Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-02-08

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Military Bill OF the Reconstruction Committee.
Whereas the pretended State governments
ofthe late so-called Confederate States of Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida,
Texas and Arkansas, were set up without the
authority of Congress and without the sanction
of the people; and whereas the said pretended
governments afford no adequate protection for
life or property, but countenance and encourage
lawlessness and crime; and whereas lis neces-
sary that peace and good order should be en-
forced in said so-called States until loyal and
republican State governments can be legally
established Therefore: ......
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States Of Amer
lea in Congress assembled, That the so-caed
States shall be divided into military districts,
and made subject to the military authority Of
the United States, as hereinafter prescribed;
and for that purpose Virginia shall constitute
the first district; North Carolina and South Car,
ohna, the second district Georgia, Alabama and
Florida, the third district; Mississippi and
Arkansas the fourth district; and Louisiana and
Ioxas the fifth district.
Sec g. That it shall be the duty OF the
General of the army to assign to the command
of each of the said districts an officer of the
regular army not below the rank OF brigadier
general, and to detail sufficient military force
10 enable such officer to perform his duties and
enforce his authority within the district 10
which he is assigned. ......
SEc 8. That it shall be the duty of each
officer assigned as aforesaid to protect all per-
sons in their right of person and property; to
suppress insurrection, disorder, and violence,
and to punish, or cause to be punished, all dis
turbers Of the public peace and criminals and
to this end he may allow civil tribunals to take
jurisdiction of and to try the offenders, or when
in his Judgment it may be necessary for the
tisl OF offenders, he shall have power to Or
ganze military commissions or tribunals for
that purpose, anything in the constitution and
laws of the 80 called States to the contrary not
outstanding; and ali legislative or judicial
proceedings or processes to prevent or control
the proceedings of said military tribunals, and
al interference by said pretended State gov
ernments with the exercise Of military authori-
ty under this act shall be void and Of no effect.
SEC. f. That courts and judicial officers of
the United States shall not issue writs OF habeas
corpus in behalf of persons in military custody
unless some commissioned officer on duty iI the
district wherein the person is detained shall
endorse upon said petition statement certify
ing, upon honor, that he has knowledge or in
tof ha Inirou ckopo Of
the alleged detention, and that he believes the
same to be wrongful; and further, that he be-
heves that the endorsed petition is preferred in
good faith and in furtherance of justice, and
not 10 hinder or delay the punishment of crime
All persons put under arrest by virtue Of this
act shall be tried without unnecessary delay,
and no cruel or unusual punishment shall be
inflicted. E5&
SEC. 5. That no sentence of any military
commission or tribunal hereby authorized,
affecting the life or liberty of any person, shall
be executed until it is approved by the superb
or officer in command of the district; and the
laws and regulations for the government of the
army shall not be affected by this act, except
in so far as they conflict with its provisions.
And "to this complexion,'' Reconstruc-
ton Restoration Peace Harmony,
UUOu DGEuuSS-uaSG Ill CUllc IL 1dSG
EMIGRATION OF CoLoRED PEoPLE.-There
is very considerable emigration of colored
people going on towards Florida. The induce.
ments in wages, &C., 10 some of the Cotton
States are beginning to have an effect. The
Wilmington On. C.) Journal says:
There seems to be general movement on
the part Of freedmen to emigrate to the South
west Planters and agents from various cotton
States have been oanvassing our own and ad-
joining States in the hope of procuring labor
Tor their plantations for the coming season.
Their efforts have been so far successful as to
induce large portion OF our laboring popula-
ton to accept their inducements.
The National Intelligencer says:
This movement of freedmen toward the
Southwest is the first practical illustration OF
the theory of Hon. Robert j. Walker, urged
In his argument in favor of the annexation OF
Texas, that that country will be the gateway
through which the negro population OF the
South would ultimately pass into Mexico and
the States of Central America, the climates OF
/ which are adapted to their natures. "
ACTIVE OLD AGE.-Count Philip Segur,