The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-27
Another Blow It the Indians Sixty
Lodged Destroyed.
Grant opposed 10 the Alabama Claims
Treaty.
WHAT He THINKS SHOULD Be DEMANDED or
ENGLAND.
ETC, ETC, ETC.

WASHINGTON, jan 16.-House engaged on pri.
vate bills. Senate Naged on the Construction OF
q joint civil service ctmmittee.
Argument in the louisiana election case was
concluded to-day. /
The recOnstr1ctio4 committee is hearing the
Virginia judges oppised to the enforcement of
the fourteenth amens anent in that State.
The Supreme Cctt decides the New York
pilot law consttutlsa al, and in and outward
bound vessels must n ge pilots.
The Maryland COZ 4yressional delegation pro.
ceeded in body a the White House for DR..
Mudd's pardon.
Gen. Hancock was before the military commit
tee OF the House to y, and was questioned re.
garding the new mill Try bill.
Kellogg intrOducej a bill for a railroad and
telegraph from NewlDrleans to the Rio Grande
in the direction of 81 Bias on the Pacific, with
branch lines. Guara4tees interest on the COM
pany's bonds for thrt5 years for s25, 900 per mile
and grants eight sectTns of land per mile, to be
selected from Loulsl f1a, Texas, Mississippi, Ar
kansas, Georgia and Florida. Landless laborers
on the road TO have fifty acres at 81 per acre.
The following is th9 outline of Kellogg's new
railroad bill
BE endcted, That ;or the purpose Of providing
and operating coDhscted line of railroad and
telegraph from or nea4, the city of New Orleans,
on the most eligible sSute through the States of
Louisiana and Texas % point on the Rio Grande
at or near Rio GrandeaDity or Pama, in the direc-
ton OF San Bias on th3 Pacific Ocean, and to con.
meet at its western terminus with similar lines
through Mexico to Sa3 Bias and the city of Mexi.
CO, the Central TTsllsit Company of LouisisnI,
and the nentral transg companies organized Oy
charters from each Shste, are hereby authorized
to consolidate under TIE title of the Pacific Gen.
trail Transit Campauy, and granted the right of
way through any publif lands not otherwise dis
posed Of. With evert ten miles of road CON-
pleted bonds to the aI.ount Of a quarter of mil
lion OF dollars with Interest guaranteed by the
United States for thirty years, will issue.
The president has Illuminated Edward d. Neal
commissioner of education.
There was full cabinet meeting to-day.
Sheridan reports the!destruction of sixty Indian
lodges at the junction II Salt Fork and Elm creeks.
Three soldiers wounded, one mortally. The num-
Der of Indians killed il unknown.
A Washington speclat to the New York Tribune
says Gen. Grant Il strongly opposed to the
pending Alabama clai ins treaty. The following
is his postion-neayiy 10 his own words: The
treaty is unjust to tie United States. because it
assumes to measure the injury inflicted upon this
country by the money value OF the ships actually
destroyed-whereas the chief damage TO our COM
merce was in our ships being driven from the
seas by Anglo rebel pirates. In addition to this
the sympathy extended by the English govern
ment TO the South belonged the war at least a
year, and for all the bves lost and money expend-
ed for this time EngIand is directly responsible.
The treaty proposes 20 settle all this thing by the
payment Of the paltrg value of a few ships.
Col. Christy, electedfrom the sixth Georgia dis
trict to Congress, addressed the reconstruction
committee to-day. Els case will probably come
up tomorrow.
The reconstruction committee will devote to.
morrow to Virginia matters.
Sheridan assures StFrman that no further de.
predations from Indials In the neghborhood of
his operations need bbLpprehended.
SenGte-The fnanet committee report that no
bill could be maturei tb meet the various views
regarding the civil ser lice Of the government.
resolution passed raising special joint commit
tee OF three from the Senate and five from the
House, to which the wkole matter was referred.
A protest was presented from the Winchester
Union League against Femoving Judge Parker's
political disabilities Sumner classed Parker
among atrocious Judges.
The consideration oI the Pacific Central Rail-
road and branches wasresumed.
Adjourned.
H0use.-Heaton intrJ Jduced bill to amend the
eighth section of the act of August s. 1851, to pro-
vide increased revenugs from imports, etc., by
suspending and abatinathe collection OF the un-
collected direct tax hid by that section upon
North Carolina, South 5Carollna, Alabama, Geor.
gia, Florida, Louisianai and Arkansas. Referred
TO the committee on why's and means.
Consideration Of thtpension bill was resumed,
but postponed.
The finance bill was s1en resumed and discussed
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