The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1866-03-20
TcoMpILED FROM THE OREeoSIAx.l
DATES TO MARCH n.


the new proposition TO guarantee the $50 000,-
900 10 the Republic of Mexico. He believed
it was the duty of the Uuted States to assist
neigllboripg Republic, struggling against
the muchinatious OF Imperial despotism
The Secretary of Arizona has been appoint
I'd Governor OF Rlaho, vice Caleb Lyon.
The Constitutional Amendment, which was
made the especial order for yesterday in the
Senate, will be taken up early next week,
having been postponed By general consent.
Al important case is before the Supreme
Court, involving the consti,piionality of the
TEST oath imposed on the Gle: gy, lawyers and
ather professions, bv the new State Conslilu-
tion of Mi souri,. There is also before the
Nourt the case of Bowles and Miigan,
Knights of the Golden Circle, convicted at
Indianapolis by Military Commission, sen.
fenced to death, and subsequently pardoned.
This involves the legality OF military trials in
States where the courts are in full operation.
holbrook, delegate from Idaho, introduced
bill to establish a post route from Idaho
City to R" cky Bar, and to create the office oil
Surveyor General for that Territory. ,1ny
Henderson, of Oregon, presented a joint re-
solution from the State of Oregon for the es-
tabishment Of port of entry at Porll,nd
and also for daily mail from Portland TO
!unho Referred
OF vermont, lHtTOIUceu Olll HX-
ing the SALARY of U. s. District Judges which
gives $1,000 each to the judges of M4ssachu-
sets, southern New YORK, eastern Pennsyva-
MIA. Maryland, East Virginia eastern Louis
lana, northern California, Oregon and Nevada,
and all others 81 600 each. r
Washington, March l7.-Tbe Pres dent has
directed that forty thousand colored troops
he mustered out OF service during the next
month The Senate is not in session to day,
and tue House is only open for general de-
bates 3CL rgvGt fe f6Fh
The Nashville papers contain letter from
Gov. Brownlow, to VIM. D.. Kelly, member of
Congress, dated the 8 h, wherein he says
when Richmond fell and surrendered, the re-
be's, and many who sympathizad with them,
were very respectful TO Union men, and often
ebsequious Guilty culprits, they evidently
feared arrest and punishment, ami felt that 10
be let alone ana allowed to live was all they
had right to expect; but since the pardons
had been so multiplied and no man been nun
ished, they have everywhere become impu-
deLt and defiant until, in some counties in
Middle and West Tennessee it is disreputable
to have been Union man, or, as q southern
man to have served in the Union army, and
matters are growing worse. Reconstructed
traitors are openly cursing loyal men; threat
e,ing them with shooting or hanging, boast
ing that they have the President on their side
while we all e,l that the Presidents policy
ID ruinous to us The most popular men in
the largest portion of Tennessee to-day, are
men most distinguished for their hostility ia
the North, and what they are pleased to term
aradical Congress, and they are, the class o.
msu selected TO FIJI Offices, as the late county
Ell c'ons show. The same is true of the en-
tire South, only to q greater e2tent.i Many o
them are expecting the President to dispers
Congress with bayonets, as Cromw ell dispers
ed the long Parliament The southern hear
is being rapidly fred to deeds of war, and al
t,is and more, as l believe, has been caused
by the mistakes Of the President. His plan o
trusting the rebels with State Governments
has had an effect exactly opposite Of what b
Intended, and has ruined the prospects of tb
Uaion men, and they feel there is no safe
for them, unless Congress protects them
The mail service in the Pacific STATES 70
the next four years, the contracts for wnic
we're closed last Wednesday, the l4th mum
ber in California 90 routes in Nevada, 10
in Oregon, 2l; in Washington Territory, Is
in Idaho, in Utah, 2b; in Colorado, 81; i
Arizona, II: and in New Mexico, 8. Th
competition throughout was greater than 9
nny former period, and the prices are reduce
on those now paid.
Chicago, March l7.--Governor Cox, Of Ohit
having issued warrant for the arrest Of tw
citizens of Clinton county, Ohio, upon tie. re
qJsition ,of the Governor of Louisiana, o. wr
Of habeas corpus has been invoked, and, th
question will be taken to the courts whetht
Louisiana Is State in the Union, whose n
QUESTION shall behonored. The paSties q
rested are charged with larceny in workin
an abandoned plantation. N s- (.
kStewart, of Nevada, offered the, foiown