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Impeeelime ! «rthe Preuldeai.
We have heretofore believed that
the threats of impeachment made
during the late canvass were bat
empty words induced in by his po-
litical opponents for buncombe effect,
and as so much harmless gasconade,
to be passed by in silence. And act-
ing «pon this opinion we have refrain-
ed firom giving any attention to this
¡n our columns, beyond the
simple expression of our opinion that
theft charges of malfeasance iri office
would not culminate in the formal
impeachment and trial of the national
Executive. Events of the last three
weeks have made it evident that
many members of the House of Rep-
resentatives are desirous of im poach-
ing Mr. Johnson. Sundry resolutions
have been introduced iuto that body,
foreshadowing charges which, if sup-
ported by the requisite amount of
clean, truthful testimony, arc suffi-
ciently grave in their oharaoter to
make it the duty of Congress to im-
peach and depoao the President.
If he is guilty as charged, his high
position, the result of confidence in
his ability, integrity and patriotism,
so for firom shielding him from merit*
td disgrace and puniahment, should
be considered only as an aggravation
of his offence. And if he is innocent
of the oharges brought against him,
he ean have nothing to fear from im-
peaehment and "trial, aud should
• rather court this ordeal by which his
innocence may be made to appear
beyond cavil, and the damaging ef«
feeta of false charges be made to
moil on the heads of his malignant
traductora. The President of the
United States, as well as the meanest
eitisen of the republic, is amenable
to the nation's laws; and if guilty of
their infraction, there is a way pro-
vided for his trial and punishment.
We have believed and hoped that
Andrew Johnson, with all his indis-
orations and short-comings, was not
guilty of "high orimes and misde-
meanors " in the office of President;
and we yet hope, for the honor of
A—riMnij; impoHclieJ|
The langusge of certain of his pre-
tended conservative friends in refer-
ence to this subject, has unintention-
ally, no doubt, demonstrated in them
a latent enmity against the govern-
ment and laws made by the fathers
of the republic. They have incon-
siderately insinuated that the Presi-
dent is too largo game to be held in
the meshes of the law; and that if
impeached by Congress he would
refuse to be tried, set the government
at defiance and give laws to the na-
tion from the bayonets of his sol-
diery. No political enemy of Mr.
Johnson has yet charged him with
such total want of patriotism and
virtue as suoh action on his part
would convict him of. To use his
powers as Commander-in-Chief of the
army to shield himself from trial,
would not only be a confession of his
guilt and an assurance of his destruc-
tion, but it would link his name for-
ever with worse than the infamy of a
Benedict Arnold. IA our judgment,
the men who give currency to the
monstrous idea that Mr. Johnson will
attempt the overthrow of the govern-
ment and laws of his country to es-
cape being tried for offences of which
they say he is innocent, are worse'
traducen of his character and fair
fame than those who are seeking to
impeach him. In the history of the
world it has sometimes happened that
great criminals, to avoid justice, have
aoted on the suggestions of numer-
ous Mends and accomplices in guilt,
and resorted to civil war and revolu-
tion of governments to escape the
punishment of their crimcs. But we
are1 not willing to bolieve that Mr.
Johnson is guilty to so great an ex-
tent or in such imminent peril, as
these suggestions of desperate meas-
ures to bo adopted by him and coming
from his professed friends, would in-
dicate. We think the hey to the
meaning of such remarks of the
Conservative press as that Andrew
Johnson, commander of the army, is
for the
pose he were the fobl and knave to
attempt such a thing; does any one
whose reasoning faculties are two
degrées above idiotcy, think that
Grant and Sherman, both republic
cans, with an eye on the Presidency,
would lend themselves to the accom-
plishment of a project, at once so
unpatriotic and destructive of their
cherished and honorable ambition.
We will venture to assure our Con-
servative cotemporaries, that if Mr.
Johnson should be impeached by the
Congress of the United States, he
will have the honor, manliness and
patriotism to submit like any other
good citizen to be tried by the tribu-
nal prescribed in the Constitution.
And if they are his friends, we hope
they will desist from further insinua-
tions that he will resort to the violent
measures oommon to usurpers, tyrants
and great criminals of former time.
Congress Working all Night.
The national House of Represent-
atives, it appears from telegraphic
dispatches, got a working fit on it
one day last week, and continued its
daily session through one entire
night, during whioh some forty votes
were taken on questions growing out
of one particular bill under consider-
ation. This bill, we understand,
establishes a rule for the obsérvanos
of the Foderal Courts, excluding suoh
lawyers as are given to rebel ways
from the privileges of attorneys in
said oourts. While admitting that
Congress may presoribo suoh a rule,
with referenoe to insurgent attorneys
in ths future, in like mannor as the
Constitution of Texas ox eludes from
office all persons guilty of duelling at
the date of its adoption, we still have
serious doubts of the propriety of
wasting so much valuablo time on
what appears to us to be a matter of
nviror importance, when great ques-
tions involving in their solution the
political and material prosperity of
the nation are undisposed of. It may
be that Congress is hedging against
another rebellion, by thus putting
the legal fraternity under bonds to
keep the peace and frown down in-
surrection by affixing the penalty of
exclusion from practising their pro-
fessions on suoh lawyers' as may
hereafter be rebels., We have no
doubt such a rule is a vory proper
iui(b"«g rtte 'ti 'flaArwa!:
somehow impressed with the idea
that the re establishment of proper
State organisations in tho late insur-
rectionary districts, and perhaps a
half dosen other matters, are of far
greater importance than affixing pen-
alties to be incurred by reckless law-
yers who may hereafter be fools
enough to participate in rebelllion.
We observe from our Galveston
exchanges that Hamilton Stuart of
the Civilian, and Willard Richardson
of the News, were appointed on the
committee to receive the remains of
Gen. A. Sidney Johnston; but F.
Flake of the Bulletin, was left out in
the cold, although the latter paper
was the first one of the city to urge
public funeral honors to the deceased
Brigadier General. It is no use
friend Flake; you fooled the Con-
servatives daring the war, but that
game is "played out."
We clip from the Bulletin of the
26th inst. the following communica-
tion relating to Gen. Griffin's order,
prohibiting the reception of the re-
mains of Gen. Johnston at Galveston,
in the demonstrative manner propos-
ed by the citizens:
" Who does not remember the
speech of Mark Antony over the
dead body of Julius Caesar, and the
effect produced upon the Roman po-
pulace who heard him ? And yet the
adroit orator proclaimed in that me-
morable speech that "he came to
bury Caesar, not to praise him." The
harangues of orators over the dead
bodies of heroes in a "lost cause"
are as well calculated to arouse the
passions of the populace now as
in the days of Mark Antony, and it
was doubtless with a view to prevent
this possible effect that the late mili-
tary order was issued, prohibiting
the execution of the programme for
the reception of the remains of 'the
late Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston.
Whether Gen. Griffin was right or
wrong in this matter must depend
upon the view we take of the general
tendency and effect of such demon-
strations, in the present excited con-
dition of our political affairs. Upon
this point, perhaps, good men will
differ, which leaves a margin for the
exercise of charity and forbearance
on aR sides. Pacific.
Some pains make us talkative; but
a man with the toothaohe is apt to
hold his jaw.
Honk
Mr. Drake had just been elected
United States Senator for Missouri,
to succeed Mr. Brown for the, terra
of six years, when, on the 16th inst.,
he delivered a speech before the two
Houses of the General Assembly of
that State, from which we extract
the following passages as showing
ciearly Mr. Drake's political senti-
ments and purposes:
"Gentlemen, we cannot, if we
would, shut our eyes to the great
emergency with which the Congress
of the United States has now to deal.
The Union is to be reconstructed,
and rebellious States returned to
their places in it. In this difficult
and incalculably important work,
whatever else may be omitted, secu-
rity for the future—clear, absolute,
immovable security must be insisted
upon and obtained. No loose end
should be left; for, in some unguard-
ed hour they might be seized upon to
ull down the whole fabric. The
endigh purpose to destroy that fab-
ric survives its late futile effort, and
looks keenly ahead for a more auspi-
oious time. We have conquered the
Union's armed enemies; but, disarm-
ed, they have to be oonquered again.
