The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-04-26
The Lascst News.

10 Inc snaDeaS corpus. Mr. EdmOndS OF
10 posed The amendment III t#, :
r The Governments has concluded to hol
the iron steamer and blockade runne
= Coquette, wlrich was recently seized as Cor
federate property at Baltimore She
% alleged to have been built in Scotland unde
a a contract with Mr. Mallory for the Confed
~ crate States. but is now claimed as privat
: property; Her value is $I50,OOO
i The House Judiciary Committee yesteI
n day had under Consideration the expedienc,
8 OF repeating the test oath. The President
= few days ago sent special message to-Con
gress on the subject, with letters. from TIN
Q Secretary OF the Treasury and the Postmaste
Q General, strongly urging some legislation OF
, the subject = s:s#
The committee, after a short discussion
dlreetedstheir chairman to report against an,
! modification whatever. The chairman viii
Q present an elaborate report and attempt tt
vlndicate the action of the committee BY
quotations from the Presidents records
Mr.. Rogers will present minority report
J. in favor of the repeal, as desired by the Sec
r rotary of the Treasury and the Postmaster
General
The Washington Dispatch announces the
appointment of Walter b. Seats as Collector
. of the port of Chicago
NEW YORK, April 19.-All reports to the
contrary notwithstanding, the peace procla-
nation of President Johnson does restore the
writ of habeas corpus. This is reliable.
The British steamship Virginia, from Liv-
Ierpool on the 4th, has arrived at quarantine
There were thirty-eight deaths ON her pas.
sage. The disease is similar t. that on board
the steamer England. She had 1O43 pas
; sengers. a..
The disease is pronounced to be the real
Asiatic cholera by the health officers No
communication is allowed between the
steamer and the shore. When the steamer
had been eight days out at sea between 100
and 200 OF the passengers were attacked, 81
of whom died. The disease was confined
entirely to the steerage passengers.
| WASHINGTON, April 20.-The Senate Com
mittee on Commerce today rejected Mr..
Gilmore as Collector of Mobile, on account
OF his participation in the rebellion.
| The House Judiciary Committee are in
yestigating the charges against Messrs
Davis and Clay for completely in the assas-
sination of President Lincoln In the SEN
| ate the bill relative to the writ of habeas
| corpus was taken up.
| New YORK, April 20-Detective Baker
has made voluminOus report in reference
to bounty jumping frauds, showing that of
100000 men called on and sworn in by the
Government, only 100000 reached the field
as soldiers, although thousands of others got
their bounties The wholesale system of
fraud is shown to have been perpetrated in
nearly every loyal State
The Worlds Washington special says the
Ways and Means Committee have finally
overcome the obstacle relative to imposing
tax of per cent on cotton. The bill was
agreed upon, to-day.
There was fearful explosion at Aspin-
wall on the 3D., on board the steamer Eu-
ropean, destroying the ship and four hun |
dred feetl of the wharf, supposed to have |
been caused by nitro glycerine on board |
About fifty persons were killed, including |
the Captain and officers of the ship
Officers of the Panama Railroad Compa-
ny here state their loss by the explosion
will not exceed $4,000. The entire dam
81 100000.
CarlOtta Burnstein was arrested on COM
plant of Fire Marshal Baker, for shipping
quantity of nitro glycerine, the same that
exploded, to California, without informing
the captain of the vessel of the nature of the
article
FORTRESS MONROE, April 2O.-Ouite a
serious riot occurred at Norfolk yesterday,
originating in a negro procession TO ceI-
citrate the passage of the civil rights bill
One man was killed and several were woun-
ded.
The military and municipal authorities Off
Norfolk are both blamed for allowing ne
groes to carry deadly weapons in the pro-
cession. Every thing is now quiet.
CINCINNATI, April 20.-An appeal was !;
made during change in behalf of the suff- |
erlng people in Alabama and Georgia. The {
Chamber of Commerce appropriated $4,000. i
1t isiexpected $4,000 or $4,000 will be col S
lected within two days, and provisions will !
be forwarded to the sufferers at once
WASHINGTON, April 81. The Reconstruction
Committee agreed to-day that the Constitu- '
ton must be so amended that hereafter no t
State shall make any discrimination on &C +
count of color; after July A, 1876, negroes i
must have the right to vote; there shall be t
no representation between 1866 and 1876 for Q
the colored population not allowed to vote, i
and that the Southern States may be repre- h
sented on these terms, taking the test oath I
prescribed by Congress. f
NEW YORK, April 21.-The steamer Eng u
and, which was quarantined at Halifax
with cholera Oh board, has reached this port, {
md is detained at the lower quarantine. Z
She reports crew of l22, with Is cabin and
1902 Storage passengers; so died on the pas
'age to Halifax, $50 died at Halifax, and
asst night one infant died. The passengers .
md crew are now reported well. '
Sixty-seven of the sick of the steamer u
Virginia have been removed to the hospital.
There were five new cases and four deaths i"
Il the hospitals last week. Z
The board of health has determined to re- u u
move the colored population of New York u u
A special dispatch to the Philadelphia -
processes to announce, on high y
that Jefferson Davis will soon be -
eleased on parole on the same terms as &C u
orded to- c. c. Clay.
WASHINGTON, April 22.-On Friday forty a
light colored persons, charged with petty h
arceny, were by their own consent sent to n
louisiana, under charge of an officer of the o.
reedmen's bureau. The court will issue Or r
ers for the recovery of the stolen property, II
0 be delivered to the owners by the property m
Jerk. 80
Col. Cooper, Congressman elect from Ten 81
essee, is temporarily designated as the OF
residents private secretary. m
The French minister had an interview 70
18th the Secretary of State, and presented I'll
he formal adhesion of the French govern ~
tent to the American principle of nen-in- sn
as explained by Mr.. Seward or
The Emperor kindly and cordially res w
lies to the United States agreeing to with or
raw the French troops in three INSTALL he
ents-one in November, the others in May M
ld November, 1867. It is expected the full ye
between the two govern NJ
ents will be sent to the House of Repre- Lei
ntatives this week AZ AZ
Prominent Congressman think the present w W
ssion will be closed early in June. III
Foreign.
New YORK, April I9.-The. Herald's Vera1 gil
'uz advices of the Sth say the merchants me
that city are complaining bitterly of the tn
dition of thirty per cent. to the tariff. ! aN
threatens to compel the pay De
emit of sixty per cent. if they do not rem IN
r full account of the merchandise on hand Pr