The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-06-23
MEMS ITEMS By MAIL.

NNAOAA JUN 4 70, 1900.
NEWS ITEMS By MAIL.
President johnson made a very sig
nihcsnt remark, a few days ago, to a
delegation of Quakers, who called upon
him to talk about negro suffrage. Col
Forney, in one of his Occasional" let
ters, reports it, as follows:
"You tell me, friends, of the liberia
ton of the colored people of the South,
whose friend l have always been, and
whose protector am resolved TO be,
but, and his countenance glowed with
a peculiar feeling as he asked the ques-
ton, have you ever thought of the
millions of Southern white people that
have also been liberated by the war 2
Upon such text we need no speeches,
and certainly no long letters.
A Mobile paper says:
arrivals from the interior represent
affairs quiet The people are adapting
themselves TO the altered circumstan-
cesi the soldiers are at home, working
on their farms Business is reViving.
The correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Commercial has possession of the
archives of the secret State Convention
Of Alabama when she seeded.
There is a rumor, that is perhaps not
all rumor, that such a reorganization
of the Cabinet of President johnson is
to be made, that Governor Brough will
be made Secretary of War.
The Louisville Press, of the 18th in>
stant, says
There has never been a time in
Kentucky, previous to the year 1865,
when anything like the oppression and
cruelties toward the colored race, now
IN full practice, were known among US.
A disastrous fire occurred at Sarato-
ga, New York; on the 18th, destroying
the United States Hotel, Marvin House
and the cottages belonging to the
United States Hotel Several club
houses, the telegraph, express, and
other offices were also destroyed Two
persons were killed Loss heavy. +
Gloucester, Mass, is now a scene Of
hustle and animation in consequence
of the large fleets fitting out for the
mackerel fisheries at the bay of St.
Lawrence. The fleet will be somewhat
reduced from former years, the new
vessels hardly amounting in number to
the old ones sold. But still it will COM
prise some two hundred sail, and these
vessels will in all probability average
seven hundred barrels each if success
full which viii amount TO d total of
5000 barrels.
The rendezvous of rebel prisoners
throughout the North are being cleared
out Already the barracks at Rock Is.
land, Indianapolis and Washington,
have been emptied, the prisoners hay
ing been sent South. In the course of
about week Camp Douglas, Chicago,
viii be without a rebel tenant
Governor Holden has issued his first
proclamation to the people of North
Carolina. Those who vote at the cleo
ton of delegates TO the Constitutional
Convention, will be required to take the
oath of allegiance as a precedent act
The transport Kentucky, with 200
Confederate troops on board, on the
9th, struck a snag twelve miles below
Shreveport, and sunk in three minutes.
Two hundred lives were lost.
Bishop Andrew, of the N. Z Church
South, has issued an address, in which
he counsels submission and peaceful
in the new order of
things.
On the day that the Princess of Wales
gave birth to her last baby, twelve hun
dred persons called at the door Of her
residence to inquire after her health,
notwithstanding several bulletins were
published in the papers and posted in
the city. The inquirers were gratifed
on learning that mother and child
we're doing weLT |
Bishop Gregg Protestant Episcopal),
of Texas, directs his clergy 70 resume
the prayers for the President in use be-
fore the war broke out Bishop An
drew; of the Methodist Church South
the man whose persisteucy in holding
slaves contrary to church rules led to |
the Methodist. disruption in 1874, has al.
SO issued an address counseling submis.
sion.
The class just graduated at West |
Point numbered sixty-eight members.
Among the members were NJ. B. Adams,
of Ohio, fifth rank; A. D. Palmer, do, |
twenty-fourth; A. 6. Force, do, TWEEN
ty-eighth; J. c. Powers, do, thirtieth; |
N. s Starring, Illinois, forty-frst; A |
H. Goodloe, Kentucky, sixty-fourth; |
and A. C. Demsey, Indiana, sixty-eighth.
Charles W. Raymond was FIST in the
class
A Washington correspondent Of the |
New York Times reports the substance |
of a recent conversRtioE with John II. |
Bolts. Mr.. Bolts does not like the pol
icy of the Government in regard to snf |
frage at the South. lie thinks it un>
wise to restrict the right of voting by |
requiring too stringent oaths He would
have the right of holding Office restrict
ed q great deal more than it is, 50 that |
no n4sn should ever hold Office, South |
or North, who has not always been =
thorough, uncompromising Union man.
BE thinks that Congress should make |
a law by which every man should be
REQUIRED, as condition Of holding any |
office in the United States, North or
South, 70 swear that he had never done,
.eritts,, or said anything TO prejudice or
iniure the authority Of the Government !
of the United States, nor in any way,
by act or word, given aid, comfort or
encouragement to its enemies. This
would keep all the powers Of the Gov
erument in the hands of loyal men.
Mr.. Bolts opposes negro suffrage on the
ground that it would perpetuate the
suthority of the old shareholders. 1t
will be for the interest of the latter 10
make friends of and employ their form
er slaves, and as the negroes would be
dependent on them for employment,
they viii be guided by them in regard
70 voting. This must continue TO be