Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-31
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NEW YORK DISPATCHES.

Board of SuperylsOrs-ErOm Havana
and Sc ThOmas--New Orleans Riot
Committee. washington lens, etc, ETC.
NEW YORK, Jan. 30.--In the Board of
Supervisors yesterday, the special Commit
tee on banks and insurance companies re-
ported in favor Of refunding the amounts
illegally collected from certain Of those
institutions By the country as taxes
Havana advices Of the 22nd state that
the principal merchants have taken steps TO
make Havana a legal entreport for the
storage Of cotton, by removing the restric-
tons on foreign vessels. The United
States gunnboat Don, with the Mission had
not vet arrived.
st. Thomas advices Of the eth, and Porto
Rico advices of the 18th, say that the
cholera had almost entirely disappeared
from st. Thomas, but that the smallpox
had not abated. Two telegraph lines were
to be established in Porto Rico. Old navi~
gators Of the Sound say the weather the
present winter has been the severest they
have experienced for twenty or thirty
years. Many Of the Sound Steamers got
fast in passing near Frogs Neck, and the
passengers had tosfooi il ashore.
The Tines Washington special says, he
has the best authority for saying that the
letter to the London Times from its Wash
ington correspondent, referred to in a cable
dispatch, contains nothing of the kind at
tributed to it in the conversation with the
President. He did not refer to Congress at
all.
The New Orleans Riot Committee viii
not complete their labors in two weeks.
Generals Fullerton and Grant and Mr.
Raymond have been subpRnaed. Mr..
Bower, the Democratic member of the COM
mittee, has not yet examined One-third Of
his witnesses, but has already signified his
intention to submit minority report.
The Impeachment Committee Of the
Southern Republican Association have pre-
pared partial list of witnesses in the i'm
parchment case, and will seon suggest their
programme of investigating the charge.
The Senate Postofice Committee have
agreed to report the postal appropriation
bill as it passed the House.
The Herald's Washington special says
Gen. Salzar, Minister from Colombia, has
arrived from New York and it is under
stood the misunderstanding which has been
spoken of as existing between Mr. Burton,
our minister in Bogota, and the Colombian
government will soon be arranged.
The Tribune's special says The Senate
Committee on Foreign Affairs had come to
no conclusion yesterday in regard to the
foreign appointments before them. 1t is
understood that both Cowan and Dix will
be reported against.
Mr.. Stewards letter to Mr.. Motley is
looked upon by Senators as most insulting
and undigniGed, and il is considered that
Mr.. Motley was, in self respect, compelled
10 resign. The committee will, therefore,
report against any one nominated to the
position. .r.
With regard TO gold and silver, the Sen
ate Committee en- Finance favor the present
policy Of the Secretary of the Treasury.
They have not disposed of the gold bill
The Ways and Means Committee were
engaged Yesterday on the tax bill they
viii not report it, however, till they get
the tariff so as to adjust these two measures
and make them harmonic. No conclusion
has been reached concerning the issue Of
fifty OF one hundred million loan certificates
bearing less interest than the compound
interest notes, to take the place of those
held BY the banks. Secretary MeCulloch
favors the scheme,
Over $5e00,O 900 Of the compound inter
est notes have been Withdrawn from circu-
latioH and cancelled since July last