Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-03-28
as- The Washington correspondent of the

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Now York Herald says intelligence was conveyed
to tho President, on the 15th of The election Of
John T. Monroe a, mayor iof the city of New
Orleans. iItnill be recoiIected that Monroe ufss
tho mayorof Eaw Orleans when that city was.
taken BY the United States forces in April, 1859.
lie refused to submit to the Federal authority and
was confined in afore Hsvas nfterWard released:
and hss continued out-spoksn in his disioyaty to
the Government. The President has authorized
dispatch 10 bc sent to- oGGov. Wells, requesting
tho latter to Withhold the credentials OF election
from Monroe, aud thus prevent his assumption Of
the oAicO Of mayor.
Gas- Tho General Conferanre of the Methodist
Kpiacopal Church South, COMPOSED OF delegates
from all the annual conferences the entire
Church, will meet in ,New 0rlean' On the first
Wednesday in April TheGeueral Assembly has
tonLersd the Legi.lativo Hall for tho use Of the
conferences. Nearly twohupdred ministers viii be
present from every section Of tho South, and tue
session will probably continue one month.
aa- Mics Harriet Pinckney, second daughter
Of General Charles Catesxorth. Pinckncy, died in
Charleston, last Thursday evening. The deceased
mas over ninety years OF age.
eg1 The Jackson sfM;ts.) Stanford says:
"The citizens OF Jackson arc still improving
their homes, and tadngsarc going up constant
ly. We predict that in two years there will not
DO trace of the war left, except in the scared
al .o,,, ~ 49, bora. yad Oenpln
1a- The negros, Of Raleigh have resolved in
meeting not to inn ports o Yankee doctor, but to
pat.onizc the Raleigh physicians az long as they
make no distinction on account Of color.
&r L. J. Bri,ton, tho leader Of the guerilla
band in the robbery of the steamer Belfast, has
been sentenced by military commission in Mobile
to'pay a;fine Of $1,000, sud be imprisoned ten
ysars: Tho prisoner will be sent to Nashville for
tho execution Of the imprisonment clause Of his
sentence. . =. -.
.EI Itis,stated that Gen., Scott, who is at New
Orleans, La, dnhesitatngly endorses all that
President johnson uttered in his speech on the
22d ult. He expressss1he hope that he will yet
sse the North and South moro firmly bound to-
g.thcr than ever, and that to effect this, Prcsi-
dent johnson has adopted tho only true and proper
| course.
g A New York special, of g recent date,
says the President told somo Coagres.men yes
terday that he egardedLouisinna more loyal than
she had been since her purchase, and South Caro-
lua moro loyal than she had been for thirty
years.
~ The Committee on Reconstruction have
reported the testimony Of Gen. Custar, who state,
that ho has Travelled all over Ts1as, and found
the mass of tho people exceedingly bitter against
the Government, moro so than five or six months
ago. He mentioned, among other facts, that the
| grand jurios have, during q fcw months past
found 500 indictments FOR the murder of Union
mon and others, but not ono of the guilty par,e:
hdre been convicted. t..
@y> We aro pleased to learn from one Of the
New York papers that the impression gains ground
that, though Capt. semnes will be tried BY q
mixed commission, composed of military and
naval oficers, his conviction and release will turn
almost solely upon tns question of whether oI
not he violated the usage, Of war in escaping
from his vessel after striking his flag. 1t is con.
ceLcd ha. the laws of war justified his burning
sinking anu destrying his prizes, and that he i:
protected by tho terms of Lees surrender from
acts Of lawful warfare.
ey' The Brazil fororis said to have broken
out 10 tho wcstern part of North Carolina, and a
contemporary In Ashevillo makes the assertion
that fully fourth Of the corporate limits Of
that town il adrcrtizet@for salo by persons de.
signing to omigrate.
1S- The noble hearted women Of Franklin
Tenn, arc making arrangements to have the
Confederate dead of Hoods army, that he buried
along the lines, takcn up, coffined, and deccntly
inferred in cemetery that has been contributed
by COL John McGavock.
Hss- The Froodmcn's Barcau in Marshall coun.
ty, Tonn., hos made itself obnoxious to the in.
hcbtants. How strange!
E Tho Petersburg Express says: The bones
of many sodiors-not few of them Confederate:
lie bleaching on tho lines Southwest of the
city. The lato heavy rains washod away thc
shallow covering Of Garth that hid thcm from
view, and skulls and other bonca of tho dead liz
scattered bore and there This should not be. A
human bone is too sucred to bo thus thrown
about the fields.