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MARKETS.

LONDON. Jan. 2l-Afternoon.-Co Consols, 92I ;
Bonds, 7lE.
FRANKFORT Jan. 2l.-Bonds, 7sI.
LIVERPOOL Jan. 2l-Noon.-COtton dali, tend.
ing dOwnward-prices have declined I'd. Sales
5000 bales. Middling uplands 7ii. Middlirg Or.
leans sd. Breadstuffs Quiet and firm.
LONDON, Jan. 2l-Evening 7lEGT2.
LIVERPOOL, Jan 2l-EyeniDg.- Cotton declined
1-l6; Pork, 75.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2l.-stocks strong. Money
easy at 8 u cent. Sterling l09s- Gold l2S.
Bonds l10t old, and 1o6E new.
Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat dull. Corn
lc better. Oats steady. Pork dull-mess s2l 81
Lard quiet.
Cotton quiet and lower. Middling uplands l7@
l7lc. Freights firm.
New YoRK, Jan. 2l.-Fiye-twenties of 1862
with coupons llO4; of 1854 1915; of 1885, 1864: of
1867, 1904. Ten-forties 1927. Seven-thirties IO67
Money very easy; call loans sac u cent. Stocks
closed feyerish and irregular.
Balance iu the sub-treasury sos, 500, 900.
NEW YORK, Jan. H.-Cotton dull at 46lI4c
lower; sales to-day 5000 bales; middlings l7c
Flour steady but less active. Corn-Southern
81 2sQl 81; Western mixed 81 30@l 80. Mess
pork, old, $40 81; new s2l 81. Other provisions
quiet. Groceries quiet and unchanged. Turpen-
tine 54@54lc. Freights quiet and 6rm; cotton By
sail 7l6d.
Governments closed firm. Five.twenties of
ls62, with coupons, llOt. Gold l39I. Sterling
quiet.
MOBILE, jim. 2l.-Cotton-sales3 5000 bales; mid.
ding l5t@l5lc.; holders willing to sell at these
quotations. Receipts 1886 bales
LOUISVILLE, Jan. 2l.-Tobacco, sales 63 hhds;
prices firm with an advance on all grades; lugs,
S5@6 so; leaf, light to medium, 81 500l6 rs /;
good to cutting, SIS 1925 so; bright wrappers
$S5 5O@c2. Flour, 81 75Gel2 SO for superfne and
fancy. Wheat, 81 1902 35. Oats, 670D6s. Corn,
75@s0. Bacon shoulders, 81; clear sides, l21;
bulk shoulders, 81; clear sides, III. Lard, l2I.
Mess pork, $40 7502l. Cotton, 1l9l5. Whisky
nominal.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 2l.-Flour unchanged. Wheat
dull-red 81 55. Corn higher, s3987c. Oats un.
changed. Provisions dull. Lard held firmly at
l23c.
ST.. LOUIS, Jan. 2l.-Flour steadier superfne
s7@7 so. Wheat held irmer winter So IO0
81 55. Corn easier, S509lc. Oats duh. 6787lc.
Provisions nominslly unchanged. Lard l2@I2lc.
Weather clOudy-indications of snow.
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quest the legislative department of the govern.
ment OF the United States, to authorize this body
to declare vacant the chief executive Office Of the
state, and TO NIL the same. as well as to provide
for the removal through the chief executive officer
OF the State thus selected, of all persons who are
hostile TO reconstruction, and the filing of such
vacancies by said executive
ReSotred, That the convention in Justice TO the
friends OF reconstruction under the reconstruc-
ton acts, do hereby request the department
aforesaid to relieve all such Of existing disabilities
that they may be eligible to fill any vacancies
thus created.
Resolced, That this convention do further re-
quest the modification OF the test OATH SO as to
admit OF all persons who have aided or abetted
The late war against the United States, holding
ONCE therein; PrOuided, Such person heartily re-
gret the past and Is earnestly attached to and de-
iermined to labor for the reunion OF the States on
the basis OF the reconstruction acts.
Copies were ordered TO be sent TO the pres-
dent, the president Of the Senate and the speaker
Of the House.
The convention refused to have afternoon ses-
sions or TO limit speeches. Ordered the hall 10 be
ventilated every morning and adjourned.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-22
FROM JACKSON, MISS.
The Mis.is.irpi II

