Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1870 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

r CriSGHESSIOXIL. r In the Senate, on the 4th, the bill repealing the Te.t Oath act of 1818 was reported favorably from the Committee on Disabilities.... A reaoint|o, wMprefented and referred from the Legislature or MIBBIUfppI, asking the apeedv removal of political diramlltlee oC nil eftlzqna of that "Hta’e... .Bills were Introduced and referred—granting lands In Wisoomdn to aid the construction ot a breakwater and harbor, and Connect the waters of Green Bfly with Lake Michigan: gran’lng land In the State of Kansas to atd the construction of a railroad from Fort Scott In the direction of Santa Fe.... Various bills from the Committees on the District ■of Columbia, and Ponsldns, and alainp* were, passed ...Mr. Pratt was relieved from further service, on the Committee on the District of Colombia, and the Chair authorized to fill the vacancy ...A memorial ot the National Association of State and City Superintendents of Public Instruction, adapted at a meeting in Washington on tho 31, was presented apd referred, asking Congress to take measures to inaugurate a system of public instruction by NatlojaLSchoolk slujtlar to. that inaugurated under Rte Ptccdmeti's Btirenn. ...Thb Funding bill was ihiMe the ipeciat order, ibrlbe Ttfc. .-.The hili for the settlement of claims for quartermaster’s and commissary stores'furnished to or taken by the United States 1n rebellion during tho late war, was taken up and debated.... Adjourned to the Tth. In the House, on the 4th, bills were introdneed and referred—to organize the militia in Wyoming; to revive the act constituting Hannibal, Mo., and Peoria, 111, ports of delivery; to create the Southern Judicial District of Missouri.... Several private bills were passed, including one to grantpeneionf tocoloredteaiDSters . A Deficiency bill for foidnig doCTiments. appropriating $17,000, , was passed... .The Senate bill repealing the provMoha cotitalned in tbvact for extending the time for the construction of the Little Kock and Fort Smith Railroad to complete the flnit section •< twenty miles of road, was passed—ill) against 38 ... .The Senate joint resolution prohibiting publication in the Otobe of speeches not made, was referred to the Committee on Rules.... Tho Georgia hill came up, and a proposition was agreed to that it be discussed on that and the following day, and a yoto taken oh the 7th, no other business to be transacted oh the sth .. .Adjourned, Jn ihe Senate, on the 7th, petitions on varions subjects and a resolution of the lowa Legislature, favoring the removal of the National Capital, were presented and referred....A bill to admit the BfetA of Texas to representation in Congress Imposing the same conditions aa In the case of VirgHna, wa« !ntroduccd»nd referred.... A Joint rjisolatton wars introduced and referred, giving officers of tbc army detailed at literary institutions the same pay Ana allowance as those on active duty ....A bill was reported from the Committee on fttdlan Affetre, to provids for carrying into effect the provisions of the treaty concluded betwecn.tns United Htates and the Cherokee Nation of Indians, July ill, 18G6.. ..Bills were passed—appointing managers for the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteers; authorizing, the Secretary of War to take charge of the Gettysburg and Antietam National cemeteries; authorizing the Secretary of War to place at the disposal of the Soldiers' Monument Association, of Rock Island. 111., twelve pieces of condemned ordnance.... The Funding bill was taken up and debated... .Adjourned. In the House, on the 7th, bills were introduced and referred, Inclndingthefollowing: To provide for reclaiming swamp lands In the Mississippi Valley; to facilitate transportation on the Mississippi river, and promote the commerce of the Northwest; to amend the act aiding the construction of the Iron Mountain Bailroad; for the speedy removal of politics! disabilities of all citizens of Mississippi; to divide California Into two judicial districts; to Incorporate the Washington A Ohio Railroad... A resolution was introduced and referred, that, tbe Cherokee, Chickasaw. Chocktaws and Creek Indians, having advanced in oivlliaation and become rich in lands, they be no longer regarded as the wards of tho government; but that they be granted a separate territorial government, with fnll recognition as citizens of the United States, the same as the people of other Territories ....Various resolutions of the lowa Legislature were presented and referred.... A resolution was offered that Mr. Golladay. of Kentucky, lately resigned, be permitted to withdraw his resignation and have shearing of the charges against him, but the Speaker,refused to recognize Mr. G as amembw. and the Hpifse sustained’that decision, and rcfnS-d to entertain the resolution... .A resolution was adopted, instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire and report what action or rule should be established to determine the question whether a member present during the session may resign his seat without the consent of the House, vid thereby evade his duties and responsibilities.... The Speaker announced the assignment of new mymbcfs tp.committees....Several petitions were prestnited and referred... .The Georgia bill was further discussed.