New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-20
LATER FROM THE NORTH
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

dates OF TIL e 18th.
i From Washington. =.
4 s4EtE MR. pAvIs's TRIAL.
| w.su,ssyos, April 4l5.---The published state.
: ment that preparations are being made ip the
i United States District Court at Richmond for the
! trial of Mr.. Davis is untrue. The court cannot
4 convene until certain legislation has been gone
/ through with. The House Judiciary Committee
| hold out limitations that they will very soon sub
nit t cir report on the subject to the House. anG
| recommend at the same time the proper steps IL
be taken. Legislation looking to the more perfec
organization OF the court is not looked upon as
an &c post tdcto character. 55s HG
REFINEMENT OF IsoLpRRs.
Quartermaster General Meigs is contemplating
the removal of the remains of Union soldiers from
the battle fields Of Bull Run Kettle Run, and othel
battle fields, along the line of the Orange ano
Alexandria railroad, between Alexandria and the
Rappahannock crossing. The remains will be
brought to Arlington Cemetery and be deposited
in some vaults under ground, over which cairns o.
stones may be erected.
| te THE AMIABLE AFRICAN.
4 Notwithstanding the fact that there is great need
4 of labor throughout the country, North as well
as South, and that extra inducements are held out
4 to the swarm of confrabands now at the seat OF
4 government to employ themselves at good wages,
vet il is with great difficulty that many can be pre-
! vailed upon TO- accept the offers made for their
4 services. .,,Ssf@4s# 4s a #ssq I'D
THE ARMY BILL.
I The House Military Committee intend to press
to an early vote the bill proposing an increase
Of the army. 1t will be earnestly debated to.mor,
row. Its successis endangered by the hostility of
the war department, and nearly all of the present
regular army. 60
4 FREEpMEN's SCHOOLS.
The superintendent of freedmens schools has
rendered his report to the commissioner for the
m onth of March last. 1t exhibits the following as
4 the condition of the freedmen's schools at the
| close Of last month: The number of schools was
| 81, employing III teachers and accommodating
| 6032 seholars-32l0 boys, and 1922 girls of which
number 795 are in the alphabet 1862 in arithmetic,
1886 in geography, 2l97 in writing, and 2ol in the
higher studies G
PROTECTION FOR WOOL.
"A large number Of petitions have been received
within few days, by members of Congress, from
the citizens OF New England and Pennsylvania
asking for an increased duty on foreign DOL.
DAN. L. D1ckNsoN's SUCCESSOR.
The President has appointed S. G. Courtney
United States District Attorney for New York, in
place of Dan. S. Dickinson, deceased. Mr.. Court.
ney is the latter's son-in-law.
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE following PROPOSE
ton, submitted by Hon. Robert Dale Owen, is now
under consideration by the Reconstruction Com
mittee. 1t is intended as an amendment to the
Constitution:
Section one provides that on and after the 4th of
July, 1876, there shall be no discrimination in the
United States on account of color, but that all
male citizens of the age of twenty one years shall
be legal voters at all elections, Federal and State
Section two provides that for the period of ten
years from the 4th of July next, representation in
Congress, and electoral votes for President and
Vice President, shall be apportioned according to
the number of legal vOtersin the respective States
and after that period by population as at present
Section three declares that there shall be no dis
elimination of civil rights from and after the pas.
sage of this amendment. affirming in effeetthe con
stitutonaiity of the civil rights bill. Section four
provides that no obligations liabilities incurred
IN aid Of the rebellion, or compensation for slaves
emancipated by the military authorities, shall be
paid by the United States or any State.
To the margin is attached an enabling act which
provides that when any one Of the rebel States
shall have ratified the foregoing amendment, and
changed Its constitution and laws to correspond
Herewith, it shall be allowed to participate in
legislation and its representatives be authorized to
take their seats in Congress, without any other
terms or provisions.
1t will be seen from the foregoing amendment
that any State may enfranchse its colored citizens
at any time within the next ten years, and it will
thereby give full representation; while those
States which refuse to extend the franchise for
the probationary term of tenyears, will only enjoy
representation on the white basis. 1t is believed
that many of the Southern States, for tile sake Of
securing increased representation in Congress and
in the electoral college, would confer the right of
suffrage upon the blacks, perhaps as soon as the
next session of Congress. While the leading radi-
cal members of Congress have not committed
themselves 70 this plan, it is favorably regarded
and is receiving serious thought.
4 DfsMANTLING OF FoRTIFIeATIoys |
The last of the Notifications on the north side OF
he Potomac has been dismantled, and tile ordi-
lance and ordinance stores deposited in the ar
enal. ia .,
r. LABoRERs FOR THE SOUTH.
Between four and five hundred freedmen. resid
ng In the vicinity Of Alexandria, yesterday signed
contracts to go to North Carolina and other South
,rn States, to'labor on plantations at wages, rang
ng from fifteen to thirty dollars per month and
board. The freedmen's bureau there is, flooded
with applications, from the South for colored.I
abor. en- ~ n
s saa d; BURIAL OF UNION SOLDIERS. 55EEzs 4
Col. Ludington, chief quartermaster Of the
department., within the last few months has sue
seeaed in Identifying and removing to the National
Cemetery at Arlinton, about one thousand SIX
hundred bodies Of Union soldiers, buried On the
8ullRnn, Wilderness and Spottsylvania battleRelds
fsSs e IMPORTANT RECORDS DESTROYED Is
Il DIR. D. A. Spence, who was surgeon Of the post
lospitalsat Richmond, Va, during the war iii re-
by to inquiry made by the government authori.
les whether he could furnish any information con.
,erning the Union dead buried near Richmond,
tates that he had induced the undertaken to keep
record of the Federal soldiers thatwere buried
md TO mark their grayes, but thattherecords were
destroyed by the condagration which occurred on
he evacuation Of that city. s . ss.
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-Among.the most promi-
lent propositions under consideration by the
Committee on Reconstructioni is one presented BY
Hon.. John A.. Bingham. 1t is in the form of an
to the Constitution, and is as follows
No state shall pass or enforce any law which
hallinnpair or deny any of the privileges or i'm
nunities of citizens of the United States nor
hall any State deprive any person of life liberty
IL property without due process Of law. nor take
private property for public use without Just com
oensafion, nor deny the equal protection Of the
avs to all persons therein, and, Congress Shall
nave power to pass all laws which shall be neces-
sary and proper to carry into execution this pro-
vision.
This, in connection with his amendment guard
ing against any future payment of the Confederate
debt, which has already passed the House, is
thought by Mr.. Bingham to covers all the condi-
ions necessary to the admission of the Southern
States to representation in Congress- provided, of
course that the Representatives shall be able to
subscribe to such oath as Congress may prescribe