The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-19
Our Special Dispatches.
WASHINGTON, March 10.

WASHINGTON, March ~.
EMajOY-GeneraI FrankIin's ResignatiOn.
The War Department has accepted the resig-
nation of Major.General Franklin, who has
accepted the position of Superintendent Of Colts
pistol factory.
Charleston Commerce.
One of the clearest proofs Of the returning
prosperity OF Charleston, South Carolina, is the
receipts from customs at that port for the month
of February, which were $9l,6ls.
The Civil Rights Bill.
President johnson has the Civil Rights bill
still under consideration. He has objections to
IT. but is reluctant 10 veto it.
Treaty with tho Arapahoe and Cheyenne
Ind1RmS.
The report of e. W.wynkoop, Major United
States Army, and Special Indian Agent, dated at
Fort Larned, Kansas, March s, 1856, and in
closing the treaty with the Arspaboe and Chey-
enne Indians has been received at the Indian
Burea. The treaty is dated on Bluff creek, Little
Arkansas river, Kansas, March l, 1865, and bears
the signs Of twelve chiefs. Among the number
Is the notorious George sBent-"Homah-hs-kst.
This chief has long been terror to the frontier,
and the fact of his signing the treaty is sn assu
rance of the future peace and safety OF the outer
settlements. Major Wynkoop complains of the
system of free trade carried on by Irresponsible
parties, and attributes all the difficulties to the
introduction Of contraband articles, and the ad-
mission of unprincipled men. The expedition
brought In young white girl, fifteen years of
age, named Amanda Fletcher, captured in
August last, near Fort Haleck.
The President Snd the New Orleans
Municipal GOVeruImenG.
Reports and counter reports have been in cir
10 davS ha D.o
sident's interference in the municipal govern
ment Of New Orleans. The facts are substan-
TALLY these:-Mr. Kennedy, the present or old
Mayor of the city, telegraphed to the President
on the 16th instant expressing or implying
doubts as to the fitness eligibility OF his sue
cessor elect, Mr.. Monroe, and inquiring whether
or not he should yield the succession. The Pre-
sident replied as follows by telegraph
have no information to give in regard to surren-
derng the MaE Eoraty Of New Orleans to the person
elected to nil the position. l have no information
showing that the election was not regular, or that
the individual who has been elected cannot qualify.
In the abs Of such proef the presumption ia that
the election has been according to law and that the
person elected can take the oath OF allegiance and
loyalty required.
MI Monroe seems to have known that efforts
were being made to keep him out of Office, and
also telegraphed the President yesterday tha. he
had been regularly elected Mayor of New Or
leans, and that he is as '1oyal to the Union and
as enthusiastically in favor of the reconhtruc-
ton policy of the President as any other man
living, and can qualify according to law" The
President replied 10 this by repeating the teIe-
gram sent to Mr.. Kennedy, thus leaving the
matter where it properly belongs, to the people
of New Orleans and the civil and military
laws that govern such cases.
Slew Work in Texas.
The President has received despatch from
Governor Hamilton dated Austin, March IL,
saying that the Convention OF that State has
been in session one month, but nothing has been
matured; that the struggle Is on the ordinance
of secession, the question being shall the ordi.
nance be declared null and void from the begin.
ming, or shall it be repealed. The Union men
insist on the former, and the Rebels and others
demand the latter. Governors Hamilton says
something like the action of the Alabama Con.
vent,on will be adopted; and there will be NO
trouble in rejecting the war debt incurred in
carrying on the Rebellion. The freedmen will
be treated more satisfactorily than has been
done by most of the Southern States.