Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1868, Page 1

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J * m . rg r aes “rie WEEKLY stakruntenedon Pay | WSL, XXXI, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNES DAY, JANUARY 8, 1868. N*. 4.628, oiieeainie ange cas merning—Ome Dollar and a Holf a Year. - — eo the uncontested and ancontroyer TE ; : THE CASE OF SECRETARY STANTON. | ents, bis patriotism, bis vigilance, his untiring 200 fast eens Rivonia mypn 4 THE EVENING STAR. | orci mnas mone elm? | TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR. | FORTIETH CONGRESS. nee ae rota Geverion 19 the cause, and lis undinching de- | And that js that is untrue and known co tw 23 - SG bly enjoyable affair, judging from concur- , : Washington News and Gossip, | renttestinony. For ons thing, thecrant Man- | Thig Afternoon’s Dispatches. pain sion is admirably adapted by its spacious apart- y entitled him to the gratiiudennd admire, | ®2!Red of the impending violenen, and it ia =“ ot wareed Gen. Bard This Afte ’s Proceedin, The report of Senator Howard in the case of watt ls Bs Secretary Stanton, considered by the Military ‘Werpwespay, January & Committee yesterday, and which will be laid voret times he yain for him to ot the country. In the worst th ea he wns ogg h meee itude was unshaken. dispatch did not intimate that there was a ‘ ‘ " |- | before the Senate m executive session to-day, 16 at and discouragement darkened rnee arising from tne forp Mep. SENTED . ments and superb appointments, for such so- ‘ROM EUROPE TO-DAY. Senatr.—The Chair presented a communi. y h i ne age coiture Pian a dw % ” letter of Ce - a f Leree \ io of ap- V. Hagner, Wm. Penn Chandler, Luther Mar- | were Secretary McCulloch, Heo. Edwia M. | Loxpon, Jan. &11 4. u.—Oonsols, 91 fairs, aeking an appropriation for the destitate | *Beets of foolscap paper. The following is an McKibben, and J. Rynaldo Sank, a | Stanton, Seriators Sumner ana Chaadier, Gen- » First Constitatonal Ciab | ¢Tal Washburn, of Wisconsin. Generals Har- such a danger. He had threatened ne Mare vent the arrests unless be was instructed contfary by the President, Suppose hin, for account: U. 1, A8y; Eries, 48. . S11 a. M.—Cotton dull pre with that spirit which, without aime him so much as a plain charge of miscon: “ ‘il’s Lake, in Dacotah | bstract of the document : Ternitory. "Referred to ‘Ooumniltize on Indian ‘On the ith of August last the President of riumph. We exnnot sympathize ‘ . J j Mr. Stanton had instantly shown tee mie ay eae e * the United States suspended from office the | would casthim down and ruin bis wellcctmed | ®t gone . ae Ste Piecident $F ney, Anrur, and Badeau, and a namber 0° | sadlacclined yar valce 6000 tales MUNIINE Se cearation of Sissi of mimes, Ue | deat ene a eee Beceeary of War, ae | Towa cat Patch to the President. (What would’ wa him witha gold medal | other militery officers. The prisence of Mr | Tipiands, Broad- [facking legislation for relief of adopted citizens | Was auring the recess ol the Senay and, as the | RUE port next takes up the charre male b Club in commemoration of the | Stanton serves to set idie stories of | stuffs quie . ferred t ittee on | tenure of office act of March 2, 1887, requires, { Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on the | reporting to them the suspension, with the evi- Judiciary, reported im favor of the indefinite | dence and reasons for his action in the cas postponement of the bill amending the Bank. | He designated Gen. U.S. Grant to perform, Tupt act, which was agreed to. temporarily, the duties of the office, and Gen. r. Morrill (Vermont) offered a resolution | Grant has since acted in that capacity. instructing the ‘ittee of Finance to inquire The commitice here quote the second section into the expediency of affixing a posh upon | of the tenure of office act, and ss any officer of the Government who shall au- | From thes provisions it isentarely plain that thorize a payment or appropriation of any | Congre- : b pre = aes ho : — = " 7 reviously author- | no removal of such officer should take place See eee but by the consent of the Senate, or amy sit Mr. Conness said there was nothing which nsion from office of such officer except for required the scrutiny ©” Congress mors than | bis misconduct in office, or some eri this matter. Men whom the Senate had rejected | Account of some physical or mental 31 as unfit for positions to which they had been | or some legal disqualitic: The act nominated, were sent on special missions to do | quires that + — He Presid at can aren mach id out of the public | suspension, he shall have evidence :tisfactory Do ria gy ciacreneaa nity te agli a Sy that some one of these causesjexists. He Mr. Edmunds said a sub-committee of the | must be satisfied with the evidence, and th neral Ba that alone w structed Fo d to prevent the a tl have on the Presiden 1 Gra Loxvon, Jan. 81.20 r. m.—Consols, 92a%y night by | for money, and ‘G2 \a% for account.’ Ameri- his | C&M securities are steady; U.S. 5-20's, 714 a71h; President's efforts in defence of the Constitn- | «i betw. of gold, three inches in —A State dinner was given la ree side of whi the Frene nister, M. J. Berth . ey residenee, corner of H and 15h s un. 81.20 P. ™.—Cotton un- number of leading members of Congress and | changed. Wheat firm. Pork 7&., for’ new e I ere present Eastern prime m ene ees eee Axrwer, Jan &—Petroleum firm, cerPTS EXPENDITCRES OF THEGov- | Lospon, Jan. &.