Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-09-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
AFFAIRS At THE SOUTH.

Reorganizing constitutional conventions
are now in session in Alabama and south
Carolina. That in Alabama met on the
| 9th, so delegates being present, and ex-
Governor and ex-U. S. Senator Benjamin
Fitzpatrick was elected president. A ma
jority of the convention claim to have
been original Union men, and they seem
to have gone about the work of recon-
struction earnestly and in good faith. SO
far, the course taken by the convention
has followed closely upon that of the con-
vention in Mississippi, as regards repeal
ing the ordinance of secession and declar'
ing the abolition of slavery, and the only
trace of lingering sympathy with the
rebellion is seen in the vote, so to "a,
not to repudiate the state debt incurred
during the war. The state election for
governor, members of the legislature, and
other state officers will occur on the first
Monday in November and the third Mon.
day in December is appointed for the
meeting of the legislature The provis-
ional governor is authorized to order the
election for members of Congress The
South Carolina convention has done little
as yet save to repeal the ordinance of Sc
cession without debate and without APP
plause. only three members voting nay.
Gov. Perry, in his address to the couven-
ton, acknowledges the death Of slavery,
sounsels wise just and humane treatment
of the freedmen, but is against giving
them the right of suffrage, now or in the
future He recommends making the state
constitution more republican in form. New
Orleans Delta announces that Louisiana
is TO be reconstructed over again. that the
president has appointed J. Madison Wells
tue present governor, to be provisional
governor, with the same powers as the
other provisional governors. This is a
curious proceeding if true and we have
yet to learn what is the reason of this ac-
ton of the president. Quite large bus
mess in pardons has been done by the
president during the week, no less than
$50 pardons having been issued on Mon
day. Among the prominent men who
have lately received this favor arc ex-Gov.
Aiken and ex-Speaker J, L. Orr or South
Carolina. QHite a large emigration to
the South has already commenced, and it
is anticipated that next year il will be
very large Many returned soldiers, hav-
ing seen the beauty and fertility of the
land. are returning South to live.
THE WTpz TRIAT-TiIp ppprt Ip,nrps
The trial of Wirz was resumed at Wash
ington on Tuesday after several DAYS va.
cation, the prisoner having sufficiently re-
covered from bis illness to be present in
the court room again The government
is still taking the testimony of prisoners
who suffered at the hands Of Wilz at An.
Jacksonville, and though testimony of eve.
cry one adds to the prisoners weight Of
guilt no especially new facts have been
elected recently. 1t is announced that
Wirz has taken to reading religious books.
which shows that he is making prep
tons for his evident fate. The trial of
Champ Ferguson, the celebrated guerrilla
chief, closed at Nashville, Tenn, on Mon
day, but the decision is yet announced
The prisoner remains in close confinement
and will probably be sentenced to death,
The trial of the rebel steamboat burners
: commenced at St. Louis before military
commission on Tuesday, but none of the
proceeding are reported. The counsel OF
the prisoners has given notice of his in
tention to summon jeff Davis and the
rebel secretaries Mallory and Seldom, as
witnesses for the defense Emerson Eth
eridgc of Tennessee, the blatant treason
f utterer, is to be tried at Memphis in few
weeks. JEFF Davis has been transferred
to his new quarters in Carroll Hall, Fort
ross Monroe, and appears to like thu
change The treasure captured with th,
i rebel chief has been brought to Washing
> ton. and is found to consist of about S 100
, 900 in all. SS7 900 of which was in golC
coin. Clement q. Clay is less strongly
guarded at Fortress Monroe. and it is be
, lieved that both he and Mitchell will sool
|, have their privileges extend ed on parole
There is also a report from Washington
+, that the rebel Vice President Stephens
now in Fort Warren, will soon be release,
|, and sent to Georgia to aid in the WORK
:, reconstruction.
n The latest news from the Pacific give
the names of four more vessels destroye,
n by the pirate Shenandoah and the name
e of a dozen more whalers in Behring Strai
r that have small chance of escape. A goo
/. many vessels have now been warned anc
a will escape the clutches of the pirate :
Al The New England regiments that hav
i. arrived at home during the week arc tn
n I'd Massachusetts heavy artillery, the re
Ie malnder of the Both Massachusetts, (col
70 ored) and the 26th Massachusetts, fror
& Savannah; the LIST Maine heavy artiler
re and the 18th Maine infantry.
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