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The Retrenchment Committee reported the cost* for offices of the Senate 04,- 077.45, and House '83,705.80, being in ex ties* of. the necessity. The , practice .of 'paying employes on warrants of proper officers Ut.the end of the session yho were not forthally elected, was loose, and to be deprecated. The act of 1868 reme died the evil, and rednced the expenses .of the present session $67,283. Disregard of that act should be discountenanced. The Committee recommend three classes of clerks, the first class to receive $1,400, the second, $1,200, and the third $l,OOO, 'which would : reduce exrierises $20,000 annually. -The salary of members should be permanent; with no . allowance for •stationery or mileage, each member hav ing railroad passes. AP!BAPRIATIOR SILL; The Appropriation Bill was discussed •on its brat reading. No material amend ments "were made. , [ln Mr. &aright's bill, yesterday, the amount asked for the Uniontown and West Virginia Railroad of •Philadoiphia Amu Erie:bonds should have read one hundred thousand dollars instead of fifty thousand dollars.) HOME OF Rt.PRESENTATIVES. BILLS INTRODUCtD. Mr. , WILSON: A supplement for the Pittsburgh Gas Company. permitting the Company to supply the Fourteenth ward= ' on the terms agrejd upon by the parties. Reducing the millage tax of Lawrence / 'tele as adjudged by the consolidation commissioners.... - , , ••Molting the sale of intoxicating - 1. - • ntia-...T4nonjownship, Allegheny Authorizing the American Steer &di patty ,to borrow money. Mr. KERR: Authorizing the people of Bast and West Elizabeth boroughs and • Elizabeth and_Jefferson townships, Alle gheny county, to vote on granting liquor licenses. . Mr. PORTER: Incorporating the Medi cal and Surgical Hospital at Johnstown. Mr:ADAIRE: P.spealing the act passed yesterday, authorizing the' Western Maryland Railroad to operate in Penn sylvania-. Mr. DUNCAN: Authorizing receivers arid 'assignees to settle doubtful or bad debts due insolvent banks. Authorizing the laYing of lateral pipes connecting with main pipes on railroads and rivers. Mr. UUNTER: Supplement. for West moreland Coal Company, authorizing them to hold two thousand acres of land in Indiana - county, and necessary real • -estate in Philadelphia. ' ALLEORMY GALLEY RAILROAD BILL. The bill for aid to the Allegheny Val ley Railroad, and for the construction of a low grade railroad through Northern Penttsylvania, has passed both Houses finally. TEE riot' LbENTH EXCD3MN. T. The Constitutional Amendment passed finally by a_strict party voe in a full DEATH WARRANT ISSUED The warrant for the execution, on Thursday, April 29th, of Lewis I:ane, negro, convicted in Allegheny county for murdering his strife, was issued tc-day by the Governor. CUBA. Progress of the Revolution. fßr Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Garette.l HAVANA, March 25.- 7 A Commission has arrived here from Trinidad and had an interview with the Captain General. They made complaint against Senor 'Patine, the Governor of Trinidad, to the effect that'he was acting disloyal; that he purposely sent troops to places where there was no enemy, and that in their belief he has sold himself to the. insurgents. 'Similar accusations I ( itm been lodged against Senor Mondaos, error ofNilla Clara, and Col, Mendinikk commanding the forces in the field nap 'Remedios. isicharged with open ooniplie ttLivith the itunktgents. • Four companies of,the 4th battalion, ecattposed,principtilly of voluhtsers ;.„Who w, ore.Se!** the field for : active , advice, SI" ilentfever to thi eriemy. 7.4 , 41- , The advance guard of Gen: 40.61* Aw.' - centlyituffered a defeat en ' -Selsrat expsditions - from _Mess well supplied with arms; are -*WW I to; ..lari,ded on the .Cuban ;abdresiwihi vast end' • joined the rebel armies. . 441 rievv er ts Alaska.--Gold. Discovered. Tel toes Plttabureet filizette.) ItikrataCO; : ; Muth 25.—The o Stephen' has arrived. from Sias,' having Wen-released bt the iglaborittelh. ladipagon ex. by ase %foldouts arAhoirit at the r Colleitor of Cus toms, end it Is hoped that he will be Meted from further dvty ;that dbl. jpatiltiOtitwhoite ) 1 0 0 1 ibr oPmeta /0311 Mse disCoieries' of gold in viscera aye (reported on in _land,' one tiundmd miles fro iak Mend, lsti. ludo 61 deg. port. longitude 160 deg. -wawa Grgetrgion,Three several die. *overles were mad > -.llnrt <on 'Ruyak river and Chigmet m us, the second about sixty miles above Sitka, and 'the third on an island. name unknowit. Pn account of the climate the minds- clo t . may be worked nve months in the! year. Pins specimens of gold dust and quartz 'and gold nuggels are exhibited here by . Parties from the mines, who return im. mediately upon obtaining outfits. • •. • . 