The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1865., [Electronic resource]

The Newark Advertiser states that Bishop Odenheimer, of the Protestant Episcopal Church of New Jersey, met with a severe accident at South Amboy on Sunday. He had just concluded the services at Roundabout, and in going out of the church made a misstep and fell, breaking his left knee. The injuries were dressed, and the Bishop sent to his home, in Burlington. He will be probably laid up three or four months from the effects of the injury.

Surgeon Wheeler, Twenty-fourth regiment, at Richmond, Va., returns to Surgeon-General Dale a list of Massachusetts soldiers who died while prisoners of war at Richmond. He says the graves of all are marked, so that their bodies can be recovered. General Mulford informed him that, on the evacuation of the city, the registry of the prisons was lost or carried off by some person unknown.

Governor Bramlette on Monday sent a message to the Kentucky Legislature, recommending that all the State indictments against citizens for treason be dismissed, and that the law to confine them in the penitentiary be repealed. He argues that the General Government takes cognizance of their crimes, and tries or pardons, as it sees.

A vigorous discussion has taken place in the Mississippi Legislature upon the question whether the freedmen shall have an equal standing in court. A Jackson paper, which reports the debate, remarks that the young men favor equal rights before the law, while the old men oppose the admission of blacks in the courts.

Major-General Wood, commanding the Department of Mississippi, has directed that the further issue of rations in his department to persons not connected with the military service, except to refugees and freedmen, provided for in the act of Congress of March 3, 1865, is strictly prohibited.

A not uninteresting feature of the British news is the announcement that her Majesty Queen Victoria will formally emerge from her seclusion on the occasion of the opening of the new Parliament next month.

Governor Holden has authorized the justices of the various counties in North Carolina to levy a tax for the support of the poor.

The total vote of Wisconsin soldiers on the negro suffrage question foots up three hundred and eighty for and one thousand one hundred and sixty-nine against that measure.