Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-29
TELEGRAPH.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES
From Washington.

!
WASHINGTON, May 2s.-The New Yorl
bank statements show decrease of eigh
and half million dollars in the interes
Of spafiord, Libston & Co, in the Ha
vana Steamship Company The Brazil
steamers and the Savannah and Empire
lines have passed from under the control
of Messrs. Garrison d Allen, of this city.
On the Path il was stated at Provi-
dence, r. l., that the rates Of printing
cloth was 345, 900, at an advance Of and
3 cents per yard.
Nothing was done in the Senate to-day.
In the House resolution was adopted
4 directing the Secretary of the Treasury
TO report the amount of gold that had
been sold since the LIST, and at what
rates, and what agents had been employed
therefor. ~.
Mr.. Williams submitted preamble TO
the resolution requesting information Of
the President as to whether any employe
of the Government in the Southern
States had offered public honors to dead
or living Confederates.
Mr.. Nicholson objected to the resolu-
ton, and it was laid over.
Thad. Stevens introduced Il resolution
to the effect that the States lately in re-
, bellion, had forfeited their rights under
the Constitution, and can be ,reinststed
in the same only through the action of
Congress 1t further provides that they
may form solid Governments, the pres
ent ones being constituted for municipal
purposes, until they shall be duly attested,
and their Executive and Legislative gov
ernments recognized Their Constitu-
tons are to be formed by Conventions
and submitted to the people, majority
being necessary for ratification. All
male persons above twenty-one are TO be
allowed to vote. No Constitution is to
be presented for Congressional sanction
which denies civil rights to any person.
The bill was submitted to the Committee
Of the Whole on the State Of the Union
Mr.. Stevens offered another resolution,
instructing the Committee on Pensions
to double the pensions of Federal soldiers
Ia the late civil war
Mr.. Stillwell offered resolution, in
structing the Committee on Pensions to
report on the expediency Of extending
the provisions OF the pension laws to
provost and deputy marshals, and enrol
ling officers, killed or disabled. He de-
clined TO modify it so as to make it one
Of inquiry, and it was adopted-ayes Go,
nays So,
Mr. Whaley offered resolution, Dir
reeting the Committee on Printing to
report bill, limiting the hours Of labor
Of the employees of the Government
Printing Office to eight hours per day,
which was rejected.
Mr. Lynch, from the Committee on
Banking and Currency, reported ad-
rersoly to exempting the currency of the
State banks, outstanding on the first of
July, from the tax of ten per cent i'm
posed by law. The report was laid on
he table
In the debate on Saturday, Thad Ste
veus referred to reereant and spostate
Senator, who it is understood was Sena-
tor Doolittle, Of Wisconsin.
general court-martial, of which Gen.
Augur is President, was convened to-
day, for the purpose of trying Lieut.
Col Paulding for depositiug Government
lands in the Merchants National Bank. |
Il is stated that Mr. Davis counsel
viii demand an immediate trial, or If
the Government asks for postpone
ment, which is possible, they will demand
his release on bail, they being ready to
give the amount of 100000.
Late advices from San Francisco to
the Mexican Consul, state that an off,
eial dispatch, Of Nay 10th, from Mazat-
Ian. says that the Liberals attacked the
garrison at Hermisillo on the 18th, and
,fter q bloody struggle captured aud pill
AGED the town. Imperial reinforce
nents subsequently arrived and killed
uo hundred Of them, and drove away
be remainder
Mr.. Amisa, a Grecian citizen, and r,
)oGonzales, who refused to give the
liberals $4,000, were cruelty murdered.
The Imperialists had defeated Canara