The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-13
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THE SOUTH.
VIRGINIA.

VIRGINIA.
The Blacks In Council over n FOroiblo
DistributiOn or the LnHds-Arrest OF
Lindsay, tho OOlOrUd Delegate, In
Richmond, and of Judge Parker, of
Wlnchehters
Major Frank A. Butts. for1erly SIperinten-
dent Of the Freedmen's Bureau in King William
county, paid visit on Saturday TO his friends
in that county Sixty or seventy negroes had
assembled at the Court House on that day with
their candidate elect to he convention, one E.
w. Massie, TO have iuollee over their victory.
Major Butts was quietly playing Backgammon
with friend IN the parOr Ol the botel when
he heard furious yells and shouts from the
negroes, daring him TO come out, threatening
TO take his hle-"We will have his hearts
blood" I'VE Will kill the -- Rebel on sight,"
etc. etc.
Major Butts drew his pistol aud was about to
20 out and meet them, but vas dssuaded by
his friends. He then went b. ore magistrate
and sued out warrant for the arrest of the
ringleaders, but the officer who went to execute
1t was dehed by the negroes, who we're banded
together and refused 10 be arrested, they said.
by Rebel officer or tried before a Rebel Court.
Major Butts reported the altar at headquar
tels IN Richmond to day, and General Schoield
Will take prompt measures to have the parues
arrested and brought to justice.
lady near Lynchburg has revealed to the
civil authorities OF that city plot overheard by
her on her husbands plantation formed by
negroes TO kill certain white and colored men
who had become dstasteful to them. Two OF
the rngleaders have been ted and partially
examined. The oflense of the negroes obnox xious
to these conspTatOTs Is that they voted the
conservative ticket.
learn from gentleman just from Winches-
ter, Va, that Judge Richard A. Parker Judge
OF the Thirteenth Circuit, in the State OF Vir
ginia, was arrested on Monday by an order
emanatng from the Superintendent of the
Freedmen's Bureau IN Winchester. The charge
against him Is that Union men cannot get justice
from him. The immediate cause of his arrest
appears to be that a suit has been brought in
his court by the Methodist Church South, OF
Winchester for the recovery of the church
building, which has been taken possession of by
the Northern wing of the Church. Judge
Harris, of an adjoining clrclit, has lately de-
cided similar suit in favor of the Southern
wing OF the Church, aud 1t is said the arrest
was made to prevent similar decision by j udge
Parker.
No report of this arresc, the facts of which [
obtain from Colonel Wall, the delegate from
Frederick county, has been made at headquar-
tiers in Richmond.
am Informed from Richmond Va, this even
ing that Lewis Lindsay, one of the negro dele
gates elect TO the Constitutional Convention,
was arrested this morning for using incendiary
Language, by order of General Schofed aud
bailed in the sum of $1,000 Tor his appearance
before Military Commission TO be examined.
The following report has been made to General
Schohed by the officers who arrested hm:-
BEAP9UARrERs MILITARY CoAMANDANT. RICH.
E First SEy NJ sea0
Virgiua-General;-I have the honor to inform you
5000 Lewis Lindsay a citizen ofthe city Of Rohmond it
Tor using language In a speech delivered by him on
about the 9th day of November 1867, calculated to
inCe the colored against the white citizens of Rich
mOnd. 1 would most respectfully recon mend that
military commission be appointed TO examine into
the nature this speech, and to punish, II found
guilty. TO aCqut the party charged with utterlng
the same. am, General, most respectfully, yonr ooe
dent servant, PAUL n. HAmBBlCk,
ESSecond Lieut.. 4j,h Infantry, Military Commander
The following detail for the Court of Inquiry
in the case OF Lieutenant. Colonel Thomas b,
Rose was published to-day. Brevet Brig adler.
General George StOneman, Colonel of the 2lst
United States Infantry; Major d. Woodruff, 2lsc
Infantry; Brevet Major w. IL. Brown, Captain
9Th Cavalry; Brevet Major G. Rodney Layton,
Ilth Infantry, Judge Advocate.
have Just learned that the negroes in Meek
lenburg and the adjoining counties of Virginia
are now debating in their secret leagues whether
they shall take possession Of the land of the
whites by violence on the lst OF January, if Con-
gress do not give 1t TO them as they say has been
promised. The TadCalSielegates rom Mecklen-
burg to the Convention are urging them to take
the lands of the whites at all hazards. None
OF the negroes will hire themselves unless they
get posses of the entire plantation, horses,
mules, and tools. The negroes are all armed
and the whites are not Much fear of a war
between the races is felt in this portion of the
Statp.-N. y Herald.