Pfrft.
Diplomatic. —Senor Don Facundo Goni, the new
Spanish Mjnister, was presented to the President on
Friday. - ; •• - -
Treasury. —The disbursements on account of the
War, Navy and,lnterior Departments, last week,
were $4;608,284i TheThternal Revenue receipts of
t6;52,317,436. " ' , - -■
- ..4 has issuediaii order as
signing military commanders to the five districts
created; in the South by the Reconstruction; bill.
The commanders are Generals Schofield, .Sickles,
Thomas, Ord and Sheridan, respectively.—The States
of West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky have
been constituted the Military Department of the
Cumberland, and placed-under command of Major
Gen: John Pope. ' The 'President lias assigned Gen.
Pope to the command of the Third Military District
of the South, General Thomas taking command of
the Military" Department of the Cumberland. This
change is made by request of General Thomas.
Nominations Rejected. —SenatorCowari as Min
ister to Austria; Bbwis V. Bogj' as Indian Commis
sioner; John Quincy Adams as Naval Officer atBos
lon; S. E. Anci'ina as Naval Officer at Philadelphia,
and Joseph Severna as Surveyor of Customs at Phil
adelphia; B. P. Ashmead, as Naval Officer for Phil
adelphia. ; 1 ~
Nominations Confirmed— Clifford S.. Phillips,
to be Internal RevtnuC Assessor for the Second Dis
trict of Pennsylvania; Henry Barnard, of, Connecti
cut, as Commissioner of Educaiion, Henry H. Bing
ham as Postmaster for Philadelphia. andß. H. Bee
as Postmaster for Camden, N.M.' . >;; ■;Z
FORTIETH COXCIRESS.
Senate. March 12.' —A- resolution expressing
sympathy*with 'Uhe Irish people-” in their stiuggle
against Great .Britain, was offered, but objected t»,
and lies over. An effort was made to. call up the
resolutions of Mr. Sumner, declaring certain guaran
tees as necessary to complete .reconstruction, , but
some opposition was.made. The supplemental re
• construction bill passed' by the -House was referred
to-the Judiciary Committee.
March-13.—A-joint resolution for a survey-of a
ship canal between Bakes Erie and Ontario was
passed: The ; Judiciafy'Cominittee reported a sub
stitute for the supplementary Reconstruction bill
passed by the House; giving the delegates elected to
the Southern conventions power to adopt constitu
tions without submitting their action to the people.
A resolution was agreed to,refunding-certain dis
criminating duties levied,on,Hawaiian vessels since
the Ist. of January; 1866. iJ - : - ■ ■
March 14. —The. supplementary Reconstruction
bill, as reported by the Senate" committee, came up,
and an amendment to enable the people in the States
affected, to (decide whether they wished-a convention
or hot, was rejected--yeaV 17; nays, 27. "
March 15.—The bill exempting steamboats from
the obligation of carrying friction matches in iron
safes was called, up and passed. The supplementary
Reconstruction bill was taken up, and an amend
ment, providing that the voting at elections should
lie by ballot,, was rejected, as were-amendments to
make the'call df a constitutidnal’ccitiveiitibn depend
upon the legal expression of the provisional govern
ment in favor of so doing.
March 16.—A resolution directing the Retrench
ment Committee to investigate the conduct of the
Printing Bureau of the .Treasury was adopted. The .
-libuse joint resolution^relatlhgitoi the. Richmond
bank coin was called up and passed. The supple
mentary Reconstruction bill was taken up and
amendments making the elections by ballot, and re
quiring that a majority of registered voters shall
vote on tli®, question of a,convention, were adopted.
The bill as amended was passed (yeas 38, nays 2), :
and goes back to the House for concurrence in -
amendments. ~
March motion to' refer to the Judiciary
Committee the credentials of Philip F, Tiiomas, ,
Senator elect from, Maryland, was postponed.—lt
was rumored that Mr. Thomas had spoken disloyal
ly of the Senate, and in a letter resigning his office as
Secretary oftlfe'Treaisrtry iri MDCBuelianan’s, Cabinet i
be said the United States had no power to collect
cust^nS-atpharleston:—The Supplementary Refcdn
strucxion Dill, with the Douse* amencimeiits, was
taken up. All the amendments were concurred in
excepting that inserting ‘ "registered” before the
word “electors,” which was .rejected, and the bill
goes back againAo'tlie Houde.;' RO ’*l Clij
House.— March 12.—A joint resolution was pass
ed appropriating $500,000 tor the expenses of carry
ing out t.hp provisions of the Reconstruction act. A
bill was .paßsed directing the issue'of suits of cloth
es dally; to invalid soldiers in public and private ,
institutions. The., joint .resolution appropriating
$15,000 for the freedmen.of the District was concur
red in. ■ : ,
March 13.—The resolutions thanking Mr. Pea
body were agreed to as passed by the Senate. .
