New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-23
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| WASHINGTON, Jan. % Hoase.-Mr. Williams
offered a resolution calling for the trial Of the
leaders Of the rebellion by court martial or mill
tary commission, and asserting it would answer no
practical purpose to have them tried by Judiciary
tribunals in the South where their peers areequal
to the persons charged with crime.
Mr.. Stevens, from the Committee on Recon
struetpn, reported joint resolution to amend the
Constitution by providing that representatives of
direct taxation should be appointed among the
several States which may be included within the
Union, according to their respective numbers, and
count the whole number Of persons in each State,
excluding Indians, not taxed; provided that, when
ever the elective franchise shall be denied or
abridged, in any State, on account of race color
all persons of such race or color shall be excluded
| from the basis of representation.
| Mr.. Rogers of New Jersey, declared the pro-
posed amendment contrary to the principles upon
which the government is founded, and must not so
together.
4 A vote will be taken on the amendment to-mor-
row.
Senate-The proposed amendment to the bill for
the enlargement of the powers of the Freedmens
Bureau, restricting the limits of its jurisdiction to
the late Confederate States was discussed.
Mr.. Wilson spoke in opposition to the bill.
Mr.. Cowen. of Pennsylvania, said If such bu-
reau must exist its operations ought not to be left
to the loyal States. &
The question being taken, the amendment was
rejected.
NEW YoRK, Jan. 22.-Adyices from Havana to
the l7th say Secretary Seward had not arrived /.
| The Captain General was fitting up his country
seat and 3reparing to receive him in hospitable
manneA
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Congress is discussing
the amendments to various bills and propositions
to amend the Constitution relative to the basis of
representation, and matters in reference to the
/ Freedmen's Bureau. No conclusion was reached
at the adjournment.
/ WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-House.-Mr. French in
troduced bill prescribing an oath of office and
repealing the test oath of 1862 which was referred
to the Committee on Judiciary.
| Several resolutions were introduced instructng
the Committee on Ways and Means to inquire into
the expediency Of taxing tobacco in leaf and Of
| reducing the tax common leaf.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-The French Minister has
demanded of the State Department information
relative to the recent capture of Bagdad, Mexico,
by Yankee filbusters The Department was un-
able to meet with the demand, as no information
of an official nature had as yet been received.
/ General Sheridan has been requested to inyesti-
gate the affair and punish the offenders.
/ Several French officers, direct from Maximilians
government, passed through the capital yesterday
on their way to France. They gave flattering ac
counts of the Imperial prospects, but no details. y
The operations of the Mexican Republic in the
northwestern section of the country is still car
ried on with great perseverance, and energy.
| General Ogazon, commander of the Department
of Jalisco, leaves San Francisco at the beginning
of this month for Guadalajara, the capital Of his
State, having the authority and means to raise a
force to take the field against the Imperalists.
Gen. Alvarez was still encamped near Acapulco,
and had possession Of all the surrounding country
and was keeping 30 close watch on the Imperial
troops garrisoning the town, that none of them
dared to venture outside. Their supplies had to
come to them by sea.
The entire country from Acapulco to within
short distance of the city of Mexico isin possession
of'the Republicans. s
Mexican papers publish protests of the soldiers
of the Belgian legion in Maximilian's service,
made prisoners by the Republicans, against the
Emperors order decreeng death on all Republi
can prisoners. One protest is addressed to Maxi
milan, the other to the representatives of the
Belgian nation.
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geuce to the goth December says President Juarez
| arrived there on the 18th. His rear guard would
be there ON the 2lst. The French troops were
following them and would probably occupy the
| place in few days.
New YoRK, Jan. 22.-.The Herald's Fortress
Monroe correspondent says great injustice has
been done several individuals by the peremptory
order removing oil the Southerners from the For
tress, as they had been Union soldiers.
The loss of property by the Water street fire on
Saturday night. will amount to six hundred and
| forty thousand dollars.
New YoaK, Jan. 22.AThe Worlds Berlin cor
respondent says there is panic in the Prussian
capital in consequence Of q new and terrible
malady ragaging Prussia. twenty-five per cent.
| of the attacked die a horroible death. Surgeons
trace the malady to worm that attacks pigs.
AS the Germans are essentially pork eating peo-t
| pie and prefer rare cooked food. intense alarm
peryades all classes.
BosroN, Jan. 22.-The steamship Asia arrived
! at this point this evening from Liverpool. Her
mails will be forwarded South tomorrow.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. 22.--Leaf tobaccos, sales GA