1 ' 1 1 44 "; - "4 ,,, 0&f,.. 41.:. --;:'&-vp_z..- ' 4,--.. .*Ailiii , f6A'aii?',4i* . rVi . :4:4 , 4-14 -0 ,•7•AW4•: , :q4,51.0!00ie1..m44.. ' . . • FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS• [FIRST SESSION.) SENATE: Currency Bill Con-f sidered Without Action. , EIOIJSEF Bill Relative to Georgia Reconstruction—The.' Senate Amendment to the Tenure-of-Office Bin Refer red to Judiciary Committee. llty Telegraph to the Pittsburg h Gazette.) WASHINGTON, March 25, 1319. SENATE. - Mr. PATTERSON introduced a bill to provide for retrenchment and efficiency In the Diplomatic and Consudar System of the United States. Referred to Com mittee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. COLE introduced a bill granting lands to the San Diego branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Referred to Committee on Pacific Railroads. The Senate concurred in the House amendments to the bill to incorporate the National Junction Railway Company. Mr. SPRAGUE submitted a preamble to the bill introduced by him a few days ago to provide for loaning the public money and for other purpoaes, and on his motion it was ordered to be printed with the bill, and also in separate form. Mr. WILSON introduced a bill direct ing the continuance of the Freedmen's Hospitals at Richmond, 'Vicksburg and in the District of Columbia. - Referred to Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. PATTERSON introduced a bill to provide for retrenchment and greater efficiency in the diplomatic and consular service of the United States. Referred to the Committee on Retrenchment. Mr. EDMUNDS moved to take up the bill to enforce the XIV - th Constitutional Amendment andj laws of the United States in Georgia. Mr. SHERMAN objected, because he wanted the Senate to take up the bill supplementary to an act to provide a national currency. --- Mr. EDMUNDS said he had moved to take up the bill relating to Georgia, be cause he wished the Senate to decide definitely whether anything was to be done at this session to settle the status of that State. He thought Congress was either treating Georgia very badly, by excluding her ,from representation, or elierwas tolerating there a revolutionary condition of affairs, which ought tip be brought to an end: Mr. SUMNER thought it more import ant that prompt action shall be taken on the Georgia bill than on the financial bill, because its passage was necessary for the .preseryation of , peace in that State, and -also ail example i o,,, mcoadruction.• Mr. qhernian's motion' yeas 40, nays 15. , _ • The pending amendment was that of fered by Mr. Wilson, authorizing an in crease of fifty million dollars. in the is sue of circulating notes, providing that in making the issue preference shall be given to banking associations in States and sections of the country not adequate ly supplied with bankingfacillties. The amendment also provides that whenever the amount of United States notes and circulating notes of national banks combined shall be in excess of seven hundred millions, the Slicretary of the Treasury May retire, d cancel United States notes to the ount of such excess, until the whole ount of United States notes outstan g shall be reduced to 11359,000. Mr. SHERMAN explain In detail ' the provisions of the bill. a, Commit tee on' Finance had come to L tbe %%mein sten that no more radical iiiissure than this could be safely proposed at this • time.: The distribution OCcirealation was of course very unequal; but it seem ed to the Committee better to equalize it gradually, than by a sudden measure of general redistribution. A more radical measure would necessarily, disturb the business of the Eastern and Middle States, but this bill would at least sup ply the South and West, and upon re sumption of specie payment there world doubtless be a fair banking system es tablished which' would prevent contro versy about unequal distribution. Mr. MORRILL moved an amendment to the " fourth section, providing that when a withdrawal of circulation from one point Is recptirad to • supply deficien cies, at ahother, the revision be made upon banks having a capital exceeding one hundred thousand &Pliers. Lost. • Mat;,3IORRILL offered another amend ment, Ao the fourth section, providing where a transfer of capital is demanded requisition be made for the required stern; lommencing pro rata with banks ities having an amount of bank clr - ..lt ion more than double the amount oh was held, such cities by State nks in 1860. Lost. Mr. KELLOGG moved to amend Mr: Williams' amendment by authorizing an issue of four hundred millions instead of three hundred and fifty millions. Mr. MORTON asked' the Senator from Louisiana whether the amendment con templated the retiring of an equal amount of greenbacks? • Mr. KELLOGG said it did. Mr. MORTON said that would be . a di rect violation of the bill recently passed pledging the United States to' the pay ment ofall their obligations in coin, and so he"oould not coneerit to The propriety of withdrawing surplus = banking circulation from-the -Eaatern States for the benefit the South and West was debated at length, on- the seine grounds as in former discussions. I TWithintti action on the /bill, du; Senate at 4:80 went into executive session and soollafteradjotiped. -•` • ;HOUSROF.REPBRApiTATIVF.B. , . Messrs. Jenks and Benton were an , nomesid, ak. additional numbers of the' retrenchment Ooinmieteif. Mr.:; W.11,80N, Minn., introduced *et bill aiithori a railroad from Portland. Oregon :‘ to ' 'th king e - west of the.-Cascade: Mountains. Referred toßaclhojtailroad Committee: -" " Mr. D,AVIES, In a persona aspirins, tion, ,reiterated a former,declaration concerning H. H. Reid"; 'Secretary of New, Mexico, that ,be could have.no con fidence in a Northern man .whe had ten deredlda serviceblb 'the rebellion. Mr. BOLAND reported ,a joint resdlii." tion providing that claims for 'steam boats or-other vessels Impressed by the United Suiteis.in Southern States during the lei. tie adjudicated by the Court of Claims, provided the clairdants were' oyal, and remained loyal, and were res. PITTSBLTRGH,, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1869. Meats of loyal States; and . .provided the vessels were.in insurrecanttry districts by proper authority. • The joint resolution was explained and advpcated by Mr. POLAND. 'lt gave rise to considerable diecusalon, partleirted in V. Messrs. Washburn°, (Wis., ` Lawrence. Finkleburry, , May nard. oar, Hawkins, Allison, Benjamin .11.0 d Logan. • c 7 Mr. WASHBURNE, .of .Wisconsin, moved to lay the joint - resolution on the table. Negatived—yeas 81. nays 83. It was then passed—yeas 87, nays 80. Mr. Poland was excused from fur ther service on the-Reconstruction Com mittee, in order to perfect arrangements in another Cenurilttee• Mr. Upton weir also excused from ser vice on the CoMinlttee on Revision of the Laws, and was subsequently alsilmsl to the Committee on Reoonstr,uotiOrw; The bill -for the relief, of Samuel Moore, of the 57th Veteran Ohio Infantry, The SPEAKER - annotinced the Special Committee on the ceases of the reduction of American tonmuie as. Blessm.. kiss, Morrill, Judd, Holman, Calkins and Wells. Mr. LYNCH offered a resolution for a commission to inquire whether the effi ciency of the naval service requires the maintenance of two navy yards at points so near,togetherBs Kittery t Maine, and Charlestown, Massachusetts. Referred to Naval Committee. - Mr. BUTLER introduced a bill to en force the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution and laws of the United States, and to re3tore the State of Geor gia to the republican goVertisaent elected under its new Com:citation. Referred to Committee on Reconstruction and or dered printed.- The bill recites in a preamble that the Legislature of Georgia has refused to purge itself of members who were dis qualified by the, constitutional amend ment, and has expelled legally qualified members on the ground that they were persona of African blood. and that the State authorities 'are wholly, un able or unwilling, to protect the lives, liberty and property - of lawful and un offending citizens, thereby proving that the people had not complied with the terms or aonformed to the principles on which the restoration ;of Georgia was provided for, and that the government then. )1' is not in fact republican or other wise. It. therefore, authori ze s and di rects the Governor to summon forthwith, by a proclamation, all pertains appearing to have been elected to the Legislature according to the proclamation of Major General Meade, June 15, 1868, to meet at Atlanta within six months eflhe passage of the act. Such LegislatureWeattaj authority to make such enactments .and have such legislmive proceedings as are authorized by. t.te laws of the United States, and by the Constitution of Geor. gla. .The members of the Legislature are to take the test oath, except those whose political disabilities have been re moved by_the act of Congress. The at- Vddjiitea mtpdisintiof-tbsAfrician.metn ' bets is anuniiedand declared void. ' The President of the United States is required to staticm in the state of Georgia ; a suffi cient armed foree to carry into execution the act, andlts officers are required to render'aid add assistance in the admin istration of the Government, on demand of the Governor. 'Thee House then took up the bill to provide for the organization of a Provis ional Government, which was under dis• mission yesteroay, and was addressed by Mr. WOOD in opposition to the,bill. The bill was then laid aside and the House proceeded to busineAs on the Speaker's table, the ilrst mater being the Senate amendment to Rouse' bill repealing the Tenure of•Ofnce Act. Mr. BUTLER moved to refer the bin and amendments to the Judiciary Com mittee and desired to stive some reasons therefor. Mr.'FARNSWORTH desired to enter a motion to concur in the Senate amend meats. - Mr. MSGRAM had risen for the same purpose. ' W. BUTLER declined to yield for that purpose, but 31eided to Mr. LOGAN, who moved to amend the bill by a pro visq that all civil officers, except Juoges of the United States Courts, filled by ap pointment of the President of the United States, by and with the advice'and con sent of the Senate, before the 4th of March, 1869, shall become vacant, on the 30th of June,lB69. He said he had always thougt: the House was en titled to have opinions of its own. He knee , there had baen a good deal of work done here this morning by certain gentlemen to have the Sehate amend ments concurred in,by insinuating it was agreeable to the President. If members had no minds of their own, if they were to be used as pack threads, it was time to atop legislation. lie insisted the Secr ets) amendments made 'the bill worse than in its original shape. He declared this was a struggle for power between the Executive and Senate. That was all there was of it. The bill had been originally passed for a special purpose, andiaow the Senate wad determined to hold, the power in its hands. Ditkany body believe the Senate was giving up on this amendment one iota of its power? Fort4his own part, he was not to be swerved from his duty by the insinna- ' Hon ,that- somebody consented to the amenainent. He appealed to the friends of the President to stand by , the bill re sealing the law, or to adopt his amend ment: Mr. WASEIBURNE, of Wisconsin, pp.' posed the Senate amendment. He hoped the House would not concur in it, wotfict not referit, and would insist on the nn oonditional repeal of the law. That ,law was passed tbr a particular purpoae, and to check the usurpations ofJa wicked • Chiefklaglatrcue. 'tiled answered the purposes of Ito ' enactment, and shcinld. t pase away with the cause that brought Into being. The, President was • .re aponsiblit tlvs ezeitition' of the laws, u nd there • never . had been a' time ' when there was_rbe. same necessity tbr the President to titre. ample- power 10-remore dishonest and . .hlooklPhlezlrMletf l l4 - Jt had been said the President: was satisfied with the' &nude ;.-amendment.:-:Wilms he (Hr. Washburne) knew nothing about thati did'not Wier, it. •/f the President was satistied;• ; te was not - the ,man be had taken-him for: But they were, not legis lating for General Grant. They were legislating for the 'country, .which was nearly unanimous on the subject. ' He licitletthti Haute would insist on uncen ilitional reptial. The president might be satisfied -with:-the amendment, but/ be -was not eatikfied with it. He believed he represented; all his constituents 'in Adel mending the repel. Mr. FARNSWORTH argued ;in favor cf concurring in the Senate aniendment, • which he etplaloed. Mr.. BUTLER, of Mass., declared that the Senate amendment was a new Ten ure.of-Offlce bill,"niore wrong in princi ple, more fatal in action, and more destructive of the privileges of the Rouse and of the people, and was conferring more poweron the Senate that the pree eut law. It fetters the Executive more. If he (Mr. Butler) were to vote for either, tie , would.vote for the one now on the statute bOok, in preference