The Mississippi Recon.truction Convention.
JACKSON, Mss, Jan. 2l.--The following were
referred:
An ordinance to instruct the legislature to es
tablish house of correction for Juvenile offend.
ers TO provide for the mental and moral training
OF the inmates, who are TO be taught the same
branches of education taught in the State schools
and various mechanical trades. The institution
70 be under the supervision and inspection OF
the superintendent of public instru ,tion.
Resolution, That all marriage licenses hereto
fore issued 81 deeds, bonds, mortgages aud other
instruments made and acknowledged before pro-
per officers since January, 1851, be valid and OF
full force.
Resolution, That the dog tax, the gun tax aud
the poll tax are oppressive to the poor whites
and fTeemen.
Resolution, That after the ratification of the
Constitution no property except wearing apparel
be exempt from execution for debt.
The special order-sn ordinance to provide for
the publication Of the proceedings of the conyen-
ton in the three radical papers of the State, was
taken up by sections and the first section was re.
feTred 10 the finance committee.
The printers on the Journal, the official organ
OF the convention. are on a strike, caused by the
non-psyment Of dues.
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PROM ATLANTA
rheR..n.,ru,tlen Conren.,en.

.ArLANr. JaI 2l.-The convention adopted By
ninety -two,o Idy-two ihe following ..n,..
.he exiseRe OF government within the limits OF
Georgia subiecto the military commander OF the
district nd theermanent authority OF Congress,
under vaich ceiu officials hold Office; and
WHKIEAs, Thine for which said officials were
elected as set nh in the laws allowed 10 operate
within aid limi has expired, and said officials
hold offse only reason Of q failure to provide
for theu success and
WHEIEAs. A eat many OF sSid officials are
hostile b. and sinsidionsy using their influence
agaipstthe resfation Of Georgia TO the Union,
and byjo doinge not only seriously retarding
the woK OF, reostruction, but also materially
afectin, the ,roerity Of the State. Therefore
Resosed, As the convention do hereby re-
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-22

Gov. Oars SPEECH TO THE SoUTHIfCARoLrSA
COSVENT1ON.-A special from Charleston, dated
the l7th, rays: Gov. Orr addressed the conven-
tion tonight over an hour. He recommends lst.
That suffrage be restricted by property or
educational qualification. I'd. That the cOnven-
ton remove disability from all white men now
disfrsncbised. 81. That education be provided
for all; that a poll tax, rather than tsN on pro
perry, be levied for this purpose. 4th. That the
dissb bilities be removed from the judicial officers
Of the State, and that they be continued 5th.
q proper homestead law be enacted 10 cover so
or leo acres of land in the country, aad a house
and lot in town not to be liable to attachment for
debts. 9th. That the convention pass an or
dnance sfUrdng relief to debtors in general, in
asmuch as the military stay law applied only to
debts incurred during the war. 9TH. He recon-
mends the reputation Of all obligations incurred
in the purchase of slaves, and abolition of i'm
prisonment for debt. sth. He said the treasury is
empty. but urged the passage of an ordinance
recognizing all State debts incurred before or
since the war.
The address was listened to throughout with
profound attention.
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RIVER NEWS.

LOUISVILLE, Jan. 2l.--Riyer falling slowly; 5
feet inches in the canal.
Weather cloudy. Thermometer 30.
VICKsBURG, Jan. 2l.-Passed up Pauline Car
roll at A. NJ. Passed down: Olive Branch at 6
and Magnolia at 7P.M.
River rising.
PITTsBURG, Jan. 2l.-River unchanged. Six
inches of snow fell fell here this morning. Thaw-
ing.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 2l.-The river has fallen 8
inches-now l25 feet in the channel. Weather
cloudy. Ten inches of snow fell last night. Their
mometer 81.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-22
FROM TALLAHASSEE, FLA.
The r.eon.true.lon Convention.

