The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-24

Michigan, submitted q resolution declaring
that whereas, the British Government has re-
fused indemnity for damage done, 10 Ameri-
can commerce by Her Majesty's subjects in
the late war, therefore resolved that the
| President be requested to withdraw our
/ Minister from the Court of st. James, and de-
clare national non-intercourse between the
two nations The resolution was objected to,
and goes oyer under the rules.
Mr.. Howard, of Michigan, offered joint
resolution to the following effect ( Whereas
| it appears by the report of the Secretary of
War that Jefferson Davis and Clement G.
Clay, now held in confinement, were concern
ed in the assassination of President Lincoln
and the murder Of Federal soldiers prisoners
of war, therefore, it is respectfully recon-
mended that they be Immediately tried by a
military commission or court martial. The
resolution being objected to, lies over. s
HOUSE.
The credentials of Representatives elect,
from Arkansas, were presented and referred
to the Committee ON Reconstruction.
"A proposition which received only twelve
votes was made, to allow the negroes in the
District of Columbia to decide by ballot
whether white men should vote.
Mr.. Stevens introduced a resolution in
structing the Committee of the judiciary to
enquire into the expediency of amending the
act of January Oath, 1865, relating to the test
oath, so as to allow attorneys at law to prac
tice their profession without taking said
oath, on qualifying as all other professions
are required to do. He said that by the act
referred to, which was passed during the war,
attorneys were prohibited from practicing
without taking that oath, but as since the
war, many men WIN were engaged in the re-
bellion are trying to make living but are
prohibited from practicing law, he did not
see why they should not be placed on foot
ing with other professions Therefore, he
proposed the enquiry.
The resolution was adopted-yeas SO, nays
n.
| MIR. Kasson made statement denying the
published charge that Mrs Lincoln had tax
en- from the White House articles paid for by
the United States.
The House resumed the consideration of
the negro suffrage BILL before disposing of
which, the House adjourned.
| There are twelve thousand nine hun
dred and sixty public schools in Pennsylya-
MIA. attended last year by 703,930 pupils, or
| 5000 less than the year before. The total
cost of the school system was s3,914 1880.
Gen. Sterling Price is living in tent
near Vera Cruz, and proposes to found city
to be called Carlotta, that shall rival New
Orleans.
-On the 9th instant Lagrange, Georgia,
was visited by destructive fire. All the
east side of the Public Square was burnt but
the buildings on the North and South cor
ners.
| "A duel was to have come off at New Or
leans on the I'd inst, between Mr. Felix
Limet, editor of the Bee, and Mr. Emile
Lefranc, editor of La Renaissance Louisianaise
The combatants were about crossing swords,
when they were arrested by police officers,
who conveyed them and their seconds to the
Second District Police-station.
LIN the State of South Carolina there are
4S Freedmen's schools in operation, attended
by 6,OO0 pupils, and taught by 1903 teachers,
Of whom so are from the North and % are
Southerners.
-THE BANIsHED CoNsPIRAToRs.-Wefi1
the following item in the Boston Ereaing
Transcript, of the 18th: Late intelligence
from the Dry Tortugas says that DR.. Mudd,
Spangler and O'Laughlin, the Lincoln assas-
sination conspirators, all occupy one room,
and are apparently in good health. They
do the most mental and degrading work
about the prison. DR.. sMudd has behaved
with exemplary propriety since his failure to
escape some time ago, and is evidently striv-
ing to reinstate himself in the good opinion
of his custodians and his former easy and
agreeable place in the prison hospitals
i'm the Supreme court circuit, at Newark,
New Jersey, a verdict of three thousand dol
lars damages was given against the New
Jersey Railroad Company on Saturday, in
favor of James T. West, a boy who was run
over and blinded by one of the defendants
trains.
in recent lecture at Buffalo, New York,
Henry Ward Beecher said:
"The time for amity has come, and no
more blood should be shed, and there is no
need of a vindictive policy now to prove to
the world, what the desolation and ruin in
the South has already proved, that treason
is damnable and deadly. Rather let us say,
forgive, forgive than slay, slay.'"
Accounts from Spain represent that the
cholera has broken out with great severity at
santander. On, the 22d of December, one
hundred and thirty cases and fifty-six deaths
occurred, and, on the following day, the
number of the latter had increased to sixty.
Among the victims is the Governor Of the
province.
-NoRFoLK, VA, Jan. II, 1S66.-Rev. W.
G. Blount, pastor of the Dinwiddie Street M
E. Church in Portsmouth, died this morning
at two o'clock. He was shot by negro boy
on Tuesday morning, and.his death was
caused by the wound he received at that
time. His remains will be sent to Petersburg
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