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LOUISIANA.

Order Of General Hancock-Gencral Mover
Ordered 20 Rejoin His Kegiment-Tho Re.
construction Convention.
NEw 0RLRASs. Dec. 3, 1867.
The following order was issued Today by General
Hancock
SPECIAL oRDERs-No 201.
HSADouARrERs, FiFTH MILITARY DISTRICT,
= NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 3, 1857, !
A. Cazabat 10 hereby Nbp6inied Judge OF the Second
Judicial District Court OF Louisiana
Lieutenant Colonel william II. Wood, First United
States Infantry, WILL without delay, relieve
temporarily Brevet Major General Joseph A. Mower,
Colonel Thirty ninth United Stacs infantry from duty
rs commander OF tho District OF louisiana embracing
the State or Louisiana and the posts OF Marshall and
Jefferson, Texas aud Ship Island, Mississippi Lieu
tcuant colonel Wood will also relieve General Mower
temporarily from duty, Commissioner Of the Bureau
OF Refugees, Freedmen aud Abandoned Lands for tho
esato Of Louisiana Upon being relieved from duty az
above required Brsvct Major General Mower will pro-
coed join the headquarters Of his regiment which
will be established ~ Grscnville, louisiana
BY command Major General HANCOCK.
NJ @. NrrcHElt, Acting Assistant Adjutant General
In the Convention to-day resolutions we're offered 10
establish The sss Of government q Baton Rouge,
power she rst Legislators there 70 levy tar and build
STATE House which was referred 70 the Committee on
General Provisions.
resolution Was offered fixing days work al eight
hours, and fixing the wages Of aborers public works.
guaranteeing lawyers ten per all collections and
phy sicians three dollars per visit
Il was laid over under the rule.
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VIRGINIA.

The constitutional Convention.
From the Evening Telegram OF yesterday
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 1867.
Ihave just received the following from Richmond:-
The Constitutional Convention met shis morning Il
o'clock. Tho house called to order BY Mr.. Platte,
OF Petersburg and, ON his motion Colonel D. B. White
OF Elizabeth City county, was appointed chairman.
The proceedings opened with prayer By the Rev.
J. N Mitchell On motion OF Mr.. Porter OF Chester
field, J. W. Bland, colored, OF Prince Edwards
appointed secretary Mr. whitesey, Of Alexandra, was
appointed assistant secretary
Tho roll then called on motion OF Mr.. Porter, and
IL found that only eight delegates were absent
motion Of Nj. Hunnicutt-that committee Of three
DO appointed TO inform General Schofeld that tenn.
porary organization OF the committee had boon effected
to ask when he had any orders for its
not entertained.
The Convention then adjourned until twelve O'Clock
tomorrow.
As q permanent organization Is effected Gene
raj Schoneld will send letter to tho Convention inform
ing that body that will be their duty TO decide
eligibility OF members to seats and TO be the judges
In all OF alleged frsuds-the responsibility OF do
Gliding In Of this kind does not rest with him.
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Acro.. tho Con,,nen, In fifteen Days.

Across the Continent In FHteen Dnyss
The Union Pacific Railroad has already
reduced in point Of time the overland journey
to California one week. However important
this reduction is deemed by those whom BUSH
ness or pleasure prompts to undertake this
journey across the Continent, 1t lie Of far greater
moment TO commercial and financial operators.
A notable instance Of the value Of this saving
In time by reason Of the railroad facilities
which this company have made available Is
just announced. Dispatches received here
yesterday state that the mails from China and
Japan, which have heretofore been sent from
San Francisco by sea, and which have occupied
from twenty-five TO twenty-four days In transit
from that city to New York. left the former city
by the overland route on the Goth ult, and will
be due here tomorrow morning, only fifteen
days from the Pacific coast Such rapidity OF
transmission Is unprecedented, and tho fact
that II Is now possible Is due to the energy
which has been manifested by the Union Pacific
Railroad Company In the construction Of the
great national line which that corporation has
had In hand. The total time from Japan to
New York Il now reduced to about forty days.
while the Liverpool merchants may receive
their advices by this route in nine or ten days
more. The industrial armies who are digging
and blasting way for the locomotive through
the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada
are working o. directly In The interests Of New
York and European capitalists and merchants
as Of those personally connected with the rail-
road companies. In five years hence the
wonder will be, not that any parties we're
audacioas enough 10 project and build = Pacific
railroad, but that the business men OF this city
and Of tho country were so long content TO do
!, without "a
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EUROPEAN MARINE NEWS.

