Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-03-14

Congregational.

OVERLAND DISPATCHES
Congregational.
WASHINGTON, March l3.-SESATE.-
Mr.. Trumbull, from the Judiciary Com
mittee, reported adversely to the bill
comforting on Territorial Courts juris-
diction under the Bankrupt law. The
bill was indefinitely postponed. goo.
Mr.. Stewart introduced a bill to es-
tablish the Office Of Surveyor General IN
Utah. Referred.
Mr.. Trumbull offered a substitute for
the House supplementary bill to the Re-
construction bill and asked its i'm
mediate consideration. Objected to
and lies over.
Mr.. Anderson introduced a resolution
for the appointment Of three Senators
to examine and report on the Construct
ing Bureau Of the Treasury Department,
whether the same can be dispensed with
or the expenses lessened, and whether
the safeguards are sufficient to protect
the interests Of the Government.
Agreed to.
Mr.. Williams called up, the House
joint resolution directing the Secretary
of the Treasury to refund certain dis
eliminating duties, levied since the LIST
of January, 1856, upon vessels OF
the United States and their cargoes.
Passed.
Mr.. Thayer introduced o resolution 10
reduce the Military Reservation Of Fort
Saunder, Dakota. Referred.
Mr.. Cole introduced a joint resolution
authorizing the Secretary Of the Trea-
sury to lease certain property in San
Francisco for Government purposes.
Referred.
Destructive Floods Several Towns
Wholly or Partly Inundated Great
Loss Of Property.
C~INcISSATI, March l3.-Reports below
represent great destruction Of property
by food. In many places between New
Albany and Evansville, the river is
thirty miles wide. Thousands Of cattle,
sheep and hogs have been drowned and
hundreds Of thousand bushels of grain
destroyed. The country is covered with
floating stacks of hay, wheat and oats.
Nearly all of the steamboat landings are
under water. Shawneetown is COM
pletely inundated, and in the lower part
Of Covington and Cincinnati hundreds
of houses are under water.
Knoxville, March l3.-It is estimated
that the late floods damaged East Ten.
nessee over So, 200, 900. A large num-
Der Of farmers lost everything.
Washington Intelligence.
WASHINGTON, March l2.-The Senate
rejected the nomination Of ex-senator
Edgar Cowan as Minister to Austria.
According to the conversation Of Re-
publican Senators, they do not consider
his political views such as should be-
long to a representative abroad, in view
of the rebellion through which the
country has just passed.
Louis V. Bogy, of Missouri, was re-
jected as Commis sioner o fIndian Affairs.
Mr.. Lassara, for ten years Spanish
Minister here, has been recalled, and is
to be succeeded by Senior Facundi Co.
rier.
WASHINGTON, March l3. -Congress
will adjourn or take a recess immedi-
ately after tho Supplementary Recon
struction bill shall become a law. Or
this there is no doubt. If the President
veto it, which seems certain, members
of Congress think they will not be de-
tanned here beyond next week. The
general opinion is that Il recess will be
taken till October, by which time it will
be seen whether the President has ex-
ecuted the Reconstruction Act, n sub
ject which the House Judiciary Com
mittee will take cognizance Of in con-
nection with that of impeachment.
Specials to the New York Press.
New YORK, March l3.-The Herald's
special says intelligence from Virginia
intimates that the people Of that State
consider the passage Of Wilson'S bill as
a great victory over the Radicals, and
Governor Pierpont is reported to have
said that it leaves the reorganization Of
the South entirely in the hands of Presi-
dent johnson and his rebel friends.
The Heraid's New Orleans special says
resolutions were yesterday introduced
in the State Senate declaring the Sher-
man Reconstruction bill unconstitution-
al, and demanding q test Of it in the
Supreme Court. They were referred to
a special committee. The subject of the
municipal elections was referred to the
Judiciary Committee in the House.
The Tribune's special says the House
Committee on Elections, yesterday, had
under consideration the Colorado con
tested election case. They agreed to
allow neither of the applicants to occu-
by O seat until the matter was definitely
settled.
The President to-day sent in the NOM
ination of. Judge Joun j.. Whitaker, as
District Attorney, and General Heron
U. S. Marshal for New Orleans.
There has beeu q great contest over
these nominations.
Parties in New Orleans now claim the
gold beloning to the Richmond banks,
is in the custody of Treasurer
Spinner. He required them to identify
it. They asked to see it, and then they
could tell whether it was theirs. Spin
ner thought if they could not identify it
without first seeing it, their claim was
a very fimsy one. They then attempted
q description, but failed.
The Tribune learns from a reliable
that the order of General Sheri-
dan, prohibiting the holding of the mu-
election in New Orleans on the
18th was issued under instructions from
the President, to suspend the election
and dispose of both Governor Wells and
Monroe if he Jaw fit.
Penian Onicers-The Privatcor Scheme
Tho Committee In Neutrality-suspicious.
Convention In Chicago.
New YORK, March l3.-The Fenian
continues. A. mass demon
s~tration takes place this evening at
Union Square. Many Fenians from 9th
er cities are pouring in.
The project Of the New York. mer-
chants to raise a million dollars for pri-
is favorably received and meets
With considerable success.
Private letters from Washington state
hat the committee now in that city |
rave been cordially received by Sena-
,ors and Representatives Of both parties.
CHICAGO, March l3.-The Fenian State
is in session in this city.
Yearly eighty circles are represented.
President Roberts is not here. During