Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-03-21

DATES 10 r 9eth.
Anairs at Washinstea.

CHICAGO, March 40.-The action OF
the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
in postponinS the consideration Of the
Alaska appropriation excites consider
able comment. By the terms Of the
treaty the purchase money 10 required
to be paid at the Treasury Of Washing
ton within ten months after ratification.
The r%ati6cations were exchanged on the
goth of June last. The ten months OK
pire on April 40, long before the Com.
mittee propose oven to consider the mat
ter. All efforts to induce the Committee
to reconsider their action have failed,
and II Times special says one member
declares they want the thing to go BY
default in order to hit Seward a slap in
the face.
A Republican special says II is the in
tention of the Reconstruction Committee
to press the passage Of the Alabama bill
to-day.
NEW YoRE, March 2O.-A Herald ipe-
cial says q aucus Of tho Radical Sena-
tors has been held to consult on the
Cabinet of Mr.. Wade. Following 10 the
programme Secretary Of State, Henry
Wilson Of Massachusetts, or Pomsroy OF
Kansas; Secretary Of tho Treasury,
Zachariah Chandler Of Michigan; Sec
rotary Of the Interior, VIM. D. Kelly OF
Pennsylvania, or John Covode Secre-
tary Of War, e. N. Stanton; Secretary
of the Navy, ohas. D. Drake Of Missouri;
Postmaster General, John r. Farnsworth
Of Illinois; Attorney General, Geo. r.
Edmunds Of Vermont, or Matt Carpenter
Of Wisconsin.
A Tines dispatch says General Halleck
will probably be ordered TO succeed
Hancock at New Orleans.
Buffers article on impeachment will
probably be abandoned BY tho managers
in the Presidents trial.
Congregational.
WASHINGTON, March ,l9-Senate.-
Senator Grimes, from Committee Of Con-
ference on tho Invalid Pension bill, re-
ported that they were unable to agree
on tho provision reducing the rates Of
interest on the National Pension Fund
TO 3 DER cent. on which the Senate in
sisted, and o Select Committee was aP-
pointed.
The Senate took up the regular order
tho bill to repeal tho tax on certain
manufactures. Several amendments
were offered and the most Of them re-
iected, including n reducing the tax
on distilled spirits to ono dollar. The
bill finally passed-3e to 3. =.
WA~sHisaToy. March l9.-House-A
,nmber of bills were introduced.
Senate amendments to the Post-route
hill was ~concurrsd in with amendment
Boutwell,, from the Judiciary Com.
mittee, reported back the bill relative
to tho Supreme Court, With amend
mont, and the bill passed without d.
vision. It provides that in case Of the
removal or resignation Of the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court, the duties
Of said Office shall deyolye upon the
Associate Justice Of senior commission
until the vacancy 10 filled.
The House proceeded to consider the
bill continuing the Freedmsn's Bureau.
In the course Of tho debate Ward
mentioned certain charges which had
been made against General Howard.
Eliot and Blaine denounced them as
false and slanderous.
The bill finally pasaed-7e to 81.
Tho House proceeded to dispose oil
tho amendments reported from the Com
mittee Of the Whole to sundry civil ex.
penses In the Appropriation bill. The
amendments were discussed seridtim.
One was adopted directing that the rev.
enus cutters on the lakes be laid up 10
ordinary, and all. cutters on the Allan.
tic coast not actually needed for con
slant service BE- withdrawn from COM
mission.
without ~disposing of all the amend.
ments tho House adjourned.
Farther abeut tho Lste Steamboat Dlsas-
CHICAGO, March l9.-It 10 now ascer.
tanned that fully. lao persons wore
aboard the Magnolia, 80 Of whom were
lost. A full list Of the names cannot
be obtained, the boats books being
burned. Tho accounts Of the disaster
piyen are heart-rending stories Of suffer.
ing. The explosion occurred just Afeer
the dinner table had been cleared.
Most Of the male passengers together
with most OF the ladies, were standing
ON the forward deck. All Of these were
lost, with a Few exceptions. Those on
the after part, who were not rescued BY
skifs, were either drowned or burned to
death.
Military Ap1sIstnost.
LOUISVILLE, March ls.-Geferal James
s. Brisbin has been appointed and con-
6rmed to gil the vacancy In the regular
army, o~ccasionsd BY the resignation OF
General P~leasanton.
death Of David wIlnst
CHICAGO, March ls.-Hon. David vii.
mot, the author Of the Wilmot Proviso,
died at his residence In Towanda, Penn.
s~ylvania, on the nth inst, Of paralyuc
stroke.