SOUTHAMPTON Dec. s.-The North German Loyd's
steamship Deutschland, Captain Vessels, which len
New York on the 2ls Of November arrived At this port
shortly after midnight, on the way 10 Bremen.
QUEENSTOWN, Dec 2-Ths Chicago, Captain Harris, OF
Williams GuIon's line, which left New York on the
goth Of November. arrived here today the way 70
Liverpool
QrsnSsrowS, Dec. 8 The Inmsn steamship CITY o.
Baltimore, CAPTAIN McGugan. which LEFT New YORK On
The Esd u touched ~ this port today and prooesoe1
70 Liverpool
GLASGOW, Dec 3--The steamships S. George, GAP.
tain Smith, from Quebec, and lows Captan Cfaies ITO"
New York, have arrived 10 the Clyde. .,- =
DBAsrra AT A--QCxxssrowk. Dec. e.-rns mip ~
and Yonds bound from Liverpool 70 san Frsho'soos
has put bsck 70 Cofts with cargo shifted
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DICKENS IN BOSTON.
SPECIAL TlLEGaAm 10 THE HsaALu.
Mr.. DIckens' second Reading at tho Tremeus
Temple.

MIR. DIckenS' Second Reading at the TremOue
Temple.
Bosros. Dec. g. 1867
ll:So O'Clock r. n
Mr. Dickens second reading was given this evening.
On this occasion the audienos had the happiness to
make the personal acquaintance Of several men and
women OF whom tho world has heard much, among
them Copperneld, steerforh. Psggotty Ham, Aicaws
Der and Mrs. Aicawber Pickwick, Bob Sawyer and
Sawyers landlady Some faint knowledge Of these the
world has had through what has been written and
printed OF their acts and Thoughts; but This
evening they were actually present. and
will in future be known and remembered more by hoss
traits Of voice. manner and grmace that we're an
actual experience Of the senses, than by the more
elaborate pictures OF Thorn In the chronicles OF their
lives. Taken altogether, perhaps Coppsrnsd IL the
most successful Of the pieces read Il the with
the larger range OF sympathy In It, In the others the
or ss0s s asa s su o.
Copperaeld - so broadly natural that II will b felt
wherever there are home. and lovers. Pesgosy viii DO
understood wherever rough old love their dashing
little girls and Micawber there are unthrty
mortals who believe themselves wronged by society IL
draw out the hearers here; for though depreciation
Of the readers and recognition Of Ne genial and
their ympahies carried quite ond control They were
very decidedly themselves and applause and appreca-
party and other peculiar people, but Copperosd fused
all in Q common expression Of exquisite pleasure.
Through the earlier chapters detailing tho Peggoty
history tho impression, though not domonsratve was
nevertheless deep Davds dinner party and his pigeon
pie had tho nrst effect Of the ivelier sort while A
Mcawbers declaration that she would desert Mr.
Micawber, given a. II was with what could not but hsvs
been that faithful creatures very air and
manner awakened laughter that cleared away every
cloud from the chill atmosphere Of Boston taste.
1t is observable that Boston audience takes nothing
for granted. Other audiences would let man start
from bis reputation; this audience requires him 70 start
even, and make his reputation under its very He
does IT. too, and thus his triumph all the greater and
all the more positively the triumph OF his art and skill
reader, and not OF his writer The house
crowded with the beauty, fashion and culture Of
the city-an audience much quieer In tone and style
than metropolitan audiences universally arc.
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CALIFORNIA.


