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A STRICT CONSTRUCTION OF TI1E CONSTITUTION—A.N HONEST AID ECONOMICAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT.
RAGLAND & WYNNE, Proprietors.
WEEKLY ENQUIRER,
COLUMBUS:
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10. 1807.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION I
Ono Yeai (in advance) - $4.00
Six Months (in advance) $2.00
Special Judicial Elections.
The corabinod vote of most of the
counties in the Middle Circuit gives Gib
son, as far as beard from, 114 majority.
The Augusta Chronicle says that the
counties to be heard from will not materi
ally change the relative vote of the can
didate?.
Only the vote of Cuthbert, Kandolpb
county, in the P»t»ula Circuit, has been
received. It gave J. T. Clarke 129 votes,
and I. E. Bower 143, for Judge; for So
licitor—T. K. Stewart 103, S. W. Parker
95, R. O. Barrett 2.
In tho Southwestern Circuit, Sumter
county vot d for Judge as follows : J. J.
Scarborough 287, I). A. VasoD 45, P. J.
Strozier 34, K. Sims 3; for Solicitor—N.
A. Smith 349, J. C. Rutherford 14.
The full vote of Floyd county, in the
Tallapoosa Circuit, was for W. B. Ter-
hune 330, R. D. Harney 243, L. H. Fealh-
erslon 37.
There appears to have been no election
of a Solicitor in the Flint Circuit, and the
Governor will have to make the appoint
ment. There were four candidates, of
whom the leading ones were Messrs. An
derson and Carter.
The vote of Decatur county, for Judge,
was as follows: Richard Sims 201, P. J.
Strozier 108, J. J. Scarborough 31, D. A.
Won 14; for Solicitor—J. C. Ruther
ford 244, N. A. Smith 133.
A dispatch from Washington, of the
3d, says ; "It is positively affirmed that
the test case a? to whether Alabama is a
State in the Union will be decided by the
Supreme Couit in the affirmative.”
“Leo,” the Washington correspondent
of the Charleston Courier, writes under
date Dec^ 31st, as follows; "The impres
sion made here and elsewhere, that the
visit of Gov. Patton, of Alabama, to
Washington, has reference to political
objects, is erroneous. He has held out no
idea that Alabama would, under any
circumstances, accept the constitutional
amendment. The Chronicle, referring to
the supposed disposition of some of the
Southe-n States to accept the amendment,
declares that it is too late. Nor would its
acceptance have been in time at any pre
vious day, for nearly ail the extreme
Radicals never intended or supposed that
it Would be adopted.”
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1867.
VOL. XXXIX.—NO. 3.
The extension of due courtesy and a
cordial hospitality to the Congressional
Visiting Committee, by the people of the
Southern cities, was ail right. But we
trust that there was no “toadyism” dis
played—no attempt by superserviceable
obsequiousne-s to purchase tavor. If such
an attempt was made, it undoubtedly
failed. A dispatch from Washington
makes this report concerning Mr- Wade:
“Mr. Wade was surrounded by Senators,
asking about his present status, and how
much he had been demoralized by his
Southern tour. Mr. Wade said be had
been most kindly and courteously treated,
and said he had talked to tho Southern
people plainer than ever he had spoken in
the Senate.”
A dispatch from Richmond, of the 3d
inst , says: “Returns from twenty-three
Conferences of the Southern Methodist
Church show that the proposition to
change the name has been defeated.” [It
requires a vote of three-fourths in the
affirmative to make the change.]
lion. Augustus Reese has been elected
Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit, without
opposition. For Solicitor of the same
circuit.. Baldwin county gave L. H. Ke
nan 248 votes, all others 8; Jones county
gave J. H. Blount 123, Kenan 4; and
Putnam county voted as follows: J. T.
Bowdoin 84, Kenan 3, J. C. Key 10,
Blount 20. Greene gave Blount 94, Key
29, Kenan 6.
We copy from the Southern Recorder
the following returns from counties in the
Pataula Circuit:
fob judge.
I. 0. Bower. J. F. Clark.
53 87
74 56
33 ' 44
50 160
143 129
Clay,
Early,
Quitman,
Terrell,
Randolph,
Stewart, 89 231
FOB SOLICITOB.
S. W. Parker. T. R. Stewart. R. Barron.
Clay,
Early,
Quitman,
Terrell,
Randolph,
Stewart,
52
44
76
163
114
Webster and Miller to hear from.
It appears that the Montgomery sub
scription of a million of dollars to the
South and North Alabama Railroad has
not yet been decided. At the last meet
ing of tho City Council, the committee
appointed to examine the election returns
reported that the majority caBt for the
subscription was eight votes, that the re
turns from one of the voting places con
tained ono more vote than was registered,
and that in their opinion there were
twelve illegal votes pollei. The chair
man of the committee stated that he had
been requested to notify Council that if
application was made for the bonds, the
election would be contested.
The mouth of tho Amazon is large
enough to take in the Stales of Massachu
setts and Rhode Island.—Exchange.
So was the whale’s mouth large enough
to “take in” Jonah, but the load of ini
quity was too great for the whale to re
tain.
Can anybody tell how high the temper
ature of the Gulf stream would be, if the
Amazon and other great rivers that are
supposed to make it, were to lave the
sides of Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
and the kindred localities that we “read
about,” before entering the Atlantic?
At the Republican Congressional cau
cus, held on the night of the 5th, Bing
ham favored prompt action in the matter
of impeachment of the President, saying
that there might not be time during Pres
ident Johnson’s term to complete the trial;
that tho trial of Warren Hastings occu
pied seven years, Ac. Stevens thought
there was time enough, and advocated the
postponement of the whole question until
the meeting of the next Congress. A test
vote indicated that about two-thirds of the
members in caucus agreed with Bingham.
