The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-22

reslgning bis position as head of tie
Freedmen's Bureau. ~
Lewis d. Campbell, the newly-con-
firmed Minister to. Mexico, has ar
rived in the city from the West, to
receive his final instructions. 4
The proposed appropriation of eleven
or twelve. millions of dollars for the
Ereedmen2s Bureau, is creating some
stir among public capitalists. It has
already become a question whether
that item of the appropriation bill
can be passed without serious cur
tailment.
The President is preparing a proc
lamatlon to explain that his recent
Peace Proclamation abrogated martial
law throughout the South, and that
this one is necessary to- disabuse the ]
public mind; that military interference
in the coming JEFF. Davis trial will
prevent an expression of the jury.
he recent discharges of clerks,.in
Hile Treasury Department. are to take
effect june Goth The Department
was thoroughly canvassed short time
since, and its attaches classed under
three heads: Indispensable, Intermedi-
hate and Incompetent. In the latter
class especially the slaughter has been
made. There are over three hundred
more to go. The object is retrench-
.ment.
The remains of Col. Lewis Quack-
enbush, of the Fifth Michigan In
kfantry, killed in the seven days bat
tiles, in front of Richmond, has been
identified and forwarded to his friends
in Michigan.
s Over two thousand bodies have
been disinterreds and placed in the
National Cemetery at Seven Pines,
one thousand two hundred of whom
are unknown. The work stillsgoes on.
/ 4 Gen. Grant has ordered the muster
out of six more colored regiments,
while 1900 will be retained in the
service. 1t is intended to send a
number IF them to the far West.
Comptroller Clark has turned over
to- the House Committee ons Banks
| and Banking all the testimony and
papers IN reference. to the Merchants
National Bank. THE Committee will
make a thorough expose of the whole
matter, which win show up frauds
that will eclipse any yet published
| Tomorrow is the day fixed upon
fors taking up the Constitutional
Amendment reported by the Recon
Instruction Committee, and already
.Ilpassed by the7 House. It is safe to
say. that the proposed amendments
will not pass the Senate in their pres
| entform Aespecial objection will be
taken to the=famoug third section,
which asks the South to- sdisfranchise
I,
be modified or holly stricken out
canRotsat present be foretold.
/ Very little interest is manifested-b
any one in the approaching debate
andlcontest. "A lethargy more alarm
ing than high excitement is generally
visible. =
NEW YoRK, May 2l.-Savannah
papers report the sailing of the ship
Indiaman with 3,428 bales, and the
\ New Englandiwith 1896 bales cotton
for Liverpool g
Among the treasure, per Arizona.
is half a million son Government ac-
count which has not been reported.
4 New YoRK, May 21.-Specials to
the evening papers say that Senator
Foster has requested his. friends IN
Connecticut to withdraw his name as
4 a candidate for reelection to the
Senate.
The President will sign the Postal
Appropriation Bill.
It is now asserted, on good author
ity, that Senators Morgan, Stuart, and
Lame, of Kansas, will vote for the
J Constitutional amendmentif the third
section is stricken out Mr.. Norton,
u of Mimi, speaks favorably Of the
I measure. hS 81
Private dispatches. FROM Connect
cut say that Gen. Terry will be elected
q u s. Senator on Wednesday
General Devins, Commanding al
: Charleston, S. G., has received orders
to muster out all the white volunteers
in that department, among them the
l 50th Ohio.
J 1t is the general opinion of the
| Radicals that the Reconstruction plan
Il will pass the Senate, minus the thirc
g section. =
!, Dispatches from Erie, Pa, say tha
i 81 4casesAot arms, belonging to tn
e New York Fenian Senate, have beer
1 seized IN that city. They were con
g signed tosJ f. Craman, Head -Centr'
$ for that county. ~