Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1870 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on tho 2iJd, theresolution directing the President of the. United, Rtareq to appdlnt commissioners to open negotiations fhr the annexation of the Winnipeg jUstrlct a Terri toijy or State, waa taken up and illscuhuo el and re<°rr*ltq the Committee on Foreign RClaWoni ■K 1 ®.,5. ere P***e<i—repealing the act of Fcbfuary •JB, 1833, prohibiting the Importation of person! of color Into certain States; prescribing the oath of office for persoae who participated in the rebellion but are not disqualified by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Ooastllutton, the qath bohig Identical* with that-required of‘tlibse whose piMltal ahd' legal disabilities, hate been removed:, providing fqt the obtaining of the action ol' the iiegUJatnies or the States In wbloh-Natlonal Cemeterlesare located to perfoct the title or tho United States; the Invalid Appropriation Bill, appropriating some $3,000,000; to preyent the copuiermituig qf foreign trade marks protected by treaty stipulations....A Joint resolation, providing that all public lands in Alabama. Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida and Arkanaos shall be subject to disposal under the Homestead laws by pre-enjptlou under the earne regulations as apply to tho lands of other Sfatcs, was 'amimdadffid laid over.... Several bills were Indefinitely postponed, among them one to provide for a return td specie payments.... Executive session and adjournment to the gdth. In thc .on tha 22d, several private bljle were passed, among them one tp relinquish'to Dubnque, lowa, tho title of the United States to a certain lot of ground. .The consideration of the Tariff hill we* resumed In Committee of the Whole....Adjonmed. Ln the House, on the 23d, tlje credentials oi Krasmns D. Pock, member elect from the Tenth Congressional l.’latrlct of Ohio, in place of jtoag, deceasod, iwftr* prqeanted, and Mr. peck toog the oath.... A bill was passed—!W to 54-ln relation td the Hot Spring* Reservation of Arkansas. allowing fto .nueatlotCoCtltle to be decided by the Court of Clalgiq.... A resolution wasadopted,:limlting.leavosd absence heretofore granted, to the Sd of-May... .The Wenalo amendment to tho Income Tax bill was uon-doncurred in... .The Speaker announced tha appointment iff-Messrs.! ’.Garrison, Allison, and Cox as a Conference Com: mlltee on the Census bi 11.... Adjourned. ~ In the Senate, on the 25th, a bill was . reported from the Judiciary Committee covering thq subject of the ottforfetiient ,of the Fifteenth Amendment.,.. A hill was reported from the 'committee on Foreign Relations, making anapproprl- ' at ion to carry into execution a recommendation of the President of the United Staton in pursumico of an award made by tho .Joint Commission 1)0 tween the United Stales and Peru.... A 'Mil was Introduced amendatory efthe law for the disposal of coal lands, Ae., on. tho-'public domain... .Bill* were passed—extending three years the time for consolidating the statntes or the United States; glylng priority In: the courts of the United, States to cases to which a State Is party, or whqre the exeention of the revenue laws of a State may be stayed hy judicial oyde* o» process.... The bills ■«> authorize the settlement ,of accounts of officers of tho army and navy, and to make the tm portal lou Qf lumilgronts under labor contracts unlawful, were referred ...The Senate insisted oq its amendments to the Income Tax bill, and Messrs. Sherman, Williams, and Morrill (Vt.X wore - appointed a Committee of Conference. .. Messrs. Couklin, Carpenter, and Bayard were appointed a Committee of Conference on the Cenlus bill....Thebill specifying regulations for the foreign and- coasting trade on The - Northern, Northeastern and Northwestern frontiers was passed... .A large number pf private bills were passed... .Adjonfaed. In the House, on the 25th, hill's were Introduced—granting lands for a railroad from Ontonagon to.the Michigan State line ; for A railroad from Lake Superior to Vermillion Lake, and for the Omaha * Northwestern Railroad; fora survey of the Mississippi River, from the Missouri to the Maramac; for the teller of the people' of the United States by reducing taxation, providing that on the 30th of June next there shall bo a reduction of 15 per cent, on Internal taxes, and 10 percent, on Import duties, except on spirits, tonaccoand cigars, and that no income