New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-07
DISPATCHES
uTELLIGENCE FROM WASHINGTON
Reconstruction Committee on Admitting
rs Tennessee. sg9
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TEXAS CONVENTION ~ @ !.


u 81 ma, Etc.. Etc.
HxLFrsron, Feb. 28.--The proceedings Of the
Nt6fe convention are only Of local interest. u.s.
Tho schooner Gen. Knox, from New York, with
locomotive for the Houston road, is discharging.
Business quiet. Cotton unchanged.
GALVESTON, March 2.--The committee has re-
ported in favor Of making valid Ill acts Of the leg.
aAture not inconsistent with the Constitution and
Mws Of the United States also legalizng the acts
q Governor Hamilton's appointees in the State. !.
4 The steamer Wilmington arrived inside of nine
days from New York.
GALyEsToN, March !. An effort to base repre-.
ne COMMITTEES on Legislative Departments has
Expressed unqualified opposition to negro suffrage.
Provision was made for the election OF State
ul6cera q soon Is practicable.
MI GALVESTON March 3.--The committee on the
6anditicn Of the State has reported adversely on
he ordinance for the protection and encourage
m0nt Of manufactures, as it was not proper SUBJ
jeet for the action Of the convention.
The Finance Committee has reported sweep
iag ordinance, declaring null and void all debts
BY the States in the late war, and for
\ - ior NH payment. A same provision CON
esrning the Confederate States debt is under con
dderafion. q
GALvEsros, March s. Mr.. Roberts introduced
~ ordinance, the substance Of which is the per
manent preservation Of the white race, being the
paramount object of the people Of Texas, and ask
ing the 10 provide fofSthe uitlmate r.
Apva! or colonization Of the negroes, deemed ae
expedient, with the cooperation or consent OF the
United States government. Referred
4 The Committee on Legislative Departments is
cfered to divide the State into four congressional
Sdi1kxicts. h
n. Burke presented an ordinance expressing
opl0perati6nx md simplify with the President in
~ position against the radicals.
y The Convention has amended the report of the
committee providing that the Representatives in
he Texas Legislature should be white.
The steamer Georgia sailed for New York on
8AfOMth.
II H6lI ADzIrHnA March i. Thirty eight hundred
ordinary brought 40ac.; middling and middling
f6F Orleans 43@44c.; middling and strict midding
Georgia AZ @45ac. pickings 2l@26c
WASHINGTON, March 81 House. The Committee
1dmit Tennessee into the Union on CO.. tain condi-
n TONS, TO be ratified BY her people. No part OF the
detate debt - to be paid, and those who en-
Ssged the rebellion are not to vote or be eligible
70 ONCE for certain period. This is the Repubi-
can programme as to all the Southern States.
The House. by 81 against loo, refused to receive
accommodation from the Governor of North Car
ciina, ndorsing resolution of the legislature,
1gnifying its acceptance Of the lands for agricul
lnral college purposes. The vote was taken after
4r. Stevens saying they did not recognize North
Carolina as State in the Union.
WASHINGTON, March 6.-- Hoase-The Senate bill
granting land and aid for the construction of q
railroad and telegraph from the States Of Missouri
and Arkansas to the Pacific coast was read, and
afterwards referred to the Committee on Pacific
Railroad. *
The military academy bill was taken up. Mr..
6chenck proposed the following amendment: that
no part Of the money appropriated to pay for the
subsistence Of any cadet from any State declared
n he ia rebellion against the United States gov
n NJ Ear In N Mi
slch StAte shalresume its original relations under
~ act OK joint resolution Of Congress. The
1mendment was adopted, and the bill passed.
ARRIs0H's, N. r, March Col. Bowen, Ad-
jutsnt General on Grants STAFF. was instantly
Aillod while attempting to get upon the cars just
~ NE train was starting from the station.
WAsHIE3T3N, March 6.--The House went into
eqntrlittee Of the whole on the bill regulating
trade with the British Proyinces A long discus
lalon onsued in which several members partici-
pAted, bat no conclusion was arrived at.
~ SENATE After considerable discussion joint
resolution giving the consent of Congress to the
annexation Of Berkeley and Jefferson counties to
h6 btate Of Western Virginia, was passed.
NEW YORK, March 6.-ln the United States
District Court the jury found verdict in favor Of
the government in the case of the United Statesys
Caymory y Mora. The defendents, in 1858, ex-
chaDgeda cargo Of merchandise with the Confed-
crates Tor l76 bales Of cotton at Brownsville
They brought the same cotton here, but it was
ssixed, and. by the decision given to-day, CON
1emned. y.
"a the case Of Soccer against Weed the Judge de-
elded 70 dscharge the injunction restraining Thur
loM Weed from dispensing Of certain telegraph
Ihs hslief ii general among the best informed
members Of the bar Of the supreme court, that the
rial q tlvilinns by military commission viii be
pronounced unconstitutional in the test case now
a LpUIsvILLE, March 6,-Leaf tobacco is more
active At the declines Sales 163 hhds. Flour
lanEsIfns Y p: extra 81 family % Is. Corn 80