Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-10
News of Fifty Years Ago
IFrom the Richmond Dspatch Mar 10 1866

somewha, eXctins Gaming affair took place
ana seventeenth. J. rcnLeton Rogers. Il clerk
in it! the wh%lcs:,le house of Rogers Ad"ms x 60.
TO colicc, hlll There we're som" words, in in
cane YOU for mat. ana l.f, ihn WIZ ,
returned f"w minutes later with cane and
proceeded 10 use il vigorously over the head OF
%sr nm s TG hi IN Ther serious share
Rogers. such being his usual style" Of express
on, warrant against Rogers. and the same
will appear before the Mayor this mornin.
y. Y. stokes X co. Yesterday sold on the To.
h"cc" ExchanS" hosshend or hrgh, tobacco
leaf tobacco has brought on this market his
Courts. of iiockina;ham COUNTY. < e. -
At las, TIA" presidency of the Orange and
N,SNa"Irin T., Kairoad has been settled Yester
ing Judge w. }. Robertson, Of Albennrle County.
by 1875 majority All Of the stock Of tn. com
election ''''' 1T VIC
Mgy pr or nnrr"Ms rss,"r Of The irs, as,
before very large audience in Alexandria
Mrs J.ffcrson Davis loft Macon. Ga. day be
fore Yesterday for Canada, where her children
are at school She was accompanied by Colonel
The business Interests Of New York ana Bos.
ION ar" becoming very FESTIVE under the Thad
Stevens yoke. and there are murmurinss and
thrcat"ninEs ,hat mas HAY" I" decided effect
Mi Wilson offered in the tinted States sou
the Commute" OF the Judiciary TO induir" what
legislation. II any, necessary to protect DILL
GERS OF tn" United States Army from civil suits
brought AGAINST them because OF their obcyiut:
orders of their supcriors. This is understood TO
he resolution in defense General Terry
commandant OF the Virginia Department.. who
has been sued by party in Northern Virginia
In tho United States Senate yesterday Mr.
Poland presented Joint resolution amend
tho constitution az to forever lisunafy from
holding office all persons who willingly took part
in any kind of service under the Confederate
states government. The resolution was referred
To the Reconstruction Committee
Mr. Henderson offered series OF resolutions
declaring that to Congress, and not to the
ecutv". belongs the power OF establishing
civil government in the states lately forming
Tile southern Confcderacy.
In the House OF Representatives. cstcrduy Mr.
boutwell, from the Reconstruction Committee
made report signed by himself and Mr.. Wash
hurnc that East Tennessee is loyal but Middle
ana West tennessee are not, and that lin order
to insure ana maintain state government. as
an nddil onal condition TO admitting Tennessee
back into tho tnion, tho right OF suffrage snail
no At once conferred upon the culored people Of
that state
All vessels now mailing from the West Indies
arc, ny military order, to be subjected To
twenty day quarantine at all ports OF the
United states. This Is 20 guard against cholera.
Major General John s. Fullerton. late Of
Major-GenerIl Towards Stan, has been APP
pointed private secretary 10 the President
The ious" OF Representatives spent nearly
all Of Yesterday debating the bill declaring all
black men in the United States 10 be citizens az
TIL" same. and comforting upon thcm equal rights
and inlmuniticS