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FROM THE SOUTH.
Gov. Parsons Proclamation
News from New Orleans.
Gov. Parsons' Proclamation to the
People OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
for the Provisional Government OF
the State.
Press Dispatch.l

MOBILE, July 22.-The Advertiser pub
fishes to-day Governrr Parsons procla'
nation The Governor reviews the pros
poets and condition of the South before
secession and the present impoverished
state, and estimates that one hundred
and twenty-five thousand Alabamians
were in the battle, of which seventy
thousand are dead and disabled. Hence
destitutiou reigns where once stood COM
Portable homes. Yet amid the rnin, suf-
fering and death resulting from secession,
every political right which the State en-
ioyed under the Federal Constitution is
here to-day, except slavery. The slave
code is dead 1t is the height OF wisdom
for citizens to. produce possible results
from the new order of things
Justices of the Peace, COnstables, mem-
bers of the court except Judge ofprobate,
County Treasurers, Tax Collectors, Asses
sors, Coroners and municipal officers
who were in Office on the 22d of May last.
are appointed during the continuance OF
the provisional, government The Judges
of probate and Sheriff in Office on the
22d of May last will take the amnesty
and continue to discharge the duties OF
the Office until Others are appointed
Each officer is required to take the am
nesty oath and give new bond. The
election for delegates to the convention
to assemble on the 10Th of September
next will be held on the 3lSt of August
next
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Mexican News.

New YORK, July 25.-The New Or
leans Times City of Mexico correspon-
dence says: When Negrete fell back
from Matamoras be offered Jennezro bat
tie at Buena Vista, which was declined.
Finding the Imperialists were planning
to surround him, Negrete retired to Me-
milan, where he divided his forces,
marching them in different directions,
and tue Marshal Bazaine combination,
which was to terminate the war, was
frustrated. u
serious in the State of Michoacan and
force of 1000 has been sent from Mexico
to protect Merilia, the capital of the
State. This has not been done, however,
and Count Pattier has been censured
for allowing Regules to defeat him.
Col. Pauline has also suffered disaster
The City of lula has been taken by the
Liberals. The town of Matbhuta had
been stormed and the lmpefials lost three
hundred French troops. No quarters
was asked or given.
The states of Geonera to Chapos Ea
hosso, and the greater part OF those OF
Vera Crus to VojacO, are in the hands OF
the Liberals.
President Juarez Is i'll undlsturbed pos
session of Chebualua. The bitterness OF
the people is growing daily. IL is impos
sible to collect taxes.
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ELorEMrEsr OF A JUVENILE PAIR THE

ELoPEMENT OF A JUVENILE PAIR THE
PARTIES NINETEEN AND FIFTEEN YEARS
OF AGE.-The Hartford Coarant gives
the particulars of an elopemert which
took place recently from Midaietown,
Connecticut:
The facts have very much the same
ring as in all cases of runaway lovers,
and are thus: Miss Anna Brainard is
not vet fifteen years old. John VintOn is
scarcely nineteen Thursday night the
lovers met by mo, ,iight-a horse and
carriage had previously been provided
and was in waiting-and with bag and
baggage left the town in great haste.
They proceeded to Essex, and it is sup
posed they took the river boat to New
York"
A later account gives the sequel of the
Affair."
after reaching Essex Friday night,
instead of taking the boat for New York,
as was supposed, the elopers proceeded
to Lyme, and took the night train on the
Shore road for New London Here they
crossed the river to Groton, where Miss
Annie Brainard was made Mrs. John Vin-
ton in a legal manner. Fortified with
marriage certificate, tho two lovers start
ed homeward, and are now back TO Mid
dletown, ready to receive the forgiveness
and the blessing of all whose gay de
ceivers' they have been"
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Soldiers will net be Hasssea.

