The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-06-29
FROM WASHINGTON,

FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, June 22.-Woods, the Congressional
captive, safely returned to the Capitol.
The Cult mail route heretofore running from New
Orleans, via Eastern Gulf and Key West to Havana,
will be relet the 26th of June for four years The
postmaster has the discretion of accepting proposals
making either Mobile New Orleans the initial point
OF the line. The bidder likely to secure the con-
tract is j. K. Roberts, of Florida; ALSO it is under
stood that he prefers make Mobile the initial point
| WASHINGTON, June 22.-The Judiciary Committee
of the Senate will report favoraby upon Ackerman's
nomination to the Attorney Generashp, but will op.
pose action until Ackermans arrival here Ackerman
is expected every day.
Revenue to-day $630,000.
Boutwell, ordersal persons excluded from the money
rooms of the Treasury Department and outside the
barriers of his office.
Internal revenue for the present fiscal year will
reach SlS000OOO0 great excess over previous years
and Boutwes estimates
The agricultural report for the current month says
cotton growers determined to reduce the price to
Is cents with every prospect of doing it, Acreage is
materially increased in every State while that of wheat
and probably of corn though the county estimates for
the entire country do not in until July lst has
decreased If the neglect of all the other interests can
only be cured by cheap cotton, the reduction comes
the better. The condition of the growing crop in
North Carolina is good. In South Carolina cotton is
looking we'll Except that some complaint of bad land
is made. In Georgia it is later than usual from the ef
fecs of drought of five weeks, which terminated on
May 25th, but is growing vigorously now. The dry
term shorter in Florida and Alabama and the cot
ton generally is in good condition. Reports from
Mississippi still favorable In Tcnsas par
sb Louisiana, where the greatest cotton yield of 1869
made, the condition of the crop is twenty per
cent better than last year, and the acreage increased
one fifth. From Texas comes reports of backward
spring with cotton, but it is thrifty and promising No
State gives favorable returns than Arkansas The
average condition of cotton is better than last year at
this time fact desirable and gratifying in ITSELF but
of controlling force in determining the ultimate
turns the season was nnpropitous to August, and
afterwards favorable to almost unexampled degree
tenth OF the crop being due to the extreme length
prosperous character of the autuanal season. The
of sea island cotton in Texas has been in.
creased.
WASHINGTON, June 29.-The following is Summers
resolutions:
Resolpsd, That the people of the United States can
not hear, with indifference, reports OF barbarism and
outrage which reach them constantly from our neigh.
boring Island, Cuba that they protest against the rep
etition of such acts whether by the Spanish Govern
ment by the insurgents who are seeking their inde
pendence; they denounce with indignation the shoot
ing of captives taken with in their hands as
violation Of the first principles of civilization, and
contrary tWthe precedent happily established on the
North American continent; and in the name of human
ity they soemnly insist that these things shall
Resolved, That the people of the United States
panied to hear that the pretenson of property in
is still upheld in the island colonies of Spain lying in
American waters; that human beings, endowed by
Nature with the right to life liberty and the pursuit
of happiness, held slaves and deprived of all
rights; that instead of termination of this preen
once, the Spanish government proposes to pro-
tract it for indefinite period by impossible sys
TEN of vandalism; that such spectacle is justly often
sive to all who love Republican institutions, of which
liberty and equality the cardinal principles, and
especially to the people of the United States who
in the of justice and for the sake of good neigh
borhood ask that slavery shall cease at once.
Resolued, That the United States being once colo
MES, and having achieved their independence ma
ton by the successful resistance to Europeans who
claiming to govern them, and their examples being
followed afterwards by the Spanish colonies on the
American Continent, all of which have achieved inde
pendence likewise and that already the same aspira
ton for independence begins to stir in the neghboring
colonies of Great Britain, and that these instances
in harmony with the spirit of the age they teach
that the days of European colonies this hemisphere
has passed. and that impressed by this conviction, the
people of the United States to witness the exra
ordinary efforts of the Spanish government, by blood
shed and violence to maintain unnatural jurisdiction
in Cuba, which is forbidden by the love of progress
and is hostile to the interests of both parties. ~
Resolved That the people of the United States de.
clare sympathy with their fellow-Americans in Cuba
who are now struggling for independence, and at the
time, their sympathy with the people OF Spain in
their efforts for liberal institutions in their own ancient
land and they call the people of Spain to recognize
at once the rights of Cubans and that they make this
appeal with sincere good will to the people of Spain,
and with the assurance that the justice they do to
others will rebound to their own happiness welfare and
renown. M
Resolsed That the President of the United States
charged with the duty of communicating these resou
lions to the Government of Spain.
w .curNcroN Jnno Tho Senate after long
debate adopted Nye's amendment placing Gen Ere
nons name at the head of the incorporators OF the
Pacific Railroad by a vote of 81 to g. The question
Of guages discussed to adjournment Total num-
Der of incorporators 116.
Hoar's resignation takes effect upon the appoint
nent and qualification of his successor
Ackerman is here, but the impression exists in high
quarters that the formaites pending bis qualification,
will require month T.. ..-4z-H .szz=zs
The President has signed the Department of Justice
dill which greatly increases the patronage of the At
orney General.
Hoar will continue to exercise the functions of Office
Until Ackerman can qualify during which time pat
onage of the Department of Justice will have been
attended q
Adyices from London, at the State Department re-
port the incarceration of the American consul at
,eth, Scotland for misdemesnor in connection with
3oulton masquerade. ~a
Revenue nearly million. !
Gen. Longstreet is here.
There will be minority and majority report on t
Iatch's Imprisonment in San Domingo. The majority
eport exonerates Gen. Babcock.
Nominations-J. P. Root, of Kansas minister to
hill; stanisaus Ganter, consul to Cape Hayti; Jos. i
J, Bennett, of Kansas consul to Chehuahua; Chas. F.
iorman, of Michigan, minister to Hague i
The President has himself declared that he intends
o remove Motley, miaister to England, but it is
rue as has been stated that he intends Fish take
is place. The President has intimated it,
hough the latter can have the mission if he should
rant it. a
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the pay
lent of interest due July l. on and after Tuesday
ext withoutfebate. o
The President has signed the bill paying loyal citi
ems for taking the census in 1860.
WASHINGTON, June 24-The Democratic caucus,
nd members of Congress in caucus, agreed upon the
blowing address which was day signed: