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Vols XX VI....N% 7841, TPROM WASHINGTON. ——— | SPECIAL ——— OUR Union Meeting in Maryland--—Speechies by Several Congressmen. —— Jeff, Davis, €. €, Clay and the Approaching Trial. REPORTS ABOUT THE Ri0TS AT MEMPHIS. | PROCEEDINGS €T CONGRESS, - Debate on the West Point Candidate {;Nohe. | CONSIDERATION OF THE PROPOSITIONS FOR RECONSTRUCTION, The Bill Concerning the Ireedmen’s Bureau, | —— The Tax Dill Agein Before the Nouse. W sHINGTON, Thursday, May 24, 1666. | UNION MEETING IN MARYLAND. A moss mecting of the Uncor J Baltimore County, Maryland, wa yesterday. Stro tion the repeal of 1 g e were pussed, ¢ isug Rebels in that State, of the Civil Rights , Jr, M.C. | ie spirited o of Te M MceKeeof K Hawilton Ward of New-Yurk, and t Thomas, jr. The Fouse Jud 1 engaged upor the the e mony a b There | of the Committee, and all reports to t wt T o not yet del d what recom- nox n they will make d the Attorpey- Gonerd b yet coue wiat he will do with | reserence to Davis's trial in Richm He does not look less with mach favor on Judge Underwood's Court Chief-Justice Chase should preside, which is not at pr Mrs. Davis arrived here this morn been receiving ber friende all day st Dr. Miller's, Rebel sympathizer. She comes to get her Lusband released on parole, or have more commodious quarters and less restraint upon him. Of coiirse, she will aceon- | plish Ler objects. | THE MEMPHIS RIOTS. | Major Gilbreth, seut by Gen. Howard to investigate the Memphis riots, has made o partial report on the subject. says ¢ The civil authoritics have not taken the slightest notice of these terrible riots, and seem to regard them as simply o skirmish betwéen the police and the negroee. It was certainly o very one-sided skirmish, as from probable. the testimony no resistance was mwade by the megroes after the tirst might. The citizen have en advised to bold a meeting and denounce tho conduet of the mob, but still they either | The papers of Memphis are at thie root of the whole matter. They bave in riot and wmurder for nths, and is only & legitimate result cf their wflammatory and incendiary articles; and these poor whites, between whoin and the negroes a foud has always existed, have been but their tools.” o NOMINATIONS REJECTED. The Senate to-day rejeeted Samuel McKelvey, noming | 1ed as United States Marsbal for the District of Western Penusylvania, and also Mr. Purnell, Blairs candidate for Postnaster at Baltimore; both rejections being ou the ground that they were supporters of the President’s policy. | INTEKNAL REVENUE. Receipts to-day, $657, 142 THE BOUNTY BILL. Gen. Schenck will call up bis Bounty bill to-morrow, us | winended in Committe, a1 will try to pussit. The-e is ® large majority in its favor in the House, which guaran- tees its passago whene: er put 10 vo THE AMENDMONTS, 1t is expected that the Senate will next week vote npon | the Constitutional smendments, and the belief gains | ground that the third section will be either altered or | stricken out. Almost the entire discussion bears upon that point. neglect, or refuse to do so he: CLEARING SAVANNAH HARBOR. The Government have awarded to-day & contract to Henry 8. Welles of New-York to raise the vessels in the River and Harbor of Savannab, These vessels were sunk by the Rebels to obstruct the ehaunel. The gunboats and | other vessels were scuttled and sunk at the time the city was evacuated. There are in all about 20, some of them very valuable, with all their guns and armewent on board, FRANK BLAIR RE/ECTED. The statement that the Senate had reconsidered the vote rejecting the nomination of Frank Blair as Collector of the First District of Missouri is incorrect. No confirmation or rejection cab be reconsidered unless the motion is made within two Executive sessions after confirmation. A MISSION TENDERED TO GOV. CURTIN. It is said by friends of Gov. Curtin that be bas been tendered the mission to Italy. RELIEF OF SUFFERERS. Gen. Baird, Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau in | Jouisiana, reports that be is furnishing food to the in- habitants of the overflowed districts, PROPOSALS OPENED. The joint Committee on printing to-day opened a large sumber of bids for engraving, and illustrations for the Patent Office Report, from Boston, Buffulo, New-York, | wid Philadelphia. No awards have yet heen wade. | o The Awsociated Press. 4 WaSIINGTON, Thursday, May 24, 1566, CONFIRMED. The Senate has confirmed Albert Van Kleek as Post- waster ut Poughkeepsie, New-York, The Scnate has confirmed the nominutions of Gen. | Ausou G. McCook of Steubenvile as Assessor of Juternal Revenue for the Seventh District of Okio, uud David Miller of New-York City as Assessor for the Fifth Dis. wict of New-York. The Senate also confirmed the foll cng-named to be Captains iu the Arwy: Wi, H. H. Be rd, Corps of Engineers; Joseph P, Farley, Ordnance ichael J. Kelley, Charles H. Hosmer, William Folek, Heury Patterson, Richard H. Pond, William M. Wherry, J. B. Irvine, Geo. K. Sanderson, and J imes A, Wearn. IMPORTANT MILITARY ORDER By direction of the President, tue military departments 5f North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama wave been disco od 1n General Orders No. 32, frow the War Department Adjutaut-General's office. In. 0 O « States of North Carolina and South | Laroling will constilute & new military departm, ) be | ~ulled the Deps s, and 10 be ¢ manded by M o8, beadquarters n " 5. Danie at Columbia, South Carolina. ‘These States wili each con: & military command, the former under Brevet Major-Gen. T. H. Huger, U, Volunteess, the latter uader Brevet Major-Gen. R. K. Seott, U. 8. Volunteers. In addition to their regular du tien a8 military commaudants, Gens. Ruger and Scott have been instructed to perforza the duties of Assistent Com- | missioners of the Burea. of Refugees, Freedmen snd Aban doned Lavds for their respective Stutes. ‘ The States of Georgia and Alabama will in the future eonstitute department, to be known as the Depart- it of the South, with Brevet Major-Gen. (. R. Woods, .Dnited Btates Volunteers, commapding, headguarters at DISPATCHES. | ® | lisbing re | ments from Congressional Districts, the persou authorized = | secure the su and mercy. Mr. | be trusted; that | military des, | shall be subject to the | strengitien the foundations of our iustitutio | sympathies of mankind Y N Chiska i s .a-‘vrfl“ S e Macon, Ga. These States will constitute