: General Sherman, in his St Louis
speech, administered the rebuketo one OF
those persons who "have the hanging OF
JEFF. Davis OH the brain" The General
said:
"You have cities to build, railroads to
build. commerce to deyelope, ag9uituie
to encourage everything to build mp a
great nation. A voice-and JET Davis
to hang Hang him as much ~ you
please. Laughter and cheers. &kthat
subject tell my soldiers this; I sol
dier's duty sto fight anJ armed lee; al
low the Sheriff and the jailqr to d their
executions. 1t isnone Of our bust =
ECheerxl Form part, and 81 sol.
disrs bold ourselves ip too mnch Pect
70 be hahgucn." =; 80 80 g.. s.'SfD
Z tt il evident that Ghernsgshn ttle
respect for the hanging md ~ ion
spirit Of the blood.ahifsty radical
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Mce,iug-sonth Caroline a

New YORK, July 25.-The Posts Wash
ington special says: A cabinet meeting
was held to-day.
BENJAMIN C.. Pressly was to-day ap
poiuted Assistant Treasurer at Charles
ton
Governor Perry has returned to South
Carolina to urge forward the reconstruc'
ton of the State Government.
The Charleston Courier cautions the
Northern people against believing reports
of the i'll treatment of negroes In that
State. aud of disagrcements between the
freedmen and the late slave holders. So
far as we can learn, says the Courier, tins
new system of labor is working admira
bly. ..
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Intelligence from New Orleans.
lPreSs Dispatch.l

New ORLEANS, July 2i.-The Maripo
sa, from New York, has arrived.
A Galveston letter of the 9th says the
total amount of cotton in Texas exceeds
$4,000 bales. 90,
The Houston Telegraph of the goth
says The report of 10000 Missourlans
bound for Mexico is undoubtedly piece
of nonsense. The entire party is less
than 400
On the 18th ult two companies OF the
Seventy-eighth Iowa cavalry fought 9oC
SiOuXs and captured four men. The In
dian loss is unknown, but thought to be
heavy.
The Times Mobile special says: Bishop
Andrews issued notice to the NJ. r.
Church, requesting the general annual
conference to hold sessions the coming
fall and elect delegates to the general
conference commencing April next. He
also requests the churches to meet in
Columbus Ga. for construction.
Cotton dull at Ale.
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Feeding the Confederate Armies.
The New York Herald publishes I

IHC 4NCWt hohh h9oto puooNo ~
port made to the Confederate Congress
Of the working of the Commissary De
partment. The Herald says:
This report makes some remarkable
disclosures Of the operations of men on
our side the lines 1t shows that there
were 'on our side, in 1862, great many
men ready to furnish the rebels with all
nescessary army supplies, aud that these
men had sufficient influence with "ui
Government to be able to get their boat
loads of stores through the lines and to
evade all the 'watchfulness" of the Treas
ury Department and the milit ,ry COM
manders There was not one OF these
men-nor two OF three. Theie were a
great many. They were in Memphis
and they were in new Orleans-both
when Butler and when Banks comman-
ded there They were not contemplate
obscure pedlars They did business on
so large a scale that they could contract
at once TO deliver thirty thousand hogs
heads of bacon, thousands of sacks of
salt. -four for an army, coffee in abund-
ance. and all other necessary stores Who
were tNeSe men were thSS SoPpSi-
heads Were they politically affiliated
with the Treasury Department that they
could get its permits for these transac-
tiOns
Eventually contracts were made be-
tween Northern men and the Southern
Government for the supply of Southern
armies, and Lees army was fed i'll that
way to great extent early in 1868; but
at the commandments the first pro-
posal-there was great resistance to It,
and that resistance came from jeff. Da-
Wis His opposition resulted from his de-
luson in relation to cotton. 1t was
shown that there was not meat enough
to give the soldiers half ratiOrs, and
that there was but one way to get it,
which was to purchase it through the
lines with cotton. He refused his con-
sent because that cotton would enable us
to pay the interest on our debt; and he
believed if we did not get it We would
not pay that interest our public credit
wonld fall, and the war would he stopped
simply by our financial difficulties. He
moderated us, and he overrated cotton;
and that enormous delusion of his was
an advantage to us all the way through.
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Mining in the eSOuth-RcbeIlious r xhi-
billions in North Carolina.
Press Dispatch,l

