The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-08-31
GENERAL NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
THE MISSISSIPPI CONVENTION.

GENERAL NEWS BY TELEGRAPH
THE MISSISSIPPI CONVENTION.
JACKSON, Miss, August 23.-An ordinance was
passed ratifying oil laws and official Acts passed
since the Act Of secession not repugnant to the
Constitutions of the United States and Mississippi
prior to January 1861, except the laws concerning
crimes and the Acts enabling railroads to pay
moneys by them; also repeating all laws authori2-
ing the payment of dues to the State in Confcdc-
rate scrip; also repeating all laws authorizing the
distilatiOn Of spirits State account; also ratfy-
ing oil official accounts, proceedings, judgments,
all sales made by administrative and others acting
i'll judicial capacity; also authorizing executors
and others to compromise with persons against
whom they hold notes as to the real value Of the
property for which sIch notes have been given !;
also authorizing pa,1e testimony to be taken to
prove whether or not contracts which have been
also ratfying all marriages which have been con-
summated aince January, 1861, whether celebrat-
ed with novel forms not.
JACKSON, Miss, August Ex-Governor Sharkey
to-day sent into the Convention telegraphic dis
patch which he had received from President john
son, congratulating the Convention the progress
mission of the State of Mississippi into the Union
and expressing an earnest hope that all obstacles
to such readmission wouldisoon be removed. The
President says in this dispatch that he will restore
the writ Of habeas corpus and remove the troops
from the State at the earliest moment when tie
State shall make sufficient progress to have en-
hopes, in conclusion, that the example of hIisss-
sippi will be followed by the other Southern States
In the Convention to-day the ordinance propo-
sing the constitutional amendment to the people,
for ratification or rejection, was lost by vote of
8 yeas against A nays.
An eloquent appeal nemorializng President
johnson to grant pardon to JEFF. Davis and
Charles Clarke, late Governor OF Mississippi,
signed by over four thousand ladies', wasread and
approved: resolution was adopted, requesting
the President OF the Convention to forward the
memorial to the President Of the United States.
The Convention gives their President the right
to reeonyene themezhen deemed necessary.
Judge 4. 3. Fisher was nominated for Governor
and the Convention adjourned sine die.
THE OHIO DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION THE STATE
TICKET-THE REsoLUTIoNs-THE STATES RIGHTS
DOCTRINE uPHELD-SEaEo SUFFRAGE DENOUNCED,
ETC.
CINCINNATI, August 25.-The Democratic State
Convention assembled at Columbus yesterday,
and organized by electing Hon. Rufus P. Ranney
President. ~
The following ticket for State officers was then
nominated:-For Governor, General George w.
Morgan; Lieutenast Governor, William Lang;
Judges Of the Supreme Court, p. Van Trump and
Attorney General, Daniel NJ Wilson; School Com,
II. H. Barney; Engineer for the Board
Of Public Works. c. Basil; Clerk Of the Supreme
The Committee on Resolutions then reported a
series, which in substance are as follows:
Opposing consolidation Of all power in the
hands l,a Of the Federal Government; maintaining
the doctrine OF State rights as laid down in the
virginia and Kentucky resolutions Of 1898: declar.
ing that the ordinances Of secession adopted by
the m Southern States being null and void, they are
still In the Union as States, entitled to all their re-
served rights and to their due representation in
Congress; denouncing all efforts to confer the
right Of suffrage upon negroes; discouraging the
emigration OF negroes into the State; compliment
ing the soldiers for their valor and foritude dur
Ing all the trying scenes Of the war; regardi, the
national debt as national curse; demanding the
most rigid economy in tho administration Of sf-
fairs that this debt may be paid; recommending
that national tax be collected by the county
reasurers for this purpose as far as possible;
pealed; earnestly denouncing the arrest Of citizens
BY military authority in States where the civil tri-
Dunais are open and unobstructed, and declaring
corpus since tho termination Of the war; the denial
u tho right OF trial by jury, and the interference
WITH oleHtHns ct f%a sy the mi recent
arc violations of the Constitution of the United
States.
The last resolution declares that, while we res
olutely condemn all infractions upon the Consttu.
Jon, and while We regret that the terms Of pacih-
eaton agreed to by Major General Sherman in
April last were not at once ratified by the Federal
Johnson in all constitutional efforts to restore to
he States the exercise of their rights and powers
the resolutions were adopted. al
HON. cemons l. VsiandgSaG 'fi and Hon. nSSfgan Sa@es
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ED AND TWO OTHERS SEVERELY INJURED.
BALTIMORE, August 25.-Last night, about mid
night, the steamer George Leary, Captain Blake
lred passengers and heavy freight, came in COL
ision, off Cove Point, with the propeller Sea Gull,
of tho new outside sea line from New York to Bal
timore. Tho Leary was cut down to the waters
edge, but the shifting Of the cargo fortunately
lifted the injured part above the water line, and
prevented her from sinking. The passengers and
reached here this afternoons Tho Ioary WAS tow
cd into the Patuxent river. The chief steward Of
the Leary was lost overheard, and chambcrmaid
and deck hand were badly injured-the latter, it
Is thought, fatally ts.'To, o,S.I.a,..rr ra:a' Il
.U'' FROM NEW ORLEANS. o.
NEW ORLEANS August 24-Sales 1750 bales cot
ton; prices unchanged. Sales Of the week Is, ,O00
bales. Exports for the week 1900 bales. Stock
%, 900 bales, Sugar and molasses dropping.
Freights 3613c.