TALLAHASSEE, FLA, Jan. 2l.-Delegates to the
convention met at the capitol yesterday. Barely
quorum present.
Temporary officers were all negroes. per.
mAnent organization was effected by the election
of Daniel Richards, white, of Fernandina presi-
dent Christy White, editor OF the Florida Times
of jacksonville, secretary.
A negro was elected assistant secretary and
most Of the subordinate officers are negroes.
So far the convention appears to be entirely in
the hands Of extremists.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-22

THE NEW MsRKET.-On Saturday, Charley Bal.
leio will open his magnificent new markethouse,
adjoining his grocery, corner st. Charles and
Jackson streets. His customers may rely in
plictly on Mr.. Ballejo's having the choicest beef
pork, veal, mutton, fish, game, vegetables fruits,
etc. Marketbouse hours from to 5 o'clock.
This will be most welcome news TO the good
people Of the Fourth District, Jefferson City and
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-22
FROM HAVANA.

HAVANA. Jan. 2l.-The rumors here are that
senor Rafael DeRafael sailed in the steamer Moro
Castle for New York, in connection with bonds
ior santa Anna TO prosecute his plans against the
Mexican government in Yucstan.
The publication of the vote at st. Thomas was
unofficial. The authorities refused to give details
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-22
FROM RALEIGH.
The Mort Carolina Reconstruction Con
Nention.

The Mort Carolina ReeOnstructiOn Con-
NentiOn.
RALEIGu jan. H. CoHUeHtiOn-B the
introductioOf resolutions which lie over, the
election of Ashworth, of Randolph. enrolling
clerk, sn6ppointing committee OF twelve on
the consuuOD, nothing was done yesterday Of
public intest.
To-day Ieh time was consumed IN special
order, beinlhe propositions for the relief Of the
people, WIN were finally referred.
A commhe was appointed to wait upon Gov.
Worth, anGeceiye any communication he may
be ready taake.
The rest the day was consumed in the dis.
oussion Of question Of per diem without coming
40 any cclusion. The impression Is the per
.diem will fitted at eight dollars.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-22
FROM SOUTHWEST PASS.

SOUTHWEST Pass, Jan. 2l.-Barometer 3O:3O
Wind northwest and fresh.
Arrived ship Alice Thorndyke, Snow. from
Roekland, Maine. in ballast, to Thorndyke d
Norton.
Sailed: Ships Wild Hunter and 0dena. bark
Francis Fay, and schooner Florence Rodgers.
SOUTHWEST Pass, Jan. 2l-6 P. M.-Brometer
5000. Wind northeast, light. Arrived; Bark II.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-22

A, Litchford, Staper, from Rocklaud, Me-, cargo
TO Thorndyke & Norton; schooner Louise. p.
Smith, from: galveston, in ballast 10 Thorndyke 4
Norton; schooner Carleton. Perry, from Rock.
port, cargo lime to Thorndyke & Norton. Sailed:
Ship Rosalie and bark Emily.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-22

FINE FURSITURE CHEAP.-A. F. Picton. the
popular young auctioneer, will sell at public auc-
lion, this forenoon ST III O'Clock, at l67 Poydras
street, a large and general assortment Of house
hold furniture, cooking stoves, etc. This Is an
excellent chance,
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-22

Furniture dealers, country dealers and Others
desiring fine furniture and glassware would do
Nash, at his salesroom, corner St. Charles and
Perdido streets, to-day at II O'Clock AN.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-22

We would advise those in want of fine fashion.
able clothing at prices less than before the war TO
call on GsrthWaite, Lewis Stuart, 81 and 80
Camp street.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-22

The senaca Advertiser tells the following: The
pastor Of certain church, not Thousand mites
from this place. a few Sahbaths ago, when about
TO baptize child, reproyed the fock in the fol-
lowing fashion I" Ny dear people, ] feel thatyou
second child presented for baptism duricg my pas
torsi connection with the church, (ssnsstion
smoDg the crinoljne.l ~ ~
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-22

