Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-08-04


> to st. Petersburg and London, a
0 raising questions OF European inter
= est which can only be settled by tn
; consent of the great powers.
/ Prem the Gal. Bulletin.
, JACKSON, 5aiy ss. \
ri WASHINGTON, July 2l.--Ine Sen
ate amended the House resolution
for the admission Of Tennessee, By
substituting preamble, declaring
that, as Tennessee had been seizet
, by the enemies of the Government
in 1861, but now shows the disposi
ton to conform TO the Constitution
and has adopted the slavery amend
ments and the amendments proposes
by the President and by Congress
and also declares that the Legisla
tive authority alone is authorized tc
restore the State, and under similar
circumstances. The resolutions a.
amended will be returned to The
House for concurrence.
Resolutions extending for five
years to the Alabama and Florida
. Railroad, time for the payment o.
duties on iron and rail track, passed
The House adopted concurrent
resolution with majority Of five
providing that, when the officers ad'
journ either House, they shall ad'
journ to the I'd of October, and il
on that day there is no quorum in
either, the presiding officer shall
adjourn both Houses to the first Sat-
urday in December.
ROsseau made speech vindicat.
ing himself in Gaming Grinnell and
concluded by reading his resigna-
ton rs a member of the House. He
was then called to the bar and rep
rimanded.
According to the latest advices via
Queenstown 18th, there were no
practicable negotiations yet. The
London Globe believes that they are
on the brink of a general European
war. Prussia continues firm. The
Italians are advancing in spite of
France. The French iron .clads
have been ordered to Venetia, on
the night Of the 1lth, and the Cher
bourg squadron also sailed-desti-
nation unknown. 1t is reported the
Prussians were marching on Frank
fort the Main.
The Prince Won Reuss arrived in
Paris on the 10th. Ho had an inter-
view with Napoleon. Gen. Lerous-
ant has been sent to Prussia, it is
stated, to announce the armed med
iation of France.
JACKSON, July "a.
New YORK, July 23.-There were
eleven hundred and thirty deaths
last week. Fourteen deaths from
cholera yesterday in this city, and
five in Brooklyn. The epidemic is
increasing on Governors's Island.
Ten deaths and more than the usual
number of new cases yesterday
The disease is severe on Jones Is.
land; twenty to thirty cases daily,
of which from ten to fifteen per
cent. die. Cholera hospitals have
been established in the infected dis
tricts OF Brooklyn.
WASHINGTON, July ga letter
from the City of Mexico asserts that
Maximiian has signed a treaty, in
which France agrees to keep twenty
thousand French troops in Mexico
for five years, serving under the
Mexican flag; and Napoleon furnish
es Macmillan $500, 900 per month,
during the same period-receiving
as security for this and other claims
the railroad from Vera Cruz to the
City of Mexico. The revenue to be
collected by French officials.
The House to-day concurrcd in
the Senate amendment to the reso-
luton admitting Tennessee. Tho
President will probably sign the res
olution, as it admits Tennessee, but
he will protest against it being sent
to him, because he has nothing to do
with the admission of members of
Congress; and he will further pro-
test against the preamble that Ten
nessee has adopted the proposed
Constitutional amendment, when; id
fact, there was not quorum pres
ent when the amendment passed.
Poney Stansbury was confirmed
to-day as Attorney General of the
United States, and John A. Klein as
Collector of Customs Mt Vicksburg.
There is barely quorum in the
House, and the Speaker refuses
leave Of absence.
Dispatches from high authority
Il. Nashville state that there was no
quorum present when the House
passed the Constitutional amend
ment, and for that reason tho pre-
siding officer peremptorily refused
to certify that the amendment had
passed.
NEW York, July 24.--Dates from
Liverpool of the 11th have been re-
ceived by the steamer Scotia.
The Paris Moniteur of the 14th
says: Negotiations are still pending
and the best Of feeling prevailed be-
tween Prussia and France, but lat
est advlces seem to indicate that
war will continue. The Prussians
occupied Prague and are still ad-
vancing. The Bavarian army sixty
thousand strong, exclusive of caval-
ry and artillery, is organizing on
the line of Almatz and Braun. The
Prussian headquarters on the 18th,
were within three miles of Braun.
The Prussians under Mantofful at
tackled the Bavarians near Kissing.