Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON,

next President there will be less object in the eXclu
sion of the South.
Many members are willing to close the session as
soon as the appropriation bills can be passed leav-
ing the President TO administer the Government as
far as the law will permit according to his own pol
lev They assume that the President will not enter
into general system of political prescription in the
recess of Congress- and that if he does, they will
make as much capital out of it as lie will
MORE MORTALITY AMONG THE INDIANS.
St German. another of the Chippewa Indians,
delegation of whom is now in this city, died yester-
Gay of the same disease that carried of his chief.
Af.moose He was also placed in one of Scollay's
cases and buried in the Congressional
Cemetery. Others of the Indians are yet very i'll
and but slight hopes of their recovery are entertain
ed This is owing greatly to the conduct OF the In.
dams themselves who refuse to obey the orders OF
their physicians and insist upon using heulclhes oil
their own; and they also aggravate the disease I'M
der which they suffer by indulging in liquor which
they induce their companions TO obtain for them.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS ELL.
Leading Democrats and Republicans, including
some pretty radical ones on both sides, are Of the
opinion that the President will return this bill with
his objections The chances of veto, however, are
not so certain on this bill they were on the Blu
reau bill.
WHO CAN IDENTIFY HIM
The Secretary of War has an individual under
lOck ana hey VIII - suSltttcu VI DSlhB
but suspicion does not make him that individual,
and the party in question denies that he is the per
son. Who can identify him. Telegrams have been
despatched portions of Missouri for parties who are
supposed to know the prisoner, and when they ar.
rive perhaps the present mystery may be cleared
up.
A. II. STEVENS, ESQ,
Does not make any particular haste in obeying the
alleged summons Of the Reconstruction Committee
to appear before them. as learn from letter from
him that he was quietly at his home on the 18TH in
slant ten days after the reported summons was said
to have been issued. by the way, the two or three
columns of matter from Georgian that appeared
in the New York Tribune some time since, in which
Davis Stephens and Others were introduced-the
folly" of the former and the foresight OF the lat
ter and "why the peace mission failed, forming the
points of the letter--Mr. Stephens char
acterizes "a fancy sketch throughout; there were
some facts some truths in it, but these so dis
torted and SO mixed up with errors, that the whole
may be set down as the work of ina gination."-
THE TRUTH of history adds Mr. Stephens, ''is hard
to get"
THE PRESIDENT AND THE NEW ORLEANS MUNICIPAL
GOVERNMENT.
Reports and counter reports have been in circula
ton within few days concerning the Presidents
interference in the municipal government of New
Orleans. The facts are substantially these: Mr..
Kennedy the present old Mayor OF the city, tele-
graphed to the President on the 10th instant, eX
pressing or implying doubts as to the fitness or eg
bility of his successor elect, Mr.. Monroe, and enqu
ring whether or not he should yield the succession
The President replied AS follows by telegraph
- | have no information TO give in regard TO sur.
rendering the Mayoralty of New Orleans to the per-
son elected to fill the position. have no Informal
ton showing that the election was not regular or
that the individual who has been elected cannot
qualify. In the absence of such proof the presump
ton that the election has been according to law,
and that the person elected can take the oath OF al
legance and loyalty required.
Mr.. Monroe seems to have known that efforts were
being made to keep him ont of Office, and also telc
gaphed the President, yesterday that he had been
regularly elected Mayor of New Orleans, and that
he is as loyal to the Union and as enthusiastically
in favor of the reconstruction policy OF the President
as any man living and can qualify according to
law" The President replied TO this by repeating the
telegram sent to Mr.. Kennedy, thus leaving the mat
ter where it properly belongs to the people of New
Orleans and the civil and military laws that govern
snch cases.
THE RADICALS IN BAD HUM0R.
The Radicals ale nOticeably mOrose and sc0wling
to-day and the general inference is that the uneX-
pected somerset of Senator Stewart two days ago is
already bearing more nnpaaabc fruit than any one
of them expected. His resolutions are understood
to embody the views of his fatler-nlaw, II. s.
Footc, and Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi, and
are such Radical with the slightest regard for
consistency dare oppose. Vote for them they must
Their fears are that when such men a. Governor
Sharkey favor them, the majority of the Southern
people may also be induced 10 do So as the speedest
means of ending their troubles and gaining admis-
sion for their delegations 1t Is also feared by many
that negro suffrage in tue South would turn the
political ashes on the lips of its Northern adj
vocates and that it would in fact only serve
to strengthen the influence of Southern leaders
and increase Southern representation 1t would
also settle forever the negro question:" and
deprive them of their principal stock in trade. No
thing but financial questions would he left for party
issues. and upon these the old Democratic doctrines
would everywhere prevail. Should Stewart resO.
luton pass Congress and be adopted by the South.
ern States, tue iar-seeing members uf the Repub-
can party admit to-day that Democracy would in-
evitably come into pawer at the next Presidential
election. The intention of the Radicals is n keen
the Southern States from any partcin alton in this
and twill not he surprising II ncny of them oppose
thelr own teachings ~ "oting against the Stewart
resolutions.
BlSD"11 MCGML, of Richmond, preached Sunday at
st. Matthews Church, and in the course of his re.
marks alluded in deprecating terms to the Fenian
movement.
THE ARLINGTON ESTATE.
The freed people who formerly belonged to G.. ".
p Gusts have petioned Congress, setting forth that
under his will they were to receive a comfortable
subsistence during life and that they are now deSti-
tue. They consequently ask dhat they and their
children-SOme fifty, all told-may respectively re-
ceive ten acres of the Arlington estate.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
The Department of State has received dispatches
from cur Consul ut TObascO, Mexico dated January
3, 1866, in which he communicates the discovery Of
the ruins of two ancient cities, which have remained
unknown since the days of the conquest. The first,
he says, from its topography and situation he is led
to believe is the occupied by Cortez at the time
of his invasion of ObascO, and is situated bout f
teen miles 10 the west of Frontera a town at the
mouth of the Tobasc0 or Grijo!oa river The other
is situated in the northeastern portion of the State,
nearly opposite the present city of Laguna de los
TcrHinOs, and was known before the conquest a.
XicOianGa The traditions connected with 1t trace
its origin to period mt least two hundred years be-
fore the Christian era.
RESIGNATION ACCEPTED.
The War Department has accepted tile resignation
of Major General William Il. franklin 10 take effect
on the 18th inst General Franklin has been on
leave of absence for four months, and now tenders
his resipnlion for the purpose of accepng the posi-