Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-05-19
From Warrington.

| Special to the st. Louis Republican.
WASHINGTON, May l7,-Neither House
of Congress accomplished much of I'M
portance to-day, though making good
progress with the routine of business.
The House passed two appropriation
bills-the Consular and Diplomatic, and
the West Point bill. On the latter an
amendment was placed prohibiting any
person who has ever been in the rebel
army from being appointed to the Mill
tary Academy In the Diplomatic bill
there is no increase of salaries for
foreign Ministers or Consuls abroad
A letter was sent to the House to-day
from General Grant, asking early legis,
lation for the increase of the army, and
favoring the bill for that purpose which
passed the Senate. This delighted the
opponents of the resuseitated House bill.
They are confident now of meeting Gen.
Grants views by passing the Senate bill
Generals Fullerton and Steedman have
forwarded to the President their report
on the condition of the Freedmen Blu
reau in South Carolina, They have
examined all of that State but the Sea
Island cotton lands, and they report that
they find similar abuses to those reported
by them from the States Of North Caro-
lima and Virginia AS soon as they look
into the condition of the freedmen in the
Sea Islands they will proceed at once TO
Georgia
The news of the coalition OF certain
Republicans and Democrats in the Con-
necticut Senate to prevent the election
of Radical Senator, causes consider
able commoton among the politicians
about the capitol to-day, some of whom
charge that Senator Foster of that State
is party to it If this prove true a
movement to supercede him as presiding
officer of the Senate will be made at
once. snelf w ~,
The House Committee on Foreign AT
fairs had under discussion to-day the
Mexican question. The debate was gem
eral, but the committee unanimously sus-
tanned the position ofthe Monroe doctrine.
The committee seem willing to throw their
influence in favor Of the Liberal cause
without going so far as to recommend a
loan. III
A high official stated to day that an
other officer of the army would soon be
detailed as Commissioner Of Freedmen's
Affairs, in place of Gen. Howard. ys1o
Col LOOMS, of the famous Loomis
Michigan Battery, is about to be APP
pointed Collector of Internal Revenue at
Detroit
The serenade intended to be given to-
night to the President and all of the
Cabinet now in Washington was post
poned on account of the weather. A
large crowd, however, gathered at the
White House and the National johnson
Executive Committee rooms The inter-
est to hear Secretary Stanton on the
issues of the day was very great, as it
was expected that he would fully indorse
the Presidents policy of reconstruction
The serenade will take place on the first
fair night.
The Unconditional Union Convention
met at Alexandria to-day. John Minor
Bolts presides. But little business was
done beyond effecting an organization.
Hon. H. Maynard addressed the conven-
ton. In the. course of his remarks he
said that he always believed that the
Union men in the South were more nu-
merous than they were supposed to be,
and more than they thought themselves.
The Union element, he believed, was still
the same as when the war came on, and
he was extremely anxious TO see the
scattered fragments gathered together,
and thus once more strengthen the Union
cause 1t was a great mistake to think
that treason and rebellion had triumphed,
or will ever succeed. Treason will be
made odious, and men who looked to the
triumph Of the rebellion will 60 down to
their graves with the incubus hanging to
them.
Gen Lyons, of Colorado, writes to the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under
date of March 18th, as follows :" regret
to inform you Of the massacre Of some
sixteen friendly Indians on the llth of
this month, fifteen miles above this city,
near the mouth of the Moose creek, on
the Boise river, by party Of citizens of
Ada county, encouraged and melted to
do this cowardly deed by the editor of the
Idaho Statesman" Gen. Lyonsincloses
an article from that paper, urging the
humiliation Of that Indian tribe.
The work Of removing to the Arlington
cemetery the deaG bodies of soldiers of
the army of the Potomac, who died from
disease and were killed during the early
years of the war, when the army was en-
camped in the vicinity of this city and
afterwards, has been completed. There
we're sixteen hundred and seventy bodies
diqintarred and removad