, 1862-05-19
Row Gen, Hunters Proclamation
is Received.
RUKERS AED sPEGUlATloas GDkcERkiha IT.
The Confiscatfon Bill In Congress.
The Agricultural College
Measure.

Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribunc.1
WASHINGTON, 3say II, 1862.
General Saxton is Military Governor Of
South Carolina, and not Of the whole depart
meut OF the South as stated. His instructions
to his own discretion, nuder the Gener IL Com
1nanding tbs Depart Intent, in military scu5e.
In civil matters he is supreme.
1t is confidently asserted that Mr.. Lincoln
has said that he is determined to modify Hun
t,r's order of freedom. Nr. Chase, however,
in i lorg interview urged him to let it stand.
Stanton and Lincoln haze not yet spoken to-
gether On the subject.
It is considered very doubtful whether
Hunter is but to be considered al executive,
acting within the scope Of his powers, in de-
fault Of positive Instructions tn the contrary,
and exercising undoabtcd war powers, and
whctht r therefore the order eau now be au-
nulIrd.
The Star says he had positive prohibition
against such step. but this certainly cannot
be in any other sense than possibly general
warning against political proclamations.
Tic Senate Contscatlon Committee stood
four to four, Mr. Cowan being absent
One section proposed by Mr. Wilson, re-
quiring the President, on the passage Of tile
act, to issue procl:an.at ion declaring the
slaves Of all rebels remaining as such thirty
days forever free, will be proposed and urged
i'll u.c Sruate, aud now that Hunter has spo-
ken, it will probably be passed.
DR.. i. ]. Walker, assistant army surgeon,
laus been stricken from the rolls for intoxica-
tion ard neglect of duty.
The authenticity Of the letter to Flag Osli-
Ger Fa,raeut, signed Deelout, commandaat Of
the French war vessel Milan, asking the post
| poncmc1t of the blockade for sixty days, is
dishe1icved By those best qualified to judge.
| Gov. Sprague when here had All hours talk
With Mr.. Sheffield Of Rhode Island, in which,
le advised hin, not to attach himself to the
Conservative slaycry party.
| Mr.. Wade's bill donating thirty thousand
acres Of public 1:uuls to each Senator nnd Rsp'
rescutative for every Stale for the purpose
Of establishing agricultural colleges WAS re.
ries without amendment
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE President dec;
dec this 1ncrnlng to modify Gen Hunters pro
cianlation emancipa1ing the slaves
| Since yesterday eight or ten fugitive slaves
hare been returned to their claimants Il i;
estimated that there were in Washington re
| ce1lly, about one thousand slaves, principally
trotu ST. Georges, Md, adjoining this district
AT least forty shareholders from that couas,
we're at the court house to-day, filing their Pc
tirions for II c1anlation Of the ruuaways, il
some cases rs tnany rs II are claimed by u singh
person. In several instances, after the Cour
had issued the necessary wTits, the N rsla
and his deputies were unable to find the fugl
uves, who, having bE some means bccn IN
yond the reach Of arrest.
WAsn1scToN May 1.-THE N. 7. Times specfa
dispatch say4: Hunters proclamation excite
scarcely any Interest in Washington, no on
attaching any importance to its efficacy T.
| produce the end desired. Martial law is on1
! enforced By 1Dartial power, and Hunter has n
force adequate to enforce this proclamation
His declaring freedom to all the slaves i
three States when he has no power to ire
, | q eing1e one outside OF his camp Is regarde
I | In Washington as an act Of stuitIlcatiu
: highly dsscreditable to any one holding tn
T zsiIk OF General, supposed to have oFiinar
l intelligence. If the military power is will
drawn from Hunters department before h
S St:tce, it is conceded that the civil power nj
not complete or couutenauce what niar.i
+ law proclaimed hut did not practically eX
j. cute. The Presidents policy is supi, 'sea t
u be authofitatiye1y settled by his act1on in Ff
y mont's case, in which all his Cabinet con:u
it red Fremont freed by proclamation tt
slaves OF all men engaged in the rebellion
I. Hunters proclamation frees the slavss
y Ill men in these States, whether e
a gagged in the rebellion or not, puulshing loys
e lists as veil as traitors, and all because he b
y t,eclarrd martial law there. He has conftase
y ly no ability to eS cute it. It is understood II
llubtcr took 10 specific Instructions froln Il
?; President !n regard to the management
ID matters in his department, but was left, as
Ii own discretion, in bis attempt to re-csta5li
'r- :he constitution and laws IN the revolt
States. It is said that the President will
=. walted On this evening by gentlemen to asc'
p under what suthoiity Hunter is acting.
TIE New York Tribune's special Washi1
o. ton dispatch says: Gen. Hunters procl4u
d, tion, it can be positively stated, was issu
gu without the authority or knowledge OF t
On President, whom 1t took entirely by surpri
ie What viii he done with it, is question 10
ur settled. There was no Cabinet meeting
raj day, and 1t is not probable that any det
ae u.inatinn will be definitely made until
~ | three members of the Cabinet, Sccretar
It'll ! Seward and Weiles and Attorney Gene
1te Bates, who are still at FORTRESS Monroe,
nt | turn, which will not BE- until MondaJ.
ses The He1ald's dispatch says the Hunter p
r4i cla1nation has presented an unavoidable i5s
Is which, 1t il believed, will result in the bre
sed Ing M Of the Cabinet. The President has
~. prcssed not only dissatisfaction but indig
Ite, lion, It is ascertained that four members
i'll. | the Cabinet sustain the c0urae Of Gen. 81
md ! ter. but one at least Of those estimated
to | known to entertain different views. Il
MS positively etated that Gen. Hunter Will
hey recalled, and the characteristic frmuess
the the President will be exhibited II the man
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