Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1870 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 25th, hills were introduced—to is ths place of ths Janction of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads; to divide th* State of Texas, and eatabllah the Territories of Jefferson and Matagorda: legalizing csrtaln locations or Agricultural College lands In Wisconsin ; to prevent prize-fighting: to provide a Territorial Government for the District or Columbia; for the removal of political disabilities of various persona ....The bill for the sale ot the Great ana Little Osage Indian Reservations In Arkansas, and for the aettlement of said Indians In the Indian Territory, was called up and debated.... Tho credentials of General Ames as Senator Klect from- Mississippi were presented and referred.... The question of the admission or Mr. Rtvpls, of Mississippi, was taken up and debated, an* the motion to refer the credentials was defeated -8 to 48—and the Senate-48 to 8-ordered the oath to be administered ; Mr. Revels was then sworn Into office and took the seat aasignod him on the Republican side .... Adjourned to the 9itb. Id the House, on the 25th, bills were introduced—to encourage the building of flrst-clasa Iron eteamshlps to aid In restoring commerce, and for carrying tho United States mails; to establish a system of national education; to establish a department of Jnstlco ..Several private Mils were disposed 0f....Th0 Committee on Elections were discharged from 1 he further consideration of charges against the loyalty of Kepre entatlve Hamlll, of Maryland.... A memorial was presented for an appropriate celebration of the. centennial anniversary of American Independence.... A hill to admit Georgia to representation in Congress was presented from the Reconstruction Committee, ordered printed and recommitted; a substitute was offered and ordered printed ...A resolution was adopted instructing the Committee on Military Affairs to ascertain whether any officer of the army or navy has been engaged In the purchase or sale of cadetships .. .The Indian Appropriation bill, spproprlat ing $3,188.9:15, was considered in Commutes rrf the whole, after which the House adjourned to the 28th. In the Senate, on the 28th ult., resolutions of the Rhode Island and Virginia Legislatures, the former ratifying the Fourteenth, and the latter the Fonrteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, were presented and referred.... Bills were Introduced and referred —to amend the act for taking the cen-us; to Incorporate the Kansas, Indian Territory A Gulf Railroad; toenforce the amendment to the Constitution declaring that the right to voto shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, by providing that any person hindering a citizen ot the United States, on any of these grounds, from being registered, from voting, being voted for, or holding office, shall be punished by line of not less than SIOO nor more than s3oQ*and by imprisonment of Dot less than thirty days por more than one year, and a refusal to register' the name or to receive, count, or give proper legal effect to tho vote of any citizen under any •' pretfince of race, color, Ac., shall be punished -by a line or not leea than ssoo' nor mpre than SI,OOO, and by imprisonment not less, than one calendar month nor more than two years -the United States District Courts being given jurisdiction in snch cases, and required to enforce the law. .. Tho Chair announced tho appointment of Mr. Revels upon the Committee on Education and Labor...u Messrs. Hamlin and Anthony were excused Item service on the Committees on Disabilities and Mines, respectively.... A resolution was adopted for lnlhrmatlou as to what legislation is necessary to effect the administration of justice, and to protect American Interests In Chins and Japan.... The Joint resolution authorizing the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to issue Its bonds for the construction of lts road, and to secure the same by mortgage, was taken up and debated, after which the Funding bill was further considered... .Executive session and adjournment. In the House, on the 28th, various bills were Introduced and referred, including'the following ; To provide for the enforcement of judgments in lawful money of the # United States; to regulate the clvtl service;’to amend the internal revenue tews-so as to relieve the people of the late Insurrectionary States; relative to swamp lands In Msssoarl - r granting lands in aid of the Laclede & Fort Scott Railroad; to allow School Trustees to enter lands for school purposes nuder tho Homestead law; lor tho survey