,1 rtos of fjt Peek. THE EXECUTIVE. The Treasury Agents in the South have been directed to publish the fact that the cotton on which the rebel loan was based is liable to confiscation. The Freedman’s Commissioner at Charleston has issued an order affirming the validity of land grants made to freedinen under General Sherman’s field order. Controller Clarke is out in a sharp letter against Secretary McCulloch of the Treasury. He says he “ can show to the satisfaction of any one, that neither of your monthly reports, for the last four months, has shown within $50,000,000, the amount of money in the Treasury or on deposit in the national depositories.”——The following tele gram has been sent to the collectors of Cus toms on the Northern frontier. “Allow the Canadian authorities to place officers at rail road points on our side to examine baggage and freight destined for Canada. It is under stood we have similar privi legesfrom Canada. ’ ’ A delegation from the Democratic Con vention of Pennsylvania, which recently nom inated Hiester Clymer, a rank, though res peotable Copperhead, lor Governor, called on the President March 15th, and made the usual laudatory speech in regard to bis “policy,” &c. Belore the peroration was reached, the President broke in upon them the suggestion the “ the wisest thing they could do was to go home and change their ticket.” The President has signed the bill extending the time for the withdrawal of goods from bond. Nearly one hundred Veteran Reserve officers have been ordered to report to General Howard, for duty in the Freedmen's bureau. United States troops have been sent to the Canadian frontier, to maintain the neutrality laws. The Cana dian Reciprocity treaty expired March 17th. -Several large mail contracts for the West were closed in Washington March 14th, at prices about 15 per cent lower than four years since. A letter received at the Trea sury Department, March 16th, from Frank fort, Germany, stateß “ when the news reached there that gold had fallen to one hundred and and thirty-seven in New York, United States five-twenties went up to seventy-four. ” It is probable that they will reach eighty so soon as it is known that gold has gone down to one hundred and thirty. The new seven thirties, currency interest, the letter states, “arc well received in the German markets, now that gold is declining, and can be ex changed for five-twenties there at two per cent, discharged.” CONGRESS. Senate—March 13.—Mr. Lane, of Kansas, (Conservative) proposed the following amend ments to the Constitution. First, Basing representation on the number of male inhabi tants over twenty-one years of age. Second, Basing direct taxes among the several States according to the actual value of real and per sonal property. Third, Pledging the faith of the Government to the redemption of the loyal natipnal debt, without in any way scal ing or reducing its value. Fourth, Prohibit ing the General Government, or State Go vernment, from assuming or paying any por tion of the Confederate debt: and Fifth, Prohibiting the General Government, or any State Government, from paying for any slave property. Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, ‘introduced a joint resolution that the aggregate outstanding United States notes not bearing interest and including fractional currency shall not be diminished below four hundred and twenty millions', that all surplus money, in the trea sury exceeding forty millions -.in. coin and forty millions in currency shall" be promptly applied.to the payment of accruing indebt edness, and to the purchase or payment of the inteßest-beariqg debt of the United States, but the amount of intereßt-bearing legal tender notes shall not be diminished by payment or conversion at a rate exceeding five millions per month. The second section provides that this joint resolution shall remain in force one year after its passage. Referred to the Com mittee on Finance. Colorado was refused ad mission by 21 nays to 13- yeas. March 14.—Mr. Trumbull], from the Com mittee on Judiciary, reported that the Com mittee had agreed to the House amendments to the Bill of Rights, and asked the immedi ate consideration of the bill. Objection being made, the bill had to lie over. The bill to in crease and fix the military peace establish ment of the United States was passed. It the Army of the United States shall consist of five regiments of artillery, tfcwelve fegiments of calvary, and fifty regi ments of infantry; two regiments of cavalry and eight regiments of infantry to consist of colored men. March 15. —A resolution was reported pro testing against the action of the Canton of Balse, in Switzerland, in offering pardon to a murderer, provided he would emigrate to the United States. The Civil Bights bill was taken up and passed, with the House amend ments. It now only wants the President’s signature to be a law. The Deficiency bill was considered. March 16.