The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-14
FROM WASHINGTON.

Despatch 70 the Associdted Press
WASHINGTON, July Il.
Naval Ordersl
Lieutenant Commander Thomas II. Eastman has
been ordered 10 duty under Rcar-Admiral Thatcher,
at Portsmouth, n. III. Ensign John " b. Bleecker
is ordered to duty at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Paymaster T. G. DOran is detached from duty as
ordered TO settle his accounts lie will be relieved by
Paymaster r. G. Spaulding. Commander T. Scott
Fillebrown is detached from the command OF the
following are also detached from the Narragansett,
and placed on waiting orders;-Lieutenant q; IL.
Miller, Masters William i. Randall, George y. Liv
ngston, and w. c. Gibson, and Surgeon A. s.
Oberly.
The following appointments were announced at
the White House this morning.
James f. Wilson, OF Iowa, Government Director OF
the Union Pacific Railroad Company, vice James
Brook; James II. FOote, of North Carolina Pension
Agent at Raleigh North Carolina; Harlan =. Hail. OF
Minnesota, Pension Agent at St. Paul; George Il.
Terry, Of Nevada, Register OF Land ONCE at Austin,
Nevada; Isaac II. Gibson, OF Iowa, Agent for the
Usage and other Indians I'm Neosha Agency vice
George c. Snow, suspended; Joel II Morris, OF In
diana, Agent for the PottawottOme Indians In Kan
sas, vice L. II. Palmer suspended .James S. Upton,
Postmaster at Battle Creek Michigan.
NIissIssippi-A Proclamation by the President.
The following promulgated to-day by the
President of the United States of American.
A PROCLAMATION.
In pursuance OF the provisions Of the act OF Con-
gress approved April 10, 1862 hereby designate
Tuesday, the Both day OF November 1862 the time
for submitting the Constitution adopted on the 18TH
met in Jackson, Miss, to the vsters Of
said state, registered o at the date ,o.o Of
and submit to separate vote that part OF section
8 of article of said Constitution which is in the
following words :-"That am not disfranchised in
any of the provisions OF the act known the Recon-
struction acts OF the Thirtyninth and Fereth Con-
crosses, and that l admit the political and civil
equality OF all menlso help me God.n Provided
that if Congress shall at any time remove the disa-
bilites Of any person dslranehsed In the said Re
teth Congresses and the Legislature of this State
shall concur therein. then so much OF this oath, and
much only, as refers to the said Reconstruction
acts shall not be required OF such person so par
doned to entitle him to be registered. And further
submit to a separate vote section Of the arti-
Gle of said Constitution, which is in the following
@No person shall be eligible to any ofice OF profit
or trust civil military, in this State who as a
member the Legislature voted fol the call Of the
convention that passed;he ordinance OF secession
or who as delegate to any convention voetd for or
signed any ordinance of secession, or who gave
voluntary aid, counsel or announcement to persons
who accepted or attempted to exercise the func-
tions Of any office civil or military, under any autho
rity, or pretended Government authority, power,
or Constitution within the United States,
hostile or inimical thereto except all persons who
aided reconstruction by voting for this convention
or who have continuously advocated the assembling
of this convention, and shall continuously and in
good faith advocate the acts Of the same;" but the
Legislature may remove such disability provided
that nothing in this section, except voting for
signing the ordinance OF secession, shall be
strued to exclude from office the private soldier
Of the late so-caiied Confederate States Army
And further submit TO separate vote Section OF
Article TX of said Constitution wich Is in the fol-
lowing words 1.-THE credit Of the State shall not be
pledged or loaned in aid OF any per on association,
or corporation shall this State hereafter become
stockholder in any corpol alton or association" "
And further submit to separate vote part of the
oath of office prescribed in section 26 OF article 2 OF
| the said Constitution which is In the following
| words -''That i have never, as member Of any
convention, voted for urged any ordinance OF
cession; that have never as member of any State
legislature voted for the call of any convention that
passed any such ordinance"
The above oath shall also be taken by all the city
and county officers before entering upon their du-
ties and by all other State officers not included in
| the above provision.
direct the vote to be taken upon each OF the above
cited provisions alone, and upon the other portions
/ of the said Constitution in the following manner
/ viz.
Each voter favoring the ratification of the Const
tuition excluding the provisions above quoted, as
adopted by the convention OF May 15 1868, shall
press his Judgment by voting FOR THE CONSTITUTION
Each voter avorng the rejection OF the Constitution
excluding the provisions above quoted, shall express
1 his Judgment by voting AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION
Each voter will be allowed to vote separate bal
| lot for against either or both OF the provisions
above quoted. 1t is understood that sections T. 8,
T. TO- H. 12 49, ID, and Is of article 49, under the
head Of ordinances, are considered forming par
of said Const tuition.
| in testimony whereof / have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal OF the United States to b(
| affixed. Done at the city OF Washington this 1871
day of july 1869, and OF the independence of the
United States OF America the oath.
| U. S. GRANT.
| By the President:
| HAMILTON FISH, Secretary OF State.