The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-03-10

DISPATCHES.
DATES TO MARCH ID.

New Orleans, Feb. 27.-The Texas Con.
%vention has passed the Constitutional provi.
sions prohibiting slavery, protecting freed
men III rights aud property, and allowing
them to testify in courts, by ayes Sc, noes %.
Guadaloupe dates. Of January LIST, show
eleven hundred deaths from cholera. Later
adviees to january 18th, say the contagion
was decreasing, and had made its appear
ancc in Dominica. Cholera was feared mt
Havana,
Vera Cruz advices to February 18th give
q list OF Imperial successes, principally in
Michoacan, where 1900 of Juarist' ) troops
were defeated with great loss and dispersed.
st. Louis, March Pope has issued
orders detailing a guard for safety of travel.
ers aud trains crossing the Plains. Forts
Ridgely and Abercrembie are designated as
posts of rendezvous of all trains from Min.
nesota for the upper Missouri, Yellowstone,
Black Hills and Powder River regions. Fort
kearney is the rendezvous for trains to Den
yer or Fort Laramie via the Platte River
route and Fort Riley for trains to New Mex
leo and Colorado by Smoky Hill or the Ar
kansas river route. At these points all
trains will be organized and equipped for
defense, and no train of less than twenty
two wagons and thirty armed men under =
properly appointed captain, will he allowed
to pass. The same arrangements will be
required of return trains. The commanders
of all military posts are required to inspect
all trains and compel compliance with these
orders. Military escorts will be furnished
where necessary, andin case ofattack prompt
assistance will be given. Travellers will not
be permitted to cross tho Plains except IN
accordance with this plan.
Washington, March 2.-The Miscellane.
N.rs aNnr~nfs,. ls1f -, - ~.-.I Al.
House includes the following: For the sur
vey of public lands in California, $50. 900:
Oregon and Washington Territory, SCI, 900
each; Nebraska, S20,000; Colorado. $40, 900.
Washington, March 2.-The Posts Wash.
ington special dispatch says The Recon-
struction Committee has agreed to the prop.
%Ositiun TO admit the delegation from Tennes-
see to seats in Congress Two or three other
representatives will be PRESCRIBED by the
members of the committee, the majority
reporting against the resolution in favor Of
their admission. The Tennessee members
will probably obtain their seats soon.
The Times Washington special dispatch
says The President is fully sustained by his
Cabinet, and there will be no disruption.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of me-
chanies held last evening resolved to support
the eight-hour movement made by the house
painters.
The Commercials Washington special
says: The English Minister has protested
against immunity enjoyed by Fenians. but
the Government does not regard the evidence
sufficient to warrant interference.
Washington. March 3.--The House Com
mittee on Claims have reported against pay
ing damages inflicted during Early's raid
against Washington in the summer Of 1864,
when it will be remembered the Blairs'
house was burned, etc. The claim amounted
to Sl45,000. 1t had been scrutinized by
military commissioners and the validity
established by the Court of Claims.
Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm was dismissed
from a clerkship in the Quartermaster GEN
erals Office on Monday, for using language
d~isrespectful to the President, in Il little
weekly paper edited by her.
At the request of Mrs. Lincoln the Treas
urer of the United States has invested the
amount of $4,000 voted by Congress, in
$40 bonds.
Fcnian Affairs.
New York, March 3.-The Express says j:
1t is estimated at the Fenian headquarters
to-day that nearly all the million of men are
ready to move for the liberation of Ireland
upon receiving orders to march. Several
thousand are said TO have Joined since that
day. The same paper has a report on good
authority that negotiations are now in pro-
cess at Washington to obtain from the United
States Government their recognition as a
power. Sir Frederick Bruce has, it is stated.
protested against any such application being
received in departments of the U. s.. Govern
sment. The central council have issued
orders to the brotherhood to act in strict
accordance with the United States neutrality
laws. The meeting at jones' Woods to-
morrow is expected to be very large. Eight
stands for speakers are to be erected in the
grounds. Gen. Nagble has resigned as
Centre on account of professional duties.
A dispatch from Worcester. Mass, says:
The Fenians of Massachusetts, are on the
alert. The news by the steamer last night
causes great excitement in this State. The
Head Center of Massachusetts,, Major NJ. S.
McConville, has issued a call to the brother
hood in the State to be ready for immediate
action.
Steamer news of the suspension of the
writ of habeas corpus in Ireland creates
great excitement in Feninn circles. PROCLAIM
atoms have been issued to all circles to be on
the alert, and 0'Mahony's belief is that
fighting has begun in Ireland.
Fenian excitement in this city, over the
news TecelNtQ D1 ySStcfddg . btedllcEy 10 III
creasing, and there is much activity at the
headquarters of the brotherhood.
There is a reported project to seize British
Columbia by F~enians, and establish a harbor
for priyateers on the Pacific that will sweep
away British IN that coast. Fe-
nian rumors attract no attention here.
General News.
New York, March 3.-Maximilian has
issue o decree granting bounties to all ves-
sells sailing under the Mexican flag, of eight
dollars per ton to those built in Mexico
four dollars per ton to those nationalized by
Mexican law, making voyages beyond Amer
lea, and two dollars per ton to those making
voyages to the United States, West Indies,
South America and Central America.
New York, March 2.-The Tribune'i
Washington special dispatch says A Sena.
tor elect from one of the seeded States in ar
interview with Kecretary Stanton, to-day
entreated that the Freedman's Bureau nigh
be continued in his State, and said that i
the Government desired to protect and foster
the loyal sentiment in the South, it mus
send a strong military force there.
Senator Doolittle addressed a meeting o
Republicans at New Haven last night, callec
for the purpose of sustaining the Presideni
and endorsing his policy. Mr.. Doolittl'
called on Republicans to stand by the Presi
dent, and contended that johnson had car
ried out every requirement of the Baltimorl
Platform. He insisted ON the immediate
admission of loyal members from Tennessee