Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-04-12

In an actlon at IIpetatpla the liberal General
Cano was defeated by the imperial General Vivasco
with the loss of sixty -three killed.
Portirio Diaz, the liberal general, met body of
imperial troops under Colonel Acerval at Llano
Grande, and Diaz defeated with loss and one
hundred of his men taken prisoners
The news much elated the imperial garrison at
Acapulco.
The liberal general Alvarez is said to have two
thousand men.
Correspondent Of the Richmond Examiner.l
WASHINGTON, April 7, 1866.
The Senate has passed the Civil Rights Bill
the twin brother of the enlarged Freedmens Blu
reau Bill-over the head of the President 33 to IS
Only one Senator absent, Mr. Dixon, whose
vote would have made the minority sixteen
There was one vacancy, that of the seat of Mr..
Stockton.
This is the first distinct triumph hich the radi-
cal Republicans have gained over the President
They entirely intoxicated with their success
Their violence and arrogance knows bounds.
The most savage and ruffanly assaults made
upon the President, upon the floor of the
Senate and in the Republican organs. The bill
will pass the House without doubt, though Mr..
Raymond is endeavoring to rally some fifteen Re-
publican votes, which, in addition to the thirty
eight negatives on the passage of the bill, would
sustain the veto, but the effort is idle. The tide
which for moment was on the turn, now sets
strongly against the President.
The radicals must be very much reioiced at their
own triumph. They fearful of disorganiza-
ton among themselves a consequence of the
loss Of the Civil Rights Bill. They rendered to
the President a compromise on the subject, offer
ing to admit Southern loyal representation if he
would sign this bill. Mr.. Garrett Davis stated
this fact in the Senate yesterday, and it is well
known here. Senator Wilson and several other
republican Senators and Representatives and a
Justice of the Z. S. Supreme Court made a for
NAL proposition to the President to the effect
above stated. But they have carried their point
without any compromise, and they will not admit
even loyal representation from any of the
eleven States-not even from Tennessee-with Or
without conditions.
Congress will now enter upon a new and unre-
strained career of legislation the jurisdiction
of the Southern States and their own local affairs.
They are getting up another bill in place of the
vetoed Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which they will
be able to pass over the Presidents head Other
mischievous legislation is in preparation, and will
be soon matured. The radicals intend to follow up
their hand while in a vein of luck
Spies throughout the South are on the watch
for every movement of the Executive in regard to
the administration of the Freedmens Bureau.
With more vigilence and distrust the administra-
ton of the Civil Rights Bill will be watched. !
Upon the President the duty is devolved of exc
cutting law which he has vetoed as unconstitu- |
tonal. 1t is not improbable that before the close
of the session representations will be made to
Congress that the President does not faithfully
execute" this law. Upon some charge of this kind
it will be attempted to base articles of impeach-
ment against him.
Mr.. A. H. Stephens is still here. Gen. Grant
has made a friendly call upon him. He will be
examined before the Committee on Reconstruc-
ton. Gen. Grant has ordered the discharge of
Bradley L. Johnson, and it is said that Capt.
Raphael Semmes owes his release also to the de-
cision of Gen. Grant that he was included in the
parole of Johnston s forces.
KAPPA.
The Civil Rights Bill-The Radicals Jubilant anu
Confdent-Dimculty of Executing the Civil
Rights Bill, &c.
Correspondence Of the Baltimore SUM-
WASHINGTON, April s, 1866
The civil rights bill will take effect as a law,
after its passage by the House. Mr..
RAYMOND, it is said, is making effort to arrest
it's passage by the requisite othirds by ralying
moderate Republicans to the rescue, but it is not
probable that the thrty-eight members who vo-
ted in the negative the orig inal passage of the
bill will find Gheir number increased. The cur
rent sets strongly in favor of radioalism in both
houses. Ghe radical or leading wing of the Re |
publican majority is very Jubilant They will soon
attempt greater achievements. A new Freedmen |
Bureau bill will soon be reported from the Senate
Committee the Judiciary, and the ma or- |
ity for it over the Presidents head, which on
Friday obtained is confidently claimed
The Radicals consider their power in Congress |
as well established They had some reason to fear |
that few leading Senators would, like Mr. Cow |
an and Mr.. Doolittle, take an independent posi-
ton, but this is no longer expected. So anxious
were some of the leading Republicans for the en-
actment of the civil rights BILL that they made !
overtures of compromise to the President where |
by, if he would approve of this BILL they would |
endeavor to secure the admission of Southern 10y
al Representatives. Mr.. Davis asserted the fact |
that this offer made by Senators and Justices
Of the United States Supreme Court, in the Sen |
ate discussion Friday, and one will deny |
it.
The President, in preparing to execute the civil |
rights bill, will be obliged to call upon Congress
for modification of the test oath, which all Off
GERS appointed under the law must take The ar
my of commissioners, whose number is unlimited |
must be sent from the North, unless the test oath
be so modified to enable Southern citizens to |
accept the Office The President will not appoint |
citizens promiscuously, according to the spirit CT
the bill, to these Offices. The question must soon
be made, under this law, whether the citizenship
which it confers upon the blacks and upon the Chi
nese and the gipses &C., does not entitle them to
hold Office The construction of the bill in several
particulars is still matter of dispute and it must
be settled by appeals to the United States Supreme
Court.
Considerable interest prevails in political circles
IS to the probable of the President, now
that the civil rights bill is to become a law over
his veto and though the Radicals are much elated
by their temporary triumph, they are not wanting
IN anxiety that subject In testing the consti
of the law before the Supreme Court,
a decision, in all probability, would not there be
reached under twelve or eighteen months; and, in
n the meantime, there is little donbt that the
conservative masses will have sent men here who l.
will represent their views the great problems of
he day.
HE DRY TURTUGAs PRISONERS. govern
nent transport Eliza Hancox, from Galveston on
he 22d ult. touching the Florida coast, brings to
Fortress Monroe several discharged prisoners and
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