The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-10-08

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on exhibition and the fine music Of Dodworths band
The runis Embassy will probably remain In town some
short time longer They yesterday visited places
Of interest N the CITY, and tomorrow will visit the
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
An investigation was commenced yesterday at tho
Essex Market Police Court Of the charges against Messrs
Bortholic Isaacson merchants, OF 90 Nassau street.
arrested some weeks since on suspicion OF having re-
ceived from James Wright clerk, fur and other goods,
in all valued ten thousand dollars which 1t
alleged the latter stole from his employer Mr. Frederick
Booss OF Maiden lane. Mr. Booss and other witnesses
testified; but the examination was not concluded.
crazy newspaper correspondent, named D. Stelifer
Moulton styling himself 'stelifer the King" yes
terday taken before Police Justice Dodge at the ins
CATION OF the proprietors Of one Of our hotels, who
charge him with having defrauded them Of board bill
The King who is only about twenty eight years old
has been In the habit only of writing for the
papers, but Of addressing communications to the Presi
dent of the United States and the crowned heads OF
Europe signing himself 'Stefcr the King, Reigning
Prince OF House Of David and Guardian Of American
Destiniesn He was committed 70 the charge Of the
Commissioners of Charities and Correction till it can be
ascertained whether he is ft subject for the lunac
asylum.
In the Episcopal Convention in Philadelphia yesterday
the House Of Bishops the House Of Delegates
Bishop Wilmer Of Alabama the regular ecclesiastical
presiding officer OF that diocese overlooking the rregu
arities by which he elected and consecrated but
with the understanding that his should not be con-
sdered precedent Bishop Wilmer presided over
the Alabama diocese during the rebellion Hence the
auson irregularities" Considerable other business
of routine character transacted but nothing Of
general interest.
Governor Wells of Louisiana, has accepted the nomi
nation Of the democratic party Of that State for re-
election.
The State Department in Washington has received ad
vices the that the cholera recently raging
oarfuy in Barcelona Spain. The port had been closed
by royal Decree all business suspended and half the
inhabitants had fed from the city.
Brcvet Brigader General Horace T. Sanders, OF Wis
consin formerly colonel Of the Nineteenth regiment
of that State died in Washington Friday night Of
pulmonary consumption
Early yesterday morning when the coored porter Of
q dental establishment in Arch street, Philadelphia,
opened the door, he seized and stranglcd to
death by burglars who had been secreted inside, and
who securing the keys In the coored mans possession
proceeded to rob the safe OF twenty-five hundred dollars
with which they escaped.
The stock market was unsettled yesterday but closed
with improving tendency. Gold was steady, and
closed at 1863
There less excitement in commercial circles yester
day. the usual Saturdays quictudc being noticeable In
trade channels and the lower gold quotations essening
the speculative mania and restricting commercial trans
actions within narrower limits. Groceries were very
firm Cotton also nrm with good demand Pctro-
leum trne on On Change -four and wheat were
higher irregular and closed heavy Provis-
ions without material change in any particular.
whiskey ull and heavy without decided change.
President .Johnson's Policy and the Va
rfous Southern Reconstruction Move
ments. ~
The reorganizing Constitutional State Con-
vention of North Carolina has made clean
work upon one important matter-that per-
nicious heresy of State sovereignty, involving
the right Of secession. The Convention has
substantially decreed. by unanimous vote,
that North Carolina, from that day to this, has
been and remains bound by. her ratification in
| 1889 OF the constitution of the United States,
notwithstanding the supposed ordinance Of
the 29th Of May, 1861, declaring the same to
be repealed, rescinded and .abrogated," and
that "the said supposed ordinance is now and
at all times hath been null and void"
| This, we say, is q clean piece Of work, and
meets the idea president Johnson fairly snd
completely. II sweeps away into oblivion with
a stroke of the pen, so far as North Carolina Is
concerned, the whole establishment Of the late
so-called Southern confederacy, in all It's de-
tails, all Its doings, debts contracts and obliga-
lions. They are all wiped out in this organic
I! decree that the supposed ordinance" Of seces-
sion Of 1861 ais now and at all times bath been
null and void" Well done, North Carolina,
and Mississippi too for this decisive action.
This is The true ground. South Carolina, on the
other hand, does not quite come up to IL. Her
State Convention has only repealed her ordi-
nance Of secession Of 1864 proceeding which
involves the recognition Of the yalidity Of said
ordinance down to the day Of tits repeal but
in another ordinance Of her late convention
she recognizes the Issues Of the war as deciding
the sovereign power of nationality to be not
In the State but In the United States, which
does away with the right Of secession.
This, perhaps, will meet the rcquisition Of
President johnson on this subject, a. laid down
in his Virginia proclamation Of May last, al
though "null and void" are the words he uses
II would be better, however, to come up to
"null and voidv--the North Carolina standard
In order to pass the .crucible at Washington.
The absolute denial or reputation Of the
bloody doctrine Of State sovereignty, to the
extent Of secession. Is ut all events the first
essential Of Southern restoration.
The other leading acquisitions embraced In
President Johnson's policy Of Southern recon
struction are -
Astate constitution recognizing the abolition
Of slavery and interdcting its revival.
ratification by the State Legislature Of the
amendment Of the federal constitution abolish
ing and intcrdicting slavery throughout the
United States.
Some organic provisions Of law for the pro-