Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-27
Southern News.
The TaIIahasse COnycntion.

NEW YORK, November ga Tallahasse
correspondent to the Times, under date OF
| 9Th inst, states that the convention adjourn
ed sine die on that day.
Governor Marvin, in his address on the
| closing of the convention, after congratulat-
| ing them upon the measures adopted. ad-
| vised them to give the negroes full liberty
to 60 where they pleased, advising them to
make new engagements for the coming year,
and stated that after the middle of January
those not having made engagements, and
being idle and dissOlute, would be treated
| by the authorities as vagrants.
Governor Marvin states that the action of
| the Convention was free and uninhuenced
by any other consideration than those of
justice and sound policy.
Florida Items.
The emeute at Mariana. previously re-
ported by the Savannah Herald, caused
serious apprehension, but General Foster
had sent company of the 7th Regulars to
quell the disturbance.
North Carolina News.
RALEIGH, November 2G.-The Legislature
meets tomorrow. A large number of mem
bers have arrived.
Governor Holden is still confined to his
bed from sickness.
DR.. Powell the State agent at Washington
but they are not vet made public.
Messrs. Pool, Read, Holden and others are
spoken of in connection with the Senator
ship.
1t is Thought that tho constitutional
amendment will be ratified by the Legis
lature.
Prominent gentlemen who had been to
Washington, are not very hopeful as to the
future of the State and reconstruction.
From the Crescent City.
New ORLEANS, November 2j.-The test
oath has been urged before the District
Court here for two days. Judge Durel init
mated, to-day, that he considered the law
unconstitutional.
The Monroe (La.) paper speaks encOur-
agingly of the prospects of cotton planting
in that section.
The same paper says that a large number
Of emigrants from Alabama and contiguous
States are going to Texas.
Trials.
In the United States District Court, at
Mobile, proceedings were had on the appli
cation of Mr.. Dexter, late Treasury Agent,
for a writ of habeas corpus General
Woods refused to release Dexter on the
ground that the writ had not been restored
in Alabama. The charge alleges malfeas-
ance in office and Dexter is held for trial by
a military court The Judge of the Dis
trict Court decided that Dexter was unlaw
fully held and entitled to a discharge.
Dexter's counsel moved for an attachment
against Woods returnable in two weeks,
which the court granted
Thomas j. Carver, Special Bonded Agent
of the Treasury Department, for Chocktaw
Bounty, Alabama, was tried at Mobile by
the Military Commission, on the charge Of
fraud in reven ue transactions. He has
been sentenced to pay fiEe of $4,000 and |
70 one years Imprisonment at hard labor in |
Nashville.
Property Surrendered.
NEW ORLEANS, November 26. - The |
wharves and landings have been relinquish- |
ed to the city authorities, the Government |
ressrving 1000 feet of levee for its own use. |
Texas Convention.
Governor Hamilton's proclamation calling |
a Texas Convention says all qualified voters |
having taken the Amnesty oath or been par
doned are eligible, even if the oath was ia
ken or the pardon received subsequent to |
the election.
Seizure of Cotton.
Gov. Wells, an appointed agent, seized 500 |
bales of cotton in the Galveston ship Swan |
from this city, the property of Louisiana.