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WASHINGTON, January l3.-Senate.-A
bill authorizing the sale of Government
property at Harper's Ferry was intro
duced; also one for reducing the Federal
army.
The Judiciary Committee was required
to report a bill regulating Impeachment
trials.
Information was asked from the Presi-
dent regarding Burlingame and the Chi
nese mission.
The Secretary of the Treasury was
asked whether there are not surplus funds
on hand which could be advantageously
conveyed into the Treasury.
The bill amending the Constitution so as
to provide tribunal to adjudcate differ
ences between the Government and the
States was taken up, but the Senate went
into executive session and adjourned.
Householder the regular Mondays
call, bills were introduced establishing a
Bureau for the relief Of freedmen; de-
fining belligerent rights in the opinion of
the United States requiring two-thirds of
the Judges Of the Supreme Court to pro-
nounce laws unconstitutional; for the pas
sage of tariff bill as soon as possible
for constructing railroad bridge across
the Ohio river at Paducah to fund the
national debt; for protecting American
citizens abroad; declaring the fourteenth
article of the Constitution adopted.
The Speaker submitted communica-
ton from the War Department. asking for
transportation south of certain provisions.
The rule was suspended-ll6 to 44-tor
the introduction of the additional recon-
struction bill, telegraphed Saturday. The
bill will be debated tomorrow and Wed
nesday, when vote will be taken. The
minority is pledged to make no dilatory
motions.
The rule was suspended, and the bill in
troduced and passed making five Judges OF
the Supreme Court quorum, and re-
quiring two-thirds Of full bench to make
valid any action infringing directly or in
directly the laws of Congress; and should
district court decisions affect in any way
the constitutionality or validity of such
laws, said decision shall be certified to the
Supreme Court, and unless two-thirds OF
full bench concur, said decision shall stand
revised. The vote was ll6 to 80.
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that the principles to which he had
devoted his public life, and to which
We are devoted at this day, would
be treated otherwise than in derisive
mockery by those in power In the land
and experience has proved his convictions
and appreciation of those in authority
to have been correct; and whereas the
Hon. John @. Breckenridge has declined
to ask for pardon, not being guilty of any
crime known to the law, and we, following
the example Of the great statesman, here
refrain to ask it in his name, but having
that love for him as Kentuckian, we, the
general council of the city Of Louisville,
ReSolue, That the senators and repre-
sentatives Of kentucky in Congress be re-
quested to insist that assurance be trans
mitted by those at the head Of the General
Govern ment to the said John G. Breckin-
ridge, that he will be free to return home
at any time that suits his convenience and
be unmolcsted by any agent Of the Fede-
raj Government in resuming the pursuits
Of civil life or the discussion Of the poll
tics and measures Of the day."
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From Washington.

WASHINGTON, January l3.-The impress
sion gains ground that the Senate Will not
sustain the House in its aggressive legisla-
ton regarding the Supreme Court.
The proceedings in the House to-day
render the passage of the new reconstruc-
ton bill on Wednesday almost certain.
This evenings Express says: I'VE have
reason to believe that General Meade has
been assured that General Grant will stand
by him in any action that he may find 1t
necessary to take regarding the Governor
and Treasurer of Georgia.
S. S. Cox has been nominated to the
Senate for the Austrian mission.
After the vote to re0rganize the rules OF
the Supreme Court in the House to-day,
Mr.. Garfield moved to suspend the rules
that he might introduce bill to reduce
and improve the military establishment oy
the discharge of one major-general-tne
one last commissioned in the grade before
lst January, ls68-that is, General han
cock. After decided intimation on the
part of Messrs. Brooks, Randall, and otners,
that they would resort to tillibustefine
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Order Removing the Governor and
State Treasurer OF Georgia.

Ssatc AFedSuTcr Oi UeOFBlAs
ATLANTA, GA, January l3.-The fol-
lowing order was issued this morning:
" HEADQUARTERS THIRD MILITARY D1sTRIcT,l
ATLANTA, GA, January ID, 1885,
&" General Order No. s.
/" FTSt.-Charles j. jenkins, Provisional
Governor, and John Jones, Provisional
Treasurer of the State of Georgia, having
declined to respect the instructions of, and
failed to consult with, the Major General
commanding the Third Military District,
are hereby removed from office.
Secondly virtue Of the authority
granted by the supplementary recon-
struction act Of Congress, passed July 49,,
1867, the following named officers are de-
tailed for duty in the District of Georgia ::
Brevet Brigadier- General Thomas Fl. Ru-
ger, Colonel Thirty third infantry, to be
Governor of the State of Georgia; Brevet
Captain Charles F. Rockwell, ordnance
corps, United States army, to be Treasu-
rer Of the State of Georgia.
