The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-04-18
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The following just and admirable or
der has been issued by the President:
[oFFIoIAL.
CIRCULAR TO THE HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS IN
REFERENCE TO APPOINTMENTS TO OFFICE.
1t is eminently right and proper that the
Government of the United States should
give earnest and substantial evidence of its
just appreciation of the services of the pat
riotic men who, when the life of the nation
was imperilled, entered the army and navy
to preserve the integrity of the Union, de-
fend the Government, and maintain and per
petuate, unimpaired, its free institutions. 1t
is, therefore, directed
First That in appointments to office in
the several Executive Departments OF the
General Governm ent, and the various branches
of the public service connected with said de-
partments, preference shall be given to such
meritorious and honorably discharged sol
diers and particularly those who
have been disabled by wounds received or
diseases contracted in the line of duty-as
may possess the proper qualifications.
partments, and the several branches of the
public service connected Herewith, such per-
sons shall have preference, when equally eli
gible and qualified, over those who have not
faithfully and honorably served in the land
or naval forces of the United States.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
Executive Mansion, April Z, 1866.
PASSAGE OF THE CIVIL. RIGHTS BILL BY THE
HOUSE!
WASHINGTON, April 9th.-sENATE.-The
Senate to-day passed the loan bill as it came
from the House.
HoUsE.-The House took up and passed
the Civil Rights Bill, over the Presidents
veto, by vote of 1879 to Al. Upon the an
nouncement of the vote, there was great ex-
element, the cheering lasting several min
utes. The galleries were crowded, and the
floor of the Representative chamber was fill
ed by privileged persons. The number of
Senators attracted thither were so many as
to have left that body almost without quo
rum. Amid the confusion which ensued the
House adjourned.
The bill passed the House before by vote
of Ill to SO. 1t is now the law of the land,
having passed both Houses over the Presi-
dents veto.
LATE FOREIGN NEWS
HALIFAX, N. S., April 9.-Tne steamship
England, with Liverpool dates to the 29th
ut, has arrived.
Cotton had declined from a half to three
quarters of "a penny. Sales of the week five
days. $4,000 bales Sales of Thursday 5000
bales. Middling Orleans 194d.
Lard declining.
Consols S62@S6a. Five-Twenties 71@714.
The prospects of an Austr1a-Prussian war
were increasing. A crisis was considered
imminent.
The cattle plague is on the decline in Eng
land.
FROM CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA.
NEW YORK, April 9.-The steamship New
York, from Aspinwall with dates to the 1st,
brings S730000 in treasure.
One hundred and fifty negroes attempted
a revolution at Panama on the Oath uIt.-
They were surrounded and shot down like
sheep. Twenty-Five or thirty were killed,
and one hundred made prisoners.
There is no news from Central America.
A small Gillian steamer, the Paquet de
Maule, with $50 troops, had been seized by
the Spanish Peru, Bolivia and Chill are
still preparing to repel the common enemy.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE MILITARY COMMISSION
The Military Commission which has been
in session in this city for some past, adjourn
ed on Saturday sine die. All cases not al
ready disposed of by them have been turned
over to the civil authorities. Richmond Dis
patch.
Lieutenant General Grant was arrested re-
Gently in Washington by officer Bailey, on
the charge of fast driving. The officer had
quite race after the General, and when he
caught up the General offered to paw the
fine, but refused to be arrested. The officer,
having no authority to receive fines on the
highway, desired the General to report at
the station-house, but he Immediately drove
off at full speed. 1t is said that President
Lincoln was once placed under arrest for
fast driving, and acknowledged the authori-
ty of the law by paying his fine at the sta
ton house. There is no danger to free in
situations as long as we witness such Incl
dents as this
NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, April IA great crevasse
is reported at Cheyennes levee, West Baton
Rouge The whole parish is overflowed, and
it is feared that extensive damage has been
DONE
The crevasse below this city is being re-
paired. The rear of the city is flooded
The British Steamship Company and mer-
chants are drawing up memorial for deep
ening the ocean passes. They call upon the
Western Chamber of Commerce and the
Federal Government for aid The foreign
trade has outgrown the former channel. ships
of the heaviest draught being necessary.
The Methodist Conference has received a
despatch from the Methodist Assembly in
New York, asking for union of prayer on
Sunday in both cities and throughout the
United States. 1t was accepted, and reply
sent by telegraph.
General Scott left this morning, on the
steamer Guiding Star, for New York, some
what improved in health N. Seveilly, pos
tai commissioner, has also left.
FINANCIAL CRISIS
The National Lntelligencer saws there are
everywhere seen mysterious and alarming
portents of coming financial storm. The
excess of an irredeemable paper currency has
done its work by an exaggeration of prices
by an accumulation of goods and merchan-
disc, and by promoting enormous specula
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