, March 14.—Bills and resolutions were reported
but no important action taken. . ,
Match 15. —A resolution for the immediate ap
pointment or the Military Committee, <to sit during
recess and consider ordnance matters, was postponed
until the first Monday in December next, by a vote
of 72 yeas to 56 naysf Resplutionsthat the Speaker
appoint a Committee on Public Expenditures, and
that such- committee consider thVreport'on the New
1 orlt Custom House, and report if action be necessa
ry, and providing#* ¥n investigation ofthe conduct
of Collector Smytlie, of New'York,'but looking to
Ins impeachment, ifproof were found of the charges
against him, were adopted. 1 °
March 18—The supplementary Reconstruction
bill, as passed by the Senate; was passed, with
amendments:adding, a clause to.’tlie pres cribed;: oath
inserting the -word-.,‘‘registered”-tefore the word
‘electors,” and inflict! ng punishment for falge. swear
lng* A joint resolution suspending payment of com
mutation for drafted slaves was introduced and
passed.—A joint resolution makingthe duty on im
ported umbrellas of silk, 60 per cent ad valorem,
and of other material’than, silk, 50 per cent;—A
resolution was passed, directing the payment into
the .treasury of the, proceeds of captured property
during the rebellion, not to be withdrawn therefrom
except by authority oflaw. A bill exempting from
internal tax writing paper made from wood, and
wrapping paper* made from corn stalks, was passed.
STATES ANl> TERRITORIES.
, Massachusetts.—Gov. Bullock has appointed
George L. Buffin, a Justice of the Peace in
Boston. Mr. Buffin is* an American citizen* of Afri
can descent.—Harvard College, diiringdts existence,
has had 6,736 graduates, of these 2,770 are now
.Gmng. The alumni of Yale Coitege, (Conn.) are
7,548 in number, of whom about 3,000 are now
living.—During the last week four hundred and
eighteen persons in this State gave notice to the State
constables thatthey bad stopped selling liquor. The
lower branch of the Legislature lias passed the con
stitutional amendment by a vote of 120 ;yeas to-20
■ nays—Bri-S.-G. -Howe sailed for Boston Wednesday
before last, . with $16,000 relief-money for the Cre
tans. ' '■ *
New York. —-The National Democratic Commit
tee, at its'meeting on the 12th, came to the conclu
sion that it ivas inexpedient to call a national con
vention previous to the regular nominating' conven
tion of next year-, but resoJved on a thorough organ
ization of the Democratic party'throughout the'
Union.: '.-*" f. ,**‘- !
Pennsylvania.— ln the Senate, March 13, bills:
regulating weights and measures; 'giving Quarter:
Sessions Courts the power to annexdands of one*
HXECCTIVK.
THE AMKIUCAX PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1867.
district to another for school purposes; exempting
of corporations from local taxation; and
authorizing the issue of registered for coupon bonds
of the State, weife' passed finally. In the State Sen
ate, March 12, the Pension Committee were directed
to report a bill amending or repealing the act grant
ing pensions to soldiers 0f,1812., The House bill giv
ing inebriatesinto the custody,of the “ Citizens’ Asso
ciation’ Was passed. The bill adding 20. per cent,
to fees of county and other officers in Philadelphia,
'has passed the llouSe. In the State Senate acts au
thdrirjg three additional‘Notaries Public in Phila
delphia, and .extending, the term of, the City Solici
tor one year, wero-passed.—The State. Senate on the
, 15tl) ; passed (the orphans, with
;a ; n .amendment admitting-cliildren of permanently
disabled solders, only, at the discretion of the Gover
nor and Superintendent. They agreed to Consider
tlie Sunday Caf.biHat a special'session on Tuesday.