Thrd.-The above-named officers will
proceed without delay to Milledgeville,
Ga, and enter upon the discharge of the
duties devolving upon them, subject to in
structions from these headquarters.
"By order of Major General MEADE"
At halfpast 10 o'clock this morning this
order was read to the Reconstruction Con-
vention amid applause.
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Reconstruction Conventions.

New ORLEANS, January 13.-In the
Convention to-day q resolution was
adopted endorsing the proposed action of
Congress in regard to State governments.
An ordinance was adopted providing that
all registered voters DESTROYS of remaining
on the plantations in the precincts where
they are registered may do SO, and making
it misdemeanor for any person to eject
them until after the vote on the ratifca-
tion of the Constitution.
A resolution asking the continuance Of
the Freedmen's Bureau was adopted by q
large vote.
Adjourned.
MISSISSIPPI.
JACKSON, MISS, January 13.-A commit
tee was appointed to inquire into the va
lidity of the charter of the Jackson Gas
light Company.
A resolution of thanks to the Executive
Committee of the National Union Repub-
lican party for what it has done and in
tends doing was, after some discussion,
made the order Of the day for tomorrow.
A committee was appointed to inquire
whether any members of the Convention
identified themselves in any way with
those opposed to the reconstruction acts
of Congress, who do not regard the acts Of
this Convention as valid, and to report the
names of such members.
The majority of the Committee on Com
pensation reported in favor of $40 per diem
for the president and $40 for the mem
bers, SIS for the secretary, $40 each for his
assistants, $40 for the geant-at-arms,
and twenty cents mileage. Mr.. Field
moved to recommit, with Instructions to
report rates sixty per cent. less.
The minority report on compensation
declares the Convention unconstitutionally
convened, and therefore the members are
not entitled to any compensation, and con-
cludes with a resolution that the Conven-
tion adjourn sine die. A great deal of dis
cussion ended in resolution being adopted
that no motion be made to adjourn sine die
without five days. notice. A member i'm
mediately gave the five days notice.
Adjourned.
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TIE HEIRS OF SIR JOHN HoLT.-Persons
claiming to be the heirs Of Sir John Holt
held meeting in this city Thursday night.
Sir John Holt was an English Judge VINO,
in 1908, executed a will devispg large
estates to his family then living. His di-
rect issue having failed, an effort is making,
16O years after his will was framed, to find
out who is entitled to his immense pro-
perry. 1t is said to consist of eighteen
estates in various parts of England, one of
which, in Suffolk, is nine square miles in
extent, and worth SlS,O00,OOO. 1t is also
said that there is fund in the Court Of
Chanccry of 100000 belonging to the
estate. The persons who are investigating
the matter, and claim to be heirs to the
property, set the amount due them at s4o,-
O0O,OOO.-Ne,o TorAc Times, January 18th.
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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

The Removal OF Governor JENKINS
Stanton Secretary OF Wnr-It il not
Known what Ike Will do-N0mina-
neutrality-suspicious., dc.
Special telegram to the Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, January 13.-Some sur
prise was occasioned here by dispatch
published to-day announcing that General
Meade had removed Governor jenkins.
From the tone of the kilograms received
yesterday and the day before from General
Meade it was understood in official circles
here that he did not believe he had the
power to remove Governor Jenkins be-
cause he opposed the payment of the ex-
penses Of the Convention.
The Senate this afternoon adopted re-
solution that the reasons given by the Pre-
sident for the removal of Stanton are not
sufficient, according to the terms of the
tenure of-office act.
Stanton is not suspended, and .conse-
quently is Secretary of War but whether
he will resign at once, as advised by most
of bis friends, or attempt to regain the
office, is not positively known tonight, and
there is nothing more than mere specula-
tion at this moment as to the course Gene
raj Grant will pursue in case Stanton
shall demand the surrender of the War
BY some who claim to know
confdentially Grants purpose it is asserted
that he will feel it to be his duty volunta-
rily to give up the Office, inasmuch as he
is in favor of recognizing the tenure-of-
Office act as valid and binding on him.
Hon. S. S. Cox was to-day nominated to
be Minister to Austria,
The reception at the White House to-
night was brilliant affair. Generals
Grant and Harvey and other distinguished
men, members of the Cabinet,
congressman, members of the foreign
diplomatic corps, and large number of
ladies, were present.
The reception at Postmaster General
Randall's was also largely attended.
WALLACE.