of the mouth of tho Chippewa River, Wisconsin; to Incorporate the ludlan Territory A Gulf Railroad; to aid the construction of tho Fremont A Elkhom 'Railroad, Nebraska A . resolution was offered and adopted—lo 7 to.4B—ln favor of such tariff for revenne on foreign imports aa will incidentally prot ct domestic manufactures and. without imparing the revenue, impose the least burdens upon and best promote and encourage the great industrial interest* of the country.... The Npcakorpreseuted the resignations of Messrs. Oolladay, of Kentucky, and Deweesu. of North Carolina.... The Polygamy hill was made the special order for the 2ia of March... .The Indian Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of tho Wh01e.... Amounted. In the Senate, on the Ist, a joinLresolution was Introduced and referred for the better observance of Sandaytn military and naval academies.... A petition was presented and referred from the colored men of Philadelphia for the passage of a bill to secure to all persons equal protection of the laws.... A substitute for the joint resolutions concerning colleges for tho benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts, providing that distinction on accounbof race, or color, or previous condition of servitude, in anv such Institutions, or by any State, shall occasion rhe forfeiture of lands and scrip, was reported from the Committee on Education.... The hill extending until December, 1, 1870. the time Tor presenting claims’for additional bonnties, was reported, without amendment, ftom the Military Committee ...A resolution was adopted, that in every grant of land to railroads a proviso shall be Incorporated securing the rights of settlers lo homesteads oa grants, and requiring the land to ho put In the market at an earty day at a price not exceeding $2 50 per acre... .The Funding hill was further considered.... Executive session and adjournment. In the House, on the Ist, the Senate amendments to the Post Route bill were concurred in....lnquiry was ordered to be made as to whethor the Cherokees, Choctaws, or other Indian tribes are citizens under tho Fourteenth Amendment.... A joint resolution was passed, extending to three years the time for keeping distilled spirits In bond, and requiring the payment of one cent "per gallon lor fiaSA motlUiafUir tins first year....A resolution censuring John T. Dewecse, of North Carolina (resigned), for-receiving pecuniary consideration for a cadetship appointment, was unanimously adopted.... Mr. Garfield, .Chairman of the Committee on Banking. presented the testimony taken in the gold Investigation, and the report agreed to by the committee, and Mr. Cox presented n minority report of hlmselt and Mr. Jones, of Kontucky, which reports were laid on the table, ordered printed and recommitted...". A resolution was adopted that tho Committee on Military Affairs conttnne Its investigation or all purchasos or sales of cadetships by any person who has been elected as a member or delegate of tho Hquse of Representatives in the Forty-First Congrees, or by any person who holds any executive or Judicial office.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 2d, the bill relative to taking the census was reported back from the Judiciary Committee and referred to the Committee on Revision Of the Laws.... The bill to regulate the salaries of United tttates Judges la Terri torlea was reported, without amendment, from the Committee on Territories. ...A bill was reported, with amendments, ftom tho Committee op Public Lands, granting lands to the State oi Minnesota, to aid in the construction of Ihfl Lake Superior A Vermillion Railroad... .A report was made by the Judiciary Committee relative to tho organization tOI the Georgia Legislature, reciting the lacts in the case, and concluding that tn the following respecta the orgauization of said Legislature has not beau warranted by law; first. In tho control and direction of its proceedings Dy Harris; second, In the exclusion ftom taking the oaths and from seat* of three'members eleotdu. who offered to swear; third. In the seating of persons not having a majority of votesat the eloctidh;-the reportcondnda* by stating that, inasmuch as the errors of the General tn command of the State do not appear to bare worked any aerlons Injustice In point of fact, and » as'the error In asatlng minority candidates was committed by the House of Representatives In the exercise of a right ordinarily belonging to ft-'-in the fim*' -instance, and as it appears that the I terms of office of members of the Georgia Legislature and of the State Government will expire at P’the safao time that they wonld have