Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-24
News of Fifty Years Ago

Washington paper tells that it is under
stood that the death sentence of G. st. Ledger
was convicted by n military court at Cincinnati
FOR aiding in the escape of Confederate pris-
oners from Camp Douglas. has been commuted
to life Imprisonment 1t is very we'll understood
that the British government will further inter-
pose and the probability is that Grenfel will
be free man In very short while. Mr.. Circn-
Eel was In Richmond in the latter part OF 1853,
and is we'll remembered here.
The statement is made that the authorized
amount or national currency has been issued,
and no more national banks be chartered
until the forthcoming new session Of the Con-
and make further provision In the meantime
numerous private banking concerns in Virginia
engaged In 1t on tho confidence of the people
cantdence In the recuperativc powers of their
own great country
y dispatch from Des Moines, Iowa saws:
"Brigadier General T. H. Benton is out in n card
and general statement in which he bitterly
opposes negro suffrage in the South General
Benton says he went through the South as a
soldier. fighting the South. and while so doing
became convinced that the future destiny Of
the south and It's recuperation in the hands
of the white people" THE negro" he says lis
incompetent lazy worthless and altogether un-
reliable. The rehabilitation of the South is of
necessity In the hands of the white mantle
white man who fought for it's independence and
faiied, the white man who knows the South
ana Knows the negro. To put the negro. by his
ballot in control of the South Will be the mis-
t take Of the age Such result is not what we
soldiers IN The ranks fought for"
a few days nEo the home of General Bcaure-
gard. in New Orleans, was surrounded by a
Gordon of Federal troops. Guards entered the
residence and asked questions that the general
thought were insolent. General BcaurcEard ap-
pealed to General Sheridan, and the general soon
sent special corps of messengers to the home
1t turned out that report had reached an
understrapper in the Federal army service that
General Kirby Smith, who, by the way, has never
surrendered, reports to the contrary notwith-
standing, had made his way to General Bcaurc-
CARDS residence and being sccrctcd there
The simple fact that a friend of General
BeaureEard who was Confederate officer. and
like the general, held a parole, was his guest
that evening. and the invading troopers la
explained that to their mind he very much
resembled the pictures OF General Smith Cen
eral Sheridan having heard all of the facts
ordered the troopers away. and in very nice
way. offered something of an apology to General
Beauregard.
a Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald attempts to explain the DELAY in tho
proposed Wirz trial. This correspondent claims
to have information that the government is
holding Wirz in reserve be used as States
evidence against Mr.. avis in his supposed forth
coming trial for treason
Informa ton reaches the Episcop.. ministers
OF this city that the buildings of the Theolog
seminary. near Alexandria, and the residence Of
Bishop Johns which have long been used by
the Federal authorities for hospital PURPOSES
are to be turned over to the church al once and
this means that the Theological Seminary will be
reoDened this fall