Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-12-23

Of Affairs in Georgia Negroes
Butehered and Northern Me DriV.
nlnicn-An Alabama Judge Repu-
Liates the Test ORih!-Rydicnl Res
oIutions in Compensatory Trial
Demnnded forthWith-HiS Criminal
Associates likewise called Tor, before
the Bar of Justicc-Inquiry Into the
Restoration OF Property TO Rebels,
from Freedmon>s PossessiOu.
NEW York, Dec. 22.-Joseph F. Bar
ker, awealthy oil merchant doing busi-
ness at l4S Front street, where he has
been located for the last twenty-five years,
committed suicide last evening by shoot
ing himself with a pistol. He was labor
ing under a temporary 1t of insanity, in
duced by recent heavy pecuniary losses.
Reports from Georgia give woful pic
lures Of affairs in the interior of that State.
The country is traversed by bands Of out
laws, who shoot negroes and commit
other like ou,rages. All Northern men
are driven out. IL USE 10
Governor Eyre. Of Jamaica, has pub
lished an exceedingly able defense Of the
conduct of the British troops during the
late pretended insurrection. Of the gray
ity of the uprising, some idea may be
formed from the fact that not a single
casualty has befallen the soldiers or sail
ors /; and they are all in good health.
There is not a single fact to justify the
wholesale hanging Of men, against whom
there was moi, a particle Of proof of any
participation in the outrnges committed.
Public indignation in England is rising
rapidly on the subject.
New YORK, Dec. 20.-Judge Busted,
of the United States District Court for
Alabama, has decided that the Congress
sional oath for attorneys and civil author
tiles is unconstitutional.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-In the House,
Bromall, of Pennsylvania, asked leave TO
introduce a resolution asserting that the
termination of the recent civil war has left
lately usurped territory in the hands OF
the c~onquering power, and without politi-
cal rights ; and that the political condition
| Of the people in the late rebellious States
must be fixed by the supreme Legislative
power; that the effect Of the amnesty is
to relieve individuals of punishment for
crime, but no to confer political rights ;
that Congress should confer the necessary
power to enable them TO form their own
State governments, but this cannot be
done until the rights of those among them
who have been always true to their allie
glance shall be protected, etc.
Lawrence, Of Ohio, offered the follow
ing: Resolved, That public justice and
National security demand that, as soon as
may be practicable, JEFF. Davis, the repre-
sentative man Of the rebellion, should have
a fair and impartial trial, in the highest
appropriate civil tribunal of the country,
for treason the most fragrant in character
by him committed ; in order that the Con-
stitution and laws may be fully vindicat-
ed, and truth clearly established and
affirmed f;
Resolved, That Treason is a crime, and
tina, offense must be made infamous, and
at the same time the question must be
judicially settled, finally and forever
| that no State, of its W will, can renounce
its place IN the Union.
Resolved, That public justice and Ma
,ional security require that in case OF the
conviction of said JEFF. Davis, sentence OF
the law should be called into effect, in
order that the Constitution and laws may
be fully vindicated, and faithfully execut-
ed, and the truth clearly established that
treason is a crime, and that traitors should
be punished and that in like manner, and
for like reasons, such Of the most culpa-
BILE of the chief instiga,ors and conspirators
of the rebellion, as may be necessary to
satisfy the demands Of public justice, and
furnish security for the future Of the Ma
ton, and those c~riminally responsible for
the murder and starvation Of Union pris-
oners Of war, should be tried and punish
ed for the high crimes of which they have
been guilty, that justice should not fail OF
its purpose; and
Resolved, That all who are guilty of or
are responsible for the assassination OF the
late President of the United States, and the
great offenders during the recent rebellion,
guilty of and responsible for murder and
starvation Of Union prisoners OF war, as
well as those guilty Of or responsible for
other unparalleled violations of the laws
Of civilized warfare, are amenable to, and
could be tried. convicted and punished by
military tribunals, authorized by the Uni
ted States and sanctioned BY the common
laws of war and civilized nations.
Resolved. that whenever, and so far as
may be necessary to secure ends OF justice,
the Committee on Judiciary be instructed
TO inquire what legislation, it any. be
necessary to provide juries for treason
trials, and to carry into effect the purposes
of the foregoing resolutions; and that said
committee report by bill, or otherwise.
Thadeous Stevens, Of Pennsylvania,
offered a resolution, that Gen. Howard,
superintendent of the observation-disclosures
be directed to inform this House whether
any rebel property allotted BY him to
freedmen had been subsequently restored
to rebels.
Rev. F. S. RIsINo.-It was reported,
yesterday. that this distinguished divine
was seriously i'll. We learn. to-day, that