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to prevent its passage, Mr.. Garfield with.
drew his motion, giving notice that he
would renew it next Monday.
The Senate to-day, after the executive
session of five hours, passed resolution,
reported from the Committee on Military
Affairs, declaring the reasons of the Pre-
sident for removing Stanton from the War
Department insufficient, and that they do
not, therefore, concur in the act of suspen-
sion. The vote on the passage of the reso-
luton was ayes, IS; noes, 6. The Senate
then ordered certified copy of the rcso-
luton to be sent to the President, General
Grant, and Mr.. Stanton.
Senator Thayer will introduce q bill to-
morrow to reduce the number Of major
generals to four and Of acknowledgements
to nine-the object of which is to legislate
Major General Hancock and Brigadier-
General Rousseau out of their commits
sions
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RETURN OF LONG ABSENTEE.-Lieu-
tenant Thomas J. Simpson, formerly OF the
Confederate army, son of Mr.. William L..
Simpson, the well known cattle dealer,
reached this city yesterday, having been
imprisoned since the Sd Of September,
1864. Lieutenant Simpson belonged tothe
Seventh Virginia cavalry, and resided in
Loudoun county when the war broke out.
He was captured and sent to Camp Chase,
Ohio, on the Sd September, 1864, where he
remained as prisoner Of war until the
cessation of hostilities, when he was llbe-
rated. Whilst registering his name at the
Revere House, in Columbus, Ohio, he was
assaulted by an officer of the Arkansas
cavalry, who inflicted two serious wounds
on Simpson. Lieutenant Simpson then
wrenched the weapon from the hands OF
his assailant and shot him in self-defence.
He was thereupon placed in the Ohio State
prison, where be remained until the It'll of
January, 1867, when he was forwarded to
Little Rock, Arkansas, and tried before
military commission, which resulted in his
acouittal. He left again for his home, in
Loudoun county, Va, but had the mistor-
tune of being blown up in a steamboat and
seriously injured, and after much suffering
reached the home Of his father, in this city,
Yesterday, much to the qualification OF his
wife and children and other friends.-Bd-
ttnaore Sun, 18th.
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He THAT is Down NEED FEAR NO FALL.
The Harrisonburg Union (RadicaD says
"However much Mr.. Hunnicutt may
deserve our sympathies for his boldness
and independence, it is due to the truth to
say that, so far as benefit to the Republi-
can party of the State at large is con-
cerned, the Ne,o Nation was great fail
ure. 1t did no good, but, as many believe,
much harm.''
Surely Hunnicutt is already receiving
his deserts.
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The Markets.

NEW YORK, January l3-Noon.-Flour
5aloc. lower. Wheat dropping. Corn
heavy. Pork quiet; old, s2l.121a. Lard
quiet. Cotton firmer at 1870. Frelghts
firm. Turpentine quiet at SIC. Rosln
steady; common, s2.S71a@S9.
Gold, 1914. United States bonds-Old,
DECENTRALIZATION A@1ac. better, clos
ing quiet; uplands, l634@l7c., closing at
1890. Flour-State, SS.609$l0.90 south
err, SlOGS15. Corn tirmer mixed ives
tern, 81 80; white southern, $l.30Gsl.3l.
Oats lc. higher. Pork and lard IN
changed. Groceries dull. Turpentine,
53a54c. Rosin, s29O9s7. Freights firm ;
cotton, per sail, 3sg7-l6; per steam,
5agh. Gold closed at 1405a.
LOUISVILLE, January l3.-Flour, s7.75
@sl2.5O. Corn, 75GSOc. Mess pork, SCI
@s21.5O. Lard, l2Ac. Shoulders, SIC.
ST. LOUIS, January 13.--Mess pork,
$40 .5Ogs2l. Clear sides, l2c.; shoulders,
SIC.
CINCINNATI, January 13.-Mess pork
Old, $40; new, s2l. Bacon unchanged.
WILMINGTON, N. c., January l3.-Spirits
turpentine firm at 4715c. Rosin quiet at
s2.l215 for No. 2. Tar, Sl.S5. Cotton
stiff at l411lc. for middling.
CHARLESTON, January l3.-Cotton active
but offerings light. Lower grades I'M
proved A9@c.; sales, $50 bales receipts
1850 bales middling, Ice.
SAVANNAH, GA, January l3.-Cotton
firm and advanced 114c.; sales $500 bales
receipts 2, $3.50 bales; middling, l5A.
AUGUSTA, GA, January l3.-Cotton very
active and advanced 1ac.; sales, III
bales receipts, 800 bales; middling, AZ.
