Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-09
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, depositors on the banks, and larg'
amount Of deposits have been-removed
Jay Cook, Maury & Co. announce tha
!, they will resume tomorrow. There were
{ 1924, 900, 900 in the various public depos
j itories on May LIST, for which Genera
Spinner holds Government securities
4 amounting to $40, 900, 900. ~ -
| The Inspector General of the Freed
mems Bureau for Virginia makes a com
paratively favorable report. The schools
are we'll attended, and the prejudice
against the freedmen is slowly but
steadily diminishing. The sanitary con-
dtion of the freedmen is so far improved
that all Bureau i hospitals have been abol-
ished The demand for labor greatly
exceeds the supply. isai nI.msll
i DR.. Sayra, of New York, at the head
of the committee appointed by recent
Baltimore convention, had conference
with the Senate committee to-day, where
upon the committee unanimously in
structed their chairman to report a joint
resolution to the effect that the Secreta-
ries of War, the Navy and Treasury
should cause uniform and efficient
quarantine against the introduction Of
cholera ,..I.. .-.ot
The President has signed the bill in
cooperating the international Telegraph
Company, between this country and
Cuba, ., Dra ora aqI .sH
Dispatches from North Carolina report
further acts of malfeasance by the agents
of the Freedmens Bureau. Colonel
Whittlesby, Commissioner for the State,
aided by some Massachusetts philanthro-
pists, have, it is alleged, been running
plantations on their own account, and
making delinquent and disorderly ne
groes work for them, as punishment.
Several arrests had been made, and 9th
ers we're expected, l .na lno
{ Nearly all the claimants Of cotton
seized by the Government at Savannah.
have commenced suits, in the United
States District Court of New York,
against Simon Draper cotton agent, for
the recovery of the cotton. The names
of the claimants number one hundred
and twenty-five, and strong array of
counsel has been retained by the plain
tiffs, a...af
General Sickles arrived here yesterday,
and had an interview with General Grant
Having declined the. mission to the
Hague, he will probably retain command
of the District of South Carolina. 'fA
The President has approved the bill
providing for list of the Pay Corps of
the Navy, which shall consist of eighty
Paymasters, forty Passed Assistants, and
thirty Assistant Paymasters.
The House passed resolution in
structing the Judiciary Committee to
inquire into the expediency of providing
an Elective Franchise bill, which shall
not hereafter be denied or abridged
in any Territory on account Of race or
color. '' ssA
A resolution was adopted directing the
Committee on Banking to investigate
the circumstances attending the failure
of the National Bank at Washington,
and state what further legislation is nee
essary to protect the public and Govern
ment from similar disasters.
The House then proceeded with the
discussion of the Constitutional Amend
ment reported by the Committee on
Reconstruction. 4aH
Mr. Stevens speaking thereon said,
" Heaven forbid that the Southern States,
or any of them, should be represented in
Congress until the monuments of the
freedmen are built full high and firm.
Against the will of Congress the South
ern States had been absent for four
bloody years, and must now wait till
Congress is ready to receive them" He
believed that Congress would not APP
proach the full measure of justice, until
every full grown freedman in the late
rebel States was provided with a home
stead on the land where he had been
held as slave. ''.
Mr.. Blair called attention to the third |
section of the amendment, providing that
until the 4th of July 1870, all persons
who voluntarily aided the rebellion should |
be excluded from the right to vote. Mr.. |
Stevens admitted that pardon extin-
guished crime, and those who were fully |
pardoned did not come under the opera
tons of the third section The point
raised by Mr. Blair and admitted by |
Stevens excited considerable stir in the |
ranks, and the members we're |
listening to the colloquy as if recognizing |
the possibly fatal character of the objee-
tons. "I.
The Republican says that the reports
of the Cabinet discussion were from the |
highest source, and that Secretary Stan
toms opposition to the plan was as
equivocal as that of one other member.
The Senate joint resolution relative to
the attempted assassination of the Car
Of Russia passed. En
Mr. Chandler. from the Committee on