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Greeley on the President's message. President Johnson yesterday transmitted to the Senate deeply interesting reports recently made to him on the condition of the South by General Grant, General Howard and General Schurz, accompanying them by a brief message, wherein he recommends an early restoration of the States lately in rebellion to all the rights and privileges which they forfeited by attempting to break up the Union. We find in the text of this message no adequate reason for Mr. Sumner's denunciation of it. If the President had demanded of Congress that it act on his judgment rather than its own, then he would have acted unwarrantably; but as he has simply given his own view of the existing situation, with his reasons for suggesting a particular course, he deserves neither denunciation nor obloquy. Two great ends are now in view: 1. The restoration of the States lately in revolt to their former position in the Union. 2. The protection of their freedmen from futu
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 WilliaHoward, of Michigan; 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
Fighting in the Market. --George W. Duncan, a young man apparently not twenty-one years of age, was before Mayor Saunders yesterday on the charge of fighting with a negro in the Second Market. Mr. Howard testified that he was in the market on Thursday morning and heard an altercation between the accused and a negro, the latter applying to Duncan a profane and vulgar epithet. Could not say which struck the first blow. Mr. H. H. Starr testified to facts almost similar. The Mayor required Duncan to give surety in the sum of $100 to keep the peace towards all the citizens of the Commonwealth for twelve months.
The Freedmen's Bureau — Reform. Washington, December 22. --General Grant said in his recent report that the Freedmen's Bureau was a present necessity, but seemed to be operated by the different agents of the Bureau according to their individual notions. General Howard, the Commissioner of the Bureau, in view of this assertion, has issued a stringent order that the most thorough inspection shall be at once made, and the errors complained of corrected. Any agent or officer who presumes to act contrary to such instructions will be forthwith removed or reported to the Department Commander for trial by court martial.
Washington Items. The Freedmen's Bureau to be under military direction. General Grant having stated in his late report that the Freedmen's Bureau was "independent of the military establishment," General Howard has issued an order destroying that independence, and directing that all the operations of the Bureau be carried on under and through the agency of the army officers. No Asiatic cholera at Southampton. The State Department has received a communication from Mr. John Britton, our Consul at Southampton, England, dated December 1, 1865, stating that, having seen in New York papers an account of the existence of holora at that place, he desired to say that, though there had been a few cases of England cholera, resulting from the too free use of bad fruit and vegetables, there had not been a single case of Asiatic cholera in the town. Important decision. The following decision from the Paymaster-General's Office is important to those presenting claims for bac
The operations of the freedmen's Bureau in Virginia. Major-General Howard has just received the official report of Colonel Brown, Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for the State of Virginia, relative to the operations of the system in that State. The report is prefaced by a reference to the condition of society in the State when he assumed charge of his office: The problem to be solved was how to provide for the protection, elevation and government of nearly half a million of people suddenly freed from the bonds of a rigorous control, acquainted with no law but that of force, ignorant of the elementary principles of civil government and of the first duties of citizenship, without any provision for the future wants of themselves and families, and entertaining many false and extravagant notions in respect to the intentions of the Government toward them. The citizens generally afforded no assistance in meeting these difficulties. Stripped to a great extent
The freedmen's Bureau of Virginia. The reader will find in this morning's paper the purport of the report of Colonel Brown, Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for the State of Virginia, made to his superior, Major-General Howard. It is a remarkable paper. Fair in some things — not at all so in others. In the preface to the report as to the condition of society in Virginia [this poor society of Virginia is become the subject of a great deal of investigation!] the Colonel, in very strong language, represents the state of the black population, of half a million, as anything but encouraging to those who came here" to provide "for their protection, elevation and government." "Suddenly freed," he says, "from the bonds of a rigorous control, acquainted with no law but that of force, ignorant of the elementary principles of civil government, and of the first Duties of Citizenship, without any provision for the future wants of themselves and families, and entertaining m
have its joke. --Prentice. Sumner called President Johnson's message in relation to the South "a whitewashing document." Use a ton of whitewash upon Sumner's political character and the whitewash would turn black, not the character white.--Prentice. Eleven negroes have been recently sentenced to the penitentiary from Montgomery county, Alabama, and seven from Tuscaloosa county. At this rate, the penitentiary of that State will be soon filled with this class of prisoners. General Howard asks the modest sum of eleven millions and three-quarters for his bureau! and three millions of it for teachers and school-houses for the blacks. The New York and Erie railway has just negotiated a loan of four million five hundred thousand dollars, in England, for the completion of its double track. The owners of the ship Nora, of Boston, valued at $80,000, and destroyed by the Alabama, have petitioned Congress to demand redress of England. The Methodist Church was found