NEwBERN n. c.. July 2l.-Col. David
Heaton, the Treasury Agent, is now re,
eeiving at this point for shipment north
superior quality of copper, which the
defunct rebel Government obtained from
the mines near Charlotte, North Carroll
ma. There are also large quantities OF
iron lead, coal and sulphur to be shipped
north The gold and silver mines III this
State now being worked by negroes, who
are accumulating fortunes Col. Hcaton
is also receiving large quantities OF Con
federate cotton which is isforwarded north
by every steamer.
The Raleigh Progress says the native
element, including the aristocracy, are
growing more defiant every day, and
now openly threaten to hang Union men
and negroes as soon as the troops are
withdrawn. The Progress says the troops
must be retained, and every considera
ton of justice and safety requires their
presence in North Carolina, as well rs III
the other rcbellious States.
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WHEELING REGISTER,
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY %, lsSs.
Telegraphic Seminary.

Gold closed at theregular board in New
York, yesterday, at Sl.43t, and at the ev'
e ening exchange at sl.43f.
, A Washington special to the Times says
the trial of the late commander OF Ander-
sonville prison, which was set for today.
\. Is been postponed. A later Washing
ton dispatch says evidence is accumulat-
ing and active preparations for the trial
going on.
Forty-three postoffices have been re-
opened in the South within week.
1t is reported that John Minor Bolts
intends to issue ar address favOring ne
gro suffrage, to secure virginia's equali-
ty in the Union.
Tie Mississippi squadron is to be re-
duced to five vessels
Admiral Radford will take command Of
the Atlantic squadron
Hon J. Meigs, of Tennessee, is men,
toned as Judge Catron's successor.
Large numbers Of the rebels lately an-
der Dick Taylor and Kirby Smith are
joining Maximiliau.
The treason Indictment, against Gen.
Lee and Others will be called up in Octo-
Der. 1t is expected the President viii
put the accused on long probation, and
then in.lict such penalties as circumstan-
ces may dictate.
Governor Perry aud Dun G,een have
been pardoned.
Father Walter, it is announced, has
prepared refutation of General Hardie's
statements, but the Archbishop OF Balti-
more having requested him to desist from
further discrtsSion IN the matter, the
paper may never he made public
Tue Raleigh Progress gives discourag-
ing accounts of secession sentiment in
North Carolina.
The cavalry forces in the Virginia,
Middle and North Carolina Departments
are to be materially reduced.
Governor Parsons has issued procla-
nation encouraging the people of Ala
bama in the work of reconstruction.
General Warren has made descent Oh
Richmond faro banks.
General Grant is about to visit Canada.
Negroes are reported to be making for
tunes in the mines of South Carolina.
The Charleston Courier denies the stO-
ries of disagreement between negroes
and the late Shareholders.
Trouble with negroes ia arprehended
IN Georgia
A banquet was given to Gen Sherman
at Indianapolis last night.
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From Cairo.

CAIRO, July 25.-New Orleans dates
t. the 10Th are received.
Merritt's cavalry forces are on the
msve from Shreveport to San Antonla
1t was Thought the march would not b
attended with more than the ordinary
inconvenience that beset cavalry thro
other secjiens of the Union.
A defalcation of ten thousand dollars
has occurred in the CommisSary De
partment. Commissary Scott lost the
money gambling, and had hed from
Shreveport
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The ELECTION N sPorrsrLvASn-

THE ELECTION IN SPoTrsYLvASn--
The election for county officers in Spott-
sylvauia passed off quietly on Tuesday.
Thos B. Barton, who bps been prosecu-
ting attorney. for the county for quite a
quarter Of century, was reelected
John James Chew, who is among the old
est. if not the oldest clerk in the State,
was reelected clerk of the Circuit Court,
aud Robert c. Dandy, who has held the
Office of county clerk from q time antcri-
or TO the adoption of the constitution in
1850. was also reelected.
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BooTH's WARDRoBE.-The theatrical
wardrobe of ]. Wilkes Booth, the assas-
siu, which was picked up from the wreck
of the schooner Marie Victoria. has been
sold by auction in Canada. Though most
of the articles were greatly damaged by
salt water, they realized high prices. A
dressing case, nearly in pieces, brought
fifteen dollars, and spoiled costumes were
knocked down at twenty-five dollars
each. ...... .
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President Jehns0n-Apprehen oi
Negro InsurreciiOn i'm Georgia.