to this. The Senate, was an Irresponsible body, and an Irresponsible body was ever dan gerous. ; • Mr. POLAND Inquired how the gen tleman Item Massachusetts notified the passage Of •the Tenure-of-Office bill orig inally? - Mr. BUTLER replied he had occasion to go into enehti justification. (Laugh tin. on. the Democratic side.) Mr. POLAND—But the g,entleinan's political associates have Abundant reason to go into their Mr. BUTL ER—There were many things we had' to do to saye the life of the country in the war, for which Justifi cation cannot be found in the _Constitu tion. There were many things we had to do under Andrew Johnson which had better never be done again, and better be got rid of as soon as possible. Mr. Butler wenton to characterize the Sen- ate amendment as a declaration of want of confidence in the President. What good had the law ever done? Had - it curbed a bad President? Ruthlessly, and i defiance of it, Andrew Johnson , had turned Edwin AL Stanton out of office and when the House impeached therefor,hini the Senate held him ac quitted and free. -. Mr. FARNSWORTH suggested the Senators who bad voted to _convict him had voted for this amendment. , Mr. BUTLER did not know who was in favor of the amendment. It had been passed in secret caucus. But he knew tiae vote on the repeal of the law did not bear out the gentleman's statement. Mr. FARNSWORTH-The vote on the Senate amendment does bear me out. Mr. BUTLER—Oh I Bahl Fiddle sticks! (Laughter.) -It;-was made a matter of caucus dictation. It was agreed to as a compromise, and all oomprotnises in legislation are vicious. 1 have been told the President is satisfied with the law. I dor pot pretend to hive the knowledge about teat which others claim but I have no doubt if the President said anything about it, it was under the circumstances of tne Senate Committee going to him and raying, "•Sir, you are our President; we are in trouble in the Senate; if you do not agree to this we snail have difficulty among ourselves." And the President may have said, agree to that, or anything else, rather than you should have trouble; I do not mean to put myself in your way; I do nbt mean to raise any difficulty in your party." But if he said so, A was nec,ause he relied on the sentiment of the country; be relied on the House of liepresentutives; he re -*id on our sense of our own dignity, on our_sense of Our rights, on- our -sense of our own consistency,•to save him from the diegraceful law by which his haud.s are to be tied. .. Mr. DAVIS moved to amend the mo tion to refer - by adding instructions to the Committee to report the provisions under which the: consiltutionality. of the, Tenure.of-Office law could be determined by the Supreme Court. Mr. BUTLER moved the previous question. Mr. BINGHAM anpoaled to the House not to , second tho previous question. The House, however, did second it-- 90 to 59 4 • Mr. BINOHAM called for the yeas and nays on ordering the main question, but the House refused to order them. Seyeral other dilatory motions, inclu ding a motion to adjourn, were voted down, and then the main question was ordered. • Mr. Davis' amendment was rejected. The Senate amendment was then re. ferred, including Mr. Logan's amend ment, to the Judiciary Comusittee—yeas 95; nays 79. Only ten Democrats voted in the negative. At half past four the House adjourned. BRIEF TELEGRAMS.: —Ex-President Johnson lies danger ously ill at Greenville, Tennessee. -The General Assembly of South Car-. olina, after fodr months session, ad journed sine die On Wednesday. An unsuccessful attempt to rob the county treasury was made at Liberty, Indiana, at two o'clock Thursday morn . —A young man named • Minshell has absconded from Xenia. 111.. with three thousand dollarS belonging to ,a recently married wife. —Bushell & Scharzliti, private bank ers, of Buffalo, have failed. - Liabilities, f 40,000; lissets,•s4,ooo. L. C. Dutnple man is assignee. • —Adolphe Phillips, a young German, has heen'arrested for stealing rare books from the Mercantile Library Association of New :York City. —SantuelAKeller, constable of Ander son township, IL;milton county, Ohio, Thursday morning received a shot which will probably prove,fatah The criminal he,arrested ran and escaped. —A manna med Evans cut ,the throat of James okox, at Centre Hill, Con necticut, on onday morning. The mur derer was arrested, and says he killed Hickok for criminal intimacy with his wife. ' - ' =Mayor Popping, of