The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-22
The Reconssructton Conventions.

I The Reconstruction Conventions.
FLORIDA.
TALLAHASSEE, FLA, January Eth
Reconstruction Convention met at tn
capitol yesterday, with barely a quorum
present. The temporary officers chosel
were all negroes. At the permanent or
ganization Daniel Richards was elected
president, and Christy (white), editor o
the Florida Times, published at Jackson.
vile, secretary. Most of the subordinat,
officers elected are negroes. So far, The
Convention appears to be in the hands o
the extremists.
MISSISSIPPI.
JACKSON, MISS, January 2l.-Resolu
| lions were adopted petitioning Congress t
| permit the Freedmen's Bureau to remain
| in the State until it is reconstructed, ant
asking General Gillem to prohibit enforced
sales by sheriffs until further orders.
A set of resolutions on franchise were
referred to committee. They disfran
chise and prevent from holding Offices o
State or corporations, or acting as teach.
ers in State, common, or other schools sup
ported in any part by State funds, any
person who has fought against the United
States, or in any way, by word or act
given aid, comfort, or counsel to its enc
mics. A person offering to vote shall
swear never to deprive any person Of
rights and privileges enjoyed by any class
of men on account of race or color.
Second Dispatch.
JACKSON, Mss, January 2l.-The fol-
lowing resolutions were referred: To estab
lish House of Correction for juvenile of:
tenders; making valid all marriage licen-
SEES, deeds, mortgages, &c., made since Jan
uary, 1861 that the dog, gun, and poll tax,
es are oppressive to poor whites and freed
men; that after the ratification of the
Constitution, no property except wearing
apparel shall be exempt from debt execu
tions.
NORTH CAROLINA.
RALEIGH, N. c., January 2l.-Yester
day J. Ashworth, of Randolph, was chosel
enrolling clerk, and committee of twelve
appointed to draft constitution. To-da.
much time was consumed debating pro
positions for the relief of the peopl
| which were finally referred.
A committee was appointed to wait OF
Governor Worth and receive any commu
nication he might have to make to tn
Convention.
The question of per diem was discusse'
without coming to any conclusion. The
impression is that it will be fixed at eigh
dollars.
| SOUTH CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON, January 2l.-The Conven
ton to- day adopted resolution requestin
General Candy to suspend the sales
property under execution, for thre
months; also inviting one of the solicitor
of the State to aid the Convention in pre-
pairing business.
The proposition to abolish the Distric
Courts of the State was voted down OF
the ground that under the reconstruction
act the duty of the convention is simply
| to frame a constitution.
The temper of the body is moderate
especially among the negroes. The Bill
of Rights submitted to-day is very Con
sentative.
GEORGIA.
ATLANTA, GA, January 2l.-The Con
vention adopted resolutions, % to AZ, set
ting forth that as the terms of the officer
of the Georgia State government have ex
pred, and many of the said officials ar
hostile to and iDsidiously using their infiu
ence against the restoration of Georgia t
the Union, therefore Congress is re
quested to declare vacant the chief execu
tive Office Of the State and to fill th'
same, and to provide for the re
moval by the chief executive office
thus selected of all officers who are hos
tile to reconstruction, and fill their places
And further resolved that Congress be re
| uuested to relieve all friends of recon
| struction of political disabilities that the.
may be eligible to fill the vacancies thu
| created; and that the Convention reques
a modification of the test oath so as to ad
nit to the right of holding Office all person
engaged in the late war who heartily re
greet the past, and are earnestly attached
to and determined to labor for the re
union of the States, on the basis of the re
construction acts.
Copies of the resolutions were ordered
to be printed and furnished the Presiden
and Congress.
The Convention refused to have after
noon sessions, or to limit the speeches an
after ordering the hall to be ventilate
every morning, adjourned.
| LOUISIANA.
New ORLEANS, January 2l.-The Con
vention adopted FIVE articles of the Cor
stitution, (up to article 92), all untcr tn
Judiciary head.
Printers ON a Strike.
JACKSON, MISS, January 2l.-The print
ers on the Journal, the official organ of th
Convention, are on strike, caused by tn
! non.payment of their wages.