—Nearly all the great jour- Pie nsccsinlge sett ns hard | als of this city have editorial comments this rising lasek gassed morning on the subject of the resolution recent- hows the difereace betweea holdt ly adopted by the House of Commons on the office under the Governmemt in th question of citizenship. and m the good old times before wa The abatement of the British claims and the as cuons to their present gigantic pro- anes of the American view as expressed pe eee ene. ae sident Johnson in his aunual message poate gress of the United Stttes, are urged For the fiscal year + Tune 30, 1860, the | With singniar unanimit, total receipts of the Governm sources, incInding I vented the r same day the mitic says that Mr. vetoed the Tenu concurred with him and the rest of the Cal prt, holding it to be ometittt al, aud now charges Mr. Stanton with a change opinicn, partaking of bad fith, in invoki the act as a protection against the efforts pend him, He speaks to the Secretary ought inoperative, any one of his Cabinet 0 him that he would a provisions of that billy he should not have h is an expected to sustain, there with the proceeding of The news brought by General Baird's though it notified Secretary Stanton th conspirators intended to arrest the delegates announced no armed ¥ popular ak, wie day by V uded the Cor aniza’ that if said to himself of the come it became a Inw, avierd that the Grand ‘harers against the ce) id be impoesible to exe his removal. it is true that Mv. Stamion bel riap veel el ag pn Mg ee thought that the bill was unconstitutional, and ~ ard ae = his view. Some of the ablest » ir. Stanton. ax the evadence shows, had a their confidence in In conetusion, his fut from all QueEENsTowN, Jan. 8—Advices re here from Gibralta, under date of the 5th that the bark Younk Turk, from Boston. men in the country have entertained the enditures we Joint Committee on Retrenchment was now | evidence must be such as tends io eguablish the | opinion, while others equally able hace .* expenainnres ‘were’ = a bark Housding Hillow, ttom New | <0 cased in a vigilant examination of tuts whole || existence of same ome of thane an Retly enum- | contrary doctrine, among whom was Mr. — : otras Lapa anesuprced wi. There | York, have arrived here. matter, and would report as soon as possible. | mated causes, und not nly that there in a | ster. ‘Thie controversy is slumect oeotrs ot preposters om. and assuring the | were then some 412 clerks in the Treasury De at th ‘The resolution was then passed, difference of opinion between him and the in- Mr. Sherman called up the House joint reso- | cumbent, or m lution, directing that certain moni Your committee do not stop to discnss the hands of the Treasurer, ax special agent constitutionality of the Tenure of Uifice uct. Uresury, be covered by warrant into the Tr. Mr. Johnsen, notwithstanding his strenuous “an n to and his former yeto of the meas- ly on the ground of the want of con- tien was pecuharly | partment. The at this t - that he would cher. nil the last hour of bis life. The Pres- | “During the fiscal yeur 1867, the sum of the hen took each member of the committe | amounts received and disbursed reached passed in con- | gv.v0: ount of work done NEW YORK ITEMS. apinihed tan cs l Rwting el Boencin Henry Ward Beech- er's Church—Seizure of Steamers for Vio- tation of Passenger law—Fires last year— Grant Mass Meeting. 75. The number of employees en- [Special Dispatch to The gaged im the Treasury Department keeping if he had at once carried patch to the Presudent, the la I any attention to it, veragi by ench involved $374.% Govern nt, but does low that bee public officer has entertained such am opimion Proposed measure, he is to carry his opin- ose sence " ions so far as to treat it as void when formally wt chou are dent aekte conn Sowet Of Dongreeh te Seen teen | to ic ueneenent Gan Se Doe ae ae dared to do this, for hie very order susper e mutual dislike. Star.) New Yours, Jan. &--The annual renting of r. Trumbull took the floor in an e! attack on the Secretary of the Treasw jonal warrant, has, by his Bocesding anton from the office, provided. by tis = * : mr a action in returning the proceeds of captured | now under consideration. recognized it binds law, is a recognition of its validity i a ek of this immense sum, and also upon other | pews in Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s Church fee oxo naa ‘property Tothe ct ing force. He has adopted it ax the tule of his » mext point Of the Preadente careunge | FOMTY xe Tux Ways anv Means ( rk unknown in 158) and previously, as | took place last evening. About two-thirds of aroerred thet ian Seomanicg han con conduct, by actually using and employing the | noticed by the committer is that Wiatom he | URdeT Which he rec > ques ¥ to report in fevor of counting currency, &e., w: 13, An average 5 were rented, bringing over $26.(00. | dreds of thousands of dollars to disloyal own- | power created and existing oni by the act it- | charges that Mr. Stanton was in accord with meek ene nS Catone @ Rew com wh of work done involying over a million dollars highestsum paid for a single pew was | ers. and continued to return after the ison, eli—the power of suspension f st only re- | his (Mr. Johnson's) poli and endeavors to pte caiiten than ‘conclude their repar: as suspend a nd per individual, showing that each employee soa | (Ch nee teeney Genre chee bb HAA AS power: | saaiae tr ~ Mighes yg Mgt apenyereprag gospel aoe Ta le seein ee nt | Slows hed: we le toe eee a y re i e1 iz ; of the evidence and the reasons on which he mI pe says in re tie | Sitowa~ of me 7 “ wissien. — 2 performed more than three times the labor that for b euuenie oc Be eee Coma tories bathed’ relies to justify his aetion aoe and Insupport of the asertion quotes | Withholding further instructions from Gener ja would have been exacted before the war. carried an excess of passengers :—City of Balti- Hovsr.