The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-04-13
FEOlll Washington.

defalcation is about 100000.
Micheal Vidal, of New Orleans, is
confirmed as Consul to Tripoli.
The colored Philosophical Society
of Virginia petitions Congress to call
this country the United States of
Columbia, instead Of America.
The report Of the Secretary of the
Navy to the House regarding the
Oneida disaster concludes that the
Oneida was steering the proper course;
that the bad seamanship Of the Off
GERS Of the Bombay caused the disas-
ter; and that the latter exhibited a
reckless disregard of human life and
the common obligations Of humanity.
The House passed bill transfer
ring the property Of tho Freedmen's
Bureau to the Educational Bureau.
The opponents of the bill claim that
this perpetrates the educational fea.
lures Of the Freedmen's Bureau bill.
The Reconstruction Committee re-
ferrcd Shaber, member elect from
North Carolina, to the Election Com
mittee.
The Senate adopted resolution,
passed by the House, relative to the
Oneida disaster. 1t goes to the Presi-
dent, and involves thorough investi.
cation.
In the Senate, certain German citi-
zens of Tennessee petition for the re-
construction Of Tennessee.
Bingham's amendment to the Geor.
gia bill was denounced by Sumner as
an engine of rebel power, and the doc
trine Of State rights as local hercsy
with which reconstruction had TO con-
tend. He oloimed that the only argu-
ment against the power of Congress
to interfere was basod upon tcehni-
calities. and that Congress was n high
court of equity, with Georgia at the
bar. Carpenter, inreply to Sumner,
delivered u lengthy constitutional ar
gumcnt against the validity Of the
Fundamental conditions upon State,
urging that Georgia be either admit
ted without qualification or kept out
until tho government could trust, her.
The House, in com mittce on the
tariff, fixed the rate ON clarified sugar
at two and half cents per pound !;
refined spgarfour cents. Molasses re-
mains rs reported from The commit
tee. The duty on brandy, other than
distilled spirits, is fixed at three dol
lars The committee then arose.
WAsHINsToN,m April r7.-In tho
Senate, resolution was passed order
ing the Judiciary Committee, to re-
port the status Of Indians under the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.
4 bill was passed extending TIE
time for the trial for forgery and per-
jury in the bounty claims for four
years past.
The tariff was resumed. The whole
paragraph regarding segars wa s .strioR.
en- out, leaving tic tariff as at present.
The tariff on manufactured cotton
goods remains as reported by the oom-
mittce.
a dcclaratory act, extending the
income tax in official salaries, divi.
donds and interest payable by corpo.
rations till the end of the year 1870,
was passed.
Hon. Iames Neeson and Judge 81,
Meredith fpt Ellyson, land Governors
Wclls'and Wise f5r Cahoon, are here
to argue before Chief Justice Chase,
in chambers, as to the jurisdiction of
Underwood's court in the matter of
Virginia. State Offices. The hour, for
argument is not Yet fixed. D'e' SO
LATER. Virginia question was
argued for an hour and a half. CHASE
made only incidental interropator;es.
and hold the case4under adeisetnent.
informal revenue receipts $3.50, 900.
The Secretary Of War foqbids
cour ts- martial hearing the testimony
of the accused in bis own defence.
WAsnlNeToN,, April 9.--The effect
Of the proceedings. before Judge
Chase, aa understood by the lawyers,