They have not yet learned submission,
but still grasp at supremacy through
the civil power they vainly strove to
subvert. Come what may, that pow-
er must be kept from their blood-
stained hands. At every hazard, the
Union must be so reconstructed as
to bar them out from its future con-
trol. If human means and human
ability can prevent it, traitors are
never more to hold the reins of the
American Government. Rebellion
has been crushed, but more remains
to be done. The spirit of rebellion
must be broken and extinguished,
and the spirit of loyalty—radical
loyalty—fostered, encouraged, edu-
cated and strengthened, especially
against those insidious and treacher-
ous influences which, because the
thuuders of battle are no more heard,
would lull it into the slumber of in-
lorioua indifference and fatal repose,
or the first time in our history,
every American patriot sees the
meaning of those great words, "Eter-
nal vigilance is the prion of Liberty I"
We in Missouri, especially understand
their import. To have been a loyal
Miasounan through the last six years
ought to make a man familiar enough
with rebelism and rebels, never to
leave either unwatched. In official
action I will not; nor will I let go
any lawful hold that oan be taken of
them. I will do nothing in revenge
or from malice; but to the farthest
and hitest^ of my voice aj
lEe day is past, never to return, when
they hope to rule this land, or shape
its destiny, its psliey or its thought.
To carry this out in its integrity, this
whole country must be made a strang-
er to the power of oligarchy and the
influence of caste, based on the color
of the skin with which the great
Creator has in his wisdom clothed
his .creatures. A man, whatever his
color, must be held to be a man,
everywhere, under all circumstances,
to every intent, before every tribu-
nal ; and this nation must, to the
utmost limit of its rightful power,
guarantee his manhood's rights to
him, wooever would rob him of them,
or under whataver pretext the rob-
bery is perpetrated or threatened. A
nation that would stand idly by and
let millions of its citizens be so rob-
bed, whether by individual lawless-
ness or by organized communities
assuming to act through law, ought
itself to be despoiled.
Thus speaking, you will probably
have anticipated my next words—the
negro must be enfranchised. With-
out that, he cannot really be free,
nor can the nation be calm. As long as
he is disfranchised, the nation carries
within itself a magazine of oppression
and wrong, which, as sure as human
rights are a reality, will one day ex-
plode and shake it to its centre.
With the ballot in his hand the negro
can "and will quench the spirit of re-
bellion to its very last spark; without
it he, by his very helplessness, in-
vites aggression and stimulates the
greed oi tyranny—the same tyranny
which begot the late rebellion and
would to-day light the fires of anoth-
er, if it dared. This truth is ever
before me; not dragged forth to re-
vive a waning enthusiasm, or spur a
flagging purpose, but always rising
up itself, always looking me full in
the face, always exacting attention
and respect, always demanding obe-
dience to its stern mandate that the
negro be fully and irrecoverably en-
franchised. If I know myself, I will
not shun its gaze, or refuse it respect,
or deny it obedience. Whenever and
however the subjeot may properly
come up, I will demand and uphold
impartial suffrage; by which I mean
suffrage for the black man. If more
be required of him to entitle him to
vote, there is, there can be, no other
possible reason for it, than that God
made him black; and I will not stamp
God's work in him with any badge of
degradation and contempt, whioh the
aristocratic pride, the unreasoning
prejudices or the wicked ingenuity of
men may devise.
To secure the great end of negro
enfranchisement, J : will take no by-
paths; nor will I enter into any
nk' I -¡F
bargains which may, in any
degtee, weaken the healthfal power
of. radicalism in this nation. Least
of all will I give for the enfranchise-
ment of rebels. If it is right to
make the negro a voter, let it be done
because it is right, not as a swap with
rebels. We swapped bulle'ts with
them for four years, and they got
considerably the worst of the bar-
gain. I do not propose now to swap
ballots with them, for in that dicker
we should be sure to lose.
Facetious Argument.
Senator Wilson, advocating the
District Suffrage Bill, conferring the
right to vote on the freedmen, said:
" The Senator says they may be
kindly treated, and may be won by
kind words and deeds. Sir, I hope
they will be kindly treated. One of
the chief reasons why I am for suf-
frage for them is that they may be
kindly treated.