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the Bth, bills were reported from committees—making it. a misdemeanor to fit out or equip ships of war with intent that they shall be employ ed in the service of any Unropean Prince or State for the parpose of subduing American colonists claiming independence, and providing for the forfeiture of such ship or veaaei; t<j regulate the foreign and coasting trade bn the northern; ■northeastern, and western frontier of the United States; to relieve public charities from taxation ...Bills and joint resolutions were introduced—amendatory of the act of July So. 18611, granting lands to aid the construction of a railroad from the Central Pacific in California to Portland, Oregon; providin" for the examination and adjustment of the claims of Southern loyalists for stores furnished to the army; in aid of freedmen, and for the purpose of subdividing the public domain In certain States ipto forty acre tracts for homes eads forthe colored race : Jor the redemption of legal-tender notes of the Uelhed States; to promote the civilization of the Indians and prepare them for,the rights of citizenship; for the temporary relief of the District of Columbia... .A resolution was passed, calling upon the President for information relative to the slave trade on the African coast. ..The Funding bill was token np and further discussed ...Executive ses sion and adjournment. In the House, on the Bth, a bill to prevent thefurthor sale of public lands in Dakota, the Pre-emption and Homestead laws for dispoalng-of mineral landsand town sites, was amended so as to make it apply to all pnbllc lands, and t hen rejected—7s to 90.... The Georgia bill was taken up and amended so as to not vacate any of the offices now filled In the State of Georgia, nor extend the official tenure of any officer beyond the term limited by the State con-tituiion, dating from the election or appointment of said officer, and so as not to deprive the people of •Georgia of the right under their constitution to e ect senators and Representatives of the State es Georgia in the year 1870, and tho bill as amended was passed >; A resolution was offered and referred, authorizing the President to furnish a steamer •for Captain C. F. Hall's proposed voyage of ex?t>U>radion and di'covery to the Arctic regions, and appropriating SIOO,COT for the expenses thereof ....Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 9th, a petition was presented and referred, relative to the Illegal Imprisonment by the Dominican Government of De*fils 8. Hatch, a merchant of Ban Domingo, and an American citizen.... Tho House bill to supply the deficiency in the appropriations for contingent expenses of the House of Representatives was passed ... A joint resolution was introduced, laid on the table and ordered printed, declaring that the conduct of the Spanish Guvernment in Cnba in its treatment of captured insurgents and of persona suspected of sympathy with the Insurgents, in mutilating and killing. In disregard of ace, sex and condition, is cruel, inhuman and barbarous.' and deserves the reprobation of the Christian wwld ...A hill was Introduced and referred, to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Marehall, Texas, to Santiago California, with brioches" and com>ectlons....The bill giving the Consent of- Congress to tho laying of tulses or tunnels across the Kant River, from Brooklyn to New York, and across the North River, from New York toNew Jarsey, and making them post roads when constructed, was amended and passed....A resolution was adopted, req isstJug the Secretary of tho Navy to furnish the Senate any Information he may have aa to tho sinking of the United States vessel Oneida by the British steamer Bombay, In tho harbor of Yokohama The House bill to admit Georgia to representation tn Congress was reported from the Jndlciary Committee.. ..The Funding bill, was taken np, and a motion to recommit was dett -ted, and a motion wfce ahoptsd to strike out lhe flection providing for the payment Of eoui>ous at Kttropean agencies.... Adjourned. "In the Home, on the 9th, the bill for an ! idrfllpe.rqijroad between New York and Washingtou’eame Up, and several amendments were agreed to.’..Apetition was presented from the leading business men of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and 2 >C others, irrospo- live o party, asking the abolishment of Na, tioual Ranks, and the Issue of $500.00‘,000 greenbacks, and substitute the same for Natlontl Bank notes, and pay In greenbacks at par s3lo,<ioo,(Mo of matured 520 bonds A joint resolution waa peered, to discontinue the printing of engraving* In I‘afrnt Office reports ...Bills were introdai-ed and referred—to provide for celebrating the one htnidredth anniverreryaif Atnerican Independence by holding a national okpoaltlon of arte, manufactures, and products of the mines, in Philadelphia In 187 fl; for the auditing and payment of claim* of loyal citizen*of the South; to provide homesteads for colored people in the Southern States.... Bills