done had the State been ftilly restored to It* place In. the Union In July, 1888, the committee feel Justified in omitting to recommend any further legislation ion the subject of organizing the legislature.... After further consideration df the Funding bill, the Senate wont Into executive session, and soon after adjourned In the House on the 2d, bills were passed relieving from paymont of fees, nnder the Homestead laws, honorably discharged soldier* and sailors; authorizing the construction and maintenance of a bridge across the Niagara River, at Buffalo, and making It* post road A bill was reported from the UojnmUUo on Hoads, gram lug lands and rlght-of way for a railroad from St. James, Mo., to LKtle Rock, Ark., a motion to Iky on the table waa lost—73 to 87—and an amendment | was agreed to, reserving to the government the right to fix freight and passage fare,—when, the morn-

Ing hour having expired, the hill went over ... Resolutions were adopted luetructlng the Judiciary Committee to Inquire by what means, and by whom, the privilege* of the Honse have been Invaded by the publication of testimony taken before the Committee on Banking and Currency In advance of Its being reported lo tho nouse; also what action lr necessary to protect members of Congress ftom conspiracies ot office-brokers and others to make charges against members for extortion ; calling on the Secretary jot the Navy for information as to the loss of tho United Slates steamer Oneida...Tne Indian appropriation bill was further considered In Committee of the Whole ....Various Executive documents wore presented ....Adjourned. In the Senate, on the Bd, bills were introduced—to regnlate the foreign and coastwise trado on the northern, north-western and northeastern frontiers of the United States ; to enable the Leavenwprth, Lawrence A Galveston Railroad to extend a branch of It* road; to repeal oertain acta paased by the Territorial Legislature of Wyoming.... The bill to change Judicial circuits was called up and the amendmenta defining limits of circuits were agreed t 0.... A resolution was adopted, directing the Secrotary of State to inform the Senate what States’have ratified the fifteenth amendment and transmitted notice thereof to the State Department ; also, from time to time, as any State may hereafter ratify the same, to communicate to the Senate ...The Funding btll was taken up and debated, after which the Senate adjourned In the Honse, on the 3d, the Senate joint resolution allowing settlers on the late Sfeux reservation (Minnesota) to the Ist of March, 1871, to make proof and payment on their claims, was passed.... Several resolutions of inquiry were adopted... .The bill to authorize the building of a military and post road from Washington to New York was reported, and aa. amendment providing that the road should not be constructor! »i 1 bout the consent of the Btates through which it passed, was rejected—4B to U5....8i11s wdre introduced and referred— to build a bridge and rallrr ad to the Uintah mountains; giving to the Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fe Railroad Company continuation of its franchises and right of way through the Territory.... The Indian Appropriation bill, with amendments, was reported la Committee of the Whole, and passed.... The Tariff bill waa considered in Committee or the Wh01e.... A resolution was adopted, calling on the Secretary of War forlnformatloa relative to the late expedition against the Plejnn Indians... .Adjourntd. FOBEIGN. A Havana telegram of the 25th states that Insurgent Colonel Garcia, with five officers and eighty soldiers, had surrendered voluntarily, at Villa Clara, and taken the oath of allegiance to the Spanish Government. The four-oared rowing match for $5,000 and the championship of the world is definitely settled between the champion English crew of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, andthe Paris crew of St. John, N. B. The race is to take place at Lachine, Canada, in July next. Three of the editors of the Marseillam who were arrested in Paris for violation of the press laws have been liberated. It is reported that one of De Roda’s guides, named Bars, or Bart, is the murderer of Greenwald. A cable' dispatch states that Minister Curtin will take charge of the remains of Mr, Burlingame in connection with the members of the Chinese Embassy The body will be embalmed and lie in state at the American Legation, and finally be sent to America in charge of representatives, both of China and the United States. The submarine cable from Bombay to Aden, at the mouth of the Red Sea, has been successfully laid', and England is thus placed