Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-30

Office act. The House had not up {
the adjournment, been informed of III
action of the Senate.
Geo. Earle, who was nominated BY III
President to-day TO be first Assistant Post
master General, was formerly clerk in ID
Court of Appeals and late law partner o
: Postmaster General CIessWell.
The Comptroller Of the Currency ha
prepared blank form of national bIuI
reports under the law, but the demand 70
said reports has not yet been made, an,
there has BEEN no limitations as TO wha
time the statement will be called FIR.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-It is nov
thought by members OF Congress, o
both parties, that adjournment, sine die
will not take place before the middle o
April.
The commissions of various parties
who were confirmed for Office in the last
few days of the former administration
are yet withheld, and the subject is in
the hands Of the Attorney General.
The House Committee on Foreign AZ
lars will next make an investigation into
the Paraguayan affairs, including the ofli-
cial conduct Of ex- Minister Washburne
and Rear Admiral Davis, and the im.
prisonment of Messrs. Bliss and Master
man. The witnesses have been sum
moned.
1t is said in Republican circles that the
Committee on Reconstruction will early
this week, report back the bill reass em>
bling the original Georgia Legislature,
imposing the test qualification, and de-
4 plapInfy fha avN,lg1a,, &C. H.
bers void.
The State Department is in receipt of
news from our Consul General at Ha>
vana, which gives some authentic in
formation regarding the status of affairs
IN Cuba. He states that the prospects
of the insurgents are fully as good as
those OF the Spaniards, and that both par
ties are constantly receiving reinforce
ments and assistance. The former from
natives and parties in the United States,
etc, and the latter from Spain. He
plains that he is unable TO perform his
duties in protecting the American people
against the tyTannical exercise of power
by the Spaniards, and suggests that the
number of vessels in our West Indian
squadron should be increased. The war
steamer Seminole, now at Boston, the
Galena, now at Portsmouth, and the
Junlata, at Philadelphia, have accord
ingly been ordered to prepare themselves
for duty in that squadron forthwith. 1t
was originally intended that several iron.
clads should be detailed for this duty, |
but the above named vessels have been |
substituted for ecOnomy's sake, as the |
expense OF maintaining iron~clads is very |
heavy; nevertheless, the iron clads will |
be sent if necessary.
The Radicals manifest dis. abstraction
and no little solcitude over Grants opin~
ion about the political status of Georgis
and Mississippi. He is decidedly against
recalling the carpet-bag conventions and
permitting it to fasten still greater outra-
ges on the State than even now proposed,
but If Congress shall insist on this, be is
opposed to the convention appointing the
PrOvIslOns. Governor, who will, ofccurse,
run the machine in the interests Of the
carPet-baggers and scslawags nor does the
Georgia bill, which was considered by
the Reconstruction Committee yesterday,
receive his sanction. 1t abolishes the
present Legislature, puts Georgia out Of
the Union, and in effect makes Gov.
Bullock king Of all he surveys. The
President says that under the recon-
struction laws, no matter how absurdly
the Legislature has conducted them
selves, the State is now in the Union,
and if he sticks TO that principle the
Radicals have reason for apprehension.
fVhaR 4
tho Georgia case Tuesday.
The resolution which passed the
House last week, providing that in all
cases where either party has
been VIGOROUSLY disloyal, the COM
mittee on elections should report the
fact TO the House, and take no further
action without instructions, was for the
purpose Of covering the South Carolina
cases. MeSsTs. Read and Simpson, Dem
ocrats, holding the Governors certificate
OF election, admit their former dislOy-
atty, and majority Of the committee
will report TO the House in accordance
with the above resolution. Messrs.
Burr and Randall will submit a report
iayOring the removal of their disablli-
ties, to enable them to prosecute the
contest, and, if they are entitled to them,
to take their seats.
The Radical papers have come out to-
day in double loaded editorials in favor
of tho unconditional and immediate res
peal of the civil tenure act and call on
Senators by all that is due to country and
sacred TO party, TO come up TO the sup>
port against the mighty. The Radical
Senators who have favored repeal all
along, say that if Grant had not agreed
to the compromise bill, its repeal would
have been effected before this.
A decided sensation has been created
in political circles here to day by the
publication in the New York papers of
last evening, Of testimony taken at Al,
bany by an investigating committee, in
which the witnesses state that Senator
Reuben L. Fenton received $4,000 as
Governor Of New York, for signing the
Erie railroad bill. The New \ ork Post
OF last evening calls upon the Senate to
investigate this, ami if it proves to be
true to eEpel Fenton