AMERICA.
Postal conventions have been concluded between Great Britain and the United States for the joint carriage of mails to California and India. The Georgiana Legislature has declared the negro members ineligible. Armed mobs of negroes are patrolling the roads around Savannah. The democratic platform is a general amnesty, immediate restoration of the South, and payment of the public debts in currency. General Butler has been defeated in his candidature. Surat, charged with complicity in the murder of Lincoln, has been discharged. The Eepublieans have carried the Vermont elections by a a majority of 28,000, or a gain of 8,000. In Maine they had a majority of 73,000, or a gain of 11,000. Negroes have been admitted into the j Louisiana Legislature. The British registry has been adopted in American Ports as the Jbasis of port charges. The Indian war continues. Eifty of j the American soldiers were scalped at an j outpost on Republican River. Large Democratic processions have taken place in New Orleans, the negroes joining in them. . Pires are raging in the forests of California. Over 200 square miles of territory the timber has been destroyed. Agitations have been commenced for the annexation of Canada.
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Southland Times, Issue 1063, 4 December 1868, Page 3
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198AMERICA. Southland Times, Issue 1063, 4 December 1868, Page 3
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