indirect telegraphic communication with her Indian colonies. Santa Anna has been sent to Nassau from Havana, on a Spanish man of-war. The United States steam corvette Oneida, of nine guns, was sunk, with all souls (120) on board, the latter part of January, about fifteen miles from Yoko hama, Japan, by collision with the British mail steamer Bombay, of the Peninsula and Oriental Line. i-k The funeral of Hon. Anson Burlingame took place at St. Petersburg, on the 26th ult. The English, French, and American Ambassadors acted as pall bearers. The retrains will be sent to America. Dispatches received in London on the Ist state that fifty-six lives were saved at the sinking of th&Oneida. Late advices from Red River say that Rieli Was unanimously elected President of the Provisional Government, after the ■adjournment"of the Convention which framed the bill of rights. The Dominican Republic has formally declared, by a large majority, for annexation to the United States. At a meeting of the Cuban Junta In New York city on the 2d, General Quesada was present, and gave an encouraging report of military affairs in Cuba. The attendance at the Burlingame obsequies at Qt. Petersburg- on tho Ist waavery large. The Emperor made a personal call upon Mrs. Burlingame. The detailed account of the disaster to the Oneida shows that the Bombay, (liritish mail steamer), with which it collided, was hailed three times after the disaster without effect, although, the guns were heard at Yokohama, twenty miles away. The Captain of the’Bombay did not stop to rescue those on board the Oneida, nor did he, upon his arrival at Yokohama, report the accident or inform the authorities. Had the Bombay sent her boats to the assistance of the OneidK all, or nearly all, might have been saved,, The feeling and indignation;toward Captain Eyre waa terrible. None but his company and a few of his countrymen attempted toshield him. The Oneida went down stern first, in about twenty fathoms of water with twenty officers and fiftyfive men. A notice has been served upon Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte to appear before the High Court to answer in the matter of the Victor Nolr homicide. A Havana telegram states'that two hundred and twenty-olghi' lirsurgents, Commanded by James Martin, came from the Puerto Principe roglon on the 2d, and voluntarily ’surrendered to the'govern*, mentauthorities, near Villa Clara; and 140 more presented themselves at La Menas and Ricas, and asked to be allowed to take the oath of allegiance to Spain. The New York World of thd-Bd publishes correspondence from Havana which states that the black flag {was flying on both sides and a war of extermination had set in. Secretary Fish has received a dispatch from the United States Minister, dated Yokohama, February 1, stating that the wreck of the Oneida had been discovered,

and her armament would possibly be recovered. A thorough investigation was being held. DOMESTIC. Gold dosed m New York on tho 3d at 115. A Police Judge at San Frandsco ha been sentenced to six months’ imprison-s ment for abusing Chinamen. A fearful accident occurred to the regular mail train on the Mississippi Central Railroad, near Oxford, Miss., on tho 25th ult. The train ran off the track on a trestle over a ravine, and the baggage, express and four passenger cars were smashed up, and seventeen persons were killed and a large number wounded. Judge McAllister, of Chicago, recently committed two attorneys and an accomplice husband ti jail for fraud and collusion in pwcuring a divorce. Counterfeit twenties on the Market Na tional Bank Of New York were put in circulation in that city on the 26th ult. , The boiler of a heating furnace at the railroad iron rolling mill of the Lackawana Iron and Coal Company, Scranton, Pa., exploded on the 28th ult. A portion of the roof, with all its heavy timbers, shafting, etc., 75 feet by 05 feet, was blown into the air, and fell with a tremendous crash. The noise of the explosion shoftk half the city. Twenty or thirty men were buried in the ruins, several of them being killed. The Postmaster General, in reply to a Senate resolution, says the number of blank petitions for the abolition of the franking privilege sent out was 75,000, and the number of accompanying circulars 28,000; total cost, $499.66. Returns from 454 postofflees, for January, show the number of free letters senttherefrom, 660,901; postage thereon at the regular rates, $117,399.73; weight of free printed matter sent, 346,194 pounds; postage thereon at regular rates, $42,334.36. Total cost of free matter sent from 454 postoffices, $159,734.09. He estimates that, if full