New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-13
The New Hampshire Election.


sherman Claimed Inab tn1S OIL would open
the door to frauds.
Pensions were discussed, when the senate
went into executive session, but came out
in few minutes and concurred in the
house amendment to the bill amending the
Judiciary acts, which now goes to the presi-
dent.
The senate again went into executive ses-
sion and adjourned.
HoltSe-The freedmen's bureau extension
was postponed to Tuesday.
The senate resolution erecting q military
warehouse at Fortress Monroe passed.
Internal mismanagement of the treasury
was discussed at length.
A bill constituting the secretaries of war
and treasury and the attorney general a
board to fix charges on the Pacific railroad
passed.
The senate bill to amend Judiciary act
eighty-nine to appeal suits arising from the
collection of revenues passed with an
amendment repeating so much of the act of
February 5, 1867, being an act to amend the
judiciary act Of eighty-nine, as authorizes an
appeal from the judgment of circuit courts
to the supreme court, or the exercise of any
such Jurisdiction by the supreme court, on
appeals that have been or may hereafter be
taken.
Mr.. Stevens called up the Alabama ad.
mission, but Mr.. Blaine moved 70 adjourn.
Carried.
WASHINGTON, March 12..-Attorney Gen
eral Stanbery's resignation has been accept
ed and he will defend the president.
The bill making a majority of votes cast
ratify constitutions, and allowing registered
persons to vote anywhere in the state after
ten days residence on certificate, affidavit,
or other evidence, is a law by the lapse of
ten days.
The Republican majority in New Hamp.
shire is between $500 and 2800. The total
vote is 1900. Each party carries five
counties.
It is stated that Chief Justice Chase
favors allowing the president twenty or
thirty days to prepare his case. Chief
Justice Chase will insist on a reasonable
The impeachment managers are very busy
taking evidence.
Thirty additional senate doorkeepers have
been employed
The president has remitted the sentence
of the military commission at Vicks.
burg, May, 1867, whereby Abel Wall,
years hard labor in the Arkansas
penitentiary; also, Richard Fitzgerald,
of Pamela county. These remissions are
issued in general order, signed by General
Grant on the presidents order.
Internal revenue receipts to-day S59S, 000.
There was special cabinet meeting to.
The Star says: There is good reason fer
saying that no decision will be rendered in
the McCardle case for two or three days,
and it is stated that should the amendment
to the judiciary bill passed to-day become q
law it will throw the McCardle case out of
court.n
The following appointments have been
confirmed by the senate:
Lewis Wolfley, collector of internal reve-
nue. for the first district of Louisiana.
Charles Van Winckle, United States mar
shal for Virginia.
7. w. Scott, consul at Matamoras Mex
leo.
The following is full text Of the judicial
amendment passed to-day by both houses:
Be it enacted, That so much of the act
approved February 5, 1867, entitled an act
to amend an act to establish the judicial
courts of the United States, approved Sep
sscIIiSe- q, i79S, &C authorizes al appeal
from the Judgment of the circuit court to
the supreme court of the United States, or
the exercise of any such Jurisdiction by
said supreme court on appeals which have
been or may hereafter be taken, be and the
same is hereby repealed.
The above was introduced and passed,
though single objection would have stop
ped It. The Democrats all laughed at it.
Colonel Moore, the presidents private sec.
retary, was before the Impeachment mana
examination.
The entire cabinet opposed stanbery's
resignation.
Applications for tickets to the senate
galleries are coming by mail
Proceedings of Southern Conventions.
RICHMOND, March 12.-The DISTINGUISHING
clause was reconsidered and amended so as
to disfranchise whether the person had
taken the oath to support the United States
OF not, and again adopted-yeas A, nays SS,
An amendment disfranchising all who
voted for secession candidates for the Sc
ceding convention, and all who wrote OF
spoke in favor of secession, was defeated
yeas SO, nays ~.
An amendment requiring a two-thirds
vote in the legislature to remove disability,
and each removal to be made by separate
vote, was adopted.
A motion to disfranchise persons ex
empted from the army by contracts with the
rebel government was defeated.
General Scofeld to-day issued an order
suspending sales Of property under deed OF
trust where the sale would result in an un-
necessary sacrifice or where the payment q
interest in reasonable time WITHOUT such
sacrifice can be made.
| CHARLESTON. March l2.--The Republican
| state convention nominated By acclamatlon
| CORDOBA. a negro, as secretary Of state,
Half the delegates chosen for the Chicago
| Republican convention are nsSEOeos
The constitutional convention haYeagreed
to adjourn on Tuesday, the 18th instant.
A resolution was adopted instructing the
general assembly to institute proceedings
for the recovery Of all property sold for
! confederate money.
RALEIGH, March l2.--Last night the relief
ordinances were defeated.
The convention to-day passed solntlon
to adjourn next Tuesday, Also adopted
report requesting congress to remove the
disabilities of about an average OF eight
persons in every county In the state. Most
of the persons named are obscure mdlvidu-
ais 80 far as known.
JACKSON, March 12.-Conyention furthe
considered the report on the Judiciary
River Hntenlgenees
PfTFsBURa, March l2.--Weather cloudy,
and warm. River sixteen feet nine inches
in the channel; falling slowly.
Business on the wharf is brisk, and the
principal part Of the boats, comprising the
coal feet, have left for their destination.
VIcKsBURG, March 12.-Psssed down
Richmond st A H.; Mestmoreland 81
AP. M.
Passed up: Arthur at II AN.
Iau1aTi1Fn. inI March l2.-River swelling,
with i've feet nine inches 10 the canal.