in favor of admitting negro testimony in court. He says the great fire will prove to have been a blessing in disguise; that though the Freed men's Bureau have surrendered forty thousand acres of land to its owners, sixty thousand re main unsurrendered, besides city property : that the probability of Governor Peirpoint * officers being re-elected increases daily ; ami, finally, does not hesitate to predict that a M tho rough, uncompromising Union party will eventuaHy rule the Old Dominion.''