There is a lull in the Nashville matri
monial market.—Atlanta Era,
Don’t you mean a lullaby ?
The “Bureau” Order.
The order of Major Mosebach, pub
lished yesterday morniDg, seems to us a
most extraordinary edict, for a country
governed by law and making social
equality t3 boast. No doubt Maj. Mose
bach is acting under instructions from his
superiors in office, but that does not at all
affect the questions of principle or right
involved in bis order. It is the extraor
dinary assumptions of power involved,
and not the conduct of a subordinate offi
cer, that wo propose to criticise.
The order requires all contracts be
tween white men uDd freedmen.for labor,
to be submitted to and approved by “the
Bureau,” else tho employers will be re
quired to pay the freedmen the highest
wages paid in this section of country ;
and the freedmen are informed that they
arc “at liberty to leave their employers’
servico at any time” ! Now, the right to
make private contracts is a necessary at
tribute of freemen, and so valuable is this
right esteemed, that the Constitution of
the United States forbids any State to
pass any law impairing the obligation of
contracts, and most of the State constitu
tions prohibit tbeir respective Legisla
tures from passing such laws. Law,
therefore, cannot interfere with contracts.
Yet a “Bureau” established by Congress
declares them null and void, and even in
vites one party to break them, promising
tue party so breaking them that it will
award to him higher wages than ho con
tracted for, in case of a difference between
him and his employer! 16 this freedom
and equality? Is it putting all people
upon a level and leaving them to adjust
their private business according to tho
law9 of supply and demand? Bear in
mind, the freedinan is not only told that
he chd violate his contract at will, but h
is given to understand that in case of dl3
agreement between himself and his em
ployer, the evidence and representations
of the latter—even the written contract
itself—will be wholly disregarded, and
judgment will be given against him for a
greater amount than that contracted for.
If this is not an assumption by the Bu
reau of tho power to annul contracts
made by individuals, and to force them
to ftake such contracts as the “Bureau”
chooses to dictate, we do not understand
the meaning and force of the terms used.
Is there any other civilized governmen
in the world that exercises such poweri
over its subjects or citizens? Can any|
despotism be more absolute than that
which undertakes to control private con
tracts, to annul them at pleasure, and ti
make and enforce new terms for the par
ties contracting?
We have always understood the theor
of our complex government to be that al
tho dealings between individuals wc:
under the supervision and regulation
their respective States, and that the Fe
era! Government was to have as little
possible to do with individual rigbt9 as
remedies. Even tho Federal prohibilio
of State laws impairing the obligation
contracts goes to sustain this theor;
Tho General Government only prohibiten
tho States from impairing privato con
tracts, and left their enforcement entirely
to State laws. This was the unvaryin
practice of the Government prior to th
late difficulties. How has the Fedora
Government acquired any jurisdictio
over private contracts since that time
There lias been only one amendment t
the Constitution adopted, and it woul
“puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer” to sho
wherein that amendment gives Congrcs
or a “Bureau” created by it, the right
annul contracts made by individuals, ti
release the parties to them, to invite on
party to break them, and to promise an
give him better terms as a consequence o
his breaking them.
It may bo said that the officers of th
"Bureau” claimed (and perhaps exe
cised) similar powers a year ago. W
were then under martial law, and such ai
assumption of power was understood l
be an incident of government of th:
kind. But civil Jaw has now been r
stored, and we believe that the restoratio
carries with it the right of individuals tj
make contracts mutually acceptable t-
tfccmselves, and the inviolability of sue:
contracts.
Wo do not advise any oue contraetin
with freedmen to neglect tho precaution
of having their contracts approved by a
“Bureau” officer. It is perhaps best for
all parties concerned to know that law
cannot and that official caprice will not
disturb such agreements. But we protest
that such orders from the “Bureau” as
that which we are publishing are incon
sistent with the Constitutions (Federal
and State) of this country, and with the
freedom and rights of its people.
A Jew, named Sim. Barry, rather got
the better of the vastly moral authorities
of Boston, in a suit decided by the Su
preme Court of Massachusetts cn the 3d
msl. He was prosecuted for keeping his
op op,en on the Christian Sabbath
(which he certainly ought to have ob
served to the extent of suspending his
business, as he was in a Christian land);
but the court held that he was not an
swerable for doing business on tho Chris
tian Sabbath, when he had already kept
the Jewish Sabbath.
Tho citizens of Savannah are turning
their attention to the project of cutting a
canal of eight miles along the coast, by
means of which four hundred miles of
inland navigation, from Savannah to Ju
piter inlet, Fla., will be opened to steam
ers of four feet draft.
Escobedo, it appears, was not hung, nor
even captured, as reported by late news from
Mexico. He was on his way to Monterey
on the 21st ult., and our dispatches pub
lished to-day report him as about going
somewhere else. They have a “reliable
gentlemen” in Mexico, who is cutting the
same capers there that be used to cut in
this country during our late war.
The Supreme Court of Alabama com
menced a term at Montgomery on Mon
day last. The cases first taken up are
from North Alabama.
The people of Twiggs county have
voted to remove their courthouse from
Marion to Jeffersonville. Rather better
than making a new county so as to give
each place a courthouse.
Tax ou Cotton.
Correspondence N. Y- Herald.]
'Washington, Dec. 30, 1866.