ud, the former under Brevet M d States Volunteers; the | Wager Swayne, United St b and Sw s of Assistal 8, Frecdmen above-ment: or-Gen, Dy atter nnder Br and meree al bill art of the ( In default ¢ prompt red ¥ by tional B : Treasury contemplates at an earl, ablishing at the Treasury Department & ayste { forwarding to the National Banks their national bank i JOHN MORRISSEY of New-York is here. ting the New-York 1o interests, His miss ose of refuting the statements of Marcus Cic , who is cngaged by the Government prosceuting Vicksburg, Emma and Ari the accounting for distribution ture 18 abo , s Bow undergoing iflicers of the Tr \ few woeks + 100,000 conneeted with the Gor , on duty ier, in & lotter written to this ity ports of 1 I war now clers by the officers of customs, ington. ¥ from Fortress Secrotary Seward has rety Mrs. Jeficrson Duvis arrived here to Mouroe. REVENUE STAMPS, The various Internal Revenue officers thro » first of June, to be supplied 1 of by mail, & contract de by the Treasury De- for this purpose partment, X - XIXt FIRS n CONGRESS. e OR ATE WASHINGTON, May 24, 1666, T STAUNTON, VA, SE! AFFAIRS e o withd, 1 to loyal per He had , from Stanuton, informing him Y igners of this it the purpose of persecution had sinee b te ¢ persecated and signers 1o the accused of havi petition, It w NRS IN WASHING followin nittee on ¥ in the following part fouds have b ad rat:of - nd to whom been mad. JOHNSON, M ments of i terest, e suggestion 3, b Ir. Wilse o ) a8 10 Ml icable to all Nation: inquiry was ordered, it ou.ht it read that a select resolution was agroed TRIAL OF DAVIS. Mr. SUMNEE prescnted the petition of au officer of the eteran Reserve Corps for the trial of Jefferson Davis by tary v & Military Commission, which was referred to the Mili Committee. CANDIDATES FOR WEST POINT. Mr. WiLgox called up the joint resolution in relation West { applicants for adinission 1o th It denies admission to all wh béllion, and provides that and 22 years of age. Mr. ANTHONY offered an amendment thet in the appoint- to make nominations shall nominate not less than five trom which_selection shall be made by awination, This shall not apply to appoint- ntsat large by the President. ir. NessiTh offered an smendment that hereafter the dent of West Point may be selected from any corps of the army instead of as at present from the neer Corps exclusively THE RECONSTRUCTION RESOL m 8. ruing hour ex- pired, a ustruction resolutions were taken up. Mr. STEWART took the floor. He said that in the flict of opinion upon questions of expediency, th safe coursawas to do right; that there was little dif of apinian upon the fundamental theories of our Go ent; that all men are Iy , liberty and ursuit of Lappincss; that the objection to the Presi- t's plan of reconstruction was its failure to e the d hopes of the American people; that four millions of citizens, whose only offense is fidelity to the Government, should possess these inalienable rights and be added to the strength of the Union in support of ite integnty and the 1o d fon tinancial burdens of the war; and that plan fuiled to furnish any security sgainst the unlimi wy | Rebels in their local State Governments with an inere representation in Congress of the disloyal element of the Rebellion. glln, and that Le was slow to condemn it unless, and until @ could improve it. An improvement of the President’s o0 by d I suffrage w lained of. General amnesty and impart 4 the only obvious remedies. These were ind justiee and bumanity, but opposed by prejudi Those who had assailed hiin (Stewary) for Pas8ion. the advocacy of the resolutions be had d, had faled to find agument to refute the correct- pess of the proposition. If his (Stewart's) views s, Le had but had been matlified by the progress of ev followed the maxim ‘of Mr. Lincolu to a whenever they appeared to be true view port of those ouly who had changed their opinions by du' constant development of new fuets for the lust six yeurs, he was sure of the success of lis proposi- | tion. The trouble was that some men attempted to apply old theories to new facts; the theo of Slavery to u condition of freedom. His ouly hope of return to correct principles was the manifest danger of doing wrong. Lead- ghout the | what auttority | plan involved a cure, pot an aggravation, of the evils com- | stion of Mr, Fessenden, | Yet he would admit that it was better than no | | tent person to edit such & work. | ing minds of the nation and the voice of the Joyal press | had from the beginning expressed a willingness o settle urdifficulties by adopting uni uffrage, Thespiritof Mr. Lincoln which proclaimed * mal- ice toward none, but charity for all,” animated the loyal North, axd resolved the contest into s demand for justico any other theory was in contlict with that the blacke were among us, and must have the ballot for gelf-protec or extermination s predic by their masters ; that with the bailot they would have plent of friends, politicians loving votes more than they hate negroes ; that Civil Rights bills and Freedmen's Bt reaus could only be made effectual by the war power of Democratic principles; | the nation, and involved military despotism if carried to the extent required for protection; that the ballot was self-protecting and_self-sustaining, and in harmony with the prineiy h tism. Yielding to a sentiment of vengeance v v disfranchisement, and of hate to- im of the ballot, was utterly Somebody against the ward the destructi st vote, and if we sel il everybody was satis ro by deprivivg of free government in the South, ed classes to vote, and r 1, there wonld be few left in enjoyment of the franchise. The Government would a miserable aristocracy or & cruel despotism, aud the confliet could not cease without an extension of suffoge tothe blacks and eivil and political rights to the late W ben justice was done and mercy extended, the evils of the past wight be buried in obliviou, and crimina tion and recrimination cease in the bright hope of fature peaceand prosperity. He insisted that hione who now are en- titled to vote are di same intellectual, moral and property Alificatiens; that no possible harm could result to the on the contrary it would change the basc and aud prepare m for the grand superstructure of Luwan freedom de- jgned by our fathers. It was hard to disfranchise the pels, and in their struggle to achieve the ballot the would have the sympathy of republicans throughout th