The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-12-27
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Provisional Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi has
boon relieved by the President, and Governor Hum
phreys has been directed the duties OF Excu
tive oftthat State Five of the seven proyis iaaa!
Governots appointed by the President have now been
removedpy him to make way for the gen,enn clscicd
as their SUCCESSORS BY the pcoplc--vz. ilo4e OF Ala
bama Georgia South Carolina North Carolina and Mis-
sissippi. w ... %
General Crook has given orders In the Of two
roes recently sentenced in the county court at viii
mington North Carolina to be sold into slavery for
years for larceny that the must DO carried
into execution, on the ground that law be
forced which makes distinction between white and
black criminals The District Superintendent OF the Freed
mems Bureau has ordered revocation Of sentence,
default OF which the members OF the to be
faced under The North Carolina shcrins have
Deem instructed, by direct OF tho President
nforce the collection OF the tax levied by the consu
Uonai convention. man named Warning editor of q
per Charlotte has been arrested by order of General
Wugcr account 1t is supposed, Of the dsloya charac
ter Of articles In h,s journal.
No accounts have yet reached us oil any formidable
attempts the part Of the negroes in the Southern
ful outbreaks by them Christmas day which were
entertained by the white people In Norfolk Virginia.
negro attacked policeman with club, and shot
IN Manchester, the James river, opposite
Richmond, party OF coored men surrounded
lhc Jail and forced the release Of two colorld
prisoners, and in Alexandria negroes were engaged
in rotous proceedings, in which several per
are reported to have been shot; but there
does no. appear 10 haze been concert Of ac-
ton 10 these separate affairs. In Wilmington, North
Carolina, there fights between the whites md
blacks which assumed the proportions OF riot, calling
into requston the servlccs OF the police troops
who arrested about hundred negroes but the tee-
graphic dispatches state that there no evidence OF
any organized movement on the part OF tho latter
Some the proceedings Of the South Carolina Igis!a
tarc VII ch adjourned the 2ls inst, and the work.
gsof the free labor system so far in that State,
briefly reviewed In Charleston correspondence Laws
passed. among Others giving the election Of Pres
dent al electors directly 20 the people, for the organiza
ton OF the State militia, and creating thtyhree
district for the triad u cases In which
interested The question regarding payment of the
rebel war debt was given TO- committee with insruc.
tons report IL at the next session General Tobin,
one OF the larg planters of the state, IL making the
free labor system progress very satisfactorily on his plan.
tations He says the chief difficulty in the way of tho
success Of system tho forcgone conclusion on the
part Of the majority of planters that il must fail
The Chilean Minis in Washington has received in
formation OF the protest Of his against the
recent Spanish decision to treat pirates all persons
board Of the pvassers VI Chlc who not natives
shat country. II this decision acted by the Span
birds the sSvers rssliaory measures will follow on
The part o. ls Chi,sans.
The Mobile Register OF the 10Th inst In an article on
e government cotton agency system Of the south pro.
LOUNGES that institution total failure great public,
private, commercial and sccal misfortune, and source
or the hugest robbery and corruption II Gays that the
agents seize all the cotton in private hands they and
CHI r. ,fa he batar "a A.
ment and then as general thing appropriate 1t 10 their
emoIument and that from this example the planters
and other citizens have also been led into tho
cotton stealing business The paper also asscrs tina, Of
tbe hundred and twenty thousand bales of rebel gov.
ernment cotton surrendered by General Dick Taylor 10
General Candy scarcely ten thousand bales have been or
ever will be received by the national government the
Remainder having been stolen.
From the little struggling unattractive town o. Victoria
Texss on the Guadalupe river Of the HKnnp cor.
respondents sends 10 very Interesting account q affairs
IN the interior OF tina, State, and description Of hi ride
bf forty miles, from Indanoa behind famine stricken
Blk horse stage team, beneath broiling sun, along
b,rcak Of dusty road as straight as an arrow
sterile Texas prairie the perfect realization Of dcsola
Zion where no water runs. where neither tree shrub
grass nor flower grows and wber. neither house sign
" civilization is TO be The spirit Of enterprise and
Sc rage get rich have already since the conclusion 81
thetebeion penetrated tho most secluded recesscs Of
pbe werior Of Texas, and in every direction wherever
hore hany production 10 sell any inhabitants TO buy
goods purchasers selers the may require, arc
n the spa 70 meet the demand The state being over
own with tsm From Layaccs, on Matagcrda bay "a
Victoria dsspce Of about thirty miles, military rail
bad which willWeatly facilitate the operations Of mer
bants, 10 nearly completed regiment OF col9rsd
roops Is stationed a. Victoria Our correspondent, give
list Of twenty temenis in Texas which boni
bSxszza ~ On Tag N ~. Us found tbs oa0O'