The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-04-01
The Latest News.

! WASHINGTON, March I0.-The yeas and
nays in the House show that the bankrupt
bill is rejected by seventy three against fifty
! nine.
Stevens asked consent to introduce an
/ amendment to the Constitution, declaring
! that Congress shall have power to levy duty
on cotton exported. Hopper, Of Massa-
! chUsetts, objected
/ The supreme court sustained the Govern
meut in all cases which have come before
/ 1t. BY these decisions the Government and
CaptUrS secure not less than two millions
The opinion of the Chief Justice relative
to the captured vessels Bermuda and Ste
/ phcn Hart, eutOTCes the validity of the cap
/ ture of vessels in ports which were INTENDED
for British Islands, with cargo for insur-
gents. The court applied the rules of war
/ to American vessels captured and adjusted
in the British prize court III former wars as
/ pronounced by Lord Stoweu
Gen. Baker was sentenced to pay one dol
/ lar and costs
In the Cobb case, ROije pros. was entered;
no other Indictment against him.
In the examination Of General Lee before
/ the Reconstruction Committee, the follow
ing questions and answers indicating the
substance ofhis testimony were given:
Question: understand it to be yOUr
opinion that generosity and Eberality to-
ward the entire South would be the surest
means of rcgainiug their good opinion
Answer-Ies, and the spcediest.
Question: understand you to say, Cen
eral, that you had no approximations of any
combination among the leading SeceSsionists
/ to renew the war, or anything of the kind!
/ Answer have no reason in the world
to think so.
PHILADELPHIA, March 29-The Fenian
excitement continues. Meetings have been
held, and new circles are forming Liberal
subscriptions have been made to bonds.
MADISON, WIS, March 2s-The Supreme
/ Court of Wisconsin has decided the act of
IS49, giving the negroes the right to vote, is
constitutional.
WASHINGTON, March 29-The President
in replying to a New Jersey Committee in
dorsing his policy, said you must take my
public acts for Il reply. My line of policy is
unmistakable and l have advanced too far
| IN life to make any TetTograde movement.
NEW YORK, March 29-The steamships
City of Baltimore, and Fulton, from Liver
pool, have arrived; news anticipated. The
Secretary of the Treasury gave permission
to- admit their cargo of South American
hides, if they came from region free from
! the cattle plague
TORONTO March 29-Orders have been
given to muster ont the surplus volunteers
Ten thousand will be kept as a standing
army of observation on the frontier.
\ Washington special says Secretary Me
CUllOch yesterday stated that the May in
terest due on the Five-twenties would he
paid early in April The amount of gold
required is twenty-five millions.
Preston Kings SUretieS have applied to be
released from their bonds.
The Herald'S Paris letter contains the
/ text OF secret convention between NapO-
| leon and Macmillan, concluded the goth of
last September, fixing the pay and position
of Il large number of French agents III Mex
leo for five years from that date.
ii f1,a
Senate finance Committee have reached no
conclusion with regard to the Loan bill. 1t
viii not be definitely acted upon before next
week.
New YORK, March 29.-Gold 27S.
MESSAGES FROM THE LOST SHIP.-Some
touching relics of the London lost on the
passage to Australia, have been discovered
scaled up in bottles ON the coast of Quiberon.
They were messages written by persOns~On
board when all hope had fled. One, dated
the 10th of January, is signed ID w. Lem
mon, and runs thus: The ship is sinking;
no hope of being saved. Dear parents, may
God bless you, also me, with the hope Of
eternal salvation" Another, dated the 18th,
reads: f. c. Mcmillan, of Launceston, Tas-
mania, 18th OF January, 1866, to his dear
wife and his dear children. May God bless
yot all Farewell for this world. Lost in
the steamship London, bound for Mel
| bourne 20 a tnlru is TO the 1ouoWlnS eIHcU
| al J. Denis to Jh. Denis Knight, at Great
/ Standardization, father, brothers, and sis
| tiers, and my-Edi Steamer London, Bay
of Bscay, Thursday 10 o'clock. Ship too
| heavily laden for its size, and too crank;
windows stove in-water coming i'll every
/ where. God bless my poor orphans. Re
| quest to send this paper, if found, to Great
| Shelford. Storm not too strong for ship III
in good condition" On the same day We're
/ fouud on the shoals of OuiberOn u pinnacle
watch, stopped at l04 o'clock, woman's
shift two cotton sheets, two splinters OF
wood having on them in white letters two
] and a half inches lone. the word "London.-