The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-04-06

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German citizens of Tennessee asking for
the reconstruction of that State.
The consideration of the Georgia bill was
resumed.
Mr. Sumner denounced Mr. Bingham's
amendment as an engine of rebel power,
and the doctrine of State rights as the
great heresy with which reconstruction had
to contend. He claimed that the only ar
gument against the power of Congress to
interfere was based upon technicalities,
and that Congress was hig court of
equity with Georgia ut the bar.
Mr.. Carpenter, in reply to Mr.. Sumner,
delivered lengthy constitutional argument
against the validity of the fundamental
conditions imposed upon State, urging
that Georgia be either admitted without
qualification or kept out until the Govern
ment could trust her.
The Educational Bureau for Colored
People.
WASHINGTON, April s. The bill for
disseminating the Freedmen's Bureau and
for other purposes" which passed the
House to-day, repeats all laws prescribing
duties for officers of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau except 80 far as said duties have not
yet been fully executed, and transfers oil
money and property hitherto entrusted to
! the Freedmen's Bureau to the account Of
the Bureau of Education, to be expended
exclusively for educational purposes among
the freedmen and refugees, having spe-
cial reference to aiding the establish
ment and usefulness Of common schools
among them. The Bureau of Educa-
| ton ia to exercise the same powers as
those hitherto exercised by the Freedmen's
Bureau in reference to education, and espe-
| cially in cooperating with benevolent or
educational societies or corporations, and
the same cooperation may be extended to
State, territorial, county, and municipal
authorities, for similar purposes. All build
ing repaired or constructed, wholly or par
TALLY, under the direction of the Freed
mons Bureau, and now held by municipal
or State authorities, corporate bodies, or
| trustees, for educational purposes, or funds
| arising from their sale, shall be forever
applied to and used for such purposes.
The Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bu-
| reau is allowed three months to fulfill oil
legal obligations and contracts, and settle
his accounts with the United States. All
other employees are discharged except such
as the Secretary of War may retain for the
care OF hospitals and collection and pay
| ment of the bounties and pay Of colored
soldiers, of which business be is to hereaf-
ter take charge.
Various Items.
WASHINGTON, April 5.-The Reconstruct
ton Committee has referred the case of
Shober, member-elect from North Carolina,
to the Election Committee.
Governor Senter, of Tennessee, who was
coming here, is detained at Nashville by
sickness.
The revenue receipts to-day were s27l,-
600.
Secretary Boutwell, will remain absent
until Tuesday.
The defalcation of Collector Bailey (of
the Wall street, New York, district,) proves
to be about $200,000.
Michael Vidal, of New Orleans, was to-
day confirmed consul to Tripoli.
The "Colored Philosophical Society of
Virginia " petitions Congress to call this
country the United States of Columbia in
stead of the United States of America.
The report of the Oneida disaster made
by the Secretary of the Navy to the House
concludes that the Oneida was steaming her
proper course; that the bad seamanship of
the officers of the Bombay caused the dis
aster; and that the captain of the latter
exhibited reckless disregard of human
life and the common allegiance of humanity.
The President, ce-President, Cabinet,
Supreme Court, Foreign Legation, and
many other distinguished persons we're at
the House of Representatives tonight at
| the funeral ceremonies in honor of the late
Maior General Thomas. The marine band
was in attendance. BY some means the
colored people were not present on the foor
or in the galleries. 1t is said that tickets
we're required. The colored people discon-
tentedly thronged the corridors of the CAPT.
| tol.
Representatives of the thirty-ffth and
thirty-second parallel Southern Pacific rail-
road routes were before the Senate commit
tee this morning. A strong lobby and able
lawyers argued for the Atlantic and Great
Western, and the Memphis, Little Rock
and Ell Paso lines. Senator Kellogg made
speech in support of road from Hall
vile from Marshall, Texas, to Ell Paso, and
thence to San Diego, with connections to the
| Opelousas, La, and Little Rock railroad,
connecting with the Shreveport, Monroe
and Vicksburg railroad to Charleston, s..
C. 1t seems probable that Mr.. Kellogg's is
the only line through the centre of the cot
| ton belt that can pass. Fremont, in the in
terest of the Memphis, Little Rock and
Jefferson railroad, offers to compromise.