New YORK, July 25.-The Express
states President johnson anticipates a
Journey eastward, and will be the guest
OF an eminent citizen of this city.
The Macon Telegraph of the 18th
warns the authorities that unless atten.
tion is directed at once to the conduct OF
the freedmen the horrors OF the st. Do
.minpo massacre will be re-enacted in
Georgia aud at Atlanta. The lnteiiigen'
Ger agrees with the above named paper
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The Gold Market.

New YORK July 25.2The gold market
is dull The demand is almost entirely
confined Ia the wants of importers for
duties The bears are quiet and the pre-
MUM to be sustained chiefly by the large
amount held off the market by the bulls.
The quotation opened at sl.43, went up
to 81 43s, and down again to 81 43s
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smggliug Suspected.

/ New YORK, July 25.-Our Custom
House officers, suspecting emigrants OF
smuggling, have been making raids upon
: ffeir baggage. After greatly frighten-
if{1 the poor people, who thought tney
were being robbed, and personally inJur
ing them ii some instances, the officers
came to the conclusion that no SNUG
Cling had been done by them.
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The A,l,u,i. Telegraph Cable.

New YORK, Jaly 25.-A note from Cy
rus W. Field, dated London, July llth,
says: / leave here Thursday the l3th'
inst. The Great Eastern will sail from
the More on Saturday 18th, aud expect
to leave Yalentia about tho 18th, and 10
arrive at Hearts Contentduring the ist
week in August Everything is going on
IN our entire satisfaction
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SALE or BALTIMORE AND ONO Ran

SALE or BAETfMoRE AND ONO RAIL
ROAD STocK.-The extra dividend stock
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, foot
ing up FIVE thousand shares, received by
the city in payment of dividends declal ed
by the Railroad Company in years past
on stock, the property of the city. has
been disposed Of since the 1st inst as fol.
lows; 1854 shares at $40, and $40
ftnfesxt Sis. Baltimore Paper .zOst
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THE RICHMOND WHIG The republi-
cation of the Richmond Whig will be re-
sumed on Monday. The editorial con-
troll of the paper will rest with Mr.. Rob
ert Ridgeway, and the managing propri'
etors of the paper are Messrs. Wyatt NJ.
Elliott and ] G. Shields.
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Prnxres. fDespoii.m.

General Howard, Superintendent ofthe
Bureau Of Freedmen's Affairs, has issued
circular. the purport Of which is, that
the late slaveowners of st. Mary's coun-
ty, Maryland, must support the inhrm
freedmen who were formerly their slaves
or, that the military authority will take
possession of their plantations, and use
them for the benefit of the negroes who
are unable to earn their own subsistence.
1t is hardly credible that such an abuse
of military power should be tolerated in
Republic, where the pretension is made
of government by given laws enacted
within constitutional limits. When a
Federal officer, prompted by his own ca
price, or his own fallible conception of
right and wrong can compel one citizen
to provide food, raiment and shelter for
another, and even for number of others,
making thepenalty of neglect the forfeit
ure of house and lands, we say that a de-
gree of despotism has been reached for
the parallel of which we must search the
records of past political systems, or the
absolutisms of China and Japan. There
is no such instance of violation OF law,
equity, prudence and common sense to
be met with anywhere within the area of
civilization, except in the United States
of America, that claim to be types of re-
publicanism aud the eXemplars of self
government There is not, in this case,
even the poor excuse that the people
thus summarily deprived of their natural
and legal rights are the inhabitants Of a
conquered territory, for the State of Ma
ryland never passed an ordinance of Sc
cession, was never leagued with the
Southern Confederacy, and cannot, by
the most strained Interpretation of even
military justice, be considered as out
lawed and stripped of its normal politi-
ical attributes by virtue of conqueror's
prerogatiye
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BANKS.
Dividend Notice.