derived alter December 31,1801), shall bo taxable, and abolishing all special licenses, except on distillers, brewers,And manufacturers of tobacco, snuff, and cigars ... A resolution was adopted, inslructing the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions to consider the propriety of providing pensions for all surviving officers and soldiers of the war of 1813.... A petition was presented of nlqety-four business firms and companies of Cleveland, against the passage of the Funding bi11..,.A joint resolution was passed, appointing a commission to -procure an appropriate bnrial place for the remains of General John A. Rawlins, late Secretary of War, and to provide for the erection or a suitable monn- ■ ment over the grave, and that the cost of the same -be. paid out of the contingent fhnd of the War Department.... Joint resolutions were passed—to enablo the Secretary of the Trcasury I?, fbl'btl wrecked and abandoned property, dereact claims, and claims bekmgtnj; to the United States; donating four pieces of condemued cannon to the Ladies’ Monnirtent Association of Peoria, Illinois/...A report was made from the Flection Committee, in iho election cuse from the Fourth District of Louisiana, that Michael Kynirfs not entitled to a seat, and J.J*. Nowßham is ...A resolution was adopted, calling for the lbsmation of the amounts expended In tho improvement of the Boston and New York h«rbora, Dclawsro breakwater, and mouth of tho Mlsdissfppi... .The Tariff bill was further considered in Committee ol tho Wh01e.... Adjonmed. In the Senate, on tho 2Gtli, ft memorial and resolutions pf a public meeting In Chicago were presented &nd referred, recommending that the balnnco of tho f IQO.COO or $500,1)00 known as the Chinese Indemnity fund be conveyed Into the United States Treasury as a special fond, either to be returned to China, or to bo used for the establishment of uniyersitie* of learning at Pekin.... A report was made that the Finance Committee wero unanimously of the opinion that no change ought to be made In the rate of taxation bn distilled spirits.... Bills were reported from committees—« substitute for the House Army bill; to regulate public printing and discontinue the publication of books and puhUc documents; donating to the Wllberforce University $35,000 from the funds of the Freedmen'a Bureau.... A bill was Introduced forth® lKitter protoctl on of tho frontiers of Texas ...A resolution was adopted—directing the Committee onßducallon and Labor to Inquire Into the expediency of dividing tho net proceeds of tales of public lands among the several mates for educational purposes, boo otherwise so providing by law that all tho people of the United States may have an opportunity of acquiring a common schopl education ...The Joint resolution relative tp tho conduct of the Spanish Government in Its treatment of the Cuban tnsutgonts, was indefinitely postponed.... Bills were passed—providing for disposition by the Interior Department of uselota military reservations : WlaUng to the untry of certain lands In Wisconsin: to aid the construction of the Gteen Bay & Lake Pcpj« Railroad...jTho bill for the survey of Hie-ship canal and raltroaa across the Isthmus of Darien wsb referred to the Committee on Foreign Relatiotis.'.. .Executive cession and adjournment. In the House, on the 2Gth, the Fortification Appropriation bill, appropriating $13*11.76u, was made Iho spbclal ardor for the Itb of May ...A bill was passed, authorising the Secretary of tltd Treoaflfy tpappolpt special agents, notexceedfng fifty-three at Any on* tlmd, for IhO purpose of making .examinations qf books, papers, ana accounts of Collectors, atul Other officers or customs .. ..A bill waa reported, to establish a department of Justice, of which tko Attorney Gcnaralls head ... Tho Speaker appointed Messrs* abhonck, Dawes and Voorhecs a Conference Committee on the Income-Tax bfll....Afl«r furl her consideration or tho Tariff bill In Committee or the Whole, tho House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 27th, a Committee of Conference was ordered on the House bill relative to the Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas.... BfilsTfqre roporud-for the removal or csucostiYcertain case* from mate *o nulled States Conrts; the House bill fixing the ttmefor the election of Representatives ana Delegates m .Congress; to organize the Territory of Oklahoma, and consolidate the Indian tribes under a Territorial Goverumenl.