Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-17
Noon Dispatches.

/ WAsHINGTON, July l6.--The followin,
was transmitted to-day to the senate:
transmit herewith reports from thi
secretary u war and attorney genera
containing the Information called for bJ
a resolution OF the senate of the Sd inst
requesting the president to communicate
70 the senate copies OF all orders, instruc
tions, circular letters, or letters of advice
issued to the respective military officers
assigned to command the several mill
tery districts, under an act passed March
/ 2, 1861, and also copies Of ali opinions
given by the attorney general touching
\ reeonstructi0n, aad Interpretation az said
! acts, and all correspondence relating to
the operations, construction and execn-
tion Of said acts, and such as may have
taken place between himself and any
commander, or between him and the
J general army, or between the latter or
/ commander touching said subject, also
4 copies Of orders issued By the commander
! carrying out the provisions OF said act (;
also, that he would inform the senate
I what progress had been made in the mat
} ter of registration under said acts, and
Z whether the sum Of money appropriated
for carrying them out would probably be
sufficient, In answer to that portion Of
the resolution as 10 whether the sum Of
money appropriated for carrying these
acts into effect would probably be suffi-
I cient, reference was made to the accom-
panying report Of the secretary OF war.
twill be seen from that report that an
appropriation Of S5O00000 was made Ia
an act approved March 80, 1867, for the
purpose OF carrying into effect, and pro-
vide for the more efficient government
of the rebel states, passed March 2, 1867,
and the supplementary act passed March
%, 1857, has already been expended by
the commanders Of the military districts;
and, in addition, the sum of 81 ,647, 277
is required for present purposes. 1t Is
exceedingly difficult at the present time
TO estimate the probable expense Of car
rying into fall extent the two acts Of
March last and the bill which passed the
two honses on the 18th inst. If the exist
ing governments Of the ten states out of
the union are to be depOsed, and the en-
tire machinery be placed under the ex-
elusive control and authority Of the re-
spective district commanders, all the
expenditures incident to the administra-
tion of such governments must necessa-
rily be incurred by the federal govern.
ment He believed in addition to the
g 100000 already expended, an estimate
for the sum which will be required will
not be less than Si4,0O0,0O0 over the
aggregate amount expended prior TO the
rebellion, in the administration Of their
respective governments by the ten states
embraced in the provision Of those acts.
The sum expended, no doubt, will be
considerably augmented if themachinery
Of these states be operated by the
federal government, and will stiIl
be largely increased if the United
States, by abolishing the existing
state governments, should be responsible
for liabilities incurred by them before
the rebellion in laudable efforts 10 de-
yelop their resources, and In no wise Gre
ated for insurrectionary purposes. The
debt Of these states thus legitimately in
Cured, when accurately ascertained.
will, it is believed, approximate $780,
600, 900, and they are held not ONLY hy
our citizens, among whom are residents
Of portions of the country which have
ever been loyal to the union, but by per-
sons who are the subjects of foreign gov
ernmsnts. 1t is worthy of the consid-
GRAFTON Of congress and the country
whether, If the federal government by
its action were to assume such Obliga-
tions, so large an addition to our public
expenditures would not seriously impair
the credit Of the nation; or, on the other
hand, whether the refusal OF congress to
guarantee the payment of these states,
aftef having displaced or abolished their
state governments, would not be viewed
as violation OF good faith, and a repu-
diatiOn by the national legislature of
liabilities which these states had Justly
and legally incurred,
signed ANDREW JOHNSON.
Pans, July 16.-In the great regatta
race at St Cloud, the western club, from
St Johns, \. B., rowing four cared boats,
won the two international prizes. They
had to compete with three Oxford and
two London boats Of the same class.
Berszouski, who attempted to sssassi-
nate the cZaT of Russia, was sentenced to
imprisonment at hard labor for life.
In the course Of the debate in the corps
legislatif, Minister Rouker declared
France was indifferent to the question Of
German unity.
LONDON, July ia prominent Fe-
nian, supposed to be Gen. Farrell, was
arrested last night, and has bsen seat to
Dublin for trial.
4 man named Helenery, claiming to
be citizen Of the United States, was
recently arrested at Paris, at the request
OF the Portuguese government, and sent
to Lisbon. The American minister at
that place made a demand on the gov
ernment Of Portugal for the release Of
the prisoner ana his return to Fran0s in
a Portuguese hlan-Of-waF.
The Russian government has sold the
st. Petersburg and Moscow railroad to
Barring Bros. & Holinger.
In the house Of commons tonight the
reform bill was ordered to its third read |
ing.
The government denies that any troops
have been sent to Abyssinia to rescue
the English from the natives, but asks
to employ SepOys for that ex-
peditiOn.
DUBLIN, July l5.-RepOrts from the !
county Of Mayo and the adjoining dis |
trict, COnnemsra, represent great desti- !
tuition and suffering among the inhab- !
itants in consequence of a famine on that |
island.