Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-24
OVERLAND DISPATCHES
Washington Affairs.

Secretary of War and Generals Grant
and Ord. Tho Attorney General moved
to dismiss both this and the bill for the
State of Georgia for want Of jurisdiction.
By consent of counsel for both sides FIJI
day, the 26th, was fixed for hearing the
motion.
The Senate Immediately after prayer
went into Executive session. The SEN
ate has confirmed Joseph W. Coke as
Collector of Philadelphia; Thos. W.
Moon Of Menssha, Wis, as Surveyor
General of Colorado and Utah.
The Attorney-Genoral's motion to dis
miss the Georgia and mississippi in.
junction case on tho ground OF want OF
jurisdiction, is understood to be in ac-
cordance with the Presidents views. II
is deemed desirable that the South shall
not be misled by false hopes OF help
from the Supreme Court.
Surratt's counsel endeavored to-day
to have the trial set for the present term
but Judge Fisher declined, so tho trial
takes place the next term, when Judge
Carter presides.
WASHINGTON, April l9.-The nomina-
ton Of Mr.. Raymond as Minister to Aus
tria has been laid on the table. The
Senate this afternoon refused to express
an ~opinion whether the mission was va
cant or not.
The monthly report Of the Department
of Agriculture says there are favorable
indications Of a good wheat crop.
The Senate has postponed the consid.
GRAFTON of Raymond's nomination until
December.
Senator Wilson will leave tomorrow
on a Southern speaking tour.
Congregational.
WASHINGTON, April lS.-SEyArE-The
Senate, after Executive session, debated
the adjournment, and finally agreed to
extend the time to Saturday, at 3 P. NJ,
BY a vote Of % to 10.
In Executive session some days since,
johnson offered a resolution proposing
| intervention 10 the affairs Of Mexico,
with u view to arrange the difficulty he
tween the belligerents h~onorably to both
parties. 1t is understood that the sub.
ject was taken up to-day, when an Incl
dental debate took place, involving the
question Of discussing the subject with
open doors. This was terminated by
Johnson withdrawing the resolution.
WASHINGTON, April ia resolution
to print two thousand copies Of the Sec.
rotary Of the Interiors report, giving
| information Of the number, location,
etc of the various tribes of Indians,
was referred.
The Senate then went into Executive
session.
On re-opening the doors, Q resolution
was adopted for tho appointment Of a
committee to wait On the President and
| inform him that unless he had some
further communication the Senate would
adjourn at 4 o'clock tomorrow.
The Executive session was then re'
sumed.
Visit of tho Japanese Commissioners e
the President.
WASHINGTON, April l9.-The Presi'
dent to-day was visited b. the delega'
ton Of Japanese, twenty in number
The principal ones made speeches, &C
knowledging the honor o ftheir reception
Rumored Programme Of Mexican Affairs
NEW YoRx, April l9.-The Hartford
CoWrant says that as soon as Macmillan
is out Of Mexico a strong pressure will
be brought upon Juaret to cede Lower
| California to the United States.
Mob Violence In Kentucky.
Louisville, Ky, April ls.-R. T. Ba
ker, Union candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, was advertised to speak a
Germantown on Monday, but was pre-
vented by a gang Of returned rebels
and q part Of the town burned.
Freedman,s Mass Meetius ut Mobile.
MOBILE, April lS.-A mass meeting o
freedmen was held las. evening, At which
5000 were present. Radical speeche.
were made by both blacks and whites
Resolutions were adopted afiliating with
the Radical party, and demanding th'
right to sit on %juries, hold offices, etc
Most of tho colored persons were armed
and a great number of shots were free
into the air.
HIsh Water In Knnsas-Tho Pacific
Railroad Submerged.
KANSAS CRY, April l8.-The riverssii
| higher at this point than since 1874, ant
is still rising. The Pacific Railroad Ii
oyerfowed sufficient to extinguish thu
fires in the locomotives. The waters ar,
reported to be receding slowly.
Tho Mozart Hall Democracy Going 1t o.
their Own Hook.
New YoRx, April l8.-Tho Executive
Committee of Mozart Hall have resolved
in view of the exclusion of their organ
i~zation from the State Convention and
the want of interest felt by the Demo
cracy of this city in the election Of del
egates to the Constitutional Convention
to abstain from participation therein
It reserves its action at the polls till the
| November and December elections, wher
it will act independently Of all other in
ter ests.
Tho virsiui. Republican State Coaven.
hon-RadIcsl Resolutions.
RICHMOND, April l8.-The Republican
State Convention to-day was very ami
mated. The resolutions declare that
the new party Of Virginia is part Of the
| Republican organization, and declare IL
favor of equal political rights, Office
| holding included, internal Improvement,
q thorough system of schools, and 9
modification of the usury law so as tc
encourage capitalists. A resolution wal
offered sustaining the Coniscation Act,
| Of 1862, and demanding the impeach.
ment of Johnson for not executing
them, which was referred to committee
Nearly all the colored speakers demand
ed the confscation of rebel lands, sc
that homesteads might be obtained.
| Union Pacific Railread Bonds In the
Market.
NEW YoRx, April l8.-The Union Pa
cifc Railroad Company offer for sale
their first mortgage, thirty-year bonds
bearing six per cent. interest, payable
semi-annually in New York at ninety
per cent. par value, With accrued inter.
est. Three hundred and FIVE miles Of
road are completed, and enough mate
rial is on hand to furnish the road to
the Rocky Mountains, 5l7 miles from
Omaha. The Company announce that
they expect to meet the California road
in 1870.
De.titution and SUFFERING In Sonth Care.
Observation-Disclosures Of a large
Immigration.
COLUMBIA, S. c., April ls.-The Gov
ernor estimates that 10000 people Of