—Mr. Orth, (Ind ,) from Committee To this duty we new address ourselves. A | at ength Mr. % mony on the sub. | Baird entirely suit, considering the wus erate Monrercrtictebattiense same facts are shown by statistics re- xonitt, Nebraska and City of Washing- | on Foreign Affairs, submitted a report, which | careful perusal of his Teport co the sonaee . piven bef hment Committee | Tnce in which Mr. Stanton actually was of The same facts are sb ta n onia, Nebras : oaprgteag sme tamamsiticatin liteeiadl 3 TE pS ee es The revenue from he amounts for which these vessels were blic dinner 3 F of the House, ata p Ohio, havi shows that his first or general reason for the suspension of Secretary Stanton was, that be Tefused to resign when Teq u and stated in t his reply to the request, that public considera. arrested as a Fenian raider in 1806, and is now | tions of a high character, which bad laduecd confined in jail in Kingston, Canada W: him to continue at the head of the Department, Mr. Orth sid that last March the Legisiatare | Constrained hum not to resign ocione tae neck of Indiana passed a resolution requesting her | Mecting of Comeress Senators and Representatives to take some | “The correspondence is as follows: action tor the release of Father McMahon, who | On the sthof August, the President addressed was a citizen of that State, The result was a him the following curt note : resolution was introduced, and the report sab- “Sir. Public considerations of the highest mitted is the result of the investigation by the | character cunstrain me to say that yourre tems, Committe on Foreign Affairs. Father MeMa- | tion ax Secretary of War will br accepted. * hon was an Irishman by birth, but at an early r uge emigrated to this country, and settled in age : Indiana as pastor of oy gt Orth then f proceeded to explain that Mr. McMahon never r. Stanton been guilty of official misconduct, Was engaged inthe Fenian raid. atthe ties | 2 lacks Geen Gs was laid upon the table, and a pst resolution requesting the President ef the United States two intereede with the (Queen of Great Britain for the release of Rey. John McMahon, who was hings in New Orleans. Mr. ¢ ddigals what took place in the inet atter Mr. JoORson became J mn, howe: m plead mo such se , President, together with the action of Me ian sien, Veschoon ureen cad een ee coin just previods io his death in reference wo | 2%, Voorbees, Herron and others of what was reconstruction | cai tien Ge bee ee This report says it i evident that Mr. Stan. | Cle pam the Becre raat ae. sd ton was not the originator of the plan.adopied, | Sarming facts to hays been made knowa by but that Mr. Sewant war the resjemmaible autor | 2m promptly and fully to dhe repousibie head and designer. That it is evident that Mr. Stea- | 1 the War Departinent, who was o a. ton was opposed to the exclusion of the blacks | Cop-titutional advisers? He had abundant i customs in 1560 amounted to $5,187,511 The | #tached wern—City of Baltimore, $13.14); Sax- ss onia, $12.30; Nebraska, $77,100; City of Wash- average amount collected per individual by ington, 810,200. S81 Persons engaged in various capacities | The Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, upon customs was $22.5, The reeords for | in his annual report, states that the loss by fires 1867 show that 3,0@ employees collected 176,- | 1th» city last year was over five anda half 417.-10, an average of $45.7 per individual, or A grand ma=s meeting of the friends of Gen’l bas in 1560, Grant will take piss & this city on the anni tof the whole revenue collected in | Versary of the uictory of Fort Donaldson. 1867 from Internal Revenue and Customs com- bined compares as favorably with that collected The Fe: . <a nian De ch tba alana hae hire reyes Piaes PHILADELPHIA, Jan. &—The Fenians made Aiurn-ont to-day at the obsequies of the men Customs, makes $442,445.45. Dividing this sum 7 f rath iy this aanchay of pieanee oni in collecting | @Xeeuted for killing a policeman in Manches. lecraphe card to the € in commencing reconstruction at the South, wv oe: \y J tions to the North Garoliny Contention, trees f Monror to Generat Baird, the des hat rt s regarded te =A | patch ef Voorhees and Herron, and all that qouttes Come ty it ten nT >| as ead ee ne teen on ae ae een, control Qoncrese by all the Cebinet. smd se ap. pres tnld Bis Sy Ronke an She ant om, pears in the various instructions given to the | — Cae moenas = ato Rect rer y ve visional Governors by Mr. Seward. In re. | 18¢t of incendiai wi fatal din pate | bnt finally gave a FROM PHILADELPHIA., tion. ington and s Represer gard to Mr. Johnson's claims as being respon. | VOothees on the th, and yi deliberately with e holds all these pregnant facts from the ter, England, u . had he committed some crime, or had he be- | sible for the conduct of the Farcutine Deon, o - " 7 3 iF still ultr: cal, | it We have an average of $49,529 collected per AU the head of the procession wasa cavalcade | Of his arrest it eno nerd a come incapacitated or disqualitied for the per- | ment, the report asks whether swoait his ik = poe gine penguins am L.. = ea i Peeenes te SEN wits rethink | dead Sabi is again twice as largeas the | of about one thousand, and delegations on foot teucetmaneers eave eee ae formance of his. duties as + Law contemplated, Tespensibility for the despatches from. the porary Bape gd ge Seno ose eam meme and is to be wa: = s & ; followes th » playing dead marches, “ 4 “ - | this note wou “ive perhaps nm fuultiess in | Secretary of State he Provisional Gov- pe Nab ay need Presid sea ata pct a The Tih ase len, in moatning. . hon’s parishioners were engaged, and ae cMa. | Polut es official courtesy; but as nothing of the | ernors a maintsins that he m further comment. The President, in a ¢om- m mittee has no evidence whether Father Me — Poland > he warmly | THERE HAS BEEN no meeting of the Com-| The military, in green coats, acted asa guard hind Vas intended, the style of the communica- tion we think was abrupt and overbearing, and <uch as to excite feeling. The law pro- be bound by them. Yetin his message to Gon. | Pi@ining mood, says—<It i* not the fault or | | hon wason British or American soil at the gress in 186, he suppressed such intimation | FCT OT ominsion of the President that this 1 | time of the battle; but after the battle he was