—The Judiciary bill was reported back with vaiious amendments. The Defi ciency bill was passed, with an amendment appropriating $75,000 for the Naval Academy. The I National Appropriation bill was con sidered. * March 19. —The bill establishing a home for disabled soldiers and sailors was reported, and passed with the House amendments. The bill providing for an inspection of Indian affairs, with an amendment permitting any one to trade with the Indians on compliance with prescribed regulations, was passed. _ A joint resolution was adopted, protesting against the shipment of foreign criminals to tne United States. House. —March 13. —Resolutions were ad opted looking _ to the relief of persons who paid commutation money or put in substitutes a second time; also to the remittance of the monthly tax on deposits of savings banks. A substitute for the Senate "Military and Naval Asylum bill was reported and passed. The bill relating to goods in bond was re ported back with the Senate amendment, and the amendment was concurred in. The Civil Bights bill was reported back with various amendments, and was passed as amended, yeas 109, nays 38. The first amendment was to strike out the words, “ and there shall be no discrimination in civil rights,” &c., so that the first section shall read: “That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding In dians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens, of the United States, without dis tinction of color, without regard to any pre vious condition of slavery or involuntary ser vitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly con victed ; shall have the same right to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, bold and convey real and personal property, and to the full and equal benefits or all laws and ->roceedings for the security of person iperty, and shall be subject to like its, pains, and penalties, and to any law, statute, ordinance, reg ’tom to the contrary notwith -1 bill making appropriations . -s considered and passed, ’ments. . The proposed ns Exposition was dis 't eloquence by Mr. 14.—The bill amendatory of the act of March 3, 1863, relating to the habeas cor pus, and regulating judicial proceedings in certain cases. Mr. Harding, of Kentucky, opposed this bill, which guarantees protection to all United States officers who have acted officially in matters of arrests, seizures, and searches during the progress of the war, and provides for the transfer of all such eases from State courts to the United States Circuit Couris. The joint resolution in reference to the Paris Exhibition passed by a vote of 60 to 50. It appropriates $lOO,OOO, $48,000 of which is to be expended in payment of sala ries. The second section requests the Presi dent to provide public vessels. March 15. —G. C. Smith, of Kentucky, in making a personal explanation, spolae of the “damnable heresy” uttered by members of the House. Objection was made to his going on, and it was negatived by yeas and nays. He finally obtained leave to proceed in order, when he stated his remarks were intended for Mr. Stevens, and not for the House. Mr. Stevens rose and offered an Indian appropri ation bill, saying the House had had enough of personal matters, and that no gentleman could answer what no gentleman would utter. The Indian appropriation bill was read twice and made the special order for Committee of the Whole on Thursday. The Habeas Corpus bill was considered. The Loan bill was considered, and an amendment was re ported from the Ways and Means Commit tee, striking out the proviso in regard to the sale of United States bonds in foreign coun tries. March l6.—A resolution for a Committee to investigate the difficulty between Secretary McColloagh and Comptroller Clark was ob jected to. A substitute for the Army bill was reported, and it, with the Senate Army bill, was sent back to the Military Committee. A joint _ resolution for the relief of Union soldiers in prison for minor offences was in troduced. The Loan bill, with various amend ments, was rejected—yeas 66, nays, 68. Mr. Garfield moved to reconsider, pending which the House adjourned. March 19.—Mr. Hooper introduced a new financial bill, which was referred to the Ways and Means Committee. Mr. Dawson offered and demanded the previous question on a resolution against the guaranteeing of the Mexican debt. The previous question was not seconded, and the resolution went over. A concurrent resolution, providing for the adjournment of Congress on Thursday, the day of May, was adopted. The Military Committee were instructed to report a bill equalizing bounties.. The Loan bill was re considered and recommitted without instruc tions. THE STATES. New York. —The following are the largest sales in New York houses during last year: H. B. Claflin & Co., $42,500,715; A. T. Stewart & Co., $39,391,688; Anthony‘Hall, $10,636,711; George Bliss &. Co., $10,273,- 000; George A. Wicks & Co., $10,000,000. Vermont. —Senator Foot continues very ill. New Hampshire— Gov. Smith, the Re publican candidate was re-elected March 13, by 5000 majority. The Republicans have carried all the five Councilmen and nine out of twelve Senators, and will have about 100 majority in the House. Massachusetts. —Six citizens of Melrose, who were fined $3OO for tarring and feather ing a person who rejoiced at Mr. Lincoln's assassination, have received pardon and the remittance of their fine. The death of Jared Sparks, the eminent American historian and former President of Harvard College, took place at his residence in Massachusetts, on Wednesday, March 14. Mr. Sparks was born at Willington, Conn., May 10, 1789, and was consequently within two months of his seventy-seventh year at the time of his death. The Whipple File Manufacturing Company of Boston failed March 14, having sunk its capital of $700,000. Ohio.—The City Council of Sprinfield, recently impeached Mayor Snyder of that city, and appointed a Mr. Fleming in his place. Snyder refused to abdicate, and is acting as Mayor, in opposition to Mr. Flem ing. Indiana.—The Democratic Convention have passed a series of resolutions endorsing the President’s veto and pledging their party against all prohibitory liquor and Sunday laws. Very candid. Wisconsin.—The Wisconsin Senate has struck out the word “white” from the quali fications of voters, by a vote of 17 to 11. North Carolina. —Seventy-five members of the Society ot Friends from Bandolph County, arrived in Washington March 14th, en route to Indiana, and assert that they were forced to leave their homes from the persecutions of ex-soldiers of the Bebel army. They state that at least 150 more of their persuasion, bound for the West, will arrive here in a few daya A Mr. G. G. Lynch, postmaster at Wash ington, has restored over $lOOO in coin be longing to the Government, which- he buried for safety at the begining of the war. South Carolina.