If the black man votes for the men
who are just and humane, I shall not
upbraid him. I do not believe the
negro is to be any party's slave if
you put the ballot m nis hands. Sen-
ators, give the negro the right of
suffrage in this district, and before a
year passes round you will see Mayor
Wallach and aldermen and oommon
councilmen attending their schools,
making speeches to them at their
meetings. You will see these men,
who voted that they should not have
the right to vote, running after them
and inquiring after the health of
thoir wives and children. These ne-
groes will then be just as sweet as
anybody else. (Laughter.) I do
not think the Senator from Ken-
tucky (Mr. Davis) will be examining
their pelvis or shins, or making
speeohes about the formation of their
lips or the angle of their foreheads
on the floor of the Senate. You will
then see the Democracy, with tho
keen scent that always distingushes
that party, on the hunt after the
votes of these blaok men, (laughter;)
and if they treat them better than
the Republicana do they will proba-
bly get their votes, and I hope they
And it will be juat so down in
these rebel States. Give the negroes
of Virginia tho right to vote, and
you will find Wiae and Letcher and
the whole tribe of aeceasioniats un-
dertaking to prove that from the
landing at Jamestown in 1607, the
first families of the Old Dominion
have always been the champion and
the apecial friends of the negroes of
Old Virginia, and that there is a
great deal of kindred between them,
(laughter;) that they arc relations,
brethren ; that the same red blood
iwnrgM in tKn imiiut jtnanv ftf.thftiii,
WeywtTT wtabliah aHthese things,
by affidavits. (Laughter.!
aay to you, Sir, they will
have a good opportunity to get a
good many of their votes, for in
these respects they have the advan-
tage of us poor Republicans."
Shall Wk Have Revenue oh
Nonsense ?—The illicit stills in New
York alone are said to number over
thiee thousand. Whisky can be
bought for twenty-five cents per gal-
lon less than the excise tax which it
ought to pay. For every three gal-
lons of whisky which pays the tax,
five gallons evade it, says Mr. Wells.
The present whisky tax ought to
yield eighty millions, but does not
yield thirty. Nevertheless, " as the
average ruling price of spirits in the
market during the yearjwas, moreover,
not much short of the average cost
of manufacture, plus the tax, it is
also evident that almost the entire
tax imposed by law was paid by the
people, although the government fail-
ed to receive it."
In Great Britain more than one-
quarter of the whole internal revenue
(27.6 per cent.) is raised from excise
duties on the manufacture and sale of
spirituous and fermentedliquors and
tobacco. In this country, where the
consumption is at least double, we
get, under the present absurd and
injurious law, only a twentieth part
of the internal revenue—5.56 per
cent.
Laws which encourage wrong, rob
the people, swindle the government,
lessen the revenue and corrupt the j
revenue officers, ought not to remain
on the statute-book. Congress should
make haste to remove such blots from
Its legislation.—N. Y. Post.
San Francisco,
ing inoessantly for the last three
days. The rivers and creeks through-
out the State rose higher than m
1861 and 1862.
The Nevada Legislature passed
the Constitutional Amendment yes-
terday. , . .
The levee at Carson last night in
honor of Senator Nye was a brilliant
affair.
Topbka, Kansas, Jan. 23.—Pom-
eroy, for long term, 84 to 25; li. G.
Ross, for vacancy, 68 to 40—-elected.
Nashville, Jan. 23.—The lower
house of the Tennessee Legislature
has passed the Militia Bill providing
for a cavalry regiment, composed of
whites and blacks, for each congres-
sional district, to be subject to the
call of the Governor. Also, a bill
erasing " white" from the Suffrage
Law.
Baltimore, Jan. 24.—The Ma-
ryland Legislature repealed the law
selling negroes for crime.
A special to the New York Times
says that since November the lead-
ing politicians of the North and
South, Republicans, Democrats and
ex-Confederates, alike, are working
up a plan of conciliation between the
North and South, Executive and
Congress. Suffrage and amnesty
form the base of the proposition. For
instance, South Carolina will adopt
Massachusetts' suffrage. The Pres-
ident will then issue amnesty for
South Carolina, under Massachu-
setts' suffrage, eleot loyal represent-
atives, and Congress will determine
their admission. The Administra-
tion are seriously considering the
proposition.
A Tribune special says Gen. Ash-
ley is busily engaged in accumulat-
ing impeachment evidenoe.
The scheme for the Pacific Rail-
road through Texas to Mexioo as-
sumed a shape involving immenae
grants of land.
New Orleans, Jan. 26.—Gov.