found upon the field ministering as a priest to on the Repud- | mitiee of Elections this week, but at the meet- | Of honor arotind the hearses, tree in muinbe containing coffins of the three martyrs, with ing to-morrow the Committee will report 5 to | their names on the side of the hearses. fican ticket, by his Ve —The New York and astonished the country by announcing | Military commander wae lett without insiruc- Adee ected Mr. Stanton it his place. He had exactly | that he had fully reorganized and reconstructed | HONS, but for all omissions, for all error, tor : ie iaceare : he dying, and was arrested | (hes ght to it ae Me. Joh , 7 nae dak oak all failures to instruct, when instructions mit iser st the admis ‘s n,from | ‘The scene was quite impressive from the sol- | the wounded and t E > the same rig! xs Mr. Johnson had to his. | the rebellious States, and nothing remained — appare by auubority, that Senator | inten Wise een of Jona - Brow! emn music and slow march of the mourners, | by the Canadian authorities and tried and On the same day Mr. Stanton senttothe Presi- | for Congress to do but to pass upon | bAve averted this calamit President was lle scammieany ls il aeser tl ee re er Oe Rentmcky, on tengroand ct | Sn ails and ae earringes brought u convicted, ax the people of Indiana be- | dent the following ep the naked questions of regulating tle ciectites, | OPenly and persistently held responsible. In- is strongly m favor of Grant for Prest- | Gicloyalty. Tear of the procession... A regular Trish eves uniuatiy, and they therefore ask this | “Was Der antorest, Aug-5 —Sim: Your note | and Syauincetions of the Senators and Ragen. | Coed, enant ang Sot paces, the Gette : v. rf ay ce in ihe procession, | intercession to seeu! e Telease of a citizn has been received, stating that public conside- | sentative elected. u committed — 7 “ a —~ The Republican Convention of Connect | | WASHTOTON ax Gronorrows Raitaoan | ing car made its hhotice. Crea, bas ieee ee mty of An act of indis- | rations of a high character constrain you to | the offence iti be een ce ianging fronton | ***TY form of utterance. Mr. Stanton knew ient, to ersand choose del- | COMPANY—ELECTION ov OrviceRs.—The an- ee EE, cretion, bas already suffered enongh by his im- | say that my resignation as Secretary of War | tre great question of pov gress! Who | that the President wns not responsible egates to the Presidential Covention in Chicago, | 2U®! meeting of the Washington and George- prisonment. Let this House now pause. in SHAG BEMCCE ARE STATE CONVEN-(| Eoiry public veatuaes wal commace tienes of will be accepted. In reply, 1 have the honor io will be held at Hartford on Wednesday, Janu- | ?W" Railroxd Company was held at noon to- TION. has been the onlyandonginaloppouentofgrant- | T this delinquency. The exeulpation say that public con ada Of high charac. | ing the colored man the allot, for his protection | ¥#* in Ris power, but it was uot given day the office of the company, on New Qne of iis bumblest citizens, If Father MeMa- | ter, which alone have induced me tocontinueal { ook tor the security of the country against an- | 8Y Bim to the public, and only to” the sary 15. Ayenne, for the election of officers for ndigh hon had been American born the case world | the head of this, Dep: constrain me not | other rebellion! Not Mr. Stanton, su: Hits | President in obedience to a requisition for all — The nittee are making ar- jsuing year. The following directors were for Presi- | have been very different; ind now is a case, ary of War before | opinions on these subjects have ever the | the dispatebes.” Such an assertion as this, Fangrments for the Kepubhean National Con- | ¢lected, being an entirely new board:—Wm. W. and now is the time for Congress to assert its the next meeting of Congress. And thereupon and without any further cor- Tespondence, intercourse, or explanation, the [Special Dispatch to the Star.} CoLemnvs, Jan, 8—There is great excitement * here over the Democratic State Convention. | Sat rbels membered votes frig" 2544 there | itis universally acoeded that the question of ate cose Somer he nex United States Senator will be decided aysentm a large num-| In October Iast Mr. George §. Gideon an. | the nex>Uni : > the Sen: mong them | Bounced his purpose to decline re-election as | 12 tbe Convention. Both Vallandigham and Harding, U. HU. Painter, and Louis A. Gode of Phiiadelphia; Henry Hart, Wm, Remsei Jas. McKenna, and S. S. Riker, of New Yor! same,and Mr. Johnson knew them full well | SW! the facts, an accusation so unjus from April, 1865, down to the time of suspen. | bold and audacious, will bear no further ex~ a My amination. When the character of a faithful jon, and yetat the end of two years and four lico@ieerie thus scmileh aed ene mouths, during which he had been in almost | public « i oh sebe nee Saeee, daily official intercourse with him, it irans- ae “wd 1 . comp eae vs that these opinions cannot be tolerated, | Pretents himself as a false accuser, we thi Hoe ; the duty of the Senate is plainly to refuse their and Mr. Johnson discovers that public conside- > . Li y understanding of the doctrine of allegiance, and tll the governments of the Old Worid that We will not recognize the doctrine of perpetual | President, on the 1st of the saaie month, su allegiance, and that we consider every natural- | pended hiin from his office. The order vf ized foreigner as mucha citizen as the man Pension was made, putting Secretary Stanion who is native born. utand putting Geseral Grant mito th Mion, Mr. Orth then argued that the right of expa- | }, bE wrllss orc ‘U before the writing of the letier of the 12th by | rations of high character requires bis eutyen, | COCUTIeNGE in the su apenson. The Ocamic— hom: w. St President, and at the m ig of the Directors | Thurman are confident of success, Thirty- | triation was a natural right, and an inalienavle Mr. Jobuson, and Secretary Stanton’s repiy of | sion from office. It is obvious that this is 5 aly ithe passage of the fol- the name of Thomas N. Stillwell, of Indiana, | President, and at the meet Passed highly com. | {Mi voles are necessary to & choice. and Val- | right. Our duty is plain, he said, in this mate | quy Jokeson, and much commensed upos in | a pretext, and no motive for reiting Fid ofS 2, | loWing resolution, and that the same be serus as Minister to Venezuela, phmentary to Mr. Gideon, and regretting his | !