The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-02-22

Specials TO New, XHsko0Anies.

+, as 10 w',YxSsh HslI...
700 a klt New YORK, Feb. 81.
The Tribune special says Gen. Terry tes-
r6a &f~~-the Reconstruction Ocnnlttee
m67eH Tor Richmond. Z =,
mems Bureau Bill to. day, incorporating the
Presidential features.
Brigadier General Gregory, Assistant Com
missioner of the Freedmens Bureau for the
State of Texas, under date of Galveston, Jan.
3lst, reports to Gen. Howard very satsfac-
tory state of affairs throughout the State.
The I'd Comptroller yesterday decided that
disbursing officers when paying fees to W.T.
nesses are not required to deduct therefrom
the FIVE per cent revenue tax, MS such ices are
not of the nature of salary to Government
officer The same officer, IN reply 10 an en-
Z quiry addressed him BY an American tempo
rarily residing in Syria, as to whether ne N h
forfeited his claim to the bounty PROVIDED "
law in the case of his deceased son, VINO uleo
in the miiitaryservice of the United states,
leaving neither wife nor child, has decided
thai citizen Temporarily resident OF any
foreign country does not forfeit has right TO
honnfv due his son killed in the military SER
vice Of the United States, and that it will be
paid on proper application.
In the reply Of Secretary Seward to Mr..
Bigelow's dispatch, enclosing the speech Of
the Emperor Napoleon in reference to Next
can affairs, which is printed and will be for
warded to Europe to-day, Mr.. Seward al
ludes with considerable severity to, and de-
MES the assertion of the Emperor, that our
Government had been invited to join France
in her Mexican Intervention before the intro
duction of French forces into the army of
Macmillan.
The Heralds Rio Janeiro correspondent
states that Gen. Wood the agent ola number
of Southern associations of emigrants, in his
exploring trip, on his arrival at Rio Janeiro,
was received with courtesy and attention by
the officials and the people generally. He
had interviews with the Emperor and all his
ministers, and received promises of all the
laud be required at the minimum govern
ment price immediate citizenship for all
colonsts freedom of religion and the prass;
control of their own municipal regulations
and educational institutions and free i'm
portaton for FIVE years of all necessary arti
cles-
From Rio Janeiro, Wood and party passed
into the interior of the country to make an
inspection of it, transportation being furnish
ed them gratuitously, and at all the towns
they we're received with ovations entertained
ct balls and dinners, and enthusiastically
welcomed. They will report favorably on the
projected emigration thither
The I1ibune's special says the enormous
amounts paid by the Government during the
war and now being audited here are shown by
the fact that the accounts of Col Crosman OF
Phiiadelphia, now at the Sd Auditors office,
involve disbursements to the amount of S97,-
600. or over $3.50, 900 per month for clothing
and army supplies.
The Tribune $ special saws it has now come
TO light that the Instructions under which the
freedmen bureau in Louisiana was so com
pletelv disrupted in November, its 900
schools brought to cioose soon, afterward,
the freedmen and discharged culored soldiers
arrested as yagabonds in the streets of
New Orleans without trial or process of law
and the orphans and freedmen returned to
former shareholders as apprentices, were i'm
ported by the President himself and that Gen.
Fullerton acted in accordance with executive
instructions.
Disloyal Newspapers-Gen m. Grants Order
New YORK, Feb. q.
The following is the official order Of Gen.
Grant permitting the publication of the Rich
mond Examiner:
lid. Gas, ARMIES OF THE I. s.,
WASHINGTON, Feb. l9.
TO MAJOR General A. H. Terry, COMMANDING
the district Of Firginia
GENERAL Your order of the 18th inst,
taking military possession of the Richmond
Examiner, newspaper published in Rich
mond, Virginia, and prohibiting its publica-
ton, made in pursuance of the directions of
the Lieutenant General Commanding, is here