Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1870 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

« I CONGRENSIONAL. w bills were inthe recnring of n (Sclent seamen for the United States Navy; for the Reorganization ot the navy; providing rules lor nn%lWo^^J^"“te , d tohfand menrtiera of the Georgia Txiglrlntnrc?Yrr>: felting against the adoption of a certain proposed bill win Anally passed—32 to 10.... Adjourned to .rfWftW offMM iIMAi ’bifir for the extension of patents, and one providing for Iwo local MMvflle, Indiana, at an annual compensation of (300 each, were passed. J.lhTrjSiltHted DteclSncy bills were considered at length in Committee of the Whole, after which the House adjourned, the session on the 12th to be for general debate only. IMthrSßimac« -tb« tflthvteUs were introduced and referred—to strengthen the legal reserves of National Banks and provide for the re--way Company, and granting right of way and lands Bti sid,Qptojjstinction; to amend the Bankruptcy act ;of MnfCTT2ftfWA ks fflbltikg -Ifltti Vehdlflßflf la the flrst proviso; granting lands to Alabama to aid the jvlanNavigation Company passed....A resolution tXlMffeWf of theindian village at Fort Wrangel, Alaska.... The nJbi-S/ bUlMa* fcMterf&p olid debated, .t:: Sxecutlve session and adjournment. i . In the Ilouao, on the 14th, bills were ■ introduced «r!ngtng> hwni f fhe 1 remains of General Asboth, late minister to the Argentine Confederation; to extend the time for •completion of the railroad bajweeu,Madison and Portage City; granting lands, Ac , to the Sacramento Drainage. Irrigating, and Navigation CowDakota and Mlnueaota; to prevent prize-fighting; to pension indigent officers and soldiers of the war and the Ohio River; providing a Territorial Government for <bw jgrMiing. lands to the Cape Glradean & State Line Railroad, Missouri; to abolish female clerkships in governRiverin Missouri, were presented and referred.. „ zine, benzole, or camphene; calling for information as td llfc coet’cWdetjSMtig tba«t. jianUvFaib Ship Canal to not less than fourteen feet... .Rcso- ■ declaring the present system of taxation exorbitant and needlessly burdensome, and that a reductlmf'ef ’ttfcatiin* to <hn fcweat- point-rensisient with the demand for revenue should be made both In tariff and internal taxation; that in reformIngVMhiexistitet'Wlff laws nojtolyjiheuld pe imposed on t.ny article above the lowest rate that will yield the largest amount of revenue, that the mmdmum reveres ahotdfl be imposed peliiwh-,, and that the duty should be bo imposed as to operate as equally as possible throughpassed—directing, in consideration of the distlnequal to one year’s salary of Associate, Justice of thefireremo County allowing owners of homesteads to deduct interest paid oh mortgages thereon from their income returns.... The Navy Appropriation bill was made the special order for March 24.... The Deficiency bill was considered in Committee of tho-Wteto-t.Adionrned. , , .. . In the Senate, on the 15th, the resolutlon giving a year’s salary ns Justlce of the Supreme Court, to the wldew Of Kdwtn M. Stautony wns passed.... Memorials were presented—for an appropriation to the Wilberforce University, near era Superintendency, of Nebraska.... The bill authorizing the,transportation of imported merchandise from the-port.,ot-fitst arrival within the United States to Chicago, Cincinnati and St. examination, inspection and ap- / I pos«,>oned .... Bills were introduced—for the distribution of arms to the Southern States in the same manner as If" the act' Of ’April 23, 18(18, had not been modified; to Incorporate and charter the Cincinnati * Cliattanooga Railroad Compaify to connect a railroad between those a ost vflrcfr V'drotnittoo to report upon the expotfleney of establishing a daily mail service on tee Ml#isßip<>b,rlrer, between New Orleans and Cairo ... .The concurrent resolution for the appointment of a special Joint Committee on Indian Affaire, was taken up, amended so as to limit the action of the committee to a consideration of the general policy of the government with relereucaiQ’liidlta treaties, when a motion to lay the whole subject on the table was defeated by the casting vote of the Vice-President....The Georgtflt hili wte further consiocred... .Executive session and adjournment. In the House, ow the 14th, the Funding bill was taken up, and, afler discussion, a motion to refer to tho Banking Committee was defeated—--65 to 79—and the bill tVas (han referred to the Ways an#! Means Committee'.... A blll was reported from tire ROconsfruction Committee and passed, to admit Texas to representation in Congress—the bill being Identical with the Virginia and Mississippi bills, with the exception of an additional provision that its passage shall nor. affect the conditions under which Texas was originally admitted Into the Union... The Deficiency bill whs taken np in Committee of the Whole and several amendments were