Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-12-23
Affairs In the South.


sentenced on Saturday last to pay fine OF
$3.50; (which be did, and was then dis
charged He was convicted OF having violated
the civil rights bill in sending negro man
out OF the city, &c.
The Columbus (Ga., y Inquirer says that the
trial of the negro conspirator and revolu iomst,
Shorter, at Union Springs Alabama, result
in his conviction, and he was sentenced to jail
for six monts. On the trial material facts
heretofore published about his organization OF
q negro government in Bullock county, were
produced. There is a report that Shorter
has broken out of Jail and escaped. Even
those of his own color, it is said, are lncensed
against him, as an inceudiary cmissary.
The GreenvilIe (Ga. Advocate says that the
negro who, few days ago, shot q woman be-
cause she refused to marry HIM, Was .appre-
hended on yesterday by several OF his own
color, who had sworn vengeance Tor the black
and wicked deed. He was armed and showed
pluck, and it was not until after he was severe
" wounded by gunshot, which will probably
prove fatal that he was made prisoner.
Gen. Ord, has, by military orders, directed
ssGep. Adam c. GiIlenl, colonel 24th U. ). IN
fantry, assistant commissioner Of the Bureau OF
Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
for the State of Mississippi, to proceed to
Washington, and represent to the President
aud Secretary of War the starving, condition
of the freedmen in large number OF the coun,
ties in his sub-district, due to the run and
bankruptcy Of cotton planters, and the absence
| of corn or the means to buy 1t. lie Will report
| the absolute necessity OF some provision belng
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| freedmen, and avert a war OF races IN such sec
! tions as are without food.
Gen. Ord, in Mississippi, issued on the 7th
| inst, military order, directing commanding
| officers, in that State ito notify the leading
coIored men, and to take such other meas
ures as may be necessary to give general pub
| LEGATION of the fact, that all freedmen who are
able, will be required to earn their support dur
ing the coming year, and to go to work upon
| the best terms that can be procured, even
| should it furnish support only, and thus pre-
| vent them becoming burden to the govern
| mont Ali freedmen who can, but will not
earn livelihood when employment can be
| procured, will lay themselves liable to arrest and
punishment as Migrants. The co operation Of
sheriffs and constables, and police magistrates
| is requested in the Increment OF this order,
| and any such action of theirs, under lts provs-
ions, will be sustained by the military author
| tiles y
The commissioner sent to MillcgeviIle by the
| Georgia RECONSTRUCTED" Convention to draw
! $40 900 from the State Treasury TO pay its cx-
penses so far, returned and reports no funds.
| The State Treasurer said he was bonded not
to pay any OF the public moneys except on war
rant signed by the Governor. The commits,
sioner made 10 application to Crow. Jcnk ms.
| The Finance Committed had failed 10 negotiate
| a loan for the Convention expenses with capt.
| tasts in Atlanta.
A memorial is in circulation among the cot
ton factors in Charleston praying Congress, in
! view of the PROSTATE condition of planting IN
terests, to make an appropriation to assist fac
| tors in making advance to planters.
The Cincinnati Gazette has tie following ac-
count of the deplorab!c condition of affairs IN
Mississippi: The state OF things is appa'l-
ing Distress, want and misery are even now
stalking abroad What it may come to in the
dead of wiuter, God only knows. Every kind
OF business here is Frustrated. Planters arc
bankrupts by the failure OF the crops, and In
volve the merchants who advanced for them on
the strength of the growing crops The dis
tress here will be equal, [ am afraid, to the
Irish famine Of 1917 and 1913. assure you,
you never saw such distressed and ruined
people as. he people Of Mississippi. .
AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. we do not
know when we were more astonished than we