-.: ,’i’ho bill for tho enforcement* of tho Fifteenth Amendment was made a«pdci*lArdlrt, t *tad comes up next after the Franking bi 11.... A bill wae introduced and referred, to extend until July, 18i5, lbltefs patent issued to RlchardM- Hoe... .A number of private bills weropassed .<,THie Joint rciolutlon for the saly of the Bergen Uetgtft* Arsenal was passed; ale*, » hl | l appFopriaUn|j<sßto,lW tor this Albany Post ufflco.'... Adjoumeu. * w > 4 ■- - * i In the House, on the 27tb, Mils wore reported and passed—for additional terms of the liuttiid tjtatea Uoazfo at Ne«? Albany and RvansI vine, Ind.; felting construction to the prdvMoßeol i the act of April !0, r'eforence to the more effltlcnt government of the rebel States; removing dlsabllltlej from eleven citizens of Texaa... .A report was Made from the Sab-Committee on Elections, In the election case from tho Fifth Congressional District of Louisiana, that there waa no lawI tnl oleettoo In that district, and that nelUmc Ueo A. McCfiulo, Fraak Morey, nor P. J. Kennedy was entitled to a seat.... The House went Into ComI mittee of the Whole on the Tariff bill, and during

the proceeding* the'Calamity it Richmond wa» anHouTOadj dtbat ® 011 *8 ' T * r ‘ff bill, the In the Senate, on the 28th, a memorial wii pretexted from the National Executive Come mltte of the colebedpeople, asking that the word white tiehtritken ont of the ttaturaUxatlon law* ....BUJi were . Introduced—to Incorporate the National Academy of Eettere and Art*; for the relief, with Wttoln exceptions, Of all .persons en■gagedln the rebellion under the Fourteenth Amendment; to reytae the Coinage laws; granting lands In aid of the Memphis & New Orleans Levee Railroad Company ; to make uniform the pcnslons.of widows of naval staff officers ....The else W Gilbert, the sitting memhor front Florida, was considered, and the report of thoJndiciury Committee that he was legally elected WM adopted....Bill* were reported—tho House bill, without amendment, limiting the appointment pf apec'al agents of the Treasury Department; In relation to fraudulent tradh maria on foreign watches, with amendment.. Bills and joint resolntlons were passed—tor a board of naval officers to examine such officers as deqm themselves unjustly passed over hy promotion* made In conformity with the act of Congress July 33, 18G0; toprovido for better security on boavd steam vessels; appropriating SB,OOO to pay the expenses of the Iqvestlgaof the charge agalitst General Howard; relative to the Clrenit Conrts of the United States," prohibiting suy construction .of the act that would require the holding of a Circuit Court where not required by previously existing laws. .'.'.The bill granting right of way to ditch and canal owners over public lands waa amended so aa to protect the Sutro tunnel franchise in Nevsda, and tho bill went Over.. .'Executive session and adjoarnmettt.. In tl;e House, on the 28th, a majority report was made from the Committee on Elections, that Adolph Bailey Is not, and C. B. Darrell is, entitled to the seat from tho Third District of Lou)s|ana; and a minority report was also mado, with opposite conclusions.... Bills ana Joint resolu I ions werepaseed—to establish a De-. pertinent of Justice; appropriating $2 01)0 for a portrait of General Thomas, to bo placed In a oanspfCniohs position In the Capitol; appropriating $3,000 for experiments In the ventilation of the hall of the House; Senate bill to change the time of holding United States Courts in Wisconsin, With aMenu- ■ mont....The contested election eaßo in the Fifth Louisiana Distrjct was considered, and tho majorD ty report that the election held on November 3, IfIJS, was illegal, was adopted... .The bill to revive the navigation and commercial interests qf the Unjted States waa referred.... After farther consideration of the-Tariff bill in Committee of the Who «, the House adjourned. FOREIGN. The revolution- in St. Domingo continues, and, Gen. Calbral has been declared an ontlaw for delivering Sal nave into the hands of the Haytiens. Advices from Manilla report"" ff destructive fire involving tha loss ol $1,500,000. No insurance. Recent advices ffom Manilla, in th,e Mediterranean, report a destructive fire, involving the-loss of $1,500,000. No insurance. Captain Eyre, of tho steamer Bombay, is seeking a restoration of his certificate, on the ground that the evidence against him is contradictory and inconclusive. Much sympathy is ghown for him in London. On the 24th