The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-02-22
By Telegraph.
Afternoon Dispatches.
The Fenlan Congress.
From Washington.
A New Ffeedmen's Bareau Bill
10 be introduced.
Affairs 10 Texas.
Reception OF Southern Emlgra-
tl0n Agent In Brazil.
Seward on NapOleOn's Speech.
The Order Permitting the Pub.
lICatlOn OF the Richmond
Examiner.
Reception OF a Southern EmIgra-
tl0n Agent In Brazil.
Seward on NapOleOn's Speech.

PITIsBURGH, Feb. 2O.-The Fenian Con-
gress effected a permanent organisation to-
day. Colonel M. Murphy was reelected
Speaker Of the House, P. F. Rattsford, of
Philadelphia, was elected Secretary, and
Captain Nolan, Of Pittsburg, Sergeant at
Arms. The two Houses then went into
joint session, Jas. Gibbons, President, in the
chair.
The action of the convention is harmoni-
GUS and enthusiastic. The determination is
unanimously expressed for immediate, ef-
fective and active measures. The message
Of President Roberts and report OF General
Sweeney viii be laid before Congress TO-
morrow.
A large public meeting was held tonight,
at which several large contributions were
made, and large donation Of arms prom
ised.
NEw York, Feb. 2I,-The Tribune's
special says: General Terry has testified
before the Reconstruction Committe, aud
left for Richmond.
1t is stated that Mr.. Doolittle will intro
duce 8 new Freedman's Bureau bill to-day,
Incorporating the Presidents features.
Brigadler General Gregory, Commissioner
Of the Freedmen's Bureau Tor the Stste
Of Texas, under date OF Galveston, January
5lst, reports 20 General Howard a very sal
isiaetOry state Of affairs throUghout this
State.
NEw YoRK, Feb. 2l.-The Herald's Bio
JsneirO correspondent, of the 10th, states
that Cen. Wood, the agent of a number Of
Southern Associations Of Emigrants, ia his
exp oring trip on his arrival 81 Rio Jsneiro
was received with courtesy, aud attended
by the officials and people generally. He
had an interview with the Emperor and all
his Ministers, and received promises Of all
nd hea
ment prices, immediate citizenship fol all
the colonists, freedom of religion and the
press, control Of their own rR0nici pal regU-
latIoDs and educational institutes, and free
Importation for FIVE years Of all necessary
articles. From Rio Jeneiro Wood and party
passed into the interior CT the country, to
make an inspection Of it, transportation be-
ing furnished them grstuitously- at the
towns they were received with orations, en-
tertainmeuts at balls, and dinners, and en-
thusiastically welcomed. The General will
report iavorabiy on the projected emigra-
ton thither.
The Second Comptroller yesterday deeid-
ed that discussing officers, when paying fees
% witnesses, ,sre not required 10 deduct here
from the five per cent. revenue tax, as such
fees are not Of the nature OF salary to q Gov
ernment officer.
The same officer, in reply to an inquiry
addressed HIM by an American mPorariiy
residing IN Syria, s. to whether he has for
feited his clam to the bounty provided By
law, IA the case Of his deceased son, who
died IN the military police Of the United
States, leaving neither wife or child, has
decided that no citizen, temporarily resi-
dent Of any foreign country, forfeits his
right to bounty. His son was killed in the
military service OF the United State, and il
will be paid on proper application.
The Tribune's special says: The enor-
nous amounts paid by the Government du-
ring the war, and now being audited here,
are shown by the fact that the accounts Of
Col. Crossman, Of Philadelphia, now at the
Third Auditors Office, involve disburse-
ments TO the amount OF $500, 900, or over
S25O,OOO per month for clothing and army
supplies.
The reply of Secretary Seward 10 Mr..
BlgelOw's dispatch, enclosing the specch Of
the Emperor Napoleon, in reference to Mex
lean affairs, has been printed, which will
be forwarded to Europe to-day. Mr..
Seward alludes, with considerable severity
to, and denies the assertion of the En-
perorI that our Government had been in
vited to JOIN France in her Mexican inter
yention before the Introduction of French
forces into the army of Macmillan.
The Tribune's special says: Ii has now
come to light thar the instructions under
which the Freedmen's Bureau in Iouisiana
was so completely disrupted in November.
It's 200 schools brought to a close soon after
wards-its freedmen and discharged coIored
soldiers arrested as vagrants ia the streets of
New Orleans, without trial or process of
law, and. the orphans Of freedmen returned
to their former slave holders as apprentices.
were impaired by the President himself, |
and that General Fullerton acted in accord
ance with executive instructions.
The following is the official order Of Gen
erai Grant, permitting the publication Of
the Richmond Examiner:
HD. QRs. ARMIES OF THE UNITED srArEs.
WASHINGTON, February 10, 1866.
MAJ. Gen. A. II. Terry, C1md'g. Dept of Va.
GENERAL; Your order Of the date of the
18th inst, taking military possession of the
Richmond Examiner newspaper, pubIisb-
ed in Richmond, Virginia, and prohibiting
rs publication, made in pursuance IF the
directions Of the Lieutenant General Com
manding, IS hereby temporarily suspended.
and the Richmond Examiner will be per
miited 10 resume its publication upou the
express condition that in the future it will
not pursue q course inimical 10 the Goyarn-
ment, or 70 the growth or expression. in
other words, Of Union sentiments smonr
the people Of the United States lately ia re-
beliion, or to the cultivation Of friendly re-
lations between the people Of this State, or
any OF them aud other States Of the Union.
and that it will not in any wise fail in its
editorial correspondence or transfer of srti
eies from other newspapers TO give support.
eountenanee and friendship, TO acts and ex-
pressions OF loyalty 70 the Union aud rs
supporters.
By Commsnd Of Lieut.. Gen. Grant
(slgnedl' T. J. BoWzEs.