The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1865-08-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


and returned to Mas hville.
John CoYode has reached Washington,
and laid before the President partial report
of his observations in Louisiana. He gives
it as his opinion that true peace and Union
will not prevail there till the negroes are.
allowed to. vote.
The Times Washington special says JET.
Davis health is better now than it has been
in FIVE years.
Gen. Buffers resignation. which was sent
on the first of June, has been returned mark
ed .'not accepted" and he has been sent for
to Washington. where he IS likely to be as
signed to duty connected with the Freed
mems Department.
It is.estimated that the expenses of the
Government have been reduced to less than
one-third the amount required per day pre-
Vious to Lees surrender.
TIE Provisional Governor of Arkansas
hrs no confidence IN rebel leaders. He
refuses to recommend any of them to the
President for pardon, deeming them un-
worthy of it, as demonstrated by their own
acts recently.
Major Gen. Curtis is assigned to the COM
mand OF The new district of Southwestern
Yirvinia, with headquarters at Lynchburg.
Contracts haYe just been made for SER
vice by railroad from New Orleans to Can
ton, Miss, and from Canton to jackson,
Tenn. Others of the department are en-
gagged in restoring civil machinery, in ac-
cordance with the Presidents proclamation
APPOINTING provisional Governors.
The Herald's Washington special has the
following: The complaint against the Treas
ury Department in regard to the New York
custom house exactions are found TO be bas-
ed entirely upon regulations made without
the sanction of the official here. The sum
of one cent per pound on cotton, charged
for custom house fees, is not authorized by
law, this charge having been made hereto
fore of the New York custom house, in adj
dition to the legal internal revenue import
of Q cents per pound on ali cotton arriving
from the South. The parties so charged
will be entitled to recover the same back on
application, duly authenticated. A good
deal of trouble, it appears, is also occasion
ed between the New York merchants and
Collector Draper by the arbitrary regula-
tons which compels every article of mer-
chandise from the South to be weighed, in
spected and carted by custom house Off
Gals. The carriage is regarded as unneeessa-
ry and expensive, the whole system being
COTTON up without the authority of the law,
presenting the practical result of imposing
New York tariff on goods from other
States. These regulations are loudly COM
planned of from all quarters; very curious
suggestions are current as to the disposition
made of the vast sums realized from these
exactions.
The order of the Secretary of War Great
ing bureau of rebel archives was promul-
gated some days ago, but as yet no appoint
ment a superintendenthas been made.
The appointment will be made this week.
John Minor Bolts, of Virgiania. urges
the people of that State to vote for negro
suffrage as the best and surest means of
bringing that State into the Union on terms
ofequality.
A GAINESVILLE (Texas) paper of recent
date has full particulas of the killing of
President Johnson by Gen. Grant. The
killing is said to have occurred in private
room at the State Department and without
witness; and all that is known is, that Gen.
Grant said he was compelled to kill him.
The paper further says Mr.. Collamer OF
Vermont, President pro tenn. of the Senate,
is now President of the United States. We
suppose this news was received via PhiIa-
delphia.
Gen. Joe Johnston has applied for pardon,
and it is probable he will get It. Among the
grounds for making this suggestion, is the
fact, said to be well authenticated before the
Attorney General, that Johnston did all in
his power to bring the rebellion to a close
long before it became palpably evident that
the thing was in collapsed condition.
The Tibune's Washington special says
semi-oficial news from Mexico has been re-
ceived from Gen. Ortege, dated from Ia
compass, State of Michoacan. June 18th.
He mentions the desertions to his ranks of
two cavalry regiments of the Imperial service
and that he is daily rendered the services of
large numbers of Mexican officers, coming
from points in possession of the French.