The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-11-18

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Aspecial telegram In yesterdays HrRAzl
reports that . resolution was adopted on Sat
urday In the Convention at Montgomery fixing
the date Of adjournment for the 2Sth inst Thil
win allow the question Of ratifying the new
constitution to be decided before the end o.
the present year. Thus the Alabama Conven.
ton has got the start Of our New York Con
vention, and both the white and the colored
members OF the former are entitled to more
credit for prompHtude and energy than the
members Of the latter II has been shrewdly
suggested that il notice Of the election be given
on the day Of adjournment Of the Alabama
Convention, the election can be held on Christ
mas day. which has always been kept by the
negroes throughout the South a. the great
holiday of the year. They would naturally
flock to the cities and towns on that day, even
Il 1t were not election day, and the radicals
therefore hope to poll larger vote than at
the election for the Convention. On Saturday,
resolutions were referred to the Committee on
Ordinances, proposing to change the names Of
all new counties created by the last Legsla-
ture and named in glori6cation Of the rebel
lion or Of individual rebela Thus Cleburne
and Colbert would be changed to Lincoln and
Brownlow, according to the idea OF M. Bing-
ham, who, in speech on the 9th inst, alluded
to the fact that one Of the new counties was
named after the rebel General Jones, and who
gave notice that he should introduce provi-
sion in the constitution !" that NO counties shall
hereafter be named after dead or living rebels,
whether their names were Jones or anything
else" Mr. Bingham wants to blot out all such
historical traces Of the rebellion.
The Executive, Judiciary and Military Com
mittees reported on Saturday. Their re-
spective Recommendations show the tendencies
Of the Convention towards thoroughly revolu-
tionizing the State constitution. The Execu-
tive Committee recommended that the execu-
tive department should consist Of Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, Secretary Of State, Au-
ditor and Treasurer, and that all these officers
should be elected BY the people. Heretofore
the Governor alone has been elected BY the
popular vote. The Same committee recon-
nended that the Governor should not have the
power to pardon the crime Of treason, all
offenders on that head being only pardoned by
the Senate. The Judiciary Committee recon-
mended that all judicial of1cers except Justices
Of the peace and county commissioners,
and the Military Committee that AL mi
litia officers, shall BE- appointed by
the Governor, subject to the approval Of the
Senate. But none Of these Recommendations
caused 30 much excitement - TIE ordinance,
proposed on Friday, 70 compensate negroes for
services rendered by thsm a. slaves nom the
tims Of the emancipation proclamation
down to their actual enftanchisemsnt by
Ne federal army. The people Of
Alabama, or Of any other stats now
in process Of rsoonstruction, choose 10 sano-
lion the adoption Of an ordinance Of this kind,
none can gainsay such peculiar exercise of
estate rghk." II Is an affair oflocal legisla-
ton. But If Congress shall declare the ratifca-
don Of the now constitutional amendment,
which, among it, provisions, prohibits compen-
sation for slaves or The payment Of any other
debts Of The rebellion, such State legislation on
the point in question would become null and
void. s'
Our special correspondence from Mont
gomefy reports an interesting debate on
sproscription" on the 9th instant In the course
Of this debate the ascendancy Of the extreme
men In the Convention, a. well as their DISPOSE
ton TO 60 even farther than Congress itself,
was manifest They are determined not only
70 have universal and unqualified negro suf-
frage, but also to pass sweeping bill Of dis
franchisement Two suggestive resolutions
were adopted BY the Convention on the 9th
instant, the one, offered by . colored member,
in favor Of petition to Congress for new
survey Of the government lands within the
State Of Alabama, and the other, by Mr.. Graves,
In favor Of system Of free schools that shall
secure to all the children in the State the means
Of acquiring good English education.
An indication Of the outside views and feel
inas OF "unreconstructed" Alabamians, with
regard 70 The Convention, i offered BY one Of
tho resolutions at conservative nas meet
ing"sin Montgomery on the evening Of the
Oh instant This resolution declared hat the
assemblags now b session u The Stats capital
Of Alabama was with but few exceptions,
made up Of federal officials, unknown sdven-
turen and illitsrats negroes, and va b no
sense representative assembly Of ths good
and law-abiding citizens Of Alabama" Not
withstandins this unasttering protest against
the Convention, there b every prospect hat
~ constitution which IL has bssn engaged In
forming win soon be completed, submitted 70
TIE people and ratified. A w have intimatsd,