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he radius of their company limits. The order is said to arise from Governor Humphrey. And while it urges an abstinence from all violence in its execution, it directs the employment of such force as shall be necessary to put down any efforts at resistance on the part of the negroes. This order is an important one, and is denounced here as an outrage upon colored veterans who aided in the overthrow of the rebellion. [second Dispatch.] Washington, December 14. --It is said that Stanton declines to deliver the Lincoln anniversary orate. Beecher said, in a lecture last night, if he had been President last May he would have insisted on negro suffrage in the South. The views of Banks on the Mexican question is understood to be conservative. He will agree with Raymond, who is second on the committee. They will both support the foreign policy of the Administration. The Comptroller of the Treasury desires attention called to the fact that certain parties in this city ar
f deaths have occurred. Several have been picked up in the streets in an advanced stage of the disease. The Freedmen's Bureau is energetically attending to the matter, and adopting measures that will obviate all cause for uneasiness. Secretary Stanton. Secretary Stanton left the city on Saturday morning on a visit to his mother, at Cambria, Ohio, where he intends to spend the holidays. During his absence, Assistant Secretary Eckart is acting secretary. Internal Revenue. The Secretary Stanton left the city on Saturday morning on a visit to his mother, at Cambria, Ohio, where he intends to spend the holidays. During his absence, Assistant Secretary Eckart is acting secretary. Internal Revenue. The receipts from internal revenue for the week ending on the 16th instant are $3,733,237.91. The total receipts from June 30 to December 16, 1865, inclusive, are $165,875,908.67. Save the powder. General Grant has issued an order to commanders of posts where powder is stored to exercise all proper measures for its preservation, and holding them strictly responsible for the care of all magazines. The war closed with an immense quantity of powder in the hands of the Government, much of whi
onal Governors will be immediately withdrawn and their successors duly inaugurated, as in the case of Alabama. Secretary Stanton. A dispatch from Washington to the Philadelphia Ledger says that Secretary Stanton has again tendered his resigSecretary Stanton has again tendered his resignation to the President, and this time, it is said, insists upon its acceptance. Mr. Stanton is on a visit to Ohio. Enlisted clerks. The Secretary of War is daily reducing the number of clerks in his department. It is stated that the presMr. Stanton is on a visit to Ohio. Enlisted clerks. The Secretary of War is daily reducing the number of clerks in his department. It is stated that the present "general service" system is to be abolished, and only regularly enlisted men of the regular army will be detailed. Internal revenue. The receipts from internal revenue last week amounted to $3,733,237.91, as follows: December 11, $834,5Isaac 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 o
acks 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 nominated to the Senate ex-Congressman L. D. Campbell, of Ohio, to be Minister Extraordinary to the Republic of Mexico, in place of General Logan, declined. The nomination was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Hon. John Bigelow, who was appointed, ad interim, Minister to France, has been nominated by the President for confirmation. Secretary Stanton is at the War Department to-day. Isaiah Pascoe, formerly plumber at the Philadelphia navy-yard, recently convicted and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment, has been pardoned by the President. The United States Treasurer here is prepared to pay the interest on the registered bonds.
ods borne on the receipt, the higher would be the denomination of the stamp to be used. The Commissioner has just decided that no receipt for warehouse goods requires a stamp of a higher denomination than twenty-five cents. Pardons. The issuing of pardons has almost entirely ceased. About a dozen requisitions were made out to-day for North Carolina cases, all of the 20,000 class. Secretary Stanton. Secretary Stanton returned to the city last evening from his visit to Ohio. ods borne on the receipt, the higher would be the denomination of the stamp to be used. The Commissioner has just decided that no receipt for warehouse goods requires a stamp of a higher denomination than twenty-five cents. Pardons. The issuing of pardons has almost entirely ceased. About a dozen requisitions were made out to-day for North Carolina cases, all of the 20,000 class. Secretary Stanton. Secretary Stanton returned to the city last evening from his visit to Ohio.
s of a paragraphs sent from here from time to time, which, taken together, are intended to create an impression that the Lieutenant-General intends to go at once to the Rio Grande, with special reference to Mexican difficulties, and an ulterior purpose of driving Maximilian from Mexico. We have the best authority for saying that General Grant does not expect to leave here until he has progressed further in his work of re-organizing the army and decreasing it to a peace basis. Secretary Stanton, in his reply to a resolution of the Senate requesting him to report whether any person was employed by the War Department who has not taken the oath prescribed by act of Congress, says: "None have been employed except those who were appointed Provisional Governors of States recently, who have received compensation for services to the United States Government, out of the contingent fund of the war debt, at the same rate allowed to A. Johnson, Military Governor of Tennessee, under appoi
per week. Yesterday, Virginia, Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky and Tennessee shared largely. Five Cent currency. The new five cent currency will be issued next week. About $80,000 worth of defaced and mutilated currency is destroyed per day by burning, and $50,000 worth printed. Arrangements are nearly completed to make the amount of the latter equal to the former. Frank Blair to be in the Cabinet. There is a rumor afloat that General Frank Blair is to have the place of Secretary Stanton in the event of the withdrawal of the latter from the Cabinet. Why Mr. Davis has not been tried. The President is preparing, or has prepared, a reply to the resolution of Congress asking for information why Jefferson Davis has not been brought to trial. The ground taken will be found to embrace the legal difficulties heretofore announced as in the way of a civil trial, and the probabilities are that Congress will pass a law to meet this and all similar emergencies. Hon. Henr
Rights of suffrage for women. --Mesdames E. Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony, all of them ardent advocates of women's rights, have addressed a petition to Congress, asking an amendment of the Constitution of the United States that shall prohibit hereafter the States respectively from disfranchising any of their citizens on the ground of sex. They claim that fifteen millions of white women have quite as much right to be invested with the suffrage as four millions of blacks.
Washington, December 28. --General Butler will reply to General Grant's battle criticism before New Year's, and will afterwards return to Washington for the winter. The rumor that General Frank Blair will soon succeed Mr. Stanton is untrue. Mr. Stanton will not leave the War Department for the present. General Grant purchased and paid for his dwelling-house in Washington last month, for which he gave thirty thousand dollars. The statement that it was given him is untrue. Mr. Stanton will not leave the War Department for the present. General Grant purchased and paid for his dwelling-house in Washington last month, for which he gave thirty thousand dollars. The statement that it was given him is untrue. Secretary McCulloch is not disposed to accept the offer of the banks of a temporary loan of one hundred million of dollars, and will probably adopt the usual mode of getting funds. Mr. Hooper, of the Ways and Means Committee, is in confidence with the Secretary in regard to the matter. Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi, has just arrived here. He reports favorably respecting the condition of affairs throughout the South. Unless the test oath is repealed, not more than four of the Sout
ore this message there might have been a question as to the status of these States; but there can be none now. Such was the tone of many of the Republicans before they left for their homes, and there can be no doubt that they will come back in the same frame of mind. White House. There was not a large attendance of visitors at the White House to-day, and none of these were granted an interview with the President until afternoon, his time being occupied with Secretary McCulloch, Secretary Stanton, and General Grant, who came in about 12 o'clock. Some of the President's letters. To-day the President received among his letters a number from insane persons. One letter is from an individual in New York, who writes to the President every week on political topics, filling four pages of foolscap, and signing himself "Emperor of the World." Another individual, at Fall River, Mass., writes everyday concerning his imaginary possessions, amounting to many millions, and importune
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