Report Of the San Francisco Chamber OF Com.
merce Committee ON the Acquisition Of tho
Sandwich Islands.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec s, 1867.
The report OF the committee appointed By tho Fan
Francisco Chamber OF Commerce on the Sandwich
Islands treaty sets forth. rst that any strong naval
Power fortified on said islands would hold the key 70
the commerce OF the Pacific Ocean, second that France.
England and the United States striving for their pos
session third that treaty appears TO be the BEST II nos
tho only way preventing any hostile Power obtaining
them and Of securing them to Us. and that will eect
the object desired; fourth, that the commerce Of the
Pacific and Of the United States will be benefited
immediately and largely by such treaty.
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rhs Great Gran, Mas. nrc,,,us.

let tho independent men Of this metropolis
OF ell past party affiliations, who believe that
neither the excuses Of radicalism nor the stu
pidities OF copperheadism will save the country,
rally in their strength at the Cooper Institute
tonight and assist In putting the ball in mo-
lion for General Grant, as the peoples favor
iis and the oountry's safest choice. In this
movement new epoch in our political parties
and political affairs will be inaugurated to-
night A bell will be rung which will be fol-
lowed By general ringing Of bells through
out shc land f~r Grant, the Union and the con-
nLiiuuon.
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MISSOURI.


Fatal AccIdent-Chrismau, the Murderer
Sr. LoUIs, Dec 3, 1857.
horrible accident happened at an early hour this
morning. Frenchman, named Joseph Labe while
under the effects Of liquor fell from three story
porch corner Of Broadway and OFaon street. and was
Instantly killed He had been employed on the new
Chrisman, who 10 70 be hanged ON Friday next for
numbering Edward Ross and Moses, his son. last sum-
mer In the Columbia Bottom under peculiarly atrocicus
circumstances, exhibits the same stubborn ndiherenoe
which Characterised him during the trial. Ae 10 In
sentence will be COMMITTED though the Governor
has declined 10 interfere. He denies the murder
though the evidence was overwhelming, and says the
deed. Preparations for the execution are nearly COM
peted.
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Our HTayoraitv Election.
The following are the figures reported Of our
citv election Yesterday for MavOr -

These results show that Tammany rules the
roost; that Mozart Hall may be pronounced
defunct institution that radicalism in this city,
with candidate acceptable in every other re-
spect, cannot touch bottom that for ut least
another year or two our taxes and spoliations
are to be as they have been, and that only from
the general shaking up Of the Presidential
election can we hon. % make break in the
spoils and plumber combinations and their
wheels within wheels Of this metropolis.
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TELRCRAPHIC EEWS.
FRANCE.
Jules Favre Assaiis tho Roman Inferventieu

Jules Favre Assaiis tho Roman Interventisu
Policy.
LONDON, Dec. 8, 1857
In the Corps Lsgsatir yesterday H. Jules Favre delv
cred brilliant speech against the policy OF the govern
mens on the Roman question.
He attacked French intervention in the affairs OF Italy
and denounced the sending OF the expedition to Rome
violation OF justice and as injurious tho interests
OF France He declared that this interference by force
hurt the cause which II designed 10 help, and in
volved the government In complications to escape from
the general discomfort OF the country Instead OF as
Stunning all the responsibility In crave a matter, he
Legislature.
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MASSACHUSETTS.

