Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-04
OVERLAND TELEGRAPH.
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IO SEP IhNkHEh 0Utus
Duke GWin md Ex-Governor Clark,
OF Missouri, Surrender Themselves
md Ask Pnrdon-Pnrdons by the
Presideut-Arrest of COunterfeiters
The AudrsonVillo TrnRedy-Gun-
bonts Sold 10 tho Hayden Govern
ment.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 3O.-The Tribune's
special dispatch says: A telegram was
received by the President to-day from
General Weitzel, commanding in Texas,
stating that the notorious Duke Gwin and
Ex-G Governor Clark, of Missouri, have
crossed the Rio Grande, surrendered them
selves, and are now s~upplicating pardon.
The Times special dispatch says: The
President has cleared his desk of all par
don applications, having granted nearly
ten thousand O pardons within the past
three days. Inspection Of the lists shows
the names to belong almost entirely to the
$4,000 exception, with very few persons
of political prominence. Among them are
ex-senator Badger, of North Carolina /;
ex-C Congressman NJ. C. Queen, of South
Carolina; Duncan McRea, formerly Col
onel in the rebel army, and afterward cot
ton agent in Europe.
The detectives Of the Treasury Depart
ment have succeeded in effecting two i'm
portant arrests of counterfeiters. The de-
tectives were put in the track by the reve-
lations of a counterfeiter named Eckert,
captured seven weeks since. So perfect
were the arrangements that the counter
feiters were arrested at different places in
this city and Pittsburg while at work.
The first was taken on Monday and the
second on September 9th, inst. They
proved to be two English e~ngravers, who
have been practicing the art in criminal
ways for the last nine years. Both were
committed for trial.
The Herald's special dispatch says:
General Baker has lately come into pos
session of letters from the Adjutant's
office at Andersonville, together with files
of documents and orders which shed q
great deal of new light upon the manage
ment of that infamous den, and fixes the
paternity Of many brutal orders beyond
dispute, by letter press copies OF the origi-
mails. These documents, which have been
unearthed only after a long and untiring
search, have been turned over to the Judge
Advocate, in which case the trial will be
continued by him, the evidence for the
prosecution being re-opened for that pur-
pose. The completely Of high rebel officials
in the prison atrocities bids fair to become
known from evidence furnished by them
selves.
The United States gunboat Galatia, the
first of the class of eleven guns, has been
sold by Acting Rear Admiral Bell, Com
mauder of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, to
the Haytien Government for S45, 900. The
Galatia will be equipped and receive her
armament at this post.
Southern Representation and Negro
Suffrage.
NEW YORK, Sept. pa Washington
letter says, in reference to the admission
of Southern Representatives in Congress
and the negro suffrage question, negotia-
tons are on foot to the effect that if the
Southern States will adopt laws confer
ring the right of suffrage on males, without
distinction of color, who can read, the
Southern Representatives shall be ad-
mitted.
From Havana md Nassau.
New YORK, Sept. 29.-The Corsica,
from Havana September 23d, and Nassau
September 25th, has arrived. The gum
boat 1tasca was at Abacco to settle salvage
in the case of the wrecked steamer San
Jacinto. Two hundred slaves had been
landed on the island of Aquilla, to be
transferred to Cuba. A detachment Of
troops was sent to the island from Nassau
in consequence.
The Cholera.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-Letters from
the United States Consul at Brundez,
Italy, dated August Both, says the Asiatic
cholera has made its appearance in the
Adriatic and on the Italian peninsula. At
the time Of writing the dispatch it seemed
to be spreading in all directions.
South Carolina Constitution-Loss of
Records.
New YORK, Sept. 27.-Charleston pa
pers Of September 23d have been received.
The following is the anti-slavery clause of
the Constitution as adopted by the Con-
vention by a vote of SO to s The slaves
in South Carolina having been definitely
emancipated by the action of the United
States, neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude. except for punishment for
crimes whereof the party shall have been
duly convicted, shall ever be re-eStablish-
ed in this State. The ordinance to repeal
Ar 1rl,oorno of ooOnooinn ,poo thap rok.E
ed. At the session OF September 22d, a
vote was taken IN the proposition to make
the basis Of representation of the State
rest upon the whole population, irrespec-
tive of color. 1t was rejected by q large
majority, leaving the clause as reported
by the Committee, making the white pop
ulation alone the basis of representation.
A correspondent of the Charleston
Courier, writing from Sumter, says: The
late struggle has unquestionably entailed
upon US and our posterity a long train of
evils. We are upon the threshold of penal
experience which will be protracted into
coming years. The loss of public records
may be classed among almost irreparable
disasters. In this particular South Caro-
lima has greatly suffered. The State, re-
cords and papers of Importance have gone
forever. Some districts in Clarendon, for
example, had the entire contents of the
district office destroyed. Wills, deeds,
judgments and DEGREES have disappeared
in the flames Of war.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.- Commodore
VIM. Radford, recently commanding the
North Atlantic Squadron, has been ap-
pointed to command the Washington
Navy Yard.
Howell Cobb Arrested.
New YORK, Sept. 81. - The Posts
Washington special dispatch says: 1t is
believed in Washington that Howell Cobb
has been arrested on the charge of p~artici-
pating in the Andersonville atrocities.
The Mutiny on the Ship Calhoun.
New YORK, Sept. 27.-Thirty-three of
the crew of tho ship Calhoun were ar
raigned to-day, charged by the Captain
with mutiny. 1t appeared from the COM
plant that on the 2lst of September there
was q quarrel between the cook and some