The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-22
LATEST NEWS.
Proceedings Of Congress.

cltlZenS asking that the SecOnO clause OF the
pending constitutional amendment be strick-
en- out and one substituted for it, declaring
that no Congressman from the South be al
lowed to sit in the House of Representatives
who is not chosen by at least half of the loyal
men of his district, without regard to color.
Ordered to be printed.
MIR. Sumner also presented petition for
the trial of Jefferson Davis by court martial,
and remarked, in connection: In present
ing this petition 1 express no opinion on it,
but now, that the subject is before us, will
add, that the trial of Jefferson Davis, at the
present time, by jury in Richmond, will be
one of those great comedies which hereafter
will excite the derision of the world.' The
petition was referred to the Military COM
mittee
The Senate receded from its amendment to
the bill authorizing two annual terms of the
Circuit Court in the District of Virginia, to
commence the first Monday in May and No
vember and changing the place from Nor
folk to Richmond. This action of the Ser
| ate restores the authority of the Chief JUS
tice to hold special terms of the court. The
bill having thus passed both Houses, awaits
the Presidents signature.
HoUsE.-The Military committee reported
a bill equalizing the bounties of soldiers, sail
ors and marines, giving them at the rate of
one hundred dollars per year from April,
1861, to April, 1860.
The remainder of the session was con-
sumed in considering the Tax bill.
Washington Items.
We take the following from the Washing
ton correspondence of the N. Y. Times, of
the 9th instant:
The proposed amendment to the Con-
stitution offered by Mr.. Stevens, providing
an export duty of five per cent cotton,
was considered this morning by the House
Judiciary Committee, and resulted in a tie
vote-three to three. Had the other mem
bers of the committee been present, it is I'M
stood that Mr. Stevens amendment would
have been agreed to by the committee.
Unconditional Union Convention in Virginia.
A number of leading Union men of Vir-
ginia have met at Alexandria and organized
themselves into "a permanent political or
ganization to be known as the Union Re
publican party of Virginia" Mr.. Bolts is
chairman of the Convention.
On the 18th resolutions were introduced
looking to reconciliation of Congress and
the Executive by initiating State action in
favor of impartial qualified suffrage, and the
appointment of a committee to wait upon
both the President and Congress to get
their endorsement of the action of the Con-
vention. After some debate, the resolutions
were received and passed.
The Convention recommended Hon. John
Minor Bolts plan Of reconstruction to Con-
gress and adjourned sine die.
Freedmen's Bureau.
SAVANNAH, May 1S.-Gens. Steedman and
Fullerton arrived here last night They left
Charleston on Sunday, since which time
they have been investigating the working of
the FreedmeR7s Bureau on the Sea Islands
Among the evils that have come to light
is the persistent system of overcharging for
food and the necessaries of life INDUCED in
by many persons working the Plantations
The freedmen are paid fifty cents per task
of 4 quarter of an acre. They are then
charged three dollars per bushel for corn that
costs the planter one dollar and thirty cents.
Episcopal Council.
ALEXANDRIA. May 1S.-The Episcopal
Convention to-day adopted by "a vote of 80
against Is. a preamble and resolution that
the Diocese of Virginia do now resume its
former ecclesiastical relations as a Diocese,
in connection with the General Convention
of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the
United States.
Southern Improvements.
NASHVILLE, Friday, May 1S.--Thc street
railroad was opened in Nashville to-day.
Radical Meeting in Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, May 1s.-A large meeting of
the unconditional Union men is being held
tonight in advocacy of the reconstruction
measures of Congress and the maintenance of
the Maryland registry law.
Speaker Colfax sent letter expressing
his views on the subject.
Especial Dispatch to the Baltimore SUM-
The Connecticut SenatOrship--The Colorado Veto
Mr.
WASHINGTON, May lit is understood
here in republican circles that several con-
sentative friends of Senator Foster have
united with the democrats in the Connect
cut Legislature to oppose the election of a
radical to the United States Senatorship.-
This has created much excitement at the
capitol. 1 am in receipt of reliable informa-
ton to-day showing that the republican
friends of johnson are moving upon system
in numerous leading quarters of the country.
Plenty of republican members of Congress
are glad of the Colorado veto.
1t is not doubted by leading johnson re-
publicans that Mr.. Stanton would have I'M
gently pressed the policy of the President
had the contemplated serenade come off to-
night 1t will take place in a day or two.
Suspension of Freedmen Courts.
The Superintendent of the Freedmen's
directed to adjourn the freedmens courts
until further orders. The cases, the trial of
which have been begun in these courts will
be adjudicated, but no new cases will be
heard.
To be Arrested.
The President has issued an order direct
ing the arrest of all officers of the Freed
mems Bureau interested, directly or indi-
rectly, in the cultivation of farms in the
Southern States.
The New York Markets.
NEW YORK, May 1S-Flour declined 100
10 cents Southern $1O.66@$16.75. Wheat
declined at 2@3 cents. Corn declined 10
2 cents. Beef steady. Pork and Lard firm.
Whisky dull. Cotton firin-salcs of 1900
bales at SO cents. Sugar and Naval stores
quiet. Gold 100.
F. C. LIGHTE & CO.,
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