0l5c.
MOBILE, January l3.-Cotton-sales
$500 bales; receipts, 4, 443 bales; middling
| lhm151Lc
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Foreign News.

VIENNA, January l3.-Dispatches from
the South indicate liberal policy on the
part of the Sultan, who has issued de-
cree suspending tithes for two years, and
granting equal rights in Gambia.
LONDON, January l3-Noon.-Consols,
923s@921a. United States bonds, II g.
LONDON, January l3-AJternoon.-
Consols, 922s; United States bonds, 7l2s
@7lA. o
LIVERPOOL, January l3-Noon.-Cotton
active, buoyant, and advanced l-l6; esti-
mated sales, 10000 bales; uplands, no
73sd.; Orleans, 7ad. Other articles un-
changed.
LIVERPOOL, January l3-Afternoon.--
Cotton firm; sales, 900 bales; uplands,
~; Orleans, IA. Common Wilmington
rosin advanced to 6s. Sd.
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hon. JOHN C. BRECKINEIDGE.-The City
'''ancil Of Louisville, Kentucky, has
opted the following:
Whereas the people Of Kentucky have
rays proved themselves trueto the prin-
srt' Of Independence, constitutional
,r2'''y, and the Federal Union; and
~, .~SleaS the history Of the last few years
wv ~ Ihe experience Of the present hour
1--we ,s that we have need of the ability and
r>-1ehce Of all who have achieved an in
'S''al position in defence Of these prin-
.3 , and whereas to the people of Ken
r . 'ne name and fame of the Hon. John
r, Dr'rcknrldge is dear, and his counsel
., IS'uG!ed valuable as to the concerns Of
., va u.e State and the Republic; and
H., .''eaS The said John C. Breckenridge, at
", enhancement of our late terrible
S., fingered at his post in the United
'O' oenate until all hope was lost
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SDecj0I Notices.

gs- TAXPAYERS, TAKE NOTICE.-Par-
ties who have Mt paid their State taxes for
1867 are hereby notified to call at the Sheriff's
office, No. lila Main street, two doors above the
Dispatch Office and settle their bills, rs longer In
diligence cannot be given. The State Is in want of
money. The taxes must be paid, and If not at
tended to at once. shall be compelled to enforce
the payment OF the sans
JOHN w. WRIGHT
Ia l4-3t Sheriff city OF Richmond
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he NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CoNvEN-
--S.-Conterences have been held lately
80 by prominent Conservatives from all
'1!'s OF the country in reference to the
@0leE time for the assemblage of thoir
''ssdtntial Convention. 1t seems to be
::"-'tfa.Iy agreed that inasmuch as the
- .'alcsl hand is already exposed-that
"'1tS nomination by them is foregone
'-cIGslon-thcre can be no conceivable
.1 Tor delay ON the part of their oppo-
:. especially as thorough organization
d. :. ''s earliest possible moment is the one
- '-'-g neediul above all others on the side
NJ, :. '4e constitutional party. The time
y" oe fixed on the 22d day Of next
..Sa:i Il the furthest-and it is probable
'-s 10n'eation will be Invited to Assem-
.'% al least as early as about the middle Of
2NA' A correspondence is now going on
'.d DR.. Belmont, of New York, chair
-sa OF The national committee, on this sub
~ Washington Letter IN Baltimore Ga
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u,sHINGTON ITEMS.
,rr,r, GRANT DIDN'T SAY so.

GENERAL GRANT plDN sAh 90
& the best warrant for saying that
ins,I Grant has not minated what he
Gene'as n do in case the Senate adopts
l'olvs.o,ntion of their committee declar-
The , ,. there is not sufficient grounds for
Jog ' s"m"sncnsion of Mr.. Stanton. Whether
tie SIi't surrender the War Department to
le VIZ e.,nton when notified that the Senate
w. o. adversely to the position assumed
a', ,nn President remains to be seen.-
r >, roD,d seem that the General hasn't
-. ANYTHING on any subject.
.rr a. rorE rACETloUS-TnE PRESIDENT
''' MORE SO.
c.,oraI Pope called upon the. President
>.,~;ay 10 pay his respects. The inter-
"' "a: cordial and respectful. General
o oSg fscctiouSly thanked the President for
~ >,;,, him from arduouS and thanklesS
,,,Srs and The latter, in the same spirit,
, ,,, his great satisfaction that he had
. .&a Instrumental in doing the General a
,,eat favor.
wHISHEY FALLING.
The President yesterday signed Mr..
