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The article presents information related to several issues. U.S. statesman Thaddeus Stevens has introduced a reconstruction bill which is so remarkable for moderation and good sense and practicalness that it stands in very striking contrast to some of his speeches, and people wish most sincerely that he had thought of it eight months ago, when he was talking a great deal of sad stuff about confiscating the whole laud of the South and dividing it among the African-American. The cholera has again appeared in the lower bay, the steamships Peruvian and Union bringing it from Liverpool. The passenger-list of each vessel is a full one, and so, unhappily, is that of the victims of the disease. The almost superstitious inhumanity of the residents near quarantine, both on Long Island and on Staten Island, forbids the landing alike of the well and of the sick, and even the interment of the dead.