The export tax on cotton is the subject
of very grave inquiry at present. At the
South loud complaints are made,not only
of the hardships attending the collection
of the tax, but of its effect in enabling the
foreign producer to compete suece-sfully
with the producers of the American sta
ple. Before our unfortunate civil war it
was the boast of Americans that no other
country under the sun could compete
successfully with us in the production of
this much coveted article, and alter vari
ous experiments in India, in Turkey, in
Brazil, and elsewhere, it came to be ac
knowledged generally by citizens of other
countries, and hence the vain boast that
“Cotton was King” when our civil war
commenced. But necessity, tho mother
of invention, lias caused a change in all
this. Tne blockade of the Southern ports
compelled the English spinners to con
trive a substitute for the American arti
cle, and stimulated the production in
Egypt, in Africa, and in India; so that
now, by the aid of altered machinery, they
use but one pound of the American staple
where they formerly used four,and hence
tho demand for our staple is not what it
was before the war. So, with the dimin
ished demand comes the reduction in
price and the inability of the American
grower to compete with tho foreign pro
ducer. Is it wise then to burden the
American producer with this export tax ?
May we not render it necessary to di
minish production and to cause the labor
now used in this cultivation to seek other
employment? And may we not thereby
destroy a very convenient means of pay
ing off' our balances due for foreign im
portations? It is upon our ability to sup
ply the European market that the Secre
tary of the Treasury bases much of his
hope of an early resumption of specie
payments. But if the Euglish manufac
turer can get his-supplies from Egypt,
Africa and India, and so make his fabrics
as good as when using the American star
pie, and at a much less cost, is it reasona
ble that he should continue to buy in our
market?
Stamps on Marriage Certificates.
The Deputy Commissioner of Internal
Revenue has decided that a marriage
certificate, issued by the town clerk in
compliance with the statute law, and for
public as well as private purposes, and
used, not only as a marriage license, but
also for town and Slate records, does not
require a stamp when used by the clerk ;
but the certificate of the clergyman or
magistrate who performs the marriage
ceremony should have a five cent stamp
on it.
commodities, prices should advance;
the war and Liverpool circulars seem to
have so mixed up the cotton business in
this country, that when there is but half a
crop the great staple will command but
little more than haif the price per pound
that it will when there is uouble the sup
ply.
“To judge from tho tenor of the New
York market reports, sir.ee the new crop
began to appear, a disinterested observer
would scarcely fail to get the impression
that the old laws of supply and demand
bad all been repealed, and that the pre
vailing rule of ‘short crop and low prices’
had fairly been established as the govern
ing principle of that market; for, when
ever there has been a little animation in
the cotton trade, and perhaps a little hard
ening of prices, the market would sud
denly become ‘depre-sed and prices nomi
nal,’ in consequence ot simmers with
drawing from market. Now, if these
very shrewd spinners remain out of mar
ket a little while longer, they will proba
bly return just in time to discover that all
the thirty cent cotton has gone to Liver
pool, and what remains is regarded by the
owners as being quae valuable—perhaps
worth sixty to seventy cents per pound.”
Southwestern Circuit.
The following is the result of the elec
tion for Judge and Solicitor of the South
western Circuit, as far as heard from,
embracing the counties of Sumter, Dough
erty, Baker and Decatur:
JUDGE.
P. J. Strozier,
J. J. Scarborough,
345
324
R. Simms,
205
D. A. Vason,
150
SOLICITOR.
N. A. Smith,
588
J. C. Rutherford,
348
It will be seen that no one c
of tho car
didates forjudge has received a majority
of the votes cast. It will therefore de
volve upon the Governor to make the
appointment. The counties to hear from
are Lee, Worth, Calhoun and Mitchell.
In these counties Mr. Strozier will get a
good vote, but not enough to give him a
majority of all the votes polled. We be
lieve the Governor will appoint the one
receiving the highest number of voLts.
Should he act or this principle, the Hon.
P. J. Strozier will then be Judge of tne
Southwestern Circuit.
The returns thus far indicate the elec
tion of N. A. Smith, Esq., Solicitor Gen
eral.—Sumter Rep , 3th.
Moscow, Russia, January 4.—The Ga
zette, in il3 issue to-day, ha? an important
article upon tho political situation of Rus
sia, and argues that the onerous condi
tions imposed upon the Government by
the results of the Crimean war shall be
removed, and thus relieve Russia of cer
tain burdens, the abrogation of which
would materially enhance progressive and
civilized power of the Empire. Theabove
mentioned article excites considerable at
tention not only in governmental circles,
but has received the attentive perusal of
foreign diplomatists at St. Petersburg,
who have advised tbeir respective Gov
ernments relative thereto.
telegraphic.
REPORTED P0R THE DAILY ENQUIRER.
Washington, January 5.—The Secre
tary of Interior to-day reports that another
section of thirty-five miles of the Pacific
Railroad is completed and ready for ser
vice.
Washington, January 5.—The Rea
pubiican members of the House of Repre
sentatives held a caucus at the Capitol
to-night. About sixty Republicans were
present. Spalding, of Ohio, offered a
resolution that no measure looking to
wards the impeachment of tb9 President
of the United Slates should be presented
in tho House unless previously agreed
upon by a caucus. This was amended by
providing that should there be any final
action by the caucus, the subject should
be referred to the Committee on Judi
ciary. There was much debating during
the evening.
Washington, January 6.—The Presi
dent will to-morrow send his veto mes
sage to the Senate on the Negro Suffrage
bill. It was thoroughly considered in the
Cabinet on Friday. All the members en
dorsed it except Mr. Stanton, who be
lieve? that Congress has the right thus to
legislate for the District of Columbia.
Gen. Grant was present by invitation.
In the meantime the citizens have hereto
fore almost unanimously expressed them
selves at the polls against such a measure,
and to force negro suffrage on them is re
garded as repugnant to liberty in the face
of their earnest protest, apart from the
absence of constitutional power to pass
the bill.
