution and the Natio nal Govern
ment. In regard to the Ere edmen of the
South, he is in favor of admitting their
testimony in the courts, and of granting
the elective franchise to such of them as
can read and write, and thinks it will be
impossible longito deny them these priv
ileges,
A special tC the Herald from Washing
ton, 9Th, says: Capt. 2. x. Crandall, As
sistant Provost Marshal General in the
Western District Of New York, under
Major Haddock, has been in Washington
several days, strivingto secure to Oneida
county the credits for 200 recruits, an
overplus from the several drafts to which
| that county is entitled, and from which
it was detrauded by the malteasance of
Major Haddock, who has recently been
convicted of and fined $4,000 for his
frauds In filling Western New York's qCo-
tas Capt. Craudall has been eminently
successful in his investigations, and has
placed something like 100000 to the
credit of his comfy in the settlement OF
its war debt with the Empire State
The corps of Medical Inspectors, or
ganized soon after the commencement of
the war, has been practically abolished
by mastering out of the officers as volun
teers, and throwing them back upon their
original rank as army surgeons in the
regular service Now that their services
are no longer needed, why are not the
Provost Martial General, Colnmissary
General Of Musters, and many other supe-
numeraries also dispensed with
The citizens of Wisconsin now sojourn-
ing in the capital have called meeting
for tomorrow night to take action in re-
spect to the death of Gen. Horace T.
Saunders, of that State
A special to the Times from Washing
ton Sth says. The President has aban.
doned his Contemplated trip to Richmond
and North and South Carolina, and yes
tsrday notified the Secretary of the Navy
that the vessel in waiting for him would
not be required
The government authorities received
yesterday copy of new counterfeit
$40 greenback legal tender note, Just put
| in circulation. Arrests have been made
and others will be made of persons en-.
gagged in preparing and issuing the coun-
terfeit, but for good reasons we are not
authorized to, give any OF the particu-
lars. The new bogus issue is dated