#"digham claims to have} already pledged in | ter, and the naiuratized ‘citimn must be none the report, and which we are about to notice. | retary Stanton existed in Auvust last, xcept | fd to the President: retirement. hiv favor. On the other hand the Thurman | tected at every hazard, and to-day we must say Mr. Johnson, in his report. as one priacipa | such'ashe has already pointed out. At any | a “Hesolved, That having considered the evie seruve- | The new Board of Directors met this after. | Men assert that their candidate will be elocted | these areour principles, aad oor teae e reason for the suspension, characterizes the in- | note of Secretary Stanton as “a defiance sad ‘T- | something more.” It was no deflance. What ¢, and the prison houses of Europe | it asserted was plainly this, that those “public will no longer be filled with Americans. : nee m two to one. The Convention will go as a unit eens! Lwiker tee eee ee temporary ant | for Mr. Pendleton as Presidential exeaniate ganization. It seems probable that an election | “Mack,” of the Cincinnati Commercial, is here for President may not take place for some days, | "&Uring somewhat in the Senatorial fight. , stom dence and reasons given by the President in his Fate your committee have in vain ecarched for report of the 2h of Die " 2 fo the uae Another and special ground of complain: | PtP*iun from office of the Secretary of War, Ea- alleged against Secretary Sianton, in themes. | Win ML Stanton, the Senate do hot concur im be enforced by arms if need be. Let it be derstood that this is the sentiment of the Ar ican pe considerations” which moved Mr. Johnso sage, is that be ted to cor nicate to t such suspension and that Mr. Gideon will act in that capacity ee ane 2 Mr. Paine (Wis.) moved to amend the reso- Seerre to get rid of him oer hess which in- Prasat the, Salegraphio denpeten ara = ee eee sion on the «i for the present. ae SyWabd aes ANIA adele RE. Tat by eers att or eee en ech, ot | duced hia to remain. The fact war alre dy | Baird, dated 28th July. 1866, Felative to the VIRGINIA NEWS. 1H i rr Mc) - ade public r. Johuson himself that State Convention of Louisiana, then abo: e . © toon Spe ie Taxation Or NATIONAL BANKs.—In the hppa besa pos) ee phil Mr. Orth declined to accept the amendment. | {he Cabinet councrl the ereadii¢ jane See | cry sentary | ig gi barn on Judge John A. Meredith's farms Senate to-day a statement was presented from | change in the political situation, and the or. tun Secretary of the Treasury, in response to ® | sanization of the House appears as far distant resolution passed by the Senate on the 3d of De- | fs ever, This case of Father McMahon's was a pei one, and had been discussed at length. preferred that Mr. Lynch’s and every ot! case should stand upon its merits, meet at New Orleans, and that the Secretary | in Hanover, ebout twelve miles from Rick. dif not send Gen. Baird instructions, as rv- | mond, Va. was set on fire om Tharede night, quired. After quoting Mr. Johnson's message | and totally destroyed, together with its con- on this point very fully, the report states that | tents. Loss about $4,000, on which there is no e Court decided It is understood now < under the regular ad- T | tary Stanton had dissented from the opinions of the Attorney General in reference to the true r m+ aning and effect of the reconstruction act ot March 2d and March 23d, 1867, which opinions | these from the message show plaini: ‘ ics cember, showing the amount of tax collected The nine bolters have made a binding agree- | Mr. Cullom, (Ill.) spoke in advocacy of tit Mr. Johnson had adopted and acted upon The | enough that ee pepe of the ‘author is BA "Suajor Pos, chief of the Richmond police,was nm of the Teconsiru — awsinthe | tom the National Banks up to the 30th of = ee ee Er is Apidae Joint resolution. and demanded that the H. whole country had seen that if those opinions rove thathe had no o; a coming throng he courts i the | rine, 150. t0 ls SELULSOASE amount of bonds ack cally carom at expres: thea inion against the doctrine of per. petual allegiance, and declare that all citizens, | proposed they should be, aud as he intiennen native and naturalized, shall be protected. le eubordinaios to carry them out, tue y Mr. Cullum then went into statistics to show | intention of Congress im lupard te re the great influx of foreigners into this coun- | struction of the rebel States would be defeated. try and said our duty was plain to declare that all Secretary Stanton had expressed his dis naturalized citizens shall be provweeted. The | from iuoaropeniinn: t iil soon reach the Supreme Those who pre- know—and among them are several Senatorefe sTess—say,that the © Teconstruction kws tutional. The Court, it is said, will Pporiunity to prevent | before a military commission on Saturday, the riot and slaughter of bloody day, and Teed by Hi tt with giving information is therefore free from the responsi wean Wee unten ee eee dility of | which was untrne, to a corres tofa New which he speaks, and that his failure to prevent york paper, relative to leged incendiary them is clearly chargeable to the Secretary's ba Hannieut. — delingueney in not sending Gen. Bas in- A few days ago the barn of Dr. Samuel T. structions and in withholding from hin the Fauntleroy, on the Rappahannock river, con- of Davis are equally unyielding. held 4s security for National Bank currency up The Democratic State Central Committee to Dec. 2%, S47 1; tmterest in coin from two% | deen it best to take no action. and make no to 1867, : value of the same in law. | TCOmmendation to party members. In the uly, $76,167,124.16; interest in lawful money, | Again eine emocrats have some hopes that affairs will so change as to give them the *H41,100; valne in lawful money of total inter- | Speaker. Such a result were carried ovt in practice, as Mr. Johnson nd refused to counten: esident) the despatch reeited. Although it is | 4. 