The Proposed Anti.impenchmcnt Meeting as
Boston.
Boston, Dec. 8, 1867.
The anti.impeachmont meeting which was TO have
been held at Faneuii Hall tomorrow night has been
postponed because the sentiment OF New England %
unanimous that II seems needless, and bsoauss tho
press has fully expressed that continent The
ment was controlled BY earnest republicans such -
Governor Bullock, Mr.. A. H. Rice Gardner Brewer
and william whiting II necessary the meeting will b
held and v III be Q monster gathering.
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A Disastrous Cyclone at Bombay.
LONDON, Dec 3-Evening,
Telegraphic dispatches from India report that dis
cyclone had visited Bombay and vicinity. In
the city many houses demolished and the crops In
the surrounding country were destroyed the ground be-
ing swept bare Great damage has been done 70 ship
ping. Many vessels were sunk.
The scanty details far received make no mention Of
disasters to American shipping.
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SOUTH CAROLINA.

Tho Election still Doubtful-nTiiitary Regu.
Iation or tho State Taxes.
CHARLESTON, s. O., Dec 3, 1887.
Further returns from the state election leave the
result 10 doubt as to the defeat Of the con.
venton The result close and only be decided By
the onical count
General Candy has issued his order regulating taxes
for the support Of state organizations during the cur
rent year.
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MICHiGA AN.

Supposed Loss Of a schooner Lake On
tnrlo.
0swIGo, Dec. ., 1891.
The schooner Hastings, Chalmers master, from Csvs-
land this port with COAL out in the late gallo on
Lake Ontario. and nothing has besn heard from her
since then u 10 feared she 10 lost, with all on board
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sARAroGA Dec 3, 1857.
The funeral Of Chancellor walworth this afternoon
was largely attended Tho Masonic Orders OF Troy,
Albany and Saratoga Joined In payas tho last honors
their departed brother The services a the house were
conducted by Row. Dr. Woodbridge. Tho members. OF
attendance.
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NEW YORK.
Canal NnvIgnsIon.

Canal Navigation.
SCHENECTADY, Dec. 8, 1857.
About eighty boats are on the canal level At TINS place
They have been passed through ~ fast ~ possible bus
the work d best very SLOW II takes half hour "a
get boat through lock by OF the accumulated
at the locks THERE Is no trouble from the aQus-
duct to Troy. -gas-.s-s- -
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Marine Disasters Near Quebcc-Fields Of leo
In the st. Charles River.
QUEBEC, Dec. 8, 1907.
The ships stratharon and Canada wero considerably
damaged by ice during their passage from Montreal.
The sratharon will hero, and the Canada Three
Rivers
The steamer Nova Scolan carried her pilot TO England,
being unable 70 effect landing at Father Point on
account Of the storm
PoRr CorBoRNE, Dec. 8, 1857.
The schooners Now Dominion and Davy have 0llod
with water, and will be total loss.
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The French staff Omcers Retire from the
City.
PARIS Doc. 8, 1867.
Tho stat officers OF the French expeditionary corps TO
Italy have all left Rome
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IRELAND.

Capture Of q Prominent FenIan.
LONDON Dec. 8, 1867.
despatch has been received in this city to-day from
Sligo, Ireland announcing that the notorious Fenian
General Maggie captured in that city late last
ing by the police authorities
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The Radical Cnucus.

RICHMOND. Dec 3, 1867
In the radical caucus tonight Underwood received
thrty-thrss votes for President Bowden fifteen and
Hawxhurst nine George Rye is unanimously nominated
for secretary This will secure Underwoods election.
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CANADA.