—At thC Harrisburg election, last Friday, the Dem
oeratie ’eandidate for':Select Councilman at large was
elected;22s majority. The Democratic majority last
; year was 147. Gov. Geary’s yote was-refused in the
_ Fpurth Ward, of that city, on the ground of insuffi
cient residence,and non-payment of assessment tax.
—The'colored Passenger’bill Has been passed by both
branches of the Legislature. ‘''* 1 - - • v
‘ '•' New Jersey;— The taxable valuation; of New
Jersey for the present year is set down at $448,474,-
678.—The Republican majority for,Mayor i n Camden
is 73, Last November it was 290. The Republicans
carried Qrange, bL J, by 25 majority; at the previous
election by 60. —Out of 477 male prisoners in the
State Prison, 3"l 7‘can read Ahfi write, and 59 are
able to read only. ’ 383 of the prisoners accuse drunk
en ness of causing their downfall. 330 of the' whole
number were not connected.with any religious de
nomination., , ; . V i:; ‘ ~ : ’ ,
■,. Connecticut. —Among the appropriations of, the
.last Legislature was $4OO for "whiskey, lemons and
sugar, for the use of the Legislature.’’ '
Ohio. I —;A n ew Radical paper is to be pfiblished at
Columbus, to be called "The Republic;” and to-be
“ organ of the. Grand Army of the-Republic.” C
. Indiana-.—The Legislature, which: adjourned last
week, passed a registry law; bills malting a new ap
portionment of the Congressional a.nd Legislative
districts; punishing ’‘bolting” in the Legislature,’
and establishing a House of Refuge for youthful of
fenders.' The appropriations of the session were
$1,500,000. - ; ‘
.Michigan.—The State Constitutional Convention
will -meet.at Lansing, ::oiifthe : third iWednesday of
May.; The election fpr delegates to this Convention
,is,tp be held on April Ist, and the most prominent
subject which the Copyention - will discuss' will be
the suffrage question; 1 Michigan,' has "followed the
bad 'example of Ohio in refusing t‘o • enfranchise the
negroes.' : - ■ ' -' ■’ yi:
'California.--— At the ’municipal, election-held in
Sacramento, the’Republicans were successful by:a
large majority. ; ;
Maryland, —The Senate (March 12) passed; a bill
appropriating $109,000 for the relief of the suffering
people of-the South, by a vote of 17 to 1.-r-Ex-Go
■vernbr Philip F. Thomas has'been elbbted Senator
■by the Legislature.- ■’
’Tennessee.— The flood in East-Tennesse, it is es
timated, has destroyed $2,01)0,009 worth of property.
. Kentncky<-- T The United States Court (March 12)
decided in favor of the owners of the steamboat Sam.
Ori-, which was, seized by the rebels inlSGl/atPa
duedb, Ky„ and gave damages in $56,000. Padu
cha has to phy the bil].i-i“ The Colled Kentuckian' 1
is the title'of a new weekly paper in ‘the freedmen’s
• interest, to be .startedrin Louisville.—There are 80-
Radical .papers in the; South, an,d ; they, are mainly
supported,by worth.of Government adver
tising. ... , ..
Texas alone, of all the Southern States, expects to
produce large crops this-y ears -
' Missouri.— The .Senate has ebneurred in the bill
for payment of interest on the State bonds, with an
amendment cutting down the appropriation therefor
to $300,000. —The House of Representatives has
passed an Eight-hour Labor bill.—The Democratic
State Central Committee publish a call for a National
Democratic Convention, to be held at Louisville, Ky.,
on May 7th.—The Circuit Court of St. Joseph coun
■ ty, Mo., has dismissed all the cases before it against
clergymen who preached without having taken the
•‘iron-clad” oath.—The new iron bridge to be built
across the Mississippi, at St. Lohis, will cost $5,000,-
,000. It will be of altitude sufficient to allow steam
ers to pass under it at high water.