Wells' message favors the adoption
of the Constitutional Amendment,
and assumes that Congress will de
maud impartial suffrage.
It ia reported that there will be a
convention of republican generals in
Mexico, to choose a General-in-Chief.
It is believed Ortega will be chosen
Mexican advices ahow that the
Liberals are pressing forward as the
French leave. Many fugitives aud
general confusion.
Washington, Jan. 24.—Generals
Thomas and Sickles saw the Presi
dent to-day.
The galleries were densely crowd
ed to-day to hear Stevens on his en
abling act, who gave way to Ray
tuond. who wished to speak.
internal revenue receipts to-day
five millions of dollara.
Tho Bureau haa an official repre-
sentation that the Civil Rights Bill
cannot be enforced in some parts of
Arkansas for want of an adequate
force and competent courts. Gen.
Grant has ordered additional troops
to the General cammanding in Ar-
kansas.
The Maryland Legislature passed
the enfranchising act restoring Con-
federates.
The Tennessee House has declar-
ed the seat of the Jackson District
vacant, the representative not being
sufficiently loyal.
Jan. 25.-—Tho National Republi-
can denies publishing the article
credited to it favoring armed resist
ance to Congress, accompanied by a
statement that the article was autho-
rized by the President. The Repub-
lican has the highest authority for
saying that the Union was not au «
thorized by the President to make
the statement.
Philadelphia, Jan. 25.—A spe-
cial to the Philadelphia Enquirer
thus closes its account of Stevens'
act: " this ends the prospect for
territorial government at the South
for this session."
Montgomery, Jan. 25.—Chief
Justice Walker delivered the opinion
of the Supreme Court, reiterating
that the State was a de facto govern-
ment under the Confederacy. Guar-
dians and administrators who invest-
ed in Confederate bonds, or received
money in good faith, and all kindred
transactions will be protected by this
decision.
Senate.——- r—- ¿ • ->• ,
House yesterday, prescribing rules
for the qualification of lawyers prac-
ticing in U, S. Courts. Referred to
Judiciary committee. .
A hill for the relief of the heirs
of Jno. E. Bouligny, formerly mem-
ber of Congress from Louisiana,
passed. It confirms a title to seven-
ty thousand acres of land, in Louisi-
ana, to his heirs.
The Tariff Bill was taken up, fol-
lowed by long speeches. Adjourn-
ed
House.—The Republicans voting
against Boutwell's bill were Hale,
Latham, McClurg and Stillwell.
The committee on Ways and Means
intend to inquire into the expediency
of repealing the tax on tonnage.
The Judiciary committee reported
adversely on bill regulating the time
and manner of testing United States
Senators.
The bill limiting the timo for filing
claims before the Court of Claims to
six years, passed.
Two hours were consumed in hear-
ing excuses, etc., of those absent last
night without leave.
The bill providing for a successor
of the Presidential office was taken
up and discussed. Ordered to be
printed, and referred to Judiciary
oommittee.
The House went into committee on
Post Offioe appropriations, and ad-
journed.
Washington, Jan. 24.—Senate.
—Petitions from Ohio wool growers
for increased protection, and from
the oitizens of Indiana against cur-
rency curtailment, were presented.
The Finanoe oommittee reported
the Civil Appropriation Bill with
amendments.
The Commeroe oommittee reported
a bill prohibiting smuggling, which
was passed.
A bill granting aid to the Central
San Francisco Railroad was postpon
ed until to-morrow.
The Tariff bill was taken up and a
large number of amendments were
offered, but only one accepted. Ad
journed.
Pomeroy, Hooper and Dufrees, of
the Currency committee, opposed
Randall's Gold bill; the balance fa
vor it.
House.—After unimportant pro-
ceedings, the bill giving the Agricul-
tural College scrip to Tenneaaee, wee
«mended ao aa to extend the operation
of the bill, and prompted to debate.
Mr. Maynard disliked having Ten-
neaaee yoked to the rebel States.
Mr. Stokes alao apoke, and was
taunted with hia racy accession let
ters. Mr. Stokes said he had re-
pented and entered the Federal army,
and that he waa prepared to enter
again and aerve three yeara longer.