dlsposedsg, tetdjhajMH was reported to the House for finaTactloh. ?. .Xojbnrned. alrfliktAtJennte, on the 16th, a memorial was presented and referred, from a committee appoititaOtapoßventiou of oplpred pcopie/jsidlpg in the Choctaw and Chickasaw country, represent-, lag that a rcMgt treaty violated their rights aa to lands owned by them, hnd was ’in' many respects outrageous.... A blllwas introduced and referred, cussed, the pifncipal Jbeech being made- by Mr. Revels, of Mississippi.... Executive 'session and' adjournment. , . In the House, on the 16th, a resolution ,was adopted, ou the Secretary qf tho Jiavy fbrtafonuailmireUtivo to collision.. .A report was made from the Committee on Elections In tho Louisiana cbntc'sted case of Hunt against Hheldon, declaring Sheldon entitled tri the sea A... The Deficiency Mil. was taken-. n» andpeased.... The bill for an Air JJno Mallfioad between New York and Washfngton'jtas considered, and amended hy reserving to f’longre# the right to alter and amend the act ...Bills wore introduced and referred—tnipromote International coinage; to authorize the cfty of Buffalo to conJ struct a tunnel under the Niagara river; for the re-i mwwrMMUt .... A bill giving condemned guns to tho Nartrwral Asylum lor Disabled VoluntdttSdlfliers was passed ....A report was made from the Committee on Military Adlalre ip,, Urn ..case of Mr. Butler of 'stktln/ raat'Mr. Butler had ap, pointed a non-resident, of his district to West subsequently received $1)00 therefor; ’ and onfnalf the committee recommended the adoption of a resolution of censure, and the other hiirwas^>n^red f *la of the '^hole* 1 .. Adjourned. ’ ‘ > .WSOS prenentstl-jroiq o; Friends, foi auappropttauoo.fpr the benefit o(sp jndl|H» or the Northern Superlntqpdvncy ;-Iqr aqappropriation of $50,000 for the benefit of tho colored aliadents UFWllberforce University....A bill abolishing tee franking prMtena was made tho special order for the 22d.. . A bin was Introduced to organ--48: fl"*n D ( •niWnoW’Tereitory U brmaded worth by Kanrai reported from the Committee on Commerce, tp amend the act to regulate tho diplomatic and consular systemsot theUtilted States, abolishing cet-' tain Consulates and changing the salaries of a nuinment »< : In the House, on the 17th, it resolution rate of $».60 per aero; provided no plaeor claim

shall uxcced.lAO acres'...The case ot Mr. Butler, of Teimcweg, was taken up, and tho evidence read, when the resolntlon fbr tit* expulsion was defeated for want of thrfrequisite two-ihirds, the vote being UH yeas to 08. nays. A resolution of censure was then Tariff hill was flintier considered in Committee of the Whose... Adjourned. k „.r fobeFwL . r C 1 Concerning the Oneida disaster, a letter ffom the wife of a prominent merchant at Yokohama sajn': “ Ohptflta Eyre is a relative of governor Byre, of Jamaica, ,and the cdse of the Bombay and Oneida has unfortunately been made a national onfr, the Americans and Russians denouncing Captain Eyre, as a deliberate, Wholesale murderer,, Jt wps just at the entrance of the .bay that the collision happened, ancl the night jyas clear and starlight. The-yjart of the Oneida where the rockets and bluh-lights Were kept waff carried away, as well as one of the boats, ao they had nothing to do but to dre minute guns, which was heard here, even to that last smothered one just as the vessel sank.” The Count Montalembert, chief of the "Liberal Catholic party, died recently in ,Parlff,>to hto-60tbyear. . A Liverpool telegram of the 12th states, concerning the missing steamer,City of Boston,” that the belief was general that she would be heflrd from at the Azores. Confidence In her safety had been strengthened by the arrival of the * Smidt.” A meeting between the Prince Henri de Bourbon and the Duke de Montpensier took place seven miles from the walls of Madrid, on the 12th. The former was shot through-the head on the second fire, and expired, in a tew minuteff. The Duke was uninjured. The Havana correspondence published in the New York World of the 13th states that the report of the resignation of Gen. Jordan as the Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban army is untrue.. He was doing all he could to increase the efficiency of the army. Thh summary execution of Cubans’ by the Spanish authorities continued wherever the Spaniards had a foothold. The Aiheral of Prince Henri Bourbon took place in Madrid, on the 14th. No public demonstration was made. Captain Eyre, of the British steamer Bombay, who ran into and sank the United States steamer Oneida, in Japanese waters, has-been suspended by the British naval authorities, because he neglected to inform himself of the seriousness Of the damage that had been entailed, and because he took no measures to preserve the lives of the drowning crew. A Rome dispatch of the 14th states that 610 votes were sure for the Papal infallibility dogma, in the {Ecumenical Council A London dispatch of the 15th states that, owing