New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-05
Late News Items,
A CHECK on rENIAN FISHING PARTIES.

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her business, it is reported, will be to look aftel
Fenisn fishing expeditions, which are known tc
be hitting out at certain ports on the Atlantic
trality laws.
| SMUGGLING IN FLORIDA.
Information received by Commissioner Sergeant
from Florida is to the efectt the smugglers on that
coast are making extensive preparations to run in
goods from the West India Islands.
| 1-,-a..E THE PUBLIC DEBT. ..... .
The March statement of the public debt, which
will be published next week, will not. as reported,
show any reduction in the principal as compared
l with the exhibit, as new issues or conversions
have been made since then. The statement, how
ever, will show considerable increase of the
balance on hand in the treasury. Returns re-
ceved at the internal revenue bureau show that
the receipts from that source in the South are
largely on the increase.
/ CONFEDERATE DRAFTS PROTESTED.
\ number of drafts drawn during the war on
Frazier, Trenholm & Co., of Liverpool, by George
A. Trenholm. Confederate Secretary of the Treas
in transit to Europe, and by our government pre-.
scented for payment, have been returned to the
Treasury protested. The cause ASSIGNED for this
nonpayment is that the Confederate fund is ex-
hausted.
THE SAVANNAH CoLLECToRsHIr.
Hon. Joshua Hill, former member of Congress
from Georgia, is being urged for the position Of
collector of customs at Savannah, in place of Mr..
Woodbridge, about to resign. The only obstacle
IN the way of his appointment is that he says he
cannot take the test oath.
CUSTOM RECEIPTS.
The receipts of customs from the 18th till the
z4th OF March, at the following ports were as fol-
lows: New York, S2,5O9,427 16; Philadelphia,
Sl9S, liz 95; Boston, 49O 9Sl 90; Baltimore, $3.50
O36 90. Total, $685. $50 95.
INVESTIGATION OF TREASURY MATTERS.
:, The following resolution will be offered in the
House on Monday:
ReSotUed, That committee of three be an
pointed to investigate and report to this House
the amount OF money in the treasury of the United
States and all public repositories, including ma.
honsl banks, subject to the order Of the Secretary
OF the Treasury, up to and including the 2Sth day
of February last, and also as to the accuracy Of
the monthly exhibits of the Secretary of the Trea
sury up to and including the last day of each
month, commencing on the 3lst of March, 1866 !:
ann aso he al .b Of approa
objects that will not require the use Of the money
50 appropriated, with power to examine books,
papers and persons, and require answers under
oath from assistant treasurers, Repositories and
othcers of national banks designated as deposito.
ries.
THE EIGHT HOUR SYSTEM.
It is understood that the House Judiciary Com.
mttee will soon report bill in favor of the appli
cation OF the eight hour system, 50 far as govern
ment employees are concerned. Mr. Julian, by in
yitation, addressed the working men of the
District last evening on the subject.
REPORTED CORRUPTION IN NEW JERSEY.
There is report in circulation here to-day,
which comes by telegraph from New Jersey, to
the effect that Mr.. Scovill, of the Senate Of that
State, has sold out for 100000 to the friends of
stockton, thus defeating an immediate election by
the legislature, of successor to Stockton in the
Senate OF the United States. Scovill has the cast
ing vote in the State Senate, and when here few
days since, expressed his determination to vote
for Cattelle, the Union candidate for the success
sorship.
PAY STOPPED. s |
There are several officers whose pay has been
ordered by the paymaster general to be stoned |
until they render to the quartermaster generals
ONCE the returns and accounts required of them |
by law and the army regulations.
THE SALISBURY COMMANDER
The Florida Sentinel says: Major John Fl. Gee, |
now on trial at Raleigh, before military commits
sion, for acts alleged to have been committed nv
him while in charge of the prison at Salisbury has
advertised for sale his residence and his other pro
perty, even to his library, in order to raise funds
TO meet the expense of his trial. The Sentinel
sends suggestion, made by the Macon Telegraph,
to raise funds for the relief of Major Gee by con-
among his friends.
a5Ne INTERNAL REVENUE.
The internal revenue receipts Yesterday were
s39s OIL 81; to-day they were 81 O63 l54 SO; total
81 ,40l ,226 26.
ol F, Il THE SENATE AND THE LOAN BILL.
Ihe Senate Finance Committee had meeting
his morning, and for the first time took nm the
oan bill. The Secretary Of the Treasury nrges
hat the bill passed by the House is little better
han no bill at all, and expresses the hope that
omethlng more comprehensive may be given him.
'wo members of the committee have had an inter
lew with him. The discussion in the committee /
his morning developed a very serious difference ]
opinion among its members. No conclusion in
egard to the bill was reached. r Ii
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL. l....
It is expected that the Senate will take I'D the
lvi rights bill and veto message on Monday.
udge Trumbul is preparing to defend the one l
nd review the other. One or two other Senators .
oaid like to speak, but they will probably defer
ler remarks till some other measure is under .
onsderation. Many Senators are very confident
lat the bill will be passed over the veto, but ,
ere are runors about two members heretofore I
'nsidered sure to go with themajority. 4 .
=as. WAR CLAIMS. idea. t
The passage by the House of the bill appropriat /
G eight hundred thousand dollars to reimburse
ennsylvania for her war claims, doubtless opens d
e way for the presentation of claims of other n
ates. West Virginia is already pressing her in.
rests, and the Senate military committee has 0
greed to report bill giving her about three hun
ed and seventy thousand dollars r
APPROPRIATIONS.
The House Committee on Appropriations have y
'nsidered the amendments made by the Senate q
the naval bill and have agreed to report against
at giving seven thousand dollars for levee at n
ound City, Illinois. They agree to the large ap- y
fopriation for the enlargement of the naval AGA.
amy, except that they cut down the amount for
e extension of the grounds from fifty thousand
twenty-five thousand. The large appropriation
II the extension of the New York and Boston
IVY yards are not agreed to-. 6
ANOTHER MISSISSIPPI BRIDGE q
Senator Trumbull has introduced bill author. y
ing the building of a bridge across the Missis-
pp river at Quincy, Illinois. 1t provides that the
idge shall be constructed as drawbridee, with
span over the main channel of not less than three
inbred feet in length, not less than thirty feet
'ove the low water mark, and not less than ten
ct above the extreme high water mark measur-
to the bottom chord of the bridge; and one of d.
next adjoining spans shall not be less than two o.
inbred feet in length; and also that there shall re
pivot draw constructed at an accessible and u
vigable point, with spans of not less than one Of
ndred and fifty feet in length, on each side Of d
9 central or pivot pier of the draw. u
PRESIDENTIAL UTTERANoEs. al
Congressman Hogan of st. Louis, has been max fir
: speech in Connecticut, and one of the COP.
rhead organs thus reports him: W
dr. johnson will understand the position of af m
rs in this State. and his sympathes are strongly al
il the men who support him. One week ago
night, in his own room, he said to me in so many III
rds, English maintains my principles and sup M
'tS OOlicv and hp Gan, |