The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-12-21
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Spect on Ine. aeiteil. VI ene 1s'IS -'9oiitsloA
Collamer, of Vermcnt, and several other
Senators joined in paying. a tribute of re-.
spect to the memorysof the deceased.
s. The following are the Committee ap-
pointedsby the House to.take into consid-
Grafton the condition of the so:called Con
federate.states Messrs. " ashburne, Nor
rell, Gride, Bingham, Conekling, Bout
we'll, Blow and Rogers.
The House resolved that all papers
which may be offered'upon the condition
ofthe so-caned Confedcracy, besreferrcd
without debate.
No members shall be admitted from.
any State or States until Congress shall
declare such States, OF either ofthenl, en-
titled to representations.
Official information received at the.
State Department announced that Orc
gon shas ratified ibhe Constitutional
Amendment.
MIL1EGEv1ElE, December 14-Gover-
nor jenkins was inauguratod here at
noon to-day. Iu his address to the Leg Legg
islature he says there will hereafter be no
conflict between the Constitution Of the
United States and the Constitution of
Georgia, and that the laws of the United
States will bc-supreme. He, paid ashand-
some stribute,to to tho good conduct of the
negroes during the >war, and says they
must be thoroughly protected in person
and proporty, and have the right to enter
the Courts. They aresthe best working
class. and their. late owners the best ena-
/ ployers in the world. He reviewed the
condition of the State institutions, and
says that even the light taxes will be
burdensome, but hopes by . system of
good management that tthe people may
not suffer. At.the close of the address,
Provisional Governor johnson handed,
the great seal of Georgia to Governor
jenkins, who took the oath, and was,
). then declared by the President 'of the
Senate the constitutional Governor of
Georgia.
: The Louisiana Legislature we're badly:
yictimized a few days since. A commu-
nication was received by the Senate, of;
which the following is the opening: g The,
undersigned, as a committee of ladies'.
acting in the name of large number of
loyal ladies of New Orleans, wish to pre-
sent your honorable body with a Uni
ted States flag, csc." Thessenate received,
the communication, accepted the flag, and
fixed an hour in the afternoon forits for
NAL reception. shortly.after they repair
cd to the hall of the House of Represen-
tatiyes sorthe purpose of electing a State
Printer. That duty performed, they re-
tnrnedto their own chamber, and ordered,
forthwith, that everything relating tothe
letter and the flag should be expunged
from the journals of the Senate. In the
interval the fact had leaked out that the
ladies desiring to make the presentation
were, colored.
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The only State without Congressional
Representatives in Washington this win
ter will be the State Of Texas. Provis-
ional Governor Hamilton, by and with
the advice ana consent of the President,
we presume, has moved more slowly in
the work of political reconstruction than
the Governors of other Southern States.
No convention even has yet been held,
though there will be one in session this.
winter. After that preliminary step is
taken there is much work to be done be-
fore the members can be elected to both
Houses.
A Washington correspondent says, that
sthe Southern delegates to Congress are
being treated with courtesy ard consido-s
ration by manysof those who hold seats
on: the floor of.tho House, and, it is said,
in Republican quarters, that they will
certainly be admitted at an early day if
they come up to the requirements of the
anti-alavery majority of both branches of
Congress. The Tennessee delegation
have moro sympathy than any other,
probably because President Johnson is q
Tcnnesseean.
Only one Confederate soldier now re-
mains at the Petersburg Fair Grounds
Hospital-Sergeant Thomas W. Riyes, of
Company G, 43d Alabama Regiment,
Gracies Brigade. Sergeant Rives re-
ceived lis wound at Appomattox Court
House, on Sunday, April 9, 1866, about