The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-05-09

MALI EASANLE u BUREAU ADEN 1 =
FIRE AT CAIRO-LOSS 100000
Later European Intelligence
Passage of the Reform Bill.
The Situation less Pacific.
DOMESTIC MARKET REPORTS.
WASHINGTON, MAY In the House
a bill was passed fixing Richmond the
! first Monday in May and the fourth
Monday in November for holding the
! L. ;. Circuit Court within the district
| Of Virginia, in each year, and authO-
rizing the adjournment Of the session
now authorized, from Norfolk to
Richmond.
Mr.. Stevens introduced a resolution
to amend the Constitution that Con
gress shall have power to levy a tax
on cotton exported from the United
States. Read twice and referred to
! the Committee on the Judiciary
The Committee on Ways and means
have added the following articles to
the free list Of the amendatory tax
bill Candle wieking, favoring ex-
tracts, deer skins, extracts for cook
! ing, paintings, statuary electrotypes,
| cobalt. horse rakes, harness, warp for
harding { y paper stainers, cOlors,
caustic and crude soda
The tax on express companies IS
three per cent
Brokers sales and contracts for
merchandise and produce are eXemp-
ted from tax.
WASHINGTON, May S.-The Presi-
ident has approved the bill providing
that the active list Of the pay corps of
the navy shall consist Of eighty pay
masters, forty passed assistant pay
masters and thirty assistant pay-mas-
tiers.
The House adopted a resolution in
structing the Judiciary Committee to
! enquire into the expediency of pro
| viding that the elective franchise shall
not hereafter be denied or abridged in
any Territory on account Of race or
| color
The total Of Governments officers
deposits in the Merchants National
Bank at Washington is 1861, 600
Information from Baltimore indi-
Gates that little or nothing win be re
covered from Bayne 4 Co.
Quite a rush was made on the
banks by depositors, sand a large
amount of deposits has been removed
to Jay Cook and Maury & Co They
announce that they viii resume to
| morrow
There were S24000,0OO in the va.
rious public repositories on the lst
! inst, for which Gen. Spinner holds
| Government securities amounting to
| $50. 100000
The Inspector General of Virginia,
| treedmen's bureau, made a compare
| lively favorable report. The schools
are well attended and the prejudice
against freedmen is slowly but stead
/ lily diminishing. The sanitary con
/ ditiOn of the freedmen has so far i'm
proved throughout the State that all
! the bureau hospitals have been abolish
ed. The demand for labor greatly ex-
ceeds the supply. DR.. Gayea Of New
York. at the head of the committee
appointed by the recent Baltimore
Convention. had q conference with the
Senate Committee whereupOn the
Committee unanimously instructed
their chairman to report joint resolu-
tons to the effect that the Secretaries
Of War, Of the Navy and Of the
Treasury cause an efficient and
uniform system of quarantine against
the Introduction of cholera to be en-
forced
New York, May THE report
from the Hospital ship says one new
case of cholera occurred Saturday and
five new cases Yesterday, from the
steamer Virginia. There are now 1I2
cases in hospital.
New York, May 8.-The Herald's
Washington special says the President
has signed bill incorporating the In
ternatonal Telegraph Company be
tween the United States and Cuba.
Dispatches from North Carolina re
port further acts of malfeasance by
agents Of the freedmens bureau Col.
Whittelsev, Commissioner for the
State. and several subOrdinates, aided
by some Massachusetts, philanthro-
pists, it is alleged, have been running
plantations on their own account. and
working delinquents or disorderly
darkies on them for punishment
Several arrests have been made, and
more are expected
The Times Washington special
says nearly all the claimants of the
cotton seized by the government at
Savannah, have commenced suits in
the United States District Court of
New York, against Simon Draper,
cotton agent, for the recovery of the |
value of the cotton. The cases mum
Der 122 A strong array of counsel !
have been retained by the plaintiffs.
Gen. Sickles arrived at Washington /
yesterday. He had an interview with /
Gen. Grant Gen. Sickles having de /
clined the mission to the Hague, will |
probably return to take command of /
the district-of South Carolina.
CAIRO, May Miller, Stratton, &
Co 5, wholesale grocery, and - other /
buildings, clothing stores and saloons. /
are burned. Loss 800, 600
HALIFAX, May steamer Asia .
from Liverpool for New York a days,
arrived yesterday for coal. She has
PA passengers, all well.
The steamer China from Liverpool I
April 2Sth has arrived The steamer
Propontis arrived AT Liverpool on the
9th with the passengers Of the steam
er City of Washington aboard. the
of the latter having been
disabled.
1t is stated that Austria has defnitiye-
ly determined to adopt military meas
ures in Venetia.
The reform bill has passed the House
of Commons by FIVE majority.
The German news is conflicting and
There is uneasiness as
to the relations between Austria and
Italy, but the Italian government de
MES having any warlike intentions
The United States consul at Liver
pool took formal possession of the
ax-Rebel cruiser Tallahassee in the
name of the American government.
An Austrian dispatch to Berlin of
he 10Th, sgys Austria has not begun
TO disarm, on account of fires heompli-