of April a thin slip of wood, about a "yard long, and painted blue, drifted ashore, near Ligger Bay, on the northwestern epast of Cornwall, containing the following inscription in large letters; “City of Boston; sinking February 11.” The wood bore evidence of having been broken in two, and the remainder of the inscription is consequently j cept the letter “ M.” which followed the words above given. There was no means of knowing whether this is a genuine message from the missing steamer, or a heartless hoax, but the latter was strongly suspected. A party of diplomats were recently captured on the plain of Marathon, in Greece, by a party o”f brigands. In an attempt to rescue tho captives, thirteen of the brigands were killed ; and nine fled and were pursued. Oh the fourth day of the pursuit, Herbert, attache of the British Legation, and Count Boyd, Italian Secretary of Ligation, bqcame exhausted, and were murdered. On the next day Vyner and Lloyd were poniarded. The bodies of and Herbert arrived in Athens on tKe"2sib. It was announced in the British House-of Commons on the ,25th that the English Government would hold the Greek - Ministry strictly responsible for the outrages, and indemnity for the lives of British subjects would bo demanded. A New York telegram of the 26th says reliable Cuban correspondents state that little was doing there beyond a guerrilla war, in which the insurgents evidently were able to hold their own. General Valmazeda was at Bayamo, looking after affairs in that district. The Captain General still remained at Puerto Principe. A London dispatch of the 25th says the editor of r the Cork Reporter .had received a warning that his life would be taken in a month, for writing against Fenianism. The strong representations made by foreign powers to the Greek Government in regard to the late massacre, have led to the resignation of General Sautzas, Minister of War. The place will be supplied ad interim by Valavritos, Minister of the Interior. TheJßarl of Clarendon stated in the House of Lords, on tho 28th, that the Groek and Turkish. Governments were both making active‘Efforts to secure the capture of thb-b&nfiygf assassins, and 500 troops were in hot pursuit. More than half the gang had been overtaken. Of these jpVcn bad already been behß4dfcd. and five were;undergoing examination, and would probably be executed. Baron Liebeg, the emineint chemist, was dangerously ill in Paris, on the 28th. DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on tlie 28th at 115,y. *** Southern Arizona advices to the lplh state that the Indians were ravaging the country. General Sherman received on thq 34th official dispatches confirming the advices heretofore at hand, which indicated that the Indians in Dakota arc on the war-path in good earnest. A telegram says they had appeared near some of the forts in that Territory with fresh paint and dancing the war-dance. At one point they were estimated at 2,000 to 8,000, and were bent on hostilities. . A Washington dispatch of the 25th says; " A special order has been issued from the War Department directing the Seventeenth United States Infentry, now

In Virginia, and the Fourteenth Infantry, now in Kentucky, to proceed with all possible dispatch tp Sioux City, lowa, and Report, thence,to the General commanding the Department of Dakota, for assignment t 6 duty. The order removes all troops now performing duty in those States, The understanding is that the move has something to do with the condition of affairs in the Red River country,* and refers to the neutrality of American* soil during the existing troubles. There are already In the Department of Dakota three regiments ; of. infantry and a battalion of cavalry.” The house of Mrs. Martha Kean, in East Mansfield, Mass., was burned ob the 25th, and a'young man named Frederick Ames perished! , ■ ' Nearly 800 brickmakers were on a strike at .Croton Landing, N. Y„ on the 26th, in consequence of a reduction of wages. The Auburn (N. Y.) City National Bank was robbed on tho 26th of $31,000 in greenbacks. A Washington dispatch of the 86th says there is now an imminent and certain prospect of an Indian war. The Navy,Department at Washington has received all the papers pertaining to the Oneida and Bombay affaii*. Admiral Porter sftys that, after a thorough investigation of all .the facts of the case, the Department is led, to the belief that the, Bombay is solely and wholly to blame for the accident. The report is denied that