were reported and recommitted—relating to the taking of the census: to regulate mileage ; amendatory of the act esubliahlng a Bureau of Education..., Adjourned. In the Senate, on tho 10th, * reaolutlon was adopted. Calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for Information relating to publie lands In Indiana undisposedot; etc....A bill was passed, to consolidate the northern and southern Judicial Districts of Florida ...Billsand Joint resolutions were introduced;—amendatory of the Homestead act, providing that an application to enter we on ad--Jolnfng ftirm a quantity of land sufficient to,make 160 acres, may be granted; for the relief of certain settlers on lands within railroad Withdrawals; for the relief ot sh'p-bullder* and dealere in ship Imllding Interests, and to provide forthe collection of claims against domestic ships and vessels.... The House bill amending the act providing for the sale of a portion of the Fort Gratiot military reservation tn Michigan, was called up and passed . A communication was submitted from General Reynolds, enclosing copies of the newconetitution of Texas, ratlffcanon of the Thirteenth Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment*,- and other papers.... The Funding bill waa taken up and debated, and several amendments disposed of ....Adjourned. ” • In the House, on the 10th, the bill to reduce the number of officers in the army was taken up and passed... .A bill waa reported from the Committee on Railroads and Canale, and recommitted. authorizing the Norfolk, Louisville and St. Lonls Railroad Company to construct their road... Adjourned. FOREIGN. The Emperor of Russia has sent a communication by telegraph to the govern- ■ ment authorities at Washington and Pekin, expressing his profound sorrow for the affliction both nations must bear in the death of Anson Burlingame. The Empress has written a tender and consoling letter to Mrs. Burlingame. Advices from the insurrectionary districts, receivedin Havana on the 4th,confirm a former report of Jordan’s resignation of the chief command of the rebel forces. The appointment was offered to Napolear Anango, who refused it, and it was finally conferred on Bembetta. Seven members of the editorial staff of the Reform* newspaper, Paris, have been convicted of violation of the Press law, and received sentences of one to fOTT. months’ imprisonment atad’totiilt&ies.of: 10,000 francs. M. Baziere, one the ■writers of the Marseillaiu, who, on*seeing the Emperor one day, shouted “ Vive la Republique,” has been condemned to inj : prisonment for three months and fined five hundred francs. In Havana, on the sth, the police arrested fifty-one members of the Masonic fraternity, who were holding mourning services at their lodge. The arrests were made for violation of the law prohibiting assemblies without permiflsion of the authorities. Several foreigners present were not molested J. McLeary Brown has been appointed provisionally Chief of the Chinese Embassy, vice Burlingame, deceased. News from St. Domingo on the 24th ult. states that the revolution was extending and becoming more general on the island. The aid asked for abroad had been received. The revolutionists declare that the majority of the inhabitants of the Island are opposed to its annexation to the United States. The New York World of the 6th publishes a Paris letter of the 21st ult, in which it is stated that, according to the gossip of the French »alon», the Emperor Napoleon 111. died on the 9th of September last, under the knife of Surgeon Ricord, and in his place there reigns the Prince Imperial as Napoleon IV., with the Empress Eugene, as Regent. A Paris telegram of the 10th announces that Rochefort was ill, and his friendE who were not permitted to see him, were apprehensive that his disease was smallpox. I DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 10th at A Washington telegram of the 4th states that the official statistics show that the imports into the United States for ten months, ending October 31,1869, amounted to about $400,000,000, against $330,000,000 the same time in 1868. Exports, $365,000,000, against $360,000,000. Of the imports, $275,000,000, and of the exports, $245,000,000, were in foreign vessels. In a message to the Virginia Legislature on the Bth, the Governor shows the debt to be $45,872,000. This can be reduced by selling out the interest of the State in railroads, which would bring into the treasury over $10,000,000.

