The Portland daily press., 1865-12-15
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

~ Meetings are numerously held in Great
Britain, at which the Jamaica butcheries are
condemned, and petitions adopted for inquiry
into the facts with view to the punishment
IF the perpetrators. D 81
gH- The Portland, saco s. Portsmouth Rail-
road has declared dividend of per cent.
BH- A special dispatch to the Boston Trav-
eller says: Gen. Buffers resignation was in
sisted upon by him on account of Gen. Grant
severe comments upon his military conduct in
his report. Politics had nothing to do with it.
1t is said that Butler will soon reply to Grant"
EB The Charleston colored men have elect
ed two delegates to proceed to Congress to pre-
sent the memorial of the colored peoples con-
vention. ~
~ The special Indian Agent for New Mex
leo reports to the Indian Bureau, from Fort
Larned, that that portion of the Cheyenne and
Arrapaho tribes who recently formed treaty
with the government, express their intention
to fulfil all their obligations, and are willing to
join our troops in annihilating the aDog In
dians," as they call them, who are committing
depredations north of the Platte river
BB A negro jury was empanneled at Cal
lao, Macon county, Missouri, on the 4th instant.
A suit for assault and battery was brought be-
fore Squire Ballinger, in which the parties
were colored citizens. A jury was summoned,
composed entirely Of colored men, who, after
hearing the evidence and the charge of the
court, assessed the fine of twenty-one dollars
each, to be paid or replevined, and the case
now stands recorded on the docket of the JUS
tice. .liHd sal -.srs i.-
W. 1t appears that large majority Of the
negroes In Florida are quietly at work under
written contracts, mostly for their old mas
ters. These contracts expire next Christmas,
but it is expected that good proportion of
them will be renewed, and others made for the
present year. The administration of the bu-
reau has been almost wholly turned over to the
probate judges, and Colonel Osborn has already
commissioned several of them, with the provis-
ion distinctly understood that negro testimony
is to be admitted. Every civil offence commi :
ted by negro in the State, in fact, is now tried
by the civil officers, only those Of high Grimm
atty being reserved to the courts-martial.
ER- The Legislature of Virginia has repeal
ed the act of previous one, consenting to the
ganization of the new State of Virginia, as
1
though by such repeal a contract would be an
nulied, and an independent State be annihilat-
ed. The Boston Advertiser suggests that the
chances OF success in such an undertaking, are
not worth calculating. West Virginia is sat-
isfied, is loyal, has always been loyal, and her
foundations are as firm as the base of her m Jun
tains. A...,r-
gy- The apartments of Gen. Lees family in
Lexington, Va, have been handsomely and
completely furnished by the liberalty of a
wealthy lady residing in that vicinity. Tits
mentioned as a remarkable fact and an EXAMPLE
worthy of imitation, that the furniture was all
manufactured in Lexington. a5
Va A white man was arrested on Friday in
Richmond, charged with assaulting a negro
woman. The witnesses for the prosecution be-
ing all colored, the mayor refused to consider
the case on the ground that their evidence was
inadmissable. Fortunately there was still a.
provost judge in Richmond, before whom the
case was taken with more satisfactory results
GB- Among the notables who called mon
the President recently was Rev. Henry Ward
oeeoher, who had very pleasant interview
WIN Mr. johnson. Hon. Daniel 8. Dickinson
and Major-General B. f. Butler also visited
the President.