The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-05-30

for equitable action of the court, py way "
injunction IS
The petitioner in this case claims to be
lawyer from Boston.
/ The colored people generally protest q
gainst his course as an uncalled-for lnterIer-
ence in their behalf
Jefferson Davis Allowed the Freedom Of the Fort.
FORTRESS MONROE, May 25 Instructions
from Washington were received this morning
by Major General Miles to give JEFF. Davis,
on his parole, the freedom Of the fort, retiring
to his room in Carroll Hall, at night. Messrs.
Shea and O'Conor, his counsel, have been al
lowed access to the fort and private inter
views with him at any time. Mrs. Davis left
here on the 23d instant, and was in Washing
ton yesterday, the date of the instructions
sent General Miles.
We are gratifed to learn that our energetic
Townsman, the Hon. R. r. Bridgers, has In
contemplation with Others to establish
Bank in our Town. There is nothing more
needed in our community, than Banking
facilities at this time, and no community In
the State has better prospects for making an
Investment of the kind pay. The Freedmen
of our county are discharging their Obliga-
TONS with the best possible feeling. The
employers are in fine spirits they have plant
ed literally, and crops, notwithstanding the
cool weather are very promising, all we need
or what zoe do need is some circutdtifg medium
in our midst to keep us going till our crops
are harvested. Tdrbor0' Soltterner.
General Grant on the Situation. !
Nelson Dincley. Jr., editor of the Lewton
(NIaine) Journal, and Speaker of the House
of REPRESENTATIVES of that State during the
winter of 1865, visited Washington few
weeks ago, and had the honor Of an inter
view with Lieutenant General Grant. He
spent an hour with the general, the subject
of conversation being the condition of the
country. General Grant intimated that it
would perhaps have been better for the
country had the war continued for a year
longer, adding further observations, ofwhich
Mr. Dingley made notes, as follows:
Referring to the tempter of the Southern
people, he remarked that they are much less
disposed now to bring themselves to the
proper frame of mind than they were one
year since, "A year ago, said he, they were
willing to do anything now they regard
themselves as masters of the situation. Some
of the rebel generals he added, are behav-
ing nobly and doing all they can to induce
the people to throw aside their old predju-
dices and conform their course to the chang
ed condition of things. Johnston aud Dick
Taylor, particularly, are exercising good
influence but he added, Lee is behaving
badly. He is conducting himself very diff
ferently from what had reason, from what
he said at the time of the surrender, to sup
pose he would. No man at the South is
capable of exercising tenth part of the in
fluence for good that he is, but instead of
using it he is setting an example of forced
acquiescence so grudging and pernicious in
its effects as to be hardly realized.
| "The men who were in the rebel armies,
said Grant, acquiesced in the result much
better than those who stayed at home. The
women are particularly bitter against the
| Union and Union men, of course he ad-
| ded, there is some bitterness of feeling
among all classes, but am satisfied it would
soon die out if their leading men had not
somehow got the idea that treason after all
was not very bad, and that the Southern
cause as they phrase it, will yet triumph,
not in war, but in politics In my judg-
ment, said Grant, the tone of certain men
and certain papers at the North is such as to
do incalculable mischief in making the late
rebels believe that they are just as.much en-
titled to rule as ever and that if they will
only stand by what they are pleased to call
their rights, they will have help from the
North This significantly added Grant,
is only playing over again the incipient stages
of the rebellion. He was confident that the
large majority of the Southern people would
smother their resentments and become good
citizens if these mischief-makers at the North
(the copperheads) would only let them alone
For himself, if be had the power, the first
thing he would do would be to seize the
New York Neacs and kindred sheets which are
giving the South so dangerous an idea OF
their own position and rights.
"Troops,' said General Grant, must be
kept in all the principal points in the South
for some time to come. This will be neces
sary to repress the turbulence of class Of
the South very dangerous to all well-dispos
ed persons, and also to protect the rights Of
the freedmen, who are looked upon with deer
hatred by very large proportion of the peo
pie.
The Congressional Committee at Memphis--Strik,
Of Negro Laborcrs.
CINCINNATI, May pa special despatch
to the Gazette, from Memphis, says the Con
gressional Committee sent there to investi
gate the recent riot arrived yesterday, ant
will commence their work to-day.
The colored levee laborers at Memphis
struck for higher wages yesterday, and at
tempted to parade the streets The Freed
mems Bureau authorities, fearing anothe
riot, caused the arrest of the strikers, ant
conveyed them to the 'front.'