Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet., 1867-02-21
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Foreign and Domestic.

4 LONDON, Feb. 16.-In Ireland, county
Kerry is declared in state Of siege.
Twenty Americans are said to be acting
with the Fenians.
O'Connor and Stephens are said to be
indicted. Twenty Americans are operating
with the Fenians.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 16.-The Car will
protect the Christians in Servia and Crete
If the Turks refuse them equity. !
| PARIS, Feb. 15.-The army organization
plan of Napoleon is rapidly breeding
distrust.
LONDON Feb. 16.-Ireland is entirely
ported there, but tho danger seems past.
Toomies Wood, where the closely pressed
Fenians took refuge, was secured by
British troops, and the insurrectionary
bands were dispersed. The government,
however, will Immediately send more
ships and troops to Ireland.
LONDON, Feb. 15.-The Car has written
a note in which he objects to the rising of
the Servians against Turkey.
The government stated to Parliament
to-day that Col. Harsfood's force was too
small to follow the armed band of Fenians
into Toomies Wood, but that the Colonel
had already hopes Of surrounding the in
)surgents and preventing their escape.
The authorities in Ireland have assured
the British Government that the present
rising is entirely stopped.
| LONDON, Feb. 17.-It is now considered
certain that the determined resistance of
the Cretans, and the spirit Of concession
recently shown by the Turkish govern
ment, will result in the mplete inde-
! pendence of Gambia.
| ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. l6.-The Gear will
| protect the Christians if Turkey refuses to
! treat them properly.
DUBLIN, Feb. 1.-THE outbreak in Kill
larney has come to an end, and the bands
| of insurgents have disappeared. One hun
dred and forty Fenians have been arrested
and are now in Jail.
BERLIN, Feb. 1.-THE Prussian troops
withdraw from Dresden on the 1st of July,
but garrisons will be maintained at Leipsic,
Baretzen and Kaenizberg.
Prince Frederick Charles has been elected
to the North German Parliament.
PARIS, Feb. IA grand banquet was
given the American yachtsmen last night.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l7.-Sherman's sub
stltute passed the Senate at half past - this
morning, by a vote of 29 to 10. In the
preamble, military provisions and dis
tricts, it is similar to Stevens bill; but the
President, Instead Of the general, appoints
officers, sentences of death require the
Presidents approval, and the habeas cor
pus is not suspended. Beyond that all in
reference by State authority with military
authority is nullifed. Section 5 provides
that when any rebel State forms consti-
tuition in conformity with the Constitution
of the United States, framed by conven-
ton OF delegates, elected by the male citi-
zens, twenty-one years Of age, without
regard to race, color or previous condition,
and resident in the State one year-except
persons disfranchised by participation In
the rebellion-and when said constitution
provides that the elective franchise shall
be enjoyed by all persons qualified to vote
for delegates, and when the Constitution
ID ratified by majority of the electors who
are elected delegates, submitted to Con-
gress and approved, and when the legisls-
ture OF said State, elected under SAID con-
stltutlon, adopts the constitutional amend
ment, and said amendment becomes part
of the national Constitution, said State |
shall be declared entitled to reprssen tation,
and senators and representatives shall be |
admitted on taking the oath prescribed by |
law. This is substantially Blsipe's amend |
ment. |
The bill will meet with serious opposi-
tlon in the House. Several Republicans,
including Stevens and Brandagle, are re-
ported indignant that the President should |
be flowed to appoint officers and approve
death sentences of the federal courts, and |
that the writ of habeas corpus is allowed |
to issue. The friends Of the measure ap-
prehend veto, and that boilers may de-
feat it entirely.
Three senators voted nay on the motion
TO substitute Sherman's for Stevens bill,
namely, salisbury, Buckalew and Davis.
An amendment that all punishments
under Sherman's substitute Be according
to law, was defeated. Yeas s: nays 90.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-The Republican
mem bers of the House held caucus in the
morning.
John Minor Bottsfhas prepared a plan
Of reconstruction, which he will submit to
The President, and have introduced in
Congress tomorrow. The only new fea-
ture developed is the inclusion of news
paper men and preachers in the excluded
classes.
1t is understood in conservative circles
that the President will undoubtedly veto
Sherman's bill. Tho North Carolina
scheme is acceptable to him because the
franchise is extended by the States them
selves.
The military bill providing two 1egi-
nents of volunteer militia, paid by the
government, for each Congressional dis
rict, comes up on tuesday. The Demo-
rats are violently opposed to it. There is
10 probability Of its becoming law this
Lssion.
WAsHlNGr N. Feb. lT.-The town is full
If rnm'r- If cabinet changes. 1t is toler-
lbly well established that Randall has
enderr'. his resignation. The rumors in i,
dude The retirement of Seward. One re-
'ort says the cabinet will be reconstructed
N Republican basis-ancther on DEM
cratic. The utmost confusion and wild
st speculations are rife. The most relia-
lie impressions are that Congress will !,
vrangle to its close without doing any,
hing, and the President will sanction !
othing that initiates against State rights j,
q m alters of suffrage. !.
WASHINGTON, Feb. ls.-The extreme
sadicals in the House are strongly opposed Z
0 the Senate amendments to the Military.
Government bill, but it will pass, never l
heless, unless, indeed, the Demo ocrats cue E
essfully fllibuster TO prevent it.-Neao q
l,9eanS Picayune's Special.
New YORK, Feb. 1S.-Ths Fenian excite g
lent in this and adjacent cities yesterday i
'as of the most intense character. j.
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