The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-20

Southern Itema.
1t is astonishing the proportion of
school advertisements we meet with in !
the Southern papers. We notice this in
all our Virginia exchanges, and We no
tice Il in the batch OF cotton State pa
pers received yesterday through the
Express Company. The ADVERTISE
ments are generally announcements of
the re-opening of academies and of
schools for n limited few-nO common
schools-the last they do not have to
any extent as yet in the South.
The C0NStitWtioRGIiSt, published at
Augusta, Ga, has not been very much
RECONSTRUCTED" yet we infer from the
tone of leader before us. Up this
way, those of us who read much, think
that HdTpe1''S Weekly is rather n supe-
rinr paper, and we recognize that it did
the Union cause great service during the
war-but the CoaStifutionGlist man is SO
inadvertently RECONSTRUCTED" as yet as
to speak of it ms a ''viIe publication" 1t
requires a good deal of brazen audRcity
in dingy, half printed, miserable
rebel sheet, that pretendstO he support
ing the Union In good faith, to come
outand talk that way about print that
isin the highest degree Representatives of
everything that is the opposite OF vile.
The State Convention of Alabama
have resolved, by vote Of IS to 81, not
not to repudiatc the State debt incurred
in aid of the Confederate struggle
This debt amounts to about g., OOO, 900
and is held by citizens of the State. II
forms no part of the Confederate debt
proper. The debt of Alabama in 1861
was $5,O9S, COO. OF this, s., 423, 900 was
foreign debt, and $685. 600 domestic
debt. If II holder of any part of the
old debt of Alabama should ask for an
injunction against the payment of this
newly assumed debt, he would be like
ly To- carry his point, on the ground of
the illegnlity and unconstitutiOnality of
the war liabilities.
The provisional Governor of Florida,
William Marvin, has called Conven-
ton of the State for the 18th day of
October, the election to be held on the
10th of October. The qualification OF
voters are similar TO those declared in
other rebel communities. The Govern
or says that ga constitution, republican
in form, having been made, altered
" or amended, and adapted to tho new
order Of things, the Convention will
provide, by schedule, for the cleo
ton of Governor and General As
sembly, and for the REORGANIZATION of n
permanent State Government"
/ In regard to slavery, he says:
BY the operations and results of the
\ war, slavery has ceased to exist in this
State. 1t cannot be revived. Every
I voter for delegates to the Convention,
Z in taking the amnesty oath, takes a
solemn oath to support the freedom OF
the former slave. The freedom intend
ed is the full, ample and complete free
dom of the citizen of the United States.
This does not necessarily include the
Z privilege OF voting; but it does include
the idea of full constitutional gunFHn-
tees Tor future possession and quiet en-
Joyment. The question of his voting is
an open questiOn-R proper subject for
discussion-and is to be decided as II
question of sound policy by the conven-
ton to be called.
He concludes his proclamation by
saying "that upon the establishment
"ofa republican form of State Govern.
"ment, under constitution which
guarantees and secures liberty to all
=" the inhabitants alike, without distinc-
"tion of color, there will no longer ex-
4" ist any impeachment in the way of re-
a. storing the State to its proper consti.
"tutionaI relations to the Government
"of the United States"
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