world; but in au effort to enfranchise would sustain those enfn ed in cress had already committed the Union rage, and the aticmpt to deny it would wed by certain defeat. The Democracy 15t suflfuge, but assumed it to be s great country, bt 1l the good work. Co; party 10 Negro be a false issue, fo did not argue ag: erime, and charged it on the Union party. The ebarge | be proved. It was idle todeny it. nfess that impartial suffrage ified before the people. Let was true, and Tuere wus uo choice but tc is & part of our creed, and the Democracy say, i thy be disfi , a Rebel soldier enfranchised; that he who fed Union prisoners shall not vote, but that he whostarved thom shall; that our friends shall be punished and our ene- wics rewarded. And let them contend for disfranchise- ment and punishment of Rebels if they dare, when we proposed nmnellt‘y for justice. Mr. Stewart indorsed the wddress of the Republic of Switzerlaud to the Congress of the United States, sud sppealed to Congress to fiish fhip work w theraip resompended. Hp said rsal amnesty and impartial | tewart contended that the people should | ranchised; that those hereafterto vote | ! | it the reports of the Commission se; the black man, the | will, that a Union soldier shall | | | Jle that disfranchisement of the Rebels involved | ted | i | undertone, that the post | warned them that by | gered their own liberty, desolation of NEW-YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1866. - Tribnne, - PRICE FOUR CENTS three in number; two political dangerswere walty in the State governments of presentation in 8 of the ! the Committee proposed no y of local State governments, and on rather than the eradieation of the “ongress. M provided for f n of the Con ded were ial. It theevils to be av politicnl and one 1 whites for ed question m to Cc said he wou CWon answe 3 the proper mes that be chain’ them to of the loval people, both black rhite, 10 keep the out of office in the same way that the North excludes Cop- perheads and sypathizers with - teliectual chieftains of the Rebellic office, and at the same tim the ballot-box, treason will find meaner men. That th te_obligati would be iw b which onee ¢ row of the Re 8 the death hlow 1o treasc 5 h divided against itee I th 1o destraction, ¥ not be persu masters that emancipit aud not *a bl for liberty gth the advantuges o of his plan, urgued g and compared it with the report of the Committee. He app 8 to stand by their principh a honestly lves and frankly with the South puth unds ood the full extent and they were made to under- » peace, but that the condlic that it was time th the demands of loyal men, there could b ed until full protection was extended to ¢ whether he ack or white. Mr. Stovar would appeal to the S e good en to those who who were coustri put d iy utterly powcrless to shield them from the ov North, until they would ce When they would let th i buckl ds of the wed nd the b sely and learn to do bonduian depart i peace, ds in the Lout number, to exto or the and thus retain 3 nt i er ternible wa cation wa e Union t party to which he bel Nome was for pedce and citizens of Nevada were it rit of comprom sty and suffiage us o b wisdow of the § hould & 1 to cc ir report was pres he should proceed with the s ~but he did hope that th . mercy wo vor be I At the coucl SON ro-¢ and s ‘s speech, Mr. JoRy- t-oIs is 1t in order now to en | make that motion. You don't want it acted on now ! over, D, further eo pending subject was postponed until 1 BOUNTIES TO INDIAN REGIMENTS. ¢ ealled up # joint resolution directing th 0 bouuty to ench of the privates an 1 officcrs of the at, %0 and 3d Indian ments, which was 1 AMr. SHLEMAN sl on of the Tow. o clock not know as he should tended to vote for what appeared 1o e okition. Strike out the second and third sections of the proposed amendments, and fusert in liew thersof: Represcntatives sbal bo appertioned uue the several States which may be ineluded within this U he strong nue an ng such citizens as are disqualiticd for nbers of the inclug Y wel ture, particip bellion, Direct taxes shall be ap tioned amoug the several Stat s according to the value of renl estate and personal property in cach State not belong ited Sta ing to the State or to 1 The ubove w, OFFIC L HISTORY OF THE WAR. Mr. Witsos up & resolution to appoint an editor for the official Lisiopy of the war,at a sulury of §2,50 per i who sh: 1l papers on the subject in possessio Mr. WILSON s stemplated work would cost several hundred thousand dolars, 1f done atall, it cught to be doe well. It would take from thirty to forty volumes, costing several thousaud dollars per volutae, Mr. FESSENDES pnid bis idca was that the time hardly arrived for the publication of this matter. He thought it would be he whole sub- jeet, repeal the w it, tofosoina le resolution, iTerent and less expensive form. Mr. ANTIHONY ted that the Committee on Military Affuirs be instructed to agree upon and report & the publication of the work referred to, and that mesutime | cation be suspendod. 31NEk hoped the resolution would be recommitted with instruct ke of the necessity of nccuracy it such a mat difienlty of obtailing s compe- T, 1 “Tlie resolution was, after debate, recommitted to the Military Comnittes p. m. the Senate went into Excentive Scesion, #oop after adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRE: THE CHOLERA. from the Cowmmittes on Commerce, reported back t enate’s amendments toto the House joint resolution to prevent the intr iolera into the ports of the United States, which were co %0 that the joint resglution i8 passcd by Loth Hous WOMEN'S HOS| Mr. WELKER (Ohio), from the trict of Columbia, reported back, with amen: Seuate bill to ineorporate the Women's Hospital Associn- tion of the Distriet of Columbia. The ameundmcuts were agreed to, and the bill passed. PRIVATE BILL. Mr. ELIOT (Mags. A bill for the relief of Lucinda Gates was reported by Mr. TAYLOR, from the Committee on lavalid Pensions, aud passed. MONTANA. A bill, erecting the Territory of Montana into a survey- or's disiriet, wax reported by ‘Mr. StROUSE (Pa.), from the Committee ou Terntories, and passed. PRESENT OF PLANTS. The Senate joint resolution for the neceptance of & col- ction of plaits, tendercd to the United States by Francis Peck, was reporied back from the Comittee on- Agriecl: ture by Mr. BIowrLL (Cal.) and passed. The section new reads as follows: SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That