Abstract

The Week

The article presents information on various socio-political developments around the world. A so-called Mississippi Valley Labor Convention met on Monday at Vieksburg, and was attended by the leading men of the State, of both colors, who amicably divided the offices between them, and showed equal consideration in giving a hearing to each other. It was, in reality, a sort of treaty conference, in which the blacks were invited to unfold their grievances, and were led to expect from the whites guaranties of security and their treatment hereafter, as a condition of remaining in the State and discouraging emigration. In another development, the news from Russia does not improve, although no fresh victims of note are reported. The "Cologne Gazette," has published a letter from St. Petersburg, written before the late attempt on the Emperor's life, and evidently the production of a well-informed person.