Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-05-09
Political Notes.
"A convention Of colored citizens OF
Alabama has recently been In session in
Mobile.


Alabama has recently been In session in
Mobile.
The Ben. Butler clubs of New Or
leans have voted to merge with the Re-
publican organization.
The Republican Central Union Com
mittee of New York has passed a reso-
luton in favor of impartial and univer-
sal suffrage.
In Baltimore the colored men have
taken part in Republican primary cleo
tons, and all the wards have sent mixed
delegations to the convention of the
party,
The last of the Fenian prisoners in
Toronto, c. w, was on Wednesday SEN
fenced to be hanged June II, the Judge
at the same time expressing his belief
that the sentence would not be exc
cuted.
"A Portland paper says that it has
deem decided that the Republican State
Convention of Maine will be called on
the 9th Of June and held at Augusta.
This will bring it in the same week
Of the Democratic Convention, being
held two days later.
Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, on leaving
Washington the other day, was pleased
to express himself as greatly satisfied
with the course questions were taking,
and Fsaid that he was more hopeful
Of the future than he had been for
months.
Before the war, John Bell Of Ten.
nessee owned six hundred negroes, worth
a quarter of million, at least, and was
the principal owner in the large iron
works at Chattanooga, which were burned
in 1862. He is very much disguised
with politics and affairs generally, and
has no sympathy with the new condi-
ton Of affairs.
Gen. Grant has ordered that a COM
pany Of cavalry shall accompany num-
Der of professors from Bloomington,
H., on scientific tour to the Western
slope Of the Rocky Mountains. The ex-
podition will be absent about three
months, and will be furnished with sub
sstenCe.
An impartial suffrage meeting has
been held in Camden, New jersey which
was addressed by James M. Sco7el and
several cOlored orators. A call las also
been issued for a State Convention of
the Republican party Of New jersey, to
be held at Trenton on Tuesday, June 4,
for the purpose Of discussing the ques-
ton of impartial suffrage, and the duty
of the party in relation thereto.
DR.. VIM. Boyd, one of the original
anti-slavery men of Washington, has
been denied permission to register as
voter on the ground that he had been
convicted of an infamous crime and had
been sentenced to imprisonment in the
penitentiary. The crime was running
slaves from the District Of Columbia un-
der the old laws prior to the emanCipa-
ton. DR.. Boyd intends to appeal from
the decision Of the register to the Su-
preme Court of the District.
An extraordinary sight waswitness-
ed in the principal London streets re-
Gently. Rather more than a thousand
| Of the most miserable WretChes hat ev-
er wore the garb of humanity formed a
| procession and marched in silence from
the neighborhood Of Mapping and
Whitechapel to the aristocratic quarters
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was in rags and every face bore tie un-
mistakable marks of privaton and
want. A banner or two told their char
acter and distress. There are forty
thousand of these starving people in
London.
Referring to statement that the
New York Central and Broadway Sur
face railroad interests have made up q
joint purse of 100000 to carry their
bills through the New York legislature
over the Governors veto, the New York
Herald pithily remarks: IF it should
be done, the people will know where the
State prison is and where the State leg
islature is and what is the comparative
moral standing of the two" Mr.. Beech
er alluded in his sermon on Sunday to
the corruptiOnists at Washington and
Albany, and said Of them: They were
debauchers Of the young they were the
traitors they that had lifted the sword
were not half so much traitors: thew
that despoiled the old banner and trod
1t under foot they that fired upon the
government of the United States were
not so much traitors as were those YER
min who were crawling under the found
ations and destroying by corruption
the vital power Of the government"