The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1866-05-09
DOMESTIC MISCELLANY.

Reconstruction Committees Report. The
Joint Committee on Reconstruction have
agreed---twelye against three--to propose the
following amendments to the Constitution
l. No State shall make or enforce any law
abridging the privileges and immunities of citi
zens Of the United States; nor shall any State
deprive any person Of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law; nor deny to any
person within its jurisdiction equal protection
of laws.
,. Representatives to be appointed according
to their respective numbers, counting the whole
number Of persons in each State, excluding
Indians not taxed But whenever, in any
State, the elective franchise is denied any por-
ton of the male citizens not less than twenty
one years Of age, or is in any way abridged, eX-
cept for participation in the rebellion, or other
crimes, the basis of representation in such
States shall be reduced in the proportion in
which the numbers of such male citizens shall
bear to the whole number of male citizens not
less than twenty-one years old
3. Until the 4th of July, 1870, all persons
who voluntarily adhered to the late insurTec-
ton, giving it aid and comfort, shall be ex-
Guided from the right to vote for members Of
Congress and electors Of President and Vice
President.
4. Neither the United States nor any State
shall assume or pay any debt or obligation in
Cured in aid Of the Instruction, or any claim
for compensation for loss OF involuntary SER
vice or labor
). Congress shall have power to enforce by
appropriate legislation the provisions OF this
article.
Loss Of the South. We published recently
the estimate made by Commodore Maury
Robert Tyler, Esq, publishes in the Mont
0omery ala Mail letter in which he esti-
mates the loss, instead of 81 100000 to be
$4,000, 900, 600, as follows
By Emancipation, l,1O00O0'O00
Expenses of the war, 6OO,OOO,OOO
Destruction Of private property, 1OO,OOO,OOO
Additional Federal taxation, 5OOOOO,OOO
$500 200, 600
DO not these figures present terrible ar
ray. without magnifying them in the least
In the whole history Of war such an immense
loss has never been so suddenly and implicitly
suffered by country containing not more than
six millions of people, responsible for govern
ment and property Indeed, can recall no IN
stance in any history where country OF the
largest wealth and population has been subject
ed to so tremendous shock Never has 1t
happened before, | believe, IN the world $ an
nails that any people have been required to
submit between the rising and going down OF
the sun, to the utter extinction OF seventeen
hundred millions Of property, and to the ylo-
lent eXtirpation at the same moment OF an an
cient institution, reaching the hearths and
hearts and comforts, and the social and political
interest of almost every inhabitant in the land.
And | trust it will not be glorious to as
Il, hot ln IN,
country have ever waged war more heroically
for real or supposed rights, or have manifest
ed more patience fortitude, and wisdom, under
extreme reverses, than the peOpleOt the South
ern States have done
Colorado has been admitted into the Unior
US a State
Gore,uor Peipoiat has appointed Alexander
Rives. ESQ. of Albemare, to fill the vacancy
upon the bench of the Supreme Court O
Appeals occasioned by the death Of Judge LII
cas- P Thompson, Of Stanton.
The Grares of Confederate Soldiers. IL
Louisville, Ky. on the LIST of May, these grave
were decorated with rich and fragrant flower
by the ladies of the city. Many sorrowfu
mother and widowed wife is comforted by thes
tokens of remembrance and care for our pre-
cious dead that lie buried so far from friend
and home,
.Atlaata Improvements The Atlanta Bulle
TIN says that the store house accommodation
of that city are now about equal to what the.
were before the war, and yet there is a contin
ued demand for houses. There are now six
teen stores in course of erection, most Of then
frSt-claSs, within space Of four squares.
4 Fair for Vido,cs and Orphans Of Ala
6amd.-The ladies Of Alabama propose to holt
fair, to open on or about the lst Of May, a
Eufaula, Alabama, for the relief Of the widow
and orphans Of that State. Sad accounts ar
given of the great restitution existing i'll tina
State Thousands are suffering and dyln
from want \ committee composed of Mrs
Gov. Shorter, Mrs. COL Hawkins and Mrs
Louise Reed are now making an appeal to tn
benevolent Of New York for aid
The Board Of Health have announced t
the citizens of Richmond that the danger c
an epidemic of cholera during the comm
Summer was imminent They recommen
that the public should cultivate, as far as pos
sible, a cheerful and equable temperament
/ banishing all unmanly fears, and showing b
example, that, while alive to the danger
which may surround them, they can forget SCI
and do all in their power to lessen the severit
Of a scourge imposed by an all-wise Prov
idence.