The New York herald., 1865-07-26
THE SITUATION.

THE STU ATION.
Provisional Governor Lewis Parsons Of Alabama,
has issued his proclamation announcing the naugura
ton of for the restoration Of civil
government IN that State. The 3rst Of August
is the day appointed for the election Of delegates
10 the State convention, which is to assemble
the 10th Of September. The greater portion of the
county and town officers who, under the rebel
ssgime, officiating the ed of May last, when
rebel authority ceased reapponted to the positions
which they to hold during the continuance Of the
provisional government but they all required to take
the oath of allegiance the national government and
to give bonds for the performance Of their duties
The Governor comments the present condition Of
the South and the ruin and suffering which the has
caused informs the people that Notwithstanding this
they have to-day every political right which they pos
before the war; excepting the right hold slaves
and slavery he tells hem is irrecoverably gone and
is the part of wisdom make the they of the
order Of things
His Excelency James Johnson, Provisional Governor
Of Georgia, has also issued his proclamation calling
State convention and appointing day for clectng dele
gates thereto The election is be held on the 4th
Of October, and the convention will assemble in Mil
Iedgeville on the 25h Of the month The citizens
are reminded that in order to be entitled to vote
to become candidates for election to the con-
vention they must previously subscribe to the
oath Of allegiance to the national government
and this they earnestly advised to do. They
info els is aytip
fore person in the State hereafter control the
labor Of another excepting far he may be legally
enied to do by the terms of contract voluntarily
tered into by the laborer. The administration Of civil
Jaw, to great extent, is to remain in allegiance till
Etate government shall have been chosen but the
meantime order will be preserved, il necessary by the
military.
All the States in the Union provided with
civil Executives either elected or appointed The fol-
lowing shows the States which have Provisional
Governors appointed by the President, with the
OF the ncumbents and the date of appo ntment:-
STATE. Provisional Corrnor. When appointed
North Carolina. William ". Holden. May 90 1865
Mississippi. viii am l. sharkey June 13, 1865
Georgia ........ james Johnson. June II, 1865.
Texas. Andrew j. Hamilton June IT, 1865.
Alabama 80. Lewis +. Parsons. June 81 1865.
South Carolina. Benjamin +. Perry. June 30 1865
Florida ......... am Marvin July 13 1865.
Elections have been ordered in the following of these
States for the purpose of rcorganzng according to the
proclamation Of the PRESIDENT
Safe Time of Election Time Of Convention.
Mississippi. .... August 7, 1865 August Ia, 1855
Alabama. August 81, 1906 September TO- 1865.
Georgia. October 4, 1865 October 25, 1868
South Carolina. November 90 1885.
Interesting Charleston dispatches OF the 22d inst.
furnished by the arrival here yesterday Of the
steamship Granada The III feeling which has been for
time growing up between Of the white SOL
ders and the citizens the side and the negroes
the other has resulted the mutny Of the Ono Hun.
dred and Sixty fifth New York infantry, their disarmng
and the commitment Of the privaes OF the organization
TO Fort Sumter and the officers Charleston Jail The
difficulties which led to this result are now under inves
tieation by Generals Gilmore and schuz Tho city of
Charleston which until recently in turbulent
don owing to these troubles has bcen restored TO
order.
Great des,,ution Is said to still exist in the interior of
South Carolina among all classes Of people who sui.
firing for the Of the bares necessities Of life, and
an agent has been sent the North funds for
their relief Mail facilities between Charleston aud the
interior have been much improved of late The cars
now run as far Orangeburg and IT Is hoped TO have
the railroad 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 cotton of the state yet enabled TO reach
Charleston but much TO the dorimcnt Of the business
Of that city, being diverted TO Augusta and Savannah
General Fisk, Assistant Commissioner Of Freedmen
Refugees and Abandoned Lands for the States Of Ken
lucky and Tennessee, in a communication TO the Freed
mems Bureau in Washington describes the agitation in
tho former State the subject Of ra,ifying the anti
slavery amendment the Constitution as very great but
1e fcars that Kentucky will one Of the states
approve IT,
General Palmer military commander in Kentucky, has
issued order giving freedom and granting passes TO
n the slaves who will leave the State aud great exodus
O these people to the north side OF the Ohio river is in
trogrcss
most interesting narrative Of experience in the
South since the conclusion Of the Is given by one Of
the HsRAD correspondents from board Mississippi
river steamer This gentleman has been for weeks
engaged in putting gdle about the circumference Of
aiming W. internal condition. has had the fullest
opportunities for sbssrvsuop Some valuable lnforma