whenever the former owners of lauds, occupied under Gen. Sherman's feld order, Gated at Savannab, Junuary 16, 1865, shuil wvply for restora- Lion of said lands, the Commissioner liall refuse to surreuder he same. 3 Mr. SHELLABARGEE (Pa.) moved to amend by adding to the foregoing section the foliowing Provided, I hat nothing in this act contained sball be con- strued to effect the right of any person to recover In the proper courts any title or sight of possession which such person may Buve in wiy of the land held under said field order. Mr. D)AVIS (N. Y.) moved to_ amend by striking ont all after the sccond section. Mr. BraxprGee (Conn.) moved to [m.l‘pnun the further consideration of the bill until the second Monday in De- cember next, sustaining that motion by the arguuient that at that time Congress would be ina condition to act more intelligently on the subject, as it would then have before ut by the Presidentand of the Special Committee to be sent by both Honses o in- quire into the working of the system: and addiug, in an sonement would save some Con- gresswen, and particularly in Indiana. The motion to postpone was negatived by 51 to 81, The morning hour having expired, the” bill went over until Tuesday next. THR BOUNTY BILL. Mr. SCHENCK gave notice that the Committee on Military Aflairs bad wvmll{ revised the Bounty bill, aud Lad made alterations in {t; that u repriut of it would be made | to-day, and that he would usk the House to-morrow, after the moruing hour, to cousider it. One very materinl change wade in the bill is that all loeal bounties paid to soldiers are to be taken into consid eration and deducted from the sum which might otherwise appear due. 'he bill, a8 originally reported, provided :nly for the | deduction of the United States bounty already received. This change will eut off from the benefits of the bill, almost all whq enlisted after the payment of liberal bounties had commenced. THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU. The bill reported by Mr. ELIOT (Mase.), ou Tuesd to amend and continue in force the bili establishing the Freedmen's Bureau, came up s the business in order at the morning bour, 1t ip as follows: "I > " | wen. that | sary 10 pass | % to continue in force and to amend an act entitled "' An net to establish o Barean for t f of Freedmen aod | Refugees,” and for other porposes. | Je i enacted by the Seaate and House of Representatives of Amer- | icain Congress assembied, What the act to establish | forthe relief of Freedmen and Refugees, .flamfld Mu | 1645, shall continue v force for the term of two yeurs from wnd after the pasesge of this act. IC. 2 And be it farther enacted, Tht the supervision and cae of smid bureas shall extend to all loyal refugees and freed- m, %0 far as the same ehall be necessary to_enable them as | apsedily us practicable to become seif-supporting citizens of ! th4 United States, and to aid them in making tLe freedom con- red by proclamation of the Commander-in-Chief, by ema op laws of States, aad by Constitation auendment, available to them and beneficial 1o the Republic. . And be it further enacted, Tust the President stad, dvice und consent of the Senate, appoint two n addition to those authorized by is an amendment, who ehall ¢ wual salaries provided in 1t Commissioners of the Bureaa Wt have charge of oue distriet containing such refugees or freedmen, to be nssigned him by the Commissioner, with the cpproval of the Presi And the Commissioner shall, under e direction of the President, and so far s the same shall be, dgment, necessary for the efficieat and economical ad- ‘uffnirs of the Bureau, apjoint such agents, Tequired for the proper couduct of the Burean. M ficers or eulisted meu may be de- fled for service und assiened to duty nnder this act; and the t may, if in bis judgment safe and jndicion the army all the officers and agents of thi 1 %0 assigned shull bave increase of poy ch agent or clerk, not being a military of in his J minstration of U clerkx and mxsistar but uo otk ances. | have an afianal salary of not less than £500. uor more than & 00, according to the service required of him. And it shall the duty of the Commissioner, wen it can be done con- tently with ,public_interests, to ‘appoint, as Assistant-Com- wissioners, agents and clerks, kuch wen as have vroved their | Joyalty by faithful service in'the armies of the Union during | the Re d i/l persons appointed to service under this nct wnd 1he act to which this_is an amendment, shall be so far deemed n the wilitary service of the United States as to be under the military Jurisdiction, aud entitled to the militury protection of the Government while in the discbarge of the duties of their oftice. 4. And beit further enacted, That the second section set to which this is an_amendwent sball be deemed to izo the Secretary of War to issue such medical stores or anth her supplies and transportation, and_ aiford such medical or may be needful for the purposes namod in said Procided, That vo person stall be deemed *desti- suffering” or *dependent upon the Government for within the meaning of this act, who s able to find empioytent, and will, by proper industry or exertion, avoid wuch destitution, suffering or dependence.” And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, on the recommendation of the ner, to continue in office as Sargeons of the Bureau, ices, the voluuteers d to fill uny vacancies with otbor volunteer surgeons, wita Jike rank aud compensation, unless suitable in the Regalar Army can be thus assigned to duty. 41 be it further enacted, That for tho purpose of ren- dering this Burenn self-sustaining, and {n the place of lands beretofore assigned to freedmen and thereafterward with- drawn from the vontrol of the Bureau, the President shall re- serve from sale or settlement under the homestead or pre- | eraption laws, and assign for the use of freedmen and loyal refugees. mwale or female, unoceupied punlic lends in Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Arknnsas, not exceeding in all one million of acres of good laud. And the Commis- sioner skall cnuse the same, under the direction of the dent, 10 be allotted and assigned, from time to time, in not ex men, who shall be protected in the use and enjoyment the for such te; tipon between the Commissioners and such refugees or Ihe rental shail be based pon o valuation of the I to be asoertained in such mauncr as the Commissioner ma; der the direction of the President. by regulation prescribe. At the end of each term, or sooner, if the Commissioner shall 1oW empl roel eding forty acren each, to the loyal refugees and freed: reo s of time and such annual rent as may be agreed eed- « | aesent thereto. the ocenpants of any parcels »o assigned, their s und asaigos, may purchase tie land and receive a title from the United States in fee upon paymext therefur ue of the la said. And be it 4, That whenevor the former jed under Gen. Shermau's ficld order. 