MERCHANTS & MECHANICS RANK,
Wheeling. 18th July. ie6s, !
THE DIRECTORS OF TuGs
i BANK have declared dividend Of four ~
per cent on the capital stock out Of the sarninxs
Of the last ak months, free Of State and Federal
tax, PAYABLE to the stockholderA or their legal
representatives, on demand.
tuisIw s. BRADY, Cashier.
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LATER.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 25,-A banquet
was given to General Sherman tonight
by military gentlemen. A soldier was
mortally wounded by the premature dis
charge of cannon at the reception to-
day. Sherman leaves for Washington
tomorrow
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General Sherni n n /.

INDIANApoLIs, July 25.-Major General
w. L. Sherman arrived here this morn
ing and will be formally welcomed by
the civil and military authorities TINS
afternoon
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De,eent on the Riehmond Faro Banks
'- Gen. Grant. Z

NEW, YORK, July 25.-The CONNER
eial's Washington special says On Sat. :.
urday night, Cen Warren made Q de-
scent on the faro banks in Richmond,
under Gen. Grants late order
Gen: Grant left last night for Safatoga.
he viii soon take voyage to Halifax
and the Canadas, to be absent about
three weeks.
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THE Central Prestyteriaa contradicts
the report that Rev. DR. Hoge, Of Rich.
nond. Va, Is about emigrating to Bra
III.
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Csanterfefts

PanApELpHrA. July 25.-Altered notes
we nom SIS, on the National Bank ct
lows City, are extensively circulatcd
Ae1o to-day.
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The Negro Pass System.
fn-.. n..akat,

WASHINGTON, July l5.-The Secretary
of War has ordered that to secure equal
Justice and the same personal liberty to
the freedmen as to other citizens and in-
habitants, all orders issued by post, dis
trict, or other commanders adopting any
system of passes for or subjecting them
to any restraint or punishment not inn
posed on other classes, are. declared void.
Neither whites nor blacks will he re-
strained from seeking employment else
where, when they cannot obtain it at a
lust compensation at their home, and
when not bound by voluntary agree
ments. Nor will they be hindered from
travelling from place to place on prnper
and legitimate business.
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Tnoe, HxIsT, one Of the oldest citiEens4
cfWIn6k6Staf, va.s died On tn tStk inst
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ANOTHER RADICAL THREAT.-Wendell
Phillips openly proclaims that if the me-
groes are not placed on equality with
white folks, he will give his energies to
the formation of party which will adj
vocate the repudiation of the national
debt This dishonorable threat is bad
enough; but Judge Kelly, Republican
member of Congress, goes further, and
threatens the country with the vengeance
of the negro soldiers, unless we violate
the Constitution, compel the President
to periure himself, and recommence the
irrepressible conflict AS he is reported,
Republican Congressman Kelly
Gave notice that the black troops
would consent to no other terms than that
they. their wives and children, should be
on an equality with the whites, aad
would not lay down their arms and let
the country violate every doctrine of the
Declaration of Independence, and every
principle that underlies American insti-
tutions" He declared that there shall
be no political peace until it can be made
on such terms as will place the negro on
an equality uith the white man"
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SPssenss-The Trial ef Capt Wer'z,
IPress Dispatch.

WAsH1NeroN,S July '25.-1S5 patents
were issued to-day.
Preliminary measures are in progress
for the trial of Capt. Wertz, formerly IN
charge of the Andersonville military
prison. A large number of witnesses
have already been summoned and let
tara are constantly received from those
who possess knowledge of the crnelties
practiced on Union prisoners by this reb-
ell commander.
A number ofleading railroad men from
the South. are here on business connected
with their respective companies.
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SOUTHERN SHIPMENTs.-All the re-
straints and discoursgements Of factjbus
malice cannot keep down the irrepressi-
BILE benefits of Southern productions
On the tenth of this month tho port OF
New Orleans shipped two thousand five
hundred bales of cotton, and on the day
following two thousand two hundred
bales Here is in two days, an addition
to the real resources of the public credit
to the amount Of six or seven hundred
thousand dollars in gold An enlighten.
ed liberality in dealing with the social
and political condition of the South
would bring out from that abundant re,
gion such immense volumes Of wealth
that in a very short time the people, who
now suffer here from the drawbacks of
degraded circulating medium, would en-,
JOY once more the prosperity associated
with hard currency.