American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-05-01
Domestic Intelligence.


In the extra session of the Senate, on
April the 9th, the treaty ceding the Russian
American possessions to the United States
was ratified by only two dissenting votes.
The remainder of the business transacted
has been either secret or unmportant.
SOUTHERN RECoNsTRUcTIoN.
At meeting of the prominent citizens of
Charleston, South Carolina, on April I'd, it
was unanimously agreed that the freedmen
should be entitled to run some of their own
color on the white mans ticket to the Con-
vention and State Legislature. The meet
ing was composed in large proper ton of
old Democrats and secsssionists, and General
Hampton wrote letter to it urging the pol
icy of giving the negro representation
1t has been announced that Gov. Sharkey,
now that he has been defeated in his Mis-
sissippi injunction case before the Supreme
Court will indict and arrest Gov Ord. mil
itary commandanti in Mississippi,on charge
of treason to the State.
Governor Jenkins, of Georgia, has advised
the people of that State to do nothing until
the Supreme Court has decided on his meas
ure for the relief of Georgia Gen. Pope
has informed the Governor that be must des
sist from attempts tn impede reconstruction,
or he will be compelled to remove him from
his Office.
Governor Brownlor, of Tennessee, on the
18th April, declared the registration of yo>
ters in eigh. counties, null and void.
A mass meeting of freed men was held
in Augusta, Georgia, on April 18th, and
resolutions were proposed favoring the Re-
publican party; the support of widows and
orphans OF Union soldiers; the abolition of
corporeal punishment; and the right of oil
coors to hold Office Ex-Governor johnson
opposed these resolutions in a long speech,
and said if he-had known this was intended
he would not have been present. Judges
Starm and Hillisrd followed in the same
strain, and were followed in turn by several
colored orators, who favored the resolutions
and the Republican party. The resolutions
were then adopted.
A Radical mass meeting of negroes was
held in Nashville on the same day, in the
open air, no hall being large enough to con-
tain the crowd. Resolutions were adopted
endorsing Governor Brownlow and jenounc-
ing President johnson.
In Jackson county, Alabama, a negro
school teacher named Carter has been APP
pointed register of voters under the Military
Reconstruction bill. The appointment was
made at the request of a number of the
prominent white citizens of the county.
General Sickles issued an order for the
Government of his Military District, on
April llth, providing that no person shall
be imprisoned for debt; suspending sales of
attached property for twelve months; sus>
pending forever all legal proceedings for the
recovery of money for the purchase of ne
groes prohibiting the carrying of deadly
weapons, and abolishing capital punishment
for burglary and larceny.
Several colored men Of Columbia. South
Carolina, have purchased the South Care.
iinian newspaper, and propose conducting it
as o negro organ.
NEWS ITEMS.
Ten boys aged from eight to sixteen, were
sentenced to thirty lays imprisonment on
April 9Th, at Jamaieay Long Island, for