New Orleans Republican., 1868-12-19


on Steamboat DIsusteS Personal,
Etc.
WASHINGTON, DeceDer IA, 1868.
Congress met to-day after aying taken a
recess since Wednesday, and ute a num-
Der of important measures we introduced.
l telegraphed you those tfecting Lou
isiana and her nearest siste. The resolu.
tion of Judge Kellogg callir for the data
on file in the Freedmen's 1reau of Lou
islara concerning recent orages upon the
fire. edmen will have much tdo with the dis.
position to be made of thGecent election
House by Mr.. Whittemor of South Caro-
lima, tends TO the same rult, although it
complicates matters to un9 three States in
the investigation. The bi of Representa-
tive Kellogg, of Mobile, granting to the
New Orleans, Mobile and Chatta-
neoga Railroad CoHpg the right of
way through the pub lands of the
United States" etc., mostly provides for
the donating of every arnate section of
public land on the linof said railroad in
the State of Louisiana;esignated by odd
numbers, to the amoui of ten alternate
sections per mile for en- mile of said rail.
road, said alternate seOns to be selected
within ten miles upon ch side of the cen
tire line of the road +; / eff public lands
sufficient for the purposhall not be found
within said limit OF l. miles upon each
side of said road, theThe said alternate
sections of land are gnted and may be
selected 1ritttn Tie limI forty miles north |
of the centre line oflid railroad,n etc.
This, in short, intimss a general 'iob- |
bingn of the best Ian in the Opelousas |
country.
The act incorporate the Mississippi |
and Mexican Gulf So Canal Company |
provides for the grant of $500, 900 to pay
the expenses of the TX, which are esti.
mated not TO exceed $4,000, while the act
in favor Of the Ne Orleans and Ship
Island Canal Comny provides for
the donating of alt three millions
of acres of the publipmain in aid of the
enterprise. All proptions looking to the
internal imprcveme of the Southern
States meet with giral favor, and any
process of legislationlich will people the
vacant lands of the Sth will receive gene.
rous treatment.
Senator Harris's / providing for the
expenditure of somdng over three hun.
dred thousand doll for the paving of
Pennsylvania aven with the Nicolson
pavement, seems dined to bring up a
fresh proposition tomove the Capital to
the West. There il manifest disposition
on the part of our lslators from the West
and South to remothe Capital to the Mis-.
sissippi river, and ,eantime, to permit no
temporary expendre for the improve
ment of Washingtfhat will hereafter be
rendered valueless
An able artit recently published
in DeBoao's Reuietuggesting st. Louis as
the future Capitalize Republic, is eagerly |
sought for and aally read; and although
there may be somnestion about st. I.onis |
being the loson sought, it still
the lbs of General John A,
Logan, who suited the motion In the |
last session of C6ess in favor of an inn =
mediate change he Capital to the region
of the great WesVay from this out.ofthe-
way corner of thorid. Legislation ia NOT
for the past, whkeorge Washington could
Jump into his sse and ride up to the Cap.
ital before breaft, but for the great fu-
ture, and in theack of the s'Star of En-.
pire' which weard takes its way.
The recent rakable decision of Judge
Leaumont, on metropolitan Police bifi.NI
is exciting e0ierable comment among
Louisianians i in Washington. They
marvel greatlgat the only Republican
elected to the bhin the parish of Orleans
should take sua violent partisan view of
the matter; } instead OF deciding the
case fairly upG legal merits, should stoop
to special plhg in the. interest of the
corrupt and iSclle municipal administra-
ton OF the q The points made by the
Judge, on tAnestion of the constitution
of the Hou$hen the bill was passed,
afford consiSble amusement to legisI
lators and tamentarlans. They pro- A
no1nce his Ce judgeship decidedly Lame
oa'a. :
The frightkollision on the Ohio river
is one Of thdBt exciting subjects Of town j
talk. The Eetary of the Treasury has
directed thdiervising Inspector of Steam
boats of disaster in which the recent q
terrible coin of the steamers America |
ana Unitedtes took place, to make a a
strict inYeati ION into the causes of that | {
fearful disaA 1t is also understood that
MIR. MoCulA has recommended to Conf -
gre the r. Of the law authorizing the n
car itge oHoieum as freight ON passen- i
ger steamSand that Congress win per-
petrate rig|gislation on the subject. bs
Lieuten4. w. Greeley, formerly Cap
tain Of thqhty- First United States col. =,
ored iniaA and for some three years y
during thnr stationed in and around ',
New Orle&nd now Of the Thirty.Sixth -
United 81 Infantry, Is stationed at Fort I
treble, nNfaahington, attached to the e.
corps. He was recently
on duty t Lake City, and his nara.
lions of eNepce among the Mormons Are m,
very inteNg
DR.. SaN Bard, editor of the Atlanta
Era, vas, on Friday last.
zpoI mo- Assistant Astornev Gcne-si =
Ashton, &ted and enrolled as an attorney ~,
VI the SIhe Court Of the United Stafas III
hr. Bard BIZ known as the former SIlner. a
ntendeIP Public Education IN Louisiana
Gener gleston and his Mississippi
ielegatiHe here, urging the immediate
Idmisai4 the State into the Union.
lass w ron ROY. / a,