to the threatening aspect of affairs In Ireland,arrangefnents were being made for strengthening the garrisons throughout the island. A Dublin telegram of the 12th says disorder prevailed in the County 6f Tuam, - and -large bodies of troops ha<i been sent to the locality. In th,e Spanish Cortes, on the 12th, Gen. Prim denied that he had sent propositjons to Senator Sumner for the -sale or cession of Cuba to the United States. He also stated that ny rieptifn for Deputies to the Cftrtcs had beeh'held in Cuba. Letters received in London on the 15th from Zanzibar, on the east coast of Africa, mention that the prevalence of cholera had-deterred the movements of the expedition which recently set put to ascertain the whereabouts of Dr. Livingstone. General James Watson Webb writes a rohgletter to the New York IHbwio, from Havana, March 5, favoring the accordance of belligerent rights of the Cubans, and saying if President Grant and Secretary Pish had been permitted to know the whole truth, they would have been conceded six months ago. He says the Cubans, have 15,000 to 20,000 well armed troops and as many more carrying pikes, scythes, &a, and that on the authority of a Spanish volunteer officer, if 100,000 arms could be landed, they would find Cubans to carry them, and Havana would fall in a fortnight. ’ ‘. A cable dispatch was sent to New York on the moruing of the 16th, announcing the arrival at Queenstown of the steamer City «f Boatop, but a subsequent report shows the flrst statement to have been a heartless hoax, and tho New York Associated Press directed its agent in Londqp, to offer |SOO reward for the detection and punishment of the author of the false report. A gang of postage stamp countCTfeiters has recently been, discovered and broken up in Canada. Postage stamps to the amount of several thousand dollars have been counterfeited and sold to dealers at a heavy' discount. Several arrests were made, and measures taken for the apprehension of the whole gang. . ~ The funeral of Prince Henri do Bourbon was conducted by the Free Masons, of which order deceased was a member. When the remains were brought to tha church, the officiating priest, seeing the Masonic emblems on the coffin, withdrew Jhq insignia of thc chprch and refused to petfdrtn the.rtffgious ceremonies. The Lonidn Pteiof tko 17th says the false repert of the arrival Of the' CJity of Boston originated at the Stock Exchange in that city.. . There was universal indignation exprfctaed oh account of the cruel hoax. The Agent of the Associated Press in London telegraphed that the dispatch announcing the : of the City of Boston at Queenstown reached- London via Manchester, and that the was accepted in London without question. I ITOMESTTC. Gold cloyd in New York on the 17th at 112. A terrible and fatal accident occurred in Chicago on the 11th. Four painters hpon h sCsffoldihg near the roof of a five story building on Lake street, when

the staging broke or parted in the center, and three of the workmen were precipitated to the sidewalk, a distance of sixtyeight feet, and so fearftilly injured that all died within a short time after the accident The fourth painter saved himself by clinging to one of the ropes supporting the scaffolding, from Which position he was drawn upon the roof of the building by his brother. , The boiler of a portable saw-mill in Milton Township, Wayne county, Ohio, exploded on the 13th, killing seven men. Six of them were killed instantly. The othei one lived about twenty minutes. Their names were Jacob Krupp, Robert McConnell and his eon Frank McConnell, John Fritz, David Shook, and two men named Hoover. Most of them were married men. A Washington special of the 13th states that “Gov. Holden, of North Carolina, has made a formal application to the President for troops to aid in quelling disturbances in Alamance county. The President is In daily expectation of a call of a similar character from Governor Senter, of Tennessee.” The roofs of the two wings of the Court House in Chicago, which were being added to the old building and which were approaching completion, caved, in on the 12th. The west wing fell in the afternoon, and seven men at work In the building were severely injured. The east wing gave way in the night, injuring no person. Damage estimated at over $20,000. One of a party of counterfeiters arrested in New York city on the 13th states that counterfeit greenbacks to the amount of $50,000, in ones and twos, had been sent to Western cities within a week. The Board of School Visitors of Memphis have adopted the suggestion of Superintendent Leath, prohibiting all religious exercises in the public schools. This also excludes the Bible. The’mercury fell thirty degrees at Memphis between midnight and 8 o’clock on the morning of the 15th. ’ The severe storm of the 12th, 13th and 14th left three feet of snow in Minnesota, two feet in Wisconsin, about one foot in Northern Illinois, and so ofa to the