the officers of the Oneida were drunk and carousing in the cabin at the timo, and leaving tho deck, in charge of a midshipman. He also says tlie Oneida had ; a full coniplemcnt, as a letter df Admiral Rowan, on file at the Navy Department; shows. The iron railroad bridge across the Wabasfy river a» Terre Haute was cpmpletpd, and special trains passed over it on the 26th. The Gas Works at Virginia City, Nevada, were destroyed by fire, on the 20th. Nine hundred and forty officers and men belonging to the Fourteenth United States Ihfantry, who have been stationed at Nashville, Tcnn., for some months, left on this morning of the 2Qth, on a special train for Sioux City. A Laurence, Kansas, special of the 27th states that the Indians had recently attacked the settlers near Independence, and wounded two. The whites resisted, and the fracas was for the time ended by Friend Gibson, Agent of the OSages, calling out the military and driving eighteen families out of. the country. It is stated that the government agent hsd been engaged in settling the tribes on settlers’ claims, for which the settlers had made amicable arrangements with the Indians, and that the immediate Cause of the disturbance seems to have arisen from the settlers refusing to allow the Indians to cultivate square patches from their clearings. A Washington telegram of the 27th says: “ Tho latest official advices received here do not mention fears of a general Indian war; but certain accounts of threatened demonstrations have been considered sufficient to call for reinforcements of government troops on the front as a precautionary measure.” It is stated that the propriety of allowing British troops to pass over our soil and through our waters to the Red River country, for the purpose of putting down the rebellion, Was fully discussed in a recent Cabinet meeting at Washington, and it was unanimously agreed such a thing could not ‘be per mltted.

The large factory of the New York Watch Company, in Springfield, Mass, was completely destroyed by fire on the 27th, together with the valuable machinery. Los*, $200,000 One hundred hands are thrown out of employment. A terrible calamity occurred at Richmond, Va, on the 27th. The Court of Appeals was in session, and the room was crowded with eminent citizens, many local politicians, and a great many of the public at large, drawn there by curiosity to hear tho decision upon the question of the Mayoralty. At 11 o’clock the galleries of the court-room, which were crowded, feU in. The floor followed, and descended thirty feet to the floor below, which was the floor of the House of Delegates of Virginia, in which some few of the members of the court were wailing. The list of killed is given as follows: Patrick H. Avlett, Captain Charters, Chief of the Eire Brigade; E. M. Schofield, City Assessor: Dr. J. B. Brook, editor of the Bn<ju(r«r; Julius A. Hobson, City Collector; 8. Dugger, member of the House of Delegates; T. A. Ifrewls, of Alexandria; Samuo! EAton, of Boston; Powhattan Roberts, Commissioner In Chancery of the Court of Common • Pleas ; Jos. A. Blamire, of Berlin, PrnsslHi 8. E. Bureaus, of Syracuse, New York; N. P. Howard, lawyer; AbU Levy, merchant; J. W. D. Blend, colored Senator from Prince Edward ; Thomas 11. WDrox, ex-Confederate General: Samuel H. Hairston, of Henry county; Charles J. Truman, of Washington, 1). C.; Robert H. Maury, Jr., land agent; Edward Ward, of England; William H. Davis, coal merchant; John Robertson, colored Baptist minister; Colonel I’ich.lgrow; T. H. Fo|ey, Deputy United States Manual; w. K. Randolph, of New York; R. E. Bradshaw, grocer, and ifdrty-three others—among them One captain, one sergeant, and nine privates of the police on duty .In (he building. Among tho wounded were ex-Governor Wells, rib* broken and otherwise Internally injured; Ala lor 11. K. Kllysnp, slightly; 'Mayor Cahoon. slightly L Unhandier, Judge John A. Meredith. Ja«i Neleon, John Howard, Kush Burgees, Collector of the District; William C. Dnnham, Agent of the Virginia and New York Steamship Line; Hop. Tbea. 8. Boeeck, er-Speskoi bf the United States House of Representatives, leg amputated ; General M. D. Corse, ex-Mrior General Confederate Army; Colonel George w. Brent, of Alexandria; Captain George W. Allen, Poet Warden; W. O. Flow, newspaper correspondent and broker, Tho*. C. Baldwin*. Newark, W. J ; • WvD. Chesterman, of the petoraharg Index; Vinx. H. Sopper, of Baltimore, and ahorft one hundred other*.

