The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-24

for the 39tb.
The senat. has confirmed the appointment
ofVan Yoikcnburc a. Minister TO Japan. and
Maltin j Ryder. United States Marshal toI
Tennt s5ee.
The admission of the Tennessee delegation
/ TO Congress is regarded only question of
( time.
+ The Way and Means Committee at Wash
iugtou have arrived at 10 conclusion on the
+ loan bill. II is generally believed it viii he
adopted.
In the United States Senate yesterdy bill
! was reported authorizing the construction OF
a telegraph line between New York and the
West Indies.
I In the Senate the credentials of Mr.. Mar
/ vim. Senator elect from Florida, were pre-
sen.s and offered TO be@aid on the table.
/ The bill enlarging the powers ofthe Freed
mems Bureau was discussed, and an amend
/ ment TO the bin was adopted, making wand
| for three wears, instead OF forever, as in the
/ original bill the titles OF lands given to ne
| groes by the orders issued AZ Savannah by
/ Mai Gen, Sherman last winter.
/ Hoase.-AIr Deering OF Connecticut, made
{ a speech maintaining that the government
has aSright 70 treat the Southern States rs
+ CONQUERED rebels Hea1id fhe loyalty there
was little. tie Submission Ui the people beng
/ from necessity. He mentioned 4 series OF
/ guarantees which ought TO lie eNactcd before
I they.shan be allowed representation, lnciud-
ing the perfect equality OF the blacks before
the law with the whites.
+ Mr.. Smith of Kentucky, indorsed the Pres
( ident's restoration policy, denied that the
Southern States Were out of the Union, and
7 claimed that now they were Obedient TO the
laws. they ought to be represented.
The government has relieved Provisional
Governor Marvin, and recognized ID. 5.
i Walker as the consttutionally elected GOV
ernor of Florida.
/ The Star SAYS the government viii notify
our officers on the Rio Grande at once that
strict neutrality must be preserved.
The Treasury Department has decided
that where he holder of a certificate of III
debtedness failed to indorse il, he was en-
titled to it. In the above ease the certifi-
cate was stolen from the mail
New YORK, Jan. ia young man named
Chas. Terrenlay, while carrying a package
of SIl 900 in treasury notes and a large
amount of checks through William street,
New York, to Park Bank, was knocked down
and robbed One thousand dollars reward
is offered for the recovery OF the m0neE.
Trestam and Clark, of the Adams Express
Company robbery, were committed in de-
fault OF bail TO the amount OF $500
The Henry Channy, from A~ninwall
brought $4,000 IN specie
The Fenian Senate has adopted Tesolu-
tion requesting President Roberts to cali a
! Congress at Pitts6urg to meet on the 18Th
OF February.
The papers publish list of the paroled
prisoners and discharged soldiers who were
lost on the steamship Gen Lyon. on tie
2Sth of March
/ New five cent notes Were issued yesterday.
The Secretary of the Treasury viii reduce
his clerical force from 21G0 to 5000.
Col Loomis, Special Treasury Agent, is
investigating the matter of the burning of
$1,000 worth of government cotton in Rich
mond last Tuesday.
RICHMOND, Jan. l9.-The Governor has
sent a communication to the House of Del
egates indorsing the memorial of the New
York and Virginia Steamship Company for
compensation for two steamers valued at
100000, seized at the wharf in Richmond
at the beginning of the war
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-. Jan 19-The Eagle flour
ing mills, with 2000 bushels Of wheat aud
1000 sacks of -four were destroyed by fire
last night
WASHINGTON, JAN. 20-Alr. Guthrie, in
speaking on the bill to enlarge the powers
Of the Freedmen's Bureau, believed tho
States could take care of the freedmen much
better than the Freedmen's Bureau The
bill was providing for LazarOni throughout
the Southern States. and he wanted no suOh
within Kentucky. If the bill was intended
as a matter of economy it could have been
better accomplished by encouraging the ad-
mission of the Southern States.
Mr. Pomeroy was glad Mr.. Guthrie admit
ted the constitutional amendment rendered
null all the slave codes and laws relating to
slavery
Mr. Guthrie replied it was his opinion and
that of very able lawyer of Lexington,
from whom he received letter on the
subject.
Mr. Pomeroy continued, saying he would
do nothing to the Southern States for re-
venge, but only for their security in the
future
New YORK, Jan. 20-The Commercials S
Washington special says Senior Romero, the
Mexican Minister, does not credit the re
ports of the withdrawal of the French troops
from Mexico. He asserts that Napoleon is
intent upon a scheme of territorial agsran-
disement; that he has counted the cost and
will only withdraw when compelled by force
or by the entire submission of Mexico TO his
agent, AaXimilian.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2l.-The House com
mittee on Freedmen's affairs. or a portion
thereof, will shortly visit some of the South
ern States
NEW YORK, Jan. 2l-The publishers of
the Police Gazette were arrested YESTERDAY
upon an affidavit OLA. T. Stewart for a libel
in an article on the sudden disappearance OF
B. BToadset, a broker, and a lady recently
connected with the French theatre
Miller & Conger's warehouse, on South
Water street, between Pike and Rutleyn.
containing cotton, hemp rags, sugar and
iron, which belonged to various parties, was
consumed by fire to-day, involving a loss of
S500000.
The reported steamer fitting out here as a
prlvateer has gone to sea as a Chilian pri-
vatecr to prey on Spanish commerce Three
gunboats are said to be building for the
Chiian government
John A. Cooke, late cashier of the Catskill
New York; National Bank, is reported to be
defaulter in the sum of $4,000 Tho col
Iatterals obtained will cover the loss
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 21.-There was a
large meeting of Fenians here last night
1t was addressed by Rogers, Kilian aud
others.
Mr.. Killian said the success of the Feni-
ans would give this country foreign pol
icy, which they sadly needed, and which
II lnaugurated SIX OF eight years ago, would
have saved this country from a civil war
CINCINNATI, Jan. 2l.-Col. Knott and Cap
tain Hlne, the proprietar of the Planters
House, had a difficulty about the character
OF lady boarder. Knott was fatally stabbed
by IIuc.
PITIsa BURG, Jan. 2I.-The river is rising,
with zine feet in the channel. Ice is run
ming heavily in the river and win probably
prevent steamers from leaving until the
wea aar mOderates. \ few have gotten off
however, The weather is eloudv and very
cold
FOREIGN.
HALIFAX, Jan. 20.-The steamer Asia has
arrived en- route for Boston, from Liverpool
the 9th, and Queenstown the eth inst
There has been a revolt on the part of two
Spanish regiments under Gen Prim. but il
made no progress. The insurgents are being
pursued TO the mountains
French rentes closed at 6Sf 2Tcentimes.
The London Times anticipates that Napo
leon, by next January, will have to with
draw his troops from Mexico and Rome.
Mazzini is dangerously i'll at TouIon
A railroad train, containing the Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland and wife was fired at by
a person unknown. The driver narrowly
Two young men, respectively named Hen
ry Wilson and John Clewn, recently return
ed from America. had been arrested for Fe-
nianism
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