The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-12-29
REGIONS CTI0N.
Senator Williams Looking After the
n Reconstructed in Virginia.
He Finds Virginia Loyalty q
Myth.
The +. F.'s Cling to Their Exploded Pallaeiss
Of the Coniedcracy.
The Negroes by No Means
Belligerent.
&c &c &c,

BelI1gcrent.
&c. &c. &c.
DUR Richmond Correspondence.
RICHMOND, Va Dec 25 1865.
SENATOR WILLIAMS, OREGON, IN RICHMOND
AS set forth In former despatch the Hon. George H.
williams, Senator Of the United States from Oregon and
member Of the Committee the Reconstruction of the
Southern States recently appointed by Hon Lafayette
Foster arrived in this city late Saturday evening tour
Of observation bearing the intelligent discharge Of the
duties of the committee Of which he is member Up
to this writing christmas night Senator Williams has
devoted his whole time to an investigation Of the present
actual condition and political and social prospects Of the
Southern people, viewed from the standpoint OF this
the most important capital Of the atesosyled Confede
rate States because first in position first 10 wealth. first in
intelligence and equal each and all in all the varied
phases OF disoyaly The views of Senator Williams will be
held be all the important when it is remembered
that neither the Lieutenant General commanding the
armies Major General and correspondent Shurz in
their recent reports to the President Of the United
States touched upon the condition Of affairs in Virginia
relative reconstruction, the former expressly ignoring
any conference with the people Of this State, and the
latter asserting in his report that he directed not TO
deal with Virginia upon the subject Of his mission.
APPEARANCE AND MANNERS or THE OREGON SENATOR.
Senator Williams IS gentleman Of equally impressive
appearance and manners and to the fills the measure
OF an American Senator He is nearly II quite six
ample forehead, thick dark hair dark complexion
and possessed Of quick, moving and sharp,
penetrating His n% er ran is both n ne
close and convincing. In personal manners he is
wholly genial, entertaining and unusually instructive,
aud thougheul Of public affairs skilled in diacctics
and mmovable IN his convictions. He is evidently
sruction and to this duo his presence in Rich
n0nd on this official tour.
OBSERVATIONS ON VIRGINIA LOYALTY.
While II may not be confidently asserted that Rich
mond opinion respect to the nature breadth and scope
Of the loyalty Of Virginia bears the same relation to the
State iage as The tail Of the lion tcduda EFT nder on
does that august monarch OF the forcst-up when he
Is inHamed, and down when subdncd-ncvcrtheless It
may he safely regarded as the reliable test OF oil those
councils the pulpit the bar and at the more restricted
altar Of medicine and belle ere for the last sixty years,
who adhere to the convictions Of these their repre-
sentative men. sna'or Williams has learned irst
sa a V o 1he sSe ecssure and in the social
circles Of Richmond is we'll nigh an absolute myth HIS
observations further teach him that the people have an
enlarged personal respect for President Johnson but are
utterly devoid Of respect for and tolerance OF the United
States government hence this personal regard for the
President by reason Of his LIBERAL towards them
they look upon the very exaltation Of loyalty. He
nds and says that they cling with tenacious fondness
unsSa%pea y n history gnasr tpf sT;nances
exploded faiiaces Of the confcderacy as benevolent
system Of government aud cherish with righteous re-
VcrcnCo
late giant attempt against the integrity Of the Union
which completely felled by the powess Of the federal
arms in April last He also finds tho popular sentiment
Of the Southern people, as SUCH Individually and over
States and an its functional and LEGISLATIVE
admit Ia'~ The Southern delegates TO their seats
in either house at Washington. They had confidently
counted by virtue of the connses Of certain overween
the nation and in conjunction with these conservatives
rule with arbitrary and lnsoeDt power as OF old-hus
realizing by master stroke Of Confederate policy their
bamiest dreams Of the opulent Overbeang landed and
slave driving autocrat o. other DAYS.
NEGRO ISSUE
Implicitly surprising. from varons representations
Of the baiel Virginia press aided by the suggestions Of
certain men at the North OF bad eminence that the
negroes 10 rise to-day he had chosen that his first
Senatorial Christmas should he passed here IN Rch-
mond-treasons very charnel house, wherein u is alive
only by the fact of its animated decomp0s,ion--and
learn for himself the whole extent OF the negros offence
he Is convinced that quiet, orderly and well dis
posed citizen than the freedman ia thus fallen capital
docs dwell in all the pleasant places of the South
In fine Mr. Williams concludes that the great OBJECT OF
the war; TO the abolition OF slavery has been accom-
pshed in the that is now established 81 labor
landed and rotten oligarchv, and THAI ibis com.
bno resl,the cyrpa,ion Of slavery and the dignity
ing OF sbor-is the end, through God, triumphanly
attained in the great struggle now forever solved.
Senator Williams returns TO the federal capital quite
prepared 10 consccntorsiy cnnncaie these views anu
these convictions TO his brethren OF the senate and OF
/ the committee ne represents. Tie has had interviews
with large number OF distinguished people both in aud
0f power here and has not failed 10 rclgiousy hear
and the well dgccd opinions Of the chosen repre-
sentatives OF the masses both black and white
| CHRISTMAS IN rIoBMOND
The day IN Richmond has been one 81 the qnietcst
have ever known here during residence commencing
early the morning of federal occupation OF the
city ia April last The negroes far from indulgng ~
rotous acts have been both quiet and respectful Among
both blacks and whites there have been exceptions to h
general rule but in the main public order has preva d
as has prevailed before Of This Of The
! ycar. when tho now broken down and bursted up ol
gacbs ruled with supcrna supremacy over race now
forever free.
/ RICHMOND Va, Dec. 20, 1856.
nsTAKsN IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT CASE
II has come 20 light, upon competent military author
ty, that the government has made very serious mis-
take in the essential matter of identity in Of rs
cent arrests Of Confederate officers charged with thu
maltreaiment Of prisoners of At Andersonvis ant
other Southern prison pens Some time ago the ares
OF winder was made at Washington the suppcsitoI
that the party taken into custody II The iat
Hog Wnder Tho party arrested was r. h. Winder, for
long period the chief qusrermastcr OF all the Couede
rate prisons east OF The Mississippi He taken will
Duncan and Gee, and IL confined In Libby PrsDn II
this city The Confederate officer wanted and nov much
desired 10 W. winder, the real Of Hog Wnder,
seape the very afternoon that hrs relative i'm
prsoned whore he Is safely ensconced, and wher
he bad better remain he desires TO prolong his day
| upon the earth.
4 Obituary.
! JOEL J.. SIMPSON.
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