New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-22
MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1866.
raj soldiers held as prisoners of war, be trie
mediatelY by military court or court MARTA

Mr. Chandler called attention to / resolution
offered by him on the ! 4th Of December, 1854
directing the Secretary Of State to make out lsI
of American vessels destroyed BY British pirates
IN the employ of the rebel government. Since
that time the bill had been presented and the Brit
ish government refused TO settle IT, and not only
SO, but had refused to continue the controversy on
the subject. Mr.. G. said the proper course for
this country to pursue was absolute non-inter-
course with Great Baitain until this bill was set
tied. 1t is true. we might declare war and blockade
the British ports, and the world would applaud US,
but on-intercourse was the best peaceful mode Of
redress. 81 x-s s
He believed that Mr.. Seward understood that
in an event of q war between Great Britain and
any other nation, American priyateers would de-
stfoy British commerce just as in the late war
British privateers destroyed American vessels.
b Mr.. Chandler at the close of his remarks offered
a Joint resolution declaring l2ss x z @g5
WHEREAS, By the recent Indication of diplo-
matte correspondence between this government
and Great Britain, we are fully advised that the
last named government has refused to pay damages
committed on American commerce through the
agency Of her products during the late rebellion,
aud has declined to arbrate, and finally not to hear
anything further on the subject; therefore,
RESOLVED, That the President ID hereby requested
to withdraw our Minister from the Court of st.
James, and make the proclamation of national
non-intercourse, which IS hereby declared to take
effect after such proclamation shall have been
issued. ~
Mr.. Chandler asked for the immediate consider
alton of the bill. I3.G
Mr.. Dixon objected to it, and it lies over.
,HoUsE.-The House resumed the consideration
Of the District Of Columbia suffrage bill
Mr.. Kasson, Of Iowa, opposed the extension Of
suffrage without restriction.
| A resolution passed that the Committee on Pub
lict Lands, nquiring into the heathfulness, conye-
nienee and Location Of the Presidential mansion,
and whether suitable for the family Of the Presi-
dent, and if not suitable, to report estimate for
suitable mansion in a proper locality.
resolution passed instructing the Banking
Committee to inquire into the expedency of al
| lowing any existing national bank to change its
| location into any other State or territory.
| resolution was adopted instrncting the Ways
and Means Committee to inquire into the ex-
| laws, that insurance agents, the net proceeds of
whose business does not exceed $2500 per annum
shall not be required to take out license.
resolution was adopted instrueting the Ways
and Means Committee to inquire whether in
creased duty should not be laid upon foreign UNI
brellas and paras0ls. 5F 554 s&s 4
a resolution was adopted instructing the Com
| mittee OF Ways and Means to inquire into the ex-
pediency of imposing license On horse racers,
whose admission fee is chartered and taxed s per
cent. on the gross receipts Of the proprietor.
Aresoiution was adopted instructing the Judi
ciary Committee to inquire into the expediency Of
amending the naturalization laws; also, that a
persons beTequired to read the Constitution intel
4 Iigently before taking an oath to support it..
4 resolution was adopted, 50 against n, instruct
ing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the ex-
4
test oath as to allow attorneys to practice without
4 taking it.
Mr.. Kasson referred to statement Id the New
| York papers, involving the charge Of larceny
against the late Presidents family which he, after
stating an examination Of the alleged disappear
ance Of property had been made by the Committee
/ on Appropriations, and been pronounced as un-
1 founded SANDER
after some debate on the District of Columbia
4 suffrage bill the House adjourned.
4 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF DELEGATION.
4 NEW York. Jan. 15.-T.e Commercials Wash
4 ington special says the American Home League
organized infavor Of protection, has presented .
lremonstrance to both Houses Of Congress against
! the petition. of the Free Trade League.
Messrs. Galt Harvey and Rowland of Canada
Smith Of New brunswick, and Henry of Nova SEQ
tia have arrived here as delegation to negotiat,
for q renewal of the reciprocity treaty.
Il % The House Committee Of Ways and Means ha
taken no action yet on Secretary McCulloch's f
nance bill
Saturday last were s179,50O,0 600. The curren
years receipts will unquestionably exceed 5000,
O0O, 900.
The Southern claimants of seats are much dis
couraged at the aspect of affairs.
There are rumors OF speedy action in the case 9o
jeff. Davis in Congress. ~ ~ Fl
The Posts dispatch says the. Ways and Means
Committee will ia up the new financial bill to
morrow. There has been no expression of opinion
upon the bill, no quorum having yet beel
4 present
4 The previous question on the equal suffrage bill
Il will be called tomorrow.
II The Reconstruction Committee Aad prominen
gentlemen before them this morning to give evi
i dence concerning the condition of the South
4 The committee on the death of Mr.. Lincoln hav,
examined into the brutal newspaper charges, tina
thefts were committed by members of his family
in the White House, and find them entirely false.
4 FROM WASHINGTON.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Tt is believed that tn,
/ Committee on Reconstruction contemplates tht
Organization of four subcommittee of their mum
1 ber and divide the South into four travelling dis
tricts for these committees to yis, and examine
and report upon the affairs of each to Congress
some time in the spring or summer.
4 A special to the New York Commercial Adyer
tiser says A strong pressure from your city ha
been brought to bear against the foreign loan au
thorzed by Mr.. Morrils bill. 1t is objected tina
it will tend to increase the financial Importance
London at the expense of New York and cause
l depreciation of gold that will render the futur,
conversion of the loan impracticable.
1 Especial dispatch to the Louisville courierl
Il GRAVE RoBBERIEs. ~.
Il CHICAGO, Jan. zl5-P. M.-Considerable excite
rfent has prevailed here of late in consequence o
the removal of bodies from the cemeteries. Al
many as twenty graves of one cemetery hay,
been rified. On Sunday evening the police caugh
a party in the act of opening grave, and sue
ceeded in arresting one of them, who proved to b,
medical student in one of the colleges. Tht
body was not removed from the grave, and so tht
scamp got off with trifing fine.
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WEtgTH AND HAPrISEss.-The insuficiency o
mere wealth alone to confer happiness is stricking
ly illustrated in the life of Nathan Myers Roths
, child, who died in Iondon some thirty or fort,
years ago. For years he welded the purse of tht
, world opening and closing it to Kings and Empe
rors as he listed; and upon certain occasions, wa
supposed To have more influence in Great Britain
than the proudest and wealthest of its mobiles
perhaps more influence than the houses of Parlia
ment taken together. He once purchased bills o
ne Government, in a single day, to the amount 0
$40 200 600, and, with the profits single loan
purchased estate at the cost of $3.50, 600. Yet
w tn all his colossal wealth, he was a miserable
m m and, with sorrowful eMnestness, once ex
claimed to- gentleman who was congratulatinl
him on the gorgeous magnificence of his palatia
m llsion, and thence nferring that he was happy
g HAPPY! ME- happy ~
The late Ae, hen Grard, when surrounded by
immense wealth. and supposed to be taking
supreme delight in its accumulation wrote thus tt
a friend:
CAS- to myself, l live like gally slave, con
stantly occupied and often passing the night with
out sleeping. am wrapped in a labyrinth o
affairs and worn out with care. do not value
fortune The love of labor is my highest emotion
Il When rise in the morning, my only effort is tt
labor so hard during the day, that when night
comes may be enabled to seep soundly."
4 THE "SANcY" !" D1AMoND.-The history of this
d amond (wuigit 81 carats) is very curious. Nicho