Carondelet, Mo., Is'oharged with inWappropriitting 115,000 of the city's money, and there irktnuch exeltement - there in Consequence. ;An investibting Committee is loosing into 'the . matter: Ai , =-Etl3ostditi Ott - Wednesday might, a Young 'WM named Pine shot- a Miss Howard. and then shot himself, dead. Be epted.love is supposed to be the cause Both were aged about_ twenty, and wpre " respectably connected., , , —The Government of -PrAnce -Edwards Island has been notified- by thorlty, that is not competent ;for , saau island to enter into negotiations=Witt(The United States with a view tev'reellireidt7• wittiont the coloperatiori :of Abe other British provinces. s —There are forty-three wiles of street railroad'in tilt;:touis,' fifteen parks /tow.' - tinning four hundre d and twelve acres 'of land, nearly • ten miles of Maoism) pavement, one htindred and thirty,milas of modadoOlisted' streets, - and over one hundred intim of sewers. The Area of the city is nearly fifteen and a lusgsquare miles.- • , TIE CAPITAL. CBY Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette,l ASHINGTON, March 23, 1889. REBEL BARBARITIES Admiral Hoff enclosed a memoranda of the military exec - ations by the rebel authorities at.Aux' Cayes, Hayti. They exhibit liarbarities and cruelties difficult to paralel. 1 GONE TO ANNAPOLIS. ,Seerotary,Borie lute gone to .Annapolls, accompanied , by Admiral Porter, to in spect affairs at the Naval Academy. .COLORED MEN EN TELEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS. In the 17oltarian Conference, in ses session, a resolution was accepted recog nizing with pleasure that a' colored man has enteind the class of the Meadville Theological School, and trusting other denomination schools will be provided with colored students. ARMY RETRENCEMEXT. The Military Committee are maturing a bill looking towards further re trenchment in expenses in the War De partment, and will report it to the House for action at as early a day as possible. `They are . of the opinion that in the Quartermaster's Department alone three or four millions _can be saved 'annually findOper management. The Committee that that Department is paying an nually for rent of buildings alone, in va- • nous parts of the dountry, sums of money which would in fou r years time pay (or the buildings so occppled. In fact an inves tigation 'shows that money 'has been us:Ai ista very, extravagant manner, and the Committee have determined to cat down the expenses of this branch of the War. Department. It is probable they ,tail hat the sop me time, re pirt a bill cutting down the number of officers in the Quar termaster's:Department, and provide for mastering lOW of service those whose services are not actually needed.' The same Committee have also under consideration the question of mustering out a large number of officers now on the retired list. There are upward% of sever4f,luindred such officers, and the opinion Is entertained. that the Gov eminent should reduce this list to a large extent. NOMINATIONS Sr THE PRESIDENT. [By Telegraph to the Plttsbura Gazette., The following nominations were sent SPAIN. to the Senate: Edward B. Plumb, Con- THE NEW CONSTITUTION. eul General at Havana; R. W. Clarke, _ Third Auditor of the Treasury ; Alonzo MADRID, March 24.—The draft of the B. Cornell, Surveyor of Customs for the new Constitution." was laid before the Port of New York; E. A. Merritt, nmil Constituent Cortes to-day. Its leading Officer for District of New York; F. A. Wilsche ,Collector of Customs at Puget folio The Government features are as we: Sound; F. J. Batson, Collector of Cus. is to be monarchial in form, with a Sen toms at t Gloticester ' Mass.; E. A. Dol- ate and Congress. The Senatorial term frey, Collector. of Customs at Salem, is limited to thirteen years. Senators Massuiffiusetts. are to be elected by Provisional Conn- The followiug to be Collectors of.lnter. cils, lour for each province. Deputies to nat Revenue : Lucien N. Coy, First Dis- the Congress are to be elected every trict, Arkansas; James A. cooper, Sec- l three years by universal suffrage.' The and District,. •Tennessee; Jos. L. Smith, reign of the King is limited to a term of Second District, Mississippi; John Me- eighteen years. _ Hall , Fifth District, Now York:i Johnl- . The minority of tbe committee which Roger, Seventeenth District, l'ennsylva- reported the Constitution are favorable to Lila.ltbb6lll%-tteeith, TAW District, - the eepemtion of Church and State. The Maiyiand; ideCraeh;tfifixtEnlifffini- til;rt propose that the Roman Cant. ISARO J. Young, Fourth District, lie:-i*tretatned as the - the". North Carolina. State: with-' toleration for other 'creeds. The following to be , Assessors of In- Liberty of the presS and the right of pub ternal Revenue: Joseph T. Valentine, lie meeting are fully guaranteed by the Eighth District, Pennsylvania; D. N. C. new Constitution. Thonfas Second District, Indiana; Julius The Cortes has passed the conscription Ennesnoser, Sbc'ond District. Louisiana; law. Joseph S. Thorne, Sixth 'District, Mis- MAnßrn, March 25.