The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1867-03-09
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.In,Troy, New York, the Democrats have car
ricd the charter election.
Judge Moody, of the ST. Louis Circuit Court,
on trial before the joint session of the Missouri
Legislature, has been found guilty.
The citizens of Boston have subscribed
y 900 for the relief of the destitute at the
South.,
In Tennessee, Brownlow has. issued order
to organize volunteer force to serve three
years under his command, and act as military
police to oprcserve peace and protect the people.
Admiral Raphael Semlncs has assumed the
position of editor-in-chicf of the Memphis Bul-
lctim, and will be assisted by the former editor,
Colonel,L. J, Dupre.
Wn-1enrn from the Kco,ccce Courier that
Perry Durham, who has been under the sen
tence of death for the murder of Colonel Thos.
Miller has had his punishment committed by
Governor Orr to Imprisonment in the 'pcniten-
tiary. for life.
A colored man has been made Il clerk in the
Z Treasury Department at Washington. lie was
+ formerly President Lincolns barber, and his
appointment is believed to be the first instance
on record of colered mans obtaining clerk
= ship under the Government.
Any one, says the Augusta Constitutionalia,
who has ever taken an oath to support the
! Constitution of the United Statcs-no matter
lwhen-that advocates the Sherman Bill. which
las been passed by both Houses of the Thirty
IL. D.
mor.'lly guilty of perjury.
A Washington dispatch says Surratt will
doubtless prove an altJi on the night of the
assassination. He was unqucstionably implica-
ted in the original conspiracy for the abduction
of President l,incoln, but that was chan ocd to
an assassination plot but few hours before the
bloody decd was committed.
The New York Stock Exchange held IL
q me: ting Friday morning and passed the fol-
lowing resolution:
"a Resolved, That doilation of $4,000 he
made for. the purchase Of hood and other ne
s.sssasffes life FOR the saffG.ring poor Of the
] South, and that the same be placed for that
purpose in the hands of the Southern Relief
Commission
We learn from private tclcgraA, received
i'll this city that Brevct Major-G enera, r. O.
Tyler has been confirmed as Assistant Quarter
master General Of the Department ofthc South
We arc also informed that General Sicllcs
will leave Washington on the 5th for Charles
ton, and that he will assume command of the
Second Military District, lately known as the
Sovereign States of North and South Caro-
lima Charleston llercuv.
The Charleston Mercury of the I'd inst says
1.-THE negro Horace Greedy suffered the extreme,
penalty of the law at halfpast eleven o'clock
yesterday morning, in the yard Of the Jail in
this city. Besides the officials only small
number Of persons were present Greeley made
no confession, and died with scarcely strug-
GLE His body was not claimed, and was inter-
red on yesterday afternoon. Grcely was at
tended during his confinement by the Rev. Mr..
Quigley.
We learn from tho Charleston Courier that
on Saturday evening lady while walking in
Laurensstrcct was accosted by negro who re-
qucsted her to change two dollars. She refused
to comply and walked on, but was considerably
alarmed when her arm was jerked and her
roticule forcibly taken away. Three negro
Incl, who were together were seen to run off,
but on account of the lateness of the hour no
pursuit was made and they escaped with their
booty.
From the Columbia Carolniun wo learn
that the bills receivable are somewhat frmer
than they have been during the past month,
owing, no doubt, to the fact that taxes are be-
ing paid, and considerable amount has thus
been withdrawn from circulation. There also
appears to be less apprehension than formerly
with reference toany change in our State gov
crnment under the new law by which VIC arc
hereafter to be controlled
TIL New York Assembly, on Wednesday,
says the cypress, voted down proposition to
let negroes in that State vote for delegates to
the Constitutional Convention Yctn majority
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