It is not improbable that Mudd, Span
gler, O’Laughlin and Arnold, the alleged
assassination conspirators, will, in consid
eration of the Suprome Court decision
ainst military commissions, be brought
Washington from the Dry Tortugas
nd transferred to a civil tribunal for its
etermination.
All excepting two of the Arkansas dele-
ation have left the city. Messrs. Hunter
d Thomas remain to attend to the po-
cal interests of that State. They were
II received by the Executive authori-
9 here, but Republican Congressmen
ve them but little hope. Tbad. Stevens
ve them copies of his bill to restore the
uthern States, according to his peculiar
liens.
Ierlin, January 6.—The Duke of Au-
tenburg has given in his allegiance to
King of Prussia, and relieved the
pie of Holstein from oaths of alie
nee.
aris, January 6.—The Patrie news-
er denies the truth of the widely cir-
uti d report that France bad asked Eog-
d for a conference on the Eastern ques-
i, an 1 a-serts that France had arrived
n agrre-ment with Turkey—such as]tho
serration of peace in Europe impera-
ly demands.
lorknce, January 6.—Advices from
e state that Signor Fonaldi has so far
ressed in his negotiations with the
1 Government as to be enabled al-
r to make a verbal agreement on
in religious points,
w Y'ork, January G.—At a Fenian
rig of Centres and delegates at the
lo this evening, it was reported that
s Stephens had dissolved hisconnec-
with the organization, believing it
eak to cope with England's power,
ral Gleason was appointed to fill
ens’ place. Tho latter is understood
in this city.
ltimore, Jan. G.—The steamship
11, of the Baltimore and Liverpool
arrived on Saturday, having been
xteen days. Tho steamer Mexican,
|ho Baltimore and Liverpool line,
ed to-day from Liverpool, having
detained by bad weather. She was
bout twenty days; put into Fayall to
all well ; her large cargo is in good
[ition.
[w YORK, January 7th.—Tho United
steamer Susquehanna, which carried
Sherman on his recent mission in con-
ith Mexican affairs, returned to this
csterday, from New Orleans.
FRANCISCO, January 2d.—A deEtruc-
re has occurred at Yokohoma, Japan,
ta few island buildings were destroyed,
destruction of life also took place. It is
reported that more than thirty-five bodies have
been f und. Many deaths occurred from being
crushed among the crowds, trying to escape
from the fire; tho wind at the time blowing
strongly. Early in the day a large detachment
of sailors and marines landed from vessels of
the British fleet, who at first behaved well,
under the control of their officers, bat, having
procured liquor, turned their attention to plun
dering Robberies of the boldest nature were
committed, and among the losses were the
archives of the U. S. Consul. They were at
first rescued by Consul Fisher from .the office
and placed in the bonded warehouse, which,
soon after, was also destroyed.
A large portion of the archieves of other Con
suls, as well as the French Consul’s office, were
also destroyed.
Owing to the unsuccessful harvest of Rice,
the lower classes of people are suffering for
food.
The Spanish squadron which soiled from
Papeto July 1st, has arrived safely at Manilla.
The ship Nawfteur and ironclads, concentra
ted under Marquis de Vittoria, are all under
going extensive repairs.
The two surviving Catholic Priests who es
caped to the mountains after the Correan mas
sacre, and their compnnion3, arrivedlat Chefoo
on the 6th of October, and confirm the news of
the murder of the crew of tho schooner General
Gherman.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—In the House to
day, Ashley, of Ohio, confident that the loyal
peopleof the country would sanction the action
he was about to take, charged Andrew John
son with high treason, crime and misdemeanor
in his office, and offering resolutions instruct
ing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire
iDto the facts, with power to send for persons
and papers.
In the Senate, Chandler and Morgan pre
sented a petition asking for the passage of the
TaGff bill as it passed tho House at the last
session.
Catcllo introdeced a joint resolution direct
ing tho Commissioners on Agriculture to collect
and prepare specimens of the sereal products of
the several States for the Paris exhibition,
adopted.
The President’s Veto of the Suffrage hill is
before the Senate, and is being read in the
House. The Speaker, immediately after the
reading of the journal, called the States for
bills and joint resolutions; after which the fol
lowing were introduced and referred: By Rice,
of Maine, a bill to divide the Western District
of Arkansas into two Indian Districts. Walker
introduced a bill to repeal the act reuniting the
county of Alexandria, D. C., to tho State of
Virginia. By Mr. Kaynerd, to provide for a
true National Currency, and for the conver
sion and distribution of the revenue.
Ashley then took the floor and charged the
President with high crimes and misdemean
ors, and introduced a resolution calling upon
the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the
same, with power to send for persons and pa
pers. The yeas and nays wero demanded, and
Ashley’s resolution passed under the operation
of the previons question, by a large majority.
Washington, January 7. — In the
H uso, Mr. McOlung, of Missouri, intro
duced a resolution stating that whereas
Confederate owners of slaves were taking
advantage of the act of Congress which
paid "loyal owners for their slaves who
were in the U. S. service, the Judiciary
Committee ba instructed to inquiro into
the expediency of repealing the act.
Mr. Loan, of Missouri, introduced a
resolution setting forth that it was the
duty of Congress to impeach the Presi
dent, abridge the Executive power, effect
a perfect reorganization of the Southern
States, and to securo, by direct Federal
legislation, the right of suffrage to ne*
groes in the late Confederacy. The resos
lution went ovor.
