The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-10


Mississippi Convention adopts an an
ti-slavery amendment to the Constitution
i The trial Of Henry Wirz, the rebel Amber
j sonyille jailer, commenced.
1 SEPTEMBER. ~
1.-THE internal revenue receipts this day
exceeded four millions.
5.-Johnson's island cleared of prisoners
/ 8.-Sir Morton Peto and party of Eng
lish capitalists visit the United States.
! Massachusetts and South Carolina
State Conventions assemble. Reconstruc
/ ton Convention of Alabama meet at Mont
gomery.
23..The Alabama State Convention re
cognizes the death of slavery.
/ 26.-Arrest of Fenians in Dublin still CON
tinues.
/ 3O.-Nearly all the New York theatres
withdrew their advertisements from the N.
Y. Herald on account of editorial dictation
1.-Connecticut votes against negro suf-
rage.
2-The North Carolina State Convention
met this day. Associated Press establishes
| its connection with the South by permission.
State election in Mississippi; General Hum
| phreys elected Governor. General Lee in
augurated at Washington College, Lexing-
| ton, Va.
| 3.-Governor Brownlow, in his message, is
"convinced that white and colored people
cannot live together, politically or socially,
as equals"
"A Tunisian Embassy arrives at New
| York en- route for Washington.
7-Great furry in England among persons
whose names were published in the list of
rebel bonholders. Several Indignantly deny
holding such stock. The total number of
| Fenians arrested to this date was two hun
dred.
S.LOutbreak of negroes in jamaica com
mences, which becomes formidable Many
lives are taken by the negroes who are after
ward overpowered and large numbers shot
and hanged.
| ia deputation from South Carolina
visit the President to intercede for JEFF. Da-
Wis. Messrs A. H. Stephens and Regan re-
leased from Fort Warren.
16.-Grand Firemen's parade in Philadel-
phia of Philadelphia and other cities COM
panies. Twenty thousand tiremen in line.
20.-Camp Ferguson hanged at Nashville.
23.-Mexican Republic place loan of
thirty mllllOnS Oh the market.
25-Florida State Convention meets.
2S-The Republic of Chill declares war
against Spain.
30-John Mitchell released from Fortress
Monroe The Georgia Convention petitions
the President on behalf of jeff Davis. The
President recognizes the Arkansas State
Government
$4,000 cattle had died in England of
the reinderpest to this date.
NOVEMBER.
3.-The steamship Atlanta arrives at New
York with cholera ON board, and is ordered
to Quarantine. Earl Russell installed as Bri-
fish Prime Minister, with Earl Clarendon,
Minister for Foreign Affairs.
6.-The pirate Shenandoah arrives at Liv-
erpool and is surrendered by her Captain,
(Waddell) He said he did not know the
war was over till very lately.
State elections in North Carolina,
Worth elected Governor) and in Nevada.
Louisiana State election, Mr. Wells chosen
Governor
10.-Henry Wirz was executed at Wash
ington.
13.-The Slavery Constitutional Amend
ment ratified by South Carolina
14.-St. Georges Church, Dr. Tvng's, in
Stuyvesant-square, New York totally des-
troyed by fire. The building and ground
cost $250,Q0O.
19-The South Carolina Convention pass
es an ordinance abolishing slavery.
20.-Grand reception to General Grant at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York.
A.-Stephens, the Fenian Head Centre,
escapes from prison. The Strong divosce case
commences before Judge Garvin
29.-The Slavery Constitutional Amend
ment ratified by North Carolina.
30-The President proelaims the restora-
ton Of the ha6eas corpus in various States.
DECEMBER.
4.-The thirty-nin Congress of the Unit
ed States opened Hon Schuyler Calfax re-
elected Speaker. The Virginia Legislature
met. J. B. Baldwin, Speaker.
7.-Thanksgiving Day celebrated.
9.-Fenian President O'Mahoney and Sc
cretary Killyan deposed and w. K. Roberts
elected President.
13-The House concurred in Senate's
amendments ofthe Committee on Reconstruc-
ton resolutions. Hon. Robert NJ Patton in
augurated Governor of Alabama.
lf-uiSSlSSippl IcpuuiatcS tuC IcDel Wal
debt, and ratifies the Constitutional Amend
ment with conditions. Gov. Jenkins, of
Georgia, inaugurated.
15.-Raphael Semmes arrested for escap-
ing after surrender of the Alabama. Cover
nor WORTH ofNorth Carolina, inaugurated.
1s-Secretary Seward formally announces
the final extinction of slavery in the United
States. The State Government of Alabama
restored by the President.
19.-The Georgia State Government re-
stored
21.-South Carolina State Government re-
stored.
23.-North Carolina State Government re-
stored.
26-Mississippi State Government restor-
ed. Texas and Florida the only States not
restored
2S-Governor Jonathan Worth, of North
Carolina, assumes office.
THE CoLoRED TROOPS INTERESTING STA
r1sT1cs.-The report of A. A. General W.
W. Foster, chief Of the bureau for colored
troops, shows that during the war 186O57
were lost from various causes. The largest
number of colored TROOPS in the service at
any one time was 1913, 1856 on the 18th of Ju-
ly, 1865, the date at which the mastering in
negro soldiers was stopped. At this period