The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1868-01-16

Military District.
WAsH1SGroN, January 9.-Last
nights celebration of the battle OF
New Orleans, was unprcccdentedly
brilliant.
Doyer's speech was most mastery.
Stanberry's announcement that this
was his first appearance in a Demo
cratic meeting, and his formal atfili-
alton with that party, and his applica-
bic remarks were received with rap
tuous applause.
The proceedings cover over fifteen
columns in the JntelKgencer.
The following is the part the
PRESIDENT took in the festivities:
The following toast was received
with great cheering, the audience ri
sing from their seats, and manifestlng
great enthusiasm:
1--WE arc honoured by the presence
of one whose devotion to principle,
and whose courage in the most terri
bic of conflicts recorded in the exec
utive history of our country, justly
entities him to rank next to the old
hero himself. propose the health
of Andrew johnson, President of the
i United States"
The President rose, and was greet
ed with enthusiastic and prolonged
cheering. Hc SAID: I'm response to
the al!usion just made, l have no re-
mark to make other than to repeat
the sentence to which utterancc was
given this night one year ago. ThaS
is, no State Of it's own will has a right,
under the constitution, to renounce
its place in, or to remove from the
Onion; nor has the Congress Of the
United States, under the constitution,
the power to exclude or degrade the
people of any State. by reducing
them to mere territorial dependency
upon the federal head. The one is
a disruption and a dissolution of the
government, and the other is consoll-
dation and the exercise of despotic
mower. The advocates of either are
alike the enemies of the Federal
Union. and of our republican form OF
government. Great applause.)
WASHINGTON, January lit is
understood that in yesterdays exec
utiv, session motion by the Dem
ocrats to consider Stanton's case in
open session, was defeated, and that
Doolittle asked that as Howard's re-
port had been published, the minority
report might also be published. The
proposition was refused.
The Agricultural Department has
promulgated the following:
The returns relative to cotton indi-
cate fully 20 per cent. aggregate IN
crease over the crop of last year
The actual crop of 1866 as sold and
shipped, making due allowance tor
receipts Of the previous crop and a,
mount not sent forward on the 1st OF
September, 1867. was very nearly
one million nine hundred thousand
bales, while the estimate of this de-
partment in October, 1866, was one
million eight hundred and thirty-fve
thousand bales. The total estimates
made in view of all the department
data, as well as outside information,
is placed at two million three hundred
and forty thousand bales.
The House Committee on Recon
struction this afternoon agreed upon
a Bill to be reported on Monday
declaring that there are no civil Gov
ernments in the Lately rebellious
States, and that the Provisional
Governments shall not be recognized
as valid or legal either by the Exec
utive or the Judicial authorities .ofthe
United States. In order to the speedy
enforcement of thcseveral reconstruc-
ton laws the General of the Army
is authorized to remove all officers
now employed and appoint others for
the performance of all acts required
by those statutes, to the end that the
people of the said several States may
speedily organize civil Governments
in a Republican form, and be restor-
ed to their political power in the
Union. The General of the Army is
also empowered to remove all civil
officers. and appoint others in their
places, $50 much of the Reconstruc-
tion Acts as authorizes the President
TO detail: the Military Commanders or
remove others is repealed.
Tho Bill declares it unlawful for
thetPrcsident to order any part OF
tho afhvFOr' nayy to assist bY force