Mr. Randall, of Pa., aaid, "oh
boah!" (The regular report aa
in parenthesis, " laughter.")
bill was further discussed. Kelly,
of Tennessee, maintained that his
State was tho only Western State
with a Republican Government.—
South Carolina, Texas, &c., he main-
tained, were not States. The debate
progresses. An amendment was
agreed to that no Confederate should
be a professor. The President was
called a usurper. Cooper, of Penn
sylvania, was called to order for
calling Kelley, of Tennessee, a liar.
The Enabling act was taken up.
The committee on Ways and Means
was instructed to inquire into the ex-
pediency of repealing the cotton tax.
Mr. Stevens said that he did not
regret the length of time spent in
debate on the enabling bill; but he
found such diversity of opinion on
his side of the House upon any ques-
tion of reconstruction, that if he did
not change his mind, he should re-
lieve the mind of the house of any
question with regard to it, and would
to-morrow call it up and move to lay
it on the table.
from the
'so. 22.—a
Chainber of
Senatorial.—The terms of four-
teen Senators expire with the pres-
ent Congress, viz: Messrs. Cowan |
of Pennsylvania, McDougsl of Cali- j
fornia, Nesmith of Oregon, Davis of
Kentucky, Sherman of Ohio, Foster j
of Connecticut, Kirkwood of Iowa,
Trumbull of Illinois, Edmunds of !
Vermont, Pomeroy and Ross of Kan- ¡
aas, Creswell of Maryland, Brown of j
Missouri, Fogg of New Hampshire, j
Harris of New York, Lane of India-!
na, Howe of Wisconsin, and Nye of
Nevada. To these vacancies elec-
tions have thus far been held as fol-
lows : Sherman and Howe are re-
elected ; Terry in place of Foster,
Justin S. Morrill in place of Ed-!
munds, Harlan in place of . Kirkwood,
Conklin in place of Harris, Cameron
m place of Cowan, Drake in place of
Brown: their politics being the same
as the retiring Senators, except in
the case of Cameron, which is a Re-
publican gain of one in the Senate, i
Diary op Wilkes Booth.—The
Missouri Democrat contains the fol-
lowing Washington dispatch, dated
January 16:
The diary of Wilkes Booth, taken
from his body after his capture, is
now in possession of the proper in-
vestigating committee, having been
handed over to it by the authorities.
For some reasons its contents were
not used on the trial. It shows that
he was an agent of the Confederate
government, and received money
from it, and that at one time at least
the plan was to kidnap Mr. Lincoln.
It is believed to implicate only Booth
and Harrold in the assassination.
An entry made on Friday, the 21st
April, one week after the murder,
shows that it must have been written
in a perfect agony of mind. It dis-
closes his position, with a broken leg,
in the midst of a swamp, alone, an
outcast, an assassin, weighed down
by his guilt and a feeling that God
would refuse him forgiveness. It is
altogether such a cry of human ago-
ny as seldom finds expression in
words.
A Joke.—The Nashville Press
and Times records the following:
During the visit of Congressmen
to New Orleans, three men sought
an introduction to Ben. Wade, and
stated to him that they were rebels;
had befen from the Srst, and intended
to remain so. Senator Wade replied,
Well, gentlemen, I am^happy to
meet you, as you are the f^rst rebels
I have seen since the war closed, the
balance of the Southern pedple claim-
ing to be Union men. Noyf tell me,
if you please, how did you three
men manage to carry through such a
dreadful war against the government
and keep it up for four long years by
yourselves ? "
Murder.—A negro man of re-
spectability was murdered a week or
two since, six miles from Cold
Springs, bj two men, named Bradley
Dear and Harry Dilliard. It is sup-
posed that they murdered him for his
money. They said he had only $15
and a watch. The watch they did
not take. His horse they tried to sell
in Cold Springs. They were arrest-
ed but escaped. We are informed
that the families of the young men
stand high in the estimation of the
people. We are unable to procure
further particulars at present.—Liv-
ingston Argus, Jan. 16iA.
What is the difference between
firewood and our remote ancestors ?
We saw the former, but we never saw
the latter.
Memphis asking aid for
em Pacific Railroad, waa í¡? V
Committee on Pacific RaiW?*1*
A petition against the n\
Bill tabled. Tariff Bill diac^f*
short executive session. ^ A
House.—Leave of
granted to Mr. Washbumf^ >
tÍ6 v anCe °f the 8ess¿ ^
The bill to punish person, ^ I
obstructions on railro&d S
the mails, referred to the
Committee.
