Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-07
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Senator wilson's Pr0Eramme-KiIlins
of Two United States SOIdierS-Opin.
ion MOI COmpieted-Mr. Davis. etc.
NEW YORK, May g. The Herald's
Charleston special says Senator Wilson was
compelled to abondOn his visit TO Savannah,
and remained in Charleston yesterday. He
proposes to wind up his Southern campaign
by visit TO Kentucky and Tennessee In
his second speech in Charleston, he said
that he would favor con6scation, in the
event of freedmen being oppressed by the
planters for voting the Republican ticket
A report comes from Augusta, Ga, TO the
effect that two United States soldiers have
been hung in the Edgefield District, South
Carolina, by posse of citizens. No pre-
text is given for the outrage. By the latest
accounts, an officer of the army, with a
guard, were on their way to investigate the
matter.
A meeting of the Republican Club Of
Petersburg, Va, was recently held in that
city, at which about one hundred and fifty
persons were present The platform Of
the Richmond convention was adopted,
and committee was appointed to make
arrangements for the establishment of
Republican paper in that city, and TO pro-
cure and raise within the city limits the
United States flag.
The Times special says the time of the
Attorney General has been SO fully engaged
with the Injunction cases that he has not
yet completed his opinion on the disfran-
chising clauses Of the reconstruction act.
The Judiciary Committee are now all here.
Col. Weatherhy, of South Carolina, is
among the late arrivals Of witnesses. He
will be remembered as the gentleman who
had conversation with the President last
November, in which the President was
supposed TO have advised him against the
adoption of the constitutional amendment,
and it is on this point he will be ques-
TONED.
The Tribune's special says the friends of
JEFF. Davis have sent him a request that he
formally petition the President for pardon.
United States District Attorney Chand-
Ter tonight filed written request with the
President for an order on the commandant
of Fortress Monroe, to deliver Mr.. Davis
to the United States Marshal in case the
process shall be issued to bring the prisoner
before the United Stotes Circuit Court or
Judge Underwood. The order will proba-
bly be issued in accordance with that re-
quest tomorrow. The impression prevails
that when Mr.. Davis gets into the custody
of the Marshal, and under jurisdiction of
the court, the President ceases to have con
troll over the prisoner. This is a mistake.
The President can pardon either before or
after the trial of the accused, and his au-
thority to release prisoners is not affected
by the question of whose custody he may
be in.
The report which originated in a Ne
York evening paper, that Postmaster Gen
eral Randall had rendered his resignation
to the President, to be used at the discre-
ton of the latter, is unfounded 1t is de,
MED by both the President and Mr.. Randall.
A telegram from Gen. Sherman, ri ST.
Louis, received this morning, says that
Gen. Green Clay Smith is in that city and
will start for Montana tomorrow. Arms
have been sent TO that territory, and 1t is
understood that with these the people of
the territory would defend themselves.
Gen. Augur will soon be among Indians
who have occasioned the alarm, and orders
have been given to acting Gov. Meagher
that the arms shall not be used unless Gen.
Sherman shall sanction the necessity of the
call to arms.