16, 1765, shall apply for restoration of ner shall procaro other lands by rent or & 40 acres tor each occupant; Provided, caa be procured at Wn average cost not ex- nd before such restoration is made mto such eccapauts upon tbe terms ceding section, or set apart ads oasigued for thut purpose, 40 terme and coaditious; Provided, Tands w0 purchased United States. gulze the necessity and duty resting iting from the condition of eive that needful education customs denied them er enacted, that ther the val ceeding 25§ shai. ailot and wid conditions i for them, out of { deres each, uron ¢ Lo sam - made Invery ; therefor the Cowtul 1 iwr of this bure with privat | dow, wnd wih ncente and teaciers duiy accredited and ap- | pointed by b, and shall provide proper sites and buildings IT.. purposes of education whenover such association nnnIJ Without ecst o the Government. provide suitable teachers an means of (0#t roetion, and we sball furnish sueh tion an 1y be requ red for the safe comluct of such schools; and said property stall be and remain the property of tie United States | saiea thereof shall be authorized by law. 4 it further enaeted, That in every State or dis trict where the ordiuary eourse of judicial proceedings b I been interrupted by the Rebelllon, aid until the same shall be fully sestored, and iu every State or district whose constit | tumal reintions to the Government have been practically di contiuged Ly the Kebeilion, and uutil such State shall bave 110 such relations, and shall be duly represcnted ess of the United States right to make and | wnto tracts. to sue, bo partics, and give eviden inherit, purc! ase, lease, sell, hoid aud convey real nad property, and to Lave full and equal benetit of all laws proceedings coicerning personms liberty. personal secu Wind the acquisition, enjoyment and disposition of estate, real and personal, includiug the cons'itutional right to bear 'arm suall be secured to nod enjoyed by alf the eitizens of sach State or District without respeet to Face or color, or previons eondition of Swvery. Aud wheuever in either of waid States or Disiricts the ordinary course of judicial proveediugs hus beea interrupted by the Rebeliion, aud uutil ¢ shall be fully restored, and until wuch State tored in 1ts constitutional relations to the all be duly represented in the Congress of President stoll, through the Commis- f the Bureau, aud upder such rales dent, through the Secretary of a4 military protection, sud Bave wiilitary Jurisiiction ov questions conceraing the free enjoyment of such immunities and rights; and no penalty or puiishiment 10 of law shall be imposed | 4 perimittes becauso of race oF color or previous condition of er or greater than the pennlly or punisiwent to iable by law for the likn offense, ction upon the officers " t in any State where the ordinaty Judieial procecdings hae not been interrupted by the and_sball cease in every State when thie Courts of t arbed 1u the peace- Je covrss of justice, aud o aball be fully stored in its constitutional relations to the Goves nment. and be duly represented in the Congress of the United States. SpC.9. And be i further enacied, Thut all officers, agents d owplo: 6 of tois Buiean, before entering upon the duties of thelr office, sbull take the osth prescribed in the first section of the act to which this is an ameadment; aod all acts of hdlnt:uulllu'nlllllhlha provisious of this act ary repealed. r. STEVENS (Pa.) moved to amend the sixth section in reterence 1o the Sea Islands, by making it read that when the former owners sunll apply for the restoration of the Junds, the Commissioner shall refuse to surrender them. Mr. Stevens said those lands were forfeited to the United States as belonging to belligerents, and were allotted to some 6,000 families, who were now in possession, culti- vating them snd having comfortable homes on them. It would be cruel and unjust to turn them out, leaving the Goverument to procure for them other lands at the cost of an wcre, s proposed by the section. he amendment was adopted by Yeas 79, to 46 Nays. 0110 LANDS. The SPEAKER presented a lettor from the Secretary of the Iuterior, transmitting popers in reference to the re- appraisement of certain lands in Ohio, pursuant to the au- ority of the joint resolution approved May 5, 1866, which wus laid on the table. FOREIGN MAILS. 4 Mr. Surtn introduced o bill to amend the bill to provide for carrying muils from the United States to foreign ports, which was read twice and referred to the Post-Office Com- mittee. NO EVENING SESSION. On motion of Mr. STEVESS (Penn.), and by a vote of 64 to 44, the evening session was dispensed with for to-day. THE TAX BILL. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, Mr. DAWES in the Chair, and re- sumed the consideration of the tax bill, commencing st the p«nfluth amending section 163 of the existing fnw. In the subsequent paragraoh all relating to ground cof- fee and spices was, on motion of Mr. MORRILL (Vt.), struck out, relieving these commodities frrom penalty for not Laving revenue stamps attached. . Ou motion of Mr. Myegs (Pa.), the paragraph was further amended by striking out the words ** photograph: ambrotypes, duguerreotypes or other sun pictures of as description,” thus relicving them also from penalty for not haviug revenue stamps attached. They were subse- quetly inscrted in & proceding paragraph of the bill and subjected to a five per cent tax. Mr. Hoicukiss (N, Y.) moved to amend the paragraph amending Schedule B, by relieving receipts from the ne- cessity of having s ttached. Mr. MORRILL op) the amendment, stating that last year the G $300,000' o month from vernment received §3 stamps attached to receipts. Mr. PRICE moved toameud by abolishing all receipt stamps under ten cents, r. MORRILL opposed the amendment, stating that the smibll stawps were ten times more productive than the large ones. He hoped that the stawp system