Mr. Ashley introduced a paper and
resolution impeaching Andrew Johnson,
Vice-President and acting President of
the United States, of high crime and
misdemeanor; in that he usurped power
and violence; that he had made corrup
tion of the appointing power, the par?
doning power and tho veto power; that I
he had corruptly disposed of the public \
property of the United States; that he
had corruptly interfered in elections, and
was guilty of other high crimes and mis
demeanors. The resolution instructs the
Committee on Judiciary to inquire wheth
er in the discharge of his power and duties
A. Johnson, Vice-President and acting
President ol the United States, was guilty
of acts designed to subvert tho govern
ment of the United States or any depart
ment thereof, and whether he had been
guilty of such acts as in law would be de
nominated high crime and misdemeanors,
which required the inspection of the
House; and the Committee have power
to send for persons and papers. Mr,
Spa.ding moved to lay the resolution on
the table. Motion not agreed to—yeas 33,
na 3'S 105. Mr, Ashley demanded the
previous question on the passage of the
resolution, and it was ordered. The reso
lution was then agreed to by a vote of 106
yeas to 36 nays. Among the Radicals who
voted in the negative were Davis, Donner
and Raymond of New York, and Wbatly
and Luthran of West Virginia, and Spald
ing of Ohio.
The House referrod to the Committee on
Naval Affairs the Senate joint resolution
extending aid and facilities for a ship
canal across the Isthmus to Darien.
The Senate bill providing for tho exhi
bition of the cereal productions of the U.
S. at ths Paris Exhibition was passed.
Mr. Kasson introduced a joint resolu
tion declaring the meaning of the 13th
amendment to the Constitution, which
prohibits slavery or involuntary servitude
except as punishment for crime. This
resolution declares the true meaning of
that amendment prohibits slavery in all
forms except in due execution of a sen
tence imposing a definite penalty, ac
cording to law, which penalty cannot,
without violating tho Constitution, im
pose any other sentence than that of im
prisonment, and that all judgments au
thorizing sales into servitude are in viola
tion of the amendment, and are therefore
void. The resolution was laid over. i
Mr. »Sievehs called up and introduced!
the araendftient to the bill to provide legal
governments for the South,providing that
no persons shall be deprived of the right
to vote by reason of conviction or pun
ishment for treason, or suspicion thereof.
He stated that he offered the amendment
because he had been recently informed
that in North Carolina, and other States,
in anticipation of the passage of the bill,
tho people were preferring charges and
having negroes whipped, in order that
they might be disqualified. The amend
ment was ordered to be printed and the
bill further postponed.
In the Senate the President’s veto mes
sage of the Negro Suffrage bill was re
ceived. Mr. Morrill contended that the
white people who voted against such
franchise were not true exponents of the
principles involved. In ascertaining the
popular will both white and black ought
to bo consulted. The white people had
nothing to do with the question, the Dis"
trict being under the executive legislation
and control of Congress.
Others spoke in favor of tho passage of
the bill over the veto. Johnson, Doolittle
and Cownn (Republicans) contended that
Congress should respect the wishes of the
people here, and because they were help
less, it should not act in a tyrannical
manner.
The bill was passed over tho veto—29
against 10. Among tho latter was Acting
Vice President Foster. Fifteen members
were absent.
The House has yet to act upon the bill,
and it is not doubted they, too, will follow
the example of the Senate, thus pushing
the bill into a law, the President’s wishes
to the contrary notwithstanding.
St. Louis, Jan. 7.—Tbs constitutional
amendment passed the State SAiate yes
terday by a vote of 26 to 6. It will pass
the House to-morrow.
The Radical caucus to-morrow night
will nominate a candidate for United States
Senator. The election will take place on
Monday.
Lon»On, Jan. 7.—It is said here that
the Governments of Great Britain and
Franee have come to a mutual agreement
not to interfere in the difficulties between
Greece and tho Sublime Porte.
New York, Jan. 8.—Arrived, City of
Baltimore, from Liverpool 27th ult., with
three hundred passengers. Commercially
speaking her news is perfectly blank.
Politics are very meagre. No change in
Fenian affairs ; there are seizures of arms
occasionally, but the brotherhood remain
ed without movement. General Millen,
the last President of the Fenian Military
Commission, has published a letter in the
London Times wherein he expresses the
opinion that Stephens is not a good man,
but a political humbug, cheat and rascal.
It was thought the reason that Eugenie
would not go to Rome was the condition
of personal relations between the Empe
ror Napoleon and the Pope. The Pope
hss declared he will not abandon Rome.
It is considered probable Gen. Minalvea
sill be appointed Italian Minister.
The Herald’s Vera Cruz dates of 23d
December stale that Maximilian had been
closely pursued by guerrillas, they hav
ing been but two hours behind him in
passing through Acaltens. Ferote had
been bombarded by the Imperialists.
The San Luis Potosi correspondent of
the Herald, date December 27th, says
Hejia has made another forced loan, and
Was compelling payment on the part of
every one, whether native or foreigner.
The example of Cantoza in robbery at
Hatamoras is having a disastrous effect,
two other Liberal chiefs having declared
for Ortega, and more of them likely to
follow their example.
Miramon intended to establish his head
quarters at Guadalajara in order to co
operate with Mejia.
The report regarding Gen. Lagodo de
claring himself neutral is confirmed, and
he manifests and promulgates it himself.
The General Assembly of the State of
Morganza has convened and a new Gov*
ernorship instituted for tho purposo of
appointing new civil authorities.
Trenton, Jan. 8.—Governor Ward, in
his message to the Legislature yesterday,
takes extreme Radieal grounds and char
ges the President with the usual departure
from honor and principles as now declared
by a majority in Congress.
London, Jan. 8, Noon.—Tho Daily
News of this morning, in a leading arti
cle, denounces the project for a reform
demonstration by the presentation of mass
petitions.
Berlin, Jan. 8.—An election far mem
bers of the new German Parliament has
been ordered to take place on the 12th of
February next.
