Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-12-18

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OVERLAND DISPATCHES
Reasons for Suspending Ap-
pointments.
WASHINGTON, December l6.-Ine
Presidents communication giving ms
reasons for the suspension OF stanton
has been published. He says Stantca's
condemnation of the Tenure OF ohce
law in the Cabinet meeting WAS the most
elaborate and emphatic OF all the mem
hers. He says that after the death OF
President Lincoln n scheme OF recon-
struction was adopted which stanton
had himself prepared for Lincoln. inc
PROCLAMATION organizing the govern
mont of North Carolina was issued IN
pursuance of this scheme, and with the
~annroyal of every member OF the Caoi-
net. The present difference OF opinion
with Stanton began with the Acts reIa-
ting to suffrage in tho District ., 20
lumbia and the rcconstruction oiiis "
| March, 1866. He affirns that stanton
withheld dispatches stating the prooa.
b;litv of n riot in New Orleans until
after the riot had occurred, and refused
| TO send instructions to prevent the dis
turbence. Tho President then attempts
to prove the illegality Of tho efforts to
check the responsibility by depriving
him of the right to select the right
agents. w
| Gibbs for Governor of Idaho; Alex
auder X. Lowry, Register Of the Land
| Office Mt Marysville; and James f..
Swain, Postmaster at Benicia.
Message from tho President.
CHICAGO, December IA Times
special says the President is about to
send to Congress an extraordinary
message specially commencing the
course of General Hancock in New Or
leans, and will ask Congress for some
recognition of one who, the President
SAYS, has earnestly inauguratsd tho
reign of civil law and given the citizens
tho privilege Of the habcas corpus, the
possession Of tho courts and the free
dom of the press. The document will
soon be presented and will probably
create a sensation. 1t is regarded rs
the commencement Of q new policy and
probably tho removal of Candy and
Pope.
Yellow Fever-The Fonians.
New YORK, December 1.-THE Sus-
ouehannah has lost three Of her crew
by yellow fever.
Admiral Palmer died at st. Thomas
on the 7th.
The Tribune editorially says the nego-
tiations for the fusion Of the Fenian
organizations are likely to DO successful
under the Presidency of John Mitchell.
Affairs In Alabama.
MONTGOMERY, December l7.-The
Montgomery Advertiser contains the par.
ticulsrs of the arrest Of a negro, George
Shorter, the leader Of the insurrection-
cry movement in Bullock county.
Shorter pretends to have been sent by
Northern radicals to organize a Govern
ment for the blacks.
At Sheriff. sale to-day railroad stocks
sold remarkably low. The figures for
land sold were fvo cents and twenty
cents an acre.
Democrats Coming Out In Favor Of Han.
cock.
New YonK, December IA Herald
special says several Democratic members
from the West who have heretofore
favored Pendleton, have declared in
favor of Hancock. Tho movement in
this direction acquires strength daily.
Tho World has a marked editorial
upon tho ability of Hancock, setting bis
Judgment above that of General Grant.
Tho Worlds special says the Commit
tee on Ways and Means find that the
Government ought to receive on the
whisky tax three hundred and five mil
lions, while the actual receipts arc only
twcnty-eight millions. Estimating the
product from the capacity Of the stills,
the Government ought to receive twelve
hundred millions Of dollars.
Contraction of Currency-Fuudius Of tho
National Debt.
CHICAGO, December IA Post spe.
cial saws the Senate Finance Committee
have reported the House Anti-Contrac.
ton bill, Senator Sherman saying it had
received the unanimous appreciation oil
the committee.
The Finance Committee have agreed
upon a bill funding the national debt,
II authorizes the issue Of six per cent,
bonds, tho proceeds to DO used in re-
deeming existing securities. These
bonds arc exempt from taxation. The
bill creates q sinking fund for the re-
duction of the public debt, provides for
the redemption of f%ve-twenty bonds in
currency, and authorizes the Secretary
of the Treasury to redeem the bonds
held abroad by the issue Of bonds bear.
ing four and q half per cent. interest,
payable in forty years.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Observation-Disclosures
reported a bill for the funding of the
national debt. It's provisions have been
previously telegraphed. (They will be
found above.
HOUSE.
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