The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-18
The Reconstruction Conventions.

NORIH CAROLlNAs
RALEIGH, N. c., January 1.-THE Con-
vention to-day elected J. W. Peck, of Will
mington, sergeant-at-arms.
A committee was appointed to draft q
constitution.
In Committee of the Whole, Mr.. Dur
ham CONSERVATIVE offered resolution
declaring that the people of North Caro-
lima are sincerely DESTROYS of resuming her
constitutional relations with the Govern
ment and her sister States, acknowledging
the power of Congress to enforce the re-
construction acts, but expressing the be-
lief that they are unwise, unconstitutional,
oppressive, &C., &c. The resolution lies
over.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
CHARL EsToN, January 1.-THE following
resolutions of inquiry were introduced
Of homestead law exempting property
to the amount of $4,000 from seizure for
debt; of declaring all outstanding obliga-
tons due for the purchase of slaves null
and void.
Mr.. Langley introduced resolution de-
claring that the public good required that
all idea of contiscation and further dis
franchisement be abandoned; which was
laid on the table. A motion to reconsider
the motion laying it on the table was lost
Ayes, As; nays, 81. Absent, Is.
Governor Orr addressed the Convention
by invitation tonight.
GEORGIA.
ATLANTA, January 17.-With some dis
senting votes the Convention thanked
General Meade for the course he has pur-
sued.
A letter from Connecticut firm, CON-
planning that it could not collect for guano
furnished Georgia planters on account of
the passage of the act by the Convention
forbidding legal collections, and saying
such action was likely to destroy the credit
of the South, was read. They had in
this way lost an order from Savannah for
5000 tons of guano.
The militia section in the Bill Of Rights
was adopted. 1t gives the General AS
sembly the right to prescribe the manner
in which arms shall be borne by private
persons.
Three photographers have been en-
gagged in New York to come here and re-
port the proceedings of the Convention
Uerbatim.
MISSISSIPPI.
JACKSON, MISS, January 1.-THE fol-
lowing resolutions were referred to the
appropriate committees: Of removing
the State capital to some more loyal and
convenient place of repairing the Missis-
sippi levees; requiring as essential quail
fcations for electors the acceptance OF
civil and political equality, and an obliga-
ton never to countenance the secession OF
the State providing for the abolition o.
county courts, and enlarging the power OF
magistrates.
The following resolutions were adopted
Appointing a committee to receive Inc
names of citizens in whose behalf Con
gress is to be memorialized to remove then
political disabilities; instructing a com.
mittee to report an ordinance requiring nc
official bonds from persons elected or ap
pointed to office, but fixing instead penal
| ties of fine, Imprisonment, and perpetual
ACKNOWLEDGMENT for malfeasance in office
An ordinance providing for the publca
ton of the Convention ordinances in thu
| three Republican papers in the State o
fifty cents per square, and subscribing TO
one hundred copies Of each, was made tn,
order of the day for Tuesday.
LOUISIANA.
NEW ORLEANS, January 1.-THE Com
mittee on Contingent Expenses reporte'