—The Conscription souri; Daniel H. Stanton, Seventeenth act, whieti was passed yesterday by the District ' 'New Yerk; Wm. S. Stockley, Cortes, prescribes that no more men shall- Second District, Pennsylvania. be raised by means of conscription than The following to be Receivers of Pub- are actually required by the Government lie Moneys: G. L. Ballard, Indianapo. to fill up the ranks of the army to the lis; S. H. Wright, Carson City, Nevada; standaid strength. The Minister of War Edward , Volmer, Belmont, Nevada. 1 bad preVioustyt demanded authority to The following to be Registers :EL J. raise twenty-live thousand troops for this. Rice, Carson city, Nevada; Samuel Tal- I purpose. linen; Belmont, Nevada; Oliver gibbitls, St. Peter, Minnesota; Indian Agent, Choi. La Jellot i Grand Ronde, taregon. The ;following to 'be Postmasters: S. L. Day; 'Paxton, Illinois. C-Redinan, Canton,i Illinois; Thos. B. Vesely, 'Du quesne,' Illinois; General W. Mills, Pe tersburg, Illinois; Jno. C. Cole, George town, Colorado. H. P. Bennett, Denver, Colorado; W. T. Ward, - .Dunsonville, California; H. L. Street, Sonora, Califor nia; D. W. Broptinger, Louisiade, Ma-, south Mrs. Mena Champlin, Waterloo, Iowa; J. K. POrkhold6i, Fort Dodge, Iowa; .Miss Julia P. Worfolk, Jackson, Tennessee; B. H. Cropster, Shelby ville, Kentucky; John M. Stockton, Marysville, Kentucky; .Tpsepti B. Brown, Tarrytown, N. Y.; WM. H. Per kins, Baldwinsville. N. Y.; Benjamin F. neuter', Attica, Ind.; L. R. Johnson,' Cambridge City, Inffi; Wm. A. Hovall, Washington, Ind.; J. W. .Devore, Frank lin, Ind.; Wert C. tHoughton, Welling ton, Ohio; 'J. W. Collyer, Cosbocton, Ohio; A. R. Smith, Centre, Wis.; C. a. Gale, •Ccirunna, Mich.; E. W. Merrill. Muskegan, Mich.;. H. H. Lnddish, Darlington, Wis. ' By direction ofthe •President, Brigadier General& 0; •Wood; retired; has been assigned to dutfas a member of 'the Re tiring Board; at-New York.. • - Edward-W. Barber haatbeenianpointed Supervisor of Internal Revenue for the Territorial.. District of Michigan and Wisconsin, in place of ,J. C. Borroughs, declined. • DISHONEST 'CLAIN AGENTS . The Second Auditor of the Treasury to-day sent the Chairman of the Senate Committee on .Pensions a report of one. of the formerNierho, detailed by him to investigate the fraudulent practices of clalm'agente in: the collection of claims for the ;payMetit‘tir bounty in the cases of - colored troops, The Auditor says he has used all the meaty!' in his power to check' 'these frauds, but owing to thif'• want ,of authority .to organ ize any, detective :system he,ihas not ,succeeded to 'the, extent he otherwise might. !SO many trandulentblahns hav ing been litely filed; he .his suspended' , action OpOti a large number of them,and Withheld Trealtury, certificates amount ing t& over one - hti u dred and fifty thousitnd' - 'delliet, in - anticipation of further lettialatiort• by Cbngress afford- lug greater protection to the Government. The Commissioner .of Pensions concurs. etttire)y tu.the views ~expressed by the Amditor.tilletutys the report shows the moat .41yetetast o and startling , frauds upon thiGovernment, and untesssome- , thing be done at once to correct the grow lug evili - ths Government must be the sufferer Llkd the Auditor, he regards the blllintroduced . by Senator Wilson as of vital impottance, and hopes sincerely It will Meet the appioral of Congress.. It It appeara from the report and or dance that a.complete system of' s pe• fraudlng and cheating the colored ants prevails in and around Tennessee, and that the oyster!!! or Pre', NUMBER 75. paring and. prosecuting , elainis by the claim agents is one of utter recklessness and fraud. The author of the report carried with him over one hundred, claims for bounty in behalf of . widows as a test, and from investigation be found nearly every claim to be fraudulent. In twenty