THE UNI0N PAcsFIc RAILRoAD-P Progress of
u,e EnterpriSe.-The Cheyenne Star has some in.
terestiBg information concerning the progress Of
the Union Pacific Railroad. The laying Of the
rails has stopped for the season. but grading viii
continue all winter, as from present appearances
il will be sufficiently open in tAe hills TO allow the
graders 10 continue their work. The company
expect TO commence laying the ties aud rails again
early in the spri8g. and will soon reach LARAMIE
plains, which are 1910 feet higher than they are
al Cheyenne. The surface of the country oa the
plains is undulating and Il will not prove SO EASY
a job to grade as il has ceen on this side of the
Black Bills. The real wSrk Of this road has only
just commenced 1.i t.. e -.l .gal.
The r0ughness OF the whole mountain region
west Of here viii make IT an srdnous task TO carry
On the work hereafter. The road has been def
nie,y located as far ~ the Medicine Bow river,
distance of ITO miles west Of Cheyenne and IL is
the intention OF the company 10 have the road Ia
running order as far as Green river by next fell,
aud ii nothing occars more than usual, the Union
Pscific company will complete this portion OF the
road 10 Humboidt river before the Central Pacific
meets il. The Star is informed by Dir. Reed, su-
perintendent OF construction, that i. Is the inten-
ton Of the managers Of the road 10 commence
the erection Of buildings early 10 the spring.
They will be built OF the splendid granite with
which that country abouBds, and. when finished,
viii make an imposing appearance, and wonder
folly add 10 the town. About 500 men VIII be
employed there next sumner. and, when the roll
iof mills are begun, the number will be increased
10 several thousand. fs+t
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Fifty dollars Sloat elliptic sewing machine
triumphant. Highest premium Louisispa State
Fair. For sale 81 Canal street,
New-York tribune., 1868-06-12
EINLSU TILE UORK NOW.

The Senate have passed, by 81 Yeas to 8
Nays, the act to admit North Carolina South
Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Alabama
As passed. it provides that each of these States
shall be admitted to representation in Congress
when its Legislature shall have ratified the
XIVth Amendment, upon condition that there
shall never be in such State any denial or
abridgment of the elective franchise to any
person by reason of race or color excepting
Indians not taxed. Georgia was required to
strike out the provisions in her Constitution
preventing the enforcement of contracts made
prior to June, 1865, the amendment proposed by
Mr.. Sherman to allow her to retain these pro-
visions being lost. If the time fixed by the
Constitution of either State for the assembling
of its Legislature shall have passed, the Gov
ernOr elect may convene the Legislature with
in thirty days after the passage of this act
All the States except Georgia shall be admitted
when the President shall proclaim the ratifca-
tion of the XIYth Amendment by the Legisla-
ture, which it is made his duty to do within
ten days after receiving notice to that effect.
An amendment adopted on the motion of Mr.
Williams provides that, Immediately upon the
opening of the Presidents proclamation. the
State officers duly elected shall be installed in
Office but that no person prohibited by the
XIVth Amendment from holding Office shall be
eligible. Mr.. Trumbull moved to strike out
Alabama, on account of the fact that at the
time the vote was taken in that State the act
of Congress required that a majority of the
registered voters should vote upon the ques-
tiOn of adopting the Constitution, and that only
a minority had voted His motion was lost, by
"a to 16.
We trust the bill will be speedily passed by
the House in the form in which it has passed
the Senate, and that the Representatives of
these States may resume their seats in Congress
| before that body adjourns. If Congress will
| thus round off and complete the work of Recon-
structiOn, it will bury out of sight many of the
really dead political issues which will otherwise
needlessly trouble the approaching campaign.
| We can then point to the great work entered
upon 10y the Republican party after the sup
preston of the Rebellion as triumphantly
| closed-the Union of the States restored on a
basis which at once secures their future loyalty
and establishes equal rights aud exact justice
for all, and special privileges for none, through
out the land. Give us this before you adjourn
and you give us 100000 additional votes at the
North, and several more States for Grant and
Colfax, Union and Peace.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-12
HOMES FOR THE AGED.