returns had been received from all the offices for January, the aggregate amount would have exceeded $200,000, or at the rate of $2,400,000 per annum. ‘ A general order from headquarters of the army states that the Fourth Military District has ceased to exist, and, by direction of the President, the State of Mississippi is attached to the Department of the Cumberland, Brevet Major General Cooke commanding. The United States Court at Louisville, Ky., on the 28th ult., fined two illicit distillers SI,OOO each, and sentenced them to six months’ imprisonment. About fifty persons left New York city on the Ist, tor Kansas, under the auspices of the Excelsior Colony. The Supreme Court of Ohio has granted the application for a writ of error in the Cincinnati Bible in schools case, but set ihe case for hearing on the second Tuesday in December. The following is the public debt statement for March 1 : Debt bearing coin interest $2,107 989,850 00 Debt bearing currency Interest.... 6R.555.0i 0 00 Debt on which interest has ceased. 3,971346.64 Debt bearing no intere5t.......... 440.449,867.58 Total $9,611,910,854 89 Interest 39,757,941.21 Total $1,851,668,793 48 Amount in Treasury: Coin $t09.400,739 97 Currency 10,880,985 68 Sinking fund bonds and interest.. 97,876,599 00 fund bonds and Interest... “ 79,788,761.01 Total $813,840,318.96 Debt, less cash In Treaaury....... .$2,488,888,477.17 Decrease In the month 6,484,811.75 Decrease since March 1.1869 ;. 87,189,788.84 Bonds Issued to Pacific Railroad Companies, Interest payable in lawful money, amount outstanding 64,407,890.00 Interest accrued and not yet paid.. 687,541.90 Interest paid by United States 6,881,664.96 Interest repatd by transportation of malls 1,994,074.61 Balance of inteiest paid by the United States 4,887,590.88 A terrific explosion of nitro-glycerine occurred on the 2d, at the Fleetwood Race Course, ‘now being constructed in Morrisania, N. Y. John Sullivan, a workman, was killed, and nine others severely wounded. The dye works at Neponset, Mass., were destroyed.by fire on the morning of the 2d, and eight women were burned to death. The women were in the attic, picking over cotton, the only entrance to - which was a small scuttle. The steamship Golden Gate was ’•'wrecked on the Pacific Coast on tho 22d nit. The vessel Is a total loss, bnt all her crew, baggage and freight were saved. The Commissioners of Emigration at New, York report the arrival of 2,558 immigrants during the week ending the 2d The aggregate number of arrivals since January 1 was 9,512. Tha total expenditures of the Treasury Department tof the month of February, exclusive of expenditures on account of the principal and interest sf the public debt, wore $16,298,488. Customs receipts for week aiding February 26, $4,879,767. '•PIPSSOIWJL. The f<>llojring„iu)jninationß were sent tn the Senate ors Ihe 25th: Geo. B. Goodwin, to be'Assessor of Internal Rovenue of the First District of Wisconsin. Postmasjeft—Theotbre C. Phillips, Bay City, Michigan; .Geo. F. Clark,, Los Angelos, California. - Ei-BecreUry Seward arrived in New York city on the evening of the 25th. Dr. Livingstone’s brother at Fernando Po writes to a London paper expressing his belief In the safety of his relative. Tho trial of George Vandcrpool, at Manistee, Michigan, for the .mjmler of Herbert Field, was concluded 36th ult., with a verdict of guilty of iffurdor in the first degree. The prisoner solemnly averred that he waa innocent. ’He was sentenced to solitary confinement fortlfe. At the Police Court in Chicago, on the 28th ult., MiJs Thompson, Miss Markham

and Mr. Henderson were fined SIOO each for the assault on Mr. Storey, of tho lime*, and two lookers-on—Gordon and Eldrldge—who belonged to the assaulting party, were fined $lO each. The parties were also held on a charge of riot—Mr. Henderson in bonds of SSOO, and the others in SBOO. Mr. Henderson was subsequently arrested on a charge of 11 assault with a deadly weapon, with intent to do bodily Injury,” and was held for trial in bonds of SSOO. The blonde party left Chicago, on the 27th, in a hack, taking the cars at the Junction for Detroit. Gen. J. L. Geddes, of Vinton, has been appointed Military Instructor of the lowa Agricultural College. The following is the resolution adopted by the House in the case of Mr. Whitto more: Resolved. That B. F. Whlttomoro, late member ftom the First District of South Carolina, did make appointments to tbo Military Academy at West Point, and to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, In violation of law, and that such appointments were influenced by pecuniary conaiderations, and that hla conduct In the