Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-03-25

LIAuCC 4 1cilo DoudpdICS Is HOW DeluS
tried by the High Court Of Justice Of
France" convened at Tours, by order of the
Emperor, on the charge Of the murder of
Victor Noir. This is the fifth time this
court has convened since its institution. 1t
convened twice in 1871 and twice in 1849.
OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL I~NTERFER.
ENcE IN TENNESSEE Nashville March
ia meeting of citizens, irrespective of
party, was held to-day in this city to protest
against congressional interference in the af-
fairs Of Tennessee. Mayor Morris presided.
Resolutions were adopted declaring that
the population of Tennessee are as quiet and
orderly as the same number of people any
where, and that there is no necessity for in
reference on the part of the federal govern
ment to suppress disorder ~denouneing the
exaggerated statements made abroad relative
to the internal affairs Of the State, and pledg-
ing the people to maintain the State and
national laws at all hazards.
The meeting adopted a resolution of well
come to the United States troops sent here
to sustain the civil authorities, and a me-
mortal to Congress upon the condition of
Tennessee and the unfounded charges made
against the peacefulness and patriotism of
the great mass Of the people.
The wholesale merchants of Nashville, in
a meeting this afternoon, adopted a circular
addressed to the boards Of trade in the prin-
cipal cities of the Union, setting forth the
condition of affairs in Tennessee, and ap-
| pealing to them to use their influence against
congressional Intervention. They allege
that the State has been unusually quiet and
peaceful, and business prosperous, but that
the proposition to subject the State to out
side interference has brought trade to a
! standstill.
ARM1Ne THE SOUTHERN SrATEs.-The fol-
lowing is the bill which passed the United
States Senate on Monday:
"Re it enacted, etc., That the quota of
arms due to each of the States Of Yirginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas. under the statute Of
April28, 1908, be allowed to the said States
in the same manner as if the said act had
not been modified and that the chief Of Or
dinance shall, on requisition in the usual
form. deliver to the said several States the
arms or their equivalent in ordinance stores
from January, 1861, to January, 1865"
Fortress Monroe, Mar. 22.-The sheriff
of Elizabeth City, who went to the "Cclley
Smith Farm" near Hampton to put a
purchaser in possession, was resisted by a
negro mob. 4 posse of fifty was summoned,
but found about 200 negroes assembled,
and we'll armed and concluded it was folly
to attack them. Tue posse retired and
were fred upon by the negroes. The
sheriff has called upon the Governor for
assistance. rn
SINGULAR PuENoMENoN.-A singular phe-
nomenon occurred at the commencement OF
the storm in st Johns, N. b., Friday
morning. A. rumbling noise was heard,
| and Immediately afterward a portion of the
bottom of the harbor On the Carlton side
sunk bodily, SO that where before at low
tide was a beach is now twenty feet Of water.
Some wharves were destroyed and lumber
carried adrift.
DEATH PENALTY IN PENNsyLvAN1A.-A
bill is going through the Pennsylvania Leg
~islature authorizing juries in cases Of felony,
punishable with death, to render a verdict
that the prisoners shall either suffer death
or be imprisoned to bard labor for a term
not less than fifteen years, or their natural
life. No prisoner to be. sentenced to death,
unless the jury shall SO determine.
WAsu1saqoN Mar 22-The President
to-day informed gone Southern men that
when the Texas bill was passed, ant IL h
work of reconstruction was thus finished up,
he should send a special message to Congress
recommending universal amnesty by the
removal Of oil political disabilities imposed
by the fourteenth amendment.
A letter from Sioux City, Iowa, dated
March 10th, reports that the most violent
and severe snow storm known in that region
for fifteen years had then been raging for
| seventy hours.