00 is rh. was destroyed by dope is actually possible, | Nation who will not strive to protect all. who an artifice which had occasioned theassembling | not incumbent on your Committee to tequire ore, oe a tonal tose of ehianny ag wile thie 4a\hiien vstdue, $76,505,244.16; total amount of license | but not probable, swear allegiauce toit deserves to be blotied from | of Congress on the 3d of July. Congress, to the | into the President's Tesponsibility in respect to | The barn was fired by some freedmen,who had Ste ™ 23 tx collected from all banks during the years ss the face of the Earth. He quoted from writers | exclusion of ail other business, Passed at that | this lamentable event, yet if in demonctrat.ne quarreled ainong themselves as to the share of Tux Somers Howe—A resolution offered | 1865, °6 and ‘7, €1,542,051.¢2: total tax om dint FROM CENTRAL AMERICA. on International law to show that all men had | meeting a third act on mecomstrantion: setting | the groundlessness of this charge, they find it | the corn they were entitiad to receive, hy Bir. Schenck im the House to-day was | dends and profits for the same thus giz, | Death of a United States Inspector of ¢ a clear right ofexpatriation and to emigrate to | aside the dangerous interpretations ef the necessary to Show the President's responsibility surcly he will have no reason to coiaplain Jor the charge itself naturally challeng sa adoj Aftat : toms, &e, » Committee on Military | (52.361.43, New York, Jan. 8—The steamer Santiago de @ the expediency of 70-1 tus Hits Raraatsne Yuk Fat on Oovcon | Cote, of the opposition California line, has the country whose institutions they believed torney General of the preyions act«. As he Mire beat fOr their individual or family inter- | had done to the former tills, Mr. Johnson be Reterring to decisions recently made by On Chrisimas day last, an altercation took place in Romney, between two young men of Tee | that place—Mr. Adam Parish, of the Armstrong » fe Yetoed this also. It was as notorious a the | ful consideration ot the facts. Hour, and ason of Mr. Jouathan Harmison, ae Soldien English Courts that te American naturaliza- | Cia por veiovs, nided by his speeche: tl First—Is there reason for supposing that Mr. moving the Old 5 » Home from Washing- | came over from the Senate this morning. and | ®rived from Aspinwall. ton laws were nullities. Mr. Cullum said such | Conversations and t ton t of the Virginia House, Mr. Charles Harmison— Which resulted in the almost instant death of the former, from a wound by a pocket karte We iearn from the Native Virginian that in parts of Louisa, and generally in Flavanna, negro huts are multiplying rapidly. Many of in the wildest solitades, a corps of presses in his interest could make it, that he was stroncly opposed to everything of the kind, and that be intended to render ail such legislation abortive. He had not only ud bisinfluence and patre age to that end, but had strenuously opposed, gan asset~ | denounced, aud endeavored to defeat and Uae laid befory the House ard referred to the |, The gunboat Marblehead, was at Porto Ca- Commitwe of Ways and Means, at the request | P10. : : " el Murray, United Stat rt of Mr. Schenck, Chairman. That Committee | gQl0ne Begin Gat on pooediym i pried . Sa eae et ee will consider the Senate amendments to the bill | Salvador. on the 23d ultimo Lxsenep—Thom Connery, Esq., the es- fof the New York Jerald bureau, is | * !hir meeting to-morrow, and the general | ‘The French steamer Louisiana had made the & doctrine was monstrous, Pending discus-ic and the bill went over under the he Speaker laid before the House resolutions of a meeting at New Haven, Conn., signed by Gov. English and others, deman: Johnson would, in case this dispatch bad been mide known to him immediately on iis recvipt by Mr. Stanton, have taken such steps as would have averted the riot! Second—Was Mr. Stanton in fanit for not sending instructions to General Baird of such volunteers on | ® charicter as to have secured the same end? | mile or more from arable land, and acceasitie opinion is that it will to report against | P8*S#ze from St. Nazarre to Aspinwall, a dis- | tion of the rights of Ainerican citizens abroad. | to yeto the amen: ment to the Constitution Third—Was he in fault for not communicat- oonr by “5 Batrow path, which the traveller ily by asevere fall in getting neared po tance of 4,732 miles, in sixteen days and nine | Referred to Committee on Foreign Affairs. known us ardcle Hth, passed June 16th, 1666, | ing this dispatch to the President ? passes unnoticed. They are built in the hastiest them. It seems probable that the matter will | hours, Mr. Schenck intreduced a resolution direct- | intended at that time aoa basis op feconsirue. udest™ have to be settled finally in a Committee of ing the attention of the Committee on Military Affairs and the managers of the National Asy- lum for disabled wole to the idex of pro- Siding at the Central Asylum and its brancles | Houses of Congress, evineing wt times a dixpo- for furmishing and repairing hereafter, artificial | sition, unawed by the Constitution and he geo limbs for all Inmates of the said institutions; | of office, wo disregard their legisiation neg eeee End also that the Committee of Military Affairs | to disperse them, and seize, if possible, the sere, enquire into the expediency of providing tor | of