London, Jan. 8, Noon.—The Times of
this morning says, upon good authority,
that Sir Frederick Bruce, British Minister
at Washington, has been instructed lo
ascertain whether the United Stales Gov?
ernment will submit the Alabama claims
to arbitration, provided that certain points
for arbitration are agreed upon previ
ously.
New York, January 8.—The total
amount of cotton in all ports of the Uni
ted States, from September 1st to January
1st, is estimated at seven hundred and
seventy thousand bales. The stock on
hand at present at all ports in the United
States is estimated at six millions (dollars,
we suppose).
Washington, January 8.—In the Sen
ate, the following matter was presented ;
Petition from growers, asking an increase
of tho tariff' on wool; petition asking an
appropriation to repair the Mississippi
levees.
Mr. Edmunds presented a petition for
the curtailment of the currency or an im
mediate return to specie payments by act
of Congress. All appropriately referred.
Mr. Williams offered a resolution, which
was adopted, asking of the President if
any violations of the Civil Rights bill had
come to his knowledge; if so, what steps
had been taken to punish offenders.
In tho House, immediately after read
ing the Journal, the Secretary of the Sen
ate delivered a message announcing the
passage of the District Suffrago bill over
the President’s veto.
Mr. Niblaek, Dam., moved, as this was
the anniversary of the battle of New Or
leans, which many on bis side regarded as
a holiday, tho House adjourn. He added
that Congress usually adjourned over on
this day.
Mr. Ashley remarked that was played
out.
The motion was rejected.
The District Suffrage bill was then taken
up and passed over the President's veto
by a vote of 113 to 38; after which the
Speaker announced that the mea-ure hav
ing been adopted by the necessary consti
tutional majority, had now become a law.
Columbus, O., January 8.—The Ohio
State Democratic Convention met to-day.
The districts are well represented. Dr. J.
M. Christian was appointed temporary
Chairman, and A. J. Mullane temporary
Secretary. One from each district was
appointed a committee on resolutions,
among whom was C. L. Vallandigham.—
A motion was made to refer all resolu
tions to the committee, without debate,
which, after a short debate, was referred
to the committee on rule3. A communi
cation from the Kentucky State Central
Committee, asking the co-operation of the
Democracy of Ohio to call a National
Convention next summer, to meet at
Louisville, was referred to the committee
on resolutions. George H. Pendleton will
be permanent President. Judge Thur
man will probably be the nominee for
Governor. There will be a grand Jack
sonian banquetat the Neil House to-night.
Washington, January.8.—The galle
ries of the House were filled to-day by
much tho largest audience of the year—
the matter of interest being the considera
tion of the District Negro Suffrage bill,
vetoed by the President. Upon the con
clusion of the reading of the message,
Mr. Ingersoll, of Illinois, moved the pre
vious question, and the House at once
proceeded to vote upon the bill. It was
carried over the veto by a strict party
vote, with the exception of a single mem
ber—standing 113 ayes to 38 noes. The
result was received with applause in the
galleries*
A resolution was adopted directing the
Committee on Indian Affairs to inquire
into the facts of the late Indian massacre
at Fort Kearney, and whether they were
in eonsequenco of any act of Government
officials. Agreed to.
Mr. Wentworth introduced a resolution
stating that whereas there is a difference
of opinion upon the subject of impartial
suffrage, and whereas it is legalized only
in the District of Columbia, and is to be
made a test here : therefore, resolved, that
the Committee on the District of Colum
bia be instructed to inquire into the expe
diency of providing by law for an imme
diate election of all officers in said Dis
trict. Objected to.
The House amended and passed Mr.
Kasson’s bill to explain and enforce the
constitutional amendment abolishing
lavery.
In the Senate, the bill to provide for the
payment of pensions was taken up, in
which the removal of officers during the
recess was alluded to.
Mr. Sherman stated that he intended at
an early day to introduce a bill making it
criminal to attempt to thwart the consti*
tutional powerof the Senate over appoint
ments.
The Nebraska bill was discussed at
length.
Mr. Creswell, of Maryland, planted
himself upon the platform of universal
suffrage, and declared himself in favor of
Territorializing Maryland should sho not
grant it.
The Senate adjourned, with the under
standing that the vote will be taken to
morrow afternoon.
Norfolk, January 8.—The Atlantic
Hotel was entirely destroyed by fire this
morning, together with several adjoining
buildings and stores. The hotel was val
ued at $68,000—insured for $30,000.
San Francisco, January 8.—The Ne
vada Legislature has organized—Charles
A. Sumner President of the Senate, and
R. D. Ferguson Speaker of the House.—
Mr. Delong will probably be elected U.
S. Senator.
The amount of bullion received here
from Nevada during 1866 exceeded that of
any other year,
Galveston, January 7.—The dispatch
steamer Blackbird arrived to-night, with
Brownsville papers of the 4th. General
Griffin returned in her.
Escobedo is reported to be alive, and
about going to Trennis.
San Luis Potosi has beon occupied by
the Liberals. The French retreated to
wards the City of Mexico, and were fol
lowed by Mejia, who commandedthe Im
perial forces.
Ortega has issued a proclamation re
citing his claims to the Presidency.
The Ranchero defends Sedgwick, and
claims that he was justified in his course
by Sheridan.
Escobedo has, with the approval of
Juarez, appointed Cortina Governor of
Tamaulipas. He relieves Barriozabah,
who goes to assist in the defense of Mon
terey against the Imperial forces, now
advancing. The merchants of Monterey
are reported to be favorable to Maximil
ian. Gen. Pariai has taken possession of
Guadalajara, the capital and Imperial
stronghold of Jalisco.
Concord, N. H., January 8—Tho Re
publican Convention, tho largest ever
held in the State, has renominated Gen.
