The union Democrat., 1869-04-03
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that the final adjournment VIII ho' eeou' 0e-
fore the middle of April !.
Commissions for various parties confirmed
! f,- ofS.a in the last days of johnson admin
is,ra,ion are still withheld. The subject Is
in the hands of the Attorney General.
| A DELEGATION of Texans, portion 10 favor
| and q nortian against the division ot Texas,
we're before the Reconstrochsn Con'mlttee
CH,c.co. March 2s-The Times special
thinks the next public debt statement Will
show a reduction of about seven millions.
The iron-clads Seminole and Galena have
been ordered to the West India station, as the
Cuban question of independence is gradually
developing.
Recent orders mastering outtwenty infant
~ regiments, will save the Government Slo,-
| 000, ,0o0 annually.
Secretary Fish declines to receive Lennes,
Minister of the Cuban insurgent Govern
ment. in an official capacity at present. Len
mes will appeal TO Congress.
No nomination of President Grant has yet
been rejected.
Loncstreet's nomination was passed by
Yesterday because it was known that 10 would
lead to q long discussion.
| 1t is said in Republican circles that the
Reconstruction Committee will report seven
against five for reassembling the original
Georgia Legislature and imposing the oath
of qualification. and declaring the expulsion
of the colored members void.
The Herald's Washington dispatches says
an order resembling General Sberman's or
der. directing staff officers of heads Of Army
Bureaus to report to him instead of the Sec
retarv of War. was made by the President
at the solicitation of Secretary Rawlins, who
said he would rather resign than serve only
as an ornamental head figure. 1t was found
that the system instituted by Sherman did
not work tremendously.
The accredited agents of the Cuban insur-
gents are earnestly laboring with Congress
! to secure some recognition.
1t is announced that an Office Will be open
ed here this week for the sale of Cuban IN
surrectionary bonds. Senor Lennes Is per-
fecting arrangements for that end.
New ORLEANS, March 27.-Auditor Wick
| life. wh1 was arrested yesterday but released
on bail, publishes card warning the public
against transacting business with the Auditor 8
Bureau. IT. saws his office was illegally seized
| by Governor Yarmouth. The financial de-
partment Of the Government is virtually suS-
pended. Upon presenting himself at the Au-
ditor's Office yesterday with an appointment
from Governor Yarmouth, ,Delalse was refused
possession by Wicklitfe, whereupon the latter
was erected by the Superintendent OF Police.
Legal opinions are given that the Governor
had no right to eject Wicklitfe, which could
only be done by impeachment or INDICTMENT.
ATLANTA, March PA letter from Re
publican is published pointing out the ma
ture of the prospects of the Republican party
in Georgia. 1t shows how the Fifteenth
J,fa ,ta1 hu m N n s
between Governor Bullock, Ben. Hill and
Robert Toombs. The moderate Republicans
think that if Georgia he again reconstructed,
President Grant should appoint the Governor.
CHICAGO, March GA telegram was re-
ceived hy the Secretary Of the Interior dated
Salt Lake. 10Th, from General Warren and
Beckensdorfer, special Commissioners, say
ing their report on the Central Pacific will
require time; and that they think the Secre-
taIy should know that they who have seen
both roads deem the Central Pacific as in
complete the Union.
A dispatch Just received says the track of
the Union Pacific is laid twenty-five miles
from Ogden, and the grade between there
and Monument Point is completed except SIX
miles.
The Central have laid to seventy-fve miles
west of Monument Point, leaving gap be-
tween the roads of one hundred and twenty
six miles.
New York, March 29.-The Herald's Ia
vana special says the Spanish war steamer
Montezuma arrived with E. r. Codrington.
United States Consular Agent at Gibara, in
irons. Codriugton was suspected OF compile
ity in the insurgent movements.
Richard Gibbs, United States Consular
Agent Nueyitas, leaves for New York tc-
dav.
Ex-Mayor James Harper, who was injured
Thursday by being thrown from his carriage,
died Saturday night. aged "A years.
CHICAGO, March 29.-The 1ribune's Wash
ington special says political circles are great
ly excited over on editorial, with accompany
ing testimony, published in the New York
Eccning Post on Saturday, pointedly charg-
ing that Senator Fenton received $4,000 for
signing the Erie Railroad bill. 1t is thought
that the Senator cannot avoid investigating g
the matter. The anti-Fentonists declare if
be is found guilty, they will have him ex-
PEELED.
General Rannsof, the Danish Minister OF
War, who has been here looking after the
St. Thomas treaty, left for Europe. 1t is not
likely the Senate will take any action on the
treaty this Session.
The Commission between Spain and Peru,
Chile and Bolivia, will probable not meet Till
june, when Peru expects to have full Min
lister at Washington.
The same special thinks the chances for
the total repeal of the Tenure of Office law
better than at any previous stage of the con
troversy.
i CHICAGO, March 51.-The preamble to But
ler's Georgia bill recites that the State legis
lature refused to purge itself of the members
incompetent under the Fourteenth Amend
ment, in illegally expelling the qualified
members because they were colored, conse
quently that protection had not been afforded
to the lives, liberty and property of the peo
pie, whereby it appears Georgia has not con
formed to the terms under which it was re
stored The bill provides that the legislature
shall re-assemble and exclude all Ineligible
members. The third section declares the
expulsion of the negroes void. The fourth
section provides punishment for persons dis
\ qualified under the laws attempting to exer
else official duties. The bill also provides fol
keeping Federal troops in the State, who shall
respond to the demand of the Government fol
assistance in the administration of iuStiea