American Silver n Loyal Tender.
OTTAWA Dec 8, 1867
ton would DO moved to-day favoring the Of Amer
can silver as legal tender.
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will of Andrew Jackson to put down Biddle's
United States Bank but that was weak insti-
tuition compared with the national bank combi-
nation. A vast moneyed power like this when
deeply rooted cannot be removed without the
greatest NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. q struggle that
would shake the foundations Of the govern
ment. If II be an evil, now is the time TO re-
move 1t or never.
The Secretary speaks Of the banks being
connected with the credit of the government"
He has not the hardihood to say they are
necessary 10 lis credit Yes, they are con-
neo.ed with the credit Of the government-that
is, the government lends them its credit TO
bank upon, and makes in addition gratui..y; 20
them Of national circulating medium. It is q
ono sided affair and the banks get a.. the bene-
a. They are Of no earthly use 10 the credit o.
the government aud never can be. They draw
seven and half to eight per cent In currency
on their bonds deposited and make about as
monopoly, drawing upon the credit lens to
them, and the circulation given to them, fifteen
or sixteen per cent from the industrial
earnings Of the people. Mr.. McCulloch and
the Comptroller Of the Currency endeavor to
make IL appear that the banks do not receive
this enormous benefit, and that there would be
no saving by the, substitution Of legal tender
currency for national bank circulation, and
they particularly refcr to the taxes the banks
pay by the way Of sustaining their argument
This Is simply ridiculous and an insult to the
common sense OF the nation II IL we'll
known that the property or wealth and BUSH
ness Of the banks are not taxed moro than the
property and business Of all our citizens. In
deed, they are not taxed ss much. while the
profits on their three hundred millions ofcircu-
lation, amounting to twenty-five millions in cur
rency year, at least, Is a clear gilt from tn G
government II Is giving away to an over
grown monopoly twenty-five millions year
which belong to the people, and which ought
10 be saved.
II the national banks be sncb blessing to
the country. Let them show II by doing their
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AMusEnEsrs THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENT

wALLAcK's THEATRE. Broadway and 18th street
a arnfa PpRtl.
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BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.-TlcKxr or LEAys
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All the City Cnbmen In Opposition to n Now
Law-Tho Abyssinian War Tax-News from
Admiral Fnrrugue,
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: GERMAN srADr THEATRE. Nos Is and Il Bowery-
DIE SonoENE HELENA.
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-01-11
Communicated

The President has vetoed the District of
Columbia Suffrage Bill. This will proba-
bly, be considered another cause for his i'm
parchment, and willundoubtedly call down
on his devoted head the wrath of the Radi-
cal press We do not consider the Demo
cratic party responsible for the actions OF
hr. Johnson, but we do consider it the
duty OF the Democratic party, as of all
good men, to lend him their earnest and
cordial support when he is clearly in the
right.
In the present case. If we will lay aside
party prejudice for a moment and consider
the question calmly and dispassionately.
we can not fail to approve the action of the
President.
In discussing the question of suffrage we
may premise that IL is matter of policy
only-right has nothing to do with il. No
one, not already endowed with it. has any
fright" to the elective franchise, An
men are created free and equal. and en-
dowed by their Creator with certain ina
| lienable rights,n but no one certainly,
whose opinion is worth quoting, ever
imagined that the right of suffrage was
one Of them. The government of o State
belongs TO its founders and their repre-
sentatives, just rs much as the prop
erty of n State belongs to its first
settlers and their heirs; and the
former have us much right to determine.
whom they will admit 10 participate i'm the
government, as the latter TO say who shall
inherit their lands. Not that the rulers in
n State have any right TO oppress those
whom they permit 10 live among them-all
have right to protection in their persons
and property-but the elective franchise is
a matter of privilege and not an Inherent
right In any one, except rs an inheritance.
This doctrine ia fully recognized by every
nation in the world. No people consider
themselves under any. obligation to confer
the rights OF citizenship on such foreigners
as may settle among them,-still less TO
confer those rights on an inferior race sub
ject TO them. Some nations, our own
among the number, have thought il good
policy 70 encourage immigration by hold
ing out the inducement of citizenship, but
certainly they never considered it a matter
Of duty, except as it is a duty TO pursue
such policy as will rebound TO the honor
and glory of the State. But the founders
of the Government would have expressed
as much surprise at the Interpretation put
on the Declaration of Independence by the
present Radical press, and would have re-
Ijected with as much scorn the doctrine that
n person, not the son citizen has the
! right to a voice In the Government, as it
has uniformly been rejected by every ma
ton under Heaven.
But IL is said, it is our policy to adopt
universal, or ut least, manhood suffrage,
and the blacks are as capable Of exercising