Virginia;—The colored citizens of Portsmouth'
have put up one of their own color for Mayor.—The
Senate has passed a resolution for a joint committee
to wait on Gen, Schofield, and offering him their co
operation in passing and enforcing laws to promote
peace andharmony.—The delegation of the Virginia
Legislature; to- c'onsult in' regard to th‘e Reconstruc
tion bill; have-had interviews with the President and
IT. S. Senate Judiciary Committee. They assured
the Committee of the intention of their State to re
organize under'the bill. ' The President informed
the delegates that he would execute the law, and
commended .the action of the Legislature.—The
Legislative delegation to Washington, say they were
kindly received, and are satisfied that a compliance
with the,Congressional terms of reconstruction would
be followed by representation in Congress—Letters
from the South,.received in Washington, show, a
general disposition to reorganize under the new Re
construction law. The supplementary bill pending
in-Congress also meets approval. General Schofield
has suspended the municipal election at Fredericks
burg, and will probably do so throughout the State,
allowing the old officers to hold over until a reor
ganization
Alabama. —Th e question of annexing East Flori
da to this State is again agitated, and, it is claimed,
will receive the consent of the people of that Section.:
-r-Tlie Supreme Court of Alabama has decided that
Mr. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did not
take effect in that State until May, T 865. y
Georgia— The business portion of Albanv has
been ..destroyed by/'fire.. Loekp' s2oo,ooo.—Every
week for a month past 200,000 Bushels of corn have
arrived at Atlanta. ' ;
The Floods.— Twenty-seven persons, mostly freed
■tnen, have been drowned by the:.flood at Helena.
Arkansas. - Twenty-five dead bodies floated down
the Tennessee river past Bridgeport, Ala., on Tues
day last. The water was from 12 to 20 feet deep in
the* town of Chattanooga, on Tuesday. Nearly all
the bridges and culverts south of Louisville have
Been carried away; the buildings along the river at
Cincinnati Are in 10 to 15 feet of water ; the ? Ohio
river, between New Albany and Evansville, w£s 30
mile's wide; and Shawn'eetown was inundated.—Rail
road communication between Memphis and Louis
ville has been suspended. ' At Friar's point, nearly
100 miles below Memphis, the Mississippi is higher
than ever before’. Mound city,' 111., on the Ohio
rivgr, and Smitliland, Ky., .at the: junction of the
Ohio and Cumberland fivers, are both inundated.
City—By the annual report of the County Prison
the number of commitments in 1866 -exceeded by
several thousand those of any former year, reaching
the extraordinary aggregate of 19;648. ’’ 1
FOREIGN.
BY THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
March„l2- London, noon.—The Fepians in Ire
land haye all .been dispersed,, the entire island
is tranquil. Tim authorities, however, have good
reason to fear another rising, and have prepared for
it.— Dublin, evening.—-Arrests are beiifg'made in'all
parts of the country;Large.q.uan titles of arms have
been seized. A detachment has been sent.in pur
suit of large numbersof insurgents iwho haye gath
ered near Mallow Junction, an important railway
centre ;iij county;Cork— Paris. —The laborers em
ployed'on the'Universal Exposition have struck for
higher wages— Berlin. —Bismarck has recommend-'
ed a compromise between the factions in the Ger
man Parliament., in order to adopt a new constitu
tion.— Vienna. —The Emperor is gone to Hungary.
March 13. —London, evening.—Despatches from
Dublin,this evening state that Ireland is quiet.
There has been a great fall of snow. A number of
Fenians were arrested in Limerick, and while on
their way to the police Barracks, were cheered by
the people. Placards have been posted in the'streets
of Clonmel, and in Waterford and Tipperary coun
ties, forbidding the people to pay their rents.—Ber
lin.—Herr Munchausen, the premier of the Han'o
verian government of the late King, has challenged
Bismarck for words'spoken in debate in the German
Parliament.— Vienna.— The Emperor has giveil or
ders for sixerigthCh'in'g the Austrian'forts on the
Servian frontier.—The Viceroy Of Egypt withholds
the tribute of that country, to meeb the expenses of
crushing the insurrection in Candia.
March 14.— London, noon.—The Fenian troubles
are; not altogether ended.' Tie government has just
despatched four gunboats to,Dublin, and they will be
stationed at different points in the river Liffey. The
Fenians have taken refuge froriithe British troops in
the 'Wicfclow'Mouhtains, a few'miles’ south of Dub
lin,- where' they are perishing from-the extreme cold
weather.— Florence: —-Nearly one-half of the,ltalian
elections are to be i repeated.. ;The result is exceed
ingly-dpubtful. Garibaldi is at, the bead of, tliejop
position, par,ty—Fondo/i, evening,—The European
Powers have ,failed to agree ou tlie Eastern question.