premises has been such as to show him unworthy of a seat in tbe House of Representatives, and therefore Is condemned as conduct unworthy of a representative of the people. Jno. C. Thompson, Deputy Postmaster at the University of Virginia, has been sentenced to ten years in Albany Penitentiary for robbing the mails. E. M. Yerger, who has been in military confinement since June last, on charge of killing Lieutenant Colonel Crane, was recently transferred to the custody of the Sheriff of Hinds County, Miss., by an order from the Adjutant General of the United Btatea Army. Lieutenant Wood, Adjutant General Fourth Military District, immediately made an affidavit before Judge Caban, charging him with the murder of Colonel Crane. The counsel for the dej fence waived an examination, and Yerger was committed without bail. The Senate, on the Ist, refused to reconsider its vote confirming Hon. William Strong, of Pennsylvania, as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Orson Hyde has been elected Speaker of the Senate, and Orson Pratt, Speaker of the House of Assembly es the State of Deseret, at Salt Lake. The consideration of the nomination of Mr. Bradley as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court was postponed on the 2d, ’ by the Senate, to the 21st instant—3l to 20* The following were among the nominations sent to the Senate on the 2d: Chas. H. Lewis, of Virginia, Minister Resident to Portugal; Richard H. Whitney, Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Fifth District of Illinois; Geo. D. Orner, Collector of Internal Revenue, Fifth District, Missouri: J. C. C. Haskins, Postmaster, Sioux City, lowa. The Irish Republican Club at New York, on the 3d, adopted resolutions in fav#r of recognizing Cuba by Congress. The President has accepted an invitation of the citizens of Eastern Connecticut to attend a proposed grand mass meeting, at Woodstock, Conn., on the 4th of July next. Gen. O’Neill, President of the Fenian Brotherhood, has revoked the call for a meeting of the Fenian Congress, at New . York on March 9th, and has ordered that it be held in Chicago, April 11. POLITICAL. The Texas Legislature adjourned sine die on the 25th. The Tennessee Senate has concurred in the House resolution rejecting the Fifteenth Amendment. The Kentucky State Colored Convention, recently in session at Frankfort adopted a series of resolutions, endorsing President Grant’s administration, regarding the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment as a simple act of justice to the colored race, and looking with distrust upon Chinese immigration, etc., etc. In the Maine Senate, on the 20th ult., a resolution for payment in coin, of State contracts prior to February 25th, 1802, was tabled, ; — — In the Ohio Honse of Representatives, on the 28th ult., a bill introduced to submit the question of female suffrage to the vote of the women of Ohio over 21 years of age, was rejected by a vote of 41 to 39. The Ohio House, on the Ist, reconsidered its action of the day previous, on the Woman Suffrage bill, and allowed it to be printed. The West Virginia Legislature has passed a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the State Constitution so as to enfranchise the negroes and ex-Con-federates. It has to be concurred in by the Legislature next winter, and then be submitted to the people in October, 1871 At the charter election of Rock Island, 111., on the Ist, Porter Skinner, Democrat 1 , waa elected Mayor. Tbe Council stands six Democrats to three Republicans. In the recent charter election at Troy, N. Y., Mr. Gilbert, Republican, was elected Mayor by 25 majority. The Common Connell stands 11 Republicans and 11 Democrats. The Munoie, Ind., Time* has this to say Of a “ female fiend ’’ in that county: “By her cruelty she literally drove two of her daughters from her to seek a home among strangers. She beat and bruised them until they were forced to fly from her presence. The last thing Bhe did to tham was to take as many pins as she coulcr in odc hand and rake up and down their arms with the points! She also took the orphan child, living with her, and put it in a pen where several hogs were fattening, and tried to make the brutes tear the flesh from the child’s body.’’ English papers announce that John Bright has received from Mr. Pullman the offer of * free ride from New York to San Francisco. Mr. Pullman promises, if Mr. Bright will come to America, to cam him and as many of his friends aa he m.ty name, across the continent iu a qpeclrJ train of hotel and drawing-room oars, stopping whenever he pleases oiU tbe route, and making each halt as long as bo likes. * , ' \ •