The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-01
BIZ LAST NIGHTS MAIL.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 2S.-The Re-
construction Committee, pursuant to ad-
iournment, held very important meeting
To-day at the Capitol, during which they
definitely agreed on plan to be submitted
to Congress and the country fJr. the restora-
ton Of the Southern States to the Union.
The committee were 10 session four hours,
and had an exciting time. Each separate
proposition that was made was voted on
and declared agreed TO by majority vote.
The question of requiring negro suffrage
OF the South, within the next ten years, was
Iost-Thad. Stevens even opposing It. That
having been disposed of, the issue of basis
of ,epreseu tation next eicited a prolonged
discussion. and it was finally determined
that C institutional amendment should be
proposed, declaring that all males above
the age CT twenty-one, who were not
allowed to vote By the States, should not be
counted in the basis of representation.
II viii be noticed that the practical eff
feet of this amendment will be, to leave the
number of Southern representatives just
about, where it is now, inasmuch, as all of
the colored people Of the South, except the
males over twenty-one, Will be counted in
the representative population.
Mr.. B ngham, of Ohio, then insisted that
the present Civil Rights bill is uncOnstitu-
tionai, and that an amendment to the Cons
ssitutiOn, guaranteeing civil rights TO per-
sons 10 all OF the States, should be agreed
TO. The Committee adopted that position.
It was then resolved that all who partici-
pated in the rebellion should be disiran-
chised from voting for Federal officers, and
that the rebel debt should be repudiated.
The several propositions were then en-
bodied in a Constitutional amendment,
which will be duly reported to the House on
Monday.
There was considerable satisfaction ex-
| pressed in the Committee that they had
come to a conclusion.
| A distinguished Admiral Of the United
States Iayy, in recommending the pardon of
an eminent cotton merchant Of Louisiana,
| says financial writers now candidly admit
that the stringency of the blockade, for
which the navy is now receiving merited
| credit, kept cotton in this country to the
magnificent amount of four hundred mil
| lion dollars in greenbacks or three hundred
millions in gold, which since the closing of
the rebellion has come to the relief of The
rational credit, the national currency and
| The tax payers, from one end OF the United
! States to the other.
The garrison of Washington was by or
] ders abolished to-day. All of the remain
! ing forts have been dismantIed.
| A National Cemetery is to be established
/ at Winchester, Va, for the remains of Fed
eral soldiers who fell in the Shenandoah
! Valley. The remains Of four hundred have
already been gathered.
NEW York, April 20.-Dr. Marsden, OF
! Quebec, who has origina ed plan of quar-
sntine for cholera, is on his way to lay it be-
| fore the President in Washington.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
a circular giving notice that the receipts OF
! deposits on account of temporary loan, ex-
| cept for clearing house purposes, will be
discontinued al Washington, New York,
Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and Gin
cinnati.
| The Herald's correspondent at Bordeaux,
| France, notices the arrival and stay in tina.
! port OF the English screw steamer Henriette,
said to be intended for the Gillian service.
She is commanded by Capt. Hunter David
son, an ex-rebel American officer who serv-
ed on the Merrimac in Ham pton Roads.
The majority of her officers have also
been engaged in the late Confederate navy.
The vessel was being made ready for sea,
and her presence caused a great deal of com
ment.
Headquarters has information that Head
center Stevens was to leave Havre on the
| 18th by the steamship Napoleon III. He
Is expected here on the 9tn of May, when
he will make tour of the principal cities
! OF the United States on business of import
ance.
NEW YORK, April %.
The steamer Hermann, from Hamburg
via southampton, on the 18th, arrived at 10
o'clock last night. All we'll, but has to fu-
migate.
Seveuty-fve thousand pounds have ar
rived from Austria ia
The slowing away of the new Atlantic ca
| hla in tba % bnarI ho
commenced on the goth. The laying Of the
cable will commence in July.
The Times says abe more the franchise
bill Is discussed, even by it's best friends,
the more it loses of that body and solidity
and consistency it might at first have had
credit for.
The Times city article says that conf
| dence is completely destroyed. The only
| chance for a turn in the market would
be from the actual commencement of war
on the Continent, which changes at once
the current of attention.
News from Germany is less threatening.
Vienna intelligence says the state of at
fairs continue very serious.
The Independence Beige states conf
IDENTIFY that the Pacific overtures which are
being made will have the effect of settling
the question Of ornaments in the event OF
wsr.
A volunteer corps will be formed in vi
emma.
Bavaria and Saxonia have agreed to carry
out the reform Of Causter.
A rumor of Bismark's resignation is cur
rent at Hamburg, but not credited.
The COburg Gazette states that Austria
energetically reiterstes her previous denials
! Of the Prussan assertions restricting Aus
| TRAN ornaments, and insists on demobili-
| zaton of Prusslan troops, in order to con-
| farm the pacific declarations of Prussia
RusSiG.-An attempt was made to assas-
sinate the Gear, but the bullet missed its
aim.
WHEELING, Va, April 29.-About three
o'clock Sunday morning, six burglars en-
| tered the residence of the cashier of the
| Harrison National Bank OF Cadz, Ohio,
| 0ucked and gagged the cashier, and COM
pelled him and his wife 10 deliver up the
keys of the bank and safe. Proceeding
thence to the bank, they effected an en-
trance without much opposition, and robbed
the safe of three hundred thousand dollars
in United States bonds, and fifty thousand
dollars on deposit.
After locking the Waterman in the safe,
they made good their escape, on a hand
car, cutting the telegi aph wires in two
places. The robbers abandoned the hand
car at a station near Alexandria, on the
| ElbtsuuFg yCleNelAnu ana columbus rAItrOaQ,
and took to the woods. The surrounding
country has been aroused, and a large force
is in pursuit. Twenty thousand dollars re-
ward is offered fer the arrest of the robbers
WASHINGTON, April 29.-Dr Daily, the
special agent of the Post-ofice Department
for Louisiana and Texas, has arrived in
this city direct from New Orleans. When
the Doctor entered on his duties last fail,
there was not postmaster in all Texas, but
now loyal postmasters who have taken the
oath are all over the State, and service has
been ordered on nearly all the leading mail
routes.
DR.. Daily's reports are particularly en-
couraging in relation to Louisiana. He
thinks it the best reconstructed State in the
South, the people are in good humor, and
the freedmen and all are at work at recon
struction, plantations and wrecked fortunes.