southward, where it dwindled off into rain with unusual cold. According tq a San Francisco telegram of the 15th, the rush to the San Diego gold fields was unabated. There was a report that the Chinamen had been driven away from the mines and several of them killed at San Diego. The general term of the Supreme Court at Hudson, N. Y., has affirmed the decision of Judge Miller, in the noted habeat corpus cose of Barbour m. Trustees of the New Lebanon Shakers, awarding the custody of a child held by the Shakers to its parents. Twelve thousand six* hundred and eighty-seven immigrants arrived at New York city, between the Ist of January and the 16th of March, against 13,545 for the same time last year. A stage coach on the road to Helena, on the night of the 13th, with ten passengers, all Chinamen, capsized at Dry Creek, 240 miles above Corinne, Utah. The night was intensely cold. Two of the Chinamen were immediately frezen to death. The remainder started afoot for Bjg Sandhole Station. Three of them reached there badly frozen, and four were found dead on the road. The tenth was missing. A Washington dispatch of the 16th says: “Applications having been made from Tennessee and Georgia for military assistance to suppress alleged disturbances of the peace, the uniform answer of President Grant, in each case, has been, in substance, that there is no doubt of his right to station troops, and give the disaffected districts the benefit of their presence, still he has doubt as to how far they could be used in aid of the civil authorities. When troops are asked for to act in such cases, it is a question upon which the President takes legal advice before issuing the order.” Since last October up to the 15th of March, 53,000 emigrants, black and white, have passed through Memphis, of whom 15,000 were foreigners, principally from the neighborhood of Chicago, hunting homes in the cotton States. The blacks were principally from Virginia. Returns to the Bureau of Statistics show ithat the export* of wheat in the year 1869 Were, bushels; value, $46,413,638. For 1888 they were, 12,927,41$ bushels; va1ue,521,786,116. Cotton—Th* exports in 1869 were,*, 722,618,928 pounds; value, $187,763,477, against 786,600,776 pounds in 1868, valued at |165,963J87. Information has been received in Washington that Red Clopd, Chief of a warlike band of Sioux, is to negotiate with the government, and remove to a reservation during th* spring. Red Cloud ha* 2,500 people under hi*, control. A nitro-glycerine factory at New Hackensack, N. J., was demolished by explosion en the 17th, and four men and a boy were killed. PERSONAL. Hon. Wm. H. Seward, who had declined a public reception, was enthusiastically cheered by a crowd of citizens upon his arrival at Auburn, N. Y., on the night of the 11th. The following nominations were sent to the Senate on the 11th: Thomas D. Hamilton, of Mississippi United State* Consul at Rio Grande, Brazil t John L. Stevenson, of Maine, Minister Resident at Uruguay; Charles Stout, Assessor of Internal Revenue, Idaho. A Washing-, on special of the 11th states that the draft of a proclamation announcing the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment had been prepared and signed by the I resident. c

A man named Terrance Cassidy, who had threatened President Grant with assassination, usinff abusive language while the latter was walking on Pennsylvania avenue with his son, has been pronounced insane by the police surgeons and sent to the Government Insane Asylum. The man had repeatedly been refused admission to the Executive Mansion on account of his singular conduct. General Butler has appointed Charles Sumner Wilson, of Salem, Mass., a colored boy, to a cadetship at West Point. This is the colored boy ever appointed to a cadetship. The jury, composed partly of women, engaged in trying the Cowie murder case at Laramie City, Wyoming Territory, were out nearly the whole of five nights, unable to agree. They finally brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The ladies of the jury wefo much fotigned. E. M. Yerger escaped from jail on the morning of the 13th. A dispatch from Jackson, Miss., says: “He was yesterday brought before the Court to argue an application for habeas corpus. The case was postponed to the second Monday in April. A bill was yesterday introduced in the Legislature restricting the powers in applications for writs, and the bill will probably pass before the time set for Yerger’s trial. Hence Yerger’s etcape. The Sheriff and his posse have been searching for him all day, without success.” The men, fourteen in number, whd were sent out to Cuba with Greenwaldt, arrived in New York on the 11th. The party says, after the execution of the murderer of Greenwaldt, the Spanish authorities were as kind to them as circumstances would allow. Gen. Isaac F. Shepard, late of the St. Louis Detnocral, has been appointed Adju-tant-General of Missouri, vice Col. Childress, resigned. The