,,hrnck's whiskey bill, and it is now
,.% 4 telegram from New York to this
Nv states that the price Of fraud whiskey
creased yesterday tilty-6ve cents per
.,'iop. and that whiskey could be had at
- dollar and twenty cents o gallon, in
,,jipc certificate of payment of tax, etc.
GOING THE WHOLE HOG.
SIMMER will soon introduce bill re-
,e,Ijnr the clause in the old RECONSTRUCT
ion acts requiring the constitutions now
Ming enacted by the southern negroes to
be submitted TO vote of the people. :
A NEGRO vICE-rREslpEST.
nisseyiously contemplated, | can assure
-,a, by a considerable portion of the Radi-
al party, to strengthen the Grant ticket
y placing the name of Fred. Douglass
non it as a candidate for the ce-Presi-
:sncv. This is deemed absolutely neces-
4.y 10 appeaSe Wendell Phillips, CARR
.n, Butler, Greeley, and others OF like
.:oclivities.
The last two items are from the Wash,
gglon letter of the Baltimore Gazette. We
10 not credit either Of the statements
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NEGRO TESTIMONY IN KENTUCKY.-Lou-
iSuiNe, January ia legislative caucus
in this State has resolved that no petitions
asking for political privileges to negroes
would be entertained, and that no altera-
ton in reference to the existing law rela-
ting to negro testimony should be made
Special dispatch to the Washington Star.
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AMAN BITTEN BY A MAD Doc Two YEARS
AGO Dies OF HYDRoPHoBIA.-We yester-
day learned the particulars of one OF
those remarkable and dreadful viSltatlons
of Providence which, by their horror and
distress, sometimes startle q whole COM
munity. We have often been called upon
to chronicle the demise OF friends and
strangers-to tell Of death in the many
disguises which that subtle and invisible
agent assumes but have never yet had
the necessity imposed upon US of relating
the progress of poison which, by SLOW
advances, spreads through the system,
paralyzing the senses, dethroning the IN
tellect, and giving to the patient all the
horrors of a wild, ungovernable dellrium,
and finally ending in death from ex-
haustion.
Some two weeks since Samuel S. Keyes,
resident of Mississippi, reached our city
in search Of medical advice and that atten-
ton which the inferior facilities OF coun-
try practice could not afford. In the
month of August, 1865, he had received
bite on the hand from rabid dog; but ap-
plying at once the remedies usually al
vised in such cases, he was soon, as De
supposed, free from the effects of the bite.
Several times, however, within the last
two years the place bitten would intiame
and give excessive pain for several days,
and then get well. Still Mr.. Keyes en-
dured no uneasiness, until about month
ago he began to feel, as he described it, a
dull, heavy feeling, accompanied by partial
blindness, wild, thrilling sensations, and
alterations Of mind. This continued for
two weeks, growing each day worse, and
satisfied at last that it was the approach of
the dreadful bydrophobia, he started for
this city, accompanied by his brother, in
search of medical attention. But each
day the fearful disease made more rapid
advances, and yesterday morning he died
in all the horrible agonies Of raging, foam
ing delirium. His disease deded human
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REV. S. II. TYNG's TRIAL.-The board
appointed by Bishop Potter to investigate
the charges against the Rev. S. II. Tying,
Jr., Of Now York, met in that city on Fri
day last. The charge is that he violated
one of the canons of the Episcopal Church
by preaching in another church without
authority of the Bishop. After some dis
cussion the trial was postponed until the
10th Of February.
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CoLoNIzATIoN.-The American Coloni-
cation Socety's annual meeting will be
held in Washington on the 2lst, and will be
addressed by President Hill, Of Harvard
College. The Board of Directors will hold
their sessions for two days. 1t is necessary
to provide for the transportation of some
! 200 emgrants the coming spring, this
number having applied for passage to Lii
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A New POSTAL SYsTEM.-Mr. Wash
burne, of Illinois, is preparing bill, soon
to be offered in the House, providing for
the adoption by our Government Of the
postal telegraphic systsm.- Washington
Chronicle
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A letter Of Thad. Stevens to somebody
in New York appears in the San Of Fri
day. Thad. insists that he has supported
universal suffrage because it was right and
Just, and says: The Republicans, once
beaten into a minority by the force of
negro prejudice, will never again obtain
the majority, and the nation will become a
despotism.''
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An actionof ejectment has been brought
before New York court to recover pos
session of strip of land four inches wide
which has been in the defendants posses
sion for twenty-seven years.
The Binghampton Republican states that
a horse owned by gentleman of that city
recently trotted twenty four miles in one
hour and forty minutes.