The bill to sell the hot stwilk .
Arkansas Reservation, reO*
Committee on Public Lands %
The Judiciary Committee ^
ed, recommending the pussj
bill declaring vahdcertainaS^
proclamations of the President
'61 to'65. It fields office^
acts committed in the tiischa
their duty, and declares all of *
shall be presumed to have acted
der orders: bill recommitted!!t
committee, with privilege to 2 ^
at any time. ^
,81lme <roumi"« kmo ,
bill declaring it a rule of ¡H
courts that persons guilty of
murder, bribery, or other
who had given aid, comfort or
sel against the United States, «ry
engaged in rebellion shall notW
lowed to practice in said courts.
Mr. Boawell said if the five Jofo
of the Supreme Court did not IS
sufficient self-respect to adopt nk I
excluding rebels and traitors, it n¡
time for Congress to step i® ^
make rules for them.
Regular fielding ensued. Evert
devioe of the minority to stave i
was resorted to. House still iu m.
aion at 7 o'clock.
A bill making a rule for tfce 8*
prerne Court haa been read for ^
third time, and the Democrat ,
ty-five stroug, are calling the m
and na^a on all kiutU of
At halt past nine most of the o*
bera are dining in their seats. D
ing the eveuing calla of the üo«
ahowed lesa than a quorum, vim
the neigboring restaurants ««
searched and warrants tautd frl
auch as were absent witWl tail
A point of order waa ínadeouwtii I
of Mr. lugcrsoll that «lucking «•
out of order in the hall.
Ten o'clock BO minutes.—A*
tion to adjourn with five ameadumi
yeas and nava ordered ontuW
mendment. These votea will
the House till I o'clock.
Jan. 28.—The House rematada
session till 8 this morning.
Votea by yeas and naya ubi
Only a third as manv as dnring tk
famous fight over the Kantaa-NeW
ka bill. The minority finilly rkM
Mr. Boutwell proposed* in ¿
iournment till 11 o'clock; from tin
hour till noon should be at the da
posal of the Democrats who fisM
to debate the bill. No promise. h?t
ever, on the part of the Demoma
was made that they would allot i
vote at noon.
The Postmaster General rcspoodf
to the demand of the House by re-
porting ten appointments which ed
been rejected by the Senate, and
twenty on which the Senate failfdto
act.
The President approved the Mi
fixing the time of meeting of Con-
gress, adding the 4th of March
the present time for meeting.
Some New England railroads re-
fuse to receive mail contracts at for-
mer rates. The mails are transport-
ed by horse in several instances.
These difficulties confirm the Post-
master General in favor of posal
telegraphs.
The Nebraska and Colorado wto
was considered by the cabinet yes-
terday.
Jan. 23—noon.—Mr. BoutweH'
bill making a rule for United State*
courts, excluding from practice Coo-
federates and others, passed by
vote of 109 to 62.
New Orleans, Jan. 22.—Aw®*
ber of the ' Legislatue have armed,
The talk of the impeachment of w-
vernor Wells has been revived,®
it is generally believed that nothing
of the kind will be attempted.
Mobile, Jan. 23.—A destrnctne
fire has occurred on Dauphin sfrp
destroying four houses. Loss
000. Three firemen seriously n -
jured.
Short Days.—We comPlsi"¿
the shortness of the days at the
ter solstice; but in most of the^gr
capitals of Europe the hours oi .
light are more contracted than
us. At St. Petersburg, foreiamp
a city of more thaii 500,000 pop
tion and in lat. 60, the sun 1,964 ,
present at a quarter past nine, ^
sets at a quarter before three-
Archangel, a town of 25,000 popf
lation, in lat. 64, the day ^ ¿
from twenty-four minutes past
twenty-four minutes before two.
An enraged parent had
provoking son across his
was operating on the exposed p ^
of the urchin's person, withg .
hemence, when the young one «fe
to the parental legs with bis venom
little teeth. .. 0
"Blazes! what are you MID6
for?" • i this
" Well, dad, you beginned tftu>
war!"
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Scott, G. R. The Southern Intelligencer. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1867, newspaper, January 31, 1867; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth180083/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.