The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-04-08

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NIGHT DISPATCHES
Firing SaluteS in Honor OF The
Civil Rights Bill.
steamboat Explosion.
Another Destructive Fire In New
York City.
Congressional Proceedings.
NIGHT DISPATCHES
Steamboat Explosion.
Congressional Proceedings,

flags played from prominent riaees IN honor
of the passage Of the Civil Rights bill over
the Presidents veto.
| PORTLAND, ME., April 7.-0ne hundred
| guns were fred this afternoon for the Civil
Rights bill.
TEoY, n. Y, April THE steam tug c.
| H. Eaynor exploded her boiler this after-
noon. Five lives lost, including Capt. c. u.
Haynor, Of West Troy.
| WASHINGTON, April THE President has
approved and signed the bill to provide for
the punishment Of certain crimes against
the United States. It provides that il any
person or persons shall falsely make, alter
forge, or counterfeit, or willingly aid, or
assist in the false making, altering, forging,
or counterfeiting any bend, bid, proposal,
record, or affidavit, or alter writing for the
| purpose Of defrauding the United States, or
shall utter, publish or issue, or cause
TO be uttered or published as true, know
| ing the same to be false, altered, or
eounterfeited, or shall transmit or present,
or cause or procure to be transmitted to or
presented at the Office Of any Office of the
| United States, any such falss, forged, alter
ed or eounterfeited bill, proposal, guarantee,
security, official bond, public record, affida-
Wit or other writing, knowing the same TO
be false, altered or counterieited, for the
purpose Of deirauding the United States,
every such person shall be deemed and
| al judged guilty Of felony, and being there
Of duly convicted, shall be sentenced to be
| imprisoned and kept at hard labor not ex-
ceeding ten years or be fined not exceed
ing one thousand dollars, or both of said
punishments at the discretion of the court.
1t further provides that if any ofiense shall
be committed in any place which has been
or shall hereafter be ceded and be under
. Nr1Hrfn mF# Il.
Ofiense is not provided for or the punish
ment thereof, not especially provided for by
any law Of the United States, such ofense
shall, upon conviction IN any court of the
United States having cognizance thereof, be
liable to and receive the same punishment
as the laws of the State in which place is,
or may be situated, now in full force, pro-
vided for the like oifense when committed
within The Jurisdiction of such State, and
no subsequent repeal of any such State law,
shall effect prosecution for such ofense in
any of the courts Of justice Of the United
States.
NEw YoRK, April 7.-Buildings No. IOI,
1903, and 1O5 East Thirty Third street, owned
by NJ. Lois, was destroyed by fire to-day.
1t was used as Piano Forte mandatory.
Loss $4,000; insured for $4,000.
WASHINGTON, April Tho House set as
if in Committee Of Whole, on the state Of
the Union. The only business in order be- |
ing general debate on the Presidents an
nual message.
Mr.. Hagan, Of No., believed there was !
great deal Of mistaken philanthropy and |
sympathy expended for the colored people |
while they were in slavery, and he pro- |
eeeded to show, from personal experience,
that the slaves Of the south had not had |
such very bad time Of it.
This part Of his speech brought out a Sc
ries Of questioning from Price and others.
Hagsn answered that if he had believed
slavery to be wrong he would Of been glad
that it was exterminated, and that he be-
heved the Democratic party could not die
while liberty lived. And that all declamat-
ing about the negro was great wrong per-
petuated on Congress and the American
people.
Mr.. Hagan proceeded TO show the incon-
sistency Of the Presidents policy of the re
publican party and with the action Of Con
gress throughout the war, and in the adOp-
tion of declamatOry resolutions in reference
to the war, &c, and in the admission to seats
on the floor Of persons claiming 20 be repre-
sentatives from Tennessee and louisiana,
and other matters Of general legislation,
Much of the arguments IN the question had
been against the President Of the United
States. He had been denounced and
abused because his policy was sustained by |
the Democrats in the House. Had he not
been Democrat they would of sustained
him purely from patriotic motives.
Mr.. Baldwin was the next speaker. He
had not sympathized with the eager zeal
exhibited for restoring the insurgent States
to their places in the Union. The work
should have been undertaken with great
deliberation. He thought the policy TO be
Psrfsyiosi with the tfuitvrs shvtsi1 have been
settled before such an element Of recon
structlon had gained foothold, and then il |
would have been successful. Until that
black and bloody spirit, baffled treason, had
been changed and purified by the transfgur-
alton of such returning love for the old
flag and for the honor and glory of the re-
public, as would have brought the sem.
blanee in the genuine loyalty.
He approved Of the Joint support from !
the Reconstruction Committee, but the reso-
luton was not quite free from objection. He
said parts of it were calculated to mislead
many. He meant that portion resolving
"that the State Of Tennessee is hereby de-
clared to be one United States Of America,
On an equal footing with other States" He
thought the resolution right by striking out
the words he had quoted, and substituting
for them something like the following:
ResotUea, That the State of Tennessee is
hereby NeGlNltQ 70 nc tdtlol4GLOFllN reQr- I
yanized, and in lit condition to re-establish |
ler old relations 10 the Government. and
'esume her representation in Congress
He held thag not an acre of southern land
had ceased for a moment to be under the
nation no assumption or proceedings of
reason had repealed the act Of Congress by
which certain territory was declared to be |
he State Of Tennessee. The men who had
onsPired and moved against the Govern
nent, and who we're still unchanged in
mind and spirit-such men as had
cen described in the testimony Of General
'hOmas, should be compelled to stand back !
D wait for time the disabilities Of treason.
here should be no system Of resolutions
hat was grounded on protection ard seeu-
lty Of Union men in the South, and of che =
olored freedmen.
Mr.. Harding, Of Illinois, addressed the
louise in reference to the financial coudi-
on Of the country. It was net by foreign ,
ian, nor by substituting gold into interest
caring bonds, for currency interest bearing
onds, nor by the contraction Of the ma
onal bank currency, that we could reach 4
ne goal Of specie payment; we must not
epend upon them or any of them, but
pom the productive resources of the
Duntry, upon our fertile lands, rich mines, I
owing oil wells-all the elements of ma
onal wealth. The development of these
ould make specie payment attainable ; but Ii
ptIl than No Iariefoff.n could orhfa,-. ~ | \