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punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. And whereas it appears from official documents, on file in this Department, that the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, proposed as aforesaid, has been ratified by the Legislatures of the the States of Illinois. Rhode Island, Michigan, Maryland, New York, West Virginia, Maine, Kansas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, Tennessee, Arkansas, Connecticut, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina and Georgia; in all, twenty-seven States; And whereas the whole number of States in the United States is thirty-six; and whereas the before specially-named States whose Legislatures have ratified the said proposed amendment, constitute
By Johnson's Independent agency.Congressional. Washington, December 21. --Senate.--Mr. Howard, of Michigan, (Republican,) offered a resolution calling upon the President to inform the Senate on what charges Jefferson Davis is confined, and why he is not brought to trial. The resolution was adopted. The following Committee on Reconstruction on the part of the Senate was announced: --Messrs. Fessenden, of Maine; Grimes, of Iowa; Howard, of Michigan; Johnson, of Maryland, and WilliaMichigan; Johnson, of Maryland, and Williams, of Oregon. Mr. Sumner presented the petition of colored citizens of Tennessee, protesting against the reception of the Tennessee delegation until the recognition of the rights of the colored persons by that State. He also presented a petition of the white citizens of the District of Columbia, asking the extension of the right of suffrage to the colored people of the District. Mr. Sumner stated that the white people of this district had for years been squatting upon the civil and p
a territorial condition 'for some years,' or until certain amendments of the National Constitution have been consummated, can be made a party test, not to speak of the necessity of maintaining, under such a plan, a military organization, with all its incredible expenditures; no party could be held together in the free States, in the face of the incessant turbulence, dissatisfaction and bitterness that must spread all over the Union as a consequence of so chaotic and unsettled a policy."--Letter in the Press. Party! there's the rub. Committee on mines and mining. The Speaker of the House, in his appointment of the new committee on mines and mining, has represented the gold mines of California and Oregon, the silver mines of Nevada, the lead mines of Wisconsin and Iowa, the copper mines of Michigan, the iron and coal mines of Pennsylvania, and the iron mountain mine of Missouri. Armed men are to be stationed along the overland express route, to keep off the Indians.
New York markets. New York, December 26. --Stocks lower — Chicago and Rock Island, 106⅝ Cumberland Preferred, 43; Illinois Central, 132; Michigan Southern, 73¾; New York Central, 95; Reading, 106 ½; Hudson, 108; Virginia 6's, 71; Missouri 6's, 78; Erie, 95; Tennessee 6's, 90; One Year Certificates, 98; Treasury 7-30's, 98¼ 10-40's and 5-20's, 103½ ; Coupon 6's, 107½; Gold
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