Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1865-10-13
GENERAL NEWS.

Governor BrOWnlOW, OF IeHAecoco, 49,"
been delivered of an annual message, IN
which, after congratulating the people OF
that State on the. return of peace and the
restoration Of civil law, he contends that
neither mercy nor forbearance should pc
shown towards those persons IN that state
who were most prominent in support OF the
late Confederacy, and that the great bulk
of their followers ought to be disfranchlsea
for ten years. He advocates the removal OF
the negroes to some portion OF the terri
tory of the United States, to be set apart for
them, as he is convinced that the whites and
blacks cannot live together, politically or So
tiasIg, as ettnsl,.
| Several riots have occurred at Memphis
recently between the negroes, both civilians
and soldiers, and the police authorities OF
that place Fire arms were freely used on
both sides, and the police, in one instance,
were driven from their BEATS The leaders
were subsequently seized by order OF Gen,
Smith, and whilst some Of them were held
for trial, others, less guilty, were set to work
with ball and chain
A Boston paper complains thai of the SIX
Parish Judges in the city of New Orleans,
three are graduates of the rebel army; that
the Office Of Sheriff and Clerk Of Probate,
the teeo most lucrative in the State. are held
by signers of the Ordinance of Secession
and that over twenty original Union men
have been recently removed by Gov. Wells,
to make room for as many original scces-
sionists.
Five Catholic priests have been arrested in
St. Louis for preaching without taking the
oath, and several ministers Q other denomi-
nations, in various parts Of State, are titl-
der bonds to answer for Il ne offence
Father Cummings, of Pill mty, who re-
fused to allow his friends ~ his fine and
was lodged in jail, has tho sht better Of his
conduct and given bonds, and Will appeal his
case to higher courts for decision.
Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, has writ
ten letter endorsing President Johnson's
policy and sustaining the action of the Wis
consin Republican Convention, in not MAX
ing negro suffrage test Of political fidelity
to the Union. The Wisconsin radicals, who
split off from the Convention upon this ques
ton, are left to fight out the battle as>3ss
they can.
General Beauregard, who has returned
to New Orleans, has taken the oath of
amnesty and registered himself a citizen of
that place He is said to be very much boz
loved in Louisiana, and will probably soen
be placed at the head Of one of the great
railroads Of ttat State.
The ladies of Portsmouth are now busily
circulating, for signatures, a petition adj
dressed to his Excellency, Andrew johnson,
President of the United States, praying for
the pardon and release from confinement of
Jefferson Davis, President of the late Con-
federacy The petition is said to be model
Of beauty in its diction.
1t is said that some few weeks since sever
al United States officers called on General
Vance, at his farm hear Asheville, n. c.,
when hrs wife excused him, stating that he
had gone to mill. He had been ploughing
and doing other farm work ever since the sur
render. What an example to the young men
Of the South.
The next Legislature of Indiana has
| United States Senator to elect, to succeed III.
S. Lane. Gov Morton, Speaker Colfax,
and his colleague, Goodlove S. Orth, are
already named for the position. Daniel w.
Voorhees, is said to be the Democratic can
didate.
1t is stated as singular fact that the mar
tins, robins and other birds that are in the
habit Of disappearing sometime in October,
have already left for parts unknown. This,
it is prognosticated, means an unusually cold
winter approaching.
Abd-el Kader's second wife is only four
teen She is carrying with her to Syria the
dolls she bought in Paris, which amuse her
great deal. The Emir has two grand
daughters Of the same age as his favorite
wife.
It is said that ex-Vice President Stephens,
now confined at Fort Warren, Is soon to be
released, and will return to Georgia to CO.
operate with Ex-Governor Brown and >others
in the reconstruction and restoration of that
State to the Uniou.
Reports received at the Freedman's Bu-
Feat, show that nearly all the abandoned prop
erty in the vicinity Of Harper's Ferry, which
was taken possession of by the Government,
has been restored to it's owners.
The sugar crop on the St. Paups River,
Liberia, on $50 acres, yielding q to hogs
heads, each will give 4,211 200 lbs., as the
crop Of 1864. One-third allowed for home
consumption, will leave for export over g.
000, 900 lbs.
1t is said that there is likely to be some
difficulty about the October Congressional
elections in Virginia. The law requires that
the commissioners shall be appointed by the
courts, but in some counties there are ne
courts to appoint them.
Governor Pierpoint, of Virginia, has par
doned George Francis, of Ohio county, VINO
eleven years ago was sentenced to eighteen
years confinement in the State penitentialy
for murder.
1t was expected that more than ten thous-
and delegates would be presant on the ffts-
sixth annual session of the American Boa