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be shot, several citizens of this county, in the month of March last. He was committed to the county jail for trial at the next Superior Court. Captain Wilson was severely wounded in the engagement just previous to General Lee's surrender, causing his foot to be amputated. He fell into the hands of the Federals, and has been under arrest ever since. The people of Charlotte are enrolling for protection against thieves, who infest that town. Messrs. Henry A. Semley, D. L. Russell and J. J. Yales were chosen Counsellors of State. This leaves three more to elect. The Methodist Episcopal Conference of North Carolina adjourned Tuesday night last, first passing resolutions of thanks to the Bishop, the citizens of Raleigh, the railroad presidents, and to Captain Garoutte, United States Army--the latter for his kindness in furnishing ambulances. A joint resolution was adopted, Tuesday, in the Legislature, asking President Johnson to restore civil law in North Carolina.
Commonwealth answered to their names:--R. H. Meade, A. J. Ford. Oscar P. Gregory, Miles F. Mathews and — Tyler. No witnesses answered for the defence, and Mr. Marmaduke Johnson, counsel for the accused, asked that the case be continued until Tuesday next. R. H. Meade stated that this case had been under investigation for thremonths; the witnesses for the defence failed to answer; those witnesses knew nothing about the shooting, but could only prove an intimacy in by-gone times. Mr. Johnson said that he hoped all the witnesses would be summoned, and required to appear. The only difficulty in the way of a speedy investigation was about the witnessehe case now or at any future time. He hoped that the Court would take notice of what this virtuous young man had said in regard to the accused. In conclusion, Mr. Johnson expressed the hope that the case would be continued. The Mayor thereupon continued the case until Tuesday next, and admitted the accused to bail in the sum
From Georgia. Milledgeville, December 14. --Provisional Governor Johnson has sent to the Legislature a dispatch, received from President Johnson, saying that the Governor elect will be inaugurated in a few days, and he would receive instructions in regard to being relieved, suggesting that he would issue no commissions to members of Congress, but leave that for the incoming Governor. It is understood that Governor Jenkins desires to know his real status before taking his seat. From Georgia. Milledgeville, December 14. --Provisional Governor Johnson has sent to the Legislature a dispatch, received from President Johnson, saying that the Governor elect will be inaugurated in a few days, and he would receive instructions in regard to being relieved, suggesting that he would issue no commissions to members of Congress, but leave that for the incoming Governor. It is understood that Governor Jenkins desires to know his real status before taking his seat.
By Johnson's Independent Agency. From Washington. Washington, December 14. --The Confederate bond resolution in the Senate was drawn up, I understand, because of the fact, that has recently transpired, that large purchases of these bonds had been made on the supposition that the United States would, some day or other, assume their payment in full or in part. The basis of this belief, I am told, is founded on the impression and opinion of influential legal talent, that, as a receiver of the assets of the Confederacy, the United States is responsible for the liabilities thereof. The Judiciary Committee will consider the resolution at an early day. The impression prevails here that Earl Russell, when he fully digests Secretary Seward's reply to England's refusal to submit the question of damages growing out of the depredations of the Anglo-rebel pirates on American commerce to a commission appointed jointly by the American and English Governments, he will reconsider h