Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-04-17
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Chas. 8. Johnson, 18TH Infantry, in
arresting Judge Pope, of the Circuit
Court, at Calhoun county, Alabama,
and closing the court, owing to the
difference in impanelling juries the
General publicly declares his assunnp-
ton of authority to arrest as deserv-
ing severe censure.
General Meade furthers says the
object of these orders was not to de-
clare that all juries must he made in
part composed of c0lored men, but
simply to remove any distinction
made by the laws of the State I'm this
district regarding color. The Gener-
al trusts this disapproval will render
subordinate officers cautious to refrain
from hasty and unauthorized exercise
of the power vested only in the high
est military officer.
| AUGUSTA, April lin order that
there may be fairness in the APPROACH
ing election General Meade directs
that the bal1ot-boxes shall not be
openened or the votes counted, or any
information of the progress of the
election be given, until the polls are
closed. After the voting has closed
the managers shall select two men of
character from opposite parties, who
will be permitted to be present at the
counting of ballots to witness and
verify such counting. .... ..
NEW YORK, April letters state that
two negroes on the island claim their
freedom on the plea that they are
working in a copper mine which be-
longs to England, and as that country
prohibits slavery they are free. The
case Is in the courts.
Two men In an open boat have
been picked up, and it is thought that
they are deserters from some of the
prisons i'm Florida. It will be remem-
bered i'm this connection that st. Leg
or Grenfel recently escaped with some
soldiers from the Dry Tortugas.
| Colored people are being arrested in
Cuba for practicing whichcraft.
Especial Dispatch of the Louisville Courier ]
NASHVILLE, April linear Col
umbia, MauTay county, couple of
nights since, a negro named Henry
Fitzpatrick was hung by body of
men in disguise. He had been ac-
cused of setting fire to barn and sta
bic in the latter of which seven horses
persisted. Before being hung Fitspat-
trick confessed he was guilty of the
incendiarism charged against him.
One of the County Commissioners
elected is negro, although the law
creating the Office expressly declares
that the incumbent must be a citizen
for two years. Negroes have not been
citizens in Tennessee over one year.
In Maryville, Blunt county, where
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pal Offices between white and black
candidates, the negroes elected four
and the whites three aldermen. The
justice of the peace elected in the
same town is also colored.
WASHINGTON, April 12.-The Pres
ident's counsel profess that their con-
fidence is undated in the acquital of
the President, but the opinion of the
public is altogether different. If the
court continues to rule out all testi-
mony concerning the declarations of
the President, he fails to establish his
intent in removing Stanton.
But the counsel of the President
insist that the court cannot reject the
evidence of members of the Cabinet,
whose proof il far more important
than Sherman's.
The pitiable exhibition General
Thomas made on the stand yesterday,
together with Buffers impudence,
and the pliancy of the court, seemed
to dumbfound the Presidents counsel,
and created an impression unfavora-
BILE to the the cause.
The Radicals express doubts that
Wiley, Van Wrinkle, Anthony,
Trumbull and Ross will vote for con-
viction, but it will be surprising if it
is not carried by party vote.
Sprague, hitherto supposed against
it, has changed base, and will vote for
conviction.
Radicals say Johnson has just one
weeks lease of the Executive man.
sion, and no matter what evidence he
may .adducc he is lost.
ATLANTA, April 1G.-An impor-
tant order was promulgated to-day
by Maj. Gen. Meade, relative to the
approaching election in this State
The General says:
list. That as numerous designations
OF sherifis in Georgia are rendered on
the eve of an important election,
when there is no time to make new
appointments, such designations will
not be accepted. ShcritfS who have
been so long in office at the sulferance
of the commanding General will not
he permitted to resign until after the
election, and the faithful performance
of their duties will be required under
pain of trial by military commission.
I'd. AS many electors are necessari-
ly dependent upon another class for
employment to earn their daily bread