A -private telegram from Richmond says tpo Court was about to deliver ain opinion In favor of Ellyson, one of the Judges dissenting;, as the floor fell. Collector Patterson, at Memphis, Tenn., has received instructions from the Secretary of thq Treasury to take possession of all property sold in that city during the war for taxes and Afterward re-delivered. It was apparent in Richmond, on the 28th, that the recent calamity was mnch greater than had been reported. The

number of killed wpu!4 resch over sixty,, and the wounded wore known to be over 200. the scene* of despair ana anguish in the vicinity of the disister were beyond description. Dark mfrurriltag covered the whole city. It wo* believed that the Capitol would be abandoned as a public; institution. It was built in 1702, and’ is now pearly sfeventy-eight years old. All honses of business in Rlchniond were closed on the 28th, and the streets were filled with fttneral corteges. The fourth of May had been appointed as a day of humiliation, prayer, and religions service. The Presbyterian Church at * Wrlghtt(ville, Pa., was struck by lightning and totally destroyed by fire op the 28th. A Washington dispatch of the 28th says: “There Is no doubt that a large amount of war material, belonging to the Fenians, is distributed along the border. Our government has adopted ajl means to restrain a possible movemaqt, and prevent a breach of the neutrality laws.’* There was official evidence in Washington on the 87th, tbait the Canadian. Government was making preparations to send a military force to Red Riyer by the Bault Ste. Marie Canal. PERSONAL* The funeral of Anson Burlingame was observed on the 23d inst,,at Boston. The services were impressive, the procession long, and an.jmmensp throng lined the* route. Minute guns wire fired, flags were at half-masti and all business suspended. The remains were interred at Mt. Auburn. It is stated that Chief-Justice Chase, after the close of a term es court at Richmond in May, will take a trip td Europe for the benefit of his hfcalth. An immense concourse attended the funeral of the murdered Marsh, children, in Baltimore, on the 24th. The mother, who was confined in the city jail, was a raving maniae. The President, on the 26th, nominated to the Senate F. Appleton far Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of TeXas, vice WatroUs, retired on fall pay; James Coats, Pension Agent at Little Rock; Henry O. Deans, Postmaster at Ann Arbor, Mich. The decoration of the graves of Confederate dead took place at Mobile, Ala., on the 26 th. The defense In the MdFarland trial at New York rested their Case on* the 27th and the prosecution began the offering of rebutting testimony. In a game of base-ball at New Or Jeans, on the 26th, the Red Stobkings scored TO to the Southerns’ 6. . POLITICAL. A special dispatch to the Louisville Courier-Journal of the 25th indicates the election of General J. H. Lewis, Democrat, to Congress, from the Third Congressional District of Kentucky, by a considerable majority. Gov. Hoffman, of New York, has signed tha Eight-hour Labor law, ahd issued a proclamation for it* enforcement. The Legislature adjourned nine die on the 26th. The New York Democratic State ConJ vention on the 27th made the lolloping nominations for the Court of for support at the May election: Chief-Jus-tice, Sanford E. Church, of Monroe; Associate Judges, Chas. A* Rapolle, of New York, Ruftis W. Pelham, of Albany, Martin Grover, of Allegheny, and Wm. F. Allen, of Oswego.