Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-04-13
NEWS ITEMS.


Hon. d. L. Yulee. of Florida, has been
released from Fort Pulaski, by order Of the
President.
The peace proclamation is generally I'M
derstood as abolishing Gen Grants order re-
garding the press.
The President recommends that the South
ern States be allowed to assume the payment
Of the direct tax.
The Pennsylvania House has passed bill
providing that colored persons shall not be
excluded from the passenger cars.
The Mobile Tribune says genuine, I'M
mistakable case of cholera had made its APP
pearance in that city.
Vicksburg is partially inundated the
levce is threatened with destruction, and
planters fear an overflow of the country in
that section.
A vessel which is exciting some curiosity
has just arrived at the port of Mobile. tits
supposed she will last forever and never sink,
as it is made entirely out Of cork.
The Mexicans have gained decided VIC
tory near Paros. They killed Baron de Bri-
an and 96 of his men. and came near captur-
ing the remainder of the French under Gen
Donag.
TURN THEN THE House of Repre-
sentatives has turned out another Conserva-
tive and put in another Radical Ousting
Mr.. Brooks, of New York, to put in Mr.
Dodge.
The General Conference Of the NJ. f.
Church, South, commenced its session in
New Orleans, on the 9th. The attendance
is large, and includes some Of the Oldest pa
triarchs known in the denomination.
The United States troops in Mexico, whose
terms of service have expired, continue
mutinous. Over sixty men of the 18th Ohio
are under arrest at Galveston, with negro
guard over them.
| PARDON. -The Governor has pardoned
James W. Smith, convicted by the Circuit
| Court of Botetourt of malicious shooting, and
sentenced to one years Imprisonment in the
Penitentiary.
General Henry A. Wise, whose parole
restricted him to the limits of the Military
Department of Richmond, has been author
lied by General Grant, to visit any part Of
the United States.
The Claremont Hotel and Bangs's hotel
and restaurant, New York, were destroyed
by fire Friday morning, together with other
valuable buildings in the vicinity. Loss
$780, 900.
The New York courts have decided that
a negro is not the equal of a white man, and
consequently that the managers Of the street
railroads have right to exclude them from
white peoples cars.
A Galveston dispatch, dated on the first
of April, says that cotton in Texas is up and
promising well; corn is depressed, but wheat
promises the largest crop ever reaped The
RICHMOND, april THE French Com
pany has formally signifed its acceptance of
as amended by the Legislatures Of Virginia
and West Virginia.
Partial returns from the election in Indi-
ana on Monday show decided Democratic
gains. In Evansville, the strong Radical
citadel of the State, the Democratic ticket
was elected by handsome majority.
General 7. D. Singleton, of Illinois, for
merly a volunteer Peace Commissioner, is in
Washington, advocating the reputation of
the national debt. He talks of getting up
a mutiny in New York to start the ball
3. c. Truman, correspondent of the n.
Y. Times, who has completed seven months
tour through the South, testifes before the
Reconstruction Committee, it is said, favor
ably to the Southern people, including the
! freedmen.
Captain Raphael Semmes was released on
his original parole under the Johnston-Shcr
idan convention, by order Of the President
Friday afternoon. He left the Marine Bar
racks in the evening at o'clock for Balti-
more, accompanied by his wife.
The New York Tribune says: Hon. A.
H. Stephens is greatly ''lionized' in Wash
ington and expects his seat in the United
States Senate soon. 1t is alleged that he is
there on summons to appear before the recon-
struction committee
Considerable interest has been excited BY
the discovery of quicksilver in spring in
Jessamine county, Kentucky. 1t makes its
way out of the same crcvice as the water,
and several pounds recently taken out have
proved to be of the purest quality.
A call for a national woman's rights con-
vention to meet in New York on the 10th
of May next, has been issued AS the qucs-
ton Of universal suffrage is up, the woman's
rights phase Of the subject is in order for dis
cussion.
Twenty-nine negro paupcrs were buried
in Louisville, Kentucky, last month"; and
one white paupcr. The record is black in
more senses than one. 1t marks the CLEAN
of philanthropy so-callcd 1t is lustrous
with misery It's the echo of the freedmans
shout
A proposition was offered in the Senate
on Friday to admit the Southern States on