irs connected with Mexico.
Whatever truth there may be in the recently-published rumors respecting the President's contemplated action with regard to the Southern States, it is well known here that he acts on all cases affecting the restoration as they arise, and that while engaged in that work, is the best exponent of his own policy, none being authorized to declare what course he will pursue in the future.
Washington, December 10.--A Washington special correspondent telegraphs to Forney's Press as follows: "The Union members of the Senate will hold a second caucus on Monday morning at 10 o'clock for the purpose of considering the reconstruction resolution offered by Mr. Stevens on Saturday evening, the second of December, and adopted in the House on Monday after the election of Speaker Colfax.
Some ambiguity in the resolution will necessitate a change, and a number of Senators are themselves in doubt whether the Senate ought to concur in its general scope and object.
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credentials to the Committee om Elections; but that, "out of deference to the views of members, he would move their reference to the Select Committee on the subject of the so-called Confederate States." The subsequent action of the House, under the previous question, however, indicates conclusively that the "Select Committee" is the pet of the majority; and yet we are not without hope, from the indications named, that the fair and open thing will prevail in some form."
The Chronicle, Mr. Forney's paper, gives signs that it foresees the result desired by the Conservatives.
It says:
"We note these manifestations as bearing particularly upon the question of restoration, and as appropriate responses to the spirit of the President's message, who gracefully referred to Congress the whole controversy involved in these particular applications for seats in the National Legislature.
That there is a strong prevailing anxiety to see good and true men from the South in Congress, it di
ween Schenck and Sherman for the Senatorship in Ohio is understood to be close.
It may be affected by the reconstruction question.
It is understood that on to-morrow both branches of Congress will adjourn over until Monday, and from that day until after Christmas.
It is also understood in Republican party circles that the credentials and other papers of Southern Senators and Representatives are to be referred to the joint select committee, to sleep until the end of the session.
Mr. Forney sticks to his text on the question of taking the oath.
His last letter to his paper dwells upon this point so much that, if he is to be accepted as authority, we may assume that those members who can take it will be admitted.
But we incline to the opinion that this is a sort of middle ground that he is occupying between the President and the majority in Congress, and from which he can hereafter go over to either side.
He says:
"Now that it is clear that no party can stand up again
to procrastinate such cases by the various expedients known to partisan chicane until representatives and people alike of the South shall lose all heart and hope.
The House adopted yesterday a resolution supplementary to what is known as the "caucus reconstruction resolution," which will insure the reference of all papers relative to the so-called Confederate States to the joint committee of fifteen. Mr. Raymond and a few other Union Representatives voted against the resolution.
Mr. Forney writes:
"While there is a fixed determination not to admit any man in Congress whose hands were imbued with the blood of our fellow-countrymen, and who cannot take the oath that was taken by all the members of the last Congress, with one or two exceptions, and by all the new members and Senators of the present Congress, tried and true men from the South, who came here fairly elected, will not be compelled to wait long.
The temper of the House is decidedly against the repeal of this
Senator Hunter become a tariff man.
--Forney, in a late letter to his Press, says:
"I learn from a gentleman who had a recent conversation with R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia,--one of the leading free-traders and authors of the rebellion — that he frankly admits that the American policy must be a protective one for many years to come, and that the South is directly interested in having it so."
e Administration.
The President has approved the sentence of a military court held in Georgia, wherein a colored man called Isaac was sentenced to be hung for killing his former master.
It appears Isaac ran away from his master and joined the Union army; after the war he returned, and learning that his master had said that if the negro ever came back he would shoot him, Isaac deliberately went to his master's house, after night, raised the window, and shot him dead with a rifle.
Secretary Stanton has applied to Congress for an appropriation to purchase Ford's Theatre, to be fitted up and used for the custody of all papers relating to sick or wounded soldiers during the rebellion, and to hospitals and the operations of the medical and surgical departments of the army.
It is a sufficient evidence that Stevens cannot carry his point in Congress to find Mr. Forney, in the Chronicle, declaring that the Republican party would inevitably be defeated upon Stevens's platform.
nds of the Government and laid down in the platform of the National Union party, or attempts to postpone or to evade the great duty of defending, protecting and befriending the freedmen of the South.
The whole exhibit is manly, straight forward, and full.
That it has been criticised is to be expected in these days of novel complications and novel remedies; but that any statesman should believe that it does not come up to the full measure of patriotic expectation is almost incomprehensible.
We hail it as the monument from which to date the restoration of the conquered States to a vindicated Union, and the true historical beginning of a Republic without a slave.--Washington Chronicle.
Mr. Forney, like Mr. Greeley, tries to reconcile the message and the Republican platform.
The very earnestness with which they try to prove that the President has done nothing to displease the Republicans is sufficient evidence that, Cuffee being in the case, he has literally made "the wool fly."
-the Mexican Ministry--Hon. John Bigelow--Isaiah Pascoe pardoned — the United States Treasurer at Washington is prepared to pay the interest on the registered bonds.
Washington, December 22.
--Raymond's friends to-day assert that the attempt on yesterday on the part of the radicals to break him down is a signal for open war. They threaten retaliation.
The President is gradually drawing to his policy all persons who have not fixed political principles.
Senator Stewart, Colonel Forney and other Republicans of this kind are out for immediate admission.
The prospects are, that Van Dyke will eventually be appointed Collector of New York.
Raymond backs him up, and he is the President's favorite from the city of New York.
Pennsylvania asks Congress for nearly a million dollars to pay the expense of repelling Confederate invasions of that State.
An attempt will be made to refer it to a committee.
There is no doubt of the fact that the President yesterday no
fitting out.
It is reported that information has been received here of the fitting out of one, and probably two, Chilian privateers at New York.
Mr. Botts and what he says.
John M. Botts, of Virginia, visited the capitol this morning, and looked as hale and as hearty as when, more than twenty years ago, he slept in the same bed with John Tyler.
He contends not only for the constitutionality, but for the necessity of the test oath which excludes the Southern members.
[So says Mr. Forney.
We should be pleased to learn that he has mistaken Mr. Bott's position.]
Mr. Campbell's instructions.
The Department of State has completed the instructions which it desires the Minister to Mexico to follow, and he will be dispatched at once to the headquarters of the Juarist Government, and remain with the President of the Republic, and follow him wherever he may go; thus making an active demonstration to Maximilian of the policy which the Government intends to persist in. It i
The drawer on the Virginia side of the Long Bridge is out of order this morning.
The damage prevents the working of the drawer, and was caused by floating ice in the river.
The use of the Georgetown channel through the bridge will be delayed for a day or two.
Chief Justice Chase opposed to the oath.
It is news that many of the secessionist here claim that Chief Justice Chase is opposed to the test oath because he favors universal amnesty as an exchange for universal suffrage.
Forney's Letter.
Colored Masons.
Yesterday was St. John's day, and it was duly celebrated by the Masonic fraternity.
Phœnix Lodge, No. 3, and Simonds Encampment, No. 12, of colored Masons, marched through the streets in full regalia, and preceded by a band.
Daring Robbery.
The sleeping room of the city postmaster, S. J. Bowen, Esq., was entered by thieves on Tuesday night, between the hours of one and three o'clock, who took from his clothing, which lay on the bed, five hundred d
