Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-01-26
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, January 25.-The Elec-
ton Committee heard this morning fur
Their argument from Judge Paschall, OF
Texas. in behalf of Levin Jones, the con-
testapt of the seat of Colonel Mann, OF
Louisiana, deceased, who had been
seated. Colonel Hunt and Menard lne-
gro) desiring a further hearing, the
Committee will continue the case, and
further argument will be heard to-mor'
row.
The Reconstruction Committee heard
this morning q delegation of Virginia
Methodists in opposition to the Commit
tee of Nine, as far as it modifies the Con-
stitution in the matter of Church prop
erty.
An order has been issued from the
headquarters Of the army, which directs
that contract made with private ply
sician by the Surgeon General, or Medi-
cal Director Of Department, will be an
nulled only by the direction of those OH
GERS, or by that of the Commanding
General of Military Division of the
Department.
The following officers have been as
signed to duty in accordance with their
brevet rank of Msjor-General: General
Buchanan, Colonel of the First Infantry,
and Gen. Gillem, Colonel of the Twenty
fourth Infantry.
One thousand miles of the Union Pa
cifie railroad are now finished and in
operation. The Central Pacific railroad
having built five hundred miles, but two
hundred and sixty-seven remain to be
built, and there is no doubt that the entire
line to the Pacific will be opened early
this season. The earnings Of the Union
Pacific railroad for the year 1868 are 9TH
cially reported at slO6.65l 81.
Mrs. Lincoln, in petition presented to
the Senate to-day, says, in order to live
in a style becoming the widow of the
Chief Magistrate of 8 great nation, she
SHOULD have handsome pension. The
petition was referred to the Pension Com
nittee.
Ii is estimated that there are at
lesst 1000 distiIleries in operation
throughout the country, and reports re-
ceivsd g. the Treasury Department ssy
that the number will be largely in
creased.
Gen. Schofsld viii appear before the
Reconstruction Committee tomorrow,
to testify as to sfsirs in Virginia. This
is in response to q request Of the yir-
ginis committee
This evening Inspector Decks re-
csived a telegram from the Baltimore
Police, stating that burglary had been
committed on Friday on q Baltimore
bank (name not given), and sl25,OOo
stolen.
The report of the majority of the Ju-
dietary COMMITTEE, in the case of Ssna-
tor Hill, of Georgia, bases his exclusion
ON the fact that he received votes of a
large number Of members Of the Legis-
lature, who were disqualified under the
Fourteenth amendment, and on the adj
ditional fact of the expulsion of the col
ored members of the Legislature The
committee also state, on the authority OF
the Freedmen's Bureau, as another rea-
con for Mr.. Hills expulsion, that Geor-
gia is in q condition of anarchy, three
hundred and thirty-three murders having
been committed 10 that State between
January 10 and November l, 1868, and
that the civil government has evinced Its
inability or unwillingness to protect the
rights of all its citizens.
Mr.. Trumbuls minority report con-
cludes that Congress having declared
Georgia entitled to admission it is not
competent for either House to refuse ad-
mission to regularly accredited repre-
sentatives, and that the charge that the
fourteenth amendment was not ratified
by Georgia in good faith was not sus-
tanned by particle of evidence.
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