The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1865-07-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

State .,1;,, civil government
ir' Inc 8lst\ Aueuss is the
! SVts4 for the eISton 0Ndeiegstes 81
sstAse Convention, whicu- is to assemble
the 10th of September.
The Governor comments On tho rrssar.
condition of the South and the r,;n cd .n.,
lsFing which the war has caused, bu, info ~
'ne Pe'ule that notwithate s--.-'s they
have today every political right which they
possessed before the war, excepting the right
to hold slaves; and slavery, be tells them, is
irrecoverably gone, and it IS the part of wis.,
dom to'make the best they can of the new
order of things. i
His Excellency james Johnson, Provision.
al Governor of Georgia, has also issued bis
proclamation calling Sale Convention and
appointing day for electing delegates there,
to. The election is to he held on the Attn of
October, and the convention will assemble IN
Millegevile on the Both OF the me month
The citizens are reminded that in order to be
entitled TO vote or to become candidates for
election to the convection they must pre-
viously subscribe to the oath OF allegiance to
the national government; and this they ale
earnestly advised TO do They are also in
formed that slavery is extinct, and that there-
fore no person in the Stale can hereafter con
troll the labor OF another, excepting so far as
he may b. legally eltitled to do so by the
terms of contract voluntarily entered into by
the Iaborer The administration Of civil law,
to great extent, is to remain in allegiance till
a State Governmt Mt shall have bsen chosen
but in the meantime orIer will be preserved, ,
if necessary, by The military. eia
All the States in the Union are now pto,id-
ded with civil Executives, ether electei or
appointed. The following shows the seven
States which have Provisional Governors sp
pointed by the President, with the names of
the incumbents aud the date 81 appoint-
ment;- saa+ sa liT fTrat I'll. asG
State Provisional Goveraor When appointed.
N C......... VIM. W. Holden, May 25, 1866
Miss. WIN. H. Sharke,. June Is, 1865.
Ga........ j. Johnston ~ June II, 1865.
Ala...."....L. L. Parsons. June 81, 1865.
S. C.....Ben. f. Perry, June 80, 1865.
Fla.........W. Marvin. june 10, 1865.
Elections have been ordered in he ,oiow-
ing of those States for the purpose of reor-
ganizing according to The proclamation ofthe
Pfesidant;- .A t#s5isa
State Time Of Election Time Of Con0eation'
Miss...... august Z, 1865 lie august "A, 1865.
Ala ......August 81 1865 September 10 1865.
Geo.. October 4, 1865. October rs, 1865.
Sonth Carolina, Novlmbci 20, 1865
Interesting Charleston dispatches OF the
22d lust were furnished by the arrival in the
New York Tuesday of the steamship Granada.
The i'll feeling which has been for some lime
growing up between some OF the Whine SOL
diers and the citizens on the one side ana the
negroes on the other has resulted in the mu-
tiny of The One Hundred and Sixty, f b New
York infantry, their disarming and tue COM
mitment of the privates Ut the organ cation
to Fort Sumpter aad the officers to Chafless
ton Jail The difficulties which led 10 this re-
suit are nov under, investigation by generals
Gilmore and Schurz The city OF char!e-ton,l
which until recently was in q turbulent COZ
dition owing to these troubles, has been re
stored to order. 7r
The great destitutionis said TO still exists
in the inferior of South Carolina among all
classes Of people, who are suffering for the
want of the barest necessities oflife, and an
ageut has been sent TO the North to raise
funds for their relief. Mail facilities between
Charleston and the interior have been much
improved of late. The cars now run as far as
Orangeburg, and it is hoped to have the rail-
road completed through from Charleston to
Columbia within three months Owing 10 the
havoc which Sherman played with the South
Carolina railroads, but little of the ton of
the Stale is yet snabled to sach Charleston,
but, much to the detriment of the busineas
in that city, is being diverted to Augusta and
Savannah.
General Fisk, Assistant Commissioner of
Freedmen, Refugees add Abandoned Lands for
the States of Kentucky and Tennessee, in a
comm indication TO The Freedmen's Buie.u in
Washington, describes the agitation 10 the
| former State on the subject of ratifyiog the
| anti-slavery amendment TO the constitution
as very great; but he fears that Kentucky
will not be one Of the States TO approve it.
General Palmer, military commander 10
Kentucky has issued an order giving freedom
and grating passes to all the slaves who will
leave the State, and a great exodus of these
people to the north eide of the Ohio river is
in progress. -sor 30 s4 sa8
| By the steamer Vera Cruz from Vera Cruz
and Havana, we have dates one day later
than those received by the Liberty. The
| general condition Of the new ennire was