Walter Harriman for Governor. He ap
peared and made a speech accepting the
nomination.
Boston, January 8.—The Congrega
tional Church at Newburyport was burnt
this morning. Loss $18,000—insurance
$5000. Incendiary.
Washington, January 8.—The anni
versary of the Battle of New Orleans was
celebrated to night by a banquet at the
National Hotel under the auspices of the
National Democratic Resident Committee.
Among those present werethe Democratic
members and ex-members of Congress,
and the Texas members of Congress elect,
ex-Attorney General Jeremiah Black, ex-
Attorney General Montgomery Blair and
his father, and Francis P. Blair, Esq.
The last named presided over the banquet.
Over a hundred seats at the table were
occupied about 9 o’clock. The President
entered the hall, and was received with
loud applause and a seaton the right of
F. P. Blair. First toast presented, “with
the day we celebrate and tho event which
made it a national anniversary.” The
presiding officer read a paper appropriate
to the occasion. Hon. Montgomery Blair
here proposed “to the health of the Presi
dent of the United States,” which received
three cheers. The President, on rising,
was again applauded. He said it wa9 not
his purpose to make an address on this
occasion, but simply to propose a senti
ment, which was as follows: “No State,
of its own will, has a right under the con
stitu ion to renounce its place in or to
withdraw from the Union, nor has ths
Congress of the United States a constitu
tional power to degrade the people of any
St ito by reducing it to the condition of a
more territorial Gependency upon the
Federal hoad—tho one is a disruption and
dissolution of the Government, and the
other is a consolidation and exercise of
despotic power; the advocates of either
are alike the enemies of the Union and ol
our constitutional form of government.”
The sentiment was vociferously cheered.
Senator Hendricks responded to the third
toast, named, “the Federal Union, it must
bo preserved.” The fourth toast was,
“Andrew Johnson, the President of the
United States, he is now receiving the
full measure of that vituperation which
was once meted out quite as lavishly to
Jefferson and Jackson.” Senator Doo-
little responded to this, and spoke of the
centralizing tendencies of the Government,
the question still remaining whether the
Federal Union can be preserved.
Lansing, Michigan, Jan. 8 —Governor
Cropps has been quite ill for the past
week, but it was supposed not dangerous
ly. His i ase has taken a change for the
worse this morning, and he is thought to
be dying.
Frankfort, Kt„ Jan. 8.—The consti*
tutional amendment was rejected by tho
House to-day—62 to 26 ; and in the Sen
ate by 24 to 7.
London, Jan. 8.—Reports from Hong
Kong state that the French fleet in Corea
i3 about to leave those waters for the win
ter without being able to obtain adequate
redress from Cochin China.
Washington, January 8.—Represent
ative Ashley, of Ohio, will appear before
the Judiciary Committee of the House to
morrow to give testimony upon the sub
ject of his resolution to impeach the
President.
New Y'ork, January 9.—The Times
has tbe following Washington special
relative to the District Suffrage bill:
‘General Grant was present at the
Cabinet meeting by request. Gen. Grant
took no part in the discussion. At last the
President asked his views. Gen. Grant
replied very briefly, that the objection
which had been urged by one member of
the Cabinet, that it wa3 unconstitutional
because it disfranchised rebels without
trial, was, in his estimation, the best part
of the bill and exhibited most wisdom,—
As for conferring suffrage on the blacks
iD the District, he was opposed to it by
Congress. He uttered no opinion what
ever.”
Seventeen liquor dealers were convicted
in KiDgs county, yesterday afternoon, for
violating the excise law in selling liquor
without license.
New York, January 9.—The steamer
City of Baltimore, from Liverpool on tho
26th and Queenstown on the 27th, has ar
rived. Her news is a perfect blank, ow
ing to tbe observance of the holidays.
It was reported that the reason why the
Empress Eugenie would not go to Rome
was the personal relations between the
Emperor and the Pope.
His Holiness has decided that he will
not abandon Rome.
Washington, Januafy 9.—Private ads
vices received here indicate that Trumbull
will bo re-elected to the United States
Senate from Illinois. There are other re»
ports, however, to the effect that Palmer
will succeed him.
The report of several correspondents,
that Ashley was applauded in thegalleries
when bis impeachment bill was intro
duced, is without foundation. The per
son who made himself conspicuous was a
white boy, who was sitting among colored
persons.
Charleston, January 9.—Advices
reached here this morning of the destruc
tion of the jail at Kingston by fire, by
which twenty-two of the inmates (ne
groes) perished in the flames. Tbe jail is
said lo have been entirely consumed.
New York, January 9.—Stocks dull.
Gold 34J. Money 7 per cent. Exchange
109J; Sight 110.
The receipts of cotton at this port during
the week ending the 7th were 20,878 bales;
receipts since September 1st to date, 245,-
000 bales. Tbe stock on band Bt this port
is estimated at 195 000 bales. Reliable au
thorities in this city make up tbe total re*
ceipts of cotton at all port? from Sept. 1st
to January 4th at 743,000 bales, against
900.000 bales during the ?ame period in
1865-’66, and 1,051.000 in 1857-’58.
Baltimore, January 9 —The stock of
cotton in fi r st bands com crises 4.G00 bales.
Boston, January 9.—The stock of cot*
ton offered is small, and higher prices are
looked for.
Augusta, Me., January 9.—The Le
gislature of this State has voted to con
tinue the suspension of specie payments
until April 15ib, 1868.
Washington, January 9 —In the Sen
ate, Mr. Sumner presented a petition from
citizens of Virginia, asking for a republi
can form of government in that State,
which was referred to tbe Committee on
Reconstruction. He also presented a pro
test from citizens of V assaehusetts against
the admission ot Nebraska with a consti*
tution disfranchising colored citizens.