would not be given up for wany years. he amendment was rejected. The paragraph amending sehedule C was amended by b mp duty on bottles, ete., read thus aud npor ry can, bottle or other single packuge taining meats, Gish, sbell tish, fruits, vegetables, suuce, raisine, prepared mostard, jams or jellies contained therein, or packed or sealed, made, prepared aud sold, or offered for sale, or removed for cousumption 1o the United States after the Ist of Oectober, 1860, where the can and contents do not exceed two pounds in weight, one cent, and for every additional pound or fraction of a pound, one cent,” and striking out all the rest of the para- graph. (rn motion of Mr. HooPEr (Mass.) & new paragraph was inserted, amending Schedule C, by laying a staup duty of one cent on cigar lights, where the ‘package consists of 25 lights or less, aud one ceut additional for every addi- tioual 25 ligh Ou motion of Mr, MyEk# (Pa.) & uew parsgraph waa in. serted, amending Schedule €, by striking out the para graph relating to photographs. The paragraph muemfin‘ section 179 of the present act extensive alterations of the text, and by that whenever in action for penaltics the informer is & witness, the defendant shall also be ad nitted as a witness, and that any person who shall reccive any consideration under a threat of informing, shall be liuble to & fine of $2,000 and one year's imprisonment, The tenth seetion, which repeals several sections of the existing act, was amended by adding section ten to the seetions repealed, ‘Ihe Comuittee then came to scetion eleven, which enu- merates the urticles 1o be put on the free list, ‘The following were added to such articles:, Boxes of wood or paper for friction matches, cigar-lig! and wax papers, spring, faces, and kands of clocks, sodium and German silver, in bars or sheets, tree-nail wedg was modified adding a pro and deck-plugs, bugs wmado of paper, cordage and rig: tock, ground and caloined gypsum, window gng for vessels, silex used in the manufactare of glass, glass of all kinds, cement, drain and reapers, mowers, thresbing machines and separ and machinery for the manufacture of sugar, sirup molasses from sorgbam, imphiee, beets and corn; cottou g band-rakes and grein cradles; spokes, hubs, felloes, pol shafts aud arme for carrioges or wagons; wooden bandles for ploughs and for other agricaltural, household aud mechasical ) :"l"lll'h'—l and pail and tub ears and handles. " ¥ inserting ¢ and e paragraph in regard to pal amended by making it read * original pain and groups of statuary, sud casts made th wrtist fiom the original desigus.” The paragraph relating to paper of all deseriptic amended by inserting ** except such as is 1man and used exclusive arel,"” The paragraph re to read brellas the same.’ The parsgraph relating to sails was made to read tents, awnings, and bags made by sewing, from fabrics or peat.” ngs and statues was tings, 8'atues efrom by the ating to and parasols, und sticks and fruumes for ‘The Committee rose, Tho SPEAKER stated for the information of the House that there were no members desiring to speak on Saturday next, and Mr. MORRILL guve notice that he would insist upon the Tax bill beinz acted on until digposed of, At 4] the House adjourned. OHI0 DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVEN- TION. - —— uation of a State Ticket—Platform of the E Campny, Coumbue, 0., Thursday, May 24, 1866, The Democratic State Convention to-day pomiuated Benjumin Lefevre, of Shelby County, Seeretary of State; \\'Idmm Lorwill, of Ashiand County, Chief of the Board of Public Works; and Thomas K. Key, of Hamilton County, Judge of the Supreme Court, aud adopted the following platform: Resolved. That the Democracy of Ohio adhere with unfal 10g fidelity and firmness to the organization of th arty, aud to the ancient, well-settied pmmP efferson, the great apostle of American Demoerac . kuowledged and accepted by the party from the foundation of the Goverament, and especially to those of equal tuxation axd representation of all the States subject to taxativi. Resolred, That the great question of the day is the imme- diate and unconditionsl restoration of all tie States to the exercise of their rights within the Federal Union under the sstitation; tbat we will cordially aud actively, support irew Johoson, President of the Unitad States, in all neces- ans to carry out hie policy as directed to jally io securing immediate re, tation House of Representatives to the eleven w unconstitutionslly «nd arbitrarily withheld on the ndition of inferiority in the Uvion and megro civil equulity enforced by the Federal Govers- Ne A sary and proj degrad politieal went. Resolved, That for the purposes above sot forth, wo will cordinlly cobperate in public meetings, conventious, and at the lo with uil men, without refereuce to their past party po- sitions, who honestly, and by acts and votes, as well as pro- fensions, support the Presideat in bis policy of restoratiou as uow declar K o and et Virgini olitics. Ricumoxn, Thureday, May 24, 1 John W. Wright was reélected Sheriff to-day in Henrico County. For the House of Delegates, English was elected over Magruder, who was an otlicer in the Confederate army. MARINE DISASTERS. — Collision of Vessels—Four Lives Lost. BosToN, Thursday, May 24, 1666 The brig Ann Elizabeth, from Sierra Leone, reports, 2 o'elock this morning, thut she was run into by the B; ish brig J. B. Ring, Capt. Sanford, from Cow Bay for New-York, and _in five munutes efter the collision the latter vessel sunk, carrying down four of the crew. Capt. Sanford and one man only were saved. Pl i Reacue of Persons from a Sailing Vessel. FowTriss MONROP, Wednesday, May 23, 1865, The bark J. L. Thurman, 46 days from Bremen, with 310 passengers, bound to_ Baltimore, arrived within the Capes yesterday aud sailed this morning. She reports having fallen in with the English ship Norborough, April 16, latitude 51 north and longitude 15 west, with her rud- in o leaking condition. Took off her crew, and next day transferred them to the English bound to Liverpool. On May 11, latitude , lougitude 61 west, waw in company with Americun ship Owe of New-York, from Liverpool, bound to New-York. The bark Oristedes also arrived within the Capes, 31 days from Bremen, with 279 passengers, and sailed' for Baltimore this morning, e FORTRESN M —~— Tutelligence—Person: Jefl. Davis FoxTRess MONROE, Tucsday, May 22, 1866, The revenne cutter Moecasin, which