The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-11
WAsTITNGTON
Special Dispatches to The Ev.nins Telegraph.
WARRINGTON, Apul l


Of the Tax bill, and win not for several days to
come; there seems to be crest deal Of trouble
to get harmonious action upon the details Of
the bill.
Mr.. Campbell Not Confirmed
While the Senate was In Executive session
yesterday an attempt was made to get Lewis D.
Campbell confirmed as Minister to Mexico, but
il failed; and IL is not now likely he viii be
confirmed.
Frank BIair's Nomination
as Collector of Internal Revenue at st. Louis
has not yet been acted upon.
Mr.. stephens Before the Reconstruction
Committee.
Alexander II. Stephens will be called before
the Reconstruction Committee to-day 70 testify
upon the past and present condition of the
South.
ReOpening Of Southern Post Omees.
During the month Of March the Postmaster
General has caused the following Post Offices
to be reopened;-In Virginia, lO4; North Caro-.
lima, S9 West Virginia, 8; Georgia, 40; Tennes
see, 22 Mississippi, 8; Delaware, g; Arkansas, IL;
Texas, 26; South Carolina, 4; Louisiana, 8;
Total, 247.
The Department has also in the same period,
established 139 new offices; 80 have been discon.
tinued aud the names of 25 have been changed.
Special Agent Parker who has supervision Of the
Virginia mail service, came up yesterday, and
reports most favorably on the restoration of
postal facilities in that quarter Contractors are
performing the service regularly, and with
fidelity. The Post Offices are well attended to,
and the people generally are highly pleased with
all the mail arrangements. Information has
been received that Augusta, Ca, is again united
TO Charleston, s. c., by railroad the track laying
| having been completed on the 5th instant.
seasopabIe Nominations.
The South Carolina Leader, printed at Charles
! ton, and the organ OF the freedmen, nomlnates
| for President in 1868, General U. s. Grant; for
| Yice-President, the Hon. w. d. Kelley, of Penn
! sylvania. The platform to be loyalty against
treason, intelligence against ignorance.
Indian Treaty.
treaty between the United States and that
| portion of the Chippewa tribe residing in the
| state of Minnesota has finally been concluded,
! providing for their removal from the Lake Supe
ror gold mining district, which is at present
overrun with enterprising whites in search of
| the precious metal
The Fishing Grounds.
It is understood that the Government has sent
one or two armed vessels to the fishing grounds
on the coasts of the British Provinces to protect
our fishermen there, who have been warned off
by the Provincials since the cessation Of the
Reciprocity Treaty. The British Government
has expressed a willingness TO allow everything
! to go on on the basis of the Convention of 1918,
or on the basis existing prior to the existence OF
the Reciprocity Treaty, which enables our
vessels to fish anywhere within marine league
of the shore. The matter Will be the subject OF
fresh negotiations, and MIR. Raymond yesterday
| reported from the Committee on Foreign Affairs
a resolution OF inquiry directed TO the President
looking to that end.
Generals Fullerton and Steedman leave to-day
for a tour through the Southern States to report
their condition to the President. The latter is
OF known conservative views.
COIOred PeOpIe's Celebration,
April l6 being the anniversary OF the emanci
patton of the colored people Of the District Of
Columbia, it is to be celebrated by them with
grand procession. They win have no banners
but portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and no em
blems but the Stars and Stripes They have
invited Senators Wilson, Nye, Trumbull, and
Sumner to address them in mass meeting.
The Freedmen's B1reau,
General Strong, sent out some time since by
General Howard, on an inspecting tour through
the South reports the affairs of the Bureau as
progressing favorably. Nearly all of the freed
men are employed, at good wages, and people
generally acquiese in the new system of free
labor
General Hancocks Examining Board on
Oreech-loading rifles continue to receive new
models Yesterday the examined one invented
by Colonel b. H. jerks, of Philadelphia, which
loads and fires 80 rounds per minute or 100
rounds in three minutes and twenty seconds,
which is pronounced by the Board to be the most
rapid firing ever achieved
The Awards.
Mr.. Dawes, of Massachusetts, procured the
passage OF a resolution calling upon the Secre-
tary of War for information as TO the dsposi
ton Of the awards for the arrest Of Booth,
Harold and Atzerott II is understood that the
distribution has been made and approved Of
| The money will be dlsbursed In a few days bt
the Secretary Of War.
JeH Davis.
\ The House Judiciary Committee have called
on the Bureau OF Military Justice for information
as to the testimony against JEFF. Davis. Among
that evidence, which is mainly cireumstantial
but Of closely fitting links is an autograph letter
of Davis favoring the ASSASSINATION Of the Prest
dent, and written by him after Booth had in
formed him that the plan TO kidnap the Presi'
dent had to be abandoned as lmpracticab.e. The
records Of the secret service of the COnfederacy
have also been procured by General L. G. Baker,
ana win throw much light upon many OF their
infamous schemes. a.