Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-01-10

The AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION
The President TO day transmitted to the House
report from the Secretary of State, in ans wer
10 n resolution of the House inquiring s.How
many and " hat State Legislatures have ratified
sthe proposed amendment to the Constitution OF
the'United States, known as the 1ith article"
The Secretary reports that official notice has
teen received at his Dcpartm mt of the ratiica-
tion Of the amendment designated, by the L y
islatures of Connecticut, New Hampshire,
Tennessee, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont,
New York, Ohio, Illinois, West Virginia
Kansas, Nevada, Missouri, Indiana, Minnesota,
Rhode Island, Wisconsin; Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Massachusetts, and Nebraska.
BBy the report of Secretary Seward II viii b.
SEE n that twenty lone States have given ",ii ill
notice" of the ratification OF the amen nimant
M Maine has ratified the amendment but has
neglected to give official notification Of thr fLct
to the State Department Iowa wlIl so IN rttify
the amt ndment, making twenty three States.
1t has been given ont that Ohio and Now Jer-
sey, having elected Democratic Legislatures,
W. III repeal their ratification of the amendment;
Gut stall they do SO IL VIII not affect the result
as tw.nty-one Stltes make the requisite three
fourths of the twenty-seyPu States racog liZsd
by Congress as having the ri ,ht to vote upJn
tie question. Maryland, Kentucky, ana Della
ware have rejected the anne endment.
The L. =. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY met yes
to-day in this city, Il. Il. French, Erl., Prasi-
dent, IN the chair and Ben Periey Poo SO re-
taIy. Letters We're read f. ON Marshal p. Will
der, of Mass; Tench TighIman, Of Md. Gov
Smyth, of y. H.; John Jones, OF Del, al 4 9TH
or Influential members of the Society, thanking
the officers for having preserved the Spciety
through the war, and pleigiug themselves to
attend the next annual meeting and enter uDon
the recommcncement of active operations. Gen
Horace Capron. OF H.. Commissioner of Ayri-
cnltuie,) was elected a member of the Execu-
tive Committee, in place OF Isaac Newton, de-
aScd
The DEFICIENCY BILL.-Mr. Morrill, of
Maine, introduced in the Senate to-day from
rom the COMMITTEE on ipprop p~iations amend
IN MS 10 the deficiency bill. as returned from
the House, consisting of additional appropria-
TORS for Senate deficiency exprns' S for messel-
gers and labOrers, s1J,On. for folding room,
for Clerks To Committees, S33,sI Al
aIn' ndment Is also inserted which rtp |.
the law authorizing the President, on ap Ilica-
uph oi a Secrtt tary, To transfer the moneys ap-
prorriatsd for on branch of a Drpar tInant b
another branch of the sam. Department TIE
bill was laid on the table and ordered to be
printed.
REMAINS OF DECEASED ARMY OFrIcERs-
General Grant has recrIYee Il number of ap-
plications from relatives and friends of officers
who died of yellow fever in the Southern States
during the past Summer requesting that their
remains ne forwarded 10 their homes, in yari-
Gus parts of the country. All the applications.
have been considered. and it has been decid d
I direct that the remains of drceas, d Officers
be forwarded 10 ther friends throughout the
North. as soon as the weather becomes cold
enough TO allow the removal of the bodies
PERsoNAL.-Maior General Pope and G.. =.
1lsley and Wrn. McKer Don, members of his
sfaf; Col. T. III. Porter, OF Tenn, and Mrs