absolt power, and many of the wisest and the transfer of the Old Soldiers Home at Wash- | mo=t patriotic in the land were filled with up- ington, D.C. to the Military Asylum for the | prehensions by his angry Tulmametons Src. Support of disabled soldiers, and to which sol- | feiary Stanton, on the other hand, favored a diers of the regular army ax well as volunteers | syithiul execution of these acts, They were shall become immates, and to change the name | jaws of the land, and he would notseek to de- of the Instivution to the National Soldiers’ | feat their object by any means, ditest ot mun, Home. The resolution was adopted. rect, and he had reason to believe, and did be- On motion of Mr. Schenck, the Senateamend- | lieve, that if he resign his post Mr, Jobacns Ris to the cotton tax bull were referred tothe } would fill the Vactney by the appointment of After quoting the dispaich us sworn toby | banner of Gen. Baird, the report says: “This is the des- | More the hubl patch, word for word, as furnished and sworn | p-idences of human bones to by Gen. Baird. In the copy thereof inserted | On last Saturday, whilst a wagon, containing in the Freeident’s message, the words ‘at once’ | effects of Mr. Joseph E. Berry, who was ree are found between “me’ * The copy | moving from Mooretield to Martinsburg, in at- furnished by Gen. B. implies little or no urgen- | tempting to crose the branch at Pareoss ford, cy. while that furnished by the President im- | the force of the current swept the bed of th> plies it strongly. ‘The comparative expressious | wagon off; and it wae carried howe the some, ure as follows Mrs. Berry, two daughters and a son wer in “Please instruct me by telegraph, the wagon at the time. Two of the children, a Brat.” daughter aged six and a son three years, “Please instract me at once by telegraph. were swept out of the bed and waed. Mra. PRESIDENT'S Messacx. B.and the other daughter clinging to the bed, The report does not atwempt to accoant for | after floating down the river some istanor, {his discrepancy, merely mentioning the fact. | were rescued from their perilons condition by The report details atlength the origin of the | oy man, work a field adjacen: Convention, the facts relating thereto bane | ycuored nionge ben ~ 3 * rude-t materials, and resemble His whole course of conduct was notori- tions of the beaver than the M open, violent antagonism to the will on, and as expressed by the two isastory | Conference, 4 has been Of | Paying AND REPAIRING THE AVENTES,—A aud that | resolution was introduced in the Senate to-day i by Mr. Morrill, of Maine, (which was agreed Newark, Jan. §.—A prize fight came off yes- »,) instructing the Committee on Public Bu terday between Mike McCalley and Patsey wel giacaer ce tene partes one ab, | McGeorge. At the termination of the twenty- ea of the city. of Washington coord | first round the cry of police was raised, and the be permanently reduced by carrying out | Principals, seconds and spectators ran off. The einal design of setting npart and trans. | fight was afterwards resumed in a bar-room iering either twenty feet of the centre or ten | Lear by, and MeCalley won ona foul blow. A +t on each side, more or less, of such avenues. | fight then took place, the referee was badly pd planting the same with shade trees; and | beaten, and a man namec O’Hallaran was what mode the owners of property at t= | Sttbbed. avenues, and who would be largely aan ed by the improvement, can be inade to PHILADELPHIA ITEM ley the Victor against Patsy Mi (oti Referee Beaten and a Man ive of mew presses, ¥y le is suid to be ¢ Jim Bennet nad his lions than one. m™ ‘ the river, who, finding a horee hitched, mounwd Ways Araitien (On anes inte so oleae | moe nin accord with bimeelfin hls plane | taken from the ELPort of the Select Committee | jt, and ata Fisk of his own lift; MODly plemees "hESS ANG © ye Wash expenses " e, aiding (O.) aske eave OF 2 Tes. f obstruction and resistance to: will son- ‘Une use OF ‘Sentati ves on the N, Or. = ee ce sie sshunaton | deiray the expenses of the name. gluticn directing the Committee on Accounts | grese, Such appointment would, by te Gone, | Cite Hous ore ew Or- | intothe stream, and brougit the mother and 0 be & beiitiant afaic | “CANE Pamenvan 0 suk Pamibear_A fo lnduire into the expense of stenographic re- | stitution, have remained in force unuil, the oud Pornne tor cousmitiees of the House, and to | of the session of the Senate. ‘The Senate war Fecommend such changes ax will reduce the | pot to meet on the 2Ist of November, and the cost. session would nox probably have expired un. Mr. Cobb (Wis.) objected. til the first ‘Monday in’ December, the cons Mr. Poland (Vt) called up the resolution | mencement of the next regular cesslon of Ooo fore reported from the Committee on | press, - Elections in the contested election ease of | * "Thus the appointee would have remained in Burch vs. Van Horn of Missouri, and which | omtce fourmonths,during which the reconeros: gives the seat to Mr. Van Horn, the sitting tion acts, the registrations and several elections member. were to take place in the rebel States. It was Mr. Burch the contestant, was permitted to undoubtedly the aim of Mr. Johnson, if we may prom ni his claims. and taking his position at | judge of his previous conduct, to avail himeel?, the Clerk's desk,proceeded to address the House | if practicable, of this lapse of time te earry out at length. his scheme of obstruction, and by every means in his power, and they were many, to hinder Recenstructi fcr thwart — intended operation and effect of The Virginia Convention has adopted the | those statutes, first section of its bill of rights, declaring ai] | _ That this startling Gives ae [Special Dispatch to the Star.] tent, New | Puiapenputa, Jan. 8.