The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-12-23

Amendment, whieh eunlplctes the number Of
States required TO make it the organic Law OF
the land.
Among the evidences Virginia has given
OF reconstructed loyalty, Is that Of Captain
Wins Strples, ~Iuternnl IteYeilue Collector.
WHO has been Indicted Tor roblery By Die
Grand Jury Of Prince Williams county, for
Iseizing property under cover Of Federal eay
airy, 70 pay The United States. The gier-
rilla Muety is employees TO prosecute the ease.
Gen. Price, commanding the Caynlr5 Blu
rcan, lfas introduced a proposition for the
revision uf the cavalry. The suggestion has
received the approval of many officers, The
plan cohiemplntes TINT ne soldier shall be
permanently mounted until he has received
n years instruction md proved himself ca
pable Of properly taking care Of n horse.
The immigration from New York to Eu
rope from the LIST OF january to the 3lst Of
Octoher, 1865, foots up lG3 900. t
A dispatch from Washington snys General
Lognn's instructions ma Minister 10 Mexico
are being prepared. 1fe will accompany
Presidant Juarez wherever he goes.
The State Department. il in receipt Of i'm
poTtant dispatches from Minister Aiams.
Commodore Tatuhl mid General Mclavs,
formerly If the rebel service, are living in
Savannah in destitute circumstances.
Louisville. Dee. 12.-Tile city is consider.
lnbly excited by n proclamation Of Gen. Palm.
err, announcing that slavery is abolished. The
slavery party declared that the Constitution
I'll Amendment had not vet been adopted,
aud that il.ereflre G%eaornl Palmer has no
right 10 deelae sia, ny alsaiished.
4 dispatch dam / lffess Monroe Gays Jef-
ferson DAVIS j. rhj yjhE g5ol health. lie
has comfortable n srfti,7ts. a generous ward
rols, rnod table and plenty Of reading mat
ter. lie thinks the lhe$ident's message gen.
%erally ii wise and good document. hut is dis.
appointed that it Is not M ire specific IN rela-
ton 10 the disposition to be made OF himself.
Davis eyes have lost the contemptuous look
they once had. and is less naughty in his
mnnner anil sarcastic in his speech than be
was formerly.
Dispatches TO the Chicago Republican sag
that Gen. Logan had declined TO accept the
Mexican mission. The announcement was
premature.
Gen. Bu,ler. it Is sh'1. proposes 70 write
Gen. Grants lfist nv from tile time te enter.
ed Mcst Point up 70 this hour.
New York, Dee. 1.-THE Tribune die
patch Gays tLat d crowded. house lfte1e! Il
Henry Ward Brecler in the lIalhf Repre-.
lsentatiyrs last night.
Tho Treasury Department is making pre-
partitions 70 commence payment Of geid cou
pons due in January.
Gen. tiran' proposes TO visit New Orleans
and the Rip G faude within q few weeks.
Secretary Macull9eh yesterday issued or
aegs enioiniag custom house officers 10 is'
diligence to prevent entrance into Unite,
States ports If prizes belonging to either .
tho beliigereiits during hostilities between
!, Spain md Chile.
Tho Senate Committee ON the District o
Columbia passed. "a resolution declaring tha
universal suffrage shall he established III ID
District.
From 800 to 500 applications for par19i
have'leen read At the 4 iiutaut Generals Of
q q per week few haze teen granted.
| Washington. Doe. IA letter from III
Emperor Napoleon is said 10 have leen re
! cciyed Mt tho State Department, requesting
, the recognition Of Maximilian's tioYernmes
in Mexico, to which the Secretary Of Stat
has rerliei. fully declining to aeeede to q
request. and giving reasons why it is antiei
c pated that the Mexican question. 50 far a
/; This e,4latry il concerned, will soon come t
n hea1-
Gen. Grant had an interview with Preai
deaf johnson Yesterday. and communicate
h 10 him the result ct his observations durin
his trip through North Carolina, South Can
ulina md Georgia He was everywhere re
], ceiyed with respect hy the people, who al
most unanimously desire q re-admlssIon I
c their old position in the Union, aud tha
c their professions Of future good behavior or
honest and sincere.
i Considerable excitement has been maui
'ft tested at the receipto of a letter ffaln Goyerfc
$ Picrpent .of Virginia, a tiressed TO the Pres
dent Of the Senate and Speaker Of the Honsi
1 enclosing acopy Of an act passed BY the Ger
cral Assembly of Virginia repeating the a
sent heretofore given to the division Of Il
State by the formation Of the State Of We
Virginia.
/ A. IL. Stevens declines to be a caudidai
for the United States Senate from Georgi'
Washington, Dec. ll.-The State Depar
ment received by the last steamer from Fl
d rope important dispatches from our Ministt
i Ito England. There is strong reasons to b
lieve that England will back down from b
position on the pirate Alabama question an
at once agree 10 n quiet and agreeable a
iustment of the question in dispute. III
IS temper of the last dispatch from the Sta
Department, which emanated from the Pre-
lie ident himself, was calculated to open Il
ewes of the English Government. a gcntl
he man writing from England to n gentlems
in this city by the last mail, remarks th
j. the Queen is our friend, and she will not q
low Mr.. Russell to take any position th
rs will cause an arrangement between the Go
n ernments.
e. Chicago, Dee. 1S.-At a meeting Of Il
a. Fenian Brotherhood in this city last evenil
u the notion Of tho Fenian Senate in impeac
ing President o Mahony and Treasurer X
IS liam was unanimously sustained. The ele
ton of VIM. b. Roberts as successor Of ON
.I
In the Kentucky Legislature or Monda
r a bill TO allow negro testimony, was reject
ut in the Senate. A resolution was aintrodue
,e declaring that Kentucky had reserved RICH
which she was prepared to defend.
New York, Dec. 1.-THE IIcrald's Ric
al mond correspondent says The election
til fill the vacancies of the State Offices is po'
poned until the 2lst. The General Ascend
&C passed a resolution appealing to the Pre-
h. President and Congress to postpone the el
I'll lection ofthe land tax of 1865, for the pr
scnt, and to permit the State to assume pa
re ment of the same that the collection of i
he ternal revenue which accrued previous to t
a. appointment of collectors and assessors in t
cd different districts of the State be indefinite
IS, postponed.
ey The Times special says Secretary McC,
n loeh has received a letter from the Collect
til of Internal Revenue for Montana Terrific
mt stating that the product of the gold and S
es yer mines Of that Territory for 1865 will
he upwards of eighteen million dollars.
New York, Dec. 16.-The Fenian Sens
a adjourned, and part of the members ha
be gone home. The rest are waiting with t
lis President, Roberts, to receive Stephens, t
n fugitive Head Centre from Ireland.
,r- The news from the Fenians is contradi
-, IL nno wnoor eova &Lo CaooAa - rJ.1.,.
lie. ed, another that it has not.
tn Ellen O'Mahony, Head Centre of the !
Ii. nian Sisterhcod, has published a card urgi
an the Importance of~the contributions to a
IN purchase of the Feninn bonds. !
of The Chicago Fenians want to fit out a q
to commit depredations on the Lakes. Sc;
ed Ian has denounced O'MnhOny. and vice yer