Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-02-20

ged, theyshall make oath that their votes are not
affected by any reward received or expected, and
that they have not given or promised any reward,
or made any threat to prevent any one from voting.
Aaron Apeora Bradley, negro-lawyer, who
halls from Massachusetts,, and misrepresents Sa,
vannah, has been expelled from the Convention,
for gross insults offered the body.
VIRGINIA.
/. The Convention has adopted section of the
Constitution requiring the Secretary Of State,
Treasurer and Auditor to be elected by the Legis
lature. A section was also adopted, providing fol
the creation of bureaus of agriculture and immipa
ton. .-. ....,.aa as. ."
The Judiciary Committee have reported adverse
y to aresolution for scaling debts contracted prol
to April, 1865, at twenty-five cents on the dollar
and another declaring all debts prior to that date
null and void. The report also takes the ground
that debts contracted for the purchase of slaves
cannot be set aside The report was adopted by
vote of 72 to 6. .......... ...-...t. >.-a
The Judiciary Committee have reportedin favo,
of exempting property to the value of $1,000 from
seizure for debts contraetedafer the ratification o.
the constitution. ....t.r.s. 49,.
i- -. FLORIDA. . g.. go.
The Florida Convention is still in ferment.-
The cause of the difficulties seem to be that the
majority refuse to recognize the acts of the minor
ty, or admit British subjects or non-residents tt
seats in the convention, The majority consists o.
four negroes and twenty-one whites, all eligible
The minority numbers twenty-one, of which there
is one colored British subject, three non-resi
dents, and the balance are negroes. The Presi
dent of the Convention, and the Chairman Of the
Committee of Eligibility and Elections, are incu
ded in the minority. The President rules thatfor
egners and non-resdents are eligible to Seats and
refuses an appeal from his decision without two
thirds vote, which enables the minority to govern
the convention. -.-. .,sE:. .... e.
On the llth, the majority convention, held Q
meeting, entered protest against the action o1
the minority, deposed the Presidentfrom the chair
and organized entirely anew. The next day an or
dinance was passed to pay the expenses of the
Convention by issuing bonds to the amount o.
$4,000, of which $4,000 was taken by the sup
porters of the Convention. ,;...., s...,, .,
A resolution, was passed expunging all the re
cords of the Convention (minority) since the 9Th
instant, except the stated fact that no quorum wa
present ..- ....... .au.. ... ,-.
A dispatch, dated the 18th, says: '"The excite
ment among the delegates of the convention has
been intense for, the past twenty-four hours, anc
there are serious apprehensions of collision be-
tween the Billings faction and the majority of the
convention: The former had meeting to night
and the civil authorities and the military are pro
tecting the capitol from the possibility of q violent
demonstration. The convention had twenty -eigh
members present to-day" ...
MISSISSIPPI ... ..
The proceedings Of the Mississippi Convention
present nothing of general interest. A resolution
introduced last week that the per diem Of the mem
bers should cease after fortyfve days, was laid OF
the table, ... .... ...
. LOUISIANA.
The Convention has adopted an ordinance pro
vdng for election and ratification Of the coustitu
ton Immediately after the adjournment, leaving
the date blank Another ordinance provides that
the election of State judicial, municipaland parish
officers, State Legislature and Congressional Rep
resentatives, be held at the same time as the rat
cation of the constitution.
A resolution has been adopted asking for theap'
pointment of Gen. Mower, to command the Fifth
District in case Gen. Hancock was removed. The
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to substitute General Sheridan for Mower.
The Convention has beenin session seventy days
ARKANSAS.
The Arkansas Convention has adopted Con
stitution by vote of As to2l. Nine Radicals who
were not satisfied with the bantling, bolted. The
Constitution enfranchises females and negroes, and
makes them competent as jurors 1t DISTINGUISHES
those disfanchsed by the Reconstruction acts, and
those voting against the constitution.
THE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL GRANT.
Last week, we briefly adverted to the quarrel be,
tween the President and General GRANT, caused
by the action of the latter in giving up the control
of the War Office to STANTON, in violation, it is
said, of an understanding had between them, that
GRANT was to refuse possession of the Office after
the Senate resolution, and offers the President an
opportunity to test the legality of such measures
before the Supreme Court. Shortly after this oc-
currence, the President gave General GRANT verb
al instructions not to obey any order emanating
from STANTON, as Secretary of War, as he, the
President, did not recognize him as such. GRANT,
on the 2Sth ultmo, writes to the President asking
that his orders be made in writing, and says:
IT am compelled to ask the instructions in wri-
ting, in consequence Of the many gross misrepre-
sentations affecting my personal honor circulated
IL L IL e. Al L
ing to come from the President, of conversations
which occurred either with the President private
" in his Office, or in. cabinet meeting. What is
written admits of no misunderstanding. In view
of the misrepresentation referred to, it will be
we'll to state the facts in the case" . .
He then goes on to state what the ''gross mis-
representations consisted in and denies that he
ever gave any promise to hold on to the Office Of
Secretary of War against STANToN's claims, or to
give the President due notice in case he decided to
act otherwise, in order that his place might be
filled by some one who would act conformably to
the wishes of the President. His letter also con-
tains a statement Of what conversation occurred
between them on the Saturday previous to STAN
TONS reinstatement on Tuesday following, and
also as to what transpired in cabinet meeting on
Wednesday afterwards. The newspapers had re-
ported that at this cabinet meeting, the President
had put some direct questions to GRANT, on the
subject of the understanding had between them,
and that GRANT had evaded the issue, and con-
fessed in part anddenied in part the substance Of
the allegations In this letter, GRANT gives diff
ferent version of the substance of the Cabinet con-
ference. He concludes, however, by saying:
II in no wise admitted the correctness of the