There is no sadder spectacle than that of
homeless age. Under the most favorable cir
cumstances that can attend the decline of hu-
man life. age still represents the accumulated
burdens of years. 1t is weighed down by bod
ily infrmity by decay of the mind; by a vast
sense of toll, care, trouble, and sorrow-that
have been met and are passed, indeed but
that have left their influence, in general las
situde and numbness of the whole being 1t is
weighed down, too, by sense of the nothing
ness of this world, and by premonitions of the
long sleep of death. Or, if the springs of feel
ing be entirely dried up, it is mere weight
of existence, unreminiscent of youth, and but
feebly conscious of anything. In wealth, this
burden may be somewhat lightened; but in
poverty it bows the old man to the dust Age,
therefore, that is homeless and destitute, is the
proper object of ready, hearty, practical, and
incessant sympathy. AS to all matters of be-
nevolence, the duty of each and every person
is tersely and well expressed in Balzac's maxim,
"Do that which is nearest to YOU" Benevo-
lence, however should, whenever it can, seek
out its objects and fulfill its impulses, without
waiting for want and sorrow to come to its
doors. Those who have money to spend in
charity may always find, even If they have no
immediate dependents, charitable associations
that would gratefully profit by their munificence
and wisely distribute their aims Such So
cety, for example, as the Samaritan Home
" for the Aged" emphatically merits the sup
port of charitable persons 1t has been es-
tablished expressly to meet the peculiar kind
of hardship that we have above described
that is, to supply the wants and soothe the
declining days of destitute age. Its department
for aged women was first opened in May, 1866,
and twenty-five of these pensioners are now
resident therein. The Home is at No. 259
West Twenty seventies An act to incorpor-
ate the institution was passed by the State
Legislature in March, 1867. Charitable and ex-
cellent ladies, of high social standing IN this
community, hold its offices and direct its al
fairs. Very recently a new department has
been opened, for the shelter and protection of
aged men. This makes the scheme complete.
But the Society is necessarily at large and con-
tinual expense, and no gifts, whether OF money,
food, clothing, books, or other articles of use
full property, could come to it amiss. The
richer it grows the wider will the scope of its
charity become. We earnestly commend it,
therefore, to public iattentiOn, as well-organ-
lied, well ell-conducted, eminently useful institu-
ton. It's managers hope for donations and
yearly subscriptions; and they stand pledged
to receive applicants for refuge, without ref
erence to those sectaTian qualifications which
are often insisted on by benevolent societies.
The Samaritan Home for the Aged certainly
merits the cooperation of all charitable per
sons so that it may be founded on q sure
basis, and placed beyond the caprice of mis-
s.,
New-York tribune., 1868-06-12
DIVISION OF TEXAS
fortune.

The bill introduced by Mr.. Beaman for the
division of Texas into three States seems TO be
well conceived. 1t is in accordance with the
stipulation upon which the State was originally
admitted into the Union. which provided that
it should ultimately be carved into not exceed
ing four States The State is now 800 miles in
length from east to west, and 700 from north
to south, and has an area of 237,JO4 square
miles, or more than three times the extent Of
the six New-England States, and nearly equal
to that of the Austrian Empire. Mr.. Beaman's
bill forms all between the Colorado and the
Rio Grande up to so north latitude into
South Texas. All between the Colorado and
line formed by the center of Galveston Bay
and San Jacinto and Trinity Rivers, aud thence
north to the Red River, remains as the State
of Texas All east of the last-named line
forms the State of East Texas. This gives 80
Counties, as at present formed, to East Texas,
parts of 40 Counties to Texas, and parts of 81
Counties to South Texas. The smallest area,
but largest present population of the three
States, would be East Texas all of whose
Counties are well settled. Texas and South Texas
include beside their settled Counties, very
large unsettled and almost unexplored territory
toward the head waters of the Rio Grande and
Red Rivers. 1t impossible to estimate with much
accuracy the population of the proposed States.
The population (slave and free) of the entire
State in 1860 was Col 039, being an increase of
1871 per cent. since 1850. The State received
heavy immigration from the other States
during the war, in addition to its natural in
crease which would have probably equaled
previous rates. 1t is therefore reasonable TO
estimate its present population at 100000,
though we are not aware that any trustworthy
data on this point have been collected. OF
this population the proposed division would as
sign not far from 100000 to East Texas 100000
to Texas, and 100000 to South Texas. Each
State would combine the same diversity of
rich alluval and heavily tmbered lands near
the coast, suitable for cotton, rice, and sugar,
and higher plateaus of prairie lands in the
center adapted to grain and grazing, while
Texas and South Texas rise into spurs and
outlying shoots of the Rocky Mountains on
their northern and western borders.
1t may not be amiss to suggest to Congress
that the proposed names. Texas-East Texas,
and South Texas, with the certainty that North
Texas must follow as the State becomes more
fully settled-betray great poverty in the in
vention of proper names. Without hunting
further, the names of Houston, Texas, and Rio
Grande would seem to be in better taste.