Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-04-14
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Tennessee Legislature.

House Of Representatives had IN exciting
yesterday, ending with newly
members being admitted in suti-
cient numbers to make a quorum. After
this the Franchise Bill passed by a con-
stitutional vote. This bill relates only to
white suffrage; but excludes rebels and
rebel sympathisers, under the most strin-
gent penalties. Radical triumphs are at
tanned in defiance of the Speaker, who is
conservative who, to prevent proceedings
which would have driven him from the
chair. yielded the point and allowed the
report from Committee on Elections to be
received in favor of all claimants, except
recent boilers; these will not be admitted
on the ground that their election was in
contempt of the House. Some OF the de-
feated radicals will be admitted on the re-
vision of the poll-list, excluding fraudu-
lent votes.
Important Decision.
The Court at st. Louis has decided thai
Judges Dryden and Bay, of the Supreme
Court of Missouri, were properly removed
from office by Governor Fletcher, under
order Of the Constitutional Convention,
and that they therefore have no claim for
damages.
Supreme Court W.. Ministerial and
Test Onths.
Private advices from Washington say
the United States Supreme Court stood
unanimously opposed to the ministerial
ties. oath in the Missouri Constitution, and
on the question Of lawyers oaths-fve
against the validity to four for it. Judge
Field will write the opinion of the Court:
Governor Hamilton, OF Texas, ON
state OrdInnuces.
Governor Hamilton, of Texas, made a
speech recently, in which he opposed some
ordinances passed by the Convention, as
not being republican or meeting demands
made upon that body /; that they had
passed but one ordinance which accorded
fully with the Presidents policy, and that
was one declaring the war debt null and
void. He appealed from the action OF the
Convention to the people; that the Con-
vention had passed IN ordinance exempt
ing all persons who under authority OF
civil or military power had inflicted injury
on persons during the war from being held
accountable. Such action would not
and should not shield them. He called
upon loyal people Of the State to work to-
gether ; he believed that provision should
be made to admit q negro to vote, If he
was educated. The Convention had re-
fused this-also refused to receive for the
blacks any quota Of school fund or to
make provision for their education (; that
they had been taxed to assist in sending
their children to school. He intended to
denounce to the people those who had
worked against the interest of the State.
Ssuihern Press on /" Civil Rights"
CHICAGO. April l3. The Southern
papers have vigorous articles on the Fed
eral situation-.called out particularly by
the Civil Rights bill. They counsel peo-
pie of the South to wait until the next
Congress c~onvcnes, and put all their trust
in the President.
Murder i'm Philadelphia.
A shocking murder was discovered in
Philadelphia last Wednesday afternoon,
April 18th. Christopher Deering, wife.
four children, q niece and q servant boy,
in all eight persons, were found to have
been killed under circumstances showing
hellish brutality in the use Of weapons.
Deering was q man Of moderate means,
living on a small farm in the lower part
of the city, and it is supposed the murder
was committed by a German laborer four
days before its discovery. The motive
was not apparent.
Prescription Threatened.
WASHINGTON, April Ex-senator Cow
an has been welding an x which he
boasts he has power to use against Penn
Radicals. The most prominent
of the scheme is to turn Radicals
out of Office and supply their places with
Gen. Joseph F. Kuipc has been nomi-
mated tor Postmaster ut Harrisburg.
1t is also understood that Ex-Governor
VIM F. Johnson, who made a speech
here last week in support Of the President,
has been appointed Collector Of Internal
Reyenue at Pittsburg.
For Pardon or Hnbens C~orpus-The
President again Defnes the Peace
Proclamation.
Judge Peabody waited on the President
to-day and asked pardon for Il. C. A.
Dexter, late Treasurer at Mobile, now an
der sentence of court-martial, or at least
for some assurance that Aabeas corpus
might be enforced under the Peace Proc
lamation.
The President informed the Judge that
the Proclamation was a simple declaration
Of policy, and was not intended to declare
the termination of martial law in the
Southern States.
Howard on Necessary Dehni-
tions by Inv.
Gen. Howard has written a long letter to
Elliot, select committee, on freedmen's az
fairs, urging legislation with respect to the
Bureau-to define its powers.
He points out that the period for its c~ontinu-
anee should be definitely fixed. 1t should be
declared by law whether Maryland and Ken
lucky are or are not included within the ju-
risdiction Of the Bureau; lands should be set
apart on favorable terms. Such an act, il
signed tY the President, would give great
Managers of National Asylum.
The joint resolution has passed the House,
and is now pending in the Senate, appoint
the following managers Of the National
for disabled soldiers: Geo. r.
Oglesby. Of Illinois; Benjamin F. Butler,