Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-06-22
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WASHIN GTON.
The Cuban Question Buried.
Ben Buffers Amnesty Project
WhittemOre Disposed Of.
More Proposed Ocean Cables.
School Question in England.
School Question in England.
WASHINGTON.
The Cuban Question Buried.


New YoRK, June PA Washington dis.
patch says the resolution offered by Bing
ham, which passed the House on Wednes
day last, relating to Cuba, aud recommend
ing the interposition of the President to
prevent cruelties in that Island hereafter,
has gone TO the Committee on Foreign Re.
lations, and there is the best authority fol
saying that it will not be heard of aga in.
The Senate has too much business to at
tend to during the remainder of the three
weeks Of the session to enter into any
long discussion of Cuban complications
and it is not likely that the resolution will
be considered by the Committee, and it
certainly will not be reported to the Sem
ate unless il is demanded by a vote.
Butler's Amnesty.
WASHINGTON, d. O., July 21.-The bill
reported to-day by Butler from the Com
mittee on Reconstruction provides for q
full and general grace of amnesty and OBJ
ivion of certain wrongful acts, doings, or
omissions of all persons engaged in the
late rebellion incurred or forfeited between
the 11th of April, 1861, and 9th of Au-
gust, 1866, with full restoration of all
rights and privileges lost or injured there
by and therein.
ne Excepted Glasses
The following classes of persons and
their rights and causes are excepted from
all provisions of this act and none other:
l. Those educated at the Military Acad-
envy Of West Point or Naval Academy at
Annapolis.
2. Members of either House of Cox
gress Of the so called Confederate Con-
gress.
8. Whoever held Office, head of an
executive department, United States min
lister, plenipotenary or minister resident,
or Judge Of any court under the United
States, whoever held either like Office in
the Confederate States.
4. Whoever voted for or signed any Or
dinance of secession or held the office of
Governor of the State while the same was
in rebellion.
8. Whoever, while in the service of the
so-called Confederate States, treated with
cruelty or otherwise than according to the
usages of war any prisoners of war.
6. Whoever having charge of the public
moneys of the United States net duly &C.
counted for, and paid over the same, and
whoever embezzled or secreted public
stores, public goods, chattels, moneys,
provisions or military and naval property
of the United States.
Z. All deserters from the army or navy
and bounty Jumpers.
8. All property and rights Of property
acquired by any levy judgment, to extent
made and executed upon any lands or
tenement goods, chattels, or other val
liable thing whatever, and sale or forfeit
ure by confscation or taxation whereby
any rights or titles have been vested either
in the United States or in third persons.
8. Every piece and parcel of lands, how
ever it may be described and boun ded,
which now is or has been used as a Ma
tional Cemetery, in which the bodies of
soldiers of the United States are inferred,
or which Is in occupation by the United
States for the purpose of a cemetery,
which parcels of land are hereby declared
the property of the United States in fee
Of capture in war, and forever dedicated
TO the uses and purposes of cemeteries for
soldiers of the United States and to be
under the sole jurisdiction of the United
States and inalienable forever.
Provided nothing herein contained shall
affect or impair the validity of an act of
Congress removing the political disabili-
ties of any person herein exempted from
the effects of the provisions of this act.
This act shall extend TO all acts or omis-
sions by any officer, soldier, or other agent
of the United States in carrying out the
laws of the United States known as the
reconstruction acts, or other acts for the
government of rebellious States
The Hornet.
The Secretary of the Treasury has tele-
graphed to the Collector of Customs at
Wilmington permission for the Cuban pri-
vateer Hornet to proceed to New York.
- POst0gesO Vnterland.
letter postage between the United States
ana North German Union and Austria will
soon be reduced to seven cents per half
ounce, by direct steamers, and ten cents
inclosed in mail via England.
More Telegraph CabIes-Why Not
Give Them Some Millions of Pub
lie Landsl
The Senate Foreign Committee to-day
agreed to report the Belgian cable bill. 1t
reserves to the Government the free use
of the cable for thirty minutes each day.
This gives the Government, daily, one
hundred and fifty words free, which at the
present rates Of seventy-fve cents word
amounts 70 $112.5O per day, and for the
year Sal, 900 in gold. The Committee
also agreed to report the New Jersey and
Bahama Cable.
The President signed the bill donating
Long Bridge, over the Potomac, to the
southern Extension Pennsylvania Rail-
road