The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-03-27


Our Consul at Liverpool, England, in
forms the State Department, by. letter dated
March 9th, 1866, that all the steamers and
emigrant ships now leaving that port for the
United States are filed with emigrants Ship
owners and Others say that the emigration to
the United States will be enormous: and the
indications are that it will be greater this
year than at any other time since we have
been a nation.
On the return of Senator Howard (who
went home to attend the funeral of his wife
that section of the Joint Committee on Re
construction of which he is chairman will
submit the testimony taken concerning Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
This will include The evidence of Gen. Lee.
Wash. Star.
On the Congress vote last year the ag-
gregate majority for the Radical Disunion-
lists, in New Hampshire, was in round num-
beers 1900 Now the majority for Smyth
for Governor is $500. Disunion loss, 1000.
The boys in blue were at home this year.
The Freedmens Employment Office,
corner Fourteenth and M streets, yesterday
sent sixty men, from the unemployed freed
men of this city, to Helena, Arkansas, under
contract to work one year. Another lot of
thirty will leave on Monday, for the State of
Mississippi-Nltt. Intellige1acer.
Until within a day or two there was but
the civil rights bill. Nearly every one ex-
pected it to receive the Presidents signature
This evening an adverse opinion gains
ground. but may rest on little or no founda-
tion.-Cor ~ Y. Herald.
1t will be seen under our Department
head, that upon the advice of the Attorney
General all arrears of pension money to be
paid to such Southern pensioners as shall
prove their participation in the rebell-
ion.-Ndt. Lnteltigencer.
The health of Senator Foot, who has
been very ILL., is improving, and his physi-
clans hope that he will be able to get out in
fortnight.
We regret to learn that Mr.. Senator Dixon
has been for several days detained from his
seat in the Senate by illness SO severe as to
inspire serious apprehensions among his
friends. His symptoms, however, during the
last day or two, hive been of Il more favora-
BILE nature, and encourage the hope of his
recovery, we hope at an carly day.-Nat Int.
We learn that the whiskey distillers OF
New York, who have recently been detected
in committing frauds on the revenue, are to
be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
The criminal clause of the revenue law is to
be vigorously enforced in their cases.-I0id.
The President held levee Monday night,
the Gath inst
Six Southern Senators elect are now
present in Washington-among them Shar-
key and Parsons.
The postmaster at Hartford, Ct, re-
Gently addressed President johnson note,
rendering his resignation, upon the grounds
that he was supporting the Democratic NOM
inee in Connecticut, who supported Presi-
dent Johnson's policy in opposition to Gen.
Hawley, the Republican nominee. If his
political action was not satisfactory, he said
that he wished to resign. President John
son returned the resignation unaccepted, and
telling him that his unfolding of his policy
acaS dppT0ced.
As many applications continue to be
made for copies of Mr.. Bancrofts Grafton on
the death of President Lincoln, it will be OF
interest to learn that several months will
elapse before the publication, a steel plate
likeness of the deceased will be prepared to
accompany it.
The Treasury Department is still APP
plying itself to the suppression of frauds
in the collection of cotton in the Southern
States. Many of the agents have been re-
lieved, and there are to be no seizures or deten-
tions of cotton or other property as captured
or abandoned, unless by special written di-
rections in each case from the Treasury De
partment. 1t is known here that the Con
federate Government cotton has been remov-
ed, thus perpctrating a doubtful fraud on
the Government and on innocent individuals
The Treasury Department has received
an oath of office from an officer down South
with the interlineation after the sentence
where it states, Never having borne arms
against or given aid or comfort to its enc
miles, inserted except having been Cap
tain in the Confederate States Army" Hav-
ing taken that oath, he entered upon the du-
ties of his office.
The House having cut down the appro-
priation in the deficiency bill for lighting
the Presidents House and the Capitol, from
$S5. 900 to $4,000. the Senate restored it on
the motion of Mr.. Myers, who explained that
this amount was due for gas burned last win
ter. The Senate amendment was concurred
in.