The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-01-20
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FIR some days felatlNe 10 tHe ulSaOllltleS,
81 called, of Virginia officials, especially
those holding judicial positions, the object
being to enact some kind of bill, or pass a
resolution removing disabilities, so as to
allow those now holding Office to be con-
tiuued therein according to the tenure fixed
bT the law under which the present incum-
beuts were severaly appointed or elected.
Gen. Stoneman is known to be averse to
he removal of officers chosen according to
the existing State enactments if it can be
avoided, and the action of the committee,
thus far, has been in accordance with Gen
Stoneman's VII VS..
Vouminous testimony has been taken
az to the status of Georgia and Mississippi.
but the sentiment of the committee seems
to be opposed to any interference in
Georgia affairs, because of the fact that by
the action of the House itself the State
constitution and laws passed hereunder
were declared to be republican in form, etc.,
and therefore acceptable, and in pursuance
thereof Members of Congress from that
= State were admitted to their seats in the
House and further because the action of
the Georgia Legislature, which gave rise
to the present inquiry before Congress, &C.
CURED after Georgia had been admitted to
her full rights as q State, at least SO far as
the Lower House of Congress is concern
ed.
Vice President elect Colfax gives his
first regular reception of the season on
Friday evening next.
Mr.. Noah, the Washington correspond
ent of the New York Democrat, was to-day
before the Alaska Committee, and testified
that he never said he received two thou
sand dollars on account of the advocacy of
the appropriation, etc; that he had said
what was fact, that his brother John j.
Noah, Esq, had received one thousand
dollars in gold from the Russian govern
mont for translation of documents from the
D Russian to the English, etc, to be used be-
fore the Committee on Appropriations.
MEMPHIS, Jan. ll.-Weather clear and
pleasant. River rising steadily. Up;
Columbian. Down {: Farrow, barges, Indi-
ana and Emperor.
Cotton quiet and firm at % to 2s1sc
Receipts since Saturday, 1902 bales ex-
ports North, 2022 bales.
A gin house, machinery and fifty bales of
cotton, near Horn Lake, belonging to
Enoch Enasley, were burned last night.
Loss $4,000.
A heavy snow storm tonight north,
south an east.
The funeral of Capt Edwin Whitfield
yesterday vas and Of the largest ever wit
messed here.
The Avalanche's Little Rock special to-
night says the Governor has withdrawn
his proclamation of martial law in Column
bia and Lafayette counties. Butler offered
a resolution in the House to-day of thanks
to Catterson and his militia. A move to
suspend the rules and put it on its passage.
The motion was lost, and the resolution
went over.
Opposition to the militia policy is be-
coming stronger in the Radical ranks, and
promises wide split in the party.
New York, Jan. Pit transpires here
that Grant wants his points carried, pend
ing the distribution Of the Offices, and this
is thought to account for the sudden repeal
of the Tenure of office act. 1t is not be-
lieved here that the Senate will concur.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-The members of
the Bricklayers National Convention pro-
pose to call on President johnson on
Thursday to pay their respects.
The friends of Gov. Cummings, nomina-
ted for Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
have assurances that he will be confirmed.
Gen. Giilem has been subpoenated to
appear before the Reconstruction Commit
tee tomorrow to testify as to affairs in
Mississippi.
The bin repeating the law as to militia
in the Southern States was delivered to
the President to-day. The passage of this
bill by Congress and the action of the
House yesterday upon the tenure of Office
act, gives evidence of q concurrence in the
views at last between the executive and
legislative branches of the Government
Presid ut johnson signed the militia bill
under written protest, and in his last
message recommended its repeal. He
vetoed the tenure of Office bill, aud in the
message since specially commended its
repeal. Both branches of Congress have
now agreed with the President as to one
of these acts, and the House has, by ma
jority of over two to one, conceded with
him as to the other.
New YORK, Jan. 13.-Butler's finance
speech exctes some ridcule in Wall street
bet receives no serious attention as amount
ing to anything practical.
Politics, finance, and general business
are exceedingly. .sa-s+
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Gen Stoneman,
Commander of the District of Virginia,
called upon the President to-day. and was
afterwards before the Reconstruction Com
mittee, and made statement relative to
the removal of civil officers in Virginia.
Among the persons who testified before
the committee was one who, upon interrog-
alton, admitted that he was an applicant
for the Office of Supreme Court Judge Of
Virginia, in case of the removal of the
present incumbent, as to whose disability
or ineligibility the. witness himself had
given testimony to the committee. Two
OF the Republican, members, Messrs. Bing-
ham and Farnsworth, were indignant at
the witness when he declared his personal
interest, and expressed their opinions
freely.
There are two vacancies in the Office Of
paymaster of the army. For these posi-
lions there are twenty-four application,
with strong recommendations. For the
two vacant brigadier generalships there are
between twenty and thirty officers in the
contest; prominent among the latter are
Gems. Buchanan, Stoneman, Heintzelman,
Augur, Dent and Granger.
An energetic effort is made to have the
President pardoned DIR. Mudd and Spangler,
convicted of completely in the assassination
of President Lincoln. A number of petit