The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-05-26

DISPATCHES.
DATES TO MAY 10.
General News.

HE31 49, ~ iANf@4 't
closing with the recommc1l ation that the
services of agents in Virginia aud North
Carolina be dispensed with, aud that their
duties be performed by the officers com
handing the troops in tho Departments.
They snv there are ll4 military officers and
200 civilians employed as agents Of the Blu
reau IN these States, and that neither the
service rendered nor that received. nor the
character Of very many or most of its agents,
warrant the continuance Of their services.
Many of the agents are netting in harmony /
with the civil officers uf the States, and are
assisted md supported by the citizens in the
performance of their duties, but in many
places where agents are not men OF integrity
and capacity. II very bad feeling exists.
This originates in the arbitrary measures
and offensive interference Of agents or others
between planters and freedmen. These
agents exercise the widest latitude over iu-
dicial functieAs. and the effect produced is
bitterness and a~ntagonism between whites
and the freedmen, and a growing prejudice
agaiast the Government by planters, and
expectations ON the part of the freedmen
that can never be realized. The report saws
Opposition has been met on the south bank
of Trent river. in n settlement with exclu
isirely freedmen population, 1000 in num-
her, whose condition is truly deplorablc.
The Rev. Mr.. Fitz. formerly an army chap
lain. presides over this colony as the Assist
ant Superintendent of the Bureau. This
agent has exercised the most arbitrary and
despotic power, and practiced revolving and
unheard Of erue!ties. We found that he had
in two instances suspended freedmen with
cords around their wrists, but not touching
the floor, and kept them in this position in
ono case two, and in the other case four
hours; that he sentenced n freedman to i'm
p~risonment for three months for the trivial
~nfsense of wrangiing with his wife, and kept
another man arrested and shut M in prison
for months, while his wife and children were
reduced to ahlect destitniion and died with
the small pax that he took him from prison
nader guard and compelled him to bury his
children in the cradle in which they died.
In one instance he imprisoned six children
ten years old for PLAYING in the streets ON
the Sabbath. lie imposed n fine of sixty
dollars on an aged freedman for having told
another freedman that he was about to be
arrested By Fitz. This poor old man not
having the money TO pay the fac, was i'm
p~risonei Till the next dav. when his son paid
the fine. with three dollars additional Jail
fees. A tax was imposed. which Superin-
tendent Fitz SAYS goes To the support Of the
bureau. and is imposed on owners Of each
hut, for ground rdRt. If occupants fail to
pay this tax prom pits. they are either turned
into the streets or imprisoned.
There seems to be a hitch in the election
Of the United States Senator by the Connect
lieut. Legislature. The House on its part
eleeted Gen. Ferry, on the 18th, and the
| Senate was 10 have been called The next tlay.
but the Senate postponed the election one
week. Republicans from Washington say
! 49, III ua.k.cI- - E,oIl ar iJo
claims to have intelligence which the john
son men in Washington are happy over, that
three votes have been secured in the Connect
lieut. Senate. sufficient to secure a dead lock
Of the Scoviile party.
New York. May IA special dispatch
to the evening papers say the President
message to-day, inclosing Gen. Grants let
ter. asks for the immediate passage of a bill
to increase The regular army. The Lieut..
IGen. assigns as a reason for this request the
fact that more troops are necded..on The from.
tier and at the South. He also expressed tho
opinion that the troops cannot be withdrawn
from the South with safety for some time to
icome.
Mr.. Barreda, who has just arrived at
Washington from Europe, brings informal
ton that 1000 Austrian troops had been
sent TO Mexico since the determination to
withdraw the French troops was made pub
lie, and he suspects from the date of ship
meut that the protest BY Seward had already
} been nude to the Austrian Government.
New Orleans. May 16.-Gwin was re-
; leased on parole, without conditions. lie
refused to take the oath of allegiance, pre-.
ferring to leave the country. lie is visiting
his friends in the city to-day. Robert
Toombs left for Europe on the 10th of May.
Chicago, MAY 1.-THE Illinois Republi-
can State Convention is called to meet al
} Springfield on the 18th of August. The
/ call is addressed to these who are in favor OF
9 keeping traitors out Of Congress, and assert
ing and maintaining the right of the loyal
2 people, through their Representatives in
, Congress, to FIX and determine the condition
on which the States lately in rebellion shall
be permitted to participate in the Govern
ment.
1t is said that the indictment of JEFF. Da-
Wis was drawn to meet the provisions of the
Act of the 18th of judy, 1862, which pro
i vides that any person who shall hereafter
put IN foot or engage in rebellion against
: the United States shall be imprisoned fol
e not exceeding ten years, or fined not exceed
ing SIC, 900. Judge Field, of the Supreme
Court, has expressed the opinion that thin
I law repeats all previous provisions Of The
s law for the punishment of treason.
Washington, May 18.-It is reported thai
= short diplomatic notes have recently passed
f between Mr.. Seward and the French Minis
! ter in regard to the French and American
troops lately landed at Vera Cruz. Sewar6
insists that no more troops must be sent t
s Mexico, oven to take the place of the killee
or disabled, or whose terms have expired
The French Minister says the landing o
4 these endorsements will not delay evacuation
as heretofore specified.
L Chicago, May l9.-The Tennessee Senate
y yesterday rejected the resolution looking t
. the creation of East Tennessee as an indie
pendent State.
/ The Union State johnson Convention of al
who voted for President Lincoln in 1860
and now support President johnson, ha
been called to meet at indianapolis on tn
Both inst.
Maine, died on s~hipboard returning from til
West Indies, where he had gone for hi
if health.
n Washington, May l9.-Some six week
ago General Howard recommended to tn
President that when practicable some Office
in each of the Southern States be designate
by the department commander and commi.
sioner Of Frcedmen's Bureau, in oEaer {
bring about more harmony of actioSs 18Th
suggestion was adopted with respect to Mi
sissippi, and an order has been issued f
Z carrying it into effect in Alabama and Geo
Of gia and both the Carolinas. The Presidel
. has directed General Howard to cause I'll
arrest Of every officer Of the Bureau in Mort
n Carolina who is engaged or pecuhiarily il
a t~erested in the cultivation of plantations, an
! General A. E. Strong has been. ~despatcht
to execute the order. Judge Advocate Gel
OF eral Holt has been instructed by the Pros
dent to make charges against these Office
with a view of their trial before u cou
martial.