The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-02-14

river for Savannah, Ga. connecting with rail TO oil
points In the interior.
Tho popular iron steamship Naiansas, Captain Ryder
of Arthur Lcarys hns will sa from pier II East river
foot OF Wall street. ct three o'clock (satur
day. afternoon, for Charleston C., connecting with
steamer for the Florida ports
The stock market strong yesterday. Government
securities wsre steady. Gold heavy and closed at
l40K.
Trade In beef cattle slow YESTERDAY but no change
occurred In prices. common 70 prime grades command
Ing 14c. 1Sc. per pound The receipts were light,
being only about seventy head Of CommunipAw and egh
car loads at Hudson City. Swine wore firm under
moderate demand and light receipts, fair and prime
selling 1t 8Hc slc There arrived 900 head al For
teth street and TOO at Communpaw. Sheep-common
slow OF SALE whio prime wore 10 fair demand we
quote &c. a Xc.; latter price for extsa.
MISCELLANEOUS
Our spscal kilograms BY the Cuba cable contain in.
telligence from Hayt, st. Domingo and Guadaloupe.
sanave had severely defeated by the Caoos losing
three hundred prisoners British war vessel watch
ing the operations Of American Commissioners In the
Bay Of SANTANA Cabral the President OF st. Domingo,
is reported to have gone to Jamaica in war vessel
Our mail advices from Cuba havo been generally an
ticipated by special kilograms. General Lersundi
to a supposed American SLAYER or Nassau. The number
Of vessels arriving at Havana during the month Of
January was one hundred and cghty-thrse, OF which
sixty.nve were American. Teran, one Of Maximans
Ministers, had died or vomito Taboada, La Cunza,
Marquee, Santa Anna Msrin Ibana and Flores, impe.
rialists, are still In Cuba
Advices from Mexico by way OF Galveston state that
Diaz and Escobedo have resigned and that revolution
being organized In Puebla in the interest Of Orega
In the Constitutional Convention yesterday the Bill Of
Rights received some important amendments providing
that witnesses shall not be unrsasonaby detained and
that divorces shall not DO granted other than by judicial
proceedings Tho sixth section In reference 70 criminal
prosecutions amended by striking out the words
and shall have tho last appeal to the jury" me-
mortal was presented from O. b Latham. one OF the
new Capitol Commissioner setting forth that the other
commissioners are proceeding With the work without
consulting him, the plans Incomplete, the work will
cost over four million dollars that land 10 needed
and that the work ought TO be done by contract sec-
tons one and three OF tho revised report and section
ton suffrage and qualification 10 hold office
adopted without material amendment. In the second
section the words "or OF any infamous crme were
restored.
The Mississippi Convention Hnd some difficulty in per.
suadng General Glem to enforce the collection Of their
tax and propose to ask General Grants Interference in
the matter.
heated debate ensaed In the Louisiana Convention
yesterday the proposed increase OF per diem One
member was called liar and no boodshed ensued
In the North Carolina Convention ordinance was
passed allowing every man 10 practice law, without re-
gard TO. color or qualification. General Candy has
directed the State Treasurer to pay the members
In the Arkansas Convention request OF General Gil
lem that the day Of election be changed refused
resolution adopted increasing tho pay Of members
to SO per day
The President yesterday nominated Lieutenant Gen.
eral Sherman to be General by breves
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Reconstruction-The Admission OF Alabama.
Mr.. Sherman's bill proposing to declare the
State of Alabama entitled to representation
is the indication Of wholesome conviction.
It is the acknowledgment that the radicals
dare not face the people on the Presidential
canvass with the ten States still out of the
Union after three years of peace. Such ter
rible monument Of party incapacity-or some
thing worse-as three years Of failure
must be swept from sight. at any
cost consequently law must declare
the State in, whether it has complied with
the specified conditions or not The mere in
eria Of the Southern people-their mere re-
fusal to take part for whatever cause
must not be permitted to put the party before
the nation on the wrong side Of the great
question. As far as the laws 60 the real status
of the question seems a little cloudy. Mr.
Sherman's bill is distinctly based on the
clause of the law OF March 2, 1867, which
only requires that the constitution should be
approved by a majority of those voting on
the question; and this ignores tho later en-
actment requiring that the constitution be ap-
proved by majority of the registered voters.
1t can hardly be that the Senator should not
know Of this enactment, and yet 1t seems that
If this enactment were the potential one, the
Senate could scarcely declare the State entitled
to representation upon its complying with q
condition rendered OF no value by having been
superseded. In this cloudy state in which the
question has been left by the number OF laws
made there is no understanding the move in-
tiated in the Senate save on the view we have
pointed out. 1t is q bold determination to
wipe out bad record az one sweep and to
declare the State restored, without further
tinkering and upon any pretex!; to declare,
indeed, that compliance with the condition of
the law Of March O. 1867, shall be held suffi-
Gent, without regard to the later enactment,
and thus not permit the enemies Of the radical
policy TO force that party into position in
volving It's destruction before the people.
This bold course is the part Of wisdom. Let
the States be brought in, whether they will or
no, on any pretext or no pretext, in defiance,
il need be, of some better things than this or
that clause Of any particular reconstruction
law. II is evident that this necessity Of the
radical party is the advantage Of the
country. With the States once in the
nation will sec its way clearer to the future.
We shall then have removed at once all the
great danger that lies in the doubt as to what
relations the Southern communities bear to the
c. a.