The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-03-24
Washington News and Runners,

The House passed a resolution to adj
.journ in May. There is but little probabili
ty that the Senate will concur.
The case of Senator Stockton, of New
Jersey, comes up tomorrow Although tho
Judiciary Committee has reported in his IA
vor. there is but little doubt that the maior
ty of the Senate will GUST him. Votes arc
needed to override Presidential vetoes, and
the Radicals have determined, if possible, to
have them, without regard to justice or pre-
cedent. A Republican Senator will be re-
turned by the present New jersey Legislature
and Senator Stewart having gone over Il
vote or two more will be all they need.
| The National Union Club have, through
Green Clay Smith, chairman pro- ten. for A
w. Randall, President, and William Thorpe
Corresponding Secretary, issued a call for
| Union people, without regard to party or To-
cation, to meet ut the City Hall in Washing
ton on Saturday night, for the purpose of in
dOrsing and sustaining President johnson in
his bold and determined purpose of main
tanning in its purity the Constitution of the
United States against all opposition.
The conservative Republicans in Con
gress have organized Il national committee
with headquarters, from which documents
are to be sent to the country. Associate
clubs are to be established throughout the
Union.
The Washington Star says :-Advices from
Montgomery, Ala, dated on the 10th instant,
received by DR.. G. w. Hosmer, Chief Medical
Officer of the Freedmen's Bureau, inform him
that report was in circulation there that
the cholera had made its appearance in Mo
bile, Ala, although the report was not traced
to any reliable source. Montgomery and
Mobile are both in very filthy condition,
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thorities on the 18th instant establishing strict
quarantine regulations against all vessels
coming from Cuba, Hayti, jamaica, and all
other islands of the West Indies, or from any
port or place where cholera or other infcc-
tiOus diseases prevail.
The following letter is from President
Johnson is in response to one he recently re-
ceived from the Manhattan Club, in New
York composed of some of the most respect
able and wealthy residents in that city:
Executive Mansion, WASHINGTON, ID. C.,
March 12.-Gentlemen: I have the honor
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter Of
the I'd inst, informing me Of my election as
an honorary member Of the Manhattan Club,
of New York city, and asking me to allow
an artist of Your selection to take full
length portrait of myself for your club.
In communication to you my acceptance
of these compliments, 1 desire to thank you
sincerely for them, and for the friendly OK
pressions of support and encouragement YOU
tender me in the discharge of my public
duties An honest and clear conviction OF
duty and consciousness of rectitudc of pur-
pose, the unwavering support of the Amcri-
can people and the blessing of an aiI-wise
Providence, will, 1 believe enable NE to meet
any emergency. feel that l have the first
two, and it shall be the object of my every
endeavor to deserve the remaining requisites.
I am, gentlemen, with great respect, your
obetlient servant,
ANDREW JOHNSON.