Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1865-12-08
NEWS ITEMS.

Carolina, has just been elected NJ. w Grand
Master OF the Freemasons of that State
The parish of Iberville Louisiana, which
before the war made fifty thousand hogsheads
Of sugar annually. will not make this year
above six hundred hogsheads.
Twelve hundred negroes in South Carroll
ma have returned to their masters They
had been living on Government rations at
Charleston
DR.. Gwin, who was arrested some time
since on his return from Mexico to the Uni
ted States, is confined at Fort Jackson, be-
low New Orleans.
The papers this morning say that A. B.
Coleman has sold the Burnett House Cincin-
natl to S. W. Pike for $500, 900 This is
the largest transfer of real estate ever made
in this city.
Mrs Sarah J. Holmes, aged sixty-four,
and Esquire Larkin, aged sixty-eight, resi-
ding near Bellair, Pennsylvania, recently ran
away and got married. They ran away from
their children, who opposed the.match.
Over nineteen hundred indictments for trea-
son or for giving aid and comfort to the enc
my have been found by the Grand Jury of
the United States Court for the District of
Nashville, Tennessee.
Hon. William A. Graham has refused to
take his seat in the North Carolina Senate,
because of the failure Of the President, it is
alleged, to grant him the beueft Of the am
nesty proclamation.
A military order has been issued at Wash
ington to discontinue the Old Capitol prison
and to transfer those now confined there across
the Potomac, to Fort Whipple. Carroll
prison is to be vacated in a similar manner.
The Mississippi House of Representatives
have passed. by a vote of "a to 9, a bill to
to provide for the support and education of
wounded and disabled soldiers, INDECENT chill
dren of deceased soldiers, and for the relief
of INDECENT families Of the State.
Rio Janeiro advices state that Col Wood
and party, who welt to Brazil to negotiate
for land for some six hundred Southern plant
ers, had met with an enthusiastic reception,
the Emperor promising all his aid in further
ance of the project.
While digging in sand pitat New Alba
n.y. Indiana, last week, some workmen struck
an immense tusk Of the purest ivory, seven
feet three inches in length, and at the thick
est part eight and one quarter inches in di-
ameter. It weighed nearly 100 pounds, and
is supposed to be that ola mastodon.
Lieutenant Colonel Hallonquist, formerly
of South Carolina, Confederate officer who
commanded a battalion of artillery in 1861,
and who was present at Santa Rosa Island
and Shiloh, has received the appointment of
chief of artillery from the Emperor of Mexi-
co.
ESCAPED Robert Toombs has escaped
from Georgia and sailed for Europe. twill
be remember that the Government officers at
tempted to arrest him at the same time Ste
phens and c. c. Clay were nabbed. They
proceeded to Toombs house, but he disappear
ed out Of one door as they entered at another.
They kill pigs by steam in Chicago A
great iron claw, with five fingers, hooks out
the pigs which are quarreling in the pens be-
low, and lifts the porkers to gibbet near by
and then plunges them into scalding water.
By this machine fifty porcines are killed ,scald-
ed, cleaned, split, and hung in rows ready
for sailing within an hour.
President johnson yesterday issued proc
lamation restoring the privilege Of the writ Of
habeas corpus in all the States except the fol-
lowing, viz: Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee,
North and South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas,
Texas, the District of Columbia and the Ter
ritories of Arizona and New Mexico
President Johnson has telegraphed to Gov
ernor Holden, Of North Crrolina, thanking
the latter for the efficient manner in which he
has discharged his official duties, but also
complaining that the result Of the recent cleo
tons in that State has greatly damaged the
prospects Of the State in the restoration Of
government relations.
The steamer Catherine Whiting, from
New York to New Orleans, was near being
lost in the late gale in the gulf She was
picked up at sea in a disabled condition and
towed into South West Pass Nixon's cir
Gus troupe, who were en- route for Texas,
as passengers, lost overheard all their trained
horses and large portion Of their tent equip
age.
Col. O. Brown, of the Freedmen's Bureau
in Richmond, has given notice to the Over
seers of the Poor Of Henrco, that he has
260 freedmen (paupers) belonging to the
city, who have heretofore been supported by
the Federal Government, and that he is ready
to turn them over as soon as arrangements
have been made ''to support and care for
them" The Overseers, it is presumed are
not at all anxious to supplant the U. S. au-
thorities in this matter.
| BosroN, Dec IA convention of the
colored people of New England is in session
here, for the purpose Of having the Constitu-
ton Of the United States SO altered as to fix
the general qualification for voters in all
States, to have settled what is citizenship in
the American sense, and to look to all mat
tiers concerning the colored man and his sta
tus in the land. c. L. Remond presides
over the convention, which is quite largely
attended.
The Richmond Enquirer says the snow fell
some distance south of Petersburg on the
Doth. Westward, it's faintest traces were
visible at Charlottesville: between that place
and Staunton not flake fell. it was very
s]iobt also at GOrdonsyilln At Beaver