In tbe House, Mr, Chandler, Democrat,
arose to a question of privilege, and said
that his vote on tbe impeachment resolu
tion had been incorrectly reported, and
moved that the reporters of the Associated
Press be under tbe same rules and regula
tions as tbe reporters of tbe Congressional
Globe. In conclusion, he stated that he
had voted for the resolution in order that
the President might have an opportunity
to vindicate himself.
Boston, January 9.—The schooner Are
Lhur Burton, from Savannah for New
York, put into Newport, R. I., on the
8th, with the loss of spars and sails and
hull strained.
Important (If true) Hum Washington.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette.
Washington, January 1.—I have it
upon undoubted authority that Senator
Fessenden has, within a day or two,
emphatically declared his opposition to
all schemes having in view an attempt*
ed forcible disorganization of tho pres*
ent State Governments in tho unrepre
sented States. The utmost extent to
which he will go. when the adoption of
the constitutional amendment shall have
been shown to bo impossiole, wiil be to
give hit assent to an act of Congress
proposing a plan to those States by
which, if adopted by them, their inter
rupted relations to the Federal Govern
ment may be fuily re-c-stab isbed. It is
understood that these views, which ut
terly discard the idea of territorializing
those States, are concurred in by Sena
tors Foster, Sherman, Cragiu, Fogg, and
perhaps others.
In harmony with ;he ubove distinct
tact, I may mention the report that even
tho Committee on I’erntories in tbe
House will report u b.li recognizing the
validity of tne southern State govern
ments, hut propositi ; a means (doubtless
unacceptable) by which they may be
restored to representation. 1 he truth
is that the whole present policy of the
Radicals, as I have had occasion before
to remark, cau he summed up in a sin
gle word—d lay. 1 h«y In.Ae nut put
any ot their lbrents of impeachment,
upsetting State governments, and the
lise, into practice.
New Political M -vement — Senator
Harlan, ex-Seeretary ot the Interior, has
been sojourning in our city for the past
few days, and left for Washington on
Friday nigbt, Ii is -tated upon good au
thority tbat his visit, here was for the pur
pose of obtaining informs.ton concerning
the extent of the Union sentiment in the
State, and to recommend the formation of
a Union League and tho organization of a
Union party, th9 chief uesigo of which
shall te to aid in procuring a “Loyal”
Government for the State. We learn that
immediate action will be taken in the
matter, and that a petition will shortly te
circulated, the purport of which will be to
secure to the State a government similar
to that recommended for the State of
North Carolina, which was presented by
Thad. Steyens in Congress. Tbe saintly
French, the planter and chaplain, we un
derstand, is a prirno mover in the matter.
[ Charleston News.
The French Anticipating War,—
A Paris correspondent writes to a London
journal that a wiae spread opinion pre
vails in France that the new year will not
pass away without tbat country being in
volved in war. It is said that notwith
standing tho International Exposition,
Prussia will continue to carry out the
grand scheme of conquest of Count Bis-
mark, of which the German annexations
form buta part, and which must ultimately
compel Napoleon to fight.
The Washington special of the New
York Times says there is good reason to
believe that Washburne’s bill, establish
ing a Government postal telegraph to
New Y'ork, will become a law. The
House Post Office Committee is nearly or
quite unanimous lor it.
A Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) dispatch
says : “Our State Legislature met here on
Tuesday and organized. Lewis W. Hall
was elected Speak-r of the Senate, and
Col. John P. Glass was chosen Speaker of
the House. This result leaves no doubt
that Simon Cameron will be elected
United States Senator.”
Tho correspondence between Governor
YVells, of Louisiana, and Gen. Sheridan
is published. Wells, it appears, requested
Sheridan to enforce Grant’s order. No.
44, and punish the ri ters by military
commission. £ho*idan replied tbat ho
would when he thought it necessary.
Among the students now in attendance
at Washington College. Lexington, Vir
ginia-General Robert E Lee, President
—are the following named Georgians : D.
L. Anderson, from Atlanta. Ga.; W. W.
Collins, from Macon. Ga ; IV. J. Howell,
W. J. Tonge and S. D. Tongo, Jr., from
Bain bridge, Ga. ; Mercer R Lee, from Sa
vannah, Ga. ; and T. VV. Rucker, from
Atlanta, Ga.
A London paoer in speaking of the me
teoric shower, gets off" the following speci
men of ‘ fine writing: “ There is cosmical
grandeur in this idea ; a baby star, cold lo
the heart with the silence and frost of the
empyrean, sndoenly heated in frenzy of
fire by the coarse airof ear: h till the chilly
heart and the glowing skin split asunder,
and the baby star perishes in dust and
glory—perishes of h -> lee-bing.”
The Pop* and Napoleon—The Paris cor
respondent of the London Globe writes:. “The
Papal government is bovine printed all its cor
respondence with the French K" peror from
1841) down to the present time. Ii has always
been believed in Fiance to a large coition of
the public that the Emperor. shortly after his
accession to power as Presi !• nt of the Repub
lic, took certain eugagemems of a delicate na
ture towards the Popo: and tbat the existenco
of them explains why lor a P>ne time the clergy
in France were his warm supporters; The cor
respondence now printing at tho Vatican wilt
show whether this belief is well founded or
not.”
In Brazil large pine apples cost four cents
each, oranges one cent, bananas six for a cent,
cigars ten for a cent.
Mortuart.—The Augusta Constitu*
tionalist publishes n list of deaths that oc
curred in that city during ‘heyearl866,ait
follows: Whites, 337; B.a c ks^. 37o-total
910. The number during lhe 1860
was 1,098. showing q decrease ot 1SB.
Sated —Hon. Oust ivus A. Henry aud