—The State Conven- daughter safely to the shore on eon nee of = eee, the on vention are t letailed. and the commitice . are of the opinion that there was ho Inder. Piso pha wea A cin Ee wocien mies thority upon the partof Gov. Wells to ixu ro clay omg 3 ma) Sats Menemearing the writs tor filling vacancies. The report peg en a is aatemonee ad cupes F senidemt YOumeo Of being aware of te | & ployees of the two principal cotton mills im xistence of Mayor Monroe's letter to General Sane bel. os ‘John F: Baird, of 26th July, and also of the intention of | Lancaster, Pa. caus poceenbd eels ror ek thas GX Doe eee ee ieee 1 cnn Cateater ee ae oe paid Gent Johneon did not make arrangement. ~ ‘cut amounted to over G40. When the changes. ‘ot im | ROW being made in these mills are completad, mander-in-chief of the armies, be could have | S008 per day. or 61G\Mu0 yards per year. At discovered it, and failing to do that, they state | PTS?! prices, goods made at these that he wes bound to protect it against yiclew ests Will be Speaker | CO™Mmitter of citivens of Conn . Hon. James Brooks, | Y°T*: and other States, last evening presented tion of Boys in Blue. to nominate candidates 1 Wilkeson, Esq.: Eresidcat a cons made from the wood of | for President and Vice President, met this . Es = ° oll i lebraled Charter Oak. An appropriate | morning and temporarily organized. a+ Managing editor of was made by Postmaster Cleveland, of | “‘The Fenian fuieral procession today te very New York Iritune: Henry D. Cooke, Esq. and 7. which was responded to by the Presi- | large and imposing. It te extonnted thee ". Rewspaporial and In the presentation speech, a parallel | were over ten thousand men in lune, wasdrawn by Mr. Cleveland between the old Ry Associated: Pre tre, which protected and preserved the chiar- | yyy, reed ping Pee <u we on? —The statement of | *F- 92d Mr. Jobn-on, as the defender of the hey Ag gettin ‘p ie be ‘tution and advocate of the restoration of | Of Penusylvania, metin convention this morn- a Boston paper that a dis- ‘ ing. Gen. James A. Beaver, a one-legged sol- “Mtoe of the Seeretary of dier, was elected temporary chairman. The tr in the sum of $40,000, | | Tur Reronr or THe INpraN Commission.— | attendance was very large. undation in fact. as the | The Indian Commission, composed of Hon. N. be financial affairs of Col, | G Taylor, Generals W. T. Sherman, W. 8. siled wo discover any ir- AL. Terry, CC Augur, Colonels Tr and Taffen, aud @x-Senator Hender- ‘was formed on the men by nature equally free and independent, replying tothe charges of Judge Abell (Special Dispatch to the Star.) Foster Bloc ‘tmaster at A against the consUtutionality of the committee, - — son, waited upon the President this moraing, | tov, N.Y, Jan 8.The dinsach trom has been suspended, and G. Woon oe? Reavails himeclf of the sist of Joseph Adol: Tue Kxcents oy Tux SwirHsoxtan Insti. | and presented their report to him. It will to Glenn’s Falls stating that information had been received there of the sinking of Recluse a by the Sena: tion, which passed Messrs. Thee been appointed specinl agent to take charge of the Angusta office. A petition is being circulated among citizens, which will be pi sented toGeneral Meade, asking for the remo: of Blodgett as militury mayor of Augusta, joint resolu. | tted to Congress by the President imme- House yesterday, are y Island, is contradicted, There had been no DL. Wooise y, of Cincinnati; De. Fxttows calls Bismarck a covabinalion ock of earthquake felt, and no tremendous of New York: Mr. McLean, of | o¢ pom pit cy “i upbeaving of the waters of the lake, hus Rossier, of New Orleans, to Washington. cea the interview of that gentleman with the President, snd much of his testimony is given to show that he and the i, oo a a Mia i Bier 2 Gov. Jenkins, ot Georgia, and Goy. Patton, of Hoa ttt Parker, of Washington; ; : % Alabama, arrived at Atlanta yesterday, to com, ‘Onis Pormauatives, Hon. | isremwat Revenun—The recupts from this | ENDIANA DEN ENTION, STATE CON | Cin wit Gem Meo Coe ray: 19 con i Pruyn, of New York ps SOUTCE to-day were $350,576.97. the attention of Gen. Meade to several of Gen. Pope's orders, and their revocation is under mee epee uF, frame a constitution for issippi under the reconstruction ucts met in ‘Fochatce yesterday. Mr. A. Mygatt, of Vicks- {Special Dispatch to the Star.} - —o-—___— IxPraNaPro.is, Jan. 8.—Delegates to the State Ge ee from the lecture field at the Pexnevivanta Coat Trape.—Some of the | Democaatic Convention are still arriving. It is close 0! this season. jucre mtetligent dealers in authracite coal are | conceded that Hendricks will sanguine fa the opinion that that trade will be Goyerner, and Turpie will te piven tater Tee Wasnixctes Srectat Corresroxn. | qbite active this year compared with thatof place on the ticket, 020 Republican is now in charge tt Smith, Esq. of the Afternoon As- d Press, Tue Onoxaxcs COMMITTEE was in session this morning, and examined Col. Benton, of the Springfield (Mass.) Armory. His evidence Was mainly in relation to a conflict of claims in regard to certain improvements of a breech Jesding gun, To-morrow the committee will con snue the examination of Col. Benton, and 0 examine Col. Bailer, in charge of the test- BH 01 projectiles at Fortress Monroe. last. We notice that the first 2 ce point in such direction. The Reading rail brought down las | weelket54s7 tons, against 11,514 tons im corresponding week a year ago—showing an increase thas far in the fiscal of that com- Pany of 102,670 tons ‘The Lehigh Valley rail- rend, which Parties in the trade have conjured intoa sort of rival of the brought down last week 28,525 tons—making the increase vo far m the fiscal year of the Of 88415 von» over that of last year.— Phila. r. 7A merchant of Bloomington, Ill, has hit Pepe wave on the poor of the town, « NG TO WASHINGTON, {Special Dispatch to the Star.] Crxcrmn art, Jan.s.—Judge M. F. Force has Jeft here for Washington City on account of the revere illness of his father, the yenerable Peter Force, —___.