Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-20
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
CONGRESS.

President johnson sent to the Senate yesterday in
answer to resolution of that body message the
state of the country transmitted the reports of Gems
Grant and Carl Schurz their recent trip through the
late rebellious States Herefeed to the rapid progress
made by the Southern States in returning to their
former relations with the General Government and
the ratification of the Constitutional amendment
aboshing slavery. and congratulates Congress upon
the anticipated encouragement received from the
South with respect to reconstruction.
General Grant, in his report expresses the belief
that the people of the South have accepted the re-
suit of the in good faith and desirous of be-
coming good citizens.
lie recommends that small military force shall be
kept in all the Southern States for the protection of
both whites and blacks. and urges that white troops
alone should be employed in the interior.
Mr.. Sumner after the reading of the report, char
acterized the message "white-washing' process,
like'that of Franklin Pierce on Kansas affairs.
A lively discussion ensued, Mr.. johnson, of Mary
land rebuking Mr.. Sumner for the reflection upon
the President.
In the House the bill to facilitate commercial, pos
tai and mitary.communicatiOn among the several
States, called forth considerable discussion.
Mr.. Thomas Jr.. of Maryland (his maiden speech
in Congress-, opposed the bill, which. though en-
bracng particular railroad he said, struck at the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and he was there to
advocate the interest of that road inasmuch as it
was part and parcel of the interest of the State Of
Maryland.
The previous question trap was sprung shutting of
further debate and the bill passed-ayes 92 nays So
the Maryland and New Jersey delegations voting in
the negative.
Resolutions repudiaing the rebel debt were passed
by ayes 149-nays IL.
GENERAL NEWS.
An Irish attorney says, no printer should
party deceased.
The receipts at the Internal Revenue De-
partment. Washington, yesterday, were S6l3 2S3.lO.
A man named Carson was fatally stabbed
in New York, yesterday, by DIR. Glass.
A block of buildings at Owensboro', Ken
tucky, destroyed the 18th, involving loss Of
| $23O.0OO.
The first forty-five miles of the Union Pa
cifc Railroad, from Omaha westward is finished
The track to Fremont, eight miles further West will
be completed in a few days.
Benjamin Robinson, editor of the Fayette
vile, N c. He,cs. has been arrested by the military
authorities for the publication of certain articles
friendly to the government.
Hon. B. c. Cooke, of Illinois, has received
S12O from Company A. of the Forty second colored
Infantry as a contribution to the National Lincoln
Monument Fund.
The Rev. J. H. Kaufman was on Sunday in
| stalled pastor of the Govanstown Presbyterian
| Church, Rev. DIR. Smith, Rev. Mr. Stuchell anC
| Mr.. Bittinger officiating on the occasion.
Hon. David g. Burnett, of Ohio, the frs
President of Texas when it Republic. and since
that time quite prominent in State politics, is now
New York. Heis on special mission to Presiden
| johnson.
A special dispatch to the New York Pos
from Washington states that the French Minister as
sured Mr. Seward while the President was prepar
ing his message. that the French troops would b.
withdrawn from Mexico in short time, and askeC
for patience on the part of our Government.
| The French Minister has become huffy owe
the propositions on Mexican affairs recently intro
| duced into Congress, and has gone to New York
| where it is rumored he designs remaining mill re
ceivng instructions from the Emperor NanoIeon
| Really!
The Victoria papers Of the 18th ultimo sa,
that Major Frank L. Pope, of the Russian Telegraph
Line was at Bulkley's House, near Talla Lake, wit
his party Mr.. Conway and party have communicate
with him. The line has been completed four hundre
and forty miles above New Westminster, and the wiz
1 for four hundred miles more was on the ground.