Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-03
OVERLAND TELEGRAPH.
DATES TO sEPTEMBRR as,h.
The Alabama and South Carolina
AInta GonYentinnn.


The Alabama and South Carolina
State Conventions.
MONTGOMERY (Ala.). September o.
The Alabama State Convention to-day
debated the election ordinance, and finally
agreed that all State elections (?) should
be left to the people, and that the first
election should take place on the first
Monday in November.
WASHINGTON, September 30. The
President has been informed by telegraph
that the Alabama Convention, by a vote
OF sixty to nineteen, passed an ordinance
providing that all debts created by the
State of Alabama in the late war, directly
or indirectly, are void. and that the Cen
eral Assembly of the State shall have no
authority and are forbidden to ratify the
same or to assume to provide for the pay
ment of the same or any part thereof, and
the General Assembly of the State shall
have no authority and are forbidden to
assume OIL make any provision for the
payment of any portion of the debts con-
tracted directly or indirectly by the Con-
federate States, its agents or its authority.
The Convention also decided, by q vote Of
sixty-one to twenty-five, to submit the
amendments to the Constitution to popu-
lar vote.
A dispatch has also been received by
the President announcing the following
action by the South Carolina Convention:
COLUMBIA Is. c., September 2S.-The
Convention adjourned after a most har-
monious session of fifteen days. 1t re-
pealed the ordinance of secession abolished
slavery, equalized representation in the
Senate and taxation throughout the State,
gave the election of Governor and Presi-
dental Electors to the people, ordered
votes to be given Utua Uoce, Endorsed the
Administration unanimously, directed a
Commission to submit the Code to the
Legislature for the protection of the COL
ored population. Judge Wardlaw, Alex.
Huger and Colonel Dewks were appointed
a Committee to visit your Excellency in
reference to Jefferson Davis, Governor
Magrath and Trenholm. The election Of
Governor and members of the Legislature
will take place on the 18th of October.
James l.. Orr was nominated for Gov
ernor. I understand that Governor Perry
will be sent to the United States Senate.
Members of Congress will be elected in
November. An extra session of the Legis-
lature meets on the 25th of October. All
are loyal and in good spirits.
The Cotton Question.
NEW YORK, September 2S.-The Times
Washington special dispatch says: Dud-
ley, our Consul at Liverpool, had an in
terview with the Secretary of the Trea-
sury, when he signed a recommendation
to Congress that an export duty be laid on
cotton. 1t is said that foreign importa-
tons this season will be m
Explosion and Loss OF Life.
BUFFALO, September ga boiler ex-
ploded at Pratt 4 Co.'S rolling mill, this
morning, killing two men and wounding
about twelve. A section Of boiler, weigh
ing a half ton, was hurled through the
building about 800 feet.
Notable Death.
BosroN, September 2S.-Captain Ed
ward H. Sanford, one Of the principal
owners of Sanford's line of steamers. died
at St. GATHERINGS Springs, Canada West,
on Wednesday, of congestion of the
lungs.
Gems Grant and Sherman in Danger.
CINc1NNATI, September %. - While
General Grant was returning from Indian
apolis at an early hour yesterday morning,
a switch at the end of a curve at Guilford
having been turned Intentionally the car
which the General was. in was thrown
from the track and dragged for some dis
lance. No one was injured. About the
same time a train on the Ohio and Missis-
sippi Railroad, carrying General Sherman,
was thrown from the track east Of Law
renceburg. No one was injured.
Sir John Frnnklin's Expedition.
New YORK, Sept. 29.-Henry Grinnell
has received a very important and inter-
esting letter from Captain Hall, the Arctic
explorer, which that he has
learned such facts in his present expedition
as to lead to the belief that there are yet
surviving three men of Sir John Franklin's
expedition. Crozier, who succeeded
Franklin in command of the expedition,
and three others had been seen. Crozier
was reduced to u skeleton and being
starved to death, while his men were fat,
they having lived on human Aesh-the
flesh Of their companions, who all deserted
the two ships, that were fast in noun
tains of ice, while Crozier would not eat
human flesh. The man finding the party,
at oncc took them in charge, and, catching
seal, fed Crozier sparingly day by day I'M
til his life was saved. He thus cared for
the men through'a whole Winter, during
which some of the men died. Crozieran
the two remaining men were then taken
to Neitschille, on Boathia Felix peninsula,
where many Innuits (Esquimaux). Hav-
ing guns and plenty of ammunition, they
were enabled to 'shoot plenty of ducks,
etc. The Innuits treated them very
kindly. At length they started for Cock
burns Land, since which they have not
been seen or heard from. All this was
previous to 1854, but the Innuits insist
that Crozier and his friends are not dead.
Affairs in Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 26.-The Union Press
announces the indictment of Major Gen.
eral Palmer and Brigadier General Bris-
bin, for abducting slaves and otherwise
interfering with the slave laws of Ken
lucky, and suggests that the President,
who upholds the General, should by all
means be indicted "by one of our en-
lightened and patriotic Grand Juries."
The Election in North Carolina.
NEw YORK, sept. 26.-The Tribune's
letter dated Raleigh, Sept. 2lst, says:
The election for delegates to the State
Convention to-day, as far as heard from,
was unusually quiet throughout the State.
Under the orders OF General Kruger, no
soldiers were permitted to leave camp or
come near the polls during the day with
out special permission. The same order
applied to officers. Raleigh has been as
quiet as a Sabbath. Everything has gone
one way. All the candidates elected in
Wake, Guilford and Granville counties
went before the people avowed opponents
of negro suffrage, and excepting one
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