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SENT SOUTH.
NEW YORK, January 4-Under the gov
ernment regulations there were sent to the
various Southern States during the month
of December 1900 guns and pistols, over
$4,000 pounds Of sporting pswder, So, 900
pounds of shot, and 100000 percussion
caps. i5 leeJ L
] MEXICAN NEWS.
A letter from Mexico, dated December
24th, says: It was also officially stated few
days before by the Minister of Foreign At
fairs, that 25,OO0 soldiers were expected at
Vera Cruz, but that now only 10000 would
come because of the. necessary stringency Of
the French Treasury. sse
FREEDMENs. CELEBRATION.
a letter from Richmond gives an account
of the celebration by the freedmen of New
Years day and anniversary Of emancipa-
ton. The principal ceremonies on the oc-
casion were conducted in the African church,
were participated in by about 4, 900 persons,
and included religious and musical exercises
and an address by a colored orator from
Boston. Similar celebrations were held by
the negroes Of other Yirginian towns, and
all are said to have been of an orderly and
lcreditable character.
-a2i-- O. INCORRECT STATEMENT.
WAsHINGroS, January At appears that
the statement in relation to Mr. Romero, the
Mexican Minister, on the occasion of his
visit to the Executive Mansion on the Ist
of January, was incorrect. So far from
the Diplomatic Corps having neglected him,
as was currently reported, it is now known
that he not only agreeably conversed with
the ministers whose government have not,
but with several Of those whose govern
ments have recognized Maximilian's gov
eminent. The Spanish Republics, and it is
believed Rassia also, are included in the
former class. @
THE STEAMER DEsoTo.
The o. S. steamer Desoto will return to
Washington with the Secretary and Assist
ant Secretary of State. The vessel will
touch at HAVANA, Vera Cruz, and at such
other ports as the Secretary may designate.
t. CAPT. sENGEs.
The detail Of the court for the trial of
Capt. Semmes has not yet been prepared
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capture of vessels by him, are requested TO
report the facts with their names and ad-
dresses, to John A. Bolles, Naval Judge
Advocate General, Washington.
BILLS BY SENATOR TRUMBULL.
Senator Trumbull, Just previous to the
holidays, gave notice of his intention to in
troduce bill which he has since divided
into two, and will submit them to the
Senate tomorrow. One of them is to en-
large the power Of the Freednen's Bureau
and the other to protect all persons in the
United States in their civil rights and fur
nish means for their Yindication. The
first provides that in insurrectionary dis
tricts, where by State law or custom any Of
the civil rights belonging to white persons
are denied to negroes or mulattOes, or where
they are subject to different punishment
than is prescribed to the whites, the officers
and agents Of the Fresdmen's Bureau shall,
so long as such discrimination continue,
have Jurisdiction of all cases affecting such
negroes or mulattoes. Ya
It also provides for furnishing by fine and
imprisonment through the courts of the
Freedmen's Bureau any person who shall
subject negro or mulatte in consequences
of his race or color to any other or different
punishment than is prescribed for white
persons or shall deny him any civil right
cial power exercised by the Freedmen's
Bureau to cease whenever the States where
it Is exercised are fully restored in all their
constitutional relations TO the Union.
The other bill is of apermanent character
and applicable to all parts of the United
States.
1t declares that the inhabitants of every
race and color, without regard to former
slavery, shall have the right to make, sue,
and enforce contracts, to sue and give evil
denee, to inherit purchase, lease, sell, hold
and convey real and personal property, to
the full and equal benefit Of all laws and
and proceedings for the security Of person
and property, and shall be subject to like
punishment, pains and penalties and none
other, any law, statute, regulation or Gus
tom to the contrary notwithstanding.
The other provisions Of the bill make it a
criminal offence for any person, under color
of law or custom, to deprive another Of his
equal civil rights and immunities. It gives
the United States Court exclusive jurisdic-
ton Of the cases of all persons thus dis
criminated against, and of all offences COM
mitted against the provisions of the act
make it the duty Of the judicial authorities
of the United States, aided if necessary by
the military forces, to execute the law and
prescribe all the machinery for making the
bill effective.
Nearly all the provisions Of the old
Fugitive Slave Act are Incorporated in this
BILL and the statute originally devised to
keep men in slavery is now reversed to Sc
cure their freedom. The same penalties
once imposed for aiding escape to freedom
are now to be imposed for trying to keep
them in slavery. f 49,.
-r MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
There has just been issued from the Public |
Printing Bureau the message of the Presi-
dent heretofore transmitted to the Senate in |
response to a resolution asking for informa-
ton respecting a decree of the so-caIIed |
Emperor of Mexico, Of the Sd of October |
last A copy of the decree has already been |
published, and Mr.. Romero, Mexican Min |
lister, in calling the attention Of Secretary |
Seward to it, and other papers, in October |
last, says;1 tai .isll37 s.
In the Usurper's proclamation of the 5th |
inst, the Duke supposes, contrary to the
fact, that the constitutional President Of the
Mexican Republic had abandoned the na-
tional territory, and from this false hypoth-
esis he concludes that the defenders Of their
Independence, whom he calls bandits, in
obedience to orders received from the French,
have no leader. It is nothing new for the
Usurper to call those patriots who sustain
the cause Of Independence and the institu-
stions Of kexico, bandits, nor d it new for
him to treat them as such, with a severity
that would be called cruel If applied TO
criminal of the lowest order. He showed
the same determination in his proclamation
of the Sd of November last ,7ssi..--,o,s
Now Maxfmilian wishes to regulate this
established system Of ASSASSINATION by a de-
caee issued on the Sd inst, creating the
most Internal military tribunal, extending
their jurisdiction TO every person found
armed without licenee from his so-ealled
Government, regardless of the numbers and
character Of the party he belongs to. In
this decree, exclusively tyrannical, he con-
demns to death every armed man who is
not French soldier or a traitor, and then
these who will proffer information which
may aid the defenders of the country, and
sanctions severe penalties for the mere act
of eoncealing apatFiot or circulating alarm
ing news. Sra .-3-ail e- a HSasai =
And it has been carried out by his French
directors, who have been by the system of
court martial sending to the scafold the
captive patriots called guerrillas, and even
J military officers Of the national army who