Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1865-10-03
General News Items.

Ex-Generals Gordon, of Georgia, and Pillow,
of Tennessee, are in Washington
General Butler has made speech in favor of
negro suffrage.
General Sherman it is said, is to make his fu-
ture home in st. Louis.
r. NJ T. Hunter has returned to his home in
Virginia. where he will remain ON parole.
The two Winchester Virginia. Presbyter es
have united after separation of some twenty i've
years.
General Sheridan has returned to Texas from
New Orleans Reorganization is rapidly progress
sing in Texas.
General Slocum, Democratic nominee for New
York Secretary of State, as resigned his commits
sion in the army.
Ex-Governor Aiken, of South Carolina, has re
ceived full and complete pardon fro.1. President
ohnson.f
Gen. Beauregard is living quietly in New Or
leans and is not it is stated, going to Europe, as
was reported.
Dr. Quintard, the new Episcopal Bishop OF
Tennes see, is a native of New York and a gradu-
ate of COLUMBIA College.
General Gordon, who figured SO prominently in
the Virginia campaigns, is now keeping grocery
store, in Atlanta, GA.
It is stated that all the forts and Notifications
the present Autumn.
Since the CONSUMPTION edict in Brazil, guards
are stationed in the streets Of Rio Janeiro to
pick conscripts up and march them of to camp,
as was the old Confederate style.
| Accounts from Const lntinople state that two
thousand eight hundred buildings were destroyed
by the great fire, and upwards Of twenty -two
thousand persons were rendered houseless. The
Cholera has almost entirely disappeared from
Constantinople.
Four colored soldiers attempted to promenade
ON the ground used by the whites, at the Mayfield
XIV. fair. All of them were shot and two NOR
tally wounded
John Rosecrans, a brother of General W. s..
Rosecrans, is the Democratic nominee for repre-
sentative in Marion county, Ohio. Heis opposed
to consolidation, an immediate Union man, and
opposed to negro suffrage now OF az any o1hef
time.
Secretary McCulloch has ordered that all COM
pound interest notes of the denomination of one
hundred dollars lie forwarded to Washington, in
consequence of the number of counterfeits on that
description of note now in cir culation. No more
notes Of that kind will be issued.
KILLING IN KnorpiUe--The Louisville Democrat
saws. that on Saturday white sergeant was or
dered to halt by negro guard. The man failed
to obey the order when the negro shot him, the
ball passing through MS pIeaSt anu SURVIVING isn-
other person who was passing, killing both. On
the same day an Irishman, going by on a truck,
was shot and kill d.
The people have acquiesced in emancipation.
They cannot blame the negro for taking all the
privileges allowed him. The negroes are gener-
sllv respectful, and must ultimately be subordi-
nate to those who possess the land the intelligence
and the capital of the country. Our people are
unanimous in denying negro equality. whilst the
negro himself has never expected or desired it.
We can, therefore, readily adjust this question
when left to ourselves, and can offer such facili-
ties to negro emigration as that we can regulate
and reduce the proportions between white and
black Us far as may be desirable, --Repu6fsc.