The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-03-28
NO.13.
Washington News and Rumors. !

The case of Senator Stockton, of New
Jersey, comes up tomorrow. Although the
Judiciary Committee has reported in his fa-
vor, there is but little doubt that the maiori-
ty of the Senate will oust him. Votes are
needed to override Presidential yetoes, and
the Radicals have determined, if possible, to
have them, without regard to Justice or pre-
cedent. A Republican Senator viii be re-
turned by the present New Jersey Legislature
and Senator Stewart having gone over, a
vote ortwo more WILDE all they need.
The National Union Club have. through
Green Clay Smith, chairman pro. tenn. for a.
W. Randall, President, and William Thorpe,
Corresponding Secretary issued call for
Union people, without regard to party or To-
Cation tc meet nj the iss X ..assis.sr
ton on Saturday night, for the purpose of in
dorsing and sustaining President johnson in
his bold and determined purpose of MAIN
tanning in its purity the Constitution of the
United States against all opposition.
The conservative Republicans in Con-
gress have organized a national committee,
with headquarters, from which documents
are to be sent to the country. Associate
clubs are to be established throughout the
Union.
The Washington Star says :--Advices from
Montgomery, Ala, dated on the 10th instant,
received by DR.. G. W. Hosmer, Chief Medical
Officer of the Freedmen's Bureau, inform him
that a report was in circulation there that
the cholera had made its appearance in. Mo-
bile, Ala, although the report was not traced
to any reliable source Montgomery and
Mobile are both in a very filthy condition,
and are being cleansed The military au-
thorities on the 7th instant establishing strict
quarantine regulations against all vessels
coming from Cuba, Hayti, Jamaica, and all
other islands of the West Indies, or from any
port or place where cholera or other infec-
tious diseases prevail.
The following letter is from President
johnson is in response to one he recently re-
ceived from the Manhattan Club, in New
York, composed of some of the most respect
able and wealthy residents in that city:
Eascutioe Mansion, Washington, d. G,
March 12.-Gentlemen: l have the honor
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the I'd inst, informing me of my election as
an honorary member Of the Manhattan Club,
of New York city, and asking me to allow
an artist of your selection to take full
length portrait of myself for your club.
In communication to you my acceptance
of these compliments, desire to thank you
sincerely for them, and for the friendly ex-
pressions of support and encouragement you
tender me in the discharge of my public
duties. An honest and clear conviction of
duty and consciousness of rectitude of pur-
pose, the unwayering support of the Ameri-
can people and the blessing of an all-wise
Providence, will, believe, enable me to meet
any emergency. feel thatI have the first
two, AND it shall be the oIlject of my every
: cndesy6r to drsssye thc. .rclaai;1ug ssssaisites
am, gentlemen, with great respect, your
Obedient servant
ANDREW JOHNSON.
The assistant commissioner of freedmen
has issued circular, addressed to teachers
of colored schools and ministers of coored
churches, reqtesting them to present to the
colored people the advantages of emigrating
northward, where their labor would be prop
erly remunerhted and where their condition,
in every respect, would be far superior to
their present status. Requisitions from all
parts of the country for labcrers are being
received daily by General Howard, and it
would doubtless be advisable for a part of
the large colored population of Washington
to comply with the desires of the assistant
commissioner. To accomplish this object
General Howard has opened agencies at
Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Pittsburg, Buffalo
and other cities
The Judiciary Committee of the House
have under consideration, and will probably
report next Tuesday, a bill empowering the
President, or any military commander who
represents him in the late rebelious States
to reinstate loyal men in the possession oi
lands which they were deprived of by rebe
contiscation during the war, as everybody
knows the Confederate Government INDUCED
pretty heavily in confiscation against thost
who were known to favor the Union cause
Since the war, many of their DEGREES have
been reversed and the former owners reinsta
ted in possession of their property. The OBJ.
ject of the proposed bill is to keep the loyal
owners in possession by the employment Of
military power until the southern country
has become SO far settled that the questions
can be tried before the civil courts 1t il
merely o measure to choke off the lawyers
temporarily.-Neo York Herald
Within the next few days about 5000 col
ored troops will be mustered out the service
in South Carolina. Gov. Bennett advises
them to direct their attention to the cultiva-
tion of the soil. The demand for labor in
that State has not begun to be supplied.
In the House Mr.. Kelso, of Missouri, intro.
duced bill to establish ocean mail commu.
nication between Charleston, South Carolina
and Liverpool, by way of Queenstown, which
was referred to the Committee on Post Off
ces and Post Routes.
WASHINGTON, March 15.-The committee
onreconstruction have reported the testimony
of Gen. Custer, who states that he has trav
elled all over Texas and found the mass Of
the people exceedingly bitter against the
government, more so than five or six months
ago. He mentions among other facts, that
the grand juries have during few months
past, found five hundred indictments for the
murder of Union men and others, but moi
one Of the guilty parties has been con.
victed fgf.
The House gave aprotracted consideration
of the bill to protect Uniten States oficer
from civil suits for acts under official orders
or otherwise in aiding to suppress the rebel
lion. Mr.. Harding of Kentucky, a Ia Garret
! Davis, opposed the bill Mr.. Conklingw wish
| ed the Secretary of Warexempted especially
Mr. Wilson replied that the Judiciary Com
mittee have such a bill now in preparatiAh
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Austria has just been troubled with ON
of her periodical panics, and has been try
| ing, and happily acquitting, bevy Of young
Italian girls for the heinous crime OF singing
patriotic songs on the banks of the brigh
blue lake of Garda.
! Five Paris theatres receive assistanc
from the State, amounting in all to 1,5oo,0 ,00'
francs. Of this sum the Opera receive
$4,000 francs, the Theatre I'rancaise and th
Opera Comique 5000 each, and the Odeol
and the Theatre Lyrique 100000 each.