The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-04-13
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NEW S.
BY the arrival on the 9th of the favorite packet
d. {. Murray. IA days from San Francisco. we
have the New York mails of February 10th and
March ID, and Geographic dispatches from Wash
ingtou to March 25th.
The news by this arrival is quite unimportant,
Congress had done but little since last report. and
was considering 4 resolution to adjourn till Decem-
Der.
The Fenian uprising in Ireland was involved in
much mystery, and news from thence is suppressed.
We give below the principal items of interest:
Congress-.
WASHINGTON. March l7th.-At midnight last night
the Senate passed the Supplemental Reconstruc-
ton Bill bv a vote of 2S ayes TO 2 noes. The nays
were Messrs. Buckalew and Hendricks. Mr.. John
son voted aye. The other Democrats were absent.
The lower House passed the same by a large ma
jority.
A special to the Commercial Adrertiser says the
House has voted in favor of extending the recess to
December. This is regarded as a fatal blow to
impeachment. The impeachers contrive every
effort TO prolong the present session.
New YORK. March. l9th.-Mr. Stevens bill was
called up TODAY. 1t provides for the eonfscation
of all public lands belonging to the ten rebel States.
and all lands and other property forfeited by the
Act of Congress of July II, 1862, all of which shall
be seized. condemned and sold, and out OF the pro-
ceeds each adult male freed slave shall receive
forty acres. and each head of a family forty acres
more out OF the balance $50 shall be given for
each household. to lie used in the erection of build
ings for the late slaves. and $500, 000, 900 shall be
invested in q per cent. bonds. and the interest shall
be added to the pensions of Union soldiers. and
$500. 000. 600 shall be appropriated to pay damages
to loyal citizens by the Civil and Military Govern
ment of the Contederacy.
Stevens, in his speech, yesterday. said no party
or Committee was responsible for this bill. 1t is
chargeable to the President and myself. and what
ever merit it may possess is due to Andrew John
son.
DELEGATIONS from the South are arriving daily to
obtain the views Of the President on the Recon-
struction difficulty. The bill repudiates the South
crn State debts. and declares the present State
Governments illegal. All the Southern States have
issued bonds since the establishment of the present
Governments. 1t is said the President will appoint
only Democrats TO Office hereafter. Should the
Senate not confirm, the responsibility will rest on
that body. Indications point strongly TO lmpeach-
ment.
The Times has information that the freedmen
throughout the South are organizing n Union
League, through the influence of Northern teachers
and officers of the F~reedmenis Bureau. In Georgia
nearly every county is thoroughly organized.
The Radical Society will see that every freedman
votes against the Johnson party. The white 10y
alists in the South are uniting with and controlling
these organizations.
Miscellaneous.
The President has been urged by prOntlnent ke-
publicans and others to release jeff. Davis on his
own recognizance, because there Is no prospect OF
the Chief Justice holding a Court in Virginia so
long as that State is under the control of Military
authority. There is good reason for saying that
within ten days Davis will be released on his own
recognizance to answer when called upon.
The President and Cabinet are laboriously en-
gagged in examining applications for office, to sup
plv the large number of vacancies caused by the
Senate reflections. About one third of the Offices
are without incunbents. There Is a dead lock be-
tween the Executive and the Senate, the latter
seeming determined to force the nomination of
thorough Radicals. The condition of the offices is
illustrated by Philadelphia, which is without a
Naval Officer. Collector of Customs, one Internal
Revenue Collector, and Director of the Mint.
CHARLESTON. S. c.. March 26th.-Gen. Sickles. in
his order to-day taking command OF the Second
District. saws the local tribunals will be permitted
to have Jurisdiction and try offenders, except in
cases referred to in this order of the Commanding
General. The military tribunal for the trial of
civil officers is authorized to continue to exercise
its prouer functions. Arrests by military authority
will be reported promptly, and charges preferred
by the evidence on which they are
founded. The General desires TO preserve order
by the agencies and means most congenial to the
people. and solicits the cordial cooperation Of the
civil officers in the discharge of his duties. He
asks the aid of all good citizens IN the preserya-
ton of peace. and urges the people and authorities
to WELD unre.erved obedience TO the authority now
established.
1t is stated on good authority that Foster will
not be appointed Minister to Austria
New YORK. March 5th.-The Times commercial
article saws there was a large demand for Pacific
Mail stock after the announcement that the Colo
rqfo had arriy ed at San Francisco. The pecuniary
results in that trip are understood greatly TO ex-
coed the calculations Of the directors here, who
charged up the expenses of putting the line in OPP
Grafton out Of the general profits. For the quarter
ending February the reduction of dividends was
partly owing to this fact. a majority of the direc-
tors regarding the China service as uncertain for
the first trip. 1t is said it realized Sill, 900 eXclu-
of the Government subvention, against $685.
900 expenses
No cable dispatches are coming. There is a
break in the Irish land lines. Nothing is known as
to the cause. or whether it is the work of the Fen
or a storm. The HeTdid's Dublin correspond
of the 9Th. states that it is the Fenians' inten-
to send their own news through the cable.
The Journal of Commerce says the action of the
Atlantic Cable Company. in refusing any reduction
their rates. was probably based on the abandon
ment of the Russian Line. and their consequent
supposed continued enjoyment of n monopoly.
will find out their mistake. as by that action
a stimulus has been given TO other and far more
feasible projects that are now on foot. Hopes are
entertained that both the middle lines TO France,
and that via the Azores, will be pushed rapidly
forward.
\ cable for submarine telegraph between Cuba
and Florida is being rapidly constructed at Lon
don. and it is expected to be laid early in August
next.
Ex-rebel Gen. Longstreet says there is no hui
initiation in the acceptance of the terms proposed
Congress, and no reason to doubt that such ac-
ceptance in good faith will pave the way for the
readmission of the Southern States.
1t is said that Sir Frederick Bruce has advised
the British Government to allow no more news of
tho FpuiaO rising IN he transmitted hV the cable.