New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-22
From Wasllfn gton.

WASHINGTON, March Is, 1SGG.-The House Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs had meeting to-day,
but came TO no decision in relation to the proposal
to guarantee the Jualist loan. Robert Dale Owen
was heard in favor of the proposed guarantee, but
the nature of his argument has not TRANSFERRED
In the Supreme Court to-day the Hon. Reyerdy
Johnson concluded his able argument. He con
tnned to sustain the doctrine that an attorney was
only an officer of the court, and responsible to no
other department of the government and pro-
ceeded to show the illegally of any interference
on the part of Congress, with matters purely judi
cial.
The members of the court listned to his argu
ment with close attention. DRUID.
CO OF THE SWISS CONVICT.
WAsHNeT March l5.-The Secretary of
State in letter to Mr.. Sumner, details the facts
in the case of the murderer Martin Bader, recently
pardoeed by the council of Basleland, Switzerland,
on condition of his emigrating TO this country. He
was under sentence of confinement fer twenty-four
years in chains. The United States consul, Mr..
Wife, at Basle, informed the council of Basleaud
that the United States was not a colony for con-
yicts and criminals, and that the pardoned muir
derer would not be permitted to land in this coun-
try, but would be returned to Switzerland at the
expense of those sending him hither.
A SOUTHERN POSTMASTER PAYS UP.
Mr. G. G. Lynch, postmaster in North Caro-
lima, at the commencement of the rebellion, when
communication between that State and the city of
Washington was first interrupted, had in his
possession between one and two hundred dollars
buried for safety. Recently the Sixth Auditor of
the Treasury of the Postofice Department was in
formed by him of this fact, and that the money
was at the order of the proper officer. draft
has accordingly been drawn for the amount in
currency. S1a
PAYMENT OF PENSIONS IN NEW YORK.
:. In consequence of the Inconvenience and hard
ship to which the present mode Of paying pen
sons at New York city is said to infiict upon
United States pensioners, the Secretary of the In.
terror has dispatched Mr.. George G. Whiting, of
his department, formerly Commissioner of Pen
sions to that city, with authority to investigate the
matter, and obtain such facts and information as
will enable the department to apply the corree-
ton,
THE sEAMEN INDEMNITY RESOLUTION NOT PASSED
Since the Introduction of a resolution in the
Senate, short time ago, with a view of providing
indemnity to all officers and seamen of the navy
for personal losses sustained while in active SER
vice, the Fourth Auditor has been the recipient of
many letters from those who consider themselves
anected thereby, an erroneous impression pre-
valling that the resolution has pissed. .-
s NEWS FROM PRESIDENT JUAREz.
Official news has been received by Senior Romero
from Ell Paso, the seat of the Mexican govern
ment, up to the 18th ult. President Juarez and
his government remained in undisputed possession
arrived at Ell Paso, reported that all the French
forces abandoned the city of Chihuahua on
the 9th.
Nl CIVIL RIGHTS BILL. -
Inc Bill declaring all persons born in this coun-
try to be citizens of the United States, excepting
indians not taxed, and to secure all persons in the
enjoyment of their civil rights, has finally passed
both Houses of Congress, and will soon be pre-.
scented to the President.
wHITTLEsEY's SENTENCE.
Wallace Whittlessey, convicted in the Criminal
Court of the abstraction of government bonds has
been sentenced to pay a fine of one thousand dol
lars. The lightness Of the penalty was in conse-
quence Of the recommendation of the jury to
lie pnn abs nra In tba
his long Imprisonment before his trial, and his
evidently declining health.