The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-01-04
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NEW York, jan 3,cotton firm, with an
Iincrnasing upward tendency. Gold 1929.
Flour firm-50l0c higher. Corn quiet.
A Washington special says that the object
of the expedition of Assistant Secretary
Seward and Admiral Porter is to convey to
Napoleon dispatches explanatory of Sew
ards messages. Other specials have other
/ speculations as to the mission
Washburn's bill establishing Govern
The House Postal Committee are nearly
unanimous for it.
1t is reported that the Ways and Means
Committee has decided that gold must here
after be sold in open market-that there is
too much gold in the Treasury. and that it
must be reduced.
No action yet on Boutwell's bull. The SEN
ate Finance Committee do not look with
much favor on Pomroy's bill. and preferanot
to interfere with Mr.. McCulloch's contrac-
| ton policy 25a - -
John g. Ryan, arrested at Memphis Is
months ago as John HI. Surratt s seeking
damages for false imprisonment, 80
The correspondence between Gov Wells,
of Louisiana, and Gen. Sheridan is pub
lished. Wells requested the enforcement of
Grants Order No. Al and punishment of
rioters by military commission. Sheridan
replied that he would when he thought it
necessary.
The steamer Nangatuck, running between
ST. Louis and Cincinnati, struck snag last
Saturday night IS miles below st. Louis,
i and sunk in 25 feet water. Weather very
cold. Navigation still suspended.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2.-Horace Greeley
declines, for want of time, to lecture before
the Galveston Literary Society.
Cotton receipts light-no change
LIVERPOOL, Jan 2-The cotton market
has been active to-day, and prices have ad-
vanced Id. per pound. The sales sum up
90, 900 bales Middling uplands are quoted
at 154d
PARIS, Jan. 2-The Moniteur to-day ed
itorially announces that the entire body of
French troops will surely have left Mexico
by the first of March. f
MADRID-Thursday Jan. 3.-MaIshal Ser
vanos has been arrested, and it is supposed
that he is implicated in the recently discov-
cred insurrectionary plot
RoME-Thursday. Jan. 3.-The committee
of action has issued proclamation calling
for the early rising of the inhabitants
against the authorities, and in favor of in
corporation with the Kingdom of Italy.
VIENNA-Thursday, Jan. 3.-The Austrian
Government has called a special session
the Reichsratta to consider the question of
amending the constitution of the Empire.
RICHMOND, Jan. 3-Returns from twenty
three Conferences of the Southern Methodist
Church show that the proposition to change
the name is defeated, and also indicate the
probable defeat of the lay delegation propo-
sition.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Stevens has called
up his bill for the reorganization of the
Southern States. In doing so he remarked
that the late decision of the Supreme Court
was more dangerous-he would notsay more
/ infamous-than the bred Scot decision
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3-Mr. Bundy of
Iowa introduced the following joint resolu-
ton for the establishment of four territorial
governments within the so-called' State of
Texas:
Whereas, by joint resolution, approved
March LIST, l845, that district heretofore
known as the State of Texas, was admitted
into the Union and wrongfully permitted
to retain in her own right, as the said State,
all unsettled lands within the limits of the
entire territory thereof, consisting of 237,-
900 square miles-all of which were ac-
qured by the common treasure, sacrifice.
and blood of the people of the whole Union :;
and, whereas, the people inhabiting said
territory, occupying such lands, joined the
inhabitants of other insurrectionary dis
tricts waging war against the Government
and people of the United States, thereby for
feiting their political rights as citizens of
! the States Of the Union, and destroying the
practical relations of the said State of Texas
with the Government of the United States
to the extent that all territorial rights and
possessions appertaining, to be exercised or
enjoyed by the people of the said State of
Texas, become and remain forfeited and lost
to them by reason of their own acts of
treason and rebellion as aforesaid and,
whereas, the people and the public author
ity have been and still are disposing of the
public lands remaining unsettled therein,
not only In reckless and lmprOVlden6 man
ner, but to persons who have been, and are
still disloyal to the Government of the Uni
ted States, and rewards for treason and re-
bellion against the same; and, whereas the
people and public authority of said district,
in defiance of all law, municipal and divine,
have, and are still committing every species
of violence and outrage upon each
other and more nartielfIarlv un0ns
Union men and freedmen within it's bor-
ders; and whereas the said district of Texas
has been and is now the resort and refuge
of desperate and lawless characters and
criminals so that the very name by which
that country is recognized and named
Throughout all lands is suggestive of the penal
colony of the old world-the name and his
tory thereof indicating little else than
bloodshed ingratitude, violence and wrong !;
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