Kussia additional coh'cbssihtis for the Chris
tian subjects of the Sultan.. The Turkish govern
ment is determinedtO continue the war in Crete,'and
is preparingitoi send ten fresh .battalions of troops to
i the Island,: und.efiHussian Pasha—X/ineryoo/—The
.American Chamber of Commerpe in this city gave a
grand banquet tonight, in honor of,the-heroes of the
Atlantic cable, "at which fine gold medals were pre
!: sented to Cyrus' W. Field, 'Captain Anderson', Mr.
'Canning, and Mr.' Willoughby Smith.’- The Ameri
can Minister, Mr. Adams','and all the leading Amer
ican merchants of-this city were-present.-
March 16. —Eo^orj,qjrLarge bodies of troops have
been sent to ,Liverpool to preserve the peace..—The
'emigration from ; Cor!cf for the last few days has
‘been ‘extremely -large. 1 MaJnjr'bf the emigrants-'were
recognized’as: being connected .with, the rising near
-Killarney.-bAlbiW.—The Servian ( question has been
settled. Lprd Derby says, officially that,the forces
pf the .Sublime Porte are to leave Belgrade, the cap
ital of ‘Servia, and that the' country .will be practi
cally ffee. ‘ The authority bf the Turks there Will’ be
merely 'nominal—Lord -Lyons announces that Tur
key will hasten the reforms in fayor of the Christians
in Grete- and ;elsewhere ■in .her. dominions.— Paris.—
General Castelnau, Aid-de-'camp of . the Emperor,
who went on a speqial mission;to,Mexico to confer
with Bazaine and'Maximilian,’ has returned.—The
Moriiteur officially'announces that MarshaTECzaine
and the last pf’the'FrCiich trbops left Mexico on the
10th of March;— Vienna, noon— The Turkish forces
have been successful™ a battle with the Christians
in Thessaly—The government! has ■ also consented
to.the return,of.the Cretan exiles.. The Prete depu4
ties-to the. Sublime Porte have reached Cqnstantino- '
pie—Madrid,.--In a general election heid’through
out the Jungdom'-the government fcandidates were
fnainly Succebsful.' . : ' ’’
March IT.-—London-.— The Tory 'Reform bill will
give the'right of; suffrage, to rate-paying household
ers of ten years’ residence, to men paying :£l. yearly
taxes, Or,having ; £3o i,n a savings bank 0r.;650 in the
funds,,and to all members of the learned professions
and. graduates of the universities, the . bill also
provides for a £l5 franchise in the counties.—.Liv
erpool.—No disturbance Was created hbre tet-day
(St Patrick’s'day]' by the Fenians, as‘was fearfed—
Despatches from all parts of Ireland repoit the coun
try quiet. •:Frequent arrests are made.
March- 18—EONDOif!—The Sublime, Porte shows'
a disppsitionito grant the demands of the Viceroy of
Egypt-—lt:is .asserted that France, Austria and
Russia have linadb,a joint'proposition to the Tur
kish Government for.the cession of the Island of Can-,
dia to Greece.
BY STEAMER.
Conciliation.— 27th, a bill throwing
open the offices bf Lord'Chancellor of England and
Ireland and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to Catholics
and Jews, by. amending,the oath required, was pags-l
*ed to a‘second reading by 102 majority, as -wds also
another bill opening professorships in Dublin Uni
versity tq>: Catholics.
, , The British Army, according to the,estimates of
the War Department, will cost $73,761,000 in gold
during 1867, bn excess'of $2j061,600 over the expen
ses of 1866:The numerical Strength of the army is
to be 139,174. ■ ; • .
French Finances.— The French government’asks
for. its support, during 1868, the sum of $309i755,122
for. ordinary.expenses,mn increaßepfssjll9,4B9 over
the.expensps of 1867. Besides this, however, under
the head of “extraordinary expenses,'- there are
asked about $90)000,000. ' The receipts of the gov
ernment during the year are estimated at $334,490,-
317', so that $60,000,000 will have 1 to be supplied by
additional taxation. ...
MARRIED.
JOIIXSON.—MOORE.—In Mitrple, on the 12th inst., bj Rev. B.
Hotchkhi, Mr. Alexander Johnaou to Miss Sophia H. Moore.'.
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in harmony. God bleased : her labors as a Christian mother, and she
lived to see .all; her children—six in number—members of the
Church which she loved so well and so long. '
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