Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-29
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g" The House has passed joint resolution for the
termination of the present session on the ---
Thursday in May. It passed hya vote OF 80 to o.
It means nothing more than an expression OF Will
1ingness to soon as possible In reference
to their political interests. Two hundred MEM
bers are engaged in fight for their reelection
The next is the President making Congress, and
every nerve will be exerted to carry 1t. The same
power that elects the next Congress will elect the
next President -,,..a1 ..--. r..
This Congress will not admit Representatives
from the eleven Southern States. and this Con
eress intends to make the next which will persist
in the same policy towards the South. After the
election of the next President there will be less
object in the exclusion of the South. .
MANY members are willing to close the session
as soon as the appropriation bills be passed,
leaving the President to administer the Govern
ment as far as the law will permit, according to
his own policy They assume that the President
will not enter into a general system OF political
prescription in the of Congress, and that II
he does, they will make much capital out OF 1t
as he will. t-
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
Leading democrats and Republicans, including
some pretty radical ones on both sides, of the
opinion that the President will return this bill with
his objections The chances of veto, however,
are not so certain on this bill as they were on the
Bureau bill
WHO CAN IDENTIFY HIM .-
The Secretary of War has an individual under
lock an key who is suspected of being Quantrell !;
but suspicion does not make him that individual,
and the party in question denies that he is the per-
son. Who identify him? kilograms have
been dispatched to portions of Missouri for par
ties who supposed to know the prisoner, and
when they arrive perhaps the present mystery may
be cleared up.
A. II. STEPHENS, ESQ,
Does not make any particular haste in obeying the
alleged summons of the Reconstruction Commit
tee to appear before them, as learn from a
letter from him that he was quietly at his
home on the 18th inst ten days after the report
ed summons said to have been issued. BY the
way, two or three columns of matter from ''Geor-
gian that appeared in the New York Tribune
some time since, in which Davis, Stephens and
others were introduced-the 6 folly" of the for
mer and the foresight" Of the latter, and '.why
the peace mission failed, forming the prominent
points of the letter-Mr. Stephens characterizes
as g a ftnlcy sketch throughout there were some
facts some truths in it, but these were dstort-
ed and SO mixed up with errors that the whole
may be set down as the work of imagination -
'the TRUTH of hist ry," adds Mr.. Stephens, is
hard to get ...-
THE PRESIDENT AND THE NEW ORLEANS MUNICIPAL
GOVERNMENT
Reports and counter reports have been in circu-
laton within few days concerning the Presi-
dents interference in the municipal government
of New Orleans The facts are substantially these:
Mr.. Kennedy, thepresent or old Mayor of the city,
telegraphed to the President on the 10th instant,
expressing or implying doubts to the fitness or
eligibility of his successor elect, Mr.. Monroe and
enquiring whether or not he should yield the Sue
cesson. The President replied as follows 10y tele-
graph
81 have no information to give in regard to sur
rendering the Mayorality of New Orleans to the
person elected to fill the position. / have no in
formation showing that the election was not regu-
lar, that the individual who has been elected
cannot qualify. In:the absence of such proof the
presumption is that the election has been accord
ing to the law, and that the person elected can
take the oath of allegiance and loyalty required "
Mr. Monroe seems to have known that efforts
were being made TO keep him out of Office, and
also telegraphed the President, yesterday that he
had been regularly elected Mayor of New Orleans
and that he is as Sc loyal to the Union and as en-
Enthusiastically in favor of the reconstruction policy
of the President any man living and can quail
ify according to law" The President replied to
this by repeating the telegram sent to Mr.. Kenne-
dy, thus leaving the matter where it properly be-
longs, to the people of New Orleans and the civil
and military laws that govern such cases
THE RADICALS IN u BAD HUMoR
The Radicals noticeably morose and scowl-
ing to-day, and the general inference is that the
unexpected somerset of Senator Stewart two days
ago is already bearing more unpalatabe fruit than
any one OF them suspected. His resolutions are
understood to embOdy the views of his father-in-
law, FL. S. Foote, and Governor Sharkey of Missis-
sppi, and such no Radical, with the slightest
regard for consistency, dare oppose. Vote for
them they must Their fears now are that when
such men as Governor ShaIkey favor them, the
majority OF the Southern people may also be in
duced to do SO, as the sDeediest means of ending
their troubles and gaining admission for their del
egatlOns. 1t is also feared by many that negro
suffrage in the South would turn the political ash
es on the lips of its Northern advocates and that
it would in fact only serve to strengthen the inhu
ence of Southern leaders and increase Southern
representation. It would also settle forever the
NEGRO question:, and deprive them of their prin-
clpal stock in trade. Nothing but financial cues
tons would be left for party issues, and upon
these the old Democratic doctrines would every
where prevail Should Stewards resolution mass
Congress and be adopted by the Southern States,
the far-seeing members of the Republican party
admit to-day that Democracy would inevitably
come into power at the next Presidential election
The intention of the Radicals is to keep the South
ern States from any participation in this, and it
will not be surprising if many of them oppose
their own teachings by voting against the Stewart
resolutions.
Bishop McGill, of Richmond, preached Sunday
at St Matthew Church, and in the course of his re-
marks alluded IN deprecating terms to the Fenian
. ...- THE ARLINGTON ESTATE.
The freed people who formerly belonged to G.
w. L. Custis, have petitoned Congress- setting
forth that under his will they were to receive a
comfortable subsistence during life and that thew
are now destitute. They consequently ask that
they and their chlldren-some fifty all told-mav
receive ten acres of the Arlington es
tate.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
The Departmental State has received DISPATCHES
from our Consul at TobascC, Mexico, dated
y January s. 1856 i'll which he communicates the
discovery OF the ruins of two ancient cities which
have remained unknown since the days of the
conquest The first, he says, from its topography
and situation, he is led to believe is the one oc
cupled by COrteZ at the time of his invasion 90