—With but a very unim portant exceptions, all the questions between the Freedmen on the Sea Islands and the former residents have been amicably settled. In many instance the former residents have returned to their homes, being welcomed by the freed people not having grants of land, who have gone to work for good wages, and are happy and contented. Louisiana. —John T. Monroe, whom Gen. Butler found acting as Mayor of New Orleans in 1862, has just been re-elected to the same position. This is a specimen of the Becon struction now in vogue. It. is said the Presi dent has interfered to prevent his entering upon the office. Tennessee. —The military district of East Tennessee has been discontinued. Texas. —Gen. Custer testifies that the grand juries have during a few months past found 500 indictments for the murder of Union men and others, but not one of the guilty parties has been convicted. TIIK CITY. The Board of School Controllers held an important meeting on the 13th. The Com mittee on Property reported, that David Lan dreth had offered to donate, for school pur poses, 22 feet of ground on Federal Street, near Twenty-third, adjoining the ground on which the Landreth .School building was erected, and recommended its acceptance. Tne -report was approved. Complaints in regard to the High School are traced to the indolence and inefficiency of the Principal, who, the Committee say, habitually neglects his duty to the school, among other things neglecting to open the school by reading the Bible, as ordered by the Board. ,The Com mittee have arrived at the conclusion that the future usefulness, and indeed the very exis tence, of the High School can only be main tained by a change of Principal. They re quested his resignation on the 27th of Feb ruary, but he had not noticed the request The subject was again referred to Committee. MISCELLANEOUS. Lemon Juice in Diphtheria.—Doctor Re villout, in a paper presented last summer to the French Academy of Medicine, asserts that lemon juice is one of the most efficacious medicines which can be applied in diphthe- THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN. THURSDAY. MARCH 22, 1866. ria, and he relates that when he was a dresser in the hospital his own life was saved by its timely application. He got three dozen lemons and gargled his throat with the juice, swallowing a little, at the same time, in order to act on the more deep-seated parts. Dr. R. h'as noted eleven cases of complete suc cess, obtained by this method of treatment. Admiral Porter has sent a communication to the Naval Committee, urging that iron-clads should be taken out of water, when not in use, for preservation. Sixteen hundred dollars in gold, fyr the freedmen from the Birmingham (England) Association, were received March 6, in Wash ington. . „, . Captain Fox, in his letter to the Secretary of the Navy, says that League Island will give to the country a naval station with more advantages and fewer objections than any other within the arpa of the Union. T Impediments of Speech—An interesting paper recently read before the French Acade my of Medicine, shows that impediments jin speech are very often caused by the adhesion of certain portions of the front of the brain to the skull. During 1865 the American contractors at Sebastopol raised three large ships, and afeo raised a great portion of twelve others. With these vessels they recovered 1200 cannon, and a great amount of iron, copper, and mis cellaneous stores. Several vessels still lie in the harbor entrance. During the year 1865, 287,397 immi grants arrived in the United States. Financial.—The receipts from the internal revenue last week were $3,500,000. Gold is $1 28}; Cotton 40 to 41 cents. FOREIGN. Great Britain.— The London limes, in some remarks upon Mr. Bancroft’s oratibn in honor of President Lincoln, says it is plijin that the speaker took the opportunity jto utter, and a part of the audience to applaud, everything_ that could offend the pride riid rouse the indignation of England. It says Mr. Bancroft probably knows enough of Eng land to be aware that these harangues have little effect here, and it asks “ can this mis chievous old man believe that any purpose can be served by slandering two such coun tries as England and France, in the presence of their representatives?” Mr. tiothern, an American actor, in a libel suit in London, made revelations as to the way in which,' as sisted by Judges Edmonds and Tallmadge, ; he eumbugged a circle of spiritualists of both sexes, in New York. The report of inves tigations at Jamaica has stirred the indigna tion of the people. The correspondent of The Star says that 7 the sober truth is more frightful than the wildest imagination could have conceived. The Daily News Says that the first impressions of the terrible 1 and.JWi-l warrantable cruelty committed, are undonfat edly confirmed by the evidence. U. S. 5-20’s, 70*. _ j The London limes defends and applauqs the veto. A new compaql to lay the At-, lantic Cable has been formed. ; Spain and Chili. —A Chilian privateer has been seen off the coast of Norway. An other Spanish garrison had revolted. Austria. —An Imperial Rescript refuses id restore to Hungary the Constitution of 1848.1 War was imminent with Prussia on the ques-j tion of the Dutcbies. _ I France. —The Cholera is on the Western coast, ’ j Italy. —The Italian army has been reduced! to a peace footing. The population of Rome, the city of the Pope, is 207,338, an. increase of 3,442 since 1864. 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