, 1862-05-15
THE LATEST NEWS
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FROM WASHINGTON.
A New Anti"Polygarny Bill,
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.1

A New Anti"Polygamy Bill.
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.}
WASHINGTON, May II, 1884,
hr. Eliot Of Massachusetts, from the House
Select Committee On Cenfscation and Eman-
cipation has reported bill to ctfectuate such
an object, Of which the main features are al
ready telegraphed you. Its to be considered
on Tuesday next and the debate to close on
Monday week.
Yesterday afternoon Secretaries Wellcs and
Seward. Attorney General Bates, Chief Clerk
Faxon Of the Navy Department, Assistant
Secretary Seward, Capt. Dahlgren, and the
families OF several Of them, went to Norfolk
and perhaps beyond, in the steamer Phlladel-
phia-
The President, last evening, amused Ills
Senatorial visitors ty telling them the way in
which The news of our occupation Of
Norfolk Was received. The President vas
jnst getting into bed when Mr.. Chase,
with General Wool in full regimentale,
burst into the room, which he occupied at
Fortress Monroe, with the gladstone intelli-
geDce. Mr.. Stanton presently appeared in his
wrapper and slippers, and rushed into Woors
arms for e long and fond embracc.
The Senate Committee On the judiciary have
reported an almost new bill for the one which
the House had passed, to prevent and punish
polygamy, providing that every person, wheth-
er married or single, in any territory Of this
United States, or any other place over which
the United States have exclusive Jurisdiction.
who shall be adjudged guilty Of bigamy, shall
be punished by dne and Imprisonment;
an exception being made in favor of any per-
son whose husband or wife, By former mar
riasc, shall have been absent Eve years with
cut being known to such person as living.
The bill repeals all acts OF the Utah Terrific
rial Legislature which establish and counte-
nance polygamy, eyas;yely called "spirtual
marriage however disguised by crclesias-
tical eolcmnity, dc. The bill also provides
that no society foz religious or elari able pur-
poses shall be entitled to hold real estate in
any Territory, during the existence Of a Terri
torial government, Of greater value than one
hundred thousand dollars.
Surgeon Ger. Hammond has gone to York
Peninsula to look after our sick and woand-l.
The Richmond Dispatch claims q rebel vic
tory at Williamsburg, and says We lost -
cannon and over Goo prisoners. It admits
rebel loss in killed and wounded Of :,.s:I, and
LOCO Killed and wounded.
The table Of Euns due the Government by
detaulting post1nasters at the principal Vir-
ginia Offices foots up over s50, 600, one-Aalt Of
which Is by the Richmond Postmaster.
Paris letter says the talk Of intervention
in American affairs is clothed with no official
or se1nl-ofilcial character. Indeed, while other
European Journals are calling the battle of
Shiloh drawn game, the Nouiteur says it
can't perceive how an army whose combiua-
tlors failed, and which abandoned the field of
batue, can call itself victorious.
Returned prisoners from Richmond report
meeting the Monitor, Nauyatuck and Galena
at City Point, at len o'clock Monday morning,
expecting to reacA Rockies Landing, three
miles below Richmond, before niyhtfall The
boats had passed several batteries, without
tskiDg notice Of them. Tie prisoners report
the excitement in the rebel capital as most
intense, AID evacuation was considered certain,
although JEFF. Davis denied it. Wealthy reb-
| Lf,Au
Inionists are burning theirs. The riff raft Of
the city, and tie troops from other States,
were in favor Of burning the city but the
suhstan inl citizens and Virginia troops were
against it. The steamers Jamestown and 7 York-
town we're at Rockets.
The President, in response to 9 call Of the
2o;h Indiana on its way home and speech
By the Colonel, made q speech in which he
said: "such men rs you in the field have done
more to save the Government than ANYTHING
or any others, situated as am, could do.'' uo
rendered them the thanks of tue nation.
In the pending debate on con6scation, Mr.
Kellogg, Of Illinois, will take ground in favor
Of sweeping legislation for the forfeiture Of
property, real and personal, of all rebels; but
his position on the liberation of rebels slaves
is dubious.
The French Minister ridicules the rumors
Of European intervention. He was lately in
fof1ned By letter from the French Consul at
Richmond, that he the Consult had been
nusibcd by the rebel government that French
tobacco would he destroyed if that city was
e7acuated. He had offered to purchase it.
The Monitor aud all our wooden Eunboa.s
Gun go up to Richmond If tie channel Is uu-
obstructed. The Ga1ena draws too much
water.
Gen. Barnard, McClel1an's Chief Engineer,
writes that he believes the rebels arc concen-
tratinE ell their forces with the design of
fighting 3 great battle before Richmond
Gov Sprague, who arrived last night, thinks
| Otherwise.
The Senate Select Committee on conf.ca-
tion aud emancipation, reported bill to .d1y
which, with some good features, is not strin.
| gent enough to satisfy the friends Of Tru1n-
bulls bill It merely defines the punishment
ottreasou Us death and the liberation of a1aees.
CT, il the case be less criminal, imprisonment
and fine, the latter to be levied On
property in slaves, which property" is freed
1t also Furnishes rebels or the aiders Of rebels,
! with forfeiture Of personal and life estate,
rial property, disqualification to hold office
tu Gil casts 1t requires the President to seize
the property Of leading classes enumerated,
and hold it until the owner is convicted, o,
I after due search not found, when it is forfeit.
cd and the slaves freed. 1t authorizes tue
! President to cunliscate personal property
seized By the army, By proceedings in rem.
and to proclaim freedom to rcbels' slaves. i,
they do not submit within thirty days; to en-
list negroes; and to issue an amnesty. Claim
ants Of fugitive slaves are required to take On
oath of continued loyalty. The bill forbids
slave catching in any form by officers of the
army OF navy This bill is agreed to by sena
tors Cia;k, Collamer, Harris, Harlan, sher.
man and Wilson. It will be taken up at an
ea1ly day.
The Foreign Committee have agreed TO re-
port the Senate bill establishing diplomat,
relations with Hnsti and Liberia.
The judiciary Committee of the Senate
have voted to postpone indefinitely the biz
rsorganizipg the court Of claims.
Judge TrumbulI introduced this morning :
significant resolution ca1.ing unon the Prtsi
dent to communicate to the Senate aur iafor
nation he may have OF any designs on ths
part Of any foreign power to intervene in TIT
contest now existing in the United States
and whether any foreign 1lation has made an,
arrangements with the insurgents, or has &
| in cont cJnp]atin inn tn rtcnonizc thn -,ba1e