The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-06-27
NEWS SUMMARY.

1t has been reported from Cuba that
Royal decree has been received from
Spain, freeing all colored children born
of slave parents on the Island on and
after the lst of July next
A pardon was issued on Thursday in
the case of Gen. Longstreet, having been
granted upon written and personal appli-
cation OF numerous prominent individ-
uals, including General Grant, prominent
officers of the army, and several Senators
and representatives
The commissioners of the Gettysburg
National Cemetery Wednesday adopted
resolution appointing a committee to
see what steps are necessary to transfer
the care of the cemetery to the general
government; also one appropriating So
900 to erect the foundation and pedestal
for corps monument to Gen. Reynolds.
The tle-feld monument is to be dedi-
Gated July 4th. 1868, and will cost SAT-
600.
The repaired cable continues to work
perfectly, and may be considered as re-
liable as though no damage had occurred.
1t was found to be absolutely crushed,
notwithstanding its heavy iron armor, for
the length of one hundred and twenty
feet.
Instructions have been issued by the
president through the adjutant general 5
Office to commanders of military districts
under the reconstruction acts for carrying
into effect the attorney generals interpre-
tation thereof as given In the 10 points
already published
The Department OF State has iniorma-
ton from Commissioner Beckwith that
OF the 524 United States exhibitors at
Paris there have been 2G2 awards.
Among these four have been awarded
grand prizes, seventeen gold. and sixty
two silver, and one hundred and three
bronze medals. Seventy-nine American
exhibitors were honorables.
The letter of General Sickles. asking to
be relieved from the command of the
Second Military District for the reason
that the Attorney Generals intcrpreta-
ton of the law dei,rives him of his proper
authority, disarms him of the means tc
protect life, property and the rights Of
the citizens, and menaces all the interest,
of the South with ruin, has been received
at headquarters No action will be takel
thereupon, it is understood, until the
President returns. General Grant and
the Secretary of War are both opposed tC
granting Sickles his request.
The Congressional Executive Commit
tee has received Geographic responses tt
its circular of last Thursday from ovel
thirty members of Congress, every one
of whom says he will be on hand for the
summer season Of Congress. Several Of
them express the hope that no general
legislation will be attempted, but that
| the Reconstruction Act will be made so
Iltuli duti ca biIClU tiidt tiiC ga u
neither misunderstood or evade it, and
an adjournment then take place to about
the LIST of October. sE
General Sheridan reports TO the War
Office that things in Louisiana are going
on well, and every day give, new ass,rr-
ance that the removal OF Wells, Monroe,
Abel and others, was wise step. He
thinks the restoration Of Wells would
give pain to nine-tenths of all the people
in the State kilograms have been sent
to him from here that his course is sa,s-
tanned by the people, and will be indors-
ed by Congress.
A dispatch from Galveston says that
an Austrian passed through there, en- route
north, representing himself an officer OF
Macmillan. He stated that Macmillan
had been pardoned on the condition OF
leaving the country as soon as the ports
of Tampico or Vera Cruz are open for
his departure.