Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-17
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
A resolution was introduced into the MISS
sippi Convention to stay the collection Of
debfs. also, clause for the Constitution SEQ
,ion that "Al persons shall be entitled to
equal civil and political rights. and no property
qualification for eligibility to Office or the rights
of suffrage shall ever be required by law in this
State.'
The following resolutions were offered: 10
aupoint committee to inquire into the expe-
diency of exempting ten thousand dollars from
execution also to recommend the passage oil
sucb other ordinances as may in its opinion
tend to discourage the credit system; one to
instruct the committee on the various depart
ments of the constitution to adopt the old con-
stitution of Mississippi, and for making such
omissions, additions and changes as the new
O rider of things may require; one to instruct
the finance Committee to frame an ordinance
levying tax on property in the State. real
and personal, to pay the expenses OF this body;
ane to forever bar from the rights of citizen
shin and subject to the pains and penalties Of
perjury. any citisen of the State who may here
after engage in duel, either as principal or
ACCESSORY; another, that none of the pubic
moneys of this State shall ever be used to sup
mort any sectional school; another. that all
nersops shall nave the same rights in public
conyeyances; and another directing the Audi
Tor TO issue sIO0. 600 in warrants to pay the ex-
penses of the convention.
The Convention OF the Conservative unien
marty met at Jackson on the 10th. and resolved
IN ieht under the banner of the National Dem
ocratic party.
Four hundred inmates cs Deer Island institu-
ton have been taken i'll from the effects OF
poison. The symptoms are similar to those oil
the National Hotel case at Washington, some
time since.
Two gravel trains. having twenty laborers on
hoard. had collision on the Allegheny Valley
railroad. by which most of the men were Sc
riously injured, and three reported dead.
The Kansas Legislature. containing seventy
e;eht Radicals to thirty.eight Democrats, or
ganized on the 18th.
Four men entered a house at Titusville. Pa.'
on the night Of the 18th. and robbed safe oil
100000.
The Maryland Legislature has been ballot
ing for United States Senator without result.
In Congress, in the Senate. communication
was received from Stanton transmitting list
of volunteer officers in the army.
An amendment was offered to the bill remov-
ing the tax on cotton. which drags Its slow
length along, as follows: That raw cotton
imported from foreign countries after July J.,
1868, shall be exempt from duty"
The Committee on Finance reported bill
re-euacting the legal tender acts, and providing
for contraction and payment 10 gold.
The bill to supply deficiencies of appropria-
TORS to carry out the reconstruction laws was
amended so as to add upwards of sSlO, 600 to the
list of appropriations previously included in II.
and thereupoa agreed to. A section was also
added repeating the authority of the President
to transfer any moneys on the application Of
any Secretary of a department. where such
moneys had been appropriated fcrany particu-
,.,hraneh for expenditure in the same depart
ment.
In the House stanton was particularly
"reeogniEed."
bill was introduced providing that th'
public funds shall not be deposited in any oir
where there is Treasurer or Assistant Treas
urer. Referred to the Banking Committee.