The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-31

tersburg. Contracts have Just been made
for service by railroad from New Or
leans to Canton, Miss, and from Canton
to Jackson, Tenn.
The following order was issued to-day:
Until otherwise ordered, mails for At
lanta, Augusta, Macon and West Point,
Ga, Montgomery, Ala, and for points
contiguous to these several places and
between them and Chattanooga, Tenn,
may be forwarded to their destination
via Nashville, Tenn, soldiers having
been detailed for service on the several
| roads and placed in charge of the post
offices wherever there are military posts.
Other heads of departments are enga-
ged i'm restoring the civil machinery, in
accordance with the proclamations of
the President appointing Provisional
Governors.
The reports of Assistant Commission
ers in the Southern States for the Freed
mems Bureau continue to arrive at Gen.
Howard's headquarters, and as the sys-
tenn of the bureau for the maintenance
of the blacks and white refugees in the
South begin to develop, these reports are
replete with statistics and valuable de-
tails of its operations.
Colonel Ely, reporting from Column
bia, S. c., Under date of July 20, says
that he finds the affairs of the bureau In
that locality progressing much better
than he had reason to expect. The mill
tary authorities have done all in their
power to settle the freedmen upon plan
tations, and help them in perfecting
their labor contracts. The crops were
looking promising; but little suffering
had prevailed among the blacks, and but
few plantations had been abandoned,
and these only of small value.
Colonel Sprague, writing from st.
Louis, says that on the 10th instant, the
Refugees of the Freedmen's Home in
that city, which was sustained Jointly by
the government and the Northwestern
Sanitary Commission, and costing the
government about two thousand dollars
month, has been suspended, the city
and county authorities assuming the
burden for the future. The same report
represents that during the month of
Iay last the government was called up
on to issue rations in Mississippi to four
thousand four hundred and fifty-two
white refugees, and two hundred and
thirty-six freedmen. The poor whites
are reported crowding all the posts es-
tablished for the distribution of rations,
and are willing mendicants. From this
fact strict orders have been issued to
stop the issue Of all supplies not neces-
sary to prevent starvation Though the
freedmen are still somewhat bewildered
with their new status as freedmen, they
are reported to be generally provident of
such means and resources as are afford
ed them, and are doing well.
Major General Augur, in his general
order dated yesterday, says:
The civil courts in that portion of Vir-
GINA within the limits of the Depart
ment of Washington having declined tC
receive the testimonyof colored persons
provost court is hereby established in
| Alexandria, to have exclusive jurisdic.
ton i'm all cases involving the rights OF
person or property of cOlored persons
residents of the district aforesaid. This
court will receive the testimony of col
orcd persons with no other limitations
than thosenow affecting the testimony
of white persons. The Provost Marshal
General of the Defences South of the
Potomac Is charged with the execution
of this order. This order will remain in
force until the Virginia courts have
brought their practice more into harmo-
ny with the existing state of affairs.
| Captain M. p. Fisher, of the Second
District of Columbia Volunteers, is APP
pointed provost judge of said court.
The correspondent of the Philadelphia
Evening Telegraph furnishes the fol-
lowing from Washington on the 2sth;
GENERAL BUTLER SENT FOR.
General B. +. Butler has been sent for
by the President, and will have an i'm
pOrtant duty assigned to him at once.
| The conduct of the dDaneStiea, and the
determination of the late open Rebels to
seize the reins of power in all parts OF
the South, show that the spirit of the
Rebellion still lives, and is fast assum-
ing shape of great danger in the flu
| ture.
| GOVERNOR PIERPoNT.
| In Virginia matters are much worse.
Governor Pierpont has attempted to
| conciliate the secessionists by comforting
positions upon them of honor and profit,
and turnsa cold shouldertot the old Union
men because they are in the minority.
| All the recently elected officers are Sc
cessionists of the vilest. brand; most OF
them have been in the Rebel army.
| There is not spark of loyalty manifest;
no evidence of regret for the past; no
hope of any support for the Administra-
ton In the future.
| GOVERNOR HOLDEN, H a.
In North Carolina matters are some
what better, but still bad enough. Gov.
Holden seems DESTROYS Of favor from the
amnestied, and being himself par
doned Rebel, selects men OF that stamp
| for office. &La4
CONSEQUENCE OF THE RECENT POLICY.
Should these men succeed in grasping
political control all over the South, in
keeping out Northern men and capital,
| and make laws to re-establish the old
status of affairs with reference to the
colored race, then slavery is virtually
re-established with ten-fOld stronger
hold than ever before. A political party
| will be created in the South that will
consolidate all classes of the whites, and
who will act with Northern traitors in
Congress to repudiate the national debt,
| or to use threats of SO doing to compel u
| recognition and adoption OF either a
part or the whole of the Rebel debt.
THE REBEL DEBT TO BE PAID OFF.
Parties arenow at work buyingup Reb-
ell bonds and certificates, who openly ex-
press their confidence that they will one
| day be paid off. The apathy and listiess-
ness of the North is surprising under
| threatened dangers, which are more
alarming than the warlike movements
of the South, to combat which millions
of brave men sprung to arms. NOW
| that the rebels intend to adopt, with