has been stationed ew-York and this harbor for the past six wouths, has ordered to North Carolina. he revenue cuttes ha now at Baltimore, has been assigined to duty here in her place, Col. A, P. Blunt, the efficient Quartermaster of this {mr. aud counected with the Quartermaster Department pere and_at Norfolk during the past two years, Las been coutirmed by the Senate as Brevet Brigadier-General of United States Volunteers. Waorkmen are now engaged in making improvements in the Custom-House. ar ago to-day JefersdDavis entered Fortress Monroe as @ prisoner. Nav: TENNESSEE, Mevrnis, Wednesday, May 23, 1806 The Congressional Committee to-day examined Gens. Stoneman and Fiske, and have also been engaged in look- ing over the records of the Military Commission on the riot. iy Gen. Fiske made a haul to-day of labor brokers, of the class who have been demoralizing the jreedmen, by in- Efilhl‘m to insist on higher wages. Many of them unty jumpers during the war. o, b e Freedmen’s Affairs at Mem MryrHts, Thursday, May 24, 1866, A card appeared yesterday morning in T%e Bulletin, sigued by D, H. Roberts, charging Gen, Runkle, Superin” dent of the Freedmen's Burcau, in conneetion with C. . Smith of the Intelligence Office, with refusing to con- tract for the employ of freedmen without s bonus of $15 apiece. The same statement was telegraphed in advance to gapers in soveral of the Northern citics. On oxumination it appears thut disbonorable propori; tions were made to the ofticers of the Burean, which failed to accomplish their purpose, and Roberts himself, the cor- respondent of a promineut Northern paper, published the card, and another correspondent telegraphed it in order to bring the Bureau officers into disrepute. A statement ap- eared in all the papers this morning, signed by Roberts, b:lf\'fln‘ and retracting everything in his card of the day fore The Congressional Conmittee to-day examined a num- ber of witnesses, The investigation is likely to cover more ground than was expected, and to show that the riot was more extensive in its results than has previously been reported. ducinj were — Disfranchisew f Deserters. HARRIBULG, Pa., Thursday. May 24, 1866 A case was argied in the Supreme Court to-day on the constitutionality of the act of l_'ouglm denying the right of suftrage to deserters, The case cawe up from the Franklin County Court, where a judge of election was fined for refusing to the vote of Henry Reilly, who, having been d; , neither reported for duty nor furnished a substitute. The plaintiff in error begs to bo relieved from fino and costs of suit. The case was argued by John Cessna and Col. A, K. Mc- Clure for the plaintiff, and J. McDo for the de- fendant. A full bench of Justices was pre: Tt is sup- posel that the decision of the Court will sustain the con- stitutionality of the law. B Fudsen Canal Navigation. POUGHKEEPSIE, Thursday, May 24, 1864, A broak hag occurred in the Delaware and Hudson Canal at Creek Locks, a short distance from Roundout. The amount of damage has not yet been reported. Sunday-School Meet| Hupsex, N. Y., Thersday, May 3. 1566, The Annual Convention of the Hudson River Sunday- School Association commonced its session at the City Hall this afternoon. The attendance is quite large. Convention will conclude its business to-morrow, A billiard mateh for the championahip of Hudsou River, of 1,000 points, will be played at Catskill to-morrow even- ing, between John T. Huntley of Catskill and George H. Hanford of this city. ragraph * Mineral coal of all kinds” was amended | [ in the premises | military position afuresai | FROM NEW-ORLEANS. ek i s Suryeys Comiemplated — Gen. Caunby Gone 10 Washington —Markets, New-ORLEANS, Thursdav, May 44, s Topographical engineers have arrived b tha Passes of the Mississippi and improve nasigrtion for the Gulf shipping, also to search for a bayou or canal outlet to lessen the voluwe of the waters of the river aud pre- vent overflows. Gen. Canby has commander of the e to Washington, and Gen. Baird is t Cott i 2,700 baleg: Low Middling, 36a37e Sterling Exchange, 155, New-Voik Exchange, { premium, NORTH CAROLINA CONVENTIE ki ool Adjournment Introduced. A Proposition tor ¥ RALEIGH, Thursday. My 24, 18, bled to-day, when somo The State Convention reassem! i to their o C Convention adjourn die, us fi Whercas, This Convention was called nud did assembie nt the instance and vnder the authority of tie President of the Uuited States as Commander-in-chief of tie Army and Navy thereof, to the end that the State of North Caioiine. by altoring and amending its orgenic law conformatory to the necessi- tating results of the war. might in fact exercise and enjoy the Coustitutional rights and privileges of weinbersbip in the Federal Union; and whercas, the Convention did, st ita former | wession, fuily and satisfuctorily wccompiish the purpese for whiich it was called, and did assemble i tie wrtunce of u under the authority aforesaid; and whercas, this Convent was moved to assemble 0 the present session 1 possibility that in the course of eveuts further wight be required or degwnded Ly tie Tnited States by reeson of bis official and id; oud whereas 1o turthor action a aid is pow required or demanced, and whercas us all navces and enactments farther effecting the orgasic law of the State in attempting to regulate the irite:nul government aud police thescof, passed by a convention called and ws- seubled as afores: and W does ot derive anthority therefor from the people, though the mode preseribed in tho Constitution by tbe people would be subversive of the Conri- tution and revolutionary o effect, dangerous (o hiberty incompatible with free fustitutions; therciore Resolced, That the Convention do now ndjonrn. ‘ g on lies over oue day under the rule. 1t is ROt pase. President of the af 0 reso thought it will Barbarous Treatment of the Freedmen in North Carolina, The American Missionary Association of this city bas just received the following from one of its missionaries 10 the freedmen at Beaufort, » Beavrogt, N. C., May 21, 1866, Since our chief magistrate has removed all disguise from his policy, every Rebel seems creeping from bie buding-ploce. Twelve miles from Beaufort, a few days since, # colored man. was shot dead by a white man, a returned Rebel soldier, The body lny where it fell nearly two days before wiy examination was held. T atfended the inquest atthe request of the Come missioner of the Bureau. 