, 1865-10-13
Eastern News.
News of Sent. 3Oth.

New York, Sept. 27.-Cbarleston papers of the
| 23d are received The following is the anti
| slavery clause of the South Carolina Consttu-
tion as adopte by the Convention by vote of
SO to g. The slaves in South Carolina having
been definitely emancipated by the action of the
United States, no slavery or involuntary servi-
tude, except for punishment for crimes whereof
the party shall have been duly convicted shall
ever be re-established in this State The ordi-
nance to repeal the ordinace of secession was
then ratified Atthe session on Sept. 3d. a
vote was taken on the proposition to make the
basis of representation of the State rest upon
the 10th, the whole people irrespective of color.
1t was rejected by large majority, leaving the
clause as reported by the committee, making the
white population alone the basis of representa-
tion.
correspondent of the Charleston Courier,
writing from Sumter says: The late struggle has
unquestonably entailed upon us and our pos
terity long train of evils. We are upon the
! threshold Of penal experience which will be pro-
tracted into coming years.
| The loss Of public records may be classed
among the most rreparabe disasters. In this
! particular South Carolina has greatly suffered
! The State records and papers ofimportance have
gone forever Some districts n Clarendon, for
example had the entire contents of the district
| Office destroyed; wills, deeds, judgements and
decress have disappeared in the flames of war.
New York, Sept. pa Washington letter
says: In reference to the admission of Southern
Representatives in Congress and the negro suf-
frage question, negotiations are on foot to the
effect that ifthe Southern States will adopt laws
comforting the right of suffrage males with
out distinction Of color, who can read and write
! the Southern Representatives shall be admitted
Washington, Sept. 27.-Letters from the Uni
ted States Consul at Brundez, Italy, dated Aug
ust 3Oth says: The Asatic cholera has made its
| appearance in the Adratic and on the Italian
peninsula. At the time of writing the dispatch
! it seemed to be spreading in all directions
The Tribune's special dispatch says tee-
gram was received by the President to-day from
! Cen Wetzel, commanding in Texas, stating
that the notorious Duke Gwin and ex-Gov. Clark
| of Missouri have crossed the Rio Grande, sur
rendered themselves and are now suppicatng
pardon.
The Times special dispatch says; The Pres
dent has cleared his desk Of all pardon applca-
tions having granted nearly ten thousand par
dons within the past three days. Among them
is Ex-senator Badger ofNorth Carolina Ex-Con-
gresham NJ c. Queen, of South Carolina, Dun
can McRae, formerly Colonel of the rebel army
and afterwards cotton agent in Europe.
Philadelphia, Sept. 27.-The morning papers
announce the death ofW. J. Duane; aged S5
years He was Secretary of the Treasury under
jackson, and resigned his Office rather than con-
sent to the removal of deposits from the United
States Bank.
| New York, Sept, 27.-The Posts Washington
! special says it is believed in Washington that
! Howell Cobb has been arrested on charge of
having participated in horrible atrocities.
! Nashville, Sept. PA gang of thirty or forty
! guerrlas, near Springfield, Robinson county,
| yesterday, commenced ndiscrminatc robberes
! and murders on the inhabitants Of that locality.
Thomas J. Payne was killed, his house robbed
and family outraged at Adams Station on the
Kentucky road.
From Ireland
New York, Sept. 27.-The Herald has a letter
from Dublin, of the 14th, which says: The ma
tional excitement, produced in Ireland by re-
ports of an intended invasion by armed bands,
| or an army of American citizens from the Uni
ted States, extends every day. Since the close
! of the harvest season, in the last days Of July
and the commencement of August, we have visi-
ted the chief cities in the provinces of Munster
and Connaught and instituted inquiries as to how
far the peasantry might be excited to cooperate
/ with their transatlantic brethren. The result
of the investigation is that the Fenians are in al
most every part of this Island now, but that
! there is no universal turnout for such purposes.
| Men under instructions of time and place meet
to the number offrom four to five hundred
1 Musters are held in places almost inaccessible
to the police and without their gathering being
discovered, so few arrests have been made. |
have had no means to ascertain with accuracy
the number fenrolled men in the Irish branch
| of Fenianism, but as far as have been informed
they do not fall short of $50, 900.