editors of the N. Y. Bunday Courier have been sued by Henry Bergh for libel, George Wilkes, editor of Spirit of ths Times, was cowhided on the afternoon of the 15th, on Broadway, N. Y., by Major William W- Leland, formerly of the St. Julian Hotel A large crowd witnessed the assault. Wilkes was much cut. Leland was taken into custody, but Wilkes declined to prosecute. The’ Senators and Representatives-elect from Texas, accompanied by Senator Wilson,, of Massachusetts, paid their respects to President (Jrant, on the 15th. The resignation of Colonel Daniel Butterfield, Brevet Major-General, has been accepted by the President. The Senate on the 16th confirmed Daniel E. Sickles as Minister to Spain. The vote was: Yeas, 45; nays, 13. Oaths 16th, the President sent to the Senate the following nominations : Postmasters—Charles E Braw, Chillicothe, O.: James A. B. Stoul, Kalamazoo, Mich.; A. Doolittle, Calumet, Mich. Henry Ellison, of the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, has been electeA. Council Mayor of the city, In ' ,r £lthc Council elected Gen. Newbe-2» Mayor. Among Councilmen appointed for Petersburg by Gov. Walker are two "»lored men. Sam Lynch, ringleader of the steamer Dubuque rioters, has been captured in Arkansas. The following is the resolution adopted by the United States House of Representatives in the case of Mr. Butler, of Tennessee ; Resolvs<l, That the Honae declares ite condemnation of the action of Hon. R. R. Butler, a Representative from the First District of Tennessee, in nominating Aug. C. Tyler, who was not an actual resident of his district, aa a cadet at the Military Academy at West Point, and receiving money from the father of said cadet, to bo used for political purposes m Ten lessee, aa an unauthorized and dangerous practice, and he Is hereby censured therefor. At * State Centenary gathering of the Universalists at Hartford, Conn., on the 16th, addresses were made by Horace Greeley, Rev. Mrs. Olympia Brown, and others. Subscriptions to the National Universalist Centenary .and Missionary Fund were made of $9,000. POLITICAL. I. Stoddard Johnson has been appointed Adjutant General of Kentucky, vice Gen. Wolford, resigned. A letter from Darlington, S. C, says Mr. Whittemore was insulted on the cars on his way to Darlington at several places, and had been burned in effigy in nearly every town in the district.. But his friends were active, and regarded his return to his scat in the House as certain. Up tp the 14th fifteen hundred bills and joint resolutions had been introduced in Congress, and were before the appropriate committees. Many were of a private character, but excluding them, “there is no probability that they can all be acted upon during the present session which, it is supposed, will last until the Ist of July.”. In Bangor, Me., on the 14th, Henry E. Prentiss, Republican, was elected Mayor. E. W. Wedgwpod, Democrat, was chosen Mayor of Biddeford, and Alex. Rayford, Citizens’ candidate, was re-elected Mayor of Belfast Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, submitted his flrst message to the'Legislature on the 14th, urging immediate legislation looking to the thorough reorganizstidn of the Judiciary. ’ >l ’ The Virginia Republican State Convention willmcet at Richmond on the 6th of April. The Governor of Mississippi offers a reward of SI,OOO for tho apprehension of Yerger. Gen. Walker has appointed a new City Council for Richmond, Va., under the enabling act The Wisconsin Legislature adjourned sine dis, on the 16th. The Illinois Constitutional Convention has taken a recess until the 12th of April, The Ohio House of Representatives on the 16th spent all day on a resolution proposing to amend the Stale Constitution so

as to allow women to vote. •> The vote On adopting the resolution stood—yeas, 51; nays, 54. The Louisiana Legislature adjourned" nine die on the 17th. r The Superintendent of Bogistration of the St Louis, Mo., district telegraphed to Secretary Fish on the 15th, asking if three-fourths of the States. bad ratified the Fifteenth Amendment, so that colored citizens cohid be registered for the municipal election in April.,"The Secretary answered, on the 17th, that the ratification of the amendment would be proclaimed as, soon as Congress admitted Georgia and Texas. The Superintendent notified Registrars not to register celored citizens. The Rhede Island Democratic State Convention, which met at Providence on the 17th, nominated Lyman ;Pieroe, of Providence, for Governor; '.Chas. R. Cutler, of Warren, for Lleutenant-Gdvemdr; Wm. J. Miller, of Bristol, for Secretary of State, Geo. N. Bliss, of East Providence, for Attorney General; and Philip Ryder, of Newport, for General Treasurer. The Massachusetts Senate has rejected the House Liquor License bill, by a vote of 23 to 17. The New York State Temperance’Convention on the 17th adopted. resolutions favoring the support of none but prohibitory law men for office.