1t was claimed that the negro was stealing, or e'iempting to steal, at the time. but no evidence to lead to such a conelns ou was develocd. He was shot a little after sunset, in a plowed field, near a barn, where two white men seewed to be watchiog for bim, each with o loaded gun. Twelve buck-shot entered Lis breast, four of them pullnf through ais hody, ile seemed to have died withont a struggle on the spot where e fell. The murderer walks abont the plantation Wwith dcliwit siep, usier o trifling bond for Lis appearance at coart. The County Court had its session here the past week. ¥ere agnin was exhibited the fruits of Reconstric: Had bir. Jubnion been auywhere within a fourth of of the Courts Le might have listened to the &) «of the lush, s¢ hundred and ninety-ive times it ttering the biood ut every stroke. The victims ¢ five colored men, condemned 10 be pudlics Iy whipped for real or faucied crimes. One was an old wan, whose gray hairs and tottering steps ousht to have shielled Lim from judicial barbarism. 1 had no b 0 look at sueh & | scene, but was compelled to uear the ’m i of anguish from the old man, though be was nearly a fourtl of a wile from mission-bouse. 1t was a sorrowfu! day for the poor freedme They seemed to hear iu those cries of anguish, (he muttered thunders of their former paudemonium, tie clasking of theie reforged chains. Wo try to comfort them by reminding them that God is stropger than Rebels and greater than Presidests. ——————— The Trial of Johu Moran for Murder. Bostox, Thursdsy, May M, 1866 The trial of John Moran for the murder of Ellen Kearnoy on the 19th of Mareh last, commenced before the Supreme Court in Dedbam to-day. The prisoner and Mise Kearney lived in Koxbury, were said to be under engage- went of marriage and withont known eavse of quarrel. The young woman was shot dead'while standing in. the doorway of het father's house. "The testimony stronely plicates Moran as the wurderer. lociudis:- e 6 Sunday Scheol Unien Ammiversary. h.'rlr The forty-second anuiversary of the w %Qw Union was celebrated this evening at the A i Music. Ex-Gov. Pollock presided and introdneed Chief- Justice Chase, Gen. Meade appeared on the piatform and was rapiurously received. Interesting speeches were made, giving the operstions of the Nocicly during the year. An immense crowd was present. From Californina. SaN FrANCi=Co, Wednesdoy, May 23. 1860 The steamer Sacramento trom Pun, Las arrived, bringing New-York dates to May 1. The sales of wool the week amonnt to 225,009 pounds; prices ranged from 17 to 3 Mining shares improving: Ophir, $570: Helcher, $210; ; Chollar-Potosi, $512 Legal Ten- l}'tl]u' Jacket, e ——— Falee Report. $7. Louis, Thursday, May 24, 1866, The report of the burning of the steam ' Morning Stag at Mound City last night, is untrue, ROM TEXAS. i Depariure of Troops—Eulogy eof Colered Seldiers. From Our Special Correspondent. GALVESION, May 17, 1666 The 10th U. 8. Colored Regiment, Licut.-Col. Powell about 800 strong, left Gulveston this morning for Fortress Monroe direct. This regiment has been doiug garrison duty here for two months, and has done /¢ well. The vio lations of good order, which have been but fow, are ex- ceptional cases. No regiment, white or black, ever be- haved better as a whole, and unless the white 17th Regu. lars, who have lately arrived here, improve in their waye the citizens will have cause to regret the change. Theso Regulars, being mostly fresh recruits, began their advent here by an indiscriminate abuse of their bluck brethren in the service, but they soom found that they wero on the wrong road to the favor of the rifizens of the town, who evidently had more respect for a sober black soldier, than a drunken white one. In more thaun one case where the white blackguard attacked the colored citizen—drayman or what not—the citizens advised the frecdman to** go in” and give him & whipping, which was cheerfully and haudsomely done. They found & wonder- ful waking up among the woolly heads, who turned the war upon them so promptly, they soou abundened the raid upon Sawbo as unprofitable, and ot even yielding a8 much glory as the sttack upon the colored women and children in New-York, and other Copperheud regions of the North. Excuse we, it was a slip of the pen, 1 confine the © Copperbead” term to * other regions.” The regi ment marched to the steamer with colors guily fiying, aud the band playing * John Brown's body lies moidering in the ground, But his soul still roarches ou.” God bless the black soldiers of the Republic, and *‘long may they wave!” No one who has watched thew in the field and the camp during that partof the warin which they took so conspicuous and useful a lum will ever de- spair of the Republic while thero are black troops as weil a8 white to be called to its defense, They are nnon‘.m- most patient, heroic, and lo{d of all the t of henor Joxes. bave served the country; let them have the . and praise which fairly belongs ‘o theu. T | pose of allayiog The fIrving Bask Embezziement—Arrest o the Defaulter and Recovery of the Momey — Ouly $45,000 Involved. A ramor obtained considerable currency yesterday in monetary ciroles, to the effect that the Irving Bank, corser of Warren and Greenwich ste., bad suffercd beavily by embes- zlement. Upon investigation we learaed. from undoubted authority, that the sum amounted merely to $4, 00, cne-balf of which has been already recovered, and the iriends of the embezzler have given bonds for the remaindir. A young man, one of the book-keepers of the bauk, and tou of & promiu. n’ olergyman of this city, whose name we Wwitblold from motives of delicacy, has been arrested and imprisosed. e admits his guilt, says he ferced his balance-sheet to make up the deficit, and bas returned u part of the mozey. It will thas be seen that the bank will lose notbing whatever, and its business will not be embarrassed in the least by the affair, which, by the way, only injures those engaged iu it. It is sumply another lll-lfllhldlhmnlnnudhwdb ‘moralising associations. We would have been glad to be sflent in regard to the matter, but the rumors of the street WeTe 10 much worse than the reality that we foel fadaoed, for the pur- the Qistrust aroused yestorday by the whis- pered report, to place the facts aathentically before our read- ers. The gullty party will perhaps be brought befors a proper tribunal, until which time any further bistory of his crime way safely be postponed.