General Quesada has written for the Cuban Junta, ffi New York, a report of the operations of the Cuban army during the opening scenes of the war. He claims that the governments of the United States and Great Britain are ignorant of what has happened in Cuba, in consequeuce of the facility with which the Spaniards can disseminate false news. Colonel John Wilder, editor of the Kansas City Journal of Commerce, was shot and killed by a man named Hutchinson, on the morning of the 9th. The murderer was arrested. The bill for the removal of the State Capital of Wisconsin to Milwaukee has been defeated in the Legislature. Governor Holden, of North Carolina, has issued a 'proclamation declaring the County of Alamance in a state ot insurrection because of various outrages by bands of men, armed and disguised. The Mechanics’ Bank at St Louis has resumed specie payments. It has about $50,000 outstanding circulation. A Helena, Montana, dispatch says: “ Meetings have been held heHMid in most every town in the Territoryi during the last few weeks, for the purpose of taking into consideration the recent ] action of Colonel Baker, in his endeavor i to suppress the depredations committed by Indians in Montana. In every instance Baker’s'actlon has been fully en--1 domed. Full statistics of the depredations by Indians in tills Territory will shortlyI be reportod, and will show good cause for , the late raid.’’ I A Philadelphia lithographer, named Troubel, was arrested on the 10th, charged

with engraving' counterfeit brewers’ Stamps. , Forty thousand dollars’ worth of plates and stamps were captured. PERSONAL. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Republican telegraphed on the 4th that the President and Cabinet had decided not to count Indiana or New York for the Fifteenth Amendment, and that the proclamation would bo delayed until Georgia and Texas have been admitted to representation in Congress, when thb required number of twenty-right Slates will be recognized as. voting affirmatively, without the first-named two - The Michigan State debt is $2,529,074; with $408,040 cash in the Treasury. The Legislatures of Minnesota and West Virginia have adjourned tine dfe. The following nominations were sent totke Senate on the 4th: George H. Butler of California, Consul at Alexandria, Egypt; Almon A. Thompson, of Michigan, Consul at Goderich ; F. Packard, of Tennessee, to be Consul at Montevideo; J. W. Mason, of Arkansas, Minister Resident and Consul General to Liberia; Jas. Riley Weaver, ot West Virginia, Consul at Antwerp; David J. Williamson, of California, Consul at Callao. B. F. Whittemore, late member of Congress from South Carolina, has published a letter defending his sale Of the cadetship, and announcing himself as a candidate for re-election. He says that recent developments have satisfied him that his resignation was a hasty and unnecessary step. The trial of McFarland for the murder of Richardson is set for the first Monday in April. The formal reception of Mr. Seward took place at the City Hall in New York cit/, on the afternoon of the 7th. He made a brief speech complimentary to the city as the metropolis of the Western Continent The President has nominated Benj. J. Waters for Chief Justice of the -Supreme Court of Idaho. General Quesada paid his respects to President Grant on the 9th. General Alcorn was inaugurated as Governor of Mississippi on the 10th. Michael Costello, the murderer of Hugh Kean, at Detroit, has been sentenced to solitary confinement in the State Prison for life. Harriet A. Parker was nominated on the 10th as Postmistress for iSinkakee, IIL A cable dispatch from the son of the late Anson Burlingame, at Sb Petersburg, says that he shall alone accompany his father’s remains to America, leaving Hamburg on the 6th of April. Harper, the Sandwich (Mass.) incendiary, committed suicide in Barnstable jail, on the morning of the 10th. ' POLITICAL. The National Convention to secure a religious amendment to the Constitution of the United States closed its session at Pittsburgh on the 4th. Among the resolutions passed was one declaring that “ the present movement is not sectarian, or even ecclesiastic; but that it Is an acknowledgment of the Deity, and assertion of the right of the people who believe in the truth of Christianity to govern 'themselves in a Christian manner.’’ At the recent charter election of Louisville, Ky., the vote for Mayor was: J. Bruce, 5,244; J. G. Baxter, 5,824. At the municipal election in Portland, Me., on the 7th, Benjamin Kingburg, Jr., (Republican) was elected Mayor, securing 2,443 votes, to Putnam’s (Democrat) 2,202; scattering, 5. The Republicans carried the Third, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Wards. The Democrats, the First, Second and Fourth Wards. Republican Mayors were chosen in Rockland, Saco and Auburn, and a Democratic Mayor in Bath. No choice at Lewiston. A Grand Jury on which were several women was organized in the District Court at Laramie, Wyoming Territory, on the 7th, under an act of the Territorial Legislature declaring the political rights of the sex.

Joseph Hinkham was nominated to the Senate by the President, on the 7th, as United States Marshal for Idaho. The Speaker of the House of Representatives on the 7th announced the appointment of the following members on the committees: Indian Affairs—Smith, of Oregon; Adams, of Kentucky, and Van Wyck, of Mew York. Claims—Ayer, of Virginia. Naval Affairs—Platt, of Virginia. District of Colombia—McKenaie, of Virginia. Reconstruction— Dockery, of North Carolina; Porter, of Virginia, and McKee, of MUeiseippi. Poet Office—Fox, of New York, in place of Smith, of Oregon, resigned; Trimble, in place of Adams, resigned, and Van wyck, of New York. Education and Labor-Plerce, of Mississippi. Expenditures on Public Buildings—Grtswo'd, of New York. Freedmen's Affairs-Booker. of Virginia, Accounts-Milne), of VirglnlA Pacific Railroad—Atweod. of Wisconsin, and Covodo, of Pennsylvania. Public Buildings and Grounds—Corode, of Pennsylvania; Morpeth of Mississippi, and Ridgeway, of Virginia. Agricultural—Gibson, of Virginia. Enrolled Bills -Pierce, of Mississippi. Chat. R. Steele was elected Mayor of Waukegan, HL, on the 7th. Governor Austin, of Minnesota, has refused to approve the Female Suffrage bill, for the reason that the clause submitting this amendment to the vote of females as well as males is unconstitutional, as females are not legal voters, and therefore incompetent to vote upon this or any . other subject until their disability is removed by vote of the male voters. The Governor also objects to the proposition as being premature. The Mississippi Legislature met at Jackson on the Bth. A Concord, N. H., dispatch of the Bth states that Stearns, Republican, is probably elected Governor by 1,000 to 1,500 majority. The Legislature is Republican, with majority reduced from last year. John Lutes, Democrat, was chosen Mayor of Rochester, N. Y„ on the Btb,

by 450 majority. The Republicans elected a majority of Che aldcrinrii,'coufictlmen and supervisors. At the election in Cafnden, N. J., on the Bth, the Republican candidate for Mayor was elected. The Virginia LegiMatnVe has passed a Homestead Exernption bill, making an exemption of $2,000 in property from Execution. Tho constitutional amendment enfranchising cx-Confederatcs and extending suffrage to negroes passrilthe Missouri House on the 10th, by a vote of 81 to 33. It had already passed the Senate. ' The Republican State Convention of Rhode Island met at Providence on the 10th, and the present State ofltcrirs were renominated by acclamation.