The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-12-08
News Summary.


From aud abput the south.
The North Carolina legislature met
mt Raleigh on Monday, and organized
by elacting Thomas Torril president Of
the Senate and T. f Phillips of Or
ange county, speaker of The House,
both good Union men 1t IS thought
the legislature will promptly ratify the
abolition amendment, and among the
other business to be done is the elect
ing Of two L. $ senator's, provisional
governor Holden being one Of the can
didates.
The Louisiana legislature met last
week, and the message of Gov Wells
has lust been delivered He says the
loyalty Of Louisiana is without reser-
walton, advises The speedy election of
L. :. senators, that means should be
adopted to pay all the states indebted
ness without heavy taxation, that the
parties interested be allowed to make
their own terms for labor, that AL inn
pedlmcnts to free emigration be re-
moved, that the state militia be organ
lied Immediately that the taxes levied
on colorod persons for educational
purposes be applied to their education
exclusively. The congressman elect
are Louis ST Martin, Jacob Barker,
r. c. Wckhfe, John L. King and
john Ray all democrats
Gov. Parsons OF Alabama recon-
mends to the legislature the passage
of m act declaring that freedmen shall
have the same means of protection as
is now received by the non voting
white population.
Ex-Governor William Aiken is elect J.
cd TO Congress in the Charleston, s. G..
district by small majority over three
other candidates. He was supported
by the out and out Unionists
Rumors are rife again that jeff Davis
is soon to be tried. and by military
commission; but nothing is really
known, and very little is cared about it.
. Quite a number of distinguished
! rebels have been ut Washington dur
ing the week seeking pardons, among
them Albert Pike and Ex-Gov. Cum
mngs of Utah Mrs Clement c. Clay
has been told that her husband, now
+ in Fortress Monroe with jeff Davis,
n win be tried
Army and Navy News.
Gen Grant has issued an order re-
@ lieying all the officers of the veteran
e reserve corps whose services can be
dispensed with, and Cen Terry is
Il sued an order on the oath ult., mus
: tcring out ten regiments of volunteers
now IN Vi ginia, including the I'd New
Hampshire, the Sth and 18th Connec
iicut and the 9th Vermont battalion
aud this is hailed as indicating a pur.
pose to relieve Virginia substantially
/ from martial rule.
'. Capt. Weiss, late jailor OF the ole
j. capitol prison, Is on trial before IA mill
: taly court, on charge of furni line
Wirz and other prisoners with forbid
= den Injuries.
g An army retiring board, to consis
y of Gen. Hancock, Meade and Hooke
( and Col Simpson, is soon to meet a
Il Philadelphia to examine and repor
" on all applications Of officers for re
T tiroment from the regular service
st Another commission, consisting o
TX Gems. Hitchcock Nat and Seth vii
IS liams was organized ON Monday, anc
-. is to investigate the alleged frauds a
" Boston, inducing German emigranji
h to enter our army as substitutes. b,
misrepresentation
Political and Personal.
IT, Congress met on Monday, Dee. 9Th
OF Mr. Mcpherson, clerk of The House
a has prepared the roll of members. bu
H. no names from the rebellious state
OF appear on it. Some Of the horde
al state congressman, those from Ten
O. nesseo, for instance, and those from
lie Virginia that can take the test oath
De will probably be admitted very soon
III but the majority of the members iron
the seeded states may think them
10 selves well off if they set in at all thi
v session. Eulogies upon Presiden
ne Lincoln and Senator Collamer of Yer
mont will be among the first business
rs of Congress, and the eulogies upo
40 Mr.. Lincoln will be printed in boo
50 at the public expense and literally dis
or tributed by the congressman.
VI The official majority for Gen. Co
40 SONclH pi VI OllO Is ZJ,JDO.
The official vote in Minnesota give
We Marshall, republican candidate 70
ial governor, 1890 majority, a republica
y, loss of 5000 since last year, while ne
OF gro suffrage is defeated by over 250
majority The republican majority o
up joint ballot in the legislature is %
Grimes and Casualties.
sc There continues to be an unusus
amount of crime, especially in tn
&c large cities, and robberes and nun
at- ders are daily reported. In Nashyill,
NV Tenn, there appears to be perfec
at reign of terror Two men, one a whit
re and the other a negro have been mul
derod there this week.
The two men who murdered Orteg,
'N the wealthy Cuban, at Brooklyn, la,
OF week, have both been arrested, an
on are now having their trial. Dani
IN Waleath of Mannheim, Herkimer coul
tie, ty New York, his wife and daughte
ga We're murdered in their house Monda
om night, and there is no trace of IL
lr. murderers.
WI Foreign Affairs.
lu, Semi official paue from, tho c;f,,