claims, where 'the names' of the same witnesses appeared in every case, as having seen all of the twenty claim ants married, he found that these wit nesi es did not know of any widows, never saw any of 'them married, and were never at some of the places where* the marriages were a'leged -to have occurred. It ap pears that neither the claim agent, nor officer before whom' the claims are exe cuted, read. and carefully explained to the ' witnesses the - papers they were requested .to sign, and from ilbe.fact tharthese agents have used the "runners" as witnesseir tb several hun dred marriages, at plaeea widely apart, in the same year, and sometimes in the 1 same Month, he concludes the agent' is the party to the frauds, and the *frau ners" generally but dupes and tools. The ixdorad men, known as "runners," or claim Minters, &rehired by the agents, paying them from one to three dollars for claimants, father or Mother, but four dollars for widows. This premium is Mitred on,widows'. claims because the pension is involved in all such cases, and doubtless from the fact that the agent se cures not only a large fee but a continn- Oita one so long as the pension is granted.. Two of the principal agents at Memphis had each, for a time, their own clerks ap p,ointed .deputy county ,Clerks, for no other purpose ttian to adffilitister oaths in their claims. These deputies did not have access to the seal of the court., but would simply administer the oath, then send the papers to the principal clerk for him to sign and affix his seal. Even after the, authority to these depu ties was revoked, and the , witnesses sent to the county clerk to be qualified, he would ask if the papers had been read to them as the agents,' and If they said yes, he would administer s; idgm,adad affix his seal. ,„ -- : The author of -the reportldisilfila at length the means by which agent!! °On duct their business. , • . •:c : f ',I NEWS. BY CAItLE.i.' lIZE= GREAT BRITAIN: LONDON, March 25:--Sir Stafford North cbte has advised the Hudson Bay Co. to . accept the proposition of F.arl Pranville. the, Colonial Secretary, and, cede their territorial rights in Brltisff North Amer ica for 300,000 pounds, sterling, consider ing it the best offer they cau obtain. • MARINE NEW S. LIVERPOOL, March• 25.—The steamship Prussian, !rem Portland, has arrived. liostiorr, March 25.—The steamship compa,nies.decline modifying, the terms of the contracts 'for postal service be tireSn the United States and England. • I=3=l FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Lli'Ertl'OOL, March 26.-Cotton is firm and unchanged; Middling Uplands, 12% ©l2/; Orleans,.• 12,4Q146 ; sales of 15,000 bale*, To-morrow being Good Friday, the, Cotton and other markets will remain closed. The total stock of Cotton is 258,000 bales,• of which 116,000 bales are American.. The Manchester market is firmer *and prices are rather - better. Wheat market is active, and California white wheat is quoted at - Os .9d., red western Bs. .11d. Western Flour 235. Corn 30s. for old, Vs. 6d. for new. Oats 3s. 4d. ' Barley 58. Peas 41s. Pork 1e09.^ Beef 90s. Lard 75a. Cheese 765. Bacon 62si - 641. Common Rodin 58., 6d.; fine 158. Spirits Petroleum 9(4)10d.; Relined .16,40. Tallow 459. 6d. Tur- - pentine 30s.- 6d. Linseed 011.£32. • • It4NPQN;liarch 25. ;. -Evenirig-COnsols for money at 93%, ibr.ticoonot fft Five- Twenties quiet and steady at-83%. Stocks. • quiet; Erie, 24,,t( 4 ; Illinois, 14. - Tallow 475. 6d. Calcutta. Linaeed -at 59.: Linseed Cakes .£lO, 10s. Sugar is active at 395. 9d. Itetined Petroleum, Is. 9)id: Spirit& ; Turpentine, 316.4141. . , - t The Bullion in' the 'Bank of England hari decreased'£B4,ooo. - • EfAvt.n, 'March 2.5.-.Eventn9.--Cotton closed firmer at'444Mf. for trey onclinafre -on 804 •145f/for low middlings -afloat. ;FittaIIEFORT, March 25 Bonds firm at ; rAnrs,erarch - 4a.-Bourse Watt; Rentes 70f. 30c.: Specie 'in the Blink of France hall Increased 20,000,0001. during the past week. . .lievnniXeroh 25.-Cotton on thespot, ;closed at.14.5f.,f0r tree ordlnaire. NEW YORk VITT. 'renames to the Pittsburgh gazette] NEW Yons, March 8,12 ron Sohlozer, Minister from the N o G erman Union to the United eta here by the Westphalia yesterday. t A ,Washington special to the Creamer do/ gives a rumor of the de h of Ez _President Johnson at Ile, Tenn.. ..which in supposed to arise front the fact that he is seriously 111. IN EH M=MM
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