The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-11-15

wv YORK HERALD. WEI
O'Clock this afternoon, for New Orleans direct Tn
mails will close at the Post Once al half-past on
/ O'Clock.
The steamer D. H. Mount, Captain Bachus
which sailed from this port the 10th u for jackson
ville Fla has not been heard from the ed wheI
she seven miles south OF Cape Hatteras,
fears entertained that she may have been Of th
victims Of the late severe gale.
i The bark Dadem from Marseles, where the cholers
prevailed when she sailed has arrived In harbor
been detained at Quarantine The Diadem had no casei
or the disease board; but she will be held in quaran
tine during the stipulated hve days. after which,
supposed abe will be allowed TO up TO the city
No new cholera cases among the Atalantas passengers
reported. The vessel is still kept at the Lower
Quarantine There two deaths board OF her on
| Monday; but they both from lung diseases The
War Department surgeons appointed to make exanina-
ton OF Sandy Hook with view OF establishing cholers
hospital there have 1t is sad reported favoraby the
proposition.
meeting was held last night the Cooper Institute
the purpose Of calling public attention the claims Of
coorsd college Oxford Chester county, Pennsylvania
called the Ashmun Institute. negro missionary from
Liberia delivered an address
coroners inquest held yesterday the body
Of Pcter Coughn. newly arrived emigrant who fell
overheard from the pier foot Of 10th street, East river
On the person Of deceased found order from the
Emigant Commissioners for his admittancc to Wards
Island to be treated for yphus fever Tho jury in their
verdict say they suppose Coughlin came to his death
while under the effects Of fever delirum and oensure
the Commissioners sending such infectious
their way to the island by the city railroad cars
large IRE occurred in West Buxton Maine, yester.
day. destroying number Of buildings and leaving the
business portion OF the village in ashes.
The stock market was firm yesterday Governments
were heavy. Gold was steady, and closed at lat.
The frmness Of gold exered corresponding influence
in commercial circles yesterday, and the markets.
general thing, buoyant and firm though there
no especial activity in any department Foreign goods
were steady Groceries were quiet Cotton was rather
easier. Petroleum was firm. On Change -four was
without decided change. Wheat and corn nrmer.
Pork was shade in sellers favor. Beef was steady.
Lard was dull but unchanged. whiskey was q shade
lower
Beef cattle sold readily this week at slight advance
on last weeks prices though the range remains about
the same Prices varied from 1Oc. to 18c. per h. with
few sales of choice at higher figure Cows were rm.
Prices varied all the way from $40 to 1920 $3.50.
veals fairly active at from &C. TO 13c lac. Sheep
and lambs have sold firmly at better prices, varying
from 81 25 to 75 Hogs have sold freely at from 12c
to 1876 The total receipts 6O94 beeves so COWS,
943 veals, 90 O62 sheep and lambs and II, 800 hogs
Tho Resurrection OF south Carolina-
The Constitutional Amendment. "
The ratification of the great constitutional
amendment by the reconstructed loyal Legisla-
ture of South Carolina is feather in the cap
of the Palmetto State. 1t is something more
than reconstruction or restoration in her case.
II is resurrection. She was dead, but she is
alive again; she was buried by Sherman's ter
rible army, but she has risen from the grave.
The contriver, the instigator and the pioneer
in secession and rebellion for slavery and
Southern confederacy, it is eminently proper
that she should set the example to her hest
tating confederates in the good work Of estab-
has been done by South Carolina in the ratif-
cation Of the great constitutional amendment,
which puts 1t beyond the power of any State,
or any ten or twenty States, hereafter to re-
establish slavery.
It appears, however, that the constitutional
hairsplitters Of the South Carolina Legislature
required all the argumentaive powers of Presi-
dent johnson and Secretary Seward to bring
them to the work. They were about to appeal
to the President that they had done enough.
They were anxious to be reinstated as State
in full communion. Their cities, manufactures,
mills, ginhouses, barns and thousands Of homes
burned; their plantations devastated, their
stock destroyed, their slaves set free, their
banks insolvent, their millions of invest
ments in rebel securities collapsed into
worthless paper-all this and much moro in
the way of the wars disasters calls for immcdi-
ate and active exertions from the whole popu-
lation and the earliest possible restoration Of
still their Legislature hesitated upon this consti-
tutional amendment. What was the difficulty
The amendment, second section, reads:-"Con-
grcss shall have power TO enforce this article
abolition Of slavery by appropriate legisla-
ton" The difficulty with the South Caro-
linians lay in "the apprehension that Congress
might under this second section claim the
right to legislate for the negro after slavery
was abolished"
This was the hitch, as confessed by Governor
Perry to the President. But in reply Mr..
Seward made it all right by saying that the OBJ
jectionable clause sis really restraining in its
effects, instead Of enlarging the power Of Con-
gress." Furthermore, says Governor Perry to
his Legislature, al am happy to find that the
Secretary of State does not regard those objec-
tons well founded, but considers them 'queru-
lous and unreasonable The Governor Is
happy to be assured that he is "querulous and
unreasonable" What more could be asked
The Legislature dismisses its objections, rati-
fies the amendment, and asks, have you any
thing more? The Governor intimates that
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